Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 June 1944 — Page 1
FORECAST: Continued warm and humid through tomorrow with scattered afternoon and evening thundershowers.
§ VOLUME 55—-NUMBER 83
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FRIDAY, JUNE 16, 1944
Entered as Second-Class Matter at Postoffice Indianapolis 9, Ind. Issued daily except Sunday
| Ernie: ‘Carnage On The Beach Was Startling—We Could Afford . [
pr BENIE PYLE
War Cowmespendent NORMANDY BEACHHEAD, D-Day Plus Two (By Wireless, Delayed) .—I took a walk along the historic coast of Normandy in the country of France.
It was a lovely day for
strolling along the seashore.
Men were sleeping on the sand, some of them sleeping
_ forever.
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Cigars aren't the only things Senator Samwel D. Jackson (left) and Governor Schricker will trade, if the voters are willing. They expeet to take each other's jobs. The senator was nominated for governor and the Funersue for senator at teday's Bestest state convention.
MADDEN DEMANDS CAPEHART PROBE
Homer E.. Capehart, Republican nominee for U. S senator, today announced he had sent a telegram to the
chairman of the senate’s
requesing a “complete, immed
tion into the cost and
With hearty applause, the 1400 delegates to the Demo-|
‘and election committee, and unbiased investigaof his campaign
~ People Shocked by Lyons head the Nazis reported they had
eratic state convention at the Coliseum today adopted a
resolution indorsing President Roosevelt for a fourth-term day. and pledging Indiana's 26 votes at the national convention |
for him. The fourth term resolution snd Congressman Ray Madden's Kkeynote speech calling for a grand Jury investigation of the campaign expenditures of Republican Senatorial Nominee Homer E. Capehart were the highlights of an otherwise dull convention.
Nominations for the 15 offices to be filled were made by acclamation, State Fire Marshal Clem Smith being the last to withdraw from a contested race, leaving the secretary of state nomination to go by default to State Senator Charles Fleming of Gary. There was some bitterness among the candidates who did not go to the post because they felt they had been dealt out by the state administration. But the convention as a whole seemed bent on blasting the Hoosier Republicans. All speakers turned both barrels on the Republican state leadership and even Governor Schricker, who made the mildest speech of all, add-
ed a sentence to his acceptance!
in which he said, referring to the wealth of his Republican opponent, Mr, Capehart:
Without Opposition
“1¢ it takes a barrel of money to win the United States senatorship, then I am already defeated.” Nominated by acclamation were Governor Schricker, for U, S. senator; Senator Samuel Jackson, for governor; Cornelius O’Brien, Lawrenceburg businessman, for the short U. S. senate term; State Senator Fleming, Hammond, for seeretary of state; Ernest Weatherholt, Cannelton, eighth district Democratic chairman; for state auditor; Floyd I. Hemmer, of the state’ farm, for lieutenant governor, Others included Lester E. Holloway, Delaware county treasurer, for state treasurer; Robert Hougham, secretary of the teachers’ retirement fund, for superintendent of public instruction; Mrs, Clara Ward, Indianapolis, for reporter of the supreme and appellate courts;
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Additional Democratic convention news, Page 5.
PLATFORM HITS AT LYONS ‘DEAL’
Democrats See Secret Pledge to Dewey by State
Republicans.
