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| Hitler's Body Identified With ‘Fair Certainty,’ Russ Report
9 _ By JOSEPH W. GRIGG, United Press Staff Correspondent BERLIN, June 6.—Adolf Hitler's body has been found and identified with: fair certainty, it was learned from a high Russian military source here today. The body, smoke-blacRened and charred, was one of
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four discovered in the,ruins of the great underground fortress beneath the new Reichschancellery after the fall of. Berlin.
These four bodies, any one of which answered pretty teristics, the Russians well to Hitler's description, were removed and carefully examined by Russian army physicians. All were badly burned fromthe flame throwers with which the Red army soldiefs finally cleared out the underground command post where Hitler and his leading Nazis made their last ditch stand.
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do not been: found. The source added,
singled out one body which they believed almost certainly is that of the N . Asked why no official announcement of the discovery has been made yet by Moscow, as long as any element of uncertainty exists the Russians wish to state definitely
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doubt that this actually is the corpse of Hitler. Examination of the body showed that Hitler almost certainly. died of poisoning. Whether this was self ad ® ministered or whether Hitler was killed by one of his henchmen there is no sure means of knowing.
‘azl fuehrer. this Russian source said
has + It will be recalled,” however, that Russian sources recently reported that ilitler died of an injection given
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CITY TEACHERS ANTE FUNDS TO ADVERTISE PAY
Plan Campaign .to Tell Why They Believe Wage | Hikes Are Justified.
By ROGER '‘BUDROW Indianapolis school teachers be-
lieve tHe public doesn't realize how little they are paid, and how .this is affecting the city's school sys-|
tem, and so they are going to do something about it. | They plan to publicize the school | situation and probably will try to} elect persons to the school board who faver increasing teachers’ sal-| aries. . 1 This was decided at a mass meet= ing ‘af more than 700 members of thie Federation of Indianapolis Public School Teachers at Tome linson hall yesterday.
‘Dignified Campaign’ When Pvt, Miss Sarah Ewing, chairman of | Germany, the federation’s legislative commit Demler starved for four months, tee, said what they had in mindwas| = a “dignified, courteous campaign, | using “articles in the newspapers, | pamphlets aywd talks. before the]
many clubs, leaving out Pe
ties, tellihg the people the facts. >“We're after one thing—an ol IN MEDLEY 0 SE| creased school tax rate before |
school building program is resumed We built the last buildings out of
oun salaries—we' re not going to do Defendant in Capital Mur’ it again.’ der Fails to Testify.
Then, waving a $10 bill in front | of the big audience, Miss Ewing | By RAYMOND M. BAXTER United Press Staff Correspondent
cried, “Who is willing to give $10] for our campaign?” | $2000 in Cash | ) Pocketbooks began opening and attorneys rested their case today $10 bills soon were waving in reply. | without Joseph D. Medley appear-| A collection, made right on the |ing in his own defense on a charge | spot, brought in $2000 in cash and checks and almost $1000 more in
of murder.
I. O. U's. Annual dues of $2 are Medley is accused of slaying the ] to be deducted from the $10. The 45-year-old poker playing hostess, | collection is continuing. Nancy Boyer, after. a
The teachers had ‘invited A. B. Good, schools’ business manager, to | attend the meeting and answer their- questions about salaries and the budget, but, as he Bad on sev-|{out trying to refute testimony of éral occasions, Mr, Good declined. Draft Open Letter This, however, apparently was no | when he was arrested in St. surprise to the teachers because with the 38-caliber slugs they already had drafted an open |Kkilled Mrs. Boyer. letter to Mr. Good, containing ques- | Marion Williams, tions they want answered. The|in firearms, letter lernment that Madley's revolver “Dear TT I"might have been” the gun [Toni] “You have repeatedly declined | which the bullets that killed Mrs. ! ur invitations to appear before the|Bover were fired te op group. Nevertheless, there | The defense attempted to show certain questions which we feel| that Naney's life was as great a
| gambling and a dawn-breakfast date| last March 6,
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From 70 Pounds to 110 ior Nazi Starvation Victim
James Demler of Fredonia, Wis., was found In a German prison camp near Limburg, this picture convinced Americans that stories of Nazi cruelties were true. Captured at Ardennes,
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OKINAWA FIGHT NEARLY OVER: JAPS JITTERY
| Tokyo Warns Invasion Homeland Rapidly Approaching.
