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| WASHINGTON, Aug. 4. — The [{, bastions of Hitler's fortress falling, his defeat certain and his personal
doom sealed, the Nazi leader today| beginning of the end of world war IL |ini stands where Kaiser Wilhelm II
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refuge to flee to. Twenty-six year ago — Aug. 3, 1918—Marshal . Foch was finishing the second victorious battle of the Marne,
Eleven days later—Aug. 14—the
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as military leaders were present. There it was admitted that Germany could no longer win the war but, as it would take some time to
5 stood in August, 1918. The chief Kaiser held a secret meeting at his the allies from learning of Ger-
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FORECAST: Fair and continued warm and humid
THURSDAY, AUGUST 3, 1944
many's plight, and (2) to fool the German people and the . German soldiers to stave off revolution, situation today is reminiscent of what happened. in
That battle marked the|break the news to her partners and 1918. Then Berlin launched a great tiate peace overtures, something | would have to be done (1) to keep}
propaganda drive, promising cer-
“secret weapons” so terrible that
tain victory. There were talés of |
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| Simms: ‘Hitler's Defeat Certain, Personal Doom Sealed’
1: By WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS difference is that the Kaiser had a headquarters at Spa. Civil as well
the kaiser hated to use them, but which would quickly win the war. By Sept. 30, however, German demoralization had progressed to the point where Count Hertling was obliged to resign as imperial chan{cellor. A coalition government was
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‘Denny: ‘Churchill's Victory-Soon Prediction Is Loose Talk
5 By LUDWELL DENNY 3 Scripps-Howard Staff Writer
“s Boon.”
Their
E system appeared imminent.
Meanwhile widespread strikes
| States and Canada.
¥. Facing possible swift action by the federal “government,
"the Philadelphia strikers re- © fterated today that they will net
: end their strike until “our aims are © obtained.” pb. James McMenanin, strike chair- © man, told a mass meeting of strikers shortly before noon that “it is one f thing to threaten us with an execu-
| enforce it.” Lin § Meanwhile, commuters trudged or | hbitch-hiked to work for the third h straight day after a quick-dying * hope that partial service might be ! pestored in sections of the. city’s . vast public transit system. . ® An order for the federal govern- ® ment to take over the Philadelphia gystefns was expected from Wash- ! ington momentarily. Meanwhile, Twpolice, aided by bad weather, kept 1 close guard on potential trouble : areas to prevent an outbreak of
2' mass violence in the wake of scat
* tered incidents between Negroes | and whites, ! F. D. R. Gets Details
* President Roosevelt had been sent _ a detailed summary of the situa- ¢ tion by War Mobilization Director . James PF. Byrnes and army officers had conferred with company offi- © eials, indicating the company might | be permitted ,to operate the cars under military control if the governI. ment ‘is finally compelled to seize i the property in order to maintain ! war production. . Two hundred persons were ar- “ tested in street brawls and 11 were : treated for injuries. EF Transportation also was paralyzed I at Montreal where employees began PF taking cars to the barns shortly | after midnight, byt personnel manI! agers predicted no serious stoppage Fin war production as they had made arrangements to transport emi ployees to and from work in trucks. E “The executive board of the United Automobile Workers (C. I 0) called upon 7000 strikers at the gear and axle division: of the General Motors Corp. at Detroit to Ff return to work today after suspending President Nestor Dessy and all other officers of local 235.
San Francisco Has Strike
At San Francisco 800 members of fodge 68 of the International Association of Machinists (A. P, of L.) . indorsed the action of theif leader in calling a strike of 120 workers at the Federal Mogul Bearing Corp. plant. ' EA strike of 300 Negro chippers at "the ' General Steel plant in St. Louis, in protest against alleged abuse by a white foreman, remained deadlock today.
