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Sydney ‘Girls Are Clever And There Are No Lonely

Hearts Among Americans OKINAWA JAPS

By WILLIAM M'GAFFIN, Times Foreign Correspondent

SYDNEY, Australia, June 13.—There

In Sydney.

his social calendar without conflicts.

Yank soldiers and sailors all over the Pacific sigh and yearn to get’

to this earthly paradise down under. The great

popular than ever: . Sydney girls are no prettier than American girls. But they may seem s0 when coming in from the islands after no sight of a white woman for months. Certainly, however, they are among the world's cleverest strategists It

1s winter here now and. there

And no wonder.

bulk of Americans once based in Australia have now| moved north with the war-—-which| ———=—t=————— makes those left on duty here more the experience of one peroxided in and came out with hair of a violent]

who went chlorinated

| glory, | heavily

swimming water

green.

The girls spéak with an “Amer-| They eat in Amer- ! ican style—discarding British cus-|a11€se

ican accent.”

e no lonely American hearts The only problem of a Yank down here is how to regulate

YANKS BURNING Zz 2d 0 7-dls Here Join Rent

PATH THROUGH

Smash Suicide Charges by Doomed Enemy Carrying Dynamite Satchels.

By FRANK TREMAINE United Press Staff Correspondent

PEARL HARBOR, June! 13.—American troops, armed

| with special flamethrowers burned a path through Japfortifications atop]

tom and putting down their knives| Yaeju-Dake plateau on Oki-

ls tavor of righthand use of the! use |

tork.” They dress smartly,

are no beauty parade on Sydney's | makeup expertly and wear highe! | heeled shoes dubbed “Yank catch. | Svvors.

famous beaches and no easy meeting places between boys and girls. This doesn’t seem to cramp the style of Sydney's womenfolk. They like the Yanks and they know how to catch them,

When the American forces first arrived here in 1942 word circulated that Yanks prefer blonds and redheads. Blonds and hedheads blossomed over night.

And the girls weren't deterred by nan »

Skies Are Blue

ers.” They also use psychology. ago they discovered that

asking a nice female stranger a date. a whole series of strategems.

Long rages of the Pacific tie several enemy troop concentrations | American male is often shy about on the summit of the cliffs, for So they have developed suicide stand.

nawa today and smashed despera‘e

“banzai” charges by doomed enemy

One of the greatest artillery barwar shattered

w here |

trapped Japanese were making

Marines and infantrymen scaled

The experience of a handsome to the top of the plateau on.rope

young American naval lieutenant is' ladders,

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Over Borneo,

But Rising Sun Is Setting

By GER! ALD R. THORP, Times Foreign Correspondent

ABOARD AN "Lot OFF BORNEO, June 13.—The LCI was perhaps |

Life was very pleasant be-| cause it was almost chow time and there might be apple pie with a thick|

B00 yards off Labuan island in Bru

slice of cheese.

nei bay.

.. Then came planes—our planes—dive- bombers, dropping out of the|

sun with .an impudent, lazy grace cause you were so proud of them. You knew it was going to be just another routine air strike, oné - of dozens that have helped push .the enemy further and further inland on Borneo. But you forgof about eating and could think only of the planes as

they leveled .off—so close to the ground you were sire they were crashing. Then, mocking your fears, they sped back toward the sky like homesick angels i You saw the bombs strike long before you heared them, Dull, gray

columns of earth and smoke leaped | {from the green forest, hung motionless for seconds—then plumed as! though Smeniie Bae Siowiy opened

that made your throat tighten be-

half a dozen Biant fans. Finally the sound of the explosions, muffled thuds by the time they reached you.-floated-across the! water, The sky you had been watching no longer was clear and clean. It was drab and dusty and grimy-—as unsightly and dirty as a gray winter morning. But it lasted only a minute. The debris from the bomb plummeted back to earth, smoke and dust floated inte nothingness and the sky was brilliant blue again above the newly ‘wrought destruc- |

