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VOLUME 56-NUMBER 52.

THURSDAY, MAY 10, 1945

Entered as ‘Second-Class Matter at Postoffice Indianapolis 9, Ind,’

Issued daily except Sunday

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i -Hashsiingers. deluxe at” the dinner honoring blo od donors of the Two-Gallon club were (left to right)

Lt. Gov. ‘Richard James and Brig. Gen. Elmer Sher wood, state ajutant. .

;‘|pected momentarily.

«|expecting a call from City hall.

[MAYOR SILENT |ON EFFORTS T0

i“tthat Mayor Tyndall would appoint

WASHINGTON, May

diate discharge. Here in

points are figured:

since Sept. 16, 1940.

soldier needs 85 points to be eligible for imme-

One point for each month of army service

One point for each month of service overseas since Sept. 16, 1940, counted from depar“ture from U: S. port‘to return.

10 (U. P.).—Your

star. brief is how the

of three

Five points for each battle participation

Five points for each wound for which the purple heart is awarded. : Five points for each decoration. (Overseas campaign ribbons are not decorations.) Twelve points for each child, up to a limit

Men who have 85 or more points are immediately eligible for discharge, but it will take

a POINT SYSTEM FOR RELEASE OF 300,000 SOLDIERS IS REVEALED

Here’ S How To Fi igure Your Soldier's Points |

about a year to, bring home and discharge the

more than 1,300,000 men who are going ig be

The total of poi will be reduced abou

not be discharged

children. points.

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Picketing Resumed at City Hall; Union Awaits Possible Call,

As citizens clamored for. the resumption of ash and garbage collections, Mayor Tyndall remained silent today on any efforts being mhde toward a settlement of the eight-day-old strike of city main-. tenance workers. Picketing at the city hall was resumed as negotiations between representatives of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Workers, A. F. of L, and a spokesman of the mayor were ex-

Striking union members met this morning and remained in session,

. Tentative settlement plans were

someone to invite union represen-

What is the fate of the Nazi hi

the fact

identified as the fuehrer. RUDLOPH HESS, No. 2 Nazi}

Flensburg.

Believed dead; the Russians think

AP APOLOGIZES /s 1 of 4 Bodies Hitler's? ON PEACE NEWS

| Unauthorized’

‘Regrets’ Story of Total Surrender.

By UNITED PRESS

Associated Press and president of the Philadelphia Bulletin, said to-

tatives to. the: hall fof a negotia-

lly maintained he was not empow-

Atfending the dinner celebration for blood donors were members of the Two-Gallon club and wounded servicemen from Billings general hospital. Shown are, front row (left to right) S. Sgt. Thomas Rafferty, New York: 'S. Sgt. Edward Meixner, Dayton; Pvt. Jo hn Dugan, Union City, N. J, and Pyt. Thomas

Poulos, Yan Dyke, Mich.

Second row (left te right) Mrs. Louise B. Fry, Mrs. Maude L. Lachman, Mrs.

Eunice Cooper, Mrs. Floyd A. Garris, Floyd A. Garris, Mrs, Justine Carpenter, Miss Grayce Adams, Guy L. Boyd and Stephen Hampton. Third row (left to right) Miss Jean E. Sink, Mrs. Dortha M. Siegman, James G. Cecil, Carl Jacobs, Robert Carpenter, Mrs. Ethel McNamara, Harry J. Horn and Richard E. Helmuth. Rear row (left to right) Dr. George A. Franz, Frederick D. Payne, John M. Clarke, Frank Tarplee, Gerald L. Currier, Robert L. Mason, Buren McCoy, Powers Hapgood, Kenneth R. Marshall

and Lawrence C. Duckworth,

NATIONS SEEK PARLEY SPEED

Aim

Is to Create ‘Town Meeting of World.

SAN FRANCISCO, May 10 (U. P.).—Leaders of this United Nations conference met in special session today to seek means of speeding the drafting. of a charter for a world |

The new drive to wind up the| conference before the end of the month started after tentative adeption of an amendment to the basic Dumbarton Oaks plan which would | make “a town meeting of the world” of the general assembly in the proposed world organization, Expediting of tedious, drawn-out eomnifttee work also was to be discussed in a meeting of the conference’s steering committee, compris ing the chairmen of all the delegations here. Also on today’s long schedule were nine’ closed co ttee meetings, two of them this evening, setting a new record for a single day's'Qate of conference activities. Some top delegates, including Boviet Foreign Commissar V. M.

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Members Want to Keep on

ered hy law to discuss the situa{tion with union agents. It was thought he would appoint Sherlie Deming, works board president, or W, H. Frazier, sanitation plant ‘superintendent, to negotiate. Charles Kern, state labor commis-, sioner, promised fo make another attempt today to have Mayor Tyndall accept the services of a state conciliator. A preliminary attempt several days ago failed to materialize. Garbage Collected The. union's’ chief objective is recognition, Ed Dailey, international representative, said. The strike began last Thursday after three union members of a flood control

Making Blood Donations xx: mises sow wes a.

