Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 September 1943 — Page 1

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FORECAST: Continued cool this afternoon; not quite so cool tonight and ‘tomorrow forenoon.

By WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Scripps-Moward Foreign Editor

WASHINGTON, Sept. 24.—Marshal Josef Stalin often been called “the most powerful man in the world” OY ye As the Russian army continues relentlessly to drive the Germans back toward Berlin, he is fast becoming lit-

To underestimate this would be a grave mistake. If

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1043

and when President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill “hold that long-hoped-for meeting with Stalin this .

winter, it may turn out less

of a conference than a con-

frontation, whereat the Russian dictator will state his terms

men can take it or leave it.

for post-war collaboration and the Anglo-American 8 states-

Stalin's star has risen during the past dozen months more rapidly, perhaps, than that of any other big league

leader since Napoleon.

Like Napoleon, this was due not

AN EVIDENCE Guadalcanal Chapel Among the Crosses

Bie Ci Cites Letter in-Which— Attorney Sought $350 in $25 Theft Case.

~~ "By.NOBLE REED Evidence that some: Indianapolis itorneys have resorted to unethical peactices in police court cases has ‘been uncovered in the grand jury's] investigation of professional bonds-| men’s activities, Prosecutor Sher- | Wood Blue disclosed today. Evidence involving at least one prominent criminal lawyer was

“A letter one attorney sent to the wife of a man held in jail here on & minor larceny charge has been given to the bar association for " Mr. Blue said.

__ Urged Sale of Car

e letter insisted that the wife her car to raise $350 for fees in case case which involved the theft only $25. of or) attorney’s letter admitted _ that this client was guilty and that ‘mot much could be done for him * Unless the wife raised the $350. . How the attorney expected to use the money to “do something for his client” was being investigated by

IS THIS WHAT

Here of Bamboo ‘House Of God.’ BY HELEN a

indicated that "some © perjury in making false affidavits £ Fegarding their property holdings. the law a bondsman must

have ‘nencumbered property ‘worth [2 3 28 much a8" the total bonds he

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LIGHT FROST HERE

~ DOES” NO DAMAGE| URGES INCREASED

BLOWS AT JAPAN

CHICAGO, Sept. 24 Robert Bellaire, former manager of the United. Press Tokyo bureau, said last night that “every year of grace”

allies would be in a better position to deal with Europe's post-war prob{lems If Japan were knocked out of

= 1ST LADY SAW? |

! Hoosier -Soldiee- Wiles: Kin

The Guadalcanal cemetery and chapel described by Mrs, Eleanor Roosevelt in her column yesterday may be he, same une Which EYL. Yitgtl Conway iasety'sniontly wrote fume abait;fum his South Pacile hase.

tition

My Day

By ELEANOR

‘An Alert Sounded as We Drove Into Hospital

‘GUADALOANAL Sept. 18 (Delayed) —We had an” Hitting ex

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pre ER as A

ROOSEYELT

feat, has

Entered as Second-Class Matter at Postoflice Indianapolis, Ind, Issued dally except Sunday

merely to his military successes, great as these have been

but to his statecraft as well,

It was"no small thing to meet the pick of Hitler's legions and throw them for one loss after another. But that Stalin should keep American government patiently waiting in an anteroom on the off-chance that he

may see them, is still more

significant.

Perhaps Stalin's most important act of the year was

his accord with the church.

GERMANS ACT LIKE WOUNDED.

BEASTS AT BAY

Observer in Italy Says They Know They're ‘Already Licked.’

By WILLIAM H. STONEMAN

WITH THE U. 8. 5TH ARMY, Sept. 24.—If Germany were sacked, raped, ravaged and burned to the!

which. it certainly will not be-—it would be getting just whag the Ger{man soldiers are asking for when {they fight and kill American troops in Italy.

