Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 March 1945 — Page 2

A Weekly Shave by the Washington Steff of the Scripps-Howard Newspapers

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conference 1s plan to exact reparations from Germany in plants;

machinery, rolling stock, raw materials, It means reorganization of European heavy industry, correction

of past unbalanced situation which

arming, waging war than any combination of her neighbors. Talk here is that control of German, Japanese export policies»will be considered also when final peace terms are written. dl these countries from undercutting others in world, markets with their cheap labor, managed currencies, government export ‘subsidies ~Which could bring on another world depression, if continued.

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WHO'LL BE loan administrator?

Fred M. Vinson continues to be

on whether James Byrnes can be persuaded to stay on in OWM after If he can't, Vinson will be needed there.

Germany is defeated. Donald Nelson is a possibility. Charles Sawyer of Ohio, now amba 8 n 2

Baruch Out as Byrnes’ Advisor

IT IS NOT . generally. known Baruch has not been Byrnes’ advisor

official act for Byrnes was to turn in, with Jock Hancoek, the report That was in Fébruary,

on reconversion and post-war. Baruch immediately thereafter the park bench and the pigeons and

made Germany more capable of

Idea is to

u - o It's anybody's guess. mentioned here but ‘that depends

At least one senator is backing ssador to. Belgium, # » E 4

around Washington, but Barnie

NAZIS BLAST 3

ing within five miles of a juncture. with -the south-bound ‘Canadian 1st army. :

™ re Re

RHINE BRIDGES

1st Army. (Continued From Page One). ;

and- Krefeld, trading shot for shot with German gunners on the far side. At the same time, Berlin said powerful British 2d army forces were massing in the Emmerich area 50 miles to the north for a major attempt to, hurdle the great river barrier. 9th Slashes Ahead

"Behind the blazing Rhine front, the 8th army was slashing through the 21-mile-wide Rhine- Maas cor= ridor at breakneck speed. The ‘9th was chopping up bypassed German units and was driv-

A big segment of the German 15th

for several months. Baruch's last

1944, closed his office, moved back to squirrels of Lafayette Square, his |

Fifth ave. Brownstone mansion in New York, his Hobcaw’ home in South Carolina, his Carlton hotel suite in Washington.

While congress was legislating cellation, etc.

reconversion, war contracts can-

he was still consulted by Byrnes.

Law setting up office of war mobilization and reconv ersion was

passed in October, 1944. 12. O. Max Gardner, ex-governor of

North Carolina, was named chair-

man. Most of other members are names familiat in business, labor, agriculture pressure groups. Baruch was out of a job. And Byrnes was out an advisor. He stopped seeking Baruch's advice; he never started getting advisory board’s counsel. Maj. Gen. Lucius "Clay, wheelhorse of OWMR office, doesn't want _ civilian advice, hearkens only to military. Byrnes and Baruch, old friends, are still on good social terms, still see each other frequently for a drink and a chat. But Byrnes is going his own way politically, and } probably will not ask for any more Meanwhile Baruch is not exactly on the outside looking in. On his frequent visits to Washington he’s still consulted by WPB, army, navy, civilians of all classes. He's interesting himself in treatment of “veterans, medical care, terms of the peace to come. He was in President's gallery 1 when F. D. reported to congress

_on Crimea conference. = = 2

PHILIPPINE leaders favor War Manpower Director Paul V. McNutt as U.. 8. high commissioner, sources here say. They prefer “the one-time Hoosier governor, who held the post from 1937 to 1939, over Justice, Frank Murphy, who was there earlier. McNutt's friends say he is receptive. He is weary of quarrels with army, over national service legislation, and thinks he got a shabby deal from Undersecretary Patterson in senate committee Haseo over yoRk-or | bill,

ve Who Would: Buy? Ties WHAT THEY call “highest echelons” at the war department are hcing asked to approve a plan for closing down the $135,000,000 Canol (Canadian oil) project in the far north and putting it up for sale. : But the question is, who would buy? Government probably would be Tucky to gét a small percentage of its original outlay. Canada might want the pipeline and refinery, plus the roads and airfields. Mead committee probably will hold another executive hearing on the project next week. Whether a public hearing on Canol's operation - will . follow - depends on whether army and committee representatives can get together. Final report may show that it costs about $43 a barrel (42 gallons) to make aviation gasoline at Canol refinery.

