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Armed Neighbors Fight Prowler in New Incident
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3 “Marsh. “4906 Youig ave. points down the vacant lof where the prowler fled after she shot at him last night. Believed by neighbors to be the same man, he has been returning almost nightly for four weeks,
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CONFIDENT IN WAR REVIEW
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~.By JOSEPH W. GRIGG United Press Staff Correspondent
LONDON, Aug. 2.—Prime
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Seaman 2-¢ Herbert C. Marsh
Daniel and Patricia Marsh . . . their mother has fears of their safety.
Minister Winston Churchill told commons today that allied victory in Europe “may perhaps come soon” and revealed that German flying bombs had killed 4735 persons, and caused the evacuation of 1,000,000 persons from London, and might be followed by long range rockets carirying heavier explosive charges. In perhaps his most confident and optimistic speech, Churchill” took a "sweeping glance at a .world war | approaching its closing phase.” and expressed a firm conviction before feommons that the defeat of Japan ‘will not be long delayed after Ger-
+ + » his country's call left his wife Aud twa shildres vaproteeted.
EAST SIDERS BAND FORGES:
Federal or State Ballot Issue Raised in Senate Race = mes td seen sunched wo
By EARL RICHERT
“The hot political question of whether the names of the candidates would be the target of the new for United States senator should be placed on ‘the federal or state|wespon. and advised evacuation
Woman Fires at Lurking: james Emmert by the state election board. . ¢ David M. Lewis, Indianapolis attorney and Democratic member of Figure; Floodlights the election board, Jwho asked the opinion of Mr. Emmert, said that the election board, which is
Cc Area. Democra: | Cover [Br sme per an DEWEY, GOVERNORS
Prowlers, striking over the city, of the: senatorial candidates should have made Indianapolis women|be placed is regarded of great imreach for (Geir Dusbands’ guns and, FOTIARcE by leaders in Both parties.
BEGIN DISCUSSIONS
in the spirit of pioneer women, they | Nominee Homer E. Capehart want GOP White Hose Nominee are fighting off the marauders. his name to go on the federal ballot ! On the heels of reports of a scar-| along with those of Thomas E.| To Outline Plans. 1 Dewey and John W. Bricker, figur- | faced prowler on the South side, that this Dlace on the ballot] : . came others last night of another|INg thal this place on By LYLE C. WILSON United Press Staff Correspondent ST. LOUIS, Aug. 2 (U. P.).—The|
persistent nocturnal visitor in the Will bring him extra votes. 4800 and 4900 blocks of Young ave. Best Vote Getter er i gene raring, Ms. Democratic leaders almost unani- Republican governors’ conference i " mously want the name of their sen- convened today under guidance of, awakened while staying, for safe- torial nominee, Governor Henry F ty's sake, with Mr. and Mrs. Elgin BR ead wb te 0p. Gov. Thomas E. Dewey, G. O. P. Wiggins next door at 4803 Young| . ... a 0 be pla They Believe | Presidential candidate, to establish bi , that the name of their best vote-i#& domestic program upon which to Man at Window getter at the top of the state ballot | challenge President Roosevelt's 1944 At her window was the silhouette | will help the entire state ticket and | bid for a fourth term. of the man who has been seen vis-|that the governor himself will lose Mr. Roosevelt already is under fting the neighborhood almost|votes by being placed on the federal) campaign charges of having failed| nightly for the past four weeks. ballot along with President Roose- to cope with pre-war depression and Stealing softly to another room |velt and Senator Truman. [of bungiing post-war economic she awakened Mr. Wiggins. Mrs, ernor ‘Schricker, who by virMarsh went back to her room to — his office 1s chairman of tne | Dever, Hacked by Gov. John Ww. protect her two children, Patricia,|gtate election board, took no part ker of Ohio, his running mate, 8, and Daniel, 2. in the discussion of the placing of | s presenting a 15-point program for The prowler was drifting away|the names of senatorial candidates (Continued on “Page 3—Column 7!
