Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 June 1944 — Page 1
FORECAST: Partly cloudy and somewhat warmer tonight and tomorrow.
FINAL HOME
enced a lot since then.
1 was near the shore hiding from a Nazi patrol as I watched the first allied forces go ashore from the sea at 7:15. I have seen a few thousand paratroops and gliderborne troops whom I nominate now as the bravest, most tenacious men I have ever known hold a bridgehead against
Hitler's armies for over 16 hours despite overwhelming odds.
and completely responsible for the great success the invasion has had in this sector.
I believe the things they have done are almost solely
There is a fierce battle going on here as I write and bullets and mortar bombs, not to mention a couple of snipers, are producing conditions in my vicinity not conducive to constructive thinking. My typewriter got a bad bashing when I rolled on it after a hard landing when I
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THURSDAY, JUNE 8, 1944
I Parachuted Into Europe With The Bravest Men in the World’
By LEONARD MOSELY Representing the Combined Allied Press
BEHIND THE ATLANTIC WALL ON D-DAY (Delayed) (U. P.).—I parachuted into Europe at 2 minutes past 1 a. m. today, six and one-half hours before seaborne forces began their invasion of France, and I have experi-
DRIVE OPENED HERE AGAINST MALARIA PEST
Returning Servicemen Make War on Mosquitoes
A Necessity.
A campaign to eliminate malaria mosquitoes in Marion county was launched today. State health board authorities are preparing a report on the mosquito situation in Marion county to be presented shortly to county officlals. Funds will be asked to put the eampaign in full swing by midsummer and early fall Service Men Return
The necessity for the program arises because thousands of service men are returning from Pacific battlefronts with the malaria parasite in their bloodstream. The report, covering a survey of the mosquito and malarial situation in the county, is being prepared by Joseph L. Quinn Jr., acting director of the division of environmental sanitation for the health board, at the request of President Addison Parry of the county council, and Sherlie Deming, works board president. While the survey is not yet completed, Mr. Quinn said the report will contain a recommendation to the local authorities that a competent sanitary engineer and entomologist be hired to direct a malaria control program. State Program Such a program has been in operation in the state for the last four years. It is increasingly important this year when rainy weather is producing a bumper crop of mosquitoes
and when more and more soldiers, sailors and marines, who have been attacked by the malaria (anopheles) mosquito, are returning to civilian life. There is no known antitoxin and no positive cure for malaria. Once the parasite has been planted in the blood by a mosquito, as in the case of the service men, the best drugs known merely suppress'the disease, The victims may be subject to reeurring attacks of malaria even after they are released from the hospital. . All Precautions Taken
‘The civilians are worrying for fear \ that the anopheles mosquito will pick up the parasites from the service men, deposit them in civilian arteries and make malaria a scourge throughout the country, Health officers are generally of the opinion that every precaution is being taken to prevent the spread of malaria and that civilian worries are unwarranted. The recognized preventive is mosquito control, and local authorities
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WARMER WEATHER PREDICTED TODAY
The weatherman kept his promise of warmer weather last night when the mercury stayed near 60, and he predicted higher temperatures again for today. Today's low was 58 at 6 a. m., 10 degrees higher than the 48 recorded yesterday morning, and yesterday's high was 72, 6 degrees more than Tuesday's recording.
LOCAL TEMPERATURES
6am.....58 10am... 69 7am....60 11am... 71 8am... 6 12 (Noon).. 72 am... 66 1pm..7T73
FILM STARS CET LOAN FETE BI
Gary Cooper, Veronica Lake May Attend Drive Opening Here.
