Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 March 1945 — Page 2

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“Nazis Report ~~ Russians n Break Into* Kuestrin;

, Hitler Visits Front. “(Continued From Page One)

{he Oder river pehind Kuestrin, 38! "miles east of Berlin, and was storm¥ing the burning fortress city from * feuall . sides”—an - indication = that

Kuestrin has been encircled. | The forces which attacked ‘from |

the rear broke into the west-bank| portion of Kuestrin, Berlin said, put the main assault came from the northwest on the opposite side of | the big bend of the Oder. The German defenders repulsed “17 Soviet thrusts from’ the northwest, the German DNB agency's | Ernst von Hammer said. On their 18th try, powerful Russian infantry and tank forces broke into the streets of the city, he said.

Tells of Nazi Reserves

Fresh German reserves rushed up and “forced the Soviet -“remnants” back into the “interior of the town,” Von Hammer said. The wording of the broadcast indicated that the Russians at one time may have held almost all of Kuestrin and even at present were in the center of the city. Other Soviet forces were in northeastern Kuestrin, Von Ham-| mer said. Numerous planes were | said to be supporting the Red army attacks. Though Nazi broadcasts remained silent on developments elsewhere along the Berlin front, Moscow's report “that the whole Oder-Neisse line was “aflame” pointed to attacks all the way from Stettin to the sudeten foothills,

Aimed Squarely at Berlin

The main thrust obviously was ying aimed at Berlin from the Kuestrin and Frankfurt areas areas fue east of the capital ~ But the flanking drives toward Stettin . in| he north and Dresden in the south may prove equally decisive in the final accounting. Nazi reports yesterday said the Russians had .driven west to Seelow, 10 miles beyond-the Oder and only 26 miles east of Berlin, only to be .ihrown back seven miles to Rathstock, three miles west of the Oder. Moscow dispatches said the 1st and 2d White Russian armies have seized roughly, many’s Baltic coast east of Stettin bay and mopped . up nine-tenths of German Pomerania. Soviet bombers were reported pulverizing river crossings’ in the! Stettin area ‘in conjunction .with | Red army artillery on an around-the-clock basis. | (A Paris broadcast said Soviet troops had “occupied the airfield of Stettin and have reached the edge of the city.” The broadcast ‘was Fepupteq Dy the | by. the Foor

THEY THREW WAY THE BOOK OF RULES'

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bevend, and expand the bridgeead. This, at least is a Nay the amazing -storv is pieced” together - from those stir front dispatches. That the enemy is*now wheel

ing “into position for counterattack as soon as possible must be taken for granted. That he will fight as he never - hag fought before must be ex= pected. For the heart of Germany can be pierced from that bridgehead east of the Rhine, and it is now or never for Hit-

ler’s crack legions. But at thé beginning of this mighty battle, American. daring has won the. initial advantage— a momentous "advantage, which might have cost months of bloody sacrifice. And thanks to the heroism ot our Canadian and .British allies in the north, Patton's breakthrough around Coblenz andthe Americans and” French in the French in the south--all covered

ring line

by a victorious air force--Eisen-hower’'s whole line moves. A proud and grateful ‘America

salutes the gallant allied. armies.

CAPITAL BANS MAGAZINE

WASHINGTON, March 9 (U. P.. -~The March 20 issue of Look magazine has been banned from all newsstands in Washington because of ‘three pictures of almost nude women.

Anvthing Could Happen in

War's New,

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of collapse, but she is much close:

to it than any observer here would

have dared think a week ‘or even a day ago. If Germany had counted on the Rhine as a great barrier to check the western allies, that dream .is now shattered. Should ‘the allies penetrate 50 miles beyond the Rhine without being seriously checked by prepared defenses, observers believe the Germans will not 58 capable of makihg another fixed stand any» Where in the west. And it is doubted here that the Nazis have enough men-to make a prolonged, stand. along the Rhine against the pile driver that Gen.

» Dyight D. Eisenhower has prepared, |

a “Whittle Enemy Reserves more German divisions while the

The heavy fighting on both East~ern and Western fronts, plus steady | Yombardment of Giérman communis . cations and resources from the air, is believed: to have eaten away virtually all ‘of Germanys: trained reserves. |

BERLIN BATTLE Dofonse Lawyers Object to iL WN ‘FULL FURY" Jury Visiting Murder Scene SIGNS LOWERED =; the sandbagged flood-

{day was Henry Krauss, a partner of still was a closely-guarded secret | Detective Sgt. {continued his previous testimony

| cutor Frank X. Haupt countered by | Meridian st. which’ traced ‘the flight

| by a constant circulation of air {and steam through a burning fuel | bed.

two-thirds of Ger-!