from the window as Mrs. Marsh !gince he is personally ‘involved. And | raised a .22 rifle and fired twice. he also declined comment to the! R b 4 S. B press. hood have been victims several]! Edwin K. Steers, Republican mem- ober rown, times running and at least eight|per of the board, took the position times the prowler has been shot at.|{that the 1933 law providing that Col um bu S E di tor ' i the senatorial candidates’ names Husband in Nuvy be placed on the state ballot was the navy at Great Lakes, it has} judged a chart placing the names of | COLUMBUS, O., Aug. 2 (U. P.).— gotten so bad the past two weeks|the senatorial candidates on the Lt. Col. Robert S. Brown, 44, who I didn't dare Jay yo the *hildeen federal ballot. was given a leave of absence as at home,” said Mrs. Marsh. “That's editor of the Columbus Citizen in why I have been staying with the Believes Law in Force April, 1942, to enter the army, was “There are seven of our houses firmly convinced from a study of ithe South Pacific, the 5th service in a row and we have fixed up flood- | the statutes that the 1933 law is|command public relations office an-| SeeCai— still in effect and that the namesinounced today. (Continued on Page 3—Column 8) |... senatorial candidates must g0| The announcement. said that on the state ballots. Brown's wife, Mrs. Leonia Brayshaw PROVIDE CANNING SUGAR
ballots was tossed today into the lap of Republican Attorney General classes and those not engaged in war
Homemaking . 13| Sports ARS 6 . In Indpls. ... 3 State Deaths.” 4 In Service ... 8 Thos. Stokes. 9 Inside Indpls. 9, Up Front .... 9
Ruth Millett. 10 Women's News 13
Various ‘homes in the neighbor“With my husband, Herbert, in repealed by a 1837 law which in- Killed in Pacific Wiggins’. Mr. Lewis, however, said he was killed Monday in a plane crash in The decision made by the attor-|Brown, their two children, Barbara, WASHINGTON, Aug. 2 (U. P.).—
Home canners of fruit, fruit juice placed will be of no importance, of
preserves, jam, jelly and “Aruit butter for sale to others will be allowed more than the present maximum
of 250 pounds of sugar during the| ET WAYNE AIR ACE
present canning season if they need it to equal their 1941 output, the office of price administration announced today.
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Jane Jordan.. 16, Joe Williams. 6
~Pirst Lt. Louis E. Curdes, 24, whose eight aerial victories over Italy made him Ft. Wayne's first ace of world war II, was sued for
charged incompatability.
ney general on where the names of the senatorial candidates are to be
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SUED FOR DIVORCE
FT. WAYNE, Ind, Aug. 2 (U. P).
divorce today by Norma Curdes, who
Curdes, who recently was home on leave before reporting to the reassignment and rehabilitation center, Miami Beach, Fla.
of the hearing.”
was alleged hy the plaintiff to have been “guilty of other misconduct, the nature of which will be Sisciosed at the time
13, and Martin, 3, and his mother, Mrs, Daisy Brown, had been notifled by the war department at Tipp iy O.; where they have been liv g. Col. Brown, who was acting as an aide to Lt. Gen. Brehon Somervell, was on his second assignment in a war theater. He had been in England before the invasion of France. He was attached to the public relations department. He was editor of the Toledo (0. News-Bee in the early 1930's and later became Washington correspondent for the Ohio Scripps-How-ard newspapers. He became editor
born at Ross, O.
At that time
many is crushed. | The only dark spot in his 105- | minute review ‘was the Nazi flying bomb attack on Britain—he said
tensification with more destructive rockets. He said London probably
duties to leave the capital “1 fear greatly to raise false hopes, but I no longer feel bound to deny that victory many perhaps come soon,” Churchill said at the climax of his resounding summation of allied victories, actual and prospective, around. the world.
14,000 Are Injured In addition to the 4735 persons
killed by the 4500 tons of flying!
bombs .Jaunched against Britain between June 15 and July 31, Churchill said 14,000 were injured {more or less sériously, while 17,000]
| houses were destroyed and 800,000 gm 38th st.
