Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 April 1945 — Page 2

YANKS STALLED, Lo I'S. OKINAWA P=

Invasion Forces Gaining in ; Other Sectors.

; By UNITED PRESS ! The American drive on Naha in Southern Okinawa stalled against savage Japanese resistance today. But invasion forces continued in other sectors with ‘prac-

_ GERMANS MINE FOR YANK ARMY

Lone Survivor

Used by Captors.

HAMBORN, Germany, April 9 (Delayed) «U. P,) German work ers who once dug and processed coal for the Nazi welirinacht, are] back on the job again — this time

Gi anon ‘gunshot of German

== PANT

Seized Rhineland Property,

troops in the Ruhr pocket. The el area of Pennsylvania and Virginia, with the homes covered by grimy coal dust and soot. Even the workers look the same, their clothes blackened and their pallor characteristic of underground workers. But there the similarity ends. Here the German miners leave bomb wrecked homes and plod the pits through rubble - strewn «streets. They flinch when a single (Pp plane passes overhead. | ‘But they are willing to work and {happy the bombs have ceased. They are guaranteed money, food

re. WEDNE

CUT INTO ROCK

Yank Invaders Come Upon Hidden Nazi Factory.

By CLINTON G. CONGER United Press Staft Correspondent WITH U. S. 84TH DIVISION, Germany,- April .10 (Delayed) -~The Weser river ‘slices: througli sharp cliffs of the tortuous Westphalian

man-made but several showed that the Hie Nags supplemented their ma-

chine shops. wikh-Joot: {rom occupied

countries, This was a double factory. The lower two flights, behind massive doors which had been guarded by

| watch dogs and police, turned out

ballbearings, continuing the work of a bombed out plant at Minden. Made Tank Parts On the upper two flights, component parts of German tanks were machined and shipped to assembly plants in the vicinity of Berlin. Machines here had been sent from Aachen last September before the allied advance and had

BLAMES PRESIDENT “FOR LIQUOR TRAFFIC”

“Adultery and drinking are the two chief sins of America,” Dr. G. C. Comer, Texas evangelist, told 800 persons attending the citywide Methodist revival last night in the Roberts Park Methodist church, Blame for the drinking was laid at the President's door when Dr. Comer said: “Franklin Delano

Roosevelt is responsible for the liquor traffic.” Continuing - the

Soecds Romance Ends in Divorce

"TOLEDO, “April 11 (U. P.)~A 66-year-old ‘Toledo man won his divorce when he explained “how he had been rushed off his fees by a fellow-member of a lonely’ hearts club. He said all he did was write to an Alabama woman saying ‘he would like to see and talk to her, “The next“ thing I knew,” he testified, “she had sold all her belongings and had come here to meet, and marry me.”

producing for the American war] jand security even though working|ciate at the Village of Lerbeck, a

no opposition.

‘been criticism of the events of the pres-

-Bttled to. crack the -Japanese de- 1 AEG “(EE Hes TO ree EOE Eg

©. Heavy Artillery Barrage. __|

oh Tsugen (Tsukata) island, about

" island, north of American controlled

To the north, marines captured a submarine base on Unten bay in a mile and a half advance, Torpedoes and mines were seized but the Japanese had removed all submarines and other craft, Army troops opened the entrance to Uakagusuku bay, one of the best naval anchorages south of Japan, by an amphibious landing Tuesday

10 miles off the southeast Okinawa coast, Only moderate resistance was encountered and officers expected the enemy to be cleared from the island soon. Other troops had captured almost two-thirds of the bay's shoreline and Tokyo said American warghips already were operating in the bay. Troops of the 24th army corps

island. capital Naha.

Marine artillery was moved south

artillery barrage of the Pacific war.

Naval guns offshore. continued to | Iwo Jima, the only living survivor

pound Japanese positions. | The Japanese virtually were] matching the fire from favorable emplacements on two ridges from | which they had perfect observation. | No ground advances had been reported in the past 24 hours. The Japanese were fighting from caves | and

to be dug out with Samethrowers and bayonets. In the Philippines, "American troops crushed the last organized Japanese resistance on southern Luzény” They seized control of the Sulu archipelago in the south by occupying Jolo island. Other troops landed on Busuanga

Palawan across the Sulu sea from Mindanao and ended Japanese control of 3000 lepers in the Culion colony. American bombers from the] Philippines continued neutralization | attacks on Formosa and sank or damaged three more Japanese cargo vessels in maintaining the aerial! blockade of China sea shipping. Radio Tokyo today identified | three American carriers, which it| claimed were sunk off Okinawa Pri- | Say, as the Essex, the converted! - carrier Langley and the auxiliary carrier Hipper. U. 8. communiques! _made no mention of carrier losses.

