Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 June 1944 — Page 1

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221 VOLUME 55—NUMBER 8&7

Adm. Raymond 8

| \ By THOMAS L. STOKES

TUCKER DENIES 2 PCT, CHARGE

Characterizes Capehart’s. Statement as ‘Utterly.

False and Malicious.’

James M. Tucker today branded 8s “utterly false and malicious” a statement made last week by Homer E. Capehart, the victor in the heated Capehart-Tucker battle for the CG. O. P. senatorial nomination, that Two Per Cent Club had been used in Mr. Tucker's

y other have I received aid or any support from the Two Per Cent Club, defunct or otherwise, or from any bipartisan source.”

Mr. Capehart declined to comment today on Mr. Tucker's letter, Friends of Mr. Capehart have made much of the point that the successful candidate has never received congratulations or a pledge of support from the losing candidate although a letter of congratulations was received from Earl Keisker of Richmond, Mr. Tucker's

convention keynoter, who had a grand jury investigation of . Capehart's campaign expenses. A in his statement in the request for an investion of his campaign expendialso asked the prosecutor to “inquire into the expenditure of heretofore unused Two Per Cent

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HOOSIER HEROES— |,

Legs Broken in D-Day Landing

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Infant Dead of Injury Received At Trailer Camp

RICHARD BOWYER JR, 21-month-old son of Richard Bowyer, died today at the City hospital from injuries received Saturday while he was playing in the driveway of a trailer camp, 3102 Madison ave. Mr. Bowyer was working on his trailer at the camp when he found the child lying in the driveway. Deputy sheriffs believe the child was struck by someone who backed out of the driveway and drove away, unaware of the accident. The death raised the 1944 county traffic toll outside of the city to 23 as compared with nine at the same time last year. The

LONE IRISHMAN DESTROYS TANK

Daring British Paratrooper Halts Tiger, Pals Do The Rest.

By LEONARD MOSLEY British War Correspondent WITH THE BRITISH 6TH AIRBORNE DIVISION, FRANCE, June 21 (U. P)~—When British paratroopers, holding a vital sector of the Orme valley in Normandy the other morning, saw a massive Tiger tank and two self-propelling guns rolling down the road towards them they thought they were done for. Since dawn that day they been cut off from the rest of the British forces in the area by continuous and ferocious Nazi counter-attacks. They had held them all, but assault by the enemy's armor was something more grimly serious— especially since the last anti-tank gun the possessed had been knocked out by shellfire a few hours before. So they didn't have much hope of survival when the Tiger tank advanced. And then Pvt, Michael McGee, from one of our paratroop regiments, decided that somehow he would stop the tank.® Michael MeGee is a fighting Glasgow Irishman from Kelvinside and he has a couple

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ywruance Once Sailed Boats In Fall Creek

THE MAN who commands the American Fifth fleet, which may be fighting the Jap fleet today in the Pacific, was once the boy who was rescued from an abandoned well in Indianapolis and who sailed little boats in Fall creek. It was just plain Raymond then, sometimes “Spru,” never Ray, when the fighting admiral was a youngster in

Indianapolis back in the 90s.

Adm. Raymond Spruance, soon to be 58, was born .in Baltimore, Md., instead of Indianapolis only because in

Preliminaries Seem Same, But Air Is Charged With Crisis.

Seripps-Howard Staff Writer

CHICAGO, June 21.—It all seems the same, these preliminaries to national conventions, that dreamawakening feeling of “Here’s where I came in,” and yet there is a difference in this Republican convention. There are the old familiar faces

quarters hotel, the Stevens, salvaged from the war but still struggling to shake off its G. I. austerity, except that one landmark, the famous “Tieless Joe” Tolbert of South Carolina, is getting feeble. He sits disconsolately in a corner, cradling his hoary head on a cane. As usual he has a contest to seat his delegation, Sometimes he loses, It doesn’t mean much this time, ex-

cept to Joe. South Carolina, for lack of Republican votes in the Roosevelt era, has been cut down to only four votes in the convention. To Joe it means something—bread and meat, | the dried crumbs of patronage to) sustain his aging body and failing spirit, + Linked to the Past . Only an occasional visitor stops to speak to him. He doesn't seem important, somehow. Joe is a link with the past. He was at the convention here in Chicago which nominated Warren G. Harding and started that reckless era when the Republican party lost its soul which, ever since, it has been trying to recover. Here at Chicago, too, was nominated Franklin D. Roosevelt, who started another era which we dont quite understand yet. The Republicans don’t seem to understand it either. But they suspect that the soul of that movement has become somewhat tarnished, too, with too long exercise of power. They wish they could pin it all down in words and nominate a man who could analyze it, and pick up the torch.

