Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 June 1944 — Page 2
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pecple say and fpeports are doubting victory.”
to his employers abroad: The German people
Still other articles stress the duty of denunciation even against friends if they depress soldiers’ wives by making disparaging remarks,
and warn that evervene must help as a murderer of our people.”
“to render the defeatist powerless
There is mention of an air-raid-shelter psychosis developing with warnings that people must stay in their homes to fight fire; and admission that telegrams from families in bombed cities to men at the
front have increased 60 per cent in . »
STOP-DEWEY forces are hopeful that two incidents
will woo delegates away from the
numbers. . J of the week
governor: (1) Indiana row over
former Ku-Klux Klan affiliation of Robert Lyons, which led to his resignation as national committeeman; (2) dispute between Rep. Mruk (R. N. Y) and New York Republican Chairman Ed Jaeckle.
Mruk accuses Jaeckle of refusing to
indorse him because of nationality
and religion. Lyons has been running Dewey campaign in Midwest; Jaeckle has been handling it nationally.
Gov. Bricker Makes a Hit
GOVERNOR BRICKER of Ohio made a hit with Republican congressmen at an off-the-record session of the 76th congressional club here this week. Many Midwesterners who heard him said they'd be
satisfied if Bricker got second place on a Dewey ticket. They still give Governor Warren of Califormia the edge; put Rep. Everett M. Dirksen (R. IIL) in third place as vice presidential contender, But: Republican headquarters seriously considers nominating a southern Democrat with Dewey— probably Senator Harry P. Byrd, according to Jocal grapevine. It would be a move to gather in the disaffected South. But some party regulars steam at the idea. ” » » FOR SECOND place on Democratic ticket, Wallace's stock has gone up again. Indications are Roosevelt will bank all on the liberal vote, will keep Wallace to strengthen his ticket in these
quarters, i
IN OUTWARD APPEARANCES, if not in delegates, Governor Bricker will monopolize Chicago G. O. P. convention. His forces have obtained decoration rights at Stevens hotel (convention headquarters), will have lounges and meeting rooms for visitors, and are planning old-fashioned trimmings of lapel buttons, Bricker buckeyes, banners, literature, music. - » " »
Kerr Is Rewarded
SELECTION of Governor Robert 8S. Kerr of Oklahoma as Democratic keynoter may have been pay-off for the help he gave administration forces when revolt threatened at the Jackson day gathering of Democratic leaders here last January. James C.~Quigley, Nebraska nacommifteeman, had anhe was éoming to Washto demand ousting of Secretary of Agriculture Wickard, A. G. Black of farm credit administration, and others. The meeting of Democratic bigwigs was held behind closed doors. When reporters finally got in, Mr. Quigley was very quiet. Towering over him was the burly governor of Oklahoma, and he and Mrs. lawrence McDaniel of Missouri ~ answered all questions. Governor Kerr boomed out that everyone was for a fourth term for F. D.R,, | and that was about all,
YOU'LL HEAR little more of | the Bankhead (cotton-textile) amendment to the price control act. Conferees have a majority opposed to it, will not report it, » ~ ~ WORD THAT British manufacturers expect government per- | missipn to start making post-war automobiles for export within a few weeks doesn't set well wilh automobile-makers here, still deep in war work. British plans call for exporting cars to the colonies. They'll burn high-octane, give 3340 miles per gallon. # - » MARGARINE manufacturers have good chance to lift burden-
some taxes and restrictions which have hampered sale of their product and forced U. 8. consumers to eat white instead of colored margarine. * Disaffected South is solidly behind Senator Cotton Ed Smith's bill to lift federal taxes. More important, soybean growers from corn belt and dairy states now favor it. Potent new backing results from industrial change of six years ago. Margarine is now composed principally of cottonseed and soybean oil, with fish oil added for vitamins —all domestic products—and producers resent being singled out for taxation. Dairy bloc stopped free-mar-garine bill in house agriculture committee last year, may not be strong enough to do it again. ” ¥ »
Gas Black Market
HOUSE PETROLEUM committee investigators blame lack of coordination between OPA and office of defense transportation for black-market gasoline diversions. Clash of authority, loopholes in
ration procedure for bulk gas:
users, make things easy for il. licit operators, they say. Committee- will “eall ‘OPA ‘and ODT to explain why system isn't tightened, also FBI to explain why it hasn't given more enforcement aid in flagrant black-market cases, notably in Cleveland. - » # PRELUDE to airlines’ scramble for post-war expansion certificates is hearing now in progress before civil aeronautics board in which 11 companies are competing for routes from Great Lakes area to South ‘CAB expects -3isaring to last six weeks, » . J FORTHCOMING revision of OPA price regulations for restaurants will require managements to post ceiling prices on 40 items to show customers theyre not higher than those of “freeze” dates (April 4 to 10, 1943). Present regulations require only that menus for those dates be available for inspection. = » »
Growing Capital WAR-CROWDED Washington will continue to grow: Civil serv‘ice commission estimates another 20,000 women clerical workers will be needed by war agencies before Jan. 1, : » 2 0» GOOD NEWS (or bad?) for householders: WPB has given the go-ahead signal on manufacture of snow shovels, furnace scoops. »n » . ROOSEVELT proposals for post-war peace were to timed and
so worded as to warn Democratic ‘|
platform makers not to go overboard with a plank which might be termed too internationalistic,” politicians on Capitol Hill say.
