Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 June 1944 — Page 10
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seized in the first of an offensive designed | Finland out of the war, One Soviet column broke through to the southern terminus of & paved
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and its location was not disclosed, his mother, Mrs. Fern L. Phebus, 1128 Central ave, believes her son was one of the 1000 men lost in the European theater. She will receive the purple heart awarded posthumously to Sgt. Brooks. The 33-year-old soldier was in training 19 months at Keesler field, Miss.; Pt. Myers, Fla, and at the Las Vegas gunnery school, Nevada. He served as an instructor before going overseas. At the time of his induction at Camp Blanding, Fla, Sgt. Brooks was employed by the Crane Co. in Jacksonville, Fla. He had not lived in Indianapolis for two years. He was a graduate of Technical high school. ” . w SGT. RAYMOND V. FARMER JR., a member of the army air force
highway from Viipuri with the capture of Kivennapa, 40 miles south-| east of Viipuri and 32 miles northwest of Leningrad, in a five-mile, advance. At the western end of the offensive, a coastal force seized Vammelsuu, 45 miles south of Viipuri and 16 miles across the pre-1939 Russian-Finnish border. The border was moved north of Viipuri following the 1039-40 Russian-Finnish War.
Raivola Captured Raivola, 42 miles southeast of Viipuri on the main Helsinki-Lenin-grad railway, also was captured. Completely through the new Mannerheim line built by the Finns following their initial advance of the present war in the summer of 1941, the Russian army now was &approaching an intermediate defense] line south of a third defense belt protecting the immediate outskirts of Viipuri. Even the intervening terrain be-| tween the enemy defense lines was interlaced with pillboxes and other defenses, however. Numerous lakes | dotting the area further favored the defenders. On the approaches to Latvia, other Soviet forces suddenly at-|
tacked northwest of Novosokolniki|
and captured enemy trenches. The Germans counter-attacked with infantry and tanks, but finally withdrew after losing 200 men. Russian troops north of Iasi in
Romania broke up an enemy attack two brothers, Pfc. James C. Sort-| sajd most of with a bayonet charge that killed well, a radio operator in the field, knocked out by the air force when
100 axis officers and men.
TWO HERE VICTIMS OF HOLDUP MEN
Miss Mary Walker, 107 W. North ing with a quartermaster unit in gnaki and field grey. Once I saw
st. was robbed of $2 and an $8] i Hudson and Miss Lois Sortwell, both,
money order by a taxi driver last night. Lawrence Yeager, 47, walking along Ohio st. towards his home at 523 N. Alabama st, was slugged by three men who emerged from an alley near Toledo st. and robbed him of $3 in cash.
intelligence branch, was killed May 9 in a plane crash in Nadzab, New Guinea. He is the husband of Mrs. Alice Parmer and son of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond V. Farmer, all of 2025 W. Ida st. Overseas since March, he enlisted in the army air forces in September, 1940, and received his training at Chanute field, Ill, at the army weather school in Grand Rapids, Mich. and later was stationed at a staging area in North Carolina. A native of Kentucky, Sgt. Farmer attended high school and grade school in Bedford. Survivors besides his wife and parents are a 17-month-old son, Timothy Jay Farmer; two brothers, Billy and Bobby, and a sister, Patricia, all of Indianapolis. » » » CPL. GEORGE H. SORTWELL, who had been reported missing last year, was killed in action Nov. 27, 1943, in North Africa, a month after he arrived overseas. He was 31. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. James O. Sortwell, 541 N. Miley ave. The 21-year-old corporal was a control tower operator in the army air forces and was inducted in November, 1942, Before he entered service, he was a coal truck driver. 'A graduate of Washington high school, he received his training at
Buis, 303 E. 19th st, were killed in action, i
,e eS : TWENTY HOOSIERS outside In-| dianapolis have been killed in action on the various battlefronts.|
Killed in-the Mediterranean war sone are T. Sgt. Rodney H. Blackford, brother of Mrs. Ruth ©. Clayton, South Bend; Cpl. George L. Clegg, son of Cecil G. Clegg, Nabb; Pfc. Ralph E. Conner, son of Mrs, Bessie Conner, Churubusco; Pvt. Clarence E. Cremer, son of Mrs. Amanda Cremer, Ft. Wayne; Pfc. Francis L. PFirsich, son of Mrs. Laura Firsich, Batesville; Pfc. Arthur E. Fuhrmark, son of Arthur 0. Fuhrmark, East Chicago; Cpl John B. Hill, son of John Hill, La Porte, and Pfc. Fred E. Jessup, husband of Mrs. Mildred M. Jessup, Anderson. Others are Cpl. Walter E. Krisher, husband of Mrs. Dorothy Krisher, North Manchester; Pvt. Carl E. Lee, husband of Mrs. Carl E. Lee, Bicknell; Pvt, Harley W. Long, husband of Mrs. Thelma W. Long, Columbus; Pfc. Ermal R. Lynn, son
Ritter ave, and Cpl. Charles W.|
Tech. 5th Gr. Paul H. Ellinger, brother of Wayne Ellinger, BourE. Henderson, son
of Mrs. Lottie Kazmerski, Gary; Cpl. Joshua Nicholson, husband of Mrs, Lillian Nicholson, Gary; Pfc. Eugene G. Struhs, son of Mrs. Theresa A. Struhs, East Chicago, and Pvt. William A. Wells, husband of Mrs. Ella Wells, Bloomington,
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yet he wasn't wounded. Another liaison officer, Lt. Robert Dixon, Los Angeles, said: “They've pinned us down with mortars and 88's in the narrowest front. I fought in water up to my hips and then crawled to the forward command post. I mean I half-walked, half-crawled because if I'd gotten down on my belly I'd have drowned. Men were falling all around me. I don’t know why I wasn’t shot.” Dixon was among the paratrooper pathfinders who landed
radio operator's school in Chicago. | Besides his parents, survivors are
|artillery in the Southwest Pacific, | baugh, 3712 Ruckle st; Lt. Col} |John ‘W. McPheeters, husband of son of Mr. and Mrs. H, R. Aughinand Pfc. Frank W. Sortwell, serv-
| England, and two sisters, Mrs. Janet,
of Indianapolis. - A brother-in-law, |
with the army air forces, »n ” = THE WAR DEPARTMENT today {confirmed the previous reports that S. Sgt. Clayton L. Aughinbaugh,
HIWA
Sgt. Hudson, is serving in England cles until it fell mortaly wounded.
