Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 April 1944 — Page 1

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Scripps —wowarl VOLUME 55—NUMBER 24

By NAT A. BARROWS Co! dent

: Times Foreign rrespon | STOCKHOLM, April 8.—Hitler’s personal appoint- . ment of his propaganda chief, Dr. Goebbels, as stadtspresident or city president, of Berlin is a desperate attempt to get Germany’s key city back on its knees, if not -on its feet, after the terrific blows from British and American bombers. : The little doctor now has unlimited powers as the

For God Has Put It in

And There Appeared a Great Wonder in Heaven Their Hearts to Fulfill His Will

supreme boss of Berlin, with dictatorial authority in trying to co-ordinate the fire department, demolition and rescue squads, police relief, military defenses and other units into a central committee and somehow reorganize the pulverized city. ; Goebbels will work also with Albert Speer, war production minister, in trying to reconstruct shattered and damaged industrial districts.

SATURDAY, APRIL 8, 1944

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Goebbels’ appointment, by special decree of Der Fuehrer, adds another grain to scattered bits of information we obtain in Stockholm, intimating that Gestapo Chief Heinrich Himmler is actually beginning to slip as one of the topmost men in the Nazi regime. Both excerpts from the German press and statements of travelers reaching Sweden aboard the Berlin plane, have been giving enough ‘evidence this week to show that Dr.

SMASH NAZI ATTEMPT T0 LEE ODESSA

‘Soviets Cut Off Last Land! Route of Escape, Shell City.

LONDON, April 8 (U. P).— | Marshal Gregory Zhukov's 1st army of the Ukraine has driven through the Carpathian foothills on a 125-mile front to the borders of Rumania and the CarpathoUkraine, the tip of pre-war Czechoslovakia now claimed by Hungary, Moscow announced today.

LONDON, April 8 (U. P).—The Red army striking across southeastern Poland has reached the Czechoslovakian border, Premier Josef Stalin announced tonight in an order of the day.

D-Day Indicates Invasion Time

In Allied Plans

WASHINGTON, April 8 (U. P).—“D-Day,” the day the invasion of western Europe will begin, is army nomenclature for the day set to start the attack in any operation that is planned in advance. The “D” stands merely for “the day.” And in contrast to the “zero-hour” used in world war I, in this war the army uses “H-Hour” as the designation for the hour an attack is to begin. In figuring out operations in advance, the army minutely schedules what is to be done before and after H-Hour of D-Day. Placement of troops, invasion ships and aircraft, for example, are all planned to take place at certain intervals before D-Day. In all the plans and documents that must be prepared, the date of attack is not given, but the designation D-Day is used so as to keep the date secret. " Only a few of the highest officers need to know the date

BY 1230-PLANE

Smash Factories and Airports; Nazi Fighters Make "Desperate Attacks.

formations of American

| Germany after a week-long lull to-

{ Brunswick, 120 miles west of

Reich.

50 miles short of the capital. Fight Over Brunswick Nearly 750 United States 8th air

