Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 February 1945 — Page 1
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Churchill Poland To Receive Upper Silesia And Danzig
By PHIL AULT United Press Staff Correspondent
LONDON, Feb. 27.
—Prime Minister Charchil
said
today that Poland will be given upper Silesia, Danzig, the greater part of East Prussia, and a “long Baltic sea front.” : To compensate for territory yielded to Russia in the east, Poland also will reeeive such additional German territory east of the Oder river as may be decided at the peace conference, Churchill told a packed commons. He said Poland would be grantkd the “greater part
of East Prussia to the west of Keonigshesg?” indicating that Russia may retain the capital of the junkers province. In the important German industrial province of- upper .
—or southern—=Silesia which Churchild
said would go to
Poland, lie such manufacturing®enters as Oppel, Hinden-
burg, Gleiwitz and Beuthen.
Churchill said he had received “perfect assurances” from both President Roosevelt and U. S. Secretary of Stale Edward R. Stettinius that thé United States had no objection.or complaint to steps Britain has taken in Italy.
“1 am not prepared to accept suggestions tom any quarter that Great Britain has fallen behind other victorious powers in taking a generous view toward Ttaly or that we nourish any design of power politics,” he said. Churchill said the United States has ‘“‘entered deeply "and constructively ®nto the life and salvation of Europe.” “We have, all three, set our hands to far-reaching engagements at once practical and solemn,” he said in concluding his summary of the"Crimean conference. “United, we have the unchallengeable power to lead
- the worldato prosperity and freedom. The great powers
must seek to serve.” Everything is ready for the surrender or collapse of Germany, the prime minister said, but he gave no hint of when either might be expected. Churchill defended the Curzon line fixed by the Cri~ mean conference for the Polish-Rus®an boundary as “just and right.” He denied that “force of fearig plied a part in American and British concurrence in $ Soviet pro-
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Hoosiers Hold High. Ratings with 35th on Bataan
By MILDRED KOSCHMANN THERE'S ANOTHER Hoosier=land on Bataan where the 38th infantry division is battling. With hundreds of Indianapolis and Indiana soldiers fighting in the 38th, many more Hoosiers are at the helm telling the boys what to do. Brig. ‘Gen. William C. Chase, one of the few non-Hoosiers in the group, has .been appointed commanding general and will lead the former Indiana and Kentucky national guard unit in the liberation of Bataan peninsula. Indianapolis men serving under Gen, Chase are Lt: Col. Frank B. Ramsey, Lt, Col. William L. Punkhouser, Lt. Col. Delbert D. Cornwell, ‘Lt. Col. L. Robert Mottern and Lt. Col. Robert D. Howell. Other Hoosier leaders there are Lt. Col. James J. McMahon of Terre Haute and Col. Ralf C. Paddock, Frankfort. A regular army, officer and veteran of two wars, Gen. Chase at one time was member of the famed 26th - cavalry, Philippine
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Scout “wait which performed heroically ithe last stand of the American and, Filipino defenders on Bataan in 1942. During world Wat, I he served as a captain in the “Mth division and saw” action in the AisneMarne, St. Mihiel and MeuseArgonne offensives. He returned to the U. S. in 1919 after serving with the army of occupation. Under the command of Gen, Chase the “Flying Squadrons” of the 1st cavalry ion vations from Lingayan to Manila n seven days. Shortly after, on Feb. T, he was placed in command of
Lt. Col.
R. D. Howell L. R. Mottern .
the 38th division, Which is engaged in clearing the enemy from Zigzag Pass, a narrow, twisting, well-defended road that runs “along the base of Bataan peninsula. Col. Ramsey, a native .of Muncie, is a division surgeon with the 36th, Indiana univepsity in 1924 and three years later received his medical doctor's degree at the I. U. school of medicine. He. interned at City hospital and practiced general surgery in
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Lt. CoL Lt. Col. W. L; Funkhouser D. D. Cornwell
SENATE SPEEDS ANA EYEWITNESS . . . By Lee G. Miller ‘The Dead Japs Underfoot
Were Shot Before My Eyes’
‘SLUM MEASURE
Skip-Election Measure Also Headed for Hurry-Up
Passage. By NOBLE REED ’
Indianapolis’ slum clearance bill] and the skip-election measure, both | delayed in the senate for two weeks!
by bitter debate, finally were sent on their way toward passage today.
