Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 April 1945 — Page 1

de Trolley.)

MPLE

ith) k Parkway. T:30 PML

AZARENE \d Legrande Ave. MERT, Pastor ool, 9:30 A. M. ng Services 4, 7:30 P.M, . Hi-Y Services, 0 P. M. Jr yer Meeting 45 P. M,

Welcome Awaits You

s of the STORY

e Future” by

10 A. M. e Is God?

‘our. Dial

S Church,

ma St.

RENE

ce, Pastor ship.”

ouri

ICR , 7:30 p. m,,

nt m————-— |

). A. TRINKLE Minister

shbrook

io Suthers Ava, D:45-TA00; Hi smreapns 3

“HURCH

‘mont Sts, IR, D.D., Pastor

Easter.” Whe Missed

K BAPTIST nd “Seth Sit IGHES, Pastor '}° /orship. som Ferris. hool. ‘orship, % ev. O. A. Cook; nixed quartet.

1. ‘TTY, Pastor

hes N STREET CHURCH

Warman Ave. , Pastor

pol.

yrship, ur for Youth and

m————— [ETHODIST

ethodist mple. Avenue MARTIN chool.

Service: y or Burden?"

llowship. concert by Speeds . Bchool, R—————————— Methodist { STREET BROWN, Ministes eal 9030 AL ML Fellowship, TP. M, NT” — My. Dr, “4. P, 3:30 P. M. Dr, G. P. Comer , M.

K CHURCH

ist)

Comes, -

\ SCRIPPS = HOWARD

STAT ns

VOLUME 56—NUMBER 25

w v

MONDAY; APRIL 9, 1945

* FORECAST: Partly cloudy and continied mild tonight and Ey Scattered showers late tomorrow.

Entered as Second-Class Matter at Postoffice Inisnagels, 9, Ind. Issued daily except Sunday

"PRICE FIVE CENTS

By WILLIAM

H, STONEMAN

Times Foreign Correspondent

ON THE WESER, Germany, April 7 (Delayed). —

This. is the war that no longer is a war.

It is an Indianapolis 500-mile auto race or a Kentucky

Derby—bhbetween Lt. Gen. George S. Patton Jr. and Lt. Gen. Courtney Hodges and the Russians—but it bears no resemblance to the knockdown, dragout business of

last vear.

There is no Luftwaffe.

is no artillery.

There are no mines. There

“Even the silly young men of the highly touted S.S.

(elite guard) don’ ¢ fight-properly to defend their towns. We rode right straight to the river Weser today with

one infantry division.

We covered 15 or 20 miles without hearing shots really fired in anger by the other side. —

The town of Buhne was still burning when we struck

it shortly after breakfast.

There had been a little oppo-

sition there last night and the 3d armored division, following the current rule, had sent a'few 90-mm. shells through

its houses just to show the resist,

Germans that it was silly to But we breezed through Buhne and on into

(Continued on Page 2—Column 5)

Shirley Temple and Fiance Make Post-War Plans

Shirley Temple " Set. John George Agar:

Secret Revealed o as Actress

By VIRGINIA MacPHERSON United Press Staff Correspondent HOLLYWOOD, April 9.—Shirley Temple, who practically grew up on the screen before the eyes of millions of Americans, flashed a twocarat engagement ring today ‘and looked forvarg to becoming Mrs. John George Agar.

forces, last night, -but said they did not plan to be married for two or

three years. TRACK ELEVATION The engagement was supposed to "ALMOST | REALITY": p clusive Westlake School for Girls and the secret was out.

be 3 Berl until April 23, Shirley's “We can't be fed for at least Works Board So Soon to Get iw married for at leas

oh Li a class luncheon at the ex-

A She announced her engagement to Agar, a sergeant in the army air’

Acme ¢ Telephoto

| Groups Here Draf Draft Opinions For San Francisco.

