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The War In Europe Can End In Next 35 Days If We Get The Breaks
- LONDON, ON EVE OF 5TH ANNIVERSARY, BELIEVES CRUMBLING NAZI ARMY NEARS FINAL COLLAPSE:
The greatest war in nistory will have run five years toghorrow.
The vice president and European
manager of the United Press has
Surveyed the fighting fronts on the eve of the anniversary and presents the following report on where the allies stand:
By VIRGIL
PINKLEY
United Press War Correspondent ' LONDON, "Aug. 31.—On the eve of the fifth anniversary of the beginning of the European war one finds in London official and semi-official quarters a
growing number of convert.
s to the belief that the war
in this theater can be ended.within the next 35 days if
BY TRAVEL MAD
PUBLIC FEARED)
‘Celebrates 61st
007 Doubtful Th That People . Will Obey ‘Stay-at-F Home’ Warnings.
Oblivious to appeals urging them to keep transportation facilities open for essential uses, a travelmad public is expected to clog Indianapolis’ bus and train lines
for the next four days, leaving B®
disrupted schedules and bedlam in fts wake. Long regarded by travel com-
panies as a rush period, this Labor
day week-end is expected to top. all records in Indianapolis and the! nation for jammed busses, over. flowing trains and persons left waiting on the platform. Although every effort has been made to clarify the travel situation, ODT officials today were pessimistic concerning the attention which civilians will pay to suggestions to stay home, “Our efforts July 4 were just as pronounced, and the effect was practically nil.” one official said. “The people no longer seem to realize that it is their patriotic duty to avoid overtaxing of this vital facility.”
“Up to Public's Decency”
ODT spokesmen added: *We do not like to try to tell the American public what to do, We can only inform them of the consequence of their disregarding our pleas, and leave the rest to their own sense of decency.” Unless civilians pay more attention to “don’t travel” appeals than in the past, the rush will start tomorrow and grow in intensity Saturday through Monday. Workers given a long week-end by the Monday holiday, returning vacationers, servicemen on furlough, and students leaving for school will make up the multitude who will be forced to run the gauntlet of long ket lines, jammed platforms and packed vehicles, Special holiday features over the state and in Indianapolis are expected to at least double the local tourist influx, Reservations at state park resorts are filled, and more than 15,000 day visitors will be left without housing facilities. Autoists are not expected out in enough force to relieve the commercial lines, although OPA will do routine checking of B and C card holders at pleasure resorts,
Travelers Warned
Commercial travel lines warned travelers not to look for additional
able vehicles is now mustered into service. They also said any civiljan may be dispossessed at any time to give space to the approximately 4000 wounded men who will be traveling to rest camps. Factors which have added to the loads carried by commercial lines since last year include casualty movements which are compelling civilians to surrender reserved and purchased accommpdiations; the upswing of the main war effort from the Atlantic to the Pacific, throwing a heavier load on the already over-burdemed lines. More than a third of all passenger equipment now has been turned over to the army for organized troop movement and coaches daily are giving out with no materials for repair. While the exact number of war prisoners in this country has not beén announced, it is estimated that some 200000 have been carried on railroads from ports, and that many still are coming in and being transferred.
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BOY. SCHRIGKER
Several Thousand Attend Picnic at Garfield Park.
Gov, Schricker and several thousand of his friends celebrated his 61st birthday last night with a gigantic picinc in Garfield park. State employees turned out en
masse to honor the Hoosier leader who happily munched pressed ham sandwiches and potato chips and wore a twisted rope of chewing tobacco in his breast pocket along with the cord to his glasses, a fountain pen and a white handkerchief, Backslapping and handshaking well-wishers: crowded around the familiar figure under the white hat and a teen-aged boy dragged him off by the arm to meet his girl Quipped the governor, “She's good looking, I suppose?” Following the picnic lunch served from under a large tent, a program was presented from the band shell as the thousands sat about on the ground and benches.
PLAN AMPHITHEATER AT GARFIELD PARK
Structure Will Be Used for Opera Next Summer.
Park department engineers have blueprinted plans to convert the Garfield park band shell into a modern outdoor amphitheater where light opera is to be presented next summer, Park Superintendent Paul V. Brown said today. He said the structure would seat 4500 persons, making use of the present sloping contours of the Garfleld band shell site,
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the allies get good weather and a fair share of the battle
breaks.
Even the most conservative military view agrees that the next five weeks should see the armed power of
Adolf Hitler's Third Reich fanatics should retire into
broken forever even if some the mountains and forests
and wage futile guerrilla warfare for a time.
