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TEACHERS ASK SALARY PARLEY

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A resglution requesting members of the school administrative staff and the school board to meet with teachers to discuss teacher salary raises was passed unanimously yesterday by 600 Indianapolfs school teachers,

“They met at the Y. M. C. A. yesterday in protest . to the recent school Board action refusing further to increase teachers’ salaries with money from state funds recently voted by the state fingnee commitThe meeting was called at the re-) quest . of representatives of the’ Federftion of Indianapolis Public School Teachers. Date to Be Set

Others who will' be invited. to attend the next mass meeting will be representatives of the Chamber of Commerce, the Indiana Taxpayers association, P.-T. A., American Association’ of University Women, Business and Professional Women, the American Legion and other civic’ and service organizations. The dafe for the meeting will be arranged by the salary committee, Other subjects discussed by the teachers yesterday included the low tax rate for the school city of Indianapolis and the high civil city rate which accounts for the major part of the total tax rate.

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‘Teachers pointed out that the Indianapolis school city rate is the, lowest in the state of any city over| 30,000 population and that the Indianapolis civil city tax rate is next | to the highest in the same group. Meanwhile, the school board has ordered seven acres of land “condemned to complete the 22-acre tract where the new Manual high school will be built, An asking price of $35,000 was considered * excessive after’ appraisers set the value of. the ground at

Giant propellers Jor giant planes are Curtiss- Weights job now.

Local Plants Turning Out Weapons for Use in Pacific

By ROGER BUDROW Times Business Editor One look around Indianapolis war plants shows what President Truman meant yesterday when he said that with victory half won, the

nation must

“work, work, work” in the coming months.

Local war plants have lots of work yet to do. Undoubtedly some of their contracts will be canceled, with the

war in Europe over.

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POPE PRAYS FOR A BETTER EUROPE,

VATICAN CITY, May 9 (U. P.. —Pope Pius XI expressed grati- | tude today for’ the conclusion of

the war in Europe.

He offéred a prayer for a “just end”. to the “bloody struggle” still

unde: way inthe Far East.

In a broadcast to the world, he ropean war had left in gregtest “material and moral fuin in the history of manHe

sald the its ‘wake the

[of gratitude break forth said in hailing the ties. “They ris from the depth-of our hearts toward the

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‘Lord Father of Mercy.”

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A few already have.

But there are large backlogs of orders for weapons for the Pacific. war. Tae production job is far from finished. As a mat. ter of fact, two plants are being expanded.

There may be temporary shutdowns and shorter work-weeks, as plants shift to new war work or back to some essential civilian work allowed by the government,

Hours Reduced : The city's biggest war industry— Allison—went from a 54-hour week to 45 hours this week, dropping Saturday work with the exception of ‘those departments working on the new jet engine destined to power new fighter planes, notably Lockheed's P-86 Shooting Sr, in the war against the Japs. : Allison has had ‘a big cutback orders for its liquid-cooled, ‘in-line V-1710 engine, the one which has | power a fighter planes in this war. The sutback” was due Principally to the army air forces’

TROOPS ON WAY T0 FIGHT JAPS

Combat Men in Italy. Al: ready on Move. By J. EDWARD MURRAY

United Press Staff Correspondent ROME, May 9.—~The allies already | have begun shipping combat and | service troops from Italy directly to | the Pacific for the war against Ja- | pan, Gen. Joseph T, "MeNarney re- | vealed today. | McNarney, deputy supreme com{'mandef in the Mediterranean the-

§ ater, said other troops would be sent

| from Italy to the Pacific by way of {the United States. It generally was known that en- | gineering and other teghnical troops, | as well as certain air force personnel, had been embarking for the | Pacific for several weeks, but Mc- | Narney’s speech was the first con-

t firmation that combat “troops al-|

ready were on the way. Speech Broadcast McNarney's speech was broadcast throughout: the ‘Mediterranean theater yesterday, but released for publication in the army newspaper, Stars and Stripes, and other newspapers only today, He said that his answer to persistent questions from allied troops as to when they would be permitted to go home would be disappointing. “But it would be unfair if I were not absolutely frank in answering that question even if it is unpleasant,” he said. The return to civilian life for the majority of troops in Italy would

