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VOLUME 56—NUMBER 34
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THURSDAY, APRIL 19, 1945
Entered as Second-Class Matter at Postoffice Indian#polis, 9. Ind. Issued daily except Sunday
PRICE FIVE CENTS
Churchill Hints That Powers Of German Rulers May Be Crumbling
“By PHIL AULT United Press Staff Correspondent
LONDON, April 19.—Prime Minister Churchill indicated belief today that the authority of the German government may disintegrate within a few days. Churchill told the house of commons that a three-
power warning to Germany
on war atrocities, signed by
himself, Marshal Stalin and President Truman will be
issued within a few days.
The warning will be add
ressed, he said, to the “Ger-
man government or whatever authority exists” at that’
time—indicating belief “that may not be functioning as an statement iy dispatched.
the crumbling Nazi regime entity by the time the joint
At the same time Churchill decried speculation on . .the date of V-day which he said would be fixed in consulta-
tion with the “three or
G l. Joe—With Caption Written by Ernie Before Death
four
THIS CAPTION was written po Ernie Pyle on Okinawa 10 days before he was killed: So you at home think CarI. Joe’ doesn’t look that Well, he does, and here's This is Pe
“So they don't, eh? toonist Bill Mauldin's ‘G. way.
marine rifleman,
Italy.” Thar s Brule
PYLE 0 | REST Day That Dara
WITH HIS G. I s
Expected to bE Buried Army Island Cemetery,
By MAC R. JOHNSON United Press Staft Correspondent OKINAWA, April (U. P.).—Ernie Pyle will be buried among the soldiers he immortalized. The beloved little war corre« spondent killed by a Japanese ma-chine-gunner yesterday = probably will be laid to rest- in an army cemetery here in the Ryukyus where he covered ‘his last campaign. The soldiers he: loved brought him back from the battlefield, back
ADVANCER,, SHAEF COM-=-MAND POST, April 19 (U. P.).— Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, grieved by the death of War Correspondent Ernie Pyle, said today “every G. I in Europe—and that means all of us—has lost one of his best and most understanding friends.”
to where the noise of the guns is distant and dull. They lifted his pint-sized frame from the ditch where he fell, victim of a sneak Japanese machinegun ambush. One of his hands still clutched his green fatigue cap. They put him on a litter; and crossed his arms, and then carried him back to the rear, It wasn't easy. That Jap ma-chine-gunner seemed jealous of his prized victim. It was five hours after Ernie was killed before anybody could get to his body. Corp. Alexander Roberts, anny photographer from New York City tried to get in to take pictures, He said everytime anybody would try to enter the clearing where Ernie
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TIMES INDEX
Amusements , 20| Movies Eddie Ash..., 22{Lee Nichols.. 15 Business ,.... 24| Ernie Pyle ... 15 Comics. 27| Radio . .. 27 ~Crosstvord .%.. 27| Earl Richert.. 16 Editorials .... 16 Ration Dates. 14 16! Mrs. Roosevelt 1s _Johp Hillman 16 Side Glances.
Feared Comes
As Cruel Blow
By EDWIN C. HEINKE Times City Editor : DANA, Ind, April 19.—Dana wept today, unashamed. War had struck its cruelest blow. The shy, gentle spirit of Ernest Taylor Pyle had been taken aw
Like fn a mothers all over the world, /Dana had hoped this day would never come. Like lightning the word struck this small Indiana hamlet yesterday. It came without warning out of a blue sky floating with fleecy clouds. From farmyard to farmyard, from the bank to the postoffice to the general store, over the circuits of the rural telephone exchange the word spread. “Ernie Pyle is dead.” In the little white house with the green roof near a dusty country road south of here, the tragedy poured its anguish upon two of the people in the world who had feared it most. “Poor . Ernest, murmured Mary
Ernest,” the
poor Bales,
Urban Vachon of Laconia, N. H, who is just another
looks the same on ‘Okinawa as Pfc. Jones looks in |
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SAVE SHIPS SHIPS, ~ ALLIES WARN NAZI SEAMEN
PARIS, April 19 (U, P.y.—Allied headquarters has broadcast instructions to German merchant seamen not to scuttle their ships in fanatical resistance because -they 1 be needed to transport necessary d to Germany, The order said the “time was drawing near” when the allies would occupy and operate North sea ports and warned that no allied shipping would be available for German
{now functioning in Warsaw be in|vited to send representatives of the
needs.
looking perfectly natural, and he
in the background.
