Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 August 1946 — Page 20

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Conflict Involving Millions Of Troops Is Predicted; Nationalists Launch 'Blitz’

By WALTER LOGAN United Press Staff Correspondent NANKING, Aug. 21.—China’s unofficial civil war was greatly intensified today as political circles here predicted the opening of an allout conflict involving 3,000,000 Nationalist regulars, 1,000,000 Communist regulars and 2,000,000 Communist irregulars. Government quarters said they regarded a Yenan "mobilization call as the Communists’ rejection of the principle of a political settlement of differences, ei The Central Daily News reported OFFICIAL WEATHER a strong government counter-ot- United States Weather Bureau fensive driving west to the Lunghai All Data in Central Daylight Time

railway and said it was making —Aug. 21, 1046 “blitz” progress. Two hundred —" thousand of Gen. Liu Po-chen’s| Sunrise..... 6:02 | Sunset .... 7:38 Communists were said to be in full ip ,initation 24 hrs. end, 7:30 a. m 00 retreat. Total precipitation since Jan, 1 ... 24.46 A section of the railway from | Deficiency since Jan. 1.............. 2.01

Lanfeng, 30 miles east of Kaifeng, to Hinlung was reported recaptured by Chiang Kai-shek forces.

The following table shows the tempera- | ture in other cities: |

Station Low Atlanta 8 | Expect Push to West Bocion a i : : ston The Nationalist army chief of Cincianat | Clevelan 1 staff, Gen. Chen Cheng, arrived at Clevels x a ann] -| BE e 57 Hsuchow—most important Nation {vansvitle 81 alist base at the junction of the | Pt. Worth 72 i ilways. | Eadlat pots eng) si Lunghal-Tientsin-Pukow ra y | Kansas ci 0

and was expected to let loose an-| Miami { Minneapolis-St {New Shean: ew York

Paul . other strong push westward.

the Kaifeng sector, The army

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24-HOUR FORE- | Another outbreak of cool air is Jersey and

Fair or only | noted in Canada moving toward the Great Lakes and is expected

night, The Pacific coastal plain will be

This would support government la City .... 1 | partly cloudy weather will prevail troops reported advancing east from Qmabia 55 | over most of the nation with tor penetrate northern states be- | clear and cool, except for early | 8t. Louls 8 scattered showers and thunder- 4 tween the Rocky mountains and | morning sea fog along the shore.

Lawrence valley by | In the south Atlantic states,

Daily” claimed the Communists had In | coastal areas of New Jersey, | Thursday morning. The cold air | cool mgqist breezes from the, ocean been routed from Shaopo and the EXPERT ASKS DIVORCE Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, | front zone in Mentana, the south- | will set off scattered showers in hborhood of the Kaoyu lakes, SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 21 (U.| North Carolina, Georgia - and | ern two-thirds of the Dakotasand | the affected area shown on the neighbor 9 ie Ba0y : ! Florida: also. there will be | ihaca ; | map as the air hits the coast line, : y b he P.}.—Dr. H. Edward Morrison, mari- | ’ ’ | to within a 100-mile radius of | ,, . a : in north Kiangsu province, but the | showers in the Dakotas, eastern | . : The Florida peninsula experiences Central Daily News said 20,000 Com- | tal relations expert and director of| = on Rockies | Dubuque, Towa, will have showers | such breezes from both the east munists from -Shantung were con- the marriage clinic, today asked for, Temperatures in the eastern | and thunderstorms as the front | and the west and will have aft-

centrated for a counterdrive, a continuance of his divorce suit

“ing nightly sorties Against the Com- [eon on “How to Be Happy Though | munists. | Married.” {

half of the country ranging from In north Shansi Nationglist troops | against his wife, Mary, because he the Mississippi valley to the Atwere still holding Tatung and mak- { had to speak at a Lion's club lunch- lantic coast will be comfortable, but thermometer readings will be off higher than yesterday.

presses south and eastward or ernoon thundershowers,

FACE CHARGE OF CHILD NEGLECT

Juvenile Court Will Mother, ‘Father of 4.

