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* By CARROLL BINDER Editor, Indianapolis Times-Chicage Daily News Foreign Service
WELL-INFORMED students of the war are begin-
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ning to doubt whether Germany will be able to with-
* stand allied military might months.
for more than four more
Growing, shoriages of fighting men and war materials,
' Dewey Sheds Big City Gilt to Pitch Hay and Hokum:
By THOMAS L. STOKES Seripps-Howard Staff Writer PAWLING, N. Y, July 8.—Over
the usual things, including cows and ducks and corn and hay.
COUNTY TOPS BOND QUOTA ON LAST DAY
$79, 000,000 00 Goal Exceeded With Several Hours To Spare.
county kept faith wi and women today
crime in the big city, the smooth efficiency of the
. notably oil, and continued loge of key defensive positions
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It's the American way—and nonpartisan. The result, as usual, is to rub off the glitter and gilt of the crusading district attorney tracking down
ernor of New York, even the glamour of the Republican presidential candidate. < It made him, for the time, the owner
with getting in the hay.
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may compel Germany to surrender unconditionally by
November, possibly. earlier.
Certainly Germany is doomed unless the allied military and political leaders make a series of extraordinary
blunders which would enable mate. Allied performances reason to hope for such an es
Germany to obtain a staleto. date give Germany no cape from disaster.
Recent utterances by, German leaders and recent Ger-
of a farm concerned, most of all, staying away so long, gadding off to big cities like Chicago, and, all “It looks like she’s going to blow the time, there's that hay standing, and it looks like rain.
That, in effect, was the warning
from Lowell Thomas, the radio an-|he had, that very morning, finished nouncer, also one of the New York|tossing: his own hay, “farmers” in this community, in his| neighbor that he is, had gone over welcome home talk here yesterday. He kidded the Vern about (Continued on “Page 2—Column 1)
Bumper Wheat Crop Keeps Farmers Busy
Mr. Thomas boasted about how and nice
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the 10,000 volunteer workers and to the public for having made the drive a success and added:
sands of volunteer workers and the realization by each individual of the urgency of investing in war bonds to the limit of ability. The fine co-operation of the three Indianapolis newspapers and four radio
all who have participated in the drive in any way—our sincere thanks ‘and gratitude.” 3 Seme Quotas Still Open J. Perry Meek, chairman of the payroll savings division, said that many quotas on the “buy-where-you-work™ plan had not yet been made. He explained that payroll savings quotas in stores, offices and - factories throughout the county must be made by July 31 to count in the drive totals. . Sales of Series E, F, and G bonds and Series C treasury notes will continue until the end of this month, with all proceeds credited to the county’s quota.
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WATCH FOR GI STOLEN A watch just bought for her army ‘son overseas was taken from a counter of a downtown store yesterday while. Mrs. Stella Whiteside, R. R. 19, sought to make another purchase. :
HOLD THEFT SUSPECTS
Three men are being held on vagrancy charges by police after they were found to possess a purse cons taining $3.50 which James Pevril, 818 N. Tlinois st. said was taken
$3,500,000 SUIT LOST BY BALL,
He expressed his appreciation tof .
Appeals Court. Sustains Baltzell’'s Decision in
Rail Case.
By ROGER BUDROW
The decision of Federal Judge Robert C. Baltzell of Indianapolis that George A. Ball; millionaire fruit jar king of Muncie, and the George and Frances Ball Foundation owe more than $3,500,000 to several Cleveland banks, was up-| held by the U. 8 circuit court of appeals at Chicago yesterday. . The appellate court knocked off
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= FILE NEW WARRANTS AS CIRCUS TOLL RISES
153 Listed as Dead and 28 Missing. HARTFORD, Conn, July 8 (U., P). — Additional warrants charging manslaughter were issued by investigating officials today as the death toll from the worst fire in circus history reached 153 with 11 of the bodies still unidentified. Most of the victims were children. Police Commissioner James F. Kennedy said no arrests had been made under the new warrants but State's Attorney Hugh M. Alcorn Jr, disclosed that evidence had been uncovered which he believed indicated criminal negligence. Five circus officials already have been arrested on technical charges of manslaughter and were released on bail, : As the death toll from the flaming “big . top” mounted almost hourly, State War Administrator
from him last night at the point
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HOOSIER HEROES—
Mann and Squires Killed:
Four Wounded in Action
Pighting in France and Italy has -- pdded the names of six more local men to the casualty lists, with two
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killed ' and four wounded. One soldier reported missing is a prisoner of the Germans, KILLED
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OVER THE WHEAT FIELDS of Marion county combines are working overtime today to reap one_of the greatest bumper crops in history. But local farmers are not alone with their record harvest, for estimates place the national yield at 1,061,000,000 bushels. Winter wheat alone is expected to go to 765,000,000» bushels, ap-
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SHOWERS PREDICTED HERE BY TOMORROW
Cooler Weather Promised;
Fire Warning Given.
