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VOLUME 56—NUMBER 19

to Japan proper, we have at last reached a point on the

long road to Tokyo where we Our next move should be

must make a decision. the Normandy of the Pacific.

We are in a geographical position, in our opinion, to go straight into either Japan, or China.

FORECAST: Rain today; much colder today and tonight; tomorrow, partly cloudy and rather cold.

MONDAY, APRIL 2 1945

Go northeast from Okinawa only about 350 miles and you come to southern Japan. There are convenient stepping stones all along the way.

Go west from, Okinawa

less than 600 miles and you

come to Foochow, an important port on the China coast roughly halfway between Hongkong and Shanghai. Okinawa is an invaluable crossroads, but by no means

the only jumpoff point for China.

BYRNES RESIGNS POST AS U.S. WAR MOBILIZER

VINSON NAMED BY PRESIDENT AS SUCCESSOR

Former Justice Doesn’t Want To Direct Plans for Reconversion.

WASHINGTON, April 2 (U, P.).~ James F. Byrnes, predicting that “V-E day is not far distant,” resigned today as director of the office of war mobilization and re-

conversion, President Roosevelt, expressing “heartfelt regret,” accepted . th

resignation and immediately nomi= nated Fred M. Vinson, head of the federal ‘loan agencies, as Byrnes'|

Vinson formerly was director of economic stabilization. He took over the loan job only a few weeks ago after Jesse H. Jones was ousted by the President.

Home Front Director

Byrnes had been mobilization director for a year and 10 months. He was..charged with Co-ordinating all home-front phases of the war effort and settling disputes anong government agencies. * He issued the disputed orders closing race tracks and imposing a midght curfew on places. ' He promised on Saturday that these bans would be revoked on V-E day. The resignation was a complete surprise to congress, and there were many expressions of regret that Byrnes was leaving, and some puzzlement that he was leaving at this

odie... The choice. of Vinson was/ficers were, working with federal 2 conciliators in an attempt to reach)

popular. ¥ Byrnes asked that his - resigna- | But the President requested that he make it effective on the date that Vinsin is confirmed. Byrnes agt¥ed to stay in Washington until his duties are transferred to Vinson and then will return to his home in Bpartansburg, 8. C., for a rest. Asked to Quit Earlier

An exchange of correspondence between Byrnes and President Roosevelt recalled that as early as last June Byrnes had announced his desire not to remain in office to administer the reconversion program, - After the ‘election .in November Byrnes again reminded the President of his desire to leave, The agreement then was that-he would accept the war mobilization directorship only until V-E day. In addition to .the exchange of correspondence, Byrnes authorized White House Press Secretary Jonathan Daniels to make the following statement for him: ] “Though I could not see my way clear to accept the™detailed task of reconversion for the period I know it will take, it does not lessen in any way my intense interest in the

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BARUCH CONFERS WITH CHURCHILL

LONDON, April 2 (U, P).— Bernard Baruch, American financier, who arrived by plane Thursday, spent the week-end with Prime Minister Winston Churchill. The British Press association said Baruch’s mission “is regarded as of considerable importance in view of the forthcoming San Francisco con-

entertainment |

James F. Byrnes

Fred M. Vinson

Mercury Drops

With Rain

Forecast, Roads Inundated

Much colder weather is forecast for Indianapolis with temperatures going down to about 35 to 40 degrees tonight. More rain also is promised for today, adding to the 1.34 inches of rain which has fallen in the last 24 hours.

