Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 June 1945 — Page 2

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TUESDA

EUROPE SHIES A FREE DEMOCR

ay os July Is Unchanged. Correspondent Finds: War-Wearied Peoples Recall y's 4

Failures After Last Peace, Retain ‘Strong Man’ Complex. |announced today. that passengercar. tires #wIBDIé tongivilians in

The writer recently returned from an around-the-world assign- July will be the same as the June ment. He visited each war theater and all continents, flying some |. 500.000 0 50,000 miles in four months. This is the second of five articles on his QU pes findings in England, the European continent, the Middle East, China This quota, OPA said, was the largest monthly allocation under

and the Pacific, By HENRY J. TAYLOR rationing. “Only B and C ration-

Scripps-Howard Special Writer : book ‘holders are eligible for new WASHINGTON, June 26.—In each continental country |i; oc

TIRE QUOTA UP

WASHINGTON, June 26 (U.P) | —=The office of pripe administration

TRUCK ANDBUS |

Passenger Car Allotment for|

China To Si (Continued

on in an upstairs bedroom. | tal s i SAILOR S DEAT Kovacs said he and his brother ON WAR TRIALS had called to see Faith Coombs, | : |She was out and they had decided | frat bug fille Asserts She Sot Youth in ie wai for her when Mrs. Stevens |, §, Charge of Conspiracy eration to cre ] . | : wo : operation and Self-Defense. Likely to Prevail... * "The delegati =f terday that she had taken two - : , 2 practice shots into her - fireplace Procuice Yer Pa Sooner Qeciges oasy several ‘hours before tlre fatal | ne jecates of the Big Four met today them. shether Mrs. Imogene Stevens, 24, : y former Texas belle who kept her ran across to the Milton place when to establish an international court Some of the A she saw “two strange” men there.|to try major Nazi war criminals, erable Field M { {at her bedroom wall, killed an ar- . t Earl o {| “|gumentative sailor in self-defense. [Milton children, / | ody siiativgs. Of the Duties ae Ite Mrs. Stevens, wife of socially-| Police said they also had com-|States, Britain, Russia and Francs 8 White, 1 \ plaints of her pistol practices from | hoped to reach agreement in time Paul-Boncour who is serving with a paratroop flered th unit overseas, was in jail, under| Mrs. Stevens told them her hus-|dent Truman. Prime Minister _— Se $50,000 bail, charged with man- |band gave her the revolver to pro-| Churchill and Premier . Stalin at failures at Ge their conference in Berlin next They have r

: 2 a . . [7 i | y threatened to. go td an upper floor | Each Busy Bee Subject to Fine HOLD WOMAN IN [oc sion fame * 72% = MEET ~ gn ; S The Milton children were asleep nurse of the three Milton children. | Mrs. Stevens, who told police yes- | NEW CANAAN, Conn, “June 26 LONDON, June 26 (U. P)~ aware of allt shooting to see how the gun worked, | trigger finger limber with pot shots |she 4 . ¢ She sald she wanted to protect the Possibly beginning in August. of South - Afr prominent Maj. George Stevens III, neighbors. to present a complete plan to Presi- minutive Well slaughter.

tect herself while he was abroad:

Her wealthy father-in-law, George

month.

world against

I visited—France, Belgium, Germany, Austria, Italy and) Greece—the man in the street thinks of ‘‘democracy” in terms of his own local experience with it. And in most instances this dates back to the tragic period which followed thé last war. SR n= After the allied victory in Peans.

July quotas of truck and bus tires exceeded those for June, OPA revealed. Max McCullifgh, deputy administrator for rationing, emphasized that these higher truck and bus tire quotas reflected the greater need for tires during the summer fdther than any increase in supply.

who otherwise might be exRussian Com-

Stevens Jr. as yet had made no Robert Jackson, U. 8, supreme this time and charter and t

POLICE MAKE ARREST

his way to help her. Started to Wrestle Mrs. Albert Kovacs, 19, in self-defense.

effort to post bond for her release. Her father, J. O. Dumas, Pampa, Tex, policeman, was reported on

IN TAVERN SLAYING

NOBLESVILLE; Ind., June 26 (U. P.).—Frank Baskerville, 31, was held {today in connection with the re-

Stevens claimed she shot | volver slaying last night of Walter

|A. Guth; 45 who was felled by a

L : pected to see in the 1918 clear aspirations arose in the people of Europe—independence, representative government, personal liberty. The four old empires, Germany, Russia, Austria and Turkey, had cracked into 14 fragments. They became the separate nations of Germany, the U. S. 8. R., * Austria, Hungary, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Jugoslavia, Albania, Fin‘Jand, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Arabia and Iraq.

munist system only a new tyranny and a new threat fo their individual freedom. Even French Are Tired This is why even the Jfreedomloving French—last survivors of the only large democracy which ever functioned on the continent—seem far more interested in giving more power to DeGaulle than in what happens to their representative gov+ ernment in the chamber of depu-

