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‘Toward Inventory of Resources. (Continued From Page One) plan to avold congestions and con-
flicts in the future. “Under our master plan, develop-
of the plan group on highways, drainage and flood trol.
said. “Also an industrial development in your community will provide more employment for your citizens and increase property values.”
values. “This can be done by the full cooperation of township committees and by co-ordinating their with that of the city plan commis sion, Chairmen of the township planning committees are Walter Bar-
Ristow, Wayne; Herbert Edwards, Decatur and C. Fred Davis, Washington.
Sleeps Way Right Into Reformatory
NEW YORK, Sept. 14 (U.P.).— Leon Parsley, 17, a Negro, slept
his way right into the reform- |
atory, When asked in court yesterday | why he had failed on 15 occasions to report to his parole board, his only excuse was that “I was sleeping." At the time of his arrest for breaking into a grocery stors in 1043, police had found him in a hallway—sleeping.
WAR DADS TO MEET Indianapolis chapter 6, American War Dads, will have a membership | drive meeting at 8 p. m. tomorrow in Antlers hotel. Dale Colville is chairman.
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A dispatch from the British 2d
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eral withdrawal to the Rhine, miliIt was poin! t that the Siegfried line was constructed between 1936, and 1939, before the appearance of the giant flame-throwing tanks, mine-flailing tanks and spe-
American and British armies have brought into action. Latest dispatches from the field
army front said Lt. Gen. Sir Miles C. Dempsey’s forces gained more ground between the Albert and Escaut canals, and the Nazis had
little armor or artillery firepower with which to oppose them.
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tricht, 17 miles northwest of Aachen, ing to outflank the city,
to smash open a way for a decisive break-through.” Headquarters Optimistic The process of that effort was re-| Side the border, and pushed on flected in Gorrell's report late in!|toward the Rhine, 35 miles to the the day that military quarters were| east. gratified with the results of the last] Hard-hitting American Thunderseveral hours, and seemed highly| bolt, fighters-bombers circled conoptimistic. tinually overhead, dive-bombing
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On Patton’s 3d army front, however, the Nazis continued to battle fiercely for the Moselle river cross-
prolonged stand appeared to have been doomed by the: smashing American thrust across the Moselle at Chaumont, 21% miles south of Nancy. * ; Patton’s troops captured Neufchateau, 32 miles southwest of Nancy, and drove ahead ‘27 miles Chaumont, where they locked in a brawling street battle with the Germans last night. The Americans liberated 500 Americans, mostly women, from a German internment camp at Vittel in their drive eastward from Neufchateau. Powerful armored reinforcements
tween Nancy and Metz and United
Richards reported that Patton's troops, now holding at least one height east of the Moselle, appeared to have ended the last German hope for a major counter-attack.
Cling to 7 Forts
The only important enemy fooler hold west of the Moselle was in the Gravelotte and Malmaison regions just west of Metz, where a band of {German student officers hung on stubbornly to seven strong forts under a storm of American bombs and shellfire. ; Other 3rd army forces held most of Thionville, in the German-Lax-embourg-France border triangle north of Metz, and said American tanks and artillery above Thionville were firing ‘across the Our river into the Siegfried forts without drawing answering fire,
Canadians Near Holland
that Canadian troops had entered the battle in northeastern Belgium, forcing the Leopold canal near Morerkerke last night and driving on to within three miles of the Dutch frontier. An estimated 50,000 Germans were
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fused the 1st army’s invading columns. [pines “are continuing against strong
.|attacks on the Philippines and the
“Points; 200 Nip Planes - Smashed. (Continued From Page One)
nouncing the raid in which more than 200 Japanese planes and many cargo vessels were destroyed, said fragmentary reports indicated air operations against the Philip-
enemy opposition.”
