Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 July 1944 — Page 2

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Ms. Somervell Guest Here

Seize Seize Heights Overlooking © La Haye; Canadi ans-Cap-ture iquet. (Cot © From Page One) _

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Yank Attack Heights

- Normandy stronghold. Once these. have been captured, the Germans | ‘were expected to fall back five miles) ito the south for a new stand along’ the Ay river. L { Under: attack were German- “hela two and a half miles

of the town, formeruarters for the western haif-of the Normandy front. The Americans were - slogging -&head through deep mud all along a 20-mile irregular- frent from ‘a point southwest of Carentan to the! west coast in the vicinity of St. Lo D'Ourville, headquarters spokesmen said, correcting a previous announcement that the offensive front was 40 miles wide. Drenching rain that Yatipered the Americans in the initial stages’ of théir advance lifted somewhat last ‘evening. ‘Seawall Aids Enemy | Front dispatches said the Amerl- |: cans weré making slow but steady progress in the coastal area, where pillboxes, foxholes and the west coast seawall gave the enemy an

THe ‘ Germans still had not | service command, #nd Brig.

they were known to have at least five divisions Jaaing the Americans, ~ the T7th, 91st and 243d infantry, the 17th panzer grenadiers, and the paratroops, / At the opposite end of the front, |” . Briflsh forces widened the base of "their Evrecy ent south opi of tions

At noon tdoay, spoke before the

dianapolis Athletic club.

Somervell: 'We Have the Men, The Supplies and the Weapons’

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Included in the party were Mrs. Somervell, Maj. Gen. James L. Col‘opportunity for a “Tobruk” defense. | lins, commanding general of th¥ 5th

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mounted &- counter-attack though Joseph F. Battley, deputy chief of staff for the service commands, Gen. Somervell Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce in the In-

Elsewhere over Hoosierdom, the holiday was celebrated in varying fashions, “hut without the gaiety,

Caen and iniproved their southeast of Rauray and west of Grainville, where the enemy had been counter-attack futilely in. dn attempt to nip ‘off the Evrecy wedge.

150 WPS ALLED IN ‘HELL'S POCKET’ TRAP

WITH U. 8 FORCES, Saipan, , June 29 (Delayed (U. P.).—At least one group of Japanese found Hell's Pocket on the southeast slope of Mt. Tapotchau about the hottest spot on Saipan. ; The contingent of about 150. en« ely officers and men was caught > Bike chickens on a roost and wiped | ou in 15. minutes by four army um tanks which slipped behind ea _— lines, An army major said the tanks Just had rioséd over & hill when they saw the Japanese troops marching up the road ahead of them toward the battle front.

CN ene Japs Slaughtered

“The tanks roared down the hill, oq today.” with machinéguns and cannén “blaz- | ~> ing” he said. “The Japs were! marching in close ¢olumn fofmation |

The Rev.

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- wis a bloody ess.” scene #8 “Gunner's Paradise”, and| sald “it was just like shooting chickens on &‘roost.”

yards wide and 1500 ‘yards long, is!Franco some time ago?” where U. 8. marines and soldiers ¢ met desperate resistance from the Japanese in the underbrush, cliffs, | caves and ridges. {to ‘speak about it separately.”

GREENBACK NOMINEE ‘SPEAKS HERE TODAY

Leo Charles Donnelly, M.D., Detroit, presidential nominee of the Greenback party, spoke before the organization's annual coun--cil ‘at the Claypool hotel today. He sajd that the: chief function of . government is to so. coin and regulate money and credit as to meet all of the needs of government, of industry and of an ever greater number of people living at ever higher living standards.

