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A picket dinbeling) in the New York newspaper strike, locks his teeth on the wrist of a boy while
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Two strikers were stabbed
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MAY BE LIFTED
Free Market by January . Is Predicted.
WASHINGTON; July 12 (U. P.).— New passenger cars, which already are jn production, may be rationfree by next January — but mos! Americans probably wont be able to get one for some time afterward. The war production board believes that enough materials will be available during the next two months to allow manufacturers to make more cars than their present quotas. Those call for some 690,000 new cars
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There was no estimate of the exact number of new autos that the industry would be=able-to. make if materials were more plentiful. But Henry P. Nelson, WPB director of reconversion, told a press confer. ence yesterday :that barring unforseen changes In the war situation new cars could be removed from the ration list by January. Until then, essential users such as doctors, law enforcement officers and some war workers will get first call. The. WPB's announcement meant that the lid will be off to buy a new car in January —if you can find one.
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MONTY DECORATES RUSSIAN GENERALS
BERLIN, July 12 (U. P.).—Field Marshal Sir Bernard Montgomery arrived in Berlin today and per-
110 CARS A DAY—
Yanks Making
Volkswagens in
German Plant
NEW YORK, July 12 (U. P). —The army said. today that American engineers have resumed
production of the Volkswagen— a low-priced automobile that Hitler promised to every family in the Reich but delivered only to the Nazi armies. Brig. Gen. Stewart E. Reimel, chief of the New York ordnance district, said the little German car is rolling off the assembly line of the mile-long Volkswagen factory in Kdfstadt, Germany, which was captured by the 9th army. : nn" i UNDER American supervision, German workers are turning out an average of 10 cars a day. Peak production before allied’ bombings and with 20000 Germans on the job was 150 cars a day. Hitler heralded the volkswagen as a car for every German. The people contributed millions of marks toward its production—and dreamed of promised motor tours through conquered lands to the east and west of the Reich. w ®w » BUT the volkswagen ended as a German-style jeep and civilians never got as much as a demonstration, . Gen. Reimel said the car produced under American ordnance supervision will be used under the direction of occupation authorities to relieve transportation probleme,
sonally decorated Marshal Georgi Zhukov with ie Grand Cross of | the Order of B Montgomery a bicd Marshal | Konstantin Rokossovsky with the | Oar ot Haight Commi fiaer i | Bath and. Col. Gen. Mikhail Malinin, Zhukov's chief of staff with the Order of Knight of the British Empire.
SAYS SHE | KIDNAPED
BABY AS SUBSTITUTE!
MARION, Os July 12 (U. P.).— Police said today that Mrs. Ernest Webster, 29, wife of a serviceman overseas, kidnaped tiny Jean Eileen ‘Creviston - as a substitute for an illegitimate child she lost by miscarriage. Police Chief William Marks said Mrs. Webster, held in $20,000 bail on a charge of abduction, confessed yesterday that she was not Mrs. Phyllis Lanman, wife of a .warworker, as she first told police when’ she was arrested Tuesday.
BRADLEY APPROVED WASHINGTON, July 12 (U. P). -The senate finance committee today unanimously approved Presi dent Truman's nomination of Gen. Omar Bradley to he administrator of veterans’ affairs.
PROPOSED TAXICAB ORDINANGE STUDIED
Legion Henews Dewar to License Drivers.
“There's been a lot of buck pass-
{ing on this taxi problem,” Safety
HONOR AMPUTEE, WIFE LOOKS ON
General For Pacific Heroism.
BATTLE CREEK, Mich, July 12 AU. P.).—In a simple bedside ceremony. witnessed only by his, pretty, brunette wife, Jewell, M. Sgt. Fred-
ric Hensel, the first quadruple amputee of World War II, today
was awarded the bronze star medal and other decorations for “heroic
action in the Pacific that led to his present plight. In addition to the medal, Hensel, a ‘cheerful patient with an optimistic outlook at Percy Jones convalescent hospital here, was awarded the purple heart for wounds received -on-—Okinawa on: June 2 and the Asiatic, Pacific theater ribbon with three bronsé campaign stars for aetive partisipation in campaigns on the islands of Guam, Leyte and the Ryukus group. : Tears In Her Eyes
The awards were presented by Brig. Gen. Joseph E. Bastion, commanding general of Percy Jones hospital, by order of the commander of the medium tank unit to which the 26-year-old sergeant was attached in the Pacific. As Gen. Bastion made the presentations, Mrs. Hensel, who has been constantly at her husband's side since his arrival here last Sunday, looked on smilingly, but with tears glistening in her eyes. Hensel had both legs above the ‘knees and his left arm above the elbow blown off when he stepped on a Japanese anti-tank land mine jon Okinawa June 2.
