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ity Strike
‘More Than Th Garbage? « « An Editorial
[Fit is true that political maneuvers are a factor in the strike of city refuse collection employees, the smell around here is not only the odor of -uncollected garbage. A good many people believe it is true. has directly charged that the strike was provoked delib_«erately in an attempt to “get” Mayor Tyndall. itself began on what appears to’us to be inadequate grounds and has continued far past the point where anyone can win any benefit from it.
Why?
Whatever its basis, this strike has already blocked a vilal health service to this city for 16 days. already cost the idle city workers 16 days’ pay which
they can ill afford to lose.
gain for these, men no mattet how or when their strike
is ended. s
Neither Mayor Tyndall nor the leaders of the striking workers are willing to believe that they are the victims of a political conspiracy--but if the charges are true, they certainly would bg the list to know of them. Whether or not they have any foundation, we believe Mayor Tyndall is entitled to the support of the’ citizens of the community and of the gity's responsible leaders of organized labor, in his efforts to restore this service. And if political maneuvering plays any part in the pictura—then he is doubly entitled to that support.
VOLUME 56—NUMBER 5)
A union leader
The strike
It has
We can see no hope for any
Averts Panic oh
Lt. Cmdr, James L. Fuelling, one of the heroes of the Franklin disaster, relaxes with Gee-Gee, his pet dachshund.
2 Local Men Are Survivors; Ship's Casualties Reach 1102
The U. 8. 8. “Big Ben” Franklin was a mass of flames and smoke after it was bombed hy a Jap plane 60 miles off Japan March 19,
Gasoline poured over the side
Niagara. Bombs, rockets, bullets and agonized screams filled the air. But because of a 30-word speech by Lt. Cmdr. James L. Fuelling, 2025 College ave., there was no panic in one of the hottest spots on the
ship and the lives of 300 men who seemed beyond rescue were saved: Total casualties were 1102,
And because his same -brand of quiet, tenacious bravery was duplicated all over the ship,’ “Big Ben sailed back from within 60 miles of Japan to Brooklyn under her own power, back from one of the most terrible U, 8. ship disasters of the war. There was no panic but there] might have been. For 90 terrible] minutes after a lone Jap divebomber turned the 27,000-ton Essex class carrier into an inferno, 300 men and the Indianapolis flight surgeon were trapped in their mess compartment, “Say a Prayer” Smoke, flames and smashed bulkheads blocked all exits. Oxygen became scarce and chack seemed imminent when . Lt. Cmdr, Fuelling
“Everybody sit down,” he said. “We're trapped here for the time being. Stay calm and be quiet. Use as little air as possible. Stay close to the deck and say a prayer.” His words quelled the hysteria. Rescue came when Lt. Donald L. Gary, Oakland, Cal, found a way through the ventilator, a route which he alone knew was filled with bombs and rockets, ready to explode any minute. = All But One Saved
Lt, Gary Jed the way trip after trip as Lt Omdr. Fuelling stayed below and kept the men calm. All but one man was saved. One of the sutvivors of the tragedy, also of Indianapolis, was Chief Pharmacist's Mate Norman E. Titus, 2125 Wyn~ dale rd Lt, Omdr. Fuelling was the last one to leave the compartment and Jhe never left the ship. After his escape he hurried above deck and for’ hours treated .the
Bombed Carrier
| Fuelling i in line for the .navy
(Works Board Acts, Asks
TIMES INDEX
22| Daniel Kidney 18 sone N Lee Miller .., 17 27 Ruth Millett., 17 15! Movies ...s., 27 18| Obituaries ... 21 ves 1B Pred Perkins. 17
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Ee | rector, said he had 150 applications
of the hangar deck like a blazing
wounded and dying who littered the ship,
The Big Ben's toll of 832 killed and missing and 270 wounded, is the greatest personnel loss of any U. 8. warship in this war, twice the cost of the entire battle of the Coral sea. For his part in the heroic rescue {and in reducing casualties, Lt. Cmdr.
cross or the Congressional Medal of Honor. Another Indiana man, Cmdr. L. H. Hale of Gary, was lauded for keeping things going on the ship during the trip home, Cmdr, Hale lashed four’ jeeps together, using them to haul debris and generate electricity, When food became scare he found two lockers, one filled with steak, and had the crew “sick of steak” when the boat reached Pearl Harbor. The Franklin, flagship of Vice Adm. Mare A. Mitscher's famed task force, stood 60 miles off Japan
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AWARD SEWER JOB
T0 RUSSELL MOORE
Council for $30,000.
