Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 August 1944 — Page 4

Congress Ends Recess, but Faces Reconversion Delay

Congress officially ended its summer recess at noon today, but faced at

least a temporary delay in the job of passing reconvefsion legislation | in preparation for possible collapse | of Germany. Despite the prodding of War Mobilization Director James F.| Byrnes and both Democratic and | Republican leaders, attendance at the opening session was sparse In both sehate and house chambers. Ten minutes after Vice President | Henry A. Wallace called the senate to order, only 32 members were spresent—14 Republicans and 18] Democrats. In the house, 45 members—26 Republicans and 19 Democrats—were on the floor when, Speaker. Sam Rayburn rapped his | gavel, He said the house expenditures

WASHINGTON, Aug. 1 (U. B).—,

A conference of senate Republic- } ans stressed the urgency of the | demobilization problem this mornling. ‘Senator Arthur H. Vandeni perg (R. Mich.), conference chairman, said the group agreed unanimously that the senate should com- | plete reconversion legislation at the | earliest possible moment and that the senate military affairs committee “should proceed immediately ito this task.” Senate Democratic Leader Alben W. Barkley of Kentucky joined with {Military Affairs Committee Chairman Robert R. Reynolds (D. N. C) lin an urgent telegram calling com{mittee members back to Washing-| ton for a meeting Thursday morn-| ing. Despite the urgent pleas of leader s, however, there was little pros- | pect that there would be a quorum|

functory session: today, then recess until Thursday or Friday noon and continue three-day recesses until the military affairs committee has submitted something for floor debate. A similar schedule is in prospect in the house until the senate completes action. Barkley and Vandenberg stressed in separate press conferences that surplus property disposal and unemployment compensation for demobilized war workers comprise the only “must” program now confront ing congress. Many members had hoped, when they quit for the political conven- | tions last June, that their recess would be extended until after La{bor day, but Barkley dashed such | prospects when he declared: “I think 1t is our duty to look after the war situation and do

committee expected to begin work in either the senate or house at/what we can for the post-war pe-

next Monday on a proposed measure |

dealing with the disposal of surplus |

war property.

any time this week.

It was expected that the senate {would ‘meet for only a ‘brief, _per-

{riod. Recesses and political campaigns are a secondary considera- | tion.”

Barkley said he believed that the senate committee would be disposed to act quickly on either the Kilgore

bill or the Murray-George bill, both of which deal with the unemployment compensation question. The Kilgore bill, setting up federal standards for unemployment compensation ranging up to $35 a week, also stipulates that purchasers of surplus war plants must guarantee to keep them in substantial operation for at least two years. The Railway Labor Executives’ association last night indorsed the Kilgore bill in telegrams to congressional leaders urging that congress stay in session until the matter is disposed of. The Murray-George bill, which would extend unemployment compensation coverage to a greater number of workers but leave payments and length of availability to the individua] states, contains noth-~ ing about surplus property disposal in its latest form.

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GERMANS FEAR

Report Nazi Troops Moved Closer to Own Soil as

Unrest Grows.

LONDON, Aug. 1 (U. P)— Rgundabout reports from the continent said today that the German high command has ordered a .general withdrawal of troops and equipment from all but their most essential defense positions in southwestern France in order to bolster the Norman front and forestall -a possible uprising inside Germany. _ Remove Many Weapons Unconfirmed dispatches reaching {Spain . from Joccupled France said | Nazi concern over their own internal situation and the plight of their armies in the East and West had become increasingly evident since the July 20 attack on Adolf

Hitler, The first visible result of the shift in Nazi policy was said to have been a reduction in German troop strength along the west coast of France and in the Pyrenees. One German division was reported to have been shifted to Normandy even before the attempt on Hitler's |life, and the French reports said 'other Nazi garrisons in the southwest of France were being withjgrawn rapidly.

Watch for Revolt

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LONDON, Aug. 1 (U, P).—High allied medical authorities believe, on the.basis of details made available by the French underground, that Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, field commander of the German armies in Normandy, is either dead or permanently erippled as the result of wounds received when his car was strafed by an allied plane July 17. French sources have - forwarded the following account of the incident: An allied plane caught Rommel’s convoy south of Villers-Bocage and before the Nazi general could leap out, machinegun bullets wounded Pim at the base of the skull, fracturing his skull and breaking his jaw. Another bullet pierced one eve arid three struck his chest, one piercing a lung.

Taken to Hospital

Rommel was taken to a German field hospital at Bernay and was on the operating table for several hours. The underground has been unable to locate him since the operation. Medical authorities said survival after such wound is practically impossible. If by some miracle the leathery Rommel should pull through, he would be crippled for life and militarily useless, they said. Allied medical sources said they were inclined to believe the underground version of Rommel’s wounds and believed the information was becoming so well known the Germans would make an official ads mission soon.

|Allied Chiefs Think Rommel

ously Crippled

Marshal Erwin Rommel

Dwight D. Eisenhower's headquarters, said last night in a pooled broadcast that the elevation of one

Heinrich Eberbach, a fanatical Nazi, to full general is “doubly interesting and significant at this time.” (In recent weeks, Mueller said, he has been on the Normandy front. Lately Rommel’s 7th army orders have been issued through Eberbach —signed “Rommel per Eberbach.”) The German Transocean news agency yesterday reported that a telephone call to Rommel's headquarters elicited the information that he was shaving. Transocean

*(N. B. C. Correspondent Merrill | Mueller, who is attached to Gen.

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and west of France was reported to

for troop movements. Meanwhile, the French general]

evidently implied that his scrape was not as serious as allied reports indicated.

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All, non-military railroad traffic|the French people was mounting to ‘ping the countryside of food in pre-| from the Paris region to the south major proportions. A communique

said French patriots derailed 180

It was sbelieved that the bulk of have been suspended on July 28,| German troop trains behind the! the troops were being moved closer | apparently to keep the lines clear| Norman front between June 6 and! | July 26, and that 2000 Germans had

been killed in the Garonne region. '

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Ameriva. Seen as Leader in. Sea and Air Power;

Soviet on Land.

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on " Guam mar troops had cut cf the island and wer: the northern half nese defenders w have withdrawn. Marines on Tini ling nine-tenths of compressed remnar nese into a small southern tip. Diff impeding the final

JOHN M. PF TO BE ON

Services for Joh Woodside ave, whe stack last night i downtown theater, p. m. Thursday Place Baptist chun Born at Seymou! lived here for 30 ye in the business of nois Central railro A member of the Railway Clerks, 1} Woodside Place Ba was 65. Survivors besides beth, are two son Indianapolis “and Muncie; a daughte Shoemaker of Indis er, Edward, of Sey grandchildren.

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man civilians, lea troops and gestap city. Polish troops wi by side with the suburbs of Warsav bank of the Visti said the civilians liberators with fi landing the giant in through the C Soviet front dis fierce and bloody suburbs, with sol fended house by army _ artillery a taking the .leadir break-through to cavalary slashed flanks and choppe Nazi units.

Pushing Tow

“We are pushing because it is very get to Berlin quic why we shall be t 8 Moscow broadca: Polish undergro the exiled govern calm has been rest man ranks inside several days. of panic.” They sai ground, soldiers: Ww contact with the the district of 1 southwest of Wars: The Germans w the underground many valuable pi furniture to Berlir palace of Lazienk

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