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front has ceased to exist. The .ng fought their way into the : fermi west And east fronts: have streets of that militar base trom T3IIS Near Front Line on lost their meaning,” Krull said. |the east and west, Pacific Isle. Smash Into Chemnitz | Hundreds ‘of American guns | = Patton's 3d army troops also maintained a drumfire barrage on | (Continued From Page One) fought their way into Chemnitz, | the trapped. German garrison, esti- | ie about 50 miles northeast of their mated as high as 30,000 men, but War: endeared -him te the men of crossing point, and - 80-odd *miles| front reports ‘said the. Nazis were the armed forces throughout the west of the advancing Red army. [strongly entrenched and appareritly | world and to their families at home, Powerful tank and infantry forces bent on a suicidal defénse of the] With Soldiers at Death of the American 1st, and 7th city. : | “He was killed instantly by Japarmies, meanwhile, were storming Battle Inside Halle anese machine gun fire while standthe remaining three cornerstones of An equally filerce fight raged in| ing beside the regimental commandGermany's western line—LelpZig, [the streets of Halles 15 miles to ing officer of headquarters troops. Halle and Nuernberg. —Tthe northwest; aithough the smatter 77th division, U-S.—army.~At_the. ‘The Americans already had swept German force there was reported time of his death he.was with the far beyond all five Nazi citadels/on the verge of a knockout early foot soldiers, the men for whom he to points as close as 70 miles from today. : 'had the greatest admiration the Russians—on the Berlin front— A military blackout obscured the | “Mr, Pyle will live in the hearts and thelr fall appeared only a mat- progress of the Ist army's 9th of all servicemen who revered him, ter of days at most. {armored division which drove more as a comrade and spokesman. More Die-hard German garrisons, most than 22 miles beyond Leipzig to than anyone else, he helped Amerof them held in the fight only by capture Colidtz and seize a 23-mile ica to understand the heroism and the guns of Naz elite guards, were stretch of the Mulde river's west sacrifices of her fighting men For battling desperately to hold the bank. There the Americans were that ‘achievement, the nation owes five strongholds and prevent a gen- only 24 miles west of the Elbe and |him its unending gratitude. eral breakthrough that might finish about 90 miles from the last re-| Larry Tighe, Blue network correoff the European war. ported Russian positions across the spondent, reported from Guam that Nazi spokesmen admitted somber- | Niesse river. Pyle Na nner out yt Seta 4 stiffenin ad | i 533 : nese machine-gunner w 1 as By THe SUT g han Resis'ance Stiffens 3 talking with an officer in the com- . German resistance inside Nuern- mand post. up of their western defenses into bere stiffeneg suddenly last night a patchwork of disorganized islands : hin nd

3 after doughboys of the U. 8. .Tth| of resistance, many of them out of army's 45th division had broken Other correspondents reported contact with the German high

into the Nazi shrine city, there was the same kind of stunned command, | The city itself was practically disbelief at. headquarters when the More Confusion surrounded, except for a narrow news of Pyle’s. death arrived as British 24 army forces crowding opening in the American siege lines when President Rbosevelt's death up on Hamburg were piling up more on the southwestern outskirts, and | was ahnounced last Friday. confusion and disorfler along the captured German soldiers reported! Pyle’s father, W. C. Pyle, lives enemy front, Advancing againstterrible confusion and disorder in- in Dana, Ind. His wife lives In weak opposition across the Lune- side the walls. Albuquerque, N. M. berger heath south of Hamburg, the Other Pockets Doomed Beth: Fn Tg w Seri aS saig Sn The country knew both of them 30 miles below the port and rammed vs ymac . 9 ers Vere ordering well. Mrs. Pyle was “that girl” ‘in ahéad another 10 miles this morn- cI men 20 us thei ammunition 'pyje's prewar columns. -His father ing for an overall advance of 32 As quickly as possible and then pag peen the subject of many a miles in 38 hours. surrender. little essay on . the things which Iwo other major German pockets happen on an Indiana farm.

