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3d and 7th
By W. R. HIGGINBOTHAM
United Press Staff Correspondem LONDON June 11.—Gen. George S. Patton's famed 8d and Lt. Gen. Aléxander M. Patch's veteran Tth will serve as occupation armies in the “American zone of Germany, the army newspaper Stars and Stripes said today. The 15th army under Lt. Gen. Leonard Gerow, originally - designated as the American army of occupation, will cease operations soon after the official boundaries of
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the occupation zones have been announced, Stars and Stripes said. ‘I'hus the 3d and 7th armies will remain in much of the territory they conquered in southwest Germany. 15th army has been operating in the Ruhr and Rhineland, but these areas will be turned over to British and French occupation armies. Stars and Stripes said the American zone would be
14] ARRESTED BUT SLUGGINGS
TIMES EXCLUSIVES . . . By Our Own Writers Liberated People Wander: Allies Unprepared to Care’ For Remnants of Humanity,
(Another Jack Bel] story, Page 9.)
By JACK BELL, Times Foreign Correspondent . ON AN AUSTRIAN HIGHWAY (Delayed). —" 9 Attacks Reported: One
bridge.” said the guards ue Woman Victim On “But our homes are far beyonfl the bridge and we've been away so] . : h long. We have come far to reach the bridge and are weary and hungry | Circle at Dawn. . | 4 Despite the arrest -of 147 persons
What can we do?” “You must go back to the city there and find if You [over the week-end, the city's slugto cross the lines.’ ging epidemie continued. “But we have been questioned. Nine bold attacks were reported, When we were at Melk they told one of them on Monument circle us to try here. It is afternoon and | this morning at dawn. Four. of the the rain is very cold. There is no { victims were women ghelter-and-we cannot walk to Melk ® Starting todav The Indi- Of those nabbed in by nightfall, anapolis Times will bring you (roundup, Saturday and “These children—must they freeze condensed highspots — in ad- |fAced drunk charges. in the fields tonight? Your troops vance of publicatinn—of Rob- Police were: still watching certain and those across the bridge are ert J. Casev's new book. “Battle |taverns for suspects in their search allies. They fought together to free Below.” the war of the sub- |for the slayers of Walter Davis, 55, us; now both leave us hungry in| marines. on.June 2. Davis was. fatally beatthe fields.” : ® To get his facts, Bob Casey 61 And robbed near Court and “I know. Damned right. I know.| lived for almost four months East sts. But I got my orders; you can't cross with our undersea fighters He Fifteen men and one woman have the bridge.” | shared their lives aboard the | Deen quizzed in connection with the | They were trudging upgrade submarines, getting—as he puts killing, but no definite leads have “{t—“Stories the like of which |developed. detective said. I had not yet heard in this “Slugged on Circle war.” | An epidemic of
when 1 came onto them, a long ragged column, remnants of human- | 4 eo Read these stories, starting gripped Indianapolis today in {more than a month.
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President M. O. Ross (center) violence streets
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J, |, HOLCOMB 1S GIVEN HONOR
Last Mach Across Campus Blocked by Rain.
A recurrent drizzle from rainsoaked skies failed to dampen the
down from the Alps. They walked!
