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Bedridden for almost wo vears as a result of an injury received in North Africa, former Sgt. Owen *W. Mason, a paralysis ‘victim, is fed by Nurse Ruth Koenig. The nurse shortage seriously handicaps these

cases,

TIMES EXCLUSIVES

By Our Own Writers

London Cheers Blushing lke; ‘One Great Team,’ He Says

By EDWARD P.

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Limes Foreign Correspondent

LONDON, lene, Kas,

-June. 12.—A blushing, plain-spoken American from Abiwho last month dictated the surrender of Nazi Germany,

today received a sword and the freedom of the city of London in token of his triumph as supreme commander of the allied armies in Europe. Fifty-five-year-old Dwight David Eisenhower, who looked more like

Just a friend .of yours named “Ike” was so moved by the ceremony that at first he could scarcely talk.

{Another Eisenhower Story, Page 10)

“He told the lord “mayor, Prime! Minister Churchill and, the rest of " u

“than a five- star general of ¢ an army,

the illustrious assemblage gatitered in the ancient graystone Guildhall, that if he were not sure he was

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Quisling, Facing Execution,

Worries Only Over His Loot|

By WILLIAM H, STONEMAN, Times Foreign Correspondent -OSLO, Norway, June 12.—Vidkun Quisling, the world’s most famous

traitor, does not expect to be shot.

He honestly believes, if he can be said to be honest about anything, |

that he is going to be set free following his trial in August. He is bitterly indignant because he is being treated like an ordinary prisoner at Morelergaten 19, the prison where so many of his countrymen

were tortured. “1 saved Norway,” should they inal?”

he says. “Why treat me like a crim-

| He has been worrying about his |

“Surface McKinney; He Always Found Trouble" —the sec-

ond chapter of Robert J. Casey's new book, "Battle Below, the War of the Submar-

loot and he was very angry when | they told him that Gimle, the fancy | estate he stole from the govern- | ment, had been taken over by the |

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Washington report.

CITY TO HONOR

home front movement, “You tell them to be very careful of my things,” he said, referring to pictures, furniture and other

" precious things he had. stolen.

Accused of being a common thief, he displays a megalomania worthy of Hitler. As head of the state, he was entitled to anything he wanted, he reasons, and it is an insult even to mention the matter,

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New Social Security Bill To Face Tough Opposition

By ALLAN L. SWIM, Scripps-Howard Staff Writer WASHINGTON, June 12.—Senator Robert F, Wagher calls “it a

“dignified, _ all-embracing plan for It is known

before congress, It would extend: social security act coverage to about 15,000,000 persons now excluded. It would increase unemployment compensation benefits, provide

health insurance and hospitaliza-

tion and set up a permanent national system of employment offices. It would provide social security credits for those in the armed gerv-

as the revised Wagner-Murray-Dingell one of the most far-reaching pieces of social legislation ever placed |

social security.” bill

the employer and half by the employee. Organized labor is backing tHe plan. Union leaders say their members would be willing to pay $1 out of each $25 they earn for the benefits the bill promises. Principal opposition to the health and hospitalization portions of the

in his opinion, that |

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program conie from doctors who have been fighting what they term “the trend toward socialized medicine.” There will be opposition, too, from the “states rights” group that op-

ices, protect wage earners against wage loss resulting from disability and make increased grants available to the states for aid to the needy. The program would be financed by an 8 per cent tax on wages up to a $3600 a Vear—half to be paid by! (Cohtinued on Page:2—Column 1)

Young’ Court Disagrees _ More Than 'Nine Old Men’

By NED BROOKS, Scripps-Howard Staff Writer WASHINGTON, June 12.—The supreme court's nine * ‘young” men are finding it more difficult to agree among themselves than did the oldsters around whom raged the memorable court reorganization battle

An examination of court records disclosed today that 25 cases, many of them involving major constitutional, economic or social issues, have

- - been decided by hairline votes of § TIMES: INDEX

to 4 during the term scheduled to end next week, 10! 11

“This nearly doubles the number {of 5-to-4 decisions turned out by {the “mine old men” .court during

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Adequate recreational facilities are lacking at Veterans hospital, the American Legion

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‘Home-Town Welcome Set!