U E l Marshal Gregory Zhukov’s forces defeated the Germans in the foothills of the Carpathians and smashed on the ong & 125-. mile front, the order of the day said. Thirty Rumanian towns fell, including Seret, Stalin said. * | The Red army was reported to-| day by Moscow to have smashed] an attempt by a German column | to escape from Odessa. while Soviet! lartillery hammered ‘the suburbs | preparatory to storming the big - Black sea port. : ag Military sources said any last) Birds of war flying in a cross formation over the 158.year-old towers of the historic Santa Barbara, Se Sean on Bol] Cal, mission, spell the symbol of the role that the American youth is taking in the bloody battle ort jittle room for doubt that the for peace. In commemoration of the resurrection of Christ, the young of America—a land still bells of the city's ancient cathefree—are offering their lives in an effort to restore human values in a Christian world. | peal ’ i | . | Garrison Seems Doomed | TRIP MAY PRESAGE | Foster Showers [ose Hemes— | cuanto nae asre 3 e {forged an arc of steel around three | i J . SGT MAHLON SNOVER sce: of Odessa, and was pounding NEW | Predicted Here ' at the city gates with a determina- | ' ition that signified his re-entry to vet seq IM Storm'sWake | I§ LISTED AS DEAD | ini isi denied for long. . Stettinius London Visit €N poter paraders wil have to en nied for 1008. ne German de As Prelude. | show off-their new suits and bon- Pfc. Farrell Is Prisoner: fenders, tattered remnants of Mar- | nets in the living room if the | ’ shal Fritz von Mannstein's oneBy CARROLL BINDER — i cei ‘proud army of the Ukraine, now Foreign Nditor of he Chicage Daily News| Weather bureau s Promise « of Two Airmen Missing. \was described as reduced to the! Undersecretary of State Edward| Showers tomorrow holds true. T. SGT. MAHLON E. SNOVER, Point where they can hope to hold | R. Stettinius Jr.'s visit to London, But prospects for the spring 2008 Meredith e. h ’ "on only by battling for every street | Mccording to dispatches from that| outing are not nearly so dark to- ave, has been offi-|o,q every building. | tapital, may be connected with day as last night's rainswept skies cially declared dead by the war | The garrison was believed doomed | preparations for another meeting) = heavy electrical. storm yes- department after being on the to death, surrender, or a hopeless | between President Roosevelt, Prime terday kn ocked out an electric | missing list more than a year. Dunkirk evacuation attempt by Minister Churchill and Marshal Today's war casualties also in. Malinovsky’s flanking drive isolating Stalin, 5 ? clude the names of two other In- Odessa by land to the west. So much has happened since the LOCAL TEMPERATURES dianapolis airmen missing in tio | The wheeling maneuver also, J Teheran conference and the defeat and a prisoner of war in Germany ended attempts by the German de- | of Germany, envisaged at Teheran,| § a m.... 48 10am... ho **!fenders to flee along the dirt roads | y s still such a formidable task that 7am.,...48 Illa m..... 47 MISSING ’ ! RT, the heads of the three principal] 8 & m..... 47 12 (Noon) .. 49 Lt. Fred B. Heckman Jr. 1203 W.! (Continued on Page 2—Column 4) \ allied governments would not lack| ® a m..... 46 lip.m..... 50 29th st. ° dor things to talk about should a g Seognd 1 Richard" J. Pear, .1745 meeting materialize. transformer and set one house on | = ¢ : 3 RUSS ARMIES If the meeting should take place| o 1 FEE ARC FE OC oa. base: PRISONER before American and British forces| = 8 TOC S70 Pfc. James C. Farrell Jr. 2803 W. THREATEN N All invade western Europe the Presi-| ' 10th st. TT

dent and the prime minister could acquaint Stalin with the far reaching steps taken to implement the pommitments made at Teheran, . Stalin in turn could acquaint them with the Russian military ‘plans for the summer months. Those accustomed to judging the progress of the war solely in terms of changes registered on the maps say that a meeting prior to the invasion would find Roosevelt and Churchill under a psychological handicap. Stalin, they argue, would enjoy a tactical superiority because he

Damage estimated at $500 was caused by flames in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Hershel Gulley, 2304 W. 64th st., when lightning struck. A high-voltage transmission line at the substation of the Indianapolis Power & - Light Co. was knocked out temporarily, darkening" the homes on 40th st. and east of College ave. Both city and state police reported water and sewage backing up in basements, flooded streets "and auto accidents caused by the rain.

By LOUIS F. KEEMLE T. SGT. MAHLON E. SNOVER, a United Press Foreign Editor’ : gunner, radio operator and photog- The resistance which the Gerrapher on a Flying Fortress, has mang are putting up around Odessa

been declared dead by the war de- |; tched by the stubborn t partment following the 5. 1a y fel

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[suicidal nature is indicative of the JAPS EXPECT ATTACK

.|military plight in which the high ‘command finds itself. By UNITED PRESS | Both have become mere delaying A Japanese forecast of a new actions, with the Germans sacriallied offensive in the Pacific be- |ficing thousands of men to hold

fore July 1 was quoted today by back the Russians as long as posthe German radio in a domestic|Sible but with no apparent pros-

broadcast. pect of preventing the ultimate

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Amusements... 12| Movies

Illinois, - Towa and Wisconsin,

Monday

of 16th st. south of 16th &

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Sessa

Tin! Tin! More Tin! Turn If In! Help the Allied Armies Win!

