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ries PRICE EVE CENTS

$2 MEDALLION FLOURISHES ON WAR EMOTIONS

A Price—To Kin of -Service Dead.

By SHERLEY UHL " V-D day and the resultant shortening of war casualty lists brought a slight business recessidn to Irvin 8. Thorpe’s “Purple Cross Memorials” at 10 W, Ohio st.

But Mr, Thorpe is carrying on. He'll probably carry on as long as Yank soldiers, sallors and marines are killed—as long as surviving parents, wives and sweet-

hearts, emotionally distraught, are prey to super sales talks. of Indianapolis is national head‘ ata quarters for Mr. Thorpe's epler- Ernie Pyle prise, typical of war-born experi- by ments in pins and buttons everywhere. Sculptor ‘Decoration’—for a Price Jo Davidson From its dingy, two-room office will be here, “Purple Cross Memorials” dise : penses its own peculiar brand ol given to “civilian decoration” to anyone . Indiana

willing to pay the price, namely $2.

Its stock-in-trade, “Purple university Crosses,” are small, cross-shaped ; . medallions, embossed with gold- at tonight's plated stars. Fomiore Better Business Bureaus here premier and elsewhere have charged Mr. at Loew's. Thorpe with striving to represent his “Purple Cross” as a civilian The figure adjunct of the Purple Heart. was made Bulk of the “Purple Cross” busi- : ness is by mail to bereaved sur- during vivors of dead servicemen. Mr, Ernie's Thorpe says he does business

throughout the United States. No Official Standing

This isn't difficult to believe. Better Business Bureaus from widely separated cities—from Nebraska to

By FREDERICK C. OTHMAN United Press Staft Correspondent WASHINGTON, July 6—Leét's

get_straight now on the fact

that

it isn't me comparing two con-

gressmen

to Tom Cats—who

should be held up by their tails, face to face, until-they lose all

their fur and so make peace.

I wouldn't write such a thing

about the gentleman from Mississippl, ‘Rep. John E. Rankin. Nor would I say it about his colleague from Georgia, Rep. Malcolm 'C. Tarver. It took Rep. Eugene Cox, also of Georgia, to suggest the “Tom Cat Treatment” for ‘his fellow statesmen. No telling what was wrong with the boys. The heat, maybe.

Bronze Tribute To Pyle

* This life-size bronze bust

last visit mn the states.

New York—have investigated this flourishing little. craft that capi-

| talizes on war grief.

to the Purple Heart. noon

From New York, an official of the Military Order of the Purple Heart | wrote the local Better Business bureau that Mr. Thorpe's advertis- | ing circular would “from all appearances , . . give someone the impression that they have received

Thre= Boys Suffer Burns

Producing Own Fireworks

Homemade fireworks near the tank of an abandoned truck brought

near tragedy to three Indianapolis schoolboys yesterday. One of the boys, Kenneth Childers, 11, of 2017 N. Sherman dr.,

the Purple Heart posthumously and that this is something extra special i fair that they should have. . Indi-| Two others, Jimmy Selfe, 11, viduals who have received them in| cnambers, 12, of 3840 E. 30th st. the East are under the impression | are recovering from minor burns. they are getting something having, panned from buying firecracksomething to do with the Purple org py state law and war restricHeart.” | tions, the boys yesterday set out Mr. Thorpe’s “Purple Cross™ has, t, make their own noise prono war or navy department stand-| gycers after learning the trick ing. It is in no way supplementary from an older companion. THEY purchased a 5-cent box of matches at a corner drug store | —none was allowed by his parents to have matches—and found some bolts and nuts. They had learned earlier that matches placed betwen the nuts

Issues E: planation The Bureau of Naval Personnel] saw fit to issue an explanation of this fact. The Better Business Bureau was already aware of it. Toner Overley, manager of the Indianapolis Better Business Bureau, advised Mr. Thorpe about| and-bolts will create an explosion | possible “unethical” features of his, when hurled to the ground. trade as. early as June, 1944, At) # = = that time, Thorpe had been bally-| WHILE trying out the sport at hooing the “Purple Cross” as ‘a; a vacant lot at 30th st. and Sher“recognized companion piece to the man dr, young Childers ignited | Purple Heart.” {| one of the matches neat an | At © Mr. Overley's request, Mr. | abandoned track. Fumeés from | Thorpe modified this description | the tank exploded, injuring the to read: “An- appropriate we | boys. . ion piece to the Purple Heart.” Mr. Thorpe is a balding, oo

tacled little man, a former noel WARNS U.S, AGENCIES clerk. He contacts his sales prospects—the relatives of service cas- T0 PROTECT FUNDS

ualties—with a “sympathetic” form dile tears—then says, $2 please.” -—r |

letter which, in effect, sheds croco-

Has Lincoln Message ‘Truman Intends to Stop Among other things, the form let- | : : ter contains Lincoln's immortal | Any Mishandling.