On the Tth division's right flank, : ih the British 11th armored division In the allied rear also appeared Stimson was shocked into mo-

and the “Red Devils’ of the 6th doomed, one in the Ruhr basin and mentary silence by the news. Then airborne division rolled up to with- the second in the Harz mountains, he said: in 13 miles or less of the Elbe river 100-0odd miles southwest of Berlin.| «1 feel great distress. Hé has on 2 30-mile front, cutting the ‘The Ruhr pocket Was ‘compressed | heen one of “our outstanding cor-| main Hamburg-Berlin railway line. !0 2D area of about 125 square miles respondents. This is the first I The advance carried eight miles centered around Duesseldorf, with Have heard of his death. I'm so north of Uelzen into Wickmanns- | O0lY about 30,00 Germans left of sorry.” burg, eight miles southeast of Lu- 31 original force of more than From congress came quick exneburg, the last big German posi- (200,000 trapped there. American 1st pressions of sorrow. Speaker Sam tion between the British and the &'MY troops were in the eastern Rayburn voiced the sentiment. of Elbe. 4 . | side of Duesseldorf early today his colleagues: !

Report Ship Movement “I think he was one of the great

corres d f all<time.” The British drive, coupled «in RITES SET TOMORROW arrespondents of all<time

That had been the judgment of the Canadian 1st army ] FOR DOVEY E. ADAIR the Pulitzer prize award jury,| the North sea coast farther to the : ; .. ‘which honored him last year~for Services for Mrs. Doyey E. Adair, ” Tm S west, appeared to have doomed B0Y|. 19 EB Norway dr w y his work. Pyle also had received Nazi hope of a prolonged stand ’ 2 E. Norway dr. w died Mon- many other honors. pround the northwestern ports. {day in Methodist hospital. will be | : Allied flyers reported heavy ship |conducted at 1:30 p. m. tomorrow at | ~~ ondred Other Tributes and barge Salle Joving dowp ne me Moore Mortuaries Peace chapel. oo. TINY end a ore m mburg a Pp 3 : : : (other tributes were ing paid to evacuating German troops from Dural Will be in Washington Park. , y,qect little man who always the German and Dutch coastal The widow of Warren L. Adair. seemed mildly surprised by the preas to the west. [Mrs. Adair was a lifelong resident | fate which had made him a war The Canadians finally cleared the of Indianapolis and was a member | correspondent, i strongly held Dutch railway center of the Irvington Methodist church|{ He had bedded down with death, | of Apeldoorn on their extreme and Rebekah lodge. She was 52. [stood around with death, marched western flank and advanced an-| Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. forward with death all the way other seven miles westward to link (Clara Wright and Mrs Blanche from North Africa to Okinawa.| up east of Ammersfoort with a |Boeschen, both of Indianapolis, and But he never got used to it. dominion armored column that two brothers, James L. Horne, In-| In one of -his last columns he drove 16 miles north from Arnhem. dianapolis, and Oliver H. Horne, voiced the vast relief he felt on On the American 1st army front, [Poortland, Ore. {not seeing any bodies lying on the

Headquarters Stunned

From Indiana Farm

Arpad.

was He had spent.-the years before | Scripps-Howard reporter to die In the war writing a rambling column | this. war. . Ray" Clapper, * Whose lagu places he had seen and peo- | syndicated columns for years. made | jo he had met. the complicated doing of Washing- | He. lacked the physique for war. ton - understandable to uncompli- | gro Was slight, weatherbeaten, gray- | cated people, was killed early last | haired, and balding. He was | year, [much of the time. He was. no | Clapper died when a bomber in [anger young—heé would have been which he had gone out to witness | 44 on Aug. 3. . a battle collided with another and |

\ Kw | But he liked people. When he | crashed into a lagoon on wajalein | oo to, war, he kept on writing | atoll in the Marshalls,

: {about people. The people he wrote | Few of his readers knew it, but|ape,t were in fox-holes, so Ernie | Pyle got a brief look at service life go aulot of time in fox-holes. | in the last war, although he never | Once in North Africa some Ger- | went overseas. » 3 { He enlisted in the naval reserve yi! 5 aes ea Sombie | at Peoria, Til, on Oct. 1, 1918. He|y,s He dived into a ditch behind | wag 18. He was released from ac- soldier tive duty after the armistice but” ~ = ° Ta remained in the reserve and took! Many Narrow Escapes a two weeks’ training cruise aboard When the raid was over, he | the training ship Wilmette, He nudged i

the = soldier and said, was honorably discharged on Sept.! “Whew, that was close, eh?” The 30, 1921, when the navy cut down soldier didn’t answer, ‘He was dead. its reserve force for reasons of| Pyle, saying over and over again economy. that ‘he was constantly afraid, went “Another Great American” from near-miss to near-miss, from

Pyle’'s ‘death was announced to North Africa to Ie.