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WASHINGTON, Aug. 3.—Church-|and production chiefs. ll told commons yesterday that Eu- %- ropean victory “may perhaps come|iruth. He neglected to add the imThat is the dangerouslyperative qualification used by Gens. - loose kind of talk which is causing] Eisenhower and Somervell, Secretens of thousands ‘of civilians to|tary of War Stimson and other high +. Jeave war jobs, and which already American officials—the
Terminals With Posters Under
By UNITED PRESS J Army officers with concealed posters under their arms * appeared at terminals of the Philadelphia Transportation © Co., shortly after noon today, in Philadelphia; Pa., and gov- . ernment seizure of the city’s strike-bound rapid transit|
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has created serious supply shortages,
according to American army, navy
Churchill was guilty of a half-
qualification
Arms,
FEAR CITY-WIDE MUNCIE STRIKE
Out in Sympathy
Movement.
day to avoid a city-wide sympathy strike of C. I.-O. workers at Muncie, while members of an A. F. of L. ution at “Wabash established a picket line around the General Tire & Rubber Cos Indiana plant.
pathy strike, voted last night by 16,000 C. I. O, workers, would not be carried out.
quit their jobs in sympathy with the union's workers at the glass house at the Ball Brothers Manu{facturing Co. after 250 striking members of an A. P, of L. union agreed to post an “iron-clad picket | line around the glass house,
Dispute Jurisdiction
The dispute arose after the national labor relations board awarded bargaining rights for miscellaneous workers in the glass house to the C. I. O. Of the 3500 employees of the plant, between 300 and 500 belong to the A. F. of L. union in the glass house, which claims jurisdiction. . Previously the plant was idle when the A. F, of L. established a picket line around the entire plant and the C. I. O. members refused to cross it. When the line was replaced recently with “token pickets,” production was resuméd by the C. IL O. workers. At Marion members of the rubber workers’ union (A. F, of L.) put a picket line around the plant of General Tire protesting a war labor board delay in settling a contract dispute. .
Appeals to Workers
A strike vote was taken last night, but 200 members of the first shift reported for work. Spokesmen Said that in addition to the picket line, around 250 employees were milling around the plant. - Mayor Homer T. Showalter made a personal appeal to the men to re-
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Truman Leaves | Committee Post,
Ignoring Pleas
WASHINGTON, Aug. 3 (U. P.) —~S8enator Harry 8. Truman (D. Mo.), Democratic vice presidential nominee, resigned today as chairman of the senate war investigating committee. : : refused pleas by committee members that he remain as chairman, saying that “I am of the opinion that any statement, hearing or report for which I would be responsible would be consid- . ered. by many to have been motivated by political considerations.” ag > ; h
16,000 Workers Vote to Go. ®
State C. I. O. leaders worked to=|
Muncie's C. 1. O. workers voted to :
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er and fight much harder than hitherto. Our fighting men understand that
qualification in France—their buddies are dropping all*around them, and they have just started to wade
man, 843 W. 44th st. It's one way
Europe only if we work much pare)
that victory can come this year in, through 600 miles of blood to Bere
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they must pay much more. Churchill used the tricky word | “soon.” tS
Keith Does Something About the Weather
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to keep cool.
Our Russian allies understand it, because they have paid in hundreds of thousands of lives to get within|ecussed allied military operations in 330 miles of Berlin, and they know
To the man in the street that!
means “in a few weeks.” what Churchill means? Not
Otherwise he could not have dis-
Is that at all!
Italy next “autumn,” or 4n increase in British naval strength in
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At least some people were unmindful of the heat today as the temperature again hung in the %s and the city continued fo swelter during typical “dog days” The pipes feeding the wading pool at the Riviera club were just something to play with for Keith Kuhlman, son of Mr. and Mrs. Donald R. Kuhl-
6. 0. P. GOVERNORS
* STUDY JOB NEEDS
Expect to Complete Talk With Dewey Today.
8ST. LOUIS, Mo., Aug. 3 (U. P,) — Indorsing continued federal contributions under certain conditions -to help pay for public works, the nationa] guard and highway construction, the Republican governors’ con ference warned today that permanent peacetime jobs can be assured “only by + private business under an enterprise system.” The conferees challenged encroachments of centralized government on state prerogatives. Under leadership of Governor Thomas E. Dewey, G. O. P. presidential candidate, the conferees announced agreement on principles dealing with six of the 14 questions comprising their agenda. They are scheduled to end their conference with agreement on the remaining eight questions tonight.
