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Nationalist - Promoter = Also Confers With Old Klan Leaders.
{This is the third of six articles on the growth of the Nationalist movement in the United States. The series describes the organizations, their leaders, methods and programs.)
By EUGENE SEGAL »~ Scripps-Howard Staff Writer
CLEVELAND, July 18. — Prominent among the people promoting the Nationalist cause is a pblice character who is recruiting bands of terrorists. He is Homer Maertz, dapper, mustached, Chicago vandal. Maertz served a six-month jail sentence in| 1941 for smashing windows of Jew-ish-owned shops. At present he is traveling around the country organizing sluggers and hoodlums into action groups. He also has frequent conferences in Detroit with leaders of the old Ku-Klux Klan and United Sons of America, which succeeded the dissolved Klan. Doesn't Work, Flashes Money Maertz doesn’t work, but he dresses well and flashes -substantial rolls of money. He was a delegate to the first national convention of the America First party in Detroit, Aug. 29, 1944, where he offered a resolution ecalling for the sterilization or deportation of all Jews in the United States. Active in the Nationalist ranks is another man with a police record. He is John 8. Gilimeier of Newark, N. J. When former U, 8. Senator Robert R. Reynolds, last year, started the American Nationalist Committee of Independent Voters, predecessor of his new American Nationalists party, he formed a Newark committee with Gillmeier as secretary. Gillmeier was arrested in Newark on charges of grand larceny in 1934 and ‘open lewdness” in 1938,
| but both chs were dismissed. | Bl Preseiiy UE Aimenvah atin
alists party as a reputable organi-|
gation, Reynolds stoutly denies any connection with the lawless ele ments.
Seek Monetary Changes Maertz, however, is working closely with Gerald L. K. Smith,
Chicago Vandals
Recruit Terrorists
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personal letter” to “loyal supporters” and further proves Smith's
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alliance with Reynolds.
Homer Maertz, Chicago vandal... organizes Nationalist terrorists.
rabble-rouser of the American First party. And photostatic evidence reproduced here shows Smith's collaboration with Reynolds. It includes the statement signed by Smith in which he told his supporters of his agreement with Reynolds to co-operate in the formation of a nationalist committee, Repro- | duction of “The Letter” a Smith publication, tells more about this co-operation. Reynolds’ plan to tie in with | other nationalist groups is shown |
LANDIS CITES
IDLE VEHICLES
Going to Africa, He Says,
Though Needed Here,
While Hoosiers clamor for trans-
by additional photostats. There is! portation relief, the camels are getthe letter, for instance, from Rey- [ting it in the form of lend-lease holds to John G. Scott, head of the {trucks shipped from Bloomington
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TIRES IN PROSPECT FOR A-CARD FOLK
ollyer Says They May Be Ready by February.
WASHINGTON, July 18 (U. P.). Rubber Director John L. Collyer predicted today that some A-card olders may obtain new tires by ext February or March, if present production goals are met. ‘ Tires have not been available to ~card holders since July, 1943. In a farewell press conference, llyer said 25,000,000 passenger car ires were scheduled for production his year—or “little more than esfential replacement needs.” He emphasized that at least F5.000 tons of natural rubber .must obtained from newly liberated reas in the Far East if 1946 needs re to be met. 3 Collyer revealed that
between
P000 and 3000 tons of natural rub- |’
per already had been obtained from e Philippines and Burma. Production Chief J, A. Krug meanwhile announced that Robert Wilson, vice president of the
North Africa, Congressman ald Landis charged today. “Folks down here say Africa
doesn’t need ‘em, but we do,” said the congressman, talking from Linto! the seventh district.
n, his ‘home town, in the heart of
“They have more trucks-in Africa
now than they had before the war. And around here we try to get along on junkers. N camels, but not us Hoosiers.”
Looks like the ew Deal is willing to relieve the
‘Rusting and Rotting’ Mr, Landis said numerous sev-
enth district citizens had tried without success to buy some of the lend-lease trucks, parked “in open weather” at the Woolery Stone Co., Bloomington. He said several hundred of them “rusted and rotted” there all winter.
