Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 March 1945 — Page 6

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HOUSE GROUP 0, KS DRAFT EXTENSION [i

WASHINGTON, March 22 (U.P). «The house military affairs com-| mittee today unanimously approved extension of the selective ‘service

act for another year from May 15, the date of expiration. Committee members said the measure probably would go to the house before Easter. The extension would be for one year or to termination of hostilities if they should end before May 15, 1646. ; Committee members questioned | Maj. Gen. Idwal Edwards; assistant! chief of staft in charge of personnel, | on war department policy about] sending 18-year-old soldiers into!

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clusive privilege of the national | {committee itself He said the state committee would | be overstepping its jurisdictibn if it| undertook to adopt the rule.

Under the proposal a national |

| committeeman could he “retired” by| a two-thirds vote-of the state com- | mittee, dnd the vacancy refilled by |

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NAZIS FIGHT ‘SUI BATTLE AT MAINZ

ical] band of Nazi elite guards is -=and killing Americans in a useless | “honor” stand that apparently has been dictated by Adolf Hitler as an example to the rest of his wilting | armies. Elsewhere on the 3d army front, | in Worms, Kaiserslautern, Bad | Kreuznach and Alzey, the Germans |

quit almost without a fight. But in Mainz hand-picked suicide troops seem bent on going down: to the last man for the honor of the German army west of the Rhine.

| “young dying in the streets of Mainz today | opened. We Zacharias, who “went west” on a stage coach to Texas from South | Carolina in 1869, said, “I'm to busy to kid about the ‘first 90 years being the hardest.’ ”

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WITH U. S. 3D ARMY IN-GER- | mond Zacharias, department store] MANY. March 22 (U. P).~A fanat- | OWner, celebrated his $0th birthday | ' - [by going to work—with the other | whlien the store

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combat. b+ In reply to a question by Rep.| John J. Sparkman (D. Ala), Ed-| wards said any limitation on the use of 18-vear-olds would “very definitely” be harmful to the war eflort.

formality of ly late yest Defense 2 nounced hi the stand i Van Wie counts of b agreement plea for sy! The stre said, was * and might “if put bel walls.” May If convic tomatically ond. part of guilty and insainty. The stat declared th failure to t of guilt.” The elde: was being leave ’em,” Elkington, “Unless \ nation-wide will have home life o LONDON Archbishop that extrer civilians bi necessary | to learn ta tarism.” Writing | Canterbury archbishop “We can fact that 1 Germany's gO, 45 a CO immediate her citizen of refugees compulsori! Prussia an “But we said, “to from our break the chine and tremity of process is people are abiure mili they Rive

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CAIRO, Eliahu Bet Hakim, 23 hanged toc of Lord | commissior in Cairo NM They ha because he ment . resp tions” in |] The Egy sentenced The conde of the tim tion until took place.

a majority vote, . ; The proposal also contained a suggestion that the. party's national] committeeman be chosen by the tate committee rather than the to the national conven-

The city's military importance {now is practically nil, but the Nazis |

On June- 4, 1941, Pvt. Harold Lee Gerson, above, of Cleveland, 0., “fibbed” about his age, 15, and enlisted in the army, Ten days after he was en route to Hawaii. Followed nearly four years “of war

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| fantry division bleed for every Worth “twice this ‘house and street corner. { price.. Gives body $2% through Hollandia, New Guinea, of Mainz. | Leyte and Mindoro before he re- | - v - =

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“Bat Your Spinach and Like It” will be discussed by G. A. Saas al the luncheon meeting of the Indian-| apolis Exchange club tomorrow noon at the Claypool hotel. Mr, Saas is director of public relations for the Citizens Gas and Coke utility.

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Salary i chi ‘ha above shows =} = trict chief. Thc chart above sho State Chairman anti-McHale Democrat, said he didn't say. anything about these new-fangled ideas. He asserted no action would be taken for at least (wo weeks Although Mr. Bays and his secretary, Charles E. Skillen, agreed ol accept salary reductions, the state {chairman said the Democrats would joined forces In a two-way drive continue to support an aggressive, .: toppled most of the defense policy throughout Indiana. | strongholds in the southern end of Mr. Bays’ salary was dropped Silesia from Se to $5000 a year, MY.| noystadt, Cosel, Flakenberg, Suelz, |Suillen's from $3000 0 i _ |Oberglogau, Steinau, Krappitz and The committee also voted to dis-| oes of other key towns fell to

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surrounded andj routed a formidable force of German troops The list of captured towns read like a roll call of the major industrial and fortified ceriters in. the] Oder valley south of the upper or southern Silesia capital of Oppeln, | The Moscow announcement clari“He fied Nazl radio reports of the last {few days giving accounts of violent fighting in the upper Oder valley. A German military commentator had admitted that the converging drives threatened to trap the German defenders of the area. 25 Miles Beyond Oder The drive carried Konev's forces more -than 25 miles beyond the Oder in that area. Other elements of his army were far west of the Oder on a -broad front between Oppeln and Berlin, With the overrunning of the “upper Silesian defenses, Konev's army now was in position to strike into the Moravian. gateway to southeastern Germany or to wheel northwestward and reinforce the troops massed in western Silesia some 50 miles east of Dresden. In Hungary. to the southwest, Berlin said a strong Russian drive had broken up a 65-mile defensive front, opening the way to Vienna and southeastern Germany.

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WITH U. 8S. 8thr ARMY, March (U. P.).—Unofficial reports cir{culated today that Marshal Albert Kesselring, German commander in | Italy, had succeeded Marshal Karl Ven Bumstedt as supreme Cofil- Advance Toward Vienna | mander on, the Western front Powerful Soviet onslaughts be—¥on—Runstedt—was_identified as|!Ween Lake Balaton and the Danube Western front commander as late |Borthwest of Budapest ‘shoved™ the as March 13. But the disastrous Germans back on the approaches to collapse of the Rhineland defenses | Austria : . touched off rumors that he had| The Russians captured Esztergom, een relieved {on the Danbue 22 miles northwest | mis of Budapest; Tata, 29 miles north- { west of Budapest and 94 southeast | of Vienna, and Felsogalla, 10 southeast of Tata, Nazi broadcasts said a furious battle was going on in Szekesfehervar, Key base between Lake Balaton and the Danube. On _the eighth massed onslaught the Russiaps broke 1 into the town and violent house-to- | house fighting was raging.

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