The downpour, which has been

general throughout the state, has

caused creeks and rivers to rise, flooding streets and roads:

RUBBER STRIKE * HERE IS ENDED

85 Bus Workers Enter Third Day of Work Stoppage.

day, but army labor relations of-

an agreement on another. er] Some 2200 workers were to return | to their jobs today at the U. 8. Rubber Co. plant after a week-long stoppage. Employees on the 7 5 = shift reported to work as uled, company officials i Meanwhile 85 Indiana railroad pe drivers began their third day of i n-| activity in the midst of continued| attempts to negotiate settlement of! a strike which snagged passenger

War Work Affected

Capt. Roy' Goodell, of the 5th service command army labor djvision, joined with federal conciliators in trying to. arrange a conference between management and strikers. They Were to meet with TR. R: executives this morning. No direct negotiations between the drivers and the company can be carried on until the men actually return to their wheels, said Federal Concilia-

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14 MORE JAPANESE ADMIRALS KILLED

By UNITED PRESS The Domei news agency announced today that 14 more Japanese admirals had died in action, bringing to 108 the number of high enemy naval officers whose deaths have been reported since May, 1944, The dispatch was recorded by the FCC,

MRS. CHURCHILL IN RUSSIA By UNITED PRESS Mrs. Winston Churchill, wife of the British prime minister, arrived in Moscow today for a visit to Russian hospitals, the British radio

ference.”

transportation to many state cities.’

announced.

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In Sunshine Gardens deputy sheriffs reported wafer across road 167, and in Ravenswood ‘the water has “spread across Sylvan ave, andf Tist and 73d sts. Early today electric wiring went down north of Ravenswood during the rainstorm. Water also is reported across River rd. For , tomorrow the weatherman says it will be partly cloudy and

» tather cold.’ One strike was ended here to-|.

LOCAL TEMPERATURES

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ROSE » FREEMAN MADE BUDGET CHIEF

Franklin Republican Transferred from P.S.C. Post. |

* Roscoe P. Freeman of Franklin today was named state budget director - to succeed C. Andrew Ketchum, Democrat, who resigned.

Governor Gates transferred Mr. Freeman from his present post as chairman of the Indiana Public Service commission. LeRoy E. (Toby) Yoder of Goshen. now a memRier of the P. 8. C., will replace Mr. Freeman as chairman. Appointed as a new P. 8S. C. member to fill the vacancy created by Mr. Freeman's transfer was Lawrence E. Carlson of Huntington. Mr. Freeman had previously served with the Indiana state board

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V-BOMB ASSAULTS EASED ON ENGLAND

LONDON, April 2 (U.P.).—Southern England today had high hopes that the V-bomb siege was over, For the fourth straight day no air activity was mentioned in the regular communique and it was hoped that the Nazis had come about to the end of their V-campaign. There were continuing reports that the Germans were pulling out of Holland where most of their V-launching sites are located.

Hoosier Tn 12 Dead and 12 Wounded|

Three Indianapolis paratroopers have been killed in combat and another local marine lost his life

on Iwo Jima according to today’s|

war department casualty lists. eight other local servicemen have been killed and 12 have been wounded, KILLED re Pfc. Duane L. Shellabarger, 3034

TIMES INDEX 7 Movies”. ..... 7 Business. .... 7|¥Fred Perkins, 9 Comics ...... 13 Pyle.... 9

Crossword .., 13|Radio ..,.... 13 . Editorials .., 10 Mrs. Roosevelt 9

Amusements. .

Peter Edson.. 10 Side Giances. 10 Fashions ..,...12{ Sports ....... 6 Forum ...... 10| Tom Stokes. . 10

Freckles ..... 13 Henry Taylér 1 Inside Indpls..

College ave, on Iwo Jima. | Pvt. Richard O. Shepherd, 1236 Reisner st., in Europe. Pvt. James: Craig, 2050 Guilford ave. on Corregidor. Pyt, Jack A. Farrell, Washington st, in France. Capt. Norman V, Lane, Ts E. 40th st, in Germany. Sgt. Joe W. Robinson, 1043 E.

