Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 September 1943 — Page 5

Question at Draft Hearing, “Today May Give Clue on

Ouster Rumors. (Continued from Page One) now involving Marshall is ¢ : ous and lasting differences in one of has been going on for several those groups or the ; months. ~The fundamental argu- | reached a point where an A ment is whether our army is to be being made to kick him upstairs + fused first for Unfled States pur- and out of the staff circle, poses or for the purposes of the | The implication appears to be : : J British empire.” i sufficiently serious to invite either {a pretty girl who screaihs “Erniel Waldorp is one of the bitterest its acknowledgement, with adequate Washington critics of Roosevelt ad- | corrective measures, or & reassuring

{It is Marjory Woods whom he : hasn't seen in eight years. Would 2 aaa ministration policies .at home and official Jatement that it is without 3 U oundation, ;

WOMAN IDENTIFIES

of tea? Ill say. A call to Mrs.

ATTACKER IN COURT

—will she join us later on? De- * |lighted. © And so eventually the two lovely ladies are taking turns as “If 1 was blindfolded I could tell Ernie's “secretary,” answering the it's him from his voice. I've heard dinning telephone, and fending off that voice in my sleep.” strangers, pe hr Tagish That was how positive a 23-year-want a piece old mother was today in identifying - a 17-year-old youth who on the night of Sept. 7 threatened her with a pistol as she wheeled her baby at

or that. But eventually to bed. The Phone Again in his stead an officer more amen-| ale and Ohio sts, forfed her into’ able to their will It'is not be- ® Nearby alley and then criminally

After three hours’ sleep, the lieved that the president will be in-| Attacked her.

phone again, Had Ernie decided he could go to Charlottesville to be induced to change his mind and to _ 1hat’s him” she said at first transfer him.” isight of the youth.

terviewed by Secretary Morgenthau on “We, the People”—a war bond show A Carol! the attacks apparently were part of | Mr. Roosevelt was ‘not available! The youth was arraigned In juJohnson, the artist, in the lobby. | a long range plan to clip oft the today for inquiry. Marshall, reached | Yelle court today and the case was Come -on- up, Johnny. Just a little, long-extended enemy bases. | via the war department at his home| ransferred to criminal court, . Desmile please, Mr, Pyle. A wire from Both Tarawa and Nauru—the|., my Myer, Va, refused to talk to| !°c!ives sald he will be charged Indiana university—could he ad- latter an important source of phos- | ranorters. Other inquiries obtained | With robbery and criminal assault. dress the convocation? Sorry. phate—have been attacked pre- .ointed hints that Marshall wants| The youth, who lived-at a small ~ Another syndicate — wonders At viously by army Liberators. and ultimately will get a _combat| downtown hotel, was arrested Sat. Ernie is happy with Scripps- command but, also, that it would Urday afternoon in a shoe shining Howard. Yeah. Miss Skern of not be feasible for Mr. Roosevelt establishment on Illinois st. near _ OWI on the phone—just a couple now to utter a yes or no answer to Washington. of recordings, please, for brosdcast-| and on one occasion his ship a question about the future of his] Two women, whom he allegedly ing to the troops. We'll try. The returried to American without a chief of staff.” {held up in the 600 block of 8. IlWAQ recruiting office wants a re-| bow. A gunpointer i-¢, he saw These week-end reports inevitably | inois st, followed him and then cording, too. So does somebody, action for 36 hours in the North will attract congressional attention.| summoned two traffic. policemen | African invasion. Reports, rumors and speculation) and a military policeman, who ar= now have gone so far that some ob-' rested him,

else. | ; A quick walk to lunch. Strangers A graduate of Lizton high school and & student at John

Writer Vacations, His Manager Growns. (Continued from. Page One) The bellboy knocking. Miller reeling. Pyle calm. We walk a few blocks to say hello to Roy Howard. On the way we pass

staff, composed of . have had their Marshall is a member of The implica :

. His charge that someone was wy) ig to bounce Marshall out of his, job was underlined by an editorial published 1 the well informed army and navy journal. It sald it did not believe Marshall would be trans. ferred but it included this language: “Thinking only of winning the war in the shortest time and of saving every American life possible in connection with the bloody operations which it galls for, Gen, Marshall, of course, has come into conflict with powerrul forces which would like to eliminate him from the Washington picture, and place

" Yeoman Henry F. Laskmann : T. Sgt. Robert Stahlhat

Top Turret GILBERTS RAID Gunner Was PART OF PLAN

hoe} On 'Mission'}, ye sete-to-#io

(Continued from Page One)

employed at Allison's before entering the air forces. # - »

HENRY FP. LAAKMANN, crew member of the destroyer Rowan which ‘was sunk a week ago, is missing in action in the Mediterranean. area, the navy depart ment has notified his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Otto C. Laakmann, 2628 N. Alabama st. A yeoman 1-c in the navy, he had made several convoy trips over the North Atlantic route

Japs Back to Truk

Base. (Continued from Page One)

thin easy striking distance of jome or France and is only 7% plles from the southern tip of Porsica. With the island in friendly nds, the allied line in this section [ the Mediterranean is advanced more than 250 miles north from ihe African coast. Admit Evacuation

| (The German radio reported the pacuation of Sardinia “according jo plan.” “The. German navy, it Bid, systematically evacuated all Jerman troops and war material rom Sardinia despite small ship-

The Russians are sweeping toward Smolensk, Kiev and the Dnieper river while other drives are expected at Gomel and Poltava.

