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WASHINGTON

i A Weekly Sizeup by the Stal of the Scripps-Howard

Washington Newspapers

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“token” U. 8. force in some cases, or for local actions in this hemisphere, but for requiring congres= . sional approval for any U. 8. involvement on major scale in Eu rope or Asia.

» Tariff Cut BOTH SIDES think senate battle on granting the administration duthority to cut tariffs an addi-

tional 50 per cent under present |

levels will be close, with the odds probably favoring = acceptance. Finance committee vote was 10 to 9 against, but Democrats think chances are better in senate as a whole, 1f going gets too tough, com=promise at sometihng like 25 per cent under present rates is pos=

sible. « » »

Hope that Japs soon will sure |

render unconditionally to prevent further devastation of their cities and industries is fading among

military men, congressional t

sources say. This means

long, hard war,

‘many casualties. Nips give no. |

signs of folding. » »

” OKINAWA, about from Jap home islands, will be used as England was used against the Nazis. But Okinawa terrain

will allow for fewer airfields than |

we had in England. This, plus distance, means we'll hit Japan with somewhat less air power than we threw against Germany. Nevertheless, our air war will be greatly stepped up. Japs soon will regret, even more than now, they ever heard of Pearl Harbor.

By. Disied Japs ' THERE ARE 3PS oe of thousands of Jap soldiers on big and little Pacific islands we have bypassed. We or British must clean them out—or let them die there. Military experts say latter would take too much time. ONE BIG SURPRISE of Jap war: Enormous amounts of Jap guns, ammunition, food, other supplies. Téns of supplies remain after our men blast Japs out of deep, fortified caves. Japs have felt no shortages in those items, congressional sources say. Caves were established over long period of time, presumably for just such war as this. s 8 The $25,000-a-year job as umpire in New York's cloak and suit business—the job formerly held by Jimmy Walker—is being held open for Harry Hopkins to refuse or accept. The job—said to require only a few hours work a week—was offered to Judge Sam Rosenman, whe passed it up when President Truman insisted he stay on as White House adviser.

» ” » Big Job for Bradley MODERNIZATION of veterans administration will be no easy chore for its new boss, Gen. Omar

350 miles |

Bradley. Civil service “protects most jobholders and will impede housecleaning. Positions of agen= cvs “Big Four'—top advisers to outgoing Brig. Gen. Frank T. Hines—are insecure. Any or all

W. Breining and Omer W. Clark, assistant administrators, and Adelbert D. Hiller, executive assistant to Hines. Reorganization under Gen. Bradley . likely to follow these lines: Medical men at the top of hospital and domiciliary caré division, (now headed by a layman, Col. Ijams), creation of a medical corps designed to improve quality of doctors, nurses and attendants, decentralization to speed handling of cldims and G. I. bill of rights benefits.

Although lesser jobholders can't be ousted, Gen. Bradley will get a chance to infuse new blood via expanding personnel. Agency now has 54,000 employees and needs 14,000 more; its inability to get them is laid partly to low pay and time-clock routine ‘under Hines regime.

Authorized employment for 1946 is 75,000. Officials estimate further expansion to 100,000. Hines | gave preference to world war I. vets, Bradley can do the same for 194 G.1s. Bradley isn't succeeding to { Hinse’ other post as head of retraining and re-employment administration, on which selective service and war manpower coms mission, as well as veterans ad= ministration are represented. Under President Truman's plan, this agency will be enlarged, given wider powers, placed under a fulltime head.

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Probe May End GEN. HINES dind't know untii a few hours before Truman announcement that he was being replaced. He suspected it, had offered usual formal resignation but had been told by President to “sit tight.” As result of Hines’ replacement, house veterans committee inquiry into V. A. will be wound up quick~ ly. Chairman John Rankin (D. Miss.) never had sympathy for it. » ” ” NEW SIGNIFIANCE reported in separate votes for White Russia and Ukraine in security coun= cil: Czechoslovakia, and Rumania could retain autonomy, separate voting status, by joining Soviet Union. » » tJ LOOK FOR indictment against Rep. Curley of Boston to be dropped. Indicted in 1943 on charge of using mails to defraud —accepting retainers on claims of being able to obtain war contracts —Curley obtained repeated postponement of trials this spring on claim he was too ill to attend. Now ‘he is running for mayor of Boston, has 14 opponents. Bostonians see him winner because of split vote.

may go—George E. Ijams, Harold--

Makes Bid for ‘Terms’ but Expects None. {Continued From. Page One}

and by easy and swift 'supplies.” He claimed Japan’ was

Asia against the inordinate.ambi-

Britain.” Offsets Propaganda Suzuki's ~ protest that uncondi- | tional surrender would mean the {destruction of the Japanese race”

fighting | “solely. for the self-defense of East]

tions of the United States and Great |

‘|great amies in the necessary places

[seemed to be an attempt to offset & {the ‘recent heavy American propa~- §

|ganda campaign, aimed at splitting] the Japanese people from their war! leaders.

