Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 September 1944 — Page 8

MRS.

“RACIAL BELIEF

Letter to Alabama “Woman

Accuses - Enemies of Distorting Views.

REEN, Ala, Sept. 5 (U.

Dutch and missions to their native countries today as allied armies liberated ‘vast sections of the territory overs run by German armies four years

f Win the quick collapse of ‘their | forces in the Low Countries, the

Germans easy in Denmark. A Danish press service dispatch received at Stockparing to remove considerable ad-

their Copenhagen to avoid becoming “ee 3 circled” in the event of a revolt-in “the Danish capital.

by F. C. C. monitors, quoted a Copenhagen dispatch that German women and children had been ordered to leave Copenhagen - before Sept. 15.)

Plans) for establishing Belgian eivil authority i... moving rapidly. A Belgian gov- : ernmental mission headed” by Lt. Gen. Van Strydenck de Burkel . mlready was in France, preparing |p,wer made a like statement yesto go to Brussels. 3

ie George had approved the appointe “ment of Sir Hughe Knatchbull-|headquarters late today suggested

Belgian governments military and civil

increasingly un-

facilities and most of and civilians from

Marine Pfc. Charles E. : 3109 Northwestern ave, pours (A Swedish broadcast, recorded

ously was stationed in Iceland. He

“Plans Moving Rapidly =

in Belgium were (Continued From Page One)

at hand. Gen. Dwight D. Eisenterday in a message broadcast to ‘It was announced that King the Luxembourgers. Skimpy information at supreme

. ‘ambassador to Turkey,|the possibility of a slow-down to

as ambassador to Brussels and en-|some extent from the sensationally, oqcast an appeal to the Ge people last night to rise allied invader and to put the torch to everything in the path of Eisenhower’s armies. :

voy to Luxembourg, succeeding Sir|pace maintained by . the allied Lancelot Oliphant. Hugessen was|armies in carrying the war to Gersucceeded at Ankara by Sir.Maurice | many’s doorstep. Drummond Peterson, © The only specific word at headThe Dutch Aneta news service quarters was that Canadian. troops

said plans were being made for had pushed near Boulogne, indicat ; Queen Wilhelmina to return to her |ing that the south side of t the pocket hall fall Inte the Sham 2 hands capital, The Hague, as soon as|enclosing tens of thousands of Ger-\p 0; hand shall help him” the

mans was caving in. The barrier

. after the liberation of Holland. a N Eisenhower had appointed Ger about 140 miles long, lying between man-born Prince Bernhard of Lippe- [the Boulogne area through -Aire and ‘Biesterfeld, the husband of Crown Lille to Antwerp. Princess Jualiana as leader of the ‘Surrender by Thousands

resistance forces in Holland. An official spokesman said the

: Antwerp port facilities; some of the best in Western Europe, were in : I “quite good condition,” since the

death or capture, were reported sur rendering by the thousands to the Canadians. N

Germans had little time to “carry otit, their demolitions before yielding the great port to onrushing Bri forces. : Richards’ dispatch and meager word: at headquarters opened a mere chink in the “security veil” hanging over the American operations for three days. Advancing Eastward “AS said Patton’s troops were advancing eastward from the Verdun area against stiffening resistance and the 1st army still was mopping up nests of resistance in the Compiegne-St. Quentin area. U. 8. 1st army columns on the British right flank were reported,

Charges Criticism of Law Enforcement Here

Too General.

Chamber of Commerce safety eouncil criticism of the police department is ‘much too general” Safety Board Member Smiley Chambers declared today. ' “I made a personal investigation of Chamber of Commerce charges that traffic enforcement was too jax,” said Mr, Chambers. The in. tersection of 16th and Meridian |nowever, within 25 miles of the was cited as a particularly danger- | Nazi border beyond Liege, 60 miles ‘ous corner but—in a-one=hour-sur-issutheast- of -Antwerp. i] vey there I didn't spot a single] The German defense of the Low violator.” Countries appeared to have col“We're willing to co-operate, but |jgneed under the slashing thrusts of the British tanks-and motorized infantrymen, advancing through feeble opposition and liberating town after town as fast as their supply trains could follow. Most of Belgium was in the hands of the British and their American 1st army comrades driving eastward through the Meuse valley, and the speed of the allied offensive’ indicated that the battle of The Netherlands would be over as swiftly as in 1040 when the Ger-~

than generalities.” In a letter to Dr. R. N. Harger, C. of C. safety council chairman, Mr. Chambers said the police department will give any C. of C. approved recommendation a oneyear test trial

