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Nazis Still Pouring Into Italy Through Brenner Pass— Why?
By VICTOR GORDON LENNOX Copyright, 1943, by The Indianapolis Times and The Chicago Daily News, Ine.
LONDON, July 28. —Where Germany sends the troops which are now pouring into Italy through Brenner pass, according to unconfirmed but persistent reports, will give the first clear indication of what agreements have been reached between Premier Pietro Badoglio and German Ambassador Hans-George von Mackensen. The two men, with the German supreme commander
AGREEMENT ON
Too High for Hay Fever
in Italy, Field Marshal Albert von Kesselring, are believed to have conferred in Rome last night.
The fact that the Germans are still reinforcing their
armies in the northeast tip o
f Sicily shows that they are
determined to gain the maximum time for whatever adjustments may be dictated by the latest politico-mili-
tary parleys. It is known positively
POLICE RAISES BELIEVED NEAR
Mayor May Compromise To Hike Lower-Bracket Salaries.
The fate of the police and fireman salary hike bill today hung in the balance between Mayor Tyndall’s intention to veto the measure in its present form and city couneil's refusal to withdraw it in the face of his disapproval It appeared this morning that a mayor-council compromise might be reached on the proposal to grant * flat $312 annual pay increases to every member of the poli~e and fire departments except the two chiefs. Such a compromise, administrative and council sources reported, would involve reshaping the ordinance- to raise the salaries of lowranking officers by $312 a year, but holding increases in the higher _brackets to approximately $112 "annually. Council Group to Meet
This reduction in the bill's total appropriation, the mayor said this morning, would come closer to tallying with the outlay now slated for
“a.
the 1944 protective forces’ budget, It was understood that council gponsors of the bill would meet today with police and fire officials at| fire headquarters to discuss the s = mayor's proposal to limit pay raises! for high-bracketed officers. ! ' Following discussion, these same | Sneezes
foouncil members were to confer with Mayor Tyndall in a move to decide the ultimate outcome of the highlycontroversial issue. Mayor Tyndali this moming said the flat $312 increase would exceed his present 1944 police and fireman | weed and grass crop. pay schedule by about $41000. He Since the absence of CCC and expressed “regret” that he was| which are unruly enemies of kerc obliged to veto the bill “in the interest of economy.”
tant, but highly recommended to fever cure.
Hoosiers getting off to an early
Mt. Everest, world’s highest mountain, in India. .
? Blame That War, > Bumper Weed, Grass Crop
sniffies and sneezes can blame the war, spring floods and a bumper
flowering more and more pollen each year.
« « A little disthose desperately seeking a hay
start this year with their hay fever WPA scythe crews to level plants hooers, the plants have run wild,
War worked hand in hand with sneeze weeds. The shortage of farm
that the Germans are not
withdrawing any of their air forces from Italy but are steadily keeping up strength there. Disposition of those troops, reported en route through the Brenner, would give the clue, therefore, to German-
Italian plans:
Whether Italy will actually continue to
fight, as Badoglio stated, or whether it will accept the allied demand of honorable capitulation. Germany, it is believed here, could not effectively
maintain fighting forces in
Southern Italy without the
fullest Italian collaboratjon.
On the other hand Badoglio,
it is evident, would be incapable of throwing them out single-handed if the Nazis decided, in their own interest, to try to defend Piedmont, Lombardy and Emilia. This roughly delineates the picture of the bargaining position which Badoglio may think he occupies for treating
with the allies.
It will be interesting, therefore, to find out where (Continued on Page Five)
REPORT RIOTS GROW IN ITALY; ORDER FASCIST PARTY DISSOLVED
NAZIS RETREAT AT OREL, BURN RUSS VILLAGES
Climax Near on South Cen-
tral Front; Soviets Hold Vital Railway.
