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Radio Reports Entry of Berlin Imminent.

‘By BOYD D. LEWIS » United Press Staff Correspondent

“PARIS, April 14.—Amer-| ican 9th army infantrymen| bridgehead §

won .a “®econd across ' the Elbe river «armored spearheads in attack on Berlin today.

To the south, the U, 8. 3d army cut’ the enemy's main escape roads

into Bavaria and raced within 80-

S. 1ST ARMY, Ger- | (U. P.).~Ameri-

WITH U, many, Apri ‘14

can 1st army columns advanced

30 miles through stiffening GercogpEn- resistance this OTHE 1 the outskirts of Desgaw; 55%

and | drove on-east to join their the §

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. southwest: of Berlin and orf#y five |

miles from the Elbe river.

odd miles of a juncture with the,

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REPORT HITLER T0 SEEK PEACE THROUGH POPE

J [Lisbon Hears Decision Was

Red army. " Dispatches from the blacked- out, oth army front said doughboys of! the 83d infantry division burst | across the Elbe at Barby, 15 miles| southeast of Magdeburg and 57 miles. southwest. of Berlin. The Yanks were reported closing up fast in the wake of the 2d ar-| mored division, whose tank columns crossed the river at an undisclosed point between Barby and Magdeburg 48 hours ago.

Big News Hinted { Germany dess. than 30 miles fiom Headquarters refused to confirm Berlin and 90 from’ the American reports that the American spear-|3q army.

By ROBERT MUSEL United Press Staff Correspondent LONDON, April 14.—Nazi broad- | casts said today that Red armies

| were apening a general offensive | on a 300-mile front arching across |

heads were barely 15 miles west of

the wrecked enemy capital, but sen- |

sation London reports said Britain had been alerted for imminent news|

LONDON, April 1 (. ry About 1150 U. S. heavy bombers attacked the German pocket on the Gironde estuary northwest of Bordeaux today and supreme headquarters in Paris said troops

under French Gen, Edgar de Lar- | minat opened a limited attack in |

that area.

of tremendous jmportance—possibly | an entry into Berlin, a linkup with the Red army, German -capitulation, or all thee.’ Latest official reports placed the Americans 45 miles from Berlin.

Soviet forces of th# southeasiern front were sweeping across Austria land Moravia in a race with the { Nazis for the Bavarian redoubt. { Their pace was fall of Vienna and a crossing of the Morava river before Brno. Lt. Hans Laboeck, German cor- | respondent first to report the start [of the Red army's Vistula-to-Oder {offensive on Jan. 12, said that be‘tween Stettin and the Sudeten | mountains “the enemy is trying

jie smash the Germah dam on the

speeded by. the]

THe Sal. today on the Eastern and Western fronts.

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Nazis Reno Red Armies Open Sweeping Offensive

Eastern front with every tank and | every man at hjs djsposal.” Laboeck, indicating that the die | was cast for the showdown battle] in- the east, said that when the]

he evidently . expected it to do momentarily, “then we must realize ‘that the final -decisicn is at stake.” Hours earlier the German high command said the “enemy continued his offensive preparations in Silesia and on the lower Oder”—the same stretch of eastern Germany -referred to by Laboeck. The anti-climactic end of the week-long siege of Vienna released formidable Rusisan forces for the Russian drive up the Danube valley, of Sankt Peiten, 31 miles west of the Austrian capital and 132 miles from Berchtesgaden.

Japs Say B-29

Raid Set

Fire to Mikado's Palace

Absie, the American broadcasting

station in Europe, army march into Berlin was expected imminently. Lt. Gen. George S. Patton's veteran 3d army tank crews plunged toward the Russian lines at a mile-an-hour clip against the} wegkest German opposition. They | tflanked Leipzig and drove within Be miles of Dresden, two of the biggest east-front: military bases left to the battered Wehrmacht. “The barricades are up in Berlin; the Reich is entering its final

—

P.).—A German captured in the | said indignantly

April 14° FU. major general, Ruhr pocket, today: “The war has become very un-

fair—the allies have everything, | The |

planes, men and materials.Germans have nothing. It is unfair for the allies to take such advantage.”

