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[SCRIPPS —~ HOWARD} VOLUME 56—NUMBER 32
TUESDAY, APRIL 17, 1945
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Hundreds Of Men, Women, Children Massacred In Manila
By DOROTHY WILLIAMS United Press Staff Correspondent
WASHINGTON, April 17.—Hundreds of men, women and children were massacred by the Japanese in Manila in
an incredible wave of terror
during the first two weeks of
February, the war department said today.
a
neting, burning, starvation, department said.
The war department r
counts of American army o
TRUMAN TAKES PRESS PARLEY
IN HIS STRIDE
Calm, Confident, Fast on Uptake; Won't Go to San Francisco.
By LYLE C. WILSON United Press Staff Correspondent
WASHINGTON, April 17—A poised and confident Harty S. Tru-
The Japanese killed their victims by shooting, bayo-
suffocation and beating, the
fficers and enlisted: men who
man told his first presidential news|
conference today—a
jam-packed |
session—that he would run the gov-|
ernment for the time being his desk here.
He said he would not attend the!
Ban Francisco security conference, because this country had a competent delegation at the conference. He said he would back up its members from Washington ~where he belongs. Head of the delegation is Secretary of State Edward R. Stettinius Jr. whose ultimate place in the new administration has been in some doubt, Faces 348 Reporters
The new President faced a record number of reporters—348—in the
same circular room where Franklin |
PLANS MIGHTY Olive Branch Women Fill
D. Roosevelt met the press twice weekly, He took their questions as fast as they came, answered promptly
and pithily, and twice drew ap-|
plause—a rarity at White House press conferences. Mr, Truman: ONE: Wholeheartedly indorsed all items of Mr, Roosevelt's foreign and domestic policy about which he was asked. TWO: 8aid he would not lift the horse racing ban and that the midnight curfew and the brownsut had been good for the nation's morale. Asked if he would lift these restrictions on V-E day, he said quickly: Let's wait. till- V-E d&vi* THREE: "Asserted he would try to carry out Mr. Roosevelt's public power programs and intendions wherever possible and necessary. Mr. Truman stood throughout the press conference. The crowd over-
flowed from the conference room |
out to a side terrace. The room became almost unbearably hot, ‘but the President played his role with complete ease and good humor,
One Conference a Week
He preserved Mr, Roosevelt's news conference rules—such as: no direct quotations unless especially authorized — but announced he would hold only one conference each week, whereas the late President normally held two. Mr, Truman ‘was questioned extensively about foreign policy. He indorsed the Bretton Woods International monetary program that had been ‘sept, to congress, He also voiced full support for the reciprocal trade program, with its accompanying export « import bank.
He'll See Molotov He, disclosed that he planned to see Soviet Foreign Commissar V. M. Molotov while the Russian leader is en route to the united nations meeting in San Francisco, Mr, Truman said Molotov was going to stop in Washington to pay his respects to
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MORE THAN HALF OF GERMANY OCCUPIED
U. 8. 12TH ARMY GROUP HEADQUARTERS, Western Front. April 17 (U, P.). ~The western al« lies and the Red army néw otcupy approximately 101,000 square miles of German soil, or more than half the 185,000 square-mile area of prewar Germany, headquarters maps disclosed today. The western allied forces hold roughly 63,000 square miles of Germany and the Russians about 38,000 square miles, leaving the Germans only about 84,000 square miles of their homeland.
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TIMES INDEX
Amusements., 8 Jane Jordan.,.20 - ‘Bddie Ash..,. 10| Ruth Milleit., 13 Business ..... 9 {Movies ...... 8 u Comics ...... 20 Obituaries ... "12 Crossword. ... 20 Fred Perkins. 13 Editorials .... 14 Ernie Pyle ... Peter Edson.. 14 Radio . Forum. :...... 14 Ration Dates. ...18| Bide Glances. .
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PEACE FLEET
Navy Wants 3 Times More Ships as Before War,
WASHINGTON, April 17 (U. P.).| \war fleet of 1191 combat ships— | almost three times the size of the {pre-war fighting fleet—was§! pre- | sented to congress today. The public was given its first glimpse of the navy's post-war | blueprint. as the house appropria|tions &ommittee recommended ‘a |$24,879,510546 navy department budget 'for the 1946 fiscal year, |starting next July 1. This was a sie) of $452,655,104 from estimates preyiolisly approved by the budget bureau, Vice Adm, Frederic J. Horne, vice chief of naval operations, was revealed to have told the appropriations committee that the navy expects to end the war with 1528 combat. ships, ranging down in size to destroyer escorts and marines. Of these, 337 obsolescent craft would be scrapped or used as target vessels. Of the combat ships remaining in the post-war fleet, 482 will be on active status and 709 in an inactive - status, Skeleton crews would be retained on the. inactive ships to maintain them and keep them in immediate r&adiness for service, It was also understood that the navy” would follow a rotation plan in-its- use of available ships. The contemplated post-war fleet of 1191 combat ships compared with a force of 364 comparable craft in service on June 30, 1939.