He said military needs for these] continued heavy. “The tire situation remains seriously tight,” he said.

sizes

DIES UNDER TRACTOR

AURORA, June 26 (U. P.).—Arrangements ° for the ' funeral Henry Ascherman, 85,

pleted today. terday neath a tractor on his farm,

He was killed yes-

of | were com- |

Kovacs was shot three times Sat-|yolley of bullets as he walked from urday night in the home of Charles !a tavern. Milton, a neighbor of Mrs. Stevens.| Guth died en route to a hospital. She said the sailor started to wrestle| Polhce said they learned from { with her when she ordered him to{witnesses that Baskerville and Guth {leave the Milton house because he argued at a tavern table and that {had no right there, {Baskerville went home in a taxi and Kovacs’ brother, James, 25, ‘said returned with a gun. {there was no argument. He told |

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Helge Johnson, Joliet, Ill, had a honey of a job on his hands when he found a city ordinance provided a stinging fine of $1 to $10 for each day that each of his 400,000 bees was loose in the town. Equipped with a head net, Johnson is shown rounding up his colony for a bee-line shipment out of Joliet.

when he was pinned be-|

. EDELWEISS CARD PARTY urday at 306 Prospect st. Mrs. Paul | Milton home gun-in-hand, pumped |until Guth came out, then fired The Edelweiss Ladies’ society will Kulke is in charge of arrapge- three shots from her 25-caliber re- (five shots, four of which struck

The authorities were told that| | police Mrs. Stevens, who entered the | Baskerville waited outside the tavern

|court justice and chief American

confident that “the other nations would adopt an American plan for a military tribunal in toto. ¢

Hermann Goering, former German Foreign Minister Joachim von

criminals would be tried simultane ously on a single charge of cone spiracy:

TWO ENLIST IN NAVY Charles Adam Biszantz, 947 8, Illinois st, and Jesse Leander Crowdus, 1445 Golay st., recently enlisted in the navy through the Ine

prosecutor. of war criminals, was §

Under the plan, Reichsmalshal §

Ribbentrop, former Deputy Fuehrer i Rudolf Hess and other top war §

be considered a 1ong-hard re The nine-w: tions conteren on that note President Tru from nine .oth

Will ¢

The keynote to be delivere will be thal present organ the will of th succeed. Tonight's se dramatic and ference that |! weeks by dull

Adopted British Form [ties

{hold a card party at 8 p. m. Sat- ments.

With the exception of Russia all| Defeat of Hitler has not destroyed of the European states adopted rep- the big man complex in Europe. It resentative government. . ees: | does not appear that the lessons of But the new European democ- the grief a demagogue’ brings have racies adopted the form of the Brit- | heen learned. But the ability of ish parliamentary system without any ledder to stir his nation into a using its’ substance. Under the new conflict. is another matter. British system the executive branch | Emotional exhaustion and war (the prime minister and cabinet) weariness stand in the way. is a committee of the parliamentary | Public Apathetic

body: : For instance, in Paris on May day The life, stability and effective- (1 attended the largest Communist 4: mess of the parliamentary form re-| .alebration in France. The hall quires two or three—hardly more— |. hardly a quarter full This strong political parties in parlia- goes not mean the Communist proment. It does not function if there | gram lacks supporters or is weak in are 20 or 30 parties, none song organization. Public apathy arises enough to take major responsibili- from the difficulty in getting any- | ties but all clamoring for cabinet !|,ne to march and cheer for anyseats. | thing in Europe today. Accordingly, every ministry in| This fact contains the most hepeEurope was a compromise with the | ful single ingredient I observed for religious, class, ideological and working out some kind of durable agarian-urban cleavages in each ' peace on the continent. For nearly country. Continuity in national six years the work of Europe has policy and foreign affairs was diffi- been on guns and death, but the cult. Cabinets revolved like pin- thought of Europe has been on food wheels. They sputtered and died. |and peace.

Confidence Collapsed

Most of them “proved incapable of meeting the deep-rooted inherited problems, and of fitting them into the dynamic changes caused by the war and subsequent world depression. Continental politicians mouthed the words “sovereignty of

.| This grass-roots desire for tran-

{quility, for an opportunity to be undisturbed in the homes, -factories, and barnyards, exists on a scale beyond anything I have observed in Europe over 20 years. It is the best raw material for moulding a new and better peace.

the people,” and the voters were]

pleased by these implications of their own imfluence.. But they did not equip themselves with good government, The disilhisionment was so complete that the road was opened for “strong men on horseback” to gallop into totalitarian power. Within 15 years after the last. war the number of continental Europeans living under democratic forms of government was fewer than the number before the war:

Think of ‘Strong Men’

