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_ Services for Richard M. Fairbanks, publisher of The Indianapolis News, who died yesterday, will be held at 4 p. m. tomorrow at the family lot in Crown Hill, The Rev. Logan Hall pastor of the Meridian Street Methodist church, will officiate.
Mr, Fairbanks will be buried beside his father, mother and two
Priends may call at the home.! :
4171 Washington bivd., where the, | body will remain until the funeral.’ PUSH PLAN FOR Active pallbearers will be William G. Sullivan, Willlam P. Evans, Jos-' oo - eph J. Daniels, John P. Frenzel Jr. JOB ENTE Samuel B. Sutphin, Slyvester John- Uy I son Jr, Allen G, Messick and C. Walter McCarty. ea
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fin, Otto Frenzel, Cornelius Alig, Theodore B. Griffith, Russell Sull-| (Editorial, Page 16) | van, Fred T. Holliday, Robert D.| By SHERLEY UHL Armstrong, Us McMurtrie, Garvin! With some 300 discharged serviceW. Brown. Austin A. Brown and men pouring into Indianapolis evRussel} Porfune. {ery month, selective service here is Others sare Hilton U. Brown, gearing its “draft” machinery in Stephen C. Noland, Joseph F. reverse to the gigantic task of reBreeze, Charles A, Clark, Herbert turning the city's ex-fighting men R. Hill, Wiliam H. Williams, Wil-/to satisfactory positions in civilian Mam PF. Fox Jr, Basil Judkins and! life, Mark Thistlethwaite, all of the In-| Because some wrold war IT vetdianapolis News; Mark Ferree and erans have complained of job-hunt-Walter Leckrone of The Indian- ing difficulties stemming from the
apolis Times, and Eugene C. Pul- absence, so far, of a completely co-|
liam of The Indianapolis Star and ordinated rehabilitation program,
B. FP. Lawrence, formerly of the selective service officials have blue- |
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trom, John Gould, Ralph Lockwood, Marion county, E. C. Atkins, Fred Appel, Robert! FP. Scott Jr, W. R. Sinclair, Gilbert will operate as an induction cenOgle, Edward L. Mayer, Russell J. ter in reverse. Service records and Ryan, William Rockwood. John histories on all discharged veterans Jameson, Robert D. Failey and Dr. returning to Marion county will be |filed there. Into its offices will be , Mr. Fairbanks, who was 60, died | funnelled the official assistance of "at his home, after an eight-month other government agencies plus all illness. He was president of The aid that can be mustered by every Indianapolis News Publishing Co | MA ? and- head of the company’s radio (Continued on Page 8—Column 6)
CALL cor WET, TWO NIECES DIVHDE On chuaN caiss WIL IRWIN ESTATE
. ON GERMAN CRISIS denberg (R, Mich.), here during the | Principal
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special meeting of G. O. P. senators next Tuesday in Washington, because “of the prospects of an early COLUMBUS, Ind. July 27 ¢ ) defeat of Nazi Germany.” 8 wy U. BJ.
—The $2,976,382 estate of the late Vandenberg, Republican leader in| william G. Irwin, financier and in-
the senate, telegraphed the senators gystrialist, was divided principally last night inviting them to join a : - steering committee conference. He | vooveen his bless, Mes. Hugh 7. said the possible economic consequences of an early German collapse “are such that immediate consideration of reconversion legis jation is advisable.” ‘
property schedule filed in Bartholomew circuit court showed today. Mrs. Miller, as executor, reported that the two principal shares totaled $1,433,981.20 each and that property Irwin owned jointly with his sister, the late Mrs. Linnie J. Sweeney, wag valued at $344,665. Irwin's real property was valued at $15.420.
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WASHINGTON, July 27 (U. P.).—Lt. Gen. Lesley J.. McNair, the man who trained this country’s mammoth - new ground forces for the battles they are now fighting around the world, was killed in the front line of the current American offensive in Normandy, the war department announced today. He was 61. i Before he fell, McNair saw the start of an offensive which already has smashed through the German lines and carried deeper into the enemy's territory the doughboys whose training he directed.
