Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 April 1945 — Page 2

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WASHINGTON, April 12 (U. P). ~The German army has lost 1,600,000 men in prisoners captured by

the western allies since last June and now has

and Oder, Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson said today. Of Germans captured since the No D-day, U. S. armles have taken 1,200,000, Stimson said. ~The total includes 300,000 captured in the first nine. days of this month. Meanwhile total- U. 8. combat casualties since the war Started, rose to within 610 of an even 000. The total was 899,390, an po crease of 6481 over a week ago. This was the smallest seven-day increase in many weeks. Stimson told his news conference | that German defenses in the est had been broken up and dissected. | The rate of disintegration increases, he said, as Germans continue to qurvender eN-MASKe.... “TYE there “is ahy German hope of standing on thé Elbe,” he. said. E. TS OW Regie 8 But, he added, the co “Faveen THE"

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is; between the western allies and the Russians—are only -75 miles miles wide at some points. “Cut off from most of Germany's production centers,” he continued,

“scant hope” of making a stand between the Elbe

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NATIONALLY KNOWN

* THEATER MAN DIES

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Segre when he bought the Alham-/ bra theater on W. Washington st, {where ‘Thompson's restaurant now Heated. | He later of = ehedte Fol

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ned thé old Apollo,

years. In 1928 he sold the Lyric but]

‘bought it again about 12 years ago.|

The Greater Amusement Co. leased {the Lyric in 1938. Mr. Olson also operated the Bair

ies RUSSIA SENS PACT WITH TITO _

Pledges Mutual -Help in Event of Attack.

LONDON, April 12 (U. P).—Radio Moscow said today that Russia | and Yugoslavia have signed a 20year pact of friendship and alliance. Under * its provisions, the two | countries promised . to go to the | aid of one another in the event of | renewed German aggression after | the war. The treaty will be renewed automatically for five-year periods un- | less one of the countries gives one | year’s advance notice of termination, the broadcast said. Premier: ‘Marshal Tito of Yugo-| slavia and Foreign Commissar V.

TITROTS “8c “a "als ~ihe Lyle. theater. for. many,’

|M. Molotov of Russia signed the | pact at Moscow yesterddy. It was | similar to other pacts cou by | ussia with Britain, Czechoslovakia and France. ’

State Deaths

FALMOUTH—Charles. Willard preeman | 72. Survivors: Wife, s Nettle May; son, Verne E.; dgughier, Mrs. Vera E. Cree. | oe dtu Mpbthan OQ ROULke, ST, |. ER aa Baugh Pa Survivors; Husband, ~Leogest WO disters, Milk Sonim w. “calftg 8

Jennsen

| Survivor: Brother, Charles, New JALBANY -- Mrs. Monta Ragethe Roby, Survivors: Sons, Leonard, Hard, oo. Roy Roby. PENNVILLE — Mrs. Eva Bell Coats, 62 Survivors: ® Husband; sisters, Mrs. 'Ros-| anna Talbot, Mrs. Ollie Harpst, brothers, |

“they seem to hold scant hope. to | theaters, a chain of neighborhood | Newton ‘Orie Fear the Nazis.” fiouses, until he recently sold them PORTLAND Mrs, Emus E. Grattls, 72.| Demonstration of Power Ji Surge Landis rR : » Survivor: Wy acre of Germany ro Tel About three years ago the theates of allied armies,” Stimson said, “and | pioneer, a member of the Variety from all accounts they have a club, retired. He hag been in ili realistic understanding of the phy-| health for some time. , sical failure of Hitler and the gang| Survivors are his wife, Ethel; which. they have. allowed to lead| four sisters, Mrs. H. P. Betige, Inthem. dianapolis; Mrs.” Elsie Lindquist, “As Gen. Eisenhower has more Mrs. Oscar Pritz and Mrs. Nels than once’ indicated, our men are Johnson, all of Chicago; and four going through Germany as con-| brothers, Fred, Paul and Robert querors and not as liberators except | Flaskamp, all of Chicago, and as we hope to free the world in- Charles Flaskamp, Carmel. cluding the ‘German people from| Services will be conducted by the the cancer of Naziism.” { Rev. F. R. Daries of Zion's EvanThere was no official explanation | | gelical and Reformed church at 3:30] "of the samll increase in this week’s| P. m. Saturday in Flanner & Buannounced U. S. casualties over last | chanan mortuary. Cremation will ‘week's. | follow. I