By EMMA RIVERS MILNER Times Church Editor Indianapolis churchmen joined with othegs throughout the nation today in formulating their aqpinions which will be sent to the San Francisco conference April 25 to define the thoughts of churches for world peace and unity. The conference] for peace discus-

ARGENTINA IN GOOD GRACES

Stettinius ‘Republics Have Resumed Normal Relations. WASHINGTON, April (U. P.).—Secretary of State Edward R. Stettinius Jr., an-

pounced today that the 20 American republics have de-

[cided to resume normal diglo Argentina, %

mmcy relations with

Stettinius at a press conference.| The department instructed it

OF U. S. AGAIN

Announces 20

The announcement was made by

By HENRY

is hopeless, a —said-today-in-an-interview,

who will not acknowledge beaten. a “However, our code of

| 6000 om Slain in Murder Camp, Yanks Find

By ROBERT E. RICHARDS

United Press Staff Correspondent OHRDRUF, Germany, April 8 (Delayed).—Another wholesale Nazi murder camp—where scores of prisoners were shot when they became [too ill to work—was discovered near here by 3d army tankmen. At one site they found 31 partly clothed bodies lying “huddled gro- | tesquely together where 8. 8. guards {had killed them because they were too ill to be moved.

Nearby in a small wooden ‘shed were stacked 50 or ‘more naked

were horribly BE “with scabs

(Con: ue

things that once were men. Many,

LL (RR pa ea As had with the regime of President

{axis countries; her adherence to the | acts of the Mexico City conference

APS NEREASE FURY OF BATTLE:

Yanks Fignting Trircag) Crossfire: on Okinawa.

. By UNITED PRESS Fighting on Okinawa island was reported #pproaching the fury of Iwo's bloody ‘campaign today as American {invasion troops drove into the first major Japanese defense line ‘before Naha, the capital. Dispatches from the front said casualties were mounting .on both

sides with the Americans killing from three to 18 Japanese for every American killed. Units of the 24th corps penetrated

charge d'affaires in Buenos Aires to inform the acting foreign minister |of Argentina of the action.

- The charge d'affaires’ call ‘on the foreign minister was the first formal 7 Aye 3

Edelmiro Farrell since it assumed office more than‘a year ago. This regime had been denounced by various U..S. officials as “militaryfascist.” » Stettinius said that all of the American republics had reached their decision ‘unanimously after consultation. : Expect Internal Reaction

He said “this decision followed the reorientation of Argentine foreign policy reflected by. her declaration of a state of war against

to the northern part.”

- | RQ sion opened at 1 on March 27, and her subsequent

| Business

+ Forum

- Inside Indpls. 9

hday. But she wore her 0 years, maybe even three,” Shir Bids on Overpass.

ley. said. “We promised mother.

And besides, we have to wait until] ¥

the war is over.”

South side residents were prom-

ised today that the track elevation project at Shelby st. at the Belt railroad will be undertaken soon.

The works board told A. RSS| «me's 24 years old and 6 feet 3|

Manly, city councilman, and Harry

— Dynes; representing the South Side’

Civic league, that plans for the elevation have been completed.

Art Henry, city engineer, said the Bhelby st. project was “coming along fine.”

“We've been wofking on this a great. many months and track elevation here is about to become a reality,” declared Mr. Henry.

Dr. Walter E. Hemphill, a works board member, and long a sponsor of track elevation for the South and West sides, said the board was ready to advertise for bids whenever critical materials are available, In addition to the Shelby street project, other elevation work has been planned. The Belt railroad will be elevated at Morris and East sts, and Madison and Kentucky

(Continued on Page 5—Column 6) LOCAL TEMPERATURES

TIMES INDEX

4 | Movies ...... 6! Obituaries .. sees T|Fred Pefkins. Comics ...... 16|Ernie Pyle Crossword ... 16|Radio .,..... Editorials ... 10| Ration Dates. +ieees 10 Mrs. Roosevelt Meta Given . 12|Side Glances. John Hillman 10{ Wm, P. Simms

Amusements, , Eddie Ash ,..

Its Je Saccocnavosa

irae

Jane Jordan . 16|Tom Stokes . Ruth | Millett. 9 Women's News ®

Natl

Movies Are Out handsome fiance

| Her blinked

( when photographers started explod- 3

{ing flash bulbs in his face. {inches tall,” ‘Shirley explained, and he's a physical instructor at March field. That's why he's got such broad shoulders. “Everybody says Jack is handsome enough to be in the movies, but I hate the idea. He's got a good job waiting for him, anyway.” Agar, who was with Abbott. lah~ oratories in Chicago before he entered the army in 1942, said he wasn't interested in a movie career. He is the son of Mrs. Lillian Agar and the late John Agar, of Beverly Hills, Cal, and Lake Forest, Ill Shirley and Agar met two years ago when friends took him to her home for a Sunday afternoon swimming party.

