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climbing ent in an bridge or ; ih Now FORECAST? Cloudy with rain and cooler tonight; cloudy tomorrow. a doze « a # once, " 2 PRICE FIVE CENTS > ~ mp Entered as Sacond-Class Matter at Postoffies destroyers. VOLUME 36—NUMBER 38 ! TUESD AY, Phd, 24, 1945 Ingianapolis, 9, Tod Ted dui ekept undey they have - - ; one bat- # riser, The Golden Gate... To Peace or Wer! li itnes vis es ” ’ berlin 1Lyew S m ri ing nside I an s at once, ; ; \ained sea~ By ROMAN KARMEN and Weisensee districts on Berlin This dispatch is the first’ eyewitness story from inside blazing Guard 2d Lt. Kirillov, Guard Lt over *the Nazi capital. We have : Written for United Press streets cleared of the enemy. On Berlin. It was written by the famed Russian, Roman Karmen, Leonov, and Guard Capt. Yurke- just done that, back for: BERLIN, April 23 (Delayed). — Relckenstrasse and Berliner Allee veteran reporter of the Spanish and . Chinese wars. Karmen has vich. The tank unit which I am le clip of The deeper we penetrate Berlin neavy enemy artillery and mor- _ followed the Red army through every big battle, including Lenin- These are unforgettable min- - Accompanying battled ahead 15 the more fiercely the battle rages. tars pound incessantly, grad, Stalingrad and Warsaw. utes. It is a long way, from the Kilometers in ousting the enemy have seen But already the victorious Red The streets are deserted. Our — grim days of the Battle of Mos- (Tom several fortified villages on to attack bees files over the Nagi Sapiial infantry, clinging to the house tank group, anti-tank guns and the wreckage of houses block our ‘cow, I remember famished, be- ‘he way Jo Berlin, rees. Some v Trini this mike i Rk fronts, advances chainwise. Furi- self-propelled guns together with way. There is heavy cannonad- sieged Leningrad and Stalingrad Before retreating the Germans of them . . 38 SopuAan page ous battles rage in neighboring sappers, smash toward the center ing from the northern, eastern We marched and fought four hurled against us huge artillery ay IR oe hind z streets, ’ of the city, storming .each house and southern districts. vears on battle-scarred roads and tank forces, counter-attacking raft “have w le vanguard units. We run into a group of cap- cellar, and balcony turned into We run into three young tank- profoundly confident the day on each defense line established our troops We rode across the suburbs of tured Volkssturmer unescorted. fortresses. men—the first motorized patrol would come when the Red armv fr acho, | Blankenburg and _the Malkhov Our assault tits, CORSISHIng of a Barricades Sonistristed from which entered Benin, Wi are would hoist its Victorious banner (Continued - son nage 2~Calvam 1), scores of ; ; 5

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REDS KNIFE THROUGH BERLIN;

men. A when I ‘ai ON POLICEMAN. ~ Ton v. 3 AR - the direct . ] 3 4 TH “1'Q “es “TR = ET) ge I he. ‘Three 17-Year-Olds From! ; e a Indianapolis Involved in | gop. ein 13d Reach Danub I R F Hitler L aL Gunplay involving three 17-year- | eac es anu € n ace or iL er air

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An Américan soldier who has made his sacrifice for his country [the Lebanon “ail left one boy . : v wis Fas ~ >» . th bare ¢ se 3 si- > .y re ie stands. before the symbolic Golden Gate at San-Francisco with a little critically wouhded and two com- Outer ; D € fe nse of Peta on His Way to Surrender Dri Ive Into W est st-Centra nt al I I art of City 3 or TRIStak. boy on the eve of the world peace conference. If success crowns the |panions behind bars today. . M otis YL. . light shad. efforts of delegations from 46 nations to form a permanent world peace | Garroll Dennis, son of Mrs. Peggy Bava ria R edoubt OSCOW Claims Russians Have or - organization, the soldier's sacrifice will not have been in vain and the [Dennis of the Linden hotel here, I " q U ; | i little boy will never have to march off to another war. was wounded seriously by a bullet pny : . | js 7 - napolis Times § p 8 Si) . . 1n e . ) 1 S ews, Inc. a4. 4 nn from a policeman's gun. The slug Is Smashed. 4 I th Y ank PPER pierced his stomach. By ROBERT. MUSEL

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LONDON, April 24.—Russian siege forces were re-

