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a Jennifer Jones, the sainted little French peasant girl in the motion picture, “The Song of Bernadette,” was in Indianepolis today to spur
the Red Cross nursing drive.
But irstead of her pigtails and wooden shoes which she wore in her academy award-winning picture, she appeared as her real self,
her to play in “The Song of Bernadette.” Wearing a gray jersey dress and 8 gray tweed jacket, Miss Jones has large hazel eyes and pretty, naturaliy curly brown hair, She has one of the prettiest business managers in the business, Anita Colby, cover girl, and it is Anita who sees to it that Jennifer's hair gets twisted up on bobby pins. Married and the mother of two
little boys, Mike, 3, and Bob, 4, Jennifer hasn't done any overseas
entertaining for scldiers so far but she hopes to. Her program in Indianapolis included a noon luncheon at the Ath-
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tion of liberation by the allies
Of Shooting in Home at 46th St. and Post Rd.
A 33-year-old information clerk at Billings General “hospital was shot and killed by her husband to-
Post rd. The victim was Mrs. Ruth Kelly, mother of four young girls, who died a few minutes after being admitted to the receiving room at
Her husband, Charles E. Kelly,
. Nurse Recruits! tome Com naam fire prevention bureau, was picked KOSCHMANN up by state police at the Denzell, Lawrence, shortly after the shoot-
ing. “We Quarreled” “I loved her but we quarreled,” | Kelly sobbed to state police, who {said he was drinking heavily when they picked him up.
town of 100,000, whose celebra- _
'day in their home at 46th st. and
Kelly shid he had sued his wife
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immediately the shooting, Capt. Walter Eckert’s men reported, as they took him to state jEotce olics pen the state
Hoe, Aorist was the at-
Connally Cis for us Bufo Kelly e about 10:30 o'clock when Mrs. Guarantee of Access to Soe ran a onto the lawn. ; “He shot me, he shot me" she World News. cried as her husband followed a WASHINGTON, Sept. 21 (U. P.).|
' few feet behind. —The senate and the house today! Dies in Few Minutes passed a streamlined resolution | The motorist, whose name rove calling for world-wide access to news did not immediately obtain, drove without discrimination, Mrs. Kelly to the hospital but she! The resolution was offered in the gid within a few minutes. senate by Chairman Tom Connally | Neighbors then reported that (D. Tex.), of the foreign relations yr Kelly jumped into his automocommittee, It was adopted immedi- pile and started for the Denzell. ately after Connally read the six- | Military personnel at Billings,
{line text and explained that he and said that Mrs. Kelly had been em-
Senator Robert A. Taft (R. 0.), had | pioved there for two years, formerly | introduced similar resolutions. This as a telephone operator, recently as one, he said, embodied the ideas in- an information clerk. tended by each of them, i Kelly has been with Indianapolis Vice President Henry A. Wallace are department since November, put the question immediately, and 19019. The Kelly children are Joan,' no dissent was heard. | 15; Mabel, 13; Betty, 11, and Mary, 7.| Text of the resolution, which oe rer drafted by a special] foreign rela | tions subcommittee: Hoosier Heroes— “Resolved
gar he ta Fo ine TWO SOLDIERS DIE, 5 OTHERS W WOUNDED
world-wide right of the of news by news gathering Satan os Cpl. Boswell and and Pvt. Senn Killed in France.
The 'What Became of Butter Mystery’ Baffles Police Here
DETECTIVES have little hope of solving this butter rationing case. A customer walked into a grogery store at Sherman dr. and New York st. yesterday and asked for half a pound of butter, Told by the clerk that he could only have one-fourth pound, the customer agreed, took the butter and handed the clerk $1. The clerk asked for rationing points. The customer said he had to go out to his car to get them, leaving the dollar bill with the clerk. Buspecting something, George Bickley, manager of the store, and the clerk followed the customer outside. As they stepped out the door the customer stooped down, picked up some rocks and threw them at the store workers and fled down an alley. It was a strange thing, indeed. So Mr. Bickley called police. Offi-
pers searched around the vicinity
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distributing agencies, whether indi-| vidual or associated, by any means, without discrimination as to sources, distribution, rates or charges; and that this right should be protected by international compact” Two Indianapolis soldiers have been killed and six others wounded in action over far-flung fronts. KILLED Cpl. Edward Boswell, 1235 N.| Sharon ave, in France. i
Pvt. Robert Senn, R. R. 18, in France. : WOUNDED Sgt. Teddie White, 1430 Bellefontaine, on Saipan - Clarence Elmore, 214 N. Ta- . in Burma. or Wilmer D. Buis, 615 8. Cole st., in Europe. Pfc. Aro] OC. Gambold formerly of 939 N. Warman ave., in the Mediterranean, . Sgt. Thomas V. McMann, for- + merly of Indianapolis, in Europe.
