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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1944
cago & Eastern Illinois raidroad, and a email train are shown locked ween 25 and 30 were killed. The mail train was northbound and carried
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Baggage and passenger cars of the Dixie Flyer jackknifed around to form almost a perfect square. Most of the dead were believed to have been in the car at the right, which had its top, both ends and one side sheared away by the impact. All the seats were cut
away to the floor.
OUTER SIEGFRIED LINE PENETRATED BY YANKS
WE HIT THE SIEGFRIED LIN
'Good Reading for. Those Who Think the War's Over’
“WITH AMERICAN 1ST ARMYIN GERMANY, Sit.”
Ist Army 8 Miles Inside Germany
In New Push.
BULLETIN U.S. IST ARMY HEAD.
QUARTERS, Sept. 14, 6:30
politan area to an estimated 600, .
P. M. (U. P.).—American forces attacking in strength along a wide front have penetrated the outer fringes of the Siegfried line at several points, with the deepest advance into Germany totaling about eight miles to the vicinity of Prum, 13 miles northeast of the Luxembaurg-Ger-man border junction. By VIRGIL PINKLEY United Press Saft Correspondent
' SUPREME HEADQUARTERS, A. E. F., Sept. 14.— Powérful American forces spearheading a general advance into Germany on an 85mile front brought Aachen
18 (Delayed) —We hit the Siegfried line today. Five or six little fortresses, commanding the highway out on Rotgen, gateway to the mysterious German hinterlands, have been smashed or silenced. “Dragon’s teeth” tank traps—concrete pyramids of varying height, which range along miles of Hitler's frontier—have been successfully bypassed. Ingenious roadblocks have been blown apart, and hidden tanks and mobile artillery have been scotched, after some 12 hours of toe-to-toe fighting. The Germans, so they say, are falling back through two remaining bands of the line to make a final stand on the Rhine. This is being written at the edge of a woods on a plateau above the Veedre valley as one of the most spectacular battles of’ this war | is about to reach its finish. Here is a scene at once beauti- l
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under artillery bombardment today and. posed a direct threat to that line bastion in new advances south of it, Henry T. Gorrell, United Press correspondent, reported from the 1st army front that after a 24hour breather the invasion forces resumed their offensive below Aachen in strength at dawn today, toppled the first major obstacles in their path, and at 4:30 p. m. were “well into” Germany, Lt. Gen. Omar 1.. Bradley's 12th army group headquarters reported that the Americans had captured
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ful and weird, depending on the direction of the last shell you ‘MAJOR AIR BATTLE heard, and it is terrible not only 4
because of itg significance in the future history of the world, but because it encompasses a fight in which: there has been no quarter.
OVER TO the left the plateau drops off into a wooded ravine probably 500 feet deep. Beyond this chasm a ridge comes up, blue-black with pines against a sky misty with drifting smoke. Ahead of us is a town marked as‘ such by church spires sticking up out of a cluster of orchards. There are more ridges behind this town—a series of them, that look like something in the Black hills of South Dakota in the Sylvan lake district. To the right is a lower lift of
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Ernie Invites That RAF Pilot To Come Over and See Us
Editor's Note: This is’ the second of two columns in which
Y © Ernie Pyle, interrupting his va-
cation, brings us up to date on the RAF pilot in whose rescue from a wrecked plane in France Ernie participated.
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~ By ERNIE PYLE LONDON, Sept. 14 (by wireless)— At the hospital the RAF pilot and I enjoyed living over again the
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TIMES INDEX
Amuse. ....22, 23 Eddie Ash ,, 24 Barnaby .... 17 Comics ...... 29 Crossword ... 29 Ludwell Denny 5 Editorials .., 18 ‘Peter Edson., 17
Inside Indpls. 17 Jane Jordan., 29 Mauldin ..... 12 Ruth Millett. 18 Movies ....22, 23 Obituaries ... Radio :
Forum Shree 18 : viii 29 ‘Meta Given. 31 In Indpls ... 3
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climax to those eight days of imprisonment in his wrecked plane in France
When we rescued him that day I had not wanted to badger him with trivial questions, so there were some things I didn’t get straight, and other things I had straight which he was mixed up on. I' thought his leg ‘had been wounded while he was still in the air. But he told me it didn’t happen until about three hours after he had crashed, when there was shelling and shooting all around him. He said that whatever kind of shell it was made a terrific racket when it came through the plane and struck him. > The little hole ‘in the side of the plane through which he had thrust his hand-—we thought that had been torn whén the plane crashed. But actually the pilot had made it himself during tholle eight days,
get out. : . He worked at it off and on with a little crowbar he had in he cockpit. He asked me if I thought he
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SWEEPS PHILIPPINES
Japs Report Raids at Four
Points in Islands.