Paralyzed Gil, Active War
Joyce Nelms, a little 10-year-old
wheel chair,
of Mr. and Mrs. Prank Nelms. In May, 1943, she went back to War bond headquarters an-|the hospital. All told, she bas been nounced today that Gary Cooper, home but 11 months since her first Veronica Lake, Helen Forrest, and injury. But she is home again now
. and has set herself up in business. two other Hollywood stars may be Mrs. Alice Farmer, 4046 Rookwood
on hand for Indiana's bang-up gue home teacher for the public opening of the fifth war loan drive schools, has been visiting Joyce Monday night. {twice a week.: In her school werk, Arrangements are being made t0| joyce is in the fifth grade. Part of bring the Hollywood entourage here, .. study is in the line of therapy.
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POLICE DANCE NETS
The show, which will be open to| the public at the Coliseum, will) feature the appearance of Hoosier-| dom’s leading war ace, Maj. Walker (Bud) Mahurin of Ft. Wayne, and
'| Want to Bring the Boys Back as Soon as Possible
is conducting a growing business from her firm's presidential seat, a
Almost three years ago, Joyce, who lives at 2830 Station st., accident ally was shot while at piay. The injury paralyzed her legs. For months she lay in City hospital, then came home a cripple, She is the daughter
10, Condit: Bond 'Business’
girl with big ideas about war honds,
BUSS LAUNCH IASI ATTACK, NAZIS SAY
Nothing Indicates Drive
Linked to Invasion.
LONDON, June 8 (U, P.).—The German DNB news agency said today that Russian troops have launched an attack on a broad front north of {asi in Romania and heavy
Entered as Second-Olass Mstter st Postoffice Indianapolis 9, Ind. Issued daily except Sunday
By RICHARD D. McMILLAN United Press Staff Correspondent Representing the Combined Allied Press
WITH THE ALLIED INVADING FORCES, France, June 8.—Our tanks are rapidly widening a great bulge inside the Atlantic wall. I have just completed a tour of the front line covering nearly 30 miles. We have captured towns and villages and the whole countryside is beflagged with Union Jacks, the Stars and Stripes and the French Tricolor. Crowds are cheering the British and other allied troops, shouting “Bravo Tommies, we knew you would
MILES BEYOND ROME IN ROUT
4 Allied Columns Smashing Disorganized and
Beaten Foe.
By ROBERT VERMILLION United Press Staff Correspondent
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Naples, June 8.—Four' powerful allied columns swept 15 to 40 miles beyond Rome in headiong pursuit of the beaten German 14th army today and front dispatches indicate that the Nazi retreat was degenerating rapidly into a disorganized rout. Harried every step of the way by the onrushing American and British columns, the Nazis were reported putting the torch to everything in their wake, blowing up bridges and highway junctions in a desperate attempt to escape. Low-flying allied warplanes ma-chine-gunned the fleeing enemy, while a force of almost 500 American Flying Fortresses and Liberators swung out over the Riviera to blast their supply and reinforcement lines leading into France.
Coastal City Taken
One allied force drove up the west coast to capture Civitavécchia, 40 miles northwest of Rome. A second advanced along the Claudian
LONDON, June 8 (U. P.
logna and Venice.
Confirmation was lacking.
quarters revealed.
ranean theater, only to find it
The allies were striking parent attempt to isolate the the big port at its tip, one of the best in - northwestern France.
Fresh Nazi Divisions Fight to Hold Cherbourg Peninsula; Air Strips Built by Invaders.
LONDON, June 8 (U.P. at Algiers reported today that the allies had captured Caen.
Cherbourg Is Goal Germany's famous 21st panzer division, which the allies | destroyed several times in North Africa and the Mediter-|
invasion forces in the Bayeux-Caen area of Normandy.
the music of Capt. Glenn Miller's 50-piece army air corps orchestra.
