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‘meeting that Great Britain “was determined to throw everything it had at the Japs .as soon as Germany has been defeated.” The w hite House today disclosed that the President —— = —,and prime minister conferred on the" Pacific ‘war at AlexYANKS WIN MAIN aria Egypt, after the Big

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are now operati By WILLIAM TYREE In addition TS Nuns te Tope. United Press Staff Correspondent { Louis Mountbatten are fighting ADM. NIMITZ'S HEADQUAR- | |strongly in Burma. | TERS, Guam, Wednesday, Feb. 21.| The Alexandria conference lasted | —American marines have captured less than four hours, the announce|the main airfield on Iwo Jima, and | \ment said. It permitted “new and Ihave occupied approximately one- (important disuse one aa Sibjest (third of the island. They also|yalta because Soviet Russia is “have opened a powerful attack led! (Neutral in the Pacific war, 0 Emm vs fu [Halle Selassie of Ethiopia. { by tanks and flame throwers| “Mr. Churchill the White House — against fanatically resisting Japa-|said, “told’ the President in blunt a Mn Se nese, it was disclosed today. | words that his government was de-

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3 . t By EMMA RIVERS MILNER Mayor Recruits Equipment Times Staff Writer : Serial observers reported. Mir Bn ea iced tak Times Church Editor ~~ ire F f 130 | WASHINGTON, Feb. 20.—Sena- And Outil k Cal | A local woman's grandson bas | Richest Prize on Island after the’ Crimea conference. Methodists lead all the denominations in Indianapelis in proposed | AS Entire Force o tors. Tom Stewart (D. Tenn.) and na Uutiank Lalcar, heen killed duping v.12 wainig d in| Fleet Adm. Chester W. Nimitz an-| In addition to meeting Churchill, | new churches and property improvements for the post-war period. ¢ Walks Out Joseph H. Ball (R. Minn) failed "Rhine Strongpoint. | Burope. Today's casualty list also | nounced capture of the airfield, it said, the President: H The Forest Manor congregation, descendant of the church which | to agree on findings regarding the includes the first Indianapolis mem- | irichest single prize on the eight- ON: Invited Gen, Charles De i was built in a day, has gone further with its planning than any of the | Mayor Tyndall moved today to | alleged 1944 election frauds inh By BOYD D. LEWIS ber of the 106th division to be re- re Tle island 750 miles south Caille, isons] JFmident of ; other five Methodist churches which intend to erect new edifices. The |recruit equipment and workers from | Indiana. United Press Staff Correspondent Iported a prisoner, a missing lieuten- | A hendquarters spokesman: Ioterigiers THIS va rtp att oN ak : architect's drawings for the Forest Manor church, E. 34th and School |other city departments to replace | i PARIS, Feb, 20.—Fierce German ‘ant, four wourided men and an air- stopping

|regular ash and garbage collectors] Their separate reports were sub- | said the fighting continued as bit- place on the road to Washington,*

