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TUESDAY, MARCH 6

IN LEGISLATURE

Measures, Including Liquor Bill, Beat Deadline. (Continued From Page One)

ment in it. The clause™ Will. give | voters of any community the right’ to vote out of business any tavern owner who violates a liquor law. Closing hours under the bill will be midnight, including Saturdays, and opening hours will be 7:30 a m, . Legislators voted a biennial budget of $89,000,000, an all-time high spending program which includes pay raises for thousands of state workers, One of the most extensive public health programs ever set up in Indiana was provided in a series of bills sponsored by the administration. Health Bureau Enlarged New divisions were added to the state health department. A new merital ‘hospital ‘here and a new

rthern Indiana were provided. More than a dozen new laws will provide special benefits for returning war veterans to help rehabilitate them and their families he war. =~ tstanding of these is the creation of a new ‘state department of veterans affairs with broad powers to assist veterans in every community in the state. Other new state departments created by the legislature include: ' ONE: State department of aviation with broad powers to: regulate air transport development, > TWO: State flood control and water resources commission with power -to direct vast flood control projects. THREE: State division of com=merce, industry and publicity to

the state,

FOUR: A.full-time legislative research bureau.

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along the Rhine bank between Cologne and Duesseldorf, 20 miles to the north. Twenty to 30 miles beyond Duésseldorf; the U. 8. 9th and the Canadian 1st were crushing the last major German bridgehead west off the Rhine, There . the Germans still were struggling desperately to extricate the ‘survivors of their 1st paratrodp army through a narrowing bottleneck centered around. the Wesel road and railway bridges. Nartow Wesel Passage The Canadians on the north and the Yanks on the south and west squeezed in the sides of the Wesel passage to less than 10 miles and opened a ngurderous barrage on the troop-choked bridges. Both Wesel bridges were badly cratered by .bomb and shell hits and field dispatches indicated the Nazis were abandoning the bulk

ment west of the river. The 11 other Rhine bridges southward to Duesseldorf were known or authoritatively reported to have been wrecked by the fleeing enemy. Only three of the eight ferry crossings in the area were still operating last night.. All three were believed within range of American guns this morning. This meant that thousands more would be added shortly to the list of almost 100,000 Germans killed, wounded or captured in the [present offensive. _ Cologne. Holds Spotlight The spotlight of the Rhineland battle centered on Cologne, where the 1st army was clearing a great springboard for the decisive thrust across the Rhine into the industrial heart ofthe Reich. Doughboys of the 104th “Timberwolf” division captured the western suburbs of Mungersdorf and Junkersdorf ldte yesterday and pushed forward street by street to the edge | U of the old walled city where the Germans must take their last stand, if at. all,

FIVE: Fair employment practices board to investigate discrimination |

against workers for reasons of race, gistricts of Sielsdorf, Gleuel, Bur- | bach and Efferen in their path.

creed or color.

SIX: A division of farm chemurgy | at Purdue university. | New social legislation included a retirement pension plan for public] employees, permitting all local government units to participate with employees and government units sharing in the payments to the fund.

Labor Given Behefits Some beneficial legislation for la-

bor was enacted. Benefits under the

workmen's compensation law were increased and liberalized. ‘Unemployment compensation paynents were increased from the pres-

vanguards of the 8th infantry di-| vision wedged into .the city from ithe southwest, clearing the suburban

From the north, the 3d armored {division sent its tanks and armored {troop carriers rumbling through the

—-tsingen;- 43 miles

Yanks side Cologne Walls As Capture of City Nears

Other Canadian 1st army forces

Sonsbeck, 10 miles west of Wesel. Far to the south, Lt. Gen. George 8 Patton's American 3d army stabbéd across the Kyll river line to establish three solid bridgeheads lalong a 30-mile .stretch of the river's east bank between Trier and Pruem. Patton's southern wing was moving down the valley of the Mosel northeast of Trier legs than 60 miles from Coblenz, while his northern flank on the Kyll line captured Lissouthwest of the Rhine city. The Americhn Tth army finally cleared the last stubborn German rockets from the streets of Forbach, 4'4 miles southwest of Saarbrucken, and the suburb of Stiering-Wende!, three miles below Saarbrucken. More than 1250 Russian, Czech, Polish and French prisoners of war were liberated in Forbach, hundreds of them reportedly in a terribly weakened condition from Nazi brutality

GERMANS FIRE NEW ‘V-BOMB’

Capture of Launching: Sites Only Way to End Peril, Commons Told.

