Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 July 1945 — Page 12
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Truman Talks an Hour With Premier Stalin
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Three to get down to business. - Prime Minister Churchill had called on the President for an informal ‘talk yesterday while they were waiting the delayed arrival of Stalin. : Churchill lunched today with Secretary of War Henry Stimson, Lord Leathers and Maj. Clement Attlee, labor party leader. He dined last night with Gen. George Marshall and conferred with him for some time. Mr. Truman sat at the head of the luncheon table. Stalin, wearing a fawn-colored uniform and single star, was on the President's right. Next ‘were the Soviet interpreter, V. N. Pavlov, and Molotov. In Brown Business Suit
Byrnes sat to Mr. Truman's left, and next to him were the American interpreter, Charles E. Bohlen, and
Adm. William F, Leahy, the Presi- |
dent's personal adviser.
THE FINEST IS AVAILAB
Mr. Truman wore a brown business suit. On the luncheon menu were cream of spinach soup, fried liver and” bacon ‘smothered in . onions, baked ham, potatoes, string beans, pumpernickel, jam, - sliced fruit, cookies,’ mints, candy and cigars. Information made available by the American section of the conference made no mention of alcoholic drinks. Navy Filipino personnel from the presidential yacht Potomac served the. meal. went to the rear porch overlooking a lake and posed dor pictures taken by three U. S. army and three Russian official photographers. No| ictures were made of Stalin arriving and leaving. Await Statement An earlier announcement that the Big Three conference was opening |
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visit with Mr. Truman was the first official disclosure that the generalissimo had arrived in Potsdam. Unofficial sources had reported his’ arrival yesterday afternoon. Information from: the tightly sequestered conference area still was skimpy. It-was. impossible to say at ohce whether the Truman-Stalin meeting was a get-acquainted chat or dealt in business, Some quarters regarded it as highly probable that Mr. - Truman sought to get down to business without delay. Explosions Heard
At any rate, the formal conference was due to get under way this after|noon—either with a personal meetling of the three allied chieftains or la plenary session without "the leadlers themselves. Dull explosions of. allied demoli[tion work in the ruins of Beglin were heard clearly in Potsdam as the conference shaped up. They | were understood to have gone un{noticed by the official delegations. For days demolition teams have {been working through Berlin, blowing up damaged German tanks, pillboxes and partially wrecked buildings which imperiled pedestrians. Another sober note was a shift in the weather from bright sunshine to a murky chilliness. Sends for Land Indications increased that world shipping and the problem of feeding the hungry millions of many nations would get top priority in the discussions as’ President Truman sent a hurry-up call for Adm. Emory S. Land, head of the United States war shipping administration. This obviously pointed to im- | portant discussions of world ship- | ping and food administration be-| cause Land is the king-bee. of the United States shipping situation and has been a participant in many other international discussions on the same level, including both the | Quebec conference and all of the Churchill . confererices in Washington. i Secreary of War Stimson toured .|the center of Berlin today, covering much the same route as taken by Mr... Truman and Churchill yesterday. “I feel as though I have done a distasteful duty,” he said after viewing the wreckage.
No ‘Coverage’ |
Is Permitted BERLIN, July 7 (U. P.).-—Lt. Col. John Redding, U. 8S. army public relations officer, announced today that the Big Three had decided “to adhere to their" original decision that there be no coverage ‘of the conference” by correspondents. Redding’s announcement meant that allied correspondents officially accredited in Berlin will not be permitted to enter the area in which the conference is taking place nor to reveal any information obtained within the compound.
