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% husband's personal effects. His captain's bars and hat spotted with blood.

& A doctor in civilan life, Capt. | 4. Harry D. Miller was killed in |

North Africa on Feb. 2, Death resulted from an accident as his unit was moving to a new

Writes Kansas City

Yesterday. Mrs. Georgia Miller of the Prisoner of War society

wrote Col. C. J. Blake, command-

." er of the Kansas City bureau. ’ The letter-in part reads: “On Feb. 23, I wrote your office regarding failure to receive my son's personal effects in full. To date I have neither received them nor have I had an acknowledgement of my letter. . . . aye "1, know that there is considerable dissatisfaction re«garding personal effects of pris- * oners not being sént home, . . . I know of cases where belongings of dead servicemen have been returned, covered and caked with blood, through your depot. . .. “Another mother,” (Mrs. Paul 8. Givens, 4004 Ruckle st.) “had to contact our representative in congress and the adjutant gefi-

eral's office in Washington before she received her son's clothes. . . .

“In the event I do not have a reply or the property within 10 days, I will send copies of this letter to my congressman and to the war department.”

Prisoner 11 Months

In fhe letter she specifically listed as missing: Four pairs of trousers, a blouse, short ‘coat, raincoat, a pair of shoes, two

pairs of leather gloves, a person- |

ally purchased flight bag, maroon silk lounging robe, a pair of

leather moccasins and a Colt re- |

volver. Her son, 1st Lt. Robert H. Mil-

ler,” was shot down and taken |

prisoner on April 11, 1944. Lt. Paul S. Givens Jr. was shot |

THERE IS NO SIGN OF MILITARY COLLAPSE

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but it is not to be supposed that the pick of the surviving Nazi armies will be caught. There is goqgg reason to believe that Hitler, Himmler and Co. intend to make a final stand in the region of the Bavarian Alps. The best of the elite corps and seasoned divisions may be expected to fall pack in that direction. j ‘Deferise Stubborn i The stubborn defense which the Germans are making on the southern and eastern apprcaches to the nt hern Italy, Hungary and Czechoslovakia point to s Thé Nazis have 26 good divisions ip Italy -and 30 or, mere to the east, including some of their best armored units. . The Germans still have to be cleared out of a large area west of the Rhine in the Sadr, Palatinate] and Upper Rhineland. It is quite] probable that a stout defense will | be put up on the western and north- | ern approaches: -10.the..Bavarian mountain retreat. Thus a possible collapse in NorthCentral Germany need not necessarily mean the end of the fighting Even that collapse .is not actually imminent. The Western allies have still to force the Rhine and break through the staggered defenses east of it. The Russians also will have to] fight through a considerable depth | of defense west of thé Oder before | the two armies can meet. 2

WARREN TOWNSHIP 6. 0. P. HEARS JUDGE

Prescribing “the elimination ‘of individual selfishness on the part, of nations” as the only way to permanent world peace, Judge Hezzie B. Pike, of superior gourt No. 2, spoke on “The 1945 Brand of Patriotism” at the Warren. Township Republican club last night. E. Glenn White, president, was in charge of the meeting at the home of Mr. and Mrs. William E. Beard, 8809 E. Washington st. Mrs. | Robert Hamilton arranged the box supper which followed the meeting.

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2 Others Get Bloody Clothes;

“Stimson Promises Investigation

nearly a year before any of his belongings arrived. ; | “They came in his” foot locker on which the lock had been | smashed. Steel bands replaced the lock but the container virtu- | ally was empty. worthless clothes were there. { Correspondence with Congress= | man Louis Ludlow and the pra- | vost -marshal in Wadshington | eventually brought the remainder of his clothes. “There was ample room in the foot locker for all the goods we finally did receive in the second shipment,” Mrs. Givens said.

Nearly Empty Box

The plane of S. Sgt. Jerome D. Reese plunged to the earth July |. 26, 1043. He is the son of Mr. and | Mrs. George Reese, 1313 Lexington ave, : | Without - word" from Kansas | City, a nearly empty box arrived | in September, 1944, at his parent's home. of shoes and several photographs,

sergeant. His mother doubts if the blouse and shoes are his. Sgt. Reese wrote from a German prison camp asking his parents if they had received’ his watch, money and clothes They have received the money only. Several times they have written the army effects bureau, even enclosing the sergeants letter regarding the watch. ‘ “Their answer is that they have shipped everything they have belonging to my son,” Mrs. Reese said. 8 Following receipt of his son's effects from Kansas City, Mr. | Ketter wrote: “Out of the depths of hell they came, > { “Dirty and ragged and worn. |“The glaze of horror was in their eyes “And their hearts and souls and nerves were torn. ” » ” “Mere boys they were when they left their homes,

Report Hitler's Offer Rejected

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over prospects for amr early victory in Europe, both in Britain and some sectors of the Western front. By the tSockholm Dagbladet account, Hitler was persuaded to make the peace overture by Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop in a “dramatic conference” at Berchtesgaden, the Nazi leader's Bavarian retreat ’ Hitler was represented as agreeing fo sénd a. high official of the Ger-

iman {fcreign office — unidentified in

the dispatch—to Stockholm. : This emissary purportedly got in touch with similarly "unidentified American and British “circles” in Stockholm. Contact was said to have been made with Swedish assist-

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Returned Empty Handed The Dagbladet said the envoy re-

turned to Germany empty. -handed. |:

He was said .to have insisted that Hitler and Heinrich Himmler retain power “in order to avoid chaos” even if Germany were surrendering unconditionally. The emissary was pictured by the newspapers as. “describing in moving words the dangers of German

