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FDR's Word Reaches Chi-|

cago Few Minutes After

Wallace Arrives.

By LYLE C. WILSON United Press Staff Correspandent

CHICAGO STADIUM, July 19.—President Roosevelt evidently believes renomination of Vice President Henry A. Wallace is impossible and has sent word to this Democratic national convention that he would be happy to run with 60-year-old

Senator Harry 8. Truman, muni-|

tions production investigator of Missouri. This word broke the deadlock into which the convention rapidly was heading as it opened its first session at 12:05 p. m. with Wallace present to fight for ‘his political life after a hurry-up journey from Washington. At 1:10 the convention recessed

to await tonight the keynote ade

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first ballot now, perhaps Thursday night, with Wallace as runner-up. Mr. Roosevell's okay of Truman reached this convention after the President had forced War Mobilization Director James F. Byrnes of South Carolina, out of the contest. The President's willingness to take Truman was revealed by National! Committee Chairman Robert E. Hanriegan who told the United Press: , “It is not correct that Mr, Rooseweit has set up a second and third

Wallace Comes to Town |

“But the President has indicated | that he would be happy fo run with ‘©

Truman would strengthen the ticket.” That statement came about 20 minutes after. Wallace had left the train at an outlying station, announcing he would go direct to the stadium where the convention was in session. Instead, he went to his headquarters in the Sherman hotel. Wallace is chairman of the Jowa delegation, but had not intended to come here until the conservative opposition to his renomination became so bitter his managers decided his only chance would be to make 8 personal appearance. Wallace will deliver a seconding

the delegates by radio in the evening. The seconding speech will give Wallace his last chance to per. suade the delegates to renominate him for the $15,000-a-year vice

presidency. Balloting on the vice! Bee

president may start Thursday eve-

Byrnes was forced out under fire from the left—the Congress of Industrial Organizations and the fears of big industrial state leaders that

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i Kentuc y and Paul V. MeNutt convention in Chicago. McNuit's presidential place at the last

placed in nomination this time.

time.

Caucus Frees Second Spot Votes for Hoosier Delegates

By EARL

RICHERT

Times Stall Writer CHICAGO, July 19.—~The 30 members of the. Indiana delegation the Democratic national convention were left free at the caucus of Senator Truman. and that he thinks | the delegation here this morning to vote their respective choices for the

vice presidential nomination,

The delegation had been instructed by. the Democratic stata convention In Indianapolis last month’ 10 vote for the renomination of

BAILIFF SUSPENDED IN PAY-OFF’ PROBE

Traffic Case Dismissed With Defendant Absent,

Police Sgt. Francis P, Griffin, bailiff in Municipal Court 3, has

‘|been suspended from the force

pending a safety board hearing on charges arising out of an alleged “pay-off” in a Municipal Court 3 traffic case, . In a statement to Chief Clifford ker, Grover Ridenour,of R:R. 1, Greenfield, asserted that he had paid Sgt. Griffin: $35 after he had been “approached” concerning his trial June 29 on a count of oper ating an automobile with inadequate brakes, i Municipal Judge John L. McNelis

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Roosevelt. No attempt to bind the delega* tion ‘was made although National Committeenian Frank McHale, who

was re-elected at the caucus for a third term, announced that. he

(This announcement was made before word reached the convention that President Roosevelt had given the nod to Senator Harry 8. Truman of Missouri.) McNutt forces had learned it would be impossible for to get solid support from his orb for the former Hoosier

Pleas Greenlee of Shelbyville, pasecretary during the McNutt administration and a delegate 10th district, was working ‘against his former chief claimed that if it “came right tacks” Federal Judge

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HOOSIER HEROES— Four Killed and Four Wounded On Wide Fronts

various battle fronts. KILLED , Prt. Lester L. Roberts, 656 N. Tibbs a Or Baad. Belly ir. BLN.

