Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 September 1944 — Page 2

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Storm Warsaw Gates Fe ® : In Final Phase of Battle By HENRY SHAPIRO United Press’ Staff Correspondent : MOSCOW, Sept. .14—Marshal Konstantin K. Rokossovsky's re: freshed and reinforced Russian.army stormed the eastern suburbs o Warsaw today, and front gispatohes Jndicated that the battle for the “* Polish ntering its final phase, Say an ae oe nan reported that Russian assault forces had penetrated Praga, the Warsaw suburb .on the east bagk of the Vistula, where violent street fighting “was going on. It said the fighting sbefore Warsaw had now “reached «a new climax.") . Ris + The dong lull on the Vistula’ ‘front appeared definitely ended. Big battles were raging in all sectors northeast, east and southeast of Warsaw, . i : i Coincident with the Warsaw flare- British Foreign Secretary sup, a new Russian offensive at the . “southern end of the Polish front| — To Discuss ‘Broad «cracked the last German positions . «before the Czechoslovak frontier an a7] Cosuck cavirymen were reported Range Problems. | storming across the Transylvania t. 14 (U. P.) —Britmountains, wresting from Hungary a Anthony | the territory taken from Romania pg. wij . join the Roosevelt- | ~with Nazi approval. Churchill conference shortly to . ‘The capture yesterday of Lomza, | discuss a broad range” of political | ‘keystone base of the German de-|, jams which are accumulating ' fenses northeast of Warsaw and rapidly in Europe and Asia in the | . .south of East Prussia. evidently was wake of allied military successes, | the signal for the full scale renewal |; 5. "announced officially today. | of the battle for the capital The announcement was made at 3 The battle began some SeVen|, g,enig] news conference by a _weeks ago. Six German divisions gen spokesman, who said he did | “arrived and checked Rokossovsky at|,,,; ynow whether Secretary of “the very gates of Warsaw. He Was gi te Hull would join President) obliged to fight violent battles inip,,cevelt and Prime Minister | order to absorb the impact and beat Churchill in their discussions at off powerful Naz attacks: the ancient Quebec citadel | The Russian-trained 1st Polish| 1¢ was learned later, however, ‘army took part in the offensive ip.¢ Hull will not come here unless against Warsaw. | tifere are some unexpected develop- : Air Force Assists ments, Hull and the President met for three consecutive days in Wash- | Soviet fighters and dive bombers ington prior to the start of this conranged ahead of the charging ference and discussed the topics on troops to bomb and strafe German | schedule for the meeting here. They , front lines. {were described as in complete ac- { Russian military spokesmen gave cord. : { no details on the early progress of| = yp..p o the political agenda were . the battle but they expressed con- certain to be three of the most dif- - fidence that the allied armies would ficult problems before the allies: wipe out the German bridgehead in 1. The plans for qecupation of Praga. e peace terms to be + (The Polish underground army in es and the extent to "Warsaw, whose uprising a month | oc prance shall be given a share .ago was criticized in Moscow 8S|,,,4 yoice in the enforcement of “premature,” was still fighting in- these terms. side the city and broadcast word ; that the new offensive had started End Expected Soon - a hurried German evacuation Of} 5 rpg jong-standing Polish-Rus-Praga.) sian dispute, which includes terri- * Almost 200 miles south of War-|y5ig) matters. Eden has just comisaw, Marshal Ivan 8. Konev's 1st pleted a series of London talks Ukrainian army wheeled southward | iy) the pfime minister and foralong a 35-mile front between Sa- eign minister of the Polish govnock. and Krosno, captured the errment. latter stronghold and pushed on n 3. Delicate questions involving the miles to the border of Slovakia. |p jiich attitude in the Far East. Partisans Fighting The United States has in the.past i i already were | urged greater independence for InWb m rise at : a we |dia to remedy the somewhat letharpoints in the Nazi-controlled puppet | 8lc role of that country in the war state and Moscow spokesmen indi- [against Japan. Running .through cated the Russians would link up the entire political situation in the, with the patriots for a quick drive | Far East was the basic problem of down into Hungary, barely 20 miles | how far self-determination will he beyond Presov. extended to British, French and At the -same time, other Soviet {Dutch territories now held by forces pushed up into Transylvania | Japan, from the south, liberating large| Eden's presence here was not exareas of that Hungarian-occupied | pected to prolong the conference, region which will be taken frem {which very probably will wind up Hungary and restored to Romania !the coming week-end. { _ under the terms of the latter coun-| secretary of Treasury Henry try's armistice with the allies. Morgenthau Jr. arrived late yester-' (A Yugoslav communique said the day and dined at the Citadel last Russians and partisans joined UP |pjoht He is here as a member of ji Easter Ser 2nd in hi a special cabinet committee to crossed the Bulgarian border into Stady World-wide economic prob Gress) Adm. Emory S. Land, head of the i j American shipping administration 3 N and the maritime commission, also. 4 | OUTPOSTS IN was participating in the talks. | 4 As the conference continued toa ITALY ARE OVERRUN <= Churchill took time from the ¥ | Anglo-American talks to meet sepROME, Sept. 14 (U. P.).—Ameri- Sealely with the Canadian war cabcan and British troops under Lt. i 2 « Gen; Mark W. Clark overwhelmed £ German outpost positions between DE Pistoia and Lucca on the Italian POLES 10 DIVI © front today and penetrated well ; | into the Gothic line itself. FARMS OF ‘TRAITORS i British divisions for the last sevi eral weeks have been fighting] MOSCOW, Sept. 14—By a new | : under Clark’s command in the U. decree of the Polish committee of v 8. 5th army sector, it was revealed national liberation, -all farmlands . for the first time. The units in- «which belonged to Germans and {cluded the 6th South African! polish traitors” as well as estates ; armored division whose advance containing more than 125 acres will ; elements occupied Pistoia Sept. be placed in a “national land fund” : 10. Tie |for distribution among land-starved British 8th army troops in the peasants and agricultural laborers. Adriatic sector cleared the enemy | © This decree, which has been apfrom many positions on the Cori- {proved by the Krajowa Rada Naro- | ano-San Savino ridge before Rimini, |qova, or Polish - National Counéil, | prize coastal city. Heavy fighting provides that the distribution shall | was still in progress in that ares. be carried out by Dec. 20, 1944, ac- | — {cording to an article in the Soviet WOMEN OF MOOSE larmy organ Red Star, TO HAVE STYLE SHOW | Ptesumably, a more extensive program of land reform will be carried A style show and initiation of 50 CU! once all of Poland has been members will be on the program of erated, Meanwhile, land will be chapter 11, Women of the Moose, | stributed only among landless peasants and peasants whose land

