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VOLUME 55—NUMBER 66

FORECAST: Partly cloudy with scattered thundershowers tonight and to morrow.

SATURDAY, MAY 27, 1944

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Will Nazis Abandon Rome? That Is Easier Said Than Done

By LOUIS F.

KEEMLE

United Press Foreign Editer

AT THE MOMENT when the Berlin radio is insisting that troops will not be withdrawn from western Europe to bolster the collapsing German defenses in the “minor theater” of Italy, Marshal Albert Kesselring is threatened with disaster on the battlefield below Ronie.

Vichy radio says Kessel

ring will withdraw to pre-

pared lines in the north without defending Rome, but that

Cassino—Modern Warfare Leaves Nothing but Shambles for Posterity

Ancient Toman ruins sland sa msqaificent structores ‘slongside this sianilien of the ener ighly' Nas? baution fq Taly—Cassio. Utter

desolation is the scene after huge allied guns—and

is easier said than done. ' The

ing the 10th army being beaten back along the Liri valley, faces the prospect of being cut off as American advance units approach the Via Casilina to his rear.

It seems increasingly probable that unless Kesselring gets immediate reinforcements he will not be able to make an adequate stand in the Alban hills nor to withdraw with-

out having large bodies of his

too—blast ed the buildings to rubble, pockmarked the land with shell holes, and

left only a vestige of the famous St. Benedictine monastery standing oi the lefty height.

bulk of his forces, compris- Kesselring used almost tl

vain effort to prevent his right

Adolf Hitler line.

directions.

troops cut to pieces.

VICHY: CLAIM NAZIS TO QUIT ETERNAL CITY

Enemy Expected to Offer ‘Open Town’ Excuse

For Retreat.

By ROBERT DOWSON Uriied Press Staff Correspondent

LONDON, May 27.—The Nazi-controlled Vichy radio said today that the Germans will abandon Rome without a fight and fall back on a long-prepared defense line to the north. Though the allies have had proof

ERGOTAMINE—

Says New Drug Eases Shock and

Strain of Battle

By DOUGLAS LARSEN NEA Staff Writer WASHINGTON, May 27.—~Diseovery that the drug, ergotamine tartrate, cures all physical effects of battie strain and shell-shock in

QUINTS' REACH | 10TH BIRTHDAY

Dionne Girls M: Mark Anniversary of Historic Birth

Tomorrow. CALLLANDER. Ontario, May 27,

'TREESPASSING'— ' Branches Span

Property Lines, Neighbors Sue

THREE TREES out in the 700 block, Bancroft ave, have been accused in a bitterly contested law suit of trespassing on their neighbors’ property by spreading their branches and roots too far.

[FETE ARRANGED

that the German command has been using Rome as a communications center and for other military purposes, the Vichy broadcast | claimed the enemy would not de-|

FOR THE VALES

New Presbyterian Moder-! ator to Be Honored Today in Chicago.

By EMMA RIVERS MILNER Times Church Editor

LONDON, May 27 (U. P.).— London newspapers quoted the Vichy radio today as reporting that strong Russian forces had attacked German positions east of Lwow in pre-war Poland and “this offensive bears all the marks of a large-scale operation.” No details were given, and

back at the Terracina and Cassino ends of the so-called Now the allied 5th army has united its front and with the 8th is closing in on him from three

Granted that the Germans are not prepared to draw troops from the West, there still is the possibility of send-

summery weather over west-

1e last of his reserves in a and left wings being folded

roadways with a constant hail

British. Based Fleets Blast Rail Targets In Western Germany; South

France Pounded.

By WALTER CRONKITE United Press Staff Correspondent

LONDON, May 27.—Two big American fleets tofaling! perhaps 3000 warplanes struck concerted blows from Britain! and Italy at nine key railroad and aviation centers along a 100-mile front through western Germany and eastern France today.

