Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 July 1944 — Page 2

A Weekly Sizeup by the Washington Steff of the Seripp-Howard Newspapers

(Continued From Page One) on fighting Germans, underground -newspapers ep be important factor in wingug Japon: 3 jo for Geulle government. If large numbers of nchmen ese they'll be. apt to vote vote for a government that will make #® = »

. F. D. R., Hopkins May Go Abroad LOOK FOR Harry go sbroad soon, If F. D, R. goes he'll probably go with him; nl e hell go alone, Friends of President are sorry Hopkins is back in Washington, think he's a political lability. If he's not to stay at a sanitarium, * they think a trip overseas is next best. } But Ho s, who represented P. D. R. at 1940 convention, won't go to Hopkins, this year. peter maneuvering will Be handled by Robert Hannegan, national chairman, and Ed Flynn, ex-chairman, De still national committeeman from New York. x 2 = = SPEAKER RAYBURN has slight edge on vice presidential nomlnation teday, insiders say. Theory is his selection might help heal rift in party in Texas. . Otherwise, politicians approac mre vice presidential problem on nega- aren't starved as they were after tive basis: Who'll do least harm | "he 1850 War .

to ticket? They think Wallace . would harm it most. wallace | Green Worries G. 0. P. SOME REPUBLICAN congress-

oo is failure of a pe men with strong laber vote in . th their districts worry about Wilto agree on one man to make the liam Green's outspoken disaps rage. pointment over G. O. P. platform. They'll ask Dewey to say something éaleulated te bring part, ab

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‘Rocket Reprisals

* least, of labor vote back into Re-

U. 8, MILITARY and naval 5 are op the qui vive about new place of rocket homb in warfare, but German rocket bombings are considered primarily Britain's problem and one on which she has shown some sensitiveness, Henee it's likely that if and when big counteracting or reprisal measures are taken, impetus will come from Britishers, U. S. * will follow, of course. Official position is that, as serial warfare, rocket bombs are still second to regular bombing, with its longer range, heavier volume

and greater accuracy. Nobody wants to Talk about what this gov-

ernment has been doing in self-

propelled aerial weapons, but there's evidence the military scien- ., tists haven't been asleep. vs ¥

After the War—

HOUSE APPROPRIATIONS ‘committee will fall heir to one of the biggest post-war jobs, A member, just returnéd from swing around the eountry, put: it this way: “Yeu never saw such facilities as both army: and navy have; there's h great deal of overlapping ‘which probably couldn't be Jruided in ame, “But when the shooting’s over 10 be oUF Tb To seals Taw ae propriations fer both services, end overlapping as much as possible, and still keep our fight forces in near-top form, making sure they

publican fold. And Green has indicated he'll be listening. . Republicans had discounted C.

1. O. vote but thought they could

count on strong suppert from A. F.of L.

ge = TOWNSEND PLAN discharge petition needs only 10 more signers to bring it to house floor for a vote. Townsend paper promises almost certain passage. But house rules are complicated when it comes to discharge petitions.

Votes can be had: Only after petition has been signed by 218 members and has been on calendar seven days; ‘only en second and fourth Mondays of each month; only if date is more than six days before adjournment. Irregular meetings scheduled for fai may circumvent plans fob;

quick vote; “ gE x 2

Rews Blackout ; A “BLACKOUT” on news of army's personal affairs branch has been ordered at the instigation of Red Cress. Publie-relations officers have been instructed not to originate any news of the branch or to stimulate news" stories about it. Red Qross complained. that people who read of widespread activities of the branch were demanding to know what Red Cross was doing in that line. Red Cross officials feared reduced contributions.

Dewey Sheds Big City Gilt To Pitch Hay and Hokum

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and pitched & bit at the Dewey place. Tp which the governor retorted, that if that had happened it was the first work Lowe]l Thomas had done in 21 years, Looking at the two men, it was

