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A Member of the Master Race Géts a Yaris of Its Own Medicine
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A former Russian “slave laborer,” left, released by the allies after three years of forced work in a factory at Bonn, Germany, unleashes his pent-up fury and hatred against a German civilian policeman.
Ernie Pyle: | Am Landing on Okinawa’
OFF THE OKINAWA
BEACHHEAD (By Navy
Radio).—This is the last column before the invasion.; It is written aboard a troop transport the evening before we
storm onto Okinawa. W e are nervous. on the night before D-day.
Anybody with any sense is nervous You feel weak and you try to
think of things, but“vour mind stubbornly drifts back to
the awful image of tomorrow.
you have nightmares.
It drags on your soul ‘and
But these fears do not mean any lack of. confidence.
We will take Okinawa.
that. But we know we will
Nobody has any doubt about have to pay for it. ‘Some on
this ship will not be alive 24 hours from now.
We are in convoy. up in columns witheur war
Many, many big ships are lined
ship escorts on the outsides.
We are an impressive sight—y et we are only one of many
similar convoys.
We left from many different places. Ww -, (Continued on Page i Corumn So
on our way many days.-
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"SHOOTS WOMAN. F.D. R: Decides Not fo Seek
KILLS HIMSELF
“~Three-on Street Here.”
An Indianapolis woman was shot | and wounded today by her ex-hus-! band who then killed himself in| front of 717 Dorman st. The dead man is William Young, 83, of Dayton, O. His former wife, Mrs, Ida Mae Schoeppner, 40, is in
a critical condition in City hos-! pital. Mrs. Schoeppner was divorced
from Young last October in: Day-
ton, O., and married Bernard Schoeppner Dec. 22, 1944, ‘in Indianapolis. The couple lived at 711 | Dorman st.
On her way honie from the grocery, next door to their apartment, Mrs. Schoeppner saw her ex-hus-band about 6:15 a. m. today. “Wait a minute,” he said. want to speak to you.”
Spurned Advance
Mrs. Schoeppner told police that she told him to go on about his
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business, that she was married again. Drawing a blue steel revolver, Young said, “I'll kill you.”
Then he started firing. ‘Running back into the grocery,! owned by William H. Ruskaup, Mrs. Schoeppner cried: “He is trying to kill me# One bullet hit the 40-year-old woman in the side and entered her abdomen. Another went through the glass door of the grocery and ricocheted off the ceiling.
Grocer Helps Victim
Mr. Ruskaup helped Mrs. Schoeppner out the back door of the store and up to her apartment, By this time, her husband, was awake. Police found Young dead in front of the grocery. He had shot himself in the head, Mr. Schoeppner told police that his wife had sued her ex-husband for divorce on grounds of cruel and inhuman treatment because Young drank and treated her cruelly. He said she had not seen Young since her remarriage until today. Mr. Schoeppner ‘is a foreman at the Uptown Construction Co,
GET V-BOMB RECESS . LONDON, April 3 (U. P.),~London and southern England went into the fourth straight day. today with no attacks from German Vbombs.
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Extra Peace
Votes for U. S.
WASHINGTON, April 3 (U, P.)—President Roosevelt. has decided that the U. 8. will not ask for additional yotes “for this country in the Ex- Mate Wounds Mother o proposed world assembly, it was announced today.
It was disclosed last week that during the Crimea conference; Russia
asked for ‘three votes in the assembly, "THe Wiite House said then that
| Britain ang the U. 8. he U. 8. agreed to support this request in the San Francisco
GATES, JENNER AND BREWERS GONFER
2 Anpoirted. Ze 3 Reappointed By Commission.
As. Governor Gates and Repubiican State Chairman Willidm E. {Jenner today met with members of the Indiana Brewers association, the new alcoholic beverage commission announced two appointments and three reappointments. The brewers conference, it was understood, was intended to attain an understanding between beer manufacturers and the state administration regarding the 1945enacted alcohol code. One of the mare vexing questions now confronting the administration is that of appeasing G. O. P. county chairmen and other patronageseekers with aspirations of entering the beer wholesaler business. Plans of some of these aspirants are reported to have met unforeseen obstacles in the form of government agencies restricting the creation of new competitive businesses and operations of transportation vehicles.