Visited by Bromfield
Army doctors tried. to save. his. right hand, but it, too, had to be amputated while he was en route home. Since hig wife’s arrival from their
{home in Coibin, Ky. Hensel has
been discussing plans for buying a little chicken farm when he fi-
Board. Member Carson Jordan opined today. A former councilman, Mr. Jordan | voiced this opinion at toda§'s safety | board meeting, atterided also by Ralph Gregg, American Legion national judge advocate, and R. C. (Bud) Dauss, chairman of the city council's safety committee. The Legion official represented 11th district posts which have supported a proposed city ordinance licensing taxicab. drivers. Last. month, the city council killed the measire after postponing action on it over several months. Mr. ‘Dauss said he believed the proposed .ordinance was unnecessary. “We have enough laws ag it is, What we need is more enforcement. I think one or two policemen should
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WAC From Shangri-La Goes Window Shopping in N.Y.
NEW YORK, July 12 (U. P.).— The lady in Khaki from “Shangri. La” was in the big city today— shopping. WAC Cpl. Margaret Hastings, 30. year-old Owego, N. Y., survivor of 47 days in Dutch New Guinea's primitive ' “Shangri-La valley,” ar-
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rived in a commercial airliner late yesterday in the G. I. clothes she wote in the wilderness. Deeply tanned, she smifed for photographers and posed with an armload of native hatchets, spears and a quill of arrows. She said she would head home tonight to one of the biggest receptions Owego ever plann The’ blue-eyed WAC was one of three army passengers who survived the crash of a C-47 transport plane in the isolated New Guinea valley” last May’ 13. ‘Twenty others died in the wreck. With Lt. John 8. McCollom, 26, of Trenton, Mo., and T. Sgt. Kenneth Decker, 34, of Kelso, Wash, Corp. Hastings lived “on. nothing much” among Hative Aribes. During their imprisonment in the valley, the trio. got help by para‘medical
nally receives two artificial arms and two artificial legs.
MRS, STEVENS OUT ON $15,000 BOND
BRIDGEPORT, Conn., July 12 (U.. P).—Mrs. Imogene Stevens, Texas beauty held for the slaying of a 19-year-old sailor, was released from county jail today under $15,000 bond. Maj. George R. Stevens III, her paratrooper husband who flew home from Europe to be at his wife's
|side, was waiting for her in the
office of Superior Court Clerk Henry P. Lyons, where the bond was posted by C. C. Bidwell, attorney-in-fact for the Aetna Casualty and Surety - Co. of Hartford. Mrs. Stevens had been held in the Jail since Yune 23. Immediately aftér signing the bond, Major and Mrs. Stevens ran out‘ of the county courthouse and into” an automobile in which they. left for an’ undisclosed destination. The 24-year-old beauty had been confined to jail in default of $50,000 bond since the shooting of Albert ‘Kovacs, a submarine sailor, June 23 in the home of her neighbor Charles Milton:
WARMER WEATHER TO BRING SHOWERS
You probably can shed ‘your coats and sweaters today but you'd better keep your umbrellas handy. According to the local weather forecast, it's to be warmer today ‘and tonight but thundershowers are jel tonight and tomorrow.
"LOCAL TEMPERATURES
6am. ...60 10am... 2 Tam... Nlam...75 8am ... 65 12 (Noon)., 77 fam ..6 1pm..."
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THURSDAY, JULY
12, 1945
JITTERY JAPS FEAR NEW U.S. NAVAL ATTACK
Wondering Where Halsey’s Fleet Will Strike Next Time.
By FRANK TREMAINE United Press Staff Correspondent
PEARL HARBOR, July 12, —Tokyo, with Japanese planes falling in combat at a ratio of 9 to 1, tried to guess today when and where Adm. William F. Halsey’s ~imighty U. 8S. 3d fleet would strike next. Anxious Japanese radio reports said 180 American fighters and bombers thundered up from Oki-
nawa early today to attack suicide plane bases on southern Kyushu, but were turned back by bad weather over the targets. The Japanese aiso said thal a small group of B-20's operating from the Marianas had flown over the west coast of Honshu before dawn today apparently scouting for new targets. But there was no confirmation from American sources concerning either operation. Indian Ocean Operation?
