Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 September 1943 — Page 1

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VOLUME 54—NUMBER 165

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SALERNO HILLS

Enemy Retreats as Allies Seize Key Heights E Commanding Gulf of Naples; Truck Be Convoys Blasted.

By RICHARD

United Press Stat Correspondent pi ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, North Africa, Sept. 20.— Signs of a German retreat from the Salerno area were reported officially today as the 5th army seized all dominating heights on the Sorrento peninsula overlooking Naples gulf and drove inland from Battipaglia. Swarms of American A-36 Invader fighter-bombers blasted and strafed long columns of hundreds of German

trucks moving into mountain

may be the start of a general retreat. At least 246 of perhaps 1800 trucks were destroyed or damaged yesterday alone. The American planes:enjoyed a field day ‘as they ranged tip and down the narrow; clogged mountain roads.running

north from Contusi, 10 miles east of Eboli, unopposed by German aircraft. One hundred and nine trucks were left blazing wrecks and 137 others were damaged badly. Resistance Weakens The ground forces .communique feported weakening enemy -resist~ ance all along the 5th army bridgehead on Salerno gulf—another indication that the Germans had begun fo withdraw from the area. ; ‘Seizure of dominating heights on the Sorrento peninsula, which sep-

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Josef Stalin announced in one of

Housewives Urged to Save Greases in Containers To Prevent Waste.

By SHERLEY UHL Two-thirds of the 2,000,000 pounds

Indianapolis housewives have been pouring into their garbage pails for the past eight months has been diverted into the city dump as part of the wastage resulting from serious breakdown in sanitation plant reduction facilities. . Because the city sanitation department is unable to salvage most of the grease contained in garbage roundups, housewives were asked today to save their kitchen fats in containers and to dispose of them through butchers, following the usual precedure now effective throughout the country. The wastage was disclosed today after Clarence Scholl, newly appointed sanitation plant superintendent, reported that an average of only 40 per cent of the city's garbage is now being cooked and compressed into its chemical comsponents. ; An estimated 8000 pounds of

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defiles- above Salerno in what

SOVIETS CRACK SMOLENSK LINES

Two Key Towns Captured; Stalin Hails Great

Victories.

MOSCOW, Sept. 20 (U. P,) —~Russian armies smashed to within 160 miles of the old Polish border today,

“thrown away” every day with from 60 to 80 tons of “excess garbage,” sanitation officials revealed.

Daily Loss Is Great

Failure to process this left-over sludge scraped from tables amounts to the daily loss of almost 1600 pounds of glycerin, a

plosives manufacturers. . The 32 cookers at the reduction plant were condemned last January by state boiler inspectors who termed them unsafe for high-pres-liberating 1200 towns and villages sure boiler service. Indianapolis is along a 750-mile front and cracking|one of the few municipalities in the main defenses before the big} stronghold of Smolensk. (The Falangist newspaper Arriba of Madrid told in a Berlin dispatch of speculation the Germans may be planning to withdraw to a new Siegfried line along the Polish fron-

three special orders of the day trumpeting the latest series of So-|: viet successes. >

fications and minefields were overwhelmed in the four-day battle for

f Sardinia Gives ~ Allies a New Springboard

the flow of glycerin into war industries, has also proved éxtremely costly to the city, Mr. Scholl pointed

along at present, a sizable majority of -the garbage delivered there is being funneled into sludge pits be-

of war-vital kitchen grease and fats|

grease and fats is literally being}

the city's}

chemical urgently needed by ex-|

'PROLONG WAR-

Mystery Surrounds General's

COUNTY BEHIND "IN BOND DRIVE

remained Chairman Points Out That

It Is Not Fair to Men | In War Area.

The 40,000 Marion county men in

400| \niform wouldn't like to hear we

are “far behind” in third war loan drive bond sales. How will they take the news that “slightly less than half the county's $70,000,000 quota has been sold.” : “Not one of them will forgive us if they read that we have failed them,” according to William OC. QGriffeth, &airman of the county war finance committee. He sald most of the 40,000 men in uniform, crouching in fox holes, on decks of assault boats or preparing for in-

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Army Chief of Staff Warns Congress Father

Postponement Would Cause an

Increase in Casualties. WASHINGTON, Sept. 20 (U. P.).—Gen. George C. . Marshall warned congress today that postponement of the father draft would force reduction of combat divisions, cause casualties to mount unnecessarily and- “prolong the

whole struggle.” Testifying before a joint session of the house and senate =

* military affairs committees on the Wheeler bill to defer the | father draft uatil Jan. 1, the chief of staff disclosed that this

Gen. George C. Marshall . . . will he be relieved from his duties?

