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Cpl. Richard. Lewis, who wrote the accompanying dispatch on the “rise of Paris,” was the conductor of the Indianapolis Times’ column, “Voice From the Baleony,” before he joined the army.

Sometimes “The Voice” breathed sweetness and light; sometimes it was heaty with irony and, excepting the press agents who felt the bitter barbs when

the occasion demanded, everybody had a warm spot for Dick's colerful writing. So, Seagain is The Volce, this

time telling a graphic story of Paris.

Paris Never Fell—It Ros

Voice From a Paris Balcony

By CPL. RICHARD LEWIS Special to The Indianapolis Times

Aug. 25 (Delayed).—I was among the first

to‘enter Paris with advance detachments and correspond-

ts today. Paris never fell. It rose with such a greeting for liverators of France as never seen before and never again in our time. ’ For three days there were scenes of wildest gaiety, confusion and hilarious welcoming, against a dangerous background of street fighting and sniping from roofs. Ratsnests of Fascist militia and Germans were still hiding in subways, attics and cellars. They were cleaned out by French forces of the interior with a weird assortment of weapons, which included parade swords. We entered the city via Port D'Orleans along the Rue D’Orleans, which was lined with applauding citizens, but as we came across the Seine the scene changed and Parisians, lining the streets 1G deep so that it was almost impossible to pass through, were hysterically happy. Once we had to ask directions and that was nearly our undoing, as women rushed us to throw their arms around our necks and hug and

kiss us like crazy. I had lipstick all over my face and neck, The driver was nearly dragged from the jeep by four beautiful girls and are Parisian women gorgeous. At Notre Dame we picked up a guide on a bicycle who hung onto the jeep as we raced through the mob to the Hotel Scribe, which only two hours - before had been the scene of a (Continued on Page 2—Column 2)

vicious street battle beween the French patriots and Germans

er order,

Mobbed again at’ the hotel, I chased five guys who insisted on portering our bedrolls, packs and carbines. With blankets under one arm and carbine and type-

match for three lovely girls who kept kissing like mad, nearly tearing "off my shirt; men also embraced us, and women wept and laughed and cheered, and groups sang the “Marseillaise” French militia, hanging out of the windows, standing on run-

who had not heard the surrend-

writer under the other, I was no ~

WEDNESDAY, AUGU

ST 30, 1944

e In A Wild Scene Of Joy

Columnist on Leave Among the First Men in Liberated Capital

Taking cover around the corner of a building, a French soldier fires at a German sniper concealed in one of the buildings across the

street, :

NIBLACK OFFERS ~ TRAFFIC ‘CURE’

Urges 12-Point Remedy After Harger Charges

Police ‘Amble.’ |,

Municipal Judge John L. Niblack today had a 12-point remedy for the eity’s ailing traffic situation, complicated last night by Dr. R'N. Harger's ¢harges that traffic police are “leis- , Urely, ambling,” and “not worth their salt.” Dr, Harger, Chamber of Com- , merce safety council chairman, blamed deputy prosecutors and municipal court judges, as well as police, for Indianapolis’ high traffic death rate, lashing out particularly at the low percentage of convictions here in drunken driving cases, He leveled his accusations during 8 Rotary club meeting at which he first handed police a bouquet for their gaming and vice enforcement activities, then followed up with his traffic laxity brickbat.

McNelis Defends Himself Municipal Judge John L. McNelis, defending himself at the meeting

against allegations that drunken driving convictions were at an ex-

CHICAGO, Aug. 30 (U. P.).—Governor Thomas E. Dewey, Republican presidential candidate, will make his first campaign swing around the country next month with a 6700-mile coast-to-coast tour during which he will make seven major addresses and confer with party leaders, Chairman Herbert Brownell Jr., of the G. O. P. national committee, announced today, «vise oom dst gr ne rovieat a Dewey's tour, which includes a visit with his mother at his home town of Owosso, Mich., will begin at Philadelphia Sept. 7 where he will make a nation-wide radio adjdress, his first since he accepted ithe nomination at Chicago two {months ago, and will end with his {return to Albany Sept. 28. | During his tour, which will cover . 121 states, the youthful G. O. P. Five Other Local Men AlSO nominee winl deliver major cam- . paign speeches at Louisville, Seattle, Listed as Dead. Portland, Ore.; San Francisco, Los Angeles and Oklahoma City, in adBoth sons of Mrs. Robert Smith, [dition to the one at Philadelphia.

