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VOLUME 56—NUMBER 99
"FORECAST: Fair and warm.
- WEDNESDAY, JULY 4, 1945
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F ortune Tellers (They're I legal lere) Cash In on War Fears
By. DONN A 'MIKELS
My husband is dead-in the Pacific. My husband is ill with a fever.
My husband is wounded .and a Jap prisoner.
in action, too busy to write
He’s also in a cave’ on Okizaws, suffering battle
fatigue. for long, He’s a drinking man
He is to come home soon, alive now but not
due for 12 years of bad luck.
Actually, I have no husband. Armed with a 12-cent wedding ring and a roll of green ‘stuff, I ferreted out a dozen fortune tellers who gave me all the information about my nonexistent spouse, ‘
taboo in Indiana.
past, present and futures. The name “fortune teller” is
The passage of a state law several ;
years ago prohibits the foretelling of future events for remuneration and a cleanup several years ago drove the
mystics underground.
Fortune tellers by every other name, Shwever, are -still telling and telling and telling, flourishing under names ranging from philosophic readers to psychic (the “psychic” I talked to pronounced it (sy-chick) card mediums. Posing as a gullible war bride, worried about her husband in the Pacific, 1 got a. glimpse | into the future
from five mystics.
1- was turned down by four others who were booked
at two others.
up as far as two weeks ahead.
I got tired waiting in line’
Loose money has brought the old hocus-pocus gals
back as war propheteers, taking advantage of wartime
anxiety and grief. They pull down an average of $2 a
“reading,” pocketing -shekels from as many as
tomers in one day.
20 cus-
The first seer who adroitly fished for toads and delved into the future for me was Mrs. Bertha King, 1509 Central ave., who looks more like somebody’s grandmother
than a prognosticator.
As a matter of fact sh
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: e is somebody's etn While waiting for my appointment I eavesdvépped on |
a letter she and “Pa” were writing to a gr ddaughter,
Among, other things Mrs.
giving a few readings, th furnace and $98 worth of coal, and that she and’ Pa
were planning a trip West.
King said was that she was |- at she had installed a $348 |
There was no mystic hocus-pocus about that reading.
It took place in a gleaming my visions of beaded curtai
white kitchen, a far cry from | ns and crystal balls. A small
brown and white dog who kept barking Mrs. King out of | (Continued on Page .7—Column-3) : |
| NORTH DAKOTA
. OFFICIAL DOES | WORK_IN JAIL
Conducts , All Business of State Department as He Serves Term.
By GLENN MARTZ United Press Staff Correspondent
BISMARCK, N. D., July 4, — North Dakota — where strange things happen in politics—has set another political’ precedent.
For the first time in his- .
tory a state department is being operated from a county jail. Managership of the state hall
ferred from the state capitol yes terday to the Burleigh county jail where Manager C. J. Meyers is serving a 60-day sentence for drunken driving, Meyers—equipped with typewriter, desk and the services of two stenographers — was handling all the department's business. in an upstairs cell. Denled a Telephone He is awaiting outcome of a request for an order to show cause why his sentence shbuld not be suspended. A hearing bg the order will be made in court on-Thursday. Denied a telephone in his\cell, Meyers contacts with departm ! officials personally. : Deputy Sheriff Walter M. Thompson, the jeailor, said: “I have worn my legs off running up and down three flights of stairs to admit callers during the past two days.” ‘Meyers refused to discuss his situation other than to say he found it necessary to conduct the business of his office in jail because. of an influx of recent. hail losses. May Go to Higher Court “My case is still pending in court and .I have nothing to say regard-
By SHERLEY. UHL VER visited the Ceno--taph? Thousands of Indianapolis citizens pass by it daily. But relatively few know it
bx name. Probably no-other municipal landmark is so ene shrouded in misconceptions. The Cenotaph is-the huge black granite tomb lying in a sunken arden at the extreme north end f the World War Memorial mall. Its location, called “Cenotaph square,” is: to the east of and behind American Legion national headquarters at Meridian and St. Clair sts. » » »
jet ‘black shafts, also of Vermont granite, crowned by bronze, goldplated American eagles. Pine shrubbery, elm trees and -privet hedges surround the shrine, Towering over all is an 86-foot.
