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FORECAST: Partly

VOLUME 56—NUMBER 96

The G. A. Wootens from Morristown came to town yesterday and when the Wootens

come to town they make people sit up and take notice. Job, a 1906 Cadillac: town—28 miles.

For they

“Not bad, but we do

It took them an hour and 20 minutes to make the trip from Morrisbetter when we don’t have to buck headwinds,” said Ggrage Owner "Woolen as he gallantly assists Mrs. Wooten into their de luxe. job.

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drive a slick open-air

SATURDAY, JUNE

Of course there were no starters on cars manufactured in 1906 so Mr. Wooten steps to the side and cranks Old Reliable—he affectionately calls it “Ye Old Timer.” holds five gallons of gasoline and get 20 miles to the gallon. the water tank in front.

Rankin Charges Hollywood is AKRON STRIKERS

Hotbed of Subve

WW ASHINGTON, June 30 (1. P.) .—Acting Chairman John E. Rankin (D. Miss.) announced today that the house unAmerican activities committee had decided to investigate “subversive activities” on the West coast —and especially in Hollywood. “According to reports, one of the most dangerous plots ever instigated for the overthrow of this government had its. head- + quarters in Hollywood,” Rankin said. He said committee investigators will leave for Hollywood “at once.” gg ogg, SM nd pe RANKIN left no doubt as to what he thinks about the movie capital, “The information we get,” he asserted, “is that this is the greatest hotbed of subversive activities in the United States.” The Rankin statement gave no

Rep. John E. Rankin

further details: on the allegedly subversive activity to be investigated. » » » COMMITTEE Chairman Edward J. Hart (D. N. J.) is out of

rsive Plot’

town. Rankin, the next Democratic member in seniority, is in charge of the committee in his absence. Rankin said “individuals ‘and organizations” would be investigated. He declined to say whether any “big name” Hollywood stars would «be called as witnesse ut added that “some of them probably will enter into it before we're through” He said that “everv kind of subversive activity” was going on in Hollywood. » » y “IT (the plot) starfén: before the war but lately it has become intensified,” he said. “It is deeprooted and is designed to lay the groundwork for the overthrow of our form of government and for a ‘change in our way of living.” The “plot” involved the entire Pacific coast, he said, but “Holly- | wood is its center.” » =" A COMMITTEE that the west coast investigation

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Not As He Likes It—

Ex-Wife Sends

Shakespearean Emoter to Jil,

By VIRGINIA MacPHERSON United Press Staff Correspondent

HOLLYWOOD, June 30.— Shakespearean actor John Carradine, whose sojourn in jail last night was no “Midsummer Night's yDream,” said today he'd sue his first wife—but quick—for putting him ‘there, Mrs, Ardanelle Carradine, who divorced the lean Thespian last year, accused him of trying to

4 MAN MOB HELD NLS 5. HIJACKERS

$500,000 Woolens Involved.

NEW YORK, June 30 (U. P).— An international crook and three

henchmen were under arrest today. Police said the gang had hijacked $500,000 in government - owned {woolens intended for army. use. Samuel Allen, 50, was described as the leader of a four-man mob which specialized in the theft of woolens intended for use as overleave town without paying her coat§ for servicemen, phlice said. back alimony. She sént police |" He was arrested today in his to Carradine’s hilltop home with a [f°om at the Hotel Duane, where warrant before He could leave. | police sald they found 1,500,000 red The actor was, his former mate [ration stamps and $25,204 in cash. charged, about to duck out of the | His arrest followed those yesterstate to avoid paying her $4116 {day of three men in a vegetable and 20 per cent of his earnings. | truck which contained $52,000 worth And she claimed he had told her, |°f Woolens. The woolens had been Hollywood ain't done right by hijacked en route from Pennme." sylvania to the Dann Manufacturing Co., Queens, police said. Detectives who seized the truck said the woolens were to have been made into uniforms for the U. 8. army quartermaster department. Allen’s arrest followed questionpntinued on “Page 2~Column 1) ing of the three.

ichberg Defends New Labor Bill Against '‘Hasty' Critics

By DONALD R. RICHBERG Written for the Scripps-Howard Newspapers WASHINGTON, June 30.~Cries of rage from labor leaders greeted he industrial peace plan recently put forth by Senators Hatch, Burton nd Ball The A. F. of L., the C. I. O. and the United Mine Workers did not t to read it. They can denounce so much more freely when they bn't know what they are talking about. The proposed law guarantees to bor the right to organize and| cessful machinery for the voluntary pose its own representatives. It| arbitration of labor disputes. quires collective bargaining and a| In amending the Wagner act, it ll opportunity for labor -to nego- | reaffirms and adds to ‘the list of te agreements and settle disputes | unfair labor practices by employers to obtaln the aid of govern which are prohibited for the proent mediators if desired. tection of employees. It sets up a well-tried and suc-| The entire bill is carefully de-

signed to protect and promote the TIMES INDEX

Donald R. Richberg, author of :

2 8°» “SHE'S crazy as a loon,” Carraline shouted dramatically from behind the bars. “I was going to ew York to earn enough money |

the railway labor act and an atg| torney who has represented many .- 81 labor unions, discusses the proposed federal industrial relations a act.

