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Luck WR H itler From Death In July Bomb Plot, Eyewitness Reveals

' (In the following dispatch United Press Correspondent Jack Fleischer for the first time reveals details of the attempted assassination of Adolf Hitler last July 20. Fleischer, member of the former United Press Berlin buresa, obtained the account from an eyewitness he considers reliable ) : :

intended to kill him was shifted by a colonel unaware of the plot, an eyewitness to the assassination attempt told me today. : The eyewitness was Heinz Buchholz, one of two stenographers at the regular military conference at Hitler's headquarters where the bombing took place.

He said Hitler was saved because the bomb, as originally placed, interfered with a German colonel. He

Elwood High School Dedicated to Willkie Ideals

By JACK FLEISCHER United Préss Staff Correspondent

OBERSALZBERG, Germany, May 16.—Sheer luck saved the life of Adolf Hitler last July 20 when the bomb

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moved the hy thus diminishing the. blast ‘effect in Hitler's direction when it went off. Buchholz said the attempt was made at Hitler's headquarters, then located near Rastenburg in East Prussia. The headquarters. comprised a number of wooden

barracks, some with added co

by the code name “Wolfschanze.”

ncrete walls, and was known There also were un-

derground concrete shelters where work ¢ could be carried

on in the event of air raids.

PLANES SMASH SUICIDE CRAFT

19 Believed Neutralized; + 284 Planes Destroyed; Naha Battle Fierce.

By UNITED PRESS Preliminary reports indicated today that American carrier aircraft

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According to Buchholz, the regular military conference July 20 was held at 12:30 p. m.~ The usual military and “political leaders were present, including Field Marshal William Keitel, chief of the high command; and Col. Gen, - Jodl. (There were two Colonels-General Jodl. Gustav Jodl,.. chief of staff of the Germany army, signed the Reims sur- ; (Continued on Page 2 —Column L)}

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neutralized 19 .suicide-plane bases in southern Japan at least temporarily in a shattering two-day air assault Sunday and Monday. The American navy planes destroyed or damaged 284 and possibly 357 Japanese planes and

Principal Keith Scott holds a portrait of Mr. Willkie used in the formal re-dedication ceremonies at the high school.

Termed Symbol of New Leadership - for Youth.

By VICTOR PETERSON * Times Staff Writer ELWOOD, May 16.—The first step toward a living memorial to Wendell L. Willkie found expression here today in the school where the mind to conceive \ ‘One. World” was shaped. Elwood high school today was formally rededicated the Wendell L| Willkie high school. The school from which the 1940 Republican presidential candidate] graduated in 1910 was built in 1896. In 1915 a wing was added and the; original structure = became the] junior high school. Today the] joined buildings bear the same | name. But the moving forces back of the rededication ‘are looking to We; future.

For in the name of Willkie, B-| wood sees a political science hub

Edgar G, Ball ...2 moving force backing a living memorial for Mr, Willkie and his philosophies. ;