Tokyo also speculated on the possibility of imminent allied landings on the Carnicobar islands, in the Indian ocean, following a-.reported British carrier-based assault against the Sumatra naval base at Sabang early yesterday. The Japanese Domei agency claimed that allied naval units had laid buoys in the waters adjacent to .Carnicobar, which lies north of
abo” Toot” po A and
landed in two places on- Tanah Masa early in June, Domei said alert Japanese soldiers had wiped out both enemy bases. Tanah Masa is located off the southern coast of Sumatra. Domei said two British carriers and 200 planes operated against Sabang. Jap Air Force Slumps Marine Corsair fighters and Avenger torpedo bombers attacked the Miyazaki airfield on Kyushu by daylight yesterday, wrecking hangars, shops, and other installations. In Washington, Artemus IZ Gates, assistant secretary of the navy for air, said the Japanese airforce was following the luftwaffe into obliv-
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NEW SHOE STAMP . TO BE GOOD AUG. 1
WASHINGTON, July 12 (U. PJ). ~The office of price administration announced today that airplane stamp No. 4 in war ration book 3 would become goad for one pair of shoes beginning Aug. 1. OPA said airplane stamps Nos. 1, 2 and 3 would continue to be good
validated last Nov. 1.
By ANN STRINGER United Press Staff Correspondent A BRITISH INTERNMENT CAMP, TERNI, Italy, July 12.— “1 was never close to him when he was high: I was always near him when he was down.” With that weeping epitaph, Benito © Mussolini’s gray-haired widow summed up her life with the flamboyant Duce who left her for a younger, prettier mistress at the height of his Fascist power. Pouring out her words between choking sobs, Donna. Rachele revealed that. she spoke to the emp a———— i st “Today's Chapter of Count Ciano’s Diary, Page 13.
doomed Duce by telephone only six hours before he was slain by a band of Italian partisams near Milan last April. We talked informally in the six-room apartment in an abandoned synthetic rubber factory where she and her two youngest children are being held in British , protective custody. Throughout the interview, Donna Rachele defended her dead husband 8 every accusation —except his finil infidelity with Clara Petacci, who shared his death and humiliation in the
Expect U.S. to Ease Rules on
Fraternization
BRITISH OCCUPATION HEADQUARTERS, Germany, July 12 (U. P.).—The rule against troop fraternization with the Germans probably will be eased in the American as well as the British zone in about two weeks, it was reported today. The soldiers will be permitted to visit cafes, talk with the Germans and walk with frauleins, it was understood, but probably will not be permitted to visit German homes. Authorities expected the modification of the rule to make possible a stricter enforcement of whatever other restrictions remain,
CAPEHART AGAIN
ASKS JAP TERMS
Says State Department Corfirmed Feelers.
By DANIEL M. KIDNEY Times Stuff Writer
WASHINGTON, July. 12—Contending that his own report of Japanese peace feelers have been confirmed by the state department, Senator Capehart (R. Ind), today took issue with the administration conclusions that such talk was Jap | propaganda. The Hoosier senator rose on the senate floor to urge that a definite program for Japanese capitulation be laid down as soon: 4s. possible after the Berlin conference. This would replace the “unconailtional surrender” formula. Must Curb Japan “I do not. assume the task of speling olit what shall be the complete terms of surrender,” Senator Capehart said. “Our people demand that we end Japan's power as a predatory nation, and punish it for its. crimes against us and the world.” “If Japan gives up its flee and airforce, its arms and armies, detroys or has destroyed its war productive agencies, gives up its conquered land and loot and returns to its home island, makes repara= tions for damages and is deprived of its economic capacity to wage war, what more could we ask, other than the punishment of war crime inals? “As for the latter, most of them will follow the suicide route, re-
{gardless of the path followed to
surrender. “Does ‘unconditional surrender’ mean that the Japanese emperor is to £9; that the dynasty is to be
DIE DESTROYING POWDER WITH U. 8. 15TH ARMY, Germany, July 12 (U. P.).—The army announced today that 38 persons were killed and seven injured in
the 15th army area between May 1 and July 10- in collecting and;
Mrs. Benito Mussolini "Clara's name was mentioned. She. pushed herself far back in "her chair ®sat up straight and spat out:
. “They've aons™on. hang her,
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FORECAST: Partly cloudy tonight and tomorrow with thundershowers tomorrow morning; warmer tonight,
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WORD OF GAMBLING CRACKDOWN PRECEDES ORDERS FOR CLEANUP
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TESTIMONY ON TREATY FRIDAY
Debate on Charter Expected To Get Under Way Next Week.