SECOND POLISH BID REFUSED
|
'U. S. Insists on Regime of
National Unity.
WASHINGTON, April 19 (U, P.).|
* |—The United States today turned]
down Russia's second request that], the provisional Polish govérnmernt of Warsaw be invited to the San Francisco security %cenference. The state department reiterated |‘ its firm stand that Poland will not be represented at the united nations parley unless a new “government#of national unity” is formed before the conference begins next Wednesday. Russia, Britain and the United States agreed at Yalta to foster such a new Polish regime. But it has not been set up. Apparently there have been differences of opinfon as to interpretations of the Yalta agreement. U. 8. Receives Note The state department confirmed that the Soviet government, in a note received here yesterday, had reiterated “the Soviet request that the present provisional government
|conference at San Francisco.” This is the government that first was set up at Lublin, Receipt of the note had .been announced but its contents had not been officially disclosed. Russia's first request that. the Warsaw government be invited to San Francisco was rejected by the United States and Britain on March 31. A belief is current here that Big Three representatives likely will be unable to agree on a new, broadened Polish government in time for the conference.
Will Hays fo Speak Here On U. S. World Peace Role).
All-out United States co-opera-tion in an international peace organization will be urged in an address here Sunday night by Will Hayes, . prominent Hoosier Republican;and watchdog of movie morals, The film czar. reportedly comes here from Hollywood at the suggestion of Secretary of State Edward R. ‘Stettinius Jr, who was anxious to obtain a forthright expression of 6 world collaboration from a topranking Republican just, biter the
throwing their combined weight behind the world peace movement, Mr. Hays is expected to reminisce on his role at the end .of world war I, when as G. O. P. national chairman, he captained. the suc-
cessful presidential campaign Rf
Warren Harding, © Mr. Harding's election was believed to have been a potent factor in’ this country’s decision to remain out of the league of nations.
Mineipal hii having
NAZIS ADMIT Yanks Russ Aren't Racing Aim Is to Kill Germans
By LOUIS F. KEEMLE United Press War Analyst Omar N. Bradley has made it plain that | is.no race on between the Russians and the allied armies of the west, not even a friendly one,
RUSS 14 MILES FROM CAPITAL
Two Outposts Are Seized; Battle Reported Nearing Climax.
By ROBERT MUSEL United Press Staff Correspondent
LONDON, broadcasts said today
deep advance east of Berlin| and thrust an armored spear-| head across a road at an unspecified point northeast 'of Strausberg, a town nine miles from the city limits.
The Russians drove to within 14,
miles of the capital. A German military spokesman said Marshal Ivan S. Konev's 1st Ukrainian army had pushed westward up to 25 miles beyond the Neisse river and had reached the Spree river on a 42-mile front between Cottbus and Bautzen, 68 miles from the American 3d army at Chemnitz, Moscow continued to give only vague hints of the great Soviet offensive on the broad front before Berlin—drives in which gloomy Nazi commentators acknowledged steady Russian gains into the shrinking waistline of the unoccu- | pied Reich. 2 Outposts Fall ’ »BYy.German account the bloodiest fighting raged in the maze of de< fenses strung over the near <approaches to Berlin. There, JTransocean’s Walter Plato said, the “hard struggleis becoming more acute” and the “scerie of grim fighting shifted nearer the Berlin.” Red army 4ssault forces toppled | the Berlin outposts of Seelow and
admitted, After the fall of Wriezen, broadcast said, the Russians moved | “several kilometers” down the road to Strausberg. A later alarmed radio report said that after achieving a deep" breakin, a spearhead ‘thrust a few kilometers” beyond the road Into Strausberg. Plato reported “repeated crises” in the Oder valley in the last 24 hours,
but said the Germans managed, by!
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April 19.—Nazi/ that| Russian forces had scored a|
one
a ‘mind to both military and implied that no agreement on
political considerations. He a date has yet been reached.
Ie revealed that a special parliamentary delegation is leaving Britain tomorrow to obtain eyewitness evidence
of Nazi atrocities. Churchill said Soviet
Foreign Commissar V. M.
Molotov soon will join Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden
and
Sesrsiary of Sas Edward Stettinius Jr. in the United
States, and the tripower warning probably will be issued
. soon after their meeting.
