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VOLUME 55—NUMBER 131

FRIDAY, AUGUST 11, 1944

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‘VANISH’ FROM A BUDGET LIST

Beeker Had Them Slated for "45, Finds Them ‘Scratched’ On Galley Proofs.

By SHERLEY UHL What happened to Chief Beeker’s 45 “missing” trafic patrolmen and why did the chief suggest salary boosts for three key police captains? will city employees receive a blanket pay raise as previously an-

Police Give Remy Efficiency Touch, Tagging His Car

SAFETY BOARD PRESIDENT WILL H. REMY, the town's foremost exponent of police effisiency, was victimized by his own “no favorites’ policy today. Hopping gingerly, into his car, parked in the 200 block on W. Maryland st, Mr. Remy found himself face to face with a— you guessed it—parking sticker, Police who tagged his sleek Oldsmobile blandly ignored the three bristling radio aerials. Several teen-age youngsters passing by as Mr. Remy extracted the sticker from beneath his windshield, shouted, “Hey, mister, are you going to pay .that sticker.”. Beet-faced, the safety board president grinned: “Sure .,. I'm not sacred.”

nounced, or won't they? Which city councilmen agreed to #fall in line? with FUSIeTat ie, of Chief Job Surveyor Fred

ford of the J. L. Jacobs & Te i

budget engineers, at a meeting it the office of Republican County Chairman Henry. E. Ostrom, and] Which didn't?

PLAN A TIGHTER

USED CAR POLICY

"These and many other questions | OPA Discovers Price Ceiling!"

may or may not be answered at the ‘next episode of city councils budget review at 4 p. m. today. As budget reviews go, the current production is worthy of Cecil B, DeMille. ;

They Stage a Rehearsal

For instance, last night the safety jour

Evasion Through ‘Side | | Agreements.’ OPA officials today prepared a

strict enforcement “policy on used] Iwill have a better opportunity toforce, striking in the Philippinest for the first time since they werej {than they had snytime during the! {lost in April, 1942, opened the atboard and Police Chief Clifford Month's operation during which a!y4 vears of the Democratic admin- 'tacks Sunday night by bombing{

ceiling prices following a]

| ointment of their registration offi-

TILSON BALKS AT RUSH CALL BY DEMOCRATS

Insists on Checking List Of Officers Selected

For Registration.

Answering demands of Democratic leaders for immediate ap-

cers, County Clerk A. Jack Tilson today declared that he would not be “stampeded into haphazard registration of voters.” . Democratic leaders last Wednesday submitted 85 names for Mr. Tilson to appoint as registration officers, demanding ihat they be {put to work at once. The Jt Sibuiiieg by the Dembe given every considee ve me,” Mr. Tilson said. ‘Pirst we check the list and deter~ | mine their qualifications undet the law. Then I will make the appointments in due time.” The clerk said that ‘Henry E. | Ostrom, county Republican chairman, had not yet submitted a G. O. P. list of registration officials.

Gives Voters Assurance

“I will assure the voters that they

! register belore the Oct. 9 deadline;

Beeker staged a full-dress rehearsal | {large number of evasions were re-|istration,” Mr. Tilson said.

of their popular road-show, “Who's | Running the Police Department, and | Why?" Council, highly

browning the ozone. Yawning councilmen said

ported.

“Bide” agreements

“There has been ‘adverse crit-

developed (icism by certain classes of people campaign {among the trade, OPA officials that Republicans have control of Tuesday nights. entertained at said, reporting that refusal by some the election machinery . | first, later became bored and walked dealers to sell to individuals with- tainly we have contrel for the! {shortly after it was disclosed that out while the debate was still out a trade-in was quite widespread. {simple, fundamental reason that Mr. Roosevelt personally renewed The OPA ruling states specifically the law gives the election winners! his pledge to the general at an they that the dealer has no power to the right to control the election historic conference in Hawaii that

. CeP=

thought the board should thrash refuse sale of a car for want of machinery.”

put its budget troubles at its own

weekly get-togethers. . |

one to trade in. “Forcing individuals to have a!

