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VOLUME 55—NUMBER 288
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1945
Entered as Second-Class Matter at Postoffice Indianapolis 9, Ind. Issued daily except Sunday
TIMES EXCLUSIVES....By Our Own Writers :
Lt. Eadie, Rescuer Of Rick, Buried At Sea
By WILLIAM McGAFFIN Times Foreign Correspondent ABOARD AN AIRCRAFT CARRIER, Somewhere in the Pacific. ~The bugle blows a dolorous summons. 1 hands bury the dead.” Drums roll a muffled dirge. And the flag-draped body of Cmdr. Willlam F. Eadie, Evanston, Ill, is carried to the side of the hangs ar deck, through long rows of enlisted men and officers drawn up to say jheir:last farewell. The ship's “band, in formal white duck, plays, “Lead, Kindly Light.” Then the chaplain, his khaki trousers showing beneath his black robe, begins the service
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his party from a life raft in
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One of the most daring rescues of the war was that of Capt, Edward V. Rickenbacker and,
by a navy pilot in a small scout plane on Nov. °
Unable to take to the ajr with the extra passengers, the pilot placed: one severely injured man in his cockpit—and with the others, in-
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the open Pacific he encountered later promoted. to sea by his
- ceremony.
cluding ‘Rickenbacker, lashed to the wings— taxied across the water toward his base until-
The hero of the rescue, Lt. William PF, Eadie, in a shore accident but his body was carried out
. there buried. This dispatch describes the burial w
a rescue ship. to commander, died ironically
aircraft carrier shipmates and
in silence. The quiet is broken only by the sound of this great ' carrier swishing toward action through ‘a gently rolling sea. Bill, Eadie, former American Airlines pilot, had been the skipper of our torpedo squadron and
. A Weekly Sizeup by the Washington
Staff of the Scripps-Howard Newspapers, Td
WASHINGTON, Feb. 10.—If Berlin falls by June 1, the united nations will be lucky. This is the answer of some informed congressmen to optimistic predictions that the fall of Berlin is only a
. matter of days or weeks.
They think that up to now the Ruséslans have been meeting little resistance, that actually the Germans have been falling back, as they
claim, to prepared positions,
On the Western front, in contrast, our<armies and those of the British and Canadians are up against the strongest fortified line in
the history of warfare.
Only after we cross the Rhine will our soldiers be moving over
fighting country like that over which the Russians
advancing. » » »
have been
The End of the War in Europe?
EFFECT OF BERLIN'S fall? These sotrces “Hhink 16 Will mean the
end of the war in Europe.
They don’t take much stock in reports that bands of Nazis, and perhaps large portions of the German army, will hide in southern Germany and carry on guerrilla warfare. Psychological effect of Berlin's fall will make it impossible,
they think.
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A NEWS ANALYSIS . . . By Hal O'Flaherty Hitler-Follows History's-Path In Savagery of Barbarians
Three allied leaders are meeting fn the area of the Black sea. Their purpose is to complete the subjugation of a barbarian nation in middle Europe that has run
~ amok for the past five years.
Outward bound fo this historic meeting, President Roosevelt no doubt sighted the city of Comstantinople, In that city, Constantine the Great, more than 1600 years ago faced the same problem being considered today by the allied lead-
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He had subdued the barbarians, unified the Roman empire and had accepted christianity as his religion.
He imposed there a christian Li
peace—biit a stern one. Long before the days of Gonstantine, the savage tribes of central Europe had disturbed the peace of the world as it then was known. In the secret recesses of their
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REPORT FROM PARIS . . . By Helen Kirkpatrick
Big 3 Slight to DeGaulle Causes FDR to Skip Paris
PARIS, Feb. 10.— President Roosevelt will not visit Paris after the “Big Three” conference, it is learned reliably. The reasons stem out of the fact that Gen. DeGaulle was not invited to the allied meeting. Last fall, French officials ‘in Washington were instructed to find out whether the President would regard .an invitation to eome to‘ Paris favorably. Tney
reported that- we would. The White House later let it be known that an informal invitatiton had been received. It was thought at the time of Prime Minister Churchill's visit here Nov. 10-11 that the President would come early in the new year. Later it was believed that he would make the visit immediately
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HOOSIER VAGABOND . . . By Ernie Pyle Hopes to Write of Carrier Life as Vividly as Miller
Ernie Pyle is with the navy in the Pacific. Pending receipt of his’ dispatches from that war theater we are publishing a few articles he wrote before his takeoft from San Francisco, of which the following is one.