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ts., call for an investment of $65,000. |who went out on strike late this|mitted for final action by tig] SOUNteEr-attacks slowed the Cana- man held prisoner by the Germans. [ter as that in any of the battles’ The annolncement indirectly conUnion chapel, known popularly as another “Church in the Wild- | morning senate campaign investigation com- | dian 1st army drive on the” Ruhr KILLED across the Pacific — from Guadal- firmed reports that De Gaulle had wood,” will spend about $35,000 for its new building. It is a mile east | Fens. Sprouse, hewly-appointed | mittee today. today. | Seaman 1-¢ Carl Marko, 1025 N. canal, to Tarawa, to Saipan. turned down the President’s invita- — 3 | superintendent of the collection de-| For weeks the two senators, who| “The alls previously had cleared |King ave., in the Pacific, | After capturing the air field, the Som. This is the second in a series of articles on post-war planning of | partment, said the entire collection | conducted hearings during Ghrist- {all but ‘a small corner of Goch and| Robert G. Perry, Harrisburg, Ill, marines drove across the narrow O: Conferred with the kings Indianapolis churches, force—130 men and supervisors— mas week in Indianapolis, have outflanked the Rhine stronghold of grandson of Mrs. Rose Nolan, 56 8. (C ontinu od “B Page | 12 —Column 8 » rg Fihiopa and Saudi had walked out. been trying to get together on a|Calcar. (Bradley ave., in St. Louis. Phbow he a warship in of road 431 on 80th st. Unity Methodist church in the Riverside | The strike had been threatened report to the full committee. German armored and infantry re-| T. 5th Gr. Charles A. Har THREE, 1 h addition estimates the cost of ‘tts new structure at $25,000. But plans for several days when collectors| Senator Stewart's draft was con-|serves were yeported streaming into 2445 N. Gale st. in Belgium. "REDS ; AIN SOUTH OF adors ob at He U. 8S. ambasfor a new Meridian st. church, one of the oldest and largest inthe |failed to receive a 10-cent-amwhour| sidered “too partisan” by Senator the Maas-Rhine corridor in’ a de-| MISSING ler oy oh Jay and France city, are still in the “dream” stage. | pay raise voted Feb. 5 by city| Ball, however, so today he “rolled fermined effort to stem the Cana-| Second Lt. Marshall H. Hil, 2162 orie Ap Alles. vith Both Barnes and Broad Ripple churches own the land on which | council. his own.” dian offensive. | Barth ave: in the Pacific. BERLIN, y NAZIS CLAIM. Churchill, the White H 8g future churches will stand. Barnes expects the new church and | Legal Ruling. Sought The facts set out are the same| The drive already had cracked | Perle 1h a e ouse said, parsonage to cost about $75,000 while Broad Ripple has not yet named ga § Soug as those in the Stewart report|through the toughest fixed Siegfried WOUNDED per and important disthe sum of its investment. An . appropriation to provide|and Senator Ball says he has no|line defenses before Goch. | Pfc. James F. House, 3728 Shade- wi h th Of at least one subject In addition to these six new churches, Indianapolis Methodists |Money for the increases is now be-| quarrel with turning them over to| Practically all of Goch, at the land dr. in Germany. Report New Gay Gap Torn in which they could not take up belook forward to the erection of a new educational building by the North | |ing reviewed by thei state board of | the justice department. That is center of the 17-mile-wide corridor, | S. Sgt. Arthur E. Molter, 40 8. W Methodist church, The Bast ——————*———————— tax commissioners. The board has| what the Stewart report recom-|was in allied hands after 24 hours|Rosemere gve., in Belgium. Defense Line. at had to do with Japan and Tenth Street church will remodel buy or build a parsonage and to [asked the attorney general to rule |mends. of furious house-to-house fighting. | Cpl. Earl W. Miller, 2848 Kenwood) iy [the ut in the Pacific, where Soviet its present structure, while Rob- excavate for educational rooms [on the legality of the raise. “But I do not think the attorney Root Out Snipers lave. in Belgium. By ROBERT MUSEL | use Is a neutral power,” it said. erts Park hopes to rebuild its an- under the church. Bellaire en- | A state law prohibits the granting | general will find anything for crim-| Field dispatches said Scottish and | Pvt. Vernie Wayne Whitlow, | United Press Staff Correspondent Bid to De Gaulle nex, purchase a parsonage and re- 4 | of pay raises to municipal employees] jnal action,” Senator Ball con-| Welsh ~infantrymen = were rooting | Mooresville, in Belgium. | LONDON, Feb. 20.—Nazi ‘broad-| The President's invi decorate. St. Mark's expects to (Continued on Page 12—Column 2) during a current budget year. cluded. out the last die-hard snipers from | - PRISONERS |casts reported today that Marshal | Gaull ents invitation to De -— i | In an effort to keep the collection) Senator Stewart thinks otherwise. |the ruins of the town. | q 002 Ivan S. Konev's army had torn al “a0 ol ras sent from the Big Three ” he Te, workers on the job, the mayor yes-| Bui both exonerate Senator Homer| Meanwhile their main forces were | sound ut. Kenneth B. Smith, 3002 0, in the German line some 75 eet & place at Yalta six days in udubon.14. of Germany. |miles southeast of Berlin in the! 2dVance of Mr. Roosevelt's arrival

LABOR . .. By Fred W. Perkins terday promised the workers the|Capehart (R., Ind.), and place the| pushing on to the east, west a

raise would be retroactive to Feb. 7, entire blame on Marion county Pfc. Raymond Bagley, 3253 Boule- |

in Algiers, the announcement said.

south against opposition. (bitterly contested sector north of| ” the date he signed the increase courthouse officials. To the south, the American 3¢| yard. pl. of: Germany Sorau. it apa: id be. Galle is ClO Leader Runs G/ Barrage Mayor Tyndall also replaced the| Senator Ball's report lifts whole army wedged a mile or more into (Details, Page 3) Berlin reported that German lin continental Amd Tarp in collection department's two top paragraphs from that of Senator! {the German Eifel mountain de-|- LL — counterblows were getting stronger ut “time

supervisers, Benjamin H. Thompson, | dl { pressure” prevented his going to

Stewart and outlines the facts as| fenses at a half-dozen points on a iand were slowing down the Re . g Ib Of Queries on Post-War Jobs :irs:intendent, ana Fed i iney found them regarding the cer- some front. J JOGAL. FENSRRATORES frm Ee ioviation fonsuder wig Schriner, assistant superintendent.|(incates.of-error and affidavit dif-| The: 3d pushed a new invasion, § * m... 3 Wam... 3 Berlin also claimed that at one an In their places, the mayor put Mr.

