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QUOTES HITLER: ‘WAR 1S LOST’

Underground Reports Say Wanton Destruction of Reich Ordered.

By HUBERT UXKULL United Press Staff Correspondent STOCKHOLM, March 8.-—Uncon-firmed German underground reports claimed today that Adolf Hitler confessed to high Naz offi-

cials that Germany had _lost the

war. The admission was said to have

been .made Feb: 24 at a meeting of |"

30 responsible Nazi leaders, mostly Gauleiters and Reichleiters, Hitler told them, the reports said, that he lost the war because he “fell victim to the biggest treason in history.” As & result he proclaimed a wanton destruction of Germany. Blames Reactionaries

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WASHINGTON, March 8 (U. P) NEW YORK, March 8 (U.P) — —U. 8S. Somat Desist BH cee fai hid >: Si ie ol Joilining sre evteryls wen The American Newspaper Publish-| LONDON, March 8- (U. P).— (here reache 23632 today. an. in- nite ress Sta orrespondent r Ss C crease of 10.600 over a week ago. FOURTEENTH CORPS HEAD. | Wrote down what he saw inside the ers’ association announced today |More "than 1350 American peavy q . {the formation of a nine~-man com- bombers pounded German oil and

The ‘total included 732,922 army | UARTERS, Luzon, ; v = Intramuros: lcasualties through Feb. 28, as ‘an-| iQ March 7 (De- |" unjaroh 7-150 ‘guerrillas’ killed mittee on press. communications| railway targets in the Ruhr valley

), — | nouneed by ‘Secretary. of War Henry | Thin Dhan) Dna Japanese tonight. I personally saw ten of with Brig. Gen, Julius Ochs Adler,|area today, They followed & 1250L. Stimson, and 90,710 navy, marine | urned and stabbed to death more them stabbed to death. eneral manager of .t lane R. A. F. night attack on Ber- | corps, and coast guard casualties, as than 2500 civilian Filipinos during | “March 8—1164 civilians brought pena as ps he New York p gat Ne {7

i |g seven horrible 3 announced by the navy. e days inside Manila's in today and placed under guard. The, committee. was formed bes éentral and: northwestern Reich,

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: ancient wall 7s PE POS, | oe i The figures: oye Nollod hy, Le ei 0s March 9—1000 ‘guerrillas’ were | | cause of * ‘the increasing importance The big daylight raiding fleet, Army Navy Total written’ record. to- burned to death tonight. ieati ; .lcovered by 300 U. S. 8th air force day disclosed the worst t “ lot press communications, including Killed ...... 142,285 34,513 176,798 d f th mass atroc- March 10—Approximately 1000 . oc. 0i0na] aspects. fighters, hit -six 'benzol and: syne Wounded ...438.734 41,209 479943 !!v Incident of the war in the Pa- guerrillas are under guard, | Other members are Hugh Baillie, thetic oil plants in the Gelsen:| Missing ..%.. 91,237 10671 101,908 | cific. “March 13—About 10 tried to es-| ..cisent of United !lkirchen-Dortmund - sector of the | Japanese soldiers arbitrarily pres nited Press assocla Prisoners ... 60.666 4317 64,983 Y%F arbitrarily clas-|cape. They were stabbed to death iis,s: EM, Antrim, busines$ man-|Ruhr and five railway yards be- | | sified practically su male civilians at 4 p.m. All ‘guerrillas’ were \ager, Chicago Tribune: J. V. Con-|tween the Ruhr and central GerTotals 732,922 90,710 823,632 ‘as “guerrillas” Some guerrillas” burned to death.” |nolly, president’ of International any. Sttmson Said more than half of] TC Shon into dungeons and : + |News Service; ‘Edwin 8. Friendly,| Freight yards at Batzdorf, Dillehy the army wounded, 221,155, have roe | So Son Gd Wi gasgline| CQUNTING 'NO-STRIKE VOTES S general manager, New York Sun: burg, Siegen, Essen and Giessen . : an u any were | were hit. turned to duty. : tt DETROIT, March 8 (U. P)~ ‘Brig. Gen. Clark Howell, publisher, ian ae bayonetted or stabbed to death. | Atlanta Constitution; John 8. The night raiders-concentrated on

Sn In one dungeon cell under oid|A United Auto Workers (C. L Og ion president American Society, the railway hub of Dessau, 65 miles -101ST: BIRTHDAY MARKED Fort Santiago, the 120th infantry union committee begins tabulation|qf Newspaper Editors and Publisher southwest of Berlin, oil refineries BRIDGEPORT, Conn. Maren«8 regiment found 300 bodies, including | today of returns in the organiza- | of Knight newspapers; Robert Mc-|at Harburg, near Hamburg, and ob(U, P.).—George Robert Lare ob-|two women. An official report said tion's no-strike referendum. The|Lean, president Philadelphia Bul-|jectives at Holdo, 60 miles north of served on his 101st birthday anni. | they were locked behind . massive [vote will . detérmine whether the] |letin and president of the Associ- |Harburg on the main railway and versary today that the second- hun- steel doors far underground. From union will maintain or abandon its | |ated Press, and Joseph Pulitzer,|highway to Denmark. . dred, and not the "first, are the|the condition of the bodies it was | promise to refrain from striking for | president of the St. Louts Post-Dis-|* R. A. F. Lancasters bombed Ger-

. THURSDAY, 1 American Heavies Hit Nazi .

lin. and other objectives in- the

MARCH 8 1945

il Targets by Day |

the Rhine opposite the Canadian 1st. army. A smaller force, pre sumably Mosquitos, attacked Berlin for the 15th straight night.

