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fc C4 VOL. XXXIX, NO. 217 IN A T1CN AX NEWS iSETICB HAMMOND, INDIANA, WEDNESDAY'. FEBRUARY 26, 1943 cnited pk ESS ASSOCIATIONS PRICE FOUR CENTS g1 On cr-i I A 1 1 i I JL llVlidv5 TO FDR Sa al ys Foe to ace Nazi Die-Hards Lock ire Defense of ooinmedl City Red Cross Roundup for Funds Starts in Area Two Region Men Killed In Germany One Dies in France List Two Missing, Fourteen Wounded Chief Back From World Con ercnce Leader in Grim hut 1 1 1 atit Mood rn I( turn from Iuia Washington p. j.t returned today from Jus historic Crime -onference so inspired hy the.

litg Three progrtvo-towrd durable penc that he could forfee ultimate armament rs-du, turn by she major Aiiurd tight- in it fH rL Hut he f. that Germany and Infantry Breaks Through Erft liner Line Within Sight of Ilhine PARIS P. Ameru an tnk and troop rammed icron the Erft river line at three points within sight of the Rhine today and were locked in a furious battle for Modrath, 6' mile from Cologne. The Erft river, last water barrier before the Rhine, breathed three points directly west and est-soulh w( of Cologne by armored task forces of two and perhaps three American First army division. One assault column hurdled the Erft on the main Duerrn-Cologne highway, while two others swept across the river on either side of the road So swift was the attack that one Japs Falling Back Along 10-Mile Line Mat-Arthur's Attack Also Cleans Up All Few on Verde Island Japan he on tiial 'for perhaps, "Kvin every ounce of their years or more before being re- -trenxth to free the world of dic-H'imitted hh e'lii'tli to the society tatorship tt ri ltioo.x Mcintime, they muit be Thousand of volunteers, proper-restrained by force if iinessaiy.

ly identified as Red Cross war fund Hit full report will be made to worker, will start their invasion ittnKre.i.s thia week. by solicitating funds all The president returned to Ameri- over the region in a hou.se to house ran soil last night, landing at an campaign. Supplementing house coat port after a voy- to house tails, the fund drive will tge from Algiers aboard a heavy be extended to every industry, pro-Ameri' cruiser which went with- res.monal office and amusement in a few miles of enemy sub- place. i.iarineH atrikins at Allied shipping tne direction cf David T. Casualties IX Aajelere Lt.

James Aageberg of Hammond top photo, left was killed in action over Belgium on Jan. Jl. An a i i a n- jrTX n. Pvt. Aiicnaei uuouiafAw Luboya nOV Chicago, v4- illed in f.

of East was ki Germany on Kfh 1 (mctured in top right'. IX Petropcdi Former East Chicago Roosevelt high football star. Lt. Stanley Petropolis i lower photo, right) was reported killed in France Jan. 26.

Deadline for Car Licenses Motorists Face Arrest After Midnight. Motorists driving after midnight tonight without a 1945 driver's license or a car plate, will do so at the risk of arrest. Warning that the law requiring new licenses by March 1. would be enforced, was sounded earlier today by Hammond. East Chicago and VYhiting police chiefs after Austin R.

Killian. superintendent of state police, announced in Indianapolis that his trooper would begin arresting violators after the deadline. Mrs. Iva Benson, Hammond auto license manager, announced that license bureaus in Hammond and the branches in Whiting and East Chicago would be open from 9 a. m.

to 5 p. m. today, but will be open until 8 o'clock tomorrow night. The treasurer's office will also be open until 8 p. m.

tomorrow so motorists can get certification that their poll taxes have been paid if necessary. According to Mrs. Benson, the motorists have been ilow in applying for 1945 licenses inHammond East Chicago and Whiting. Pointing out that drivers' licenses and car plates have been on sale since Jan. 9, Chief Martinson declared that Hhere can be no excuse for operating motor vehicles on streets and highways after the official deadline without new licenses The state law also prohibits extension of the time lim for getting new licenses and providVs stern penalties for any public officer Issuing such orders.

