Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 February 1945 — Page 2

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% A y 2 Advisory Group Ends ‘Serv joe in What Appears to Be a Failure. ‘Mayor Tyndall's advisory committee on personnel had ended its “services today following what ap-

peared to be a complete failure to institute a “reform” program at

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GUAM, Feb. 26 (U. P) ~American| marines have a “firm grip” on| nearly half of Iwe. Their situation in the bloody battle for the island springboard 750 miles south of Tokyo “grows brighter every day,” a ranking marine officer said today. The marines ih the east-west runway and two-thirds of the north-south runway of Iwo's central

Marine Cpl. Warren G. air field.

Grimme, son of Mr, and Mrs. Wil-

Chairman James 8, Watson said he thought the committee had dis‘charged its duties at & meeting] with the mayor .more than a week

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* mittee's activities said the mayor]

“indefinitely pigeon-holed.

Budget Bill Killed ’

«+ Previously, another “reform” | measure intended to create an office of municipal budget director | had been killed in the house at the ! mayor's request. His antagonism to so-called] merit legislation stemmed from a| belief that it- was aimed primarily at reducing his. patronage powers. He likewise thought it granted too | much administrative authority to | city council, his factional enemy. A spokesman for the mayor's ad-| visory personnel committee denied | ‘the group had resigned in resent- | |

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ment of the mayor's negative attitoward proposed “reform” He .said the commit“simply - completed its

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tude legislation. tee had work.” Preparation of the doomed per- | sonnel and merit blueprint required | a year and more than $10,000. Its chief designer was Fred Telford of | Washington, municipal job consultant, who came here last winter | at the behest of city council. The) advisory committee was named to assist Mr. Telford in carrying out | his recommendations.

Backed by Chamber

Supporting the personnel program were the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce, the League of Women Voters, various other civic organ-| izations and many businessmen. |

Mayor Tyndall named ® Assistant City Controller Larry Parsons as

rsonnel director last year over gues bitter opposition. His selection came after council had appropriated $6000 for the post, which still has no statutory validity. Mr. Parsons is a political protege of Controller Roy Hickman, who condemned the ‘merit” and person-| nel system on many occasions. The personnel director now devotes much of his time to statistical oper- |

> ations in ‘the controller's depart-'

ment. Meanwhile, the possibility loomed that council may terminate Mr.

Parson's personnel job by cutting]

off the appropriation. Council leaders have expressed dissatisfaction with his work.

MEDITERRANEAN CHIEF CONFERS WITH TITO

They ‘were battling tirelessly to complete the conquest oft the base and win more high ground overlobking the northern half of the island. The marine officer's assertion that the situation was becoming brighter by the day reflected confidence that the marines were over the hump in erp " the hardest fight of their 168-year ! . . history. ILA | (A Tokyo broadcast heard by the | United Press said American casual-

jes on Iwo had reached 22,000—

REFUSE TO YIELD — Ro

Trapped. Fanatics Ignore U. S. Ultimatum |

To Surrender. |

MANILA Feb. 26.—Trapped Japanese in Manila ignored a surrender ultimatum today. | American troops immediately began an annihilatiion drive against the enemy remnants holding out in three government buildings. The final assault on the last enemy pocket in the capital came as other American forces pushed into the foothills of the Sierra! Madres mountains east of Manila in an attack on the 25-mile-long! Kobay-#shi line,

{ | Japs Face Sure Doom | An estimated 1000 fanatical Jap- | anese, believed commanded by Rear Adm. Iwabuchi, were lodged in the |

three buildings in Manila, | They faced certain doom. They had been given three choices in the ultimatum—suicide, a fight to death, or honorable sur-| render. Their only reply was sniper fire while the edict was being read over the public address system. { When the deadline passed at day-! break, American guns opened fire. The Yanks prepared for a last assault. Units of the 1st cavalry and 6th, infantry divisions meanwhile were attacking the Kobayashi line from Taytay, two miles north of Laguna bay, to Norzagaray, 19 miles northeast of Manila.

Montlban Captured

| In resuming the drive toward! Luzon’s east coast, the 6th infantry-|| - men captured Montlban, 11 miles| |northeast of Manila, and pushed! {on through San Isidro, a mile to.the|

liam P. Grimme, 2150 E..34th st, is shown receiving the purple heart award from another Indianapolis man, Lt. Col. Walter S. Campbell, 4709 N. Capitol ave. The corporal, a veleran of 23 months’ service in ‘the Pacific theater, was wounded on Guam last July.

north. ! | A communique disclosed that the !33d infantry division, a former Illi-| 'nois national” guard outfit, had! joined the Luzon forces and was (fighting in the hills north of Mosario, nine miles above San Fa-| bian on Lingayen gulf. |