INCREASED RATIONS ASKED
350 SAVED IN LAKE SHIP FIRE
Passengers Dive Overboard To Escape Flames. (Continued From Page One)
Port Edward, estimated the damage to the pier and the.ship at about $2,000,000. The fire broke out in the Canadian Nation] railroad freight sheds ashore,
Passengers scattered some jumping overboard.
in = panic, Others
diving from the gangplank or siid-
ing down ropes. Race to Rescue When the ship was cut adrift the
whole area was obscured by smoke and not until the liner edged into midstream could flames be seen
leaping from the decks. Coast guard cutters and all privately-owned boats in the vicinity raced to the rescue. Fire fighting apparatus from Port Huron was sent across the international bridge into Ontario. First rescue boats to reach the blazing Hamonic were three coast guard cutters from the Port Huron station. With rescue in sight, some of the passengers immediately began jumping into the water, and the cutters circled about frantically hauling them to safety. Boats owned by the J. W, Westcott Marine Reporting-Co., and the Great Lakes Marine Reporting Co., were next on the scene, followed by the pleasure craft, Elcroma IIL Boat Drifts Away
After all aboard had been saved, no attempt was made to save the burning boat, which drifted to the Canadian side of the river. The| fire destroyed her cabins and was rapidly working down into the hold. | The Harmohica was a 341-foot
in 1909. Supt. R. N. Beamish of the Sarnia, Ont., general hospital, where
most of the injured were treated, said many suffered friction burns of the hands sliding down ropes from the blazing deck. Many persons were asleep in their cabins when the fire started.
the rescues.
VETERAN HURT AS
Paul Matney, fered possible
over. hospital.
Threé other persons, riding with |
KANSAS CITY, Mo., July 16 (U. 1P).—A campaikn by the Americ | War Dads to get iricreased.food rations for military veterans home on
Mr. Matney were uninjured. aL RE NIL CART i Se a COURT ‘REGULAR’ FINED $50
{ BOSTON (U. P.).—Joseph Fine, redeployment furlough today was 48, of Roxbury was fined $50 when brought before office of price ad-| he appeared in court for the 55th | ministration and war department |time as a violator of the automo- |
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Fleet in io Attack Near Tokyo’ s Gates
vessel of 5264 tons and was built]
Spectators lined the banks on the American side of the river to watch!
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of 82,885. Due to its strategic loca~ tion, it was believed now to be a war boom town, with a considerably larger population. B-29's in thiee destructive raids previously destroyed 97.5 per cent of one of threé major plants of the Hitachi: engl‘nieering ‘works. Adm. Nimitz declared that this vast armada’s présence unchallenged in the area brought’the Pacific war to the “pre-invasion stage.” Nimitz said the attack was continuing in great strength.- : The allies can dominate the skies over Japan at will and they already control the Pacific ocean approaches to the enemy islands, he said. Must Break Jap Will , The sea control will be extended to the point where the Japanese soon will have trouble getting fish out of their own waters, the admiral said. “From this stage, we must take a series of certain and progressive steps until the will and the ability of the Japanese.people to resist are broken.” That final phase of the war, he added, will be achieved “with a minimum loss of American lives and material resources.” Adm. Halsey’s 3d fleet sailed south to meet the British Pacific fleet and brought it under Halsey's command for the joint strike on Tokyo. The 35,000-ton King George V and the 23,000-ton carrier Formidable were among the largest British war vessels parUcipating in the action, A few hours before, 500 Superforts, based on the Marianas, splattered over 2500 tons of fire bombs across Namatzu, Hiratsuka, and Kuwana on Honshu, and Oita on the northeast tip of Kyushu. Fires were reported raging in the {bombed cities, all of which were | secondary aircraft or arms centers |that have become prime targets | following the destruction of Japan's major war production centers. First Under Gen. Spaatz
The Superforts carried the obliteration offensive into its 42d straight day and this marked the first B-29 raid under the newlyorganized U, S. army strategic air force of the Pacific headed by Gen. Carl Spaatz, who directed the aerial destruction of Germany, U. 8, army fighters from Iwo Jima, 150 strong, strafed six airfields in eastern Honshu yesterday afternoon,
