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VOLUME 56—NUMBER 2
By HAL O FLAHERTY
Times Foreign News Analyst I CESSATION OF hostilities between France and its mandated: peoples if Syria will not end the shocking. ‘ breach of international peace that has occurred in the past week. ;
The fight for control of trade, oil and national pres-
tige will go on as it has for more than three thousand years,
BRITISH HOLD FRENCH ARMY UNDER GUARD
Take Control of Levant; Russia Backs U. S. And Britain.
By PHIL AULT
United Press Staff Correspondent
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Shp at Russia Seen in Pope's Talk on Peace
: EDWARD MU or Press Staff MURRAY. ROME, June 2.—Pope Pius XII, in an implied slap at Communist | influence in Europe, said today that [ small nations have a right to reject a government imposed upon them against their will. They have suffered long in the past and are entitled to refuse the ‘imposition on their national life of a new political and cultural system” opposed by a majority of their | people, he said in _a world-wide
N 9 LONDON, June 2.—British troops| | broadcast.
confined . French soldiers and pos- | “What would all the sacrifices ve sibly civilians to barracks through-| worth if oppression and violence out troubled Levant today | should govern the world again?” he British warships steamed into | asked. Bevrouth harbor | The Pope called for the punish- |
in a Show of | strength. [res of Nazi. war criminals -and
A Damascus dispatch sald British troops, ready for action at the slightest provoéation, took over all French-held points. in Levant. They surrounded French barracks to insure the troops would remain inside. “Frenchmen throughout the country will be confined to .barracks until some decision has been Jaen
in London,” the dispatch said. It did not make clear a ei]
the “Prenchmen” included civilians Injects &s well as troops. Russia Backs Britain, U. S. Other developments in the Levant situation included: ONE: Vice Adm. William G Tennant, British commander in the | : | - Levant and eastern Mediterranean, {Uncertainty and potential consteamed into Beyrouth harbor with troversy was injected into the a number of British warships. { United Nations conference today. TWO: Russian backed up British| This came through a Russian proand American demands for imme-|posa]l that the Big Five veto power ¢ diate peaceful settlement of the] French-Levant dispute.
THREE: Premier Abdel Hamid | Karameh of Lebanon and President | Deretofore contemplated. Shukri Al Kuwatly of Syria said no| Some delegates frankly. expressed! arrangement was possible with apprehension that the Russian plan | France and called for the immedi- might throw a new and serious snag | ate withdrawal of all Freiichmen, |into the already-delayed progress of
| 4 eren FOUR: A Beyrouth dispatch said {the conference.
The plan was outlined in the| Kuwatly had asked Gen. Sir der- . aviet Union's long-awaited internard C. T. Paget, British and allied |S n 8
{pretation of the Yalta voting for-| commander in the Middle East, “ula, presented to the conference's
IA} Gen. Dive Ropel Ye ie Bo | Big Five at a meeting late last night. eral who oradere 1e “shelling o Takes “Tough Attitude”
Damascus, as a war criminal to be tried by an international court. | The American delegation met this : {morning at the apartment of Sec-
ea in hayied 2 retary of State Edward R. Stettinius| PEW oulreas oF Violence, mcuemng | (Jr, to discuss with him the Rus-
d , in Damascus on|.. looting and arson, In 5 sian interpretation prior to a session | their arrival yesterday and no new
incident a 2 ed {BE? of the Big Five. The Big Five de-| sim ga Ly or {cided last night to meet daily until]
SIX: More than 10,000 Lebanese | marched through -Beyrouth today | and received assurances — from
received assurances ron REP. WILSON HOME ea Boone a Pend AFTER SEEING.G. L’S
under duress or give up one milli- | NEW YORK. June 2 (U. P.).— Meter of our rights” | Rep. Earl Wilson (R. Ind.) was SEVEN: A British foreign office | pack today from an eight-week tour commentator said the next diplo-|or combat zones as interpreter of matic move was “impossible 10ithe G.I. Bill of Rights. He said foresee.” He saw no indication | soiiers he interviewed were pri-| Russia would be asked to partici | marily interested in getting home| pate in any diplomatic conversa |, take advange of the measure’s | tions “if indeed such conversations | provisions. do now take place,” since the| wilson returned last night trom Levant matter primarily concerned |g trip to the United Kingdom, Eu- | allied communications for the |rope Africa, the Persian gulf and|
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New Nou Uncertainty Into World Parley. | By R. H.
United Press Staff Correspondent SAN FRANCISCO, June 2.—New
SHACKFORD |
in the world ‘security council cover | la broader range of matters than
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{sugar situation is tight and gen-
Syria's plight would wring tears from a stone. the very moment when freedom for the Syrian ei
seemed sure, the ancient custoni of the victor in a war taking the spoils has been reasserted.
There are, from latest
million people in Syria, a country lying on the eastern shores of the Mediterranean.
square miles.
HOPES TO END | FOOD CONTROLS
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Its history goes back to the 15th century
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before Christ. Throughout
nations.
estimates, more than two
by the Egyptians from the
700,000 © Romans, the old Ottomans a
Its area is about
Halsey Returns to Pacific Fight
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AFTER V- DAY.
Bowles Says Sugar Problem - Will Remain; Expects More Meat Soon. By GWEN MORGAN
« United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, June 2.—Food price and rationing controls can be lifted quickly after the Japanese war is won—within a year if victory comes that soon, Price Chief Chester Bowles said today. Bowles also said gasoline rationing would end with the close of the Japanese war, The price administrator told a congressional] committee yesterday he expected civilians to get more meat beginning in July as a result jof new OPA measures. Bowles, in an interview, gave the atest official word on the future of rationing ‘controls: Sugar Remains Tight Referring to the possibility of lifting food controls soon after V-J day, he said he meant all controls on all food except sugar. The
erally expected to get tighter. “But food controls must be kept this year—if they're - not, things | will blow up,” Bowles declared. The office of Senator Robert PF. Wagner (D.- N. Y.), meanwhile, said the senator was misunderstood when reporters quoted him as saying price and rationing con- | trols must remain until 1950. It was asserted Wagner told reporters any estimate—such as" the year 1950—was “pretty strong.” His | office emphasized that he did not’ ‘mean ‘-controls should continue juntil that time.
Automobile Outlook
Bowles declared that fresh fruits | land - vegetables would be free of |
icertain that they would have to be put under control again this | { fall. He predicted that as soon as the| 1,000,000 or more automobiles! needed for the most essential users | are produced—which should be in| a year or so—automobiles would | {be freed of both price and rationfing control. He said that building wiih
| probably would be among the items | kept longest under price control be-
cause of the great reservoir of demand. Rent control, he suggested, might continue under city management for some time after OPA’s demise. Confident of Continuance - Bowles is confident that the price control act, due to expire June 30, will be extended for another year | without too many “weakening” amendments. He said he depended on the great middle section of the people to back
(Bull) Halsey
3d Fleet Back in Action For Grand Assault on Japs,
FRANK TREMAINE United Press Staff Correspondent PEARL HARBOR, June 2—“Bull” Halsey is hammering the Jap{anese again. The navy announced today that Adm.
Adm. William F.
William F. Halsey's 3d fleet
{pad taken over from the 5th fleet around the Ryukyu islands south | {price regulations now if he weren't | of Japan.
Halsey himself said he was ready to go—"anywhere between the!
NAVY 1S MASSED : T0 SMASH JAPS
U.S. Peepted to to Meet Fury Of Suicide Attacks. |
-| North and South poles.”
| world’s most powerful naval might. His return to action around OKkinawa was accompanied by a number
array of
0 be the first Pacific re-deployment
etary to the grand assault on | splotched records, both in military conversion”
Japan, Nearing Close
was drawing toward a close. U. 8S. By LOUIS F. KEEMLE 7th division forces battled within United Press War Analyst sight of the south shore of Okinawa. The United States navy has mar-| Japanese resistance was dwindling.
shalled its air and surface forces | Front reports said that within in the waters around Japan for| two weeks the big island might be] the battle of extermination. {in American hands and ready for The fight is against ap enemy |conversion into a prime base for| whose final, despairing weapon is| the storming of Japan. kamikaze, or suicide. The aerial bombardment of Japan. Adm. Chester W. Nimitz has now had mounted to almost daily shifted his command to meet the |blows. Tokyo said 200 carrier planes
of the world has been ravaged by conquerors,
Halsey's command comprised the |
Alpeady the battle of Okinawa!
Pacific war, in which Russia was | the China Burma - India theater | | OPA, adding that it was encourag-
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not involved. Citizens Cheer British Tanks Damascus dispatches said the city’s inhabitants, crowding into the streets for the first time in two| weeks, “deliriously cheered” rival of British tanks, armored cars and ground troops yesterday. An ovation was given Paget when he entered the city with.an escort | of armored cars,
French troops behind their Sat racks enclosures watched glumly as|
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the ar- | lead to changes in the. bill.
| with “3000 ~ questions” about - the |
lG.I. Bill of Rights from the men |
for whom it was designed. Most queries he answered on the spot, Wilson said, but the rest may He said he would confer with other repre. sentatives and government officia on the basis of his global } Seid
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De Gaulle Attacks s British Policy In Middle East Crisis
By HENRY P. McNULTY United Press Staff Correspondent PARIS, June 2—Gen. Charles de Gaulle strongly attacked British policy in the Near East today. “He inferred that blame for the crisis in the Levant lay in London. De Gaulle said that, France is willing to negotiate for the solution of the crisis—but on a general basis of questions concerning the Arab world as a whole rather than a basis of international rivalries, He sald France regarded the matter as one which could provide ~ an opportunity for the sort gf international co-operation sought at . 8an Francisco.
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De Gaulle—appearing at a press | conference ‘in the uniform of a full | general—charged that British intervention in Syria and Lebanon was in violation of the Anglo‘French agreement signed in July, 1941, which . provided for: French command of forces in the two states. This was the agreement made by De Gaulle and the British at the time the British—with Free French assistance—ousted the Vichyites from Syria and Lebanon. It included a French pledge to negotiate with the Syrians and Lebanese for establishment of their - dedependence. De Gaulle denied that any American lend-lease arms are being used by the French in the Levant but added “I do not know whether any
other groups are using them.’
France had special interests and a cultural affinity with - the Arab races, De Gaulle’ said, and“ has
{played an eminent role in rela-
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| ing to see by the polls that an over- | whelming percentage of them did. “There's the 5 per cent who are chiselers and cheaters; cent,, like my
father-in-law in
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INDUCTED IN DRAFT
Young Men Will Will Replace Wounded Veterans.
WASHINGTON, June 2 (U, P.), —Selective service is preparing‘ to | draft into the army 25,000 men between 18 and 25 who are slightly | below ‘the .normal physical require ments for induction, it was learned today at the war department. | These inductions, scheduled for | June and July, are expected to make possible .the early release of veterans with more than 85 discharge points who have been assigned to non-combat duties in the United States because of physical disabilities suffered overseas, The group of 25,000 ‘will be in addition to the regular quotas of 100,000-for June and 70,000 for July. Generally speaking they will be men whose physical condition was formerly acceptable for limited service Inductees, a classification which has been abolished. It was expected that many of-the 25,000 will be men with slightly sub-standard eyesight, Men with, hernia or afflictions of the feet and Joints will not be taken. - To provide the extra 25,000, selec-
re-examination previously rejected Men fin 3 wh we uly Shay
tive service “has instructed Toeal | ‘boards to reclassify and send up for |.
grim challenge. All but a “handful” |escotted by flying boats bombed of the navy's fighting manpower | and gunned Japanese suicide plane
has been assighed to the task in|bases on the main home island of!
the Pacific, President Truman dis-| Kyushru for two hours today. closed. Only yesterday American SuperThe Japanese have made clear, | by word and action, the nature off
hele edmpalen. ae sits usel TWICE-CONVICTED MURDERESS TO DIE
of the remnants of their air force {and navy to kill and destroy withLOS ANGELES, June 2 (U., P.. -—Mrs. Louise Peete, 63, twice-con-
out regard to losses. Trained for Suicide Adm. Nimitz declared that the|Victed murderess, yesterday methods planned are lof an enemy trapped
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in an in-| 828 chamber for. her second murcreasingly desperate situation.” der. All she said was Aerial suicide tactics have heen 21 over with” in use by the Japanese for several DO emotion. months. - While waiting for Judge Harold The Tokyo radio has just an-|bandreth to pronounce’ sentence, | nounced that all. branches of the{Mrs. Peete said goodby to court navy are being trained in suicide. |3ttendants. “It has been very pleas- | American navymen take that to|Ant meeting you” she said and | thanked them for their considera(Continued on “Page 2 —Column 7) ' tion of her.
Plow Firm Offors $100,000 For Ernie Pyle Original
BIDDING FOR the Ernie Pie manuscript reached $100,000 today. Leading the field, as. the week ended, was the John Deere Plow Co., of Indianapolis with an even * $100,000 offered. Top bid at the close of the previous . "i day's auction had been $55,000. ‘Bidding has jumped, in a single week, from an initial offer of $5000 to the present level. ; y Ld y » » ” ' THE MANUSCRIPT, typed by Ernie Pyle in a Pacific island © a few days beforé€ his death in battle, is ofe of the few originals left of all the hundreds that were wrilten by {he famous’ Indiana” war correspondent, It will be presented ‘to the person, firm, corporation or group willing to make the biggest buy in Seventh War Loan bonds: - Unsuccessful bidders of $5000 ‘or more’ will be given replicas of the original manuseript upor ge that they actually have.
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its entire history, this bit torn bv
internal strife and traded like real estate between other
Syria has been overrun by the Persians-from the east,
south, by the Mongols, the nd the Turks.
Until the end of the last war, Syria had been a part
PRISON EXPERT AIDS BOARD IN PROBE AT FORT
fa H. MacCormick Here To Help Investigate Fire and Riot.
Austin H. ‘MacCormick, outstand-| {ing military prison authority, ar- | rived at Ft. Harrison today as an | army board continued - investiga{tion of a fire and riot, at the dis- | ciplinary barracks Thursday night. Two lives were lost and nine bar-| i racks destroyed in the fire. | Mr. MacCormick, who is con- | sultant on military prisons for the | undersecretary of war, accompanied {the five-man board on a tour of | inspectiof® today. The prison expert formerly was
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| commissioner of correction in New|
York City and assistant director {of the federal prison system. He is {now on “loan” from the prison sys- | | tem to the war department. In Advisory Capacity Ft. Harrison officials stressed that | Mr. MacCormick is here only in an {advisory capacity to consult with an |investigating board appointed by Maj. Gen. James L. Collins, of the! 3th service command. The investigation proper and the final report will be in the hands of
{a board composed of Lt. Col. Edwin{"
T. Swenson, Maj. Isaac K. Hay, and Lt. ‘Melvin S. Katz, of the 5th | service command; Maj. Francis A. Groves and Capt. Leving Y.-Mc-Carty, both of Ft. Harrison. Meanwhile, officials of the disciplinary barracks said the com{pound was more than three-fourths restored to normalcy. Damage Set at $100,000 Quiet was restored among the [1900 soldier-prisoners, who rioted in protest against extra duty and are believed to have started the fires which caused more than $100,000 damage. With the. exception of the part (of the compound which suffered heavy fire damages, details were on routine duty. The entire compound is expected to resume normal operation Monday, after the detail sched- | {ules are rearranged. The 1900 soldiers involved in the | | rioting are a “part of 2773 army pris-|
jof command changes in what looked | gners housed at the disciplinary | aupumn changed the emphasis to
barracks. A check- revealed] | service and civilian life. Reports from. the federal bureau ' of investigation showed ‘that 477 of the men had been arrested three | or more times in civilian life, 361 had been juvenile correction cases {and 463 had been committed either to jail or penitentiaries. |
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2 LOCAL MEN ARE WOUNDED, § FREED
Casualty List Includes Officer and Sailor.
An- infantry officer in Germany and a seaman off Luzon, both of} Indianapolis, have been wounded in| action. Six other local men have| been liberated from German prison | camps. | WOUNDED. Lt. John B. Summers, 3030 E. | (10th st, in Germany. | Seaman 1-c. Winfred Eugene) Maners, 505 N, Alabama st, off| uzon. | LIBERATED | Capt. Robert C. Patrick, 201 N.! Mount st., from Stalag 7-A. T. Sgt. Roy E. Evans, 742 Greer | |st., in Germany. T. Sgt. Robert M. Garnett, 1016 Division st., from Stalag Luft 4. Pvt. George P. Murley, 24 S. State ave, in Germany. Pfc. Lyman W. Peterson, Orange st., in Germany. Pvt. Gene Paul Davis, Sherman dr, in Germany,
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‘REPORT OF LAVAL SUICIDE IS DENIED
. LONDON, June 2 (U, P3>.—A report that Pierre Laval, former chief of the Vichy government, had | committed -suicide in Barcelona to
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| estimated at $50,000,000, |
“FINAL. HOME
PRICE FIVE CENTS
Peace Or Spoils Of Victory? Syria s Plight An Old, Old Story
of Turkev—crushed but not dead under a rule as despotic as anything ever known. While its people are largely Mohammedan, there are vestiges of all religions in Syria and its neighbor countries. Religious war has scourged its cities as often as political conquest.
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MAN SLAIN
INSLUGGING - WAVE HERE
Vietim’s Body Left in Alley Behind Hotel: Chief McMurtry Orders Cleanup of ‘Certain Taverns and Dives.’
An aroused police department today took steps to halt a wave of sluggings and banditry, climaxed early this morning in the murder of one of the victims. The dead man is Walter Davis, about 58, ‘who, police believe, was robbed and then slugged. He formerly lived ——at 1741 S. West st.
15 MILLION JOBS “We are going to double our men in certain sections of
‘the city,” Police Chief Jesse | McMurtry said, “and there is 'Reconversion on of Wilushy Again Emphasized.
{going to be a cleanup of certain | taverns and dives in ‘the city. “If we find any men or women who are known police characters, they are going to be sent in.” Chief McMurtry also appealed to - the public to report all crimes By EULALIE McDOWELL promptly to the police department. United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, June 2—Gov-| Report Delayed Two Hours ernment and industry were faced| He explained that a two-hour delay between the time Mr, Davis today with these challenges: : use slugged and the time police ONE: Keeping war production at} sere notified made it more diffia high pitch while {cult for the case to be solved. TWO: Preparing fo make jobs | Wamp Fs inldpagn about any o ese sluggings available for an estimated 1.000.000 ive it to the police -department.” jobless war workers in the event of | | Chief McMurtry © said, “and the a sudden collapse of Japan. source of the information will be This problem has worried govern- | Kept confidential.” ment heads throughout the latter Ralph H. Miers, whose room in part of the war. the Frederick hotel, 460 E. Wash There was tremendous pressure ington st, overlooks the slaying last year to pass legislation to pre- scene, told police that he saw Davis pare for the reconversion period, siugged and killed about 12:30 a.m. Laws were enacted authorizing an today. office of war mobilization and re-| Heard Voices | conversion to oversee the job. He said he was awakened shortly Report Submitted after midnight by yoiess outside his’ : window. He saw four men and a The Normandy breakthough last | | woman in the alley near the Cours | side of the hotel. The people were drinking and | talking loudly, he said, and he saw one of them strike one of the men and then leave with the woman and the other two men. Miers also said he heard the | woman tell the men to put the . | man’s shoes back on before the ‘Early termination of the War .g,ooino occurred: When Davis’ against Japan would actually find body was found by Merchant Pothe national economy unprepared” liceman Howard Egolf about 32:20 for peace. | a. m., his shoes were off. The report prepared was by Sen- | Davis is believed by detectives to
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10,000 TO BE HIRED IN INCOME TAX HUNT OKINAWA COSTS MAY
WASHINGTON, June 2 (U. P.) — NEAR: $8, 800, 000, 000
The treasury is ready today to! WASHINGTON, June 2 (U. P.).— hire 10,000 new T-men to track The navy’s investment in the batdown tax cheats and bring over tle of .Okinawa so far has been tax money close to $8,800.000,000—more than double the total expenses of the Strongly supported by President navy in world war I,-the treasury Truman who said “we are not revealed today. fighting this war to make million- | The seventh war loan, meanwhile, Laires,” Secretary Henry Motgen- {neared the close of its third week thau Jr., yesterday was given the| with individual sales totaling $3.{green light by two congressional | 125,000,000 including E bond sales of | committees to hire the big new staff | $1,802,000,000. he wants to aid in locating 'and| Total sales were 44.6 per cent of prosecuting tax evaders. {the total individual quota and E The cost of the extra staff is bond sales were 45 per cent of the | $4,000,000,000 E bond goal,
|inceasing production. The word “rewas almost forgotten | for a time. Today the emphasis came full circle back to reconversion. The senate military affairs committee has submitted an official report to congress asserting.
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into federal coffers.
WASHINGTON
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WASHINGTON, June 2.—Truman war message is intended to bring showdown in Asia. It ends any hope Japs may have had since Roosevelt's death that we'll take less than unconditional surrender; outlines our ability to lick them if they insist; invites Jap industrialists to save their properties from destruction;
warns Jap people they'll be killed if bombings eontinue;
escape extradition. to France, was denied officially by Spanish government spokesmen today. “The report is not true,” the Spanish spokesman teld the United | Press in Madrid. Rumors of Laval's alleged suicide circulated in London’ earlier today Jon the basis. of an apparently garbled Exchange Telegraph recording of a Luxembourg radio prondeast.
|. promises they won't be destroyed or enslaved if they quit.
Read it with these things in mind: ONE: Premier Suzuki told his people Okinawa would decide the war, and he said this when Japanese defeat was certain. TWO: Prince Konove is in Moscow, nye | to smell out Russian intentions, maybe to make peace bids. THREE: End of Chiang Kai“shek’'s regimé as premier lore< shadows. unification of China, possible basis for allied co-opera-. ton there, FOUR: Chinese Army SUCCesses gs our air blockade . vil aon
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empire and its resources, include ing essential oil. FIVE: New suicide policy just announced for Japanese navy may be final banzal on.
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