Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 June 1945 — Page 1
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“FINAL. HOME
: By HAL O'FLAHERTY, Times Foreign News Analyst
HUNGER and human needs—such as beds to sleep in and clothes to wear—are driving Europe toward state Socialism. Nearly all of the governments set up since victory— or now being formed—are turning to collectivist or Socialist methods of control. The division of land, long held in few hands, the operation of mines, the control of employment, wages, banking, railroads, telegraphs, all are drifting into the hands of post-war governments,
BIG PARADE OF 67S T0 PACIFIC ON IN EARNEST
First Combat Division to Be Deployed as Unit Is Awaited.
By VICTOR PETERSON - Times Staff Writer . NEW YORK PORT OF DEBARK- : ATION, BROOKLYN, N. Y. June 16.—The big parade to the Pacific war is on. In ever increasing numbers, bat-tled-hardened ‘G. I's many from
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PARIS, June 16 (U, P.).—Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower left for the United States today in the
. late President Roosevelt's private plane. : The plane was specially sent by Gen. George C. Marshall to bring Eisenhower : back. Eisenhower left at 1:55 p. m. and was due to reach Bermuda after a brief stop at the Azores at 6:30 a. m. tomorrow. He will have a stopover of 24 hours in Bermuda to get a little rest. He expects to reach Wash- | ington at 10:30 a, m. (Indianapolis Time) Monday.
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Indiana, are docking for redeployment. ; And today the arrival of the first combat division to return from Europe for deploymént as a unit to the Pacific was awaited here. The division, unidentifiable but including Hoosier -boys, was to be greeted by 150 newspaper and radio men from all over the country. - After 30-day home furloughs they will be off to pit their European experience against the Japs. Indications are that the more reeent divisions to move to Europe will be the first ones home en masse for redeployment. These men are fresh troops—yet veterans of battle,
Don't Go to New York
Port authorities have requested all families with knowledge that their men are coming home not to come to New York. There is no way to contact the soldier in the 24-hour period after docking and when hé will be on his way home. And it is not the same as in the first world war when civilians eered at the piers and the men aded up Broadway. It is an army ow all the way. Nothing is done hat will interfére with operations ontinuing for the Pacific theater. But these men are made to feel t home, It is “Welcome Home Soldier,” and it comes from the heart. 5 Here half {our overseas veterans turning from Europe pass to re; deployment staging areas such as amp Kilmer, N, J. Camp Kilmer the nation’s greatest station funeling troops to reception centers earest their homes—in the case of Indianapolis and Indiana, Camp Atrbury. Service is the keynote of the de-
Chicago, in tears.
'HAND-ME-DOWNS'— Sailor Uniforms
I » . Called 'Feminine +g : * * ! And Agonizing ~ WASHINGTON, June 16° (U, P.).—The “feminine and agonizing uniform of American sailors is a “hand-me-down” from the British. The black neckerchief signifies “continuing mourning to Lord Nelson, hero of the British navy,” according té Senator William Langer (R. N. D.). Langer is leading a drive to get rid of the navy's “bell-bottom trouser” outfit. He said today that he had won the support of Senate Democratic Leader Alben W. Barkley of Kentucky and Senators Robert A.
Taft (R. 0.), C. Wayland Brooks (R. Tm) i phere?
CONTINUING on the British ancestry of the present uniforms, he said the three white stripes | on the over-size color commemorated three great naval victories of Lord Nelson. The only American parts of the uniform, he added, trouser buttons commemorating the 13 colonies. » ” » HE SAID his bill calling for a
proved by “sailors and their loved ones from the far corners of the world.” These boys want something more in common with the contour of their bodies,” he declared. “Whoever designed the present enlisted navy man’s uniform must have had an intense hatred
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BELGIAN PREMIER, | CABINET RESIGN
BRUSSELS, June 16 (U. P).—
[Premier Achille Vani Acker and his| of mankind.” ntire . Belgian cabinet submitted eir resignations to Prince Regent LOCAL TEMPERATURES harles today following the dis-| ga. m..... 66 10a m..... 2 losure that King Leopold intends| 7 a.m..... 67 Nam..... 5 to return shortly to Belgium—pre-| 8 a.'m..... 68 12 (Noon)., 78 mably to resume his throne, ; Ya.m..... 69 1pm..... 79
10,000 Truckers Strike in Defiance of Truman's Order
CHICAGO, June 16 (U, P.).—Ten ousand truck drivers went on
dential order placing the lines un-
Weep and You Don't Weep Alone
The power of p suggoction | in children is Hilly illustrated in the picture at the top, wherein little Susan Tokarsky, 4, spots her graduation companion, Howard Silver, 3, at Eugene field park playground,
In the bottom picture Susan has picked up the idea.