For June 20.

| Lt. Gen. Walter Bedell Smith, one of Indianapolis’ most outstanding army officers, will be given -a real Hoosier welcome when he returns to his native city June 20. Gen. Smith, chief of staff to Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower and the only American general to sign the articles. of the Nazis’ unconditional surrender May 7, will fly to Indianapolis with his wife from West Point. He will share honors with Gen.

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Hoosier Heroes—

TWO LOCAL MEN KILLED IN ACTION

From Prison Camps.

Two local soldiers have been killed in action. One Indianapolis man was wounded in the Pacific, one was wounded in Germany and seven have been freed from German prison camps. KILLED Pvt. John A. Patten, 1619 E. 32d st., in Germany. Cpl: Elmer C. Smith, R. R. 1, Box 6556, In Germany. WOUNDED Pvt. Joe 8. Romizer, 952 N. Delaware st, in the South Pacific. Cpl. Fred Marshall Sears, 3950 Boulevard ,pl., in France. iv LIBERATED

Pfc. Ewing F. Napier, 1663 Carrollton ave., from Stalag 4-B. + First Lt. Paul 8. Givens, 4004 Ruckle st. from Stalag 7-A. S. Sgt. Donald: H. Goodin, Kansas st. in Germany: Plc. Elba E. Tabor, 1613 Finley ave. from Stalag 7-B. 8. Sgt. Herman H. Borkes, 1537 Ringgold st., in Germany. Pvt. Alfred E. Alyne, 1350 Commeree ave, in Gérmany. Pfe. Christopher A. Gabhart, 111 E. 16th st; in Gemmany;

Two Wounded, Seven Freed!

TUESDAY, JUNE 12 , 145

By SHERLEY UHL THE STATE American Legion today cast more brickbats than bouquets at the Indianapolis Veterans’ hospital in revealing findings of a recent investigation there. The Cold Spring rd. institution terribly understaffed,” calibre of its help “very poor,” pay “disgracefully low” recreational facilities “lacking” and “red tape” abundant, the Legion charged. Transportation to and from the hospital was criticized as “neither direct, adequate nor fast. Those using it have to transfer and wait 20 tq 30 minutes for the hospital bus. . & : 2 a Ox ONE PATIENT died 12 hours after he was admitted on a plea of the American Legion, the service organization alleged. Previously, it said, he had been refused admission. Some staff indifference to patients was cited. The allegations were included in a confidential report of a Hoosier Legion probe of Indiana veterans hospital facilities. The report was filed by State Commander William (Billy) Brown. 1 came to light today at hearings before the house Rankin committee in Washington where an intensive investigation of nation-wide veterans affairs is continuing. In a separate report on the Indianapolis hospital, the Veterans of Foreign Wars, which also surveved conditions there, gave the institution a “comparatively clean bill of health.”

» u o DURING AN independent inspection tour of Veterans hospital, a Times reporter and photographer en-’

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Walking patients can piece toge ther Jig- -Saw puzzles or play cards in the recreation room, but bed patients aren’t as lucky,

Explosive— Ciano's Diary

CANNING SUGAR

NOW AVAILABLE

OPA Limits Housewives to 9.4 Pounds a Person.

Indiana housewives will get a maximum of 94 pounds of sugar per person for canning this year, This was the information brought home today from Cleveland by District OPA Director James D. Strickland, Beginning ‘Monday, local ration boards will resume the issuance of canning sugar following a forced two-week suspension because of the sugar shortage. Mr. Strickland, who attended a meeting of district OPA directors from Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky and West Virginia, said | the amount of sugar allotted each county will vary.

Amount May Be Cut’ Applications already sent

= secrets when published, eaten to tumble still bis To from high places. Mussolini's, son-in-law, Ciano, was one of the axis ringleaders. He plotted with them —looted with them—was finally put to death. by them ? . because he “weakened” and differed with them.

But they didn’t find his tell-tale diary. It was smuggled out of Italy for. safekeeping ... minutes before his execution! » " » WRITTEN day by day—in naked notes for his own eyes only—Ciano’s diary absorbed intimate happenings like a sponge, recorded whispers like a dictaphone, bored into the private lives and secret schemes of Hitler and Mussolini, and exposed the loaded dice in their grandiose plot to

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Manager Bert C. Moore and through the wards.

