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Roar of Allied Guns Only ‘Salute’ Given Hitler On 56th Birthday
These two pictures of Adolf Hitler, addressing Nazi army officers, were obtained by Henry J. Taylor, Times war correspondent, from the kit of a captured German photographer in Heidelberg April 3. The photographer told Taylor the pictures had been taken in Berlin March 12. There was no way to confirm this, although dispatches from Berlin
on March 12 said Hitlet had made
a speech that day.
Poll Reveals Most Hoosiers
Favor World Peace Role
Ninety per cent of the Hoosier
citizens polled in 52 Indiana towns
By W. R. HIGGINBOTHAM United Press Staff Correspondent LONDON. April 20.—Adolf Hitler—the defeated dictator—passed his 56th, and probably last, birthday today. » There were no celebrations in his dying empire for ‘the most hunted man in history. The only salutes” came from the gus | of
TRUMAN'S BID FOR HARMONY
GETS SUPPORT
‘Both Parties Like Way He
Has Started to Work With Congress.
By LYLE C. WILSON United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, April 20.—There seems. to be no doubt today that | | President Truman has gotten off | to a great start with congress. Republicans are saying just as ice things about him as the Democrats. One — Senator C. Wayland |
favor whole-hearted' U.S. participation in a wowld peace organization. | Brooks (R. Tll)—went So far as to | This refutation of the “isolationist” brand Indiana has carried is con- |, edict of future relations between |
tained in a poll conducted throughout the state by the Indiana Sotmpait- fits
tee for Victory and the League of Women Voters.
Preliminary results of the survey
Coulter, chairman of the Indiama|™"""" Committee for Victory. Nine of every 10 persons quizzed, he said, “indorsed the idea or a united nations organization, including America, based on the Dumbarton Oaks proposals.
Some Hadn't Studied It
Practically all of those who withheld approval gave as their reason the fact that they had not studied the question sufficiently, Mr, Coulter added. “Only a few indicated their impression that the question still has a political aspect,” Mr. Coulter asserted. : The public opinion test will be eontinued throughout the San Francisco peace parley, beginning next Wednesday. A complete report of results will be released after details of the San Francisco world council charter have been made public. United States delegates to the conference already have been notithe strength of Hoosier world peace sentiments as reflected in the poll, said Mr. Coulter, Question Outlined Cards distributed to thousands of
« citizens representing a cross-section
of the populace asked receivers jo agree or disagree with the follow“ing statement or one similar:
se Ai¥a fa yor <Ananimous. American |
“EnpPUrt tor aw uhhed NANOnS of ganization based upen the Dumbarton Oaks proposals and urge that the charter of this organizaticn be ratified by the U, S, senate as soon as possible after its creation by the San Francisco conference.”
Forums Held on Dumbarton Oaks
Some 800 persons last night attended seven forums on Dumbarton
Oaks held at public schools. The sessions were under the auspices of the extended school service department of the Indianapolis public schools, First of a series of forums on world en-operation, the meetings were in observance of April 16-22 as Dumbarton Oaks week, as designated by the late President Roosevelt,
Prize-Winning Essay
The ‘largest attendance was reoorded at School 58. There Alice Harrison, Howe high school student, read her second-prize winning essay on “What Dumbarton Oaks Means to Me.” Lewis Gilfoy, Howe high teacher, led the discussion. Resolutions urging Indiana Senators Homer Capehart and Raymond Willis to back American participation in a world security movement, were adopted at school 76 and 8. Other discussion leaders were Miss Minnie Floyd, teacher at Shortridge, school 176; Wilbur Barnhart, assistant principal at Manual, school 8; Oka 8. Flick, teacher at Technical high, school 15; Irven Armstrong, Crispus Attucks teacher at Crispus Attucks; Lawrence Surface of- Broad Ripple high, at Broad Ripple, and Charles H. Money, teacher at Washington high, school 30.
were announced today - by John”
LOWER-PRICED CLOTHING SEEN
OPA Orders ors Reduction to 1943 Level. |
WASHINGTON, April 20 (U. P.). ~The return of low-priced clothing by late summer was- predicted today as the government attacked the clothing shortage from a new angle in its efforts to get produc-| tion up and prices down. Stabilization Director William H. Davis last night approved a five-cént-an-hour wage increase for 50,000 C. I. O. textile workers and tied his decision to the necessity,
down the cost of living.
the retail cost of clothing by at| least 6 per cent for .lower and! middle -income families.