By VICTOR

PETERSON

There have been no ash or garbage collected in the - meantime.

For a job well done, blood donors of the Two-Gallon club were|Ahout 14 of 64 normal workers at

honored last night by the llth district American Legion at a dinner in|the asphalt plant are on the job | the Madden-Nottingham post, 1130 W. 30th st.

Frank Unversaw, assistant city engi-

The dinner capped the climax of the end of the war in Europe and |neer, said.

the closing of the Red Cross blood donor center here effective May 19. For these people gave regularly when the going was tough. Now| sanitation plant

the Red Cross can-cut its blood donations in half with. half. the war won. But the Two-Gallon club members are not ready to quit, Each one present spoke a few words after the dinner. Their main thought was: “Can we ‘still keep giving, and if so, where?”

The nearest center will be located

[in Chicago and many expressed the

desire Yo make regular trips for their donation.

Get Letters of’ Thanks As one member, Gerald .L. Currier, put it as he turned to some wounded present from Billings General hospital:

“We gave when we wanted to. They had no choiee.” ¢ Each member was presented a letter of thanks for their donation and a membership card signed by some wounded serviceman who has

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New League Plans Threaten To Nullify Monroe Doctrine

i By WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS,

Scripps-Howard- Foreign Editor

San FRANCISCO, May 10.—After +135 years of an almost perfect

Mr. Frazier disclosed that the working force

TRUSTEES APPOINT SLUM. COMMISSION

Five Empowered to Run

Long-Range Program. A five-member Indianapolis re-

development commission empowered

to administer the city’s long-range slum clearance program was named today. . Under the commission's supervision; the city. will’ acquire blighted areas and. resell them to private sourtes for redevelopment into lowcost huosing projetts.

numbered about one-fourth of the normal crew. The tin can salvage pickup will be made as usual, however, since strikers and city officials appear agreed on this.

123 KNOWN KILLED IN. MINE EXPLOSION

SUNNYSIDE, Utah, May 10 (U. P.)~Rescue crews today carried the bodies of 21 coal miners from the Utah Fuel Co. mine No. 1 where a gas explosion two miles underground hurled tons of coal on the trapped workers. Two more miners were believed buried under the coal and debris, making a total of 23 dead. The explosion late yesterday sent coal and debris cascading down the mine

The. newly-appointed: commission | ‘unnels.

members aret

8. C. Harvey, chief coal mine in-

Pau! L. McCord, owner of the spector | for the state industrial com~

Paul L. McCord Co., realtors.

mission; said 87 men were at work

Freeman B. Ransom, manager of when the explosion shook the mine,

the Mme. Walker Manufacturing

y-seven men, who were working on levels some distance from the

Co.” \C. Harvey Bradley, president of] ®XPlosion, estaped unhurt.

Ww. J. Holliday & Co., iron and ‘steel

dealers. John A. Reis Of the Thomson McKinnon brokerage firm. 3 Fred T. Greene, president of the Federal Home Loan bank.

QUESTION UNSETTLED LONDON, May ‘10 (U, P)— e +-Minister Churchill implied ly in commons today. that the |:

The conimissioners were named Polish problem.

'|peace. negotiations

day that the A, P. “profoundly re-

“The A. P. profoundly regrets the distribution on Monday of the report of the total surrender in Europe which investigation now clearly discloses was distributéd in advance of authorization by allied supreme headquarters,” McLean said. “The whole, long honorable record of the Associated Press is based on its high sense of responsibility as to the integrity and authenticity of the news and the observance of obligations voluntarily assumed, as appropriately reaffirmed by Executive Director (Kent) Cooper in his statement yesterday.” Want Investigation

A committee of three officers appointed by allied supreme headquarters in Paris to investigate Kennedy's action in sending the unauthorized dispatch was expected to" report soon. Meantime Kennedy stood accused, in a statement authorized by Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, of imperiling between the Russians and the Germans, of putting Eisenhower in position of

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GOP Beer Group Is Organized fo Fight Democrats

By SHERLEY UHL Newly-licensed Republican beer wholesalers marshalled their forces

the old Democratic brew distributors carried the state's political battle over beer into Federal court. Some 60 G. O. P. wholesale beer licensees met, in the Claypool hotel yesterday to establish ‘a counter organization to the Democratic controlled Indiana Licensed Beer Wholesalers association.

federal district court challenging the 1946-enacted law. designed to put them out of business and put the Republicans in. Organization

wholesaler groups againsg gach ptHer in Indiana, _ Temporary chairman of the Republiean combination is William

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score, the Pan-American security system which developed under the

for onk-year terms each by a five-

Where Is Old Nazi Gang’? Dead,

To the best of allied knowledge so far, here are

ADOLF HITLER—Probably dead; have four bodies, one of which’ may eventually be HEINRICH HIMMLER, gestapo chief—Believed either in Norway, across the border in Sweden or’in

PAUL JOSEPH GOEBBELS, propaganda chief—

fied his body in the ruins.of Berlin.

