Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 September 1943 — Page 1
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By REYNOLDS PACKARD United Press Staff Correspondent
POMPEI, Italy, Sept. 30.—The fierce batile that ly cracked the German line before Naples 1éft modern peii in ruins and crumbled away more of the ancient that was buried in the Spt of Mt. Vesuvius in year 79.
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ALLIES CLOSING GAP TO NAPLES
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Clark's Army Openiviz. Path Across Open|
Plain; Berlin Spokesman Says Port Is Being Evacuated.
By RICHARD D. MeMILLAN United Press Staff Correspondent
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, North Africa, Sept. 30 «The 5th army drove ahead as much as five miles to within 11 miles of Naples and today was closing the last gap on the tableland before the Nazi-ravaged city. A Stockholm dispatch from Berlin, quoting a German military spokesman, said today that German troops had ‘withdrawn from Naples. It said the evacuation was ordered | by the Nazi military command when the immediate threat to the city by land was ‘augmented by indications of allied preparations for a landing in the Naples harbor, : Sweeping beyond ancient Pompeii, Lt. Gen. Mark Ww. troops were pounding the port and railroad junction e Anntinciata, “the eollapse of which ‘would open-the
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LONDON, Sept. 30 (U. P.)~The Evening News, in a report cred- _ Hed to a “Fascist radio” stld today that “st this moment the British fleet Is bombarding Naples” The report was not confirmed by any
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‘coastal road west of Vesuvius for a straight drive against; Naples. ; It was announced that up to Sept.:20 the battle of the Balerno-Naples area had cost the 5th army 3500 American and 5211 British ‘casualties. ~The allies now had the Germans where they wanted them—down on the plain and along the Bay of Naples— ‘and they were hammering the enemy back with Wits driver - blows. : Expect Fall ‘Shortly Masso allied artillery was shelling Torre Anndnciata, “where the assault on the town brought the allies within
11 miles of Naples, and late reports said it might fall shortly. |
(German broadcasts said a “Communist” uprising— the terminology employed by the Nazis for any dissident elements within their domain—had broken out in- Naples, that the “severest” measures were being taken to quell it, and that harbor fixtures were being destroyed to eliminate "the danger of an allied landing in the city.) The allied advance from captured Castellammare along {Continued on Page Six) »
Russians Seize Dnieper Isle ~ Under Nazi Big Guns at Kiev
- MOSCOW, Sept. 30 (U.P.).—Russian army troops stormed the approaches to Gomel, key white Russian railroad junction, today as their comrades to the south struck out from the east bank of the Dnieper and seized an island midstream under almost point-blank fire from Kiev. 4% ‘(Adolf Hitler was reported by the Swedish press to have made a dramatié trip to the Russian front, summoned. his generals, and announced bluntly to them that the Dnieper 1 line “must be held” as the
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The German defense line had run straight through Pompeii and many of the town’s inhabitants died in the cross-fire of battle. Some houses disappeared completely under the barrage of shells, bullets and aerial bombs. Whole walls dangled from the sides of other dwellings, and inside inhabitants could be seen as in open doll houses
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returning there, Historic Pompeii suffered
1 toured it while German tank and motar shells still were crackling overhead. The inevitable tourist guide suddenly
popped up from a bomb crater the ruins. Crouching low so as not the skyline, we found the amp
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area, The arc of U, 8. flags from Salerno te Ischia shows how Americans have ringed Naples, and new advances te Nocera, Castellammare and Pompei have opened the way for a final thrust to the city, White arrows: (left) on this photo-map shows direction of the American attack.
Sweeping down onte the wide plains before Naples. the American 5th army is about to strike a killing blow against Nazi forces in this battle |
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12,000 YANKS
includes Killed, Wounded, Missing Since Invasion, Stimson: Says. WASHINGPON, Sept. 30. 4U;P,),
African theater—including - Sicily and Italy-from the original land- | | tings on Sicily on Juply 10 to Sent. |b tl) sligl
He alte declared emphatically t0ddy that: “an¥ that | President Roosevelt,_has interfered | politically with -assignment, of army officers, including Gen. George C. Marshall, “is a piece of folly aimed at discrediting the American conduct of the war during & most critical period of its course,” Discussing American casualties, Mr. Stimson said, in the battle of Salerno our losses have been less than feared, adding that up to Sept. 15 they amounted to about 3500. War casualties will ‘continue to mount, however, as allied forces move forward, he warned.
Many Return to Duty .
