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FIVE CENTS. rann rn An OJ urn uvi uUUQ i IIIIIIIIIH NCII olid ojlc anding Japs Report Americans A ttempt Luzon Republicans Jam Statehouse to Hear Gates U. MEDICS WORK SIDE BY SIDE ENEMY FORCES LASHED BY FODR ALLIED ARMIES Nazis Begin Retirement That May Roll Back All Way to St. Vith. GATES PLEDGES SERVICE TO ALL mmi hi rniriiliiiiiiiifriiiiiir'ai "rtfiiminti nlnil rahT'll Ammiii ffiir -nr ani Indiana's new chief executive, the first Republican to take over since Harry G.

Leslie took office as governor in 1928, is pictured speaking in the rotunda of the statehouse yesterday with the corridors jammed with spectators. Gates, former state commander of the American Legion, Republican state chairman and Columbia City lawyer, succeeded Henry F. Schricker, Democrat, of Knox. Admiral Asserts East Coast Buzz Bomb Attack Probable An East Coast Port, Jan. 8 the Atlantic coast is probable miral Jonas H.

Ingram, commander in chief of the U. S. Atlantic fleet, said today. Ingram, who said he came steps to cope with such an attack, succintly declared at a press INDIANA PEOPLE Columbia City Lawyer Be' comes 36th Governor in Inaugural Ceremony. By Tom Maddox.

Indianapolis, Jan. 8 (JP) The first official act of Gov. Ralph Fesler Gates will be the presentation tomorrow of his legislative recommendations to the 84th Indiana General As sembly. Gates became governor this after noon. The largest assemblage oi Hoosier Republicans in recent years witnessed the ceremonies.

Don Trone, assistant sergeant-at-arms, estimated the total crowd as "about 5,000." Youngest Lieutenant-Governor. Also sworn in were Richard T. James, former auditor from Portland, the youngest lieutenant-governor in state history, and Attorney-General James A. Emmert of Shelbyville, beginning another two-year term. Emmert and James, who is 34, are Re publicans.

Henry F. Schricker of Knox, whose retirement as governor marked the end of a twelve-year succession of Democratic governors, presented Gates in the lofty statehouse rotunda. Judge Dan C. Flanagan of the state Appel late Court, administered the oath. Speaking from a flag-draped plat form, Gates accepted "the greatest honor that could come to me" and pledged himself to serve the citizens of Indiana during the next four years "to the best of my ability and skill." The short and stocky Gates, a Columbia City lawyer, has been a Republican leader in the state for more than twenty of his fifty-one years.

Gates said: "About one-third of a million young men and women from Indiana are in the armed forces. The first objective of the people of this state shall be to continue to do all within their power to bring this war to a speedy and victorious conclusion. Indiana has a right to be proud of its record since Pearl Harbor. Under the leadership of my predecessor and his associates nothing has been left undone to make the contribution of Indiana to the war effort outstanding among the states of the nation. "However.

I maintain that the final test of our capacity be Turn to Page 2, Column 4. INSURANCE MOVE OPPOSED BY FDR Would Deray Sherman Act Application, However. Washington, Jan. 8 (JP) President Roosevelt today threw his influence against the move in Congress to exempt insurance companies from the anti-trust laws. At the same time he said he favors giving the business time for "orderly correction of abuses" before full application of the Sherman act! The Supreme Court, in a 4-3 de cision last June 5 upset seventy-five years of precedent by holding that insurance is commerce and subject to the anti-trust laws.

Views in Letter to Solon. In a letter to Senator Radcilffe dated January 2 and made public at the White House to day, the President wrote: "There is no conflict between the application of the anti-trust laws and effective state regulation pf insurance companies, and there is no valid rea son for giving any special exemption from the anti-trust laws to the busi ness of At the same he told the senator he approved the principle of a bill by Senator O'Mahoney (Dem, Wyo.) which would exempt the business, from the Sherman, act until March 1, 1946, except for acts of boycott, coercion, or intimidation. Mr. Roosevelt's letter was in reply to one from Radcliffe December 20. 1944, which asked for "some form of moratorium under which state activities could continue freely pending federal and state legislation which will Turn to Paje 2.

