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VOLUME 55—NUMBER 55

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MONDAY, MAY 15,

1944

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By VIRGIL LONDON,

Utited Press Staff Correspondent May 15.—The best trained and finest

equipped military forces in America’s history are ready and eager to take on the job of crushing the German walls somewhere in Europe shortly. United Press war correspondents who have been assigned to the pre-invasion coverage of various units compiled this report. Speaking for myself, I never be-

fore have seen soldiers and

ers elief . .. Yanks

sailors 50 well drilled and

armed, and I have observed all of the European and Mediterranean campaigns of the last 10 years. _ There is so much of everything that it staggers belief.- There are acres of tanks and armored cars. There are single piles of shells, ammunition and bombs which the main tent of the world’s biggest circus would cover only partially. There are vast underground storehouses

containing millions of shells, explosives, Rows of antitank guns

gasoline drums and tons of

line the parks. The rows

of 105-mm. guns and long-range “Long Toms” seem to

stretch to the horizon.

I walked for two hours along country roads, both sides of which were banked with shells, neatly piled and covered. There were parking lots packed with trucks extending al-

most out of sight.

Itching To Get Going’

I was told that every division would

go into battle with several thousand trucks to bring up the 350 tons of ammunition and 200 tons of gasoline, grease

and oil it is expected to consume daily. Everywhere one travels in England he meets mechan-

ized troops and paratroopers.

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DAY HERE

Millions of Insects Harass|

Week-End Sun-Seekers In Biting Attacks.

___By HELEN RUEGAMER The invasion,is on! Millions of mosquitoes launched

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Quitoes around, but they are dangerous only after they bite someone with malaria. Then they can carry the disease to their next victim, Mr. Wallace stated. The female causes all the trouble. The male does not bite, but his

do it, I'm gonna do it"—and then it does.

A week-long or 10-day dry spell would send the insects on their way, Mr. Wallace said.

Methods of Riddance

In the meantime, the best method of riddance would be to clean out gutters and downspouts’ and put a thin film of oil or dust a bit of

breathe. For the less ambitious, the commercial preparations, Citronella dnd Stay-Away, are supposed to Bip Be insects beyond biting dis-

However, the week-end casualties will secure the most relief from Un. guentine or tannic acid’ ointment, Mr. Wallace said.

| LEAVES FOR RUSSIA

WASHINGTON, May 15 (U. P). =Eric A. Johnston, president of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States, leaves here today for Russia where he will tour Soviet industrial

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James V. Forrestal

WASHINGTON, May 15 (U. P). — The senate naval affairs committee today unanimously approved the nomination of James V. Forrestal to succeed the late Prank Knox as secretary of the Davy. Chairman David I. Walsh (D. Mass) said the committee acted after only three minutes of discussion,

~ Senate Group O. K's Forrestal

Forrestal arrived several mine utes later, accompanied by naval aides, Told by reporters that he had been recommended unanimously for senate confirmation,

he and said: “That's very business.” The senate was expected to vote

for the confirmation in a few days.

HOMES JUGGLED INU. S. PROJECT

$13,000,000 “Ghost City’ Needs Replacements for

Houses Moved.

By DANIEL M. KIDNEY Times Stall Writer WASHINGTON, May 15.—~What he calls the “ghost city of Kingsford Heights, Ind.” has been cited by Rep. Robert A. Grant, South Bend Republican, as an outstanding example of New Deal waste. In a report placed insthe Congressional Record, Mr. Grant shows that while 2400 government housing homes are being removed from the place for use in Indianapolis, Evansville and elsewhere, plans now are being made to build more housing at Kingsford Heights in the form of dormitories for workets. “It is the most obsurd, reckless and wanton waste of public funds

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GEORGE M. BARNARD CONDITION ‘CRITICAL’

Condition of George M. Barnard, Republican member of the state public service commission who was injured in an automobile accident Saturday night, was reported as “critical” today by City hospital authorities. Mr, Barnard, who is slated to receive a $12,000-a-year job as member of the U, S. interstate commerce commission, received head and face injuries when the automobile he was driving ran into the rear end of a Ft. Harrison bus which had stopped to pick up passengers. The

~ |accident occurred at Shadeland ave.

and Road 67.

