Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 May 1945 — Page 1

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"PLEASE, NO SNEEZE—

| There's No

Music in Air For Sevitzky

FABIEN. -SEVITZKY . is hot: to be sneezed at. The temperamental conductor of the Indianapolis Symphony orchestra stalked off the podium at ‘Marion, Ind. yesterday when a high school audience sneezed and coughed louder than it applauded, There was something in the alr, but it wasn’t all music, Dr. Sevitzky and Marion High School Principal W. Fred Totten decided. “I'm understanding the pupils had been" ‘wanting to have some fun with some kind 2 of powder . bé- ; fore”. said Mr, Dr. Sevitzky gavitzky today. The maestro had led the Mar- + Son: highschool. sti ensemble. had EES 2 Hos to) her and Was starting to sii ext. selection... when ..1he.. throat-clearing epidemic erupted. » H ~ “AT YIRST 1 think maybe they have colds,” Dr. Sevitzky recalled. Then noticing that only the right half of the audience seemed to be stricken, the noted eonductor thought it was “just a little Joke” and would subside. “But later when it gets really bad, then I think there was really something in jt.” Dr. Sevitzky then criticized his "hecklers for their discourtesy, telling them, “When I would invite you to my house, I would treat you nicely.” He then walked off the platform and that ended the afternoon concert, ’ » » » SOME OF the pupils laughed, Dr. Sevitzky said, but others cried. One weeping high school girl approached him later and said: “Doctor, I don’t want you to think all of us Americans act that way.” - “What do you mean,” the naturalized conductor said he replied, “Don’t you know I am an American 100?”

. » ¥® PRINCIPAL TOTTEN today said he was investigating the cause of the hub<bub thoroughly. He conceded that some sort of nose tingling material was in the atmosphere but didn't know whether it was sneezing powder, He thought it might have possibly emitted from the school’s chemical labdratories. He denied reports that sulphur fires had been found in the school building. He also observed that in his estimation, the extent of the coughing and sneezing was not great enough to start a statewide uproar. » » * DR. SEVITZKY said he was inclined later to “take it as a prank. . ... But it was a tragedy for the string ensemble. We had gotten along splendidly during the morning rehearsal and they were so attentive.” At the evening concert, Dr, Bevitaky said he conducted the ensemble through an undisturbed program, attended by an appre- . ciative audience. “Afterwards,” he said, “everybody was apologising for what happened.”

Clothes Ripped By Jap Bullets

PHILIPPINES, May 19 .(U, PJ). —P{c., Wilmer Swift, Dewnington, Pa., was undressed by enemy rifle and machine gun fire. He ran out of his hiding place to drag a wounded comrade to safety, Japs saw him, Their first shot tore off part of his pants. The next two went through the back of his jacket. The sixth and last. shot took part of the heel from his shoe. The wounded man was saved, “I felt ‘like Gypsy Rose Lee,” Swift said, ’

ACTRESS GETS DIVORCE

LAS VEGAS, Nev, May 19 (U. P.)~Brown eyed Actress Evelyn Keyes today held a divorce from 44-year-old Movie Director Charles Vidor, ending a marriage of exactly

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STEPS TAKEN

Air Raid Shelter Built Under White House, Guns Mounted on Roof.

By MERRIMAN SMITH United Press Staff Corresposdent

WASHINGTON, May 19.—Now it can be told—just how much President Roosevelt was protected dur-

{ing the war years after Pearl Har

bor, Then the threat of enemy air ate tack was considered real and immediate. The most extraordinary precautions were taken to see that the chief executive was kept out of danger. At the same time he had to be in ‘a position to keep in instant touch with events. “Relaxation of the voluntary cen-

disclosures: There were huge concrete- walled

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on the: TOW SN AA SARs SRI ow oy Heavy concrete slabs were placed over - White House ventilators stop shell fragments; 7&0 Never Used It ~~» Within a matter of hours after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, construction began on a special network of air raid shelters’ beneath the White House. ;

new east wing on the executive mansion. : A heavily protdgted tunnel was also dug from the White House into

treasury building. The walls of the east wing at their base were built of nine-foot thick concrete and steel. Two floors below the ground level a deluxe air raid shelter was constructed, heavily shielded with steel rods and reinforced concrete. In this shelter the President had a private compartment made of steel one and one-half inches thick. This compartment was furnished simply with chairs and a couch, But the President never had to use it and saw it uly 1m She gourse of » casual Inspection trip. Around. this shelter was a larger room where members of the family and household staff could seek safety. Doors to this area were controlled by huge. locks resembling handles on a huge bank vault. An independent power supply was avail-|~ able fo. air conditioning, heat .and light, The underground chambers made | available for the President under the treasury and under the White House had ample facilities for storage of food and water. These chambers were never completely furnished, however, because | of the rapid decrease in chances

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HOOSIER HEROES—

TWO INFANTRYMEN, FLIER, ENGINEER DIE

Ten Are Reported Wounded, Ten Liberated.