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day. Mrs." Hinted i In Polish Dispute panion broke away as the trio were can 3d army troops broke] [ported late today to have driven into the Charlottenburg sday. : jai { | : ¥ being led up the steps of the jall. |,h60h the outer defenses of | area of west-central Berlin, = Macca nm Overlooked Guns :

Gma———— ...By ROBERT J. MANNING, United Press Staft Correspondent WASHINGTON, April 2, - “The Big “Three's diplumatic "high com. | mand moved to San Francisco today amid speculation that promise was shaping up in the dispute over Poland. Secretary of State Edward R. Stettinius Jr, British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden and Soviet Foreign Commissar V. M. Molotov carried with them the drama and perplexities of a hurried 11th. -hour search for unity with which to be-, ————— — gin the United Nations world se- tipped his hat although it was raincurity conference. ing steadily by then. His aids bade Three closely guarded meetings, goodby to girls from the Soviet em-

of the foreign ministers and two passy in traditional Russian manconferences between President Tru- ner—kisses on both cheeks.

Hitler's Bavarian Treduobt on| Apparently they had knifed clear through the heart of a broad front today. TT er : ww the-devastated.and. tottering city... - They rammed an armored | 3 Clan ; ; A “The imminent* fall of Berlin,”

i Tl ath a Moscow radio comspearhead up to the Danube river : F i et 3 ravyi yur d ’ on he western outskirts of Regens- | : | mentator said this evening, *‘will ria the last vestiges

guns and a hunting knife. i | {of resistance, the last convulsive throes of the wounded’ One of the captives took advan- be Gen. George S. Patton's 3d| { monster.”

tage of confusion following the army tanks and armored troop car-| : : | . eis ‘ 4 . : shodting scrape to make a tempo- | riers reached the northwestern bend| : Unofficial advices reported that the siege ring had

rary getaway, but was re-taken by of the Danube opposite. Regensburg ‘been closed around Berlin in a grand scale” encirclement Iralisympelis ote ve ip To | maneuver by two Red armies, trapping any Nazi leaders who ? istayed to see the death of their capital.

: I 3615 Capitol ave. man and Molotov failed to bring Eden left later in the moining. The third ycuth, Walter Simpson Lack Confirmation of Junction In what Moscow called Berlin's last hours, a United

. any announcement of an agreement| op, 4.00400 parleys were cut| Jr» Who rooms at 3345 Kenwood Press dispatch from Mi Soviet capital reported that the

on the thorny Polish problem. short late yesterday after Molotov's| ave. carreid a gun in a shoulder It was drizzling as Stettinius, ac~ gecond visit in 24 hours with the| holster when examined in the Leb-| {Red army and the U. S. 1st army had made the long-awaited junctiori from east ind west some 60 miles south of the

companied by 12 state department president. The Soviet diplomat anon jail. All three had previous | officials and two army officers, t00k |askad for ‘time to consult Moscow Juvenile crime records .in Indtan- | German capital, The report lacked official confirmation by an expected

off from Washington’s .national|,, the deliberations that began | apolis. | Joint statement: in Moscow, London and Washington on the

TRTAON Patrsimen-Paul-Sehenk and Arnold Wilson earlier had nabbed the boys on suspicion of auto theft. They said they searched th@ three but had overlooked two

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LONDON, April 24 (U. P.) —The | Evening News said today that GenDwight D. Eisenhower, on a recent visit to the Eiffel tower in

Paris, leaned meodily on a railing for a long ‘time look out over the : city, i ai | When hig British escort asked what was on his mind, Eisenhower was said to have answered: “I was merely thinking what a wonderful place this would be to hang Hitler from.”

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Brandenburg, 22 miles west of Bere alin, indicated they were running | rampant beyond the capital. forces had been! -.1t tended to support the encircles feht a th ment report. raight across € = A communique also said the erlin on a siege line be- Soviets had thrust as far as the tween the northwest and southeast | area south of Potsdam and beyond

parts of the city. | Koenigswusterhausen, at the southe The repcrt tallied with- an earli- |

; Bl { eastern edge of the city. {er hint from Nazi sources that the! Two Russian armies were chop- | hard pressed defenders were fali-

| ping: through street barricades in rr Ing back into the northwestern!the heart of the capital. {quarter of Berlin for their last Officialg reports lagging far bee stand. {hind the blazing battle said oneThe organ third to one-half of Berlin had Izvestia were heen captured. Street fighting of “fantastic fury”