The works board today adopted a resolution awarding the much discussed sewer survey contract to the Russell B., Moore Co. 1465 N. Delaware st. The, decision came after considerable shadow “boxing between Mayor Tyndall and the city council, ’ Two appropriation ordinances— one for $15,000 and the other for
council Monday night will be asked to pass the larger. measure to start the survey, Mr, ‘Moore's bid was $175,000. A Baltimore firm bid $78,000 and was fhe only other company to bid out of 11 invited.
=| that each group hopes will bring
umored
By SHERLEY UHL Is the municipal maintenance workers" strike part of
a gigantic plot hatched by Mayor Tyndall to resign? Rumors to this effect
profegsional channels.
reports, whether or not they tion in fact.
PARSONS SAYS 150 NAMES ON FILE FOR JOBS
Strike in 16th Day; Trash Piles Up; High Union Official Here.
City officials and Mtnion leaders were busy today’ following leads
an ‘end to the 15-day-old strike of city maintenance workers. Meanwhile garbage collections re-
straight day. Members of the striking union met at 10 a. m. They will meet again at 10 a. m. Monday. Mayor Tyndall was “still studying” a proposal that the city contract with a private firm for the collection of aslyes and garbage. He asserted he hadn't learned yet how the city’s worker- recruiting program’ Fwas developing. To Fill Vacancies
Larry Parsons, city personnel di-
on file and would use them to fill vacancies. Today was announced previously as the day when the city would launch its recruiting program to fill vacancies at the strike-bound sanitation plant, asphalt plant and collection yard. Leaders of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Workers, A. F. of L., meanwhile were pursuing arrangements they hoped would bring the strike to a satisfactory close. “Strike-Break Agency” Roderick MacDonald, Madison, Wis., national organization director of the A. F. of L. union, arrived yesterday to assist in directing the strike. The city’s consideration of the proposal to contract with a private firm for the removal of ashes and garbage was labeled tantamount to “employing a strike-breaking agency” by Clyde S. McCormack, business manager of the Central Labor: union here. The C. L. U, represents A. F. of L. unions in this vicinity. Only two.of Mr. Parson's applicants had reported to the sanitation plant this morning, it was dis-
Marion county political circles. factional rumor factory is tri
FRIDAY, MAY 18,
city hall politicians to force
are scorching the ozone in Grist from the churning ickling through business and
local G. O. P. higher-ups are disturbed by these
think they have any founda-
Mayor Tyndall himself believes they are
a.
1945
Indianapolis 9, Ind, Issued daily except Sunday
Here One Idea to Clem Up City
CHICAGO, May 18 (U., P.).—The use of pigs and goats to clean up Chicago's alleys was proposed today. Mrs. Kathérine H, Johnson, president of John R. Lynch model community council, suggested the scavengers could make away with a lot of the city’s garbage. How to protect the fattened animals from meat- hungry Chieagoars was not included in the suggestion, /
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without foundation. But these same highdr-ups believe
the criss-cross of charges and counter-charges is in itself
Entered as Second-Class Matter at Postoffies
PRICE FIVE CENTS
SL
s A ‘Plot’ To Oust Mayor T: yndall
an indication of serious differences. within the adminig-
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tration.
: Suspicion of political intrigue in connection with the current garbage collection strike are an outgrowth of
much factional maneuvering.
From among the mayor's official hired help there has -emerged a clique with ideas at wide variance with those
of the chief executive.
They have their own ideas on how to run Indianapolis, For the most part, these lone rangers are veteran politicians and very adept at political compromise. (Continued on Page 6 —Column 1)
mained at a stand-still for the 16th | £8
closed, and neither went to work.
HOOSIER HEROES—
Two Local Men Dead, 2 Missing In Closing Days
Two more Indianapolis soldiers are reported today to have lost their lives of the Western front less than a month before V-E day, and two men are reported missing, one over Germany and one in Austria. Twenty-three local men, however, have been freed from German prisons, according to today’s casualty lists, KILLED
Cpl. Grant U, Axsom, 610 8. Roena st, in Germany. Pfe. Carrol F, Frye, 140 Spencer ave, in France. MISSING Flight Officer Edwin H. Brown, 400 N. Euclid ave., over Germany. T. Sgt Ora Arnold Jr, 520 N. Tibbs ave. in Austria.