From the landing on Sicily to the beginning of the battle of Salerno, ‘American casualties in the North African theater of operations, including Sicily, were 1455 killed, 5213 wounded and 1736 raissing. From Dec. 17, 1941, to Sept. 15, 1943, army casualties in all theaters, excluding Salerno; were 10,682 killed, 26,666 wounded, 23,743 missing and, 20451 prisoners of war. Of the wounded, 10975 have returned to] duty or have been returned to hospitals. ; In a prepared statement which read at his press conference, Stimson said that whatever duties Marshall is assigned to by the president will be determined “with the sole: purpose of placing this suable officer in the position where he can render the best serv-
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By ROGER BUDROW The Indianapolis delegation in Washington rm
McNutt to Insist City Is No.1 Area; Stories Don't Jibe, Draft Heads Say ‘SOCIAL PLAN,
By EARL RICHERT Indianapolis war employers who are’ now Jetiing he Hoosier Doctors in Favor
' probably will be told by WMC Chairman Paul V,! WMC that they can get an adequate supply of } McNutt that Indianapolis is going to get such large | have not been telling that story to the local or war orders soon, necessitating more manpower, that boards, John Ferree, draft board 8 chairman, charged |
putting the city on the No. 1 critical labor shortage today. area list is inevitable,
Surrent talk that Allison's plant §,|~— ~~ ear Maywood, which is not on a pe production basis yet, would be: given" sufficient - orders soon to
Townships [Center .... Perry Withington . Wayne
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The Marion county. rate, which is included in the above figures, was | cut from the proposed 45 cents to 44 cents for 1944. The 1943 county! rate is 42'; cents, The civil city rate for 1944 has (been fixed at $137. The original | [atimate was $1.50. The 1943 rate
|" ay board today also: 1. Defeated a motion by ears Whiteside, “board member, to slash | {in half the original $50,000 proposed | appropriation for the Indianapolis Symphony orchestra. 2. Restore $4500 of the $6700 which it eliminated from the Indianapolis civilian defense budget
However. industry spokesmen said | great difference in what the war §arion Levy Cut One Cent procurement agencies, in this ohse From Proposed Levy; going to do and what théy actually | did do later. made it clear that Mr. McNutt in-| After a highly argumentative ses- | tends to say “no” to the Indian. sion today, the Marion: county tax the No. 1 group, 1944 levies for all townships inside which usually means a 48-hour indiampoli, placing war contracts elsewhere if | compared with the current levies, possible. War contracts such as|g.e. ! affected as there is-no other city where they could be built. $4888 a the Indianapolis men that after 30 284 | days In & No. 1 class, a resurvey | : age in the area then justifies, Indi(Continued on Page Six) Funeral oH Deferred Mrs. Jennie Tomlinson, mother of Marjorie Main, Hollywood movie
that in the past there has been a the army alr corps, said they were | Above Last Year. Advices from Washington toga) apolis men te king to prevent class- | gdjustment board established total week, stricter hiring controls end| The newly-adopted rates, as Allison's, of course would not be 1944 1943 | Mr. McNutt is expected to advise 272 | will be made and if the labor short- | MARJORIE MAIN'S Until Actress’ Arrival, actress, died today at her home,
5311 College ave. She was 74. Miss Main, whuse real name ‘is
Mrs. 8S. L. Krebs, was notified of her mother’s death at the Metro-Gold-wyn-Mayer studio where she was
Stimson thus did not rule out the ~ (Continued on Page Six).
yesterday. 3, Réduce from 25 to eight the number of additional patrolmen to be included in the requested police department budget.
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Mr, Whiteside moved to halve the symphony appropriation on grounds that funds for educational purposes (Continued ori Page Three)
making her latest picture, Funeral
Hoosier Heroe Indianapolis Man Injured In War Area
Wounded CPL. FORREST M. ALBERTSON, wounded in Sicily, is “im-
AT TOP. SAYS FOR.
Mr, Ferree, who said he had talked to many other | This. information came today from informed but draft board members and found their experiences the —American casualties in the North , | unquotable SOUTCes. “Obviousty,” It “teterred to the re- same hod “Nis, sald many" “of “the “war ‘companies: had pon ASCE today went on...
told the draft boards that they were unable to get anyones “of any caliber” to train for jobs. “Soma of them have told us,” he, Amt Af they lose aque man “through the draft that produe-
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thon will be curtailed.”
