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VOLUME 55—NUMBER 307
TIMES EXCLUSIVES . . "By Our Own Writers
“Pope Grants Audience to
Reporter, Sends Blessing and A Prayer of Hope to U.S.
By HENRY J. TAYLOR Copyright, 1943, Scripps-Howard Newspapers
ROME, March 5.—His Holiness, Pope Pius XII, recuperating from an illness, has honored the American press by granting an audience to this American reporter, and in preparing two statements for publi-
cation,
Since 1915 no Pope has permitted himself to be directly quoted
by a newspaperman, With appointments and audi“ences cancelled by his illness, all formal activity and all ceremony was absent. from this audience. It took place in-the Pope's apart-
ment in. {ke ‘Raphael wing of the.
Vatican, , The thamberlains of each grade, the palatine officers and the various monsignors, had been removed from the succession of rooms. The halls were vacant—and there was not a sound.
In Private Library
Entering the Pope's apartments by a small elevator from the private courtyard to the second floor, J was escorted by the Pope's devoted friend, Signor Enrico Pietro Galeazzi, At the end of a magnificent hall, Signor Galeazzi delivered me to
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WEST FRONT ANALYSIS
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... By B-J. McQuaid
Rhine Tougher Than the Roer; Immediate Crossing Doubted
Times Foreign Service FIELD © MARSHAL MONTGOMERY'S'S HEADQUARTERS, March 5-—The considerable and apparently well ordered retrograde movement over the Rhine in the Xanten-Wesel area, and the enemy's destruction of bridges elsewhere make it appear more than ever doubtful that our lightning thrust across the Rhine plain will be followed by an equally precipitate push over the river, We will probably. need stupeadous quantities of men and Materiel to exploit - our bridgehene™ G0 C6. We. da decide Sais “Germans have anything ab all left with which’ to oppose
= us on the eastern bank, ‘the bat-
tle of the Rhine may yet prove one of the war's most costly and most difficult. The Roer, which retarded us so long;=was a formidable obstacle even at the height of its. artifically produced floodstage, but it was a puny midget compared with the Rhine, !
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;Thie five te-six-knot current of the Roer's is exceeded at this season by the Rhine’s seven knots. THe Rhine, at its narrowest and most favorable crossings, is wider than many Roers combined. -Bverywhere except in the narrow stretth bétween Cologne and the Ruhr and in the flatlands north of Duisberg, ‘the steeply rising, densely wooded country on the Rhine's far shore makes the Roer ridges logk like anthills. That great North German plain looks inviting on ordinary maps. But on a small-scale terrain map of .the country bordering the river depth. ol-20" miles north of the Ruhr appear . peat bogs, swamps and marshy country, interlaced. by small streams, canals and dikes. The industrial cities, or ruins, of the Ruhr itself will do nicely as targets for our heavy artillery but they do not constitute an inviting pathway to Berlin. For, if the Germans have any manpower left, they could turn’ this congest-
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WORLD AFFAIRS . . . By-William Philip Simms
‘Conference in
By WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Scripps-Howard Foreign Editor MEXICO CITY, March 5—~The Inter-American conference, now nearing its close here, is one of the most important and successful meetings ever held in the new world. . The act of Chapultepec alone, delegates feel, warrants that verdict, So does the economic charter for the Americas. Together these two are for collective security and higher standards of living for the common man, They might well be folo
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lowed by the united nations’ at San Francisco, Senator Tom Cofinally, chair man of the foreign relations committee, takes this view, as do Senator Warren Austin, his Ré= publican colleague, the two spokesmen for the lower house and the representatives here of business, labor ‘and agricultiire, For more than 120 years, Senator Connally told me, the United States alone has been guaranteeing this hemisphere against outside aggression. From now on, thanks to the act
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'LIFE IN A JAP CAMP... By Earl Richert Reveals Nurses Escaped
Tortures of
By EARL RICHERT Scripps-Howard Staff Writer WASHINGTON, March 5.~One of the army nurses freed in Manila after nearly three years internment said here that as far as she knew none of the captured "Yank nurses had been assaulted or physically harmed by the Japs. The nurse, comely, 28-year-old 1st Lt. Phyllis Arnold of Minneapolis, was ‘taken prisoner on
Corregidor and held in the Santo -
‘Tomas prison camp in Manila until Feb. 3, 1945, when she and 67 other army nurses were liber-
"ated.
