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FORECAST: Rain this afternoon and evening; decidedly colder
and clearing late tonight; tomorrow, fair and colder.
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VOLUME 55-NUMBER 308
TUESDAY, MARCH
6, 1945
Entered’as Second-Class Matter at Postoffice Indianapolis, 9, Ind, Issued daily except Sunday’
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By LOUIS F. KEEMLE "United Press War Editor
THE RUSSIAN DRIVE on St
Oder is probably the final preparatory move before the big push begins into the heart of Germany from
the East. The prelude to the last act is
Pomerania and along the Baltic with gathering speed.
At the same time the allied
are clearing the middle Rhine for their end of the
great two-way squeeze,
ettin and the lower
being played out in
armies in the West
start almost simultaneously. far behind the other—and they are both certain to be in"full swing at the same time, It ‘is'not yet entirely clear whether Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower will have to pause on the Rhine to re-gfoup and bring up reinforcements before plunging across the river. The destruction of the bridges and the escape of the better part of the German forces make a delay seem probable,
-
The twin drives across thé Rhine and Oder may If not, one will not bé
Eisenhower, however, may have
The Russian end of t
matically reduced. Nol ma
300,000—can be salvaged by sea for the, final battle
i
~frisfde Germany. It is. safe to say that
some= Gregory K. Zhukov's 16t
FLOOD NEARING 10-FO0T CREST AT CINCINNATI
Other Cities P Periled as Rains Feed Swollen Ohio River.
LOCAL TEMPERATURES
Sa m.... 45 10a m. x. 41 Yam +4 am... 490 8a m.... 4 12 (Noon).. 41 fa m.....43 1p m.... 41 By UNITED PRESS A T0-foot flood crest, less than 10 feet below the disastrous peak of (§ 1937, was forecast today for Cin- |} cinnati, vy
Pouring rains drenched the water= shed of the swollen Ohio river from Pittsburgh to Louisville. The Ohio and its tributaries roared toward new peaks as rains ranging
- from one to three inches fell over-
night. With a 70-foot crest already in sight at Cincinnati, rivermen would not forecast the result of the new waterhead forming upstream. Five companies of Ohio guardsmen and two naval militia ‘divisions were ordered on flood duty as the danger heightened. Three. companies were ordered out to sandbag the vital Millcreek barrier dam at Cincinnati which protects the city’s
big’ industrial region from Ohio backwaters. : : A T0-foot crest would put the
river 18 feet above- flood stage. Water Covers District
Patrolmen roared through suburbah Cumminsville, O% at 3 a. m. today, blowing their auto horns to warn residents of a flash flood on Mill creek. In two hours, the district was covered. Water had reached some second floors at 8 a, m. A 1.35-inch rainfall fell in the Pennsylvania watershed and was
members of the house harmonious leadership during 61 law- Hale.
Speaker of tlie House Hobart Creighton waves aloft a silver, engraved vase presented to him by in appreciation of his
Legislators
McLeroy, answer some . legislators.
days of hectic
CORONER TELLS | OF DEATH SGENE
Evidence in Trial of DeGraphenreed.
Describing: a series of “horse-
lin the death of Gustave L. Wiedenhoft, South side florist, Deputy |
Allegheny and}
Where the two converge to form | the Ohio. at .Pittsburgh’s famed— |
- and much-flooded — Golden * Tri-|
angle, a crest of 30 feet, five feet | over flood stage, was forecast for| early tomorrow; | The Ohio went a foot over flood! stage at Marietta, O., and was ris-| ing at 2 feet an hour at Bellaire, | O., where nearly three’ inches of rain fell in 24 hours. . | Miners and war industry workers | fh the industrial ‘area around Wheeling, W, Va., and Bellaire were eut off from their jobs by flooddisrupted transportation.
Louisyille Gets Warning
At Louisville, Ky. River Foreeaster E. E. Ungers warned residents to prepare for flood levels of from 44 to 45 feet “and possibly more.” Flood level there is 28 flet, but high water does not begin to cause heavy damage until the 45-foot mark is reached. The river was rising rapidly from a stage of 40.3 ‘feet. Rainfall in the Louisville district was approaching two inches overnight. . At Bluefield, W. vi, search continued today in the rain-swollen waters of the Elkhorn river for the
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CLARE LUCE ON WAY TO FRONT IN ITALY,
LONDON; March 6 (U. P).—A war office spokesman said today | that Rep. Clare Boothe Luce (R.| Conn,) was on her way to Italy to/
|
invitation of Harold R. L, G.
Marshal Sir| Alexander, allied
The spokesman said he did not! could not confirm New York reports | that she planned to stay in the United Kingdom to study women’s! part in the British war effort.