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McNair stood high in the small group of military leaders who, under Gen. George C. Marshall, chief of staff, built the U. S. army from 1,500,000 to its present size of 7,700,000, : McNair had some narrow escapes in other wars and had come close to death once hefore in this one. On April 23, 1943, while visting the Tunisian front, a splinter from a German four-inch shell pierced his steel helmet and lodged a quarter of an inch from his brain. He survived that experience, however, and shrugged
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it oft with a tribute to the quality of steel in his helmet. From March, 1942, until recently McNair was commanding general of the army's ground forces, a post which ranked him with Gen. H, H. Arnold, commander of the army air forces, and Lt. Gen. Brehon B. Somervell, commander of the army supply forces. On July 14 the war department announced that he had been succeeded by Lt. Gen. Ben Lear and had been given an “important overseas assignment.” What that
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¢'il Place. 3 Sweeping, a 15-Point Program Before’ | ~~ Governors. ALBANY, N. Y,, July 27 (U. py.
BIG POLISH BASE TAKEN BY RUSS,
—Governor Thomas E. Dewey, Republican .presidential nominee, said
today he would place a sweeping HULL DECRIES program before the St. Louis G. O. P. governors’ conference next week | in an effort to “bring agreement out | ARGENTINE AID
of chaos which has existed between the federal government and the states for 12 years.” | Dewey's program, which was ap-|
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ernor John W. Bricker of Ohio, in- | cludes 15 major issues: {| 1. Public expenditures, 1 2. Public health. jw . . ‘os | 3. Administration of unemploy- IN Bringing Crisis Into
| ment insurance, fu : | 4. Administration of employment The Open. (Another Story, Page 15) .
| services, ; : Relationship between unem-! By R. H. SHACKFORD United Press Staff Correspondent
ment services.
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Tank Strength Wins in Normandy
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| 4 ployment insurance and employ-| asus WASHINGTON, July 27—Brand-
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ed by the United States as a de-| : {| 8. Labor—The sphere of influence co rter of her neighbors in an hour| = Bn of the national government as COD» + raed and as one who aids ene-| | "mies of the united nations, the Ar-| = gentine government today stood |
| trasted to local government, 7. Public works, the extent to be financed and supervised by the var- jue short of being considered a fous units. of government, traitor to the western hemisphere. 8. Bighways, ion. This countey’s bitier 9. Regtitation of Tsirance. of the present Argentine regime of 10. Ownership of national 1ands. | Gen, Edelmiro Farrell was delivered 11. Water and flood control and jag night by Secretary of State the conservation of national re- cordell Hull. It did not, however, Sources. | provide a solution to the complex 12. The national guard, whether nroblem, but, instead, posed a se{it shall be returned to the states ries of problems concerning the fu!in the post-war area or remain fed-! ture of the good neighbor policy | eralized. } and the attempt to establish hemi- | 13. The whole problem of federal spheric solidarity. {and state tax co-ordination, , | 14 Agriculture, the extent to ‘Doctrine of Desertion | which agriculture, soil conservation] (Foreign Minister Orlando Peluffo and controls, if any, should be ad-|{of Argentina charged in a radio ! ministered by the national govern-
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Spearheaded by the in any war theater, the Americans struck from St. Lo te break through German lines for a seven-mile gain and capture Canisy. Gains registered on the other fronts are designated by the black arrows.
Chief of Army Supply Led Plot on Hitler, Berlin Says
LONDON, July 27 (U. P.).—Berlin revealed today that the abortive i plot to kill Adolf Hitler and overthrow the Nazi regime was led by, Gen. Friedrich Olbricht, chief of supply for the German army, and!
speech in Buenos Aires last night | announced that he had been captured and executed after a summary if successful would collapse the!
‘tanks had spurted
Overrun Canisy Bialystok Falls
And Le Mesnil With Tanks.
By VIRGIL PINKLEY United Press Staff Correspondent By JOSEPH W. GRIGG
SUPREME HEADQUAR.| net Troe sun Correspondent TERS, A. E. F., July 27.—| LONDON, July 27.—Rus.
