Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 June 1944 — Page 1
FORECAST; Partly cloudy and cooler tonight and tomorrow.
y VOLUME 55—NUMBER 89
FRIDAY, JUNE 23, 1944
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Someone’ s Mi issing From Today's War Scene—It’s Hitler
the German troops stretched from Chotbonrs to Cernauti
By EDWARD
W. BEATTIE
United Press Staff Correspondent ALLIED SUPREME HEADQUARTERS, London,
June 28.—Adolf Hitler, who
three years ago was hurling
his legions into battle with thunderous war cries, has disappeared from the German scene with a completeness that is one of the major phenomena of the third week of
invasion. For all the outside world i
Aug. 1, War Reporter
Believes.
By HELEN KIRKPATRICK' Times Foreign Correspondent
"ALLIED SUPREME HEAD-||
QUARTERS, London, June 323.— Germany's defeat by the end of this summer seems practically certain, Allied strategic bombing is beginning to show definite and concrete results and will prove to have been one of the biggest factors in this defeat. It may be rash, but I risk predicting that the Germans will be; " - pushed out of France by the be- | ginning of August. Thereafter, the | end cannot long be delayed. But the nearer the end is, the tougher the fighting will be. There is not the slightest indigation that the quality of German
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er-of-war camps. Undoubtedly the skill with which
mand. They seem to fear that we might drop arms to prisoners of war and then airborne troops around the camps, the locations of which are well known. Thus guerrilla fighting might break out all over Europe. Shortages of raw materials have begun ‘to show. I picked up a wooden-tipped bullet in Prance the other day and some of our wounded
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WARMER WEATHER DUE FOR WEEK-END
B-Day Forecast Indicates Mercury Rise Sunday.
LOCAL TEMPERATURES
average above normal. It'll be - slightly cooler tomorrow followed by warmer weather Sunday and _ Monday and continued warmth and humidity Tuesday and Wednesday. The precipitation will average moderate with scattered thundershowers principally in the last half of the period, the weather chief
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vitin officiating.
is aware—or for that matter
Lt. Col. Harry T. Eidson . . . the 34-year-qld army flying photographer from Indianapolis, today was married to the former Mrs. Elliott Roosevelt.
RITE IS HELD
Couple, Served Under President’s Son. By HELEN RUEGAMER
Mrs. Ruth Googins Roosevell, divorced wife of Col. Elliott Roosevelt, at Mt. Worth, Tex. The ceremony was read at 9:30 8 m at St. Andrew's Episcopal church with the Rev. Louis F. MarThe wedding was private, with only a few friends of the bride attending. The bride gave her age as 34. Col. Eidson’s parents, Mr, and Mrs. William Eidson, 5786 N. Delaware, were notified of the wedding, but explained that their son had requested no publicity.
Go to Santa Barbara
After the ceremony the couple left for Santa Barbara, Cal, where Col. Eidson is receiving treatment in an army hospital for injuries received in a plane crash in the Latin-American area on Nov. 27, 1043, Mrs. Eidson was divorced April 18 from Col. Elliott Roosevelt, the son of President Roosevelt, in Ft. Worth. She filed the petition, and Col. Roosevelt did not contest the suit. She was granted custody of the three children, Ruth, 10; Ellott Jr, 8, and David, 2. Newspapermen received their first hint of today's wedding when the couple filled for a marriage license.
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Rabies Epidemic Feared for State By Health Chief
Indiana may be visited with a rabies or hydrophobia epidemic of more than usual proportions, Dr Thurnmian B. Rice, state health commissioner, said today. Dr. Rice said there had been an extremely large increase in the dis-
AT FT. WORTH,
Bridegroom, Son of Local |
Lt. Col. Harry T. Eidson, 34-year-| | old army pilot-photographer from) Indianapolis, today was married to}
—the fuehrer no longer exists. He has taken no public part as field commander or as
inspiration to the new Nazi
generation in the campaign
which began June 6 and there are no signs he will emerge when the Russian army joins in from the east and the allies apply the bone-crusher against the Reich from three
H Col. Eidson Weds Elliott Roosevelt's Ex-Wife
The bride is shown here with her ex-husband, Col. Elliott
Roosevelt, and two of their three children, Elliott Jr.
(left) and
Ruth. The picture was taken on March 16; a month before she was granted a divorce from the son of the President.
Dewey Hits FDR In 1st Statement To GOP Parley
By LYLE C. WILSON United Press Staff Correspondent CHICAGO, June 23.— Governor Thomas E. Dewey of New York, in his first official word to the Republican convention which may nominate him for the presidency next week, charged today that the Roosevelt administration has become a “sprawling overlapping bureaucracy,” and called for a “new spirit in federal government” to réplace the New Deal Dewey's statement, as chairman of an advisory committee on government reform, recommending platform provisions for the 1944 campaign, was read to the resolutions committee by Kenneth 8.