Delaware st.. L g them with a livelihood. Mrs. Evelyn If the land fund set aside for disBritton is pub- tribution in any given district is

insufficient to give the peasants 12 acres each, plots will be smaller, but ultimately “all who are entitled to land under the land reform decree will get it.”

licity chairman for the chapter, and committee members are Mesdames Dorothy Johnson, Phyllis Doyle, Sophia Laird, Vivian Ed-

re fi 4 HALLECK TO SPEAK ington. Nita Beck- Mrs. Britton KANSAS CITY, Mo, Sept. 14 (U. ley, Phoebe Hart, P.)—Rep Charles A. Halleck (R. Ruth Simpson, Merle Hartlage and Ind.) will speak at a dinner meetLaura Fryberger, ”-y ing of the Jackson county RepubJudges for the style show will be|lican campaign committee Tuesday Mark Gray, Clarence Mackey and uight, James P. Kem, chairman of Walter Collins. {the committee, said today.

Parade of Canines to Mark | _ + National Dog Week Here

' National Dog week will be observed here with a dog parade Sept. 23, the Indianapolis Animal Welfare

Jeague announced today. {zer, Mrs. H. H. Voege, Paul V. Limited to 200 animals, the pa- Brown, William Morrow and Miss ‘rade will form on St. Clair st., be- ‘Elizabeth Ohr. Judges will be Mrs. tween Meridian and Pennsylvania G. C, Wege, president of the Home and follow a line of match for Priendless Animals; Mrs. Leona | ‘on Meridian, around the War Frankfort, superintendent of the. orial © Plaza, and north Yon city dog pound; Mrs. Frank B.| returning to § ir, | Planner, Animals Welfare League, awarded for the and Mrs. Irene Burton, secretary of most obedient, the Indianapolis Humane society.

dog from the most distant point from Indianapolis. | Mrs. John Kittle heads the committee composed of Mrs. Karl Ki-

(IWANIANS ‘STATE MEET SUNDAY|

Dr. J. Raymond Schutz of North Manchester is one of the important speakers for the convention of the Indiana District Kiwanis International Sunday and Monday. The convention opens Sunday evening ¢loses with a dinner at the Co- : | lumbia club Monday evening in EDEN WiLL . JOIN |honor of Governor Jack H. Rhoades. | P. Harold Van Orman of EvansH

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111 J.B ‘field, Va., are two other speakers 0 |scheduled for the meeting.

Meets His Savior After 26 Years DENVER, Sept. 14 (U. P).— It took the wives of two world war I veterans—one of whom had saved the other's life near Nancy, France, in May, 1918—to introduce them today at the 23d na-

tional Disabled American Veter-

ans convention here, | And after the introduction, .W. R. Etheridge of Evansville, Ind, managed to say: “Thanks, fellow,” to Robert J. Trantham, Paducah, Ky. although it was 26 years ago -that Trantham had

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ROME, Sept. 14 (U. P.).—Col. John Hay Whitney, who was captured by the Germans in southern France on Aug. 21, has escaped and returned to his outfit, it was announced today: sd Whitney, former member of the New York racing commission, was captured when a jeep in which he and four other persons were riding was attacked by a hidden German tank. : They made their way to a farmhouse. When the tank fired on it, all five surrendered. . *

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Big Chinese PEDITIONARY FORCE, Seis Front, Sept. 14 (U. P).—

city of Tengchung, in Yunnan province today, to liberate the first large city in Ching after almost two and one-half years of Japanese occupation. More than 4000 enemy troops were killed in the conquest as the Chinese armies, in the first big offensive of the war, cleared the main obstacle from the Burma-Ledo read and opened the way for a junction with Gen. Joseph W. Stillwell's allied forces in northern Burma. The city fell after six weeks of

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