Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 September 1944 — Page 1

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p ‘By JOHN E, LEE H : American Press

Bmilingly confident, Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower said today that - Germany's military. situation is - hopeless.

The length of the European

war depends, he continued, on “two main factors:

. ¥ THE GENERAL who has ben troubled by a stiff right knee for the last few weeks, received 8 few correspondents at his com-

mand post informally and dis-.

He began by expressing surprise at’ receht reports that he had been unwell and ‘indicated that, except for his knee, he was in excellent shape. It ‘may he revealed mow that his knee was injured early this month when he was returning to headquarters in France from a

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trip aboard a Nght, Nalson plane piloted by one of his personal pilots. . :

. x = ARRIVING at an airstrip near headquarters, the pilot found the weather unsuitable for.a landing,

Although he made an excellent he was unable to prevent from running close to

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When the plane landed, Gen. Eisenhower and the pilot dragged the plane away from the water, While doing so, Eisenhower accidentally twisted his knee, which

. has bothered him ever since.

Despite the mishap, however, he hds made later aerial “trips, including some within the days immediately following the incident. ” - n IN REPLY to the questions, Eisenhower auld the advance in

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Europe is moving slowly at present and refused to commit himself on whether the war in this theater will end this year.

There is no doubt in his mind, however, as to how the war will end. :

He explained in detail that Germany's final defeat depends in great measure on how long it can stand up under the hammering, From a professional mil-

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itary viewpoint, he said, the’ Germans now have no hope of mounting any really effective counter-blow; therefore, militarily, it is useless for them to continue fighting. » - » CONTINUED resistance, he added, also is detrimental to the Reich, since it means additional destruction, with the final resuit still negative from the Germans’

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standpoint. In addition, Nazis must envisage the ity of a crushing blow at any moment from the wast, south or

east: However, Gen. Eisenhower pointed out, the gestapo still

holds the reins in the Reich and its agents have nothing to gain by surrendering; therefore, the question of when Berlin will hoist the white flag still remains to be seen,

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90,000 Turn Out for Candidate's Talk ] In Los Angeles.

. By JOHN L. CUTTER United Press Stall Correspondent

LOS ANGELES, Sept. 23.—Govemor Thomas E. Dewey ended the West coast phase of his election drive today after an address last

important step toward peacetime security. Five-Point Program He proposed: ONE: Extension of old-age in-

TWQ: Extension of unemployment also to those groups

SUSPECT WOUNDED DURING CHASE, DIES

John W. Hancock, 30, of 905 W. 11th st, died in City hospital yesterday after being shot by police earlier in the day. Hancock was shot during a down-

PEARL HARBOR, Sept. 23 (U. P.).—The soldiers on the Pacific

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Peace: Wallace TROY, N. Y., Bept. 23 (U.

tion levels, more than 50 per must be retained after the unemployed

8:30 TONIGHT

sters to Challenge GOP

Statements.

By MERRIMAN SMITH United Press Staff Correspondent

Mr. Roosevelt speaks over nation wide ( and CBS) radio facilities at $30 p. m. (Indianapolis time) from the banquet hall of Washington's Statler hotel where more than 700 leaders of the A. F. of L. union will gather at the call of their president, Daniel J. Tobin, of Indianapolis. This will be Mr. Roosevelt's first self-labeled “political speech,” and the radio time for his broadcast will be paid for by the Democratic national committee. - In view of the manner in which

Pacific Yanks Ask Whether They Are to Be Forgotten

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HEAVY Ho SQUEAKS PAST BOARD INTACT

Tax Adjustment Unit 0. K's Record $10,344,025 Outlay by 4-3 Vote.

By SHERLEY UHL

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debate, the city's récord $10,344025 budget yesterday wriggled through the Marion county tax adjustment board without a scratch. It was a tight wriggle too, for the show-down vote was 4 to 3 with the tax board chairman, Albert F. Walsman, a Democrat, casting the deciding ballot. No reductions were made in any items or funds and the administration's proposed $1.479 rate’ remained intact despite a last minute maneuver by opposing forces to effect a slight “compromise” cut, perhaps of two or three cents,

that no compromise could possibly

review might terminate in a stalemate. He also asserted that he had

cision, adding that he had queried influential taxpayers about the greatly-increased expense sheet and learned that it generally was “acceptable . , .Indianapolis isn't a small town any more.” $350,000 in Raises As prepared by the J. L. Jacobs municipal survey firm, the budget provides for some $350,000 in salary hikes for city employees. This per-

