Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 October 1943 — Page 1
_ FORECAST: ‘Warmer tonight and tomorrow morning.
VOLUME 54—NUMBER 190
TUSSDAT OCTOBER 19, 1943
_ Entered as Second-Class Matter at Postoffice mdianapons, Ind. Issued daily except Sunday
I Courage! |
Bomb That Killed Her Family Failed to ‘Break’ Edith.
By NAT A. BARROWS at, Times i he als de et . LONDON, Oct. 10.—~The story | of Edith Durrant is the story of | what war does to the little peo-
|| ple—and how they take it. Edith Durrant is 26, She used
to work in a
brewery before she married her Arthur and | went to live in
ment districts
,
that are so ugly | on the outside
| and so full of
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Lk
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rugged fortitude and simple hapfi piness on the = Mr. Barrows Bn wasn't called up because she had her baby, Sandra, 9 months old. She did the housework, took good care to see that Arthur made. his home - guard practices on time, and provided
18 home for ‘her: parents, one
brother and Arthur's sister. Edith would have laughed and said, “Don’t pull me leg, chappie,” if anybody had suggested that one day she would emerge as a
| typical example of British cour- | age. #
The bomb fell early yesterday
|| morning. Edith never saw how
ground batteries, and then royal
| air force night fighters, sent that
luftwaffe fighter-bomber crash-
ing down like a comet,
| ations and called
“It's Our Home ’Ere’
EDITH and her family were under a great pile of bricks and erumpled floors. Their tenement home was old and weary from other bombings. They had joked about their little it “Unlucky * They had been bombed out S the house across the way, “but-somehow-they didn't. .want-40.. -.Jéave. the. neighborhood.
“It's our home, ‘ete, “and that's |
guod pub we ‘ave ‘ere,” when her Brother,
“We couldn't tell her, we couldn’t make it any worse for her,” the heavy-rescue men said, “and we couldn't tell her we could see enough in the tunnel we'd made to see that her father, mother, husband, and sister-in-law were dead, too.” » »
Edith Keeps Talking + IT TOOK 13% hours: to free
Edith. Every single move had to be made with the greatest care:
after the heavy-rescue experts . |More Drivers Are Needed
Llad directed (he placing of ior
of my American cigarets passed to her and she smoked it, saying “Lend-lease’s Jovely,
¢
=: 5 Sgt. Donald Smith, 7 Othe Killed as Fortress Crashes mid
{8 military one, rather than’ political . tor economic,
- | garbage, twice a week.
CHEF SSE AT
SOVIET PARLEY!
Hull and Eden Receive Warm Welcome From
Russ Officials. MOSCOW, Oct. 19 (U. P.).~Thet
foreign ministers of the United §
States, Great Britain and Russia open their long-awaited conference in the Kremlin today, amid increasing indications that .he issue
re
of an Anglo-American second front gi
would take precedence over all
other problems of mutual collabo-
raion in war and peace. U. 8. Secretary of Stte Cordell Hull ‘and British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden arrived with their staffs at the Moscow airdrome yesterday and received a warm wel | come from Soviet Foreign Coms | missar Vyacheslav M. Molotov and] an array of Russian military. and diplomatic officials, Hull and Eden conferred briefly with Molotov in the Kremlin last | night, after which it was announced | they would begin their formal cons ferences today, !
Meeting Called
The cordiality generated during the first meetings of the three statesmen appeared to augur well for the success of the conference, which may well be one of the most significant allied discussions of the war. Overshadowing all the possible issues was ‘the Russian demand, voiced bluntly in the controlled Soviet press during the past week, for an Anglo-American invasion of western Europe that would force the withdrawal of 50 to 60 German {visions from the eastern front. Moscow observers believed that demand would be Molotov's first item on the agenda, and that the success of the conference would depend primarily upon whether Hull. and Eden are prepared and
authorized to discuss that point. |’ 3 HUIS entourage ine
cluded Maj. -Gen. ‘John R. Deane, secretary to the combined allied chief of shaft in Washington.
rl nia tld 5 '
The Russians have made it clear that they regard the task facing the united nations now as primarily
Molotov is expected to take the” stand that an allied smash into western Europe could knock Germany out of the war this year and that prolongation of the conflict beyond-1943 will mean the sacrifice of additional hundreds of thousands
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ARRANGE WEEKLY ASH COLLECTIONS
After Nov. 1.