B-29 BOMBINGS GIVE
Yanks, Japs Fight
"|The unloading .on . the American
Hurricane barrages. It quoted refugees from Caen as saying that most of the Germans had quit the town itself and were dug in all around it. The weather improved slightly, but still held down aerial activity and tossed about the ships maintaining. the lines to the beachhead.
beaches now was. fully up to schedule and abreast of the arrival of convoys. While Lt. Gen. Omar N. Bradley's troops pushed on beyond St. Sauveur-le Vicomte to occupy a spur of high ground and the road junction of St. Jacques de Nehou, four and one-third miles to the northwest, reinforcements poured in and began fanning out from the town to stand off and counter-at-
478d aq highway po
= “Report No Progress The Americans reported no prog- | ress toward La Haye-du Puits, six | miles south of St. Sauveur-le Vi- | comte, which controls all the highways along the west side of the ! peninsula. The Americans captured the important road junction of St. Jacques de Nehou, 43 miles northwest of 8t. Sauveur-le Vicomte and 7% miles from the west coast, this morning after a night-long attack and pressed on in an effort to complete the severance of the peninsula and the isolation of Cherbourg, United Press War Correspondent Henry T. Gorrell reported from the front. Other Columns Threaten
The capture of 8t. Jacques de Nehou, less than 15 miles south of | Cherbourg, put the Americans well along the road to the west coast port of Carteret. 8till another American threat to the enemy’s norfh-south routes appeared to be developing before the | communications center of Lessay, {five miles south of La Haye-du Puits. Gorrell
reported that Monte-
bourg on the main east coast high-|
{way to Paris, was recaptured by
tack aimed at reopening the rail-|
bourg, 14 miles southeast of Cher-|
in Iowa City, Ia. Memorial services will be held in Gary. His father is the only immediate survivor. ». ? ® x = T. SGT. ROBERT K. OFFUTT JR, a radio-gunner on an army air forces medium bomber, was wounded in combat over France May 9. According to a war department letter received this week by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Robért K, Offutt Sr. 2408 Brookside pkwy., North dr., he is “progressing normally” in his recovery. A graduate of Technical high school, the 21-year-old airman enlisted in July, 1940, and went overseas in’ August, 1943. He has completed 50 missions and wears the {air medal with four clusters and
ALLIED TROOPS IN INVASION OF ELBA
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announced yesterday. It is on the coastal railroad and highway. Pending further reports, it was assumed that the use of the word “successful” in the special announcement of the French landing on Elba meant that a firm fooihold had been seized. (Berlin said the first troops landed from 60 barges at the south end of the island, and soon afterwards others went ashore on the north coast west of Portoferraio, Elba’s capital and best port. The Nazis said “violent fighting is raging, particularly for battery positions.” (The Germans reported that American and British troops were in the landing force, which included strong Anglo-American tank units. The landing followed a violent bombardment by several hundred planes, Berlin reported.)
