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New And Deadly Technique Used To Fight Nazi ‘Robots’ Nazi attack without impairing the allied aerial offensive against enemy military targets on the continent. “The extent and character of these methods cannot be divulged without giving information to the enemy, who is making a strenuous attempt both to discover the steps
being taken to defeat his latest form of attack and to learn how effective this assault has been,” the ministry said. At the same time, the ministry minimized the importance of the enemy’s new weapon as a major factor in the war, deriding it as an “unmilitary weapon” brought into
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Correspondent LONDON, June 19.—British fighters and anti-air-craft batteries went into action today with a new and deadly technique to combat Nazi robot bombers as the air ministry tore away the mystery from Hitler's secret weapon with the disclosure that it is a jet-propelled oneton flying torpedo guided. to its target by an automatic
mechanical pilot.
Less than five days after the start of the pilotless bombing offensive Nazi propagandists boasted would ex-
Reinforcements Head for Normandy Front in Never-Ending Line
Mid-West Is Enjoying Cooler Weather, But
East Swelters. LOCAL TEMPERATURES
Thundershowers forecast today by the weather chief promised relief from yesterday's sweltering heat, which lacked one degree of breaking another all-time heat record for June in Indianapolis. The thermometer showed 95 degrees at 1 p. m. yesterday, while the reading on June 18 in 1888 was 96. The 96-degree temperature recorded Saturday set a record for that day here. While Midwesterners were enjoying the slightly cooler weather today, the Atlantic seaboard states were in for at least another day of hot weather. In Louisville, Ky., the mercury soared to 100 degrees yesterday, the. nation's highest. temperature. A tornado claimed at least 13 fives in the Dakqtas and two minor
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STATE POLICE SEIZE SLOT MACHINES HERE
Petit Asks Why No Arrests
Were Made.
Slot machines, which "were said to have been extinct as a “dodo” bird in Marion county several weeks ago, were clanging merrily around the county last week. So, Don F. Stiver, state police superintendent, who said he received several complaints about them, sent out his raiders early yesterday and confiscated 16 of the “one-armed bandits” at four places. Mr, Stiver said his men : found
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act a “terrible vengeance” for the allied air war on Germany, the air ministry revealed that its defenses were successfully taking on and beating the enemy’s robot fleets.
It was disclosed that R.
A. F. fighters and flak bat-
teries already have destroyed large numbers of the projectiles in the air and shot down many others into the sea
or open country.
The British defenders were disclosed officially to be using a new technique and the air ministry asserted that “other offensive measures” are being taken to blunt the
Wounded by stray gunfire, this French child is taken care of by U. 8S. army medical corpsmen. Head bandaged and face swollen, the little girl is given candy to calm her fears. Residents of the Normandy coast have suffered along with the allies in the bittter fighting
with the Nazis.
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HOOSIER VAGABOND—
‘No New and Different Way
To Tell Same Nightmare’
By ERNIE PYLE Times War Correspondent NORMANDY BEACHHEAD (By Wireless). —When I went ashore on the soil of France the first thing I wanted to do was hunt up the other correspondents I had said goodby to a few days previously in England, and see how they had fared. Before the day of invasion we had accepted it as a fact that not everybody would come through alive. Correspondents sort of gang together, They know the ins and
outs of war, and they all work at it in much the same manner. So I knew about where to look, and I didn't have much trouble finding them. ¥ It was early In the morning,
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but we didn’t know who. One or two had been wounded. Three of our best friends had not been heard from at all, and it looked bad, but they have since turned up safe.
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OSTROM, TYNDALL SET CHICAGO TRIP
Henry E. Ostrom, Marion county chairman,
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FOR FARMERS
Some 300 Natives Caribbeans Working In State.
