Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 March 1945 — Page 1
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, penditures, Adoption of a resolution in he favorites in spite of their house yesterday, creating a commis- 28810 -oii-again” season, were pitted
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United Press War GERMAN DEFENSES west
collapsed, the big question now is whether Gen. Dwight Eisenhower intends to attempt an immediate crossing ‘or will he have to pause after cleaning: up the left
bank and mass reinforcements?
There is little doubt now that a crossing against strong resistance will be necessary, The opposition which the Germans might have put up west of the river did not materialize, The high
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fight. there, could for a barrier.
The area
Editor of the Rhine having
..Robs Rockets of Fuse Lighter
ROBBY MITCHELL is the saddest kid in town. He's got the chicken pox and has to stay home from school. Anti" oh yes, he can't go to the regionals; $ Now that's pretty bad, because Robby is- the 8-year-old mascot who lights the fuse of the‘ Broad Ripple Rockets. Yesterday morning the family “Doc” looked up over his glasses at Mother Mitchell and pronounged, “Chicken pox.” So today Robby 1s following the flaring-up or sputtering-out of the Rockets as they match bas- | kets with Eden in the afternoon
they gotta
§ y tilt, TEAP D( “They - gotta win, 3 hy win,” he kept . muttering. as le
Allows “Individuals to Miné on "State Property.
By NOBLE. REED
The house-approved bill.described by Democratic minority leaders as the “Teapot Dome scandal’ measure was passed by the senate, 30 to 5,
today and sent to the governors
The bill would authorize the state eonservation department to issue permits to private firms and indi vidals, allowing them to extract oil,
gas and other minerals from stateowned land.
The permits would be issued by the state department on a com=
petitive bidding basis.
Democratic leaders said the bill would open the way for a “scandal similar to the Teapot Dome. oil lease made by the federal govern-
ment” 23 years ago. 0: EK. Resources Comusisston
The house passed ahd sent to the | governor_.the senate-approved bill 19-member state flood control and water resources commission to promote and | direct flood control projects all over |
creating a powerful
the state.
The measure would appropriate |
3500002 year expense money ton [mately 1200 Rocket followers fortu-
the commission with an’ extr
$35,000 a year available in the con-|
dngent- funa for Smergency ex-
sion to study the possibility of legal=
Private
.stare@ fondly ‘at the radio which will provide him with a substitute ringside - seat” to - today's fireworks. . His feelings were mixed .as to his importance to the, team. In one breath he would ask his mother, “Do -you think ‘they can get along without me?” "In . the next, “Why worry about something like this. They'll win anyway.” But. Robby is not .the only one
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OVER DANVILLE
Game Opens at 1:30 at Anderson; Teams in High Gear: for Regionals. By BOB STRANAHAN State road 67 was a busy trail today to Anderson — one which ‘Broad Ripple ‘basketball fans hoped {would be a victory trail back to-
| night with “the regional crown. . ~ A motor caravan carried approxi-
{nate enough to obtain precious | pasteboards to the tourney.
5 § Anderson's’ Indians, installed “as [7
“off-
against. Danville’s Warriors in the
fang pari-mutuel betting in Indiana lPitial clash at 1:30 o'clock. Broad |
drew. so much fireworks today that Ripple faced an Eden quintet with | Rep: Earl B, Teckemeyer (R. Indian- an enviable record’ in the second | apolis), author of it, announced that |82me. Winners clash in the night hasty - procedure on it had been a final at 8,
“Joke.” Recalls Resolution
He said Rep. Jess Andrew (R.! West Point) brought it out for ad
itgdo die. in committee,” Rep. Teckemeyer said.
The senate passed and sent to the governor the “house-approved+,
“bill to set up retirement pension fund machinery for all state, county, city and township employees. It would require the sate to match payments made to the retirement fund by employees,
No Menace Is Seen
From White River
LOCAL TEMPERATURES
6a m.,.. 53 -10a.'m.,... 40 %32.m..... 3 1lam..... 9 Sam... 5 12 noon .. 39 Pam... 46 lpm...
Cessation .of rain in Indianapolis today and’ tomorrow will keep river below flood level, Weather bureau officials said today.