Veterans’ hospitals are assuming much greater importance, with the end of the war in Germany and the return of wounded veterans. wmade by the American Legion and the Veterans of Foreign Wars, Times staffmen made a com: plete inspection of the local institution. :

Reporter Sherley Uhl and Photographer Lloyd Walton toured the building, interviewed

Here is an account of their findings, together with the Legion and V. F. W.'s report made to the Rankin committee.jn Washington today.

In order to supplement surveys

talked with numer ous patients, selected at random as they strolled

i oy countered. complaints similar ‘to those recorded by Legion, but they were few and far between.

Virtually. all the

directly from & severe shortage of qualified personnel,

The Tines-found. lts flaws

in every public and private’

some respects, hospital facilities be above par. ; Hospital “Manager Bert - C. Moore said some 100 positions are vacant. Three doctors are needed urgently, he said. ; On the credit side of the Legion report, Manager Moore and his nurse corps were commended as “doing the finest job possible, with facilities at their disposal. They are very sincere and con-

veterans appear to

sometimes

the they found it was served “lukewarm or cold.” This results » from incompetent ‘ help, institution's . shortcomings stem the report said.

The summary made this comment on Miss Violet Butts, hos

are identical to those existing pital recreational chief:

oes . . . Miss Butts is too intent on her hospital in Indianapolis. In own theories and-nok Shots ‘of iis sclentings It they ate giver patients, especially the bed-ridden more latitude, they fill Ho. & ~TRUEMS. vu There iS NO yeCre: ' ’ ; ational attention being paid to

much better job." bed patients.”

Note was made of “unreason= able delay” in dispensing medical services, and handling records and files. ;

n » ~ SANITATION was described as’ “excellent,” building and grounds good and morale of the patients “satisfactory.” Medical equipment and clinics also were classified as “satisfactory.” Quality of the food at the hospital was given a “good” rating by the Legion investigators. But

2 » 8 : “THE RED TAPE in the entire set-up should be curtailed to a minimum, so quicker and more

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_ Here's a mixed chow line of world war I and world war II veterana The older men, wearing robes, are in front,. with younger, incoming patients bunch ed up behind. World war I vets outnumber world

war II men two to one.

Vrumndi Cites Pay Freeze on Congress Pay

WASHINGTON, June 12 (U. P).—President Truman — who used to be one himself—said today that congressmen are, underpaid and should, controls are .lifted, : vote .themselves a raise from $10,000 to at least $15,000 a year. In letters to House Speaker Sam Rayburn and Senate Presi= dent Kenneth D. McKellar, Mr. Truman proposed that for the time being congressmen content themselves with no more of an increase than would be ‘“consistent with the Little Steel formula and other stabilization cri-

when salary

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TELLS OF LOAN TO ELLIOTT ROOSEVELT

nn» ration boards will continue to be DON'T MISS this astound- processed as soon as possible. ing,, authentic — first-time Persons who have not applied for | published recital of behind- canning sugar this year may obtain the - scenes hdppenings in applications, at the local ration

boards. The forms should be filled out and then returned to the boards along with spare stamp 13 in Book

world war IT . you exclusively,

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. Starts Monday, June 18,

IN THE TIMES

FAIR JOB BILL LOST

WASHINGTON, June 12 (U. P).

—The house rules committee, re Jecting a plea by President Truman, refused today to permit the house to consider a bill for establishing a permanent fair employment practice commission.

4 for each member of the family. If the ration board finds that the request for sugar by applicants is not .justifiable, it may cut down | on the amount issued. Each board will have a proportionate share of the total sugar available for the state. This year’s supply is approximately 63 per cent of the amount on hand last year, In other states ‘besides Indiana the average sugar quota for each consumer will be - about eight

A&P Mon: Save. Says $200,000 Settled for $4000.