The casuals heures avy ott ‘DING-DONG DADDY’ es STARTS PRISON TERM

“aie 159,267 37,402 Wounded .. 483,256 44444 86,648 10605 97253 SAN QUENTIN, Cal, April 12 (U. 61514 4254 71788| P).—Francis Van Wie, 58, San Saas 96,705 899,390 Francisco's much-married “dingarmy wounded 250,192 dong daddy” last night sadly began | serving a maximum term of 30 years in San Quentin prison.

have returned to duty. FDR URGES HELP TO VETS | Van Wie, who married 13 women, | but never was divorced, wept as he

- WASHINGTON, April 12 (U. P.).! — President Roosevelt told the house took leave of his San Francisco irrigation committee today that! guards on entering the prison. He legislation “to facilitate the settle-| wore coveralls and fumbled with a ment of returning veterans on farms | battered old hat.

can be of great value in assisting| .He said he planned to study Spanthem in returning to civilian life.” | ish in prison.

Local Gamblers Keep Eye On State and Vice Versa

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Chief Jesse McMurtry and safety {board President Will H. Remy are setting up theif own exclusive revari : arious communities.” gime, with no Beekerites admitted. Church Group Complains This unrest in county dnd city While Col. Killian may not have disturbs the state not a bit. At yet received any complaints, citi- | present it's directthg its attention zens and the Indianapolis Church |to Jeffersonville and Muncie. ledarstion haje Sumplaied fst} The local ministry in both places serial Ci fr ghd is reported to be up in arms. doin, Col. Killian said he had started Authorities have said that they] {an unofficial probe at Jeffersonville, are Souths ko 0 mason sto these| op and had alreadw conducted an inSa a A ay vestigation at Muncie. Previously, the state police confiscated slot ma« Nalrants can be issued. Prosecutor|.nines in Stark county, upstate. érwood Blue and Sheriff Otto | Petit have asked the public to take| ~OUr policy is to wait and sce the initiative in ferreting out gam-| What the local authorities intend to bling operations. do when complaints have been regAlthough city enterprises are still istered,” said the colonel. pretty well subdued, reports of slot No Co-Operation Tat 1 Selatan spots and base-| «In many instances investigations poo ets practically any-|nave been made and particularly where are popping up like kernels| when the citizens. in their own St leat Dom When he heats on, | words, have reported that they dre ho a brig Bu, face | 0 to ‘obtain the co-operation » "| of tonal se saving there keeps hat evar cnr Sl * : halt ee wp Dine ait 1 hatha of the state are entitled to protecvine rumors have it that éard and Hon against gambling, and it is the dice players appear in some dis-| | policy of our administration to intricts on certain shifts, then softly| vestigate and act upon complaints steal away when other squads take| *iCh.reach usa, . . In doing this, aver on other shifts, we have always co-operated with

State Agencits Busy | the local officials of cities and | counties. However, the policy of Both district and headquarters the administration will be that the

commands are undergoing a gradu- | laws of our stat e are to be at enforced al reorganization intended to erase and when complaints are made to top-ranking officers still sympa-| our office, proper investigation althetic to ex-Chief Clifford Beeker.| ways will be made.”