LONDON, March 6 (U. P.).—Alr Secretary Sir Archibald Sinclair

told commons today that the Germans are firing a new and longer range type of flying bomb at Britain. : Sinclair also disclosed that a British bomb sight of “extraordinary complexity, ingenuity and accuracy” now is in, use. Lancaster bombers used, it to sink the German battleship. Tirpitz in Norwegian waters. In a sweeping review of Royal Air Force activity, Sinclair disclosed for the first time that a Dakota transport. plane landed in occupied Poland last spring and brought out ranking Polish underground officers. Polish guerrillas fought a 48<hour battle against the Germans to keep the landing field open. Sinclair said the R. A. F. has

streets of the .Bocklemuend and Bickendorf suburbs. Still another 3d armored column almost two miles farther east was pushing“ in to the old city wall] within about a mile of the Rhine after taking Longerich. First accounts of the fighting indicated the Nazis still were putting] up only feeble rear guard ‘opposition to the advancing American columns, United Press war cor-| respondents who entered the city | with the three Yank" divisions re-|

“ent $18 for 18 weeks to $20 for 20.ported that scattered rifle and ma- |

‘weeks. New taxes in addition to the doubled revenue on beverages included a 1-cent increase in the state property tax levy for the next seven years to raise money to reimburse the state for the $2,500,000 to be spent for three new: American Legion headquarters buildings on the War Memorial plaza. Most of the proposed salary raises

for local government officials got | 108% in the shuffle. passed would

The only one i raise the Marion county prosecutor's pay from $6000 to $8000 instead of the $12,000 originally proposed in the bill,

New Welfare Setup Bills that would have made dras-

tic changes in state and county welfare administrative machinery were

"amended so many times that in ef-

fect they ended up about the same as present laws. All county welfare boards will be | abolished May 1 and recreated with | circuit judges appointing them in all counties except Marion and] Lake where the juvenile judges will appoint them. . The state’ welfare board will be |

The only change is the addition of three new regional welfare directors to receive $5200 annually as coordinators between county boards and the state department, Although the board of- parole review in the welfare department was abolished, the new law leaves parole supervisors under the welfare department ‘and the merit system. The bills to create a separate parole division failed, to get through to the governor's desk.

CHURCHILL MAKES

FIRST TRIP TO REICH

(Continued. From Page One) Gen, Willlam H.

These generals were responsible They de-

seldorf, where the 9th army only

now is consolidating its positions in|.

the Neuss area, After a long ride on a clear, cold day,. Churchill and his military escort examined the Siegfried dragon's teeth and expressed their opinion of the line that didn't hold. What, No Washing? Inévitably the question of hanging’ out washing came up. The visitors were understood to have

bring along their washing, ; Churchill was uniformed as a full colonel of the 5th battalion, Sus-| sex regiment. Montgomery wore a mottled jacket of paratrooper cut.

| Churchill's car rolled unheralded | through * Aachen.

Dozen of German sivilians Joined the 6. I's in staring, Most, of the troops snapped sud-

two

remain struc- | 1

{chine-gun fire met the first assault | waves. Then hundreds of white Hops began fluttering from "windows and balconies and long lines of civilians, interspersed by small German troop units, poured into the streets to surrender to the Americans. Rear Guards Hang On American officers believed only a few thousand German’ rear guards at most were left in the inner. fortress- centered abouf the ancient cathedral, whose towering Gothic spires could still" be seen through the battle smoke. ‘ With their bridges blown behind them and overwhelming American power streaming into the streets before them, it was questionable whether even these tough covering forces would stand and die in a | hopeless defense of - Germany's | fourth city. '

| German flak guns and artillery] on the east bank of the Rhine al-|

| ready were shelling the Americanheld sections of Cologne and from the walled city could be heard the intermittent, blast of Nazi dermelitions, Prisoners taken by the advancing Yanks reported that 85 per cent of the central part of Cologne was in ruins, although the residential and industrial outskirts were not ‘heavily. damaged. These captives | asserted that only about one in 10 of Cologne's pre-war population of 786,000 remained in the city. South and southwest of Cologhe, other 1st army divisions were driving in giant strides on the Rhine city of Bonn to win another jumpoff point for the assault on the river barrier, Doughboys of the 9th infantry division captured Schwarzmaar and entered the adjoining village of Mueggenhausen, eight miles west of Bonn, and beat off a stiff counter-attack by 200 tank supported “German troops.

