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VOLUME 55—NUMBER 73

MONDAY, JUNE 5,

1944

Entered as Second-Class Matter at Postoflice Indianapolis 9, Ind. Issued daily except Sunday

PRICE FOUR CENTS

By ELEANOR PACKARD United Press Staff Correspondent

VATICAN CITY, June 5.—Vatican City has not been

damaged in any way by the

extensive bombing that the

allies have delivered to railroad yards in Rome.

That fact was confirmed U. S. envoy to the Vatican,

today by Harold Tittmann, who gave me an interview

after I had made my way into Vatican City territory. Tittman said he understood that the German and

Japanese ambassadors to the Holy See planned to re-

main in Vatican City.

The attitude of the Pope toward allied occupation forces will be the same as it was toward German forces, Tittmann said—strict neutrality. “The Pope is always willing to work for peace,” Titt-

mann said.

“But I doubt that the fall of Rome will nec-

essarily cause him to make any special demarche at the

"warmest Mays in history, the de-

“wave in the Midwest that sent tem-

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The Yanks Are Coming

American iufantrymeng supported by tanks, are pletured in Rome a3 they fight their way toward the center of the city. Three Yanks of the 5th army have just left the protective cover of a burning German tank to dash for a point further ahead. Directly in front, U. 8S. armor is

Episode in Fall of Rome

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MERCURY DROP DUE TOMORROW

Relief Predicted After May Sets High Mark For Warmth.

It'll be cool enough to “wrap up a little” the weatherman predicted today as he forecast a 10 to 15 de~ gree drop in the mercury by tomorrow night. Following one of Indianapolis’

cided change in temperature will bring relief from the current heat

peratures soaring into the 80s over the week-end. Moving in from the west, the cool | weather is expected to last two or three days, R. M. Williamson, bureau chief, said. Today's forecast says partly cloudy and cooler tonight, becoming fair and considerably cooler tomorrow; fresh winds.

Average Above Normal

Last month the mean temperature for Indianapolis was 696 degrees or 6.7 degrees above normal. During the 74 years of authentic records of the weather bureau only twice before was May as warm here. The récord was set in 1896 when the mean temperature was 708 and the next warmest was in 1881 with a mean of 69.7. Other warm Mays were recorded in 1911 and 1918 with means of 68.6 and 688 respectively. In the 10 years before 1944 the warmest May was in 1934 with a mean of

27 Days of Heat

Beginning with the 10th of last month, the daily mean has shown an excess which has continued without a break up to today. Although the city has had 27 days of - uninterrupted heat, the record was higher in 1806 when there were 35 consecutive days of warm weather. Mr. Williamson refused to predict the weather for the rest of June and July,

LOCAL TEMPERATURES 6am ...75 10am... 84 7am.,..7 11am... 8 8a m. ,..7 12 (noon) . 88 fam... 81 :

. TIMES FEATURES ON INSIDE PAGES

Amusements .. 4; Ruth Millett ..10 Eddie Ash .... 6{Movies ....... 4 Canning Guide 8| Obituaries .... 5 Comics .......13| Pegler ........10 Crossword ....11| Radio ........13 Editorials ....10{ Ration Dates..11 Fashions Se Mrs. Roosevelt 9

Financial esse 1 Side ‘Glances. .10 y

Forum ........10| Wm. P. Simms 10

Insurance Firms

Ruled Subject to Anti-Trust Laws

WASHINGTON, June § (U. P.) — The supreme court, splitting 4 to 3, today held that insurance constitutes interstate commerce and that the federal government therefore has the right to prosecute insurance companies for alleged violation of federal anti-trust laws. The ruling overturned a long line of judicial decisions which held that insurance was not commerce. It also was a defeat for many states, as well as insurance companies themselves, which had filed briefs with the high court asking it t> presetve to the states their traditional authority to regulate insurance businesses, The decision highlighted a session during which the court decidled four cases with formal opinions. That left four other cases which have been argued still awaiting decision. Because of this, the court postponed for at least one more week the start of its summer recess. Justice Hugo L. Black, delivering the high court's majority “opinion, said the modern insurance business

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By UNITED PRESS A false Associated Press dispatch that the allies had landed in France was disseminated in North and

Saturday afternoon and the gi teletype operator whom the Associated Press said was responsible for

her London home today by nervous exhaustion.

Freckles ..... i Sports is 218 ran omit

South America by that news agency

its erroneous report was confined in |

Five minutes after carrying the dispatch, the Associated Press can~ celed it, but by that time it had been. broadcast over hundreds of radio stations. Baseball games in | the United States were halted, special prayers were said and the telephone switchboards of newspapers.