URGES EXTRA PAY FOR VETS
WASHINGTON, March 6. (U. P).|
-Senator Joseph F. Guffey (D. Pa.) today introduced a bill to give every discharged member of the armed services a year’s additional pay. The bill would cover all men and women
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In addition, the South side florist
( justead of- an SLE six-day.
Coroner, John W. Deever testified |
Judge Admits Fir Findings as
IRONY BY OPA— | ‘No New Tires For Synthetic
“By CHARLES G. HULL ut Press Staff Correspondent LOUIS, Mo., March 6.—The man credited with making America's first synthetic rubber tire was non-essential today as far as
shoe shaped” wounds that’ resulted] the OPA was concerned. He can
have no new tires for his automobile. The A-card- holding scientist is
{ Dr. Lucas P: Kyrides. The OPA
in -eriminal court this. MoIing. ab) req: Jate yesterday that he must
[the opening of the murder trial of | Charles DeGraphenreed, ~ ; The death scene last June was described in detail by Deputy Cor{oner Deever, who followed ‘to the witness stand Mrs. Clara Acheson, {2261 8. Meridian st, a neighbor of the Wiedenhoft family. Defense Attorneys John O. Lewis | and M. Wilson Beene objected to introduction of the coroner's verdict, but were over-ruled by Judge William D. Bain;
Neighbor on Stand
They succeeded in' drawing from the deputy coroner an admission that articles in the murder room at Mr. Wiedenhoft's home could have been moved before. police photograph’s were taken. The state had asked Dr. Deever to identify pictures of the room and the position of the body. Mrs, Acheson told of a visit by Mrs. Wiedenhoft, also beaten in the robbery, to the former's home the night of the murder. The neighbor also described seeing a light upstairs in the Wiedenhoft home after the latter had returned. Upon investigation, Mrs. Acheson said she saw the silhouette of a man in the front door-way of the house.
Counted 20 Gashes
Dr. Deever, in his technical description -of the wounds that caused Wiedenhoft's death, said he (had counted 20 gashes on the murdered man’s body at the autopsy.
had been beaten about the mouth and a Number of teeth knocked
Eleven women and one man were
| impaneled yesterday as the jury. A|
| motion by defense attorneys to dis¢harge a . special venire on the ground - that no Negro was included in the list was over-ruled by Judge [Ben
NEW STRIKE HITS DETROIT DISTRICT
2000 Workers Quit at Gar Wood Plant.
DETROIT, March 6 (U. P)—A new strike by about 2000 war workers halted production by Gar Wood Industries, Inc.; today. The latest dispute in this arsenal area. was a protest by members of local 250, United Auto Workers (C, I. 0) union, against a change. in shift hours. It followel company announcement that a 10-hour fiveday week would be put into effect
get along with his worn pre-war tires and minimum of gasoline— even if he is the father of American synthetic rubber. : » » » DR. KYRIDES; 6l-year-old di-
rector of organic chemical research
at Monsanto Chemical Co. here, last night was given the first Midwest award of the American Chemical society for discovering synthetic rubber, in 1913, and other notable findings, But officials of the firm had to
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LAUNCH FIGHT ON STEPHENSON PLEA
‘Former Klan Chief Makes
Bid for Freedom.
NOBLESVILLE, Ind.,. March 6 (U. P.).—Deputy Atty. Gen. Frank
E. Coughlin today continued the state’s argument for a demurrer in the latest. freedom attempt of D. C. Stephenson.
Judge Cassius M. Gentry ad-
Journed the hearing in Hamilton circuit court until phenson, the Indiana Ku Kjux Klan, spent
former grand dragon of
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LABOR . . . By Fred W. Perkins
Labor Groups
Despite World Unity Move
WASHINGTON, March 6.—The two big branches of American. organized labor are farther apart than ever as a result of recent London efforts to promote world labor unity. That is apparent here today from opinions of American Federation of Labor leaders who view with concern the comradeship of the C. I. O. with the Soviet labor bodies in the new World Trade Union
Congress. The main A. F. of L spokesman on this subject is Robert J. Wat}, who represents his organization in international meetings. He has asserted many times that’ labor ‘unions buflt on the
* American plan of. collective bar-
gaining cannot associate with the labor; bodies of Russia, where the employer is the government ‘with dictatorial - ‘powers over wages,
Jhours and other working condi-
tions.
