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A Weekly ns ‘by the Washington Staff of the ScrppvHowted Newspapers

the air forces will operate also from Guam, Iwo Jima, Okinawa, Saipan |

and other islands. Speed “with= which men

Germany's Folly

OTHER OFFICIALS caution aEaiat optimism;

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and matérial, are moved fom ‘Europe will tell the sary on Jenity of the war, air enthusiasts say.

RUSS ARRESTS ~ HALT PARLEY;

wy =» ”

point out that

we achieved air supremacy over continental Europe more than a year | ago, cut German production of fighter planes 76 per cent in February,

1844, have had long

Note: Russia could change all this. Germany = fay} in BEng a two- “front war,

SO FAR OUR * FORCES in the Pacific have found none of the “huge hiding places of erude rubper reported by- the natives to have been buried by the Japs as our men closed in. And our need is critical. Large ‘stocks of crude rubber would be worth more to us now | than the $100,000,000 in gold cap- | tured by the 3d. army. At the time of Pearl Harbor we he ad a SOG tox stockpile. By the end {hia year it will be down 55,000 | ye uniess Repley! sh

Ne Bratt Let- Up

LOOK FOR the army fo.abandon—actually if not off ficially—its | point system: for returning men to civilian life. Length service will be substituted. But with air foree and other vitally needed personiiel, evén this won't apply. ABd HCL, expect any immediate | dtl “Rumors: > obtained: only fram lower age er oups arent BO smi oat. empasis. pI SAE! ng

PE AREA aly pL, MT officers expe a Th Arainim

and administration, but of little value for combat. Pools, the | army’s designation for officers idle | and waiting assignment; now number several thousand at various points in the United States. ; | © - Army can retire officers at any time, did retire many in upper age brackets some months ago Hay Setrore.

| the late { ran | cratic primary,

“in 1946; | will be beaten if they de,

and tough ground fighting’ since then.

Japanese are talking about

A. L. P. candidate for governor |

contend’ the Demoerats ALP 500,000 votes in

| polled nearly

w nF '

Pendergast Prosecutor

ington

FREI Fpnan- Eien CRAEA0SDE PattICAIIY: Hing onthe Woking | formidable.

AAT Rafi ——

| quest of Veterans of Foreign Wars

for broadening job opportunities

PRESIDENT TRUMAN js ready to give Maurice Milligan a Washjob on the staff of Attorney G én eral Biddle, after ousting him as federal district attorney at | Kansas City; it's indicated here. | Milligan suceessfully prosecuted | te “Boss” Pendergast, once against Truman in a DemoAs Vice President, Truman is said to have consented to Milligan's getting a Justice department | job if he weré denied the-one in Missouri, is expected to carry out

the Sgregment " u

. DON'T LOOK for Senator Me-

He can't invoke the

Bai dl “privilege--— of Sal.

of state patronage. And President Truman's gesture of inviting |

him .to attend cabinet meetings, |

as. president of the senate, has apparently mellowed McKellar. & 5.8

for returning servicemen. C. I. O. is willing to give veterans seniority |

| ®qual to length of their service in GERMAN- “ar ATROCITIES

bring talk here of need to re- | - write Geneva convention on care |

of war prisoners.

In world war I, prisoner care i | ganizations want the seniority to |

was covered by bilateral agree-

ments: we had our own pact with |

Germany. Geneva . convention molded in 1929, never envisioned capture of such huge masses of troops as in this war, Also it was believed there would

armed forces. . But seniority would be applicable only after the man had landed a job. V. F. W. and other service or-

apply as aid in getting the job, contending C. I. O..plan prevents

| veteran without re-employment

rights frem getting into industries whieh have added large numbers

| of new employees during wartime.

always be a big neutral power to] | in congress, where issue is viewed

guard observance. Instead the whole job has been dumped on _liftle Switzerland.

troops of nations holding them captive. - This works to disadvantage for us because our troops are fed better than others. » 8 -=

Prisoners’ Care

ONE SUGGESTION for the fu-|

V. I W, plans to seek remedies

as legislative hotfoot. Members

. | see themselves caught between War prisoners under Geneya + plan get same subsistence as base .!

