Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 June 1944 — Page 5

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for defense and safety of the United States, its possessions and outposts, maintenance of the Monroe doctrine

The committee also released & do-

mestic policy section of the proposed 5™

platform which started off with a pledge to put into effect a peace-

time program which would return men to work as promptly as possible,

with special attention to those who have served in the armed forces. “We shall take the government out of competition with private industry and terminate rationing, price fixing, and all other emergency powers,” the platform said. “We shall promote the fullest stable employment through private enterprise.” It promised there would be no “federalization of government activities,” but that the states, schools and cities shall be free.

DESERTED TROOPS

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manders when they were preparing to storm the entrance to an ynderground tunnel in which several hundred Geggnans were bottled. A German lieutenant suddenly emerged

and goosestepped through gunfire toward our lines carrying a white flag

He was taken to the general of an assault division, whom he informed that he wished to present the surrender of the two top Nazi commanders. The general gave the order to cease firing and sent the lieutenant back to the tunnel +o bring them out. In a few minutes, Von Schlieben and Hemmecke came out, followed by upward of 300 Germans, all with their hands in the air. Other batches of Germans continued to surrender in this area during the ensuing hours until the number ex-

The American commanger ordered a loudspeaker brought up to inform the defenders of the Cherbourg arsenal that their commander had quit and that further resistance was useless, but the Germans threw

a heavy volume of small arms fire]

from their concrete positions P {Judge Oscar Smith in criminal!

through the night. A colonel of artillery surrendered

and brought 300 men with him. A

thousand wounded Germans taken in a hospital.

were

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CRANE NAVAL BASE COMMAND SHIFTED

CRANE, Ind, June 27.—Capt. E. G. Oberlin, commandant of the Crane Naval Ammunition depot

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the delegates could get to it tonight, because former President Herbert C. Luce

speak then. Mr. Hoover arrived in Chicago today. One of his first remarks was that the tentative platform, “so far as I have seen it, is in the right direction.” He differed sharply with Wendell L. Willkie, the party's candidate of four years ago, who from a pillbox on the 23d floor of No. 15 Broad st., New York, has been sniping at the platform makers. Willkie's first shots landed in the convention as Governor Warren was making his keynote address last night. Hopver, who said he “naturally” had been in communication with Dewey, would not comment on Willkie's statement. But he did say that the convention had “developed good prospects” both as to platform and candidates.

Martin Rouses Cheers

Martin roused the delegates to cheers with broadsides at the “au-

since its inception Dec. 1, 1941, turned the depot over to Capt. L.L| Hunter who assumed command yes- | terday. Capt. Hunter paid a tribute to Capt. Oberlin for his part in the creation of one of the largest naval! depots in the world from the sandstone wilderness it once was. Capt. | Oberlin will take a month's leave, before reporting to the 12th naval district for duty. { Capt. Hunter has had a good deal| of experience with naval ordnance and was captain of the U. 8. 8. Mississippi from December, 1942, until last April. His last post was with | the bureau of naval ordnance at Washington, D. C.

DRIVER SENTENCED

The first convicition of a motorist on a perjury charge in connection

in criminal court here today.

{intoxicated. Records showed that on his application for a 1944 driv-

as a very serious offense, but situa-

where suspended drivers have gone

Allied salvage crews were believed

wrecked, docks and harbor installations at Cherbourg today and experts predicted that a flood of supplies, troops and equipment will be Ind. flowing through

down into the N {within a week.

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John W. Greenwell, 34, of 1316 W. 32d st., was sentenced to one to 10 years in the state prison by Special!

court. f State police presented evidence to show that Greenwell's license to! drive was suspended Jan. 6 to April 5, 1943, on a charge of driving while

er's license he stated that his license never had been revoked. “Some people may not view this

tions have occurred previously out and killed someone, That is

what we are attempting to prevent,” Judge Smith said.