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ALLIED INVASION OF JAPAN BEING MAPPED

By UNITED -PRESS Adm. Chester W, Nimitz disclosed today that joint chiefs of staff are mapping plans for the invasion of Japan and promised an immediate increase of American air assaults on the enemy's homeland. Nimitz made the statement to'a press conference as adverse weather slowed down the drive on southern Okinawa and Australian and Dutch troops closed in on two rich oil fields on Tarakan island east of Borneo. r Ina V-E Wrosdenst earlier, Nimitz said the Pacific command did not count on a quick ol of the war against Japan. “There is nothing in prospect tor them but +SOptinually mounting

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CURFEW RULES LIFTED INU. §.

But Vinson Warns Travel . Will Have to Be" Restricted.

WASHINGTON, May 9 (U, P.).—War Mobilization Director Fred M. Vinson today lifted the ban on horse racing and the midnight curfew on amusement places but said restrictions on transportation will continue, . Vinson = discussed almost every phase of home front activity at a press conference in which he said

he was confident the American people would “keep their feet on the ground and not go haywire” during the coming months. Vinson announced revocation of the midnight curfew with the words,

CHICAGO, May 9 (U. P.).~ Col. Matt Winn, president of - Churchill Dowfils, said today that the, Kentucky Derby would be run this year mow that the ban on horse racing has been lifted. The date for the Derby will be set within a few .days, Winn said. The purse would be “substantially larger” than the $75,000 added which was offered for the last Derby.

“curfew will not ring tonight.” He then went on to other aspects of civilian, life in wartime. _ --Vinson sgid production of electric refrigerators and washing machines will be started immediately in “moderate” quantities. Reconversion, he contihued, must proceed “vigorously.” He warned, however, thdét complete change-qver to a civilian economy must await the defeat of Japan. Vinson also announced that: ONE: War plants will continue on the 48-hour work week. TWO: The Little Steel wage formula and other stabilization policies will be retained. + THREE: The administration still favors legislation to put manpower ceilings on employment. More Gasoline FOUR: Strict manpower controls! will continue to bé necessary, especially in areas where war production remajns at a high peak. ‘FIVE: There will be an increase soon of 8 to 16 per cent in gasoline

| supplies available ‘for civilian use. |The increase will be distributed pri-

marily to “A” and commercial card holders, with “B” card drivers possi bly getting some of it. Vinson said that generally speaking, the objective will be to bring consumer goods back at the same prices. charged before they went out. Concerning civilian food supplies, | Vinson said he saw no prospect for early improvement.

Travel Held Down

He not only said that present restrictions on travel would have to be continued but ,also that “further ‘ curtailment” may be necessary,

| He added that “the shortage of

tires, batteries and gasoline will riot allow unrestricted use of private motor cars.” “Transportation,” he said, “is one of the tightest, one of the most serious problems we have. There is no hope of increasing transportation facilities for some time. “Present government controls on civilian freight ‘trafic must continue, The ban on conventions will continue, and promoters of amateur and professional sports will be ex-

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T00 MANY BOOKIES LINE UP. AT POST

By SHERLEY-UHL Local. bookies are feeling their oals over news of the race ban .can= cellation, They're lined up at the post like a bunch of nervous thoroughbreds waiting for the starting signal. The boys are elated over pros | pects of getting their noses back {into lush monetary feedbags after | grazing for four months on slim pickings. Some old-established operators have already hauled out their earphones and scratch pads. Gaming sources here say .someé have even posted result charts. But all is not clear sailing ahead. Old-timers in the business are frowning at indications that many newcomers are preparing to enter the trade. “There must be a hundred ama-

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BLOOD DONOR CENTER HERE TO BE CLOSED

The blood donor center, operated by the Red Cross chapter here, will discontinue operation May 19, W. I Longsworth, chapter chairman, said the armed services needs had been halved, resulting in closing of the Board of Trade building center.