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Nazi Clibs Stand Deserted

In a Bewild

ered Argentina

By ERNIE HILL, Times Foreign Correspondent

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina, Ju deserted beside the river,

Once crowded on holidays with laughing arrogant men and women, | {ahead as the Ja their expensive docks and flagstone gardens now loom as ghosts of a! fields.

culture that died an infamous dea

of the Parana river for keep to themselves now. They g0 | to inconspicuous Iittle public clubhouses along the maze of canals and rivers, They have a bewildered look about them and they seldom smile. They are the unimportant little Germans who work in photograph shops or banks or stores.

holidays

Those who ran the far-flung Nazi!

espionage network in Buenos Aires are seldom seen these days. Some have been jailed. Those in minor

roles have gone to quiet villages in

the Argentine interior. Germany has left an imprint on the life of Buenos Aires. And it is most evident on holidays when the Argentines go to the delta country, and hour out from Buenos Aires,| to row and esl Jufieraon, » »

A Hoosier Has

ne 13.—The Nazi rowing clubs stand

th many miles away.

German families who go to the verdant delta eountry / at the mouth | was a d

European in atmosphere, a holiday in Buenos Aires cxlls fof a lot of organized muscle-building. The (train to Tigi'e—where the boats go up the many rivers and canals— passes by miles of courts filled with tennis players.

Many of the men wear berets. | | Horseback riders are all over the place. Volleyball and basketball courts are filled. The clubs along the rivers and ‘canals have names’ such as the Yachtsman, Mouth of -the Bull, European Lodge, Catalina, New Bull, { The Oranges, Elba, Caruso, Maria | Luisa and The White Horse.

and The Chisege Daily News, »

His Say on

Ine. »

Universal Army Training

By DANIEL M. KIDN

EY, Times Staff Writer

WASHINGTON, June 13.—An Indiana farmer appeared before the house committee on post-war military policy and although he wasn't

scheduled as a witness he said his

say in the matter.

He i5 against universal military training in the post-war period.

" “I came down here,” sent anybody but myself. farmer out at North Manchester, Ind. “Of course I've talked to my neighbors about this plan to put all the 18-year-old boys in the army for a year. They are against also. I do not hin it's good for

he said,

it |

“al my own expense and I don’t repreMy nates is Charles C. Rohrer and I'm a

the boys. They ought to be 'at| | nome where they can get some help | and guidance at that age. “Of course, I know Whe army has

(Continued on .

Anti- Chosed Shop Decision

Serious Threat to Unions

By FRED W. PERKINS, Scripps-Howard Star Correspondent.

WASHINGTON, June 13,—Afte

r a series of victories in the U. S.

supreme court, which has invalidated various state laws directed against

uhions, organized labor faces today this field—Florida’s constitutional A thfee-judfe federal court in that the state amendment did not

TIMES INDEX

Amusements. Jack Bell

| Inside’ Indpls. 11 C1

Jane Jordan , 19

Business .. .9 Mauldin .. .., 11 Robt.. Casey. . 11 |Ruth Millett , 11 Comics Caen 18 Obituaries .. 1 Crossword .. | Fred Perkins. 12 David Dietz . .11| Radio . 19

Editorials ... 12 Mrs. Roosevelt 11

Peter Edson , 12 Wm.'P. Sinims 12

Forum ceidue 12/8ports ea... 18 ro Tom Skee « JB. 14 Wom's

1 i;

the most serious threat to date in amendment barring a closed shop. Tampa held unanimously Monday violate the federal constitution, and was an appropriate use of the state's police power, Herbert 8, Thatcher, associated with Joseph A. Padway, general | counsel of the American Federation of Labor, said today that the deci-

(Another Perkins story, Page 12)

Olsion will be appealed immediately

{to the supreme’ court. But no acttion can be expected before next fall because the. supremg ‘court. is about to recess for the Summe

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then used the same ropes to haul up other troops and their

supplies. | The defenders virtually were surf { rounded. The 1st marine divisio

fon the west, the 96th army division | {on the north and the th army divi[sion on_the east cracked through! primary defenses and stormed Bor the plateau from three sides.

may be the final battle of Okinawa. Try Suicide Assaults United Press War brian G.* Valens reported from .10th {army headquarters that cornered [Japanese troops huried themselves lat advancing Americans in suicide |assaults In one of the largest counter-at- |

“Indianapolis landlords. have joined with °

national property owners

much as 15 per cent.