1| Arsenal ave. Lt, Robert M. Porter, Indianap-

FOUR INDIANAPOLIS fighting men have given their lives in battle, one is missing and four more have been wounded in combat on

WEDNESDAY, JUEY 19, 04

POLAND, a BERLIN RADIO

Reports Soviet Crossing of} Bug River 37 Miles From Lwow. LONDON, July 19 (U. P.).

that the Russians had forced the Bug river at Kristinopol, 37 miles north of Lwow, in

what appeared to be a penetration of the part of Poland grabbed by the Nazis in 1939.

easternmost {ip of the “government general” of Poland, established by the Nazis under their control in the \partition of the country at the out get o e war;

the Russians forced the river and captured Kristinopol, “creating temporarily a ‘dangerous situation which was restored when a German counter-attack recaptured the fown."” Lwow Is Bypassed

Emst von Hammer, Nazi radio commentator, said the Russians had struck out west of Kowel, forcing the Germans to withdraw to their second defense line, in a drive ap-~ parently synchronized with the first Ukrainian army's offensive aimed at Lwow, which already was bypassed to the north. Other Berlin broadcasts quoted military spokesmen as saying the Soviets had achieved deep penetrations across the Bug in the Lwow area. “East of the upper Bug the Soviets broke through in a weslerly direction,” one said. “They. are

| pressing on’ along a wide frost in

the direction of Lwow.” ; To the north, Berlin said, the Russians “attempted a coupe de main against Brest Litovsk,” throwing several infantry divisions, two tank corps and cavalry units into a

government general of Poland today in a pew offensive aimed

{squarely at the Reich.

‘Konev's tanks and infantry already were well across the Bug river at several places south of the point where it becomes the border, German prisoners expressed amazement over the comparative | ease with which the Soviets had {breached the Germans’ 2d, or “Prinze Eugen,” defense line along the Bug river, The new drive gravely imperilled Lwow, Poland's third largest city, a nine-way railway junction and perhaps the most powerful fortress east of the German border. Latest * reports placed Konev’s forces at one point only 120 miles from the Wista river, next strong defense line before Silesia, ‘Marshall Konstantin K. Rokossovsky's campaign to topple Brest Litoysk. southeastern bastion guarding the approaches to Warsaw, rapidly was taking shape following the capture of Omelinka, eight and threequarters miles north, and Soviet ar-

LACK OF SURVIVORS SLOWS BLAST PROBE

Munition Ships’ Death Toll Mounts to an.

SAN FRANCISCO, July 19 (U, P) ~The death toll in the explosion of two ammunition ships at Port Chicago Monday night continued to. rise today as the navy

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JGANTIC TANK STRUGGLE RAGES AS BRITISH PUNCH _ DEEPER INLAND IN FRANCE

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have to sleep in this section, there are only

so close together that attendants

How Children Are Jammed Into Ft. Wayne Home

This is one of several overcrowded dormitories at the Ft. Wayne School for Feeble-Minded Children, which has 500 mere beds in it than the buildings were originally built to accommodate. Although 40 boys 35 beds, necessitating the doubling up of two boys on small cots

can’t get between them,

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since the fall of Rome.

ROME, July 10.—American troops captured the great Tyrrhenian port of Livorno today, crumbling the western anchor of the German defenses across Italy in the biggest allied victory of the Italian campaign

Livorno fell to the United States units of Lt. Gen. Mark W. Clark's

5th army scon after allied headquarters announced that Polish forces

had captured Ancona, the Adriatic anchor of the Nazi defense line, The twin victories unhinged the hard-pressed German defenses and

“lcleared the way for a frontal on-

slaught against the Gothic line. Virtually all the port facilities of Livorno, pre-war city of 200,000, had been destroyed by the Germans to prevent their use by the allies as a gateway of supplies and reinforcements, The city’s many big bridges, the only contact with the mainland, also were wrecked by the Nazis, Livorno fell to American forces who had swung around it in a wideflanking maneuver and. closed in from the east while other units were smashing through the formidable German fortifications guarding its southern approaches. \ h pushed out of Livorno, the Germans took up positions on high ground north of the city and sent a continuous barrage on Livorno's 60 docks. Even as the shells exploded, however, American engineers were rebuilding. the city's harbor facilities. During the drive over-the Cecina river, allied troops captured approx imately 2500 prisoners, and inflicted thousands of casualties on the Germans, Since May 11, the 5th army has taken 30,000 prisoners. Livorno -was more thoroughly than any town yet ats tacked by the allied sth army.

ALLIES FLYING MORE | "BATTLE CASUALTIES

WASHINGTON, July 1% (U. P)— More ‘than 7000 allied casualties in

2000 HEAVIES BLAST MUNICH, S. GERMANY

Birthplace of Nazi Party

Target for Pincers.

