Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 September 1944 — Page 2

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A Weekly Sizeup by the Washington Staff of the Seripps-Howard Newspapers -

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WATCH FOR fialy to go Bolshevik, The Reds are ruthless, dis-

what they want.

quered peoples, evén for their own good.

And watéh for Tito to. ofganise the Balkans into a Sovielized

andér the guidanée of Moscow. ; London expects this, doesn't About $ x w

ASIA: War in the Par East will last longer than most people

t a The Japs are profiting by Hitler's mistakes. The Nagis extended their lines too far and held on too long: The Japs alse spread themselves too thin, but are now pulling back and consolidating their strength within a much reduced defensive area. So don’t be surprised at “surprises.” The Japs may be much stronger on land; sea, and in the air than optimistic publieity has led us to believe. Habit of playing up goods néws, soft-pedaliig the bad, may let us in for disillusionment. E #8 85 =

Don’t Rely on Getting Russ Bases % RUSSIA: At Quebec, Roosevelt and Churchill discussed the question of & springboard big ehbugh to accofodite the hugé Anglo:Ameérs jcan war méchine now feady to descend ofi Japan: Bit don't rély on Russia offéring us Siberian Bases immediately after Germany folds up: ,

Russia's sald to Nold that slie won the war inn Edtope dnd that it’s

now dp to the Americans and British to win the war in the Pacific.

Sobneér of later, however, she will coffié ifi. She hopes to gin fhuch from én allied vietory over the Japs and to get everything she wants, ghe must iftervené—eventually, 2 = # I ABOUT WHO'S going t0 be secretary of IAbor: Administiation sources forecast appointment of John G. Winant, now ambassador to Great Britain, if the President is re-eiected, Leading labor men have been consulted, don’t oppose the idea. And if Dewey is elected, don't expéct him, in carrying out his

be the most tragic of the war. There will almost certainly disorder, révolt, civil war. Peoplé will freeze afid starve.

Anglo-Amerieafis are too “soft” fo lmpose ordér on oon-

ike it, doesn't know What to do

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_. Circled Sky Army; _ Fighting Severe.

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relieved, but observers lief must come quickly.

battle of the German

troops captured the ruined German factory town of Stolberg, six and a half miles east of Aachen; after one of the bitterest house=to=h6use fights of the campaign.

Defeat Nasi Tanks

On the American 3d army front to the south, Lt. Gén. George 8. Patton’s tanks and tank destroyers inflicted a sniAshing defeat on 4 powerful German #rmored forge that attempted to throw them bck from thé Meuthe rivef line, United Préss War Coerrespondefit Robert Richards reported from the 3d army front that the battle of the Moselle rapidly was becoming the battle of the Beille today as ithe Germatis took advantdge of rain ahd nud to dig in all alohg the latter, tiny river.

proximately five miles east of the Moselle,

broké off thé battle this morning aftér 10sing at ledst 60 tanks in the past 24 hours, running their .losses well above 320 panzers for the last 10 days. But the allies’ main bid for a swift and decisive breakthrough into Germany was beihg made oh

Reach Final Obstacle Before

the airborne commander in AmnHem §aid the morale of his troops was high and that they would hold out in their “Patch of Hell” until believed re-

Elsewhere oh the jong. ive, the 'déf was going well. American 1st Army

promise t6 piek a sécretary from -

the rank’s of labor, to choose John L, Lewis. Por Oné reason, Johfi L. has too good a job with United Mine Workers ($25000 & year and a big expense account). However Lewis undoubtedly would like to be consultéd én thé appointment

A 8 8 : SENATOR TRUMAN has written a letter denyihg & newsmagazine story that he sobbed at Chicago, said he didn't feel qualifled to Be President if anything should happen to F. D. R. Letter says he feels his senate training is thé bést possible back-

the Dutch lowlands at Arnhem, and the fate of thé entire offensive résted momentarily ofi the éourage of thé dwindling band of paratroops and the British tank men. Thtow 1h the Works

The Nasis were throwing every:

if Dewey makes it. & & #

_ Mutcheson Aiso Out

ELIMINATE, also, from the running Bill Hutchéson, most prominent Republican in the A. of L. Hierarchy. If the Republican nofiineé liked the cut of “Big Bill's” tié jib he'd have named Him By this timé to head a labor division in thé Répub“leah national committee. None Fas been cteatéd and there are ifidications the G. O. P. will gét along without such a division.

