Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 June 1944 — Page 1

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8] VOLUME 55—NUMBER 94

ewey Outlines Stra

Dewey, breathing life and color and enthusiasm into the ican national convention, today had charted clearly . the plan of strategy he will follow in his bid for the

presidency. to develop before November;

Here are the major points you can expect Mr. Dewey

One-Man Government Must End, Says Nominee

BULLETIN CHICAGO, June 29 (U. P.).— Governor Thomas E. Dewey of New York, speaking for the first * time at a news conference as the - Republican presidential candidate, declared today that the foreign policy plank of the new G. O. P. platform ruled out the inclusion of “American boys” in any world police force that is under “disembodied” international control, By LYLE C. WILSON United Press Staff Correspondent REPUBLICAN CAMPAIGN HEADQUARTERS, | Chicago, June 29.—Governor Thomas E. Dewey took com- * mand today of the Republican

party's 1944 effort to retire President Roosevelt by challenging the administration as toe old, uns sure in foreign policy and futile on She home front. i - “He will make & hell of a cam-| paign” his associates promised as! Dewey came perspiring from the “Chicago stadium last night where

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. Other G. 0. P. News

Denny: “Dares the Champ «seve Kidney: “Platform Views” ...... 13

Heath: “Meet Mr. Dewey” «esses 13iplace

Joe Williams: “Secret's Out” .... 13 *A Bold Campaign” .......e.0e. 13 L *Mrs. Thomas E. Dewey” ..... .. 13 Othman: “Tom Dewey's Necktie” 13! Editorial: “Dewey and Bricker”... 14 Pegler ........» NRA RARER Hillman: “Reflections” .......... 14 *Tom Dewey's Mother” ......... 15

* he accepted the Republican nomination for President of the United States. G. O. P. hopes and enthusiasm are high today. The national convention, whose delegates sweated out some of Chieago’'s most unpleasant summer; weather, adjourned sine die a mo- « ment after Dewey had completed! his I-do. Dewey said today at his first press conference since his nomination that he will formulate his campaign plans after consultations here during the next few days with Republican leaders from all parts of the country. “I have no campaign plans now,” he told reporters. Then he went on to explain that he intended to meet with members of the Republican national committee and, if possible, with every stite chairman and vice chairman. The meeting with the national

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Dewey

By LUDWELL DENNY Seripps-Howard Staff Writer CHICAGO, June 29. — Like the plane that took him from Albany to Speech was a streamlined job. It ‘was fast and sure, . ~ When it got there it stopped,

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Out to Take Libarcl Vote From ‘Groggy Champ’

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Indiana Leaders See Ticket as Strong Vote-Getter

By EARL RICHERT Times Staff Writer

CHICAGO, June 29.—Indi-

ana’s Republican leaders were|

unanimously of the opinion today that the Dewey-Bricker

national ticket selected here]

yesterday was the best pos-

sible vote-getting combination that]

could have been put together as far as Indiana is concerned. The Indiana leaders thought highly of Governor Warren of California — Governor Dewey's original choice for the second place — but from the’ start they were hopeful that things would work out so that a Mmiddlewestern man would be placed on the ticket. Of all the! middlewestern possibilities, Governor Bricker was by far the favorite. In fact, there was more real sentiment among the Indiana delegation for Governor Bricker than

there was for Governor Dewey, the | Hoosier delegation going ‘for Governor Dewey. because it believed he was the cinch winner and that he could carry the all-important state of New York.

Calls It Vote-Getier

Gubernatorial Nominee Ralph Gates said he felt that with Governor Bricker as the vice presidential nominee, the national ticket would have real vote-pulling power in In-

Similar sentiments were expressed by District Chairman Earl Merry of Dunkirk, All Norris of Rushville and

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Dewey Bricker of Frankfort Won't Predict Outcome)

Indiana's man of the hour today | was Dewey Bricker, a 46-year-old railroad conductor of Frankfort. In view of the selection of Govenor Thomas E. Dewey of New York and Governor John W. Bricker of Ohio to head the Republican ticket, everyone was seeking the railroader’s opinion on the forthcoming election. i But the publicity-shy Hoosier did not ‘care to reveal his political leanings. “I guess I'm a liberal,” he said. His name is a mere coincidence, not a case of parental foresight. Born in 1898, Mr. Bricker was named after the current hero—Adm. George Dewey, who fought the battle of Manila

wagon oratory of lumbering noise as the swift crises of our times differ from the easier problems of the pre-depression: and pre-war :period.