The treasury procurement di-
vision in the federal building here pooh-poohed Rep. Landis’ accusations. spector. in charge of the division, said the trucks were “processed” to
Oscar B. Pulis, acting in-
withstand outside storage in the Bloomington stone company yards. “A lot_of local boys have been
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d L. K. Smith, is from a “strictly
WEDNESDAY, JULY 18, 1945
Fleet Shows ‘Magnificent Contempt’ For Japs
By ROY W. HOWARD President, The Indianapolis [limes ABOARD A FAST CARRIER OFF HOKKAIDO, Japan, July 14 (Delayed) .—~For the first time in history giant American battleships and heavy cruisers today bombarded the mainland of Japan in a gesture of magnificent contempt for both the enemy naval and air power. Adm. William PF. Halsey today
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took the shooting war, as distinct from the bombing war, directly into Hirohito's front yard. The main feature of today’s action involved a strike by a powerful unit of battleships, heavy cruisers and screening destroy- ' ers under the direct command of Rear Adm. John F. Shafroth Jr. This unit was a part of the fast task force commanded by Vice Adm. John 8. McCain.
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Today's bombardment forecast what is in store for. all Jap coastal cities of importance. To accomplish its purpose, the heavy force cruised into the very tidewaters within five miles of the coast of northern Honshu to batter with eight and 16-inch shells the coastal city of Kamaishi. In Kamaishi the Japan Iron & Steel Works, sixth in importance
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PRICE FIVE CENTS
in the empire, operates one of its important plants, employing some 6000 persons. While the Kamaishi bombardment was ander way, fignters and bomber planes from this unit of the task force criss-crossed Hokkaido with bomb-laden shuttles to weave a pattern of death, fire and destruction from which. this island, alone of all Japan, has hitherto been exempt.
SALES LEGAL OPA REPORTS
Weary Wives Protesting ‘In Sack’ Handling of Scarcities.
By BETTY SHERRITT
Housewives’ protests against un-der-the-counter sales today were reaching the screaming point. Hardest’ hit by the new-scarcities are recent arrivals who have not yet established esprit de corps with a co-operative butcher. The steady customers still pick up a half dezen pounds of beef, soap chips, Kleenex, salad dressing,
MUNCIE GAMING
Gamblers in Many Other Cities Jittery.
As the state police gaming purge extended to Muncie today, professional gamblers throughout Indiana were on the alert . . . aveantion of Lake. closed Muncie tighter than last night on orders of Superintendent Austin Killian. There were no raids or arrests. The plainclothesmen simply circulated the word around and that was that. month-long turmoil over Muncie gaming. A similar gambling ban was slapped on Marion county by state poliec last week. Gamblers Jittery Meanwhile, Col. Killian's assertion last night that state police will snuff out gambling in any town where it seems to have gotten beyond control of local authorities {had Hoosierdom’'s gaming clan Jittery. Many Indiana communities are “wide open.”
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out of control of local authorities? Handbooks, dice #nd ecards reportedly are doing a prosperous business in certain portions of southern Indiana, especially in Jeffersonville and New Albany. *Citizens in those Louisville, Ky., suburbs several] months ago petitioned
FILES PETITION TO OUST SEN. GLASS
ARLINGTON, Va, July 18 (U. P.).—A Republican county official sought a court order to oust Senator Carter Glass (D. Va.) from his senate seat on grounds that the ailing, 87-year-old Lynchburg publisher is “permanently incapacitated.” John Locke Green, Arlington county treasurer, filed a petition asking the Virginia supreme cqurt of appeals at Richmond to, issue a write of mandamus directing Governor Colgate W. Darden Jr. to an election to provide a‘ successor to Glass. : Green sald that Glass had not appéared in the senate since June 20, 1942.