Waters in the southern part of] the state have risen from two tol
seven feet and have now passed flood stage at three towns, Edwardsport, Williams and Hazelton. At Evansville, the Ohio river. is five feet above flood level and rising through Tuesday may cause the Ohio to reach a crest of 11 feet above fidod level. J < Public ' schools were closed in Aurora yesterday -and 14 families were removed from theif lowland homes when the Ohio river climbed to 56.4 feet. The crest at Vincennes, 14 feet, is expected Mohday or Tuesday #nd Mt. ‘Carme] is expected to reach its crest, 21 or 22 feet, Wednesday or Thursday,
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Amusements Budrow's gol.
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Jane Jordan. 9
4 hia Millett . 17 . 10 Movies aia 4
ries *9IRadid ;...... 9 9 Ration ‘Dates 9 6 | Mrs. Roosevelt 7 6 [Side Glances. 6 8 8
: OP- | still were in competition, It did not tion: by mistake while perpetrating
some kind of joke on somebody.
“I'll Tecall the resolution from the ! the earlier sniping which sent 712 -fenate and permit
The three -visiting «quintets had
command evidently decided against making the last
held by a covering force of mostly second rate troops —except for the 11 good divisions facing the Canadian 1st army, The latter were necessary to prevent a disastrous break-through on the flank of the troops in the sectors facing the Ruhr and Cologne. The Germans apparently have succeeded in with drawing the greater part of their forces, including the
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_ FORECAST: Cledr and decidedly colder tonight; tomorrow Partly cloudy aid rather cold.
. SATURDAY, MARCH 3, 1945
This was done to save what forces it
ing Canadian army. stronger stand behind the formidable water
Front dispatches speak
which the allies are now taking over was : guards.
_ west,
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Broad Ripple Mascot Robby Mitchell. . , . Broken out and broken up.
‘ bulk of the divisions.which opposed the how rampag-
only ‘several thousands of thosé left behind as rear
An early allied attempt to force the Rhine obviously would be desirable, if militarily feasible. It *. His might succeed in establishing a secure. bridgehead be== , fore the Germans had time to get organized on the . east bank after their general withdrawal from ‘the
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| The Big Question Now: Will We Try To Cross Rhine At Once?
By LOUIS F. KEEMLE
of the prospect of topping his lightning smash through Poland. .
The circumstances are not identi
Zhukov traveled faster and over a far greater dis- .
tance than the allies have had to do. communications lines’ were
strefched.~ Enemy islands remained in
. such
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Carriers Smash
55 Jap Ships,
—9] Planes.
By FRANK TREMAINE United Press Staff Correspondent GUAM, March Adm. Marc A. Mitscher’s bombed and strafed the Ryu|kyu islands in a 275-mile arc within 200 miles of the south-|
TIMES EXCLUSIVES . . . By Our Own Writers
Nazis Fight to Surrender To ‘Lost’ American Cooks
By B. J. McQUAID
Times Foreign Correspondent
WITH THE 84th INFANTRY DIVISION, On the-Rhine Plain, { March. 3. —~Things like this usea to happen in the days ‘when Lt. Gen. George S. Patton's armor was running wild through France. It is one of those circumstances connected with Lt. Gen. William "H. Simpson's 9th army thrusts to the Rhine that make you keep thinking, “This is where I came in.” : A crew of. mess cooks headed by, gt. Charles P. Walker, CaJambia, Tenfr, ‘had driven. twa, |’ ‘truckloads “of hot chow up to -front line troops. They were attacking in the Muenchen-Glad-bach region. En rout back to their headquarters, the cooks somehow got
off the corréct route and out into “Indian. country.” . - The first thing they knew they had passed through a couple of German ‘towns in. which. the ¢ivitians gaped at them in wideeyed amazement. - " = 5 BY THE TIME they reached thé third town, a’ German M. P. held up a .cautioning arm ordering them to stop. They realized ‘that they were in enemy-held territory. They stopped. At once, swarms of uniformed German soldiers—until then not. | in CVIIENR= pad from. nearby hoses. os ro EN Hs har _ They clombired aboard the -mess trueks, jostling and fighting | each other for room to stand. About 200 tried to
|practice sessions on the Anderson HOOSIER VAGABOND . . . By Ernie Pyle’ .
| hardwood under IHSAA regulations {governing centers where host teams
apply in other meets where the |iome club had been eliminated in
squads into the discard. All contenders wound up preparations yesterday in light drills and were keyed to the hilt for. the
competition. Coach Charles Cummings of the
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GATES POWER BILL WILL DIE QUIETLY
‘Made Us Vulnerable,’ GOP, Leaders Say.