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PREDICT 1000-PLANE RAIDS ON JAPAN SOON
Sweeps Expected Before War in Europe Ends. By FRANK TREMAINE United Press Staff Correspondent PEARL HARBOR, June 23. ~The
Hoosier Heroes—
THREE SOLDIERS KILLED ON DUTY
Second Lt. Harry B. Noon Missing in Action Over France.
THREE INDIANAPOLIS soldiers have been killed, one of them in a plane crash in the United States, and a fourth local airman is missing in action. KILLED - Second Lt. Richard F. Miller, 42¢ E. Southern ave. Pfc. Robert W. Eytchison, 2623 Stuart st.
Lt. Robert E. Speer, 825 N. Delaware st.
MISSING nd Lt. Harry B. Noon, 509 54th st.
WOUNDED Pvt. James W. Bowman, 1052 S.
when his P-38 plane crashed
Allied psychological warfare experts particularly are interested in the fact that Hitleg’s disappearance follows
a long, gradual eclipse which
was accelerated by the mili-
tary disasters at El Alamein, Tunisia and Stalingrad.
Failure of the fuehrer’s
“intuitive” military mind at
Stalingrad was believed to have caused the Prussian military clique to take over control of the war front, leaving Hitler the home front and incidentally the blame for its
A
German High Command
Announces Attack on
Road to Berlin.
By ROBERT MUSEL United Press Staff C
LONDON, June 23.—German broadcasts reported today that the Russian army
(has launched its long-antici-
pated summer offensive with a large-scale attack along a
| |100-mile front in White Russia on ithe ancient northern invasion ~ {route to Warsaw and Berlin.
BRON Rusia tak oo tantiy] forces went over to the attack yesterday on a broad front stretching from a point south of Mogilev north to Vitebsk, the two main German defense anchors in White Russia, the official German news agency D, N. B. said. :
WASHINGTON, June 23 (U. P.).~President Roosevelt, commenting on the American attitude toward Finland, told a news conference today that this country’s foreign policy is not for sale for $148,000—the amount paid semi-annually by Finland en her war debt to the United States.
The German high command also reported the Soviet offensive, and hours later a Berlin radio commentator acknowledged a penetration of Nazi positions in the Obol river sector southeast of Vitebsk. The Russians attacked 24 times yesterday on both sides of the Smolensk-Orsha highway, the commentator said. He reported lively fighting south of Lake Peipus to the northwest and on the Narva front of Estonia, but described it as diversional operations.
Nazis’ Troubles Seen Really Beginning By LOUIS F. KEEMLE
United Press Foreign Editor
Germany's troubles are really beginning, if the Berlin report of the opening of an offensive by the Russian army in White Russia are true. It would mean the Tehran plan
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PORT BLAIR RAIDED
SOUTH SEA ASIA HEADQUAR-
‘| TERS, KANDY, Ceylon, June. 23
(U. P.).—British carrier borne and land planes made a stinging surprise attack on the Port Blair area of the Japanese-held Andaman islands Wednesday, causing telling
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damage to specially selected targets, it was announced today.
U.S. Recognizes Bolivia
After Six Months’ Break
WASHINGTON, June 23 (U. P).
WASHINGTON, June 2 (U. P.)~President = Roosevelt today reiterated his belief that more of France should be liberated be-
"| fore the problem of ‘civil admin-
istration, involving ‘the ‘question | of recognition of the de Gaulle committee, is taken up.
“Since last January a provi-
collapse if collapse must come.
They believe it possible that
Hitler has been banished to his lair at Obersalzberg. There hts been no effort to capitalize on his mystic personality; the usual announcement that he had set up
“headquarters with his fighting men on the Western Front was conspicuous by its absence; there were none of the famous “fuehrer befels” exhorting the troops to “stand
or die.”
INT CHERBOURG'S FALL;
SLAIN, EDEN SAYS:
Features in Most Normandy
already be in allied hands.
HEAVIER ROBOTS CONTINUE RAIDS
Yank Planes Rip Rocket, ~ Coast in 2d Week of Torpedo Attacks.