American propaganda has assured L unconditional |

{the Japanese ‘that {surrender does not mean their destruction. The diet also was addressed by! Japanese navy minister Mitsumas | YOonai who, in an outburst of frankness, said; “I must humbly admit {the adverse war situation in the} Okinawas.” He also made his bid for an un-| {derstatement prize by saying: “We | have fallen -a little somewhat short {of securing full command 6f the air lover the (Okinawa) area. | Suzuki said there was ‘no one in the world who more ‘earnestly desires world peace and the welfare of humanity more than Emperor Hirohito.” ’ ‘Utmost Regret’ As for himself, Suzuki said, he found it a matter of “utmost re: gret” that the United States and Japan were at war. Japan was fighting “solely for the self-defense of our empire and for the stabilizathom of “BEST. As against the THOPAin GE the United Staiwhs:oEe said. The extraordinary session of the diet, convened so hurriedly that it was announced only yesterday, came as the American air bombardment of Japan was reaching new heights. In today’s raids, the huge Super{forts did not carry the incendiary {bombs which had set Japan's great cities ablaze in previous attacks.

high explosive loads on specific targets—the Kawanishi aircraft works at Osaka, the Kawasaki engine plant at Kobe, and the Aichi Co.'s Astuta parts plant at Nagova. Tokyo reported the raid lasted for one hour and 20. minutes, beginning at 7:30 a: m. The 70th major attack of the war by the 21st bomber command, it was the third since May 17 for Nagoya, the third in ten days for Osaka, and the second in six days for Kobe. : Japs Thrown Back While Japanese homefronters worried over the new attacks, their troops in Okinawa were thrown {back by new American gains. American troops, led by flamethrowers, blasted into Hahagusuku, {the fall of which would outflank {the important Yaeju-Bake escarpment. On the western end of the last

This time they concentrated their |

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

JAPAN ACTS WN * = Men Serve Chow Near Vi Manila ‘GRAVE GRISIS'S

Serving chow at an observation post in the Sierra Madre moun-

tains northeast of Manila are (left to right) Pfc.

ram, N. C,; Sgt. James Mindrup,

Walter Davis, Wag939 N. Pennsylvania st.; Pfo. Ray-

mond Wiggins, husband of “Mrs. Caroline Wiggins, 1832 Christopher

Lane, Speedway, and Pfc. Antonio with the 38th division which is in Line.”

Sellito, Bronx, N, Y. The men are action against the strong “Shimbu

EXPERT DENIES LINK WITH REDS

Larsen Says Possession of Restricted Data ‘Normal.’. (Continuéd From Page One)

Jaffe gave him some “information of vital importance concerning the White House” and Larsen turned it over to the state department where, he added, it’ was -appreciated. : ‘Personality Expert’ - Larsen defined himself as “the man in the United States who knows most about Chinese personalities.” “While it is true that since last September I have worked . on matters. concerning basic policies for future relations with China, including Manchuria,, I am not really an expert on these matters,” he said. “But I am an expert and specialist on Chinese personalities, political groups and cliques.”

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Schuschnigg was imprisoned in gestapo headquarters in Vienna. He spent the next two years in solitary confinement at the political prison camp at Munich. On June 1, 1938, he married by proxy in Vienna, with his brother Artur filling his place. This was in direct violation of. gestapo ‘orders, but Schuschnigg already had the papers from the church and legal permission to marry before his arrest.

