Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 April 1945 — Page 7

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(Continued From Page One) may. already have crossed the border

Veteran armored division, driven from their

tank crews of the 2d |

of Czechoslovakia, ‘ completing the],

split of the enemy's Western front. ~~ The 1st armiy on Patton's northern flank cut loose with a burst of armored power that swept far beyond Leipzig to a point® less than 80 miles from the west-bound Russlans.

own bridgehead late Saturday after 48 ‘hours of furious fighting, bounced back across the Elbe through the 83d's salient and joined the doughboy attack. The combined divisions slugged their way forward four miles or

| more to positions about 50 miles

‘southwest of Berlin. Two more 9h army divisions, the 5th armored and 30th infantry, rammed up to the Elbe river along

Simultaneously, Lt. Gen. Courtney H. Hodges swung part of his 1st army northward to link up with the

U. 8. 9th army ou the Elbe near Koethen, 54 yi southwest of 3 front of more than 50 miles north

Berlin, i of Magdeburg and deployed for a The juncture wapped uncounted Crossing at points as close as 45 thousands of Germans in the Hawg Miles from Berlin, mountains to the west and prog The fierce German stand before 15ed an early end to the temp _ | Berlin, however, was being nulli- * rary Nazi stand that had stalled fied swiftly by the overwhelming the 9th army's spearheads on and, (sweep of the American 1st and 3d across the Elbe 45 to 60 miles from 8rmies advancing into eastern GerBerlin. many along a twisting, 200-mile|

Ruhr Battle Ends | front. Simultaneously, the German de- | American 1st army troops were

fenses, in the by-passed Ruhr, ne" 10 than 80 miles from a pocket collapsed suddenly with the juncture with the Soviet divisions surrender of the enemy corps com- massed on the Neisse river. mander. ‘Tens of thousands of| They reached the Hulde river just| Nazis were reported quitting inside | south of Dessau, only 15 miles from the pocket, and field dispatches | the 9th army bridgehead at Barby, said more than 176,000 captives al-| | capturing the biggest Junkers air- , Yeady were in’ American hands. | craft plant in the Reich, Their United Press “War Correspondent | armor and infantry stormed into John McDermott reported that the |Halle, 2 5miles farther south, and fighting on the 1st army front had entered the western outskirts of lost all resemblance to war. | Leipzig, Germany's greatest remain“It is just a thass of disorganized | ing military base; Germans, confused and frightened.| Gen. Patton's American 3d army and not knowing whether to sur-|outflanked Leipzig with a mile-an- . render despite the threats of the hour. armored drive that all but enNazi party,” he ‘wrote. . |veloped the big textile and comOnly on the front before Berlin | munica®ons center of Chemnitz, 38 were the Nazi lines holding, and] ‘miles to the southwest; the new 1st army thrust threatened to. break that resistance in short; firmed report relayed by the Nazi-

1st Reaches Mulde River

A sensational but wholly uncon- |

order. : ; 24 Hurled Back With the thunder of battle! already rolling back over their] wrecked capital, the Nazis turned | to fight for their last-ditch line

along the Elbe with a desperate |

fanaticism. They hurled the armored division back across the Elbe just north of Madgeburg, 60] miles southwest of Berlin, and] opened a heavy artillery bombard- | ment of the 9th afmy's other | bridgehead at Barby, 15 miles to! the southeast. But the Barby bridgehead, won | by ‘the 83d infantry division Satur- | day, was reported firmly established | and expanding steadily in spite of raking enemy shellfire that time and again wrecked the American pontoon. bridges’

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{controlled Scandin | bureau in Stockholfh said” Patton's {tanks had crashed on 34 miles beyond Chemnitz to reach Dresden, 53 miles from the Red army lines lon the Neisse, Vanguards at Hof An equally unsubstantiated Brussels radio report said 3d army troops also had broken across the Czecho- | slovak border at an: undisclosed | point south of Chemnitz perhaps Ts miles from Prague. Latest official information from {the 3d army front placed Patton's | vanguards in Hof, 54 miles south- | west of Chemnitz and eight miles | west of the Czechoslovak frontier. nother column five miles to the