The National Apartment House owiiers’

assoclation has appealed to per cent increase into the | extending the life ‘of OPA. | The National

tate boards has suggested a

to bring pressure on congress

Both organizations contend that ether

associations an attempt to raise OPA rent ceilings as

the banking committee to write a general 15

pending bill

Association of Real "Es-

frozen rents. won't on t¢ make post-war jobs. Slightly

house

“reasonable” increase, and is urging its 741 local boards

Indianapolis association,

price levels have placed home anlt apartment house owners in a disadvantageous position in the 479 cities where OPA has They say that present rents construction

support new

William

said

more than half the people in Indianapols-are renters, estate men. Any general increase in rents would affect the housing costs of 50,000 to 60,000 families here: on -that basis. P. Snethen, Apartment government living costs have risen 26 per cent since

1939 while higher,

Mr Snethen s counted to build up fina repairs and accortiing to real ing the war dianapolis Real have felt the ho

rents rollback. OPA ordered in July, 1941. risen and that owners had not been -able

improvements

Wendell M. Hicks, president of the 10-

Kens are oily 7.9 per. cent peop; e i most of which occurred before the CR tor sam

aid maintenance costs had the war for deferred, dur-

ncial reserves to pay

least that's what the figures, their own books show

Demand |

ving in them, not to speculators.” Gutermuth, local OPA rent direc~ ne thought the property owners

had béen making sufficient profits during

to pay for post-war repairs. “At taken from

“

Mr. Gutermuth added that there are

Estate board, said “we the neti

me-owner is being penal-

mariager of the ized in not getting a fair break.” House Owners’ He admitted that an increase in rent compara figures show ceilings probably would raise property Price values, but added that “most are sold to

ing costs. provided the house ér apartment rent 1s below the middle of the range of

provisions for raising rents in casgs where

ncome falls, due to higher operat-

bility. Administrator Chester Bowles and

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BIG 3 TO MEET ON WORLD PEACE WITHIN 40 DAYS, TRUMAN SAYS

Early Senate Approval Of Charter Sought

TRUMAN HOPES U.S. IS FIRST TO RATIFY FY TREATY

Senators Aked to Defer Recess; Hearing May Start June 25.

y ~ Tr T 9. ftacks, approximately 300 Japanese | WASHIN TON, June 13 carrying dynamite “satchels” charged| (U. P.).—A d ministration Ist marine division positions on {leaders have decided to seek the western front. The leather-| fi ft necks killed 64, including one} Senate ratification 0 he, woman = (world security cnarter asi | On the - strategic southeastern | gqon as the Sn Francisco coast near Hanagusuku, American | oo once ends.- it was learned (tanks cleaned out 105 Japanese caves|, ay. along the escarpment. Foot soldiers | Prompt action was requested By swept caves and breastworks withi 5 cident Truman. It was agréed blasts of 200- | i etme a ot long flame Sprayed som 20) upon by admijnistration leaders in sn led’ he senate despite their ‘previous out Japanese with grenades and | {rifles. . it ha | | Read "Peter - Edson's “Reflec- |

The final American assault - was | under way, and it was a battle to] the death with no quarter asked {or given. Gains of up to 1000 yards | j were reported in the past 24 hours. | | Day of Hard Fighting In the oiher battle of the day, the Australians continued their{ drive toward Brunei, in North! Borneo. The thick jungle and a bad road | { slowed them, but they already cou! 1d | | see the black columns of smoke | panese fired the oil In the Pacific war generally it | ay of hard, slugging fighting, | {the kind that cause more casualties and rates less headlines than the sensational victories. In the Philippines, on northern Luzon but at a slower anese

the advance was resumed, pace, as the Japreformed their line

however, Thousands of people go bicycling. | (Continued on inued on Page 5—Column f) |

MINISTERS TO AlD BINGO FOE

Evansville Mayor Hopes They Will Share ‘Heat.’

