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FINAL "HOME

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And Goering, Wh

This is the fourth article in Count Ciano’s diary, many and the increasing strain on

Aisne < Sighed, Axis Riding High’

Ciano Brings Home Some Gossip About Hitler

Didn't Get a Medal.

VOLUME 56—NUMBER 88

o Wept When He

a -series based on revelations of

It records the signing of the alliance with Ger-

Italy’s ties with Great Britain.

(Copyright, 1945, for The Indianapolis Times.)

April 15—June 1, 1939 (COUNT CIANO, Mussolini's son-in-law, brought home a new alliance from Berlin in May, 1939. His notebooks also supplied some fresh gossip about a beautiful bedroom companion of Hitler, and of Goering in tears because Ribbentrop had been awarded Italy’s

highest decoration with a silver collar of loveknots

and roses. Ciano’s intimate diaries for the | # period immediately after the suc- |

cessful blow against Albania begin with a snubbed peace appeal from President Roosevelt. They end with an interview between Mussolini and the British ambassador on such an arrogant note that Sir Percy Loraine liter ally “talked to himself” all the way home. The axis was riding high.

” » . CIANO WRITES: April 15—“Roosevelt has sent a message proposing 10 years of peace. II Duce, at first, refused to read it.4 Then he described it as the ‘result of progressive paralysis’.” April 16—"Two long conversations with Goering (who arrived April 14). , . . The feature that disturbs me most is the tone in which he describes relations with Poland. It reminds me immensely of that used for Austria and Czechoslovakia.” April 20—-“After Il Duce's aggressive speech about Roosevelt's message, I accompanied him to Palazzo Venezi and showed him a grave report from Attolico (ambassador to Berlin) which announced imminent German action against Poland. “This would mean war. ,., We must be able to prepare ourselves, and we must. prepare. public ie. fon so it vit not be Surprised. .,

MY IMPRESSION of Czaky (Hungarian foreign minister) is more and more fe Bagative, In an

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WILD DRIVER TAKEN

TO INSANE ASYLUM:

Oakford Motorists =~ Sigh, Come Out of Hiding.

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Sir Percy Loraine of Great Britain , , . talked to Mussolini, then talked "to himself all the way hgme.

IKE LANDS, GETS

Kansas Folk Prepare, Big Hero’s Welcome.

Ry LAMITH United Press Staff Correspondent KANSAS CITY, Mo, June 21.—

General of the Army Dwight -D. Bisenhower Teceived a homecoming son's welcome today, a hug and a kiss from his 83-year-old mother, Mrs. Ida Stover Eisenhower:; The general's five- faired plane eased gnto the runway of the Municipal- airport at 12:16 p. m, (Indianapolis time), after circling the eld and coming in to land from It taxied back from the

the southwest. It the northern end to near T. W. A. building. ‘Hello Mom’ As the big ship rolled fo a SoD.

KOKOMO, Ind. June 21 (U. P..

MOTHER'S KISS

UNION CHIEFS

LOOK ASKANGE AT LABOR BILL

Opposition Lines Up, Measure Branded ‘Vicious’ in Many Respects. By FRED W. PERKINS

Scripps-Howard Staff Writer WASHINGTON, June 21.—Op-

“position is lining up today to the

proposed federal industrial relations law which three senators sponsored yesterday. as a means of removing management-labor strife from the return-to-peace period. The bill has strong support. The opposition also appears strong. The

| outcome may provide a test of how {well the prestige of American or-

(Twenty thoniahd. strike at Packard plant as walkouts spread. -—Page 11,)-

years, and of how it may be ; ale { fected by the imminent or eventual {return of miffjons of war veterans [to the domestic job market. All the important segments of organized labor showed coolness or | worse today to the Ball-Burton-Hatch bill—the American Federation of Labor, the C. I. O., the

ganized labor has survived the war |

THURSDAY, JUNE 21, 1945

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

YANKS WIN BATTLE OF OKINA STILWELL SUCCEEDS BUCKNE

United Mine Workers, and even the |

railway brotherhoods, despite the claim of the legislation’s sponsors | that it followed the lines of the railway labor act. i Prosecution of Unions “Labor,” weekly organ of the rail- | {way unions, said today the bill was regarded by organized labor as] “vicious in many of its features,” | and it itemized that | “One of the bill's major pro-| visions, long advocated by the Na-| tional Association of Manufacturers, | would subject unions to prosecution | for alleged ‘unfair labor practices.’ “Other sections would = impose compulsory arbitration, but curbs around the ‘union shop,’ place re-| |strictions on the right to strike, | set up a new ‘super’ labor board, | and lay down other restraints, all| {in the name of fostering industrial | peace.” The paper scoffed at the claim that. the now Bl would cutend tof the general industrial field the procedures of the railway labor act, and said this claim “was branded far-fetched in rail union circles.” One of the criticisms by “labor” was that “the sponsoring senators

