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The Artillery He

' By HENRY T. GORRELL United Press Staff Correspondent 3 CHERBOURG, June 30. ~ backed up by the artillery and air force, destroyed the enemy in the Cherbourg peninsula in a battle which will go down in history as a classic in the war of mobility. It was a battle which combined every known military "tactic, from the original “blitz” technique of the Reich- ~ awehr in Poland, to the Stonewall Jackson strategy in

—The American doughboy

the American civil war.

The. shooting has died down enough now to permit an analysis of the battle which has raged in Normandy

for the last three weeks.

1 landed on D-day with the 4th division and have been among our doughboys as they deployed northward at

lightning speed to smash the

concrete and steel fortifica-

tions of “Festung Cherbourg.”

It has been the toughest, bloodiest fighting imaginable, best described as a cross between jungle warfare and oldfashioned Indian fighting, and we have had the German constantly on his heels, both physically and mentally, We have given him no chance to counter-attack.

Captured Germans admit

that our tactics, which de-

stroyed two German divisions and cut two more to ribbons,

have been completely unorthodox.

They thought we

ed Cherbourg

would sit around a couple of weeks, consolidating on fhe

beaches. You would be puzzled if y

ou could walk over the bat-

tlefields where several thousand Germans and Americans

now lie buried. For you would see miles of pastureland and wooded ground, where, except for a few dead cows and wrecked farm houses, there is no sign of a major scrap.

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~ Charges Management With

Imprisoning 2 Boys Several Months.

By NOBLE REED

Removal of the present Marion sgounty juvenile home management at once was demanded today by| the county grand jury in its final peport on public institutions. The jury recommended that the salaries for the detention home staff be raised in order to attract

in the future. The report charged that two boys

have been locked indoors at the § detention home for several months| :

without sunshine or fresh air, “not-| :

withstanding the fact that an un- | used outdoor playground adjoins; the building and is available for this purpose.” Building Condemned

Operation of the detention home is under the jurisdiction of Judge Mark W. Rhoads of the juvenile court. The jury also condemned the present detention home at 538 W. ‘ New York st. as “unfit for human habitation.” the same condemnation that has been made by other grand Juries for the last ares years, “We recommend that the next grand r be informed at once of the of this institution so that they may take immediate ac-

tions be applied to correct the evil of this institution.” County commissioners have been trying to move the detention home from the New York st. quarters for five years but each move has been blocked by legal technicalities or other handicaps.

Move Planned Present plans of county commis-

and Keystone ave. i Judge Walter Pritchard of super- | for court 4 last week denied a peti-| tion for injunction in which 21 residents of Brightwood unsuccessfully sought to prevent establishment of the home on 25th st. The jury's report gave most other county institutions a clean bill of health except the courthouse which it said was “entirely inadequate” for county government purposes. The jury recommended a commission be appointed at once to determine what should be done with the courthouse at the conclusion of the war “eith®r to recondition the present building or recommend the

building.” The jury also returned 18 indictments against 16 persons,

AUTO USE STAMPS LAG NEAR DEADLINE

Will H. Smith, collector of internal revenue, tbday reminded motorists that tomorrow is the deadline for the purchase of automobile use stamps. Mr, Smith said he was afraid many motorists were unaware of the federal requirement since stamp purchases so far had been light. * The stamps must be on wind- . shields by tomorrow. They cost $5 and are good until July 1, 1945. They may be purchased at any postoffice or internal revenue office.

SIGNS PRICE CONTROL ACT WASHINGTON, June 30. (U. P). «President Roosevelt today signed the price control extension act continuing for a year the administration’s. anti-inflation program, but . expressed “fear” that changes made in the law by congress would “weaken and obstruct the effective enforcement of the law.”

Baby Teal with his father and mother stole the spotlight at the city's eviction case hearing today at the . courthouse,

Baby Teal Steals Show as Eviction Suit Begins

BROWNELL NEW

30.—Forty-year-old Herbert Brown-

Thomas E. Dewey's successful 1942 sioners are to move the home t0|gubernatorial campaign, today was county-owned buildings at 25th st. elected chairman of the Republican

'6.0.P. GHAIRMAN

40-Year-Old Dewey Aid Takes Over Spangler Position.