EVANSVILLE, Ind.,.June 13 (U P.).—Mayor Manson S. Reichert hinted today that Evansville ministers might take some of the heat off him in his anti-gambling crusade by filing affidavits themselves against gaming operators. A delegation of pastors called on | the Republican mayor today to urge a return to an .airtight ban on games of chance, without excepting any private clubs or fraternal organizations,

Reichert told the clergymen that

|it was their “duty” to file affidavits!

|against law violators, as much as {it was his duty to declare an antijgambling edict. One minister in after the conference that Reic hert’ s reaction to their appeal was “a splendid example of double talk.” Reichert told the ministers that the anti-gambling ban officially still - ‘Was on, despite his relaxation récently of the order to exclude private clubs, ! Meanwhile, charges of kfeping a

the group said |

TWO INC INCHES OF RAIN THIS WEEK; MORE DUE

fallen in Indianapolis since Monday and thundershowefs are promised again today and tonight. 4 TOMOITOW will be cloudy, the weatherman said, with not ‘much change in temperature, The mercury reached 72 at 9 a. m. today,

LOCAL TEMPERATURES

Sa.m..... Wa. m...... 73 Sam.....69 11a m.....% 8am... 7 12 (hoon) 38

Sam... ” Apom, 1S

across’

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Nearly two inches of rain has |’

tion's” column and William Philip |

Simms’ “World Affairs,” both Page 1% intention to take a summer recess!

and defer action on the treaty until | fall. | - The decision was’ reached be-! cause Mr. Truman is anxious that | the United States become the first [nation to ratify the treaty setting up a world security organization. According to the tentative program, the San Francisco conference is expected to end June 20. Seek Vote By July 15 It is planned to submit the treaty to the senate the following Monday, June 25. The plan calls for brief heageings before ‘the senate foreign relations committee. It is hoped by the leaders that the senate vote on ratification can be ob-

tained by July 5. Some senators, predicted longer debate, Congress had been planning to

{take a summer recess from July 10

to Sept. 10. Senate leaders agreed {with Mr. Truman to postpone the recess 1f 1t_1s possible to get action

(Continued + on Page. 7—Column 5) |

Toscanini Aids Opera in Milan

Times Foreign Service

MILAN, Italy, June 13.—Countess Wally Castlebarco, daughter of Arturo Toscanini, today presented Mayon Antonio Greppi with two checks for a million lire .($10.000) each, to be used ,in the reconstruction of La Scala opera house, |gwhich was gutted by allied bombs. The first check was from her father, conductor of ‘the N. B. C symphony orchestra; “the second from Snia Viscosa, Italy's largest manufacturer of rayon. Countess Castelbarco, who has been a refugee in Switzerland dur- | ing the last year and a half of war, will leave for the U. S. from Lisbon by clipper on July 7. She will be accompanied by her 12- | year-old daughter, Emmanuela. !

}

{will

of persons wil

The starry

Recall Philippines in 1900

John E. Merritt hated Japs*in the Philippines 45 years ago.

. one of the last men of the Last Man's club,

Spanish War Vet Says Japs Were Sneaks 45 Years Ago

Things ain't Take wal Nhen Joi Panay, a Phil “hit

exactly

He docked

HERE ARE RULES: FOR FLAG DAY

Loti Urges os Retpeit for

what they

Old Glory.