a little hard to imagine either one with a straw lying honestly athwart one ear,

The two of them kidded the ’hokum and yet there was something friendly and American and neighborly about the reception given by several hundred of his townsfolk and farmfolk who gathered in the little park back of the butcher house here on the main stem. Under its sheltering trees were | some men, more women, and Joes of children who looked with natural envy at the two slicked-up Dewey boys, Tom, 11, and John, 7, who sat on the porch overlooking the| park with their mother and father, It was 8 thing to warm the governor’s heart and to be remembered, as an antidote, when the photographers gathered as usual today, in their greedy and domineering fashfon, to put the Dewey family through their paces for the news. papers and the magasgines. Lowell Thomas emphasized the non-partisan nature of the welcome home, how Democrats, 100, were included, and, ence he had opened | the subject, a couple of Democrats made themselves known — both drunk. They carried on an undertone of comment from the sidelines. + Their champion, Squire Roosevelt, ! lives also in Dutchess county. | Mayor’ Bert Green, who presided | at the welcome-home ceremonies, |

told about how neighbor Dewey and | his beautiful wife had gone off to|

Chicago and came back with something really handsome for a Pawling

ed to think of the governor as farmer who keeps his buildings and fields in good order. The governor fell in with the mood of the occasion, and paid " tribute to the folks here who had been so nice to him. The druggist who had to leave off mixing sodas

tisen, but he said they in Pawling |

and bother with the telegraph in-

strument that was bringing in messages for him, the butcher, the baker, the doctor—all 6f them, He called their names, and they nodded, smiling. ‘This. neighborly spirit, the governor sald, was what distinguished America, what made it great. It's what we are fighting for, he said. And one of the nicest things of all was when one speaker referred to Mrs. Dewey, and son John, at her side, turned and smiled up at her. That eompensates for lots of things she must go through with from now on.

Farmers Reaping Huge W heat Crop

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proximately 70,000,000 more than. were forecast June 1. Throughout the county farmers are more than pleased with the weather that has brought the bumper crop. The sun was hot, the air dry, the wheat was cutting easily for Harold Schilling, R. R. 5, Box 453. “This is the best year I've had in a long time,” he said. “I had 27 acres in wheat and averaged from 22 to 25 bushels an acre. That's from two to five better than I've done in the past.” “And it's testing awfully good, too, said his brother, Wilbert | Schilling, R. R. 5, Box 448. “Mine |

| tested the best of any I have had

for years.” The crop of Elmer Wampner, R. R. 10, Box 270, is not the best he ever has. had, but it is yielding close to his peak: “I was hurt a little on the early wheat,” he said. “Those heavy rains and high winds we had caught my crop in bloom. But I was all set with the later crop. This hot, dry weather *has been fine for getting the wheat in, but if rain doesn't break it in the next two weeks it will hurt. our oats, corn and soy beans.”

Ease Your Min } About WAR BONDS ~ and Other Valuables : Lows Than Ica Day

Linked to Goebbel’s Dire Warning.

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compelled to leave the scene of his-

mankind will stand back in stupefaction.” These utterances throw light on German behavior in these fateful days, The German leadership at present is striking as wildly snd as deadly as a trapped and wounded but still powerful animal, The robot or flying bomb is an

man fury and desperation. It is a weapon exiusively against British eivilians, Only a regime as desperate and as unmindful of the future as that portrayed by Dr, Goebbels in the above quotations would resort to such a weapon.

Gas War Sign Seen

final weapon of despair or will Germany use gas or microbes against us before “slamming the door” against civilization?

removal this week from supreme

Marshal Von ‘Rundstedt is believed to be a prelude to German use of gas against the allied forces. Von Rundstedt's successor, Mars shal Von Kluge, is expected to be

mel better than Von Rundstedt did and to handle French patriots more mercilessly than Von Rundstedt seemed willing to do. Paul Ghali, writing from Bern, says Buropean observers suspect the Germans may be about to use gas.) Allies Prepared Allied commanders have long been prepared for such German..frightfulness. Our troops in France afe all supplied with gas masks and have been taught how to take care of themselves in case the enemy employs gas against them. Our techniques of decontamination are highly perfected. : We have not been negligent in the study of the use of gas as an offen» sive weapon as well as in the study of defensive methods against gas warfare. Rpbert Casey radioed from the

‘{Normandy front this week that the ' {Germans appear to be running short

of cannon fodder gs well 8s cannon. It is now clear]y established that German military operations on all fronts are ‘seriously handicapped by diminishing German fuel oil supolies.,, Luftwaffe Rationed Gen. H. H. Armnold said July 3 the air force has definite information that the German fuel supply

Resort to Desperate nh

torig, we will slam the deer so hard dianapolis, be had lived here from that. the universe will shake

illustration of last moment Gere|"

Is the rocket bomb Germany'si!