A German wehrmacht
which has suffered between
700,000 and 1,000,000 casualties in France, Italy and Russia, is retreating—in some places in headlong rout— without the protection of its luftwaffe in the air and
Inside Germany—
NEUTRAL POLL OF 250 SHOWS 1055 OF HOPE
80% of Cross-Section See Nation in Throes of
Complete Defeat.
By JACK FLEISCHER United Press Staff Correspondent STOCKHOLM, Aug. 31.—As nsutral poll of 250 Germans embracing 18 categories including house-
| wives, businessmen, teachers, Hitler
youth, 8. 8. men and railway em-
ployees living primarily in Stettin and: Beriin indicates that at least 80 per cent of the Germans are now convinced Germany will suffer complete military defeat. Fifteen per cent still cling to the hope of a compromise peace while a five per cent of incorrigible Nazis claims to believe in eventual German victory, This information also indicates that close to 90 per cent of the Germans don’t believe that “uncon-
the poll in the Stettin and Berlin areas on July 2¢ and Aug. 6. They
civil and military authorities who would have put a quick end to the enterprise. My informants returned to Stockholm convinced that while the vast majority of Germans now see the futility of continuing the ‘war there is little chance of an effective uprising within Germany. The Nazi terror honeycombs the home front and the armed forces
(On July 24 4nd Aug. 8 two Swedish travelers, with the aid of some German friends, propounded 19 Questions to 250 Germans in a poll of opinion. These Swedes, who are declared to be reliable but whose identities cannot be disclosed, have given their
of a number of Germans, conducted
' {that unofficial reports said had
British Capture Amiens, Force Somme.
By VIRGIL PINKLEY United Press Staff Correspondent SUPREME HEADQUARTERS, A. E. ¥., Aug. 31.— Powerful British armored forces broke across the Somme river line today, captured Amiens and plunged on towadr Boulogne, Calais and the beaches of Dunkerque in a fastrolling offensive that threatened to
overrun the robot bomb coast within 72 hours.
Far to the east, two American tank armies fanned out beyond the
WASHINGTON, Aug. 31
His statement reinforced the belief he expressed in a broadcast last night that victory in Europe is “sure by the end of 1944 if everyone does his part.”
shattered Aisne and Marne Fiver lines at top speed in twin drives
carried to within 26 miles of the Belgian border and little more than 80 miles from Germany,
Firmly Establish Bridgehead
Battle-hungry British Tommier, spurred by the prospect of lifting the “rocket-siege” of London within a matter of days, swept across the Somme in a burst of power that sent the Nazis fleeing in “disorder from Amiens. Tanks, guns and troops were re-
results to the United Press Stock- (ported pouring across the Somme helm manager, who has checked in an increasing tide and head-
them against information from other neutral sources within Germany in compiling the accompanying picture of “Inside Germany” at the hour of crisis.)
and there is no possibility of organizing opposition, they said. The home front is almost completely without arms and the armed forces are in the paralyzing hold of the S. 8. and the gestapo. They do not rule out the possibility of some sort of uprising, probably in the last stages of the German military collapse, possibly in the form of strikes and riots. They believe—as do other neutrals with whom I have talked here— that the German revolution if it comes, will be because of German
liminary to military defeat. As result of their observations | (not a response to their question), the poll takers foresee an end of the war not later than February. ————————p———————
68,000 PLANES
UCED WASHINGTON, Aug. (U, P). —Charles E. Wilson wound up his duties as executive vice chairman of the war production board today, leaving behind a final report showing that the nation's aircraft factoris turned out almost 68,000 planes in the first eight months of the year, bringing within easy reach the 1944 goal of 100,000.
Job Advice for G. I.'s Urged "At Indiana Bar Convention
(Photo, Page Five)
By NOBLE REED A resolution pledging the Indiana
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| State Bar association to full co
operation with draff boards in reemployment of returning war vets erans was considered - by the as-
sociation . at - the opening -of its] vious 48th: annual convention at the
Clazpect hots! today,
1. Adopt favorably a committee report, advocating amendments to the 1941 juvenile court law to eliminate unconstitutional provisions and give juvenile courts more legal!’ authority over delinquent and depesiden; children under 18 years of
my Reiterate the assooiation’s: prerecommendations for none
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military defeat and not as a pre- |
quarters spokesmen said the new bridgehead on the north bank was firmly established early this afternoon. Amiens, which straddles the Somme about 40 miles inland from the channel coast, was the scene of one of the final allied victories of world war I in August, 1918 Six days after the start of that offensive the German high command advised the kaiser’s government to sue for peace, Simultaneously, Canadian a army troopers lunged into the Seine river port of Rouen and thrust across the Dieppe highway nine miles above Rouen in a drive
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Hoosier Heroes—
increasingly harrassed by snow-balling guerrilla move-
ments within its lines.