All wholesaler licenses, now mo-
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SMOKE SIGNALS LEAD
POLICE TO FUGITIVE
POWNAL, Me., April 3 (U, P.).— When Jean Gamache, 18-year-old convicted firebug escaped from Pownal state school for the third time, police had no trouble at alll following his trail. They “caught up with him after putting out three. barn fires on the route to his Brunswick home.
— | conference.
The White House added. in last Weeks announcement: “But the can representatives stated Amer yr the united nations organization agreed to let the Soviet re- | publics have three votes, the Unite ‘States would ask for three votes also.” Would Fulfill Yalta Pact Today’s announcement meant that the U. S. apparently will continue to support the Russian request for
three votes, fulfilling the promise!
made at Yalta, ut will not follow this up by asking the three votes for this country. The announcement was made by|
Secretary of State Edward R. Stet-|
tinius Jr., at a record-breaking press |
conference attended by nearly 100]
correspondents. Stettinius also announced that
plans for the April 25 San Francisco|the 10th army's front broadened
conference are proceeding with no thought pf postponement. On the contrary, because of the rapid tempo of military andspolitical events, it is increasingly necessary that the
plans for creating-a world organ-|
ization be carried on promptly. Made Formal Statement Stettinius declined to reveal when
President Roosevelt decided to drop| bodies and all but three of them vanced on the Austrian capital to-
the plans for (his country to request additional votes. His formal statement merely said:
“The President has decided that]
at the San Francisco cgnference the United States will not request additional votes for the government
of the United States in the general] assembly.”
Stettinius opened” the conference by reading a long statement which he said was the department's at-
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YANKS OVID OKINAWA ISLE
First Hard Fighting Met on “Way to Capitai.
* By FRANK TREMAINE United Press Staff Corresponden®
troops that sliced Okinawa in two with a six-mile dash to the east coast widened their hold on the vital Nakagusuku bay naval anchorage to at least three miles today. They still were advancing. Other units of Maj. Gen. John R Hodges’ 24th army corps advanced south along the west coast to within | a little more than six miles of Naha, capital of Okinawa, in the first hard fighting of the three-day old | invasion. Indications grew that the Japanese were preparing to defend a| |line across the narrow isthmus Just | above Naha. Widen Hold in North
Marines at the northern end of
{the west coast beachhead to at least | 10 miles with an advance of more! than a mile.
The marines cleaned out and|
secured Zampa Cape and sent an armored spearhead along the coastal | highway to the north. Casualties continued ingly light on both sides. {marine division counted only. 15]
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SHANGHAI RAIDERS WRECK 92 PLANES
CHUNGKING, April 3 (U, P.).— U. 8. 14th air force planes, striking at the Shanghai airdrome, 500 | miles from Okinawa, destroyed 92
Jap planes and damaged 16 in surprise raids Sunday and Monday, it was announced today.
Other P-51s, swooping. down on Japanese troops at Sinsiang north of the Yellow river, killed 1200 of the enemy, a communique said.
Hoosier Heroes: Seven Local Men Are Killed
The names of two Indianapolis brothers appear on today’s casualty lists; one killed on Iwo Jima and the other wounded near Cologne. Six other local men have died in action, Ten. others have been wounded, including - a - battalion commander. Three are German prisoners, and one is safe, KILLED One of the brothers, Marine Pvt. Robert 8. Christena, 1642 E. 62d st., on Iwo.Jima, |,
Sgt. Charles W. Christoph, 134 Kansas st, on Luzon, Cpl. Elwin F. Hirons Jr. 24 8. Arlington ave., in Germany. Lt. Col. Harry PF. Sellers, forineriy) of Indianapolis on Luzon. 3
Marine Pyt. James D. Dunigan, 1428 8. Illinois st., on Iwo Jima. Pvt. William D. McGee, 1325 Wade st., in Germany. WOUNDED The other brother, Pfc. George H. Christena, -1642 E. 62d st. near Cologne. Sgt. Novis J. Harris, 1533 Shepard st, in Germany. Pfc. Frank Daugherty, 1112 S. | Waldemere ave. in Germany. Cpl. Harry J. Leo, 1832 Easy at, on Iwo Jima.
Sgt. Raymond’ Bly, 102 S. Walde- |
mere ave, in Germany. Pvt. Abe A. Levy, 739 Union st., in},
Plc. Harry Lawrence, 1120 8. Brad-
Lt. Col. Floyd M. Call, 2129 Carrollton ave., in.Germany. Pvt. Raymond E. Hall, R. R. 11, Box 363, in Germany, Marine Pfc. Herbert Ww. Clark, 2167 N. Parker ave., on Iwo Jima. Pfc. William C Bryant, formerly of 1015 E. Iowa st., on Iwo Jimd.