Hundreds of motorists in the Calumet region were without their new licenses today and issuing agencies were busy. (The Weather Fair tonight with lowest temper- ature 25. Increasing cloudiness and 'warmer Thursday with high about 44 followed by rain Thursday night. Pt. lAibo rfT- crt Giuiaitar.

He then proceeded to Washington by overnight train, finivnss back in the White House arly thin morning He hud ready for congress a lengthy report on the Crimea meeting which he will deliver in per-i on on Capitol Hill in a d.iy or In hn mcsMige to congress which ill be broadcast jdmultaneously to the nation. Mr. Roosevelt will; tell how he. 1'rtme Minister Win- ton Churchill, Premier Josef Stalin and their top advisers met in the old Luvadi i piilace of Czar Nicholas II on the Uiack sea and developed plans fur a tnrci -way operation to the last life out of the German military machine. He will tell also how they also buUt the foundation of an international organization which can squelch future wars before thev start.

Koosevrlt IWiyant MANILA Ur. Japanese the Erft in force, and field dis-ioices fell back along a 10-mile patches indicated that units of the front in the Marakma watershed First infantry division also were east of Manila today under the im- moving in on the Eighth's southrin pact of two divisions of American flank below Modrath. troops and swarms of bombers and- Klemenla of the First division fighters. 'speared seven mtlea aoutheast of Gen. Douglas MacArthur mount-' Dueren to capture Gladbai h.

mg offensive also brought the com-'; To the north, the American Ninth plete destruction of Japanese rem-; army, operating under a aecurity nants on Verde Island, off the blackout, was rolling up the Ger-southern tip of Luzon. Elimination man defenses on the western fringe of all but several hundred enemy lf the Ruhr valley against slightly stragglers on Corregidor, and new stiffened enemy resistance, and heavy aerial blows on the Japanese Dnessddorf was reported under di-from Formosa to French Indo-jrect artillery fire. China. i At the southern end of the Al- liruts erf the Sixth infnatry divH l'd offensive front, IX Gen. George sion paced the drive toward Lu- S.

Patten's American Third army zon' east coast and captured Ml. 'force raptured the pivotal road Mataba, 13 miles northeast of Mani-jtenter of Bilburg in a drive ap-la. to knock a hole in the enemy's, Prently aimed at the Moaelle vl Kobayashi line. ley and the central reaches the The southern and western slopesj Rhine. of Mt.

Pawag-an also were secured; Free Slate H'orUera by the Sixth diviaon troops who; In the V. S. First army'a advance drove to within two miles of the Erft river. American east-west Montalban-Wawa high-! Hying columna liberated more than Volunteer workers on the home front are prepared to launch an in every Calumet region ity and town an invasion for a j'jsl aid worthy taase the Ameri- an Red Cross war fund. Mayors of Hammond, Whiting Kn.st Chicago.

Cil-iniet City and town offuiai of Highland. Orif-f ith, Munatei. Landing and liUck today proclaimed the month ot Mar'h as national Red Cross month nd urged every citizen of the home front to contribute Without reservation to the 1145 war fund 'rl through thp local chapters to support AmTifii fighting rr.T. and women the world over who art Emery, chairman of the Hammond rampttign. a va.t organization of volunteers will seek donations throughout the entire month in an effort put Hammond over its Koa! of "Mr.

Dean H. Mitchell, chairman of the women's committee, has contacted the men and women who will b-? the 'key workers' in the campaign." Emery said, "and every 13,500 Rebels Go on Strike Detroit Moh Defies Unions ami WL1 DF.THOIT INS The 13.500 Laura, is with him there. In military service for six years. First Sgt. De Long fought in the (European theater of war for one; before being injured.

