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: : : VATICAN ‘CITY, Ma | LONDON, March 12 (U. P.). — reports som ; plete conquest of Iwo appeared at —Adm, Lord Louis Mountbatten’s| Frenchmen and natives in ¥Indo- vi ae IY, March 12 UA Aine : 1 B 3.4 P Te Indicated ® of them —Pope Pius XIT believes the ierican warplanes, 2100 strong, were over Stettin, Baltic por#

four-day” visit to Chungking in. | China were expectirig allied land-

bers of the Indiana Committee for

. : - { Hand today. Weary marines were Hie . { oo : . 3 Sweden Hears: Rumor That driving the last Japanese’ defend- creased speculation today that she PES. 1nere. socialization of some enterprises STuck #f"Support of allied armies against which the Red army was Alibi : ey ea in. a fn ttle allies may be plann landing wm) “Once the allies. are ready to may be necessary under “specific ©" Poth the Eastern _and Western closing. Eo . - Alibi Reichstag May Be ers into the sea in a final battle & . ing a landing inland ‘on Indo-China, Chinese forces uircumstances.” fronts today. They smashed at| German broadcasts reported that . along the north coast. . French Indo-China. |in southern Yunan will move |. oo 40 4p | German targets on the Baltic coast | De ( Called. (A Japanese broadcast reported | The Chinese government 'an-|Southward to effect a juncture with B ‘0 Whe abnormal present| ang east of the Rhine. | omber formations ware heading : > . iss by the FCC-said Japanese troops nounced yesterday that Mountbat-| 1% allies,” the statement said. jRotment Jaber questions can no| Sonie 1350 Flying Fortresses and 'P from the south, indicating that (Continu By CHARLES ARNOT he Er Mout most. of their ten, supreme allied commander for| The Melbourne radio said Adm longer be py otsldered solvable by | Liberators escorted by 750 Mustangs | the U. 8. 15th air force was in ace the merry-m United Press Staff Correspondent | heavy arms and were fighting with southeast Asia, had conferred with | SY Bruce Fraser, commander of Sagoo Ti Parties, namely land Thunderbolts attacked military tion from Italy. Li followin mo LONDON, March 12. — Desperate small arms, habd grenades, swords Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek |\0® British Pacific fleet, had an. De A er: iy 200/and naval targets along the Baltic The daylight activity followed a 8 mo ‘new Nazi measures to avert Ger-| and bayonets. It said the Iwo bat- | supreme commander in China, on | OUNced that his forces had com- aria ere an workers as- and six rail rubs controlling most night. thrust at Berlin by Britisy The state d ‘many’s defeat were expected today : . tle was “growing in ferocity daily." military matters last Thursday | Pleted tests of thelr supply fines “Above ne int a3 |of the transport behind the Rhine ’ 5 y the witness t) in the wake of fight talks by Adolf - -R. Roach Eddie Hoyt | Pacific fleet headquarters was ex- [through Saturday. and now were ready for action) varies.” ho sail rege of these two front. .| and a powerful blow by-the R.-A. F, had visited tI Hitler and Propaganda Minister ; a pected to announce the collapse of Their decisions were not disclosed] - =. « ~~ D> ind Bey Decessary | out 650 of the U, 3, 8th alr | yesterday at Essen, German arms Another pe Goebbels. | While Sgt. Eddie Hoyt, son of |; ganized resistance momentarily as for obvious reasens. But they. al- MILL WORKER KILLED |terests Pe collectivit e general In-|force heavy bombers went to the center. . The speeches, broadcast by Ber- Mrs. Minnie Hoyt Hamilton, 2121|the bloodiest campaign of the Pa- most certainly foreshadowed new, ELKHART, March 12 (U.P. .— circumstances i ny y. In specific Baltic area. The others hit the, Well over 1000 R. A. F. bombers Mrs. Carolyn lin radio, pointed to & swift purge| English ave. is fighting in Belgium, | cific war entered its fourth week co-ordinated blows against the Jap- Fred Kulp. 66. paper mill oi DT nos hh Ri% possible to| rail yards at Siegen, Betzdorf, Dil- hit Essen. About 1200 U. S. heavies apt. 23, said of German defeatists and the furth-{y 5 prother {on Japan's front doorstep. anese on the Asiatic continent by _ De DE I yop cay which provide inte of socialization |lenburg, Wetzlar, Friedburg and| delivered a large scale blow de- | DeGraphenre .er scrapping of the rules of WariG.,.oe Hoyt, ma- | A communique this morning said Chinese, British and American | V2 killed instantly today when.a all SH Sto oh eT common to| Marburg, between the Ruhr and| signed to curb German plans for | about 5 p. m, .at the front, possibly including the| .hinist's mate | the 5th division had whittled down | forces | waste paper cart overturned and Nop but slso b ] eir material | Frankfurt-on-the-Main. a U-boat offensive. 1 The witne: suse of poison. gas. . 1-¢, is home on {the enemy's last sizable pocket to| Perhaps coincidentally, the Chi- dragged him into the rotating ma- religious life. All Re hore] and Follows Night Raids The Americans hammered sub. 10:15 p. m. Hitler himself hinted at the new ,.... | half a square mile along the north nese ministry.of information said |chinery of a beater. He was dump- must be reached throu n ind evel | marine yards at Hamburg, Bremen when her h blood purge. In a proclamation to! gor Hoyt re- |coast by 6 p. m. yesterday in heavy in a release Saturday—as, Mount- | ing the car when the accident oc- previding what is os g in emnity| The Baltic bombing supported the and Kiel, as well as bombing oil work. She s the German army commemorating .ently met a § | fighting. batten and Chiang were concluding | curred. Hipeiesee ha is ius 4 equal for| Russian. forces hammering at the refineries at Hamburg, Harding and Graphenreed the 10th anniversary of conscrip-|puddy, S. Sgt. = — a c THES concerned, hesad. | lower Oder north of Berlin. Early| Bremen. having met tion in Germany, he called upon all Richard Roach of - on Northwest Germans to “do with dogged de: Kokomo, in Eng- Witn termination everything we can . . ./land. The serto bring about the turn of the tide.” geant is the hus- ro ‘No Repitition of '18 {band of Mrs. . “WwW ust be no less tanatical in Betie Hoyt, of LEvETe Hox as ut . . those Who are trv. | the English ave. address, and broth- id h | annihilating a ommatid” al of Alonzo and June Hoyt. : Ba ® Wap ing 10 oppose 5c : | Machinist Hoyt, whose ship was yy c ig fald. Wready .withiessing Sod ‘(sunk in battle recently, has been oman . We are areay y Ee a vi lin three major -engagements, two Oa: prev in large seas 9 He Fas an surf them in the Philippines. Srafhenress many parts o imo ere ein meni cpt y la i T Rois ope might have 10 8% g4CIAL WORKERS TO MEET Roy der “It is quite clear to everybody The American Association of So- st. He said what we have to do:~namecly 10 cial Workers willemeet at 6:30 p.-m. some time ¢ offer resistance and to hit our ene- ; 4.v in Room E, Y. M. C. A. Mem- went to the mies until in the end they grow 10 p. m. : DeGraphen