Hoosier Dirt Farmer Takes
‘OPA regulations stipulates that this
The clampdown ended a |Said
And the $64 question is: Who de- | termines when and if gambling is|
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,Bisquick, Jello and popular brand |cigarets when their friendly retailer {reaches under his counter. and |deftly comes up with a paper sack marked “salt.” Hundreds of daily shoppers, wearv from their two-hour “crack-of-dawn” wait for the meat truck, this week have flooded local OPA offices with complaints against the merchants and their privileged patrons. But in answer, OPA en-
i$ a violation.”
Within Legal Rights “Retailers are within their legal rights to hold back merchandise for their regular customers,” he
“Only if a customer is required to buy some unwanted commodity in order to obtain the merchandise he is seeking, can the OPA take action.” Among the OPA’s morning mail of protests an anonymous Indianapolis housewife declares: “I was in the store. Monday when a woman just ahead of me bought 52 pounds of beef for 22 points. {One-fourth of a beef (approximately 100 pounds) remained on { the block. “I asked for a small roast, to which the butchér smartly replied, ‘That is to fill orders.’ Who's Got the Bacon? Another shopper declared; “I was promised some bacon would be in yesterday, but when I asked I was told none had come in. Then the man behind me was given some from under the counter right before my eyes. . “I went to another store where I saw a woman coming out with | bacon, but when I asked, according to the owner, they, too, had none.” Says a male consumer: “I walked into a drug store and was refused cigarets Fifty minutes later I sent in a friend who successfully emerged with three packages in a paper sack marked “salt.” Outeries at High Point Not since the near riot at City market two years ago when an early crowd of meat seekers was refused by a favoriteering butcher, have the outcries been so loud, -declared Russell Campbell, OPA state publicity director. To the grocers, however, these people who shop from store to store are known suspiciously as “floaters,” trying to pick up a collection of the scarcities. to hoard, said Mr. Campbell. Besides the under-counter deal ing are complaints’ against selling cigarets on punchboards, a specific OPA violation, and many revelations of ' black market prices.
forcement attorney John E. Scott:
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LINK ‘RED TINGE T0 16 ARMY MEN
House Group Says Officers! Lean to Communism.
WASHINGTON, July 18 (U. P.). —=Sixteen army officers and enlisted | men were singled out by a congres- | sional committee today as persons | “whose background reflects communism in some form.”
Reporting on its investigation of alleged commissioning of Communists, a house military affairs subcommittee said the army had granted commissions to some applicants who had been given unfavorable reports by a war department personnel board. The 16 men whose background was alleged to “réflect communism” included: Sgt. Samuel Dashiell Hammett, well-known fiction writer, Lt. Joseph Lash, one-time head of the American students union and protege of Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt.
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Reporter Finds 40 Costly
Portraits in Danger Of Damage.
By DONNA MIKELS ‘A STATEHOUSE saga which might be titled “The Case of the Missing Governors” was unreeling
beneath the freshly washed capitol |
dome today. Forty black rings around the
hallowed fourth floor hall marked | the spot where oil paintings of Indiana's 37 chief executives had |
been hung for posterity. ” # x WHERE and how the canvasses are now was something else again. The man in whose charge they are entrusted didn’t know. The
man responsible for keeping the,
collection up to date wasn't sure. The present governor made a guess but was wrong. They all know the pictures had been taken down while the state house was getting a ‘long overdue cleaning. What they didn’t know or seemed only to have
heard rumored was that by the time theyre to be re-hung the
ancient -and expensive portraits may have been damaged beyond
Four lieutenants assigned to the office of strategic services. A report prepared by Committee | Investigator H. Ralph Burton said | a personnel board had Yecom~| mended withholding commissions | from 39 or ‘40 men whose appli- | cations had been sent up for special | study. On a final review by the office of the deputy chief of staff, Burton said, the personnel board was sustained in 25 cases, one person was discharged but the other 14 were returned to officer candidate schools or commissioned. Burton said he could “present the facts” to show that the 16 men
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Vandals Must
repair. n » o UP ON the fourth floor, however, I found the missing men, apparently unaware of all the hue and cry. Two and twenty governors—almost as: black as blacknirds—stood ir a row in the senate balcony. The rest were stacked
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ASSIGN POLICE TO
PROTECT SOLDIERS Military
‘Watch Taxi Stands to End.