More than 300 native farm workers from Jamaica, the Bahamas and Puerto Rico in the West Indies are now at work on Indiana farms. By fall, approximately 1000 will have arrived to help farmers harvest their 1944 crops. This was revealed today by state health authorities who are approving and certifying housing and sanitary facilities for the migratory labor, The Negro workers, recruited by the war food administration to fill the labor demands of the nation’s farmers, are working in the fields and as tractor and truck drivers for the Hoosier farmers,
They'll Work For Canners
Later they will go to work in the flelds for Indiana canners. Classed as unskilled laborers, they are not permitted to work in Sanning fas. tories. At the present time 80 men are working in the peppermint fields at Medaryville. Fourteen are émployed in vineyards near La Porte Twenty are doing general farm work for Delaware county farmers, and 19 at New Paris are putting up alfalfa, Sixty-five at Point Isabel, 25 at Anderson, 19 at Peru, 11 at Elwood and 40 at Plainfield are sétting out tomato plants. Princeton Farms at Princeton has 19 workers, and more are working on onions, carrots, potatoes at Hudson. Last year about 700 natives were brought in to help the farmers. Work Guaranteed
The laborers are contracted for by the canners and farmers through county agricultural agents. The number of workers needed and the period of time is certified by the Purdue university extension service
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Russ Sweep Into Outskirts of Viipuri.
By HARRISON SALISBURY United Press Staff Correspondent
MOSCOW, June 19.—Russian mobile forces leading a drive up the Karelian isthmus to knock Finland out of the war swept into the approaches of Viipuri today, and military sources said “decisive developments” were expected at any time. (The Moscow hint of “decisive developments” forthcoming, together with numerous other unofficial intimations that Finland may have bad enough, suggested the possible imminence of Finnish capitulation in the face of the fast breaking Soviet army drive.) v Soviet spearheads aboard jeeps tand American trucks sped toward Viipuri, Finland’s third largest city, from newly-won positions around Koivisto, west coast anchor of the Mannerheim line, and Mahslahdenkyla, only 17 miles below Viipuri.
Flee Northward
Front dispatches said the Finns were fleeing northward, abandoning line after line, in a frantic effort to save the shattered remains of their army. The Russians were reported pouring through defiles between the Karelian lakes and forests, while the Baltic fleet moved northward along the coast shelling the flanks of the retreating Finns. Some reports indicated that panic had broken out in the Finnish ranks when the Soviets smashed the Mannerheim line and began streaming through a widening gap in its west coastal fortifications for an Ipumens assault on Viipuri, the fall of which brought Finland's capitulation in the winter of 1939-40. The Russians advanced upward of 30 miles in 48 hours in several areas of the Karelian isthmus.
ment everywhere in their precipitons retreat, front dispatches said. Assauiting the Mannerheim line, the Russians stormed across a great
‘|anti-tank ditch stretching from the
Finnish gulf to Lake Ladoga and charged the first line trenches which the Finns abandoned in disorder.
City Apparently Helpless
The break-through ripped open the last of the Finns’ three defense lines before Viipuri and left the city apparently helpless to resist the approaching Russian assault. Koivisto was captured by storm yesterday, whereas it resisted for eight days in the 1939-40 war. Russian troops probably were a ttacking Summa, another anchor in the Mannerheim line 17 miles northeast of Koivisto anid on the main Leningrad-Viipuri highway. The capture of Summa in 1940 was
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action because of the Luftwaffe’s impotence. : “The attacks, long prepared, have been launched in an attempt to console the people of the Nazi Reich and to
halt further deterioration of istry news service said.
their morale,” the air min-
It disclosed that the projectile is merely a jet-pro-
pelled bomb equipped with
a gasoline engine which is
launched from ramps somewhere in northern France, probably with the aid of a “booster” rocket at the take-off.
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BULLETIN ALLIED SUPREME HEADQUARTERS, London, June 19 (U. .P.)—~American long tom
| fieldpieces began shelling Cher-
bourg today as United States
| troops plunged toward the big | Normandy port from the region i of Montebourg and strengthened | their barricade across the penin- | sula belind which 30,000 Ger- {| mans were
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| were within eight miles of Cher- , | bourg, United Press Correspondg | ent Henry T. Gorrell reported in 7 a dispatch from the Normandy | peninsula timed 7:50 p. m.
By VIRGIL PINKLEY United Press Staff Correspondent
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American A toups are « strengthopiog and widening the wedge which
of the Cherbourg peninsula, trap-
ping 30,000 Germans who are expected to fight to death in the area.
FRENCH TAKE ELBA CAPITAL
‘Allies on Italian Mainland
‘Battle Through Stiff
German Resistance.
BULLETIN LONDON, June 19 (U. P.)=— The united nations radio at Algiers said in a German-language broadcast today that Gen. George C. Marshall, U. S. army chief of staff, has arrived in Italy and is conferring with Gen. Sir Henry Maitland Wilson and other allied commanders there.