Planners visualize the re-dedicated Wendell L. Willkie high school in Fiwood as a political science center to train America’s youth in leadership. Above the arch and school name is inscribed “The Hope ing of future American leaders. 10 Years Ahead of Time It may take the form of a junior college but. the core of its teach- : i will be the political science As City Seeks New Work he Pan Conroe En DE Cn a of Willkie Latin-American Dispute. Striking cify maintenance employes were volunteering their services| closest friends from youth through By R. H. SHACKFORD today and tomorrow in the drive for used material being made by Good- death, stands out as the leader United Press Staff Correspondent will Industries, Inc., 215 8. Senate ave. |of the movement. He is president] gAN FRANCISCO, May 16.—The| “In view of the fact that the men are not working, I have accepted | of the Wendell L. Willkie Me-| ————————————————"" sons here are dependent upon this in Elwood and a real estate com- | possible adjournment deadline. The EST Y mater for their rehabilitation. | pany in Chicago, accompanied Mr. way was cleared somewhat by a [hey learn to do worthwhile work | Willkie on. his swing arouhd the | {hree- -point compromise formula repairing these articles for sale.” Fi he SEmpaigied for Phe | OIVIng a 10-day dispute over reSUNK INA ATLANTIC" has-been reached be-| ident. He also was w im as Ne | ional security systems. . tween strikers and city officials to| Stumped the country before Wel Attack deiurred Before strikers has been reporting daily at | tem with the propose World organ: the collection yard for this purpose. | | (Continued on “Page 2 —Column 3) |ization was announced by SecreGerman Surrender. City officials were hopeful today | MS —————————————————— [tary of State Edward R. Stettinius that enough men can be fo —— gr WASHINGTON, May 16 (U. P.).| {replace the workers by ung - Hoosier Herges Mexiar Orig ler ue ~The destroyer escort Frederick : C. Davis was sunk recently ‘by an American nations as one that would strengthen the inter-American sys- | announced today. |Tyndall about the possibility of FREED IN GE GERMANY tem. : a The action took place “some days” |locating new workers. . He told the Hemispheric ‘Security before the sursender of Germany, mayor he hada list of about 150 The Latin American nations the navy said. | applicants available as truck drive agreed to accept the aramount The vessel was commanded by | ers and laborers at the sanitation Adams, Stark fark and Weaver E He AMC sbecific recognition “of the inherent The vessel, which Sarrieq a nor- “I'm just waiting for department individual or collective mal complement of 200 men, dis- | heads to tell. me they want to re-|pedred on today's casualty lists, self-defense. I place their workers before I go any|With 15 Indianapolis ‘men freed| In addition, the Latin Americans ong: . : ul further,” Mr. Parsons declared.|{rom German prisons. received the promise of the United This brings to 308 the numiber| private industry personnel di-| One local man, however, is listed States to call another inter-Amer-HIMMLER’ S F ATE N oT able for low-paying city jobs, when|® marine on Iwo Jima, and an in- security treaty to supersede the war plants have had difficulty find- fantryman on Luzon. x Co WORRYING CHURCHILL ing enough workers. ’ Also a former resident, reported (Continued on Page 2 lumn 3) jie The ash and collection depért- missing 17 months, has been freed ARMY RATIONS TOBACCO LONDON, May, 16 Wy. P.. The ment yard at 1022 Sanders st. from a-Japanese prison in Burma. WASHINGTON, May 16 (U, P.).— mystery of Heinrich © Himmler's 1 The war department announced to-

around which will revolve the trainw " he PLAN SE SETTLED Strikers Aid Clothes Dri theories as laid down in Mr. Willkie's “One World.” their offer to help in our drive for used clothing, shoes and furniture,” | morial committee. | United Nations conference again Howard Lytle, executive secretary, declared. “About 125 disabled per-| Mr. Ball, who operates a farm/|et its sights today on June 1 as af | dispose of garbage at hospitals and | 1944 convention. The form ee Jor isiking Such) similar institutions. One crew of| Wendell was 10 years ahead of Broups as "Ae ‘Dier-amertean sys-| ; |quiel Padilla immediately welcomed | Meeting Place Empty 15 MORE L0G AL MEN |the plan in behalf of the 20 Latin submarine in the Atlantic| Larry Parsons, city personnel di-| with heavy -casualties,. the navy rector, sald he had talked to Mayor Tir YE) Jus oumanded s 8 ORE i {authority of the world organization Jt. James R. Crosby, 0 attle, | plant, collection department, asphalt : in enforcement action in return for Wash, He is among the missing. [plant and flood control board. Reported Killed. ” Tangible results of V-E day ap-|right of of tv. 8. a lost from all ectors expressed surprise that a|as killed in Germany, and two more ican conference soon for negotiating causes in this war labor pool of this size was avail-|have lost their lives in the Pacific,|® permanent hemispheric collective v : where strikers” have been gatherin KILLED whereabouts popped up again in 8 8 " : commons $0day and was promptly each morning to exchange word| Pfc. John J. Aaams, 523 Ww, day that, starting June 3, cigarets

squelched by Prime Minister|™® the progress of the controversy, Wilkins st. in Germany. [ane other tobacco products will be Churchill's tart sbservation that he| V2 empty this morning. The issue| Marine Cpl. Mark E. Stark Jr., (rationed for army personnel in the dant -“Roow. or | varticularly. care appeared stalemated, with neither 2431 N. Delaware st. on Iwo Jima. | United States. A general order has whether the missing gestapo chief| de budging on the 1th day. T. Sgt.’ Hetbert L. Weaver, 15/80ne out directing that purchases It was reported that work-|S. Tacoma st. on Luzon. |be’ limited to six packs of cigarets,

