Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 May 1945 — Page 2

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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

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Downed 3 Fines, Victor Over 15 Planes Ready to Go Again

Discuss Willkie

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GERMAN PRESS

Control to Continue Until Naziism ‘Is Purged.

By. BRUCE MUNN United Press Staff Correspondent PARIS, May 25. —Supreme headquarters announced today that the allies will exercise close control over news published in Germany until the purge of Nazi and militaristic influences is complete. AS HAEPF spokesman revealed that -an “Allied Press Service” will be established in the United Kingdom to produce all the world news selected for the German press. 1t will be headed by James T. Hart, New York newspaperman,| and include personnel from the | OWI and political intelligence de- ' partment of the British foreign office. : ‘Consistent With Security’ Information control teams will work with individual newspapers, exercising strict censorship of local news, according to the spokesman, Brig. Gen. R. A. McClure, chief of | the psychological warfare division of 8. HA. EF “Our policy was expressed by Gen.

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Grave Memorial |

RUSHVILLE, May 25 (U. PJ). — Plans to erect a’ monument marking the grave of the late Wendell L, Willkie have been dis=~ cussed by Mrs. Willkie and board members of the -cemetery where the late statesman is buried. At present, the grave of ‘the 1940-Republican presidential nom= inee has only a small marker. Friends of the family believe that the memorial will be erected in the near future.

HAIL. GENERA

‘Hodges Warns re ial of | Big Task in Pacific.

ATLANTA, Ga., May 25 (U. P).— Gen. Courtney H. Hodges, Georgiaborn commander of .the U. 8. 1st army, left by plane today for Washington for war department conferences. Following his" arrival in "Atlanta yesterday, a 10-mile parade in which almost half a million Georgians par= | ticipated, and official greetings by high state, city and military officials, Gen. Hodges and his party ant night were hailed by a “welcome home” crowd of 5000 at the city auditorium. | Hodges gravely declared that victory in Europe was “but a milestone By LEO S. DISHER in a campaign to defeat the aggresUnited Press Staff Correspondent sor nations and achieve a lasting HAWKS HEAD, Lancashire. Eng- | peace.” 25-—=The top German| He spoke soberly of the task still army and navy prisoners are living ahead and warned that “only victory in a magnate’s mansion in the in the Pacific can end our .war scenic. English. lakes country near effort; and until that time the milihere. tary forces and American civilians At least ;three admirals and 24 must not relax. : generals, including Lt. Gen. Kurt! Gen, Hodges, who was accomDittmar, former Nazi high com- | panied to Atlanta ‘by his complete

HOUSES NALIS

‘Top Officers’ Lives Spartan But Leisurely.

Eisenhower, who stated that a free press and the free flow of information and ideas should prevail in Germany in a manner consistent] with military security,” said. | "He emphasized, however, that there could be no restoration of a free press in.Germany until the] elimination of Naziism and mili-

tarism as dominant juftueness was,

complete. “We are not going to Jose the! peace by giving license to’ racialists,| pan-Germans, Nazis and militarists| so" they can misuse democratic | rights in order to attack democracy | as Hitler did,” McClure said. He is chief of information contro! | services for the United States group | .. control council and chief of the information control division of the United States theater staff. He said the objective was unemotional reporting for. the German press. Obfective control of all newspapers, radio stations and publishing and entertainment enterprises in the S. H. A. E. F.-controlled area . of Germany is designed to meet immediate military requirements for maintaining order and reorienting the German mind after 12 years of Naziism.

FAY ACQUITTED By DIRECTED VERDICT

NEWBURGH, N. Y, May 25 (U. P).~S8ix labor union leaders were acquitted of conspiracy charges by a directed verdict in supreme court| here yesterday, The verdict, ordered by presiding

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“Justice Charles W, VU. Sneed, ended |

the men's four-day trial on’charges of conspiring to obtain more" fan $21,000 from workers employed © the New York City aqueduct Wi

~ ect.