Vernon M. Scott, board 1. chair man, sald that the employers’ present statements “certainly are not in line with their requests for defer
Can't Fill Quola
He said that his board next month, for the first time since the draft started, would be unable to fill its quota because replacement schedules have been amended, thus postponing induction of men in war plants who were scheduled to be called next month. He sald that the replacement schedyles were amended because the war industry heads said they were {unable to hire replacemnts for the!
ments.”
men to be taken and that their in-|
duction would hurt production, “Some of them have told me,” he {sald, “that if they take Joe Blow;!
plants.” Capt. 8. 8. Springer, state drafl| (Continued on lod on: Page Sx)
BLOCKBUSTERS RAZE |,
RUHR ARMS: CENTER
Secretary Morgenthau Announces Nation Also Has Passed 15 Billion Dollar Goal; Speaks at Evansville.
Indianapolis went over the top in the third war loan
drive.
Marion county went over the top. : Indiana, trué to its tradition of being a leader in every
national cause, went over the And from
Indiana—from
top.
the Ohio river shores at
Evansville—Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr. announced today that the nation had gone over the top
{of the $15,000,000,000 goal.
The secretary spoke this a shipyards
afternoon during a rally atthe, of the downstate city which, a year ago, was the.
forgotten city of war production, but which today is among the nation's foremost production centers of weapons of
victory. Before Secretary Morgent
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| By HELEN RUEGAMER
record as “unalterably " to! the Wagner-Murray-Dingell bill, | which would set up a system of | socialized medicine, The doctors [then adopted a resolution favoring A voluntary health insurance plan {for the state; A resolution adopted at-the-finaly fa session of the Indiana State Medical association at the Claypool hotel, attacked the bill as providing “political medicine which proposes to establish under the . virtual dictatorship. of the surgeon general of the U. 8, public health service a system which will injure the public it pretends to benefit by lowering the quality of medical service rendered.” Would Freedom The bill also attempts to destroy the freedom of Indiana's 1180
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| told him that this county's | sales were $71,326,982, or ala $1,500,000 beyond its
ters De It Again
Fugene C. Pulliam, state chair- | man. of the war finance committee, | told him that Indiana had overs ‘subscribed its quota of $257,000.000. There was no immediate estimate of how much more Hoosiers had ine vested than was asked of them. “Hoosiers have done it again” Mr. Pulliam exclaimed. “We are proud to tell you this, Mr. Secre{tary. "
Mr. Griffith and Mr. Pulliam volced new appeals. Both were in{sistent that every Hoosier realize in the back oy buy more bee fore the close of the drive, extended until Saturday,
Secretary Arrives Mr. Pulliam stressed that corp«
orations and insurance companies
did more than their share, but he regretted that “the quota for indi vidual sales has not been reached either in Indiana or Indianapolis. With our own Gen. Mark Clark's army knocking at the gates of Naples, each of us must know that we must do everything we can to" keep this army and every other American army on the march to Berlin and Tokyo.”
physicians in the armed forces while they are fighting for freedom, the resolution contended, Following this denouncement of] {socialized medicine, the association {established a permanent {committee to review
272 [theyll have to close down their health insurance plans in Indiana
las differentiated from the federally controlled plans with a view to ac|cepting the best of the voluntary | plans for the state. “Political Measure” Another controversial issue bee the association's house of delegates was the federal program of financial aid to wives and children of service men, While the doctors {approved federal financing, they
oy 8 Bombers Lost in denounced federal administration
Heavy Attack.
LONDON, Sept. 30 (U. Py British four-engined bombers, hundreds strong, made a heavy blockbuster assault on the great arms center of Bochum .n Germany's bomb-devasted Ruhr _ valley last night. Only eight ‘bombers were lost in the raid and in subsidiary attacks on other targets in the Ruhr and in mine-laying operations, the air ministry announced, The big night-raiding Lancasters, Stirlings and - Halifaxes penetrated the heart of the Ruhr to deliver their cargoes of explosives, ranging
NM thie sgl be between mothers! and physicians. The Wagner bill is a dangerous political measure which would regiment the medical profession and deteriorate its present. standards, the doctors contend. AT Thus they join the ranks of the nation’s - doctors « in opposing the {Continued on Page Six)
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Secretary Morgenthau arrived in
| Evansville by plane this morning. His radio-broadcast address to the
nation was from the shipyards dur+’ ing the launching of a block-long
study tank and field artillery-carrying voluntary barge for invasion troops. He urged continued buying of bonds during
the next two-day extension of the drive, “This is no longer a war of defense, if it ever was such a war” Secretary Morgenthau said. “Nor is It any mere war of resistance against aggressors. This war is a struggle between two ways of thought. Lesson for Axis
“The lesson we have in mind for the dictators is that our way of life, our democratic principle can and will be theirs, has erushed them in the past, will blast them nm this time, will halt them if they challenge it again” said. “Every word, our e
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