LEGION HEAD ASKS UNIVERSAL TRAINING

Post-War ~ Army _Maintenance Called Vital,

JOHNSTOWN, Pa, April 9 (U, P.). —Edward N. Scheiberling, national commander of the American Legion asked district Legionnaires to support all-out production during the war and universal military training after the war, “We have learned the folly of utopian ideals (disarmament) and never again should we relax pie. |paredness,” Scheiberling said, his appeal fer maintenance of > adequate army, navy and air forces o|after world war IT, Scheiberling visited Johnstown

'| Pleasant st. ‘over Germany. \

Dr. H. E, Fey the city when editor of World Call, (Continued on Page 5—Column 6)

HOOSIER HEROES—

4 Dead, Officer Missing, Three Are Imprisoned

Four Indianapolis soldiers have been killed in Germany and an officer is missing over that country today’s casualty lists reveal. In addition one serviceman is listed as a prisoner of the German prison camp at Bad Orb, which was liberated on Easter, and two are prisoners in other German camps. KILLED . T. Sgt. Harry T. Pelfrey, Mars Hill, in Germany. Sgt. Walter J. Linne, 774 N “Emerson ave, in Gérmany. Pfc. Michael R. Terry, 651 N. Beville ave. in Germany. Pvt. Thomas O'Callahan, 460 N, State .ave, in Germany. MISSING . Pirst Lt. Joseph L. Wright, 1508

PRISONERS Pvt. Norman H. Stranahan, 1528 Bfookside ave, at Bad Orh, Germany, Pvt. Pussell E. Kattman, . 219 Hancock ave, of Germany, tips “Pvt Robert C. Dooley, 3120 Clay n st; of Germany. 5 SAFE Pvt. Walter E. (Gene) Hynes, 1318

states.

-|eisco conference which opens April

W. Washington st, back in Ee

steps of a practical nature contemplated in the declarations made in the resolution on Argentina by the Inter-American Conference on Problems of War and Peace.” American officials said. they ex-

relations to have a very powerful | affect within Argentina and possibly result in an election being held there sometime this fall.

BUENOS AIRES, April 9 (U. P). —The republic of Colombia today became the first of 16 American countries to resume diplomatic relations with Argentina, after having suspended them last year. The Colombian charge d’affairs Alberto Vargas Narino, delivered a note to Dr. Cesar Amechino, acting. foreign minister, announcing the normalization of relations between the two countries. Edward L. Reed, U. 8. charge d’'affairs in Buenos Aires, visited the Argentine foreign office at noon.

pected the resumption of diplomatic),

the Japanese line in advances of 200 to 400 yards Sunday after capturing Uchitomari, four miles north of Naha, and Kaniku, four and a half miles northeast, Saturday. Savage Crossfire The Japanese were fighting from caves, interlocking pillboxes and hills from which they could sweep the advancing Americans with a savage crossfire. Marines in‘the central pgrt of the island continued advancés against light resistance. Their gains coupled with those in the south brought one-third or more of the island under American control.

Superfortresses and carrier planes followed up Saturday's smashing victory over the Japanese fleet with new attacks on Japan and the Amami islands. The carrier planes which sank the Japanese battleship Yamato and five other warships, hit the Amami

(Continued on Page 5-—-Column 8)

Court Plan

WASHINGTON, April 9 (U. P.. —Secretary of State: Edward R. Stettiniug Jr., today called for settlement of international differences by “peaceful methods on a basis of justice.” He made the plea in an address formally bpening a meeting of international law experts, They are here to draft plans for a new world court to present at the San Fran-

25. Experts from 30 united nations are here to help in the preparation of the new ¢ourt plans. Stettinius’ address of welcome was answered by Sir Michael Myers of New. Zea~ land and Dr. Wang Chung-Hui of China. Dr. Wang is a former judge of the permanent court of interna

SETS Th £308 Legion posta

Eero 5 Spicy ils ou wf

(Deal Bo Thre)

World Law Experts Draft

for Conference

conference and the one in San Francisco will detefminhe whether the world is to go forward in peace and security or go back to bare barism. : He acknowledged existing differances among nations, but added that “there must be a certain amount of readiness to give and take.” , . . : Dr. Wang said that the old court's statute will serve as an indispensable document. “Whatever organization may be created for the maintenance of world peace and security,” he said, “there must be established the rule of law among nations and there must be cultivated among them the spirit of respect for law.” Stettinius said it was impossible to envisage establishment of a new world organization without one of of its components being’ Aan inter.

