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LECRIPSS CHOWARD VOLUME 55—NUMBER 130

THURSDAY, AUGUST 10, 1944

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“raiders were ready to join the battle

British

in military history. Creation of the new strik-

ing force, drawn from all allied air-borne units in the European theater came as American armored columns fanned out beyond captured Le Mans 100 miles or less from Paris in a drive that threatened to outflahk the French capital from the south. Unconfirmed reports said advanced American spearheads mignt already be only 40 to 50 miles east and southedst of Paris.

Headquarters spokesmen indicated

columns battering against

STOCKHOLM, Aug. 10 (U. P.). «The Nasi-controlled Seandi

garrisons were holdy in Brest, Lorient and Nantes, under heavy attack from American tanks and infantrymen, and another enemy force was holding out in encircled Angers, 50 miles east-northeast of Nantes. American Marauder crews who took part in a raid on Brest late yesterday said the Germans had

begun blocking the great port in| ... apparent, preparation “for its. surrender. i

. Nazis Appear Riddied

Field Marshal Gunther von 's army of the west appeared ha been riddled along the nch front, however, and dramatic disclosure of the new army held ‘promise of fresh disaster for the Nazi commander. The new force, placed under the command of U., 8S. Lt. Gen. ‘Lewis H. Brereton, could sweep down behind the German army anywhere it tried to make a stand agd could turn a géneral Nazi retreat into a military debacle of major propor-

Allied headquarters gave no information on the size of the new striking force, but the announcement indicated that Brereton's sky

for Paris. _ Headquarters spokesmen also gave few details on the progress of the fighting today, beyond disclosure that American units are advancing in the hs Monin sector,

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; Inside War News Reich Mobilizes Civilians........

IKE THROWS SKY ARMY’ IN | FRENCH FIGHT

'Yanks, Chase - Riddled Germans

Toward Paris; Nantes, Angers and Lorient Cut Off.

By VIRGIL PINKLEY United Press Staff /Certgspondent »

SUPREME HEADQUARTERS, A..E. F, Aug. 10.— Allied armies slashed through the riddled German defense arc covering the western and. southwestern approaches. to ‘ Paris today as Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, from his hesdquarters in Normandy, poised a new threat to the Wehrmacht with the formation of the first entirely air-borne army

{the last soldier”y perately against three British and threatened eastern frontiers, front}

DO OR-DIE, NAZIS ORDERED IN EAST

COUNTY G.O.P. GETS PLEDGE OF PATRONAGE

Gates Promises, if Elected, To Dispense Plums on

Fair Basis.

By EARL RICHERT Marion gounty Republicans today had the pledge of G. O. P. Gubernatorial Nominee Ralph Gates that if he is elected governor this fall, the county Republican or will get a share of the state patronage in proportion to its voting strength at the state convention. Mr, Gates made this pledge at an organization ‘meeting of ward chair-| men last night at the Columbia club at which District Chairman

that - iL ts fair ‘share of Jobs at the state house, “1 don't care what Ralph Gates or Homer Capeharf says,” Mr. Bradford stormed at the state leaders and candidates present, “we're going to get our share or we'll béat every one of you.”

Assures “Proper Reward” “I am going to see that you get

Hitler Sends nds 16. Reserve Divisions to Front in Last-Ditch Fight,

By HENRY SHAPIRO United Press Staff Correspondent . MOBCOW, Aug. 10.—Adolf Hitler has sent more than 16 additional divisions—160,000 to 240,000 men— from central Germany and occupied countries into battle on the eastern front and ordered them to “fight to for Germany's

dispatches said today. “Germany is immediately behind vour back.” Hitler was quoted by Nazi prisoners as telling the reserve | divisions in an order of the day.! “If you retreat, you only open the door of your own home to the enemy.” The Germans already were coun. ter-attacking with increasing feroe- | ity on the eastern borders of East Prussia and on the approaches to;

Krakow, key to the southeastern!

invasion route to .Berlin, and apparently had stemmed the Soviet onslaught temporarliy.