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area, seven miles from the border, From the other allied Western armies came these developments: AMERICAN 7TH ARMY: Broke loose on the roads to Nuernberg | rafter two weeks of slow, bloody fighting and cracked the enemy lines on a 70-mile arc extending within 15 miles of the Nazi shrine! city. Radio Luxembourg said the Americans were only six miles from the city. CANADIAN 1ST ARMY: Reached the North sea on a broad front within five miles south of Emden, closing completely the trap around 100,000 or more Germans in Holland. BRITISH 2D ARMY: Smashed out of its Allet river bridgeheads south of Hamburg and advanced to positions reported unofficially only 15 miles from the .port;- launched knockout, assault. on Bremen. Von Papen Captured More than 143,000 of the 160,000 Germans originally trapped in the Ruhr pocket were in American hands, including the notorious

|Baron Franz von Papen, one-time

chancellor of Germany and ambassador to Turkey under the Nazi ‘regime. A member of the Krupp munitions family, tentatively identified as Alfred or’ Gustav Krupp, also was reported to have been taken, there, Three Nazi elite guards divisions, formerly under Adolf Hitler's per-

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| sonal command and now led by the

wily Field Marshal Albert- Kessel- | ring, were thrown into the Elbe line over the week-end. Counter - attacking with strong armored and artillery support, the tough Nazi veterans managed to slow down the Barby advance and

‘| were still lashing out against the

Americans today in the hope of repeating the

“Reach Dessau Field dispatches from the American 1sth army front, however, indicated that the staggering wher-

macht had few if any reserves to 4) bolster that section of the line.

Units of the 3d armored division

§| fought their way into the southern outskirts of Dessau, 52 miles south-

west of Berlin, and captured Koethen, 12 miles farther southwest. There they seized the sprawling Junkers aircraft plant that the Germans had heen’ trying desperately to keep in production almost under the American guns. Still farther south, the 104th “Timberwolf” division stormed into the streets of Halle and had that key railway center almost cleared early today. ' Leuna, site of one of the biggest synthetic oil plants in the

| Reich, also was taken by the 104th.

KING REHEASES VICTORY ~

coaches, each drawn by four horses from the royal stables, yesterday rehearsed the drive to St Paul's cathedral which the King and Queen will take on V-E day,

on reached the Schwarzenbach |

success achieved]: : against the 2d armored Srision ; Savirday

LONDON, April 18 (U, P.).~Two|

Pain Of Corns |

Indicate Supreme Push for Berlin Now On. (Continued From Page One)

American forces also. were drivin, toward Berlin. Farther north, a German military spokesman said, Soviet troops stormed across the lower Oder river and seized a bridgehead on the west bank near Schwedt, some 45 miles northeast of Berlin and 30 miles south of the Baltic port of Stettin. Stil? other Soviet troops. possi- | |bly from Marshal Ivan S. Konev's| 1st Ukrainian army, went over to ‘the offensive between Forst, 60) miles southeast of Berlin, and |Muskau, another 15 miles to the] | south, Berlin said. The southern column was 80-odd | | miles from American forces spearing beyond Leipzig. A link-up in

would cut Germany in two for | piecemeal destruction by the combined armies of the western and| eastern allies, The Schwedt and Forst attacks also suggested the possibility that these flanking forces would try to encircle Berlin while the main Soviet «might, was thrown against its frontal defenses. With the attack. the Russians |engaged the, last~ sizable organized | portion of the German army still| fighting in the Reich. Allied. ob-

map divisions—900,000 men—had {been waiting on the eastern ap-| proaches to Berlin for the Soviet offensive. Six Bridgeheads

The Russians already had hurdled | their biggest obstacle on the eastern approaches to Berlin—the Oder river. They held as many as six! bridgeheads acrpss the stretch of the river from which the Germans said today’s offensive was laurrched. Ernst von Hammer, commentator for the official Nazi D. N. B. agency, sald the Soviets attacked along the Oder river front from a point nogth of Kuestrin' 38 miles east of Beflin, to one south of Frankfurt, 33 miles east.

Chain Drive Halted Other Nazi broadcasts indicated | the offensive got under way between | Wriezen, 23 miles northéast of Berlin ands22 miles northwest of Kuestrin, and Fuerstenberg, 42 miles {southeast of Berlin and 15 miles

‘(south of Frankfurt.

