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- VOLUME 56—NUMBER 98

Canine Aristocracy on Parade

Champiens both . freeze their stance. both of 29 E. Westfield blvd.

Miss Marilyn Whitiaker, 49 E. Westfield bivd., holds her Khyber of Elcoza left) and ‘Laineus of Coming Events,

STRIKERS DEFY Rare Afabin Hounds Stop Traffic as They Perform

- WLB'S 'S ORDERS

Rubber Workers, Newspaper Drivers Still Idle.

By UNITED PRESS Akron, O., headquarters of the, nation's rubber, industry, ‘was the

idle workers were away from their Jobs at the Firestone and Good-

year tire and rubber companies.

Despite threats of loss of draft deferments and cherished union contract provisions, approximately 33,000 C. I. O. United Rubber Workers remained on strike. “With two major companies strikebound and two others—Goodrich

and : General Tire and Rubber—

closed for repairs, Akron's rubber production was at a virtual standstill for the first time in 75 years: Local officers- of the union demanded. a senate investigation of the Akron situation. The demand was addressed to Senator James M. Mead (D. N, Y.), chairman of the senate sommes to investigate the!

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MERCURY GOING UP, FAIR JULY 4 IS DUE

The mercury is going and it.is expected to stay. in the | 70's or 80's for the next five days in Indiana. Fair and warmer today and to-! morrow is the weatherman’s proms. ise for Indianapolis.

According to the five-day fore-

cast, Hoosierland will have warm | weather this week, becoming a little | cooler, Sunday. Scattered showers and thunderstorms are expected

- Thursday and Friday.

LOCAL TEMPERATURES «Mu... 88 . Ma... 61

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Backed by summer clouds, Miss Gloria Gustafson, 5768 N..Penn-

sylvania st., pauses with her Afgha - is one of seven pups whelped by is valued at about $500.

- By VICTOR THE MOHAMMEDANS regard

The Egyptians called them “Cynocephalus”

hound.

In India they hunt the leopard.

In Indiana and Indianapolis,

they stop and tie-up traffic as they parade the canal.

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Afghanistan,

Probably the oldest and purest strain of dog in ‘the world, Afghans are a rarity in this country and eveh more so here, Last year Mrs. Lauer J. Froe-

lich, 29 E. Westfield -blvd., moved to Indianapolis. From her Elcoza kennels in Reading, Pa. she brought some of her prize Afghans, : n non THE NEW. arrivals to the dog “400” are Champion Yussefl, a male, and Champion Zannette of Elcoza, Since then Zannette has

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HUGE CROWD SEES

‘Scheduled for D for Deployment

FORECAST: Fair and warmer today,

TUESDAY, J ULY

By FRANK LA COKE ~~ United Press Staff Correspondent FT. WORTH, Tex., July 3.—Cpl. Jim Newman, who wasted away to 92 Pounds during three years in- a Jap prison* camp,’ ate a whopping big breakfast today and scoffed at doctors Ahoy sent him home to die; f “I had the best ‘night's sleep I've had in years,” he told his

ROUND-CLOCK | ARE LAUNCHED

In 10-Mile Advance On Borneo.

By WILLIAM F. TYREE United Press Staff ‘Correspondent

GUAM, July 3.—Japanese broad{casts about 100 American

said

+ + in regal pose Zannette of Elcoza ‘and Yusseff, Afghan hounds (left to right) | planes attacked air bases on south- | Zannette is owned by Mrs, Vincent Robert Kelly, Yussefl by Mrs. Lauer J. Froelich,

ern Kyushu today in a multi- |

pronged foray keeping. the aerial {softening up of Japan on a round : | the clock basis.

Tokyo reported that a wide rang- |

ing fleet of light and medium planes | : | hit the southern belt of airdromes trom which the Kamikaze suicide planes launch assaults. The raiders; most of them Thunderbolts and Mustangs, swept in| ‘| from Okinawa, enemy reports said. [They raked their targets for an {hour beginning soon after noon.

Fire Raids

The daylight force struck after | two fleets of .superforts had dealt] a destructive one-two punch to Jap- | anese war plants and -oil refineries within 24 hours. Tokyo reported that a small force of B- 29's loosed a fire raid today on Kainan, about 50° miles southwest of Osaka, setting fires which were brought under control during the morning. Buf this appeared to be the enemy | version of the announcedr superfort attack on the Maruzen refinery in the same area of eastern Honshu. This attack wrecked the third of Japan’s vanishing oil centers hit by the big bombers in seven days. The Japanese radio said “many” |

zen raid in’ daylight today to scat- | ter mines through ‘the blockaded sea! n pup, Zevadne of Elcoza. Zeyadne Zannette seven months ago. She |land, while four scouting B-24 Lib~ | erators ranged over the Tokyo area itself.