4 . with their heads down, their feet The most obvious place in town (Continued on Page 3—Cniumn 1) | Monument circle, was the scene-of a- slugging and attempted pursesnatching this morning. While % her way to work .Cecelia Carr,
#8 =n x = =» of 2322 N. Illinois st., was Ca i by
Scramble for Jobs Seen a man wearing a black felt hat
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| pedestrians By ALLAN L. SWAIN, Scripps Howard Staff Writer jrushed to her. aid. They pursued, al {the thug down -an alley between WASHINGTON, June 11.—Millions of discharge slips will be shoved the circle and Meridian st t| into pay envelopes after fighting in the Pacific ends. lost him in the early Darr | This will start a scramble for jobs that won't end until after men mist 1 z > 8 and women in the armed services become civilians again. i John Jones, tire builder, will keep right on at his job. Length | Knocked Down by Assailant of his work week may be cut, but he won't have to go’ job hunting. A six-foot assailant "grabbed the dents who received degrees at the Joe Smith, munitions plant acid] purse of Miss Alma Miller, 33, of 90th annual commencenient exermixer, will be told there's no longer | tion's 9,000,000 war will 1320 N. Delaware st, early today! cises this morning. . . | B Deeg dor him. He'll have to Sook have to jd pew Jobe 3% we Welkey on Jeu = between The inclement weather ruled out lh { :Joe will go to a employment iis | the traditional last march across For every John the Il be two Mrs. Della Meltor : re wil service office and register, If the elton, 23, of 315 E. | \1o campus, which was to have
Joes. government officials believe (Continued oR Page $—Column 1) preceded the-processional into the
The y 0 - y say some 6,000,000 of the na-| (Continued on age. 3—Column 1 feidhouse. grees from President. M. 'O. Ross By CHARLES T. LUCEY, Scripps-Howard Staff Writer U. 8. Uiavere. Exvionage: , presidential’ candidate ‘in 1944, deand t! t ) tat . 3 partys representatives in congress. Mr. Bricker challenged the graduThis insurgepcy from traditional (N, H) and Aiken (Vt). There worldly’ things as a‘ monastery conference. Mr. Bricker said “This Morse (Ore), Ball (Min.), Tobey | (Continued on Page 3—Coiumn 1) its books and pamphlets, it seemed - Fifteen years ago, in 1926, B Coming H From the W fire that "had burned" over four of returning war veterans. .. But she can take the word ot a 'ary of Agriculture Claude R..Wickunder | “tin-canned” with oil-saturated when he comes home from War that! . po. yee peed of the depart-| PC'e has ‘been “discord in Re > the flames behind, deputies (Towa, says: “Wives should .vealize| oo oheration “association;” testified
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® = { A crowd of about 3000 relatives De e T d Pa t S f SMALL BOOKSTORE | and friends watched 162 undergradJ. I. Holcomb Honored John W. Bricker, former GoverWASHINGTON, June 11.—Governor Dewey's New York speech ivered the address. Governor Gates favoring the reciprocal trade agreements program has underlined again Manager Indicted |and other state officials were guests WASHINGTON, June 11 (U. P.): The signs’ today are that only a minority of the G.O.P. side of was one ates to use their educational. power the senate will 'yote for the reciprocal trade program when it comes of those little New York bookstores as an Instrument for péace po Republican position on the tariff may be a few more. | For 93 years it had been doing is the hour to stand true to our probably. will’ revolve about a Bitle But the majority of Republicans, la’ modest business at 20 W. 48th st. #8 # A [that B. Westermann & Co. was| 1 a £: v Bal 5 . {more concerned with the lore of J Ire Is’ WE THE WOMEN . . . By Ruth Millett P | Westermann & Co. underwent a OPPOSES WICKARD of This is. the first of five she has begun to feel that it isn’t balloon bombs” columns by Ruth Millett de- [Joe who is coming back where he] MOVE T0 REA POST acres of land, they found a buzzThe average wife has been given leading psychiatrist, Dr. Wilbur R. ard should not be rural electrifica-| ard near the edge of the field. 80 much conflicting and frightening Miller, that she can relax—it really 'ion administrator because, rags, lit, and turned loose. ab ame—— : a senate committee was told today. | Because the wind produced by ment of psychiatry in the College Ansel R. Moore, president of the
