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EE—— VOLUME 56—NUMBER 107

FRIDAY, JULY 13, 1945

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DER VAIN FUEHRER—

Hitler Filed His Fan Mail, Good or Bad

(Ahother Nat Barrows . from Berlin, Page 9.)

By NAT BARROWS

f Times Foreign Correspondent . BERLIN, July 13.—Hitler in his vanity kept all the letters and telegrams of fanatical devotion | and blind worship which I poured in to him from

| many countries. : The erstwhile fuehrer also | stored away letters of personal | criticism and these, needless to . say, received adequate gestapo d study. § In the shattered rubbish heap i of Hitler's Reichschancellery, knee | deep among Der Fuehrer's prii vate correspondence, I have spent hours reading this gush of ador=ation. | The cross-section of German life, represented in these letters —f{rom young and old—is somei# thing to think about. » » " 3 “YOU ARE the savior of the world” . , . “We will die for : you” “Your leadership will f continue in Germany for generations”"—the pattern is always the same, More refreshing as I wormed through. the mountain of disordered papers were letters telling . Hitler some truths about himself. 1 Gestapo receipts showed that ' ‘these had been cross-filed and

| dossiers Wait up on hem, ”

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THE reicechneeilory was hope-

lessly torn up from American bombs and Russian shellfire, Russian hand-to-hand fighting and finally, Russian revenge against even inanimate objects. Pictures of Hitler hung in tatters from bayonet-thrusts and machine-gun bullets. Crawling under the splintered, overturned desks and burrowing in files, torn wildly from the shelves by frenzied Russians, I finally found some of the letters for which 1 was searching—those from the United States and Can‘ada Sadie.

OF THE Yon which I uncovered f the debris only one was signed. This was from New Bedford, Mass, mailed June 7, 1940, and received at the Reichschancellery Aug. 12. The signa- . ture read Susanna Canuck, “Mr. Adolf Hitler,” said the let--ter, “You are a screwball! What are you trying to do—ruin the civilization which we have spent centuries trying to build Go home and finisif your wallpaper= ing and leave us alone to do ours. “And if you bomb England I will be over there mysgf and so will a lot of the rest df us, and we won't be over to sightsee either. . “May God keep you from doing any more harm.”

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r : % | All Property of of . . . Nazis in Berlin 3 . » Will Be Seized LONDON, July 13 (U. P.).=The Berlin radio said the city council decreed today that the property of all Nazis and everyone who aided them will be confiscated in the German capital, “The importance of the decree is likely to reach far beyond Berlin, although it applies only to Berlin at present,” the broadcast said, The confiscation was described as reaching beyond the members of the Nazi party and Nazi created groups to “all other persons who took an active part in the propagation of nazism, who committed vile acts against others” or who worked for or mad€ profits from the Nazi regime. The Nazis had acquired by purchase or theft virtually all valuable property in Germany, Every going business concern either profited from or aided nazism, subsisting on Nazi sufferrance. The radio did not say whether the decree had the support and approval of allied occupation authorities. Presumably the confiscated property would be used and operated by administrative

Be SEIZE NAZI PROPERTY

LONDON, July 13 (U. P.).—The

Berlin radio said the city council}

decreed today that the property of all Nazis and everyone who aided them will be confiscated in the German capital,

TIMES INDEX

FRAU HIMMLER JUST AS TOUGH AS ‘HANGMAN

Ugly Wife of Most Hated Nazi Shrugs When Told He Is Dead.

By ANN STRINGER United Press Staff Correspondent

INTERNMENT CAMP ON

Frau Margarete Himmler maine tained today that she was still proud of her infamous husband. She shrugged away the world's hatred of the dead Gestapo chief with the calm observation that no one loves a policeman. When I told her that husband Heinrich had been captured and had died from his own dose of poison Frau Himmier showed absolutely no emotion. Until then she had not known what had happened to Himmler since he last telephoned her from Berlin around Easter while she was at their home near Munich. Feared Heart Attack When first captured by the 6th army she had claimed a weak heart. Internment camp officials, fearful of a heart attack, never told her of her husband's death. But even when I told “her that Himmler was buried in an unmarked grave Frau Himmler showed no surprise, no interest. It was the coldest exhibition of complete control of human feeling that [I have ‘ever witnessed, I talked to Frau Himmler in a luxurious villa home owned by a former movie magnate where she and her 15-year-old daughter, Gudrun, are being held with one other female internee. I asked her if she was aware of her husband’s activities as Gestapo chief and she replied, “Of course.” ‘Proud. of Him’

