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and the date of occurrence are :
WILLIAM F. LOWENSTEIN—Night watchman at the Omar Bakeries, Inc, shot to death on the night of June 26, 1943.
GUS WIEDENHOFT-South Side florist, fatally bludgeoned by two men who invaded his home at 2260 South Meridian st. on the
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A Year Ago Tonight
WAC Slain Aug. 28, 1943, and Police Remain
Baffled by Maze of Conflicting Clues; 4 Other Murders Also Unsolved.
This is the first of a series of articles on the WAC murder and other unsolved slayings in Indianapolis. By JOHN L. BOWEN ONE YEAR ago tonight—between 8:20 and 8:25 o'clock to be precise—the slashed, blood-drenched and semi-nude body of 32-year-old WAC Cpl. Maomi Little Ridings was found on the floor of Room 729 at the Clay-
pool hotel. Today, on the first anniversary of that crime, Indianapolis police
still are stalled behind the hedgerows of multiple-edged and conflict-
ing clues which have screened the killer's identity, Readily, the police will acknowledge, without committing them-
selves to complete frustration,
that there is “nothing new” in the WAC murder which shocked a nation, touched even the White House, tumbled forth a dozen oddly assorted suspects and produced three phony confessions. Perhaps the case will take its place as the No. 1 murder mystery of world war II.
. # # # BY ALL odds, it tops the list of 31 homicides committed here betwéen January, 1943, and August, 1944, at the mathematic-
per month. Police Chief Clifford F. Beeker revealed recently that only five of the 31 homicides remain unsolved. Aside from the
Mrs. Rose Miller ⠄⠄⠄ acid thrower's victim, another mystery. # # # STILL OPEN on the books at police headquarters is another mystery, in some respects more brutal than any of these murders. It is the acid-throwing episode which left attractive Mr. Rose Marie Miller, war worker, wife and mother, a seared and blinded wreck for life. The first anniversary of that crime passed less than two weeks ago. (Aug. 20, 1943) when an unidentified youth —— (Continued on Page 5 —Column 2)
Times' 'Leg Men' Relieved As Walkie Talkie Fizzles
By SHERLEY UHL Times “leg men” heaved a unanimous sigh of relief today when what was to have been the first example of the “walkie talkie" technique in journalism was stymied by streetcar wires and other unidentified
atmospheric conditions.
Reporter Noble Reed was all set to “radio” to the city desk an account of the Purdue university scientific exhibit
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CONTRIBUTIONS LAG, CI0 HEAD TESTIFIES
$371,086
Political Expenses.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 28 (U. PJ. ~Chairman Sidney Hillman of the C. I. O. Political Action Committee told the house committee investigating campaign expenditures today that two C. I, O.-sponsored political groups had received vol-
viduals totaling $135,000 with which to pay expenses in connection with the November election and that “if we relied on money to do our work, we would have scant hope of success.” He complained to the committee that other political organizations were not being subjected to congressional scrutiny such as the PAC inquiry, which opened today with a statement of Chairman Clinton Anderson (D. N. M.) that he hoped to get a “full record” of C. 1. O. political activities. Reviewing the organization and objectives of the C. I. O, Political
“Action Committee and the broader|’
national citizens political action committees, both of which he heads, Hillman said he knew of no other political organization “which has
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night of June 30, 1944, and also severly beat his wife,
ALBERT LEE GOFFINETT— Night attendant at the Gaseteria filling station, 1702 W. Washing-
LORA VOLNEY DALE—Bible salesman fatally beaten behind 403. W. Michigan st. on the morning of Aug. 5, 1944.
opening today in the L. Strauss & Co. show-windows. I was to have been on the receiving end of the broadcast, undertaken with a couple of “handie talkie” sets supplied by the Stout field service unit, . Carried by Hand A “handie talkie” is considerably lighter than “walkie talkie” and can be carried by hand instead of on the back. The army uses them extensively in South Pacific jungle fighting where components of the same unit are often hidden from view. If you drop in on the Purdue demonstration you'll see a couple of WACs showing them off to best advantage. But in the Strauss-to-The-Times-office broadcast, as Reporter Reed laconically remarked, there was “much handie but not inuch talkie.” Likewise there was a great deal more “walkie” than “talkie,” because Reed, along with a couple of
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REPORT RUSS CROSS HUNGARIAN BORDER: YANKS APPROACHING CHATEAU-THIERRY: BALKANS FACE HITLER'S GUNS, THREATS
Hitting Behind Robot Coast.