Juvenile Court Referee Florence Thacker ' today released Grover Fields of Route 20 on his own recognizance after his arrest on charges of child neglect. Mrs. Abbie Louise Fields, his wife, was released under $1000 bond last

night. Both are scheduled to face a juvenile court hearing on the charges next week. The pair is charged with leaving their four children uncared for in a fly-infested hovel last week-end

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| while. they took a trip a Xenweky, | Mr. Fields was found g

y of child neglect in juvenile court a year ago

{but judgment was suspended by Judge pro tem Scott McDonald on| | condition he return and “properly

provide” for his family, Sheriff's Office Called

The youngsters, LeRoy, 10; Billy,|

8; Barbara, 6, and Joan, found by

4, were

deputy sheriffs Sunday

shifting for themselves in a house

infested with insects and overrun

| with chickens which roosted in the|

beds and on the furniture, Joan was found running a fever and was

Out War Is Sawa In China As Reds Mobilize

Men Are Driving Women To Drink, WCTU Head Says

EVANSTON, Ill, Aug. 21 (U. P). mixing sweet-tasting drinks pleasing —Mrs. D. Leigh Colvin—who Tove io the feminine palate.” has had so much as a glass of ine best hope, Mrs. Colvin be-

!lieves, lies in education beer—said today it was no wonder | jy such groups as 30 Hyg Paighs

more and more women are be-|{and the - “growing resentment | against liquor interests.”

coming alcoholics. Men, she said, . : {But she doesn’t advocate a repurn are driving the ladies to drink, | f b of the brass rail. Mrs. Colvin, president ° he Women's Christian Tempe:

union, said Dr, Robert V. sie DEER ARE HEAD Johns Hopkins psychiatrist was | “100 per cent right” when he wro = T0 HOOSIER FARMERS

in a magazine that alcoholism among women was rising daily. “Women who wouldn't think of | A project dear to the hearts of stepping into a saloon in the old | days now tag along ‘to bars with | their men folks just to keep up| with them,” she said.

conservation department officials {had become an agricultural problem today.

Mrs, Colvin thinks maybe the| During the last dozen years the demise of the old-time saloon department has stocked southern wasn't entirely an unmixed blessing. | Indiana woodlands with Virginia

“The old-fashioned saloon wasn't | white tail deer. Slightly more than a pretty place,” she said. “It had 150 deer were turned loose to roam cuspidors and sawdust floors, Nice the southern Hoosier hills, women just weren't. tempted to go, ' Today, the officials were studying

there.” |legal methods of eliminating a few

Now, Mrs. Colvin said, everything of the estimated 2000 deer now in possible is being done to make bars downstate Indiana. attractive to women, » Farmers in the region have come “Saloon keepers are cleaning their plained that the deer forage freplaces,” she said.. “The modern bar quently in corn fields, gardens and has soft lights, leather upholstery other growing crops. and chrome fixtures.” Guns are legally . Furthermore, Mrs. Colvin said, traps are ineffective, liquor interests were campaigning tion department said. One department spokesman sug-

forbidden and the conserva-

to make drinking “romantic and re-|

taken to City hospital while the spectable.” gested the bow,_and arrow as a three older children were placed] Need Education weapon Tor_irat farmers who have temporarily in the Children's guar-| “Stores sell cocktail dresses, cock- colplained that they intend to | dians home. | tail hats, cocktail tables and cock-|“protect our property” in some Neighbors called the sheriff's tail glasses,” she said. “In almost manner. So far, it's merely a suge office for assistance after providing every magazine there are pictures of jgestion, however, and it's still | food for the children over the pretty girls drinking cocktails.” against the law to kill a deer im week-end | “Bartenders have become adept at'Indiana.

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