‘fsonal service boost was the chief

bone of contention in the tax adjustment hearings, where upperbracket wage increases were branded by opponents as “exorbitant” ~ Proponents however, pointed out that ample salaries attract efficient help, with the reminder that the long-range effect of high wage ceilings would be beneficial to taxpayers by providing.~greatly improved services. The budget, invulnerable so far to attacks by both city council and the county tax boatfd, now goes to the te tax board, which is not expec! to upset the delicate salary rates established after six months of study by Job Surveyor Fred Telford, representative of the Jacobs concern. In the total city-county picture, the proposed 1945 rates as established by the tax adjustment board are up slightly over this year's levy, but not quite as high as were the record 1942 assessments. In Center township inside the

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HEMINGWAY AIDED FRANCE LIBERATION

By UNITED PRESS a The American broadcasting station in Europe reported that Ermest Hemingway, American novelist, enlisted in the French Forces of the Interior after D-day and “participated in the liberation of France” The broadcast, recorded by F. C. C,, said ,. who covered the allied invasion of France as a magagine correspondent, is now in

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be reached, with the chance that the}

shunned politics in making his de-|’

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By JAMES Written for

the Muscovites.

Hoosier Heroes—

LT. E. 0. HALL KILLED FIGHTING IN FRANCE

Pvt. Green Missing and Sgt. Rafalco Wounded.

Indianapolis relatives have learned of the death “of their nephew in France, while a local paratrooper is missing in action and an engineer-turret gunner has been wounded.

+ KILLED Li. Earl O. Hall, Elizabethtown,

nephew of Mrs. Kenneth Marshall and Floyd Miller, Indianapolis, in France.

MISSING

Pyt. Harold L. Green, 1206 N. Holmes ave. in France.

WOUNDED

8. Sgt. Martin J. Rafalco Jr, R. R. 7, Box 510, over ef Germany,

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Olga and Ivan Curious About

of Life in U. S.

FLEMING NEA Servies

AMERICANS in Moscow, unless they are old timers in the Russian capital, face a problem of orientation if they are to “get along” with

United States diplomats, military and navy personnel, technicians and correspondents live under a precise: and well defined set of rules. Travel outside Moscow is carefully regulated by Intourist; material

wants are attended to by another government agency known as Burobin; cultural contacts with the Russians are in the hands of an official body called Voks. = EJ ®

ALTHOUGH this pattern of regulated living is often firritating, especially to cofrespondents with an inquisitive nature, it is undeniably efficient from the Russian point of view in guarding the welfare of foreigners.

James Fleming is theroughly familiar with life in Russia. His broadcasts from Moscow have discussed many phases of the Soviet war effort. Here he presents a first-hand story of life in the Russian capital.

In Moscow the American colony tends to be self-contained and enjoys little easy fraternization with the Russia rank and file. There is an almost pathetic eagerness on the part of both Russians and Americans to meet each other on more intimate terms. . ~~ oN v . LANGUAGE is a barrier to:intimacy, since few Americans in Moscow speak Russian fluently.

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said fierce fighting was going on

ITISH REACH ARNHEM BRIDGE STRUGGLE TO SAVE SKY ARMY; S FLEEING FROM LATVIA

Joop .and Movies Mean Americs to Russians

Pursuing Russians artis Wins Tank

Stab Beyond Tallinn.

By ROBERT MUSEL United Press Staff Correspondent

LONDON, Sept. 23.—A Nazi military spokesman today reported German “disengaging . movements”’—a retreat—in central Latvia, indicating that the Germans were giving up that Baltic state after the collapse of resistance in Estonia. A Moscow dispatch tacitly con-

saw, where a Polish communique

ia push toward Hungary.)

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NAZI OFFICERS DESERTING MEN

‘Escape’ “Orders. Revealed As Air-Borne Allies Capture 2500.