By ERNIE PYLE Times War Correspondent SAN FRANCISCO.—Instead of reading 50 books while I -was home, and getting caught up on those lost years of literature, I've actually read orily five books in these past four months. They were—(1) “A Walk in the Sun,” a wonderful little story about the emotions of men in half-a<day’s fighting in Italy, (2) “Lost Island,” James Norman Hall's story of what war which
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Jane Jordan.. 9 Ruth Millett... 7
means nothing to them can do to the people of a little gem island In the Pacific; (3) “Can Do,” the story of the Seabees, about whom I hope to write a lot before this trip is over; (4) “Cannery Row,” and (5) “Daybreak for Our Carrier.” I thought all of them were excellent, ; 1 tried fo reread “All Quiet on the Western Front” when I first came home, because I've always
* considered it one of the greatest
books ever written, But after having been in war, it was too real, too poignant, It depressed me so terribly I had to lay. it aside, But it's still a great book. “Cannery Row” is John Steinbeck’s new book. It has nothing whatever to do with war, and for that reason was & wonderful relief to read. John says he wrote it “just because I'd wanted to for a long time” - In“San Francisco I ran onto John and Gwyn Steinbeck, up from Monterey for a few days’ visit. John told about an smusing experience, When they bought a house in Monterey recently, John decided to rent an office downtown to Wigan, 80 he wouldn't be under- — &
he was eager to get into combat. He had spent months in the combat zone during the early part of the Pacific war. He had flown transports. He had piloted scout planes. : He rescued Eddie Rickenbacker
one day in a little O8-2-U seaplane, Thirty-one- -yeag-old Bill Fadie had had adventure.’ > But he never had been in actual combat; never been shot at. He thought he would get his
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wish, -at- last, when they put him and his torpedo squadron—a fine bunch of kids he trained from aerial infancy—aboard our Essex class carrier, But while the carrier was in Pearl Harbor, Bill wads struck: down by a merciless and ironic fate he had not anticipated. The jeep in which he was riding back to the ship from Honolulu, one night, collided with a fiveton truck. Bill died in the naval hospital 45 minutes later, On the confidential sheet which all fliers sign, Bill had asked to be buriéd at sea if anything
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HOOSIER HEROES .
“I HOPE YOU never receive this letter, because if you do you .will know that I am either dead or missing,” 2d Lt. Vernon C. Buchanan wrote his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur Buchanan, 2437 Stuart st, in a lettér received this week. A few hours’ later that day, Monday, a war department telegram arrived at the Buchanan home. Lt. Buchanan is missing in action. He had left the letter to be sent if he did not return. He was lost Jan. 9 on Luzon, while serving as a navigator bombardier on a B-25. This morning the parents received a let+ter from Mrs. B. J. Reed, Peru. Her son, 2d Lt. James O. Buffington, who was the pilot of Lt. Buchanan's plane, also is missing. The = Buchanans -alsa have learned--that-the-tail gunner on the plane, Cpl.. Joseph Hertz, Brooklyn, N. Y,, has been listed. as missing. : A wire story recently carried
BLAZE ‘A’ RATING LAID TO COLONEL
Air Charge of Priorities Is Named in Inquiry.
The officer who assigned the “A” priority for Blaze's transcontinental frplare jaunt “was Col. Ray. W Ireland, assistant chief of staff of the army's air transport command. This was disclosed today in an army report made public by an inquiring ‘senate committee. Blaze is the bull mastiff which Col. Elliott Roosevelt; son .of the President, brought to the White House from England. Before returning to "Britain; Elliott asked that the dog be shipped on to his new wife, actress Faye Emerson, in Hollywood.