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15,000 fo See Tonight's Show
WHAT—"Here's Your Infantry,” the army ground forces combat show for the seventh war loan. WHERE Victory field. WHEN-Show begins at 8:15 p. m. with gates open at 7:30 p. m. Admission free. THE CAST-Eighty men of the army ground forces, 40 of them returned combat veterans,
Amid the smoke and roar of warfare, battle-scarred veterans of overseas action © Will ‘present a thrilling re-enactment of a combat patrol's assault on a series of Japanese positions at Nicwory field tonight. The show, “Here's Your Infantry” is brought ‘to Indianapolis by the army ground forces in connection | yes with the seventh war loan drive. "A capacity crowd of more bi 150 persons is busted in
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FLOOD WATERS IN INDIANA RISE
More Crops Are Menaced.
LOCAL TEMPERATURES
6am... 45 7 a. vee 45 8a a 9am lr
By UNITED PRESS Indiana streams rose above flood
stage today as a result of heavy rains during the past Weather forecasts indicated that more soaking showeis were ex-
tinue through Monday. The Wabash was past its crest at the headwaters at Wabash, Ind., but it was aboye flood stage at other stations and still rising. The main channel “of White river and both its east and west forks ‘were rising, but the water had passed flood stage only on west fork points. On the rolling Ohio, where an earlier flood this year was the worst since the 1937 record-breaker, the river was far below flood stage but up slightly from Parkersburg, W. Va, to Louisville, Ky. One Indiana highway, road 43 north of Lafayette, was_blockaded because of high water. Danger to Crops Chief danger of the flood now was to 1945 food production goals. Barring more abnormal rainfall immediately, the streams were expected to crest several feet below the March flood levels, Indianapolis weather bureau forecasters said. * Farmers, however, were kept from soggy fields and inundated lowlands where they planned to set out millions of tomato plants and to plant hundreds of thousands of acres of corn, both of which should be in the ground soon for normal har-
vesting. The Wabash reached the 192-foot
the performance which Sam. Gates'ih the
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pected to begin tomorrow and con-
23, Feud last Jan. 2 from Ofiag No, 84. He's
Return Gladdens Hearts of Their Families
“It was about this big,” said Cpl. Frederick Kafader Jr. of the bread served in Stalag 3-C. An escaped prisoner, he talked over his “prison days” with his father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. Fred 0. Kafader, (left) and Sgt. and Mrs. Lewis Wheaton. The sergeant was liberated from Bad Orb.
The Pattison family had a long-awaited reunion after 2d Lt. Roy Pattison (center) was liberated from Ofiag 64. Left to right are the lieutenant’s brother, Pawl; his mother, Mrs. Otis L. Pattison; his wife, Mariana, and his father, Otis L. Pattison.
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First Lt. and Mrs. John H. Belcher . . , the lieutenant spent four months in Oflag 64 waiting for the war to end. * nn. = . x »
4 Ex-Prisoners of Germans
Address Local POW Society
r By MILDRED KOSCHMANN . Just one glance at four healthy-looking soldiers last night boosted the morale of about 200 persons. The morale-lifters were 1st Lt. John H. Belcher, 2d Lt. Roy Pattison, Sgt. Lewis Wheaton and Cpl. Frederick Kafader Jr, some of the first Indianapolis prisoners of war to come home after liberation only a few
igen TOR consisted of mem.- | BIG THREE UNITY VITAL TO LEAGUE
bers of the American Prisoners of Otherwise It Will Be Rickety
War society, a group which formed Affair,
back in March 1944, to pool all their “information about their prisoner of war sons or husbands, “By seeing us and noticing that we are not hell-starved to death By WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS “Of coufse, we weren't getting Seripps-Howard” Foreign Editor fried chicken and steaks but it| SAN FRANCISCO, ‘May 1§.—The wasn't tdo bad when you remember scene of momentous international that some day you'd be free,” he!decisions has suddenly shifted from
probably will«do a lot for you,” Lt. Pattison, husband of Mrs. Mariana Pattison, 1209 Pleasant st., said,
An army air force officer, Lt. Pattison was taken prisoner July 1944, in Normandy and freed
don and,Moscow. The $64 question no longer is, will the United Nations conference succeed, but will]
son of Mr. and Mrs. Otis L. {Pattison and when he came home| .
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Peace Feelers by Japs Reported
By PAUL GHALI Times Foreign Correspondent
BERNE, May 18. ~The Japs have not only sounded out Washington with regard * to = possible peace, they have initiated contacts in Moscow between Japanese and Chinese diplomats, proposing peace with China on the basis of the community of interests of the yellow race. This news comes to hand here today through a statement to your correspondent by a diplomatic source. ! Japan has asked that China recognize economic predominance in certain sectors of the Far East promising, in exchange, that Japan would evacuate Chinese territories and sign an immediate “friendship pact” with President Chiang Kai-shek, according to this source. These proposals have been flatly rejected by Generalissimo Chiang, your correspondent’s informant states.
