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offensive. When ‘Premier Marshal | Jon Antonescu, since ousted. returned empty-handed from a six-

day talk ‘with Adelf Hitler, Ankara |

said, unrest spread through the

Pvt. Robert N.

who lived at 3007 N. Delaware st.|

Report Bucharest Bombed for several years,

was killed in ac- |

‘tion July 31 in France.

in Cincinnati, O. » ” n Pharmacist's Mate 2-¢ Edmund | H. McAfee, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. M. McAtee, 1617 Hoefgen st., was | killed July

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The 21-| { year-old soldier’s parents, Mr. and | { Mrs, Harry Gentsheimer, now re-|

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half vears and overseas & year. A graduate of Cathedral high the | school, he was 27, and formerly was |

army and peace demonstrations broke out in Bucharest,

Facetl with military chaos, army prevdiled upon King Mi employed by the Paper Package] chael to seek mn srmistice, these CO. He was a member of St.

sources sald, Gen. Constaritin San- | Catherine's Catholic church. etescu, the new premier, was | Survivors, besides the parents, | identified as a former commander of | Are five sisters. Mrs. Harold Gough, the 4th army corps and among Ro- Miss Nina McAtee, Mrs. Helena manta’s 20 highest ranking generals. | Felts ‘and Miss Eleanor McAtee, Indianapolis; Mrs. Wood Smith, VinThe Stockholm newspaper Mor- | I gontidningen reported under an |cennes, and four brothers, Paul Ankara tate that Romanian troops 8nd Albert, Indianapolis; Harry, had mttacked ‘German SS forces Ladoga, and Charles, a sergeant guarding the Ploesti oil wells and stationed at Temple, Tex. were fighting Hungarian units at | x = =n Cluj and Maros-Vararheli on the] Pfc. Bruce F. Babbs, who entered Transylvanian frontier. {France with the infantry sometime | (A German broadcast reported by after July 11, has been missing in! B. B. C. said all postal, telegraph i), country since July 25. his wife, and telephone communications have | Mrs. Tillie Babbs, 2026 Ruckle st.,| been suspended between Hunhgary ‘has been notified. | and Romania.) a. | Pvt. Babbs entered the service A United Prac Mosiow dispateh | ppp) 28, 1043, and received his] a BR Fomenten author. training in Camp Shelby, Miss. He| ere AY C av ur

} PR + was sent overseas in June and in| formal peace negotiations, he etter dated July 11 wrote that

was stiri England Before entering the service, he was emploved by the Lukas-Harold Corp. |

advance through northern Romania f toward Bucharest, however. and op-

erations will until the

eontinye Pvt. Babbs' father, Bruce A.! Germans have been driven frOm poppe jive in Denver. Romania soil. Moscow said. Romanian and German troops al- | Bb 8° | ready were fighting one another in| Pfc. Charles S. Wetnight. hus-| northern Romania, band of Mrs. Jennylyn Wetnight, Swiss dispatches said Romanian 3s N. Alton ave, was seriously

troops were fighting the Hungarians | wounded Aug. 4 during action in|

in northern Transylvania, which prance and is now in a hospital Michael ordered his forces to re-l'in England. store ‘to Romania. Adolf Hitler! Ye was serving: with: the infantry gave northern Transylvania 10 Hul- [and had been overseas since April. gary in 1940. {Prior to entering the service, Pvt. The fate of Marshal Ion Anton- | Wetnight was employed by the escu was not disclosed immediately. |g C. Atkins Co. The London Daily Mail said he and . x 8 =» several members of his deposed gov~ } i ernment had been arrested in Buch- T. Sth Gr. Alte Ke) Dehee arest, while the Daily Express 50n of Mr. and Mrs, Alvia ; (2321 Hoyt ave, was slightly wounded quoted “unconfirmed Swiss re-| IA 8 d action in France. ports” that he nad been kidnaped ! ug. uring i . {He had been overseas since Jan. wal: Sok. 117, 194, Ankara heard that the Slovakian | uppet government had ordered | kn) law throughout the coun- |tended roan Bie erie, Nov. 2, go 12 1043, he va empiovea by the Fair in the Tartar pass through the mount Glass ‘Works. Carpathian mountains. The young soldier is the grandson | Slovakia was said: to be; seething Br; and Mrs. Edward DeRee; ” with discontent, ‘with partisan "ac- 1434 Deloss st. x tivity increasing. Russian partisans 5» = who filtered’ through. the German | Pfe, Jeremiah Maloney, son of | lines in Galacia were said to be Mrs. Lidia Mahoney, 552 N. Lynn] aiding native patriots. |st.,’ was' wounded ‘June 15 on SaiA Cairo dispatch to the London pan, but has written that he is out Daily Express said it had been! of the hospital. confirmed there that the Germans| ‘Pvt Mahoney has been in servioe | had withdrawn all their forcesiabout 18 months and has served al from Bulgaria, spparently leaving year of that time overseas. He rethe government free to make peace | ceived his boot training at San with the allies. Diego, Cal, was transferred" to