CHURCHILL DELAYS REPORT ON ROBOTS

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carefully last night,” Eden replied, “and ‘concluded that the statement should’ be made Thursday, not because we wish to withhold informa. tion, but because Thursday we can mid public more information than’

pg Alfred Edwards then de-)

“Will the foreign secretary ask - +A And our guns Hlaughitered them. It the prime minister if he will include

in the discussjon recent re that - One of the tankmen described hel the flying bomb was pm through facilities offered by Franco and if reports proved correct will he consider modifying the very flatThe pocket, covering an area 500 | tering statement he made about

“I have no evidence about-that,” Eden replied, “but in any case it is ‘a separate matter and I would like

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Brehon Somervell and Brig,

noise and pyrotechnic beauty of pre-war fourths of July. Banned for private use in Indiana by a 1940 law, firewarks became unavailable even for authorized public displays when America entered the War, CL Many war - production workers remained at their machines during the week-end holiday period, ‘but others were given the advantage of a four-day “vacation” to rest. Still others - disregarded stay-at-home suggestions of the office of defense transportation and safety groups. _. Governor Schricker spoke at the 112th annual July 4 program at Pekin in Washington county, which received greetings from President Roosevelt. ’ 3

The nation observed the July 4 holiday today with high ranking ‘war leaders’ joining in an appeal for heavier bond buying in the current fifth war loan drive,

the country to.spur bond sales. | A high point of the day will be ceremonies at Philadelphia in which Adm. Ernest J. King, commander-in-chief of the U. 8. ndvy and Secrefary of the Navy James Forrestal will participate,” joined by Adm. Chester W. Nimitz from Pearl Har bor and Adm. Harold -R. Stark from London. The ceremonies will be broadcast (NBC) beginning’ at 3 p. m. (Indighapolis Time). At Seattle, Wash, a Fourth of July war bond rally will hear Lt. Gen. Alexander A, Vandegrift, marine corps commandant. >

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1 stones, each diamond was a karat

: ently in good conditio, fore.

. anti-aircraft defenses second only

surrounding - hills, Z ‘climaxed the biggest leap forward

|ing helter skelter.

Nipponese civ —preceded the troops in the flight from the blazing city, bombed and battered into

{BERLIN ADMITS

Others in the Somervell party who arrived at Stout field yesterday for the héliday celebration were Mrs. - Gen. Joseph F, Batley; deputy chief of staff for the service commands,

WASHINGTON, July 4 (U.P).

Rallies were scheduled throughout |

Force Supports y sion * North of Marianas. ' (Continued From Page One)

shadows aerial neutralization of the wari, described by pilots #8 having to those of Soerabbda fn. the Dutch

. he drive through the central and northern sections of Garapan, the administrative center of Saipan, by the 2d marine division, which ‘also holds. the made in any single ‘Phase of the. battle for the island. it a A pan, U. 8 plahes 8 Japs fiee‘Thonsepds of

3 mass of Nims.

POLOTSK'S L0§S |:

Russ By-Pass Pass City Following Capture of Minsk, Drive Toward Latvia,

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reported, Gen. Ivan D. Cherniakhove sky's tanks and cavalry of the 3d White Russian army were speeding westward within 110 miles of East

after only token resistance. ee exact locale of the was not given in dispatches, but it was présumed to be in the Vicinity of the by-passed railway junction

der way in Molodechno and its also was expected by Moscow with in a matter of hours. : Cherniakhovsky's forces also were’ pushing southward behind Minsk for a junction with Marshal Konstantin K. Rokossoysky’'s 1st White Russian army in an attempt to encircle the fleeing remnants of the Minsk ' garrison, the 1st and 3d armies together liberated Minsk yesterday. Hint German Stand 4 - Rokossovsky sent other spearheads to wtihin 25 miles northeast of the famed Baranowicze gap through the Pripet. marshes, 75 miles southwest of Minsk on the Moscow- Warsaw railway. . Moscow dspatches said there was a possibility that the Germans would attempt & stand with reinforcements along a line based. on the - powerful fortresses of Daugay-|

Brese-Litovsk, but military obseryers there. saw little prospect that the enemy could ‘halt the Soviet avalanche anywhete in White Rus sia, i ar ine

and a one-half, and some emeralds, i ps

nearby Japanese base of Manok- —

Prussia in close pursuit beaten | roo enemy forces who haan

of Molodéchno, 45 miles northwest! of Minsk. Street fighting was un-}

He 1s. of Bion ved by a sister, | MTs. ag Bernice Moore, Indianapolis, 9% » § 8 SGT. MEARLE E. BARRETT, a veteran of § 8 frican and Sicilian campaigns, “Yas killed in Italy June 14, the war { rtment has notified his wife, oy Eaters Barrett, 111 Sent to’ d in August, 1042, Sgt. Barrett I tor was moved to the Mediterrane: | theater where he served with # aon signal construction -o Sngaged. = layihg Somanicati of He entered } e pie on March