LONDON, July 18 (U. P.).~—American heavy bombers attacked Munich, birthplace of the Nazi party, from both Britain and Italy today to spearhead a massive bombardment by nearly 2000 Flying For. tresses and Liberators of war plants, airdromes and rail yards throughout south Germany. The daylight attack followed one of comparable scope last night by the royal air force against Berlin and the Normandy battle zone.

ing objectives:

plant at Kempten; a tory at Hollriegelskreuth, on the, outskirts of Munich; ball bearing

Coblenz and Saarbrucken, as well as at Strasbourg and German air force stations at Lechfeld, Leipheim and Laupheim, all in the region of Augsburg.

seen spinning down out of control.|C The Fortresses which attacked Schweinfurt and the Liberators over| _ Saarbrucken were unchallenged.| Near Augsburg, however, about 50 f tts made a damaging

‘on a Fortress formation

1 attack while the fighter escort was chiang-

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This Is one of the evercrowded day rooms af the chook. Patients are housed: for rest and rereation here before bedtime.’ This room originally was arranged to accommodate 25 children. Now more than 50 have io use it for s rest room. Sometimes not all the children can find chairs to sit on.

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LARGE AMOUNT

OF NAZI ARMOR KNOCKED OUT

Yanks Mopping Up in St.Lo

As Monty's Men Absorb Counter-Attack.

By VIRGIL PINKLEY United Press Staff Correspondent

SUPREME HEADQUARTERS, A. E. F., July 19.— Hundreds of British and German tanks were slugging it

|out today on the flatlands . | southeast of Caen in perhaps

the greatest armored battle of the war as the allies punched deeper inland along the road to Paris after absorbing the ‘full weight of the

{first great Nazi counter-attack.

British and Canadian armor

poured southward through the break-through corridor below Caen, pumping massive new strength into Gen, Sir Bernard L.. Montgomery's all-out push which smashed the German ring around the Normandy beachhead.

Marshal Erwin Rommel threw all the armor he could muster into a

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Yanks Take Wrecked Livorno | GUARDIANS SCHOOL | And Poles Capture Ancona

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“very flerce” counter-attack on Montgomery's advancing forces late yesterday. The British and Canadians met it head-on and knocked out a large amount of the German armor. ,

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Montgomery announced confident« ly that large quantities of German equipment were being destroyed in the showdown battle of Normandy, ; indicating that he was well satis- | fied with the results of the first

| | aor German counter-attack.

Supreme headquarters still with= held information eoncerning the exact extent of the British progress, since the high command believed ita ! publication now would be of cone

Marion County Council Set siderable assistance to the enemy.

To Act, Parry Says.

By NOBLE REED

The county council would consider

favorably a request by the Marion ‘county welfare department for additional funds to raise wages and in-

crease personnel at the Children’s

Guardians’ “home, Addison J. Parry, council president, said today. The council's reaction followed an by Arthur E Wooden, welfare director, that efforts will be made immediately to improve personnel conditions at the home, : where a feeble-minded boy has been tied in a cage for nine months amid seri-

ously overcrowded conditions and

without an adequate staff.

“In view of conditions at the home reyealed this week, councilmen are prepared to act favorably on any request for more funds to

provide increased personnel and improved conditions at the institution,” Mr. Parry said.

Boy’s Plight Revealed

A communique listed “the follow-

“We appropriated some extra

money to make structural improve-|

Guardians’ home| | were killed.

rsehm mponents! | about. a year ago but because of A Mss je 10 | co gn | lack of materials and labor the

ments on ‘the

| project was dropped and the money was returned to the county genaral

plants at Schweinfurt; rail yards at| fund.

“We plan to reappropriate that money in order that conditions out there can be improved immediately.” The plight of the 7-year-old child, caged at the Guardians’ home while awaiting transfer to the over= crowded Ft. Wayne Feeble-minded

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West of Caen the British captured the village of Hottot and expanded their position around Noyers, which still, however, was not firmly in allied hands.

Mopping Up St. Le

On the American front, the St. Lo area was being mopped up rapidly despite German artillery and mortar fire from heights south of the captured city. Early today the Americans pushing down into the Vire river bend northwest of 8t. Lo reached the right bank of the river, Northwest of St, Lo the Americans captured the villages of Grand Hamel and La Chappelle, They de~ stroyed 16 German tanks in beating off strong counter-attacks, Most of

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REPORT DEATH OF 6 NAZI AIDS IN BRAWL

CAIRO, July 19 (U. P) ~The exiled Greek government reported’ today that .senior German officers. meeting at Athens to discuss “ime portant matters of policy” engaged in a pistol battle across the conference table in which six of ‘them

~The officers were summoned to the meeting at the Grande Bretagne hotel and fell into a heated argument which precipitated ‘the brawl, the official statement said. The chief administrative officer of the Peloponnese tried to escape after the fray, but was killed by 8. 8. men guarding the hotel, the

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