A grad-tuate of Hammond high school, he jwas cleaning out an ammunition jdump, by taking explosives out of, hand grenades when a German-; planted explosive in the bottom or grenade blew up. The other two De Long boys in 'combat now are Samuel 20. 1 boatswain's mate second class with scout radar group in the Pacific; he and his brother, Martin L. avia- tion machinist' mate second class. way.

First cavalry division, forces, Eighteen Calumet region men M-re listed as casualties today, ither in government notifications to the next of kin or on official war department casualty lists. Lt. James B. Aageberg of Hammond, an army air tone pilot, was killed on Jan. 21 over Belgium, his wife Mabel.

6120 Noble avenue, and his parents. Mr. and Mrs. Alder Aageberg. 6020 Wallace road, were notified this week.

In combat overseas a year. Lt. Aageberg was assigned to a Ninth nir force base in Belgium with a unit that recently won the presidential citation for bravery in action. The 27-year-old pilot also received the air medal with oak leaf for his individual courage in action against the nemy. He and hi-s wife, whom he married three years ago, were graduated from Hammond high school.

Aageberg's have another son in overseas service, Russell, a lieutenant with the army infantry fortes somewhere in the south Pacific. Pvt. Michael Luboya, 4016 Pulaski street, East Chicago, was- killed in action Feb. 1 while serving with an infantry unit in Germany, his wife, Anne, was informed today. Born on Armistice Day Born on Armistice day of World war I in 191S.

Luboya attended Washington high school and was formerly employed at the Inland Steel company. He entered the army June 15, 1944, and completed his ba-uc in-i fantry training at Camp Blanding, Fla. He left for overseas duty last November. In addition to his wife, survivors are a daughter, Carol Ann. two years old; his father, Marko; and a brother stationed in England with ihe army air corps.

Word has been received of the death in France. January 26 of Lt. Stanley Petropolis. 28, former East Chicago Roosevelt high school football star, and son of Mr. and Mrs.

Angelo Petropolis, 4S06 Wegg avenue. Petropolis was with the Seventh infantry, joining the unit after active duty in England. Africa and Italy. A graduate of Roosevelt high school with the class of 1935, he was an outstanding lineman for the Rough Rider football team. He later was graduated from the University of Arizona with the class I of 1943, working his way through school.

Petropolis was sent to Ft. Riley. for training and was commissioned at the officers' candi-(Continued on Page Two) Tl Die iree in Holel Blaze Many Hurt in Leap From Windows CHICAGO (INS) Three persons were believed to have perished today when fire swept a residential hotel on Chicago's west side. A number of persons were injured, among them two women who leaped from a third floor window to escape the flames. Witnesses' said that a man appeared briefly, at the window from which the women jumped, then Two other persons, apparently trapped in their rooms by the appeared briefly at windows.

The fire, which broke out in the early morning and spread rapidly, through the structure, forced more! than 50 residents of the hotel to thej street The two women who escapea oy jumping from the third floor window were Mrs. Lillian Hefeli, 20. the wife of a service man. and her mother, Mrs. Rose Wuko-vitch.

45. Both suffered burns and possible internal injuries. MOt'lSG AyD MOVIXG in Seize Eiihi Persons for Auto Thefts Colored King Is Trapped hy East Chicago Police A ring of colored youths who miy be responsible for car thefts and purse snati hings in recent weeks, was in custody of Indiana Harbor police today. Five colored youths and a woman being held or. open charges at Indiana Harbor tiile at Alton.

III. two more youths were in custody of authorities connection with the same crimes. Capt. Martin Zaikovich n-nounced the names of the prisoners as follows: Andrew Johnston. 20.

of 371" Pennsylvania avenue; Marshall Wilson. 20, of Chicago: Julia Mae Palmer. 22, of 3715 Pennsylvania ivenue; Eliajah Thompson, 17, ol .1715 Pennsylvania avenue: Jessie Phillips, 16. of 3566 Pennsylvania avenue and Justine Taylor, 19. of 2302 Broadway.