message to Mrs. Bixby of Boston,

is mn City hospital today, with head and arm burns;

His condition

and Merlin |

of 3605 E. 30th st, if

CAPEHART URGES SENATE OPA PROBE

Cites GrWing Dissatisfaction With Policies.

By DANIEL M. KIDNEY Times Staff Writer * WASHINGTON, July 6.—Senator | Capehart (R. Ind.) today introduced a resolution to have a five- | member ‘special senate committee investigate and aid OPA in setting prices. He was joined in the move by Senator Tydings (D. Md.) and rec (ports it has widespread senatorial support. In presenting his plan, Senator Capehart said he did so because ou the hundreds of letters every senator has received complaining about |OPA pricing policies. They have

{war correspondent, Ernie Pyle, will 'ne paid solemn tribute today by his

| American Legion, band and the military vehicles of

Rep. Tarver said he'd engaged in a colloquy-—that’s the word he used—the other day .with - Rep. Rankin about rural electrification. Imagine his surprise, Rep. . Tarver said, to read in the Congressional Record the next day something that never was said on the floor. He said Rep. Rankin revised his own answers in print, so that

PAY MEMORIAL |°2 TRIBUTE TODAY,

T0 ERNE PYLE

they didn’t fit Rep. Tarver’s questions—thereby making the gentleman from Georgia look foolish. Rep. Tarver demanded that the Record be corrected. Rankin said he'd be domgoried’ if hé'd submit his literary compositions to Tarver censorship. This went on for an hour and a half, - whil» the Republicans chortled. Other métters of im-

BORROWED TIME—

oral Jim “Stil Fighting Death Verdict

FT. WORTH, Tex. July 6 (U. ).—They bought new ribbons

| and new chevrons today for Cpl. |

Parade, Concert-and Dinner Precede Premiere of + Film Tonight.

The memory of the doughboys’

thousands of Indianapelis admirers. Officially proclaimed Ernie Pyle day by Governor Gates. the observance began with a colorful military parade at noon and will be climaxed by the world premiere of Ernie's picture, “Story of G. I. Joe.” at Loew's theater tonight. Ernie's father, William C. Pyle, and the well-known Aunt Mary, Mrs. Mary Bales, and their neighbor, Mrs. Ella Goforth, Dana, his home town, led the parade which was witnessed by large noonday crowds. Respectful Hush There were several cheers for these beloved ones of the worldfamed correspondent. And later, as the G. I's Ernie wrote about paraded by, the tribute of a respectful hush fell over the crowd. Under the command of Brig. Gen Elmer W. Sherwood, adjutant general of Indiana, -the paraders included a battalion of military. police from Camp Atterbury, the famed 200th. army ground forces band, .the 3d and 4th infantry of the Indiana State Guard, massed | colors of the 11th district of the the Ft. Harrison

the state guard and Camp Atterbury, Concert at Circle ° .. Lester Cowan, producer of the film, was expected to arrive at Stout | field this afternoon. His plane was delayed en route. From 1 to 3 p. m. the 200th army ground forces and the 342d in{fantry bands presented a band concert on the steps of the Circle monument, Honcred guests and members of the Indianapolis Press club will attend a reception in the club at 4 p. m. and a dinner for special guests will be held at 6 p. m. in the Claypool hotel, = Among the distinguished " duests will be Pfc. Anthony J. DeVincent, who was selected as a typical G.1 |Joe to represent the men Ernie

all from|:

Jim Newman—the soldier who is living on borrowed time—so | he'll be in proper uniform when

he gets out of bed and strolls down his hometown streets again. The decorations—six of them | authorized by the army for the boy who fought on Bataan, spent three years in a Jap prison.camp and then came home to die as a 92-pound doomed man—will be pinffed on a new uniform for | Cpl. Jim. ” n n IF HE lives to wear it, the two stripes of a corporal will be | strange to him. i He got the promotion after his | liberation from the Jap camp on Luzon. : Still very much alive and still, cocky in the face of a medical verdict he is dying, the soldier awoke today and resumed his eager reading of the fan mail and telegrams pouring in from all over America. ’ ° 8 » 2 THE RIBBONS were a gift from the corporal’s brother, E. L. Newman. of Houston. " Among them are the American defense ribbon with one star; the Philippine defense ribbon, the Philippine liberation ribbon, the presidential citation badge and | the combat infantryman’s badge. | Mrs. “O. FP Newman said the | fan mail—a source of amazement to Jim—is helping her son to get well. That and his daily prayers. As for Jim, he announced today he'll use part of his back pay to buy his mother some new furniture “when I get out of this bed.” ce 2 » nn ¥ THE NO. 1 fan letter today came from Governor Coke R. Stevenson of Texas. There were others, from New York, California, Florida and other states. But the Newmans plan toffame “the governor's message. “It is due to the courage and spirit you are exhibiting that we are winning the war,” the governor said. “It encourages all of us to feel that this war is not being fought in vain.”

” ” » “JIM FEELS right pert today,” the mother told-reporters. “And

CARGO MODEL

portance waited as the Messrs. Rankin and tarver waved their arms, shouted and grew red in the face. Rep. Cox took advantage of. a- momentary lull to say: “1 wish the gentlemen would find it pleasing to themselves to consider Some cats we used to have in Georgia, “We had two old, er, boy cats

OF B:29 HERE ON TRIAL SPI

Flying Boxcar Is ‘Large Enough to Hold a Bowling Alley.

The plane of the future today | flies” over Indianapolis. It is the giant C-97, the army 's | cargo - version of the B-29 which | now is creating so much havoc over | Japan. The cargo_plane is at Stout field on a test hop from Wright field. {This morning army - officials and | Inewspapermen flew over the city of Indianapolis in a trial spin.

and the only way we could solve their controversies was to hold ‘em up by their tails and put them face to face. “In this way they lost all their

" hair—but they "eventually com‘posed their differences.

That is I now suggest for. the from Georgia and

what gentlemen Mississippi.” Messrs.

Rankin and Tarver

For Caterwauling Congressmen, Try Georgia T rentment

each other to program,

were too sore at consider Rep. Cox's They ignored him. The. louder they fought, the more the Republicans laughed: Eventually, Senator Arthur H. Vandenburg of Michigan dropped in to observe the fray. Rep. Clarence Brown of Ohio

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DAILY BLASTS REDUCING JAP POWER IN AIR

Yanks Increase Pounding of Enemy Bases With Double Strike on J3lst Straight Day of Raids.

By WILLIAM F. TYREE United Press Staff Correspondent

GUAM, July 6.—Upward

s of 250 American warplanes

carried out another double strike on the Tokyo area and

| Japanese suicide plane bases

on Kyushu today in the 31st

Maj. E. C. Trees, Linworth, O., a oonsecutive day of attack on the wnemy homeland. The fresh strike came as photographic reconnaissance is Capt.. L. A. Covelle, Stillwater,/showed that B-29 attacks since June 26 have raised to 120

veteran’ four-engine pilot, is in| charge of the plane. His co-pilot |

» | Okla.

The “fying boxcar” has a

twice as large as the B-29, Two Stories High

The layman would say that the plane is two stories high. Divided horizontally it has two decks, both of them with available space for cargo.

The upper deck isylong enough and wide enough to accommodate a bowling alley. Its overall capacity is approximately 10,000 cubic feet. It

{is 110 feet long with the highest

point of the plane, at the rudder. reaching 29 feet into the air. In the nose the pilot is more than 12 feet from theSrouny. Beneath the tail of the plane are bomb bay type doors which are opened by motor to drop a folded loading ramp large enough to handle a two and a half ton truck. Flies 340 Miles an Hour The capacity of the plane can be understood better when it is known that 10 C-87's can haul as many cases as seven navy hospital boats. Powered by four 3500 horsepower Wright engines, the plane has a cruising speed of 340 miles per hour and an operating range of 3500 miles with ample fuel reserves. “The plane flies nicely at 35,000 feet, but its best operating height is between 20,000 and 25,000,” Maj. Trees said.

Rides Like Easy Chair

“The plane we are flying.is purely a test model. It has been in exist ence for about a month. Naturally

of course he’s going to get well.” But doctors said it would be a |

wrote about, and his friend, Miss

Thiderview Guests

Burgess Meredith, star “of the, film, and his actress wife, Paulette Goddard, will not be in Indian"apolis for the premiere tonight, In the roped-off area near Loew's theater, the scene of the premiere, guests: will be interviewed and the program will. be’ broadcast begin-

been set, in many instances, so as|MiNg at 8:15 p.m.

to wipe out profits, he contended. | “This is not a witch-hunt nor an|

attempt to embarrass the administration,” the senator said.