Column 5. ATTACKING NAZIS ARE DRIVEN BACK FROM BUDAPEST Reds Continue Annihilation of Foe in City Renew Czechoslovakia Push. London. Jan. 8 UP) The Red Army, holding off German assault forces northwest of Budapest and continuing the annihilation of the Nazi garrison trapped inside the city, pushed westward again today in southern Czechoslovakia in a drive that threatened to outflank the counterattacking erfemy.

The Soviet communique broadcast from Moscow tonight announced that strong forces of enemy tanks and in-. fantry which lunged against the Rus sian lines approximately fifteen miles from Budapest had been repulsed to day and that ninety German tanks were knocked out in that sector Sun. day. Nazi Counterattacks Costly. Since the Germans began their counterattacks southeastward in an attempt to break through to the sur rounded capital on January 2, the Russians have listed 498 enemy tanks as disabled or destroyed and almost 10,000 German troops killed.

The communique indicated the extent of Soviet progress inside Buda pest by reporting capture of another 130 blocks, giving the Russians con trol of more than 1,900 of the city's 4,500 square blocks. In Budapest, by Russian account, 12,000 Germans and Hungarians have been killed in street and house fight ing, 300,000 have been wounded and 5,430 captured. Above the Danube in the third phase of the complicated campaign, Soviet Marshal Rodion Y. Malinov-sky's troops advanced almost three miles and have reached points little more than seven miles from Koma-rom, Slovak communications center on the Danube, capturing eight more towns. They now are 58 miles from Bratislava, capital of Slovakia, and 91 from Vienna.

Both Sides Use Reserves. Reports from Berlin said both sides were throwing in reserves hastily in the battles inside Budapest and to the northwest and that the fighting was growing in violence and approaching a climax. Fresh Nazi SS (Elite Guard) troops were being brought to the Budapest front continually, they said. Large number of Stormovik fighter planes are being used to break up the Ger man tank push toward Budapest, flying so many sorties their motors have no chance to cool. The Russians claimed to have slowed the panzer drive, but there were indications it still was making headway.

Russian dispatches also indicated that the German airforce had been employed effectively, not only in interfering with Red Army communications, but also in direct support of Nazi ground troops. Conservative claims gave the Rus sians about half the city proper, including the whole quay sector of Pest, all of Buda except its northwestern corner and all' the northeastern in dustrial sector of Pest. The Germans, however, still hold a passage from Pest to Buda across the Danube. Report British Take ELAS Toll in Hills Battle Athens, Jan. 8 (JP) British armored forces pursuing the ELAS into the hills west and north of Athens were reported to have killed between fiffy and 100 of the leftwing guerrillas today in a battle in a narrow defile five miles south of Erithrai.

a hamlet at the edge of the Thebes plain. (An Athens radio broadcast record. ed by the FCC said British troops Monday afternoon captured the city of Thebes, 50 miles northwest of Athens). An estimated 1,500 ELAS still were holding out in the pass when heavy ram clouds closed down over Mt. Pateras and brought the fighting to a temporary halt.

In addition to the casualties inflicted on the ELAS, the British claimed to have destroyed quantities of mortars and field ar tillery. In yesterday's fighting in the Elev. sis area, 15 miles northwest of Athens, the British reported killing sixty-three ELAS and capturing forty-four. This did not include casualties inflicted by cannon-firing RAF planes. Continued searching of houses in the Athens-Piraeus area today pro duced another 1,400 rifles, eighty machineguns, much small arms ammunition and grenades and eleven tons of explosives.

Lt. Gen. Ronald M. Scobie, British commander, announced that peace terms previously offered the ELAS had been witnarawn and tnat any future negotiations would be based on fair treatment for British prisoners held by the ELAS, Relief agencies rushed sunolies to areas nwly-cleared of fighting. Ath ens shopkeepers began cleaning up wrecKage and resumed business but most supplies were very short.