Miller Gets Orders
Capt. Miller has received orders for immediate shipment overseas and will not be here for the performance, war bond officials said. Maj. Mahurin, who returned this
down 21 enemy planes in the European war theater, will speak on the state-wide radio broadcast from 7:30 to 8 p. m. The 25-year-old Thunderbolt pilot returned to England safely May 21 after being shot down over France March 27. He has been ordered to report June 23 to Miami, Fla. for further assignment. . Capt. Miller's orchestra will play for the broadcast and give a concert afterwards to launch the drive
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Hoosier Heroes—
3 HOOSIER AIRMEN KILLED IN ACTION
On Missing List.
fighting is in progress.
way through Bracciano, 22 miles above the capital and a third column raced 25 miles up ¢he main Rome-Florence highway to the out-
Air sources revealed that allied planes already have be-
PRICE FOUR CENTS
come. We have been waiting these hated Germans.”
‘I Examined So-Called Atlantic Wall—1It’s Biggest Bluff of War’
for you. Now we will kill
When | entered Bayeux the inhabitants were crazy
with joy.
As we reached the town, a squadron of our
medium bombers flew over low. Crowds pointed upwards, waving their hands as if the airmen could see them. “That is what frightened the Germans most,” the
French said.
“They scurried underground like rabbits
whenever your fliers came over. During the last few days
before the invasion, your air
attacks were terrific. We
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BULLETINS |
).—The united nations radio
at Algiers today broadcast a communique of the Italian underground reporting the outbreak of an organized revolt against the German occupation forces in
Milan, Bo-
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By VIRGIL PINKLEY United Press Staff Correspondent
ALLIED SUPREME HEADQUARTERS, London, June 8.—Allied armies have “completed successfully” the first phase of the invasion of France, it was announced officially today, and have swung into the battle to destroy German! mobile reserves moved into the assault areas. The fighting in Normandy now is spreading, and is espe-! against excessive optim: cially savage in many sectors as the Germans throw in more await disclosures of actual accomand more armor, the latest word at allied supreme head-, Plshments which of necessity must
reformed, now is opposing the
out beyond Bayeux in an apCherbourg peninsula and win
The battle in France was revealed to have expanded markedly from the original combat area as) ithe Germans threw in masses of | tanks and crack infantry in an ef{fort to stem the allied advance be-
ONY HURDLE TAKEN.
gun to operate on airstrips in the fore the beachhead becomes a major |
BATTLE OF NORTH FRANCE SPREADING AN ALLIES AND ROMMEL"S PANZERS CLASH
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THE FIRST STINSON SAYS
Warns Nation Not to Let Imagination Precede Factual News.
WASHINGTON, June 8 (U. RP), —Allied invasion forces are pouring reinforcements and supplies into their beachheads in France, but “only. the first hurdle has been taken” and “we must look for the full fury of savage counter-attacks in force at an early moment,” Sec= retary of War Henry L, said today.
Stimson
He cautioned the public to guard sm and to
be temporarily withheld from the enemy. “The Germans now are gathering strength and moving in for their real counter actions,” Stimson said. He described allied losses in the initial landings and in the air as unexpectedly light.
Landings Continue
The landing of allied forces continues, he said. The first step in the operation, to establish’ beachheads, has now been accomplished, he explained. The second step is to consolidate them and repell local counter-attacks and then move forward. “The mobile reserves of the en-
week from England after shooting | the Fraternal Order of Police
Capt. Thomas Ruckelshaus
PALS CLUB $4100
About $11,000 in Tickets Sold, F. 0. P. Aid Says.
The donation of $4100, netted on
charity ball, to the police department's Pals club program was announced today by Fred Swego, F. O. P. secretary. The sum represents funds remaining after all charity ball expenses, including a 25 per cent Hout” to Lewis M. Lewis, professional ‘promoter, had been defrayed, Swego said. Although exact figures on total proceeds and expenses were withheld by the F. O. P, Mr. Swego estimated that “something like $11,000” was reaped through the sgle of tickets to the gala affair held in connection with the state F. O. P. convention May 15. Mr. Swego said the profits would be held in a “special fund” in the F. O. P. treasury and disbursed to the Pals club program in separate
skirts of Civita Castellano, capturing Nazi Field Marshal Albert Kesselring’s former headquarters three miles below that town. Simultaneously, British 8th army tanks and infantry, joining in the chase, surged northward along the east bank of the Tiber to seize Monte Rotondo, Sant’ Angelo Romano, Guidonia and Mentana, all about 15 miles beyond Rome. On all four main lines the allied advance was reported continuing at a rapid pace, with only the 8th army columns encountering any important resistance. : Confusion in the German ranks reached the point where even battalion commanders appeared to have lost contact with their general officers, and were attaching their units at random to whatever higher echelon they could find.