tired and break up there will be no repetition oi 1918. Victory will discuss the Dumbarton tinuously ur “Even if fate seems now to con- Oaks conference. about midn spire against us, there can be no Sales & that our fanaticism, stead-ys rwise. ay the Wehr- : : doubt th 1 us otherwise. If today the Wehr- toe He

fastness ‘and determination

will ‘macht

and German people raise

overcome all these setbacks as it cries fof revenge, then this is the

has so often done in the past.”

cry of a tortured nation which de-

playing, as v stil] were ad under wither

| at - Rumor Reichstag Called fans iid gure tenes. thal. oz h, 2 > by the state. The - o A i Vile wil S RE ape Dagens soldiers, when on this or that sector yp OR) from ll Hitler had set up of the eastern front go over to the » TI IY, headquarters near Berlin and was Offensive. They no longer know any NY A Rp : mercy.” ~~ NY \/ working with a big staff of en- STR EY (FN gineers and industrial exports on Grandiose Reprisal? Z 7 NY x STR which were believed the final prep-| Goebbels said German divisions 7 S35 NX IT's 7 . nN)

arations for the battle of the capi- in “the next weeks and months” will

tal. 5 From Basel, Switzerland, came word of insistent rumors in Ger-

man border districts that Hitler that when we throw

launch a great offensive. He quoted Hitler as saying: “I firmly believe in our new

had called a meeting of the reichs- | offensive armies, we shall beat our tag. possibly for some dramatic | enemies.”

announcement. .« Goebbels’ threat to

scrap the | rules of war came in a speech 83D

Close students of German propada long have believed that Ger-

given at Goerlitz last Thursday in many will attempt one last grandithe course of a visit to the Silesian ose reprisal before the final curtain «falls on Nazism.

front southeast of Berlin. “Up to now,” he said, “we were prepared to conduct the war according to rules of extreme fairness. We never wished to conduct it otherwise. “But what we have experienced

Neutral sources have reported elaborate German preparations for the use bf poison gas 8r some devastating secret weapon, The possibility of a German paratroop landing on England also was not

in our eastern provinces has taught ' discounted.

