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[ rubble of central ‘Berlin. When he stopped: before the shat-
| a pensive shake of his head: “It's a terrible thing, but "they | brought it on themselves.” | He looked up at the jagged re- | mains of a balcony ‘where Adolf || Hitler inflamed the world with his 4 ranting speeches and said:
i what can happen when a man || overreaches himself. I néver saw © such destruction. I don't know | whether they'll learn anything from
Got Blank Stares
As. he looked and spoke, listless and ragged Germans stumbled . through the rubble still littering . gections of the city. The Germans © paid little attention to him. When they did, it was mostly blank, sullen stares. The President started his tour on . the southwest outskirts of Berlin. | There he inspected the U. 8. 2d [armored division and presented a | special citation to the engineers’
After driving slowly in a halftrack past 500 tanks, the President moved info an open roadster and proceeded into the city proper. p He drove past the shattered Ger"man radio center and on into the | heart of the British zone of occu- ¢ pation on the broad Kaiserdamm. | At the fifst intersection a long . German traffic cop in dirty uniform [was directing traffic. Filled With Debris
The pace of the presidential pro- | eession slowed on the Charlottenburger Chausee, a broad avenue \ leading through the once beautiful ! Tiergarten, now littered with crashed planes, fire-blackened ruins of tanks and the splintery stumps of the park's once magnificent trees. At the end of the Tiergarten the President came to the famous Brandenburg gate, marking the entrance into the Russian occupation gone. The destruction here was worse than anywhere else. Most of the sidewalks were blocked with ' debris. Mr. Truman drove close to the gutted Reichstag. - Along the Unter Den Linden he saw Berliners grouped amidst the wreckage, haggling with each other and Russian soldiers, trying to trade personal valuables for cigarets, candy or food. The President doubled back down Unter Den Linden to the -Wilhelmstrasse, then past the chancellery, where he paused. for a ‘few minutes to look at the building and meet Russian officers standing at the curb.
"MONDAY, JULY 16, 1945 Big Three Parley Delayed: Truman Tours. Berlin Ruins
(Continued From Page One) hower, ‘Adm. Harold R. Stark, : Charles Sawyer, U, 8. Ambassador : to Belgium, -and local British and | Byrnes motored through the worst| american military commanders.
business syit and grey felt hat, | tered, burned-out shell of the chan- | npr Truman conducted a brief in- | cellery, the President observed with |spection of an honor guard from
outfit:
tored to the Melsbroeck airdrome on the outskirts of Brussels and Mr. Truman boarded Eisenhower's spe=cial plane, arriving in Potsdam at “It's just a demonstration of [4:15 p. m. (9:15 a. m. Indianapolis Time).
Soviet Marshal Gregory K. Zhukov’s deputy, Gen, Alexander Sokolovsky, and Col. Gen. Alexander Garbatov, Red army commandant of Berlin.
tanks and infantrymen’ surrbunded
Wearing a double-breasted gray
the 35th division, his world war I
Then the presidential party mo-
At Potsdam, he was greeted by
Greets Russians American, British and Russian
the entire airfield sector and banned all but the official military photographers. Stepping spryly down the transport plane ladder, Mr. Truman shook hands cordially with the Russian envoys and received the presidential honors from a color guard of the U. 8. 2d armored division. Immediately after . the arrival ceremonies, he was whisked 15 miles away to his official residence, a 30room house expropriated from a wealthy Berliner and furnished by the Red army, within 10 minutes’ drive of the meeting place.
Churchill Arrives Churchill, fresh from a week-long
FEARS CUT IN
enjoyed a 50 per cent increase in gasoline rations less than a month, their good fortune may be shortlived.
official said today, that A-card rations may be reduced soon from the present six-gallon coupon value, in effect since June 21.
come alarmed over an admitted excess issuance of gasoline rations over the amount allocated by the petroleum “administration for war to civilian use. :
way now and will be completed in two weeks at all ration boards in the country to determine whether some C-card holders are getting
trict OPA rationing executive, stated today that his office had received no information on a reported discontinuance of C rations ‘about Oct. 1. Washington officials disclosed that bombings already carried out against the enemy homeland have made further attacks on that scale unnecessary.
the C coupon will be discontinued and all supplemental rations issued by means of the B coupon.