| pressing

i | i

ture is that agreements be on a |

"stated calory basis. Thus if Germans cut calories of United States \girisoners, we'd cut calories of German prisoners held here. Need: for greater facility for neutral-power visits to POW camps also is stressed—by those who... fissume aggressor nations might ever Sey any rules. r 2

veterans® and unions and few are eager to make that choice 2 » 5

Disabled Benefits

LABOR DEPARTMENT is states for action on “second - injury” ‘compensation bills to overcome reluctance of some employers to hire partially disabled men. Te relieve em-

I ployers of risk that such workers may become totally disabled, and

| workmen's

compensation costs

| thereby increased, 28 states have

DON'T LOOK FOR such eas- | ing of building restrictions after

V-E. day. Shortages -of critical YY will necessitate .retention of most brakes till end of Japs war draws closer. Government, however; will relax rules on repairing and alterations after Germany quits, ” » un American Labor party

| gress again;

adopted laws making employer liable only’ for specific injury. State funds absorb the additional costs of total disability. ” 8 » ” LABOR LEADERS and others intent on thawing the wartime wage frc- 2 are watching conhope the. house is

i successful in voting its members

a $2500 annual expense account —equivalent to a pay raige of

| about $5000 because of tax laws. | If the move is successful it will

in New York are squaring off for | what may be a bitter showdown | with the two big parties on Mayor

taGuardia’s renomination. They're especially wrathy' at Democratic leaders, whose candidates they've been supporting for years; claim if LaGuardia is turned down now, they'll get revenge in the governorship race next year. = Xhey could nominate their awn

CAIRO BRIDE OF U.S, SOLDIER LIVES HERE

One)

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Busan Potoukian of Cairo, Egypt An American staff ' sergeant changed all that. He's Jack Ferchief “"control oper Payne Field, mear Cairo. A former Butler university student, he sent his 17-year-old bride back to the States to “get acclimated.” © Jack's still in Egypt The stately, brunet CAME Qver on an plane.

ris,

army transport

wondering whether hlessed with the sun

Indiana was very much

in evidence in her native and, | ¥ Busan and Jack first met at a"|

dance at Payne fleld, where she worked at the post exchange. » Thelr eouriship lasted six months: Then came the formal wedding

in Cairo last July and a honey- | ‘moon in Port Said, Egypt, where | ihe Dead séa meets the Mediter~ |

Tanean.: Mix Ferris is now visiting ‘her

in-laws, Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Fer-.

/ ris, at the Graceland ave. ad-

dress. She's alitely ‘modest and |

veserved, She speaks seven tongues:

~ including English, but she's still ~

fesHng her way into. the Ameri- | .cén idiom, A Janguage in itself. She can ‘eonverse also in “Ar

Turkish. * 8he says

ator at |

Mrs. Pertis |

| the Little Steel formula. leaders :

I Mrs

| by New York. olis better,’

| different from She's been in Indianap- | olis' & week and until today was -|

encourage "union efforts to break %

" H" uo If the fair employment pracs tices commission bill is forced from the house rules committee by petition (a move already under way) it probably will pass the house but. will be killed, pigeonholed or talked to death in the The house twice passéd anti-lynching bills to have them die in the sepate, FEPC. has mov ed into the same category.

senate

suburb of

in Heliopolis, a Cairo Her mother and father to Cairo from Russia before her

live moved birth and

Ritssian closely

she retains-virtually no background. She feels allied to Egypt and remained in Cairo with her family while: the city was beipg plastered with Nazi bombs. American modernism © awes Ferris, and she was overhelmed and slightly frightened “1 like Indianapshe says. “1 love the green you have here: Everything is green. _JIt's very Cairo, something very fresh ; “Your stores-here are wonderful too,” she added. “Everything | | is so much nicer, yet it costs much | less than it did in Egypt." The quiet, thoughtful girl is "hot, given to laughing hilariously

in the American fashion, but she |

says American hats are breaking her in." “They smiled. But don't say that, my goodness. | They'll send me hack to Egypt.”

look $0 funny” she

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NAZI GOVERNOR OF

WITH U.

| luday the -capture of Hays Frank,

|informed Mr. he said,

| great

~ 1 (Continued From Page One) :

i Molotov Says Leaders Held

For ‘Diversionist’ Acts.