Sister Made Call
Elliott's sister, Mrs. John Boettiger, subsequently telephoned Col. Ireland from the White House and
asked that the dog be shipped to
California. The report to the senators—made by Maj. Gen. Harold L. George, chief of the air transport command —continued: “No mention of priority was made in the conversation. Col. Ireland, however, established an ‘A’ priority for the dog and on Jan. 9, 1945; the dog was shipped on a military cargo aircraft which left Washington about noon.” That night when the plane reached Memphis, three servicemen who had been given homeward rides on the cargo planés were “bumped off” to make way for some war freight—but Blaze stayed on right through to California. Col. Ireland 4s in charge of the
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HEART ATTACK FATAL T0 FRED E. CLEMONS
Owned Restaurant, Known
As Auto Racing Pioneer.
Fred E. ‘Clemons, restaurant owner, pioneer in the automotive racing field and a driver;in the 500 mile race several times, “dled today at his home, 6318 Michigan rd, following a heart attack. He was 56. Mr, Clemons drove his last race in 1915, but had ‘built cars for other entrants since that time. His last car was built for Seagram Distilling Co, in the 1940 race, He pioneered the use of the
springing devices in racing cars and built the first trunk-rack for pleasure cars in 1918. For the past
operated Grandmother's Kitchen, 14 8, Capitol ave. ;
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eight years he and his wife have|
His wife, Mrs, Mabel E; » duh.
. . By Georgia Clark
| Hope You Never Get This Letter,’ Flier Wrote, But Parents Did and He's Missing
Pvt. Gilbert (Bud) Wright . , . his wife received the telegram of his death on their sixth wedding anniversary.
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Pfc. Dennis G. Raymer , . . 3 cards and 30 letters had informed his parents of his capture while fighting in Germany.
an account of one. of the exploits of the three men. participating in the Jan. 7 raid on the Philippines, an enemy bullet went through the propeller, but the plane was brought back safely. The Buchapans believe that
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Wife Gets Death News on “6th Wedding Anniversary
ON HER SIXTH wedding anniversary, Mrs. Betty Wright, Indianapolis mother of two small children, received a telegram that her husband, Pfe, Gilbert (Bud) Wright, had been killed in action.
It was the first anniversary that _
the couple had fot been together. =. Pvi. Wright entered. the--army: May 22, 1944, and after training at Camp Hood, Tex., and Camp QGrueber, Okla., came home on a 10-day furlough. He left for New York City last September and was sent from there straight to France, where he was serving with the 42d Rainbow division. He had sent his wife some German and French money. . In his last letter home, written Dec. 31 in France, he made no mention of having .gone into combat. At that time.the soldier was a private but the war department telegram received Thursday
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their son was on his 10th mission. He has been in the service since April, 1943, and went overseas last August, Lt. Buchanan js 19 and was graduated from Technical high school. He attended Indiana university.
by his wife had him ranked as a private first class. His death occurred Jan. 25. : A native of Terre Haute, Pvt. Wright’ was--28. and attended school at Charlottesville. He moved to Indianapolis ~~ about seven years ago and was employed Ordnance. plant before he entered the army. He won the sharp-shooter’s medal while stationed in this country. Pvt. and Mrs. Wright were married here on Feb. 8, 1939, and made their home at 2506 Oak rd. The oldest of the couple's chil dren, Norris Ray, is 5 and the baby, Nelson Roy is 18 months old. Besides his wife, Pvt. Wright is survived by a sister, Mrs. Bernice Marshall, Greenfield, and three brothers, Willlam and Frank, Terre Haute, and Charles, De Moines, Iowa.
War Dept. Confirms Phone, Letter Tips on Pfc. Raymer
THREE LONG DISTANCE telephone calls on-Jan. 20, and 30 cards’ and letters, have informed Mr. and Mrs, William E.‘Raymer, 652 8. Illinois.st., ‘that their son, Pfc. Dennis G. Raymer is a prisoner of Germany, The calls and letters were received from short wave radio operators but this morning, the war department confirmed thé reports that Pvt. Raymer is a
Four Listed Dead: Three Are Missing; Seven Wounded
Today's list of world war II casualties includes four dead, three missing, and seven wounded,
KILLED Pfc. Gilbert (Bud) Wright, 2506 8. Oak rd, in France, Lt. Myles O'Toole, former assistant pastor of the Sacred Heart church, in the Pacific. Pfc. John Purky, 2806 N. Talbot st., on Luzon, Pvt. Myron D. Pickens, Chester ave. on Leyte. MISSING Oapt. Donald - O. Thomas, 49 Hendricks pl, over Second Lt, Veron C. Buchanan, |),
