Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 July 1945 — Page 2
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By NAT A. BARROWS Times Foreign Correspondent BERLIN, July 18.—The 45 selfGerman women of Zehillustrate the state of mind here in Berlin, which tinderlines one of the problems before the Potsdam conference. These women-—simple; middle-
officers taking over their homes as billets. It was about time—after a fortnight of occupancy—that offi~ cers, attached to Ls. Gen. Lucius Clay's United States group control council, got out and gave them back their homes, they decided. So they held a mass meeting of
¢lass housewives of the suburban Zehlendorf district—decided "that
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protest. That is not important in itself,
nor is the housewives subsequent roundup by the military authorities for a good scolding and pointed explanation about the meaning of the occupatign, “ All, 45 hausfrauen reported humbly and meekly back to their former homes the next morning to make the beds-and sweep the floors, and they complained no
. more—at least not publicly—about the lot of the vanquished..
But what is important is this: Berliners do not realize the price they must pay for losing the war. By and large they.talk as if the Big Three powers—and eventually France—planned to spend only a
few months in Berlin and then
retire, An undercurrent of arrogance
and suppressed hatred lies close to’
their ingratiating surface meekness. They fawn and they
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ermans Don’t Realize Price T er Must Pay For Defeat, Writer Fi
apologize and they proclaim
their unbroken distaste for the |
Nazis. r But never do they say one word about the misery the Germans have brought upon the world. Never do they feel that the stinking, horrible wreckage of Berlin has any aspect of retribution. At least I haven't heard any such indications of repentence or appreciation of the real cost of
war. Typical of Berliners’ ‘warped perspective on defeat is the atti- + tude of the former luffwaffe pilot, who asked an American officer: “How soon after you hold your Joint victory parade are all of you going to leave?” 1t had not occurred to him, apparently, that we were here for a long time. He was startled when told that we at we might occupy Ger-
many for 20 or Sy years. '* Many times in the fortnight since I ‘arfivéd in Berlin, have I recalled what a_hayd-faced wehrmaeht deserter once told me in Sweden last year: ‘Unless you allies, and especially
| you Americans, enforce firm peace
terms upon the Germans, they'll laugh at you behind your backs and you'll pay a real price for victory.”
WEDNESDAY, JULY 18, 1045
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Undermined by long years of clever Goebbels propaganda--and trained to think that all Russians are barbarians and sll Americans soft sentimentalists—the distorted German mind én masse provides not the least of the complications in the handling of the future of this broken, tottering but still arrogant country,
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they had had enough of American
LOOK INTO CASE OF CHENNAULT'
Senators Want to Know Why General Quit.
| WASHINGTON, July 18 (U. P).| «The senate military affairs committee wants to find out what is] behind the resignation of Maj. Gen. r Claire Lee Chennault as command. : er of the U. 8. 14th air force in
China. The committee decided in a closed session yesterday to look into the question. It will start with al closed meeting tomorrow with Un-| dersecretary of War Robert P. Patterson. It was reliably reported that the] committee devoted most of yes-| terday’'s closed session to discussion | of the Chennault resignation and) many members expressed dissatis- | faction and a feeling that Chen-| nault may haye been the victim of | an injustice. Seek Speedy Inquiry One member sald he believed that Chennault “has been shoved | around by some of the army brass |
Bicycle Tourists
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WAC Sgt. Catherine H. Holder, | McFarland rd, and Pfc. Dale L.
BOY, 8,
and released.
IS INJURED IN SWIMMING POOL
Two youths were injured yesteray, one of them at Victory field nd the other at Willard park swim-
ming pool.
Thomas Payne, 15, of 1211 Herbert
st., fell from a scaffold while hanging a sign at. the ball park and scraped his leg on a nail.
Gilbert Long, 8, of 2005 E. Mary-
land st., was cut on his chin when he hit the side of the swimming pool while diving.
Both were treated at City hospital
hats.” Chennault, founder of the famed | American volunteer group which
| Stedman, Wadena, Minn, pause
on the tandem bicycle to look at an area in Normandy that once formed Hitler's Atlantic wall.
fought in China as the “Flying Tigers” before the 14th air force
was organized, announced his res- | fgnation’ last Saturday. He said .