Possible relief from the drought today or tomorrow promised by the Weather Bureau today in a forecast that predicted showers “are likely.” Partly cloudy weather also was predicted for today and tonight an cooler weather was promised for tomorrow. The weather bureau reported that several areas are having to haul water for their cattle and several small fires in woods and grasslands in Harrison, Crawford, Floyd, Pike, Sullivan, Dubois and Martin counties have been reported. ‘Motorists are asked not to throw lighted matches and cigarets from automobile windows when passing: through the drought sections, asthe threat of destructive forest fires is great.
"LOCAL TEMPERATURES °
Wilbert Schilling empties the hopper of the combine into a truck to be taken away for sale. Looking on is Elmer Wampner, E. R. 10,
SEVEN MORE BODIES FOUND IN. WRECK
Troop Train Toll Revised to 25 or 30 Dead.
The confused details of the deHarrison in the rugged mountain Tenn.,
locked in the twisted steel coaches
that plunged into a canyon-like ravine, taking between 25 and 30 lives.
between 25 and 30.
body remained in one of the cars.
Asheville, N. C.
railment of a troop train from Ft.
country 12 miles north of Jellico, Thursday night are still
E. R. Murray, Louisville and Nashville railroad agent, estimated that the total number of dead would be
Murray said that seven bodies were removed from the wreckage last night after 17 deaths had already been announced and that he understood at least one other
The injured were being removed today from emergency hospitals to the Moore general hospital near
Names of the dead released thus - {which were to have been distributed
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man behavior suggest that th
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e German leadership is not
unaware of its impending doom. German. propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels on July
7 told his people over the Berl
in radio “this no longer is a
war that may end in victory or defeat—it is a war at the end of which there will be for us either no world at all
or a new world. | “The nation is in a state
IS INFLICTED ON 3 BIG TARGETS
Hankow, Laogo, Omura, Yawata Are Raided.
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tresses also struck a hard] blow at Japanese supply bases in occupied China as they pounded the third largest naval base on the Japanese main-land-with a heavy weight of bombs, and smashed again ‘at the steel center of Yawata yesterday, the war department reported $0GaY.: umm In a new communique on ths second raid of the flying battleships, the 20th bomber command revealed that they had struck’ at Laoyao, a coal and supply shipping port on the north coast of China, and Hankow, major Japanese base inland, in addition to targets on the Japanese mainland, Sasebo Gets Brunt These attacks, the first the B-29's have made on Japa territory in China, gave weight - President Roosevelt's statement yesterday that the war in China was not going well and showed that the power of American air might would be used to aid the Chinese now in their eighth year of war. -. The communique said the heaviest weight of bombs had been dropped on Sasebo, great Japanese naval base on the island of Kyushu. The communique also revealed that Omura, a vital war industry center south of Sasebo had been hit. The communique corrected
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$300,000 Blaze Destroys Plant In West Delphi
DELPHI, Ind, July 8 (U. P)—A $300,000 fire destroyed the plant of the Globe Valve Co. in West Delphi today, throwing 160 employees engaged in war work into idleness. Stephen Young, manager, said that the plant would ‘be rebuilt as soon as possible. The plant, originally manufacturing plumbing supplies, has been making aircraft parts for the army and navy. James Humm;—night watchman, said the fire started in a tool room in the center of the big brick and frame structure. The cause has not been determined. Young said that company records and pay checks
(Continued on Page 2—Column 8) WAR ANALYSIS—
By LOUIS F. KEEMLE United Press Foreign Editor
The new Superfortress attack on Japanese bases in the home islands
U. S. Air Blows in China Seen
As Lifesaver for Kai-Shek
today were lost.
where the last reserves are
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bare,”
have nothing more to lose.”