“It certainly is mot interitled to { be political.

It is not intended to

who lost five sons in the Civil war,| WASHINGTON, July 6 (U. P.).— cripple or in any ‘way eliminate “Doubtless,” says Mr, Thorpe | President Truman today ordered all| |OPA.” letter, “a considerable degree of|federal agencies to review eXpendis] The primary purpose is to make|

comfort can be derived from the|turés in ‘any instances where there pride that must be yours in having|ls “the slightest ground to- suspect either misuse or careless handling ot (Continued on Page 3—Column 4) | government funds.”

He sent government agency and

OLD SOL WILL COME | department chiefs a special memo- |

AND GO FOR FEW DAYS | randum underscoring his determinaOld Sol will continue to play hide and seek with Hoosiers the next five days, going behind rain clouds and out again, The U, 8. weather bureau today predicted warm weather this weekend and sporadic-rising and falling of the mercury the next three days. Temperatures will average below normal. Cooler weather and scattered thundershowers are predicted for Monday.

eral money. There has been “little evidence of abuse” so far, the President said. But he noted. that expenditures are at unprecedented levels and that many officials are charged with dis- | bursement of these funds.

DISCHARGE RACKET

LOCAL TEMPERATURES t

INVOLVES. OFFICERS

3 ross,” the. 1st air force sid the

OPA work better, he said. Says Group Will Aid “The committee will aid in estab=

{lishing a price-fixing policy that

will encourage employers, farmers and producers,” Senator Capehart continued. “It-will encourage them

{more — thereby creating more jobs | It will help establish peace - time | prosperity. In closing his speech, Senator | Capehart listed 10 points to be in-

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‘BOY, 3, VICTIM OF | TRICYCLE ‘BANDIT

Little Davey Jones, 2135 Station st., not quite three years old, was reported today to be the vim. of tricycle theft,

The stage program will begin at :30 Pp. m. A bronze bust of Ernie

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BOTH. SIDES CLAIM

miracle if he lives until night- | fall |

WLB IS DEFIED BY NEWSPAPER STRIKERS

NEW YORK] “July 6 (U. P)— The strike of the Newspaper and Mail Deliverers’ Union, which has tied up distribution of New York newspapers with a combined | circulation of more than 8,000,000 | continued today in defiance of a war labor board order that it end |

Picketing was resumed at the four |

deadline. Six pickets were at the | Journal-American plant, four at the | Post, four ‘at the World- Telegram | and two at the Sun. Picketing of |

BRITISH ELECTION

Ballots Won't Be Counted

Until July 26.

LONDON, July 6 (U. P.) .—Both

tion to prevent mishandling of fed-|to manufacture, produce and grow sides claimed victory today in Brit-

|ain's record-busting general election on which Prime Minister Churchill's political fate hung, but nobody could say for sure what | happened until the votes are. counted July 26 | Close to 26,500,000 votes were’ cast lin a generally quiet day, some observers estimated. That figure would be more than 4,500,000 more votes than in any previous election. The morning papers let their political consciences dictate their |stories on the ‘election. The La- | borite Daily Herald predicted the | Conservatives would lose “at least 100 seats.” If they did, Churchill's government would be out. Lord Beaverbrook’s Conservative Daily Express, on the other hand, said the government would gain. a 60 to 90 per cent mhjority,

morning newspapers continued.

at 10 a. m. |

New York evening newspapers. in-| volved shortly after the 10 & ‘m. | nor- -general of Canada ' ‘should the]

{these early planes cost a lot more, approximately a million dollars.

» LJ "

a { foot wing span with a rene IRONY OF WAR—

Destroyer Due To Start Home Sunk by Japs

By EDWARD L. THOMAS nited Press Staff Correspondent A NAVAL HOSPITAL, Guam, July 6.—A Japanese kamikaze plane sent a torpedo into the bow of the~destroyer U. 8. S. Twigg, then turned and made a suicide dive into“the ship's stern, survivors said today.

veteran of 13 months of some of the Pacific's toughest naval campaigns, sank 35 minutes after the attack off Okinawa. » » » IRONICALLY, the Twigg sank only a few hours before she was scheduled to begin a trip to the United States for overhaul. Lt. James H. Black, 23, Hugo, Okla. executive officer of the ship, said he ‘was on the bridge of the- destroyer talking to Cmdr. George Phipp Jr, her skipper. They were chatting, Black said, about the “wonderful news” received that afternoon that their, ship was going home when. he heard the roar of an airplane engine and dashed for the pilot house.

