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VOLUME 5—NUMBER 18
MONDAY, AUGUST
14, 1944
Entered as Sécond-Class Matter at Posioffice Indianapolis 9, Ind. Issued daily except Sunday
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| Let Not A Single German Escape’ (1
By Lous F. KEEMLEE 4
United Press Foreign Bditer Gen. Eisenhower's order of the day to i allied sol-
diers, sailors and airmen under his command states explicitly the guiding principle behind the campaign in France, which is the destruction of the German armies. : The message conveyed by the order was not “On to Paris,” but “Let not a single German escape.” The only
Oldest Indiana Legionnaire Here
Oldest member of the state American Legion In attendance at the convention here is A. C. “Cap” Dugnelson, 85, of Terre Haute. City comptroller of Terre Haute, Mr. Dunneison organized his own outfit In world war I and commanded an infantry company In the “Cyclone” division. He says he likes to have his picture taken for “the children”
GROUP TO VOTE
ON STATE CHIEF
Supporters of Bai of Both=Cand dates Now Predicting
Victory.
Supporters of both candidates for
Indiana legion commander, Willam (Billy) Brown of Bloomiggton and Wayne L. Lowe of Terre were claiming victory as naires attending the state
tion here prepared to ballot for}
state commander this afternoon.
Although Mr, Brown has been in-|
dorsed by several legion districts, Mr. Lowe remains confident that he will poll enough votes to gain the
ebmmandership for which he made!
an unsuccessful race last year,
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Other state officers will be named ~
for -the posts of ern and southern vice commanders, finance officer, chaplain, sergeant-at-arms and national convention delegates snd alternates. ; -Dr, A. R, Killian, former department commander, of Lafayette, will ‘Install the successful candidates.
Study Resolutions Resolutions scheduled to be adopt.
ed by Legionnaires proposed: That all rights of the individual
Wayne L. Lowe, bottom, candidates for state Legion commander.
JACKSON, SCHRICKER CONFER ON STRATEGY
Senator Samuel D. Jackson, Democratic gubernatorial nominee,
which have been surrendered during; 2
wartime be restored immediately when hostilities end. That the Legion oppose all radical changes in our form of government, constitution or traditional American
way of life which are proposed dur
ing the period of conversion from war to peace and all forms of communism, fascism or other ideologies alien to the America which our forefathers established and which we have fought to maintain. That existing war contract settle-
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"HOOSIER CHRISTENS
NEW U. S. SUBMARINE!
MANITOWOC, Wis, Aug. 14 (U. P.).—The submarine Logger head was christened yesterday by Mrs. Mason Fox, Plymouth, Ind. at the Manitowoc Shipbuilding Co. yards. Mrs. Fox, the widow of a fighter-bomber pilot killed in Italy last February, is secretary to Sen- * stor Raymond E. Willis (R. Ind).
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. The senator said he intends to conduct an tensive campaign. Both addressed the state Legion convention here today. :
COLLECT TIN CANS OVER NORTH SIDE
The ta can salvage galicction got
‘Ends 18 Months of Silence
Germans to survive, the supreme commander said, must
be those who surrender.
Part of the German 7th army may pull out of the trap, which’ is swiftly closing, but Eisenhower evidently hopes that if there is no let-up by the ground and air forces, it will be a broken army and that the final down- . fall of the enemy will be brought measurably nearer.
The possibilities of the
insist
OVERTHROW OF HITLER ASKED BY VON PAULLS
With an Admission War Is Lost.