“We were fortunate enough’ to be treated as civilians,” she said. “But please don't think that because we were treated fairly well that the prisoners of war were
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War Prisoners
treated the same. The stories told“ about the atrocities committed upon them ‘are true.” Life in the prison camp, she said, was “not so bad as prison camps go”.until the Japs cut down
on their rations early last fall
with the approach of the Americans to the Philippines. Then, she said, their food rations were cu to about 800 calories a day (about 2000 calories are needed daily for the average persons) and they had to curtail their | activities to conserve strength.
“But,” she said laughingly, “a little + malnutrition never hurt . anyone.” From the time the Japs started cutting food rations, the nurses lost weight steadily, Lt. Arnold dropping ‘from her normal 125
- pounds to 100,
The nurses worked four hours daily caring for civilians in the prison camp and many of them went to school to study English, sociology, * psychology, ete. * in classes taught by" professors and priests who also. ‘were “Interried in the -camp, :
She sald that the nurses “stuck together” and almost never Spent
to the Japs with requests. ]
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GATES THANKS ASSEMBLY FOR ‘SOUND LAWS'|
Points to ‘Forward Steps’ in Special’ Message to
Joint Session.
By SHERLEY UHL In a special ‘message to a joint session of the legislature today, Governor Gates complimented legis-
-teeived series of important laws certain to leave a firm and lasting imprint upon the lives of our citizens.” Enumerating plishments, the governor.declared: Tt. “You have conserved, through | your limiged appropriations, the | working balance in our state treas- | ury. You have given greater control | over welfare to local boards," You have preserved the principle | of home rule throughout your de- | liberations.
disrupt the principle of bi-partisan | management of our state institu-| tions as ‘set up in previous sessions |
§ |of the general assembly.
“You have strengthened vided for better enforcement.” Notes ‘Forward Steps’ Other “forward” legislative steps taken during the 1945 session were cited by Governor Gates as. adoption of laws providing for:
ONE: = Development of a largescale veteran rehabilitation - program. : TWO: Improvement ahd expan-
sion of Indiana's public health sys- | tem, including establishment of a! mental institution (in IfAdianapolis) which will assure “safeguards for the mentally IL" ~ THREE: A comprehensive flood! control schedule. "FOUR: Legal groundwork upon which to base the state's future aviation policies. .. FIVE: Advance research into “the mysteries of chemurgy” and other fields designed. to provide new uses for agricultural products. SIX: A long-range program of rehabilitation and improvement of Indiana’s ~~charitahle; educational ard benevolent institutions. Aid to Farmers SEVEN: Assistance to farmers
harassment of those engaged in agriculture, permitting them free- | dom of action and initiative so that | {they may continue to provide that | great essential of all wars, food.” . EIGHT: Tightening of pursestrings on state spending; with only three tax increases: -One on liquor for institutional building program; a two-cent levy = increase for reforestration purposes. and a onecent increase for “buildings in which will be housed the great patriotic organizations of the future. (War Memorial plaza structures), NINE: “Additional grants to the
raises. TEN: Establishment of a state retirement and pension fund. ELEVEN: A “liberalized and fair” labor program, “keeping pledges to
people on a basis which is con sistent with the general welfare’ ‘of all. "” Governor Gates also thanked minority Democrats “for the unquali-
lators for enacting “a soundly con-|
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“You have fought off attempts to}
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Mrs. Gustavus L., Wiedenhoft . peared calm as the trial opened.
WIDOW APPEARS, CALM IN | IN COURT:
. Evidence: in Attack on Sout Side Florist,
Charles DeGraphenreed went on trial today in criminal
florist, Gustavus L. Wiedenhoft, last June 30. ,
Defense and prosecuting attorneys spent the morning attempting to impare}-s jury, but, Judge Willtam D, Bain said that with challenges it was doubftul one uld be drawn until late afternoon. Mrs. Wiedenhoft, apparently fully recovered from the blows inflicted on her at the time of the killing, appeared calm in court as did the defendant, DeGraphenreed.
First Names Drawn Two hundred citizens Sparel in court” for possible jury servic as Frank X. Haupt, deputy pros ecutor, and M. Wilson Beene, defense attorney, questioned them for duty. The first 12 drawn consisted of 10 women and two men. Mr. Wiedenhoft, 2260 S. Meridian st., was killed by blows from a| revolver: and a wheel lug wrench.
fied support which it has given to progressive measures, and-for the non-political attitude which it has| often assumed toward'the program.” For their “workmanlike leadership,”y he congratulated Lt. Gov. Richard James, House Speaker Hobart Creighton, Senate Chairman Pro-Tem John Van Ness, House Majority Leader George Henley and Senate and House Minority Lead-
Heller.