REPAIR CHERBOURG DOCKS LONDON, June 27 (U. P).—

to have started repairs on the

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recalled that he polled 22,000,000 votes in 1940. If his move last night | was the first step toward a bolt he

tocratic, power-lustful bureaucracy” of the New Deal. He drew cheers with the assertion that: “The Democratic party has been captured by a minority whose philosophy it despises. Thank God, some of its leaders realize this and have had the courage to revolt.” Already somewhat weary of oratory and eager for the excitement of Dewey's appearance, the delegates are set for the Hoover and Luce speeches.

Eager to See Luce

Most of fhe Republicans here have seen or heard Mr. Hoover before but .nen and women alike are eager to look at and listen to the blond who bombsights her barbs. Despite the political sex appeal of tonight's program, delegates are restive. Dewey's alert New York managers are aware that the show lost its suspense interest when the New Yorker's nomination was assured hours before the convention began. It is learned reliably that Dewey now is considering a speedup change in plans to arrive here tomorrow night instead of Thursday.

2 ; SUNSHINE CLOUD SMITH (above), a full blooded Ute Indian from Muncie, today joined the WAC “to serve my country as my ancestors have.” Mrs. Smith, wife of Howard Smith, Muncie painter, took the oath of office at the Federal building. She if from the Ignacio, Colo., reservation, was graduated from the Haskell institute in Lawrence, Kas, and studied at the University of New Mexico. She has requested assignment to the army medical corps.

Steve Miller, King of Gypsy Tribe, Is Dead

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yet without tears, at the late king. Surrounding the bier are banks of flowers with a crucifix set at one side. A heavy odor of insence hangs over the mourner's room. Women and girls walk aimless ly about in native costumes. The men are in modern dress, some faces are heavily bearded, others have a two-day stubble. Mothers breast-feed their babies, youngsters munch on oranges, the men chain smoke and all talk in a mixed babble of Portuguese and English. They are a group without a leader. And so they will remain for the duration. At that time they will elect a new king. It may be a son, it may not be, but it is sure to be a relative. The Miller tribe stems from the same stock.

Ill for Two Years

King Miller died Thursday in Toledo, where he had gone to be under a doctor's care. He had been ill for about two years. But the burial of the king will be without some of the favored tribe sons. Better than 27 of them are in service and several have been wounded in action overseas. Survivors, other than his wife, include four sons, Charles, Mike, John and Lee, and three daughters, Pearl, Helen and Tita.

speed-up to be obtained by shouting trom the floor for an immediate nomination roll call But delegation chairmen uniformly opposed such tactics. The bulk of the conventioneers unquestionably are having a good time at their once-every-four-years outing. And they are enjoying it even though Dewey's

He may come by plane or train, depending upon whether opposition | candidates withdraw today or force! the convention to a roll call to-| morrow.

now stands: Dewey, 806 votes. Governor John W. Bricker of! Ohio, 90 votes. Lt, Cmdr. Harold E. Stassen of!

Minneso : /that no single individual is in a] 2, wits. | position to make a decision for the

If Stassen and Bricker withdraw, Dewey is expected to leave Albany by train today and to arrive here tomorrow morning. If there is to be a roll call tomorrow, he would

Willkie accused the foreign relations plank writer of using “phony phrases” in drafting their plank and warned that there must be no ambiguity in the party's statement of policy on that question.

Willkie Poli Recalled

The answering barrage from the convention floor and platform as word of Willkie's attack was circulated by newspaper reporters was, in substance, that there was nothing ambiguous about the proposed plank. And, anyway, the consensus seemed to be that the G. O. P. position on foreign relations would be written here and not by Willkie in New York. Some Republicans, however, pondered Willkie's ultimate plans and

draft became a great big wind that

deprived them of convention ma-

neuvers which traditionally precede

| the nomination of a presidential! The tally among the delegates candidate.

day schedule are the hotel and other arrangements for which everyone must pay, anyway, and the fact

hundreds gathered here, Their man who pot tapped does not take over until he has made his acceptance speech. Among matters awaiting Dewey's final judgment is the nomination of a vice presidential candidate. But Warren still leads the pack by a lap or two and can have it if he will take it. Bricker’s refusal to withdraw probably has chilled his prospects, but the Midwest would welcome his nomination and he should not be disregarded as a pos-

sible ‘second-place choice.

patted hands and shouted a little when he talked of foreign relations and the high motives of the G. O. P. When he began hammering the “arrogant, power-intoxicated bureaucracy.” they gave him what the late Tex Guinan would call a great big hand.

