Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 October 1944 — Page 5
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American pressure, the Germans counter-attacked in the vicinity of “Goliath” tanks, radio-controled and carrying
Aachen, in
throwing high explosives.
The beetle-tank attack began during the night, and within two
hours had been broken. By 8 a. m.
today all the positions won had
been recaptured by the Americans.
Despite the break-through, 1st army : headquarters warned that continued stiff fighting must be expected as the doughboys plow through the “wall of men” in the foxholes behind the Siegfried pillboxes.
the vicinity of Havert, 12 miles northwest of Ubach, but the lost
ground was regained, Driven From Woeds
After heavy fighting the enemy was driven from a dense woods in the vicinity of Palenberg in the
NOTED MOTION PICTURE STARS and King Vidor, movie Sirsetor. wil some to Indianages tomorrow for the special 1 Somer 2 Je Ses) dianapolis Press club and the noon rally of the united war and
A 30-piece soldier band from
Ubach area, and the village itself .e.
was occupied this morning. It was around Palenberg that the stiffest German resistance was encountered. - Northward from Aachen 54 miles, |" on the left wing of the offensive, violent fighting was going on around 12 miles southeast of
with fierce street battles in progress. The small town of Merkstein,
about 2! miles southwest of Ubach was directly threatened by U, 8.
Tank Cargoes Explode
were ineffective in the main, but two tremendous explosions of their cargoes shook the area for miles
around,
late in the day the Americans were widening the breach in the Siegfried line and fanning out from
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one. He got five before a shell killed him. “He shot a German in a tank, too, when the Jerry unbuttoned the hatch and stuck his head out when the tank was only 15 feet from him. “We had a few bazookas and
the boys fired them until they burned out.
it under heavy artillery and mortar sa = fire.
It was rough going, Gorrell reported, and bad weather prevented allied planes hovering over the area from giving effective support to the
ground forces,
As in the Normandy battle of the hedgerows, huge bulldozers were giving the infantry close support, sometimes burying the Germans in
their own foxholes, 600 Prisoners Taken
Between 400 and 500 German prisoners were taken today, raising the total for the two-day offensive
to around 600.
American flame throwers and units
bayonet-swinging assault reduced the
Siegfried pillboxes one by ohe in bitter struggles at close
Beggendorfl, two miles east of Ubach, refused to order a counterattack lust night because he “did not care to win any more decora-
tions.”
As the battle raged in full fury above Aachen, a force of some 2000 warplanes swept over Germany, pounding warplants and air bases on a broad front stretching between the Karlsruhe area of the Rhineland near the northeastern tip of France to the Nurnberg
American
area 140 miles to the east.
A strong force of British bombers, following up a supreme headquarters warning to Dutch civilians, attacked the island of Walcheren at the mouth of the Schelde estuary, breaching the sea wall with six-ton super-blockbusters, Crewmen saw the western tip east of Luneville to three and one-
rion eer
Fog allied planes and artillery, and the
ground, seizing heights five miles northwest of the French stronghold
of Metz, permitting direct obser-
“MEANWHILE, Sgt. Clarence Mitchell of Zanesville, O., and Pvt. Argyle Swiger of Clarksburg, W. Va. ran along the other side of a hedgerow from the tanks. “Mitchell had a bazooka and Swiger a rifle and they ran along the hedge potting at the tanks
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WASHINGTON—Hundreds of
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stubborn, a front dispatch reported. American and French units of the 7th army at the southern end of ] front pushed ahead at a numof points in the Epinal sector, midway between Nancy and Belfort, Donchamp, west of
Canadian forces at the base of the German sack above Antwerp
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At the Press club William McClusky, director of talent at WLW, will be master of ceremonies. He also will M. C. shows at Billings tomorrow and at Camp Atterbury Thursday morning. » » 8 3 AMONG GUESTS at the Bosses’
Single Yank Platoon Stands Three-Week Nazi Onslaught
the cover-of an orchard next to the village t we drove them back with fire. “At 3 o'clock the next morning the Germans attacked with a strong force. We slaughtered them.
“The Jerries came sneaking out of the woods and we held our fire until they were within 75 feet. Then we cut loose with rifles, machineguns and mortars. “Dead Germans stacked up two deep. . J ” . “I DON'T know whether it was true but one of the few Germans we captured said only eight men survived out of three companies. “The next day was worse and it didn’t get any better for six days
“The foxholes filled with water and our shoes rotted off. t J] ® FJ “WHEN WE came out today one boy told me he couldn't eat hot food anymore because happened to his stomach up there. “In all truth, we were pretty disorganized and it is a miracle we held. But we did, by God; and we saved the bridgehead too.”
