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New Premier Pessimistic Over Japan's

By CHARLES ARNOT

United Press

LONDON, April 7.—Premier Adm. Baron Kantaro

Staff Correspondent

Suzuki formed a new “battle” cabinet for Japan today. The Japanese high command again was shakeneup.

And Suzuki warned the nation that the war situation “warrants not the least bit of optimism whatever for our

nation’s survival.”

The high command shakeup, announced by the Jap“in order to strengthen the defense of the Japanese mainland’ which

anese war department,

was

undertaken

icans at any time...

the Japanese nervously four may be attacked by the Amer-

It established a new overall ar my command which was

placed in the hands of Field Marshal Gen. Sugiyama, w minister in the fallen Koiso government, and Field Marshal Shunroku Hata, former commander of all Japanese

forces in China.

war

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At the same time an overall army air command was

set up under Gen. Mazakaza.

The 77-year-old Suzuki

who himself took the posts of

TANKS

~ ON BREMEN,

“HANNO

Two German Cities

As Allies Race on Through

Crumbli ng

Nazi Lines.

BULLETIN WITH 90TH INFANTRY DIVISION, April 7 (U. P.).

— American troops today pr

tured 100 tons of gold bullion—believed to be the entire |

obed into a salt mine and cap-

. gold reserve of the German reichsbank. The doughboys also captured a_ priceless collection of art treasures which had just been brought in from Berlin.

It was estimated that $

3,000,000,000 in paper marks was

in the mine as well as $2,000,000,000 in American paper

currency. Fo

By BOYD

D. LEWIS.

United Press Staff Correspondent

Radio

in 140 miles of Berlin. ‘Armored columns of the

armies were barely 10 miles from the two enemy strongholds -and advancing through disorganized opposition at a

eakthrough. The northern wing of the allied a armies was carried with-

PARIS, April 7.—Bremen and the great German : arms

sity. of. Hannover, were outflanked today in a mile- -an-hour RS 3 SELINA Ch x mys go Kis

wey

American 9th and British 2d

pace that threatened their imminent capture or envelopment. |

(Swedish dispdtches said Radio Hannover went off the

REDS FIGHTING INSIDE VIENNA

Reports Russians Near Center of City.

" LONDON, April -T (U, ‘P). — A] broadcast from Vienna said today | that the Russians had broken into | the Austrian capital and were near- | ing the center in heavy street] fighting. The rattle of gun fire punctuated the broadcast, fondon newspapers said, # There was no immediate confirmation of the report that the Russians were nearing the center of Vienna, but Moscow dispatches said the Red army was fighting for the Simmering district just inside the city limits on the southeast.

Nazi Old Guard Ordered to Make

‘Utmost Sacrifice’

BULLETIN LONDON, April 7 (U. P)~ Berlin said today that Nazi party, posts and German posts had been divorced, and consequently Nazi officials no longer

140 miles

of the 9th army's 2d armored

division leaped out in front of

the northern march on Berlin with a 19-niile dash east from their Weser river bridgehead at Hamlin. | “The Yanks captured Schulenberg, | 10 miles southeast of Hannober ani | west of Berlin, and] plunged ahead toward Brunswick, 300-odd miles away. The fall of Schulenberg, on the Leine river, outflanked the defenses of Hannover, already menaced by American and British forces swing-| Ing’ in on the city from the southwest and west, Simultaneously, British 2d army tanks stabbed north along both sides of the Weser in a virtually unopposed march on Bremen. - The Britons early today were reported 12 miles south of the port and may already have reached its outskirts.

Communications Cut The British cut direct communications between Bremen and Hannover. German spokesmen said the Tommies were on an ambitious run

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On to Berlin

The nearest distances to Berlin from advanced allied lines today:

EASTERN FRONT — 31 miles from Zaeckerick).