Sabu Recipient Of Flying Cross

U. 8. 13TH AIR FORCE HEAD~ QUARTERS, Somewhere in Paeific, March. 7 (Delayed) (U.-P.). —8abu, the former elephant boy of the movies, was awarded the

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His award was for taking part as thé tail gunner in an attack by a single Liberator on a Japanese convoy off Borneo. The bomber flew through heavy anti-aircraft fire, It sank a freighter-transport and a freighter, damaged two cargo ships, and scored a near miss on a fifth ship. Other crewmen also awarded the DFO included 2d Lt. Richard A,

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The fuehrers statement to the hardest. {evident they had starved. |the duration. patch, a man troops and armor at Wesel on', Paul, Quincy, Ill. group, it was added, put all the —— _- — blame for losing the war on ‘reactionaries” and treacherous allies. The latter included Japan, which - : he.said had pledged to attack Rus- | : sig simultaneously with” Germany. : According to the reports, Hitler disclosed that German war casualties amounted to 12,500,000 dead, wounded and missing. Because of the hopeless situation, ; the underground sources said Hit- Tech. 4th Gr. Leon Karnes | ler appointed Gestapo Chief Hein- . - . 5 - rich Himmler “special commissioner TWO INDIANA MEN, bag from of destruction” with orders to dev-| OVErseas service, will be featured | astate all German cities and in-| with the 1st combat infantry band dustries even with the aid of the| when it appears at Billings hoshere 2 Astesary. ved to. | pital Saturday and at Wakeman tae pan killing or In tne General hospital, Camp Atterbury, prisoners gnd hostages, although it Monday. was said Hitler was “still deliber4 They are Tech. 4th Gr. Leon ating” ways and means of dealing Karnes, Greenwood, who spent With Wer prisoners. 18 months in Puerto Rico with an ‘Rats, Hunger, Death’ anti-aircraft artilléry unit, and = Thé reports asserted that Hitler,| Tech. 5th Gr. Harley J. Nosker, fn commenting on the Yalta meet-| Whiting, a veteran of 31 months ing, described the Big Three as| in the Aleutians. “threes world pirates” who “thought| Included among the 56 bandsthey could share the bear's skin.” men, all “overseas -veterans, are “But when they march through| doughboys who have heen awarded Germany,” Hitler -was quoted as| the silver star for gallantry in saying, “they will not find the bear's action, the bronze star and the skin but ruins, stone heaps, rats| combat infantry badge.” epidemics, hunger and death. Members have served at Anzio, | “It is our holy duty to leave no| Salerno, Naples, North. Africa, | other inheritance forthe Bolsheviks | Sicily, the Aleutians, New Guinea, Jews and plutocrats and thereby,...| Fiji 1s1an ds Guadalcanal, | western civilization shall decline” | Bougainville, Papua and Hollan- | r——————— dia. LOCAL WOMEN HELP . On the program will be melodies : “1 “and , entertainment characteristic ATTERBURY WOUNDED of the Wattle frasits*around the | a world. ‘Band members will be in- | "Rosalie Rothbard, 5417 N, Meridian | terviewed on the Vox Pop radio | or Ar, st. and Joan Pfeiffer, 5260 N. Penn-| Program at Wakeman hospital at 4 ; sylvania st, are among he, nine| 7 p. m. Monday. % nurses’ aids from the state a ee $ port. at Wakeman general re "INDIANA CENTRAL T0 * Camp Atterbury, for duty. i Swysey mmsowit-care for.re- FETE NEW PRESIDENT ne \ turned woundzd soldiers are: Percia | SR ig ori 3 3 Perry, Pi. Wayne; Florence Weil,| A reception for Fresideic sad IDR ; : GE A Ft. Wayne; Elaine Jewett, Ham- Mrs. I. Lynd Esch will be given | ; - PERLE Ca rR mond; Helen Elewelling, Hammond; py students and faculty members > Sa x : Bake Ruth “Hughes, Latagette; of Indiana Central college at 8:30 i \ Irene Gihbs, Terre Haute. |p. m. tomorrow in the New Hall \ \ + | —— | reception room. COL. TISDALE’S SON | Dr. Esch, the new president of RAISED T0 CAPTAIN. the college, assumed his duties last on RAL 1 OY Thursday. yesh Paul Tisdale, glider pilot, son off In the reception line will-be Mr. “Col. and Mrs. Harry E. Tisdale of|and Mrs. Evan R.. JKek, Bishop and Ft. Harrison, has been promoted Jo Mrs. Fred L. Dennis, Dr. and Mrs. 43 captain, | Esch, Richard Smith, president of Capt. Tisdale, the eldest son ofthe campus Sfudent Christian -asthe Pt. Harrison commander, is sociation;:and Miss Helen Ruffner with the 437th troop carrier group and Glenn Catlin, co-chairmen of and has been overseas since Febru-|the campus 8. C.. A. social comary, 1044. He piloted a ship carry-| mittee. ing members of the first wave of| Miss Bonnie Polk, campus queen, troops into the invasion of Nor.