8 8 8 TAKE A new look at your larder | . . food supply is getting tighter in some important categories i You (the average American) | . had 147 pounds of meat last year but théy're talking now about 126" | pounds per capita for 1945—and try to find.it in some areas! Hog and chicken production is down, beef up some, but not’ enough to offset pork declines and » heavier army buying Bigger butter production season | is ahead, but surplus will be put «aside for the won't get any oils will be tighter, too.

military and you |

more. Fats and |

1 With more soldibrs overseas, it |

SENATE DROPS FUND

FOR STATE HOSPITAL

One of the bitterest fights so fir in the legislature developed in. the senate yesterday from the budget bill of a $1,000,000 item for construction of a crippled ‘. children’s hospital in northern Indiana, . Senator Charles: Phelps, Ft. Wayne, charged that elimination of the appropriation was “political trickery.” “We were promised: the hospital but it appears thie promises have

_been worthless,” he shouted on the:

f oor of the senate. “There will be an investigation of this and it ay | -

ofthérn Indiaia" senators joined him but the budget bill was

Datacom to. to enactment without the

A reion ws wiped | , urging

the state

to introstudy in

| North and possibly

over elimination |

takes more to keep the military food supply pipelines filled: hence | military buying is likely to -get | heavier. There's talk that army is buying too heavily, but war food people aren't sure vet There'll be good supply of fluid | milk (38 quarts per capita, highest ever in the U. S, was last year's consumption); cereal products will be O. K., with grain outlook favorable again; plenty of fresh vegetables. But sugar will be ‘tighter—four pounds per capita less on home supply, 10 pounds less per capita for industria] consumption (soft drinks, candy, ete. War food people say: Nobody will go hungry, but people will have to turn to substitutes. s tJ 2

The Williams Vote

SENATE will refuse to confirm Aubrey Williams for REA . administrator next week, according to present indications. “Poll shows 7 or 8 wte margin against him, says his opponents. s ” ”

LABOR department is discover‘ing that more women than it

larmy faced destruction in the fast{closing Canadian-American trap.

in headlong flight across the Rhine under savage aerial | bombardment.

{off by the 9th army breakthrough to ithe Rhine; {southward toward {tempt to join the That created an OWMR advisory board of |rison for a death flight ‘In the

(ruined cathedral city.

artillery army forces driving in through the Nazi defenses-five miles to the west.

the Rhine: from Cologne.tg- Nijmegen {was turned and useless as a defensive barrier for the German Ruhr.

anticipated plan to: ‘keep jobs |Buchholz Niederhausen an

{burg, seven

(if they ean) after the war, Preliminary returns from women’s bureau survey indicate about 80 pér cent want to continue working, and most of them regard work as- economic heécessity. : ; ¥ & 8. | MARGARINE manufacturers are preparing.” renewed camy )} $8ign, ta remove state taxes, and

of the Rhine bank.

sions were. converging on Cologne.

and villages west of the Rhineland

Tens of thousands more Nazi were

and artillery

Another large German ‘forcé, cut

reported racing ologne in an ateleaguered gar-

‘Was

Cologne itself was under heavy fire from American 1st

The ‘entire Siegfried line west of

The Nazis apparently were abandoning .all of that 65-miile stretch

Yanks Close on Cologne Elemerits of three 1st army divi-

The Americans. hammered out gains of as much as five miles on a broad assault arc before ‘Cologne vesterday. They captured 16 towns

city. /The biggest “advances, however, were won on the flanks of the Cologne sector, particularly to the south where the Yanks -were thrusting down toward the Rhine city of Bonn, 15 miles south of Cologne. -‘American-heavy guns, armor. and. infantry “reserves were pouring through the three Erft bridgeheads

U. S. 9th Effects Juncture 4 With Canadian /|

F434 ©

I~ Povell Tries a

found a willing and ready customer

through March 24. Dick wastes no the newly purchased cookies.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES Girl “Seout- Cookie -

Sharon, left, and Shirley Parrett, both of Girl Scout Troop 174,

of the Girl Scout Cookie Sale which starts today and continues

TRE SAFE ATER. CLOSE ESCAPES!

