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Broader After-Hours Program During Year Also Is Planned.
"Wider use of the grounds and
occupation forces last
Shots at Prince Mark ‘New Regime in ltaly
ROME, June 9 (U, P.).—-A wild burst of gunfire, apparently aimed gf Crown Prince Humbert, broke up a royalist demonstration before the Quirinal palace today as Marshal Pietro Badoglio turned over the govSrimenis of iiberated aly 10 3. 2ew egime headed by Jvanos Bonomi, Ti» year-old Italian underground leader. Humbert, to whom King Victor Emmanuel delegated all his royal powers after the liberation of Rome last Sunday, was making one of his Ses, Sora] apheaiances in the capital sts he Sed to eicape the
September. He had just stepped out on a palace balcony to wave to some 5000 (Continued on Page 3—Column 2)
SEVER NAZI
~ LIFELINES INTO CHERBOURG; NEW BATTLE LOOMS IN ITALY |
putldings of the city’s school system during the summer and also after school hours throughout the year is provided for in a program announced today by Virgil Stinebaugh, acting superintendent of schools. Plans call for immediate inaution of the program, approved the board of school commisgloners following a series of conferences attended by its members, Mp. Stinebaugh and the administrative staff of the public schools. program concentrates pria on providing enlarged edugational activities for youth. It also provides for a municipally-spon=-sored recreational program for the direction of which authority is vested in the park board.
To Orgainse Orchestras
Organization of drchestras in the elementary schools and regular instruction in instrumental music throughout the summer is one of the first steps to be taken in putting the program into operation. Other outstanding features inglude: EXTENSION to practically all schools in the city of the 4-H clubs. INCREASED emphasis on the Victory gardening program in which more than 17,000 children are en-
SUMMER CLASSES for both ele-
Jienident, of the A “is found in economic .
on that investment” Plans for after-school activities next year, Mr. Stinebaugh said, are an outgrowth of work done in this fleld experimentally during the last three or four years. Under supervision of the physical education de-
five schools this spring, the centers being open from 3:30 to 5 p. m. and
JURY VISITS SCENE OF FATAL ACCIDENT
A criminal court jury of eight women and four men went to Raymond and Harding sts. today to view the scene of a traffic accident where Robert Adams of Beech Grove was killed two years ago, The jury is hearing the case of Loren Pullum, 2622% W. Washington st, charged with reckless homie¢ide and manslaughter, in connecgion with Adams’ death. The state charged that Pullum to stop at a preferential street his car collided with the auSomobile driven by Mr. Adams,
LEBANON YOUTH WINS
Times Special : LEBANON, June 9.—~Elbert D. Jones of Lebanon, a junior at Earl- _ ham college, won third prize in the ° Young Republican National federation's first voter contest. He was awarded a $25 war bond for his
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TIMES FEATURES
ASKS PROBE OF
son Inquiry Into Alleged Political Activity.
By DANIEL M. KIDNEY Times Stall Writer WASHINGTON, June 9.—Rep. Charles M. La Follette (Evansville, R) has asked Secretary of War Stimson to have the war department investigate alleged political activities of Maj. Elmer “Doc” S8herwood, he revealed today. Request for the investigation grew out of the fight Mr. La Follette has
Informed here today of Mr. La Follette’'s request for a war department investigation, Maj. Sherwood said he had no comment to make.
launched to oust Republican State Chairman John Lauer and the new Republican national committeeman, Robert W. Lyons, Mr. Lauer took issue with Mr. La Follette’s reference to Mr. Lyons’ Ku-Klux past in Indiana and the battle was on. The red-haired eighth district congressman now contends that Lauer and Lyons must go “for the good of the ticket.” He charges that Lyons plans to defeat him by using “his money and minions” to elect the Democratic candidate, Charles Eichel, Evans-
Sherwood, Mr. La Follette contends. he has asked that Maj, Sherwood, a long-time Indiana G. O. P.