{damaged by the robots. Again he affirmed, however, that | the secret weapon attack would have not the slightest effect on the {course of the war, and its only re-
their hands by our fighting men.” Covering the whole range of global war in rolling, oratorical phrases breathing confidence in every line, Churchill made these additional
must shock to the foundations the confidence of the people and the loyalty of the armies. The highest personalities in the Reich are murdering one another or trying to while the avenging armies ef the allies are closing upon the doomed and ever-narrowing power.”
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TURKEY BREAKS WITH GER VICTORY -- CHURCHILL; RIVE DEEP IN BRITTANY
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By EDWARD W. BEATTIE United Press Staff Correspondent LONDON, Aug. 2. — Nazi Germany's political mastery of Europe cracked today as Turkey broke off diplomatic and commercial relations in a defiant move that threatened to squeeze Hitler's Balkan satellites out of the war and force a general German evacuation of Greece and the Aegean islands.
Yank troops striving to cut off the peninsula of Brittany a¢ they did the Norman peninsula and Cherbourg, are believed well on the way to Rennes, while other spearhcads are striking from Avranches
toward Paris, 150 miles away.
"Hoosier Heroes.
4 KILLED AND FIVE INJURED
Harris, Hendrixson, Stahley; And Phillips Are Listed Dead.
The Yank drive on all fronts has claimed 14 more Hoosiers war casualties, with three men killed in France and one at sea.
KILLED Sgt. Donald E. Harris, 1021 Groff ve., i# France. Metalsmith 3-¢ Jay Q. Hendrixson, Jos Carrollton ave, in At-
lanti et Lt. George W. Stahley, 4103 in France, Pvt. Norman W. Phillips, 1101 N. Belle Vieu pl., in France, MISSING Sgt. Robert D. Richardson, 4836
{sult would be to step up the pun- |W. 12th st, Speedway, over Gerishment of the Nazis “after their many. weapons have been struck from WOUNDED
Sgt. Howard W. Watts, 940° N. Hamilton ave. in Italy. Seaman l-c Francis L. Rushton, 102 W. Arizona st., at sea. - Pvt. Elden J. Cox, R. R. 20, Box
‘points: 483, in France. 1. “Tremendous events’ are tak-| Pfc. John Silcox, 1544 Hoyt ave, ing place inside Germany, “which in France.
Pic. Ernest Kordes, 119 N. Grant ave, in France.
PRISONERS Capt. Robert C. Patrick, 201 N. Mount st., in Germany. 8S. Sgt. Boyd Foxworthy, 418 N. Beville ave, in Germany. .
2. India has been defended successfully against invasion and the British fleet in eastern waters will be “greatly strengthened” by the end of the year, even while the Japanese fleet is preoecupied w the United States navy; “which ar ready is double the size of” Japan's, | The new Burma highway carries] more tonnage than was ever carried on the old Burma road. 3. Allied losses to U-boats have been “almost negligible” this year as against those of former years— less than one-half the losses inflicted on the “dwindling and largely immobile naval resources” of the enemy in both the East and the West.
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4. Turkey has broken .off relations with Germany and “no one can tell whether Germany and Bulgaria will attack the Turks, but if so we shall make common cause with her and shall take the German menace as well as we can in our stride.” 5. “It is the Russian army who have done most of the work in tearing the guts out of Germany” and but for the Soviet effort no force in the world could have bro-
of the Citizen in May, 1937. He was|ken the German army for several ‘Iwas hit by gunfire from the strafing
years. 6. “I firmly believe that our 20-
Lt. Col. Robert S. Brown was in T trea i Indianapolis thé first few days of yea; realy M 1th Riis I prove yo sake preparations fof he durable factors in preserving the nce here on July 4 of his|peace an » superior officer, Lt. Gen. Brehon 30d good order of Europe. The P-38 Lightning pilot, who was | Somervell. _e down over Italy but who, escaped twice from prison camps, was a baggage handler at a bus terminal before his enlistment in the air
7. Relations with the
French Col. {committee -of national liberation Brown contacted Indianapolis news- have improved greatly and it is papermen, officials of the Chamber y : of Commerce Be authorities at Ft. Harrison, Somervell’s
