Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 June 1944 — Page 2

A Weekly Sizeup by the Staff of the Scripps-Howard

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They believe that when the full story can be told, the achievements

Cherbourg Necessary to Allies

WHEN YOU HEAR that Cherbourg is ours youll know one more vital goal has been achieved. Invasion can't succeed unless we get

at least one deep-water port soon.

of supplies can’t be landed expeditiously on beachheads. With a port, raliroad facilities, warehouses, things can begin to move.

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Monday afternoon, know how well He had just come from a swim and he chatted with them, apparently relaxed and good humored, until almost time for his broadcast on the fall of Rome— the psychological-diversion speech that took place during early hours of the great movement across the channel. He even remembered to give one freshman congressman the pen with which he had signed the congressman's first bill. »r Fd

Dewey Backers Busy

DEWEY SUPPORTERS are trying for a first-ballot nomination and this is the way they figure it: If the first 12 states to answer roll call go for Dewey, it'll be a stampede from there on.

So Dewey backers concentrate on three of the 12 that they're still not sure of—California, Illinois, Indiana. Bricker claims some Arkansas votes, but not enough to upset the program.

Note: G.O.P. Chairman Spangler's confidence that the Republican convention .will be over in four days is regarded as concession by national headquarters that Governor Dewey is in—on an early ballot, if not the first. Spangler postponed resolutions committee meeting two days (to June 21) to permit attendance of two senators expected to have major roles in platform-writing— Taft (O.) and Vandenberg (Mich.).

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FORMER GOVERNOR MARTIN L. DAVEY (D.) of Ohio is having his revenge on Ohio's Governor Bricker, who succeeded him in 1939. Davey is circularizing members of congress (in which he once served), accusing Bricker of spreading “falsehoods” about his administration, denying that Bricker's record of fiscal management was better than his own.

Pullmans May Be Scarce

YOUR PULLMAN RESERVATION may be canceled on short notice this summer, when wounded start coming back from Europe. All railroads have agreed to shift sleeping cars to military use when asked to do so. , But: ODT Director J. Monroe Johnson is having troubles of his Own as one top man after another in ODT resigns. When ohne of his high-ranking assistants gave notice, Johnson “froze” him on his job. The executive went on a sit-down, finally was permitted to depart.

. s 2 UNDER PRESENT procedure, events leading up to a possible second seizure of Montgomery Ward's Chicago properties could reach their climax about the time the Republican national conven-

FINLAND REPORTS Mes.

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of Leningrad.

Ld . ARMY ESTIMATES that more than 300 vitally needed airplane engines were lost in this week's wildcat strike at Wright Aeronautical Four-day shutdown arose over assignment of seven Negroes 10 assembly line formerly manned exclusively by white workers. At the peak, 15,000 were idle. = FOOD REQUIREMENTS of occupied areas, coupled with domestic feed scarcity, point to shortages next year, possibly more stringent rationing. War food administration foresees cuts in production of cattle, hogs, poultry and eggs in 1945, due to feed situation. Ei YOUNGER CONGRESSMEN, at White House for a social visit

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the nature of a diversion.

everybody's expectations. ”

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the President can keep a secret.

tion meets in that city—which would give delegates a topic for considerable conversation, = s s

TEXAS POLITICIANS wonder where Secretary of Commerce Jesse Jones and Surplus Property Administrator Will Clayton stand on Texas “revolt.” Jones’ nephew, George Butler of Houston, chairman of Texas Democratic executive committee, is aligned with the anti-fourth-term “regulars” whose presidential electors are primed to bolt the party nominee, and Clayton's business partner, Lamar Fleming, also of Houston, is said by some here to be one of the masterminds of the “regulars,” as well as a contributor. Clayton himself once contributed to the Liberty league.

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Two Texans Worrying?

TWO PROMINENT Texas congressmen are said to be in real trouble about getting renominated. Rep. Hatton Sumners of Dallas, chairman of house judiciary committee, is being criticized at home for carrying New Deal and anti-New Deal water on either shoulder: C. I. O. opposition may materialize into a real factor in that district. Rep. Richard Kleberg of Corpus Christi, already in some difficulty, gave himself a jolt on the chin, some of his colleagues think, when he admitted his office ac cepted “deductions” from the salary of a page boy appointed under his patronage. He's one of the family that owns the vast King ranch in Texas. = 2 ” STRATEGY of those backing legislation to exempt insurance from anti-trust laws, thus countering supreme court ruling this week, will be set in next few days. Rules committee has already given right of way to simple exemption measure, but decision raises question whether this should be called back, rewritten in more detailed and specific form. Either way there'll be a bitter fight over it on the floor. =» os o - ANOTHER UP-COMING house fight: Over auditing control powers in war-contract-termination bill. It’s due in the house next week, Bill reported by judiciary committee gives major say to war agencies, but Rep. May, military affairs chairman, and others, want Comptroller General Warren to do the auditing. May's own committee is split on the issue, and members af the antiWarren: group—who say routing through the comptroller's office would slow termination of huge number of contracts — believe