The score of the campaign was indicated by Gen, Douglas MacArthur’s disclosure that Far Eastern alr force bombers carried out new
protective bases from Palau in the east to the Moluccas in the south. The weight of the intensified offensive was being carried by Adm. William F. Halsey’s 3d fleet—a powerful fighting force of battleships, cruisers, destroyers and ° aircraft carriers. : In the new attacks, Halsey’s carrier planes concentrated on- Cebu, Negros and Panay islands, the latter less than 200 miles south of Manila and Bataan, where MacArthur intends to return in triumph, . “ The raid on the central islands followed close upon Halsey’s attack on Mindanao, largest and southernmost of the Philippines; where 89 ships and 68 planes were destroyed or damaged. : Japs Fighting Hard From Nimitz’ reference to “strong enemy opposition,” it appeared that the Japanese were making their first definite attempt in some time to halt the increasing blows from Central and Southwest Pacific forces, particularly those by Halsey's fleet, which has been attacking in the Philippine theater since Sept. 5, It has hit the Philippines twice with carrier planes and the Palaus, 560 miles to the east, five times with planes and once with battleships and cruisers. - 3 The campaign seemed to be following a pattern similar to that which led to the invasion of the Marianas. Carrier planes and surface vessels, including battleships, bombarded that island group, 1500 miles south of Tokyo, almost daily for more than 10 days before troops landed on Saipan. Cebu, a long narrow island north of Mindanao, is separated frem Negros, a smaller island, by the Tanon strait. Its principal city of Cebu is only 375 miles south of Manila and has a good air field and a harbor large enough for ocean-going vessels. Panay is north of Negros and its northern tip is less than 200 miles from Manila. Panay’s main city, Tloilm,
sea.
BECK SURVIVOR TELLS OF DEATHS
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brain concussion. He was taken to Union hospital and then went to the depot to await transportation to Evansville. “I joined with the soldiers and tried to help get people out of the wreck,” he said. “My glasses were
I was sitting and were not even broken.”
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pinned down on the Belgian seacoast between the Scheldt estuary i and the British-Canadian forces and | many attempted to escape across the | river mouth to the Dutch island of | Walcheren. Strafing allied planes inflicted heavy casualties on the enemy in that sector. ‘Meanwhile, the war's bloodiest “sideshow,” the battle for the channel ports, continued without pause, highlighted by a thunderous artillery .duel around Calais that British coastal observers described as heavier than anything that had gone before, ——————ian 0. K. HIGHER ARMY RANK
WASHINGTON, Sept. 14 (U, P). —The war department has approved pending legislation creating an army rank higher than that of general provided a distinction is made between the néw rank and the title of “general of the armies” now held by John J. Pershing, Secretary of
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IN INDIA
EVENTS TODAY {
American Red Cross conference, Hotel! . Lincoln, 8 a. m. to 5 p. m. anapolis n's association, luncheon, Hotel Lincoln, 12:15 k m. Indiana Firemen's association, luncheon, Hotel Lincoln, 1 p. m.
EVENTS TOMORROW Red Cress conference, Hotel Lincoln, 9 a.m to 5p m Cuther Spaniel show, Tomlinson hall, 6 Pp. m. Civic theater,
Open Mathodiot + Homo Alumnae meeting, nurses’ home, 7:30
MARRIAGE LICENSES
These lists are from. official records therefore, ‘is not responsible for errors > namés and addresses
9:30 p. m. association, Pp. m.
Harold Arthur Smith, Margaret Belle Duffy, RC Edward Lough. U. 8. R hv . Army, andol; h Bela, Tex.; Virginia oan Hicks, \.- e. Frances E. , U., 8. army: Virginia nzpe N. Sego, 225 E. 13 ; = r N. 3 : : aad, 321 EB St, Sal 1d ) " am : i Mendenhall o oy Shirley James Ho Jo N. Hanson; Audrey HasCecil Johnson, 131 Bast; A . ell, ob 1313 8. . Mary A F.. Wotten, 637 Arbor; Lola M.