List 8 Other Agreements
The report made public today charged that “the New Dea] now is seeking to undermine and abandon our traditional national guard system.” The agreements on principles announced today covered; reconversion “and post-war jobs, public works, highways, ' national guard and organized reserves, veterans, and public lands. Some of the eight remaining questions present more difficult
The reports so far made publi emphasized the role the states mus have in the future. Plans are being developed
Vice President Henry Walla dent of
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Saving of Waste Paper for Aug. 20 Drive Is Urged
BEGIN NOW to save all waste paper for the city-wide waste paper collection Aug. 20, Indian-. apolis citizens were urged by the civic, labor and business groups sponsoring the drive. o All streets within the city limits will. be covered by the curb collection and citizens will be to place their wdste paper in bundles on the curb in front of their homes. More than 300 volunteer trucks will be used in the collection and 800 volunteer workers are being recruited for the drive, which is expected to be completed within three to four hours. Money from the sale will be turned over to the Indianapolis Red Cross chapter. All kinds. of paper including _books, magazines, corrugated paper, wrapping paper and newspapers will be collected.
Hoosier Heroes—
FARMER AND BROOK KILLED IN FRANCE
Madinger and May Listed As Wounded. The invasion has cost the lives
of two more Indianapolis men and added one to the list of wounded,
,| while still another local man has been wounded during action in the Pacific. 1
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KILLED
S. Sgt. Frederick H. Farmer, 3032 France,
Meredith ave, in
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Lt. Robert D. Brook, 2830 N. Olney st. in France, i Charlés Emanuel , car-
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VANIETTI LAWYER PLUNGES TO DEATH
‘Body Hurtles From Ninth
Floor of Boston Hotel.
BOSTON, Aug. 3 (U. P.).—Attorney William J. Callahan of Bosfon and Brockton, a member of the defense counsel in the Sacco-Vangzetti murder case two decades ago, plunged to his death from a ninthfloor window of Hotel Myles Standish early today. Callahan's body landed on the
roof of a section of the hotel at first-floor level with a thud that was heard by an occupant of a third-floor room.
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By HENRY SHAPIRO United Press Staff Correspondent
| MOSCOW, Aug. 3.—Rus{sian artillery shelled the Ger‘man soil of East Prussia to‘day from a range of eight
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‘miles or less, and ‘the newspaper Pravda proclaimed that the Russian army “is crashing the gates of Hitler's innér fortress, and Germany's: fatal hour is approaching.” Gen, Ivan D. Cherniakhovsky's army was smashing toward the East
_| Prussian border on a broad arc at
a pace which, if maintained, well
fatherland today. Front line dispatches said the tattered German units were reeling back in confusion before Cherniakhovskv.s drive through strong points eight to 11 miles from East Prussia, and some had lost contact with their command and were strugglin to escape in the German forests.
Publish Operational Map
i Soviét newspapers published an operational map depicting the results of the first 40 days of the
Baltic west of Riga, entered the Warsaw area, and were battling along a 200-mile Vistula front south of Warsaw. A dramatic radio message flashed to the Polish high command in London from the underground hesdquarters inside Warsaw shortly after noon today said the patriot troops had launched a heavy attack against the enemy rear and that hard fighting was raging in four districts of the city. The ill-equipped, Poles were revorted sniving at Nazi soldiers from {hundrads of buildings and engaging
Willis Aid, Wife Of Dead Flier, “To Launch Sub
Times Special WASHINGTON, Aug. 3. — Mrs. Barbara Fox, private secretary to Senator Raymond E. Willis, has been chosen to christen the submarine “Loggershead” at ceremonies in Manitowoc, Wis.,, some time this month, Mrs. Fox's pilot husband. Lit. William Mason Fox, South Bend, was killed in action in Italy and is buried at Rome. She is the daughter of Dr, and Mrs. C. H. Dunsee, Plymouth,
" War Distances Shown on Map of United States
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| ’ On th | (Aug. 3, 1944) RUSSIA — Soviet guns bombard { German homeland for first time.
FRANCE — Yanks occupy Renncs - | almost half-way across Brittany. | I : } . ’ . | | ITALY—British capture heights | above. Florence.
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SILENT ROBOTS
‘BATTER LONDON
‘Many Killed as Nazis Try | To Swamp British With ‘Glider’ Rocket.
