Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 December 1943 — Page 2

~ Eleven miles beyond Ortona lies Pescara, Adriatic terminus of the best road across central Italy to Ror The way to the key port being blasted open in the Ortona battle and complementary struggles inland to Orsonga. Striking westward another two miles In the Lagone sector above

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{Acquafondata, five miles due west fof Piliganano, six northwest of Venafro and three and a half beyond Lagone.

Height Captured ; Four miles due north of Acqua-

the village of Cardito. Between Cardito and -Acquaiondata, savage struggles were in progress among the heights which command the left wing of the Ger. man defenses before Cassino, A dominant height in the Mt Casale mass between the villages fell to the 2 The French had been engaged In # bitter struggle for three days and for a 3000-foot mountain

Another threat to Cassino was posed by American forces pressing an attack on San Vittore, six miles to the southeast. Its deferises were ‘being worn down systematically in fighting similar to that which reduced the nearby stronghold of San Pietro, |

The Germans moved up additional artillery and mortar batteries

© Inland, the Germans still were fighting grimly for Orsogna. another town on the lateral road over which Canadians New Zealanders and Indians had penetrated more than & mile at some points, The Cermans undertook two sharp ~attacks, but the imperials hurled them back and continued their slow advance.

RABBI FOX TO SPEAK ~~ Rabbi Samuel J." Fox of the United Hebrew congregation will conduct a candlelighting ceremony “In celebration of the Chanukah fes‘tival at 9 p. m. today over station WIBC. Mrs, Leo Gurvits will play plano selections, :

Cassino, American troops attacked |

LL John A. Walker . . . killed

in a plane crash. fantrymen into counterattacks in FU e— a futile attempt to halt the first of Killed the Soviet winter -offensives, which

- SECOND LT. JOHN A, WALKER, a bombardier and navigator in the army air forces, was one of five airmen killed Monday when a plane crashed near Midway, Ga. on a routine flight. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. William A. Walker, 6607 Ferguson St. ;

Driving to within less than 20 miles of Vitebsk on a broad front, the Russians killed 1600 Germans and knocked but 14 tanks and 10 self-propelled guns in 24 hours of fighting advances. ' » » . Wounded PVT. GEORGE L. STINE, son of Mrs. Mable W. Stine, Elkhart, was wounded in action in the Mediterranean war zone,

and foreign workers were building a defense line from Riga, Latvia, southward through Poland. The dispatch, quoting a diplomat from Ber. lin, said German officers estimated EXECUTE 16 JUGOLAVS that 5.000000 Russian troops were BERN, Dec. 22 (U. P.) ~The Ger- available for winter battles. man gestapo hanged 18 prominent! In one sector, German artillery {Jugoslav hostages yesterday in re- put up a powerful artillery barrage, [taliation for an attack on an am- but a Soviet counter-barrage si- | munition depot at Sosniga, official lenced the guns And Russian troops

he Ed = [ ° A W E Judge Louis Weiland of municipal court 1 was reappointed today by Governor Schricker for a four-yeat | term. : on Judge Welland, a Democrat, has | served five years on the municipal | bench, being appointed in 1039 by Governor ‘Townsend to fill

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beverages both the McNutt and Townsend ad- | ministrations. | Municipal court 1 handles civil! matters. The judgeship pays $5000 annually.

REALTORS CANCEL LUNCH

The regular Thursday noon meeting of the Indianapolis Real Estate |

ladvices from Zagreb sald today. idrove the enemy from 40 localities.

board will not be held tomorrow.

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