By FRANK TREMAINE United Press Staff Correspondent PEARL HARBOR, June 6-—The| bloody battle of Okinawa was| virtually over today, and Japan's invasion jitters were getting worse. With the fighting on Okinawa in the mopping-up stage, a ‘“victory”| announcement from Adm. Chestef | W. Nimitz was expected any time now. He significantly omitted any mention .of land fighting. from his regular communique Japanese newspapers conceded | the “isolation” of Okinawa, and! warned the invasion of the Nip-| ponese homeland itself was * iy) approaching.” Other developments in the rl cific fighting included: CHINA—Chinese -troops - recaptured Liuchow, former U. S. 14th airforce bese in Central Kwangsi province. Lluciow was lost to the Japanese last November, PHILIPPINES — The American 37th-division gained six miles in its| drive up Cagayan valley in pursuit of the remaining 20,000 to 30,000 Japanese in northern Luzon. Enemy opposition was very light. PACIFIC FLEET — Carrier-based planes of the Pacific fleet sdnk seven Japanese ships and damaged at least six.mere in attacks ranging from the northern Kuriles to the | southern Ryukyus.
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When this picture was taken in April, 1945, Demler weighed 70 pounds.
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{lacking at the moment. However, the 6th marine division was believed to have completed the capture of Naha airfield, best. on the island and last held by the Japanese. z Jap Post Captured The 7th army division overran Chinen peninsula on the southeast coast, capturing intact an elaborate Japanese underground headquarters, : Tokyo, trying to salvage .some propaganda from the Okinawa loss, | claimed that American casualtieg in | the battle totalled 150,000. That was far above the last offi- | cial casualty report, covering the fighting through May, which listed |
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Here is how Pvt. Demler looks today. He weighs 110 pounds and is shown looking at the original photograph taken in Limburg,
He is now a patient “at the’ "Kennedy ‘General hospital in Memphis.
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gan 66 days ago, was the bloodiest yet of the Pacific campaign. Of the original enemy garrison of
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~ |tions immediately after slipping the Any detailed reports on the cli-| ajjeged thréatening note-into a maf! | yesterday at Berlin, correspondents | policy adopted today by the stats
ishe claimed, partially explains her | reported extortion attempt.
{$1000 from her earnings as a war
135.116 killed, wounded and missing. | The Okinawa battle, which be-|
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BAVARIA MAY BE U.S. ZONE IN GERMANY
Mostiof Territory Captured by Yanks Will Be Turned Over to British
and Russian Troops.
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Ida Mae Weberg . . , “The mailman didn’t eome.”
GIRL CONFESSES
By JOHN D.. McDERMOTT
United Press Staff Correspondent LONDON, June 6.—United States armies will turn over most of the territory they conquered in Germany to British EXTORTION NOTE and Russian troops and occupy only Bavaria, it was believed | today. | The 9th army will yield such cities as Leipzig, fifth ‘Mailed It, Then Tried to Get largest in Germany, Magdeburg, Chemnitz and Erfurt to the | Russians. The 9th had taken]
It Back, She Says. | | Fn y fover much of the 1st army's Slim, 25-year-old Ida Mae Weberg| sector when the 1st returned, {said today she had tried unsuccess- | to the United States. (fully to recover an alleged $3000 ex- | The Rhineland and the Ruhr, CAMPS 10 ARMY “After I dropped the letter in the Duesseldorf mail box, I stood around and waited | taken over by British coat! CCC Areas Will Be Sites for for the mailman for three hours, but | forces. hé didn’t come.” she said. She lived] Though largely conquered by the Rehabilitation. at 2207 N. Pennsylvania st. { American 1st, 9th and 3d armies, Abandoned CCC camps in Indiadministered lately. by the Ameri- | ana state parks and Yorests will
In county jail today, held on ex- | {the Ruhr and Rhineland have been can 15th army. ibe turned over to the army as
{tortion charges by the FBI, Miss | Unless radical changes were made | veteran rehabilitation sites under &
tertion note before it went through, | including Cologne, prewar Gerregular mail channels. Imany's third largest city, Dire; and Essen, will
Weberg said she “regretted” her ac-
slot ;at 22d and Pennsylvania sts. who have been traveling = wits | conservation department. ~ ’ Called Police American armies in Germany be-| Negotiations which would loase llieved the American occupation |two of. the old camps, free of The letter, demanding $3000 and |, ,.o wil] be confined to Bavaria charge, to Camp Atterbury and warning, “You are not dealing with jn southwest Germany. = | George field, Ill, have already be= amateurs,” was addressed to Walter| This sector probably will extend | gun. In all, there are about a dozen at | vacated CCC camp sites in Indiana.