City trucks will pick up ashes and garbage once a week after Nov, 1, provided enough men can be hired to work on the additional trucks, city sanitation officials announced today. During the summer ashes have been collected every other week and
Luther E. Tex, city street commissioner, reported that 342 truckloads of leaves were picked up in the last two days."
VICHY CLAIMS DUCE ILL IN SANATORIUM
MADRID, Oct. 19 (U. P.).—Benito Mussolini is critically ill in a sanatorilum at Pieve Di Cadore in the Venetian -Alps, reports from Vichy said today
The ailing ex-duce, the reports]
said, now delivers long “pep talks” to the sanatorium staff to the effect that fascist Italy has won the war.
Hoosier Heroes—
His iden saaves Uncle Sam fons of armer plate, thousinds of man hours. Carl Neffke (center), winning scheme for E. C. Atkins (left), company nati ordnance district,
(VANDALS WRECK
engineer at the E. ice reason, sid 1:
ATKINS HONORS To0L ENGINEER
C.
Col. Grorge
engineering. His hobby is painting. Now he can lay claim to the title #No: 1 idea man” for Uncle, Sam. "At s plant ceremony. yesterday the gray-haired, middle-aged tool engineer at E. C. Atkins & Co, 402 8. Illinois st, received. a citation from the army ordnance depart-
vehicles manufactured by the plant.} Accepting the certificate from Lt. Col. George M. Enos, director of
an indentation in a piece of steel in the right place,” and then added, “may. it make an indentation in the enemy!" Saves Armor Plate The goldsseal certficate will be framed and hung in the Noffke home, 611 Parker ave. alongside Mr.
MAIL YULE CARDS, GIFTS IN NOVEMBER
WASHINGTON; Oct. 19 (U, P).| gifts and
be mailed in November to assure domestic delivery by Dec. 25, PostSeam Frank - C. Walker
Atking & Co. goes over his aw
M. Enos of the Cine
tool
Police Aufo Kills Owner Of Pharmacy
night | as conflicting statements re-
just closed his | store at that cor= Mr. Driskoll ner and with his wife, Nell, started across Illinois st. to await a taxi, it being .their custom to take a cab
“tevery night to their home at 2433
N. Delaware st. A speeding car approached and Mr. Driskoll turned back to avoid being struck. ' Mrs. Driskoll was ahead of him and continued across the street. She heard a crash and turned around to see her husband hurled to the pavement. Patrolman Stancil Phillips, driver of the police car, and Patrolman John L. Butler, his partner, said
{they were en route to the 3600 block
of Kenwood ave. to investigate a report. of a prowler. They said they
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HOOSIERS IN CAPITAL
== SHUN WILLKIE DINNER
Only 2 of 9 Congressmen Plan no Attend.
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gressmen will attend the “Freshman club” dinner for Wendell 8. Willkie tonight,
They are Reps. Charles M. La- . Freshman club
.. The latter will be Mr. LaFollette’s guest, He was invited because Mr. Willkie’s Indiana
_ residence now is in Rushville, it
was explained. Senator Raymond E. Willis (R.