uates and 34 graduates receive denor of Ohio, and Republican vicethe policy differences between recent Republican presidential candidates at the ceremony -B. Westermann & ° Co. to a vote late this week ~ ~ that. look as far removed from Referring to the San Francisco band, of men- including Senators To casual visitors browsing among {Continued on 1 Page. 3-—Column 1) the past than things of today. Advi Wi IG. 1 vice fo Wives of (G. I.'s When * deputies investigated a voted to sound advice to wives belongs, but some erratic stranger.| WASHINGTON, June 11.—Secre- | The bird, it appeared,. had been advice on how to handle her man will be Joe. tagricultyre department jurisdiction, | the buzzards flight would keep TIMES INDEX of Medicine at the University of|ygieeouri State Rural Electrification |
15 that the men who made a good ad- theorized, the bird had been able
Jane Jordan [in opposition to Wickard at a sen-| to fly a considerable distance
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The
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ports to the Linden sheriff's office | “fire balls that might be Jap was solved today. |
Mauldin ¢ 5 Movies cia 4 Obituaries ... 7 Fred Perkins . '9 Radio 15 Ratiort Dates 16 Mrs. Roosevelt 9 | Scherrer 10! Wm. P. Simms 10! Sports 13] Tom Stokes . 10| Women's News 11
Nat Barrows Business Robt, Casey Comics ..... 15 Crossword ... 15 David Dietz. . Editorials ... 10] Fashions 11 Gardening =: .- 16 G. 1. Rights, 16 Meta Given... 11] Inside Indpls. 9 vB —
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to become good soldiers are pliable enough in their personalities to adjust themselves without too much
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ate agriculture committee hearing.
President Truman recently nomi- |
.nated Wickard to be REA chief |
after appointing Rep. Clinton P.| Anderson (D. N, M.) to replace him as agriculture secretary. While this committee studied the| | Wickard nomination, the judiciary| | sommiittee took up in closed session
| tne nomination of Tom C. Clark to |
(replace Francis Biddle as attorney general. v
before being forced down, Deputies believed that more than” one bird was involved because of the number of reports
that weird blazes had been seen’ |
| ‘crossing the skies at night in the
vicinity. Despite “fireball” want to know buzzards, made them-—and why.
the solution of the mystery, residents now who caught the incendaries of
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divided mto two districts.
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0 Serve As Ais Occupation Armies
The Tth army will control
the western district and the 3d the eastern. . Replacements will. be brought into the two armies to
clear the way for those eligible for discharge,
An announcement Saturday said the. American 9th army will wind up its duties in Germany: about June 15 and be given a new assignment, presumably in the Pacific. The 9th ‘army occupation zone will be taken over by-the
of Butler universily and Gov.
spits of 186 Butler university stu- ¥
Dosrest Awarded 196 Students at Butler Exercises
Gates (right) chat with former Gov. John W. Bricker of Ohio before the university's commencement exercises this
morning. Mr. Bricker
These five coeds were among the honor graduates at Butler's
commencement today. Lucile Marshall Louise Ziegler and
Colligan.
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BIG FIVE REFUSE
Face Shawdowi
RETREAT ON VETO Today on Bingo
Little Nations Prepare for ‘Do-or-Die’ Attack. By R. H. SHACKFORD
United Press Staff Correspondent
SAN FRANCISCO, June 11.—The
| Big Five powers refused to retreat
by as much. as a word or comma from their stand on the veto issue
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For Evansville
"EVANSVILLE, Ind., June 11 (U P.).—The Young Men's Demaqcratic club and Republican Mayor Manson Reighert faced a showdown tonight on 4 city gambling
| edict
| sume a
today despite a barrage of oratori-|
cal opposition from the little nations at the world security conference. Under the generalship- of fiery Australian Foreigre Minister Herbert V.. Evatt, the little nations prepared for a final do-or-die assault on voting procedure. The Big Five remained confident
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ELNORA, June 11 (U. P).— George Pranklin® Todd began his 101st year. today. He observed his 100th birth anniversary vesterday on his 200-acre Daviess county farm, where he has lived the last 52 yeais.
