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“To Evacuate Arnhem
Pocket. (Continued From Page One) smash across the corridor had been knocked out. : Meanwhile, massed tank and infantry formations wheeled from the Eindhoven-Nijmegen corridor to
& Teach and take a five-mile stretch
vem flank of the Naz west wall}
»
of the Meuse river's western bank
which the airborne landing at Arnhem apparently had been intended to turn. Simultaneously, American 1st and 8d army troops beat off persistent German counter-attacks in relatively light fighting from the
« Aachen sector to the Luneville area
below Nancy, while the U. 8. Tth army drove across the Moselle river north of Epinal in force and ran
« head-on into fierce opposition.
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The tenuous allied corridor extending some 65 miles up from Belgian border to the lower Rhine at Arnhem was widened ' and strengthened beyond immediate danger, but apparently too late. to save the tough paratroopers on the o far side of the river. The Nazi DNB news agency said 1500 of the 8000 Red Devils of the British 1st airborne division who dropped upon the Rhine gate at Arnhem on Sept. 17 were killed in the ten-day fight. Another 6450 were captured, including 1700 wounded, D. N. B. said, adding
® that the pocket was “aniihilated.”
Luffwafle Appears Whatever the losses of the air-
*® borne troops, these sky soldiers with
their Red berets and long knives had made a great contribution to
» allied victory in the west.
Fighting without armor, they held out for more than 250 hours under the heaviest machine gun, mortar,
, artillery and tank fife, and finally—
's
if the enemy report proved correct— went down only after making it possible for the main British 2d army to build up a solid salient for the drive into the Siegfried line, The Luftwaffe came out of hiding for the first sustained efo fort in weeks, hammering the * cornered British division under cover of bad weather that prevented the allied air forces from throwing in their full striking power. Meanwhile, the main weight of the British 2d army drive veered off to the Meuse river line south of Nijmegen, where powerful armored * columns rolled tarough moderate enemy resistance to reach the river on a five-mile front south of Boxmeer, 13% miles below Nijmegen.
Support Belgians
The British, apparently. supported by Belgian units, captured Groeningen, three miles south of Boxmeer, and fanned out along the west shore of the Meuse, probing for s & spot to throw their armor across and into the outer works of the Siegfried line on the far bank. Kileve, where the Siegfried line is said to end, lay 12 miles northeast of the British vanguards at Boxmeer, with the Meuse and the dense reichswald forest between them, while Boch was eight miles due east. Behind the 2d army spearheads,
British tanks and American alr-}
borne troops—supplied and rein forced by air yesterday-—shoved back the German lines on each side of the Eindhoven-Nijmegen corridor in a series of bitter, local o battles, Pushing out from the western side, the allies took Oss, 14 miles west-southwest of Nijmegen, and Heesch, 2% miles farther south,
Extend Bridgeheads
“AE the western base of the wedge.|
British troops extended their bridgeheads across the Antwerp-Turnhout canal and poured supplies and equipment northward from Turnhout, and St. Leonard, 12 miles to the west, Belgian troops at the opposite base of the corridor drove eastward to the M river on both sides of the Belgian frontier town of Maeseyok, taking an 1l-mile stretch of the west bank between Wessem and Dilsen. The supply rdad ‘between Eindhoven and Nijmegen was cleared of all German blocks, although . Nazi artillery still raked at allied
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gloomily or glower,
but rarely.
passing directly overhead.
ack-ack commenced chattering.
.was easily discernible; along parallel with our lookout.
trench. Smoke arose. A short Inapam, _
shells into pastures very nearby.
it out”
operations bogged down,
“No, Says Writer In The Front Line
Hugh Baillie, U. P. Chief, Finds Germans Tough And the Mud Like Glue.
(Continued From Page One) sky. It's not only your own.neck, but we don't want to tempt direction.”
emerged from his hideaway, stood
Artillery whackings were interspersed with malignant machine gun chattering at our right and*lelt elbows, indicating the loca-
GEN. PATTON'S great armored column, which rolled victoriously across France after the break-through, now has come the traditional fortress of Metz, which probably cannot be taken without a heavy air bombardment which was retarded due to the thick, rainy, foul weather that gave Hitler
north, on Lt. Gen. Courtney H. Hodges' 1st army front, I entered Germany with United Press Correspondent Henry T. Gorrell. It was not his first trip across the frontier as he and y had been the first Thats Kiermany right across the railroad tracks,” said Gorrell.