Mr. Tilson said .he would assure ithe Democrats that there will be

The chief, it seems, had 45 new car to trade in is resulting in going enough registration officers ap-|

traffic patroimen slated for 1045, over ceiling prices” Russell Smith, ‘pointed to gef every voter or so he thought until he blinked OPA enforcement attorney, said Marion county registered properly. jot Mindanao, second largest island

two or three times at galley proofs’

of next year’s budget, used by city}

council for revision purposes. His patrolmen were not on the proofs

today. , “This operation usually is ac complished all in one transaction,” he said. “An individuals desiring a!

in;

James L. Beattey, Democratic |! ‘county chairman, announced that ia law suit will be filed against Mr.| Tilson within the next few days:

Blast Airdromes

KS 46 MILES FROM PARIS? RUSS AIM T0 SPLIT NAZI ARMIES;

BOMB PHILIPPINES THREE TIMES

At Davao on “Mindanao.

By WILLIAM B. DICKINSON United Press Staff Correspondent

ALLIED HEADQUAR-{ TERS, Southwest Pacific,|

Aug. 11.—Gen. Douglas MacArthur revealed today that

his heavy bombers have be-|

gun a bombardment qf the Philippines which President -Roose-

velt promised would be invaded and}

{iberated. z ‘Liberators of the Far Eastern air

ithe airdromes at

MacArthur's announcement came}

‘he would return to the Philippines ‘with triumphant U. S. forces. First Philippine Raids ; The raids on Davao, principal city

the archipelago, were the first land indicated the extent of MacArthur's conquests through the {Southwest Pacific.

Beeker stared Inquirinsly at Safety car is told he can't have one without if the Democratic registration ol Since the Philippines were gol Board Commissioners Will H. Remy a trade-in, But, the dealer will then pointees are not certified at once. |

and Paul Robertson, both of whom! denied knowing anything about the mystery. .

my own the chief told the counc is the first time I knew sheets.” ; Caplaincies Cause Dispute

Meanwhile, the two safety coms! missioners sioner Smiley Chambers was absent) | were bridling at a little budget item creating three desk captaincies at one $3600 a vear, $585 more than is re-| ceived by field captains. Board President it Remy said he

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Hoosier Heroes—

CPL. HOWARD CLARK LOSES LIFE IN CRASH

2d Son‘in Family Killed

In Combat Action. .

A plane crash in the United States has claimed the life of a former Indianapolis youth, and combat action has taken the life of the second son of an Indianapplis fam-

KILLED

Cpl. Howard L. Clark, formerly of Indianapolis, near Sioux City. 8S. Sgt. Louis M. Hilscher, 546 E. 10th st. in Germany. Pfe. Thomas T. Wilson, Blaine ave, in France. Pvt. Kenneth Meyer, 1423 Brunswick ave, in France, MISSING Pvt. John L. Phillips, Meridian st. in France. Second Lt. Roy F. Huls, 3113 Ruckle st., over Hungary. WOUNDED

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1730 8.

Pfc. Harry E, Smith, 1051 W. 31st

st, in France, 8S. Sgt. Delmar G. Hiatt, R. R. 15, Box 522, in France, : Pfc. Maurice Hindman, 516 N. Rural st, on Saipan. Pvt. Donald A, Banders, 16th st., in France’

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LOCAL TEMPERATURES

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they had! been scratched from the galley

{Democratic Commis-!

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say he has a car he will sell.”

{according 0 , Smith. Car, bought for ah purposes, ‘purchased at a ceiling price, =ay, $400. It is then traded in for 8 {reasonable price of true worth to the dealer at $200. Car B, the de{sired gutomobile, is sold at ceiling price, say, of $800. Result, total money received by dealer, $1000. { Of sales in Marion county during the period July 10-31, there were 277 warranted cars sold by dealers; £5 non-warranted cars were soid by dealers and 243 were individual-to-individual sales, The balance, 98, involved sales in which records | submitted to OPA were incomplete. These are being examined and 21 already have resulted in adjust ments between buyer and seller. "Many errors inadvertently were made by dealers TS becoming familiar

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40,000 JAPS LISTED

A is of

ror Gurteb :