Then I asked if she knew what the world had thought of him and she replied, “I know that before the war many people thought highly of him.” Asked if she realized that Himm-

{ler was probably the most despised and hated man in the world after

the European war got well under way, Prau Margarete shrugged and said, “Maybe so. He was a policeman and policemen are not liked by any one.” Frau Margarete denied the possi-

have been considered the No. 1 war criminal, She said, “My husband? How could he be when Hitler was fuehrer?” Asked if she was proud of her husband, Frau Margarete replied: “Of course, I was proud of him.” Then she added, “In Germany wives would not even be.asked such a question.” Then pressed as to whether - or not she was still proud of Himmler when he had sentenced millions of innocent people to death by torture, gassing, or starvation, Frau Mar-

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DIETRICH RETURNS TOTING 5 PISTOLS

Customs Officers Seize Her European Souvenirs.

‘NEW YORK, July 13° (U. P)~=fed Marlene Dietrich arrived at La Guardia field today toting a handful of sidearms, but she had to give

{them up to customs officials.

Miss Dietrich arrived at La Guardia field aboard an army transport command plane from Paris just 11 months after she took off on a U. 8. O. tour of France, Belgium, England, Greenland, Holland and Iceland, She carried the five pistols, two of them Lugers, in her baggage. Customs officials said the firearms would eventually -be returned to the blond movie actress. Miss Dietrich - was met by her husband, Rudolph E. Sieber. 8he dropped her bags and dashed down the steps into Sieber’'s arms, give ing him a big hug and kiss as Produced Darryl F. Zanuck and army officers smiled approval. . Miss Dietrich and Sieher left for his apartment at the Croydon hotel in Manhattah. They said they probably would leave for Hollywood next week. .

GEN. ELLES DIES; LED TANK ATTACK

LONDON, July 13 (U, P.):~Gen. Sir Hugh Jamieson Elles, 65, the|

the Hindenburg line at

; lies. becanis known as the “ad-

STAKE “BLAMED ON - OPA’S 5-CENT . CIGAR

TAMPA, Fla., July 13 (U. P.). OPA order intended ‘to bring

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bility that her dead hushand might |

Dead at 65

ROME'S OUTSKIRTS, July 13.—|

John R. Ruddick » » ®

Ruddick Rites Monday; Officer of Legion and Indiana Bell.

John R. Ruddick, national treasurer of the American Legion and until recently secretary-treasurer of the Indiana Bell Telephone Co., died today in his home, 5645 N. Delawang st. He was 65. A veteran of the Spanish-Amer-ican and world war I, he was elected treasurer of the Legion by the national executive committee Nov. 2, 1935, and has served continuously in that office since that time. Mr. Ruddick, a private in .the 8th U, 8. cavalry during the Span-ish-American war, did not see overseas action util the first world war when he was captain of Co. B, 314th field signal battalion, 89th division. In May, 1918, he went to France with his outfit after training at Ft.

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MOTORISTS BUY 50,000 STAMPS

Drive to Check Auto Tax Gets Results.

More than 50,000 Indiana motor ists hive purchased federal auto|B use tax stamps since the start of a surprise enforcement drive two days ago, Will H. Smith, collector of internal revenue, said today, The drive got underway Wednesday after it was discovered an estimated 67,000 drivers were ignoring the law requiring purchase of stamps by July 1. : “At least 3000 of the purchases

have been the direct result of stickers given violators by the 250 deputy colléctors who are conducting a state-wide checkup, Mr. Smith said. Check to Continue He said there has been no resistance from drivers who have been caught evading the tax as in former years. Desipte the widespread unpopularity of the tax, motorists have heeded the stickers .and purchased and displayed the stamps. Other motorists have lined postoffices over the state to buy the stamps before deputy collectors | could catch up with them. Wednesday’s total sales were 35,298, and 17,018 stamps were purchased yesterday. a revenue department estimatthat approximately 608,494 vehicle owners have purchased stamps this year, compared to 623,586 for the same period last year. The enforcement check will continue until the department is satis~ fled every motorist has complied, Mr, Smith said.