MANILA, Feb. 24 (Delayed) —I | stood this morning on the eastern | | embankment that buttresses from |
within the massive walls of Manila’s angi¢pt Intramuros. There dead Japs under1oo 0 had been shot before my eyes inside the hour. I talked to the half dozen infantrymen whom I had seen a day
earlier make our first entrance |
into the devastated walled city. ‘During
almost |
the conversation we |
The senate city of Indianapolis|
could hear the muffled thud of
committee recommended passage of |
the- slum ‘clearance measure after adding two amendments
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One would provide for a review of proposed redevelopment commis- |
sion's budget after the first two years of operations.
The other would require the or] ‘
mission to show consideration for
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families that would -be.evicted .dur-|
ing slum clearance work: The amendments were compromises” with taxpayers’ groups and labor leaders who have been op-
posing the bill since its introduc-|
tion,
” Crea tes Commission
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The measure would create a re-| development commission apthorized |
to levy taxes to finance slum clear-
ance in Indianapolis by purchasing |
blighted areas and property to private home builders. After failing twice to pass the
reselling the
skip-election bill that would post- |
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our grenades and TNT charges |
probing the honeycomb of interconnected Jap caves. There were occasional bursts of small-arms. fire nearby, and artillery shells were byrsting a little farther off.
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Some engineers were delousing mine fields. Others in bulldozers were clearing the narrow streets of rubble and Jap barricades. Little groups of infantrymen were . patrolling for snipers, ‘showing "eich other newly ‘tdken Jap flags, pistols, watches and pocketbooks. The first American inside the walled city. was Sgt. Wallace Mc-
the five men of his squad were next, “I guess I ran the fastest,” was | Sgt, MecNeil's tomment on ls | historic and hazardous exploit. | Mac has been overseas since
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HOOSIER VAGABOND . . . By Ernie Pyle
'Our Raids Alone Can't Win The War," Say the B-29 Boys
IN THE MARIANAS ISLANDS (Delayed) .— When you see a headline saying “Superforts Blast Japan Again,” I hope you don't get the idea, that Japan is being blown sky high and that she'll be bombed out of the war within another week or two Because that isn't the case. We are just barely starting on. a pro-
“and tough. Even with heavy and constant bombings it would take years to reduce Japan by bombing alone. And our bombings are not yet heavy. Too, we have lots of things to contend with. Distance is the main thing, and Jap fighters and ackcack and foul weather
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Brig. Gen. William C, Chase
Lt. Col. F. B. Ramsey
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Island wir Fall Fall in Few. Days, Marine Chief Forecasts.
By UNITED PRESS. 4
U. 8. marines were reported to{day to have knocked out half the
{ Japanese garrisén’ of 20,000 in the
| | nine-day battle of Iwo Jima. Neil of Iron Mountain, Mich., and
Their commander said the island {would be captured “in a few more | days.”
Col. RC. Paddock |
~~ Leipzig,
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3000 Tons Fall on a TRAGEDY— Local Soldier
Listed Lost on Jap Prison Ship
Leipzig and Halle.
BULLETIN LONDON, Feb. 27 (U.P).— | & More than 2500 American and § British warplanes carried the war | & deep into Germany today, un- { | loading a great weight of bombs on the rail centers of Leipzig, NHalle and Mainz.
LONDON, Feb. 27 (U. P.). 2 Gen. James H. Doolittle sent nearly 2000 planes of his 8th air force against the great ol hubs of Leipzig and Halle
central Germany ‘today. b Bn than 1100 Flying. Fortresses and ° Liberators crashed almost 3000 tons of bombs "an 85 miles southwest ofy Berlin, and the neighboring town {of Halle. The rail networks of these two cities control the transport of most |of eentral Germany. Upwards of 700 Mustang and | Thunderbolt fighters accompanied |
Pfc. William P.. Phillips
N= » By GEORGIA CLARK FOR ALMOST “three years
| Lt Gen. Holland M. Smith, com- | | mandant of marines in the Pacific, |said after a visit to comand posts fon Iwo that the progress of the campaign had been “satisfactory.”