By DR. H

ARRY H. NAGLE

Americanization Director of the Irvington American Legion

Tomorrow Indianapolis

nation pay Destiny”

As in the past

quire how

| played. Here are a few of the rules about |

will observe Flag respect to the for the

and

day

world.

however,

] call American Legion {headquarters and newspapers to inthe flag should be dis-

the flag of the Uniled States:

The best method of displaying the flag of our country is from a staff union always must at the end of the staff as directed

upward or outward

When the flag is hung flat

either |

SHERLEY UHL used to be, as the saying goes

in..the Philippines, for instance m E. (Runt) Merritt, of 1630 Bellefontaine st. mvaded ippine isle, with the™Ammerican 35th infantry, he didn't the beach.” There was a sort of port. The troops filed down the gangplank of a freighter,|

But there wasn't much shooting, any. The natives, whose territory the Americans were over"running, didn’t look at it that way, They welcomed the invaders with yen arms, not loaded ones r Sgt. Merritt and his .comie Fan their rifles cocked, NothIng happened So it went 13 or

for 14 months

| (ConUinued on Page 5—Column 5)

Hoosier Heroes—

and

«3 LOCAL HEROES DI

3 Others Wounded, 7 Freed From Prison Camps.

Three local heroes have been killed in action in the Pacific and! three have been - wounded. Seven | Indianapolis men have been re-| ported freed from German prison camps, Killed

Pvt. Harold Morton Parson, 1613]

(Continued on Page 7—Column 3) Carrollton ave. on Okinawa.

Utilities Bid $800,000 In Bonds for Pyle Script | : wu.

JAR BOND BIDS on the Ernie Pyle original manuscript took another spurt this week.

International Typographical Union's bid of $200,000

» » »

| was promptly ‘topped by an ‘offer of $800,000 from Harry Reid, as chairman of the war bond committee of Indianapolis utilities companies.

BIDDING started three weeks ago at $5000, has climbed steadily to the present mark. High bidder will get an original manuscript Written by Ernie Pyle on a Pacific island during the last weeks of hiselife, with the censor's stamps and the penciled corrections, just as it came to América, airmail for publication.

’ . a, ay n FJ

UNDER the announced iles of the auction bids may beventered by any individual, firm,’ association or, group, and the highest bidder, © In war bonds, of course, gets the manuscript. -awarded unsuccessful bidders of $5000, 6r more upon eyidence that a “they tially + made the yond purchase. mentioned in thelr bids. en

- Replicas. will be

co n Germany.

Machinist's Mate 3-¢c Donald Paul

Keyler, 401 'N, Oxford st, in the Pacific Pfc. Earl C. W. (Pete) Naue, R. R. { 10, Box 165, on Saipan. WOUNDED . William T. Harper, 663 | | Park ave, Greenwood, in the Pacific. Marine Sgt. Everett E. Schafer, |

: R. R. 16, Box 268. in the Pacific. "Pt. Jim E. Sigler, formerly of 2445 N. Pennsylvania st, on Luzon. LIBERATED : T. Sgt. Herbert C. Derado, 738 S. Noble st., in. Germany.

New York st, from Stalag 2-B.

N. Holmes gve., from Stalag 7-A. Second Lt. John L. Mitchell, 3230, W. Morris st, from Stalag Luft 3. | “Pvt. William F. Lloyd, 215 Sheffield ave, from Stalag 2-B. Pvt. John W. Wampler, 1230 PasaJess Ave, ih Germany. Pvt. Pau] E. Bain, SHES Clas

‘e we

f |gime

. for "(the underground movement which

« | spokesman

Pvt. Vernon R. Edwards, 848 W.|

N.|

Polish Leaders to Meet Friday in Moscow. LONDON, June 13 (U. P.)

tof the Polish provisional government in Warsaw arrived today in Moscow, where leaders of various Polish factions and represenfatives of Big Three "will conter Friday the Polish problem. A Mostow dispatch reported the arrival from Warsaw of President Boleslaw Bierut and Premier Edjward Osubka-Moravski of the refounded in Lublin under Soviet sponsorship, It moved to Warsaw after the liberation of the ruined capital. Rejected Invitation The rival Polish government in

the on

"(exile here denounced the selection

| % {of the conferees invited to Moscow

the omission of leaders of

|foueht the Germans. : Julian Zakowski, one of three Polish leaders invited to the conferences, rejected the invitation. A for the government {here announced Zakowski's action

{Continued on Page 7—Column 2)

U. S. REFUSES RED ARMY MOVE

Russ Kept Out of Czech | Area Held by Yanks.

| | WIESBADEN. Germany. June 13 {—American occupation forces refused to permit Russian troops to take over the border strip {western Czechoslovakia liberated by {the U. S. 3d army, it was revealed | today Twelfth army group ters here disclosed that Russian occupation of American-held central {Germany had begun. : U. 8. 9th army troops in the Chemnitz area have been pulled

| (Continued on “Page 5—Column 3)

| —The president and premier

of |

headquar- |

Report Progress Made Toward Unity.