German border region. tion of the same makeup against Marseilles, Nimes and Avignon in southeastern France. The pre-invasion bombardment of Nazi Europe blazed up in full fury again in clear-| elem ing weather. ‘Hoosier Heroes— Forecasters expected the F

LT. CLOYD LOST OVER ROMANIA

bed Parents Here Rec Receive Word Of Pilot With Credit of

11 Missions.

LT. EARVIE THOMAS CLOYD,| | 26-year-old pilot of a P-38, has been! {missing in action over Romania {since May 7, according to word]

ern Europe to continue at least through the week-end. The heavy bombers and their | fighter escort encountered few Se man fighters and erate { laircraft fire. Other Fctresses ae companied by Lightnings the Yugoslav port of a 10 miles north of Zara.

Paris Area Attacked

and 250 dead had been counted. Mr

Two thousand Flying Fortresses, Liberators and fighters exploded a broadside against Ludwigshafen, Mannheim, | Karlsruhe, Saarbrucken, Strasbourg and Metz in the French-| The 15th air force sent a forma-|

ing reinforcements from northern Italy or the Yugoslavian frontier. It seems remote, however, and it is doubtful that they could arrive in time, so swift is the allied advance. Kesselring’s retreat is complicated by allied air supremacy which enables bombers and fighters to rake the

of fire. They must be caus-

ing great disruption if figures mean anything—2200 (Continued on Page 2—Column 6)

ALLIED TRAP CLOSING FAST ON NAZIS IN NOUTH ITALY; 3000 PLANES JAR EUROPE

9TH 21-2 MILES FROM CASILINA ESCAPE ROUTE

Fall of German Bastion Would Endanger 17 Divisions. | BULLETIN

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Naarmy has captured Sezze, town of | ples, May 27 (U, P.) ~The 5th 20,000 in the mountains north of the Pontine marshes, it was announced today,

United Press Staff Correspondent ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Naples, May 27.— [Amerie troops drove an mored spearhead ‘within =) miles of Valmontone on the Via Casilina today, im- | | minently threatening that last main | line of retreat for 17 German divisions caught in a shrinking pocket | to the southeast, The impression was growing here [that the capture of Valmontone | would make Rome indefensible to

i | By REYNOLDS PACKARD {

two hours, permanently, with no|(U.P.).—The Dionne quintuplets, after-effects, was revealed today by, the only identical quints in recorded

Dr. Daniel Blain, deputy medical history to survive, will be 10 years director of the war shipping ad- old tomorrow.

ministration. For the five girls—Yvonne, Cecile, Announcement was made follow- Annette, Marie and Emilie—it will ing successful tests on several be more than a birthday. After hundred merchant seamen at :

June 30, they will cease being wards of the Canadian government, and decisions in all matters concerning = = them, except financial ones, will Results of the tests and. experi- devolve upon their father, Oliva ments have been turned over to Dionne. the army and the drug will be dis-| Because their birthday this year|

tributed to every merchant ship for falls in Sunday, no special celebra-|

WSA's rest homes during the past| three months.

fmmediate treatment of all crew tion has been planned. The girls members suffering battle fatigue Will get up—as usual—at 6:30 a. m,, or “convoy” fatigue, {say their prayers and make their| According to Dr. Rlain, this own beds. At 7 they will have

| grass.

In a suit being tried in Superior court 3, Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Guild, 754 N. Bancroft ave. demanded that all parts of two trees hanging over their property line be cut off. They charged that the trees, growing on the property of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Meyer next door at 762 N. Bancroft ave. were “interfering with the enjoyment of our property” by preventing sunlight from getting to their flower beds

CHICAGO, May 27. — Wartime service and other causes furthered |by ‘Indianapolis churchmen at the | meeting of the general assembly of | the Presbyterian church reflect the | influence of tHe denomination nationally and throughout the world. Dr. Jean S. Milner, pastor of the {Second Presbyterian church; J. | Dwight Peterson, businessman; Dr. | Alexander E. Sharp, executive sec{retary of the Indiana synod, and {Dr. Roy Ewing Vale, pastor of the

axis broadcasts generally did net carry the repert.

