Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 September 1944 — Page 2
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107 Planes i in Four-Day Raids|
By TNITED PRESS Harton sea ond air forces destroyed or damaged al Japanese @hipe and 107 planes in sweeping raids that included a four-day
“bombardment of the Bonin and Vo
of the Philippines and a bombardment of the former American base
at Wake, it was disclosed today. “eollaborated ‘in the raids which ranged from “the northern Kurile “islands to the Dutch East Indies ‘in the. Southwest Pacific. . Twenty-one of the ships and 85 pf the planes were bagged in a ‘concentrated foursday assault on ‘the Bonins and the Volcanos by army ~ Liberators:® carmer-based planes: cruisers and destrovers. Nimitz’ communique said surface ships escaped damageé although five carrier planes were lost wh four crewmen missing. ' Wake island, long by passed in Nimitz’ drive toward the Japanese homeland, was attacked by cruisers, destroyers and carrier planes with“pit loss Sunday. ’ “1 Allied bombers from MacArthur's ‘command struck from the Philippines to the Dutch East Indies over the week-end, destroying or damaging 20 Japasm, vessels and 22
Forces of Adm. Chester W. Nimitz a Gen. Douglas MacArthur |
danao into the third day and sank
“planes. Four separate attacks were made]
SOUTH FRANCE—
French. 40 Mi. North of Lyon; Yanks Beat Nazis af Montrevel
By ELEANOR PACKARD United Press Staff Correspondent
ROME. Sept. 5~French troops-
through Southern France today, driving up the west bank of the Saone giver to the outskirts of Mdcon, 40 miles north of Lyon. American forces probed northward from Montrevel and reached Points less than 120 miles from the invasion armies in the north. The French sent a8 spearhead nolivect from Villefrance, where they
eaptured 2400 prisoners, to the edge” of Bt Bonnet de Bruyeteres, 17 miles due /west of Macon.
A comuiiique said the French and American forces, driving north along both banks of the Saone,
were meeting “ineffectual rethe ans apparently wn thelr main
ax Jor
Macon, ® wine center with a * poptllation of about 16,000, is 13 niles west of Montrevel, where the Americans continued their advance after beating back a stiff German - pounter-attack. The Germans brought tanks into the battle at Montrevel, and the Americans suffered some casualties and lost some men as prisoners. (A C.B.8. correspondent Tre- " ported from Bern that American motorized troops had taken the French road junction of Pontarlier, 80 miles north of Geneva and 62
ITALY—
Allies Closing i
Important Port on Adriatic
By CLINTON B. CONGER United Press Staff Correspondent ROME, Sept, 5.—British and Canadian forces closed in today on the important Adriatic coastal city of Rimini after a drive to. within six miles of the southern edgé of the Po river valley, while in the west
drove into the suburbs of Riocione Marina, six miles south of Rimini Capture of Rimind southern ters |
minus of the raflwsr snd highwsy lines leading to the southern Adri. atic coast from Bolognese. would open the way for a sweep um treed plains -into Northern Iialy. The importance the Germans stiach to the coastal town was indicated br the fanatical fury with which their 1st perachutist division, supported by tanks, was resisting. | 1n the western sector, meanwhile, American troops drove north along highway 12 for a two-mile advance | “Which resilted in the capture of Ripaiarta, seven miles nofth of |
Pen: rics troops also were psc
ing Prato, 11 miles northwest of |
Florence, but increasingly stubborn ||’ and |
resistance was found sortheast of Florence. Between Monte Pisano and the Tyrrhenian sea, American troops;
there
consolidated their gains as far as,
the south bank of the Serchio river,
while the Germans continued to!|
hold the north bank. Supporting the 8th army's drive on Rimini, H. M. S. Loyal Urchin, British destroyers,
and troop movements Adriatic. Medium and light bombers of the 15th air force also struck German gun emplacements just South of Rimini. Heavy and medium bombers also made sweeps over Italy.
PITTMAN OPPOSING MCARRAN IN NEVADA
CARSON CITY, Nev. Sept. 5 (U P.).—Another Pittman makes his = y-for—a seat in the h § SE senate from Nevada where Lt. Gov. Vail Pittman, brother of the law Senator Key Pittman, opposes Senator Patrick A. McCarran for the Democratic senatorial nomination in the state's primary election. ‘Pittman, a publisher from Ely, has waged a vigorous attack against Mc- |
Carran’s isolationism before Pear)
* Harbor and ‘on his asserted mon-!