LONDON, Feb, 27 (U. P.).—The Exchange Telegraph today published sensational but completely unconfirmed reports from the continent that 25,000 to 50,000 persons were killed in yesterday's | -| American air raid on Berlin. “We expect to take this island in a | These reports said that serious | few more days.” disorders had broken out in the Tokyo Reports Attack German capital. The casualty | éstimate . was said fo have been America reported, today that the based on private reports reaching | merican forces had opened a major Stockholm. Observers regarded it | offensive against the mgin enemy :
positions in the central and north- | with éonsiaérble yesstve, |ern sections of the’ island. Other American campaigns in the | the heavy bombers on the Tote Pacific kept pace with the Iwo of- | straight day of bombing Germany | | fensives. U.S. troops in_the Philip- | {in a record winter offensive. | pines virtually completed occupation | |of Verde island off the southern tip Under Assault Week lof Luzon, and 150 American carrier] The Nazi transport system has planes bombed Hachijo island in the heen under assault ever since last Izu Shichitg group, 120 miles south | week, when it was crippled as a| of Japan, according to the Japanese. preliminary to the allied offensive | Marine planes already were oper-|in thé’ west.
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Mrs. Elizabeth Rhillips, 2424 N. Illinois st., has suffered ‘the anx-
iety and concern of a mother
whose son is in the hands of the Japanese. Her sén; Pfc. Wil liam P. Phillips, was captured on
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REPORT 2 RED BREAKTHROUGHS
bold onrush by the American 1st and 9th armies.
YANKS CHARGE INTO RUHR AS NAZI LINES RIP OPEN:
15th Day: 2500 Planes Blast Reich
Mobile Forces Speed Into Outposts of Cologne Through Staggering Defenses of Rhineland.
By BOYD D. LEWIS United Press Staff Correspondent
PARIS, Feb. 27.—Speedy- Ariericatl nobiles forces charged into thé rim of the ‘Ruhr valley and the outposts of Cologne today. They advanced up to nine miles through the
staggering German defenses of the Rhineland. Front dispatches said the entire German battlefront west of the Rhine’ had broken open under the impact of a
\: Storm Erft Line
The troops of Lt. Gen. Courtney H. Hodges and Lt. Gen. William H. Simpson were storming the Erft river line less
a than eight miles from Cologne.
The momentum of the drive appeared to be swamping
& that last eral barrier before the Rhine.
From Simpson’s headquarters United Press Corr: nd-
{ent James McGlincy reported that 9th army pace setters
raced forward nine miles to the area northwest of MuenchenGladbach, westernmost factory city of the Ruhr. They clamped an assault arc against that stronghold with simultaneous advances southeast of it. Shock troops were fighting in Rheindahlen, five miles southwest of Muenchen-Gladbach. The wings of an enveloping maneuver meanwhile swept around the larger city.
\ a Division Gains Maj. Gen. L. Hobbs’ 30th “Old Hickory” division
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| (trained at. Camp Re Ind.), overran Koenigshoven, nine miles southeast of Muenchen-Gladbach and 16 miles northwest of Cologne. The village is only a few hundred | yards from the Erft river. Supreme headquarters reported that elements of the
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Soviet Smashes’ in Central 9th and 11th panzer divisions reinforced the five divisions .
Pomerania and Along
Neisse. Hinted.
By ROBERT MUSEL United Press Staff Correspondent LONDON, Feb.
27.—~Red armies
lA, E. F. sources said.
manning .the Roer river line when the allies struck-tast slast | Friday. The Germans show signs of| disorganization and panic de-| spite the reinforcement, S. H. |
ICKES SEES NATION NEAR FUEL CRISS
Capt. Ludwig Sertorius, German
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pone scheduled 1046 elections 1947 was finally passed by the sen- | | ale and sent to the house where| the elections committee rushed lo the floor a report recommending its| passage. The about-fa®e trick was maneuvered by the Republican legislative policy committee which had previously refused to make any recom- | mendations on the bill. Yesterdiy, the Indiana Municipal | league which has been urging pas- | sage of the bill, brought pressure | on Governor Gates and the policy | committee. Two hours later the bill | passed the senate. Two large appropriation measures |
gram of bombing that will be long
Gales Disavows
Salary Hike Bill
GOVERNOR GATES formally notified the ‘legislature today that | he is not supporting proposals for an increase in the governor's salary from $8000 to $12,000. “I did not initiate the plan and I am not urging the enactment of any pending bill,” he said. “There seems also some mis- | apprehension concerning the proposed purchase of a new home | for the governor,” he said. The governor told the legisla- | tors that he would hot personally | approve expenditure of $100,000, . 28 contained in the budget bill for «1 a new executive mansion.
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LOCAL TEMPERATURES 22 10 a. m.. 24 wm Mam m..... 2 vas 22° 12 (Noon) «33 1 Pp. m.
