The Tribune from Seymour, Indiana • Page 1

-v7, tMP Tu) i iTq) Sli7.V (f li 1 P' THy All IT A NEWSPAPEft FOR THE WHOLE FAMIJLY THE WEATIITPu- Cloudy tonight and Thursday. Wanner, continued mild Thursday. Mm li 'lililD) SEYMOUR, INDIANA WEDNESDAY, MARCH 14, 1945 PRICE FOUR CENTS uwu IV MM 0) 0) Men, Supplies Pour In Reds Tear Through Main Nazi Line West Of Oder Anchor City Paris, March 14 iff) First army troops have captured Honnef. providing a firm northern -anchor which man and material streamed inforce 70.000 shock troops the Germans said already were there. Moving forward through the forested bills east of the Rhine la dawn attack, the Americans captured the town of St Calharninen, four mil as northeast of Llns and bend In the river.

The Infantry moved en btyond less than two miles from the Ruhr-Frankfurt on the main Krtrttn-kaus. five miles east of the Rhine, was cleared and Kalenbora was entered. Allies Break DowitStubborn Marines Seize Jap Mortar Position Off Iwo Jima Resistance Bitter on Mindanao By Associated Praam. Fires kindled by Superforts seared five square miles out of industrial Osaka today as Allied ground forces whittled down stubborn Japanese soldiers clinging to Iwo Jima, Mandalay'and scattered hill fortresses In the Philippines. Osaka was the third major Japanese war-production center to feel the hot B-29 torch within eighty-four hours.

Three 300-Superfort raids on Japan's three largest cities- have burned out twenty-four' square miles seventeen in Tokyo, two in Nagoya and five In Osaka. In each case 2,000 tons of incendl tries were poured on close-packed war industries and thousands of home factories, ideal tinder for the fire bombs. Damage Great Damage was. so great that the House of Peers met at the urgent request of representatives from the three eltlea" td-Increase air raid relief measures. Nona of the three- great cities had adequate defense Returning pilots said Osak Jap Fighting aj VOLUME LXHL NO 6) Marine Loses Life in Battle For Iwo Jima Eraest Trimpe i Was in Four Major Battles in Pacific Was Wounded Twice Corporal Ernest A.

Trimpe, serving with the Fourth Division of the U. S. Marina Corps in the battle for Iwo Jima in the Pacific area, wa killed la action February 27, according to word received Monday afternoon by his mother, Mrs. E. H.

Trimpe, of Waymans-villa. The bitter struggle for this island of the Philippine group is still raging, and Marine casualties are reported to be very CpL Trimpe was bora June 18, 1924, In Waymansville, the' son of Mr. and Mrs. E. H.

Trimpe Mr. Trimpe, a Waymansville funeral director, died in July, 1944. CpL Trimpe was a member of the 'Waymansville 'Lutheran Church and was well-liked by a host of friends who were shocked to hear of his death. Graduated from the Columbus High School with the class of 1142, CpL Trimpe his father in his business until March 1943, when he enlisted In" the U. S.

Marine Corps. He was sent to San Diego, Calif, to receive training nd-had never been home on leave since his enlistment. Overseas One Yean Cpl. Trimpe was sent overseas In February, 1944 and was first stationed in the Marshall Islands. He participated in four major bat tles in the Pacific area and was wounded' twice.

At Saipan, on June 13, he was wounded and again on August 1, he was wounded at Tinian. For these injuries he was awarded the Purple Heart and the Gold Star. Besides his mother. Cpl. Trimpe Is survived byfour brothers and "'sisters: Sgt: Edward J.

Trimpe, who is serving with i medical detachment in India; El mer Trimpe; twin brothers, Earl and Edgar Trimpe, Lorna Mae Trimpe and Loretta Trimpe, all at home, and Mrs. La Vera Schaf- staH, of Waymansville. Burns Sustained In Local Blaze A ten-weeks old baby, caught in her small bed by. flames which flashed from a nearby coal stove, today was suffering with second degree burns about the legs and feet but the infant's condition was not regarded as serious by the at tending physician. The baby Is Betty June Rich ardson, daughter of Mrs.

Alice Richardson, 332Vs South Chestnut street, whose father, Lester Rich ardson, Is serving In Texas with the U. S. Army. According to Information obtained by firemen, Mrs. Richardson was in the beck-yard jot the two-story building at Brown and Chestnut streets when her three-year-old son Ctrl Thomas, threw kerosene from a milk bottle on the fire in the stove near which the baby lay In her bedr Fire whichflashed-forth---4 ((Continued -en-part 8, column Li- UHUW.H Baby Suffering sarfh-TO 0 Reddington Township Is Contributing to Drive Herman Swengel, chairman of the Redding township Red Cross War Fund, has reported a total of $323.21 collected to date.