American armored columns ~ 2" tanks and shock troops raced forward up to seven Tipped up the northern flank les today in their Nor. Of the German defenses benie y in “.|fore Warsaw and laid open mandy break-through drive, the invas ds to Fast fanning out on a broad arc which| | ¢ Invasion roads to Prussia in a single blow today with
| overran the road junctions of Lin ‘1 ) Canisy and Le Mesnil Herman and | 'P® capture of the ancient Polish
reached points nine miles from | foriress of Bialystok, Coutances and six south of St. Lo.| The fall of Bialystok to the on. Field dispatches reported the Tushing Russian armils wag ad. capture of fire-ravaged Canisy, | ted Jn Nazi broadcasts - which three miles southeast of Marigny, | 21 Send! nt Me and said Lt. Gen, Omar N. Bradley's | yg
In New Soviet Triumph.
another five . ometers” and abandon it, miles in the same direction to seize
Le Mesnil Herman on the St. Lo-| Percy highway and reach St. Sam-
The Nazis said heavy fighting raged in that area throughout the son de Bon Fosse. night, and flared up intensively again today, indicating that after Two Main Spearheads toppling the key base the Russian The whirlwind advances through army had struck out in a full-scale groggy German defenses expanded offensive toward East Prussia and the break-through by American the northern route to Berlin, sero tos depth o nearly In [niles 30 Miles From Border in less than three days of fighting. | They also set the stage for flanking Ine Most advanced elements of
. ip (the Russian army already were pushes to the east and went Which, Li, "less than 30 miles of East
Prussia in the area of Lipski, 38
{Germans to fall back “several kil« .
! ment or the states regionally. 15. Veterans affairs,
| Canvass Entire Field
Dewey said the program would be
! printed the biggest community job-! submitted to the governors for their cific measures against the a Alsc Fred A. Sims, Henry E. Os- finding center in the history of consideration. He revealed the pro- |
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| “We (Dewey and Bricker) have;
that the United States had singled’ court-martial.
| whole southern rim of the German
out Argentina for discriminatory |
treatment. He said Argentina not only favored the cause of the united ‘nations, but had taken eight spe-
Hull set forth for the world to | inspect what an authoritative gov-
This massive information depot front porch of the executive man-| ernment source described as Ar-
| gentina’s “monstrous doctrine of desertion.” Hull invited its com-
xis) |
canvassed the entire field of conflict between the federal government and the state and jocal governments.” he said. “This conflict
parison with the doctrine of co-| operatiton against the axis followed by the rest of the Americas and recommended the diplomatic isola-
Breaking. the official silence on the -names and the parts played by the conspirators who attempted to assassinate Hitler in his head-!
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Hoosier Heroes—
1 man Trahsocean News agency also, BOWMAN BUCHANAN =e: former Chief of Staff Col. § Gen. Ludwig Beck and Col. Gen.
11 More Names Added to
{ Erich Hoeppner, a dismissed panzer | ‘commander, as leading figures in! { the unsuccessful coup. | Beck committed suicide within a. few hours after the bomb explosion | that wrecked Hitler's headquarters! and wounded the fuehrer.
arc around the Normandy beachhead.
The main spearheads
southeastward below St. Lo and southwestward toward Coutances.
LONDON, July 27 (U. P.).—The Transocean news agency quoted
of the {quarters a week ago today, the Ger- break-through forces were swinging
miles. above Bialystok, and a Soviet battle arc was closing against the frontier. Other Soviet assault forces in lower Poland were reported by the Nazis to have stormed the defenses of Przemysl, 55 miles west of Lwow, unhinging the southern wing of the German armies which were being baftered back against the Vistula
a Wilhelmstrasse spokesman today (and across the approaches to Waras saying that “an imminent con- Saw. } ference between Roosevelt and | The British radio quoted Moscow Churchill is not beyond the range | reports that the Russains had
Miller and’ Miss Elsie 1. Sweeney, a
‘of authority and responsibility has been a constant source of friction {for 12 years in this country. “There have been enough people | spending their full time fighting euch other over the questions of
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"HINT ROBOT GIANTS | BASED IN HOLLAND
! LONDON, July 27 (U. P.).—Dutch quarters said today that recent large-scale German construction on the hook of Holland was believed {to be launching sites for a new and larger. flying bomb capable of bombarding England's industrial Midlands 250 miles away. | They said these platforms were, ready for use if not already in op-! eration.
Casualty Lists.
