Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 September 1944 — Page 5

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captured Eupen, in the Liege area

. the first time in more than a cen-

war but nevertheless toppled immediately under the German onslaught, touching off rumors of ®secret weapons” of dread potentcy. Marauders and Havocs of the U. 8. 9th air force dropped bombs on German soil for the first time today. They hammered concrete pillboxes, anti-tank emplacements, and troop shelters in the Siegfried line and the transport lines immediately behind the fortified belt in the Saarbrucken area.

Marauder mediums dropped 200]

tons of bombs on the Siegfried line at Scheid, 32 miles south of Aachen. Two forces of Havoc light bombers attacked rail yards at St. Wendel, 17 miles north of Saarbrucken. Thousand-pounders crashed on pillboxes in the loop of the river Our near Echternacht on the Luxem-bourg-German frontier. . First army troops striking in the direction of Cologne and Koblenz

six miles short of the German frontier, and Malmedy, nine miles west of the frontier. Its advances brought the vanguard almost to the border along a 20-mile front in that area,

Tanks Lead Invasion

The Americans almost completed |

the occupation of the grand duchy of Luxmebourg, from which the first penetration of Germany was made. Gorrell disclosed that the penetration of Germany was made by a U, 8. armored division which swept across Belgium in 10 days. He said orders for the border crossing were issued from a bleak barracks building which only a few hours. earlier had housed German

troops. A dispatch from Lt. Gen. Omar N. Bradley's 12th army group headquarters said it was apparent that the American vanguard had not yet reached the Siegfried line proper, which in the Trier area lies some 10 to 12 miles beyond the frontier. »

Nazis Sing the Blues

"A Nazi-controlled dispatch to Stockholm reported “heart-rending scenes” during the evacuation of the German-Belgian frontier districks, when “crying women were separated from their husbands and families were split up. The stream of refugees is crowding roads ..."” Moving under a blistering artillery bombardment that ripped into the Nazis’ vaunted Siegfried line, Lt. Gen. Courtney H. Hodges’ 1st army rolled across the German frontier yesterday afternoon and early today was reported advancing steadily into the great forest belt of the Rhineland. The terror of invasion that Hitler's armies carried into more than a dozen European sttaes in a first flush of Nazi power was visited upon the German homeland for

tury, and preliminary reports from the front said the Germans were offering only the feeblest resistance. Trier By-Passed Trier, birthplace of Karl Marx and probably the oldest city in Germany, was by-passed as the Amerjean tank and infantry columns fanned out through the denselywooded hills to the east, probing at what appeared to be a soft spot in the Nazi West Wall defenses. At the same time, other 1st army units in Eastern Belgium battled 10 to 20 miles past Liege through savage German opposition to within five miles of the Reich and moved: up their heavy artillery to pour salvo after salvo into the German city of Aachen. Simultaneously, the allies established a continuous battle front across Eastern France and the Low Countries from the Mediterranean to the North sea, with a juncture of American troops from the 3d and Tth armies at Sombernon, 104 miles southwest of the Belfort gap. The Germans were reported hurriedly erecting field fortifications across the gap to meet the threat of a new invasion poised by the juncture. : American spearheads from the

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the 1st army advance, but headquarter’ sources permitted the dis. closure that they were operating

Ahead of Schedule : In their race to beat the winter weather into Germany, the. allies were well shead of schedule, at least in comparison to 1918. The invasion of the Reich on Sept. 11 was 15 days 8arlier than the comparable opening of the MeuseArgonne offensive on Sept. 26, 1918, which forced the kaiser’s armies to

With the officially announced juncture of the American 3d army and the 7th army—an almost allAmerican outfit—at Somernon, 15 miles west of Dijon, Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower had three magnificently equipped American armies to

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passed coastal fortifications tween the ports, and another 1 " |west of Antwerp, with their backs

hurl into western Germany, plus

the British 2d and Canadian 1st armies to throw against the enemy's northern flank, The allied headquarters commuinique gave no new details on the {bloody battle‘of the Moselle, where {Gen, Patton's 3d army was meeting iits bitterest opposition since the start of its “end run” around Paris.

Lose Some Ground

Front dispatches received last night said the Americans lost some ground in the Corny area 5% miles southwest of Metz, but established new bridgeheads across the Moselle and hooked deep into the outer defenses of Nancy, capturing Ft. Vil. ley Le Sec, 8% miles west-southwest of that fortress. Patton's men also seized a large portion of the old Maginot line forts around Triuex, 18 miles north-| west of Metz, and Aumetz, seven miles farther north, where they found the fortifications intact and ready to be uséd against the Germans if necessary. At the opposite end of the allied assault front, British 2d army troopers fought into Holland after forcing a bridge across the Escault canal from Belgium in the GrooteBarrier area, nine miles north of Bourg-Leopold. Other British units pushed out {from their bridgeheads across the Albert canal farther south, meeting fanatical resistance. On the British right flank, eleiments of Hodges’ American 1st army thrust 10 to 20 miles east of Liege along the two main roads to Aachen. One force occupied Herve, 10 miles east of Liege and 15 miles southwest of Aachen, while the second moved along the south road to Eupen, five miles west of the Nazi border and nine miles almost due south of Aachen. American 75-millimeter cannon poyred a drumfire barrage into the enemy positions across the German frontier, . ‘while mobile ‘ field guns pounded a by-passed garrison pocketed in the Limbourg area, four miles west of Bupen.

