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SWANKY FAMINE—

Hotels, Short

Of Food, May Limit Diners

T may be necessary to

take a room to get a hotel meal; industry representatives say, if a proposed reduction in their food rations become a ré-"] ality. Meanwhile, Indiana district OPA officials continued. their

crackdown on slaughterers to put more meat on kitchen tables, Hotel operators. have protested vigorously a reported reduction effective July 1 of 20 per cent in meat fats, 12 to 15 per cent in canned vegetables and fruits, and 20 to 25 per cent in sugar, nu

n " JOHN H. HEWITT, executive secretary of the Indiana Hotel association, said today this information had been received through industry sources at Washington, : Paul Moore, Indiana district OPA food rationing officer, as-

serted he had received no word of the proposed reduction. “I expect there will be one, however,” he declared. “Probably it will include sugar and maybe meat.” Hotel men, Mr. Hewitt added, have told him they would be forced to exclude non-guests of

thé hotel from their dining rooms, |

if the reduction is made. n un ” AMID protests from an labor advisory committee the average citizen can't enough meat at groceries, while a person with enough money to spend can get a hotel steak, OPA attorneys were taking action to force a more equitable distribution. They have filed action in federal court here against six state meat slaughterers, asking junctions to prevent slaughtering above quotas. These quotas were set to limit meat going to “country butchers.” .Some of this has found its way into black market

OPA that

channels, OPA investigators say. |

~ ” n OPA’s recently-announced “fair distribution, order” is eflective It requires meat packers to deliver their output to counties served in January, February and March, 1944. Each county is to receive not less than 80 per cent of deliveries during this period. “Feeding only hotel guests Fort help the situation any,” mMppre.. continyed. “Ration Me are distribtued to Heterd on the basis of the number of guests fed and the dollarrevenue. Serving fewer meals will mean only that eventually fewer points will be available.” The number of points received by institutional users—this includes other restaurants besides those in hotels—is based on a formula using December, 1942, as a base period. 7

» » » MR. HEWITT declared many hotel dining rooms may be discontinued entirely. “We're going to try to convince

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VOLUME 56—NUMBER 83

KILL OWN MEN BY HUNDREDS

Yanks Blast Them Toward Sea. By WILLIAM F. TYREE

United Press Staff Correspondent GUAM, June 15.—Japanese lofficers killed hundreds of their men who tried to surrender in the southern Okinawa death trap today while American forces herded the enemy “toward the sea with flame throwers, fire bombs and artillery. Many Japanese killed themselves with grenades and knives In mass suicides. Maj. Gen. mander of the predicted Okinawa within weeks and said: “We've just reached the turning point—the point where the Japs’ will to fight is broken, The enemy {is beginning to fold up through | surrenders, suicides and disorganlized resistance.” Killed by Own Officers The greatest slaughter was at the Oroku peninsula, where hundreds lof milling, screaming Japanese were killed by their own leaders for “weakness” in trving to give up, or by the marines.

Pedro Del Valle, 1st marine division,

coms=-

complete conquest of

two days to two

Nipponese succeeded in.surrendering, while others were being taken alive by persuasion or force in oc-| {cupied areas The enemy garrison of 110,000 soldiers and sailors, plus] thousands of &ivilians, were cornered | on a rocky slope approximately four | miles long and three miles wide. At] the end of the slope are 100-foot cliffs towering over the China sea. Fire Bombs Used | the Yaeju-Dake plateau the 96th | | division smashed downhill from its] | dominating positions on Hill 167— highest in the area.

a blazing barrage of artillery and a | series of incendiary bomb raids by marine planes, Burning “fire jelly” was splashed on Japanese-held ravines, caves and ridges. A few localized ‘counter-attacks)| elements of the 96th and Tth' army | divisions and the 1st marines, Meanwhile, Japan got the first 3000-ton instalment ‘today

lin the next 12 months. "Raid on Osaka

campaign against Japan with a

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BULLETIN

) LONDON, June 15 (U. P.)—A letter from Clement R. Attlee to Prime Minister Churchill revealed today that the forthcoming Big Three meeting will be held in Berlin.