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. THURSDAY, JUNE 29, 1944

‘ONE: The first job is to win the war and inflict com-

plete defeat on the enemy. TWO: It will make no

difference in prosecution of

the war whether Thomas E. Dewey or Franklin D. Roose-

velt is President. “Let me

make it crystal clear,” Mr.

Dewey said, “that a change of administration next January cannot and will not involve any change in the military conduct of the war.” If there is political meddling with

Dewey as he aceepled the G. O. P. nomination last n

of fight In his face here.

MERCURY DROP BRINGS RELIEF

Early Morning Reading Is Almost 10 Degrees

Below Yesterday's. LOCAL TEMPERATURES 6am.....75 Wam.,... 81 Tam... Nam..... 83 S$am..... 77 12 (Noon).. 84 Sam... 79 lpm...8

Indianapolis breathed easier today, with early morning temperatures almost 10 degrees below yesterday’s, The weather bureau assured “slightly cooler” weather tonight. The break in the heat wave came last night after the mercury soared to a new 1944 high of 100 degrees yesterday afternoon and came within one degree of breaking the alltime heat record, The Indianapolis Water Co. re-

ported that residents used 61,990,000]

gallons of water yesterday, to break the record, set Tuesday, for the most water used in one day. A total of 61,680,000 gallons were “used Tuesday. Mary Frances Johnson, 29, of 949 W. Pearl st, was overcome by the

and Ferdinand Holt chased a gang of boys out of Fall creek who were teking a refreshing dip about 8 o'clock last night. The heat was general over the state, with the highest temperature

{of 103 reported at Terre Haute.

Evansville recorded 101 degrees,

HOOSIER HEROES—

SGT, LLOYD POSEY, LT, PALMER WOUNDED

* sat. William Lamb Given

Third Oak Leaf.

SGT. LLOYD POSEY was seriously wounded in France June 8, his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Noble

heat and sent to the City hospital }' Patrolman

Best Lamb Cuts Return to Ration

List on Sunday

WASHINGTON, June 29 (U. P). ~The office of price administration

an effort to get of available meat supplies in July.

Entered as Second-Olass Matter at Postoffice Indianapolis 9, Ind. Issued daily except Sunday

ty Of His Bid For The White House

the military side it must stop; if there is not it will go on

as at present.

. THREE: There is agreement on America’s part in

establishing the peace.

“There are only a few, a very

few, who really believe that America should try to re-

main aloof from the world. few who believe it would be

There are only a relatively practical for America or her

allies to renounce all sovereignty and join a super-state.”

Acme Telephoto. 3 “When we have won the war, ‘we shall still have to win the peace.” So spoke Governor Thomas E.

ight. Peace was his chief topic, but there is plenty

HULL HINTS AT U. S-FINN BREAK

Announcement May Come Today; Stimson Warns

Of Nazi Drive.

WASHINGTON, June 29 (U.P). —Secretary of State Cordell Hull

Effective Sunday, lamb roasts, steaks and chops will require ration points ranging from 10 for loin chops and eight for leg chops and steaks, to seven for leg and sirloin Toasts. All raioned cuts of beef will require two additional points during

the four-week ration period begin-|status of Pinnish-United States re-|

ning Sunday except 10-inch rib roasts and rump roasts, which were increased one point. This makes the highest point level for beef since raioning began. ,