Income Taxpayer

Gets His Revenge |

CLEVELAND, April 11 (U.P). | ~—X& Cleveland movie operator to- | |

day was a leading candidate for |

Treasury Secretary Henry Mor- | genthau's personal Public Enemy No. 1. : 3 The man, who must be unnamed because income tax re- | tufns are confidential, decided that it was too much trouble to figure out his tax himself, so he took advantage of a law and sent | in his withholding slips. That, in itself, wouldn't be so bad. But this particular guy— | because of the profession he pur-sued-—got paid every night. And he got a withholding slip with each pay day. He accumulated 366 slips this way since last year

The revenue bureau put the | slips through some 50 separate operations and a staff of employees spent a week figuring out the return. | Thomas M. Carey, revenue collector here, said he hopes the guy will file his income tax return somewhere else next year,

SCHMELING IN NAZI DESERTER’S PRISON

WITH U. 8. NINTH ARMY, April | 11 (U. PJ) .—Max Schmeling, former world hedvyweight champion, was!

| 5 "fo bolster army guns in the heaviest |

SCHOOLS PLAN

observe Dumbarton Oaks week from

Vlas Dumbarton Oaks week and that

Ltricts of 30 schools. _Invitatipns to {parents and neighbors in these dis-

{ pupils.

|eitizens generally” !interest in vital current events,”

{hood forums. { present plans for world organization {and analyzes the Dumbarton Oaks

machine | Approximately 4500 men are wiik.] ing in these Rhineland mines, once owned by the fabulous Fritz Thys-| |sen and seized only a few days ago) {by American troops.

formerly the manager of the Singer | Sewing Machine Co. in Germany, | [believes the mines could begin full

production in two weeks if the amy |

«i [would help him round up workers. } $% Slaves Liberited | The mines, which fed Germany's {Ruhr factories, are situated in the {area around Hamborn, Sterkrade and Bottrop above the Rhine-Herne

| rena

of the five U. 8. marines who participated in the famous flagraising scene on Mt. Suribachi,

is Pfc. Rene A, Gagnon, above, now at his home in Manchester, N.H. The sixth member of the group was a navy hospital corpsman, who is recuperating from wounds in a navy hospital.

DAKS FORUM

Students and Parents to Attend Coming Week.

Indianapolis public schools will

April 16 to 22. Special emphasis will be placed on the proposals through classroom study in junior and - senior high school social studies courses and {through a series of neighborhood | forums as a feature of the schools’ adult education program. The observance was planned fol{lowing President Roosevelt's sug- | gestion that the week be designated

special pbservances be held throughout the nation. : ¥ The forums are scheduled for seven centers embracing the dis-

tricts- have been distributed by Aim to Whet Interest “The public schools recognize the responsibility” of getting pupils and ke an active

{ School Superintendent Virgil Stine- : vatgh said. “Among present day { problems none is more important | than the’ consideration of plans for a permanent peaceful world organization.” A folder entitled “Which Way “América?” will be distributed in the |classrooms and at the neighborIt describes past and

{ proposals. The - folders are availfable upon tequest atthe central ! school office, 150 N. Meridian st. Schedule Arranged The” schedule for the neighbor- { hood forums to be held at 7:30 p. m April 19 follows: Schools 3, 15, 33 and 54 will meet at school 15 at 2302 E. Michigan {st. with Oka 8. Flick, head of the { Technical high school history de{partment as leader. Schools 29, 76, 60 and 45 will meet at school 76 at 703 E. 30th st. with Miss Minnie Lloyd, head of the Bhortridge high school history de- | partment as chairman. ’ Schools 6, 7, 8, 13, 25 and 28 will

| tion The burgomeister of Hamborn, |

for conquerors. Hamborn at one time had a population of 125,000, but it was reduced to 85,000 when the Americans took it. Approximately 500 slave laborers were liberated and awatt disposi-

few miles south of Minden; in some of the most attractive terrain the 9th army has seen. Except for a small railroad yard in Lerbeck itself, there is nothing on aerial reconnaissance ‘target maps to justify a second look. Yet: when infantrymen crossed the river and cleaned out resistance on the heights they found a huge German war factory cut into the