The primary targets were the sprawling rail yards comprising! the gateways from western Ger-| many to the invasion coast and! linking the land communications | with the Rhine water transport system. Ludwigshafen, Mannheim across!

fend the Italian capital because “it already has been declared an open town.” “The capture of Rome would bring no new element in the general conduct of the war except for the and Saarbrucken 60

prestige that would be gained bY| miles to the west are key points on

this success,” Vichy said. “It is well| the railroads feeding war materials known that the German high com-| from western Germany to the

mand has stated on many previous | atjantic wall.

the south,

and stunting the growth of their Tabernacle Presbyterian church, all Indianapolis churchmen, are here and all hold vital offices in the de-

nomination.

Mr. and Mrs. Guild asked Judge Emsley Johnson Jr. to order the

Dr. Vale, as newly elected mod-|

occasions it would accept battle only | About 50 Messerschmitts dived at north of Rome on a line of resistance | one nomber formation for a hit-

» prepared many months ago. run sweep, but U. S. fighters trailed Stockholm dispatches suggested | tne gown and they never were that the success of the allied of-

{received by his parents, { Mrs. Thurman Cloyd, 622 S. Lynd-

and farmed in the county before roads around Rome

and | all practical purposes, and might |even mean the fall of the capital.

hurst dr. Big scale German activity along Based in Italy since going (the roads behind the lines indicated overseas in November, Lt. Cloyd|that the Nazis might be trying—

wrote thome at the end of last|perhaps too late—to pull out of the month that he had completed 11|pocket between the arms of the | missions. He enlisted in the air|giant pincers shaping up with the

the Rhine, Karlsruhe 35 miles to | forces in August, 1940, and was|American advance near the Via

| graduated as a second lieutenant|Casilina below Rome and the 8th

{from the advanced flying school at|army assault west of Cassino.

Williams field, Chandler, Ariz, in . . July, 1943. Smash 2200 Vehicles

He is a graduate of Moral town-| Allied ship high school in Shelby county | than

airmen destroyed more 2200 German vehicles on the in the last entering service. His parents for-| three days. merly lived in Fountaintown. | The German front also appeared

gS. 5 =» {to be caving in at the center. Re-

amazing drug inunediately cures! all nervousness, trembling, and hys- | teria caused by shell-fire or fear of battle with absolutely no toxic | effect, | He said there had been cases of men who were screaming and shaking in terror following a battle, and after taking the drug they were miraculously brought back to normal,

Dr. Blain said that although his experiments had been only with seamen, he saw no reason why it wouldn't render the same mercy for soldiers, and implied that its use for treatment of any physical manifestation of psycho-neurosis for anybody was limitless, Discoverer of this use for the drug is Dr. Robert G. Heath, for-

mer resident at the Neurological! and chief

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Institute, New York,

LOCAL TEMPERATURES

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Amusements.. 10 Ruth Millett. 8 8| Movies ....... 1 4 Obituaries “ee

trees

| Papa Dionne says.

breakfast, and eat silently.. The large Dionne family, 11 strong, is {not permitted to talk at meals. “If everybody talked we wouldn't! be able to hear ourselves think,”

In the morning, the quints will play on the spacious lawn of their year-old 10-room home. In the afternoon, as a special treat, the quints may be taken for an automobile ride. There will be a quiet family cele-

(Continued on Page 2—Column 8)

LIQUOR INCREASE “MAY BE PROPOSED

Senate Group Due to Make

Report on Probe.

WASHINGTON, May 27 (U.P). —A senate judiciary subcommittee may recommend distillation of beverage alcohol in the immediate future on the ground that present reserves of alcohol for war purposes are sufficient, congressional sources

said today. The subcommittee, which has

(D. Nev.) said the report was not complete and subsommittee members had not reached final agree ment on it. : I — a ——————

'CADLE PORTRAIT STOLEN

trees trimmed away from their | property, and asked $150 damages. Answering the charges, the Meyers said they were having the same trouble with a Guild tree spreading its branches and roots over their property. In addition to the Guild tree trespassing over property lines, the Meyers said their neighbor's rose bushes were on their (Meyer's) property and that a Guild fence took in too much territory.

In their cross-complaint, the Meyers asked for about the same relief that the Guilds did in their original suit against the Meyers. They went ‘round and ‘round in court for several hours, both accusing the other's trees and shrubbery of trespassing. Judge Johnson took the whole case under advisement, admonishing the litigants in the meantime to see if they could reach some amicable agreement.