P) Police reported today “that: they had received mans protests against a8 new curfew ordinance after a 15-year-cid girl restanrant employee was arrested for violating the measures provisions, “The girl, Betty Rayls, was spauthorities, after she said she went outside the ress faurant after 11 p. m. to “get some fresh air” She told the . police she worked nights to help support .a large family. The girl and her mother were “cited in city court. Other youths under 17 were besieging the police department for permission to continue in night. - jobs, but officials said there were no exemptions in the ordinance pr indicated that they would

PEARL HARBOR, Aug. 11 (U. P.). American forces were believed today to have killed more than 140,000 Japanese in the eight-week | Marianas campaign that conquered { Guam, Saipan and Tinian and provided strong bases within 1500 miles of Tokyo. 3 Total American casuaities—dead, wounded and missing—were 25530, compared to an actual’count of 37.551 enemy dead in the Marianas, The American casualties in the three islands were: Saipan—(25 days)—3049 killed, 13,048 wounded, 355 missing Guam-—(21 days) — 1214 5704 wounded, 329 missing. Tinjan— (nine days)—100 killed, 1515 wounded, 24 missing.

200 DIE IN AVALANCHE

SANTIAGO, Chile, Aug. 11 (U. P.).—Rescue workers searched today for the bodies of an estimated {200 persons who were buried two | days ago when two avalanches |g {poured hundreds of tons of earth and snow down on the mining town {of Sewell, nearly 95000 feet above sea level in the heart of the Andes.

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KILLED IN 8 WEEKS,

enforce the law without Exception,

PLANE PLANTS FACE OUTPUT CUTBACK

Other Industry Expected to. Absorb 120,000 Workers.

By FRED W. PARKER WASHINGTON, « Aug. 11.—~The vast aircraft building program, which sent aloft a mighty air army to help roll back axis armies in Burope and Africa, faced its first major retrenchment today and & shift in emphasis to the giant “super” bombers needed to defeat Japan. The war department advised the war production board last night that as a result of the successful Normandy invasion it was cutting back production of four-motored B-2¢ Liberator bombers, C-46 cargo planes and possibly r Thunderbolt fighters. The drastic readjustment will release 120,000 aircraft workers bri

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By ERNIE PYLE Times War Correspondent ON THE WESTERN FRONT

* and again to describe to you what this weird hedgerow fighting in northwestern France has been like. But I'm going to go over it once

the new comic with

more, for we've been in it two

itured, MacArthur has brought his {allied forces from the squtheastern; {tip of New Guinea, op ueite Aus-. ralia, to Sansapar, at. the west

Within range of allied air on Noemfoor and Biak island Geelvink bay, Davao apparently was

what was expected to be a mountir

campaign. The attacks followed almost 8 raids on Halmahera isiand, off § ‘northwestern tip of Dutch Neéw Guinea, and considered a strategic

250 miles from the Philippines.

river valley, in horthern.British New: Guinea east of Aitape,' ceased Wednesday, after American jungle fighters killed or wounded 15,000 of the 45000 starving Japanese who futilely attempted to break through

Davao on Min-§ idahao island and continued the through Monday and]

selected as the opening target of | refin

i wood and paper buildings of con-

The communique disclosed that all |, enemy resistance in the Driniumor {longest bombing flight in the his-

He Swan 'Man Rope’ to Shore

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Gene Oxley, B. R. 16, double-feature Indianapolis hero, is con- | gratulated by Senator Samuel D. Jackson (D. Ind.) for his outstanding |

acts in the Normandy and - invasions,

3 B-29'S LOST | IN NEW RAIDS

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Supatiorts Dlget Nagasaki

Japanese

A Bced toda from a new secret 20th air force base near the equator reported that huge fires were started at both targets, and that flames spread rapidly through the flimsy

gested Nagasaki when the B-29's | for the first time droped incendi-! aries on the enemy's homeland. The raid on Sumatra was the

tary of aerial warfare, involving a round-trip of apparently 3600 to 4000 miles. Shr