The memory of all this lingers in Europe today. So there is little struggle to “make democracy work,” for this impresses many as a long. tedious and perhaps even doubtful project in terms of living conditions and security, especially in the. defeated nations. The tendency is to think in terms of a new and better strong man to pull them through—a patriot of

their own nationality but not nec- |

essarily one of their own choosing. The parliamentary idea has no equivalent appeal. In the war weariness of Europeans even the worries about new governments 1gnite little themselves and their in someone else's hands. This is the strength in Marshal Stalin's appeal to millions of Euro-

worries

IN INDIANAPOL

EVENTS TODAY

War bond movie premiere, Indiana theater National Executive committee of the American Legion, meeting

Indiana Association: of Elementary School

Principals, meeting, Butier university Watchmakers Association of meeting Hotel atlers Indiana Oollectors’ association 9 a. m, Hotel Washington Indianapolis Y Men's club, International luncheon, moon, Central Y. M. C. A

meeting

EVENTS TOMORROW

National &ecutive committee of the Ameri- ‘

can Legion, meeting

Indiana Association of Elementary School

Principals, Butler university Indiana traffic safety council, meeting 2p Statehouse Junior Chamber of Commerce, luncheo: noon, Hotel Wdshingt MARRIAGE LICENSES Everett M. Patterson, 2529 May Hulda Arnett ndiar Rupert E. Brown, 6 N. Noble Pitcock; 635, N. N Thomas Abner McK 1d.; Elsie Evelyn NM John E. Lanustor 818 N Taw Jane: Yvonne Bridget Gannon Hawthorne lane

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Charles ™.dley Curtis ; Virginia Elizabeth Weave

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Johnson, \. 2201 Martindale David Anderson Virginia Ruth Arnett, Leon LeVord Washington Bernice Odessa Bridgewater, 30th. . Oliver Edward Wilson, 2533 Yandes; Elizabeth Black, 2628 Columbia, James L. Reed, 10560 Tallman, Alig, 503 Marion. Richard Hele Law, 1060 English; Belle Wilson, 1617 Deloss Frank Levi Collins, 925 W Jane Ward, 1541 B. State

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Samuel J. Jolly, 2016 Gent, Scottie Chas

tene, 914 Em Edward "Bugene Loux, 2240 ; Mae {Haooper, 223 N. Temple Orville Bugene Clark, "4310 21st; Mattingly, 2712 N. Meridian, James Dallas Keaton, Y. MC Helen James 3300 Kenwood.

Ruby Earl C. Starkey,

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interest | compared with the lure of placing.

Indiana,

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Rhynearson, 810 N Marie

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| NEXT: The Outlook in the Middle East.

Niece Christens.

|S. S. Ernie Pyle

{ VANCOUVER, Wash. June 26 (U. P.).—If Ernie Pyle could have seen the launching of this ‘troop transport, he would have been proud that so fine a war tool was | going to the fighting men, Lt | Cmdr. Max Miller, said at the | launching of the 8-8. Ernie Pyle. | Miller said the late war correspondent, who kept his news on the personal side and fell with the men in the Okinawa campaign, “so despised war he wrote about it informing people. always, what nasty business it was.” He told how Pyle turned down requests for higher-paying jobs to do the war front writing he felt was his mission. Babette Johnson, niece of Pyle christened the. C-4 troopship art ceremonies yesterday. The. men on the carrier on which Pyle served just before his death brought a plaque and a radio for the new ship

MYRTLE TEMPLE MEETING

Myrtle temple No. 7, Pythian Sisters, will meet at 8 p. m. Friday in the hall, 29 S. Delaware st

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Newport 126 N

Misworth a Estella Thiry I'l as Fowler, 4173 Fern Meyer 1133 Brunswick Grover C. Diggs, 3920 Brouse Klick, 2069 N. Gale lllam Arthur Lynch, .1050 N. Jefferson 1 Kaiser, 1814 N. Oxford D. Chandler,, U. 8. navy; berta Meadows, 1038 Division mas Manson, 321 W. Vermont Morr Martir Jack race Philadelphia Adele Ann § 4448 Carrollton Kenneth Carson Carroll. 3707 E. Michigan; Mary Collings, 1346 N Dearborn lifford Eugene Andersor Noxie Tharp, 552 Warren Albert Philip Hoffman, U 8, army thy {lene Nixo Los Angeles A

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BIRTHS

Twins

Nar Isley, gu at 1832 Nelson st

Girls Betty Hearrell

At St. Francis William Herbert, Mary Grimes, Ro

At Colemanriley Urbain Betty Lou CunMartha Hollowell {ith Lyons Lorene H Bertha Helen Smith,

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At City-—John, Mary At Coleman ~ Bernard Harry, Martha Frazier Goodman Ruth Heine; Katherine Parker: Cecil, Winnie Wesley At St, Vincent's--Richard Walter, Opal Hynes; Junkins Lawrence ‘lvde, Pegay Wells At. Home Lloyd, Shelby Bkeel “2627 rd: Edgar, Elmira Vermillion, Beecher st

Patricia Cocks William

Nadine Suflicoal

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Mary Rebecca Moberly, 84, at Delaware, coronary pcecliusion

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