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Yank Invaders Win Confidence Of Civilians In German Towns
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Vers Uribe Against Nazis s Seen Spurred By Soldiers Within Reich
. VOLUME 55—-NUMBER 162 SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 1 1944
By PAUL GHALI Times Foreign Correspondent.
BERN, Switzerland, Sept. 16. Certain signs and omens now indicate the brewing of something bigger and "more “popular” than the July 20 officers’ assassination plot against Adolf Hitler. Even those experts on German affairs here, whot up to now have been extremely skeptical concerning the possibility of a mass uprising in Germany to smash Nazi tyranny are no longer so sure.
opposition, and reports of anti-war demonstrations in German towns remain unconfirmed at this writing. But opposition groups in big industrial centers in Germany have organized meetings under the nose of the gestapo, according to news now reaching here. According te these reports, the Reich political and
military situation is being discussed at the meetings and
proposals put forward as to how the country could attain peace ifthe shortest possible time. The mass arrests sweeping Germany at the moment seem conclusive evidence that the gestapo is fully aware (Continued on Page 3—Column 1)
By HENRY T. GORRELL United Press Staff ‘Correspondent
KORNELIMUNSTER, Germany (south of Aachen), Sept. 15 (Delayed) .—Convinced that the war soon will bé over and no longer afraid of being mistreated by the invaders, German villagers appear genuinely glad to be rid of the Nazis and to have the Americans taking over. I have passed through a number of German villages of neat homes of brick and stone with well kept lawns and have talked with at least a dozen German citizens.
The general attitude seemed to be that as long as they
were not molested by the troops and not deprived of the
comforts they now had, they were perfectly willing to switch masters. The first impression of hostility seems to have been the result of Nazi propaganda that civilians would be roughly handled and even shot. Now the Americans have given the lie to the propaganda. The Americans have fanned out for many miles on either side of Rotgen which I first entered with leading tanks. Despite last minute fear propaganda by the fleeing
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G.0.P. FACTIONS UNIFY, APPOINT
wsam yANKS POUR THROUGH WIDENING orem WEST WALL GAP IN FAST DRI AIMED SQUARELY AT COLOGNE
Say Civilians ans Moved From| Davao, Mindanao; Yanks Nazis Hint Modern’ Forts Built East Of Smashed Siegfried Line;
Widen Palau Toehold. Patton Assaulting Metz.
BULLETIN - INSIDE MAGINOT LINE, Sept. 16, 7 P. M. (U. P.). Americans manned guns in the old French Maginot line today and shelled German positions at Thionville, across the Moselle river near the Luxembourg border.
| Wainwright Named Chairman of New Committee.
Tokyo radio reported today that civilians are being evacuated from | - Davao and Mindanao, in anticipation of an American invasion of the
V-Day in October? That's What 'Spidergraph’ Says
Marion county Republicans + today completed organization of a county “policy committee” to take supreme command of the party's coming | campaign and full responsibil- | ity for its affairs. The new committee unites, for the
By VIRGIL PINKLEY United Press Staff Correspondent
SUPREME HEADQUARTERS, A. E. F., Sept. 16.— : United States 1st army tanks and troops poured through a widening gap in the Siegfried line east of tottering Aachen {today and over-ran German positions beyond it in a Taste breaking drive ited sary at Cologne,
Guy Wainwright, president of The Diamond Chain Co. and one of the city’s outstanding industrial and civie Jeaders, will be chairman.
s he i ached entirely through ‘the £ Siegtried bel of fortifications, A 500-mile allied line from
| RUSS SHELLING pi De FIERY WARSAW
the Nazis. Nazi propagandists in a Fierce Fighting Rages on | Flanks of Praga,
sudden change of tune said the “so~called West Wall” was a thing of the past, and had been replaced by more modern fortifications—an apparent attempt to explain away Fallen Suburb. By HENRY SHAPIRO . United Press Staff Correspondent MOSCOW, Sept. 16. — Massed Russian guns fired at point-blank
the sudden breaching of the last big defense lines before Berlin. range into burning Warsaw today and Soviet tanks and infantrymen pushed deep into the German battle screen to the north in preparation for a flanking drive across the Vistula. Fierce fighting raged north and south of the captured suburb of | Praga, as Marshal Konstantin EK. Rokossovsky hurled his combined Russian and Polish armies against
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FINN PREMIER DIES IN RUSSIA, NAZIS SAY
By UNITED PRESS | A Berlin broadcast, heard by N. {B. C. in New York, said today that Premier Antil Hackzell of Finland died last night in Moscow. There was no confirmation from a reliable source. Hackaell is in Moscow at the head of a Finnish peace mission.
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.|Organization in Each County
U. S. Losses Light In New Landings ' (First eyewitness story, Page 6)
By FRANK TREMAINE United Press Staff Correspondent PEARL HARBOR, Sept. 16.—Marine veterans of Guadalcanal bate
In State Given Sendoff At French Lick.