“This warning is designed to bring home the responsi bility not only to the men at the top, who are already
on other grounds war criminals in many cases,
but to the
actual people who have done this, foul work with their own
hands, and make it clear ti
1at no order from superior
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LEIPZIG CAPTURED BY YANKS; REDS CUT ROAD NEAR BERLIN
Gen. here i
for the honor of taking Berlin, Bradley's statement,
the drive for Ine Sepia] is on.
ARMIES PAUSE
coupled with military developments, makes it seem probable that | the Russians will enter Berlin first. Moscow has given the enemy no clue in the form of communiques regarding Soviet operations east of Berlin, but if Nazi broadcasts are to be believed,
addition to a fr from Frankfurt. the latest If the area is
i
tary forces in t
The picture presented by the German high command and military commentators is one of wide enveloping movement of the Berlin military area, in
being flanked on the northeast and south.
| terness proclaimed by Adolf Hitler, there is every prospect that considerable destruction of Nazi mili-
declared objective of the Russians, more than the { seizure of the ruined capital. AT 7
ontal advance along the highway | By Nazi accounts, the capital is
going to be defended with the bit-
he east will result. That: is the
[irony OF WAR— ns Seem
ON WEST FRONT| oon to See
| |
Allow Supply Lines to Catch Up With Spearheads.
TWELFTH ARMY GROUP HEADQUARTERS, April 19 (U. P). —Gen. Omar N. Bradley said teday that the western allies had reached the established objectives of the present offensive into Germany and now are preparing to launch the next phase of their attack .op- the Reich. : Bradley said that the attack from the west had reached a “temporary pause” which was necessary in order to allow supply lines fo catch up with thé hard-hitting spearheads. “I think it is recognized py everyong” he said, “that there are certain times in a campaign when you are moving rapidiy when"you have to stop to catch up with supply lines, clean out rear areas and so forth.” Bradley said the present phase of operations is “practically comlete.” “We've reached the Elbe river line,” he said, “and since crossing
| Wriezen; 26 miles east and 23 north- |e Rhine we have taken 842.864 [east of the capital, the Germans | |German' prisoners.
Virtually every {German soldier who faced us back {on the Siegfried line Feb. 23 is now either killed, wounded or a prisoner.” Bradley said the western allies now hold about 36 per cent of the German Reich “so that we are an 4ccupation army on a considerable scale already.” »
DREAM ENDED— S. S. Trooper
TURN YOUR PLAYING| S©bs in Shadow
CARDS IN AT ONCE
‘Drive Picking Up but More!
Are Needed.
The playing cards are beginning to come in. More than 600 decks already have been gathered from the public library collection stations.
But it is not yet the flood tide that |
will zoom to the 5000-deck goal set by the Veterans of Foreign ‘Wars and The Indianapolis Times, cosponsors, And so ‘early results are showing that Mr, and Mrs, Indianapolis are digging them out. Business concerns also are aiding the drive, The East End Dairies, Inc., 577
| N, Highland st., yesterday gave el8ht | 1 atanapolis men have been killed.
dozen new decks. . The gift, was
tation of 50 decks. Meanwhile club organizations such as the alumnae of Kappa Kappa Gamma, Butler university, are pitching in to do’their part. But if you haven't given, don’t let it slide by. The campaign lasts through the 28th and the cards given will pass the long hours for the G. 1.’s at Billings and Wakeman General hospitals and thé Veterans Administration.
GLORIA TO FILE HER SUIT FOR DIVORCE
“RENO, April 19 (U. P.).—Gloria Vanderbilt Di Cicco will file suit
| the Luitpold arena,
Of Nazi Shrine
By MALCOLM MUIR Jr. United Press Staff Correspondent
NUERNBERG, Germany, April 19.—~The 8, 8S. trooper stood in the shadow of Nazidom's shrine and sobbed: “Alles kaput. Qur dream is ended.” Above him towered the walls of where the dream was nourished and grew through the years of Hitler's rise.
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' LEIPZIG, April
Fall of Leipzig
By JOHN Mc¢DERMOTT United Press Staff Correspondent WITH AMERICAN TROOPS IN A9. — The war ended for Leipzig today and the | million or more German civilians jammed into this historic city seemed glad of it. 0 Fens cf thousands of civilians turned out as if for a parade to watch the American 1st triumphal entry.
army's |
=» ” » MINGLED with the crowds were” hundreds of ated American, British, Polish
street | tiber- |
HALLE FALLS: NAZIS ATTACK OTH'S FLANK
7th Clears’ Grogter Part of Mdernberg, Seizes Three Generals.
