Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 May 1945 — Page 1

In the bloody, grimy heat of battle, American marines hoist the flag at Iwo Jima. . . . The fight was far from over, but with the flag flying it was as good as won. This immortal photograph of the action is the official symbol of the Seventh

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FORECAST: Cloudy with light to moderate rain tonight; cloudy Senay: ; not much change in temperature.

War Loan drive, beginning Monday.

OKINAWA YANKS STORMING NAHA

Allies Advance on .. . Pacific Fronts.

BULLETIN GUAM, May J2:(U. P.) (Via * Navy Rradio) ~American marines and soldiers attacking along a fivemile : batfle line acress southern Okinawa, ‘advanced slowly through the outer defenses of { Naha, Yonabaru and Shuri today in the fiércest fighting of the six-weeks-old campaign.

"By UNITED PRESS

American marines stormed the outskirts of Okinawa’'s capital today to pace general.gains in the allied land campaigns through the Pacific. A: new American landing on Mindanao in the Philippines split ! the [enemy's defending force into small isolated : pockets while other troops continued progress on Luzon and "Australians , advanced ‘on Tarakan ofl: East Borneo. Units of the 6th marine division’ rammed within 200 yards of : Naha, the ruined capital city on Okinawa’s west coast, after crossing the Asa river estuary and battling 800 yards uphill, Naha, whose’ last known population was’ $0,000, appeared deserted, its buildings in smoking” ruin’ from cqncentrated naval’ and’ air botnbardment. “ Other marine and army units ads “vanced along the battle line across the southern tip of Okinawa in the second "ay of ‘a new: offensive ‘to | crush. the island's ‘last 45,000 defenders. The first marine division cap-

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"Knew We'd Take | Wo When, I Saw Flag,’ Local Boy Says

PHOTOGRAPHS of Old Glory lashing in the breeze atop Mt. Surabachi on Iwo island pack a ‘wallop when viewed from any angle. It looks" great even from the safety and comfort of your living

room rocking chair,

The rea] thing, sighted through a telescope from a gritty foxhole tinder Jap fire, conveyed an impact no words can describe.

So says an Indianapolis marine,’ Pfc. Eugene Pebbles, who spotted the ‘flag under just such conditions. ‘ » 8 n ‘ “IT DOES something to you inside you just don’t talk about,” said Pfc. Pebbles. “You can't explain it anyway except I guess it was a sort of holy feeling. “We choked up. “We knew then we'd take the island. They had:the flag flying. “1 felt as if I could walk on air.” . # » PFC. PEBBLES didn’t witness, the actual Mt. Surabachi- flag hoisting as depicted in the nowfamous photograph. He and three pals were scanning the .horizon “to see what we could see.” What they saw was the flag ‘after it had: already been raised on the island's’ loftiest point. “We were at the north end of

. Iwo, by the first airfield,” Pfc.

Pebbles recalled. ““The flag was about two’ miles away. We took turns looking at it through “the telescope. “They knew it didn’t mean the . ‘whole ‘is]and was secured, because Jap "fife occasionally kicked up sand around their foxhole.”

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20th Annual Mother's Day Observed in City Tomorrow

Mothers of the nation will be honored in Indianapolis tomorrow. The 20th annual mother’s day ceremonies of the American War . Mothers will be observed at 2:30 -p. m. in the auditorium of the work | war memorial. Indianapolis is the birthplace of the war mothers" organization. In 1017 Mrs. Alice M. French organized the - first chapter, the Marion County Chapter of Ameri- ' can War Mothers, © © National offices, and headquarters | were established here this year by

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At tomorrow's ceremonies Indianapolis will look with pride to the Indiana war mother of 1945-—-Mrs. Clara Maddox, Kokomo, who has seven sons in the service. Pictures of the Maddox family ‘and their fighting sons were carried in yesterday’'s Times.

Citations will be presented fo her ‘and the national war mother, Mrs. Margaret Natterman of Louisville, Ky., who has 10 children in the service, Tributes will be paid by Governor Gates, , Mayor Tynfiall and Col. Welton Modisette, post commander at Camp Atterbury, The main address will be given by Mrs. Virgil Stone, Lander, Wyo., past national 7| president of ‘the war mothers, There will be music by Mrs. Jane Walter Whit-

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SATURDAY, MAY 12, 1945

i REPORTS HIMMLER NOW

Turned Over to British by Adm. Doenitz,. Paris ‘Broadcast Says.

BULLETIN By UNITED PRESS C. B. 8. correspondent Charles Collingwood said in a broadcast from Paris today that Gestapo chief Heinrich Himmler “is now reported to bein our hands.” In the broadcast, Collingwood said Himmler is “understood” to have been held under arrest in the Flensburg area by Adm. Karl Doenitz who “is now believed to have turned him over to British forces in that area.”

