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7T TT TT7 INDIANAPOLIS NEW LAST EDITION Cccr Fcrctcst UNCHANGED Sunrise, 8:0.1 Sunset, 5:50 Copyright, 1915, by Th Indianapolis News Publishing Company 16 PAGES BntcrM Sceena-cuas icana Indtanapolia. lad. XMued duy at rorotm azeevt 8undr. SATURDAY EVENING, JANUARY 20, 1945 VOL. LXXVI 40 WHOLE 23.481 HI MJ cm National G.0.P.!erfsf Cross Meuse; FDR Inaugural Speech Pledges Nation to Win War and Peace Shoved Back HERBERT BROWNELL, JR.

SHARE SPOTLIGHT Herbert Browr.ell, New York, national chairman of the Republican party, and Miss Marion E. Martin Maine, assistant chairman, are the top G. O. P. leaders here for the meeting of the Republican, national committee.

Prominent Hoosier Democrats Attend inauguration Events FIVE CENTS Rfl Swift Dash (or Polish Corridor Danzig, Breslau and Posnan in Path of Unchecked Invaders By the Associated Press LONDON, Jan. 20 Mar- sua reiruv rtussianS' in the Polish Carpathians have captured Nowy Sacz, ten miles from the -old Czechoslovak border, and Presov in Slovakia, Premier Stalin announced in an order of the day. By the Associated Preti LONDON, Jan. 20 The Russians, driving to cut of East Prussia, have pene trated within sixty-two of the Gulf of Danzig in the Junkers province and have smashed to within 204 miles of Berlin in the southwest, the German communique dis closed today. The Germans told of fierce battling against a rolling Red army tide of 3,000,000 men i- i every wnere aiong a Diazmg front as Moscow oroaacasts indicated a fresh series of victory announcements might be forthcoming tonight from the Kremlin.

Marshal Ivan Konev'i 1st Ukrainian armor reached the area of Kepno (Kemper) in: a twenty- mile advance from Wielun, north west of captured Krakow. Ger man home guard the Volkssturm, were battling to stop the smash along the Upper Silesian border, Berlin said. Kepno is only nine miles from the frontier and thirty-eight miles northeast of Breslau, the chief Indus- trial fiAnfar rf C1m. Only 204 miles lie between Kepno and Berlin. Northwest of Marshal Konstantin Rokossovsky's 2d White Russian army reached or crossed the southwestern border of East Prussia on a thirty-five-mile front and stabbed to Gilgenburg, sixty two miles from the Gulf of Danzig.

Gilgenburg is only fiye miles from Tannenburg, where the memorial to Von Hindenburg'g victory of the Masurian lakes in the first world war was erected. The Russians also reached Nei-denburg, eight miles inside East Prussia, and Chorzelle on the East Prussian-Polish border, the Germans announced. Tanks Head for Corridor In the center of the blazing front, Marshal Gregory K. Zhu- kov's 1st White Russian army was pouring toward the Polish corridor between the Vistula and Warta (Warthe) in new breakthroughs, and the Germans said fighting was raging against the onrushing line of Red army tanks. The Russians had reached the area of Plock, Vistula river.

fortress 125 miles from Pomerania. The Russians were 238 miles from Berlin in this sector. The communique did not confirm earlier Berlin broadcasts indicating that Russian spearheads had crossed the Silesian border. But the high command said heavy fighting was raging in the border area against wedges attacking westward, a clear indication that the tide of war had crept to the immediate vicinity of German towns and villages. Already the Russians were holding more than 1,000 German towns in East Prussia, now.

caught in a Continued on Page 1, Column 3 NEWS FEATURES Amusements Page 2, Part 1 5. Parti 2, Part 2 2. Part 2 6. Parti 7. Parti 6, Part 1 ft.