BARTON SPARKS 5TH BOND DRIVE

Ex-Congressman + U. S. as Leader in Post-War World.

The United States, whether {t chooses or not, is destined to be the most powerful nation in the world, Bruce Barton of New York, author and former congressman, declared here today in an address opening the fifth war loan drive in Indiana. “Our country cannot escape its destiny,” he said. “Whether it chooses or not, it is, by its resources, its military might and the energy and free will of its people, destined to be the most powerful nation in the world. “America will in the future, as in the past, merit the name with which she was christened on the earliest maps of the western world, the Insulae Fortunatae, the Fortunate Isles. “All of which means this—that if

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HOOSIER HEROES— Pvt. Lindenbaum

present time. The attitude

neutrality. During the German occupation of Rome, uniformed Germans were not permitted to go beyond the

gates guarded by the Swiss

Americans going to be permitted to do so.” Although I was permitted to enter St. Peter's cathe-

dral and roam around other

tory, I was not allowed into the part of the city where the

of the Pope is one of strict

guards. Nor are uniformed

parts of Vatican City terri-

Pope and the diplomats reside. on a war correspondent’s uniform.. I sent a note to Titmann and he came out of the residential section of the city to grant me the interview. “During the two years and 25 days of my stay in here,” Tittmann said, “time went fast because there was so much work to be done in connection with the Vatican's (Continued on Page 3—Column 2)

| ri Packard: Vatican City Untouched By Allied Bombs |

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YANKN CHARGING NORTH FROM LIBERATED ROME; GIVE GERMANS NO REST |

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ALLIES BLAST FRENCH COAST RADAR CHAIN

Raiders Hurl 13,000 Tons of Bombs In 100 Hours. LONDON, May 5 (U. P.).

—Continuous waves of allied!

warplanes, spearheaded by

French channel coast and the chain of Nazi radar stations strung across northern France early today, swelling to more than 13,000 tons the weight of explosives dropped upon. Hitler's West wall in

And M. Sgt. Long

Killed in Action

THE ARMY and navy casualty lists today included the names of two more Indianapolis soldiers killed in military service and a third local sailor missing in action. DEAD Pvt. Norman Lindenbaum, 4927 Broadway. M. Sgt. Charles D. Long, 1115 N. Oxford st.

MISSING Machinist's Mate 3-¢ Alonzo Richard Kashner Jr, 1027 Dudley

ave, 8 s 2 PVT. NORMAN LINDENBAUM, who has been missing in action since April 22, was killed in action on that day on the Anzio beachhead. His parents, Mr. and Mrs. Louis Lindenbaum, 4927 Broadway, were notified of his death Saturday. Overseas since Jan. 29, 1944 he entered the army March 11, 1043, and was trained at Camp Butler,

100/ hgurs\ of non-stop assault. h dering in the wake of a British' night armada that splattered

tons of demolition bombs across the steel and concrete channel forts, an estimated 750 Flying Fortresses and Liberators, escorted by about 500 fighters, raked the Boulogne and Calais areas with bombs and gunfire. A smaller force of American Marauders and 9th air force fight-er-bombers followed through with a one-two blow at other enemy installations in the same invasionmarked area. Light Planes Clear Path The fighter-bombers dive bombed anti-aircraft emplacements surrounding the unidentified targets, clearing the way for the heavier Marauder attack. Simultaneously, rocket-firing R. A. F. Typhoons sped across northern France at tree-top level in an attempt to knock out the radar stations used by the Nazis to spot approaching allied planes. . On the basis of officially an-

{nounced operations, well over 2000 allied planes were on the attack

Enemy’s Flight So Rapid Yanks Contact With Rear Guards; Clark Lauds Men.

By ROBERT V. VERMILLION U: ited Press Staff Correspondent

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Naples, June 5.—Lt. Gen. | | Mark W. Clark announced today that two partly smashed | ‘German armies were in flight north of Rome, with the pursuing allied 5th army pounding across the Tiber to the | cheers of massed thousands of new ly liberated Romans. The advance west of the Tiber continues, headquarters reported officially late today. Clark said the Nazi flight above Rome was so precipitate that his 5th army had lost contact with the enemy, in-

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dicating that the German command was not even putting| 1250 American heavy bomb-| ers and fighters, blasted the

up a rear guard cover for the disorderly retreat toward a new defense line.