HEARINGS ON HOOSIER UTILITY PETITIONS SET Washington, Dec. 8 (JP) The Fed eral Power Commission today consolidated for hearing February 26 pro ceedings arising from applications of the Greenfield Gas Co. of Greenfield. the Panhandle Eastern Pipe line Co. of Kansas City, and the Eastern Indiana Gas Co.

of New Castle, for authority to con struct and operate facilities in In NIP BROADCAST SAYS YANKS ARE BEING HELD OFF Tokio Word Conflicting Assert Division of U. S. Troops Involved. By the Associated Press. An American attempt to land a division of troops on Luzon, main island of the Philippines, was reported Monday night by Tokio radio in a vague broadcast which said the Yanks "are still unable to secure even a foothold." The broadcast, lacking Allied confirmation, spoke in one breath of the Americans "attempting to land" and in the next boasted of "what awaits the anticipated landing operations." Say 70 to 80 Barges Used.

Actually it did not say the Americans had left the transports which earlier Tokio broadcasts have described as being in Lingayen Gulf, some 120 miles north of Manila, along with U. S. warships bombarding the coastline. The broadcast, picked up by the Federal Communications Commission said the Americans were employing some seventy to eighty landing barges, and that the defenders already have dealt a "staggering blow" to forces engaged in "an attempted landing A delayed dispatch of Rembert James. Associated Press war coYres- pondent aboard the flagship of Vice Adm.

John S. McCain disclosed that carrier planes scourged Luzon for the second straight day Saturday (U. date). They found sizable enemy shipping had fled all the island's harbors, with big Manila and Subic bays empty, and that the enemy airforce was amaz ingly small. For the past two days, during which the attacks were continued around the clock night and day, 179 enemy planes were put out of action, the bulk of them on the ground.

Three ships and eleven small seagoing craft were sunk and twenty-two damaged. Tokio radio continued to fill the airways with invasion talk. Earlier the Japanese reported an American armada "of -some 450 transports steaming toward Luzon, where the enemy for two days had reported a. bitter battle between a fleet of seventy U. S.

warships and shoreline fortresses. jl'" JN Official Confirmation. There was no official confirmation t- Cf any of these reports. At jPearl Harbor it was disclosed that Adm. Chester W.

Nimitz had conferred in the Philippines with Gen. Douglas MacArthur, presumably to work on a timetable for the defeat of Japan. For the third day in a row General MacArthur ignored the Japanese In his communique today the general said Liberators and Mitchell Turn to Page 2, Column 1. DEBATE WARDGASE IN FEDERAL COURT Government and Company Counsel Offer Arguments. Chicago, Jan.

8 (JP) Government and company counsel fought a legal battle all day in Federal Court today over the question of whether President Roosevelt had statutory and constitutional authority to seize sixteen Montgomery Ward anct Company properties in seven cities. This, the opposing attorneys agreed, Is the principal issue of the lawsuit. The government is asking a declaratory judgment to establish legality of the seizure December 28 and an in- i junction to prevent company interfer- i ence with the army now controlling the properties. Hugh B. Cox, assistant solicitor i general, asserted the President had both statutory and constitutional pow-, ers.

Stuart S. Ball, Ward's chief counsel, contended he had neither. Continue Arguments Today. When court adjourned the arguments were not completed. Ball will continue tomorrow, after which Solicitor General Charles Fahy wUl reply for the government.

Then Federal Judge Philip L. Sullivan will take the case for a decision which, the government avers, will affect the whole wartime machinery for settling labor disputes. In summary form these were the opposing positions: Cox, for the government Ward's is an institution dealing in articles useful in the war effort. Its labor disputes threatened to spread nationally to an extent that would affect the national economy and even "threaten the outcome of the war." In such a situation the President had the authority to order seizure under the war labor disputes act or his war powers or both. Ball, for the company Ward's operations are not in any way detrimental to the war effort and Ward's is not an organization engaged in manufacturing or production for war within the meaning of the act.