| hour week, necessitating time and | one- half pay for more than 40
are the 13 |
change had been universally ap- |
ried woman today in an effort to
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A change from the totalitarian methods set up during the interim between two world wars and the five years of the second world war, apparently can take only one direction. That is toward Socialism. The peoples are too tired and too poor and too ignorant to make a fight for democratic forms. Arguments in favor of a free enterprise under a republican form of government becomes utterly absurd when the hard facts of life in Europe are faced. Most of the smaller,4féoples of Europe have been
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OKINAWA PS MAKING FIVAL SUCDE STAND] =
Crushing Foe Foxholes. :
By WILLIAM F. TYREE United. Press Staff Correspondent
GUAM, June 16.—Signs of American preparations for possible new landings in the Ryukyus were reported by radio Tokyo as Japanese defenses on southern Okinawa all but collapsed. American officers on Okinawa said fina! victory may come this weekend, certainly within a week. The
trapped Japanese, herded into a shell-swept 10-square-mile pocket,
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CHECK REPORTS ON MANPOWER
‘WMC and C. of C. Decide To Hold ‘Recount.
By ROGER BUDROW Times Business Editor The controversy between WMC! | Director Posey Denning and a group | {of local employers over whether | manpower regulations should be {dropped now was cooling off today |as a “recount” ‘got underway to
organized banzai charges. | Tenth army forces had captured | {nearly half the southern plateau. Flame-throwing tanks paced the | American advances and crushed die-hard Japanese in foxholes: peneath their treads. “There are so many targets that we cannot kill all the enemy we find exposed,” a Tth division staff officer said. 2
New Operations? Radio Tokyo said American naval units already have extended their
:|seé whose manpower statistics afe| patrols 110 miles northeast of Oki-
| right. awa to Amami island, only 3% Several days ago the five man- miles south of . Japan proper, agement members of Mr. Denning’s {preparation for possible fresh - labor-management advisory com- erations against the ‘Japanese mittee demanded an end to con- homeland.” trols in force since the war made| The Japanese regard Amami, like the labor shortage here severe. Okinawa and the remainder of the These controls include the 48- Ryukyu island chain, as part of [their homeland. ®& Tokyo said it also was “especially noteworthy” that the number .of {fully laden American cargo ships and landing craft in the Americanheld Kerama islands, just west of
| hours; ceilings of the number of | workers a firm may employ, the prac- | tice of the U. 8S. employment serv- | ice of sending job-seekers to essen- | tial industries only, and the “freez- |Okinawa, had increased suddenly. ing” of war workers to their jobs| Light American surface craft have unless granted statements of avail-|Peen using Naha harbor on the
ability to take other jobs. | Co { Mr. Denning countered the man- | (Continued on Page 2~Colu 2 lump 1)
{agement request by saying that he also would be glad to see such! VICTIM OF SLUGGING Ray Toms, 1032 Oakland ave, ther of Policewoman Bessie Gun-
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CHECK ON WOMAN'S -STORY OF SLAYING
Beer
{ nell, was reported in a serious con- | dition at a local nursing home today. He is believed to have suffered a fractured skull in a slugging last night.
WASHINGTON
A Weekly Sizeup by the Staff of the Scripps-Howard
Drinking Preceded, Fight, She Says.
Police were checking the statement of a 39-year-old, thrice-mar-
solve the slaying of Walter Davis, 55, on the night of June 1. Mrs, Mary Miller, alias Sikes, who has lived a month at 32 N. East st., outlined in the statement the story of an evening of beer drinking that led to the killing of Davis. Mrs. Miller, Enzy Sikes, with
doesn’t want him. whom she lived, and Davis visited
Patton itched to go.
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T ok y0 Says Yanks Prepare F or New Invasion
Flame-Throwing U.S. Tanks
began what may ‘be their last dis-|
WASHINGTON, June 16.—Reason “Blood and Guts” Patton is not going to the Pacific is that Gen. MacArthur
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By WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS, Scripps-Howard Foreign Editor SAN FRANCISCO, June 16.—Conferente circles privately express surprise over the news that Pregident Truman hopes to rush charter ratification through the senate in time for the Big Three meeting in Germany mn July. However delighted they would he to see such a feat accomplished, Europe's most experienced diplomats hold that it would seriously weaken, rather than strengthen, the President's hands at the forthcoming parley. “It’s an old saying,” one of them remarked, “that a
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man quits courting a gin) after he gets her.” Traditionally, the first principle of diplomacy is to play hard to get and not expose your hand at the outset. That is also rule No. 1 in Yankee horse-trading and -poker, Russia, it is pointed out, has carried off first honors herein the diplomatic stakes precisely because she ad“hered to these basic principles. -Having demanded more than she expected to get—or even really wanted—then made a stubborn fight for it, she won world acclaim by last-inmute “concessions.” As the
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16 POLES WILL FACE EXECUTION ICTED IN MOSCOW TRIAL
Polish Conference Spotlights News in Europe
PUBLIC MASS
Moscow yc 5p
Moscow calls unity meeting of London, Warsaw Poles; sets
TRIAL PLANNED “FOR SABOTAGE
Seriousness of Charges Is
trial of 18 Polish leaders accused of ‘diversion’ behind Red Army lines
:1 Vast throngs of London's big ond little peaple acclaim Eisenhower, Other U. S.
