Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 August 1944 — Page 9

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Hitler's Rupture With Army| {5 Regarded as Sign of |} Early Collapse.

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it heard ; an a sant nat i rE a = to have been frustrated, however cident. He armies holding firm Jn their pressure on the German forces |after two days of bitter fighting news than a counter-attack of the trapped Nazis. i that cost ‘the counter-attacking been . Jun 5 ; - ce Nazis abou 200 tanks destroyed ‘or killed and bo bg the dominion troops deepened their eT or = AT La ke aE x hilles and captured Bald ee

rumor by the interrogators, where-| : {on a bribery charge, the other for Lon the prisoner refered the to| ass, recommended by the Jacobs iL V0 © =

with similar indications of gratifica-|begun by City Councilman RosS|yo4 accepted $8 and a revolver from

J week, there is any basis of truth or not|the dollar-wise South sider, nick-|gve. yn ol

, who to differ with / Manly, ing Ter With | Claude’ Wells, 1914 Bellefontaine st.,| delayed.

in return for neglecting to arrest

os oer al abo Wells on a t charge. eard his ticity payroll. While other council gun-concealmen the mess, men -held their tongues, pending|The incident occurred May 6 at

Dick Shaw's tavern, 451 Indiana

to such rumors. What is Importantinamed “the Watchdog of Patrolman Peter J. Jenkins was is the fact that numbers of German | pydget® by - administrative | fired from the force for insubardinaofficers and men are NOW In & COD | prethren, protested pay hikes in the [tion displayed towards Sgt. Jesse dition to believe them. legal department and the city plan | Hadley. ~ Hikers Dey Duige of Seman commission. * He likewise believed . army ers ~ SOUTH BEND MAN NAMED ra : i ¢ five | that $6000 was too much to pay a \

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A few weeks ago ae Published an advertisement in Indianapolis Times about Ernie Pyle’s fortheoming book, “Brave Men.” It will not be published for two months, yet, and we do not usually announce a book so far ahead. But the devotion of the American People to Ernie Pyle is one of the phenomena of this war, and we thought that this was one hook that ought to be anmounced as soon as we heard of it. We feel the same way about Ernie Pyle ourselves.

The results of the advertisment were incredible. For a book not yet

published, mostly not yet written P the advance orders poured in

even, by mail and telephone to such an extent that we are going to have to increase our own advance order to the publishers, to a quantity larger than we have ever before ordered of a single title. The girls in the Book Department have only to say to a customer, “Ernie Pyle is going to have a new book in October,” and the

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customer immediately makes his own advance reservation, :

We do not know whether this is true all over the country or not. We do know, however, that we Hoosiers have a special love for Ernie Pyle.

He is one of us. He writes the way ~ we talk. And his stories of the war

touch a responsive chord in our hearts, and stir our emotions as no others do.

Ernie calls his book “Brave Men

surely as poignantly appropriate a title as or could possibly devise.

It is the same kind of a book as

“Here Is Your War,” and begi about where that book left off. But

it contains also” the stories of the

invasion of France that he is writin now, told with the same simple and detailed accounts of the everyday lives of the boys who are performing these epic deeds. Much of the book is not yet written; many of the inci-

dents it will tell of have not yet hap-

pened. And yet people are ordering it sight-unseen, ‘as they have never before ordered a book—at least from is They know what Ernie Pyle oes.

We are going to have plenty of books. But just to make sure that you have

an opportunity to get your Soples on publication date, we are providing an order blank below. The first printing will be at least 100,000 copies, so that first editions will have no special artificial value. But it is nice to know that one’s own copy is a first edition, valuable or not, and you might as well have one by ordering now! i One out of every 57 copies of “Here Is Your War” sold in the whole United

- States went to an Ayres’ customer. But

we apparently have not yet saturated the Hoosier market. It is still our best-selling non-fiction title, ten months after publication. If by some oversight you have not yet acquired a copy, you can order it at the same time you make your reservation Gr oe ris on ook of war c¢ ce, pul four years ago under the title “Ernie Pyle

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72, of West office of war information's overseas division, he revealed today. A Stafl correspondent, disclosed that deputy will administer the county hundrells of towns and roadside automobile Sunday at French Lick.' office. ; hamlets

CRACK GERMAN

Le Mans Captured After Allies Make 45-Mile ~ Thrust.