Held at Alton. are Freddie Levi. 16, of Gary and Clarence Johnson, 19, of 3715 Pennsylvania avenue Detectives Rudolph Makar. Sieve Makher and Roy Morton cracked the case last evening when they saw a sedan parked in front of 3446 Michigan avenue and which had heen reported stolen from Dt. C.

P. Horton at Alton, Ilk The f'olicemen watched the auto tor several hours and arrested Johnston. Wilson and Miss Palmer after they came out of a theater. Trapped by Police Meanwhile, police found a sedan abandoned at 3709 Pennsylvania; avenue, near Johnston's home, and learned that his brother, Clarence; had been driving the auto. This car.

police said, belonged to James Duke, 3822 Pennsylvania and was reported stolen in Alton on Feb. 21. Levi and Clarence Johnson were, trapped by Alton's police, who said they were being held in connection with the theft of Duke's car from a garage in Alton, where it was taken for repairs. Capt. Zarkovich said Phillips and Taylor recently were released from a reformatory after: serving sentences for purse snatch-ings.

Indiana Harbor police for several days have been seeking a purse-snatcher who has grabbed more' than a dozen and police were questioning the youths this morning to determine if they are also respon-; sible for these crimes. Where to Find It Amusements Theater Answers to Questions Comics Death Notice Dr. Bundesen Editorials 12 IX 20 20 18 18 Financial Newa 12 Ijiwrenee 1 Radio Programs 13 Saluting Our Service Men 10-11 Sports IT Washington 1 I'nele Ray'a Corner Voice of the People IS Wants Ad 20-21 Women's Pages 11-15 all were locked with the 'stroke of midnight but patrons sat in several for some time with pre-midnight drinks before them. In South Bend AI Hicks, manager of the Melody bar, posed a nroblem for WMFC and police. When police entered at 12:06 a.

m. to remind Hicks of the closing order. Hicks retorted: "Your badges don't amount to a damn. This is only an order and not a law." Police rdmitted they were help-' less and left but WMPC may in-voke bans against employment use of rationed foods and materials and use of light and gas against the tavern. So long as there i no artillery, fire from that direction, the dough- boys keep going.

In XKany places. American and German medical men are tending wounded in the same shelters. Tbey use the same ambulances and share medicine, bandages, and stretchers, Some have been without sleep for 43 hours. I If the kind of an advance gen-; erala dream about Eut if an vance in war. And war, an ad vance is not just a game.

i tn. sheila in ditches. There are ng'y splotches of blood soakirg into the There are scattered Nai: helmets' hurled carelessly into fields beside, a however, encountered fierce enemy! on the west side of the river, resistance at Antipolo, eight miles! Most of the workers were Poles south of Mt. Mataba and 11 east) and Ukrainians, and it wa believed of Manila. i'he sudden American attack had The Japanese unloosed he-avy ar-j caught the Germans before they tillery, mortar and machine gun could evacuate them, fire in a desperate delense of An-: Only weak opposition met the tipolo.

whose fall would give the First assault troops who stormed First division control of the high-! the river under cover of darkness-way running north from Laguna'late last night, but the Nazis stif-hay to the Sixth infantry front in fened as the advance carried Into the north. high ground east of the Erft. Swarms of American planes, from The bulk of the German divisions fighters to heavy Liberator bomb- facing the First army was believed ers. steadily supported the ground: to have fled across the Rhine, but drive through the Marakina water-; strong rear guard formations were man woman and child will be akec to contribute something to Red Cro so their vita! work in this war can be continued Emery alsc appointed Mrs. Roy Gibbons a.

hmrraan of publicity. In announcing fund chairman in Calumet City. Mayor John Jara-oowski reminded that the war is rot yet won and even when peace tomes the Rea Cross must through it war fund, maintain it (Continued on Psige Two) Reds Within 7 Miles of Baltic Sea White fuian Army Hips Into Pomerania At Express Speed MOSCOW INS The Second White Russian army, rippmg at express train speed across northeastern Pomerania. slashed to within sight of the Baltic sea today in a mounting offensive aimed at encircling the German garrison in Danzig. A late dispatch from the northern front reported that Marshal Konstantin K.