2831 E.

formerly of 5220 Carrollton ave. in

Germany. Pfe, John T. Kissick, 1141 Laurel st, in Germany, .8. Sgt. Marlin D. Jordan, 919 N. Sherman dr; in Germany, Pfc. Charles E. Carroll, 1606 E. Tabor st., on Iwo. Jima. 4Pfc. Harold E. Wilson, 4718 Crit-

lvasion troops smashed forward more

Tcaptured Wo Hrieids ANE BY hE {fall they had driven part way .lacross the waist of Okinawa to-

Vermont st, in Belgium, tenden ave, in’ Germany. 8. Sgt. Helmuth PF. Voge, 52 N Bradley st, in Belgium : ‘In. Tacoma st, in Germany, Seaman i-g Kenneth Wayne Bon-|. 8. Sgt. John J. Broderick, 820 sett, 422 8. Parker ave., in the South Grove" ave., in Germany. ' Pacific. - First Lt. Paul E, Moxley, 1440 Sgt. Glark, P. Grimes, 6519 Fer- Charles st., in Germany. guson st., in' Germany. - First Lt. John N. Goll, 630 E. Second Lt. John ¥. Payleitner. 58th st., in Germany. 4509 .E. 12th st., over Belgium. Capt. Frank Thomas Goll, 630 E. Pvt. Charles F. Dugger, 1017 Park-|58th st. in Belgium. er ave, in France. Cpl. Joseph H. Greenberg, 401. E. Pfc. David Hartley Sherwood, 108 New York st, in Holland,

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Pvt. Edward A. Althauser, 1521)

Even closer is Luzon,

YANKS DRIVE SWIFTLY INTO OKINAWA ISLE

Marines and Soldiers Push! Halfway Across Mid- | dle of Island. : By FRANK TREMAINE

United Press Staff Correspondent GUAM, April 2.—American

in-

than halfway across Okinawa today in a swift advance against scattered Japanese sniper and pillbox resistance. Front dispatches said an announcement that Okinawa had been split in two was expected hourly, Hard fighting flared on the southern flank of the American armymarine front where tank-led infantrymen were driving toward Naha, the island's burning capital, less than seven miles distant. Tokyo radio reported. without allied -confirmaticn ‘that Americans completed a new landing today on the island of Kume, 52 miles west of Okinawa, and 340 miles northeast of Formosa. Two Air Fields Seized

Tens of thousands of troops of the new American 10th army smashed ashore along a wide beachhead on Okinawa, only 362 miles south of Japan. Two air fields and more than a dozen villages were captured. Digpatches indicated U. S. planes soon” would be using at least one

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in the Philippines, whose northern tip is less than 500 miles from the nearest point of the China coast. So Japan or China, China or Japan—which will it be? Unofficial strategists are divided over which is best. So are official strategists. “It will shorten the war if we go straight into Japan,” one school argues. . “Yes, In we ious} have bases in Cruns i Sleging the

to go into Japan,

be made as the tempo of the

A Where Do We Go After Okinawa? China Or Homeland Of Japan?

By WILLIAM. McGAFFIN, Times Foreign Correspofident OKINAWA, April 2.—After Okinawa what? By our invasion of this highly strategic island so near

large bodies of troops and the huge number of planes required to cover a landing before we will be in a position reports another faction, Whichever school will prevail, a decision will have to

war quickens ever more.

Whether it will be made this year depends on whether we will have to slow ‘down after the corfquest of Okinawa JContigued on Page 4—Column 3)

ALLIES BEYOND MUENSTER;

STRIKING TOWARD BREMEN

of the two captured airdromes.

Radio towers ih Naha, a city of 60.000, were clearly visible to the ladvancing Americans as the greatest invasion of- the Pacific War

More than 100,000 Nazis were trapped today in the Ruhr basin as the U. S. 1st and 9th armies met at Lippstadt. Meanwhile advance unifs of the 3d ariny smashed to within 152 miles of Berlin. The main

force lined up 157 miles fromthe German capita] with the capture of Hesringen, and Nesselroden. The ]

Russian’ “advance lines on Berlin are shown in the upper right.

entered its second day already |= ahead-of schedule.