Cut to 1943 Average
requiring clothing manufacturers to| sell“their goods at no more than the average price received in 1943. This, he said, should restore the pattern of price lines prevailing in that] year. “When the government's program is established,” Bowles said, “I can safely say that the angerous rise in clothing prices will be halted and the pinch of high clothing prices on
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90 KILLED IN CRASH OF ARMY TRANSPORT
Twin-Engine Plane Wrecked In Texas.
(U. P.).—Between 20 and 25 passengers aboard a twin-engine army transport plane were killed today when it crashed and burned three | miles south of here. Army officials refused at first to} release the number of men aboard the plane until an accurate check | of the bodies could be made, but] local undertakers said: that “more | than 20 bodies” were in Sweet-| water funeral parlors. The plane, based at Midland army air field, was“en route to a New Jersey destination when it | crashed shortly after 6:30 a. m.
COURT-MARTIAL ORDERED PARIS, April 20 (U. P.).—An American army officer whose identity was not disclosed will be court-martialled for selling penicillin
in the Black market, the judge advocate's office sald today. « «a :
Slight Hope Is
Agreement on Polish Issue
By ROBERT J. MANNING United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, April 20.—~There is almost certain to be an empty chair labelled “Poland” when the united nations meet in San PFran-
TIMES INDEX
Amusements.. 26 Lee Miller ... Eddie Ash ... 28 Movie Business 14 | Obituaries , .8, 27 Comics 31 | Ernie Pyle . Crossword .t. 19 Radio Editorials .... 18|Ration Dates 19 Fashions .... 21 Mrs. Roosevelt 17 Forum .. 18 | Side Glances . 18 Meta Given Ey a E. 18 Saclety . 5
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cisco next Wednesday to begin setting up an organization to keep the peace. The. absence of Poland—first victim of axis aggression and one of .the first members of the united nations family—casts -a cloud over the opening of a conference from which so much i8 expected. More than anything else it shows
THe OPA chief “issued” an order | 41 i eS pos e
{co- -operation,
lack of complete harmony* among n |powers.
success of the new security league depends to a large degree on continued Lo-gperayion among those
WES. American oficial still. slung 0 the slight hope ‘that the: U. 8,
| Britain and Russia would be. able}
It hag been stated repeatedly that
leading members of the world's big|
legislative = and
ragehes: \ “It's going to be :something we haven't seen before, in your lifetime or mine.” That, of course, remains to be seen. No honeymoon ever lasted forever, and neither Mr. Truman nor the R blicans in congress are | forgetting that it's still a two-party system. ‘We'll Do Minority Job’ As the senate Republican whip, Kenneth Ss Wherry (R. Neb.), put it: “We have done what we ought to do—pledge our help with non-con- | troversial matters. That doesn’t | mean, however, that we're going all | the way with this man, “We'll be with him when he's right and against him when he’s wrong. Issues will come up -when| we'll meet him head-on. We'll do the job the minority ought to do.” That will be strictly all right with Harry S. Truman, late of the U. 8. senate. He told a group of Republican
executive |
for producing more textiles to hold! senators who called at the White] | House Wednesday with pledges of |
At the same time Price Admin- support that he believed thorough-| istrator Chester Bowles announced|ly in the two-party system and| afternoon—ironically on the 56th one of the last major steps in the recognized the responsibilities of a| | birthday of the fuehrer who had government's program to roll back ‘loyal opposition.”
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Seeks to Avoid Feuds
But Mr. Truman's aim will be to|
| seek areas of agreement—to avoid | #Fiacocs in which Whité House!
vy arti erdrnuched OD. OPr des of an issue—as some-|
| times happened in the Roosevelt | and Leipzig were taken by the U. S.|
administration. Senate Republicans this week “of - fered “their co-operation toward | prevention of legislative deadlocks and feuds. “We told him,” Senator Styles Bridges (R. N. H.) reported, “that we wanted him to deal through the regular Republican channels and not with individual senators. He i said he was a thorough believer in| |the two-party system and recog-! | nized our position as the loyal op- | position. We pledged our fullest consistent with our principles.” There was considerable curiosity |
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[DANCE HAPPY —
SWEETWATER, Tex., April 20] Toscanini Gets
Shock as Girl Trips Fantastic
HOLLYWOOD, April 20: (U. P.) —A stage - struck young dancer who treated a Los Angeles Philharmonic concert audience to an unprogrammed ballet ' with three burly policemen and a stage man= ager explained to police today: “I'm not crazy, I'm an artist.” Skeptical officers scheduled a psychiatric examination just to make sure.
n J 3 AMAZED music lovers last night saw slim Helen Favill slip onto the stage and pirouette across the platform in perfect time to Von Weber's “Invitation fo the Dance,” conducted by Arturg Toscanini. It was the first time in the famed Italian maestros experi- | ence that the invitation had been accepted. As she twirled and leaped across the stage, Manager Wilfred Davis stepped out of the wings to intercept her. Without any perceptible breaks, Miss Favill reversed her fleld.
on TOSCANINI turned, saw the swaying dancer, dropped his hands to his hips and stared. ’IThe audience applauded. The orchestra kept on’ playing. Three policemen .joined the dance and, cornered Miss Favill between the violins and the back< drop of an arabesque.
