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VOLUME 55—NUMBER 120
SATURDAY, JULY 29,1944
Entered as Second-Class Matter at Postoffice Indianapolis 9, Ind. Issued daily except Sunday
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Leaders Returning to Capital With Pledges of Speed On ‘Peace Bills.’ WASHINGTON, July 20 (U. P). =Congressional leaders of both parties were packing their bags after a five weeks summer recess today, prepared to return to a sulJry capital to speed action on legislation setting up the guideposts for * reconversion of America’s “arsenal of democracy” to a peacetime economy, Senator. Arthur H. Vandenberg (R. Mich) was first to sound the call to action with an annouricement that the Republican steering Soutnitiee would meet next Tues.
bio he Yesterday, in rgsponse to a: telegraphed request from. War Mobil
national political conventions. Van-
groups. Senator Harley M. Kilgore (D. "W. Va) issued a statement last night endorsing moves for fast action and declaring that his bill to set up a federal office of war mobilization and adjustment to coordinate war production as well as _demobilization would give impetus to the war effort by solving local manpower and materials shortages. The bill by Senators James M. Murray (D. Mont) and Walter G. George (D. Ga.) would set up a federal office of war mobilisation and post-war adjustment but with far less concentration of power in the federal government, Before congress recessed it completed gction on one major phase of the conversion problem—a bill providing for prompt payment of war contractors so that they will have funds to settle outstanding bills and start producing civilian goods such as washing machines, gefrigerators and similar items,
| DEWEY AT FARM
PAWLING, N. Y., July 29 (U. P.). w=Covernor Thomas E. Dewey, Republican presidential nominee, arrived at his farm today for a brief rest preliminary to a trip to the St. Louis Republican governor's conference. ‘
MIKOLAJCZYK IN IRAN
TEHERAN, July 29 (U. P)— Polish Premier Stanislaw lajezyk arrived here today from Cairo en route to Moscow where he plans to confer with Soviet officials on a government for liberated Poland.
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An arm in a sling brings a long face to Shirley Miles, 1011 Windsor st., as she watches her friends play.
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Broken Arm's No Fun, - But Shirley Still Can. Dance.
By VICTOR PETERSON A SUMMER OF FUN for 10-year-old Shirley Miles is over. She was sitting on the porch step at 1011 Windsor st. with a woe-begone look on her face when we drove up today. Her left arm was in a heavy cast, her
2 = During the heavy rain of Thursday night, Shirley was coming home from a moving picture. Running to shelter, she slipped and fell. Her ‘left arm was broken just above the wrist. “I don't see why it couldn’t have happened during the school term,” she said. “Now the rest of the summer is ruined. “But then it can be kind of fun, too, Everybody comes around to see how you are, You get a Jot of attention. * “I had some fun, even if It did hurt. Somebody ealled the police to help me and then one of those red city ambulances came up with the siren going and off I went to the hospital.” But Shirley, whose parents are Mr. and Mrs. Tony Miles, is going to have more fun. At least feet are intact and that her happy, for she has been taking tap dancing lessons since she was 3. . ” » “I guess I'll just have to dance all the more now to keep me from getting lonesome when the other kids are playing. And it surely is. an awful way to start being 10 years old, My birthday was last Monday.” _For a 10-year-old she is quite ‘philosophic. .- She said, “Well, maybe I've got all the bad luck back of me now.”
TRANSFER SHERWOOD
Transfer of Maj. Elmer: (Dod) Sherwood from his public relations post at Ft. Harrison to headquarters,
Island, N. Y., was announced today. Maj. Sherwood is on leave until
from his present position.
Miko- | tinuously since the Japanese raid on Pearl Harbor, except for a three-| week assignment Fecently at Ft.
Knox, Ky.
LONDON, July 29 (U. P.) ~The German ‘Transocean news agency reported today that Nazi Ambas-
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Aug. 3, when he will report to his new assignment, He will be chief of public relations, an advancement
He has been at Ft. Harrison con-
NAZI-TURK PARLEY SEEN
COLEMAN FREED
Former State Museum Chief, Sought as Military Aid, Leaves Joliet.