Overrun 8 More Towns

The 1st army also swept up eight towns in the Rhine plain between Cologne and Duesseldorf and won two more footholds on the west bank of the river, virtually clearing that stretch. Another 25 miles of the Rhine bank from the Duesseldorf area north” to Rheinberg also was cleared by the American 9th army and the Yan! striking forces around to drive an armored ‘hammer against the remaining Nazis pinned ‘against the Canadian 1st army anvil in the north. Rolling up advances of as much as six miles through the wilting southern flank of the German line, the Americans wiped out all Nazi resistance in Homberg and Orsoy, five miles farther north, and pushed ahead to the outskirts of Rheinberg,

ing’ ferry crossings. Baerl, midway between Homberg and Orsoy and only 200 yards west of the Rhine, also was taken. The Canadians, including a large proportion of United Kingdom Hop. drove within a mile west -of

wheeled their main |

site of two of the enemy's remain-|°

reached its peak of expansion and i several thousand of its men will | be transferred soor* to the army |and navy. | Sinclair ‘asserted that R. A. F. | raids on storage sites and commu{nications lines had reduced the |scale of Germany's V-2 rocket at- | tacks against Britain “far below” {Nazi hopes. He said, however, that the only way to halt both the V-1 robot bomb and V-2 attacks was to capture launching sites.

3 YOUTHS HELD IN HOLDUP-SLUGGINGS

Three teen-age youths—one only | 15—were being held by police today after they were identified by their victim as the trio who slugged and robbed him: early last night. They were arrested by detectives in. the 1200 block of N. West st. {a short time after: Guy Dodds, 52, of "144 W. 9th st, was robbed of $92 near his home. Mr. Dodds ‘received slight cuts from a knife wielded by one of the trio. He said they also struck him in the face, took his watch and valuable papers. A few minutes earlier, police said three teen-agers answering the same description slugged and robbed Edwin J. Ryan, .39, of 3828 Graceland ave. as he walked along 14th st., between Illinois and Meridian sts. Mr. Ryan told police he was hit

ribs. One of the three threatened him with a knife. Mr. Ryan, an attorney, said the bandits took his pocketbook, containing $23.

GENERAL'S ESCAPE BREWS ITALY CRISIS

" ROME, March 8 (U. P.).—A political crisis, threatening to lead to the overthrow of the Bonomi government, is brewing over the escape of Gen. Mario Roatta, former army chief of staff under Mussolini, on trial as one of fascism’s leading war criminals. Roatta apparently has left Italy and is believed to be on his way to Portugal, reliable sources said today. Leftist parties have called a pro-

.| test meeting against the laxity of

government departments that enabled Roatta to escape from Regina Coeli jail Sunday night.

slugged in- from the west to enter|

on the head and kicked in the|

Flood Crest of 70 Feet Predicted Today at

Cincinnati. (Continued From Page One)

bodies of Mrs. Pelmer Willard and a 3-year-old boy she tried to rescue. The boy, son of Mf. and Mrs. R. J. Jenkins, of near Kimball, toppled into the swift waters of a creek emptying into the Elkhorn last

current in an effort to rescue him. Both were carried downstream into the river, where they disappeared, White River Rising

In Indiana the White river is rising at all points except Indianapolis and the Wabash is rising at Wabash, Terre Haute, Vincennes, Mt, Carmel and New Harmony. Damage caused by the high waters in the southern Indiana is not expected to be as severe as that of last- April, R. M. Willlamson,. local weather chief, said. Colder weather is promised for tomorrow. White river at Elliston stood at 10 feet today after 2.55 inches of rainfall in the last 24 hours. At Edwardsport 3.10 inches of rain fell and at Seymour, 3.24 inches: Residents of ‘Aurora and Lawrenceburg were nauseated for several hours yesterday by the smell of low-grade crude oil released upon the Ohio river when a pipeline of the Standard Oil Co. ruptured at Latonia, Ky. Gates Starts Relief Emergency flood relief machinery was set up by Governor Gates fol-

lowing southern Indiang reports. The state police have been in-

!the spot” flood area.

communications in the

southern Indiana area, the governor said. Representatives of the civilian air patrol, the American Red Cross and the -civilian defense council were summoned by the governor to confer with state agencies this afternoon to co-ordinate all activities in connection with the flood threat. “Mobilization of all our resources to combat the prospective flood is well under way,” Governor Gates said. Tobinsport, in Perry county, remained isolated by the Ohio river and adjacent backwaters. All roads leading to the town were under water and the last connection link with other communities was severed when ferry service was suspended.