Yanks in Holland

First army troops also were reported fighting inside the southern tip of Holland between Maastricht

miles above Liege. Other columns fanned out southeast of Liege to capture Spa and cut the Liege-Arlon road south of

mered out a gain of about 15 miles through the . Ardennes forest from St. Hubert to Bastogne, four miles from the Luxembourg frontier and 17 miles west of Germany. } Behind the allied armies drawh up on the borders of the Reich, British, Canadian and American troops pressed a battle of annihilation against tens of thousands of Nazis hbdlding out in northwestern Belgium and along the channel

British troops eaptured Lokeren, 12 miles east of Gent (Ghent), St.

northeast, and the coastal town of Blankenberghe. * Radio Paris broadcast an uncon-

rison at Brest had surrendered, but latest dispatches on'that battle reported heavy figh still in progress. > -The best available estimates said

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west, of Belfort, to establish a sod | Quebec Conferences Seen front with the 3d army, while : wo 3 French troops from the south took| Pointed at Invasion of Pont de Roid, 16 miles below Bel- : fort, 3 ; Jap Mainland. - In the vicinity of Vesoul, Maj. Gen. Albin Nake, commander of (Continued From Page One) the Cioran 150Ln essays ovaon, the discussions with thelr military, naval and experts. : ne rs or capa Although | re "Canadian. prime minister |

talked with the President and Churchill when the opportunities presented themselves, discussing

and conduct of the war in general where it involves Canadian. per sonnel.

that the purpose of the mi here was military.”

1esentatives to Quebes, Early said

might be later arrival of state de partment people. Headed by American

“I just haven't heard anything about that” was the way he

FR, CHURCHILL | ‘OPEN MEETINGS

what Canadian officials described’

as military strategy in the Pacific |

Early, in a press conferenc atl the Chateau Frontenac, discounted # an inquiry about “boarder political : aspects” of the conference, saying that “political” was a word he did / not understand und re-emphasizing §

“primarily ; Asked whether the state department or its British counterpart, the § foreign office, planned to send rep-

he knew of no such plans, but there :

The map above shows the latest

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advances made by American and:

British troops in France and Germany.

summed up that and other inquiries about new arrivals, The new unified command for the Japanese assault, to be headed by an American, raised many questions. ; The | of American and British forces to be transferred from Europe to the Far East as soon as Germany's defeat is complete must also - be determined. And the amount of lend-lease aid the U. 8. will give Britain after the European war ends, must be considered.

Mr. Roosevelt, Mr. Churchill and their staffs settled down to threshing out these matters in conference

guests of “the Earl of Athlone, governor general, at a state dinner,

Five Hoosiers, One From Here,

Due Soon From Nazi Camps

(Continued From Page One)

and then his status was, changed to, prisoner of war. in October,

Two weeks ago his parents

learned through the Red Cross that he might be on his way home.| Previously they had heard that he; had lost one eye. : Just yesterday the Clouds re-| ceived a letter from their prisoner son saying he had been given his first letters from home. His letter | was dated April 14.

The Gripsholm today was just

three days out of Sweden.

Typical stories of the boys on the

ship are like that of Tyre Weaver of Alabama, -a. Fortress gunner, who landed safely inside Germany when his navigator, unable to halt the flow of blood from Weaver's shattered arm, tied a makeshift tourniquet about the stump, opened his parachute and tossed him out. And now Weaver, bleeding so fast

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It, Henry L. Ayres Jr. . . . headed home on Gripsholm after more than a year’s imprisonment,

he would never have been able to get to England alive was found inside Germany and saved. Another airman, gunner on #8 heavy bomber, was just reaching

3500 Allied Planes Crush | Luftwatte, Hit Oil Plants

(Continued From Page One) were used by the Germans today, ’ but liminary reports indicated| fighters of the remaining planes) pre Po

fione reached the bomber formawhich the Luftwaffe finally has de-| tions, cided to throw into the battle ofl The bulk of the opposition again the Reich, brought to 227 the num-| was py Focke-Wulf 190's and Mesber of Nazi aircraft destroyed in|serschmitt 109s, but bomber crews the last 24 hours. : : {reported flak was a more serious Preliminary reports; however, in-|worry today. . cluded only the score of the fighter| The Germans, they reported, put |planes and did not include thoseiyup a virtual curtain of shrapnel shot down by gunners in the bomb-| around the oil plants, the loss of ers or machines destroyed on the|which will directly affect the course ground. American warplanes de-|of battle at the Siegfried line. stroyed 175 German aircraft yes-| Portresses bound for Brux on the terday, and British bombers shot longest mission of the day were down seven in raids last night.

