Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 October 1944 — Page 1

2] VOLUME 55—NUMBER 183

oN FAMOUS MIX AT| “HL RTS

Among Notables at Services in N. Y. Church.

By CHARLES T, LUCEY

a great goodby to Wendell Willkie] in New York yesteraay, a gilt~-and-polish farewell in the gloss of upper Fifth ave. that was a long way from Indiana crossroads from which

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quietly by his side, glancing up proudly at the shaggy giant speaking to political rallies; sad and grief stricken now, And big Ed Willkie, 8 brother. 3 . It wasn't all big names. There was a little old lady, bent and crippled, who soméhow had got a ticket. A Negro soldier was nearby.

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2 MEN SEVERELY HURT IN MISHAPS

Two victims of accidents yesterday are in critical condition at City

today Russell McMahn, who fell into a GERALD L. K. GETS GAS CLEVELAND, Oct. 11 (U. P).— Gerald L. K. Smith, America First

Sparks Fund Workers Here

Progress in the United War and, Chief Stumpf stressed the value Community Fund drive for $1975,-{of blood donations. He received 000, in which 5000 volunteer workers |three gallons of blood through are participating, were to be re-|transfusions of plasma before his viewed at 3 Jucheon today in the recovery. : : Claypool hotel. The campaign opened| One of the fund's recipients, Monday and will close Oct. 25. United China Relief, yesterday celeDivision heads made reports prated the 32d anniversary of the and heard an address by Chief Petty | founding of the Chinese republic Oflcer George C. Sept Jr. of In. | under Dr. Sun Yat-sen. : re ; aieacle who retrial A statement commemorating the here recently. He has recovered from the combat. burns which cov- |. ered more than two-thirds of his body. ° -

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Amusements ..16 owe « 11

2. 11 : ..» 10{can medicine and medical supplies, food, clothing and other assistance

1t 11|increasing by the day.” - . 12{ “RR. Coulett, of the

"My Only Thought Was the Baby’

. FORECAST: Fair and cool tonight

Spanking in Primary Fails To Halt Collections

From Workers.

By SHERLEY UHL That “Peck’s Bad Boy” of, city

namely \playing politics out of school.

Edging out of the corner to which it was relegated by the election

k |of the regular G. O. P. county organization in the May primary, the Victory committee is once more in the limelight, this time over fund collections from city hall em-

yees. : ’s all legal and above board, say

and tomorrow; light frost tonight.

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 11,1944

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RALLY TO HEAR KENTUCKY CHIEF

Gov. Willis Forecasts Dewey Victory in His State, Barkley Defeat.

By EARL RICHERT Governor Simeon Willis, the tall, white-haired Republican chief of usually-Democratic Kentucky, said in an interview here today that he

spoke yesterday at a huge party rally at Boswell in honor of Secretary of State Rue Alexander.

Party Shifts Doubted

Concerning the Kentuckians who have moved into Indiana and on

Democratic and the Republicans, Republican. “About 25 or 30 ex-Kentuckians

yesterday at Boswell,” he said. “And all were militant Republicans. But I don’t expect that the Kentucky Democrats would come to see me.” The governor said he believed

[that President Roosevelt and Sen-

ator Barkley ‘would run “pretty close together” although he admitted that there were many observers who believed that the senator would run ahead of the President. As for the miners, he predicted that those in. Republican areas would vote Republican and those in Democratic areas, Democratic.

‘Vote As Citizens’

“Kentuckians,” he said, “vote as citizens and not by occupations.” He said that even the Democratic leaders in Kentucky had no hope of getting the majorities of previOUS years. He asserted that the Republican upswing in; Kentucky was due to the “olds -blooded Democrats who don’t dike the association of Mr. Browder and Mr. Hillman with the national administration” and to the unity in the Kentucky Repubican party.

FROST DUE TONIGHT, BUT IT'LL BE LIGHT

Cool Weather Is Predicted Through Friday.

LOCAL TEMPERATURES Sa. m..... 46 7am..... 46 cena 47

Indianapolis and the west central state tonight. But,

rsonnel policy rule that the current administration had heartily indorsed. The trouble with the Victory com-

G. O. P. fund-solicitation unit in Indianapolis.

A Triple Play

mittee overlords like Corporation Counsel Sidney 8. Miller and City Attorney Glenn Funk. City Controller Roy E. Hickman

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HOOSIER HEROES—

Pvt. Vaughn, Former Golfer, And Pvt. Wilson Listed Dead

The Vaughn family, whose name

. Meanwhile another Indianapolis soldier has died of wounds in

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SOVIETS OPEN MAJOR DRIVE ON E. PRUSSIA

100,000 German - Troops Now Under Russian Air Blockade.