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Revealed on Eve of Moscow Parley.
By EDWARD V. ROBERTS United Press Staff Correspondent
LONDON, June 16.—Vice
Bloody Arab-French IRAN Premier Jan Jankowski of |disorders continue N the Polish exile government 7 \ and 15 other Polish under- - A 3 ground leaders arrested by ' | the Red army face possible / | death sentences, a Moscow dispaich 2 revealed today. Damescns The Soviet attorney general's of« Fo? dng fice announced that the 16 Poles ’ ™ 4 be tried soon on charges of =-&|| sabotage, terrorism of the Red army 3 SAUDI {and the use of illegal radio transARABI A I mitters — all capital crimes under »
{ Soviet military law.
* European news of the past week has been spotlighted by Russia’s invitation to leaders of the Polish government-in-exile in London to meet with the Soviet-constituted Warsaw regime, and the imminent trial of the 16 Poles in Moscow on charges of terrorism and sabotage. welcome mat out for a parade of visiting American generals, headed by Gen. Dwight D, Eisenhower.
The . announcement sald the
{ crimes allegedly were committed in | western Poland some time after Meanwhile, London' has kept the | january, when the Red army broke jthe Germans’ Vistula line and
‘| | DISILLUSIONMENT—
Aussie Brides On Way to U. S.
To Get Divorces
By WILLIAM McGAFFIN Times Foreign Correspondent SYDNEY, Australia, June 16.— Disillusionment rides the “bride ship” which will arrive in the United States soon with approximately 400 Australian wives of U. 8S. servicemen aboard. Some of the wives in this first large group to leave Austra- : ! lia in more than nine months are making the trip not for happiness but toobtain divorces,
| They are com- ; pelled to seek : thém in the Mr. McGaffin United States because divorces from foreign husbands cannot be obtained in Australia, Under Australian law, a woman Is considered to have the same country of residence as her husband, whether or. not she is living in that country. » » w AUSTRALIAN girls who want to be divorced from their American mates are helpless until they can get transportation to the U. 8, Visas and transportation about equal problems for Aussie wife who wants to to the States : | To obtain the visas, husbands | | must make a petition and guarantee the support of the wives in the U, 8.
FRENGH BATTLE 2 NAL SPANIARDS
Attack Troops W Who Fought With Germans. By HERBERT KING
United Press Staff Correspondent CHAMBERY, France, June 16.— Frehch resistance members fought! an hour-long pitched battle here late yesterday with troops of the Spanish blue division—which fought the Russians on the Eastern front— | and killed 12 Spaniards. About 100 Spaniards and several Frenchmen were’ wounded in the fighting. | A sealed train brought the Spaniards here on their way home to Spain from Switzerland, where they | had been interned after fighting as volunteers with the Wehrmacht on the Eastern front. As the train drew into Chambery station, the French attacked. They
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trike today in defiance of an order om President Truman seizing cone ol of Chicago's truck lines. As the strike spread, troops moved
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der control of the office of defense transportation. About 1000 troops from Camp Custer, Mich., encamped on the shores of Lake Michigan.
a number of taverns and then a fight followed on Court st. near E. Washington st. in whichthe men exchanged blows, she related.
Prime purpose of his trip to U. 8. was to persuade top brass to give him a command against Japs. ‘Request was put up to MacArthur who said no. Clash of personalities was manifest reason.
But sometimes the G. I. hus.
| bands can’t make up their minds.
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smashed into eastern ‘Germany.
Leave for Conference First word of the seriousness of the charges against the arrested Poles came as two Polish delegates from London left by plane for Moscow to attend a Polish national unity conference. { The two delegates were Stanislaw Mikolajczyk, leader of the Polish Peasant party and a former premier of the London exile cabinet, and Jan Stanczyk. Polish Socialist leader, They had delayed their departure because of the refusal of a third designated London delegate, Julian | Zakowski. to accept the invitation, ™M| and the inability of Wincenty Witos, {leader of the Peasant party within They sought clues to the Nazi Poland, to attend because of illness, | underground—if any-—and the ex- Problems ‘Ironed Out’ tent to which Germany shared her Bou: robles ape Pl out | with undisclosed results in a lengthy |V-weapon secrets with Japan. telegraphic exchange between the May Affect Fulure British foreign office and Moscow, Ribbentrop told his British cap-!an authoritative British source said. tors originally ‘that he was on a| A British foreign office commenta-~
“mission for Hitlér.” Later it do} (Continued on “Page 2—Column nH veloped the “mission” was to tell
Britain and Germany that the! fuehrer had always hoped to avoid] war with Britain.