; , osi- | 8S far north as Frankfurt, J: Ssemarn, 6481 Fark ave. pres! present ‘Gen. Dwight D. Eisen- The conservation department also dent ‘of “the. Migwes; Flectrical hower's headquarters, and cer-|authorized location of a prisoner Product Co. Mr. Saemann, Who tainly should requiré no more than | of war compound in Salamonie didn't know Miss Weberg, sum- jone or perhaps two of the four| River - state forest, near Wabasn, moned police immediately. | American armies at present in Ger- | The U. S. naval traiiNng station Shaken and despairing in her many. lat Bunker Hill plans to remodel
The division of Germany pre-| and convert old CCC quarters there sumably was decided upon at the|into prison barracks, conservation | Yalta conference last February. | officials said. | Present occupational conditions in- “Freshening Up” Ground : side Germany undoubtedly have| In regard to the veteran rehabilie caused some changes in the orig-| tation program, they said Camp inal plan, but.they probably were Atterbury authorities will acquire minor. | the abandoned ‘CCC reservation in ~—+f~t50k—the—money—dewntown—te-— Boundaries Not Settled Jackson state forest, Overseas sol place it in a bank one Saturday,’ A British foreign office com- diers, returning to Atterbury she related. “The banks were closed. mentator said he did not believe !®Assisnment, will “freshen up" beI went to a show. When I ¢ame the exact boundaries of the occu-|fOr® 80ing back into action. out, -the money was missing from' pation zones had been settlud. Spring Mill state park CCC struce
cell today, the slender defendant recounted a hard luck story which, She said she had managed to save
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should be answered by you, the! mystery as how she met her death 18 WAC Mi about" 80,000, over-61,000 troops have — py : ' ystery as she y EVs bara 3 tures: will be occupied by a George executive officer of the Indianapolis| A bundle of letters addressed to CAREER RAS SLEUTH 5 issing | been killed. Their totals in wounded MY Purse. For instance. 1. don’t believe the field, Ill to corps for Board. of Sehool-Commissatiers. | Nancy. from the Indianapolis. Atl / AL | must have been very high. too. She said she th ought it had either exact position of the French zone idatical purtoses, they 2dded “1. What explanation does the|letic club indicated attempts to n rican Flight With Okinawa about gone and Deen “lost or stolen a is determined,” he said. | The former COC camps Will be administration offer for the fact| blackmail an Indiahapolis man. M h fires still smouldering in Kobe, | Miss Weberg who declared she He said the subdivision of Vienna redecorated and modernized 16 give at IndER Riis. rans vaio] eo a os mall wi. MN Who Worked on 100 WASHINGTON, June 6 (U. P.). — is a native of Canada, said she has had not ‘yet been agreed upon |'* ER A £ A yo | . » - y i g -— 9)! a Hew sart’ Te 1adis ; ap 3 he . veterans the bes 0ssible outa amang_.the~ cities of the state inf edge about her source of income] Murders Goina Fishin An army transport plane carrying (Continued on Page 5 Column “) a weetheart” ‘in the Canadian either, and he could not answer facilities. While Tiere ih \diom median salaries for teachers?| aside from #n occasional $40 an| g 9. {18 WACs and a crew of three has) ai - vt + juesuens concerning Austrian oc- hetl1 ehiugo in ty pical field and rl concern | evening “cut” ‘poker party, vet By SHERLEY UHI { been missing in Africa since May 30, KELLER AGAIN HEAD | ue Prey iousty ou : e 5 Lom cupation plans, | stream pastimes Army authori been shown about this situation? | earlier witnesses said she had Ee : ’ the War depart missioner Francis Hughes at her| In Paris, however, the French] i twa ty ; 1. | the nent annour . : t lieve f 2, In 1943 and again in 1045 | bought four fur coats"and a $1000 A Policeman yeured frm the toda The par w lost, : wi | OF MIAMI U. ALUMNI arraignment ‘that she sought the foreign office announced that | Wes are gale ° « e femoval Ww a i | dig i ; ot of force today. ay, ne plane. was lost on a {$3000 “to buy new clothes with sO American, British and French [of Tehabilitation barracks Irom why did certain Indianapolis inter-| diamond ring within the past eight 766-mile flight from A tl g - res { ] ests offer tire only organized oppo- | years. She paid $100 ‘a month for, Iv sounds simple. but it isn't. With i66-mile flight from Accra, on the, Donald B. Keller, vice president yj jook nice when I meet my boy| military missions went to Vienna | Military encampments would better sition to the passage of bills for| her apartment [those geven words ends a career Gold Coast of