. 4:8 os " THE DANCER, who said her home was.in Roanoke, Va, angrily charged the police with’ disrespect to her and to Toscanini. She said she had written the "| conductor for permission to gp ‘pear on the program, but dign’t say whether he had answered.
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allied armies closing in on him from east and west. . Berlin—where in Hitler's heyday the red flags with the black swastikas flew and his storm troopers paraded—echoed with the | artillery of the on-coming Red army. . The German radio, which once boomed Hitler's thay speeches
from Berlin, had only {fresh defeats to offer. There was no indication the fuehrer would make a birthday broadcast. A Swiss report said 21 gauleiters had asked Goebbels last week to persuade Hitler to speak. for the sake of morale. The same dispatch—quoting a Munich . Pp. Goebbels
news of
‘and Himmler had refused to act on the matter, The fuehrer was believed to be in his mountain retreat at Berchtesgaden, planning a “twilight of the gods” finale to his career of . conquest. Some recent reports have sug-
. gested Hitler still was in Berlin,
_But_few helieved he would re-
main that close to the Red army if he could help it A Zurich dispatch, quoting .a German diplomat who supposedlv left Berlin last week, said the Reich .capital had been stripped for its capture. : According to ‘the’ report, all Nazi1 organizations and government offices, had been evacuated
to the Bavarian redoubt, where Hitler plans his last stand, Martin Bormann, Nazi party leader for southern Germany including the Bavarian Alps and Berchtesgaden, warned potential deserters of sinking Germany, “Whoever breaks his oath is a
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REDS 7 MILES FROM BERLIN;
NAZI POCKET BATTLESHIP SUNK
American 7th Army Captures Nuernbers
HITLER SHRINE FALLS ON 56TH ANNIVERSARY
‘Battle Leaves City in Ruins;
Yanks Streak for Bavarian Hideout.
By BOYD D. LEWIS United Press Staff Correspondent
PARIS, April 20.—The American 7th army captured the ruined Nazi shrine city of | Nuernberg today. Two armored divisions of
‘the Tth army also sped south-
ward toward Munich to open the battle for Hitler's Bavarian redoubt. ’ Lm
All organized resistance ended in
Nuernberg after a savage, house- | | to-house battle that front dispatches said had gutted the once-beautiful|
medieval city. The ‘last survivors of a Nazi elite guard corps surrendered to the Americans inside the old walled City) in the center of Nuernberg late this
| ordered his party shrine defended | to the death.
Third in 24 Hours
It was the 15th city of the Reich] and the third big Nazi stronghold to fall to the, rampaging ‘American armies in the past 2% hours. Halle
1st army yesterday .after‘.a pro- | longed fight Yaa outdid in fury!
" LONDON, April 20 (U.P.).— Censorship permitted the disclosure today that Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower conferred with Prime Minister Churchill at No. 10 Downing st. recently.
even the bloody battle for Nuern-
berg.
At the same time, the Tth army’s|,
12th and 14th armored divisions) {broke loose on a wide end run southeast and ‘southwest of Nuern-| berg on the main roads to Munich. |
Field Guns Blast Walls
Late dispatches said both columns were 25 miles and beyond Nuernberg, with the 12th armored division on ‘the. southeastern flank | only about 70 miles from Munich and 30 miles from the Danubian city of Regensburg. | The final bloody battle for Nuern- | berg was concentrated in a milesquare patch of ruins in the center of the city. The survivors of the| Nazi garrison holed up inside al walled and moated fortress. { Giant American field guns blasted a half-dozen holes in the walls and
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U.S, ROCKET BOMB PROVES EFFECTIVE
|Pierces Massive Roofs of Nazi E-Boat Pens.
LONDON, April 20 (U. one] American Flying Fortresses: have launched rocket-propelled bombs | against German motor torpedo boat ! pens on the Dutch coast af least! twice, it was revealed today. A joint communique of the U. S. strategic air forces and the British admiralty revealed that rocket bombs were used in attacks against Ijmuiden on Feb. 10 and March 14. Like the German V-2, ‘the rocket travels faster than sound when itis sent down - from a high flying bomber. It is set so that it explodes after its terrific speed sends it; deep into the target. The bomb was designed to perfethick layers of concrete and it is known that several hit and pierced the massive roofs of the Eboat pens. They are believed to have caused considerable damage. The new. weapon is a high explosive bomb -of speeial design
‘which is given a much greater speed |
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HINT PATROLS CONTACT YANKS
NEAR DRESDEN
Tank and Infantry Forces Besieging Capital on 16-Mile Front.