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CLAIMS HE WAS

PRAGUE BOMBED AS RED FORGES

Outlaw German Garrisons “At Dunkerque, Other Ports Surrender.

By PHIL AULT United Press Staff Correspondent

LONDON, May 9 (U. P.). —The Red army, fighting on against outlawed German diehards after the official end of the European war, today captured the Czechoslovak capstal of Prague in a pre-dawn attack. Previously the Prague radio reported thdt German bombs crashed on ‘the Czechoslovak capital and two other cities, Meanwhile, Paris press dispatches reported that the Germans in Dunkerque, scene of the British evacuation from the continent in 1940, surrendered at 9 a. m. A French c¢ unique announced the German capitulations at St. Nae zaire, La Rochelle and Lorient. Surrender Ratified Telephone reports from Bornholm by way of Copenhagen said the German resistance ,on the Danish island off the tip of Sweden cracked during the night, and Rus-

sian warships put in after daylight.’

The crumbling of the last nests of Nazi resistance, outlawed by the unconditional surrender which made them subject to allied attack of any nature, followed word of the final formalizing of Germany's sur-render-in. Berlin,

Allied and German generals sat down at an extraordinary capitulation conference in the ruined capital. Harassed but helpless, the Germans signed the documents— differing only in inconsequential wording from the ones signed -at Reims. : Nazi Forces Split A Soviet officer speaking over the patriot radio sald the Red army had entered Prague only to liberate it and had no intention of forcing any type of administration on the

{Czechoslovak people.

A dispatch from the American 3d army. front revealed that other Soviet units some 140 miles south of Prague had linked up with the American 65th division southeast of Linz yesterday. The junction split the remaining German forces in southern Europe into two pockets—Bohemia and southeast Austria. “Throughout Europe, hundreds of thousands of German troops were filing into allied prison camps in compliance with their high command’s order“to lay down their arms. . >. The Germans were expected to turn back the channel islands off the Normandy peninsula to the British momentarily, if they have not already done so, All hostilities on the Dodecanese

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12 DIE IN TORPEDOING OFF ATLANTIC COAST,

BOSTON, May 9 (U. P.).—Eleven merchant seamen and one navy man are missing and believed dead in the torpedoirig of a merchant} coal carrier by an enemy submarine May 5 off the Rhode Island coast, the navy announced today. The 8. 8. Black Point, a bulk collier owned by the Sprague Steamship Co. of Boston, had a complement of 41 merchantmen and five ‘navy members of the armed guard when the torpedo struck. The vessel sank almost immediately; and its 34 survivors were picked up within 45 minutes by three allied merchant vessels in the vicinity,

-MOLOTOV DEPARTS SAN FRANCISCO, May 9 (U. P.). —Soviet Foreign Commissar V. M. Molotov left here today by for Moscow.

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FINAL L SEAL SET ON NAZI DEFEAT

Keitel Maintains Arrogance "To Bitter End.

By JOSEPH W. GRIGG JR. United Press Staff Correspondent BERLIN; May 9.—The final seal was set on the Wehrmacht's defeat and humiliation early this morning. - Field Marshal Keiter; titular head of the once proud Wehrmacht, was brought to Marshal Zhukov's headquarters in the devastated German capital where he signed the formal ratification ‘of Germany's unconditional surrender: As one of thé first two American newspapermen officially permitted to go to Berlin since the Russian occupation, I witnessed the signature in the large white-washed hall of an army technical school in the eastern residential suburb Karls horst. The document was more or less identical terms as that signed at Reims Monday, with certain additions requested by the Russians de-

RESCUED BY HIS OWN AIR CREW

Sulvenders With Wife to 7th Army After Hiding ‘ In Alps.

