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FORECAST: Fair and warm tonight and tomorrow.

FINAL HOME

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il VOLUME 56—NUMBER 90 ‘o

SATURDAY, JUNE

23, 1945

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

PRICE FIVE CENTS

Keemle: ‘Mass Surrenders Prove There Is Limit To Jap Fanaticism’ O'Flaherty: “We Need A United China To Deliver Nipponese Knockout’

By LOUIS F. KEEMLE

United Press

ance,

Front dispatches report that more of the enemy gave up voluntarily than in the whole Pacific war. figure for the campaign may reach 7000—which is an astonishing percentage by Japanese standards. It is clear proof that there is a limit to Japanese

War

fanaticism and suicide resistance. - is the beginning of a general cracking of Japanese morale.

Analyst THE SURRENDER of large numbers of Japanese in the closing hours on Okinawd has considerable signific-

It is no sign that here

1t may, however, be a symptom of what may happen later

on a much larger scale. render—and" to those which may follow in increasing pro-

The

answer to the Okinawa sur-

portions—is that Japanese fanaticism is inspired from

above. The total

It is not self-starting and will run down like an engine without fuel if not stoked. The fuel is supplied by the leaders, from the heads

of the government down to the lowest junior officers in

the army. The troops who gave up on Okinawa, front dispatches indicate, did so when their officers were gone,

Japan cannot be delivered

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By HAL O'FLAHERTY

Times Foreign News Analyst

ALLIED FORCES now fighting Japan soon will close in from the south and the east with landings on the Jap mainland, the coast of China or both at the same time. No matter which line is taken, the help of a united China is an imperative need. The final blows against

without continuous, all-out

action by every armed force China can muster. Today, China's strength is divided. The area governed by Chiang Kai-shek spreads south toward Canton and east to the coast south of Shanghai.

Another group, called Communist but not connected with Russia, has its headquarters north of Chungking at

Yenan. It is'a powerful, wel

1 organized section of China

and must be used in the knockout blows against Japan, The last phase of the; war against Japan, according to

the ablest: analysis, will be fought in Manchuria.

That

last step undoubtedly will begin with the sizure of Shanghai and a march up the coast northward into territory

loyal to the so-called Commu

nist regime at Yenan.

Years of effort have been devoted to bringing Chung(Continued on Page 2 —Column 7)

It Was a Tough Fight But We Won'—The Weather Man

The most maligned man in town finally has his inning. Triumphantly Robert M. Williamson, senior meteorologist of the United States weather bureau in Indianaoplis (weather man to you) beams in “front of the fan in his office. He has finally brought in th ¢ good old summeitime.

FIGHT LOOMS ON OPA POWER oT

Deinotials: Seek Seek Defeat of! G. 0. P. Move.

WASHINGTON, June 23 (U. P.).| —House - Democrats were urged to| “wake up” and be on hand today to defeat a Republican amendment to| the price control act which would | strip the OPA of all food pricing? authority. The amendment is the so-called “Hoover” amendnient, an enlarge-| ment upon a suggestion made by | former President ‘Herbert Hoover. It| was passed tentatively yesterday by | a vote of 145 to 142. |

‘Time To Wake Up’ Democratic Whip Robert Ram- |

P. success in pushing through the| amendment on the absence of “about | 68 or 70 Democrats who are in the city ” “oo many .of them take it for

speck of Georgia blamed the G. O. >

granted that the other fellow will| fu ="

be there,” Ramspeck said. “It's about time they woke up.”

Three hundred and sixty house

members “answered the first roll | #

call and administration leaders professed hope that the price control act would be extended without any major changes.

“I think the bill will «+ come through in fine shape,” one leader said.

The house held an unusual Saturday session today in an effort to complete action’ on the extension of the price control and stabilization act. Although a one-year re newal was conceded, Democrats

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CUSTODIAN, CRUSHED | BY ELEVATOR, DIES

Oliver Ragsdale, custodian at the bus station, was found crushed to death at the bottom of an elevator shaft at the station early today. Police reported Mr, Ragsdale, of 712 8. Noble st., fell down the shaft and was crushed by the elevator. He was 65. Mr. Ragsdale is survived by his wife, Mary; E. and Mrs. Winifred Woldorf, both of Indianapolis; six sisters and three brothers. . Services will be conducted at 2 p. m., Monday at the Robert W. Stirling funeral home, with burial in Washington Park.

TIMES INDEX

- Amusements... 4 Daniel Kidney 6 Business. ..,.,. 4 McGaffin,, Churches ... 10, Obituaries comics ........-9 Ruth’ Millett... Max B. Cook. . 7 Movies ....... Crossword .... . 9 Pred Perkins... 7 Editorials ..... 6 Radio ......... 9 Peter 6 Allan Swim In Indpls.