Many additional thousands never will live to reach
the. Reich borders.
The best approximation of the
fighting strength of the wehrmacht in the field today is
2,000,000 compared with 8
,000,000 in 1940, after the
amazing German blitzkreig victories. Two years of uninterrupted retreats have stripped the Germans of vast amounts of equipment including
rail transport, gasoline and
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oil and industrial resources.
They have plunged Nazis into a state of gloom so deep
that they
are frankly admitting that the Reich is facing
the gravest situation in its history.
Allied high opinion, o
n the other hand, is re-
flected in statements like that of Prime Minister Church= ill that the. end of the conflict may comé sooner than previously could have been expected and in that of Prime Minister Jan C. Smuts, an elder statesman with a
vast knowledge of the ove
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entered Rouen.
The Yanks have taken Reims.
FRENCH FORGES TAKE BORDEAUX
Nice Captured, Nazis Flee Toward Lyon in S. France..
BULLETIN LONDON, Aug. 31 (U. P.).— French partisan troops have captured the great river port of Bordeaux, the fourth city of France, a communique issued by the French forces of the interior said today. Chamberry in southeastern France and Ronnerre in the Yonne department also were captured. .
By ELEANOR PACKARD United Press Staff Correspondent ROME, Aug. 31. —Victorious American troops, striking from both ends of the front in southern France, sent straggling remnants of the German 19th army reeling northward into the Lyon area today and captured, without opposition, the resort city of Nice on the Mediterranean.
The capture of Nice, largest of |"
the French Riviera resorts, carried the southeastern point of the allied beachhead to within 12 miles of the Ttalian border. The city, with a population of more than 200,000, was virtually undamaged except in the harbor area. . In the Rhone valley, the battered
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3 LOCAL MEN DIE; FIVE ARE WOUNDED!
All Casualties Listed From
France Except One.
The invasion of France has cost the lives of three more Indianapolis men and four have been wounded during action there. Another local man was wounded on Saipan. KILLED 8. Sgt. Oliver M, Ronk, 831 W. 44th st, in France. Capt. Horace W, Byers Jr. 421 E. Fall Creek prky., in France.
st, in France,
’ WOUNDED
Put. Ralph Craig, 3701 E. 34th st., in France. :
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Chief Carpenters Mate Everett H Davidson, 1920. ‘Winfield ave, on Saipan,
Pvt, John M. Flake, 1013 Reisner|
Pfc. John Ferman Johnson, 76 S.| 4
Defense War,
WASHINGTON, Aug. 31 (U. PJ). —Military observers said today that despite sensational allied successes and frank German admissions of adversities, Germany still may be able to wage a prolonged and bloody defensive battle if the Nazis decide to fight to the bitter end. German armies still possess strong
combative power and the Nazi party iis still capable of maintaining dis-
"ROMANIA, BULGARIA
GIVEN PEACE TERMS
Both Expected to Sign Before This Week-End.
LONDON, Aug. 31 (U. P.)— The Czechoslovak government in London announced today that almost all Slovakia now is in the hands of Czech patriot forces. The report said the Luftwaffe was active over the battle areas.
By J. EDWARD MURRAY United Press Staff Correspondent LONDON. Aug. 31.—Bulgaria and Romania receive allied peace terms in Cairo and Moscow today and) probably will sign them before the week-end, collapsing Balkan front.
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Nazis Still Can Wage Long
if They Choose
|cipline at home to keep the coun-!
try in the war. Thus, observers here consider it no idle threat when tne Germans say they will continue to resist, wringing blood from allied armies in costly combat, in the hope the allies will modify their terms of unconditional surrender. To those who see an outright German collapse in the lightning allied advance beyond Paris, it is noteworthy to recall that only a few
r-all picture, that the war
‘NAZIS SMASHED IN N. FRANCE, LOSE 400,000 IN 81 DAYS-IKE.
~ Sees Nazis’ Defeat Possible This
Year.