Some among them realize the,

crisis they face. They know that they might trim and hedge and, capitalizing on war-weariness, win this year in one of those human reactions that so often sweep parties out of power—might win the election and lose their soul forever, might win the election and see the party .go down lo extinction later, one with the Federalists and the Whigs. Or they might stand up bold and forthright this year, take

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GERMANS STEP UP ROBOT BOMB RAIDS

All

2000

Air War—

Fighters Protect Aircraft in Raid By Daylight.

By WALTER CRONKITE United Press Staff Correspondent

LONDON, June 21.—More than 2000 American heavy bombers and fighters struck one of the heaviest blows of the war at Berlin today, kin-|

dling furnace-like fires which | threw off a curtain of smoke that! almost obscured the sprawling city. Nazi broadcasts said part of the massive raiding fleet flew east beyond Berlin, suggesting the possibility that ‘they might have gone on to Russian bases in a shuttle attack from Britain. Several relatively small formations of German fighters tried to break through the cordon of some 1000 Thunderbolts, Mustangs and Lightnings protecting the more than 1000 Flying Fortresses and Liberators

The raiders flew through one of the most intense anti-aircraft barrages yet thrown up in defense of Berlin to smash at the city itself and its Basdorf suburb for the first time since the invasion of France.

Fight Off Enemy

As the Liberator section of the fleet approached Berlin about 60 Messerschmitts roared at the bombers, but massed: machine gun fire and the counter-action of the escorts forced them to veer away and they never got reformed for a sustained attack. ; Another combat wing of Fortresses was attacked by nearly 50 twin-engined Junkers 88's designed primarily for night fighting. They broke off contact when they failed to divert the bombers from their course, Despite occasional clouds, the bombers were able to see their targets and line them up in the sights for pin-point bombardment, hailed by the returning crewmen as a definite success. Fighters of the United States 8th and 9th air forces flew with the bombers “in very great strength”— probably at least 1000 streaking over western Europe and Germany to guard the Forts and Liberators.

Damage Caused as Foe

Defies Allied Air Attacks. |

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LONDON, June 21 (U.P.).—The Germans stepped up their robot bomb assault on southern England last night and today in defiance of

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Phone Records Link C. I. O.'s Political

A Berlin radio commentator said (Continued on Page 7—Column 1)

MERCURY RISE DUE AS SUMMER ARRIVES

those days (1885) mothers went to their mothers’ hoines

to have their babies. - Jt was in 1886 when

Mrs. Annie Ames (Hiss)

Spruance, wife of Alexander, went to Baltimore to give birth to one of the world’s foremost naval figures. Baby Spruance came back to Indianapolis in his swaddling clothes and was the “sweetest, most darling and gentle baby you ever saw,” some of the people who

knew the Spruances, said.

AWAIT APOLOGY FOR LYTTELTON

To Correct Blunder About

‘Jap Provocation.’

WASHINGTON, June 21 (U. P.). —Secretary of State Cordell Hull's indignant denunciation of a careless British statement that the

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Even Churchill May Try|

MOSCOW, June 21.—Triumphant

United States provoked Japan into

quick apologies from the highest British officials. Lord Halifax, the British ambassador, was expected to call on Hull soon to try to make amends for the collosal diplomatic blunder made by his colleague, Capt. Oliver Lyttelton, British minister of production.

WASHINGTON, June 21 (U. P.).—Senator Scott W. Lucas (D. IU.) said today that British Minister of Production Oliver Lyttelton should resign from his government post because of his careless statement that. the United States provoked Japan inte war. Lucas, a strong New Dealer, sometimes speaks for the administration.

Prime Minister Winston Churchill himself may participate in the effort to correct the unfortunate impression created here by the remarks of his cabinet minister. Halifax and Churchill were understood to have conferred already by telephone. Lyttelton’s assertions left Hull and other state department officials indignant. Congressmen were just plain mad. And British officials,

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lons and expires Sept. 21.

Action Group With White House, FSA

By WESTBROOK PEGLER ! NEW YORK, June %1.—Long-

distance telephone records sub- |

‘the political : ‘mittee of the C, I. O. and the fol-

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war was certain today to bring]

| Cherbourg—

“He was such a gentle baby and little boy that I don’t” understand why he picked the work he’s in,” said Mrs.

Mary Dean Brossman, 929 N.

Bolton ave.

Mrs. Brossman told of the time when Raymond fell

into the well.

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TLE RAGING—-TOKYO; S SEAL CHERBOURG DOOM:

Report Nazis Begin Evacuation of

Vital Port.

