Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 August 1944 — Page 1
22, 1944
~By Wilits:as
[scrapes —mowarny VOLUME 55—NUMBER 141
Memories of the glorious Victory day parade when Gen. Pershing fed worl war I allies past”the Are de Triomphe sustained Paris through four tragic years under the Nazis. s
Ravaged of men and material wealth, Paris was starving and poverty-stricken. Keeping body and soul together was a major struggle, yet the French capital still nourished hope.
Allied planes whirled overhead, and Parisian eyes turned heavenward, as American forces surged on, bringing liberation nearer as they savagely chased the enemy from French territory.
STICK ON JOBS;
JENNINGS URGES
State War Manpower Chief Emphasizes Crisis in Industry Here.
By ROGER BUDROW
A plea for war workers to stay on| the job until both Germany and;
Japan are beaten, was made today |
by State War Manpower Director John K. Jennings. Mr. Jennings said “too many] people are getting out of the war plants and going someplace else. Indianapolis war plants—the 62 major ones — lost 10,500 workers between January and July this year. That is| a net loss. There is a turnover of | 5800 workers every month but we; manage to get most of them back into war work.” Again attacking optimistic. statements by military leaders, Mr. Jennings said “Let me caution everyone to weigh these statements concerning the end of the war and remember that we must continue to produce supplies and equipment until the last shot is fired.” The WMC director added that he disagreed with those who were leaving Indianapolis war plants to take jobs which, in their opinion, would be more likely to continue after the war. “Why, Indianapolis has a great future. It has diversified industry. To my mind, it is one of the last cities in the country people Should
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'‘Dognaping Ring' Steals Pets Here
Dog Pound Superintendent Leona Frankfort today warned
Indianapolis pet-owners to beware
of a state-wide “dognaping” syndicate specializing in the theft and sale of high-priced pooches. On the basis of complaints filed at the pound, Mrs. Frankfort estimates that a dozen pedigreed dogs a day are whisked out of cars and front yards and taken to black-market pet shops, most of them out of the city, where
they are represented to customers |
as blue-ribbon winners. Reports from several neighborhoods have described an unidentified truck which, complainants say, backs up into driveways and carries away pets in the absence of their masters.
Dogs Held for Ransom
In some cases, Mrs. Frankfort said, the dog thieves hold their animal loot until sizable rewards are offered in the newspapers, but she believes most of the profit is reaped by agents in various cities who inter-change their catches, thus eliminating the possibility of an owner recognizing his pet in someone else's back yard. Mrs. Frankfort revealed that recently the sleek, high-bred elk-
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STRIKE AT SHIPYARD PROVIDENCE, R. I, Aug. 23 (U. P.).—More than 7000 boilermakers and union riggers were on strike today at the Walsh-Kaiser shipyard.
By THOMAS L. STOKES °* - Seripps-Howard Staff Writer WASHINGTON, Aug. 25.~Twenty- -five years ago the league of nations was wrecked in the senate, as far as the United States was concerned, and perhaps as far as the rest of the world was concerned, for our support, co-operation and influence might have saved it from its slow disintegration. awl ot ‘signs indicate’ such a . not happen ‘again.
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Gay Paree in the years after
by the thousand to her sidewalk cafes. Here Towa school teachers and
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 23, 1944
the armistice, welcomed Americans
Broadway playboys alike. were guests:-
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FORT REPORTED HELD BY FRENCH
Hints of New Allied Invasion.
LONDON, Aug. 23 (U.P.). ~Landing of an American invasion force near the Fran-co-Spanish border was reported today by both the | Algiers radio and the German 'D. N. B. news agency, but lacked any official confirmation. While there were some discrepancies in the two reports on the exact location of the landings, there was general infimation that Bordeaux was the objective of the new thrust.
According to the German version, the landing was made at St. Jea
The American invasion force, de-| i scribed by the enemy agency as “small,” landed yesterday after a heavy naval bombardment, D.: N. B.| said.
jof the Spanish frontier on the Bay of Biscay, 10 miles below Bayonne
Patriots’ Action Linked With
Partly cloudy with occasional thundershowers and cooler tonight-and tomorrow.
