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Resignation of Committee-

‘his former connections with the . Ku-Klux Klan, resigned today as

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_ FORECAST: Partly cloudy with widely scattered thundershowers tonight and tomorrow ; continued warm and humid.

man-elect Ends Fight Arising Over Klan.

By EARL RICHERT

Robert W. Lyons, storm center of 8 Republican party controversy over

national committeeman-elect after 28 of Indiana's 290 delegates exthemselves it a secret poll the G. O. P. Presidential nomination. as favorable to Governor Dewey for Mr. Lyons, unofficial leader of the Dewey forces in the state since 1940, had demanded that a public expression be made by the convention delegates for Governor Dowey before he would resign.

Cites a ‘Passing Folly’

Mr. Lyons’ statement read: “Within the past few days there has been a great deal of discussion some Republicans because the overwhelming majority of delegates duly elected to represent Indiana at our ‘national convention met in a duly called session and elected to a post of party honor a man of whom it is said that ‘more than 20 years ago he was in some] way identified with the Klan’ “There are some who say that this represents a great crisis in the life of the Republican party in Indiana. There are others who believe that the people of Indiana will not be misled and that they will appraise correctly the faet that the

praise correctly whe ine ane ana Indiana's Drive to Raise

in the nation has a better and more honest understanding of the Klan problem than we do. Recalls Black Case “It is known to all of you and to a majority of our citizens that the Democrats have continued to elect from time to time governors

2%) VOLUME 5—NUMBER 80

grounds of Shortridge high school

$281,000,000

Barrage Balloon Sells Bonds Here |

buy bonds. Balloons of the same make are mew protecting the advancing invasion troops in Normandy. It is 35 feet long and is heliuminflated for safety. A second balloon is held on the ground fer inspec tion. They are manned by a five-man crew from Camp Tyson, Tenn, under the command of 2d Lt. R. E. Fox.

(Photos, Roosevelt's

A 35-foot army barrage balloon, the type now sheltering tnvasion | troops on European beachheads, was sent aloft at noon today to fiy ovér Indianapolis for the duration of the fifth war loan drive. The balloon was hoisted on the north grounds of Shortridge

TUESDAY, JUNE 13,

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

1944

|1taly-Based Heavies Blast Munich Area; Oil

Centers Pounded.

By WALTER CRONKITE United Press Staff Correspondent

LONDON, June 13 — American . {bombers dropped 7000 tons of bombs | lon three enemy airfields and Ger- " Iman communication lines to the Normandy coast in France today as strong forces of heavy bombers

based in Italy pounded airdromes and industrial plants in the Munich area. Simultaneously, allied reconnaissance revealed that the luftwafle

The army's newest type barrage balloon rides above the north

calling on all of Indianapolis to

France, ‘June 12 (Delayed). —The parachuting. par-

‘It’s Hell’ Chuting Parson

Said After Care

By HENRY T. GORRELL United Press Staff Correspondent

WITH U. 8S. ASSAULT TROOPS, Carentan,

otherwise it would in the gutters.”

son and I were watching the fighting in the outskirts of Carentan. “It's hell down there; I know because I've been with those kids for several hours,” Chaplain Raymond Hall, Lynn, Mass., said. We lay on our stomachs at an advanced observation post and watched the artillery go after a cluster of German pillboxes which had been pinning the American boys down in gutters. Two panting runners were giving the colonel the position of the German posts. The colonel barked the orders into the radio. We heard his singsong: “Okay, fire!” then “on the way.” The shells went over with a freight train rush. We watched the German pillboxes disappear in clouds and: dust, with flashes of vivid red flame. “Thank God for that one,” whispered the parson. “That had to be placed just right because

he had stayed in splints under fire. Just then Lt. description of the

said. “We crossed

haven't seen man they hit us.”

The following dispatch inaugurates the first direct transmission of news from France to the United States since the invasion,

The parson knows his fighting, because he has been in the thick of it since he parachuted down on D-Day. Doctors and stretcher bearers told me later

arms and legs, injecting morphine and adjusting came in for a personal report because his portable radio had been knocked out. “We were in the leading assault company,” he making good progress.

rallied, reoccupied prepared postions and began to counter-attack with bayonets and grenades. I joe,

Borchert's clothes were torn in many places and his helmet ‘dented by enemy bullets and shrapnel

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FOE RALLIES AT CARENTAN AND NONTEBOURS

Across Peninsula Behind Port.