Part 2 Church News Comics Crossword Puzzle Herbert R. Hill Leonard Lyons Editorials Obituaries Financial 3, Part 2 Radio Programs Serial Story Society Sports r-. Orson Welles Red Army Makes 5, Part 1 2, Part2 3. Pirt 1 9, Part 1 1, Parti R1ISS MARION E. MARTIN and that was what the inaugural plans called for.

An overnight snow had blanketed the White House grounds. Its towering elms dropped like huge white unbrellas. Several inches of slush defied the tarpaulins which rad been laid for the feet of some 5,000 standee-guests on the lawn below the south portico of the mansion where a select few could witness the ceremony without endangering their health. Most of the Hoosiers had viewed previous Roosevelt inaugurals anyway, either first, second, third or all of them, for the group was made up of old-timers who near ly always have been on hand at a Democratic function in Washington. It included Frank McHale.

national committeeman; Mrs. Samuel M. Ralston, national commit-teewoman; Fred Bays, state chairman; Mrs. Edna Bingham, state vice-chairman; Samuel D. Jackson, former senator; Eugene B.

Crowe, Bedford, former representative in congress; Bowman Elder, M. L. Fansler, John Bingham, Tom Moynahan, Fred Thomas and Miss Gertrude McHugh, all of Indian apolis; Joseph Friedman, Bedford; Joseph Suelzer and. Virgil Sim mons, Ft. Wayne; Paul Fry, Lin ton; William Hillenbrand, Bates-ville, and Thomas Taggart, French Lick.

The Hoosiers were certain they would attend the post-ceremony White House festivities. A few of them had cards for the buffet luncheon to follow the swearing-in of President Roosevelt and Vice-President-Elect Harry S. Continued on Page 7, Column 6 Sgt. Lester Schuldt, 36, husband of Mrs. Marjorie Knapp Schuldt, 1221 Vz North New Jersey.

WOUNDED Pfc. William L. Duncan, 21, son of Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Duncan, 327 South Auburn.

Sgt John G. Harden. 25. husband of Mrs. Edith iMarie Hay-den, and son of Mr.

and Mrs. John J. Hayden, 3715 East Thirty-fourth. PRISONER OF WAR Sgt John A. Ritenour, 19, son of Mr.

and Brs. Fred F. Ritenour, Covington, and brother of Mrs. Walter W. Newport, 361 Albany.

RETURNED TO DUTY Pfc. Edward B. Timmons, 26, husband of Mrs. Virginia Timmons and son of Mrs. Nora Timmons, 2853 Kenwood.

Lt Bitter has been reported killed in action December 9, dur- iing the Leyte action. Previously he was in the invasion of Guam where he received the Infantry man Combat badge. Graduated from Arsenal Technical High School and Butler University, Continued on Pare 7, Column 1 Leaders Convene for Session Here Party to Assay Gains of November Election, Plan Future Strategy By LEO M. LITZ The nation's political -spotlight was focused on Indianapolis as well as Washington today as Republican leaders from throughout the country arrived for a meeting of the G. O.

P. national committee. While the Democrats converged on the national capital for President Roosevelt's fourth-term inauguration, the G. O. P.

made ready in Indianapolis to assay its political gains in the last election and plan strategy for political contests in 1946 and 1948. Out of the meeting here, which will continue through Monday, probably will come an aggressive program to build party 'strength in the ensuing period before the next elections. Arriving from iNew York on a train that had been delayed more than two hours because of weather conditions, Herbert Brownell, national chairman, paid tribute to Indiana Republicans for carrying the state in the November election and said the primary business to be considered at the meeting here is the planning of an "aggressive, full-time, all-year-round program." "Our job is not to frame a legislative program for the party," I said. "That is being ablyjdone by Republicans in congress "and the Republican Governors of the various states. We meet here as a ways and means committee to determine the best way of presenting to the people our Republican viewpoint.