In some allied military cirgles the.

military command in the west of}

able to get along with Marshal Regm-|

THE INDIANA

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Italy June 30, nine days after his arrival.

Hoosier Heroes: Lt. * Killed in France;

POLIS

‘His

1244 S, Talbot 8%.

GHIA, JAPAN

Big Bombers Damage Five

CHTBY 29'S

Henry B. Mosle announced that 28 persons were listed as missing. °

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Flags on state bulldings Duttersd

lat half staff while proessions of fathers and mothers shuffled through the armory seeking their

Tq the | were notified % s in State, county and eity officials Ho vas 38 and fad been In I Japanese Bases continued three parallel investiga | missing little sons and daughters. service two years, receiving PAFYe Second Raid. tions into’ the which’ turned | Mayor William H. Mortensen said

wings at Blytheville, Ark. The son of Mrs. Willis Balser, Mark Center, O, formerly of In-

time he was 8 until he entered

ployed at the U. S. Rubber Co.

5 BS Eh ves ave. {

Ls » » First Lt. John Robert Mann, 25,

Normandy on June 12.

1886 and of Purdue uniyersity of 1940, he was a member of | the First Baptist church, Alpha Chi| Alpha Phi Omega, Gimlet, e Men’s club and Catalyst. He ¢ntered the service in 1941, was commissioned in the chemical warfare service, teok special training pt ¥, Benning, Ga. and had been in England since November, 1943. In addition to his parents he is survived by a grandfather, O. H. Mann, Sheridan, and a grandmether, Mrs, Sarah Hudelson, In. dianapalis

PVT. CECIL H HUNT, son of Mrs. Marie Myers, 804 E. 49th st, has been wounded twice, the second time in May, and helds the purple heart for wounds received in April His mother received a letter from hm yesterday that Re is bagk on

Eoiering the service two years he was penf to North Ireland eke after his induction and has taken part in the North African ang Italian campaigns, He was formerly employed hy the Sanborn Electric Co. » ® @» PFC. HARRY H. MILLER, brother of Mrs. Andy Donlan, 6103 E. 10th st., was wounded during the invasion of Normandy, and is in a hospital in England. A veteran of the African and Italian campaigns, ‘he enterpd the army in March, 1942, and has been overseas 16 miinths gs » 3 PVT. MAURICE G. WEBB was listed today by the war department as wounded in the Mediterranean area. His mother, Mrs. Myrtle W, Greene, formerly of 1850 E. 10th st. has moved to Dallas, Tex, and no details of his injuries could be secured, ® ” # PVT. DONALD BOWLES, son of

their son last * week. service in Febpu= the service. He was formerly om y 1943, he has {been overseas Besides his mother, survivors are since Nov. 28, and" two Florine Huddleston. cerved in North Africa six weeks sisters, Mrs. and Mrs. Helen pefore going to Italy,

‘ Solemn high mass will'be held at' 4 was employed by the Railway 2 A m. Tuesday at the Holy Cross pypress Co, before niering the

| service,

son of Mr. and Mr. O. A. Mann, | lowing Ingianspeils men have been

3640 N. Tacoma ave. was killed In| wounded: | Baker, hsnd of Mrs. Daisy M,

a of Shortridge high Baker, 3427 W. North st, and 2d ’ » |Jean H. Wright, 1301 N. Alabama

three cards from 3

Entering the

Pvt. Ross

earlier reports that sald Tobata, a steel center near Yawata, had been | chil

| one of Japan's chief steellkept | plasma. first Superfort raid June 15, also

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centers which was attacked on the

Thursday's matines of the “biggest show on earth” into a charred mass:

was hit. “tending to indicate” that the tent

of bodies. Some 200 injured, mest of thein children, remained in hospitals an 22 still were in critical condition, by sulfa drugs andl:

Alcorn said he had information |re

a mass funeral; service probably would be held for the victims who

not been identified,

had Services were to begin today for the jdentid | fled victims.

Gircus officials made plans to

move back to winter quarters at | Sarasota, Fla., possibly to refit and - to the road. However, au- » thorities indicated no equipment -

The war depariment id Ya had been treated with paraffine, {could be moved until he investi~ very weak fighter ¢ on and|thinned with Sh waseline, “enough to gations Wider vay ate plteg— He attended Manual high school | [00 SONY Jt bersth fire Were make it highly inflammable.” that may be weeks, encountered. -

v : THE WAR DEPARTMENT today | confirmed the reports that the fol-

6th Gr, Richard R.