Epidemic: of Robberies.
Police are watching taxicab stands |
Case of the ‘Missing Hoosier Governors’ Solved
TRUMAN WINS A MAJOR POINT
The report of today's action, which inaugurated another menacing phase of the war's penetration into Japan, is no eyewitness
account, It 1s being fileq from the carrier flagship of Rear Admiral Thomas L. Sprague, in command of a task group participating in today's action. The dis-
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JAPS SAY CARRIER FORCE HITS TOKYO AREA 2ND STRAIGHT DAY
UNDER-COVER |
ENEMY COAST ABLAZE AFTER NAVY BLASTS
Halsey’s Ships Steam Six Miles Off Shore to ‘Shell Targets.
By WILLIAM F. TYREE United Press Staff Correspondent
GUAM, July 18. — Up to 1500 American - and British planes were reported smashing at the Tokyo area for the second straight day today. The enemy coast was still flaming under a 200-ton broadside from the guns of the allied fleet.
Japanese broadcasts said the great carrier strike that spread
SAN FRANCISCO, July 18 (U. P). — Gen, Yasuji Okamura, supreme ' commander of Japanese expeditionary forces in China, said today a withdrawal of Japanese troops from China was in- 2
network of airfields from dawn to dusk yesterday was resumed in force around noon today. Three hours later the attack was still raging and upwards of 500 allied warplanes were bombing and strafing airdromes and other military installations on all sides of Tokyo, the enemy accounts said.
‘Forces Japanese War Into Top Spot on Agenda. (Editorial, Page 12) By MERRIMAN SMITH
United Press Staff Correspondent POTSDAM, July Three meeting was resumed ‘this
afternoon and President Truman was understood to have informed Premier Stalin and Prime Minister Churchill that he regards the war against Japan as the first problem of the conference. In their second joint meeting !since the conference opened yesterday, the three chiefs of state were believed to be still limiting their discussions to preliminaries, appar- | ently establishing the order in { which the high issues at stake will ‘| be resolved. Mr lunch with Churchill and pay a | courtesy call.on Stalin before the
afternoon business session, but there |
was no immediate word from the heavily-guarded compound whether | he had done so. In his capacity as chairman of the meeting, however, Mr. Truman appeared to have “already won a major ‘point in forcing the Pacific war to the top of the agenda. Within a few hours after his first formal meeting with Prime Minister Churchill and Premier Stalin, | (Continued on Page 9—Columm 3)
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By LYLE CO. WILSON United Press Staff Correspondent
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| | a 18.—The Big | 12 hours after a thundering night
Japanese broadcasts said the new carrier-borne attack hit the dis tricts of Chiba, Ibaragi, Kana{gawa, Tochigi, Gumma and Fuku-
‘shima as well as the Tokyo region,
Fleet Off Tokyo Bay The new air blow came less thar:
bombardment hy an Anglo-Ameri-can surface fleet against the defenseless Japanese coast, barely 25 miles from Tokyo. Fleet dispatches hinted the allied battlewagons were maneuvering off Tokyo bay this afternoon and the Japanese alerted their coastal population to expect further shelling. “The enemy task force is liable to attack us at any chosen time and place,” the Japanese Domei news agency admitted bleakly. The Japanese later reported that sizable formations of Liberators
Truman was scheduled t0|and fighters from Okinawa struck”
{southern Kyushu and Shikoku to- | day and that 100 fighters and bombers again raided Shanghai. Cities Burning The Chinese seaport was bombed {heavily by 60 Liberators and: { Mitchel) bombers yesterday, ac{cording to Tokyo. | The Yokusuka naval station on {the west side of Tokyo bay was |identified by the Japanese as one of the targets in the new attacks. | They said it was attacked by more
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Queash Hopes Of Quick Victory in Pacific
‘enemy leaders decide to call it quits | before that, but occupation in any
WASHINGTON, July 18.—Rumors | event.