MOSCOW, July 28 (U. P.).—The Germans have begun large-scale withdrawals below Orel, the army organ Red Star said today, as the battle for that south-central front bastion neared a climax. With the red army athwart a section of the vital Orel-Bryansk railroad, and with the highway running southwest from Orel under Soviet fire. the Germans were reported fighting a desperate rearguard delaying action to cover the retreat of large forces south of the city to avoid encirclement. “The enemy forces systematically burned whole villages to the ground, blew up bridges and roads, and abducted civilians as they fell back, Red Star said. Soviets Increase Blows
Front reports of the German withdrawal followed an announcement in the Russian communique that the enemy was being forced to abandon position after position under increasing Soviet blows. In two days of fighting, one unit
Hoosier Heroe Sgt. Fielder On European
Missing List
Missing SGT. JOHN L. FIELDER, Indianapolis aerial gunner who has been in raids over Germany and France, has been reported missing in action since July 10 near Villa Coublay, France. asa Husband of Mrs. Iris L. Fielder, 522 N, Sherman dr, Sgt. Fielder entered the
England and a member of a Flying Fortress crew, Sgt. Fielder participated in his first raid May 29. The last letter received by his wife and dated July 10 told of raids over Germany and France. The son of Mr. and Mrs. John Fielder of Bloomington, Sgt. Fielder received most of his training at Lockbourne field, Columbus, O. Before enlisting, he worked at the National Wholesale Grocery Co. = ” = Injured S. SGT. HERMAN R. LEFFEW, Indianapolis gunner who has participated in bombing raids over Wake Island and the Gilbert Islands, has been injured after receiving his fourth decoration for
ALLIED BOMBS FOR 6TH TIME
Planes Keep Up Continuous Sweep Over Europe; German Targets Rocked.
LONDON, July 28 (U.P).—A mighty British air armada sent at least 2000 more tons of explosives crashing down on flaming, devastated Hamburg last night in the sixth allied raid in a little more than 72 hours on Germany's first port and second city. Eighteen bombers were lost over Hamburg and in subsidiary attacks on Germany's bomb-pocked Ruhr industrial valley, the air ministry announced as the greatest air offensive of all time entered its fifth day. Pushing what appeared to be an attempt to blast Hamburg off the
A SOUTH ENGLAND PORT, July 28 (U. P.).—Heavy air sweeps were made almost continuously by allied airplanes over Europe today, with fighters and bombers crossing the channel frequently in good weather. Bomb explosions and gunfire were heard from the French coast.
STUN HAMBURG §
Archbishop Francis J. Spellman . , . a peace negotiator?
ALLIES PUSH 15 MILES IN SIGILY
Bombers Blast Airfields in Raids on Italian
Mainland.
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, North Africa, July 28 (U.P.).—
advanced the main allied offehsive line 15 miles eastward in Sicily, front reports said today. The Canadians, the reports said, were driving forward against bitter opposition, trying to pierce the
American and Canadian troops have |
HINT BADOGLIO PLANNING MOVE TOWARD PEACE
Archbishop Spellman ‘May Be Middleman in Peace Negotiations.
LONDON, July 28 (U. P.), —Italian Premier Marshal Pietro Badoglio’s cabinet toe day dissolved the Fascist party and sought to stem disorders reported spreading through Italy, as signs pointe ed to Archbishop Francis Jy Spellman of New York ag the “middleman” in possible peace negotiations.
(Radio Rome, recorded by CBS said Italy had no choice “under the circumstances” but to fight on against the allies.) The Fascist organization, created by deposed Benito Mussolini, was the chief target of demonstrators is
ISTANBUL, July 27 (Delayed), (U. P.).~Reliable Turkish quare ters said today it was “highly probable” that Turkey would be called upon to make peace repree sentations between Italy and the allies as Raffaele Guariglia, new
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meritor i o us i achievement in ?
center of the German defenses.
south of Orel was credited with Official announcements said the
killing 1000 Germans and smashing
C. of C. Protests Italian foreign minister, conferred
help and farm machinery kept
A Chamber of Commerce statement issued last night protested that “action by the city council, unless changed, will increase pay of Indianapolis police and firemen far beyond the new legislative minimum, effective next Jan. 1, and place police and fire department costs far out of line with all other
cities of our population and geo- the “ice pick” burglar, operated |
hical classification.” | prans proposal, it was continued again during the night, but with |
“would add $440,000 to the budget | little success. He was routed from of the civil city next year, or ap-| one home and frightened away |
proximately 9 cents to the tax rate; | fm three others before gaining |
Ice Pick 1 Burglar Again Scaring | Women at Night || In Homes.