ours,” London es proclaimed. Radio Berlin admitted soberly at the allied attacks were mouatg in fury all along the line and at the situation in the west had become “even more acute,” but the azis gave no details on the progess ‘of the battle.

newspaper head-

Elsewhere on the collapsing Ger- |

nan front these developments weve ported by the allied armies:

U. 8. 1ST ARMY—Ran into unxpectedly stiff German resistance Almost at the gates of Leipzig and pn its northern flank in the Harz ountains, but plowed steadily phead for gains of five to seven miles on top. of ygsterday’s 25-mile pdvances. Leipzig and the com-

panion base of Halle 15 miles to the | orth wete under direct attack and |

e 1st army captured 34,847.prispners yesterday, probably the biggest one-day bag ever taken by an hllied army. 7th at Bamberg AMERICAN 7TH ARMY-—Drove nto outskirts of Bamberg, 30 miles horth of Nuernberg, and

said the Oth’

WITH 1ST ARMY, Germany, |

By LISLE SHOEMAKER United Press Staff Correspondent

GUAM, April 14. — Hundreds of | Superfortresses set fire to a five- |

square-mile arsenal area of Toky0| today and the Japanese reported the | flames spread to the Mikado's palace. Tokyo broadcasters said Emperor

Hirohito and his family were un-

{harmed but they denounced ‘the | bombing as an *“afrocious action” [romped by American “disappointment” over the death of President | Roosevelt,

| fires broke out in part of the bufld- | ings within the Imperial palace, the Omiya palace and the Asasaha de|tached palace buf “were soon ex- | tinguished.” The main building and sanctuary {of the Grand Meiji shrine, one of | | Japan's greatest memorials, was| | “burned to ashes,” the communique | said. Hear Blasts 100 Miles Away Omiya palace, adjoining the Imperial palace, is the residence of | the Empress Dowager. Explosions from the huge fires that ripped through the vital war production area of Tokyo were heard more than 100 miles away. Thousands of tons of high ex{plosives and incendiaries were {dumped on the Japanese sapital in

A Tokyo communique said 1

a section congested with three large munitions plants and chemical works. Huge blazed

fires furiously

through the target area, one of

{Japan's most vital war production centers, as the Marianas-based B-29's completed the 16th raid on the enemy capital. When the B-29 in which I was riding “flew “over “Tokyo near the end of today’s raid, fires were raging through the stricken area and thunderous explosions flashed across 1the. city. oes Toke radi sakitoa Ayal severe damage resulted from the fires, which raged several hours after the bombers left. The communique said approximately 170 B-29's took part in the raid and claimed that 41 of {them were shot down, 80 others damaged. Area Devastated Although the size of the Superfortress force was not announced officially, it was known to compare with those used in previous raids when as many as 325 bombers

bombs in a single attack.

devastated

in the March 10 fire raid. .

By UNITED PRESS Troops of - three American divi=

sions on Okinawa battered out slow gains today against the stubborn Japanese defense line before Naha,

the capital, after repulsing a strong counter attack. In the northern

against light opposition. Radio Tokyo said Japanese “sui- | cide” planes were continuing to

sector marines continued to gain |

Yanks Press On in Olindw After Stopping Jap Drive

tack. on Formosa airdromes. Tokyo

{said 70 carrier planes raided For-|

| mosa- aggin yesterday. -An enemy broadcast also said a small force of Mitchell bombers Shanghai three times today. Units of the American division have gained control of Bohol island in the central Philippines, | Pouglas MacArthur announced.

the Luzon campaign. In the north

ad-| attack the American fleet off Okin- | the Americans pushed within three

yanced within 55 miles of Czecho-|awa and claimed 12 additional ves- miles of Baguio, once the Japanese

Blovak border on the southern flank | bf the 3d army. BRITISH 2D AND CANADIAN ST ARMIES—Rolled up gains of ve to 13 miles toward the North ea along a 200-mile front, touching bff a general German retreat across he northern Elbe river line; Arnhem was half-clegred, allies eight miles from North sea coast and 40 niles from Hamburg,