Goebbels admitted. He urged the people to “be most dangerous because we have burned our bridges and
Writing in his weekly Das Reich nearly two years ago when the German military prospects were far brighter
than they are today Goebbels had warned :
“If the day
should ever come when we must go, if some day we are (Continued on Page 2—Column 3)
In Poland, Opens Russ Path
To Brest
By ROBERT MUSEL United Press Staff Correspondent
LONDON, July 8.—Berlin reported today that the GerSasebo, mans had evacuated Baranowicze, central keystone base of
the wrecked Nazi defense line
the historic invasion route w
many.
- The Nazi-ackowledged fall of Baranowicze, rail hub 75 Ww ASHINGTON, July 8 (U.| ‘miles ‘southwest of Minsk, opened the way to the Russian’ | P.) —Mighty ‘ B-29 Superfor- | amy for a westward push through ig and Brest
Litovsk which would turn the
north and south of the Baranowicze gap above the Pripet| marshes. Nazi broadcasts called the loss of
Baranowicze an “evacuation” but both German and Russian sources
Admit Fight at Wilno ° North of Baranowicze 100 miles,
2'the Nazis reported violent fighting
in the outer fringes of Wilno, capital city of Soviet Lithuania; indicating. that fast-moving Russian assault] forces had laid siege to that city some 85 miles from East Prussia. Russian sources here said the Germans had imposed rigid restrictions that amounted to martial law on! Wilno after a wave of sabotage and’ attacks on German soldiers, Soon after reporting fierce fighting in the suburbs of Baranovichi, Nazi broadcasts said that the German garrison had pulled out of the town, but heavy fighting continued on both sides of the town through which Napoleon fled on his disastrous retreat from Moscow,
Counter-Attacks Futile
Soviet dispatches bore out the Nazi accounts of savage battles in the outskirts of Baranowicze as the Germans counter-attacked furiously in futile attempts to drive the Russians back from the city's wall, Marshal Konstantin K. Rokossov=sky's »1st army of White Russia closed in on the city, into which the Nazis had moved a fresh tank division a few days ago in a desperate bid to block the westward march of the Soviets. Military observers saw no sign that the Germans would fare any better at Wilno than they did at Minsk, Baranowicze and dozens of
War.
DE GAULLE AND FDR
Conclusions Reached.
President Roosevelt and Gen.
mittedly serious milithry situation in China. In observing yesterday that the war. fh China is not going well, President Roosevelt ‘also noted that
into China, the Indies and Burma are greatly extended. Pending delivery of large-scale
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6am....72 10a. in..... 82 |and on the China coast, plus thei Tam..." lam... 81 [part the U, 8. 14th air force played S8a.m..... 7% «12 (Noon).. 88 |in relieving beseiged Hengyang, Pam Lis 1pm... brings a ray of hope into an ad- . This edition of your Saturday Indianapolis Times is
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. | military aid to China by opening
of a route from Burma and arrival of United States amphibious forces on the Pacific coast, attacks on these extended Japanese communi{cations “appear to afford a most
SUS i the Chinese. o :
German fortifications both
other strongholds overrun .in the greatest Russian offensive of the!
GONCLUDE UDE PARLEYS|
French Leader Silent on
WASHINGTON, July 8 (U. P.).—
® Charles De Gaulle today concluded business le Hide hon asso-| A Weekly Sizeup by the Washington
ciates of" both men hoped had
Litovsk.
across Poland and gateway of | estward to Warsaw and Ger-
BOMB VIENNA'S
WARSAW GATEWAY FALLS; BRITISH ALL-OUT AT CAEN; B-295 RIP CHINA, JAPAN
4 VY DAN D AM AGE | ¥ all of Baranowicze, Key Nazi Base 1 TOWNS F F ALL
IN OUTSKIRTS OF NALI BASE
Yanks Take St. Jean-de Haye, 8 Miles North of St. . Lo, and Nearby Village.