1938, when I was “permitted have five minutes with her every " Priday in company with a gestapo guard,” he said. “In 1940, I was allowed to see her three hours a week. December, 1941,(they let us live together, and we had our own little barbed wire encircled blockhouse insile the prison camp walls.” In December, 1941, Schuschnigg and his wife were taken to Saxen- « hausen, near Berlin. They were evacuated in February, 1945, when the Russians neared the Oder river, and taken to Flossenbuerk, in northern Bavaria. The week after Paster, when Americans approached, they were moved to Dachau. » EJ ¥ “WE HAD a very good time at Dachau,” said Schuschnigg, smil-

BARD RESIGNS AS

NAVY ASSISTANT

(Continued From Page One) signments if the secretary of navy 50 desired. Praises Service Record

In “reluctantly” accepting resignation effective July 1,

Japanese defense line, Itoman al-

Beautiful Austri

ian Tyrol

Center of Hunt for Nazis

By HELEN KIRKPATRICK

Time. Foreign Correspondent

TYROL, June 9—The Austrian

Tyrol .today combines all the qualities of a novel by E, Phillips Op-| penheim, stage settings by Schubert and music by Strauss. A casual visitor to the lovely Alpine valleys, which run north and south off the Inn river, would be inclined to come away convinced that west rn - Austria . was little changed from the preAnschluss days of 1037. Gah Villages like wt Kitzbuhel, Z el1- Miss Kirkpatrick | Am-Zee, Mittersll, Worgl, and Kufstein have the same old world look. | The villagers — tall, strapping youths in leather shorts and half! hosé, and blond, pig-tailed girls in dirnd] dresses, stroll through the narrow streets where half-timbered | chalets thrust their carved balconies toward the sn mountains, The sound of accordions echo from pine-wooded slopes, The jangle of cow bells begins at dawn. ~ ~ » THE ONLY differences which might be noted in a fleeting glimpse would be the Red Cross flags on | most of the hotels and inns, maimed |

|a day passes without a good haul.

ranking Nazi is found, disguised as | a woodsman herdsman, painter, or} farmer, Frau Von Ribbentrop and her {children were found recently and {the counter-intelligence is ex{pected shortly to find the former | { Nazi foreign minister, | He left Kitzbuhel two days be{fore the American arrival, himself in a farm cart.

Daily, a new, diplomatic or high-!

driving |

ready was outflanked. The allied landing on the northwest coast of Borneo was reported

by Tokyo as an attempt to land on !Rapids, Ia,

{ Laubuan island in Brunei bay, site lof a = big Japanese naval base. C ruisers, ler war-

reported

| | 1

| Truman praised Bard's record of service, for which the na-

tion is grateful.”

Gates, 49, and a native of Cedar has been assistant secnee During his term of he enemy’ report said the allied office, he has built the naval air and 6300

of the 1941.

retary Sept. 5,

navy for air si

arm from 6000 planes

Then in |

the Mr. “splendid | |

Austria Betrayed on Orders Of Nazis, Schuschnigg Says

ing. “It was good there for us. “There for the. first time in seven years I was permitted to converse with someone besides my wife. We had many conver sations there. We had a gqod time. “There I met a man who became a very good friend of mine, He was M. Leon Blum, former premier of France.” : From "Dachau with 160. special prisoners, the Schuschnigg family were taken to Innsbruck in the Tyrol. A day later they

Bret Sel to

or iy i hi

infantry division. »

wife and child were brought here to Capri, where he is completely {ree to come and go as he pleases and where he has G. I. jeeps to take him wherever he wants. In the interview, conducted partly in the street and partly in an office at the Hotel Paradiso, Schuschnigg refused to comment on the future of Austria, or his own political future. However, he said the people were not to blame war, adding: “I am convinced that the great majority of German peonle hated war. I am convinced they had no choice. caused through Hitler, and Hitler alone.”

German for the

Gen. Stilwell

MANILA, June § (U. P.).—Gen. Joseph W. Stilwell had a close brush with death on Luzon recently when Japanese artillery plastered an observation post he had just left, it was disclosed today. : Stilwell, sion sector in the Caraballo moun=- { tains- in northern Luzon with Maj. Gen. had hiked to an advanced position to watch the Americans capture “Chocolate Drop” hill. While an artillery spotter plane hovered overhead the Japanese

trained pilots to more than 36.000 gunners held their fire to keep

planes and 50,000 pilots, Gates: graduated from Yale 1919 after serving two

war,

ice ‘medal for the rescue of British airmen shot down cl the German shore,

Started in Bank

Gates started work in the Liberty

in|

two |

from Stilwell

revealing their position. climbed on a tank to

years as a’ watch the American ‘shelling. naval aviator during the first world

He was the 65th naval aviator and received the distinguished serv-

A few minutes after he left the , the spotter plane found itself in the American line of fire and dived out of the way. The

tank

0s¢ 10 japanese, thinking the plane crip-

| pled, immediately opened fire on |" the position Stilwell had just left.