Hoosier Heroes—
SEVEN FROM HERE LISTED AS WOUNDED
Mumaw Now Reported as Prisoner in Germany.
Another local man who was listed as missing while serving with the Camp “Atterburystrained 106th division has been reported a prisoner. Today's casualty list also includes | an Indianapolis corporal who was captured, during the D-day invasion of France and seven men who have been wounded.
WOUNDED Pfc. Virgil D, Carver I, 219 8. Noble st, in Germany. Pvt. Chester C. Anderson, 1545 S. Richland ave, in Germany, Pfc. Floyd G, Van Zandt, 24 Ww, 18th’ st., in Belgium. Pvt. Robert Cosat, 3718 k New York sb, in Belgium, Pfc. Virgil H. Chapman, Pittsboro, in Luxembourg. | Pvt. Robert C. Hall, 614 N. East st, in Germany. . - Ple. ‘Robert, R.Goble, R. R. 20, Box 75; in the-South” Pacific. PRISONER Cpl. Sylvester Blaine ‘Mumaw, 2261 Eastern ave, of Germany, Cpl. ‘Albert G. Raging, 187 Lee shy of Germany al
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According to his wife, two men {came to the door late in the evening and asked to see her. The assailants clubbed Mrs. Wiedenhoft and fled from the house as police” approached. The murder weapons were found near the home and the florist shop: adjoining the residence. Robbery is believed to have been the motive as Mr. Wiedenhoft kept considerable currency in the house for use in the florist shop and a City Market stand.
Briggs Men Vote To Continue Strike
"DETROIT, March 5 (U. P).— Leaders of 15,000 striking Briggs Manufacturing Co. employees voted today against returning to work until 15 men discharged by the company are back on the payroll. ‘The action by United Auto Workers (C. L. O) union local 212's executive board ended hopes for an ¢arly return to full-schedule armament production in Detroit. It was taken as approximately 25,000 Chrysler Corp. employees returned to their jobs after a 10-day strike. The Briggs management previously has refused to rehire the workers, who were discharged on the ground that they organized previous walkouts and the present strike. There was little indication that its position‘ would. change. The Briggs plants make vitally needed parts for B-29 Superfortresses, other aircraft and trucks. Strikers have :shut six plants hére
since last Thursday. Another plant. has been partially crippled. An eighth plant, _ however, ‘Was _un-
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6am... 50 nam... 55 |jor campaign. ‘Tam...5 1am... 58 { Pighting side by side wih the 8am... 50 12 (Noay).~ 60
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in the brutal slaying of South side | J
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Charles DeGraphenreed . murder of Gustavus L. Wiedenhoft.
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FDR Noininates Vinson as U. S.
Loans Director, WASHINGTON, March 5 (U. oo
Jury Being. Drawr Drawn to Hear _president Roosevelt today nomi- Reyeal
{nated Economic Stabilization. Direc-| {tor Pred M. Vinsom to be federal loan administrator.
The former Kentucky cones. {man and federal judge thus will get!
esse H, Jones as secretary of com- | merge. Before confirming former Vice | President Henry A. Wallace _for the | | cabinet, post, congress passed legisla- | tion: divorcing the multibillion loan agency from the commerce ,depart- | ment, + Jones, ‘wit bitterly opposed turns ing the loan agencies over to wal: | ‘lace, immediately hailed the ‘selec- | tion of Vinson as-“an excellent appointment.” Wallace also said “he was pleased,
STEPHENSON IN NEW TRIAL PLEA
‘Former Klan Dragon Acts as Own Attorney in Latest
Bid for; Freedom.
NOBLESVILLE, Ind., Mareh 5 ¢U. P.)—D. C. Stephenson launched | his latest bid for freedom today with a promise of unlimited time to! make his appeal, Judge Cassius M. Gentry of Hamilton circuit court stepped down from the bench just before the hearing began and walked over to the former Indidna Ku-Klux Klan grand dragon's table, He assured Stephenson that he could consume all the time he wanted, “Acting as his own attorney .in an effort to end nearly 20 years of imprisonment after conviction on a murder charge, Stephenson ac|cepted Gentry’s offer and prepared
to open his formal plea for a new trial,
Has 20 Law Books
The counsel table, where he sat alone, was stacked with 20 law books which Stephenson selected for reférence during the hearing. Stephenson, who once boasted that he was “the law” in Indiana,
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Out in tiny Iwo Jima 13 Hoesiers
toughest and one of the bloodiest battles in 168 years. In the thick ofthe combat is Pfy. Joe E. Clark, son of Mr. and Mrs. Harvey E. Clark, 942 N. Bo ave, who is séeing his “dream true.” . And in the 4th marine division is Cpl. Robert H. Souchon, son of Mr. and Mrs. August Souchon, 3651 N. Capitol ave. This" is his fourth ma-
Indianapolis men are Cpl. Bruce Albany; "Opi. Ruch L
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GERMANS ADMIT BALTIG LOSSES
New Pu Russ Drive On Lower Vistula Making Gains.
