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MONDAY, MARCH 12, 1945

| SLAYING TRIAL 150.000 Yanks East of Rhine After New Crossings: Nazis

IN FINAL STAGE

State Prepares to Attack . Alibi Evidence of De Graphenreed.

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purposely: vague. For security reasons a time lag was imposed in many ‘sectors.

said the German pocket around

Laacher See, 13 miles northwest of Coblenz, - had been cleared. units fighting there were not identified, and ‘there was no. indication of the size of the prisoner” bag. Laacher See is a resort lake near Aldernach. Headquarters sources reported patrol activity and counter-attacks on the long dormant 7th army front

the merry-making until early the following morning. The state drew an admission from the witness that the defendant often had visited there, Another participant in the party, Mrs. Carolyn Robinson, 828 Lake st. apt. 23, said she arrived there with DeGraphenreed and several others about 5 p. m, the day of the murder. The witness said she left about 10:15 p. m. in order to be home when her husband returned from work. She said she had known De Graphenreed about eight years, having met him at Penish’s tavern on Northwestern ave.

west of the Rhine. Limited opera-

extent with alarmed Nazi

cross the Rhine. Nazis Expecting Crossings

The German D. N. B. ‘news agency said British troops were making

preparations to cross the lower Witnesses Recalled Rhine. Other enemy reports forecast big scale fighting in the NijmeTwo previous defense witnesses gen - Emmerich sector, where the

were recalled to the stand. One was Mrs. Virginia Tyler Haskins, 806 W. 25th st., who previously had said she was the legal wife of Robert Mack Haskins. Haskins and a

Nazis had been expecting a new push against the Ruhr, The~ 1st army's reported power drive into the Remagen breach came as the Canadian 1st. and U. 8.

E 'l9th armies to the north finished off Ora, previously had declared De the last German salient west of the

Srafhentest Lae naniiied 1 tien Rhine in the Wesel area and moved The other previous witness was nto position ‘for an assault on the Raymond Harris, 56, 1218 W, 25th | Fiver line. st. He said that after spending To the south, Lt. Gen. George S. some time at Penish’s tavern he Patton's American 3d army closed went to the party, arriving about|to within a mile of Coblenz from 10 p. m, {the north and southwest and cleared DeGraphenreed was there con-|all except a 15-mile stretch of the tinuously until the withess left! Mosel river's north bank between about midnight, the testimony|Coblenz and Trier. states. | ‘Scattered German armored and Former convictions for boot-| infantry groups still were reported legging, dice shooting and poker escaping through the 15-mile Mose | playing, as well as operation of a/ gap between Cochem,

under withering cross-examination miles northeast -of Trier,

by the state. | bulk of the pocketed Nazi divisions

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in the French-German border area

tions on other fronts tallied to some radio forecasts of further allied efforts to

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Breakthrough Before. Berlin Near, Accordnig to Moscow / Hints,

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faced almost certain death’ or capture, Censored dispatches from the par-thally-blacked out Rhine front reported only that the Americans were pushing out steadily all around the perimeter of a bridgehead that yesterday extended at least three miles inland and nine miles along the river«bank. American shock troops, Berlin said, crossed the Rhine in assault boats” this morning at two more points inside the northern flank of the bridgehead. They landed on either side of the captured river village of Rheinbreitbach, 3'2 miles north of the Ludendorff bridge, in a move apparently aimed at covering the construction’ of pontoon bridges.