President Avoids Question on

Chief of-Staff Ouster Rumor

By LYLE C. WILSON * WASHINGTON, Sept. 30.~President Roosevelt's Avoidance of a direct question at his Sept. 7 news conference has led today to disturb. ing charges that powerful forces are trying to oust Gen. George C. Marshall from his post as chief of staff. ) : : ‘On that date, Mr. Roosevelt was asked about a statement appearing in the Washington Star on the previous day that Marshall would be appointed commander in chief of — re ————— allied forces in the European theater of operations to direct any invasion based on Great Britain. The Star said either Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower or Lt. Gen. Brehon H. Somervell would get Marshall's post here. PM Prints Report Mr. Roosevelt repiied that he had not the foggiest idea about the report. But -they persist and multiply and persons here in & position to know say they are not doing war

Hoosier Heroes— ;

ROBERT STAHLHUT MISSING IN EUROPE

Parents Receive ‘Word of Turret Gunner. Missing

-'T. BGT: ROBERT STAHLHUT, aerial engineer and top turret gunner with the army air forces in England, is missing in action

declaration. aor anod ; xy rs by ES “| "The resolution carried an amend-

country's rapidly built ground army is,just now being round. ed into shape for deployment on world battle fronts. : Would Change Plans Stressing the importance of hitting the enemy “hard while they're running,” he said that “if we can’t hit them while they're off balance, as they are now, we lose much of the military advantage we have and prolong the whole struggle.” : Postponement of the father draft, Marshall said, would

[necessitate changes in strategic plans already made, “force

“us to emasculate some units,”

HOFFMAN RAPS mean ‘“less-trained soldiers,”

and result in “heavier—une

necessarily heavier — casual. FULBRIGHT. BILL ve

Answering criticism of maintens 3 | ance of large numbers of troops in

Claims Resolution Would this country, Marshall said that for

; the first time In ifs Kistory the = Plunge America Into [nation 1s fully training its soldiers Military Alliance.

before they are sent to overseas battle fronts. 3 WASHINGTON, Sept. 20 (U, P.).| ‘Do you want to cut that?" he —Rep. Clare Hoffman (R. Mich.), a leading opponent of the Fulbright

asked. “Do you want to cut our special troops now that they are ready to be deployed? world peace resolution, called upon y p I think that copgress today to adopt, in its stead, the Republican foreign policy dec-

would be most unfortunate from & business point of view and from a il Lo" laration drafted at Mackinac island, military poifit of view Hoffman spoke in the house during debate on the Fulbnight reso-

Urges Constant Flow ¢ Bef i ig pik on ore its baptism of fire at

Salerno, the first division to go s ashore there had been whittled down--presumuably to provide re.

: ye placements for othér units—do that cratic leaders hope to pass the it took: six months to build it up

BO Nl vik “sepudi AI: Marshall sald. Le ates our national policy” and means Bg mt ue a had would “nothing ‘less than’a military alli- better "If we hadn't Wf ance between tiie United States of | © iP ft to pieces.” Marshall a constant flow of men Into the

America, Great Britain and such army other countries as may chooses to “We ‘get no or the Germans and the Japanese” he

join" : _. Resolution Explained sald. “It is our urgent desire to ‘Majority Leader John McCor- suffer no more depletions. It would mack . (D. Mass), opening the de-|he unwise and unfortunate to do so. bate, told the house the brief reso- | We are on the offensive, and if lution «simply “signifies our’ deter- | would be unfortunate to do any. mination to join with the other na«ithing that would dim our power” tions of the world in outlawing any nation whose principal business is . | Goal Reduced War. aggression or conquest.” Marshall said that because of Hoffman recalled that Democratic | alljed successes in North Africa and members said the Republican ad-|Russia the army already has .reduced its 1943 goal from 8,200,000 men to 7.700000. If ]

ell’s by passing the father draft deferment bill cuts the army by another 448. 000, he said, “we would lack trained Sen. Styles Bridges (R. N. H) asked about the possibility of des ferring fathers over 30, contend.

peace

icy, and added “if that be true the congress here and now adopt the

ment, approved unanimously by the house foreign affairs committee

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