Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 February 1945 — Page 1

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FORECAST: Cloudy with oceasional light rain changing to snow flurries tonight and tomorrow; colder tonight and much colder tomorrow.

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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1945 : Le Burg as Second-Class Matter at Postolfice ;

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McQuaid: ‘Blasted Dams Place ‘Ol’ Man River’ On Nazis’ Side In West”

By B. 3. McQUAID Times Foreign Correspoudent WITH CANADIAN “AMPHIBIOUS INFANTRY,” > On the Rhine Floods Front, Feb, 15.—Imagine a raging Mississippi flood with a war thrown in. — + That gives you a picture of the this sector of the western front—along the DutchGerman boundary, north and east of Nijmegen. The Rhine's flood waters at this point inundate 8 strip of country averaging five miles in breadth for more than 15 miles, This exterids along the mighty

river's southern and southwestern

scarcely less formidable branch, the river Waal,

week. allies’ situation in

lets it in,

boundaries, and its flat land.

River on his side.

The Germans produced this effect by blowing vari-ous-dikes as soon as Field Marshal Sir- Bernard L. Montgomery's current attack began to get rolling last

THe Canadians have retaliated, wherever possible, by counterflood measures. in an effort to drain off the water as fast as the enemy

They blew up other

But the enemy has a whole weight of ‘Ol’ Man Little has been accomplished by our side thus far by way of reducing the dimensions .of the fat, sprawling water giant that lays over this

SPEED LEGION BUILDING FUND BILL IN HOUSE

Committee Sends Measure, “To Floor With if

Indorsement.

BULLETIN

+The house ways and means committee today indorsed the bill appropriating $2,500,000 for construction of fhree new American’ Legion buildings on the War Memorial plaza. The measure will be reported to the house floor favorably this afternoon, shortly after National Legion Commander Scheiberling makes his appeal for legislative assistance. ; An amendment will - specify that if the legislature grants the $2,500,000 fund, the Legion will be required to retain its national headquarters in Indianapolis,

Son's Letter

Followed by Death Notice

THE WAR DEPARTMENT telegram that Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur Buchanan, 2437 Stuart st, were prepared for by their own soldier son came last night. The son, 2d Lt. Vernon Clayton Buchanan, was killed in action -on Luzon, Jan. 9. Only Feb. 5 the Buchanans received a letter from Vernon which he hoped would never be delivered for that would mean he was either missing or dead. » ” w LATER on that ‘day the telegram came reporting Vernon missing in action. “If my death helps end this war one minute sooner, I consider it worth witile,” Vernon had written. A navigator - bombardijer on a B-29, he had given the letter to a friend, to be mailed in event he was reported missing or killed,

Another portion of the bill, authorizing a tax levy to raise $1,700,000 for. completion of the general War Memorial plan, was stricken “out + pending. further discussion of its merits.

National American Legion Com- |:

mander Edward #. Schéiberling today urged Indiana legislators to take immediate steps necessary to keep national Legion headquarters ‘in , Indianapolis. Id a speech prepared for delfvery his afternoon before a joint session “of the house and senate, Commander Scheiberling ‘said; “The Legion has grown by leaps and bounds. We now have a membership In excess of 1,500,000; and more than 600,000 in the Legion auxiliary. ... , We are e World War 1 and II veterans at the rate of 125000 a month, . . . Already, we have enlisted approximately. 300,008 discharged World War II ve

Five ‘Million Predicted

The national commander predicted that the American Legion eventually would attain a member.

ship. of -5,000,000, with an auxiliary |’

of half that size. His appeal was in reference to a ‘bill appropriating $2,500,000 for construction ef three new Legion buildings on the War Memorial plaza. One of the structures would be used by all veteran organizations. The measure is now pending in the house ways and means committee. Failure to appropriate the fund by May, Legion officers have warned, will result in transfer of Legion national headquarters elsewhere. “It is my earnest hope,” . said the commander, “that I may be able to report. to our national executive committee in May that Indiana has found ways-and means to build the needed structures on the War Memorial plaza.

