Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 May 1945 — Page 13

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WEDNESDAY, MAY 9,

“By EDWARD W. BEATTIE JR. | - ! United Press Stafr Correspondent :

lds 1 dropped. off to sleep. I was summoned, upstairs for. interrogation which was almost identical in essentials with the first questioning at Chaumont. ; A major with’ a bad limp and a badly scarred face rolled out asbig map covering everything from Aachen to the Swiss border. Our conversation follows: “He: “How ‘far did you come to peach Chaumont,?"

: “Quite a distance. . \ Yi “Where from?" \ I: “From . somewhere between

Reims and Paris.” I He: “It was of course army headquarters.” +1: “No: You know correspondlenis roam around a great deal and are seldom tied down,” Doubts Surrender { He: "Were you with tank or in=fantry forces today?” 1: “Oh, Wwe are with all sorts of {forces every day.” He: “But there must have been some specific forces.” ‘1: “Oh, I don’t recall any. As a matter of fact we were en route ito watch 20,000 Germans surrender near Chatillon” . He: “Of course you know no {20,000 Germans would ever surrenider. The figure must be greatly

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Germans Admired Yank Sweep Thicseh _ France, Officer Tells Captive Reporter

Here is the third installment from the . Aiary of Edward W. Beattie Jr.. United Press war correspondent, whom the Germans tried unsuccessfully to pump for. information = during the seven months he was their prisoner. and in so doing, gave the veteran reporter much information about their own plight,

‘talked of the horrible retreat from

‘| Moscow and the Kalinin winter

“front in 1941, : “We made a terrible miscalculation on the strenBth of the Red army, you know,” he said. “You Americans brought something new into this war besides your fine equipment. Western strategy in the past would never have had the imagination for your remarkable sweep through France—it was quite frankly breath-taking. A real classic. Too Many Russians “If you had not been forced to come to a halt we could never have reorganized, Now I hope we can hold the Reich's border until spring.” I told him most people on the allied side expected victory by} Christmas at the latest. “If we only had an answer to

Japs Announce

Exaggerated, I: “Oh, no. We often take them lin even bigger batches.” He: “Well, you probably expect, to.get us, toa, But I think we will | manage to get this battle group out-of trsuble—retreating is a fine iart with which-I unfortunately have | had considerable experience in Rus-| sia.” ’ 1 Ended in Chat He suddenly smiled and said: { “Is it that you don't Know. any! Imilitary inférmation or Just won't jy us?” “It is" a combination of both.”! “That ends What, then, Let's;

ks chat. ” The major wrote across a slip of | {paper with my name: “Prisoner {declined further statements.” The majour turned out to be a icharming conversationalist. He

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German Defeat Won't Stop Them

By UNITED PRESS - Jdpan. announced today that it will” keep fighting as hard as ever in spite of Germany's , surrender. - The: announcement, . broadcast by Tokyo radio and recorded by FCC, was made after a §pecial meeting of. the Japanese cabinet under Premier Kantaro Suzuki. While it expressed ‘deep regret” over Germany's surrender, the official statement said the “sudden change of the war situation in Europe will not bring the slightest change in the war objective of. the imperial government of Japan.”

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halting | the Russian mashes,” he said,

“you never would win’ victory et all.|.

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for us and just overwhelm us.” We split the major’s last bottle of Borteaux with a lieutenant who used to_be a portrait painter in Munich. We talked of everything from mlsic to the” Olympics of 1936. ‘Not Resentful “In those days the world didn’t hate us,” remarked the lieutenant ‘ruefully. . ' Both men asked persistenly why the Americans were at war with Germany. - They would not believe me when. I told them Hitler deClared war first and that had he failed to do so the great bulk of American strength would inevitably have been thrown into the Pacific ared. The lieutenant said Munich was flattened from the main station to the Rathaus, but neithér he nor the major seemed to resent the “air gangsters” and. the “terror attacks.” Against the 8. 8, I pointed out the Germans used a’ fifth column in every campdign that ever fought and finally I took a chance and added, “the rest of the world doesn’t: exactly approve of certain practices of your Gestapo and S. 8.” The lieutenant said. soberly, “please understand, the German army does not condone the S. S. and would gladly see it abolished.” I spent all day today in the guardroom watching middle-aged | guards * play Germany's favorite card game, skat. They were astonished when I told them I could play-it. We. are moving off again under cover of darkness, for which Allah be praised. .I don’t like the attentions paid to German traffic by

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STATUE- OF LIBERTY ALIGHT NEW YORK, May 9 (U, P.).—~The torch held aloft by the Statue of Liberty in New York bay burned brightly last night for the first time since shortly after Pearl Harbor.

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. Col. Heydon Buchanan ONE OF THE officers of Gen.

Mark Clark's staff to whem German troops in Italy surrendered was Lt. Col. Heydon W. Buchanan, brother of Mrs. Dallas Matthews, 2310 N. Meridian st. Li. Col. Buchanan, who was home on leave recently, has served 36 ‘months overseas and holds the Legion of Merit and Order of the British Empire citations. His wife, Mrs. Bernice Buchanan, and daughter, Edith Ann Buchanan, reside in- South Bend.

JAPAN FACING RECORD BLASTS

Predict Bombings Worse Than: Nazis Ever Got. |

GUAM, May 9 (U. P.).—Lt. Gen.} Barney M. Giles, commander of! army air forces in. the Pacific ocean| areas, said today that American! bombers soon will be dropping more high explosives on Japan than ever were used against Germany. . Disclosing that present gl lans call! for “a “very fast buildup” of B-29 forces, Giles added: “Round = the - clock bombing of Japan is in the hot too distant future.” He enaphasized that a number of new type pianes—including the huge B-32 bomber, the P-80 jetpropulsion fighter and an improved A-26 attack bomber will be hitting. the enemy shortly.