FULL ALLIED AERIAL
The broadcast, intercepted by NBC monitors, said the Russ army had thrown tanks and rifle units into the battle in an attempt to [fédapture newly-won German positions in the Iasi sectors. There was no immediate indication that the Soviet assault was part of a general offensive timed to coincide with the allied invasion, and today's Moscow communique reported only that Soviet forces were counter-attacking north and northwest of Iasi. The communique said the Germans had lost 10,000 dead in eight days of futile aton the Russian positions. DNB broadcast said the Rusgained two kilometers on the center and left flank of their at-
E &
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tack line, but claimed German troops recaptured most of the lost ground.
NAZIS EMPTY ROME JAILS ROME, June 8 (U. P.).—Police to-
by the Germans a few hours before
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La Follette Demands Lauer
they withdrew from Rome. 1 Railroads, Fuel Dump. By WALTER CRONKITE
United Press Staff Correspondent LONDON,
POWER HITS FRANGE
Bombing Armadas Assault:
June 8—The full};
assault area, big transports moving in supplies and evacuating casualties. The completed first phase of the fighting was described officially as the securing of a foothold on the continent and the defeat of the German coastal troops in the assault areas. The second, now in progress, is the elimination of German mobile reserves brought into the battle zone. The third, still to be fought, was the battle against the Nazis’ strategic reserves which may be moved in to counter the invasion forces. Engagement of the German strategic reserves “is necessary before a material advance can be hoped for,” an official summary of the situation said.
base and Cherbourg is cut off. emy will undoubtedly be developed with the 21st panzer division al-'into a major action against us,” Stimson said. “It is folly to believe that the time of counter-attack will be- short.” “Conditions will be changing from day to day and it will be to our own
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On the War Fronts
June 8, 1944
INV ASION...Sieadily growing alte 57,529 CASUALTIES IN ITALY invasion forces fan out Irom , ci NETON June 8 (U.P) — Bayeux, first liberated town Inf, “0 "go “citered 2379 France, and battle through streets in yy or
. {ualties in Italy during the three ae ar e 10 nip oft Cher days preceding the fall of Rome,
Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson | AIR WAR—Full striking power of said today. He told a press conallied air arm crashes on Ger-|ference that total U. S. army casman defenses in northern France ualties in Italy through May 30 in wake of shattering R. A. F.| stood at 57,529, of which 9964 were
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raids against rail targets in Paris killed, 38,554 wounded and 8011 suburbs. | missing.
TWO INDIANAPOLIS airmen and a pilot from Bargersville have
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been killed in action and another local flier is missing in the Asiatic
Amusements... 6 Inside Indpls.. 13 ‘Eddie Ash '... 18 Jane Jordan.. 23
Resign as G. O. P. Chairman
By DANIEL M. KIDNEY Times Stall Writer
area. : my ; ey tering double blow by the R. A. F's KILLED WASHINGTON, June 8—Rep. W. La Follette (R. Ind.) |night raiders against railway tarSecond Lt. Norman GQ. Brown |/008Y demanded that both Republican State Chairman John Lauerigets in the surburbs of Paris and 1722 Olive st. : ’{and the yew @. O. P, Nilo! comimifiectin, Robui¢ a hidden Nazi fuel depot 13 miles
striking power of the allied air arm crashed down on the bomb-riddled German defenses in northern France today in the wake of a shat-