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| NEW HEART ATTACKS

WASHINGTON, May 15~Henry J. Kaiser means business when nation-wide network of

Frank B. Ross, Former Probate Judge, Is Dead

FRANK B. ROSS, Indianapolis lawyer and former judge of probaté court, died today in his home, 3909 N. Meridian st. He was 68. Graduating from the Indiana Law school in 1898, Mr, Ross has practiced law in Indianapolis for 42 years, At the time of his death his law office was located at 835 State Life building. Born in Monticello, he was educated in schools there and was graduated from Valparaiso and Chicago universities. Before finishing law school he taught school from 1895 to 1896. He served as private secretary to Thomas Taggart from 1899 to 1901 during Mr. Taggart's last term as mayor. In 1902 he began

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ADE SUFFERS TWO

Author Relapses Into Coma; Condition ‘Very Grave.’

KENTLAND, Ind., May 15 (U.P). —George Ade, 78-year-old Hoosier humorist and author of “Fables in Slang,” suffered two more heart attacks yesterday and his condition is “very grave,” James Rathburn, a close friend and business associate, reported today. Ade has relapsed into a coma at his Brook, Ind., home with a temperature of 103 degrees, Rathburn reported. Ade, who has not been completely well for several years, suffered his first heart attack May 5. :

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CHINA ISeek Land Route

For Supplies

From India.

CHUNGKING, May 15 (U. P.).—A two-way offensive aimed at clearing the Japanese from northern Burma and reopening China's lifeline to India was in full swing today as a powerful American-trained and equipped Chinese expeditionary force burst across the Salween river on a 100-mile front and "drove westward to within 22 miles of the Burma frontier. Striking through the mountainous gorges north and south of the old Burma road, under cover of‘'a flerce American aerial barrage, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's forces knifed deep. into the Jap-

a dozen widely-separated points. The surprise blow met little or no opposition in its initial stages, but the Japanese reorganized swiftly and a communique said bloody fighting was in progress all along the front, with both sides suffering heavily. Attack in Mogaung Valley Chiang Kai-shek's sudden offensive was timed to coincide with the final stages of a two-pronged allied attack on the Japanese strongholds in the Mogaung valley of northern Burma, mare than 100 miles to the west. Chungking spokesmen said the new offensive was intended to join forces with Lt. Gen. Joseph W. Stilwell's Chinese and American

with other allied units engaging the Japanese in the Mogaung-Myitkyina area. Strong Chinese forces crossed the Salween river last Wednesday night in rubber boats and empty oil drums, and other units followed on Thursday and Friday nights, United Press War Correspondent Albert Ravenholt reported from the new front that American engineers were aiding the Chinese and that the expeditionary force was wellequipped with American heavy artillery. U. 8. army artillery and medical officers also are operating with Chiang-Kai-shek's troops, Ravenhold said. He reported that the Chinese armies were driving on four major Japanese defense positions guarding the Burma frontier,

RAILWAYS BONUS PLAN GOES TO WLB

1000 Employees of Utility Here Would Benefit.

Indianapolis Railways, Inc. has submitted to the national war labor board a proposed bonus plan which if granted would give oné¢ thousand employees of the utility

base pay for each one cent increase of gross earnings of the company Uyer the gross eamings of January,

Harry Reid, utility president, said

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AIR WAR

UNCHALLENGED HEAVIES POUND COASTAL AREA

Other Planes Range Inland To , Hit Airdromes, Defense Areas.

LONDON, May 15 (U. P.). —Flying Fortresses and Liberators opened the fifth week of the pre-invasion assault on Europe today with an unchallenged attack on the Ger-

out cloud-blanketed targets behind the west wall. The longest weather-enforced lull of the month's day and night offensive was broken by minor sorties late yesterday, and British Mosquito. bombers followed through with a blockbuster jab at Cologne, industrial capital of the Rhineland. The Germans sent the biggest squadrons of scout planes in recent weeks over South and Southwest England during the night in an apparent effort to spy out allied invasion preparations. Fifteen were shot down. Berlin said a “strong formation” attacked Bristol.

200 Heavies in Lead

About 200 Fortresses and Liberators headed the cloud-cramped pa|rade of heavy, medium and light {bombers over the continent by daylight. All bombers returned safely and one fighter of the escort of like size was missing. The heavy bomber crewmen reported an “eight-tenths” cloud over

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TITO SEES VICTORY IN 1ST INTERVIEW

Half Yugoslavia Already

Freed, He Says.

The following dispateh is the first written inside Adolf Hitler's European fortress from the headquarters of Marshal Josip (Tite) Brox, head of Yugoslavia's national liberation army. The interview was the first one given to representatives of the allied press.

By STOYAN PRIBICHEVICH AND JOHN TALBOT Representing the Combined American d British Press. MARSHAL BROZ’' HEADQUARTERS, SOMEWHERE IN YUGOSLAVIA, May 6 (Delayed) (U, P). —Marshal Josip (Tito) Broz estimated today that the national liberation army had freed half of Yugoslavia and pledged that his forces will fight alongside the allies until the end of the war—"until the total annihilation of the German and other conquerors.” The statements were given by the marshal at his headquarters in

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Airborne Invasion Of Reich Seen By Nazis.

