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By JOHN A. PARRIS United Press Staff Correspondent

LONDON, July 14.—Ten million French patriots, who . have waited four long suffering years for the signal to re‘volt, were ordered to rise up against the Germans today for one great, paralyzing blow on the 155th anniversary of the storming of the Bastille. Just as blood flowed on that other July 14 when the

ragged, hungry and ardent

streamed through Paris to-

ward Porte Sainte Antone, Yrench blood was flowing today—and with it German blood. These 10,000,000 Frenchmen—that is the number which French quarters estimates is actively resisting the Germans—were ordered to commit 10,000,000 individual acts of war against the German army of occupation, which the French now are calling the “army of the doomed.” By radio, underground Rewspaper and word of mouth,

| Millions Of Saboteurs Harass Germans On

orders issued by the national resistance council in Algiers have been spread through France for the 48 hours ending

at midnight.

“The hour has come to throw disorder into the ranks of the enemy and his collaborators,” Algiers said. For patriots who had not yet fired a shot or handled a. charge of dynamite, today was their day to strike a blow in the brilliant, behind-the-line battle which 500,-

Bastille Day

000 fighters of Gen. Joseph Pierre Koenig's French forces of the interior have been waging since D-day. The extent of today’s patriot activities will not be known for several days but presumably as this is being

read, German soldiers are bein

g ambushed, trains derailed,

canals blocked, telephone cables destroyed and collabora-

tors silently executed.

Authoritative French quarters

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'Played House' for Day and Night

io the Children's Guardians’ home

‘home today when they were taken

after. their mother and father went

off to Kentucky to look for a farm. They are (left to right, front row)

Leroy, Geneva, Eftmbeth snd

and (back row) Leona and Harry.

Predicts Republicans = Will

‘|have a Republican house,” Halleck

HALLECK SEES GOP GAIN AFTER DEWEY PARLEY

Control House, Lauds... Nominee. ALBANY, N. Y., July 14 (U. P).—

He said some political observers have a better

the president,” he added. “Whether

[CITY TAKES OVER THE BAREFOOT

Places Children in Home Until Parents Return

From Kentucky.

By HEZE CLARK

Six barefoot children, the oldest of them 10, “played house” for a day and a night yesterday when their parents left for Louisville, Ky., to look for a farm. Today they are at the Children's Guardians’ home waiting for their parents to come home. They were brought here by police this morning after neighbors near their home at 1030 Deloss st. complained that the youngsters had been abandoned. The parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wilfiam Walter Short Sr., left the children in the custody of an aunt, Mrs. Goldie Pretty, of Greenwood, At 9 a. m. yesterday. Elizabeth Takes Charge

But Elizabeth, who is 10, took ¢harge of her brothers and sisters, Wiliam, 8; Leroy, 7; Harry, 4; Leona, 2, and Geneva, 1, after Mrs. Pretty left with her husband a few hours later. At 6 p. m. yesterday William and leroy decided to look for their mother and daddy and never returmed. They were found by Patrolman Olen E. Rist who saw them

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HOOSIER HEROES— Pfc. Dicken Dies During Invasion;

Three Wounded

Pfc. Will Ed Dicken, 435 W. Abbot st, MISSING S. Sgt. Robert E. Smith, 1634 N. New Jersey st. Lt. Marshall N. Samms, formerly of 8001 Spring Mill rd. Lt. Col. Albert Roy Tyrrell, formerly of Indianapolis and Columbus.

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BLUM TO. QUIT STAFF OF PROSECUTOR BLUE

for more than two years, announced toddy that he will resign from the

post, effective Aug. 1. He announced that he will return to the practice of law in the office of Edwin H, Smith in the People’s Bank building. Mr, Blum announced that he will continue active participation in Republican politics as 12th ward chairman. Prosecutor Sherwood Blue said he

Blum, but indicated an appointment

will be made in the next two weeks.

HOOSIER YVAGABOND—

‘Lord, but You

Felt Lanely

Out There in Open Spaces’

By ERNIE PYLE Times War Correspondent © IN NORMANDY (By Wireless). «It was about time for me to go —«=out alone into that empty expanse of 15 feet—as the infantry company I was with began its Move into the street that led to what we did not know. ‘One of the soldiers asked if I didn’t have a rifle. Every time you're really in the battle lines

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they'll ask you that. I said no, correspondents weren't allowed to; it was against international law. The soldiers thought ‘that didn't seem right. Finally the sergeant motioned —it was my turn. I ran with bent knees, shoulders hunched, out across the culvert and across the" open space. ‘Lord, but you felt lonely out there. I had to stop right in the middle of the open space, to keep my distance behind the man ahead.

Samue] Blum, a deputy prosecutor|

had not selected a successor to Mr.|"%

fied with the resuits of his talks vhs far. Attacks New Deal

The governor concluded his busy week with an attack on the Roosevelt administration and a promise that if elected he will remove Rexford Guy Tugwell as governor general of Puerto Rico. Dewey accused the present national administration of separating government from the people and “apart and superior to other branches.” “There have been in recent years

GANDHI TURNS LEAF: OFFERS ALLIES AID

BOMBAY, July 14 (U. P).—Mohandas K. Gandhi, in g surprise reversal of his anti-British policy, has made public a seven-point program pledging assistance to the allies against the axis, and asserting that he has no intention of advocating further civil disobedience’ campaigns.