Therefore the act did not empower the President to seize the properties. Further more, the seizure violated the fourth and fifth constitutional amendments. The seizure order violated "commands 4 of Congress" and the War Labon Board orders which the President iS luiuiuoiiuru uc puv a viittv wiic ui themselves illegal and at best merely advisory -but not enforceable. I a is a Il 2 in tg FOR 3-DAY PERIOD With American Troops Near Wingen, France, Jan. 8 (JP) American doctors and troops, technically prisoners of the Germans, worked side by side witn Nazi medics in tending the wounded of both sides during the three-day period in which the Germans were sur rounded here.

The Germans captured an American first aid station when they retook the town, but American tanks reappeared three days later. During that period a total of 30 Germans and seven Yanks received treatment for wounds. "We were working on their men and they were working on ours too." said Set. Charles Chevalier of Bridge port, who made several trips back to American lines for blood plasma and supplies. Among the troops trapped in the town was Sgt.

Howard Conner of Amboy, Ind. COUNCIL TO ACT IN BUS MATTER Attack Board of Works Transportation Powers. The city council brought to a close at 9 o'clock last night, a discussion of approximately one hour's duration relating the city's bus situation, by voting for the council as a whole to serve as a committee to bring in a resolution stripping the board of pub lie works and safety of its powers in transportation. The resolution will be presented either at a special meeting or the next regular session of the council. Appearing before the council were four defense industrial workers Samuel Myers, 1927 Delawanda avenue: William Collins, 1514 West Thir teenth street; Harry Wilson, Broderick plant worker, and Carl Burnham, col ored, Chevrolet plant employe each to proclaim that the bus transportation system in Muncie as being op erated under a twenty-years' franchise issued to the Denney and Hines Bus Company, "has failed." They asserted that hundreds of man hours are being lost daily in Muncie plants engaged in the manufacture of war needs.

Competition Needed. Myers told the council that in his opinion only, means by which adequate bus service can be provided in the city, will be for the grant of the right to operate busses, to two or more companies. During the Wilson administration, bus routes' held by companies operating lines in various sections of the city, were cancelled and the franchise to the one company was granted, turning the entire busi ness over to the one Arm. Recently, the council had turned the matter over to a sDecial commit ftee O'Neill, Sanders and Skinner to confer with the city attorney and ascertain what procedure would be necessary to do away with the Iran chise and turn the matter over either to the city council or place the 'bus business under control of the Indiana Public Service Commission. O'Neill reported that the committee was advised by City Attorney George S.

Koons, that it Would require until January 17, to assemble all data, the committee sought and to plan another session with him. O'NeuT said such conference has been arranged. The committee, however, was discharged last night. The bus argument was started after the council had finished, other matters and Allen arose to tell the council that two matters are uppermost in minds of the citizens the garbage collection and bus business and said "they are just riding me to death." It was then that Myers related a lack of adequate bus service in that section of the city where he resides. He told how a bus driver stops on a trip that would get workers to their place of employment, to eat breakfast, and said on one occasion he had waited Turn to Page 2, Column 3.

Chicago Post Office Cafeteria Has a Huge Ration Point Shortage Chicago, Jan. 8 (JP) The Chicago area OPA office today reported a shortage of nearly two and a half million red and blue ration points at the restaurant and cafeteria of Chicago's new post office building. The establishment serves almost 10,000 meals daily. Marion W. Isbell.

area OPA director, said the points and certificates for a 37,000 pound sugar shortage will be charged against the restaurant's future ration allotments until paid up. "This procedure is adopted rather suspension from business Isbell said, "because the post office restaurant an essential business, operated as non-profit enterprise by a board of post office employes." The step will force drastic cuts in the amount of rationed foods served, he added. Isbel lsaid the restaurant manager, Frank D. Schrottky reported that the shortage resulted from the great volume of business in the restaurant, which is open 24 hours a day. The Temperature Banra.

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8 (P) Tempestuous blows by four allied armies (impressed the Belgian bulge by three miles on the south and a mile on the north today through a blinding blizzard and the Ger mans began a retirement that may roll back all the way to St. Vith, four miles from the Reich. The way out through the waist of the bulge, now narrowed to a width of ten miles, is mainly by meandering secondary roads, The main northern highway has been knocked out by the Allies along a 15-mile stretch. The equally vital southern road was cut west of Bastogne by a three-mile Third Army gain and was plastered by First Army artillery farther east. Near Von Rundstedt's Base.