EXCLUSIVE In The Times
® “MY FOUR YEARS INHITLER'S GRAY PAREE,” the first of a series of articles by. a journalist who dived in Paris during the entire Nazi occupation. He tells of the moral suffering of a “Gay Paree” transformed into a “Gray Paree.’ (On Page 15.) ®¢ RUTH MILLETT, in her “We, the Women" column, discusses the relaHonship of mistress and - (Page 15.) ® oD PHILIP *
and found the customer hiding behind the store. There was no butter in the man's pocket but in his car were more than a score of full whisky bottles and many soft drinks. Officers smelled the customer's breath . . . not a trace. The customer was slated on a charge of disorderly conduct for throwing the rocks. What happened to the butter? Detectives haven't the slightest idea.
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By GEORGIA ‘CLARK THE WORDS, “Sorry, no butter” and “We're just out of bacon,” in the last two or three weeks have become familiar phrases to almest: every housewife in Indianapolis. ; Margarine is being substituted on breakfast toast and unless the
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perative this fall, (Page 16) ¢ THOMAS L. STOKES, now. is Dewey's party,
‘New York Tonight
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1944
‘Sixty-five of the inhabitants were killed, 150 wounded seriously and damage was estimated in millions of dollars. * =» ol SITE OF an important radio works, Eindhoven had known air raids before, both German and allied. None matched the one last night for suddenness and savagery.
Thirty minutes before the raid, crowds were cheering American and British soldiers who entered the town Monday afternoon. Dutch flags which had been brought out of hiding after four years to fly for 24 gay,! carefree hours along with bunting in bedecked streets hung in burned shreds today from charred poles.
Streets where children had
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danced to accordion music, where crowds jammed around American vehicles so thickly that traffic was halted, were strewn with glass, brick, stone and cherished possessions. \ 2 8 THE ANTI-CLIMAX to the celebration came between 7 and’ 8p m. A rumor, one that -had been
the hospital, where she worked. |
Returns to White House After Conferences at Quebec.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 21 (U. PJ.|
—President Roosevelt has returned from his war conferehce with Prime, Minister Winston Churchill at Que‘bec and has begun work on a political speech he will make here Sat-
Stephen fp, Early said the President would devote most of the day to work on [the speech, which will be addressed | to’ members of the Internationai! | Teamsters union (A. F. of L) at a meeting in a Washington hotel. Mr. Roosevelt announced some time ago that it would be his first political speech of the presidential campaign, The talk will be broadcast on all radio networks from 8:30 to 9 p. m. (Indianapolis time).
Wallace Talks in
NEW YORK, Sept. 21 (U. P)— Vice President Henry A. Wallace delivers his first address advocating the re-election of President Roosevelt for a fourth term tonight at Madison Square Garden. Wallace's speech, to be delivered at a meeting sponsored hy the Independent Voters' Committee of the Arts and Sciences, will be broadcast nationally (N. B. C) at 9:15 p. m,, Indianapolis time.
SEYSS-INQUART FLEES
By UNITED PRESS The British radio reported today that Arthur Seyss-Inquart, Nazi commissar for the occupied Netherlands, had fled the country ahead of the allied liberation forces. The broadcast was reported by the FOC.
are. out of sugar two or three days a week and others say they haven't had any for two weeks.
Svea also 1s on the ¢ sorcty for
'Processes' Own Blood for G. I.'s
Then she processes it herself at the company.
