Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 March 1945 — Page 5

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“THURSDAY, MARCH 15, 1045 _

1st Army Drives Within +-Mile of Highway,

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Makes Bid for Breakthrough +o Ruhr Basin SCH ARCED SON Smash Berlin Area

+ (Continued From Page One) ing back slowly all along the bat-

- tlefront, however, and it was ex-

pected that in a matter of hours the Americans would break loose

| their armored might on the great highway built by the wehrmacht as

a springboard for the invasion of France and the low countries. Nazi propagandists began preparing the home front for word of an American breakthrough late today. Veterans of the 3d army's fifth dnfantry division crossed the Mogelle river on a broad front southwest, of Coblenz and advanced more than three miles eastward to within less than three miles of the Rhine. . Other 3d army sweeping’ through

forces were the Osburger

forest southeast of Trier, heading]

Say sheasiward to outflank the remaining Siegfried line defenses covering - Saarbruecken and the other big industrial cities of the southern Saar: Planes Rip Nazi Lines

. Swarms of American medium bombers lashed at the Siegfried fortifications the southern rim of the Saar basin near Zweibruecken at 30-minute intervals today, ripping up row after row of dragon-teeth tank barriers in the Nazi defepse line. Simultaneously, American 7th army forces on the southern fringe

along

of the industrial Saar basin opened | flank of Hoenningen, and an aver- | ficially as still standing last night

up with ‘a limited offensive that

Rhine into the broad plains of north Germany, Both sides sent patrols stabbing across the Rhine on the stalled | northern front and allied"and Ger-| man accounts intimated strongly |

ito explode. Lt. Gen.

rugged hills overlooking - the east | bank & the Rhine. |

of supplies and i across the captured Remagen bridge |

and’ northeastern flanks of thei salient today. {

| was only a half-mile from the Ger- | man super-highway.

head to about 5'2 miles down-| ‘stream from the breakthrough | at Remagen. ¢ | Yanks in Koenigswinter

| scribed - officially this morning: as| 11'4 miles long, between a point north of Honnef and the southern |

age of more than five miles deep.

pushed the Germans back across Unconfirmed German reports said the Saar river on an eightsmile| the’ Americans also were established | front west of the provincial capital on the east bank of the Rhine at

of Saarbruecken.

There were no reports of major of Honnef, extending the Yank

| Koenigswinter, three miles north

activity on the northern end of the salient to almost 15 miles,

allied batflefront, where the Amer-

village of Notscheid. two imiles to. the

notth,

Kalenhorn, snd St.

Katharinen and Hargarten, just | Foiled at’ Suicide. Attempt;

south “of Notstheid, also were in! but cap-

American hands or all tured.

that the great offensive was about | North of Kalenborn .and east of | Hargarten the Americans were bareCourtney H. Hodges'|ly a mile from the broad concrete ‘| American 1st army already was be-| military highway forming the backginning to roll out through, the bone of the German Rhine defenses.

Fresh Troops Arrive

Field dispatches said German reButtressed by a week-long flow sistance was. stiffening by the hour) reinforcements as fresh reserves joined the battle. Elements of at least two new Panzer|

engaged there.

German shell fire on the Remagen|

and 48 damaged.

1t was the luftwaffe’s heaviest loss| at any airfield since the war began and was expected to cut down the bombing | The bridgehead itself was de-|strafing raids on the Rhine bridges. |

~ Span Still Stands

enemy's . incessant

Both bridges were announced of-|

despite German boasts that the Ludendorff rdilway span had been de-|

stroyed. U

said the bridge was in better shape]

and a “hastily-cofistructed pontoon’ brigades were identified in action in span, the Americans advanced as addition to the 11th Panzer divimuch ag 1% miles on the eastern sion and infantry forces previously|

One doughboy column slugged | railway span and the near-by pon'its way eastward through the woods toon bridge slackened ‘perceptibly, | beyond Honnef to within a mile however, as the American advance | southwest of Bruensberg, where it|forced the Nazis to withdraw: their field guns behind the super-highway. Jremy aerial activity also dwindled | Other shock troops gained moretfollowing yesterday's smashing than a half-mile in the woqded | American air strike in the Lippe air- { hills north of Honnef, extending field east of Remagen, where 58 Nazi | the northern flank ‘of the bridge-| warplanes were destroyed agroun

S. 1st army spokesmen |

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Jumbled Emotions of War Blamed.

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in his room, but that the elder Sygler. followed him there. Following them, she said she found {her father in ‘the act of half-wres-

|tling and half-cfoking ‘her brother. |She said she ended this by jabbing [her father with a fork and that he {then threatened to hit John with a gin bottle. | ‘Helen, said she‘and her brother fled upstairs where they planned to {secure a rope with which to bind |their father, whom she described as having been: “drinking and in a highly nervous state.” The girl ran into the backyard to {obtain the rope and met her mother coming home with’ some groceries, {The daughter said she told her mother about “Dad being on one d of his drunks again and picking on | Johnny.” | Shortly thereafter ‘the tragedy sccurred. The slain. youth was described by heighbots as ‘pleasant and diligent.” He was.a high school gradu|ate. :

+ BABY IS SCALDED

| Eighteen-month-old Sharon Van '| Fauge, daughter of Mrs. Annabelle | Van Fauge, .203 N. Keystone ave, seriously scalded yesterday {when she sat in a bucket of boil-

ing water.

was

than it was when it was captured

last Wednesday.

