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Prime Minister and President

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RAPS NEW DEAL

INFLATION CRY’

Landis Charges Democrats:

Aren't Worried About Own Salary Boosts.

By DANIEL M. KIDNEY ° Times Staff Writer

WASHINGTON, Sept. 11.—That the New Dealers only fear inflation

when it comes to giving underpaid

workers or farmers a salary or price Increase was charged on the house

floor today by Rep. Gerald W. Landis (R. Ind). To prove his point he cited salary increases for numerous top ranking administration men and Democratic | national committee workers. No. thought of inflation prevented such increases, Mr. Landis declared.

Halted Amendment

“They have followed a policy of! spend and spend, tax and tax, elect!

and elect. Now, really, do you believe they have prevented inflation under their scarcity program? During their wild spending ‘spree’ they have increased the cost of living 43 per cent. Your tollar will only purchase about one-half as much as it did in 1937 to 1939 and much of the merchandise offered to the conSumer today is of inferior quality. “The only time we hear inflation | mentioned is when some effort is being made to secure a living wage! for our underpaid workers or the

American farmer tries to obtain a

fair price for his products. “Administration spokesmen, on the house floor in June, refused to

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CLAIMS SHORT ASKS CONGRESS HEARING

Rep. Harness Says Evidence

Ready for Release.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 11 (U. P). =Rep. Forrest A. Harness (R. Ind.), said today that Maj. Gen. Walter Short, army commander in Hawaii wien the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, desires to appear before a congressional committee or a judicial tribute to clear himself of responsibility for the disaster. In an address prepared for deNvery.. An..the house, Harness renewed attacks by Republican members on the’ administration's handling of the case. He charged that President Roosevelt “has concealed the truth of this great disaster” by denying a hearing to Short and Rear Adm. Husband E. Kimmel, who was naval commander in the Pacific at the time of the attack. Harness said Kimmel recently had made it known that he was eager for.a hearing, and added that, although he did not speak for Short, he had been advised by “thoroughly reliable sources” that Short was willing to submit documentary proof clearing himself of responsibility. Harness said Short had received 8 message from the army chief of staff at Washington about seven

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TIMES INDEX

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the Americans hold.

"VOLUME 55—NUMBER 157

high good

the people fighting it.

victories.

WITH THE AMERICAN 3D Sept. 10 (Delayed). —Sixteen wou

last night in boats and a few others got back by daylight today, pulling

in Jovial Mood

Minister Chutehill cheerlly greets President Rocco hoc good spirits as the two meet for another historic conference

HORROR, HUMOR AND REALITY

Little Incidents Stand Out In Vast Panorama of War

By Four United Press War Correspondents

COME WITH US and see the sights of battle and meet

For weeks now, we've been reporting to you. the great Today we -want to tell you about the small things which give war its horror, its humor, and its reality.

The Wounded Came Back

By ROBERT RICHARDS

ARMY ON THE MOSELLE RIVER, nded men got back across the river

themselves along by rope in a rowboat ferry under a howling fire by German machine guns, mortars and 88-mm. guns.

“We must get them. Rightman, standing,

«re WE his fists

must!” sair Medical Corps Maj. Bert

"MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1944

Entered as Second-Class Matter at Postoffice Indianapolis 9, Ind. Issued daily except Sunday

CHURCHILL, FDR MEET IN QUEBEC; LUXEMBOURG FREED BY YANK _ GERMANS LOSE HUGE AIR BATTL

FOR FAILED TO PREPARE FOR -

Charges on Arrival in

Des Moines.

By JOHN CUTTER United Press Staff Correspondent

DES MOINES, Iowa, Sept. | 11. — Governor Thomas

for war.”

conference shortly after hs arrival at Des Moines for conferences with party leaders. He added that the! administration now. claims it .saw| the war was coming.

DALLAS, Tex, Sept. 11 (U. P.). ~The first break that might bring harmony to warring Texas Democrats came today when the “regular” or anti-Roosevelt forces expressed approval of a plan whereby the pro-Roosevelt ele-

Siehehed. on the bank, watching over the machine guns which they

the explosions on the other side.