. Russians Confident

Russian sources regarded the counter-attacks as the Germans’;

-| last desperate attempt to save their

borders, however, and were con-

fident that the Soviet commanders | committeewomen said that “there| Mr. Kroeger

would smash into the “holy land” of | the Reich after absorbing the full] shock of the enemy's thrusts and regrouping their own forces. A front correspondent for the

semi-official newspaper Pravda said |

Germah prisoners acknowledged that the fate of the third Reich was; being decided on the west bank of the Vistula. Prisoners of one divi-. sion said they had covered the route from Germany to the Vistula in 24! hours and immediately were thrown into battle, Russian reconnaissance pilots said the Germans were feverishly fortifying East Prussian towns. and rushing sipplies and reinforcements into the province under cover of the almost constant counter - attacks, centered principally between the Lithuanian town of Mariampole and the border,

Policemen to Get Days Off Again

POLICEMEN will start getting their days off again this week, Officers have been deprived of days off since July 20, when Police Chief Clifford Beeker cancelled them in a move to curb what he described as a general let-down in police activities. “Conditions have improved since that time,” the chief said today.

| the proper rewards that you've got

coming,” he said, speaking to the|

ward chairmen and vice chairmen present, “1 want the state ticket to stand up and tell us whether you are for us or not.” Mr. Gates, when he arose to speak, asked Mr. Bradford if Marion county had not been fairly treated during the period he was Republican state; chairman. “Yes,” Mr. Bradford replied, “but it's a long-standing grievance.” “Well, we'll try to correct it after January 1,” Mr. Gates said. “0. K.” said Mr, Bradford grimly, you'll deliver.” In speaking to the precinct com-! mitteemen and committewomen | {later at the K. of P. building, Mr.| |Gates said: “If I don't win this! | governorship, you lose as well as 1”

“We Won a Week Age”

| Referring to the recent shakeup in the Marion county election ma« timers, Mr. Bradford said: {| “We won this election a week ago when we made George Johnson ‘general election supervisor Carrol Kramer director of registra- | tions.” (Mr. Johnson is secretary jof the Republican county committee

‘and Mr, Brymer 1s 3 ward chatr-} ;

man). | Mr. Jotwson in speaking later be- | {fore the precinct committeemen and |

isn't any necessity for us to do any {finagling or anything off color to ‘win this fall. All we want is an, {honest chance to conduct an honest | ! election.” Mr, Bradford defended the appointment of an official of the] county committee as election su-| pervisor by saying that the Republican party was in power. and! “has the right to run things.” | “It's time” he shouted, “that we! i take it away from the Democrats.” The ward chairmen applauded. In introducing G. O. P. Senatorial Nominee Homer E. Capehart, Mr. Bradford said, “Brother, he keeps his word.” The 11th district chairman praised Secretary of State Rue Alexander! and Prosecutor Sherwood Blue as “the two guys who during all my years in politics always played ball.” He said that if it had not been for the patronage Mr. Alexander had given the Marion county Republic-| ans at the state house “things would have been in a hel] of a shape.” Attorney General James Emmert pointed out to Mr. Bradford during his speech that five of his 18 deputies and four of his six office secretaries came from Marion county. State Chairman John Lauer said he too favored the distribution of patronage on a proportionate basis and then told the Marion county Republicans to deliver this fall by adding warningly, “By their fruits,

James L. Bradford hotly declared! fi -gounty -has ‘never-goti]

and |

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President Roosevelt and his party are shown as they arrived at St. Louis nompital at Honolulu in the Hawaiian islands. The famous Diamond

Head looms in the Sackgtound,

Frederick C. Kroeger Dead;

Manager of Allison Division

manager of the Allison Division of

Frederick C. Kroeger, general

| General Motors and a vice president of G. M., 56th st. and Delong Road. He was 56. Mr, Kroeger, who was named general manager of the Allison plant!

here in August, 1940, had been in ill

“His friends said that he was a war Casu

hours & day at his job of running anotor manufac-

. ill and had not taken a vacation in three years. Mr. Kroeger

plant at Ander- . son for 11 years prior to coming here to take

president of General Motors shortly after being ap- | pointed general manager of the { Allison plant.