Robert McLean, president of the ang a number of other top Nazis have been found and identified. with

For -a week the Russians av a; searched through the ruins of the WAR AGENCIES | underground fortress where Hitler | ¥! ul

into an. organized front today a#

Meanwhile 13 members of the}

’y In Jail or Fugitives HERMANN GOERING, reichsmarshal—In allied hands; he surrendered after telling a fantastic story

of how Hitler had ordered his execution and he had been rescued.by his own luftwaffe.

JOACHIM VON RIBBENTROP, former. foreign minister—8till hunted by the allies, who have taken over his country estate in Austria. ADM. KARL DOENITZ, the new fuehrer—Probably in Flensburg, across the border from Denmark, believed the seat of Doenitz's government.

VIDKUN QUISLING, No. 1 Norwegian traitor— In an Oslo jail, fearing mob vengeance,

erarchy? the Russians“

n British asyluh.

they have identi-

Russ Believe Goebbels Dead

By JOSEPH Ww. GRIGG IR. United Press Staff Correspondent BERLIN, May 10.—At least four bodies, any one of which may be that of Hitler have been found by the Russians in Berlin. But none has been identified as being definitely that of the Nazi fuehrer. The bodies of Propaganda Minister Paul Joseph Goebbels and his {"family; of Martin Bormann, successor to Rudolf Hess as Hitler's deputy;

fair certainty.

released under the point system.

ints necessary for discharge t six weeks from now.

Men vital for the war against Japan will

even if they have enough lege),

The plan does not apply ténavy and marine and coast guard men. Pras

COMBAT TINE CHILDREN ARE “TOP RATINGS

First Discharges Due to Start in About Two Weeks.

By REVEL S. MOORE United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, May 10.— Soldiers with dependent children and the doughfeet all over the world who have served longest and fought

most stand the best chance of early discharge under the army's point system of partial demobilization announced today. In the next 12 months the army plans to release gradually more than 1,300,000 men from all theaters under the point system. As of May 12, soldiers with 85 Ponts and WACs with 44 points will be eligible for immediate discharge. Subsequent_revisions probably will

and his gang of of last ditch Naz fanatics held out until the destruction of Berlin was complete. Four bodies, blackened and charred, that seem to answer to Hitler's general appearance have been dragged out of the ruins. They have been measured are photographed for exSmnination by experts. But the| Russians are beginning to believe that no body that ean be identified without any shadow of doubt as that of Adolf Hitler ever will be found now. Shelters Linked

The underground fortress which Hitler made his headquarters in the final mighty battle of Berlin was the war shipping administration was the huge, supposedly bombproof | cited as “just a sample.” air-raid shelter underneath the new| The President has ordered Budget Reichschancellory. | Director Harold D. Smith to put It had been linked by deep un- his staff to work at once and to derground passages th shelters | make every cut possible in agencies | under the ‘nearby Withelmsplatz, | whose functions. have been curtailed {the great air ministry building 500 by V-E day. yards away in the Leipzigerstrasse, and the high command building in | next week. Members of the senate

TO SPEND LESS

Truman to Recommend ser Cuts to Congress.

By DANIEL M. KIDNEY Scripps-Howard Staff Writer WASHINGTON, May 10.—President Truman shortly will send a budget message to congress recommending reductions in billions in war agency expenditures.

Luetzow Ufer, about a mile dis. {ites are ready to approve the new tant, - There were other big under- | thrift movement. | ground shelters under the Tiergar-| To a congress which has ap-

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400 B-29'S BLAST |Holdout Nazis JAP OIL CENTERS Surrender on

Channel Isles ‘Heaviest Attack Made on| By w. r. HIGGINBOTHAM Homeland.