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To Ravaged Paris, City Of Gaiety And Despair
strife set in during the depressed
"30s, Frenchmen battled each. other, unaware-of the greater menace—
Hitler—rising across the German border,
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SPANISH BORDER Russ Racing for Bucharest
After Seizing lasi, Romania
By HENRY SHAPIRO United Press Staff Correspondent
MOSCOW, Aug. 23.—
or less of |
up to 43 miles in the first: three -days of their co-ordi-nated assaults, capturing Iasi, Romania's second largest city, | and 350 other localities and isolat- | ing Chisinau, capital of Bessarabia, | and the nearby fortress of Tighina ‘More than 37,675 Germans were| killed or captured in the initial advances, the Soviet high command announced in its midnight communique,
Entire Front Active
The offensive opened what may be the final phase of the Russian summer campaign and put the Soviets on the march east toward nthe Baltic and Germany and south
de Luz on the French Atlantic coast. ¢ into the Balkans along the entire
{1200-mile twisting front from the ‘gulf of Finland to the Black Sea. Other Soviet forces to the north cleared a 37-mile stretch of the
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|crossing that would outflank the] | Polish capital from the north, ad-
Two Soviet armies, launching a ‘new offensive designed to knock Romania out of the war and deprive Germany of her last major source of oil, raced across the Bessarabian and Moldavian plains today within"70 miles | e Galati gap, gateway to Bucharest and Ploesti. The 2d and 3d Ukrainian armies punched ou gains of
YANKS POURING INTO GRENOBLE
Tanks Smash Across Alps
In 140-Mile Gain
From Coast.
By ELEANOR PACKARD United Press Staff Correspondent
ROME, Aug. 23.—Amer-|
| fantry lonly the major city of Lyon, today after a spectacular 140-mile
from the Mediterranean coast. (A London broadcast said the,
{and 112 miles southwest of the big (Continsed on Page 5—Column 7) Americans had “liberated” Grenoble |
port of Bordeaux. French Aid Credited
“DNB said German “naval and coastal” guns engaged the allied | warships and that an attempt to reinforce the original American landing was repulsed. French partisans supported landing, DNB said. Persistent reports from Spain in
the
{ the last week said the Germans had
evacuated most of their troops from the Franco-Spanish frontier area, including the town of Hendays, just south of St. Jean de Luz, under heavy attack by Prench patriots.
Fortress City Seized
The Algiers radio “said that French interior forces had occupied the ancient fortress city of Perpignan, on the Mediterranean just north of the Spanish frontier and across the southbrm tip of France from Arcachon, on the bay of Biscay, where unconfirmed reports said allied troops landed this | morning. The broadcast said the occupation of Perpignan, gateway from France to Spain, was completed after three allied planes landed {there with a mission which estah|lished liaison with Prench forces lof the interior.
united in its determination that this country shall join in a world organization, somewhat similar to the league, “adequately backed by force to squelch immediately any disturbers of the peace. . This was impressed upon those who sat in the senate gallery yesterday and watched the inspiring demonstration of unity on this project: It was timely and effective for at Dumbarton Oaks, a few miles away, representatives of this coun-
try, Great. Britain and Russia are
: | Hoosier Heroes—
FIVE LOCAL YANKS KILLED IN ( IN COMBAT
Nine Others Are Are Added to List of Wounded,
Four more Indianapolis soldiers have-lost their lives during the allied push through France and a local paratrooper, previously reported missing, has been declared dead. Nine other men also are on
today’s list of Hoosier wounded in combat.
) KILLED Pfc. Robert H, White, 2043 N. Delaware st, in nce, Pvt. Sherman B. Rader, Union st., in France. Pfc. Marion F. Huntsinger, for-!| merly of 810 E. Raymond st., over! Sicily. } Pvt. Raymond Francis Stafford, 723 8. Norfolk st., in France.