Patton's famed 4th and 6th rmored divisions were out in front the 3d army sweep into the astern reaches of the Reich. The 4th division spurted through he 33-mile corridor between the eisse and Mulde rivers yesterday nd crossed the latter stream at a point about 47 miles east of Jena. lere the Yanks were about 10 niles northeast of Chemnitz, teks an 30 miles southeast of Leipzig d 43 miles west of Dresden. ‘Flying columns of the 6th arnored division reached the west pank: of the Mulde about 20 miles arther north last night, after a 25le dash eastward from the Pegau

Censored front dispatches placed

sels had been sunk or damaged. Adm, Chester W. Nimitz dis-|

Mitscher’s task force had destroyed 1200 Japanese planes in the last four weeks. More than 228 enemy planes were destroyed in the last three days through the Ryukyu which Okinawa is the principal island. A British task force destroyed 17 Japanese planes Thursday in an at-

closed - that Vice’ Adm. Marc A.|

chain of |

{headquarters for the Philippines. Other units advanced toward Balete pass in a drive to cut off the

| enemy route into northeastern Lu-|

zon, In the island's southern sector American - columns were slowly | clasing a huge pincers on remaining Japanese forces. Philippines based war planes raided Formosa again and sank or| damaged three enemy freighters off | the China coast.

west of the middle Elbe. The armored columns and truck-| riding doughboys ‘racing up in their|

dorf Jena, site of one of Napoleon's

sporadic opposition. At the same time, Patton's 11th! armored division ‘stabbed out to the south and sOutheast in a double thrust that carried int» Hayreuth,

and reached a point 25 miles from the northwestern corner of Czechdslovakia, a

miles west of Dresden and 23 miles |

wake captured Pegau, Zeitz, Hetz- |

greatest military victories, against |

39 miles northeast of Nuernberg,|

defense of Leipzig, despite the fact that that city already had been by-passed by 1st-and 3d army advances to the north and south. The 1st army's 8th armored divi- | (sion ' broke across the Elster river southwest of Leipzig and drove

anéad against heavy shellfire to the

{banks of the Pleisse, 15 miles»south lof. the city.

‘WAR DADS TO MEET State officers and district delegates of the Indiana State Asso-

- {elation of American War Dads will

Reached in Conference - With Generals.

By W. R. HIGGINBOTHAM United Press Staff Correspondent LONDON, April 14 (U., P,),—Pri-

vate advices from Lisbon today said the Papal Nunciature there received a confidential note on March 31 saying that Adolf Hitler and his generals had decided to capitulate. The unconfirmed Lisbon report

|said Hitler and his generals met, dis-

cussed capitulation, decided for it, and to request Pope Pius’ intervention to arrange the details. ‘Rumors had circulated previously. that Hitler.had met with his gen\erhls, but they lacked confirmation, "Phe only. autheritic report so far of ‘a Nazi peace gesture was an approach by an emissary to a British

official in Stockholm. ‘The feeler |:

Hoosier Heroes: Ive Local Soldiers Dead in "WILL FIND WAY

Western Front Action, Four Are Imprisoned OUT™-GOEBBELS

Two local servicemen have died in.

action on -the Western front and, four are. prisoners of the Germans according to today's war depart-| ment casualty lists, KILLED » Opl. William Wulf, New Palestine, | n Germany. 8. Sgt. Daniel A. Richards, 2158 N. Alabama st., in Belgium. PRISONERS ’ Pfc. Irving L. Sablosky, 3140 N. Meridian st. of Germany. Cpl. William H. Pisher, Ruckle st., of Germany. Sgt.. Eugene A Byard, 913 High | st, of Germany.” F. O. Warren A. Becker, formerly | of 1360 S. Belmont ave., of Ger-| many.

DEAD— A radio operator with the 3d army, Cpl. William Wulf, brother of Miss Wilma Wulf, 617 N. East st., and son of Mr, and Mrs. Henry Wulf, New Palestine, was killed March 16 in action in Germany. Overseas since last June, the 25-| year-old soldier had been employed at the International Harvester Co. prior to entering service in July, 1942. He was a graduate of New| Palestine high school and a mem-| ber of the Zion Evangelical Luth-| eran church at New Palestine.

sols

S. Sgt.

| Jr., 1406

over Ger

WOUN

While serving with a tank battalion, Sgt. husband of Mrs.

field, May

19 in Germany. he is improving now in a. hospital | x

in France.