MOSCOW, Aug. 14 (U. P.). — Field Marshal Friederich Von Paulus, Germany's “hero of Stalingrad” and the high-| est ranking military leader to fall into Russian hands, ended 18 months of.sullen silence with a dramatic admission that the Reich
‘hostile and refused to answer even | the most formal questions put to b by his Soviet captors. H top - aides, including Gen. Walter von Seydlits who became { president of the Soviet-sponsored i union of Free German ab. ceded almost immediately game was up and began broadcasting peace appeals to their former comrades. : Yon Paulus Stubbern : Until today's announcement, however, Von Paulus had been regarded as the most stubborn and intransigeant of all the captured German leaders. A facsimile of Paulus’ statement! dated Moscow, Aug, 8, published in Pravda, blamed Hitler for Germany's plight and said only a new regime could insure the reich's surviving. Paulus addressed his statement to German prisoners. . He told them that the Russian army already had reached the East Prussian border, while in France Anglo-American troops had broken the German de-
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WAR ANALYSIS—
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where ‘the Nazis are
have definite proof ; of a larger V-2
has lost the war, and joined with]
Major allied victory which
Eisenhower sees within his grasp described as “infinitely greater” than anything it has been possible to accomplish
so far in the west.
It is evident that the occupation of Paris is expected to come incidentally with the victory in Normandy. Capture of Paris will be not only a great psychological gain, but will deprive the enemy of the nerve center of com-
munications in France.
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More important is to what extent the Germans will be able to recover from the body blow which is being
inflicted south of the Seine. back against that river and make a stand along it.
The enemy is being pushed presumably will attempt to
Such a stand is not likely to be in the direction of
Paris to protect the capital,
which is decisively flanked
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‘GREATEST VICTORY POSSIBLE NOW —IKE; ALLIES RACING TO CLOSE TRAP IN FRAN CE ‘STALINGRAD HERO’ URGES SURI
EAT AER BARRAGE RIP ESCAPE PATHS
‘Near Juncture ve. of Falaise
| | Behind Perhaps 100,000
| of Foe.
By VIRGIL PINKLEY United Press Staff Correspondent
i SUPREME HEADQUARTERS, A. E. F, Aug. 14. — | Three allied armies converged ‘behind a great aerial and artillery barrage on the ane cient Norman town of Falaise today, racing through disintegrating enemy opposition lioward a juncture, that would complete the 1 perhaps 100,000 Germans and sedl the igreatest victory of the war in the west. Meanwhile, Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower declared in a confident order of the day that the battle was shaping up as the greatest triumph of the French campaign, and called
upon his armies to take advantage of a “fieeting but definite opportunity” to make this a mo=
*{mentous week in the history of the
{ war. 8 Only a narrow corridor that by inow might measure 12 miles or
' |less. remained open to the broken
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remnants of 12 divisions of the |German 7th and 15th armies reelling back on Pats and the Seine { river, and American, British and
While Aisin divisions FL foward Paris on the Chartres road, others veered fo the left fo take Argentan in a drive from Le Mans and [Canadian armor was smashing in now are only 12 miles from Canadian troops thrusting southward of Falaise to seal a trap which might ensnare 100,000 Germans,
§ the) Hoosier Heroes—
GPL. JOHN-YOLL AND LT. O'BRIEN KILLED
Pfc. George Wilson Also
Gives Life for Nation.
Three more Indianapolis men | have been killed, two on foreign the division was led by a brigadier soil and one in an automobile crash,
here in the states. ‘Another local! man is missing in action and four have been wounded. KILLED Cpl. John Hogue Voll, 347 N. Graham st., in Italy. Second Lt. John W. (Jack) O'Brien, 6259 N. Pennsylvania st., near Wilmington, N. C. Pfc. George Warren Wilson, 1525 Dudley ave., on Saipan. MISSING Pvt. Norman B. Angrick, 819 S. Tremont st., in France. WOUNDED
Pvt. Carl Limbach, O17-E. 50th st., in France. Pfc. Richard PF. Morris, 830 N. Oakland ave. on Saipan. Pvt, Tilford Coyle, 1926 N. Tacoma ave. in France. Pvt. Allen French, 828 S. Shepard st, in European area.