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{who had gone from interior. Poland to confer with Soviet authorities in Moscow. . 4 The sudden development came] after. the Big Three had reached a wide area of agreement on amendments to be submitted to the Dum{barton Oaks charter.

However. the Polish development,

|coming on the eve of Molotov's de {parture from. the conference Was {expected to affect gravely the ate Jtitude and opinion of delegates" to {the conference. particularly those {which already have indicated: sus- | pieion and distrust of Russia's post= war security ‘objectives.

No explanation was offered by

{Molotov for the arrests other than! lthe so-called “diversionist” or *“di- | n° conneetion with the evacuation | utes versionary” activities. foreign commissar give any ‘expla- | nation of why there had been the | prolonged delay and silence on the matter.

Nor did the |

Inquiries for Month Stettinius’

{persistent inquiries for a month | had been made of the Soviet re{garding the Polish, leaders. Malotov has now officially |

“Mr.

Eden and myself,”

“We told Mr. Molotav

Wight Which Has waireer

Polish problem. | Asked for List

he CiiMea ARIEEHIENT DT FO Hand

statement noted that |

“that these leaders were] arrested on the charge' of ‘diver-| sionist activities against the Red | army.’ of OUr Germany with. the

coneern on learning. after] der of 1,000,000 German tfbops. De- in

4:0) SH a-long delay of this disturbing |

Defending Aus

Stoekholm to discuss further capitulation. : There was no further report from official allied sources on the status of the tumbling Nazi regime since Gen Dwight D. Eisenhower said last night that he Germans were “thoroughly whipped” and surrender was their only recourse. or Say Quisling Ousted The Naziscontrolled Scandinavian telegraph bureau reported that Maj. Vidkun Quisling, puppet premier in Norway, had been overthrown and that the German garrison estimat-

any time. (The Swedish newspaper Stock-| holms-Tidningen in a dispatch re» ported hy the FCC said the surrender of German forcés in Norway was cxpected today. “Agreement already Has been reached" between

lit said, and “only technical details qu

of troops" remained.) . One vague and roundabout re- Pe

port even said that Josef Terboven, wounded. The dispatch said shoot-|

| Relchseommissar in Norway, had ing still was going on in several ‘sections of Copenhagen where the

Nazi police were resisting. Patriots | more patroled the premises of Dr. Wer-

offered to surrender his forces unconditionally, It was accepted with some reserve pending | authoritative accounts, The loss of Norway would leave only tiny enemy nests scattered

| th lin

the Aegean, Million Stack Arms Already ‘the war was ended.In| | Denmark, Holland and northwest formal surren-

nents oceurred so fast that

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

200.10-400. Thousand Nazis °

‘cident. Wilhelmshaven and - Bremerhayen, two of the main Germah ‘ports that fell into allied hands with the surrender, called on the.population to maintain and discipline.” In Renmark, however, nearly 1000 Panish Nazi police, many of them wanted for trial as collaborationist

selv

fired on ‘Danish patriots and pedestrians celebrating the capital's lib= eration. The fighting, scattered throughout ed at 250,000 men might give up at | Copenhagen, marred joyful celebrations of Denmark's liberation. Nasi bullets killed several civilians among [the tens of thousands through the capitdl's streets, singing and cheering,

(A Stockholm dispateh said Ger» the allied: ahd German authorities, man warships shelled the Qesterbro

past

after he appealed for protection.

around. the fringe of the continent heard | from Latvia to the French ports to Danish police forces had captured

Danish flag on the building.)

King Christian had broadcast ask-

trig Surrender

The German radios at

“exemplary calm, order

ar griminals, barricaded them= in buildings ‘and behind walls Copenhagen last night. They

marching Nazi Ships Shell City

arter of Copenhagen for 25 minbeginning at 10 a. m. —well the surrender hour——and 10ig:

rsons were killed and ‘several

r Best, Nazi envoy to Denmarg,

(Radio Kalundborg, in a broadcast in London, reported. that

e German gestapo headquarters Copenhagen and run up the |

(Another Kalunborg report. said |

attacks with our fleet between 7:45 a, m. and

REPLY TC 10 RAD

Suitide Air. Vv. Sox Craft Get. T

Five Light Ships:

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Kure naval base on southern Hon-

shi -

From 25 to 50 Superforts in an

early morning raid hit Oita and Tachiarai airfields on Kyushu. 8uperfort crews on all missions bombed visually from medium altitudes.