Lt John R. Wright, son of Mrs.

st. . PR SEAMAN 2-C CHARLES RICHARD HOWARD, son of Lawrence wilson Howard, Veedersburg, was wounded in actien,” the navy announced today. s » x TWENTY-THREE HOOSIERS were included in today’s war department list of WU, 8. soldiers wounded in aefion. They are Pfe. Donald R. Austin, son of Mrs. Hazel A. Austin, Michigantown; Sgt, James W. Bruner, son of Mrs, Effie Bruner, Evansville; Pfc. John Faught, sen of Mrs. Laura E. Faught, Jaeksenville; Pfe. John Genis, san of Mrs, Tekla Genis, North Judsen; Pvt, Russell D. Gordon, soh of Dennis J, Gordon, Gary; Sgt. Bill B. Gray, sen of Howard Gray, Wabash; Pvt, Raymond D. Gustafson, sen ef Mrs. Hulda ©. Gustafsen, Knox; Pfc. John E. Harter, son of Charles W, Harter, Butler; 8, Sgt, Bernard E. Helming, son of MrsaCareline Helming, Ferdinand, and Sgt. Robert Kowalceyk, son of Mrs, Julia Kowalesyk, Gary. - Others are Pvt, Everette A. LaForm, son of Mrs, Lillie M. LaFerm, Peru; Pvt. Claude H. Lamaster, husband of Mrs. Annabel .Lamaster, Sellersburg; Pfe. Abel Lewis, son of Mrs, Margaret J. Lewis, Mt, Summit; Sgt. Bruce D. MaNew, son of Mrs. Katie McNew, Montgomery, 2d Lt. William J. Nowak, brother of Mrs. Virginia Davis, Hammond; Pfc. Joseph Riddle, son of Ludia J. Riddle, Bloomfield; Sgt, William A. Spencer, son of Mrs, Rachael CO. Spencer, DePauw; Sgt, Marvin L. Tompkins, son of Mrs, Florence Tompkins, Frankfort, gnd Pvt. Albert R. Vander Heyden, son of Raymend Vander Heyden, Mishawaka. Also included are Pfc. Tommy F.

safely to Chins.

man eil centers.

is only 30 per cent of normal as George H. Bowles, 1525 E. Tabor a result of the bombing of Ger: |st, was seriously wounded in Italy The Luftwaffe when hit by a German shell.

and other German mechanized forces afte rationed, Arnold said, raising doubt as to whether the Luftwaffe may ever fight effectively again. British and American economic warfare experts have been selecting the targets for American daylight and British night bombings of German oil production and distribution centers for many months, " Our bombings have been so brilliantly conceived and exeeuted that today Germany's reserve oil stocks do not amount to mere than three months’ supply as eontrasted with the year's supply formerly kept in reserve. German gasoline shertage is also a tremendous factor in the operations on the eastern front where, because of the limited number of railroads, most movements must be made by gasoline-propelled vehicles. So acute is the German gasoline

equipment is often abandoned because there is insufficient gasoline to take it away. Russ Routes Optional The Russian attack is progressing admirably in the direction of Vilna {and Warsaw. From Vilna the Rus. sians immediately can push towards East Prussia, home of’ so many German generals, or first move northward towards -Riga and the Baltic’ sea, This more econservative military move would enable them to cut off probably 20 German divisions.

{

tain valuable territory and positions.

strength “for the

start withdrawing from the Crete,

the Peleponnesus and other exposed Greek positions even before it gets

| into action.

{much easier, (gives us similar military advantages, |

{ | d The Chicago Daily News, Ine. —— ~ s |

STATE-RAILROAD

CHICAGO, July 8 (U. P.) —TInvest

H. M, Byllesby & Co, said today.

O'Connor & Co.; Cruttenden. & Co,

land Utility Co.