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+ | (Continyed on Page 15—Column 8) HOOSIER HEROES—

Three Listed as Dead, 2 Freed,

(conference settled ‘down today” to

by i : The mother and three children waited, but the father did not get home to celebrate his Saugbiets seventh birthday. The cake was ready; he was bringing ice cream. killed last night when struck by two hit-and-run drivers. Surviving are (left to right) Geraldine, 7; Riche

ard, 4; Mrs. Davy and Oneita, 9,

WORLD PARLEY TO END TUESDAY

Accord Reached on Russia’s Assembly Proposal.’

By R. H. SHACKFORD United Press Stat Correspondent SAN FRANCISCO, June 21.-—

| With a definite adjournment date | finally in sight, the United Nations

six days of technical and formal steps needed to complete the charter of the new world organization. President Truman will arrive next Monday and address the final session of the 63-day wnferoncs on Tuesday afternoon. Postponement of the final session from Saturday until next Tuesddy was announced officially, by Secretary of State Edward R. Stettinius Jr. Unavoidable delays in completing the work of technical committees,

6 Are Wounded

motor cars carrying members of the

Two names that for four vears

~Qakford residents came out of |general's “family drove up. Eisen- [Were carried on the Indianapolis |

hiding today and drove once again! -—as freely as gasoline rationing would permit—about the streets and roads bordering the village, Yesterday, Judge Forrest E. Jump of Howard circuit court committed Theodore L. Applegate, 52, to a mental institution, Applegate startled motorists time and again by zooming down the road with his high-speed farm tractor, forcing them into ditches Just for the fun of it. He had a long record of convictions for reckless driving, drunken driving and using farm-issued gasoline for passenger travel. Once, the police said, he carried a shotgun on his tractor and terrorized motorists with it. A sanity commission of three physicians reported to Jump that they found Applegate suffering from delusions.

WOMAN SAVED IN FIRE DIES OF EXCITEMENT

ROCHESTER, Ind. June 21 (U, P.) —Mrs. Louisa Good, 91, who was burned slightly and overcome by smoke in a nursing home fire Tuesday, died yesterday of a heart eizure blamed on excitement. Mrs. Good was rescued from the fire by a neighbor, who crawled into the smoke-filled home after Mrs, Clara Gast, proprietor of the in-

stitution, fell while carrying the ged patient downstairs to safety.

hower saluted as he stepped out, then grinned broadly as he spied | his mother. “Hello mom,” he called out. are you feeling?” “The same old way, son,” she re- |¢ plied as she hugged him to her

“How |

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SUMMER ARRIVES BUT RAIN REMAINS.

Season Here Officially, Calendar Says.

LOCAL TEMPERATURES 10a. m.. ... NHam...17 12 (noon) .. 72 1pm 5. 73

68 vo 81 62

Summer will be usheréd inté Indianapolis today with the same thundershowers that the city has become so familiar with in the last 21 days. So far this month 6.92 inches of rain has fallen here and 13 of the last 21 days have been rainy. The official arrival of summer will be heralded at 1:52 p. m., but the temperatures here aren't expected to be any warmer until tomorrow.

Crowd Throngs

Home to Bid on Treasures

By VIRGINIA MacPHERSON United Press Staff Correspondent HOLLYWOOD, June 21.—A milcrowd of film stars; antique dealers and curious..movie fans

TIMES INDEX

19| Jane Jordan. 23 20 McNeil 15 | Mauldin 15| Ruth Millett. . 15

musements. Pack Bell. ..., Robt. Casey. . . 23| Obituaries ... 16 | Radio . 16] Ration Dates 14.