A dispatch trom: United Press

Correspondent Edward L. Thomas aboard Adm. Richmond K. Turner's flagship said amphibious tanks and shore defenses joined with guns of the U. 8. fleet and patrol craft to cut down the Japanese as they waded onto the Okinawa beaches in . their landing attempts.

: Make 14 Attacks

The Japanese made 14 separate some 70 planes on

15.2. m, yesterday, with some of

the aircraft diving from as high ‘as 25.000 feet.

Fifty-four of the attackers were

destroyed—12 by ships’ guns, 30 by combat air patrol and 12 in suicide crashes.

The insane fury of the Japanese

attack was such that two suicide boats inexplicably rammed Keise island, Thomas said. slammed head-on into rocks and blew up harmlessly.

The hoats

A Japanese Domei dispatch,

‘broadeast by Tokyo radio, claimed joa the suicide forces sank two Americar battleships,

two cruisers

g “everyone to remaingunitedini.nqg que destroyer and damaged at

order to build up.a new free and|jeact 50 other warships, including

AR ei @

A ———

| Zones.” : = : “The BG Seigetive

provided Yor Gort RELA. nt fr Pea REG THO Na

= on in the great naval “bases of |

"Kiel, Wilhelmshaven, Flensburg and |

|Coperngses:. twas: ey FOAL ever wf os Li HE Agua

| repregentatives df the Warsaw pio- shal Montgomery was arranged an congition fled to. Ra before the

visiohal government ° and

from within Poland and

abroad,

“after an honorable fight lasting |

from | nearly six years because, the war |

| aganist the western powers has lost |

“We have asked Mr. Molotov for | ita meaning and results only in the

[these political

Eden’s statement was in almos identical -terms.

It said that ‘Mr. Eden and Mr. expressed | their grave concern to M. Malotov lat. receiving this most disquieting information after so long a delay

|Stettinius ' immediately

and asked him to obtain a full ex

present whereabouts, Cannet Continue

“Fhe foreign secretary has re ported this most serious develop

cussions on the Polish issue.”

ragreement,

“l can’t help laughing.

Further dis-|

planation _ coneérning the ‘arrest of

these Polish leaders, a complete list

of their names and news of their

ment ta his majesty’s government 1and has informed M. Molotov that meanwhile he cannot continue dis-

The Polish revelation came as it was announced that the Big Four had achieved a united front on several ‘of the major amendments {to be placed before the conference. The Big Four powers made public !the text of approximately 30 amendments to the Dumbarton Qaks preposals on which they are in total including one which

would grant special recognition to, A london Daily Mail dispatelr| [army *

.the middle powers for seats on the . merican ’ t I security’ couneil. sajd the allies this week-end may |American 5th army in North Italy

The amendments were made pub- | lic by. Stettinius, who also released | the text of two other amendments

But resistance against the Rus-

as many Germans as possible from the Bolshevik. terror,” the Nagai communique said. “All formations of the armed) forces not affected by the truce continue to fight against the attacks,” the High command communique reported. Meanwhile, ‘Grand = Adm. Karl Doenitz, new fuehrer of Germany, appealed to German armies in Austria.- Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia to continue the battle “te save as many Cermans as possible from Bolshevization and enslavement.” | -| The appeal was broadcast over an| - {unidentified Nazi station, possibly | in Norway. | Says Deenitz On Island Reports “from Oslo said Doenitz ig either on the island of | Ruegen or Bornholma and is not in Norway. Ruegen 18 a German island in the |

over by the Germans. V-E day was at hand, but wheth- |

nobody in-aytharity could say.

