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VOLUME 56—NUMBER 64 THURSDAY, MAY 24, 1945

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3 SOME INDIANAPOLIS war hond buyer is ~ Air ob Siac trad Newspapers: :

going to get an original Ernie Pyle manuscript. 1013~ 13th-st nw The Times has just one, |.It is a Pyle column, Washington, BC. in its original form, typed by Ernie him¥elf on a his famous portable, with the pencil corrections . he made before he sent it air mail, back to the “{. i : United States, and with the stamp of the cen[mm THE MARIANAS ISLANDS ¢ =~ The funniest man in our hut of B-29 pilots is Capt. sors who passed it. This one was written in the Marianas is-

. lands, not very long before Ernie was killed in A, profane and witty, He has a long action. = 2d.

Not ‘many of the steries h t neck’ and blond pompsdour hair and ¥ a wide mouth ay is the salt of the earth, ® typed out daily

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; S$ Bill Gifford, of Buford, 'Sevwbi-Gereiismer He's a aranlyftalicing goutherner, 1 most wa ! Before I arrived Gifford held the record for otis the skinniest man in the B-29

base, Tne other boys ould hin Sem "The 97-Pound Wonder," But now they can laugh at.me

| BLL Gifford is an old-timer in 8¥isties, much older than his. fellow pilots bere, He is 56, and has been flying about 17 years, As he says, he's "too dammed old to be in this bosbing business."

Be says he gets so scared over Japan he can hardijthink, and I iuagine that's true, .

a But 7 noticed he volunteered to go on a certain oe mission when it cAmes up,

| 1t turned out toat Giff and I had lots of mut

friends in the early airmail Jazz,

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YANKS CRACK AP DEFENSE "ON OKINAWA

Both Enemy Flanks Turned In Mighty Drive by Americans.

as here. 11d gone. wo visit in a nei: shboring hut for a By UNITED PRESS - Tenth army troops. in furious

few minutes nd he couldzh ‘find me, of, I would have been with him on it, Thank goodness |fighting, assaulted the fortifications of besieged Shuri today. They also advanced southward along the east and west coastlines. of Okinawa in powerful drives that turned both flanks of the Japanése line.

The enemy's Naha-to-Yonabaru defense system which has held off American forces 55 days showed signs of crumabling except at Shuri, core of desperate Japanese resistance.

such as Dick merrill “and Gene: Brom and Johny Kytle, so we've become practically

TWOFOLD HAPPINESS 1 A Local Mother Gets Best News, 2 Sons Are Safe

bosom pals, Lhe Ghandi Twins, you could call us, . (pn has’ been around in this world of aviation. Ha fiew the early night nirngll, He flew for Pan American in South sbi, He was in the Royal Canadian Air Force, and

made seven trips across the Atlantic) ferrying bombers to England, = (it's worth a theater ticket to hear Giff tell about a mission after he gots back, He uses his hands ard his feet and half the room and a great portion of ‘his vosabe ularyy gO De gets tickled and then he gets aad... hn z Lz some hat sverytiiog sivaye goes wrong wae aise is on a wissien, lis had an

experience to prove it vile

I always seen “ ‘step out at the Tight = ~=—=s] moment,

Lanyway, it was just a half hour before supper, when Giff got an emergency order to "8. Sgt. Everett Turner

veat it to tne airstrip right quick and take a ship up on a haif hour's test hop,

_— a A 4] Full Scale Drive’ —

’ : Shuri was threatened with immi- ) nent encirclement. Front reports ! He made the fiiznt pion , but when he got ready to land the wheels wouldnt indicated 6th division marines have ; massed for a full-scale drive into} shattered Naha to exploit a bridgehead deep inside the city. ! Dispatches said marines of the| # Ist division and infantrymen of | SERSSS the 77th and 96th divisions moved: Pfc. George T. Turner forward with raw courage in a frontal attack against the inter-| MRS. GEORGE TURNER, 212 lacing Japanese blockhouses, pill-| N. Fulton st., today was one of boxes and caves outside Shuri. the happiest mothers in Indian-

couwe down, Tnat's very annoying, you know, "Well, Giff radioed the field, ard then began working on those wheels, Of course : these big B-29s are so compiicatediy automatic that you do everythinz by little el-

ectrical switches and levers, and not by hand. ’ ;

the prelude to a general shakeup.