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in on By WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS, Scripps-Howard Foreign Editor | SAN FRANCISCO, April 24.—Neither the Polish dispute nor any of the other thorny problems faced by the United Nations will be permitted to wreck the world ofganization conference which opens here tomorrow, That is the belief of every delegate with whom I have talked. Boiled down, what they all say is: hag SSNs cs te ONE: This the most crucial | flict as soon as war-weary nagathering of its kind ever organ. | tions have had time to recuperized by civilized man. It is more | ate. important than the Vienna Con-

rockets big enough % deiolish { whole cities—such a war would surely spell the end of the world as we now know it.. The fact that every delegation will face each issue knowing that

gress of 1814 or the Paris Conference of 1919. - For, even at the end of the first world .war, weapons were still almost primitive compared with those now coming into use.

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TRUMAN. ACTS TO" - PROTECT PRISONERS

Joins Allies in Warning Nazis of Treatment. |

py MERRIMAN SMITH ted Press Staff Correspondent | WASHINGTON, April 24.—Presi- | 1412 E dent Truman, 'in his first formal role as a member of the Big Three, | sought today to prevent further] (execution, starvation or torture of {allied nationals in the hands of | 943 | | the crumbling German army. At the same time it appeared that German forces no longer have. the! {transport facilities to move prison- | ers out of the path of advancing i allied armies. This seemed t5 bee the reason " |behind the ‘German offer<taccepted by this government—to leave all

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Spirit of Unity Seen Among Nations for Peace Parley

By HAL O'FLAHERTY, Times Foreign News Analyst : Z SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, April 24.—More than a billion human beings or 3 composing 46 nations are represented here today: by their delegates 3 assembled to discuss the age-old problem of a secure peace. The meeting has been called by the four powers, Britain, Russia, China and the United States, not because they have suffered more than the others as a result of war but because they~have bofne the brunt 4 of the fighting and, by common ) 3 TIMES INDEX: consent, take the lead in this o- | i tempt to prevent a. repetition” of | Amusements. . Business

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the scourge. BR 1 20| No—not even the most rabid | realist — could deny the unity of spirit guiding every delegation now in San Francisco. No one really Editorials 14 Ernie Pyle 13 believes that a controversy be- | Fashions -17{ Radio ....... 20 | tween the foreign secretaries of » Mrs. Ferguson 16 Ration Dates. 9 Forum .. “14 Mrs. Rdosevelt 13 Meta Given. . 17, Society .. 16, 17 John Hillman 14 | Sports : 8 Iy. Indpls. ... 9 Tom Stokes .. 14] Hip , Inside Indpls.. 13|Joe Williams. 8,

6Jane Jordan. 10 | Mauldin . 20 | Movies hire 20 | Obituaries is

Lake Crossword :.. FREED Conston, Pfc. Raymond Harris, 525 E. 17th, st., 5 from German prison. {-.8. 8gt John W. Morse, 165 E.| {Fie ave. from German, prison. Pvt. ¥ern Davis, 2510 Lockburn and | St hom, German an prison.

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1301 Sionk . . (Continued on Page 3—Column 3) |" LOCAL TEMPERATURES f.a.m.... 5 10 a.m. a reported the capital was entirely encircled. The 1a mo. 5 Maem... “was 105 miles from: Hitler's Alpine hideout at

