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VOLUME 56—NUMBER 21
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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 4, 1943
Indianapolis, 9, Ind.
Entered ag Second-Class Matter at Po:toff Issued daily except Sunday
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Emer. New ‘Idol Of Fan -Mail Front'—He Answers All Letters
By SGT. JULES B. GRAD
Stars and Stripes Stafy
SUPREME COMMANDER'S | April 4
at many’ letters as Frank Sinatra.
From every corner of the free
to him for autographs and pictures.
(U, P..—Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, the new “idol of the fAn-mail front,” now receives almost
Writer
HEADQUARTERS, week. They
‘But no matter whom they're from, they all get the The supreme commander
world, people write
line trpops in Germany.
same personal attention,
One little boy asked for a “Genuwine Tiger Tank.” Hundreds of letters pour into his headquarters every Scores are rain-drenched ‘and caked with mud from front Some are penny postcards:
come by*air mail and V-mail
. of the allied expeditionary force takes time off’ from
Look for Nazi Snipers Who Killed Yank Soldier
Pvt. Bill Zimmerman (left) of Hagerstown, Md., and Pfc. Norman Booher, Trinidad, Colo., are looking for the German sniper who killed the American soldier (foreground) on the approach to the Ernest
Ludwig bridge over the Rhine at
Worms, Germany. +
Acme Telephoio
FORM GROUP TO AID STEPHENSON
‘Liberty Foundation’ Claims!
6000 Members.
The "Liberty Foundation,” organized {o obtaij a re-trial of ex~ Klan Dragon D. C. . Stephenson}!
FP boasts “6000 members throughout |
Indiana” jts president, Mark Wiles, =f Cicero, said today. Vice president of the group, now spurring its efforts in Stephenson's behalf, is Ralph Finley of Hamilton county, who ‘sat as an original - Juror when the klan chief was sentenced to, _ life imprisonment, Mr. | Wiles said. He asserted that although , the “Liberty Foundation” tried tomconfine its membership to Hamilton eounty, where Stephenson was first tried at Noblesville, its petitions “caught on like wildfire all over the state.” Serving Life Term Stephenson is serving a Jife term in Michigan City for the murder of Miss Madge Oberholtzer of Indianspolis 20 years ago. His desperate bid for freedom has been almost gontinuous since that time, Mr. Wiles said the Liberty foundation had. vainly interceded with the state clemency conimission in Stephenson's behalf. He said the
' organization did not accept contri-
butions or dues but ‘gets money whenever it needs it.” “It's evident that powerful influences are trying to suppress-—a
thorough airing of the Stephenson
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KIEL SUB BASE MAIN TARGET FOR HEAVIES
LONDON, April 4 (U. P.).—More than 1000 heavy bombers of the U. 8. 8th air force, ‘escorted by 850 fighters, raided Germany today. -At least half concentrated on the German submarine base of Kiel. Other forces of the heavy bomber eommand hit submarine bases at Hamburg and nearby airfields for the second straight day.
HURLEY STOPS OFF
LONDON, April 4 (U, P.)—~Maj. Gen. Patrick Hurley, American ambassador to China, arrived from the United States by air today on his way "to Chungking. He will confer with British officials on American and British policy in China and war plans for the Far East,
REPORTED SEEING HITLER LONDON, April 4 (U, P.).~The Brussels radio said today, that Baldur von Schirach and other Viennese Nazi leaders had left the Austrian capital and had gone to Hitler's headquarters. ws
‘7053 “PLANES IN MARCH WASHINGTON, Apil 4 (U.P.).— March aircraft production total 7053 planes and included 2544 bomb ers, War Production - Chief J.. .
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Krug reported today. ~
TIMES INDEX
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Vinson O. K.'d By ¥Yoice Vote
WASHINGTON, April4 (U.P). —The senate by voice vote today unanimously approved the nomination of Fred M. Vinson to be director of war mobilization and reconversion. The nomination was approve on motion of senate pr c Leader Albey W. Barkley. (Ky.). © Vinson was nominated Monday. at ‘the ‘same time that James F. Byrnes’ resignation was announced.
BULLETS SING IN WILD CHASE!
Escaped Youth Caught in Car Hit by 14 Slugs.
An 18-year-old youth was -captured by police last night after the {ear he was driving was riddled with | 14 bullets and chased for miles over city streets and country roads. Driver of the pursued car was Robert Eugene : Lee, 830 Cedar st., who escaped from the Pendleton reformatory Saturday. He was serving a 1-to-10-year term for vehicle theft. Fourteen police cars joined in the % chase, which began at Laure] and Robert Lee Prospect sts. and ended at 50th st. and College ave. at about 8:30 p. m. The car, owned by George C. Mercer, 32 E. 52d st., and stolen from a parking lot at 1 N. Capitol ave. Monday night, was brought to a halt when a front tire blew out. Radio Patrolmen Chester Sturgeon and Prancis J. Schmidt were responsible for the capture. When Lee was first seen at
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SHE-HOBOES POSE PROBLEM TO CHIEF
Back to Kitchen.
