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

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are everything possible will be done to confuse you—and the enemy. This is one more point in the war Where surprise is important. a 5» an 8

‘Jap Water Rats' Damage Ships : PRE-LANDING and landing operations ‘at Okinawa and the two neighboring islands were not without damage to some of our shi Pe Jap water rats” helped do this damage. The Japs have their counterparts of our P. E. boats, iittle vessels carrying torpedoes. = o = = » a V-E day has come and gone. : That's the way they're saying it here which may last 60 days or more. Ancther way of putting it: strategically; remainder of the | war in Europe is a tactical job. agencies. Fred Vinson took Desire Americans to cele- | over that he found that brate has been cooled, anyway, | RFC is governed by a board by army announcement that | directors hand-picked by Jones, armies in Europe would be moved | and that¥t merous. govern. at once to the Pacific War. ment corporations - have boards ¥ nq. . 4 | selected by RFC directors—in' most INFORMED SOURCES here | coc thev*themselves serve. don't expect much ‘movement on’'| “ppc directors were confirmed the Russian front closest to Berlin fy’ py conate: stay in office until until the fimal collapse’ of the 1947. Jones told them to stay on Germany. army; expect our forces | iy. yop. vinsen eould have been and .the Russians to reach.Berlin out voted on all questions unless al the same time. congress had come to his as$2 2? | sistance.

Leveling Off : | # 8 WAR DEPARTMENT has | Political Notes quietly canceled construction. of | ADD POLITICS: John artillery and mortar plants which | g py on yoo sounded out Ohio ReSoul Baye ge I publicans on his chistices to beat tion before the end Of LAs YEU. | dengtor Burton for the Republican

We're now in V-E period,

We've already achieved victory

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PLANES SINK 6 JAP WARSHIPS

Super-Battleship Is Amon Okinawa Victims.

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the start of the Pacific war.” It was rated at better than 40,000 tons but the exact flgure never was known. been armed with nine 16-inch: guns and had a speed of 30 knaqts or | better. The Okinawa sea-air battle, Nimitz ‘revealed, opened yesterday,| Guam time, with a strong Japanese | air’ attack ' launched against our] forces on Okinawa and the concentration of ships lying off shore

tacks with desperation,” Nimitz] seid and succeeded in sinking three | U..8. destroyers and damaging sev-| oral other smaller craft, But they

and probably commissioned after

It was supposed to.shave|

Reds’ Breach of Jap Pact Raises Conference Hopes|

(Continued From Page One) A conclave-of free nations on the {Pacific shores of the United States

action, a 16ng period of tenslon or 5 gimost oriental in its - subtlety

suddén= hostilities, it still has kin-! and placing. dled a flame of hope. It has elec)’ With Germany sliced into ribtrified the home front and has [bons and Japan tottering to defeat, flashed along the fronts both in tn, gan Francisco assembly ‘takes

Europe and the Pacific, inspiring on the form of a political dagger allied troops with new courage. thriist into the enemy's heart. . - Mystery Gavé Trouble Within the next two weeks while

semi-formal and - friendly terms California, the military phases of with Japan, the unity of the allies] lthe world war will have moved with remained imperfect. Suspicions | incredible speed toward the finish. | and distrust of motives always! | clouded the plans for the future.

| first time on April 25, the work of

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ALLIES FLANK T Brothers on Ship | JAPS’ PREMIER 2 REICH CITIES

Capture of Bremen kn

Hannover Appears Near. {Continued From Page One)

to lop off the Danish peninsula with a 100-mile drive northeast So long as Russia remained on the delegates are moving’ toward Bremen to the Baltic coast at Lue-

beck.

from |

American 9th army infantrymen |

{ were rapidly moppir

mored, spearheads.