By VIRGIL PINKLEY United Press Staff Correspondent
SUPREME HEADQUARTERS, A. E. F,, Aug. 28.—
stormed . through the valley of the Marne today, approach-
Ernie Kisses Babies as Shots Ring in Paris
By ERNIE PYLE
Times Foreign
Correspondent
PARIS (By Wireless; Delayed) .—I had thought that for me there could never again be any elation in war. But 1 had reckoned without the liberation of Paris—I had reckoned without remembering that I might be a part
of this richly historic day. We are in Paris—on the days of all time. spondents are writing their
tension, a pent-up semi-delirium. . Our approach to Paris was hectic.
This is being written, as other corre-
first day—one of the great pieces, under an emotional
We had waited
for three days in a nearby town while hourly our reports
on what was going on in Paris changed and contradicated themselves. Of a morning it would look as though we were about to break through the German ring around Paris and come to the aid of the brave French forces of the interior who were holding parts of the city.
By afternoon it would seem the enemy had reinforced
until another Stalingrad was
bear to think of the destruction of Paris, and yet at times it seemed desperately inevitable. That was the situation this morning when we left Rambouillet and decided to feel our way timidly toward
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developing. We could not
ing the historic battleground of Chateau-Thierry, while a powerful British armored force streamed across the Seine above Paris in a double-edged threat to
PARIS, Aug. 27 (Delayed) (U. P.) ~Tortures - inflicted by Germans upon allied internees that “paralleled the Spanish inqui - sition” were described today by escaped allied women internees who have reached Paris for medical care. The secretary fo a Paris commercial attache described an “electric. bath” in torture chambers set’ up in the French ministry of the interior. American, French and English women first were plunged into ice cold baths. If they refused to talk they then were forced te sit in a bath through which an electric current passed.
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Other British columns swept across the Seine in force at Mante, | Elbeuf and a newly-won bridgehead at Louviers, almost mid-way between Vernon and Elbeuf. Only feeble enemy opposition was encountered by the British spearheads, but headquarters spokesmen warned it was too early to determine whether Hitler had ordered
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Hoosier Heroes—
FIVE DIE IN ACTION: THREE ARE MISSING
7 Others Are Placed on Casualty Lists.
Action of the fighting fronts has claimed the lives of five more Indianapolis men, while three are missing, five have been wounded and two are prisoners, - 2 tJ
Pfe. Harold J. Duhamsil, 1746 Kildare st., in France. 8. Sgt. Bertil 8. Johnson, 1510 Lawton st., over Germany. Pfc. James Paul Dehn, 937 Massachusetts ave., in the South Pacific.
Pfc. Alva Wayne Hammons, broth-
‘ers of Mrs. Helen Rich, 2648 Brook-
side ave, in Burma. f J - » MISSING Pvt. Calvin Scharrer, Washington st, in France. Pvt. Gus L, Singleton Jr, former Indianapdlis hotel manager, in European area. : First Lt. Jess W. Carter, 35 Wood-
lawn 8, 18 France. 2, ®
WOUNDED Machinist's Mate 1-c Chester W. Rich, 2649 Brookside ave, in New
Pvt. Richard S. Stone, 3139 W. Michigan st, in France. Pvt. Robert Hefferton, 5345 E.
6714 E.
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S. France
TRAP IS SPRUNG
Foe Is Caught Between Two
and artillery, racing more than 30 miles overland into the Rhone val-
jley, closed behind the beaten rem-
ON 13,000 NAZIS
Yank Armies 50 Miles
Up Rhone River.
By ELEANOR PACKARD United Press Staff Correspondent
ROME, Aug. 28.—American tanks
nants of the German 19th army at Montelimar today and turned a murderous fire on some 15,000 Nazis pped against the east bank of Rhone.
their bridges cut. by allied ' the survivors immi-
{nent death or capture between the
converging guns of the main American forces moving up from Avignon
ROME, Aug. 28 (U. P.).—Seventh army armored patrols have reached the Swiss frontier three miles south of Geneva, the Canadian service newspaper, Maple Leaf, said today, without quoting the source of its information.
