Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 June 1944 — Page 2

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" i Betty Pear, La Porte, was killed Four Soviet Armies Plow Betty Pear La Forte, oo aah

r = occurred four days after, his 26th ; Through German Seemed A co-pilot of a B-24 Liberator,

October 20, 1843. He was a gradu(Continued From Page One) ate of Shortridge high school at-

Orsha itsell in imminent danger, tended Lain Business college and

{entered the air forces May 14, 1942.

they encountered a new threat. He was employed by the A-1 Re- | The Russ army attack was de- | frigeration Service Co. ! signed to smash the entire Ger-| A brother, Sgt. Arthur W. Pear |

network of defenses protect-| Lar, is in the Solomon islands. i

man {ng White Russia, setting the stage |

{ n advance to Poland and even-! . fot x {with a medical company, Was

tually Berlin. |killed June 6 in the invasion of (Londgn sources estimated that’ prance. the Rufsians were using 1.000000] The nephew of Alfred L. Oaldon,| or m {2313 Carrollton ave. he has a num-| o {ber of friends in Indianapolis. He; White Russian offensives. The Ger- |. the son of Mr. and Mts. R. E. man DNB agency asserted that the | pitts, Kennard, Henry county. Soviet armies included 80 infantry| He was a graduate of Kennard | | divisions of 1,200,000 men and anihigh school and was employed in entire tank army.) | Muncie until September, 1942, when | ihe entered the service. He had | { been overseas since January. More than 740 towns and villages | a = = were liberated yesterday alone to| PpyvT. ALFRED THOMPSON, hus-| bring the total for the first three band of Mrs. Christine Thompson, days of the offensives to 1340. More formerly of 4006 W. Michigan st, than 22,500 Germans have been and grandson of Mrs. Ruth La.

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PFC. ROBERT PITTS, who served

men in the co-ordinated |

Free 740 Towns

killed. | Fond, 1909 S. Pershing st. has been | Special orders of the dav by Mar- killed in action. shal Josef Stalin and com muniques| sa = =

by the Soviet high command yes-| PFC. ROBERT L. MOSIER, who terday disclosed that four, rather wa. cited for bravery by Gen. Mark than two as origi nally announced, |W. Clark in February, has been Russian armies Were participating missing in action in Italy since in the offensives and were threat-inpy 28. Entering the army June] ening Bobruisk and Mogilev, as well! 12 1943 just after his graduation | as Orsha and Vitebsk, farther from washington high school, he north. has been overseas since December | Latest developments in the four ang served in North Africa before sectors included: going to Italy. Vitebsk—The 1st Baltic and 3d{ The 19-vear-old soldier received , White Russian armies broke into the citation for bravery when he| Vitebsk after encircling the city and seven other infantrymen were] and trapping its garrison of five in- surrounded by German soldiers on fantry divisions, some 50,000 to the Anzio beachhead. 75,000 men He is the son of Roy V. Mosier,| Orsha, 47 Miles South of Vitebsk 308 N Tacoma ave., and has a sis—The 3d White Russian army out- ter. Mary, and brother, Rex, living flanked Orsha with the capture of at home. :

Senno, 35 miles to the northwest, | * 5 =

Mogilev, 87 Miles South of Vitebsk Slight knee injury when he was

—The 2d White Russian army shot by a sniper after one and oneunder Col Gen. F. D. Zakhakov half week's combat in France and, broke through the enemy lines to is in a hosiptal in England, his wife| a depth of = miles on a 46- mile- | 16310 ed this morning. He is a regiwide front before Mogilev and cap- {mental surgeon of the paratroop!

0 , |in fantry . tured 200 towns, among them, Suk-| The .son of Mr hari, 14 miles east of Mogilev. The | Mrs. M. D. 2d army also forced the Pronya | oo “Washingriver. ! Bobruisk, 130 miles South of Vi- Lop, Me Carrel tebsk—The 1st White Russian army, |, January, nny under Gen. Konstantin K. Rokos- served with sovsky, hero of Stalingrad, breached the 151st infantry 2 German defenses on a-19-mile front | ¢ Camp Shelby, east and a 50-mile front south of Miss, before enBobruisk. Among the more than tering paratroop 100 towns and villages captured training. Starting were Moshna, 22 miles southeast of | his new training Bobruisk, seized in a 19-mile ad- i; October, 1943, he was stationed vance, and Staiki. 26 miles north-! lat Camp Tocco, Ga. and Camp

railway running southwest from jn january. Bobruisk to Luntaets in old Poland. 5 #8 = The 1st Baltic army .under Gen.| . Ian C. Bagramian and 3d White! PVT. HAROLD L. LANE was wounded seriously in action in Italy

