Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 July 1943 — Page 6
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Russ Peril Nazi Supply Line to Orel
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also posed a new threat to Bryansk,
and encircle German troops around Orel,
The concerted Soviet advances on Orel from the north, east and south which has been protected partially by the exposed Orel salient. More
than 130 villages fell to the Rus-|
sians in their latest series of advances on Orel from all three sides
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Fighting was raging among the rolling hills and in vast fields following the Red army's breakthrough of densely-wooded axis defense positions. 130 Towns Fall to Russ A special Russian communique late last night said the 130 newly captured towns in the Orel area comprised 70 north of the city, 40 to the east and 20 to the south. Advances of four to six miles were registered all around the defense perimeter yesterday, the comMmunique said, and 12 counterattacks were beaten off.
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time bombs were still going off. ' Rome radio’s estimate that 166 per-| sons were killed in the heavy as-| | sault compared with 1200 killed durling raids on London by half the | weight of bombs.) i | The aerial photographs showed Russian forces operating north of the Orel-Bryansk railroad have occupied three-fourths of the Ger-man-held between the Orel-Tula and Bryansk-Sukhnichi railroads with their northernmost arm extending 80 miles west of the Orel-Tula line to Moilovo. Moilovo is 12 the Bryansk-Sukhnichi railroad. South of Orel, other Soviet troops pounded their way to within artillery range of the city, which the Germans have held since the first winter of the war in Russia.
| enzo roundhouses. vards were gutted for their whole | width of 400 yards and length of | two miles, with locomotive and re- | pair sheds shattered and the ad-| ministration building burned. During the entire raid—carried| out with an extreme degree of care —no more than 25 to 30 enemy | fighters were seen. Only five of the allied aircraft from the Middle-| East and Northwest African forces | were lost, A Middle-East communique said an ammunition train exploded in| the Littorio marshalling yards and | that direct hits were scored on the hangars and administration build- | ings at Littoria airfield, where at least 10 fires were seen. At the vards, hits were made on warehouses, locomotive sheds and repair shops and one large fire; started on a siding. Along with the official reports of | {the first raid of the war on Rome, | the communique revealed continued | | raids on Sicily before the advanc-| |ing allied armies.
Medium bombers concentrated on Catania, major objective on the eastern Sicilian coast, | Sunday night and on Monday at-| | tacked the communications center | of Randazzo. | Eighteen Beaufighters of the | Middle-East command set three | Italian seaplanes afire and damaged others in an attack on the Grecian | seaplane base at Prebeza. The raid was made without loss. | Four allied planes were reported missing from yesterday's wide op-| erations over Sicily. One enemy) plane was destroyed.
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With Tunisia; Last Stand Possible.
By HARRISON SALISBURY United Press Staff Correspondent LONDON, July 20.—The axis now has in Sicily almost identical ground on which to conduct a lastditch stand as was available in Tunisia, but the betting is two to one {against any Italo-German attempt |to re-enact Sevastopol. | The American capture of Calta-! nisseta, which is expected to be! foilowed up quickly by the fall of Enna and the British capture of] Catania, places in allied hands the strategic keys to all Sicily with the| exception of the northeastern tip. (Algiers radio reported the allies] had captured Enna.) | It has been obvious from the day | [the campaign started that the|
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(nisseta, which cuts the strategic] | east-west railroad and puts the al-| lies astride the main route leading to the west coast as well as toward Catania. May Attempt Stand { The possibility still exists for an | ‘axis attempt to stand along a line | based on the sea in the vicinity of Acireale, taking advantage of the precipitous heights of Mt. Etna land running roughly northwest with strong points at Cesaro, Randazzo and Casticlione, reaching [the north coast between Patti and | Millazo. | It would be possible for relatively (few determined troops plus wellplaced artillery to hold up the {allies along the east coast road which skirts the western slopes of Etna and fortify the north coast road against an eastward drive. With air cover from mainland |bases the axis might hold out for a considerable time, However, there has been no indication the Germans are willing to throw in sufficient luftwaffe units to provide such cover and no indication the Italian air force is capable of carrying out the task itself.
POLICE CHIEF KILLED IN ROME | By UNITED PRESS The German transocean news agency said today that “Chief of Italian Police Hazon,” not further jdentified, and his ‘chief of staff, were killed in the raid on Rom:
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his grandmother, Mrs. Julia Arbuckle of Homer, were notified yesterday by the war department of the 25-year-old lieutenant's death. He was a navigator of a Flying Fortress based in England.