Bearing his . ever-bulging briefcase and ever-sparkling gift of gab, Jeff Davis, king of the hoboes and crown prince of ballyhoo, hit town today with his annual incorporation report-and a problem. The problem: How to make 40.000 “hoboettes, trampettes and Bumettes” go back to the kitchens and stay put after the war. Jeff says women have obtained their “absolute ultimate” in independence during the war, Not only do they wear overalls, chew and rivet. They also thumb ri hop freights and as a consequence have been admitted to his Hoboes of America. “We don’t like it necessarily,” Jeft conceded, “but it’s our duty to pro ‘tect the interests of the boes and
7|if*wogyen are hoes they're gonna get
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the importasit job of running a war to answer each * one, even if it means working ‘an extra hour at night.
Mary Louise Koehnen, Dayton, O., who is ione of his “adopted” him when she read in the papers that “we should adopt boys in the service.” Because of the thousands of
steady correspondents like
requests for autothen was the time to make
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Report Revolt In Vienna As Reds Storm City
RED FLANKING COLUMN SEALS OFF CAPITAL
Stockholm Tells of Germans Throwing Up Barricades To Fight Rebellion.
By ROBERT MUSEL Jnited Press Staff Correspondent .
“LONDON, April 4. — The Red army smashed into the outskirts of Vienna today
and word reached Stockhélm|
that civil war had broken out
Officer Overpowers Despite Wounds. |
ANDERSON, Ind, April 4 (U. P.).—Turnkey Perry Hoffmaid, reeling from & blow over ‘the head and several stab wounds, overpowered one desperate ex-convict in“hand-to-hand combat today while two other prisoners escaped from the Madison county jail The two who fled were Danny O'Brien, 22, Elwood, and Kelso Bowers, 23, Bloomington. Both exconvicts were being held pending
ton reformatory as parole violators. Harry Mintor, Marion, who has spent 19 of the last 21 years behind bars, was subdued by Hoffman. Mintor, wielding a crude knife fashioned from a nail and a sparerib bone, stabbed Hoffman several times, Deputy Sheriff George W. Warfield said. One of Mintor's [fompanions broke a soda pop bottle over the turnkey's head. While Hoffman and Minfor wrestled, O'Brien and Bowers sprinted down the hall and kicked outa window in the turnkey’s office.
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THOUSANDS FLEE LOUISIANA FLOOD
Mississippi Overflowing for + 1550 Miles.
By UNITED PRESS The Mississippi river, at flood stage along a 1550-mile course from Iowa to the gulf of Mexico, added a new threat to Louisiana today. The river, fed by flooding Red, Black, Ouachita, Tensas and Little rivers and scores of smaller streams, already had forced more than 10,000 from their homes in Louisiana. Thousands more were to be evacuated today. Red Cross rescue crews were sent from Atlanta, and every levee board in Louisian was alerted and levees everywhere were being patroled. Prisoners of war, soldiers, engineers, state guards and civilians worked together sandbagging levees where
lin the Austrian capital. One,
| Slovakian capital of Bratislava, 30
Russian siege forces were storming the barricades of Vienna. The German high command conceded that other Soviet flanking forces had pushed beyond Baden, 12 miles south of the capital, sealing off the city . from- the south. A Germari military Spokesman said at, least two strong Soviet armies had been thrown into the offensive against Vienna and the
miles to the east. “"7 Fighting Inside City Stockholm reports said fighting
was going on in the heart of Vienna |
THIET a - rebeliion against the Ser-+
man garrison, which now was being | assaulted from both front and rea The reports said the Nazis were throwing up barricades in the streets. A. B. B. C. broadcast said the Russians. already can see fires burning in the center of Vienna. German broadcasts said Soviet bombers and fighters were flying over Vienna. The official Russian army organ Red Star reported Marshal Feodor | I. Tolbukhin’s 3d Ukrainian army group punched into the outer city | limits of Vienna from Velm, six miles to-the south.
In Bratislava Outskirts
The 2d Ukrainian army group under Marshal Rodion Y. Malinovsky was approaching Bruck, 20 miles southeast of Vienna, after crashing through the Bratislava gap in a companion-advance, Red Star said. Malinovsky’'s. forces also were fighting in the outskirts of Bratislava, capital of the German puppet state of Slovakia and 30 miles east of Vienna, The 3d army group closed in on Vienna from the south and southeast along -a 25-mile front after toppling Wiener Neustadt, one of Germany's biggest aircraft manufacturing centers 23 miles below the Austrian capital, German Front Split The advance also won control of a 32-mile stretch of the ViennaVenice railway, thus splitting the German front in southern Europe. Malinovsky’s reported push to the approaches of Bruck carried entirely through the Bratislava gap between the Danube river and Lake Neusiedler and deeply outflanked Britislaya itself, 17 miles northéast
weak" spots were reported.
