Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 December 1945 — Page 1

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FORECAST: Freezing rain today, tonight and tomorrow; slowly rising temperature,”

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Eee] VOLUME 56—NUMBER 247

“Emergency Vehicles, Alerted By Times Editorial,

Carry G. L.'s.

While Indiana’s travel outJook appeared: somewhat eased, state, patriotic and civic agencies here today were redoubling their efforts to keep . homeward-bound servicemen on the move. Even as emergency transportai tion groups remained alerted, sleet- , coated roads loomed as a new challenge to their determination to | untie the state's greatest travel | knot. Vehicles mobilized by the Indiana State Guard, the American Legion, Veterans of Foreign Wars, Red

Cross. and others . were hauling soldiers throughout Hoosierdom, : Heed Editorial Plea These organizations volunteered their services Saturday following publication of a Times editorial in behalf of servicemen stranded here while en route home for Christmas. - Leading the volunteers were some 800 state trucks, jeeps, police cars,

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MAKE A G. 1. HAPPY

home? Just phone USO at LI4414.

conservation cars and school busses.

remained on duty there until 3 a. m. | himself, He was in his bffice at 6

Thanks - (An Editorial) FROM hundreds of grateful G. L.s who are home for Christmas because Indianapolis didn't let them down: Thanks, And they mean it. Saturday morning The Times found thousands of them caught in the holiday traffic jam, with the prospect of spending their first “post-war” Christmas in a cheerléss railroad station. We told the people of this town about it, and called for action to get them moving. Re Immediately the American Legion and the Veterans of Foreign Wars went into action. By late afternoon they had organized facilities to move these men out toward their homes all over Indiana and neighboring states in private cars. By evening they were on their way-—by scores and hundreds. By Sunday morning other newspapers and radio stations had joined in the program The Times inaugurated. By then the bottle- | neck was broken, the veterans were moving out, and these public-spirited institutions helped to keep the traffic flowing. Private citizens, parochial schools, and the whole’ state government of Indiana made available every means of transportation at their command. It was, as Governor Gates so aptly put it, “just old-fashioned Hoosier co-operation”—of the finest kind. The kind that: makes you prétty proud of

PATTON BURIED

BRIEF SERVICE

Famed Chief Laid to Rest “In Wind-Swept Luxembourg Cemetery.

~By WALTER CRONKITE United Press Stafl - Correspondent

HAMM, Luxembourg, Dec, 24.—Gen. George S. Patton was buried on a bluff beneath wind-swept pines today, sur-

above the graves of soldiers who fell along his 3d army's victory road. Raw blasts of wind swirled across the U. 8. military cemetery and snapped the khaki canvas canopy while the burial service was read before the open grave. Three rounds of salutes from a 12-man firing squad rattled against the leaden sky. Then a lone bugler, his back to the wind, sounded taps. The general's wife, Beatrice, stood quietly through the committal service, but almost broke down when Gen. Patton's Negro orderly, Sgt. William G. Meeks, Junction City, Kas, handed her the American flag that had covered the casket. Tears in” Meeks’ Eyes There were tears in Sgt. Meeks’ eyes and his face was strained as he bowed slowly and handed her the folded flag. He saluted with a gloved hand and peered directly

{into her eyes, exchanging a final

message of condolence. Like the 7933 crosses around it, Gen. Patton's simple white marker serial number tag, Just “Geo knows no rank in death. A bank of flowers 30 feet long and four feet high formed a semicircle around the grave. The largest wreath was from Soviet Russia, with its Russian inscription in white letters on black silk. The burial ceremony, attended by military dignitaries of 11 nations, was brief. It was executed as the

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In the early hours this morning, Union station had virtually re-

WAYS TO PEACE

Catholic Church Head Also Names 32 Cardinals.

ROME, Dec. 24~—Pope Pius XII,

‘iin his annual Christmas message ito the world, said today: “There

is no true peace but only the ‘post-

ivar'—a sorrowful and very mean-

ingful expression — and therefore this Christmas is only one of ex pectatlon, hope and prayer.”

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MONDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1945

/ Entered as Second-Class Matter at Postoffice / Indianapolis §, Ind. Issued daily except Sunday

Accident Toll Heavy As Sleet Clazes Roads Here

§. Sgt. Donald been here.”

OPTIMISM FELT OVER ATOM TALK RESULTS

Near End of Conference.

8S. Sgt. Robert Bethke . , .

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how hie walks is a mystery.

Shattered Limbs $a

Reclaimed Bodies—Best Christmas Gifts for Wounded Soldiers at Billings

Plc. Edward Bak .

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Now Instead of Sacrificed

By SHERLEY UHL SOME, VETERANS at Billings hospital are receiving their own

flesh and blood for Christmas this year, Modern surgery is a skilled healet and the gifts it bestows are

miraculous, "There are many miracles at surgical techniques have redeemed bodies. ; Cases that before the war would have been sacrificed, now are salvaged., Now no case is hopeless, no effort waived as futile. Col. Franklyn

{A Rice, chief surgeon, explains:

*It's easy to amputate a seriously injured Hmb.,.. It's an accomplishment to save one.” °* ‘Credit for much of this accom-

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’..:, Billings. Revolutionary strides in mangled limbs, hips, backs, entire

30 DIESEL BUSSES MRE ORDERED HERE

FREEING RAN 9 PERSONS DIE *

‘Boy, 5, Trapped in Burning

Home Here; Eight Killed In Traffic. (Photos, Page 4)

A paralyzing sleet and rain

.|storm which brought a heavy

toll of accidents to Indianap-

= | slowly rising temperature.”

The most hazardous trafic coms ditions seen here in a long time

« he's gloomy, but stubborn, guy.

TERMS OF 4 CITY

BOARD MEMBERS END

Announcement Concerning’ |

Appointments . Lacking.

Terms of four city board memhers will expire with the year's end.’ They are Park Board President Paul -Rathert, Gideon W. Blain, works board; J. A. Hogshire Jr. aviation board, and J. Ralph Fenstermaker, ftilities board, No announcement has been made yet regarding their possible reappointment, ;

REPORT FRANC DEVALUED

Indianapolis Railways to Pay $420,000 for Coaches. Indianapolis Railways has ordered 30 new Diesel motored busses, Costing $420,000, the 40-passenger vehicles ‘have been ordered from the General Motors Coach & Truck division, Pontiac, Mich. :

Tautomatic clutches to - eliminate

gear shifting and give a smoother ride, They will also have “transom”

{windows for standing passengers,

glareproof windshields, light and

PARIS, Dec. 24 (U, P.), = The | French cabinet was believed to have reached a definite decision for devaluating the franc. : y

time Christmas.in five years. The number, far less dicted for the four-day by the National Safety did not include additional

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terday. : The car was driven by Ray ton of Greenwood, who

§-year-old Donald Johnson, whose {home at Thompson and Menden-

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CLOTHE-A-CHILD—

Times Drive Near Close; $14,000 Raised, 920 Clé

the mile ai fast ad SEY were I on the sidewalk, have bought cloth.