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7 3 1 4

two daughters, Edna |’

Mr. Williams has made 13-year-old Judy Reynolds at the Riviera club happy. Today's forecast—“Fair and warm today and tomorrow, Clear tonight.” Pretty soon the public will be growling again at Mr, Williamson, Then it will be too hot.

WASHINGTON

A Weekly Sizeup by the Washington Staff of the Scripps-Howard Newspapers

immediate prospect.

WASHINGTON, June 23.—Travel rationing is not in

Reason: Office of defense transpor-

tation can’t devise a satisfactory rationing system. Need for rationing exists. / But how to do it? Workable system would require a bureau in almost every railroad, airline and bus station. That would mean

fantastic number of trainéd personnel.

most incredible amount of paper work. Travel rationing is unlike food or gasoline rationing. Every person is not entitled to a given number of miles per month by train,

plane,

bus.

In judging travel priorities problem is:

Where to draw the line?

one.

It hopes its propaganda will “Is this trip necessary?” “Take your Jasation at home.”

work;

“RAILROADS ov operating vir-

News § in

6! tually at capacity, pected in August when redeploy

of European

swing. On

Add to that al-

ODT hasn't figured out answer to that

- Rail

Peak. is ex-

Pullmans, 400 kitchen cars. They won't be ready before year end. now handle twice as passenger miles as in 1018, oing this with 17,000 fewer cars. Airlines have added flights, but

JAP OFFERS —

SEN. GAPEHART

somo =i Home From Europe, Plans

Speech Asking Publicity On Proposed Terms.

Senator Homer E. Capehart believes Japan has made definite peace” offers so he | will make a speech in the senate next week to ask that the American people be let in on the proposed terms, the senator announced today.

Indiana's rotund junior senator arrived in Indianapolis after a|

ABILENE, Kas., D. Eisenhower,

he. wquld take a political job.

anything he wanted. be mamed secretary of state.

he wanted no reward. Said the general:

June 23 (U. P.).—Gen. Dwight warmed by the tumultuous homecoming he dreamed of as a boy, pletely the soldier today , after spiking talk that

+ resident Truman had promised Gen. Eisénhower It was rumored he would But Ike Eisenhower emphatically told a press conference yesterday that

| “No one is thinking of me ‘in politics and I am

certainly not. 'I -rest and relax.” “What did he shortly. To a reporter any..political Germany replied:

remained com-

and when I get get turned out

WASHINGTON, June 23

man said today that an intensive investigation had. been Tells Students It It Must Be a

Elliott Roosevelt's Income

Tax Records Being Probed F(R |l, S, . $, POWER

(U. P.).—A treasury spokes-

month-long trip over Europe with opened into the income tax declarations of Brig. Gen. Elliott |

other senators and U. S. military officials, His cigar in its usual spot in the corner of his mouth, the jaunty]

in the middle of factory work less| than an hour after he arrived by| train from New York.

Senator Capehart also declared |

that the: food situation, especially meat, has been “badly bungled” hy the OPA ““which is the most con- |

in Washington.” Favors OWI Continuance

On the OWI appropriations request, he said he would register his vote for its continuance but not to the extent of the $45,000,000 which has been requested. “I think $18,000,000 is plenty for OWI,” he said. The senator's views on Japanese peace feelers came when he was asked how long he felt the war would last. “If Japan decides to fight it out, | we may have to beat them in China and if that happens it will take two | years,” he said.

Plans to Take Floor

thing. I have every reason to be-

i lieve that Japan has made definite!

{offers for peace and I think that the American public should be told about their terms. “I'l take the floor of the senate and ask that this be done.” Some of Senator Capehart's other observations: : -“Our veterans are wonderful. I saw thousands of them. They are happy, healthy and well They're a great lot. | “Our senators -should get out of | Washington, take world-wide “trips and get first hand. information about things they're appropriating money for,

fuel and transportation shortages are terrible. , IT had an hour with Prime Min-

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Hanser Heroes—

2 LOCAL MEN DIE IN PACIFIC AREA

One Liberated.

Two Indianapolis men were killed in the Pacific and one is reported missing in . Europe. Two local

has been freed from a German prison camp. KILLED Seaman 1-c Frank Anthony Faust III, 1116 N. Capitol ave, off Okinawa. Cpl. Robert E. Lines, 916 E St. Clair st. lost in a Jap ship sinking. MISSING Pfc. Robert D. Collins, Maywood, in the European theater. WOUNDED Seaman 1-c William Isaac Lucas, 3225 W, 10th st., in the Pacific. Second Lt. Thomas O'Connell, 3006 Hoyt ave, on Luzon. LIBERATED Second Lt. Warren L. Ellis, "403 N. Dearborn st., from Stalag Luft I.

