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

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| Soviets Tighten Grip on|

Zhlobin, Beat Off Enemy oe In Ukraine. : Moscow, Dec. 8 (U. P)~The "| White Russian bases of Zhlobin,

in the Ukraine beat off . mounting

German counter-attacks aimed at restoring the Nazi winter line along the . Pront dispatches sald the Germans were taking advantage of bad weather hampering the Soviet supply system to regroup, pour ‘n reinforcements, and improve their

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The weather showed no sign of improvement. The armies in White] Russia and the Ukraine were wallowing in mud and. the air forces were grounded. \| Winter was coming unusually late, in contrast with two years ago | when bitter cold and = deep snows enabled the Russ army to launch its first great offensive flinging the CICA back from the gates of

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Nothing spectacular can be ex: pected until the present weather changes, freezing the steppes, marshes and rivers so the Russians can use their winter equipment. During the trdnsitional period the quartermasters are undecided whether to issue winter supplies, | |. Ukrainian reports said the Russians had encircled Cherkasi, biggest German-held stronghold on the

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west bank of the Dnieper between Kiev and Dnepropetrovsk, and fighting was going on in the streets of the burning city. Plerce German counter-attacks designed to break through the Soviet ring from both within and without were being repulsed all around the western rim of the city and its approaches were littered with thé bodies of Germans and’the charred, twisted wreckage of Ger-

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Fight Hand to Hand In one sector alone, the Germans hurled 50 tanks and 3000 infantrymen against the Soviet lines, only to be thrown back with a loss of 400 men and at least six tanks. Five hundred Germans were killed and nine tanks burned in a neighboring sector. The liquidation of the German garrison at Cherkasi would enable the Russians to push southeastward along the west bank of the Dnieper ‘and contact other troops below

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THE PRESIDENTIAL review Col. Elliott Roosevelt's photo re= connaissance wing took place on a North African-airfield where Mr. Roosevelt, and his party including Gens. George C, Marshall and Dwight D. Eisenhower, paused on at Caire. and “Tehran with .Generalisimo Chiang Kai-shek and Marshal Josef Stalin, The president's plane descended ‘at a specially guarded airdrome near his son's base early in the morning, The review was delayed for security reasons and it was sunset when the jeep rolled / onto the field and started down the double line of Americans, ~ British and .French, The long shadows flickered across - the president's jeep as it moved down the field.

BROWN POINTS

Housewives Will Coupons for Grease Salvaged.

WASHINGTON, Dec. § (U. P.)— Housewives will receive one brown ration point for: -each half-pound. of salvage kitchen fat they sell to retail butchers beginning Monday, Dec. 13, under the new points-for-fat program, the office of price administration said tonight. The stamps may be used in purchasing meats, butter, cheese or other products for which brown ration stamps were issued. The program applies only to householders and operators of small boarding houses—those where fewer than 50 persons live.

THIEVES GET-§1100 ‘BY SNATCHING SAFE

dr., and snatching one money-laden purse while its owner was discussing a traffic accident.

taken Saturday night and recovéred

terday. War bonds totalling $1075 were still in the safe.

longing to Mrs. Evelyn Linstrum, 928 Broadway, was taken from, her automobile as she discussed a minor traffic accident in which she was involved at. Michigan st. and In-

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diana Old Age Pension group 11 meeting at 8 p. m. today in the hall at Hamilton ave, and E. Washing-

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Thieves got away with $1300 this mask. {week-end by faking the safe from the Esquire Grille, 305 N. Sherman|

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"darned proud in all my life” .

Col. Elliott Roosevelt

PFC. JAMES M. BATTERSBY, 19, of Kewanee, III, who Was In~ the front rank, described thé amazement of the troops this way: : “We all figured it was somebody big but I was looking - straight ahead. Then up the line I heard another guy kind of whisper ‘chees, it's the.president.’ 1 felt like I had stepped on a “ ve wire. “Then he drove by, You couldn't miss him, sitting up there in front with that same old hat turned up at the brim and

FATS TO BRING |Seek Companions of Bandit ~ Killed Here in Gun Battle

Sherift investigators today were ooking for two accomplices of al bandit who wounded two men nl a gun battle at the Sixteenth Street | Recreation center, 2702 W. 16th st, Saturday night oy before he wa:i shot to death. The dead mar is Archie M. Dick-

E. 12th st. wounded’

ner, hotel, proprietor of the cente: which Sherifi Otto W. Petit de- Archie Dickson scribed as a horse race bookmaking establishment, and Willlam Sullivan, 52, Milner hotel, an employee. Mr. Gardner is in a serious condition at St. Vincent's hospital, but: Mr. Sullivan was released from the hospital yesterday. According to the sheriff's office,

automobile -aften..Dickson. . entered. the establishment, “brandishing & gun and wearing a stocking cap