By JOHN L. CUTTER United Press Staff Correspondent
WASHINGTON, July 12.—The
on the today under a
nesses Charter speedup ings. tomorrow afternoon. For the second successive day the
| asses whose testimony ranged from
out amendment to denunciations of
senate foreign relations committee | ran swiftly through a list of wit-| United Nations!
committee heard a parade of wit-)
pleas for prompt ratification with- |§
'Co-Operating'
schedule aimed at closing the hear- |
| Sherif Otto Petit . .". “the
state police are officers too.’
'the charter as a violation of the |#§
constitution. Committee Chairman. Tom Connally (D. Tex.), be completed tomorrow afternton. He hoped to start senate debaté on the treaty early next week. Favor Charter Most of today’s witnesses were for speedy ratification of the. charter
ace. The first witness of the day, however, denounced the treaty. She said it would ‘be “an organic change lin the Constitution of the United | States.” . Mrs. Nora Stanton Barney © of Greenwich, Conn., speaking for the “committee for world peace through a peoples parliament,” urged that the senate attach three reservations! She proposed:
lar vote, TWO. That only a small international police force be made avails able to the proposed security council to halt acts of aggression. THREE. Addition of a clause providing for “a lower house in which international organizations of people would be represented.” Mrs. Helen Dwight Reid of Washington, D. C., appeared with endorsements from a dozen national organizations. They included the American Association of University Women, the Association for Childhood Education, the General’ Federation of Women's Clubs, Young Women's Christian Association, National Congress of Parents and Teachers, Nat.onal Council of Jewish’ Women, National Federation of Business and
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ADMIRAL MITSCHER PAYS MOTHER VISIT
HILLSBORO, Wis., July 12 (U. P.).—Vice Adm. Marc A. Mitscher, a hometown boy who made good by going. to sea, came back to his mother and honiefolk today. The admiral, whose naval tactics puzzle the Japanese navy to such an extent that they lost quite a few ships to his planes, used some
“indefinitely.” The last stamp was|destroying enemy ammunition and |of his sea strategy and slipped into | installations.
town almost unknown.
Wife Defends Mussolini, Who Jilted Her at Height of Power
riously and pounding the table before her, she almost shouted: “Mussolini (she always referred to him that way) never had anything to do with women. He never let them have any influence over him. That was propaganda just to. ruin him.
“Mussolini at the most had five
minutes with a woman, then he |
would leave her.”
She trembled with anger and |
emotion as she spoke, ; But the frail widow, still at-
tractive in spite of her 56 years, |
Witnesses Uncertain Who Gave 'Hot Foot' to Slayer
Who gave William J. Eiffe a “hot later with a 32 caliber revolver
maintained her dignity, presenting a far different picture from the hulking, peasant-type woman I had been led to expect. “I last saw . Mussolini ‘about eight days before he was killed,” she went on, holding a clenched handkerchief before her face. “1 talked with him by telephone bout six or seven hours before “he. met’ death. “He called me at 3 a. .ox at Como that morning and told me to try to get into Switzerland, but that if I. failed, to turn myself and the children over to the American authorities. “Of course I knew something was wrong. I knew he was In danger, because he told me he was with the partisans. ‘But I did
>, not know he was going to be
She broke down again at that
: Joimtoung begwd beating on the |
said hearings will |§
as the first step toward interna-|} tional co-operation to préserve the
Austin Killian . . . | sheriff is very So opefutive’
Col. “the
ONE. Election of delegates to the international organization by popu-
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Escaped War Damage But Lacks Road Transport.