- support of the Roosevelt adminis: | tration.
velit unsuccessfuly sought to purg * in 1038, has refused to comment or. Pittman's campaign charges, sjand-
McCarran, pom re ec :-
Jop-Shipsand
Plan Would Take Japan's ‘Foreign Markets for Post-War Era.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 5 (U. P). «= Donald M. Ni , DOW on a secret White House mission to China, is believed . laying the groundwork - for industrializing China as 4“ means of’ Steipping Japan of her fofeign markets and
providing the United States ‘with for heavy machinery. President Roosevelt said he was
jeano islands, four new air attacks
on Mindanao, southernmost of the Philippine islands. Air patrols carried the neutralization campaign against airdromes at Davao gn Min-
or damaged 12 freighters in the port. Airmen of the 14th U. 8. air force in China supported Chinese ground forces attempting to halt a Japanese major - offensive south from Hengyang and concentrated two days of day and night raids to bombing and strafing enemy troop concentrations. In North Burma allied forces took Sittaung on the Chindwin river without opposition and found many dead Japanese and much abandoned equipment in the town. Allied airmen continued attacks on enemy posifions along the Tiddim road and against railway communications in Central Burma.
the discussions. However, a study
economié¢ problems indicated that he would take up the matter of modernizing and expanding China's poeker:sied industry. elson Outlines Plan
healthy industries ‘own to avoid a serious cba depression {after the war. ~~ “In our internal economy to d the shock of large
cut in war production, we Hhave “vital need fora backlog of
ers from abroad,” Nelson said in that address. “It is becoming ever clearer that
od promote a sustained and healthy expansion of foreign trade is to aid undeveloped regions build up sound industries of their own.” It is believed ‘here that an ine
“paced the rapid 7th Srmy- advance
did not disclose ‘the exact nature of | of Nelson's past views on world}.
In a Neloon several months 8go |}
the .best method by which we can |
dustrialized' China—with labor as! cheap as Japan's—could move in| on Japan's foreign markets and raise her own Standard of living! at the same time.
DEGAULLE ORDERS . PURGE OF TRAITORS
miles northeast of Montrevel. Pontarlier is approximately 100 miles south of American lines in northern France.) Headquarters announced that the bag of prisoners in Southern France now totaled more than 65,000.
Charles de: Gaulle’s government, dnd) "PeRing a merciless purge of traitor} a pli elements, rdersd the ST1Sst Any and northeast of Lyon. and it was revealed that police had The far western arm of thelyneqrthed a French branch of the French forces, which reached 8t.|German Gestapo accused of murderBonnet De Bruyeres, was reported |ing more than 1000 persons and kidunable to .maintain contact. with |naping De Gaulle’s own niece. the fleeing Germans. Among the leading collaborationWith the last enemy resistance cleared in Lyon, France's third city, it was anonunced that some reconstruction work had begun, particularly temporary repairs to bridges
the Germans destroyed. ”
de Brinon, Vichy ambassador to Germany, and Marcel Bucard, coljaborationist chief for Paris. The secretariat of justice, starting proceedings also against five Paris daily and three weekly newspapers, ordered the arrest of their editors, including Marcel Deat, former cabinet minister, now believed to be in | Germany.
ee ———————— ADAMS TO SPEAK Robert A. Adams, Indianapo attorney, will speak on “The Constitution of the U.S.” at a luncheon of the Indiana society of the Sons Lucca and Prato, | less than 10.miles {of the American Revolution, to be % {held in observance of Constitution e day tomorrow at the Columbia club.
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P.) ~The Belgians, confident for months that their liberation was
tion. | near, prepared a celebration that
out did Paris in its welcome 0 the liberators. Before the last Germans - fled the city, allied flags hidden four
which patriots had been working |
secretly. for months, were stretched across streets and the women donned dresses of the black, yellow and red national colors. As the British swept into the | capital, the cheers of. the joyous inhabitants drowned out the shots being exchanged by the liberators and isolated pockets of Germans in various parts of the city. The liberation was a one-day miracle of the war, British armored forces crossed the Belgian border
lat dawn, swept 70 miles across
Flanders and by night had entered Brussels, 1 traveled with the British armor along 50 miles of the parade, interrupted occasionally by battles with isolated German columns
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