By FRANK TREMAINE United Press Staff Correspondent PEARL HARBOR, Sept. 14-—A major aerial battle was developing today over the Philippines, where American carrier planes hit the center of the archipelago Monday and probably still were attacking. (A Japanese broadcast, recorded by FCC monitors, said American jcarrier-based planes hit the Southern Philippines Tuesday and Wednesday and “attempted” to raid!
boanga this morring. Negros and {Leyte are islands in the central sec-! tor, while Legaspi is a town near | the southeastern tip of Luzon and Zamboanga is a port on the southwestern point of Mindanao.) Adm. Chester W, Nimitz, in an-
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AMERICAN army dead since the war began through August totals 62.357, according to figures apnounced today by Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson
fo the total pépulation of ‘Terre Haute, Ind, scene today of a rall-
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PLAN FORESEES POPULATION OF 500,000 IN AREA
County Takes First Steps Toward Invéhtory of
Resources.
By NOBLE REED A master plan for the eventual growth of the Indianapolis metro
{nto present rurhl ‘areas, was oOutlined at a meeting of the Marion
ship subcommittees last night. The first steps toward a detailed inventory of Marion county’s industrial and residential resources were explained by Horace Abbott, plan commission who instructed township groups to begin at once on their blueprints for post-
war developments. i
“We must begin now to meet the demands of an expanding industrial city,” he said. “More industries are
them will come vast residential expansions that will spread out into farm lands in all directions,”
Asks Township Help
He announced the organization of planning committees in all outlying townships which were asked to submit recommendations on the zoning of every square mile of their communities to guide the development of residential subdivisions and the location of factories and other commercial enterprises. Every township committee was asked to decide in the next few| weeks if they want any industry and if so, where would be the best location for it. Mr. Abbott said that when all township groups had submitted their zoning recommendations, the plan commission would set up a master plan as a yardstick to guide developments for the next 25 years. In the past, dozens of residential subdivisions have sprung up through the suburban areas in a haphazard manner with no master
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HURRICANE IPS N. CAROLINA AND HEADS FOR N. Y.
Coastal Residents Flee “Killer” Storm,” Moving Up Seaboard to N. England. BEAUFORT, N. C., Sept. 14 (U.
P.).—Hurricane winds up to 95 miles an hour lashed the North
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Dixie Flyer Thrown Into Air by Impact With Mail Train; Crash Occurs on One-Way Track in Fog.
By HEZE CLARK Times Staff Writer . TERRE HAUTE, Sept. 14—At least 29: Killed and approximately -64 injured, many
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Rhode Island by midnight. (The New York weather bureau, a > in an advisory, said that gales of NAME WATSON HEAD i we. Tot arias” ™ OF REFERRAL UNIT
Organization to = Assist
Returning Soldiers.
Newly appointed official *“godfather” of thousands of Indianapolis G. I's, James S. Watson today joined selective service officials in mapping organization and location of the city’s “one-stop™ veterans information and referral center. Retired industrialist and civic leader, Mr, Watson was named yesterday as permanent chairman of the citizen's advisory committee co-
would hit Connecticut and
Extensive damage to beaches,
crops and homes ‘were reported as torrents of ‘rain and high winds swept. the area. Mountainous, rolling seas pitched 50-foot waves across beaches, and Morehead City, at the mouth of the
ATLANTA, Ga. Sept. 14 (U.P). —Western Union reported here at 12:30 p. m. (Indianapolis time)
today that telegraph service to the |
turned airmen with more than 50 missions overséas, when the crack Dixie Flyer crashed into a northbound mail train in a heavy fog early today at North Terre Haute. The accident occurred on a stretch of single track about 58 two miles north of Terre
EYEWITNESS— Haute at 2:20 a. m., piling bodies of soldiers and eivil “I Woke Up and |isns—nured, esa and aig A Soldier Said:
among tons of twisted railroad cars, | baggage, mail and spilled milk eans ! ’ ri You're Lucky EDWARD COOK of Evansville.
| along the right-of-way. { Vigo County Coroner Denzil M, {Ferguson said that the discovery of two more bodies shortly before noon raised the toll of known dead who was on his way heme from to 29 and more bodies are expected Chicago, was riding in a day coach to be removed from the wreckage.
vital military and naval center of | of the Dixie Flyer when it collided |
Norfolk, Va.; had failed due to | early toddy with a mail train at the Atlantic hurricane. | North Terre Haute, “All of a sudden I thought we had jumped the track when they put the brakes on,” he said. “I was thrown into the air and the next I remember was a soldier
Newport river, was left a ghost town by evacuation of its 2000 residents, who were moved to points of safety before flood waters inun-
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road wreck which claimed many lives. The 1940 population of Terre Haute was 62,693. :
Comparatively, this is equivalent population
dated most of the town. Communications in many areas were down.