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airport early this morning. He Was with his arrival late Sunday. | Wilson said he was leading | smiling and in good spirits. This fact, announced by the Campbell up the jail steps. Schenk! Next away was Molotov. He too was trailing with Dennis and Simp- | smiled pleasantly at Jewsmen and (Continued on Page 3—Column 8) son. It was then that Campbell | # 4 a = | started his break and Dennis al-| {subject. | y : 3 suf P D | ti n Lo k to [eds hey Jus io ore] The B. BC. reported that Marshal Gregory K. Zhukov's eace e ega 10 S : Oo {his hold, whiped out. his gun and|—the old Napoleonic city of Ratis- | 1st White Russian army had broken into Charlottenburg, fired two shots. Dennis was hit in| bon—this afternocn after. a 10-mile |the sprawling area of Berlin - Top. Diplomats for Counsel i soma ir advance through weak and. dior. IHR Biron. wh 08 do : ge _ Car: Description, Tallied... [Riess enemy i dit te ' business area. By LYLE C. WILSON, United Press Staff Correspondent "Campbell" sprinted around the piling Ar a ry a : | Zhulov's SAN FRANCISCO, April 24—The United Natiohs conference on in- [sider of the jail, later fitch-hiked| along the west side of the historic : te ternational organization was jeopardized today before it began. " gpback to Indianapclis, he told de-| iver put they were cut dowh. Marshal Henry Philippe Petain [eating The American-British-Russian dispute over Polish participation]tectives. He 5aid the teen-age trio| pielq dispatches indicated the| . . of was transferred here for adjustinent. had stolen a car from in front of| Germans were planning a delaying : " The first plenary conference session is scheduled for 6:30 p. m. (In-|4208 Graceland ave. They drove to fight on the eastern bank of the dianapolis time) tomorrow. ———7—————————| Crawfordsville where they “planned Danube and inside Regensbutg,| Given Haven: In Switzerland, With scarcely more than 24 hours the town. The mere fact that the | to stage some stickups,” Campbell | where the enemy was reported | to go, the Big Three found them-|10th floor of the St. Francis hotel | corifessed. : throwing ‘up barricades and movin H 'I] F T / T . selves in the emb#rrassing position {has been taken over by the Rus- Instead, they stole another auto-| hundreds of anti-aircraft guns i o ace riq as raito of being unable to settle a misun-|sian delegation has San Francisco mobile at Crawfordsville, driving to| position for the battle. . 2 derstanding which they thought|punchy with curiosity. | Lebanon. Because their car tallied! Strong infantry forces were orowd- i BERN, April 24 (U. P.).—Marshal Henri Philippe Petain, chief of they had cleared up. last winter in| The accurate report that Russian |with a description broadcast by the ing up close behind the American state of the defunct Vichy government, fled into "Switzerland from! Soviet government the Crimea. | guards protected the Russian quar-|state police, Lebanon " officers tank spearheads,. reaching Deuer-| Germany today preparatory to surrendering to French authorities sald Berlin's hours Efforts to adjust the dispute in|ters added to the popular interest.|stopped them. ling, eight miles west of Regens-! A Swiss. government announcement said Petain had been granted numbered. preliminary Washington discussions | The American delegates awaited At Witham hospital in Lebanon, burg, this afternoon. | permission to enter Switzerland on his plea that he wished to return A German high command admishave failed. Delegates of other na- | Secretary of * State ' Edward R.| | Dennis was given a transfusion) 2000 Tanks on Move [to France to answer charges of treason, The 89-year-old marshal, hero) sion that the Russians had reached: (Continued on Page 3—Column 1) tions. anxiously awaited the arrival] Stettinius’ report and the arrival| with blood supplied by ‘his twin| ,, Regensburg, the Americansi rr rise of world war I, crossed the border of the top diplomats of tie big of their No. 2 colleagiie, Chairman brother, ‘Carroll, Carroll, of of Indianapolis. Wi only 61 miles north of Munich, | at St. Margrethen on Lake Conovers, on rcre ‘ar Tom, Connsliy @ Tex.) of vio eway to the Bavarian redoubt. ‘PREPARE OKINAWA stance at 6 a. m. in a nine-car On the War Fronts ® Russians ere are saying senate foreign relations committee alow was no immediate word on caravan after spending the night at | hothing but they are the talk of He'll be in today. ‘ERNIE PYLE'S WIFE | the progress of other “3d army AS U S KEY BASE Breseo He went there from Sig- | “~~ April 24, 1945 uw ® = columns advancing southward along 1 U1 maringen, seat of his puppet gov- EASTERN FRONT-Russian en-, PACIFIC—Nimitz reports Okinaws * GETS $100 WEEKLY the Czechoslovak border to the east