» » 8 “IT WAS the last I saw of the skipper,” Black said. “He never:

|When they get into -mass production the cost probably will drop to! around $400,000.”

The plane is. now-being tested at Stout field ‘to determine whether | it will be suitable for troop carrier | command purposes. ~The plane is pressurized so that

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WINDSOR WOULD LIKE. ‘TO SERVE IN CANADA

BOSTON, July 6 (U. PJ.—The| { Duke of Windsor says he would like the idea of becoming gover-

| opportunity comé to me.’ The duke and his wife arrived) | here last night en route to | Brunswick for a week of gw fishing.

Statehouse Picket Protests

‘World's Bigge

Howard Goar, self-styled antigambling crusader from Muncie, picketed the statehouse again to-|

lin the world.’ These games, he alleges, are operated in Muncie. Mr. Goar is against that. He also has many unfavorable things to'say about card playipg and slot machines. pastimes too can be found, Muncie for the nounces. As a matter of fact, Goar implied in no uncertain language

Monte Carlo is to Europe. Goar was circling the statehouse today in ‘a truck on’ which are painted proclamations taking city | and state officials to task. Implied charges are efblazohed n red and

These | in| For a couple of years these officers looking., he an- {have been ignoring Goar and his, |one-ton truck sorties against the |

st Dice Games

black across the truck's canvas | sides. Goar says he wants somebody to do something.

day. HES protesting what——he | He..said two other trucks were c..ang Neal, 1130 Oliver st, Muncie for the. looking, he an-|wending in and out of neighbor- Okinawa.

He wants Indiansomething about

'hood districts. japolis to do | Muncie. “I hope they try to arrest me” said Goar. ? He referred to the state police.

|statehouse. In 1943, Goar picketed [the capitol in much the same fash-

that Muncie is to the U, 8. what lion, criticizing thé then Governor |

{Schricker for the same things he now holds Gates responsible for. At that time, nothing apparently |

alleged

Indianapolis or Muncie,

had a chance to tell the créw the good news. - Everything went | black. When I came to,the ship |swas just a twisted” mass of wreckage forward of the bridge | and a fire was raging aft.” Black: is being treated at this hospital. . He said that after the blast he found he was sitting on top of

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Hoosier Heroes—

LOCAL SEAMAN DIES

IN OKINAWA BATTLE

Barney Neal Killed Aboard

Bunker Hill.

square miles-the total of Jap anese urban areas burned out

by the Superforts. Japanese broadcasts said 90 Iwoe . based Mustang fighters.and a lone Superfortress raided a chain of fighter stations surrounding Tokyo at mid-day. Shortly afterward, waves of Mustang and Thunderbolt fighters, 160 strong, struck from Okinawa at the Kamikazi flelds in soythern Kyushu. i The enemy broadcasts gave no word on the results of the Tokyo attack. but claimed that bad weather forced the Kyushu raiders to turn back without hitting their

‘| targets, The plucky little “tin-can,” a |.

More Bad News

The Iwo-baséd raid was the third straight blow at the Tokyo area, Striking in across the east coas§

up airflelds and other military installations in Chiba, Irabaki and Saitama prefectures, east, north and west of Tokyo. The news agency said nine Su= perfortresses were over east central Honshu, including. Tokyo, earlier today, apparently reconnoitering for another heavy B-29 assault on the Japanese main island. More bad news was building up for the harassed Japanese on Okinawa, where it was revealed that aerial reinforcements from Gen. Douglas MacArthur's Southe west Pacific command were arrive ing to join the central Pacific aie fleets in the knockout bombarde ‘ment of Japan.

Based on Okinawa

. MacArthur reveaied that ~[ustang {fighters of the U. S. 5th air force struck the Japanese home island jof Kyushu on Tuesday, only 38 {hours after moving into their new | forward bases on Okinawa. He indicated that elements of the 13th air force also were on the way northward for the pre-invasion {bombing of Japan, making a total {of four army air forces already poised on the southern and southe eastern approaches of the enemy homeland. . The mounting” fury of the ; “re {ican air attack was beginning to tell on Japan's. shrinking sea and air power. Another 19 enemy ships were sunk jor damaged by Yank fliers Wednese (day and Thursday, six off China and Korea and 13 off eastern Honolulu, swelling Japan's shipping + [losses to 268 vessels in 12 days. Upwards of 100 Iwo-based fight

Another Indianapolis seaman died '®TS raked the Tokyo area for a full . I aboard the U. 8. 8. Bunker Hill in

hour yesterday without drawing a challenge from the strangely - de=

the battle for Okinawa and seven gurted enemy air fields criss-crossing local men have been wounded in the area.

the Pacific. KILLED Aviation

WOUNDED T. “ath Gr. James E, Crowe, R. R. 3, Box 431, in the Philippines.

