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- -from Buenos Aires,” de Pascal | tainly are enough Nazi sympathizers | ~cnmrote; “I gm virtually certain Adolf|in Argentina who would ‘jump at

Hitler and his ‘wife’ “Eva Braun’ the chsntelo give:a Bexar tothe d oir oe oT the latter dressed in masculine living symbol of Naziism” : i TEER clothes, landed in Argentina and “In this connection,” he added : are on an immense, German-owned | “the utmost significance is now at- i

Okinawaps Decline Jap Bid To Mass Suicide; Like Yanks|

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By GERALD R. THORP, Times Forelgn Sorrespondent

home islands is further proof that the enemy has neither the pilots nor the fuel to get their planes off the ground, Gen. George C. Kenney, commander of our Far East air force declared yesterday. - The blunt-spoken, four-star general, whose command now includes the 5th, Tth and 13th air forces, told me that in his opinion the Japs |

material, a a “The Nip prob. = \ ably has planes, © although it is difficult to tell how | “many of them are | operational,” he { said. “But the & small percentage of the.Jap popuJation that produces pilots has 4 done ‘about all it

parent one of its most critical problems. Another factor,

| added. la strong possibility that the Nips, in

{ replacements. i 33 “ ot | The general indicated that he 1 | convinced, that Japan cannot make

HELD IN DEATH OF |Cat With 2 Pairs of Wings MINSTERS WIFE

MIAMI, Fla. June 16 (U, P).— Seaman 1-¢ William Wells Parker, MANILA, July 17~The failure of the Jap air force to appear in|oa of Toledo, O. was held today in strength against Be allied naval and air units now pounding the connébtion with the beer bottle Hlav8 winged cat in the city pound at cepted him and turned him over t0| whisky was hijacked .across the ing of a Massachusetts minister's] wife. The aude boty of Mrs E10 Meo lon Vite en iti It is impossible to estimate how|Owen Eames of Brookline, Mass, | 3ction swear over their beer that] rained their source of pilot much of Japan's reserves are left, | was found in a hotel airshaft where| } have d on the general continued, but it 1s, ap- | parker said he had tossed it when |" Ihe alr from a sung star that ‘lack of gasoline Sine discovered she was dead.

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Police said Mrs. Eames had been |paper last night. which may be living with an older man here while| ge 3 | keeping enemy planes grounded, IS| oping 5 divorce from her husband, | thing about it. but it's recorded that, lack of spare parts, Gen. Kenney |o) = sne accused of desertion the cat: has a front pair of wings He believes that there iS|g) one pecame an army chaplain. | with a span of 14 inches from tip to| ’ Parker told police he miet Mrs. (tip, and a rear se} measuring six| : | concentrating on plane production, {mo ee in a tavern Sunday night|inches, They're covered with black | 8 neglected to manufacture parts for| nd she accompanied him to. his fur topside and ribbed below. room. She struck him with a, beer bottle during an argument, and he grabbed another bottle and struck

’ Mr. Thorp { widespread -use of suicide bombers Inf per, he said.

can do.” [the future. The general, in elaborating that | “The kamikaze boys are spectacu- | statement, said that enemy pilots |,» he observed, “but the Very pave been drawn only from the i, .4 of attack carries its own| highest stratum of the Japanese. |... of destruction. Plane Fuel Low your top pilots for one-way trips,

VICTORY CLUB EUCHRE The Victory club will ty {euchre party at 1:30 p.m. tomorrow If you us; the Food Craft shop.

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GANG HUIAGKS 45 -|_ Wed in Italy

“BARRELS OF WHISKY [EE

Stirs British Pub Patrons | ; i A truck driver was found slugged

LONDON, July 17 (U. P.).—No-|flying fitfully down a side sttreet in| early today near Warsaw after his 3 body has to believe it, but there's Sheffield. A startled citizen inter- cargo of 45 barrels of government hy

the “police, Ohio I $2,854,000. . ? o line. : Sheffield. Not just gn ordinary) mpg police weren't sure about the| ~gtate police sald Russell -Koons,

winged cat, but a cat with two sets| jaw on flying cats, so they gave him) os whose address is unknown, was l6f wings, fore and aft. — to the local pound. driving near Addyston, O., when Awaiting Owner . his truck was stopped. Several men |: | “And that's where Wingy is sup-|sprang from an automobile and. the “wingy cat” can soar 10 feet sed to be today. If his owner|jerked the driver from his seat, | doesn’t come forward, they'll prob-|blindfolding him and placing him|§ P That, at least, is the story relayed |.) 3 0 to dispose ‘of oD re- in the waiting car. rom Sheffield by a London news- |. ettully. : Koons told state police he rode ey ! | .Since the pound frowns on.put- for some time before he was slugged oure. not required to do ANY"| io animals on exhibition or using|and thrown on the road about 12 them for scientific purposes untilmiles east of Warsaw. During this {they are dead, the flying cat of time, he told authorities, he heard Sheffield probably won't be exposed | the sound -of cattle and believes he to the public gaze alive. | was taken near a stockyards. Unless that owner shows up| The truck driver left Lawrencepretty quickly. | burg, Ind, last night, en route to Pennsylvania, he told officers.

state war fund president stated.