3750 E. New York st, have been All will be carried nationally by killed in France, bringing today's radio networks. total of Indianapolis fen killed in Entire Trip by Train action to five, and’two local men| In addition to his addresses, have eir lives in the United | Brownell said Dewey will confer {with Republican governors as well States, one in a plane crash and the | ™ \ other in a a). pag sna, |as industrial, agricultural and other Six other local men are also on SOUPS during stops in 10 states. today's ty list. {The entire trip will be made by train. KILLED Dewey's Philadelphia address will Pfc. Willlam H. Murray, 3750 E. be broadcast over both the N.B.C. New York st, in France. and C.B.S. radio networks from 9

Hoosier Heroes—

2 BROTHERS KILLED IN FRENGH FIGHTIN

tremely low ebb in his court, said it was his opinion in order to be] found guilty of operating under the | influence of liquor, a person must |

Pvt. Roy E. Murray, 3750 E. New (to 9:30 p. m. (Indianapolis time). York st., in France, {While in Pennsylvania, the G. O. F. Pfc. Charles M. Shaffer, 209 S. standard-bearer will confer with Noble st., in France. Governor Edward Martin and other

term campaign, but he ruled out too much to do.

GAMBLERS WARNED AT VICTORY FIELD

Stop Betting or Be Barred From Park, Group Told.

Professional gamblers will be barred from attending baseball games at Victory field uniess they immediately cease their gambling activities at the park, Secretary Al Schlensker announced today. Mr. Schlensker, in a statement fo the athletic committee of the Chamber of Commerce, said: “The management of the Indianapolis Baseball club knows that gambling has been going on among a certain group of persons attending games at Victory field. We deeply deplore this situation and have made efforts to put an end to the practice without much success. “We are determined to keep baseball at Victory field on a high plane of clean sportsmanship. If this gambling is not stopped at once, we shall call on police to act

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be seen while in the act. Cpl. George Raymond Corey, 1439 Tead an interpretation of the law to the effect that circumstantial ~evidence is as allowable in drunken operating cases as it is in other * criminal offenses. In his blistering statement Dr. Harger asserted, “Indianapolis has 8 so-called board of safety with a division known as the police de"partment. It is no secret that for years most of our police have not eaned their salt in apprehendirg; traffic violators. “When it takes eight whole working days for the average squad car operator to pick up just one erring motorist it's evident that these leisurely, ambling officers are not seriously overworked. “We also have deputy prosecutors and fraffic courts. Our part-time deputy prosecutors do little more than call out names in cases for which they have made no preparations. We sadly need more judges who will crack down to stop crashes,

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Florida. Pvt. David 8. Goldstein, 1350 Barth ave, in truck accident in Arizona, T. 5th Gr. Lyle Bush, 417 Henry st., on Saipan. 8. Sgt. Orville E. (Gene) Beneflel, 3423 Carrollton ave., over Germany.

MISSING Second Lt. John Jones, 730 N. Bancroft st, over Germany. First Lt. James B. Smith, 4154 N. Sherman dr., over France.

+ WOUNDED i Cpl. Robert E. Everett, 314 N. Audubon rd., on Saipan. Pfc. Paul W. Glass, 1505 N. Delaware st., on Saipan. Pfc. Nelson C. Bivens, 3413 Hovey st., on Saipan.

PRISONER Pfc. Jim R. Zachery, 1345 Reisner st., of Germany.

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EX-SENATOR NORRIS IS SERIOUSLY ILL

LOCAL TEMPERATURES

6a. m..... 68 10a.m....73 7am. ..62 lam..." McCOOK, Neb, Aug. 30 (U. P.).— ‘ 8a.m.,... 66 12 (Noon).. 79 |Former Senator George W. Norris, Sam...70 1pm... 81 |8, was seriously ill today, but at-

tending physicians believed he had a good chance to recover. * » He was stricken with a cerebral hemorrhage yesterday and recovered consciousness last night sufficiently to recognize his doctors and members of his family. Norris spent nearly 30 years®in the senate. He retired to his home here in 1943 after being defeated for another term. :

‘TIMES INDEX

Charles Lucey.13 Mauldin ......15 Ruth Millett .14 Movies ....... 8 Obituaries .... 8 Pegler ....,...}4 Ernie Pyle ...13 Radio ....... 3 Ration Dates .12 Mrs. Roosevelt.13 4 {Side Glances

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Eddie Ash ....18 Barnaby .....13 Comics ..,....21 Crossword ....21 Ludwell Denny . 14 a wan I18

REVOLT,

RUSS TELL SPAIN By UNITED PRESS

(party leaders, Brownell said.