| paper advertisements of a
The #lub was scheduled to reseries of parties, but Reichert police to arrest everybody on the premises Reichert had the support of the Evansville Ministers’ association in his general anti-gambling campaign. “If they play bingo, I'll have everybody in the place arrested Reichert said when he read news‘public party” sporfsored by, the Democratic group. The mayor ‘said he understood the club planned weekly bingo
4. parties
“If they do, they'll have to buy new equipment for every game,” Reichert: said. “I'm ordering the
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ALLIES ADVANCING ON BORNEO: omacio JAP PREMIER MAY BE DICTATOR
4 Landings Made on Oil. Rich Island:
Japanese Naval B-29's
Base Captured;
Attacking Again,
By FRANK TREMAINE
I nited Press Staff Correspondent
PEARL HARBOR, June
11.—Australian troops have
stormed ashore in four assault landings on British North
Borneo and thrust more than nounced officially today.
{wo miles inland, it was an-
American forces meanw hile battled the last bl wody miles
OPEN FIGHT FOR
KRUPP DYNASTY
to "Decide Fate -of Richest German Prize. By ROBERT MUSEL
United Press Staff Correspendent BREMEN, June 1I.—A fight for the ricHest industrial prize in Germany opened today when Waldtraut von Bohlen, a member of the Krupp dynasty, asked American military government authorities to cancel a personal decree “by Adolf Hitler which nationalized the firm. The blonde young heiress filed a petition with the A. M. G. resting the cancellation of the de-
“cree. and the appointment of her
husband. Henry Thomas, a Dulchporn wool merchant, as trustee for the Krupp properties. The woman said she was acting
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DANIELS OPPOSES. PEACETIME DRAFT .
Charges Fear and Cynicism Prompt Demands. By DEAN W. DITTMER
United Press ‘Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON. June 11.—Josephus Daniels, world war F navy secretary, declared today that demands for peacetime military conscription were based on “fear. cynicism and imperialism.” The type of preparedness America needs, he said,.i§ “that which will give conquest of the skies.” The 83-year-old Raleigh, N. C, publisher testified before the house post-war military policy committee on proposals to require all able-
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REPORT HUNT FOR ‘HITLER'S CHILDREN’
By ROBERT DOWSON United Press, Stal Correspondent LONDON, June 11.—An unconfirmed Stockholm dispateh said today that two children—a boy and a girl—were born to Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun during their long illicit love affair Hitler's 11th hour marriage to Eva just before Berlin fell was uns dertaken to legitimatize the children, the dispatch said. The marriage first was reported by Marshal Gregory K. Zhukov, Soviet conqueror of Berlin last -Saturday The Stockholm dispatch: which appeared in the London: Daily Exipress. sald the children the boy now 5 years old and the girl 4
police chief to confiscate all the * Were the” object of a widespread
search by American” and British oc-
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War Secrets
THE DIARY of Count Ciano, described as the most sensational document to come out of his war, will be published, exclusively in The Times, béginning next Monday. Ciano, son-in-law of Mussolini and husband of his daughter, Edda, went to Berlin in May, 1939, to sign the 10-year treaty with Adolf Hitler that bound the two dictators together in a fan- _ tastic pvt to rule the world. Wild with ambition himsélf, Count “Ciano signed for Italy, lived on the instde-of the whole story that followed, sat in the Intimate councils, of Hitler andy’.