By VIRGIL PINKLEY United Press Staff Correspondent

ALLIED SUPREME HEADQUARTERS, London, ‘June: 13.—American invasion armies, numbering 100,000 cut half way across the Cherbourg peninsula and patrols were reported probing the approaches to the port, but a front dispatch timed at 1:10 p. m, (French time) today said the Gere

ntan Trip

have hit our kids lying out there

the front line, holding shattered

Jack A. Borchert, Denver, Colo,

He gave a close up parson’s “hell.”

three of the four bridges and were But then the Germans

y of my outfit since the last time

has dispatched more than 500 single-engined fighters into forward airdromes within tactical range of the battlefields in the last few days. Another 500 enemy bombers were reported to have been moved into bases further to the east and headquarters observers admitted that with this striking force the Ger-

control over local argas of the battlefront or to mount a co-ordinated land and air counter-attack against the allied beachheads.

Targets at Munich The Italy-based heavy bombers,

in Second Day

Address, Page 11)

GERMANS TURN

mans may be able to gain temporary | Yanks Meet Stiffening Foe

and other high state officials from

‘ the Klan. It is common knowledge

among those who once indulged in the passing folly of affiliating with

that these officials have not introduced or permitted to exist within the framework of their adminis-

high school where helium tanks and equipment were unloaded yes-

escorted by strong formations of fighter planes, attacked airdromes,

terday.

It will be brought down at 6:45 p. m. each day because of

aircraft engine plants and motor

an army ground force rule which prohibits night flying of the balloon. Lt. R. E Fox and a five-man crew from Camp Tyson, Tenn,

tration the least fragment of racial barrage balloon training center are or religious intolerance. {in charge.

“Moreover, it is known throughout the length and breadth of this

and that our Democratic President second day, Miss Jeanne Crain, 17-

has appointed to the United States

supreme court—not for four years diana,” but for life—a jurist known to have $1,000,000 war bond auction dinner been an active worker in the Ku- land the world premiere of the film Klux Klan. It is universally recog- | tomorrow night.

nized, too, that no breath of in-

tolerance has ever come from his | judicial pen and that those Who notel, a prize foal will be named

scoffed at his appointment have eome to honor him for his legal abilities and for his strict judicial integrity. ‘All Men Make Mistakes’ “The simple truth is that all men make mistakes while at the same time they yearn for some activity that will satisfy the social conscience and the universal sense of justice that everywhere exists among their neighbors. When through error of judgment a man makes a mistake it has been my observation that he, more often then not, proceeds with an excess of zeal to correct his error. To deny him this right is to deny the vaUdity of the universal Christian doctrine of the Forgiveness of Sins. Let us not delude ourselves that the American public will take a different or a more ignoble view. “Today you and I are confronted with the task of serving our country and our party. In what direction does this service clearly lie? Does it lie in denying that the men of our party make human mistakes? Does it lie in denouncing one particular man and in that process offering to the public the deception that we would not allow others of his kind to work or vote within our party ranks? Does it lie in sug-

gesting to the public that when a;

Democrat makes a mistake and becomes a member of the Klan he can

still be a satisfactory state leader

and a good citizen but when a Re-

As Indiana's drive to raise $281 - 000.000 in invasion bonds entered its

year-old starlet of “Home in Inarrived here for the

11,000 Pack Coliseum At the dinner at the Claypool

for Miss Crain and awarded to the {highest purchaser of war bonds. {The foal, donated by Leo C. McNamara, Indianapolis breeder of pacing and trotting horses, will be auctioned off by Governor Schricker. After the dinner Miss Crain will go to the Indiana theater to participate in the premiere of the film which depicts Indiana’s county fair racing activities. Yesterday's opening of the war loan campaign was celebrated by 11,000 enthusiastic Hoosiers who packed the Coliseum last night to hear war bond pleas from movie stars and an air hero and the music of a top-ranking army air force orchestra. Crowds assembled outside the Coliseum doors by 5:30 p. m., and before the doors opened at 6:30 p. m. the enthusiasts had broken down two doors and secured choice seats for the show. Following the state-wide radio broadcast from 7:30 to 8:30 p. m; an hour-long show featured the appearances of the nation's thirdranking war ace, Maj. Walker (Bud) Mahurin of Ft. Wayne; Paul