{address a final demand to the Ger- | rmans | the he of their forces. Failure of the enemy to accept |

regarding the power of the assem-| {the ultimatum, the dispatch said, |bly te recommend adjustments of wo 14 result in ‘a final big offensive

“any Sitiations. Rp ies of ori-|i, envelop the enemy pockets: This Marion county resident for 60 years, of Hy Nn eo] might take several days, he said, [who died yesterday ‘in her home, taken under regional arrangement “in which case V-E day might not 2124 N. Drexel ave. will be held at | come until the middle or end of 3 p. m. Monday tuaries Northeast chapel. Burial will | Other unconfirmed reports circu- be in Washington Park.

gin,

against enemy states.

i Treaty Revisions The treaty revision amendment | | was sponsored by "Senator Arthur man, Premier Stalin ‘and Prime who died in 1044 Mrs. Lohrman was and | Minister Churchill may meet soon a member |echureh.

fH. Vandenberg (R. Mich.)

would have authorized the-proposed in Germany. recommend | post-war revisions of any treaty surrender in the north went into when it deemed them appropriate, effect most everywhere without in-/N. Lohrmdn, both of _Indignapolis in= tvolve ‘such bilateral mutual agree-| {ments ‘and treaties as signed by|

general assembly to

The regional

arrangements

Russia and France and whether

they should be subject to control of We said |

the world organization, ves; the Russians no. Secret Big Four

| tinius’ penthouse apartment.

consultations reached a climax last hight in Stet For | Russia’s*outlet to the Pacific.

| next week."

lated in Londen that President Tru- |

Preliminary yonarts indicated the] |

with | orders of Admiral Karl Doenitz! | Polish democratic political leaders | surrender was signed.

‘Come and Get Us’ Norwegian sources .in London said {the Germans appeared ta be play ing a game of “come -and get us.’ Thev believed the enemy. would sent any sort Norway, “They might give in if Montgom-

of force at all to

one: Norwegian official said. A possible clue to German inten-

the Quisling radio’ in ‘Norway calling on members to maintain calmness. and discipline “to prevent Nerway from becoming a battlefield.”

surrender immediately if the allies

ery sailed up Oslefjord in a eruiser,”

tions was seen In a broadcast ‘by

_ Australian troops on Tarakam off the 4 ward he heart of pn Shy ty | HRB ara 3

and val bombardment, Nat ienemy lstroyed by the bombardment as the troops swept through the western

installations ° were

part of the city. . Americans on Mindanao were reported rapidly clearing Davdo city.

Other units pushed east and north Filipino guerrilla forces cleared the Japanese from

of the city. Surigao province at the northwest-

ern tip of the island.

Other U. 8 troops. completed mopping up in the Baguio area in seized two villages six miles east of the city

northern Luzon and

and’ another five miles to the north,

“Borneo “advanced

de-|

SATURDAY, MAY 5; 1945

Few Germans’ Swallow. Their

Own Propaganda on Hitler |

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r was ‘a “prisoner, By the C German guards talked frankly about what

' they intended to do when the Russians came storming ups to-

the gates. They said they intended to fire one token volley and then run. Actually, they didn't wait to do ‘that, They fled. before the Rus~ sians ever got there and turned

‘the camp over to those of us:

who were prisoners, The average German soldier seems to have realized as early as last fall that he was fighting in ‘a lost cause. I say that because there were two weeks after I was captured that I was forced to live in the battle field with a unit of the German army, We were surrounded by allied troops southwest of Epinal on the western approaches to the Vosges. For transportation , we had a strange convoy of French civilian autornobiles and most of the daylight hours were strafed by allied planes. 1- jumped into ditches with my captors. I talked with staff ‘offi. cers, sergeants and privates. Sometimes they gave me sausages and cigarets Qne day T tried to buy a bottle of schnapps from a French dis-

tiller and offered him allied occu-

pation money in payment. He finally toox it when some of my German captors told him: “The Americans will be here in two days or su."

Knew They Were Licked

new then that the Germans “knew they were licked. My captors finally broke out of thecchiied trap Then uwas ¥

uhCe 10, lg : “Tn “these travels ren

contact. ith all types of Ger-

In northwest Hupeh province,

Chinese forces were reported to

mans from offi

ture. Almost all of them were iit: ing Hitler and the Nazi regime for their troubles, The remark that was made most often to me Was: “We .are victims of our leadership.”

