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S FLEEING IN CHAOTIC ROUT

Erroneous ‘Peace Rumors’ Flood U. S., Washington Story Misinterpreted

MISINTERPRETATION of a casual remark by White House Secretary Jonathan Daniels today blossomed into a “peace rumor” that swept Indianapolis and the nation. It was the greatest surge of rumors to sweep the United States since the jittery days before D-day. Excitedly householders called each other. The old D-day deluge of calls swept into newspaper offices following garbled radio reports.

Army Officer, Freed From Jap Prison

ka.

Among the distorted rumors

President Roosevelt cabinet to receive a peace completely surrendered; asked the nation to stand

nouncement.

were ones that had

calling a special meeting .of the

proposal; that Germany had

that President Roosevelt had

by for an extraordinary an-

The whole thing grew out of Daniels’ disclosure that

President Roosevelt recently Edward R. American

officials—except

advised Secretary of State

Stettinius Jr. and other cabinet officers that

hose officially designated—

would be expected to:stay.gway from next month's San

security conferenc Such officials, Daniels sa stay on their jobs ‘

Francisco

e. id the President felt, SHiotd

‘at this critical time.”

Misinterpretations of this by some persons grew until

some ‘erroneous reports circulated that the cabinet had been ordered to stand by for big developments expected

later today.

That was the interpretation of Daniels’ Service dispatch from Washington.

an International News It said Mr. Roosevelt had “or lomatic representatievs to st

statement inc

dered his cabinet and all dipand by on alert for passible

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in oe Here Chaos Sp reads ng in Niji] A rmy

It was a real family reunion when Maj. Raymond H. Knapp came home after three years’ imprison-

ment in the Philippines. Left to right are the ma jor's wife, Marjorie, Maj Knapp. and his parents, My Mr. and Mrs. John F. Boni $3 N. Vine

and his 6-year-old son, “Skeeter”;

st.

SUITS CHARGE Mai. Kip Tells of Death;

Torture in

By MILDRED

FALSE ARREST

the Philippines

KOSCHM ANN

A first-hand story of thé death march on Bataan and the starvation Attorney Accuses Police ° “of and torture in a Japanese prison camp was, given Indianapolis today by

the city's ‘first returned officer. The liberated soldier is Maj. Mrs. John F. Knapp, 43 N. Vine st

Intimidating Witnesses.

Charges that the police department is using “typical gangster mong the 513 prisoners rescued by methods” to intimidate witnesses (yo pancers last January. were made today by the attorney for; anni) -15, 1942 Mai. Knapp an 18-year-old girl arrested March 8 540 the march out of Bataan and and sent to the isolation hospital. was interned with thousangs of * The attorney, James. Dawson, as- pther Yanks at Camp O'Donnell serted that witnesses in three new, - About two months later he went’ suits filed today in behalf of the girl to Cabanatuan. then to Davao and

“for damages ‘totalifig $20,000 were later was among the 100 officers sent

being coerced by city detectives. . [to the Furikoa plantation: for slave The suits, filed in circuit court japor superior courts 2 and 3, alleged false| It was at Furikoa that Maj. Knapp imprisonment and malicious prose- had his teeth kicked out when he cution, Similar suits were filed by! didn't understand the order of a Mr. Dawson last Wednesday in be- Jap guard. half of another 22-year-old girl. “Since the Japanese soldiers The Indianapolis Bar association couldn't get even with their own ofhas been asked by the attorney to| ficers, they took their spite out on investigate alleged illegal practices us,” he said. “We worked in the

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Hey, Kids! It's Marble Time; Do You Want to Win a Bike?

Raymond H. Knapp, son” of ¥¥-and:be broug

MINERS ASK - STRIKE VOTE

Request With Government.

WASHINGTON, March 27 (U.!

P.).—The United Mine Workers today asked the government to take a strike vote of 62,000 anthracite ence after conference at his Berch- ward

miners on April 26.

The- union contended that a dis-

pute exists with the hard coal oper-

ators which seriously threatens war production.

The action was similar to taken in the bituminous coal dispute. About 400,000 bituminous

miners will-be poled tomorrow:

The anthracite strike vote re- $317, 000 More Needed to bring one of two evils.

By KENNETH HUFFORD All right, you kids! time.

