Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 September 1944 — Page 2

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. disorganized Nazis made no grind

- had been shot down during an air With the fall of Bucharest mark-

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ort Yanks 25 Miles From Reich Past Fallen Verdun|

in the * British- Canadian sector while he was eating breakfast yesaonBrm the capture of Verdun and terday. His army already had been “Cominercy, kos miles to the" south: destroyed. - : : : . Patton's 3d a core: yester< The Berman D. N. B. news agency | day's biggest 2 “85+! maid, however, that Lt. Gen. George | mile advance froggReims to Ver- | _ Patton's 3d army troopers had [dun in less than 24 hours—an ac-/

on abot 25 miles beyond [Complishment that. took “the allies}.

Verdun into the great Lorraine iron four years in world war I and cost basin around -Briey, 25 miles or |them hundreds of thousands of Jess from the Germgn border. 7jifves. Briey itself is barely] 2.miles: from Patton's men _ lost only & ew! ‘the industrial city. +f Metz; which tanks and suffered “amazingly light the Nazis proclaimed part of greats | casualties,” “United, Press War Cor-| er Gérmany after the 1940 armis- | respondent Robert Miller reported | “tice, with France. om in disclosti that. the Americans;

Only Scattered Shots 1 hin. >

A few scattered shots greeted the No Biiter Fight Testerd ay | !

Amiticaps 4 hi rw, ks ond “There was no bitver fight Yesiprs] armored infantry carriers rolled on |9aY from: Verdun and the great ring

; the bristling fortress city of - forts that stopped the Geyman/ ‘almost without a pause. offensive in 1916 as it was threat | ening” to engulf Paris; - -Miller - said. Rather: it was 8 grim pursuit, with American tanks and motorized in-|

~_- Verdun, surrounded by the graves of the tens of thousands of soldiers Who fell there in 1916, still, was’

i with the trenches and | | fantry hot on the heels of the re) os

treating Germans. The first spearhead broke into | stand and fight for them. | Verdun . shortly before noon after) On Patton's left flank, the Amer-| | crossing the Meuse some miles be-| Np 18% Be Hi aero Jow the city and attacking from the rear. . Simultaneously a second col- | Messe ii iri Graieviti pre umn speared into the city from antwin citadels at the gateway of the other direction. Except for a few . { rounds from German 88's and Sn}

Ardennes gap. The lag in com-! t uns, the Germans made no munications and ‘the speed of the | SUK 51 si GC

| = American advance suggested that | Only 35 vulles’ farther east lies, some- U. 8. columns might already | 1 “have broken into. the ~ Ardennes) jets, outer bastion of.the Meponl

La and across the Belgian fron-|. The advance to Verdun actually |

. began ‘at 4 p. m. Wednesday from | 3D: NB Reports Advance Reims, Miller Tevealed, and by ‘DN. B. said units of the 1st night had carried into the edges] _~arnty turned north from Rethel in! of the old Hindenburg line. an apparent enveloping - sweep Push Into Argonne ” 2 : . Broun Sedan and drove. ¥p 4 Next morning the Americans miles ‘to the Vervins area, 15% hed. into. the. 4 A ‘miles west of the Belgian border, | PU" 8: tense Argonne The battle of France appeared to. forest and met only a few small] be over except for mopping up and knots of disorganized Germang ni

a of the last war, but the

_ the patties of Germany and Bel. |COmParison tothe hungireds' of ||

gium were about to begin. [thousands who defended - it 26 On the French channel coast, years ago. An occasional wrecked | British and Canadian forces rap- German vehicle was the only sign |

‘ {idly were rolling up. the rocket of war. ‘The trees, bare and splint- | Sa coast and already have overrun at| Cred a quarter vembury ago, were.in || least 120 launching platforms. full foliage. ee tk

One British column smashed 14| The Germans did not even pause miles geross the Somme river to |t0 blow up bridges across the Meuse | Mailly after capturing Amiens, so- river. called “capital” of the Tobot bomb | Laon, 60 miles west of Sedan, fell ‘const. . yesterday after a stiff fight in’ which three trainloads of German | ‘ Capture’ Nazi Commander troops attempting to withdraw were, Gen. Heinrich Hans Eberbach, killed or captured. : 4 who succeeded: Gen. Paul Hausser | Still’ another 1st army column

as commander Bf the German 7th was closing. in on the famed Com- | !

army when the latter was Wounded, | peigne forest, ~€éep “in a German | was reve ot jae been captured |salient 40 miles southeast of Laon.