"Bute Io. spokesmen scoff. at - such fears and are'going ahead
¢ with plans to make the World
making last night with vaudeville skits. Here Robert itinerate ventriloquist,
Rubber Maker.
relaxed between spurts of law-
has, hig stooge questions about
rather personal
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“thing up “his sleeve which will result in a big surprise.
up methodically-—and according tc an obvious pattern which the Germans are powerless to circumvent. The German forces in the northeast have been cut up into five main ‘pockets which are being syste-
he double play is shaping
ny of these troops—perhaps
army are on ready for the signal to go. The powerful allied bombing attacks on Dresden
the right flank of Marshal White Russian army is
~—y ‘8 8
re r———
Lagoon Network Is Pierced.
LONDON, March 6 (U. P.).-A German military spokesman said today that the Red army had speared to the network of Baltic lagoons at the mouth of the Oder north of Stettin, big port already under artillery fire and threatened by a Soviet frontal push. The Nazis said Marshal Gregory K. Zhukov’s right wing had swung westward to the area of Cammin, on the waters of the Stettiner Haff
and four miles south of the Baltic proper.
Frontal Push ‘Expected
The reported Soviet advance the lower Oder before Stettin. Soviet forces now had reached the Oder and the water at its mouth on both sides of Stettin, and were. closing against -a broad. stretch. of the river in between. rlin said Zhukov had thrown two tank armies into the drive on Stettin and was: pounding the big port with artillery. Berlin said Khukov also had con-
The clocks in the house and senate chambers were stopped just before midnight last night while leg- | islators recessed until today to com- | plete the’ aaaze of technical details |
to-the state's statute books.
Although the final gavels were | not scheduled to fall until some-| time today, all the law- making had | been completed before the constitu- | tional deadline for adjournment last midnight. Heading the list of new laws were the Republican administration con- | trol - bills, giving Governor Gates {legal authority to appoint state bu-| reaus - ahd department heads as| fast as he caf find men and women to take them.
Liquor Patronage Opens
The liquor control-legislation was | completed and safely on the governor’s desk before the deadline. | It automatically cancels all exist- | {ing beer and liquor. wholesale receipts on May 1, giving the new Re-| { publican-controlled alcoholic bev-| erages commission power to issue new ones. This will give patronage- -hungry | Republican ' leaders a chance -to| muscle into the liquor business on a! big scale for the first time since repeal of prohibition. The liquor bill also doubles the taxes on liquor and beer, estimated to "increase excise revenues about) $6,000,000 a year. This money would be earmarked specifically for postwar construction. The measure got through "the
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Farther Apart
tions meeting in San Francisco April 25. ' The C. I. O. theoretically has to “sell” {ts ‘international plans to its constituent unions—get their ratifications, This looks easy because the last C. I O. national convention gave its . leadership almost a blank check in getting into the world picture and trying to knock the A. F. of L. out of it. First step toward assuring this home support will be a mass meet ing next’ Monday in New York's Madison Square Garden. The New . York city industrial union courreil arrangements
closing hours with a “dry” amend- |
centrated five infantry armies and two tank armies in the Oder valley 30-odd miles east of Berlin. The Germans predicted that the frontal | push against the capital would begin “as soon as <Zhukov's flanks
that will add nearly 400 new laws are secured.
10 Miles From Stettin
A blazing battle in the Bdltic | coastal area rapidly was clearing {the right flank of Zhukov's 1st] | White Russian army. The Ger-
man. defenders pinned against the| in shrinking pockets were|
Baltic being reduced and the drive on Stettin was overrunning the lower {Oder valley west of the river. The German high command cast a, veil of~loose generalities over the | battle of Pomerania northeast of Berlin. It conceded that the Rus-
|sians were attacking on a broad
{front and had scored “minor, pene- { trations.” Soviet vanguards were believed |
into which'—the Oder debouches.| {Cammin is 36 miles north of Stettin
forged a big assault arc against]
now secure. operations -of is to clear the Oder toward its mouth. and reduce or isolate Stettin. The Russian left ar Carpathian flank is anchored on the Sudetéen mountains and reasonably secure from counter-attack. Zhukov's main forces and Marshal Ivan S. Konev's the Oder-Neisse line in the center—
This Was the ultimate pur recent weeks, The rema
Nazis Admit Baltic CATHEDRAL STANDS—
Dom Towers Intact Amid id C . 1 3 oe ity's Ruins By C. R. CUNNINGHAM United Press Staff Correspondent COLOGNE, March 5 (Delayed). —The spires of Cologne's magnificent cathedral—the Dom— stretched undamaged into the sky today like a beacon for the | American . troops inside this | Rhineland city. Block after block around the great 13th century church was a leveled mass of ruins. But the cathedral itself was still believed untouched by the ravages of war.