The defendants, including Joseph | FP." Fay, vice president of the Inter-| national Union of ®perating Engi-|-neers, and five officials of the New-| burgh local, were’ indicted nearly | two years ago as a result of the | state's investigation of union ac-! tivities connected with the $300,000,000 aqueduct project being constructed in Orange county. Sneed granted a defense motion to dismiss the indictment agains all six defendants, holding that = attorney generidl's office had failed! to prove any conspiracy on" their| part to violate the penal law. DENIES AUSTRALIA | DEMANDS INDICTMENT LONDON, May 25 (U. P).=J. B Chifley, acting prime minister of Austredia, denied today that Australia had demanded the indict ment and execution of Emperor _Hirohito as a Japanese war criminal. Chifley said Australia merely had submitted evidence of specific Japa-! nese war crimes to the allied war crimes commission. Reliable sources in London told the United Press previously that Australia had called for the execution of Hirohito as head of a state responsible for “systematic barbari. ties.” GATES IS SPEAKER VALPARAISO, May 25 (U. P) - Governor Gates was announced today as speaker for the Tlst annual commencement at Valparaiso university ‘next Sunday afternoon. The school's summer semester begins June 4.

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ITED TO ATTEND THE U. S,

WASHINGTON, May 25 (U. PJ). rs joint congressional economy mittee : has filed. a protest [amis war agencies increasing the number of their employees. Committee Chairman Harry F. Byrd (D, Va.) told the senate that war agencies showed a net increase of 1556 employees ~during ‘March and April. : “The committee feels that. such increases are not essential towards]

the war effort,” he said. Byrd said the office of price .administration added 1359 employees in the two months, the war man-

in April alone.

men from the ranks, said the] change- over of troops and supplies to the Pacific would be made as

would permit. The commander's forces were first | on the beaches of Normandy, first through the Siegfried line, and first to link with the Russians. He is also the first European commander to be welcomed home. While in Washington he presum- | ably will discuss with war depart- | ment heads the redeploymgnt of] his troops to the Pacific area where | they will be the first group to have |

mand military commentator, are; 1st a army staff and somee50 fighting imprisoned in huge Grizdale hall. /;= ——

a crack at both axis aggressors:

power commission added 523 and | the office of strategic services 340]

quickly as transportation facilities |

By WILLIAM H. STONEMAN Times Foreign Correspondent 115TH STATION HOSPITAL, London, May 25.—Three times down but never. out: Capt."Kenneth H. Dahlberg, a tousle- -heagled fighter ace from Wilson, Wis., today divided his time between trying to escape from this model hospital and recounting one of the wildest true stories ever to come out of this war. Trapped by an army order requiring all pilots released from ‘German prison camps to spend 16 days in| the hospital, for fattening and ob-| On Aug. 16 Dahlberg and seven servation, he had no luék with his other Mustang pilots attacked 20 escape scheme, M-109’s near Paris. Sixty more 109's It took Capt. joiped in and, in the melee that folDahlberg less lowed Dahlberg knocked down a tothan one year to tal of three. | ¥nock down | 15% Having knocked down a third one, |German planes, he fouhd that his engine was failho get shot down ing and that four Germans were on himself three his tail. S8o.he ducked into a cloud times, and to ac- and hit the silk. He landed on the quire a string of estate of Dennis. Baudoin, whose ribbons including wife is the former -Madelaine Duplan the D. S. Cy the of New York. So he just holed up silver star, the with their assistance and waited for 'D. 'F. C. with Mr. Stoneman |the U.S. army fo arrive. | cluster, the air medal with 15 - Four in One Day clusters, and the .double purple] Dahlberg's second big killing heart. {came late in September. Twelve Béfore the war Capt. Dahlberg | Mustangs, including Dahlberg's, | had an | interesting, if slightly beat up a German airdrome near prosaic position, as traveling super-| Limburg, then, minus two of their visor for the Pick Hotels Corp. number, ran smack into 40 Focke~ Chicago. Wulf-190's, Dahlberg was in on the first long-| The Americans plowed into the range escort trips made by Amer-|Focke-Wulfs and 10 of them ican Mustangs to Berlin, but 1t | knocked down a total of 24. Two | wasn't until last August that he be-| Americans were lost. but showed |gan to score heavily. He had a mod-~| up later as prisoners of war. Dahlest 212 planes to his credit by Aug. berg got four confirmed victories | 18. Then the fur began to fly. | that day, plus one probable.

