Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 March 1944 — Page 5

A RAR 19 Bn to a —- —_

, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 20, 1944 _ Pilots Who Escape Attack

By U.S. Guns, Return Hole

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23 down. _ But the Indianapolis boys were among the lucky ones, Capt. Isley explained “it was a mistake,” but the pilots wouldn't say more about the affair.

Parents Reside Here.

Overseas for 19 months, the pllots are sons of Mr. and Mrs, Lawrence Isley, 5444 Broadway, and Mr. and Mrs. Orville Blue, Berne, Lt. Blue is visiting 3 Indianapolis with his sister, Mrs, Chocky Knoy, 710 Day st. Although they didn’t meet until in training at Pat n fleld, Dayton, O., Lt, Blue and Capt. Isley have been in the same flight group ever since then. The captain went overseas July 22, 1942, and the leutenant followed him Aug. 6, 1942, Both enlisted in the army air forces in October, 1941, Since then, they've been based in England, North Africa, Sicily and Italy and have flown transport planes to many beachheads and landing ports.

Drop Partroopers

“We slept on the ground, lay in foxholes and on thé wings of our planes the first two months over seas,” Lt. Blue said. : While on their missions, the fliers dropped paratroopers about 500 feet from the ground after flying at tree-top height to avoid searchlights, heavy flak and enemy fighters.

Capt. Isley, who has 1210 flight |

hours to his credit, has the air medal and an oak leaf cluster for drépping paratroopers over Sicily and Salerno under hazardous conditions. With 1100 flight hours on his record, Lt. Blue has been in four major éampaigns and won the air medal for dropping paratroopers over Italy.

Flies to Conference

They've met some prominent pefsoris on “air trips in addition to hauling supplies; passengers, nurses-and wounded men,

When President Roosevelt and | Prime Minister Churchill met in. | Blue took war | cotrespondents to the scene of the |

Casablanca, Lt.

meeting.

“Bad weather caused us to get | over Spanish Morocco,” he said, One of the

“and we were hit correspondents was killed and our créw chief injured. The plane has seven or eight holes in IL" The transport pilots have carried German prisoners to prison camps and once transported a

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‘“The prisoners said the allies would ‘have a hard time taking Oran; Casablanca and Algiers” Capt. Isley explainéd, “but when wé told thém we had taken the cities six mionths previéusly they didn’t believe it.” : ; Capt. Isley hauled Joe E. Brown, movie star, from Tunis to Ttaly. and Lt. Blue had Kay Francis, Martha Raye and Carol Lan dis fog. passengers. Befgre enlisting, Capt. Isley was a student at Hanover collegé and had graduated from Shortridge high school.” Lt. Ble, who is 25, was graduated from Eminencé high school and went to Central Normal college.* Now the fliers aré resting at homé before going to a rest camp in Miami, Fla, April 13 Théy eéxpéct to Instruct for a few months but will be ready for dctivé duty overseas again in six months,

Dies Denounces

Leaders of C.I1.0.

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that Hillman and C. I. O. President Philip Murray “have got to play ball with the Communists now, or die.” ‘Sinister Coalition’

“. . . Sidney Hillman has en-

{ tered into a coalition with com-

munists for the purpose of building the C. I. O. political action committee,” the report said. “This is not the first time in his career that Hillman has been found in league with the communists, but it is by far the most sinister of all his communist coalitions.” While linking Hillman with communists, the réport did not brand him directly as a communist, noting that at times he was “actively and effectively anticommunist.” The Dies group defined the com-

| mittee as “simply the C. I. O.

functioning as a political enemy and using ME coercive powers over its members t6 compel them to follow its political dictates.” “The C.I1.0. executive board, which established the political action committee, is composed of 49 members among whom there are at least 18 whose records indicate that they follow the ‘line’ of the Communist party with undeviating loyalty,” the report said.

