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Patterson: ‘End Of F ighting In Europe Is Not In Sight; Hard Road Yet!

VOLUME 55—NUMBER 291

Stoneman: “T he Opinion In London Is That A Quick Finale Is Due’

‘Crimea conference whieh he at-

WASHINGTON, Feb. 14 (U. PL. “would constitute a guarantee to ditional nurses but had been By WILLIAM H. STONEMAN planning on major operations in Although there Has been much

Undersecretary of War Rabert P. Patterson said today that in the opinion of military leaders

“the end of the fighting in Europe

is not in sight.” He made the statement in urging the house military affairs ‘committee to approve. legislation providing for drafting of nurses. Patterson's assertion gave emphasis to a statement yesterday by War Mobilization Director ‘James F. Byrnes that more men will be in combat next month “than ever before.” Byrnes based that remark on plans drawn at the Big Three

tended. American forces “in Europe, Patterson warned, ‘face a great deal of hard fighting.” To emphasize the” army's need for nurses, he pointed out that 400,000 American soldiers already have been wounded in this war. During the week ended Jan, 14, he said, 13,563 men were woundand the following week 22,825

ere wounded, while wourided reports for the mext week list 16,538

soldiers. He pointed out that those figures do not cover the army's sick. Passage of a nurse draft bill

stricken soldiers that they would be given adequate medical care, Patterson said. ; It also would mean that the army’s nursing needs would be filled with minimum disturbance to civilian nursing requirements, he added, because only those who could be most readily spared would ‘be inducted on a selective basis. President Roosevelt in his annual state of the union message last month asked congress to enact the nurses draft legislation. He said the army last year had established A goal of 20,000 ad-

able to get only 2000 through vol-

untary recruiting. Patterson told the house committee that “there is no time to lose.” “Some of our people, with an eye on the Russian advance, feel thatthe end of the war in Europe may be at hand and that there will not be many more casualties there,” he Said. “But we cannot gamble -with the ‘lives of our sol-

. diers,

“The view of those responsible for military operations is that the end of the fighting in Europe is not in sight and that our forces

there face a great deal of hard fighting.” *

Times Foreign Correspondent

LONDON, Feb. 14 Speculation regarding the date of “V-day” has been revived by the Yalta conference. with enough knowledge to form an opinion now put it well ahead of previous estimates,

Last night's statement by James PF. Byrnes (director of U. 8. war mobilization and reconversion) that -allied leaders “do not ignore the possibility of, the early col‘lapse of Germany”—but “are not counting on it"—is regarded as definitely cautious by these people. His statement that they are

Most serious people

March involving more men and material than ever before is not

taken to preclude the possibility’

of very sudden developments, The opinion here in London is that a quick finale to the war in Europe is now on the books--and that it can happen any time. It is definitely believed that Hitler and his henchmen will be holed up in Berchtesgaden or finished off in a matter of weeks. Everybody agreed that the final concerted blow at the Reich from the east and west will outdo anything seen before. Those who can gauge its proportions and its direction do not think it can fail

talk about the weather and swampy ground, the Germans themselves are not planning on it to stave off the evil day. They talk daily of the impending assault by the 1st army toward Cologne — yet have been forced by the Russian advance on Berlin to denude the Western front of such potent units as the 6th panzer army. Irrespective of what the Germans may be telling themselves about the possibility of defending Berlin, it is regarded here as a hopeless ‘proposition. Yalta's achievement in co-ordi-nating the movements of Russian

and Anglo - -American armies should make it impossible for gven the agile Germans to. de much more switching of large forces. : It is believed here that Hitler may be able to stage a last stand. in the Bavarian mountains, bus that this will be nothing more than troublesome. ; Guerrilla warfare throughout Germany now is thought to be unlikely because it simply would subject the’ civilian population te additional hardships and countermeasures without any prospect of reward.

Nazi PW's Are Neither Coddled Nor Bullied at Ft. Harrison

One of the P-Ws displays his skill as a butcher.