His brother, Lt. Robert Carr, who was in training as a bombardier, died on Sept. 28 1942 when his plane crashed at Lakeland, Fla. The two brothers enlisted in the air forces in March, 1942, and trained together for three months at Santa Ana, Cal. From there Lt. William went to Mather field, Cal, where he was commissioned, and Lt. Robert was assigned to Albuquerque, N. M. Lt. William Carr arrived in England on June 10 and his letters home were vivid with descriptions of “beautiful England.” He was enthusiastic about his work as navigator, having studied mathematics at Butler university, Tri-State college at Angola and Purdue university. Before leaving for service he worked on time studies and as a supervisor at RCA. n n » LT. (J.G.) JOHN Allen Helms, 27-year-old navy flier stationed in South America, has been killed in an airplane crash. The navy department yesterday notified Lt. Helm’s wife, Mrs. Dellareen Helms, and his parents, Mr. and Mrs. G. L. Helms, 7205 E. 14th st, of the crash but revealed none of the details. Last Aug. 23 Lt. Helms received his pilot wings irom the flying school at Corpus Christi, Tex, and was then assigned to South America. He was in the naval reserve. A native of Indianapolis, he was graduated from Technical high school and attended Butler university two years where he was a member of Phi Delta Theta fraternity. He belonged to the Irvington Methodist church. Before going on active duty he was a salesman for the Ditto Co. in Seattle, Wash. A brother, Cpl. Joseph E. Helms, is at Camp Shelby, Miss, and a sister, Mrs. Mary Brooks, lives in Akron, D. = = SEAMAN 1-C Lester Dale Jackson of Bloomington was listed as dead on the navy’s casualty report today. He was previouly reported missing. ® &
Wounded
SGT. KENNETH ©. Stephens of Lynnville has been wounded in the North African area, the war department announced today. ® .& & Prisoners FIVE MORE Hoosiers are being held prisoner of war by Germany. They are Capt. James H. Dicks, Terre Haute; Pvt. James E. Gum, Corydon: 2d Lt. Charles C. Huppert, Evansville; 8. Sgt. Eldon Raymond Lapp, Ft. Wayne, and 1st Lt. William H. Scheil, Bridgeport,
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EDITOR KILLED IN RAID
LONDON, July 20 (U. P.).—The Italian Stefani news agency reported from Rome today that Mario Buzzichini, editor of the newspaper Popole D-'Ttalia, had been killed in Monday's air raid. The Popolo D'Italia, published at Milan, was
vesterday. Hazon was on his way to districts hard hit by the attack, |
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With Marion county's law enforcement still muddled by conflicts over raiding and arrest pol-| | cies, a new legal complication arose | last night in a lottery case which Prosecutor Blue refused to prosecute last week. Clarence Hornberger, 951 Campbell ave, who was freed of gaming charges July 8 when Prosecutor Blue refused to approve the police department's affidavit in the case on the ground that the arrest was made illegally, was rearranged by | police later on an affidavit approved by Ira Holmes of the Beech Grove magistrate’s court,
Asks Jury Trial
Last night Hornberger asked for a jury trial and Judge Holmes | transferred the case to criminal] |court, throwing it back to Prose-| cutor Blue for prosecution. “1 will give the case careful con- | sideration,” said Mr, Blue who refused to comment on the legal status of the case Mr. Blue's refusal to approve the lottery case affidavit followed his { public charges that the police de-| | only tough resistance on the island | partment had made 700 illegal ar-| | was being encountered. The battle | rests since Jan. 1 and that his of - | of Catania was shaping up or fice in the future would refuse to| joined, but the fighting below the approve affidavits unless polite offi- | | big port appeared to have taken cers proved they had proper papers |no definitive turn. | for making arrests.