{ "Some guy must have s ent ail day crossing up wires on that airplane," Giff said in his comical exaggeration when he got back, Y "Instead of the wheels coming down, the bomb bay doors opened, When i tried to

shut them, the upper turret gun started shooting, I hit the 1igat switch by mistake, and the tail skid came down, Just fur tne pel of it I tried to Lower the fiaps, and instead tne bomo bay doors went shut, : ’ { "By taat time I'd turned it over to the co-pilot and was back in the bumb bay trying t make sdue sense out of the switchbox and get "things to working again, "But L couidnt ma <e head nor taii out of it, I worked on the damn tning for haif

an hour and was gettint madder every minute,

Tokyo Claims Invasion

Meanwhile, Tokyo radio claimed that Japanese’ storm troops have landed on Morotai island, American base off the north coast of Halmahera -and ‘400 miles southwest | of Davao in the Philippines. The enemy broadcast, heard by United Press at San Francisco, said | “surprise raiders” came ashere at | night on landing barges, penetrated | the American coastal cordon. Tokyo admitted that American |

apolis. Soa ; In less than 24 hours she Teceived two telegrams informing her that both her soldier sons were safe and in American hands. Pfc. George T. Turner was re= ported missing Jan. 21, 1944, when he was" fighting with the Tth army in Franee,. On May 6 the war department notified Mr. and | Mrs. Turner that George was a prisoner, Less than a month before

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

Original Pyle Manuscript For Sale—To Highest War Bond Bidder

ywhere in this original form.

perhaps mo&t, were sent back home by radio

copy lost after transmission.

Even those which reached this country ordinarily were not preserved after publication. And of all the stories he wrote only a few came, as did this one, from the Pacific theater. So the few that remain have already become , collector’s items of this war. This one—No. 26 of Ernie’s Pacific columns —goes to the person who is willing to buy the

r bonds to get it.

MESSAGE ASKS BROAD POWERS T0 REORGANIZE

President Wants Flexibility To Bring Efficiency in Executive Branch.

WASHINGTON, May 24 (U, P). —Président Truman, moving vigorously to remake the administration he inherited on April 12, asked congress today for permanent authority to make the executive branch “more business-like and efficient.” He asked for legislation so flexible that it would permit the chief executive to undertake “any form of organizational adjustment, large or small, for which necessity may arise.” The President’s request, couched in a special message to congress, followed by less than'12 hours announcement of new cabinet changes which some observers believed were

Business Manager

Mr. Truman's message was general in nature, but it recalled reports heard here this week that he is well-disposed toward the idea of setting up a “general business manager” for the government. The legislation he is requesting would make it possible for him to do so. It also would give him broad

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Heinrich Himmler

BIG 3 MEETING

HIMMLER, GESTAPO HANGMAN, COMMITS SUICIDE IN PRISON

Truman Seeks ‘More Business-Like’ Regime

CAPTURED BY BRITISH ARMY LAST MONDAY

Troops Apparently - Not Aware of Identity Until Death.

LONDON, May 24 (U. P.). —Heinrich Himmler, the once-dreaded gestapo hang man, committed suicide in a British military prison at Luneburg last night to escape trial and almost certain execution.

The . former gestapo chief, object

many’s capitulation more than twe

§ y of a relentless manhunt since Gers IN ‘THE WORKS’ a oreinimriiins

White House Reports Trips Part of Pattern.

WASHINGTON, May 24 (U. P.). —The White'House said today that a Big Three meeting is “definitely in the works.” . Presidential Press Secretary Charles G. Ross emphasized that the London and Moscow diplomatic missions of Joseph E. Davies and Harry L. Hopkins, annoynced by Mr, Truman yesterday, do not in any way take the place of the projected Big Three meeting.

| weeks army at Bremervoerden in Lo Bi Germany last Mbne | day. First accounts from 24 army headquarters indicated the Britons were not aware of their notorious captives identity until his body was searched in a temporary headquare ters cell shortly after 1 o'clock las night.