' “This may be right,” Mr. Aitchison continued, “but I just received
vacation in southern France, flew into Potsdam about two hours after the President, accompanied by his daughter, Mary. outside Russia since the Tehran meeting with Churchill and the late visit to Germany in his career. generalissimo visited briefly In
emigre socialist congresses, Gen. Marshal Attends
chief of staff, Gen. Henry H. (Hap)
the services of supply.
Davies.
Leaving the chancellery, Mr, Tru= | '__man drove back fo Potsdam at 60 | to 70 miles an hour.
; called on President Truman in his
stood to have been an informal call to pay-respects. This was the first time. Churchill had ‘met Mr. Truman since he assumed the presidency. ; Future World Peace With his typical energy and “brass tracks” attitude, the President wanted to take up at once the lengthy agenda prepared by each of the participating nations. His two main objectives frankly were a speedy end to the Pacific war and an agreement on the future world peace which would be at least the forerunner to a fulldress peace ‘conference sometime after Japan's complete surrender. The Big Three discussions were cloaked by a strictly-enforced- censorship that even banned reporters from the immediate conference
scene and the only current news while they last--perhape three weeks or more—was expected to come
from periodic official communiques.
But infoymed observers believed the agenda™would cover at leastipout.,..He (Mitchell) thinks we've
these major topics:
ONE: Russia's plans in the Pacific
. and the results of her interrupted discussion with ‘China. TWO: .The joint“administration of Germany. : THREE: The reparations to be exacted from beaten ' Germany; whether in. money, goods or man-
| ‘power or all three. Russia reportedly
is asking for 4,000,000 German men to rebuild her ruined cities.
; FOUR: Settlement of the various territorial claims now being advanced by France, Yugoslavia,
Poland, Bulgaria, ete. FIVE: The Anglo-Russian con-
* flict over middle eastern oil resources. including the tied-in problem of the Arab- Jewish impasse in
Palestine,
81X: Russian territorial demands
Dardanelles.
Potsdam STDS, It was under-|8
No Cheers
At one point on the way into Earlier Prime Minister Ghurchill | Antwerp, the Augusta steamed past
a German prisoner-of-war stock~
that quarter.
cussions.
unusually swift progress is made.
RAGS TO HITGH'S
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uation, Hitch replied instead:
been putting, the heat on him.”
he meant by “we.”
up at the arena,” laughed Hitch.
street, Neither One Hurt
the fight a draw.
neither man was hurt.
SEVEN: Reorganization of the|quarters.
Soviet-sponsored Austrian govern-|. ment, which Britain and the United | gonna run the city?” queried a States have refused to recognize. EIGHT: The still-unsolved question of the hundreds of thousands of - Polish troops who have re-|city police department, looked iterated their loyalty to the defunct exile government in London and _ have refused to’ return to Poland.
French Question
. The Levant states’ demand for complete indepéndence from France also may, come before the Big Three, although in jhe light of French resentment at Gen. Charles De. Gaulle’s exclusion’ from the conference no definitive action on
that point appeared likely.
(Unconfirmed press reports reach“ing London said De Gaulle might be invited: to join the conference|, gjyminate county wagering. Killian was spurred by many complaints and the G. O. P. Bi A
later.)
The President stepped down the
horse bookl operator today.
Exodus Reported
iniscing over the lush days. ’
. gangway of ‘the U, 8. cruiser Al“ committee.
gusta at Antwerp at 11:10 a. m.]
Sunday (4:10 '&° m. ‘Indianapolis| DALEVILLE FLIER KIL ED HENDRICKS
. time), to become. the first Chief| ] ~ Executive to .set foot on western|168 (U. P). Lt. Genem M Millikan, Da
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some loose-leaf bulletin additions and these direct ration boards to order C-9 coupon stocks for future issuance. ‘The C-8's are being used For Stalin it was his first trip|now. cussion of having one coupon for all extra gasoline allowances. But, I'd think all the C coupons already printed would be used before any change is made, That seems only good sense.”
President Roosevelt in November, 1943, and it was the first public
Before the 1918 revolution, the
Stockholm, Prague, Vienna and London as a delegate of the Russian {bé made. by examining 100 C-card applications at each, the Indiana
district official explained.
Among the American arrivals were Secretary of War Henry Stimson,
Gen. George C. ‘Marshal, U. S.|payve issued C-card rations to a
number of persons who should be getting B-eard rations—and preliminary reports indicate boards have made few errors—then A-card holders will have to be cut,” Mr. Aitchison added. “There is-no other way out of it.”