0. K. Tyndall Move

Meanwhile, safety board president Will HA Remy gave the nod to Mayor Tyndall's recent traffic con-

Wiseman, son of Mrs. Lida Wiseman, coffee at the front lines for another. member of ‘the 6th regiment, Cpl Plc. Wiseman has been in the South Pacific two

Patton af Moselle River, May Be Across Reich Line

Liile, by-passed in the first rush of the British drive into Belgium, also was taken. 4

that the greater Battle of Germany itself was approaching swiftly, if it had not already begun. .

spokesman declared penning the Nazis to the coast Was) 0 +; possible 5th columnis inside the Reich. .

tion shall meet hin. He shall bleed horribly for every meter of German The Nazis, apparently doomed to|soil which belongs to us and which |will find that the Negroes will not

|P.)~Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, ac_{cusing . political enemies of distorting her, views, declared in a letter received her today that she did not advocate race social equal ity. The first lady pointed out four 1 which, she

Mrs. Roosevelt aired her racial attitude in a reply to a letter from Mrs. Catherine Stallworth of Evergreen, who had suggested to -Mrs. . {Roosevelt that her ideas about treatment of the Negroes arose “from a lack of complete knowli ledge of the Negro situation in the South, particularly in the small towns where there are almost as many Negroes as whites.” ; Wrote Mrs. Roosevelt: “Much that 1s” said about ‘my attitude on the Negro question is distorted, and exaggerated by people who are opposed to my husband and me, and by those who have deep-rooted prejudices.” . . . “I have never advocated social equality.” Lists Four Rights “In a democracy, however, we cannot have :12,000,000 people who are denied rights as citizens.” Those rights, as Mrs, Roosevelt summarized them, were: An ‘equal opportunity “for employment accordirig to ability and at equal pay; an equal opportunity for education; for justice before the law, and to participate in government through : the ballot. a An official _Betlin _spokesmaly “This (race) question is not just the |® southern question. It is a world : question. . . . If we are not fair and just to the colored people, how can we expect other countries to trust us and believe in our good faith.

Czyszozon, - Hammond. years. :He previ-

Stanley is 24.

The French industrial city of

Nazi broadcasts made it clear

“Not one grain of German crops

Cites Suggestion «I know in many places the in a griny| Negroes out-number the white people and that is one explanation for not giving them the right to vote. Thereycan be and should be a standard of literacy and education required (for voting) and I think you

“Nothing but death and destruc-

vote as a group any more than other mniority groups do in this country.

he wants to rob us of.” Boast Armies to Stand

Other Berlin propagandists boasted that their armies, on the run everywhere from the channel to Alsace-Lorraine, would stand and fight -onf their Siegfried line. The American 1st army in the valley of the Meuse, meanwhile, was reported at Liege, barely 25 miles from Aachen, and uncon= firmed reports said U. 8. artillery was shelling the German city. West of ‘Liege, American 1st army units were “mopping up isolated pockets of German resistance near Mons and south of Tourai, and United Press War Correspondent Henry T. Gorrell reported that 10,000 thoroughly-beaten Germans surrendered in the Mons area yes

terday. Bag Is Mounting The bag of captives was still mounting last night, and Gorrell said it might reach 30,000 when the final count is in—one of the Five thousand of th

surrendered to one battalion yesterday, crack

paratroops, Nazi elite guards and well-equipped panzer units, Gorrell said, indictaing that the Nazis were completely demoralized and unable to offer a cohesive defense. Canadian 1st army troops continued their swiff advance up the channel: epast north of the Somme, ‘and observers on the British side of the Dover straits said the thunder of cannonading in the Boulogne area was clearly audible

| ABOVE WARSAW}

Germans

~— gineering “and police trafic funce1

trol shakeup, in which city Traflic Engineer J. T. Hallett will co-ordi-nate and supervise all traffic en-

ns. ; Later, Mr. Chambers criticized the practice of distributing honorary deputy sheriff badges, asserting that the son of a prominent Democratic politician, flashed a deputy’s badge two weeks ago in an; effort to avert his arrest’ on a traffic charge. :

. CITE PILOT WHO SAVED RICK NORFOLK, Va, Sept. 5 (U. P.).— Cmdr. William P.'Eadie, U. S, N, the pilot who rescued Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker in the South Pacific in 1942, today was awarded a letter

this morning. Canadians at Etaples Latest - official’ reports said the

man hordes conquered the country in five days.