Russian army under Col. Gen. Ivan oh D. Cherniakhovsky completed the | May 25, according to word received by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank

encirclement of Vitebsk, a city "of L 105 T om ‘ 5 t 167,000 and closest enemy base to TE 2 ecumseh St. Al the Moscow, at Gnezdilovichi, 19 miles Ln€ he was wounded he was a courier for the 5th army. He served!

to the west, then broke into the _. with th Ss : isi fortress itself and engaged the .. _ ugh 3 } piniored division doomed garrison in a street battle. _ . \ xTican campaign as torcycle rider and tank driver.! ne enlisted in September,

The Baltic army, smashing down’ _ n has been OVeISERS on While in Technical high

from the northwest, captured 130 V Ss localities and pushed across the BR 0. T.C d roc eo an the zr celv Dvina river on a curving 19-mile after he ee the ee 11s diploma front between Pyatigorsk, 35 miles J ye west of Vitebsk, and Gnezdilovichi rm J— The advance was so vigorous that PVT ELLSWORTH CUMMINGS

the Germans fled in panic without nes esr) Swaitky oe prime even pausing to blow up bridges He is the “eon of a an Mrs.|

across the Dvina, the Soviet high . Ellsworth Cummir g - command reported in its midnight! | man ave. mings Sr, 1318 Nor-| communique. More than 2700 Ger-

» o = mans were killed and the battle. | | ts of the river was | S8GT. JOHN E. HANCOCK re-

. - ceiv i ; left littered with enemy equipment ed a shrapnel wound in the jaw either wrecked in the fighting or while serving at the Anzio beachabandoned intact head. He now is in a base hospiial see Aen . and has received th ur A full company of the German The son of Mr. nd as ay 36th infantry division deserte anitly ui erted to, Hancock, Maywood, Le has been in|

Cross Dvina River |

field on the ba

e Russians | Att . southern end of the e | the army since Oct. 19, 1942, and Biri Orr prea: Ie ores has been overseas 16 months. He atiied front, ROXOSSOVSKY s 1 was at Casabla punched their way through an ex- fanica apd Slelly before,

oing* to tl li tensive network of enemv trenches. going the Italian mainland. He) numerous block hiouse fields |, 2 8raduate of Ben Davis high) JHC TUUS Ji RL 15es8 NN i A iN rao MInenelas, school and was employed by the

barbed wire ar ti-te it { UR HH ank d ciehes Pennsylvania railroad before he] OL L 0 10U! I | i » mount an entered the army. : outflanking timate encirclement threat Bobruisk, ani > kf {

ant air base and railway and _ BOATSWAIN'S MATE 2-C JOHN| junction in central White RUSSELL BERRY, son of Mr, and |. ussia. Mrs. O. C. Berry, was wounded on More than 2000 Germans were 811 LST boat. His parents believe killed in the break-through (he was injured in the invasion. Rokossovsky launched the other | He entered the navy in July, 1943. half of his offensive from positions| 2nd has been overseas since Janu-| north of Rogachev and east of Bo-|2Y He was employed by the U. S. ruisk, where the Soviets forced the | fvubber Co. in Detroit, Mich, beDrut river and pierced a deeply- (fore he entered the service. ramified enemy defense line, Some A son, john R. Berry Jr. and a 2700 Germans were killed in this! daughter, Shirley Elizabeth, reside sector. t 935 N. Beville ave, and one sisOn tive Finnish front, Gen. Kvrill er Mrs. Virginia Searcy, also lives A. Meretskov's forces forced the Os- |i} Indianapolis. ter and Kumsa rivers and struck| 3 = 9 west and scuth from Medvezhe-! PVT. FRED COSAND 1s in a base gorsk on the Aunus Isthmus be- | hospital in Italy recovering from tween Lakes Ladoga and Onega for Wounds received when a tank in

gains of more than nine miles. | which he was riding hit a mine, ; be {his wife, Mrs. Esther Cosand, 2005 See Finn Peace |Suetey st., has Yee notified. He . | has been awar the purple heart. Hopes Fading | The son of Fred Cosand, Olive st., STOCKHOLM, June 26 (U. | Pvt. Cosand has been in the army

—Reports from Pinland indicated | SPc¢ he was 15. He now is 24. He today that German pressure was took part in the African and Sicilian succeeding ame that immediate | campaigns and was at Anzio at the prospects for a new government or| | ume he was wounded. for peace attempts with Russia Anather brother, Pvt. Carl Cosand,

were dwindling. is in the South Pacific. One indirect report from Helsinki, ‘ . 0 lacking detajlis, said German troops, SGT. RALPH D. HARDWICK has

had landed in south Finland. |been awarded an oak leaf cluster | to his air medal. ANN FARLEY AT CHRISTENING The tail gunner of an 8th army ERIOR, Wis, June 26 | {air forces Flying Fortress. Sgt. P.).—Mis§ Ann Parley, daughteri of Hardwick is the son of Orville W. James A. of New York will] | Hardwick, ‘Newman, Iil.- He was which will de launched today in| heavy bombardment missions over the combined Waiter Butler ship- Burcpe.

