Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 June 1944 — Page 2

Nazis order, Unable to Man Intermediate Defenses.

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the historic river in which the remnants of Napoleon's great army drowned and Napoleon himself narrowly escaped,” the semi-official Pravda said. : “More than 100 years later, the waters of the White Russian river has engulfed thousands of corpses of the doubly inglorious German conquerors,” Rokossovsky's forces also were pursuing the Germans westward toward the Baranowicze gap, 75 miles southwest of Minsk, and ancient gateway to the Polish plains and Warsaw. At last reports, the Russians were driving over the approaches to Slutsk, 60 miles east of Baranowicze. On the northeastern approaches to Minsk, Gen. Ivan D. Cherniakbovsky's 3d White Russian army, rolling down the main MosCcow-Minsk-Warsaw highway, ‘reached the Berezina on a 37-mile- front and

outflanked the east bank strong-|

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R. R. 3, Box 822. ® = = : EARNEST CURTIS SMITH, radio operator and gunner on a B-24 Liberator, was killed in action June i11, 19 months to the day after he entered the service. The son of Mr, and Mrs. Courtney Smith, 926 Arbor ave. he was born {in Beattyville, Ky., but came to Ini dianapolis when he was 7. He was graduated from Washington high school and received his

| Guinea Dec. 18, 1943. Mr. Street Nazarene Sunday school for

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the first of their employees to be

{placed on the gold star list.

| Survivors, besides the parents, are

{one sister, Mrs. Bertha Wilson, In-

Killed in Action;

Pfc. Thomas J. Cross, 2627 N. Olney st. 8. Sgt. Jack F. Stock, 1803 WoodPfc. Alford Pittman, Furnas rd,

radio training at Sioux Falls, S. D,, |: and his gunner training at Har-|: lingen field, Tex. He landed in New|;

Smith attended the Ray:

10 years, without missing a Sunday.|: He was a Times’ carrier boy while|! going to school and after gradua-|: (tion was employed by the Chevrolet |:

hold of Borisov with the capture of (HIRRAPOIIE, firs LrOMer: George. v Bras “ Ss hue northwest | smith, all of Indianapolis, and Sgt. a miie b v "Front reports placing the Soviets Odas Smith, with the army in the

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Chris Mosckou . « « missing over France.

S. Sgt.

| Crossing Odom, Drive on

“ jany allied source.

Wideh Spearhead After,

Caen Airfield.

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Previous Berlin broadcasts had reported the repulse of allied landing attempts in the same area. Ike, Churchill Confer

It was revealed today that Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower has been holding a series of “important conferences at his main headquarters this week. Prime Minister Winston Churchill, who in the past had been receiving Eisenhower at No. 10

Downing St., on an average of once a week, drove to headquarters for a conference yesterday afternoon. All allied western front commanders still in England took part in discussions. The German high command re-

edged that they were “able to

ARMY TAKES OVER STOUT FIELD ‘TOWER

ported thdt the allies continued athe control tower at Stout field is “gigantic effort to cut off” Caen peing operated by all-military perfrom the southwest, and acknowl-|sonnel.

of-whom is Dr. Juho K. Paasikivi. But the impact upon the Finnish people would be serious enough to make the Germans and pro-Nazi Finns think twice before taking such a step. With the break in relations between the United States and Finland, Finnland's hour of doom grows nearer on the faée of cowardly leadership, The Russians’ advance on the Karelian peninsula continues hourly and the military poistion can only be called hopeless. The death of the German commander in Finland, Eduard Dietl, changes the Geérman army's position in the north in the face’ of the gathering offensive in the Arctic.

| fayette, who returned to Billings

Pair Who Helped Plan the Invasion Meet Veteran Of Burma. Three glider pilots, two who helped pave the way for the airborne invasion of France, and another who flew against the Japanese in Burma, compared notes at Stout field yesterday afternoon. The pilots, Capt. W. P. Smith

of Blairsville, Pa; Capt. E. C. Milau, New York, and Lt. James S.

headquarters of the I troop carrier command :

Capts. Smith and Milau had been in England since March perfecting glider plans for the invasion. Their officer was Lt. Col. Mike Murphy of La-

general hospital this week after receiving two broken invasion.