(Continued From Page One)

almost rivalling that of peacetime maneuvers, The German radio said advanced American elements were some 87

drive of Lt. Gen. Omar N. Bradley's armor had penetrated about: 25

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES _ Breath-Taking—A

_ (Continued From Page One) warm as the deliriously happy Frenchmen who run out to lavish champagne and kisses upon us. The contrasts are terrific. You

‘| hasten your jeep through the hun-

ing hell which is St. Hilaire du Harcouet and emerge covered with cinders and your eyes red from smoke into a countryside so sublimely beautiful and peaceful that it’s almost unbelievable that a great retreat and a great advance have just been made across it. : Flags and banners féstoon the way now and French kiddies threw kisses at my jeep as I sped along. For mile after mile there was no sign of war except a couple of camoufiaged, hastily abandoned German 88's and the ever-present reminder that our armored spearhead was up ahead—the tank tracks ground into the highway. 80 one rolled on through the gaily-decorated villages . . . Ernee, Le Chenes, Le Lande, Grenoux. Not

J until we came to Laval did we find

war, Buildings were burning there

"| before had liberated the capital of Mayenne, :

“The people of Laval ‘were mad with joy. They climbed over the fenders of the jeep and Bob Casey of The Indianapolis Times Foreign Service, who was riding in the front

,|seat, was kissed by all sorts of gals

from babes in arms to grandmothers.. We were told that some of the populace earlier had been killed

{when they rushed into the streets

while the fight was still going on. Warm, Winey Welcome .

ft wes rumored that already Le Mans was ours 45 miles farther ahead on the Paris road. Several

{ kilometers ahead we found the tail

of our fast-moving column and raced past hundreds of armored We finally joiried the spearhead at a crossroads marked by the small town of Avesse after endur-

children and crippled oldsters from

|| the last war. They insisted we

drink to their liberation and one

in enthusiasm : “Take our wine. Take our food— women. Take anything

Henry T. Gorrell, United Press

verging Mans from Laval, Mayenne and Chateu-Gontier, all roughly 40 to 45 miles to the west.

Only jance was met as the spearheads: of jtanks, mobile guns and mechanized (infantry rolled eastward over the southwestern

us , , . being flushed out like coveys 9 393 fom zoling hills and forBlast Enemy Trucks Two truckloads of Germans drove into an American motor pool in one sector thinking it their own, while

LOIS ANDREWS AND TOPPING ENGAGED

HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 9 (U. P.).— Lols Andrews, 20-year-old actress, said today she was engaged to Jack Topping, 22, youngest son of multimillionaire John Reed Topping, and SE ET Bi ; Y pg n ‘ork, “perhaps

Jack Topping is the brother of Capt. Dan , husband of Sonja Henle,

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e settled for a few bottles of

; wine.

Cosse En Champagne was un-

touched by war and the only in-| dications the Germans had ever no enemy fighters, but the forma- isolated sections of bomber f been there were several truckloads tions from England met the first! tions.

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passed through the main street under the jeers and hisses of the

Caught Up With War

At _Avesse we again caught up with war. Off to the right a platoon of infantry which had been dropped off earlier was heavily engaged with a German pocket and now a battalion was detrucking to deal with an estimated 800 Nazi fanatics. We could hear the guns and see the tank destroyers deploying left, right and forward for the kill, followed by the doughboys. Soon & crash of cannon and thin of black smoke marked where German tanks had waited in ambush. We followed the command car of an infantry officer toward Le Mans and witnessed the capture of Brulon, Mariel en Champagne -and Loue, We paused for the night at Loue and underwent further wining, embracing and speeching. We accepted mounds of sandwiches and enough flowers to fill a cemetery, But war was not too far away. As one matron brought us sandwiches and another proudly brought her child over to kiss the American guests, there was an explosion a few hundred yards away. A German anti-tank gun had commenced firing into our leading vehicles.