RED ARC REPORTED SEALING OFF STETTIN

(Continued From: Page one)

Berlin, is Germany's biggest port on the Baltic and the main source of imports for Berlin. Zhukov's forces toppled the main fortresses guarding the approaches to Stettin yesterday. They were the walled city of Stargard, a 12way communications centér 20 miles east of Stettin, and the railway ‘and highway. junction of Naugard, 28 miles northeast. The Germans were driven. from the fortress city with a loss of more than 4000 dead and 35 tanks. From Stargard, a highway and a railway run straight to Stettin’s suburb of Altdamm. Southeast of Kolberg, the 1st army linked up with Marshal Konstantin K. Rokogsovsky's 2d. White Russian army at Bad Polzin and

pocket looping around Belgard.

75 IN CAMP UNDER WORK-OR-FIGHT EDICT

CHICAGO, March 6 (U. P.).—As far as the army is concerned, men inducted at Camp Ellis, IIL, are under Mobilization Director James F. Byrnes’ work-or-fight edict are the same as other soldiers in- fhe? U. 8. army, Mi}. Gen. Russel’ B: Reynolds said today. “As soldiers,” the commanding general of the 6th service command- told a press conference, “they will be shown the! same consideration and respect ‘ ‘due any> man in uniform.” Reynolds said there are whward of 75 men now in training at the camp, the only one of, its kind in the country.

HOME FROM PACIFIC

Lt. John T. Barnett, recently rescued after the Japs sank the LST boat he commanded, arrived in Indianapolis yetserday to spend a short leave with his’ wife, Janet, 6135 Burlington ave. -

EVENTS TODAY

United Christian Missionary society, ‘donvention, Lincoln ‘hotel, ; Sth service command, repair and utilities conference, Severin hotel Y Men's Club,” International, Central Y. M. C. A. oo r fea Cross war fund campaign. . Lutheran Service club, luncheon, 12:18 p. m.; meeting, 8 p. m., Lincoln hotel.

Officers . Wives vg luncheon, Lincoln hotel, 12:45 p.

EVENTS TOMORROW

United Christian Missionary society, convention, Lincoln hotel. Junior Chamber of Commerce, luncheon, Washington hotel, 12:15 p Economie Jorum, meting, "Washingtén hotel, 6:15 p. m.

meeting,

MARRIAGE LICENSES Prank ‘C. Robinson, foryaine Hotel; - Hart, 210 High School Road, Charles Robert Cross, a N. us; Betty Lou Balsley, 2310 W. Morr Josepi C. Koonts, Ottawa, ae .1. Ma Cc. Tyner, 3002 002 Talbott. age Carl Harry Wise, U, 8. navy; Shirl n Sannaway, 2626 W. oth. yi An Leroy Hamilton, 2147 8. Penn ” Mabel Combs, ne x Tlinois, ava; Martin R. hin nd.

Ruth

City,

John Wills 413 N. Colorado:

IN INDIANAPOLIS

Walter Raymond Shriner, '3102 Madison; Cleo Virginia Hancock, 817 Division, ° John Diliehay, 875 Wright; Eva Marte Jones, '1750 Morgan. on e Russell, 2628 Stuart; Hustedt, 2424 Adams. Samuel Dale Harrah, Westview Rive; Georgeanna Paral Ulge!. B0681 E. 10t LeRoy Alvin Ha "8. army; Mildred Ethyl Brown, 168% C Solioxe 1200 Orange; tage.

Allegra

ge. Willlam Michael Allstatt, Mary Louise Waldo, 1063 Cot Anthony A. Kremple, 350 Terrace; Beatrice Lashbrook, 1513 N. Aryen al Bernard Joseph Dolez Harriso BY jabeth eT, 1sia N. Merid- ®

1d Slinker, 1445 Fletcher; Maude Ann Shatto, 1632 Fletcher Harold B. Lund, u. 8. army; Betty Louise

id 3 Spann Leo O, 38 N. California; Maydene Sb iy 440 Minerv Robert Miller BT ee M511 Jar; Mary | Suseline. rey au, R. R. Box 131,

Browns! Jessella

born, 211 Kan

! | Chester E. Rice, Drexel Gardens; ‘Beatrice

D. Gearlde, 350 Norw Hen aggoner , Kokomo; "Lawrence RusWilliam Howat 821 B Ohio;

Mildred R. Hussior, hi Fletcher; Betty

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Additional state police] officers are being dispatched to the|

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and tir their chief chemist was essential, but the OPA didn't agree. Dr. Kyrides was presented with a gold medallion struck for “mer=, itorious contribution to’ the advancement of .pure or applied chemistry or chemical education.” This covers some 100 such achievemerits, like advancements in making dyes, medicines, sulfa drugs, and industrial chemicals to speed the war effort.