For the first time in two years:

Handled formerly by members of

widen” a breach in bitter fighting, at the same time claiming that German counter-attacks recaptured a large part of the lost ground.

the civil aeronautics authority, a nine-man enlisted man crew led by Lt. Joseph Connes has taken over the duties in the tower. equipped with $40,000 worth of modern air

ma Canal zone, and the grandwithin 40 miles northeast of Minsk Panama oy bi gon mec {His brother Leroy was honorably discharged from the army after serving nine months at Camp Cook, Cal.

indicated that Cherniakhovsky's forces also may have driven across the Berezina, either capturing or bypassing Borisov, but they were believed waiting for Col. Gen. Georgi D. Zakharov's 2d White Russian army pounding west from Mogilev to reach the river before launching a frontal assault on the capital.

Polotsk Outflanked Elsewhere on the eastern front, the Soviets outflanked Polotsk, on the approaches to Latvia and Lithuania from the southwest and cut

the railway linking it with Warsaw,

captured Petrozavodsk, capital of the Karelian Soviet republic, and completely cleared the vital Mur-mansk-Leningrad railway for the movement. of supplies from the United States and Britain.

At one point south of Polotsk, the

Russians were less than a mile from the old Polish border.

CANNED VEGETABLES RETURNED TO POINTS

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tomatoes that has been in efTect since early this year. “Everyone no doubt has heard that record food production is expected this year,” said OPA Chief Chester Bowles, “but the amount needed for our armed forces also is far greater than ‘a year ago.

|ruary and has taken part in five

|S. SGT. CHRIS MOSCKOU JR. was reported missing over France on his 50th bombing mission, which |was to have been his last before {coming home, the war department announced today. His parents, Mr. and Mrs. Chris Mosckou, 1308 N.!| Gladstone ave., were notified on D-| day, but he has been missing since May 23. A gunner on a B-24 Liberator, he served in the African and Italian: campaigns and was based in Eng-| land. Entering the service in.Sep-| tember, 1942, he has been overseas since August, 1943. He holds the {air medal and several oak leaf clusters, | He is a graduate of Technical] {high school and was employed by| the Star Service shop before enter- Wounded « Wounded |ing the air forces. He has lived in!jp February, 1043, went overseas a | Indiariapolis all his life, {year later. ; | He has two sisters, Miss Georgia|” A brother, Paul, 18; enlisted in {Mosckoun and Mrs. Bessie Woolf, the marine corps June 8, the day {both residing in Indianapolis, rent” his graduation from Tech-

"A. L. Easterday Fugene V. Miller Wounded Missing

Robert Johnston Edmund Burway

® ® = nical high school, and is awaiting 8. SGT. EUGENE VICTOR MIL- | his orders to report for duty, LER, brother of Mrs. June Bourne, * = =

3804 Central ave, and son of Mr.| § SGT. ARTHUR POTTER JR. and Mrs. Martin H. Miller, Wash- today was listed by the war departington, formerly of Indianapolis, has ment as missing in action. Since been missing over Germany since then his wife, Mrs. Irene Potter. June 18. A tail gunner on a B-24 4918 E. 18th st, has been notified Liberator, he was under Gen. Jim-|that he is a prisoner in Germany. my Doolittle. |He was listed as missing since He has been overseas since Feb-/\roy 9

_ ulations “to your organization for!

“The net result will be less canned {bombing missions fruit and canned vegetables for the home front during the year ahead.”

over occupied Europe. He holds the air medal and a citation for the missions. Spiced Fruits Back on List | A graduate of Technical high | School and a former Butler univerOPA announced that effective sity student, he wis employed by July 2 the popular No. 2 size con-|the Central Engineering and Con-| tainers of asparagus would require struction Co. before entering the

10 ration points and similar size Service.

cans of peas and tomatoes would require five ration points each.