By JACK FRANKISH + United Press Staff Correspondent
LONDON, Aug. 3.—A murderous barrage of Nazi robot, bombs rocked « London and
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{throughout last night and the] early morning hours today, | striking seven hospitais, among | other targets, and piling up a heavy toll of killed and wounded civilians.
Apparently trving to swamp the
{ pushed off big salvoes of their dead-| lly flying bombs at frequent inter- | vals, using an unusually large pro-! portion of “glider” robots that!
moment's warning. !
At one hospital where damage was estimated at $600,000, two pa-, tients were buried alive under tons of debris and little hope was held for their rescue.
10 Patients Killed
Ten patients were killed in anothe hospital when a blind bomb c ed directly into a ward crowded with aged people and chronic invalids. Official sources, meanwhile, re-| ‘vealed that the new “glider” bombs,
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U-Boat Bases.
BULLETIN WITH BRITISH SECOND ARMY, Aug. 3 (U. P.).=~The Germans checked the British break-
| through east of Vire today, massed
their tanks across the Noirean river, and sent them out fanwise
| with orders to crash the allied | lines at all costs. Some pene- | trations were made.
By VIRGIL PINKLEY United Press Staff Correspondent
SUPREME HEADQUARTERS, A. E. F., Aug. 3.—
American armored forces tomight carry it into, the German| Parts of Southern England day smashed into Rennes:
Breton capital and key transport hub nearly half way across the peninsula, after a 30-mile spurt from the Pontorson springboard which promised the speedy conquest of all Brittany.
% British defenses, the Germans! (U. 8. Secretary of War Stimson
told a Washington press conference that Rennes has Been occupied.) Another United States mobile col. umn raced westward through Brittany toward Brest. A United Press
Russian army offensive. It showed dropped silently from the skies fo dispatch from the front said it that the Russians had reached the bury their victims with scarcely a reached the
area of Dol de Bretagne, 14 miles southeast of St. Malo, and the British radio said it had sped on to Dinan, rail and highway center 15 miles beyond.
Resistance Weak
“A crisis for the Germans seems to have arrived,” oes Press War Correspondent Henry T. Gorrell re« ported, The American spearhead at Rennes, which commands most of the highway, railroad and water= way systems of Brittany, encoune tered virtually no German resistance, Gorrell said. All signs indi-
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wing span of about 23 feet and a Or unwilling to undertake a strong
16-foot wingspan and 25-foot fuselage of the original robots: Both missiles, however, contain a oneton explosive charge. In the new types, the robot's engine shuts off while still a considerable distance from the objective and thes bomb glides in almost soundlessly, with only the whistling scream of its slipstream to warn of its approach.
New ‘Pickaback’ Plane
It also was revealed that, in addition to their new jet and rocketpropelled fighter planes, the Germans have developed a two-in-one “pickaback” plane, nicknamed the “super-Doodlebug” by R. A. F. fighters. ar One appeared off the British se:tor of the Norman beachhead during the night of July 24-25 and was shot down by an R. A. PF. fijer,| crashing into the sea with a colossal | explosion,
30-foot fuselage, compared with the
defense of Brittany, the jutting fin-
WITH THE AMERICAN SPEARHEAD NEAR RENNES, Brittany, Aug. 2 (Delayed) (U. P.).—~More than 1000 members of the German garrison of Rennes marched out four abreast from that communications hub today under their own officers and with white flags fluttering from sticks, surrendering to American advanced patrols,
be lopped off by a push to the Bay of Biscay. As the American forces shredded the dangling German flank in spectacular thrusts, the British 2d army to the northeast capitalized nn its 17-mile break-through from Caumont and was reported to be swinging the main weight of the attack eastward for a probable drive below the German fortifications south of Caen directly toward Paris, A German counter-attack led ky 50 tanks in the Noireau river area
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'MUNITION PROGRAM
LAGGING'--NELSON
Only 48 Per Cent of Year's
Goal Produced.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 3 (U. P.).— War Prodyction Chairman Donald
{M. Nelson reported today that only
48 per cent of the $69,000,000,000 1944 against “deluding ourselves that the war production job is already fine
ished. : Nelson's report was issiied as top
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