Leading Executive

Mr. Kroeger was recognized: as the {leading General Motors production | executive, He was born Apri] 27, 1886, at | Winona, Minn. the son of Charles] and Amelia Kroeger. He attended; {elementary and high school at| Winona and was graduated from Purdue university in 1911 with the degree of electrical engineer, He entered the service of the General Electric Co. in 1911 as a student engineer and in 1913 became -associated with the Remy Electric Co. at Anderson. He served as research engineer with this company until 1917 when he was placed in charge of electrical equipment design for the Motor Transport Corps of the U. 8. army. Meanwhile, the Remy Electric Co. had been purchased by United Motors in 1916 and through it entered General Motors in 1918. After Mr. Kroeger's service with the army ended in 1919, he rejoined

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Americans Surging Forward on Road Toward Paris

18500 for the coupons taken from a

| |dr, in France. : 8 Audihor, 16. 1. Franes

died today at his home,

health a year.

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had worked 20;

IN BAS oD THEFT S

Coupons Worth 40, 000 Gallons Sold, OPA Charges.

LeRoy Russell, 35, of 1302 W. 22¢ st. was arrested today on OPA charges of selling 40,000 gallons worth of gasoline ‘coypons stolen from the W. Michigan st. branch of the Fletcher Trust Co. bank, where he had worked 19 years as a janitor: He is alleged to .have received

bank vault, where they had been stored for future distribution by ‘ration board 49-4; 2623 w. Michigan st.

mitted stealing at least 8000 B-4 and C-4 stamps worth five gallons each. Working on the theory that Russell disposed of the coupons through a ration stamp theft ring, OPA investigators are checking license numbers on those stamps’ already turned in. Altogether, OPA charges, between 9000 and 12,000 coupons were taken at various Intervie since May 15. Russell was arraigned today before U. 8S. Commissioner Howard Young, and released on a $2500 bond,

Hoosier Heroes—

3D SON IN FAMILY ON CASUALTY LIST

Report Two Other Soldiers Killed in Action.

A third son of an Indianapolis family, Pfc. Charles S. Howard, has been added to the casualty lists, while two other local men have been killed and seven have been wounded.

KILLED

Pvt. Leo L. Priller, 1822 Union st.,

in France. . Cpl. Clifton P. Pershing, 2001

N. Wallace st., in Italy. MISSING Pfc. Charles S. Howard, 1414 King ave, in" France. WOUNDED First Lt. John M. Ballard, 3360 N.| Meridian st, Apt. G-1, on Anzio, .

Capt. Nicholas W. Hatfield, 3850 Guilfora ave, on Biak island.

Pvt, Albert Osborn, 1207 Newman In in France. Pie. Eugene Ross, 1931 West View

First, Lt. Louls W. Bruck Jr, 52

James Graig, 310 E. 2h st,

In OPA affidavits, Russell ad- |.

Acme Telephoto.

President Roosevelt, Gen. MacArthur ‘and Adm. Nimitz are shown peering from an automobile window in Hawaii as‘ they inspected military installations during the President's tour of the islands.

Sidelights of President's

Inspection Trip to Hawaii

HONOLULU, July 20 (Delayed) (U. P.)—Sidelights of President

Roosevelt's visit to Hawaii;

Mr. Roosevelt ‘saw Japanese war prisoners for the first time: during | lon this rugged island of Oahu from™

his visit here.

island fighting, were milling aimlessly around behind the barbed wire fencing or sitting- on cots in their tents. Most of the prisoners appeared unusually young and none of them seemed to recognize the President or show any interest in the procession of cars. ” = ” Many people on Oahu island were convinced that Churchill, | Chiang Kai-shek and Stalin were here for the conferences. Some professed to having seen them riding down the street.

The Honolulu Advertiser, the morning newspaper, carries a8 regular daily feature called “Ten Years Ago Today in Honolulu.” On July 26 this department printed the fact that exactly 10 years ago President Roosevelt had arrived for his first

Going through Camp Catlin, a marine reception center, he.drove by a large, heavily guarded compound where the Japanese, taken in

: President Spends 3 Days ol on

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DEPARTS FOR UNANNOUNCED

Oahu; Makes Trip

On Cruiser.