Included in these contributions are the following from organizations: Ackeret Ladies Aid, IS; Ackeret Sunday School, Redding ton Bible School $25; Women's Missionary Society, Redding Township Farm Bureau, $10; Red dington Christian Church, $10; Reddington Home Economics Club, $10; Peter's Switch Home Economics Club, $3. Former Seymour Resident Dead Mrs. Jay Smith Expires Suddenly at Home in Lakeland, Fla. Marie O. Smith, wife of Jay Smith, publisher of the Lakeland, former publisher of the Seymour Tribune; died unexpectedly.

Tuesday afternoon at her home in Lakeland. Several months ago she suffered a fractured hip, but was improving, according to word received by friends here within the last few days. Announcement of her death came as a shock to friends in Seymour. Mrs. Smith was born June 18, 1868, at Hope and was the daugh- (Continued on page 8, column 8) Tidd Rites Will Be Held At Indianapolis Funeral services for Orville Tidd, age fifty-five, former Seymour resident, who died Monday night at Veteran's Administration Hospital at Indianapolis, will be conducted at 1 o'clock Thursday afternoon from the Herman Funeral' Home in Indianapolis.

Burial in an Indianapolis cemetery. resident of Seymour until about fix years ago, when he went to Indianapolis for residence. He was a veteran of World War serving with an in fantry division. He is survived by the widow, Mrs. Mamie Tidd, and his mother, Mrs.

Elizabeth Stanfield. Three sisters, two brothers and two half-brothers also survive: Mrs. Lillie Horn, Indianapolis; Miss Delores Tidd, Mansfield, Ohio; Francis Horn, who is serving with the U. S. Navy in the South Pacific; Wayne Horn, with the U.

S. Army In Washington; Mrs. Minnie Black, Thurman Tidd and Ermil Tidd, all of this city. Ex-Brownstown Man Dies in Yet Hospital Edgar welch, age fifty-two, a veteran of World War I who had been a patient of the Veterans' Hospital for a number of years, died at the Veterans Hospital at Marion Tuesday. A former resident of Browns- town, he has many friends in Jackson county who mourn his death A sister, Mrs.

Ray Vermilya, lives in Brownstown and a broth' er, M. W. Welch, lives in Vinceri Funeral services will be con ducted at 2 o'clock Friday after noon from the Zabel Funeral Home in Brownstown. Friends may call at the Zabel Home TbAuay.nigM- Shields Memorial Gynihaslum Sunday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock, it was announced today. 7 Last year 1,800 contestants from southern Indiana took part in the state contest, which is sponsored by the Central and southern In diana Band, Orchestra and Vocal Association, of which Shields High School is a member.

Paul W. Rigs bee. Shields High School mtisic (Continued on page 2, column 5) OJ UA(0 Red Cross War Fund Total Is Now $9,973.61 County Still Far Below Quota of More Seymour Contributions Are Listed While Red Cross workers throughout the entire county are busily engaged In completing solicitations in the Jackson County Red Cross War Fund campaign, it was announced today that only $9,873.61 has been turned in toward the 1945 Jackson county quota of $19,700. Stanley Z. Owen, of Browns town, is county chairman of the war fund drive and William Topie is Jackson township chairman.

Officials today asked that all solicitors or organizations having contributions still out, particularly those in Seymour, turn them in Immediately. Several organizations which have voted contributions have not yet turned them in to the fund, it is reported. Businesses Contribute. Seymour contributions turned in at Red Cross headquarters since last report Include: Businesses- District employes State High way Commission, $40; Postofflce employes, J. C.

Penney Ce. employes, $43; Spur Distributing Company, The H.CX. Labora tories R. J. Welneke In surance, Fae's Beauty Shop, Modern Beauty Shop, Tower Funeral Home, $15; Voss and Son, $50; Kroger'a Grocery, $30; Palm 'Continued on page 8.

column 5) "Dracula'' to be Fndayighu- Final preparations are under way for presentation of the three- tect thriller, "Dracula'', Friday night by members of the junior class of Shields High School, It was announced today by Eugene Johnson, sponsor of the junior class! and Miss Elizabeth Feaster, English and Spanish instructor, who Is coaching the play. The play, which is based on the novel of the same" title by Bram be given at 8 o'clock Friday night in the girls' gymna sium and promises to be one of the most ambitious plays presented by the junior class. The plot of the play, with its superstitions and varied charact ess, will bring forth some unusual acting and stage settings. Mem bers of the junior class, under Mr. Johnson's direction as art supervisor of Shields High School, are putting together some Unusual sets, bringing a combination of lighting and color very effee tively.

v' The third act, which takes place in an underground vault, required special planning and is very thril ling, a number of Gothic arches at different heights lending perspee tive, and yellow and green spots on a coffin on li center dias adding a feeling of horror. i1 I BHJI Mil and unofficial weather raeordi tier mrm orocuui 1. tor Seymour fori iw i hkh, the day. Thai munwr maximum temper-1 from a downtown thermometer, and la unofficial. Th minimum, for the paat twenty-four hours.