Arnold, air forces commander, and Gen. Brehon B. Somervell, chief of
Fleet Adm. Ernest J. King, chief of naval operatipns, already was in Berlin, along with W. Averell Harriman, U, 8. ambassador to Russia,
and Presidential Envoy Joseph E. statement, however, came word
from R. A. Youngblood, gasoline rationing chief at Washington, that the C-card would be discontinued. The actual date is undecided, he
From the moment the Augusta poked her nose into the Scheldt estuary and started up-river toward the battle-scarred port of Antwerp, cheering crowds of Belgians were
on hand to greet President Truman. motorists who move permanently
adage Tima 4K, Jhlsni BL...
soldiers lined - up behind ri barbed-wire and the Nazis stared back, There were no cheers from one location to another as.producMr. Truman was hopeful that the entire; world could be given a fairly comprehensive picture of the day-to-day negotiations and said he favored issuance of regular communiques during the dis-
It was expected the conference would last longer than any of the previous Big Three sessions, perhaps more than three weeks, unless
“ALONG BOND ROW
scuffle was over the gambling sit-
“Oh, it was just a friendly little
Hitch then "declined to say whem
“If he'll scale up to my weight, I might go a few rounds with him
He said the fight was preceded by “a little argument in my office.” He said fists started flying when they emerged from his office onto the
The exchange attracted numerous spectators,” some of theme leaning from the window of municipal court 3. Most of the audience called
Mitchell was unavailable, but
Meanwhile, city-county professional gamesters -were wondering how long the current clampdown -on Turkey and the Soviet request|would last. The fact that Demofor revision of the Montreux agreement. of 1936, under which the “Turks were-permitted-to-fortify the |
cratic Deputy Sheriff Otto Ray headed a city police squad visiting 14 establishments Saturday -after~|inated Fred M. Vinson today to be
noon drew chuckles from some secretary of treasury. No Successor
“Does this mean the sheriff's
The crackdown squad, which also included Capt, Claude Kinder of the
around, but failed to make a single arrest, Gambling Joints had already gotten wind of the ban and had ceased operations accordingly.
An exodus of professional gamblers from Indianapolis to Chicago and the race tracks there was reported today by several stay-at-home members of the clan, who contented themselves with - rem-
The city-county lid was applied after State Police Superintendent Austin Killian ordered Sheriff Petit
OPA Official Says Use of? ive former deputy commander of the Gas. Is Excessive. 20th air force, révealed that the new U. 8. strategic air force has takenn over the strategic bombing of Japan,
Although A-card holders have
It is “entirely possible,” one OPA
Officials at Washington have be-
Survey Is Under Way A nation-wide survey is. under |,
william Aitchison, Indiana dis-
Applications Studied
the Americans their closest jumpoff points for the invasion of Jaan. : =
move into Okinawa, equipped with B-29’s in addition to the ‘Flying Fortresses and Liberators with which Lt. Gen. James H. Doolittle’s fliers wrecked Nazi Germany.
ment was to bring two separate
agaipst’ Japan, in addition to the He carrier forces—the strategic air forces under Gen. Carl Spaatz, and Gen. George C. Kenney's Far too much gasoline. The survey|p,giarn air forces, combining the holds priority over everything else. 5th, Tth and 13th air forces. When the bombing program is|minutes. ready, Giles said, it will be possible to throw 3000 planes against a single Japanese target on 24 hours’ notice.
(Continued From Page Une) Japanese target left that is worthy
A-CARD RATION miles from Kyushu, and they gave
Powerful U. S. Air Force Giles said the 8th air force will
The effect of Giles’ announce-
and powerful air arms to bear
But he made it clear that the
“I believe there is no single
“I know there las been some dis-
The survey of local boards will
Date Is Undecided “If it isn't found that local boards
In the face of the local official's
added. Mr, Aitchison disclosed that some
from one location to another now are eligible to buy grade 1 passenger tires, -subject to guota re-. strictions.
Ties ro in" “the. ot of tire failure while moving, are: ONE: War workers moving from
tion schedules are changed. forces moving to new posts. THREE: Discharged war vet-
erans returning home or. moving to another location for employment.