By BRUCE W. MUNN United Press Staff Correspondent LONDON, June 23. —A barrage of new and heavier robot bombs opened the second week of the German aerial offensive on southern England today, but Home Secretary Herbert Morrison dismissed Hitler's flying torpedoes as an impotent weapon of terror that is ‘being brought under control by secret defensive measures. American Flying Fortresses and Liberators resumed their almostdaily bombardment of the enemy's launching ramps in the Pas de Calais area this afternoon, dropping tons of high explosives on the secret emplacements with undiscolsed results. Throughout last night a sporadic stream of pilotless bombers slipped through the coastal screen of fighters and anti-aircraft batteries to spread death and destruction inland and the attacks continued on through the day. Observers reported that the Germans were sprinkling a number of larger and faster projectiles into their robot fleets, apparently carrying a heavier explosive charge. The new bombs were said to have a larger wing span and to resemble more closely a standard aircraft, but
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16 MORE JAP SHIPS SUNK BY YANK SUBS
11 Medium Cargo Vessels In Latest Catch.
WASHINGTON, June 23 (U. PJ).
for U. 8S. forces now threatening Japan’s inner defenses, have sunk 16 more enemy ships, the navy announced today. This made a total of 50 Japanese
The 16 latest victims included 11 medium cargo vessels, four small cargo vessels and a medium naval auxiliary.
IMPHAL ROAD REWON
Yanks Capture One of 3 Main Terrain
Violent Fight of Campaign.
By VIRGIL PINKLEY United Press Staff Correspondent
ALLIED SUPREME HEADQUARTERS, London, June 23.—American shock troops battled their way closer to the| Cherbourg harbor and heart of the city today in the v 13 violent fighting of the Normandy campaign, and victory appeared near, with some possibility that the port might
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower's headquarters, hopeful that Cherbourg would fall at any time, revealed that the Amer-
icans had captured one of three main terrain features dominating the port as long ago as last midnight. Field dispatches from the outskirts of Cherbourg filed as the final assault on the city roared through its second day said the United States units had hacked their way forward at bayonet point more than a mile into the German fortifications blockading the southern gates of the city. The possibility was entertained that Cherbourg might already be in allied hands, but neither supreme headquarters nor Gen. Sir Bernard L. Montgomery's 21st army group headquarters has yet been informed of that. At worst, the Americans probably were anchored on the sea east and west of Cherbourg and driving hard through the perimeter defenses along the south and southwestern segments of the assault are.
Hill in Yank Hands
Of the three hill features dominating Cherbourg, the one directly east of the city and southeast of Tourlaville, a suburb, had been firmly in American hands since yesterday. Other “big bangs” are being prepared coincident with the final drive to capture Cherbourg, it was revealed at headquarters, but where and when these will fall is known only to the supreme allied command. The reference to forthcoming blows against the enemy was not amplified. The German D. N. B. agency said today that it appeared that American and British troops concentrated in Britain would be hurled at the coast of Belgium and
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Nazi Stand Stalls 8th Army; Other Allied Units Gain
ROME, June 23 (U. P).—German shock troops have stalled the British 8th army advance in central Italy with a series of savage coun-ter-attacks on a 25-mile front north and west of Perugia, but other allied forces are sweeping northward with increasing speed along both the Tyrrhenian and Adriatic
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WAR ANALYSIS—
Bl RUSS PUSH ON NAT |
OMIT SOVIET
PLEDGES NAZIS INVOLVED WILL PAY FOR CRIME
Tells Commons 50 Allied Airmen ‘Murdered ‘In Cold Blood.’
By JOSEPH W. GRIGG United Press Staff Correspondent
LONDON, June 23.—Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden told a shocked and angry house of commons today that 50 British and allied air. officers were “murdered in cold blood” in a Nasi prison camp last March, and promised that every
German Involved in the crime wotld
be brought to justice after the war, Eden declared that a complete
chain of evidence to prove his charge has been established from the testimony of repatriated prison ers and other sources to show beyond dispute that the airmen were shot and killed by gestapo agents after they had tried unsuccessfully to escape from the prison camp, “Stalag Luft 34." He dismissed angrily the official German explanation that the fliers were shot while attempting a mass prison break. Denies Escape Attempt
The murdered men, he charged, were not shot while trying to escape or while resisting arrest but were rounded up and taken to a gestapo-controlled prison whence they subsequently were removed in small groups and executed. “His majesty’s government will never cease its efforts to collect evidence identifying all those responsible and is firmly resolved that these foul criminals shall be tracked down to the last man and, when the war is over, will be brought to exemplary justice,” the foreign secretary said. Eden told the house that a German statement on the incident, alleged that several thousand allied prisoners in camps all over Germany attempted a mass prison
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BATTERED HAMBURG ATTACKED BY RAF
Other Planes Smash at Nazi
Lines Behind Normandy.
By WALTER CRONKITE United Press Staft Correspondent LONDON, June 23. — Mosquito bombers carried the allied aerial offensive deep into Germany last night, hitting battered Hamburg
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Joy of Our Pacific Victories Tempered by Chinese Losses.
By LUDWELL DENNY
Seripps-Rowsrd : WASHINGTON, June 23—Our air-sea victory in the running