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Pfc. Bruce F, Babbs . . . missing in Franee.

Pharmacist's Mate 2-¢ Edmund H. McAtee . , « killed in Pacific,

Belt Co., he is 20 and attended | Washington high school. | | a = 8 ! "Pre. Arthur F. Townes, son of

Mrs. Lula Townes, 372 E. Morris st.,| was wounded during action in the|g South Pacific. His mother believes he was wounded during action on, Saipan. A graduate of Technical high school, he is 21 and entered service two years ago. He has served overseas 18 months. A brother, Seaman 1-¢ Frederick Townes, is with the naval forces in Australia,

Alvia DeRee Robert Scheigert Wounded Wounded

signed to his present duty with the army transport command. He was oh the staff of Brig. Gen. Earl 8. Hoag, former commanding general of the India<China division, when the unit received the presidential citation for exceptionally distinguished service in the trans-

portation—of—military supplies to {Chinese and American forces in China, by way of the famed “hump” route aéross the Himalaya mountains of Burma. ‘. ® » Two Indianapelis men have re-| ceived the combat Infantryman’s| badge. They are Bgt. Cleston P. Maynard, son of Mr. and Mrs. William H. Maynard, 2351 Wheeler st. and Pvt. Clarence Robinson, : * » = Pvt. Lucien Memminger, Wolcott, | was killed yesterday in an explosion in the training area at Ft. Knox, Ky. One officer and two The war department notified his [Other enlisted sen Also lost their wife that he was missing over Ger- | lives In the explosion. many on Aug: 9 and Wednesday no- ® =»

tified her that he is a prisoner. Second Lit. Thomas V. Ayers, The sergeant was a gunner-first Bast Chicago, has died of wounds engineer with the 15th army air Tr il AgAting 1A the

force and was based in Italy. : European area, the war department He is 27 and lived in Lawrence announced today.

” ” » Pvt. Robert E. Scheigeri, who entered France with the infantry, was] injured there Aug. 1 and how is in |a hospital in England. Ha is the husband of Mrs. Rita | Scheigert, 1518. Lawton st, and the son of Mrs. Margaret Scheigert,

A graduate of Manual high school, Butler university. He entered serve ice May 22, 1942."

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T. Sgt. Branton Veteto, husband of Mrs. Wilma Veteto, 333 8. Ran-

Bonia Veteto, 425 W. 40th st. is a prisoner of the German governs ment,

burg, Tenn, for some time. After moving to Indianapolis he was em- |* 8 x» ployed by the Indianapolis Machine | Quartermaster 3-¢ Robert Henry

& Supply Co. He has a 6-year-old daughter, Dawn, and has two brothers in

Bank, son of Mr. and Mrs. Henty Oscar Bank, Evansville, has been killed in naval action. 8 2 »

Five Indiana marines have been wounded in action. They are: Pfc. Graden J. Maines Jr.,, son of Mrs. Graden Maines 8r., Atlanta; Pfc. Warren ® = ” L. McCarty, son of Mrs. Mary McCarty, French Lick (previously reported wound8. Sgt. Courtney B. Gerrish, Who [ed Jan, 24); Pvt. Sunig, A Spurr Jr., ison of Mrs. Jessie Toon, Valparaiso; Pfc. was reported missing over Romania 1%, 2 00 “OF oP. Sosephine UI{July 4, is now safe, according to a rich, Huntington, and Pfe. Frank J. Zark,

cablegram received by his grand. |son of Mrs. Frances Zark, Gary.

teto, who has returned from overseas and is stationed in Texas, and Seaman 3-c Lewis Wéteto, serving with the navy in the. South Pacific.

