Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 May 1944 — Page 5
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Germans Lose 30 Tanks in Rev In Four-Hour Duel on Plain.
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soon, since it now was at the tip of a long peninsula jutting into alHed territory. The Canadians were in position to wheel around in either direction and tackle the Germans
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bombing attack over enemy territory. Based In England, Lt. Thinnes first was stationed in Iceland. He entered the army Oct. 2, 1941, and was in the signal corps at Pt. Sill, Okla, before being transferred to the air forces. In May, 1943, he won his wings and commission at Deming, N. M., and he went overseas the following April. A graduate of Cathedral high school, he was employed at the In. Sara Bell Telephone Co. before en-
with the capture of Pico and Lenola. Canadians breached the last segment of the Hitler line north of Pontecorvo.
Four-Hour Battle
Vermillion reported that Nazi resistance on the bulging beachhead perimeter was lessening after the capture of “many hundreds” of German prisoners and the overrunning of strong points on a front now pressed northeastward across a broad stretch of the Appian way. p With the loss of the Applan way J Doha, Divap ¥. Thins, J and the trunk nmilroad angling Sunner Laredo, | across it at Cisterna the Germans ..8 0 had only the Via Casilina some! FIRST LT. KENNETH BUTLER 25 miles beyond for a withdrawal McCOY, who has been stationed in from the main front to fight the Italy since January, is missing in battle of Rome. The tank strained German forces massed for| a counter-attack in the Cisterna sector and were beaten in their first LEG Al ‘FIR OR y effort. A large force of German;
tanks tangled with the American!
vanguard on flat fields northwest of SPARK RYAN HEARING the town, i
The battle raged for four hours, | and by dusk more than 30 of the! (Continued From Page One) | Giant Mark VI's and lighter enemy continue this policy for the rest of tanks were knocked out. 'my administration”
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ON JAPS TIGHTENS = this case impossible,* Mr. Ryan [said he desired to withdraw his ap-
SOUTHEAST ASIA HEADQUAR- peal. He continued to express this TERS, Kandy, Ceylon, May 24 (U. desire in th face of loud bickering P)~—Chinese infantrymen havel police arrest techniques and cleared the Japanese from the railand road junction on the west- court procedure. edge of Myitkyina, a communi-| “Why single out my client as a said today, as bloody NEhUNE poo) ticket salesman when you can TE Brougs iDe iy Sd us ut on the svt and ur The communique revealed that the names of at least five gambling cornered Japanese were coun- places from any person you happen
i ter y from Myit- t5 run into?” asked Mr. Carrico. kyina’s western and
southern out- | skirts In a desperate attenmt to! 1° declared that although Mr.
break out of the tightening allied! R¥an had been arrested twice betrap. {fore on all counts, including the lat- | Chinese units beat the enemy est on May 3, “the safety board! Sheadily back ita the sity. Sowever: has set itself up as an appeal; tripered their serial support and | bunal, disavowing interest in what slowed all ground operations. our courts rule” thwest Pacific, Ameri-| When Safety Board President
ve reinforced and ex- will H. , . : the Remy said that the board's
primary concern was to enforce the Tor river on the Dutch New Guinea |), o Mr. Carrico bellowed:
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Steele st., was notified yesterday. Central high school, pilots a Liberand did not return from a mission
PVT. GENE R. WESTFALL, who has been missing~in action in Italy since Feb. 22, is a prisoner of war in Germany. He is the mephew of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Dunagan, 2042 McPher-
{son ave. He went overseas in June,
1943.
SHIP'S
| Mother Seeks Baby Pictures
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Brooks, 1439 LeGrande ave. lost a folder of pictures of “Bobby” downtown and, although she advertised for their return, has heard no word. And it has made her feel pretty badly for it was a picture series
the folder to fill, the picture at 1 year. Then it would have been compiete—3 months, 6 months, 9 months and a year. “'Bobby’ is an awfully cute little boy, but I don't know what anyone would want with his pice
tures. They must want the frame. “Whoever found them can keep
baby back, even in pictures,” she said.
‘HERO BUSINESS THE BUNK,” KELLY SAYS
PITTSBURGH, May 24 (U. P.).— Tired of “this hero business,” but destined for at least three more months of it, Sgt. Charles E. (Commando) Kelly, Pittsburgh's congres-
the constitution, just as you did. I'm trying to live up to that oath | {but I can't seem to say the same The Americans apparently were y driving for the Maffin airdrome| oo orauent data supplied by vice {Squad officers indicated that Mr. southwest of Sarmi and about five! pean's previous cases had been miles west of the Tor. x ¥ — EN a hpi out of Sours on grounds that ! arrests were illegal. a | “I've heard so much about illegal ‘arrests in this administration that i it's beginning to be funny,” laughed Mayor Tyndall. Meanwhile, several Indianapolis attorneys and judges today ‘were - a suggestion that county Judges mest with the Indianapolis Bar association to select a list of qualified lawyers from which special judges would be chosen in the future. ! Judge W. D. Bain of “criminal
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army camps during the next 90
days. but he was quoted as telling friends that being a hero “is the bunk.” He was said to prefer an overseas assignment.
