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ANGLO-POLISH PACT IS BARED
secret Protocol W Would Place Obligation on Britain.
By WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Scripps-Howard Foreign Editor SAN FRANCISCO, May 17-It
tan now be revealed that the Lon-
don Poles’ claim to British support not only for a conference seat here, but fcr a territorially intact Poland, have a definitely legal basis. This is indicated by terms of the secrét protocol signed on Aug. 25, 1039, in London, by Viscount Halifax, now chief of the British delegation here, and Count Edward Raczynski, Polish ambassador to England. Lord Halifax was then foreign minister. The secret protocol-~which t have read—was the unpublished part of the Anglo-Polish treaty of mutual defense signed just before the outbreak of the war. There have been repeated rumors of such a protoccl, but only recently was it’'made available to mem= bers of parliament in a confidential white paper, Washington has been informed of its contents.
On Future Agreements
The published part of the pact was merely directed against “a European power” not otherwise desThe protocol clarified it by stating that Germany was the power meant. If either Britain or Poland was attacked, the other would go to its aid. All this, of course, is well known. But Article 6, Paragraph 3, is not well known. This dealt with possible future undertakings by either Britain or Poland. Such undertakings, it was specified, “shall neither limit their obligations under the present agreement, nor indirectly create new obligations between the contracting party not participating in the undertakings and the third state concerned.” This would indicate that any “new undertaking” at Yalta, Teheran or elsewhere between Britain and Russia—regarding the Curzon
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Prom Shortridge to Selznick.
Indianapolis. There the six-foot-six-inch junior appeared garbed in a homemade Egyptian costume for a part in his personally written, produced and
Satire in Vaudeville
A satire on Egyptian’ life in a modern vein, a take-off on “Mommy Done Told Me” first was given as an act in one of Shortridge’s famous vaudeville shows. But it was not the first production for John. For the past two years he has been knocking the North side out with his personal appearances and school shows. As a sophomore he produced a minstrel show called “Night Rain” but he feels that “Mummy” is his best to date.
doesn't wear a tie, lets his shirt tail hang out, wears blue cords with a red bandana hanging out the side pocket, yellow socks and the traditional saddle shoes with the light a pale black. May Be Idea Man
Wrapping his lanky frame around itself he said: “I haven't the slighitest idea what Selznick wants me to do. There was talk about an idea man, whatever that is.” John first was contacted by Harriet Flagg, Eastern production head for Selznick, about a month ago. ‘Two weeks ago Miss Flagg talked over contract matters with him and his mother, Mrs. Blanche B. Rawlings; who teaches English at Shortridge. All was settled for a seven-year contract which will be received in a few days. Miss Flagg told The Times today by phone that the contract was complete with signature at end and was ready for mailing to John. In reality John will be signed for
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Russia Délaying Action on
By R. H. SHACKFORD United Press Staff Correspondent SAN FRANCISCO, May 17.-— United Nations conference action on two remaining major issues—trusteeships and regional arrangements ~—was blocked today as the Soviet delegation waited lor instructions from Moscow, Delegates Were weary after more
TIMES INDEX
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Major Peace Parley Issues
than three weeks of deliberations and many were openly annoyed at the new delays. Hopes of adjourning this conference by June 1again were fading. ’ The conference committee on trusteeships will proceed with discussions of a “working paper” which merges most of the United States and British ideas on the subject. i But formal action will have to await word from Moscow on how the 86viét delegation should vote on several controversial issues, The conference committee on regional arrangements was completely bogged down because of the inability of the Soviet delegation to state its position. The committee ‘presented proposal
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« Hollywood bound,
Shortridge Lad Starts ay Movie Career Next Month
By VICTOR PETERSON
That's what happened today to 17- year-old John Rawlings, Shottridge high school junior, who will go to work June 18 in the Selznick International Studio, Culver City, Cal. John first caught the eye of Movie producer David O. Selznick when his picture appeared in Life magazine's story on sub-debs in
designed “Mummy Done Ptolemy.”|
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‘Soldier Dies in Germany;
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Mrs. Blanche Rawlings . . John's | mother is happy.