Attorney Walter Myers Jr. then N. Alabama st, in plane crash ™ Dewey's second stop will be at

| Louisville, where he will address the biennial meeting of the National | Federation of Republican Women's {Clubs Sept. 8. Before his address, {from 8:30 to 9 p. m. (Indianapolis time), he will confer with Governor

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POUND NAZI 195TH

ROME, Aug. 30 (U. P.).—A fierce battle raged at the confluence of the Rhone and Drome rivers today as American’ troops slashed at straggling - remnants of the German 18th army and swung a salient across the Drome in an attempt to cut off enemy forces trying to flee north across the river -on pontoons. The Germans were pinched into a triangle formed by the two rivers, 100 miles up the Rhone valley, and the Americans driving northward from newly-captured Montelimar.

By HARRY HICKINGBOTHAM United Press Staff Correspondent

FOLKESTONE, England, Aug. $0. ~The greatest explosion of the war was set off on the French rocket coast last night and the British wondered today if the Nazis had made an abortive attempt to launch their new V-2 rocket bomb. ‘The detonation was accompanied by a tremendous rushing noise. Houses on the English coast were shaken, crockery was sent skidding

_ |across floors and a few windows

were broken, There never had been anything comparable heard in this

Sports ........18 Deaths , §

‘Quake’ Rocks French Coast: * V-2 Launching a Failure?

and if necessary, shall refuse ad‘mittance to the games to those guilty of the practice.” Majority of the complaints center around activity along the first base line, Mr. Schlensker said. A group of professional gamblers take bets, large and small, on the outcome of the games, according to the secretary.

DENY VON KLUGE

STOCKHOLM, Aug. 30 (U. P.) — The Svenska Dagbladet’s Zurich correspondent said today that German Marshal Guenther von Kluge died of a heart attack in Adolf Hitler's headquarters after ‘being summoned to a conference with the fuehrer. Reports that Von Kluge committed suicide after a nervous breakdown were incorrect, the correspondent said.

propaganda has referred to 10, 20 and 30 ton explosive rockets. That weight of explosives wo! account for the tremendous detonation. Some believed the Germans might have blown up their robot bomb launching sites and surplus rchot bombs in the Pas de Calais area rather than have them fall into allied hands.

SUICIDE REPORT

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Dewey to Make 6700-Mile Swing Around U. S. Next Month F. D. R. to Open Drive at Teamsters’ Fete; Rules Out Tour

WASHINGTON, Aug. 30 (U. P.).—President Roosevelt has chosen a dinner to be given here on the night of Sept. 23 by a group of labor leaders as the ‘scene of the first outright political speech in his fourth

& nation-wide tour because he has

The dinner, is.being:given by Daniel Tobin of Indianapolis,

of the TMternational Brotherhood of Teamsters (A. F. of L.) for between 600 and 700 officers of state, district and local affiliates of the union. David D. Beck, vice president of the union, who is making arrange{ments pending Tobin's arrival here from Indianapolis, said no other 1 distinguished officials would be invited. He pointed out that Mr. Roosevelt addressed the union's convention here in September, 1940, and that the invitation was renewed this year as a matter of courtesy.