Sgt. Vincelt Q. Hill, Mrs. Ruth L. Hill, 1442'c W,

st, was w | many. Ov ersea

John E. (Jack) Colvin | C N. Colorado ave., missing | many Since Feb, 26.

DED—

oat: Farl W. Kerch, Forrest A. Lake, P. McCann, Bedford Plc. Pfc, Kenneth i Lt. Willard A. Moore Percifield,! ert L. 4 Morries, , Marguerite Perci- | Clifforg UEPRY. wood, was wounded March

Schwartz, Pt He.has written that

Kenneth G.

Wayne | Sebree, Rising Sun: T

{rence P. Smit!

acker, Ticker ‘South Be nd, | Trumbo, Dunkir husband of | ‘Morris|

sounded March 19 in-Ger=| The navy | following Indi ana - y action:

S, since Decémber, Sat. Hill{,

un u u

Tell City; Seaman

Cpl. William Wulf . . . Germany,

killed in le

Bedford; « . William George R. McMinn, Wg gan city W. Milner ith Bend Pfe. Kingstord Heights; Evansviie; Pfc Fortville; Philip .F.| the “Charles W.| h. 5th Gr Pvt Caly ‘Wilbur ' L.

and Pte. Wiliam A.| 4ijamma’ for all:of us.” PAC FIC REGIONS 8. Sgt. Jack 3 Parks, Sullivan

+ Muncie; Taylor, Stinesville; Bloomington;

men

Seaman re Charles Baa Tri Te

1-c Owen E

| aeriien Civiliars Urged te i Resist Allies.

By UNITED PRESS Propaganda Minister Joseph | Goebbels admitted: today that Gere | many “is now engaged to the point of exhaustion.” “But. he expressed confidence “tha$ {our savior, Fuehrer Hitler, will find |a way out of this dilemma for all of us.’ | Goebbels, in an interview with e Japanese Domei news agency, | that the very existence of the German nation wag threatened, ace cording to a Tokyo broadcast heard a by United Press in San Francisco, “I know that our ‘nation is now engaged to the point of exhaustion,” Japanese broadcast quoted Law-| Goebbels, “but ‘I also know for cere feaett) tain that our savior, FPuehrer Hite ler, will ind a way out of this

Pfc

Rou Pvt Rich-

He urged the German people to resist the allied offensives by their

" ra has. Msted “The lown BfIOrts” And. SSE ST

missing

"army.

The . prospec bic;

Lytle, 2 is now imptoving. in a general hos-| Kokomo, Ensign Witiam Norman McCon: resistance ‘have been reduced by

Surviving besides Miss Wulf and | pital in Europe, according to a war |

| nell,” Needham.

the recent loss of territories and

was. rejected bluntly.

{the parents, are two other sisters,

Among. current rumors was one MIS. Helen Moore, Thdianapolis,’and

that American troops already had | Mrs. Eleanor Casteiman, New York, | A jeep driver with the 78th divi~| Tech. entered Berlin: and that the war and a brother, Leroy Wulf, New sion of the lst army, Pfc. Minton | Richmond,

was over “for practical

The Evening Star said “Barricades Up {Reich Entering Its {The

London Papers See End ° 1 8S

Last Hours.”

Evening Standard headline serving with an ordnance units |said “Collapse at Hand.”

purposes. | Palestine. . 8 8-n Sgt. Daniel A. banner line brother of Mrs. in Berlin; 2158 N. Alabama st. lin action in Belgium Jan. 9, while

department notice.