* Attacker Disarmed

The bandit demanded, “Give me your roll, this is a stick-up,” and then fired the gun, Mr; Gardner told authorities, | and in the en- .. suing gun battle I Mr. Gardner shot | Dickson three times. As he fell| to the floor Dickson was disarmed by Mr. Sullivan i and, Mr, Gardner : lity fired twice more Wm. Sullivan 4 the accomplices who fled from the doorway where they were standing. The two men who escaped were

SCHOOLMEN'S CLUB T0 DISCUSS PEAGE

Education for peace and the postwar world will be discussed at the Indiana Schoolmen’s club meeting Saturday at the Claypool hotel. A panel discussion on “What Should Education Do to Prepare tor| Peace and the Post-War World?” will open the session at 10:30 a, m. Forum participants will be .C. V. Haworth, superintendent of Kokomo schools; Principal H, H. Anderson of Tech high school; R. E. Cavanaugh, director of the Indiana university extension division: Dr. H. P. Gorman of Butler university; Dr, Otis G. Jamison of Indiana university; Alex Jardine, acting superintendent of Evansville schools, and Dr. B. C. Lawson of Purdue university. A business session will follow the

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jeep with a bridadier general's star, “He didn't move a muscle of his face,” sald Maj. Philip Kennedy, San Rafael, Cal, of the president. - His white hair moved in the breeze. I never fell so

. Thomas Mackey, 25, Val. lejo, Cal, said all the men turned a little to watch the president go by. N . » » ’ PFO. THOMAS COLL, Pitts burg, vowed he saw Qhe pres:dent’s scoitie, Fala, on She front ‘seat of a command car. Sgt. Robert Lowry, 24, Cincinnati; Qa said the presence of Mr. Roosevelt in Africa loosened a mass of £umors. * Second Lt. E. C. Curray, Joplin, Mo., told of a South African flight lieutenant of Norwegian bigth who got so excited telling about how the M. P.’s stopped him and the president shook hands with him on the road to the field that he lapsed into excited Norwegian. The pilot said he was 80 excited he didn't see the president's be-starred companions.

described as. short and small in stature and wearing Stocking cap masks at the time ; of the attempted: | holdup. i Mr. Gardner, a former professio nal baseball umpire, owned the Spencer House cafe in 1934 and ‘and was indicted in the blackjack killing of a patron following an argument because the Frank Gardner restaurant would not serve liquor setups. Released by Jury The case never came to trial and he was discharged by a grand jury in 1936. After an absence from the city, Mr. Gardner returned recently and had operated the recreation center about a month. __ Dickson's police record dates back to 1921 when he was sentenced to five. . years. in the refgrmatory for

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Fire Causes $75,000 Loss; | | Four Logansport Firemen Hurt.

LOGANSPORT, Ind, Dec. 8 (U. P). — Officials today ‘estimated a fire which broke out in the Baptist temple five niinutes before morning services “yesterday and which resulted in injuries to four firemen caused $75,000 damages.

William Day, 33, was in a serious

condition from a broken back sustained when a backdraft blew him from a second story window. The fall of Herman Kieslaing, 37, also caught in the combustion -explosion, was broken by a grape arbor and he escaped with less serious injuries. Two othér firemen were jcaught in the ‘blast. RE Rev. Louis Bean discovered - the fire, which originated in a furnace smokepipe, just before school classes convened, The flames | Spread quickly eriyeloping the threestory brick and stone billding. The! inside was gutted completely,

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robbery and auto banditry. Funeral services for Dickson, who is survived by his wife, will be held at 2 p. m. Wednesday at the Jordan funeral home, Burial will be in Floral Park,

WIBC T0 BROADCAST ATTERBURY PROGRAM

“Meet the Yanks,” Camp Atterbury’s own radio show, will be broadcast from -camp service club No. 2 from 8:30 to 9 p. m. today over station WIBC, beginning the first of a series of weekly soldier entertainment programs. With a soldier serving as master of ceremonies, the programs will be given each Monday night at the various camp service clubs, The Dec. 13 broadcast will be at club 1 and the Dec. 20 at camp 3. Maj. Oscar Randall, executive officer of the 366th infantry, has been promoted to lieutenant colonel at Camp Atterbury. A native of Washington, D. C,, Col. Randail is from Chicago.

» REPORT SALONIKA BOMBED

- LONDON, Dec. 6 (U. P).—The Cairo radio today reported a strong attack on Salonika, Greece, by al-

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