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Cpl. and Mrs. Joseph Faccone |2dded. ; leave St. Joseph's church in Bari, Italy, where they were married recently. Cpl. Faccone is the son of Mrs. Mary Faccone, 115 S. Davidson so, The bride is from Collefere provinée, Rome. .

local projects.

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AUSTRIAN CARRIES APPEAL

HAMBURG RIOT REPORTED LONDON, { personal envoy

because there was another one| LONDON, July 17 (U. P.),—The| RELEASE MEDICAL OFFICERS |F from Austrian around there about six years ago|British Broadcasting ‘Co. late yes-| WASHINGTON, July 17 (U. P).~ Chancellor Karl Renner was re-|-land this full-grown Tom may be terday quoted a Hamburg radio The army has released 900 medical | ported en route to London today

: Gave Him to Pound Wingy is no novelty in Sheffield,

Leroy Johnson (R. Cal.).

PARTIES TO BE FORMED

have aling gear. It was last Friday night when|persons in Hamburg last weekend | this outlandish tomcat showed up,'and several were killed. Isaid today.

sponsored government, * lzones, it was disclosed today.

TUESDAY, JULY 17, 1815 : OCTOBER WAR FUND § DRIVE IS PLANNED

Indiana War fund organizations are now making plans in 16 districts for their October campaign to raise

The total to be reached in 110 Ine diana communities will .be .approxi= mately $6,500,000, the same amount asked last year, Clarence Goris,

“This will be Indiana's share of the national.goal of $250,000,000 in the nationwide campaign this fall,” Frank Zoll, state campaign director,

Local chests and federated fund units will seek about $3,500,000 for

WASHINGTON, July 17 (U. P.) — A bill proposing establishment of a military academy on the Pacifia July 17 (U. Py~A coast was introduced today for Rep,

| FLENSBURG, July 17 (U. P.).— an offspring that inherited his fly- broadcast as saying that German officers since Jan. 1 and plans to|to establish contact with the west-|German anti-Naz! political parties | crowds had attacked some displaced |discharge 7000 more in the next|ern powers, which thus far have|will be permitted to form soon in

nine months, the war department|refused to recognize ‘his Soviet- | British and , American occupation

: “There is a sharp intellectual tpen you don't have instructors to cleavage in Japan,” he continued | rain young pilots. And if you send “Only the most intelligent of the youngsters, then you have no pilots race are capable of becoming pilots. 14 train. Then, too, the suicide plane ¥ou just can’t make a flier out of 8| can't do any fighting and needs boy who has known nothing but | ggnter protection. padding around a rice field all his; Drafted for Suicide le, So by is Sale bo Bsus 38 “The Japs have found that to get the small group is pretty well |one suicide plane on the target it is pilots were drawn prevty often necessary to sacrifice a squad-

exhausted, 3 % ent months that Japin’s e belief tha j : Geof in Focont m {are all volunteers, fanatical in their

HISEDY of plate i is desperyialy | zeal to die for the emperor, is hardi early in the Luzon cam-{1¥ true, Gen. Kenney revealed. He ign we found scores of Jap planes | disclosed that recently a suicide pilot Pe in arachuted to safety and let his at Clark fleld, which never got into |P :the air because their gas tanks were |bomb-laden plane crash in the sea ‘empty,” Gen. Kenney said. The pilot, captured and interrogated oy a bv our forces, told sadly of being May Need Spare Parts \*4 {drafted for the job. He smuggled a The Nips’ only sources of gasoune {chute on the plane the night before at present, he pointed out, are re-| is flight. Serves, sored in the home islands, Since then, Gen. Kenney added, and some minor synthetic p YORRIC~ 1 tne Japs have taken a grim view tion. Japan's major source of oll | oy such tactics. Pilots now are was the Netherlands East Indies but | cated into their cockpits by out-