nts in,
The Mud Is Like Liquid Glue
A MINUTE LATER our jeep, slithering through mud that in many places was well over the shoetops, carried us into the Nazis’ Me homuland at Rotgen, traveling in the direction of Stolbers. Muddering along the road, I noticed a sharp contrast with the inhabitants back in Belgium and France, Here there were no waves, except by a few children. look up as the army. Jegp passes, The townsfolk mostly stare
Most of the peasants don't even
Once in a while you get a surreptitious smile or a friendly eye,
TEN MILES into Germany and approaching the front you begin to hear the rumble of artillery, although ghe German peasants, like those in other countries over which the war has rolled, continue obviously working in the fields, even though shells are
We reached the colonel’s headquarters close up. The weather was gloomy, the mud like liquid glue. American “G. 1's” huddled under dripping trees and in dank, muddy holes, However, despite the low cloud ceiling two German Messer schmitts appeared, took a leisurely look at the town, and then the
Everybody took to the holes or
took shelter in doorways as if escaping a sudden Mmidershower
A Woman in No-Man’ $ Lond
PRESENTLY, we found ourselves at an observation post from which a big German factory, smoke boiling from many chimneys, likewise German railroad trains chugging
Remember, this is not a strictly solid front like in the last war. It Is a Jong projection or skinny salient into Germany. Enemy machinegun nests were right before us, but so well concealed that only 4 practiced military eye could detect them. A farm woman still was dwelling in no-man’s land. Whenever firing began hitting close to her domicile she waved a white handkerchief in token of strict neutrality,
SEVERAL TIMES we saw Germans silhouetted on a ridge just across from us. The country looked so peaceful and rural that it seemed we could just march right ahead, but actually it was bristling with hidden defenses although the Americans at that point had actually pierced the Siegfried line. Heavy concrete pillboxes were all behind us. Some had been blown up, some abandoned, and our own soldiers were occupying them as shelter from the penetrating, bone-chilling rain,
The Americans dropped a shell plop into one German slit
distance away a German soldier looking around, and then crawled
a
Where Is All of That Optimism?
YANKS IN THE observation post steod for hours looking death straight in the teeth since it was a cinch the Germans were staring down our throats just as vigilantly as we were staring down theirs. Presently, they gave evidence of their interest, banging several
A few minutes later, as we were|
wriggling through the wettest possible woods among tangles of briars. half a dozen shrapnel airbursts whacked the vicinity, *They seem to have plenty of stuff,” remarked an officer. “They Jadle i. back to us arculd Dete just as fast as we dish
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AFTER FEELING all that optimism back home following the attempt to kill Hitler, following Lt. Gen. Omar Bradley's masterly strategy in breaking through and the ‘unprecedented sweep of the Americans and British across France and Belgium, it was strange to see the Americans hung up under circumstances looking almost like a stalemate of the last war. However, the explanation is that bad weather permitted the Germans to bring up tough divisions unmolested by our air supe, plus encountering such formidable defenses as Metz Also running into rear areas behind the Siegfried line which possibly are even harder to penetrate. And on top of everything ihe rain and deep mud in which the
A few days of sunshine may change everything.
- convoys, and units of the German 245th division continued their intermittent thrusts against the thin waist of the line around Veghel. No important changes were reported from the American 1st and 3d army fronts, except the capture by 1st army units of the Luxembourg town of Grieveldange, on the German border 10 miles due east of the city of Luxembourg and nine miles west of Saarburg. American 7th army troops farther south, however, were locked in violent fighting on the east bank of the Moselle above Epinal, after crossing the river -and capturing Chatel-sur-Moselle, 81; miles to the north, and a number of other German strongpoints. The Americans also reached the outskirts 6f Aydoilles, eight miles east of Epinal and captured the neighboring village of St. Ame, where they took 300 prisoners and large quantities of abandoned {Nazi equipment. A half-dozen miles to the south, hard fighting also was in progress around Tendon. Other forces hammered out small gains on the northwestern and southern approaches to Belfort, where the Germans were fighting from breastworks and pillboxes Juilt by the French during world war L
FOUR INDIANA WACS ON DUTY IN PARIS
PARIS (Delayed) (U.P) —Laden with full packs, bed rolls and gas masks, four Indiana WACs arrived
ital had beén liberated. Members of the first WAC con-
formed women were cheered and congratulated by French citizens
hem, The Indianans are: _ Sgt. Jane ‘Miller, Cannelton; Pvt,
here by truck a week after the cap-.