Others Sear

LONDON Aug. than 1500. American warplanes. defled bad vaeather and fierce enemy fighter opposition today to bomb the! German railway hub and industrial| city of Stuttgart, while 500 heavy bombers based in Italy attacked an| oil refinery, an aircraft factory and two airdromes in the vicinity of] Budapest, Hungary, Liberators in the fleet from Italy; attacked the oil refinery, second] largest in Hungary, at Almas Fuzito| on the Danube river, 30 miles west of Budapest. Flying Fortresses | smashed the Messerschmitt fighter| plane assembly plant at Gyor, be-| tween Vienna and Budapest. The two airdromes, each with installations ° for final assembly of | Messerschmitts .as well as flying fields, were at Vecses, nine miles| southeast of Budapest, and Toko,

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six miles south of Budapest. Other Fortresses

bombed yards at Brod in Yugoslavia, The fleet from Italy encountered!

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Allies Marching on Paris As Jubilant French Cheer Our Doughboys

[of them, packed like cattle, which

1500 Planes Blast Stuttgart,

* “Vite! Vite!” screamed the women. “Quickly! Quickly!” - ;

parallel columns, hugging the sides of the streets with automatic weapons ready. After the first shock; the civilians swarmed into the street again with wine and flowers, It was a sight to see the hard-faced moving, panther-like, with ready guns and paying no attention to women who tried to hug

|strictly on their job of killing before they themselves were killed. Then the tanks came roaring into the main street, They'd been carpeted with dust when we passed them a few miles back. Now they were garlanded with flowers. The Germans got back into Loue around midnight with machineguns and grenades but Casey and I were so drowsy that we did not hear the stiff fight outside our hotel. Only a few jeeps were damaged. The Germans were brushed out and the great armored spearhead rolled on toward Le Mans and all. the {other towns on the victory road to |Paris without interruption.

Bu dapest A r eq slowed or halted Soviet advances

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offered “for days. . A fleet: of 750 Flying Fortresses and Liberalors, escorted by 750

Thunderbolt, Mustang and Lightning fighters, encountered at least 100 German ‘single-engine fighters in one area. ’ Returning American fighter pilots reported the Nazi planes were attacking the bombers when they arrived on the scene. The American and enemy fighter planes immediately became locked in a battle which in a few minutes brought the

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2 Soviet Armies Converging ng On Riga to Slam Baltic Door. (Continued From Page One)

treat after- losing 6000 killed and 1350 captured. Closely pursuing a battered enemy, Gen. Ivan OC. Bagramian's 1st Baltic army then resumed {ts offensive and captured more than 80 towns and villages in a 14-mile advance northward to N. Radvise liskis, 45 miles south southeast of Riga.

Reach Open Plains

Simultaneously, Gen. Andrei I, 3 Yerekenko’s 2d Baltic army cap © | tured Krustpils, Latvian railway E hub, 70 miles southeast of Riga, and advanced another eight miles | to the northwest through Aiviekstes, =~ 65 miles southeast of the capital. : Crossing the Aiviekstes river, the k Russians emerged onto open plains 3 Istretching northeast to Riga. No formidable natural obstacles remained in the path of either the} 2d army or of the 1st army in their’ converging advances toward Riga, The 2d army killed 2000 Germans at Krustpils; junction of -the-Mos=— cow-Righ and Daugavpils - Riga railways. . ‘Heavy German counter-attacks

all along the central and southern sectors. of Ane unsElastern front, . tended ifs bulge across the Vistula - river some. 1156 miles below Warsaw and with the 2d army widened the Russian arc paralleling the Czechee slovak border to 180 miles.

No Decisive Change

See-saw battles continued withe out decisive change both in Ware saw’s eastern suburb of Praga and on the immediate approaches to East. Prussia with the Germans fighting a “do-or-die” struggle to protect their eastern frontiers.

combatants from an altitude of four miles to treetop level. The Americans destroyed a number of the enemy planes without loss to themselves.

Other fighter groups, however, en-|

countered only flak and the final report on the raid probably will re-

railway veal no variation from the recent!patvian-Lithuanian border around | sporadic, spotty luftwafle resistance, | Birzai, the Germans charged agdin with fierce, brief attacks against

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