Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 July 1944 — Page 1

WHOLE

JURSELF::

5 . VOLUME NUMBER no

The Spirit of 4

Ap ag a ww

Entered us Second-Olass Matter st Postoffice --Indianapolis'9, Ind. Issued daily xcept Bunday :

Ja

fans rae TEL TO ‘critical condition, Mrs. Carrie Wiedenhoft today gave city detectives

a more coherent account of the struggle at her home Friday night!

when her husband was murdered and she was savagely beaten by two unknown assailants. is ne Detectives Wayhe. Baer ad Paul, Taylor: the wife florist contradicted

§ o1 Om 1. Wieamhot:, prominent

GROOM TELFORD |

FOR $6000 POST:

Job. Surveyor | May Get

Permanent Office as -

Personng! Chief.

By SHERLEY UHL Like the man who came to din-

"ner and stayed on and on to even-

tually boss the entire. household, ~ Job Surveyor Fred Telford is assuming a status of permanency and

‘authority at city hall.

Newest development in Mr. Telford’s musiicipal job and salary sur-

- vey is an ordinance creating a per-

manent city persofinel director to be known as “assistant to the mayor.” Mr. Telford has been groomed for this post by the job survey advisory . committee, ‘

1 Tyndall Long Pestered _ Terms of the ordinance, to be. introduced at Thursday filght's city council session, specify a “personnel director” salary of $500 a month

for thé remaining five months of

‘the year, or an annual pay rate of $6000. This is as much as the mayor himself receives, although it should be mentioned that Mr. Telford has recommended that the salary of future mayors be doubled. Long pestered ‘with - patronage Woes ; stemming from his political ‘duels with the regular county 6G. O. P. organization, Mayor Tyn-

(Continbed on Page 3-~Column 5) LOCAL TEMPERATURES

12 (Noon)... 1 ‘1 bey

South side

man as about 5 feet ¥ inches tall. The other one, she said, was about 5 feet T inches tall and had a black mustache. She stated

Meanwhile, funeral services for Mr. Wiedenhoft were set for 2 p. m. tomorrow at the Olive: Branch

isles tomo flo do 2 po m. The Rev. Wales Smith! will officiate at the services, and burial will be in Mt. Summit cemetery at New Castle. Detéctives today were searching for three dark-skinned men who were seen at the Wiedenhoft greenBOSS 4 Wusk betore the mainder. The description of the three men

8 | (Continued on Page 3—Column 1)

ED) FEATURES “ON INSIDE PAGES

A plane crash in California and] action ‘over Germany have added]

two more Indianapolis men to those | killed. © Ome previously reported

again that the men were Italians.|

“FINDS SLATED =

County Council Seeks List)

For New Staff Before Boosting Payroll.

By NOBLE REED Financial machinery to provide an increase in the payroll of the

Marion county juvenile detention:

home to hire a staff of child guidsnce Bxperts was set up by county, commissioners today. Commissioners acted following: a demand by the county grand jury

“| that the present management of the

juvenile detention home be replaced

with a staff of qualified child wel-| ..

fare workers. ‘Ray Mendenhall; president of the commissioners, said that his board would approve a request for an additional appropriation to set up a new staff. Judge Pledges Action Appointment, of an entire new staff was promised last Friday by Judge Mark W. Rhoads of juvenile court under whose jurisdiction the detention home is operated. Judge Rhoads did not indicate how much more money he will ask. He also declined to reveal the identity of the new staffers he said he had in mind to appoint. Any request for additional appro-

(Continued on Page $—Column 5)

DENIES NORDEN CUT

- AFFECTS PLANT HERE

“Paul ‘H. Berger, mshager of- the: Lukas-Harold. Corp. here, said today that discontinuation of Norden bombsight/ production at. the Elmira, N. Y., plant of the Reming-ton-Rand Co. .Would have “practically no effect .on our own production schedule.” While recently the emphasis at’ Lukas-Harold has been away from bombsights in the direction of other types. of ordnance precision instruments,. “we still have plenty of work to keep us busy out here” said Mr. Berger. No unusual labor

HOOSIER HEROES— Airmen Nester and Sowers: Killed, Tedrowe c a Captive

turnover Bs Sapecied, he added.

spit nf,

ily WOUNDED - 4th Gr. Philip E. Prather; RR 10, Box 87

Parade Since First - World War.

day were preparing to pend their July 4 at home. Most downtown stores were closed today, giving their employees a two-

hi

Bx 5868

7

The line of march will be down Pennsylvania st. to Washington st., west on Washington to Meridian st., {north of Meridian, around Monument circle and north to North st.

win Review Parade From a stand on the Meridian st.

Gen. Somervell will review

Chamber of Commerce representatives. The general's -address will be

and the NBC network,

(Continued on Page 5—Column 1)

‘DEWEY TO CONFER

“WITH GOVERNORS -

Enrol Amount of Mail

Pours Into Albany.