| The Austrian underground move- | the revamped Chinese air force, National bank in 1919 and became!

ment has been, and still is invalu-|

‘able in flushing out Nazis. It is] working mostly with the Americans (and its services are highly valued. | n » » THERE ARE dozens of signs that {the Nazis still have a working or-! | ganization. American patrols are maintained | land there are road blocks at regular {intervals along alis thoroughfares | This district is particularly important, owing to passes which lead ine Italy and | from eastern Austria. . 8. sel to escape from By and from| Russian-occupied Austria constant-

ow-covered |, try to come over and lose them- a

selves in the mountainous Tyrol, | Flares can be seen going up from | remote mountains nightly and there! {is evidence that the 8. 8. hiding there are signaling the location of roadblocks to friends on the other side. 4 n "

OCCASIONALLY, small S. 8

equipped with American planes and American-trained fliers, had begun |a full-scale assault on Japanese bases in occupied China.

MANHUNT ON FOR

| ESCAPED CONVICT

LAFAYETTE, Ind, June 9

| today between Lafayette

Pendleton state reformatory

fguard and escaped last night,

| { home

the mountain|P.).—A manhunt was concentrated |

stant treasurer of the New York

Trust Co., president

1923, He

January, June, 1029.

in in

and

| the navy, at Peacock Point, Long Island. born at Cleveland, O,,

| Valley, Bard, July assistant

assistant secretary on Feb.

under the late Secretary of the

chart and Navy Frank Knox and became un 8 Lebanon for Earl Frederick Griffin, dersecretary on June 24, 1944, then n

21, Hammond convict who slugged | Secretary of the Navy James For- | {restal was

post,

| The. state police post here said ‘MARINE HOME AFTER

that Griffin (had hot heen sighted from Guard O. D automobile

since he fled

| Williams’ six

miles |

27 MONTHS OVERSEAS

Marine . Cpl. William Emerson

Inorth of Lebanon with the officer's {Son of Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Emerson,

| pistol.

| Williams was en route from

| |

19210 Washington blvd,

1s home now on his 30-day rotation fi irlough |

men in German field gray and, the bands come down out of the hills| {Hammond to the reformatorv “with | after . spending 27 months in the and shoot at the Americans guard-|~ em. when the convict attacked |South Pacific.

presence of khaki- filled jeeps. Tanned, rested, spic-and-spa L's of the Rainbow” division wander about, or stand guard at road blocks The expression on their faces, as pretty Tyroleans trip by, clearly indicates that they wish fratertiization would ‘be authorized for Austria,

BEHIND this idyNic facade there is tremendous activity. Daily patrols of counter-intelli-gence and army go out on sweeps, searching for 8.8. men still hiding out in mountain chalets, Scarcely

\ G

U. S. STATEMENT

WASHINGTON, dune , 9

t fiscal year through J une 17 pared. with A year a >

(0. P.) —Govthe | coms-

t Yea 1, 5 By s b. 942,088, 7 s|eastern Rebekah 11

ing the roadblocks. with Austrian guides, then

on sweeping punitive expe- |

trols, gn out dition | This is the area to Which all dipMomatic and official personages came from Berlin, High on a mountain trail one may run suddenly into an | Albanian, Bulgarian or Hungarian | Official or diplomat. : | Last week American {caught a Japanese newspaper cors [respondent pretending to be ra | Tyrolean yodler—a. somewhat un- | successful disguise.

‘PAST NOBLE CLUB TO HOLD CARD PARTY

Past” Noble Grand club, Southlodge, 749, will

agents,

1,107,736.045 | in. 38378.009 903 hold & card party at 8 o'clock to

48 567, og: | night at the home of Mrs. Helen S811 gay Nitchman, 331 N. Chester ave.