. 18| Mrs. Roosevelt 15 16{ Wm. P. Simms 16 rasiees 1

failie "Shan beat ay child. ;

Lupe Velez

squeezed into the luxurious home of Lupe Velez today to see auctioned her $175,000 estate—including the mammoth bed on Which she took her life. ~ It was a very select auction. Prospective buyers were admitted only ‘by engraved invitations—and with $20 deposits. This was to assure Auctioneer W. C. O'Connor that they meant . business and weren't there just to gawk at a movie star's home, The late actress, whose peppedy persorality often landed her on the nation’s front pages, swallowed an ‘overdose. of sleeping pills last Dec. 14 because: she preferred

wr Indianapolis company alleged

" turns and Payments.”

prisoner of war list today were transferred to the gold star service ag. Today's Hoosier heroes also in- | cluded a soldier who died in Texas, six wounded and two liberated from German prison eamps. DEAD { Col. Collin B. Whitehurst Jr., 1445 | N. Delaware st. apt. 102, in Jap | ship sinking. First Lt. Ralph Herring, 1411 Linden st., in Ja ap ship sinking. | Pvt. Richard Lane Crim, Elkhart, son of the Rev. and Mrs. E. A. rim, 737 Shelby st. at Midland Li airfield, Tex, WOUNDED S. Sgt. Guy R. Porter, 713 S. New Jersey st. in Germany. Ensign Gerald Otis Spears, brother of Mrs. Esther Brenton, 1044 N. Delaware st., in the Pacific. Pvt. Robert E. Epeards, 2015 Carrollton ave, in the Pacific. Sgt. Barry M. Coleman, 631 Tecumseh st, in the Philippines. Pfc. John P. Jones, 430 Massachusetts ave. in the Pacific. Pvt. William R. Catterton, nephew of Mrs. Dessie ‘Fitch, 524 N. Dénny st, in the Philippines. LIBERATED 8. Sgt. Melvin Lones, 2709 McClure st., in Germany. Pfc. Kenneth. O. Drake, Prospect st. in Germany.

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LOCAL FIRM CAUGHT INU, 3. TAX PROBE

Four in State Suspected of Concealing . Income.

An Indianapolis “firm and three other state concerns now are under investigation by the treasury department for undeclared income, Continued intensive campaigning by treasury agents disclosed the following:

owe $500,000 in taxes and penalties from its over-ceiling sales of whisky, canned pineapple and diverted sugar. A Gary firm which was’ “careless about making its income tax. reI was said

Gas Ration to

W. Va),

which in turn delayed the final drafting job and preparation of the

|five official language texts of the {eharter, were given as the reasons. All but one of the 12 conference |committees have reported to their parent commissions. That one— {the committee on the political and security functions of the assembly —will present its report today. It was in that committee that the latest conference “crisis” arose when | the Soviet Union reopened the ques|tion of the discussion powers of the assembly. A few hours before Stettinius announced the new closing date, he revealed settlement of the assembly iste in which Russia and Aus[tralia played-the principal roles and the United States and Great Britain acted as mediators. The controversy involved the rights of the assembly to discuss international matters. - The Australians wanted unlimited. rights of discussion. The Russians wanted

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Go Up Tonight

Motorists have only a few hours to wait before they can get six gallons of gasoline for an A stamp. The new A-16 coupon becomes good for six gallons of gas at midnight today. Today ‘also is the last day to use those A-15 stamps: Other stamps now good are C-7, C-8, B-T and B-8. The C-6 and B-6 and the second-quarter T. stamps will expire at midnight June 30.

Father Killed as Family Plans Party

Victim of Two Hit-Runners: Hold Suspect in Slugging

Flagrant abuse of pedestrian safety. rights by motorists today had | given Indianapolis another traffic tragedy.

John Davy, R. R. 14, Box 542,

John Bernard Davy, 30, father of three, was killed “last night when |

struck by two successive

hit-run drivers as he was walking home to! he said.

attend a family birthday party for a seven-year-old daughter, | The double hit-skip fatality occurred on Allisonville rd. at 82d dq at.}

His death was the second brutal traffic incident here in three days. Another father and his wife, both | pedestrians, were savagely slugged by five truck-rid-Delaware and Michigan sts.: Tuesday night. The husband had. voiced criticism of the truck driver when a_fender brushed his wife's uy coat. ey Two patrolmen John: Davy made an arrest in the slugging case today after the trail of the assailants had cooled for 36 hours. Ray~ mond W. Howard, 36, of 304 N. East st., was nabbed on a vagrancy charge. He is alleged to be the owner of the light panel truck from which the attackers leaped. Trace License Number Patrolmen Ed Clark and Charles Doty traced the truck's ownership through a license number, supplied by the. slugging victims, Mr. and Mrs. Ray George, 1412 W, Ray st. Mr. George made a rhental note of it in the course of the assault, He identified Howard as one of the attackers when the two were brought face to face at the Progress Laundry, where Mr. George is employed. “That's one of them,” he exclaimed Mr. George, pointing at the captive. ” Howard made no comment. Traffic investigators prepared to grill him in an effort to learn the whereabouts of his alleged 'companions. Second Non-Stop Car In last night's Allisonville rd. tragedy, Mr. Davy was cut down by a second non-stop car, state police said, after he was injured by another hit-run driver seconds earlier.