[will meet May 12 for the four dis-| It's ‘marble | trict titles. The four district champions will compete in the [finals May 19. If you are 14 or under and won't | Watch The Times for further be ‘15 until after May 19, then it’s|news about the tournament, in-| time to start knuckling down for the formation on how to improve your | city tournament. marble Qualifying games for the tournament will be held in the public and parochial schools, opening April 16 and continuing until April 26. The four top qualifiers in each school competition will be eligible to| compete in the city-wide tournament sponsored by The Times arid the city recreation division of the park department, What will the winner get? city champion—and it may be a boy or a girl—will receive a new: pre-war Elgin bicycle. Other prizes will be given to the runner-up and four district champs. The complete prize list .will be announced later. - The 16 sectional winners in

game—you can enter even

The

16 Sectionals Watch your school bulletin boards for details of the competition. After the school eligibles have been decided, each principal will certify their names to the city recreation | division, headed by K. Mark Cowen. | Mr. Cowen's assistant, Mrs. Norma | Koster, will be tournament director | School qualifiers will compete in |

28 in the city's various recreation | centers, The 16 sectional winners |

| |

TIMES INDEX

17 Ruth’ Millett. . 13 8 Movies 17 if-you're a beginner—and additional 20 Obituaries 5 rules. Crossword ... 20 Ernie "Pyle... 13 Editorials .... 14 Radio as “ringer.” and will be played in Fashions .... 16 Ration Dates .2'a 10-foot ring. Forum 14 Mrs. Roosevelt 13| Mrs, Meta Given..'16 Wm. P.Simms 14 sical education director of the pubJohn Hillman 14 Sports ..... .. 10 lic schools, and the Rey. Fr. Richard

Amusements”.

Jane Jordan.. 20 Up Front .... 13 resenting public

quest was filed with the labor de-

| partment, war labor board and the| board by

national labor relations

Filed by Lewis

that |

SWEDEN HEARS HITLER HOLDS

CONFERENCES

Broadcasts Call on Troops To Report to Their Units at Once.

By W. Br HIGGINBOTHAM United Press Staff Correspondent

LONDON, March 27.—In-|}:

creasing signs of-the military breakdown of Germany were noted today in a series of Nazi broadcasts calling on all German troops to report at once to their units or to local autherities. The broadcast summons coincided with Stockholm rumors of a possible (military revolt in Germany because [of the war crisis. The broadcasts ordered all troops to report to stations and to local .authorities. They explained that many troops “have lost contact” due to “enemy action.” w. - Leaves Cancelled These ig it was said, must t into action *again. All} leaves except those for ness is

He has been in nearly every prison camp in the Philippines and was exceptional gallantry were cance

{and troops were ordered to oy [nated “front assembling points.” | Anyone trying to escape military service or forced labor, the broadcasts said, “will be considered a deserter and.deelt with as such.”

re brewing military revolt was,

ted by. the Frée German Press i an' anti-Nazi propaganda |

agency in Stockholm, without indi-{

cating the source of its information Elite §.S. troops were patrolling Berlin, the agency said, with special units cordoning off Adolf Hitler's Reichschancellery and the German high command offices. Hitler himself was holding confer-

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FINAL APPEAL FOR RED GROSS IS MADE

Reach $1,145,500 Goal.

o Hanover

GERMANY

Rampaging 3d army nears Fulda in security-shrouded drive. Fulda is 198 miles from Berlin, Seventh army also crosses Rhine while 1st army drives 35 miles east of Rhine. The 9th army is within three miles Foe at end of this “final battle.” of Essen. Russians hold Golzow, 32 miles from Ber lin, ; :

LABOR PEACE PLAN STUDIED

Joint Proposal Wi With Industry Nearly Ready.

By FRED W. PERKINS Scrip ys-Howard Staff Writer? WASHINGTON, March’ 27.—Fol-|

lowing several months of negotation, top leaders’ of industry and bor} were reported today almost ready to! announce a joint plan looking to-| American. industrial Peace | after the war. Unless someghitch develops, the] proposal is expected to mark one of the greatest advances made in this | country toward preventing industrial | conflicts when wartime production is) converted to peacetime uses, and| when an oversupply of labor might

These would be an attempt by some segments of nERagEmL to

“smash the unions,” or a lef

| Peace Feelers'in Europe Reported To Be Increasing

LONDON, March 27 (U. P.).— The umber of German peace

In vin dor dra

SRE Aes PTR aA

it ‘was learned to- |

the past week, day..a# Prime Minister made clear in commons that any Nazi armistic proposal would be considered by the Big Three rather than submitted for preliminary public debate. Churchill said © such matters concerned the three powers and

fiurchill

| would be considered by them be- | fore being made public.

It was learned that a number of feelers had been made to. the British in neutral capitals in the past week, usually by so-called “anti-Nazi” Germans. Diplomatic © quarters expected these efforts would increase as the German military position eontinues--to deteriorate.