Gravest Crisis Since 1917 ACTION in the air and on two His bitterly critical statement! battle fronts has added 11 more brings into He open what is con-| Indianapolis men to the casualty one of the gravest crises in| th t illed Pan-American history since 1917 hoa’ v0 10 Filled, four missing, when the Zimmerman note revealed | ’ that Germany had promised Mexico KILLED American land if she would align| pvt. Jay C. Bowman, 2224 Central herself with the central powers. It| ave. died of wounds in France. certalnly is the gravest crisis in the| sgt. Carl Buchanan, 118 S. BelJestirn Sumispiivrs since President mont ave., lost in British Guiana. Roosevelt proclaimed the good i neighbor policy. : MISSING The United States’ decision to S Set James J. Boyle, 1244 E. publish in forthrigh Washington st, in Romania. Bn wv guage its, First Lt. Robert M. Harrah, 1813 the Argentine government—and, VV: Morris st. in Europe. Hull's appeal to the other united Cpl. Sylvester Blaine Mumaw, nations to follow the example—may | 2261 Eastern ave, In France. force the Argentine leaders to re-| Pvt. Charles 8S. Atkins, 1130 N. a— | Dearborn st. in France. (Continued on Page 83—Column 3)! WOUNDED
Petty Officer 1-c Frank Spalding,
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France, Pvt. Theron Brown, 1502 E. Naomi in France. Walter E. Huffines, 1015
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of probability, although it would [stormed across the Vistula southeast of Warsaw, and were racing across the Polish plains in a swiftly developing drive. Berlin also admitted that mount« ing Soviet pressure had forced the Germans to withdraw in the area of Brest Litovsk, almost encircled citadel 100 miles east of Warsaw, but claimed the threatened garrison still was holding out. “The Soviets, deploying their numerical superiortiy, attempted to encircle a German armored force north of Brest Litovsk, but this force fought its way to the rear,
He shot himself when Nazi agents! tried to arrest him in the war min-/ istry building in Berlin, Transocean said. | The German line between the St. Hoeppner is under *arrest and Lo gap and the Atlantic already awaiting sentence, the” agency was buckling. American patrols added. | thrust into Periers, central hinge of Olbricht, 56. g relatively obscure|the German defenses, and the Les-
figure in the German high command | Say-Periers highway was cut in a until his emergence as the head of 8ain of more than a mile. the conspiracy, was subjected to a| The Nazi plight was reflected in drum-head trial in the war ministry| @ DNB news agency estimate that and put to death by a firing squad Gen. Sir Bernard L. Montgomery the same night. {now can send into the field “about Orders Were Suspected 50 divisions, including very strong
not take place in London.”
fresh tank formations.” It said
as chief of supply, was second in 9909 tanks and the American Ist! command of the home army and In even rather more"—perhaps 4000 thai capacity was accused of sabo-! : , all told. taging “great decisions.” The official account broadcast by | } Transocean said the three generals| Bradley's men generally were on had planned to seize the communi- | the move from just west of Cau- | cations network of the high com- mont to the sea, and were consoli- | mand headquarters in Berlin and dating their armored gains as fast| paralyze the entire German army 85 Infantry and artillery could be with a series of faked orders. jmaved up. Pockets of resistance The plot collapsed when the com- between the swaths cut by the mander of the Berlin garrison be-|3mored columns were
Consolidate Gains
being
Olbricht, in addition to his post iyo British 2d army had 1500 to (Continued on Page 3—Column 7) »
On the War Fronts
(July 27, 1944) RUSSTIA—Russians take Bialystok, 50 miles from Warsaw, (Page e.)
FRANCE — Yanks deepen wedge through German lines to seven miles, capture Canisy. (Page One.)
commander-in-chief of the Veterans
The report was filed for inherit-
Scattered showers in Indiana gave
of Foreign Wars, arrived today in the Italian war theater for a tour of inspection of American: front lines and hospitals in both Ttaly and ‘Africa, national V, FP. W. headquarters here announced.
ance tax appraisement purposes and valued the estate's cash, stocks, bonds and accounts receivable at $2,210,820.54. It covered property in Bartholomew, Jackson, Johnson, Marion, Orange and Rush counties.