By VIRGIL PINKLEY United Press Staff Correspondent

ALLIED SURREME HEADQUARTERS, London, June 21.—The fall of Cherbourg was expected hourly | today as American forces clamped an arc of steel

A against the city and wheeled up|

Yanks attack Cherbourg by land while the allied fleet hurls explosives by sea, staggering doomed German forces now reported evacu- _ ating men from the vital peninsula port.

Soviets Pursue Retreating Finns

Toward Helsinki

By M. S. HANDLER United Press Staff Correspondent

Russian troops struck out from newly captured Viipuri today in pursuit of disorganized Finnish columns retreating toward Helsinki under a hail of fire from Russian bombers and fighters.

(The British radio said the Russians had advanced six miles beyond Viipuri.) (B. B. C. also said the Finnish radio was broadcasting constant ap-

peals to the pegple of Helsinki t0| invasion forces, the Germans were

evacuate the capital “due to the|pelieved blowing up harbor installascope of the Russian offensive in tions and trying to sink whatever

Karelia.”) Report Peace Move

Marshal Leonio A. Govorov's Leningrad army stormed into the ancient fortress city yesterday to complete a rapid 11-day campaign through Finland's strongest defenses

in the Karelian isthmus and bring|

the Soviet forces within 135 miles east of Helsinki, Finland's capital. (The British radio said Stockholm dispatches reported from Finland that Marshal Baron Karl Mannerheim had taken the initiative

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DEMILITARIZE JAPS, IS WALLACE'S PLEA

Gives Asia Peace Formula At Chungking Dinner.

CHUNGKING, June 21 ‘(U. P) — Vice President Henry A. Wallace declared at a state dinner in his honor tonight that he believed there were three essentials to the

*| maintenance of peace in Eastern

Asia and the Pacific—the demilitarization of Japan, understanding and

* | collaboration among the nations of

the Pacific, and self-government among the peoples of Asia. : - Wallace spoke after Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek,

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their heavy weapons for the final assault on the beleaguered French port. Radio France at Algiers reported violent street fighting in the suburbs of Cherbourg.

LONDON, June 21 (U. P.)—A dispatch from the Daily Mirror's correspondent with British armies | In France charged today that the Germans were shooting allied prisoners. The correspondent reported that 13 Canadian soldiers were found dead Monday south of the Bayeaux-Cain railway line.

The defense of Cherbourg by the | German garrison was described at | supreme headquarters as in its final hours, and field dispatches said the Nazis were speeding up their demolitions and were reported unoffi{cially to have begun evacuating the city. view of the imminence of the fall of Cherbourg to the American

ships were available to block the mouth of the harbor. A spokesman at Gen. Dwight Eisenhower’s headquarters said the

LANES RIP BERLIN

Pacific—

Report Jap Fleet Smoked Out of Hiding.

By UNITED PRESS Tokyo radio broadcast today specific claims of heavy American naval losses in the area of the Marianas islands, where Japanese broadcasts had reported a “fierce” naval battle between large American and Japanese fleets. Meanwhile, Secretary of Navy James Forrestal said there was “some indication” that the U. 8. Pacific -fleet had succeeded in its months-long attempt to bring the

Japanese fleet to bay for a decisive showdown. - Adm. Chester W. Nimitz, come mander-in-chief of the Pacific fleet, already had disclosed that powerful Japanese units—“possibly their entire fleet"—had been sighted between the Philippines and the Marfanas islands.

Japs Seek News

Apparently engaged in a propaganda war to goad the United States navy into premature disclos-

| ures of the situation in the Mar-

fanas, Tokyo radio broadcast a statement of Adm. Kenisuke Taka-

WASHINGTON, June 21 (U. P.).—Secretary of the Navy James Forrestal revealed today that losses in the Marianas operation so far have been less than anticipated in ships, in planes and in troops.

hashi that “the enemy’s landing operations on Saipan has offered us a golden opportunity to smash him with staggering effect. The enemy

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WAR ANALYSIS—

next week or later, it will be ours.

There is plenty to cheer ahout.

fs the trapped Nazis in Cher- - borug.

Whether we win that first round tomorrow or next week or

the long-delayed Nazi counterattack on the Caen-St. Lo line— is apt to be won by the largest

HOOSIER VAGABOND—

on Saipan is dependent on his communications and will meet with a

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Yanks Fight Clock as Well

- As Germans on Beachhead

By LUDWELL DENNY Scripps-Howard Staff Writer WASHINGTON, June 25.—Whether Cherbourg falls tomorrow or

With a major port, for continous

supplies and reinforcements, our beachhead ean grow into a full front.

But Gen. Bradley would not be driving his Yanks so hard, after sleepless nights of assault, unless he were fighting the clock as well

forces. Hence the importance of opening an allied supply route through Cherbourg at the earliest moment, - In theory the Nazis have the. advantage in this race of reinforcements they are operating on

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