CHURCHILL VIEWS HITLER ‘DEATH PIT’
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which supposedly held the gasoline with which the bodies of Hitler and
TWO: Members of the armed]
Eva were drenched for their cremation.
the underground bunker where| Hitler and Eva were reported to have. killed themselves, Then he sat down on a battered rock in the shade of Hitler's personal radio station. He told correspondents he had nothing to say. His inspection of the chancellery “l climaxed a whirlwind. tour of central Berlin. He stopped briefly at historic sites such as the Reichstag. His party reached the chancellery 10 “ minutes after President Truman's group departed. Churchill, with his daughter Mary and Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden at his side, stepped out of a big black sedan as soon as it halted and headed for the chancellery. The entrance was guarded by two Russian military policemen. For 25 minutes Churchill worked through the rubble of the interior chancellery. "
VINSON NOMINATED. FOR TREASURY. POST
WASHINGTON, July 16 (U, P.). —Preésident Truman formally nom-
to Vinson as war mobilization and reconversion chief was named immediately. Federal Loan Administrator John W. Snyder was most prominently mentioned to succeed Vinson as home front czar. Snyder, a close personal friend of Mr. Truman for 25 years, was appointed to the loan post when Vinson succeeded James F. Byrnes as war mobilizer, He for~ merly was vice president of the First National Bank of St. Louis.
SLEEPING INFANT A six-months-old infant was in City hospital today, receiving treatbites on her legs and feet,
deughtér of Frank Turner, 439 W.
condition is reported fair. WHITE ELEPHANT FROLIC
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McCarty st, was bitten as she slept at her home this morning. Her
The Boogie Barn canteen will White Elephant frolic from Ye. at y a at Cottage ave. program, in-
MILLION ADDED
TO STATE FUND
Liquor Taxes to Be Used
For New Buildings.
Increased liquor and heer taxes
have added $1,085,727 to the state building fund during May and June, the alcoholic beverages commission announced today.
The commission predicted the al-
coholic excise boost would produce $5,000,000 by the end of this fiscal year. All this would be turned over to Indiana's institutional post-war
building coffers. The post-war building reserve now stands at $1,585,727. Approximately $500,000 of this was
transferred from the A. B. C. enforcement fund. The $1,085,727 realized from liquor taxes recent-
ly accounts for the remainder, Plans Can Be Speeded
Upon receipt of the commission's statement, Governor Gates said: “It
gives promise that we will now be
able to attack this huge problem with a greater degree of success. The repoft justifies the wisdom shown by the last general assembly in. providing for enactment of a sound pay-as-you-go program of
Aidxalion. Jor Jpprovements: — “TIE Governor asserted = mo
sudden cessation ‘of the Japanese war led.to a slump, “our plans can be speeded up so that substantial bolstering of the employment situation can be rapidly effected, if that is needed. . . .. I am especially pleased with the long-range aspects of the program.” , ‘Says No One Objects He promised that “competition for funds between institutions will be done away with, Helter-skelter, uneconomical improvements will be eliminated. “It now seems apparent,” Governor Gates concluded, %that no one offers serious objections to the collection of the additional beverage tax since the money fs used for such Worthy purposes.” purposes.”
Churchill descended half way wi HOOSIER AN AMONG D DEAD
IN PLANE ACCIDENT
HENDRICKS FIELD, Fla. July 18 (U. P.).—A board of army officers today investigated a Flying Fortress crash Saturday in which the crew of five men were killed. The huge ship crashed at Heéndricks field while returning from a training flight. Killed included 2d Lt. Gene M. Millikan, husband of Mrs. Betty 8. Millikan, Daleville,
{ Ind.
BECOMES PATIENT IN OWN HOSPITAL
Clyde Parsons, 4337 Broadway, City hospital business manager, found himself a patient there today. He fell from a tree Saturday aft-
accident occurred, he said, as he was trimming ‘a tree;
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nese plapes in a low-level sweep (Continued From Page One) °° over airfields in the Nagoya area They déscribed Nagoya, once t
pondent Ernest Hoberecht from the ‘bridge of the Iowa. . The shelling duplicated a bom- | pardment carried out by another | task foree less than 24 ‘hours earlier against the Honshu port of Kamai- third city of Japan with a popul shi, also an important steel center. |tion of more than there | heap of red, dust mar
of a 1000-plane raid,” he said. - Giles said the recert puzzling absence of Japanese aerial opposition to the fleet and B-29 raids / . . might have been caused by a shortTWO: - Lt. Gen, Barney M, Giles, age of gasoline or by an enemy. plan to hold back his air forces r&ist the invasion. Whatever the reason, there was virtually no resistance to Halsey’s| Tr He promised that the bombing of Jide. ranging warships and carrie the enemy homeland would be redoubled in very short order as soch as the U. S. 8th air force arrives to join the 20th and 21st bomber commands in the Pacific.