Strafing Plane and Enemy ~ Shells Peril General On Inspection.

By. BRUCE MUNN United Press Staff Correspondent PARIS, March 3.—S8upreme Com-

in Dick Powell for the first order

time as he sinks his molars | into

Allied Leaders

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‘their own; can grow up to a civiljzed acceptance of a federal state composed of all nations; a citizenship not limited by.geographic or other boundaries. The note of elation in the speeches of Prime Minister Churchill and President Roosevelt this week springs from a sure knowledge that the three powers that are able to start a new world war have determined to live .at peace with each other. They have pledged themselves to this. Through some proyidential force, the leAders have been inspired and are able to pass to their peoples a part of the new vision. Stalin, a realist, may not have a high regard for the plans-made at Dumbarton Oaks or the hopes held out for the start of a world security orgsnistion at San Francisco. He does know that an agreement with Britain and the United States to prevent war guarantees Russia the time to give its mil“lions of people the food, clothing and material comforts that have been promised them for .over a generation. No doubt, Stalin, who is unconcerned with the democratic process, would be content with a military alliance containing only the three great powers. But Churchill and Roosevelt.want the new world organization to be firm-

ir great force. The front was broadened to more than 10 miles’| with advances north and north-| east of Bergheim on. the to |

to 13 i Be Cologne. Units of the American 8th “divi sion finally cleared Moedrath, ot miles west of Cologne, after a fierce three-day battle. They pushed on | .beyond the town to within five miles of their goal. " Cologne itself, raked by than 3000 tons of British bombs

ivesterday, rocked and flamed ‘con-

‘restrictions. They're Hapetur that Fiinnously foday under. 3. heavy

congress will lift federal levies, but say this will produce new complications do likewise. : Some states, for example, forbid manufacture of yellowcolored margarine. If .federal tax. is removed from colored product, producers of- uncolored will lose their ‘markets.

8 = a

AFL Angered

unless states

American artillery bombardment. Hit Rhine Bridge

There. was no indication that the big railway and highway bridges across the Rhine from Cologne had been knocked out: American divebombers, however, scored two di-|

[rect hits yesterday on the Hohen{zollern railway span. g

Pirst army staff officers expected the Germans to put up a house-to-

-+thouse fight Jor Cologne after the

Americans crack its outer works.

A. F. of 'L., angered by Sidney’

Hillman's charge in London that | bristling with heavy

it is “isolationist,” is intensifying |

The city itself was said to be guns, tanks and machine gun nests hidden in

its campiign to raise $1,000,000 for |underground fortifications.

restoration of frée trade unions in war-stricken countries, including | Germany and Italy, Punds will be raised by A. PF. of L. branch, Labor's League for Human Rights, headed by. Vice President. Matt Woll, and distributed through- International

t Federation pf Trade unions

” ” n STABLE OWNERS, hibernating in the South, are passing out feed-

box tips that government ban on | | racing will be lifted in time for TTPO S a S

regular spring meetings in the in time fo Like most

it's probably an

some in the race track also-ran.

South. tips

i ou " " MARKET 15 sl planes declared army and navy. Bombers -are

Ww for

surplus

used -air=by the

least marketable,

| only two have been sold, 1784 are

on hand Total sold, 23,488.

Sticks to. Radio; : They~Gotta Win'

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worrying about the loss of the team mascot.

to Anderson without something

remindful of Robby. 80 early today he stopped by to pick up

and freshly laundered uniform.