Rokossovsky's Ie-. gions sighted the Baltic alter a rapid push through the tip of Pomerania, climaxing their four-day offensive in which they advanced 44 miles and seized the city of Bubiitz. 28 miles from the sea. Moving forward along a 40-mile front, the Soviets apparently were on the major towns of. Koesling and Stolp, both of which; lie on the coast road between1 Danzig and Stettin.

More than 100 German town and villages were captured in the Soviet sweep, and in the region of Hammerstein and Stegers bitter fighting developed in which more than 2,000 German officers and men were killed. A Berlin commentator admitted the plight of the Danzig garrison wax becoming critical and said the Soviets had thrust a spearhead toward Stolp where they were only 10 miles from the Baltic shore. Seven Mile from Sea At still another point, the Germans added, Soviet fortes were only seven miles from the sea. Russian troops of the First Ukrainian army continued their grinding assault against the encir-; cled Nazi garrison in Breslau. They, captured 12 more city blocks and a stadium area within the Silesian capital.

A group of German infantrymen, paced by six heavy tanks, launched a savage counter-attack in a futile attempt to break out the trap but the attack was driven off with heavy losses to the Nazis, the Soviet high command said. Fresh fighting broke" out in Czechoslovakia in the difficult Carpathian mountain terrain where the Fourth Ukrainian army captured at least six strategic towns and villages. The Germans counter-attacked in this area also using infantry, armor and self-propelled guns but were beaten off. The Germans withdrew hurriedly, leaving the battlefield littered with their Bulletins INDIANAPOLIS INS) Miller Hamilton. So.

Indianapolis newspaperman, died today at his home following a heart attack. Mr. Hamilton and the late Wendell L. Willkie married sisters. LONDON U.P.

Marshal Konstantin K. Rokossovsky's Second White Russian army today captured the central Pomeranian anchor base of Neustettin in. a Baltic-bound drive that threatened to trap hundreds of thousands of German troops. LONDON" (INS The southern outskirts of Kheydt, twin town of the industrial center of Muenchen Gladbach. have been reached by American forces.

Max Rrull, German DNB agency military commentator reported tonight WASHINGTON (INS) Leaders of the nation, headed by Pres. Roosevelt, attended burial services today a rain swept knoll in Arlington National cemetery for Maj. Gen. Edwin M. Watson, military aide, secretary and close friend of the chief executive.

NEW TORK-I INS) Gen. Nlcolae Radescu has resigned as premier of Romania, the Bucharest radio announced today. Radecu's resignation was announced a few hours after the British radio had reported that Andrei Yishinsky. Soviet vice commissar of foreign affairs, had reached the Romanian capital. i In new conferences aboard his striking workers of the Dodge main ithip whil' coming back Across the plant rebelled against the WL.B and Atlantic, the president was openly their international union today as buoyant about the achievements of they voted to continu their walk-the meeting at Yalta.

He looked out hich threatens war production to the United Nations conference in 14 Chrysler plant, lit San Francisco in April to pro- The strikers, members of Dodge iu a permanent international or- Local No. 3, UAW-CIO, presented ionization which will have ur.prece- the unanimous vole at a four-iented success in keeping the world hour mays meeting of 2.500 strikers nt peace. last night. The president plans to attend the George F. Addes.

acting Francisco conference in per- tional president of the UAW-CIO. ton. either at the start or the close announced that the "international the meeting to make what he union has withdrawn all of its sup-iescribed us a speech of greetings port from the after attempts in the role of host, and he expects to end the strike failed, another with Churchill sometime' Military and company spokesmen after the United Nations confer-1 stated that all of the plants will nee. shut down by the end of the Mr. Roosevelt left Washington week.