By VIRGIL PINKLEY United Press Staff Correspondent
ALLIED SUPREME HEADQUARTERS, London, July 8.—Gen. Sir Bernard L. Montgomery hurled the full
OIL REFINERIES
Other Planes Strafe
Nazis at Caen.
LONDON, July 8 (U. P.).—American heavy and medium bombers (pounded German troop concentrations and gun batteries at Caen and robot bomb installations in the
‘Pas de Calais area today as more ithan 500 Italy-based Fortresses and Liberators fought their way through heavy flak and fighter opposition to hit oil refineries at Vienna and targets in Hungary. Today's assaults followed forays yesterday of 1500 Yank bombers
which a-total of 114 German planes were downed in wild sky battles, The fleet of 500 bombers, escorted by Lightnings and Mustangs, struck at three oil refineries in the Vienna basin, three fighter fields covering Vienna, and a Hungarian airdrome at Veszprem, 65 miles southwest of Budapest, today. Among the targets was the Floridsdorf oil refinery in the northern suburbs of Vienna, which is Austria’s largest crude oil distillation
(July 8, 1944)
{ATR -WAR—More than 250 heavies attack Pas de Calais and one of largest flying bomb bases within 30 miles of Paris,
defense.
lat Caen along »a seven-mile
500 Heavies Over Austria as.
over key German industries, during
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| ITALY—Fifth army captures Rosig- | nano, Castellina and Colli di Val] PACIFIC—Second raid of B-20’s on ' D'Eisa on the German - Gothic |
weight of the British 2d army
assault arc today and by evening his shock troops had advanced an ave, erage of one mile through at least seven outlying villages to within 1% milés of the heart of the city. Front dispatches reported even more impressive gains in the new offensive aimed at blasting open the 120-mile road westward to Paris. They said advanced elements were within half a mile of the center of Caen and named two villages cap-« | tured in addition to the four ans nounced at. headquarters plus parts of two more. Reports reached headquarters that the Germans were moving big guns and armor south and southeast of Caen and vehicular traffic was heavy along the only two of 14 roads radiating from the city which still were in Nazi hands.
Hint at Nazi Flight
(The headquarters report of Ger. man movements, not amplified, ap~ peared to hiht at a Nazi flight from Caen under the drubbing impact of Montgomery's full dress offensive to escape the threat of entrapment in the partially encircled city.) Zero hour was 4:20 a. m. today. British and Canadian troops went over the top after the heaviest artillery ‘bombardment of the Normandy campaign had softened the German
On the War Fronts
FRANCE—British storm Caen: Americans occupy Jean de Daye and Goucherie,
|RUSSIA—Berlin reports German evacuation of Baranowicze, 235 miles northeast of Warsaw.
Japanese homeland, also strikes Jap bases in China. ;
WASHINGTON
the Japanese communication lines:
‘practical way to relieve’ Whe’ preg
struck yes. | Britis
cleared the way for co-operation between the western allies and the French committee of national liberation, : Leaving the White House after talking with the President for one hour, De Gaulle said he’ probably would not return. However, he refused to give reporters an inkling of what conclusions he and Mr. ‘Roosevelt had reached. It was the second business conference between the two leaders since De Gaulle's arrival on Thurs- |: day. The talks were conducted in an atmosphere so harmonious that American and French officials hoped
The Superfortresses tert ouly ak Japans via steel in Yawata and
Staff of the Scripps-Howard Newspapers So
WASHINGTON, July 8.—Don’t discount the under-
ground in Europe.
You'll hear more and more about im=
portance and effectiveness of its work. Underground movements staged their own spring offensive, starting
before D-day, accelerated since. OWI rounded up reports on it, com= piled 68 pages of quotes from foreign Newspapers recounting Inglances of underground sabotage or open fighting.
Indications are that sabotage in France has dene more damage
than precision bombing to locomotives, rail yards, industrial plants.
More important, in some ways, are signs that Germans are on
and southern Europe.
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» defensive, afraid of being killed or cut off; are tasting the terion they used to dish out. Pitched battles between Germans and underground armies are becoming important military factor in
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