TOTAL CASUALTIES SO FAR: 996,089

WASHINGTON, May 24 (U. P.). —Officially reported U. 8. combat casualties edged close fo 1,000,000 today with losses in all theaters totaling 996,089.

|guard against duplicatibn of effort | for such a conference were “in the|

powers to make virtually any other| Both President Truman and| The new total was 9,875 ‘more. innovations in the interests of effi-|Prime Minister Winston Churchill {than a week ago, the smallest seven ciency, recently have expressed desire for day gain in many months, The proposed business manager|® meeting with Premier Josef]! The overall total included 886.« would not be primarily a policy- | Stalin, but Ross’ statement was the 525 army and 109564 navy, marine

making officer. Instead he would first official revelation that plans corps, and coast guard casualties,

——— —— |and expense, making recommenda-| Works.” | UNDSERGE DUE IN FOYNES tions to the President. Hopkins, .for years the late Presi- May 2¢ (U. P).— Permanent Powe dent Roosevelt's most intimate ad-|Charles A. Lindbergh was expected

torpedo boats engaged the landing | George was captured, 8. Sgt.

EXPECT GO SIGNAL

|"Finaily I just got so disgusted I pavied off and gave toe goddam switchbox a good smack with the screw-driver, and started to walk out, And just like tnat the wacels caue down and everything was fright. Gifs looks more Like a Texas cowboy than a bomber pilot, He's a conscientuous ob-

jector to all forms of exercise. All the pilots sleep all night and haif tne day, but

Giff sleeps more than any of them,

3 Tig.

ON CAR PRODUCTION -

Conference’ Today by WPB.

DETROIT, May 24 (U, P.),—An| early green light for reconversion of automotive factories to production of cars was'indicated- officially today when the war production

Press Called

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Motorists Get Extra Gasoline

Mr. Truman asked congress speci- | fically to enact legislation similar to the emergency-born reorganiza~ |

be permanent, and added: “No agency of the executive! branch should be exempted from

Ration in June!

WASHINGTON, May 24 (U. P.). —That extra gasoline motorists) were promised after V-E day will come to them in June. But it won't be enough to do much extra joyriding. “A” gasoline ratioris will be in-

p didnt an from flak or Jap fignters.,

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4 board summoned an urgent press | creased only about a gallon a week. Lie is probably toe most, windlitary Lats in tha oust, fle's just. an oid-ghoe Suuth- conference. “B” rations will be increased, but Robert Silbar, public relations di- only if card holders can demon- |

rector for the -WPB's Detroit re-|qi oie jncreased meed to their local gion, said the conference would ration boards.

produce information officially | Announcement - of the increase fecting the automobile industry. | was made jointly by Petroleum Ad-

erner, and pordius as om be. On his I fare a wap of: be 7 Pacif «C and a picture of

his wife, He goes around, most of the tise in not. but white under-drawers,

the scope of the legislation, and| the legislation should be WATE broad and flexible to permit of any | {form of organizational adjustment, large or small, for. which neces-| sity’ may arise.” The President said he would welcome the help of congress toward!

viser, and Davies, former U. S. am- | {0 arrive at Foynes after a trans< bassador to Russia, will «undertake | Atlantic flight today. He was re. | their missions as “part of the gen- (ported to be touring Europe on.an

Bill Extending Social Security | Is Introduced

WASHINGTON, May 24 (U. P).

{—A bill to extend social security|

benefits to an additional 15 ,000,000 |

FST TEST WON

aviation assignment on behalf of

tion act of 1939. He proposed that it | (Continued on Page §—Column hi {the U. S. army and navy.

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ON BRETTON wooDS

Administration Cheered by Committee Vote.

improving the executive branch's persons and provide federal grants| WASHINGTON, May 24 (U. P).

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Hoosier Heroes—

2 KILLED, 1 | 3 WOUNDED, 11 FREE

| While conferences between indus- | yyynistrator Harold L. Ickes and the [try and government officials pre-| mice of price administration. Ickes viously have resulted in semi-offi-| iy he took “great satisfaction” in hot shen off ‘wath a shotgun when ne was cial predistions that reconversion giving civilians more gasoline for would start July 1, nb official WPB authorization has been Issued.

