Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 May 1944 — Page 1

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WITH 5TH ARMY, Italy, May 12 (U. P.).—Lt. Gen, Mark W. Clark sent his 5th army into action with the assurance that “we can and will destroy the German armies,” it can be revealed today. A special order of the day by Clark was read to all 5th army troops at 4 p. m. yesterday. “He told them that the enemy knows allied forces “will eventually overrun him from two directions.” Clark predicted that the 5th army will “press on to ~ great and decisive victories,” adding: “You have what you need to strike smashing blows united nations.”

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‘More Rigorous Peace Prom-| ised Longer 4 Nations * Keep Fighting.

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and follow them through—training, superior equipment, heroic courage, and the knowledge that we can and will destroy the German armies.” . “It may appear to you, since the 5th army progress in terms of territory gained during the past few months, has been slow, that our campaign no longer is a“major one, or that it is not having a significant success in the war as a whole,” Clark’s order said. : “Nothing could be further from the truth, you have made a conspicuously successful invasion of the continental fortress which the Germans boasted was impregnable.

“You have required the Germans to devote more than 920 divisions to a costly and losing task of retarding the allied progress to the north. You have inflicted heavy losses upon their troops and have taken more than 13,000 prisoners. “You have placed the enemy in his present distressing position of trying hopelessly to hold back allied forces which he knows will eventually overrun him from two directions. I have direct personal knowledge that the accomplishments of the 5th army are understood and appreciated by the governments and peoples of the

WASHINGTON, May 12 (U. P). —Selective service today ordered de-

26TH DAY— ferments for the bulk of men 26 and | older now classified 1-A. [HOOSIER HEROES— The order removes the threat of|

carts induction for the majority of Four Local Men the 1,650,000 1-A's who were in the, . . . | sge group as of Apri 1. tessa) Killed in Service

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fr deferments will be granted ’ “for the time being.” Even if they] ] fail to meet the “necessary” test| . ‘and are kept in 1-A, indications! z : that few in the age group

Drive Toward Rome as They Gain

First Objectives Against Foe Softened by Bombs.

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Naples, May 12 (U. P.).— Allied armies drove toward Rome today in a general offensive on the 85-mile Italian front, advancing beyond their first objectives against German resistance softened by the heaviest artillery and air bombardments of the Mediterranean campaign. American troops bent back the southwest end of the German line more than a mile in the Garigliano valley and to their right British forces struck forward half a mile to force the Rapido river in the Cassino sector. Late advices from the front reported slow but steady {progress throughout the morning, and a United Press cors {axis satellites less rigorous} | respondent with the 5th army said the offensive was propeace terms than ‘“‘uncondi-{ A ceeding “accordipg to plan” in that sector. Yionul-airpetides=3-ghey get “oul gl 1 “Report-Battle Going Well of the war now. en > At the same time, however, the (A British dispatch from the 8th army front quot ‘allies deligered a virtual ultimatum a staff officer as saying that the battle across the Rapido {to Hungary, Ronfania, Bulgaria and river in the area of Cassino, most formidable stronghold Finland threatening “disastrous| “J ae on the road to Rome, “is going well.) endorff, Bohlen and Zeitz, in south-central Germany, and (Other military operations which may he at lay ahend. (A Columbia broadcasting system correspondent re-

consequences” if they continue aidend N be imminent, was formulated at a i i rted from Italy that the Germans opened heavy counterBrux, just across the frontier in pre-war Czeeloslovakia. (Radio France in Algiers said to- . } po

ling the axis war machine. |three-day conference with state se- I 'day that Russia and Romania “ap- ay | fire a1 dawn today and “at some points our men were driven Other enemy targets in the Reich also came under the lective service directors. parently” have opened a ig "

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were would be drafted before Dec. 1. | § > . . > se For men 30 through 37 who mere-| 2000 Yank Planes Strike at Five Synthetic ly are “regularly engaged in es-

sential activities, deferment will be Plants as Luftwaffe Fights Fiercely; Tor “an indefinite Deriod This Invasion Area Also Hit.

