Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 June 1944 — Page 1

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Sosa] VOLUME 55—NUMBER 92

By HENRY T. GORRELL United Press Staff Correspondent

FIELD HEADQUARTERS, U. S. Troops Cherbourg Area, June 26 (Delayed).—Lt. Gen. Carl Wilhelm von Schlieben, Nazi commander of the Cherbourg fortress, stepped out of an American jeep and flinched as a battery of photographers recorded his arrival at American head-

quarters as a prisoner.

11 6.0.p. SOLICITS DEMOCRAT AID 10 DEFEAT FDR

Ex-President Hoover, Clare Luce Speak Tonight.

By LYLE C. WILSON United Press Staff Correspondent

CHICAGO STADIUM, June 27.—The Republican leader of the house, Rep. Joseph W. Martin Jr., Mass., today summoned Republicans and anti-fourth term Democrats to a “war between two eternally hostile ideologies” — between the New Deal and “regimented” society on the one hand and the G. O. P. and a “free” society on the other, Martin rallied perspiring delegates to the Republican . national convention in a free swinging speech shortly after he was elected permanent convention chairman,

Committee Agrees on Foreign Policy Plank.

By JOHN L. CUTTER United Press Staff Correspondent

CONVENTION

27 (U. P.).—The full resolutions committee of the G. O. P. convention today approved, virtually without change, a foreign policy plank which last night drew criticism from Wendell L. Willkie. The resolution, still subject to a vote of the full convention possibly late this afternoon, proposed to put the party on record in favor of post-war participation in “co-oper-ative organization” among sovereign nations but banned any participation in a world state. Instead, it recommended that the

FORECAST: Continued warm and humid

HEADQUARTERS, Chicago, June

tonight and early tomorrow, becoming slightly cooler and less humid tomorrow afternoon.

TUESDAY, JUNE 27, 1944

figure of a man, over six feet tall, with gorilla-like shoulders—the stmin 3f days of defensive fighting written on his features. Then he strode rapidly up the stairs to meet -the American general who had forced his surrender. The American general sat in shirtsleeves at his desk. He shook hands formally but allowed Von Schlieben to stand while he questioned him through an interpreter. Was he ready to surrender the rest of his troops?

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ALLIES CAPTURE § FRENCH TOWNS

Southwest of Caen Are Slashed.

She Simo ost be held four years in organization it envis- |

i - | Governor arren Cali- #8es “Should develop effective ©0- | fornia, Ay ion of key- OPeralive means to direct peace noter and apparently the best-liked|f0rces to prevent or repel military aggression.”

De ey te Senta Somaing tormation of such an or. ganization, it pledged continuing collaboration with the united nations to assure those ultimate ob-| { Jectiv

Other G. O. P. News

Richert: “Hoosier Angles”

es. 1 Willkie's criticism last night was

eevee

BOM © eines y Aimed at what he called “phony | Patio Daca 2 eses 1{PITASES Such 8s ‘world state’ . . By VIRGIL PINCKLEY Stokes: “All's Not Love” ......... gjand gentle language such as ‘peace United Press Staff Correspondent Henry J. Taylor: “Bricker”. ...... 2| [070 a Added ALLIED SUPREME HEADPerkins: “Labor Vote Bid”...... 2 Paragrap QUARTERS, LONDON, June 27 (U. Joe Williams: “Sidelights” ....... 11| The full committee added one! Pp) -—Tank-supported British inLucey: “Dewey's Managers” ..... 11 paragraph, however, to the state-| fantry has’ captured eight villages Othman: “Shades of Harding”. ..11| ment which previously had gone and cut the main transport lifies De Mille's Top Billing ........... 11{through three stages of approval—! southwest of Caen in a big scale Convention Photos ......... «s...11;0y & foreign policy advisory com-| offensive opening a new phase of Editorial: “Keynote” .........ceee 12 mittee appointed six months ago, a the Normandy campaign which has Pegler: “No Nonsense” .......... 12| special subcommittee on foreign af-| cost the Nazis at least 70.000 casual-

