Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 November 1944 — Page 6

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of the efficacy of the bombing and artillery onslaught which preceded the jump-off. oe * Allied dive bombers still were smashing at the German ._positions ahead of the Americans in the Aachen area as well ‘ad at Metz today, despite the dirty weather. ; “In some sectors of the Aachen front extensive mine fields were slowing the American march. In others Siegfried pillboxes remained to be reduced. ap prasod 0." §. submarine | Well behind the foremost spearhead, bitter fighting was| crews who risked’ their own safety bons Yeu pres Joe top at ie

‘going on in the northern tip of Stolberg, seven miles east|to rescue the British prisoners "wore Germans still alive and

[after the Japanese ship sank. The|in.. foueht with violence of Aachen. | care and attention the Americans y toughv us '

‘The Germans had clung to a tochold in the city ever|gave to the survivors is enabling |,

A . » 4! : -icans captured the southern two-thirds of it nearly all the rescued men to since the Americans caj recover, he said. =

Work on Railroad Survivors reported, Grigg ex-

Claim 1 of Every. 5 Prison- foxholes and inside houses of “forti-

field towns.” Many died without ers Died Under Horrible [knowing’ what had hit them. . Having seen brave men and wild Conditions. beasts crack as they do sometimes in the grip of a terrible earthquake. (Continued From Page One) I could have sworn there would be

no opposition when the zero hour we intend to hold thera re¥pon- Po.

sible.”

Yet, when-our tanks and dough-

mortars frenziedly when they saw our tanks and infantry-laden half-| tracks massing for the attack. But that fire didn't stop the® Americans. plained, that the great majority of | Straight into the Valley of Death lallfed prisoners captured in Singa- | they charged; sraighy {tla the place where a minefie ad been; pore and Java apparently were straight into the heart of what had moved early in 1942 to Burma or —

fn 2 JOHNSONS TALK

gix weeks ago: vo With the town how far behind the front advanced posi-

tions, a German fade-back | jor along a six.mile front, - seemed inevitable. | Buggenum and Wessen were capOne 1st army group was pushing | tured on the west bank as the through: the open countryside, where | British pushed to within a mile of the gently rolling hills of the Co- the east bank fortress of Roerlogne plain were dotted with small mond. . towns and villages. = Another was British vanguards were within fighting in dense woods and over three and a half miles of the broken country. German border. Long Tom artilIn ‘the forested region southeast |lery, along with medium guns, | of Aachen the Yanks ran into|already were shelling enemy strong strong - entanglements . of barbed points inside the Reich. wire, but reported they were cut-| Rooftops of German towns were ting their way through. clearly visible, South of the Cologne-Dusseldorf Pillboses Undermanned (front, the American 3d army sent Nine Siegfried pillboxes captured patrols into the southern. outskirts this morning were manned by only of Metz © enemy resistance indi enin nem! sistanc - three or four men each, The Ger-| ted. however, tht the fortress holds only four feet high so the standing of world peace,” Mr. Johnmans moved up armor in one ee | would fall only after days of bloody|™en could not stand up. son concluded. He emphasized that tor, and small scale but bitter tan fighting. ~ United Kingdom prisoners were no js not an authority on cartels,

eisies ware reported the outskirts| Orman prisoners reported ‘that |Packed so tightly in trains they|gmnie because he is in the position

United Kingdom prisoners were put to work, Grigg said, construct ing a railway through the primi- OF WAR PROBLEMS tive, disease-infested jungle and over the mountain range between Siam (Continued From Page One) and Burma. Australians were used to build the Burmese eid of the he added. “Such arrangements railway under similar appalling |should be with the full knowledge conditions, Grigg said. and express approval of the gove Australian prisoners, Grigg said,| ernment.” were sent to sea from Singapore to “Especially is

of one town yesterday less than an| hour after the shoveoff, Bitter, close-quarter fighting went on unbil| ob" 00 yo rricades were being | Were forced to march 80 miles nightfall. thrown up at street corners and through the jungle regardless of Infantry moved into the town ,.io.on houses. their physical condition, Grigg said. this morning and cleaned up the Steady Gains in Vosges He said the prisoners were given elements left by the main force ,, tha southern end of the front,|little or no protection against yhioh pulled out under cover of| op .ricam 7th and French 1st|tropical rains or the blazing sun, darkness. * armies plodded steadily d nto | although many lacked clothing and Scanty reports from the 9th army | 4.0 ne ea iy pe wo head covering.

front said that when the Germans... .4aches to the southern Rhine-| The daily food allotment was a mounted their first counter-attack, RpPH . pan of rice and a half-pint of Our transportation lines are loaded

allied dive bombers, mobile artil- water, to the eyebrows and have been the lery and tank destroyers rushed Mong Sit of } Is seve ries Yow last three years. | into thé fray and stopped the ad- Dwight D, Eisenhower appeared to Y “Our tight positign will remain vance before it got well under Way. y.ve Jaunched the grand offensive CONFIRMATION GIVEN that way until Germany collapses,” | Simpson's forces also ran In| which he has predicted may win Col. Johnson stressed. “For ex-| thickly sown mines and booby traps|i,s European war in 1944. J ample, ‘October was our biggest as they pushed within three miles| gyno ostimated 1,500,000 men ON HOWARD S OUSTER month of shipping to Burppe,” of the Roer river, the last Iargei which he has thrown into battle] "| Louis Johnson will be a*principal| Ray M, Howard Is definitely spcaker at National Com. Edward!