DONATING BLOOD to the American Red Cross, then processing it herself to save the life of some American soldier on a far-away battle front is all in a day's work for Miss Dorothy Whitaker, R. R. 1, Acton. Miss Whitaker is one of the 120 Lilly émployees who work in the company blood bank, which in the past two years has processed 1,800,000 pints of blood for the armed forces, all without profit, and recently processed her own blood. ” ” - NOT ONLY do Lilly employees sort blood for the Red Cross, but many are members of the Indianapolis Gallon club. Lawrence E. Duckworth, 2015 N. Talbot st., president of the club, has made 13 donations. Other members of the club are Kent Agan, Mary Armington, Christina Bailey, H. Latham Breunig, Dorothy Burton, John M. Clarke, Mary L. Colligan, John T. Consoer, Sidney Craig, Edward Daily, Hugh Dunlap, Harry O. Eller, Gordon Foxworthy, Eugene Harrison, George Helm, Thelma Hill, Arville Hoff, Josephine. James, F. H. Lamothe, Dorothy McKay, Eunice B. Miller and Norma Simpson.
Sorry, No Butter," and Grocers Also Are Short on Sugar
doesn't decide to spend her points on canned fruits because they too
_ are on the scarcity list. She
usually can buy apricots, cherries and applesauce but many grocers report they are out .of the more Popular fats 2 ” OTHER FOODS now seldom
!ing through the Baltics on a 200- | mile front, riding down the rear
ie German troops threatened with
' Finnish
" clothespins in the last few weeks
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smoldering all afternoon, spread through the hilarious crowds that a German armored column was moving to counter-attack the town. The number of tanks grew in the telling from three to 117. Actually some tanks did get through to within shelling distance of the main British armored corridor and dropped a few rounds near a road north of here before . they were eliminated,
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As the rumors mounted, army quarters took them seriously ‘and part of the troops were evacu-
..ated.
» » » I WAS dining with Bill Downs of C. B. 8. at a hotel near the center of the city when I first noted panicky civilians: outside running toward their homes. Then
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\S BEGIN NEW OFFENSIVE ON SIBGFRIED LINE NEAR AACHEN;
| LIBER ATION OF Nazis Hint Tank Columns Already in
BALTIC STATES
Junction With Sk
NEAR, RUSS SAY
Four Soviet at Armies Driving Against 200,000 Nazis At Riga, Tallinn.
By HENRY SHAPIRO United Press Staff Correspondent MOSCOW, Sept. 21 —The government newspaper Izvestia said today ‘that the Russian campaign to liberate the Baltic states is almost won. Four Russian armies were wheel-
guard of an estimated 200.000
imminent death or captiire, ’ Gen. Ivan C. Bagramian stormegl the suburbs of Riga. Marshal Leonid A. Govorov swept toward Tallinn. Gen. Ivan Maslennikov deepened his thrust toward the sea northwest of Valga. Gen. Andrei I. Yéremenko pushed against Riga from the east.
Uses Sarcastic Vein
Writing against that backdrop in sarcastic vein, Izvestia's military commentator said that “The Germans soon will be compelled to announce the ‘successful’ conclusion of the Baltic campaign.” Front dispatches indicated that main barriers in the path of Govorov’s two-way thrust through Estonia ‘already had been hurdied, leaving before him a relatively clear coastal plain stretching to the capital city of Tallinn. The veteran Leningrad army under Govoroy was revealed last I night to have joined in the Baltic ' campaign, completing an assault arc swinging down from the Gulf of Finland to the suburbs of Riga. An elaborate system of German fortifications, based on a chain of rivers and swampland hugging the west shore of Lake Peipus, was smashed by a massive air and artillery bombardment.
Hint Russia in Warsaw
(Radio Berlin said the Soviets alsu launched their big assault on Warsaw, forcing several crossings of the Vistula river and winning a foothold 500 yards deep in the streets of the capital. Berlin said the bridgehead was sealed off after a wild battle that jammed the quarter-mile wide river with dead.) The Germans still held a narrow corridor along the Gulf of Riga for) a possible land evacuation to the south and the port of Talinin for a try at escape by sea. The Riga corridor already was under heavy Russian shellfire, however, and the Soviets were established by their armistice terms on the north coast of the Gulf of Finland, making a sea-borne withdrawal all but impossible. Other Russian troops in southern Poland broadened their advance along the Polish-Slovak border with a nine-mile advance in the area southeast of Sanok that established them on a six-mile stretch of the mountain border between Jasiel and Czystohorb.