United Press Staff Correspondent LONDON, May 10.— A British GUAM, May i0 (U. P.). — The task force landed in the Channel mightiest force of Superfortresses islands, only British territory ocever sent aloft today battled cupied by the Germans in world through heavy flak from the last war II, and accepted the surrender remnants of the Japanese fleet to|°f 'h® Nazi garrison of perhaps ignite _ devastating fires iri the|30:000 mer today. enemy’s largest fuel storage and| OCermany’s sea forces also were synthetic oil ‘production centers. capitulating. The last remnants Returning crewmen’ of the more of her surface fleet, headed by the

His recent cut of seven billions for |

The budget message may be ready :

the -Bendlerstrasse and on the and house appropriations commit- |

than 400 B-20’s which attacked the

latter group filed suit in South Bend | home islands of Honshu, Kyushu

and Shikoku said that clouds of black smoke billowed skyward to

cruisers Prinz Eugen and Nuernberg, surrendered to the Royal navy

| reduce the required total. Mean- | while, discharges are expected to start in about two weeks, 12 Points for Child ey of War Henry L. Stimsaid the standards to be used were sais by the soldiers themselves. The basis on which discharge credits will be allotted is, briefly, 12 for each dependent child under 18 up to three, five each for battle Star, wounds and decorations, one for each month of service since Sept. 16, 1940, -and one for each month of overseas service in the same period. Officers will be similarly credited { for discharge. In fio case, however, will anyone essential to the war against Japan be released—no matter how many points he has. ’ Nor will the navy undertake any demobilization until Japan is whipDischarge at Once Meanwhile, as previously announced, enlisted soldiers awarded the medal of honor may apply for discharge at once. Although the army plans now call for release of 1300,000 men under the point system, it was said that other thousands may be added to the total by a year from now. And discharges for wounds, age, and other reasons are expected to total 700,000. Enlisted men of the army ground, air and service forces will be ime. mediately eligible for discharge if their total credit score is 85 or more. WACs with total credit scores ol 44 points will immediately -be eligible for discharge. j These total credit scores are designated as “interim scores.” Immedi~ ately after the scores of all soldiers rare compiled, the number of soldiers with each point total in every theater will be reported to the war department. Revised Totals Based on these reports in ‘about six weeks, revised: figures will be announced as to the total credits needed for discharge. These revised totals are expected

at Copenhagen and U-boats were putting into British ports to .give | {0 be somewhat lower than the in-

18000 feet from oil fires. dt key |(hemselves up. A

factories. RAP warplanes shepherded the | : Raid Around Clock Soon first surrendering i into | They described as “ineffective” | Weymouth harbor and . another the curtain of anti-aircraft fire which had heen patrolling off the from the guna of warships huddled | northern Reotiish vor coast entered the | in Japan's island sea.’ Specific tar. gets included the Otake oil refinefy, (Continned on “Page 2~Column 2) the Tokyuama naval fuel station and the Tokyuama synthetic fuel

terim scores. At this time separate scores will be established for the { air forces, the ground and service forces and the WACs. Scores will be compiled on the basis of points earned as of Satur

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factory. on Honshu.

Part of the

. Amusements. . ‘2 Charles Lucey Bs * Business .... 24| Obituaries . .: .

Monroe Doctrine is now seriously threatened. 3 It is not threatened through design on the part of ‘any nation or

person here.

What is happening is that the United States and the other

20 American republics have been caught between. well nigh irreconcilable

TIMES INDEX

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positions. If th security council of the new league of nations is to give or withhold authority to regional groups to use force against aggression, the

Sam

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tees were selected twb weeks ago by

Mayor Tyndall, City Council Presi dent John A, Schumacher and Circuit Judge Lloyd Claycombe, Commissioners are authorized to

designate slum areas and reclaim

them. They then will assign certain portions to other municipal departments for replatting.in accord(Continued on Page aps 4 Solute s ilk Ae aml. 0 Tam... 4M 1am. code A

Jan 12 (Noon) .. 1pm

Last Days of

"In the last days of fghting in Europe three Indianapolis soldiers lost their lives and two others were killed in the Pacific area. A local lieutenant also is missing in action in Germany. . KILLED

Hoosier Heroes: 3 Dead in

4 fa of Miss Thelma and Morris

huge aerial task force also struck the Oshima oil storage area, Japan's largest known fuel storage area west of Kyushu, . The iaids came only a few hours after Lt. Gen. Barney Giles, com« (Pacific: of army air forces in the

War in Fuope

8..8gt. A. Earl Christensen, 2030, 13th st, in Germany, ° Plo. James Close, 8 N. Colorado

Pacific, said - American bombers soon would be raiding Japan around the ‘clock an 4 Seale greater even

(Continued on Page §—Column 1) BENES ARRIVES IN PRAGUE A By UNITED PRESS ™

PARIS, May 10 (U. P).—A majority of the Americary combat units going from Europe to the Pacific will pass through the United States, it was announced today. A greater part of the supply forces will be re-deloped directly from this theater. ae rought outline of plans for the redeployment of some 4,000,000 American troops in 10. the

Majority of Combat Men To Pass Through U. S. First

jem had been set up to make trans= portation available first to the sick and wounded, secondly to liberated prisoners of war; thirdly to units redeployable to the Pacific through the United States, and fourthly to

those a discharge. | * which begun bid ing up supply in the theater in May, 143, now