| Roundabout dispatches said Gen. | Seeks Agreement
| Alfredo Guzzoni, Italian command- | & tv. Prosecut Bl: ler in Sicily, had sent word to his| Subsequently, Prosecutor ue
‘king that he could not stave off called a conference of all law en
| : : | forcement officials to reach an on the island much | : As | Lh gr or {agreement on uniform policies but|
He was quoted as report-|™: ) ing no reinforcements were arriv-| SEY a 8 to go gi ing, only two German divisions| M11 2 of Mr. Blue's proposed rebys on a Iota = Ish i Another conference on the mat-| | reserves were being used. lter has been scheduled for last] Other reports said 21 more Italian night but it was called off by Mr. | | provinces had been declared War Bye following a two-hour confer-| | zones, putting nearly the whole of ence with Mayor Tyndall. |the country under military regula-| Neither Mayor Tyndall nor Mr.| | tions. The new zones surround, Blue would comment upon what, if] | but do not include Rome, and em-| anything, was said or agreed upon | { brace most of northern and central |at the conference, but it was indi-] | Italy. cated that the prosecutor's office and the police department still Official African reports deserib- | KOI 7 ‘efifepriont oh pr ing the historic raid on Rome as| “Another conference will be held “outstandingly successful’ revealed later this week,” said Mr. Blue, |
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i blazed the Param trail against, JAPANESE HALTED | |the Eternal City, and only five TAIHENG MOUNTAINS
| planes were lost. The reports ro | Armed earlier assertions that the) , CHUNGRING. July 20 (U.P). — : | A communique today reported heavy | bombs smacked military targets— fghting in the Taiheng mountains [railway yards primarily, plus air- where the Japanese, with superior dromes and industrial works. armaments and airplanes, made re-| The Italians reported that 166 Deated attacks, but were repulsed. persons were killed and 1659 in- | A Chinese surprise attack in the jured in the raid. They also said| enemy rear aided in halting the (Naples was bombed during the Japanese drive. ‘night, while there were signs that] The communique said that in | the jittery Romans had touched off northern Hupeh province the Jap-
lan air alarm, but no indications of |anese were driven back in stiff fighting. |
Lt. John A, Helms
REPORT MUTINY AMONG ITALIANS
Defense of Sicily Falling Apart as 7th Army Drives Ahead.
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Purdue Graduate Flew ‘Peggy Ann’ Over Duce’s Palace.
(Continued from Page One) | B. Hurd, 4945 Washington blvd., Lt. Hurd is the son of Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Hurd of Trenton, N. J.| A graduate of Purdue university, | he formerly sold X-ray film to hos-| pitals and physicians in Indiana |
and Kentucky for the Du Pont, company. At that time he lived at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Albert | H. Wacker, 5355 Central ave. { Lt. Hurd enlisted in the air forces about a year and a half ago, and it's agreeing with him. He recently wrote his wife that he intended to continue in the aviation field after the war. A brother, Richard, is an air force pilot in India and formerly was based in China. |
14-YEAR-OLD BOY AIDS FBI IN ARREST
WASHINGTON, July 20 (U. P). —FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover revealed today that a 14-year-old Brook Forest, Colo., youth furnished information which led to the arrest of a Washington, D. C,, police captain sought for nearly a year in connection with a $5728 shortage in police funds here. Capt. Lawrence Raymond Beall 46, was seized by FBI agents at Brook Forest, near Denver, late yesterday afternoon. An unidentified boy had recognized him from an FBI poster in the local postoffice, Beall arrived in Denver via Cleveland and Chicage and had been employed as a handy man at an inn since May, using the name Ray Beall. Hoover said that when he learned he had been identified, Beall sent a note to his employer. claiming the circular Ne to his “brother,” Lawrence Beall, and to leave immediately to avoid embarrassment if paid the wages due him.
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| (Radio Algiers said both American and Canadian troops have reached Enna.)
Catania in Flames
Catania already was in flames from repeated bombings, the latest Sunday night, and naval bombardments. Eighth army patrols stabbed at the enemy defenses while gathering strength for an all-out as-
sault to capture the ecity, Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower's communi- | que said. | (Radio London said British troops at last reports were only two and a (half miles from Catania with the |battle for possession of the city now raging. A Vichy broadcast, quoted by Radio Algiers, said the British succeeded in piercing the German lines south of Catania at heavy cost, while Berlin reported British attacks from the south and through the mountains from the west.) The communique said the Americans were driving both northward toward central Sicilv and northwestward along the south coast toward Sciacca. The northwest African air force | sent its medium bombers against | | Catania Sunday night and vester- | | day hit the communications center | of Randozzo. Planes from the Mid- | | dle East command raided the Gre- | cian seaplane base of Preveza set- | ting fire to three Italia» seaplanes | and damaging others. “They report little resistance in| the west, where hundreds of the enemy have been giving themselves up,” the communique said. “There are many indications of mutiny by Italian troops commanded by Ger- | man officers.”
Fighting Forward
The communique confirmed pre- | vious announcements of the capture of Caltanissetta, an important road | ahd railway junction southwest of | Enna, and of Porto Empedocle, just | below Agrigento on the south coast. | Canadian forced, operating on the Americans’ right Rank, have ran into |
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