BULLETIN LONDON, April 20 (U. P.)— British bombers have sunk the German pocket battleship Luetzow at her moorings in the Baltic port of Sweinemunde, it was announced today. The 10,000-ton Luetzow, formerly the Deutschland and a sister ship of the sunken Admiral Scheer, was sent to the bottom in an R. A. F, attack on the port last Monday, the British air ministry said.
By ROBERT MUSEL United Press Staff Correspondent
LONDON, April 20.—Rus-~ sian troops storming the last barriers befdre Berlin broke
The allies consolidate their positions along the Western front while the Reds push on Berlin from into a village seven miles east
| numerous points.
PYLE BURIED ON PACIFIC ISLAND
Laid to — Ry sghimal ws
With Men -He Glorified.
OKINAWA, April 20 (U. P).—
— | Ernie Pyle was buried on Ie Shima today beside some. of the doughboys he glorified in his newspaper dispatches.
As a chaplain read a brief burial |
service and spoke the final words, | a squad of riflemen” fired a volley | |of shots and the flag-draped eat {was lowered into the ground. Even as the final words were said] {over the grave, the thunder of [the batfle the little Hoosier hated {but endured rose to a crescendo on {nearby Okinawa. There other dough-
|boys were fighting and dying in a
drive on the enemy's capital city. On le itself, soldiers were bat-
|tling to root the Japs from poss
tions -on Mount Iegusugu. Here in the Ryukyu islands,
the G. Is still mourned the loss
{of the man who told their story | {better than anyone else. Ernie was just getting acquainted
with the men on Ie Shima, when he was killed. But they all had read his columns. through the war, and each man felt he was a very personal ‘friend of Pyle, because that was the way his columns
jaffected readers.
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1000 Decks of Cards Donated
THE COLLECTION of playing cards by the Veterans of Foreign Wars and The Indianapolis Times hit the 1000 mark this morning. It's a good start, but 4000 more decks are needed to meet the goal set in the drive, which ends a week from tomorrow. So dig up that extra good, clean) deck around the house and drop it off at the public libraTy nearest your home. Some G. I. you probably never wil] know will thank you for it as he passes some long hours in hi§ fight back to health: -They are for the men at Billings and Wakeman general hospitals and the Veterans administration. "A contribution -of 140 decks . by P. R. Mallory & "Co. shot the total to the 1000 mark. “On the back of. each card ‘is inscribed. “We're not forgetting.’ Your - ‘friends of BP, Re Mallory &
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HONOR ERNIE— Pyle Memorial
Move Begun by | I. U. Foundation
i : 5 “Times Special BLOOMINGTON, April 20.—An
I+ Ernie Pyle memorial will be es-
tablished - at ‘Indiana university | where the world reporter spent four years as a college student. Exactly what form the memorial will take has not been decided. However, the board of directors of the university foundation this morning authorized the Ernie Pyle Memorial Fund and invited all interested persons to- | participate. The scope of the tribute will depend upon the backing given by the millions of Ernie's friends the nation over. Some of the possibilities: envisioned are a four-year full journalism scholarship, a building for the journalism department or even an entire school of journalism. Don Herold, New York, president of the university alumni association, here for the commencement program Sunday, indorsed the plan and pledged alumni support. James S. Adams, president of Standard Brands, New York, and one of Ernie's closest campus friends, was the moving spirit back of the memorial foundation. Hardly had the news of the G. I. ‘champion’s death stunned his host of friends than Mr, | Adams began planning a memo- | rial.
SEN, WILLIS ASKS | MEDAL FOR PYLE
‘Wants Caries to Bestow Honor Posthumously.
By Scripps-Howard Newspapers WASHINGTON, April 20.—Sena-
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a senate-resolution to bestow a congressional medal posthumously upon Ernie Pyle and expects to introduce it today. He will ask Senator Capehart, his colleague, to join in its introduction, he said. Senators Hatch and Chavey, from Ernie's adopted state of New Mexico, also may be invited” to Shonsor the introduction. “Ernie Pyle belongs to all ‘Amer- | icans,” Senator Willis sald. “But | we Hoosiers have a special claim lon the memory of this great . Bis {torian of G. I. Joe. He was ou | best beloved native son. In this Vand
“ |he moved, to the unchallenged rank
lof our greatest war correspondent. “As a mewspaperman, I feel another personal tie. For he was a martyr to his profession.” The medal would be awarded to “That Girl,” Mrs. Jergy Pyle, who uerque.
of the capital today, the Nazis’ § reported.