The remaining Germans.

workers all are

ALL CITIZENS INTERESTED PEARL HARBOR, April 11 (U. solid Tock P.).—Cmdr. Harold E. Stassen said | . |here last night that every Ameri-| Machine Loot lcan citizen has an interest in the| The plant, burrowed at least 350 world security conference at San!feet into the cliff, was jammed with Francisco because it represents the huge, intricate machines. I saw “only hope Of preventing future row upon row of gleaming lathes. wars." Mostly the machines were Ger-!

in production only a .few months, Key workers were Germans but several hundred Poles and Ukreinians were herded into the. shops daily. Only a few sheds were above ground and they were ‘camouflaged.

Civilians living Within a mile of the | the |

scene were not factory's existence.

isms wp ——————— LIBERTY SHIP LOST WASHINGTON, April 11 (U. P.).| -The war shipping administration today announced the Adoss of the liberty ship Robert L. Vann in European waters.

aware of

to an underwater explosion.

The sinking was due]

ent administration, the evangelist charged: “Two divorcees in the President's family are too many; the mother | should have stayed at home to train ner children.” As a specific cute for the moral ills of the nation, Dr. Comer urged the restoration of the family altar, (of prayer and the reading of the Bible, “Christians failed to give a 10th of their incomes and now they must give their sons,” Dr. Comer re marked recalling the tremendous | losses in the war. “Profits made from the war are blood profits,” he | continued.

“They are made at the

‘SCREEN WRITER SUED

HOLLYWOOD, April 11 (U. P), -~Leslie Charteris, mystery story writer and screen scenarist, was sued for $796 back alimony today by Barbara Charteris, who also re quested an accounting of his income and net earnings.

expense of the lives of our youth in the armed forces.” The sermon subject for tonight is, “The Three Groups in the Garden.” The' revival which is sponsored by all the Methodist churches of this community will continue with daily sessions at 10 a. m. and 7:30 p. m,

through April 22.

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reported today to be imprisoned. at] meet at school 8 at 520 Virginia ave a Wehrmacht deserters camp in|With Wilbur 8. Barnhart, vice prin-

Papenburg near Bremen, where] more than 100,000 former German | soldiers have died of starvation and | cruel treatment, An informant said Schmeling was | sent to the camp by Nazi party! orders along with Illy Forst, former German movie star, and Adolf Hauser, former German middle-| weight boxing champion.

GERMAN GENERAL IS CALLED ‘COWARD’

LONDON, April 11 (U. P.)"—The Nazi Transocean agency today reported that the German high com- | mand has charged General Lasch,|

| Charles H. Money, Wash ington high {school history department head, | chairman.

{high

cipal of Manual charge. Schools 4, 17, 24 and 40 will meet lat Crispus Attucks high school with Irven Armstrong, head of the Crispus Attucks history department, as moderator, ° Schools 16, 30 and 50 will meet at school 30 at 40 N. Miley ave. with

high school, in

Schools 57, 58, 17, 78 and 85 will meet at school 58 at 321 Linwood ave, with Lewis W. Gilfoy, Howe school + history department head, in charge. > Schools 80, 84, 91 and Broad Rip-

commander, of the fortress of P.¢ high school will meet at Broad

Koenigsberg, with “cowardice” in surrendering” to the Russians It was the first time the Nazi high command had’ publicly charged a field commander ‘of cowardice for) surrendering. The high command Koenigsberg was lost prematurely through the actions of Lasch, 5

BARUCH SEES PATTON

. PARIS, April 11 nard Baruch, President Roosevelt's emissary, visited the 8d army yesterday, headquarters disclosed last | night. He had lunch with Lt. Gen. George S. Patton. ‘Later he crossed |

the Rhine to view Coblenz and

Wiesbaden, i - K. 0. 1738 GERMAN PLANES - PARIS, April 1 (U. P.).—Alljed

said that,

(U. P.).—Ber-

{Ripple with Lawrence. A, Surface ® lof the high-school social studies de- | partment as leader,