Near the waist the TJ. S. Third armored division's famed Hogan's task force seized a crossroads less than eight miles north of Field Marshal Karl Von Rundstedt's base at Houffalize. Five miles east of that spot the Third armored also captured a village five and a half miles north of the enemy's last good route of retreat. A second German offensive was thrown into reverse in northeast France.

The U. S. Seventh Army drove the German spearhead in the Vosges back two miles as lt seized the initiative, and blunted a number of salients menacing the French city of Strasbourg on the Rhine. French troops were rushing into Strasbourg to reinforce the garrison, and French civilians who had fled were returning. American counterattacks wrested back part of the German bridgehead on the Rhine eight miles north of Strasbourg, the French stemmed the enemy push 16 miles south of the city, and to the west in the Vosges doughboys recaptured Wingen.

where the Nazi push had driven 15 miles into France. (A Berlin broadcast declared the French front had been "cracked wide open" by a new bridgehead south of Strasbourg from which German forces overran six Rhine valley towns, including Kraft, only ten miles south of the city. The report was without Allied confirmation.) Wipe Out Nazi Bridgehead. British troops in eastern Holland. riding Canadian tanks, wiped out a German bridgehead on the west bank of the Maas River at Wanssum.

26 miles east of the Allied base at Eindhoven. More than 700 U. S. heavy bombers joined the battle in the Ardennes, plastering road and rail junctions Inside the Belgian bulge and the samo sort of targets far back into the Reich. The First airborne army was com mitted to the battle of Belgium and Luxembourg with the arrival of the British Sixth airborne division.

The U. S. 82nd and 101st airborne divi sions already were in action. The U. S.

First Army plowing a mile or so through deep snow in the worst blizzard of the winter, overran five towns on the north, the British Second Army gained more than a mile on the west, and the U. S. Third on the south in two-mile advances eight miles west of Bastogne severed Turn to Page 2, Column 8. PFG. fTrTSeTT IS DEAD OF WOUNDS Sgt.

Richard Connolly Is Reported Missing. One Muncie soldier has been reported missing in action, one has died of wounds, and another has been wounded, according to information received yesterday by relatives here. Pfc. Frederick R. Privett died December 22 of wounds, Sgt.

Richard Connolly, 25, Is missing, and Cpl. Doyle C. Wright has been wounded. Sergeant Connolly, 25, is the son of Mrs. and Mrs.

W. C. Connolly, of. 925 East Adams street. He is missing in the American area, according to notification received by his parents.

No date or details were given. Sergeant Connolly's father is general manager of the Ford Agency in Muncie. Radioman on B-29. Sergeant Connolly was with the 109th Armv Airwavs Communication Squadron, Serving as radioman on a B-29. He had been in North Africa about six months.

His last letter was dated December 26. He entered the armed services in March, 1941, and was trained at Jefferson Barracks, and Scott Field, East St. Louis. He was graduated from Central High School with the class of 1933 and attended Ball State College one year. He served as president of the T.

M. C. Club at Central High School and was associated with the Downtown Filling Station before en tering service. He has two sisters in Muncie, Martha Jane Connolly, as sistant director of clinical experience at Ball Hospital, and Joan Connolly, an employe at the Merchants Trust Company. Pfc.

Frederick R. Privett. 27, son of Mr. and Mrs. J.

A. Privett. 1401 East Gilbert street, died December 22 of wounds received while fighting with ine lniantry or the First army in France, according to word received by his parents yesterday. On Saturday they received word that he had been wounded seriously. Yesterday'a message said a letter would give more MANPOWER ACT GOP AID PLEDGED Call on Administration to Press for Service Law.