‘Many -Commit Suicide as

United Press war correspondent E. | |C. Valens reported several score of |

5000 to

Spearheading the final attack on|

The path ahead was prepared by |

of the 1 2,000,000-ton bomb payoff she faces

Bingo! It's back. after a two-year lull. Numbered cards are getting a good, appreciative play out at the Moose lodge country home near Shannon lake, off Rd. 37. Some people think the pastime has certain recreational qualities. Despite heavy rain last night, for instance, around five or six hundred bingo fans turned out at the lodge to play at eight rows of tables. The downpour shrank the crowd; but it didn’t dampen their enthusiasm. A Times reporter, who himself indulged, estimated that.-at least $2000 was wagered during the night. On the basis of prize money paid out, .he figured the “house” retained about $700 of this. On good nights, unhampered by adverse weather,

FRIDAY, JUNE 15, 1945 :

Big-time bingo has returned to Marion county.

" Moose, said his organization has no “official connec-

the “house” take there should exceed $1000. bingo experts calculated. Not to mention the slot mas chines. 7 Sessions have been held on Tuesday and Fridays. Next week, however, they're scheduled for Monday, Wednesday and Friday nights. 2 Mark Gray, secretary of the local Order of the

tion” with the enterprise. He said a private operator leases the club property, adding that the Moose board of directors had frowned on this practice. “It's an arrangement between the superintendent of the country lodge and the bingo operator,” he asserted. “I don't think it will last very long.” Rumors that law enforcement officers were “liberalizing” their attitude teward bingo are circulating among devotees of the game. Grapevine reports

. sessions have ajtracted never-sayv-die fans.

Ewtered as-Second-Class Matter at Postoffice Indianapolis 9, Ind. Issued daily except Sunday r

JAP OFFICERS Big- Time Bingo Returns To County; 500 Attend Despite’ Rain.

have ..it that several other bingo promoters had planned openings next week on the basis of these rumors. Big-time bingo has been in eclipse here since a widely-patronized game at Sky Harbor ceased functioning about two years ago. In the interim, small, scattered, “private home” A few of these are still proceeding, especially on the South and West sides. At one time in 1943, city! council gingerly fingered

a proposal to legalize bingo as played by religious

ard fraternal organizations, but dropped it like the proverbial hot skillet, HB Generally speaking, Sheriff Otto Petit has in= sisted that county complainants ggainst gambling file affidavits attesting their charges.

But their scope is definitely limited.

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While no other large bingo rallies are in evidence hereabouts, several other apparent county gaming emporiums reopened this week following a brief, 10-day self-imposed Suspension. Two of the largest

are located on N, Keystone ave. ‘and oh Kentucky ave. south of the city. ~y Entertainment at the Moose lodge begins as early as T p. m., and features two methods of awarding prizes. Of the first series of 15 games, 12 pay off $10 prizes. Winners of the final three games receive $25, $50 and $100, The first six cards cost partici« pants $1, with additional cards selling at the rate of two for 25 cents From 10 p. m. on, games are played on a per= centage basis. The first to cover’ their cams receive 70 per cent of the gross “take” of each game.

123 KILLED ON U.S. SARATOGA IN SEA BATTLE

Ship Back in Action After Taking 7 Hits by Jap Suicide Planes.

By COURTENAY MOORE United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, June 15. —The 33,000-ton aircraft carrier Saratoga—the navy’s oldest—took seven direct hits from Japanese suicide planes and. suffered 315 casualties— including 123 dead—off Iwo Jima last Feb. 21. . But, the navy revealed today, the {tough old lady has been repaired— | and even now is back in active duty against an enemy which thus far | has had good reason on three differlent occasions to believe she was through. The Saratoga took her latest beating two days after the invasion of Iwo. - | Twice before in her. career she had taken enough punishment, in torpedo attacks, to sink a lesser ship, But each time she came back—the third time after a repair job that !set a record for speed. The latest repair job was accomplished at | Bremerton, Wash. Crew's Heroic Action Told Sister ship of the Lexington, sunk {in the battle of the Coral sea, the Saratoga is still the largest U. S. carrier in action. She was commissioned in 1927. Two 45, 000-ton- |

Iwo Jima.