From the smouldering debris on both sides, great plumes of smoke
|
CHURCHILL PAYS GERMANY VISIT
Flicks Ashes on ¥ on West Wall; Generals Keep Him Away From Rhine. By CLINTON B. CONGER
Unite Press Staff Correpondfent JUELICH, Germany,
| fore mid-day.
- March 3| snipers.
pose of the ining detail
The fact that
S
Allies Play Prelude To Last Act-A: Two-Way Squeeze On Germany
and Chemnitz are indications that the drive to flank Berlin from the southeast is not far off.
the bombing was done hy the
western air forces is striking evidence of the close
tactical co-ordination which has been achieved.” For the frontal attack on Berlin, the Nazis report
that Zhukov has five infantry and, two tank armies
capital. They have only
YANKS IN CENTER OF CITY AS COLOGNE FALL NEARS
Red Arc Reported Sealing Stettin
along the Oder alittle more ‘than ‘30 miles from the
been waiting, “German broadcasts
surmise, for the flanks to be cleared.
| Push to Within One Mile of Rhine as
Nazis Flee for Stand on East
‘Bank of River.
8 By BRUCE
W. MUNN
United Press Staff Correspondent”
PARIS, March 6.—American. 1st army forces drove into the walled center of Cologne barely a mile
from the wrecked Rhine bridges. today.
The fall of the great cathedral city appeared
imminent.
A doomed German rearguard still offered spasmodic
|resistance in the streets of tHe burning city. But field dispatches and roundabout Berlin reports indicated strong-
ly that ‘the battle was entering its final hours. One-third to half the city was in American hands be-
Armored and infantry columns of the three 'U. S. 1st army divisions were closing in with increasing | (Continued on on Page 3—Colu 3—Column 7)| speed from the northwest, west and southwest.
The breakthrough into Cologne’s inner citadel signalled the end of Nazi Germany's hold on the Rhineland. More than 75 miles of the Rhine's west bank from Cologne northward to the Dutch border were In allied hands
or swept by ‘allied: shellfire,
river. ‘Cologne, the fourth city
population of more than 768,
ing shell.
The remnants of three Ger-
| man field armies battled desperately fo escape across the
of Germany with a pre-war 000, was a blackened, burn-
Front :reports said the atlagking Americans at some
points were meeting only scattered rifle fire from German. At others, -the Germans were fighting back hard -
Most of its civilians had fled. Apparently only |a weak covering force was left to defend its Rhine crossings.
(Delayed) —Prime Minister Church- but in small numbers from- street barricades and dug-ip -
ill paid his first wartime visit to
|Germany today. , |
| visit to the Western front today
within=10 miles southeast of stet-
tin, a Moscow dispatch said. Nazi broadcasts conceded that the | outskirts of Stettin already were under fire of Soviet guns, softenling the city’s defenses for Rjimatel assault.
Stettin, 72 miles northeast ol other allied esmmanders.
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Hoosjer Heroes—
PVT. GEDIG KILLED
FIGHTING ON LUZON
Three Listed 5 as Wounde And Six Captured.
Action on Luzon has claimed the | life of one Indéanapolis man while | another was wounded there. In ad-| dition two other men have been wounded in Europe and six local men have been added to the list of prisoners of Germany.
KILLED
be Pvt. Thomas A. Gedig, 340 Pros~ pectsst., on Luzon,
WOUNDED 3
T. 5th Gr. Walter A. Ray, Plainfield, son of Mrs. Mary Ray, 1550 Harlan st., in France. Sgt. Richard M. Cromwell, 1317 Cruft st, on the Western front, Pfc. Robert J. Deckard, 31 E. Wilkins st., on Luzon.
PRISONERS ¢ T. 4th Gr. Clarence B. Allen, 3143 Northwestern ave. of Germany. Pfc. Roy Ellis, 238 N. Miley ave, Tot Germany. Pvt. Willie L. “Pratt, -43% Madison ave., of Germany. “Pfc. Charles W. Reimer, Re: R. 2, | Box 563-B, of Germany. ==
terbein ave., of Germany. Sgt. Eugene N. Krachenfels, 1023
el 35th st. of Germany.
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ride right up to the Rhine at Dues-
|
Pfc. Howard D. Turley, 4042 Ot-
d |Marshal Sir Bernard L. Moptgom-
gs
He wanted to board a tank and
seldorf, but adverse military counsel | prevailed. (London afinounced Churchill's after his return. He conferred with Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower and
WITH CANADIAN 1ST ARMY, Germany, March 4 (U. P.). Prime Minister- Churchill said today during a tour of the Western front that “anyone can sée that one good ‘strong heave all together will bring the war in Europe to its end.”