(Details, Page 3)

LOCAL TEMPERATURES BBM

“But I'm going to tell you some- |

fed. |

“Europe’s crops look good but the |

One Missing, 2 Wounded,

heroes have been wounded and one| 3

{

executive.

|$4000 was repaid. | The investigation, centering in New York and Dallas, has the indorsement of the house ways and

means committee and the senate [finance committee, the spokesman

fused and disorganized department said.

He denied a published report that the congressional committees were dissatisfied with the treasury’s progress -in its investigation. Hartford's 1942 income tax re(turn showed efforts to seek deduc{tions for $228,500, listed as bad |debts, it was said. It was reported {that the uncollectible notes were {not itemized in the return. There |was no breakdown of the debts, las far as could be learned. Roosevelt has retained Randolph Paul, former general counsel of the rossi. as his counsel in the

(Continued on Page 2—Column 3)

{Roosevelt and John Hartford, Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co.,|

ambitions,

“No, and make it stronger than that if you can. All IT want is to be a citizen of these United States

{Continued on Page 2—Column By.

‘LETU.S.INON Political Job? ‘No,’ Retorts Ike;

expect to be § private citizen—

want? “Nothing,” Gen, Ike said _ 's question-'as to whether he had

the +conquerer of . Nazi

done with my present duties and to pasture I want just to have

GREW SEES USE |

Shown, Not Hoarded.

| (San Francisco Conference Stories,

Hartford in 1939 loaned the late President’ s son $2 200,head of the Packard Mfg. Co. was! 1000, of which, he said Ld

BRITISH WELCOME

hdl |

POLISH UNITY PLAN

London to Recogrize New Government Soon. . |

By EDWARD V. ROBERTS: United Press Staff Correspondent | LONDON, June 23.—The foreign |

office announced today that Britain

| will recognize the new Polish unity |

government as soon as it is con- | stituted formally and pledged to| “free and unfettered elections.” A foreign office spokesman said) the Moscow ggreement to oy ganize the Polish government on a | broader basis in keeping with the

| |

p -

1939, and got it.

| prevent it.

Pre-war Polish troops. . .

lowest depth. ~ A » CIANO reported:

theme . ..

alternative. , . ." Aug. 2—“Massimo writes a private letter from which it appears that he disagrees with the ambassador (Attolico) about the, danger of an approaching crisis. . Roatta, the new military attache, informs us about the concentration of forces on the Polish border. Who can be right? . . " - 2 Aug. 4-—"The situation seems blurred to me. I am beginning to consider a meeting with Von Rig

Jentrop.” -

Ciano's Diary No. 6

Hitler Says Flatly | ‘He'll Wage War

This is the sixth article based on the diary of Count Ciane, Italy's foreign minister and son-in-law of Il Duce.

Aug. 1-Aug. 18, 1939 (COUNT CIANO, Mussolini's son-in-law, went to Salzburg | for a showdown with Hitler and Ribbentrop i in August,

He was told flatly there would be war.

Mussolini's immediate reaction, as Ciano's diary discloses, to avoid a conflict for which Italy

But the haunting thought that he might not be there when the

. Clano wrote: saw says that Poland will fight to the last man. . . . massacred by German steel tomorrow.”

booty was divided was always with him.

| |

Page 3.)

WASHINGTON, June 23 (U-P.).|

| —Acting Secretary of State Joseph |

C. Grew said today that America! had become the strongest economic and military power on earth and| {would use its power “in the service ‘of law and justice and human freedom.” The future role of the United States, he told the’ first graduating! class of the foreign service educa- | tional council's school of advanced international studies, is one-of “serv{ice and leadership—the only role] |that befits a leading player on a world stage.” He said the peace might fail if

| (Continued on on Page 2—Column 6) |

Wife of Ernie's

'Old-Shoe' Hero Bids on Script

DOWN IN Forest Park, Ga., Mrs. Charlotte Gifford is putting her heart and soul into buying the Ernie Pyle original manuscript. But she never dreamed that the bidding would reach into the millions. “You see,” she wrote The Times, “the column tells about my husband, Bill Gifford. And he is the salt of the earth.” So, because she wanted it for Bill and for the scrapbook she plans to present him, she sent in her bid of $1925.