Yanks Gain 400 Yards

Allied headquarters had na imnmediate confirmation of the enemy reports and field dispatches said only that the Yanks pushed out their bridgehead perimeter another 400 yards eastward during the night against sporadic opposition. The Germans continued to trumpet. reports that powerful Nazi armored and infantry reinforcements were ramming against the Americans, but latest official information indicated the enemy was still fighting only a limited delaying action and that his reserves had not yet joined the battle. Most of the opposition was ¢om-

bridgehead earlier reached within 26 miles of the capital. United Press Correspondent Henry Shapiro reported from Moscow that the Soviet news blackout on the Berlin front continued, “pending a decisive break-through which is expected in the near future.” He defined the blacked out front as extending from the area of Kuestrin, 38 miles east of Berlin, to Goerlitz,” on the Neisse river, 100 miles south of Kuestrin, 105 southeast of Berlin, and 54 east of Dresden. This suggested that the whole defense system east and southeast of Berlin was about to fall apart. The German broadcasts suggested that the American planes were attacking Stettin and Swinemuende, 35 miles to the north at the Baltic entrance to Stettin bay. The raids came as Soviet front dispatches were reporting that the Red army had driven within sight of Stettin after breaking through the city’s last belt of outer fortifications on the east. “Stettin’s position appeared hopeless,” a front dispatch published in the Moscow paper Pravda said.

Reds Attacking Kuestrin—:

Soviet forces holding bridgeheads | across the Oder 30-odd miles due east of Berlin, attacked with four! infantry divisions—60,000 men—in an attempt to shake loose the Ger-Counter-Fire Slackens man hold on the anchor fortress At least 23 of 47 atfacking Ger-|City of Kuestrin, Ernst von Hamman planes were shot down over the | Mer German D. N. B, agency com-week-end and the bridge was re- (Mmentator, said.” ported still intact late yesterday. At| Despite the weight of the attack

the same time, hundreds of Ameri-|2nd its tank and aerial" support, the Russians were driven back into

{emplaced in the hills to the north and from Nazi dive-bombers that tried repéatedly to break through | the American fighter screen to knock out the Ludendorff bridge.

can field guns massed on both sides|'€ 4 > of the Rhine laid a tremendous |their ““small bridgeheads” en all rolling barrage across the hills to|Sectors ‘between Frankfurt and

the east, silencing one after another of the enemy's batteries. United Press War Correspondent John McDermott reported German : Br counter-fire- was slackening per- | Proved their positions. ceptibly in the face of the Amer-| One . German column broke ican - bombardment and the steady | through and relieved the encircled advance of Hodges’ infantrymen, | garrison of the old city, von HamMore than 1800 prisoners were Mer. said.¢ In the newer part of taken in the bridgehead yesterday |Kuestrin, Soviet shock troops as the Yanks stabbed five miles |‘ ‘largely were wiped out in barrinorth of the bridge to .Honnef,| cade and house-to-house fighting,” where they were locked in savage he said.” house-to-house fighting early today.| Moscow dispatches safd-the fall of Unkel, Rheinbreitbach and Bruck- | the former free port of Danzig, on hausen, between: the bridge and| |the Baltic far to the northeast, apHonnef, also “were in American |peared near. Bitter street battles hands, along with Erpel at the east- | were said to be raging in the suburbs ern end of the bridge, and Ohlen- nine to 15 miles from the heart of berg, two miles to the east. =

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Kuestrin, von Hammer said. -. In. Kuestrin itself, astride the Oder, 38 miles east of Berlin, German troops were said to have im-

Terrain Impedes Advance

On their southern flank, the Americans captured Linz and Battenberg, two and three miles up- | stream from the Remagen cross-| ing, and Berlin spokesmen said they also took Leubsdorf and entered/ Hoenningen, 3% and five miles! southeast of the.bridge. While. no major German forces had been met, in the first five days of the bridgehead = battle. the | felt the decision handed down by American drive was ‘hampered by | Federal District Judge Philip I. the worst imaginable terrain. | Sullivan in Chicago in January was Lined by towering cliffs rising | |“clearly and “inescapably correct.” steeply from the Rhine bank, the (But, the firm added, the army has bridgehead was under direct fire |Tetained possession of its property’ from well-emplaced German bat- | land there were indications that it

might do. so! until the supreme American’ counterfire” or captured |cOurt has. finally: acted.

by infantry assault. Sullivan ruea that the President South and east of the bridge, the [nad gone” beyond the Smith-Con-

| emergencies® growing’ out of work stoppages.

