Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 June 1945 — Page 1

Prisoners of the disciplinary barracks at Ft. Harrison Luddle in a corner of the stockade as flames sweep nine barracks. This picture, taken from a guard tower within the stockade, shows many lying on their stomachs, arms extended. Trained on these men from the tower Is a machine gun ready to" sweep the area if they attempt a fast break for freedom. Others were similarly herded.

TRUMAN URGES BIG WAR DRIVE

Reveals American Army in: Pacific Will be Doubled te Near 4,000,000 Men;

Warns Japs to Flee Cities.

By MERRIMAN SMITH United Press Staff Correspondent

WASHINGTON, June 1.—President Truman today called for renewed national effort in the war against Japan. He said the American force to be used there would be more than double the size of the present army in the Pacific.

This apparently meant that an army of nearly 4,000,000

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8 steadily increasing air war and| urged Japanese civilians to leave ‘Last Enemy Defense Line On Okinawa Crumbles.

their cities “if they wish to save their lives.” By FRANK TREMAINE United Press Staff Correspondent

Mr. Truman set forth his views in a 9000-word special message to PEARL HARBOR, June 1.— The last of Japan's main defense

congress on the status of the war. line on Okinawa crumbled today.

Release 2,000,000 Men It was an appeal not only to con- | Tokyo said the American 10th ‘army has hurled upwards of 120,000

gress but to all of the nation against any letdown from a false sense of feeling that the job is Just-about done; While telling in great detail of | elaborate plans for intensifying the war against Japan, the President noted that the strength of the army WASHINGTON, Jue 1. (I. P), {troops against the southern tip of —President told his !1e island. news conference today he could | While the 10th army paced the allied ground offensives in the Pa|cific, a fleet of 450 Superfortresses and 150 escorting fighters set fire to Osaka, Japan's biggest war production center. Returning airmen said smoke billowed five miles into the sky, enveloping some of the big bombers, The attack on Osaka came as the

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now say “definitely that a Big Three conference will take place in the not-too-distant future. He said, too, that he expected the San Francisco conference to end within 10 days. He still rejected any suggestion that the Big Three meeting might be expanded into a Big Four or Big Five confer-

ence, including France or China, |21st bomber command reported that| welfare department to a political! (continued on Page 2

(“the principal portion” of Yokowould be reduced from 8,300,000 to!hama's built-up industrial area was 6,068,000 in the next year, making devastated by Tuesday's. Superfort it possible to restore~a total of | raid. 2,000,000 officers’ and men to their! The command estimated . that homes. | nearly nine square miles of the He pointed out though that this|8reat city had been burned out or would be possible only by maintain- | damaged. ing selective service calls at a level| Front-by-front developments in substantially higher than required | the Pacific war neluded: : for combat replacements. BURMA-—The British announced “By maintaining our army at this | the formation of a second army, the size,” he told congress, “we shall Ph ae ; be able to more than double the| Continued on Page 11—Column 3) force we now have in the Pacific and hurl against the Japanese an | overseas force larger than the 3,-| 500,000 men who united with our allies to crush the wehrmacht and luftwaffe.”

Keep Japs Divided The President said our military

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WASHINGTON, June 1 (U. P).

policy for the defeat of Japan calls for: ONE: -“Pinning down the Japanese forces where they now are

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TIMES INDEX

Lee Miller ... Movies ...... Obituaries ... Fred Perkins. Radio Ration Dates Mrs, Roosevelt Wm. Simms . 18 Society....,20, 31 Bisnssree M

Amusements,, 22 Business 14 Comics -Crossword .,. 27 Editorials ..,. 18 Peter Edson , 18 Forum ...... 18 Meta Given.., 21

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—President Truman in an angry denunciation of black marketeers and tag chiselers “declared today that “we are not fighting this war to make millionaires.” f He threw his full support behind the campaign of Secretary of Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr, to strangle therblack market and track | down tax evaders. Mr, Truman in a special state-

ment said the American people]

know “the war is still far from being over.” “The one thing that might break down their will to keep on to eom{plete victory,” he said, “would be a feeling that afew were profiting from the sacrifices of the many. "We must see that there is no . + x x 5

FORECAST: Fair and warm today, tonight and tomorrow.

Japs Behead Eleven Baptist . . £7 . Missionaries | . NEW YORK, June 1 (U. P,).— Eleven Baptist missionaries and the 9-year-old son, of a mission= | ary were bebendsd by the Japanese in the Pangy hills in the

Philippines on Dec. 1943, the American Baptist For-

day. The society said the deaths were documented, officially, but the news had been withheld vntil now by the war and navy departments for security reasons. Dr. Jesse Wilson, secretary of the society, said that the missionaries had fled into the hills when the Japanese invaded the Philippines: - There they established a settlement called “Hopevale,” which ministered to Filipino guerrillas, The secret of their hideaway “finally was believed to have been learned by the Japanese by torturing a Filipino guerrilla, Dr. Wilson said. The war department the society of the executions in | 1944, Wilson said. He said that those beheaded were:

Page, Neb. James H. Covell a professor of Athens, Pa., and Leroy, N. Y. Mis, James H. Covell, his wife,

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PATRONAGE TUG ON IN WELFARE SETUP

‘Judge Rhoads Reported Resisting Pressure.

By SHERLEY UHL Juvenile Judge Mark W, Rhoads {today was reportedly resisting pressure to convert the Marion county

patronage basis. { Reorganization of the county welfare board, under provisions of a new state law, is now bein mapped. Terms of the previous board members expired Wednesday. {Judge Rhoads, who will name the | Ave new members, said this task { probably won't be completed before | next week. Meanwhile, the welfare departiment is functioning, without a

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Denounces

Market Cheats

land that is just what we are going to do.” He added at hig news conference that he thought it was a terrible crime for some people to hoard money and live off the black market when sons of their neighbors were dying to save the eountry. | Morgenthau is asking congress for enough money to add 10,000 investigators to the internal ‘revenue bureau's staff. Some 5000 of these new bureau emiployees, a | treasury ‘official said, will receive | classroom and = correspondence courses of four weeks before they get down to. business. 8 Mr, Truman issued this stafement: 3 “Secretary Morgenthau has told

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19 and 20, |

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notified |

Miss Jennie C. Adams, nurse, of |

* BOMBER PILOT DIES,

"FRIDAY, JUNE 1, 1945

STRAUSS & C0. 70 MOVE STORE

Lease Taken on ~ Story Occidental Building.

300 Laid Off At Bridgeport “Brass Factory

THE END of the European war Eight- caused a layoff at another In-

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dianapolis war nlanl foday when the Bridgeport Brass Co, | nounced it is letting 300 workers | | go this week-end. 2 Robert N. Allen, resident man- | ager of the company which operates the government-owned plant on ‘Holt rd. across from -Stout field, said the layoff was due to a 50 per cent reduction in production schedules for artillery items, including 105 mm. shell | cases and brass discs out of which | 76 mm., 40 mm., 57 mm. and 90 | mm. shell cases are made elsewhere. There was a 50 per cent in schedules for brass rods

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L. Strauss & Co., downtown In- | dianapolis clothing concern, has leased: the eight-story Occidental building adjacent to .its present { quarters-at 33 W. Washington st. and will move sometime this fall. The Occidental building, at the| southeast corner of Illinois and] | Washington sts, is owned by the {| Occidental Realty Co. of which G | A. Efroymson, president of the | Real -Silk - Hosiery Mills, is president. { The present Strauss location 1s| ¢U° jointly owned—the east two-fifths also. by the Wm. H. Block Co. and the Production schedules are being west, three-fifths by the Occidental| ncreased for small arms ammu- | Realty Co. : nition, Mr. Allen added, making T : is it necessary to rehire around Aug. o Use Whole Building L. Strauss & Co. intends to oc- | cupy the entire Occidental building. |

| Actual moving date will depend on! | the availability of supplies for fur-

| nishing the building, although its OLD TRAILS BUILDING i | long-term lease begins acre } |Sept. 1 and 15. ; t

| The. announcement was made by! _ {Ralph S. Norwood, Strauss presi-' t

| dent, at a dinner in the Lincoln ho- Accounts Branch Will Store tel last night for the store’s emRecords There. |

[Pos The Old Trails building at the southwest corner of Senate ave. and | W, Washington st. one of the few

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Mr. Norwood said he realized there had been many rumors that | such a move was in the making,' but that ‘we delayed saying so until conditions warranted it.” ‘War Comes First’ He pointed out that the new location is “at the junction of two|store records. main streets, Illinois and Washington. It is close to hotels, bus|gmnnte for the most part, since the and train - terminals, parking fa- . a cilities; entertainment and the Indiana Farm Bureau left it in the] | three big downtown department|spring of 1941 when it bought the! stores. {former Majestic building at the | Because the war comes ahead Of | 6 theast corner of Pennsylvania | furnishing new stores, Mr, Norw and Maryland sts.

—Column 6) | The upper five floors of the Old | ——————————————— Trails building will be used “By the ‘ | Central Retained Accounts branch Hoosier Heroes— of the army's fiscal division, which has offices now in the Century building. | The transaction was handled by Paul L. McCord, Indianapolis real’ estate man, and Carl E Stilwell, |attorney, representing the Ajax Corp., owners of the building, of | which. J. A. Bohannon is: president. |

vacant downtown office buildings,

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has been leased the army

The six-story building has been |

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Photos by Victor Peterson.

Also taken from a guard tower within the stockade, this photograph shows flames devouring three of the nine barracks destroyed. Thousands of civilians jammed the roads to Ft. Harrison as they saw the blaze leap skyward about 10 p. m.

from a distance of -12 miles, Military police kept traffic moving and a large area around the compound cleared because of sweeping gunfire.

The first glow was visible

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‘Story of G. I. Joe’ to Be Seen 1st Time at Loew's.

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The Morld premiere of Ernie Pyle's. “Story of G. 1. Joe,” based on the writings of the famed Times war correspondent, will be held at Loew's theater here July 6. Selection of Indianapolis for the

first showing to any civilian group | U.S. military prisoners at

~ FIRE AND RIOT

Fireman and Guard Lose Lives; Prisones Seriously Wounded; None Escape; Extra Duty Believed Cause. By VICTOR PETERSON

the Ft. Harrison disciplinary

was revealed by Lester Cowan of barracks attempted a mass escape last night after rioting

New York, producer of the film, in a telegram to Gov. Gates. The entire proceeds from

and setting fires in {wo build

the | The break was thwarted

3:3 . . : | initial showing will go to the Ernie’ wounded and many who are | Pyle , Memorial | university.

fund at Indiana | The fund will provide | | financial assistance for journalism |

and flames.’

12S. at a cost of two lives, threq nursing injuries from rocks

Authorities at the fort believed no prisoners escaped

students at the university where although the plans were well organized.

Besides Indianapolis, Terre |

Everett L. Jackson, 51, fireman at station 12, at 339

Haute, near Pyle’s birthplace, Dana, | N. Sherman dr., died at the fort first aid station from: in-

and Albuquerque, N. M.,, where his’ haling fumes and smoke. wife lives, also waited the pre- | miere, ! : Burgess Meridith Stars by a bullet believed fo have|

Barrett M. Woodsmall and |been fired by another guard] Ciaude Rich, both of Indianapolis, | ip a tower manning a will be general chairmen for the machine gun. The of Hint event in the Hoosier capital city : and tickets will go on sale soon. {ave been notified. Starring in the film as Ernie | Jason Baker, aid to Battalion] Pyle will be Burgess Meredith, who | Chief . Orville Marshall, formerly was stationed at Stout|seyerely on his hand and was treatfield a captain in the army led at City hospital. Through an arrangement with | : Mr. Cowan and Loew's theater, all| receipts from ‘the premiere will be A Negro prisoner donated to the Pyle fund at I. U, wounded by gunfire.. which The Indianapolis Times cor- received minor wounds. respondent’ authorized at the time| Those injured ‘from all causes he received an honor degree from | were taken to Billings .General .hoshis alma mater before going to the pifal and the fort station hospital. Pacific. Ambulances made repeated trips Classmate Is Chairman within the embattled stockade.|

z : ; Ka | Closely protected, it was impossible Mrs. Geraldine Pyle, Ernie's wife, determine the number of per-

is honorary chairman of the fund, and James S. Adams of New. York, | president of Standard Brands, Inc, and a classmate of Ernie at Indiana, is national chairman. The telegram to Governor Gates from George J. Schaefer of Lester, pis statement confirmed almost Cowan Productions, Inc. read: in complete detail The Times’ ear“It is my honor and pleasure 10) ier story based on evewitness deinform «you that Indianapolis has taj) as seen from within the combeen selected for the world premiere | 5nd and guard towers. of Ernie Pyle's ‘Story of G. I. Joe." | Lester Cowan joins me in gratitude to you and the people of Indiana |

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One Seriously Wounded was seriously

Two’ others

sons being taken from the scene. Maj. Gen. James L. Collins, commanding “officer of the 5th service command, Columbus, O., was at the fort when the riot began. He has been on an inspection tour.

Start Throwing Rocks He said: “About 9:30 p. m, May 3 prisoners of the disciplinary - | racks at Ft. Harrison began to t

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Listed as Wounded..

A pilot of a B-26 bomber has been killed in Germany and three other Indianapolis: men are listed as wounded. Four local heroes have |, been liberated from German prison camps,

KILLED

Lt. William H. Wishard, | Box 511, in Germany, WOUNDED Marine Pfc. Keith O. formerly of Indianapolis, Pacific. bd Pfc. .Robert L. Grant, | Olney st. in Manila, Pfc. Andrew Welsh, 642 Somerset ave, in Germany,

LIBERATED Pvt. Carl Vance, 1315 Ringgold ave, ; : | Lt. Kenneth B. Smith, 2006 N. Audubon rd. ..T. Sgt. Jack Blacker, 1032 W. | New York. sty; from Stalag Luft 4. Pvt. Amos Hugh Atkins, R. R. 6,

goes to the highest bidder campaign. Bundy, in the

1515 N. the compahy now serving in the ~ » LJ THE MANUSCRIPT, typed

remains open. There is only one

be sent, by mail,

$55,000 in Bonds Bid for Ernie Pyle's Manuscript

The Insley Manufacturing Corp. today offered $55,000 for the original Ernie Pyle manuscript which

This offer topped the $50,000 bid. of George J. Marott, which had’ been high for the preceding 24 hours, the offer, ¥. R. Oliver and’ F, D. Carroll, of the Insley Corp. said $4000 of the bonds purchased will be given to employees o

last days in the Pacific and bearing his own penciled corrections, will ko to the bidder who purchases thie biggest block of Seventh War Loan bonds. Bids can be raised as long as the auction

original, but because of the number of bids * and the interest shown, The Times has arranged to present a reproduction of it to all bidders of more than $5000; if they make ‘the actual bond purchase proposed in their bid. Bids should to The Times War Bond Editor, 214 W. Mary~

| by throwing stones at electric lights and at guards. Col. Peyton mandant, the

C immediately compound with iments for the guards time of fire broke out in a barracks ‘and an infirmary two widely separated buildings “A strong wind was blowing and despite prompt action on the part | of the: fire department and troops nine barrack buildings. burned Loss: Approximately $100,000. | “Immediate cause of the riot Js believed due to extra ‘duty this | afternoon for infraction of prison | rules. Indications are that the riot | wa¥ a planned affair; prompt and’ efficient action .alone. prevented a mass break” A high fort officer, who would not be quoted by. name, said thers has been a good deal of unrest | among the prisoners since:the re-|

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armed .forles. . ‘ ” ~ ~ by Ernie Pyle himself, in his

Pvt." Joseph McGee. Last Saturday. the war departcancelled a dishonorable

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Pvt. Elton Hendrix, Paducah, Ky.,

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lease and restoration to duty of |

a guard, was killed

He had years at The

been hard officer. prisoners

sentenced labor. said that many ol felt that if McGeds was pardoned, they should be toe, 2773 Held There A total of 3 prisoners are held the barracks. There were 190Q in the area affected by the mass es

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attempt The prisoners immediately begaly racing about as the fire broke oul and many headed for the doublee wire stockades, one eight feet high, the other 12 feet. State police and deputy sheriffs reported seeing seve eral shot as they tried to climb the compound fence. The general said that a nurabey of the prisoners aided in fighting the fire for a time, but were driven off by those intent on making 8 break. Several suffered burns. All fort personnel was called up and armed with clubs, rifles, autos matic rifles, sub-machine guns and 45-caliber pistols, A cordon of 1000 men was thrown about and rough 1 stockade at no mors

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REPORT ‘DEAL’ IN BEER DISTRIBUTION

‘Requests’ for Employment Of Republicans Hinted.

A deal whereby Democratic Mars ion county beer wholesalers will be requested” to open their employe ment rolls to some Republican pole iticians, was rumored today. Local Republicans - are said te have, hit on a subtle solution of the problem--how to get into the beer wholesaling business politically without stirring up too much fuss, Because the Marion county wholesale beer investment is so tre= mendous, the Republican powerss

that-be here have tread lightly and

politely. This has been in marked

contrast to situations outstaté where ~

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