Threat to Congress

“These are the men who not so long a go supported the wave of | sabotage strikes which gravely interfered with the production of defense materials. These same

men now seek to discredit the:

congress of the United Statse oy | malicious and slandering, charges of pro-Hitlerism. The attack on congress, the report said, is being made in part by

circulation of a voting chart— |

similar to one disseminated by the communists—which denounces | the voting records of an “over. whelming majority” of the members of the house, The report attacked numerous prominent C. I. O. leaders in addition to Hillman and Murray, including Harry Bridges of the longshoremen’'s union and Lee Pressman, general counsel of both the C, I. O. and the political action committee. The C. I. O. committee has also been attacked in congress by Rep. Howard W. Smith, (D. Va.), who charged that its money raising practices violated the SmithConnally anti-strike law restrictions on contributions by labor groups to campaigns for president, vice president and members of congress.

ALLIES WITHDRAW TROOPS AT CASSINO

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iibed with the stubborn stand of the apparently well-supplied GerSpokesmen at air force headquarters, however, said reconnaissance photographs showed that four key bridges and a tunnel had been destroyed or damaged beyond immediate repair, As that statement was being issued, army spokesmen revealed that two advanced units of allied troops who fought their way high up the slopes of Mount Cassino more than a week ago had been withdrawn, apparently ending the 5th army's costly attempt to drive the Nazis from their defenses astride the inland road to Rome. Half-starved Indian and New Zealand infantrymen who had held out on Hangman's hill and the nearby hill 202 for 10 days and nights, under constant fire from enemy units all around them, stumbled back into the main allied lines Monday night under cover of a heavy barrage that diverted the Germans’ attention to the western end of Cassino,

Isolated and supplied only by |

air, the two detachments clung to their exposed positions high up on the mountain slopes as long as there was a chance of the Nazis beirig ousted from Cassino. When that hope disappeared and the battle of Cassino settled down into a slugging match between the opposing artillery, the Indians and New Zealanders were ordered to withdraw,

LADIES’ HATS

RUSS MASS FoR RUMANIA DRIVE|

Entire German Southern Front Is Reported Caving-in. (Continued From Page One) were not letting time hang on their

hands. Resistance Grows

Front dispatches said German re-

{sistance showed signs of stiffening,!

patticularly in the Cernauti and Kamenets Podolsk sectors. The Germans launched & number of counter-attacks, all of which were reported repulsed, making it eévident that the Nazi ¢ommand. was alive to the menace of a drive across the Prut. : Behind thé Prut the entire German southern front was caving in. Russian armies herded the Ger mans back toward Odessa from fallen Nikolaév, drove a spearhead to within 42 miles of old Czechoslovakia, and rushed down the éast bank of the Prut in a bid to trap 100,000 Nazi troops strung through the Black sea salient. Pleld reports said the first and second armies of the Ukraine were expected to force the Prut “en masse at a multitude of points and on a scale defying all enemy attempts to deal with them.”

Seek Encirclement

The rapidity with which Russian columns were swinging southward through Bessarabia toward the Black sea showed that the Soviet command had another great objective in addition to an invasion of Rumania. That was the closing of a steel gate behind the German troops still in the southern Ukraine, If the Black sea can be reached before the Nazis get out, the Russians will achieve a bag of prisoners and war materials comparing with Stalingrad. Dispatches said the Russians still were carrying out surprise tactics, slashing deep into the enemy rear, ripping communications and forcing the Germans to abandon the main highways for a retreat along dirt réads and footpaths,

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said the German 6th cost, calling Odessa.” In Bessarabia and Bucovina, the, 1st and 2d armies extended their!

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TOBIN SUPPORTS

fof L), today officially indorsed President Roosevelt for a fourth! term. Writing in his union's magazine,

in-chief of our armed forces.” Tobin added that “no other Democrat can be elected in No-

of those running on the same ticket, to be re-elected.”

Alben Barkley (D. Ky.) after Bark-

the President's veto.