We are not going to rely on the blunders and mistakes of the opposition as a means of attaining success in the next election. We are going to have an aggressive program of our own." Mr. Brownell had no statement to make as to whether he will be Continued on Page 7, Column 4 Draff Bill Drops Labor Battalions Union and Farm Phases Still Draw Opposition By the Associated Presi WASHINGTON, Jan. 20 House military committeemen predicted today they'll have an administration-sought labor draft bill armed with prison penalties for evaders written and ready for house consideration Monday. The bill, asked by the White House as a means of forcing menJ eighteen to forty-five into war jobs and keeping them there, faces stiff house opposition, however.

Organized labor supporters are against it and some farm state representatives say they fear the hightened manpower drive may strip the farms of workers. Abandoning the idea of military labor battalions for those who leave war jobs, the committee Friday substituted as punishment the draft dodger penalties of the selective service act: maximums of five years imprisonment and a $10,000 fine. Before the bill is finished the same punishment will be set up for those who ignore attempts to assign them to essential jobs. The committee also voted to give War Mobilization Director James F. Byrnes the power to determine what jobs are critical.

Farm state congressmen got behind a resolution demanding that Selective Service Director Lewis B. Hershey "comply with" the present law deferring essential farm workers. Representative William Lemke N. said local draft boards are misinterpreting a January 3 selective service directive and, as a result, are ordering the induction of farm workers who should be deferred. "As a result farms are closing down everywhere." he said.

Ths resolution requires that Gen. Hershey issue a clarifying amendment to draft boards telling them that essential farm deferments are still the law. The military committee still is confronted by the problem of the union status of drafted workers. Some members said they would insist that the finished bill make Continued en Pare 7, Column 2 7th By the Associated Press PARIS, Jan. 20 Three successive German attacks from the center of the cross-Rhine corridor have smashed the 7th army's defense line back almost five miles into the village of Weyer-sheim, eight and one-half miles above Strasbourg.

By the Associated Press PARIS, Jan. 20 British troops jumped the Maas (Meuse) river below Roermond unopposed Friday night, widening the 2d army's push in the Dutch panhandle which is forcing the Germans back on the Roer river line thirty-eight miles west of Duesseldorf. At the southern end of the Western front, Americans fought up to 10,000 Germans linked in a solid bridgehead over the Rhine at one point only seven miles above Strasbourg. Just below the British operations. United States 1st and 3d army: troops drove in on St.

Vith, hikhway stronghold in the dimin ishing Belgian bulge, and advanced north of captured Diekirch, thirty miles to the south in Luxembourg. British assault troops crossing the Maas by boat seized Steven-sweert, seven miles southwest of Roermond, without opposition, me crossing added about two miles. to the seven-mile assault arc of white camouflaged tanks and troops bulging into German lines within eight to ten miles of ihe Roer river. Although Stevens weert had been abandoned, it was still too early to tell whether the enemy was beginning a general withdrawal from the tip of his salient between Roermond and Geilenkirchen in Germany, a front dispatch British troops advanced up to 1,500 yards in mop-up operations, and pushed beyond Hongen, a mile from the German-Dutch frontier. Allies Retake Town Farther north, German parachute troops seized Zetten, six miles north of Nijmegen and four miles below Arnhem, but Allied counter-attacks drove them back in night street fighting.

The Germans apparently were strengthening armored forces poured into the Rhine bridgehead above Strasbourg. At least six pontoon bridges have been thrown over the river. Field Marshal Karl von Rund-stedt had pulled virtually his whole tank force out of the western front battle line except for this northern corner of France. Snowstorms screened the movement. German attempts to edge closer Pacific Coast Convoys Alerted Jap Sub Sinks Ship and Attacks Survivors By the Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO, Jan.