The drive into Antwerp at the about 13 miles south of Boulogne, Schelde river estuary, closed the |Montreuil, 9% miles southeast of last avenue of escape for the cor-|gtaples, and Hesdin, 13 miles southnered German divisions holding out |east of Etaples, and Hesdin, 13 far to he west Lin Hee French Shas» miles southeast of Montreuil. nel ports oO avre, Ogne, | German demolition squads were Calais and Dunkerque. believed blowing up port installaOfficial spokesmen admitted thatltions at Boulogne and Calais, and the terrain between the north bank [London morning newspapers said of the Somme and Antwerp was great fires were raging in Dunonly loosely held at many points|kerque as the Nazis prepared to and some of the 100,000 hemmed | quit the robot coast. The by-passed. in Germans could probably break |German garrison in Le Havre, howthrough. The pocketed Nazis were |ever, was still holding out deknown to have lost most of their|terminedly after rejecting a Canarmor and transport, however, and |adian ultimatum to surrender.

of commendation for “meritorious and efficient” service in the South Pacific from December, 1941, fo April, 1943. He previously had re-| ceived the air medal for his part in| Ythe rescue of Rickenbacker.

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British troops stormed into Antsettlement. - Helsinki announced

werp yesterday after a‘24-mile dash north from Brussels and by evening Port iti t that Finland was giving up the ort Facilities Tn} act axis afliance and the fight against

had cleared isolated Nazi rear guards from the dock area and were driving on across the Dutch frontier. Antwerp was the first big, modern |p. ia port taken by the western invasion : 4 nish armies since the capture of Cher- rv that 2 Pine bourg, -and first reports indicated soon. A United Press dispatch from its port area was taken intact. |the Soviet capital sald the Soviet Unconfirmed reports said the armistice terms were expected to be British captured Waterloo, nine |“surprisingly. mild.”’ miles south of Brussels, where Na-| “Should the ahticipations of unpoleon’s. armies were defeated in|burdensome peace terms for Fin1815. land ' materialize, it will prove the

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Advanced columns pushed. seven |Soviet contention that the cornermiles over the border to occupy |stone of Soviet policy in the Balti Breda and were reported rolling|{area has been security and staacross flat, almost undefendable [bility,” the dispatch said. ’ {terrain toward Eidhiven, 32 miles to the east-southeast. The thrust outflanked Rotterdam, 27 miles north-northwest of Breda. Louvain, 13 miles east of Brussels, Mechelen, 12 miles north of the capital, and Alost, 13 miles to the northwest, also were taken,

estimated 1500, to Jeave. ~ The gov

The Stockholm Morgon Tidningen reported ‘from Helsinki that German civilians and soldiers were leaving southern Finland in compliance with the government's order that they must be .out of the

0 ~ The Swedish government —an- been held in nounced at Stockholm that. it was Britain

in the. event & |

“Perhaps one of the solutions will be to move the Negroes into places where there are only a few and thus prevent the lack of balance.” Mrs. Roosevelt pointed out that this idea’ had been suggested, but had been bitterly -opposed by some

both Georgia and Florida and she felt that she could understand the South's problem.

SOVIETS DRIVING

Threaten to Split Nazis Between City and | East Prussia. (Continued From Page One) | along the Lithuanian-East Prussian frontier‘in great force and was believed ready to strike if Zakharov’s troops continue to make headway from the south. On the Romanian fronty the 2d Ukrainian army, supported by strong Romanian units, swept 47 miles north-northwest from the positions above Ploesti to capture the big railway and highway junctions of Brazov. Siniai, site of the Romanian royal summer palace 21 miles south of Brazov, also was captured. ®

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charest scored substantial gains in converging drives on Pitesti, an important rail junction controling the lines leading to the Yugoslav and Bulgarian borders.

PICKETS HOLD LINE AT CLEVELAND PLANT

CLEVELAND, Sept. 5 (U. P.).— Officials of the Cleveland Graphite Bronze Co. admitted today that a back-to-work movement at their two strike-bound plants had failed as less than 500 workers reported on the 7 a; m. shift. The normal’ day shift is about 3000 at both plants where members of the Mechanics Educational So= jety of America have been on strike for six days, completely halting production of aircraft bearings. Hundreds of workers were turned back last night and this morning by pickets or left voluntary without attempting. to penetrate picket lines Set up in front of both plant gates. The two plants employ 6000 production and maintenance workers on three shifts. ¢ The regional. war labor board today referred the strike to the national WLB for immediate action.

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