WITH U. 8S. 7TH AMY IN GERMANY, April 19 (U. P).— American troops cleared the greater part of Nuernberg today and captured a large bag of
CASUALTY LIST NEAR MILLION
i
U. S. Combat Losses. Reported 12,810 in a Week.
WASHINGTON, April 19 (U.P.).| —Officially announced, U. S. combat |
casualties, approaching reached an. overall total of 912,200 today. "This was an increase of!
! 12,810 in a week.
Meanwhile, German casualties on
the Western front are mounting by|
the hundreds of thousands. Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson disclosed at his press confer-!
1,000,000, |
{ prisoners in the Nazi shrine city, | including three German generals.
By BOYD D. LEWIS +Upjted Press’ Staff Correspondent
PARIS, April 19.—The twin German strongholds of Leipzig and Halle fell to the | American 1st army today in a crushing double victory
which threatened the coms | plete collapse of the Nazis’ central front. Thy two cities, keystones of the { enemy's entire defensive system in Central Germany, were taken by Ist army doughboys only a few hours apart today in the bloodiest street fighting since the Rhine |e crossing. A few scattered snipers were re-
and Russian prisoners who yelled, | ence today that British and U. .S.| partes sil Rodis ok in She ruins cheered and wept with joy at be- | armies have captured 2,100,000 Ger- | pzig 2 resist-
ing liberated. Eor the tired foot soldiers who fought through the Leipzig flak barrage and then rooted out the Wazi garrison Street by street there of thi The ‘Germans fought like wild men to hold Leipzig. 5 © » BUT EVEN before the battle ended, German civilians had closed up their shops and offices and swarmed out into the streets to see the American conquerors. Pfc. James Maze, Richmond, Ind, watched one group of Germans cheering the American col-: umns and he stroked a cluster of hand grenades tied about his neck. “Funny thing,” he said, “we fought like hell to get. in here and now we find the people glad to see us.”
MARSHALL KEEPS HIS ‘NEWS’ SECRET
WASHINGTON, April 18 (U. P.). —President Truman summoned Gen, George <¢€. Marshall, army chief-of-staff, to the White House for a 15-minute conference today. After the conference, Marshall smilingly told reporters that he had “lots and lots” of news. “But,” he added with a grin, “I can't give it to you.” Marshall said he couldn't say
anything on the subject of the nearness or remoteness of V-E day.
|
{mans since Normandy D-day last June 6. Of this total, 900,000 were | captured in April alone. 1,6000000 Taken Prisoners Just a week ago the tota] Western!
as little’ thrill in tke fall | front prisoner bag. since’ D-day was y once-great oil center. | li
| announced as 1,600,000. The U. S. combat casualty total | included 813,870 army and 98330 navy, marine corps, and coast guard { losses since. Dec. 7, 1941. { Stimson reported-that U. S. army {casualties in Europe during March | “were limited” to 47.023. This inIcluded. 6214 killed, 35.443 wounded, and 5366 missing. | Ground force since D-day, he 473 215,
losses in said, now total including 79,795 killed by
58,501" missing. Stimson - said the army’s March | losses in Europe were suffered in |
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TREMBLING CZECHS—
Children Hunger For Yank Candy, But Fear Nazis
By REYNOLDS PACKARD United Press Staff Correspondent INSIDE CZECHOSLOVAKIA, April 19.—American G. I's today were “liberating” Czechoslovakia. They were leaving the same trail of candy, cigarets and gum they had spread across France, Belgium and Holland—but not Germany. “This is fraterniuing country,’ they. shouted as the first jeeps raced across the Czech-German frontier. A » n n
Hoosier Heroes: Six Killed, 4 Prisoners and 5 Wounded
Two navy fighter pilots have been killed in the Pacific and four other
af |
549 E. Georgia st. “with the’ presen: | Germany six have been liberated
from German prison camps and ‘five more have been wounded. KILLED Marine Platoon Sgt. Clifton E. Taylor, 137 E. 17th st.,, on Iwo Jima. Lt. (j.g), Thomas Connor, 1512 N. Meridian st, in the Pacific. Ens. Robert J. Unversaw, Bancroft st, in the Pacific. Marine Pfc. Jack A. Ketter, Danville, on Iwo Jima, Second Lt. Donald L. Clapp, 6044 E.- Washington st., in Italy. T. 5th Gr. Frank O, Palmer, 930 Olive st, in the Philippines, - MISSING Sgt. Wayne Fleener, 1519 Sturm ave., on. Western front, 5 - PRISONERS T. Sgt. Irvine R. Sctoptover, 1655 ‘st., in
911
=| reglons” in flerce fig slay 3 ‘rep
| who
Pfc. Kenneth R. Simmons, 404 W. | New YorK st, in Germany. S. Sgt. Stanley J. Podsiadly, E. Michigan st., in Germany. FREED Pfc. John '‘Smerdel, 770 Arnolda!