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Hardy Paratroopers Seize Prized Enemy Flag in Village Assault
: Acme Telephoto This map dramatizes the battle for Cherbourg as allied forces strike out from the Carentan-Isigny front to sever the Normandy peninsula. They are believed aiming to unite with airborne troops landed near Coutances. Forces at Bayeux are striving to join the Carentian troops and move into St. Lo.
{NORTH OF ROME
g | —Germany’s armies were in
{Nazi 14th army had reached
FOE'S RETREAT SLOWING DOWN
Waves of Allied Allied Bombers Strafe Highways; Nazis | Use Horse Carts.
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Na-
army troops have captured the | railway center of Viterbo on the main Rome-Florence line 45 miles | north of the Italian capital, it was announced today.
ALLIED HEADQUAR TERS, Naples, June 9 (U. P.).
full retreat across Italy from the Adriatic to the Tyrrhenian sea almost 50 miles above Rome today, but front dispatches indicated the Nazi high command was struggling to reorganize and turn on the pursuing allies. Waves of allied bombers and fighters strafed German troop and transport columns from dawn to mid-afternoon today and returning pilots said units of the retreating
a point north and west of Lake ‘Bolsena, more than 60 miles north of Rome. Allied reconnaissance revealed that the Nazis, stripped of a great part of their transport by savage allied strafing, were commandeering farm carts and horses in a desperate effort to withdraw their troops and equipment. Damage 100 Railway Cars
The crawling enemy columns provided a field day for low-flying allied attack planes, and pilots returning to their bases said at least 68 trucks and cars and 60 trooppacked farm carts were destroyed today. More than 100 railway cars were damaged. Nevertheless, the Nazis were slowing the rate of their retreat and trying to reassemble their battle groups for another delaying stand. Official reports suggested that the pace of the allied pursuit also was slackening. Advanced allied units were working feverishly to clear mines and road blocks left by the retreating enemy while the main 5th army forces in their rear struggled to rearrange their communications and supply lines. Orbetello Next Goal
American units were reported far beyond Civitavecchia, 40 miles above Rome on the Tyrrehenian coastal road, and pounding ahead toward
Hoosier Heroes—
4 Fliers Killed In Pre-Invasion
Raids on Europe
PRE-INVASION air raids over enemy territory in Europe have added four more Indianapolis men to the list of Hoosiers killed in agtion. * KILLED Lt. Charles Gi. Noblitt, 3145 Central ave. 8, Sgt. John H. Stuart Jr. 5018
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We're Waiting to Hear From Ernie—
® The war department revealed in Washington today that Ernie Pyle, Indianapolis
FILM STARS TO AID IN INVASION RALLY
Veronica Lake, Paul Lukas To Be Here Monday.
Beautiful, blond Veronica Lake, Academy Award Winner Paul Lukas and Orchestra Leader Paul
Glider Crashes
On Nazi
GHQ:
Garrison Yields
By BRUCE
MUNN
United Press Staff Correspondent NINTH AIR FORCE TROOP
CARRIER BASE,
England, June
9.—Behind the German west wall, a flock of American gliders cut loose from its tow plane and slanted for the moonlight land-
ing zone below.
As one wide-winged troop carrier swooped silently across an
enemy-held town
a cloud blotted
out the moon. In the temporary blackout the glider crashed to a
grinding stop.
The nose was flipped up and troops poured out expecting to run for the shelter of trees and farm buildings. To their amase-
ment, Col. Ralph
Bagby, Evans-
ton, Ill, related today, they found
themselves on the building. Working their
To0f of & large way gingerly
down through the bullding they
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the next major city objective on that route, Orbetello, 38 miles to the north. (A German communique said Nazi forces evacuated Tarquinia seven miles above Civitavecchia.) A United Press eyewitness report received from Civitavecchia disclosed that the port was almost completely wrecked by allied bombers.
FDR Expects
that he is expecting a visit before
ples, June 9 (U.P.).—Allied 5th |"
|ing for European war refugees and
-testablishment of an Italian govern-
De Gaulle to Visit in July
WASHINGTON, June 9 (U. P.).— President Roosevelt revealed today
mid-July from Gen, Charles de| Gaulle, head of the French committee of national liberation which claims authority as the provisional government of France, The President also: 1. Remarked that the invasion of Europe is making slow progress, but it is progress.” 2. Announced allied plans for car-
{revealed that up to 1000 of them {now in southern Italy will be {brought to Ft. Ontario, near Oswego, N. Y. 3. Reiterated his desire for the
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BOMBER FLEET BLASTS MUNICH
1250 American Planes Fly From Italy to Lash
German City.
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Naples, June 9 (U, P.).—A great sky fleet of 500 to 750 fighter-escorted
Nazi fighter opposition to bomb the
today in the first Italian-based raid of the war on that industrial and communications center. Striking more than 500 miles across the Alps from their bases in southern Italy, the giant American raiders cascaded a great weight of explosives and fire bombs through a heavy overcast blanketing the city.
Lightning and Thunderbolt fight-
off Nazi fighters that battled the formations across Austria and the southern Reich. Munich has been pounded repeatedly by British-based bombing fleets, but until today it had been
Munch area of southern GemBany
A powerful escort of Mustang, ers, numbering perhaps 500, fought
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ENEMY HINTS NAVAL ARMADA OFF BIG PORT
‘Allied Spearhead Believed Near St. Lo; Junction of
Bridgeheads Seen.
LONDON, June 9 (U.P.).—The united nations radio at Algiers said today that allied airborne troops have captured St. Mere Eglise, on the main railway line to Cherbourg. By VIRGIL PINKLEY United Press Staff Correspondent ALLIED SUPREME HEADQUARTERS, London, June 9.—American armored forces driving westward against hard fighting into the base of the Normandy peninsula have cut the east coast railroad and highway to Cherbourg, the two Nazi lifelines to the great port, it was annouficed officially today. A spokesman at Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower's headquarters revealed that operations generally “continue satisfactorily, with the beachheads enlarging” on the fourth day of the allied invasion of Northwestern France.
The Germans reported that a great naval armada of several hundred vessels sailed eastward past Cherbourg toward the assault area early today, evidently to pour powerful reinforcements into the beachheads. Allies Drive on St. Lo
Nazl reports also said an arme ored spearhead was approaching St. Lo, 20 miles southwest of Bayeux and half way across the peninsula, and the Germans might be forced to abandon Cherbourg in the face of the developing allied drive to isolate it. Front dispatches revealed that Lt. Gen. Omar N. Bradley, come-
considered beyond the effective
American heavies. Munich, the birthplace of the] Nazi party, is an important link in
tending down into southern and southeastern Europe.
MARTINSVILLE MAN DIES MARTINSVILLE, Ind., June 9 (U. P.) —Funeral arrangements ars made today for Don Wiggins, 43, Martinsville, who was burned fatally last night when his cabin near here was destroyed by fire.
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acknowledge one armored spear-
half way across Cherbourg penindoomed.
Farther inland, other allied forces
FRENCH POPULACE SEALED’ BY NAZIS
Lock Homes, Ban Travel As Sabotage Spreads.
LONDON, June 9 (U. P.).—The Germans invoked strict emergency
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range of the Mediterranean-based'
the German railway network ex-|
INVASION—Americans cut two Nazi lifelines to Cherbourg; Nazi sources
head is approaching St. Lo, 20 miles southwest of Bayeux and
mander of the American invasion forces, had gone ashore in France |as his troops were battling their way into the vital transport net- | work supplying the enemy garrison at Cherbourg. At supreme headquarters here it was revealed that Bradley's forces, battling hard and grimly, had struck across the 27-mile stretch of the Cherbourg-Carentan highway at several places. Advanced elements pushing on beyond the highway cut the broad
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On ‘the War Fronts
ITALY—Allied tanks and infantry pursue fleeing German 14th army but enemy retreat is slowed and new battle looms in North Italy; Nazis begin general retreat from Adriatic coastal line.
AIR WAY—Stormy weather whittles
sula; admit Cherbourg may be| down allied air umbrella over ine
vasion front.
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