One day last November, 1 was | {1603 Nowland ave. was ‘shot as she

{sat in the living room of her home this morning. *

taken into the office of Dr. Paul | Schmidt, head of the press section of the German foreign office. Obviously he was trying to get information out of me. But in the course of our conversation he - let out some interesting information himself. What he outlined to me was Germany's grand strategy for the remainder of the war.

shatter the Russians’ propaganda front line and rell up their last~ditch army. Then we will force England and the United States into a compromise peace,” They elung to that hope until »4 January, Then the Russians made thelr great break-through and threw all of eastern Germany Into chaos,

One Last Lie Tried

Then the German propagandists made one last attempt. They. oirculated a story that Marshal Timoshenko had led a revolt. against Marshal stalin and had seized the great military base of Smolensk. This. coup, the German propa‘gandists told their” people, had split the Russians’ Eastern front and deprived the northern end of it of supplies. ‘The onrushing Red army gave the lie to such propaganda. Then the tide really began runs ning heavily against the Ger» mans. The allies crossed the Rhine. The Russians rolled up tothe Oder. ; Secret © weapons which had been promised to the German soldier never appeared.

Mad Fear of Russians _ But as late as three weeks ago

| an S. S. agent—who claimed to be

| a Swiss doctor — was circulating

enwald, trying to persuade Amers jean and British prisoners to sign. a round-robin letter denouncing the “Red evil” "Shortly hefore the Russians arrived he gisape peared. - Now the German panic was: on. The fear- of the Russians caused groups of armed Germans, nunis

| bering as many as 100, to try to WH

[ Russjan-ocgupied Germany,

ons woods of Germany a

t office “to victims bine tor. i

western allies,

STRAY BULLET “HITS

‘WOMAN IN HER HOME

Mrs. Janetta Marie “Jones, 28, of

A. bullet broke a window pane,

{ricocheted off a sewing machine and thit Mrs. {woufid was not serous.

Jones’ left knee. THe

Police who investigated were un-

lable to locate witnesses of the shooting, although-one passerby said |he heard the window break. Neigh-

through our prison camp at Lucks

prepared to collaborate with forces willing te do so)” {cast said.

{understood to be playing a major {role in negotiations in Norway. Knights®of Pythias will hold thelr | {Sweden could hold a big stick over |66th annual thanksgiving service av! {the Germans in Norway by threat- | 13:30 p. m, that | ening to permit allied troops to | i Methodist church, The Rev. Joha [W, Crook, pastor, will deliver the or even sending ‘her own army |sermon and a program will be preagainst the Naais.

move through Sweden to Norway, |

Baltic. northwest of Stettin, and east Bornhelm is a Danish island in the army mid-Baltic which has been taken |Danube river fortress of Linz, third Jcity in Austria.

er it was hours, days or weeks away mountain-top without a major fight and other Tth

to surrender unconditionally RITES SET MOQ N DAY

Mrs. Leata Larsh, and -a son, Carl

“With this end in view, we are .all the broad-

The Swedish foreign office was

Ihave slowed down a Japanese drive

{bors told police, however, that

in the vicinity Leahokow, northwest of Hankaw.

SET ANNUAL SERVICE

otra

Pythians and Calantheans of the

| sented.

tomorrow at Scotts

Hoped For Compremise

He said quite frankly that Germany had no chance to drive the Americans and British back out of France into the sea. But he insisted that the German army could keep the Western allies out of Germany through the winter and—in the spring—start a tremendous offensive against the Russians

several children had been seen play{ing with rifles and other firearms in a park across from the Jones home.

PLAN BI-MONTHLY SESSION Marion county Townsend club {members will hold their bi-monthly |session tomorrow afternodén at | Painters’ hall. “The Rev. M. H. |Gray, Anderson, will speak and Ed= ward Henry, vice president of In-

“This offensive,” he sald, “will dianapelis club 12, will preside.

A ————————————

Before the surrender in the southGen. George 8, Patton's 3d fast was closing on the

of was

Berchtesgaden, site retreat,

Hitler's seized

units linked up with the

FOR SARAH LOHRMAN

Services for Mrs. Sarah Lohrman,

at Moore Moer-

The widow of Walter Lohrman,

of - Calvary Baptist

Survivors include a daughter,

On Isles Good

(Continued From Page One)

(Rus~|x

| the amendments to the proposed | moment which, to her, will be Ops | plan they framed last summer at| portune.)