By EDWARD V. ROBERTS United Press Staff Correspondent

LONDON, May 12.—A member of the United Nations war crimes commission said today that Hermann Goering has been indicted on

and “we have an airtight case.” All but one of the counts against the roly-poly reichsmarshal, now in custody of the U. 8S. Tth army in Bavaria, arise from his alleged ponsibility as a minister of the Réich for the criminal policies laid down by the German government. The remaining. indictment charges Goering with specific responsibility for the forced labor ‘land slavery

Hague convention. Goebbels Also Accused Adolf Hitler named Goering commissioner for the four-year-economic plan under which the Reich enslaved civilians of occupied territories and forced them to work on German defenses and in Ger-

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at least eight separate counts]

programs..in Germany... which violated the articles of The

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wholesale death and disease. ndicted with Goering are three tering the program. bels, “plenipotentiary for the total war effort,” - R. Walther Darre, one-time minister of agriculture, and Fritz Sauckel, manpower director.

rest and awaiting trial. Goebbels was reported in Berlin, and United Press Correspondent Joseph Grigg! reported from the German capital this week that the Russians had found a body identified with reasonable certainty as ‘that of Goebbels, “Sauckel has not yet been accounted for. Blamed for Massacre |. Goering's name was placed before it by both Czechoslovakia and Poland. The indictments variously charge

DONALD NELSON 10 | RESIGN ON MAY 15

Truman Lauds Work of Foreign Emissary.

WASHINGTON, May 12 (U, P).~ President Truman today accepted the resignation of Donald Nelson as his “personal ° representative to foreign governments. He appointed Edwin A. Locke Jr. Nelson's assistant, as his .successor,

Nelson, former Chicago mail order firm executive, submitted his resignation as special presidential representative on April 16. He had served as a special representative for President Roosevelt on economic

missions to Russia, England, China

and Australia. The resignation, effective May 15, was accepted today after Nelson made a verbal request to be released from his duties.

Locke has been deputy to Nelson since the former Sears Roebuck executive served as chairman of the war production board. In submitting his resignation, Nelson wrote the President that

he would be glad to return at any.

time to tell President Truman what he had ' done under President Roosevelt, President Truman accepted the

him with setting up courts which condemned thousands of Czechoslovaks; with the Lidice massacre: with afrocities at Dachau, Buchenwald and ‘elsewhere; with the massacre of Czechoslovak students in a4 1939 demonstration; and with establishing a Jewish extermination camp at Auschwitz, Coincident with the disclosure of the “airtight case” against Goering, a British foreign office spokesman said- Adm. Karl Doenitz is “under investigation” for alleged U-boat atrocities.

Where's Europe, Going?

® HENRY J. TAYLOR, Scripps Howard special writer, knows Europe inside out. He has been in 20 of its. countries in the last few_ years, and for 24 y years he has been studying European problems on the spot. He is recognized as an’ authoritative writer on international politics and economies. ‘

.® Mr, Taylor 1s the author of four books on European affairs, including the well-known “Men in Motion” and “Time Runs Out.”

® Now: Mr. Taylor has written a series of six articles sizing up the political and economic prospects in England, France, Germany and Italy. He- tells what the people of those countries have to work with, describes their attitudes toward the United States and toward each other, their assets and their liabilities.

® “What Now in Europe?” will start Monday. - “Watch for it in

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bmen who assisted him in adminis 1 They ares: Propgganda Minister Joseph Goe- {3

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3 RANKING NAZIS, JAP ENVOY SEIZED

Economic Chief z.of Reich Yank Prisoner.

By JACK FLEISCHER United Press Staff Correspondent

SEVENTH ARMY HEADQUARTERS, May 12.—Three more ministers .in Adolf Hitler's government and 130 Japanese diplomatic personnel, including Ambassador Gen. Hiroshi Oshima, were in 7th

army custody today, Between 150 and 200 top Nazi| government officials were rounded |

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Austrian and Bavarian villages. the -latest batch were: Dr. Walther Funk, minister. of economics and president. of the feichsbank; Dr. Hans Heinrich Lammers, chief of Hitler's reichschancellery, minister without portfolio and an 8, 8. general, and Dr. Wilhelm Ohnesorge, post minister. Gen, Dietrich Held Gen. Sepp Dietrich, commander of the 6th 8. 8. Panzer army, has been captured by the 636th tank destroyer battalion of the 36th division, it was announced. London | broadcasts said Joseph Darnand,| chief of Vichy's Quisling militia also has been captured. Besides Oshima, Japanese caught

bassador’s wife; Lt. Gen. Mitsuhiko Komatsu, military attache to the

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FALLS 2 STORIES IN SLEEP

SEATTLE, May 12 (U, P.).—Floyd M.' Worel, 23, awakened early today in a courtyard two stories below his hotel room window. “My dreams are getting worse all the time,” he remarked tor King county hospital doctors who treated him for abraons, ‘ LOCAL TEMPERATURES 6am....5 Wam... 5

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Is Sgt. Floyd M. Johnson, Bloomingten, happy?