Edson: “Spirit of Youth” ,.......12

to order at 11:22 a. m. The heatwilted delegates went through the formality of electing permanent officers, and Martin took possission of the gavel,

Dewey Seen as Cinch

He addressed a convention which! already had made up its mind to| Thomas E.

nominate Governor Dewey of New York for President in an all-out attempt to drive from office an aliministration which has held power for 11 years, The latest count assured Dewey of at least 808 of the convention's 1057 votes in tomorrow's balloting. A poll of West Virginia delegates at a caucus today disclosed that 14 favored. Governor Dewey and five Governor John Bricker of Ohio. The delegation unanimously indorsed William Hutcheson, Indiandpolis, president of the Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America (A. F. of L.), for the vice presidential nomination, The convention was having more trouble in drawing up a platform for his guidance. ' While Martin was telling the delegates in Chicago stadium that their Job was not merely to elect: Republicans in November but,also to

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fairs and the drafting subcommit- |

tee chairged with putting the policy into definite language. The added paragraph promised that the party would devote itself to “re-establishing liberty at home,” and “at the earliest possible time alter the cessation of hostilities we will bring home all members of our

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WARREN RINGS NOTE OF G. 0. P. VICTORY

Stresses Quick, Lasting Peace as Party Theme.

CHICAGO, June 27 (U. P).— Governor Earl Warren of California, who likely will be the Republican vice presidential nominee, last night keynoted his party's national convention by calling for election of Republicans in November “To get our boys home again” and to assure through international co-oper-ation _ that they need never fight again, That was the theme of Warren's address before a cheering audience

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Halleck Scotches Reports

On National Chairmanship):

! By ZARL RICHERT d Times Staff Writer CHICAGO, June 27. — Reports eirculating at the Chicago G. O. P. oonvention to the effect that he

south of Saipan in the Marianas.

ties, it was reported officially today. Gen. Sir Bernard L. Montgomery lashed out in a scythe-like swing southwest of Caen in an effort to burst through the thick swamp country at the southeastern corner of the allied beachhead. The announcement of the new allied offensive, scoring initial gains of more than six miles, closely followed the official disclosure that American troops had completed the conquest of Cherbourg, securing the great Atlantic port for developing the drive into Nazi-held Europe. The new phase of the allied invasion—the Caen offensive—began as the final mopup of the Cherbourg peninsula moved rapidly toward its close. The entire northeastern tip of the peninsula except the Maupertus air fleld was cleared by last midnight, and the only resisting Germans were in the ex-

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Japanese Report U.S. Raid on Guam

By UNITED PRESS Domei (Japanese) news agency reported approximately 100 American planes raided Guam again today (Tuesday) in a resumption of heavy aerial attacks on the enemyheld American island 111 miles

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The German said emphatically: “Nein.” He acknowledged that he was out of contact with most of his troops, who were fighting in isolated groups. The American general asked how, from a moral standpoint he could justify surrendering himself while permitting his men to fight on hopelessly. Von Schlieben shrugged his big shoulders and explained that it had been his experience in Russia that

way to Hitler's Europe and Where They May Drive Next

In the sketch (1) is shown the

gineers to enable the allies to pour the

drive for Berlin.

Cherbourg peninsula to Paris, German

coastal defenses which could isolate Le Havre, endanger wavy lines show possible allied landings

MERCURY HEADING TOWARD A RECORD

Expect Reading Near 100 This Afternoon.