BULLETIN

Furkiy—

{holding the executive department

Way Is Paved for Joining Allies In Battle.

By WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Scripps-Howard Editor

Foreign LONDON, July 14.—Turbe close at hand.

hurrying home from Turkey, the Turkish ambassador is on his way back to Ankara, Soviet diplomacy is extremely active both in Turkey and Bulgaria, and reports reaching London say that Ankara “is facing big decisions.” The entry of Turkey on the side of the allies would almost certainly mean the final turning point in the war. Fighting is already in progress in Yugoslavia, Bulgaria,

of the axis, would like nothing better than to be freed from the sinking Nazi galley to whose oars they are chained. A blow from the direction of Turkey would alter the Halkan situation, pave the way for an allied drive across the Adriatic, facilitate a Soviet thrusf from the east and send the Germans reeling back along the Danube towards Vienna. Much depends on London and Washington. It has been very well for the British and Americans to lecture the Turks on their haviour in the war, but being realistic,. the Turks wanted something more than promises before taking the plunge. The © Anglo-American attitude towards certain allied governments —Yugoslavia, Poland and Greece, for example—has hardly been of a nature to inspire undiluted confidence. Today there is reason to believe that what Turkey was waiting for is'at hand or very nearly so. First she has been extremely vulnerable, especially from the air. - Favorable Factors

Now the allies are in a position to give her the air cover without which Istanbul could have been destroyed in a day, and her railways and other lines of communication put out of use in short order. Second, the opening of the second front in western Europe, the progress of the war in Russia, Italy, at sea and in the air all indicate that the axis is on the run. Turkey has much at stake at the peace table. She wants to be there. “Signs are not lacking that the peacé may be hardboiled, despite Atlantic charter and other pronouncements. Russia and Turkey have long Joughy over the Dardanelles. Russia is certain to dominate- the Balkans after the war and if Turkey wishes to be in a position to look after her - interests there and throughout the Middle East she will have to bestir herself.

STATE BOARD SPLIT OVER LIQUOR CACHE

. By EARL RICHERT ‘Cached away in the alcoholic beverages ‘commission storeroom here

key’s entry into the war may |

The German ambassador is |

Rumania and Hungary, prisoners}

be-|

to throw.

Cut Knuckles

By SHERLEY UHL Knuckles once punctured with bamboo twigs in a Jap torture-test are pounding out a fresh start for Discharged Serviceman Mike McKissick, war working pugilist of Indianapolis, Nip butchery, plus five months’ warfare in the Guadalcanal and New Georgia zones, failed to quench the spirit of the doughty young. boxer whose life hung in the balance during 18 hours of brutality suffered as a Jap prisoner at Munda. “Mike, then a corporal was among Yank invasion forces that blasted

Victim Reveals Jap Torture Scars

* Ex-Cpl. Mike MeKissick . . . fook all the low punches the Japs had

(Inset) : Scars on Mike's knuckles, the result of Nip brutality. He wears the purple heart for these and other wounds.

Burning Twigs Gouged Info

{Munda in the New Georgia group ion July 9, 1943.

their way into the coral beaches of!

of Local Boxer

After five days of bloody fighting he was standing sentry in “jungles so thick men stationed 10 feet apart still couldn't keep the Japs from sneaking in.” - That was midnight, July 13. Mike says he dimly remembers being rocked by a riflebutt rammed into the side of his head. When he regained consciousness, Mike found himself trussed up in the center of a Nipponese outpost. Six of his buddies were taken in the

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Normandy—

Americans Push Steadily Af ter Germans.

By VIRGIL PINKLEY United Press Staff Correspondent

SUPREME HEADQUARTERS, A. E. F., July 14.— Th& American 1st army drove forward along its entire 42-

-\mile Normandy front today in

the wake of what was described officially as a general German retreat, capturing four villages and pushing within a little more than a mile of Lessay, the Nazi

western defense anchor.

The bloody battle for St. Lo, .central base of the German line, raged unabated but supreme headquérters had no information later than front reports which said the American onslaught was resumed after a setback at the outskirts of

the wrecked town. Lt. Gen. Omar N. Bradley's whole line hinged on St. Lo was swinging southward, shoving the stubborn Germans back through hedgerows, groves and marshes in slow but steady retreat.

Pose New Threat

American control of the Atlantic coast was advanced as far south as the mouth of the River Ay west of Lessay, posing a new threat to that key town against which other

from La Haye-du Puits. In the area above where the Americans were less than three miles away, Bradley's troops straightened out their line for a frontal assault. Late yesterday the Germans tried to mount a counter-attack toward Auxais, but were turned back handily. Road Center Falls .