ground for éither a vice president or a president. £ #4 #

Look for Lewis Blast LOOK FOR éficther blast from John L. Lewis réiterating his charge that the Roosévelt admins | istration Nas aided ©. 1. OP: A. | ©. in efforts (iinsticeesstul at Cth | cinnali) to intérfeére in internal affairs of his union. Meéanwhilé, Secrétary Ickes’ demand that John L. state whether hé inténds to livé up to his con= traéts, finally brought into the opéfi an opinion long held by solid fuels administration officials that the U, M. W. A. chieftain {8n't playing ball on c6dl production. After ‘four general mine strikes this year, eoal production has been triminiéd down fré§uently by abséfiteéistn, sporadic local’ strikes, and now by mine foremen’s strike, led by a distriet 50 union. These prevent additions to the vital coal stockpiles depleted by the big strikes, and SFA officials have quietly maintained that Mr. Lewis had his tongué ih his cheek every

time he asked miners to return to work.

8 8 8 Probable Déwey ' coursé would be to chic a én i the railway brotherhoods — sbtirce of formér 1abor secrétary William Dodk.

FJ » » FURTHER CUT in the production 6f premiiim grades of motor gasoline is in the offing: Reason: 8hort supplies of tetraethyl lead, the stuff that imparts the antiknock quality. 4 & 8 8 PROSPECTS INCREASE for old-style, hard-hitting finish for RODSévElt re-éleetiofi drive, with plah not te campaign “in usual BErisé” tossed inte thé junkpile, F. D. R. advisers say he miist show himself outside Washington; they're waiting nis answer, Major speech is likély in New York's Madiscn Squaré Gatden, with othérs urged for Boston, Philddélphia, Cleveland.

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0il Policy Problem

ROTE TO senate foreign relations committee or senate oil policy committee: Justice department is ready with an ahswer

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About Oil Patents

“WELL INFORMED sil mén” | are creditéd with saying that a government anti-trust investigation of Universal Oil Products Corp. was responsible for decision of eight oil companies to turn over this corporation to the American Chemical Society. Universal, 4 research organization, holds many oil patents. But the gift hasn't caused the justice department to drop its inquiry. It hasn't made up its mind about Universal yet.

thing they had in thé way of men, tanks and guns inte an &ll-6ut attempt to wipé out thé Sky troops before the relief column could bréak through. . The eritical question was whether the British could take the Arnhem bridge intact—the airborne troops were believed holding the north side of the span ahd the Germans the south end—or would have t6 maké an assault crossing of the Rhiné under enemy fire. Savage fighting still ragéd along the flanks of the allied spearhead thrusting up from the Belgian bordér to Arfihém, afid oné strong German force thréw a flying wedge across the cofridor late yestérday, threatening the head of the Britlsh 28 army's armored. thrust,

Smash Across Highway

The énemy attack smashed across the main Eindhoven « Nijmegen highway between Veghél and Uden; about 13 miles north of Bindhover British troops immediatély cotintered the flanking blow bit latest reports sald the situatioh was confused: A violent battle also was in progress at Elst where the Germans, after bélng thrown odiit of Nijmegen; set up a bristling block of tanks and artillery to prevent the allies from getting reinforeements thréigh to Arhihem. British Tommies straddling the turrets of their tanks and érouching in armoréd troop cafriers burst through the Nazi seréen apd irfantrymen followed up to hold open the gap, : German artillery eommanded the highway north of Elst, laying down a murderous ¢ross-fife 6n thé British armor all the way to the lower Rhine, Weather Still Bad

Low-hanging clouds and mist continued to hamper the allied effort, making it all but impossible to ferry in supplies to the be-

if either body is curious about its views on the effect of the pending Anglo-American oil tréaty on intérhational oil cartels.

INTERNATIONAL AVIATION conférencé will begin in U 8.

any strong aderial force

The desperate German defense of

about Nov. 1—but nobody knows the city. Only certainty is it ‘| won't be Washington.

TRAPPED IN CHIMNEY

Justice experts have made a study of this question.

WINTER POTATOES

Stolberg was attributed to theif anxiety to remove an aircraft parts factory. Nazi engineer§ were spotted |dismantling the plant, but there {was no immediate indication that