A PROWLER, believed to be
whereas the legislative minimum, if tv adhered to strictly, would add,| TOVY- | - Miss Evilina Harrison, sleeping |
Minimum Is $2400 in a downstairs room at 948 N. | The legislative minimum is $2400. Ewing st. was awakened to find | Patroimen and fire privates, con-| a man standing near her bed with stituting almost half the depart- | a flashlight ments, now receive $2125 yearly. “Keep ui et! The mayor-council compromise | dered Sruffly : move shaped up this morning] She sc reamed He fled.
after a canvass of councilmen yesterday indicated that they would Discovered by Betty Sampson, 940 N. Ewing st.. as he was trying
refuse to withdraw the pay raise] measure in its entirety, despite| ; { to ent th Mayor Tyndall's opposition to it.} DrOwte EAE rough a window, a Council majority leaders said | Rosemary Rutter screamed they felt sure that if no compro- | when she discovered someone trymise was SA they could round | jo to enter her home at 1028 N. (Continued on Page Five) Delaware st. through a window { and the man fled.
DE GAULLE CALLS IT| pp ereams of Doshie Caldwell and REVENGE FOR FRANCE ighbened 3 en
away as he tried to enter their i home, 1809 N. Capitol ave. Police ALGIERS, July 28 (U. P). — De-| ooo v0 PUTS i, but he disscribing the fall from power of} ,, 00rd in the 300 block of W Benito Mussolini as “the first meas-| on} "4 y use of justified revenge for France,”| (whe) Kenneth Botkin returned Gen. Charles de Gaulle asserted last to his home at 2920 N. Euclid ave night in a broadcast beamed to his| yo giscovered the theft of two occupied homeland that any settle- guns valued at $40, and rifie ment with Italy could be neither| gone : valid nor lasting without France. : “The Italian nation, with cen-
turies-old attachments to France, PURCHASE OF PORK BR a , TO BE CURTAILED
in the back,” he recalled bitterly, WASHINGTON, July 28 (U. P). |—The food distribution administrajtion announced today that govern‘ment purchases of most pork items, {including lard, will be curtailed during the next few weeks with the Amusements ..13) Jane Jordan. ..12 seasonal slump in the slaughter of
Ciesbhbins 6! Kidney "+ v0.10] HOES. cons A] LUCEY iiiiiis ol The action was recommended by 10 the war meat board, which said ...12, 13 supplies will meet lend-lease obli- ... 4 gations,
Shut up!” he or-
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i o «3 JAP BASES RAIDED | NEW DELKT, July 28 (U. P).— 10/ Mrs. Roosevelt 9 Three large storage buildings were 16 Side Glances. .10) demolished and supply dumps were deatold Evrything 9) Society ....11, 12 set afire Monday when P-40 fight-
old Homemaking. 12] Sports 6, 7 ers and medium bombers of the U.
| farmers from overtaking the myriad |
of fast-growing weeds and grass. Then in some Midwestern states the government has pushed growing | of hemp to meet the navy's need | for rope and that member of the] mulberry family yields pollen and] it travels great distances. The floods were favorable for ragweed growth. It is fond of recently flooded bottom lands where a thin layer of mud 1s left by retreating waters. And the hot summer has humped its growth along. Medical experts who have made a study of the affliction and its causes say those allergic have to get
26 enemy tanks. The Russians generally gained two and a half to four miles and captured more than 50 villages yesterday in tightening their iron arc around the Orel bulge, where some 250,000 enemy officers and men are threatened with a “summer Stalingrad.” Fighting also flared on the Leningrad front with the Russians im-
proving their positions in a limited offensive toward Mga, 30 miles east of Leningrad and 14 miles south of Schlusselburg.
Advance Near Belgorod The recapture of Mga, a junction
away from the substance to which [of four railroads on the edge of
they are allergic. That means the (Continued on Page Three)
TOMORROW, MAYBE IT'LL BE BIT COOLER
But Weatherman Sees
‘Little Change.’
LOCAL TEMPERATURES
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Sure enough, it was really hot yesterday, 96, the highest of the year, but that’s not so torrid for experienced Hoosiers. In other years July temperatures have reached 100. And signs of winter: The school board last night bought 25,000 tons of coal and coke for schools and libraries, There's little hope for relief from (this heat at least through tomorrow morning. Little change in temperature, the weatherman said, and wiped his brow.