REPORT NAZIS QUIT FOURTH OF GREECE
LONDON, Oct. 3. — Reliable
sources in Cairo reported today that the Germans had evacuated all of the Peloponnesus, the big southern peninsula comprising a quarter of Greece, leaving only a rear guard astride the narrow neck linking it with the mainland, A United Press dispatch from Cairo reported the Nazi withdrawal from the Peloponnesus as other sources said Greek patriots had séized control of most of southern Greece and at least five of the main Aegean islands, United Press War Correspondent Clinton B. Conger, in a dispatch for the combined allied press, confirmed | commandos also had landed unopposed on at least one Greek island—Kythera, five and a half miles south of the Greek mainland—the night of Sept. 16. His delayed dispatch significantly referred to Kythera as a possible “allied stepping stone toward the Greek mainland,” a hint that the landing might be followed by an allied invasion of Greece itself, British broadéasts said commandos also had landed on two other Greek islands unopposed and radio Paris asserted “strong allied forces" had gone ashore in northwestern Crete, but none of these landings was con-
| firmed immediately.
SHOTS BACKFIRED
WASHINGTON.—The first machine guns mounted on airplanes were not synchronized, with the result that seven of every 100 bullets fired struck the propeller blades. Steel bands were used on the blades to prevent them from shattering.
DETROIT, Oct. 3 (U. P).—~War
} | production in this greatest of the
nation’s industrial centers was threatened today by a blanket strike that could affect an estimated 1,000,000 workers when the Main-~ tenance Workers Council of the
E | United Automobile Workers (C.I1. 0.) '}| presented an ultimatum to the war
labor board. The council voted to strike at 12:01 a. m. tomorrow in some 300
King Vidor
the Indiana bureau of the Associated Press; E. J. Cadou, Indiana bureau manager of the Ine ternational News Service, and Roy Forrest, state bureau manager of the United Press. The appearance of the stars is being sponsored by the Press club and M-G-M.
RIGHT VS. WRONG, HALLECK SAYS
Congressman Sees Indiana Stamping Out New Deal In November.
(Continued From Page One) situation, from the Republican standpoint, is much better today on the Eastern seaboard than it was a few weeks ago. ; “The change is a direct result of
Governor Dewey,” Mr, Halleck said. “Mr. Dewey's addresses on labor and
good reception in the East and there
Oklahoma City speech. “There is no defeatism in the party today and all indications are that the national ticket will win by majorities approximating a landslide.”
COOPER CLEARED OF ALL CHARGES
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Pauline Frederick, after the youths left the room, tried to get the 15-year-old girl to go home. He said testimony showed that most of the drinking by the 15-year-old girl was done in the hotel bar, Commenting on juvenile delinquency in general, Referee Posie added:
“There are two types of girls in this world—those who cannot be
| Chief of Home Army Admits
L lin surrender
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the ‘indespensable man’ met with} "8
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Surrender After All Supplies Fail. (Continued From Page One) :
“They now conclude the uprising witholit considering the fate of the heroic insurgents and
Plight Very Grave
The “Polish army” mentioned in the statement was that directed by
ernment in London. A The Polish press agency's statement followed by only 48 hours a bitter denunciation of Komorowski by Edward B. Osubka-Morawski, dent of the committee, for ordering the uprising prematurely and causing the death of at least 250,000 Poles.
Deny ‘Bor's’ Absence
Osubka-Morawski called Komorowski a “criminal and a traitor
tion committee's armed forces, that Komorowski had not been inside Warsaw since the re-
saw, remaining in constant cantact with his superiors in London.” Dziennik Polsk generally reflects the views of the exile government.
PT Boat Skipper
Home; Honored > £ 2 Lt. (j. g) William Pettis Hall, son of Lt. Col and Mrs. William P. Hall, is in Indianapolis for a brief. stay after 15 months in the Pacifio
Lt. Hall, who is skipper of a torpedo boat, has been awarded the purple heart, the silver star and the presidential unit citation, as well as the Asiatic
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stars for major campaign action. He is visiting his mother at the home of Mr. and Mrs, John H. Bookwalter, 1111 W. Kessler blvd., before going to Dayton, O., where he will marry Miss Phyllis Fluhart, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lamar Fluhart, Saturday. = Hall's father, Lt. Col. Hall , is chief of staff of a bomber ul wn in the Pacific theater. The father and son met twice during Lt. Hall's service in the Pacific.