20 Tacit admission that convoys! sailing out of Pacific coast ports! have been alerted against roving Japanese submarines came today after the Navy disclosed the loss of the Liberty ship, John A. Johnson, and ten of its crew in a torpedoing and lifeboat strafing attack. The attack came last November between the mainland and Honolulu, about 400 miles east of Hawaii. Of the ten American seamen killed most of them died under sprays of bullets fired, survivors said, by frenzied Japanese who danced on the submarine deck, shouting banais and cursing the "Yankee Survivors told how they spent two terrifying hours submerging Continued on Page 7, Column 7 Driver Has Narrow Escape After Icy Spin Slick streets brought a thrill and narrow escape to E. M.

Campbell. 5750 College avenue, today. Mr. Campbell was driving west in Fall creek boulevard, north drive, about 100 feet west of Meridian street, when his car skidded and turned completely around on the ice and then slid down the top part of the bank to he edge of the six-foot retaining wall. Mr.

Campbell, who was alone, was not injured, and the car was not damaged. Army By MARK THISTLETHWAITE Tbe' News Washington Bureo WASHINGTON, Uan. sier Detnotrats here for the fourth-term inauguration stood at their hotel windows and pondered the question of pneumonia or participation as spectators. It was no day for a garden party Big 3 Parley to Be 'Abroad Says Connolly By th TJnited Press WASHINGTON, Jan. 20 If Senator Tom Connally didn't mean to say it, it's too late now.

The secret is out- President Roosevelt's next meet ing with -Prime Minister Winston Churchill "and Premier Joseph Stalin will take him "across the seas" and "soon." And some 1,500 persons heard Senator Connally say it The. setting for the disclosure was Friday night's inaugural dinner a sumptuous feast given by members of the electoral college in honor, of Mr. Roosevelt and Vice-President-Elect Harry S. Truman. Senator Connally was delivering the principal speech of the evening.

His voice boomed through the of the Mayflower hotel. He frowned on the idea of Continued on Page 7, Column 3 Br the Associated PreM WASHINGTON, Jan. 20 President Roosevelt began another four years in the White House today in i sternly simple ceremony dedicated the nation to achieving "total victory in war" and "a dur able neace. Against a background of wintry white and under leaden slues, Mr Roosevelt solemnly rested his hand oh an ancient family Bible and repeated after Chief Justice Harlan F. Stone' the oath that made him America's -first fourth-term Presi- dent.

The precedent-making oath was administerd in what the President termed "a period of supreme test." From the south portico of the White House, which he himself selected for the scene of the third wartime inauguration In history, the President surveyed a hushed park full of spectators standing in slush and snow. Around him were members of his family and high dignitaries of government to hear history's briefest inaugural address 551 words. Sharply at noon the Marine band played VHail to the Chief," heralding -the President's arrival from inside the house. A The Right Rev. Angus Dun.

Episcopal bishop of the Washington diocese, delivered the invocation, praying for. "a -world at unity with Then Vice-President Wallace and: Mr. Truman stepped forward; barT ing their heads, and Wallace administered the oath to his crowd applauded. On the arm of his eldest son, lanky Marine Corps col-: dnel who has stood "beside his father at each inauguration, the President moved forward. He waved to the crowd, which applauded him soundly and faced to the west He placed his hand on a 259-year-old Dutch Bible.

th "RiVil with whlfh tnnV th V. i A W1V V. awm oatn of office twice as Governor of New York and three times as President It was open at the faith, hope and chanty passage of 1st Corinthians. Not Lincoln's day had Washington seen a wartime inauguration. Gone -were the glitter and, fanfare, and, keying the event to the times, spectators were limited to 5,000 tr 6,000 guests, mostly government officials or Democratic party executives.

They were packed on to the spacious south lawn. Other Washinglonians had a remote view of the proceedings from Beyond the black iron White House fence. They heard the President's Continued 1 on Page 7, Column 5 Th ree Teen Ag rs, One With Pistol, Held as Burglars Ture? we" ap prehended by police early today and admitted burglaries of a res- iaurant and illing station. Patrolmen William Garton and; Allan Steger, answering the report of a burglary at a filling station at Thirtieth street and College avenue, saw the three boys at Thirtieth and Park avenue. When police began to question the; boys threw away a blackjack and several packages of cigarettes, but police found an automatic pistol in the possession of one of them.