Qualifies Position

“These added facilities for veterans would end forever any suggestions relative to possible removal of national Legion headquarters from Indiana.” . He said he had, in previous speeches, expressed his determination to retain the home of the Legion in Indianapolis. However, he pointed out that this determina- | tion was based on the premise that “Indiana contemplated and would

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TEMPERATURE DROP | EXPECTED TONIGHT

LOCAL TEMPERATURES . 10am

Sa.m.... 11a. m

Spring seems well on its way In Indianapolis but the warmth that sent the mercury into the high 60's will be short-lived, weather bureau experts said today. Temperatures are expected to fall tonight, accompihied by light rain, changing: to snow flurries. More snow flurries are predicted for tomorrow with even colder tem peratures.

TIMES INDEX

. 10, Charles Lucey 16 Ruth Millett. 15 5 Movies

| HOOSIER HEROES—

2 Listed as Dead; Brothers Among

Today's list of 13 war casualties includes two dead and three missing. Two of the missing are brothers. KILLED Sgt. Albert Monroe, 953 Albany st., on Leyte; Pyt. Harry W. Strough, 2138 N. Bosart ave., in ‘Germany.

MISSING

Pvt. Joseph D. Carrico, 15634 E.

Raymond st., in Belgium, T. Sgt. Clyde Hurst, Cloverdale, grandson of Mrs. Ina Huron, 5050 E. 11th st., over Samar island. .Bgt. James H. Hurst, Cloverdale,

* [grandson of Mrs. Ina Huron, over

Germany.

WOUNDED Pfc. Albert P. Stanfield, 836 N. Somerset ave. in France. Pfc. Millard 8." Byers, 956%; Lexington ave, in Germany. Pfc. Joseph H. Leake, 1532 E. Market st, in Germany. Pvt. Werner K. Loeb, 3704 Salem st., in Germany. Pfc. Robert C. Starkey, 4815 E. New York st, in Belgium. ! Pvt. Walter E. Lewis Jr. 1244 E. Washington st., in Belgium. Pfc. Harry W. Boggess, 917 N, Belle Vieu pl, in Europe. . PRISONER

8. Sgt. Bernard Langenbacher, 1126 Congress ave., of Germany.

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INDICATES 5 MILLION MEN ARE OVERSEAS

Gen. Handy Gives Testi-

mony at Senate Hearing.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 15 (U.P.).— The senate military affairs commit-

3 More Missing

JUSTICE DEPT URGED TO ACT IN VOTE PROBE

Sen. Stewart Makes His Recommendations to

Special Committee.

By DANIEL M. KIDNEY Times Staff Writer WASHINGTON, Feb. 15.—Action

~|by the justice department in the 1944 Indiana election case was rec: |

ommended today to the special senate elections investigating commit tee by Senator Stewart (D. Tenn). A chairman of the sub-commit-tee which conducted the hearings

in Indianapolis during Christmas week, Senator Stewart prepared his

{final report containing bitter cas-

{tigation of State Atty. Gen. James | Emmert.

Senator Stewart hoped to have his Republican colleague at the hearing, Senator Ball of Minnesota, join in the findings before submitting it to the full committee for final action next Monday. However, Senator Ball may present his own report. It is a two-man committee. In recommending: justice department action, Senator Stewart said he did not think it would unseat Senator Homer Capehart (R. Ind.), whom he explicitly freed of all blame in his report. But he suggested that it might involve certain Marion county Republican officials, ‘perhaps County Clerk «Jack ‘Tilson.

Reviews Al Evidence

In his final report, Senator Stewart" reviewed. all of the evidence and recited details of the sequence of events which led to former. Governor Schricker, Democratic candidate ' for the senate against , now Senator Capehart,

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eighths of the army's total manpower now is serving overseas. This would mean upward of 5,000, 000 army personnel is overseas. The testimony was given in closed session by Maj, Gen. Thomas T. Handy, assistant chief of staff, as a witness on the pending work-or-

“lelse bill, \

Committee Chairman Elbert D. Thomas (D. Utah) gave reporters a sketchy outline of Handy's testimony which he said was brought out largely in response to questions about army utilization of its manpower,

By ERNIE PYLE Times War Correspondent HONOLULU~The hour of leaving came at last.

Usually when starting overseas, you don't get away on the day

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{at the ‘polls, and -Mr.

sending a telegram to clerks say{ing .that vetérs could be sworn in Emmert's telegram countermanding that order and requiring a trip. to the court house to straighten out registration.