BULLETIN LONDON, May 9 (U. P.).~The Danish Kalundborg radio said tee day that it learned Heinrich Himmler, gestape chief and German interior minister, is in Sweden.

By ELEANOR PACKARD United Press Staff Correspondent

WITH U. S. 7TH ARMY, May 9.—Reichsmarshal Here mann Goering has surrene dered to the Americans, tell ing them that he had been in

hiding since ‘April 24 when Adolf Hitler condemned him to

death for expressing a desire te

government, An announcement today thas

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Tth army also revealed the capture of Marshal Albert Kesselring, former commander of Germany's Western front. Goering was the first of the old guard Nazi triumvirate — Hitler, Goering, Goebbels—to be accounted for R Scially. He surrendered to the 38th di.

th army mop-up of the surrendered area on the southern of ‘was the pet Lh ny Gave Up to ye Stack *Reichsmiarshal Goering—the rank was his alone in the heyday of Nazism — gave up td Brig. Gen, Robert T. Stack, assistant divisional commander, at Radstadt, about 38 miles southeast of He told Gen. Stack that Hitler— who was reported by the Nazis tg be dead in the ruins of Berlin—sene tenced him to death on April 24, when the handwriting was on the wall for even the most Rearsighted Nazi to read. Hitler's 8. S. elite guards arrested him, Goering said. But membecy of the German air force, from the command of which he was ousted in the Nazi debacle, rescued Hh, he said,

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Hid in Alps He streaked for a hideout in the

| Bavarian Alps, the touted “national

redoubt” in which the Nazi fanatics were going to hold out after the rest of Hitler s Reich was gone: When the 36th division ape proached his hideout, Goering sent his - personal adjutant, Col. Von Brauchtisch, a son of the come mander-in-chief of the German army in the early days of the war, to divisional héadquarters with an offer to surrender to Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower and Gen. Jacob L.

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THIRD A. P. MAN IN EUROPE SUSPENDED

NEW YORK, May 9 (U, P). — Robert Brunnelle, managing execu- | tive for the Associated Press in the United Kingdom in Loridon, notified the A. P. today that he had| been suspended from filing priv- | ileges. Brunnelle reported that no reason |

the A. P. here said it presumably was in connection with the unauthorized dispatch which Edward Kennedy, chief of the.A. P, Paris] bureau, filed on the German sur render at Reims.

Believe Seating Argentina Prevents Hemisphere Split

By WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS; Scripps-Howard Foreign Editor SAN FRANCISCO, May 9—Argentina will take her seat at the United Nations table probably by the end of the week. This, in Latin], American ‘opinion, is of the utmost importance to the general scheme|

They insist it would have been. un-Ameérican and undemocratic to have barred Argentina on account of her Ri after that

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Hoosier Heroes—

Four Dead, Pilot Missing, 7 Safe

Twe Indianapolis soldiers and a {former - local resident have been killed in combat in Germany, ace cording to official casualty lists for | today. Also a medical corpsman (has died from injuries received in a hospital train accident and a: navy fighter pilot is missing in the [South Pacific. Seven more men, | however, have | prisons. KILLED

Pfc. Virgil Gooch, 335 Lynn t. | In Germany.

|. T. 4th Gr. Floyd B. Sharpe, 2258

{ Guilterd ave., In France. Plc. Walter Ear] Spinks, 2368 Columbia ave, in Germany. Robert Page Trevillian, formerly of Indianapolis, n Gers many. MISSING "Lt. Strother Taulman Kipp, 3318 E Vermont st, in South Pacific. SAFE Pvt. George P. Murley, 24 8. State ave, freed from German prison. Pvt. Glenn Melvin Latimer, Vale ley Mills, freed and in France. .

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2-B Lt: E. A. Grabhorn, 426 N. Bughd ave. freed and in Panes —- . Minna PF Zellinga, 148°