By NOBLE REED After denouncing recent Republican maneuvers as “high-handed| trickery,” the Democratic state convention today adopted a platform, pledging continuance of the party's policies for the “most beneficial program ever recorded since the Declaration of Independence.” The platform President Roosevelt's policies for international | co-operation to win a permanent | peace, “Gone forever is the possibility that an isolated America could avoid war” the platform stated. “Our only hope for future peace lies in effective co-operation with other peace-loving nations.” The Democratic document branded the Republican state platform as a “shameful effort toward disunity . . . & political subterfuge.” “The most remarkable significance of that (Republican) platform is the fact that despite their clamorous and bitter denunciation of this administration they did not have the courage to demand repeal or abolition of a single major Jaw we have passed for liberal government and a better state of life for the masses of the American people,” the platform stated. . In the preamble of the platform, the Democrats branded the state G. O. P. leadership as a “forewarning to the people of Indiana of the
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groups went over the top in the Fighting Fifth war loan drive yesterday by exceeding their quotas set in the pre-campaign “buy-where-
payroll savings division of the Marion county war finance com-
Electric Oo. more than tripled its]
... 26|Pegiers........15| HOOSIER war casualties 18 Radio ........24|today 17| Ration Dates.. 8
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Men were floating in the water. But they didn’t know they were in the water, for they were dead. The water was full of squishy little jellyfish about the
size of your hand. Millions of them. In the center each of them had a green design exactly like a four-leaf clover. The good-luck emblem. Sure. Hell yes. 1 walked for a mile and a half along the water's edge
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Invasion—
2} Miles of Main Escape Road.
By VIRGIL PINKLEY United Press Staff Correspondent
ALLIED SUPREME HEADQUARTERS, London, {June 16.—American troops
KEYNOTER RAPS |advanced today to within 214% § § miles of the main highway and last German-held railroad
of Cherbourg while on the orn flank of the Normandy beach-
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Yanks Are Within
‘blown up sluices and dikes at Caen, | possibly foreshadowing :abandonment of the ruined stronghold. The weather turned the worst since D-day and German resistance in| stiffened in a number of sectors,
‘but supreme headquarters revealed ‘that allies had hammered out
‘Manipulations,’
Declares.
A grand jury investigation here! into the amount of money spent’in the interest of the Republican! nominee for U. S.:sefator (the, nominee was Homer Capehart) was asked by Rep. Ray Madden (D. June 16 (U. Gary) in the keynote speech before 3 p
the Democratic state convention to- bombers ge: § "5 Be duary
“We solemnly call upon the prose-| po cio jast ak
cutor of Marion county to conduct traigh t attack concenan investigation to the end that | * 3 ig oH Rn. boats
Indiana need not face the prospect the allied communiea-
of again bowing its head in sepest tions ormandy beachbecause men selected for high places Jens line Yo'the y
had followed false ideologies,” the] congressman said. “We have heard from our Re-! { gains, especially on the Cherbourg publican brethren that an uncon-| | peninsula where Li. Gen. Omar N. scionable amount of money was| {Bradley's American troops were used during the Republican state driving to cut off the great port. convention in the interest of the, Armored forces smashing across nominee for U. S. Senator.” the waist of the peninsula on a 10Rep. Madden also delivered a mile front were within 2'% miles blistering blast at recent manipula- of St. Sauveur-le Vicomte, rail and tions of Republican leaders. | highway center vital to the mainte“The people of Indiana were nance or withdrawal of the German
Madden |
} {shocked and humiliated when they garrison in Cherbourg.
read news items manipulations,” he said. Score Modest Advances “We condemn as an affront to! To the northeast the Americans good government the reversion to scored modest advances between Ku Klux Klan tactics employed b; Montebourg and and Quineville, a so-called leaders of the Republican four-mile coastal sector in which party who seek, by resurrecting big- | they were pushing toward Valognes otry and intolerance, to rise to posi- and Cherbourg. Confused fighting tions of power in our national and still swirled through the ruins of state government.” Montebourg. The keynoters declared that Re-! A headquarters spokesman revealed that the allies were in firm possession of Caumont, hotly econtested point at the center of the beachhead, and had pushed two miles southwest from it where British units met the enemy in ena and were fighting “superbThe German D. N. B. néws agency reported that Nazi engineers had blown up sluices and dikes at Caen, base anchoring the eastern wing of the German defenses. There was no immediate explanation, but demolition frequently precedes German withdrawal from hard-pressed towns, Within Mortar Range
The American advances near St. Sauveur-le Victomte brought that primary
exposing these!