Hoosier Heroes—
9 KILLED, 2 MISSING, 5 WOUNDED, 12 SAFE
Sailor on Luzon.
While 12 more Indianapolis soldiers have been freed from enemy hands, another soldier and sailor have been added to the Hoosier Gold star list. Two more local men have been
reported missing in action and five have been wounded. KILLED Pfc. Elmer M. Sedam, 1737 Eng lish ave., in Germany. Seaman 1-¢ Charles Chester Ryan, 114 8. Pine st., on Luzon. MISSING Motor Machinist's Mate 1-¢ William A. Glass, 6 W. Michigan st, in the Atlantic. First Lt. James B. Sample, R. R. 20, Box 477-A, over, Germany. WOUNDED T. Sgt. Simon H. Hartsing, 4609 E. Washington st., in Germany. 8. Sgt. Norman H. May, 513 W. Ray st., on Okinawa. Pvt. George. R. Adams Jr. 2802 N. Dearborn st., on Luzon. Pfc. Howard E. Williams, 2008 Southeastern ave. on the Negros islands. Pfc. Orville R. Riley, formerly of 1014 . Bellefontaine st., in the Pacific.
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YANKS HALT YUGOSLAVS TRIESTE, May 17. (U. P.) ~American troops halted Yugoslav soldiers at gun point in the disputed Italian border area near Gorizia today and
confiscated loot being removed by [pe trying to escapé under the sea
the partisians from the west side of the Isonzo river. nr — Le et ——————————————" LOCAL TEMPERATURES
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GOLD STOCKS SOLD IN STATE
Weddle Says: Canadian Promoters Duck State Securities -Law.
By ROGER BUDROW Times Business Editor
Canadian promoters are preying on Hoosier investors by trying to sell them worthless gold mining
securities commissioner, warned today. Operating beyond the reach of this government's securities and exchange commission, the promoters offer the usual “sucker bait” of quick riches, Mr. Weddle said. First a would-be investor receives ‘a glowing letter, written on fancy stationery, extolling the virtues of the stock, Mr. Weddle said. This is followed by a long-distance telephone call from Canada in which the promoter tries to high pressure a sale by saying that “only a few days remain in which to participate in the grand offering.” It is against Indiana law to sell securities in the state unless they have qualified with the securities commission or are otherwise exempt, Mr. Weddle said. Investigators of the commission are now probing two cases where Indiana investors have complained of misrepresentations by Canadian promoters. <=
Many Are Americans
“These promoters are irying to make a killing while people have money,” Mr. Weddle said, “and if what has happened in other states also happens here, they will be trying to gyp returning service men and school teachers next.” In Washington, the SEC said this government is powerless to prosecute until the Canadian parliament ratifies the extradition treaty with U. 8. ~The-U. S. senate ratified it| in 1942. Many of the promoters in the “Toronto gold rush” are Americans, the SEC said. The Canadian government said sales from Canada to Americans are more than $1,006000 a week. Several states are attacking the racket, such as Michigan, New York, Pennsylvania and Indiana.
getting going into Indiana,” Mr. Weddle said, “probably because the other states were nearer and also because of the vigilance of our securities investigators.” Mr. Weddle declared that “I never heard of anyone making a cent off the stocks, or even getting his money back. If anyone in Indiana gets a letter, telephone call or any other method of offering such stocks, I would advise him to get in touch with us immediately. We will investigate the case.”
BAND TO PLAY FOR INFANTRY SHOW HERE
Show Tomorrow. Indianapolis bond buyers will see
dollars tomorrow night, as 40 infantrymen returned from the world’s battlefronts stage the third Indiana presentation of “Here Is Your Infantry” at Victory field. The army ground forces combat show which is sparking the 7th war loan over the nation will begin at 8:15 p. m., with gates to the field to be opened at 7:30. rain, the program will be postponed to Saturday night. The free event will open with a
Boy Scout band, following which Cubs and Scouts, who took part in the house-to-house canvass which opened the 7th war loan will march into the park and take the 5000 seats reserved for them. The “Here Is Your Infantry” pre. sentation will include a demonstra: tion of army weapons and a realistic attack on a Jap pillbox. A 40-piece band from Camp Gruber, Okla., will play at the field and also at noon tomorrow and Saturday at Monument circle.