Is from the raeorda of Mtae Louise Ahlert government weather obaerver here, and ta afRelat. The river level ti obtained from the Seymour Water Co pumping itaUon ai Hocuora. Tempaiaturea MinimUm W.MM....M..M.M....M.M..M 37 Reading at 2 p. m. -62 Weather RccorJi Predictions For End of-War Made4' Britons Keep Fingers Crossed After Dispatch es of Allied Leaders London, March 14 Allied military men were quoted in a Western Front dispatch Tuesday night as expressing the view the war is likely to end in the early but highly-placed Britons keep their fingers crossed.

Announcing in the House of Commons Tuesday, that Allied armies were preparing to cross the Rhine in force, War Secretory Sir James Grigg added: "In spite of this miraculous betterment- in ur fortune- it would be unwise to act as if all were oyer, bar the shouting; we have had one false dawit kWritlng innthe Sr-wrata frntr Associated press Cor respondent was Gallagher said military leaders, now believe the formal end may come sum mer, although full destruction of the enemy's forces may require a longer time. 1 "This opinion appears to be shared by German civilians inter viewed behind the Allied lines," he said. "The idea of a sudden wholesale collapse, as a result of recent Nazi disasters, is generally believe the Allied armies will have to fight all the way across Germany. Local FFA Members Place in District Ralph Harlow, of the Shields High School chapter of the Future Farmers of America, placed sec ond in a district FFA public sneaking contest held recently at and Albert Stahl, Jr, re ceived first place in the essay contest and in the reporter's con tes The district consists of about ten counties. The three contests were held as a part of -the jlistrict meeting.

W. S. Weaver, high school vocational agricultural in structor, is sponsor of the local club: Cuban Growers Reject U. S. Offer Havana, March 14 UP) Cuban sugar producers rejected Tuesday night a United States offer of 3.10 cents a pound for Cuba's 1945-46 sugar production.

The producers directed their representatives in Washington to attempt to negotiate a higher price tor the 1945 crop, leaving negotiations on the 1948 produc tion until a later date. The producers have stated n- peatedly they will not accept Jess than 3.25 cents a pound. For Stand lor thtir Rhlae bridgehead, into across two bridges today to re- seven miles directly east ef a large BULLETIN U. 8. Seventh Army.

March 14 The 70th Infantry Division of the Seventh Army ad 1 yancad naarly four miles today, penetrating Into Germany and reaching the Saar River Just west cf Saarbruacksa. (A Berlin broadcast declared German planes had scored direct hits on the Remagen bridge over the Rhine and on a podtoon bridge nearby.) The Ludendorff bridge still was reported in a frontline dispatch. however, to be functioning at 9:30 m. battlefront time today. Tho double tracked 1,200 foot bridge has been reported hit numerous times, but AP correspondents at the front said it was repaired swiftly.

Pontoon bridges usually are quickly mended. Clears River Bank. To the south, the Third army cleared the western bank of the Moselle river 'save for stragglers and opened a drive across the top of the industrial Saar district which carried rise and a halt miles east of Saarburg and the Siegfried line. "-j Thirteen towns were captured. mostly on the east side of the Mo selle.

The fighting was in the rugged Hochwald and Hunsrueck mountains, which made progress slow. The Germans said that the new Third army drive had thrust Into the depth of the 1 main German defense line. The enemy report a battle raging into its twenty- fifth hour -4nthe-area east Co orKtt enj4 aa-4et Af- Mattf lafK waai vui sum uvi wi vi tuciksavti the Ruwer river, tributary of the Moselle. The Germans placed a partial security news, blackout on the battle. i Lt Gen.

George S. Patton's army captured a record bag of 6,619 prisoners Tuesday raising its nine day total to 27,127. Prisoners Taken. Lt Gen. Courtney Hodges' first army captured 1,283 prisoners yesterday, bringing its campaign to? tal since crossing the Roer Febru? ni mi Yt fm.t-j army, attacking since January 30, has seized 63,288.