‘American gunnegs pumped 1000 tons or more of shell- | fire and wrecked another big Jap-! anese steel plant along with a large
to
Chinese Troops
Dispatches from Halsey's fleet Seize Two Towns ips, |
week-end. CHUNGKING, July. 16 (U. p.).— nell (D. Del), Robert M. LaFollette
Upward of 1000 carrier planes attack yesterday,
parges and small craft totaling 53.000 tons and damaged another 64 Chinese planketing the entire 3400 square | totaling 55.000 tons. miles of Hokkaido.
driving toward
American airbase) Ty. report also said that: | aAmong the wrecked vessels were town, have captured Huangmien, 53 ONE. The WLB should adopt a" Official reports said they pounded six of the seven railroad ferries miles southwest of Kweilin, and|gefinite policy on substandard Sends on HorLeaslann Heonspd and plying the coal, steel and iron route Liaukiang, 60 miles to the south- | Shibetsu on northern Norkaido,|petween Hokkaido's mines and blast west. a headquarters communique | while radio Tokyo volunteered the furnaces and the war factories of said today. budget approach as fts criterion in information that they also hit the | Honshu. Hokkaido Otaru, Abashiri, Kushiro, Asahiga-|Tsugauru wa and Obihiro. Simultaneously, a powerful sur- land Hokkaido. face flotilla led by the 45,000- -ton | super-dreadnaughts Iowa, Missouri|planes were destroyed or damaged and Wisconsin, steamed boldly Into |by the American navy fliers aged Australians Drive the landlocked port of Muroran on | urday, southern Hokkaido and battered the |only five more Sunday, city at point-blank range for 62 the
were
grounded Japanese
‘Japanese Back MANILA, July 16 enemy | tralian 7th division
and they were able to bag
Moving within 1000 yards of the |
the | turing 200-foot ‘Halsey’ s raiders de- | five miles north of Balikpapan. Gen. Douglas MacArthur's com- |tancy and irresolution.” Approval . munique announced that the moun-|of the 65-cent resolution, it said following a|would “serve to bring the board to then | American planes from Okinawa and |heavy artillery barrage which drove (adopt a more forthright and realJapanese from their defenses. |istic approach.” Australian |. The - committee said a 65-cent
1000 tons of shells into the city. They ripped apart the great Wa- | Tokyo area, nishi iron works and the Nison steel works and touched off leaping fires in the sprawling docks and factor- |
stroyed or damaged a total of 434] planes—all but three on the ground. | Supporting the fleet strikes, other tain
steamed away without opposition. {Iwo Jima continued the Nediraliza. “There was land to port, land] tion, campaign dead ahead and to starboard, but| nese air bases on Kyushu and for. troops moved up the coast five miles | minimum would mean a 15 per Tokyo said more|in 48 hours to take Amborwang, five cent raise for workers in tobacco {than 270 planes carried out the at-'miles southwest of the oil field re- and lumber industries and 10 yer
finery center at Sambodja.
still the Japanese didn't attack— | shu yesterday not even a pistol shot was fired,” reported United Press War Corres- | tack.
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he meant poverty, {ll health and dega. radation for millions of American as alcitizens® Pepper's subcommittee xed by ADOC | sald. “Low wages also take their | casional chimney sticking up from toll ‘from the war. effort through
absenteeism and lowered efficiency jon the job... [+ Other memisets of the subcomDe Senators Elbert D. Thomas (D. Utah), James M. Tun-
(P. Wis), and George D. Alken (R. Vt.) -
wages: using the . cost-of-living
determining what rates would be
Meanwhile the Communist daily | required to wipe out substandard In effect, the foray in the narrow “New China” reported that the JaD- | Jiving. conditions. severed ‘direct anese have turned Shanghai into Honshu 'a battlefield ready for allied land-
TWO. The WLB should apply ‘this new policy uniformly to both | voluntary and dispute cases. The hoard's present policy applies only to voluntary cases. | THREE. The WLB should stop
(U. P.).—Aus-! {the practice of counting increases units drove | granted to bring wages to sub|desperately battling Japanese troops |sistence - level against the 15 per Since the 3d fleet launched its|back along a 60-mile route north|cent allowable raise under the port, the warships hurled more than | strike against Japan last Tuesday |toward Samarinda today after cap- Little Steel formula. Batocampar,| The . report termed the WLB's
substandard policy as “one of hesi-
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