Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 July 1944 — Page 2

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HINT ROMMEL “DEATH IN aD |

Probe Tends to Strengthen &- | Report He May Have Died in Strafing. | t

CANISY. France, July 31 (U. P).| —An unofficial investigation. con- | ducted among French civilians and | f captured German soldiers today | tended to strengthen reports that Nazi Field Marshal Erwin Rommel ‘was seriously wounded by a bomb} or gunfire from a strafing allied fe plane more than a week ago and | may have died of his wounds. } All available evidence compiled

in this recently German-held sec- Z 7 Nel tion of Normandy points to the A (ENT etby probability that Rommel was | A \.Marieaburg = wounded and perhaps killed on| / \

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July 19 or 20 when an allied flier, | unaware of his price target, swooped | | down on the German commander's | | car near Lisieux and sprayed it! with high explosives and cannon | fire. Reports spread among Frenzh civilians by Germans said Rommel |

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With Warsaw under assault from a battle line six and a quarter miles away, Russian armies are driving across East Prussia, and have cut the German escape route from Latvia and Estonia at Jalgava. Another Soviet army is on the move from the north, and the Nazis have admitted the loss of Kaunas.

hospital in Bernay. Refuse io Deny Story

(The reports that Rommel had at least been injured were supported | v Unit ress dispatches Irom by United Press dispa om ys os sa. Stockholm which said German nk ir rv1i . i to . spokesman in Berlin, refusing t . deny the story, told Swedish news-| uss / oa rom arsaw, men only that it had not been con- 4

* firmed, Another: dispatch from . Madrid “said Germén military ' Nazis Say Kaunas Captured sources {here believed Rommel had : : .

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WASHINGTON, July#31 (U. P). ~Rep. Robert L. F. Sikes (D. Fla) predicted today the Germans soon will treble the range of their robot bombs and thus continue to bomb England from the interior of Europe even after they are.driven from the channel coast. C Sikes, a house military affairs committee member who has conducted a one-man investigation of the ng bombs, said the fact that the es now in use have an estimated top range of 150 miles does not mean that the menace will be removed when the Germans are driven that” distance away from British soil. “As the allles push the Germans back on the western front the Nazis will move their robot bomb equipment closer to Germany and within a matter of weeks they -will be able to reach England from three times the distance they are now covering,” he said. It will be hard to stop the pilotless plane bombs he explained, because “installations are small, built of thick concrete and widely scattered.” “They present a very small target

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(Continued From*Page Ome) too ruthless and too desperate to leave anything undone that might prolong their power and their lives. So unless. we bring all possible pressure to bear on Germany from without, her fall may be staved off indefinitely. oy : In fact, this postponement of the inevitable,” many believe, has now become the Nazi game. : Nothing, therefore, will be too uncivilized for them fo try if they stand to gain a little time in which to hope for the breaks, ~ That is one of the reasons behind the robot bomb. Hitler knows it can have no apprecia military effect, but if it gains him a few extra weeks, or a few extra days, maybe’ “something will turn up” in his favor. I found. German prisoners in France who believed the robots would quickly win the war, They believed half of England was a shambles. They were correspondingly sullen when, on their way io internment in the united kingdom, they saw how bodly they had been fooled. ’

and one which is hard to hit from the air,” he added.

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vei “the incident SON Mr som aniaue to quote a g were second-hund and allied offi-|military commentator as saying that cial sources had no definite con-|the German “strategical retreat is firmation. but Frenchmen who were in the last phase of the defensive in this section during the enemy conduct of the war in the East. occupation said the Germans them- | After that the offensive conduct of selves seemed convinced the erst- ‘the war will begin.”

while Desert Fox was dead. | News Belies Statement

Eugene Morel, a gendarme in| ; Canisy, said the report of Rom-| From neither Berlin nor Moscow, mel's death was started here bY | however, came any sign that the German soldiers about 10 days ago, ! - oo and his commander, Brig. Gen. Ives decimated German army of the Jean, offered similar testimony. |eastern front was in any shape to A careful investigation failed to|undertake a stand against the Rusproduce any trace of the French sian forces sweeping westward. nurse. who was supposed to have Far to the northeast all the Gercared for Rommel just before his! ans in upper Latvia’ and Estonia Gesth and Mons, Lejune, the Mayor| were threatened with imminent enof Canisy, said he had no knowl- |, 5 pment by the Soviet drive within {army completed the liquidation of edge of Rommel having been treat- |g u;no gistance of the Baltic. an encircled enemy pocket just west od i 3 Seren military hospital Jelgava already was by-passed, of Brest Litovsk.