By WALTER CRONKITE

22 (Delayed). ~The German army has begun an attempt to “organize its disorganization” which was complicated further by the swoop of the airborne army on Holland five days ago. So far the wehrmacht apparently has taken two steps—ordering its officers to desert their men if necessary but save themselves first, and to establish “collecting points” at the main road junctions where fleeing Nazis from whatever unit can Be reorganized into new outfits or returned to their old. The officers are succeeding in

their escape efforts. Nearly 2500

prisoners have been rounded up

ik Germans from the rear as they

-|dicating that a large portion of it

and patriot forces were attacking‘ Ae Soviet frontal on-

Be © aid the Raalat ares Yad [openec a powerful offensive near the Transylvanian capital of Cluj, and had scored “local breaches” in

(The. British radio said Russian and Romanian troops reached the southeast border of Hungary, according to messages from Moscow, and quoted Ankara reports as saying that crowds were staging peace demonstrations in many Hungarian towns.) - Russians Pursue Nazis

With the Estonian capital of Tallinn captured and the German high Su on record as having deto give up Estonia, a Berlin os reported that. strong |Soviet forces were pursuing the | “disengaging” Germans 75 miles least of Riga as they fell’ back toward the sea. The Moscow newspaper Pravda said that southern Estonia had been devastated, with “thousands” of civilians killed and more thousands deported to Germany. Gen. Bor, commander of the Polish army in Warsaw, said German mortars and artillery “continue to shell the whole city,” in-

was in the hands of the Russians and Poles. “The Germans have prepared new defensive lines west and south of Warsaw,” Bor's communique said in a possible hint that the Nazis were preparing to abandon the capital.

REPORT GREEKS ADVANCE By UNITED PRESS The Ankara radio, according to B. B. C, reported today that forces of Greek patriots were advancing toward Athens. The B. B. C. broadcast was reported by F. C. C.

Battle Along Moselle.

BULLETIN SUPREME HEADQUARTERS, A. E. F,, Sept. 23. (U. P.)~Rainlashed British shock troops battled furiously today for two bridges leading across the lower Rhine at Arnhem to a besieged force of paratroopers on the north bank, with a rescue in sight, but still eluding their grasp.

By VIRGIL PINKLEY United Press Staff

SUPREME HEADQUAR« TERS, A. E. F., Sept. 23.—< British tanks and armo cars careened through'a ing four-mile corridor of Ger«

man guns to the south ‘bank of the lower Rhine ; : a trapped band of atroopers there and drove for the Arnhem bridge in a desperate race to relieve the main airborne force pocketed across the river,

Situation Touch and Geo

Front reports said the highway span over the Rhine to Arnhem was still standing when the British armor reached the river after a wild ride up the Nijmegen-Arnhem highway from Elst, four miles to the south. The British tank column loosed a heavy barrage of cannon and machinegun fire on German positions and headquarters spokesmen said the situation inside the town had improved considerably. The wearied sky troops still wers fighting grimly and well to keep their foothold in the doorway. te Germany, but it was admitted that their situation, after more than six days of close-quarters slugging, was touch and go. A dramatic radio message from

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WAR FRONTS

(Sept. 23, 1944)

WESTERN FRONT-British race to rescue airborne forces pocke eted ‘at Arnhem,

RUSSIA—Berlin reports {troops leaving Latvia, =

PACIFIC — Puppet Philippines government declares war on United States and Great Britain,

ITALY — British drive beyond

monitors.

captured Rimini into Po valley.

by this unit, and only 25 officers.!

The prisoners say the officers fled when the first parachutes opened

over Holland, leaving the troops to

shift for themselves. For the most part the Germans oppOSIng thiz unit obviously are not fighting according to any strategic plan but only trying to get back to Germany, some 25 miles away,

.|FINNS BREAK WITH JAPS

HELSINKI, Sept. 23 (U. P).— The Finnish government announced last night that it had severed diplomatic and’ economic relations with Japan.

By DUDLEY ANN HARMON United Press Staff Correspondent

PARIS, Sept. 23.—Ten United States congressmen took a good Poage

wwwU. S. Congressmen Find Paris Grateful for New Freedom

through the streets on a tour of the :

city before returning to England. “They

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Staff of the Scripps-Howard

WASHINGTON, Sept. site directions.

the bitter end.

to Hitler and his gang, and for an armistice.

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theater in Europe almost any time. Terrific forces within the Reich are pulling in oppo=

The doomed Hitlerites, of course, insist on fighting to On the other hand, the Prussian generals want to od

it now. They know the war is irretrievably lost. Chances are, therefore, that something will

The signal wih be replacements of the’ emer Nash Git stian. 42 head of the army, by A osherals general” such as

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