Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 May 1945 — Page 6

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his faction is reputedly headed . “by City Controller Roy E. Hickman.

"His front-rank lieutenants are said)

‘30 be Street Commissioner Luther Tex, Assistant Street Commissioner William (Billy) Hamilton, Collection ‘Foreman Frank Sprouse, and Carl “i Schwenzer, chief clerk in the. street * commissioner's office. | Anti-Organization Mr. Sprouse reportedly has been f removed from the payroll as an aftermath of strike complications. But he has been shifted and sus. pended before, only to reappear. i Mr! Hickman today had no com- | “ment concerning the ‘municipal strike or rumors of political 'inter‘ference.

| Mike, Irish Setter, + Successor to Fala:

_ WASHINGTON, May 18 (U. PJ. | —There is a successor to Fala in the White House—a red Irish setter puppy named is Mike. The dog was a gift’ from National Democratic Chairman Robert E. Hannegan, who has been confirmed. by the ‘senate as®postmaster general; to the president's.

garet. : White House Press Secretary Charles G. Ross said -Hannegan wanted. to call the dag Casey, but Miss Truman decided instead on the name Mike.

YANKS SLUG TO

CENTER OF NAHA

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Although ‘most of this up-and-coming coterie belongs to the city | * hall victory committee, official | ;anti-G. O. P. organization factional | § group, its members have often op

‘erated “on their own!” in recent months. Their influence reportedly has | extended into the sanitation dis-

trict, the city engineering depart‘ japanese warnings that the fate of |

ment, the personnel department— | and even the police force.

Talked for Mayor

At one time its members were Bab engaged in collecting Ccampaigl jt would mean nothing,” the article

around the island yesterday. The number of American land-based

laireraft on Okinawa also has been

increased, Tokyo said. Decisive Battle

An article in the Japanese newspaper Mainichi reiterated earlier

Japan itself and the existence of

{the Japanese people hinge -on the | {outcome of the battle for Okinawa.

“There may be those who will say

funds for city hall's bitter factional ‘said. “This argument is misleading.

* war against the regular G. O. P. county organization. 8 i Mr, Hickman is mentioned as a “potential city hall candidate for

‘mayor in 1047. As city controller, | ing city of 65000, was ex-| he would succeed Mayor TyRgal pected despite savage opposition.’ if the mayor should leave ONCE An apparent Japanese plan-to turn

during the current term. Rumors charging something like fan anti-Tyndall conspiracy within | "the administration’ were incorpo- |

<nicipal Workers (C. I. O.). ‘Blames Faction This union is opposing the city strike. being conducted by the| “American - Federation of State, ‘ County and Municipal employees | (A. PF. of L).Said the C. I. O,, in a letter signed by Harold Fischer, international representative: : “A city hail faction interested in ‘getting Mayor Tyndall, aided by Jeaders of the A. F. of L., has tied up city departments for two weeks. _ “Back of the strike apparently looms the fight between City Controller Hickman and the mayor. Hickman's stooge, Frank Sprouse, has been shifted through several of the city’s departments where labor unrest has invariaply fol<Jowed. The tip-off to his connec- , . tion with the strike came in the reported petition of street workers, members of the same A. F, of L. union, that he be made their superior.

Termed as Scheme

“Billy Hamilton, assistant street commissioner, and Hickman's lieutenant, is apparently sponsoring Sprouse’s appointment.” Alleged politicking in connection with the strike's continuation was termed by the C. I. O. as a “scheme | being used to discredit the mayor.” “The innocent workers are being | made the prey of these profes-| sional politicians: . .

faction is trying to inject politics

< This same |

into the sanitation department,” the letter said. | The A. F. of L. union today also issued a statement in which it de- | clared that “if our organization is successful in-this fight we will attempt to eliminate power politics in these departments and in its stead, put into effect merit systems, civil service and other conditions that will enable city employees to “look forward to making public service a career. ' “Do you believe ‘Mayor Tyndall is sincere whén he states it is ‘illegal and unlawful’ for him to meet with representatives of the. city em- | £ ployees organization, in view of the | ¢ friendly relations which. now exist | + between this same organization and the Indianapolis school board—and 5.50 like organizations in this state— ~ and more than a thousand through- | © -out the nation?"

- MRS. BETTY RODGERS RITES IN CINCINNATI Rites will be conducted Monday » in Cincinnati for Mrs Betty | i Rodgers, 1501 Sharon ave, who » died yesterday at St. Vincent's hos- . pital, Burial also will be in Cin-| cinnati. The body will remain at Moore Mortuaries Colonial chapel until 1 : p. m. tomorrow, | Mrs. Rodgers, who was 40, was “the wife of Alvin M. Rodgers and had lived here four and one-half i years, She is survived by her husband; | a son, Eugene, Indianapolis; two | J daughters, Betty Jane, Indianapolis and Mrs. Lawanda Ogden, Cincin. nati, and her father, Will Ellis, Glencoe, Ky,

ECONOMICAL { an PRACTICAL

A Economical ~because fin-

JRE terest rates are low; inter- i [H|

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Has not Germany's capitulation demonstrated this fact to us?” Japs Attempt Ruse Early conquest of Naha, once &

the capital into a Japanese Cassino

that would hold out for months

seemed doomed.

| tempted to dupe marine patrols | which crossed the Asato in advance fof the main thrust by permitting | them to roam the inner city unmolested for as long as five hours. But once the main American forces struck across the river, the Japanese opened up with everything they had, and the fight was on. .

even bigger prize than the capital itself—Naha airfield, fifth and largest airfield on Okinawa. Reinforcements of men| supplies and equipment were flowing across the river in small but steady quantities despite the almost constant enemy mortar and shell fire. Bodies Litter Streets Patrols which reconnoitered the inner city in advance of the attack across the Asato said hundreds of bodies lay” in the streets and wrecked buildings. 5 Soldiers and civilians alike had been killed by the fierce American air and sea bombardment. Surviving civilians had fled to the hills. Just northeast of Naha, marines captured Sugar Loaf hill A small force of Japanese planes

|attempted to attack American forces

on and around Okinawa Wednesday night, but caused no damage. One enemy plane was shot down. (A Japanese Domei dispatch recorded by the-FCC said Japanese

suicide planes sank an aircraft car-|

rier and crippled two cruisers and an unidentified warship in attacks in Okinawa waters from Wednesday

20-year-old daughter, Mary Mar- |

Tokyo Reports Key Base of |

. even if we lost Okinawa,

IN ARGENTINA

Motorists Must Learn to . Drive U. S. Way.

By ERNIE HILL Times Foreign Correspondent "BUENOS AIRES—(Via Airmail) | —The June 10 casualty’ lists are expected to be long in Buenos Aires. For on that day trolley cars, busses and automobiles will start driving on the other side of the street. Taxi men shake their heads and | say that it will be slaughter for lawhile until motorists get the idea | of keeping to the right instead of

CHANGE TRAFFIC

Scenting an opportunity, automobile jnsurance agents are waging a campaign to: get people to: insure themselves and their cars against the day. % ‘Mothers ‘are being urged to: keep their children off the streets for a few days. And at night, when traffic is light, taxi. drivers are’ pracs ticing turns from the right hand side of the street. ; With a metropolitan population

Sof 3,000,000 persons, Buenos Aires

has extremely heavy. traffic. Fifty miles of streetcar track is torn up at corners where turns must be revised because. trolleys no longer will roll down the left side of the street and make short turns to the left. They will be on the right side and making sweeping turns after the new regulations go in. % o

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