Marines and soldiers

and _seized an eight-and-three-quarters-mile-long beachhead on the West coast of southern Okinawa | yesterday. Half-Way Across Island Within tHe first three hours, they |

ward the naval. anchorage . of Nakagusuks bay on the East coast, another of the prime -objectives of

A correspondent = broadcasting from a Superfortress over Okinawa this morning said the invasion appeared to bé continuing well de- | spite some signs of resistance, though apparently nothing like that | which had been anticipated, Reinforcements of men, tanks, | guns and supplies were flowing | across the beaches in a Steady y stream,

Warships poured a steady drum-|

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A RINGSIDE 'SEAT|

Jack Dempsey, former heavyweight champion,

world’s | saw

seat.

Adm. Chester W. Nimitz's headquarters today said Dempsey, who is in charge of the coast guard's physical fitness program, made the

training program.” Dempsey was. aboard a coast guard-manned assault boat. gy 8 8.

ashore from ‘a 1400-ship armada

Rumors Tell of ‘Last Peace’

“4LLONDON, April 2—Rumprs-of a wesel, the invasion. so-called “last peace proposal” by Bochalt and Dorsten is 13 miles Adolf Hitler circulated today.

propaganda took on

(an underground Nazi {movement was arising in oeeapiey German territory.

{ Stockholm.

(Continued on “Page 4—Column-6§) asked Foreign Minister Joachim

DEMPSEY GETS a “last peace proposal.”

GUAM, April 2 (U. P.).—Cmdr. clude a request for an immediate {armistice in the west; maintenance (of the German armies in the east; the | spit occupation of west Germany Okinawa invasion from a ringside by British, American and German armies, a European peace conferAn announcement released at|®nce at which Russia would not be represented.

| against Russia but was said to be

invasion “to observe the value to | Willing to retire if a general elecmen under fire of the physical | HO" showed he was not wanted by

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Story of What Happeried. PLEAS mp Behind Monty's Blackout)

| By RONALD CLARK | : United Press Staff Correspondent

21ST ARMY GROUP GHRQ, April 2.—Here is the story of. what has |

“blackout imposed March 28. By thé evening of March 8 Montgomery's troops were holding the | . | line of Borken, Bocholt and Dorsten. The towns from a quadralateral { with Wesel, the Rhine bridgehead point. Bochalt is 13 miles north of| Borken is 10 miles east of, ready across the Bochalt- Doren ALSL9ES HAPPY railroad and, the whole bridgehead |

was secure ‘against counterattack | and the movement of supplies and |

Offer by Hitler.

By W. R. HIGGINBOTHAM

United Press Staff Correspondent

{ east of Wesel.

th army was alNazi home The American 9th y

a desperate calling on all Germans to and claiming that “werewolf”

At the same time,

one, “fight” or perish”

schedule. During the day the 11th British | Watch Remains Missing. armored division was massed on the bridgehead perimeter hes] When her son was reported miss with the 7th armored, the 6th ing in action and the' watch purguards armored brigade, the ar- | chased for him stolen the same mored regiment of the 6th airborne day, a mother’s intuition spun the division and the 2d U. S. armored | fear that the fate of the two hung division, together. They were supported by numer-| Today, however, “that maternal ous infantry units. feeling was happily shattered. Security silence was imposed and| Pvt. Thurman Stanley Moore has they moved out in the first light| been reported, not killed, but a

of the §9th while the Germans con(Continued on “Page 4—Column 2)

tinuously tried to fish for informaLOW FLYING B-29'S

Source of the peace rumor was he “Free German” press bureau in

This source said that Hitler had

on Ribbentrop to deliver to Britain

Russia Not Included The Hitler bid was, said to In-

tion with false radio claims.

(Transmission of this dispatch was incomplete at press time.)

Hitler was described das de-

FASHIONS ARRIVE ermined to continue his war

MEXICO CITY, April 2 (U. P). —The first plane flying under American Airlines’ new international freight service between Los Angeles and Mexico City, arrived here today with a load of Hollywood spring fashions for Mexican style shops.

than started big fires in the Nakajima- |

he German populace.

: dawn today. He was also said to be prepared

the target area for more than an

hour after the hour-long attack.