ernment. circlement of Berlin reported three-quarters conquered: B-29's Simms: All Delegates Know | within' 105 miles of Berchtesgaden. Fog (In Paris the French government| completed; Moscow dispatch says’ bomb” aircraft plant in Tokvo More than -2000 American and ADM. Nimitz Reports Island winerang it had sent a note| fall is imminent. { area; American troops split JapaFrench tanks were ion .the move] to Switzerland Being the date and| WESTERN FRONT—Third army nese force on Mindanao and drive United Nations Must Agree. will Allots Fund in Trust against the Nazis’ last retreat in Three-Quarters Conquered. ne ——— — - rolls through breach in Bavarian nearer Davao. F Lif | the Bavarian Alps along a 200-mile|’ By UNITED PRESS PARIS, April 24 (U. P.).—Al- |’ defense line 109 miles from ITALY—Fifth army closes or Lite. front manned by Patton's veterans| ao... forces have conquered lied troops captured more than | Berchtesgaden. La Spezia naval base. | i ds 1,000,000 German prisoners on the | ALBUQUERQUE, N. M, April 24| (Continued om Page 3—Column 4) three-quarters of Okinawa island| yw... Front inthe first 23°] uy me Pyles Floow wil ——T |and are preparing it as a key bee days of April, it was disclosed Tecelve et week lop yue rest) for the next phase of the march| officially today, of her life under terms of the war Marble Tourney oware Jaren pra the Cling. sat, | ae | SoTrespontent’s Will which was fle | Adm. Chester W. Nimitz said today. place for ‘Petain | to cross the fron- | | tor probate here yesterday. Play Postponed A fleet of 150 Superfortresses, tier into France.) | ; Pyle, who was killed while cover- meanwhile. smashed for the first | He is wanted for trial as a | ing the invasion of Ie Jima, named Sectional Games in The Tines- time at the huge Hitachi aircraft! traitor in surrendering France to Roy F. Johnson, Stillwater, Minn..| city Recreation Division marble plant in the Tokyo area. [Germany in 1940 and. subsequently | IL ae Pyle. who wil| ‘ournament were postponed today | Ground forces in the Philippines collaborating with the Nazis. His | ve En Sn i A ie i ® until May 5. cut Japanese forces in two on Min-| rece 2 amily i The sectionals had been sched- |qanao and continued a virtually {querque and a trust fund paying uled. for Saturday, April 28, but |unopposed drive toward the princi- | 100 per week, Pyle left $2500 to Eu-| ,5;))y weather held up play in the pal pos of Davao. (gene Uebelhardt of Los Angeles. g.q)ifving paunds at the public |" Nimitz told a press conference {Upon agreement of Mrs. Pyle and| ! > I d and parochial schools. lof the progress on Okinawa: 3—Column 7) Trustee Johnson, the will provides) —yynger the pew schedule, qauli- “The acquisition of Okinawa $5000 each to be paid to Ernies| goo rounds must be completed | father and his aunt, Mrs, Mary E. by Wedensday, May 2 Bales, both of Dana, Ind, Mrs : i Pyle’'s mother, Mrs. Myrta Siebolds A of Afton, Minn., and Ernie's secre- . 2 L / M tary, Rosamond Goodman, Wash - ‘Hoosier Heroes: oca en | ington, D. C. . . ” 4 C ; d isc ———— a ———— . cou” atten toses arm Killed: 1 Missing, 4 Capture WASHINGTON; April 24 (U. P.).| An Indianapolis soldier fighting MISSING —Col. Robert S. Allen of the U. 8. with “the 9th army has been killed| Pfc. Morris E. Butler, 3d army. staff, former co-author in G and one with ‘the. 1st Minnesota st., in Germany. of the “Washington Merry- Go- | It Lrermany, PRISONERS Round” column, lost. his lower right | \army is missing in that country, to-| pe. Wayne N. Selby, 2509 Villa arm by amputation after being |day’s casualty lists reveal, Also one ave, in Stalag 4-B, Germany. wounded April 7 south of Ohrdrul,| more marine” has been killed on | Mu Charles E Stammer, | Germany, the war department an-- | Yoke ave., in Stalag ermany. | nounced today. He was ambushed, | In addition, four local Pfc. George C. Howard, 2843 N.| wounded and. captured by the en. men have been captured by the Temple, in Germany. emy, but was freed three days later Germans whilé three have been! Pfc. Ewing F. Napier, 1653 Carwhen -the 3d army’ occupied Ent- freed from Nazi prisons. | rollton ave, in Stalag 4-B, Gerfurs, { { many. i rc | KILLED ° HOBO G. I's TO VOTE | dba : CINCINNATI, O. April 24 (u,| Pfc: Lester L. McCoy, three powers over the character of P.).—Jeff Davis, king of.the Hoboes, WY, in (Germany, ; ‘the Polish government . can wreck | announced today -that the 100,000! Pfc, william Milburn’ Holtzlider, the entire security ‘conference. - former hoboes now in the armed Greensburg, nephew of Miss Bertha The fact that Russia's foreign | services will receive ballots for the| Holtzlider, 3208 E. Michigan hai coming Sesiiz i ofpeens of the | View Pi Holtzslider, + 225 (Cone n Fae $—Coumn 1) | Hoboes Vieu Place, on Ivo Jima.