NAMED BY TRUMAN
WASHINGTON, April 17 (U, P.). —John W. Snyder, St. Louis _banker, was nominated by President Truman today to be federal loan ad- | ministrator,
eleased sworn first-hand ac-
sub-
saw and examined hundreds of victims. Sworn statements of mutilated survivors, and captured Japanese documents obtained by Gen. Douglas MacArthur's headquarters. “This evidence proves a Japanese campaign of terror in Manila so incredible by all civilized standards that the most thorough verification and documentation were necessary,” the war department said. Brig. Gen. Carlos P. Romulo, resident commissioner of the Philippines to the United States, described the massacres to congress as the war department was releas-
Church Housecleaning Comes Ahead of Home Work
Women of the Olive Branch Christian congregation make their church spick and span... Drake, Mrs. William Bruhn, Mrs. William Morris, Mrs. Sallie Kniptash, Mrs. Benefiel, Mrs. Edward Petrey, Mrs. Garret Hildebrand, Mrs. Howard Deer; Mrs. Henry Herbig, Mrs. Ray Leachman, Mrs. John Taylor, Mrs. Edith Williams and Mrs. Ruth Booher.
ing its information.
A captured Japanese battalion order dated Feb. 8,
said:
“When Filipinos are to-be killed, they must be gathered into one place and disposed of with the consideration that ammunition and manpower must not be used to exBecause the disposal of dead bodies is a troublesome task, they should be gathered into houses which are sched-
cess.
uled to be. burned or demol thrown into the river.”
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THOUSANDS OF FOE FLEEING TO ESCAPE TRAP
American Frome. Storming Leipzig, Nuernberg, Magdeburg.
+ Mrs. Lynn
William Kleis, Mrs. John
In for Missing Hired Help
By EMMA RIVERS MILNER Times Church Editor Sunday tHE“ONVE Branéh Christian congregation will worship in a
{fresh and shining chureh recalling the old adage:
to Godliness.”
“Cleanliness is next
The Rev. Benton B. Miller, pastor, sent out an 8. O. 8. to the |
‘obtain professional cleaners now.
. Although none of the women had/
finished setting their own hoes in|
{ —A tentative navy plan for a post- feminine contingent to remind them that it is almost impossible to
Mrs. Garret Hildebrand cooked |
By BOYD LEWIS United Press Staff Correspondent
PARIS, April 17.—American troops: stormed Leipzig, Nuernberg and Berlin's outer fortress of Madgeburg -to-
.|day in a triple-threat drive to
breakthrough to the Nazi capital, link up with the Red army and seal off Hitler's Bovarian redoubt, North and south of embattled Berlin the German front was-dis- | integrating under the converging
blows of the American and Russian |
armies. Field, dispatches revealed that | tens of thousands of Germans were fleeing southward through - the { Oder-Elbe corridor toward Bavaria, | with thousands more in full flight
order for the spring, all decided the | staggered breakfasts for the four| northward toward the Baltic coast
“churchyclegning came first. ning aprons a}
| they armed themselves with brushes,
rags and pails and set fo work: Among them was Mrs. Henry
coming . to the church. Ladder climbing —held -no terrors for Mrs. William Morris. She is glad she!
Don-_| members of hec family and got her] in a last-minute race to escape the head kerchiefs,| small daughter off to school before] closing trap.
200,000 Ruhr Captives +—Rumors.of another German evacu-
ation came from the Canadian 1st
| Herbig, who is a gold star mother. Joan save her church a bit of money army front in Holland. - The Nazis "To serve the church in this manner | this wartime spring.
gives her heart-ease she says. Mrs. Howard Deer, who has two sons
with the armed forces in Germany, prysh, Mrs. William Bruhn rubbed t0 inundate the lowlands south of ~~
Class Serves Lunch Mrs, Lynn Drake wielded a long!
| were said to be trying to escape | rom western Holland by boat after {opening the Zuider Zee flood gates|
feels she is fighting on the home| away at the lectern, Mrs. William | Amsterdam.
front with her polishing rag while the boys are away,
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Playing.Card Need Urgent; Help a Wounded Soldier,
(Photo, Page 3)
New. playing cards are hard to buy. But there are many used decks, so take a look around your house, When you locate them, take a trip to your nearest library, You'll find a basket there and a sign, too, It will tell you to drop those cards in for the G. I.s at nearby hospitals, That means Billings arrd Wakeman general hospitals and the Veterans Administration on Cold Spring rd. The need is urgent. There are many long and weary hours ahead for those men who fought for you. And unless. those hours are filled and a man’s mind occupied, the road back to health is longer. A game of cards among soldiers is as much a part of their life as
eating and sleeping. - Ther®’s not | and oth army infantrymen combed message from Mr. much they can da lying in bed a |through the ruined cities of the | Thursday.
day.