%.. Our men were in i But we

| could see plainly the Germans, in Word a Daman, 1h positions. We could see the helmeted heads of the Germans leaning

By ROBERT

disorganized German 11th panzer

O. Stewart of, Bar River, Mont. “All Germany is fighting for | Now is time.” replied a German lieutenant. “Hitler has a new se- | cret weapon that you'll see soon and it'll change everything” A little later, when no other Germans were near, the lieutenant whispered to Stewart: “We've been getting that line of bull for months now.” The panzer division was retreating toward the Reich and the Americans were loaded into & truck with two guards.

By HENRY

when the German columns, one

we had comparatively few casualties. . The Luftwaffe has been showing up a little on the sector and during the last few hours I have seen a8 number of dog fights. During the night, enemy planes were particularly active, trying to locate our spearhead. It was a hot night in the alr, but it was so cold on

fabulous valley today. Six years ago this was one

punctuated the gloomi of the woods; blue gray smcke drifted across the vineyards. Below there was the constant chatter of machine guns. + Through glasses, I watched two Germans in a fox hole manning a Spandau, firing spasmodically, hysterical bursts into the woods Behind us, down the vallg somebody flushed a sniper a

there was a ‘brief rattle of small arms fire. Back theke, a corporal was cute ting hair for a wire-laying outfit . at 25 cents a man.

GREEK CABINET IN ITALY

” ROME, Sept. 11 (U. P.)—Greek

Gun Flashes Cuf Gloom By EDWARD W. BEATTIE

¢ ON THE MOSELLE BATTLEFIELD, ican and German artillery and’ mortars

Wei Dems Jo the wih

ments could use the name “Democrat” in listing a third slate of Democrat electors on the Novem-

ion gi i — The 5 po to the : trees grow During the questioning on fors water's edge here. Solemn black feign policy, arising from a magacrows line the fences despite the zine article by Wendell L. Willkie,

fire, -

What They Fight For

VERMILLION

"WITH THE AMERICAN 7TH ARMY, South Central France, Sept. 10 (Delayed) —Forty American soldiers were captured by the

division. They were herded into a

prisoners’ cage and soon were chatting with English-speaking guards. “I'm fighting to end the war you Germans started.” said Lt. John

“What are you fighting for?"

At first they were at the head of the column, but hurrying German vehicles kept passing until, finally, they were at its end. The 40 of them were working _on the two guards, assuring them that American soldiers got thick, Juicy steaks three times a day. Pretty soon the guards ceased to be guards. The truck turned

around and joined the pursuing Americans.

Corner Nazi Column

T. GORRELL

WITH AN AMERICAN ARMORED DIVISION. South of Liege, Sept. 10 (Delayed).—The battle was fought yesterday in cold weather

of which was 10 miles long, were

cornered in the woods at Louveigne between Liege and Verviere by our reconnaissance tanks and armored cars. Aided by artillery, planes and infantrymen with bazookas, the Germans suffered heavily while

the ground that this morning I found frost on my bedroll. While the tanks, artillery, and planes worked on the Germans, some doughfeet watched the show, but others read old newspapers or

knocked apples off the trees. To them it was old stuff.

Sept. 10 (Delayed) ~Amerduelled savagely over this

of the most peaceful sections of

Europe. . The people worked in their fields, drank their fine wine, strolled through the pleasant woods.

Today flashes of angry fire

MAINE VOTING LIGHT PORTLAND, Me, Sept. 11 (U. P.). —The nation's first state election’ of this presidential year was held in Maine today, but voting was light except .in industrial areas where the C. I. O. Political Action Committee has been working to get Tout -the vote,"

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ERNIE PYLE—

G. I. Joe's best friend is __ Ernie Pyle, And vice versa.

the 1940 G. O. P. presidential nominee, Dewey - agreed that foreign policy and domestic policy are inseparable, because strength at home | regulatés American influence in foreign affairs.

“Limping Economy”

“The tragedy of the present administration. is that we have an administration seeking re-election now which was eight years in office ‘while all these tremendous forces were rising toward war, which did; absolutely nothing to prepare the; American people for war,” he said. “And, at the end of those eight | years in office, the administration |

economy with 10,000,000 unemployed and absolutely no military preparations for these events; which it now claims it foresaw. As a matter of fact, we had an army of 75,000.” Dewey told reporters at a news conference shortly after. his arrival in Des Moines that one of the reasons for his visit to Iowa was to ‘discuss with the people of Iowa and its leaders the “critical farm problems that will face this country when the war is over” When newspaper reports from Washington detailing the huge food surplus which the government may be holding at the end of the war were called to his attention, he said there was no doubt but what we will have accumulated a tremendous stock pile.