By DANIEL M. KIDNEY Times Staff Writer WASHINGTON, April 4.—Booth Tarkington, , Pulitzer prize winning, Indiana author, suggested today that “unconditional surrender” be exacted from Nazi leaders so that they cannot escape the blame for the war. Writing in the current publication of the Society For the Prevention of ‘World War III, Mr, Tarkington said he got this idea from a member of the united nations underground. 4 “The united nations,” 1 he {oars “must not accept unconditional surrender from any Germans except certified Nazi party. Henbere. “When
Tarkington: 'We Mustn't Let Nazis Escape War Blame'
of Bruck.
the basis for her subsequent con= viction that she was not beaten but merely betrayed into peace. ¥THis time everyone in the world must know that as the Nazi party began the war, so it was the Nazi party that surrendered.” ‘As to whether the Nazis ever will surrender, Mr. Tarkington wrote:
ender and allied occuDe Nazis should be compelled to continue the wearing of the swastika. “The swastika must not be forbiaden or made into a symbol of
herole Jacobitism. It must not go) Eorgund; 1t must be:
the badge
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aa a ama RE ; > 3 i p= ee oo a mes : . The Germans face a three-way cut on the Western front as &%n. Montgomery slashes north to fsolate
the Netherlands.
Gen. Patton streaks fdr
the Czech border, and hea
ds toward Berlin. The Russians are
on the outskirts of Vienna after Spring the Wiener-Neustadt Messerschmidt assembly plant.
OKINAWA GAINS ‘ARE-CONTINUING-
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‘Troops in Striking Distance Of 2 More Airfields.
By UNITED PRESS American assault forces scored new gains on Okinawa today as the (Pacific's greatest invasion moved into its fourth day. Columns of the 10th army drive down the west and east coasts to within striking distance‘of two more Japanese ~airfield§ and only six miles from the island capital, Naha. The Japanese still had failed to offer more than light resistance but there were indications the enemy garrison of 60,000 was preparing to make a stand soon across the narrow isthmus above the capital, American forces were under orders to keep driving ahead at all
By UNITED PRESS Radio Tokyo said today that a large British fleet, including seven aircraft carriers, was massing in the Indian ocean for a simultaneous invasion of islands off the Malay peninsula, Sumatra, Burma and southern Thailand.
possible speed in the attempt to break through the narrow isthmus. “We can't kill Japs standing still,” Maj. Gen. John R, Hodge told his fleld commanders, Push Across Island At the northern end of the front, marines pushed across the island to the east coast in advances up| to three and a half miles. Big guns of the 1400-ship invasion fleet and carrier planes supported the ground forces on Okinawa and blasted other islands in the Ryukyu chain, Unloading of supplies contained “satisfactorily,” a communique" ‘said, It reported 11 ‘counter-attacking Japanese planes had been shot down It was disclosed that in the past two days of pre-invasion bombardment, carrier planes destroyed or damaged 39 Japanese ships and 41 enemy aircraft, Seized Two More Islands
In the Philippines, American rassault forces outflanked the Sulu archipelago with a 200-mile amphibious jump and seized two more
the south end of the group.
The. thryst gave the Americans |
control of the Japanese naval base
and rubber center of Borneo.
An Unexpected
Easter Present——
Few Casualties
BY ERNIE PYLE Times War Correspondent WITH THE MARINES ON OKINAWA BEACHHEAD (By Navy Radio). —You wouldn't believe it. And we don't either. It just can't be true, And yet it is true
The regiment of marines that I |
am with landed this morning on the beaches of Okinawa and were absolutely unopposed, which is indeed an odd experiénce for a marine. Nobody among us had dreamed of such a thing. We all thought there would be slaughter on the beaches. There was some opposition to the right and to the left of us, but on our beach, nothing, absolutely nothing. * We don’t expect this-to con-
tinue, of course. A marine doesn't ./til in June the mavy’s calls will be crossed
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Hoosier Heroes—
THREE LOCAL MEN KILLED IN- ACTION
Marine Dies on Iwo Jima; Five Are Wounded.