'mawa on the day of attack.

U. S. SHIP SUNK

BY-BAKA-BOMB = 5s ER “This will be the price of fr

81 Die Aboard Destroyer Off Okinawa April 12.

WASHINGTON, June 21 (U, P). —The navy, rapidly removing the news blackout on Japanese suicide attacks, told today how the double blow of a Japanese suicide plane and a “baka bomb” sank the destroyer Mannert L. Abele off Okinawa last April 12. The account contains the first disclosed incident of a baka bomb hitting an American ship. It foi lowed by only 12 hours navy release of a" six-month-old account of a

PRICE FIVE CENTS

‘Vinegar Joe,’ Burma Hero, May Head

U. S. Ground Forces in Final Drive of Pacific War,

By WILLIAM F. TYREE United Press Staff Correspondent

GUAM, June 21.—The . the battle of Okinawa after

merican 10th army has won days of the bloodiest fighting

of the Pacific war, Adm. Chester W. Nimitz announced today. Simultaneously, Gen. Douglas MacArthur in a surprise move in Manila announced the appointment of Gen. Joseph

W. (Vinegar Joe) Stilwell, chie

POLES MAY ASK ACTION BY U. 8.

Intercession Pek. Plea Expected

To Be Rejected.

By PHIL AULT United Press Staff Correspondent LONDON, June 21.—A spokesman | for the Polish exile government said today that it “very likely” will ask the: United States and Britain to intercede for 12 Poles sentenced by Russia to four months to 10 years in prison for terrorism against the Red army. He admitted there was little chance the two main western allies would consent to act. Furthermore, he saw a “distinct possibility” that they would withdraw recognition of the exile government in the near future. “There can be no doubt thas the trials have accomplished their purpose, which was political blackmail,”

Price of Freedom

Th ~ |Mikol#jczyk, former premier of the London government, and other Polish leaders conferring in Moscow on the formation'of a new unity government would be forced to acfor Poland.

for the convicted man,” ‘the spokesman said. He suggested that the Russians would suggest a three-party Polish government to succeed the present Soviet-backed provisional government at Warsaw, but maintained that even the coalition regime would be dominated from Moscow. Though the Russian plan called for equal representation from the Communist, Peasant and Socialist parties, he said, half the Socialist and Peasant representation would be Warsaw members who actually were Communists, Premier Tomasz Arviszewski conferred with members of his cabinet in the Polish exile government here

suicide plane attack on the light] cruiser Nashville en route to the in-| vasion of Mindoro island in the Philippines. The Nashville was struck by a single suicide plane while in convoy last Dec. 13. A total of 133 officers and men were killed, but the ship remained afloat and has since been repaired and Testored to action. Casualties aboard the Abele were 113—81 dead and 32 wounded. The ship was on picket duty off Oki-

The suicide .plane, a singleengined Zeke fighter, dived through a blazing hail of anti-aircraft fire from the Abele to hit the ship on the starboard side, penetrating the deck to the after engine room. A bomb attached to the plane exploded inside the ship, breaking the shaft and keel. About one minute later the baka bomb came skimming above

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S. S. ERNIE PYLE TO BE LAUNCHED

PORTLAND, Ore. June 21 (U. P.).~The 8. 8. Ernie Pyle, A C-4 type troopship, will be launched at the Vancouver shipyards here Saturday. Miss Babette Johnson, a niece of the late columnist, now a student at Southern Methodist university, Dallas, Tex., will be sponsor. Lt. Cmdr. Max Miller, a friend of the Pyle family, will represent Mrs. Pyle.

Charges Nazi Industrialists

Plan to R

By JOHN L. CUTTER United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, June 21.—Sensational charges were ‘made today that German industrialists have prepared detailed plans to re-arm Germany and finance Nazi party underground activities. The charges, based on h secret documents, were made Senator Harley. M. Kilgore

erto by (D.] Who recently returned from’ i aimed his accusation

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earm Germany

they. have already conceived vicious plans for a third attempt at world conquest,” he déclared. Kilgor® announced that the subject will be pursued further in hearings_ before the senate military affairs subcommittee on war mobilization of which ke is chairman. The hearings begin tomorrow with Bernard M. Baruch as the first witness. State and justice” department officials will follow.

FIRE BREAKS OUT

- |bomb damage.

