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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 16, 1944
Nazis Take the Initiative In Frantic Stand in East
By HENRY SHAPIRO United Press Staff Correspondent MOSCOW, Aug. 16.—The Germans, admittedly seizing the ‘initiative, hurled their largest forces of the summer campaign against the Soviet army before Warsaw and East Prussia today in a desperate effort to stablize the eastern front whatever the cost, The Soviet high command’s communique last midnight spoke of German “attacks” rather than “counter-attacks” for the first time since the start of the Russian summer offensive June 23 and conceded |both the east and west, the Wehr-
that the Nazi forces had wedged macht appeared _committed to an their lines temporarily,
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BULLETIN SUPREME HEADQUARTERS, A. E. F, Aug. 16 (U. P.). — The cornered remnants of Germany's 7th army lashed out against encircling allied forces in a wild, but apparently losing fight for life tonight.
By VIRGIL PINKLEY United Press Staff Correspondent SUPREME" HEADQUARTERS, A. E. F,, Aug. 16. — Allied armies struck from all sides into what remained of the German 7th army in the Normandy pocket today, killing or capturing thousands of fieeing troops, while Berlin reports said American armored columns were striking eeastward in a new drive toward Chartres, 46 miles from Paris. Shaken by the incessant pounding of allied planes and shellfire, the broken remnants of Pield Marshal Gunther von Kluges 12- divisions were splitting up into small bands in a frantic attempt to escape through the ring of guns and armor tightening around them, The Canadian 1st army fought its
Roving allied armored patrols raced along the peremiter of the pocket plugging the loopholes in their trap and slaughtering hundreds of the fleeing enemy. More than 4400 others were rounded up and shunted back to prisoner-of-war stockades during the past 30
hours, some 3000 falling prisoner. to! Two German-Held Towns
the Canadians and 1400 to the Americans. United Press War Correspondent Robert C. Miller, with the American 8d army near Argentan, reported in a delayed dispatch today that the slaughter of Von Kluge's army was in full swing last night. Many of the Germans, he said, were tricked by their own commanders into believing that the way to the East.was open. “It is when they try to find this gap that we either kill or capture them,” Miller reported. His dispatch said the Germans were surrendering in small groups of five to 50 men.
Report Drive on Paris Meanwhile, the German DNB news agency reported that reinforced American tank and mechanized infantry units had resumed the eastward drive on Paris which was halted more than a week ago when Gen, George 8. Patton Jr. shifted the main weight of his attack northward to encircle the Nazi 7th army. Fierce fighting is in progress north of Chartres, only 46 miles westsouthwest of Paris, DNB said, indicating that the Americans might be by-passing Chartres in a direct thrust on the capital.
Reeling under crushing blows from
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REPORT FRENCH PATRIOTS - RISE
Fall to Maquis, Using Cached Artillery.
BULLETIN GEN E V A, Switzerland, Aug. 16 (U. P.).—An army of French patriots launched a full-scale offensive against German occupation forces in the Savoy district of southeastern France today, | captured the Nazi stronghold of St. Julien and hoisted the tri-color on every frontier post guarding this section of the Franco-Swiss border. ‘BERN, Switzerland, Aug. 18 (U. P.)—Reports from the FrancoSwiss frontier said the French underground began a general uprising in the Haute-Savoie department of southeastern France at 4 a. m. today and captured at least two Ger-
The London Evening News quoted Mnan-held towns within the frst
reports from the continent as saying that the distant roar of heavy artillery could be heard by the people of Paris today. There wag no confirmation of the enemy report, which said American tanks also were in the Nogent Le Rorrou and La Loupe areas just west of Chartres where they were being engaged by German “covering” forces. If true, the DNB report would mean that the allied high command
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four hours. Strong forces of maquis were reported to have opened simultaneous attacks on a number of Nazi garrisons in the Haute-Savoie, using heavy artillery which they apparently had been massing secretly for some time, 4 St. Julien, near the Swiss border and Cruseilles were said to have fallen into the hands of the maquis at 8 a. m.
PLANES DROP GUNS 10 WARSAW REBELS
over Souther Patines ae Us Th y were unloaded between Nice radioed to New York and sent by telephoto to The Times.
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HOOSIER HEROES— Four in France
Battles Killed:
Four dead are included in today's casualty list of 12 local men. Three died in France and the fourth in Germany of wounds received in France. KILLED
Sgt. John L. Fielder, 522 N. Sherman dr., in France. Pvt. William L. O. Staten, 834 Bates st., in France. Second Lt. Robert W. Shutt, 2011 W. Main st., Beech Grove, wounded in France, died in Germany. Pfc. Awnion E. Fidler, 8100 Dean rd, in France.
WOUNDED
Second Lt. George A. Bailey, 1552 English ave, in France. Lt. Col. Clarence T. Hide: formerly of 58 Kenmore .rd, in France. Cpl. Norman G. Hirschberger, 1244 E. Washington st, in Saipan. T. 4th Gr. James P. Kenny, 221 N. Addison st. in Europe. Pvt. Frank Minardo, 1307 Bates st., in Europe. Cpl. Reed Carter, 4142 Park ave., in France.