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ing to 4 WAP depart tion received by his F. Greig, 123¢ N. ie Sather ave. ; /The young airman, who was the

May when the plane was forced

of a stor. : He was on his 12th mission and had been awarded the air medal and two oak leaf clusters, A native of Indianapolis, Lt. Greig: pienden Jn Neri e School, wi from guile Sot high. school and httended Butler university.’ He éntered the army in January, 1942, and after|training at Maxwell feld, Montgomery, Ala, he récéived his commission and navigators wings at Turnér field, Albany, Ga., in August,

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An infantryman, ‘he had been In the army since’ , 25, 1043, and overseas since March 21. He received his waising. Camp Van

school and woken a the Continental Optical Co: }

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28, 1942, and formerly worked in the meter ne] division of the In-

dianapolis Wat He was active ‘in. bowling circles, rolling in five Jeagues. Oo

Surviving, ides ' his ‘wife, are two sisters, Mrs. laude Fielder, In-

Kingsbury, Wie ¢Rita, Kas, and a brother, Wi ' Clyde, Indianapolis. ; SY

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Pfc. Harry - Northern, 41 8

lead navigator, for = his . squadron| based in Africs, was returning from the {a bombing mission on Bizerte last

down in the Mediterranean because| ™

1942. “He went overseas in Febru- a

ary, 1943. x Boase, Knightsville; Capt. Raymond Other survivors are two brothers,| Of MIs. Male 213¢ College|O, Care, son of Charles F. Care, Pvt. James Greig of Camp Blinding | 2'» A¢ infrned in Germany, | Angola; Pvt. William R. Cusic, hus, Fla; Radioman ic Jerome| Other Hofslers who are German band of Mrs. Kathryn M. Cusle, they, New York City, and a sister, Jriscuets § Flight Officer Dennis| Evansville; 1st Lt. Lloyd L. HoldMiss Barbara Joan Greig, Indian- Beach, sn of Mrs. Bertha M.'croft, husband of Mis, Edna I

oh | of Motors, "We was a ‘graduate 2 pgh school. Late i. TWO INDIANAPOLIS men), serving at a ® and equipment depot in North Africa, have received legion of merit awards, They are|. Cpl. Normgh E. Krats, 1226 Woodlawn ave, #nd Pfe. Harold T. Marg ave.

le, 753 N.. Pam. ‘Put. Robert A, Keith , « Milled.

Beach, North Vernon: “Pte. Virgil M. Belcher, hushand of Mrs. Cammile Belcher, Linton; Sgt. Phileas L.| Boase, husband of Mrs. Arnola I.