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ORDERED TO WATER MILK, WITNESS SAYS

‘KLAN FOUGHT

i i posed candidate for the Democratic out as fighter-bombers took advangubernatorial nomination, declareditage of clearing weather to roar

Klux Klan, “neither directly nor in-| directly, neither expressedly nor im-

works in the Munich section. Chief target was the Oberpfaffenhofen airdrome, 15 miles southwest of Munich, which also is used for the ME-14 twin-engined

Bi 4 | assembly of Other targets were the Milpertys-

Hofen ordnance depot on the west{ern side of the city, where two air-

Some of the bombers also attacked i railyards at Innsbruck and oil facilities at Port Marghera, near Venice. ! Meanwhile, the attack by American Flying Fortresses on three en-| emy airfields in France was carried

Member; Lauds: G. 0. P. Group.

Senator Samuel D. Jackson, unop-|

emphatically here today that he had back over the channel in the never been ‘a member of the Ku mounting allied aerial assault} ! against German communications on the Normandy peninsula, By late afternoon the allies since plied.” midnight had flown nearly 4000 sorHis statement was made during|ties, dumping approximately 7000 { itons of explosives on targets in

al fe at which he “aS! prance. Over the battle area the

informed that ever since the Klan it ocking planes met several for-

issue was raised with the election!mations of enemy fighters, but the of Robert W. Lyons, former Klan Germans. took refuge in heavy treasurer, as G. O. P. national com-| clouds.

Miftéeman, FYPOviS to oe effect ‘hat! HILLMAN DEFENDS SUPPORT FOR FDR

said the senator. “In fact, the Klan fought me bitterly when I was campaigning for congress in the fourth district during the 1928 election.”

Senator Says He Was Never craft engine plants also are located. | i ions rushed down from the north and ragtag remnants of the broken

These Heroes Died

ON 5TH IN ITALY

In Hills 50 to 70 Miles

Above Rome.

BULLETIN ROME, June 13 (U. P.)—Lt

Gen. Mark W. Clark, commander of the allied 5th army, said today that 70,000 Germans had been killed, captured or wounded during the current offensive in Italy.

By ROBERT VERMILLION United Press Staff Correspondent

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Naples, June 13.—Fresh German di-

Nazi 14th army have turned on the

mans had rallied around Carentan and Montebourg and that street

HINT ROMMEL figting again was under way iA both towns. FIRED BY NAZIS Allied supreme headquarters of- | ficially confirmed the capture of

| Montebourg and Pont I'Abbe, as re-

Report Marshal Is Demoted Ported earlier today by United Press War Correspondent Henry T. Because of Poor | Gorrell. Headquarters also said the | allies had captured Le Ham, three Strategy. {miles southwest of Montebourg, LONDON, June 13 (U. P).—A|2nd Troaran, seven miles east of

dispatch from the 21st army group's Caen.

CRA i

headquarters to the Evening Stan-

Later it was said at supreme ale

the invasion started, but all indica-

dard said today that it was be-|jjed head t despite lieved Marshal Erwin Rommel has| iy he Ut is been removed from command of the | PrOETess of German counterattacks German troops facing the allies in|3% Montebourg and Carentan the France. |general situation on the Cherbourg No definite news about Rommel |Peninsula wasiivery gratifying.”

the headquarters since Hand-to-Hand Fighting

. | Gorrell was half a mile from tions are that he no longer is in! command, the dispatch stated. |Montebourg, Nasi hedgehog base 14 “Detailed reports beginning to miles southeast of Cherbourg, when arrive from the front.” the dispatch }i'® €0emy counter-attack began.

=: i {He saw U. 8S, artillery lay down a said, “sowed that Rommel's plan smoke screen and shield

for the defense of Hitler Europe

pursuing allied 5th army in the] hills 50 to 70 miles above Rome and! ; the advanced allied columns are! § meeting stiffer resistance all along| : the .battle line, a communique disclosed today. ; Taking advantage of the first ° high ground north of Rome, the Nazis were reported fighting back savagely at four key points on a line extending 80 miles inland from the Tyrrhenian seacoast to Orbetello.