° Hoosier Heroes—

The game will be what is known |

Ann Morgan, acting phy- |

An appeal to citizens who have|_ not vet had the opportunity to sub- {swing endangering the a

scribe and who want to have a part | System of [private enterprise. " FORMER ATHLETE in helping the most important cam- Give-and-Take Attitude DEAD IN GERMANY The meéting of minds so far |

U. M. W. President John L. Lewis.| Drafting New Proposals Lewis said he acted by unanimous | vote ofcthe anthracite wage scale

’ ; ) paign ‘in Red Cross history, was committee, which began sessions

made today as the Indianapolis Red achieved by Eric A. Johnston, presi-|

today here to draft new wage pro- cpoeq drive for $1,145,500 entered its| dent of the U. S. Chamber of Composals to be presented to the hard g,., stages

coal operators in New York City on April 4. The present anthracite |

merce: William Green, president of A former member of the Broad Rip“We want every citizen of Marion the American Federation -of Labor, Ple high sc hool basketball team has . : county to have the privilege to give! and Philip Murray, president of the beén killed in Germany and an incontract expires April 30. to this most worthy effort,” Russell G.I. 0, is said to have demonstrated [fantryman who helped take Dede-

In a letter to Labor Secretary j pyan, general chairman, said. that a policy of co-operative give- dorn also has been killed there. In Frances Perkins similar to the one «ppis campaign can succeed, but and-take should prevent either or| addition two men are missing, three he wrote When he ask or 10- every dollar is needed.” both developments. have been wounded. one is a Germorrow's strike vote in the bitumi- ~ nous coal fields, Lewis said that oorions WI liay have Re “oy Moshes, Presiusnt ot Ale Na (Continued on Page 3—Column 1) he was serving the notice under the scriptions today to the Indianapolis|a1co has taken part in the canter. Sih-Conpally aniisirike ak. Red Cross war fund campaign, 320 o;ces, as have a number of assistants NAVY COMBAT SHIP He sald this law “imposes upon yn Meridian st, so that they may Ye Green aid Murray. PROGRAM REDUCED the employees of this country under | pq included in the total at the final| no government representatives| the threat of heavy and severe meeting tomorrow night. have participated—a significant fact WASHINGTON, March 27 (U. P.). penalties for non-compliance, the| he drive for $1,145500 opened Haye ha of the large measure of fed-| [The navy today cut 72 combat ships unilateral burdén to give notice of March 1 and closes at 6:30 p. -m. ‘eral wartime control now existing | out of its Bulging program; = tomorrow when workers make their | management Plans for building 84 combat ships (Continued in Page Y-Colamn 5) «final reports at a meeting in the ore ay " i ribod | totaling 636,860 tons, as announced | LOCAL TEMPERATURES. IPALCO club. A total of $828,082, oo assurance of future gelf-govern-| |three weeks ago, have been altered | .. 58 10 a.m... 70 representing 723 per cent of the i.nt by capital and- labor, each | {so that only the 12 escort carriers . 55 11 a.m. ... 74 |goal, had been received at the last|;, ji« own sphere. To this end, included in that program, now will} . 58 12 (Noon).. 7 | checkup *® ¥riday. Workers need {be built. The 12 carriers represent . 63 1p.m...."7 [8317418 more. | (Continued on Page 13 —Column 8 150,000 ons, |

WAR DECLARED BY ARGENTINA:

President AIRS Action CRYAMS{T ARS.”

BUENOS AIRES, March 27 (U, P.).—The Argentine government has declared war on the Axis, it was announced officially today. President Edelmiro Farrell personally made the announcement. of the declaration of war. “The decision has been That's all I have to say,’ said.

Reds 20 Miles -

From Austria

LONDON, March 27 (U. P.).—Red army vanguards today swept to within a scant 20 miles from the Austrian border, some 65 miles southeast of Vienna. They were aided by precision bombing of the 15th American air force which attacked German concentration points in the path of the Russians. German reports acknowledged that the Soviet pressure on the irregular 170-mile front had. increased and that Red army spearheads had flanked the important communications centers of Komarom and Gyor in a drive to the

taken. Farrell

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Today in Germany | By UNITED PRESS THE FRANKFORT radio called on German citizens in the path of the advancing American Ist and 3d armies to report immediately to “assist in . assembling dispersed troops.” Confusion was reported throughout Germany. A Stockholm report said Marshal “Karl Von Runstédt and Marshal Johannes Von Blaskowitz were. under arrest and the Reich was on the verge of a military revolt. Berlin was bombed for the 35th consecutive night. ” " ”

‘FOE WHIPPED IN WEST, MAY FIGHT ON-IKE

Armies Crash East, Told

To Smash. Foroes Before Berlin.

