Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 August 1944 — Page 2

fy Chel in Germany _ Mobilized for Total War

a % By JOSEPH W. GRIGG A United Press Staff Correspondent N, Aug. 10.—In a new and ruthless “total -war” decree, the Nazis made further demands on Germany's almost-exhausted home | front reserves today by ordering hitherto exempt men into uniform to | reinforce the reeling Wehrmacht and by mobilizing virtually all other

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civilians to work in the Reich's war industries. The official German D. N. B. news aggncy, announcing the decree

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War Effort Joseph Goebbels, said | still further measures may be expected soon and added ° ‘everything also must disappear from public life whichis not completely in accord with the harshness of the struggle of German destiny.’ Under the new decree, thousands | of government and Nazi party of ficials, key men in armament factories and others who have been reserved as indispensable for the last five years will be sent into battle on the Reich's crumbling eastern, western .and southern fronts. The decree is not only aimed at driving as many workers as pos-

sible directly. into war industries, | Frontier reports said today that |

but also orders an intensification’ of work at home by people who are not subject to work in the factories. Warning the people of the virtual mobilization of every one of the 80,000,000 German men, women and children for the total war effort, D. N. B. said “in the various fields of public life, the decree will impose considerable restrictions in which the entire population must participate.” Goebbels, it added, “lays greatest umphasis on as equitable a distribution as possible of these burdens.” 1. All female domestic help and foreign workers to be transferred to, armament industry.

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” 2 All sections of cultural life wil be considerably reduced; for exam- | ple, during the next few days the, entire group of young people work-

ing in films and in the theater will |

be transferred to armament plants. 3. Certain measures, yet to be announced, for husbanding manpower in internal administration, railways and postal services. 4. Public life to be adapted to the principles and necessities of total war. (“It is not,” DNB commented, “the ld ornateness of a meeting that will measure its.importance in the future, but rather its simplicity and utility.”) 5. Cancellation of all public {funetions of non-military character, such as receptions, introductions into office, theater weeks, festivities, musical festivals, openings of exhiand commemoration cerewhich do not directly enthe war effort. today the German radio that all movie usherettes attendants will be inated and no more tickets will be printed fdr theaters with less ¥ 400 seats. The radio said the tter decree would release 48 printers who hitherto had worked at full time jobs printing movie tickets. ] “The German people in all expressions of their life,” D. N. B. said, “will show one thing—unshakeable will to go through this struggle for their threatened national existence at any cost to a victorious end.”

DINAH SHORE IN FRANCE HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 10 (U. P.).~— Dinah Shore has arrived in France

NAZIS EXECUTE KIN OF GENERALS

Wives, Children and Parents Put to Death; Civilian On Trial.

By ALDO FORTE United Press Staff Correspondent

BERN, Switzerland, Aug. 10. —

German execution squads have put to death the wives, children, parents, other relatives and even ‘the intimate friends of the eight German army officers hanged in Berlin Tuesday for complicity in the abortive plot against Adolf Hitler. The executions of the relatives, in some cases extending to cousins, were carried out Tuesday, informants .said, presumably simultaneously with or within a few hour§ of the death on- the gallows of Marshal Erwin von Witzlében and seven other officers for treason in conspiring to set up a peace SU AR EERE rman. os Many other German civilians also {were understood to have been !placed on trial for complicity in

[the plot and it was believed that ||

their fate would be disclosed in an lofficial communique expected to be issued soon.

Occurs 24 Hours Late

Frontier reports said the bomb {explosion July 20 which nearly took Hitler's life ‘had been planned to occur while he was conferring with Benito Mussolini, premier of the puppet Fascist government of Italy, but occurred 24 hours after the Hit-ler-Mussolini meeting because of a last-minute change. Besides Von Witzleben, the German officers hanged following trial and conviction by a “people's court” Tuesday were Col. Gen. Erich Hopenener, Maj. Gen. Hellmuth Stieff, Lt. Gen. Paul von Hase, Lt. Col. Robert Bernadis, Capt. Friedrich Karl Klausing, Lt. Count York von Wattenburg, and Lt. Albrecht von Hagen.

CATHOLIC ALUMNI WILL MEET SUNDAY

The International Federation of Catholic Alumni in co-operation

with the Legion of Mary will sponsor a’'day of recollection Sunday at! Marian college. With the Rev. Edward C. Bauer|

mass and end with a holy hour at] 4a m

Reservations are being made,

as spiritual adviser for the occasion, ‘| the day will begin at 8:30 a. m. with |

with a group of U. 8. O. entertain- | through Miss Bertha Buehler, chair- | ers for a stay of eight weeks, her man, 5445 Central ave, or phone

secretary announced today.

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