REVOKES GROCERS’ RELABELING RULES
WASHINGTON, July 28 (U. P.) — The office of price administration has revoked the requirement that retail grocers who purchase in bulk and then repackage before reselling show the grade on their retail packages if it has been shown on the original package. ~ This is the first official step taken by OPA to carry out the congressional edict outlawing grade labeling. The price office announced some time ago that grade labeling
.+ 9 War Living.... 3|Japanese bases in northern Burma,
3 State Deaths. . | 10th air force struck at three Service. 12 Joe Williams.. 6'a communique announced today.
Inside In the
the Soviet corridor south of Lake Ladoga, would improve Leningrad’s communications northwestern front.
and relieve the
Advances also were reported near Belgorod, 165 miles south of Orel.
On all fronts, yesterday, the Rus-
sians disabled or destroyed 90
German tanks and shot down 44 planes.
Red Star said the Germans Were suffering such huge losses in the battle for Orel that they were having to reinforce their divisions constantly.
JAPS CLAIM U. S. CRUISER
By UNITED PRESS Tokyo Radio said today that a Japanese submarine torpedoed and sank an American cruiser of the San Francisco class off San Cristobal island in the Southern Solomons on July 20.
aerial flights. Word of the injury was received in a letter yesterday from S. Sgt. Leffew to his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Leffew, 225 N. Oxiord st, fol= ‘** = lowing notifica- Sgt. Leffew tion of the award by the war department Monday. Awarded his first medal on New Year's day at Hickam field, Ha(Continued on Page Five)
SEES BIG POST-WAR
BOOM FOR CHICAGO
(U. P)— Marshall Field, founder and editor of the Chicago Sun, predicts that the post-war expansion of world airways will make Chicago the largest city in the western hemisphere, if
CHICAGO, July 28
not in the world. Field,
war.
ASKED TO SAVE SHIPS
addressing the Chicago Rotary club yesterday, asserted that the “air industry” has come of age in a manner comparable to the automobile industry after the last
LONDON, July 28 (U. P.).—The British broadcasting company, in an Italian language broadcast, appealed today to Italian sailors not to scuttle their ships, pointing out that Italy will need all her tonnage
map, British four-engined bombers attacked in “very great strength,” the air ministry said, and increased the total tonnage of bombs dropped on the city by British and American planes since Saturday night to approximately 5000. “Preliminary reports show the attack was most concentrated and effective,” the air ministry and Three intercepting night fighters were shot down. Fighter command Mosquito planes joined in the night's offensive with attacks on four enemy airfields and a number of railway targets in Germany, Holland and France. The weight of bombs dropped last night on Hamburg approached the record 2300 tons hurled on the city Saturday night by British planes in the first of the current series of Anglo-American attacks.
City Was Inferno
Flames leaped higher than after Saturday's record assault the British, American, Canadian and Australian pilots who participated in the attack reported. Some said they needed respirators to fly through the 20,000-foot columns of smoke rising from the city’s 25 miles of quays, hundreds of miles of docks and great industrial plants. The fires could be seen 200 miles from the city, Capt. G. A. Taylor of Los Angeles, a U. S. pilot finishing duty with Canadian forces as a squadron leader, said. The city was in inferno when his plane, one of the last, went over and the greatest danger to the mass of attackers
after the war to supply the country.
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WASHINGTON, July 28 (U. P.. —Investigation of the office of war informations Italian broadcast “blunder” was expected today to
result in a shake-up to synchronize the propaganda unit more closely with the state department. President Roosevelt sharply denounced OWI at his press conference yesterday for broadcasting statements that characterized King Victor Emmanuel of Italy as “the little moronic king,” and said that both the king and Marshal Pietro Badog'io were Fascists. The president said the broadcasts should never have been made; that they did not have authorization of the White House, the state department or Robert E. Sherwood, head of OWI's overseas branch. Sherwood is investigating, but the
requirements for hosiery would be revoked, ;
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Incident is not expected to result
Shakeup May Follow ‘Blunder’ Broadcast Calling Italian
WASHINGTON, July 28 (U. P.) —President Roosevelt will deliver a speech of major importance at 8:30 p. m. (Indianapolis Time) tonight, over all broadcasting networks, Mr. Roosevelt told his press conference yesterday that the address would be about the war. Asked if he meant the home front or the battlefronts, he said there was only one front — and that includes all war efforts both at home and abroad.