By MERRIMAN SMITH United Press Staff Correspondent * HONOLULU, July 29 (Delay ed).—President Roosevelt today completed three days of Hawaiian conferences with Gen. Douglas MacArthur and Adm. Chester Nimitz on war plans to crush the Japanese with new offensives, and personally re newed his pledge that MacArthur would return to the Philippines with triumphant U. S. forces. | Mr. Roosevelt told a press conference at the conclusion of his vis to this "mighty Pacific his conferences with the tgh commanders and his first-hand inspection made him more confitient than ever that the Japanese will be smashed into unconditiofial surrender. The President came here by

cruiser, and sailed today for an undisclosed destination.

First Disclosure

(This dispatch was the first dist's wheres “fourths

Dase

since hé

term acceptance speech July 320

from a West coast base, now ree vealed to have been the marine base at San Diego. (It also was the first word that

in this country to bring him fore ward as a possible Republican presidential candidate, had left. his headquarters in the Southwest Pacific to meet the President.) We are going to get the Philip pines back and give them their independence as soon as the Lord will allow, Mr. Roosevelt said, and there is no question as to MacArthur's part in the operation,

Talks at Length

leaders of the Pacific war effort ard

Head the key military air and naval visited almost every war installation

| the giant naval base at Pearl Hare bor to ti mountain-top posts. He stee himself in the Pacifie

war, talking with generals and ade

visit.

back for the third time.”

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in the islands.

nesses. the islands is about 160,000, mos

population is 310,503. = » The ‘largest concentration of manpower the President saw was at Schofield barracks on July 27 when he reviewed the 7th division

visit to Hawaii, That was July 26,

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Anybody Makes Mistakes, Ernie Tells 'Error’ Pilots

By ERNIE PYLE

Times

War Correspondent

IN NORMANDY (By Wireless). —With our own personal danger past, our historic air bombardment ‘of the German lines holding us in the Normandy beachhead again became: a captivating spectacle to

watch. : By now it was definite that the

great waves of four-motored planes

were dropping their ‘deadly loads exactly in the ‘right place. And by now two Mustang fighters, flying like a pair of doves, patrolled back and forth, back and forth, just in front of each on- . coming wave of bombers, as if to shout to them by their mere presence .that here was not the ‘place to drop—wait a few seconds, a a few

"And then we could see a flare

come out of the:belly of ‘one plane

in each flight, just after they had passed over our heads. The fla

Ee i, downward curve that waa Orie; of. the Togh

crayon drawing rapid line sere pe Here!

1934, On July 26; 1944, Mr. Roosevelt arrived again for his second He later told workers at the Pearl Harbor navy yard he hoped “It won't be 10 years before I come

One of the most continually surprising sights for a newcomer to Hawaii is the thousands of Japanese, many of them naturalized citizens, Japanese do vir= tually all of the servant. werk on Oahu and own a number of busiThe Japanese population of

of them on Qahu, where the total

mirals, and with wounded buck pri vates as their litters were lifted from hospital planes from Saipan. He saw hundreds of planes, many of them recently in. from=combat against Japanese aircraft. He saw powerful units of the fleet, at sea as well as at Pearl Harbor, now one of the most heavily armed spots in the world. The chief executive said his three days of strategy conferences and ine

tremely successful,

the American people soon, in a radio broadcast, en his trip.

Other Participants

Key figures in his war strategy talks were MacArthur, supreme commander in the Southwest Pacific, who saw the President for the first time since the war began, and Nimitz, commander of the Pa= cific fleet and the Pacific ocean area. Adm. William PF. Halsey, coms mander of the 3d fleet, and Lt. Gen, Robert C. Richardson, commanding general of the army forces in the Pacific, were frequently in consul tation with the chief executive. Other participants’ were Adm. William D. Leahy, chief of staff te the chief executive, and Vice Adm. | Rob T. Ghormley, commandant of the 14th naval district, : The President reviewed a battle hardened army division—the 7th at Schofield barracks high in the

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STOCKTON, Cal, Aug. 10 PJ.—Five hundred of 1800 Germs prisoners of war at the

that

MacArthur, who disavowed efforts =

The President talked at length

spection trips around Oahu were eX

Mr. Roosevelt plans to report to

NAZI WAR PRISONERS HOLD SITDOWN STRIKE