PRISONERS
Keystone ave. of Germany. Pfc. Carl E. Vance, 1315 Ringgold st., of Germany. Pvt. Joseph B. Helegda, 4918 Ww. 13th st., of Germany,
‘SAFE First Lt. Elmo B. Hessler, 19 N.
G ington, D. ©
GUAM, April 3.—Army invasion
Pvt. “Emerald F.-Foster, 3140 N |
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On the West front, ‘the U. S. 9th and the British 2d armies threaten to trap thousands of Nazis In hie ‘Nethetjands.. On the East front
at Hitler Plane fo bia “THIRD 160 i = FROM RED ARMY
Leading Troops in Battle
By W. R. HIGGINBOTHAM United Press Staff Correspondent ' LONDON, April 3.—A captured Sweepiig DIES" Atieript to Envelop Hols wie: “land’and Force Weser River Line On Road to. Berlin.
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ceived private word that Reichsmarshal Hermann Goering was )] dead. German general told front corre- x i spondents tpdav thot Adolf Hitler plans to die in battle at the head of S.8. elite guard troops especially picked for the honor of dying with the fuehrer. S.S. units already were being
# » 8 OTHER. HIGH Nazi. chiefs still. were - alive ‘and making- their escape to some hideout, presumably in the Bavarian alps, he told a London Daily Telegraph correrespondent on the American 9th
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designated for the sacrifice, Ger- | army front. man Maj. Gen. Hans Boehlsen The prince,” along with his By BOYD LEWIS said in an interview with a Lon- | princess, Valerie Marie, who United Press Staff Correspondent
don News-Chronicle correspondent on the 3d army front. Another captured German, Prince Engelbert ‘ Charles Arenberg, first German prince to fall into allied hands, Hy he had re-
clainred to be a great granddaughter of Queen Victoria and a distant cousin of King Georve VI, were found in their 300-room pal-
PARIS, April 8.—American and British troops captured the Westphalian capital of Muenster today.
At the same time, tank columns raced 50 miles and more | (Continued on Page 5—Column 4) beyond the city in twin drives to envelop Holland and force — ” Weser river line on the main superhighway to Berlin.
REDS 1 MI. AWAY, Gen. Rose Shot "DRIVE ON VIENNA By Nes Capfors
Muenster, 2% miles due west of Berlin, fell after more — ~|than three days: of savage
STONEMAN: V- DAY | street fighting and a raking
lartillery bombardment that
; 1ST U. 8. ARMY IN ; : | A i ABril 3: Me, Gen. MAY BE DELAYED fected the city to a blackened Frantic Nazis Preparing to Maurice Rose, Denver, Colo. com- Twenty miles to the southeast,
mander of the 3d armored di- soldiers of the American 9th army fought their way into Hamm, the biggest railway center in western | Germany, and began a house-to-{house mop-up of its by-passed | Nazi garrison Armored spearheads of the 9th
Defend City.
LONDON, April 3 (U.P.).—Marshal Stalin tonight announced | that the Red army has captured | Wiener-Neustadt, the great Aus- | trian industrial center.
vision, was shot to death by Nazi tankfhen
Some Nazis | Still Fighting Like Trapped Rats. man captors, it | By WILLIAM H. STONEMAN
was announced | Times Foreign Correspondent { | WITH U. S. IST ARMY, April 3.