Jane Jordan, T7| John Love . 4 | McNeil as a 10! Ruth Millett mics . ..... 9 Movies vord .... 9 Obituaries . torials JR Radio gi ter Edson .. 6 Mrs, Ragsevelt 7 5 Sports a Al Williams A

musements’ , .

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3 earners. by But the law would also protect (the public as well as labor aghinst

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8 costly and “heediess stoppages of 1}. _ part of ;

| Ageless Romance—

Spurned Suitors Of Elderly Bride In Big Bernt

By SHIRLEY HUTCHINSON United, Press Staff Correspondent RACINE, Wis., June 30.—If the mail would just slack off a bit, 101-year-old James Augustus Cooper sald today, he and his bride of three weeks might have time for their honeymoon. Tree trimmer Cooper tossed: a stack of letters to his wife—the former Mrs. Julia Westpatet, 62. “You'd think we were running a lonely hearts club,” he snorted.

» » . AN ANONYMOUS widow from Little Falls, Minn. wants Mrs Cooper to pass on to her any suitors. she may have rejected when she married the energetic centenarian, ‘ “Like you I am tired of living alone,” she wrote. “So I am asking you to send my address to any nice gentlemen you may know.” A woman from Brighton, Ia. described herself as “an. 80-year-old widow, 125“pounds with gray

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IT’S NOT SO HOT, OR HAVE YOU NOTICED?

Scattered showers brought relief from the sweltering heat today, but not before one Indianapolis workman was a victim of heat prostration. Lee McClung, 22, of 2338 N, Rural st, was treated at Methodist hospital, after he collapsed while cleaning in the mixing room of Omar Bakeries, Inc., 901 E. 16th st. | Meanwhile, the weather bureau

peratures and cloudiness over . the! week-end.

6 DIE IN MAINE FIRE AUGUSTA, Me., June 30 (U. P), —8ix persons including three children and their parents, were burned to death today as fire swept their home on Gage st.

Anton Scherrer + + for years Indianapolis’ favorite columnist . . . again writes regularly . . . in The © Times . . . read OUR TOWN starting Monday. and

member said |

predicted continued moderate tem. |

i (U, P.).~Maj. Walter V. Radovich,

WARNED BY WLB

1 They y Face Loss of . Checkoff, Retroactive Pay.

that Hollywood |

| WASHINGTON, June 30 (U.P). {—The war labor board today warned 16,700 strikers at the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co., AKron,| (that unless they return to work im- | {mediately the board will take steps (to withdraw union” maintenance of | i membership, dues checkoff .and| | retroactive payments of shift prem- | liums and vacations. | The retroactivity payments go, {back as far as-April 3, 1943. ‘They are estimated to amount to several { million dollars. The WLB action came one day after selective service acted to can-| cel deferments held by strikers, The strike resulted “fromy an accumulation of grievances and has {interfered with the production of {tires to the extent that the army has been forced to send retreads ito the Pacific battlefronts. {| WLB Chairman George W. Taylor said that one of the chief reasons why the WLB had-granted maintenance of membership, shift premfiums and vatations reiroactively “was the willingness of your union to follow the orderly procedures of the board in settling its disputes | with management.”

AKRON, June 30 (UU. P.).—The | Goodyear local of the United Rubber Workers (C. I. O. today {charged in a telegram to President Truman that cancellations of draft deferments of strikers at the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. constituted “un-American, undemocratic and | Fascist tactics.”

FILM STARS TO BE HERE ON ‘PYLE DAY’

wil Fly LaGuardia Field.

Burgess Meredith, who plays the | part of Ernie Pyle in the “Story of {G. I. Joe,” his wife, Paulette Goddard, and Producer Lester Cowan will be in Indianapolis for Ernie Pyle day Friday. Senator Homer E. Capehagt is expected to join the film party and a group of Eastern newspapermen at LaGuardia field in New York to be flown here in a plane provided by the I troop carrier command. This was revealed in a ‘joint announcement today by Fred Joyce, representative of Lester Cowan Productions, Inc, and Maj. Vincent P. Wilber, public relations officer at Stout field, headquarters of the I troop carrier command, The film stars, Mm Cowan and Senator Capehart will take part in