Protect Lateral Highway Official reports indicated, how=ever, that the main enemy forces| We. still were in headlong retreat: toward their secondary defensej: line between Rimini and Pisa, more} : than 100 miles farther north, andj: that the overwhelming weight of}: allied armor and infantry rolling! up from Rome would prevent any serious stand on the present line. American infantry columns ran into stiff opposition along the coastal road southeast of Orbetello, where the German rear

Sgt. Raymond V. Farmer Jr...» killed in plane crash.

Cpl. George H. Sertwell . . . killed

(He was defeated in the general election.)

Congratulates G. O. P.

Asked for his opinion on the fracas in the Republican party re-

been given wide circulation, { “I never belonged to the Klan,” Cites GOP Field, Says ‘We Can't Do Otherwise.’

“I congratulate the Republican

Patriotic men in that party will do President Roosevelt for re-election,

house in order. * “At this juncture, that is their] Testifying at a hearing of the business, not ours. But it will not Senate campaign expenditures comdo to sweep the dirt under the rug. | mittee, in which Republican and They should get those who tracked Democratic members clashed over

WASHINGTON, June 13 (U. PJ. "aes of Like Boisena, where

sulting from the election of Mr.[—The C. I. O. political action com-|,perican and British columns were Lyons, Senator Jackson said: {mittee, in view of “what we think... erging on the key railway town the Republican party is going 10. Orvieto. American units on the

house cleaners upon their fine start. 40.” has no choice but to support | west shore captured Valentano, a

their best, I know, to put their Chairman Sidney Hillman said to- | (Continued on Page 10—Column 5) { {

publican makes the same mistake he forthwith becomes a monster and 8 public menace? “Nonsense! It is perfectly obvious that true service to our nation lies fn making our party strong in its willingness and ability to carry, with humility and intelligence, the massive burdens of the great composite public which it asks the privilege of serving and leading.

Former Employee Testifies At Dairy Trial.

A former employee of Golden Guernsey Farms, Inc. testified in criminal court today that he was instructed by one of the firm's officials to add water to milk sold to the public. : £

place. the dirt in.”)

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the mud into the house in the first | charges that C. I. O. witnesses were (He said he did not know being “harassed,” Hillman said his the names of those “who tracked Organization is urging the Democratic party to “draft” the Presi-' “Upon my return to Indiana I dent and will continue to support regret to find that intolerance and him after the Chicago convention racial hatred has lifted its ugly if he is nominated. head again in Indiana politics. The

Earlier, Hillman had asserted in | [Continued on Page 3—Column 3)

“The great leaders of our party in the days of its glory wrote no golden pages in our nation’s history’ by

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The witness was Arthur W. Knox, former general plant man at the

TIMES FEATURES . On INSIDE PAGES

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MORE RAIN ON ‘WAY, WEATHERMAN SAYS

Amusements ,, 4 Eddie Ash .... 8

Financial ..... 8 Radio

rain was promised by today followinches in city last 3

night.

the

Report Nazi Troops Murder American Paratroopers

guards took up posiuons in the hills astride a lateral highway run--ning inland to Lake Bolsena. . : . Fierce fighting also developed on| TWO Of Latest ‘Casualties

Had Been Reported As Missing. THREE MORE Indianapolis sol-

diers, two of them previously reported missing, have been kided in

RUSS PUSH FIGHTING ww FINNS NEAR VIIPURL =.=

tral ave. Reserves Fail to Halt Big Miley ave. Offense in North.

By M. S. HANDLER United Press Staff Correspondent the ship on which he was a passMOSCOW, June 13. — Finland enger was sunk by the enemy.

in North African theater.