LOCAL TEMPERATURES 6am....% loam... 8 Tam... 7 lam... 9 $a m....84 12 (Noon).. 93 Sa m.r.. 88 1p m.... 94

The mercury headed close to a record today as the early morning temperatures jumped three and four degrees at a time and police reported that one Indianapolis worker was a probable heat victim, The June 27 record stands at 100, set in 1934, and by 8 a. m, today the thermometer read 84. On the

summer’s other record-breaking day

climbed to 96, to break: the previous

There is absolutely nothing to| Chester - W. Nimits announced| Warning that “temperatures will TIMES FEATURES | “Some storie or owuman Halleck.| Monday) average above normal." It forecast Some stories to that effect have Domei reported Japanese planes|cooler weather “tomorrow ON INSIDE PAGES = |[zr"s, "'pied In the East, but as|attacked a group of American sur-|and Thursday, and another hot as I know Herbert Brownell Jr. face vessels off the western coast of|spell accompanied by thundershowPo Sty York is scheduled to be|Saipan Saturday night and set one|ers Friday and Saturday, Amiisemens . 14]Ruth Millett. 13 elected national harman, warship aire, Today's possible heat victim was Eddie Ash.... 2 Movies sessune 3 Mr, Brownell has been a cam- | — : Jot H. ” Bae 3 Radio reve. 18] pany rst at the conven] FASCIST DICTATORS, Soke oey Fashions ..... 15/Ration Dates. 13 by William L. (Big Bill) Hutcheson] , Fla, June 27 (U. P)—|

Mrs. Ferguson 15 Mrs. Roosevelt 11 Raul Gamero, EI Salvador dele-

wees 6.8ide Glances. 12 + 12 Wm. P. Simms 11/

vital thousands of men and vast

Above (2) is the Cherbourg waterfront area and in the map (3) are several sible strategic drives that can now be made by the allies. On the map A is aimed to cut off Brittany peninsula, giving the allies the great ports of Brest, Lorient and St.

Germans to the south, and C

Steve Miller, King of Gypsy Tribe, Is Dead

STEVE MILLER, gypsy king of the Miller tribe, is dead. His body lies in state at the Harry W. Moore Peace Chapel Tomorrow at 10:30 a. m. Catholic services will be held with burial at Crown Hill. At that time about 175 of the tribe, all brothers and sisters, uncles, aunts and cousins, will come from all over the state to pay final tribute to the 57-year-old king, a native of Indianapolis. » ” ” But today the immediate family, including first cousins, clusters about the bier in stoic silence, watching out the final moments until their elected leader is laid to rest. His wife, Queen Mary, sits silently by the coffin looking sadly,

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"MOST STORES CLOSE 2 DAYS NEXT WEEK

All but One War Plant to

Operate July 4.

port of Cherbourg now being rapidly repaired by U. S. army en-

Nazaire. B is a drive straight from

Boulogne, Calais and Dunkerque. The to co-ordinate with land drives.

amounts of material needed in the pos-

is a drive northeastward behind the

HEAVY BOMBERS RANGE OVER AXS

France, Budapest, Yugoslavia Are Raid Targets. BULLETIN

MOSCOW, June 27 (U. P.).— The eastern command of the U. S. -strategic airforce announced today that American heavy bombers operating from Russian bases attacked a German operated synthetic oil plant at Drohobezy in Poland on Monday.

LONDON, June 27 (U. P)— Powerful formations ‘of American and British heavy bombers from Britain and the Mediterranean resumed the two-way bombardment of axis Europe today, smashing at unidentified targets in northern France, military installations in the Budapest area and the Brod railway yards in northern Yugoslavia. The assault on southeastern Europe was launched by two great aerial task forces, numbering possibly 1000 American heavies and fighters, that battled through enemy fighter opposition to blast and burn their objectives at Budapest

were violent air battles across central Hungary this garian and Nazi fighters rose to

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] Nazi General Surrenders Leaving T roops To Fight Alone

small groups of die-hards ‘could achieve major delays. When his questioning was completed, Von Schlieben was invited to wash up in the general's quarters and have

lunch with him. Rear Adm.

Walther Hennecke, the Ger-

man naval commander of Cherbourg, who also had sur-

rendered, was the luncheon eral, too. American assault

guest of the American genforces bagged the two com-

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‘ARMED FORCES BUY

FATHERLAND LINE MELTS BEFORE RUSS

[Soviet Armies Smash Through Enemy's Defenses on Eastern Front as Germans Admit Reverses.

