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By ROBERT
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C. RICHARDS
United Press Staff Correspondent
WITH U. S. 3D ARMY IN FRANCE, Sept. 7 (11.
a. m.).—Violent fighting flared up all along the Moselle from the approaches of Metz to Nancy early today as Lt. Gen. George S. Patton's troops continued to push to-
ward Germany. : It was evident that for blitz type of warfare was su
the next 48 hours at least the -
pplanted by grim, close-range
‘infantry attacks supported by mortars, 105’s and “Long
Tom” 155’s.
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1944
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The Germans in many instante: were making full use
of the steel and concrete pillboxes erected in the last
four years.
Low hanging lode continued to make accurate
allied air support impossible.
As early as last night it was becoming clear that the,
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the next two weeks.
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t Concrete Piliboxes Along Moselle
touted German combat teams and remnants of the divi sions which fled out of Northern France were preparing for a final battle behind the Siegfried line and any defense
- 8d army would face its hardest ‘fighting of the war within
Patton's enforced layoff to regroup and resupply hisrapidly spreading columns gave the Germans time to
pull their disorganized forces together on the lip of the Moselle river and apparently they. have received orders to die to the last man in defending this route to Berlin.
Most observers believed
that elite S. S. troops, other
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delaying action.
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PLAN INDUSTRY
EXPOSITION AT UNION STATION
nent Exhibit of LocallyMade Goods.
By ROGER BUDROW A permanent exhibit of products manufactured in Indianapolis is Y being planned for the Union Railroad station, the~ Chamber of Commerce announced today. ° The products will be displayed in! pases resembling streamlined passenger coaches which will be arranged along the east and - walls of the station concourse. It is estimated that 20.000 -
" Indianapolis
Belgians Cage
Nazis in Zoo
ANTWERP, Sept. 7 (U, P.). —Cages of the Antwerp zoo were used today for temporary detention of Germans and Belgian collaborationists, Most of the prisoners were put in the lion house, but” as they squatted behind. thick iron bars they looked anybut lon-like. Nazi offi- , cers were. in one cage while enlisted men were in several others, One cage held 20 women
charged with consorting with Germans.
FOR LEAD GROWS IN FORTON: POLL
54.6%
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sons pass ‘through the station ev ery,
day and plans call for entertaining special groups on particular days, such. as service clubs, American Legion posts, Boy and Girl Scouts, labor organizations, school children and others. a
“One of First Cities”
Edwin 8 Pearce, president of the Chamber of Commerce, which originated the plan, said the Indianapolis Industrial Exposition will be a visual demonstration of the accomplishments of our industrial plants under the system of free enterprise. “Indianapolis was one of the first /cities inthe country to convert its industries to war and the city became one of the greatest bulwarks of the ‘arsenal of democeracy,’ . Pearce said, “This exposition will show ‘that Indianapolis is also in the van in preparing to reconvert its industries to production for peace, on a scale and with a vision to insure general employment and a sound post-war economy for the whole community. The exhibit also will show the wide diversification - of industry here, which is an important asset in the years that lie ahead.”
First Union Station
The Indianapolis Union Station is the first union station built in the! U. 8. and so {ar as is known, the Indianapolis Industrial Exposition will be the first permanent exhibit
ing to Latest Survey.
Times Special
NEW YORK, Sept. 7—President Roosevelt's lead over Thomas E. Dewey in the public preference for the presidency rose to slightly over 13 points in the two weeks ending Aug. 19, Fortune magazine's latest survey disclosed today. The survey reported 54.6 per cent supporting Roosevelt; 409 per cent preferring Dewey: 4.5 undecided. The survey, conducted by the firm of Elmo Roper, showed Roosevelt leading Dewey by eight points as of ug July 8. This latest survey showed
{in the two weeks between Aug. 5 and Aug. 19. Regardless of the personal wishes of those interviewed, 704 per cent think President Roosevelt will be re-elected, as against 17.3 per cent who think Mr. Dewey will win; 123 per cent don't know.
Aug. § Standings
In the Aug. 5 report, 72.4 per cent thought President Roosevelt would | be re-elected, while 19.4 per cent! predicted a Dewey victory; 82 per | icent didn't know.