By LYLE C. WILSON United Press Staff Correspondent REPUBLICAN CAMPAIGN HEADQUARTERS, Chicago, June

ell Jr, who managed Governor

national committee to direct the governor's presidential effort. Brownell was named in closed | session after Dewey had told the committee men and women in a! brief speech that: “We will all make a gigantic ef-| for tor do our best to save the re-| public and win the war.” Brownell succeeds Harrison E. Spangler of Iowa as national chairman. He is one of the three men who conducted the pre-convention “draft Dewey” campaign which cul.

minated in the 1056-to-1 vote by |

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HOOSIER HEROES— Sgt. Smith Dies In Air Combat; Miller Missing

Today's casuglty list includes nine Indianapolis men, one killed in action, two missing in Europe, and six who have been wounded. KILLED T. Sgt. Earnest Curtis Smith, 926 Arbor ave,

MISSING S. Sgt. Chris Mosckou Jr, 1308 N. Gladstone ave. S. Sgt. Eugene Victor Miller, 3804 Central ave. WOUNDED Pfc. Robert Johnston, 321 Whittier pl Soundman 3-c¢ Arthur Levy Easterday Jr, 6600 E. 20th st,

Warm Week-End |

To Follow Cool Breezes Today |

LOCAL TEMPERATURES 6am....86 10am... 68 7am...8 llam...7T S$am....66 12 (Noem).. 14 Sam.....6 1pm.....75 While Indianapolis reveled in today's cool breezes, the weather bureau envisioned the return of warmer weather tomorrow. Temperatures sank to the 60's today, but the weather bureau, in its five-day forecast predicted that they would average above normal until Wednesday. The forecast stated “Warmer tomorrow and Sunday followed by | little change until cooler Wednesday. Precipitation will average light, occurring mainly as scattered thundershowers Sunday and again Wednesday.” f

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CANNED VEGETABLES RETURN TO POINTS >

Asvataolis.. Tomi Tomatoes and.

Peas Lose Free Listing.

WASHINGTON, June 30 (U. P). —The office of price administration returned canned peas, asparagus and tomatoes to the ration list today and. warned civilians that their supply of canned vegetables and fruits during the next 12 months would be smaller. The action ended a point holiday for canned peas, asparagus and

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NYE HOLDS MARGIN IN SENATE CONTEST

BISMARCK: N. D, June 30. (U. P.) —Returns from 2194 of 2251 precincts in North Dakota today gave Senator Gerald P. Nye a lead of 456 votes over Lynn Stambaugh of Fargo in Tuesday's primary election, for the Republican senatorial nomination.

for senator, were considered out of

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TIMES FEATURES ON INSIDE PAGES

Indiana state police, locked in

Eddie Ash ... 2 Mon vesees 31 Comics ......

At noon the battle still was raging

Shosed in

Police Battle Armed Trio; Wound 1 Near Putnamville

the running.

‘officials and other tenants harassed | by “adults only” rental regulations, | Baby Teal stole the show with his!

‘NO CHILDREN EDICT DESCRIBED

ocr Growded as Landlady Tells of Warning to Parents.

By SHERLEY UHL As 9-month-old Ralph Teal Jr. gurgled and bounced on his mother's lap, attorneys in superior court 4 today debated Marion county's famous wartime eviction suit growing out of Baby Teal's residence in an apartment which allegedly had been restricted to “adults only.”

Oblivious to the crowded courtroom occupied by neighbors, OPA

Allies Hold All Ground Gained Since D-Day.

BULLETIN LONDON, June 30. (U. P.).— Allied headquarters reported today that the Germans counterattacked on an increasing scale in the Odon-Orne salient in the 48 hours up to last midnight but were repulsed everywhere. The allies are keeping the initiative on every part of the front where fighting is geing on, it was announced officially. The allies mow hold all the | ground they have won since Dday except a small triangle about two miles long around VillersBocage and another roughly four miles long around Troarn.