FACES CHARGES | Germany Holds Little Lure N FATAL WRECK For Captives in Camp Here

Bar Manager Is Accused of

_ Manslaughter in

Woman’ s Death. ~

Harold Biddle, Riley hotel bar ager, was scheduled to appear n municipal court 4 this morning

[11a

ollowing the accident late Monday

n which Mrs. Esther L. Gillam, 721 Beeler ave., Speedway B= as killed. He is charged with involdntary anslaughter and leaving fhe scene bf - an accident. ” Biddle was arrested yesterday hfternoon at a home in the 2900 block of E. Riverside dr. following n all-day search by police for the The death car.

The wrecked car and body of Mrs. illam were discovered at the bottom bf a 25-foot embankment on White River blvd. and W. 30th st. at 8 m. yesterday by two park depart-

ment employees. The coroner's office said that she ad been dead at least five hours. For an hour and a half affer the

police’ were looking for the driver Biddle was under treatment at ity hospital for severe face cuts.

| away? Hiscovery-of..the. wreck, and’ while .

A German prisoner works in the laboratory at Ft. Harrison,

REDS MAY-FREE-

21 FROM HERE” Besides, where would they go?

Getting back to Germany is next he to impossible, Hope Seen for R for Release of

Then, too, the P-Ws read our | newspapers and listen to the | Prisoners Held in Nazi Camp.~

By LOWELL B. NUSSBAUM IT TOOK ME a long time to get around to it, but at last I've |_seen some real, live Nazis, mem- . bers of Rommel's crack Afrika “Korps--And they didnt seemssuch supermen—at least, not in a pris-

radio. They ‘know. what's going on bak in’ the PFatherland—and

SOVIETS BREAK THROUGH TOWARD FIERY DRESDEN

Japs Massacre Filipino Civilians

ENEMY STAGES SLAUGHTER IN

~ SOUTH MANILA!

Nicholas Field, Cavite Naval ‘that the Red army had scored a new break-through in Sile-

Base Are Recaptured By Americans. By ROBERT CRABB

FURR Press Staff Correspondent Fw opt MANILA, Feb. 14.—The Japanese have run amok in southern Manila. They are carrying out a wholesale | massacre of Filipino civilians trap-

| ped inside their lines. Hundreds of men, women and chil-

dren already have been slaughtered by the Japanese in their senistless ‘| killing spree. The death toll Tmounting rapidly:

REICH REPORTED READY TO SCRAP ALL WAR RL

‘No-Holds-Barred’ Policy Is “Termed Answes, 10 ns 4 Big Three. =

4000 Allied Planes Rock City Day and Night as Reds Overrun Six Key

Centers in Silesia.

By ROBERT MUSEL United Press Staff Correspondent

LONDON, Feb. 14.—Marshal Stalin announced tonight

gia on a 65-mile front. The new smash was aimed squarely at the Saxony capital of Dresden, which was quaking day and night under ‘Anglo-Saxon aerial assault. Marshal Ivan S. Kofiev's army overran six key com- | munications centers and anchors of the Silesian defenses in a westward FWeep.

CANADIANS GA IN HARD FIGHTING.

LONDON, Feb, 14. —Eures Konev's battle arc stretched | pean dispatches said today, ror points 100 miles south-|that Germany has proclaimed Joust of ‘Berlin to 31 miles her intention of scrapping the outhwest of Breslau. rules of war for a “no-holdse

a. new victories erected a for- | barred” fight to the death as midable Red army barrier west of a result of the Big Three's Cris Breslau. © Konev apparently sealed 'mean declaration, . {he-doom. ofthe. by-passed and be- |

on camp. The presence of a prisoner of war camp out at Ft. Harrison has caused a lot of .rumors around town, rumors of alleged coddling of the enemy, of Nazis “strolling

around the fort, completely un-"

guarded,” of prisoners being “fed steak while our boys go hungry.”