tingent to arrive here, the uni-}
who lined the sidewalks to welcome |
JAPS NEARLY ATTACK NELSON'S TRANSPORT
ANN ARBOR, Mich. Sept. 27. (U. P.).~The plane carrying Donald Nelson, war production board chair-~ man, on his recent China trip nar-
rowly escaped attack by enemy air-.
craft, the pilot revealed today. Maj. Richard G. Finch, the pilot, here visiting his family, said that while flying Nelson and Gen. Patrick Hurley over the Himalaya
mountains he spotted three flights |
of Zero planes. The enemy aircraft, he said, were flying below clouds and apparently failed to see the American plane.
1INATIS REVEALED] {IN INVASION TRY,
"| British and American publics never had been told of the invasion at-}
Thousand” Bu in Sea of Flames Balking Hitler F 4 In 1940. ’
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tempt which they said was common knowledge in Belgium, Renee Meurisse, a Belgian Red Cross nurse, who was in charge of caring for Belgian refugees at the time, told me: “During the day of Sept. 17,” she said, “we heard rumors that thousands of bodies of German soldiers were being washed ashore along the Belgian beaches.
Bodies Washed Ashore
“That night at 7 p. m., a German Red Cross train of 40 coaches pulled into the Brussels station, We had been expecting a Belgian refugee train and: were surprised when we saw it was a German one. “A German officer who looked tired approached me and asked if we could give aid to his wounded.” Miss Meurisse said the German officer told her his train had been shunted on the wrong line and “my men are dying from lack of treatment.” . “We sent a. call for tore nurses and ambulances and began taking the wounded from the train,” she said. “The moans and screams were terrible, “1 helped carry one young German soldier from the train to the stretcher. He was horribly burned about the head and shoulders, “The doctor and I placed this particular soldier in a corner and we decided we colild find out what § happened. Moans and Screams
“We began by asking him about! his mother ‘and then about his sweetheart. After each answer I asked him: "Where were you going when this happened?’ “Finally, we pieced together the whole story. He said they had been told they were going to invade Britain, that nothing could stop them and that it was just al matter of getting into the boats and going across the channel “He said: ‘It was horrible. The whole channel was in flanies. The British bombed and machine gunned us. Hell couldn't be worse.’ “And then he died there on the. stretcher. “We cared for more than 500 soldiers. Many of them died there in the Brussels station.” Miss Meurisse said other nurses told her that other soldiers had told them that “thousands of us! started out and we expected to be in England tonight with the British conquered.” Prom other sources T pieced to-| igether the story of German prep- | iarations for the invasion.
British Report Recalled
I was told in Antwerp that the Germans had concentrated hun-| dreds of barges which had been used on the Rhine and other continental
{about 160 feet long and capable of | {carrying about 150 soldiers each. The British never announced an attempt at invasion, but the air, ministry said, very laconically, on Oct. 19, 1940, “Many German | troops embarked, but later were taken off their ships.” | Rumors of the attempted German | invasion have circulated periodicalily since 1940 and at times gained wide currency. One rumor said 40.000 to 30,000 German troops had 'been lost in the attempt.
‘TWO CONVICTED OF | CRUELTY TO ANIMALS
| i | Mrs. Haley Mitchum and Tom =
Barley, both of 1912 S. Delaware | ¥
rst, were -fined--$1- and costs each on charges of cruelty to animals by Judge John McNelis in municipal! {court 3 today. The costs and fines were suspended, The couple, who, witnesses said, failed to feed or water three horses] which they kept in a barn in Mars Hill, was arrested following the death of one of the horses Sept. 9 Mr. Barley testified that he did not starve the horses but that the dead horse had been poisoned by | | someone who broke into the fenced- | Lin lot.
PLAN CARD PARTY The first fall cast card party of {the Sahara Grotto will be held at 18:30 p. m. tomorrow at the Sahara | Grotto home, 4107 E. Washington! st, with Mrs, Effie charge.