2 x =» PFC. ROBERT JOHNSTON. 19-

) year-old son of Mr, and Mrs, D. E. Brandled, spiced and pickled fruits y , hct0n 321 Whittier place, has were restored to the list of rationed yoo) wounded in action over canned goods at the same high] ANCE. point values as other canned fruits. He is with the glider infantry OPA also announced that during jn England and has been overseas July many housewives would use all ginee April 6. A graduate of Howe of the first strip of blue ration'pjgn school, he attended Indiana stamps in war ration book four and|yniversity until he entered the would begin using the second strid.!army March, 1043. beginning with coupon A-5. Alll His parents have been informed coupons in the second strip areiihat hig injuries are slight. worth 10 points, not five as printed on the face. $= Five more blue stamps totaling! SOUNDMAN 3-C ARTHUR LEVY 80 points—W-8, X-8, Y-8, 2-8 and EASTERDAY has been wounded. A-5-become good for buying ra-|the navy department announced totioned processed foods on July 1,| day. His parents, Mr, and Mrs. Arand will remain good indefinitely, | thur Levy Easterday, 6600 E. 20th OPA said. st., have not received any details. Other point value adjustments for| TWenty-one years old, Soundman July were minor. Small reductions|Easterday has been in the service were made in points for spaghetti! '¥0 years. He took his uraining at sauces and tomato sauce because !P® Creat Lakes naval training staof slow movement of stocks and .o0 8nd was home on leave about somewhat heavier production. Fight Wocks ago. . Point values for all large No. 10] was emo ee he aro one containers were adjusted slightly to Sip oy A ¢ Hendren Printbring them into multiples of 10,| which OPA said would be a con- 5 & =» venience to wholesalers in keeping] PFC. EDMOND BURWAY, son inventories and other records. (of Thomas Burway, 317 N. Fulton ist. was wounded while serving WASHINGTON, June 30 (U. P).| With a tank battalion in Italy. He ~The OPA today established cents-| Wrote that he is sending his father per-pound retail cellings on sweet | his purple heart and the war depeppers, hothouse cucumbers andi partment has notified Mr. Burway all melons except watermelons ef-|that his son is progressing norfective July 5, bringing about a re- | mally. duction in prices on these commodi-| Enlisting in the army on his ties. Cents-per-pound ceilings on 18th birthday, Nov. 19, 1942. Pvt. watermelons were announced yes- Burway landed in North Africa in terday. (April, 19043. He is a graduate of | Technical high school.

-LINK-BELT WORKERS’ |

Burma, suffered a gunshot The “Link-Belt Productioneer.” a wound on May 12, but his mother, new B-25 Mitchell medium bomber, Mrs, Dorothy Cross, 2627 N. Olney will take to the skies over axis ter- st.“ has been notified that he is ritory as a result of $175,000 in WAT Zgonvalescing satisfactorily, bonds purchases by employees of ¥"Ey, me Link-Belt Dodge and Ewart 1942, k-Belt plants. {16 months and has bee In advising Raymond K. Thomp- six months. 3 been 18 eine son, editor of the Link-Belt Produc-| He attended School 51 and fortioneer of the bomber's christening, merly was employed by Capitol Tooley of the Indiana war Dairies, Inc. finance committee sent his congrat-| | A 8. 8GT. JACK PF. STOCK, gunthe very splendid job they have ner and radio operator on a B-26 done In behalf of the war bond bomber, has been awarded the program.” {purple” heart for injuries received ; | May 28. {| A veteran of 41 missions over SLAYER FACES CHAIR |pA veteran of 41 miss the 9th WASHINGTON, June 30 (U. P).larmy alr forces, based in England. T ros : He is the son of Rev. and Mrs.

THE NAVY DEPARTMENT today confirmed the report that Fireman 1-¢ Martin Albert Masarui, son of Arthur Masarui, 17 N. Addison st, was wounded.

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Claim Yanks Repulsed The Berlin communique said!

traffic control aids.

The invasion of Normandy they described as the largest scale glider operation in history.

Moved Smoothly

“No place in the world ever saw such a concerted glider effort,” Capt. Milau said, “and it couldn't have moved more smoothly or in a more orderly manner if it had been somebody: pushing toy gliders across a table top.”

legs in the}

American troops broke through northeast of St. Lo, transport cen- | ter below the Cherbourg peninsula, but were “repelled by counter- | attack.”