Attempted Revolt Gen. de Lattre de Tassigny, the French commander, attempted a 'military revolt in southern France when the allles invaded North Africa. Captured and imprisoned
‘the Americans yesterday after a | street battle, but a headquarters
| spokesman said the Germans still
BOND SALES A PUSH A/-Out on Saipan "5. us: ‘tesio-american as-
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work the 1st troop carrier com- |
mand is doing. In the afternoon |
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in street-to-street fighting.
800 square miles.
were driving inland 300,000 Germans from 16 divisions, | : the public will be admitted to Stout Over green, rolling hills after cap-|including 200,000 first-line fighting| Die such a landing within five
field tomorrow to see some of the ‘Wing Charan Kanoa where they men, already have been thrown into routed a strong Japanese rear-guard battle, but of these four divisions
have been virtually destroyed or| Adm. Nimitz, in another com- their fighting efficiency seriously | lied capture of Rome and north-
there will be a demonstration of munique, also announced that a big impaired.
regular glider maneuvers, The 1700 men of the army service | forces training center at Ft. Har-|
rison, the only financial department
American carrier task force struck | within 615 miles of Tokyo Wednes- | day to bomb the Bonin and Vol-| midway to . the Marianas, in support of the in-|
cano islands,
training center, have averaged si000 vasion forces.
a day in bond purchases since June 1st.
Employees of four more firms oversubscribed their quotak of $100 a head. The companies and number of employees are Indiana Lumberman's Mutual Insurance Co., Hibben-Hollweg & Co., 90; Cohn & Shumaker, Inc., 10. The first of the downtown restaurants to exceed its quota was the coffee shop in the Lincoln hotel
than their $1500 quota.
The pupils of school No. 55 CBses of government-owned eggs annual capacity of 125,000 metric
Swarms of carrier-borne planes bry two Japanese ships, damaged 10 others, destroyed 47 aircraftand! o | bombers dropped two-ton block- captured the villages of Triana,
| probably two additional in
raids, centered on Chichi Jima and Haha Jima in the Bonins and Iwo Jima in the Volcanos. The Amer100; | icans lost four planes and five men.
"U.S. SELLS EGGS FOR
BOMBERS BLAST
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| bushters on Berlin.
rying six - ton super - blockbusters, carried out the assault on the Fischer-Tropsch oil plant at Sterkrade, five miles north of Duisburg.
LIVESTOCK FEED Atthough the raid was made through WASHINGTON, June 17 (U. P),|® otek Sovesing of Sone, the where employees bought $400 —War food administration officials Dombers obtained successful results : "| disclosed today that bout 57000|10 hitting the plant, which has an
bought $133440 in bonds and| Dave been sold for livestock feed at | tons of synthetic oil.
stamps in a special fifth war loan drive which ended just before the
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of age.
weeks.
are only 150, are all 3.000,000 cases of eggs since Jan. 1
school. The pupils, off WFA has bought more than years In an effort to prevent a collapse of from England.
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250,000,000 IN SOVIET?
~The eggs diverted into livestock, WASHINGTON:~The population d cost the goverment about of Russia was reported as about!into ) and were sold for about|170,000,000 in ile : "was instituted
|vances enlarged the beachhead to An estimated
NORMANDY COAST omeisny:
Long-range Halifax and Lancaster bombers, both capable of car
| | were lost during the night, also hit i {military installations in the Pas de
Calais area, across the Dover straits
1039, an: increase of 1900 in
by the Nazis, he escaped and fled (to North Africa. | The invasion of 140-square-mile, mountainous Elba apparently rep[resented a jump by the French |from Corsica, some 32 miles to the
{west at the nearest point.
miles of the Italian coast would have been an event of major stra|tegic importance two weeks ago, the
\ward sweep to the coastal area near Elba had shorn the invasion of much of its significance. The 5th army has taken more than 21,000 prisoners since the start of the offensive, it was announced
Capture 3 Villages In its new advances the 5th army
Centena and San Catarina, as well as the mountain peak of Monte Civitella, They encountered econsiderable resistance in the Triana area, but little elsewhere, To their right, 8th army forces advancing northward from Todi reached a point only 13 miles south
intervals.
You'll see a snatch “glider pick-up” A very delicate operation—a tow plane picks up a glider while in flight.
These are the ropes that tow
the gliders—They are made of nylon. It takes the' equivalent of many thousands of pairs of nylon madam
stockings to make a rope!
