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Defense to Claim Shooting Was Accidental.

The state continued its testimony today in the first-degree murder trial of William J. Mersing, former

bartender; charged with the shotgun slaying of Cpl: Alfred Arpin in January, 1944. It was expected that the defense would place the defendant upon the witness stand as soon as the state concludes its case late today. John O. Lewis and William Zilson, defense attorneys, said they would call approximately 10 witnesses to prove that Mersing shot the Camp Atterbury soldier accidentally, The all-woman jury heard further details of the slaying Jan. 28 1944, with ‘the testimony of Deputy Coroner John Deevers and police officers, Soldier Found Dead The 25-year-old soldier was found by police shot to death in the apartment of Miss Louise Wilson, 612 N. Delaware st. Defense attorneys indicated they would Introduce evidence that Mersing went to Miss Wilson's apartment the night of the murder to return ‘a shotgun she had previously given to him. . It will be contended that the weapon was dis-

through the apartment door. A newspaper reporter, Farwell Rhodes, was a principal state witness yesterday. He said that Mersing surrendered himself at the press room at police headquarters about midnight Jan -28. Mr. Rhodes

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Four Hoosier soldiers,’ Tokyo bound aboard power shovels, bulldozers and caterpillars, are less than 1500 miles from their goal. They are members of an aviation engineer battalion speeding additional facilities at a Superfort base in the Marianas. Left to right are T, 4th Gr. George Hahn and T. 5th Gr. Frank Messenger, both of Indianapolis; Cpl. Harrel Hale, Dugger, and 8. Sgt. Roy Ingersoll, Indianapolis. ‘ *

German Civilians Learning

About War the Hard Way

By W. R. HIGGINBOTHAM United Press Staff Correspondent LONDON, April 5—A Nazi broadcast said today that Adolf Hitler, in his first’ public utterance since the allied breakthrough in the west, appealed to German soldiers to hold firm until a pew’ German offensive is launched. Hitler made the appeal a few days ago while addressing an army unit which had distinguished itself on the eastern front, a brief broadcast by the German Westphalian station said. The address presumably was intended to raise Nazi hopes of a German offensive such as broke through the allied lines in Belgium and Luxembourg last December and delayed the American-British push aeross the Rhine, “ Report Hostages Held * European reports said Hitler was

By ANN STRINGER United Press Staff Correspondent SCHERFEDE, Germany, April 3 (Delayed).—Until last night this little village nestled in a pine forest didn't know what war meant, It knows now. It learned the hard way. That young woman coming down the street knows about war now, She is pushing a baby buggy. In it "a little girl, about 18 months old. She lies still in the buggy. “One side of the pink blanket wrapped around the baby is wet with blood. The weeping mother pushes the buggy to an American aid station. They dress the gaping wound in the child's leg. That's all they can do. They tell her the best thihg is to take the baby home and call in a German doctor. . Qur doctors have

had no possible chance. We asked | them to surrender and, save their town, { Lying on Grenade

out. But the troops stayed.” When the deadline came, artillery turned loose on the village. | Today many houses Ife crumpled | in the streets. Four milk cows’ lie] dead. Twenty-two captured S. S.| men in black leather togs are being marched away. | In a little valley nearby wounded elite

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lying on a grenade.” They'd go al-| most anywhere to help the wounded, | even a Nazi: But they are not|

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believed to have moved every prominent allied personage in German hands into a “last-stand zone”

{around. Berchtesgaden where they “Some of the civilians did come|will be used as hostages to bargain|

for the lives of Nazi crimnials, Among those shifted to hideouts

{in the Bavarian Alps, the London

Daily Herald said, were reported to

be King Leopold of Belgium, for-!

mer French. Premier Paul Reynaud,

premier of Austria. The Herald suggested that Hitler

bers of the Nazi gang were granted amnesty. Frontier reports claimed Hitler

foolish enough to walk up to a | himself already had retired from lh wounded German lying on a gre-|his headquarters outside Berlin to| Evansville ....