184.513,066.179 | mM A, 70

The “entire {pitch in supper at 6:30 p.m

morrow .at the I. 0. O. F. hall

Bt iovisg Pepe of the 1. 0, ‘at’ Greerisburg = will

American pa-|

and beat him severely on the head land. face, Griffin was being re-| turned to Pendleton after a pt ous escape, The guard reported the break to Sheriff Frank McCormick of Boone county at Lebanon, who called state olice. Griffin, under a two-to-five-year sentence for burglary, had escaped {last Sunday from an Indianapolis hospital ‘where he had been sent for treatment. a month ago. He was recaptured in Hammond Wednesday. . According . to state police, Willlams stopped on highway 52 last |night, nedr the junction of state road 47. Griffin leaped on him and (beat him with handcuffs which shackeld his wrists. He took Williams’ gun end fled,

“ MASONIC ALUMNI MEET

Cpl. Emerson, who was a member

tof the commissary personnel, helped

evi- | feed 3000 marines

a day at Bou=gainville, Guam and Iwo Jima. He went through the entire 27 months overseas without being wounded. After attending Technical high school, Cpl. EmeYrson was an emsployee of the Indianapolis Machinery & Supply Co. before he enHsted. in ‘the marines in September, 842.- After his furlough Cpl; Emer

son will report to the navy barracks

in Washington, D. C.

EMMA RIEDIKER, 86.

DIES AT HER HOME

Mrs, Emma Riediker, 1831 N,|

and Reformed church.

re-| {signed this post when he came to| Gates has a New York! Locust |

on | agreement

appointed to his present tionality

: AGREEMENT SIGNED

(Continued From Page One)

of wes

It specified that

must

the

government return resident

rested or deported, except for per ons who possessed Yugoslav na in 1939. The Yugoslav. {also must make restitution of prop [erty they have “confiscated or re moved.” © Any Yugoslav alled-controlled

irregulars area will,

ver their und and disband or draw from the area Using an allied military go ment, Alexander will areas west of a line Trieste,

govern

the railways and

the anchorages on the of the Istrian peninsula. follows approximately of the Isonzo river. Tito Expects Triste Tito has stepped into the Triéste area tha

at the peace settlement,

His militant action was

| peated] y

The Indianapolis chapter of the 'p. m. Tuesday in Moore artis arbitration,

sociation wil], have its onthly meeting at 2 Pp. m, lomotElection of three trustees will

lodge will have’ a Indiana Masonic Home ‘Alumni as- ‘Peace chapel.

Burial will be i

regular Memorial Park. . -

Miss Edith Riediker, and a son, h of Indianapolis, and

There have been indications that go western allies: will suggest that Survivors include a daughter, Trieste be made “a free city” to

provide an outlet to the Medi | a Je he Meg

RFS a He Aerican 85th”

. » LJ THEN Schuschnigg and his |

I believe the war was

Has Close Call

touring the 33d divi-,

Percy W. Clarkson,

WITH YUGOSLAVIA

“in no way_ prejudices 20, 1884, served successively as! Or affécts” the ultimate disposition secretary and then under(U. {secretary of the navy.

stern Venezia Giula or Tito’ He became!claim to Trieste. 24, 1941,! Yugoslav,

of the area whom ‘they have ar-|

the according to the agreement, either hand arms to allied military with-

Verne the which includes roads from there to Austria via Gorizia, Caporeto and Tarvisio, Pola and west coast This line the course

made- clear - since he

condemned by Britain and the United States as @ violation of the United | Nations principle of peaceful settle | ment and Tito was warned rethat the disposition of Rural st, died, ap-her home today.| Trieste must gwait the peace conShe wis 86 and oné of the oldest ference where, ‘according to Actihg members of the First Evangelical] Secretary of State Joseph C. Grew, (at least 30 other European terriServices will be conducted at 3 torial disputes, must be submitted to |

He insisted he used discretion in assaying all the information with which he worked and that he never dealt: carelessly with any information which he comsidered. secret or restricted. Grew Explains Procedure (Acting Secretary of State Joseph C. Grew pointed out yesterday that top state department officials are authorized at any time to remove “top secret” or “restricted” labels from official information and make it public for quotation or background use.) (He said the authority generally was limited to the secretary of state, undersecretary and assistant secretaries but-occasionally existed farther down in the department, de-

Xpresses wa CHUNGKING, June 9 (U, P).~— The Communist organ New China Daily expressed sympgthy today for the six persons arrested in the United States under the espionage act in connection with the use of secret government files. The newspaper said the six persons were “all prominent people and writers consistently sympathetic” to the Chinese Communist cause. It (described Amerisia, edited by two of the defendants, as a liberal American magazine which had bitterly attacked the United States’ policy in China in recent issues. The Central Daily News, organ of Generalissino Chiang Kai-shek’s Kuomintang, withheld comment, but nbted in headlines that all six persons had been to Yenan, center of the Chinese Communists.