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Although Giles declined .to comment on future plans, he replied in answer to questions that “we will utilize all land masses near Japan as fast as we can take them. “But the islands we already have can absorb much more of the air forces,” he said. “Lack of engineering troops to develop bases is a critical item.” “We plan on all-out continuing of the war,” he added. “We aren't counting on Japanese capitulation.” The general pointed out that strategic targets in Japan, highly concentrated and inflammable, lend themselves more readily to destruction than did areas in Germany. Destruction of the Japanese aircraft industry has a “very high priority” in the strategic bombing program, Giles said. “Destruction of cities also is on the high priority list because they contain factories,” Giles explained.

Japan's industrial production,”

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“PLAN NATIONAL ‘SERVICES HERE

American War Mothers’ Exercises Sunday.

For the second time in 35 yedrs the national Motheg's day - service of the American War Mothers willl be held in Indianapolis instead of at Arlington, Va., national cemetery, The annual program was held here last year, after national headquarters had been established at the Marott hotel. The national mothers of the country will be held

at 2:30 p. m. Sunday at the Indiana] -

Woiti War Memorial with V-E “day religious rites. The program was planned yesterday by Mayor Tyn-

dall and a committee; as a substi-|

tute for neighborhood celebrations which had been under discussion. Governor, Mayor to Speak In addition to honoring mothers, the service will include a program | of prayer and thanksgiving for the European victory, as suggested by President Truman, Governor Gates. and Mayor Tyndall will speak and citations will be presented to Mrs. Margaret Natterman, Louisville, Ky., mother of 10 children in service, who was chosen

{as American War Mother of 1495

recently, Indiana’s war mother, to! be chosen today by Governor Gates and a committee, also will be honored, Other spgakers on the program include Mrs. E. May Hahn, national American War Mother's president; Mrs. Virgil Stone, Lander, ~ Wyo., {past president; the Re%V. Jean 8S. Milner, who will give the invocation, and Msgr, Henry F, Dugan, who will deliver the benediction,

STELLA M. FRAZIER UNERAL TOMORROW

Services for Mrs. Stella M. Frazier, 654 S. Noble st., will be held at 2 p. m., tomorrow in the J. C. Wilson funeral home. The Rev. E. A. Crimm- will officiate and burial will be in Floral Park cemetery. Mrs. Frazier, who was an -employee of Eli Lilly & Co. 16 years, died, yesterday in her home. She was 34. Survivors are her husband, Cpl. Edward Frazier, serving in the army; - her -mother, Mrs. Sarah Crawford of Indianapolis; a sister, Miss Audrey Crawford of Indianapolis, and a brother, Pfc. James Paul Crawford, serving in Italy,

SERVICES SET FRIDAY FOR SHIRLEY INFANT

Judith Ann - Shirley, 2-month-old daughter ‘of Mr. and ‘Mrs. Conrad W. SHirley, 1526 N. Sherman dr. died yesterday in her home. Survivors besides the parents are two sisters, Sharon Lee and Darla Jean, and her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Vern Miller, Indianapolis, The Rev. Erie Martin will conduct services at 1 p. m. Friday in the East Sixteenth Street Christian church with burial in Memorial Park cemetery.

BECOMES FLEET ADMIRAL ~ LONDON, May 9 (U. P.).—Adm.

FERGERSON FUNERAL SET FOR TOMORROW|

Services will be conducted at 3

| p. m, tomorrow at Shirley Brothers! { Central chapel for William Richard | Fergerson, sdlesmani at the Leader

Store, who died yesterday at his home, 216 E. North st. Burial will be in Washington Park. Mr. Fergerson, who was 59, had lived in Indianapolis nine years and was a member of Methodist church

of Railroad Trainmen. He is survived by his wife, Carleen; a son, Richard; three brothers, Thomas E., Indianapolis, Walter L., Fulton, and Pfc. John T. Ferguson, in Germany, and three sisters, Mrs. T. E. Curtis, Mrs. Charles McLaughlin and Miss Bertha Fergerson, all of Indian-

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LEGION WILL FETE SERVICE FATHER, SON

Tillman H. Harpole - post, American Legion, will have a reception for Capt. Robert E. Skelton, founder and first commander of the post, and his son, 8S. Sgt. Charles Skelton, at 8 p. m. tomorrow in the post home, 2523 Northwestern ave, Sgt. Skelton, former squadron commander of the sons of the American Legion, is home on furlough after spending two years in Africa, Italy and France. His father is on sick leave at Billings hospital and is based at Camp Grant, Ill,

E. H. GRUELL IS DEAD; ONCE RESIDED HERE

E. H. Gruell, formerly of 504 West dr, Woodruff Place, died yesterday at his home in Louisville, Ky. He had been an employee of the Prest-O-Lite Co. Inc. Indianapolis. 3 Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Marie Gruell, and one daughter, Phyllis. Funeral services will be held at 3 p. m. Thursday in the Fague and’ Fenn funeral home at Kokomo. Burial will be in Kokomo.

State Deaths

BLOOMFIELD -- Mrs, LuEtta Smith, 62. Burvivors: Sons, Marvin, Bill, James; daugher. Catherine Gibson; sisters, Mrs, Jbstphine Adams, Mrs, Grace Hutéhivon; brothers, Wilson, Frank. EVANSVILLE — Burt Foster, 58, SurYivars: Wife, Jessie; sisters, Mrs. .Jason Rehan, Mrs. hr Flrence Dollins; brothers, Nathan, Edgar.

ELANDVILLE — Tred FP. Survivors: ughters, Mrs, Martha Carrico, Mrs. Glessie Carrico, Mrs. William er ona, William, Clapente, John, Ed-

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