Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 October 1943 — Page 1

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Invasionof [HIKH 1TH ARKMY ¥ CAPT ¥ Salerno Was A ALR ATR J /AR

No Easy Task For 5th Army

hift to No. 1 Manpower Shortage Area To-

day Cushioned by

M¢éNutt's Promise

Of Official Check-Up, Advice.

By DANIEL M. KIDNEY Times Stat Writer

WASHINGTON, Oct. 1.—Indianapolis became a No. 1

MC labor shortage area today, despite a last minute per-

protest by a delegation far npower. Chairman Paul V.

sent here to confer with War McNutt,

After a three-quarter ed r conference, a at which the A the In-

ianapolis delegation pleaded retention of the area in pup 2, the answer of Mr.

utt still was “No. ¢ he is a former Indiana or and considers Indianapolis ‘home town, Mr, McNutt made ! concession, he said. That was! agree to Send a WMC represento. Indiapapolis soon lo lheckup on last minute labor sup-

This assignment likely will go to mes Penman, formerly of Brazil, nd. 8 WMC staff member. He will he accompanied by WMC, statisdcians,

Members of Delegation

~ Members --of the Indianapolis, felegation were: George A. Kuhn, IShamber of Commerce president; C. Harvey Bradley, representing inand Myron R. Green, repthe Indianapolis

committee, Al ri Misappointment theif failure to-obtain some postnent, but “expresred the view the ares will work itself back

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ES NAPLES, ON ROME

Allied Troops Find Germans Gone, Big Harbor a Mass of Tangled Wreckage And City a Burned Shell.

By RICHARD D, McMILLAN United Press Stal Correspondent

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, North Africa, Oct. 1.—Allied troops marched triumphantly into battle-scarred Naples today, scoring the greatest victory of the 22-day Italian

L leampaign and opening up the road to Rome.

The Germans had abandoned Naples after a thorough job “ef demolition, and the vanguard of Lt. Gen. Mark W, Clark's army found its great waterfront a tangle of wreck

| lage.

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‘N Coubens in in the a Are Increased in New Order.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 1 (U, P)—|" Eastern “A” card motorists got their | lorig-awaited boost in gasoline rations today at the “expense” of “B” and “C” card holders everywhere} east of the Rocky mountains, An allied merehantman is blown wide open by a Naa bom a0 alld forces effect Scie ings 3E Saleen vier & Detrags from bnasny The rationing readjustment willi shore batteries and bombers... (Story on Page Three) : pr give eastern “A” card Swtorijts. tw two gallons of gasoline a wee pared with 1% in the past, , _. “C” coupons everywhere will be cut to two gallons—from three in the Midwest, Southwest and Southeast and from 2% in the northeastern |states. The new system became effective at 12:01 a. m. Soda).

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BM | Matbor could be cleared for alliad use in eight days.) |

§ [Salerno beaches and opened the battle for the city. § idays earlier, on the day the Italian armistice was signed,

E | Ito Rome, -

A special communique announcing the capture of Naples

{ said:

“I'roops of the 5th army have entered Naples. is reported clear of Germans.”

Fought. 22 Days

Naples fell 22 days after the Sth army landed on the Five

The city

the British 8th army crossed from Sicily to the toe of Italy, The occupation of Naples gave the allies an ideal base for the drive 125 miles northward to Rome and on beyond, which Clark promised in announcing that the battle of the Salerno bridgehead was only the beginning. . Already allied air fleets ranging on ahead of the ground {forces were pounding the railroads, bridges and other transport targets north of Naples, where the coastal lines lead up For two days they had gone unchallenged by Ger man planes as they bombed and gunned their objectives.

Naples a ‘Shell’ The allies found Naples a battered, burned shell of the

| great. port which probably has been subjected to more bomb-

ing than shy other Italian city. For weeks the Germans have added to the devastation with systematic demolitions. (A British Broadeasting Corp. report “said ‘the Naples —

The fall of Naples followed an advance along the coast road by the 5th army shock units which had fought in fields

{and orchards through the town of Torre Annunziata, u | miles from th eity.