If they struck as far as Memel they might catch about $400,000 of the amount Judge |

{an additional five divisions and ob- |Baltell had ruled was due, but oth-

Bit there is also great Russian south whose | presence may compel Germany to CASe will be taken the supreme

Every airfield we establish in that part of the world makes the bomb{ing of the Romanian oil fields that Qur advance in Italy

STOCK TO BE SOLD

ment underwriters have contracted to purchase 249,556 shares of common stock of the Chicago South Shore & South Bend railroad for offering to the public, Joseph H. Briggs, executive vice president of

The common stock, having par value of $12.50 per share, will be purchased by Byllesby & Co., Doyle,

jand Otis & Co. from Clarence A, | Boutherland and Jay Samuel Hartt, as co-trustees of the estate of Mid-

The income statement of the {company, as adjusted to give effect to its present capitalization and depreciation policy, available for divi. |t dends on the common stock for the

His father reeeived a letter written by a soldier in the same hospital and a war department announeement, but hasn't had a letter from his sen since he was injured, May 24. A graduate of Technical high school and Indiana university, Pvt, Bowles entered the service a year ago and has been overseas with the infantry since November, Before going te Italy he served in Africa, LE J » PVT. OTTIB L. ROSS, reported missing following sombat in 8 Ytaly,

Thomas V. Bryant,

Weaver, son of Mrs. Edna L. Weaver, New Albany; Pfe, Wilmer W, Winslow, son of George Winslew, Val. lonig; T. 6th Gr. Frank 8. Wojeiechowsk!, brother of Mrs. Jean Benda, East Chicago, and Sgt. wusband of Mrs, Helen M, Bryant, Jeffersonville, s 8» FIRST LT. ERNEST R. GREY, Lafayette, has beén awanded the air medal for participation in the sinking of twe Jap guard vessels off Paramushiry during May. He was one of 11 members of two bomber crews credited with the sinking of four Jap vessels and damage to a fifth, His crew sunk its ships the same day..

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shortage on the Russian front that | ogitions in and around the great ‘and Labijude to the list.

inland pert, Officially reported overrun in the converging assault were the villages! of Gruchy, Buren, Bt, Contest and| Epron, while parts of Lebisey ano| Herouville were in allied hands,

BALL LOSES APPEAL IN $3,500,000 SUIT

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It is considered likely that the)

court in Washington, Suit Evolves From Loan

The suit results from a loan made nearly 10 years ago by Mr. Ball to the late O, P, and M, J. Van Bweringen, Cleveland financiers who controlled a vast railroad empire, | which was threatened when.J, P. Morgan called loans made to the

Van Sweringens. Unable to pay, the Van Sweringens interested Mr. Ball in helping them. he Midamerica Corp. was formed {into which Mr. Ball put $3,000,000. The Van Sweringens had option to buy 55% of,Midamericas, an option they never exercised. Midamerica bought control of the railroads when. J. P. Morg an auctioned off the collateral ‘for his loans. Later Mr. Ball put the Midamerica stock into the George and} Frances Ball Foundation and sold it to three New York financiers at a reported $6,000,000 profit.

Creditors File Claim The creditors of the Van Swerin,

gens, chiefly Ohio banks, claimed Yay Wee shiltied 1 80%, of the

tion made on the sale of stock. °

British Storm Defenses of Caen to Clear Road #o Paris

erwise sustained his decision, |down from the north, and hoth

Van Sweringen’s share through the | option, of the profit the Ball founda-|

Judge Balteell upheld this and found to

Other rpeorts added Galamanchte |

Headquarters spokesmen also announced the capture, in adidtion.to the tight little knot of villages in suburban Caen, of Malon, four mileg northwest of the center of the city;

|Bitot, three miles north- northwest ; {and Colombelles on the Caen canal two and a quarter miles northeast,

St. Jean Ts Captured

Americans on the central front captured 8t. Jean-de Daye, eight miles north of 8t. Lo, and the nearby village of Goucherie, Driving en beyond St. Jean, they | joined another column . pushing

[forces now are well over six miles southwestward of Isigny, the hinge position at the southwest corner of the Seine bay. The Americans probably hold an important crossroad south of St. Jean," headquarters sources reported. Farther westward other U, 8, forces seized all high ground southwest and southeast of La Haye-duy Puits, sealing the doom of that western anchor of the German defense line. Important Advance

Making a small but important advance southwest of La Haye, the Americans reached the village of Lemont. A like advance in the MtCastre forest carried almost to the village of Gerville. British units battering through the thick-set defenses of Caen had advanced up to a mile and a half to a point a quarter mile helow the Couvre-Chef rail station, about [halfway from the takeoff line to the center of the city. At “the ‘same time Canadian troops were attacking from the northwest with like success.