~gomedy are John Soucie,

Delbert Binkley, Bill Kellems, Bob Risley and Roy Matlock Managers are Myrna dLewis, Marilyn Grimes and Dale Haley. The production will be directed by Mrs Elsie Ball ; pe DUring Intermissions,” the: high school band, led by Mrs. Omar Rybolt, will play ‘“Rose-Marie,” “One Kiss,” “Body and Soul,” and “The Mounties.”

, presence of

| prisoners of war.

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would carry the case into next wach | ao Whether Attornéys Lewis and held the state has called 24 Wit~ Beene will call the defendant to je nesses. Another state witness $0- stand to testify in his own defense |

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Fae Davis, who also|

The ‘defense has fought unceas- | ingly to prevent introduction . of circumstantial evidence such as al

Critical Hour.

Detective Krauss told of his inter-| views with Mrs. Wiedenhoft, {was seriously beaten. He said she] volver admitted yesterday by Judge! selected the photograph .of De- Bain. Graphenreed from a number of ‘rogue’s gallery” pictures, " Lt. Howard Hunter, pRlice crim- | : ‘| inologist, testified to human blood | Tells of Interview

pocket city ‘were inundated night, with the Ohio river fexpected Sunday - barring {heavy rains.

stains on the barrel of the gun and | State board of health

The detective also testified that| the socket of the’ wrench, The state | the defendant's left dnkle was alleges that. the wrench was one |swollen at the time of questioning|of the weapons used to slug the at police headquarters. Sgt. Davis | florist into a horribly-beaten con- | {said he first talked to DeGraphen- dition. reed last July 29, shortly after his| The criminologist, whose techni- | arrest on a vagrancy charge. Later cal testimony was in the best man- he disease springs up. he was placed in a police lineup and ner of Philo Vance and other fic- | identified by Mrs. Wiedenhoft, the tional detectives, drew visible indetective said. [terest from courtroom spectators. The defense dwelt upon the fact| He described the condition of that DeGraphenreed was the only | broken twigs in a hedge adjoining duty Negro in the lineup. Deputy Prose-| {the Wiedenhoft home at 2260 8S. Yar evees at terbury

the swollen Ohio. Water

Leavenworth.

War Prisoners Aiding Meanwhile,

prisoners were Jeffersonville.

[establishing that several white men of the pair of robbers. The second | sent extensive

Southern diana Cheered By Clearing Skies at -

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crest | mal stages.

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workers | Shutdown and at Pittsburgh work- | |supervised water treatment along |€rS returned to their jobs in the'ly toward a 48-foot level,

was

shipped into Aurgra, Cannelton and Joseph L. Quinn, | sthte sanitary engineer, said 3000 [Some 600 miles of the river's-length

typhoid vaccines were on hand ‘if [in Kentucky from the

six state guard companies were mobilized and on active in threatened areas. German [counted in a six-state area. working on | Camp At- furiously to combat crests that were Ind., shipments | expected to reach their peak today!their efforts to hold back the river.

THE INDIANAPOLIS NES nm

FLOOD DANGER *

“where the ‘water climbed to & 93, only .07 feet short of the level Jat which army engineers said they could hold back the waters” strain-

On to Berlin By UNITED PRESS

The nearest distance to Beth | from advanced allied lines today:

planes from Indianapolis’ | EASTERN FRONT—27 —27 miles (from le field dropped 25,000 empty Seelow, by Germdn report).

sandbags into the city with bomb- | |ipg precision for erection of a tem- WESTERN FRONT — 228 miles | porary dike, and Mayor ‘John Sal-| (fronf Linz, by = report). lady said the next few hours would | be the crucial ones in determining ITALY-—530 miles (from north of the city's fate. | Ravenna). War production was resumed to-| | day in the upper-Ohio river valley out as it hit the broader channel in| las floodwaters receded to near-nor- ‘that area, ‘and weather officials re-

ported a one-half-foot fall from yesterday’s 69.2-foot peak. ] At Louisville, the river rose slow- | During | the night the water hit the 47.1 foot | mark, only 10 feet below the high mark in the 1937 disaster. Mayor Wilson Wyatt told Loulsat ‘the 'yjlle residents last night that the! other end of the state. situation was well in hand, how-| h lever. He said- some 1200 persons. T Listed Dead | en Listed 2s Dea had been evacuated to-the city's | At least 10 known dead were five refugee centers and were beling fed and cared for. Cities along the lower Ohio worked| ' Across the river at Jeffersonville, police reported progress in

- Mines began operations in he

eastern Ohio area after a two-day

[city’s factories and steel mills. Late reports indicated that the {waters were rising slowly along

“elbow” at| | Cattlettsburg, to . Paducah,

in the lineup were as dark as the man at the scene has .never been of cots and bedding to stricken and tomorrow ) Some 350 war workers and soldiers defendant. | identified. Lt. Hunter said police areas | Only Cincinnati and Covingtan, | reinforced the weak spots in thé Defense attorneys have indicated !methods-used in this. case -were.the! Crest of the river in its rush Ky. across the river, were consid- city's floodwall, but stood ready to several days may be needed to pre- latest in crime detection downstream was - at Portsmouth, ered | immune, _ The river flattened | evacuate at any time. |