Party From

all events of Ernie Pyle day here and will be guests at the world premiere of the Cowan production, “Story of G. 1. Joe,” at 8 p. m. in Loew's theater. Senator Raymond E. Willis said in| | Washington that he hopes to able | [to attend the premiere. IN BERLIN TOMORROW PARIS, June 30 (U. P. .—Su- | preme headquarters announced that American, British and French troops will move into Berlin to take over their respective occupation zones beginning tomorrow, MAJOR FACES HARD LABOR MITCHEL FIELD, N. Y,, June 30 25, army air ace in the Pacific war, faced dismissal and three yéars at hard labor today after a _courtmartial convicted him of accepting a bribe to keep two enlisted men from being shipped OVerseas, WAGE BOOSTS SIGNED KANSAS CITY, Mo., June 30 (U, P.). — President Truman today signed into law a bill giving. ap-

proximately 1400000 federal govy basic

rar” and

Extra space around the tank provides storage room. The kerosene lamps still work but as a safety, m measure Mr. Wooten rigged up some battery lights.

| 25-year-old Maj.

cloudy with scattered thundershowers tonight and tomorrow; not much ehange in temperature.

30, 1945

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The car The motor is in the rear,

tawn is for sale.

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Every 3 Minutes—120 Miles For Each ‘A “Stamp

HOME

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FINAL

With firm grip on the wheel, feet braced and stern expression, even though they know that the eyes of most everyone follow them as the vintage of 1906 chugs along, the Wootens start out on a trip. Mr. Wooten’'s car is a right hand drive affair. yesterday io inquire of State Adjutant Elmer Sherwood whether the armory at MorrisPhotographer Victor Peterson caught them en route to the statehouse.

Mr. Wooten came to town

WASHINGTON

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

WASHINGTON, June 30.—Sleeping-car travel soon will be a thing of the past for most civilians. Army plans to take over many Pullmans, use them for troop transportation. Railroads will face the problem of using what's left for civilians where they'll do the most good. Present plan is to eliminate sleepers on all-night runs up to six hours. For longer runs some berths will be available. But traveling public will learn more and more about sitting up all night. Army hopes public will do less traveling. Office of defense transportation has stepped in with ban | ‘on railroads’ selling or allocating passenger space more than five days ahead of departure fime, Reservations had been taken 30 days in advance. The order does | not cancel reservations already made under 30-day limit. ODT Director Johnson said action was | economio- affairs, has impressed to. assure maximum use of limited | COTSTESS, public. more favorably

: otis | than most members of original space available to civilians. But

ili I : . Stettinius “team.” civilians planning vacations can- | = precent undersecretary,

not be sure of getting space for | — the ride back home. | {Continued on Page 2—Column 1)

21 Ski Paratroopers Bring

WILL CLAYTON of Houston is best bet for undersecretary of state when Jimmy Byrnes takes over, insiders say. Clayton, now assistant secretary in charge of

Joseph

Tales of Invading Norway

By CHARLES P. ARNOT United Press Staff Corresposdent OSLO, June 30.—Twenty-one rugged Yanks, the only ski paratroops | {in the American army, were en route home to Flatbush and points west today with a fantastic adventure story. Eleven®f these winter war veterans hail from Brooklyn, and in about two weeks Dodgestown will be getting a first hand account of

LF Ee HOUSE VOTES PRICE CONTROL, 255 T0 94

ss was two months away when ht

American planes took off | iy Scotland on March 24 for| Extension for One More Year Provided.

‘operation Norway,” commanded by William Colby, WASHINGTON, June 30 (U. P.) —The house today gave last-minute approval to legislation

St. Paul, Minn,

The U. S. office of strategic services planned the invasion when Gen, Dwight D. Eisenhower requested that something be done to prevent the Germans from shifting their troops in Norway—numbering | almost 500,000 men—to the Western front,

Norwegian-Born ers. The final vote was 255 to 94. Colby’s unique task force was| The house vote completed con-well-qualified for the dangerous as- |gressional action on the measure. signment. | Preparations were made to fly the More than half his troopers were bill to President Truman at Kansas Norwegian-born, and all had gone City for signature "before the act through intensive parachute and | expires at midnight tonight. Otherski training, plus a battle “drop”! | wise there would be a temporary 200 miles behind the German lines | lapse in OPA, at least technically. in France. | It was tough at the outset. Only four of the eight planes reached | the designated jumping spot 150

LOCAL TEMPERATURES “ 0am....% Lom Nam.... 18 «s+ 13 12 tNoom) .. 81 4 Ipom..... 83

Last Call for Bids on Ernie Pyle's Manuscript

OING Going—— Last call for bids on the Ernie Pyle original manuscript today found the American United Life Insurance Co. still high with an offer of $10,525,000.00. Bidding ends at midnight tonight. Bids received by mail will be accepted if they are postmarked before that hour. » THE MANU IPT, one of the few that were preserved of all the hundreds by the famous Hoosier war correspondent, . now is on display in the Washington st. windows of L. Strauss & Co. It will be presented to, the successful bidder on the stage at Loew's theater on July 6, during the world premiere of the picture inspired by Ernie's writing—"“The Story of G. 1. Joe.” This one was typed on a Pacific island during the last assignment of Ernie's life, reached the United States by plane for publication.