On Desi 1 Dahlberg and three others dive-bombed a German transport east of Karlsruhe. Just as they were running out of am# munition, they ran into 30 ME109’s. Dahlberg got the tailender as the whole formation dropped its belly tanks and fled. He got another with his last ammuntion, That brought his: score up to 11%. * ° Taken Prisoner . Dec. 20 was his next big day. Dahlberg and his squadron had transferred to Thunderbolts for dive-bombing work and it was on

his first mission in the new plane’

that he connected heavily. As Dahlberg and four others stooged around they ran into 40 ME-109's. The Americans took after the Germans and collected ning scalps for a loss of two planes. Dahlberg got four certainties and one damaged. Dahlberg’s luck took another turn on Dec. 26. Flak caught him while he was dive-bombing near St. Vith and he made a forced landing in the woods. He was behind the German lines but some brave souls from the 6th armored division came crashing through with three tanks and rescued him. : On Feb. 14 his luck went ‘sour when a single puff from an “88” cut his plane in two over Bitburg, near Trier. He balled out from 10,000

feet. He was caught the next day. He was freed when the camp was

captured on April 29.

‘Dahlberg plans a short vacation at ‘home, then hopes to get into a Mustang again and take care of a few Zeros. ~ No doubt he will.

3 Sailors Start a Cigaret Scramble

ST. LOUIS, May 25 (U. P).~— - Three Texas sailors, on a little spree after months of overseas _service, nearly caused a riot when they pitched 30 packs of cigarets out of their hotel window onto the street. The men were Seaman 1-c Her ford Humble, - 19; Seaman 1-0 Claude Giles, 21, and Coxswain Julius Marks, 23, all of Orange, Tex. They sald they thought it would be fun to “give the civillans a thrill and see them stumble.” " It must have been.

HERSHEY ACCEPTS GARY, May 2§ (U. P).—Ma), Gen. Lewis B. Hershey, director of selective service, accepted today an

invitation to speak for a chame ber of commerce membership meete ing here Junie 25. Hershey is &

native of Angola.

. The British colonel who com- | mands the “prison camp” refused o answer any questions as to the whereabouts of such other prize prisoners as Reichsmarshal Her- | {mann Goering and Field Marshal; Karl von Rundstedt. No Rug Chewing The German generals and. ad{mirals are living a Spartan but | leisurely life. They are housed four in a room in double-decked iron beds. “They eat lin a.common mess- hall, served by German orderlies. The rooms are not carpeted so | anybody seized by a desire to chew a rug is out of luck. Today on the road were four Ger-, man officers having their constitu-| tionals under the watch of two British Tommies armed with rifles. The gates were guarded, but inside] other German. officers lolled in the sun. There are about 200 prisoners at Grizdale hall. Gliards said the prisoners spend their days sun-bathing, wring and reading. | The Germans wear their own uni- | forms, and also are issued British | battledress dyed green. The guards

Peace Still News In Austrian Alps

BERCHTESGADEN, May 25. (U. P.).—~There are still German soldiers who do not know the war is over, The 101st airborne division is picking them up daily—wehr- | machters who have been isolated for weeks in the Austrian Alps and completely out of touch with the news. “They come In daily, many on horseback, still fully armed and pretty surprised to learn it's all over,” said 2d Lt. Alfred Gres of Philadelphia, whose men arrested a dozen of them yesterday.

ST. LOUIS PASTOR | SUCCEEDS DR, VALE

Dr. William Lampe of St. Louis today succeeds Dr. Roy Ewing Vale of Indianapolis as moderator of | the General Assembly of the Pres. | byterian Church in the U. S. A. Dr. Lampe was elected yesterday | at Minneapolis at the annual meeting of the general assembly with’ Dr, Vale presiding. The election followed the moderator's sermon “God's The successful by a single vote. The opposing candidates were Dr. George H. Talbott of Passaic, -N J, and Dr. Ezra Allen Van Nuys of San Prancisco. Instead of the usual 1000 visitors and delegates to the general assembly the attendance was cut by governmental regulations to 386, “A post-war emergency fund of $25, 000,000 is expected to be voted and also an increase in the service pension fund of $7,000,000

candidate won

WICKARD OPPOSED WASHINGTON, May 25 (U. P) —8enat Henrik -Shipstead (R. Minn.) today opened a fight against confirmation of Secretary of Agriculture Claude A. Wickard as rural electrification administrator

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