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troops ashore east of the estuary early on Thursday morning, but | were driven off by shellfire, the broadcast was quoted as saying) | Nazi broadcasts also hinted that! allied naval forces attempted to rush the channel island off the! west coast of the Cherbourg penin- | sula. The German D. N. B. agency sald coastal batteries repulsed numerous attempts by allied forma- | tions to approach Guernsey, including one feint by six destroyers. {

Nazis Rush in Reserves

Cruisers, destroyers and motor torpedo boats also steamed in south of Alderney, but were driven off | by coastal fire, D. N. B. said. | The Germans hurled fresh re-. serves into the fighting southwest of Caen in a futile attempt to wipe out the British bridgehead across | the Odon, but there was no confir- | mation of reports the enemy had | launched a major counter-offensive. | Limited enemy forces thrust four times against the British western flank in the Grainville-Brettevil- | lette—Colleville area on the north! bank of the Odon, but fell back with losses when met by heavy and accurate British artillery fire. =~ | Extending both flanks of their bridgehead to the south, the British strengthened their hold on a 350-

ster, still had not testified by noon today and it appeared that Superior | Court Judge Walter Pritchard's de- | cision would have to wait until the afternoon session. .

Landlady Testifies

Mrs. Frances M. Davis, the Teals’ landlady who resides just below them at 2137 Park ave. testified that her husband had warned the Teals as early as 1941 that “babies were forbidden” in the apartment. As Defense Attorney Elmon Williams sought to dispute evidence of an oral “adult only” agreement between the Teals and the Davises, it was revealed that Mr. and Mrs. Davis had sought OPA approval for a rent increase since the birth of

foot ridge a half mile northeast of Esquay and overlooking Caen, six- miles to the northeast. Ronald Clark, United Press war correspondent with the British, said the whole Odon area was ablaze “with the roar and rumble of battle.” { Clark said the British had & firm hold on two bridges across the Odon, one south of Grainville and the other below Mondrainville, Scot- | tish troops were battling for a third under fire from German tanks and 88-millimeter artillery, he said. | All by-passed enemy pockets on the north bank of the Odon have been mopped up, a headquarters | spokesman said, and two more towns | have been captured, Le Valtru, two |

{Baby Teal on Oct. 13, 1943. | Their request was denied. Mr. Davis testified that shortly after the | request was denied he had notified | the Teals that they and the baby | must vacate the property which | they had occupied for nine years {at $30 a month, | Attempting to show that Mr. and. Mrs. Davis had ignored their own | | regulation, Defense Attorney Wil|liams, in cross questioning, brought | | out the fact that Mr. and Mrs. | | Davis have a 4-year-old child of [ their own. A move to establish previous ownlership of the property sent to the witness stand Dr. R. M. Dodrill, minister of the Broadway Baptist (church, at 22nd st. and Broadway,

in th niet Who told the court that he rad oo. n : e PRE(afn tip of the Cotentin { PFC. THOMAS J. CROSS, serv- structed Mr. Davis, a realtor, Who | {lot tenting their siege a d BONDS BUY BOMBER ing with a Marauder infantry group had served as his agent, that no| a aroun in

children were to be housed on the premises.

Tells of Experiences

Asked by Attorney Williams how it was that a “minister of the gospel” should oppose the housing of children, the Rev. Dodrill replied: “I have had some very sad experiences with children in some of my other property. In one case if I recall correctly, children swated down the stairways. “Do you know whether Baby Teal has ever created a disturbance on the property in question?” asked Mr. Williams. © “I don’t even know Baby Teal” said Rev. Dodrill, who in reply to additional testimony said he himself had two grandchildren.

| cluster of six villages on an are four

miles southwest of Cheux, and) | Manoir, a half mile southwest of Fontenay. British Take 6 Villages

| The scale of fighting diminished {somewhat north and northwest of {Caen after the British captured a

to five miles from the city. They were identified as Galmanche, La Ville Neuve, Vieux, Cairon, Cambes and Rots. East of St. Lo, American troops were revealed to have advanced up to 400 yards at some points in a line-straightening operation. American patrols also inched forward ‘southwest of Carentan. Mopping-up operations continued

with American forces

some 3000 Germans in the Cap de la Hague area west of Cherbourg and German forces:in forts in the Cherbourg breakwater surrendering. Ninth air force Marauder pilots who attacked gun positions still holding out in the Cap de la Hague area said they had been informed || that German gun crews raised a white flag amid the rubble and smoke as the bombers turned away (| toward their bases.

Seize 37,333 Prisoners

A dispatch from the Normandy front disclosed that 37,333 German prisoners had been captured by the Americans from D-day June 6 through Wednesday midnight. Some 9000 other Germans were killed by the Americans, : Ls

bourg harbor, most of it under tk direction of Commodore William Sullivan, who planned the s of the old French liner No

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