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Turkish-born scientist's

honor that they couldn’t give him a set of new, tires for his car as they had planned to do.

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A COMPANY spokesman re=-

that a futile effort had

been made, by long distance call and telegram to, OPA in Wash-

to. get Dr, Kyrides a motoring classification— res. The -company said

including

DR. H. H. WILLARD, professor of chemistry at the University of Michigan,

Dr. Kpyrides’ alma made the formal presen-

tation before chemists from nine midwestern “non-essential” scientist spoke on “The Chemist and the Millennium of Well-Being.” At. présent, Dr. Kyrides' own well-being isn't exactly tops.

states, Then the

He ride 40 minutes by street-

car each way from his home to his laboratory and back-—61 years | old or not—to keep the test tubes bubbling.

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LAUNCH FIGHT ON _ STEPHENSON PLEA

(Continued From Page One)

four and .a half- hours yesterday presenting a -self-drafted motion for a new trial. ; @oughlin will contend that Stephenson’s ‘motion. did not consti-

trial and that the Hamilton county court has no jurisdiction. After the ex-Klan chief’s lengthy | presentation, Coughlin Began preliminaries of the state's case before; court was adjourned, -

Nattily attired in a light brown] business suit, Stephenson stood: in| the same court room where he was | convicted of murder 20 years ago and argued for his motion in a vigorous, convincing manner.

He sat alone at the counsel table, ! a stack of 20 law books at his side. He made frequent reference to the law texts and cited court findings! dating back to early days of American law.

The maze of legal technicalities| submitted by the man, who once boasted that he was “the law” in| Indiana, contrived to make the | hearing a dull one for the hundreds | of curious spectators. who packed, the courtroom. Stephenson basett* his™’case on| three ‘major points: (1) That he was afraid to testify at his original trial because of fear of mob vio-

S4YS:

Cologne Cathe dial Spires. ‘Still Standing Amid Ruins

(Continued Fronf Page One) .

billowed “into the sky, pagsibly from a gasoling dump that had been hit. But amid those blackened clouds, the Dom's towers remained in sight throughout the day as a light guiding the Amer-

. icans to their goal

While thes Germans probably will- attempt a firm stand somewhere in the center of the city, which -1s— clustered aro und the

cathedral, the Americans hope they will spare the historic church. y

“It’s a cinch we won't touch it unless we have to,” one colonel said, pointing out it would make

| a good defensive point for the

Germans. it.” Although the outer edges of Cologne are not damaged as much as Aachen, officers said the | degree of ruins becomes greater toward 'the center of the city. John McDermott, another United Press corréspohdent. who entered with the 1st army, said Cologne was ho longer the majectic city of towering buildings he saw eight years ago. “The Cologne I saw in 1937 was the Queen City of thé Rhine,” McDermott said. horrible mess. The only familiar | sight remaining is the cathedral towers, the rest has vanished. “It is a terrible picture to sed this Queen City gasping for life

“I hope they respect

l~in her dying days.”

United Press Ann Stringer, who .is with the third armored division, said re-

, sistance was light during the ine

itial plunge into the city but was expected to stiffen as the Amer« icans moved in on the center of the town, However, the Americans are pouring into the city in an endless stream. When I approached Cologne, I had to take the back: roads because the most usable roads at the front were the most crowded I ever have seen. - It seemed as if the entire 1st - army was pouring into Cologne all at once. i

CROONER FRANKIE BACK AGAIN. IN 4-F

JERSEY CITY, N. J, March 8, (U. P.).—Frankie Sinatra's draft board, after a hectic four weeks, last night put “The Voice” definitely

“|back in 4-F. Previously he was

[classified as 2-A-F, which means 4-F {doing essental work. The four board members didn’t actually say so, but in effect they decided that Frankie's swoon-croone ing didn’t fit the essentiality lists

“Today, it is a |

Correspondent -

set up by the war manpower come mission. The 27-year-old singer first was classified 4-F in December, 1943, bug |after taking a second physical exe |amination recently was put in 2-A-F, | He has a punctured eardrum:

FREED IN PHILIPPINES Paul L. Iddings of Lagrange was on today’s list of civilians liberated in the Philippines.

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