Said Robby, “Gee, Mom, do you think they'll huddle around it before the game? And if we win, do you -think tier might carry it on their shoulders?” As his mother, Mrs, W. B. Mitchell, 611 E. 80th st, said, “Robby 1s very much broken out and very much broken up.”

FIRM FOUNDER DIES

we vy.

A 1st army spokesman acknowl. i.

| edged that the assault might be as |

{hard and bloody as the Battle for |

| Stalingrad.

more |

| { smal]. cargo

Federal World Government

<A gathering of delegates: from all

M ove Toward

ly built dn the foundation of democratic principles. That was one of the main themes of their speeches: They now hope, as. must everyone who has .experienced two wars, that with the small beginnings about to be made, a great change will start in national thinking. At first, it may take the form of new loyalties to the neighbors of a hemisphere or 8 continent. The peoples of North and South America are represented today at Mexico City where the problems -of this hemisphere are under discussion. An ‘early meeting of the. British commonwealths will complement the American assembly in Mexico.

the diverse peoples ‘held in confederation under the Soviet system is expected and will carry it still further. A hope is even glimmering that the factions of China may find some common ground and present to the world a united nation pledged to the ideals of world security. : Such is the hope for the future.’ The realities of the. present tend to becloud all hope.. Barbarian instincts, allegiance to feudal sys- | tems, suspicion and self-interest are being pressed on. every side. | They may collapse tomorrow but there can be no relaxation of the police regulations until the world is united under a new. organization—the united nations.

RYUKYU ISLANDS

Task Force Sashes 5 Jap Ships and 91 Planes.

9* Lotostinued. From Page One)

=n | stroyer, one motor torpedo poat, i vessels; two medium |cargo craft, an ocean going tug and two luggers. Probably sunk were one medium | cargo vessel, six small coastal cargo | craft and six luggers. Listed as damaged were, four destroyer escorts or patrol craft, one medium transport, A medium ‘cargo vessels, nine | small coastal cargo ‘craft, one sel) [freighter and-10-luggers.— The total American losses were | five pilots, three air crewmen and 13 | aircraft, Despite” the task force's close proximity to the .Japanese homeland, our planes encountered no airfopposition,

Yanks Gain on Iwo T On. Iwo, the 3d division resumed

On the 1st army's right flank, 600 yards of sheer cliffs overlooking |

lother units were fanning out rap-

Coach Frank Baird wouldn't go *

PT. WAYNE, ‘March 3 (U. P)— Otto F. Bengs, 78, founder of the

idly against disorganized resistance

southeast of Dueren, Their most ad- [desperatels y—anhd exacting a steady | raids on Japan and Japanese-hel dj

vanced elements were about a dozen

miles bevond that Roer river town

land 13 miles northwest of Bonn at

Friesheim Far to the south, Lt. Gen. George American 3d army cap- | tured andtier-13 German towns and ladvanced . upwards of 3'2 miles on a 45-mile front from the Pruem area down to the | fluence below Trier The 10th armored division, which captured Trier yesterday, than 3000 prisoners in its three-day | battle for: that. ancient. German | city. ree eee

ann oi, NAT) PRISONERS SAY

REICH NEAR PANIC :

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could not be evacuated were shot,

they reported. The prisoners sald many persons {who tried to get out of bomb-bat- | tered Berlin has been' shot by 8.8. |elite guardsmen. Life in the German capital was described as a “horrible nightmare.” Many Germans were eager to flee their homeland in an |

| |

*Robby’s zipper bag with his shoes |attempt to avoid the wrath of the! Monday night at the hall,

| Russians. The Germans were depicted as fearful-that they would gt the same treatment from the Russians that Soviet’ civilians were accorded by the German army. According to the prisoners, trains in Germany are jammed endlessly with civilians trying to get out of the path of the war, Many individual soldiers were reported avoid ‘bay that the' war will end soon. The confusion in

Aaar-Mosel con-|

took more |

ing trains continuously to tle assignments in hope,

rt was reported so great that much of the|

ia beach on the northeast coast.