1g up by-passed |

"By the time they meet for' the German units between their ar-|

They cleaned |

The mystery surrounding Rus- | organizing a new world system also out all organized opposition along

s attitude toward our enemy of | will have been completed. on It is hoped that the financial red

habilitation of the world, outlined

sia’s [the Pacific was at the base of the! trouble

growing optimism: | seasoned observers on the fornt in Our own. Germany, such .as Willlam H. Peace Plan Imperative Stoneman, Times’ foreign corre-| The other affiliated organizations,

the west bank of th

the Hamlin bridgehead and stabbed

e Weser around |

south into the northern flank of | The historic evénts of the next lat Bretton Woods, will have been | the Ruhr trap. Soest and nearby The Japanese “pressed their at-|week should further add to the acceped by the legislative assem- | Ost Onnen were being mopped up|

Reports from | blies of the great powers, including land , the Americans were within|,

two miles northwest of Dortmund.

Over 170,000

The 9th army captured

[fatled to hit any of our larger fleet! spondent, say a juncture of Russian|such as U.N. R. R. A. will be func- [prisoners yesterday,

units. | In this battle the fleet carrier fighters had a field day, knocking

Okinawa there ac-

| fighter plane pilots on and ack-ack batteries counted for another 116. | Early today fleet air search planes! | sighted a Japanese surface fleet | which had steamed out of its refuge in the inland sea and, passing south of the main Japanese island of Kyushu, had headed into the east China sea. ! The force, possibly [fleet as the Japs could muster their all-out effort to oust us from LOkinawa, was seen to comprise the

as .strong a

for |

and American forces in Germany tioning as planned. is near.

Prisoners

17,530 and 4000 or

{more were taken by the 3d army,

As Germany and Japan bow to plus undisclosed thousands rounded |

This—combined with the renroval {the inevitable, the organization for yp py the five other aliled armies 245 Jap planes out of the sky while of the one great source of irritation, security and peace with justice will [ripping through the German de-

the Russo-Jap non-aggression pact|pe wrtder enough to start a surge af] ion -on the allied side,

way. { Argument over the conduct of] worl ld affairs, .voting procedures,

wis

{ jubilati

in the .Orient,

has been colossal, | valuable rele. in acquainting the | that

fenses.

That ran the Ger

man losses for

. {the first six days of Apri alone to Japan's 10ss of face,*>so important | or thé use of force has ‘played its| 170,000 .or more prisoners, a rate

headquarters

observers be-

On top of thé mauling by Amer- {free peoples with the nature of the [lieved might collapse the Wehr-

ican forces, this" new blow from | work to be done at San Francisco! Russia should have a decisive ef-/The argument has been heated in| fect and it will be followed by the spots and occasionally bitter but assembly of the’ free nations 10 [tha air 1s cleared. : - erect a world organization in which | Everyone knows today that any Japan will have no part. sort of a structure for world peace May Shorten War {would be better than none and that will be the spirit in which the San

German resistanc

{macht's organized resistance in the {west before the first of May.

e already was

breaking up into little more than |

guerrilla warfare at. many on the Bremen-Hannover line and {in

Holland, . where

points |

the Canadian

| fleet back into action,

| Yamato,

It's also leveling off, at the present production rate, two types of small arms ammunition. No cutbacks yet in this field, but " there’ll probably be no more increases, no more breaking of pro- | duction records. 4 Supplies to the Pacific will be doubled — approximately — when + war ends ‘in Europe, yet this will take only about 70 per cent of the supplies both wars together have been eating up. And guessing here is that Pacific war will require lighter ordnance—fewer heavier fortifications to storm.

{ has decided not to try.

| try to jockey himself into position

senatorial nomination next year, Burton | forces' say now that Bricker will for the 1948 sweep-stakes by mak=ing a comeback try for governor. .Odds. are, say Nebraska Republicans, that thrice-elected Gov=ernor Dwight Griswold will attempt to unseat Senator Butler in the party primary next year. They look for a knock-down struggle. TVA chairman Lilienthal’s archfoe, Senator Kenneth McKellar, will seek a sixth-term nomination next year, may not fight Lilien-

| cruiser, another smaller light cruiser for large destroyer and an unspeci-

From ‘the. viewpoint of its effect on the enemy countries alone, San Francisco conference may play a a great r role in. sh ortening the war. |

one Agano class light

fied number of other destroyers. Mitscher, as so many times previously, was ordered to the attack His fast carrier force charged in at high speed and by noon brought the Japanese to bay. 3 ” While the fleet planes had found the sky filled with Japanese aircraft yesterday they discovéred no Japanese planes over the fleet when! they drove in for the attack The Japanese opened ‘up with heavy anti-aircraft fire, but the American planes pressed in.