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By WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Scripps-Howard Foreign Ediior . WASHINGTON, Aug. 23.— Disposal of vast surplus stocks. which]. the United States will have on hand at the end of the war, in addition to being a domestic problem of the
siderable ' international neern. And the same applies to British stocks. London economists estimate that America alone will have some $50,
heroes |
first order, is dlso a matter of con-|
and were 240 miles from allied armies below Paris.) Radio France at Algiers said allied patrols had reached the gates of Avignon, in the Rhone valley, 52 miles, northwest of Marseille. That would represent an advance |of more than 44 miles westward from the last allied positions at Apt) (The German DNB news agency said a “small” force of American troops, supported by French partisans, had landed at Et. Jean de | Luz, six miles north of the FrancoIs panish frontier on the Bay of Biscay.) The sensational thrust inland, which carried to within 27 miles of the last railway linking France and Italy and 30 miles of the Swiss border, liberated dozens of towns and villages and outflanked the
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REPORT NORWAY RAID
By UNITED PRESS Carrier-based allied planes raided | unspecified targets in Norway early today, Radio Berlin reported in a | broadcast recorded by N. B. C. The |broadcast asserted seven British planes were shot down.
Stokes: 'We Are Not Likely to Repeat League Tragedy’ Simms: 'We Will Have fo Dump Surplus Goods Cautiously’
and railways. Britain will have another worth. The American surplus is equal mn dollar value to the average annual retail purchases of the entire population. of the United States.
posed of fairly promptly. Yet to dump them on the home market would close down factories, produce wholesale bankruptcy and unem{Flom ‘play havoc with prices slow down the whole vital
estimated . $15,000,000,000
These goods will have to be dis-|
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FRENCH BATTLE DRAWS TO END: GERMANY NEXT
Allies Poise for Armored Smash to Border Of Reich.
By VIRGIL PINKLEY United Press §¥ar Correspondent
Tne liberation of Paris places e allies in command of vast network of railroads, fine highways, rivers, canals {and airports and will surely speed the liberation of all France. I can state on unimpeachable authority that the battle of Prance is near its end. The climactic mi'i-
tary strokes which will carry the ‘allied armored forces crashing to
ican tanks and motorized in- the border of the Reich itself are drove into Grenoble, ! 58 miles southeast of!
in the making. oday American armored spearheads are a bare three hours’ jeep iride from Germany. Paris is the hub of the Prench|
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trap landing
SUPREME HEADQUAR-| TERS. A. E. F., Aug. 23.—
FINAL - HOME
PRICE FOUR CENTS
Too late Paris realized that no _Maxinot line could.save her. Doup--Nizis filled (he parks and boulevards where once gay American tourists drank the wine of her hospitality.
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PARIS IEEE BY TREN PARTISANS: YANKS WITHIN ‘DAY'S RIDE’ OF REICH: NAZIS REPORT LANDING NEAR BORDEAUX
Allied Munitions Help Populace to Drive Invaders From Capital in Fierce Street Battles.
By VIRGIL PINKLEY United Press Staff Correspondent
SUPREME HEADQUARTERS, A. E. F.,, Aug. 23.— Powerful American tank columns pounded eastward within a day's ride of the German frontier today, striking for the key railway hub of Troves in a bid to close the last direct escape route for all the Nazi armies of southern France. Lt. Gen. George S. Patton's tanks and motorized infans trymen had broken contact with headquarters in their dra.
LONDON, Ang. 23 (U. P.).—The London Daily Mail said today that President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill will confer ° within a “matter of weeks on French soil.” Mr. Roosevelt already is packing his bags for the trip, which had been scheduled earlier but was postponed to permit his visit to the Pacific and because of | secret service objections to his coming to London during the robot blitz, the Mail said.
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matic strike toward the frontiers of the Reich, and head quarters maintained strict secrecy on the whereabouts of the advanced American spearheads. Front dispatches revealed, however, that the Yanks {were driving at break-neck speed beyond the ancient fortified city of Sens, which they captured yesterday after a 65-mils thrust around the southern suburbs of Paris, and heading |directly for Troyes, 130 miles west of Germany. With the American break-through into eastern France, °
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seized by patriots; twin drives through Deauville from | H Nazis at Seine; a Jauk rive (pest sriewi I reported § e plieak Bordeaux; fi cut all railroads