July 4th Symbol—Our Sacred Shrine,
FROM its four corners rise four
ThesCenotaph itself is a tomb in
the Seman
An impressive July 4th scene is Cenotaph square viewed from: St. Clair st, Jooking south way the obelisk and the World War Memorial,
BOMB-BLASTED JAPAN SLASHES FOOD RATIONS
10 Per Cent Reported as Mighty July 4th B-29 Force Hits 4 Cities.
By UNITED PRESS Japan—beset by air bombings and submarine attacks which have ravaged her air and water transport and upset her distribution systems —has announced a 10 per cent
tive until season. Meanwhile, four Japanese industrial cities were rocked by 3000 tons of fire bombs in a 450-to-500-plane B-29 Independence day raid.
the October harvest
division have stormed and captured into Balikpapan,
by United Press in ‘San Francisco said the«fall of Balikpapan is immi-
at the front.) The Australians under Gen. + Douglas MacArthur already had 1 seized two major airfields near Balikpapan, Australian reports said.
StilwellSees Victory Soon
0th army on Okinawa that he hoped the next Fourth of July would see the end of the Pacific war. The issue is no longer. in doubt and “the harder we pour it on now the sooner we'll ‘all go home,” he told the conquerors of the airbase island. Four = Superfortress task - forces swarmed over. Japan to provide American airmen with probably the biggest fireworks display of this Fourth. They hit Kochi, Tokushima and Takamatsu on Shikoku island and Himeji, Honshu island seaport. It was the first time the four war cen-
cut in staple food rations .effec-
And troops of the Australian Tth the last ridge barring their way
(An Australian broadcast recorded
nent, according to correspondents
“Gen. Joseph W: Stilwell told his i
WASHINGTON, July 4 (U..P.. —Harry L. Hopkins—Iowa harness maker’s son who became one of the world’s most. powerful be-hind-thesscenes figures—resigned from government service yesterday to “take a rest.” In 12 years the ill Hopkins had risen from .obscurity as a social worker to a position of eminence as No. 1 adviser to the late President Roosevelt and confi- ' dante of Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Russian Premier Josef Stalin. = » »
must take a rest,” he said Ima letter to President Truman resigning his post as presidential assistant. Mr. Truman regretfully accepted but added: . “I know that I shall have te; call upon you <n the future—and I hope that you will soon be fully and completely recovered so that you can give me the benefit of your counsel.” | a ” HOPKINS stepped out less than a month after completing one of the most successful of his’ many presidential missions—a troubleshooting expedition to Moscow which paved the. way for the forthcoming Truman « Stalin = Churchill meeting and broke the deadlocked Polish dispute. Mr. Truman credited Hopkins at the time with clearing up the international atmosphere and contributing greatly to the cause of allied unity. Though in poor health at ‘the
TRUMAN SEES EARLY VICTORY
Says Nation Can Be Proud Of European Success. |
WASHINGTON, July 4 (U, P.).— President Truman said last night that on this Fourth of July the nation is entitled to take pride in the victory in Europe and being confident of early victory in the Pacific.
“THE TIME has come when I
Hopkins Quits as President's 'Behind-Weorld-Scénes' Man
Harry Hopkins
time, Hopkins undertook the mission at the President's special request. It was his first and only
assignment for Mr. Truman, but he had gone abroad many. times before as special emissary for the late President Roosevelt—as
lend-lease administrator, matic trouble-shooter,
diplo-
Roosevelt at those meetings.
Mr. Truman’s letter accepting
the resignation was in direct contradiction of reports that circu-
lated after Mr. Roosevelt's death. At the time, it was reported that Hopkins would be eased out of
the new administration.
Capital Sees 'G. I. Joe,’ Pays
Pyle Tribute
WASHINGTON, July 4 (U. PJ). —Newspapermen last night attended a preview of the film, “The Story of G. I. Joe,” following which the medal for merit was
awarded posthumously to Ernie Pyle.
The medal was presented to Mrs. Geraldine Pyle, his widow, by Gen. Jacob ‘L. Devers, Marine
advance man to arrange for big three meetings and as adviser to Mr.
LOCAL FATHER SLAYS SON, 37, IN FAMILY ROW
Victim Had Been Banned From Home; Returns, Dies In Struggle.
«I didn’t want to kill him but I had to.”