By ROBERT DOWSON United Press Staff Correspondent LONDON, May 15.—Swedish sources estimated today 1,500,000 American and other

vasion of western Europe,

man warmed that paratroops may attempt a landing in Germany itself, The Germans betrayed their increasing anxiety over the imminence of the opening of a western front by sending the largest number of reconnaissance planes in cent weeks over South and South-

other alliéd airuden searched west England last night in an at<

tempt to spy out allied preparations.

BERN, May 15 (U. P.).—Repeated allied bombings have stopped all German rail traffic through the Brenner pass, responsible reports from the Italian frontier said today.

A German D. N. B. agency dispatch said “strong formations of heavy bombers” raided the port of Bristol in Southwest England.

15 Nazis Shot Down

Fifteen of the enemy planes were shot down, 14 over England and the other by an allied “intruder” aircraft over occupied territory. Bombs were dropped at scattered points in England, causing some damage and a small number of casualties.

A Stockholm dispatch to the London Daily Express said. Swedish experts estimated the allies would invade Europe with 100 divisions— 1,500,000 men—and a landing armada worth $1,500,00,000, supported by 9300 planes. The Stockholm newspaper Morgentidningen estimated that the allies also have another 100 divisions availabl® in North Africa, Corsica and Sardinia for operations against Southern Europe. In reporting a German war ministry spokesman’s warning that allied paratroops may descend on Reich soil, the London Daily Mail quoted Morgentidningen as recalling that the Danish peninsula and the flat Moorlands around the Elbe and, Weser rivers in northwest Germany offer the “shortest road to Berlin.”

Unexplained Tension

Neutral correspondents in Berlin said an unexplained wave of invasion tension gripped the German capital over the week-end and attributed it to “some mysterious but startling piece of information regarding allied plans which was supposed to have reached Berlin between Saturday and Sunday morning.” A Zurich dispatch to the London Daily Telegraph said the first mention in German communiques of allied aerial “invasion” preparations had been interpreted in some

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British Display

land, May 15 (U. P.).—Two ingenious underwater craft which have

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Tiny Craft

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HOOSIER HEROES— |

Two Indianapolis Soldiers Killed in European Area

S. Sgt. Clayton Lee Aughinbaugh . . , killed in England.

Harold Dew Killed

Austin Rinne Prisoner

AIR WAR over Europe and battles at the front lines in Italy have claimed the lives of two Indianapolis soldiers.

KILLED Lt. Harold A. Dew, 4317 E. Washington st., apt. 42. S. Sgt. Clayton Lee Aughin-

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NEW AIR ATTACK HINTS RUSS DRIVE

600-Mile Sweep.

MOSCOW, May 15 (U, P.).—The Russian air force, striking deep into enemy territory, hammered German rail and military concentrations along a 600-mile front in what appeared today to be a prelude to a new Soviet drive to the west. Long-range Soviet bombers struck at the fortress city of Brest Litovsk in pre-war Poland, the rail junc-

Plaster Military Targets on

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8 Strategic Towns Wrested From

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BULLETIN ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Naples, May 15 (U. P.).—~French troops have smashed a three-mile-wide breach in the Gustav line athwart the road to Rome, it was revealed today.

By REYNOLDS PACKARD United Preds Staff Correspondent

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Naples, May 15.— The 5th army has breached

{Germany's Gustav line, the

main defense belt barring the roads to Rome;<and cleared the enemy from 30 square miles of mountains and valleys, allied heads quarters announced today in reporting the capture of eight more towns. French troops of the 5th army

LONDON, May 15 (U. P.) ~The Berlin radio said today that an allied offensive in the Anzio beachhead appeared imminent, synchronized with that on the main front some 60 miles to the southwest,

made a “significant breach” in the Gustav line with the capture of the German headquarters town of Ausonia, five miles west of Mt. Maio and nine miles inland, and five other villages yesterday, Gen. Sir Harold R. L. G. Alexander reported in his communique on the fourth day of the all-out Italian offensive. The fall of Ausonia extended the allied bridgehead across the Garigliano river to some nine miles and completed the rupture of the enemy's lateral supply road from Cassino to Formia on the Tyrrheni« an sea coast. Some five miles south of Ausonia, American elements of the 5th army also cut across the Cassino-Formia road and drove on another 24 miles to lay siege to Spigno after capturing the crossroads town of Santa Maria Infante and nearby San Pedro, Together, the Americans and French of the 5th army captured

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