Wad River pe ; i : 24 cigars or foyy ountes of pipe toexpe e Ww urp up some-| (Contingied on Page 2—Column 2) (Details, Page Five) bacco a week.

where ‘in this world or the next| and will be dealt with by the apWMC Wants to Know if Workers Must Talk, Turn, Throw, Climb, Crouch and Work Fast|

propriate looal authorit les” Churchill fold the house: By DANIEL M. KIDNEY Seripps-Howard Staff Writer

“The latter of them would be more convenient to his majesty's government,” he added with a grin, . Under the heading “physical | wet, dusty, dirty, odors, noisy, adeTIMES INDEX activities” are these: = quate lighting, adequate y, adeWASHINGTON, May 16—A war| Walking, jumping, running, bal-|tion, vibration, mechanical hazards, Amusethents. 13| Charles Lucey 10 manpower commission question-|ancing, climbing; crawling, stand-| moving objects, cramped quarters, Ned Brooks .. 10|Mauldin ..... '9|naire was cited by E. M. Wells ing, turning, stooping, crouching, high places, exposure to burns, Business 7 Lee Miller ... 9 kneeling, -sitting, reaching, lifting, | electrical hazards, explosives, radiComics. 17 Ruth Millett. 9 Surg throwing, pushing, pull-{ant energy, toxic conditions, work. Crossword ... 18 ah 3H acts. and wasting manpower.” handling, fingering; feeling,|ing with others, working around Editorials .... : He enclosed a.copy, sent to him i Hv hearing, seeing, color vi-| others and working alone.” POrUM sv « vv va Hea ‘manager of he Mississippi’ Cot- | sion, depth perception and work- “1 am enclosing original form ESMeta Given .. 13 Ration Dates ing sheng ; 130 dated April 16, 1945, Sovering Conditions” inspection made by a representat a. Sonditiane’ ate are jot the war Ee commission pe outed. ‘hot,

Hillman 10, Mrs. Roosevelt 9

n Service 16 Society .. 13 3 i Indpls. Nn Sports Jane Jordan, . 1. Henry Taylor.

wrecked airfield installation on {Kyushu and Shikoku islands, Pa{cific fleet headquarters announced. Meanwhile, weary marines of the 6th division battled through a hell of mortar and shell fire within 1000 yards of the center of Naha, rubbleheaped capital of Okinawa. They were fighting house to! house through the capital in bloody no-quarter combat. Marine van-

A British broadcast recorded by the United Press in New York quoted an unconfirmed report today as saying the Americans had captured Naha, capital of Okinawa.

guards already had forced ifie| Asato river, bisecting the city, ut] a murderous rain of enemy fire still cut down reinforceménts crossing the stream. { Shuri Under Siege | The inland citadel of Shuri and | east coast port of Yonabaru also | were under siege along the five-| |mile front across the southern tip | |of Okinawa. Chocolate Drop hill, one of the | main enemy strong points shielding Shuri, was taken at bayonet point [by the 77th infantry division yes|terday at heavy cost. Its capture | or oke a ‘stalemate northeast of | | Shuri. The 1st marine division fought toward Shuri from the northwest. » Yonabaru ..was attacked by- the 96th infantry division after it beat off an enemy counter-attack in| the vicinity of newly-captured Con{ical hill. Smash Landing Try A new Japanese attempt—the second within’ a week—to land | troops behind the American lines

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Proof Nazis in Hands

Of Allies.

LONDON, May 16-(U. P.).| — The United Nations war| crimes commission has com-| pleted its cases ‘against alll top-ranking Nazis, including

members of the government |

and general “staff, and is ready to |

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turn the evidence over to Justice |

Robert Jackson, prosecutor, the learned today.

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United Press |

"Col. Joseph V. Hodgson, American

representative on the commission, |said “justice will be done expedi- | tiously.” Hodgson said that if the western | allies and Russia agree upon a trial by a military tribunal, as proposed by the United States, prosecution

could begin without delay.

Ready on Goering

Once such a tribunal is al upon; a ‘group of between 25 and 30] Nazi leaders, including Hermann | Goering, will. be tried. Heinrich | Himmler; if captured alive, will be | included. Members of the German general staff who have been linked with specific atrocities have been placed on the commission's war criminal list, it was reported. Jurisdiction of Jackson and his colleagues, one each from Great Britain, Russia, France and one other allied nation, will extend only to the Nazi arch c¢riminals. Thousands of minor Nazis will be tried by lower tribunals which may be established by SHAEF or the allied control commission for Germany.