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homeland untenable because of the air raids and the constant aerial observation, the spokesman said. | “They may have been coming

the Francisco conference will begin its work

4th of intr Jap Fleet Wrecked in Okinawa Battle

{1st army virtudlly closed the last | | escape road for an estimated 50,000 | | Germans pocketed along the Dutch | coast. : The British 2d army's famed “desert rats” of the 7th armored division, who reached the western edge of the Weser valley yesterday after a two-day, 60-mile advance] from the Osnabrueck-Rheine area, . -lwheeled northward early today and “They just don't have that many piled up.another gain of perhaps destroyers to spare to screen such !'22 miles. 7 a small force,” the spokesman said.| Front dispatches said they reached If any destroyers did escape, the | appoint ° 12 miles due south of Bre- | spokesman said; they probably were {men, Germany's second seaport, and | all damaged because the fleeing Were closing swiftly on the city

right, 1945, by The Indianapolis Times rnd The Chic Chicago | Dafly News, Ine

1S PESSIMISTIC

‘Forms New ‘Battle’ Cabinet, - Shakes Up High Command.

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honorable policy of our nation, vI am firmly determined to lead

| | 4 po ji i ‘ the nation, prepared to offer my’

life itself at the Joremosy front in this task. “My sincere wish is that you, the entire nation, will do your best to set the august mind of the throne at rest in elevating’ the fighting power of the nation with the brave ery traditional to our country.” The statement was broadcast by Tokyo radio, Suzuki, in pre-war years regarded as a political moderate, chose two other admirals, a general and a group of career civil servants fo? his cabinet. Completion of the cabinet was dee layed by the American Superfore tress attack on Tokyo this morning, Domei agency said. Only two members, Navy Ministee Mitsumasa Yonal and Justice Mine ister Hiromasa ‘Matsuzaka, were ree tained from the cabinet of Gen, Kuniaki Koiso, which resigned two days ago in a storm of criticism over Japan's recent military defeats,” Named War Minister Gen. Korechika Anami, director : general of army aviation headquare old guard of the Nazis, the brown- |, was named war minister and shirts of the S. A. stormtroopers, | , Teljiro Toyada, former chief | were summoned today in the name of the navy aviation department, {of Adolf Hitler to a sacrificial de-| was given the ’ posts of munitions,

fense of Germany.. | transportation and communications Wilhelm Schepmann, 8. A. chief

XR Coast Guardsman Merrill O. Polk, quartermaster 3-¢c (left), and his brother, Fireman 1-¢ Marvin A. Polk, both of 1625 E. Kelly st, were reunited recently somewhere in the southwest Pa-

cific aboard a coastguard-manned army repair ship. The vessel on which Quartermaster Polk is stationed gets damaged units of the

‘UTMOST SACRIFICE’ REQUIRED OF NAZIS

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will hold, jobs in either national or local governmental setups.

W. R. HIGGINBOTHAM United Press Staff Correspondent LONDON, April 7 (U, P.).—The

minister.