L—-8. Sgt. Eugene H., Stacey, | Belmont ave., on Luzon,

Pvt. Paul P. Speth, 2325 Shelby

st.. on Okinawa.

der, 1101 E. Washington st. Okinawa.

Pfc. Daniel E. Carnes, 416 W. Mc- |

Carty st., on Okinawa.

8S. Sgt.

Governor | | Massachusetts ave,, on Okinawa. Sgt. Ernesto Ferrer, 1226 N. Ox- |I®covery”

| ford st., on Okinawa.

I (Details, Pa Page 15)

happened to Goar, the statehouse,|

Marine Pfc. William Henry Flodon

destroyed: five grounded and damaged 10

| They | Japanese planes

Radioman 3-c Barney others, and sent scores of rockets off slamming into hangars and ghey -

Tair field Thstallations. | Not a single plane was lost on the

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USN py LIS—REPORTED

IMPROVED IN HEALTH

WASHINGTON, July 6 (U. P) — {Former Secretary of State Cordell Hull ended a nine-month stay at Bethesda naval hospital today, ree turning’ home with* his physician's

George L. Brown, 626 approval,

| He has made a “most: satisfactory from the protracted ille ness that fqrced his resignation from the highest cabinet post lass November, the navy announced.

8 x n ees a 10 a m Cees 7 ; Investigators Say Huge Davey, whose father is Machinist Al 1 Ne Sums Were Paid. [Mate Marvin Jones Jr, with the Sam... 74 i HEMPSTEAD. N. Y, sai é-r) [Seabees on Okinawa, parked the v uly vehicle on the sidewalk in front of “1M Lr P.).—First "air force investigators his home yesterday afternoon. ES INDEX at Mitchel Field disclosed today When he returned five minutes : pi that they had discovered a. sol: [later it had been stolen. Amusements.. 8 Jane Jordan.. 17 dier-civilian racket reaping huge ; ~——— Jack Bell .... 11 McNeil ...... 12,5ums from sale of false medical | Business . 13 Ruth Millett. 11 [discharges and transters from out-.| Clano Diary. 11 Movies . ..... g fits alerted for combat duty .overComics ...... 17 Obituaries’... 4 TR and details: lt be > Crossword ... 17 Radio ....... 17 reDavid Dieta. . . 11 Ration Dates, 6 | vealed “later, 1st. air force head- | Guan, ily 6 . P).—A h United States destroyer twice in Editorials ,.. 12 Mrs Roosevelt 11 QUArters said, but the. preliminary 1 Pashiofls .... 15 A. Scherrer... 13 report said two non-medical officers | ercepted a Japanese hospital ship, Forum .......'12 D. Smith... 12 dttached to"the hospital staff of the | €Y2cuating nearly 1000 starving 7 Society 14 15 Mitchell field base were involved, and . sick members of the byAny “Sports han 8 alorig with others. . Passed’ Japanese garrison at Wake x island, and allowed the shi to

7 * parties aboard the Takasago Maru on July 3 and again yesterday, apparently to determine if she

was on a legitimate errand of -

“mercy or merely transporting Japanese troops 1» the homeland “under

JS. Crew Boards But Allows

‘had. picked up its cargo of Jap.anese, believed to be the greater part of the garrison of Wake. = .. The island was seized from the gallant American troops in the early days of the Pacific war, ~The boarding party yesterday found the ship was carrying 974. . from

Jap Hospital Ship To Proceed

toward the enemy homeland. The Murray, the announcement said, ‘was exercising its right -of isit and search provided for under

Murray, a special announcement here said, also

Smerolis ; beseulosis id

navy boat crew and communications personnel, - medical personnel. Presence of the civilians ‘Was not explained in the head‘quarters announcement, a Of .480-navy and 484 army patients, 14 were wounded, 15 were ; remainder

and 189 naval

Tt was estimated that 15 per cent ,of the malnutrition, cases : would not survive the voyage to

of Honshu, the American fliers shod