Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 September 1944 — Page 1

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Police have arrested the key suspect in the 03. day-old ;

murder of Gus L. Wiedenhoft, South si ide florist, it was learned today. ; Mrs. Carrie Wiedenhot, cruelly beaten by one of the two bandits who bludgeoned her husband to death on the © night of June 30, has viewed the suspect and told “police, “I'm sure he is the shorter of the two: men—the one who grabbed me by th the arm: and tried to strangle me.” The suspect, who was arrested in an Indiana ave. tav-

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held temporarily, is beretained under high bond. 2 y morning, Mrs. Wieden: hoft is poll to accompany police officers before the Marion county grand jury where a first degree murder indictment will be asked against the suspect,

Probe Background

Police today were ferreting through his criminal background in an effort to link him more securely to the crime, one of the most . brutal and amateurishly staged in "ithe history of the city.

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entrance and’ taken to the lineup room. She is said to have immediately pointed her finger to the sus pect and said, “That's. the short man who ‘twisted my arm. I'm (sure of that.” 5

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Neighbors have told polica that! they believe both the suspect now in jail and his companion, who is

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struck to within less than 50.miles |; ‘of the Spanish border today while |

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{iment in a flight for life before the

: by American front along the German {land Belgian borders, where the U.

PAELLA U. S. attack here, Sept. 12, | 4 1918, was first operation-in-World Wor | | by complete American Army under independent command of its own. Mgre than 50,000 Americans end 110,00 French

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Patton’s” Tanks Storm Into Outer . Works of Maginot Line; _ Resistance Slight.

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BULLETIN LONDON; Sept,.1 (U. P.).—The united nations radio

at Algiers said today that American troops have reached the Belgian frontier north of Sedan.

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SUPREME HEADQUARTERS, A. E: F., Sept. 1 i] American troops stormed past the fallen fortress of Ver. ‘dun apd the outer works of the Maginot line today in a rocketing drive on Béigium and the Rhineland that Berlin | said had :carried into Alsace-Lorraine within 25 miles of

: | the German border:

The British radio said today that Canadian troops have. captured Dieppe, scene of the great allied commando raid of ° Aug. 19,.1942, When 3000 fo 4000 Canadians were killed or wounded. : The broadcast “said Dieppe fell without a fight, in sharp

| contrast to the bloody battle which took place when the

| Cameron Highlanders of Winnipeg poured onto the beaches ‘with pipes skitling “The. Hundred Pipers” ‘in. the- allies’ | greatest combined operation on. the French coast prior t¢ | the June 6 invasion of Normandy. 5 , The Highlanders spearheaded a force of 7000 allied : troops, of whom.5000 were bronzed, hardened Canadians, | Allied ‘losses admittedly were high and the German's rela« tively low, but the Dieppe raid went down in military annals as “worth the price” because of the lessons it taught in large scale utilization of land, sea and air services. Many experts have termed Dieppe the “proving ground of the invasion.” Lessons learned there also were utilized in the Mediterranean amphibigss opetations, ‘Britis

Fe in on Arras. : { On the Canadian right {flank, the British 2d army| N drove 21 miles beyond

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“had relieved Marshal Hermann Goering of his post as the Reichs air defense chief and was preparing’ to proclaim a “general people's war” to defend Germany as soon as the allied armies crossed the border. A Bern dispatch said Hitler in-' tended to call every German civilian able to carry arms, ‘ine ‘cluding women and children, to ‘form an army “whose avowed determination would be, fo defend every town, village and house in

miles southwest of Arras—headquarters of the British expedition ary force during the “phony war” of the 1939-40 winter. | Routed, demoralized Germans {| were abandoning guns and equiip-

jladvancing British ‘and on the!

I's. 1st ani 3d armies were riding || eastward at an incredible pace. A host of armored troops—Bern estimated that possibly a quar-

the Reich.”