and the enveloping column at Montelimar, halfway between the {Mediterranean coast and Lyon, The trap was sprung by a strong armored force that swept into Montelimar after a secret forced march from the Sisterone-Grenoble highway more than 50 miles to the east. The battered Nazis, fleeing up the east bank of the Rhone, raced into Montelimar to find the Americans ready and waiting. American riflemen and hundreds of warplanes joined in the slaughter and casualties among the Nazis were described officially as “enormous.” In addition, most of the German 242d and 244th infantry divisions were revealed to have been wiped out at Toulon, now completely liberated, and still embattled Marseille, More than 7000 prisoners were captured in the two port cities, Gen. Sir Henry Maitland Wilson announced in his daily communique, bringing to More than 30,000 the
EYEWITNESS—
De Gaulle Calm Under Fire
- Of Assassins
By HELEN KIRKPATRICK Times Foreign Correspondent
Aug. 26 (Delayed) .—Paris’ celebration of its: liberation was very nearly converted into a massacre by the mi-
PARIS, Saturday,
litia's attempt to eliminate French this afternoon’s ceremonies.
All Paris streamed into the center of the town—to the Arc de Triomphe, the Place de la Concorde, along the Champs Elysees, at
in Notre Dame
leaders and to start riots during
lerc and Juin led the procession from the Etoile to Notre Dame amid scenes of tremendous enthu-
turned back to Notre Dame where a te deum service was to he
held. We stood in the door of the Cathedral awaiting the arrival of the French generals at 4 o'clock this afternoon ahd were about to fight our way through the crowd to leave when they began arriving. French tanks were drawn up around the square in front of the cathedral. Crowds pushed desper-
LONDON, Aug. 28 (U. P.).— Hundreds of allied fighter planes and fighter-bombers attacked German escape routes north of the Seine and supply routes along the Franco-German border today, while 50) to 750 heavy bombers from Italy bombed enemy targets in France, Hungary and Austria.
families of French forces of the interif men who had fallen during the battle of Paris. We stood beside the police, who formed a lane into the cathedral. The generals’ car arrived on the dot at 4:15. As they stepped from the car, we stood at salute and at that very moment a revolver shot rang out. It seemed fo come from
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Saturday. One attempt on De.Gaulle’s Notre Dame cathedral, where snipers hidden in the gallery exchanged shots with worshipers during a thanksgiving service climaxing the parade. Other snipers enfrenched on the roof of the American embassy had fired into crowds on the Palace de La Concorde, killing two persons and wounding 16. Still other shots came from buildings near the city hall as the De Gaulle party approached. But even as authorities pressed
total seized since the first landings Aug. 15.
Tiny footprints of all babies born in Indianapolis hospitals during the past three months were being checked by police today in an effort to locate the mother of an infant abandoned on the doorstep of an apartment here last night. Well dressed in warm knit clothing and wrapped in two blankets, the infant, a boy about two months old, was found by 13-year-old Helen Gillihan, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Renzo Gillihan, at the entrance of their apartment, 244 E. 10th st. The girl said she nearly stumbled over the baby as she was entering the apartment. Her par
was taken to the Children's Guardians’ home in Irvington, while he search: for the mother was begun.
woman of about 25 enter the “Gillihans’ apartment building with a bundle, and that she saw her
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ents notified police and the baby . |
bama st, who said she saw a
their manhunt, Paris already was well on the road to normalcy after
All New Babies’ Footprints Checked After 2-Months- Old Boy Is Found on Doorstep
15 Die in Abortive Attempts
On De Gaulle's Life in Paris
By HENRY T. GORRELL United Press Staff Cerrespondent
PARIS, Aug. 28—French partisans and police searched Paris today under orders to shoot on sight German snipers and armed collaboration{ists following the death of at least 15 persons in a series of abortive attempts to assassinate Gen. Charles de Gaulle during a “liberation parade”
life touched off a miniature batttle in
its most exciting week since the French revolution. (Train service was resumed today between Paris and suburbs and mail again was delivered, a Paris broadcast heard in Algiers said. Charles Luizet, former prefect of Corsica, has been appointed prefect of Paris, the broadcast said, adding that he had left Algiers and arrived in Paris one month before its liberation. (A Vichy broadcast heard in London said the French newspapers
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Romania
[BALKANS FACE GUNS, THREATS
Nazis Attack Budapest as Hitler Puts Pressure
On Bulgaria.
By J. EDWARD MURRAY United Press Staff Correspondent LONDON, Aug. 28.—Adolf Hitler, battling with guns and threats to hold his deserting Balkan satellites in line, launched a full-scale attack
Russio—
Soviets Advance Upon Ploesti Oil Fields.