CONSIDER NEW LIGHTS AS CURB ON THEFTS

The works board today considered the installation of 188 new streetlights which it was hoped would help to discourage footpads and “sgluggings.” Funds for the installation were provided recently by the city coun¢il. A recent wave of “sluggings” has been attributed partly to recently diminished street lighting.

G. L. MURDEN DIES

PERU, July 13 (U, P)—~G: L. Murden, 85, retired businessman

and father of Jesse Murden, Indi-|

anapolis attorney and Republican

leader, died in his home early to-|¢

day. Survivors are the widow and

son. Funeral services will be held |th

Monday.

against Cambrai In 1917, died on Wednes-

|fany of the 316th troop: carrier group is glad : “Td & ¥

{furore over county gambling condi-

By WILLIAM F. TYREE United Press War Correspondent GUAM, June 11 (Delayed) (Via Navy Radio).~Men of the heavy cruiser Pittsburgh, smitten by the fury of a tropical typhoon in the. Pacific June 5, watched a hundred-foot chunk of her bow rip off and go floating. away in the churning seas. :

G.0.P. BEHIND CRACKDOWN TO

Governor, Then Killian Demanded Cleanup.

ganization, spurred by citizens’ com= plaints, initiated the county's gambling crackdown by enlisting state aid, it was learned today. Responsible G. O. P. leaders reportedly were shocked into realization that county gaming had soared beyond control, Unable to cope with the situation. locally, they urged Governor Gates to muster state police help. This department was already buried beneath a downpour of protests, but had hesitated to move into Sheriff Otto Petit’s bailiwick. ~ Ultimatum Delivered The political pressure—applied, it is understood, through Governor Gates~—was the straw that broke the camel's back. State Police Superintendent Austin Killian. finally delivered an ultimatum to Sheriff Petit, demanding an immediate cleanup. These developments climaxed an extended wrangle between the county organization and Sheriff Petit, once the best of friends. For some time now, the G. O. P, political atmosphere has been rumbling with allegations that the

and fina} Jor, Secidel to strike out

One of his cosesh ohorts is Randall (Rags) Mitchell, a boon political companion. G. O. P. organization chiefs also got hot umder the collar about Mitchell. They charged he and the sheriff with exercising “too much independence.”

Politicos Embarrassed

Republican politicos become slightly embarrassed by the continuing

tions, They face an election next year and don't want the road made any bumpier by periodic gambling

flare-ups. Said one G. O. P. spokesman: *1t

the big shots around town want to gamble « their dough away, that's 0.k., but Jet 'em do it in a house

SUSPECT IN RAGKET 5 TAKEN FOR RIE

Accused as 25 Go-Belwesn in Whisky Black Market,

CHICAGO, July 13 (U. PJ, =~ A man was found slain in gangland style today, and police said he was Morris - Margolis, 35, who was under indictment in a Michigan liquor racket. The nattily-dressed body was found slumped over the steering wheel of an automobile on ‘the near-northwest side, The victim had been shot once behind the left ear, apparently by assassins ‘whe took him for a one-way ride. Margolis was identified by fin-

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RUNS BLACKJACK,

NEW YORK, July 13 0 P| When Sgt. William N. 31,20

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END GAMBLING

Pressure Applied Through 1

Marion county's Republican or-

sheriff, now completing his second|,

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2 CENTS TO $600)

The Pittsburgh was with a fast carirer task group of Adm. Wil liam PF. Halsey's 3d fleet 900 ‘miles northwest of Guam when the storm Hit at a velocity of more than 100 miles an hour. She dipped and rolled so the waters crashed over her super structure from ‘4 a. m. until nearly 6:30 “ » »

off her bow.

a. m. Then the how cracked away almost back to the first gun turret. Capt. John Gingrick, Dodge City, Kas., swore softly and went to work to save the ship. “Everybody took a beating” he said. “We had about .10 minutes warning and got all our men out

“Here's how the U. 8. 8. Pitisburgh appened when she made port after a 100-mile-an- hour typhoon ripped The bow was towed back to port separately.

Typhoon Damages 21 American Warships; e One Heavy Cruiser Is Ripped off |

of the forward part of the ship. Suddenly there were two tremendous seas. “The first took the bow up 15

degrees, shook it violently and tore it off. To our consternation, the bow went sailing away down the port side.” The water-tight doors had been *® ¥ "

set for storm conditions so both parts of the cruiser floated. Not a single man was lost although one plane torn from ite cata~-

pult went over the’ side. About 20 officers and men at the peril of their lives went for-

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HUGE VESSELS

TOSSED ABOUT LIKE MATCHES

All Are Reported Back Action Except One Cruiser.