{D. ‘Nelson broke ‘his leg in three |preroy D. collier, Kempton: Pfc. Thomas lives for this end. {places in action in Germany.March |B, Richards, 22 when his vehicle was caught in|paggy, Spring Grove; L. M. Ferguson, | |a mortar barrage. was killed }in the air and came down on him.|james J. Now hospitalized in England, Pfc. Nelson has written his parents, Mr. Tends icks, A former employee of the Piston|and Mrs. Minton S. Nelson, 4337 N, Martinsville; A Paris dispatch said Maj. Wal- | Service: Co. here, Sgt. Richards was | Pennsylvania st., that he is improv- | fighting mounted to full fury, as demar Pabst, notorious Nazi ter- a native of Clayton where he was ing. rorist and chief confidante of Frank |graduated from. high school. He|peen overseas since November and Laflen Jr., jo Papen, had arrived secretly in|Was 21. The purple heart has been|is a former resident of Saginaw, | Ft

Switzerland, perhaps to put forth Posthumously awarded his parents, | Mich.

| The following Indiana men are|the most pressing problem now is on today’s wounded list: to save the threatened existence | “ENROPEAN REGIONS «of the German people themselves,” Bre EW apbroke, | Goebbels said “All Germans should Pvt. Harold Butler, Muncie: Pvt | prepare themselves to stake their : Tech. 5th . This resist Otto:' Pvt. Jack gr {ance must be national—not only S. Sgt. Lawrence D. the resistance of the army forces but the resistance of the whole people.” 4

‘WOMEN WORKERS IN TUBE PLANT STRIKE

NOBLESVILLE, Ind., April 14 (U, P.).—A walkout’of 300 workers, mos$

n " a

Osceola Croucher, Jasonville | Amanuel C. Dabney, ’ Dewult, Granger The jeep flew up | Pfe. William J. Divens,, Muncie; Cpl Odon;: Tech. 4th Gr Evansville; Pfc. Charles Bloomington Pvt Leslei Bluffton; Pvt. Harry C Hill ConnersKnox; Tech. | Whiting: Pvt. [* Rensselaer; Pvt. Charles | Frankfort: Pfc. Leo J. Laier Jr., | “Cpl” "Melvin * H. ' Lambert, Pvt. Bari W. Lucas, Bloom- |

Garten, hetand E. Gibson,

Gill,

T. Sgt. Orvil E. Huett, Sgt. Harold H. Hunter, ville; Pvt. .Victor 'A.- Jones, 4th Gr. Michael J. Kohan | Daryl W. Laffoon

ville;

The 20-year-old ‘ soldier has

“Wayne: Wakarusa; ington,

already probing into the area

dumped over 2000 tons of fire] The section singled out for to-| day’s attack was about six. miles

northwest of the Imperial palace {and on the edge of the 17-mile area

attacked |

Gen. |

Assault troops continued gains in|

'| Methodist Revival,’ meeting,

a peace feeler. The report of a possible German effort to float a trial balloon was!

what went on in Nazidom as the | end of the road loomed ahead. The Paris dispatch to the pdly| Express -said Pabst had the confidence of a generals” and jectured that he was concerned | with some desperate attempt to|

whose commanders policy of Hitler,

oppose

named Dr. Walter - had

{It added that the job of the econ-

» one of a lush crop of rumors as to! PRISONERS—

“right wing group of| Germany according to a war deit might be con-| partment Snnouhveineti,

surrender German forces in sectors| viously reported missing in south-

the ern France, is a prisoner of Ger-

A - Stockholm dispatch to the Many, Express said a German economist t0 word received reached iby his Sweden—the fourth in two weeks. | Mr.

Mr. and Mrs. Clayton.

Lafe Richards, of

”"

Previously listed as missing. F-0 | Warren A. Becker, husband of Mrs. | Helen M. Becker, formerly of 1360]

| S. Belmont ave, is a prisoner of!

Cpl. William H. Fisher, 21, pre-

according

parents, and Mrs, Charles Fisher,

omists” would be to sive German 3011 - Ruckle . st.,

money in Sweden. Ordered Not to Obey S. 8. A United Préss dispatch from Stockholm quoted Danish underground - reports ‘as saying German army officers in Denmark had received ‘instructions not. to obey orders from S.S. elite guard sources, but to take orders only from the! Wehrmacht. Stockholm observers believed the

such a development might foreshadow an attempt to separate the Wehrmacht %from the 8.8. and gestapo in ofder to. prepare the grounds for the military capitulation of Denmark. an

acute food shortage

said a dommittee of research work-

greatly appreciated.”