FRIDAY, MARCH 0, 1045

The Mystery Solved—Reason Rabbits Run Faster Uphill

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body.” much meat and so he’ power in his front -legs. used” strictly poses.

has no They're for balancing pur-

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“IN GOING. downhill a rabbit would be ‘jockeyed. into the awkward position of throwing most of his weight on his front legs.” As Mr. Dodd sees it, this would be bad, slightly frustrating. It might take some time for a rabbit to decide whether to risk the weight of his body on his front legs, or whether to launch on an unbalanced hind-leg downskid. He pointed out that in going uphill these problems vanish as the rabbit's weight would be entirely on his rear-legs. : * 88 THEN before you could say jackrabbit, Mr. Wodd realed off, quickly and without pausing, a lengthy plug for the most gigantic rabbit chow ever scheduled in Indianapolis. Sponsored by the Marion Coun~ ty Rabbit Breeders ‘association, the SEtifhit will. be held May 9

The -juriction is just so

through 13 in the saddle horse Hundreds of blueblood rabbits and

he said. And it’s all free. Mr. Dodd said he would gladly demonstrate his theory on-rabbits and hills at thd show if asked to do so. ” n »

touched off a round of cogitation echoing from hither to yon. Zoo experts and outdoor fans voiced their opinions on the néws wires, G. I's scoffed at the idea of anything going faster uphill than down. * Yesterday State Entomol ogist Frank Wallace said he did not know about it either.

BELIEVE BAD SNOWS TURN ANIMAL WHITE

PENINSULA, O. (U.: P.).—North= ern Ohio's worst winter in 20 years has folks believing that weather conditions are turning ° animalg white. Anyway, a white possum with pink eyes was discovered cate ing bread and milk placed in @ ‘farmer's yard for the family cat.

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GAS CO. TO BUILD NEW GOKE. OVENS

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supply low B. PB. U. gas for underfiring the new battery and the 1941 battery, both of which are built to utilize low B. T. U. gas. - A producer plant utilizes the small sizes of coke and produces a low-heat value gas, suitable for coke oven underfiring,

The improvements are the latest in the utility's long-range plan developed after the privately-owned gas company was taken .over by the city in 1935. In March, 1941,; the 12 million cubic feet holder was built at the Langsdale plant on Northwestern ave in the northwest section of the city, and in October that year a new battery of ovens was built at Prospect. As a result, the utility has been able to meet war demands. Compared with 1935, the 1944 figures show industrial gas consumption is up 600 per cent, the number of domestic consumers (reaching 108,621 meters in service) is up 40 per cent and demestic gas consumption has increased 82 per cent. Total gas consumption in 1944 was 140 per cent higher than in 1935.

In School Play

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John Soucie Max Moore

Pat Bauder will play the title role in “Janie,” to be given by. the dramatic club” of ‘Ber Davis high school tonight in the school-auditor-jum.” Others tle ““three-act Mary An: Hittle, Phyllis Sockler, Bob Kellems

Bill Merrick, Mary Ann Risley, Bett)

cast In

Jane Scott, Max Moore, June Thorpe, Ernest Grosdidier, Jane Bauder, Ralph Swift, David Grosdidier, Melvin Cook, Donna Lunt,

STOLEN SAFE DROPS FROM FLEEING AUTO

Burglars “fumbled the ball’ la night in an attempt to steal a safc [rom the office of the Stark-Wetzel Meat Packing Co. 125 Gardner ine. As night watchman Theodore £wis, 712 N. Alabama, approached a parked car at the firm's loading dock, it was driven away at high ow? peed, an 800-pound safe dropping from the rear of the car. Further - investigation revealed that the company’s office had been entered and ransacked, but nothing cther than the recovered safe taken

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Dramatic Turn

large “numbers of inexperienced replacements among the Nazi prisoners now falling into |. A allied hands. ! Since the current offensive across the Roer started in the west, the Germans have .lost close to 75,000 prisoners of war alone. The take on - Wednesday was between 8000 and 9000 prisoners” Since the first of February the Germans have lost about. 150,000 - prisoners of war on the Western front. J Cut Up Divisions They lost more than 100,000 prisoners in the battle: in the Ardennes. These figures are “in addition to their killed and wounded which can be estimated at Jens} equal to

The rapid dash of Lt. Gen. George | 8. Patton's 3d army to Coblenz is expected td cut off parts of several

| Nazis south of the Moselle are in | danger of being cut off. Y The Germans probably got parts of most of their divisions back across the Rhine from the area (north of the Moselle, but few wit out serious losses irr mén, and even i A losses: in ale,

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