(Now,
you know where your nylon stockings are—.)
i
spirit moves you to buy.
RON
f you do—you'll will be
(Tomorrow)
Main Cherbourg Rail and Highway Is Severed . » 5 # (Continued From Page One) ing to land. Both planes wereig gy bomber, was wound- | second, ~ |terday by American heavy bombers, : burned. . ed over Germany May 29, according| Four other persons were injured,| Nevertheless the Nazis third miles to the northwest] Formerly connected with the Bur-i:, received by his parents, Mr, |tWo seriously, in automobile acci-|to keep many of the through the road junction of St. roughs Adding Machine Co. and &R|o 4 Mrs William A. Sprowl, R. R.(dents hers last night and this|awing during the night. Jacques de Nehou, seven and one-(officer in the Indiana Nationali,q py 507, ve morning. - |& hospital, where some Since invasion day, the “army of the 113th observation squadron dur-|.. +. «pal Function,” was award-| suffered severe head injuries today|sons injured. Others took Prench forces of the interior hasiing maneuvers in 1941. ed the air medal and squadron cita-| When the motorcycle he was riding houses. ~~ = increased both in size and in scope] The five other fliers were out-of-| 0 4 May. He is sending the Struck the side of a car driven by| Many were brought down, and of its activities,” the special com-|state men. awards to his parents. Thomas Collins, 55, 2403 W. Mc-|some were exploded in the air by munique reported. It said the «a » = Sgt. Sprowl has been overseas Carty st, in an accident which oc-|counter-measures — perhaps one army had undertaken large scale| prRST LT. BEN H. KERR, Ma-| three months and the last letter his|CurTed on 10th st. near Carrollton| phase of the British report to what sabotage which included in DArt|rine dive bomber pilot, son of Ben|ooreniy received from him was|8ve. Jumping the curb out of con-|in the first flush of excitement had the paralyzing of rail and highway| g; Kerr Sr. of Gary, northwestern coq May 24. He enlisted in De- [trol the car struck a tree in the/been represented in some quarters traffic and cuting of telegraph and giana. direcor of (he war man Clober, 1963, und wan bia gunner’ JIG 84 017 Carrollton. Mr. Col- = m— telephone comm ons. power commission, who formerly| ing, Myers , Ww h received facial injuries. Both 1 “In a majority of these cases jived in Indianapolis, was killed in|. ey 5 Pla hers he men are in City hospital. On the War F Pr onts WALKOUT ENDS AT their objectives have been ai-|the Southwestern Pacific area, 8c-|\ ovine for gverseas duty. Harvey O'Hara, 41, 1333 8. Rich- B-29 ENGINE PLANT tained,” it added. The destruction cording to word received by his| “yo ix o graduate of Warren Cen-|land ave. received a deep leg cut (June 17, 1944) dh of railways “has been most effec-|father . wal high school and was employed and possible leg fracture when he . CHICAGO, June 17 (U. P.).~A' tive.” At least 70 locomotives have| pt Kerr, who attended Technical ipo veo otional Harvester Co. | Was Struck by a trackless trolley INVASION — American assaultiwalkout of 600 workers at the huge been & sabotaged. Both rall andinign school three years, was be-|, Er '| today on Howard st. troops push to within seven miles) Dodge-Chicago plant of the Chryshighway trafic has been reported|jeveq to have died in an accidental . =» Howard Barker, 33, of 1300 Pin-| of west coast of Normandy as of-|1eT ©Orp, where 2200-horsepower. “completely stopped in the valley|crash either on the deck of a car-| upg » BAIZE, seaman 1-c,|ley ave, was in St. biiaghiling ficial discloses 3283 engines are produced for the giant of the Rhone.” im -| rier or’ at one of the insular bases| = 0 ae. and Mrs Leonard A.