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Smash Forward Six Miles in New Attack.

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cutting the railway and highway between Caen and Attack Steadily

United Press war correspondent

Richard D. McMillan reported from the new offensive zone that the attack was progressing steadily and had over-run several villages southwest of Caen. While McMillan reported the cutof the railroad at an unspecipoint southwest of Caen—probin the Brettevillette area where tish were within a mile or of it earlier—another front dis-

river, which flows between the Caen and Villers-Bocages areas roughly parallel to the railway and highway but southeast of them. The front below Caen now extends over several miles, McMillan reported, and can be expected to spread still more.

Guns Creep Forward “Many hundred guns took part in

the barrage which opened the assault,” McMillan said. “That meant a gun every few yards. The barrage

crept forward 100 yards every three

minutes.

“Our advance covered some miles

and we still are punching our way through German bunkers and trenches.”

Torrential rains drenched the

battlefield during the night, and part of the Normandy lowlands were described as rivaling the mud of Flanders in the first world war.

Occupation of Cherbourg was

completed last night, almost three weeks to the day from the start of the invasion, after a final day of fierce street fighting around the arsena] in the northwestern section.

Docks to ‘Be Ready The completion of the occupation

of Cherbourg was announced in a special communique at 7:15 a. m.

(12:15 a. m. Indianapolis Time) and

less ‘than four hours later Eisenhower triumphantly proclaimed in his regular communique:

“The fall of Cherbourg ends the second phase in the campaign of liberation. “Twenty days after the initial assault, allied forces have estab-

lished a firm beachhead which includes almost the whole Cotentin peninsula and a major port.”

Experts believed that allied ships

would begin moving supplies and men into Cherbourg, whose great piers in peacetime unloaded 1000 tons of cargo a day, within anywhere from 48 hours to one week despite the destruction of docks, cranes and other installations.

Resistance Fading

A dispatch from Alex Singleton, representing the combined Amer-

fcan press, told of demolition and

salvage experts waiting aboard landing ships in the English chan-

ne] with their gear for the signal

to enter the harbor and begin the removal of obstructions. The remaining German resistance on the flanks of Cherbourg ap-

miles west of Cherbourg, "and Cap de la Hague, at the northwestern tip of the Cotentin peninsula. The pocket was shrinking almost hourly, however, under a fierce artillery

and mortar barrage.

The final battle inside Cherbourg

was fought around the old Na-! poleonic arsenal on the northwest! side of the harbor. The Germans! were entrenched firmly in the 30-| foot high concrete bastion behind walls 10 feet thick and surrendered | only after fires set by allied artil-|

lery threatened to consume them.

Another fierce battle raged around

Ft. Du Roule on the southeastern

outskirts of Cherbourg, When!

American infantry captured part of the fort, the remaining Germans

sealed themselves up behind cement | walls in isolated sections and continued to train their big coastal guns on American targets. .

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ahead with the nomination of Mr. Hutcheson. He admitted that pressure was being brought by the Dewey forces to keep the path clear for Goverinor Earl Warren of California for the vice presidential n tion, If Mr. Hutcheson is nominated, Senator Raymond Willis of Indiana, is slated to second the nomination. Meanwhile, the Hoosiers were asking one another their own special brand of a $64 question whenever they met in Hotel rooms or lobbies. The question was “will the reelection of national Committeeman Ernest M. Morris fix everything up again so that all is lovely within the fold.” Party leaders almost to a man were hopeful that the re-election of Mr. Morris at the caucus of convention delegates at the Hotel Stevens yesterday would restore party harmony and allow them to prepare now to fight the Democrats. But most of them ‘had their fingers crossed. They well realized that the “quickie” election of Robert ‘W. Lyons, Indianapolis chain store attorney and former Ku KluxKlan treasurer, as G. O. P. national committeeman in Indianapolis on June 2, his resulting resignation and then the fight here between

ated wounds that would require much time to heal.