The boys also admitted the burglary of a restaurant at 901 East Thirtieth street, where they obtained $25, ten packages of cigarettes and a flashlight. While in the restaurant, they ate pie and drank soft drinks, leaving a note thanking the manager for the food and asking him to "leave more next time." They had entered the filling station by breaking a window and obtained an undetermined sum of money. THE WEATHER Indianapolis and Vicinity Partly cloudy to cloudy with little chant in temperature tonight and Sunday, Indiana Cloudy to partly cloudy with little change In temperature tonight and Sun- Additional weather details Pare 1. Part fc. to Strasbourg's northern outskirts were broken up, although patrols had advanced to within six miles of the city.

German forces below Strasbourg are only ten miles away. An American countert-attack smashed a German bridgehead flung over the Zorn river nine miles north of Strasbourg. But the Germans repulsed United States infantrymen attempting to slash back into Sessenheim, in the Elliott Reveals Atlantic Flight With Bull Mastiff LONDON, Jan. 20 (AP) Col. Elliott Roosevelt said.

today that his bull mastiff had made a flight with him from England to the United States before it was flown from Washington to his wife, Ac tress Faye Emerson, in Los Angeles under an A priority label. Col. Roosevelt said he never asked the Army air transport command to fly the dog across the United States, but merely suggested that it be taken along "if an empty bomber happens to be going that way on an operational flight." Col. Roosevelt said he took the dog to Washington recently while making an official trans-Atlantic flight. Two Other Men "Bumped." SAN FRANCISCO, Jan.

20 (AP) The Chronicle says today that two service men, in addition io three previously reported, were delayed by the priority ride of Col. Elliott Roosevelt's imported bull mastiff. The paper quotes Seaman 1-C Perry Buhler, a former Houston (Tex.) detective, as telling the following story: Seaman Buhler and an air forces flight surgeon of captain's rank, whose name the seaman did not remember, were prevented from boarding a plane at Houston. "The captain and I were sup-Continued on Page 7, Column 3 ORSON WELLES to Be With Us! Citizen Welles, the passionate democrat of many talents, has been harnessed to write a daily column di-cussing whatever he chooses, and in keeping with the policy of The Indianapolis News to present, most good things first, the column will appear in this newspaper beginning Monday. A tribute to this multi-faceted young midwesterner has been written by Dexter Teed.

In a way, it's also an explanation. Turn to Page 7, Part 1, for the story of Orson Welles, Almanac Maker. U. S. Smash Luzon Left By the Associated Press GENERAL MacARTHUR'S! HEADQUARTERS, Luzon, Jan.

20 Lt. Gen. Walter Kruger is winning the important battle of the left flank. His 6th army is smashing Japanese tanks, silencing artillery concealed in caves and going after enemy soldiers in ten-foot-deep holes with flame-throwers. It is the first real fight since the Yanks landed at Lingayen gulf January 9.

Twenty Japanese tanks have been knocked out and 600 Nipponese killed some of them 23d division troops from Manchuria in a three-day period along the left flank. That flank juts into the hilly, eastern side of Pangasinan prov-incex The broader it gets the more effectively it isolates Japanese forcs on the north around Baguie, Philippines summer capital, from other enemy forces on the south defending Manila. American armored columns have driven fifty miles inland along the road to Manila and are only twenty-five miles from the great Clark field constellation of airdromes, United Press reports said.l Tokio radio speculated on a pos- Germans' Rhine bridgehead seventeen miles northeast of Strasbourg. The United States lss army had compressed an arc within four miles of St. Vith and taken all commanding hights on the north and west.