» ® » X WENT out to the fort to shake

down these rumors—after getting | special permission from the war

department in Washington. I found I was a little late. The

{camp 4s being moved from the

fort. Several hundred prisoners already have been sent to other camps. The remainder will be gone in a few days. 3 A few do walk to and from their work assignments around the fort —unguarded, 3 And couldn't they just walk Well, maybe they could, but--the -faet--is--that they Just... don't.

” 8. ” I WAS TOLD that-in the year |

He was at the hospital for nine and! the P-W (prisoner of war) camp |

it doesn’t sound any too attractive |

to them. The life they lead here has its points. - # » WITH THE co-operation of Col. H. E. Tisdale, post commander, and Ma). FPF. C, Mims, the P-W

| (Continued on Page “3—Colummn 1)

DISOBEDIENT SOLDIER SAVED FROM DEATH

Meanwhile, Nichols field and the

sieged Silesian capital.

LONDON, Feb. 14 (U. P.).— Marshal Stalin announced tonight that the Russians had captured Freystadt, 15 miles northeast of Sagan where a number of Indianapolis men are prisoners in

| Silesia.

Twenty-seven \ Indianapolis fam- | ilies renewed hope today that their] sons erated from German prison camps as the Russians drove toward Sagan,

and husbands would be lib-

United State's navy's wrecked anchorage at Cavite were back in American hands today. .Gen. Douglas MacArthur proclaimed triumphantly that the end {of the battle for Manila is in sight.

| © Yanks Swarm In

With Manila’s two main military prizes reconquered, MacArthur's (tanks and infantrymen swarmed in from all sides to finish off the remaining Japanese. i

The drive carried strong Soviet | forces to the Bober. said the Soviet

re off Counter: Attacks ~ And Close on Hub

In Rhineland.

By BOYD D. LEWIS United Press Staff Correspondent PARIS, Feb. 14—Troops of the! last night and today in the first | Canadian 1st. army beat off four big’ joint operation supporting the! German, counter-attacks today. | Red army offensive,

from Dresden.

they tightened an assault arc on|

In advances of more than a mile Yanks Take Up Attack. |

The: new policy. was-said. to. — if

been set forth yesterday by Paul The Nazis! Schmidt, official spokesman for the

vanguard had| German foreign office, in an angry smashed beyond the Bober to Po-!outburst at the Wilhelmstrasse oves sitions on the Queis river 70 miles | the joint Statement of President | Roosevelt, Prime Minister Churchill - Dresden itself was hit by nearly ang Premier Stalin. 4000 American and British bombers |:

Defies Death Sentence Stockholm sources speculated thag

{Schmidt's statement might foree | shadow German use of poison gas,

‘The death sentence outlined for

{said he was willing to serve in a president of the local American]

site pf the Stalag Luft III The Germans were believed to ave moved most allied prisoners {from the Sagan camps, but it was | possible the Red army would over{take them and rescue some of them, : {war reports said today. Weber hag refused to drill, as| Among the prisoners in the area ordere y camp officers, on iy, eatened by the Russian ‘breaks grounds that he did not believe in through, is 2d Lt. Lester Moreland, killing anyone, even in war. He|jr son of Mrs: Lester Moreland Sr..

WASHINGTON, Feb. 14 (U. P).| ~The sentence of Pvt. Henry | h Weber, Camp Roberts, Cal, has been reduced from death to five | years’ Imprisoniment for disobeying | orders of an officer.

lon- combat assignment,

Frise of War society and prisner of war consultant for the Red

WORK STARTS ON NEW Gros He is the husband of Mrs.

Martha Moreland, 5876 Broadway.

‘WORLD TRADE UNION Foes local men in Stalag Luft

was

The enemy is trapped along the

flaming waterfront and around Ft. McKinley, on the city’s southeastern outskirts.