I. U. Alumni on Mayichas

Hold Reunion With Ernie

- f (Continued From Page One) | up two jars of the cheese vou

up in the Marianas islands.”

Lt. Morris wis “graduated from | 1938 I. U, graduate,

| marager { News Service before

our illustrious alma mater in 1942,” Ernie said. “Both the boys are mail censors out here. Life is

kind enough to them, and they | on Saipan and censors mail and

* haven't much to kick about.” Lt. Rose, a newspaperman himself, is one of the many Pyle admirers. “He is writing excellent columns,” he wrote his mother just last week. “They give the truest | picture I have seen yet of what it is like out here. He has a wonderful ability to describe in just the right way to make the | reader understand exactly what | ft's like out here.” After Pyle had talked with the two Hoosiers, they had another | reunion with Indianapolis boys. |

Party Runs Late

“Last night we had.an Indian- | apolis reunion in my tent and wehad a party” thit lasted until about 11:30—late for this place,” Lt. Rose wrote. “Sol Blickman, an Indianapolis | boy, showed up yesterday. ... He | was an S. A-M. at Indiana. ... | He's assigned to the same head- | quarters I am and is a post exchange officer. He lives about | threes tents down the line from me. Anyway we called up Joe | Barrett, who was Blickman's roommate at I. U, and Joe came | up after supper. “Sol had seen Joe Rothbard earlier in the day and he came up after supper, too. , .

| correspondence.

% | sent me, some strawberry jam you tor of The Student, you will wind «

sent-a long time ago and a jar of chicken...” “The Indignanolis lieutenant, a was assistant International he went into the army in May, 1942. Now he is second base censor

at the

newspapers, writes reports and When he comes

home and re-enfers civilian life,

i ceived - his

he wants to continue writing sports in the newspaper field While at Indiana university, Lt Rose was president of Sigma Delta Chi, "honorary" journalistic fraternity; a member of the Arbutus yearbook staff; editor of the state fair edition of The Student and a member of Phi Beta Delta

{ fraternity, Phi Eta Sigma, scholas-

tic fraternity, and the Pershing Rifles ciub. He also was sopho-

| more manager.

Baseball Manager

He's a Technical high school graduate and also a graduate of Columbia university where he remaster's degree in journalism. : Lt. Morris, who is 24, got his A. B. in chemistry. He also was sophomore baseball manager and a member of the Arbutus staff. An advanced R. O. T. C. student at I. U, he was in Hawaii for a year and a half and landed on Saipan in August, 1944 A brother of Lt. Rose, Bernard,

| is in charge of a military police’

company at Billings hospital. He

| served 28 months in Australia and . We ate |

on Guam

'Remagen Has Aided Allies, But Victory Can Be Costly’

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got back across the Rinlae

Gen. Eisenhower says the main |

allied purpuse must be to wipe out the enemy army. We should

feated across the river.

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pect a big Eisenhower blow in Re

von Rundstedt after his panzers |-porH

“Obviously the great. American ~

exploit of grabbing the Remagen |

‘ bridge, and of establishing a quick

speeded up the entire offensive,

The saving in allied lives can |

hardly be exaggerated.

* But our public seems to assume | that Remagen is the main road |

_ to Berlin, 1t is not. Because the bridgehead is in a - mountainous u arteriés, it is less

this connection. it is inter-

4 | north” not forget that those who escape | will have to be faced and de- | | there may be an allied amphibious invasion from the North sea, “under Marshal Montgomery. | veteran British 2d army and the { allied airborne arfiiy have: not

bridgehead on the east bank, has | pean heard ‘from ih some time.

| the war | strength of the allies is that th region off the main | 5 o

The usually reliable Army and Navy Journal, published in Washington, recalls the Big Three announcement from Yalta of blows against Germany “from the as well as from south, east and weft. : This service publication thinks

His

Pressure Will Increase But, wherever the next blow

falls on the enemy, we may be

sure that no one move ‘will win war. Indeed, the supreme

are not dependent on one sector

transportation | or even one entire front suited to rapid expansion than fire tenn

The only specific prediction ‘as to allied strategy against Germany, which is worth much. is

= rise on all fronts,

relentless pressure will

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