A B-25 crew chief, previously reported missing, is now listed as killed, and an infantryman and an engineer have lost their lives in Germany, according to today’s casualty lists. Another local dough- | boy has lost his life in the Philippines. Ten Indianapolis men have been liberated from Nazi prisons, and 10 soldiers have been wounded in combat, the war department reports, KILLED 8. Sgt. Vernon I. Bender, 1630 Draper st, over Germany. Pfc. Charles B, Wilson, 1318 8. Irvington ave, in Germany. Cpl. Eulah C, Coe, 2066 Paris ave, in Germany. Pvt, George Owen Kinney, 2147 N. Temple ave, in the Philippines.

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By WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS,

De Gaulle Should Meet With

Delegates Say

Scripps-Howard Foreign Editor.

SAN. FRANCISCO, May 19.—Delegates representing the western democracies here overwhelmingly indorse the addition of Gen. de Gaulle

to the proposed France's right to be present, it

meeting between Truman, Churchill and Stalin.

is widely remarked, is self-evident.

Though not a great power for the moment, militarily speaking, mor

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ally her influence is vital to. European civilization,

After all, 1t is pointed out, the

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whole purpose of the San Francisco conference is to substitute moral force for the law of the jungle, In what Prime Minister Churchill, & oo present Eg confu-’

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‘By "WILLIAM F. TYREE United Press Staff Corresposdent GUAM, May 19.—“What is it?” cried crew members of an American destroyer when they saw a Japanese baka bomb hurtling toward them at an estimated speed of 488 miles an hour. Barely 50 yards away the ship's five-inch batteries scored a lucky hit on the ‘human bomb—yes,

SATURDAY, MAY 19, 1945

there was a Japanese suicide pilot in. it. ‘The hit shattered the bomb's fuselage, wings—and pilot. The first eyewitness description

. of a baka bomb attack was given . me by Lt. (J. G) Andrew Chan-

cellor, of Cathedral Mansions, Pittsburgh, Pa., who was on the bridge at the time. - He had seen German robot bombs when his ship was off Nor-

mandy, but he never saw anything like this before. “Battle stations” was sounded on the destroyer about 1:40 p.m. as a formation qf Kamakazi suicide planes attacked. One suicide plane, diving and sideslipping - at the - same time, tumbled almost into .the destroyer as a wing touched the water: Others were driven off in a

Planting Halted; Farmers Turn to Winter Chores

They would rather be in the fields, for it. is planting time, but wet weather has forced farmers into the house and barn; Unable to get into the soggy fields, Donald Young and Bert Eggers (left to right) build

a stock rack. Chores normally done in the winter ary being . done mow as farmers wait out one of the

wettest springs in History.

By VICTOR

The oficial five-day weather forecaét of more "soaking showers has cast a pail over 1945 food production goals in this region. Already planting is far behind schedule with pools of water standing Farmers daily scan the skies for a

in many of the saturated fields, break in the clouds.

But even so it would fake a week for fields to dry enough to be

PARENTS SHOT

BY 11-YEAR-OLD

Indiana Boy ‘Didn’t Like’ Father, Stepmother.

Without emotion, an 11-year-old Carp, Ind. schoolboy sat in the Owen county jail at Spencer this morning and told Sheriff Bert Gownes in a conversational tone how he shot .and seriously wounded his father and stepmother on their farm. “I shot them because I didn't like

{them and I didn't want to live with

them. I wanted to live with my mother in Indianapolis,” said Frank | Salyards, who 1s in the seventh grade and is considered an exceptionally bright student.