Germans resist strongly the battle of Caen’ might conceivably prove, one of the decisive struggles of the war.

Hit on 111-Mile Front.

The new "offensive put the allies

on the march along the entire Hi mile front in Normandy, .

fairly continuous German

A commentator said that if the

All of the hig bombers returned

Heavy Damage Indicated” It was obvious from the Japanese reaction to the raid that the enemy had been dealt hard blows. Their first broadcast announcement of the attack did not come until four hours and 55 minutes after the initial report was issued by the war department here at mid-day yesterday. The broadeast made no mention of damage inflicted cn the targets, although usually the enemy is quick to report lack of success. “Our air force,” , said Tokyo, “promptly intercepted and repulsed them, We suffered hardly any losses.” It was also obvious that the Japanese were mystified by the sudden» ness of the attack and the prompt. ness of the American announce ment. According to army officials a Japanese broadcaster was heard to remark that the snnouncement of the attack was heard by radio from San Francisco while “the raid was in progress and the bombs were

dropping. Psychological Effect

The raids, though planned enly for their destructive effect on Japan's war effort, alse had a psychological effect. The Japanese now know that the American attacks are not aimless operations The Chinese, on the other hand, are bound to find heart in the new aid. Crippling of the steel industry at Tawata would have a serious effect on Japan's whole war effort, Mills there supply much of the steel plate used by the Japanese shipbuilding industry.

tary targets in the Japanese em- | iN8 pire, The bulk of repair work on damaged Japanese warships — and American air and sea forces have

—is carried on at Sasebo. The naval base also is important because it i5 a center for submiarine and destroyer construction, Prompt announcement of the iatest raid indicated a policy by the 20th air forge headquarters here to forestall Japanese efforts to “steal” headlines with exaggerated, if not false, slaims.

SEVEN NORE BODIES FOUND IN WRECK

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far by the army are Leonard Detiag of Evanston, Ill; Denald J, Clark of Canton, O.; William M. Gorey of Pataskala, O.; Dale Mais Jr. and W. C. McChesney of O.; John Wickiine of Orient, 0. and Robert H. Baird of Canton, O Pvt. Alex Rosto of La Porte was aboard the train at the time, but was uminjured.. . The army promised that “mere details” would be released today. Sightseers were barred last night from the scene of the tragedy—a forested gorge, split by a mountain stream and rimmed by 150-foot cliffs—and the area was under constant patrol of military police,

Leads in Rescue An estimated 1000 soldiers just through with basie training were on the train when the engine and siy coaches jumped the tracks on a curve. Ninety-two passengers were hospitalized and about 12 others were given emergency first aid and released, the army said, As in all such catastrophies, there were many individual accounts of bravery, but Pvt. Alva M. Hanna of Columbus, O, was called the “real hero” by his companions. Hanna, a tall, dark-haired buck private, organized a group of the uninjured from one of the eight cars which stayed on the tracks and led

the icy waters of Clear river, where they rescued many of the wounded, strewn along the banks and in the {water itself. Hanna instructed his group to carry the wounded “piggy back, on your shoulders, any way you can— just get them up that mountain to a doctor.” Three Pullman porters from In. dianapolis were injured in the wreck- but their families have re. ceived no word regarding the ex. tent of the injuries. They are William Eugene McAnulty, 370 W, 26th st; Sherman Polley, 1081 Sheffield ave. and Thomas E. Jones, 4067 Rookwood ave.

ab Korneuburg, seven miles north of

Sagebo $6 ano of (he richest mill 7

accounted for lots of them recently

.jone of the enemy's largest flying

them down the steep hillside into]

Gated Outesrs Seay busiches giing Way Allied spokesmen said there was |

BOMB VIENNA'S OIL REFINERIES

B00 Heavies Qver Austria as ~ Other Planes Strafe Nazis at Caen. (Continued From Page One)