(Continued on Page _2—Column 3

o » = CAPT. GIFFORD, who was Ernie’s hutmate in the Marianas,

Nothing could

was | was’ hopelessly unprepared.

™ “Our counselor at War-

They will be

Italian policy had reached its

Aug. 1-"Attolico (ambassador to Germany) continues his favorite that a sudden ‘decision will be made by Hitler Aug. 15. ... Either this ambassador has lost his head, or he sees and knows something that escapes us. Appearances are in favor of the first

Germans we shall go to war under the most unfavorable conditions for the axis and especially for Italy. “Our gold reserves are reduced

almost to nothing as well as our

stocks of metals. “Our economic and military preparations are far from complete. I propose to II Duce a ceting with Von Ribbentrop . during which I will discuss |

| (Continued on Page, 35-Cotwma

manuscript, one of the last typed by the famed correspondent,

| (Continued on Page 2—Column |

By WILLIAM F. TYREE United Press Staff Correspondent

GUAM, June 23.—Tokyo said today that Japan has perfected her against an American invasion and speculated that Emperor|

Hirohito personally may take| over direction of the. homeland in {its hour of supreme peril. | Hirohito told the Japanese that Japan's crisis now is “unprecedented in scope in our national history,” a broadcast Domei dispatch said, In his “personal message’ to his| people he said he was satisfied with | the “valor and courage” they had] shown so far.

flance, fighters, 28 of them based on bitterly-won ©kinawa, bombed and strafed enemy air bases north and south of Tokyo to help soften | Japan for the ultimate landings.

STORM HITS GULF

COAST TOMORROW

NEW ORLEANS, La., June 23 (U.|

|P.).—~A tropical storm which start-

led off the coast of Yucatan’ two

|days ago will hit the gulf coast in [full fury tomorrow mornings | The U. 8. weather bureau an-

Fa City, Fla

learned about the auction of the |

defenses!

Even as Tokyo broadcast its doe} more than | 100 American |f

MINES FOUND

He Wants to Be ‘A Citizen’ FLOATING NEAR

ALASKA COAST

‘Explosives May Have dori

Launched by Japs to Cripple Shipping.

SEATTLE, June 23 (U. — | P.).—Japanese attempts’ te | cripple shipping by floating mines across the Pacific on ‘the Japanese current was ine dicated today by shipping

| ' warnings from «Pacific northwest {and Alaskan naval districts. -. The 13th naval district here con-

Alaska, that floating have begun appearing in

The Japanese current sweeps

{northward from Japan, along the

|Aleutians and south along the Alaska coast and the west coast of [the United States. * Might Be Japanese “We are not sure yet whether any of the mines have drifted this (far south,” a 13th naval district | neadquarters spokesman said, “but

{we have just received the warning

{issued to shipping from the 17th | naval district in Alaska and are in- { vestigating. | “It is entirely possible that the {mines are Japanese” | At Ketchikan, the coast guard warned fishermen and boat operators that mines had begun appear~ ing along the Alaskan coast. The coast guard announcement {gave no indication as to whether the mines were enemy-manufac-tured, and naval district headquarters here pointed out the possibility the mines had broken loose from American fields.

| | ‘Entirely Possible’

“But if the Japs were desperate enough to attempt to float balloons {against the United States, there's (nothing startling about attempting [to float mines across the Pacific. {It's entirely possible,” a naval offi|cer said. The coast guard warning cautioned all Alaska mariners, sad, small boat operators not to ap{proach any unidentified floating metallic object. “It will be very dangerous to handle any spherical or can buoyshaped object drifting on the sur|face of the water. If one is sighted mariners are cautioned not to fire iat it or attempt to pick it up, but to keep clear and immediately re{port its location,” the warning said. Naval headquarters at Seattle | said it had not been advised whether any of the mines had been located and examined by Alaskan disposal squads.

Hirohito May Take Ove Jap

Rule for Invasion Defense

Radio Tokyo said a military spokesman for the southern regions had reported at a press conference that defenses throughout Japan had been perfected in anticipation of an invasion. “The entire nation, including even {children of the primary schools, are |fully prepared to deal with any situation and fully confident they {are able to crush the enemy at any (time and anywhere he chooses to strike,” the spokesman said. “All Japanese are today waiting »|anxiously and impatiently for the {enemy to strike the homeland so that the nation can deal a final annihilative blow that will finish {the enemies of east Asia once and for all. “The fighting spirit and will to fight of the Japanese people today is at its peak.” Another Tokyo broadcast claimed that. Japanese suicide planes crashed into two allied

rmed an earlier warning from the {coast guard information office at { Ketchikan, | mines | waters along the Alaskan coast.