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Are Outflanked

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Tank-riaing doughboys

HEROIC MOTHER—

Unborn Son Sacrificed to Save Child

Times Special

BLOOMINGTON, April 7. —Mrs. Cor a Henson was recovering today in Bloomington hospital from a heart-breaking childbirth tragedy. The 32-year-old expectant | ‘mother sacrificed the life® of her unborn son to rescue another child from drowning near the Henson home on the outskirts of town. For awhile, her own life, too, hung in the balance. The baby was born two months prematurely following & Caesarean operation and died a few minutes after birth.

caused by exertion Mrs. Henson expended in pulling her stepgrandson, Mickey Petrick, 3, from | a pond March 28. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Sylvester, “neighbors of the Hensons, have launched a move through the Bloomington World-Telephone to obtain the Carnegie medal for the young wife as a token of her selfless héroism. For when Mrs. Henson gripped a sapling with: one hand and

lad with the other, she realized the risk she was taking. Four previous infants had died at childbirth. “But she just didn't think shout Eos mushand, he

‘= n A SET of Hiplees had succumbed four years ago. Another baby died after taking its first few breaths a year later. A- steel planer in a local war plant, Mr. Henson said his wife, in her bereavement, was particularly. distraught over the fact that ‘she’ had been too ill to see her son. Eg Taz >vzied this week inthe family plot in Cloverdale cemetery -near four other ung gravestories. “We hadn't decided on a name for the little fellow, but Cora

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COLLECTION OF TIN T0 START MONDAY

City Is Divided Into Four Zones for Campaign.

The city’s first monthly tin drive will begin Monday, the Marion county salvage committee and Indianapolis Junior Chamber of Commerce, co-sponsors, reminded householders today, Curb collections will be held f'n the area north of 16th st. and west of Meridian st. Monday, north of 16th st. and east of Meridian st. Tuesday, south of 16th st. and east of Meridian st. Wednesday and south of 16th st. and west of Meridian st. Thursday, City trucks will make the elockwise salvage collection. Cans must be ‘washed of paper, both ends cut out and squashed.

reached out toward the drowning .

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ESCORTED BY YANK FIGHTER |

a | ” = o PHYSICIANS said the early { birth and subsequent death were

‘Biggest U. S. Land-Based Armada Strikes at Jap Factories.

By LISLE SHOEMAKER United Press Staff Correspondent

GUAM, . April 7.—An estimated 400 Superfortresses—

tang - fighters—poured dreds of tons of demolition |

bombs on the Musashina and | Mitsubishi aircraft engine plants| on’ the island of" Honshu today. i pra Phe air armada was the largest land-based force to hit the enemy | homeland. This was the first time | that fighters had teamed with the | giant B-29’s for a double attack on| targets on Honshu. ! The escorting Mustangs shot down 21 enemy -fighters, probably | destroyed six more,. and damaged 10. Two American fighters were | st but one pilot was rescued. ls

Based. yon; Amp, Jima’; MLL

~The. fighters came from newly acquired bases on Iwo Jima, 738) miles south of Tokyo. They have been in action “previously against targets in the nearby Bonins, but this was the first time they had appeared over the Jp .| home islands. The planes Passed. over the Musashina factory at Nakajima near Tokyo and the Mitsubishi plant at Nagoya a few hours before noon. Early reports indicated the weather was clear enough to permit visual bombing from a medium height,

Big Engine Plants

These factories “account for roughly three-fourths of the production of Japanese combat aircraft engines. They have been the targets of several previous raids by Superforts. Serious damage to them would badly cripple enemy. aircraft production. Tokyo radio said 40 of the Mustangs bombed -and-strafed western Tokyo and the nearby port of Yokohama, The assault marked the opening of a new phase of the air offensive against Japan. With fighter protection, the Superfortresses can drop theéir cargoes of fire and demolition bombs from lower altitudes with. much less chance of interception.

escorted by long-range Mus-| hun-|-

premier, foreign minister and Greater East Asia minister in the new government declared. that:

“The enemy have now fely established on our homeland.” His reference was to the Amar ican foothold on Oki-

nawa.

