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WASHINGTON, Sept. 16 (U. P.).—The possibility of

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military. affairs committee hearing today when it was dis“that to meet their goals the armed services ‘must induct an average of 300,000 men a month for the remaind-

er of this year.

- Committee Chairman Robert R. Reynolds (D: N. C.), asked Rear Adm. Randall Jacobs, chief of navy personnel a and a ‘witness before the committee, for his opinion on

Faces Vagrancy Count; Face Is Injured.

Hoosier Heroes—

Three Killed,

A 17-year-old boy was rutally ;

ye of E. North st, ‘An investigation of the charges

still being heid for further ques-

tioning on a vagrancy charge. According to the four witnesses,

Russell Leroy Shackelford, 1138 E “Georgia st., was beaten by two po-

deserted building at 1020 E. North

_ sk, and again hit in the face after| * goming out of the building.

Report One Held Boy Policemen making the arrest

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Jacobs, who said the navy had enlisted 58; 742 youths’: between 17 and 18, did not answer directly but said the navy has not accepted all 17-year-old volunteers because “many boys don’t mature as rapidly as others.” Jacobs expressed the opinion that a 17-year-old draft age would result in a higher percentage of rejections because of varying maturity. But he added that the younger men were more adaptable because they had ne “preconceived ideas,” and that, lacking a trade, they could

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be trained in work where they were most heeded according to their abilities. : Reynolds apparently advanced the idea of drafting 17-year-olds as one possible means of delaying the draft of pre-Pearl Harbor fathers. The committee yesterdajy-began hearing high army and navy officials on a bill sponsored by Senator Burton K. Wheeler (D. Mont.), to delay the draft of pre- -Pearl Harbor fathers until Jan. 1, 1944.

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By NOBLE REED

~ Activities of some bondsmen which

“pull” in the | thousands of arrests here for many

grand jury, it was learned today.’

‘Land Action Take Victims Dead

FIRE CONTROLMAN 2-C CHESTER EARL ERVIN of the naval reserve has been killed im action, according to a telegram received today by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Herman E. Ervin, 1034 W. 31st st. Mr, and Mrs. Ervin heard from their son about & week ago and

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VANNUYS YS APPROVAL

Senator Makes C Choice for Slick’s Successor.

VOLUNTEERS N BOND HERO ROLE

Defense Workers, Farmers Quietly Steal Show in Sales Here.

THIRD WAR LOAN DRIVE

oners while holding others for cash bond

The grand jury began its investigation following widespread reports of illegal procedure in the 38,000,000 | posting of bonds for the release of 70,000,000 | hrisoners. Blue Asks Probe Prosecutor Sherwood Blue said he has asked the grand jury to devote “all of its time for the next several days” to an exhaustive inquiry into . the release of prisoners on the signature of some bondsmen. The investigation reached grand Jury importance this week following.

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POLICE. DOUBT TALE OF BABYS ‘FATHER

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Jacobs said the navy must induct approximately 588, 000 men from Sept. 1 to Dec. 31 to meet its goal of 2,085,» 284 officers and men by Dec. 31. The army needs from “145,000 to 175,000 a month to bring it to its goal of 7,700, 000 by Dec. 31. Maj. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey, selective service director estimated that between Sept. 1 and Dec. 81 he will he able

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YANK ARMY SEIZES OFFENSIVE, HURLS BACK NAZIS AT SALERNO.

Gen. Clark Says Allied Armies Will March 8

Into Rome and Naples; British Only Sl Miles From Bridgehead.

By RICHARD McMILLAN United Press Staff Correspondent

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, North Africa, Sept. 16. “3 {The American 5th army, reinforced by sea and supported a.

by naval guns and a powerful aerial fleet, seized the offen sive on the Salerno front today and drove the Germans from their positions between the Sele and Colore rivers, north.

west of Altavilla.

Lt; Gen. Mark W. Clark, commanding the 5th army, praised the “splendid achievement of the American and British forces, declared that “our beachhead is secure”

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advance and occupy Rome, Naples and other cities to the north and free Italy from German domination.” Halt Counter-Attack ; The allied bridgehead is now at least eight miles deep and the British 8th army, coming up from the south, is

around 50 miles from a juncture with the 5th army, The attack by American and British troops in the cen-

: tor of the Salerno-Agropoli bridgehead south of Naples was

+ the boyhood of Maj. Gen. W. B. Smith ves in her memories,

Mis. George W. Spahr

Of 101-Year-Old Woman Here

By VICTOR PETERSON History was made a few days ago when Mi). Gen. W. B. Smith affixed his signature to the armistice ending hostilities with Italy. The signing occurred in a tent hidden deep in a Sicilian orchard, In time, in distance and in setting that tent is far removed from a nostalgic, homey scene here at the turn of the century, A stocky ind of 7 or fressnd 2) a-colored-abirt, knee pants with

suspenders, long black stockings!

launched after a period of

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B| Novorossisk Is Taken by| ~, Storm After Five“Day Battle.

‘LONDON, Sept. 16 (U, P).-| Radio Moscow broadcast an order! af the day from Marshal Josef V. Stalin today saying that the im-|" portant Kuban port of Novorossisk had been captured by the Russ army. Novorossisk, which was the bridgehead which the Germans held tenaclously after heing driven from the Caucasus, was {taken by storm after five days of fighting, Stalin said, This cleared the Germans from

ter-attack was stopped after bloodiest fighting of the Mediters

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1700 block of Ashland -ave. American Troops.

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Iceland and built a wing of their projected monastery. The property overlooks the sea and is very valuable for military reasons. It seemed quite natural for Car(Continued on Page Nine)

108 ITALIAN SHIPS NOW IN ALLIED HANDS

their last foothold on the Caucasus coastline opposite the Crimea. Meanwhile the Berlin radio re{ported that the Russian army had launched a large scale offensive {south of Lake Ladoga on the Lenin | grad front.

Report Gains

The Soviet army is ‘now racing against autumn rains toward Kiev, Germany's main base in Russia, after smashing the last formidable outpost to ‘the -rortheast, Neghin, only 72 miles away. (Military observers In London predicted that the Russians not

British Sth drmy had reached Sapri, on the west coast of IMaly 37 miles from Agropeli and »

ranean war and today the allies

only would throw the Germans the Dnieper river, but perhaps to west.)

Front reports said the Soviel summer offensive was gaining new

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momentum all along the 600-mile | front with Roslavl, Lozovaya, Krasvograd, Dnieperpetrovsk, Zaporozhe

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, North .und Melitopol apparently die for Jol Africa, Sept. 168 (U.P.).—Twenty- 'early liberation. a

eight additional Italian naval ves-

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sels arrived at the allied-held har-| southern Ukraine, but uninterrupt-

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“bor of Palermo Monday night, ited advances the. length of the front

indicated that the Russian army

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LONDON, Sept. 18 (U. PJ

Africa reported today that the