Thus a 70-year-old Indiane apolis father calmly explained to detectives last night why he fired a bullet through the heart of his son, 37. The father is William Sullivan, of 1629 Barth ave. The son was Fred, who according to his parents had been drinking heavily ff recent weeks and three weeks ago was placed under a peace bond in which he agreed to stay away from home, Fred was shot to death instantly as he and his father struggled for
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revolver on the floor of a gMhss-ene closed back porch of the white bune galow on Barth ave. Hear Banging on Door . . Mr. Sullivan told detectives thas he and his wife, Minnie, had ree tired. About midnight they heard someone bang the front door. Fred shouted, “Mother, mother.” Mrs. Sullivan got up to open the door. Mr. Sullivan shouted, “Don't unlock it.” From the porch they heard Fred cry, “Unlock it or I'll tear it down.” = As Mrs, Sullivan unlocked the door, Fred reportedly jerked open the screen and rushed in toward Mr. Sullivan, who had taken his revolver from underneath a pillow and was standing in the hall behind his wife, “I'll fix you,” the parents ree ported Fred as shouting, adding an oath. Mr. Sullivan retreated to the back porch, reached for a weed digger, failed to grasp it but grabbed a bamboo pole used for & clothes prop. ; He parried one lunge, then Fred pushed the prop aside and grappled with his father, They fell to the
Be of the 32-caliber death
¥ memoriam to the nation’s World Gen. A. A. Vandergrift, and Rear |floor. < Admiral Harold B. Miller for the army, navy and State departments. The presentation followed the press premier of the film at the Palace theater. s ” x PRESIDENT runan in a letter to Mrs, Pylé expressed his “profound admiration” ‘of the columnist’s . work. >» “Ernie Pyle’ typifies" the hundreds of correspondents who have braved extreme danger, many of them losing their lives as he did, so that the free world could be fully informed of the war, he wrote. The President's letter was read by Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn (D. Tex.). » » »
ing the situation which might . jeopardize. my case with the judge.” Meyers was sentenced by Judge R. G. McFarland on Feb. 23, 1944, and since then the case has twice been- in the state supreme court. Last week, Meyers was ordered to serve his sentence. Meyers’ attorney, J. K. Murray of Bismarck, said if he fails to get a suspended sentence for his client next Thursday, he would carry the case to the United States supreme court. According to Meyers, an additional burden has been thrust upon " his department in that Insurance Commissioner Oscar E. Erickson was taken to the hospital today for a major operation. Reports Each Morning Meyers was permitted by the court to go home nights; but must report back to the jailhouse each morning at 9 o'cl6ék for his daily
ters had been hit. Thousands of fire bombs spread fires through the tinder box cities. Returning pilots said the flames converged. into “general conflagrations.”
7th Raid in 8 Days
It wa$ the seventh raid in eight days by the giant bombers. A total of 117 square miles of -18 Japanese cities have been burned out by B-29's since last March and reports still are not complete on results of strikes on nie other cities, including the latest four. The attack carried the air offensive against Japan into the 29th consecutive day. Tokyo said about 100 other planes had attacked air bases on southern Kyushu. Enemy broadcasts recorded by the FCC. said the Japanese food cut was approved by the Japanese cabinet: of Premier Kantaro Suzuki after a report by Tadaatsu Ishiguro, agriculture and commerce minister.
flag pole from which Old Glory flies from sunup to sundown every day. Many local residents refer to
“In this year of 1945,” he said in an Independence. day statement, “we. have ‘pride in the combined might of this nation which has contributed signally to the defeat of the enemy in Europe. “We have confidence that, under providence, we soon may crush the enemy in the Pacific, “We have humility for the guidance that has been given us of God.” This year, he said, the mén and women of the armed forces are celebrating the anniversary of Independence day in‘other countries. “Here at home,” he said, “let us honor our nation’s creed of liberty, and the men and women of our armed forces who are carrying this creed with them throughout the
world.” & EE _ THE CITATION accompanying SHERIDAN MAN KILLED | “the medal said that Pyle served Ora Leap, 55, R. R. 3, Sheridan, 285 “a vital link between the | was killed ifistantly last night when| fighting men and his home,” and
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Mr. Sullivan, losing ground im the struggle, said he managed to shove Pred away long enough to aim the gun and pull the trigger. Detectives Harold Goodman and Stewart Coleman found one carte ridge in the gun fired, three une . | fired and a live cartridge on the | floor of thé porch. It the ‘son's hand were three keys, one of them for the front door of the Sullivan home. Mr. and Mrs. Sullivan told police that Fred had been drinking last night. They had asked for a peace bond after they said Fred had threatened his father: on numerous occasions. Following the shooting, Mr. Sullie van ran across the street to the Home of Normal Holleroft, 1626 Barth ave. and asked Mr. Hollcrof$ to call police. Mr. Sullivan, who drove a Polk
The crypt's general dedication is inscribed on its north -and south sides: “A tribute by Ine “diana to the hallowed memory .of the glorious dead who served in the World War.”
