Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 May 1944 — Page 2
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Contracts Intestinal Disorder. 2 WASHINGTON, May 12 (U. P). «Maj. Henry Cabot Lodge, former
Republican senator from Massa-
chusetts, has been returned from active duty in Italy for hospitalization at Walter Reed with an acute intestinal disorder, the war department announced today. His condition has shown some improvement but an operation may be necessary, it was stated. Friends said Lodge was now well enough to be able to sit in the sun on the hospital lawn. Left Senate Feb. 4 Lodge resigned from the senate on Feb. 4 in order to return to active service in the army. The
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grandson of another famous sena- | tor, was first elected to the senate | Nov. 3, 1936, and was re-elected in 1042. Earlier in this war he served with an American tank detachment in Libya as a reserve officer called to active duty. He returned to the retired list when President Roosevelf ruled that members of congress could not serve in the armed forces and hold their congressional
posts.
Receives Pin-Up Torn by Bullets
HOLLYWOOD, May 12 (U.P.). «Georgia Carroll, Kay Kyser's vocalist, received a torn and bul-let-riddled picture of herself from a marine in the Southwest Pacific today with a request for a new one, The leatherneck wrote that he had the photo tacked on the wall of his hut when a Jap Zero came over strafing everything. The photo was the only casualty. “1'11 take better care of the next one,” he promised.
MRS. N. S. COLEMAN
. DIES AT HER HOME In the current Collier's, Barkley | pase of the Pacific situation appartells “Why I Support Roosevelt.”|antiv was an attempt to whip up
Mrs. Nancy 8. Coleman, 1431 W./ qualified man” for the presi-
28th st, ‘died today in her home, She was 86.
A native of Bargersville, she had| gop )eurs wag the third significant |
Throughout the nation today hospitals are observing National Hospital day on Florence Nightingale’s birthday and calling on civilians to especially guard their health to ease the burden being
tired nurses have come back to offer their services. Here Mrs. Ernest H. Kitch, who retired 18 years ago, comforts four-year-old Douglas Burps, who had his tonsils out at Methodist hospital,
carried by understaffed in- He is the son of Mr. and Mrs, | stitutions. . In American spirit, re-« D. 8. Burns, 5268 Guilford ave.
ATH TERM FOR FOR Truk Gets Brunt URGED BY BARKLEY ©f New Air Blows
. » By LYLE C. WILSON In Pacific Sector United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, May 12 (U.P.) .— By UNITED PRESS {Senator Alben W. Barkley (D, Ky.)| Allied aerial forces rained new |e Telistod the senete Democratic | plows on the Japanese in the Paleadership last winter in protest] : , against President Roosevelt's tax | cic including two al4acks on the 'bill veto, is on the news stands .to- big enemy base at Truk, it was dis'day with a plea for a fourth term. | closed today following an admission The veto differences between the | by Premier Gen. Hideki Tojo that | {President and the man he person-| , ; “ ; i lally chose to become senate Demo- Japan $ position is now indeed very lcratic leader in 1937 were among] Critical” {the most spectacular and most| The developments came as Ausquickly adjusted in modern political tralian ground forces continued | history. [their advance up the New Guinea Barkley was re-elected Democratic | coast to near Cape Croisilles, 16 {leader the day after he resigned and | miles north of Alexishafen, and U. not many days elapsed thereafter S, cavalrymen mopped up the Adbefore he had indicated that Mr. ! miralty islands after killing 3202 {Roosevelt still was his preference | Japanese and capturing 169 since for President regardless of legisla- | they landed Feb. 29.
tive friction Tojo's statement on the serious-
| He cites him as “far and away the| the fighting spirit of the Japanese | people and came as the allies were | pounding steadily the enemy’s outer defense lines.
dency and says there is no ground for fears of dictatorship.
lived in Indianapolis 25 yers and|g .. ton comment this week. It
was a member of the Bargersville Christian church, the Frances Willard W. C. T. U. and Pocahontas Itasca council, 337. Survivors are. four daughters, Mrs. Lydia Strahl and Mrs. Ollie Haines, both of Greenfleld; Mrs. Mary Hewitt of Fountaintown and Mrs. Mildred Weaver of Indianap~ olis; a son, Arthur J. Coleman, Lockport, Ill; a brother, George Haymaker, Indianapolis; 12 grandchildren, three of them in service, and 12 great-grandchildren, one of them in service. Services will be at 10:30 am. Monday in the J. C. Wilson chapel of the chimes with the Rev. T. W. Stofer officiating. Burial will be in Philadelphia, Ind. '
DANVILLE MAN DIES AFTER BUS HITS HIM
John Francisco, 67, of Danville, Ind, was fatally injured late yesterday when he was struck by a Brookside bus at Missouri and
admitted. "Charles Buchanan, 426 N. East st, operator of the bus, said Mr, Francisco walked in front of the vehicle after the bus had stopped
Centered on Truk
coincided with accumulation of a The attacks were centered On tentative majority of Roosevelt dele- | Truk in the Carolines, where comgates already elected to the Demo- | pined South and Central Pacific cratic national convention. His re-! forces struck on Monday night and nomination is assured unless he re-| Wednesday, the latter for the 42d
Democratic National Committee Chairman ‘Rokgrt E. Hannegan led off this week with a prediction that Mr. Roosevelt would be re-elected next November and more than a {hint that he expected his opponent [to be Governor Thomas E. Dewey {of New York.