Eleven German planes struck in- | At the center of the bridgehead, effectively at thé bridges and the

"FACES BURN, TOO LOGANSPORT, Ind, March -15 (U. P.).—Officials of the Boyer Fire

fcan Oth, Canadian lst-and British! the Americans thrust five miles | surrounding area last night, but | Apparatus Co. were a trifle embar-

2d armies were poised in tremen-|east of Remagen to clear all but four and probably five were shot|rassed

dous- force for a drive across the'a handful of Germans from the|down,

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today. Half | burned yesterday.

their plant

the last remaining double tmynk railways linking the Ruhr with the rest of Germany, . | The pilot of one of the R. A. F. [ Lancaster bomber which dropped

POLICE NAB TWO.

‘Youths Flee at 80 Miles an Hour -After. Alleged

the giant bombs syid the resultant|...

explosion lifted hisZplane 500 feet {in the air. { “It felt as though some one had {hit me in the back,” he said. “I didn't expect the kick quite 80 soon.” | Air correspondents said the new {bomb could be expected to have devastating effect over a radius of “literally hundreds of yards.” It should do 100 times more damage (than a one-ton bomb because the

{extent of damage multiplies mqre

rapidly than the increase in ton-

nage, they: said. ! 2

| The bomb, nearly twice as heavy

[as the largest bomb Heretofore used, long and has [a diameter of 3 feet 10 inches.

is 25 feet 5 inches |3 was designed primarily for at{tacks on underground structures.

COMBAT SOCIALISM,

“Robbery Attempt:

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{Arthur Ratz capfured two of the;

{youths who gave their< names 4s | George Gassetty, 18, of 842 8. Captitol ave. and Clarence Miles, 18, of 91232 E, Washington st In Gassetty's pocket, police said they found a fully loaded revolver Police said they -knew the third vouth and expected to arrest him later today.

Two 16-year-old boys were held by police as suspects in an attempt to steal a safe from the McDaniel freight lines, 430 Kentucky ave. Kenneth - Forest, 39, of Terre Haute, employee. of the truck firm, said he caught two persons in' the {act of trying to load the safe into la car. He gave chase but lost them

| GOP WOMEN TOLD Later police arrested the two youths

f- *Republican women in Indianapolis were called upon to “com-

{as suspects. | —— Harry Swickhimer, 19, of 1938 N

| bat .the forces of socialism, com-lIllinois st. attendant at a filling

jmunism, and dictatorial govern= ( ment” today by Mrs. Mabel S. Frazer, G. O. P, state vice chairman In a speech before the Indianfapolis Women’s Republican club at the Columbia club, Mrs. Frazer asserted: “None realize ‘more than women

| station at 69 N. West st., was.found {bound and gagged on the floor of .|the station early today. | He said two gunmen held him up took $44 and bound iim with rope.

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ernment. It is destructive not only {of a Tree people but it carries | GETS LIFE SENTENCE every danger to the home, the | school ‘and the ehurch,” (Continued From Page One) Mrs. Frazer praised the recent

legislature, citing improvements in

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{hours of the nine-day-old trial {struck one blow after another, About 9:30 p. m. Bertram R

Fleming, foreman, indicated to the court a preliminary verdict had {been reached, but setting out no |penalty.” Judge Bain sent them {back to the jury room to fix the | penalty.

While Defense Attorneys John O Lewis and M. Wilson Beene prepare [their appeal to the state's highest |court, ‘the defendant will remain ju .the Indiana state prison. He {will be taken there from the county jail in the next few days. Deputy Prosecutor Frank X. Haupt had asked for the death | penalty in his closing argument. He referred to the crime as “vicious {and premeditated.” | Mr. Wiedenhoft was slugged to {death in “his home last June 30. |His wife, who identified the de|fendant as one of two men who {came to, the Wiedenhoft home at {2260° S." Meridian st. the night of {the crime, also was beaten severely {but recovered after weeks'in the | hospital. The state maintained that De- { Graphenreed, who had worked as la cleaner at the florist's home, | knew that large sums of money

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HOLD “FIRM” IS POLITICAL WASHINGTON, March 15 (U. P.).—The senate campaign expendi- | tures committee held today that {the W. Lee O'Daniel News, Inc, a | private corpération sparked by | Senator W. Lee O’Daniel (D. Tex.), {is a “palpably political” organizadons

DAVIS WARNS OF INFLATION THREAT

—~4 dariger9i4” economic squall in | this® country may follow defeat of Germany, Willlain. H. Davis warned today. he | The news director of economic | stabilization called on “every under[standing person with a fair shate of the milk of human kindness” to

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ROYAL PALM DERAILED

| —The Southern railways Royal Palm, fast passenger train en route [from Cineinnati to = Jacksonville, Fla, fHerailed at 530 a. m. today near here with minor injuries to {two passengers. Railroad -officials blamed a broken rail. None of the 111 coaches overturned. ,

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