Homespun Views to Parley
By KENNETH HUFFORD “Looking into the future, I don't |think we could do any one thing more important than elevating the living standards of the common citizens of the world.”
“ » and hopes of quick peace in the! There are of course some persons in an art Wo ourb alleged “yolling | Pacific take a bad beating among| who believe that the enemy leaders THOSE WHO insist on ite |of servicemen by taxicab drivers military men here, who believe may get sensible and decide to subting vandalism to city a p- working with women. {Japan is full of fight and must be mit before much more of the homeerty will find themselves working | CPt Audrey Jacobs, head of the invaded. {land is wrecked. in the parks to pay for the dam- |police traffic division, said today he! She has 5000000 well armed The government will have terms
: (troops. in the home islands and| for the J e to fulfill ya age. had assigned special uads to {on tap for the Japanes This arrangement has been dé- watch = — q about 4000 first line fighter and such a contingency But the cone
(Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., will Repair Damage
ucceed Collyer,
STOP MOVE TO DELAY WORLD MONEY PACT
Senators Vote Down Taft
A Boone county farmer,. Mr. Schenck will take to the conference a home-spun, Hoosier point of view in considering topics relating to credit, monetary stabilization, post-
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This philosophy will guide Hassil
E. Schenck, president of the Indiana Farm Bureau, Inc, as he attends 8 sessions of the 3d§
war agricultural adjustments, improvements in production and consumption, marketing, transportation, post-war agricultural migrations and agriciltural statistics problems. When Ed O'Neill, president of the American Farm Bureau Federacion, was unable to accept President Truman’s invitation to attend the conference, farm leaders believe he
{showed unusual wisdom in asking
Mr. Schenck to represent him. “1 accepted—not too reluctan
y." the Hoste farmer winked. if
Proposal, 52 to 31.
WASHINGTON, .July 18 (U. P), ~The senate today defeated. 52 to 31, a proposal by Senator Robert A. Taft (R.O.), that it put off the decision on the Bretton Woods monetary agreements until Nov. 15. Meanwhile the senate bamking committee unanimously approved legislation to increase the lending power of the export import bank, from $700,000. to $3,500,000,000. Committee Chairman Robert F. Wagner. (D./N. Y), told reporters he would bring the bill up in the as soon as the. Bretton Woods
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veloped between Paul Brown, city parks superintendent, and Judge Mark W. Rhoads of juvenile court. The work will not be “soft” either, the two officials promised. Offenders will be paid the usual 60-cent-an-hour labor rate and will be assigned to tasks where they can “appreciate” the articles they have damaged. For example, Mr. Brown explained, a person who has damaged trees will be put to work sawing’ up. limbs from blowndown trees for use in picnic
furnaces. oy : Si ! = Plan : Interest Com: RR i st
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council safety committee chairman Mr.
ties with “laxity.” Capt. rou stands.
around taxi 3 & ghat. at
these
Dauss called the meeting, charging law enforcement authori-
Jacobs said police will watch “dublous” persons loitering may prove to be less immediately cific, in fact, has only begun. Mr. Dauss| significant than they appear in the a locations headlines. often team up with un-|
{ bomber planes. Ja
shore lines. | Pacific fleet and air operations,
|coupled with reports of changes, in | President . Truman's travel plans,
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also has an This move was taken following a enormous store of infant meeting attended by Police Chief The consensus’ herea Jesse P. McMurtry, Safety Board Japan still will fight President Wili H. Remy, Capt. Ja-| astonishing failure to challenge cobs and R. C. (Bud) Dauss, city na
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sensus is that this is a rather re-
IY Weapons. mote hope and that a full-scale ine bouts is that|vasion will be necessary. despite the|
If Japan is to be invaded, the
our time for laying in a stock of hard vy's daring approaches to her
or soft drinks for the victory cele
| bration is a long way off and the
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Thus the spectacular reports of money just now would be better
|spent”in war bonds. : The redeployment of the American armies from Europe to the Pa-
the invasion of .