The doomed Japanese were writing off their three-year stay in Manila in a last orgy of fire and blood. The civilian death toll already reported nearing the mark.

fired the-Catholic refugee-center- at!

the College of La Concordia with (Continued on Page 5—Column "| blasted Germany.

incendiary grenades, after trying to chain the doors to prevent the

rail and highway hub of Goch.

1000 | i ferry crossing there. Eyewitnesses said- the Nipponese| Gains were reported ‘all along the

Rhine.

It thrust within two miles of the | from both the American and British |

the approaches of the Rhineland

The multi-pronged drive carried | captured within 28 miles of the Ruhr valley. { Jauer, Neusalz, Streigau,’ Sprottau |o¢ war, the Nazi-controlled Scan Gen. H. D. G. Crerar sent one and Geldberg. column of his forces spearing eastward along the Kleve road toward Powerful land - offensive of . the | ference. Emmerich, on the east bank of the| Russian armies was directly sup-|

Stalin,. in a

special order of tela in the Crimean declara« | day,

announced that Konev had| {tion frees the Reich of “all moral Freystadt, Neustadtel, | obligations” to abide by the rules

{dinavian Tele Bureau quoted For the first time in the war the | schmidt as om a press cone

“The Germans henceforth will ported by co-ordinated air blows sonduct the war with all suitable means, no matter how grim their | strategic bombardment fleets, . !effect,” Schmidt said.

The attack was opened by night | “Complete » mp Demoralization

when some 1400 R. A. F. planes| Ioraisan The S. T. B. dispatch, published

Nearly 800 of! | them concentrated on Dresden. in Stockholm ' newspapers, said

They lighted vast fires. in the | mention of - the Crimean declara«

HOOSIER HEROES— Prisoner in Nazi

a half hours in the shock ward. He| has been out at the fort, there | ad been taken there by a friend.| has been only one walk-away. Parents Also Survive | And that Nazi was recaptured 20 Sgt. Otis Tyner, accident pre-| hours later, at Shelby, 0. ention ‘bureau, said that Biddle | Why don’t more of them try to dmitted driving. the car but re-| 8et away? Well, as you will see, embered no details, t's not as simple as it sounds. H. D. Frazier, Riley hotel Bar. tender and owner of the car, said | he lent Biddle the automobile at)

refugees from escaping. The center houses about 2000 persons, including many blind, insane, wounded dnd sick. Only about 700 are known to have survived . by running a mile-long gantlet of gunfire.

Saxony capital, visible to the Red | tion causéd “by far the worst exe army less than 70 miles away at | | plosion” foreign correspondents the Queis river, | ever have witnessed at a Wilhelm American Flying Portresses and strasse press conference. Liberators took- up the assault by| The Swiss telegraph agency said day, sending some 2250 planes over|the official German foreign office

Camp Is Dead; 3 Germeny. The armada included] publication “Diplomatische Infors i heavy bombers. | mation” commented:

Others Are Killed ne large U, 8. formation dropped! “There would be no surprise if

An Indianapolis soldier has died | 4 One bomb load -on Dresden. such a plan-of destruction as the Others struck Chemnitz, 38 miles Yalta

LONDON, Feb. 14 (U. P).—Dele-|" To Lt. William L. Barker, husgates to the world trade unions con- band of Mrs. Miriam M. Barker,

ference ordered a committee today ogns N. TIllineis st.; 2d ‘Li. Samtel to begin immediate work on draw-|gier husband of Mrs. Ruth N: Bier, ing plans for the formation of a new | trade union’ international.

{Continued on “Page §—Column ol

§ p. m. Monday but heard no more f it until the wreck was found.

Mrs. Gillam’s husband, Burell, is mployed at Allisons. The couple ame here from Kokomo five ‘years

Ago. Survivors, other than the. husband,

are her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wal~ three brothers, David, gunner’s mate 1-c¢, Norfolk; pl Gerald, Oklahoma, and Paul, . Miss and Miss Ruth Ann and Miss Elizabeth, An-|

r Lee, Anderson; Anderson, and three sisters, Virginia Philadelphia,

erson. Burial will be in Kokomo.