1 Hoosier Heroes: Lt. Pear, Pfc. Pitts Killed i in Action

Defenses. Lt. Pear. had been overseas since :

Forrest L Wells. son of Mrs. Grace| have shown at Naples and elsewells. 21 E. 15th st. was wounded! Where that they can work mir-

in actio

PAUL ' EMMERSON MISHLER, husband of Mrs. . Kathleen” Marie t Mishler, Sellersburg, has been | wounded. A

; SOLDIERS were included in a war! indication of enemy weakness. Maj. Carrel department list of those wounded | in the various theaters.

east h { 1 1 . . . Lo. ast. The fall of Moshna cut 8 'wmackall, N. C. He went overseas ranean area include Cpl. Arvan D.| made suicide last stands. [ Booher, son of Mrs! Stella Booh

son of Morris E. Brechbill, Markle,

"son of Mrs. Irene B. Huffer, Frank-|

Iville; Pvt. Robert M. Smith), hus- 7 YOUTHS SEIZED AT band of Mrs. Lillibel Smith," Ligo-

U8. 8 Herkimer, honored for his participation .in

Yanks Sweep Within 38 Miles of Livorno,

Enemy Post.

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advancing infantry rode hard on the heels of the retreating enemy, frequently surprising demolition squads | left behind to destroy roads and | |

bridges. By mid-afternoon yesterday, one] % : wing of the British line reached | Pvt. Albert Thompson . . . killed {Planello, eight miles northeast of in action, s Perugia, while a second spearhead | : thrust up the west shore of Lake Trasimeno to within two miles of | Castiglione. Nine miles to the | southwest, strong German forces still were holding out inside Chiusi, | but they already had been by-passed | by the British advance and had lit-| tle choice but to retreat. | Forward elements of the 8th army | were within about 50 miles of the trans-Italian line extending through Pisa, Florence and Rimini, where the Germans were expected to make their next major stand. : On the Tyrrhenian coastal flank, American units of the allied 5th] army were driving on Livorno in giant strides. Tank and infantry | forces swept more than a “dozen miles north of captured Follonica along highway one, while a force of combat engineers raced around the shores of Follonica bay to take the by-passed port of Piombino without | opposition.

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Pfc. Robert Pitts . . . killed on D-day.

Pvt. Haroid! L. John R. Berry Lane, wounded. ... wounded.

heavier armor than they can get quickly from the wave-beaten beaches. Early reports permit hope that the task of putting the, port into operation will not require as long after capture as has been-feared. Our bombers, and our big guns on ship and ashore, spared -docks and installations as much as pos“sible. And our final Infantry sweep was so swift that some Nazi demolition squads were stopped before they could complete destruction. Fortunately, our engineers

Li. Richard J. Elisworth CumPear . . . killed. mings, wounded.

: acles in port repair. 2 x x Allied success in breaching the ELECTRICIANS MATE 1-¢ Atlantic wall, and then in pushing forward a line strong enough and wide enough to protect our assault on Cherbourg from tho rear, was rapid. But that speed is a measure of our commanders

” ” n . - el i} and of the fighting quality of our TWENTY-THREE INDIANA] jangd-air-sea forces. It is not an

Every day from D-day on has been hard, and the storming of i Cherbourg hardest of all. The Those wounded in the Meditel-| Germans did not run; many

rl Bigger battles are ahead on the Warren; Pfc. Daniél L. Brect il | Berlin road. {

Pfc. George E. Capelart, son of Ellis Capehart, Patoka; Pvi. on Sham HU DRE P

H. Casper, son of Mrs

Casper, Washingtan; Pre. “Robert RANGE FRENCH COAST F. Ely, son of Mrs. Bessie Ely,

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fort. : lallied bases in Italy hit Budapest. Others are 1st Lt. Clement P. capital of Hungary, last night and

Kujawski, nd of Mrs. Betty the German D. N. B. news agency May Kujawsk!, ith Bend; Pfc. reported allied bombers over the Clarence McCallister, son of Mrs. Vienna and Danube areas this Nellie B McC allister, Tell City, S. morning. D. N. B. said the bombers Sgt. Don F. Myers, husband of were engaged in violent aerial com-

