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VOLUME 56—NUMBER 56 -
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TUESDAY, MAY 15, "1945
Entered as Second-Class Matter at Postoffice Indianapolis 9, Ind, Issued daily except Sunday
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Last Days Of Hi tler—He Was Nervous, Confused, Stenographer Says
+ The writer of the following dispaich is a member of the former
Bertin bureau of the ‘United Press. war on the United States. He speaks German fluently, In
| declared
He was interned when Germany
a message to the New York office of the U. P, he advised that he
considers the following account of
[| relinble.
the last days of the siege of Berlin
By JACK K FLEISCHER 53 United Press Staff Correspondent
OBERSALZBERG, Germany, May 15.—A man who
was a stenographer at Ad
olf Hitler's headquarters in
: Berlin said today that the fuehrer decided on April 22 to
Hers’ s i Your Very Good Health
nla
m Ares as 4 resell of the 13-
day strike by city mainteranos “workers is ‘this scene of ovérflowing garbage containers piled two high and in two rows before the Fox Delicatessen, 19 S. Illinois st. The owners have appealed to the city
board of health with no results contract for hauling at their own
and have tried time and again to expense. Around other restaurants,
too, refuse is piled, creating a definite health pioblem as rats prot.
at will “Uving ke kings.”
City's Back-to-Work Plea Fails, Strike in 13th Day
Efforts by city officials to effect a “back-to-work movement” in the
strike of city maintenance workers was meeting with little success today. Ability of the workers to get better jobs at higher pay had increased in the opinion of leaders of the American
their bargaining power,
Federation of State, County and Municipal Workers, A. F. of L.
For several days, W. H. Frazier,
ALLISON - ENGINES TESTED IN B-23
‘W’ Type Power Power Plant Has 24 Cylinders.
Times Special WRIGHT FIELD, O., May 15.—A B-2 Buperfortress powered by four 24-cylinder Allison engines has completed flight tests here, the air service oommand announced today, The experiments were made to give additional flight data and experience in the use of in-line liquid-cooled engines as applied to heavy ‘bombardment aircraft. Most Allison enginés are the 12cylinder “V” type used in fighter planes. Previously the “W” type engines had been flight tested in the B19.
FRIGIDAIRE TO BEGIN
ON PEACE PRODUCTION,
DAYTON, O,, May 16 (U, P.).—~ The Frigidaire division of General Motors will halt production “of 50caliber machine guns by July 31 and
“start reconversion in preparation for
returning to production of civilian goods, it was announced today.
sanitation plant superintendent, has tried to coax 150 ash and garbage collectors back to work. It appeared yesterday that he had persuaded some of them ‘to return. State Offer Fails But union leaders quickly polled their forces and discouraged the idea, leaving the strike still effective on the 13th day. Repeated attempts by Charles Kern, state labor commissioner, and his staff to have Mayor Tyndall use the services of a labor conciliator have met with no success. The mayor is always “in conference,” Otto Suhr, assistant labor commis sioner, declared, when attempts have been made to reach hj “He evidently intends have nothing to do with our department,” Mr. Suhr asserted, “leaving nothing more we can do about it.” Pied Piper Busy Some discussion among city officials of a proposal to have a police escort for those. desiring to return to work faded when few workers appeared ready to work. While idleness of collection department workers resulted in more and more garbage being piled on city streets, one person at least was {being kept busy. i William Lightcap, the city's Pied Piper, was receiving an increasing number of telephone calls from gitizeng who reported rats swarming over garbage... Since two helpers went to better jobs recently, Mr. Lightcap has had no one to help him. He sits at his desk and listens patiently to the complaints of irri-
{tated taxpayers. .
General Manager E. R, Godfrey said that most of the 7000 employees to be affected would be kept busy on other projects, Frigidaire has
Salute Germans
been making machine puns since )~Report Probed
June, 1941.