WAR FRONTS

| APRIL 14, 1945

WESTERN FRONT—Third army. | tanks roll into eastern Germany, 80 miles from juncture with Red army.

dio says Russians have launched offensive on 300-mile arching across Germany. PACIFIC — Huge Superfortress | fleet sets fire to five-square mile arsenal area in Tokyo; Americans gain slowly against enemy * defenses before Okinawa's capital; U. 8, assault forces win control of Bohol in central Philippines. AIR WAR~U. 8S. air force attacks German positions on Gironde estuary northwest of Bordeaux. ITALY — British armored force drives within 22 miles of Bolog- | | na on 10-mile front.

lon April 3. He is

Fin Stalag 3-B.

ers would make available the latest! ile discoveries on how to cook “this|reported missing kind of food which our ancestors in Belgium since

| Byard, 913 High §

{lene Sugs will sing.

{ Mrs. Gladys Cal- = EASTERN FRONT—German ra- |

The 21-year-old

| soldier was with

a mechanized reconnaissance William Fisher

squadron of the 106th cavalry and has been. overseas since March, 1944.

Reported LE % nce Dec 16,

and Mrs. David L. Saplosky, 3140 N.

STATE— 2

Seaman

action.

The following Hoosiers are on today's war department killed in action: EUROPEAN REGIONS

Pvt. Wilbu 0. Cook, N

Earnest,

, Terre

v, Elberfeld.

Evansville; dale;

| Pfc. Irving L. Sablosky, son of Mr.’ report was trustworthy. They felt]

Meridiar st., is now a prisoner of

the Germans in Stalag 4-B. Two cards dated Feb. 11, were received this week from Pvt. Sablosky by “his grandmothers, Mrs. Henry Rosner, 3330 N. Meridian st., and

A German broadcast reflecting | Mrs. Michael Sablosky, 3402 Broadurged | way. He was serving with the 422 housewives and children to collect!infantry regiment of the 106th di“roadside vegetables and fruit.” It| vision.

a 88 « Sgt. Eugene A. Byard, previously

Dec. 17, is now a prisoner of the & German governaent. The. word was received by his wife, Mrs. § Gertrude Ls§ st. His mother.is lon, 437 Parkway

ave, and his fa- Eugene Byard

front | ther is Robert A. Byard, 446 S. Ala-

| bama st.

'W. C. T. U. WILL HOLD TEMPERANCE MEET

Three W.C.T.U. units will hold an institute on temperance Tues-

day in the New Baptist church

{1208 N. West st. They are the Thurman, Highland and East Side | groups. The meeting will open at 10 a. m {and close at 3:30 p.m. Mrs. W. W. | Reedy, state W.C.T.U. legislative (director, will speak and Miss Wil-

EVENTS TODAY

Indiana School Secretaries | convention, Lincoln hotel, American Friends Fellowship meetings, First Priends church, A. m, 2 p.m and 7:30 p. m, Robert Park | Methodist church, m. p. m.

MARRIAGE LICENSES

10 a.

1730 8. Meridian | George A. Ber " Stout field; Barnett, 914 S. East, Thomas J. Cholis, 51 W. Fall Creek; Rose mary Fletcher, 4065 N. New Jersey. Carl R. Denney, Martinsville, Ind,; Imogene Cunningham, 20 N. Traub, ’ Virgil ‘William Pranks, R. R. ington; Altha Lorene ‘Stafford, R. R

Bedford. Columbus PF. Graham, Dearborn hote!; Genevieve C. Copeland, 58 8. Irvington, George Harrison Hamilton, U. 8. navy;

Marcella

ork, Harold L. Hustedt, 1131 N. Dearborn; Betty Lavonne Redmon, 1119 N. Kealing. Willard Charles Jurgerson bury; Pérn Pope, RB cClur Leslie E. Little Jr, 958 N Betty Hallberg, 3920 N. Ralston Drive, | Wwilli¥m “Robert McNeely, 4345 Central; Barbara Terry, 4345° Central,

Frances Goth Walter Henry a ant, O.; Ruth Elizabeth Head, Evansville s ids Blaine;

Philip H, Prieshoff , 120 x “Hitnots: Nettie

Agnes Julia Gilday, 941 N. Miler, 526 Drover.