J. TAYLOR

Scripps-Howard Special Writer WITH THE 3D ARMY, April 9.—Germany's high-ranking general,. a professional soldier,

plight

‘The general is a prisoner. Censorship forbids the use of his name, but he commanded a panzer division that was destroyed by the 8d army in its drive through Germany. He said there are only a few among the high officers

that Germany is thoroughly

honor as soldiers makes us

APPEARS NEAR IN FINAL DRIVE

Historic Landmarks Taken By Dozens; S. S. General Slain.

By ROBERT MUSEL United Press Staff Correspondent

LONDON, April 9.—Berlin admitted today that Russian siege forces had more than half way through iy into the porth part hE BW

The -fall of the aly WPPoased neat, Vienna's historic Jendmarks were falling by dozens to Red army forces fighting through the Austrian capital. Nazi Sade, ‘acknowledging {tite Toss ‘6f various key points, said tha: battle which. had. been raging in the southern and western parts) * lof the city “now has been extended

~ ‘Heavy Fighting’. . “The German high command noncommitally reported only that “in the southern and western parts of Vienna our troops are engaged in heavy fighting.” Berlin reported violent fighting in the immediate vicinity of Vienna’s Franz Joseph station, It is less than a mile from the Ring, the famous inner Boulevard ringing the old city. The Russians moved against the station from Kalenberg hill and the famous Grinzig area, A Soviet attempt to cross the Danube at Nussdorf was frustrated, the German radio said. A Moscow dispatch said at least

smashed |

“Race For Berlin Begins To Look Like The 500-Mile’ ‘It’s Hopeless,” A Captured German General Reports

continue the fight,” he said... “As long as our country is ‘at war, we are honor-bound to carry on as-best ‘we can.

“As for the men in the ranks, most of them continue to resist because there is nothing else to do. They know Germany cannot win with her old weapons, but the government’s promise of new, secret weapons continues to bring hope. BT “I do not believe you will see any definite capitulation as a unit. I think that large groups, such as mine, will continue to surrender piecemeal as you advance. i (Continued on Page 2 —Column 7)

1ST ARMY 70 MILES FROM ELBE; STORM BREMEN AND HANNOVER Berlin Admits Reds Capture Half Of Vienna FALL OF CY

Nazi Casualties

In West Placed At 50,000 Daily

PARIS, April 9 (U. P.).—~The German armies of the West have suffered an estimated 50,000 casualties daily in killed, wounded and captured during the past 10 days, it was disclosed today. Headquarters — spokesmen revealed that the American 1st and 9th armies have captured 16349 prisoners in the Ruhr pocket since they began their joint drive against an estimated 150,000 Germans trapped there. About 8800 of the Ruhr captives

{GERMANS SAY PARATROOPERS BEHIND LINES

Scouts Report Nazis Burn Towns in Attempt to Slow Advance.

| PARIS, April 9 (U. P.).—The American 1st army burst out of its | Weser river bridgehead today and were taken by the 1st army and | ra0eq 18 miles or more to within 7500 by the 9th. | 70° miles of Magdeburg, Berlin's

Since the crossing of the Rhine | | main otter fortress on the Elbe less than -three weeks ago, the | river.

spokesmen said, the 9th army has . taken more prisoners than in all of its previous opethtions.:

By ‘BOYD D. LEWIS ; Le Loi» United Press Staff Correspondent

“PARIS, April 9.—Ameri--ican paratroops were reported

WHO BETS NAZI HOARD OF GOLD?

Cr PE

25°

OW ee

War's Daily Cost.

By WALKER- STONE Seripps- -Howard . Staff Writer

WASHINGTON, April 9. — The 19th infantry division of the American army has come upon a salt | mine at Merkers, Germany, where- | in it found a treasure hoard which! includes 100 tons of gold bullion.

The gold, two million dollars in| U. 8. curj®ncy and assorted stacks | of British pounds, French francs| and Norwegian crowns were found in a room 2100 feet under the

ground.

Ais: ire a reid

striking deep into central Germany in the path of the U. S. 1st army .today. ; Other afiied armies to the

north storared., in. on: the burning

cities of Bremen and Hannover :

miles from Berlin. The German D. N. B. news agency

: {said upward of 500 American -sky

- LONDON, April 9 (U. P). — Great fleets of American and, British bombers late today dropped 11-ton bombs on U-boat shelters at Hamburg and lesser missiles on 10 air fields within a 60-mile radius of Munich.

troops dropped into the 38-mile coriridor between Muenden on the Werra river and Muehlhausen, in an apparent bid to link up with the

The only guards for all that and | American 3d army. a thousand crates of paintings, | The main striking force of the

statues, tapestries and other works | 15¢ army lunged east and northP ast from its Weser bridgeheads

five of Vienna's 20 districts had been liberated.

Past Center of City

Marshal Feodor I. Tolbukin's 3d Ukrainian army forces were believed already to have smashed past St. Stephen's cathedral, geographical center of the city. Vienna's three largest railway sta= tions were in Soviet hands. Only two shell-swept secondary railways remained over which the Nazi gar-

(Continued on Page 5—Column 7)

NAZIS SPEGULATE ON ‘END OF WAR'

Expect Proclamation When . Allies Join Russ Forces.

LONDON, April 9 (U, P.) —Swiss reports quoted Berlin military] quarters today -as saying the German high command expected. the allies to proclaim the end of the war in Europe when the Russians and Anglo-Americans join forces between the Oder and Elbe. The Nazi command “has the allied military plans for the final phase of the war calling for an offensive by 1,800,000 Russians on a 200-mile front between Stettin and Lauben when the western allies reach the banks of the Elbe,” a Zurich dispatch said on the authority of Berlin military ‘quarters. The Red army “offensive will explode, the Nazis said, when the Anglo-Americans cross ‘the Elbe, and a proclamation of the war's end may be expected when the Eastern and’ Western allies meet. While the Nazis were looking to the end of the war in central Germany, their southeastern defenses were fallipy apart and posing a direct threat to any prospective

)

ae tr il ny

‘Cw

fiand x the moustaiie gf southern

of Norway and Denmark today that |

ended.

PACIFIC—Fighting on Okinawa de~ ITALIAN FRONT--U. 8. 5th ay

| (Continued on Page’ 5—Column 3) | orth of the reported parachute at-

mn tack and gained as much as 18 miles, entering Duderstadt and F. oR, SEES CAP il coming within a mile of Northeim, 133 miles, respectively, southwest WASHINGTON, April 9 (U. P.).—| of Berlin.

President Roosevelt, told the people Einbeck Captured

Another mechanized column reached -Einbeck, nine miles northsoon would be west of Northeim and accepted the render of the town from a GerIn a statement on the fifth annt- | it major general who ‘came out versary of the German attack on|ip meet the Americans. Denmark and Norway, Mr. Roose-| It was the second airborne allied velt paid tribute to the peoples of (strike against the crumbling Gerthose countries for their fight! against. the Nazis,

their “martyrdom”

(Continued on Page 3 Column 4)

Times Man in Daring Trip Inside Reich Bares 'Plan K',

‘The following story is the fruit of a daring trip inte unoccupied Germany made by Curt Reiss, noted author of “The Nazis Go Underground” and other books on German internal affairs, who now is in Europe on assignment for The Indianapolis Times,

By CURT REISS, Times Foreign Correspondent BERNE, Switzerland, April 9.—Adolf Hitler and other Nazi leaders have abandoned all hope for a successful defense of the Reich. This news I bring back after making a secret trip into unoccupied Germany. A decision to recognize the hopelessness of the German military position was reached in a meeting at Berchtesgaden, on March 29, be-

(Continued on Page 5 Column 1)

On the War Fronts

April 9, 1945 Amami islands and Japan! WESTERN FRONT—American and American forces virtually cut all Japanese ‘escape routes from British troops storm into out- uthern Luzon, skirts of Hannover and Bremen. °°

EASTERN FRONT—Red army cap- AIR WAR More thas 900 R. A. F,

tures” nearly half of Vienna; bombers concentrate attacks on complete liberation of city be: Belin, ‘Hamburg: and Leipsig lieved near. A y

velops bloodiest stage in Amegi+ captures two more can advance. Wiad supa; car- drive toward La Spesia. ne planes. and B-29's type “¥ian coast,