{Ind) ‘doesn’t expect to attend, he
“% lin the office of the principal, Mrs
" WASHINGTON, et 19.—~Two of | the nine Indiana Republican con- (st.
| Pollette, Evansville wi member, and Ragmond 8. Springer, Connersville
SCHOOL NO, 23
;{Hallowden. Prank. Produces
Buono acianion dys
orn eh school 23 {at 360 W. 13th st, rahsacked rooms
and left debris which required several hours” work to clean up. The gang broke three windows
Maude Flack, and then went through the school. They seized books and papers from desks and decorations on the walls and scattered them. Desks were damaged with slashes by scissors blade points. A gallon of paste was obtained in the art room and it was spattered on walls, blackboards and in teathers’ mail boxes. “Tonneits” Are Stolen
Twenty musical instruments the school orchestra were stolen. The vandalism was discovered by Clarence Baskett, the janitor, when he reported at 6 a. m, ‘Mrs. Flack said it was the third time within a year the school had been broken into. Once vandals wrecked the kitchen. The other time they stole federal surplus commodity foods, One member of a gang of 16-year-old youths was held for action in the juvenile aid division today after five other reports of pre-
trolle; 18th and Montcalm sts. The same gang is blamed for damaging =a vacant storeroom at 18th and Mont-
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‘South African Chief
|=~Marshal {prime minister of South Af-|
grand assault on Hitler's Eu-
Sooke Witowh Paste. i Balkans, However, guerrillas and {1 partivin-activityoin both Jugosievia and Greece with liaison with the
Italy.
inviisns
s U. S. to Play Big Role,
LONDON,
Sa ys
Oct. Jan
19 (U. C.
P). Smuts,
rica, hinted today that the allies will invade the Balkans before winter United States “undoubtedly” will take a leading and per-| haps decisive part in the final, |
ropean fortress next year. Smuts, confidant of Prime Minister Churchill and a. member of the British war cabinet, told a
meeting In London that the defeat
of Germany ‘would not only hasten the fall of Japan, but “may mark the beginning of a cataclysmic turn of events in the Far East and the early ending of the war thereafter.”
The white-bearded elder British statesman said that the allies may
and said the!
| Marshal Jan C. Smuts .
Russians Win One of Bloodiest Battles Of Offensive.
MOSCOW, Oct. 19 (U. P.). —Outmatched German troops have begun a retreat north of
Kiev after losing one of the
{bloodiest battles of the mas
WH
dicts. early Balkan invasion,
ALLIED BOMBS
AID JUGOSLAVS
Planes Strike at Heart of Nazi Communications In Varder Valley. LONDON, Oct, -Al-
19 (U, P)~
advances especially in southern and southeastern Europe” — the latter] an obvious reference to the Balkans | ~during the coming months, | “By winter,” he sald, “we shall be closing in upon Hitler's central fortress of Europe and be making our dispositions for the grand assault by all arms next year."
Predicted Offensive
“Smuts” prediction of advances into southeastern: Europe. was the strong | est hint yet dropped by an authoritative source of Invasion of the
allied Middle-Eastern command has foreshadowed such a thrust, Partisans already claim to hold one-third of Jugoslavia, including a sizeable stretch of the Dalmatian toast opposite allied-held southern
Smuts, whose arrival in Britain was announced Oct, 5, was known to be lending considerable ald to the Anglo-American command in his role as the empire's leading elder statesman and warrior. Almost a year ago, he made a similar speech
confidently reckon on “still further lied bombers have joined in the
spreading battle of Jugoslavia for| the first time since the start of the!
war, an Algiers. communique said! today, as Jugoslav partisan sources reported new successes in their campaign against Germany's rein. forced Balkan armies, Striking directly at the heart of German’ communications through the Varder valley into Greece, Mitchell © medium hombe: Lightning fighters of the N ‘Afrienn “wiv fords" rte Tame mering the rallway yards at Skolpje, in southern Jugoslavia.
cso. Mlichells Land Attack.