JOLIET, Tl. July 29 (U. P)—
Ftime of his conviction of murder for killing his wife, was released ‘from Stateville prison Thurs day after serving 21 years of a life sentence. Coleman, whose release authorities tried to obtain when the Japs attacked Pearl Harbor, was sentenced on May 21, 1823, after a White county, Hl, jury found him guilty of murdering his wife, Libby. A nationally known taxidermist
The request for his freedom was refused, however, and Coleman continued his life as a model prisoner on a prison honor farm.
the Methodist church? why, he answered:
dermist, he is now ready for a job.
WALLACE FORGIVES
In His Defeat.
of the voting.
SOUTH'S DELEGATES
Asserts Wall Street Aided
DES MOINES, Ia., July 29 (U. PJ). —Vice President Henry A. Wallace today exonerated the South as a whole for ‘his failure to win renomination at the Democratic na-
tional eonvention at Chicago last week, but inferred that he blamed “Wall Street financed southern reactionary leaders” for the outeome
“There are certain reactionary leaders in the South™ he said, “but these men are usually financed -directly or indirectly from the North. “More and more an intelligent, constructive liberal leadership will arise in the South which will not owe anything directly or indirectly to Wall Street or to outworn preju-
MUKDEN AREA STEEL PLANTS LEFT IN RUNS
{Chinas + Plight Ezzott Blow at Cradle of
World War Il.
By WALTER RUNDLE United Press Staff Correspondent
U. S. B-29 BASE, Western China, July 29.—A big force of American B-29 Superfortresses smashed by daylight today at the great Japanese steel center of Anshan, 55 miles southwest of Mukden in Manchuria, and left it blotched with blackened ruins, the rebuilding of which officials estimated would take a full year. Thundering out into a brilliant dawn after a thunderstorm, the Superfortress fleet sent a diversionary formation to pound the Chengsien railway yard, a bottleneck on the Peiping-Hankow line which the Japanese weré rebuilding. The weather favored the maximum success of the massed Superfortresses which in over their targets and their great weight of bombs from high altitude in the first air strike of the war at Manchuria and the first daylight attack by the B-20%. - at Anshan Is Key Center
Significantly, a keystone in the production arm of the Japanese war machine was selected as the primary target for the Superfortresses in their third major raid from China, Anshan is the key geal in the intermeshing Japanese heavy industries. The mills there are the second largest empire producer of pigiron and third largest producer of rolled steel and steel ingots. It also is one of the most important centers of chemical by-products vital to the manufacture of munitions, including sizable percentages of the total empire output of benzine, toluene, phenol, and synthetic oils. The city of 200,000 on the main Darien-Port Arthur railway is in the heart of an area embracing much of Japan's heavy war industry. It was well beyond American bomber range until the Superfortresses began roaming over the “co-prosperity sphere,” the whole of which now is within their reach.
Behemoths Off at Dawn A ved dawn wad’ flowering over
they broke radio silence to code word revealing that were away and they on their long run home. a was “Mary,” which told ir waiting comrades that the first United States army air force raid on Manchuria was accomplished. It was chosen by Col. Roy Lynn of Holton, Kas, communications officer of the 20th bomber
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lives at Detroit.
NATIONAL NOMINEES
WASHINGTON, July 29 (U, P.).— Special passenger trains for campaign purposes will be provided to any duly nominated presidential and vice presidential candidate, the office of defense transportation said today. - The order, effective from torhorrow through Nov. 10, was issued under a special permit authorizing use of extra sections, cars, regularly scheduled passenger trains, or special trains to nominees for
dices.”
either of those two offices.
\Tips fo Japs Found in Letter About Dolls; |- ‘Innocent’ Words Carry U. S. Naval Secrets
i NEW YORK, July 29 (U. P= guilty to the lesser charge of vio- Miss Wallace, who received the let ve». 9| Fred Perkins , 6/U. S. Dist. Atty. James B. M. Mo-|lating the “censorship law yester-|ter in June, 1942, said she knew “sess 6] Ernie Pyle ero na ete eee tiie
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filed today by the war department.
stroyed in the air surpassed that of fighting. in the European theater.
[brief ‘war departuitntstated that Col, Gabreski had been missing sincé July 20—the same day that he destroyed his 31st plane —on the ground—during an attack on a German airfield. .“The news cut short plans for a community celebration which had been planned for Col. Gabreski upon his scheduled return home early in August,
Got Last Letter July 17th
The family received its last. letter from the flying ace on July 17. It was written July 11. In it, Col. Gabreski wrote that he had been “taking it easy” and that he planned to leave for home early in August.