Urges Military Trial

Hodgson, formerly attorney general of Hawati, has been the cham-

near Machinato airfield, five miles north of Naha, was. broken up by | naval gunfire. Despite the savage enemy resistance, the Japanese official news agency Domei appeared to be preparing for eventual loss of Okinawa, | strategic island, A Domei dispatch said *the Japanese” forces - were |facing * ‘overwhelming odds” because {the ‘Americans were being ' con-

pion of the military tribunal plan

which has won official sponsorship |

by the United States. Although the war crimes com- | mission at one time recommended | establishment of. an international civil court for the trial of major war criminals, a majority of the menibers now are believed to favor the military tribunal plan as more practical. “The United States has utilized

stantly reinforced. The carrier plane attack brought a sharp reduction in Japanese sui-| cide-plane raids on American ships| and ground forces on Okinawa.

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EQUIPMENT DISPLAY FRIDAY ON CIRCLE

At “Victory Field.

An exhibit of infantry equipment on Monument Circle Friday and Saturday will show Indianapolis residents where their mighty seventh war loan bond dollars go. | The exhibit will be held in’ connéction with the appearance at Victory field Friday night of “Here's | Your Infantry,” army ground forces combat show. Bazookas, mortars, automatic rifies, flame throwers and even uniform parts, with new type combat boots will be included in the display on the Circle. They will be shown on the south side of “the Monument beginning at noon Friday. At the same time, Warrant Officer Les Taylor, director of thé 200th

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military tribunals for the punishment of war criminals following | every war in our history,” Hodgson | “It has proven to be a prac-

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COLD, RAIN FORECAST POSTPONES PLANTING

The , repeated forecast of rain and coder for Indiana today again ved crop planting by farmers ER the state.

Accompanies jos Infantry Show Occasional light rain today and|press yesterday about a British

{tomorrow with cooler temperatures |‘

{today and tonight were promised | for Indianapolis. In the state forecast rain was scheduled for today,

cloudy weathér. tomorrow and warmer tomorrow in the north and! west portions. The. temperature dropped to 50 this morning and reached a high of 59 yesterday. Already this year 1903 inches of rain have fallen

{in the city, 4.03 inches more than

last year,

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Doenitz and His Regime | ~ Taken Over;

'SWISS TO HAND U. S. ' GERMAN CONSULATES

Times Foreign Service

y MALCOLM MUIR JR. Sk Press Staft Correspondent

PARIS; May 16.—Supreme head-

American |

Pampered Captive Messerschmitt in Luxury, Britons

Are Told.

LONDON, May 16 (U. P.). ; 5 3 —The Moscow radio, joininge the clamor over purported coddling of captured German leaders, said today that the. “only way of dealing with such criminals is the hangman's noose.” Indignation mounted in London with disclosure that Willi Messer | schmitt was living in a pleasant P | residential district of London—the Willi. Messerschmitt , » . Russ | city his planes helped to wreck—

. “ , wer | in luxury and’ «comparative sians Suggest gest “hangman's §. noose,” | freedom, British newspapers said. / An English language broadcast from Moscow denounced the inter- | viewing of Reichsmarshal Hermann

WAR VESSELS Goering by allied correspondents. The radio said it was like talking REACH TRIESTE to “a murderer who has just killed a child and is still sarying a

| blood-covered hatchet.” Prescribe Radical Cure ‘Big Stick’ Deiwbrdiation After prescribing the hangman's | noose for “such criminals,” the Denied by Allies. broadcaster attacked a Flensburg By PHIL*AULT radio report that the Germans had United Press Staff Correspondent | Some control over themselves, and LONDON, May 16.—British cruis- |

dded: " “It is not Martinis or fried chickers and desuoyers have anchored | en that will tame the Hitlerite lin the harbor of Trieste under a |{gangsters. They need a radical cure. canopy of heavy bombers, a dis- | Sensation-seeking reporters would patch from the disrupted port said | 90 better to go to Hollywood for a scoop interview. Aoday, | Minister of State Richard K. United Press Correspondent paw told the American and British James Roper reported from Trieste! Commonwealth Association today that the British warships arrived Tuesday. He said Sherman tanks, manned by New. Zealanders, were! | patrolling the streets of the dock area under British control. With the permission of Marsha! Tito, the British had begun unloading supplies at Trieste for the! allied armies of occupation in | Austria.