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T. Sgt. Herman F. Fubrman,
wreck this month, was cheered up yesterday by Carmen Miranda when the Brazilian dancer toured Billings hospital. an aerial gunner on a bomber, had just returned from Italy and was
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EN ROUTE TO ALBANY
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purge list if he iz elected President in November. Speeding eastward toward Albany, N. Y,on the last leg of a 6700-mile
coast-to-coast campaign tour, the Republican presidential nominee promised over and over again to; crowds which gathered around the rear platform of his special train that he would rid the national administration of those persons next January 20 if his White House bid is successful. : The purge’ list, which also in-
cluded Secretary of Interior Harold L. Ickes, Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins and White House adviser Harry Hopkins, ranked high in the personal program the New York governor expounded for audiences across Oklahoma and Missouri, ONE: To unify the nation for the war and in.the creation of a lasting peace. TWO: To rewrite, with the aid of a sympathetic congress, “The New Deal laws so that lawyers at! least can understand them.” THREE: To eliminate “repres-
sive” tax laws which he charged ![ retarded development of job-pro- | ducing business, / FOUR: To put in high administrative office “men who have walked the streets of the country somewhat more recently than 12 years ago.” FIVE: To set up an -administration “that believes in our freedom, which respects the integrity and honesty and freedom of the Amer-
en route to Miami Beach, Fla, after spending a furlough with his wife
and son in Meade, Kas.
Library Chief Dickerson Quits
After 16 Years of Service!
{peared eager to talk to the crowds
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ports that his retirement was hastened by friction. Board: President Theodore Locke said that he was “surprised” and had no intimation of Mr. Dickerson's intentions to retire.
“The school city,” he said, “owes
{you a debt of gratitude for your|
long and faithful service. I hope] you will be happy.” Most. of the other members of the board made similar comments. Mr. Dickerscn, who has been head of the library for nearly 16 “years and is 63 years of age, told the board that he wanted to quit “while I have reasonable health and the same teeth God gave me.” “You're not the indespensable man a member of the board
System Was Expanded The board accepted his resignation but took no action to name a , temporary successor until a permanent librarian can be picked, In a formal statement, Mr. Dickerson said: “The city is fortunate in having ‘an experienced and competent as-
| sistant librarian, Miss Marian Mc- | Fadden, whose advisers and co-
ta1| Workers comprise a most co-opera-
rivers. They were self-propelled. | tive staff.
“Without question, Miss McFad{den and her associates are fully ! competent to meet the responsibilities thus transferred until such {time as the vacated position is ‘filled by regular appointment.” Mr. Dickerson said he expected to | remain in Indianapolis. He came to Indianapolis as city
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Officials of the Industrial Heat Treating plant today said they
{would move their factory from the
southwest corner of State and
Lexington -aves_.''as SOON as ‘po§=. E
sible” following neighborhood complaints that a Sept. 7 eviction dead~ {line set by the zoning board is al
ready three weeks past. W. A. Junkins, plant manager, said the firm, engaged in processing {airplane parts, has purchased a
! pbuilding in the 2100 block on North‘western ave., where it will relocate
within the next three weeks. lhe company was denied a zoning variance in August when nearby residents charged that it created a neighborhood disturbance. ©. B. Hanger, zoning board attorney, said previous plans to move the plant were deterred when a | property purchase deal “fell through.” City Prosecutor Henry Combs is attorney for the In-
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librarian in 1023 and since then ! has directed the expansion program of the public library system here, -
Before coming here, he was coninected with the American Library association headquarters in Chicago for four years. There he conducted the first nation-wide study of adult education and his findings were published in a book entitled “Adult Education and Librarians.”
Between 1919 and 1924, he was librarian with the general staff of the U. 8. army, serving overseas in 1919 as Mbrarian of the A. E. F. university at Beaune Cote d'Or in France and after his return as director of the reorganization of all libraries in the army on a peacetime basis. Mr. and Mrs. Dickerson live at 409 W. 44th st.
{ican people and . r . whose spoken | word can be trusted and believed.” { In contrast to his trip westward, during which Dewey confined his campaign activity principally. to ‘private meetings with leaders of {economic groups and G.O.P. organizations along with “seven major radio speeches, the candidate ap-
which greeted his train at brief railroad station stops en route eastward. It was evident when he stopped at Tulsa, Okla., late yesterday after a brief respite from campaigning to visit with his wife's parents, Mr. and Mrs, Orla Hutt, st Sapulpa, Okla., her childhood home. He kept up the same pace far into the night in addresses to station crowds at Claremore, Okla. Vinita, Okla., -Monett, Mo. and Springfield, Mo.—all of them in socalled doubtful border states in the November election.
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