Berchtesgaden,

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES . Report Hitler Urges Troops _...To:Hold for Big New Push

and violent, screaming attacks of rage. - ? Anagther Daily Mail dispatch, this one from Stockholm, said . Nazi Propaganda Minister Paul Joseph Goebbels was injured when the automobile in which he was riding last Saturday near Berlin crashed into the rear of another in which assassins killed two gestapo guards and their chauffeur. ? The dispatch speculated that the assassins had been gunning for Goebbels, but halted the wrong car in error. Reliable sources last night identi fied the Gauleiter Greiser, who the Soviet War News said had been captured by the Red army at Poznan, as actually Arthur. Greiser, Nazi oVerlord of the Poznon district and one of the most detested of the Nazi war criminals. Ranked Next to Hess : Greiser ranks next to Rudolf Hess, former deputy fuehrer of Germany and now in British hands, as the highest German war criminal yet captured,

| OFFICIAL WEATHER

——eeU. 8. Weather Bureau—— | (All Data in Central War Time) | April 5, 1945 Sunrise 6:22 | Sunset 9

The following table shows the highest temperatures for 12 hours ending at 7:30 ip. m. vesterday and the lowest tempera-

guard. = Through |was planning to threaten to kill | {ures for 12 hours ending at 7:30 a. m.|2 p. m. tomorrow. in the Conkle | < : {ed £ 3 it Hs ! their glasses our doctors saw he was | these hostages unless he and mem-| Sgn

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LUNOIS TO TRY _ 3 LOCAL BANDITS

“““Thrée Indianapolis bandits, including a 17-year-old: youth, who launched a minor crime wave in Indiana and Illinois, will not be returned to the state for prosecu- | tion, Col. Austin R.- Killian said today. Instead, they will be tried in Illinois on a charge of staging a $20,000 holdup of the First National bank in Greenville, the state police superintendent said. The trio, trapped after a gun battle with a posse Friday in Ili‘nois, admitted to. Indiana state police the following Indiana robberjes: , The People's Loan Co. at Shelbyville, the Ladoga Building and Loan association at Ladoga; a drug store here at 21st and Illinois sts, a Noblesville newspaper office. They also confessed to the theft of a number of automobiles in Indianapolis and vicinity, police said. Police said the bandits started from 1628 N. Meridian st, home of the youngest member of the trio, Raymond J. Boos, 17. The others

13 ) . | Precipitation 24 hrs, ending 7:30 a. m. 04 | | Jakob Stalin, son of Premier Stalin, | Total precibitasion, since Jan, 1

‘and Kurt von Schuschnigg, former 2xcess since Jan. :

are Stanley‘ B. ‘Singer, 31, and | Charles Fauls, 26.

"BOUCHER: SERVICES

| SET FOR TOMORROW

Services for George W. Boucher, |

| 287 N. Lynn ave, who died yester~ | day in City hospital, will be held at

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From-Hunge TRICE TE pA vow By ROBERT. W. RICHARDS United Press Stal Correspondent WITH U. 8. 3D ARMY, Germany, April 5.—Every time one of the huge C-47 skytrains landed at the airstrip, waiting Americans with hunger-tight * bellies and bearded faced drew a deep breath. It meant that within a few hours they would be somewhere in France —far away from the ‘Nazi prison camp at Bad Orb where 3400 had been held since last December, existing mainly on grass soup. All afternoon the big transports landed and flew off, taking ,more and more of the men to freedom. Many of the men were too weak to leave their bunks in the stinking | barracks where they had been quartered. Others mobbed jeeps

Sarah I. Boger Dies Here at 84

Mrs. Sarah Isabelle Boger died last night in the home of her. | daughter, Mrs. Lester Sanders, | 2608 Hawthorne lane, She was 84. Mrs. Boger was a member of the Baptist church and had lived with another daughter, Mrs. Noel K. Philippe, 2625 N. Arlington ave.