Fears Market Glut

He said it would require enormous planning to distribute such surplus without glutting the market and giving the American farmer a Very bad year. Dewey leaves tonight for a twoday visit at the Valentine, Neb. ranch of former Governor Samuel R. McKelvie ere he will meet Nebraska and th Dakota political leaders for private confer-

WAR-DEWEY

'G. 0. P. Candidate Makes

stil had a limping ufproductive

Hoosen 'HEROES— 3 Local Yanks Killed in Action,

| "Five Wounded

| whe action jo life of a former In

{also includes one missing and five

{prisoner by Romania has been 1 { leased.

KILLED

|W. Regent st., at sea. { Pfc. Malcolm G. Courtney, Lebanon, in Burma.

E. 42d st., over Germany. MISSING

Two local men formerly sted, as missing have been reported dead in B has tak en napolis in-| fantryman. Today's casualty list

wounded while a local airman ei

{ Seaman 2-¢c Roy Fogleman, 250)

for-| E. mer Indianapolis resident, son of | TERS, A. E. Dewey charged today that! {Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Courtney, |

the Roosevelt mine “did absolutely nothing to prepare the American people |

ALLIES SASH INTO HOLLAND, SHELL AACHEN

‘Long Toms’ Blast Siegfried Line in Dozen Places On 200-Mi. Front.

By VIRGIL PINKLEY United Press Staff OCR

SUPREME HEADQUA F., Sept. oan The American 1st army has

Second Lt. Vernon E. Arnold, 521| captured the city of Luxem-|

bourg in a drive bringing a long stretch of the Siegfried |

Sgt. Clarence Allen, 3143 North-|line under artillery fire, and Brit-

Dewey made the charge in a news| western ave., in France. .

WOUNDED

iN. Arlington ave., in Prance. Pvt. Robert L. Glazier, 2811 N.!| Delaware st. in Italy.

|sin st., in France. Pfc. James W. Michael, 1933 Ral-| ston ave. in France. E. St. Joseph st., in France. SAFE of 8001 Spring Mill rd. (Details, Page Page Taree)

NAZIS REPORT KROSNO IS LOST

Russ Thops. Als Also Smash Into Transylvania for 18-Mile Gain.

By ROBERT MUSEL United Press Staff Correspondent

LONDON, Sept. 11. (U. P).— Berlin said today that German (troops had evacuated Krosno, fort-

ress city in Southern Poland guard- | ty | British troops plunged on a mile |and a half to and over the border

ing the way to Germany and) Czechoslovakia, ‘In the area of]

which the Nazis said Saturday the] Russians had opened a powerful of- | fensive. German atknOwietgemebt of the loss of Krosno, 84 miles east of Krakow, came as the soviet army drove . deep into the mountain passes covering the Hungarian plains from the east and south in an effort to knock out Germany's last remaining satellite. Berlin said other Soviet armies were on the attack toward the Polish fertress of Krakow and the Carpathian passes leading to Czechoslovakia. Far-Flung Offense Mogcow's latest war bulletin said Russian forces moving up from Central Romania drove 18 miles into Romanian Transylvania, occupied by Hungary in 1940, capturing Sfantul-Gheorghe and Bicsad. The Soviet communique gave no details on the fighting elsewhere along the front, but enemy and allied reports indicated that fare flung Russian armies were on the march all the way from the bore ders of East Prussia to the Black sea in'a bid to crush Germany's east wall before summer's end. Berlin said Russian paratroops

ences. His next major address is scheduled Sept. 18 at Seattle. Dewey spent a quiet week-end at! the home of his mother, Mrs. George M. Dewey, at Owosso.

By WILLIAM R. HIGGINBOTHAM United Press Stall Correspondent

LONDON, - Sept. 11.—Seven Ger-

| Wolf von Helldorf, Ulrich von Has~

had been dropped into Yugoslavia south of the Danube's Iron Gate and were barely 50 miles from a juncture with Marshal Josip Tito's

Pvt. William T. Bloomfield, 224

Lt. Marshall N. Samms, formerly

| ish troops were reported today to | have smashed through the Albert

Second Lt. Alfred Diamant, 356 ‘and Escaut defense lines into Hol- | land.