More Heavy Blows

There was no word that’ the Lib- | erators had bombed the enemy .capital, but their appearance was an omen of the increasingly heavy blows in store for Japan when the bomber fleets of.the U. 8. 8th air force swing in from Europe to their | new Pacific bases.. American war planes from several air forces teaming in the great blockade of Japan sank or damaged 32 mofe enemy vessels. That _ (made "211 Japanese ships sunk or ‘| damaged in nine days. To attest to:the effectiveness of that blockade, the "Japanese gov|ernment today announced a 10 per Se cut in staple food rations for ll- Japan's major cities. A Domei isp oa said the tighter rations

PETERSON them as sacred. ’ + «+ + monkey-faced

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"GEN, ALLEN, 413TH INFANTRY ARRIVE

harvest.

P i$ Radio Tokyo said the: “curtain is To acific. about to-be raised on the homeland

NEW YORK, July 3 (U. P.). —Maj. | | battle,” and boasted that an un-

Gen. Terry ‘Allen, commander of the | c2rable air force would be thrown

against the Americans “in thi 104th (Tiniherwolf) division, came battle.” § Jas)

“We'll lick the hell out of dny-| HOPKINS’ | FUTURE. thing that gets in the way,” Allen T0 BE REVEALED

said of the fi ht still ah 8 ahead. of fils WASHINGTON, July 3 (U. P.). division, scheduled for redeployment ~The White House said today that to the Pacific, | Presidential Adviser. Harry Hop-

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BYRNES. TAKE OATH

Ceremony Moved: to White o

House Rose Garden.

WASHINGTON, July 3 (U. P).— ‘James F. Byrnes took the oath as] | secretary of state today and prom-| {ised to uphold “the, basic principles | of our foreign policy.” Byrnes took the oath at an unusually crowded White House ceremony. Practically the entire senate, the cabinet, many members of the house, the state. department staff and the White House staff packed President Truman's office to such an extent that it was necessary to

rose garden, Byrnes, who leaves with President Truman soon for the Big Three meeting, said he wanted all these in the department at home or abroad “to remain at their posts. He said the accomplishment of enduring peace would depend on something more than skilled diplomacy, paper treaties. arid even “the ‘best charter the wisest statesmen can draft.” “Important as is diplomacy, im‘portant as are the peace settlements’ and. the basic “charter of world peace,’ " he said, “thege cannot succeed unless Jacked ih the will

“The division had six months and | Kins would not accompany Presidays continuous combat from |4ent Truman to the Big Three October 23 "until the end of the Meeting in. Berlin as originally (war,” the tall, be-ribboned- general Planned. : suid proudly. White "House Press Secretary “Whatever success the division Charles G. Ross said an announcehas had is entirely due to discipline, Ment concerning the veteran {unselfish teamwork, a high state of White House ’ confidant’s future | training, physical fitness and a frost Would be made later today. intensive -belief in themselves as| He declined to say what the anindividuals and pride in their unit.|nouncement would cover, but said This is an interesting point—:there it ‘comprised an exchange of letwere 149 battlefield promotions in ters ‘between the President and our outfit.” | Hopkins.

Medal for Ernie Pyle to Be Conferred on Widow Tonight|’

I'll Get Well,’ Says

‘Allies Capture 2 Airfields,

Entered ay Second-Class Matter at Postoffic Indianapolis 9, Ind Issued daily except Sunda

tonight and tomorrow.

3, 1945

“mom, * Mis. 0. P Newnan who chided - the “doomed soldier” for sleeping late. ~~ Cpl. Jim .went at his “breakfast of orange juice, buttered biscuits, coffee and a poached egg and bacon. Last night dior

“mom” fixed him his . favorite food—creamed ‘ potatoes, - black= eyed eyed . pass; chicken and gravy;

buttered biscuits, milk and icedtea. : But despite the ravenous appetite, ‘doctors says he=can'l live. : He is suffering from: malnutrition,’ “tuberculosis, laryngitis and the lingering after-effects of + BeriBeri. - When Jim ieft high school, - wag a big, strapping six-foot re

supper,

RAIDS ON JAPS

Firemen extinguish flames on a Camp Atterbury bus which crash 31 yesterday 4 and burst into flames.