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down the tip of Okinawa. While the allies were exPacific offensive, the Japanese ‘house of representatives passed a’ wartime emergency bill granting virtual dictatorial power to Premiar Adm. Baron Kantaro Suzuki and surrendering most. of the diet's powers prerogatives. The bill now goes to the house of .peers for final’ action. Tokyo radio said it was believed the upper house would approve the bill The new landings were the first’ on the mainland of Borneo since the Japanese seized the .island in December, 1941 Gen. Douglas MacArthur wades ashore with the assault troops on Labuan island, where two of the landings were made. The other two were at Muara island, on the eastern shore of Brunei bay, and at nearby Brooke ten on the mainland. In effect, the Australian 9th divigion, which made the assault, al ready had won control of the Jap strategic naval base on Brunei bay an Borneo's northwest coast. U. S. Fleet in Action A pre-invasion bombardment b} warships of the U. 8S. Tth fleet ans aerial attacks by Lightning fight , ers and Austrailan Beauforts dros the Japanese defenders of Brune bay 7000 yards inland before allie
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iroops swarmed ashore, Mutual W. Correspondent Don Bell reported Borneo is a strategic island ric in oil, rubber, coal, lumber, iro and other resources. It lies 800 miles north of Singapore, and 600 miles east of ths: shores of Indo-China. : Last Jap Line The. landing Sunday morning wa supported by warships of the U. § 7th fleet, commanded by Rear Adm Forrest B Royal and the Roya! Australian navy, together with bombers and fighters of the U. S 13th and Australian air forces. The invasion followed the seizure of Tarakan, on the opposite side ‘of Borneo It chught the Japanese off guard and unprepared to offer any effective resistance The seizure of Brunei bay gave the allies a keystone naval base for
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Tin Cen Salvage Pickup Opened
THE ‘WAR with Japan vet,. so, the city’s tin can salvage campaign continued abated today The pick-up»
isn't over
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started In the area northwest of 16th and Meand will continue nontheast of that point tomorrow southeast ‘Wednesday and southwest Thursday : To be salvaged, tin cans must be washed and flattened after the ends are cut out, Persons living . outside the collection area are urged to use the rec “tin bins’ scattered throughout the city.
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of Axis Exposed--Count Ciano's Sensational Diary to Be Published i in The Times Starting Next Monday
* Mussolini, helped plan their stra-
tegy, watched them dupe the peoples of Europe, saw them quarrel with each other like peevish children know how each dou: ble-crossed the other to gain advantage for himself. nn 8 THROUGH IT all he wrote what happened in his own per: sbnal diary -— ultimately 500,000 words of sensational, authentic, inside. information.1600 hand-
* written pages — the last entry. written in Verona Jal} where his
life ended. Clann was on the inside.
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HERE IS THE “TRANSLATION OF THE FINAL ENTRY
.. “If these notes of mine will one day see the light, it will be because 1 took the precaution to put them in - safety before the Germans, through base trickery, had made me a prisener . ., I am preparing myself for the Supreme judgment. In this. state of mind which excludes all lying 1 declare that not a single word of what . I have written in my diaries is false or exaggerated or dictated by selfish resentment. It is alt just as I have seen it and heard it.. And if while 1 am making ready for this great departure I am thinking of allowing publication of these comments, it is mot'because I expect posth umous revaluation or approval, but because I believe that an honest testimonial of the truth in this sad world niay still be useful in giving relief to the innocent and striking at those who are Yesporiible. . : : (Signed)" GALEAZZ0 CIANO."” December 23, 1943, Celi 27, of the Verona Jail. Mn :
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_CIANO WAS SHOT because he
pire conflicted scheme Neither Hitler . hor Mussolini knew that Ciano was writing a diary, else: this document never smuggled to
with Hitler's
light, It brings all the intrigue, all the secret plans of the axis gang sharply into, focus It's 'a key, as well as a complete expose ! ne. WHEN EDDA Mussolini - Ciano escaped from a crashing Italy the one thing she Look with her on: her flight to Switzerland was the dynamite-laden diary. From. her sanctuary there she tried to use the information. it contained to buy her husband's life. . She wag tog late. Count
was shot in the back of the head on the orders of her own father Benito Mussolini, to bury forever the inside secrets Ciano held But the diary was safe. ” n ” IT IS the document, in Clano's own handwriting, that was purchased this month for The Indianapolis Times trom Edda Mussolink, . ' It will appear iy 30 daily installments, tianslated and edited to leave only the dramatic highlights. but. otherwlse unchanged from his-own words. i Watch for the first insialiment ’ next Monday. .
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