CHINESE DRIVEN ouT
CHUNGKING, May 17 (U. P.).— Reinforced Japanese troops have driven Chinese forces out of the cast China port of Foochow after a two-day battle, but hard fighting 1s continuing outside the city, it
stocks, Kenneth A. Weddle, Indiana |
The Garbage Strike .... we Edina)
BECAUSE the people of Indianapolis believe in a fair deal for labor, they have been remarkably patient while a strike of a few city employees has tied up all the garbage collection for the past 15 days. It has now become clear that this strike is not a “labor dispute” in any accepted sense of the words, and that no possible outcome of it could in any way benefit the workers concerned. There is one issue, and only one. The leaders of this strike want the mayor to “recognize” their union and to make a contract with them. The laws af In- : diana do not permit the mayor to do so. Whether those laws are goo#-or bad, they cannot be changed by a few striking workers. Wages® hours and conditions of employment have not even been " mentioned by the strike leaders. Their sole demand is that the mayor take an action contrary to law, and make a contract that would be illegal and useless even with his signature. » » » » » » THIS, THEN, is a strike nobody can win. The strikers can only lose the pay they might have earned, with no hope of getting anything at all out of the strike. The people of the city are suffering from a nuisance at every back. door, which will be a dangerous menace to health within a few warm days. Every union in town is being weakened a little more every day by the rising resentment against this foolish action committed in the name of a union. . We believe the responsible leaders of organized labor in this community, ¢f whom there are many, can bring this senseless strike to an end by simply disapproving it. We believe it is their obligation to their community and to their own unions to do so. We believe they should act before further injury is done to the cause of labor and to the welfare of the city by men who appear to feel no responsibility for either.
"By JACK
talked, but not until the wee
J4until he had told us in. every American treatment of German army officers, and not until we had finagled half the night, through military channels.
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OKINAWA YANKS PUSH FORWARD
Battle Near Final Stage; 2 Casualties Mount. ‘By LLOYD TUPLING
United Press Staff Correspondent GUAM, May 17.—American ma~]
NAZI OFFICER BARESILDUCE RESCUE FEAT
German Charged With Conspiracy to Kill Eisenhower Tells How Glider Troops Kidnaped Mussolini From Hideout.
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Times Poreign Correspondent
SALZBURG, Germany, May 17.—Well,
the colonel shank of the morning; not language what he thinks of
s personable giant, S. S. Lt.
1 Col. Otto Skorzeny, told how
he . stole Benito Mussolini from the Italian partisans, a colore ful yarn in keeping with his appear. ance and reputation,
Assigned to Kill Eisenhower You see, Col. Skorzeny was a
Nazi trouble-shooter, one of the head men of the Hitler 8. 8. Last winter, during the Belgian breakthrough, every American M. P, was
on the lookout for him; his picture was hanging. everywhere.
He was supposed to head a huge
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DISCUSS TRASH REMOVAL OFFER
‘Contractor’s Rate May Be Prohibitive.
A proposal by an Anderson eontractor that the city dispose of its ashes and garbage by private contract was to be discussed today by Mayor Tyndall and city officials. It is not expected, however, that this discussion will have any bear-
maintenance workers now in its 15th day. Cost to the city of such a contract would be in excess of $500,000, it is estimated. Officials expressed doubt these funds would be available before 1946, at the earliest. Plan Explained John T. Rock, who has ash and garbage hauling contracts with Anderson and Muncie, appeared before the works board yesterday to explain the plan. He disclosed that his contract with Anderson is $66.642. He indicated that the per capita cost here would be higher, possibly .as much as $2, because of higher hauling costs to the city’s reduction plant.
his name be withheld, unhesitatingly placed the probable cost at $800,000. No Settlement Seen Meanwhile, the strike situation involving members of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Workers, A. F. of L., remained virtually unchanged. A The mayor, however, has appointed a new superintendent at the asphalt plant, one of the city departments affected by the strike. Raymond H. Fisher, 912 N. Riley ave, was named to the $2820 post. Since Frank E. Sprouse, city hall politico and key figure in previous worker unrest, left the asphalt superintendency several weeks ago, the
Unversaw, assistant city engineer.