British West Africa,jof Flanner & Buchanan mortuary, | friend coming back from overseas.” Sunday to join the Russians in|Promote desired “away from 1% minimum salaries for teachers? — ee ————— marked bys frequent contacts with! ‘© Roberts Field, Liberia, {has been re-elected president of the| Today, ‘however, she said she administering Austria jal" and “recuperation” tudes “3, Wh t he ad eb MAY BRING WIVES violence, blood and larceny . . . with | . The WACs had been stationed at| Alumni association of Miami. uni- It. - Gen. Leonard, T. Gerows,| among battle-scarred veterans, J. at is. the administration : : all the strange psychological quirks the air transport command base at | versity for the coming year. (C ontinued on Page 5—C olumn 6) Ame tit a aan) a doing to correct the threatening] BRITISH 2D ARMY HEAD-| | that ‘mar the I P ®t Accra since last October. They| Mr. Keller, who lives at 40 E.|™ American lah army, 8% present, sit | iar the human race, : ” . ’ 8: oN a a# wi 5 {governing the Rhineland, has ituation reflected by the following| QUARTERS, Germany, June 6 (U.| Then too, it's more than just: a WET® DEINE sent-on a new .assign- 54th st. is one of nearly 200 In- | WACs LEAVE ITALY Bear. red bo : ‘Hoosier Heroes— facts regarding the school city tax| P.).—British military authorities | Ast A [nent ld lis alumni of Miami | wASHINGTON deen considered in miliary circ ey rate: |are considering a plan to allow battle with vicious Tinderworld ele- . ianappils a umni ol Miami, WASHINGTON, June 6 (U. P)~— the most likely: American “army : { I / I ments—Sometimes-it’s-abattle-with Among the missing WACs was]! Among this year's graduates at The first WACs to return. from f occupatio for Ger v i ) a. That among the four cities | men in the occupation force to if | Pfc. Flossie P. Fl vy, d ht Zhan , v upaiilon F-werman of 100.000 : . | br th A ; the very public you're trying to C ossie anner aughter the university was Miss Josephine overseas under the army's redeploy- But. ‘to avoid a mass movement SO ‘ PO ah or more in [ing ely wives to Germany to of Mrs. Leona B, Flannery ofsSchlenck, 994 ‘East dr, Woodruff ment program left Italy vetserday ——— | Me slate, ndianapolis ranks wl hem. (Continued on “Page 5—C Column 1) Springport, Ind. J Place, . by _plane for the United States. (Continued on Page 5—Column 4)! DIES oN OKINAWA 4 — emmr |
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ilanapolis ‘men ‘Ernie Pvie
————————————— {0 be mentioned in an SUMMER IS COMING KENNETH HUFFORD | - fin, ©pi. Charles C. Bradshaw, RACK GRADUALL The Rt. Rev. Msgr Edward | was killed on Okinawa, May 7, and Y Joseph Flanagan of Omaha—known | three other local heroes are dead, LOCAL TEMPERATURES to. thousands simply as Father Four Hoostey servicemen Rave Sees i 5 5 wounded \ hree are liberate iam... 55 10a m.....58 [Flanagan of Boys Town-— malts Nor German Prison Amps 1a, m5... 56 (lam... 61 [tained his jovial spirits today. Tman Jrison. sam) 8am... 57 12 ‘noon)... 64 |he undertook a gruelling an. We DEAD Li 9am... ....58 1pm 65 of speech-making and personal ap- . on Charles 0 Bradsiag, 8 ‘ . pearances here. S. Holmes ave, on OKinaws Summe as slowly . Nth CE Sa Wi ¥ : yas Slowly edging its He even found time this morning S."8gt. William (Skege) Mills, 2029 vay back toward Indidnapolis today to pose for a portrait by Simon Westview dr. on. Okinawa 3s the mercury dipped only into the | Baus ‘Indiana artist : First Lt. Duncan R. Miller, 4550 50's. this morning re Tr PEIF ave. in Franee ' ‘ ather Flanagan | ark ave, in Franc It was 55 at 6 a, m. today after ul F anagan is in the ety Pvt. George H. Sturgeon, 1858 new ‘all-time low record was set |, 2PPear at a boys’ and parents Boi ny ye ras ; lly at 8 p. m. tonight, in Cadle followay av n ‘Luzon. yesterday when the thermo mn rr FIRE read “ meter tabernacle, sponsored by Junior WOUNDED
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Business .... 7/Movies ...... 12 canvas. ; Comics wo er §1 Obituaries ... 8 *rhe philosophy which has beCrdsewois 1 Pied Perkins. 9 come well-known throughout the David Diets ' 3 Radio 17 country in .the rehabilitation: of | E itorials ... Ration Dates 3 incorrigible and ‘wayward -boys was orum ..... + 10 Mrs. Roo&velt 9 expressed in ‘this manner: Meta Given.. 13 Wn P. Simms 10 “Boys ‘are emotional. Th ced _ Inside Indpls. 0 Sports .... 14 direction God on ae (Jane Jordan.. A
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Harding st., on Luzon. 8. Sgt. Lawrence A. Wingle, 2154 Avondale pl, on Luzon.
| LIBERATED | 8. Sgt. Ora J. Arnold Jr, 520° N, Tibbs ave. in Germany.
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