LOCAL TEMPERATURES

TIMES INDEX

Amusements, , Jack Bell ,

ines

6 (Ruth Millett .

Legislature Acts to Compel Respect for Seeing- Eye Dogs

By SHERLEY UHL

PUBLIC FAILURE to respect at all'times the rights of blind world war II veterans and their seeing-eye dogs had state legislative wheels

twirling at a record pace today.

Astounded over reported discourtesy shown sightless ex-service-men, Governor Gates demanded immediate introduction and passage

of a bill fortifying laws pertaining to seeing-eye pets.

It all began when the American Legion here received evidence “that numerous public places had refused admission to the blind-guiding canines. For instance,’ Thomas Hasbrook, ‘an ex-marine, who was blinded bya land mine, has heen barred from some theaters, amusement - cénters . and other public places when accompanied by Fay, his seeing-eye dog. Custodians of several large downtown buildings have denied

Fay admission to the premises.

A few clubs also have rules pro‘hibiting canine visitors—even if they're dogs of mercy. ” "The crowning blow came when Tom's pet was refused entry to

. inthe « very bfilding in which his

draft board is located. At the time, Tom was: reporting back to I asa for rehabilitation seryThe 25-year year-old ‘veteraxy realises hese lncldents without malice

eho

trained in the art of silence and obediencé, he points out. They usually lie down immediately . when immobilized in a crowd. And they never bark or growl in per formance of duty. ! Mr. Hasbrook ang the American Legion think it might be a good idea for the public to acquaint [tselt with this situation.

“It appears probable t the seeing-eye’ guides will multiply as the war continues. The Seeingeye institute of Morristown, N. J,

is donating the educated pups tb .

all servicemen with the desire and patience necessary to them.

The 11th district American Legion has acted to recodify priv-

ileges extended blind veterans and their dogs. 'An amendment,

drafted by Attorney General |

James, Emmert, specifies that:

“Any person Who by reason of

of diphtheria in a German prison] camp killed. In addition an infantryman 70 miles southwest of Berlin.

is missing, five men have been| | WORLD AFFAIRS .

wounded and one is a prisoner.

DEAD

Herbert L. Smith; 1207

* Cpl. 30th st., Pfc. Raymond E. Vaught, W. 20th st, in Germany. > Sgt. Donald C. Byers, 409 Spring . | st., over Germany. Pfc. Monroe Taylor, 1654 Carrollton ave., in France,

MISSING

Pvt. Emerald F. Poster, 3140 N. Keystone ave., in France.

.. WOUNDED “T. 5th Gr. Harry Lee Fitch, 1037 N. Tibbs ave., in France. Bugle Master Jack YF. Miller, 1523 Churchman ave, in the South Pacific. Pfc. James R. Goodyear, R. R. I& Box 731, on Guam, Pfc. Robert C. Yager, 615 N. | Bradley ave, in France, Pvt. Robert P, Duncan, 730 N, Denny, in Belgium.

. PRISONER

| 8. Sgt. Lawgence Otto Wilson, 822 | Buchanan st, of Germany.:

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By WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS _ Seripps-Howard Foreign Editor WASHINGTON, Feb, 14.-R sia's entry into the war re

date, is now regarded as just about certain. The selection of San Francisco as the meeting place of the first conference of the united nations, and df April 25 as the date, may or may not have significance.

notice to Japan terminating their non-aggression pact on Apri} 26’ 1046. But whether she does is not

What ia Important ts the fast that Russia has many important scores to settle with Nippon and

Japan, perhaps at a not distant |

usia may of may ook give | i

| that” she would hardly overlook |

statement revealed ‘would

and three others have been/to the southwest, and Magdeburg, bring the complete * '"demoralization! of war.”

. By William Philip" Simms in the Southwest 120m w. Soviet War Against Japan Is Seen as Almost Certain

Soviét-Japanese treaty as barring: