Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 April 1945 — Page 2

HELP NEEDED IN _ “CLOTHING DRIVE

| Autos, Workers Are Wanted For Pickup April 22.

An appeal for vehicles and voluntesr workers to conduct the house- | _ to-house pickup of used clothing | ‘for the United National Clothing collection on Sunday, Apwl 22, wis, voiced today by Henry F. Schricker, Marion county chairman. car Mr. Schricker said more than 1000 automobiles and trucks and A Four ork re expect is week an J EE st Te bol A a or in May.

aid at the two main depots at the . Coliseum and the Indianapolis YANK CAPTIVES Motor Armory.

ALMOST AS LONG as a street

this bus seating 40 will soon see service with the Indianapolis Street Railways. It is the first of 25 ordered to arrive. Four

The house-to-house collection in} Indianapolis will be duplicated in| cities all’ over the country April 22, in a national collection of clothing |

50,000 on March Starving, Endangered by Planes.

By FRED SCHERFF United. Press Staff Correspondent alll WASHINGTON, April 9.—Prisoners of war held by the Nazis, in-

shoes for men, women and children | cluding about 50,000 Americans, are and to notify the drive headquar- facing their most difficult period as ters prior to the house-to-house the allied stranglehold closes on collection. | Germany.

\unities outside of Indian-| H a in Marion county will camps already overrun discloses that |

: {the prisoners are suffering severely make their own . collections and . as will be sent by the commit- {rom want of sufficient food.

Tatte As the allies advance, large num- | tee the ciothing. 3 Ei0 Hk De on ne with bers of prisoners are obliged to make the committee and who {forced marches, “doubly difficult in]

have | " : view i dition. operation of their VieW of their weakened cor pln Sr rs Cc. Things probably will get worse as Duckworth, 11th district American |diSOrganization Spreads in Germany : The best hope for’ prisoners 1s Legion commander, and Mrs, Mar-| Kk collapse of German resistance * tin Collins, 11th district American |TUICK COUADSE Of Lerman tes =e == | ; : Added to their other tribulations Legion auxiliary president. for the! °° ie ave in dad i American Legion; Mr€ George E, | Prisoners on the move are in danger | : 3 lof being attacked by Allied planes. Frank and Mrs. Harold Platt, in| : harge ; | One instance has been reported ¢ of the commitiee for wei, which American prisoners being | Soupemsiion ot me nd | moved eastward from the Rhine : : : ung : {were attacked by mistake. The] citizens on the planning committee. prisoners quickly lined up to form | Other Groups Aid the initials POW—Prisoners of War Emmett J. Williams, secretary- —in time to psevent further attack) treasurer of the chauffeurs andl after a dozen were killed. teamsters local union will have | Up to last January, American charge of the automobile and truck |prisoners for the most part fared collection. He will be assisted by fairly well. The Germans gave them Virgil Sheppard of the Red Cross. about 1500 calories of food daily. | Powers Hapgood; C. I. O., is chair- | They got another 2000 calories daily | man of the manpower committee from Red Cross packages delivered | which will enlist volunteers to man weekly. the trucks and cars for curb collec-| Hot Water Diet

ion. : : Ha When Germany's internal situa-

liberated Europe. Substantial, clean used clothing for both winter and summer wear is being sought to clothe the war vic-| tims, Mr. Schricker said. All Garments Wanted _ Donors are. asked to collect ty of durable garments and

‘First of New Cify Busses Arrives - + a i hh

for more than 125,000,000 persons in Myrick, 21

: t Information coming {rom prison |

The Rev. Lynn Tripp is chairman of the committee tor Protestant church co-operation as collector centers. : * The Veterans of Foreign also has offered its assistance. Mr. Smith has established ‘of-

Wars

tion began to deteriorate, deliveries of both German and Red Cross rations ‘encountered interruptions. The Red Cross, however, is trying to arrange deliveries of parcels to troops on the march. Brig: Gen. B. M. Bryan, assistant

fices in Room 300, Board of Trade building. The telephone” number is MA-5361. Yar Bishop R. A. Kirchhaffer 1s vice chairman of the jocal committee.

provost - marshal general, * told ‘a meeting of prisoners’ kin here’that

are underway in Germany. gi About 800,000, including about 25,[000 Americans, were reported to have been marched from the southleast ' towards. the Nurnberg-Stutt-

CHECK PUBLIC VIEW: Een “ON FOREIGN POLICY 5 ae mrs vs skeptical of the

; A survey on the present state of| Another large movement of about | wie i ie Ba a ee re AND NHN

4 Sy ey re a

taken by the Indiana committee for|ward along the Baltic coast out of victory. |the Polish corridor and Pomerania. Arrangements for®making the sur- | Officers and guards were said to vey, a sequel to Indiana’s Foreign|{have received about the same Policy week, have been made in 52|rations—one quart of hot water, cities outside Indianapolis. three potatoes and 200 grams of| A, summary of the report will be|bread—about half a pound—every forwarded to each of the American four or five days. ‘Many were sufferdelegates before the opening of the ing from dysentery. 8an Francisco conference April 25. Another 60,000 prisoners, including Cards for the survey may be ob- about 10000 Americans, were retained at the office of the Indiana ported moving out of the area south committee for victory, 918 Fletcher of Berlin. The prisoners in this area Trust building. were in relatively good condition

Prestige Gifted Celanese Rayon Stockings

* Hodry.

that you wilt enfoy. > Made with a spedial

. - talent for sheer beauty, long wear, lovely lines and

dryifig ‘overnight. Sheer afternoon weight, 96¢ pr. x Pe . 5 + Hosiery—8traet Floor

RES. FORTS TRITON 7 AL SUA 5

LS Apes 80 |

| No definite. time has been given

for delivery of the remaining 10. The ‘busses. are Diesel-powered and equipped with automatic clutches. They will be used both to replace ands supplement over-taxed railway “system.

2 CYCLISTS KILLED

COLUMBUS, Ind. April 9 (U. P.)

—Two motoreyclists, Virgil Wasson, charge of - the program. of | :

38. and Ray Miller, 38. both

Hope were killed last night when | they collided head-on with an auto-| mobile operated by.Mrs. Maxine E./meet.at 8 p. m. Wednesday at the!

Westport,

the. !

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~~ THEFTS OF TIRES,

Tire thieves were busy over the week-end. Between 7 p. m. Saturday and 9 a. m. today burglars entered the {Mullins garage, 226 W. Maryland st. From The Indianapolis Times de{livery trucks they stripped seven wheels, tires and tubes valued at labout $210. : Five wheels, tires and tubes were taken from Best Grand laundry trucks. Enfering the Certified Motor Freight Co. ,630 S. Capitol ave, thieves taqok two tires and tubes and attempted to break into the safe.’ |

DINNER TO BE HELD The Indianapolis chapter of The

{ will have a dinner meeting at 6 p.m. {tomorrow in the central Y. W. C. A IMrs. Beatrice Rubush will be in

REBEKAH LODGE TO MEET Irving Rebekah ‘lodge 608 will

hall

oy.

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Manrode—taken a couple of hours before—and then, after scarcely pausing. went another five miles down the road smack into Trendelburg. We were hot on the heels of Lt. Col. William M. Summers, Tulsa, Okla., commander of the attacking infantry unit. He had taken the town with his jeep and two tanks and not a shot had been fired. After Summers dashed on to the river Weser in an attempt to take the bridge across it. The Germans saw him coming and blew it.up practically in his face. That was the size of today’s opposition as we coursed our way across rolling semi-wooded countryside. Engaging gladly in this strange type of warfare were a lot of G. I's who were used to doing it the hard way. Tired and cold and ruggedmugged as ever, but strangely

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TAT INDIANAPOLIS ATMES wi = ~FOUR-FIRMS-REPORT ‘The -Race for Berlin Begins To Look Like 500-Mile’

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gleeful, they rolled through .villages like plumbers on a picnic. In Manrode we climbed to the steeple of we village church to survey the sufrounding villages, which had not been taken, but already had white flags flying. It was a lovely spring day and everybody seemed to be enjoying it except the Germans, who looked at us as though some terrible epi-

demic had arrived. Copyright, 1945, by The Indianapolis Times and The Chicago Dally News, Inc.

WAR BOND SUPPORT PLEDGED BY LABOR

WASHINGTON, April 9 (U. P).— Labor today gave its pledge to put the $2,500,000,000 seventh war loan over the top. The pledge came from William Green, president of the American] Federation of Labor, and Philip! Murray, president of thé Congress! of Industrial Organizations, as the payroll savings phase of the drive

| began.

United States’ foreign policy will be| 15,000. Antericans, proceeds eels o ;

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T'S HOPELESS, "NAZI GENERAL SAYS (Continued From Page One) “And the farther you advance the more the professional officers’ corps will be willing for the men

in their commands to surrender, " “But” they are so badly organ-

L. ized and so poorly supplied that

if you continue to press them they cannot last long. “I believe our Western front army has been almost destroyed. The only possibility of new for mations are from reserve units, stragglers, and small remnants which cannot bé made into a coordinated fighting force. “The possibility of withdrawing 8. S. divisionsh Trom the Russian front to this territory must te impossible in view of the lack of transportation. “That lack also will limit the

territory to—which we can-move |

, divisions from the Scandinavian countries. The few divisions we have been able to extricate from Italy cannot go muen {arther

"than to the defense of the south.” The general, an intimate friend af-Pleld- Marshal Kurt von Rund=~ stedt, who was deposed Troi toms ‘mand of the Western front armies, said Von Rundstedt is now without a command, but ‘is not under arrest: !

(Copyright, 1945, Bcripps-Howard Newspapers.)

NOONAN QUITS AS

John F. Noonan of Indianapolis, secretary of the Alcoholic Beverage Commission for the last eight

years, = resigned today, effective May 1. x Mr. Noonan, a Democrat, will

become state representative for the Continental Distilling Corp. , of Philadelphia. Known throughout the state as a former professional and semi professional baseball player,- Mr, Noonan lives with his family ab 5720 Lowell ave. In another administration resig= nation today, Albert Henry quit as jchief of the Soldiers and Sailors imonument guards. He likewise is (a Demadcrat.

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