Three Bombers ot Three of the huge ‘bombers were

the allied encirclement, Hit Carolines Again

alized forces which escaped our e circling movements are fleeing to Wewak,” the communique sail. |“This crushing defeat has destroyed | the combat effectiveness of Gen. Adachi’s 18th army.”

bombers continued their strikes into! the Carolines Wednesday, to drop 25 tons of explosives on the neuin the eighth raid in nine days. (A Jupanese Domei agéncy dispatch, recorded by FCC. monitors, said allied bombers and fighters attacked Yap again yesterday to- | gether with new raids on Halmahera on New Guinea. that more than 50 IK part in a two-day assault on" Wasile, on Halmahera, Wednesday and Thursday.)

TYNDALL NAMES ROGERS Dr. Clark TS. was named Yoday by Mayor Tyndall to replace A. PF. Weyenbacher, whose recet resignation because of the press

(By Wireless) —I know that all of - us correspondents have tried time .

of business created a vacancy on the ; city health board.

Hedgerow War Is Creep, Crawl, Squat, Wait, Shoot

{European war.

lane, and this company is respon--sible for clearing the two fields on:

either side of the road as it ade |

vances, That means you have only about one platoon to a field: And with

| unaccounted for and a fourth was |strafed by enemy fighters after

“Remnants of the enemy's demor=|

b;

The communique said Liberator.

making a forced landing at an jergency field in China during twp-way essault on the enemy's ig war production machinery, imunique said. icative of the spreading scope ot the allied thrusts against Japan, y raids were launched from two ses—the Nagasaki raiders from ina fields and the Palembang raiders from unidentified fields un- |. der Lord Louis Mountbatten's: Southeast Asia command. | This long-distance of the attack, plus the disclosure that the big aircraft are operating from Mount- | {batten's territory as well as from China, served to emphasize the abillity of the B-20's to live up to their assigned puropse—far-ranging strategic bombing in a truly global war.

BREAK OF SWEDEN WITH REICH HINTED

Relations Seen Hinging on. Moves in Baltic, Arctic. STOCKHOLM, Aug. 11 (U. PJ.

that Sweden may sever relations with ‘and perhapsdeclare wir on Germany before the end of the oo

Authoritative Swedish sources

Germany was possible, such action depended upon developments in the Baltic and Arctic war theaters.

At least two potentialities were| {foreseen that would bring Sweden} {into Giplomatic ¢ or miliasy conflict |

Swedish circles speculated today] &

acknowledged that a break with. but said}

| Coast Guard Hero Oxley to Visit Mother.

By DANIEL M. KIDNEY 4 Times Staff Writer WASHINGTON, Avg.

11, «

a two-week furlough that he h earned the hard way. 2 It has been two years since he has seen his mother, Mrs. Hazel L. Oxley, who lives outside the city on rural route 16. And Gene has some very hair-raising tales to tell. i Twice he swam ashore under | gunfiré dragging the “man rope” of his landing craft, only to have the boats sink. Many of the si | { tiers he was trying to get ash | were shot down.

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THREATEN TO

‘Americans Advanci

ng on 30-Mi. Front

In Multi-Pronged Drives Deep

Inside France.

By VIRGIL,

PINKLEY

United Press Staff Correspondent

SUPREME HEADQUARTERS, A. E. F., Aug. 11.—The

outer: defenses of Paris, barely 46 miles west of. the capital, were reported under attack by American armored columns today as Lt. Gen. Omar N. Bradley's tanks and infantrymen {fanned out along an 80-mile front in a multipronged drive ‘that also menaced Orleans and the entire German rear in | Normandy.

Front reports said the fast- rolling Americans had driven

155 to almost 70 miles beyond the shattered Sarthe river line ‘and were still smashing eastward today against disorganized | German resistance.

‘An allied radio transmitter in France said forward ele-

FLANK WARSAW

New Attack in South Poland Comes as Foe Fights | For E. Prussia.