Labels Speech Political

“Nothing about politics was said in the invitation to the President,” Beck told the United Press. When advised that the President had stated at his news conference late yesterday that the speech could be labelled political, Beck replied. “That's up to him.” Asked whether the speech might be intended to cement the labor vote behind Mr. Roosevelt in November, Beck answered: “He's already got it.” The President told reporters that while his speech would not be very political, it would seem to have a tinge in that direction so probably it would have to bear the outright political tag. He said, furthermore, that he had not yet decided whether he would make other political speeches, reminding the correspondents that the election was three months away. On the question of a nation-wide

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65,000 Vessels Added to Fleet During the War

WASHINGTON, Aug. 30 (U. P). —The navy has added almost 65,000 vessels aggregating more than '9,000,000 tons to the fleet since the outbreak of hostilities in Europe five years ago, Secretary of the Navy James Forrestal announced today. He said in a statement that nearly 36 per cent of the total were combat ships, 22 per cent landing craft and the rest naval craft of other types. Forrestal issued the statement to a press conference and called attention to the fact that it came two days before the fifth anniversary of the start of world war II on Sept. 1, 1939. During the five years, the secretary told newsmen: The navy accepted 57,600 planes, or 20 times as many as were in its pre-war air force. The combined strength of the navy, marine corps, and coast guard reached 3,717,000 persons, as come ‘with 152,086 on Sept. 1, 1939,

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HULL SEES BERLIN NOW FEELING FOR NEGOTIATED PEACE

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YANKEE TANKS

As Allies Storm Into

Reims, Laon.

By VIRGIL PINKLEY United Press Staff Correspondent

‘armies,

{to Germany and Belgium, stormed into Laon and the cathedral city of Reims today, while Berlin admitted

medieval town of Rouen guarding the robot bomb coast of northern France.

the American 1st and 3d armies punctured the Aisne river line at at least two points and were reported fanning out over the rolling farmlands beyond Reims, Laon and Chalons-sur-Marne. i Only scattered and disorganized Nazi rear guards barred the path of the American armor in their sweep for the Rhineland, and official reports indicated the Yanks were moving at a speed that could carry them to the Belgian border within a day or two.

Tanks Clear Way We J

vance on Germany in which the enemy forces are being methodically dissected and forced into isolated corridors, even as we press onward,” United Press War Corres|pondent Henry T. Gorrell said in reporting the sensational sweep of {the American armies through the ‘Aisne and Marne valleys. | Beyond Reims and Laon, Ameriican spearheads were 30 to 35 miles {from the borders of Belgium, while (other Yank columns pounding eastward from Chalons were 95 miles or less from Germany. American riflemen poured swiftly through the breaches created by {their plunging tank spearheads, while swarms of allied warplanes ranged before them to bomb and strafe the retreating enemy, Simultaneously, British, American and Canadian forces linked their bridgeheads across the Seine above Paris into a solid 50-mile front and swung forward 25 miles beyond the Seine to drive an armored wedge between Rouen and Beauvais, '

Head for Amiens

The allies, smashing directly at Amiens and the heart of the bases from which German robot bombs have been showering down on London, captured Neufmarche, 25 miles east of Rouen and 15 miles west of Beauvais. There was no confirmation of the Berlin report that Rouen had been evacuated, and allied headquarters said latest advices from the front told of bitter fighting on the approaches to that forress town. On the American Ist and 3d army fronts east of Paris, however, official and enemy reports agreed that

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REPORT BULGARIA T0 SIGN ARMISTICE

Believe Hungary to Stay in

German Camp. LONDON, Aug. 30 (U. P.).

ported to have asserted that government will continue in war on Germany's side, Late dispatches from Turkey

garian would be signed for the British government by Lord Moyne, minister of state in the Middle East, and for the United States by Lincoln

Greece and Yugoslavia. Premier » Lakatos was reported by

outlined a three-fold program at

the. 34-year-old

RACE FOR REICH UNCHALLENGED

Berlin Admits Fall of Rouen

SUPREME HEADQUARTERS, A. E. F., Aug. 30.—Two American tank racing unchallenged over {the last miles of the invasion roads

that its troops had abandoned the|

Powerful armored spearheads of

‘Unconditional Surrender Remains as Allies’ Only Answer, He Says; Hints Hitler May Flee.