Edward Lee Reed

IN INDIANAPOLIS

council, | 9:30]

and 1:30 yume, Josephine Tate, at City

John W. Barnes, U.'B. army; Lillie McCoy, | James,

6. Bigom- Donald, Betty Cheshire, at Methodist. * [M

| |

Frances Rosemary Leslie, 2027 E. New | James, Una Thomas, at St.

Samp Atler- | Rose Shorwell, Audubon Road; | Greene Brock,

/Charles M. Lavine, y Finan Rotel; Pauline | Mayme liam,

Thomas Reese, 5417 Hibben Holder, 5703 E. Washington

Katherine C

association, Thurman L. Willie, Camp Atterbury; Emily

Eliz" beth Williams, 2095 N, Illinois

DEATHS

Girls

Mark, Rachel Elliott, at Coleman: Edward, Marjorie Hubbell, at Coleman John, Mildred Adolph, at Methodist. William, Norma Glendy, at St. Vircent's

Jeanne Miller, at St. Vincent's

Jamés, Doris Miller, lil rrancis. James, Dorothy 8i. Clair, at St. Francis George, Marion Havely, at Coleman. Hildreth, Mary Perdue, at Coleman, Robert, Martha Woods, at Coleman.

orris, Romayne Montgomery, at Methoc ist. | | Jesse, Josephine Smith, at Methodist, john Virginia Wilson, at ‘Methodist.

Lloyd, Mary Robinson, at St. Vincent's, , Vincent's, i

DEATHS 69,~ at 1136 N. Olney. 25, at City, tuberculosis. {John Maltbe Montgomery, 72, at (246 W | th, carcinoma. 60, at Methodist, car-| cinom | Alfred G. Grund, 57, at Methodist, ear- | cinoma Clarence Leach, 20, at City,

tuberculosis.

pemosaryy Sidney J. Haspel, 42, at Western Union, | myocarditis

myocarditis, ’ pulmonary |

The Americans wers meeting their | hold an all-day meeting tomorrow

ute Oliver E. Prancis Williams, a, at. Methodist, acute!

Pvt. ‘John L.

Sgt. Harold C. Pitts, { Pleake, Stilesville; | fenberger, Red Key; | Brazil;

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2-¢ Glen Olin DeLong, !

Richard FP. Scohy, told R. Scott, Flora; | Slater, Ft. Wayne: geon, Nashville; Franklin; Pfc.

» n » Pfc

| Tech. Castle.

5th Gr.

ir A. Broom, Gary; orth Manchester; Greenfield; Cpl Haute; 3d Lt. John W. En-|W. Remley, Pfc. James A. Hampton, New Castle; James H. Hurst, Joy, Terre Haute;

Pvt. Joseph

Sgt. Audrey Charles W. Harris,

Pvt Sgt. 8.!City;

STRAUSS SAYS:

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Vol. 3—No. 40

Dear Fellows—

IT BEGINS to look as if spring really’ is . The'anaples are well leafedout, and the victory gardeners are going to town. . sunny, for' the most part. . The weather bureau reports that fruit prospects over most of the state still are good, and that damage from thg heavy frost a week ago was relatively slight. . +» The home town was stunned by the news of President ' Roosevelt's death. People found it difficult to realize the shocking news was true.

The statehouse flag was lowered to half .

staff immediately, and other flags followed suit. . Activities in general were halted, many offices and stores closing all day today. Internal Revenue Collector Will H. Smith estimates that collections in Indiana for the fiscal year ending June 30 will exceed the billion dollar mark. The war department has ordered a cutback in plans for converting the Fall Creek ordnance plant “(at 2005 Northwestern ave.) to manufacturing shells. . There will be only three production lines instead of five, . Nine Hoosiers, including two from Indianapolis, were among a group of civilians liberated in the Philippines who arrived at San Francisco. . . . The hometowners were James Edward Chestnut, 44, of 330 North Pine st, and Dwight Shouse, 51, of 3362 Washington blvd. . . . The school board has geappointed Virgil Stinebaugh as superintendent and A. B. Good, business director, It also gave them salary increases.