BULLETIN

Russians resumed their all-out of- | fensive along the 500-mile eastern front today as Germans ad- |

MOSCOW, Aug. 11.—The 1st] Ukrainian army drove a giant,

itoday, threatening to split the Ger-| {flank Warsaw from the south.

o other Russian armies—the: ‘and 2d White Russian—ad-

{vanced up to 10 miles in co-

| ordinated assaults designed to {erumple the German defenses! Ibetween Warsaw and East Prussia

ments were storming Cha- | teaudun, 70 miles southwest (of Paris, and the U. S. army

newspaper Stars and Stripes reported that another Yankee column was nearing Chartres, 46 miles from the capital. The Americans at Chateaudun were cnly 28 miles northwest of Or-

LONDON, Aug. 11 (U. P)o=— Bombs over southern broke the robot blitz lull today

i after the first quiet night since { July 14, while LONDON, Aug. 11 (U. P.).—The | ports

{isolate Paris .

i France.

There was every indication that Nazi communications were falling

| wedge across Southern Poland toto pieces under the lightning Tmerwithin 18 miles or less of Kielce |

ican thrust, and that the enemy commanders themselves were un-

{man armies in Poland and out-| {certain as to. where the main at-

tack was pointed. Allied headquarters spokesmen, consequently, refused to reveal the exact location of the American spearheads. | They hinted broadly, MNéwever, |that one wing of Bradley's striking

It happened at Salerno and 'and ultimately outflank the em- force was wheeling northward across again on the beach at Normandy. battled Polish capital from the the lines of communication of the

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U.S, FLEET CAMPS

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ON JAPAN DOORSTE

Amphibious Headquarters’

Set Up at Saipan.

By RICHARD W. JOHNSTON | United Press Staff Correspondent ¢ ABOARD ADM. TURNER'S FLAGSHIP in the Marianas, Aug. 11.—Vice Adm. Richmond Kelly | Turner announced today the estab-|

ent of his Pacific fleet am) ‘phib eadguarters on Saipan island the doorstep to Japan.

. In an advance of more than 3000 miles from Pearl Harbor, the head-

north. The Germans were putting up | their bitterest defense of the sum- | mer offensive and front dispatches {said the Nazi commas had thrown caution to the winds in hurling!

tank reserves against Russian mo-|

"bile guns and anti-tank artille {along a 360-mile front from Rit ito Warsaw, . Whole German divisions were be ing sacrificed in a frantic race with! | time to permit the TODT organi{zation to complete the fortification of East Prussia and to enable the \wehrmacht to. reorganize its battered torces for the defense of both | East Prussia and Warsaw. In the last 24 hours alone, the

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On the War Fronts

(Aug. 11, 1944)

[shattered enemy divisions holding out in the Mortain-Vire salient and on the British front below Caen.

27 Miles From Mortain

American troops ‘were -disclosed to have swung east and northeast of Mayenne in an apparent ene | veloping maneuver that brought em within 27 miles of Mortain, {where the Germans had committed | four panzer divisions to a- bloody {and unsuccessful attempt to split {the allied forces in Normandy from | the Americans in Brittany. The new spearhead also was only

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TWO ALLIED PLANES . DOWNED IN TURKEY

i | ANKARA, Aug. 11 (U. P).—Alr raid alerts were sounded twice yes~ | terday in Istanbul when unidenti< | fied planes approached. Anti-aire

quarters was established on the; FRANCE—Yanks probing outer de- craft guns bagged the two planes

newly conquered island, less than 1500 miles from Tokyo, and, Turner said, will be maintained there “until! I can move farther forward.”

POPE, TAYLOR CONFER VATICAN CITY, Aug. 11 (U.P). —Pope Pius held a private audience! today ‘with Myron Taylor, President Roosevelt's personal emissary to the Vatican.

fenses of Paris, may be only 46; miles away.

. {RUSSIA — Russians drive giant

wedge across Southern Poland.

AIR WAR—Vast fleets of bombers

blast Reich for 12th day.

PACIFIC—B-29's raid Jap ome

land; Philippines raided for first] time.

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| responsible only to discover that ‘both were friendly. During the first alert, a British plane returning from a mission in | Romania was shot down. The crew | parachuted to safety. | During the second, an American | bomber was forced down. The only casualties were seven persons injured when an anti-air- | craft shell landed on a textile plant. » s