A check of Marion county reg:

istrants following the hearings in Indianapolis largely is relied on by Senator Stewart in demanding justice department action. . He pointed out that this inquiry disclosed that 50,000 voters had been purged from the Marion county registration list; a total of 21,510 were checked by committee investigators and of this sum 19,278 were Democrats. and 2232 Republicans. “These facts alone raise a tompelling presumption that the cancellation of .registrations was con~ ducted with a view toward disfranchising as many known Democratic voters as possible,” the report charged. : Citing the changing of boundary lines in 80 Marion county precincts in March, 1944, the report points out this was qrdered by Republican commissioners and greatly contributed to the confusion of the Togis tration lists, It termed the condition at the

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B-29’S ATTACK JAPAN | FROM TINIAN BASES

WASHINGTON, Feb. 15 (U. P.). ~—S8uperfortress attacks on Japan have been stepped up by opening of B-29 bases on Tinian island in the Marianas, it was announced today. , The disclosure came a few hours after a 20th air force bulletin announced that a force of the huge bombers had struck the big Japanese aircraft center of Nagoya. Tokyo radio reported the raiding force was 60 strong. The war department gave no details of the

the Caradians. dikes

rising ground.

under observation.

Scattered German forces and garrisons are cut off,

When the floods Yoprn to pour n they quickly engulfed dozens of “highways and scores of villages. Some of these villages had already been captured by Along many of the roads, Canadian troops and vehicles were rolling.

Most of them had enough warning to get back to But here and there units were cut off. Others received orders to stand fast and hold isolated bits of high ground, by means of which we dominate “the flooded area and keep enemy movements

"too. risin|

: plan kind

the whic

the

[troops being ferried up to small islands of enefriy-held

It must be to the everlasting credit of those who

amphibious craft. These include ducks, as well as buffaloes (the name

craft These vehicles have permitted, us to push .across

Against’ Yhem the pattie. goes on—with assault g ground and villages. inundate.

ned this operation that somebody foresaw this of warfare and provided a goodly .quantity of

port for Canadian British give to those tracked amphibious vehicles h closely resemble our Pacific amphibious assault

“amphtracks’). five miles northeast

, 1945. flooded area toward what used to be the Rhine bi ad

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Lt. Gen. Walter Bedell Smith he flunked in math and science but he’s Manual’s A-1 general in Getmany, »

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DENIES FOR PLANS | A VISIT 70 FRANCE

“High Authority’

Reports From Abroad.

PARIS, Feb. 16 (U. P.).—An unimpeachable authority said today that reports President Roosevelt is planning to visit France are untrue. = The authority quoted by name, For reasons of military security it is not possible to disclose Mr. Roosevelt's itinerary or to confirm the reports of Marseilles ' hewkpapers that the President stopped there en route back to the United] States. : However, it was stated by the high authority that the President is. not visiting Paris, the western front or any other point in France. (In Rome both military and dip10matic quarters deniéd that President Roosevelt was expected there to visit the Pope.) | Churchill Pauses |

n Athens.

ATHENS, Feb. 15 (U. 2) Priel | Minister Winston Churchill p in Athens on his way Roe aed the Big Three conference yesterday | to deliver a. stirring call for Greek | unity and to pledge Britain's ope port in rehabilitating this strife-! torn country.

Churchill drew a tremendous ovation from the people of Athens, where only a few weeks ago British armed forces had intervened in the bloody Greek civil war. . Churchill told 30,000 cheering Athenians that Greece has a bright future and that he hoped she would “take her proper place in the circle

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refused to be

Pyle: ‘We Left After Supper and Reached Honolulu af Daylight—Nothing Unusual’

them I weleomed with a big embrace. I felt ‘ike saying to it “Ah, my love, you are the day ‘of my dreams. You are my one more day of security—how 1 cherish you.” "But the final day came, and at - last the hour. I put on my uni-

form again for a long, long time, -

and sent mys civilian

to a friend in Los Agios ‘2g kesp for me.