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NINE MORE FIRMS TOP BOND QUOTAS
New Pledges for $70,212 Entered in Drive.
Nine Indianapolis employee
you-work” drive. ; J. Perry Meek, chairman of the
mittee, announced that the Romer
quota of $500, reporting sales of “V" loan bonds totaling $1787.50. The McAllister Tractor Co. with
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(Continued on Page 8—Column 4) Normandy Scene—A Rose. . . ATommy...aTank...a Town
of our many-miled invasion beach. You wanted to walk slowly, for the detail on that beach was infinite. The wreckage was vast and startling. The awful
waste and destruction of war, even aside from the loss of human life, has always been one of its outstanding fea-
tures to those who are in it.
Anything and everything is expendable. And we did
expend on our beachhead in Normandy during those first few hours. For a mile out from the beach there were scores of
tanks and trucks and boats that you could no longer see, for they were at the bottom of the water—swamped by overloading or hit by shells, or sunk by mines. Most of
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PLANES RAID BRITAIN;
10 Minutes Over Japan; An Eyewitness Story
By UNITED PRESS A crewman on a B-29 Superfortress looked down as American bombs splashed fire and destruction in the Imperial Steel & Iron Works at Yawata, Japan, and exclaimed: “Gosh, isn't it pretty down there!” Roy Porter, who went on the flight for the combined American networks, said his plane weaved and dodged over the target for 10 minutes but that “it seemed 10 times that long.” The broadcast was recorded by C. B. S. at New York. “There were no half-measures in that combat,” Porter said. “We had to kill and destroy or be killed and destroyed.” “The searchlight batteries were full on us, The enemy anti-
aircraft was blazing below.
And even before we got near the
target area, we had to weave and dodge our way in. It got steadily worse as we flew ever eastward toward the fine target of the
Imperial Steel & Iron Works.”
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YANKS NEARING SAIPAN HARBOR
| B-29's Roll Home Shatter Jap Counter- Attack.
On Beachhead Key to
Central Pacific.
PEARL HARBOR, June 16 (U. P.).~— American invasion forces, shattering fierce Japanese counterattacks against their Saipan beachhead, swept forward today against principal island installations, including the town of Garapan, to exploit their landings. (The Japanese Domei news ageney, in a wireless transmission beamed to the United States, said the Americans landed “about one division, approximately 15,000
‘Hurlin’ Hal’ Hursh, Indiana university's great football passer of 1939 and 1940 has been killed in action in the South Pacific.¢ Turn to Page 22.
a!troops, on Saipan. The broadcast was recorded by U. S. government monitors.) (Another Domei dispatch said long-range Japanese guns on nearby Tinian island bombarded the naval force off Saipan and “heavily damaged and set afire” one American battleship.) Progress of assault forces at Aginan point at the southwestern end of the island indicated the situa-
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NAZIS OVERWHELMED BY DRIVE IN ITALY
Yanks 90 Miles From Rome
In Race to Florence.
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Naples, June 16 (U. P.).—Allied armies in general advances up to 25 miles have swept through a number of Italian towns to.the gates of Gros-
‘Good Start,’ Say Raid Leaders as
By WALTER RUNDLE United Press Staff Correspondent ADVANCE ECHELON, 20TH U.S. BOMBER COMMAND, Western China, June 16.—A powerful force of B-29 Superfortresses flew the longest air raid in history to plaster explosives on the steel plants of Yawata, “the Pittsburgh of Japan,” and officials today described the mission as a “good start” toward destruction of Nippon's industrial empire. Watching the B-29s roll home today, Brig. Gen. Kenneth B. Wolfe, commanding officer here of the new 20th bomber command, commented : “I believe that Japan can be industrially weakened by proper application of strategic bombing and that she will rapidly lose the will to wage war when her industrial empire begins to disintegrate, “No one in the 20th believes
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State Flier Sees Japan on 1st Raid
CAPT. RONALD A. HARTE of Lafayette, who went on his first combat mission yesterday when American bombers attacked Japan, enlisted in the army air forces in 1939 and was graduated as a pilot at Kelly field, Tex, in 1940. Until 1942 he was in the air force reserves, instructing aviation cadets at Lincoln, Neb. Lakeland,
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etto, 90 miles northwest of Rome|. § and 65 miles below Florence, it was!