One more Indianapolis marine has lost his life on Iwo Jima. An{other, listed as missing since the! Saipan invasion, is reported dead in today's casualty lists. An infantryman has been killed in Ger-
{Erne ON OKINAWA— NAVY REDUCES
DRAFT. CALLS
Lower iorand 4 for Pacific. Replacements Factor.
| WASHINGTON, April 4 (U. P).— |The navy department said today it| is cutting down on its calls for | men through selective service |. It "is. explained that this was {being “done so that it will not go {beyond its. authorized strength. of 13,600,000 by July 1. L Two factors are understood to be {responsible for the reduction. First | |is the satisfactory progress of the | {war in the Pacific with a resultant {smaller demand for replacements! than had been expected. The other | [is that voluntary enlistments of! | 17-year-olds are coming along at a | high rate { ‘The reduction will be gradual un-|
| GERMANY, April 4
|
50 per cent below the 35,000 monthly |average. These cuts, it was estimated, will {result in a reduction of about 10 {per cent in the total calls by se- | lective service. These have aver{aged about 135.000 a month. Thus the army will have a slightly larger pool from which it can draw the men it needs,
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R. HIGGINBOTHAM | United Press Staff Correspondent | LONDON, April 4.—A Stockholm! dispatch of doubtful authenticity
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‘THIRD REACHES
'WERRA RIVER, NEAR ERFURT
Race Ahead Broad Road in Drive To Join Russians.
By BOYD D. LEWIS United Press Staff Correspondent
PARIS, April 4 (U. P.).— American 3d army closed today on the
on
‘Saxon stronghold of Erfurt, 130 miles southwest of the (German capital.
The mile-an-hour drive was designed to link up with the Red
(army and cut the main Nazi escape iroads .into the Bavarian mountains,
Striking squarely into the center ‘of * Germany, Lt. Gen. George §. | Patton's 3d~army tanks broke loose ion jhe broad Frenkiurt-Leipzigs: ‘Dresden super-highway less thas - 180 miles from the Wést-bound Rustsians. Other tank spearheads south plunged ahead to the Werra river line only 65 miles from the BoFtiikestern corner of Czechoslo~
good reports said American col"ums on the super- -highway were
S. 9TH ‘ARMY ™ (U, P= Nims army headquarters spokesn said today there was a slim
WITH U.
Dossibility that Field Marshal Al-
bert Kesselring, German commander in, the west, might be among the enemy troops trapped in the Ruhr basin.
| within six miles of Erfurt and 19
miles west of Weimar after a 23mile advance that by-passed the hedge-hog position at | Eisenach and broke into Gotha, 13 miles west of Erfurt, British Cross Canals Patton's explosive bredkthrough threatened the entire center of a German battle line already shaken by allied’ victories in the north and south. British 2d army troops advancing toward the German North sea coast the Dortmund-Ems and Ems-Weser canals at points about 60 miles from the Ems river estuary fand 53 miles southeast of Bremen. Canadian forces on their seized an 1l-mile stretch of, the lower Rhine bank and were reported in and beyond Arnhem, threatening momentarily to break through to the Zuider Zee and split the re{maining German divisions in Hol { land. German spokesmen said American 9th army forces on the British right flank had advanced almost 25 miles northeast of Bielefeld and were ap-
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‘Nazis Fear ti-Hitler Coup’
Other arrests were made through Germany and guards were doubled, then tripled at Adolf Hitler’s mountain retreat at Berchtes-
Pfc. Robert B. Ritterskamp, 1426 said today that the Gestapo had gaden, the dispatch said.
Sturm ave, on Iwo Jima Cpl. Raymond Brown, ginia ave, on Saipan. Pvt. Robert L. Logan, Emerson ave, in Germany. MISSING
Pvt. Wallace R.. (Bob) Steward, 805 N. Keystone ave. in Germany. ! > WOUNDED
Pfc. James D, Scott, 604 - Edgehill st, in Germany, Pfc. Charles Shirley, 2005 Carson ave, in. France. | Pfc. Raymiond Mogle, 824 Coffey st, in- Germany, Lt. Robert A. Hendrickson -Jr.; 30 E. 57th st, in Germany. T. 5th Gr Edwin A, Hendrickson, 30 E. 57th st. in Germany, PRISONERS
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hy Be sgt. James H. Cloyd, 1306 "| Wright st., of Germany.
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| discovered plans for a new antiHitler coup in Germany. An uncredited dispatch in the] Stockholm newspaper Tidningen
|sald Marshal Karl von Rundstedt,
| deposed German commander on the | Western front, was executed’ by a | firing squad folowing exposure of | the plot.
The plot, reminiscent of the attempt in which Hitler was wounded last June, was said to have called for co-ofdinated attacks on the Fuehrer's headquarters, presumably near Berlin, and on Berchtesgaden. Parachutists were to have car-
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WESTERN, FRONT Third army sweeps through central Germany | toward Erfurt, 130 miles from Berlin, “|EASTERN FRONT — Red army columns break into outskirts off Vienna. y
(April 4, 1945) Eh
- On the War: Fronts
salt forces seize twe more islands in Philippines, AIR WAR-S:American heavy bombs “gts and ‘escort of 850 fighters attack German submarine bases
of Kiel Toke Sa oe we.
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