Britain to Grant Burma Self-Rule
SAN FRANCISCO, May 17 (U. P). ~The British information service distributed an announcement today that Britain after the war will grant full self-govern-ment to Burma when internal conditions permit free elections. In London, a government statément. of policy on Burma suggested that an executive council be formed to supplement the present government of Burma until a general election can be held. The B. I. 8. said that when it becomes possible to hold elections, a new Burmese legislature will
was announced today.
Are Hitler and
marine heading for Japan with Japanese aboard led to speculation today that Adolf Hitler, Heinrich Himmler or other high Nazis might
to Japan. Adm. Jonas H. Ingram, commandef in chief of the Atlantic fleet, revealed the SEiSides to
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three luftwafle generals and two
take over lawmaking functions.
Himmler Trying|: To Reach Japan Under Sea?
WASHINGTON 'May“11 (U. P.). —Surrender of a German .-sub-
In addition to capture of the Japanese-bound U-bSat Ingram revealed that: ONE: Three weeks before Ger-
powerful U. 8. carrier and de-
ate in mid-Atlantic broke up a formidable U-boat wolf pack. e Uboat force had orders to “blanket the east coast from Maine to Florida.” Tr
TWO: In more than 16,000 con-
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many surrendered, one of the most
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KEPT THE FAITH— Niemoller, Free, Is Interviewed by A Local Captain
THE EXPERIENCES 5f an In-
rines and doughboys on Okinawa sent patrols into the key towns of Naha and Konabaru today in prep-
By UNITED PRESS The Imperial Rule Assistance association, Japan's totalitarian party, will be disbanded and its member organizations absorbed into the new “Peoples Volunteer
dianapolis officer who interviewed the famous pastor, Martin Niemoller, in Germany recently, were contained today in a letter to Indianapolis friends. . The letter was written by Capt. Edward H. Ziegner to Mrs. Emma Rivers Milner, church editor of The Times. He is the son of Mrs. Pearl M. Ziegner,
“&Nd the late Edward HH. Zfegner.
. In addition to Pastor Niemoller, Capt. Ziegner in his capacity in the public relations section in
Martin Niemoller :
the army, also interviewed Kurt Schussnigg, former chancellor of Austria, Leon Blum, one-time premier of France and Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, once-president of the German Reichsbank. But the bulk of his letter is devoted to Pastor Niemoller, who defied Hitler and was imprisoned in 1937. “I thought you would be particularly interested in Pastor
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unconstitutional. Democratic wholesalers law.
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supreme “court.
Lutz, attorney for
supreme court.
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today.
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BEER FIGHT. GASE
Federal Judge to Decide on|
Indiana's political wholesale beer war is headed for a showdown before three federal judges at 10 a. m. Saturday in Hammond. , ve The federal jurists have authority to declare the new controversial 1945 liquor code constitutional or!
Plaintiffs in the hearing are 12] northern Indiana beer who are seeking tw permanently enjoin the state from enforcing the revised beer and liquor
Various Republican state officials
finding directly to the United States
Meanwhile the Democratic vs, Republican feud over control of Indiana's wholesale beer business became flirther embroiled in legal technicalities today when Philip the Indiana Licenséd Beer Wholesalers associa~ tion filed a brief with the Indiana
"Mr. Lutz's brief was in reply to one filed previously by Attorney General James A. Emmert, requesting a writ of prohobifjon against legal action by a Democratic brew wholesaler in Montgomery’ county,
SAN FRANCISCO, May 11 (U. P)~A light earthquake shook San Francisco at 8:06 a. m. P.W.T. ‘There were no opera of
Corps,” Tokye reported Thursday in a broadcast recorded by United Press at San Francisco.