" DEAD.On his Europe, ‘1 pleby, sor Appleby, killed Ma was servir ment of t Going « in March Anzio be: Camp Gn seas the | 1944, A grad school, T was 23, 1} Indiana 1 ployed at & Iron ( ice in Se) Survivin a sister, at Ben | grandmotl! 828 W, 31 will be he tist chur - member,

MISSIN

T. Sgt. Mrs."Matil husband « frey, Nine missing in The 27overseas service sir is a for Schwitzermember church at scouting a frey help troop 114, Central N

of staff, issued an order of the day admonishing the Browh Shirts to! {make the “utmost sacrifices” in al supreme effort to crush their enemies, not only in the homeland but “in enemy-occupied territories and everywhere.” The 11th-hour appeal was broadcast by the Berlin radio's home service in the name of Hitler,

It put on Hitler's own storm

{troopers the responsibility of sacri-

ficing everything, including their (lives if necessary, in a last ditch defense of Germany. Promotes Nazi General

Other members of the new cabe | inet, almost “all veteran career civil | servants, were: Toyosaku Hirose, finance; Kozo Ota, education; Tadahiko Okada, | welfare; Genki Abe, home affairs; Takeshige Ishiguro, agriculture and commerce, Hiroshi Shimomura, state minister and president of the [hoard of information; Seizo Sakonji and Hyogoro Sakurai, state miniss ters; Hisatune Sakomizu, chief cabe inet secretary, and Chokkyo Murase, chief of the legisaltive bureau,

‘Battle’ Government Anami, the new war minister, wag

extension sity. A broth frey, and Cook Jr, He has a 2

Pvt Jan Mrs. Bett: st., has be since Mart armored i Son of Davis, 634 went overs fore enter

4 8 = | thal's reappointment next month. NEWEST TIP on demobiliza- | : tion plans comes from statement OE A ras enthal will accept no other gov0. - ment conference. enment post. In first year after German defeat, Hines said, 1325000 new | jobs must be found for returning veterans, 880,000 must be reinstated in their old jobs, 78,000 will enter business or farming, 110,000 will resume education or get vocational training. But: The figures add up to 2.303.000, a total similar to the one Hines used in February, when ‘he got crossed up with the war hs department, Ke anxs 820 La =a DERE pour kh « said discharge rate after V- E day | too High" on that" e. would. be 200000 to 250,000 a | ration after Aghting stops in

out to go someplace else to hide,” he added.

1944, he w Four railre have four Betty Ma Philip.

PRISON Listed a: since Dec, Grogg has a prisoner son of Row Mrs.” Arth The 20-

{ships were strafed-and rocket ed by against almest non-existent opposi- The order struck an almost hystion. t

s “ terical note in appealing to the [Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Sy as rg Vi] Yamato Loss Serious But American 1st army troODS | py Shirts to “stand in the fore- [He was appointed director general yo : still. were meetingw savage and) ..t line in these grave days.” . It|of the army aviation headquarters latest battle? | Loss of the Yamato was a severelooherent opposition along the west| ... that “today more th e |and concurrently a member of the 4 Jocks ilies 3 goo 35 yer Cent blow to the enemy fleet because I unk of the Weser farther south. lnc. verve —- . on our. | Japanese supreme war council las of the Temaining naval Japanese | | was the | last really modern battle- Lt. Gen. George BS. Patton's delves Ing depends on our- | Dec. 28 1 5 . 26. W. Nimitz, announcing the battle. | t vas s " the 45 lo Amer Iowa furious Naz counter. attacks that | Hil ‘er had promoted Col. Gen. Fer. a former superintendent general of listed three Japanese destroyers class ny not as good.” The Agana jrecaptured one American<held town (dinand Yon SchoerSéF, & diehard [the Settopelitan jiclice boazg and sunk, three others damaged and tv pe cruiser sunk was one of hel threatened a second, Nazi, to the rank of field marshal | 8 veteran police official. sald that about three escaped. ov gC 0 | While Patton's far-flung tank|and given him command of the| The cabinet was Japan's third of P |latest and most modern of the | columns slowed down momentarily | E Eastern front. the war. - It was hailed in advance ; The, spokesman here expressed the Japariese cruisers. lto regroup and bring up fresh| Col, Gen. Heinz Guderian, former by-the Japanese press as & “battle” The carrier forces which made| Opinion that the Japanese force did| “The ships in the Japanese foree’| supplies for the drive on Berlin, | Eastern front commander, was re- government that would unite Japan the attack were. commanded by wot include that many destroyers. were the only ones they had that ltwo strong bands of Nazi Elite | ported under arrest for negligence and utilize all her ‘resources te | Rear Admirals F. C. Sherman, A. w.| He thought that in the excitement could make a fast hit-and-run raid, |... qs broke loose on a wild gun|in dealing with the Russian break- turn the tide of the war. againsg Radford, "G...F, Bogan and.) Jyobypatle more of these craft snd hors. Drosenly what Sf ~dur Genind bis advanced through to the Oder river 30-odd the mills Clark. | Were “reported AS iia i ih SR WANN RS mad HIS Cina Ars Wa AA YaiebamiIes Tense or Bertin:

The weight of the ertmy stag] igeted {them,”. the spokesman sald. . Rifiemen. Attack The choice of Sc Stes 16 com

50 Mi. From Kyushu vice minister of war before the

Attacking the Japanese at a point only 50 miles southwest of Kyushu, they rammed at least eight torpedoes into the big Yamato -and rained eight heavy bombs onto her. She sank. In the same vicinity they sank the Agano| cruiser, the small cruiser and! three destroyers.

| our carrier airmen.

o. 8 ” Roosevelt's for Lilianthal; Lili-

» » STRIKE authorization voted 10 days ago by United Mine Workers ° is probably good until the end of the present - dispute with coal operators. Thus a strike could legally be called six months or more from now uniess the mines are seized again by the govern- - ment,

Three other destroyers were left ablaze. “About three destroyers escaped from this attack,” Nimitz said.

5 » 2

Extra Gas?

Bip hee ® 4

lopes tse: a gasalin

month, but Secretary Stimson | Europe. Gasoline may be. more promptly labeled the figure “un- plentiful but tires won't, so need

authorized and inaccurate.” . | for mileage rationing will still LE RW exist. Also there's need for con-

vs i serving cars, new supply is about Law Partners?

exhausted, and new shortage is LOOK FOR announcement of | developing in batteries. a BYrnes-Cohen law partnership. : aor ) Jimmy Byrnes “and Ben Cohen HONEST automobile dealers =gzrdoth out of government. of= protest, to OPA that: they gan't get ] Fi POE iy Ture time I years, | second-band cars. gE will practice together in Spartan- ‘prices because black - market 1s . burg and Washington, being conducted through cash’ 2 sales between individuals. STORY GOING the rounds | ~ They point out that these cash here is that Jesse Jones might run for the senate next year in Texas. If s0,-he'd have to oppose Senator Tom Connally, the man who tried to help him keep part, at least, of his government jobs* Connally told the President that Wallace couldn't be confirmed for both, urged him to agree to a split—and thought Jones would stay in as loan administrator. Texas politieians here believe that in a Jones-Conhnally contest in Texas, Long Tawm would win hands-down. ” » ” MEANWHILE, Jesse's hand still rests heavily on the federal loan

WEATHER OUTLOOK: A MILD WEEK-END

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tax returns and the government: will also lose... They want enforcement cases brought against | individuals, point ouf that state registrations would furnish clues. Surplus property board has enlisted ‘justice department aid in campaigm against tipsters offering “inside” informatoin on government sales of surplus goods. Disposal agencies furnish complete | information without cost. | Treasury is preparing for big | sales of farm machinery and con- | struction equipment, will offer it by written bid at disposal centers, closing deals on the spot.