(Additional War News, Page 15) WASHINGTON, Aug. 30 (U. P.).—Secrelary of State [Cordell Hull today expressed belief that the German high command has indicated a desire to put out “feelers for a negotiated peace,” but emphasized that unconditional sure render will remain the allies’ only terms. Hull told a news conference that the radio speech of Lt. Gen. Kurt Dittmar last night indicated that the Gere mans “are desirous of putting out peace feelers.” He also revealed that the state department is giving constant “consideration” to,

ST: pee 1:4 | They accepted his statement that the possibility that Adolf Hit-| Germany would fight on to the

ler and his underlings might end in hope of getting better terms attempt to flee Germany and (,,1 unconditional surrender as a

seek refuge in a neutral coun-| blunt, honest statement of the Gere ry man position as of now. * | Congressm - Hull recalled the request of! gressmen of both major par

cs ies viewed his statement as foree President Roosevelt and Britis] adowing & useless sacrifice of Prime Minister Winston Churchill gon. n “jives because . the allies lo neutral countries to define their

: will accept nothing shor attitude on providing hideaways for| pote te g t of com

the German leaders. |" Senator Chapman Revercomb (R “We are not unmindful of the Va), a member of the military possibility that the Nazi dictator afrairs committee, summed up the and his assistants might flee Ger- attitude of many of his colleagues ervers view 1tt-1 “The view expressed, of fight mar’s broadcast as a hope for on after iy is dil, hire modification of the allied demands certainly unwise and a sacrifice of for unconditional surrender of Ger- {the German people. It would seem many and as an effort to encourage that they should capitulate. This the German home front to con- country is intent upon bringing tinue the fight for something better {about a complete capitulation of than complete capitulation. the enemy.”

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ims oes or me sea sat rmany’s Use of Poison Gas

In Last-Ditch Stand Is Hinfed

LONDON, Aug. 30 (U.- P).— optimism, which Swedish and other Germany is believed preparing to observers regarded merely as strong use poison gas on a mass scale, the propaganda, was inspired by an London Daily Mail said today, and article written by Joachim Fernau, Swedish press dispatches reported la front correspondent of the Waffen that the Nazis are boasting of a lelite guards. new mystery weapon which they| pernay gave no details of the

assert will win the war for Hitler ajjegedq secret weapon, but he intie within the next six months. | 28 pow

imated that it would be a refinement The ‘Daily Mail reported that the of the robot bombs—presumably the Germans plan to use poison gas in \long-heralded “V-2” reprisal weapon, the hope of winning a negotiated | He asserted that the war entered peace, but the Swedish accounts a new phase on June 16, when the

aria’s peace emissary, Stoichol™ Moshanov, left. Istanbul this morn-| : ing aboard a special plane for Cairo. . \ Cairo reports said that the Bul-| : armistice most probably!

MacVeagh U. S. ambassador to|

Hungarian news agency to have! |

now are assuring their people that

tain. The Stockholm Dagens Nyheter and the Scandinavian telegraph bureau reported that word of the German mystery weapon was splashed across the front pages of Berlin's newspapers this morning. “German victory is not only certain but near.” one Nazi headline proclaimed, adding that the German people and their armies must only hold out until autumn when the new weapon will be unveiled.

BULLETIN LONDON, Aug. 30 (U. P.).—The German DNB agency reported today that “strong Soviet forces” had penetrated the Ploesti area in southern Romania.

By HENRY SHAPIRO United Press Staff Correspondent MOSCOW, Aug. 30 (U. P.).—Russian cossacks, tanks and mechanized infantry, with nearly haf of eastern Romania already in their hands, raced pel! mell through disorganized German resistance today within 50 miles of Bucharest and 60 miles of the Bulgarian border.

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indicated that Bérlin propagandists |

complete and early victory is cer-

The unexpected outburst of Nazi!

robot bombing of London began, and {that the intensification of the allied attacks in France resulted from fear of V-1 and the forthcoming V-2, “These attacks (in France) are not a sign of allied strength but of utter distress and panicky fear,” Fernau wrote. Feranu predicted that the curreng phase of the war, with Germany on the defensive, will last only until fall when, he said, “the last great test of strength will begin.” “The last price we must pay shall be paid with all our means and

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Russ 60 Miles From Bulgaria As Nazi Black Sea Base Falls

agency reported today that four Soviet divisions had launched a “major” breakthrough offensive near Radzymin, northeast of Ware saw. A series of sensational advances ranging up to 70 miles in 24 hours toppled Constanta, main German Black sea naval base for the past three years, and carried almost to the rim of the great Ploesti oil fields, last major source of oil for Adolf Hitler's staggering war ma chine, (A London broadcast quoted by C. B. S. relayed Turkish reports

The German Transocean news| (Continued on Page 2—~Column 1)

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