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WALLACE PUZZLE STILL - UNSOLVED; CONVENTION MAY GET A FREE CHOICE ON VICE PRESIDENT

By LYLE C. WILSON United Press Staff Correspondent

WASHINGTON, July 11.—President Roosevelt today made the fourth-term race a certainty by announcing to a locked-door news conference that “if the people command me to continue in this office and in this war, I have as little right to withdraw as the soldier has to leave his

President Roosevelt . . . “If the people command me to continue * in this office, I have as little right to withdraw as the soldier has to

leave his post in the line.”

MILK COMPANY

PLANS APPEAL

Golden $1000 on Charges of Sell- ; ing Watered Mik. .

appeal to the Indiana Su-] preme court will be taken by Golden Guernsey Farms, Ihc, found guilty in Criminal court yesterday on a charge of selling “watered” milk to the Marion county tuberculosis hospital at Sunnyside. - Announcement of the appeal was made by the firm’s attorney, Paul Rochford, after Special Judge Harvey B, Hartsock fined the company $1000, Three officials of the company, Grayble McFarland, Lola McFarland and . Pearl McParland, who went on trial with the corporation, were acquitted of the charge by

Judge Hartsock, who upheld the de-:

fense contention that the state had failed to prove they: personally knew the milk their firm was selling had been “watered.”

Claim Water Added

The corporation was found guilty of selling adulterated milk on the testimony of state health board

‘chemists who claimed that tests

showed water had been added in amounts ranging from 9 to 15 per cent. The charges were brought against the firm and its officials in February, 1943, following an .investigation of county contracts awarded by county commissioners.

COL. F. D. LYNCH

VISITING HOME HERE

Col, Prederick D, Lynch, onetime commanding officer of the army air forces storage depot at the Fair Grounds, is home on leave; from an air base in Newfoundland. He has served as commanding officer of the Newfoundland air trans-' port base for the past 11 months having been transferred there from Utah, He is now awaiting a new assignment, ” , While based out of the country, his family kept the home at 3765 N: Gale st. It is possible his wife and three children will accompany him to his next post,

LAUDS PRESS CO-OPERATION WASHINGTON, July 11 (U. P,) .— Co-operation of newspapers in the ‘fifth war loan drive exceeded “even the accomplishments of the press in the first four war loans,” Frank Tripp, chairman of the Allied Newspaper council, said today,

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Urge Harshman For Assistant to Head of Schools

The appointment of H. L. Harshman as assistant superintendent of scHools will be recommendéd by School Superintendent Virgil Stineibaugh tonight at'a school board meeting.

| Miller, general supervisors of ele- | mentary education, be made direcitors of instruction, This will com- | plete the reorganization of the ad-| ministrative staff, ‘the school head said. “Under the new set-up, Mrs. 4 Granger would have charge of in

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COLOMBIA. REVOLT REPORTED BROKEN

President Still Held By Army Officers.

BOGOTA, Colombia, July 11 (U. P.)»—A revolutionary movement in the town of Pasto, where a group of rebel army officers were holding prisoner President Alfonso. Lopez, was reported by fhe Bogota radio today ‘to have been brought under control. Vice President Dario Echandia, invested with the powers of acting president at an emergency meeting of the cabinet, had announced that the government would act swiftly to restore order and suppress the | “military rebellion.” i (An earlier dispatch from Caracas, Venezuela, quoted Alberto Camargo, minister of finance, as announcing, that Gen. Julio Gaitan, leading 12,000 loyal troops, had entered the city of Cali and was preparing to march against Pasto. A second army, under Gen, Pedro

ing on Pasto, the dispatch said.)

REV. KIRCHHOFFER BETTER

The Rt. Rev. Richard A. Kirchhoffer, bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Indianapolis, is recovering from two fractured vertebrae received June 27 when he fell down the stairs in his home on Wilshire rd. He returned home from City hospital Sunday and will be in a cast for four months,

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post in the front line.” Removing any lingering

doubts that he would accept

the renomination that will be voted by next week’s Democratic convention, the President read a letter to Party Chairman Robert E. Hannegan in which he said: “If the convention should carry this out, and nominate me for the presidency, I shall accept. If the people elect

me, I will serve.”

. There it was at last—the final, official confirmation

from Mr. Roosevelt himself been taken for granted in

of the conclusion which had nearly all political circles,

. opposition as well as friendly, since his health had been pronounced restored this spring. But it left unanswered the question which really has the Democrats in turmoil—who is going to be the vice

presidential nominee ?

It left Mr. Roosevelt in a position’ where he could not —if he desired—compel selection of Henry A. Wallace as his running mate as he did in 1940. Increasingly, it appeared that the vice presidential question would be left to free and open choice of the convention that convenes

next Wednesday in Chicago.

Mr. Roosevelt still can express a preference for Wal-

lace again, and he may do so.

But his advance announce-

ment of acceptance today foreclosed him from using the pressure of 1940. That time he withheld his acceptance until the vice president had been nominated and thereby held over the convention an implied threat that he would . not accept unless Wallace were chosen.