corps. The couple were married in 1043. RE aa aE NR A WL hin
Chamber of
sppearance was sponsored by the ‘Commerce,
T. Sgt. Harold E. Shireman, 3646 {Rockville rd, in Germany. | Pvt. Alfred E. Alyne, 1350 Commerce ave. in Germany.
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‘ROMMEL INJURED,
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The action was expected to be followed by a Bulgarian attempt to make peace with the allies, with Romania and Hungary probably following the Bulgars out ‘of thse
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British and Americans Gain
through point at Avranches.
On 70-Mile Front in France
By VIRGIL PINKLEY United Press Staff Correspondent SUPREME HEADQUARTERS, A. E. F.,, Aug. 2.— American armored columng lashed out west and south of captured Pontofson today and swept through disintegrating German battle lines at a pace that may already have carried to within striking distance of Rennes, almost half-way across Breton peninsula and some 43 miles below their break-
All along the looping 70-mile front from Brittany to Caen the American and British armies were on the move, striking with shattering impact against Nazi armor massed across: th Highirays Madi Sashes Parks and: southwest info Bfittany, | 20 Turkish break us. 3 meeting British forces at the center of the front broke through a suddenly- today, declaring that the rupture,
yeakened wg pe in » tog» Bite porthwe that w across the Caen- |gqactive immediately, was decided ire highway less an four miles northwest o ire and threatened wpe at the request. of Great
The Turkish diplomatic stroke came hard on the heels of another blow to Germany's prestige in the north, where Finland appointed Marshal Baron Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim president in an apparent move toward peace for that unhappy satellite,
May Presage Reshuffle
Mannerheim’s appointment ap pened ‘to presage A general yes: shuffle of the Finnish erat that rejected Russia's peace over tures last April. Mannerheim succeeded Rysto Ryti, who resigned suddenly late yesterday ‘after more than three and one-half years in office. Turkish Foreign Minister Sukru Saracoglu announced the long-ex-
of the national assembly in Ankara
the rear of two German panzer | divisions
| Poeles and Tessy-sur-Vire. Biggest Victory in Sight
The main tide of battle, however, was flowing through the American sector at the northeastern corner of Brittany, and Lt. Gen, Omar N. Bradley's tanks and infantrymen were slashing recklessly through the disorganized German ranks in a bold bid for their biggest victory of the French campaign. Fast-rolling armored units fanned
and prevent him from reorganizing | for a full-scale defense of the peninsula.
peared to have demoralized the |
falling back before the | Amerizars between Villedieu-Les- WARSAW BAT TLE
Brita werd broadcasts confirming the break said the Turkish charge ‘d'affaires had been asked to leave
IN FINAL STAGES “5.53 sus si cms
0f 200,000 Germans.
By HENRY SHAPIRO United Press Staff Correspondent
ven of “grave consequences” temming from the break and de-
Russians Begin Begin Annihilation clared that it is for the Reich to
| decide on war or peace with Turkey, Makes Defiant Speech
Saracoglu disclosed his government's decision to break with Ger«
MOSCOW, Aug. 2—The battle, Many in a defiant speech to the
national assembly which immedi-
for Warsa t out along all the roads leading west| rsaw entered its final stages ately ratified the cabinet action by and south of Pontorson in an effort; today as Russian armies stormed unanimous vote.
to chop the enemy's lines to pieces through the eastern suburbs and
He revealed that Britain had
{swarmed across the Vistula river in| asked Turkey to sever relations a flanking drive, while far to the|With the Nazis under the terms
of the Anglo-Turkish military alli-
- rtheast oth Bradley's whirlwind tactics ap: 'no east other Soviet forces opened ance, and that the United States
had supported the British.