Sef Double Rites For Owens, Wife, Victims of Crash

Double services for Detective Sgt. and Mrs. James D. Owens, who died from injuries received in an automobile accident Monday, will be held at 2:30 p. m. tomorrow at the Conkle funeral home, 1934 'W. Michigan st. The Rev. Charles Patterson of the West Michigan Street Methodist caurch will officiate and burial will be in Crown Hill Rs Sgt. Owens, a member of the police department 16 years, died yesterday at the Home hospital in Lafayette, where he was taken after the accident near Lafayette, Mrs. Owens died in the hospital a few hours after the collision. Sgt. Owens was 57 and Mrs.

hinted today that the United States |is considering a break in relations {with Finland and that an an‘nouncement may be made later in | the day. Hull conferred with President {Roosevelt this morning before tell{ing a press conference that the

[lations was receiving full considera-

{ tion at this time, Asked whether he might have an

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FOUR: Planning for America’s co-operative effort to -

prevent future wars cannot be the work of “one man or

of a little group of rulers w

ho meet together in private

conferences.” Mr. Dewey apparently was talking about

the Cairo-Teheran secrecy.

These points broadly channel the course Tom Dewey is likely to follow in meeting Mr. Roosevelt on foreign

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SOVIET ARMIES | 39 MILES FROM MINSK BASTION

Russian Warplanes Aiding Constant Attacks on Enemy.

MOSCOW, June 29 (U. P.). —Russ armies, supported by the greatest aerial onslaught of the war in the east, raced to within 35 miles southeast and 40 miles northeast of the White Russian fortress of Minsk to-| day and sent a new column spearing toward the Baranowicze gap,! historical gateway to Warsaw. The Germans were reported retreating in panic southeast ‘of!

even before they were attacked, and resistance was only slightly less feeble on the northeastern approaches to the White Russian capital. Military quarters here believed Minsk will fall like a ripe plum as result of the complete dislocation of the enemy forces in White Russia and the Nazi command’s failure to extricate more than a small portion of the 22 divisions making up the garrisons of Vitebsk, Mogilev and Bobruisk.

Smashed Tanks

| Minsk. abandoning their positions]

On the War Fronts.

(June 29, 1944) INVASION — German reinforcements blasted in Normandy.

AIR WAR—Twenty-mile wide air armada attacks Europe.

RUSSIA—Russ armies, supported by greatest aerial onslaught of war in east, race to within 38 miles of Minsk. ‘

ITALY—American armored forces crash through bitter German resistance along west Italian coastal highway and drive more than seven miles to within 25 miles of Livorno.

PACIFIC—U. 8. marines and army troops on Saipan close trap around Garapan, as American airmen bombard adjoining Tinian,

20-MILE WIDE

Huge Armada Follows Trail Left by Yank 1000-

Plane Raid.

LONDON, June 29 (U. P.)—One thousand American heavy bombers

attacked war plants deep in central Germany today and later an allied bomber formation 20 miles wide streamed eastward against Nazi Europe in a half-hour procession. Official announcements and coastal reports indicated that massive ¢llied bomber fleets had taken ad-

The Russ air force's sturdy Stormovik assault planes were revealed to have flown more than 3000 sorties alone in raining bombs and bullets on German armies fleeing in disorder through Minsk. Massed flights of American ati tack planes also joined in decimatling the enemy columns, Hundreds {of smashed tanks, armored vehicles

vantage of improving weather to strike some of the heaviest blows of the invasion campaign against (the German battle lines and posi- | tions stretching as far to the rear las the Reich itself.

In Great Strength The Flying Fortress and Liberator

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fannouncement with regard to Fin-|ang trucks lined the road of retreat | “Sault was aimed at four aircraft

{land later in the day, he replied

{ day. Hull said that the U. 8. charge d'affaires in Helsinki, Edwin J.