512 N.
German prisoner. He had been missing since Dec. 4 in France, where he served as a scout and sniper near the German border, The - first call ‘was made by Gordon Thompson, Montreal, who said he had picked up the information about Pvt. Raymer only a few minutes before. Others who called were Claude E. Daily, New Albany, and E. E. Alderman,
Dagon, O.
GOP PLANS CONTROL OF LIQUOR BY APRIL
New Bill Proposes Hike in
Beverage Taxes.
By NOBLE REED The Republican state administration will take complete control of the liquor and beer business on April 1 and increase beverage taxes about $4,000,0000 annually under provisions of a bill prepared today for submission to the house Mon-
day. ; Detailed provisions of the bill in the form of amendments to the
-|skeleton measure introduced in the
house last Monday were drafted by Attorney General James A. Emmert, Working with Governor Gates and G. O. P, legislative policy Som.
The bill, which will be supported by G.O.P, majorities in both houses, will. give 8 a newly created
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Several
KASSEL UNDER
MARTIAL LAW, SWISS CLAM
Killed in Berlin Food Outbreaks, Moscow Says.
LONDON, Feb. 10 (U. P.). —Reports from the continent said. today that riots were raging in Kassel, one of Germany’s largest cities on the
Fulda river. A food riot also broke out recently between civilians and storm
troops in Berlin, it was said. The Zurich correspondent of the Exchange Telegraph reported that! Kassel, 91 miles northeast of Frank-furt-on-the- Rhine, had been under martial law since Wednesday. A majority of the city’s administrative officials and police were reported to have abandoned their posts to face the wrath of the gestapo and SS. rather than strikes or so-called Communists.
‘Bloody. Clashes’
The Exchange Telegraph correspondent- said bloody clashes were reported in the Wolfgang powder! factory at Kassel after war workers refused to toil overtime without supplementary rations to .augment meager food allotments. The reported battle between hun-
WAR FRONTS
(Feb. 10, 1945) EASTERN FRONT — Soviet tanks | reportedly sis into German | defenses 25 miles beyond Oder. Other Red forces drive toward Stettin.
WESTERN FRONT - Canadian army breaks through Siegfried line to Rhine. Nazis reported to have blasted installations of main Roer dam.
PACIFIC—B-29’s blast Tokyo-Yoko-hama area shortly after earthquake. Japartese resistance increases in southern Manila.
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AIR WAR-—Allied bombers attack rail and truck convoys in Holland and western Germany.
ITALY — Egtensive patrolling- and ‘sharp clashes continue.
RUSSIANS SEIZE
E. PRUSSIAN HUB
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Elbing’s. Fall Foreshadows End-of-Mop-up-in Province.
BULLETIN LONDON, Feb. 10 (U. P)e— Marshal Konstantin K. Rokossovsky’s army today stormed and captured the East Prussian transport hub of Elbing. The capture foreshadowed the
Berlin recently was disclosed by the Free Germany National committee in -a Moscow broadcast.
were killed and wounded, the broad-| cast said. The clash was touched -off, the] broadcast said, by the refusal of the manager of a kitchen in Andreas square to serve a crowd of refugees on grounds that. aply..S..8.mén were being fed that day. One frontier dispatch said the German food situation was expected {o become even more acute between March and June. Germany's final collapse was forecast for the “early summer at the latest.”
Report Hitler in Shelter
+ A Luxembourg broadcast ‘heard by the London Daily Mail said that Adolf Hitler was in the shelter beneath his reichschancellory during last Saturday's American air raid on Berlin. Unhurt, he fled by automobile for the country as soon as' the raid had ended, the broadcast said. The German D.N. B. agency said the state opera house and Berlin castle were destroyed in the raid. At Hamburg, a former Commu-
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JAPS MAKE SUDDEN LUNGE IN MANILA
Old Walled City.