A Nazi radio commentator hint{ed that the 1st army might be

city of Maastricht as Lt. Gen.! Courtney H. Hodges’ men massed before the German frontier and | laid down a crushing barrage on Aachen, stronghold anchoring the Siegfried line.

(War Maps, Page Five)

Field dispatches said that Lt.| Gen, Sir Miles C. Dempsey sent. Spearhead of his British 2d army | over the Dutch border at the vil-! lage of De Groote, northeast of! Bourg-Leopold, in an advance of! about nine miles from the first bridgehead flung across the Albert: canal. United Press War Correspondent Ronald Clark in a dispatch from the 2d army front “said patrols crossed the Dutch frontier this morning in an advance favored by brilliant sunshine after a bridge across the Escaut canal was seized yesterday evening.

First Dutch Invasion

Crashing through the Escaut canal, the last Belgian barrier, the

for what front reports described as the first penetration of Holland. The Dutch government in London reported a week ago that Breda fell in a British invasion of Holland north of Antwerp. The enemy hint that the Americans might also be in Holland was contained in a broadcast by Ludwig Sertorius, Nazi military commentator. He said “Hodges tries to drive_his tank formations into the Aachen basis. At Maastricht as well as near Verviers he met stubborn German resistance.” Gen. Dwight E. Eisenhower was revealed to have conferred Sunday at Brussels with Marshal Sir Ber-

PRICE FOUR CENTS

WAR FRONTS

(Sept. 11, 1944)

cess FRONT — Americans liberate Luxembourg, invade Hnlland.

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SOUTHERN capture Dijon.

RUSSIA—Soviets drive deep gi defenses of Hungarian plains.

ITALY—Americans capture and Pistoia.

| PACIFIC—Bombers attack Celebes!

and Halmahera.

U. S. FIGHTERS DOWN 130 NAZI

Jet Aircraft Arise to Defend Reich Oil Against 1750 Raiders.

| LONDON, Sept. 11 (U. P.). '—The German Luftwaffe, | ‘goaded into action for the]

‘approach of allied armies to

ithe Reich's border, rose to! ‘challenge a fleet of 1750 American ! warplanes today and lost more than 1130 interceptor planes in aerial com{bat alone. Its dwindling strengtn reserved for the battle of Germany, the {Luftwaffe tackled with disastrous {results to itself a force of more than

lv bombers escorted by approximately 750 fighter A {ing at the Germans’ ‘last oil suprlies

{and other targets in Central Germany. The toll of 130 Nazi plaucs (marked the greatest total of enemy {interceptor planes ever destroyed hy American fighters over Germany. The Luftwaffe used large formutions of jet-propelled interceptors for the first time in actual combat today rather “than on an experimental basis. Three hundred sorties have been

spite the juicy invasion targets, and today’s near-record air battle gave the answer to the long-asked question of “Where's the Luftwaffe?”

The enemy air force rose to meet | ithe American formations as they

swept down on oil installations at Merseburg, Lutzendorf and Mis burg, and on other targets in Central Germany. The targets at Lutzkendorf, near Leipzig, and Misburg, near Hannover, as well as those at Merseburg, were bombed visually. The other targets in central Germany, however, were instrument raias The German D. N. B. agency reported that the allied formations were engaged by German fighter planes over Leipzig.

Roads to Berlin

By UNITED PRESS

nard L. Montgomery after conferring the day before with Maj. Gen. | Troy Middleton, commander of the! American 8th corps at Brest.

} Blackout Continues |

The security blackout still ob-! scured front operations, and word! from the armies was skimpy as the| allies drove through the final miles | before Germany itneslf, | A Stockholm dispatch quoted the) Nazi-controlled Scandinavian telegraph bureau as saying that German engineers were preparing to] blow up all important buildings in Aachen and evacuate the city. Nazi authorities appealed to the inhabitants to destroy everything if the

partisan armies.

hours after they had been sentefjced, on Aug. 8, London observers believed the second batch of “traitops” already had been executed by tler's hangmen, . The official German Trapsosenn news agency identified the condemned men as Karl. Goerdeler, ex-mayor of Leipzig who was named as leader of the conspiracy; Count

sell, William Leuschner, Josef Wirmer, Trott Zu Solz, and Paul Le-jeune-Jung. The Nazi-controlled Scandinavian