~rhoishevization Three reliable nor - military sources told a United Press war

correspondent at British 21st army group headquarters that peace was possible within six weeks. Military sources at “the headquarters refused to speculate on any-specific dates, but said the end appeared considerably closer than it did six weeks ago. What Soldiers Think Richard D. McMillan, veteran war . correspondent with the British 2d army, said both American and British soldiers at the Rhine believed “one big hit” would collapse the last real.German resistance. The lobby correspondent of the authoritative Press -association also took cognizance of the growing optimism. “There 1s strong evidence that the Germans would now be only too willing to see an end to the fighting, but the Gestapo is preventing the emergence of any opposition to Hitler,” the correspondent said. “All sorts of changes in the German high command are taking shape or are expected. Hitler is finding it difficult to get a sufficient number of commanders who ‘will thankless tasks assigned them.” “I AM AN AMERICAN" WASHINGTON, March 15 (U

P.). — President Roosevelt today proclaimed May 20 as “I Am an American Day” for the special

recognition: of those who became American citizens in the past year either through naturalization. or coming of age.

OFFICIAL WEATHER

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(All Data in Central War Time) March 15, 1945 * 4

Sunrise . 6:57 | Sunset . 6:51 Precipitation 24 hrs. ending 7:30 a.m. .00 Total precipitation since Jan, 1 ....., 6.46 Deficiency since Jan. | ‘ 84

The following table -shows the highest temperatures for. 12 ‘hours ending at 7:30 p. m. yesterday and the lowest temperatures for 12 hours ending at 7.30 a. m today:

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ATTACK REPORTED

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| K. Rokossavsky's 2d White Russian | army was storming the suburbs of | Danzig and Gdynia. A Nazi mili- | tary spokesman conceded that the | Russians had plunged wedges deep | into the German defense arc before (the two cities, but claimed that {they had not yet reached Gdynia | proper. A mass onslaught by seven Soviet | armies broke into the German de- | i fense front Breton cap'ital of East Prussia, a Berlin broad-. jcast said.

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Local Pri .ocal Prisoner SECOND LT. HARRY OFFUTT, [husband ‘of Mrs, Marjorie Offutt, ‘609 N: Jefferson x was freed y from a German prison .camp recently by. the Russians, He was captured by the 1st German - paratroop division Oct. 26, 1944, in He was held prisoner in Stalag TA when he wrote his last letter to his wife. Lt. Offutt is believed to have sailed from Odessa, Russia, for

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| Baltic port, Berlin said. At least 13 towns, including Gruenwiesse, 17 miles sguthwest of

Koenigsberg, and 2000 prisoners (Wo from a coastal highway. | A breakthrough to the sca would The advances reduced the Nazi split the pocket in two.

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INAUGURATE MALAN ‘FOR HIS THIRD TERM,

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tendent. Dr. Malan is beginning his | third successive two-year term. Mr. Ray suggested that education

in Americanism be presented “on the basis of global understanding

American forces are fighting for| ordered world,” “They are not fighting to establish a vague and dreamy internationalism. They are fighting to establish | a world in which human beings can the garden must be within 15 miles |: |be true Americans or true English- of the gardener's home or place of Or true Brazilians and true work. [s+ The office of price administration “We want meaning and sympathy explained . that |and loyalty to fill the hearts of shown that a victory gardener norour mally can't properly tend his garif it is outside the 15-mile

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| We do not want them to den and south of Stettin for an ex- pocket to approximately 400 square be confused, indifferent and full of radius.

| disillusionment,” said Mr, Ray.

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added. tional gas are the same as they have been for the last two yéars {except for the new restriction that

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Applicant's garden must have Shortridge high school band. The an area of at least 1500 square feet | reolor guard was composed of repre- devoted to the production of vegesentatives of all local high schools. tables. Indianapolis 2. school superintendent, presided.

|provide mileage in excess of 300|show:.

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THURSDAY, MARCH 15; 1045

Eligible VERDICT DELAYED

For Extra Gasoline Cou ,oupons WASHINGTON, March 15 (U. miles during th six-month period P.) ~Victory, gardeners will again | immediately following the date of | be eligible for extra gasoline rations | 8PPlication. z Applications will be accepted by local rationing boards,

3.“ The applicant must show that |abily wouldn't arrive at a verdict in

no alternative. means of transpor- |p { tation are available, e death of Mrs. Dora Ditton, 76,

| 4 The applicant must show that Conditions for getting the addi-|® ride-sharing arrangement has 98Ybeen"made or that such an arrange{ment is not possible. . Se ——————— JONES GAVE DEMOCRATS $5000 WASHINGTON, March 15 (U. P=Jesse Jones, Roosevelt fired as secretary of commerce shortly after his fourth term |fused. to - talk. has Inaugural, contributed $5000 to the leased later, Democratic national committee, it was disclosed today.

MOLLY'S FLOWERS WIN HOLLYWOOD, March 15 (U. P.).|the housekeeper. —Molly McGee, of the radio comedy team Fibber McGee and Molly, was was badly bruised and a hole was | sporting a blue ribbon today after at the base of her skull. {taking first prize honors in. the The ration issued ‘may not|southern California spring flower

IN WOMAN'S -DEATH .> ANGOLA, Ind. March 15 (U. P.).

|—Steuben. County Coroner .L. I. Eberhart said. today that he prob«

Ashley, until tomorrow or Sature He added that he was still having _|Jess Schultz, 60, her employer, held

“las a material” witness until he returned his decision.

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Ditton's - body was found Tuesday by a milk route driver on! the kitchen floor of the Schultz! house, near Ashley, where she was

He bee | lieved that she received the ine} Juries through violence rather than |

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