The road center of Les Champsde Losque, 7! miles northwest of St. Lo, fell to U. S. troops who probed southward beyond it. From Les Champs a valuable lateral road runs northward through St. Andre de Bohon to Carentan. Its entire

same sortie, he learned later, but

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By ROGER BUDROW Roscoe Turner's announcement that he intends to start daily charter plane service between Memphis and Detroit, via Indianapolis, drew a retort today from the Chicago & Southern Airlines that such a service would be illegal. Chicago & Southern is interested in the famous speed flier's proposal because it had expected to inaugurate Memphis-Detroit service itself some time this year. Recently the field examiner for

Turner's Airway Plan Illegal, "Chicago & Southern Claims

the civil aeronautics board, which grants or denies such requests, recommended that Chicago & Southern’s application for the route he granted. The board is expected to act on this recommendation some time in September,

Mr. Turner replied that his service would not be illegal and added

that he wasn't “trying to pick a fight with Chicago & Southern or He said he plans to

anyone else.” (Continued on Page 4—Column 8)

[CURTISS SET FOR ITS 50,000TH PROPELLER

The Indianapolis plant of the Curtiss-Wright Corp. will produce its 50,000th propeller some time this month, Manager Edward F. Theis announced today. This represents enough propeller capacity to harness 5,500,000 horsepower. :

JAP PLANES SPREAD GAS CHUNGKING, July 14 (U. P.).— inst duress vise te sone

JAILED DOG LOVER

RETURNS TO HOME

Mrs. Minnie Loretta Moulds, the

76-year-old pet lover who chose

55 days in the county jail rather|.

than give up her dogs, is home today at 2723 Winthrop ave.

dog.

Following a , story of Wednesday that Mrs. Moulds’ brother, Walter Burton Kimberlin, had dispatched some of the canine entourage to the dog ound; Judge John Niblack

She was charged with keeping a vicious

{length now was open to the Amer|icans. The only activity reported on the British sector was an attempt by the Germans to mass about 40 tanks south of Eterville, southwest of Caen. Heavy artillery fire scattered the tanks.

Threaten Encirclement

Front dispatches said the latest American advances around St. Lo raised a threat of encirclement and made that stronghold, already pounded into rubble by artillery and bombs, untenable. Nevertheless, the garrison was not expected to capitulate until the Americans capture high ground to the south. The official German D. N. B. agency reported in a broadcast from Berlin today that the Germans had abandoned the Carpiquet airdrome near Caen, but claimed all its installations were destroyed and that Canadians had suffered heavy losses. In the last seven days, the Americans have liberated more than 120 square miles of France with their deepest advance being eight miles in the Vire river sector.

“BOY SCOUT CHIEF DIES

LONDON, July 14 (U. P.).—Lord Somers, 57, world chief of the Boy Scouts, died today at his home at

forces were pushing down the road!

Periers;

RUSS TAKE PINSK, STORM GRODNO; NAZIS RETREATING IN NORMANDY: TURK WAR DECISION SEEMS NEAR

Russio—

Soviets 45 Miles From Border of Pre-War Reich.

By ROBERT MUSEL United Press Staff Correspondent

LONDON, July>14.—Berlin reported today that the Rus-

‘sian army had broken into

Grodno, vital - hedgehog defense bastion on the approaches of East Prugsia, whose 1939 border lies 20 miles due north, and that the Germans had evacuated Pinsk, last big bastion of the Pripet marshes, The Transocean news agency reported that in the 150-mile sector between Pskov and the Dvina river along the borders of lower Estonia and Latvia the German front “has beén further drawn back™® in a broad retreat on the northern front. The fall of Grodno would open the way for a 45-mile Soviet push straight westward to the soil of prewar Germany,

Reveals Fierce Battle

Ernst von Hammer, Berlin military commentator, said the Russians broke into Grodno twice and were thrown back. . The fall of Pinsk indicated Marshal Konstantin K. Rokossovsky's White Russian army had completed the conquest of the Pripet swampland and was set for a push 100 miles west against Brest Litovsk. Two other columns already were moving against the city from some 58 miles to the northeast and 97 miles to the southeast. Germany's admissions of grave reverses on the eastern front indicated®the defenses of central Poland and the Baltics were falling apart. Grodno, 280 miles from the starting line of the Soviet offensive, is 440 miles east-northeast of Berlin. Latest Moscow advices—notably well behind- Nazi accounts of the great battle in the east—said Soviet forces were 18 miles northeast and 27 miles southeast of Grodno and were developing a pincers attack against it. The Soviet vanguard was some 27 miles southeast of Kaunas, prewar capital of Lithuania, by last account from Moscow.

Finns Are Warned

(A Finnish domestic broadcast reported by the FCC warned the Finns that their country might soon be outflanked by a complete collapse of German resistance on the Baltic front.) The German command also reported “local Soviet thrusts” in the Kolomyja area of lower Poland, from which the Russian army pushed to the Czechoslovak border in its winter offensive. The capture yesterday of Wilno, capital of Soviet Lithuania, after nearly a week of violent street fighting, freed formidable Soviet forces to join in the drive against Bast Prussia. : One column under Gen. Georgi Zhakarov raced westward through Novaya Ruda, 23 miles from the East Prussian border proclaimed by Germany in 1939 and 60 miles from the pre-war Polish boundary, while

Eastnor castle in Herefordsshire.

(July 14, 1944)

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