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SIEGFRIED LINE FIGHT
WASHINGTON, Sept. 14 (U. P.). —Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson said today he believed the Germans were preparing to shift troops from Norway, Denmark “and other possible sources” to strengthen the the Siegfried line, Stimson said.
approaching 50 miles per hour were reported at Norfolk, Thousands of acres of rich farm land were flooded and damage to corn crops probably will be hundreds of thousands of dollars. At the Cherry Point, N. C., marine base, officials announced. the entire personnel, between 3000 and 4000
SETS COOPER'S TRIAL men, had been moved to points of
SOUTH BEND, Ind, Sept. 4 (U. safety inland. P.y—Prosecutor Arthur F. Scheer! waves rolling up 50 feet in the today set the arraignment and trial air and crashing against the unproof Jackie Cooper, movie star Now tected coastline left debris seata V-12 student at Notre Dame, an®|tered across miles of beaches and three others on charges of con- hundreds of small boats were detributing to the delinquency of 8 stroyed and many boardwalks damminor for Sept. 29, aged. Storm-riding . army and navy pilots who had charted the course
the Bahamas estimated the wind velocity in the center at 140 miles per hour. Towns Isolated Beaufort and the town of Moorehead City, south of here, were almost isolated from the outside world as the storm lashed communication lines. The communities have populations of about 2000 each, but by dawn they were practically ghost towns, for their people had fled inland during the night. Early stages of the storm were felt in the form of strong gusts of wind that snapped off and uprooted trees, but thus far there were no reported casualties, Weather bureau advisories indicated it was the worst hurricane since the. great storm of Sept. 3, 1935 that killed 300 persons in the Florida keys. The wind velocity in its center was placed at 140 miles an hour and the convolutions were so - extensive that storm warnings were posted as far north as Atlantie City, N. J. 2 Tremendous and destructive, tides
area for 500,000 people.
cluding 62357 killed. 172.042 wounded, 48,181 prisoners, and 45,036 missing. 5 os Navy, marine corps and coast
By 11 a. m, Indianapolis Time, forward movement of the storm x. had speeded up to 25 miles per hour, and heavy rain squalls and winds
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working on me and when I opened my eyes, he said, ‘Boy, you're lucky. You have been out 10 minutes.’ ”
Mr. Cook had a large bump over his right eye and received a slight
CIVILIANS IN WRECK
Injured.
Only the names of civilians killed jor injured in the Terre Haute train wreck were released today by hospital authorities. Names of sol|diers were to be released later by {military authorities. The following is partial list of the casualties:
KILLED
Louis Rausch, 55, Evansville, fireman on Flyer,
INJURED Claude Walter, Evansville, assistant conductor, slightly injured. R. Riggles, Danville, Ill, brakeman, serious. Charles Rohlfer, engineer on mail train, slightly injured. Frank Blair, 55, serious. Edward Cook, Evansville, slightly injured. Clarence Cooper, porter, Chicago. Ike Hopkins, baggage car employee, Evansville. Chloe Franklin, Jamestown, Ala, leg injuries. Thomas E. Warren, Columbus, Ga. Mrs. J. H. Curry, Hawesville; Ky., leg lacerations. J. Crudut, Macon, Ga., scalp injuries. Francis Holt, Jacksonville, Fla, scalp. injuries. . Jose . 3 ‘CG. W. Mason. Nashville, Tenn.
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PARTIALLY LISTED
Terre Haute Hospital Treats Side,
Names Are Withheld | The number injured was placed
(tentatively at 64, many of them military personnel. Names of dead {and injured military men will |not be announced, however, until ithe army has notified the next of i kin. | In the first three Pullman cars
of the Flyer were 75 airmen, veter- .
fans of missions over Italy and other areas in Europe, -who were fon their way to a Florida rest camp. iMany of them wore the purple {heart for wounds. received in action |and were on 30-day furloughs. Thirty-eight sailors, none of them in the front three Pullman ears, also were passengers on the Chicago & [Eastern Illinois railroad | Flyer, Flyer Thrown in Afr The impact of the two trains threw the Flyer up into the air land the mail train went to the The milk car of the Flyer as jammed up against the tender {and the whole front end and left {side were torn out. The baggage car was knocked clear through a Car
| Ira Hall, Vigo county sheriff an former Indianapolis Speedway (racer, said railroad officials had [told him that the Flyer was su | posed {0 have been at West Athers | ton, six miles north of the wreck, {at the time of the collision. . A sid= (ing at this stop would have made i { possible for the wg trains to pass. Five cars of the Flyer were not damaged and were uncoupled soon | after’ the | through Illinois. All passengers, most of them civilians, who were
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{ not injured, were put on these cars. | Reroute Troop Train : | Following only a few miles be/hind the Flyer was the second sec {tion of the train, a troop train {which was stopped at Clinton, just '12 miles north of the wreck. This {section was then rerouted through Illinois, . | Rails for several hundred feet from the point of the collision webs [twisted and ripped from the ties. | An army officer aboard. the Flyer 'said that 48 soldiers were in {first car whech was demolished (at least 15 were killed. Dae jumping : y x "
wreck and re-routed’