1 Dead. 16 Hurt i in Crash as Pedestrian Walks Into Road

A 73-year-old pedestrian was killed -and 16 persons injured, of them critically, when an Indianapolis-bound Camp Atterbury hit a concrete culvert on U.S. 31 yesterday and burst into flames. Injured fatally was George Craig, R. R..6, Box 743, who, tHe bus | driver said, stepped from the side of the road and walked toward the

- of the bus. MATE RETURNS | The accident occurred in the 5400 |

Mrs. Stevens Sire Sure ‘Georgie’ Will Fix Things.

By MARY HARRINGTON United Press Staff Correspondent

BRIDGEPORT, ‘Conn. July 3x Mr Ste 24 T gers. most. of - them soldiers and | S. Imogene Stevens, exas |WACs from Camp Atterbury, | beauty ‘charged with manslaughter, fought for the front door of the ve-

two bus

south. of. the. Cit: ..mwe The bus, driven by Rodney Witt, 38, of 938 Park ave. skidded about 400 feet and then crashed into the culvert after hitting Mr. Craig. Fought for Door Explosions followed immediately, ‘apparently caused when the gas | tanks were broken and ignited by! [the exhaust pipe or sparks from | {the bus. ~

other B-29's followed up the Maru- | | turned the Fairfield county jail into!hicle as flames filled thesbus. Many | treaty to the senate.

|a one-woman beauty parlor today Of them climbed through windows. | as she nervously awaited the home-! Lt. Charles Harrington, 32, Car-

band. | was recuperating at Wakeman hos- | She washed and set her hair. pital, was a hero of the accident. She pressed and repressed her navy| Witnesses told police that while blue silk - dress. She “fixed” her his own clothing smouldered. he! face. In .between she nervously rescued 6-year-old Jeanette.Riden{popped up every few minutes to our who sat screaming on the bus.

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Charred Weestaoe of Atterbury Bus

One Podesirian w was Sled and 16-passengers injured in the wreck.

{ block on road 31, about four miles |

About 31° panic- stricken passen- '

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inch. buster, anxious to get into the army. On Dec. 7, 1941, a ship cary: ing him for an honorable _dis- . a docked at. Pearl Harbor.” Sent home to mend. or It was a dead heat with the Japs But Cpl. Jim didn’t mend. Dog=~ Sincg then, after-he fought on tors worked on him for five tors Bataan and was captured at Cor- * turous months. There was no im= regidor—he ‘has spent his time provement, Regretfully, they- sent In prison camps. oe Flesh melted off

frame “on the sklinpy ™ diet, ‘Disease struck—again and again, Then American troops came and the corporal and his buddies were

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US. SPEARHEAD: ENTERS BERLIN IN DOWNPOUR

Begins Taking Over Zone Of Occupation In Southwest- Area. :

BERLIN. July 3 (U. P).~A rain- | soaked spearhead of the United -

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|States army’s 2d armored division

{rolled info Berlin today and began taking over its assigned occupation ed into a concrete culvert on road Zone ‘in the southwestern part of the city. British’ occupation = forces were moving in on the northwestern part’ of Ey pAb: ibe. Same. 3 time the

: OR. Fas anh from the staging center at Halle. The French also

ASK U.S. DEFINE PEACE TERMS == 525

The American Visgeard of about Senators = Move Might 4 jeeps and a score of trucks:left Hasten Jap Surrender.

Halle at 4 a. m. and reached the -|Zehlendorf = section of southwest By EULALIE McDOWELL United Press stam Correspondent

| Berlin at noon. Russians Curious WASHINGTON, July 3. ~ The/ The American zone of occupation administration today faced de- will be administered under the heads= mands from Republican senators quarters of -the 1st airborne army, for an exact definition of uncondi-| commanded by Maj. Gen. Floyd tional surrender terms for Japan. Parks. The 2d armored division,

