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SEES] VOLUME 54~NUMBER 187
oT Saw Clark’s Army Wade The Voltuino Under Moonlight
n ‘By REYNOLDS PACKARD E Usited Frese Sia Oserespondent WITH THE 5TH ARMY IN ITALY, Oct. 14 (Delayed) —The moon beamed brightly on a strip of water 100 yards wide as men of the 5th army—some of them * wading with rifles and tommyguns held high above their heads—plunged into the stream. The battle of the Vol-
turno river was on. Across
the water, whamming away
at the British and Americans with mortars and machine
Reviews Costly Raid on Germany; Hits Argentine
~~ Curb on Jews.
BULLETIN ° WASHINGTON, Oct. 15 (U. P.).
WASHINGTON, Oct. 15 (U. PJ). ~ President Roosevelt today vigorously opposed any post-war tariff on natural rubber to protect the new American synthetic rubber:
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Nazi War News Styled by Yanks
LONDON. Oct. 15 (U. P)— Eighth U. 8. air force public relations men who issue Amerjcan communiques and then read with jaundiced eye German radio reports on the same operations, today circulated
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this “model German comiinu-~ nique” for Berlin's future use: “Large formations of huge | | American bombers attempted { | to penetrate western Germany today but were driven off by hordes of our brave fighter pilots. Forty - seven enemy bombers were shot down. One of our fighters was lost. “One of our cities is missing.”
ASSERTS FAR | LOST $17,000
Lieytenant Governor Charles Dawsonson said today that according to
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-ithe best calculations he could make
from the state fair board's figures]
-|that the fair board lost “at least
*$17,000""-on-its recent state-4-H club.
The lieutenant governor, who has been on unfriendly terms with the state fair board for some time, said
Paul Moffett, fair board president, said that the board in drawing up its financial statement Had “done it the way it has always been done before” but that the board would comply with Mr. Dawson's request up another statement,
Mr. Dawson gaid the original
‘|statement showed disbursements of
approximately $30,000 and receipts of around $21,000. He sald that the board still owes many bills for labor, etc., that are not included. ‘Mr, Moffett said that the board members felt that it was for the
7 | best interests ‘of agriculture to
d some of the $158,000 balance in the fair board treasury to keep
up interest in agriculture during _|these times.
Plan Fair Next Year
“We will hold a three-day fair again next year, without the frills,” he said, explaining that the carnival ‘feature of the fair would be
dropped next year. | “It is worth $10,000 or $12,000
“Agriculture put the money in our treasury.”
Hoosier Heroes—
JOSEPH DAWSON DIES IN QUINCY SINKING
Went Down With His Ship In Pacific Action.
annually to keep our boys and girls| - interested in agriculture,” he said.
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FRIDAY, OCTOBER
guns were the Germans. Beyond the Germans was the
road to Rome. This was the toughest
German resistance the 5th
had met since the bloody days on the Salerno beachhead when the enemy threw everything in the book ab
“our troops in an attempt to
break our toehold.. The 5th
took plenty. of punishment in the fighting that was climaxed by the moonlight crossing of the Volturno on Tuesday night. But it also dished out plenty.
COAL STRIKES FORCING IRON OUTPUT DOWN
{Alabama Mill Tells_ Blast
Furnaces, Hearths to
" Bank Fires. ‘
. BULLETIN : WASHINGTON, Oct. 15 (U.P).
order,
BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Oct. 18 (U. P.).~The Tennessee Coal, Iron &
Railroad Co.—its coal mines closed}
banking of four blast furnaces and| five open hearth furnaces for an}
estimated daily loss of 4000 tons of pig iron and an undisclosed tonnage of finished steel. ‘The drastic action was taken by the company, which is the South's
largest producer of wat-vital steel,
SELFRIDGE FIELD, Mich., Oct.
15 (U. P).~A collision of two P-30
fighter planes yesterday cost the
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15, 1943
GEN. MARK CLARK massed an overwhelming weight of artillery—500 guns in one sector alone—to soften up the Germans for attack across the Volturno. Hot steel arched and screamed over the heads of the Americans and British ‘who were forcing the river in rowboats, dinghies, heavy assault craft and the amphibious trucks which soldiers have nicknamed “ducks.” It didn’t take much imagination to know that plenty of German blood was being spilled on the far banks of the Volturno. :
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yy RUEGAMER or Striking at what he called the “unfair administration of rent control by the office of price administration, Washington bureaucracy
slum clearance,” Oyrus more, president of the National Association. of Real ‘Estate Boards, challenged Hoosier realtors today to
terprise. He spoke at a breakfast meeting of the Indiana Real Estate associa tion at the Columbia club on “The Future Outlook of the Real Estate Business."
Housing Plans Called
ear Criticism
rise to the defense of private en-| riding
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res at the two-day conference of the Indiana Real Estate association at-the Columbia
president of the ! of the Indiana Real Estate association, and Frank L. Moore of Indianapolis, execu-
president of the Indisnapolis Real Estate board; Cyrus Crane. ational Association of Real Estate Boards; Marry J. Fitagerald
Russians Blew Up Huge Works on Dnieper in Earlier Action.