Infantry backed up by tanks, mobile guns and other mobile units pushed on and swept into Naples, potentially one of the greatest Mediterranean bases for the battle of Europe,

Cover 200 Miles By reaching Naples the allies had covered more than

4200" miles, since they launched their invasion of the Italian ] mainland on Sept. 3.

+ «Gen, Sir Bernard L. Montgomery's British 8th army had

{the longest march from the toe of the peninsula. The Anglo-

Nepion, ence beauitl york. town of Tl 5 30 cle the Mande of the BO sem, of British and American froops.

SELECTS: HARRIMAN Roos AS RUSSIAN ENVOY

‘Former Lend-Lease Officer

romposed

evelf Likens Drive i in » Haly| To ‘Crusade’ to Free Rome

WASHINGTON, Oct. 1 (U. P.).—|the Germans would make their next President Roosevelt today likened stand on a line with Rome, saying the. allied drive in Italy, now that|that it was now ‘difficult to deNaples has fallen, to a crusade to) termine where the next stand will liberate Pope Plus XII, the Vatican be,

and Rome from the Nazis. News of the occupation of Naples

maneuver met with but one .

Jerry Liddy, Demomember, epiphatically red, “I am.” Other board members declared the ol was “out of order.” Mr. Rebennack said previous ad ministrations also had tried to in-, lettere JS Dolitioly with the sanita-!

He roa and that the “sanitation| Succeeds Standley. hawt is being run not by the new-

CADET J s DANNER IS REPORTED KILLED superintendent, Clar-| WASHINGTON, Oct. 1 (U. P)— pointe but by an administra | President Roosevelt today nomi-

tion ward chairman. He told his press and radio, con-! was flashed 1 the president-by Gen. Missing After Flight Over Houston, ‘a boiler rooni|Unitéd States ambassador to Soviet| ference that. the allied advance, Dwight D. Eisenhower. just a few Gulf of Mexico. ora with 14 years’ experience, Russia, northward now center's on liberation minutes before the president ‘met dtd that carpenters and butter] Marriman’' succeeds Adm. William |of the elernal city and the Vatican, | hig press and radio conference. Dead Semen had been paced in charg. Sandler, former chief of naval|Every effort is being made, he. de. Mr. Roosevelt sdid he could not THE. NAVY ‘has nf the of “delicate” instruments, operations, returned to this|clared, to avoid fighting which|discuss actual details of the allied u» of Aviation umes the Sanitation plant higher-ups and country about 10 days ago. would lead to destruction of historic effort to. prevent active fighting: in paren Cadet. Patronage commilies mepibers were He also has carried out several Rome. Rome, and that the Anal Danier that be ia believed ist hate | t present. missions in Moscow. | Ho mid 1 doubled. reparia- that actually was up to the Germans. sea on June 29, the date he was

| Col. Tisdale Takes Over Command at Ft. Harrison

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American troops under Clark had covered only about 24 miles from Salerno, but they had met and dealt with the full force of the German military strength concentrated below Naples, When the Germans realized they could not throw the allies from the Salerno beaches, they set about systematically delaying the progress up through the hills, to Naples in order that they might have time to blow up everything they could in Naples of value to the allies,

Germans Outfought

The triumph on the approaches to Naples was regarded as conclusive proof that a well-equipped, well-trained, wellled allied force, given adequate air cover, can beat the best the German high command can put in the field. The Germans obviously had determined to stem the allied advance from the Salerno beaches. But they were outfought, and failed. ; The successful conclusion of one phase of the Italian campaign was credited in large measure to the unprecedented teamwork between the American and British fighting men, the allied air forces, and the allied fleets, working under the direction of Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower. The Germans may try to delay the allies north of Naples, where the most likely area for a Nazi stand is along

SOVIET. ARMY. WITHIN mies shove ihe caine ie. 100 MLE OF POLAND:

But they will not have the advantage they enjoyed in the Salerno hills of commanding the