The British, Canadian and Ninth armies in the north took 50,477 in their campaigns to the Rhine through and behind the Siegfried line. That total of 151,436 Germans, plus perhaps an equal number -killed or seriously wounded showed that Gen. Eisenhower had achieved a large degree of success in his avowed objective of destroying Germans west of the Rhine: Those who escaped lost much of their heavy equipment; they needed rest and reorganization which they hardly had time to attain with the Allies on or across the Rhine for 150 miles from Coblenz to Holland. The First army stilt fought- In Hoennlngen in the, drive the Rhine bank sixteen miles from Coblenz. 7 Coblenz Itself is on the (Continued on page 6, column.

i led the charge across the Luden dorff bridge on the afternoon if. March T. At dawn on March 7 the Ninth Armored Division of Maj. Gen. John W.

Leonard of Toledo, attacked toward the Rhine with two combat teams. Combat Command under Brig. Gen. William Hoge, had the mlwion capturing Remagen, on t' (Couunuci on London, March 14 WV-Rus sian troops have broken through one of the main German lines west of the Oder in Berlin's fore-field, a Reuters dispatch from Moscow declared today, while the German commander in Berlin ordered the Reich capital de fended "above and under ground" to the last bullet. The German high command Few Eligible For New Cars Main Change Eliminates Home-To-Work Driving Qualification Opportunities for Seymour residents to buy a new 1942 pas senger automobile are very few, according to an OPA announce ment today which the eligibility list from twenty-six to eight groups.

Those eliminated will be eligible to buy used 1942 models. Only about 10,000 new cars re main lor rationing aner marcn. The principal change eliminates home-to-work driving as a quail fication for a new car. Groups retained on the list j. pro vided they are engaged in fire.

crime detection, law en forcement specifically related to public health and safety, and transportation of mail. 2. Physicians, sturgeons, and midwives, who are governmen tally licensed, for necessary outside calls, and calls between offices. 3. Farm veterinarians for serv ing agricultural establishments.

4. Public health nurses, but not private nurses, for necessary calls .5.. Ministers ot, religious practitioners -of organized religious faiths for regularly serving a lo cality. 6. Members of the armed forces or state military forces- for offi cial business but not for transfer from post to post or home-to-post travel.

7. Taxicab owners for replacements, or, with the permission of the ODT, for additions to their fleets. 7 8. Owners of car-rental businesses, exclusively for rental to those In the seven other classes in exchange for a new car certificate. This arrangement is set up to cover cases where a certificate holder prefers to rent rather than to buy a car.

In the future 1942 used can can be bought only by persons eligible for preferred milage of 200 a month for at least a year. A veteran who transferred a 1942 car to another person when he entered service may register the same car in his own name even though he is not eligible for a 1942 car. Memorial Sunday for A. Whitsett Memorial services for Pfc. Archie Whitsett, Jr, will be con-ducted at 2130 o'clock Sunday af- ternoon-artheCentral ChurchTheJRe pastor, will be in charge.

Pfc. Whitsett, first reported missing in action in France Janu ory 8, was later reported as hav ing been killed in action on Janu ary 15, according to official mes sages from the War Department received by his widow, Mrs. Al berta Fletcher Whitsett of this city. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs.

Archie Whitsett residing north of the city, i When inducted into the army on May 18, 1944, Pfc. Whitsett was a member of the Seymour fire de partment He formerly was em' ployed by Newby's He had been overseas 1 only about a month when he. was kil3ei announced a powerful new Russian offensive aimed at wiping out Nazis in. East Prussia, but declared 'Soviet attacks from the Lebus bridgehead west of the Oder north of Frankfurt "broke The Reuters dispatch said Marshal Gregory Zhukov's First White Russian army overran a main German line on an eighteen-mile Oder front between captured Kuestrin and threatened Frankfurt. Moscow still maintained official silence on this Berlin front By "German "account, Zhukov already has sent nine divisions, or nearly 100,000 men, west of the Oder between Kuestrin and Frankfurt, but the Russians never have announced any crossing of-the river in that area.

German broadcasts said the front was aflame for 113 miles from Stettin south to Guben and Font, the Neisse River bastions on Marshal Ivan Konev's First Ukrainian front southeast of Berlin. Bitter Fighting Ragis. "Bitter fighting is raging all along this front for Stettin, Frankfurt, Guben, and Forrt, as well as from bridgeheads on the Oder aiming for the most attractive target of all Berlin, said transocean broadcast A Moscow dispatch told of continued hard fighting in Stettin's eastern suburb, Altdamm, where Zhukov is trying to penetrate deep belt of mines and anti-tank guns in the wooded hills south of the Dammscher See. The East Prussian assault was opened arly Tuesday after a heavy artillery barrage, the Ger man broadcast said, with sepa rate. Red army columns driving westward on either side of Zin-ten, twenty miles below Koenigs- berg.