More than 100.000 workers rn the ntht of Jan. 22. During His will be made idle. 67,000 of them S6 days a way from the nation's in Detroit, they said. 4-Htmoi.

he covered a 1V0 Tlie walkout was precipitated last rules hich included'stops at Malta, Friday with the dismissal of eight in Russia. Egypt and Alit-rs. In employes for allegedly refusing to addition to his eight-day meeting meet war production schedules, with Churchill and Stalin, he also The strikers reported that 'work conferred with King Farouk cf. will not be resumed until the eight Kgypt, Emperor Haile Selassie cf are reinstated. However, the com-Kthiopia and King Ibn Saud of pRnv has refused the ultimatum Saudi Arabia.

He made most of the WLB is powerless until the trip by cruiser, but flew from production is resumed. Malta to Yalta, and from Yalta to Production of B-29 parts, tanks. Great Bitter Lake, in the Suei anti-aircraft guns, and other war canfl- material already has been seriously As his ship approached th Amer- crippled, at the last count. 17,500 lean coast, he spent an hour with employes were idle as a result of (Continued on Page Twelve the strike. 2-c Glen DeLonr Dies highway bridge across the Erft wa captured intact by Yank A second bridge nearby was blown up by the retreating enemy, The Germans rallied awiftly, however, and at last reports were lighting desperately from house house lor the east bank town of lodrath.

German armored unit up from the Rhine to meet jthe attack and American staff of-i fn ers predicted that the battle now joined would settle the fate of Cu-; logne. Timhcrw id ten Acrt The 104th "Ttmberwolf" and -tJ 5.000' slave worker held by the Nazis in Blatzheim and Kerpen, fighting back desperately on the I approaches to Cologne from a maze of interlocking- trenches and breastworks overlooking the Erft. Field dispatches reported that the American advance was progressing steadily although at a less pec-Itacular rate than in the sweep through the Roer-Erft corridor, A flood of tanks, guns and troops reported moving through th jtwin bridgeheads in the wake of jibe infantrymen, and 155-milh-! meter Ing Toms were pumping report admittedly 24 hours be hind the battle had outflanked (Continued on Page Two) 1 7 7 0 III ftillt 0 Tomorrow for Monon Trains Today was the final day for Calumet region residents taking train from Hammond for ilndianapolis on the daily eveninj run. Discontinuance the evenirg service Is effective tomorrow mad Indianapolis-bound passenger from the Hammond depot must board one of two morning train hereafter. The railroad company announced it was com plying: with aa ODT order in suspending evening- service.

The order, they explained, pro vided that no rail carrier mtimA Operate over its 35 per cent average for the calendar month of Novem ber. 1S44. Increased shipment of war material plus overloaded ear dt ing war-time travel necenaUated 'the changes in schedule, Use coin ipar.y announced. shed. The Liberators alone plas-(Continued on Page Twelve) Steah, Roast Point Slashed Value Ileduced for Hiirh Grade Meats WEE CHEATING OAT CURFEW mm mm If You're in, You Drink shellfire into Cologne.

WASHINGTON (INS) Ration-. it We.t,r Ruhr ing values of high-point beef ateaks, -j-i dramatic break-througW and roasts will be reduced the prornlged to the virHl army new rationing period beginning; bMJe on the a Jnat next Sunday, it was reported to- tef of day camt day, while points for Qtn William IL Simpson'a U. will be increased. arrny to north High-point meats expected to re- lnto wMtern of tbt Ruhr quire fewer red stamps and tokens and hrought the argenal city are porter houe. T-bone and chuck wHhin artiery steaks, now valued at 12 points for tn fim time pound; s.rlom and round leaks Operating under a security black-now 13 points and boneless rolled out 'ordered Simpnoa whe it roasts now 12 points a pound.

nt that th(f Germans' The low-point beef cuts that will cornmunior)ll had down be increased ration value include? Fijihlinji in the Pacific Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Eli De Long hands were badly burned as a re-f Hammond, ho gave their four suit of the explosion. He is hospital-sons to military service of the ized now at Valley Forge General United States in time of vn.r. have hospital.