: Once at” Anzio a bomb knocked the house by Rep. Percy Prist (D. |, "it of his bunk. - He reported Tenn).

'it, but most of the column. for that! “Another great American . has day was about the others who weére| fallen a victim of this terrible in the hut with him, He told how war," Priest told “his colleagues. Robert Vermillion, United Press “The entire country will be sad- correspondent, tried to get out from dened by the loss of this great re- under the debris and couldn't. Said porter Vermillion, “Hey, somebody get me “Hé interpreted the tragedy of out.of here.’ war in a human way that en- In France, deared him to millions. the death he could stand for a Pyle was a fox-hole reporter. He while. He wrote candidly that he said he knew nothing about strat- could no longer take it. He had to egy of tactics. What interested him ' come home. was the G. I. in the dust and the Soldiers wrote” him letiers teling

Pyle finally saw all

All Indiana Mourns Loss of

(Confinued From Page One) Ernie's desire to be a newspaper- : : man was born early in life. When he was but 14 he was an avid follower of Ring Lardner and would quote him continuously as he went . about the farm tasks which he so “ heartily disliked. The excitement of war struck Ernie vividly as ‘he saw world war I unfold during his high school days. It was all “Pop” could do to hold the chafing youngster at home until he finished high school But immediately . after graduation he took off for Champaign to 3 : enroll in the naval ROTC. The the Nazi Lufftwaffe, armistice was signed, however, beLoved to Ride fore he arrived at Great Lakes Once he refused to tell his for training. mother he lost his father's knife— | & v3 and the stick was applied. The | Entered 1. U. in 1919 other time he rode his horse,! Ernie entered Indiana university “Cricket,” too hard.” He felt the in 1919. He was at a loss what hickory again. field of study to follow at first

his premonition of death’ he felt so deeply has come true. Ernie, who was 44, ‘was born on a farm about three miles due west of the “home” place, He wa christened Ernest Taylor Pyle. So docile and well-behaved was Ernie as a lad- that “Pop” can recollect only two whippings., Both of them were administered by “Mom,” who" died in 1941 while Ernie was ih England describing in his simple but graphic terms the havoe brought to London by

But his love of riding was there He stood about the day of regls-' land

in the years to come he tration bewildered. Then someswitched to a Model T, which he one said journalism was easy named “Shag.” And that urge to And as he wanted to be a jourride and the lust to wander were nalist anyway, he-signed up. filled as he covered the world and, One of the first persons he met the war in every conceivable form was Dean of Men C. E. Edmondof transportation. ison, who became a close friend. Ernie began his learning at the| Dean Edmondson. now - retired. Dana public school in 1906 under said of Ernie: Miss Ivy Jordan, whom he visited! .“His interest in journalism was when back from war in 1943. paramount throughout his college The Helt township school at course. While he had no trouble Bono, just south of the Pyle home, with his other courses, his grades was completed in 1907 and Ernie indicated he was not much inter»d to finish high school in ested in anything but his journal- |

1918. [ism.

The Hoosier Vagabond Goes Home

No words can express the grief which we share with millions of Americans over the death of that gallent gentleman, Ernie Pyle. To The Indianapolis Times, its readors to all Hoosiers and to the family of “one who was more than a great writer, we

offer our deepest sympathy... He was our

friend, too.

“So apparerit was this that when an unusual opportunity came to him to work on a good newspaper (the La Porte, Ind., Herald-Argus)® I advised him to take the job although he lacked one semester of graduation.” x . |

Enjoyed Athletics

Ernie enjoyed "athletics but his small stature was a handicap and his beste fforts were spent managing the university football team in 1921. In the spring df 1922 the Crimson {nine was scheduled for a trip to the {Orient with stopovers in Yokohama and other Japanese cities. Ernie and three friends could not {make the. team, but they. did | wangle permission to miss classes tand set off with the team Running short. of funds the trio signed on as deck hands aboard the S. 8. Keystone State. But Ernie saw little of the Orient for he was bound aboard ship and had to start the return trip At Manila in the Philippines four Filipinos captured hi3 heart and he became a philanthropist and smuggled one aboard. And so he brought Gene Eubelhart "all the way back to Dana. ‘Then he saw to it that the Filipino finished his high school work and began college.