ALLIES GRILLING VON RIBBENTROP
Seek Clues to Underground And Tieup With Japs.
By DONALD G. SWEENEY United Press o~taff Correspondent LONDON, June 16.—Supreme
| headquarters questioned former | German Foreign Minister Joachim
'U. S. ARCHBISHOP TO |GET HIGH PAPAL POST A dispatch from British army
headquarters said Ribbentrop was| ROME, June 168 (U. P.) Pope on no other special mission when|Fius XII intends to name Arche captured Thursday in Hamburg. bishop Francis J. Spellman of New Questioning of Ribbentrop was York as the new Papal secretary of believed centering around four main |Stat€x an unimpeachable Vatican
topics on which may hinge future |Source said today. op plans of the + rng Tran The Vatican informant said thas
1. Did the Germans detect a siz- | Archbishop Spellman would be able anti-war bloc in Japan? | named a cardinal during a consis«
| 2. Did Germany pass on to Ja-| tory sometime late in the fall, pos-
'pan scientific data for the latest|SiPly & few days before Christmas, | His appointment as secretary of (Continued on Page 2—Column 8 state will follow.
Truman to Fly on Whirlwind Tour Winding Up in Berlin
WASHINGTON, June 16 (U.P). President Truman takes to the airways next week for a whirlwind
be greeting Soviet Premier Josef Stalin and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill’ somewhere in the vicinity of the wrecked German
In between these jumps the Presi« dent is to visit Olympia, Wash. raiie
native Missouri: possibly the governors’ a at Mackinac
The President's schedule, mapped out for reporters by White House
. young fellow who kept the Mel- {month of continent-hopping that - white back " waiting ay ee, ware a, ais hod a Doles Jot MacArthur prefers quiet, self-effacing men under him, not color- | bourne consulate in a dither for | will challenge the late President! capital not later than July 17. ividly colored TIMES INDEX side of Chicago. . sald he hadn't even been out with| ful sWashbucklers such as Patton. weeks. : Roosevelt's travels and wind up in 6 The ODT said troops would be |MFS: Miller or Davis that night. Patton. customarily forceful, refused at first to accept decision, One day he would send a wire |Berlin by July 17. nt musements . 4 Jane Jordan . 9 ps ; even appealed to Commander in Chief Truman to reverse it. ; sb. The White House announced late ack Bell .... 7|Ruth Miers, 7) "24.10 enforce the ‘selgure order TRUMAN WANTS HERZOG MacArthur won; Patton's re- (Continued on Page 2—Column 6) | yesterday that the President hoped’ a Robt. Casey | a it needed. turning to Europe, apparently for | whip Jap armies thelr terrain and TORNADO ‘HI LINOIS | to address the closing session of the L Robt * |. The strike tied up movement of| WASHINGTON, June 16 (U. P.),| long tour of duty. Vegetation piesent 10. proalass DO "HITS ILLINOIS | gen prancisco conterence next Sai- in July. € Loom TIER: +x +4 +o {much freight vital to the war ef |—President Truman was expected| . a9 essentially different from Europe. | STREATOR, IIL, June 16 (U. P.).|urday. Conner : fort. The drivers involved haul [to request the navy department to-| PREVIOUS EMPHASIS on Same holds for Japan itself. —Residents of La Salle, Peoria and| It was also that the Blouse s freight to and from warehouses and [day to release Lt. Paul M. Herzog| commanders trained . in jungle Victory in Okinawa puts us up ord counties today counted an Big Three would mieet “in the vighotedt lex 4 | erminala within the city. They |of its labor relations department by| fighting no longer holds in Paci- against that question: Invade ated half a “million” dollars | cinity of a8 yesh ba walked out because of their dis-|June 30 so that. he can become! fic, except for mopping up opera- China first, then Japan; or damage in the wake of a terrific| - From Mr. 's press conbhi 8] (Contiued an of the national Jabor rela-| tions in Philippines ‘and ‘southern —b | windstorm. No Brinn were re- | ference statements in the past two v on Fa 1—Cotumn 3 ons ow islands. J Xe go ini Cline } Santivued ot Pate, $-SColuwn 1s sorted. 3 “| weeks it was certain that he would
Island, Mich., during the first week