In Long hospital at Indianapolis physicians listed as serious the conditions of the couple, Roy C. Salvard, 50, and his wife, 21-year-old Agnes Marie, “I had been thinking it over since yesterday, and this" morning~¥ got up, got my rifle and shot my stepmother 8s she was making breakfast, Frank told the sheriff, ‘There had been no trouble be-

‘tween the boy and his father or

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HAYS OFFICE BARS ERNIE PYLE LINES

Objects to “Certain Parts’ Of Film Dialogue.

NEW YORK, May 19 (U. Po Lester Cowan, producer of the Ernie Pyle film “G. IL Joe,” sald today he had been notified by the Hays office of its objection to “certain lines of dialogue” in the film. He said he had been informed that unless fhey were cut ‘the picture would not be approved. Cowan said he believed the disputed lines included a soldier's repeated, “Damn it, damn it, damn it” as he looked at the body of his dead captain. “1 consider the public's seal of approval as the most important seal Ernie Pyle ever needed,” Cowan said.

yet. on the Hays office order, He

. | thotight *personally that “literature

| as classic as that Pyle wrote should not be tampered with." The film is based. on the dis-

Satoiated Fields Threaten Food Production in Indiana

| Camp, Inc. sees the Indiana story

He said no action had been taken |

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workable, The situation is eritical. Continued wet weather for a week to 10 days could be disastrous unless food growers are blessed with late fall which would keep frost from biting immature crops. H. H. Eickhoff, raw products production mansger for Stokely-Van

this way. Pea acreage has been reduced by 15 per cent due to unfavorable early planting weather with am estimated 10 per cent loss due to frost. Sweet corn already is behind two weeks in Planting with one day added forj

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CHICAGOANS. FACE LEAN. WEEK-END

‘Drivers’ Strike Keeps Food From Stores.

CHICAGO, May 19 (U, P.).—8Sat-~ urday shoppers at most of the 4000 “strikebound” Chicago grocery stores ‘were unable to buy perishable foods today. This was due to a strike of 6500 truck drivers who continued into the third day their refusals to haul food, merchandise and war materials. Spokesmen for the city’s three largest grocery companies said the strike of the independent Chicago truck drivers union-—in an attempt to enforce wage demands— had completely stopped deliveries of fruits, green foods and other

‘PACKED’ STRIKE VOTE CLAIMED

City Batbage Cr Crews May Take Action Alone.

' Except for unconfirmed reports of a secret meeting of garbage collection crewmen, the city maintenance workers't strike dragged through its 17th day uneventfully. City officials said they understaod the collection employees decided to meet by themselves, ruling out other city workers, some of whom belong to the union but are net actually out on strike. : Charges were made yesterday that certain street department ems ployees had “packed” previous sessions, voting against returning to work, though they, themselves, were not off the job. No New Employees . These were contained in a letter issued yesterday by Harold Fischer, international representative of the C. 1. O,, who alleged continuance of the stoppage was being encouraged by politicians interested in harassing the mayor. The striking union, the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, is an A. F. of L. affiliate, It. was believed that another soon by garbage collectors -only, who have remained out in force and borne the brunt of strike criticism. While backlogged trash was mounting, Mayor Tyndall's plans to retruit outside help to replace the striking collectors seemed to have sagged considerably: City Personnel Director Larry Pabsons said no pew employees had yet been assign¥d, although he had accepted applications.

AUTHOR SEEKS DIVORCE RENO, Nev, John Erskine, 65-year-old author, began six weeks residence here today. He indicated that he will seek » divorce from Pauline Ives Erskine.

perishables,

They were married in 1910.

District Marble Play Today

Will Cut Finals Field to Four

Four deft and sharp-eyed youngsters will stand alone tonight as winners in The Times-City Recréation Division district marble tournament being held today at Willard, Riley and Northeast community centers and Fall creek playground. Next Saturday one of them will be city marble champion and winner of ‘a prewar Elgin bicycle. Winners at the 16 sectional contests held last Saturday and during the week began another series of games this morning at tne four locations. Several hundred boys and girls under 15 entered the com-

One of the district Yosations " day—University Park cid to changed

James Crawfords ‘of Lockefield gardens today won the University sectional of The Times-Rec-reational division marbles tour. nament, held at Fall Creek blvd. and 30th st.