HOUSEWIVES, landlords and managers: of local eating establish-

Government figures show thé need for the metal is greater than ever and will increase until vietory is won. Prank Thompson, WPB executive secretary, reports that in tin salvage, Indiana is leading the 6th region which consists of 3

A fleet of city trucks will céver’ the city, making pickups north and Tuesday

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2 BOYS FIND WOMAN'S BODY IN RIVER HERE

Two teen-aged boys, fishing in the muddy waters of White river, today found the body of a young woman believed to have escaped

ago. Darwin McCammon, 14, of 1017

at the front curb not later than 7 a. m. on their collection day. ‘Groups or communities outside of the ctiy limits, with a sizable collection of tin cans, may con.

15, of 1014 Carrollton ave. saw the body in the back water of White river near Mis st.

T0 4F'S

report they are making in the Tarnopol|

from City hospital several months |

Carrollton ave, and William Weare, | *

lull began last Saturday after ‘a Liberator raid on southeast Ger- { many.

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bps fo, Brit stroyed and 51 damaged, many | nghters pressed suicidal attacks ADIV never reached their bases.

{against the Americans over the tar-| get area in a mass dogfight. Bomber | Caroline victory, Gen. Douglas MacArthur's headquarters in crews returning from the attack! on several air fields reported seeing | : x 3 no enemy fighters and encounter-| from his command had added to the toll of enemy shipping

moderate to light anti-aircraft’ hy sinking a Japanese tanker, a coastal vessel and 12 barges

That's the~ Word From Congressmen Sifting jo Manpower Problems. fire.

war work moved forward today with | a stern reminder from a congres- | sional committee that other men were taking their places on the|

at the German air force. . “Drop 5665 Tons

from manpower officials that they |

go at once to local U. S. employ-

finding essential jobs. | bo! The committee, a house military said. affairs subcommittee that has been | deferments and considering statement last night. “The least such a disqualified person can do,” it said, “is to make! sure that the one who is fenting

noes

| them.

YANK ARMADA

LONDON, April 8 (U. P.).—Strong heavy, bombers resumed the attack on|

| day, smashing at aircraft plants in| lin, and airdromes in the northwest |

Nazi propagandists, in broadcasts finding no responsible support, said the Americans “attempted to raid| Berlin” but were turned back in| fierce air battles west of the Elbe, stronghold east of the Philippines, in a two-day assault

{ March 29 and 30. * Yap, 270 miles northeast of Palau; Ulithi,

Thunderbolt, Mustang and LightWASHINGT J, April 8 (U. P.). ning fighters of the 8th and 9th air! jdrals soon will clang out a victory _ rv. drive to “pressure” 4-F's into forces manitained a shield around {the bombers striking the new blows!

The main assault on Brunswick, [battlefield coupled with a request scene of some of the heaviest air| battles of the war, was designed to, . break up repair work on the air- in the Japanese chain of bases supplying and reinforcing

/his home town would not be ment offices for instructions on craft factories shattered in previous Truk, once regarded as the enemy’s Pearl Harbor, depriving bombardments, a U. 8. communique |, ‘

Marauder medium bombers of the ‘working on the problem of draft|S9th air force joined in the daylight a offensive, attacking targets in Bel- | “draft” of 4-F's, issued a sharp |gium including a railway center and {an air field. Thunderbolts escorted |

While the U. S. heavy bombers in Britain were giving Germany a

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WASHINGTON

A Weekly Sizeup by the Washington Staff of the Scripps-Howard Newspapers

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WASHINGTON, April 8.~—Treat everything you Hear about war, particularly about invasion, with reserve from now on. Washington seethes with rumors. War department starts some of them, by way of smoke screen. As Churchill put it, “if we can't have complete secrecy, let's have plenty of vapor.” a War department announcement that it is giving military personnel pocket guides to spoken Bulgarian, Rumanian, Hungarian, SerboCroatian and Albanian languages may be part of general campaign of confusion. (Note omission of Greek.) » = » = - » HERE ARE latest estimates of petroleum industry “from private sources” on crude oil production for 1943 of Germany and countries she occupied or dominated: % RUMANIA, 36,000,000 barrels; Hungary 8,200,000; Germany, 7,500,000; Austria, 6,800,000; Poland, 3,500,000; Albania, 1,100,000; France,

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‘Boss’ Goebbels Must Rally Bomb-Shocked Berlin Morale