By WILLIAM F. TYREE _ United Press Staff Correspondent

GUAM, July 13.—A tropical typhoon howled down at 100 miles an hour on Adm.

{William F. Halsey’s 3d fleet

between the Philippines -and

Okinawa June 5, damaging more than 21 warships including

{three battleships and five carriers,

PINS HOPE FOR PEACE ON UNITY

Dulles Urges Approval of World Charter.

WASHINGTON, July 13 u. PJ. —John Foster Dulles ‘today urged

without" or dissent. as an instrument for maintaining in. peace the allied unity of war, Dulles, Republican leader in foreign affairs, was & closing-day wit~ ness before the senate foreign relations . committee hearings on the Charter on which 50 United Nations have agreed to pin their hopes for lasting peace. The commtitee planned to wind up its hearings today and Start | yon floor debate on the treaty July 23. Hope Lies. in Unity In a statement prepared for delivery, Dulles said unity among the United Nations holds the principal hope for continuing peace. “Germany and Japan were the peril which drew us together,” said. “With the complete defeat he Germany and Japan that peril will seem to have disappeared. “Then our unity, too, will disappéar unless we find new, compelling tasks to pursue in common, It is

to the United Nations.” Dulles said ‘lack of allied unity after the last war was a factor in the start of world war IL Treaty Not Enforced “The reason why Germany recovered her military might was not because the treaty of Versailles was soft,” he said. “It was because the treaty of Versailles was not enforced. It was not enforced because the victors fell apart.” He recalled that after the last war the U. 8. decided to “go it alone,” Britain and France decided to “compete for power on the conti-

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AID. TO VETERANS COMMUNITY DUTY

CRAWFORDSVILLE, July 13 (U. APJ s=CGovernor Gates says much of the responsibility for the aid and! rehabilitation of veterans lies with local communities. At a civic meeting last night, he

boarded his troop ship ati Le Havre gy

oe

prised the city’s joann’ for courthouse, athletic sta-

of the “United reservation

such tasks that the San Francisco}

450-Mile Area

By FRANK United Press W

PEARL HARBOR, July 13.—Je

Gen. George C. Kinney grimly

MacArthur, revealed that the Toh in the central - Pacifie, had been} from Adm. Chester W. Nimits' command to join the Sth. 13th and 20th bomber commands in the final phase of the Pacific air

War, 24 jours a Day

Kenney from “10,000 feet to 10 feet” with

and bombers 24 hours a day. During the night some 500 to 550 Bm: hed paid the first installt by over 3200 tons of or moeniliaries intg five packed War centers on Honshu .and (In. Washington, a 20th air force communique reported that two aircraft were lost in the raid and a third is’ missing. It said bombing was by precion instrument and rehelsults were unobserved.) It was the 38th consecutive attack on Japan and raised to 39 the number of enemy home cities gutted by American bombs. sinee the pre-invasion attacks began last March.

Objectives were secondary - production centers of Utsonomiys, Ichinomiys and Tsuruga on Honshu, Uwajima, on the southwestern tip of ‘Shikoku, and a cluster of refineries in the Kawaski area on Tokyo bay between Tokyo and Yokohoma. Pomel. Japanese news Agency, said 24-hour attacks were already a

Ciano's Diary Basis of Suit

Times Foreign Service ROME, July 13.—The newspaper 11 Tempo, which will begin tomorrow to publish the Ciano diary in Rome, announced today that its lawyers would file suit against the weekly Giornale di Roma, for violation of the world copyright held on. that sénsation document by The Chicago Daily News.” Giornale di Roma yesterday published a resume of selected portions of the diary, under the guise of critical commentary by an anonymous former colleague of Count Ciano in the Italian foreign office. 11 Tempo purchased from The Chicago Daily News, for $30,000, the ‘exclusive right to republish the Ciano diary in Italy.

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Bugoirs After B-29 Raid

Pacific gale, flared over 450 miles of the Japanese homeland today.

for round-the-clock blasting in the near-future. Kenney, commander of the Far Eastern air force under Gen. Douglas

to attack Japan

fires and explosives, with fighters |

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“Tost in the sinking of a Jap prison

of Japan

TREMAINE ar Correspondent

llied gasoline flames, whipped by a

warned the Japs they can get set

wir force; Jong an- aerial spearhead

4000 6.'S 70 AID RAILROAD SPEED-UP

As Jobs Are Filled.