The Japanse still were fighting

[toll of ‘marjnes despite losses of | nearly three quarters of the original | garrison of 20,000 men. { In the Philippines the 1st. cavalry and 6th infantry divisions were battling yard-by-yard| through the Japanese line east of | Manila in some of the fiercest fight- | ing yet on Luzon, The enemy was resisting savage{ly along, the entire 1ll-mile line |from . Antipolo to Wawa in the! | mountains of the Marakina water- | { shed. The Japanese,

units of

howevetl; put. up only “slight opposition to troops of {the 24th division k which invaded and quickly seized Lubang island, at the western-“end of the Verde age south of Luzon, It'was the loth island invaded by the Americans in the Philippines. Other American forces fanned {out through Palawan, westernmost of the Philippines, and seized’ the former penal colony of Fwahig, across the bay from Puerto Princesa. :

{command of

On Pacific Flight|,

{

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missing airmen. All available air and surface craft | were dispatched "in the area, in| | which the plane “was believed to have gone down. The last ‘report of the transport, which was Gen. Hgrmon's personal plane, indicated ‘an ample fire’ “dup

ply. for the réfirainder GF the: Rignt

{

Weathér &onditiohs in'the area| over which the plane whs flying| {were reported good. It was believed | the ocean was calm. Harmon's Command

The war departmé nt would not confirm or deny the \report. Harmon was given Romgand 2 all army air forces in the Pac "not under “Gen. Douglas Arthur's direct. supervision August. That included Paci he territory north and east of the Philippines, which is under the overall | Adm. Chester ‘W.|

Nimitz. He is

ts: ati ? DUS | |its attack after pushing to’ withinlgiobal 20th airforcel which governs| at the clinic since Jan. 18. Super-

all operations of B-29

fortresses.

territory from bases in India, China| and “the Marianas islands. B-29] [operations in the Pacific are not | under any superior command, but | {are co-ordinated closely with ac-| tivities of all military and naval { units. In his dual capacity Harmon has been responsible for the mighty B{29 raids which have heaped destruc- [ tion on Japan's homeland, including | Tokyo, and for B-29 and other army |* {bombing raids on Iwo Jima that helped pave the way for the marine

{invasion of that island.

27-Year Veteran

mon, a veteran of 27 years in the air, played a notable part in wiping |

There he commanded army ground forces~thaf followed 4&he marines ashore, For his work in this campaign Harmon was awarded fhe distinguished service medal. When he was promoted from major general to lleutenant general in February, 1943, * Adm. William . F. . Halsey

EAGLES TO INSTALL 75 AT BIRTHDAY FETE

| The Eagles will install 75 members 43 W. celebrating their ‘43d

reported |

Vermont #t., anniversary. The champion degree team from Noblesville will have charge. Old members will receive gold pins, Edward Thompson, state president, and Ray Brock, state organizer, will speak.

RELIEF! SATISFACTION GUARANTEED

BLACKHEADS - PIMPLES

praised him highly for © helping make the army and navy a working team in the Pacific. Harmon, who rose to be chief of staff of the army alr forces before | his departure for: active duty in

the Pacific, was born in San Fran. :

cisco Jan. 19, 1888, “He graduated from West Point mn 1912, winning the French Cioix de C(Hiérre “for "his participation as 8 pHot In the Bomma oRensive ups ing world war 1. »

(12 cITY- WIDE

BRANCHES

division command post, propelled plane swept over the gen-

| Miller, Upland, Cal,

[stomach ailment. {old Ths former, three-time governor under Gen. H. H.. Arnold of the!of North Dakota had been a patient He

also deputy commander

mander ‘Gen. Dwight D.' Eisenhower. was back at his headquarters safe and sound today after two

during a tour of advance lines on the Western front. ~-zThe five-star general made the seven-hour inspection trip yesterday by jeep over smashed German roads. ¢ At one point he was within" five miles of the great city of Duesseldorf. Eisenhower had hoped to see action closer to that 9th ariny tare get, but his schedule did not per-

mit.