40.9% for Dewey, Accord- |
5 .and by six points as of | falled™ ia jump of five points for Roosevelt |
BROADCAST AT 9p: M. T0 OPEN DEWEY'S DRIVE|
Healthy Domestic Economy Is Chief Issue, He Tells Philadelphians.
PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 7 (U. P). —Governor Thomas E. Dewey said today he will open his campaign as Republican presidential nominee tonight with a speech covering the “fundamental issues of the campaign”"—which he termed a healthy domestic economy in peace time. The speech is scheduled at 9 p.m. (Indianapolis time) and will be broadcast. I AY Dewey, in Philadelphia on the first leg of a 6700-mile crosscountry campaign trip, told a press | conference that the question before the voters in November is whether | they want “to go back to their (the New Deal) 10,000,000 to 12,000,000 unemployed or go ahead.” “The question before the people is whether they want to elect an administration which will be largely, if not wholly, a peace time government which believes in this country, or one which proved for | eight straight years it couldnt solve its problems and didn’t believe in it," Dewey said.
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‘Yet It Failed’ “The New Deal tried for eight’ straight years, from 1933 to 1040, to solve the depression with more | power and more money than any! Sania in 150° years, yet it
Dewey told reporters in that he was confident of his election in November. When asked whether he thought! that the way the war now is going| would be favorable to the present) administration, Dewey replied: | “1 believe the people will change) their administration next January.” In response to a question on
surances regarding the large Pennsylvania vote in November, Dewey said that he had “in the last half | thour.” : He referred to his ride from a} {railroad station to the hotel with |
whether he had any recent reas-| .
F.D.R.-CHURCHILL CONFERENCE IN Lookhn SOON;
Father on Missing Sub, Son Serving in Pacific
Strike Deep nt Forest Beyond Meuse.
NUN VN OV va vg By VIRGIL PINKLEY : United Press Staff Correspondent SUPREME HEADQUARTERS, A. E.'F,, Sept. 7.— American armies pressing a two-way pincers movement toward Germany plunged deep into the Ardennes forest beyond the Meuse river today and, to the southeast, battered forward against bitter resistance along a 30-mile Moselle valley front.
Supreme headquarters reported that Lt. n. Courtney H. Hodges had driven a 1st army spearhead from the Auchamps crossing of the I Meuse “well into” the rugged Ardennes forest to the area , nine miles northeast " [Charleville near aie :
Athol 0. R Richards, United 8
| correspondent with Lt. Gen. George} S. Patton's 3d army, said American]
assault forces were hammering ahead in the Moselle valley between Nancy and Metz in a crunching assault on the ‘steel and concrete fortifications before the Siegfried line,
5th With Patton
Supreme headquarters disclosed that Patton's army massing in the Moselle valley includes the Ameri¢afi~ "5th infantry division, Wide} | troops were the first of the U, [army to go overseas in this iB
The latest poll showed these re- | Governor Edward Martin of Penn- | {The division -landed. in Iceland in!
sults to each of four questions: “Roosevelt has done an excellent | job and it's very important that
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of the kind to be established in a he should be President during Tf | {Continued on “Page 5—Column 5)!
union railway station. Only products manufactured in! Indianapolis will be accepted for the exhibit and individual displays must be renewed or rearranged periodically to keep them no to date | and to majntain a continuing in- _ terest in the exhibit. A full-time manager and staff will be .employed to supervise the exhibit, to answer inquiries and to givé “information on the city’s industrial and. other resources and on other phases of the city's life and activities. Mr. Pearce said the co-operation of - the railroad managements ih making the space available without cost was the chief factor in bringing the plan to its present stage. A booklet issued by the Chamber
+ of Commerce outlining the exhibi-
tion plan has been sent to local] industrial executives, inviting their participation.
Booklet Distributed
“The industries of Indianapolis,” the booklet said, “are entitled to 8 better public appreciation than they now enjoy,” and suggested the manufacturers can demonstrate the fact they are prepared to do their full part in maintaining a sound
“*“#conomy after the var.
The plan for the exposition has been developed by a special comimittee headed by Mr. Pearce; Theodore B. Griffith, president of L. 8S.
_. Ayres & Co.; Harry 8. Hanna, vice
president of Indiana Bell Telephone Co.; E. F. Théis, general manager of the Curtiss-Wright propeller plant here; Frank McCarthy, chairman of the Associated Railways of Indiana; W, D. Hamerstadt, presi-
dent of the Rockwood Manufactur}
ing Co. and- Russell 8. Williams, proprietor of Gasteria, Inc.