It was night whien we left, San

of the Victorious nations.”

ice. In the navy they call it. “NATS,"” as though it spelled a word. The army's equivalent ‘is the ATC. I've flown on both of them 80 much I feel like a stockholder. They fly all over the world on clock-like schedule, over all the Oceans and all the continents, SArrye mall and cargo ih flown. Atlancie “four. . ‘dimes, but this was my first flight across the: Pacific, You go non-

Manual's Arda Knox Proud of Her Genetals

_ Brig. Gen. Kehneth Buchanan . a brilliant pupil at Manual in 1911 . . an infantry commander in France in 1945,

Smith. Buchanan and Weir Were Her '‘Bright-Eyed Boys’, bse

EPwar I ihiool ays. drowned

over their algebra books at Manual high school. Today they are generals in the United States army stationed in France, Germany and Washington, D. C. Classmates at Manual, Lt. Gen. Walter Bedell Smith, Brig. Gen. Kenneth Buchanan and Brig. Gen. Jobn Weir learned their square

roots and right angles - from Manual's “sweetheart,” Miss Ada Knox. Just recently Gen. Smith of the 1913 E. M. T. H. S. class took time out from combat on the Western front to answer a lettér from his former mathematics teacher. Miss Knox, reading about her

| former pupil's military achieve-

Read Anton Scherrer’s fourth article on Manual Training high | school . . . on Page 15 today.

ments in newspapers and magazines, wrote him a letter on New Year's day. - “I don't suppose.you will even remember me,” Miss Knox, now a retired schoolmarm, had written. “When I saw your picture in Time magazine, I could just see that little old black head down over your algebra book.” But Gen. Smith remembered Miss Knox very well.

“The - Bright Spot”

“It seems quite Impossible to me that any of your former students should not remember you with sincere affection,” he wrote. “To me you were always the one bright- spot in an otherwise

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LEGISLATURE SPEED SEEING-EYE E MEASURE

Passed w House, Gates Waits Senate 0. K.

Governor Gates today was pfepared to sign a bill legalizing the

admission of seeing-eye dogs to all’

public places in Indiana without qualification. The measure, sponsored - by the 11th district American Legion,‘ was introduced and passed by the house yesterday in record time under suspension of the rules. It was to be sent through the senate in a matter of minutes this afternoon. Decision to press for immedia

action of the proposal came after

American Legionnaires reported in stances in which sightless servicemen had been denied entry to certain building amusement places when accompanied by their seeingeye dogs. .. Meanwhile, * city councilman R.

C. (Bud) Dauss disclosed today that |.

he had prepared an ordinance further & seeing-eye prerogatives for imavluction in

Bombs . Cut Path For Lightning | Red Push.

By ROBERT MUSEL United Press Staff Correspondent

LONDON, Feb. 15.—More! than . 1100 American Flying Fortresses and Liberators smashed today at targets only a dozen miles ahead of

the onrushing Red army. The new raids brought to more than 11,250 the number of planes] that have blasted the Reich In| 36 . hours. Berlin, meanwhile, said that Russian forces had broken across the Neisse river on both sides of Forst. | This strategic rail hub is 62 miles {southeast of Berlin and the same distance northeast of bomb- | blasted Dresden. Other Soviet forces were within | 45 miles of Dresden.

Smash Dresden Again

| ‘American planes smashed again be Dresden and Cottbus, strategic Sracsport | center just 12 miles west! Red army at Forst.

Brig. Gen. John Weir . . . Manuals good-looking schoolboy in 1909 now heads the wir crimes section ‘in Washington, D. C.

BLOW EXPECTED ON CORREGIDOR

ans Report Yank Tvaders Clearing Manila Bay

{yet given to the Red army by the | U. 8. strategic air forces. | The bombers had an escort of] more than 450 Mustang fighters, bringing the total air force hurled For Conquest. at Germany today to 1550 planes. . The ‘American assault followed a "MANILA, Feb. 15 (U. P.).—Tokyo| 3ouple blow by 1300 R. A. F. fourbroadcasts said today that U. S8.| {engined bombers at Chemnitz, 38! minesweepers have begun clearing | miles southwest of Dresden, and | the .entrance to Manila bay for afi|Smaller-scale ‘raids on Berlin and

apparent imminent assault on_Cor- | Other targets during the night. 3hpares 8 Core Both Nazi and Soviet reports]

| The milieswespers are leading 10] indicated that Marshal Ivan S.| transports jammed with fresh in-|-0neV’s army was running rampant. | vasion troops, Tokyo reported. His lightning drive was laying American troops meanwhile threw | open”the flanks of the German de lan armored cordon across the burn- | f€Nses ‘before Berlin and Dresden, ling Manila waterfront. | the Saxony capital which has been | They swung in from the south | Staggered by Anglo-American aerial land east to storm the last big|OnSlaughters. center of resistance in the old A German military spokesman re- | walled city. | ported that the Russians had ad- | Twenty-five miles to the west, |vanced to points northwest and | American warplanes were hammer-| Southwest of Forst, on the west bank ing Corregidor. of the Neisse. Recapture of Corregidor would | The admission indicated a major enable the big guns of the Amer-| break through the Neisse line. ican battle fleet to work over the| Report Junction of Armies

remaining defenses inside Manila oh at close range. The Nazi spokesman said Konév’s