hit by group after group of 20 Air battles raged for an hour t0-|interceptors, who remained outside day from Kiel on the Baltic to|the target area while ground gunBrux on the Czechoslovakian bor-|ners. sent thousands of shells der, with massed German -fighters| screaming up at the bombers. Sudstriking in squadrons to overwhelm|denly the bafrage lifted and the the American escort at times and

i Nazi fighters swept into the bomber deliver one-two blows at the heavy| formation from port quarter and bombers

. starboard quarter, from head-on The Nazi pilots flew in at the

and from the rear. bombers from every direction at| The synthetic oil targets were at once, ignoring a hail of lead from|Ruhland, northeast of Dresden, at the Flying Fortress and ‘Liberator|Boalen near Leipzig, and at Magdeguns. Some jet-propelled fighters burg and Brux on the .Czecho- ‘ Tig

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Four There are now four commands fighting Japanese: | ONE: U. 8. Pacific forces under Adm. Chester W. Nimitz

ed in driving the Japanese oit of Northern Burma. This will permit early re-establishment of a land supply route from India to China. FOUR: In China, Generalissimo. Chiang Kai-Shek's troops have been waging a desperate but so far losing battle to prevent the Japanese from cutting the country in half. Co-ordination Needed

These commands have been operating under broad plans developed at last November's RooseveltChurchill - Chiang conference in Cairo. But they have not had the benefit of the co-ordination such as Gen. Dwight D, Eisenhower exercises in Western # Already delicate questions have arisen involving the overlapping of some command areas. Unless a new command set-up is achieved, these would multiply as the offensives progress. MacArthur's forces and the southern wing of Nimitz's both are striking toward the Philippines. MacArthur's and Mountbatten’s ' spheres overlap in the Indies. = Mountbatten’s command was established at the first Quebec conference—in August, 1943—but results have not fulfilled expectations. The absence of Stalin from this

| Reports Big Sale

. Of Pool Tickets POOL TICKETS are “pretty generally sold throughout town, especially on Indiana ave.” vice squad Sgt. Ralph Bader told the safety board today. .He went on to explain that pool ticket operations “are very secretive and mostly out of the pocket . . . if you don’t actually see a sale it's difficult to make an authorized arrest.” His statement was made during questioning in connection with the board's restoration of a pool room license to Charles Asbury, proprietor of a pool parlor at 401 W. Michigan st., whose establishment had been ordered closed when police found pool tickets on & customer. The board reissued his license after the proprietor convinced them there was no connection between himself and pool ticket toting clients.

Seek fo Protect

Buyers of Homes

A PROPOSAL REQUIRING inspection certificates on all property transfers was made yesterday at the 40th annual confer ence of the Western section, Ine ternational Association of Electrical Workers, in the Claypool hotel. The proposal, designed to give home owners greater protection against the loss by fire, demands that wiring of each home be inspected and approved before the sale is completed. : Delegates were told by leading electrical authorities that the maJority of homes were improperly wired to meet the forthcoming electronics to be available in the post-war era for the home. The association’s dinner-dance will be held tonight at the Claypool hotel.-

conference ‘was no surprise in view of the emphasis on the Japanese war. Russia still has a non-aggres-sion pact with Japan and has not participated in any of the allied war conferences dealing with Japan. The fact that European problems will be discussed by Roosevelt and Churchill was evidenced however, by the fact that Stalin was invited. If he had been able to accept, the meetings, doubtless, would have been divided ints two parts—one on European problems with Stalin sitting in, and one on Pacific affairs without him. : As it turned out, Stalin replied the President and prime minister that he could not leave Russia at this moment while his armies were pressing numerous offensives. Mr. Roosevelt and Mr. Churchill

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for his detached parachute bundle when his ship disintegrated around him and he managed,_somehow to get his parachute open and fell 25000 feet, clutching an unharnessed chute by one hand. These boys have exciting tales to tell about their experiences and plans for fitting themselves into the post-war world. What these repatriates have to say is part of the great story of America’s share in the war, But the eight American correspondents stationed in Sweden were denied the right to board the Gripsholm in Goteborg (Gothenburg) for interviews with the Americans though British authorities had permitted pi thorized correspondents, Swedish and allied, to board both the Arundel Castel and the Drottningholm which carried British repatriates.

ELIZABETH FODREA IS DEAD HERE AT 72

Mrs. Elizabeth Fodrea, 1030 Mills ave, died today in City hospital after a brief illness. She was 72. She was born in Pennsylvania

Services will be at 1:30 p. m. Thursday in the J. C. Wilson Chapel of the Chimes followed by burial at Crown Hill, z Surviving are a daughter, Mrs; Hazel Jacobs; three sons, Leon, William and Russell McClellan; two sisters, Mrs. Anna Ambuhl and Mrs. Minnie Borchens; three brothers, George, Edward and John

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