AVERAGE SOLDIER IS 25.1 YEARS OLD
WASHINGTON, May 24 (U. P). —The average American fighting man is 25.1 years old, the office of war information reported today. OWI deduced from available records that the average age of the Union soldier in the Civil war was 25.84 and men in world war I averaged 24.89 years old.
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Lt. Davis, a graduate of Warren ator bomber of the 15th air force
April 23 over Austria until May 8, .
of “Bobby” since he was 3 months | old. She had one more frame in
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Spearhead Raids on Axis Targets.
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ranged deep into the heart of .ne continent, swarms of other American” and allied planes streamed across northern France to resume the preinvasion bombing of Hitler's west wall. Hundreds of medium. bombers, fighters and fighter-bombers shuttled arross the sunlit Dover straits throughout the morning and early afternoon, and the rumble of heavy explosions coming from the Pas de Calais area could be heard clearly on the British coast. A headquarters announcement sald four enemy airfields in northern France were pounded by strong forces of American Marauders and Havocs and R.A. FP. Mitchels and Boston bombers.
GOP PARLEY FAILS ON SENATE CHOICE
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| the second district and Earl Merry
of the fifth district. G. O. P. State Chairman John
LT. JOSEPH G. DAVIS, previous- | “aUeT, chairman of the sixth disly reported missing in action, has | trict. talked to most of the group returned safely to his base, his | mother, Mrs. Marie L. Davis, 1537
in the afternoon but is reported not to have attended the night meeting at the Columbia club. Mr, Lauer said that “the boys just wanted to get together as they often do to talk over the situation.” He said it seemed to be the sentiment to “let things go.”
No Word Out
“No word,” he said, “has gone out from state headquarters on the senatorial race.” (Ralph Gates, the unopposed gubernatorial candidate who is Mr. Lauer's mentor, has said repeatedly that he would keep his bands off the heated senatorial fight.) Word drifting out of the secret
COOK 3-C- HOBERT | meeting was that nothing could te iaction over Romania following a HENRY HORNE, son of Mrs, Lula
battle came when raid May 5. |M. Campbell, Anderson, is missing He is the husband of Mrs. Martha 'in naval action.
decided because both Capehart and i Tucker particans were present. Some of the district leaders reportedly were hesitant to express convictions on the senatorial race. It was also learned that there was considerable discussion among | party leaders yesterday concerning the possibility of getting a third, or compromise candidate into the race —namely, Rep. Charles Halleck of Rensselaer. But the consensus reportedly was that it was too late for i that now.
Small Business Hearing Starts
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| States and not allow the continued i expansion of monopolies.” The proposed bill by its govern-{ment-underwriting lending provi{sion would enable small businesses to participate in the purchase of | surplus commodities and war plants {at the close of the war, tthe senator | said. i Senator Comments
“The government has spent $16.000.000.000 on war plant construction.” the senator added. “Is that! ~oing to the big companies after | the war is over?” Mr. Beck said he had found the SWPC to be very helpful tb small (businesses and that never had he received any unsolicited advice nor | “undue” questions from the agency. “I never thought a year ago,” he said, “that I would find myself tes[tifying for continuance of a government agency. But the Smaller War (Plants Corp. has done such a fine job that I heartily indorse it.”
Asks Provision
Mr. Beck said he would like to see a provision written into the law! |eliminating any possibility of pur-! chase of government surplus commodities by speculators, making these goods go direct to manufac- | [turers or users. Other witnesses who testified today'in favor of continuance of the SWPC were J. O. Stevens, Elwood, and Mrs. C. W. Trine, Richmond.
diana’s war production ‘achievements at the opening of the hear- | ing. The hearing will continue Two sessions
through tomorrow. will be held Friday at Ft. Wayne.
Governor Schricker outlined In- | i
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care of the farmers without the encroachment of the government into the credit field. Troy Thurston of Indianapolis spoke on “Tax Accounting Problems of Banks,” and Harry J. Reed, dean and director of the school of agriculture, Purdue university, was to tell the bankers how to “Keep Agriculture Sound.” Annual Dinner Tonight At the annual dinner at 7 p. m. today in the Riley room the speaker will be Dr. W. Randolph Burgess, vice president, American Bankers association, and vice chairman of the board of directors of the National City bank of New York. His subject will be “The Banks and War Finance.” Governor Schricker speak. The closing session tomorrow will include election of association officers and election of A. B. A. officers in Indiana. William Powers, deputy manager, customer and personnel relations of the A. B. A, will discuss “Wage Stabilization, Wages and Hours and Manpower.” Speakers at the luncheon will be Eugene C. Pulliam, state chairman of the war finance committee, and William G. F. Price, vice president, American National Bank & Trust Co., Chicago. Mr. Price will talk on “Post-war Planning in Banking.”
$3000 COLLECTED
one truck, 11 one, two, three and from others. Fifty dead were in the hot sun. ert in the trucks bout seven blocks. trucks had une loads were running Another 150 to Harding st. and the ave. entrance into the Farmers stood silently at side and chatted, or worked | feverishly to keep their hogs cool.