was impossible to obtain official clearance.
in any dismissals. Sherwood described it as a “regrettable slip” which was made at a time when it
of OWI
King 'Moronic’
OWI Director Elmer Davis is in London. Acting Director Milton S. Eisenhower, brother of Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, said the broadcast was beamed twice to Great Britain Monday, but was not sent to Italy or any other country. “Prior to Sunday,” Eisenhower said, “we attacked Fascism on our broadcasts and all individuals connected with it. Since Sunday the tone and substance of the OWI broadcasts indicate that OWI policy is that any government, such as this (Badoglio’s) one, which announces adherence to Hitler and continues vo fight with him and against the forces of the United Nations, is an enemy of the United States and the other United Nations.”
An OWI spokesman in the overseas division of the New York OWI
pol-
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Americans had occupied Fefalu, north coast harbor 35 miles east of Palermo, and with other troops from the center, had taken Petralia, Polizzo Generosa and Alimena.
Airfields Bombed
Allied bombers meanwhile, blasted airfields in southern Italy and destroyed at least 20 enemy planes on the ground at Scalea airdrome yesterday, while other planes swept the Sicilian bridgehead in a continuous offensive. Five Italian airfields, two of them in the Naples area, were bombed Monday night and Tuesday, Flying Fortresses delivering the strongest attack, against Capua, 20 miles north of Naples. Front reports said the Germans were digging in on a solid line beginning at San Stefano on the north coast, running south and east through Nocsia and Catenanuova and along the Dittaino river to the east coast. The major allied line ran below Catania on the east coast to Cefalu on the north coast, although advanced American units were considerably past 6 the latter port. A German stand was expected along the Dittaino river against the British 8th army.
WAKE BOMBED TWICE WITHIN 48 HOURS
Raids Hint U. S. Move to Recapture Base.
WASHINGTON, July 28 (U. PJ. —Army Liberator heavy bombers blasted Japanese-held Wake island for the second time in four days, foreshadowing a possible early American move to recapture that vital mid-Pacific base. Meanwhile, American airmen in the Aleutians continued pre-inva-sion assaults on Kiska with 19 more havoc-spreading raids in a 48-hour period. The attack on Wake was presumed to have been launched from Midway. The latest assault on that former American outpost was carried out on Tuesday. American gunners destroyed seven out of 25 Zeros, probably downed five others and damaged three more. :
COMMONS TO REST SOON LONDON, July 28 (U. P.).—Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden announced today that the house of commons would adjourn soon until
late September. MN
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for 30 minutes with Turkish Fore eign Minister Numan Menemencioglu.
the northern industrial area, especially at Milan where 30 casualties were reported in violent clashes with local Fascist groups holding out against units of the army. The outbreaks, some of which developed into pitched battles, were reportedly led by socialists. Demonstrators waved red flags in some instances.
Court Suppressed
The cabinet, which Badoglio présiding, ordered dissolution of thé party that had ruled Italy for 20 years and also suppressed the Fascist special court for defense of the state, the Italian Stefani news agency said. . Archbishop Spellman left South Africa suddenly today for an unknown destination. His departure was linked with Italy’s reported desire to get out of the war. Bulgaria also was reported to be attempting frantically to get out from under the threatened collapse of Italy. King Boris of Bulgaria bitterly upbraided his prime minister for permitting a situation in which “revolution can break out at any moment,” the Stockholm newspaper Allehanda reported. Reports circulated that tentative feints looking toward Italian peace already had been made in Vatican city. Berlin dispatches to Stockholm said the overthrow of Benito Mussolini had shaken the German people more than any other single (Continued on Page Five) " » »
On the War Fronts
July 28, 1943
many Italian towns, with four Fascists killed and 25 wounded in
ward peace. : EUROPE—British bombers heavily
72 hours.
roll of Cefalu and other towns. withdrawal below Orel.
through network of Japanese fenseg outside Munda in eet
ITALY—Disturbances reported in
Milan riots, as unofficial signs x indicate possibility of moves toes
raid Hamburg for sixth time i
SICILY—Americans and Canadiang back axis defense line 18 | milss, capturing north coast poré
RUSSIA—Germans begin big scnle x
PACIFIC—Ar=ericans edge forward