The Republican state legislature
{empowering the bofl¥d chairmen to
has decided it went too far in legislation giving: Governor ‘Gates control over bi-partisan state boards by
cast two votes. : The bill giving the governor power * to appoint the chairmen with double voting power had been passed by both houses and was sent to the governor for his signature last week. Last Tuesday it was quietly recalled fromthe governor's desk and sent back to the senate on the pretext ‘of correcting a defect in the title. Yesterday, Republican majority leaders disclosed that the bill will be “pigeon-holed” for a quiet death.
“It will never see the light of day A NEWS ANALYSIS... by Hal O'Flaherty
again, * said a Republican majority leader who didn’t want his name mentioned. + “We were too vulnerable in that legislation,” he said. “The bill not only removed all the advantages of bi-partisan boards but laid us open to criticism tat a three-member board could do the same thing as al four-member, bi-partisan board with. double- -voting chairmen at less cost.” The" bill was - introduced by. ‘Rep. George. Henley (R., Bloomington), G, O. P. majority floor leader, and Rep. Paul Moellering (RR. oo yh Wayne), and was with 100
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The Long Flight to Japan: .We Lost Planes That Day’
IN THE MARIANAS ISLANDS | happen to” them which forbade (Delayed) —No sooner have -the | them continuing on the long B-29 formations disappeared to | dangerous trip. Sometimes it hapthe north on their long flight to | pens immediately after takeoff. Japan than single planes begin | Sometimes it doesn’t happen uncoming back in. til they are almost there. These are called “aborts,” which The first “abort” had a bombis short for “abortives.” It is-a | bay door come open, and couldn't much-used word around a bomber | get it closed. The second had base. ; part of the cowl flap’ come unThe “aborts” come straggling | fastened, and a mechanic unback all day, hours apart. They i are planes that had Something | (Continued on Page T—Column 1)
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WORLD AFFAIRS . . . By William Philip Simms Latin America Drops Old Distrust of United States
MEXICO CITY, March 3.—~One of the most interesting and sig-. nificant developments here is the” change of atlitude on the part of Latin America towards the Unitéd. States. In fact it is epochal, Most of the old fear of the “Colossus of the north” seems gone and’ so is much of the traditional suspicion with which | most of our southern neighbors regarded everything Yankee, Instead there is evident a cer-
tain appearance .of anxiety lest the Unted States occupy itself somewhat too exclusively with the troubles of the big five— -Britain, Russia, France, China | and the United States—to the neglect of our sister republics of this hemisphere. It used to be that whenever the United States talked dbout the | Monroe doctrine and hemisphere
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Allied Leaders Move Toward Federal World Government
and strengthened at San Francisco in April. , Diiring the” next. few years of - painfully slow construction, the "great. powers have pledged thémselves to keep ‘the peace, Their
A GOAL has been fixed by the major © world powers in the outliné of the united natigps. That goal is a federal world government composed of elected Sele gates from every free nation. Slight hope exists of attain. ing this ultimate world state in
The foun-
ture can be started. ‘were ‘at
- typhoon in the Pacific. | | Today’s casualty list also includes veteran 3d marine division battled]
clamber |
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ern tip of the Japanese homeland .| Thursday.
The Yanks destroyed or damaged
Lego soit Hoosier Heroes— 155 ships and small craft and 91 airYcraft, ’Adm. Chester W. Nimitz an-
TOKYO RAIDER, z nounced today. It was the third strike by the “SAILOR OR KILLED fast. American carrier task force in {Japan’s Mare Nostrum (our sea)
{less than three weeks.
"| On Feb) 17 and 18 Mitscher sent | ‘Two Brothers Wor Wounded and Is great task force against Tokyo!
{in the first full-scale carrier strike, Chaplain Ig Listed -as of the war agqinst the Japanese . a = Nazis’ Prisoner. |
capital. Hit Tokyé: Again. ”
On Feb. 25 they Kit TOKYO again v A veteran of the Superfortress in a strike under adverse weather {raids over Tokyo was killed Monday | conditions. One the following day | during a mission in the Pacific and | they attacked the outpost. 1 island la navy man has died during a | of Hachija.