Authorities at the hospitals vais)
pleaded for cards. There just aren't enough for the approximately 10,000 | servicemen in the three nearby hos- | pitals. Recently at Billings there | wasn’t a single deck for issuance.
So the Veterans of Foreign Wars and The Indianapolis Times, cosponsors of a ¢playing card drive through April 28, appeal to you to toss that good, clean extra deck into the basket at any one of the public libraries, It may mean 10, 20 or 100 extra steps, But some of the men who will play with those cards will never step again,
My Day
tice.
) humanity. fin
ban coming to Washington,
was at a.disadvantage.,
involvement of this country became objective was always to: deal with
WASHINGTON, Monday —When you habe lived for a long time in close contact with the loss and grief which today pervade the world, any personal sorrow seems to be lost in the general sadness of For a long time, all hearts have been heavy for every serviceman sacrificed in the war, = g Theré™is only one way in which those of us who live can repay the dead who have given their utmost for the cause of liberty and jusThey died in thé hope that, through their sacrifice, an ing peace would be built and a more just world would emerge for
While my husband was in Aland for some years after chief interest was in seeing that the average human being was given a fairer chance for “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.” - That was what made him always interested in the problems of minority groups-and of any group ‘which
As the war clouds gathered and the. inevitable
the war, political and military, so that eventually an built to prevent
By Eleanor Roosevelt
years.
out his vision.
endur- | to show us that
courage to build
of affection and more evident, his
the problems of
Woodrow Wilson was also stricken and, instance, the peoples of the world failed to carry |
My children and I are deeply grateful. say, too, that the people who ‘waited in the stations and along the railroad to pay thejr last Tespects have my deep appreciation. ~ “And now there
gone, his main objectives stand out clearly and one may hope that a spirit of unity may arouse the people ‘and their leaders to a complete understanding | of his objectives and a determination to achieve Port, in Brazil. those objectives: themselves. " Abraham Lincoln was taken from us before he | had achieved unity within the nation, and his people failed’ him. This divided us as a nation for many
in that
a leader may chart the way, may
point out the road to lasting peace, but that many leaders and many peoples must do the building. cannot be the work of one man, nor can the responsibility be laid upon his shoulders, and so, when the time comes for peoples to .assume the burden more | fully, he is ‘given rest. God grant that we may pave the wisdom and
It
a peaceful world with justice and
‘opportunity for all peoples the world over. © And now I want to say one personal word of grati-| tude to the many people who have sent messages!
condolence during these last days. I want to
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Strong Nazi garrisons still were
{and other strongpoints along the | | central German front, but all acouts indicated that the break-up | of the wehrmacht into northern and southern commands was in full ic
o the west, American 1st |
Ruhr to complete t the destruction
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Hoosier Heroes—
4 LOCAL MEN DIE,
Day’s Casualties.
3 gunner- on a B-17 has been killed over Germany, an aerial engineer killed in a bomber crash in Brazil, an ammunition truck driver killed in Germany, and an infantryman has died in action in Luxembourg, today’s casualty lists reveal, In addition a 3d .army infantty- | an, previously reported missing, is {a German prisoner, KILLED Pfc. Walden E.Heffington, Bridge-
| Sgt. James H. Hurst, 5050 E. 11th st., over Germany. Pfc. Richard L. Ogle, Fortville, in Germany. Pvt. Victor J, “Shorty” Mangin, {1214 8. State st., in Luxembourg. PRISONER | Pfc. Everett W. Cassity, Danville,
Perhaps, in ‘His wisdom, the Almighty is trying of the Germans,
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ERNIE PYLE MOVIE HERE THIS SUMMER
NEW YORK, April 17 (U, P.).~ é world premier of thé movie, “Story of G. L Joe,” based on the | war experiences of Scripps-Howard
at Indianapolis early “this summer, it was learned today. . Pyle was born and reared near |
newspaper work was done in. In diana, - } ‘Borrow fer Toru -Dave Tayment on & Home
ATLAS, ‘wartime dn at
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ONE NAZI PRISONER
Gunner on B-17 Among
Correspondent Ernie Pyle, will bef
Indianapolis ‘and some of his early!