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Witness Denies Brain Tumor

Caused Death of Mrs. Kelly

Defense attorneys for Charles E. gunshot wound in detail. Then Mr.

Kelly, charged with first degree] | Christian dwelt on discovery of a murder in the death of his wie | Small brains Sumor: during the au.

last September, today in cross-ex- | He had the doctor discuss the! amination sought to show that a type of tumor, and its probable efbrain tumor might have had a fet on the human body. bearing on her death. Prosecutor Sherwood Blue introThis was denied in criminal court | quced into evidence pictures of the by Deputy Coroner Wesley C.|pody taken at the autopsy.

= on mission v bombing 8 8 in 3, Hie says if he nev -T goes on anotoer misgion in his Ward, who ‘performed: the au retary Ue ile tears on Mrs. Kelly following the tragedy when Informed his wife, Ruth, had

ute 1 wg suit. hin tins, : we Sept. 21, 1944 at her ‘home - near | died from a bullet wound, accorda ! . 46th st. and the Postard. |ing to Ernest Pearce, state police » fh, “In my opinion Mrs. Kelly died detective. Pearce was recalled to '. |from a hemorrhage resulting from the stand today following Previous # gunshot wound, m Dr. Ward de-! testimony yesterday. clared. The detective told the jury of He ‘was questioned closely - by ine women and three Sen how he

hunting quail many years ago, de writes a beautiful and by noiding tne pen between

thumb and last two fingers, He holds a beer can the same way, — PIAS TET 26 | oases calls his plane "Honshu Hank," He wants to form a hew fraternity called "Fojiyama, '44," Its meibership would be limited to those who had flown over Japan '

for health insurance, unemployment compensation and public as-

sistance benefits was introduced to- |

day by Senator Robert F. Wagner (D. N. Y). Latest version of the famed Wagner-Murray-Dingell bill which died in the last congress, ‘the!

| Tt was introduced simultaneously!

—The house banking committee ap« {proved the Bretton Woods agrees ments by a 23 to 3 vote today, giving the administration a thumpe {ing first round victory on thas sector of its foreign policy front. The vote strengthened hopes of administration supporters for house

| measure was co-sponsored by Sen- approval of the agreements by an | ator James E. Murray (D. Mont.). lequally topheavy majority,

Voting to approve the measure

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fantryman on Luzon today were | {added to Indianapolis’ gold star! honor roll. Hoosier heroes also | include a private missing in Germany, three servicemen wounded | the Pacific and 11 freed from Gers | man prison camps. KILLED 8gt. . Kenton R. "Carter, 1820 Ruckle st., on Luzon. Seaman 2-¢ George A. Yarling, 3629 Coliseum ave., in the Pacific. MISSING Pfc. Merrill .E. Stoneking, R. R. 1, Osgood, in Germany. WOUNDED 8. Sgt. James R. Wyatt, 2014 W Wyoming st., over Tinian, ; -“ Marine Pfc, Ernest Doan Jr. 1410 Laurel st, on Iwo Jima. Aviation Radioman 3-c¢ Leohard Ray Young, R. R. 15, Box 198, north of Okinawa,

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Capital Wonders Who' s Next After Three Cabinet Changes

(Other cabinet stories, Pages 5, 8 and 14,

By CHARLES T. LUCEY Soripps-Howard Staff Writer WASHINGTON, May 24.—-Wash-| ington caught its breath today after! the swish of President Truman's | cabinet housecleaning; and bureauc- | racy’'s bigwigs sat on the edge of| .|thelr chairs wondering: Who's next? r. That other important changes were ahead was accepted widely. Harry 8. Truman was showing who was boss. He was plain spoken yesterday in saying he -had received the resignation of just about every. body in the government who could resign. Bluntly the President remarked

labor, Tom Clark to be attorney general and Clinton Anderson to be secretary of agriculture meant a re« emergence of the cabinet as a

| stronger part of the government

[than it has been for a long time. Under Secretary Frances Perkins,

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