COLLEGE HEAD, 58, RECEIVES 4-F CARD
COLUMBUS, O. (U. P). — Dr. Howard L. Bevis, 58, presideni of
Ohio State university, recently was notified by a draft board that he! had been classified 4-F. But it was
picked up by strangers and those who can. If all girls were of the
would never occur.”
former variety, cases such as this;
a mistake, for the draft board clerk had confused Bevis’ name with another,
rise eg
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suffering wounds and operational fatigue. “Here our job is just the opposite of treatment before going overseas. Now we de-train them. These men are keyed-up. . + “Their adrenal glands are still shooting adrenalin into their body. They can't get out of the habit of living under battle conditions,” Maj. Covalt said. : » » = “THE HOSPITALS are not run on an officer to subordinate relationship. The men get a general prescription . , , one hour of physical training a day and four hours vocational, working on any. thing they want. “In 30 days the men suffering
operational fatigue only are just
Threatening Detroit Strike ‘Would Affect Million Men
The vole was taken after industry and A. F. of L. members on the war labor board vetoed the C.I.0. pleas for a panel to investigate alleged wage inequities between
maintenance and production workers.
The union asserted that A. F.of L.
wages for identical work performed by U. A. W.-C. LO. members and
:
Hospitalized Sky Fighters ‘Undergo New Treatments
. as sound and relaxed as in civilian days.” About 99 per cent of the air force men hospitalized before overseas service are released to duty. About 82 per cent of those hospitalized as a result of overseas duty return to active service, Maj. Covalt said. » o » : MEANWHILE registration continued for the convention and at noon today Dr. Paul Holinger, assistant professor of laryngology, Illinois university college of medicine, Chicago, spoke on the diagnosis of bronchial tumors. Technicolor movies of the subject were shown, “Bronchial tumors are increasing and are being discovered more frequently in routine chest examinations,” he said. “The symptoms are similar . . . 8 persistent cough, a wheeze and a recurring or unresolved or “a typical pneumonia are all suggestive,” he said.
- » os SESSIONS will open with 7:30 o'clock breakfasts tomorrow and continue through the day. Principal speakers will be Dr. J. T. Oliphant, association president, Farmersburg; Maj. Gen. David N. W, Grant, army air surgeon, Washington, D. C.; Dr. Newell C. Gilbert, Northwestern university medical school, Chicago; Dr. Chester-8. Keefer, Bos-
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By Carole
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couragement and laps up any ate tention he might get.”
American serviceman comment
came from Mike Charney of New Jersey, navy fireman, who said:
“I guess I chase them more
than they chase me. They're mighty fine.”
8.8 = (WILSON'S column carried
this statement today:
(“The Australian press got irito
a lather about Carole Landis’ assertions here yesterday that G. L's have to beat off some Australian girls with clubs. Your oe ; good will cementer would like to elaborate. Miss Landis, a smart lady, naturally. loves our allies and was referring to only a handful of Australian gals, even as we have in our own Times Square. bhe didn’t mean that any large :| portion of ‘the female population was guilty, and it was my own dumbness (and not Carole’s that
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prevented me from making that clear, ‘Okay, Baby’?)”.
SMITH’S CONDITION STILL ‘VERY GRAVE’
NEW YORK, Oct. 3 (U. P.).— Former Governor Alfred E. Smith was still in “very grave” condition today at Rockefeller Institiite hospital where he has been a patient since Sept. 28. His physician, Dr. Raymond P. Sullivan, said Smith had shown a slight improvement yesterday. He was visited during the doy by members of his family and Catholiz church dignitaries. John J. Raskob, industrialist and friend of the 1928 Democratic presidential. candidate, saw him briefly.
SALT FOUND IN OHIO CLEVELAND-Thosands of tons of salt are recovered annually from a great salt bed 2000 feet below the city of Cleveland that extends well out under the fresh water of Lake
United Press in San Francisco serted the juncture of the naval & army forces signified thatthe @ tire area of the Wu estuary ha been completely brought wu Japanese control.” | In another broadcast, Tokyo ri claimed that Japanese troops ed on China's Pukien coast ; Wednesday and were driving ward Poochow, big Chinesé port the East China sea. A Domei news agency tispatel which was recorded by FCC mon tors, acknowledged that the I id ing and thrust at Foochow was i attempt to thwart “Aron plan to land on he Ole res B he Pacific and sever our communiea
tions with the southern regions.” !
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