Sacrifices Son |

To Save Chilc

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named him Jackie Lee after the burial,” Mr, Henson said. ranging | “ee ou as low as 25 degrees, nipped the] IT WAS a einesiay a week blossonts of lowland orchards ‘and! ago that his wife rushed to the trees. The pear crop suffered most| rescue of the lad who had fallen acutely, with’ smaller loss to cher-| into the pond, deepened by spring ries and apples, they said. rains. Knox county growers said After stretching peach crop was safe. the water to pull in the boy, ale The early development of leaves| 1°3dY inert and floating on the protected many fruit trees, The | surface, Mrs. Henson ran a block leaves served as umbrellas for the| UPRill with the boy in her arms blooms, according to County Agri-| tothe neighbors’ house, Mr. Hencultural Agent A, M. Bishea of| 500 said. | Evansville: The Vanderburgh| There, Mr.and Mrs, Sylvester county fruit crop was damaged only applied artificial respiration and slightly, he said. revived him. But Mrs. Henson 7 County Agent Walter Rogers of remained highly nervous, Bloomington was. pessimistic about the situation in Monroe county. He said the low temperature and heavy frost wiped out much of the fruit crop there, Temperatures last night were about 10 degrees above the Friday readings, and heavy frosts held off * ‘a repeat visit to Indiana.

TRIO'S RECAPTURE MADE BY SHERIFF

BEDFORD, Ind, April 7 (U. P.: ~Lawrance county Sheriff Lester Hays said today he ‘was holding three of four prisoners who escaped trom the state penal farm at Putnamville

Thursday. The trio, Leonard Bavsinger, 3%, of ‘ata Raymond Hensley, 22, InPls, 5 Joseph Roy Yar-

oe oie” and po! and “sheriffs when they were| on the Monon ion)

versity reported that the: frost, brought by temperatures

the | st far out over

10 her

» o ” “OUR DOCTOR ordered her the hospital and we took there Monday morning,” Mr, | Henson sald. “She was in a serious condition until our son was born that night.” The Hensons have three other children: Donald Dean, 6; Maundaline, 3, and Mary Catherine, 18 months. The rescued tot is the son of Mr. and Mrs, Anthony Petrick of 315 N. Hamilton ave, Indian- - apolis. ‘Mrs, Petrick is Mr, Hepson's daughter by a previous marriage,

fe ——————————p————— REV. FRANCIS BILSTEIN DIES N, April .7 (U, P.).—The ‘|Rev. J. G. Bennet, bishop of Lae fayette, will officiate Monday at last rites for the" Rev. Francis Bilstein The 78-year-old: pastor of St. John's Catholic church died Wednesday, He formerly served at Pt, Wayne,

FIRE DAMAGE $800

made it plain that the desper | Japanese, in the midst of ‘a ae | cabinet crisis, with American’ forces| {firmly installed at Okinawa and |faced with the Soviet denunciation

IRATE DOG LOVERS [Few Smokes Taken,

lstruck suddenly

mand the #astern:front would put

A forcevof af.least 400 German! : ? staunch Nazig in charge of German

rifl ¥ Wr » " ifiemen, backed up by four tanks... ies in both the east and “west. at American in- Field Marshal Albert Kesselrin

=~ STATE MAP CHIEF

~ BECHERT NAMED AS”

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William

\ Sapanese OPPOSITION a8 1Tpey “andes:

sales won't show up on income ¥ 2 ess,

| town of Tsuwa.

[ture of the season {apolis Open Forum at 8:15 p. m.

(of the Cincinnati board

{in Bad

{royalty at Bad Driberg,

of the Russo-Jap neutrality pact, {had made a do-or-die attempt to| | drive us from Okinawa. i At the same’ time on land Aner- | ican, Lage AOD aria Fiifened,

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block on Arnolda’ ave. the 400 block on Kelehum,, SAVE. ihe. ONIN ATOR! Ae; vo ASASRY LI DION blocks on Mooreland ave., the 400 block on Mooreland ave., the 400 block on Centennial ave., 400 block on Goodlet ave. and the 3300 block on W. Michigan st. Ofer poisonings have been rumoréd, but not, officially reported in neighborhood, . Set. Winkler

[into the strong positions designed 'to protect the northern tip of Okinawa and the capital of Naha. Nimitz reported that, neverthemarine forces ‘at the north drove forward across the Ishikawa |isthmus from Chuda on the west Lto the mouth’ pf the Kimbaru "river the | on the east. ¢ said. To the south army troops gain