Nazis and completely masked the| main direction of his drive. From their present lines, the Americans were in position to cut directly west | to the great Atlantic port of Brest, south through Rennes to Nantes| and St. Nazaire, or eastward into} the interior. | Sweeping down toward a juncture | with thé Americans, British armor rolled into open country 15 miles low Caumont and threw power- |
be GERMANY ADMITS ful road blocks across the highways | leading north and northeast to Au- |
nay-Sur-Odon and Caen. German resistance appeared to be
Berlin Claims General Is falling apart before Vire. Other,
Out of Danger.
LONDON, Aug. 2
(U. P.).—Ber-
were racing south and southeast, meeting only scattered Nazi rear guards in their path.
Kaunas;
LONDON, Aug. 2 (U. P)—A communique from the Polish underground said today that between 10,000 and 25,000 of its soldiers were locked with German forces in pitched battles inside Warsaw today.
Britain, he said, agreed to provide economic assistance and military equipment to help Turkey “meet the difficulties which will arise from this decision. ..."” Authoritative sources in London described the Turkish break as a diplomatic defeat of the first order for Hitler and his wily ambassador
an annihilation campaign against
Franz Von Papen.
These sources warned against
perhaps 200,000 Germans trapped in| speculation that Turkey would fol-
| the upper Baltics.
low through with a declaration of
(Berlin broadcasts said the Rus-|war against Germany, but admitted
sians had captured Vilkovishki, 1 ‘miles from the East
same distance from the border.)
Front line dispatches reported a
lin, admitted today that Field Marshal Erwin’ Rommel was seriously injured when an allied plane
Canadians Slowed
in Normandy on July 17, but as-|slowed, and official spokesmen in-|Pathians, with the Germans fac
, Marshal Konstantin K. Rokos
ing “satisfactorily.” pagne after a brief diversionary sovsky’s army gathered at War
The official Nazi D.N.B. news|gitack. agency said Rommel suffered a Swarms of fighter-bombers and
closed injuries. in an “accident” that followed the strafing attack. D.N.B.'s account tacitly con-
firmed reports relayed by captured German soldiers in Normandy that | 34acking allied armies as the best-
Rommel’ rturned when it |cduiPped fighting force in military » 3 ar Seam history before commons today, said plane. they were inflicting twice as many It was the first official word from [Casualties on the Germans as they Berlin on the fate of Rommel, who | themselves were suffering, and that|, had variously been reported crit- their advance was “at last” winning jeally injured and dead as a result [Sufficient room for full deployment |:
of the “accident.” of their strength. The Germans were falling back
in such haste that they were not
strafing the enemy all along the front.
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in Brittany.
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bombed and strafed his staff car|below Caen was the allied advance between the Baltic and the Car-
serted that the erstwhile “Desert|dicated the Canadians had dug in{ing a catastrophe of Stalingrad Fox” is out of danger and recover-|a half-mile north of Tilly la Cam. Proportions in Latvia and Estonia. nullified agreements made by the
saw for a massive frontal assault|with Russia. brain concussion and other undis-|y. ian planes were bombing and {oD the Polish capital while his left| scheduled to take office Friday. wing and the army of Marshal Ivan S. Konev intensified their attacks| fiance of German wrath, stemmed
- Winston Churchill, describing the (Continued on Page 3—Column 5)
On the War Fronts
FRANCE—Yanks threaten Rennes 5 even bothering to lay mines, blow | RUSSIA—Battle for Warsaw enters Guinea.
Nair ms and Italy Alben .
1! they could not be certain that the
Prussian | Turks will or will not enter the
British elements to the northeast frontier and 40 miles southwest of | war fully on the allied side. and Kalvaria, 20 miles |south of Vilkovishki and about the|that the issue of war or peace is in
Saracoglu himself made it clear:
German hands. Events of equally dark import for
triumphal Russian marcn of his- Germany were shaping up swiftly Only on the Canadian sector toric scope and speed everywherein Finland.
Finland named Mannerheim to -| succeed President Risto Ryti in a move that automatically may have
-| Ryti government with Germany -| and paved the way for an armistice Mannerheim was
Both developments, in bold de«
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| ITALY—British gain in bitter ing on approaches to Florence,
[PACIFIC Americans begin aaah | lation campaign: in Beh Now
inal an