Offe ering himself to die in batle, if necessary, he declareds “The present war, which Js fought for the very ex18tence of our empire, has come to the most important

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Nhe sign says have one or give one. But customers of Everet Regnier’s- Dearborn market,

and E. Washington sts, give and don’t take. Lion. Respital... Here Mrs, Shotts Strange,

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crucial stage, which warrai mism whatever for our “If the situation contin nation’s existence might be

S Survival’

its not the least bit of opti-

nation’s survival,

ues like this the basis of oir threatened.

“The resisting power to destroy the arch enemy and

thereby protect our own f in the sincerity shown to th “Now, 100,000,000 people of Japan

atherland can only be found e throne by the entire nation.

Japanese, and ‘only now is the time for the

to rise as one to defend-the:

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JAP SUPER-BATTLESHIP IS SUNK. 8 OTHER WAR VESSELS BLASTED

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The cigarets are for the men of the Veterans’ Administra-

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A Weekly Sizeup by the Washington Staff of the Scripps-Howard Newspapers

WASHINGTON, April 7.—~What next in the Pacific? Joint chiefs of staff haven't decided, unless events of the last 24 hours jelled their thinking. With Okinawa, we'll have a strangle hold on Jap commerce, won't have to bother about Formosa, or anything south of there, So: 1. Shall our forces make a strike for the China coast, in the area of a large port? 2. Or shall our forces head straight for the Japanese homeland? The first alternative involves a long campaign: the second a bloody one. Iwo Jima proved that, on their islands, the Japs will fight even more fanatically than elsewhere. But if our leaders decide to pay the price, one school of ‘thought here believes this is the quickest way to win—quickest by years, perhaps. The ehoice must be made soon, Okinawarfighting' should end early in May. The island is big, heavily garrisoned, and has a large civilian population, but our people would be satisfied with only half of it. The other half’'s mountainous, couldn't be used, and Japs remaining there could be left to starve. Note: Den't do any heavy betting about our next. move. Chances

perhaps

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«(IRATE DOG LOVERS ~ SEEKING POISONER

One Indianapolis man has been PRISONERS : ir mi ny and (wo others | 1 yy Gr. Lewis Wheaton, 120 Most of Fruit Escapes ar are prisoners of the local N. Alabama st., of Germany. Frost Damage.

Hoosier Heroes: One Dead, 2 Missing and 8 Imprisoned

of 20 Pets D Pets Die in One; ueq in

port, of Germany.

Pfe, Roger L. Alvis, 3030 E. 10th]. ga. m..... 42 10am... 55 st., of Germany. Tam. >. 43 11a. m.....58 Pvt, Frank Del Vecchio, 2022 Mc-| 8a. m...,. 45 '12 (Noonm).. 61 Pherson st., of Germany, 2a.m..... 49 “1p. m...% 62

Illinois st., of Germany,

ford st. of Germany. .

Moscow reported from Kosice toHE ory of {day that President Eduard Benes since.they captured of Czechoslovakia had appointed a battleship could not | new cabinet headed by Walter Fir-| linger, former Ambassador

WEATHER OUTLOOK: A MILD WEEK-END

8. Sgt. Everett K. Grogg, Bridge- ; LOCAL TEMPERATURES

T, 5th Gr. Oran W. Ford, 2306 N. Indiaxiapolis was assured of a “fair

and mild” week-end today by the weatherman. At the same time, the dispositions of Hoosier fruit tree-growers waxed sunnier by the hour after a checkup showed that Friday's low temperatures failed to faze most of the crop. The local forecast was: Fair and mild today, tonight and tomorrow; (|showers likely by Monday miglit. On the orchard front, it was learned that damage this week confined chiefly to low areas, where the loss was heavy. But the ‘majority

Pvt. John M. Griffin, 317 N. Ox-

George N. McKinney, 1538 ave, of Germany, John C. Ambuhl, 1817 N. e 83k, of Germany.

ABINET FOR CZECHS iy April 7 (U. P.).—Radio

J souri-Kansas-Texas

| Few Are Taken: Jar Filled for “Vets Instead |

THERE ARE free cigarets at | the Dearborn market, Dearborn and E. Washington sts. one is taking them. So don't rush, folks, Everet Regnier. proprietor, only. wants see if you have an extra fag or two. Like all shortage-weary' store owners whe used to deal in and row dole out the weeds, he got tired of the question, “You got any cigarets?” So about two weeks ago he set a gallon jar on his counter with three cigarets in it. ‘The sign | said: “If yoti're out of smokes have one, or if vou have an extra, put one Jin for the person who has none.’