“According to reports so far avail{able,” Hammer said, “the Soviets {were halted by violent’ German bar|rage fire in all sectors with the' ex|ception of one Soviet local penetra-

Simultaneous with the main push,

{Hammer said, other Soviet troops {this morning bega. “major attacks” |in the Forst area 60 miles southeast |of Berlin, 14 miles east of the | junction city of Cottbus and 90 miles from American 1st army. spear-|: heads. Silesia Drive Reported The attacks were repelled, Hammer said. Still another « Soviet attack opened yesterday in upper Silesia, she reported. Seven rifle divisions, possibly 105,000 men, and numerous tank forces hit the German lines southeast and southwest of Ratibor in an assault apparently aimed at the Czechoslovak industrial city of Moravskd Ostrava, gateway to the Moravian pgss; he said. "First reports showed 39 Soviet tanks knocked out of action, Hammer said.

silent on the German -reports, but announced that Marshal Feodor I.| Tolbukhin's forces Were pressing on | along the Danube valley toward! Adolf Hitler's Alpine redoubt after | capturing St. Poelten,

either the Berlin or Leipzig area |

{of Navy James V. Forrestal,

servers believed as many as-90 Ger- |

45-mile |

The Soviet high ‘command was |

(Continued From Pabe One)

ing people of America that there will be no relaxation in our efforts

Appeals to All Americans Pleading for unity, he said the “entire world is looking to America for enlightened leadership to peace and progress.” “I can call upon.all Americans to

defense of those ideals which have been so eloquently proclaimed by Franklin Roosevelt.” | Mr, Truman, who had been at {work at the White House at 8:15 . la. m. arrived at the capitol at [12:28 p. m. (11:28 Indianapolis Time). He went to Speaker Sam | Rayburn’s office where he conferred {with high government officials and | members .of congress. Sees Cabinet Members | Cabinet members already present when Mr. Truman entébed . were | Atty. Gen. Francis Biddle, Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson, Secretary Sec- | retary of Commerce Henry A. Wallace and Secretary of Agriculture |Claude Wickard. Also arriving at the speaker's office. just prior to the President's

entrance were British Foreign Sec- |

retary Anthony Eden and British’ Ambassador . Lord - Halifax. Mr.3 | Truman had conferred with them | earlier at the White House. In a humble mood, the bespec!tacled, small-statured new head of {the American government made a | forthright appeal to congress, of | which he had been a member, for | help and co-operation. Appeals for Aid { “You, the members of surely know how I feel” he said to the joint session. "Only with your help can I hope to complete one of the greatest tasks ever assigned to a public servant. : - Repeatedly he spoke of the necessity of avoiding a flimsy peace which would lead to future conflict. . “To destfoy greedy tyrants with plans of world *domination, . we cannot continue in. successive.generations to sacrifice our youth. ‘In the name of human decency and civilization, a more rational method of deciding national differences must and will be found.” “America,” he said, “must assist Sutiering humanity back along the

TRUMAN MEET

congress,

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suggestion, to send him to the San Francisco conference.

eign ministers and prime ministers of the united nations as they pa through here en route to San] Francisco. All are as anxious 4as|

far they | ‘Mr.

out and .determine how can expect to “carry on” Roosevelt's plans. FOUR: Consult with the U. S. delegates to the San Francisco conference. FIVE: Plunge mio the bitter controversy over formation of a new Polish government, ~ Mr, Roosevelt | had failed before. his death to break the Big Three deadlock on {this important question.

If Molotov arrives here in time,

\it is possible that he and Eden |

| together will meet with Mr. Truman to discuss current questions and | perhaps the possibility of an early meeting with their chiefs after | the fall of Germany.

Ee —— THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES ES Fre man Reaffirms Aim of

help me keep our nation united-in,

finest |

ANTHONY EDEN

THREE: Meet some of the for- |

Eden and Molotov to sound him |

“Toi

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path of peaceful progress. This | { will require tinie and tolerance. we | shall need also an abiding faith In| {the people, the kind of faith and

Roosevelt always had.” The: new President concluded his| first appearance as chief executive | lin the halls of congress by saying: | “I ask only to he a good and faithful servant of my-Lord and my | people.” “Might Be Misunderstood”

At the outset of his remarks, Mr. Truman said that he would have preferred to have observed “reverent silence” on this, the day after the burial of Mr. Roosevelt, but “in this decisive hour our silence might be misunderstood and might give’ comfort to our enemies.”