By FRANCIS McCARTHY United Press Staff Correspondent MANILA, Feb. 10.-Japanese re-
sistance in southern Manila flared with renewed violence today. The cornered: ehemy fell back
slowly toward the waterfront for a death stand inside the old walled city. The Yanks were. fighting through
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Speed in Refund Of War Levies
By NED BROOKS . Soripps-Howard Staff Writer MIAMI, Feb. 10—~The American Federation of Labor today threw its influence behind the move in congress to advance the date for refunding wartime taxes
i a Rr Nagi. storm troops at a food kitchen in
A number of civilians and rogers
Resist Being Pressed Into!
end of a mep-up against ‘the™t trapped German troops. ° By ROBERT MUSEL United Press Staff Correspondent LONDON, Feb. 10.—Soviet tanks have smashed deep into the main defenses in southeastern Germany more than 25 miles beyond the Oder river, the Nazis conceded today. The Russians were driving a wedge between Berlin and the
lau. North of Berlin, other Russian forces pushed to within 25 miles or less of the Baltic port of Stettin. They are driving to seal off tens of thousands of troops in northeast Germany, the Polish corridor and Danzig. The Soviet high command threw a cloak of secrecy over the Berlin front itself. Field dispatches, however, told of fierce fighting in Kuestrin and the suburbs of Frankfurt and Fuerstenberg, main anchors of the Oder river line 33 to 42 miles from the bomb-wrecked capital. Ernst von Hammer, military commentator for the official German D. N. B. agency, disclosed that Russian armored spearheads 120 miles
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Tokyo Is Given a 1-2 Jolt by B-29's And Earthquake
WASHINGTON, Feb. 10 (U. PJ). —An earthquake and one of the largest forces of Superfortresses ever to hit Japan rocked Tokyo in quick succession today. The earthquake shook northern and central Japan at 1:50 p. m. Tokyo time, a Japanese Domei
[broadcast recorded by the FCC said.
The Marianas-based B-20s— which the Japanese said nit the capital at 2:30 p. m—achic’ed “good to excellent results” in the Tokyo area, a spokesman at 21st
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Role in Peace
By FRED W. PERKINS Seripps-Howard Staff Writer LONDON, Feb, 10-Sidney
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HINT NAZIS BLAST ROER DAM STA
Riots Reported In Reich
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RIVER SPREADS AS YANK UNITS BATTER AHEAD
Canadians ‘Shove Forward In Thrust Toward Vital Kleve.
-By JACK FLEISCHER United Press Staff Correspondent
PARIS, Feb. 10.—The Germans were reported today. to have blown up the power sta-
tion, gate house and bridge of
the main Roer dam. The Canadian 1st army
meanwhile shoved forward to seize
high ground overlooking strategic { Kleve after breaking the Siegfried line and reaching the
Rhine. Blasting of the dam installations | is was part of a Nazi pro‘gram to raise the level of the Roer | river.
This dam is under direct fire from American 1st army Bellary.
ed by CBS said today that the Canadian 1st army had captured Kleve, northern anchor eof the Siegfried line. : There was neo immediate confirmation.
menauel dam was almost in the hands. of American The ! wide north of Duren and with the opening of spillways is continting ‘to spread out.
the smaller Urfttasperre dams are a virtual no man’s land. The Americans are not yet in possession
‘and the Germans have withdrawn
a short distance to the other. side of the structures. - Front reports said the Germans were rushing up reserves to dam the Capadian breakthrough. It threatened to turn the “soft” northern corner of their West wall and lay the industrial Ruhr open to invasion.
Resistance Stiffens
Resistance was stiffening slowly as the Nazi reinforcements swung into line. Headquarters spokesmen and core respondents at the front said Ca~ nadian and British infartrymen still were making good - progress, Moving forward in a driasling rain that turned the battlefield into a quagmire. and practically ime mobilized their tank support, the allied ground troops carved Out gains running to three miles and more in the last 24 hours. The German village of Nutterden, on the northern edge of the Reichswald forest two miles from the outskirts of Kleve, fall last night. Late advices said the allies were moving on Kleve in force. Barely six miles to the north, another column fought its way to
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