ELLIOTT SUPPORTS PEACETIME DRAFT

(Continued From Page One)

dreaming and doing for peace, at the same time we have the solemn and continuing obligation of being fully prepared to proteft all that which is ours to protect,” Elliott said. Peacetime training means a “revolutionary change” in historic American policy, Elliott told the committee, However, due to the tragic course of the past 30 years, he said, “it is my clear, though reluctant conclusion that this new thing needs to be done, and done now.” ‘Education Will Gain’

He said he would not “claim too much” for the many educational and health benefits some would attribute to a military training program, but added: “Would it not be better for the American peopte~te know and to feel that here is a disagreeable, necessitous job in which all must assume a properly proportioned share if all are to retain a chance for living as Americans ‘aspire to live during a period—not of peace, but of armed might?” In contrast to statements made by many educational leaders before the committee, Elliott offered to “hazard the prophesy that higher education in this country will gain s| and not lose from universal military training” — although he said it would result in “revolutionary s | chances” in these institutions,

- SPEEDWAY 0. E. S. TO

¢/ OPEN NEW .BETHEL

“| A new bethel will be instituted in | the Speedway O.E.S. room, Belle Vieu and Michigan sts, at 8 p.m. today, according to Mrs, Mae Marcum Jacobs, past supreme guardian of the International Order of Job's Daughters. Mrs. Lorna Boling, grand guar(dian, will institut the bethel, and the past honored queens of bethel 11 will be the installing officers. The new guardian council will be Mrs, Arthur Carmichael, guardian; George Anderson, associate guars dian; Mrs. Helen Dickerson, secretary, Mrs. Novela Groover, treasurer, and Mrs. Amy Boner, director of music.

BRADLEY RECEIVES

Yugoslavia expects to win alli A HERO'S WELCOME

MOBERLY, Mo., June 9 (U, P.). —Cten, Omar N. Bradley received a hero's welcome today as he arrived here by plane from Washington. ; Despite heavy skies, a Jarge crowd was at the airport when his plane arrived at 11:40.a. m. The general and his official party proceeded immediately to a hotel,

(15) SYuiuios

BRANCHES

Hletcher Trust st Go. |

pending upon the subject in ques- oni

pei i pk ALLY Sor

Dutch Experts Pursue 20,000 Art Treasures

(Continued From Rage One)

custody” all Worthwhile art In Jewish hands when the Nazis overran the lowland countries. On one pretense or another, they even stripped one big museum of Jewish owned paintings there on loah. 0 » » n ha A TEAM of Dutch experts is now patiently trying. to trace these missing treasures wherever, they may be—hidden in Holland or inside Germany. It is a task that would’ stump the FBI and Scotland yard. Fortunately, Rembrandt's masterpiece, the “Night Watch,” the greatest of the so-called Dutch corporation pieces, has survived bomb threats, risky overland transportation and German trickery, So have-the “Family Scene” by Jan Steen, “Jolly Peasant” by Van Ostade and the priceless re-gent-style, “Painter and Wife” by Franz Hals. » » ~ THEY, and other famous paintings by Vermeer and Ter Borch of the Dutch school, and by Rubens, Van Dyck and Breughell of the Flemish school will soon be back from hiding, in the National museum in Amsterdam where they belong. All museums in The Netherlands removed their treasures early in the war. They first stored them in north Holland and then in a more satisfactory and drier atmosphere, underground in the Haarlem dunes. » » WHEN the Germans took over the Haarlem area as part of their fortress Holland defenses of the Atlantic Wall, the “Night Watch” and other priceless paintings were |

Dr. Arthur Van Schendel, curator of paintings at the National fnuseum, expects to have all of- the museum's 3000 paintings back in Amsterdam in a

os. In Fries. Lj

SATURDAY, JUNE 9, Io

HITLER'S FATE |

Zhukov Believes He: Could Have Escaped Into Hiding. (Continued From Page One)

that he married his mistress, Eva Braun 48 hours before the capital fell: Gen. Nikolav ‘Begarin, military comf#andant of Berlin, said that

of which could have been that of Hitler, but that nothing definite had been established. Hiding In Spain? He said that friends close to Hit= ler ‘said he» commited suicide but that Russiah investigators had nos been able to verify their accounts. “possibly,” Bezarin said, “he 18 hiding soméwhere in Europe, probably in Spain.” The ruins. of’ Hitler's chancellery were yisited by correspondents bub did not reveal any clues. The floors are still littered with prive ate papers, dossiers and thousands of iron and silver crosses. The correspondents had a field day, rummaging through the rooms and oollecting souvenirs-from Hit= ler's desk.

miraculously been preserved and on the splintered marble walls hune dreds of Red. army men and sighte seers had scrawled their names and home towns. People Puzzled The people qf “Berlin appeared to be as much puzzled about the Hitler mystery as were,

Bee zarin said that liners regularly listened to B: B. C,

them dared admit it.

suicide. . He said that he had made a per ‘sonal investigation of the fate of Goebbels and that the bodies of Goebbels, his wife and two children were found in one of the under

matter of ‘weeks, as soon as

one safe and sound. | .' 2 = | DR. VAN SCHENDEL, who | took over a collection- of Dutch paintings for Chicago's world fair, credits Baron Roell, director of the Amsterdam communal museum, with keeping non-Jew-ish treasure from the Germans. | The baron constantly reminded the German occupiers that removal of the paintings from wartime storage vaults would ruin them and he played on their vanity by ‘suggesting that since Germany was going to win the war anyway, they might as well leave the paintings in storage.

Alumni at Butler Entertain Tonight

Members of Butler university's class of 1945 will be inducted into! the Alumni association at the an-| nual alumni day supper at 5:30] p. m. today at the school cafeteria. | The business meeting and election | of officers will be held at the sup-| per. A feature of the meeting will be the presentation of gold legion medals to the surviving members| of the class of 1895. The Butler Jordan philharmonic choir will sing. | On Picnic Today Other events on the calendar-of the university today were a picnic at 1 p. m.; a board of directors’! meeting at 1:30 p. m., and class day exercises at 4 p. m. |

3 A reunion of the Scarlet Quill, |

women’s honorary organization, also | is scheduled at 4 p. m. at the home| of Mrs. Thor G. Wesenberg, 429

“1 Buckingham dr.

Dr. 8. Grundy Pisher, pastor of University Park Christian church, will speak. at baccalaureate services at 4 p. m, tomorrow .in the fleld- | house. { Reception for Graduates |

The Rev, Howard J. Baumgartel, | executive secretary of the Indian-| apolis Church federation and the Rev, Reid Liverett, member of the board of church extension of In- | dianapolils, both of whom have | daughters in the graduating class, will speak, The choir and band will provide music. | Following baccalaureate, the Women's Faculty club will sponsor a reception for graduates and friends at Jordan hall. Commencement exercises at 10! a. m. Monday at the fieldhouse will climax graduation activities, John W. Bricker, former governor of Ohio, will be commencement speaker,

$16,000,000 AIRPORT AID TO BE SOUGHT

Indiana intends to avall itself of about $16,000,000 of the approxi-

mately $650,000,000 in Federal funds

earmarked for alrport construction, Governor Gates stated yesterday at! a meeting of the*Optimist club in the Columbia club. This federal subsidy would be | matched with local funds to help| make Indiana the’ crossroads of American aviation, the governor sald. He afided that the newly appointed state aviation commission was charged with the responsibility of properly locating airports instead of policing aviation operations.

Jground bunkers of the chancellery. transportation is available. Every |

Goebbels, he said, poisoned his chile dren and wife

“As for Hitler, to you to find his body.”

many of the Bere

several bodies had been found one

The huge crystal chandelier had

comers xephaii | Paul JoREpit-Eioebbels’ pommitted 4 ric -

with potassium | | cyanide and then took his own life. ' he said, “I leave 1t |

during the war but that‘ none of }

‘STILL MYSTERY |

the . Russians They said most of the sui= | cide rumors came from the British § | radio even before Berlin's fall,

GIRL KILLED, 3 vel

~ HURT IN CAR CRASH | Times Special DELAWARE CITY, Is#l, June 9. —A girl was killed and three boys

were injured when their.car was | struck by a freight train about 9 §

p. m. yesterday at ing near here. Miss Mary L. Reynard, 16, R. R |

a-ratlroad cross- |

1, Albany, was killed Instantly, state }

police said. Injured Blakley, Bruner, 17, the car, Robert Davis, 18, also of Albany, was not injured seriously.

seriously 16, Albany,

were Robert | and - William | Muncie. The driver of

The three boys were taken to a

Muncie hospital,

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