IF THE housewife has shopped at her grocery for a mop or
she may have run into difficulty. Grocers who carry men's cuffed work gloves report they are almost . unobtainable: The paper shortage also presents problems to the housewife. With the laundry situation so bad, she may have decided to use paper napkins and paper towels,
but they, too, are scarce, along |
with tissues and wax So no matter how
wax paper. how often OPA
ytroopers Across
The Rhine in Holland.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 21 (U. P.).—~American combat
casualties in this war, as officially announced here, passed
400,000 today to reach a total
of 400,760 as compared with
389,125 a week ago. . Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson
announced that army casualties through Sept. 6 totaled 337,743, including 64,468 killed, 177,235 ‘Wounded, 48 1125 prisoners of war, and 47,315 missing. :
hi VIRGIL IL PINKLEY Staff Correspondent! SUPREME HEADQUARTERS, A. 'E. F, Sept, 21, —
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The American 1st army opened a new offensive against the Siegfried defenses southeast of Aachen today while to the northwest allied mobile forces raced beyond the Rhine toward. an imminent junction with airborne Hoops encircled in the Arphem area of Holland. :
| western Peleliu, in the Palau is-
PALAUS FIGHTING RIVALS TARAWA
Considerable Casualties Are Suffered by Marines
On Peleliu.
‘By RALPH TEATSORTH United Press Sia Correspondent ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Southwest Pacific, Sept. 21.— Marines fighting across sheer, jagged coral, today assaulted a chain of superbly-constructed Japanese cave fortresses on the ridges
lands, under battle conditions even
Berlin in eet Teported :
had’ been yilioved by American and British forces pouring over the Rhine on a Nijmegen road bridge captured in a battle through the streets of the strategic Dutch town which is a gateway to northwestern Germany. The allied campaign in western Europe is “well over a month” ahead of schedule, a broadcaster reported from Paris on his arrival from Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower's new command post in eastern France, adding that, “So now it is forward to Berlin.”
'Fight in Mined Forest
Headquarters advices disclosed that Lt. Gen. Courtney H. Hodges’ 1st’ army had struck out through the dank, mine=strewn Hurtgen forest . southeast of Aachen in a new drive on German soil.
worse than those at Tarawa, Guadalcanal and Saipan, front dispatches! reported. Richard W. Johnston, United Press war correspondent, who went!
(Continued on “Page 5—Column 8 CALL IT VEE-EEE— Tag for Victory Day Is Decided Here Officially
THE DATE signalling fina} victory in Europe will be officially
The battle was reported going on jin the area south and east of Stolberg, 6'2 miles east of Aachen, with the doughboys making progress [asains stiffening resistance, . A German military spokesman 5
{quoted by the Berlin radio reported
a “narrow pasage of communica: tions” between the Nijmegen and Arnhem groups, indicating that sds vanced elements had made a ‘junc tion. He said the passage was une der heavy gunfire and virtually useless as a supply route.
Nazis Break and Flee _ Only a few narrow canals bes tween Nijmegen and Arnhem barred the way to the broad man plains sweeping eastward
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known in Indianapolis as V-E | (Victory in Europe) day.
Park Superintendent Paul V. Brown, who heads the V-E day
mally adopt that title at a meet- | ing this afternoon because V-E | seems to’ have been uniformly accepted throughout the nation as an abbreviation for the coming
war in Europe. 8 2 »
other hand, will not be termed V-P day (Victory in the Pacific), said- Mr. Brown. Instead, this | great holiday commemorating | peace everywhere on earth, will | bear the unreserved name of V-day, he added. Although Mr. Brown's group, now up to its elbows in plans calculated to repress riotous exhibitionism on V-E day, at first tentatively called’ the anticipated celebration V-1 day, the park superintendent said this latter nickname will be scrapped. - - » . 2 INCIDENTALLY, V-E day is
arrangements committee at city | hall, said the committee will for- ~
celebration marking the end of |
miles beyond the Dutch border | Berlin, and it appeared that the | Germans had little left in the im- ' mediate area to halt the American iand British thrust, First word of the dramatic erossling came in a front dispatch from |B. B. O. Correspondent Stewart Me= Pherson, who reported that the Americans made an assault crossing Inear the main highway bridge late {last night and cut in behind the Germans, who were defending the |span against a British frontal attack. . on
JAPAN'S day of doom, on the | Under the front and rear attack, {the Germans broke and fled, leav<
ing the key bridge intact for a flood fof British armor to stream north= ward to the rescue of the airborne {troopers at Arnhem. At the same time, headquarters
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BULLETINS
U. S. FIRST ARMY HEADQUARTERS, Sept. 21 (U, P.)—~A