Loin : + + By Roger W. Stuart - : ‘Loan’ of Workers Proposed To End New Bedford Dispute
NEW BEDFORD, Mass., Feb. 27. ~This city's manpower problem, “which has attracted national attention, was duejto enter a new phase today.
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Hearings on appedls of 75 tex.tile workers who have refused to transfer from five goods textile mills to two essential tire fabric plants were scheduled by the war manpower commission’ to begin this afternoon. eanwhile ~ despite the stubborn ‘resistance of the textile workers, backed by ‘many of the city’s business and civic leaders— thé: manpower commission was prepared today to draw up a new list of employment ceiling. cuts in the fine goods mills, Workers thus: displaced will be free to take Jobs only at the tire cord plants. ~ Many here predicted that the Just, »™ nearly all the
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Jormine whether an applicant was subversive. They insisted, Bowéver, that the regulation had been in effect for some time and that it was. sent to commanders only as a clarification. Both testified that it was possible, under the disputed regulation, for a man who formerly was a Communist to be commissioned.
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Conds ae 115-Col 1 {ating from Iwo’s southern airfield| British Mosquito bombers crashed | were reported today to have broken | lit ntat dmitted : a (Continued on Page Ji—Column land only the northern tip of the blockbusters into Berlin last night, through the GeFman lines in cen- g(t CONEEN On, TOR HEL Warns of Shutdown for J | central airstrip was still in Jap- stoking the fires. kindled by nearly tral Pomerania and along the Neisse (that ‘the allies ha riven to the : |anese hands. 12000 American planes yestérday. Yi g | Erft river. He said the river valley Many Industries 233 PLANES BLASTED In the Philippines, American am- | They struck at the Nazi capital | | river southeast of Berlin. ; (north of Elsdorf, due west of ‘Co- § | phibious forces seized their 16th|for the seventh straight night. Ba a logne, ey a scene of an “embittered ASHINGTON. Feb. 37 WU. P), IN 9 RAIDS ON TOKYO island in occupying Verde, lying| The clandestine Radio Atlantic) oo the Baltic'sea in Pomerania struggle. rr —Fuel Administrator Harold\ L |said the ishighest fires ever seen in lled 25 mill Town After Town Falls Ickes today asserted that “mahy any German city” guided th ht | and rolled up gains of 25 miles from | ; : y 8 e nig [their last reported positions. Town after town on the shell-torn | industrial activities of (coal) con=", S————— |raiders to their ‘objective. . |" More than 3000 tons of bombs | >, Moscow dispatch reported a Rhineland was falling to the ad- Sumers must ‘be discontinued and 31 Vessels Knocked Out Weemon Bitten | were drovbed on: Beri tor |great tank battle raging somewhere | vancing Yanks without a struggle. most others slowed down because ; a PP h ryesteraay | | between the Neisse and Dresden. | Thousands of stunned, thoroughly- the nation faces a possible [fuel By Carrier Fliers. In Catching Dog This would mean that Marshal beaten Germans were laying down | crisis. gd pmmm——— Ivan S. Konev had shattered the| their arms in defiance of their high ae SeiekS ae stout played out By FRANK TREMAINE A’ MONGREL who should have SEEKS PRICE CUT IN |Nelsse line and thrown powerful {command's orders to stand and die!and the coa ortage ere and United Press Staff Correspondent known better stopped to argu {armored forces into a drive toward |in the Roer-Rhine corridor. |getting worse,” he ‘said in a report GUAM, Feb. 27.—American car-| with a lady OR Cor erro HOME FURNISHINGS the Saxony capital of Dresden. More than 6500 Germans sur-| Warning of the dire effects a coal rler aircraft struck a heavy body| and came out second best, but the Moscow said American fliers who!rendered on the entire Western | mine strike might have on the en. blow to Japanese aircraft producs| Skirmishing waxed hot for a while. | WASHINGTON, Feb. 27 (U. P.).— (made forced landings recently in the front in the last 24 hours, most of | tire nation. 