Sectional winners will. be presented with silver medals, while district winners are: to receive baseball gloves, Mrs. Norma Koster, tournament director, was hoping today that she would not be Yequired to exercise the hair-splitting judgment she did

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One mibster shot and before he could pick up his marble another player had shot and split the

Jback-to-work vote may be taken,

May 19 (U, P.).—|

Entered as-Second-Class Matter at Postoffice Indianapolis 9, Ind, Issued daily except Sunday

fast and furious 10-minute battle. “Then suddenly we saw the Jap Betty (twin-engined bomber) ‘approaching at 14,000 yards,” said Chancellor. “Something fell away ‘like .a belly. tank: “Then our men: seeing this thing coming at us started screaming, ‘What the hell is. it?’ “It was a flying bomb, silvery’

MYSTERY MAN

ABOARD U-BOAT

REACHING U. §.

Accompanied by 3 German Officers; Two Japs Buried at Sea.

PORTSMOUTH, N. H, May 19 (U. P.) ~The 1600-ton Nazi submarine U-234 reached this sur-

“oer “three Taftwafle officers and &|

mysteribus German civilian who had tried to escape to Japan. Two Japanese who had committed hara-kari aboard the, submarine reporfedly had been buried at sea. The submarine surrendered - 500 miles ‘east of Newfoundland this week .to U. S. naval forces.

was identified as Maj. Gen. Ulrich|

‘| Kessler, former German air fore|

commander in the Atlantic: The] other two were not jgeniifiod The eivilian scowled as ashore. He was ladened bic rie cases and ‘bags. Reaching U, S.| a member of the submarine piss carried one of his bags.

Dark, Stout and Tall

Apparently treated with deference by the Nazi seamen, he was a dark, stout man about six feet tall. He wore a battered felt hat and a rain coat, He also carried a gas mask, Reporters were forced to-stay at a distance as the ship’s company | walked ashore from a cutter that had taken them aboard when the U-boat moored - at the outer reaches of the harbor. All were hustled into busses under the watchful eyes of marine guards. ~ They apparently were taken to the naval prison on & hill behind the Portsmouth navy yard. Among the first group to reach shore was the submarine’s com=mander, Capt.-Lt. Johann Heinrich Fehler, 35. As Fehler left the coast guard craft that had brought the prisoners ashore, he growled a protest at his treatment. - On the way in he had been forced to sit with his arms crossed. “Your men treated me like a gangster,” he snapped at the coast guard vessel's commander, Lt. Charles Winslow. “That's what you are!” Winslow. “Get to hell boat.”

off this

U-Boat Commander

Kills Self in Cell

BOSTON, May 19 (U. P.).—Capt.Lt, Pritz Steinhof, 25, commander of one of four German submarines which surrendered to the .U. 8S. navy, committed suicide in his Cell at Charles st. jail here today. Army authorities announced that Steinhof broke his spectacles and used a jagged piece of lens to slash one of his wrists. He was taken to a nearby Massachusetts general hospital where he died shortly after his arrival. Steinhof was skipper of the U-873, one of four U-boats held at Portsmouth. He was being detained with other captured Nazi submarine personnel at the jail pending trans-

| fer to a. prisoner of war camp.

4 DEAD IN CRASH OF ROOSEVELT CAR

Buick Missing, Secretary Had Reported.

MIDDLETOWN, N. Y. May 19 (U. P).~Four persons were killed and two others injured today when an automobile, owned by Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, wife of the late president, struck a parked truck on Route 84 near Montgomery, N.°Y. State police identified the dead, all Negroes, as: Edison Mauldin, Stewart field. Daisy Hill, 20, Poughkeepsie. Edwina Riley, 19, 116 E. 120th st. New York. Dorothy Harris, 19, Poughkeepsie. The injured were James J. John-

was driving Mrs. Roosevelt's cont, and Pvt. Anderson John-

Stewart field. atiier today, the Dutchess coun-

son, Mrs. Roosevelt's secretary, that

other the car was missing. She said the

car failed to return tp the Roosevelt home after taking Mrs. Roose-

barked |

son Jr, 25, Negro chauffeur, who

vertible Buick at the time of the

ty sheriff's office had received a| report from Mrs. Malvina Thomp-|

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and twin-tailed with stubby wings and a teardrop” canopy for the suicide pilot. “When the pilot cut loose his rocket bursts, the bomb -headed down toward us at a, fantastic speed, about +425 knots (488 miles an hour). “We called full speed ahead as the gunner threw everything we had at the bomb.