By ROBERT L. FREY United Press Staff Correspondent
| SUPREME HEADQUAR=TERS, A. E. F.,, Aug.’ 31 (Us | P.).—Gen. Dwight D. Isen= 'hower, reiterating his belief that Germany can and will be | defeated before year's end, |declared tonight that the German | armies of Northern Prance have | been smashed in 81 days of fighte
ing that cost them more than 400, | 000 casualties and a vast store of | planes, tanks and mechanized fleid | equipment. { In an official report submitted to ‘the joint Anglo-American chiefs of | staff, Eisenhower said his allied in« | vasion forces have met and defeats {ed the cream of the German armies ‘and inflicted a “fearful beating” om {the Nazi luftwaffe, we The equivalent of five German armored - divisions and 20 infantry divisions have been destroyed, and another six panzer and 12 infantry divisions have been “badly cut up,” his report disclosed.
1300 Tanks Destroyed
It listed the staggering total of {1300 enemy tanks, 2000 guns, and more than 20,000 motor vehicles destroyed or captured ‘between D-day, June 8, and Aug. 25, along with 3545 enemy planes destroyed in air battles or aground. Among the enemy casualties for the period, he said, were more than 200,000 prisoners, (The over-all German casualty figures for the battle of northern France contrasted with an official announcement in Washington that
weeks ago the Germans were nu. S. army losses for all theaters panicky retreat in Poland and the} gf... the beginning of the war
Baltic. Although they lost much | through Aug. 13 totaled 284,838 | territory and resources, and suffered |yjjled, wounded and missing.)
extremely heavy casualties, they have arrested the Russian advance, stabilized their defenses and launched occasional local counterattacks. Nothing has happened thus far which would preclude their making a similar stand somewhere in France or the low countries, or along the Seigfried line. The allies have the power to smash through ultimately but the fact is that the Germans still have the power to impose heavy losses on the allies,
LLOYD HELD IN MUNN CASE NEW YORK, Aug. 31 (U. P).—
executive, appears in felony court today on a charge of assaulting {Mrs, Louise Stanley Munn, 29,
|
Germany's | former show girl and motion picture
| actress. Lloyd was arrested yester-!
Revolution broke out in a third 98Y despite his denial of Mrs |
| Munn's charge that he punchd a kicked her.
VOICE FROM THE BALCONY—
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wept a little.
the .first to return to France. They were a unit of the 3d army. It was Sunday. A column of 4 dust rose nearly i to the steeple of the church where the abbe stood smiling in | the doorway, his hands clasped across a fold of his soutane.
'Vive Reims! Vive Prestone!’ (And Anti-Freeze) Come Back to France
By CPL. RICHARD LEWIS Times Columnist on Leave ] S, 3D U. S. ARMY, Aug. 6 (Delayed) .—All day nks weré grinding along the asphalt highway that led to the and the people” in the city that had not been damaged much ar ran out of their houses and laughed and cheered and some
They were American tanks, but astride them were Frenchmen,
Here is another dispatoh from Cpl. Richard Lewis, The Times’ - “Yolce From the Balcony” before he joined the army. It was written prior to the cable published yesterday from Paris,
The French
arrives.” “The French , . . the French , , . have come.” The town awoke as one man
and - the folk streamed out of |
their houses to welcome back the sons of France. They came in single file along |! the street. The American-uni-formed French, trained and equipped by the United States, | were ‘hardly distinguishable from | our own crews. It was in the way they waved | ‘that you could tell them. They
Laurence M. Lloyd, 49, advertising |
Gen, Eisenhower “distlosed that his armies were more than five days ahead of - schedule in their march across Western Europe, As the Germans draw back into the Reich, he said, they are bound to try to pull their troops out of Norway, Denmark, Holland and Belgium to defend their homeland. He assured newsmen with a twinkle in his eye that the allies “certainly will not assist such moves.” Eisenhower revealed that the Germans only eight days after the invasion began decided to stake everything on containing the 'bridgehead in Normandy, contest ing every foot of ground regardless {of cost in men and materials, | Asked when he believed the war against Germany would end, he smiled broadly and replied that he
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" RUSSIANS ENTERING EDGES OF BUCHAREST
{Advance Rapidly as Ploesti 0il Fields Are Taken.
By HENRY SHAPIRO United Press Staff Correspondent MOSCOW, Aug. 3lL.—-Russian | forces sped south from newly cap | tured, Ploesti into the suburbs of { Bucharest, capital of Romania, to- | day. Other Soviet columns to the east | reached the border of | annexed Debruja and toratensd 30
| garia itself in pursuit of | fleeing, decimated armies.
made a motion with the hands |
‘as if to say: “We have come
gave the “V” sign to what they
f thought were more troops passing through. The tankers shouted f turrets. The folk of the
American
their ty saw
back.” : : As each tank thundered by, the izens
Sanciled in Wille actos the urs ,