LONDON, May 15 (U. P.) ~The
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Amusements. 10 Mauldin ars a
: ve ane Lee Miller oR 0 18 Ruth Malet, 11
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British war office said today it would investigate charges that al lfed troeps in one theater have been ordered fo salute Germdn
officers. - . The charges were made by a Brithh. army. sergeant in a. let. r to ‘his representative
meet his end fighting in ie Russians from an wndergroind™ Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel, and Col. Gen. Gustav. Jodl fortress behind the Reichschancellory. : ~~ The man is Gerhardt Herrgeselle, who was summoned to Hitler's headquarters last July to do stenographic work after another stenographer had been killed in the attempt of the German army genergls to - assassinate
Hitler.
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Herrgeselle said that Hitler: “his sweetheart Eva
Braun; Martin Bormann, deputy leader of the Nazi party;
RAIN AND COLD
THREATEN BIG CROP DAMAGE
72-Mile Wind Destroys Trees and Homes . In City.
LOCAL TEMPERATURES +58 10 a. m..... +5 Nam. . 53 12 (Noon) .. a | 1pm...
50 50
Contitiued rains and cold weathef today threatened to bring Jurther disaster to Indiana farmers whose
crops are already a month behind schedule. After examining crops throughout the state, Kenneth Faucett of the Purdue. university horticulture department today reported the tomato situation nearing the “critical” stage because of She extremely wet weather. Rain nas slowed up farmers in setting out their tomato plants, he said, and those which have been planted haven't done well because of cool temperatures. Yesterday's rain and 72-mile wind also beat down the plants which are in the ground.
Strawberry Crop Hit
good bloom a few weeks ago, Mr. Faucett said, the recent frosts and freezes have caused “considerable damage and will reduce the strawberry and apple crops about 50 per cent. South of Indianapolis the peaches are in good shape and a full crop is expected, he added, The pastures aren't Sowing as fast as they might, Charles J. Murphy of the Marion county agriculture” bureau said, but the moisture hasn't hurt them much. The oats looked good up to now, he reported, and seem to be growing in spite of the cold weather. . Other crops such as corn and soy beaps are not in the ground yet but next week.is the recommended planting date for corn. Set Back by Rain The unusually heavy rainfall yesterday in the central part of the nation left farmlands so soggy that in most places. crops fell behind two to three weeks. In some areas
. farmers had not been able to plant
their spring crops. According to the five-day forecast for Indiana and Illinois, thunder storms will continue tomorrow and Thursday and the temperatures will be cool until perhaps Sunday. In Indianapolis rain and cooler also was forecast after yesterday's thunder storm which whipped through central Indiana and caused considerable damage. Property Damaged. The sudden.storm between 3 and 4 p. m. yesterday was accompanied: by high winds which blew down scores of trees and damaged homes and buildings. Another thunderstorm hit Indianapolis shortly before midnight and brought the total rainfall for the
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INSPECTOR FIRED IN OFFICE ‘CLEANUP’
"Hints ‘More Changes,
Discord in the city building commissioner's office was revealed today when the safety board approved the dismissal of Richard Hill, chief electrical inspector, Charles Bacon, commissioner, filed a dismissal request with ‘the board, stating that Mr. Hill hdd been an “unsatisfactory worker” and “often absent without -permission.” : Mr, Bacon told safety board members that “the bullding department needs cleaning up”. He indicated this was merely the first of several moves that will bring new faces to his office. Mr. Bacon was appointed to his post several months ago following a squabble that resulted in Mayor Tyndall firing Ray Howard, then commissioner. ’
In another safety board action, Capifol ave. was made a 20-mile-an-hour zone from Washington st. to 17th st." A Petition signed by approximately 50° persons living hear: 11th st. and Capitol ave. asked signal
Although all fruit crops were in|
EARLIER PRESS BAN POLICY OF OWI REVERSED
President Says Eisenhower Will Not Restrict Information.