Indiana Irish $ 100-1 j they had succeeded inh getting its COBBLERS Bag i {equipment out, : * $150 Lh SUSPECT KILLS SELF. Elsewhere along the bofder there (Continued From Page One) boundaries throwing much taxable’ ONIONS Bag was little change in the opposing city, comprising most of the coun Proper. of she iiianarois Powef om AE : . ’ - Into anothe 5 “ | Michigan §).25 Jumbo || Richard B. Fogelsonger, 26. a pa- battle lines as far south as the li... ¢oyapile property, the total 1845 | ship, The comparative to ova Con Grapes Basket | folee from the stat f {Lunevilles<Chateau Saling area east : : 8! ord Gra aba rom he state reformalory,| or Nancy, where Patton's 3d army|T8te. Ws fixed at 33.1135 as com- . 1945 1944 Mcintosh $(90 Bushel | killed himself last night after police | veterans sent the Germans reeling |Pated with 3.0396 this year. Other Center .......... 1012 2.022 APPLES Basket | trapped him in a chimney at 1016 back toward their Siegfried line. jawnsnip levies maids the siiy and B11 ree 2.367 1.44 - LDAn Bel : comp : : anklinh ...,, +++ 1.68 MOmGAY PEACHES gg gg Dube eh stouiait si 2nd bulls a Ate to Confirm Trier Setback : “1045 1944 |Lawrence ....... 1885 108 , gi ie: ff | Portis . 3 | The allied headquarters commu |Perry ...... eens 3.0478 3.0094 Petty ........... 1.288 198 | BW. our Baske K ie EE was wanted inlnjque confirmed front reports that|Warten ......... 3.0198 2015 |Pike ...... ernes 1.442 1.476 9 + NEW YOR Famene mg, > : holdup of the yy, g, 1st army troops had been |Washifigton ..... 29802 28018 Warren ......... 12338 1.21 | ee] aster i se on at Madison | forced to give ground in the area|Wayne .......... 3.1365 3.067 | Washington ...,. 1.106 1.10 ite ol oe beri husey, ug east of Diekirch. Field dispatches In the total rates of units outside Ware cetiene 1.785 1m City-Wide ing the house, When discovered. h said the Americans withdrew to theithe city, Center, Franklin, Law-| Woodruff Place. 2672 2.5348

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took refuge: in the chimney, then Firemen from truck company No.

were called to extricate the body and haf to .raze .the chimney: to

€|Our river line in that sector, indi cating they had been driven back across the German border into Luxembourg. On the southern flank of the 3d army line; Patton's troops linked up with U, 8. 7th army forces south of Epinal and forced crossings of the Moselle at many points against stiffened resistance. Other 7th army units won small gaihs in’ battle are looping barely 10 miles from Belfort, on the his-

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This map shows where the British armored eolumns have rédehed the Lek river (thé north branch of thé Rhine); and only a bridge stands between them and the trapped sky army in the Arnhéin aren, eilled the gateway 16 the Reich. furious scale and the situation is described as “touch and go.”

The fighting contintiés on a

WAR ANALYS|S==

into the winter,

been valiantly trying t# hold, ahd to establish firmly thé harrow corridor which has beén driven up t6 the Rhine from the Belgian fron5 tier. If that is accomplished, path will have beén opened for an armored and o bile infantry weep into the northern Gérman ‘ plain leading to “ Berlin. The West Wall, extending all the way to the Swiss Alps, wotild be flanked and its further defense made futile. The dllied attémpt is a bold and risky operation; but the risk has been acéépted because success would insure the speedy ending of the war in the west. The elaboraté Gérman plans for 4 long delaying stand would collapse.

2 MEN AND WOMAN REPORT ROBBERIES

Two holdips and a pursé snatéh: itig wéré réportéd to police today. ' Mrs. Pearl Craigle, 1300 N. Délaware st; apt. No. 1, was with an: other woman on 13th st. near Délaware about 11:15 p. m. yesterday. As they passed the alley twe men jumped out and grabbed Mrs. Craigle’'s purse, which contained $30. She struggled with them but lost. Harry Gray, 522 Ogden st., apt. No. 3; was accosted by two men who pressed a knife against his back on St. Clair st. near Capitol ave, at 12:16 a. m. today. . They took His billfeld 6cntaining $13 ahd a watch valued at $30, One man, whose deicription matches that of oné of the pair committing the other crimes, was waiting in the doorway of the apartment house at 109-E. St. Clair when Charles Hamilton, 45, came hofrie, He threéaténed Mr, Hamilton with a gun and took $10.85 from his billfold which was returned.

RETIRED GENERAL DIES KINGMAN, Ariz, Sept. 38 (U. PB). —Brig. Gen. Victor Vaughn Taylor, tetired, who died yesterday en rotité to Washifigton t6 réceive the order of commander of the British Em-

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Mr. Keele

leaguered column at Arnhem or to|pire from thé British ambassador, throw

against the Nazi blockade.

the Earl of Halifax, will be buried in Arlington national eeémetery.