: __ {ners have been launched but have | | ! localize C ey “%Sinot yet hit the enemy. wae Crushed sWitthy hy aQYANICINR | he .garatoge -sarvivess Ta ony

she sur- Joins Simson A fleet of 520 B-29 Superfortresses|vived, but at a cost of 123 men opened the second year of their | killed or missing and 192 wounded.

the gaping wounds left by t cide plane crashes and Loe nite | off Iwo but also the more dangerous {damage caused by her own i gasoline and exploding bombs. Heroic action” by her crew re bers saved the “Sara.”

The Saratoga's story of survival {despite great damage was the sec{ond of its kind told by the navy in recent weeks. The U. S. S. Franklin Essex-class carrier, suffered more than 1000 casualties off Japan but lived to be repaired in the navy yard at Brooklyn, N. Y. No other carrier since Pearl Harbor had ranged as far and wide as the Saratoga in three years and three months of war, She had hit the Japanese many times, Her

training.

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R.V. Copple,

Director, Dies at Hospital

R. V. Copple, athletic director at; = Tech high school since 1938, died last night at the Methodist hospital where he had been a patient for

several weeks. He was 58. He was stricken at his home, 42

coma for a number of days at th hospital.

Mr. Copple, born at Atlanta, Ind. July 7, 1886, began his’ service at

Tech in 1921 as a mathematics in structor. assistant coach.

cipal in 1937, he became actin

athletic director and was appointed

to the post the following fall.

He attended high school in Hamfiton county and college at Marion His bachelor degree. was from Indiana -university

(Ind.) normal school.

and his masters’ from Columbia |

1924. He also did post-graduate

work at Purdue.

Mr. Copple taught in Hamilton county schools before coming to In-

dianapolis.

Principal H. H. Anderson of Tech sald “speaking for me and for the school, Mr. Copple has been one of the best teachers we ever have had. ‘classroom teacher and always was interested in athletics. He always showed rare

He was an excellent

and remained in a

He also had served as an When Fred R. Gorman was elevated to vice prin-

Tech Athletic

R. V. Copple

handling of them.”

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seen in handling crowds.” Mrs.

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in the city.

brothers Irving Hill chapel.

ability with athletic crowds and the

He added that the late I. H. 8, Commissioner A. L. Trester once told him that Mr. Copple was the “most efficient man he had ever

Copple died several years ago ahd the Tech official is survived by two sons, David, 19, a Purdue university student, and Robert, 17,

Mr. Copple was active in Masonry 7| Funeral rites will be held Monday

afternoon at 1:30 o'clock at Shirley Burial

39 PRISONERS ARE MOVED FROM FORT

Transfer of Barracks Believed Discussed.

Woodrum

IS sar y foundation”

Draft Necessity.

WASHINGTON, June 15 (U: P.). —Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower joined Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson today in declaring that this country must have peacetime military

The man whose Anglo-American armies crushed Germany from the west asserted that “the great forces necessary in war must be produced through. a citizen training system in time of peace; minimum-sized professional nucleus and maximum capacity for training the national power.” Eisenhower, who will return here Monday, made his views known in a letter to Chairman .Clifton A. (D. Va.) of the house ® 2 =u post-war military policy committee. . Stimson told the committee that compulsory training is the “neces-

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ol 7 iL. Bids. $1,280, 000 For Pyle's Manuscript

AMERICAN § States Life Insurance Co., today raised the bid on the Ernie Pyle manuscript to an even $1,000,000—and it was topped almost immediately by more.than a quarter of a million. “International Typographical Union, had a $200,000 ¢ffer out-bid by Harry came back quickly with a bid of $1,280,000, which was high as the day’s auction ended. Mr. Reid was bidding as chairman of the Indianapolis utilities companies’ war bond committee.

JACK GILL, secretary-treasurer of I.-T. U. purchase was made with investment funds of the union being transferred from other securities that were maturing. The added purchase was of $820,000 from pension funds for the 7000 aged

members entitled to such benefits, and $260,000 for mortuary funds, which went last year to un% beneficiaries, including 106 service

Mr. Gill said the I. T. U. Hopes to acquire the Pyle manuscript for the library of its Union Printers’ Home in Colorado Springs.