GITY SERVICES STIL |

| Joes I (Continued From Page One) |

negotiating with unions.

as “individuals” only.

Meanwhile, the municipal: sewage reduction operations at the sanita-

tion plant remained idle,

[the second duccessive day. The street enough tru | complete th | paper pick-up.

“men yesterda Indianapolis

600 men had walked: out, but ci officials : disputed this” figure. Hormation ‘on ‘the’ exact status | municipal maintenance

Mayor Tyndall sgid he would t to recruit ‘enotigh- new laborers fn vacated positions.

Naa governar genaral, of Poland | / menian, ke venti. Italian, Greek, during thé German ccupation.

Frank was

captured by Capt,

NSTRAIIY vas 2 ac-* | Philip Broadhead of Willow Grove.] rally in 0, (Pa. ‘Frank had Sitempted suicide | “af “the world. Mrs. by slashing his wrists. :

virtually all city garbage coll ne cellent Bish Baiions baviog mars age collection | gates or trusteeships over backward [to h ave considerable weight in the! street repair, asphalt, and flood con- | greas will be held more strictly to) {final decisions,” draws ey from |

trol functions were suspended for|gecount for thelr stewardship. epartment assigned aste Union spokesmen sald more than

In-|

services, "however, was not available at city ‘POLAND CAPTURED nau. 8. 7TH ARMY, May 8' (U.P) ~Army 6ffizials announced+

FOUR: Similarly, the United

States may claim the Honins, where course. much American blood has been | States would be- trustee.

| spilled to win bombing bases. - But |!

| this elaim may be cancelled out if league of nations.

| Nations—Britain, France, Holland

The American Thesis For example, the chances are ex-

their possessions may be outside the trusteeship system, will not be abs: solved from being guided by its general objectives. These words are ty taken almost verbatum from the | British “memorandum now Jetore {the conference. ' The American thesis is this: If the United States is” ‘to take over a swarm of unprofitable pinpoints of lind and atolls in the Pacific

ry to

the common gqod, it wants a mini-

U.S. Likely to Get Mandates

mum of outside intervention,

50 nations constantly poking around ‘three days days the big powers have sia is not yet in the Pacific war, but [vital military installations, costing

| been tryi Tying to reach agreement onli almost certain to come in at a [in the aggregate billions of dollars:

look after the general well-being both these and the Kuriles are coma-|0f the handful of islanders. and TED BY STRIKE soa: demilitarized, and kept so|T {would be only civil reports—no reYe All colonies and mandates | Ports on, or prying into, military | that he is prohibited by law iT held by. members of United He in-| formed the strikers that he would |a0d others—will remain p confer with them on any grievance 8 they are, subject to certain minor | t chang

secrets,

retty much plan is that it would avoid viola-

{to be shaping up, it differs little | from the old league of nations sys-

‘ish paper, which ‘is almost certain |

Article 22 And colonial powers, even though cdvenant. Yet there is one notable differs) ence. datory power could. neither fortify, mandated territory nor call on the| population to' contribute to ‘its "des | fense

is changed under trusteeship. This | would not help the United States greatly in'the Pacific atolls, so far ‘as manpower is concerned, but in and turn them into Gibraltors®for some of the mandated territories | the population Tuns~into millions.

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When the San Francisco Conference ends, the delegates will have experienced their “first day of school” for the study of the complex problems of world peace, and for the develop» ment of a curriculum for a permanent school. Everyone everywhere should clearly understand that this Conference is the most important international meeting in

We can be thankful that our nation is represented by wise and experienced statesmen with a sincere desire for peace, and we are sure the other nations have the same type of rep-

The Conference will furnish the leadership and the plan, but peace depends upon the peoples of the United Nations— upon their will to peace, upon their sacrifice for peace, upon their works of peace. “The difficulties are engrmous, some of the problems cane not bé solved immediately, and compromises will be made by all nations in order to arrive at conclusions that will be fair

The Conference cannot create an enduring peace. But it will lay the foundations for a plan for peace to be put into effect as soon as possible, and which we and future generations of the world must maintain. : Let us be: sparing In our criticism and generous with our encouragement and constructive suggestions. And above all let us pray that the thinking people of the world will take advantage of the opportunity afforded by the “first day of school” and build continuously toward an ens

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