Now the President's conservative Democratic opponents will be in position to boost their candidates for the No. 2 spot on the ticket, in a free-for-all convention race. It was reported alsa that past and present White House advisers were booming Associate Justice William O. Douglas—a 100 per cent New Dealer—for the post. A Douglas boom by the New Dealers might take on strength especially if Wallace should decide to take himself out of the race. There were reports that Ww allace might say something tonight or tomorrow. Mr. Roosevelt, sitting shirt-sleeved at his desk, enjoyed himself as he gave reporters the answer to the question they so long had been asking in vain. Other news conference business had been finished, when the President remarked that he had something more. He ordered the doors locked so no one would be tempted

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YANK BOMBERS

SMASH MUNICH

AREA, S. FRANCE}

1000 Fortresses, Liberators Brave Bad Weather; Attack Toulon.

LONDON, July 11 ((U. P)~— American warplanes estimated at more than 2000 strong defied bad weather and violent anti-aircraft fire today to invade southern Germany and smash at targets in the Munich area, while Liberators based in the Mediterranean area struck

{at the big port of Toulon on the

southern French coast. More than 1100 Fortresses

Liberators were in the task force, surrounded by

an escort of 750 Thunderbolt, Mustang and Liber-

{ator fighters, which flew through

bad weather to lay, their bombs by

{instruments through a solid blanket} § of clouds over Munich.

x meanwhile, flew with an féstort of Mustangs through heavy} /fiak to bomb naval installations at]

Toulon. Returning. crew members reported they encountered no enemy fighters and saw a good pattern of bombs fall on the target.

Fly 158,000 Sorties

The new two-way raids came as headquarters announced that allied aircraft Had flown 158,000 sorties during the first

month of the invasion, with a total

loss of 1 per cent The announce-

ment listed 1284 planes lost as} against a gestruction of 1067 enemy!

planes. Crewmen returning from the raid on Munich today said they did not encounter any interference from enemy fighters, but that flak directly over the target was very heavy,

Supreme headquarters announced! !

that fighter-bombers and rocketfiring fighters attacked German tank and troop concentrations and motor transport south of Caen yesterday in direct support of allied troops.

Two Mosquito fighter pilots staged }"

a 30-minute blitzkrieg on long camouflaged German freight trains south of Poitiers. As the trains entered a tunnel, the pilots cannoned the rear cars, then swung around and caught the front end with machine gun bullets as it emerged from the tunnel, blowing up the

| engine.

‘On the War Fronts

(uly 11, 1944)

| FRANCE—Yanks open big push on| i St. Lo, gain on other fronts in

Normandy.

AIR WAR--Yank bombers jar Mun=! :

ich and Toulon.

RUSSIA—Russians drive Kaunas and East Prussia.

ITALY~—Yanks gain before stubborn Nazis at Livorno. PACIFIC—Guam and Rota hit by U. 8. task force.

BROZO SERIOUSLY ILL

Lt. Cmdr. L. P. Brozo; former commander of the naval armory in Indianapolis, was reported seriously ill today at Billings General hospital. He left the armory last year to take another post.

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By NOBLE REED County commissioners have only five more weeks to remove children from the county's long-condemned detention home at 538 W. New York st. Aug. 16 has been set as the deadline by order of the state fire marshal’s office to vacate the building or face eviction and possibly prose-

cution.

Fire-Trap Evacuation Slated

Juvenile

unprotected doorway opening from the boiler and ©

‘Battle of . Annihilation

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‘levacuation of factories from Tilsit,

RUSS ADVANCE ON E. PRUSSIA: WILNO DOOMED

Is ‘Started at Encircled

Lithuanian Fort.

By HARRISON SALISBURY United Press Staff Correspondent MOSCOW, July 11.—The Russians waged a battle of annihilation against the German garrison of encircled Wilno today and sént a mobile column racing toward Kaunas, final hedgehog base from which the Nazis can defend the East Prussian frontier, 40 miles westward. i The Russian drive into the Baltics

.posed the double-barreled threat of

a frontal push on East Prussia and ot a spurt-across the narrowing cor- | ridor to the sea which would trap hundreds of thousands of Germans

. time, the “Soviets m ngly evident that : ey were preparing for a whirlwind push across the flat Polish plains to Germany. Dispatches repeatedly mentioned huge cavalry formations concentrated on the battle front where the German defense line had collapsed.

Communication Banned

‘ (Swiss advices from Berlin said all telephone communication with East Prussia had been forbidden, and the Germans had begun the

Gumbinnen and Insterburg in that

command had superseded civil a u-| thorities in a deep area behind the frontier.) . Front dispatches said Gen. Ivan] D. Cherniakhovsky's. 3d army of White Russia was engaged in a bat-| tle “for the complete annihilation of the Germans trapped at Wilno, capital of Soviet Lithuania. Without waiting for the liquida-| tion of the doomed Germans, Chernaikhovsky sent a force slashing northwestward toward Kaunas, pre‘war capital 55 miles from Wilno. His | ‘army was joined with Gen. Ivan C.| Bagramian’s 1st Baltic army in the | general advance. Te the south, Marshal Konstantin | K. Rokossovsky’s 1st army of White] Russia, speeding westward from the |

{rail junction of Slonim, was within

cannon range of Bialystok province, ! one of the last two provinces of | White Russia still under German control. Using 2,000,000 Men (Radio Berlin said the Russians!