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TRIO RESCUED AT SHANGRI-LA

WAC, Two o Soldiers Picked Up With Glider.

MANILA, June 30 (U. P).—The three survivors of 47 days in New! | Sultan's Shangri-La - today safe at Hollandia after a glider | pick-up rescue. The trio was removed from the | {remote hidden valley Thursday. They were WAC Cpl. Margaret | J. Hastings, Oswego, N. Y,, and Lt. John S. McCollom, Trenton, Mo, and T. Sgt. Kenneth w. | Decker, Kelso, Wash, They were brought off in a glider | which had been launched on an

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CHINESE SMASH. INTO INDO-CHINA

Tokyo Says U.S. Preparing to Invade Island North of Okinawa and Oil Center On Coast of Borneo.

By UNITED PRESS The Chinese invaded French Indo-China today and | enemy broadcasts indicated two more allied invasions were ‘approaching or already underway.’ The Chinese high command announced that its forces had smashed across the border to take the town of Chungchingfu, northeast of Coabang.

Other Chinese forces, 225

| | miles to the northeast, recap-

tured the burning city of {Liuchow, former American airforce base taken by the Japanese last November Predict Invasion Tokyo said that American destroyers and minesweepers were | reconnoitering the coast of Oki

noerabu, next major island stepping stone north of Okinawa on the invasion route to Japan. The Japanese have been predict-

ling for some time that the United

States may invade one or more

| additional islands north of Okinawa

before landing on Japan proper. Okinoerabu is part of the Amami group and lies 40 miles above Okinawa and 250 miles southwest of | Japan. Radio Tokyo said several destooyters and minesweepers approached the coast of Okinoerabu. One broadcast said a cruiser also was in the

|air-strip improvised in the valley| oo "eno

=~ |by special Filipino paratroops. | The three were survivors of al C-47 transport plane crash which | {cracked up in an effort to make {an emergency landing in’ the {mountain valley.

In Good Condition

A tow plane picked the glider {up from the valley runway in a [tricky glider operation. The survivors were taken to Hollandia where they were given a medical checkup although they |

ed into the. valley three days after the accident. Ratigns were dropped by para- | chute to the three during their | stay in the hidden valley. Jungle fruits, vegetables and other food brought by friendly natives supplemented the rations. Walkie-talkie radio equipment | was dropped to them, and they | were in contact with allied planes

“Feeling Fine"

The natives helped clear the emergency strip from which the | {tow plane snatched the glider in| | the rescue. | At Hollandia, they reported in a short-wave interview recorded by (the Ametican Broadcasting Co. that | they were “feeling fine” and looking | forward to shower baths. Cpl. Hastings, who had been made] “queen of the valley” by the admir- | ing natives, said it was hard to de- | scribe how it feels to return to civ-| flization. Asked what she was looking forward to most, she replied: “A shower and a permanent] wave." Sgt. Decker and Lt. McCollum also wanted a shower before anything else. McCollum’s second and third choices were a shave and a T-bone steak. They said that as far as * they could determine the hidden valley natives never before had seen white people. Because they wore, elutes, the three air crash survivors and the paratroopers who joined them were all mistaken for women by’ the natives. Since the native males wear no Assumed that Decker,

One Japanese broadcast, heard in London, intimated that allied landing operations had started at Balikjpapan, the oil center on Borneo's

| east coast.

The broadcast, a weak transmis-

{sion in Italian, was not reported in

other quarters, and it appeared that it actually was a repeat of earlier broadcasts telling of an allied fleet still bombarding Balikpapan.

Tokyo said the fleet had been re-

including transports. Ac-

landing was “imminent.” Drop 281 Tons A Manila communique reported

| that over 130 planes of all sizes yes-

|terday dropped 281 tons of ex {plosives on the Balikpapan area,

{making a total of more than 3000 tons in four days. The report followed close on a Pacific fleét headquarters ecom- | munique announcing the bloodless American occupation of Kume Island, 50 miles west of Okinawa and 350 miles from the China coast. It the 16th Ryukyu island to be

captured.

Adm. Chester W. Nimits reported in a communique that his troops |occupied Kume without finding a | trace of Japanese soldiers. Radio Tokyo first reported the landing three days ago. but claimed a Japanese garrison had, inter-

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DEVERS NEW HEAD OF GROUND FORCES

WASHINGTON, June 30 (U. P.). Jacob L. Devers, who co~ ordinated planning for the invasion of .southern France, has been named commander of army