400 Planes in Record Raid On Tokyo War Plants Area

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their bombs landed directly on the Sompleted occupation of Tsugen istarget, Pires were caused and huge and off southeast Okinawa, conclouds of smoke were seen to rise. trolling the entrance to NakaguThe mission was 17 hours Jong. shuku bay. While the aerial campaign was Cavalry Drives Japs being renewed, American invasion| Nimitz disclosed that American

SWAYZEE—Rev. Clyde Stone Miller, |

forces on Southern Okinawa remained stalled for the fourth day by heavy Japanese artillery and mortar fire from defensive positions four miles north of the capital, Naha, 4 Marine forces to the north con- _ tinued advances on Ishikawa peninsula, A ‘Japanese Domel dispatch, re-. ported by the FCC, said about. 80 American carrier planes ‘raided Formosa off the southwestern tip -of the Ryukyus for about two hours

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casualties in the first nine days of

the Okinawa campaign were 432 killed, 2103 wounded and 160 missing. | The count of Japanese dead through Sunday was 5009. In the Philippines, units of the 1st cavalry division drove 14 miles through disorganized Japanese re- | sistance to secure a second foothoid on the east coast of Luzon. | The new anchor, 55 miles squtheast of Manila, was 12 miles north |} of 11th airborne division units at | Antimonan. The parallel drives by | the cavalry and airborne units | sealed off the enemy forces in the In southeastern n. - ‘In central Luzon 6th division troops completed clearing Mount Mataba and two adjoining peaks, 15 ies northeast of Manila.

Alr forces aided the troops far-

ther nortth in clearing Japanese positions around the Balete Pass |

“Flown on Okinawa

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BUT THIS is pe the first time Glenda’s flag has flown over the battlefield. On Peleliu, Too Maj. Jordan planted the same flag on Peleliu when the marines invaded the Palaw islands in September. = There it was the first U. 8. flag raised on the former Jap-held island. Glenda held up two fingers to- | day. “That's what daddy's done with the flag now.” Then she held up three. “Next time it will be ‘Jerpan’” she sald. » » -n “DADDY wanted that flag, so I gave it to him. And he better be careful with it so he can bring it back home pretty soon. But he put it up like I wanted him to,” she said. And to a marine corps combat correspondent on Okinawa, Maj.

| Jordan said:

“It’s been a pleasure to comply with my danghiers Wishes »

Rn ; 1940. In otober;

ec ek Mo 41042 he: AHEped. AE “tor i Se tive duty and was in on the initial | MORGANTGW N=" Andrew Blueher;” - dfive of the Way Back 10 “Japan. ——

He hit the beach at Guadalcanal. He returned to. the states in May, 1943, and was stationed in Philadelphia. For 15 years prior to’ entering service he was employed as an electrical engineer at the Indianapolis Power & Light Co.

.|from both the east and the west,

ERAN entered service:

| THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES.

| Child's Flag First

I'WE'LL NOT FORGET

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with the advances into Germany

“thk. constant compressing of these prisoners into camps in an evernarrowing area has resulted in extreme hardship.” : 15,000 Set Free The allied offensives on both fronts have resulted: in the liberation of 27 of the prisoner of war camps out of the 78 in which American soldiers are known to be held, they said, These operations have resulted in the liberation of approximately 15,000 Americans. The German government, however, has evacuated 36,000 Americans into the interior of Germany, where 34,000 others were already being held, they said. SL “Food and sanitary provisions have suffered and disrupted transport facilities have resulted in a shortage of Red Cross supplies in many places.” they said. In an effort to relieve this situation, they said, large supply depots of Red Cross stocks were established in areas where there were large -|concentrations of allied prisoners. IThermdded “What “dniple "stocks! en Ti” BEE FI Bw! rland 29. HEED... e provided. Hy Be Le weer Brutal -Negleet The Stimson-Stettinius statement and the International Red Cross

‘GERMANS’ CRUELTY’

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Yanks Toke Weirgar, “Cradle Of Fallen German Republic.

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break with the discredited Bismarck tradition’ of iron and blood. That the tradition was to return later with self-destructive force was an irony evidently not . foreseen. ~ Apart-from their sentimentality : about Weimar, the Germans also Had a practical reason for moving the seat for the capital—they avoided the prospects of mob demonstrations by a revolutiontorn people.