RUSS BREAK THROUGH Dad's Draf+ SMOLENSK DEFENSES Delay Fought By Marshall

nounced. Stalin ordered a 124-gun (Continued from Page One)

Jap Troops Are Reeling Back GUADALCANAL, 8. 1, Sept. 17 (Delayed) (U. P.).—The Japanese in the South Pacific are reeling under the most terrific aerial pounding of the war in this area, and official sources predicted today

salute, . : Northeast of Kiev, the Russians

ing space and a rough sea.) It also was. revealed belatedly h the islands of Ischia and rocida, the latter only 12 miles irom the center of Naples, on the horthern approaches to the guif of Naples, were seized for the_allies y Italian ships and crews acmpanied by a lone British naval

| Another allied announcement reorted that a considerable number f Italian aircraft that escaped from ihe Germans had arrived safely at arious allied airfields during the past 10 days and more were exAll Italian pilots complained against German manageent of their fields and all wanted Dp get into the air to fight their prmer allies,

Germans Flee

A dispatch from Reynolds Packd, United Press war correspondent ith the 5th army, reported that the haste that they left large numbers their dead unburied.

hecled

- {man prisoners were being rounded

SARDINIA NOW NEW

reached the Desna river southwest of Chernigov and were less than 160 miles from the pre-1939 RussianPolish border. Chernigov itself appeared doomed to early capture following “the seizure of Arnisovo, three and one-half miles to the east. » At some points northeast of Kiev, the Russians were only 35 miles from the Ukrainian capital. A frontal attack also appeared near following the capture of Priluki, 70 miles to the east. Elsewhere along the 750-mile offensive front from Smolensk to the Sea of Azov, the Russians captured Zherebets, only 26 miles east | of Zaporozhe .on the big bend of | the Dnieper river; the big railroad |

northern approaches to Dniepropetrovsk and Kremenchug, and Trubchevsk, 50 miles southwest of Bryansk. : Between ‘Trubchevsk and Kiev, the Russians were pursuing the Germans at such a fast pace that

seized intact in wholesale lots. Ger-

ALLIED SPRINGBOARD

(Continued from Page One) allied forces occupied that island

so insistent that they be allowed to

junction of Krasnograd on thel

earlier in the week. The crews were|

military strategy now is based on plans to raise the army's strength from 7,300,000 as of Sept. 1 to 7,700,000 by the end of this year. Selective service witnesses have testified that this, together with navy manpower needs, means draft-| ing of 446,000 pre-Pearl Harbor fathers Oct. 1. i

Forces Now Trained

If ‘those plans are not met, Marshall said, “it seems that all .we could do is change.our program and reduce our strategy, unles you feel we have been extravagant.” “We are just getting ready for employment of our ground forces,” he added. “We've got our basic establishment going, Our shipping can now be devoted tu deployment of our ground forces.” . Putting troops fully trained at home into battle overseas was not possible at the time of the: North African invasion a year ago, Marshall said. At that time it was necessary to establish advanced train. ing bases in Africa to complete adequate preparation..of. American troops for the fighting which followed, he added. :

;- Send Bomber Crews

‘Meanwhile, he said, the task of setting up the basic service forces— engineers, anti-aircraft batteries, bomber crews and other units—has been terrific. Generals in’ command of the various war fronts have been pressing heavily for these special organizations, he said. He disclosed that this month the army is sending to England some 50,000 troops such as engineers, mechanics and signal corpsmen as well as 600 bomber crews “not to expand our forces there but needed to continue our present force.”

Naples Is Next He pointed out that as new

“We are moving in now men to

‘Pyle go over to Pentagon and an-

” £30. wo . as

stop Ernie in the street and wring his hand. Train time is neat”. Pack in a hurry. A rush to a taxi. At Penn station a redcap looks at the farger of Ernie's bags and placidly rejects the nomination. Ernie shoulders the bag—60 pounds. The train is moving as we board it. Next day the phone again. Four last columns to write. Civilian clothes to buy. Call on Ernie's draft board. The dentist, Cail Albuquerque. The lawyer to make out the taxes. The radio script to write. Recordings to make. In-

few words at our rally? Nope. A marine sergeant-correspondent back from Guadal with malaria, to interview Ernie for war bond publicity. Two girls from Fortune to pump him about anxiety neurosis-— ‘shell shock’—and whas he tells them does not make you feel good, or complacent.