Rommel has been conspicuously | absent from all Gérman propaganda |

for more than a week, Turk-Nazi Break Expected ¢ eo

miles from the Gulf of Riga. . ‘Crashed’ Niemen Line

Soviet front dispatches described the opening of Cherniakhovsky's new offensive against East Prussia as having crashed the Niemen line, and quoted German prisoners as calling it the “line of catastrophe.” At the southern end of the front, Marshal Ivan S. Konev's 1st Ukrainian army . extended its control of the Carpathian foothills on a 45-mile front and captured MizunStary, 32 miles west of Stanislawow, astride a highway through the Wyszkow passe Rokossovsky’s 1st White Russian

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LONDON, July 31 (U. P.)--The German Transocean -news agency said today that a German high ! command official, asked by tele- waters, indicated Turkey was ready phone about the health of Field! lor any =raergency. i

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Marshal Erin Rommel, replied: cision was expected to be revealed| Tye purported Turkish decision to “He is shaving.” [to editors of Turkish newspapers preak with Germany and possibly | “This reply speaks for itself,” at an urgent meeting called at An-|grant air and naval bases to the! Transocean added. (kara for today, but presumably will a)lies was believed motivated Ly a eee {not be announced until after the | desire for a voice at the peace table, grand national assembly meets | particularly in any discussion of Wednesday. / | Balkan affairs. |

PRO-ALLIED CAPTIVES

SEGREGATED IN U. S.' Von Papen has warned German| ————————no | WASHINGTON, ly 31 P) pared and visitors to be rre-| SOLDIERS IN ITALY

Ta § pared to. leave Turkey on short i e war department today denied notice and some already have left.! reports that it is “coddling” German German diplomats at ones ACCUSED OF OUTRAGE or Italian-fascist prisoners, but said| Adana and elsewhere in Turkey | VATICAN CITY, July 31 (U.P).!

it has assigned some pro-allied were reported to have left their —The official Vatican newspaper, Italians into special volunteer units

3 | i which have removed a heavy oad | = and entrained for Ankara. | Osservatore Romano, said today, from the army service forces. ~ Reconciled to Break {that allied authorities had done The volunteers, the department| Berlin broadcasts and newspaper | nothing toward identifying French said, are screened carefully to dispatches implied that Germany | Africah soldiers alleged to have eliminate all pro-Nazi or pro-Fascist | was reconciled that a break was | thrown five women and a child from! elements. Those who pass are put!imminent, s . la moving train between Rome and to work in 60 army stations through- | Turkey's current “passive de- | Cassino last week. i out the country handling equipment! fense” exercises. including the re-! Two women and the child were and salvage and repairing and pro- | turn of the Turkish fleet to its home killed, the paper said, and three cessing army vehicles, ! - en - women seriously injured. The newspaper said the women wer? walking to Cassino when they saw the troop train at Ciampino and

ORDER LIMITS PRICE ON CUP OF COFFEE PLEA OF KIDNAPER asked for a ride. After the train CINCINNATI, O,, July 31 (U. p,), started moving, the women were

WASHINGTON, July 31 (U. P).—| _The sixth U. S. court of appeals asked to prostitute themselves, and The five-cent cup .of coffee, which 'today upheld a death sentence four who refused and the child has almost become a defunct in-|against Thomas Henry Robinson | Were thrown from a window. The stitution in many communities un-!Jr, ‘36-year-old former University fifth was thrown off later. der the stress of war, will be re-lof Vanderbilt student, for the 1943| The Osservaiore is the only newsvived today In many restaurants kidnaping of Mrs. Alice Speed Stoll, Paper in liberated Italy not under throughout the country. |Louisville, Ky. society woman, allied censorship. Under a new office of price ad-| Robinson was convicted by a fed- | — munistration regulation, effective eral court jury at Louisville, Dec.| WAR PRISONERS EMPLOYED oday, no restaurant or eati - i i tablishment may charge ore han ber Nido Sng act Thich ree CACO, Tay 31 1. Ap nickel for a cup of coffee, inciud- et tr go “ re Hen recom proximately 10,000 German prisoners mg cream and sugar, unless it was penalty 1 sullen the death Of mar pi i on iehigan charging more during the week of | Judge Shackelford ler |Tllinois and Wisconsin processing October 4.10. 1342. Ra mefore | tomy Rona elfor Muller sen- food and fruit crops, sixth service! coffee rationing wes ony I inson to death, but his command headquarters announced 3 ered. lappeal stayed the execution date.!today. - |

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Like Whipped Dogs to Surrender in France

By HENRY T. GORRELL ULuited Press Staff Correspondent | WITH U. 8. TANKS NORTH OF GAVRAY, July 30 (Delayed) —Hitler's professional killers, | the dread elite S. 8, who bullied the occupied countries and directed the extermination of thousands of | Jews, eracked up today | The commanding general of : They acted like they say all killers, United States armoied division, !

COURT DENIES LIFE

jin and out of the Norman hedge- to await instructions from the over- | rows. |worked M. P’s. . It was at Notre Dame le Cemity With Robert J. Casey of the Chi-| that I first heard of the astound- cago Daily News, Jack Thompson of ing turn of affairs-—the surrender in the Chicago Tribune and Harold. large numbers of remnants of Ger-' Austin of the Sydney Morning! many’s most. famous division, the Herald, I walked about a mile east 2d 8. S. division Das Reich, {to inspect the still smouldering equipment. | I Captured 17 Nazis !