He paid a erave tribute to the |

late President, saying “the world knows it has lost- a heroic c¢ham- | pion of justice and freedom.” - “Tragic fate has thrust upon us grave responsibilities,” he said, “we | must carry on. Our departed leader never looked backward. He looked forward and moved forward, That is what he would want us to do. That is what America will do.”

Looks to Congress

Congress knows. and likes Harry (even the Ge erman _ embassy . in Ma-

Truman. He "is one of its .ewn. And: already it- has become plain that he desires congress to take a larger part-in shaping the national will than it did ‘under President Rooseveltis*®€onception of government. Tomorrow in his role as commander in chief, Mf. Truman addresses American troops in every theater of war and “every reserve station. - The time of that speech | has not yet been .announced. | The new President already has marked up 4 notable diplomatic victory. That came when the White House

‘gnnounced that Marshal Josef V.

Stalin had decided to strengthen the Russian delegation to the San Francisco conference by sending Foreign Commissar V. M. Molotov. The conference convenes April 25. Believed Good Omen Moscow's earlier announcement that Molotov woyld not attend was a diplomati¢ reverse in the last days of thie Roosevelt administration. It had been agreed at Yalta that the Big Three foreign secretaries would attend. Party men and others today were counting «Stalin’s change of mind

with clashes between regular army

{anyone outside | Himmler’s authorization,

as a good omen for the Truman

adnnisiration.

11 B-29's Misting

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fortresses blasted war plants in | southwest Tokyo and at Kawasaki, an industrial suburb southwest of the capital. Tokyo broadcasts said fires raged out of control for seven and a half hours. The 21st bomber command dis- | out 10%

square miles, twice as|

In Raid on Tokyo

ss | closed that Saturday's raid burned |

large as the specified target of five |

| square miles. The destruction included seven | factories which contributed to. wag making industries, including the | ‘ Itabashe arsenal. ‘Chemical plants, | { powder factories and shell plants fweré damaged. : | SH WSrst Liberator Strike | | Fires still were burning when |

| bombers arrived early today “to

| of Japanese industries.” Radio Tokyo said approximately 100 carrier-based planes and a small number of Liberators bombed and strafed southern Kyushu, southernmost of Japan's home islands. It was the first Liberator strike reported against Japan proper.

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to Improve the lot of the common courage which Franklin Delano Say Goering Involved, Move people

Stopped by Himmler;

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group, -in rs ra part of the embassy personnel, was pre- ms personnel of the consulate at Bar- battle which will end the war in

celona remained on the premises] the whole day awaiting events. "

Europe,” Marshal Sir Harold R. L, G. Alexander, allied commander in

Though there was .no’ confirma- | the Mediterranean, said in wif order

tion of reports that martial law had been proclaimed in Berlin, it would

not be surprising in, view of the! close proximity of allied armies in|

both the east and the west.

telegraph service in a Madrid dis- | patch intercepted by B:. B, C. Jt said the plot got under way

troops and Nazi troops in Munich, the Nazi party Himmler immediately stepped in and foiled the coup by occupying the German high command's prem-

8S elite storm headquarters of

"ises, however, the dispatch said.

Were ‘it not for his action, the plotters would have attempted to eliminate Hitler. and negotiate for peace with the support of ReichMarshal Hermann Goering and Lt. Gen. Meissner, former gestapo official in Serbia, the dspaigh | asserted. SS guards were placed over regular army officers and Goering was forbidden to communicate with Munich without it said. said that

The French agency

of the aay,

‘Hit With All You've Got’ “Hit them with all you have got. and with God's help we will have a decisive and perhaps flnal vice

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A London Sunday Dispatch story said the Nazi order forbidding representatives to travel in Germany! outside Berlin was issued after a number of diplomats went to Switzerland and Stockholm

GRACE E. GUTZWILLER FUNERAL WEDNESDAY

Services for Mrs. Grace E. Gulz3124 College ave., who died! yesterddy in Methodist hospital, will be conducted at 2 p m. Wednesday in Flanner & Buchanan mortuary by the Rev. E. A. Piepenbrok, pastor of St. John's Evangelical and Reformed church. ‘Burial will be in Crown Hill. A member of St. she was 54. Survivors are her husband, Carl; a daughter, Joan, and a brother, Kenneth Ward, Milwaukee, Wis.

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willer, Spezia and, its great naval base.

all “its previous records

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