Ernie Scared at Last

To Charlottesville, and Ernie is scared, for it is his first radio appearance. But Mr. Morgenthau is grand and friendly, and everything goes off all right. me : In Washington again—would Mr.

swer questions from five or six ine telligence officers, Sure. There turn out to be 50-odd, and they ask plenty, The secretary of war would like to see Mr, Pyle at 3 o'clock. ie Lunch with Vice Admiral Horne. Dinner for eight at Harvey's, with old friends all around the room coming over or sending notes. £ big party later—a hundred friends. The ladies all kiss Ernie, and their husbands don't seem to mind. To bed at 3:30. Another day. Denver calling. Fan mail. Call Hugh Wells. Call] Inspector Talley. How about those airplane tickets?

Miller Calling: “Help” Ernie flops on the bed, and is asleep in a flash, with two or three conversations going on around him. A bellboy with a telegram whispers, “Poor little Ernie!” A movie producer says into the

Lt: Bochle: Ho After Two Days in Rubber Boat|

: “Ism 0. k. ‘Love

in March, 1041. Since his transfer

vitations. Old friends, Just say &/.

Herron Art institute and Indiana University extension, he enlisted in the navy in September, 1939. He received training in Newport, R. 1, and was assigned to duty at sea. He once served on the Lexington, aircraft care rier sunk in the Pacific action. . ¥ . 8. SGT. HERSCHEL RICHARDSON, brother of Miss Thelma Richardson of Indianapolis, has been missing in action from an England air base since Sept. 6, A waist gunner on a Flying Fortress, Sgt. Richardson is believed to have been lost after an American raid on Stuttgart, Germany, on that day, He is 22 and has been in England 10 weeks. He is the son of Mrs. Bertha Schwartz of Bicknell. oe » . , B1X HOOSIER SOLDIERS have been listed as missing in action in the European, North African and southwest Pacific areas, the war department announced today. Missing in the European area are 8. Sgts. Robert W. McLain, son

“of J. H. McLain of Anderson;

Paul V. Matthew, son of Mrs. Hallle Matthew of Saltillo, and Arthur K, Sauer, husband of Mrs. Norman T. Sauer of Madison. In the North African theater the missing are Pfc. Wayne E. Payton, son of Mrs, Dova Payton of Spencer, and Pfc. Paul M. Walters, son of Mrs. Naoma E. Walters

of Lakeville. S. Sgt. uel P. Culp, husband of Mrs. Mary E. Culp of Fowler, js missing in the: southwest Paeifie, ¥ .

Killed U. 8. CASUALTIES North African theater include four Indiana soldiers, the war department announced today. Those killed in action ‘are 1st Lt. Kurt B. Klee, son of Mrs. E. T. Klee of Indianapolis; Pvt.

in the

Forrest G. Beanblossom, husband

Johnson, son of Mrs. Herbert J. Johnson of Muncie.

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the enemy would find it difficult to recover at once. Ballale airfield has been devastated, and the enemy airstrip at Kahili has been cut to pieces in the past 72 hours by 241 tons of bombs dropped in the course of 18 day and night raids, Both airfields are on important Japanese-held Bougainville island in the northern Solomons. Maj). Gen. Nothan F. Twining, commander of the Solomons air forces said: “Savage aerial blows have been dealt the Japanese in the South Pacific. In the past 72 hours, they have been of an intensity hereto fore without precedent this area. We believe the enemy has suffered damage from which they will find it not. easy to recover immediately. “Their loss of fighters has been staggering. Their casualties of ground personnel must have been similarly heavy. We definitely now have the Japs on the run.”

70 Nip Planes Downed “ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Southwest Pacific, Sept. 20 (U. P). ~Allled air fleets have destroyed 70 Japanese planes in six days of an aerial offensive to drive the enemy from the North Solomons, it was announced today. Fourteen of the planes fell Wednesday and Thursday during day and night assaults, a communique said, while total allied losses since the attacks began on Sept, 11 were 13 aircraft.

Roosevelt's Son Back in States

LOS ANGELES, Sept. 20 (U. P.).—Lt. Col. James Roosevelt of the Marine corps was on his way east today to see his [ather, President Roosevelt, for the first time in 18 months.

tians battle sone, boarded an American airlines ‘plane Sunday afternoon and said he planned to return here Thursday. ] He wore twin rows of campaign ribbons, had nothing to say about

in two major actions in the South Pacific area and the other for participating in threé other major “engagements. “They didn't give us one for the Kiska battle—because we couldn't find any Japs” he grinned.

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MY HUSBAND AND I WERE

Umazed!

“Jim was impressed with the-beouty of -o funersl which we attended at Peace Chapel. Yesterday we ~ ~~ consulted thelr advisory department together. We were amazed to learh that a servies by Harry W. Moore costs so little—-that even families with our limited budget meedn't ever bo denied this lasting consolation.”

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