Montgomery Ward said that it

| Yanks faced almost impassable ter- | Dally labor disputes act and his war

rain studded for miles with high |[POWers in taking possession of 16 cliffs. and mountain gorges that | MOntgomery Ward properties in could. be defended easily by small|Seven cities. Nazi forces. | The seizure was made after the

The main weight of Hodges’ |firm Iefused to comply. with a war drive appeared to be directed labor board order. against Honnef and the open TE To country six miles beyond leading | DRUIDS PAY HONOR

into the southern flank of the Ruhr |

basin, 3 TO CHARLES GEIDER

ms pb Charles G. N. Geider, supreme HOOSIER IS MISSING | secretary of the United Ancient Order of Druids of Indianapolis, was AFTER BOMBER CRASH honored at a banquet on his 50th |anniversary as a member Saturday WESTOVER FIELD, Mass., March | night. 12 (U. P.)—Ten army airmen were| Mr. Geider, who also observes the listed as missing today following re-|50th anniversary of his membership covery of two bodies from the wreck-|in Capitol City lodge, K. of P., this age of a heavy bomber which | month, has served as Indiana crashed into the sea off Montauk |Druids’ grand secretary for 44 years. Point, L. I, Saturday while on _a|He recently was re-elected for a routine training mission. |two-year term as supreme secreCpl. C: R. Clark Jr. 19, Gaston, | tary, after serving 28 ears in that Ind., is among those missing. | post.

IN INDIANAPOLIS

EVENTS TODAY

City tin can collection, north of 16th st

Indianapolis. Dry Cleaners, meeting, Washi¢gton hotel, 10 a. m

Red Cross war fund campaign.

Boys | Vincent, Rosemary Fahy, at St. Francis | Jessie, Trula Prost, at St. Francis Louis, Jane Stephon, at St. Francis, Preston, Martha Daniels, at City. | Sylvester, Dorothy Van, at City. omas, Elenita Bauer, at Coleman Melvin, Marjorie Carpenter, at Coleman Paul, Dorothy Davis, at Coleman. Robert, Ellen Eitel, at Coleman. Ora, Bessie Whittington, at Coleman, | Prank Carol Whitton, at Coleman, | Dr. J. W., Annamae Asher, at Methodist. | Lloyd, Jessie Boring, at Methodist. Eugene, Eloise Bowen, at Methodist. George, Edna Chappell, Methodist. Joe, Mez Gonzalez, at “Methodist. | Nathaniel, Fayette Ann Hamilton, | odist. | Eimer Mildred Humphrey, at Methodist, {en Busie Johnson, at Methodist. Harold, Anna Mae Jones, at Methodist. | Robert, Ruth Marien, at Methodist | Clifton, Dorothy McFarland, at Methodist, Juanita Cecil, Dorothy Price, at Methodist. Brooks, Marian Scofield, at Meh odist. M Joseph, Ethel Sillings, at Method ary | William, Louise Sipe, at Methodist."

EVENTS TOMORROW

City tin ean collection, north of 16th st. Indianapolif Newsboys band, luncheon, Washington hotel, 12:15 p.m Phi Delta Beta sorority, meeting, ington hotel, 8 p. m.. Red Cross war fund campaign. Y Men's Club, International, Central Y. M.C. A, 12:15 ppm

MARRIAGE LICENSES

John''J. Baker, U. 8. army; Lorena Ruth Kiser Britz, 5821 Eas{ New York George Earl Bostie “2331 Wheeler; Chunn, 811 Camp John Frank DiDesidero, U. 8 army; Louise Cooper, 1803 N. Delaware Wilbur Danjel Easley, 734 N Capitol:

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meeting, at

Pauline Beatrice Badger, 109 St | DEATHS Clair Apt. 6. | Hiram Swanigan, 72, at City, bronchoBrown Ellis, 844 Camp; Mary Elizabeth pneumbonia. Clay, 844 Camp. Sarah Stott, 71, at 2511 Rader, lobar Arthur Greenberg, 922 Union; Sally Camhi,| pneumonia. 1022 Church. Linda Gay Mozingo, 2 months, at City, Victor Kenneih Gross, 358 E. McCarty; enteritis, . Eula Jane Jones, 823 Cedar. Lizzie Johnson, 53, at City, essential Thomas Hutchihson, U. 8 Jrhy, Rosalie

zo bsttension. nd FP. Hudson, 58, at 1828-N. Illinois, arteriosclerosis. Mary Magdalen Hill, 84, at 1215 N. Drexel, chronic myocarditis.

Jane Kirby, 2144 Columb Lester Lee 631 Ay *Vivian Grace Pranklin, 22» E. Orange. | Jesse H. Millard, R. R. 3, Morgantown; |

Lois Marie Flood, R R. 3, Nashville | vinnie Re Reem Conkle, 75, at City, arterios- . R. 15, Box 517, Bern Herbert Rasp, 6. Box 382 Sidney ‘Helm, 58, at Long, carcinoma. Millard Gréénburg Steele, 2324 Prospect; Delores Henry, 24, at Long, 0 ral ‘Lena Violet Bolner, Marion F emorrhage. Bryan Milner, 1902 N. Talbott; Doris ANS aguire, - 86, at Long, arteriosCharlotte Ernst, 3052 I Dy a of Beaver. 8s. at 2314 N. 1a Salle. 7 2 David 1 race, t°1907 N. 1 av xton a linois, BIRTHS cardio vascilar renal. 1 Girls ~|Charles Neal, 75, at Methodist, coronary Robert, Mattie Dean, at 7h i occlusion. Edward, Fannie Kufe; at C Etta Dozier, 63, at City,” bronchoLoyal, Mary Britton, .at Coleman: pneumonia, - : Gene, Anne Harris, at Colem Sarah Reed” 90, at Methodist, <choleRonald. Opal Maursetter, at Coleman. cystitis.

Robert, Ruth O'Conner, at Colem

: 18, Kenneth, Rosemary Bullerdick, at Method.

at 237 8. Randolph, coronary occlusion.

Frank B. Thiele, 74, al’ 546 N. - Oakland, Harvard, Virginia Finke, at Methodist. diabetes moine, Joan Lewark, at Methodist. Harry 8. ‘Walters, 81, at 3738 + Salem, Winfred, Barbara Smith, at Methodist. apoplexy. Noel, Helen a, at ethodist Henry L. Harding. 88 86. at 1523 Broadway, Arthur, fire Fon Hy at a Vin cent. Waa ery t 8 t 3216 Washin I \ a Lantz, a neent’ mes Herrio a ton Joseph, Lucille O at Si. Vineeak's DIvd., cerebral hemorrhage. a A . ch

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Miami, -Fla., wheti they occupied an entire Pan-American airways clipper. ] The trip from Miami to New _York was made by train. Four taxis took them from the station to their hotel. The payload was 16 Ascolis and 47 pieces of luggage. The children, ranging from four to 25, said they liked New York. They said they breezed through the city with only minor mishaps, Lillian, 13; Elizabeth, 11; Solange, 10, got jammed in a revolving door for a couple of seconds, but there were no “casualties, The Ascoli migration began when papa Ascoli was" made assistant general manager of the federated co-operatives of Quebec. The Ascolis estimated their trip would cost between $3000 and $4000, depending on how long it takes them to find a “little” home of 15 to 23 rooms.

CONCERT SCHEDULED | BY 'NEWSBOYS BAND

A concert by the Indianapolis Newsboys band will be given at 7:45 p. m. tomorrow in the Christian Park community center under the sponsorship of various youth groups Community singing will be led by | Miss Ruth Smith, park department | music supervisor. Talks will be {made by Sgt. Golden Reynolds, director of the junior. police; Cpl. Sanford Bennett, head. of the Christian Park PAL club; Miss Em{ma Lou Voelker, recreation super-

| visor of the district, and Herschel

Markle, Teen Canteen sponsor.