A Living Legend

During his years on the Indiana campus Ernie became almost a] living legend as he was to become | years later as the “voice” of the foot soldier, In May, 1923, the Scripps-Howard newspapers offered him a job on the Washington News and he rose through the rank$ from copyreader to aviation editor to.. managing editor. From there he embarked on his chosen field as the roving reporter telling of the little man. In time those little men went to war and Ernie followed them faithfully into the field and to his death. Ernie and “Pop” suffered an irréparable loss in 1941 when “Mom” died. The roving reporter was in England at the time and the trip back was a long one. He prevailed on Aunt Mary to step in and fill the gap. She has done that ever since, keeping up the hdme and as best she could to fill “Mom's”. shoes. Aunt Mary-has indeed taken over. Bhe nursed Pop through a long illness which resulted from a fall.

were avid readers and followers of the reporter who had received the

er EE — = Soin = aa BRE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES =a AR —— ——— i . , > ME ha yr ai) Sian RE AR, RE NE C; 2 h kB d 2 “|beach when he landed at Okinawa muck: So that is. what. hé wrote (im they. knew just how he felt ‘ . : {on the day the marines landed. [about. and they didn’t blame: him, sses zec or er, = PYLE IS KILLED "| Pyle the second ooo |’

Needless to say the two at home

But Pyle couldn't stay away from! a war that he felt was his as much as it was the Joes. fighting it. So he went to’ Okinawa. Everywhere he went, Pyle found fighting men looking for him: They, told him their stories, and he al-| ways got their names and addresses | right. | Wrote .About Men If he slept on the ground with| a bunch of exhausted soldiers, he| wrote a column about them in the morning. If the bombs came close, |

he told how the men took it. a.

If they were hungry and dirty and | homesick and grumpy and sick of war, he told about that, too. | Pyle's columns about combat

pay. He didn't pretend to be a] moulder of opinion; he just thought | that if airmen and others got extra pay for combat duty, the men with the rifles ought to get it, too. He

rsaid- it would be good for their

morale. Congress agreed. ° Never Used Long Words Pyle didn't know any long words. At any rate, he never used them. He could write with great feeling and discernment, with poetic feeling, even, What he wrote hit a day laborer

+as hard as it hit a college profes-

sor. The ordinary people loved him: witness the stream of letters to the editor which flowed 'constantly into the newspapers which carried his column. The learned also loved him, and showed him their respect. Witness

the honorary degree bestowed upon

him by his alma university. “doctor of humane letters.” siti .

mater, Indiana

Favorite Son

highest praise from all newsmen. He was the reporter's reporter of the war,

And when Ernie “had had it” on| the Western front, he came home. !

Allied - invasion armies were rolling victoriously through France. It was September of last when he last was in town. One of his first stops was in the city room of The Times. There was no-flourish, He merely walked in, stood silently looking around. And he was just as shy and quiet among his old friends as with new. Here, as always, he was a better listener than asker. Then he went down to Dana to see the folks and rest up in the {quiet farm atmosphere. There he used his old bedroom which has ever been kept ready for him, As his father said, “You never can tell when Ernest will drop‘in.’ The barber, the blacksmith, the greeer, the "baker -and everyone of the 1000 residents of Dana have a warm spot In their heart for Ernie Characteristic of the feeling is found in the words of Charies W. Kyger, dead of the village shoe repairmen and harnessmaker, “I renfember Ernie Pyle, He is a graduate of my harness shop He used to grab his rifle and hunt rabbits on the way to town: drop in here to warm up a bit and fondle the harness-making tools; then trudge his way home again, “He was a great bov.” By popular acclaim he hecame a great man.

POPE WARNS WORLD

Year

AGAINST NEW WAR

(Continued From Page One)

anything surpassing the limits of justfee and fairness certainly sooner or later would enormousiy damage both the victors and the

| vanquished because this would carry

the seed of new wars.” The Pope's 1300-word epistle carried an urgent appeal in behalf of prisoners of war and internees. It asked that prayers he offered in tneir behalf and that all co-operate in every possible way in order that they soort may return to their honies, The epistle was dated April 15— the Sunday of the Good Shepherd— and was to be published today by the Osservatore Romano, organ of the vatican. It was to be broadcast by theiVatican radio tonight. Informer years it was the custom of the Pope at the approach of the month of May to ask the papal secretary of state to announce special prayers to be held in the Virgin Mary's month, Vatican sources believed today's epistle would take the place of the customary letter,

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