By MERRIMAN SMITH

United Press Staff Correspondent’

WASHINGTON, June 13. ~—President Truman said today that the time and place have been set for a Big Three imeeting dedicated to “secur-

ing’ “a just and ‘durable peace.” The President reported at his news conference that plans for the | meeting—to begin some time before July 17—were worked out by Harry L. Hopkins and Joseph .E. Davies during their recent trips to Moscow and London. He also disclosed that as a result of Hopkins’ talks with: Premier Josef Stalin the long Big Three deadlock over Poland at last ‘was on the way to complete solution. Within 40 Days The President did not disclose where or when he would have his first face-to-face meeting with Stalin and Prime Minister Winston Churchill He said. however. that the time limit—within 40 days—which he announced at a news conference last week still held. The 40 days will be up July 17. Mr. Truman disclosed that this | Big Three meeting would be conducted as secretly as those attended at Tehran and Yalta by the late President Roosevelt. This suggested the inference that it also would be overseas. The President said he was gratified by the success of the Hopkins and Davies missions. ‘Mutual Confidence’ “The all-important thing which confronts us,” he said, “is that the unity, mutual confidence, and respect which resulted in a military victory should ‘be continued to make secure a just and durable { peace.” Asserting that Russia had yielded former positions as a result of Hopkins’ visit, Mr. Truman urged U. 8. reporters not to muddy the situation. The Russians, he said, have proved that they are just as

(Continued on Page 7—Column 3)

| With President Today—

WASHINGTQN, June 13 (U, P).

| =The high points of President Tru-|

"IN PACIFIC BATTLES

hundreds |

man’s press conference Yoday: 1. He announced that time and | place have been fixed for his meeting with Premier Churchill and Premier Stalin. It will be sometime {before July 17 and apparently will | be overseas. | 2 He believed good progress is being made in solution of the dif(ficult Polish problem as a result of | Harry L. Hopkins’ trip to Moscow | Fiopkins also obtained moderation of Russia's stand on the veto quesYon in the San Francisco conferlence.’ 3. He expressed liope that the house would eliminate the senate's amendment to the OPA bill which | would attempt to guarantee faim-

ers ‘cost of profit 4. He urged that the senate restore the funds for the office of war information that were cut in half by the house : 5. Again he expressed hope that the house rules committee would permit the house to vote on proposal for a permanent fair employment practices commission. 6. He announced selection of former Governor Willlam H. Wills of Vermont to succeed Norman 8S. Case of Rhode Island as a member of the federal communications commission, ‘Both are Republicans. 7. He indicated that Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower will return to Europe as scheduled to continue as. U. 8S. member of the control commission for kai

production”

plus

Secret Axis Plans Ered:

Read Ciano's Diary in Times

COUNT CIANO, Mussolini's

son-in-law, was on the

inside, a trusted member of the axis gang from 1939 until

late 1943,

He sat’ in the most important and most secret

meetings, negotiated with Hitler and other high Nazis,

and was completely informed on the whole axis plot.

Furthermore, he was writing it all down. Ciano had ideas

Pie. Kenneth. Harold Green, 12067 and ambitions of his own,

scheme,

| “had him arrested and shot. -

and they didn’t fit the axis

When the Nazis grew suspicious of Ciano, they

But they didn’t know he had

written 2 diary, which was smuggled out of the country. LCIANO'S OWN DIARY igi . 4 Starts Monday, June 18th THE INDIANAFOLS TIMES ain