By VIRGIL PINKLEY United Press Staff Correspondent

ALLIED SUPREME HEADQUARTERS, ' London,

“June 30.- — British armored

forces, beating off four German counter-attacks, broad-

ened the tip of their spearhead across the Odon river to nearly three miles today and drove to with-

WASHINGTON, June 30 (U. P.)~The three allied drives on Berlin were nearly tied today in their race to the German capitol. The most recent communiques show that the Russian front is 640 miles from Berlin, the allied armies in France are 650 miles away, and the allies in Italy have 635 miles to go.

| rized his feeling about the failure

A Finn Bows In Shame for His Country

By NAT A. BARROWS Times Foreign Correspondent

STOCKHOLM, June 30.—“The cowards . . . the fools, they've done it again. , .. I hang my head in shame for ‘my country’s highhanded double-crossing leaders.” With a voice heavy in sorrow and misery, a Finnish intellectual now in Stockholm thus summa-

of the social democratic party to find enough courage yesterday to insist that Tanner and Co. leave President Risto Ryti's cabinet. He considers that President Ryti has completely sold Finland out to the Germans without consulting parliament and he sees little hope of rescue before the Russians overrun the country. The increasing’ arrivals of Gestapo agents in Helsinki fore-

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nfant antics during the early testimony, dulled by an abundance of! legal technicalities, The defendants, Mr. Ralph Teal,

and Mrs. parents of the young-

rr Death of Top Nazi General

On Norman Front

LONDON, June 30 (U..P.).—The death of Col, Gen. Friedrich Dollmann, 62, commander of German forces on the Norman front, was announced today in a special order of the day issued by Adolf Hitler and broadcast over the Berlin radio. +A Nazi Transocean news agency version of. Hitler's order gave no details of Dollmann's death, except that it occurred on Tuesday.

airfields. Radio Paris said British and] Canadian troops had made new landings east of the Orne estuary

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ALLIES NEAR LIVORNO AS GERMANS FLEE

In Nazi Line.

ROME, June 30 (U. P.).—American and French troops poured through gaping holes in the German battle line in western Italy today and raced northward to within 20

miles of Livorno (Leghorn) and seven miles of Siena, driving the

Dollmann was the sixth German general to die on the Norman front since D-day, by Berlin's own count. The others were Maj. Gen. Stegman, Lt. Gen. Heinz Hellmich, Maj. Gen. Witt, Lt. Gen. Erich Marcks and Maj. Gen. Salley. It was the first direct indication that Field Marshal Erwin Rommell was not in direct command of Nazi troops opposing the British and American invasion armies wm northern France.

FLYING FORTS BOMB

As Weather Clears.

4 NAZI AIR FIELDS

Resume ‘Raids on Europe

{Nazis into headlong flight behind a iscreen of minefields and demoli- | tions. { All along a 50-mile front extend{ing inland from the Tyrrhenian sea- | coast the Germans were in full re[treat, breaking off contact com- | pletely at many points in a hurried withdrawal toward their Pisa-Florence-Rimini line, only 30-odd miles to the north.

and captured the coastal town of

‘Troops Pour Through Gaps

YANKS OGGUPY HALF OF SAIPAN

Drive for Harbor After Wiping Out Pocket of Trapped Japs.

{army poured across the BereZina river,

Soviet Troops Pour Across

Berezina.

MOSCOW, June 30 (U. P.). —Marshal Konstantin Rokossovsky’s 1st White Russian

last natural de-

fense barrier before Minsk, on an ever-widening front today | and began to outflank that fortress city from the south. Cavalry led the pell-mell pursuit

STOCKHOLM, June 30 (U, P.). —A general strike began in Copenhagen today affecting all businesses, including banks, after the killing of 14 Danes and the wound - ing of 24 others in anti-Naxz demonstrationd on Wednesday night, according to Danish yom service reports.

lof the disorganized enemy legions and forged to a point 30 miles south southwest of Minsk in a drive that raised a ‘threat of encirclement against the White Russian capital, next obstacle on the ancient invasion route to Warsaw and Berlin. The Soviet high command reported the Germans were fleeing so rapidly and in such disorder that they had no time to man their intermediate defense lines.