Record Budget

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Germans Battling af Arnhem To Extend War Into Winter

By LOUIS ¥. KEEMLE Unitéd Préds Foreifii Editor - The battle of Arhihém 18 a éritical one for the Germans and they No Américans|aré faking théi» most determined effort oh the western front there, yet have crossed the Seille, ap-|because on its outcome depends their chief hope of prolonging the war

The tirgént allied task ig fo sécuré the bridgehead across the upper Richarfls reported thdt the Nazis| branch of thé Rhine, which thé surroundéd Sky troops at Arnhem have

BRITISH ESTABLISH

PO VALLEY ANCHOR

ROMB, Sept. 23 (U. P.) ~British

8th army troops @rove beyond caps tured Rimini into the Po valley

three miles wide and two miles deep across the Mareechia river, U. 8. 5th ariny troops widened their bréach in the center of the Gethie line by taking Mt. Citérna, two miles southwest of Fila pass

The Americans also captured high oF of the

ground three miles northeast of the important road junétion of Firens suola, coming 6 within 93 airline files of Bologna, kéy city of Po valley and ultimate objective the forees under both Lt. Gen. Mark|. W. Clark in the eentral sector and] is. Gen. Sir Oliver W. H. Leese! ry to the east.

'Peace Front’ in Reich Is Urged By Secret Radio

LONDON, Sept. 38 (U. P).= Thé clandestine radio station Dutschér Volksénder sald today that thé néw front developing if Western Germany was a “front of active fighters for peace against Hitler.” The broadcast appealed to sols diers and officers to prevent the “horrors of war visiting Germany”

and urged them to “march back into the homeland.”

= H 2 “PURGE the homeland of Nazi leaders and war criminals,” the

.ra@lo said, in asserting that the

principal objective of the peace movement is the prevention of war on German soil. “Burning homesteads in Aachen made it clear to the people of Western Germany what they must expect if Nazi bogses are left in command.”

iB HONORED AT RECEPTION The Rev. Herbert E. Eberhardt,

who has resigned as superintends ent of the Wheeler City Rescug mission, ahd Mrs. Eberhgrdt will be

the honored guests at a reception tomorrow from 3 to 5 p. m. in the Hunters’ lodge of the Marott hotel.

Squeezes

Past Board Unscratehed

today and established beachheads| oy

and Mt. Tronale, four miles dueélj west of Pita pass, and drove into thé threshold of the pass itself,

in léss thé 1aw 18 changed. Reeogriizes Problems

Hé siid that when job placement is returried to the states it should bé conibinad with the state employfient inSiitARce Progam iinder 4 single administrator. On thé subject of medical sérv+ 166 Jot. ha acd, 14 shia the pro-

Latds National Unity

ticipation in & pérmanent world or ganization. for Peace. :

FLYNN ELECTED BY BLUE CROSS SERVICE

& os W. P. Flynn, executive viee presi dent of the Indiana National bank, has n ele treasurer of the Biue Cross Hospital service and a member of the newly-created Dr. John @. Benson, Methodist hospital superinténdent, is chair= an of the finance committee, and aries W. Jones is the third mem-

scious with an interpreter between. them. x oe i - ® ¥ ‘The Russitns. are placing great efiphasis on the study of Brglish in their schools :

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the Franklin-Shortridge Olvie club, en«

‘I visions a program of post-war imtownship.

provement for Warren Mr. Hoefgen was elected presi defit Friday night at the seéeond meeting of the club of 50 members in the Watféli Township school. The new civic club plans to sponsor the building of roads and strééts, 4 séwige System and other t8 after the Wwaf, sc-

Ralph A. Clevenger, H. G. Rupp, Caritr

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rence, Perry, Pike and Wayne townships were down slightly. De-

catur's levy was hiked considerably because of a change of township

The 1945 sehool city rate was es«|

tablished at 9525 as comparéd with

965 last year. The county rate is 43 cents.

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getting materials to the men on the front lines and building up reserves. “The supply system here is one of the miracles of the war” said Rep. John Phillips of California. “We have seen nothing but convoys since landing.” >

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U.S. Congressmen Find Paris Grateful for New Freedom

aha comfort Fe marvelously looked after.” The group flew over St. Lo and reported that it was devastated by the allied seige to a far greater eéx~ tent than they had expected. Yesterday they had lunch wilh Gen. Dwight Eiseihower, then attended a two-hour briefing by five major generals on the present prog=ress of the French campaign. They were scheduled to return to England fier today's tour of Paris. : the men taok time out to ; Periume for their wives. ; bay thers in.the party were Walte Moran of W; 4 a Brook

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