4314
| st, escaped from a German prison
camp. Pvt. Clifford C. May, 528 E. Mie igan st., now in France. Pvt. Richard Thomas, 2857 Suth-| erland ave. from German prison camp. Pfc. John R. Brown, 2008 Prospect st, from Stalag 9-B. " Pfc. John F. Daly, 316 N, Temple ave, freed by allies from German prison camp. Pfc. Ross Jarrett Jr, 2118 N. Meridian st, freed from Bad Orb. ; (Details, Page 3)
INVADE ISLE NEAR FIUME By UNITED PRESS Yugosfay ‘troops have landed on the island of Krk just south of PFiume at the nottheastern’ tip of the Adriatic and liberated “large
| WESTERN
trouble finding Czechs with whom they can fraternize. In contrast to the French kids
stretched hands begging “eigarets pour papa.”
The Czechs are stic king to their | houses—waving timidly. from be- |
hind windows,
They're still afraid’ of reprisals |
from Nazi troops, or their German Sudeten neighbors. Pfc. Frederic Schmidt, N. Y, said: “It's a terrible thing afraid to be seen talking to us in front of German prisoners.”
(April 19, 1945) FRONT American 15t army captures Leipzig. EASTERN FRONT -— Red army
two key outposts captured. AIR WAR—American planes bomb targets in German-Czechoslovak corridor ‘between U. 8. and Red armies.
, & Yugotoday.
Europe |
the Germans, 334,919 wounded, and |
BUT the Americans are having |
lined the roads with out- |
Bronx, |
to see -how these Czechs are even |
forces within 14 miles of Berlin; |
ance was stamped out in Halle, 15 | miles to the northwest. + Far to the northwest, U. 8 9th {army forces patfled to stem a fierce | Gérman counter - attack against their northern flank betW&SW “ats deburg and Brunswick. - Hit 9th’s Flank | A strong Gerinan task force of perhaps 1000 men and 70 tanks and armored units struck “suddenly into the 9th army flank some 45 miles west of the Elbe early today and made considérable progress before the Americans could rally to meet the blow. Attacking southeastward from [the Wittingen-area, the Nazis | slipped part of their force 15 miles through the American lines inte {the Kloetz forest, but their main | body was checked with heavy losses latter a _three- mile advance. The thrust apparently was aimed at cutting clear across the 9th army (front into the Harz mountains, some 60 miles south of the Kloets forest. 0 Snipers Hold Out Leipzig, the fifth city of Hitler's {Reich and. the pivot on which his entire western battle line depended, was conquered by two 1st army die visions early today in one .of the bloodiest, close-in fights of the War, | All but a handful of Nazi snipers were killed of captured early today and the doomed survivors were being hunted down and destroyed at top speed. With stray shots still flying in a
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On Hitler G.l's Will 'Do Duty’
WASHINGTON, April 19 (U. P.).—Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson said - today that if and when American troops find Adolf Hitler they will bring him in as a prisoner of war—unless he resists, Stimson was asked at his press conference whether American soldiers had been indoctrinated on what to do if they found Hitler. He said in reply that he wondered if the question did full Justice to American troops. “You ‘may be sure our troops will do their duty,” he said. “Hit ler will be made prisoner of | war, like other Nazi officials, if | he doesn't resist.”
On the War Fronts *
Kyushu for third straight day; U. 8. invasion forces advances inland on Mindano in Philippines, | CHINA — Chinese recapture’ Fan cheng on Han river, er BURMA — British capture Chauk, important oil field town on waddy, , Lan ;
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