At the time he destroyed his 31st plane, his sister, Lottie, expressed surprise that he had been flying. She said she understood that after he shot down his 28th plane he was not to take the air again. “I can't talk about it,” Lottie said today. “We have just received word.” : Col. Gabreski* 25, the son of Josephine and Stanley Gabryszewski, who operate a grocery store here, was to have married Miss Catherine Cochran of Grand Rapids, Mich.,
Miss Cocharan in Hawaii three years ago. Mayor J. G. Payne, who had as-
| Ace Gabreski Missing in
after his arrival home. He met
Action
Lt. Col. Francis Gabreski (right) is congratulated by Maj. Sylvester Burke 4 the wp. U %; aes steps fiom His Sgusar giane ot, long Br Tg] ing in action.
Ex-Student af Notre Dome Lost After Bagging 31st Craft OIL CITY, Pa, July 2 (U. P.).—Lt. nation’s leading fighter pilot, is missing in action, his family was noti-
Col. Francis Gabreski, the
Col. Gabreski, a former Notre Dame student, whose 28 planes de-
any other American flier, had been
He also has destroyed three planes
Merseburg Raid Follows Stuttgart Attack.
LONDON, July 29 (U. P)— Nearly 2000 American bombers and fighters struck a powerful blow today at the big Leuna synthetic oil refinery of Merseburg—the principal source of Germany's dwindling fuel reserves — following a 1000-plane night raid by the R. A. F. on the port of Hamburg and industrial Stuttgart. About 1100 Fortresses and Liberators, escorted by 750 fighters, also pounded other oil targets in the vicinity of Bremen. It was the second consecutive day of air assault for Merseburg and the fourth raid in a week on Stuttgart. Sixty-two planes were reported missing from last night's operations, the air ministry announced today. Stuttgart, reported by neutral sources to have been gutted by the series of raids, was the target for major attacks on Monday and
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WASHINGTON
A Weekly Sizeup by the Staff of the Scripps-Howard
peace feelers after Germany
Tuesday.
Washington * Newspapers all
WASHINGTON, July 29.—Look for strong Japanese
is defeated, officials familiar
with the Pacific situation predict.
tanks and - cavalry Teached
{Warsaw and’ were storming
{spokesman that the German army
YANKS WIN NORMAN TANK DUEL OMB MANCHURIAN CITY: RUSS STORM WARSAW DEFENSES
German Stand in Polish Capital Unlikely.
By HENRY SHAPIRO United Press Staff Correspondent
MOSCOW, July 29.—Soviet the southeastern eutskirtd of
the defenses. of the, Polish capital today after a 25-mile dash up the east bank of the Vistula river. (A London "Daily Express dispatch from Stockholm quoted a German
“will make no stand east of Warsaw.” . Pront reports said German resistance southeast of Warsaw had evaporated as never before on the eastern front as Marshal Konstantin K. Rokossovsky hurled his powerful 1st White Russian army against the capital on a 20-mile arc curving from the east bank of the Vistula to the northeast. While one column speared ugh to the southeastern outskirts, another drove to within a few miles of the Minsk Maz railway station, I8 miles east of Warsaw on the railway from Siedlce. Rokossovsky appeared to be concentrating the entire strength of his assault on Warsaw along the east bank of the Vistula and reports
LONDON, July 29 (U. P.)— The German high command claimed today that Russian troops had been dislodged from Jelgava, Latvian stronghold only 22 miles from Riga, in the first indication that the Russian army had advanced so far in the drive to the Baltic which would trap all the Nazis in upper Latvia and Estonia.
published abroad that his forces had crossed the river in amphibious trucks have proved without foundation. His immediate objective presumably was the east bank suburb of Praga, controlling all railways running into Warsaw from the east. Two bridges span the Vistula from Praga to Warsaw proper on the west bank. The fall of the by-passed stronghold of Brest Litovsk, 115 miles east of Warsaw, to elements of Rokossovsky's ‘army yesterday released huge additional forces for the assault on the capital and its early capture was anticipated.