nounced that other warplanes Une der his command had sunk or damaged 42 Japanese ships and small craft in a series of sweeps slong the Asiatic coast. oy Chinese Advance . From Chungking, a Chinese communique announced that Chinese troops have stormed the suburbs of Kweilin, former site of the great American airbase, and that advancing columns have pushed 20 miles to the north, cutting off the enemy's retreat toward Hunan province, In Borneo, Japanese troops were fighting stubbornly attempting to hold the road to Samarinda as the Aussie Tth division advanced slowly east of captured Mount Batochampar, Still No Opposition In the face of that devastating naval attack on the homeland, the Japanese still .refused "to risk their dwindling air force in battle. Only one enemy plane, a reconnaissance ship, approached the Yank fleet during the two-day assault. It was shot down 84 miles from the fleet. The American airmen went in at low level over the Japanese aire fields in the north and destroyed
37 planes aground and” damaged) 45 others, American losses in action were 24 aircraft, 10 pilots and six air crew men, : From Okinawa
The Tokyo. radio said 60 bombers
southern Kyushu for three hours beginning about 9 a. m. today. The main target areas of the raiders were reported to be the Kagoshima and Miyazaki areas. The entry of the British fleet into the Tokyo strike was the royal navy's first direct blow against the Japanese home {islands and it augured increasingly heavy forays on the enemy's coastal cities. British warships in the central Pacific previously had operated against the Sakishima islands In support of the Okinawa campaign. Vice Adm, Sir Bernard Rawlings was in tactical command of the British flotilla under Halsey and Vice Adm, Sir Philip Vian commanded the carrier task group, Both men have had wide experience in carrier strikes and were fighting in the Indian ocean before Britain's new Pacific fleet was formed.
CHIEF PUTS BAN ON RACING WIRE
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telephone from northern Indiana bookmakers, He said bookie telephones could be removed only if the gamblers are actually convicted. “If I could get somebody to swear a warrant and testify against these bookmakers, we could force ‘them to relinquish their phones for war workers who really need them,” sald Chief McMurtry,
type of gaming operator were open
today. Another anti-gambling con-
{Safety Board Presiden Will H. | Remy.
ORDERS LONGER VACATIONS
grant longer workers,
according to Tokyo. Gen. Douglas MacArthur an-
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WASHINGTON, July 17 (U.P) — The war labor board said today that 326 lumber companies in the Pacific Northwest have . been directed to vacations: to 43,000 A one-week vacation was ordered for those employed a year and two. weeks for those employed
LOCAL GROUP TO AID G.1’S IN BUSINESS
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in mind will find ald among businessmen of Indianapolis. The Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce currently is organizing a panel of 100 businessmen to counsel and advise returning veterans interested in setting up in their own trade here. Twenty-nine local men have : been enrolled in the plan to date. The program i8 in co-operation with the G. I. loan center which operates through the Marion county banks in. the World War Memorial building. One of the major objectives is. the creation of additional employment possibilities in the post-war period.
‘UNITED -AIR LINES
CHICAGO, July 17 (U. P).— United Air Lines President W, A. Patterson has announced a 4 per cent cut in one-way fares, reduc{ing the company’s total basic fares to 76 per cent of the pre-Pearl Harbor rates. . The new reduction, announced yesterday, cuts one-way fares to
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To Explain Needs.
By GWEN MORGAN United Press Staff Correspondent { WASHINGTON, July 17.~The | White House, it was learned today, has ordered the office of war ine |
paign of explaining to the publie
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Japs” program and information projects on surplus property, eco= nomic stabilization and veterans. The presidential order was ree garded as evidence of the impore tance attached in official quarters to winnirig public support of help for Europe—perhaps even to undergoing rationing for a longer time in
less fortunate countries. Ready to Resign
rehabilitation administration,
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UNRRA’s problems are on the agenda of the current Big Three meeting at Potsdam,
of OWI's domestic branch, said the ‘agency's new assignment stemmed
presidential mission last spring ta
rope. See That Job Is Done Herrick recalled that Rosenman advocated steps to acquaint the peo ple in this country with the needs abroad." “The White House asked OWI to
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