» . pe Een expression of real hope that the ‘ ferences betw ose am....31 11a m 31 int in Silesia west of beleaguered « By FRED W. PERKINS “we get a speaker .to come oub |gnrouse, former city asphalt plant een former Governor {Spearhead across she Moselle Hiver! 8am... 32 12 (Noon) . 32 |P® 9 ” alternative proposal for a meeting in Seripps-Howard Staff Writer and give a talk after which he |gyperintendent, and Earl Gossard. | (Continued on Page 6—Column 0! (Continued on 1 Page 6—Column 3 9a m.... 3 1pm... Sd | (Continued on Page 12—Column 5) | Algiers would be satisfactory to the

LONDON, Feb. 20.—-What ques- | is expected to answer questions.” Mayor Tyndall said today that ; rere - - | French leader.” tions do our millions of fighting This time ' the speaker was He' was most disappointed, the

seas have about economic | James B. Carey, secretary-treas- (Continued on Page 6—Column 2) | Ww | F E li C f I ha '‘R 4 d’ br B | vii and Iabor conditions in the Unite | urer of the C. I. O, who was In lison I-avors Carlier Curtew -1 han eques e Y yInes | Continned un Tok Su-Cotpaanter ed States? London for the world trade union 1 got an insight into those ques- | conference. The questions de- CAB: DRIVER IS HELD By JOE JARVIS

tions by attending a soldiers’ | veloped that the outstanding in- Although War Mobilizer James F. Byrnes has “requested” the : | ADM. NIMITZ BIDS FOR

: " nation’s amusements and recreation centers to close at midnight beginterest (outside of: when do we forum, held Wn. famous Hepler | eresh loytside fs. Whe AFTER A WILD RIDE ning Monday, Rep. Earl (Curfew) Wilson of Indiana still thinks 10

airplane base, some Cistance from | go home?) is the ‘subject of jobs m.. a better closing time TOKYO INVASION JOB # Lo on Baak Jiovs In the United States when peace —p— ry Simultaneous with the Byrnes’ order, Rep. Wilsan has lashed out Don Gentile, Col. Don Blakeslee, The sentiment for and against |\Women Say He Refused ‘to Again Bt verre Nokkers Who Some to work late, take over-long lunch Col. C. G. Peterson and others. | labor unions appeared to be di- — AUIS and. SaY Wp late al. ght, “ » Staff Dr: awing Plans Pacific o- This forum, one of many similar | vided in about the same propor- Let Them Out of Taxi. ‘These people are costing the by the FINO out and manpower ’ / institutions in American bases, | tion as among civilians at home. " taxpayers millions of dollars,” the Shortage whi has curtailed most Chief H ints. was organized by Sgt. Richard A. | <One thing we want to know” | wiljaum Poynter, a taxichb |poioneal Charged. hey arejearly mornisg amusements—was Meyer, of Chicago, an armorer in | sald Chairman Meyer at the | 4. ue. who has a number of aliases, or Bf al. only: ations 60 yer cent SaDectet b ight : an oy ok t * By FRANK TREMAINE Snr inp Mr | nro of sit 0 is | re ey tr 4 PR cn ase nit dh dso lo it ts re at rere n ross library, “ a - i i nd re or | br. oh Ding od | EPS CATS, itor of rte ced a ony han f ADM. NITES NEADQUAR wl for us? That may be essentially | ong refused to allow them to get acceptance and mumbled dis- tion picture theaters who. sponsor TERS, Guam, Feb. 20 (U. P)— ot selfish, but all of us are curious |,.¢ or his cab. STUntiEment iteted ue Sate. o Shes week ving ii hows ; in ha er WE TIMES INDEX ’ —_ — ake 4% is Alina B le Shjeared in on ost 4 Tank Town's main street the reac-|tines. . They include the Indiana, ot TL. _ TT | Mr Carey sald the C. I. O. |onness, operating a motor vehicle|'ion Wis that the order was the Circle, Loew's and the Rivoli the- \ Amusements , 8 Ruth Millett. 13 regards itself as “the trustee for under the influence of liquor, reck- most drastic of its kind since Peasi|aters. b Business ..... 9 Movies ...... .8 your interests while you are aWay |less driving, resisting an officer and Harbor—considerably stronger than| Don R. Rossiter, executive secreComics .7.... 20 Obitunries ... "5° in matters such as maintenances- vagrancy. His case was: continued the recent ban on horseracing whith [tary of the Associated Theater n Crossword ... 20 Ernie Pyle ,, , 13] of Wage rates and work stand- |until March 7 in court 4, was aimed at the same conservation | Owners’ association of Indiana, preEditorials .... 14 Radio ....... 20 ards, and support of legislation | arg Robert Liese, 4136 Winthrop | °F” manpower, fuel,’ ‘transportation dicted that only 10 per cent of the \ Forum ..%... 14 Mrs Roosevelt 13| for the benefit of veterans.” ‘|ave.told police’ that she got into * and. “loose” money. theaters in the state would be af Freckles ..... 20 Side Glances. 14, He portrayed the C. I. O. Politi- |the cab at 43d st. and College ave. But the degree the curfew. af- fected in any. way. ‘Meta Given . 16 | Sports .. aslo 10, cal Action Committee as devoted about 1:30 a. m. today. She told ——. individual cities varied] Mr. Rossiter said, for the, most . In Indpjs...... 3 Thos, Stokes il Al ep hall mta de e ol Inside indpls. 13. Women's News 16 | (Conttnued on Page 13—-Column §) (Continued tu Lv "i gnats rr (Continued on. Er Column .

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