LONDON, March 5.—Berlin re-
court | the other half of the job left vacant Ported today that Russian siege | | charged with’ first’ degree murder] When Roosevelt summarily fired | {forces had captured Stargard, key |
{ Pomeranian = rail * hub ° southeast of Stettin. This would open the way to that! big "Baltic. port. which already was within Soviet artillety range. The Nazis also said the Russians opened a new attack on a large scale near the lower Vistula river in ‘the area of Grosgwallenthal, 40 miles south.of Danzig City. In the first- few-hours the: Reds “achieved a few penetrations,” the i reports said. : .
Securing. Right Flank The Red army's biggest push since its sweep to the “approaches of Berlin’ was grinding up the defenses of Pomerania and the lower Oder valley. The right flank of the army poised before Berlin was being secured rapidly: Some sources predicted an early frontal onslaught against the Nazi capital. Nazi broadcasts acknowledged the loss of Stargard, biggest anchor base in the lower Oder defenses on the road to Stettin. Star-
20 miles
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Suprenfe Court
PRICE FIVE CENTS
IN COLOGNE,
‘Big Five’ Given Veto Power at Yalta
Suspect in Wiedenhoft Slaying Goes on Trial
Nazis Flee in Barges as Allies’ 11-Day
~ Push Rolls to
Rhine on 100-
Mile F ront,
PARIS, March 5
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(U. P.) ~-Two American tank columns
broke into the streets of Cologne from the north today and front dispatches said they were driving unopposed toward
the center of the great Rhinel Vanguards of the #. S. 1
and fortess. st. army’s third armored divi-
sion rumbled through the northern section of Germany's
‘an advance of more than two
0 FIVE! GET VETO 0 POWERS
u. S. Reveals Gi Combine Proposed by -FDR at. Yalta Parley.
| | WASHINGTON, March 5 (U. P.. government today- revealed
the long-awaited terms of the com-| : ~~ “Ipromise reached at the Crimea con-
ference on voting: procedure for!
{handling international disputes; | under the proposed world security | organization.
In brief, the agreement provides! [ogee in event any one of the world’s Five nations should become in[2% 1 in a dispute, it would have power to veto any direct action (against it, to enforce the peace. .. These would include such steps as economic penalties or the use ot armed forces. i 2pyq0tie of the Big Five—the U. 8., Britain, Russia, France, China— could” veto action~-against any | country.
Banned at Preliminaries
However, no nation large or small would be allowed to participate in preliminary council consideration of | la dispute™n which it was involved. The council could decide that a dispute was “likely .to threaten the peace,” and make recommendations ffor its settlement. “No country in-| volved in the dispute would be allowed “to ‘take part in .such preliminary deliberations. The voting procedure agreement rounds © out the proposed ‘world security organization set-up which was drafted at Dumbarton - Oaks last year. It will be considered, and probably formally adopted, by all the united nations at the forthcoming San Francisco conference. President Roosevelt said at the conclusion of ‘the Big Three Crimea meeting. that the agreement represented a compromise between the Anglo-American and Russian views on voting procedure as expressed last year at Dumbarton Oaks. At that time, the United States {and Great Britain did not, want any | one nation to have veto power
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1 fourth largest city shortly after daybreak this morning after
miles along the west bank of the Rhine. At the same time, two Piuiorisa infantry divisions
rmed in from the west and Som and at last reports were at or across the city limits.
Nazis on East Bank
First accounts of the storming of {Cologne . were somewhat confused. {But it appeared that the Nazis had withdrawn the bulk of their garrison |actoss: the Rhine and were fighting la delaying action at most. : | United Press War Correspondent c. R. Cunningham, riding with the third- armored division, said there was no opposition in the first sweep into the city streets. The Germans, he said, have pulled most of their troops back to the East bank of the river in barges. “We are within the city limits and thus far there is no resistance,” Cunningham reported in a dispatch filed at 9 a. m. (3 a. m., Indianapolis time). : * Other dispatches from U. 8. 1st army headquarters, apparently well behind Cunningham's account, told of furious opposition encountered by thie American 104th and 8th infantry divisioris. oy the western edge of Cologne.