Russians Sweep fo Border Of Bulgaria at Danube River

(Continped From Page One) fensive ‘June 23, were captured ‘to

ee bring the grand total of the Ro-| ers, Walter Hughes of New Yorkip.nian campaign to 323,400. and Paul Blake of Cincinnati, who 2

raid on the Ploesti oll wells early [ing the liberation of the third Eu-| in July and imprisoned ever since |Iopean capital in 89 dafs, other in the Bucharest jail. Russian forces lashed out northeast Later dispatches said three other | of Warsaw, captital of Poland, in Americans also had been released,| What- may be the prelude toa

The Russians said they were identi- | full-scale offensive against that |

: HINT. BULGARIAN [Allies Control ~ CABINET RESIGNS] Neerly All of

(Continued From Page One) S. F r ance Coast

that would ratify-the ‘allied armis- (Continued From Page One) tice terms. Ch f ard, : Cairo dispatches indicated the “2 elard, eight ‘miles from Italy,

Bulgarigh.allied armistice might be | /3P-inlo a stubborn German de-

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signed’ before the week-end, and fense. \

stated that the Bulgars were’ with- In. the Rhone valley, the Ameri- | drawing from those ‘sections of |CAns were taking a heavy toll of | Yugoslavia and Greece which they German troops and equipment. have not claimed as part of greater “Highway seven, the main escape | Bulgaria. route, of the Gerntans fleeing to- | Czech sources reported that pa-|warfl Lyon, was strewn With enemy | triot forces had seized almost all|degd and wrecked equipment. of the Nazi puppet state of Sloyakia etween Bourge de Peage;a road except for areas on the east and junction town with a population of west borders, but German troops 30,000, and "Lyon were several were known to be marching into |lateral rivers, where the Germans| the country and may regain con-|Wwere expected to try to delay the) “trol for the Quisling goverment, |Americans in an effort to .retrieve’ Another puppet state, Croatia, |thé main part of their forces. shook up its government and put| (A French forces of the interior officers of the pro<Nazi- Ustachi,in| communique vesterday * revealed the key posts of interior minister, {that patriots. had captured Bor-

war. minister and ¢ommander in deaux.)

chief of the Groatian army in the! Richter indicated the Germans | face of the increasing threat to|Would not make a definite stand Zagreb, the capital, from Marshal | until they reached the Siegfried line | Tito's Yugoslavian partisan army; | where, he said, Germany would. .un~! reprise Gneiiet poses leash * ‘secret’ weapons, |

MIXTURE INCREASES: | Considering the normal timelag’

between, communiques “and, the PENICILLIN’ S POWER actual fighting line, it was pos-

3 sibl - . WASHINGTON, Sept’ 1.10. P..& e ‘some ‘advance French .ele-

; f ments - aiready were at the Span-Bixty-four out of 656 men suffering {ish border, :

from gonorrhea were cured by | single injections of _penictl] in beeswax-peanut oil’

In the rugged Alpine terrain, on ID A the eas n7side of the beachhead, “iXttre . and | the Germans ‘were mining - huge

subsequent tests on larger numbers | ‘areas and ‘bringing up mortar fire |

of patients have been similarly suc- in ap attempt to wl cessful, the. war department an-| tain passes Pr 8 he mou! .nounced today | far as the Germans were concerned, + The effectiveness of penicillin was the area ceased to be a. part of! .greatly increased by the mixture the French front and became the which ‘made it possible to maintain Italian front. the drug in the blood stream over| (An Italo-Swiss frontier Glapateh a much longer period and thus. sub- | said Italian patriots had occupied | stantially reduce the dosage, {the important Alpine passes of The new method, deveicped by. | Great and Small St. Bernard, east Walter Reed hospital scientists, will| [of Bourg St Maurice, to aid the effect great savings in the supply | allied advance and at the same time | of the 8rug, the war department cut off the . retreat. of German | said, |armies in Northern Italy)

BEPORT CHEVALIER. frien OPERATED, WALLEY 0. K ; BY UNITED PRESS

A German DNB hews agency dispatch asserted Thursday that members, of-the Prench Magquis had beaten 40 death Maurice’ Chevalier,

“Prench musical comedy and motion fsrtRble night after an La som: |

§ (for the rémoval of her appendix | |

x trely without allied - cons | yesterday.

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BATTLE RAGES IN-WARSAW. . LONDON, Sept. 1 (U. P.).—Stub- | “1horn, Bloody . fighting continues through - “Warsaw between Gen,

now were ‘within 410 ‘miles of Ber- | ;

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