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mother, Mrs. Maude Zeller, 124 S, ‘ . a Traub Thirty-six Hoosiers were included The sérgeant was a radio tech- in a war department list today of

{nician and gunner on -a Liberator 1687 U. 8. soldiers wounded in ac{and had been based in Italy since tion. They are: | June 9. Before entering the serv- CENTRAL PACIFIC AREA ice; he made his home with ‘his| g, 004 Lt. William A. Aue, son of Mrs.

grandmother and was employed by|Margaret Aue, West Terre Haute; Pfc. Alfonso Cundiff, son of Mrs, Auli Cun-

oo A diff, Princeton. and Pfc. Leo StalSgt. Gerrish is the son of Harlow |baum, son of Mrs. Julia statbram, { , , i Wheatfield. | Gerrish, whe lives in the Lorraine EUROPEAN AREA | * 8. B8gt. William G. Anglin, husband of LANE Mrs, Norma J. Anglin, Warsaw; 2d Lt. rs A r Thomas V, Ayres, hushand of Mrs. DoroFirst It George 8. Arnold, thy Ayres. East Chicago; Pvt. Lewis M. {navigator of a B-17, has been|gailey, husband of Mrs.’ Virginia FE. lawarded the distinguished fiying Baily: Richman; TV. Ronkbis Pp eyvers, usba . oe . {cross for bombing factories in Ger-|geyers, Bloomington: ly acral H. ;many and military installations in Boga. So of Me Frances > Wg ‘ - out end: Pvt, is L. Bucholz, son France. He previously won the air (or mre Henry I. Bucholz, Terre Haute: Imedal and "four oak leaf clus-|T 5th Gr Clarence N. Cone, husband of ters. [Mrs. Roselle M. Cone, Sandborn; Pfc. {Raymond F. Cripe, son of Mrs. Lettie The lieutenant's outfit is a unit) |Cripe. Goshen; T. 5th Gr. Andrew D. Lado, son of Mrs. Tresa Lado, Whiting; {of the 3d bombardment division | Pvt. Dalton L. Eastus. son of Charles L

|cited by the. President for its his-|Fastus, Marion: T. 4th Gr. Lloyd E. [toric England-Africa sButtle bomh- Fouts. son of Mn, quae L ous, Soul |ing of Messerschmitt aircraft plants martha Furnish Vevay: T. Sth Or Richat Regensburg last summer. ard Gresso, grandson of Mrs. Saino M. : Gresso, Goshen. | Lt. Arnold is the son of MIS.| Oners are Pfc. Raymond J. Haas, hus{Josephine Arnold, 4321 College! {band of Mrs. Ruby Haas, Cedar Grove;

[Pvt Robert ave, and attended Butler UNIVer- piin'B. finch, Saleh: Pree Thurman A

+sitv, receiving his B. S. degree in| | Kimm, husband of Mrs. Dorothy A. mm exandria: 8gt. Earl Kreinbusiness administration in 1937, and hop. son of Mrs. Clare Kreinhop, Bates

later working as a clerk-accountant Mr le; onl Everett N, Lehman, son of ~ s uth Lehman, Rithmond: Sgt. Anfor the Public Service Co. Of In-| "1" ewandowski son of Mra. Anna diana. Lewandowski, Gary: Pfe. James IL. Lusco, o ” ” ion of Mrs. Sarah E. Lusco, Terre Haute; | T 4th Gr. Edmond T. McKee Jr., son of | T. Sgt: Leland P. Hilton, & crew Mrs Helen J. McKee, pCnssteriieid. _ $0 gt. Earl H, eLin, son of |chief of the “Black Death” Maraud- wv Minnie = Elis, Greencastle; Pvt. ‘er group commanded by Col. Gerald Fverett L. Neal, husband of Mrs, Wilma grouy Y

N. E. Williams, Presque Isle, Me, has i; Noy: Marion: Pvi George W. Smith, been awarded the bronze star, A

Avie Sons. son of Mrs, Mabel Brown, edora; Pfc, Raymond E. Vaughn, son The son of David L. Hilton, 509 "07 (re of Vaughn, Terre Maute; 'N. Illinois st.,

Sgt. Hilton is with the T. 5th Gr Robert Werner, son of Mrs. Margaret Werner, Winamac; Pfc. Estel 9th army air force in the European F Brown, xon of Mrs. Hettis A. Brown, {theater of operations.