|Pital today with possible yep Amerl-|p 29 Superfortress, ended today In direct action against the Ger-|o¢ which his squadron has been| co orice 18 N. Vine st, has been injuries after his car struck a tele-| ©ans killed and 12.600 wounded In/yhen striking employees agreed to man occupation forces, the Marquis| yiationeq at intervals. awarded & life saving medal for Dhone pole while going south on| 11 days of invasion. return to work pending negotiation were reported to have taken 300 qne 20.year-old pilot, Who TeD-| i4inc in the rescue of an army air| Shelby st. near VanBuren st. of their dispute involving a 10-cent # prisoners, . German Garrisons WeI®| resented the boy scout troop, SPOD-|¢o.e oiler forced down into the sea, RUSSIA—Russian troops stream to- hourly wage increase for a tool attacked. .__|sored by the Grace Methodist| goman Baise, a radioman in the] CHINESE TAKE KAMAING ward ‘Viipurd, gtinder. ! . “In some areas villages have been op rep; gt a jamboree of the inter-|, vo in the South Pacific, helped] SOUTHEAST ASIA HEAD- The strikers, who left their jobs _ occupied,” the communique sald. |nationg] fraternity in Washington si, ropes to the plane and hold it| QUARTERS, Kandy, Ceylon, June last night and early today, began | > hting has occurred else- ’ » ITALY — French troops land on Street fighting in 1937, left for the Pacific last| pave water until it could be taken 17 (U. P.)—Chinese troops cap- returning: to work after a meeting Wein, Mang detachments have september, He performed ® DUM-|out, At the time of the crash, he| tured the Japanese stronghold of Wand of Hb. at the headquarters of the United n destroyed. ber of ferry missions and flew &| ggg in the sick bay. Kamaing in the Mogaung valley of Automobile Workers union ei “Guerrilla operations against the|cgmer . pased Grumann Wildcat > a a former em- perm Burma, join ini PACIFIO—Allied forces batter Japa-| py ‘Baye U, A, W. on enemy are in full swing, and iNigopier into several battles His|piovee of the Bridgeport Brass! Myitkyina, a communique an-| Rese along vast line from India t0itional representative, said the some areas the army of Frenchca4ron was so badly decimated| ordnance plant. { nounced today. : Marianas in central Pacific. walkout was unauthorized. 7 forces of the interior are in fulliypo¢ it had to be entirely reor- . 3 control.” » ‘ . nt SAE favik of the Nope SE0EE0 iter sit months: Aging. STRAUSS SAYS:—IT'S ONE DAY NEARER VICTORY many beachhead, British troops| Ajthough he was the first member mounted an attack north and of Gary's Vulcannaire squadron of northeast of Caumont below Caen|,..a1 aviation cadets to win his late Friday and scored modest wings and commission, he was gains, a headquarters spokesman |i.oncterred to the marine corps revealed. just before he completed training | . Capture 3 Villages Ag NOT [You're invited meaning YOU) to Lt. Kerr was a freshman at ® . A front dispatch from Richard D. |p woctorn university when he Mars . McMillan, United Press correspond-| enlisted in the navy and was a Busses—({o ; ent, said British and Canadian|Lew Wallace football star and Sigut Yieu) RB troops captured three villages from |played with the navy’s Wildcats in Monument Y ‘| which the Germans were driven by 1042 in the naval pre-flight school t next SUNDAY AFTERNOON!
it's an opportunity and privilege
to see a demonstration of
Air Equipment—and Air Might
that you'll never forget!
THERE IS NO CHARGE FOR
ADMISSION! You don't have to
buy a bond.
IT'S OPEN HOUSE AT STOUT FIELD!
B-Day! Bond Sunday at Sfout Field— . Headquarters, | Troop Carrier
Command.
THE HOURS—are 2:30 to 5:30 p. m,
THE PROGRAM is intensely
interesting and varied—including
‘features that Civilians rarely
have occasion to see.
SEE! SNATCH GLIDER PICK UP—
a big transport plane "buzzes" close to the ground—picks up a glider—towing it in the air— ~ releasing it!
SEE! DUAL GLIDER
SEE! A PRACTICE CRASH
LANDING—with fire equipment in
Action.
HEAR! THE CONCERT by the
Stout Field Military Band.
STEP UP INSIDE! into a C-47 Transport Plane—and a C. G. 4-A famous glider (it's the kind used in France).
INSPECT! The Air Force equipment —you'll get added pride and a : thrill—in seeing how your Bond
money is used—bringing Air Control to Uncle Sam.
And a lot of else—to see and hear
and to remember. It's a
A GONTINUOUS SHOW AND IT'S ALLFOR FREE!
YOU DONT HAVE TO BUY A BOND—But thers will be a Bond Booth—in case the
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