The carrier strike came as “the |
a local chaplain who was captured | foot by foot to within a half mile {while serving with the’ Afieroury- lyr the northeast coast of Iwo.Jima |
{trained 106th - division snd two {in a bid to split the decimated Jap{brothers who were wounded exactly | anese _ garridon. So
8 month Apart duriig Revi Agaldst) Within “tae Mietiste wre of the (he Nazis. The chaplain previously carrier planes’ attack they hit] (was listed as missing. [Mihami, Tokunéjima, Okinoyerabu- | KILLED | ima and the main island of OkinFirst Lt. Wassil Katchmir, 465 W. lawa Jima. in the Pacific. . The Damage Done Seaman 1-¢ Lowell Eugene Elli-| In addition to damage wrought to |
son, 3342 Orchard st., in the Pacific. | military, naval and air installations, Nimitz listed the following damage: |
WOUNDED S. Sgt. Richard Rady, 3453 E. Four aircraft shot from the air, 26th st, in. Germany. 37 aircraft definitely destroyed on Pvt. Walter G. Rady, 3453 E. the ground and about 50 others de-
2th st. in Belgium. stroyed or damaged. However, some |
PRISONER Chaplain George A. Curtis, N. Talbot st., of Germany.
viously inoperational. 1802
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NAZI PRISONERS SAY
(Details, Page Three) HOOSIER IS KILLED; GEN. CLARK'S PILOT ROME, March 3 (U. P.) —Lt. Col. John Walker, 32, Washington, Ind., Lt. Gen. Mark Clark's personal |
pilot, was killéd Feb. 19 in a plane Report Civilians Slain in crash, it was announced today. Cold Blood.
Walker and nine others were on their way home on leave when the R. A. F. transport crashed from a U. S 1ST ARMY HEADQUAR- | 400-foot “altitude at an undisclosed TERS,' Western Front, March 3! location, (U. P).—~German prisoners gave
GAS COUPONS STOLEN lurid accounts today of bloodshed |
land incipient revolt that verged. on | A and B stamps for 100 gallons | P 8
¢ li togeth {panic inside Gerthany., | at a.” pet oF Wilh. a table They said civilians and wounded " Sa oan $50 in small change {soldiers who refused to leave bat- | re ona Fon Uie Moruiian Loan tlefront areas were slaughtered in! : : 80% cold blood. Wounded soldier according ' to Willlam Bernhardt, I ou soldiers who
company president,
WASHINGTON
+ Ropseveélt repert. He spoke of Gen, MacArthur having “completed”
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A Weekly Sizeup by the Washington Staff of the Scripps-Howard Newspapers
WASHINGTON, March 3.—As of today, outlook is .good for senate ratification of a united nations treaty. Wheeler (D. Mont.) and other last-ditchers will fight it but senators were impressed with Roosevelt's report, with the manner in which he entrusted responsibility for peace.to them. He might have lost ‘the peace Thursday afternoon; betting here now. is that he won his fight for ratification, barring unforseen devel= opments and assuming final treaty follows Seneral outline of Dumbarton Oaks as modified at Yala. Fagin » . . s J » » La TIP-OFF on future command in the Pacific Was contained in
ror
his march to Manila, and in the same sentence spoke of’ Adm. Nimitz's néw air bases for future attacks on Japan, a A * .
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BCONOMISYS SAY most important csconrs to come from Yalta o Sdn. Pup 3-Coe $ ’
Entered as Second;Class Matter at Postotfice ~~ is : ee Indianapolis 8, Ind. Issued daily excep Sunday
Eisenhower might have to pause, Just as Marshal Gregory K. Zhukov had to do on the middle Oder after
transport. centers as - Poznan. His . ‘Pomerania and Silesia had to be cleared. ~~ Jiisenhower has no such problem on. his flanks.
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rampaging carrier task force)
of the latter may have been pre- |
Shipping sunk included one, de-|
REICH NEAR PANIC 25: co-pilot.
PRICE FIVE CENTS
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The lower Rhine Has been’ cleared from deep within Holland to the present scene of actiom.” = — ~ r The American 3d army is pounding down the Mosel toward the Rhine, and it in turn is covered by the American 7th and the French 1st army, the latter controlling the river from above ‘Strasbourg to the Swiss ‘border. Eisenhower has available in reserve the whole British 2d army and the 1st airborne army. Possibly he has other forces which have not been unced. These -perhaps have been kept under wraps”for just such a situation. as the present.
cal, however,
considerably: his rear at flanks in
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Robby NAZIS BLAST 3 BIG BRIDGES ON RHINE
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Mitscher Raids Ryukyus
Sap. Harmon Lost Oth Army Effects Juncture. With
Canadians. "BULLETIN PARIS, March 3 (U. P.)—
Elements of the American 9th and * Canadian ‘1st armies effected a juncture in the Rhine-Maas cor ridor for the first time today, By BOYD D. LEWIS United Press Staff Correspondent PARIS, March 8.-—The German army blew up three great bridges across the ‘Rhine at Duesseldorf today. It was a desperate scorchedearth bid to block a river | crossing by American ‘9th army
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Lt. Gen. Yinary P Harmon
. |. Still another Rhine bridge at { Uerdingen, near Krefeld, also was
| reported blown up. : | American patrols were on the
| Rhine in rubber boats, bent -on pre4
venting the demolition of the 410+ = WITH | 0 10 ABOARD {yard spans; when massive explosions = toppled them into the river.