Four thousand soldiers will be given 30-day furloughs to take civilian jobs on railroads and help ease the critical rail labor shortage in Indianapolis and in cities throughout the nation. The soldiers, men of railroad experience, will be only temporarily employed until 65,000 civilian railroad maintenance workers can be recruited in the army’s nation-wide drive, ; In Indianapolis more than 1000 mechanics, machinists, switchmen, boilermakers, electrians and sheet metal workers are needed, 2d Lt. Irving Epion of the transportation corps said. Headquarters for recruitment of workers here are being established today in offices of the Railroad Retirement board, 15 E. Maryland st. Here applications will be screened for the army’s most serious manpower recruitment drive in months. Indianapolis workers also may apply for the railroad jobs at the United States Employment Service, ‘Senate ave. and Washington st.

Hoosier Heroes—

LOCAL MAN LOST IN SHIP SINKING

Nine Reported Wounded in Pacific Theater. Another local soldier is listed as

ship last October. Mve Indianapolis soldiers were wounded on Luzon in June, and four marines have been hurt on Okinawa. KILLED Pvt. David J. Baugh, grandson of Mrs, Sarah Waggoner, 128 Bloomington st, In a Jap prison ship sinking. WOUNDED Pvt. Joseph O. Osbum, 3208 S. Rural st, on Luzon. Sgt. William E. Jones, 2836 E. New York st, on Luzon. Pvt, Howard Keene, 119 S. Belmont ave, on Luzon, Pyt. John M. Tierney, 843 Prospect st, on Luzon. ~Plc. Dean K. Leitsman, Jefferson ave,, on Lusdon. Marine Pfc. Willie Junior Childers, 704 N, Capitol ave, on Oki- | nawa, Marine Pvt. Thomas J. Glogoss, Marine Pvt. James V. Beaupre Er, 8 821 N. Tacoma ave, on Oki-

“Brine set. David td Buren, Okinawa.

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30-Day Furloughs to End’

. Pacific fleet headquarters, an=nouncing the fleet's bout with the typhoon = 900 ‘miles northwest of ' Guam, said today that all the damaged warships have “returned to action except one.

No Ships Sunk That was the heavy cruiser Pittsburgh, which lost its entire bow section about 100 feet long. No ship was lost. from aboard the flagship of Adm. John 8. McCain, task commander under Halsey, said one life was lost—“in itself a acle.” The fleet dispatch said group ships were scattered 125 miles the storm. The front edge of

ton, the light carriers San Jacinto and Belleau Wood, the escort care rier Bougainville, . the destroyers John Rodgers and Blue, three other cruisers and seven destroyers. ° The navy said a number of other warships were ‘damaged, but did not list the complete roster. The typhoon swept directly over a large portion of the 3d fleet, whipping the seas into mountainous waves and tossing the giant ware craft around like toys. Hit Harder Than Japs

The storm caught Halsey's Jape anese-hunting naval force only about a week after it returned to action, bent on searching out and destroying the remnants of Emperor Hirohito’s sea and air power. - The Japanese themselves have as yet offered no formidable challenge. But the tropical blow hit the navy harder, it appeared on the basis of the first report, than the enemy ever has. This is the second time Halsey’s fieet has had to fight infuriated nature harder than the Japanese, In December, east of the Philip.

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Blind Prodigy, 9, To Study in U. S. As Fliers’ Gift

{| NEW YORK, July 13 (U. P.) A 9-year-old English boy with sightless eyes and musical fingers came to -America -today with the

James L. (Jimmy) Osborn, blind piano prodigy, arrived by air from Foynes, Ireland, with .one of his flying sponsors, Capt. John F. O'Connell, 21, of Holyoke, Mass. The pockets of Jimmy's navy blue eton suit weren't big enough to carry the $3200 that men of the 9th chipped in for his education in America. He was headed for the Perkins Institution for the Blind at Watertown, Mass, O'Connell, - a public relations: officer with the 9th, said Jimmy’s date with America began in a Red Cross canteen in Essex,

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ITS PICNIC TIME ON WEATHER CALENDAR

Pack up your picnic basket and take out your play clothes for it's sour lo be rest summer, Wosthar for the next few days. #

Sompliments of the 9th air force. ~~