The Germans are behaving as!

they are, that is, like wounded beasts at bay, because they say they |are going to be beaten anyway and just want to make it an expensive business for us. This is why they have sacked

* {towns and behaved like dogs wher=

ever they have been, down here. In effect, they are asking us to do our worst, American officers and soldiers, who have. been captured by the Germans and released because severely wounded, have gotten this same story from OCerman officers

{and . men with whom they have |

spoken. . The German is & chatty | person in ordinary circumstances | and the German soldier, made eel tery oy ‘thought of impending de-

Pestered Prisoners. The Germans have pestered our prisoners by expounding their ideas

EEE EER 0UNTY GAINS | AGAINST AXIS

‘Total of Bond Sales Now. Berlin radio report of violent Russian attacks in many see»

proved himself tabs ex.) 85a)

.He virtually completed the

alin Fast Become ‘Most Powerful Man In The World:

re-establishment of the Russian orthodox church whose metropolitan has just been reinstated by his order, and he has been striving to win back the confidence of religion-

ists everywhere—Church of and others,

England, Roman Catholics

This is bound to have far-reaching consequences and z

none knows it better than Stalin himself.

Nothing the

Bolshevists did, after.they took over in Russia in 1917,

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Indians Hope For Fasf Finish

(Details, page 26.)

The Indians are in a position to put a quick finish to the first round playoff series with Toledo tonight when they face the Mud Hens under the lights of Swayne field, Ownie Bush's hustling Tribesmen need but one more game to oust the Hens and Woodie Rich has drawn the hurling Job for tonight's game. Columbus has the same chance as the Indians as they also have won ‘wo games to Milwaukee's one in the best of five series,

Soviet Armies Bank as Nazis’ Entire East Europe

Smash

Is $52,402,131 With $18,000,000 to Go.

Indiana saley $166,613,302

Marion county sales . $52,402,131 | Marion county quota ..$70,000,000

between Marion county and the axis |

Is $52402,131 won, with $18,000,000 | to be captured within the next six

days. The county sales were increased yesterday by Gen. Motors, which

Hf not in

Defense Li

RUSS VICTORY AT SMOLENSK IS IMMINENT

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Through to Dnieper

ne Totters

BULLETINS hj

LONDON, Sept. 24 (U. P.).~An obscurely-worded

tors hinted today that the Red army may have forced a | crossing of the Dnieper river north of Kiev.

| —

WITH AMERICAN 5TH ARMY, Italy, Sept. 24 (U.

| P)—Lt. Gen, Mark W. Clark,

| met Gen, Sir Bernard L. Montgomery, British 8th army Wie ‘commiinique $rom. the battle commander, today for the first time since the allies landed

on the Italian mainland.

commander of the 5th army,

MOSCOW, Sept, 24 (WU. P.) —Military sources said 0

(day that Russian assault troops had virtually encircled EF Smolensk and its fall vas imminent, while to the south {Soviet armies were massing on the est hake of the Dnieper

river at several points,

greatest German base “oq the central front ” of Russia, was outflanked on both the north .

| perfenice the other night, the first and only one of its kind I've had on

this trip. We were spending the night in a hospital, not like Ernie Pyle, who lay In a tent where the wounded are brought in and lie on stretchers and Wait for the busy doctors to get to them, but very

about what is going to happen to them and have made it obvious that they are filled to the eyebrows with nonsense.

divisions, Other sales reported

and south in a rapidly maturing squeezé play by which the

{Russian army has driven the Germans from most of the

5 TRANSIT SNARLED BY 10S ANGELES STANCES;

2500 Steeicar and us

Ast Lady Back In Manhattan

: NEW YORK, Sept. 4 . P.).—Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, who has completed a tour of the war zones in the South and Southwest Pacific, arrived at LaGuardia field shortly after 9-a. m. today aboard an army plate, Mrs. Roosevelt was met by her son, Lt, Col. James Roose= velt, and her secretary, Malvina Thompson. They left the } airport in an automobile, pre- | sumably bound for her Man“hattan apartment. - She ar~ rived here from San Francisco.

‘Operators Walk Out.

