Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 September 1944 — Page 2

aw Them Fighting Man to Man of Metz, And Neither Bombs Nor Shells Mattered

Br BOBERT | RICHARDS ‘Q soirs ABOVE" a rl RIVER, Sept. 10.— p. m.~While armored infantod slowly acrqss the Moriver at other points. one pn outfit in 8 woods directthe river from here was d this Mernooy in a pitched so fierce attention to artillery, fire or

Elsewhere we werg winning but Bear the village of Corny our adpce was a harsh bitter thing. GIs were hammering their breath away against enclosing Nazis—Gl's who had guts enough

neither side paid]

roared in an endless circle with the Germans’ black and red flak bursting around them. . Now and then a plane peeled off from its” mates to dive toward two concealed German forts in the hills behind the woods. Through the telescope it was easy to see German soldiers crouched in foxholes in a wide meadow flanking the American position. From far behind us, Americen field guns poured shell after sheil into the German positions and we saw clouds of smoke where they hit, But both the Germans in the meadow and the Americans in the woods were curiously unconcerned about either the shelling or the

force their way across the river days ago but who now were it difficult to push ahead. Overhead American Thunderbolts |

Ernie’ s New Book to Indlade

~ Last Dispatc

ot Ernie Pyle's last dispatches from the “African campaign,

France. will be included in his new) book, "Brave Men" the publisher! “announced today. Publication date | “of the book has been moved, from | ‘Oct. 26 to Nov. 7 in order to include | “his later columns. Advance orders for the book began pouring in to local book stores. early in the summer when it was) first announced that a new Pyle | Book would be published. The Times Solumigises book on

5TH SEIZES TWO ITALIAN TOWNS

Engage German Troops on

Outer ‘Positions of Gothic Line.

ROME, Sept. 11 (U, P.).—Amerfcan ‘troops captured the important towns of Prato and Pistoia north- . west of Florence today and ad-

planes, so intent were ‘hey on killing each other. This was a fight of infaniry against infantry, man 2gains man, td

hes From Front

“Here -Is| Your War,” is still breaking records | as a best-seller. 1t Sas published! last fall, Many of the orders for the new book have been from parents who {wanted to include it in Christmas boxes for men, overseas, according ta booksellers. Since the overseas {Christmas mailing period ends Oct. 15, however, it will be impossible to |send the books in time for the holi- | day.

Seeks the Way

vanced northward to engage Ger- . mans in the outer positions of the ~ Gothic line. U. 8. bth army units, who were revealed for the first time today to] "be operating near the center of the} allied line across the peninsula, | made a surprise advance by cross-| ing the Sieve river 13 miles po of Florence. The Americang on the western; . side drove north of Lucca and en- . gaged its forward positions. Prato and the larger town of Pistoia, 10 miles northeast, both are on main highways and a rail line leading to Bologna, key city #f the Po valley northward. Germans in the Adriatic sector, meanwhile, launched a heavy _ esunter-attack against British positions along a razorback ridge Just west of San Savino. The British repelled the attack.

FEAR ESCAPED NAZIS | reports this week which will influ-

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MEMPHIS, Tenn. Sept. 11 P.).~Threg girls display ed this note | ~ te police today: “Dear Friend.

Am being kid-| ~ naped hy German Spies. Get help] quick. » They were walking along a sub-, urban road yesterday. A speeding _ ear forced them off the pavement. As the car whizzed by they saw a Weeping woman in it and thé note came fluttering out, they insisted. The girls were Waumaace Welch, 11; Lanelle Hodge, 10, and Uvelde| Garrison, 11, Four German prisoners of war escaped from Camp McCain, near) here, last Tuesday, and still are at] .. Police thought it was pos-| sible that they had kidnaped a lone woman and stolen her car. |

"eral increase of 17 cents an hour

Second Lt. Norman E. Davis, €112 W. Washington st., refers to a GI primer in seeking directions from Pierre in France. Lt. Davis is a Filo} in a P-51 group.