MOSCOW, May 16 (U. P).— The Soviet naval publication - “Red Fleet” today charged AngloAmerican newspapers, press as- | seciations and radio networks with helping to spread Nazi propaganda by disseminating interviews granted by captured German military and political leaders.

Act to Quell Rumors 'that He hoped Goering will be Naval spokesmen at allied head- | hanged. He said Goering was typi- | quarters in Rome issued a staté- cal of the “silliness” he said was | ment to counter alarmist reports |the outstanding characteristic. of that the warships had been dis- the German people and added: hed tick” “He is full of arrogance and patched to Trieste as a "big SUCK” | nogpuring, but I don't believe for a { demonstration to Tito. moment. that even now Goering The statement emphasized that understands what it is all about. the naval squadron had been sent No Intent to Coddle

to the disputed rt in the course | lot P Port In | “I do believe that when the hang

of + “normal” operations. to. clear . away enemy lines and reopen the | MAR3 noose i is what } hope harbor for use as an allied Supply it will be is asten aroun 18 | base. {neck he will just go on saying the British are jolly good people, the The official interpretation of the | | Foe of was that it had been | Fermans are Jolly good people, and

ad {that is war.’ es Skim" offca information on Messerschmitt suggested that pube {lished protests against the way he was being Mistreated might be out of focus. » ty Authoritative sources said there

[Britain and ne Dutted. Stateg was no inclination to coddle him, Pp e es and that he was one of many Ger-

Marshak Tito pertesting adminis- : . : - man technicians undergoing questration of the port by his Yugoslav tioning in England.

forces. Messerschmitt was ranked as an

The allied position was that an a 4 enemy civilian and not a prisoner | allied military government should of war, informants id. He was

{ administer Trieste as it does all ? | other former, Italian territory, and Teperisd Yeoelving | that any disputes between Italy and Simple” treatment. Yugoslavia over ownership, of the Giving Valuable Data port must wait. Interrogation experts were reps= | An Istanbul dispatch said rumors resented as believing they could were circulating in diplomatic circles get more from him if he “received [in Balkan capitals that Tito 1s comfortable treatment and was planning a league of Balkan states |allowed to exercise in walks through | the neighborhood. Despite official reluctance to talk about Messerschmitt, he was under« stood to be co-operating and proe

: viding valuable data. Bor er ose | British newspapers said Segre schmitt) Germany's No. 1 plane de- | after which the high command will signer, was living a life of luxury

n Handsomely outfitted apartments, |be dissolved completely. i Evening News said “Willie w

Thegannouncement of the tem- | gwejl fed, and with a single escort

‘show of - force” Yugoslavia. The disclosure. came while Great

in Trieste against

u BERNE, Mgy 16—Switzerland has Quarters announced today that porary status and complete ¢con- can Wander around London."

agreed -to-hand over to the Ameri-| can authorities - the German embassy and consulates in’'the United States, which have been in the custody of Switzerland as’ the pro-

tective be gout. “m iss. Yelographod Washing - - oy declaring - that the

| Gierman property was being handed command.

| over to Washington as “trustee of i the future German government,

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Adm, Karl Doenitz and certain of | his fellow German officers are under the full control and sole orders of | allied’ military comntanders. SHAEF does not recognize any German government, ‘it was re-

vealed, and Doenitz is recognized |

as representing the German high | Doenitz and the high | command are being used to expedite |

|the disarmament and, demobiliza- | b o PEE RR ton of SgSeman armed: fren | Continand on i Fett 2c Sdunly 5°

| trol of the Doenitz regime at Flens- | Bening Sif fidara Sud} ne went fas a - {burg clarified the situation which | 4h three German compani a fhad been obscure since Doenlitz an- |g R.A. F. corporal as escort. nounced that Hitler had died and | | Germans. talked together, the 4 'he had taken over. (paper said, ‘wnd~once stopped. to Headquarters said it had closed examine potatoes at & grocery. . Germany's western frontiers to The London Daily Minor aid A both German civilians ;and allied > 3 LE , soldiers to “prevent the escape of

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