5 Officials also were called on to! commanded by Brig. Gen. John H. i

let the American people in on Collier of Dallas, Tex. comprises the “peace feelers” which one senator main body of the occupation force. insisted have been made despite) The barrier of language held | state department denials. | down to a minimum the fraternizaRepublican Leader Wallace H. | tion between the Americans and White Jr. (R. Me) asked for an| pyssians in the initial phase of the ‘explicit’ statement from President occupation. - The Russians seemed Truman on the nature of surrender} keenly curious, staring intently at conditions shortly after the Presi-! {the U, S. army vehicles. Somme |dent presented the ‘San Francisco, smiled, others only stared. The press camp .in the American zone was established in the rela-

“Might Hasten Surrender”. tively lightly damaged villas and

Such a statement, White said,

of Japan west of the enemy home-|COming of her ‘paratrooper hus- roll, O, an overseas veteran who. “might soften the Japanese will to/ small hotels of the Zhelendort area.

continue a hopeless struggle and Correspondents again found them- | might hasten the day of surren- | selves bedding down on the floor | der.” ! |in sleeping bags and bedrolls. Some At a press conference, Senator | buildings had electricity, but. there Homer E. Capehart (R. Ind.) who|Was no gas and the water supply {said he was trying to find out “if | wis fitful 3

would be in effect until the October,

WASHINGTON, July 3 (U, P.)— The Medal for “Merit, the nation’s dighest award to civilians, will be bestowed posthumously tonight on Ernie Pyle, famed chronicler ' of doughboys in world war II, who was killed by a Japanese sniper’s bullet on the tiny Pacific island of Ie. Announcement of the award was made by the war, navy and state departments. The medal will be presented to Pyle's widow, Mrs. Geraldine Pyle, at a memorial ceremony here folloy a. preview: showing of the film, Ernie Pyles "Story of G. 1. Joe” .. v Taking part in the céremony will e be Burgess Meredith, who flags ihe

part the’ fl

surviving marines of the group that raised the Ameérican flag on Iwo Jima and the soldier who carried the body of Capt. Waskow down a4 mountain in Italy, the subject of one of Pyle’'s most famous columns. s Two war correspondents who |P Cunningham of the United Press, will tell of their association with the famed war correspondent,

“Many notables will be present to

‘honor the beloved little reporter, including British Ambassador Lord Halifax, Gen. Jacob Devers, new ‘chief of the army ground forces; Lt. Gen. and Mrs. James H. Rash hd

EX Gor Franklin D. Rooseves

{ask if “Georgie” had arrived. “Georgie” was Maj. George R.| Stevens III, the man she married {in Alliance, Neb., seven days before { he left for the Normandy invasion. “Georgie will get me out-of this {mess and this horrible jail,” she said. Given Special Leave { Stevens was expected sometime today on special leave from Europe. Jailers said he would be brought | to his wife no matter what time of | the day or night he arrives. * Friends said they- wére not cer- | tain how much Stevens knew of | the shooting of Seaman 2-¢ ‘Albert | Kovacs, 19, June 23 at the home of | Charles Milton in nearby New! Canaan. { They ‘said Stevens had been in-| formed that hi§ wife was being

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' Hoosier Heroes—

2 DIE, 2 WOUNDED | IN PACIFIC AREA

Local Infantryman Killed on "Okinawa. |

A - local infantryman has been | killed on Okinawa and an Indian- | apolis seaman died-in—the Pacific. |

servicemen wounded in the ‘Battle | “for- Okinawa.

KILLED

A a Pfc: Francis M. ‘Wise, 705 W. 30th | st.. on Okinawa. | Fireman 1-¢ Robert Tracy Tompkins, 955 LaSalle st.. in the Pacific. MISSING T. Sgt. Floyd E. Lane, 1342 Shep= ard st., off Saipan. ; WOUNDED Watertender: 3-¢ Jack Eugene Owen, 5364 Speedway dr., off Okinawa. Pfc. Charles (Louie) Frazier, 1096 Lawrence ave, on Okinawa,

(Details, Pa Page 4) VICKSBURG REJOINS UNION TOMORROW VICKSBURG, Miss. July 3 (U, J) —~Vicksburg wit rejoin’ the union tomorrow. . For thie first ge in 82 years--the first’ time since the Blue overWhelmed' the. Gray, the unreconstructed -Mississippians will celebrate Independence day. Every -civic club on the gity will be. represented in. a parade tq be led by Maj. Gen. . Edward H. Brooks of Atlanta; Ga; commands:

ing gerieral, of sth service

| ilies.

Today's “casualties aiso-thslude wal.