The enemy, however, provided

several bits of entirely uncalled for action during the tour,

First Close Call His first close, call with German

fire came shortly after he crossed the turbulent Roer river. Just a

few minutes before he reached a a Jjet-

eral’s four-jeep convoy and strafed

the post. The enemy plane

routed by squadrons of Thunderbolts which later raked a group of headquarters, announcing the mulenemy tanks along the nearby Erft| tiple bombardment

canal.

Eisenhower's second narrow escape said oil refineries at Brunswick and was at the end of his inspection Magdebdrg, west and southwest of trip. - Enemy shells landed on an Berlin, were among the “many obairfield only a few seconds after) | Jectives. the general and his British military assistant, Col. James F. Gualt, took

off for their headquarters. The general seemed pleased wit

the results of the week-old offensive as he visited the 29th and! 83d infantry and 2d armored di-|

visions, and the 19th corps.

(The 83d was trained at Camp

Atterbury, Ind).

While looking at the wide scenes of destruction from atop the 300-

year-old fortified citadel of. Juelich,

Eisenhower turned to Lt. Gen. William H. Simpson, commander of the

9th army, and said:

“Juelich will be something for the Germans to think about in the

future.”

During the tour along the battle Eisenhower stopped to pin silver stars‘on two 19th corps offiHubert S. who planned - {the crossing of the Roer and the {assault on Juelich, and Lt. Col. Paul | |S. Bell, Oklahoma City, Okla., who tsupervised-tank destroyer units near

front,

cers. ‘They were Col.

Juelich. Hoosier Surprised

One of the most surprised G.1's|

MITSCHER RAIDS, Gen. Harmon Lost along the inspection points was Pfc. | Donald Deischen, Terre Haute, Ind. | |

the | RED

He - was standing guard -at erranseods ann MeN ouf { Eisenhower's ‘party approac led. Brig.

{port arms,

Eisenhower and Simpson were

{ next. Then came two major generals,

"Raymond S. McClain, corps commander, and Leland H. Hobbs, commander of the 30th division ‘(also ) 0, Dr. Ww. A; Baker of the ag rigulture department, said... Thus{

trained at Camp Afterbury).

sighed: “My gosh, the whole milky way."

SENATOR MOSES OF

« NORTH DAKOTA DIES

March 3 (U. B.).—Senator John Moses, newlast -elected Democratic senator from {North Dakota, died early today -at {the Mayo brothers clinic where he {had been under ‘treatment for al He was 50 years

ROCHESTER, Minn,

underwent an operation last Sep | tember and had.

senate’ last November, Gerald P. Nye. Democratic

North Dakota by popular vote,

NURSE RACES DEATH

TO STRICKEN MOTHER

LICKING, Mo., March 3 (U. P. —Lt.” Beulah M. Greenwalt,

see her critically ill mother, Mr

[Samuel -G: Greenwalt, after a cross.

country race with death, Lt.

Tomas at Manila.

The vivacious, 116-pound brunet automobile

out - the Japanese on. Guadalcanal lafter an airliner trip to Bt. Louis arranged hurriedly so “she might be at the| suffering

nurse came here by

from San _ Francisco,

bedside of her. mother, a heart ailment.

Open ‘Tonight il 9PM. Efroymson’s

- 918 South Meridian St.

narrow escapes from enemy gunfire |,

was quickly | Russian forces.

hl ithe raiders were heading for Berlin.

Geh. H. E. McQuire, corps| Pacific in: an attempt to find the! chief of staff, was the first to salute * |Deischen as. he came to a snappy

After ‘the 13 stars passed” by! | Deischen put down his rifle and

<returned So far these have consisted of Rochester for additional treatment. Moses was elected to the U. 8. defeating .He was the first senator electéd from

the Peggy” of the book, “They Were Expendable,” arrived here today to!