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[Marines Seize a Firm

On Nearly Half of Iwo Jima

ROME, Feb. 26 (U. P.).—Marshal| Scattered Japanese remnants con- |

Sir Harold R. L. ‘G. -Alexander,|tinued to fight back on Corregidor||.

supreme allied -commander in the as the Americans pushed down the Mediterranean, has held a series of tail of the salamander-shaped island.

conversations with Marshal Tito in Belgrade on the future:conduct “of the war, it was announced today. | Agreement was reached on alll points, an official statement said.

| care of eliminating themselves.” |

Heavy explosions continued in the| Malinta tunne] and a spokeiinan| said “There is speculation that the; Japanese trapped there will take

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(Tokyo also claimed that Japanese planes had sunk an American submarine off Iwo.) Tanks and flame<throwers again were spearheading the attack, backed up by swarms of, carrier planes and big army Liberators. Fighting was savage, with many hand-to-hand combats reported. With the capture of Motoyama

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NEW TEEN-CANTEEN T0 OPEN WEDNESDAY

A teen-canteen for Washington township and Hendricks county youths will be opened at 7 p. m. Wednesday at the Avon school building, ‘ Parents and friends of the ieenage customers will be guests at opening night ceremonies. An oyster supper will be a feature ‘of the program, : The canteen will be open each Wednesday and Saturday night,

airfield No. 3, the 3d, 4th-and 5th OL EAR LAND MINES

marine divisions will-have all Iwo’s

airstrips — within’ fighter-planes

range of Tokyo—in their hands. Motoyama airfleld No. 1, farther south, fell last week. But the Battle of Iwo was far from over. The Japanése still hold Mt. oh a volcano dominating las vol and a cluster of other peaks. . 4 All are honreycombed with gun emplacements’ and defense tunnels from which they were raining shells and rockets on the Ameri-can-held portion of the island.

FROM ITALY’S FARMS

ROME, Feb. 26 -(U. P..—Italian farmers in the rear of the American 5th army are doing their spring weeding before their spring plowing this year—weeding out thousands of deadly land mines left behind by the warring armies. During the past few weeks Italian civilians, trained in a special mineclearing school at Locca, dug up and disarmed over 14,000 mines sown in the farmlands near Pisa, Lucca and Pistoia.

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 26 (U. P.).—~The “Angels of Bataan,” 68 army nurses returned to this country after three years under a brutal Japanese starvation policy in the Philippines, today set about regaining their health in the army's Letterman General hospital. They arrived at Hamilton Field, Cal, Saturday, aboard four giant skymasters just three weeks after their liberation in Manila. A band played as they walked down the ramp. A crowd of 1500 persons burst into spontaneous applause. After jubilant reunions with relatives who had learned of their aririval in time to greet them, the urses climbed into army trucks to be taken to the hospital. None was seriously ill, Their major trouble was lack of food. All were trim and a few were emaciated. There was not a mental case among them. Lt. Gwendolyn Henshaw, an attractive brunette from Los Angeles, said she was “abgolutely convinced” the ° Japanese had deliberately {starved the nurses.

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|of their own,” she sald. “No one could bring food in. Our weight [plummetted down. I lost 40 pounds ‘and some of the others lost even more,” :

| Evety U, 8. military success ‘brought a reduction in food rations {for the nurses. Lt. Hattie Brantley, of Jefferson, Tex. said that. from 300 grams—about three-quarters of a4 pound-=in the fall, the ratfon dropped to 250 and finally in December to 189 grams—24 of which were salt. On Jan. 31, the nurses felt they {had the final evidence of the Japanese campaign.. The enemy jailed Dr. T. D. Stevenson of their hospital staff because he refused to eliminate the words “starvation and malnutritign” death reports, They said the Japanese never molested the army nurses. Pifty-four of the 68 women arrived at Hickam field in Honolulu, Wednesday, for a three-day preview of paradise. Still dazed by their overwhelming reception, they slept Most of the way om ‘the last lap of

| “They confiscated our warehouse |the journey to California.

although they had plenty of stores

| When land was sighted, however,

from Santo Tomas{ Three years of the

MONDAY, FEB. 26,1945

e After 3 Years

song--"California, Here I come!"

we're really back in the army now.” Those whose health was more seriously affected included Maj, Maude C. Davison,” Cannington, near Toronto, Canada, whose weight dropped from 135 to 80 pounds. Lt. Vivian Weisblatt, North Land, Ore, wife of United Press Core respondent Franz Weissblatt, sufe fered shrapnel wounds in the lass Santo Tomas shelling. The nurses wore olive drab unis forms flown to the Philippines from Australia! As they filed out of the planes, their faces were ecstatic. agony of Bataan, Corregidor and Sante Tomas were over.

KILLED BY ENGINE

FT. WAYNE, Feb. 26 (U, PP.) Injuries received when he was struck by a switch engine proved fatal to Naoum Note, 68, who will be hurled Wednesday. He was hi§ while working as a section hand Saturday.

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