4 os Pane: P Martha Holmes, 36, of 515 W. (Price Administrator Chester ‘A. |area of the middle Oder before Ber- (them to the 1st and 9th armies. The| a two-front war during 1945. tion Sunday and Monday, destroy-| genry gt a fair sex replacement |Bowles said today that OPA is pre-|line reported ceaseless and intense prisoner bag was swelled to about; Then he alluded directly to the |ing or damaging 233 aircraft and on the ¢ity dog “wagon .tangled paring to reduce the prices of home| (Continued on Page: 5—Column 3) 111,000 in 48 hours. . Ly |srowing souls wage WR [31 vessels and small craft in attacks| with the mutt in front of 924 N. (furnishings. —,—_— At the center of the assault [ront, e paralyzing effects of tempo on the Tokyo area, Adm. Chester Senate ave. He bared his fangs, | He testified before the giant 155-millimeter Long Toms of | rary disruptions in the coal supply she bared her arm. He ended up |banking committee on Ngati ye the 1st army poured shells into the | because of weather conditions dus W. Nimitz reported today. in the municipal pound, she at | continue the life of OPA for 18 y ruins of Cologne, Germany's fourth ing the last month indicate. only He reported that the great Ota| City hospital. Mrs. Moore was months. The present law expires city. too clearly that we cannot afford aircraft plant 40 miles northwest| back on the job today, none the | June 306. PROJECT APPROVED Field dispatches quoted American to have any general stoppage If of Tokyo now has been about| Worse for a slight bite and a shot | Bowles defended his recent order| : staft officers as saying that the coal mining, no matter how short desiroveil 8s tT it| Of anti-rabes Serum. for a roll-back in clothing prices. ‘ eine _ | entire German defensive system had | he said 75 per cent destroyed as the result. ~ " broken down and that the front] 5 . . . : Calls for New Ammunition was disintegrating into a confused CLAIM 57 SHIPS Hoosier Heroes, Page 5 / 1 [] Ch + D . mass of milling men and armor. ; n e gence e enies | Magazines. Many Cont units were om] 1 LONDON, Feb. 27 (U. Rhetiast of this second raid in a series of : . C \ . . | pletely out of touch with their| POPREAICISS tied Ja, ing Communists omm A $11,255,100 project at the naval | command posts and unable to ofter| I! -boats sank 57 allied ships carrier-based attacks againgt the ) : SSI on e ammunition depot. at Crane is in-|gsoherent resistance. : 3,400 tons so far Ah month, A factory. It also has been raided WASHINGTON Pou. 21 (U.P. cluded in the navy’s ordnance eX-| American troops captured one ox B. dispatch said the submart \ ' » . lh pansion program for.1945, the house tines’ bag. included 27 by. Buperfortresses . | —Maj. Gen. Clayton Bissell, chief appropriations committee reported (Continued on ‘Page 3—Column 1) escort, vessels and two light cruisers. In addition to the Ota raid, the of army intelligence, said today that today. rer ——————————————————y Kolzuni airplane and assembly ng one “admitted to be or proven The expansion at Crane will’ be plant was heavily damaged. to be a Communist” has been com- primarily for new -ammunition nN Ht e ar Fronts The communique did not report) missioned by the army. id magazines. damage done by the more than Bissell and Assistant Secretary. of The entire program calls for a 15 (Feb. 27, 1945) 200 Superforts which hit Tokyo in war John J. McCloy testified before per cent expansion ‘in storage facili- ; : conjunction with the carrier strike a house military affairs committee ties ‘and an additional $92,021,392 wpcrERN FRONT — German bat Sunday. But it was believed that on a recently revealed war depart- for new construction. tetra: ‘reaks pe Wan pe : their bombs which were dumped ment regulation that membership) “But I don't believe it is being| Rear Adm. George F. Hussey Jr. piie ess than _n es from on the industrial heart of Tokyo! in the Commiunist party is not, of | interpreted that way," Bissell said. told the congressional committee Cologne. “Yanks lunae Into rim wrought heavy destruction also. ‘itself, grounds for barring a person | “We must establish fact, not act on | that most of the new facilities would of Ruby valley. - 3g The carriers’ hit a new - target |from an amy commission or from suspicion.” ; be permanent. Although ‘needed im- | . Monday when they hit the island | confidential. army «assignments, Rep. Charles “H. Elstori R. 0.) | mediately for the war, he said, they EASTERN FRONT -- Rustarii fie A of Bachijo, an important warning and Bissell said new jot charged . that Communists in this | will be used. for s reesrve sup- ¢ break vthrough in central [station and 30 viles sont: field 4] ~~" plies and for testi » and along Neisse 8. Tokyo, Sigomitonnd wm Fas Gol 3 nt ew ven of Bi