TIMES INDEX
+.20 Mauldin ...... Eddie Ash ....22/ Ruth Millett ..16 Barnaby +«er.-18| Movies ines ei 20 Comics ......2% Music ........20 Grossword ass .24 Obituaries . 9, 17 Ludwell Denny 16 Radio :.......27 Editorials .....16 Ration Dates 14 . Fashions .....18 Earl Richert ..15 Financial ..... .24| Mrs: Roosevelt 15 Forum wsiesy 161 Side Glances ..16
Amusements
ey Meta Given ..18, Sports ron 20
next four years’'--26.3 per cent.
2 “While he has made mistakes! and he's been in wh a 3 long time, it is still better to elec velt President again for Re ot {four years"—283 per cent. 3 “Although Roosevelt has done some good things, he has been President long enough and the country would be better off fo elect Dewey for the next four years“— 28.3 per cent. “It would be a very bad thing for this country to re-elect Roosevelt for another four years“— 13.6 per cent. Similar questions in the last three
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‘Hoosier Heroes—
THREE LOCAL YANKS REPORTED KILLED
B-29 Raid on Japan.
A B-20 raid over Japan has claimed the life: of another Indianapolis airman, and two more local soldiers have been killed in France.
KILLED S. Sgt. John W. Hause, 238 N. Walcott st, over Japan. * Sgt. John T. Smitha, 1260 W. 31st st., in France. Lt. Franklin R. (Pat) Ryan, 963 Congress ave,, in France.
= MISSING
Second Lt. Wendell G. Garrett, 624 Congress ave., over Germany. 8. Sgt. Kenton Wayniire, 1301 E.
159th st., over Yugoslavia.
WOUNDED
erly of Indianapolis; in France. Pvt. Wesley K. Patton, 336 S. Oxford st, in France.
PRISONER ~ Lt. James R. Burton, 6185 Norwaldo ave, in Germany. =
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LOCAL TEMPERATURES - 6a. mm... 51 10 a. m.
rived
Sgt. John W. Hause Dies in|
Col. Bernard B. McMahon, form- |.
STATE PROPERTY TAX IN KEPT AT 11 11 GENTS
Levy Continues tinues to Be the
Lowest in History.
Governor Schricker announced today that the state board of finance
| September, 1941, and has not been!
home since, The 35th infantry and 4th and 7th armored divisions also were re- | vealed to be taking part in the 3d| army drive now menacing Germany | proper. Richards’ dispatch from the Mo- | selle valley did not make clear the! situation at Metz and Nancy. It
said the Americans were at the)
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approaches” of each. Unofficial] reports said fighting was going on| in Nancy and that the Americans | held a part of it. The Amercan lst army and the British 2d army were nearing a]
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It was a happier day when the U. S. S. Robale slid down the ways at its commissioning on Sept. 24,
1943, at Manitowoc, Wis.
ALLIES JOIN IN |
; YUGOSLAV PUSH
Land, Sea and A and Air Forces
Are Co-operating With Tito.
ROME, Sept. 7 (U. P.).—A general!
cffensive against German lines of communications in Yugoslavia has {been launched. by Marshal . Tito's {Yugoslav - partisans, allied naval forces, the Balkan unit of the allied 15th air force and Adriatic allied land forces, it was announced officially today. It was announced that a number
had set the state property tax rate for the coming year at 11 cents per $100 of assessed valuation. This is the same rate as fixed last | year. The 11-cent rate is the lowest | in the state's history. While the total state levy was not changed, the two mills item that
the Wolf Lake state park fund was added to the teachers’ retirement fund levy. The Wolf Lake levy, which ‘was fixed by statute, expires this year. The 11-cent levy is broken down in this fashion: For school tuition, 07; for teachers’ retirement, .0335; for the board of agriculture, 0035; 1for forestry, .003. The state poll tax of $1.50 remains the same. Oné dollar of this goes to state revenue and 350 cents to the school tuition fund. The tax rate must still be approved by the state tax board. The governor is chairman of the state board of finance and the other two members are State Auditor Richard T. James and State Treasurer James M. Givens, both Republicans.
Junction, In Belglum.. The Yanks. of communication lines had been
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for seven years has been geing toj.