By DANIEL KIDNEY Scripps-Howard Staff Writer WASHINGTON, May 15.—President’ Truman said today that Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower intends to permit “a free flow of information and ideas . . in Germany in a manner consistent with military security,” Mr. Truman's announcement at a press conference reversed a policy announced last week by Elmer Davis, head of the office of war information. Davis said American and allied newspapers and magazines would not be permitted to circulate among the Germans. ‘He said special, censored publications would be issued for them, = Mr. Truman today said Davis acted in good faith when he made that announcement because he thought that was the policy agreed on by military authorities during his meeting with them in Europe.
Favors Free Press
The President said Eisenhower “has advised me he_has issued no policy or order dealing with the importation of publications into Germany.” “The general has expressed the personal opinion that a free press and a free flow of inforrhation and ideas should prevail in Germany in a manner consistent with military security,” the President said. He stressed, however, Eisenhower's belief that “there can be no restoration of a free German press in Germany until the elimination of Nazis and militarist influence has been completed.” “We are not going to lose the peace by giving license to racialist pan-German, Nazis and militarists, so that they can misuse democratic rights in order to attack democracy as Hitlér did,” the President said. Earlier OWI Director Davis told an executive session of the house appropriations committee that his office has no intention of clamping down a “news blackout” in TU, S. occupied Germany. For a Free Press His stand was a reversal of that taken by him at an OWI press conference last Friday. Even while he was testifying, an assistant in Mr, Davig’s office was defending by- telephone the OWI setup described as having been established by Philip C. Hamblet, OWI European chief, That system would put all publications in Ger-
{many under OWI, and would bar |U. 8. non-governmental news pub-
City Building Commissioner |
lications, including newspapers and magazines. — A former newspaperman and radio broadcaster, Mr. Davis was questioned closely by committee members regarding the recent announcement of the proposed “all-
(Continued on Page 4—Column 1) LIST BELGIAN VICTIMS BRUSSELS, May 15 (U, P), — The allied military mission said today more than 6000 Belgians were killed and 21,000 were injured in
six months of German V-bomb and rocket attacks. .
By R. H. SHACKFORD
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division in a fortified chalet in the
who signed the German surr in the underground fortress.
ender at Reims, were living
* “Around 10:30 o'clock on the morning of April 21,” Herrgeselle said, “the Russian artillery fire became heavier and obviously they were seeking to concentrate their
fire on the government district.
Later Russian planes
made low-level attacks around central areas such as Friedrich Strasse and Hallesches Tor.
“From noon on there were conferences almost with
out interruption.
Paul Joseph Goebbels, as commander
of the Berlin defense, rushed in and out of headquarters
many times.
“Subordinate commanders reported in a steady
stream.
Still no decision was made to remove us to the
south.” Herrgeselle said the next day the Russian infantry began pressing steadily in toward the center of Berlin,
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3 U-Boats G ive Upto U.S. Navy
PORTSMOUTH, N. H, May 15 (U. P.).—Three German submarines surrendered to U. S. naval units off the New England coast today, the navy disclosed. The announcement, from Vice Adm. Herbert F. Leary, commander of the easetrn sea frontier, stated that all three U-boats were en route to the Portsmouth navy yard. At 8 a. m. the U-boat 805 formally: surrendered to U. 8. naval units at Casco Bay, Me., and this craft was expected to reach here later today. Subsequently the U-1228 and the U-873, surrendered at undisclosed points. This brings: to four the “number of U-boats which have surrendered to American forces since V-day. The U858 arrived off Cape May, N. J, yesterday. : :
BRITISH OCCUPY DOENITZ BASE
Fate of Hitler's Successor Is Undetermined.