‘They probably! : . army and that of Marshal Gregory would wipe out all resistance nig Zhukov had made a junction

er lsat said American | 7 Ihe: 5 i hecked al warships shelled Corregidor heavily the iN wi re OE hosing on Tuesday. Inside Manila, the bulk of the|447s while Konev was developing

Japanese’ defenders were being | "2 sweep through-Lower- Silesia: herded slowly back behind the mas-{ Observers took the Berlin report sive walls of the Spanish clty—the| to miean that they now were Joining Intramuros—under savage attack. forces for ‘a possible assault on the capital from the east and south. : . : A Moscow broadcast reported that ILLNESS CONFINES POPE “Konev has smashed through the VATICAN CITY, Feb. 15 (U, P.).| Oder, and he is entering the battle —Pope Pius XII was confined to bed | for Berlin and moving with a ra{today with a light attack of in-| pidity catastrophic for the Ger{fluenza localized in his throat. All| mans. The Oder Te is collapsing | audiences scheduled for the day and losing every vestige of its once were cancelled. | great importance.” 'n »

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and Waal banks. Also to supply and relieve iolated garrisons and outposts and rescue transport and combat columns stranded on those shors stretches of road which the foaqwaters did not quite

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The principal altensive job of our inland buffalo. navy just now is furnishing supply and assault trans-

troops . who have been driving

toward the sizable German city of Emmerich. Emmerich is on the Berlin side of the Rhine, some

of Eleve.

by The Tuttanapalis Simes and Chicago Daily News,

MONTY BATTLES TO CROSS RHINE; 11,250 PLANES RIP REICH IN 2 DAY

Allies Driving to Turn Siegfried ~Barrier.

By BOYD LEWIS United Press Staff Correspondent

PARIS, Feb. 15.—Canadian 1st army troops seized the western terminus of a Rhine river ferry crossing from Emmerich today. They were locked in a blazLing battle for a crossing that

would outflank the main Seigfried =

fortifications guarding Germanys industrial Ruhr valley. To the southwest they captured Kessel, key outpost of the Goch transport center at the north end of the Siegfried line. The capture of the Bosierieh ferry terminal broke up traffic over the Rhine at a crossing where the Germans had been evacuating forces. falling back before Gen. H. D. G. Crerar's offensive ‘toward the Ruhr, g Advance 2 Miles ,

Canadian units slogged to the

or Kleve. The ferry installations were taken easily. Scots manning the south wing of Crerar's offensive pushed out from Viller to overrun Kessel,’ three and a half miles northwest of Goch. They pushed on down the highway | foward Goch several hundred yards, and apparently were in position for {a direct assault on the big road Junction, © Other units expanded the eastern{most of two bridgeheads over the {Nier to a mile and three-quarters. The two footholds across the‘ river west of Goch were expected to be Joined soon. German resistance still was tough. Additional reinforcements were believed to have moved in before Crerar’s front.

Weather Curbs Fliers

Hazy weather held down air activity. The 1st tactical air force re< ported 121 fighter-bomber sorties by noon. A series of heavy explosions from the Arnhem area 16 miles north of Kleve aroused speculation that the Germans were dynamiting the Rhine dikes and locks there .to spill

stray bits: of -

we

new floods down on the advancing

Canadian army. The Germans were fighting sav~ agely with their backs to the Rhine

and. pumping. in. fresh reserves hour-

ly to bolster their line. Cerman infantry ‘and armored forces were reported battling desperately to prevent a crossing, backed yp by heavy artillery fire,

CHINESE WIN BURMA TOWN CHUNGKING, Feb. 15 (U. P.). —Chinese troops have occupied the Burma road town of Kutkai, 36 miles north of Japanese-held La-

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