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taking up position,” it reported, claiming that in the first three days of the invasion more than 200 allied tanks were knocked out and “several thousand” prisoners taken.

Bradley ‘Satisfied’

patch in the combined press invasion pool said Bradley told correspondents he was satisfied with the progress of the campaign so far. He said he expected German coun-ter-attacks by possibly three divisions, but observed that the Nore mandy hills were good for the allied defense. Nazi reports said the Americans attacked near Carentan with about four infantry divisions and one armored division, at the same time dropping paratroopers behind the German lines. “The German formations withdrew to the north and northwest, and managed to hold out in the evening on considerably shorter lines,” one Berlin broadcast said.

Air Arm Strikes

American and British planes took advantage of improving but still far from ideal weather to swarm back to the support of the invasion armies. About 1000 Flying Fortresses, Liberators and fighters

BARCELONA, June 10 (U. P.). «Additional allied landings on the European continent will be made soon, Carlton J. H. Hayes, United States ambassador to Spain, predicted in an address here last night.

struck at German concentrations behind the battle front. U. 8. Maauder medium and Havoc light bombers joined in the close tactical support of the ground forces, Hundreds of British heavy bombers flew through stormy weather last night to batter four of the Nazis’ most forward airdromes, one only 30 miles below the battlefront, and a transport center near Paris, In the first 12 hours of the day the allied air fleets breaking the almost total lull enforced by bad weather were estimated to have flown nearly 3500 sorties and delivered some 5000 tons of bombs.

Report Armored Battle

A dispatch from aboard a warship off the invasion beach, dated yesterday, said that after an armored battle “we have fallen back slightly south of Caen.” There had been po previous record of allied operations south of Caen, and the dispatch contained no indication that the town had been captured, although suggesting that it might have been by-passed. “Canadian infantry are almost | due west of Caen,” it said. “The| whole position on land still remains very fluid, but we are consolidating rapidly as the Germans bring up their reserves. Laying Down Barrage Henry Gorrell, United Press correspondent, reported from the vicinity of Ste. Mere-Eglise in a dispatch written Thursday that U. S.

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: Lake, Paul Lukas, Willlam Holden,

An unsigned and undated dis-

parker at the South Meridian Inn. Surviving him are a 4-year-old daughter, Claudia Carol; two brothers, Fireman 1-¢ Frank Rairdon, U. 8. navy, and Pfe. Robert Rairdon, with the army in South Carolina, and three sisters, Mrs. Hallie Bradshaw, Mrs. Nellie Huddleston and Mrs. Florence Atchison, all of Indianapolis,

HONORED

8. SGT. FRANK A. ASHLEY, 23, of Frankfort, who worked two years for the Pennsylvania railroad in this city, has been awarded the second bronze oak leaf cluster to the air medal for meritorious achievement in bombing attacks on the Balkans, Austria and northern Italy from April 4 to 17. He served as an aerial gunner with a Liberator squadron of the 15th air force. The decoration was presented by Lt. Col. Kenneth A. Cool, commander of the bombing group. Sgt. Ashley, a graduate of Frankfort high school, has completed 23 missions over enemy territory. He participated in repeated air assaults upon Budapest, Bucharest, Sofia and Ploesti, key strongholds in the German system of supplies and communications in the Balkans, ~ * # CPL. MARVIN LINDLEY of Orleans yesterday received from the hands of Lt. Gen. Mark W. Clark, conqueror of Rome, the distinguished service cross,

lar in size to the Anzio beachhead before it was extended” and contained 20 villages, hamlets and “clusters of houses.” Ten German divisions—possibly 150,000 men—already have been identified in the battleline and it! was possible still others were supporting the offensive. At least three of the divisions were armored units. Radio Berlin acknowledged that the allies were pouring in reinforcements on beachheads all along a 50 to 60-mile front and estimated allied strength at upwards of 18 divisions, perhaps 270,000 men, but claimed seven divisions had been annihilated in the early fighting.

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Donald O'Connor and John Payne.

The music will be played by Capt, Glenn Miller's 50-piece army air force orchestra, with Mr. Whiteman

directing. The state radio program will pre-

cede by one hour a nation-wide

broadcast over all major networks,

c S. SGT. MARTIN W. WARD, 8,| He doesn't take very seriously the 25, son of Mr. and Mrs. Jeft Rair-|, ooo ores ball-turrent gunner on ee en or ihe nation's | fight to oust Lyons and R bil don, 620 S. Foltz st, was killed in a Liberator bomber, $15.000.990. 000 a valion loan: he Engle Area On Ny xd ang |2WArded the first oak leaf cluster enry Morgenthau Jr. secretary Joined army . » to the air medal for participation in had been overseas with an ordnance missions over

Anglian base Monday. Orson Welles A member of the oldest Liberator at 9 p.m, ay »

producer, actor and radio star, will

All seats are free for the rally ssw in the coliseum and no tickets are FOUR MORE HOOSIER fighters necessary. Doors of the coliseum to receive the air medal are: 8. Sgt. George H. May, 26, of [promptly at 7:30 p.m. because of West Point, top turret gunner on|the broadcast. They will be rea B-17 Flying Fortress, for “meri- opened at 8 p.m. torious achievement” during bomb- Stout Field Ceremony

ing attacks on enemy Europe. He| .o. .... from lumbering motors

participated in six combat missions. A citation accompanying the award ed Jing equipment and the

forces of the United States.” lions of American school children * & = who have invested that amount in 8. Sgt. Ralph A. Miles of Rock-|War bonds and stamps during the port, with an 8th A. A F. Flying |s¢hool year. ° Fortress group, for meritorious| AS the equipment was formed in achievement during bombing attacks |® huge oblong on the runway-sliced on Nazi Eunope. Sgt. Miles enlisted | field, Brig. Gen. Frederick W. Evans, in January |of last year, . (commanding officer of the I troop 2 aw Sursier Susan, Sccepted - She First Lt. William M. Elliott of [Deisels. Indianapolis A on Lynn, who enlisted in the ALA F. student, an inscribed plaque made mn October, 1042, for meritorious from the propeller of a captured achievement in bombing attacks Jap Zero. over Nazi Europe. In civilian life With 17-year-old Delzell were he was a pattern maker for the three other school children—a high International Harvester Co. in |school girl, Dotty Friedland: John Richmond. Wilson of school 17, and LaVerne McCauley of St. Catherine's school. In the background were teen-age representatives of Girl Scouts, Campfire Girls, Boy Scouts, 4-H

” ” ” T. Sgt. Jack B. Martin of Valparaiso, radio operator and gunner with an 8th A. A. F. Flying group, who left high school to enlist in January, 1943, for meritorious achievement in bombing attacks over Nazi Europe,

{lie Youth organization and Jewish Youth organization. 13,500 Planes The plaque reads: “To President Franklin D. Roosevelt, commander in chief of our armed forces, Amerifca’s school children are proud to . {present 13,500 planes, 44,700 jeeps came to England in- 1941. and other war equipment. to the

Clearing weather was re lv 1 rough - over the English channel] this morn- Plu ” SOIR, Studs pa

ing after another day of low-lying! 1 ding June. 1944." clouds and surf conditions that Se this jy the home, the

tended to interfere with both air|church and the school form the buland landing operations, wark of democracy,” said Gen. Eisenhower's communique dis- Evans as he accepted for the Presi. closed that coastal command air- dent. “This is still the land of craft, in co-operation with naval opportunity, and just a few short surface forces, have opened a “vig. years ago the boys now courageously orous offensive” against German carrying on the fight for freedom submarines which it said were received their training in schools “threatening to attack our line of such as you represent today. In

communications in the assault these schools they received their

battleground and the Canadians are doing very well in the heavy going.” The Canadian units were revealed to include the 3d division, which

unit in the 8th air force, Sgt. Ward |g; act this which will | Klan background of “Bob” Lyons, ise wears the distinguished unit originate in Texarkana, Ark. Senator Willis declared. r .

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tional convention did the voting, including former Senator James KE Watson, who was in the senate when the K-K. K. took over the party in Indiana in the mid-twenties. Final upshot of the wedding at that time between the K.-K. KX. and

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area.” No details were given of the Cherbourg Seen Target offensive, however, One Berlin broadcast trumpeted| Eight British, Canadian and that the battle for Cherbourg, one Polish destroyers intercepted four of the best harbors on the French | German destroyers near Quessant coast and railhead for a direct trunk [Off the Brittany peninsula Thursrailway to Paris, had begun. (day night.

heavy and medium artillery was laying down a - general barrage, | aided by warships and bombers, as signs increased that the Germans were preparing for a countere attack. “We now are up to virtually full strength in artillery, and the impact of the combined fire seems to have dampened the. spirits of the, German gunners who up to a few hours ago were making it tough for | the United States infantry,” Gorrell said. He reported seeing German placards captured from fleld units ordering the men to “delay the Americans all possible, standfast to the last man.” American tanks and Infantry made a dramatic junction with the

they'll have votes to win. ARY GARRETT ENTERS COURT RACE Mrs. Mary Garrett of Frankfort and Indianapolis, secretary to Samuel C. Hadden, chairman of the

state highway commission, has an-

nounced her candidacy for the Democratic nomination for reporter of the supreme and appellate courts

| Bayeux yesterday while another

The latest Soviet commuriiques did not mention any activity in the | Kareliah area and reported only continued small-scale attacks by Russian and German forces in southeast Poland and Romania,

| | Capture Another Height

Russian troops occupied another | height, the fourth this week, north | of Iasi, Romania, yesterday, killing! 200 German soldiers and capturing | _ 60 others, Tank-supported German infantry. men broke into an inhabited locality | northwest of Tarnopol, a broadcast Soviet communique said, but later! were driven out with a loss of 10! tanks and two self-propelled guns. |

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enemy shipping off the north coast of Norway Thursday night and sank five German vessels including two patrol ships. ———————————————————— ; ~ INSPECTS 0. E 8. : Mrs. Mildred Smith, worthy grand matron, will inspect Millersville chapter 300, 0. E. 8, at 8 p. m. Monday at Millersville Masonic temple. bee, y William will preside.

{at the state convention Thursday. She is the wife of J. A. Garrett and resides at 3419 Park ave, ——

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hard fight to get to the chateau in the first place. Their thrust west from Bayeux was preceded by a night-long barrage by Toms and field guns,

Nazis Are Surprised

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British on their left flank west of

American column to the northwest was battling its way along the main

coastal highway from Ste. Mere-|

Eglise toward Cherbourg. Highway Junction

way and several secondary roads. By seizing it, the Americans tightened theéir siege arc around Carentan, six miles to the west and the hinge of the Germans’ crumbling defenses. German panzers and infantry | probed constantly into the allied | lines. Gen. Eisenhower's communique said British and Canadian forces on the approaches to Caen, the enemy’s principal stronghold, repulsed heavy enemy panzer and infantry counter-attacks early vesterday, but front dispatches disclosed that enemy tanks temporarily wedged into the Canadians’ outer lines.

Panzers Assembling British empire troops also made

Shortly after starting out, the British turned a corner and ran

The Germans were more surprised than the British, A few bursts of gunfire destroyed the gun crews. This action cleared a path across a stream for the British. Fording it, the British brought Up more munitions and prepared for the attack on the German command post. The chateau proved a tough nut to crack. It was like Indian warfare. Posting themselves at windows, the defenders aniped at the es, :

A machinegunner told me the

contact with strong enemy forces near Conde-sur-Seulles, 11%; niles | west of Caen, the communique said. Front dispatches said the German st panzer division was assembling /in the Caen region, while the 12th SS panzer division was moving into tions west of Bayeux and south of the Bayeux-Caen railway. American Thunderbolt fighterbomber pilots returning from Normandy told of miles-long German supply convoys clogging the roads leading to. the battle front from the south and east. One Thunderbolt formation left a 10-mile trail of blasted and )

“All allied” mil stre .| One enemy destroyer was torpesembled in the Car aength 88, od and sunk, another was driven has been thrown in the direction of | Aire onto the beach and the other Cherbourg in an attempt to cut ofr |tWO were damaged and routed. and capture this important base » Planes completed the destruction the Berlin broadcaster said. |O. the grounded destroyer yesterAnother American force haq C7 80d left it a “smouldering driven a wedge nearly a third of ulk. the way across the narrowest part of the neck of the Cherbourg peninsula by pushing west from Ste. Mere-Eglise across the double-track, standard gauge Cherbourg-Paris trunk railway, seven miles inland.

Isigny Fall Important The fall of Isigny, ripped another

Yank Ships in Battle “I gave the order for full rudder and full speed,” the skipper said, “but these things that hit us caused us to lose all electrical power and

we started going in circles.” The skipper said he first thought

opportunity, and that is one of the [strength comparable to that with things they are fighting for today.” | which it straggled back from Sicily.” Daniel Melcher, head of the edu-|- The 5th army pursuit was decational section of the treasury's|scribed as “rapid” but it neverthewar finance division, flew to Indian- (less was unable to catch up with apolis from Washington to be pres- any major element of the 14th ent. for the ceremony. army, despite the disorganisation of Total Is Raised the Nazi withdrawal. The 20th Luftwaffe fleld division was report Additional quota acceptances eq officially to be the only “formed” yesterday by 10 Marion county em- troops encountered north of Rome. ployee groups representing almost| The disorder in the German ranks 1000 workers raised the total was equally apparent east of the pledged for investment in “V™ loan Tiber, where recent prisoners inbonds to $8,161,127. This repre-| inded cooks, butchers and bakers, sented covenant cards from 88,157 |5,me of them only 14 years old. men and women employed in 701| The German withdrawal on the county industrial plants, stores and | Adriatic front apparently was at offices. a more moderate pace, with contact

New employee groups reporting |maintained all along the line, The to the payroll savings division of

the Marion county war finance committee are as follows: - The Bobbs-Merrill Co. Everitt's

Isigny lies half-way between|The capture of Formigny by the Bayeux and Ste. Mere-Fglise, and Americans was announced last is the junction of the coastal high-|night.

chunk out of the enemy’s coastal communications and consolidated the allied hold on a vital stretch of the now-joined beachheads between Carentan and Caen, the two principal enemy strongholds. American forces were believed to {have effected their junction with {the British and Canadians somewhere east of Formigny, nine miles beyond Isigny, and west of Bayeux.

Some of the heaviest fighting on the American sector raged -on the approaches to Carentan, six miles west of Isigny and eight miles be-

they were going to hit she beach, but finally got headed toward sea when the ship stopped. After the crew got off, the skipper left when the main deck was three feet under water,

Moon, caught a force of heavilyladen German craft—believed destroyers, gunboats—between the miles off the east coast of the Cherbourg peninsula, in a spirited action. Both enemy forces were believed attempting to get in position to at-

Another task force, commanded by American Rear Adm. Don Pardee

torpedo boats or motor mainland and the Isles de San Marcouf, five

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the. engagement was damaged and the crew suffered a few casualties when the vessel stabbed through the enemy line, turned and opened fire on the leading German vessel The other allied ships were the

and drove them off | polish destroyer Blyskawica and

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of the loss, the Germans had. only

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reaching here said that the Germans still held Carentan. ‘but the Stockholm newspaper Morgontidningen asserted in a Bern dispatch that the allies were believed in possession of the fortress town.

Reports Reinforcements

A Berlin broadcast said that an American airborne group . north of Carentan had received considerable reinforcements, including elements of the 90th infantry division, Thursday night and Friday. Elements of at least two of the three German armored divisions in action on the Normandy peninsula Were being used against the British and Canadians around Caen and in the area to the west, Front dispatches said the Germans penetrated the Canadians’ outer lines in two tank thrusts during the Thursday night-Priday battles on the Caen front, but the Canadians regained all ground two

from the English south coast to the only four available for action, Normandy beachheads. .

It was announced also that the Coastal Guns Open first American destroyer sunk in the| The American destroyer, sunk by invasion operation Tuesday was hit|the Nazi mystery weapon, was in a by a Nazi mystery weapon. group of three spearheading the . Although the U. 8. ship went down |invasion of one section of the near shore its crew was in the water | French beach. When the U. S.

fire and many were lost. The young|nated spot, enemy coastal guns skipper, whose name was withheld, opened up and the destroyer started said the destroyer sank shortly after |firing 20 minutes before schedule, - “something hit us—I have a pretty| One coastal gun was silenced and good idea what—but better not say|ihe destroyers were shooting it out just what.” : " [with a second enemy battery, firing

‘Blows Up on Spot

One German destroyer was torpedoed by the British destroyer Ashanti and blew up on the spot.|but The other enemy craft, of the 2000- plained that it was fortunate that ton Narvik class, was chased furl-|the ship’s magazine was not hit, ously by the Canadian d for the concussion probably would Haida and Huron and hit the 30 knots,

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