THE MANUSCRIPT, one of:a very few that remain from the portable typewriter which Ernie all the war fronts, was written on a Pacific island only a. short

Queen of the Flat-Tops Survives Beating and Goes After Japs Agel.

The crew of the aircraft carrier U. 8. S. Harun fizhtis fires on the flight deck after being ripped by seven Jap bomb hits Feb. 21 off |

Buffalo -

which had Reid’s $800,000,

MILTON, Pa,

the wreckage. » » .

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It goes to the highest bidder east,

A highly-secret movement of 3] prisoners from the disciplinary ,barracks at Ft. Harrison to Ft. Leavenworth, Kas., was revealed today. Amid reports that the group was composed of prisoners whose original sentences were extended to life

for their participation in the recent attempted break and fire at the fort, there were rumblings that all or at least part of the disciplinary barracks might be moved eventually, as urged by the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce. This was thought to be under| of discussion by several officers from Ft. Hayes, O., headquarters of the 5th service command, William Book, Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce executive vice president, and Bowman Elder, prominent Democrat, Maj. Joseph Deutchle and Maj. Robert French, both of the command’s public relations office, were to meet the local men this afternoon for an inspection of conditions at. Ft, Harrison. Mr. Book said he had received a telegram from Rep. Louis Ludlow 4D. Ind) this morning concerning a discussion the latter had with Gen. Brehon Sommervell, of the services of supply. Possibility of removing thé 800 prisoners nearest the fort hospital was under discussion, the telegram stated. Others may be removed later.

the current

centages.

“cigarets.

creased supplies, and ignite it by the hungry gleam in another smoker's eye. This was the general opinion leading Indianapolis cigaret wholesalers today, who grow another gray hair every time one of those “no more cigaret shortages” reports are printed. “I keep seeing the articles but I haven't seen the fags,” said one harried sales manager. The whole trouble lies in per- § When cigaret manufacturers ballyhoo a new increase, they fail to clarify that the increase is in a percentage, which doesn't necessarily mean more

Such factors as changing base months in computifig allotments or increasing the shipment of only a few brands make the increases appear what they ain't, moaned one sales ‘manager. “The customers think the retailers are holding back, the re-

tailers think we're hoarding and

write the articles. Everybolly gets’ mad and smokes more cigarets, and the shortage gets worse.” Wholesalers said they did get a small increase this month, but on the average it will mean only about two more cartons to each

SENATORS DEMAND ‘ROAD GRAFT’ PROBE

WASHINGTON, June 15 (U, P)). ~The senate war investigating committee called on the war department today to answer charges of “fantastic graft and corruption” in the construction of We LatinAmerican highway. In addition it asked the justice department to explain why the FBI had been held off the case for nearly two years. The FBI's excuse, one committee member said sarcastically, was that “It happened in Latin-America."” The inquiries were ordered by

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Cigaret Men at Fag-End of Their Wits; ‘Increased Supply’ Has Gone Up in Smok

By DONNA MIKELS No ifs, ands or butts about it! The only relief in sight for the cigaret smoker is to grind up all stories

we get burned up at the guys who |

track.

dealer. And, they added, manu | facturers pointed out the increase was-teritative and might be sliced down again by the next shipment. S— The local situation poils down to the grim fact that retailers are getting only about 70 per cent of peacetime allotments. At the same time, hoarding, an increase in the number of- smokers, and ‘ the cigarets. smoked up standing in line’ to buy more cut deeply into the supply. | Another kick at the haggard

and Sunbury,

One

Philip Morris said such action |W. North st, might come because of the short-

age of shipping. ‘Because of dis-

edented drain ofr domestic production.

filled, he said, putting an unprec- 1 st

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__17.DIEIN.GRASH. OF FAST TRAIN

Bond Express wanted by practically all the allied Rams Derailed Freight.