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: — 4 sional signal offiger of the army's |’ oF 5 at , ) vi 9th division, is tpw in a hospital io = "ROBERT H. WYATT, executive SHERWOOD SHIFTED in England afterypeing wounded in} « . 2) secretary of the Indiana - State fighting _ on the Cherbdurg| Rp obey Teachers’ association, his, been | peninsula. : a appointed edu- rapa AFTER QUIRY In a letter to hi wife, Mrs. Olgs | Bue) direc- Berterman Hulett, 58 Kenmore rd.,’ or of the In- he was ge by v in ve a (Continued From Page One). {ihe cojon oe na 2 y| ance committee, launched early 1a June to oust reconnaissance nce group in an a stietapt oc Eugene C. Pull- John Lauer as Republican state, to. establish o on posts. e am, state |chairman and Robert W. Lyons as A commissioned pficer since 1922, ’ nt Republican national committeeman. | Col. Hulett was sthtloned at Ft. feos Mew hy Mr. Lyons later 1 Harrison for a wile nd also served 0 . : ho wis ya oo Mr. La Follette -gontended. that|in Hawaii. on at voluntaty a “Defeat La Follette club” was| ‘TWo sons in serv ql are Lt. C. T. basis, succends SE hatched at the Columbia club and| Hulett Jr, with the air corps in | Howard Tooley Mr- Wyatt , [that those present And taking part| England, and. Parptrooper Lee : “Who resigned. recently to direct |Ve'® John Hano, €. H. (Red) Hulett, in Italy, . | ’ | special activities of the educg. |Maston and Ma). Sherwood, all of Tn 4 SR tion section of the war finance |}Pdianapolis. Wo “ Tn Wappen , . division in Wi Mr, La Poll 's letter Secr=-{s%on Ta t 2 > ! : sEnmpten, - tary of War Stimson said in part:|41 8. Warman ave, A jas wounded | - “Information has reached me that|in ation oh Nadie: en % h : Elmer Sherwood, a major in the ie 19-year pa T has hs OFFICIAL WEATHER United States army stationed at Ft.|been overseas since January, = . U. 8. Weather Bureau Benjamin Harrison, Ind., allegedly|in the army almost 18 months. | gull DAIS In Central War Time as a public relations officer, for| He is a graduate of ton| {__Sunrise...... 5:21 | Sunset, %:17- | months has been devoting SB large high school where he"¥as a cap- . ) | HP ERATORE amount of time to: participation in|tain in the R. 0. T. 0. 4nd he was a litics and that for the ast three|émployed at the Bech Grove ’ | rb ss 2p om ss {PO A sh f the New Yolk Central | Precipitation 24 hrs, ending 07s. a. mn ~g| onths he has spent an average of oe; { : : | Total precipitation since Jan, 1......20 35| seven hours ‘& day in rooms 904, iy be ore. he Join Ale army. | k I | Deficiency since Jan. 1." ..0..0 52/905, 913 and 805 in. the Columbia|He received his trainijg at FL. J , ure “oer Eee shows the tempera- club, Indianapolis, Ind. for that Lev, Wah, ad Be ning, Ga. J . . | Atlanta. TR Low | Purpose. serving wilh the Ai marines 1n]] - - i : BOSIOD. wuuvivunsinsinininit lll + ¢0 | I demand an immediate investi- B. 5 nm by {| Chicago. 8 | gation be made of the activities , , [‘he Pacific. oo AJR! | / : | Cleveland . 60 | and, if they are found to be as L PRVALITY A il | Evanentite ¢ | Charged, that such disciplinary ac- aT, BILL BOYES is ag MV } (Ft. Way ols ci) evar baad 62 tion be takén as 1s proper; or in terned in a German hospital’ with Ld A | P ) 68 gh rane 0 \ | Kansas City, Mo. .... ag | 20Y event, that he be removed from # wounded leg; according fo infor-} Trg. i a a i rid ft | Indianapolis, Ind. which has’ al-|mation received by his wite, Mr : |e polis-St, Paul ,. 69 | wal, y e, s. i |New Orleans ..........."»" 73 | Wabs been his political headquar- Betty Boyer, 1047 Udell st. |e ark ye |tgrs.” The war department toddy listed 1 | Omaha, Neb. ....... 1.00 7 | Temporarily assigned to replace d . 67 8gt. Boyer as a German mrisqner, of $F | Ebr | a Sherwood at Ft. Harrison 5) and Me, Boyer has receiVhd two «J Hi Sin Blt 88 | Maj. Joseph Deutschle who came cards and a letter which hd wrote N ) E 81 here from Ft. Hagen. (lin March from a German hbspital One of the sergeants Iriends eco oo & Hi M rs. Whi f L¢ notified Mrs. Boyer that he} hus f i 00 Ire bses eepsa e band's leg wis injured whelj the 3 \ | plane was fotcéd down. id 1 3 ¢ > [ A radio operator and ta ] i Wi th $ 56, 000 i In Diamond § [on a Flyin ress, Sgt. ont, ner A wonderful dip for su mer Cold Shen Burmil re 1 ; stationed in 1taly, He former] was 0 \ A | (Continued From Page Of¢) | What hurts mb is losirig that, 1¢|Pesed in Tunisia. : "1 crepe. An excellen wonridevp. straight cut int, i ' "i [with me” Mrs. White said. today," 2¢Ant mops to.me than anything fp UIP PUB OF ADO Men eve 3 fw - : I sa ay. yer of near Columbus, Sgt. Boyer wid : [“I pu my purse—i the world, 1 wanted to keep that as A li nfi wi i . 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