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NAZIS FEAR LANDING ON YUGOSLAV. COAST
LONDON, Aug. 18 (U. P.).—German and neutral sources speculated today on the possibility of another allied landing in Southern Europe, probably in Yugoslavia, Radio Ankgra said a landing was expected in the Adriatic, which in-
: (cludes Albania as well as Yugoslavia, while a Berlin dispatch in the}
Stockholm newspaper Tidningen said the allies probably would open a “fifth front” soon in Dalmatia. Allied sources declined to comment on the reports, but it was recalled that Prime Minister Churchill conferred with Marshal Tito, commander of the Yugoslav partisan army, and Dr. Ivan Subasitch, prime
force
AIR HERO, KILLED
Seven Wounded
CAPT (0.L. QUINN,
Veteran of 100 Sorties Victim of Crash in England. :
By MILDRED KOSCHMANN Four scrapbooks on the life of Capt. Quentin L. Quinn, Indianapolis veteran of 100 sorties, closed yesterday when his parents pasted in- the -war department - telegram that he was killed in an airplane
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HOW FAR CAN A MOSQUITO FLY?"
proximately 2000 American war- COUNCil Ponders Question
planes from Britain and Italy pounded targets throughout Ger-
many and France without opposition from the Nazi ‘air force today as they continued the five-day aer-
lial campaign to deprive the Luft-
waffe of operating bases, fuel and
replacements.
Italy-based heavy bombers -were not “even escorted as they struck
crash in England Aug. Y. The 24-year-old son of Mr, and! Mrs. H. T. Quinn, 738 Elm st. had|
vital bridges over the Rhone and {elsewhere in France in support of southern invasion troops. Swarms of medium bombers and
completed one tour of 100 sorties (fighters from the same bases flew
J over Europe and was home for a 30- far inland to attack communication
day leave in June. lines and targets of opportunity be-
oa July he signed up to go back | to England, telling his friends that! the “more experience you have, the better you are and the better you| are, the quicker this war will be over.” He wrote home Aug. 5 that he was instructing young pilots but that he wanted to oe: back into combat | and hoped he would in another} week. Capt. Quinn, who named his P-47, Thunderbolt plane and his P-51 Mustang fighter after his employer, The Indiana National bank, ha five German planes to his credit, four of them in combat and one on the ground. The air medal with five oak leaf clusters and the distinguished fly-|
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NEW GRAFT ADOPTED BY INVASION SCOUT
Plane Motor Powers Seaplane Pontoon.
By UNITED PRESS A new kind of reconnaissance craft was used by Lt. (jg) H.W.
hind the German lines—and re{ported they did not find a single German fighter in the air, Liberator bombers also flew up from Italy to attack a chemical
|works four miles north of Pried-
{richshafen, Germany, while forces
of more than 1000 American heavy
bombers escorted by fighter planes in almost similar strength crossed
|the English channel to attack air-
craft and engine factories, oil refineries and airdromes deep in the heart of Germany.
GIRL DROWNS IN POOL BRAZIL, Ind. Aug. 16 (U. P.).— The Clay county coroner today investigated the drowning in Forest
| park municipal pool yesterday of {13-year-old Norma Short, daughter
of Mrs. Margaret Thompson of Terre Haute. It was the first drowning in the pool in six years’ opera-
And Gets a Liberal
Education.
By SHERLEY UHL In the course of its sweltering mid-summer budget review, city council has been told that Indianapolis has the second highest death rate of nine cities in its immediate population class; that the health and park department budgets have almost doubled in four years; that the malaria-bearing mosquito scarcely is able to sail, float or fly more than 500 miles from its tropical homeland. } If they were impressed, shirtsleeved councilmen didn't show it too conspicuously last night. Instead, they accepted such unrelated facts as a liberal education of sorts. In a statistical move to suppoit Chamber of Commerce contentions that the health department isn't exactly a model of efficiency, Robert Keiser, C. of C. research director, displayed figures purporting to show that the Indianapolis death rate is 15.4 persons per 1000 population. Of eight other cities on the chart,
compiled from the Municipal Year
Book for 1944; (Continued on Page 7—Column 3)
only Cincinnati
BICYCLE RIDER HURT William David Tucker, 13 years old, was in serious condition at City hospital today after the bicycle he was riding ran into the rear of an automobile in front of his home,
tion.
3611 W. Michigan st. yesterday.
Hitler started with 145 German war veterans of his own age, all wanting revenge for 1918.
|Revenge Complex of Germans Cited by Reporter Heinzen:
Kiwanis club at a luncheon here today. . The veteran newspaperman, who
IN 8. FRANCE DRIV
Forces Smash Eight Miles Inland
On 40-Mite Wide Front.
By ELEANOR PACKARD United Press Staft Correspondent
ROME, Aug. 16—Powerfully-reinforccd American and French invasion forces stormed eight miles into southern France on a 40-mile front between Cannes and Toulon
against weak German opposition today, while thousands of sky-borne troops struck far inland to throw a solid block
Powerfully-Reinforced Allied Invasion
across the path of enemy reserves moving down on the
beachheads.