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Follows in Jeep

46 by turning vellow when (he odds FACING toward the front in a jeep. soldiers walking in our direction turned a st them. 1 @w the Waved to me’ and shouted: |e ea a white flag. Thompson one-time “tough boys” cringing and “Come on. There's a good ‘story Co led to them Walt” and they surrendering by the hundreds. |ahead. The tough boys of the SS ee raised their pends. ! rain Solon are tossing in the sponge.” Povwbaid Oey defense, In France they "were supposed to pong |Meanwhile six French women

have kept the Poles and the Geor-| We followed the general in a jeep, glans fighting for the Nazis by toward Roncey where Americans Se i ae ying the holding pistols at their backs, They Were eported to have wiped may have been tough once but the more than 500 wheeled Gérman ve- A American bombers and fighters and | icles. J, | ove told the Germans to follow tanks took the fight out of them. The road was clogged with Amer- the French into Roncey where they \ican tanks, tank destroyers and WOuld find a prisoner-of-war cage| -. +half-tracks rushing in every direc- 8d. Walked on. another quarter of _ There is no adequate term to de- 10D. There were bodies of many, 3 mile. | “scribe the pathetic performance of| Germans in the ditches, most of Along the line of burned out Ger-| the members of the Nazi murder them killed within the last 16 hours, 8% vehizies caught in the U. s.| SE “ |artillery and aerial barrage were! ubs, “Whipped puppy dogs’ s Yoo, : rials Voluntarily {small youngsters playing age Gore ; Cy { n Roncey which was still burn- man gas masks and’ renades, — ry ii nih ey Had = |ing from bombing and shelling, I/shooed them away. x we) f : aruilery, witnessed a fantastic sight—Ger-| Inside a stone shack alongside the | much. of which I saw as miles long mans were coming into the town column of wrecked tanks ‘and 4 masses of burning, twistel steel square in large unescorted groupe. | We saw an old-fashioned Oe Sloss She narrow dirt road$ north! French civilians Jeered at their for- | horse-drawn Jearse, It was a on Ln : {mer masters and tossed flowers to charred but coul i - But if they had any fight left in passing doughboys. : > This old re ren aad The 8. 8. men did not ask qies- in use before the fist w

Pathetic Performance

: Fo first world war, | / could have kept the American in- tions. The simply walked into an had outlasted best, i . BF a | . pl) . the : og | , fauy | busy for days stalking them ericlosure in front of the own hajl steel “blitz” machines, #1 Hitiery)

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In time, of course, all this will prove a boomerang and . Hitler

knows it. But hefore the fatal awakening, Fe hopes “something” will happen.

Hitler foursome may even try to turn .the allied victories in France

and Russia to account, Lo If the worst comes, they may draw a last-ditch line somewhese in the east and hold it against the Russian army while Anglo-Amer-ican forces advance on Berlin from the west. . Or they may weaken the Russian front in order to hold back the British and Americans. In either case it would mean the

ble [early occupation of Germany, but

it would be only temporary, Hitler and his gang might hope, if they could use it ag a ruse to split the allies and throw all Europe into chaos, In. the confusion, the Nazi criminals might escape. That is what is meant by “muffing the victory” now virtually in the bag. An early and conclusive peace seems certain only if (1) the allies put everything they've got into their 1944 punch and (2) the Big Three pull together politically as well as militarily as the end draws near.

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Times Special “MONTICELLO, July 31.—G. O. P. Senatorial Nomiftee Homer E. Capehart today decried the use of public information channels “by New Deal satellites of official reports to the nation for political purposes.” : “Whenever Franklin D, Roosevelt speaks from now om, he speaks as Candidate Roosevelt and not as president nor commander-in-chief,” Mr. Capehart told Republicans gatt at Sportsmen's hotel for a second district organization meeting, “The people of America will accept his every ‘utterance whether i is a report to the nation on governmental or war affairs as the statements of & candidate for his office. “Should Secretary of State Cordell Hull decide suddenly that the American people are sufficiently matured that they can be told what commitments were made at Moscow, his remarks will be taken as furthering the candidacy of P.D.R" ; Mr. Capehart. said that any release of metals to manufacturers by the war production board or any relaxation of rationing before election time should be regarded strictly as political moves. He said that Governor Dewey and Governor Bricker would “halt this

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RAID ENJOINER CASE

SET: FOR TOMORROW.

Safety Board Counsel Henry Krug said today that Judge Harold G. Barger of Shelby circuit court will sit as special judge in the Marion superior court 2 hearing tomorrow

on a permanent raid injunction

sought by the 400 club, 842 8. Meridian st. ® : Ernest R. Stewart has refused to serve; as special judge in am ine Junction suit involving the Klectrical Machine and Radio .Workers Social club, 45 Virginia ave, he said. x : In the cases the city alleges that gambling is flourishing under protection of temporary restraining orders and injunctions. .

SEEK $40,000 FOR HOME

The appropriation of $40,000 with which to renovate the juvenile detention home, 25th st. and Keystone ave,, will be requested gt next Monday's county council sess by the county commissioners, Come Iuissloncr Ray D. Mendenhall said ay.

type of government” and that if Hlected he would help them “halt Other speakers were Gubernatorial Nominee Ralph Gates and

State Chairman John Lauer.

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