GRIPSHOLM REACHES BELFAST WITH SICK

BELFAST, May 27 (U. P).— Cheering crowds and bands greeted the Swedish exchange ship Gripsholm today when it glided into Belfast harbor bearing 900 sick and wounded repatriated war prisoners and 22 civilians released from German internment. The ship disembarked only the British soldiers and will take the Americans,

‘VALPO SCHOOL HEAD NAMED : VALPARARG. Ma May 27 (U. P)—| board announced to-

The city school

| day that G. Warren Piilips of rif | fith had

erator, will serve as the head of the fgnsive in Italy may result in the church in 1944 and 1945. One of vasion of western Europe begin-

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WASHINGTON

A Weekly Sizeup by the Washington Staff of the Scripps-Howard Newspapers

WASHINGTON, May 2 7.—While fost people’ assume Roosevelt and Dewey will be the candidates, some politi-. cians are beginning to doubt it. This may be an extension of pre-invasion jitters, but here's the way this small talk goes: There's been too much publicity from the White House about the

state of F. D. R.'s health. Continued examinations, checkups, reports do nothing to improve confidence that he is well and vigorous.

Old-time politicians know that one of the first rules, when a President is sick, is to use every means to keep the public from learning it. Some figure all this election-year talk may be the groundwork for

a graceful Roosevelt retirement. . And G. O. P. politicians are taking & second look at Dewey now

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able to reform for another attack. | Afternoon Raids |

American Marauders and Havocs attacked rail bridges in northern {France and yards at Amiesn this aftemoon. They were “escorted by | Thunderbolt fighters. Mitchells and Bostons of the R.A.F., covered by Spitfires, hit airdromes in northern France, and Spitfire fighter-bombers attacked other targets in the same region. Swiss dispatches officially announced that several American bombers penetrated at noon into northern Switzerland and that five of them were forced down by Swiss fighters and flak. None of the

A bomber which landed near Sursee was set on fire by its crew. This official Swiss announcement also said that at Porrentruy, in western Switzerland, several bombs were dropped but there were no victims.

MURDER SUSPECTED IN DROWNING HERE

Body of Worker Found Following Fight.

At 1:30 o'clock this morning, two Acme-Evans Co. employees stepped out on the canal bridge at Blackford st. for a smoke. “Look, there's a fight over there,” said William Roach to his companion, Milan Brown. Two men were struggling on the banks of the canal, about half a block away. Seconds later, they heard a splash

members of these crews was hurt. | plan a large scale naval attack

THE WAR DEPARTMENT today

confirmed the previous reports that

[the following Indianapolis have been killed in action: Elbert E. Hargraves,

sgt. son of Mrs. |

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Japs Plan Major Sea Attack Soon, Nazi Radio Hints

By UNITED PRESS HINTING that the Japanese

soon, the German DNB agency broadcast a Shanghai report last night saying a Japanese navy spokesman had declared the “Z” flag. navy battle insignia, would be flown again in the near future. The “Z” flag flew for the first time from the main mast of the Japanese flagship in the battle of Tsushima and for the second at Pearl Harbor, according to the broadcast recorded by the United Press short wave listening post in New York.

(May 27, 1944)

On the War Fronts

AIR WAR—Huge fleets of Yank

| sistance was reported diminishing gradually on the right flank of the 5th army, where the loss of San

men Giovanni and Pastena were hard

blows. If the Germans lose all of the Via Casilina east of Valmontone, inevi- | table unless they can stem the allied | advance quickly, they will be in a tough spot for a withdrawal north of Rome.

Within Gun Shet

Already Valmontone was within easy gunshot of the American armored forces spearing northeast ward from the Cisterna area. The column pushed almost completely through the Lepini moun{tains protecting the southwestern flank of the Via Casilina in a 12mile advance that carried to the approaches of Artena, only a little more than two miles below Valmontone, one of the strongholds in which was believed to be the last German defense line below Rome. The fall of Artena would cut lateral “communications between Valmontone and Velletri, Appian way

fense line and less than 20 miles

stronghold in the new German de-,

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