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Eva Are Hiding in Patagonia

CHICAGO, July 17 (U. P.), = time master of Germany was living Chicago Times Correspondent Vin- lon one of a number of estates in

Pascal {the desolate Patagonia area “purGeH, So has reported: from [chased to-provide sanctuaries for

Montevideo that he is “virtually [the Nazi overlords if, and when, certain” Adolf Hitler and his | their schemes for world conquest sweetheart, Eva Braun, are in hid- | went awry.” ing in a German-owned estate in| De Pascal said that the pair resouthern Argentina. | portedly landed on a lonely shore His dispatch was carried in yes-| from a German submarine which terday’s final edition of The Times. later surrendered to the allies. “From information just received| De Pascal wrote that there “cer-

estate in Patagonia.” tached to the words of Gen. Basilo De Pascal's - information, which Pertine at a banquet on June 4: he said was received through “re-|‘I am glad to announce that our liable channels,” was that the one-| friends are safe at last.”

Heart Condition Better, but Victim's $1900 Is Still Lost

A. E. Brock, 65, of 2130 Brookside) Ms. Pam said she was expecting

ave, was in & fair condition in St.| coat and found nothing.

» {| Mr. Brock, who has a chronic Vincent's hospital today after he heart ailment, said that he had

had a heart attack and then dis-| ine money when he left home yes-

covered $1900 in money and insur-|terday. He said he was taking the ance policies were missing from his | policies and money. to the home of coat. .|a friend, Mrs. Minnie Pam, 116% Mr. Brock told police that he|E. St. Clair st, to keep for him boarded a taxicab yesterday at his| while he was being treated at St. home and asked to be let out in| Vincent's hospital. . the 800 block of Ft. Wayne ave.

Police said they examined the when he became dizzy, He said he| Mr. Brock and knew that he was remembered getting out but then he| bringing the money but that he did fell unconscious to the sidewalk. not arrive. “Is a brown manila envelope in| Police today were checking to sees my coat?” he asked police who|if the envelope might have been temporarily revived him. lost in the taxicab.

WASHINGTON, July 17 (U. P.) —| chuckling at the sight of their men

Sgt. Harold Helfer, staff corres: laboring. at army. assigned jobs. All J.

pondent of the marine magazine, | males ‘are segregated in work camps Leatherneck, said today that na- to prevent infiltration of Japanese soldiers. ,Leatherneck said OkinaIn an article in the current issue |wans understand the reasoning and of the magazine, Helfer said na-| do not fight it. - tives had been told by the Japanese! The “Americanization” of Okinthat Americans were “hairy sav- | awa, Leatherneck said, was demon--ages” who would butcher their chil-| strated in the town of. Sobe. After dren, steal their women and en-| invasion, a group of natives ran slave their men, around pointing to themselves and The Japanese propaganda line! shouting: er advocated mass suicide among| *“‘Mericans. Mericans,’” They Okinawans as preferable to Amer-| thought American citizenship came ican occupation. . However, Helfer | with the conquest of their island sald, Suicides have been negligible —

in are definitely | BOYS SCHOOL BAND Regarded as Inferior TO GIVE CONCERT

“They show no signs of fear or| The Charlton high school band resentment,” the article said. “Even | from the Indiar Ss’ the young women, at first painfully | piainfield will 3a Boys Sheol ui shy In our presence, promenade! Wil Drafent 8 band eon. without concern.” - cert tomorrow at 8 p. m. at BrookThe article said Okinawans ap-| Side park, pear to be “a simple and honest! Under the direction of Louis L.| people. They are frugal and hard- |Purflinger, the 38-piece band will | working, They have to be to sur-|Play a selection from ‘the Gilbert vive.” and ‘Sullivan opera, “His Majesty's Okinawans, nearly all peasants, Ship Pinafore.” ‘The program will | were originally of Japanese stock, also include..a medley of service! the magazine said, but have picked |songs, the “Honor .Band March,” up Chinese, Korean and Malayan | Bach's “Sleepers, Wake! A Voice Is! blood strains. Okinawa has been |Sounding)” and “Tea for Two.” under Jap rule since 1879 but Oki- RE

to mie ey seri” 27 CORNELIUS CHILDREN cer's rank in the Japanese army. | | WIN . FLAG CONTEST.

~ Call Selves "Mericans | First place in ‘the city recreation Leatherneck said the Japanese department’s annual playground

10,000. Okinawans,« Disease spread yesterday to children from. - unchecked and lepers mingled with |nelius playground, n id the heaithy. American occupation| George’ Washington playground brought a health program to the! children won second place and those island, the magazine said, and the at Highland were third. Honorable

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