SEEKING POISONER, Jor /s Filling Up

1 050 block |

fantrymen west of captured Muehlhausen. The Germans attacked in the|

pre-dawn darkness thi morning | ant dove he ‘Amtican garrison | SARE Shost, 1

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the men Hospital 2, » 2 - sin +4 z wk SO HE ADDED ‘the sign that the gmokes were for vet.’ erans, : “Since I. put up the jar, calls for cigarets have fallen off con-

to give them to at the Veterans’

idea out

AN a

bitter street: fight. 8 The surprise attack followed by ! a few hours a similar counterblow | against American-held Bad Sooden, 14 miles west of Struth and 19] miles east of Kassel. The fight was | siderably,” he said. still raging furiously around Bad “And only one person helped: Sooden early today, butt e Amerhimself. He took one the Gtherg icans apparently. were more firmly day. The next day he took an- established there dnd appeared: to

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about 2000 yards and occupied the LEAGUE OPPOSES

RABBI WILL =r ON ‘TIDE OF HATE’

Rabbi James G. Heller, spirit leader, will speak at the fina] lecof the Indian-

Members of the Eastside Civic] league will appear before the city | board Monday to 1al propos ed construction of a softball stadium ih a plot bordered by Riley, Emerson, Nowland and Eiliott aves. | monst trants will say they fear a reduction in property values. The planned softball diamond was announced as a commercial venture, {of Hate." but its sponsor has offered to doA founder and for two years nate part of the block for addipresident of the Cincinnati Peace tional city playground space league, Dr, Heller has served as a| | member of the Metropolitan board | of the Cincinnati Y. M. C. A arid} of education. He has been spiritual leader of the Isaac M. Wise temple of | Cinemnati since 1920.

zoning

tomorrow at the Kirshbaum center. His subject will be “The Rising Tide

CARD PARTY MONDAY Indianapolis Lodge No. 137, Ladies’ Society of the Brotherhood of kocomotive Firemen and Enginemen, will give a card party at 11% p. m. Monday in the Food Craft shop.

Times Camera Man Helps Capture Flock of Royalty

WITH U. 8. 9TH ARMY, Ger- |who had lost an arm on the Rus-

| many, April 7 (U. P.).—Troops of sian front.”

1 “ mite the 83d division’ found the mother| Ihe estate was placed “off limits | by the military government,

Lt. Welling, familiarly known as miles east| “Ham” to his friends in Indianap- | olis, formerly reported news of the Lt. ‘Hamlin Welling, Indianapolis |83d division while it was training Times photographer on leave, and tat Camp Atterbury. two military government officers of He was a combination photogra- | the 83d division drove up to the |pher-reporter before entering the chateau, army. Welling said there was a “whole As a civillan, “Ham" house full of royalty .with long|graphed the ' officers, names I don't remember,” the occu- | generals of the army. ‘and wrote pants included Bernhard’s mother; | stories about them in the earlier Princess Armgard Zu.Lippe Blester-| days of the war for The Times. feld, sister. of Count. Oyenhausen| -His friends chuckled when it ‘was Sierstorpff, © learned that he was assigned again

She's Gorman Citizen to ‘his cld love, ,the 83d infantry

division, ANCE § yer 7 “We had ‘heard that there was C i on, in ‘France and Germany But ‘we is wife, Eleanof, is ® member

didn't expect to find the mother of the WAVES and is stationed in

of Prince Bernhard,” Welling said. - east. “We hoped it ‘would be King Leo~ (pold of the Belgians.” He said the prince’s mother was “a Germthn citizen and she is going. to be treated like any other German citizen.” The group, he said, included “some kind of a baron |

|of Prince Bernhard of the Nether-

lands ‘at the estate of Driberg, eight of Paderborn.