German accounts said port installations at Nice, Cannes.
and St. Tropez had been blow up by Nazi demolition squads,
and front dispatches broadcast by Radio Algiers said the
allies had captured Cannes and the village of Croix des Gardes, just inland from the famous resort.
Barely 24 hours after the initial air and sea invasion :
ROME, Aug. 16 (U. P.).—The allied invasion forces in southern France, including the United States 7th army, are commanded by Maj. Gen. Alexander Patch, it was announced today. Patch, since last April, has been in command of the 7th army, which previously was under Li. Gen. George S. Patton Jr. The 7th "army carried out the
‘1 Invasion of Sicily.
that breached the Germans’ Mediterranean wall, allied head a
quarters announced that every initial objective had been
taken and that the combined American and French army was firmly established on the coast between Cannes and the great Toulon naval base.
Casualties Are Light
Casualties in the first day and night of the assault have
been “exceptionally light,” a communique said. The .fast-rolling assault forces ran into some opposition from German beach troops and coastal batteries last
night, but it was announced’ officially that these defenses
had been overrun. Simultaneously, a great force of paratroops and aire borne infantrymen were revealed to have been landed far ahead of the main striking force last evening to support the
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original sky troops who spearheaded the invasion before
‘dawn yesterday. J Unopposed by tlie strangely-dormant Luftwaffe, hune i dreds of gliders and transports streamed boldly across the French coast before nightfall yesterday and sent thousands 1
of fighting men out onto the network of highways over which the Germans must move their armor and infantry if they are to mount an important counter-attack.
Fleet 50-Miles Long
The glider fleet was described officiaily as fully 50-mil —
long, indicating that the allies were throwing a major blow into the heart of the Germans’ rear defenses. It was announced officially that the air-borne units had established themselves “successfully” across the highe ways funnelling into the Toulon-Cannes beachhead front and had blocked off the flow of enemy reinforcements. At least five unnamed towns were known to be in allied hands this evening and there was no sign that the Ger mans had yet been able to offer more than isolated resistance. Giant naval rifles of the allied fleet, firing over the
heads of the advancing Americans and French, devastated
the Nazis’ inland defenses.
Naval observers said the warship fire was heavier and :
more accurate than during any previous Mediterranean opere ation.
(Radio London said one correspondent had been 20
miles inland behind Cannes and saw French paratroops who
landed safely before dawn yesterday. Engineers and equipe 4
ment for building and repairing airfields were among the
first cargoes put ashore, the broadcast said.
28 Miles From Toulon Gen. Sir Henry Maitland Wilson, supreme allied come mander in the Mediterranean, reported in his second come munique of the invasion that operations were “proceeding according to plan,” but gave no details. The Americans and French were revealed officially last night to be within 28 miles of Toulon and unconfirmed ree ports placed them within nine miles of the great naval base in a drive to outflank or envelop it. A front dispatch disclosed that five towns, including one of 3000 persons five miles inland, fell to the invaders
1pm Rand 1 via last Satie | Noel, Greenville, Tenn., in scouting I dha ws in the first six and a half hours after the landings yesterday, om Yugoslavia, =the French Mediterranean landing| The next German “crackpot” pen years in France, was pes- 2 Believe Polish Volunteers day and Sunday in Italy. beath in. the last minutes before|comes along 25 Years from now will concerning the future, | EYisoners were being rounded » in Sai sheg of 20 or more ; H-hour, Herbert L. Matthews, cor-|find a ready-built, fanatic army of| He said it would be impossible| and were of all ages, the dispatch sai TIMES "INDEX Fly Across ‘Europe. GC : | U respondent representing the cam-|{11,000,000, all bent upon revenge for|for the allies to re-educate the 11,- Some ground forces were believed already “0 have : enerqa P at 5 bined U. 8. press, reported. rere 000,000 boys and girls now in Gerrs in Obituaries LONDON, Aug. 16 (U. P).—A Perched on a seaplane pontoon ; ‘many who are thoroughly steeped (Continued on Page 7=Column 4) a Perkins. .10 lieved to have been piloted by Po- zoomed within 200 yards of the tar- {war Germany pre- ' | “The desire for revenge and liv- / > only! : ig |Ush volunteers, flew across Europe WASHINGTON, Aug. 16 (U.P.). |get beach far in advance of the in<|sented by Ralph ee ls [Ing room exists throughout Gerto deliver guns and ammunition t0| Out in the Central Pacific even
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the Polish resistance forces battling the Germans for possession of Warsaw, it was announced today. Polish sources here said that Gen. Bor,: leader of the partisans, had disclosed the “mercy Dene in a
3) capital, where, it iting
generals have dish-pan hands. Lt. Col. George Blakely, deputy commander of the 7th bomber
vasion armada, Matthews said. He came back to report he'd seen no Germans and that the sea was just right for the landing.
OT 8 Leo George Holman, |
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Heinzen, former Paris bureau
Aug. 16 (U.|club
‘many, and above all in the youth,” he
“said that it was all-important ' the American people to awaken » problem of winning the peace am convinced,” he said, “that will win the war, but I am not we will win the peace.”
(Aug, 16, 1944)