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Many had been in line since 2 am “I've moved 80 rods in eight hours,” said Leonard Jefferson, who trucked 33 head from Lexington, Ky. “It will be hours before I get unloaded.” Floyd Davis, Frankfort, has been bringing stock into the yards for 35 years. “It is far the worst I've ever run into,” he said. “111 be lucky to clear in four or five hours and be mighty surprised if I have no dead. “If the ‘sun stays hot I figure there probably will be dead in every load.”
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Trucker Comments
Ray Graham, trucker, Bainbridge, said, “In 30 years this tops all. I think I've seen as many hogs in here before but
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mand, . Against Denmark (Continued From Page One) all traffic crossing the bridges over the Oddesund, the Agersund and|(f Stérmstroms bay in Denmark. Civilian traffic was prohibited at night and all goods will be searched by day, the announcement said.) The Germans have sent frequent reconnaissance planes over the Scottish coasts in quest of signs of any allied preparations for a thrust across the North sea to Denmark, which offers one of the shortest invasion routes to Berlin. The French news service, maintained by the French national committee, said the Germans have taken their first steps toward an eventual withdrawal from Prance and the fatherland. lseeseseesescensssscocsessncssed i group of 180 German women | ke d left Paris for Germany May 14, a the first such contingent of evacu- You'll fie Swiftes 3 in 1940, the agency said. German army officers and civil servants| go= also were said to have sent their # ‘Su heavy baggage back to Germany. |x ; (A London broadcast heard by,’ C. B. B. said Arthur Seyss Inquart, |” Nazi commissioner of Holland, has prepared a number of martial law decrees to be put into effect in the event of an allied landing in that country. Under them, all persons who helped the allies or impaired Germanys defensive | strength would be executed, the!
broadcast said.) | powdered form.”
The British air ministry, mean- "6 Martha Logan recipes in every package time, disclosed that a special aerial of Swifise, for gravies, casseroles, soups, hog
striking force was being assembled " 1% to blast German U-boat bases on| the French coast when the invasion |
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A i Flying Portresses, Liberators and! Sunderlands of the R. A. F.'s coastal command will smother submarine pens, supply areas and repair shops with bombs while Beaufighters deal directly with the underseas craft. Air Chief Marshal Sir Sholto
never has it taken this long to unioad. It isn't good. “Dirring the first war I remember some heavy runs. I don’t think they were any worse but it seems we cleared faster,” he said. Yard officials pointed out that hogs die every day in shipment but admitted that the death rate was well out of proportion. In most cases, however, farmers suffer no loss financially as truckers usually carry insurance. “But I still would rather have them home,” said Mr. Davis. “If I had realized the conditions I never would have brought them.” Meanwhile farmers were turning their trucks out of line right and left and heading home, tired of the wait and fearful their loads would be lost entirely.
NEW TIRES, MORE GAS ARE FORECAST
FROM POLICE BALL
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cedure would arose complaints of police “high pressuring ” Mr. Lewis, who according to his local agent, “travels constantly and has no central headquarters” showed up in person at the ball Monday night to supervise a motion picture taken of the “grand march” in which all the 6000 guests were asked to participate. |
F. O. P. Pays Expenses |
The promoter originally had a 50-50 contract with the F. O. P. but | was obliged to reduce it to 25-75 after the Better Business Bureau protested. In accepting the revision, however, the FP. O. P. agreed to pay orchestra and ballroom expenses, ! amounting to $1500 or more, Mr.! Swego said. | It was learned that out of a re- | cent huddle between F. O. P. officials and Better Business Bureau heads! (Continued From Page Oue) came the decision to henceforth! fore July 1, but after that date, in- [SPODSor police society affairs] creases could be made by saving | through local civic Clubs and not within the quota assigned by the | Mivough any outside” source. | petroleum administration. i RAI i ! If it were found, on the basis of LAWYER IS MISSING second-quarter ration-coupon flowback figures, that savings amounted] AT SEDITION TRIAL to between 12,000 and 15,000 barrels WASHINGTON, May 24 (U. P). 2 25%: ihe B” ceiling in the East! 1h, six-weeks old mass sedition could raised from the present | ira) ran into another delay today allowance of 325 miles a month to while a deputy U. S. marshal was sent to Ft. Myer, Va., to bring back
475 miles Phillips said. An additional saving of 60000|an A. W. O. L. attorney—James J. Laughlin. who already
barrels a day, still within the allofined $150 for contempt.
cation, would mean that “B” ceilings in the Midwest might be in- J. Austin Latimer, another de-' creased from the present 475 miles fense attorney, told Judge Edward a month to 720 miles. Increases in C. Eicher at the start of today’s the far West, now at ceilings of 400 | session that Laughlin had gone to miles a month, would not be “like- | Pt. Myer in connection with a court-| ly” under the savings plan, he stat- | martial in which he—Laughlin—was ed. one of the attorneys. | Continuation of point-free canned | Latimer said Laughlin had tried vegetables Phillips also said, was|to tell Eicher about the necessity dependent entirely on the amount | for his making the trip when the of canning done this summer by | judge adjourned yesterday's session, victory gardeners. i but that Eicher refused to hear Bim
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