; LONDON, June 27 (U. P.).—Nazi broadcasts acknowi ledged today imminent Soviet threats to Mogilev and Polotsk,

‘two mainstays of the crumbling German defenses in White

‘Russia, and Moscow reported

admission that the Russians

ganda preparing the way for of the two towns, which may

‘Hoosier Heroes—

3 LISTED DEAD

Reich, Cpl. Stickan in

Italy; Ramsey Drowns. Action over Germany and in Italy

men on the list of fighting men “killed in action,” while another died on overseas duty in the Pacific.

DEAD Lt. Robert W. Hanson, 947 N. Pennsylvania st.

Cpl. Chris H. Stickan, R. R. 20, Box 823.

der st. MISSING Lt. Harley H. Hornbeck Jr., 6338 College ave. . Lt. Fred A. Crawford, 306 Leeds ave. PRISONER 8. Sgt. Arthur Potter Jr. 2125 W. 42d st. WOUNDED T. Sgt. Fred P. Crawford, 226 E. 12th st. Pfc. Stayton L. Terry, 767 N. Belle Vieu pl Sgt. John R. York, 1001 College ave. SECOND LT. ROBERT W. HANSON, a bombardier on a Flying Fortress, was killed over Germany May 23, according to word received by his father, H. P. Hanson, 947 N. Pennsylvania st., and his wife, Mrs. Patricia Hanson, Albuquerque, N. M. Overseas since April, he had completed several missions. He entered the air forces while attending Butler university where he was a member of Lambda Chi Alpha

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‘44 VEGETABLE PACK

WASHINGTON, June 27 (U. P.). ~The office of price administration, in a move to give the armed forces immediate supplies of the major canned vegetables from the 1944 pack, today authorized processors to sell to the government peas, snap beans, corn, tomatoes and tomato products at prices to be adjusted when OPA’s ceiling prices

AND 2 MISSING

‘Lt. Hanson Killed Over

today placed two more Indianapolis |

that Orsha between them had

been encircled and was ripe for capture. ; The Nazis said German positions had been “withdrawn to the fringe of the city of Mogilev’ —possibly a backhanded

had captured it—and a Russ

army attempt to storm Polotsk failed. The Berlin broadcasts bore all the earmarks of propa

an announcement of the loss be in Soviet hands already. In any event, the combined Moscow and Berlin reports made it clear that the four Russ armies wheeling forward in White Russia had scored momentous gains, and the Nazi “fatherland line” had fallen apart under the hammer blows (of the Russians. “The Soviet command on the cene tral sector of the eastern front evie dently aims by the strong employ= ment of numerous tank units and motorized formations at an encircles {ment movement on a large scale,” Col. Ernst von Hammer, Nazi radio commentator, said. Both the southern attacking wedge, whose center lies in the area of Bobruisk, and the northern Soviet attacking group, which is thrusting from the Vitebsk area toward the southeast, are aiming ag the area of Minsk.” The commentary appeared a sure prisingly frank Nazi admission of brewing disaster in White Russia, with Soviet victories in the first

phase of the summer offensive clearing the way for a converging movement on Minsk, capital of

Pfc. John W. Ramsey, 2416 Ra-| White Russia.

Increase Pressure

“The Soviets yesterday increased a

the pressure with fresh forces

toward Bobruisk to such an extent

that the German lines had to be withdrawn at several points,” Von Hammer said. “Repeated attempts at a break-through failed south of the town.” Moscow revealed that Col. Gen, Georgi D. Zakharov’s second of White Russia had moun frontal assault on Mogilev, 87 south of Vitebsk, and with the last bastion German defense line on that After cutting all Mogilev's except a raliroad to Sinizk and highway to Bobruisk, the Russians battled into the town and Moscow said it was marked for early capture along with Orsha, 40 miles to the north.

WARD SUES TO BAN LABOR BOARD EDICTS

WASHINGTON, June 27 (U. P.),

for the year's pack are established.

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