band of German spies working in American uniforms, his express job being the murder of Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, (The National Broadcasting Co. quoted the American broadcasting station in Europe as saying that Skorzeny was captured by the Tth army yesterday and was with being involved in a plot to kill Gen. Eisenhower.) When the colonel came meekly through the lines yesterday to give up with his men, according to regulations, he feigned great surprise
aration for what may be the final
island. Tanks pushed out toward Yonabaru and 6th marine
and debris-strewn streets of capital city of Naha. At the same time, the 10th army's 382d regiment tightened a pincers within 200 yards of the bitterly contested inland stronghold of Shru, which appeared to be the chief obstacle to a swing down the island on both the eastern and western
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14 SQUARE MILES OF NAGOYA ABLAZE
Visible 150 After B-29 Raid.
By WILLIAM F. TYREE United Press Staff Correspondent GUAM, May 17—Sixteen more ‘square miles of industrial Nagoya, Japan's third largest city, went up in flames visible 150 miles away today in the second 500-plane Superfortress raid in three days. The huge American air armada, equaling and perhaps exceeding the record force which hit Nagoya Monday, crashed 575000 fire bombs weighing 3500 tons into the southern factory area in 90 minutes before dawn. (A Japanese domei dispatch recorded by the FCC: said 40 Iwobased fighters and two superfortresses flew over the Tokyo area | for a half hour today and strafed the Fujisawa district, just outside the “capital's metropolitan area). - “Pire was all over the place” said Sgt. Willlam Foran of Chicago, whose B-29 was over Nagoya at the halfway mark in the attack. “It seemed to be a big mass of fire.” Other fliers suggested the as-
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and chagrin when arrested as the top S.S.; and when a skittish officer said, “He looks dangerous,” Col. Skorzeny really blew his top,
indignation to Lt. Ralph Lieban, Qakland, Cal, thé patient and taetful interpreter. When I asked for the story of Mussolini's capture, which had the world wondering, ‘in 1943, the colonel said , “If - you want to write sensational news, tell how I, an officer, accepted American military terms and brought my men in; and how you treat me as if I were & common criminal ” Well, he had me there. We listened to Skorzeny's arguments, dramatic if not too logieal. Worth the Risk Finally he loosed the story of the liberation of Mussolini and told it with no show of bravado. In fact, the colonel said that as a military adventure it didn’t come pare to the experiences of last Feb ruary when, as commander of a special division, he was ordered to hold the Russians on the Oder river. We could well believe that. Hitler decided that Mussolini must be freed from the Italian partisans because Benito was his friend and had acted in good faith, the colonel said. x Hitler and Himmler discussed the
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LONDON, May 17 (U. Pacetie] dictment of Baron Franz von Papen as a German war criminal was reported today to be virtually assured
as signs increased that plans were being speeded up for bringing Nazi leaders to justice. Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, fresh from the San Francisco conference, told commons that he hoped swift justice would be visited upon Reichsmarshal Hermann Goering. He was unable to specify the date
inals, but said the allies were busy with arrangements, Sources close to the allied war crimes commission fevealed that it was Investigating von Papen, ace diplomat of Germany in both world wars. These sources said he -already had been charged with com-~
Indictment of Yon Papen
As War Criminal Is Seen
BULLETIN ‘LONDON, May 17 (U. PR) An Exchange Telegraph dispatch from Hamburg sald Max Schmeling, former heavyweight boxing champion, was found there fo--: An Exchange Telegraph correspondent said Schmeling was arrested on the Hamburg waterfront by two military policemen of the 53d Weish division. He was in civilian clothes, the agency reported, and sald he had been discharged from a paratroop regi-
for beginning the trial of war crim-| “faent..
German financial wizard, and Count Schwerin von Krosigk, former Nazi
finance minister now designated as | foreign minister by adm. Karl hy