W. Ida st.

went overseas last October,

on the Karelian isthmus today in

a desperate effort to stall the new| (Continued on Page 10—Column 2)

{white American positions as the Germans

a i [nae even graver consequences than! van ced. House-to-house fig}

jat first believed. It is now known. developed to the crash of

. |that when Rommel was in Nor-|,\, e0re ang 89's and the clatter of

{mandy shortly before the invasion ; |he moved forward coastal defense | rnin: ach gun Pistals. ang {zone troops which Marshal Gerd| apeanwhile at headquarters good {von Rundstedt, commander of news—envisaged in some quarters western Europe, had placed some 'p; excellent news indeed—was exdistance behind the front line. | pected within a relatively short “He was so confident that bY time. strengthening the coastal defenses | Lt. Gen. Omar N. Bradley's {he could make the landing so costly | American army holds at least two[that the invaders would be thrown!thirds of the allies’ Normandy into confusion. { beachhead, it was revealed, with “Then he would bring up panzer nearly 100,000 U. S. troops already divisions and hurl the invaders|announced as engaged in combat on back into the sea. This was the|the Cherbourg peninsula.

British Strike at Caen

plan that Gen. Sir Bernard L Montgomery anticipated.” << 3 : The dispatch said it was not be-| The fighting reached new peaks lieved that Rommel had been dis-{of violence at both ends of missed but that the odds were he the French battlefront as the Gerwas no longer in command of mans hit back hard in a bid to German defenses. jae the American gains and the British began a full scale envelop« CHINESE GARRISON ‘IN ment movement on Caen, eastern , ‘anchor of the Nazi defenses. LIFE-DEATH FIGHT] The British threw a ring of armor {around Caen and were battling CHUNGKING, June 13 (U. P.).—| heavily against the German garriThe encircled Chinese garrrison in-|son which holds the most stubborn side Changsha fought a life-and-|strong point encountered so far in death struggle today with a Jap-| the invasion. ; anese army attacking furiously on| Violent tank battles continued in three sides of the city, front line the area of Caen and Tilly-sur= dispatches reported. | Seulles, 12 miles to the west, The Retreat was impossible. The en-! rere emy struck at the south, east and (Continued on Page 10—Column §) north gates of the city. = ss.» On the west, escape was blocked : by the Hsiang river. Sampans ana On thd War Fronts 44 river boats were removed to pre- 3 vent them from falling into Japa- (June 13, 1944) nese hands. Reports from the city a

Cpl. George H. Sortwell, 541 N.

8. SGT. PAUL M. BROOKS, who was killed in action Nov. 27, 1943, when

ihurled fresh reserves into battle] Although the name of the ship

Sgt. Raymond V. Farmer Jr., 2925 | showed that the fourth and greatest

battle of Changsha had been joined in the suburbs.

FRENCH ATTACK RAILS ALGIERS, June 13 (U P.).—German railroads and power stations along the Atlantic wall were attacked and blown up by a French underground army of 700 in the week preceding the allied invasion

INVASION—Americans cut half way across Cherbourg peninsulas to take Pont L’Abbe as Germans rally to push their way back inte = streets of Carentan and Montebourg. : -

ITALY—Germans tum on 5th 3 army in hills 50 to 70 miles al 4 Rome. :

of Normandy, French quarters here disclosed today.

RUSSIA—Finland hurls fresh reserves into Battle of Karelian

Russian offensive, but the Soviets

STOCKHOLM, July 13 (U. P.). to the

Cobb. boee Trt toile ood , Ds Aftonbladet said to ! : : : ret said, a newspaper i 2 | | H bl R | vewming 1x young 3d Neutenant in the|. SvSPRCt, COCC Li LY pad nvasion Is riorripie Keaiiry “Indisputable evidence” that the|throat slit and a German knife be-| opened an offensive in the far By ERNIE PYLE : Germans tortured and _ murdered side his body, He apparently had| north, attacking German posi: Times War Overeapontest American paratroopers during become in .| tions along Litsa river wi rit ioe he logged 1 & Wes while para- empties into the B ts sea 33 di CRMANDY BEACHNEA (By Wireless) —On our first morning week, according to a London broad- Sy miles west of Murmansk. ET ar eo Re a cast by N. B, C. Correspondent aid 2a]. Oliver M. : ! 4 Sach STOP 10 Je divided up later until we were all separated. i i 3 ; e still weren't given any details of the coming. invasion. We ve been sub- re EO il 40 doing on still didn’t know where we were to go aboard oe et ca aE Sis r of (A Hels to the Unit-| left the oldst EE “ling to evacuste Viipuri and other| “ern hin he gig al- moior convey:

—— Pyle: Once a Vague Dread,

us off in jeeps in separate groups,

ship, or what units we

headquarters of a certain outfit,