The Duesseldorf - bridges were
! blown up while Lt. Gen. William Covminisr of | of B-29’s |s H. Simpson's Sth army was surging : up to the Rhine dn a broad stretch
Reported Overdue on {in the . wake of the routed and i fleeing German 15th army.
| Pacific Flight. Nazis Spot Patrols
Ba : | The. Germans spotted the patrols PEARL HARBOR, March*3 (U.| edging cautiously across the Rhine P.)—Lt. Gen. Millard F, Harmon, land threw. the switches which
2, dander of air forces of the { wrecked. the three massive spans— : | Pacific aces grea, ‘and nine other lore rail: bridge’ end Awe: highway.
[army officers and. enlisted men pridges. {have been missing in the Pacific! The patrols turned back and | since their plane was reported over-| reached the west bank safely. dué recently from a routine tight. Two of the bridges spanned the Lt: Gen. Robert C. Richardson | {Rhine directly from Neuss, west Jr., commander of army forces in| | bank town in American hands, and | the. Pacific area, made the an-| |the grea? industrial metropolis of nouncement today. | Duesseldorf. x Others beside Gen. Harmon miss-| The third was ing are: [Frotone Fkep ny Niederkasse | So) GEN. JAMES R, ANDER- United Press correspondent Clinashington, D. C, chief of ; staf to Gen—Harmon. lon B. Conger, in 3 dispatch from ¥ [the Sth army front, said Simpson's COL. WILLIAM BALL, Washing» | 83d division now had closed solidly ton, D. C., executive officer. | against the Rhine along most of its Ronis FRANCIS E SAVAGE, frontage opposite Duesseldorf, § , Tex, pilot. (The 83d was trained at Samp
to the north, Duesseldorf to
nt ARCHIBALD D. ANDER-|Atterbury, Ind.) 12%: Brookings, N. D.,, navigator. Unofficial Reports
FIRST Lt. JACK M. WEST, Chi-| The patrol activity on the Rhine [ahead of the 9th army may have given rise to unofficial reports here land in London that scouts had [crossed the river. The flight of the Germans from ‘the Rhineland area west of the river
. DOUGLAS 0. ANDER- ¢ 4 a ion iter, Wash, engineer, T. SGT. STEVE GEIST, Brooklyn, N. Y,, radio operator.
PFC. ARTHUR OFNER, Kansas yw. described in some’ quarters as City, Mo, assistant engineer a debacle. A TECHNICAL SE RGEANT,| Canadian 1st army forces push-
NAMED McIN ERNEY not available).
(full name | ing southeastward toward the American spearheads were expected
Next of kin have been notified by here to make the junction at any
[the war department. time, Army and navy planes and ships| Elements of three 9th army diviare conducting the most extensive sions were deploying along the west search operations ever known in the bank of the Rhine between Neuss
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200-Mile Long Sky Trin Of U.S. Planes Sweep Reich
LONDON, March ‘3 (U, P).—A 700 fighters hit Germany for the 200-mile long sky train of American a Straight Sas + Berlin ts ey fein oward Berlin, n planes smashed today at German! | fanned out over ab { reach Of targets: [central and eastern Germany in a The bombers struck within
40| proadside assault on transport and - miles of the Red army front and on| {industrial centers.
a great arc swinging south and west, of Berlin, About ‘1100 heavy bombers and (Continued on Page 2--Ootuma 7)
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On ie War Fronts
4. (March 3, 1945)
WESTERN FRONT—Nais blow, up PACIFIC~=Caitier planes ini three great bridges across R Rhine | 55 55 ships, “$1 planes in raid on ~t0_Dyesseldort. Ryukus. Marines within half - 0 mile of wo's north coast. Amer EASTERN FRONT--Berlin reports; .jeang bat pely resting Red army is battling over last Japangse east of’ four miles to Baltic, . AlF :
ITALY=Artillery duels inereass|
| forces massing on the west bank. -
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