{were using 140 divisions — about |

Some of the institution's doors, as shown in this photograph ef some boys’ room, open inward, This constitutes a hazard, should

The deadline was fixed in a for-

! mal notice sent to commissioners

|by Fire Marshal Clem Smith last May in which the county was given 90 days to vacate. X The detention home building was condemned as a fire hazard by the state fire marshal’s office two years

ago and since that time the con- |.

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Hoosier Heroes: Three Local Soldiers Reported Killed

INVASION ACTION in France | and battles in the Pacific have

claimed the lives of three more In-

dianapolis soldiers while two other |

local men are missing and three are wounded.

Killed Pfc. John A. Williams, 5633 Green-

2,000,000 men—in their central front offensives. There was no Soviet confirmation of German reports] that a new Russian offensive had | been launched north of Iasi in Ro-| mania on the southern front.) On the southeastern approaches

swept: through Luniniec, in the heart of the Pripet marshes and 25 miles northeast of Pinsk, and Lopatino, 11 miles southeast of Pinsk and 108 miles east of the fortress city of Brest Litovsk.

DE GAULLE IS GIVEN U. S. RECOGNITION

Ike to Decide When France May Rule Self.

WASHINGTON, July 11 (U.~P). — nt Roosevelt said today

to Warsaw, Rokossovsky's forces|’

ROMMEL LINE

SAGGING UNDER ALLIED BLOWS

| American Troops Hammer Within Two Miles

Of St. Lo, Transport Hub; Canadians Gain.

By VIRGIL PINKLEY United Press Staff Correspondent

SUPREME HEADQUARTERS, A. E. F. London, July 11.—American troops hit the center of the Normandy line today and plunged to within two miles of the big transport "hub of St. Lo, figld.-dispatches reported, and to the east the

Canadians drove an armored spearhead to the Orme river

below Caen. Relentless pressure by the American, British and Cane adian forces on’ I Ervin’ Rommel’s do-or-die line was beginning to bear fruit, and the Germans slowly were giving

| ground at both ends and in the middle.

* Initial Gains Scored in Fierce Fighting

Lt. Gen. Omar N. Bradley sent his United -States assault forces over the top north of St. Lo in a new attack aimed at the core of the entire transport network below the

'Cherbourg peninsula, and was reported in front dispatches ‘to have scored initial gains of several hundred yards.

At numerous points scattered between La Haye-du Puits and Caen, the Nazi line was)

[into futile attempts to recapture beginning to sag, but the vital Hill 112 and the road junction

German province, and a milan | fighting everywhere still was a mile to the northeast.

the| After capturing Loucigny, twe

and { miles southwest of Caen, the Cana-

extremely fierce

|enemy was yielding ground | giane consolidated their positions

lonly when he had no alterna-{along the west bank of the Orne tive. to a point northeast of Maltot. The U. S. forces captured six , To the west, the Americans made towns and villages scattered all Substantial pavers in gana Reng along their western part of the Nor-| thelr St. gehnes Phos a mandy front, and at the eastern end’ The Nazi-controlled Vichy radio of the line the British and Cana-| dians seized two more to bring the] {said British patrols reached the prongs of the arc thrown around O™¢ river, but later withdrew. The the area of captured Caen to with- fighting’ south of Caen - BS os in four miles of a junction below the lveloped into a “great bat e which big inland port. |is now raging with fury,” the broade Early this morning, British forces cast said. : east of Caen hammered out a “most Yanks Take 15 Towns | satisfactory” advance of about one| The Americans captured 15 towns { mile, capturing the industrial sub- and villages in advances of up to urb of Colombelles and coming with- a mile and a half yesterday on the lin four miles of the Canadian spear-| central and western sectors of the head driven through Louvigny to 111-mile Normandy front. |the west bank of the .Orne. In their main thrusts, the Ameri. “Extremely fierce and bitter fight-|cans seized Pont Hebert and Le ing” still was going on below Caen. Meauffe, four miles northwest and The Germans counter-attacked re-|five miles north of St. Lo, advanced | peatedly in the Orne-Odon corri-| ‘dor, throwing everything they had| (Continued on Page 3—Column 3)

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to accept Gen. Charles de Gaulle's| French committee of national lib-| eration as the actual working au-| thority for civilian administration of the liberated areas of France. | Mr. Roosevelt told his news conference, however, that Gen. Dwight

Eisenhower, allied supreme comer in Europe, would continue ) have complete and clear cut authority over all military questions in

that the United States has decided |