The constitution, as adopted,

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established a new frame of government for a nation of 60,000,000 people. It set forth the philosophy of republican. government as the German leaders then saw it and endeavored to make permanent the political achievements of the revolution. Among revolutionary changes provided in. the constitution were the direct election of the nation’s chief executive, the establishment of ministerial responsibility, the inauguration of universal suffrage- and the use of initiative, referendum and recall,

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port said. Face to face with utter “defeat and extinction, the Nazi chieftains were reported preparing to throw every last ounce of their fast dwindling resources into their valedictory. Berlin itself indicated that the Nazis believed their doom to be at hand. Nazi broadcasts ordered all the German people to: become spies «fer the AT, indicating that their fei “intelligence wore bed ET not know where the speeding allied armies ~might strike-zext. © Seek Information “Tomorrow your home village

cipal problem, and both indicated that this problem now had been solved at least to a certain degree.

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cablegram apparently referred to! may be in the front line without the same supply setup. Both said| your knowing how this came transportation had been the prin-|

| about,” the Nazis said in an im- | plicit threat backing up the order to forward all information on al-

lied movement.

Rumor: Leipzig Last Stand Site

“People! To grips . with the enemy!” a broadcast exclaimed after reciting instructions on what information was wanted about the strength and activity of the allied armies. A Western front broadcast over an American army transmitter reported more signs of disaffection in the German air force. Only yesterday the execution of scores of luftwaffe officers was reported. _ ‘The broadcast quoted reliable reports as saying that the Nazis had arrested and perhaps ' exeuted 3 Von Richthofen, SD air come mander in Italy, and Marshal

Hugo Sperrle, former air chief in.

western Europe. . The clandestine radio Atlantic reported on March 20 that Richt hofen and Sperrle had been arrested by order of Reichsmarshal Hermann Goering in his search for scapegoats in the failure of the luftwaffe.

Daron Wolfram

. THURSDAY, APRIL 12, 1045

FIFTH ARMY THRUST ~*

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coast soutfeast and east of Carrara. One American column occupied Brugiana, two and a half miles north of Massa, while a contingént of Nisei (Japanese American) troops reached the tiny hamlet of Codena, less than a mile east of Carrara. . ‘Drive Across River In the: Adriatic sector, 8th army troops burst through strong German opposition to seize several foot= holds on the western bank of the Santerno river, less than 23 miles from Bologna. The drive across the river, next to. the last barrier before the open plains of the Po valley, represented a three mile advance by the 8th army - forces from nebgy-captured Lugo. Other 8th army troops already were established on the north bank of the Reno river, due north of Alw fonzine, near Jake. Camacchio, where amphibious forces again landed behind the German lines. While the éxact site of the crosse ing of the lake was not disclosed, headquarters reported that the ame phibious action carried the allied troops four miles in back of the German positions. A pele. Jad

Jake thas by | the Surprise | ‘and more 00 “esis troops captured. : .

‘MISS CHURCHILL HONORED LONDON, April 12 (U. P.) .—Mary Spencer Churchill, 21, youngest daughter of Prime Minister Churchill, has been awarded the medal of the British Empire, it was announced today. She now is serve ing with a heavy anti-aircraft bate

talion in Belgium.

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Mrs. Emily . ard’ hus) Morris, Lims 8 in Germa the infantry. Overseas Morris, who army two aj He attended and was fort son's. Surviving | wife .are five Smith, Mrs. Marcella, Pa Indianapolis, John Morris tioned at Ke

MISSINGT. Sgt. Lox and Mrs. Sa ers, and br Moore, 4324 C missing in E A radio ope based in Eng more than 1 overseas in the army in His brothe: er, has been since Aug. 2i Sgt. Francis -the.medical ¢ Germany. A Loren Snead, tha Snead, "France.

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WASHING ~The Unifec “appropriate Japan concer to be the Ja, Maru, which ican submari The Awa A safe conduct cause it deliv allied nation: nese. The state last night ti formed it of of a ship tr or special |i miles from of the Awa one survivor the ship was The Japar Awa Maru w after deliver Americans he areas, The state United State: cation “vith 1 which hand between Jap: and added th state is sen communicatic government.”

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