Washington, Jan. 8 (JP) Senate Re publicans pledged aid in the enactment of manpower measures today with Senator Austin Vt.) calling on the administration to press hard for national service legislation. Chairman Taft Ohio) said it was the consensus of the GOP steer ing committee that the minority is willing to do whatever seems prac tical or needed to accomplish the result" of increasing war production. Austin, who Taft said had been designated as spokesman for the com mittee on manpower questions, went further. Challenge to Administration.

The Vermonter told reporters who gathered at his office that it is up to the administration to make an "active and earnest" effort to get national service legislation, something he implied it thus far has failed to do despite President Roosevelt's repeated recommendation to Congress. Chairman Colmer Miss.) of the House postwar committee, meantime approached the manpower pressure issue from a different point. He introduced in that branch a measure for induction of men whom local draft boards do not consider as making a full contribution to war output. Particular provision is made for induction of war plant strikers. Under the Colmer bill these men could be used in any way the army and navy see fit to further the war effort, including assignment to war plants.

They would have distinctive uniforms but receive regular army pay on the basis of rank. Senator Austin, who joined with Rep. Wadsworth N. in offering a manpower draft bill in the last Congress, said he will not reintroduce the measure. But he added that he has not lost faith in its efficacy.

Start Hearings Wednesday. The House military committee arranged today to start hearings Wednesday morning on the bill by its chairman, Rep. May Ky.) for drafting of 4-Fs and others who move out of war jobs without draft board permission. Selective service's own moves in that direction were expected to result in an increase in the number of essential firms seeking occupational deferments for their 4-F workers. An SS spokesman explained that reclassification into 2-AF or 2B-F would prevent employes from quitting without draft board sanction, on penalty of induction.

The selective service order issued Saturday sets "drastically lower" army physical standards for induction of deferred workers who leave essential jobs, but does not apply to 4-F. Some months ago employers were advised by manpower authorities to apply for deferred status, either 2-AF or 2-BF, for their 4-F employes. Em Turn to Page. 2. Column 8.

(JP) A Nazi buzz bomb attack on within the next two months, Ad here aboard his flagship to take NEW COLD WAVE FOR MID-WEST Temperatures of Zero and Lower Are Forecast. By the Associated Press. Strong winds whipped a cold wave Into the middle-West last night. Forecasters said zero and sub-zero temperatures would be general throughout the area and issued a spe. cial cold wave warning, also predict' ing that snow flurries and moderately strong winds would accompany the temperature dips, which were quite sudden in some areas.

Winds heralding the cold wave reached fifty-four miles an hour at Omaha. Neb. Airplane traffic was halted there and many schools in the region were closed. Highways in Ne braska were glazed and in Iowa house holders faced the cold wave short of roal due to inability of yards to de liver. At Minneapolis and St.

Paul, Japanese-American soldiers from Ft. Snelling volunteered to aid in coal deliveries because of the manpower shortage. Temperature Predictions. These were temperature predictions in the middle-West for last night Near 25 below in northern Minne sota, 10 to 15 below in the south por tion. Fifteen to 20 below in northwestern to 10 below in the south west.

Five to 10 below in northwestern Illinois, zero in central and 15 above in th extreme south. Zero in lower Michigan, 10 below in the interior of northern Michigan. Eighteen below in northern Nebraska, 12 below in the western part. Forecaster Howard Kenny in Chicago Dredicted. however, that the winds would diminish in these areas by late today and that the tempera, fur nrobablv would rise tomorrow.

The cold snap also spread into Kentucky, with zero predicted for some areas. Strong winds also zipped across Kansas and Missouri, causing some sudden temoerature drops. Meanwhile the eastern coastal area was digging out of the heaviest snow storm of the season five to seven and one-half inches. Six persons were renorted to have died in the Northeast because of the weather. MERCURY TO DROP IN STATE, Indianapolis, Jan.

8 (JP)-Indiana began bundling up for more zero weather tonight as a new cold wave moved in upon the mid-West from central Canada. Weather forecasters warned Hoo- siers to expect temperatures ranging from zero in the north to 15 degrees above in the south and to prepare for at least twenty-four hours of ab normally low temperatures. Howard Kenny, Chicago weather forecaster, said snow flurries would accompany the cold wave but he an ticipated no blizzards. Kenny said warmer weather may relieve the state Wednesday. TWO HOOSIER FLIERS IN LUZON BOMBING With the 5th Air Force on Leyte.