By EDWARD.V. ROBERTS United Press Staff Correspondent LONDON, May 15—A “British military commentator revealed today that British occupation trcops have entéred Flensburg, seat of the German government under Grand Adm. Karl Doenitz. But the commentator said the fate or status of Doenitz, self-pro-claimed successor to Adolf Hitler as fuehrer, was “unknown” here. Neither had he any definite knowledge whether the occupation troops had seized Gestapo Chief Heinrich Himmler, now No. 1 Nazi war crimHe last was reported in Flensburg or its vicinity. Other allied sources reported that |sa American 3d army troops had captured Himmler’s ace atrocity expert, Lt. Gen. of Police Ernst W. Kalten~ brunner, accused of responsibility for the ghastly German gas extermination program. A dispatch to the London NewsChronicle said Kaltenbrunner was seized by a special agent of the 80th
Austrian Tyrol. Doenitz set up his provisional capital at Flensburg, German naval
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0,000 AT LOAN
DRIVE OPENING
Infantry Show Friday Is|
. Next Feature.
by Yank infantrymen will be fea
tured in the combat demonstration
spectacle, “Here's Your Infantry,” at Victory field Friday night. The show, held in connection with the seventh was, loan drive, will be the: second big event in Indianapolis to spark the sales of bonds in the war loan campaign. Last night's mammoth downtown parade and rally on Monument
Pan-American Regional Plan Throws t Parley Into Crisis a
| working out a satisfactory solution,
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and the United States; whether ‘the American bloc of nations will . be suspected of hemispheric isolation ism; and whether the new organiwill start life under the handicap of intra-organization
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An attaok on a Japanese pillbox
REDS REPORT GOEBBELS AND WIFE ARE DEAD
.|Nazi and Family Discovered
In Vast Underground City of Capital. By HENRY SHAPIRO
United Press Staff Correspondent MOSCOW, May 15—The body
of Nazi Propaganda Minister Paul Joseph Goebbels has been found in a vast underground city beneath
Berlin, the: Réd army newspaper
Red Star reported today.
A Berlin dispatch said that Goebbels’ corpse and those of his
{wife and children were found where hey had committed suicide, before
a microphone. The story said the underground
city, 20 meters below Berlin's sur-
face and safe from the reach of
LONDON, May 15 (U: P)~— Prime Minister Churchill told commons today: that he agreed with the general opinion that Adolf Hitler is dead, but emphasized that he had no official proof.
allied bombs, contained factories, offices and arsenals linked by electric railroads. Goebbels, Hermann Goering and other prominent Nazis had luxurious apartments in the subterranean Berlin. Entrances and exits to the rooms matched any fortress. ‘The huge walls were made from special reinforced concrete armor plate. Berlin residents said Goebbels and Goering had built their shelters
[there many years before the war,
Luxuriously Appointed Red Star reported that in one of the apartments a Russian correspondent found the corpses of an entire family of an unnamed high Nazi official. He had given poison to his wife and children, then hanged himself and left a note saying, “This is what National Socialism caused.” The underground city stretched beneath all the streets, boulevards, and alleys converging on the Wilhelmstrasse. In a house at No. 63 Charlottenstrasse, a Soviet correspondent rummaging in the debris found a narrow passageway below the surface of the ruins. It led to an enormous underground structure with massive doors and electric installations. The luxurious furniture, clothes and linen littering the floors of the rooms indicated an influential family had lived there. In other subterranean dwellings’ the correspondent found large fam= ilies huddled in corners beneath dim kerosene lamps. They had lived there like moles since 1942. From one such dwelling a narrow. corridor led to a steel door, and behind that was a hand grenade factory, where women and children worked, the dispatch said, Another minature city lay under the ruins of the main Gestapo
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EX-GOVERNOR LECHE WILL BE PAROLED
Prosecuting Attorney Makes Recommendation. WASHINGTON, May 15 (U. PJ).
| Both indicated much,
Fights in Pacific
HELPING 4o- ck the Aussies’ invasion in the Celebés sea is Quartermaster 1-c Robert A. Loonam, son of Mr. and Mrs. B. J. Loonam, 4050 Arlington ave. Lee G. Miller, lohg-time friend of Ernie Pyle, in’ his Hoosier reporter colimnitoday tells of meeting the Indianapolis man aboard ship. Overseas for two years, Quar- ‘ termaster Loonam has been in most of the major engagements in the Pacific zone of operations. He has been in service for three and a half years. ° A graduate of Cathedral high school, he is 32 and formerly was employed by Charles L. Walker Dry Cleaners.