Shortly after its erection, how- : ever, the American Legion and
granite floor of the cenotaph are six vaults. All are empty, The the raised crypt as “the Indiana tomb is empty and has been since unknown soldiers’ tomb.” Others its construction in 1932. o think the body of the first Yank a. ® killed in world war 1, Cpl. James - AS A matter of fact, Websters’ ~ B. Gresham of Evansville, reposes dictionary defines a cenotaph as there. “an empty tomb ‘or monument ~ Neither assumption is correct. erected in honor of a person who Beneath the red and dark green is buried elsewhere.”
GOP ASKS VOTE FOR Hitler Not Eva's 90-DAY SERV SERVICEMEN| ‘Real Romance
LONDON, July 4 (U. P)— Form: League to que to AidSG. 1's
Evd Braun, Adolf Hitler's mistress, held out on the fuehrer As State Heads Meet. CHICAGO, July 4 (U. P.)—For-
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POLAND PLEDGES FREE ELECTIONS
Clears Day for Recognition By U. S., Britain.
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stint behind the bars. The unprecedented situation was cgtill further muddled by the fact that Attorney General Nels Johnson held in an opinion that Meyers had no right to hold his office and State Treasurer Otto Krueger has refused to pay his salary. Meyers was discharged from office by- Acting Insurance Commissioner 8. “A. Olsness last March during the impeachment trial of the regular commissioner, Oscar E. Erickson, Erickson—who was subsequently cleared of charges of high crime end. ‘misdemeanor in office and was reinstead as commissioner of insursummoned Meyers to resume his post.
CHILD, 4, KILLED BY AUTO
Meredith Kay Fadley, 4, of Sulphur Springs, died of a fractured skull last night two Sons after he was struck by an automobile on U. 8. road: 36 near Sulphur Springs. L. E. Grady of New Castle was the driver of the car, state police reported.
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mation of a Republican veteran committee for the 1946 congressional elections, with a program
asking that the franchise be extended to all world war II veterans with 90' days in the armed forces, was announced today. It came at the close of a two-day regional meeting of G. O. P. state chairmen and vice chairmen. Organization of the new league, to be headed by Warren H. Atherton, former national commander of the American, Legion, was worked out at a separate meeting of G. O. P. veterans representatives from 26 states. Herbert Brownell Jr., Republican national committee chairman who presided at the . Midwest regional meeting, said the natiofial ,committee would work closely with the new league in forthcoming political campaigns. The league ‘will have a national organization with state leagues set up under auspices of each state G. O,. P. organization. A national executive committee will be composed of‘ one delegate from each state and the national officers. The league adopted a platform asserting that the Republican party “is the traditional friend of the veteran and it demands prompt, efficient “and liberal administration of the G. I. bill and all other laws to aid veterans and their Gepends ents.
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the American occupied zone of Germany. - . Eva's partner in what might be called one of the riskiest ro mances of modern time was on the staff of an SS general and they met secretly at Eva's villa near Berchtesgaden, according to informants. A close friend of Eva said that she did not regard herself as particularly unfaithful because Hitler was so impressed in other matters that he rarely had time or inclination for courtship,
HOOSIERS PREPARED FOR WARTIME 4TH
~-Mijld temperatures and sunny skies were forecast for Indiana as Hoosiers prepared to celebrate Independence day. A Despite the shortages of gasoline, meat and tobacco and a total absence of fireworks except for authorized public displays, war work ers, homémakers and® servicemen were expested to flock to the country and to public parks. In the. state capital a capacity crowd was expected at the Butler Bowl at 7 p. m. for the Fourth of July - fireworks show and parade sponsored by the Sahara Grotto, State police and local officials expected a high accident toll -oyer as those -who oud get
new Polish government in Warsaw has accepted the Yalta pledge of “free and unfettered elections,” thus clearing the way for its recognition by the United States and Great Britain, the foreign office spokesman announced last night. Official recognition of the Polish government By U. S. and Britain is expected shortly, probably sometime this week. Absence of a Polish pledge for free elections with secret ballot had been the only barrier to recognition. The foreign office spokesnian said the Polish government's blanket pledge tb accept and abide by the Yalta decisions furnished ample “implication” that the new government* was prepared to hold such elections. Recognition of the London Polish government is expected to be withdrawn in the next few days. Meantime, B. B. C. heard a Lublin radio report of a mass withdrawal of Soviet troops from Poland and Germany. The Lublin report said all Soviet soldiers had left Warsaw, Cracow ‘and other large Polish
‘centers.