on D-day with the assignment to reconnoiter German positions. He these had been
he found them. The fighting around Carentan spared neither beast nor man. through field glasses I saw cows, mules and horses fall with men in
a shepherd dog streak out of a house that just had been struck by a shell and run madly in cir-
Once there was a momentary dogfight when Spitfires came in to chase away a few German fighters.
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post where I found the men still able to joke after being pinned down for hours in the swamps. The wounded came in with teeth chattering, drenched to the skin. First aiders held cigarets to their teeth while their bloodsoaked clothing was cut away from the wounds. For some it was the last cigaret. They just puffed silently, shut their eyes and died before me. A wounded German officer refused hot boullion and lay clamoring on his litter for wine.
ACCEPT DE GAULLE GROUP
LONDON, June 13 (U. P.).—The French information service reported today that the exiled govern-| ments of Belgium, Luxembourg and | Czechoslovakia had recognized the provisional government of France— { the designation recently adopted by Gen. Charles de Gaulle’s French committee of national liberation.
BOOST POSTMASTERS’ PAY WASHINGTON, June 13 (U. P)). —President Roosevelt has signed legislation granting pay increases to postmasters and postoffice supervisory employees for Saturday overtime work. The bill, acording to, house postoffice committee at-
~ In Hills 50 to 70 Miles Above Rome. i (Continued From Page One) moved on four miles to Latera. At the same time, South African armside of the lake to within about six miles of Orvieto, meeting bitter opposition in the Bagnoregio sector.
British 8th army columns also were encountering stiff resistance
- at the eastern flank of the German
line, pushing slowly up the north side of the Tiber river to within a dozen miles of Terni, 50 miles above Rome. The new units thrown into the enemy battle line were believed to be second-rate troops hurriedly pressed into action for a delaying
‘| stand, including a division of cap-
tured Asiatic Russians, and headquarters spokesmen expressed doubs that they would be able to do more than slow the allied advance momentarily, ‘ Meanwhile, the Naz 10th continued its hurried but still orderly retreat all the way from the Adriatic coast to the central Appenines under relentless pressure from the British. British. spearheads drove the Nazis from Popoli, an important junction point on the Rome-Pescara highway 28 miles inland from the Adriatic coast, while other columns advanced north and west from captured Avezzano. The two forces were only about 20 miles apart at Avezzano and Popoli and the Germans were reported pulling out hurriedly. Allied fighter-bombers and medium bombers continued their pounding of the retreating Germans and highway and rail targets all across central Italy. Flying 1100 sorties without encountering a single enemy plane, the allied air forces lost four planes. R. A. P. Liberators and Wellingtons struck into Hungary before dawn today to dump their 4000pound blockbusters on a big oil refinéry near Komaron, touching off huge fires and explosions,
CIRCLE PLANS PARTY The June circle of St. Philip Neri's Catholic church will give a dessert card party in the school hall tomorrow at 1 p. m. Mrs. Timothy O'Neill is chairman of arrangements.
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29th infantry divisions and the 82d and 101st airborne divisions—a total of six announced so far.
Ten Divisions in Fight
the 3d and 50th British infantry, the 6th airborne, and the 3d Canadian infantry division. The 1st and 2d U. 8S. infantry di-
as the Indian division because of its Indian head insignia. While the Americans were driving forward on the peninsula, the British at the other end of the beachhead burst suddenly out of a pocket over the Ome canal between Caen and the sea to take Troarn, five miles east of Caen—a five-mile advance which seriously threatened the German position inside battered Caen. Plan Encirclement
Simultaneously other British
trom a point somewhere between Caen and the Cerisy forest in an effort to get behind the city from the south. More than 10,000 German prisoners have been counted, it was announced officially, While the main forces were advancing less than 12 miles southeast of Cherbourg, swift mobile American patrols surged ahead and probed the approaches to the port, allied headquarters revealed. The highway junction of Pont I’Abbe was captured by the Americans in a five-mile advance from Ste. Mere Eglise, 20 miles southeast of Cherbourg, toward the west
Pont I'’Abbe lies the communications center of La Haye du Puits, through which pass the single-track
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near of the Normandy peninsula 14 miles east of Cherbourg.
VETERANS’ BILL ON WAY T0 FDR
52 Weeks’ Unemployment Pay Provided.
WASHINGTON, June 13 (U. P.. —Congress completed action today on the “G, I Bill of Rights” authorizing benefits for veterans of the present war. The last vole was on house acceptance of a conference report which ironed out differences between house and senate versions Ultimate cost of the measure is estimated at $3,000,000,000 to $6,500, 000,000. The house action was by an unanimous roll call vote of 378-0. The senate agreed to the confer-
President Roosevelt's signature. Under the terms of the bill, veterans would be provided: 1. A maximum of 52 weeks’ unemployment compensation at the rate of $20 weekly at any time dur-
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CITE HOOSIER OFFICERS
Brig. Gen. Henry B. Sayler of Huntington and Col. Jarred V.
promotion to the rank of major gene tively.
ZOUAVE DINNER SET
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