announced officially today. Landslide gains by the 5th and 8th armies overwhelmed feeble German resistance at Terni, industrial
L, PLANT B-29 TARGET; NAZIS BLOW UP DIKES AT CAEN
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Robots—
Japan—
Official Losses Total Two of Big
Planes.
‘Secret Weapon’ of Nazis Used 1st Time.
By FRED SCHERFF United Press Staff Correspondent
WASHINGTON, June 186. —American Superfortresses
By WALTER CRONKHITE United Press Staff Correspondent
LONDON, June 16. — A fantastic stream of pilotless
| - . twar of destruction against ‘thé Japanese homeland’s in\dustrial might with precision {Voi of targets at the steel i
Nazi bombers rained fire and explosives across southern England all last night and
through the morning hours today, and radio Berlin said the center of Yawata which set off oboe Heer had aed yi “large fires and explosions,” a. war | = a prrindiis on Gerdepartment communique announced | many. | today. \ | Adolf Hitler finally had launched The communiqué followed by a his boasted secret weapon against |few hours Japanese broadcasts! Britain and the mighty invasion | which told of new U, S. raids on grgenal piled up on the island, and { Korea and the Bonin islands. British official sources made no ef(Yawata is situated on the north- ifort to minimize the gravity of the ern end of Kyushu island, most attack. southerly of the group comprising! All southern England wis alerted, the Japanese homeland.) and Home Secretary Herbert MorThe communique, first issued by rison confirmed the existence of the {the world-striding new 20th air|robot raiders and promised imme-
force, said that giant B-20's in| diate counter-action, in a statement “sizable force” carried out yester-| is commons.
day's historic mission with a loss | , of two planes. And those planes, | ‘Vengeance Raids the 100-word communique said, The Nazis struck at England were lost as a result of accident and | throughout the day, presumably not enemy action. The crew of one still using the new mystery weapwas saved. ons, but on a smaller scale than The communique, issued about 20; last night's raids. hours after the original announce-| A German high command comment of the raid, was “based on munique said South England and preliminary incomplete reports from | | the London city area were bombed the combat zone.” last ‘night with “new type exploIt did, however, disclose that|sives of very heavy caliber,” and “fliers who participated in the Berlin military commentators mission report the bombing was ac- | boasted that the mysterious raidcurate and that large fires and ers were “a new anti-invasion explosions were observed.” weapon of the greatest effect.” The communique said the huge| “The new weapon used against bombers, carrying out their first England is the beginning of vengemajor offensive operation, flew ance” for the “barbaric” allied “from bases in China which were bombing of the Nazi homeland, one completed recently.” | enemy commentator said. | Japanese threw moderate to in- Reports from eyewitnesses who
from China inaugurated their
(Continued on “Page 6—Column 5) | | (Continued on Page 3—Ceolumn 3) » ” » t J » » (June 16, 1944) AIR WAR—Germany sends pilotless planes over South England; INVASION—Nazis reveal they are! R. A. F. heavies hatter demolishing dikes and sluices at! Caen as Yanks spearhead drive PACIFIC—Japanese report Ameriacross Normandy peninsula, ad-| €an air attacks on Korea and vancing within 2% miles of es-| Bonin islands, the latter 615 miles cape route from Cherbourg. south of Tokyo, some 13 hours after disclosure that American B-29 Superfortresses had bombed Japanese home islands. Yarwata
steel plant officially revealed as target.
ITALY—Allies in general advance up to 25 miles sweep to Grosseto, 90 miles northwest of Rome and 65 miles below Florence.