Five more towns fell northwest and southwest of that bastion. The 30th formerly at Camp. Atterbury, Indiana, won Eivetingen, seven miles southeast of Malmedy. and Iveldingen, 1,500 yards southwest of Eivetingen. The 1st division occupied Mon-tenau, five miles northwest of St.

Vith, while the 83d, also formerly at Atterbury, took Bovigny and Courtil, nine and eight miles abovt Houffalize. In 'Luxembourg the 3d army's. 5th infantry division gained half a mile above Diekirch, carrying to within three miles of the German frontier stronghold of It knocked back three German counter-attacks. The 80th infantry division cleared a woods nine miles northwest of Diekirch. In twenty-four hours the 3d army took another 440 prisoners for a total since December.

16 of 17,466. Farther south between the Moselle and the Saar rivers, the 94th division held newly-won positions in the Tettingen area against repeated German counter-attacks. Big 3 Hatjons ign Armistice With Hungary By the Associated Press WASHINGTON, Jan. 20 The state department announced that Marshal Klementi Voroshiloy signed an armistice with Hungary taday on behalf of Russia, Britain and the United 'I Thus, after more. thanv a month of negotiations, the last of Hitler's satellites dropped out of the war The armistice was signed witt Gen.

Mileios, head of the provisional Hungarian government at Debrecen, thereby obtaining for Gen. Miklos a form of Allied recog nition. The armistice will not mean the end of all fighting in Hungary be cause 'German troops are still in a small western part of the country. Officials here expressed pleasure-that Marshal Voroshilov had been chosen to sign for the Allies because he is nfcted for his friendliness to the west. He took part in the foreign minister's conference which Secretary Cordell Hull attended in Moscow last year.

The single signature paralleled the Romanian armistice, which Russia signed for the three Allies. In the Bulgarian armistice both Russian and Allied representatives from Mediterranean headquarters signed. The explanation given was that Hungary has been primarily a Russian zone of operations. Is Winning Flank Battle sible new American invasion south 0f Manila. But the Japanese high command showed greater concern over methodical Superfortress raids on the home islands.

The emperor's government appropriated yen (Sl.688,000,000) for bigger air raid defenses and shelters, some of which the Domei news agency said will become the permanent headquarters of governmental agencies. Sison was captured after a nerve-wracking night in which Japanese pressed the attack incessantly against American infantry and anti-tank guns. They were beaten off with losses to both sides. Big-gunned Sherman tanks finally led the Yanks into Sison on the Manila-Baguio highway and pressed northward to relieve Yanks who have been waging a five-day artillery duel around Rosario. Small but general gains were reported from Burma.

Chinese were within a mile and a half of Wanting, last stumbling block to reopening the Burma road. Severe fighting flared around Leiyang, China, as the Japanese opened a drive to close a gap in the Canton-Hankow railway above Canton Two Killed in Action, 5 Missing; 2 Are Wounded An infantry officer and a private in anti-tank unit have been killed in action, five men are listed as missing, two were wounded, one is a prisoner of war while another, previously missing from his unit, is now safe, today's casualty list reveals. DEAD Sylvester C. Bitter, Jr 30, husband of Mrs. Bernice Klepfer Bitter, 2845 Central avenue, and son of Mr.

and Mrs. Sylvester C. Bitter, Spink-Arms hotel. Pvt. Alvin V.

(Bud) nurt 19. son of Mr. and Mrs. John W. Hurt, 1750 East Thirtieth.

MISSING Pfc, Raymond A. Barley, 21, son of Mr. and Mrs. C. C.

Bagley, 3253 Boulevard place. Cpl. Georre T. Ronk. husband of Mrs.

Lois Reed Ronk, 5355 Primrose, and son of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Ronk, 402 South Lynhurst. rirt i r. of Mrs.

John G. Murnane, Stony Creek, formerly of Indian-! Atit Pfc. Robert C. Sprague, 19. son of Mr.

and Mrs. Hugh A. Sprague. 1249 West Thirty-fourth. I i.