MOSCOW, Oct. 11 (U. P.) ~The Red army's long-awaited full-scale attack on the East Prussian border roared down upon the defending Germans today while Russian forces stabbed into the outskirts of Memel and clamped a land-sea-air blockade upon 100000 Nazi troops trapped against the Baltic sea. Soviet correspondents at the East Prussian front reporfed the Red army was smashing across the last

RAID PUTS WAR ON NIP DOORSTEP

LONDON, Oct. 11 (U. P.)— Radio Moscow said tonight that Soviet troops. had thrown back 20 German counter-attacks north of Memel in the area where the Red army drove to the trapping the Nazis in northern and western Latvia.

From Mainland Blasts 58 Ships, 89 Planes.

were fighting night and day and

Japan into a conference as Tokyo radio warned that “it appears the enemy task force is still lurking in the waters off the Ryukyu

The Red army newspaper, Red Star, described Taurogen which fell to the Soviets yesterday asone of the most important outposts of Tilsit and one of the main hedgeliogs upon which the Germans relied to defend East Prussia. The encirclement of the German army groupings in Latvia, achieved when the Red army cut through to the Baltic north of Memel, enabled the Russians to launch the | East Prussian attack -by relieving them of threats of flanking thrusts by the Germans to the north. Another 100000 Germans faced + {death or capture at the southern end of the eastern front as Marshal Rodion Y. Malinovsky’s 2d Ukrainian army widened its newly won hold lon the Belgrade-Athens railway, last practical escape line for the enemy's garrisons in Greece, Al-

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DEFIANT AACHEN SMOKES

AIR ATTACK

AS DESTRUCTION BEGINS

Dive Bombers Raid German City in Waves After Yank Ultimatum Is Ignored by Commander.

" By JACK FRANKISH United Press Staff Correspondent

WITH THE AMERICAN 1ST ARMY BEFORE AACHEN, Oct. 11.—Squadron after squadron of American dive-bombers smashed through sunny skies at Aachen for four hours today in the greatest single demonstration of American air might since Cassino—a warning to Nazi cities of their fate if they reject unconditional surrender terms. Backing up the dive-bombers which soon had columns of smoke billowing hundreds of feet into the air over the doomed city, were packed batteries of American artillery which added the screaming weight of their shells to the

obliterating attack.

EYEWITNESS— Germans Spend

Lives Wantonly At Crucifix Hill

By HENRY T. GORRELL United Press Staff Correspondent WITH U. S. INFANTRY NEAR AACHEN, Oct. 10 (Delayed) ~The Germans fought hard to break out near Crucifix hill, but the Yanks would not budge. “Take a look at Crucifix hill

pay & much higher price before Aachen.

“Continue the attack,” the Nazi field officers were told. “These are the fuehrer's own orders.” The Germans plunged forward again, only to be mowed down in waves at the outskirts of Alsdorf, at Crucifix hill and at Bardenberg, due north of Aachen.

THIS MORNING all efforts by the Bardenberg counter-attackers had failed and the escape gap tc the north of Aachen had been narrowed to a little more than a mile, Despite an urgent “S. O. 8.” by the German infantrymen - at Bardenberg, threatened with being cut off, the high command ordered a continuation of the bloody nine-day battle here on the fringes of the Cologne plains. “Relief is on the way,” the Germans were promised. » » ” AMERICAN Piper Cubs spotted tanks and halftracks of the German relief force approaching from the east. Ordinarily ‘dive bombers would have attacked them but weather

bania and southern Yugoslavia, "n

gagement with the Japanese navy. It also came as American troops

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Pfc. William F, Bailey, 320 N. Temple ave., in the Seuth Pacific. Pfc. Samuel J. Pressler, son of 8. Sgt. Samuel M. Pressler, Ft. Har-

Pfc. Robert S. Sedam, 1530 Hoyt ave, in France. T. Sgt. Mark Bruce, 446 W. Washington st, in France. Sgt. Francis A. Harkless, 4024 Park ave. in France.

band of Mrs, Ruth A. Wininger, in PRISONER -

Jefferson ave., of

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From the hills before the encircled city I watched the

city go to its inexorable fate, After the Lightning divebombers, working in relays of four and six, had been in action awhile anti-aircraft fire from Aachen began to weaken. Aachen’s doom had been sealed when the 24-hour surrender-or-die

cisely 10:50 a. m. orders were given

SUPREME HEADQUARTERS, A. E. F, Paris, Oct, 11 (U, P.)~

“bomb up” with high explosives and incendiar ;

noon. The destruction of the ancient city of Charlemagne was begun in

bombers the same planes had flown repeatedly over Aachen during the morning, logsing thousands of leaflets containing the surrender terms and calling upon the city to give in, The city was circled by U. 8 army “hog -callers”—giant loudspeakers mounted on half-tracks through which appeals in the German language blared forth fo the

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WAR FRONTS

(Oct. 11, 1944)

ITALY—Three columns of Amere ican troops drive on Bologna= Rimini highway,

BALKANS — German-inspired = re-

ports say Nasis are abandoning all of Greece to escape Balkan

trap.