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today to discuss their next step.

f of U. S. army ground forces, to command the victorious 10th in the climactic battle of Japan. Radio Tokyo said the United States apparently already has begun preparations for a “direct invasion of the Japanese mainland.” Pockets Mopped Up Nimitz's brief, triumphant come munique reported that all organized Japanese resistance on Okinawa, hard-won stepping stone island only 330 miles southwest of Japan, ended today. “Remnants of the enemy garrison in two small pockets in the southern portion of the island are being mopped up,” the communique said. Only yesterday, marines and doughboys of the 10th army had split diehard enemy remnants into three separate death pockets. Nimitz’'s announcement indicated one of the three pockets since had been wiped out and the others reduced to impotency. 87,000 Japs Dead ‘Total Japanese casualties were not announced immediately, bus they were believed well above the 90,000 mark. A total of 87,343 Jap-

spokesman said Stanislaw | anese dead had been counted

through Tuesday and 2565 other enemy troops had surrenderéd. American casualties have not been tallied for publication since My 24. Then they totalled se army, marine corps and navy, including 9602 dead. It was a costly campaign for the U. 8 fleet as 31 ships, mostly smaller units, were sunk, and 54, including four large units, were damaged. By May 24, the American casualties already had exceeded those suffered in the invasions of Tarawa, Iwo_ and Saipan, previously the most costly in the Pacific campaign. Invasion Base

Conquest of the island gave the Americans an island base 60 miles long with a number of air bases and sufficient ground area to deploy hundreds of thousands of troops for the invasion of Japan. The return of Stilwell, one of America’s most experienced Far Eastern warriors, to a field com-

All of the men convicted in Moscow

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REPORTS EVIDENCE THAT HITLER IS DEAD

High Official Says Says He Saw

| By MALCOLM MUIR JR. United Press Staff Correspondent PARIS, June 21.—A high authority said at a supreme headquarters press conference today that the allies have “very good evidence” that Adolf Hitler is dead. The officer said he personally had seen at Flensburg a telegram sent from Berlin by Propaganda Minister Joseph Goehbels saying that the fuehrer had died. It was addressed to Adm. Karl Doenitz. The message was sent in Hitler's personal code and timed 3:30 p. m., May l1-—the day before Berlin fell and the day on which Doenitz broadcast from Hamburg that Hit-

ONU. S. S. FRANKLIN

Famed Carrier tier fain Saved From Disaster.

NEW YORK, June 21 (U. P).— Fire broke out on the famous air craft carrier Franklin in the Brooklyn navy yard today where she is undergoing repairs from Japanese

The fire was brought under control within 30 minutes, First reports said that no one was injured, The fire broke out as ceremonies were about to begin in the navy yard at which battle and commendation awards were to be rhade to 139 officers and enlisted men of the Franklin who brought the “Big Ben” through the Japanese bombing. The Franklin suffered perhaps

the most devastating amage ever |!s

incurred by a carrier which survived. She was hit some time ago off the Japanese coast.

sa—— i —————————— SUSPENDED FOR 10 DAYS

mand for the big Pacific battles to come was announced by MacArthur ir his new capacity as commander f all army forces in the Pacific. Okinawa at present is under the eran operational command of dm. Nimitzy but MacArthur's new Jac leaves the selection of local {army commanders to him. Stilwell will succeed Lt. ‘Gen. Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr., who was killed in action on Okinawa only {Monday as he watched his forces

Telegram From Goebbels. | carve up the Japanese remnants in

the final phases of the campaign. Battle of Japan . With the battle of Okinawa now officially concluded, Stillwell can concentrate on readying the come bat-tested 10th army for the nexs stage of the Pacific war. A Manila dispatch said it was a virtual certainty that he would be one of the top commanders for the conquest of Japan. He is at present somewhere in the Pacific on a tour of battle= fronts and training areas and will take over his new command as soon as he can reach Okinawa, Manila said. Stilwell already has conferred at

ler was dead and he had succeeded to the Nazi-leadership.

length with both MacArthur and | Nimitz during his Pacific tour on

Dispatches from Berchtesgaden the strategy of the battle of Japan

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Japs, Strategy For Fanatical

By LOUIS F. KEEMLE United Press War Analyst Final Japanese defeat in the battle of Okinawa is a bitter blow to the enemy even though his leaders have known for some time it was coming. : The Japanese have expressed confidence in their ability to defend the home islands until the allies are exhausted. Every effort

and also inspected the 10th army (Continugd a Page 3—Ovtumn 1)

Upset, Call

Home Defense

(vanguard of allied manpower has