An--arlier dispatch from -Mos cow gave some support to the German It said there were signs the battle of Koenigs berg was flaring up with new vigor. Westward at the tip of the Po lish corridor, Russian storm forc es were battering Gdynia from three sides as the German foothold on th Bay of Danzig stead ily dwindled. Field dispatches reaching Mos cow indicated Marshal Konstan tin K. Rokossovsky was deter mined to wipe out the Gdynia pocket at top speed, leaving th; city of Danzig to.be dealt with later. Aircraft ranged out to sea to chokn off enemy efforts to re' inforce or evacuate besieged Gydnla.

Gdynia's mopup would lay Danzig open for complete en circlement. B. 0. Resumes Its Passenger Service Passenger seryice on the Baltimore St Ohio Railroad, which was virtually suspended for about a week because of flood conditions in the Ohio River valley, was resumed this morning, with both National Llmiteds and both Diplomats, crack trains running east and west each day, passing through-- Seymour- enroute -'from New York to St Louis. The)rainswntbwntf'art nlng about an hour late because of necessary slow speed through the flooded district In the Au rora vicinity.

Freight trains are expected to resume runs In the next day or two. They still are held up because of a bridge washout in the East Stores yard near Cincinnati. Investigate Murder. Detectives of Seymour State Police Post 7 are continuing their investigation into the murder of Clyde Marshall, of the Salem vicinity," which "occurred last -week, and expect a solution of the case won. up the brightest flood of sea lights and bursting flak sounded tike firecrackers.

But in seven minutes, one airman said, "the whole damn town seemed to be burning like a huge pit of fire," beckoning other B-29s to the tar get The Japanese High Command claimed eleven Superforts were 5hot down over Osaka and sixty damaged. Guam dispatches said the total for the three raids was four. Including one overaka; made emergency landings on the return trip at Iwo Island, 750 miles south of Tokyo, where Marines sealed up Japanese in 113 more caves. In two unopposed amphibious operations, Marines seized Kan goku Rock and Kama Rock off 'be west coast of Iwo Jima (Rock Island). These were forme" Jap anese mortar positions, knocked out early in the twenty-three-day.

old battle by American destroyers. A small pocket on the east coast md a larger pocket on the northern tip are all that remain to the Tapanese on Iwo. Ratreat To Hills. These were stubbornly defended like Nipponese positions in cen ral and northern Luzon Island in the Philippines. Stiffening enemy resistance was reported on Mindanao in the southern Philip-nines as MaJ.

Gen. Jens A. Doe's 41st Division chased Japanese retreating northward from Zam- boanga toward positions in the hills. These then will be caught between V. S.

Infantrymen and Filipino Guerrillas. Veteran Indian troops in Cen tral Burma fought house to house through Mandalsy. Eighty per cent of the city was reported de stroywl by Allied artillery and aerial bombs. Fort Dufferin, only major military point still held by the Japanese, is being heavily Other British captured Maymyo, thirty-five miles east of Mandalay: Tokyo reported that Cambodia, a native kingdom inside Ihdo-China. had broken Us pact with France and aligned itself with Ja pan.

Nipponese assured neighbor Ing Thailand its government would not be overthrown like Indo china's. Named Zurich Consul. AneiatMf Pr Jotaro Kando, of the Japanese embassy in Sweden, has been named the first consul-general' at Zurich. Switzerland, the Dome! news agency said today In a purpose of the new consulate may be for future Faulty Fuse Cap on TNT Kept Nazis From Blowing Up Bridge at Remagen High School Soloists to Compete in State Solo, Ensemble Contest Soon With the First Army on The Rhine, March 14 (A American engineers today attributed the failure of the Germans to blow up the Remagen bridge across the Rhine to a autly fuse cap which prevented hundreds of pounds of TNT from exploding. The climax to the nineteen most days since Allied invasion of Europe came when lanky Sgt Alexander Drabik pf Holland, A large number of students of the Shields High School music department are' working daily to perfect their playing in preparation for their participation' in the annual state solo and ensemble contest, to be held at the Indiana State Teacher's College, Haute, March 24.

1 Many of the soloists will present their numbers in a recital to given in the music room oX the Rlvat Stage 3 It. above low water. i- peace.