By M. S. HANDLER _ United Press Staff Correspondent | KATTOWICE, Polish Silesia, July 5 (Delayed) (U. P.)—Poland has emerged from the war with the
greatest industrial potential of any country between Russia and the Atlantic—but her national economy today virtually is paralyzed. "The paralysis is primarily due to lack of road transport. Unofficial | estimates indicate that it would
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| Hoosier Heroes—
SEAMAN™ SCHOMSIER IS KILLED IN PAGIFIC
A seaman has been killed in Pacific action; a B-24 pilot is missing over Formosa, and an infantryman has been missing since November in Germany, according to today’s casualty reports. Three more local men have beem wounded on Okinawa and one man is hospitalized in Burma.
DEAD ® Seaman 1-¢ Harold ° Eugene Schommer, 1530 Hoyt ave, in Pacific. 2 MISSING
Second Lt. Ray E. Hess, 42 N.| | Oxford st., over Formosa. Pfc. Levitt C. Marx, 440 S. Pine st., in Germany.
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{233 8S. Temple ave, Marine Pvt, Light, 1906 W. Michigan st, on Okinawa. Marine -8gt. Jack Coleman Steu-
on Okinawa.
| awa. Cpl. Claude R. Nett Jr. | Randolph st., in Burma.
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PLACES CLOSE 1S ‘GRAPEVINE HEARS OF HEAT
Petit - Challenges Killian; Latter Says Sheriff Is Co-operating.
Although State Police
{Superintendent Austin Kil{lian today
had ordered a gambling cleanup in Marion county, word of a gaming crackdown had béen cireu-
(lated around the county almost
a. week ago.
This was one peculiarity in today's
‘developments which saw Sheriff Otto Petit declare he had informed state police that “they are officers, the same. as myself, and they can enforce the law if they find any violations.” As early as last Saturday, operators began crating up slot machines and card and dice tables, apparent ly in anticipation of a lull Largest. Ones Closed ‘The county’s two largest gaming establishments shut their doors. Rumors that the heat was on started trickling through the grape. vine the day after Howard Goar, self-styled anti-gambling erusader from" Muncie, picketed the state house with a truck. - Goar had bedecked his truck with signs aiming implied allegations at state and Muncie officials, - In"a formal statement ‘to newsmen today, Sheriff Petit said he had
|dispatched two squad cars to make
the rounds last night and “they found conditions quiet” He ‘said that the Chicken Loop on N. Keystone ave. one of the
another well-known gaming estabe lishment on Kentucky ave, near Eagle creek, had been “closed for a long time.” ‘They'll Stay Closed’ “Furthermore,” Sheriff Petit de clarsd “they'll stay closed as long as I'm in office.” The sheriff then denied that he had received any complaints against gaming in the county, anonymous or otherwise, This assertion was in reference to Col. Killian's statement yesterday that his office had been deluged with protests against gambling on the city’s outskirts. Cal. ‘Killian said some of these were anonymous. He said he had instructed Sheriff Petit to clean up the county or suffer the consequences of state police action in his bailiwick. The sheriff today asserted: “I as they're painted, ‘This is a big industrial center.” Warrant First “I didn't receive any anonymous letters or telephone calls and I would not have paid any attention to them if I did,” the sheriff said. “1 stand open to any respectable citizen who comes down and signs a warrant against alleged gamblers. [ shall immediately serve it. But I'm not breaking into anybody's home or locking anybody up without a warrant.” He failed tn say how it happened
Marine Pvt. Robert L. Wildrick,' | ternal
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U.S. Tos Record
Set in Indiana
ALL-TIME high in inrevenue collections from all sources in Indiana was ane nounced today for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1945.
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Will H. Smith, internal revenue :
collector for Indiana, said collectigns reached $928,000,809 this year in comparison to $807,016,202 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1944. A net increase of $121,074,- . 606 is shown.
foot” still is unknown. Two additional eyewitnesses to the slaying of Clifford L: Gose, 34-year-old truck driver Nov. 18, were unable to identify the prankster. They testified in criminal court today "in the murder trial of Eiffe,
pany worker. He is charged with first degree murder for the fatal shooting of -Gose ata tavern at 25 S. West st. The tragedy was an aftermath of a “hot foot” prank said = have. | been played by a group of men in. the ir Eiffe, admittedly
"eet the tavern,
[Sleeping of drunk! was the!
52-year-old. itinerant truck com- |g
with which he shot Gose, previous testimony indicated, Delbert Ferguson’ and William
county's most lavish gambling emporiums in 1 t months, had been “closed for & week.” He added that
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