Mrs. I E. Myers, Goshen; lst bats. Lt. J. Penkul, nephew of Some casualties and damage were Mrs. Mary Nowak, Ft. Wayne, and caused by the Nazi pilotless planes S. Sgt. Raymond L. Rans, son of (which fel] in southern England be-

Mrs. Ethel F. Rans, Kewanna. fore the blackout began last night, Also mmcluded are S. Sgt. Homer breaking a lull of 14 hours in the

Riddle, husband of Mrs. Edna M. attacks. Riddle, Noblesville, 2d Lt. Curt Resumption of the robot bomb E. Taylor, son of Mrs. Lenora Tay- attacks came after allied bombers lor, Anderson; Pic. Jerry A. Treske, and fighters carried out four sepason of Mrs. Anna M. Treska, Wa- rzte raids Sunday on the launching bash; Ist Sgt. Everett A. Weaver, platforms and more than 12 power. husband of Mrs. Alta M. Weaver, stations scattered throughout the Bicknell; Sgt. Roy M. Clark, hus- nest of bomb bases in northern {band of Mrs. Norma G. ' Clark, France Attica; Pvt, Paul K. Shipman, son of Mrs. Orville E. Shipmary) Re

'nier; S. Sgt. Ernest E. Synderj so » lof Mrs. Lula Synder, Hillsboro: Pic. REGREATION CENTER Harry L, Stahl, son of Mrs. Lena % Stahl, Anderson, and Pvt. Lawrenc

e Detectives said today that a golf

F. Underwood, Waldron, ball ritchie plot was foiled ana Those wounded in the southwest two Chicago lads were in jail Pacific are Pfc. Neil Q. Pitser, son! In answer to a prowler call at

of Mrs. Flossie Pitser, Muncie, and the Little America recreation center T. 5th Gr. Walter W. Zimmerman, 62d st. and Keystone ave. sheriff's husband of Mrs. Ann Zimmerman, deputies vesterday nabbed William Whiting. . Marzullo. 18, and Tony Nicholas, 17. ® =» = According to Detective Vifgil CAPT. ROBERT N. ALTER, Ft. Quinn of the sheriff's office, the boys Wayne, has been awarded the dis- sald that a man named “Issie” gave tinguished flying cross. them a car in Chicago and told EEE them that they could pick up 10,000

WATCHMAKERS NAME golf balls at the Little America

driving range and that he would 4 INDIANAPOLIS MEN pay them 12 cents apiece for them upon their return. i Indianapolis crafismen were; Deputies also found a car with | clected to several key posts in the! Illinois license plates in the neigh- | Watchmakers Association of Indi- borhood that contained six large ana at the organization's 11th an-! sacks, nual convention held in the Hotel. The youths are hold. on a va-! Antlers yesterday. Frank A. Kroetz| grancy charge in $5000 bail and of Valparaiso was re-named presi- Chicago police are looking for dent. “Issie,” the promoter. | The association's local om

holders are Thomas E. Cook, secre- .- BLOOMINGTON H HERO {

tary-treasurer; L R.. Dougldt man- |

aging director, and H. W. Schaefer | GIVEN PROMOTION

and Marcus Furstenberg, directors.| Edison Abbott of Kokomo was| _v \SHINGTON, June 26 (U. P).

’ —The war department unced | elected vice president. Other di B anno -! tod - rectors are John F. Holtman of DP promaann 1 Heyten- | Seymour, Charles Carbaugh of Au- 1 Blomington Ind y. B Sen

burn, Walter Klaus of Ft. Wayne, | i Herman L. Lodde of New -Albary Lt. Kisters, while a staff sergeant,

Paul ‘R. Sheddrick of Middletown and Henry J. Schmidt Jr. of Terr Potions in Sicily, This leat wes

Haute. € performed under intense enemy fire | z a —— ar ‘ahd despite five wounds which, Kis- | STECKER HEADS FLIERs | * 18d received. He was awarded

/ {the medal of honor and a battle-' NINTH AIR FORCE = HEAD-! field recommendation resulted in his

+ captured two enemy machine guni}

QUARTERS, June 26 (U. P,).—Col. i Ray J. Stecker, all-American Go i ball star at West Point in the late | ters’

| 20's, has been given command of a him the distinguished service ‘member ¢

be Herkimer, an, cpg ‘named ;

| Ak pees so to- |B.

Thunderbolt group; Maj. Gen. Le is H Brereton, of the thi tn the prem

In the Tunisian campaign Kise || extraordinary heroism earned |

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