§ isis

The giant bombers struck at low level ut the sprawling plant, situ-

the imperial palace.

hit last week, the factory produced about 75 per cent of the engines

MONTY. MOVES 0 KNOCK OUT

V-BOMB BASES

Liberation of Holland Goal of Push; German Defenders Flee.

By BOYD LEWIS United Press Staff Correspondent

PARIS, April 1.—British armored divisions drove more than 15 miles beyond Muenster today and struck for Bremen and the: Dutch North sea ports in a bid to knock out the Nazi V- ~bomb bases and lib-

§ erate Holland.

Armored vdanguards of the British 2d and Canadian 1st armies were 74 miles southwest of Bremen,

1 German's second port, and about

the same distance south of the Dutch seacoast. German resistance was broken all along the broad British front.

would. complete the liberation of Holland appeared well under way.

- Aflied Trops in Muenster Official reports said the British. and supporting American units were in Muenste ind 15 miles beyond at an undisclosed point. Berlin spokesmen placed the allies 36 ‘miles farther east on both

U. S. FIRST ARMY G. H. Q.. April 2° (U. P.).—~Resistance was

J been going on behind Field, Marshal Sir Bernard Montgomery's security| -g2amy-frent taday. ith, German ,

BURN ENGINE PLANT,

GUAM, April 2 (U. P.).—More | 42 and lay open the short road 200 B-29 Superfortresses |

A Tokyo broadcast acknowledged that fires raged out of control in |

ated about 10 miles northwest of With the Mitsubishi plant at Nagoya, which was!

for Japanese army and navy planes. |

reported stiffening on the 1st

armored c nirations” trying both to vig ot of the Ruhr trap and to’ break in to the rescue of the trapped forces,

sides of Bielefeld, 189 miles from

ie Tl of the German 25th {army, possibly 50,000 strong, were racing eastward from the Dutch |seacoast in disorderly flight to es<

wroops. into. it was well ahead of! Son Safe as su Eisomt But, capt the British tank columns clos-

|ing across their line of retreat. Simultaneously, the American 1st and ring ‘around the Ruhr. Perhaps 150,000 crack’ Nazi troops were trapped in the industrial basin. 152 Miles From Berlin At the center of the collapsed Ger-

jaan battle screen, Lt. Gen. George .

S. Patton's 3d army tanks drove more than half-way across the reich to within 152 miles of Berlin. Scottish and ‘English veterans of {El Alamein . and Montgomery's march across north Africa were out in frent of the blazing tank drive ha promised to ‘clear the Nazis {from all Holland in a matter of

[to Berlin. German resistance was reported melting away in the path of the

Musashino aircraft engine plant in ——— the outskirts of Tokyo just before (Continued on Page 4—Column 1)

On to Berlin

By UNITED PRESS { The nearest distances to Berlin from advanced allied lines today: EASTERN FRONT — 31 Miles (from Zaecherick). WESTERN FRONT — 152 { (from Eisenach). ITALIAN FRONT -— 524 Miles (from Po Di Primaro river).

Miles

ghout a dozen miles from Vienna outskirts

+f |greater

-|ported fighting

{ing armored columris ahead of their

Moscow said disorders had broken out in the Austrian capital and else where in Austria. * Forward columns ' of Marshal Feodor Talbukhin's forces were rein the :Leitha mountains, only about a dozen miles from greater Vienna. The Russians were reported send-

|Report Disorders in Vienna

2 As Red Army Sweeps On

LONDON, April 2 (U. P.).—Red army spearheads were reported only the today.

U. 8. 15th air force in Italy struck Vienna's rail communications in close support of the Russians. Moscow dispatches said other Rus= sian forces were storming Wiener Neustadt, Austria's most important industrial center, and had pushed to within sight of Bratislava, capital of the. German puppet” “state of Slovakia. The London Daily Mail quoted unconfirmed German reports that 30 Russian divisions, possibly 450,000 men, had begun & massive assault

on Stettin, Germany's ‘biggest Bal- - tic port, from points on the east

A swift dash te the coast that

h armies closed an armored

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