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Of Delinquency. “™. By NOBLE REED

A wide divergence of opinion Simons, Indiana State Bar associanbers over the kind of law shouid have to properly he sa the rising trend of juvenile delinquency was revealed in dis‘Por more than two hours mem- | bers of the a n's section on - eriminal law ted technicalities of a.proposed new juvenile court bill for the 1045 legislature that would give juvenile courts wider control over delinquent, neglected and ‘dependent children. +A section of the proposed bill Sealy with child marriages drew.

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| SLOVER'S. MOON’ AND LOTS OF SUN ON WAY

» bright and shiny, and s “very moon” for the evenings the opifion of the’ weatherman oe the week-end and Labor day. _ The predictions ‘the next few days are normal ‘temperatures, warmer tomorrow and Sunday; oler Monday and Tuesday; warms r Wednesday, and soms scattered showers Sunday and Monday, . “The moon ‘will be full tomorrow - and, Bunday nights and the weathierman had ‘a grin in his voice When he Jasna on. the — Tews.

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FDR fo Meet With Churchill Soon on Speeding War

WASHINGTON, Sept:-1.(U. P). —President - Roosevelt and Prime Minister Winston Churchill will ‘meet again soon, it was learned today, for what was described as a ‘i brief and purely military ie to deal with the knockout blow, to)

ing up the Rhone river valley. to

of the German 8th army, . ‘The ‘French march westward was at the furious pace of more than a mile an hour. Virtually un= opposed, they reached the Canal du Midi, American troops, striking eastward along the resort coast, found little or no enemy opposition, although the advance was delayed by mined areas. {A dispatch from the Jtalo-Swiss border said American vanguards from Nige had. crossed the ItaloFrench front at Ventimiglia and were understood to have made contact with Italian partisans.) The desperate German situation Tin Southern France was confirmed by the captured Nad, Gen. Otto ‘Richter; commander of the 18th inGeen of Jamar to hasten thel i iry division, who ssid the 19th Dispatches from London predict- ATMY Was trying to extricate itself ed that the meeting would. take by any means possible.”

A U. 8 salient which siruck into ce in Quebec, Canada, w Bia Shed sade Rag. ere tie the maritime Alps at Condamine-

of 1943." London reports said that! continued on Page 2—Column Churchill's party would ..consis tf m y

principally of Far Eastern and post- | war experts President Roosevelt himsel! has said that the meeting will come soon. It is expected to be on smaller scale than the last Ret velt-Churchill meeting In Quebec. Soviet Premier Josef Stalin will be kept abreast of developments |

Hoosier Hetoes— SINPSON AND STONE| ARE DEAD IN FRANCE

armored spearheads were thunder-|}

within 48 ‘miles of Lyon in: hot {fe pursuit of the straggling remnants

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totowin in the foctelope. ‘of their dads

{| drove, ‘almost without firing a shot, through the Argonné forest, across the Meuse and on bevond the line

‘on which the kaiser's ‘armies ‘sur-|

the 3d army front that the Amere fcans were rolling up the miles

dispatches ‘on their progress. Headquarters itself had only

rendered in 1018. United Press War Correspondent |

If War Ends S50 in Europe,

By REVEL S. MOORE United Press Staff Cerrespendent

WASHINGTON, Sept. 1.—With the collapse of German resistance, the exodus of hundreds of thousands of American troops from Europe will begin. Today, five years after the second world war started,

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hairy soon aftep Germany’ quits, some will go directly

When Will G. I.'s Be Home?

‘Some of the Americans in Europe will come home |

SELECT ATTERBURY | FOR DEMOBILIZATION,

Through When War Ends.

fone of 18 army posts in the U. 8. {where thousands of soldiers will be!

the army is. perfecting plans to reverse its great mass demobilized’ when the European |

Thousands of G. I.’s to Pass

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Russians Sivoep fo Border Of Bulgaria at Danube River

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United Press Staff Correspondent

MOSCOW, Sept. 1.—Soviet tanks and fnechanized. cavalry swept 8. Selection of Camp Atterbury as miles beyond Bucharest, liberated capital of Romania, to the Danubs

{river border of Bulgaria today in relentless pursuit of Germany's Seeing,

| decimated Balkan legions.