DANVILLE. Ill, June 12 (U. P) —Caruthers 8. Ewing, New York attorney, said today that Elliott | Roosevelt, son of the late President, settled a $200,000 loan with John Hartford, president of the Atlantic and Pdcific Tea Co. for $4000 in 1042. “The loan was written off by Hartford in his 1942 income report as a bad debt,” Ewing, torney for the A. & P, sald. : “Young Roosevelt borrowed the |

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CLIMB LADDERS TO BATTLE JAPS

Yanks Launch Bitter Assault on Last Enemy Okinawa Survivors After Surrender Is Refused.

By WILLIAM F. TYREE United Press Staff Correspondent

GUAM, June 12.—American troops, scaling the Yoejie Dake escarpment on rope ladders, opened a general assault today against the Japanese survivors on Okinawa who rejected a surrender ultimatum and chose to fight to the | death.

Massed artillery blasted awpath for marines and doughboys as they swarmed up — cliffs and attacked with flamethrowers, bayonets and grenades, The Japanese radio said that the | | Americans landed reinforcements,

CAR SALE CONTROL TO END IN JANUARY

| Market Wil Be Be Thrown Open to All Buyers.

CHICAGO, ‘June 12 (U. P).~-

(War Map of China, Page 3) at Minatoga, a small port on the southeastern shore of Okinawa. ‘The Americans have opened. a general assault, against our posi- ; tions,” Tokyo said. Government priorities on civilian Only six weary, bleary-eyed passenger automobiles will be lifted | Japanese accepted Lt..Gen. SImon|,evi January, according to Henry | Bolivar Buckner’s offer of sur- IP. Nelson, war production board rerender, The Temaiting garrison of |. version co-ordinator for the au-

tomaobile industry. (Comtinyed on Page S—Column 5 Nelson told the Chicago AutomoLOCAL ° TEMPERATURES (bile Trade association last night

| 6a.m......61 10a m. ....70 that after production of the sched- { Tam. ....63 11am ....7 |uled 215000 cars for ‘essential users, Rm... 64 12 (noon)... 76 [the market can be thrown open to Sam..... 66 1pm . 71. |all buyers.

German Papers in U. S. Protesting Harsh Peace Terms for Fatherland

By Scripps-Howard Newspapers WASHINGTON, June 12— Since the surrender of Germany, certain German-language newspapers in this country have opened up with blasts at allied unity, protesting a harsh peace and playing down the horror camp atrocities. A ‘survey of these papers shows the New York Neue Volkszeitung appealing to all “German-speak-ing Americans” to rally in support of Germany. = © It declared that the danger now is no longer that Germany may grow too strong but that G . ky 20

occupation of Gumany as chaos which if not remedied soon will destroy the allied goal ~~ to democratize Germany. This paper printed an editorial against the showing of movies of the atrocity camps, saying that when our 18-year-olds applaud the capture and killing of Germans, it is a degradation of our civilization. One:of the main lines of critics ism is against Russia. ‘The paper speculated. on the “inevitable”

killed but was taken to Moscow to instruct “Bloody Joe” in liquidating political adversaries. The Detroiter Abendpost, Chicago's Abenpost Wanderer, Staatsanzeiger and other papers write in similar vein, Most outspoken in its anti: Russian slant is the Neue Volkszeitung which goes 80 far as to

speculate on the likelthood of British - American war against Russia.

“Attacks against Gri at Britain were found in several. Fri and

ying other United Nations countries " voenty were denounced, but. less .

man competition; war with Germany. Almost universally the papers expressed hope that the German people will’ not be saddled with added burdens in the peace. There, were frequent articles against a harsh peace, : _ The New York Staatszeitung quotes with apparent’ agreement the words of Hitler's munitions minister, Speer, that Germany must immediately start work on - "her own reconstruction with the. consent of the allies to who' “Germany was ae a gallant and om May 10 10 30 4 May 10 to 16; pi week in in German at a aR

provoked the coming to light in American newspapers, the Cleveland Wachter and Anzeiger did not mention them. Nor did ‘the New York Neue Volkszeitung give them any space, : The - New York Staatszeitung Und Herold, one of the few gi full coverage to the Naz a

the German nation and blamed only the Nazi leaders. Denunciation of the Italian partisans who killed Mussolini

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