WLB Opens Study Of Wage Policies

+ In Reconversion

WASHINGTON, Sept. 11 (U. PJ. —The war labor board will reappraise its wage stabilization policy in the light of potential reconversion problems, it was learned today. The board has begun,a study of the probable impact on its wage and disputes policies by large scale industrial reconversion. after the defeat of Germany. And it is scheduled to receive two

ence its decision as to whether it should recommend a change in the little steel formula; which limits general , wage increases to 15 per cent of the January, 1941 level. Those reports will be submitted | by ‘the “basic steel” panel which heard the demands of the United Steel Workers (C. I. O) for a gen-

and panels created to hear Ameri-| can Federation of Labor arguments for lifting the wage ceiling. Inasmuch as W. L. B. authority

lover wage stabilization extends to

Dec. 31, 1945 and over labor dis- | putes until six months after the ! war, its decision to relate any posI'sible change in wage policy to re- { conversion problems was influenced | by the war production board announcement last week that mest

controls over civilian productionp

will be relaxed after the fall of

MISSIONARY T0 TELL | Germany.

OF WORK IN AFRICA

Miss Gertrude Shoemaker, a misgionary who has just returned from Africa, will tell of her work abroad at a missionary meeting at 2:30 p. m. tomorrow at the Olive Branch Christian ehurch. Representing Oliver Branch and Linwood Christian churches, Miss Shoemaker has spent 17 years in Africa and has not had a leave for ‘seven years. She will leave Indianapolis Sept. 24 for Salem, Ore., . Where she will visit her parents.

YOUNG G. 0. P. CHIEFS MEET TOMORROW

Young Republican club district and county chairmen and vicechairmen will hear a talk by Mis. Gypsie Webb Corbin of Lawrenceburg, Ky; national—vice-chairman-of the Young Republican clubs, at ithe Claypool hotel tomorrow. Tom E. Potter of Terre Haute will preside over the meeting, which many state candidates are expected to attend.

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and they were going about it grimly and bloodily as if neither bombs nor shells mattered. German ‘88's and mortars began to explode on the Taiiropd tracks below us “That's Jerry talking now; commented Capt, Fred Andrt of .Berwyn, Hl. Suddenly shells began climbing the hill toward us. They had seen us and Andrt and I ran to the scant protection of shallow foxholes. Shells landed 30 and 40 feet away. We were lucky. They finally quit firing. . From where we lay it was easy to look across the river into the heart of Metz and see its cathedral spires reaching skyward. The city. looked beautiful and peaceful. It was hard to believe that all around it men were dying.

CAPTURE DIJON, BESIEGE VESOUL

French, Yanks Rush Toward

Junction in Central

France. "By ELEANOR PACKARD

United Press Staff Correspondent ROME, Sept. 11.—French troops of the allied 7th army’ have captured Dijon, vital transport center and higgest city in East-Central France, in a drive through one of the higgest barriers to a junction with American forces to the northwest. The fall of Dijon, historic city of 85,000 on the left flank of the allied drive toward the Belfort gap and Southwestern Germany, was announced at allied headquarters, “French army forces occupied the important communications center of Dijon,” a special announcement said. “American troops reached the outskirts of Vesoul, Strong enemy resistance continues north of Rioz.”

Communications Cenér

Vesoul is another key ‘communications center 45 miles northeast of Dijon and only 32 miles west of Belfort, citadel commanding the gap through which the routed German armies of Southern France were fleeing. Rioz ‘is a/small town 14 miles south-southwest of Vesoul. The gap between the 7th army and Lt. Gen. George S. Patton's 3d army to the north was narrowed to Jess than 50 miles by the new advances, Another French force, striking northwestward in a big flanking movement, swept through the village of Arnay de Luc, 30 miles southwest of Dijon and eontinued virtually unopposed to Saulieu, 40 miles due west of Dijon

NAVY TO INDUCT 600,000 BY JULY

WASHINGTON, Sept. 11, — (U. P.).—The navy plans to induct 600,000 men by next July to hring its peak strength to 3,389,000 for new and greater, blows against Japan, occording to Secretary of the Navy James V. Forrestal. He said the defeat of Germany would not mean curtailment of the naval training program. He declared that an average of| {11 ships a day for 4 total of 4063 vessels were added to the U. S.| fleet during the fiscal year ended! last June. In addition, 20,000 new landing craft were i1aunched and the navy air arm doubled in numerial strength.

U-BOATS IN ATLANTIC STRETCHED THINNER’

WASHINGTON, Sept. 11 (U, P.). —German submarines in the Atlantic have been forced to “stretch even thinner their difficult lines of | operation” following the allied invasion of France. In a joint statement on submarine and anti-submarine opera-

ath ANAT IAQ TINE Mrs. Elizabeth Eggert of Syracuse, N. Y., supreme queen of the International Order of Daughters of the Nile, will he the guest of the| local Koran temple tomorrow and Wednesday during which she will make her annual tour of Anspec. tion. > She will be entertained with a luncheon at the L. S. Ayres & Co. tearoom tomorrow and a dinner at the Lincoln hotel tomorrew night,

Local officials of the order will be hostesses at both functions.

MATTOON, Il, Sept. 11 (U.P). —A wave of alarm bordering oni mass hysteria gripped this city of

t revolvers and clubs patroled the sireeis in search of the phantom anesthetist who sprays his victims with “gardenia” gas. Other developments in the mystery ineluded the discovery of white “stains on the foliage of shrubbery around the home of

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KIWANIS TO HEAR

WAR FUND LEADER

Kenneth W, Miller, the United War and Community | Fund, will speak at Wednesday's |

{Kiwanis' meeting at the Columbia |

club, | He will explain in detail how the {fund operates in the county an di 2lso how it participates in the work | {of national organizations serving the armed forces,

PULLIAM TO SPEAK Eygene C, Pulliam, publisher of | the Co-operative Civic Service club! | next “Wednesday at the Columbia

{ club on “Freedom of the Radio and Press.”

NAME SOUTH BEND MAN

Eli F. Seebirt of South Bend to{day was elected a member of the board of governors of the American Bar association at the opening session‘of the house of delegates. He will represent the seventh district,

-. MOTHERS CLUB TO MEET | Terrace Avenue Mothers’ club will hold its first meeting of the current school season at 1:30 p. m. Tuesday at the—= Kindergarten building, 1400 S. East st.

REPORT ITALIAN STRIKES LONDON, Sept. 11 (U. P.).—The Algiers radio today reported general strikes in Bologna, Reggio, Si and Genos, and partial

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cap flee from the house after she heard Mrs. Fitzpatrick scream. This. is the second time the ‘prowler has-been seen, Mrs. Fitzpatrick was at home with her husband and two-year-old daughter when the attack occurred. She went into the kitchen and her ‘husband heard her

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which also was detected w her husband. She was taken to her mother’s home, where a was called to treat her swollen lips and parched throat, The attack on Mrs. Daniels occurred about 20 minutes earlier, police said. She heard a noise on the front porch apd went out to investigate when she got 2 whiff of the gardenia-like odor of the gas which made her faint, she said. Another attack which occurred Saturday night also was reported to police last night.

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EVENT

Indianapolis Dental tel Lincoln, 6:30 Irvington Republic and Union st, 8 Junior Chambef eo directors’ meetin 7:30 p. m. Curtiss-Wright, Lincoln, 8 p. m. Indianapolis Haird: gists, meeting, He Indiana Parliament Lincoln, 8 p. m. Indiana Red Cross

EVENTS ' Indiana Red Cross

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£ Robert EB. Armstror

ley G. Rothwell, Robert Pgul Burton cile Laura Tucker Bdwin Keith Ander Louise Gentry, M John Parry Main,