Goebbels is facing some unpleasant and even alarming facts about conditions in Berlin. Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop’s mouthpiece, Paul Schmidt, was trying to hide these facts from the outside world when he threatened Sweden-bound travelers last Tuesday with arrest and warned that they would be accused of military espionage upon their return

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RUSSIANS REACH CZECH BORDER; JAPS HIDE AS U. S. RIPS 46 SHIPS

‘BRUNSWICK H] Record Naval Victory in Carolines

Severs Truk From Supplies;

U. S. Loses 25 Planes.

By WILLIAM F. TYREE

United Press War Correspondent PEARL HARBOR, April 8. —Destruction or damaging of 46 Japanese ships and 214 planes by a huge U. S. task force in the western Carolines—America's biggest naval victory of the war—was believed today to have driven the enemy fleet into its inner strongholds and completed the at least temporary neutralization of Truk as an offensive base. A communique from Adm. Chester W. Nimitz yesterday disclosed that the most powerful naval striking force ever assembled in the Pacific sank 28 Japanese ships, including three warships, and damaged 18 others, one of them a battleship, during operations that carried nearly 1200 miles west of Truk to within 550 miles east of the Philippines. Most of the destruction, including the razing of at least 65 buildings, was wrought at the Palau islands, last enemy

100 miles farther east, and Woleai, nearly 650 miles east of

force bombers with an escort of! Palau, were attacked March 30 and 31. around 500 fighters broke Ger-| many’s longest respite of the year from heavy bomber attack. The!

No U. S. Ship Damaged . x Not a single American ship was damaged .in the raid. Twenty-five American planes were lost, and 18 airinen:were killed. One hundred and sixty Japanese planes were deof them so badly they prob-

Close on the heels of Nimitz’ disclosure of the brilliant

the Southwest Pacific announced that planes and warships

‘and setting afire a 7000-ton cargo vessel.

of Japanese ships sunk since the start of the war to 1338, ‘the number probably sunk to 86 and the number damaged to 1163. i ’

| Knocks Out Supply Base . The attack on Palau knocked out temporarily a keg link

Truk of needed aid at a time when it was being brought under increasingly heavy air assault by bombers from the South, Southwest and Central Pacific. (A Japanese Domei dispatch reported by the U. S. foreign broadcast intelligence service said about 20 Amer'ican Liberators had bombed Truk Thursday morning. Two ‘of the raiders were shot down, the broadcast claimed.) The fact that the only capital warship sighted, a battleship, was torpedoed and damaged by an American submarine March 28 as it fled from Palau was interpreted as a sign that all major vessels of the Japanese fleet now were takihg refuge in Japan's inner ring of bases against the day when they will be called upon to defend the Japanese homeland. Hundreds of dive and torpedo bombers and fighters

assault on Palau, but the big guns of warships, ranging from ‘the 16-inch rifles of battleships to five-inch weapons of de‘stroyers, also joined in administering the coup de grace. Details of the damage inflicted at Palau included:

= ® » | Sunk—2 destroyers, 1 uniJ APS CLAIM BASE dentified warship, 2 large car- | 80 vessels, 6 medium cargo IN INDIA CAPTURED 3 large oilers, 1 medium oiler, By UNITED PRESS ' 1 small oiler and 1 patrol boat. The greatest American naval | Damaged—2 small cargo vessels, victory of the war was followed to- | left. in flames; 1 destroyer, \day by a Japanese claim that their] Beached—!1 large repair ship, 1 |troops .had captured Kohima, big| medium oiler, 2 small oilers, 1 small allied supply center in India, near cargo vessel, all in flames; 1 large {the Burma. border. | cargo vessel; 2 medium cargo vessels

The Japanese said they occupied | and 6 small cargo vessels. capital ot miles north of Imphal,| Aircraft casualties—93 destroyed

capital of India’s Manipur state, in combat, 39 destroyed on the | Thursday in'a Domei wireless dis-|ground or in the water, 20 probably

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On the War Fronts:

RUSSIA—Russian troops, tanks; anese ships and 214 planes be-

| and guns move into position at| leved to have driven enemy fleet outskirts of Odessa: %o mer stronghioigs.

AIR. WAR—Berlin broadcasts re-| 1D

The latest American blows brought the total number *

from a great armada of aircraft carriers spearheaded the

vessels, 8 small cargo vessels, |