The child's dress was afire and Lt | ghere isn't. some way to stop this —Column 5) war and save lives,” declared he| had information that the Japanese | ’ | made peace overtures a month ago. | ISSUE CALL FOR | He said the government should BANK CONDITIONS keep the American people informed | on “peace feelers” and tell the Jap-| The Indiana .- department of anese “on what basis we would | financial institutions today issued accept conditional er unconditional | a call for the conditions of state surrender,” banks as of June 30. Other senators, however, -refused The controller of the currency inh speak for quotation and generally Washington. also called for state-| termed the subject of uncondition- | ments ‘-from national banks of al surrender “dynamite.” June 30. : They “said the topic’ has been { “rumbling” on Capitol Hill for the| past two weeks, and that they were

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Times to Arrive

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SENATOR PROPOSES | CHARTER CHANGES

Opposes ‘War- Wain Power’ Given U. S. Delegate.

WASHINGTON, July 3 (U. Po).— Senator Harlan J. Bushfield (R. 8S. D.), said today he would fight to require the U. S. delegate to pid United Nations security council “t act only after congress has directed him to act in each case as it arises.” Bushfield told the senate that-the charter as it stands would delegate | “power which we have no authority to delegate to the security “council to declare war.’ He said he would support the charter but added that the senate

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specific faults he said it contained. | Bushfield said he would make his |

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Charges POW's Unable to Do Day's Work on U. S. Rations

Kas, July 3 {U, P).— POW's * rope.” His only concern, ‘he said, |

HAYS,

should correct this and five other |

‘for what happened in Eu- |

The war department was charged | | today with so reducing food allot-

that they lost from 10 to 12 pounds! and were unable to do a full day's work. L. C. Aicher, "superintendent of the Pt. Hays experiment station, protested to Rep. Frank Carlson (R. Kas.) that farmérs who had | bired German labor were not receiving full value’ for their money. In a letter to the Kansas con-| gressman, Aicher = expressed the opinion ‘that the army had sharply feduced food rations te-Germans following diselésiire: of artocities agdinst allied captives in Europe. "He said that it “the army's business”: rs

| was for the farmers who were “pay- |

Held Up at Bridge Some hitches had turned up in the arrangements with the Russians for American parties to enter. One group was held up seven hours yes--{terday before its trouble was straightened out. Today a section of the convoy was held. up an hour and a half at the Dessaq bridge over the Elbe. | Russian ‘convoys were moving .in the opposite direction over the | single-track: wooden military bridge. Compared with the American trappings, the Russian uniforms we |saw looked run-down. ‘But some of= ficers and men obviously had spruced up for the occasion, and juany wore rows of medals on their

ingly few German eivilians | vere to be seen in the towns and [villages through which the American. convoy passed on the way to Berlin. Those who were in sight watched the Americans intently. Children among them often waved.

Few Germans About

Hardly any young or middle aged | German men were visible. Where- | ever there were civilians, women, {children and old people predomin(ated. It appeared that a high percentOlage of the population in this area | had fled west to the American and (British zones of occupation before |the Red army moved in. Since it was raining, there was no accurate guage as to whether many German farmers still were around their places. Few were seen but the crops in the fields looked ax cellent. The Russians nad propaganda | signs posted in the towns proclaims= ing that “the aims of the United Nations do not include the destruction of the German people.” | All along the, Autobahn were big | red- lettered postérs. They proclaimed among other things that | the allies were determined to eradicate Naziism and German mili- | tarism, but not to destroy the Ger= { mans. J One poster quoted Generalissimo | Stalin as saying that Hitlers come {and Hitlers go, but history shows

ling good money for prisoners and | that the German nation and Ger= [ments to German prisoners of war |then not getting a day's work out man people remain.

lof them.”

Aicher said that if. the army, RANKIN T0 “OPPOSE

| wished to punish prisoners they! should be withdtawn" from work , | crews. The experiment station, ‘an agri|culture tenter co-operating with the vu. S. department of agriculture and (ansas State college, hired German [labor to assist in the wheat harvest. | At the present time, Aicher said the army gives the prisoners then {morning and night meals, with the farmers feeding them af noon. If

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COMMITTEE CHOICE

WASHINGTON, July 3 (U, Plow Rep. John E. Rankin (D. Miss.) to~ day indicated that he would oppose appointment of Rep Henry M. Jackson (D, Wash.) as chairman of : the house ua-Amatican . Metivitieg 4

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