LOS ANGELES, Sept. 24 (U. P). ~More than 2500 members of the

BELIEVED IN MEXICO

juderagly and safely, if ‘somewhat primitively,

mmiieh éomifort as is compatibie with

The hospitals on Guadaloanal have had time now to establish themselves and, since it is the first stop for many of the seriously wounded it is important that their installations and equipment be as good as possible and provide as

These talkative killers keep re

a fighting retreat first, to the approaches of Naples, then, to Volturno, then, northward to the River Po and finally, to the ramparts of Germany itself where they hope to exact a-tremendous price

the conditions near the front under which they still must five. | An alert sounded as we were driv. ing into the hospital area after supper. A motorcycle military ~police“dashed ' by calling out “Air raid We were driven immediately | to a shelter. * They made us go in, though many people, including the patients, still were standing outside. I think the officers felt it would prove to be a false alarm, for it was early, just barely dark, and moon was not yet up. Tojo likes

On the War Fronts

from us in return for our final vietory. The highest hope of these doughty young Nazis is to kill lots of Americans and -British and, in odd moments, to venge their wrath on un~ armed Italians whom they meet on the way. ~ Except for outstanding

in the German army, they appear to have no thought of securing a decent peace for Germany by be(Continued on Page Three)

Sept. 24, 1943

Brothers Meet On Two Fronts

THOUSANDS OF miles away from home, two Indianapolis

RUSSIA ~— Russian armies reach

fensive all along its line below Naples, gains seven miles in first _ phase; 8th army advagges as much as 30 miles.

e/ AIR WAR--Royal Alr Force heavily | -

bombs German industrial center of Mannheim-Ludwigshafen, los-

Beating that they are going to make offices

amount nearly John Willard $7,000,000 in one of the biggest bond-buying days of the third war loan drive. The county, which has reached 5 rg cént of its goal, tops the state, which is within 65 per cent of Isits "quota, * “Thousands of Hoosiers are hiding behind orders for $100 bonds,” Eugene C. Pulliam, state bond chair man, sald, “They should have ordered $1000 or $10,000 bonds, but:

individuals and foreigners serving tthey are taking advantage of the

fact that a $100 extra bond was set as the minimum in this third war loan campaign. “Actually, every one's everything he edn invest.” A real backer of the attack is John Willard, 2605 N. Capitol ave. who puts 25 per cent of his salary at Curtiss-Wright Corp. into bonds

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R. A. F. PLASTERS NAT! ARMS CENTER

[the German garrison to flee|

Wl big towns captured this summer,

Army quarters expected

Smolensk to escapé the immi-

nent threat of encirclement, it was revealed by the forecast that the Napoleonic “gateway to Mospow” was about to be retaken. The vanguard of the army press. ing against the rear defenses of Smolensk was less than nine miles from the city itself, front reports said. «| Northwest of Smolensk, the Russians. were reported advancing op both sides of the western Dvina in the area of the White Russian frontier and closing in on Vitebsk.

By RICHARD D. McMILLAN United Press Staff Correspondent ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Sept, 24. —Allied armed forces have captured the mountain highway town of Oliveto Citra in a flerce new

‘ing 32 planes. Dneiper river, rushing Germans

PACIFIC~Australians advance four

BOMBERS SET FIRES ON RHODES ISLAND

* CAIRO, Sept. 24 (U. P,).—Brit-

QUAKE IS RECORDED: in

Employers Pledge $25, 000 To Back Big Labor Drive

back so fast they abandon arms.{—

32 Planes Lost in Sweep Across Europe.

LONDON, Sept. 24 (U.. P)~A big force of British four-engined bombei's sent a new non-stop allied

offensive toward Naples, gained upwards of 30 miles in southern Italy snd smashed four enemy vessels in a bold torpedo hoat raid across the Otranto strait to the Albanian harbor of Valons: While allied planes shot down seven air transports and battered small ships attempting to evacua tel

— The British radio sald today that the Germans were acknowledgthat they were withdrawing

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the effort, however, Rey int that they were made by advanced elements and were thwarted.) The last major German bases east of the Dnieper liad been overrun 2 , (Continued on Page Three)

Germans Paw Conica |

Nazi troops trom Corsica, the mainland land fighting gathered speed with the capture of the towns of

Matera and Altamura by the Brit-"

ish 6th army in the south and the

opening of & fierce battls on the rth of Slermo.

mountain front north

“strong attacks” had been opehed by the allies in the Salerno sector

nd near Contursi, 24 miles to the east, with powerful air and artillery =

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