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Seize 4 Villages and io Airfield After. New Landing.

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ippines archipelago. It also brought MacArthur's forces within 180 miles | of oil-rich Borneo. Strong air and naval bombard- | ment from heavy .and light cruisers! preceded the landing from’ Basilan| strait which had been swept for

Fr ON MINDANAO 300 B-29's Fire-Bomb Nagoya” lout 15 square miles of Tokyo Sat-| Anti-aircraft fire was weak a$ urday. [frst but iricreased as the raid wore that a number of fires ‘still were | Losses were not announced ime out of centrpl at 4:30 p. m. (Tokyo mediately by U.S. officials. Tokyo »|the startiof the raid. {been shot down and more than 60 It said*a fire had been. started damaged. shrine, one of 10 large Shinto or! | religious shrines in Japan, . but B dhrines were safe.” N LINE Maj. Gen. Curtis Le May com- Eastern Air Lines today filed with reduced passenger fares to become mines since: Wediiesday. |mand in the Marianas, reserved |effective.May 1. 13th air forces covered the Janding | tintin, iy the attack appears and average’ 6's per cent below so completely that no Japanese] is present rates? Additionally, a dise : Strike From India force softened .up the invasion|. pn; Washington came word that! fares wil be made for round-trips points with more than 1000 tons of | and circle trips.” These reductions The Japanese were caught off in India also were in action today. effective March 25, whereby holders |guard. Rear guards loosed ‘some|A medium force—probably 50 strong of Air Travel cards and govern {bulk of the enemy fled across the| Singapore area for the sixth time. | ernment transportation orders res two-mile-wide plain into the hill|The 20th command attacked Kuala | lceive a 5 per cent discount on onee The Americans quickly captured | pore, Saturday. mpd ->hE]P] Wolfe airdrome. They fanned east- A Tokyo. Doemei_ageney dispatch ICE CAKE BALKS Calarian, San Roque and San Jose, |attack on Singapore and caused only 5 the latter only two miles from the|“extremely, slight” damage. Two! ST. LOUIS, March 12 (U. P.).— “We now control the entire a third damaged, Tokyo said. [how long it would take a 300-pound length of the western shores of the | Superfortresses which Struck at|cake of ice to melt ended in disaster, tip of Luzon to the southwestern tip|with 1400,000 inhabitants, caught|a flower shop window, crashed of Mindanao,” MacArthur said. |the defenders off guard by bombing through a plat glass and ended in sea and the consequent cutting off|20;000 feet. Le May said the Japa-|The contest was being held in cone of the Japanese. -conquests to the | nese lacked automatic weapons for|nection with the Ice-Capades show,

| than the 2200 tons which burned) No fighter opposition was reported, A Japanese communique indicated | on. time)—more than 16 hours after claimed 22 of the big planes had {in the “precincts” of the Atsuta AIR FO " RCES CUT | added that the “main and detached | mander of the 21st bomber com-|'N€ Civil Aeronnautics board new Planes from both the 5th and| | judgment until all reports were in. The reductions are system-wide planes were sighted. The 13th air count of 5 per cent of one-way bombs during the past weeks. | B- 29s of the 20th bomber command are in addition to those becoming |scattered machine-gun fire, but the | —bombed Industrial targets in the ments employees traveling on gove region. { Lumpur; 200 miles north of Singa- | way fares. ward along the coast to capture|said 40 B-29's participated in the AT MELTING POINT, heart of Zamboanga | Superfortresses were shot down and|A guessing contest to determine Philippines from the northwestern Nagoya, Japan's third largest city,| The cake slid off a platform in “The blockade of the South. China| from 5000 instead of the Sustomary ls splintered heap on the sidewalk, south is intensifying.” 'use against low-altitude raiders. ‘which opens here Thursday.

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