Greenwalt was among Jap_Prior to his last assignment, Har-|anese prisoners liberated from Santo

T, Moin. RTL

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aboard the two small vehicles. But only 26 could get on, ae. WHEN THE trucks were loaded to capacity the M/ P, signalled to the American drivers to proceed. They did so. A little further on they took the road leading back to their own lines. When they were once again in “freindly = territory Sgt. Walkeg headed for the nearest American M. P. He halted his convoy and “turned over his passengers.

rifles with them, They respectfully laid them on the ground. They saluted the American M. P. before being led away to Prisoner cages.

e Chicago Daily News,

{100 PLANES BLAST REICH FOR {STH DAY

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29 miles north of Dresden and directly in the path of Marshal Ivan 8S. Konev's Red army, was one of the targets. Another was the great rail yards at Chemnitz, southwest of Dresden, which the Americans have: bombed repeatedly in direct support of the

United States strategic air force

by Lt. Gen. {James H. Doolitte’s 8th air force,

Heading -Toward Berlin German broadcasts reported that

battered for

capital . apparently

The another deluge, of

prepared bombs. Refugee- packed Berlin tast was attacked in strength’ .by nearly 2000 American planes last Monday, but small forces of R. A. PF. Mosquitoes have been dropping two-ton block busters on the Nazi capital every night for the last nine nights. Besides Berlin, R. A. F. Mosquitoes also attacked the communications center of Erfurt last night. American and British bombers were revealed to have dropped more than 101,000 tons of bombs on Germany last month, most of it during the past two weeks.

BORER-RESISTANT CORN BEING SOUGHT

Times Special

lis being made in developing a hy{brid corn resistant to the European corn borer, Director Harry J. Reed of Purdue said today. Dean. Rééd Heads a committee of Midwest agriculturists who con{cluded a two-day’ meeting here in | which progress reports were rhade {on the new strain of corn and also lon parasites that might destroy the borer. The corn borer. has spread over the country until it now covers most of the corn belt and commercial damage last year amounted to $23,-

far, clean plowing and late planting have been the best-known methods of control. -

PREMATURE TRIPLETS “GETTING ALONG FINE’

HUNTINGTON, Ind, March 3 (U. P.) ~The day-old premature

were reported to be -getting along fine today by their physician. The triplets, two: girls‘ and a boy, were born yesterday, six weeks early,

The Germans still had their

. LAFAYETTE, March 3.—Progress|

triplets of Mr. and Mrs. Cyril Burns :

{ according.to Dr. J. B. Eviston. They |?

_ SATURDAY, MARCH 3, 1048 |

RUSS: REPORTED

To 'Lost' Cooks

SEALING BALTIC

Berlin Admits Trapped in Danzig and

Pomerania.

. By ROBERT MUSEL United Press Staff. Correspondent . RONDON, March 3.—Berlin sald today that the Red army was fight=

the Baltic. The Soviet drive already has cut ‘the last escape routes, according to Berlin, for 200,000 German troops n northeast Pomerania and ‘Danzig. Marshal Konstantin K. Rokossove sky's army in Pomerania cut the Danzig-Stettin, raflway and super highway at Zanow; four miles south of thesBaltic, and struck on toe

the outskirts of Koedlin, key junce tion astride the railway and highe way four uniles west of Zanow, We Nazis said. They estimated that Rokossovaky has thrown three tank and three guard corps into the breakthrough area. . The thrust cut German Pomer= ania in two and virtually trapped an estimated 200,000 German’ troops still holding out to the east. Official Soviet reports lagged far behind those. from German sources, The Russian high command lass night announced the capture. of Dubbertech, 18 miles south of Koes lin, in the Red army's closest official approach to the Baltic in Pom. erania, The “Soviet midnight ~commu~ nique said the Russians had cleared the southern part of long-éncircled Grudziaz on- the Vistula in Poland, killed 3000 more Germans in the East Prussian pocket southwest of Koenigsberg and seized several more streets in encircled Breslau, capital of Silesia. . :

COL. SEGAR ADVISES

jobs that will make them feel they are still contributing to the war effort,” Stout Field officials were toid this week.