TORNADO HITS N. D.,
"DAMAGE IS SLIGHT|®
“HURON, N. D.,; July 4 (U. P).—
A series of electrical storms which
started in mid-afternoon « fn the northwestern portion. of Minnesota,
Following the cabinet meeting,
Then
Suzuki was received’ by Emperor Hirohito for a report on administration.” heard Ishiguro tell about “matters under his jurisdiction”—presumably the food situation.
“geheral Hirohito
As if reluctant to talk about the
prospect of further belt-tightening by millions of Japanese—who have | been living none- to well by any |r? Leon Dillon, 17, ¥. M. C. A, into an’ alley in tHe "1100 block on Mar- | (Continued on “Page 7—Column 5) ‘lowe ave;;
he walked around a parked: truck into the path of an automobile one mile south of Sheridan on the Mule Barn road: The driver of the car was Fern Keesling, R. R: 1, Westfield, Ind.
ROBBED OF SHOES
| A thug who apparently lacked ration stamps last night dragged Rob-
stole his-shoes-and-$8.
that he distinguished himself by exceptionally meritorious conduct in performance of ‘outstanding
services as war correspondent.
It said he was a “soldier without armor” who will “live in the hearts: of servicemen the world
over as a comrade and friend.
; #8 THE PROGRAM
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July 4th Thought— World Destruction
By Man Himself Is Still a Real Danger!
By WILLIAM H. STONEMAN Times Foreign Correspondent LONDON, July 4.—Scientific developments, which may transform the entire world’s mode of living and drastically alter the present scheme of human relaHonahiss, are still being concealed from the public on the grounds of military security. "Occasionally a slip by some newspaper has given a faint clue to what is going on. That happened the other day when the London Sunday Express Teported an off-the-record remark made by Herbert Agar, special assistant tp the United- ‘ States’ ambassador, to students of Clifton college in Bristol.
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feared that the Germans would employ atomic energy before they were able to_control it properly and that a world catastrophe might, have resulted. The implications of the casual little story. printed in the Sunday Express wére overlooked by the genThey were not overlooked by anybody who is interested, himself, in the subject. © These - implications are 50 enormous that the the entire world will have to’ start adjusting its
First and foremost is the implication that if the " Germans were that far along, the “end of the world” was a definite possibility—and that the destruction of the world by nfén himself is still a
From’ this “arises the further implication that in due course war will really be too ‘terrible for any government to contemplate and that violence will
. Navies and air Yoroes would be as outmoded as
honoring Pyle was sponsored by the National Press club for the Ernie
Milk Co. truck for 22 years, but re= tired three years ago, was booked - at police station on a charge of vagriancy during the investigation of the slaying. : Fred, who had been working ad the Vonnegut Hardware Co, was one of six Sullivan children. There are two other sons, William. of Richmond and Edward in the Sea bees, and three daughters, Mrs: V. R, Corrigan, with whom Fred lived, | Mrs. John Remmetter and Mrs, Charles Thoren. =
SHERIFF MINUS SUIT DONS PICKLE BARREL
ROCKFORD, 111, July 4 (U. P.).—= Sheriff Kirk S. King squeezed out of his pickle barrel yesterday into a size 52 suit. The 300-pound sheriff—plagued by a. shortage of king-sized haber dashery—had sent his only summer suit to the ‘cleaners. He wedged himself into the barrel and stalked into the local OPA’ office. The OPA couldn't do a thing for him. But a local department store phoned to say it had one—but only one-size 52 suit in stock. King paid cash on the line, donned the sult and rolled out, of the barrel.
DANE ROBBER SENTENCED
NEW ALBANY, July 4 Ww. PY ~Leonard Jacobs, 26, began a 10