» » » “THE GOOD that is in all men” came out. So did their cigarets, Gradually the jar filled, Then _ someone got “suspicious”

of Mr, Regnier, “And what are you going to do

with the jar when it's full?” the individual asked. That wa& a poser. Mr Regnier hadn't thought of that. He replied:

“I think it

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CONTEST RAIL CONTROL ST. LOUIS, Mo., April 7 (U. P). — A stockholders meeting of the Misrailroad; with | two factions fighting bitterly to gain | control, Monday.

WASHINGTON, April 7. (U. P).— LAn official navy spokesman said

| today that more than a fourth of |

the remaining Japanese fleet was destroyed in yesterday's battle off southern Japan. Six Japanese ships—including the super- battleship Yamato and two cruiSers—were sunk.

of orchards Jn the major fruit-pro-ducing districts: were described as little, hurt, pt ""Horticulturists at Purdie uni. |

to Rusa comet To com |

‘ What still remains, the spokes-! man said, constitutes a “not-so- | powerful task foree which could be Sally handled” by ahyone of the . 8, fleet's major task forees.

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Record B-29 Fleet Bombs Japanese (ities

YAMATO GOES DOWN IN BIG SEA VICTORY

391 Foe Planes Wrecked Off Okinawa; Three U. S. Destroyers Lost.

By FRANK TREMAINE United Press Staff Correspondent

GUAM, April 7. — Adm. : |Chester W. Nimitz today an- | nounced Japan had lost the | most powerful dreadnaught left in her battered fleet—the {40,000-t on super -battleship, Yamato, Eight other vari ‘were sunk

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stem the American invasion of Oki nawa.,

“American losses were, three de- | stroyers sunk, ; several destroyers {and smaller craft damaged, and ‘| seven planes shot down. “ In addition to the’ Yamato, thie

| Japanese lost a light. cruiser of the + BOBQu ton... Bory 35 a : order avid ree GesToyerS: “Three ‘other destroyers were left burning. Their air losses included: 116 planes lost to American fighters jis anti-aircraft in a Japanese attack April 6 on shore installations land ships off Okinawa: 245 planes {shot down by fleet carrier fighters {in the same action; 30 Japanese | planes shot down April 7, the day jon which the Japanese fleet losses [were inflicted. Hit by Eight Torpedoes The Yamato sank after being hi by at least eight torpedoes launched {by torpedo aircraft, and eight heavy bombs, in addition to strafing by (rocket and machine- -gun fire, | Adm. Nimitz revealed that the |blow to the desperate Japanese was {once again inflicted by the fast {carrier force of Vice Adm. Mare | A. Mitscher. | The Yamato, Adm. Nimitz said, {was the most powerful battleship {left in the Japanese fleet. Tt Prob=— lably was Japan's newest dread- { naught, laid down in 1938 or 1939,

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April 7, 1945

{ WESTERN FRONT — British 2d and American 9th armies 10 miles from Bremen and Hannover; both cities outflanked. [EASTERN FRONT-Russian forces reported battling in streets eof Vienna,

{ PACIFIC—Jap super- battleship and five other warships sunk in air-sea battle off Okinawa; B-29's and 7th air force fighters join in attack on Tokyo and Nagoya: American troops continue gains on Okinawa.

ATR WAR — American bombers at-

tack Germany again,

[ITALY — Pifth army captures Mt: Folgorito and drives toward Spezia.

4th of Remaining Jap Fleet Wrecked in Okinawa Battle

the Japanese force—all high i vessels—made it obvious the 4 was trying to pull off a sneak 1 on our ships off Qkinawa.. awe They didn't get away with added, because we have Japanese fleet unden. si all times. He said our aireral subinarines keep a constant + on the enem yships “holed 8 vp homeland ports. The Japanese fleet may have found the . inland.» sea. of

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