sures.

his Johnson counterpart, Col, &%| Monroe Johnson was emphatic on| transportation problems.

transportation situation, now that

nalury) bute betore the Ripe. outnumber the 50 defending, under- : quarters repo ID-| strength German dlvisions* more | scheduled to resign as city building N. Scheiberling’s dinner tomorrow,

Son's progress In the rsh 4 hauls isnan three to one, commissioner “under pressure” by Night in the Indianapolis Athletic ndica was w The allies’ materiel superiority is | club, the German defenses. Jan, 1, it was learned today,

even” greater. ! The two American armies in the F Possibility of Mr. Howard’ ter| Fiorth-central sector of tha 400-mile| 1 iot dispatches sald the terrific y a quia

fle | preliminary | ganization ward chairman, his re-| front already had over~run a dozen re ap the Conbatdmen has been the subject of city hall}. tionship with the city hall G. O.|

or more towns and hamlets 8S|many of them climbed out of their speculation for several months, but p ,arty-bolters has been fretioval much as seven miles inside the muddy foxholes and stumbled back politicos of the regular county G, O.|to say the least, Reich. iS A blindly as American tanks rumbled | P- Organization made a last-minute] Mayor Tyndall's ouster edict They had advanced up to two across the sugar beet fields below! effort to keep him in the saddle.) against Mr. Howard appears to be miles in the first 12 hours of thelr | Gellenkirchen. : Today, it appeared that their per-!the opening salvo in what promises attack. \ : Mile-long tank ditches which Ger-|suasion had fallen short, “| to become an even more heated con-| To the north, the British 2d army man civilians, both men and women,| Reasons for Mr, Howard's dismis-| tinuation of the G. O. P. factionall In southeast Holland hurled the spent weeks in digging were spanined| sal are considered to be largely po- feud preparatory to the 1946 race| Germans back across the Meuse!quickly. . litical. A regular Republican or-|for the mayoralty nomination. {

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, [a hail of bursting German mortars. Can't Stop the Yanks i

They pumped their own shells and however, hung on and kept fighting.

this true when pu our half-track ambulances flyBurma early in 1942 in ships With|ihoce factors enter into an under "8 the Red Cross flag kept pace

{guns of the gestapo and’S. 8. elite| entire journey from Singapore to|ihis government — properties that this dispatch

“The people don't realize our(|

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beeri one of the toughest sectors in

line. In barely 30 minutes after “Hhour,” our tanks and infantry overran two German towns southeast of Aachen. They were towns which had been spared by heavy and medium bombers, but pow were in flames from the divebombing P-38's, The Americans didn't do it with|out lass, though, I saw three of |our leading tanks knocked out in {rapid order by a dug-in 88 ahead {and I saw crewmen streak out in

The crew of the middle tank,

That tank drew lavish praise from the commanding officer of a famous armored unit who was standing beside me in the observation post. This post is the same place where only a short time ago Hugh Baille, president of the United Press, had also stood with me—when our armies were preparing this offensive.

More of our tanks were hit, but others kept going. When they bypassed a house ahead of us, doughboys went in and bagged a dozen prisoners. 8ix others streaked from the building as though they were being chased by the devil himself. One fell, clawing the earth, ‘and others dropped to the ground in paralyzed terror. Enemy mortar fire still was heavy,

REPORT NAZIS SHOOT WOMEN IN PEACE RIOT

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three months. The Nazis were said to have futilely attempted to extract from him names of German officers implicated in the July as- | sassination plot. against Hitler. (An article in the Swiss newspaper, Journal de Geneve, reported

by the OWI, said a mounting number of threatening death letters are being received by Nazi party leaders. tions are seen more and more on German walls.”) A German. forces program broadcast by the, Nazi-controlled Oslo radio quoted Hitler's newspaper Volkischer Beobachter as saying that every German soldier was receiving extensive training in street fighting. This perhaps was as. much a precaution against revolution as in defense of their homeland against allied armies. A London Daily Herald dispatch sald .group leaders. of the new Volksturm, or people's army, in three districts of Berlin .were amazed to find that their entire arsenals of rifles, machineguns and other weapons had been stolen “to the last cartridge.” . Another dispatch asserted that the German people for the first time since the start of the war were engaged in a campaign of passive resistance against Nazi efforts to whip up morale. Incorporation of the army into the Nazi party and the arrests of

with the tanks and infantry, treat-|

ing the wounded on the battlefield. | the Roman Catholic clergy were It was an inspiring sight and made Pelieved designed to counter deeatism.

one very proud to be an American.{ I watched the battle for three

[the garrison was fighting with the were unable to lie down during the |r oerating German properties for hours and then raced back to file Karl Doenitz, commander-in-chief

When I ch of the German navy, had issued guards at their backs. Sandbag and Siam, he added. At the end they png, eq notoriously in cartel disclo- | with field headquarters potted urgent orders for the formation of llearned all the American units in|special regiments of idle navy perLeaving matters of world trade to the area had reached their day's|sonnel to be .sent to the Western | front immediately.

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