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| funeral home, 1934 W, Michigan st. |

i | Burial will be in Floral Park ceme- |

tery. He was 75. Survivors are two daughters, Mrs. | Hazel Broshears, Indianapolis, and {Mrs, Cora Gentry, Boonville; | three sons, Homer and John, Indi-

Ee until this year. ~ Besides the « 4{ wt r two daughters, . . survivors in- ig . clude 13 grand- Mrs. Boger children and seven great-grand-children. Services will be held at 2 p. m.

: 3400 Yank P rs o fiers. Weak . BANDITS) -

carrying corresporidents and eagerly reached for candy bars and cigarets, Most of the prisoners were G. 1.'s who had been captured during Field Marshal Karl von Rundstedt's big offensive. For months they had been forced to live on grass soup. Some chewed grass and dandelions when they were allowed in the prison yard, ate tempting to gain strength. : Definite figures were not avalle able but it was believed that ds many as 100 died from malnutrie tion and neglect: :

The prisoners managed to keep

| conditions from becoming too bad

by ‘organizing and appointing =a leader who could speak German and was able to deal with camp authore ities, * “Not Too Bad” “The German captain in charge of the camp and the prison guards were not too bad,” said the leader whose name canhot be disclosed as present. “They would have liked to help us more but there wasn's much they could do. We needed food above all else and they juss did not have it.” The men were rescued after ree connaissance ‘cars of the 2d cavalry group rode into the village Monday

(and were met by several prisoners

carrying a white flag.

NEW HONOR SOCIETY,

CHAPTER INDUCTED

Members of the Warren Central chapter of the Senior National Honor society yesterday inducted the

{newly-organized . Southport high

{school chapter. Taking part in the induction werg

{Edith Amos, Mary Jean Thomas, {Esther Pollard, Barbara Swarm, {Ellen Keever, Harold Carroll and

their hands - full with their own

A Zurich dispatch to the Lon-|Kansas City, Mo. ... wounded.

It cost the lives of many Amer- Miami, Fla

{anapolis, and Richard, Chicago, Ill. icans to teach Scherfede about war./don Daily Mail said Hitler alter-|Minneapolis-8i.

16 grandchildren and two great-

testified that after the former bartender told him he-had “just shot

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a soldier” the reporter turned over the alleged ‘killer to police officers. Quarrelled With Miss Wilson A statement made to Detective Sgt. William PF. O'Rourke also was introduced. Deputy Prosecutor John Miller read the statement to

Lesson in War They hate the idea of having to send the baby away, but what could they do? Here's how the baby’s mother and her fellow-citizens of Scherfede learned about war. Last night American infantry

But: it cost German lives, too.

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the jury, establishing that the alleged killer had quarrelled with Miss Wilson a couple of months previoys to the slaying. Mersing, the statement said, made | numerous trips to her home to.return the shotgun. It further stated

that the defendant went to . the apartment Jan. 28, saying to Miss Wilson, “Here's your —— shotgun.” | The weapon was discharged accidentally, the statement said, killing | the corporal who was inside the apartment.

SP ——————————————— PITCH-IN SCHEDULED Myrtle Temple No. 7, Pythian | Sisters, will have a pitch-in dinner |

and party at 6 p. m. tomorrow at 29 8. Delaware st,

———— TWO O. E. 8. GROUPS MEET Prospect O. E. 8S. auxiliary - will |

meet at 2 p. m. tomorrow and | quilters will meet at 10 a. m. |

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approached the village. They knew German troops; elite guards at that, were hiding there and waiting for them. So, as Sgt. Donald R. Weishaupt of Panama, Okla. relates it: “We set up a loud speaker system. We told the citizens in both German and English that we had them surrounded. We told them they

ROCKNE’S SON HELD IN BAD CHECK CASE

LOS ANGELES, April § (U. P.) — William D. Rockne, 30-year-old son of the late football coach Knute Rockne, today faced charges of issuing worthless checks. Rockne, who was returned here from Winslow, Ariz, on a warrant, told police he had been drinking and “wanted time to think about everything.” .- Authorities said he casher worthless checks totalling $275 at local hotels. r : A

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