Such orders “unleashed wanton savagery upon defenseless Manila,” the war department said. “Men between the ages of 15 and 60 were ordered seized and shot down,” it said. ‘Execution parties moved from house to house with hand grenades, bayonets and torches. Hundreds were packed into dungeons to perish of starvation and suffocation. “Japanese soldiers massacred without mercy at Cons ished. cordia college and De LaSalle college and at the Red Cross
They should also be
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GERMANY REPORTS REDS
ILES FROM BERLIN
Around Capital
b Planes Are RUSS PLUNGE
EVE MILES IN Smashed in Air Duel “yepee pyri
NAWA, April 17 (U. P.).—American pilots and gunners | estos ed at least 204 Japanese planes yesterday in an all-' Fight Along Oder River. | day battle fought in the skies between Okinawa and the home island of Kyushu, it was announced today. ’ The decimated Japanese air force took another defeat in the third attempt in 11] days to hurl an aerial armada!
Gains Faster Momentum, Nazis Claim. By ROBERT MUSEL
to Essex class carriers, opened up x Le with a terrific barrage on the at- United Press Staff Correspondent ‘against American shipping tacking aircraft. LONDON, April.17.—Nazi land amphibious forces at] Jt Was Hie gibatent yoiniing of the military sources said today . | war ior the j1ericans nere | Okinawa. | The strong enemy air attacks did | that a big Russian offensive “Wavy and marine carrier and not interfere with the highly suc- ‘gained up to five miles on the land-based fighter pilots, and sail- cessful landing on Ie island. | Berlin front yesterday and
— | ors manning antiaircraft guns on A large fleet of B-20 “Superfor-| violent fighting now raged 17 ships of the U. S. Pacific fleet, sent tresses blasted six airfields on Kyu- miles from: the imperiled capital Enemy warplanes crashing into the shu today in an effort to knock out | near Eberswalde.
sea, The German high command said Ships, ranging from tiny gunboats! (Continued on Page 2—~Column n |the Russians attacked “with a tre-
Churchill Weeps O penly mater” al Guy yolerday hore At Service for Roosevelt
Berlin, By EDWARD V. ROBERTS
"The “brave attitude of German troops and their flexible leadership” prevented a breakthrough, it said, and “gaps which were torn in the German positions were United Press Staff Correspondent closed by spirited counter-attacks.” LONDON, April 17.—Prime Minister Churchill told commons today| seventy-five miles southeast of that he noticed President Roosevelt was ailing at Yalta, and left him at| Berlin - another Soviet onslaught Alexandria with an “indefinghle sense of fear that his health and crashed through' the Neisse ‘river strength .were on. the ebb.” # defense “line for gains af dwo and At the Crimea coriference, Churchill said in & tribute to Mr. Roose-{a half “miles in the Muskau-Forst velt, “his captivating smile and his gay, charming manner had not!sector, 43 - miles nqQrtheast of deserted him, but his face had a] Ba “Dresden, on which the U.S. 3d transparency, an air of purification army was driving. ; PATTON AND HODGES North of Berlin, the Nazis indi(Story about Roosevelt's Will, Page GIVEN PROMOTIONS (Continued on Fare 2 n — {even. There was a faraway in his Ses Be I i WASHINGTON, April 17 (U. P.. WA AR FRONTS urcni spoke 111 comm his * Ra ours and affection —Lt. Gens. George 8. Patton and 17, 1945 |beyond my power to express” for Courtney H. Hodges, respective ~ April Mr.. Roosevelt after attending me-| commanders of the spearheading WESTERN FRONT — Americar | morial services at St. Paul's, where 3dq and 1st armies in Germany, were | troops’storth Leipzig and Nuern- | he wept openly. | nominated today to be full generals| berg if bid to halt German flight Last Message Thursday {in the first list of nominations sent| from central Germany for death Churchill saidthe received his last to the senate by Presidept Truman. | stand in Bavarian redoubt. Roosevelt last| - They were the first army com-'gsgTERN FRONT—Red armies rig They “showed no fall. | Manders to be promoted to four- ge in German defenses of Ber: ing off in his accustomed clear vis-| Star rank. The rank heretofore; ., ong 150-mile front; one ion and vigor upon perplexing and Nas been reserved for army grOUP| comp reported within 17 miles | complicated matters.” Somuanders and highest staff off-| of capital. re Ee a et Mr, Truman also nominated nine ITALY—American 5th army smashes t——— major generals to be lieutenant! * within eight miles of Bologna and (Continued on Page 2—Column 6) generals. £ : | artillery begins shelling outskirts 888 + - = . =
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Allied | forces frqm jthe west and east moved closer to Berlin with the Russians reweited i | from the doonied Nazi capital, Heaviest fighting on the Eastern front was Red forces were reported moving on Spremberg, south of Cottbus and in the cated the Oder river was crossed below Stettin.' Leipzig was Saruieg BY 4 by the “U, 8. Tth lays siege to’ Nuersbers: U.S. 3d army was attacking Chemnitz. siege are around Bremen. The Canadian. Ist army reached the North rivers, ET Gen of bridgehead §