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Daniel J. Tobin, president of the International Brotherhood of | Teamsters, Chauffers, Warehouse!men and Helpers of America (A. F.

the International Teamster, Tobin| said it “would be suicide of our war]

effort to displace the present head! of our government and commander- |

The indorsement was a reprint of: a telegram Tobin sent to Senator]

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Hungry, Undaunted Gurkhas Come Down Off M¢#. Cassino

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i the allied big guns rolled a barrage across eastern Cassino to divert the aitention, Creeping through the black night in some places within 200 yards of the German lines, they escaped without loss of a man. The blasting of shells drowned out the sound .of their movements as they infiltrated the Germans who thought they had them pocketed on the hillside.

“They went up the mountain on the night of March 156 after the

allied bombing of Cassino. Only one company, led by Lt. Michael Drink all of London, had penetrated the German guard. It crept twosthirds of the way up Mt. Cassino to Hang's hill and dug in. Units sup- { to follow up .were ambushed in Cassino with heavy casualties.

Watér Worst Problem

Water was the worst problem.

Water patrols were senit out at terrible risk into the enemy-con-trolled mountainside. Two hundred gallons were found in a bomb crater and this was drunk down to the muddy bottom despité the fact the GéPmans mortared the area night and day. ; One party discovered a well and this was quickly drunk down until 8 dead mule was discovered at the bottom. Thé men, thereafter, went thirsty except for thé small canisters dropped by American fighter planes. The troops would groan when the yellow or orange supply parachutes would fall inside the German lines

but would cheer a bullseye, It took stern discipline to keep the men in their foxholes because the Germans sprayed machinegun and mortar

landed. Play ‘Easter Egg Hunt’

After. dark the soldiers would play a desperate game of “Easter egg hunt” trying’ to gather up as much of the supplies as possible. The Germans sént parties out to play the game, too. All this time, the only contact the mien had with the main forces was by battalion radio, operated by Capt. Jerald Evans, Edinburgh, Scotland. ~The men told me they never heard the German broadcasts ane nounicing they were being annihilated.

LONERGAN DEFENSE COMPLETES CASE

NEW YORK, March 29 (U.P.).— The defense in the trial of Wayne Lonergan for the murder .of his wife, Patricia, rested at 11:15 a. m. today without calling the defendant to testify. Courtroom doors were closed immediately, while Broderick began a series of motions in behalf of his client.

FIRE DAMAGES ATTIC

Damages estimated at $500 were caused by a fire in the attic of the two-story brick veneer residence of

Walter A. Sudbrock, 3356 N. Pennsylvania st.

fire around areas where supplies].

allied |

DEALER. IN GAS ‘GETS PENALTY

30-Day Suspension: Given

For Taking Unindorsed Coupons, OPA Says. (Continued From Page One)

the Johnny Williams Auto Sales Co., to Camp Blanding, Fla, and had used “loose and invalid” coupons in the process.

hibited from dealing in rationed automobiles for a period of 30 days and will not be allotted gasoline for business purposes during the same period. : The second-hand car dealer testified that he had driven a 1942 Oldsmobile to Camp Blanding at

* | the suggestion of his former part-

ner, Edward Murphy, now in the army there, “in order to settle business accounts.” Most of the gasoline for the trip, said Mr. Williams, had been purchased with coupons supplied to him by Mr. Murphy. In the service station case, Mr. Sloan contended that “it's practically impossible to convince customers of the necessity of indorsing gasoline coupons,” adding that “they blame me for the Inconvience instead of OPA.” Testimony revealed that OPA investigators making a spot check of the station on Feb. 15, had found more than a third of the gallonage sold there had been transferred on unindorsed coupons. Mr. Sloan contended that most

oo ed ey ny on on opt dorsed gasoline tickets had been ac-| said cepted by “uninformed employees WI you wt a aif } before mid-January, when he was observance date Back in notified of the OPA “erack-down" order. OPA Attorney Merl Wall then attempted t0 secure an admission from Mr, Sloan that he had been |possessing an “overage” of 240 “lax” in his observance of OPA reg-|lons of gasoline unaccounted for by ulations before that period, but+the was

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