In civilian Ten city: Sgt. Vernon D. Franger, son

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rg "perin ‘and Pvt. William .C.

Troike, son of Mrs, Loui " Toke uise Troike, North 88 N Pvt. Claude E. Robold, Muncie,

has been awatded the silver star for volunteering for duty as an assistant machinegunner with a squad defending a hill ih the Mediterranean theater last February, according to an announcement made today by the war department, His citation said that he “single~ handedly caused heavy easuaities to the enemy and was a major factor in thwarting the enemy's attempt to take the hill.” BE 8 @»

S. Sgt. Elbert C. Gourley, son of Mr, and Mrs. Earl Gourley, Madiver star for gallantry in action. ‘While serving with an infantey| |regiment at San Vittore, Italy, he laid telephone communications lines up the crest of an enemy-held hill under enemy mortar fire. Despite |the hostile fire from mortars and automatic weapons he set up an observation post and directed American mortar fire which helped achieve the company’s mission, His “courage and devotion to duty” were

cited as “exemplary” and reflected | great honor on the armed forces of the United States. Sgt. Gourley is now stationed at the infantry replacement training center organization at Camp Blanding, Fia. f ss. @ First Lt. William C. Wright, son of Mr. and Mrs. Oséar C. Wright, Franklin, has. beetr decofated with the air medal and two oak leaf clusters for “meritorious achievement during aerial attacks on Berlin, Hamburg, Mutiieh, S8chweinfurt, stuttgart, Leipzig, Metseburg and othér important enemy installations.” —He-is-a ptiot of a B-17 and has completed 19 missions,

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terial and additional supplies could not be made effective in the Pacific for an appreciable time, he added. Although many persons think that allied victories in Europe are causing the cuts in war production, Adm. Carpender said that the cuts in some areas only mean that production is being increased in an-

of the army and navy as they move westward. “The Pacific campaign is going to be tough and the Japs are going to fight to the end,” he said. “The Jap is no superman, but he will put up a good fight. It has been demonstrated to the world, however, that our people are standing pretty high in the fighting game.”

heavy losses in the Pacific campaign, 'Adm: Carpender said our

"men. were “dumped” right out of

the ship into .the firing line. “There's not much chance for military strategy,” he commented. “As soon as the men debarked, they were in immediate combat with enemy forces.” The naval commander praised the work of the transport commands in carrying troops and supplies to combat fields and evacuating the wounded from battle areas, “It ‘is taking the people on the Atlantic and Pacific seaports a long time to realize the importance of this area in Indiana in the war effort,” he said, stating that onethird of the naval personnel comes from the Middle West and onethird of the war contracts are in the 9th naval district.

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8S. Sgt. Donald P. Wertenberger, "husband of Mrs. Lois R. Wertenberger, has béen awarded the air medal for “outstanding gallantry” in a combat mission over Normandy fon D-day. S. Sgt. Wertenberger {was a radio operator on a C-47 {paratroop hauling ship. | The citation accompanying the medal stated that “magnificent spirit- and enthusiasm were. displayed by ‘Sgt. Wertenberger, ¢ombined with his radio skill, courage and devotion to his duty. He remained at the controls of his radio { without regard to personal safety | against a most severe enemy opposition making the mission a com- | plete success,’

EE | | Lt. Col. J. C. Moag, who is sery-| ling with the India-China division | of the air transport command, has! been awarded the bronze star, | The husband 6f Mrs. Ann Moag, | Who is living with his parents, Dr, Tand Mrs. J. A. Moag, 4453 Central! lave: Col. Moag was commissioned | an officer in the air corps in March, | 11942 and was one of the few offi-| | cers over flying-school age who dur-| ling 6ff-duty hours acquired suffileient comniercial solo time to: be-! come a rated ‘air corps pilot, 1 He: was assigned to the ferrying ‘command, which later became the air transporg command and in. April, 11943, ‘was appointed commanding | ‘officer of the army air base at Bates | field. Mobile, Ala. In,September of the same ye He fokon xe -