By ROBERT MUSEL United Press Staff Correspondent
LONDON, Aug. 28—Soviet cavalry forces drove over the eastern Carpathian mountains through Transylvania and crossed the Hungarian border today, a Berlin broad-
cast admitted, while two other Russian armies poured through Galati gap on Buchardest and Ploesti, where German ‘and Romanian troops, erstwhile allies, were reported fighting against each other. The German D. N. B. agency admitted that Soviet cavalry units had penetrated the Hungarian border at an unidentified point, but claimed that Nazi and Hungarian troops had repelled them and that all the passes in the northern Carpathians still were firmeiy in German hands. Although Moscow remained silent on ithe German announcement, the report indicated that Marshal Rodion ¥Y. Malinovsky’s 2d Ukrainian army was making good progress toward a major breach into Transylvania, bone of contention between
on Bucharest today and rushed his diplomatic trouble shooters to Sofla to block a Bulgarian declaration of
(War analysis, Page Five; other. _ war news, Pages Two and Nine.)
war on the Reich. The German Transocean news said flerce fighting had broken out between Nazi troops and their erstwhile allies in Romania, where 11 German divisions were reported to have been killed, captured or trapped since Romania broke her ties with Berlin and went over to the allies last week.
had completely encircled Bucharest,
Say Romanians Divided
Romania and Hungary. since its award to Hungary by German dice tate in- 1940.
D. N. B. also reported that in
northern Bucharest and in the Ploesti area, fighting broke out when Romanian troops, “according to Boviet instructions,”
attempted to
Transocean said German troops
where Premier Marshal Contsantin Senatescu and his new" anti-Nazi cabinet ‘were holding the former Premier Jon Antonescu and members of a German military mission.
disarm the Germans. If asserted, however, that German troops were “holding out in their positions everywhere.” Malinovsky’s mechanized Cossacks paced the drives down through the 1 Galati gap which military observers believed would complete the liberation of the Balkans in a few weeks, They drove a spearhead through Ploesti's outer defenses and sent
the country, Transocean said, as-| serting that the Romanian army, itself has been divided into two camps, one supporting Senatescu and the other continuing the fight against Russia. At the same time, signs multi-| plied that Bulgaria, after breaking with Germany over the Romanian clash, was on the verge of declaring war against the reich. The Nazi DNB news agency said Hitler's ambassador to Bulgaria had returned to his post in Sofia after a hurried conference with Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop —presumably to warn the Bulgars against any war move.
‘Too Early’ to Comment
DNB said the ambassador was “discussing” the situation with Bulgarian officials, but quoted a foreign office spokesman as saying it was “too early” to comment. The Hungarian council in Britain, headed by Count Michael Karolyi, onetime president of the Hungarian republic, called on its countrymen to drive the Germans from Hun-
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FINNISH-RUSS PEACE NEAR, LONDON HEARS
Hint ‘at Armistice Within Next 24 Hours.
LONDON, Aug. 28 (U. P)~-A Stockholm dispatch to the Daily Express reported today that an armistice between Finland and Russia-was impending and may be announced within the next 24 hours. Speculation over Finnish peace moves also was noted by the Sunday Observer in a Stockholm item which said the arrival of a number of dignitaries from Helsinki indicated Sweden would be asked to mediate an armistice with Russia.
Bucharest has been cut off from|
another force racing toward the Ro-
POLES BEG FOR HELP :
all communication with the rest of! manian capital. farther south.
The Russians were meeting only token resistance.
Capture 18,000 Nazis
The only formidable resistance was from remnants of 12 German divisions trapped in a pocket southwest of Chisinau where the doomed Nazis were being steadily liquidated. The Russians captured 18,000, including four generals. Three ofher generals were found dead on the field. In the last eight days more than 290,000 Germans and Romanians have been killed or captured. As ‘the result of the furious sweeps of the two Ukrainian armies, the Russians and Romanians have seized all passes through the Carpathians, leaving little possibility of German “forces in the Balkans escaping. The enemy garrisons in Greece and on the scattered islands in the Aegean faced a similar situation— forced evacuation or capture,
3400 EMPLOYEES AT FORD ENDING STRIKE
DETROIT, Aug. 28 (U. P.).=— Workers straggled back to the Ford Motor Co.s Highland Park plant today after officers of local 400, United Automobile Workers (C. L 0.), voted at a mass meeting yesterday to end a three-day strike of 3400 employees. The company reported that half of the 11 o'clock shift reported last night, and said the morning shift was coming “in a normal flow.” :
WAR FRONTS
Aug. 28, 1944
NORTHERN FRANCE — Americans
SOUTHERN FRANCE — Americans kill or capture 15000 Germans in 50-mile drive up Rhone.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 28 (U. Pa