The Buffalo - bound Dominion ex-| trial of leading war criminals should press of the Pennsylvania railroad | be decided upon quickly.) was derailed near here today 17 bodies were recovered from the session, one addressed to “Vincent® wreckage five hours after the acci-|—presumably dent. Another body was believed in| | Winston—Churchill,

Railroad officials wrecking crews had recovered the eign Secretary Anthony Eden, bodies of two crew members and 14/ passengers. At least 32 persons were injured, about 25 seriously enough| for ‘hospitalization, Six cars of the passenger train the rails one mile south of the engine rammed into derailed cars of an ore train. Twelve bodies were removed from

were’ found in a combination bag-gage-passenger car, The ore train of 103 cars, moving | was derailed at 1:08 a. when one of the cars buckled be-| cause of ‘a defective journal box,| throwing a number of the heavily loaded cars onto the west-bound! Before crew members could set up a warning signal, falo train rammed into the wreck-| | age within a minute later. The first dead identified were En- | gineer R. C. Stratton of Camp Hill | Pa.;

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Hoosier Heroes—

LOGAL MAN DIES OF | comimwet op Fore 3~cutuma n WOUNDS, 2 FREED

Indianapolis wounds received in ‘Germany, one

and fagless came from Philip {was wounded in the Pacific and Morris & Co., Ltd, today as it |{two. have been freed from a warned even the slight increases |German prison camp. will be “short-lived” if the army DEAD takes cigarets for Pacific service- Pyt. Clarence A. self, 1334 W. men from the current output in- |, a : 31st.st., in France. stead of military . stockpiles in Europe. WOUNDED President Alfred P. Lyon of T. 5th Gr. Roy C. Hershey, 103

on Cebu island. T LIBERATED “nhs Wilbur O. Beninger, 3651 N. in Germany.

, in Germany.

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_ RIBBENTROP IS SS CAUGHT WITH CAN OF POISON

Nazi Foreign Minister Is | Found by British in- Hams burg Boarding House.

. By RONALD CLARK

United Press Staff Correspondent : WITH BRITISH 2D ARMY, Germany, June 15.— {Former Foreign Minister | Joachim von Ribbentrop, last of the Nazi hierarchy not [tentatively accounted for, was captured yesterday in a Hamburg boarding house where he had | lived unrecognized for more than | six weeks. | Ribbentrop left Lueneberg ‘by {plane at 12:30 p. m. in custody ef military authorities for an undisclosed destination, where he will be questigned by representatives of ale lied supreme headquarters. A British lieutenant and two ser geants discovered him lying naked in bed. Dressed and taken to British headquarters, he was found to have

secreted a can of poison on his body. Ribbentrop registered at the boarding house under the name of Reise April 30, but admitted his identity to his captors. A sister arrested today eonfirmed the identi | fication, He had been living in dis- { guise.

‘Fair Trial

The foreign minister who en=-. gineered the diplomatic phase of ~ Adolf ‘Hitler's European conquests told his captors that he had hoped to-hide-until-British opinion agpings. = Germany had died down and he ~~ could surrender for a “fair trial.” (A British foreign office com{mentator confirmed that Ribbentrop was a major war criminal

countries. The commentator said | Robert H. Jackson, chief American | prosecutor, would return to London June 15 (U. P.).— | so0n, after which procedure for

and | He had. three letters in his posfor Prime Minister another to | British Marshal Sir Bernard L. announced | Montgomery and the third to For-

Refused Sanctuary A British staff officer casually {revealed the prize capture in |answer to a routine question from | newsmen about rumors that Ribbentrop had been captured in the American occupation zone. The officer revealed that Ribbentrop had gone to Hamburg April 30 to seek refuge at the home of a | wine merchant who was an old friend. Before his entry into diplomatic affairs, Ribbentrop was a "| champagne salesman: The wine merchant refused him sanctuary, however, and Ribbentrop went to the boarding house where he was captured and registered as an ordinary guest. He went uns recognized and unchallenged until | arrested at 9:30 a. m. yesterday. Long Search. Ended

He walked to British headquarters in Hamburg with the arresting officers. A medical examination there revealed the can of poison. He subsequently was taken to Lueneberg and confined to the same | neh where gestapo chief Heinrich

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