Addressing a two-day conference of the I Troop Carrier. Command,

_|Lt. Col. Ralph B. Segar, Air Provost

Marshal's office, Washington, also urged provost marshals to be a little more understanding and give a little more attention to these men when they get into trouble, While army regulations are still army regulations, Col. . Segar explained that returnees have been subject ‘to a different kind of dis cipline in overseas combat areas, where certain regulations have been strengthened and other relaxed.

William D. Olds, of the I Troop Carrier Command and Col. Samuel T. Moore, assistant chief of staff, Maj. Albert S. Dubbin, staff provost marshall, and Lt. Arthur A. Sandusky, his assistant, presided.

after their birth. The doctor said | he thought they would survive, The boy weighed five pounds, one ounce, and the girls each, three] pounds, 14 ounces. =| Burns is a fariier. have a 13-year-old son.

DEATH CLAIM AWARDED

was ordered Court Judge George H

for the death of. her husband. Greter was killed near Dola, 0.

y. man for the company,

way went on strike early today

74,000 persons, >

your funera

make certain you

were placed in incubators shortly f %

They also!

FT. WAYNE, March 3 (U. P)— The Pennsylvania railroad company today a Superior T Leonard to pay $21,000 to Mrs. Marcella ‘Greter |

Jan. 4, while working as a brake- |

BOSTON MOTORMEN STRIKE | BOSTON, March 3 (U. P.).—Some |

|264 A. P. of L. motormert anti con- | ; “ {ductors on the Boston elevated rail-| ii » halting travel over the city's two| ol 4 luaies principal subway lines and affecting | +,57 MONUMENT the transportation of an estimated

TOMORROW WILL BE A FINE DAY TO HAVE THAT NEW PICTURE OF BABY TAKEN

| |

No Appointment Needed

Open Sundays, 11 to & | Other Evenings Till-8:30

ing across the last four miles t8~

ward: the sea, Nazi broadcasts said, | Soviet vanguards also reached ’

PROVOST MARSHALS

“Give returning overseas. veterans

- Other speakers were Brig. Gen. /

; WHEN you call upon us to make.

| arrangements we

receive the utmost

’ in quality regardless of the price to

| FUNERAL HOME | 1508 SOUTH EAST ST.

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‘WARN ‘NOT

Committee Weigh Close

WASHINGT ~The United notice today t in the demand coal - to raise “rainy day” fu Thomas Ken urer of the mi ators’ criticis wage demands their collectivi ence. Some operat: lief the dema 10 cents a ton screen. Kennedy sali mands, includi add only 28 ce duction cost of had put the fi “You ‘canno proposition ou Kennedy said. “merit and we

Two Sta

Kennedy re O'Neill, presid vania central said that two ing in. two di arrived at the Kennedy sal arithmetic hac cocktail lounge The" statistic tainly were in

“When the © ulous figures | added, “they k The royalty « Kennedy said, coal industry. ago- in Pennsy! years most s some northern of five to 10 the United Mir ica out of the conference. Says Dems All of the ur nedy continue conciliatory, in “We believe 1 _ cere, they spral the miners,” h tion must be | are to increas Kennedy's 8] initial public p and a comm chosen to get d

5 Besson

The produce: were allowed tc a-ton “private soon’ would be

sities of "life,

Spokesmen said that by L the 10-cent r taken $36,000,0( treasury in 104 effect. Lewis

eos. yecoyer.

refunds if the union $60,000,0: The operator as Lewis preps

- estimate that Would cost the

a year and bo $3.50 a day. In-Fig After today's negotiations a into the smol Monday. where is expected to Results of ti probably deterr a coal strike

- miners’ present

The produce

' claimed Lewis’

opening wedge by. other union regard musicie Petrillo’s royalt Petrillo now | from one-halt record - from 1 The spokesmar lections were o every Americal coal.

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LONDON, 1 King Peter of 3 last night the 1

| man regency

Yugoslavia un vote on a gover The member; alvjevie, Serbia pendent demo: Mandie, 70-yes yer, and Dus] governor of S minister in M: ment.

OFFICIA

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