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“T errifying'—Eyewitness Story of Baka Bomb Attack

“The damned thing exploded 50 yards awdy as one of eur five. inchers. caught it. 3 “Something like a warhead flew over the fantail and landed in the

- water beyond.”

Chancellor said he didn’t think the next baka bomb would be-.. quite so terrifying. “The bomb’s terrific speed iz puzzling,” he said, “but I think we. can handle it.”

LIED RIFT (OVER POLES 5 WIDENED

Diversionist: Charges. By PHIL AULT i United Press Siaff Corresposdent

May 19.—Premier Stalin bluntly affirmed Russia's refusal to negotiate with 16 arrested Polish leaders

uo | His statement,” London sources said, widened the rift One of the, inree luflwalle ofcers} | between the Sov dts and the Western allies on the Polish

“ARMY ALERTED IN TITO DISPUTE

iid Leader Refuses to Yield Territory.

By HERBERT KING United Press Staff Correspeosdent .ROME, May 19. — Marshal« Sir Harold Alexander announced today {that he had been unable to reach la. friendly agreement with Marshal “Tito on Yugoslav claims to slices of Italy and Austria. The allies now are waiting to see whether Tito will back his claims up with force. In a blunt statement baring for the first time the full gravity of the crisis brought on by Marshal Tito's territorial aspirations, the allied “ supreme commander in the Mediterranean said: “It is Marshal Tito’s apparent intention to establish his claims by force of arms and military occupation. “Action of this kind would be all too reminiscent of Hitler, Mussolini, and Japan. It is to prevent such actions that we have been fighting this war.” Alexander's statement was addressed to the allied armed forces in the Mediterranean theater. It alerted them for the period in which the allies wait to see “whether Marshal Tito is prepared to cooperate in accepting peaceful settlement of his territorial claims, or whether he will attempt to establish them by force.” The disputed Italian territory is

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By UNITED PRESS More than 300 American Superfortresses blasted Ha atsu, Japanese war production center 60 miles south of devastated Nagoya today. Meanwhile, fighting reached =a bloody deadlock on southern Okinawa. “Important allied victories were scored on four other land fronts. Chinese troops liberated the east coast port of Foochow which Jap-

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and other advisers.

issue. Stalin called for solution of the Polish problem and reconstruction of the Polish provisional government at Warsaw——in strict accordance with the [Criiean decisions. He asserted that the arrests of the 16 Polish leaders—among them men recommended by the United States and Britain for inclusion in the coalition regime—were in “no way connected with the reconstruction™ of the government. Neither, he said, had the Russians ever invited the arrested men to discuss formation of the new gave

don. “Soviet authorities do not and will not negotiate with violators the law on the protection of rear of the Red army,” he said. The arfested Poles — including Vice Premier J. S. Jankowski of the Polish exile government in London —were held by the Red: army on charges of diversionist’ activity be- - hind the Russian Jines. Stalin's statement was received with anxiety Bordering on astonish-

‘ment ip Whitehall and Polish exile

government headquarters. Particular surprise was expressed over Stalin's assertion that the 18 arrested. Poles had nothing to do with reconstruction of the Polish. provisional government. “That almost takes your breath away,” commented one British expert. A Polish exile government official called Stalin's reference to the arrested men “pure nonsense.” The exile government itself, which has refused to recognize the Crimean deeisions, was not expected to comment formally. Stalin's statement generally was

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B-29's Rip Another Jap City; Okinawa Battle Deadlocked

anese fear may become am Amers ican inyasion gateway to China. In the Philippines, American troops won two important objece tives,” the Ipo Dam of Luzon and the Valencia airfield on Mindanao. Australian troops completed the conquest of Tarakan, oil-rich island off the east coast of Borneo, The B-29's hit Hamamatsu at the noon rush hour and rained at least

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A Weekly Sizeup by the Washington Staff of the Scripps-Howard Newspapers

WASHINGTON, May 19.—Whife House is at work: on plans for the peace conferénce, is rounding up economies

It may be held sooner than anyone supposed. Proposal that it be deferred indefinitely, never. received with much favor here, has been scrapped. But Big Three probably will meet before it's held.

: » ~ ” CUT IN WAR spending will be under 10 per cent, possibly only 5 per cent, within foreseeable future, That's word from top army men. Its big reason. why. President Truman insists taxes must stay where they are. Many afictis. as "wel 8 other. folk, thigh hab wilh one

ernment as was TEnOrted in Lon- Res