Amusing Sideshow

The Indiana sideshow was amusing. While delegates from other states were talking about the international plank in the party platform, Dewey, Bricker and Warren, the Indiana delegates and party members were concentrating praetically their entire attention upon the election of their national committeeman.

On National Chairmanship

end of

the Democratic regime in Indiana.”

heard voting “aye” for the man he had once ousted.

Calls for New Start

Mr. Morris told the delegates that he was “thankful for their unanimous support” and, he added, “let’s forget the sniping, let's start out today anew to see if we can't do things constructive and not destructive.”

at one time had been counted a Bricker man, told the delegates he supposed Dewey would be nominated “without question.” That was the only reference made to the presidential contest during the session. Former Senator James E. Watson,

campaign of Mr. Hutcheson, international president of the carpenters’ union, He said he would not present the

the sights of our guns on that job.” Senator Willis, who presided at

he not in favor of in-

was Mr. has

ow he a chance.” “If there is any chance of nominating Mr. Hutcheson, I am sure every one in the Indiana delegation will be glad to vote for him,” the senator said. Hutcheson headquarters were in an elaborate suite of rooms on the 23d floor of the Hotel Stevens and {a large crowd of A. F. of L. labor {leaders and some businessmen milled around there. Mr. Hutche(son himself spent most of his timge working with the platform commit-

Quipped one Hoosier leader after |'c®

the meeting at which Mr. Morris was elected: “Well, as far as we're concerned the convention 1s ‘over now, Whoever they select for President and vice president is all right with us.” Yesterday's re-election of Mr. Morris, a South Bend investment banker, is one of those once in a hundred-times things. It just doesn't happen in politics that a man gets his throat cut politically like Mr. Morris did at Indianapolis and then regain his complete political health and even his old job back within a period of three weeks. Usually when you're once dead politically you can never be brought back to life. exception—a man who on June 2 was ousted as national committeeman by a vote of 19-t0-6 is on June 26 re-elected unaminously.

Bid for Confidence ]

Mr. Morris was re-elected for one purpose, district chairmen and a number of other party leaders believed that only by restoring him to the committeeman's post could they convince the general public that Mr. Lyons is not running the Republican ‘party. And the district chairmen themselves, excluding such out-and-out Lyons men as James L. Bradford of Indianapolis, brought Mr. Morris’ re-election about despite the objections of a bloc headed by H. C. Springer, De Kalb county chairman. In the group backing Mr. Morris were Leroy Yoder of the third district; Roy Jorg of the fourth: Earl Merry of the fifth; Ira Dixon of the second and Al Norris of the 10th. This group assumed the lead in solving the committeeman problem and Ralph Gates, the G. O. P.

gubernatorial nominee, who reportedly had talked of a compromise choice between Morris and Riley, joined them. This grqup also

Ls Other factors holding the con- peared to be centered principally .S. OPPosed to proposals that State

vention fo its pre-arranged three- between Beaumont-Hague, nine;

Chairman John Lauer, who called the June 2 meeting, be ousted.

Monticello expressed the hopes of most of the Indiana crowd when he sald in a speech nominating Mr. Morris, “this is a happy conclusion to a little family argument, its the

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Mr. Riley was elected Indiana delegate to the committee which will notify the presidential nominee of his nomination and Mrs. Eleanor B. Snodgrass, Nashville, was elected to the committee to notify the vice presidential nominee, There was a mad scramble among Indiana delegates for tickets, only about 400 being issued for the state, while approximately 1000 Hoosiers were here. There were reports that scalpers were getting as much as $25 a ticket,

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