Howell, G Goldie
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525 8. Harding. Glenn Bloomington;
H James Harow 124 N. Miley; Hélen Canis Oras paomion, Muss, = fic DeMougin, Paris, mo
Leo Meade, U. oP 'N. New Lo A Pearl Davis, 4926 Crittenden. . = * Turk,
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was badly smashed. Some soldier was wandering around. “I'm trying to find my twin brother,” the soldier said. He found him . .. dead in the lower bunk in the Pullman. While Mr. Cook was being treated at the hospital, he said that one soldier died in the same room that he was in and that he heard that five other soldiers died after he left.
. ” » Francis Holt of Jacksonville, Fla, was another passenger in a Pullman car of the Flyer and was on his way home.
“I was sleeping in a Pullman car when I felt myself raised up into the air and then I came down,” he said. “I felt like I was dropping two or three feet.” Mr. Holt, a Florida lawyer, was treated at St. Anthony's hospital for scalp injuries and then was
Frances Shackelford, 317 E. Wyoming. Walter J. Rothenberger, Allentown, Pa;
orma Frances McDowell, 82113; Ww. 30th,
BIRTHS Girls Laurel, Ramona Drollinger, at St. Prancis. Norton, Elsie Wood, at St. Francis. | Leonard, Ruth Worland, at St. Francis. Clemmie, Ludora Jones, at City. Elmer, Louise Jones, at y Frank, Margaret Winchell, at St. Franc Richard, Mary Jane Carter, at Methodist.
y _Goodm . Ruth Thompson, at Methodist, Boys Baro. i Marceia Passwaiter, at St. ne:
Francis. Gerald, Mary Stauch, at St. Francis, William, Mary Lukasik, at St. Vincent's. Charles, Joyce Moore, at St. Vincent's. Russell. Minnie Tuttle, at St. Vincent's, Norman, Gertrude Becker, at Coleman, David, Darlene Sherwood, at Coleman, Raymond, th Wagner, at Coleman, t, Mary Kindrick, at Methodist, Carl, Trudis Miller, at Methodist. Lawrence, Leatrice Pitman, at Methodist. A ris Wilke, at Methodist, Wilbur, Nancy Zéller, at Methodist,
DEATHS
Ruth Blakemore, 22, at 2082 Highland Place, acute
myocarditis, Joseph Wright, 70, at 3101 N, Gale, hyperon. . Edmond Bohn, 50, at Plower Mission, _. pulmonary tuberculosis. . Lewis A. Harding, 64, at City, yocarditis. lean Rose Oder, 50, at 418 5. Denny, SL repurgiiatian
omel, 78, at ‘city, uremia. Ethel Cook, 49, at 801 Arbor, chronic
myoca i Clarence Russell, 5, at City, diphtheria. Richard Quackenbush, $7, at Long, sar-
coma. Janet Bean, 34, at Long, Hodgkins disease. Jack Sims, Eon at cing an tuber:
¢ Pred A. Rieman, /79, at 614 Weghorst,
ville. :
Byron : "Loretta Bishop, | _ pert
renal. Walter Cherry, 17, at St. Vincent's, Mitchell,
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Includ (Continued From Page One) command at Ft. Hayes, Columbus, O, said that it is “expected that many more still are in the wreckage.” The mail train, which carried no passengers, ‘was stopped when the Flyer crashed into it, police said. Two baggage cars and three passenger coaches on the l4-car Flyer ‘were derailed. The first two cars behind the locomotive of the 15car mail train were damaged, S. R. Driskell, chief dispatcher for the Chicago & Eastern Illinois railroad, said.