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French Veterans Motorized By U. S. Join Allies in France IN PLOT WITH J
By HENRY T. GORRELL United Press Staff Correspondent
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{and half-tracks, it is possible to reveal today.
de Guerre. of “Jacques le Clerc” ‘and who gained fame by leading {the famous march of a Free French column from Lake Chad to join the battle for Tunisia last year.) The motorized French are co-. operating in the American drive northward from Le Mans aimed at encircling and destroying the German seventh army. Many of the men in this division, which I saw yesterday during a tour of the zone of advance, are veterans of .the desert and Tunisian campaigns. They are inordi-~ nately proud of the fine new American equipment they have been given ‘to aid in the liberation of the homeland.
HOOSIER VAGABOND—
By ERNIE PYLE Times ‘War Correspondent ON THE WESTERN FRONT
(By Wireless).—The afternoon was tense, and fill of caution ‘and dire little might-have-beens. 1 was wandering up a dirt lane where the infantrymen squatting alongside in a ditch, waiting their turn to advance.
They always squat like that when - they're close to the front. ; Suddenly German shells started
a. couple of sof ; Shells
were
banging around us. I jumped into -
(An announcement at allied supreme headquarters in London said |doil
general who fights under the nom
17 DIPHTHERIA CASES CITED IN WARNING
Seventeen cases of diphtheria reported here since July 1 constitute
WOMAN SENTEN
Doll Store Owner Given 10 1 SOMEWHERE IN FRANCE, Aug. 14.—A battle-hardened French division, tempered in the searing heat of the African desert, has ridden {into the battle of France on American Sherman tanks, tank destroyers)
Years in Prison.’
NEW YORK, Aug. 14 (U., P)— | Mrs, Velvalee Dickinscn, 50, former | store proprietpr, was “sentenced to 10 years’ imprisoriment d fined $10,000 by Federal Judge oma Miller today for vioif{tion of the censorship regulations. «Mrs. Dickinson, who was accused | lot conspiring to supply military in-
on that gap from three sides with a power that threatened to turn it into an avenue of death.
Canadians Strike Hard
The Canadian 1st army swung down to close the northern jaws of ithe trap at noon today, launching a full-scale attack on the German bolt positions five miles above Falaise. United Press War Correspondent William A. Wilson reported that the Canadian assault drove forward [2's miles in the first two hours, carrying half- to Falaise, | through which runs’ the last practicable: escape route for the Ger= mans still inside the allied “sack.” The attack was preceded by a rolling aerial bombardment in which hundreds of allied heavy and me=‘dium bombers unloaded fons of
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the highest €ity rate for the dis- (formation to the Japanese etre |
ease since the advent of diphtheria
vaccination, Dr. Herman G. Mor- [postponement of her sentence for| a month on the ground that she was
gan, city health<«board secretary, said today. He attributed the out- | break to hot and dry weather and | warned parents to immunize chil-| dren as soon as possible, The polio rate in Indianapolis | since July 1 has climbed to nine with one death from the’ disease reported Saturday. Eleven < dren have been stricken with ingitis during the same period.
our heads and crashing into the next pasture, Then %uddenly one exploded, not with a crash, but ne a Hug as h you'd struck a Ell. The debris of b wadding and dirt came sh
. down over us. My head rang,
and my right ear. couldn't h anything. The shell had struck behind us,
+20 feet away. We had beer saved
Pearl Harbor, pleaded tearfully for
aiding the federal bureau of investigation, U. S. Attorney James B. M. Mc- | Nally, however, denied ‘that Mrs. Dickinson gave FBI agents val, uable information. McNally charged that, Mrs. Dick-
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I said I was, and he said, “ want to shake your hand.” And he reached around the bush” hl we shook hands.
That's all ‘either of us sald
didn’t occur to .me -until later _ that gg was a sort of unusual ex-
by the earthen bank of the hedgerow. It was the next day
Bundle reps Fo# Collection Here Aug. 20
Tie newspapers: Jn bundles 12 to 15 inches high.
Tie books and magazines in bundles 12 fo 15 inches high. Flatten paper cartons and tie in bundles 12 to 15 inches high. ' Place loose scrap paper in bag or carton, pack in firmly, » Place your bundled paper on © the curb by 8 a. m. next Sunday. Volunteer workers will make pickups only fom the