PROBE OF ARGENTINA AS NAZI HAVEN ASKED
(Earlier Details, Page 17)
WASHINGTON, Sept. 7 (U. -P..| —Chairman Harley M. Kilgore (D.| W. Va.) of the senate war mobilization committee today asked t the jus-| tice department to investigate the | possibilities of an exodus of German | technologists and Nazi war crimin-| als to Argentina after the war, Kilgore made his request after | Assistant Atty. Gen. Wendell Berge had testified before a subcommittee | that at least one American firm! aided Germany to re-arm after the | last war through cartel agreements. “Meanwhile, Secretary of State Cordell Hull described Argentina the headquarters of fascism in hp western hemisphere and said he would require further confirmation before he would comment on the Argentine embassy’'s denial that Argentina would give haven to Nazi war criminals.
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LONDON, Sept. 7 (U. P.).—~The weird battle of men against machines which started 80 days ago when the Germans first launched | their sécret terror-weapon, the filying bomb, has ended with allied troops over-running the launching sites on the . northern coast of France and the Low Lands. Announcing that “except for possibly a few last _shots, the Battle
80-Day Robot Battle Over; | London to Light Up Again
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hoped would win the war for the Nazis. It was the first complete report on the robombs. The end of the threat also was indicated by the home security ministry’s announcement that five 1 years of blackouts would be tually ended on Sept, 17, that most of the fire watching would be abolished, and that home guards “would
{not immediately identified. In the interior, Tito's forces sys'tematically attacked main lines of communication in Croatia, cutting the Zagreb-Sunja and the Sunja- | Bihae railroads at a number of {places and rendering unusable the {line between Zagreb and Ogulin. _Farther. south, Tito's forces atcked the Brod-Sarajevo-Mostar
| line and the Uzice-Visegrad line, | {man aboard the U.
jand demolished the main railway {between Zagreb and Belgrade at several places. A heavily laden {German troop train was derailed
or injuring more than 1000 Germans, i ‘was announced, was announced.
REPORT RUSS DRIVE INTO YUGOSLAVIA
250, 000 Nazis Nazis Face Trap “In Belgrade Push.
By ROBERT S. MUSEL ~~ United Press Staff Correspondent LONDON, Sept. 7.—~Powerful Russian fo! ere reported today to be swarming across the Danube river into Yugoslavia and striking westward for Belgrade to link up with Marshal Josip Tito's partisan armies and forge a great trap around s8me 250,000 to 375,000 Germans in the Balkans. At the same time, Soviet tanks and riflemen widened their ‘wedge = north of Warsaw in a double threat to both the Polish capital and East Prussia. - =
- lagency broadcast said the Russians giialvisiiod s didschasd si We was!
he bank of: the Narew river. clipiactic
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{was announced yesterday and all between Zeles and Skoplje, killing!
_| pleting his courses.
west Pacific.
2 AS" German - < Transocean news
The father is missing, the son | on overseas duty, Wallace Down‘ey, 3708 Robson ‘st. (left) went down with the submarine U. S. S. Robalo. His son, Pfe. Jack L. Downey, is serving in the Southwest Basing 4 area, é
WALLACE DOWNEY LOST ON ROBALO
Hoosier Was Olde Oldest Man on Missing Ship.
At 40, Wallace Downey, Mo. M, M. 2-c, 3708 Robson st., was the oldest S. S. Robalo,
submarine, when it went down recently in the Pacific. The sinking
hands reported missing. The loss came less than a year after her commissioning on - Sept. 24; 1943, at Manitowoc, Wis. The son of James W. Downey of | the Robson st. address, Mate Dow[ney tried to join the navy in 1919 when he was 15. His father halted | the youthful dream which finally | was fulfilled two years ago whem Wallace entered setvice and volunteered for one of the most dangerous branches, : Born here, he attended Manual high school but left before comFor more than 20 years he was @ ed as a cut ter for the Kahn Tailoring Co. And while Mate Downey was serving in the Pacific, his ‘20-year-old son, Pfc. Jack L. Downey is on overseas ‘duty somewhere .in the SouthHe has been in service about a year and out of the country since July. A sister, Mrs J.” Robert Banta, lives at 1318 N. Chester st.