her brother

photoincluding

CUTICURK |

} soAP and OINTMENT For PROMPT RELIEF

,{&t $800 swept a home this morning lat 5155 Plainfield ave. Volunteer fire units ‘fPom Fleming Gardefis i the Oak Park fire department,

“A 'blaze causing damage. estimated |

SOFTBALL FIELD’

protest |

“| Noble. county

other. be holding fast. “Then he came third day. No spectacular gains were reGetting to bes a ‘I thought. [ported in the past 24-hours by the “But 1 was Instead of {3d army’s advanced tank elements, reaching, he dumped in almost a | Which were 126 miles southwest of | full pack. Made ‘me feel | Berlin and 62 miles west of Leipzig | good,” Mr. Regnier said. {in the Schlotheim- area. 8 5 # Report Air Reinforcements MR. REGNIER is a veteran of | The 6th armored division, howboth world wars. In world war I ever, advanced seven miles to the

he served overseas for more than 8 oh Keul r ile orthwes a-year and saw action on three He. ren. eight miley northwa kl fronts. {of. Schlotheim and 129 miles from | He re-entered service Berlin. Langensalza, nine miles |

and served until 1043, south Schlothelm, also was when- he was Jonorably dis- cleared.

| | ! charged. | : His son, T'-5 Robert, is present- The Germans said Patton was ly serving with the army in the (ferrying in tanks by air to the 6th Philippines. |armored at Langensalza, but there . | was no confirmation of rumors that FIRE DESTROYS GARAGE . [armored reinforcements were being ALBION, April 7 (U. P.).—The|dropped by air to a 3d army force highway. department! in the Eisleben area, 90 miles south=garage was destroyed by fire last west of Berlin. night, with the loss estimfated at A radio Luxembourg report that $100,000. Besides the building, 14) Patton’s men had reached positions pieces of road equipment and a|49 miles west of the Czechoslovak large number of drums of ofl were|border also was without confirmaburned. tion early today.

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in -Struth. five miles | ano! her follower .of Hitler, was| 'cparlés H. Bechert today was hifted to the Western front just! named chief of the newly-created

{ before the allied break-through st | water resources and topographical

(month. - The move may have been prompted by Tear tHat™ oI Ti Geran | generals. 68 “Nive TE nomi Cligiie; 7 | feslusivig that. the War hati~been tye department's -former chief e st and hopeful of salvaging some-1 sineer, thing of the army, would attempt 0" The water resources division wil {make peace with the allies, work closely

Joseph O'Neil, 40, of 3308 Central ave, was in critical condition at City hospital today from inju-~ ries received when his automobile | was rammed bya Marion county sheriff's car yesterday at Meridian and Minnesota sts. Mr. ONeil was driving west on

Minfiesota st. The sheriff's car, on an emergency run, was heading south on Meridian st. Mr. ONeill received chest, face and arm injuDeputies Michael Zorman, 37, driver of the squad car, and Charles Davis, 43, were treated for superficial cuts. ¢ Deputy Sheriff Robert Imhausen slated Mr.”O'Neil in Speedway magistrates court on a charge of failure to give right of way to an emergency vehicle. The hearing was set for April 8. Mr. O'Neil was on duty as a circulation employee of The Times when the accident occurred.

1 mapping division within the Indie ana conservation department

resources division will be to preserve

features of more than 800 Hoosier lakes. with areas of more than 10 acres each. Increased -appropriae tions were granted for these dutieg by the.1945 legislature. A graduate of Purdue university, Mr. Bechert, was elevated to chief engineer in the conservation de=partment in 1942. Before that he had performed engineering tasks for the highway commission.

MURDER CASE GOES TO JURORS TODAY

The Mersing murder trial was to

noon after the state had presented two rebuttal witnesses and attorneys had given final arguments, William J. Mersing, on trial for the shotgun slaying of Cpl. Alfred J. Arpin in the apartment of Miss Louise Wilson, 612 N. Delaware st.

door with the gun, then “heard an explosion.” The murder occurred on the night of Jan, 28, 1944.

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