Gullion, is still at his post, Procope Ordered to Leave Relations with Finland were all but broken two weeks ago when the {former Finnish minister to the U. !S., Hjalmar J. Procope, and three of his counselors were ordered to leave this country at once because of actions “inimical” to the United States. The only remaining step short of a declaration of war on Finland would be the formal severance of relations. Great Britain and the Soviet Union have been at war with Finland for several years. The climax to the Finnish situation came this week when the Finnish government acceptéd Germany’s “offer” of assistance against the Russian drive in the Karelian peninsula. : Secretary of War Henry L. Stim-

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| Patriofs Battle

Nazi Troops in

Eastern France

LONDON, June 29 (U. P).—A pitched battle between French partisans and strong German

cials were fleeing to Germany the Nazi retreat there assumed aspect of a rout, ; A communique

{1st White Russian army rdpidly {was outflanking Minsk from the !south after breaking enemy resistance at Osipovichi, 26 miles northwest ‘of encircled Bobruisk. All en{emy supply dumps at Osipovichi fell into Russian hands and the enemy was reeling back in complete demorfalization. : Another spearhead from the 1st army struck west from Bobruisk, captured Stari Dorogi, 36 miles away, and plunged. on toward the Baranowicze gap, 75 miles southwest of Minsk and 220 miles east of Warsaw, On the northeastern approaches to Minsk, Gen. Ivan D. Cherniakhovsky’s 3d White Russian army presumably entered Borisov, last enemy stronghold on the MoscowWarsaw highway before the White

| testifying to the effectiveness of the OPA Chief Chester Bowles said that it would be better if he was v.08

the revisions were necessary to pro- asked that question later in the ‘Front dispatches reported that the| (Continued on Page 3—Column 4) |

{ factories, an oil refinery and other industrial targets scattered through a broad reach of central Germany. The fleet, numbering perhaps 2000 planes with its strong fighter escort, flew as far as Leipzig. A coastal observer said a “very large” formation of bombers escorted by fighters passed over Dover straits this afternoon. Flying high, they “appeared to cover the whole width of the straits,” he said. " Royal air force bombers in great

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POLAND, BRITAIN SIGN PACT LONDON, June 29 (U. P.).—Great Britain and Poland signed an agreement today providing lend-lease terms for Poland on military supplies, materiel and facilities which have been used by Polish authorities to equip troops in the United

Russian capital, or by-passed it in driving to within 40 miles of Minsk

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ROLL NAZIS BACK 7 MILES IN ITALY

Bitter Resistance.

+ By REYNOLDS PACKARD United Press Staff Correspondent

itself. Ei The advance probably carried

Yanks Crashing Through

Kingdom, the Middle East and Italy.

FLEET HITS AXIS =

strength — apparently the same!

FRESH NAZI TROOPS UNDER MURDEROUS | ~ FIRE IN FRANCE

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ALLIES SMASH TANK THRUST IN NORMANDY

British Broaden Salient Across the Odon River. BULLETIN

ALLIED SUPREME HEADQUARTERS, London, June 29 (U. P.). — British armored forces, charging forward for new gains after beating off reinforced Ger. man counter-attacks in violent tank battles southwest of Caen, broadened their salient acrpss the Odon river today and seized straheights overlooking the | Naszis' Orne river defense lime.

ALLIED SUPREME HEADQUARTERS, London June 29 (U. P.).—~Hundreds of British cannon and swarms of planes opened a murderous bombardment on German reinforcement columns that were race ing up to the Normandy front southwest of Caen today in an ate tempt to check an armored spearhead probing toward the Nazis' Orne river defense line. (The London radio said British guns fired more than 10,060 shells in four hours this morning to break {up what appeared to be a major | German counter-attack in the Odon sector below Caen.) Front dispatches reported the thunderous bombardment by land and air of the German reinforcements speeding to the Odon-Orne corridor below Caen, where the British had beaten off all assaults {by 150 Nazi tanks in the most furious armored battles of the inva sion. On the other prong of the assault arc being clamped against Caen, Canadian troops were outflanking the German anchor base in strug gles to the north and northeast,

Nazis Shift Troops

In line with the bridgehead report of reinforcements moving up to the front, aerial reconnassance showed the Germans were shifting |troops on a major scale from eastern France and Germany itself for an expected effort to smash the ale lied foothold in France. “The Germans are making a desperate attempt to move up infantry by daylight, but they are being slaughtered by the royal air force™ a field report said. With improving weather allied planes were swarming over the {front in relays, and a correspondent reported a “continuing rumble as

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