MARTHA RAYE GIVES BIRTH TO BABY GIRL
| HOLLYWOOD, July 27 (U. P.).— Comedienne Martha Raye, wife of Nick Condos, and her baby daughter were reported “doing nicely” at Wilshire hospital today. The sixpound, six-ounce baby was born last night. : :
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Amusements ++18/ Ruth Millett ,.16 Eddie Ash ....20 Movies .......18 Comaics .......25| Obituaries ,... § Crossword ,...25/ Pegler ........16 Editorials ......18| Ernie Pyle sess 18 - Fasllions .,....19 Radio ........25 : Financial ,....22 Ration Dates ..11| S1EALS NAVY TRUCK Forum ........16 Mrs, Roosevelt 15. NEW YORK, July 27 (U. P.).— Gardening ,.., 7 Side Glances ..16 Brooklyn police and navy officials Meta Given ...19 Sports .....20, 21 are looking for the thief who had Burton Heath
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thirsty crops and pastures a longneeded drink last night but the month-old drought was still not completely broken. Rainfall measuring 90 inch at the Weir Cook airport and .41 inch at the Indianapolis weather bureau flushed the city’s streets and storm sewers, Most of the heavy rain fell between 10 and 11 pm. yesterday, blowing down a few electric wires. A large fell across road 37 at 36th st., /blocking ‘trafic until state police had it removed. : Although partly cloudy and cooler weather is forecast for Indianapolis today and fair tomorrow, there is a possibility of further scattered showers in the southeast portion of the state today. ; A substantial amount of rain fell
LOCAL TEMPERATURES
6am...67 10am... 78 Tam....6 1am... 82 S§a.m.....7 12 (Noon).. 84 fSam.... 78 1pm ....85
Government crop experts said today that more rain is needed in the Midwest to overcome the most serious. drought since 1936. - The average rainfall for the Midwestern drought. area between Tuesday morning and midnight yesterday was approximately onehalf inch, according to weather bureau figures, which showed an average of more than one inch in Missouri and’ as little as a quarter of an inch in Ohio, = Illinois and Michigan averaged more. than one-half inch, ‘and Indiana less than Woriher uresy
Warhawker fighters of the 14th U. one-half inch, the |S. air force, in three missions rangsaid, - | ing from Saingto to Changsha yes- } | terday, killed 200 Japanese troops, | set fire ‘to several large buildings
Dreier pl, in Italy. Pfc. Eugene Doughty, 1222 N. Tacoma ave. in France, Pvt. Vernon McQueen, 2149 Webb st, in France.
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came suspicious of their orders and communicated with Propaganda Minister Paul Joseph Goebbels, who directed him to arrest the con-| spirators. Beck, who was dismissed as chief of staff ih Novefnber, 1938, because
mopped up methodically. [ITALY—Yanks may be forced to
The first field dispatches of the | day reported the capture of Canisy. | They said it burned all night after!
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| being set afire by the explosions AIR | bombed in Belgium. Budapest’
shell Leaning Tower of Pisa. (Page Two.) :
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THOMAS INDORSES TRUMAN * WASHINGTON, July 27 (U. P).—| President R. J. Thomas of the United Automobile "Workers (C. I. 0.) today indorsed the Demotratic vice presidential candidate, Senator Harry S. Truman, as a “progressive man,” and denied the Republican charges that the C. I. O. was in-| volved ‘in. a conspiracy with Democratic machine bosses,
PLANES KILL 200 JAPS CHUNGKING, July 27 (U. P).— effective Aug. 1.
restores limitations which have
in effect since December, 1942,
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ICE CREAM OUTPUT a WASHINGTON, July 27 (U. p).— wil be put into effect” within the Ending three months of increased next 60 days so bondholders may theory that redemptions would be ice cream supplies, the war food ad- receive cash immediately instead of reduced by making ministration today ordered output having to wait a matter of days or simpler and quicker. i limited to 65 per cent of normal, weeks, Secretary of Treasury Henry, In response to a question Morgen~ - | Morgenthau Jr., revealed today. : The move, necessitated “by the : He told a press conference that the wai *. that seasonal decline in milk production, \inder the new plan, honds will be | now sold te
Simpler Bond Redemption
~ Plan Due Within 60 Days
WASHINGTON, July 27 (U. PS new war bond redemption plan
at any
It was understood from other
sources that officials hoped the pro-
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for war bonds, on the psychological
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the process
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