Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 October 1943 — Page 6

Hand Grenades at __~TBermans. |” BY HENRY T. GORRELL United Press Staff Correspondent NAPLES, Oct. 7.~Small boys and women picked up grenades and rifles and joined in the open rebellion that marked the final five days of German occupation of Naples, Scores of them were among the 800 Italian civillans who police and

JRed Cross authorities said were

slain in the civil war touched off by the Nazi reign of terror against their former allies. Thousands of civilians were wounded. The chambermaid in the thirdrate hotel where I stayed last night told me how she stood on a hotel balcony last week and hurled grenades on a group of German soldiers,

Wounded in Foot

“They fired machine guns and a bullet’ grazed me in my foot,” she said. She hobbled as result of the wound, but sang merrily. At the waterfront, an Englishspeaking Neapolitan pushed forward a 17-year-old boy and said he had killed two Germans with a hand grenade and handed over their car to Italian authorities. Eye witnesses told story after story of the Nazi brutality that led to the virtual civil war that. raged in Naples streets for five days and nights, One woman sobbed that her little

boy of 12 had been seized by the Germans as a hostage and his fin-

gers cut off before being executed

by a firing squad in the bosco reale.

Even. Small Boys Threw

far as practicable in the opinion of the selective service director” 5. Increase depentiency allotments as outlined above. In a roll-call {vote, this provision passed the senate 48 to 1. / 6. Provide for appointment of a board ‘to examine present physical standards of the armed services and recommend any changes deemed advisable.

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WASHINGTON, Oct. 7.-Both Indiana senators voted for the ade ministration substitute for the Wheeler bill when it passed the

senate 60 to 0 last night. Today they issued statements explaining their stand. Senator Frederick VanNuys (Democrat) pointed out that he was opposed to drafting pre-Pearl Harbor fathers but by attending the senate committee hearings was convinced by the military author ities that the Wheeler bill restrice tions would handicap war operations. % : Senator Raymond BE. Willis, Republican, voted and spoke for the Wheeler bill. He argued that upping dependency payments, with no notion of the cost, was a far more inefficient and uneconomical procedure than keeping fathers home to protect their families and the “future of America.”

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