Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 July 1945 — Page 9

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When Marine Cpl. Robert E. Everett, son of Mrs, Alice Everett, $14 N. Audubon rd:, threw a demoliion charge into a yap cave on Okihawa, he uncovered an enemy hillide fortress and started a threeur battle, ‘A moment later four Japs bolted ‘rom another cave 30 yards away. Chen smoke began pouring from lozens of small caves nearby, inlicating the hill was honeycombéd th passageways connecting all aves. “Japs opened up with machine buns and rifles, but they couldn't itop us from sealing up that fortess,” sald Cpl. Everett. “The hmoke showed us every entrance.

ocal Man Tells fu Japs Out of Okinawa Caves|g

More than 70 Japs, who tried to I don’t know how many died inside the caves,”

escape, were killed.

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The 21-year-old local marine also took part in the five-day battle for strategic Sugar Loaf hill, where in the bitterest fighting his company suffered -54 casualties in two<hours. Cpl. Everett is with the 6th marine

division.

BRITISH PLANE CRASHES

.. LONDON, July 19 (U, P.),—Press dispatches from the Sudan said 17 persons were killed today when a British transport plane carrying 17 homeward « bound South African veterans crashed in flames at Khar-

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Katherine Kirkpatrick, a Red Cross worker from Indianapolis, feeds G. L's from the first clubmobile to reach the 22d corps headquarters at Grevenbroitch, Germany. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Louis Kirkpat« rick, 1934 Shadeland st..

}] circumstances, to arouse strong feel-

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Times Foreign Service PARIS, July 19 of and objection cumstances... - of Marshal Henri Philippe Petain, scheduled to start next Monday, may again force postponement. * The octogenarian erstwhile chief tof state of France is due to appear before the high court in the Palais de Justice to answer to charges of {treason against the French republic. But this court, where Adm. JeanPierre Esteva, governor general of Tunisia, was condemned to hard labor for life and Gen. HenriFernand Dentz, former high commissioner of Syria, received the death sentence, is so small that it

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nesses and French and foreign press representatives seeking admission. Too, this all-important trial will draw thousands of citizens, former adherents of Petain. Lesser Courts Won't Move From all sides come strong objections to holding the trial in the | smallest room of the justice build{ing. But the lesser courts, which tsit-in-larger rooms. refuse.fo_ move. The press has been ‘demanding that the trial take place in the Palais Bourbon—where the chamber of deputies met before the war. Provisional President Charles DeGaulle, however, refuses to have the trial take place in a circus atmosphere. : | Critics are asking why the trial {should not be held in Luxembourg {Palace—the senate building where {the consultative assembly now meets. The assembly adjourns on Aug. 3, which would mean postponement of the Petain trial for another fortnight. f The trial will be the biggest event in France since its liberation and jis.-bound, no matter what its}

ings on both sides. The ministry of information has received more than ‘120 applications from the foreign press and expects about 200 from .the French press for admittance.

SNYDER CONFIRMED AS WAR MOBILIZER

WASHINGTON, July 19 (U, P.) — John W. Snyder of St. Louis is taking over one of the most important jobs on the home front—that|

| lization and- reconversion. | His nomination as OWMR director was confirmed by the senate yesterday by a unanimous voice vote. He succeeds Fred M. Vinson, whom President Truman called into his cabinet as secretary of the treasury.

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EUROPE VETERANS FIGHT IN PACIFIC

* OKINAWA, July 19 (U. P.).—The first veterans of the European air war to be redeployed as a group to the Pacific are flying and fighting

Okinawa. "Col. Joseph R. Holzapple, Peoria, TL, commands the transferred group which is flying the new A-26 “Invader” attack planes, The group originally operated in the Mediterranean theater and won two American distinguished unit citations as well as citations from French Gen. Charles de Gaulle for its services in the North African, Corsican and Italian campaigns and the invasion of Southern France,

CHUNGKING, July 19 (U, P.).— Lt. Gen. George E. Stratemeyer has assumed command of U. 8S. army air forces in ‘the China theater, U. 8. army headquarters announced today. Preparations for reorganization of the Chinese theater air forces have been in progress for several weeks.

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