By EARL RICHERT Times Staff Writer FRENCH LICK, Sept. 18.—Formation of a state-wide ShrickerJackson good government club was announced here today at the annual fall meeting of the Democratic Editorial association. E Democratic party leaders said Schricker-Jackson clubs would be set up in each of the state's 92 lcounties and predicted that these clubs, to be manned by volunteers, would attract the votes of thousands of independents. These clubs, he said, would supplement the work of county organizations. Fred Hoke, Indianapolis businessman, was named state chairman, and Dr. Carleton B. McCulloch of Indianapolis was named secretarytreasurer. Chairmen of the Schricker-Jack-son club named in each of the
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Rieko brhor Gives Cadets Chunk of Old Americanism
By JOE WILLIAMS Scripps-Howard Stall Writer NEW YORK, Sept. 16.—We sat in the stand in the Newark ball park and watched Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker swear in 150 or so "teen-agers as junior cadets, this being the initial phase of a national campaign in our high schools. At first we were thrilled and stirred. It was a moon-silvered night and the youngsters, 17 years old or thereabouts, had just come from the family dinner table. They were freshly scrubbed, their earnest, eager faces glistening in soap dew; they were dressed in their heavy-date clothes and as they stood in the middle of the diamond forming a human V, their chests painfully ballooned, their chins jutting at an amusingly challenging angle, they brought a faint throb to your heart. Capt. Rickenbacker had to walk from a box back of third base to the home plate, where the wry necks of the microphones stood,
(Continued on Page 6—Column 3) ALASKAN TREK— State Flier And Mates Survive Mid-Air Blast
U. S. 1ST ARMY HEADQUARTERS, Sept. 16 (U. P.).—~American pafrols entered Aachen to- - day but withdrew under German fire. Headquarters announced that American troops Wise across the German border along ifs entire length fronting Belgium and Luxembourg. First army forces smashed completely second chain of the Siegfried he S A of Belgium has been liber > 3
nw have
LAST- MINUTE TALKS CONTINUE IN QUEBEC:
Press Conference Delayed, Until Late Today.
QUEBEC, Sept. 18 (U, P)— President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Winston Churchill held intensive last-minute conferences with their military staffs today before closing their second Quebec meeting. Because of the length of these discussions, it was necessary to postpone their scheduled full-dress press conference at the Citadel until later today. The statesmen were expected to reveal to the world then some of the vital decisions made at their week-long meeting here. Immediately after the press con-
A renewed offensive by Lf. George S. Patton's 3d army blacked out, but it was kno i be “going well” after the Nancy and the collapse of Nazis’ Moselle ‘line, with the f tress city of Metz expected to be in American hands at any time. Farther south the newly desig« nated 6th army group of American and French units closed in on the German frontier along a wide front from the Swiss border south of
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“Every member of the committee fs co-operating wholeheartedly to complete success for the Reblican ticket in November. formation of the committee e end of any differences pion and . means that all Republican workt a united front our fine group of and will now be found fighting shoulder to shoulder to elect them in November."
Wainwright: ‘Glad to Accept’
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EXCLUSIVE-— In The Times
‘Mr. DeRee . . . was convinced by a 1917 specimen.
Hoosier Heroes—
LOVELAGE KILLED, SEVEN WOUNDED
Web of Circumstances Entwines Oldsters _ - On Irish Hill.
Times reporters and interpretive writers are on the Job. Your attention is called to these exclusive features
found only in The Times: TODAY ee JOE WILLIAMS, Scripps-Howard staff writer, watched Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker “give out” with a stirring bit of Amer-
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ference, both the President snd| , SO.° ROBERT W. SMITH, La-
Local Man Dies in Accident
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Churchill will go “off the record,”
movements will be permitted. In the case of Churchill his off-the-record status will prevail until Bs return to England, according to
heré amid indications that Church-
that is, no further word of their
present plans as announced by a The conference moved to an end
big news would come from the press conference, but few observers would
fayette, was one of five crewmen to survive a fire and explosion which ripped their Liberator and sent them purtling downward amid flaming debris toward the ige-ribbed crags of the Alaskan volcano Tiiama, 20,000 feet be“low. That was 12 days ago, and today from their hospital beds at their 11th army air force base the survivors of the 12-man crew were able to tell how they lived through the explosion and the gruelling three-day trek that followed
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In France.
An Indianapolis man has been killed in a vehicle accident in France and seven local men have been added to the list of wounded. KILLED Pvt. Russell E Lovelace, 929 N. Drexel ave, in France. WOUNDED Sgt. Eldo E. Rutledge, 4609 E. Washington st., in France. Pvt. George W. Rough, R. R. 11, Box 341, in Burma Pvt. Rober Charles Robert (Cattrell) Sayers, R. R. 15, Box 729, in
Pvt. Gilbert D. Shaw, 2101 Car-
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By SHERLEY UHL UP ON IRISH HILL a “prophetic” spider has entwined himself and several DeLoss st. oldtimers in a web of circumstances by spinning out a prediction that V-day will come next menth. This particular spider is definitely on the spot for the simple reason that some folks in that neighborhood have utter faith in what they believe is the garden spider's occult ability to foretell the futire. More faith than they might have, for example, in prognostications of the average radio newscaster, ; . » = IT'S ALL because the insect seer of Deloss st. had a predecessor whose fame reached far and wide 27 years ago. There were spiders in those days, too,
_ | educated ones,
1434 Deloss .st., in whose tomato patch the. creature holds forth,
‘Edward DeRee, |
A Weekly Sizeup by the Washington Staff of the Scripps-Howard Newspapers
WASHINGTON, Sept. 16.—Despite betting odds, con~ gressmen with military and naval pipelines argue that V-E-day will not come before Oct. 31. They say it will be a “herculean job” to lick Hitler by - Décember. They think February or March a better guess. They reason this way: Our armies still need big: ports, Some stuff is still. coming in over the beaches, slthough Cherbourg and minor harbors are in operation, Le Havre is in our hands, and Brest will fall soon, 14 may take remainder of this month and much of October fo get French airfields in operation,
The Germans, with greatly shortened lines, have drawn troops in from Finland, ria; Romania, and Whats left of the Woops they
| had in France are behind the Rhine now.
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FEELING 1S rising in some quarters ‘Pacific war even before the Germans