Other elements of Marshal Rodion Y. Malinovsky” 2d Ukranian

{phase of the war ends was a0- | army to the north already had swung west through the Transylvanian

nounced today. ‘Col. Welton M. Modisette, . post { commander at Camp Atterbury,! {will head the new personnel center.

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centers around what the army has in store for them when Germany is Jeien. The plans’ aren't quite ready for official ‘ansuneemant,; bug here is:an. Authentie’ ‘outline of the prospects,

The reception center for draftees.

The biggest story for millions of American fighting r men and their {and the reception station for men |

{returned to the U.8..under the ro-| | tation - system, recently were moved | to Atterbury from Pt, Harrison.’

to the Far East to fight the Tapatiess, and some will remain abroad to enforce ‘the first phases of European peace, "American commanders in the Pacific will have first

-jeoncerning the w Chinése Generalissimo Chiang Kal. shek will be kept informed on decisions regarding the Pacific, !

Kirman “Switzer “Missing; Pic. Powell Wounded.

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A local infantryman has been drowned in France and another has died of wounds received there, while an Indianapolis airman is missing over Hungary and another local e /man has been wounded. KILLED 'Plc.glohn A. Simpson; 831 Church st, in Prance. Pvt. Richard 8B’ Stane, 3129 w. Michigan st:, of wBunds received in}! France,

PIERCE GOTHIC LINE.

ROME, Sept) 1 (U. P.)—British and Polish troops penetrated Germans’ heavily fortified. Gothic line at three different points to-, day togpave the way for a drive up the 20-mile-wide corridor between the Apennines and the Adriatic coast ‘to Bologna, 80 . miles nohvard, nd the Po valley be- |

and tank after

*defeat to meet their immediate needs; subject-to-limita--tions of transportation facilities and the strategic’ Et “tion in'that theater. Because of the type of warfare. in the Pasific. the allies will not need there immediately too large a ‘portion .of the troops released in Eufope. In the island to island fighting amphibious combat forces are small compared with the large European armies, Until there is a place for Them to fight, large numbers cannot be utilized. And it is not anticipated that

eall on American manpower released with Germany's”

LEADERS IN NORWAY ‘DEPORTED BY NAZIS

STOCKHOLM, Sept. 1 (U, P).— German occupation forces in Norvay were reported today to be deporting increasing numbers of ranking Norwegians of the type capable of becoming leaders-against them in the final stages of the war.

or 20 persons, many not ‘accused of anything, are rounded up in Norwegian communities and sent to 4 Germany, where they are held as | hostages. Despite the Increasing arrests, Norwegian patriots were obeving ‘orders from their _government in

the Pacific commanders will -ever;

need all, the Jorge Teleases | units =~ expect : later Yo. proses to the Pacific after an interval at the shrinking over-all will permit the amy

~ lundll the signal is given.

Almost daily groups of five, 10

_iLondon to avoid open resistance

{and Carpathian Alps toward Hun{gary and a junction with Marshal { Tito’s partisan army in Yugoslavia. Front “dispatches disclosed that a, Russian armored column had {réachéd the Danube and the Bulgarian border in the neighborhood of the inland port of Giurgiu. : ‘The Soviet thrust pocketed thousands, perhaps tens of thousands, of Germans against the Bulgarian border. Whether the Russians cross into Bulgaria appeared.largely to {hinge on whether Bulgaria disarms and interns the Germans.

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By J. EDWARD MURRAY 3 United Press: Staff Correspondent _. LONDON, Sept. 1 —German troops were reported ‘occupying the seeth.! ing Hungarian capital of Budapest todéy and an unconfirmed Berlin: broadcast said the entire Bulgarian

Hng the Bulgarian border

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Gen. Feodor- I. Tolbukhin’s 34 Ukranian army also was approach= in a spéedy drive down the Black ses coast. It was Malinovsky's 2d army that completed the liberation of Buchas rest yesterday to climax the whirls © wind 13-day Romanian campaign. The army organ Red Star re» ported that among the thousands who lined Bucharest's streets cheer= 08 were two American war prisons

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