Siedice’s Fall Seen Near
The 1st army was expected to capture Siedlce, half way between Brest Ditovsk and Warsaw, almost momentarily. Soviet troops already were fighting in the streets of the city and the railway running west to Warsaw was cut yesterday at Ceglow, 21 miles to the west. The Russian push across southern Poland toward Krakow and German Silesia also was gathering momentum following the capture yesterday of the twin strongholds of Przemysl and Jaroslaw on the San river. - Marshal Ivan Konev's army also advanced to within 13 miles of the Czechoslovak frontier on a 20-mile
Hoosier Heroes—
MEYER AND HOYT
Americans Reach
TERS, A. E. F, July 20.— _ ‘American. armor defeated $e” Germans in a big tank battle
long battle of U. S. Shermans and
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W. Coast North Of Coutances. By VIRGIL PINKLEY
United Press Staff Correspondent
-SUPREME HEADQUAR-
in western Normandy teday
and resumed the powerful drive which had captured - Cous tances and carried to the sea, trapping thousands of Nazi troops in a pocket to the north. The first major German counter action against the 1st army offens= ive fanning out through Normandy was crushed decisively in an heurse
By UNITED PRESS
The shortest distances to Berlin from advanced allied lines today: Russia~—340 miles. Italy—600 miles. France—623 miles.
German Tigers and Panthers some 11 ‘miles south of St. Lo near-the east bank of the Vire river in the vicinity of Tessy-sur-Vire. Other American forces sped down the highway below Coutances, roll ing up a gain of nearly eight miles in the first few hours and approach= ing the Brehal road junction.
Capture St. Malo de la Lande
. Normandy information at supreme headquarters’ late today was dated by front reports of the ? tank battle and American advances beyond the points bentioned by ® spokesman here. The spokesman said the Ameri= cans captured St. Lo de la Lande, 31; miles northwest of Coutances, and reached the coast in that area, They reached the area of Lene gronne, 2% miles west of St. Denns= le-Gast, and southeast of St. Lo advanced a mile in the area of St Jean des Baisants. United Press Correspondent Henry T. Gorrell reported from the front -that U. S. armor, in its first big tank engagement since the Sicilian campaign, broke up & con= centration of Nazi Panzers and put the remnants to flight. After German planes plastered the entire area of the tank battle, a German armored column struck in the darkness at 3 a. m. in an attempt to break up a parade of Shermans southward into the heart of Normandy.
Panzers Retreating
After hours of savage fighting, the Panzers pulled out, and when Gorrell filed the dispatch at 2:40 p. m., were retreating under a hail of bombs dropped by U. S. planes as the interrupted sweep picked up new momentum. The setting for the tank battle was dramatic. A large number of Germans were trying to escape from the area north of the Tessy-Brehal highway, and their chances des pended on the battle. “No doubt there will be plenty of disillusioned Germans among those captured in the next few hours,” Gorrell said. : The famous Norman hedges upon which the Germans had relied to hold back the U. S. armor boom= eranged on the Nazis. This time it was the giant Tigers and Pane thers, instead of the me forces, that were at a disadvane tage, “for it is the attacking side that holds the short end of the stick in this kind of country,” Gor
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The Japs, they think, will promise to be good, withdraw from conquered territories, including China and the Philippines, to their own islands. leave Jap civilians, as the nucleus for future conquests, on various Pacific islands.)
Peace overtures will be rejected. Program calls for taking the fight right into Tokyo.
(Hoping, however, to
NAVY GUESSING puts interval between German and Japanese defeats at about 18 months. Some army men think it will be shorter. Officials differ even more sharply about effect on domestic economy by quick collapse of Germany, but best heads think this would be
KILLED IN ACTION
Sturgis Held By Germans; Four Wounded.
ACTION on the various battlefronts has added seven more Indianapolis men to the rising casualty lists, with two killed, four wounded and one a prisoner. KILLED Pfc. Paul A. Meyer, 33 Caven st. in New Guinea. T. Sgt Richard G. (Jerry) Hoyt} 484 Doerre ave. over England.
(July 29, 1944) i PACIFIC—B-20 Superfortresses ruff Manchurian steel center.
FRANCE—Americans win tank battle.
RUSSIA — Soviets reach so outskirts of ‘Warsaw. .
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WOUNDED Capt. Edward F. H. Bauer, 1147 Harlan st, in the South Pacific. Pharmacist’'s Mate 2-¢. Jack Mason, 52 N. 15th ave, Beech Grove, on Saipan. Pvt. Robert Sagan, § 110 N. White
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