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vais and the swrounding areas jammed with German traffic. Throughout ° Thursday, large humbers of Nazi trucks were Spotted racing down toward the Marne and the German frontier, and R. A. F. night fliers reported that the flow of traffic increased after dark. For the first time since the battle of France began, the: Germans ignored the presence of allied night :| planes overhead and rode bumper to bumper with their headlights blazing, indicating their frantic haste.

Weather Clear

Headquarters spokesmen had no immediate comment, beyond the grim note that the weather mn northern Frahce was clear today and that allied warplanes already Were ranging over the crowded highways. A German D. N. B. news agency coimentator, Max Krull, tacitly confined that the Nazis planned to fall back from Northern France,

{If they had not already started to

do so, Krull sald German military plans called for establishment of

“SHOT Gérman frontier.” R. A. P. filers smashed one apparent German attempt to evacuate

and an unconfirmed report broadcast by radio France at Algiers said British air-borne troops had been landed near the port in the Seine estuary area.

Stifter Opposition

The American thrust toward the channel along the south bank of the Seine was reported meeting stiffer opposition as the Germans fought furiously to hold open the

the latter eity, which had been reported captured yesterday. The Americans, however, had British 24 army near Conches and were grinding steadily into the southern rim of the pocket.

Allied airmen reported that many of the Nazis, trapped against the Seine without boats - or bridges, were

flying planes.’ The headquarters communique gave no new details on the progress of Lt. Gen. George 8. Patton's U. 8 3d army columns which last were reported well

Troyes, barely 130 miles from the} German border. Another Yank column was well | beyond Montargis, 25 miles southwest of Sens, in a supporting thrust into eastern France.

the western front “on the shortest : ¢

Le Havre early Thursday morning, |

last remaining Seine crossings north | of Elbeuf. Fierce fighting raged in.

linked their left flank with the

{o-swim-the-stream| under continuous attack by low-

beyond 8ens. | jand pushing into the outskirts of

army, were surrendering by the thousands today in the face of a Russian onslaught that already has overrun virtually all Bessarabia and northern Moldavia, and carried to within 138 miles of: Bucharest. (A German . communique said

resistance against the Russian army on the Romanian front while Germah troops “fought thelr way back” toward the Prut-and Seret rivers. Radio Berlin sald the Gerthans were withdrawing from Romania as the front disintégrated.) (Soviet troops advanced 37 miles

Focsani on the western end of Galati gap, the London radio reported today in. a broadeast recorded ‘by C. B. B. Focsani is 43 miles southwest’ of Barlad, the fall of Which was announced by Moscow yesterday, and is less than 100 miles from Bucharest itself) Front dispatehes indicated that the Romanian army had collapsed completely as the 2d and 3d Soviet Ukrainian armies, advancing up to 28. miles in 24 hours, rolled to within » Miles « or 1888 of te Galati gap

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FRIDAY, ‘AUG. 25 1044 Russ Overrun Bessarabia; ~ Romanians Yield En. Masse

“parts of Romanian forces” ceased!

last night and now are approaching |

to Southern Romania and to within

Ploesti. German forces still were offering last-ditch resistance at many points and some engaged in armed clashes with the Romanians, who Were surrendering en masse; More thah 25,000 prisoners, most of them Romanians, wege rounded up yesterday alone. The Soviet foreign comimisariat, in the first official Russian statement since . King Michael's annouticément that Romania had accepted a Soviet armistice offer, warhied last night that the Boviet army must continue military operations in Romania until German forces there had been destroyed. The statement promised that the Russians would permit Romanian forces .to retain their amms and would assist them if they undertook “hand fn hand with the Russian army to wage a war of liberation against the Germans.” The statement also reiterated the Soviet pledge of last April that Russia had “no intention of acquiring any part of whatsoever of Ro manian territory, changing the

existing social structure of Romania,

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