Questioned in his press confer-
| ence thereafter, Mr. Roosevelt again | {refused to indicate his 1944 inten-!
tions. “I ‘am not afraid of a fourth term,” Barkley wrote for Collier's. |“There can be no such thing as {dictatorship which some honest {people fear and others pretend to (fear, so long as the American {people have the right to free | choice.
fuses to accept—which few here be- land-based attack on the atoll. lieve likely.
The joint offensive also brought jattacks through a three-day period on Woleai, 500 miles west of Truk; Ponape, 436 miles east of Truk, and Oroluk, midway between Truk and ie | Central Pacific forces made an(other raid on the former American ' possession of Wake, and army, navy and marine pilots teamed up again to hit the enemy positions in the Marshalls.
Rabaul Hit Again
The enemy base at Rabaul, New Britain—the “most bombed” target {in the Pacific—was given its daily |attack to add to the destruction caused by 11,273 tons of explosives dropped on the area from Sept. 1 to May 6. =
Taper oy Jou n 5 Allied Roar of Death Ends
Solitude of Scented Valley
By JAMES E. ROPER bottom of the foxhole and it was
rail § v for a railroad crossing. Police said | United Press War Correspondent like walking on gravel.
witnesses on the bus supported Mr. | Buchanan's version of the accident. :
FIRE SWEEPS HOME NEAR TRADERS POINT
Six rooms were totally destroyed and the other two were damaged by smoke and water as fire swept the farm home of W. O. DeLong on road 52 near Traders Point yesterday, Damage was estimated at $5000. The fire was checked after firemen from pumper company 18 fought the flames more than an hour, Purniture was salvaged by firemen, Deputy Bherifls Merritt Smith and Harlan McKnight and State Troopers Richard Sutton and Roy P. Hester. The cause of the fire was undetermined
300 ARE INDUCTED IN JUNIOR POLICE
Three hundred South side youths today displayed new lunior police badges, following their induction In the group yesterday at the Fountain Square theater. The new members represented schools 18, 31. 34 33, 72, 20 and 22: St. Catherine's, St. Pau’, Emmaus Evangelical Lutheran and Sacred Heart schools, and Perry township Schools 2 and 4. Mayor Tyndall and Inspector Donald Tooley of the Pejioe department administered the
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WITH THE 5TH ARMY, Italy,| Three minutes after the attack, May 12 (U. P).—A quiet valley, |the Geriapss sm up Rares. ny » ) Iseven minutes later open e scented with locust blossoms and artillery. But the German shelling sparkled by fireflies, suddenly be- was very weak. | came a roaring battlefield last| The allied artillery commander, night when thousands of U. S. and Lt. Col. F. P. Miller, Carmel, Cal, Frenc ._ came bouncing around, predicting: h empire troops smashed for “This is the beginning of the end ward along the entire front. } for Adolf.” The offensive started at 11 p. m.|" “We'll chenge the face of nature,” (3 p. m, Indianapolis Time), and he said, “They can’t fire a gun. by 3 a. m. it had carried 2000 yards (Just smell that cordite!” i & small town which now is being] When the machine gun was assaulted. The U. 8. troops also moved forward, I crept down the took an important high crest. |slope” following a path through the Heavy German resistance was minefields marked off with white encountered at some points, but ‘¢Xtile tape. It was not badly the attack was going according to Shell torn, as this had been a quiet plan, at least in this sector. |sector for weeks, and I slipped on At precisely 11 p. m,, the infantry 1 dew-moistened grass. sneaked forward and hundreds of| Ihe American troops, waiting to guns and mortars opened up, hurl- Move forward, were flattened against Ing some 8500 missiles into the N¢ earth seeking shelter—more front line sector—a narrow regi- Psychological than physical—by hidmental front—while other long-|N8 in holes ene to two inches deep. range American guns peppered One of them lifted his head a couevery known German gun position Ple of inches and complained: (to protect the infantrymen from|, “What the hell are they doing up | German shells. front. Can't we go?” -
Every 5th army gun was firing] One boy was lying there in the |
and the sharp odor of cordite soon darkness, shaking convulsively in his | overshadowed the fragrance of the|tWo-inch foxhole, but most of them {locust blossoms. For a few minutes, | lay deadly still, although unhurt,
| fireflies” flashed like luminous {echoes to shellbursts, but the con- Cluiches Bloody Log (cussions soon drove the insects| Litter-bearers came up the path (from the air. The field was left|carrying a soldier on a stretcher. for human activities. When they stopped for a rest, I saw |
From a machinegun nest on the a doughboy writhing in pain, clutch. | °
| forward slope of a hillside; I sawing a bloody leg. |the shells pound the valley below| We followed the path to a shat- | {until smoke clogged the air like a (tered cemetery which was “the line | mass of gray ashes. of departure” last night. Heavy | American machineguns dotting| German mortar fire had smashed | this forward slope poured out a|the family-sized crypts and mancovering fire of red tracers, with|gled the Italian dead. one gun alone expending. 800! It was revealed the Americans: (rounds. It was manned by Pfc.|had, been using the cemetery as {Edward Kefe, Quincy, Mass. and|the most advanced point of the (Cpl. Mike Ragaglia, New Britain, line. Doughboys who manned poConn, a former professional boxer, sitions during the night mostly who fought under the name of slept in the daytime in crypts from “Mickey Regan” for five years. which the Sake had been rev At. t, the caskets would - Gun Bolt Jams be replaced in order to permit the The bolt on the machinegun sud- [soldiers freedom of movement, jammed and ~The crypt walls were good
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