CONGRESSMEN VERIFY ATROCITIES, URGE SWIFT NAZI PUNISHMENT
Truman Pledges Free Flow of German News
TRAGIC STORY OF TORTURE IN GERMANY TOLD
Committee Says World Must See That It Doesn’t Happen Again.
By ALLEN DRURY
WASHINGTON, May 15—
Congress heard at first hand today a part of the terrible story of Nazi methods of rule by extermination. A 12-man committee of both houses, fresh from a tour of German concentration and slave labor camps, verified many of the worst atrocity stories. : They told a tragic tale of filth, disease, starvation and murder. Declaring the concentration camp
ized crime against demanded , “swift, certain and quate punishment” for those sponsible. . ‘Sickening Spectacle’ But despite the cruelty and horror they saw they held forth hope of future justice. Senate Democratic Leader Alben W. Barkley of Kentucky, spokesman for the committee, voiced it this way: “Through the sickening Spectadt
OKINAWA YANKS SEIZE KEY HILL
Take Yonabaruy Seek to Flank Naha.
GUAM, Wednesday, May 16 (U. P.)~Tenth army infantrymen fought through the rubbled streets and ruined. buildings ‘ of Naha today to within 2000 yards of the dock area and unhinged the Japanese defense line across southern Okinawa.
By UNITED PRESS
weeks of bloody fighting. The Americans drove forward a mile and a quarter after capture of Conical hill and were within a half mile of the West coast port of Yonabaru. The advance overran Yonabaru airfield, fourth of the islands five airfields to be captured. The thrust put the Americans due east of Shuri and the ruined capital of Naha where stubborn Japanese defenders were battling a marine frontal assault, and exposed the cities to attacks from the rear.
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hope in London earlier in the day.
Airport,
American troops aimed flanking moves around the Japanese anchor strongholds of Naha and Shuri on southern Okinawa today after capture of a key hill near the East coast in their best advance of two
The rubble of Naha was alive with snipers and machinegun nests, front dispatches said. There were orders from superiors or “given wide indications that the city had a discretion in the methods they were
Churchill had expressed a similar to dis
which we have witnessed . come ultimately a firmer that men of all nations and tongues must resist encroachments of every theory and ideology that debases “A just and more enduring peace may arise upon the ruins and from the sacrifices which the human race has endured through one of the most crucial periods of its history.” Planned Torture
The 12-man committee, invited by ‘Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower to see the results of Nazi treatment of political prisoners and slave laborers, visited camps. at. Buchenwald, Nordhausen and /Dachau. Members were Barkley, Senators
| Walter P. George (D. Ga.), Elbert
D. Thomas (D. Utah), C. Wayland Brooks (R. Ill), Kenneth 8. Wherry (R. Neb.) and Leverett Saltonstall (R, Mass), and Reps. R. Ewing Thom ason (D. Tex.), James P. Richards (D. 8. C), Bd V. Izac (D. Cal), John M. Vorys (R. O.), James W, Mott (R. Ore.) and Dewey Short (R. Mo.), Barkley, who read his report to the senate, charged that the camps constituted a “calculated and dia~ bolical program of planned, torture ‘and extermination on the/ part of those who were in control of the German government.”
Controlled by 8. 8.
He said the three camps visited were an “accurate cross-section” of the more than 100 such concefitra= tion and slave labor camps in Qere many. ] Camps were largely condudied and controlled by 8. S, troops and the Gestapo either acting under
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Truman and Churchill Both 'Hope' for Big Three Meeting
WASHINGTON, May 15 (U.P) — President Truman sald today he hopes there will be a meeting of the allied Big Three in the not too
mobilisation of world war II vets rans.
He favors repeal of the Johnson
practices to be “no less than organs i