ALBANY, N. Y,, July 3 (U, P). --Governor Thomas E. Dewey, Republican presidential "candidate, said today that he would confer with G. O. P. governors from throughout the country on party policy. At his first press conference since returning to the New York capital from the Chicago convention, Dewey said he “may have to do some traveling in the next month.” “Does that mean you will meet with Republican governors,” he was asked: > “Yes” he replied, adding that “literally, I have no plans.” He said that Herbert Brownell Jr, new Republican. chairman, will

SHORT STORE HOURS

TE Wilh 2 tn, dt 0 {| Jefferson will close

ave. ‘. » -

AT HOME’ aH

Indianapolis Awaits Biggest

j

side of the war memorial building the troops. With hirh will be other high army officers, officials from Ft. Harrison, city and state officials and

broadcast nationally over WIRE

Gen. Somervell will discuss war production prospects at the luncheon at 12:45 p. rm. Which will be

EYEWITNESS or Siena Hails

U .P. Scribes,

By REYNOLDS AND ELEANOR. PACKARD United Press Staft- Correspondents SIENA, Italy, July 3.—We returned today with Lt, Gen. Mark W. Clark’s conquering Algerians to Siena, the beautiful and ancient city where we spent five months in internment after United States entry into the war, and had a hard time convincing Italian officials they -shouldn’t turn over the city government to us, . Cries of recognition and greeting went up Sgn the streets aswe rode in a jeep with Herbert Matthews of the New York Times in the vanguard of the allied force. ’ ; 2 2 es 8 8 The citizens of Siena, remembering us as the Americans who had walked through their streets always accompanied by guards, seemed to regard us asa special symbol of liberation. At the palazzo publico—the city

MISSES WRITER

Bus Dodges Robot Plane That Smashes Building Within Few Feet.

(Another Story, Page 7)

By J. EDWARD MURRAY United Press Staff Correspondent SOMEWHERE IN SOUTHERN ENGLAND, July 3-1 was “doodle bombed” today and it’s no fun.

2000-pound - flying bomb roared into,

street toward us,

myself ‘up off the floor of the bus,

hair and clothes and gradually dis-

killed me.

This is the story of what happened during that 50 seconds,

Hoar Gives Warning

plane's motor.

our bus. me screamed. A man shouted

“geez, it's going to hit us.” =X} for one meoré instant

(Continued on Page 3—Column 2) Americans Win Half of Burning Saipan Capital

. By UNITED PRESS

Veterans of the second marine division, conquerors - of © Tarawa,

plunged half way through burning Garapan on Saipan today as an official announcement

in the Southwest Pacific since the pre-invasion strikes at Hollandia. - A Japanese wireless dispatch reported by FCC said allied planes

(Continued on “Page $—Column 4) made three raids over the week-end

on the northern Kurile ‘islands.

Ex-Internees |

- | peninsula from Pisa to Rimini,

ke; to a network of highways radi-

I was riding down a street qn the| WaY, but it was indicated that fi top of &. double-deck bus when a

sight, headed straight down ‘the

Fifty seconds later I was picking shaking glass splinters out of my

i that Adolf Hitler’ ne bow: ‘doodle Hitlers Pg eet men and mobile artillery, but they British have named them—hadn’t

I had boarded the bus to go to catch a train to take me to work and was reading the morning paper when I heard the roar of the robot I looked out of the window and saw the nose of the robot with death written all over it dip into a slanting dive straight for

The woman sitting in front of

revealed ican heavy bombers of the Britain+ American bombers had pounded|P®sed 8th and Italy-based 15th air

{Noemfoor islan 55 miles west of (forces teamed up for the first anBiak, in one or the heaviest raids|20unced time today in a ps.

* RokE REPORTS: RIPS IN NAZIS THOMILE LIN

Goma Throw in’ Many Reserves in Futile ~ Attacks.

ROME, July 3 (U. P).—Allied troops broke open the German defenses all across the 160-mile belt of the I peninsula today, capturing’ the key highway center of Siena on the road to Florence and driving rapidly up both coasts toward the big Seaport of Livorno and Ancona. French colonial troops stormed into Siena this morning on the heels of the retreating Nazis, who began evacuting the medieval art center late yesterday under a storm of shell and mortar fire, leaving only a small rear guard to cover their withdrawal, .The fall of Siena, coupled with the American advance across: the Cecina river farther west, deprived the retreating Germans of their last lateral highway line before the Pisa~

strong defenses covering their longprepared “gothic line” across the

Threw in Reserves ¢ | Official sources revealed that the

10 divisions—possibly 150,000 . men at full strength—against the advancing Amesicans and French. in a desperate effort to hold Siena and the Cecina river line.

With Siena, the French held the

ating above the city. to Florence, 30 miles to the north, Livorno and Pisa. The American breakthrough on the ‘west flank laid open the flat plains before Livorno fcr a possible armored thrust directly into the. seaport. : Late reports did not reveal how far the Americans had progressed {beyond Cecina_on the-coastal high-

columns had driven several mil {above the river to within 15 miles or less of Livorno. :

Reports Casualties

Some Germans still were resisting desperately in the narrow coastal pocket south of the river between Cecina and the sea, counter-attack-ing savagely with tanks, infantry-

already had been by-passed and had no alternative but retreat or annihilation. } Cecina itself fell -to American infantrymen yesterday after one of the bloodiest battles of the entire campaign, and captured German gunners revealed they had been ordered .to hold the town at

planned to anchor their whole] Cecina river line there. “gecina caused us as well as the enemy considerable casualties, and we lost a number of armored vehicles in the engagement,” a headquarters announcement said.