‘the Hitler regime and establish a

charges that the former Leipzig

fice after Hitler's death and the

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Death Senfence Passed on 7 German Political Leaders, Including Revolt 'Chief,’ in Merciless Nazi Blood-Purge

plotting with the allies to overthrow

“dictatorship” that would make~a “cowardly”- peace with the united nations. ; “All the threads of the conspiracy

were in Goerdeler's hands,” Transocean said, reiterating earlier Nazi

mayor had been slated to replace Hitler as chancellor if the coup succeeded The other six conspirators also were in line for high political of-

the notorious Von Helidorf,

through the capital, beating up*and

demned men were “Hassell, served the Nazis as ambassador to

jeune-Jung, : deputy; Leuschner, formerly Hessian minister of the interior, who

The shortest distance to Berlin from advanced allied lines today:

WESTERN FRONT — 335 miles (from point east of Breda in Netherlants. Gain of 35 miles in week.)

SOUTHERN FRANCE—425 miles (from point southeast of Belfort. Gain of 115 miles in week).

ITALY — 555 miles (from point near Rimini. Gain of five miles in week).

RUSSIA—328 miles (from point east of Warsaw. Unchanged for week.)

The swaggering, flashily-dressed Von Helldorf was chief of the storm troops in Berlin just before Hitler assumed the chancellorship, and led the Nazi mobs that rioted

killing Jews and Spresition elements. Prominent among the other conwho

Italy from 1932 to 1938; Paul Lea former reichstag

FRANCE — French _

the maximum for the Luftwaffe on! {the western front since June 6, de-

STALIN ASKED T0 JOIN TALKS, BUT “DECLINES

Explains Present Offensives Requires His Constant Presence in Moscow.

QUEBEC, Sept. 11 (U. P.). —President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Winston Shien began/a momentous victory conference” in Que-

' bec today and announced that Soviet Premier Josef Stalin had | been invited to the meeting but icould not come while the Soviet

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{armies are “developing their of<

fonts against Germany increasjo Mr. Roosevelt and Churchill are | rived here this morning, expressing | their pleasure over the rapid and | favorable development of the war

Pfc. John Dellinger, 121 Wiscon- | storming the great Dutch fortress | first time in months by the! on the allied side.

| They were hardly established in | the historic old fortress citadel of Quebec when it was announced that Stalin likewise had been asked to attend this meeting, but had been unable to do so.

Message Made Public

Mr. Roosevelt's press secretary, Stephen T. Early, released the fol lowing message from Stalin in reply “to the -inwitatio) 3 President. .and.

“At the present time when Soviet armies are fighting battles on such a broad front, developing their offensives increasingly, I am deprived of the possibility of travels ing out of the Soviet Union and of leaving the direction of the army for the shortest period. All my colleagues agree that this is quite impossible.” ‘ “When everything you touch turns to gold,” Churchill said of the recent continuing allied war successes, “there is no need crying out about Providence.”

Pacific War Stressed The military nature of the conference—and particularly the ems phasis on the war with Japan—was stressed by Stephen T. Early, White House press secretary. Early told a news conference: “The recent inspection tour of the Pacific by the President, his cone ferences with Admiral Nimitz, Gen= eral MacArthur and the commanding general of the Alaska and Aleu~ tians area, were but a preliminary, a very necessary one to the conference beginning today. “As you all very well know, this 1s largely, if not exclusively a military conference. There may be a disappointing volume of news. If there is, it will be for that reason, This is made necessary for security.” Site of 1943 Parley

After meeting at Wolfe's Cove

where their trains were parked side

{by side, thé Roosevelt and Church-

ill parties proceeded by motor to the | Citadel, historic fortress where they met in August, 1943. After receiv~ ing formal military honors on the parade ground they adjourned to their respective quarters in . the Citadel. Mr. Roosevelt and Churchill . greeted each other enthusiastically, comparing notes on how each other was feeling. The President — 3 dressed in a single-breasted,

blue pin-striped suit and wore : familiar Panama hat. Ch Bl wore his typical sea-going uniform of Trinity House, puffing on a cigar while he talked with the President. Mr. Roosevelt's train arrived at

Wolfe's Cove at 9 a. m., an hour

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