Locked in Restaurant—

EIGHT MEMBERS of the Curtiss-Wright Masonic Pin club had a hard time explaining things to their wives when they got honfe early Tuesday. They, were part of a dinner party at the Canary Cottage: ‘ Most ‘of the group left, but the’ eight lingered a private room. . : The bartender thought they were: gone, and he h locked up the place and left before midnight. , “It “was « couple of hotlrs ' ‘before the: eight managed to get attention of police. and .. obtain liberation. . . . A somewhat similar mishap was’ experienced by an overseas veteran, Pvt. John ‘A. Long, 1119 Shelby. He and

a young lady went to the top. of the and still were. there _ admiring the view when the monument: folks

Monument Sunday,

locked up late in the afternoon.” . . The veteran found a phone and called police, who

Robert F. Miller, Peters, Hellonville; Greensburg; S. Sgt Pfc.

Pt. Wayne; Pte. Rober: down of the Firestone Industrial Jewel John E. Voris V. Price; Pfc. Joe E Raab, Reelsville; Capt. Hamaiond, Hes been killed in naval Charles M.’ Robertson, North Vernon; Pfc Vincennes; Pfc. WUlam, %. Pfe. Charles

Walter D. Wade, list’ of ‘men Bend; Pvt. Eugene F. Waller, LaPorte, and | Robert B. Wright,

PACIFIC REGIONS

Pic. Charles M. Allen, Muncie; Terre Haute; Owen K. Robert J. Helming, "Ferdinand; Pfc. Lucerne; Cpl, George P. B Li TR K. Ridgway: Clover- Spencer. Sgt. ward R. Rossma 1] Pfc. Edward J. Szajek, East Chicago. I'S Were women.

Saturday

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PL. of them women, caused a shute roy] | Products Company plant ‘today. ~The - employees in the tube dee | partment struck last night. Come Har-| pany officials said that other dee Ww [partments could not operate as long Folin as, the tube department was idle, South| Representatives of the United New| Rubber Workers of. America (C. IL, 0.) said the walkout was une s. sgt.) authorized. Workers said the cone = | troversy involved wages. Spokesmen for the plant said tha$ more than 50 per cent of the strike

* April 14, 1945

Plan Track Elevation—

. PLANS FOR THE elevation of the Belt railroad tracks at Shelby st. have been,

; completed and bids will- be sought ‘as soon

as materials are .available, works board members revealed this week. . . . Also scheduled for elevation on the Belt are the crossings at Morris and East sts. and Madison and Kentucky aves. . . The Disciples of Christ church convention scheduled nex$ October was canceled at a meeting of the church board here, because of wartime conditions.

% % New Busses Arrive— BUS “RIDERS received good news this week. | : The street railway received the first few of 25 new busses-on order. . Almost as long as a streetcar, they seat 40 passengers. The Indianapolis C. of C, has protested action of TWA in abandoning Indianapolis as a stop on its 3:45 p. m. Strate oliner flight eastward, The chamber joined the Indiana Taxpayers’ association and the Real Estate Board in protesting

- proposed increases. in public school teachers’

salaries. The children in the publle schools nave been doing a fine job in their latest paper salvage drive. . The came paign isn't -over yet, but already 525 tons of paper have been gathered. . . . And that's a lot of waste paper. , . . The light company has sued the city to collect more than $6000 alleged to be due on the rity's light bill for the year, 1939 . Dr. J. Thayer Waldo was elected president of the Indianapolis

Dental Society.

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What's Cookin’ in Sports—

THE INDIANAPOLIS Indians aren't doing so well. Shorthanded, they made a poor showing in a three-game exhibition series with the -Cleveland Indians. . . . Manager Bill Burwell, and Owner Ownie Bush are hoping for some more players. soon when the majors get around to thinning out their rosters. . . . But it looks like the Tribe won't be in very good shape for the A. A. season opener at Columbus Wednesday, . . The I. U. nine nosed out Butler, at : Blcomington, 12-11, in a 10-inning baseball game. . The Cleveland Barons won the American Hockey league Calder lp series with four victdries in six starts against the Hershey Bears. . . . Jack Hunt, part owner 5 of a couple of bowling alleys, was awarded the 1945 Tom Bemis sportsmanship award, . . . Tech and Washington high schools are

: among the ‘15 sectional centers for the state

omas. 203 Northwestern; track meet May I with the finals to be or

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