By BOYD LEWIS United Press Staff Correspondent PARIS, March 27.— The German retreat from the Rhine broke into ‘a chaotic rout along a 250-mile front from Karlsruhe to the Dutch border today. Navi troops reported in headlong flight as far as 90 miles east of the river, Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower said the allies have won a complete and crushing victory. Eisenhower sent his allied armies crashing eastward beyond the shattered Rhine barrier with orders to smash the remaining German forces before Berlin, He pledged. again that there would be no negotiations with the beaten enemy. Unconditional surrender would be imposed upon the

were

os May Reform Line said that although

asics were beaten in the west, the | Germans might try to reform on a PN front closer to Berlin. Gen. George S. Patton's racon be army tank columns already were reported sweeping Dal. -way

ete see ete ee At eee et tet. Sel

WITH U. S. 9TH ARMY, GerIh 21 (U. P.), = EleLcmapiy af the VU. S. 9th army's | 79th infantry division crossed the - Neue Emscher canal today and entered the northern suburbs of the Ruhr city of Duisburg.

across ‘Germany and closing swiftly on the Hessian citadel of Fulda, 90 miles beyond the Rhine and 198 miles southwest of Berlin. ; On Patton's northern flank, the U. S. 1st .army exploded a tremendous armored punch eastward from its Remagen bridgehead, overrunning thousands of beaten and demoralized Germans® who surrendered at the sight of the rampaging American tanks. Monty Plunges Into Ruhr Berlin said the 1st army's spearheads were 50. miles east of the Rhine and going fast At the “top” of the Western front, Fieid/Marshal Sir Bernard L. Montgomery's four allied field armies burst into the Ruhr basin within three miles of Essen and broke through the German battle screen guarding the Westphalian plain and the northern invasion road to Berin The U, 8S. 7th army southern flank burst Rhine of a 19-mile Manheim Thev advanced

on Patton's across the front north of

as much as four

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On fo Berlin

By UNITED PRESS nearest distances to Berlin advanced allied lines today:

The from

EASTERN FRONT—31 miles

(from Zaeckerick),

WESTERN FRONT-206 miles (from southwest of Fulda, by German report).

ATALY—524 miles (from Po Di

Primaro river). I »

Hitler s People, Hopelessly Beaten, Now Choosing National Suicide

By LUDWELL-DENNY re Their participation in the rape of Europe was.

Scripps-Howard Staff Writer beyond comprehension. WASHINGTON, March 27.—The German people But even: that could not prepare the world for

Te rio: choosing national Suleide. the docility with which they now goose-stép toward They are Prolonging # hopeless conflict. in. which ~doom~—after their conquest has collapsed, after their .the little that is left of their econohiic system is mies have lost, after Hitler's insarie m#nia to. force beirig wiped out. the déstruction of all Germany is clear ta his dupes. Entire cities and whole industrial areas already . He says Germany will fight until the last Gerare rubble ‘heaps. Every week; every day, of war man is dead. That, of course, is not true. means more factories, more dams, more power lines, But he also says that the only thing left of more railways. more towns blown up. Selah when the allies take it, will be starvation All this is decreed by Hitler, NS ase and rats. Why the Germans remained. loyal to him when at can be the fate of Germany. if the, people will it. Only a few weeks ago they were afraid of what the allies would do to: Samay after ieters.

support only a few millions.

ever—iid not want to pulverize

nation. their

tions to understand. Why they supported his war of Sonquesy oo harder to understand. :

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They feared hard terms and heavy reparations, the deindustrialization of their cities—forcing many millions ‘to” grub in poverty on. farms which can

They .did not believe the pledges of Roosevelt,’ Churchill and Stalin that the allig: mined to end naziism and Prussian militarism for-

‘Now the German people themselves are providing a deindustrialization- of Germany far beyond worst nightmare of reparations. a 1f a German _ revolt tomorrow -ended the war, many years would be required under the best conditions for ‘a minimum of German reconstruction, Under the most ganerous allied terms, the self-

imposed misery Germans—wouldtion of allied la

of millions of homeless and jobless “continué_ until after their destruc~, nds had been repaired.

Buf the suffering to which the Germans already

have condenined themselves is small compared with

s—tliough .deter-. The wiped . out now

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rats. Then Germa generation, Such is /the with Hitler. Oi time is left.

their fare if they force many more weeks of war. demolition

is* cumulative. More {is being in a single day than if a month

earlier in the war. . - If this continues. ; get his ‘wish for a land of starvation, disease and

by summer time = Hitler will

ny could not be rehabilitated n a

suicide pact of the German, people nly they can. break it. And little