Phoenixville, and his twice received the govt rn- t's tersely norded telegram "regret to inform you, etc," Yesterday- their youngest son in service. Glen I i a De Long. i 4 j2k t2 was re- ported killed in ection in the Pacific. No details were available I hmmi4 a tliCi. l.Oll the 18-year-old sailor's tiesch, but it The second night of the midnight tavern and amusement curfew found just a shade of tendency to "cheat" in the Calumet area.

It was not a question of any direct violations, but there was a last minute rush to get inside the tavern doors almost as midnight struck, order up and sit and drink. Tavern proprietors took the attitude that if the drinks were in front of a patron, the patron could stay and finish them, even if it took all night With war man power commission rules on the curfew edict confused, police said they had no orders or precedent as gruides. The front doors of Calumet City's FAST Prisoners are pouring in by tbe( hundreds. Some told me they had; marched 40 miles to reinforce the front-line only to find the Ameri-; cans already were behind them. All along the line, American com-; mand posts are on the move trying; to catch up with their troops.

Even: the military police are not sure( where the next post is what roads are safe or what towns! are cleared. i One colonel said one of his battal-. ions had been completely out of: contact for the past 24 hours. An-' other had not been heard from since dawn. Burning villages a few hundred yards off the line march are by-passed without even a It's a Razzle-Dazzle Race for the Rhine! short ribs, now costing one pound; chuck roasts, now three points, and boneless chuck, now four points.

OPA sources said the action will be taken because many consumers be taken because many consumers have been spending their points, entirely on low-point meats, leav- ing the high-point items laying on the shelfs. the road, iter are o-i ueimeu, too. And there is the unmistakable mei 0 an advance heavy, hot and sweetish. It means that troops are moving so fast they haven't time to bury the enemy dead or even their own sometimes. Paising doughboyi pause perhaps to place a blanket or maybe a bjood.soaked flag, over their own comrades.

But that all hey bave time to do They have to keep marching advancing. There no W-g. no They are And today the Rhine doesn't seem so far away. I is believed he had participated in enlisted together right after Pearl the Allied invasion of Iwo Jima, H-arbor was attacked by the Japs. first enemy homeland to be invaded Samuel took boot training at Great by Americans.

Lakes and was immediately sent to Glen left his classes at Hammond. Pearl Harbor where he was re-. Tech at the age of 17 to enlist for 'assigned to another combat zone, naval service. On Sept. 15.

1543, he in the Pacific. was sent to Great Lakes for recruit' Martin, an instrument specialist, training and was assigned to a has been in overseas service for combat area in the Pacific some- three months. He was recruited at; time, in December. 1943. He had Navy Pier and was given specialiied served with naval forces that (training in the states before assign-! spearheaded nine major invasions ment overseas.

His wife. Patricia in the Pacific, including Saipan, the and their daughter, "Jackie," who! Marshalls. Guadalcanal and others. 'was a year old last Thanksgiving. In the fierce battle at St.

Lojare living at the home of Patricia's; France, which will go down in his- parents on Becker street. tory as one of the bloodiest battles Mr. De Long has worked at Sin-1 won by American forces, De Longs' jelair Oil refinery for 22 years and other son. First Sgt- Charles Joseph he and his wife have resided in was seriously injured when a booby Hammond for 20 years. They have; trap exploded in his hands.

The 24-'one other son. Eugene. 13, who is' vpar-old army sergeant has lost the attending Hammond schools. Theyj sight of both eyes and his legs and live at 1307 Indiana street. By ANN STRINGER (United Press War Correspondent); HERRATH.

Germany It's a real break-through on the Rhinelandj front Normandy all over again! Everything is moving, and mov- ing fast The Tanks raced through this, little town five and a half miles! r.n.hsnl9Htarli faet! they munched their K-rations on' thm march. Thev didn't even stoci for a cup of water to wash them' down. German civilions had no time to! seek shelter in their cellars as thej war passed, them by. It's a razrie-dazxle race for the Rhine. I.