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Two Clevelanders are dressing after chest X-rays Juchnowski and Cpl. Frank G. Riba.

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AMONG FIRST ARGED AT ATT RBURY

Others Released Over

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T. 5th Gr. Glenn Harrison, Indianapelis . . . back to music for him.

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A Weekly Sizeup by the Washington

Staff of the Scripps-Howard Newgpapers of

WASHINGTON,

May 12.—Truman

administration,

one month old, still is on trial; still hasn't lost confidence

. of either right or left. This is the way it looks moon :

after four weeks of honey-

Indications are Truman. will not try to be commander-in-chief nor his own secretary of state, will rely on men

{ under him to make military and foreign policy decisions,

will take as his own chore the practical one getting

Look for Truman to stick to men to formulate details, be no left wing appointments. »

n » » » WE- STILL SAY James. F. Byrnes will become secretary of state,

repeat that Wickard is on his way

add the probability that former Senator Guy M. Gillette will suc- |wnat they're-doing,”

ceed him. Gillette is unhappy at surplus law cumbersome, ineffecient. Lewis Schwellenbach if he'll faks Look for a quick, drastic start at pruning’ inflated war-time budget, lopping off un-needed war-. agencies. % There'll be less talk about 60,000,000 jobs, more about “full employment.”

ys .. LOOK FOR THE non-fraterni-zation rule to be lifted in Ger-

administer them in many cases.

up by Tth army patrols scouring | treaties and policies ratified by congress.

Roosevelt policies, select different

There'll »

out as secretary of agriculture, and

property, finds the surplus disposal

Labor post probably will go to Judge

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many. Reason is its non-en-forceability. Officers don't want Germans to see us winking at infraction of rules. Worst enforcement difficulty concerns young German women. If they're good looking, G. I's

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Hoosier Heroes: Two Dead,

Four Wounded, 1 Liberated

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A seaman, previously’ reported missing 13 months ago, Has been declared dead, and an infantryman has been killed- in action in Italy,

|according” to the war department. |) ‘| Four. men have been wounded in

combat and one more man has been freed from a Nazi prison. KILLED Wy Lt. Donald Lee Williamsoh,

Seaman 1-¢ Rogers, 982% N, Stilwell French North -Africa. Pfc. Glenn Bowersock, 3212 W. Michigan st, in Italy. : SAFE

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MEN ELATED AT

Some Haven't Made Plans For Their Future.

By SHERLEY UHL Times -Staft Writer CAMP ATTERBURY, May 12.-— Bewildered and elated over their sudden good fortune, the first In-

dianapolis veterans mustered out of the army under thé new point system were already on their way home today. Six local soldiers with a surplus of service points had either been discharged late yesterday or were on their way through the Atterbury Separation center today. They - are: Staff Sgt. Maurice W. Neal, 5052 Beechwood ave.; Sgt. George W. Crutcher, 127 W. 11th st.; Sgt. Earl 1341 Kentucky: ave.; Pfc. Carl E. Rainwater, 425 N. LaSalle st.; Staff Sgt. Mareus E Williams, 234 E. 9th st., and T. 5th Glenn Harrison Jr, 118 W. Raymond st.

300 Released

The Indianapolis men were among some 300 to be discharged via the point system at Camp Atterbury during the first 24 hours- following activities of the program. Throughout the nation about 2500 soldiers were fo be released. The army has announced that 1,300,000 veterans will be discharged in this manner during the next 12 months. Indianapolis. dischargees ° from Camp Atterbury had been expect ing reassignment overseas... Most of them had seen combat action in

{either Eurdpe or the South Pacific. | They were stunned and amazed when informed yesterday that they. {would be back in civilian life within {24 hours Keep Two Uniforms “Some of the boys are so worked up and excited they hardly know said a Camp Atterbury chaplain. “They're dumbfounded, but they're happy, even if -most of them have no idea of {what - they intend to do immedi- { ately.” | Tt takes almost as long to get out ‘of the army, as it does to get in. | The - complete separation process {requires about six hours. Dis

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AWAIT STALIN REPLY TO QUERY ON POLES

WASHINGTON, May 12 (U P.)— Authoritative sources revealed today that Premier Josef Stalin has failed so far to answer an Anglo-American request for details of the recent ar-

Stalin has communicated directly with President Truman on the Big Three Polish dispute. State department officials declined