By. REYNOLDS PACKARD United Press Staff Correspondent
ROME, June 19.—French colonial troops have fought their way across the narrow waist of Elba to capture the insular capital of Portoferraio and now control most of the 85-square-mile island, a communique announced today, while allied forces on the Italian mainland
battled through stiff German resistance on the outskirts of Perugia. Front reporfs said the Germans put the torch to Portoferraio before they surrendered it. In Italy, the Germans were putting up their stiffest fight since the evacuation of Rome, 85 airline miles south of Perugia, in an attempt to slow the allied advance long enough for the main Nazi forces to establish a new line in the Pisa-Florence-Rimini sectors, about 70 miles farther north.
Hoosiers Heroes—
ADD 2 LOCAL MEN T0 CASUALTY LIST
Seaman Killed in Invasion Of French Coast. | NAVAL ACTION near France and a plane crash in the states have
claimed the lives of two more Indianapolis men.
7-Year-Old Girl Killed in Traffic; Another Is Hurt
A seven-year-old girl died at the City hospital today after she was injured critically in a traffic accident last night. Another child remained in a critical condition at the hospital and 14 others were recovering from injuries received in week-end acci~ dents.
Doris Swarford, 1350 W. McCarty st., died from injuries received when she was struck kby a U. 8. mail at Belmont ‘ave, and w.
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YANKS SMASH ON IN SAIPAN INVASION
Japs’ Attempt to Land Men At Beachhead Fails.
'V' Sale of Bonds Shows Lag Here For First Week
Marion county and Indianapolis were lagging $3,500,000 behind their quota of “V” invasion bonds today as the fifth war loan drive entered its second week. Estimated sales for the week which opened the drive last Monday were $16,500,000, but the average weekly investments must total approximately $20,000,000 on the basis of the assigned goal of $79,000,000. The drive will end July 8. Several thousand dollars were invested in war bonds yesterday when 57,000 persons visited Stout field at the air base open house.
See Gliders in Action
Besides the planes and equipment on display, visitors saw troop carrier planes and gliders go through practice runs, which included snatch glider pick-ups, dual tows, a practice crash run and parachute testing. An unscheduled event was the arrival of a B-17 Flying Fortress, “The Mustang,” which landed on the field after a tour of duty in the Southwest Pacific which included 108 bombing missions. The open house was held in connection with the fifth war loan campaign.
RALSTON’S CONDITION
Boyd M. Ralston, 3234 Park ave., realtor and business leader, was still in a critical condition today at City hospital, where he was taken Priday following a heart attack. He was driving his car on Notth Delaware st. when the attack occurred. Mr. Ralston is a brother of the late Samuel M. Ralston, former Indiana governor and U. S. senator.
LONDON, June 19 (U. P.).—Prime was revealed to-
CONTINUES SERIOUS’
‘June 19.—The United States ‘9th division has thwarted a desperate effort by trapped German troops to break through the American corridor across the Cherbourg peninsula, beating back the Nazis and inflicting bloody casualties, it was announced today. The veterans of the 9th slugged it out with the enemy northwest of St. Sauveur-le Vicomte some 15 miles below Cherbourg and wrecked his first major bid to break out of the trap closing on some 30,000 Germans in and around the great Normandy port. The Americans not only contained the enemy but scored new gains to widen and strengthen the transpeninsula wedge and to approach Valognes, While the crucial battle of the Cherbourg peninsula was being fought, the remainder of the 116mile battlefront flared with violent struggles all the way from the no man’s land of Carentan to the Troarn outpost east of Caen. British assault forces battled their way into Tilly-sur-Seulles, 12 miles west of Caen, and captured the
LONDON, June 19 (U. P.)=— Prime Minister Winston Churchill was revealed today to have estimated that 1,000,000 men now are fighting on both sides in Normandy.
northern part of the ruined town. The Germans clung stubbornly to the ‘southern part, but were being driven out in block by block fighting
Amidst the massive test of i strength on the Normandy beach- - head, it was announced officially that fresh allied troops had poured into the battle at many points, Meanwhile there was no sign of a big scale German counter-offen-sive from the south against the American barricade thrown across the Cherbourg peninsula during the week-enq fighting. A United Press dispatch from the front said Lt. Gen. Omar N. Bradley's assault forces had hammered out gains in the Montebourg sector, driving northwest toward
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Churchill Predicts War in Europe May End This Year
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