|and her attendants, will assist in #mandy and Holland. | receiving and serving. Key Positions in Agency Held by Untrained Persons +" (Continued "rom Page One) have expanded its function in the this dossiyt. aiwavs mein getiin face of extreme need. thicis fone. In earlier: dane | On Feb. 13, UNRRA's committee people weto reported quitting, of thercouncil for Europe approved UNRRA for Tack of SOMEIRIRE to | thé subcommittee’s resolution. do Te >: On Feb. 26, Re UNERS central ~ i) | committee in Jagshington apact TNRRA trodes tre ut | proved the reslutin—six yee supplies. and ships, for example. after ths Orig:nal Hading of nrg Bui ihformed officials ay .the | ent. necessity and emergency in agency has bogged down #lso be- battle-scarred areas suffering cause. of organizational weak 50% Cistress : io Rx. nesses and lack of qualified pers | v ven How fis ehtiefly hoa Papes. sonnel in key spots, | ness supplies snd ships. are | forthcoming, it's anyone's guess Misconceived Job | When it will mean real aid. | : U. 8. officials, with those of "Points to Danger | Other governinents here. say that At last fall's UNRRA meeting in | in considerable part UNRRA mis- | Montreal, Mr. Acheson saw the concejved its Job at the start. It danger of setting up an organizaleaned too heavily on the- “social | tion displomatically rather than worker approach,” it is claimed. | efficiently. It is easy, he said, to It had too few people who knew | create offices with equal power | supplies, procurement, transport | when there™are conflicting de- | and the high art of combating | mands of nations. That's all Washingion red tape. right, he observed, if the organ- 4 ' Herbert 'V. Evatt, Australian | ization is contemplative, but its . / foreign minister, peeled off the destructive if it's an organization ” other -day-on the subject of over- | calling for action : centralization of UNRRA in | The London UNRRA office’ is : : Washington. : | a case in point—a three-man afHe said UNRRA headquarters | fair representing the G. 8., Rus- ui should confine itself to broad out- | Sia and Great Britain, each with - : 7 line of policy and that there wil] | €O-equal ‘authority, It's a com- Yeese aed compere for the fretted? be no hope of UNRRA success “if | Promise and, UNRRA people ginle matters which can fairly ‘be de. | Bree, poor organization. / . cided locally have to be referred UNRRA, to buy supplies in the “ ; ‘ to a central office for debate and. | U- S. Boes through the foreign : decision. » economic administration and to | Aeound , : Men wise in international or- | !Ne ‘procurement agencies of. the ’ , : oe ae RZ. HAVLoU # ganization say UNRRA is organ. | [¢deral government, Some - ized so as to attempt to satisfy UNRRA people complain of the too many nations politically — too, | YAS! amount of paper work in- ats « , much debate in committees, top | VOIVed In the process, and at the ’ tr many resolutions, They argue for | large. number of officials ' Who ace ”, wilde more control and -swifter action | MUst-initial papers before there : ’ in the top executive stafl, | ean; be action. ; > = * : ry C UNRRA officials deny thie a Fim J ¥ ‘ : Bp Move Slowly | agency is - over-centralized in : ; » Te . : \ ! : Committees and councils can | Washington and say their chiefs |. . -~ * : : move slowly, For instance— ( of mission havé much authority. : ' i : On Jan. 10'UNRRAS "standing | L0eY. 88y they've not leaned too shies : ut 5 HE I 2 G5 cack technical subcommittee 6n welfare heavily on social workers, and » : : 3 : = ’ for Burope” recommended that | Cite instances of .theé military ; : ale Pe | ! UNRRA provide supplemental re. | [0Fces asking .UNRRA people to * ; 4 : : : j lef in northwestern Europe | SUPPIY people so trained. #3 I. . UNRRA'S activity in France, Rel- | But the fact is- that, after 16 . : . wv . Ine ) ; - 1 » glum and Holland has been aimed | months, ‘nobody is getting much- . - Ye. 7 Sy 4 Mai St t Hat : | j "chiefly at helping to fepatriate | Tiel from UNRRA. : . | alah ‘Main Street Hat Bar, ie mi people. The sub-com. | NEXT: Big credits, few sup: i :

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