James E. Roper reported that the (Continued on Page 5—Column 3)

AXIS OIL CENTERS

British and Italian-Based

Heavies Join Forces. LONDON. July 3 (U.P.).—Amer-

attack on oil facilities in Romania, Hungary and Yugoslavia. Eighth air force heavy bombers flew from Italy as “guests” of Gen.

announcement disclosed. Big bombers of Lt. Gen. James H. Dooliftle’s 8th arrived in Italy last week at

to-Italy triangle shuttle bomb-

Florence road and uprooted the}

Germans had thrown elements of!

all costs, indicating the Nazis had,

HIT IN 2-WAY RAIDS

the ‘end of the first Britein-to-Rus-|

Re: WR Cut Escape Routes. of

Germans,

MOSCOW, July 3 (u. P.). —Russ__armies

lated Minsk today and hammered forward the jaws of a giant pincers that converged behind the White Russian capital and threatened to trap hundreds of thousands of battle-weary troops. (London military sources estimated that 300,000 or more Nazis were in the Minsk pocket, and pointed out that their entrapment would rival the Germap disaster at Stalingrad, where 320,000 were killed or captured.) Massive columns of Soviet artillery wheeled into position on the assault arc around Minsk and began pounding the er defenses of the biggest Nazi bastion guarding the invasion route to Warsaw and Berlin, Seize Outposts

The frontal assault on Minsk was launched’ from positions less ‘than 12 miles distant. Outdated reports revealed that the Soviets had seized outposts of the city to close against it for the greatest- victory of their summer offensive. At the same time the Russ armies which had cut the last railroads and: all highways except secondary roads west of Minsk were pounding toward each other. Last accounts placed then. 54 miles apart and ad8 ‘pace that promised leomplete -

a matter of hours. (Berlin broadcasts were quoted by the British radio as saying that the Germans had evacuated Polotsk, 120 miles north of Minsk and main base of the upper White Russian

the assertion was premature, and the German high command repdeted “fierce fighting” for Polotsk.

Admit Russ Attacks

(A Berlin communique acknowledged strong’ Soviet -attacks west é¢. Slutsk, 60 miles due. south" of Minsk. On the situation at Minsk,

(Continued on “Page $—Column 3)

KEY JAP BASE REACHED SOUTH ASIA HEADQUARTERS,

A British raiding party has reached the village of Ukhrul, key Japanese supply point in India, 35 miles northeast of Imphal, a communique announced fogas.

Nurses Can

By HENRY T. GORRELL United Press Staff Correspondent IN A FIELD OF FRANCE, July, 2 (Delayed) —Firing ceased for a short time in the vicinity of Caumont last evening to permit the return to German lines of six Ger-| man nurses Who voluntarily had re- | mained behind with their wounded. While. arrangements were being made for their transfer, I tried to interview the German women as

United Press War Correspondentithey- waited in the courtyard of a

French residence.

Herta Wist of Karlsruh, was the most attractive and talkative of the |

Nathan F. Twining’s 15th; a Rome| -

opened a. frontal assault on-almost-iso-|

euvelspment- of Minsk. in,

front. Most reports indicated that|-

KANDY, Ceylon, July 3 (U. P).—|

ns on Top at Dawn as

Ls ds Rain Falls. a

BN

. >. BULLETIN y ALLIED “SUPREME HEAD. QUARTERS, LONDON, July ‘8 (U. P.) ~American’ forces, launches ing a new offensive today, by eves ning had captured St. J seven miles southeast of St. SauveurLe Vicomte, in" Miva. “dee scribed officially as in, dicative” of general : Wa -" ‘By VIRGIL PINKLEY . United Press Staff Correspondent

ALLIED SUPREME BEADQUARTERS London,

top at dawn in.a had turned the

CBS said the Americans ‘advanced in two columns—one just south of § narrow strip of solid ground between the coast at Portbail and the marshes two or three miles inland, and the other some 10 miles ine land.), United Press Correspondent James McGlincy reported from field headquarters that the attacking forces were “slithering and = sloshing

--| through some of the worst mud seen

since the Americans landed.” } The attack followed a heavy artillery bombardment of the “Gere man positions dhead of the Ameri= cans.” The weather prevented

(Continued on Page 3—Column §) . og

Allies Halt Fire So Cerian

Return to Lines

lot. She said her husband until the fall of Cherbourg had been & cape {tain in the German navy and now | presumably was a prisoner. : She admitted all of the nurseshad been well treated but they were {glad to be going back. When I tasked why she said: “Everybody likes to go home,” land xian to be drawn into {conversation about the feeling bes hind German lines. “Your troops are fresh,” she said defensi : She insisted morale in Germany

i

(Continued on “Page S—Column 3)

(A, British broadcast quoted by EE