London dispatches said he was ‘believed to! |have discussed plans for the allied | drive across the Rhine and into the | heart of Germany.) Churchill inspected the Siegfried fortifications near Aachen and the | Jusiich citadel. He sprinkled the | agon's teeth of the West wall | [liberally with the ashes of his cigar. | "Accompanying the prime minister | were Marshal Sir Alan Brooke, chief of the imperial general staff;
ery, commander of the 21st army
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$1, 000,000,000 FOOD OVER-CHARGING FOUND
WASHINGTON, March 6.—The nation’s, grocery bill is $1,000,000 000 higher than it should be because too many housewives pay above . ceiling prices, according . to Price Administrator Chester Bowles. Despite efforts of the O. P, A, Bowles said, 27 per cent of the food stores still are overcharging customers. On. a national average, he | added; 12 per cent of all food items in grocery stores are being ld at illegal prices. Bowles - discussed the problem yesterday at a meeting with represenlatives of the grocery industry. It marked the start of a new
O. P. A drive for better compli-
ance with ceiling prices. 4 ‘go On to Berlin By UNITED PRESS
The nearest distances to Berlin from, advanced allied. lines today:
EASTERN FRONT — 31 Miles (from Zaeckerick).
tfour hours after their entry linto the city’s outskirts, the
‘tanks. Little more than twenty-
Yanks«were within the ancient wall | ringing the fortified center of Cologne Fires and explosions shook the inner citadel, indicating the. remaining Germans were putting the torch to their last strongholds and preparing to flee across the river. |
Nazis to ‘Loosen Armies’
Stockholm press dispatches from
Berlin said the Germans themselves were conceding defeat in the 12-day | baitle of the Rhineland. | The Dagens Nyheter's Berlin corréspondent, quoting Nazi military | sources, said the German high command had ordered a general retreat to “loosen our armies from the Rhine and take advantage of {an elastic defense deep in the hin-
|terland behind the river.”
“Only a few major« bridgeheads will be held until the radical rereat. movement has been completed,” the dispatch said.
Oil Plant Neo
The Nazis’ potentially strongest bridgehead at Cologne already was collapsing under the terrific pres sure of Lf, Gen. Courtney H. Hodges’ U. S. 1st army forces, All the northwestern, western and southwestern perimeter of the city was in American hands. The. way was open for a smashing thrust to the banks of the Rhine, less than two miles ahead. American dive-bomber pilots — who barrelled down to roof-top level In search of German strongpoints —reported that Cologne appeared to be a dead city this morning. There was no sign of life in’ the central streets, The central span of the huge Hohenzollern bridge was believed te have been knocked out. Other 1st army fortes to the north were teaming up with- the Ameri can 9th and Canadian 1st armies to write off the remnants. of .three ‘German field armies on the west bank of the Rhine. Units of the 1st army ‘were mopping up disorganized Nazi pockets
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M vester
Hit by R. A. F. Heavies
LONDON, March 6 (U."P.. | Lancaster heavy bombers of the]
'R.”A. F. made a concentrated at-|
|tack today on the Salzbergen oil | refineries 27 miles northwest ‘of Muenster, Mustangs and Spitfires of the R.| . F. escorted the Lancasters to| the oil plant near Muenster. heavy bombardment started columns | of black smoke towering over the! battered factory. The R. A, F. sent more than 1100 planes against Germany last night,
(March 6, 1945)
EASTERN FRONT —Soviet siege! guns repdtted: bombarding Baltic! port of ‘Stettin. y
PACIFIC—Americans destroy 100, close in for, kill on remaining
trapped . groups; u. 8. marines; ~ mass for all-out assault
WESTERN ms row 20 Mus
“we,
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== | nitz,
| ministry as
Al
Most hit the big rail hub of Chem- |
000 Japanese troops on Luzon; |yrALy-.
last Japanese defenders on nowh WESTERN FRONT — A
near ‘the Red army front, which had been attacked repeated.y. Chemnitz, 38 miles southwest of Dresden, was described by the air “essential for the defense of eastern Germany" against the Red army. A small force of Mosquitoes {bombed Berlin for the 14th straight night, while other bombers “attacked a synthetic oil plant. Other raiders carried out.a heavy attack on a synthetic oil plant at Bohlen, south : of - Leipzig. *
On the. War Fronts
BURMA--Indian forces in prise
a
v ¥
thrust capture Me#tila, 80 o.
south of Mandalay.
AIR WAR—More than 1100. R. A. P. bombers blast rail center of Chemnitz.
ican snd Brazilian
forces i Shwesal pegut. of Bologna