OPEN BIG ITALIAN PUSH ROME Sept. 7 (U. P.).—The British. 8th’ army launched an allout ‘offensive with the aid of sea and air forces. today in an effort to to
| Berlin radio reported today, |later retracted its own report, thaf:
NAZIS RETRACT BULGAR STORY
Report Declaration of War)
Received, Then Deny Own Statement.
P.) —The and
LONDON, Sept. T (U.
Bulgaria had declared war against Germany in a complete about-face by the erstwhile Balkan satellite of the Nazis. The Transocean news agency, an hour after reporting the Bulgarian declaration, put out an “official correction” saying that the Bulgars had “only broken off relations with Germany. A declaration of war has not occurred.” The report gained currency in [Foie other; unofficial quarters as e Nazi broadcasters floundered oY their contradictory ae- | lcounts of . the situation. in the troubled Balkans.
In éffect a Belligerent
Despite the inability of the Nazi | propagandists to. make up their | mind, responsible sources here believed that Bulgaria was in. effect a ‘belligerent against Germany, and trying to make ¥peace with the United States, Britain and Russia. Diplomatic sources understood Bulgaria had informed Russia that she regarded herself as at war with
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| Tidal Wave’ Push
On Japs May Be Mapped.
Copyright, 1944, by United Press LONDON, Sept. 7.—~President ' Roosevelt and Prime Minister Winston Churchill were believed likely tonight {0 meet somewhere in North America soon, with Quebec
war situation throughout the world, The Roosevelt-Churchill talks were expected to he largely informal, and conducted on a smaller and more quiet scale than those at Cacablanca, Cairo and Tehran, or
{even the earlier Quebec conference,
Possible Agenda Listed
clude the following: 1. Means of pushing a mounting offensive against Japan. |. 2, Final approval of plans to. “erush Germany militarily in the field inside the reich itself this year, which Gen, Dwight D. Eisenhower and his lieutenants now have completed.
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3. Occupation of Germany by Russia, Britain and the United States.
4. Application of lend-lease to ‘other countries. 5. The. Polish border question, 6. The question of territories and minorities generally. \ 7. Peace terms for Germany. 8. International control by the united nations to prevent further outbreaks of aggression. 9. General Anglo-American cooperation. i The conversations probably will last some time. They will be almost entirely devoid of state functions
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basis. A closer tieup of Anglo-American land, sea and air offensives against Japan, in which important roles
"Times Foreign Service BERNE, Sept. London ‘of various rumors that Germany niay be about to capitulate
not taken here as proof that the Nazis; suddenly become realists with the approach" of “defeat, are not seeking “reasonable peace terms.”
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aiid Dutch .in the South Pacific as well as Burma and China, was ‘expected to be worked out.
be more sweeping than anything yet seen or contemplated, it was believed. They will incorporate, fire power, air power and naval power
run the Japanese like a series of overlapping tidal waves. The victorious surge of the allied armies in France and Belgium, plus achievements elsewhere in the European theater, gives Mr. Roosevelt and-Churchill an opportunity
Germany, in line with Soviet demands. Moscow declared war
against Bulgaria when the demands |
were ignored. Romania, the first of the axis] partners to desert the sinking Nazi ship, already was at war with the | Reich and Bulgaria's defection
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to talk for the first time in terms lof final victory. They will consider the situation lin accordance with a statement Gen. Eisenhower made recently {when he said final victory over | Germany and Japan “can only come when peace is made certain | and secure.”
Nazi Losses Make Defenses Insufficient, Stimson Says
WASHINGTON, Sept. 7 (U.P) — The bulk of the German armies in western Europe have been destroyed | F crippled to an extent that they “seem jnsufficient to maintain pro longed defenses of Germany, Sec declared today. ’ In contrast, Stimson ‘disclosed that American army casualties dur-
ing thé first 25 days of the inva-|ing all sion of Northern France were about Rhone one-half of the losses which had 0
A with h “the advanc they can administer a death blow retaty of War Henry L Stimson | fo the Nazis.
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their -advance is speeding up, Stim: son added. | | He told his. press conference; hows
ever, that supplies’ must catch up armies before
“The war won't be won until lied troops are in Berlin,” German forces now-are Atlantie,
the most likely site, to discuss the
The agenda was expected to ine :
will be provided for the Chinese.
T~Denials fronp-
or has peace emissaries abroad are |
These amphibious operations will
on a vast scale calculated to over- .
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