Vienna, and the Fante Vesenderf refinery six miles south of Vienna,

also were hiv, Fighters Stalk Luftwaffe Meanwhile, 8th fighter command

Mustangs, Thunderbolts and Light. nings stalked the Luftwaffe on airdromes throughout France and divebambed railroad targets, At least 21 German planes were destroyed on the greundy 20 of them by one formation commanded by Cel, William J, (Wild Bil) Oummings Jr, of Lawrence, Kas, ied

today by Maj. Henry B. K n

Jr. of Richmond, Va, found and bombed an airfield hidden in the Seeds soythiess: of Pari, Vit the German planes, mostly twin-en-gined ME-14's, camoufiaged ynder

ing Fortresses*and 8th air force attacked enemy robot bomb installations in the Pas de; Calais area, American medium | bombers joined the furious Aight for Caen,

Only One Plane Lost

peearted by Thunderbolt fighters, e artillery 8 es with the loss barrage a single Marauder from flak, They encountered no enemy aire qver the immediate battle area, Other Marauders during the morning corked two more German ‘transportation bottlenecks. They reached inland te smash one railway bridge at Nogeni-le-Loi, which crosses the Eure 70 miles southwest of Paris, and another over the Loire river at Sgumur. First Lt. Leonard Cross, Ponca City, Okla., a Marauder bombardier, said the American bombs cut the bridges “like a giant scissors.” Today's attack on the robot bomb installations near Pas de Calais ,jcame after it was revealed that Lancaster bombers had smashed

bomb supply depots, at St. Leu D'Esserent, near Paris, and that R. A. FP. Mosquito bombers hit Berlin and a synthetic oil plant in Germany's Ruhl valley with twoton blockbusters.

ACREAGE LIMIT ON “GRASS SEED LIFTED

Indiana farmers will be paid $3.50 per acre on all the grass seed they harvest this year and a special payment for every pound of clean seed they produce, L. M. Vogler, AAA committee chairman, announced to= day. The ‘acreage limitation was ree moved to overcome the seed short age for various hay crops and to offset the shrinkage from last year and probable shrinkage's this year due to the drought, Mr, Vogler said, In addition, an extra payment on pounds of clean seed produced will be made as fqllows: Three and a half cents per pound for red clover and 2'% cents per pound for alfalfa and alsike clover,

McCHESNEY ASSIGNED HERE Maj. Lindsley McChesney has been assigned as termination ofcer on the Staff of the army air forces office at 420 N. Pennsylvania

ALLISON AAF GROUP

Students of the 86a1st A A oP? base unit (factory school) at the Allison division of General Motors

hear the first broadcast of an air forces training program aver the Blue network at a. a. m. Somarow; pred “Symphonic Flight,” be of the quiz fs ed he answers picked up from battlewise veterans of the air wars overseas. The questions will originate from air foree men now training in the United States, either od ale erews or ground men.

AIR BLOWS IN CHINA

(Continyed From Page Que} them was Hankow, which is & key raflway center and supply base on the Yangtse river. The attack on Hankow is partic-

ularly significant, since the object of the present Japanese drive in ina is to get control of the entire Hankow-Oanton railway and split the country in two. The Japanese appeared to be on the way to neSoiing | their puppose when they started pushing northward from Canton and drove into the outskirts of Hengyang. In Chungking's view, the fall of Hengyang would have been as serious a blow to China as the iv oxpeury of EE seven years ago. Once more the Chinese made & resilient with the aid of United States air support, broke the enemy's il and forced him back Changsha. Today's communique from Gen. Joseph W, Stilwell’s headquarters reports that bombers and fighters of the 14th air force are attacking the main Japanese supply lines in

as well as the airdrome at Gapton. It is not unlikely that Super. fortress attacks on Hankow and Japanese-held coastal ports will be repeated. These, with the activities of the 14th air force, may do a great deal to hamstring Japan's efforts to cordon off Chiang Kal shek's armies before the United States forces reach the coast in their westward march across the Pacific.

LONGER WEEK PLAN IRKS ory STAFF

Mr. Telford's recommendation, defined by him as another step oward conversion of the city government to “a more business-like operation,” descended like a pall on political officeholders, some of whom hinted confidentially that they didn't .ine tend to surrender their easy-going 8:30 a. m. to 4 p. m, routine without protest. Employees - assigned to city hall itself expressed considerable cone cern over the idea of being expected to abbreviate those gossipy, informal hour and a half lunch periods. “Me put in 44 hours a week op a job that requirés nights of ward and precinct work on the side?” erisply commented one stenographer ‘whose electioneering swung her pree cinet ‘to the G. O. P side side in 1943, Others though that the “impermae nency” of political jobs should be

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