By UNITED PRESS
Nazi propaganda reports hinted today that the great Dnieper river dam had been blasted for the second time ‘in this war by the scorched earth policy which the Russians applied to it in their 1941
conditions,” . that investigation
held down while everything else in the economy had gone up. The i report charged OPA rent control practices with “over. state laws, trampling on the rights of citizens and violating the constitution.”
nd ‘Slum Disturbance’ /faly—
Supplies Pour Across
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This was a critical hour in top men came up to see that to plan, allied ground troops, visited
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the drive for Rome, and the everything went according
Gen. Sir Harold Alexander, commander of all *
Clark's headquarters, and
later the two of them inspected all sectors of the Volturno
front, The Volturno is about 100
yards wide in most places, |
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River in Wake of Spearheads.
4 By RICHARD D, McMILLAN United Press: Ball Correspondent
ALLIED HEADQUAR-| TERS, Oct. 15.—The 5th] army, aided by a leap-frog| landing behind enemy lines, has sent the Germans reeling back two to five miles from the Volturno river line all the way from the West coast to the Apennine mountaims, it was announced today. (The German DNB news agency reported the evacuation yesterday of Campobasso, in central Italy on
seized to the tortheast, . flair and enabling allied engineers to contin 4 To
By WALTER
aerial loss of the war—60 Plying
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60 Fortresses. 600 In Raid on German Factories
United Press Stall LONDON, Oct. 15~The United States suffered its biggest single
REPORT NAZIS T0 FLEE CRIMEA; th SURGES FIVE MILES AHEAD
Russia—
Soviets Beat Down All Counter-Attacks By Invaders.
By HENRY SHAPIRO United Press Staff Corrmspondent
MOSCOW, Oct. 15.~Ger« man. occupation forces were reported preparing today to withdraw from the Crimea to avoid entrapment by Russian troops closing in swiftly from captured Zaporozhe against
ithe only land exit from the
Black sea peninsula, Front reports said the German defenses of the entire southern Ukraine. were on the verge of cols
lapse alter the fall of Zaporoshe,
from bridgeheads above Capua, 17 was
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CRONKITE Correspandent
Fortresses costing $1 and
As an example of the capability of localities in accepting responsi bility, he cited the work of the | local draft boards as proof that the
“The greatest single difficulty with best way to handle a project is at|
| OPA administration of rent control is lack of local participation,” he
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NO SALES TAX, MURRAY URGES
C. I. 0. Head Says Labor Would Be Forced to Ask
For Wage Increases.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 15 (U. P). —President Philip Murray of the C. I. O. said today that organized labor will be compelled to demand new wage increases ita general retail sales tax is enacted. Testifying before the house ways
current drive in congress for a sales tax as an alternative to the admin~
= Willkie Wants If Party Accepts His Ideas
Willkie, in St. Louis to first major the 1940 pry
to Run in '44
continued, “not alone for platform Purposes: but. to develop a state of
Soldiers’ Mail Deadline Today
INDIANAPOLIS friends and relatives of soldiers were hurrying to mall packages overseas before the deadline at midnight tonight. And because of the early mailing dates and volume of mailings it looks like Santa Claus will get
retreat, Berlin broadcasts mentioned the blasting of a dam incident to the {oss of Zaporozhe yesterday. But the high command made no mention of it, and the claims lacked the jubilant assurance normally attached by the Nazis to events of such weight as the destruction of the great dam. A United Press dispatch from Moscow dealing with the capture of Zaporozhe said the Russians blew up the famous two-mile-long, dam in 1941, but made no mention of any sabotage in connection with the German loss of the city. Any German claim to the wrecking of the great dam would be predicated on the assumption that
carrying 600 men—yesterday in a raid that crippled and perhaps de« stroyed plants producing half of. all the hearings required by the German war machines, it was revealed today. A The giant four-engined bombers encountered the greatest fighter opposition yet seen in the European
theater, an official statement sald, and, with the ald of fighters which escorted them part of the 900-mile flight, shot down at least 104 and perhapk 1490 enemy aircraft. Only two of the escorting Thunderbolt fighters were lost. Returning crewmen reported that the targets, three roller bearing plants at Schweinfurt in Central Germany, were left wreathed in smoke and flames, but only later reconnaissance can
the cost to the allies in men and machines. A statement from American army headquarters here said that the bomber crews were *jubllantly confident that they had done a good bombing job again” and described the damage to the bearings plants as a “severe blow to German production.” : Air experts agreed that if the three plants were smashed to such a
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there on time this year with just |! Dad been restored, at least in
what the boys wanted. XE Absolutely no packages will be accepted tomorrow for soldiers stationed overseas, postal authori
{action two years ago. The Russians were reported to have blown up about .one-fourth of the dam and wrecked two big turbines in 1941. The Germans never succeeded in repairing the dam, according to the, best Information. Their inability to do so resulted in an acute power shortage, necessitating the shipment of coal from Silesia in an effort to get the Ukrainian industries func
tioning again.
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Rommel
LONDON, Oct, 15 (U. P.).—The; seething Balkans loomed as a new major front for the harassed Ger!man high command today as Berlin
trouble shooter, PFleld Marshal Erwin Rommel, has been shifted from Italy to lead the campaign against Jugoslavia’s patriot armies. The Nazi situation in the Balkans was complicated further by reports
Rushed to Balkans To Block Jugoslav Attacks |
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