U.S. BREAKS WITH FINNS: NAZIS STOPPED IN FRANCE: RUSS OUTFLANKING MINSK

| Nation Is Called

Nazi Puppet By Hull.

WASHINGTON, June 30 (U. P.).—The United States, branding the Finnish government a willing “puppet of Nazi Germany,” today sev-

ered a quarter century of diplomatic relations with Finland after almost two years of unsuccessful efforts to force her out of the war against Soviet Russia. Secretary of State Cordel] Hull, in a note advising the Finnish- gove arnment of the long expected break, said that further relations between the two countries were “now ime possible” because the Helsinki gov ernment has “formally admitted to the world that it has now entered & hard and fast militAry partnership with Nazi Germany, irrevocable through the war." Hull pointed out with emphasis that it was at Pinland's “expressed desire” that Germany had agreed on June 27 to send her new Nazi ivisions to fight against the-ad-vancing Russians and that the “responsibility for the consequences must rest solely on the Finnish gov= ernment.” Fair Warning Given

Finland asked for German aid, Hull said, even after the United States, in the role of a friend long reluctant to sever years of friendly

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Groups of hundreds of Germans

baggage. (A London broadcast recorded by|

By UNITED PRESS U. S. marines and army troops,

(along the western shore today

| toward Tanapag harbor, while other] {sovsky's forcing of the Berezina, Germany

CBS said two more German gen-| erals, the commanders of 53d army

| The Russian press hailed Rokos-|

surrendered with all their arms and!

relations, had warned of the “in- | evitable” consequences that would | follow a continued military alliance with Adolf Hitler. “The Finnish government has

in a half mile of one of Caen’s main holding full control of the southern . nc and the 306th infantry divi- thus formally admitted to the world {half of Saipan, struck northward on had surrendered.

lthat it has now entered a hard and {fast military partnership with Nazi irrevocable throughout

units continued their assaults on| along which Napoleon lost his army (the war for the purpose of fighte | by-passed Garapan, capital of the. lin 1812, as sealing the doom of) ing the allies of the United States,

Marianas.

The new drives followed elimina-|

WASHINGTON, June 30 (U. P.)~President Roosevelt today received congratulations from Soviet Premier Josef Stalin for the “brilliant” allied liberation of the Norman port of Cherbourg.

tion of a stubborn pocket of Japanese at Nafutan point on the southeastern tip of Saipan, where it was estimated the enemy lost from 500 to 1500 killed or captured

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REPORT HITLER PUTS

SUPPLIES IN HIDEOUT]

(U. P).—A German: frontier dispatch to the) Daily Mail said today that truck ° loads of supplies had been arriving for the last several days at Adolf Hitler's berchtesgaden quarters in the Bavarian alps and it was believed the fuehrer was converting the home into a “last stand fortress.” The report estimated that enough supplies for a year had been stored.

LONDON, June 30

WAR ANALYS|S—

Their best commanders have come tg the top. Their troops are “are fighting Jor, they have the will to _ And there are more where they came

All Allied Forces Mesling

Fronts Into Giant Pincers

| Minsk.

!liant new victory along the Berezina,

(June 30, 1944)

- beating off four German counter-

fields.

Vienna.

“The Red army has won a bril-|

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INV ASION—British armored forces]

AIR WAR—Flying Fortresses bomb targets in France, Belgium and in

[in alliance with the enemies of the United States,” Hull said. | He added that up to the present

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On the War Foils

(FINLAND—U, 8. severs relations with Helsinki, calls Finns willing | puppet of Nazis,

attacks, broaden tip of spearhead PACIFIC—U. S. marines and army across Odon river to nearly three miles and drive to within half mile of one of Caen's main air-

troops strike north along west harbor.

RUSSIA—First White Russian army pours across Bérezina river, natural defense barfier befon Minsk.

coast of Saipan toward Tanapag