Jan. 8 (JP) Two Indiana men, 2nd Lt. J. O. of Peru and Capt.

Wendell Decker of Blufftoru piloted Mitchell bombers that raided Clark Field on Luzon Sunday. The raiders started fires, destroyed some grounded planes and bombed installations. Lt. Buffington's bomber came back with a ragged six-inch hole in conference: "It is probable that the Germans will attempt to launch bombs against New York or Washington within the next thirty to sixty days." Next Alert 'Real McCoy. But, he said, "there is no reason for anyone to become Effective have been taken to meet this threat, when and if 'it becomes a reality." Ingram said the time for practice black-outs for New York and the east coast has ended." "The next alert," he said, "will be the 'real McCoy.

If it isn't action, the public will have advance knowl edge. So when a notice of attack is sounded, be prepared." The admiral said he had been au thorized at a recent meeting with members of the general staff in Washington to make a statement as suring the public the navy and army were well prepared to ward off any robot bomb assaults. "If such an attempt is made," he asserted, "it would probably be lim-lited to ten or twelve bombs. These would not be of the block-buster type "They might strike a building and destroy it, but the casualties would be nothing like those which the people of London are suffering under." He said that his opinion was based on his own experience with the enemy, not on military intelligence reports. "Such an attack against New York or Washington for political purposes would naturally be welcomed by Mr.

Goebbels," Ingram added. He said there were three possible means by which the bombs might be directed against east coast cities-From submarine, airplane or surface ship. NAVY IS NOT IN COMPLETE ACCORD WITH INGRAM VIEW Washington, Jan. 8 (JP) The navy tonight indicated it was not in com plete accord with the view of Ad Turn to Page 2, Column 2. Three Die, 17 Hurt in Bomb Explosion After Trucks Hit Luton, England, Jan.

8 (JP) Three persons were killed and seventeen injured today in a blast that devastated the countryside near here wThen a U. S. Army truck laden with twenty high explosive bombs collided with a civilian truck. There was a five-minute interval between the collision and the explosion. The trucks hardly more than grazed each other at a sharp turn 30 miles west of London but the impact wras enough to set the delicate bomb mechanisms to operating.

In the interval, Cpl. Riggins Earle a six-foot Negro driver of the army truck, ran a quarter of a mile down the rural road alarming the countryside with the cry: "Bombs, bombs, take cover." All the casualties were passengers on the Luton-Hitchin bus, which had stopped near the scene. Thirteen of the injured, some American soldiers, were hospitalized. One of the dead also was an American. Earle stopped first at the house of Mr.

and Mrs. J. S. Sutton and they fled before the explosion flattened their home. Another home he warned was the scene, of a children's party.

All escaped safely. Property damage was widespread. Windows were broken a mile away and the blast was felt in Luton, four miles from the scene. A British army gasoline truck, stopped near the traffic-jammed scene, caught fire. Buildings on same farms were set ablaze.

A number of cottages were flattened or damaged and live stock, was killed in fields. The Real News Newsreel By Dave Boone Roosevelt and Churchill had better hurry tip with that conference with Joe Stalin or Joe may brand them as partners in exile. Poland doesn't seem to be getting an extra square deal but when three fellows are having a tough time fighting off a gangster, they, don't ordinarily take time off between punches to argue about the Golden Rule. It's risky business, except for the gangster. Uncle Sam and John Bull stick with the Polish, government in exile, and Russia recognizes the LnblLn government.

Just now Stalin is got Poland, a Polish government and a Polish diplomacy right on the home grounds. We've got a Polish government Jh. exile, a. diplomacy in exile and an Atlantic Charter in' exile. It's curious about America, They got along swell in a up to the point where something comes up that involves peace.

1 The, President's 'speech can be boiled down to six words: "Dont you know. there's a war -s a. And if the country ain't plain trazy this should be the last time has to sk jthat question. 7: i propellor. diana.

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