taking off his | pistol to hand | over to his Ger- |
while
today. : army already were more than 50 LONDON, April il3 (U. P.) —Soviet Rose s aid, —V-day will not be tomorrow on’miles east of the Muenster-Hamm |columns drove into Baden, only 11! Maj. Robert | the next day. line, splitting through the hinge of
miles south of Vienna, and ad-| the German defenses to the Weser
Ballinger, White Iriver on the Ruhr-Berlin super-
Plains, N. Y,, Germany's organized military
said Rose al- |Strength is in process of being Sos
gay; Hrine alse razed 13 Wiener] ready had sure |stroyed. Its strategic position y| LiEnvay i» miles fron: Berlin and Neaoae Yl Drenive capital of rendered to the [the West is already worse than only 37. miles eas} of Hannover the puppet state of Slovakia. | crew of a Ger- | hopeless. Pation Renews Drive The Nazi Transocean agency re-| Maj. Gen Rose man tiger tank Bug the rugged fighting here dl Another 9th army column was ree
there ‘shows it will be a tedious and | ported racing for the Pied Piper expensive job to wipe out the great|town of Hamlin, on the Weser 158 pockets which our streaking miles due west of the German armored columns have left behind capital. and which our infantry divisions, in| Far to the south, Lt. Gen. George turn, have surrounded. |S. Patton's American 3d army apLike trapped rats, a good many | peared to have broken loose on ane Germans are still willing to fight| other armored run through central back and will have to be killed In| Germany. Official spokesmen said open battle. It took us 36 hours) patton's men were only 160 miles
ported that violent street fighting | when tankmep with a “burp” gun was in progress in Baden, Bratisw| shot him. lava and Wiener-Neustads}. . Rose was riding south of PaderAt the present rate of advance it| born in a jeep last Saturday |appeared the entry of the Red army | when he was captured. He was linto the Austrian capital could not| trying to reach a portion of the | [be long delayed despite frantic Nazi 3d ‘armored task force which had
[efforts to organize the city for a been cut of. to capture Paderborn, which fell t0| from a juncture with the west=
last ditch stand. AR [ Vienna Cut Off 12 CONVICTS FLEE {the 3d armored division yesterday. /bound Red army at an arise THROUGH TUNNEL Larger pockets will produce heav= | qin; osed
| The Germans claimed that the attacks on Wiener-Neustadt were repulsed but the Soviet advance ier and better organized efforts. |" Berlin ‘said Patton's men had had already cut Vienna from fits It is hard to say how long it will captured Kassel, pivot of the Gere connéetions with the industrial] PHILADELPHIA, April 3 (U. P.). take us to get to Berlin—an accom- |... defenses on the Fulda river |—Twelve long-term convicts es-|plishment which will mean the end | ine 165 miles southwest of Berlin, caped from Eastern penitentiary of Germany, in most people's views. | {and another 3d army force was only teday, but six, including two lifetermers, were recaptured by city
south. The same advance had begun to| K hink People here would like ‘to think] the enemy capital that we could do it in a few days, 152 miles from y P v at Eisenach. police within several hours. The nien escaped through a 60-
snap German communications with most of them frankly expect it-fo Southdast of Efsenach, 3d army foot tunnel burrowed from a cell
their forces still fighting in northern Yugoslavia. take much longer, perhaps weeks. Copyright, 1945, by The Indianapolis Times | "| (Continued on Page 5-~Column 1) block to a street-outside the prison | ee — yard. Some of the men were armed
The breakthrough into WienerNeustadt, 23 miles south of Vienna and The Chicago Dally News, Inc. with home-made knives. The escape touched off one of the
and site of one of Germany's biggest Messerschmitt aircraft factories, was revealed by Ernst von Hammer, German D. N., B. agency militdry commentator, in a Berlin | greatest police hunts in the history broddcast. of the Philadelphia police department. The entire force was alerted, 250 detectives were assigned shotguns, machine guns and tear "gas. They searched and watched the
Moscow dispatches said Marshal Rodion Y. Malinovsky’s 2d Ukraincity’s known underworld haunts for the fugitives.
fan army group drove into the outOne of the men ‘Tecaptured, A
skirts of Bratislava, eastern gate- | way to Vienna, after capturing Biskupice, two and’ a half miles to the southeast. Horace Bowers, sentenced to life in prison for complicity in the killing| of a state policeman, was shot in the stomsch when police recaptured
On the War Fronts
(April 3, 1945) WESTERN FRONT — British and; cutting. island in two with six« Canadians race for Bremen and| mile push to east coast. . - Dutch sea coast; Muenster cap-/AIR WAR—R. A. PF. Mosquitoes tured. drop block-busters and fire bombs EASTERN FRONT—Red army) on Berlin and Magdeburg. columns smashed into Baden.|CHINA—Planes of 14th‘ U, 8. air Fighting also raged in Wiener-| force destroy 92 Japanese aircraft Neustadt in Austria and Brati<| in attack on Shanghal, slava, capital of German puppet ITALY—Eighth army assault orp ‘state of Slovakia, ‘ ke drive on ¢ PACIFIC..Affier gas.
To the north, Moscow reported, evidence - increased that the zero hot for the Red army's frontal mash from the Oder river against