LONDON, June 5 (U. P.).—Military observers believed today that the German “withdrawal to the northwest of Rome,” as announced by Adolf Hitler, was likely to develop into a retreat all the way to the Po valley, 250 miles northward. Marshal Albert Kesselring was believed to have lost enough men to make his defense of Italy a matter of rear guard actions from whatever lines he can hold temporarily.

traffic north of Rome, first axis-held capital in Europe to be liberated, destroying 150 vehicles. Returning pilots said the harassed Nazis were hiding most of their transport under trees by the side of the roads, waiting for darkness to protect them from the low-flying allied warplanes. The daylight attacks ran the retreating enemy’s losses for the last two days to 1350 vehicles destroyed or damaged, including 750 smashed beyond repair. Up to 500 American heavy bombers ranged along the railway lines all the way from the battle area to the Po valley, smashing at half a dozen bottleneck points, including Bologna, Castel Maggiore, Ferrara, Faenza, Forli and Rimini. ‘Great Day for 5th United Press dispatches from Rome bore out the first

N. C. He belonged to the Joan of over northern France between dusk indications that the city had emerged virtually unscathed

Arc Catholic church and the Frank/last night and noon noon today,

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Girl's Error Blamed for Fake Invasion - Bulletin Issued at London Bureau of AP

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U. S. SUBMARINES SINK 16 JAP SHIPS

Large Transport Among

Torpedo Vietims.

WASHINGTON, June 5 (U. P.).— U. 8. submarines, maintaining their war of attrition against the weakening Japanese supply “lines, have sunk 16 more enemy’ ships,

including one large transport, one

large cargo vessel and seven medium cargo vessels, the navy announced today. Navy announcements during the past five weeks have told of sinking

lof 43 Japanese ships, indicating] ! that U. S. submersibles are ac-| : {counting for an average of better {than a ship a day.

{INDIANS DROP 8TH | STRAIGHT, 14 TO 6

Times Special

The Indians started with a 4-run

| parrage in the first inning. Then || George Binks bariged out a homer in the third with one on. The]!

wer rally lasted until they had pred seven runs in the inning. | Binks hit another home run in the seventh, with none on. . George Dieh] started for the In3 but was relieved by the vet-

MILWAUKEE, June 5—~The In-|: | dianapolis Indians dropped their {eighth straight game and the Mil- | waukee Brewers won their eighth]: | straight today in a morning game. | : ‘| The score was 14 to 6.

{from its period of German occupation. They said electric circuits were shorted in some places but weak current still was available, that the water system was in good condition, and that gas was expected to be available tonight. “This is a great day for the 5th army,” Clark told correspondents after his conference with corps commanders to map what he called “further advances.” “We have smashed parts of two German armies, taken 20,000 prisoners, wrecked great stores of German material. I would like to give credit to the air force, which has done magnificent work. I also would like to pay tribute to the men and women of the 5th army who made the supreme sacrifice so we could carry on.” United Press correspondents in Rome reported that the = (Continued on Page 3—Column 1)

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HUMBERT MAY TAKE ITALIAN THRONE TODAY

Emmanuel | Reported Ready To Sign Over Powers

As He Promised.

By CLINTON B. CONGER United Press Staff Correspondent

NAPLES, June 5.— King

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was scheduled to sjgn today certain documents of state believed to transfer his royal powers to Crown Prince Hum-

bert. All signs indicated that before nightfall the king would have formally yielded his royal power, as he promised April 12 to do when the allies occupied Rome. Victor Emmanuel was prepared to sign the documents at his closely guarded royal villa this afternoon, it was learned a few hours before the ceremonial procedure was scheduled.

Create Generalcy A formal announcement of the king's action was not expected before this evening, when Gen. Nelson MacFarlane, head of the allied liaison mission to the Badoglio government, returns to Rome’ from the royal villa. The documents were understood to constitute the formal creation of a lieutenant generalcy for Humbert, in whom the king's royal powers would be vested, thus constituting the “retirement” to which Victor Emmanuel committed himself. Some sources had expected the pressure-ridden head of the House of Savoy to insist that the transfer of power be made from the throne he left so hurriedly nine months ago. However, the expected action constituted an implementation of the letter and spirit of the April pledge of a “formal transfer of power on the day on which allied troops enter Rome.”

WORLD TO HEAR ROOSEVELT TONIGHT

Broadcast on Rome Scheduled for 7:30.

By MERRIMAN SMITH United Press Stafl Correspondent WASHINGTON, June 5.—President Roosevelt will proclaim the fall of Rome to the nation and the

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{world tonight in a 15-minute fire- . |side chat expected to remind the _ | axis satellites, perhaps for the last “| time, that they must get out of the 20% war now or share the certain de3% | struction awaiting Germany.

MEMPHIS, Tenn., June § (U. P.) ~The Memphis United Press bureau today was busy denying another invasion rumor -— that Mrs. Roosevelt had entered Rome with the allied forces. Numerous callers wanted to know what the