1945, by The Indianapolis Times and The Chicago Daily News, Inc.
FRITZ KUHN TO BE DEPORTED
Zone in Germany.
WASHINGTON, May 18 (U. P.). —Fritz Kuhn, former leader of the
ordered deported to Gezeahy as ! an | undesirable alien, the justice department announced today. Time of Kuhn's departure will depend on arrange ments with U. 8. military - authori ties in Germany, it was said” He will be sent to the region under Fritz Kuhn American occupation. The justice department said shipload. of repairiates, including prisoners of war, Immigration authorities based the deportation order on Kuhn's conviction as an alien of a crime inyolving moral turpitude within five years of his entry into this country, Kuhn served his sentence in the New York state penitentiary at Dannemora. Shortly after his release from prison he was interned on July 8, 1943, at the enemy alien detention camp in Crystal City, Tex.
s 20 San Francisco to Washington, Lon-|
His wife and his son, Walter, were repatriated on the exchange ship Gripsholm in February, 1944,
EE ——————————— SMALL PRODUCERS GET 0. K. WASHINGTON, May 18 (U, P). -The war production board today authorised so-called small producers of farm machinery and equipment, exeept rubber-tired equipment, to expand - their output after July 1 without” further limitation.
By LUDWELL DENNY Scrippa-Howard Staff Writer WASHINGTON, May 18.-—Don't discount the danger in Trieste. There are worse diplomatic problems in Europe and‘ Asia, and at the San Francisco conference. But none contains as‘ much mili-
without further warning... -- » For in the Trieste area the Yugoslav Red troops and western allied fi are face to face on dispute rritory. Some trigger-happy sol-
Ex-Bundist Going to Yank
GUNS ROAR IN MIGHTY DUEL ON OKINAWA
Yanks Fighting
Way Into Key Centers.
By WALTER TYREE United Press Staff Correspondent
GUAM, May 18.—~A great artillery duel, of unprecedented fury in the Pacific war, flared along the Okinawa battle line today.
-Tenth army forces fought, yard by yard into the three wrecked bastion towns of Naha, Shuri and Yonabaru. Tokyo reported, without allied confirmation, that a powerful American fleet steamed out of the Marianas last Sunday or Monday presumably for new forays against the Japanese empire. : Front, dispatches indicated U. 8, ground forces were battling inside Shuri and Yonabaru, as well as Naha, where marines of the 6th. division expanded a hard-won bridgehead across the Asato river. Limited Advances
The enemy reported earlier thak American troops broke into Shuri, the inland anchor of the Japanese defense line lying midway between Naha on the west coast and Yona= baru on the east. Nowhere were the Americans making big advances. The Japanese, supported by the heaviest concentration of artillery ever ase sembled by the enemy in the Pacific war, limited ‘Yank gains te yards and feet. Front dispatches said marines deep inside Naha were cracking fanatic Japanese resistance there.
German-American Bund, has been | But later reports said the leather
Inécks in Naha were “pinned to many positions,” and that ‘only small amounts of equipment had crossed the Asato river at the edge of the city. ; Five-Mile Front Shells from big Japanese and American guns crashed ceaselessly into the lines of struggling infantrymen strung out along the five. mile coast-to-coast battlefront. Japaense artillery was massed on high ground jn the rear of Naha, Shuri and Yonabaru. It was pow-
erful enough to return the fire of
{one of the greatest American land, Kuhn probably will leave with a!
naval and aerial bombardments in
| history.
East of Naha, the first marines and two army divisipns—the 77th and 96th—attempted to swing the American flank southward. The long-term objective of this drive was occupation of the southern tip of the island. : Tokye Worried The 77th, commanded by Maj. Gen, Andrew Bruce, was attacking Shuri while the 96th stormed Yonabaru. A Tokyo broadcast, referring to the purported U. S. fleet movement out of the Marianas, said “although it is not definitely known whether it is directed toward the Okinawas or not, its activities require a rigid watch.” Additional small American auxiliary carriers have arrived off Okinawa, Tokyo said. At least 11
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Dangers Seen in Trieste as
Tito's Reds Invade Yank Zone
TRIESTE, May 18 (U. P).— ‘Both allied and Yugoslav troops in Trieste are trying to avoid m+ cidents, pending final decision on ~who is to occupy the port. An estimated 1000 Yugoslav troops still patrolled the streets today, but more mature soldiers have replaced those whe originally entered ‘the city, A
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