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Time Indefinite

. . . ; How long the order will remain in LONDON, May 12 (U. P.).—A 2000-plane American {effect was not stated. But Maj. raiding fleet blasted five synthetic oil plants in central Ger-| Gen Jaws, B. Hershel: {active many and old Czechoslovakia today, in the wake of a day |conference that ee A) 18 and night assault by equally strong allied air forces against through 25, including those coming the heart of Hitler's western invasion defenses in France [of military age, will be available to and Belgium meet army-navy requirements until g . Dec. 1—"“unless something happens Laying down a thunderous challenge to the battered that materially changes the needs > » : : : lof the armed forces.” German Luftwaffe, an estimated 1000 American FUYing |” 'ry8 Lew order, the lite of which Fortresses and Liberators flew deep into the Nazi homeland will depend on the cost in men of

to bomb and burn vital oil installations at Merseburg, Lutz- the western ' front invasion and

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Meet Fighter Opposition

A powerful fighter escort, totaling perhaps another 1000 planes, covered and supported the borabers against savage enemy fighter opposition. Excited German radio broadcasts aid violent air battles swirled across hundreds of miles of Nazi territory from the Rhineland to the target areas and back, and returning ‘American fighter pilots agreed that they had run into some of the toughest opposition of the war. The German Transocean news agency said the : assault was “one of the most y All BRO ADC ASTER widespread and most dra- : matic, but also the most cost- TRIES D-DAY SO ARE ly” American attack ever hurled against Germany and claimed heavy losses were inflicted on the raiders. Wave upon wave of American, British and allied tactical bombers rocketed across the channel By UNITED PRES throughout the morning to carry y itd the pre-invasion offensive against| German propagandists pulled a Germany's west wall into its 26th|“man from Mars” radio stunt last straight day. night in another feeble attempt to Coastal observers said the cross-ig..+ an invasion scare channel fleets were among the ; : ; » largest ever dispatched against the They put on a play entitled “ViFrench and Belgian network of Nazi sion of Invasion” on the Berlin rarailways and invasion defenses. dio and tried to make it sound like First official allied reports said an authentic American broadcast.

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Stunt Proves Feeble.

Beware of German Peace Traps, Says Sigrid Schultz

By JANE LEWIS

Tends te possibility of un eflesUvey Cy. an Cleetive peace wil be

peace,” Sigrid Schultz, Berlin com-| geen; Germans surviving in Ger-

mentator for the Mutual Broadcast-| moro vecause only an

ing Co, said here last night. "

peace can teach the Miss Schultz, who used the title| yonge in Germany

“They'll Try It Again,” as her sub-| prey tr pated the ; ent situation war in

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of 7,700,000 men.

ject, spoke at the annual convention ; “To talk about a soft or harsh | banquet of the Indiana Federation LONDON, May 12 (U P).—A peace is beside the point, we must|©f Clubs in the Claypool hotel. Paris radio commentator said today that the allied ‘invasion of western

Selective service hoped to achieve its purposes by: 1. Retaining present rigid regula-

tions making it impossible for any but a few physically fit men 18 through 25 to obtain industrial de-

ferments. 2. Liberalizing deferment policy

for older men; on a limited basis for men 26 through 29; on a liberal basis for those 30 through 37.

3. Granting local boards virtual

carte blanche to expand the war manpower commission's list of 35 essential (deferrable) activities,

The new policy, constituting in

effect a stay of induction for 1-A's 26 and older pending review and reclassification, these factors:

was prompted by

Youn Men Needed The armed forces’ demand for

“vigorous and physically fit young men.”

The fact that the armed forces’ “now relatively small,” the army having reached its goal

to be 100000 to 150,000 a month.

Meanwhile, for physically fit reg-| istrants 18 through 25 who do not|

meet specific and rigid conditions for deferment in a few special war industries—affecting only a slight proportion of the total—the prospect “is service in the armed forces.”

It appeared likely that some non-| (Continued on Page 3—Column 2) |

‘MAYBE TOMORROW,’

PARIS RADIO HINTS

peace negotiations. It quoted a French agency dispatch from Gene-

understood Russia had specified {peace terms including capitulation of the Romanian army, the return to the Soviets of the Bessarabia land Bucovina border provinces, and {payment of a war indemnity to be | determined later.)

Tri-Partite Declaration The warning was a tri-partite

Sgt. Elbert E, Hargraves . . killed in combat over Germany.