Gives Eyewitness Story
The engine, and the Arst car on each of the trains, according to Ralph E. Smith, a resident of North first cars were sheared off at the floor and the superstructures were piled up on the tenders of the locomotives. The passenger train left Chicago at 10:05 p. m. yesterday. All available ambulances and doctors in Terre Haute were rushed to the scene and the dead and injured were removed to Terre Haute hospitals. The armory at Terre
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refused first aid until the soldiers;
were treated. : ~He said baggageman told him that one of the engineers ‘was killed outright and the other was scalded seriously. He %ls0 said the one fireman Yas scalded to death, Probe to Start
® Railroad officials said an investigation would be started immediately. Indiana state police and military police from Ft. Benjamin Harrison at Indianapolis were rushed tde¢the scene to assist in removing the injured to hospitals. Several priests were present at the scene of the wreck to administer to the dying. State, city and county police details were augmented by approximately 50 auxiliary police from the Terre Haute civilian defense organzation, and the Vigo county Red Cross chapter sent personnel to the scene. Baggage of servicemen was scattered over the area, mixed with
milk from crushed cans'from the baggage cars of the mail train.
H. T. Smith, Atlanta, Ga., said
that he was asleep in a berth of a
Haute also was turned into a tem-: porary hospital and many of the injured were taken thers, police said. “I was asleep in the second car and all I remember was waking up in the aisle,” Lt. E. B. Owens, Chicago, army officer aboard the Flyer, reported. “Our car was derailed and tipped over on its side but the ‘other cars on the Dixie Flyer remained upright.
Counts 30 Bodies
“There were 48 soldiers in the first car and I counted 15 bodies as they were removed from the wreckage. There were at least two or three more in there.” “I helped with the injured until I became too ill. to continue,” Lt. Owens added. Mr, Smith said he held lights while the soldiers dug their comrades out of the wreckage. He said the two engines were jammed together up to their cylinders. He said he saw the bodies of about 30 soldiers carried off the train and there were about eight or 10 more bodies lying around in the field near the tracks. Attendants at Union and St. Anthony’s hospitals said that 15 of the dead were brought in there and many of the injured were hurt sa critically that some may die. Mr. Smith said the baggageman on one of the trains was injured but
GERMANS STIFFEN BEFORE BELFORT GAP
ROME, Sept. 14 (U. P.) —French
and American troops of the 7th army, converging from the west and south, encountered increasing resistance today as they herded desperate Nazi forces toward the Bel-
fort escape gap into Germany,
Although the Germans. were
putting up stiff battles near the pass
less than 16 miles from the allied lines, opposition was dwindling in the west where French forces were driving on historic Chaumont, headquarters of Gen. John J. Pershing in the first world war. In the east, the Americans and French were swinging a curving line around Belfort that reached from near the Swiss border in the south to northwest of the pass, American spearheads reached Cubry les Faverney, 13 miles north of Vesoul and approximately 20 miles northwest of Belfort, while the French tightened their grip on the area near the Swiss frontier with the occupation of Pont de Roide, 16 miles below Belfort, The Germans were fighting fiercely in the narrow corridor, even attempting - armored counter-attacks, indicating - they had not succeeded in withdrawing all their forces from Southeastern France.
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Conductor Injured
St. Anthony's hospital that 15 persons in the wreck brought, there but would not whether they were dead or injur or whether they were civilians of army or navy personnel. William Harrington, Danville, conductor of the Flyer, was inju Most of the passengers jarred severely, according to sf police at the scene. Many Fepor bruises as a result of being throw into seats ahead. - Passengers the pullmans said they were thro against the ends of their be and some complained of sp shoulders and necks. The Flyer was said to have been traveling gbout 35 miles an he when the trains crashed. Occupants of the second sleep .which was tossed from the rails and landed at right angles to the track, = escaped serious injury. Charles Roper and Roscoe Sears, both ¢ Danville, Ill, engineer and conduce tor, respectively, of the mail train,
were not. injured.
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ROME, Sept. i4 (U.P.).-U. 8 medium bombers today hit Gere man defenses on the Gothic ling north ‘of Florence and south of Rimini, on the Adriatic coast, it wag announced.
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(All Data in Central War Time —Sept. 14, 1944— Sunrise ,..... 6:25 | Sunset ,i....6:50
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Precipitation 24 hrs. end. 7:30.a. m,. Nong Total precipitation snice Jan. 1.....28.07 Deficiency since Jan. I
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