Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 October 1943 — Page 5

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tendent of the Sunday school “Deacon” Hobbs: took s great interest in the young man and took him into his business, first as a settling clerk, then as confidential clerk and right-hand ‘man.

entered the grain business, but his business was swept away when P. D. Armour engineered a corner on the wheat market. He moved to Richmond, Ind. and acquired that city’s run-down transit system and while there he was

While here to attend a “Y” convention. he became interested in the city’s transportation system, a horsepower affair, He formed a syndicate and after considerable difficulty and legal technicalities, negotiated the purchase and developed a model sysHe employed Gen. Benjamin

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President nsulted by bers of the president's official family. Mr. Shaffer was a delegate to the

He was the donor of an echo orDuring the first two years of resi-|{8an to his Methodist church in dence here, Mr. Shaffer and the Evanston and contributed ® the family lived at 1122 N. Pennsylvania | Methodist centenary movement. In st. In their last years of residence |1923 he gave $100,000 for establish-

(here, the family occupied the/ment of a chair of humanities at

Benjamin Harrison homestead on|Northwestern university and enDelaware st, moving in when Mr. |dowed a fund for lectures on the life of Shes and His influence in park facilities and Mr. Sh The John C. Shaffer foundation quired a 246-acre tract, le Yale university divinity

Fairview park, extended established in 1929 in his son, Kent Shaffer of

the class of 1007. At thé: same became the donor of a perscholarship to DePauw university, known as the Shafferhere, Mr. Shaffer returned to Chi.|Beveridge award in memory of the d acquired a traction line. late U, 8. senator Albert J. Bevetransportation interests |Tid8¢ who attended DePauw.

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,|or destriiction of all food and other

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was. battering sown stiffened German resistance west of Termol, and inland was sweeping forward so swiftly in some sectors that the troops were rounding up the hindermost German stragglers. -

The strategic pattern of the allied battle for Italy began to emerge more clearly with trip-hammer aerial blows at the German communications both immediately behind the front and well to the north. Flying FPortresses of the Northwest African air force set the pace with a heavily concentrated attack on Bologna, the railway hub commanding the bulk of the German transport southward to the battle sone.

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medical help for the wounded. Marinelll reported that six other

The Forts, In one of the mosts successful air attacks ever made by the Northwest African forces, smashed vital railroad yards at Bologna, the North Italy industrial and communications center. The American gunners destroyed eight of an attacking formation of 30 to 38 Messerschmitt and Focke-Wulf fighters. : The Bologna yards were well covered with bombs, shattering con-

gunned them in retaliation Yor the shooting of Germain soldier. In nearby Aversa, a carabinieri (police) colonel said, the Germans executed 80 carabinjeri and 20 eivil-

Dig Their Own Graves Many Italians were forced by the

near the Campo“Reale. We heard rumors that some were buried alive, but were unable to confirm them, Dr. de Cesare sald the Germans hastily pulled out of Naples on the night of Sept. 8, when Itdly’s surrender was shnounced, but re turned en masse two days later when the allies fanded on the Salerno gulf rather than attempt to force Naples harbor, “Then they got really tough with us,” the journalist’ said. “They| told us they were at war with the Italians henceforth and that wef had better be careful-—or else, © “We got tough, too. Bands of Franc Tireurs immediately sprang up and virtual warfare existed between the Italians and the Ge#mans, Only a few hundred Italians, if that many, would have anything to do with the Germans,

Germans Loot Shops

“The Germans began systematic looting of the shops. When they had taken enough, they set fire to what was left behind. Several shops were opened to Italian passersby whom they told to take what they wanted. A number of those whe responded then were shot by the Germans as looters.” The Germans embarked on their final rampage of terrorism Sept. 36, the Sunday before the allies entered Naples, Dr, de Cesare said. “They blew up and set fire to tourist hotels; part—of--Naples-yni-}

“It was wanton destruction.” During that final week, he sald, the Germans completed the selsure

essential —supplies——until literally nothing was left by the time the allies entered the city Friday.

-o--Boores Slarve to Death

“Children and old men became sick because of the lack of food and starvation caused deaths by the score,” Dr. de Cesare said. “If you hadn’t come when you did, I don't know what would have happened to the population of Naples.” With the water fouled by sewerage, 8 waterhole near the harbor attracted hundreds of -persons. They took up water in chipped wine] - bottles, crumpled buckets and brok<|

dressed men and women “stood in

ants, Two pretty, hungry girls talked us out of “C” rations, but told us lodging in a

we were given rooms with beds that had no mattresses. The Germans had carried off or burned all mat-

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shops, warehouses, tracks and a bridge. An oll storage depot was left aflame, and many fires and explosions were seen. Hundreds of large bombs were dropped on Bolosoa in the 45-minute attack, hardly one outside the target area. The 8th army was fighting along the Biferno river, which springs 8 from the foothills of the nearby mountains. The fact that the communique referred to fierce fighting meant that Montgomery's army had gone Into full-scale action, having at last encountered the main strength of the enemy along the east coast, The retreating Germans were taking with them everything on Wheels—bicycles, and even perambulators—to carry their loot and supplies. The landing at Termoll now is revealed to have taken the Germans by surprise so° completely that a Maj. Rau, commander of a battle group along the Adriatic, was captured in his bed. The men of the 8th also found documents instructing the Germans to carry out a

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