The raiders, possibly operating from newly won: Italian air bases 300 miles across the Adriatic sea, caught the German defenders so completely off falled to put up a single fighter plane or fire their anti-aircraft guns, ;
+ pre- |
sive struggle of the Dnieper
(river line, semi-official disg« patches revealed today. (The Berlin radio acknowledged |a Russian break-through north of | Kiev, but sald it was checked by A German counter-attack which ‘annihilated” a considerable Rus sian force. The Nagzis also admitted a retreat of about 12 miles to new positions northwest of Dnepropets rovsk.) The government newspaper Iz. véstin reported from the middie {Dnieper front that Germans abové {Kiev were falling back to the west {and southwest surrendering (he [northern defenses of the Ukraine {an capital, Use All Resources
Field reports made it evident that {the Nazis had thrown every res | source. they could muster into the struggle on the approaches to Kiev, {keystone base of the crumbling | Dnieper line, and now apparently were conceding defeat. Isvestia’s announcement that the Germans were retreating in the sees {tor north of Kiev was the first defis «nite word In so high a quarter of &
Nagl a i Sil La ;
or re had Urvén™§ ¥pear into the Dnieper bend to a point 38 20 mies West of ton Gr aE Ad 20 miles west of the river, Boviet elements” a Dnepropetrovsk eAnrouth the western Usraing, sts centuating the threat to. Clerman
guard that they per’
n and Nikolaev, Throw In Planes
Mitchell medium bombers led off! On the Kiev front the Germans the attack with a series of bomb were reported to have massed artilhits that ripped up railway tracks lery and infantry reserves behind a all along the Skolpje yards and! (shield of armor for the crucial smashed at least 15 railway cars| struggle north of the eity. and a number of motor behicles.| They brought up the largest nume Two hours later, Lightning fighter- ber of planes seen on the Russian
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Defense
By RICHARD D. McMILEKAN United Press Staff Correspondent ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Algiers, Oct, 79.—Allled armies completed conquest of the German defense line on the Volturno river yes-
terday, stamping out the last enemy toehold on the north bank, in-gen-eral advances along the 100-mile fighting front which overran 23 towns and vil Mitchell bombers escorted by fighters struck from Italian bases against occupied Jugosiavia, scene of a patriot-Nazi struggle, for the first time. Their objective was
LONDON, Oct. 19 (U. P.).—British four-engined bombers, hundreds strong, resumed their blockbuster raids on Germany last night with a heavy assault on Hannover while twin-engined Mosquitoes hit Berlin for the second time in 24
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Allies Stamp Out Lost Toshold of Germans’
known as “tonnetts” and used in|
Line on Yolturno's South Bank
i Skolpje, on the main rail line from to the Italian capital, on which the
Germans tried in vain to make a
Belgrade to Greece. i stand,
American troops advanced on the | a right flank of the Sth army Rigg AS, te vatte of tts Vollirsa the upper reaches of the Volturno oft « number of German counter in the most. significant gains of the attacks in ' heavy fighting and day Which laid open the Appian bucked ahead an average of three Way to Rome, ; X miles along the southern part of ‘its 3 British units comprising thé|front. The gains synchronised with coastal wing of Lt. Gen, Mark W.|those of the Sth army, accentuated Clark's army cleared the entirethe long-range flanking threat to northern bank of the Voltwrno river Rome, already technically by-passed from Capua to the sea. ar to the east. The day's victories. put the final" mia resistance to the advanes seal on the bloody struggle for the river line athwart the coastal route | (Continued on “Page 3—Column »
Hannover Hammered Again as Britain's Huge Bombers Renew Blockbuster Raids on Nazi
arms center of Hannover in strength truck plants, and three railway for the second time this month to marshalling’ yards, heap new destruction on the city’s) The Mosquito rail on Berlin alreddy devastated industrial and the 85th attack of the war on ti business areas. (German capital and was Hundreds of tons of high explo-/designed to draw off sive and incendiary bombs were! fighter strength from the main dropped on the city, but clouds pre- sault on Hannover, as well vented observation of detailed re-|keep the nerves of Berliners sults. However, numerous fires edge. painted the sky a rosy tint. There was no immediate The raid, ending a nine-nighi|planation of the mission lull fn the operations of the heavy which American Flying MF bombers, was the 51st of the war|were seen returning i on Hannover, site of a big synthetic | English Southesst soust
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‘His Fedts Will
rubber plant,’ a huge oil refinery,/but it was possible that mets OTH I, a
Fill History’ s Bright Page
Says Gen. Eisenhower in Doughboy’ s
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Al- greatest proportion of our Sghting pertant 40: tur