YANKS GAIN IN
DRIVE ON NAHA
And a Moscow dispatch said U. |S. 3d army and Soviet patrols probably had met in the Dresden sector. “The battle for Berlin has reached 5 the decisive stage,” German broadcasters said repeatedly during the
ost. Artillery. Fire of day in .describing the struggle at
"Jad War Aids Attack.
By UNITED PRESS
A two weeks’ lull in the battle for
southern Okinawa was brken to-
day as American troops
Naha in a new offensive.
Tokyo reported a 30-ship U. S.
invasion fleet attempted to land as-
sault forces on the southern coast.
battled within three ana a half miles of
| yesterday
| agely {and initial American gains averaged
tor Willis of Indiana has prepared |
Elements of three army divisions wedged deeper into Japanese defenses and were within a mile of Machinato airfield. The town of
| Machinato north of the airfield was
captured, oe The new offensive was launched behind the heaviest massed artillery fire of the Pacific war. Carrier planes and big navdl guns offshore supported the infantrymen as they advanced with tanks and flame throwers. Report Landing Attempted The Japanese fought back savfrom well-placed positions
{less than half a mile.
Tokyo sald the amphibious forces attempted to land at Chinen and
{ Minatokawa on the southern coast | but were driven off. The landing
fleet was described as comprising 20 transports two to four battle-
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PRINCESS REPORTED DEAD
LONDON, April 20 (U. P).—A correspondent of the Daily Tele-! raph Jeparied today that Princess da, 42; daughter of King] {Raid Emmanuel of Italy, died at the infamous prison .camp at ‘Buchenwald, Germany, of gangrene rresulting from an arm wound suf[fered in a bomb raid last August.
{the gates of the burning and shell kh
Tower: city. : | The left wing of an inichsdly {concentrated mass of Soviet tanks ‘and men charging straight: in’: against Berlin was reported by the Germans to have pushed into the streets of Hangelsberg, on the Frankfurt highway seven. miles short of the Berlin city limits. Moscow said Berlin was being placed under siege from three directions. Russian guns were hamemering the inner defenses. The ate tack was along ‘a 16-mile front, “Closing on Dresden Other Nazi broadcasts reported ' Soviet tanks and infantry were moving directly against Berlin bee tween Muenchéberg and Wriezen, Their center had reached Strause berg, nine miles from the capital, and the lower wing was at Hangelsberg. Moscow dispatches, following up the first Soviet high command cone firmation of the showdown of« fensive on a broad Berlin front, reported the Russians had broken across the Spree river and were closing against Dresden, It was in that region that, ace cording to a Moscow dispatch, oute riders of Lt. Gen. George.S. Pattons U. 8 3d army and Marshal Ivan 8. Konev's 1st Ukrainian army, probably have met.
Today's Nazi ~commiinique said q
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SEIZE NAZI DOCUMENTS WITH U. 8. 1ST ARMY IN GERMANY, April 20 (U,P.).—American 1st army troops have captured a secret German foreign office hideout in the Harz mountains and seized a great number of Nazi documents, it was disclosed today. There was no immediate indication as to whether any high-ranks ing members of the foreign. office
"had been taken.
Hoosier Heroes: Local Man
Killed on Easter in France
| "An Indianapolis. infantryman was| killed on Easter in France and] [three servicemen, previously listed | {as missing, are German prisoners, | | according to today’s casualty lists. mi { While” four ‘have been freed from | German prison camps, and two re|ported missing, are now safe In allied territory. KILLED T. 5th Gr. Walter W. Sheridan, 1311 Kelly st., in France, "PRISONERS Sgt. Earl Fleeger, 1112 N. Oaxland ave, near Dresden. =~ Sgt. George Broerman;- 1265 Ww 33d st. of Germany. ‘Plc. Lloyd C.. Mowe;
FREED Pvt. Thurman Moore, 622 N. Alabama st. from Bad Orb. First “Lt. John G. Murnane, for= merly of 6234 Washington blvd, by Russian army. Pvt. Rocco James Sergl, 227 8. Arsenal ave, from Bad Orb. 8. Sgt. Paks. ©. Cross, formerly jot N. Emerson’ ave. fréed by allied armies. Ss en Plc. Arthur Yates, 528 N. Lynn St., after missing in Germany is safe. S.. Sgt. Leslie Smith, Crawferdss. ville, after ‘missing ‘in Germany is
of Germany.
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