Fanatical Opposition
There the Germans still were putting up fanatical opposition x | shortly before the third armored | breakthrough ‘on their northem | flank. Massed field guns and self-pro-pelled artillery were po salvoafter salvo into ‘the “city at pointblank range tq blast a path for the charging doughboys, the beadquarters account said. Smoke and flame was reported. blanketing the entife city, but.there was no immediate word on the fate of the famous Cologne cathedral. .The sudden breakthrough into Cologne came- as American 9th army forces to the north crashed through Homberg to the confluence of the Rhine and Ruhr rivers. The Americans fought their way to the western end of both the road and railway bridges linking Homberg to the Ruhr valley arsenal of Duisburg. Berlin said German demolition squads blew up both great spans in the faces of the attacking ough boys to prevent a crossing. There was no immediate confirmation of the enemy reports
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O. K's Death for JAPS REPORT B-29'S | [Baibars Rain
- Stoll Kidnaper,
WASHINGTON, March 5 (U, P.). —The supreme court today upheld | the death sentence imposed on Thomas Henry Robinson Jr. for the | 1934 kidnaping of Mrs. Alice Speed: Stoll, Louisville society matron. The ‘court heard the case on aj contention by Robinson “that under the Lindbergh kidnaping law the] death sentence can be imposed only if «the victim's injuries are permanent or in existence at the time sentence is passed. The government contended the proviso of the-law withholding the] death penalty when- the victim is| “liberated unharmed” refers to. the time when" a victim is released. "* When Mrs. Stoll was released, the |
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Two From Here Among 13 Hoosiers Battling. on lwo) cine = Tie ~cotumn 1
Jones, Rockport; Pvt. George .B. Leonard, Taswell; Pfc. Charles W. Fisher Jr, Jeffersonville; Pfc. Edward P. Miller, Dyer; Sgt. Robert E. Deedrick, Gary; Cpl. Allan Beall, Rushville; Pfc. James Sheets, La fayette; Warrant Officer William E. Rush, South Bend, and Pfc. George A. Miuldary and 1st Sgt. Ned E. McNussen, both of Ft. Wayne. _ Pvt. Clark, who has wanted to be a marine since he was a youngster, will celebrate his “19th ~birthday|" h 15, probably on Iwo. He's been & marine since’ Aug. 13,
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| | Marines Have F Four-Fifths| | Of Iwo Under Control.
By UNITED PRESS
American Superfortresses raided | | Tokyo again today, according to | enemy broadcasts, and allied ground forces hammered back the Japanese on Iwo, in the Philippines, and in Burma. .
Tokyo said that 19 of the giant {B- 29's, “Tollowing up yesterday's de- { structive raid, hit the Japanese {capital singly during a twos 9-hour | period early today. One ‘allied / radio .report sald “Flying Fortresses” were over Tokyo, but this was believed an error as Superfortresses have been the only land-based plane so far to attack Tokyo. The raid on Tokyo by almost 200
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WESTERN FRONT — American troops. storm into outskirts of Cologne. | Mis : army drives ' within artillery range of Stettin, largest German . port .on| Baltic; capture Stargard, 20° miles _ southeast.
PACIFIC~Ten B-29s bomb 3 Sst coupions apiare of of |
RAID TOKYO AGAIN
Blows on Reich In Vital Centers
LONDON, March 5 (U, P.).— | American and British heavy bomb={ers teamed up today in destructive blows at three keystones in Gere | many’'s transport ad oll production systems. About 1000 United “States bombers and fighters hit refineries at Harburg near Hamburg and rail yards at Chemnitz, battered Saxony transport center west of the Red army front, The Royal air force this afternoon sent a strong force of Lancaster heavy bombers escorted by { Mustang fighters against a benzol | plant near .Gelsenkirchen in the Ruhr. The attack was described officially as heavy and concentrated. The weather was bad over all of Germany traversed by the American planes” They were unopposed
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On the War Fronts
fifths of Iwo island; American troops and‘ Filipino guerrillas clamp pincers on Japanesy in north Luzon,
AIR WAR--American fying or tresses. launch new raids i. ‘Reich; German. planes England tor econ sant ight.
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