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. |tions. It followed separate warn{ings which the United States, Great | Britain and Soviet Russia have been issuing to the satellites for many months. The substance of the declaration was that: A crushing Nazi defeat is inevitable, but the satellites are contributing materially to the German war machine. The satellites still have time— a short time—to help hasten the

Pfc. Jack Sanders . , . killed in European theater.

Army-navy calls] for the rest of the year are expected |

{war's end, diminish their own saci rifices and contribute to allied victory by getting out of the war.now. The satellites cannot escape their responsibility for participating, but the longer they stay in the war “the more disastrous will be the consequences to them and the more rigorous will be the terms which will be imposed upon them.”

Must Decide “Now”

The satellites must decide “now” whether to continue their “calam{itous” policy while there is yet time for them to contribute to an allied victory. . The declaration was directed to the people of the satellite nations, and the entire allied propaganda machines were set to work immediately conveying the text of the warning to all countries involved. It was considered - significent that the three allies joined in such

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Capt. Horace Kelley. , . . England as a member of Gen. Eisenhower's staff, he awaits the invasion.

By SHERLEY UHL THE THRILLING success story of Indiana's first world war II inductee, Horace F. Kelley of Indianapolis, was learned here today. . He's gone far in the army, in rank as well as geographically, and at the moment he's poised on the invasion brink as a captain on Gen. Eisenhower's staff. Capt. Kelley's khaki odyssey

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NAZIS ATTACK RUSS

NORTH OF TIRASPOL

MOSCOW, May 12 (U.P) .—The in ceaseless waves today in a desperate attempt to wipe out a Soviet bridgehead on the west bank of

in order to disrupt Soviet prepara-

tion for a drive through Bessarabia

and Romania into the Balkans. Up to 3000 enemy troops were killed and 60 tanks knocked out in the first 24 hours of furious attacks, the Soviet high’command reported,

indirect back.” The report was not borne out by any other source.)

Allied casualties were described as “gratifyingly light”

in the first phase of the all-out offensive.

By afternoon the united nations forces, regrouped and reinforced for the resumption of the march on Rome, had rounded up a number of prisoners. Among them were members of the Nazi 1st parachute division thrown into

| action northwest of Cassino.

The clear night was suc-|

| ceeded by a lightly coluded Preliminary phase with an all-out

. aerial bombardment of "Adolf Hitday, and mists hung over the|jers defenses in western Europe. river valleys during the morn-| American. British, French, Polish land possibly Italian troops were

| ing, giving welcome cover tol, urle 4 against the entire Gustav

bridging parties working | jine, from the Gulf of Gaeta in the under fire. In one sector of the | southwest to the plains below Pes-

| Garigliano front, two German tanks cara in the northeast, but the main

and one self-propelled gun were push was revealed to be against the knocked out in an early clash. defenses covering’ me, Xa Casilina The biggest allied air force ever and the Appian way, the two main to support a land operation ham- roads to Rome, 75 air miles behind

mered the German positions along| the front. The Nazi prisoners said their i ; , “ : : » The offensive opened with a barunits were “reacting vigorously on| ge of almost two hours by the

t- : Jen Fromm yess Began two greatest concentration of artillery

int ever employed in the Mediterranean, hours at ae poin "ari . th p| dwarfing even the batteries that The 8th army driving through| . ,.4 Germany's Alamein line in

| the mountains and valleys on either| oo ont in October, 1042.

side of Cassino, appeared to be] Ev { en before the barrage had outflanking that strong point with, 0e d. tens of thousands of inthe possibility of it falling of its cont rymen began adv own weight. {rivers and plains and through moun-

Germans were reported attacking

the Dnestr northwest of Tiraspol

The opening of the southernii,;,s on the 8th army front, offensive, breaking a three-and-a-| gph nad been extended southwest

half month lull in large-scale Ob to a point below Cassino, British |erations in Ttaly, set in motion thei, i.e and other troops swarmed

allied timetable for the defeat of ,,¢ from their lines at 11:40 p. m~ Germany. |40 minutes after “H-hour”—raced a Next on the schedule were an pai mile to the Rapido river and Anglo-American invasion of Western a. ,ehed their boats in an attempt

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EYEWITNESS—

'| See the Robin's Egg Blue

Sky Dotted With Planes’

By REYNOLDS PACKARD United Press War Correspondent

ABOARD FLYING FORTRESS|of Newport News, Va, and GranOVER ITALY, May 12—The great-| "ile. N. Y.

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