the action was dictated by regsons
of health, Ja The general said he would return HAVE FIELD OA to this country as soon as possible. |
There have been reports that he vil
retire from the army. Committee members were not No sure what effect their investigation : could have on’ Chennault’s status Argentina Says. since his resignation already has been accepted They intended to] BUENOS AIRES, July 18 (U. P). get the inquiry under way, how-| Imaginations have had a field day ever, before his actual retirement during the past 48 hours in Argen-
from the army could become|tina with speculation that Adolf But the Argentine gov ernment | - Of Japs, Sinking absolutely no factual basis for the it. would deliver. the recently |
Basis for Reports,
effective. Hitler may have crossed the Ab | lantic in a submarine. Col. Jim Victim clamped dowri upon such excited thinking by declaring there was reports. ' PT. WORTH, Tex, July 18 (U. | The government announced that P). — Opl. Jim Newman, whose
interned German U-boat 530 to the |
odds has endeared | : him to the hearts of the nation, [tusiiaged mn De Jowgn me was reported sinking today. . His mother said the 25-year-old Dncunfirmes : Ieperte ng Shu soldier spent a restless night and | WO more Submarines had been unable to eat all day sighted off the Argentine coast. yesterday. His only nourishment | Despite all “attempts to calm] came from a glass of milk at the things down, rumors continued to | evening meal. grow and most Argentine people by | Jim was brought home from an now wouldn't be surprised if Hitler | army hospital in New Mexico more turned up behind almost any grift- | than two weeks ago when military | 08 lceberg, or perhaps came gal-| doctors sald he had only two days loping on a mule atross the pampas. | to lve. y Try to Stop Rumors . .His physician, Dr. Jack Daly, While the public amused them-= | gaid last night that the young |selves on the possibility that some hero now was suffering from an |high Nazis might have been landed intestinal infection in addition to |by the U-530 along .the desolate the beri-beri, tuberculosis and | shores of Patagonia, so far only acute malnutrition he developed [the newspaper La Critica has after three years in a Jap prison |openly implied that Hitler and his
camp. sweetheart, Eva Braun, might. have er landed in “Hitler's ° Antarctic JAPS LEAP CLIFES | Berchtesgaden” on a small island
in the Antarctic circle. T0 AVOID CAPTURE The paper had a map with ths
CALCUTTA, July 18 (U. P).— | caption, “Hitler Refuged on Sixth Twenty-six Japanese soldiers were| Continent.” killed outright, and many other died | The Argentine foreign office, apof their injuries, when entire units| parently determined to halt any leaped over a cliff rather than be| further rumors if possible, stated captured by British troops attack {flatly that any niore German subing their position, the Southeast | | marines landing in Argentina would Asia command's communique an-| {be turned over to the allies autonounced today. - | matically. The attack occurred 44 miles east
of Yamethin, which is 115 miles WAVES H HEAD T0 Boul OF Mantaiayr one maie——WED CHURCHMAN
Mandalay-Rangoon road and rail-| way. | WELLESLEY, Mass, July 18 (U. Japanese units attempted to am- P.).—Capt. Mildred H. McAfee, bush British troops 17 miles east of | head of the WAVES and president Toungoo, but met no success. of Wellesley college, said today she ee re would marry the Rev. Douglas Hor‘URGE RUSSIAN A( ACTION { ton, New York Congregationalist SYDNEY, Australia, July 18 (U.| “in the near future.” , Miss McAfee P).—~The Sydney Telegraph urged | is 45 and Dr. Horton, 54. editorially today that Russia throw | Dr. Horton is head of the General all the force of her eastern army| Council of Congregational Chrisagainst the Japanese in Manchuria, tian churches and chairman of the to help speed the final defeat of | American Committee for the World Japan. Gouncil of Churches.
HEADS FAR EAST A. A. F.© | He is the father of four MANILA, July 18 (U., P.).—Lt.| me pi Gen, Ennis C. Whitehead, 5th air PRINCE BORN IN EXILE force commander, now is—in—com=|{ LONDON; July 18 Pr =eA-son mand of Far East air force opera-| was born last night to exiled King tions in the Ryukus, Gen. Douglas | Peter of Yugoslavia and 24-year-old MacArthur announced today. | Qrieen Alexandra.
IN INDIANAPOLIS
EVENTS TODAY 1782 Lambert st; Orval, Lena Btevens Waste paper collection, northeast of 16th| oo ©. Georgia st and Meridian sts, | Boys
State junior golf championship tourna- [ae.8 iy Francis—Robert, Bette Rose Dickment, Broadmoor Country club Junior Chamber of Commerce, luncheon, m “Giy- ~Homer, Roseris McClung
children
noon, Hotel Washington. be Coleman- Henry, Zula Carbonell Plainfield Boys’ School band, concert, 8 Schreiber, Lola Green; Joseph, Ruth Pp. m., Brookside park. At Methodist—Roy, Laverna Baldwin Fanner Bute country fair, 25th st. and| James, Alberta Goodman; Richard, Ralston Betty Hall, Robert, Louella Thomas;
Roy, Dairy Thompson: tia Vane; Harry,
Amelia Wieden.
EVENTS TOMORROW
pt At st Vincents Franklin Florence Shel. wand era southeast of 16th Jey: George, June Sowden
un por poll championship fourna- | A aso gutted” Eliza’ Cunningham, wit i oor Country club. ~eoat, 1038 W. New York st.; Granvil » ate Ao hetas, dinner, 6 p.m, ‘
i A RD ry. Tai; 38th tana Harry, Omar West, 708 N. West st.
PERTH
Pearl Stroup, 66, at Meth J BIRTHS ol p, ethodist, coronary © Twins Leslie L. Carper o-. at- 2087 N. Talbott, At Colman, Flora Welsh, girls, chroni¢ myocarditi RT Girls Everett FEullss, 69, al Methodist, arterio-
sclerosis, erbert, Edna Boone; James, | Minnie 'Muecke, 170, at 126 'N. Linwood, | chrotiic nephrit is.
Rosemary Baron; John R. Ruddick, 0, at 5645 N. “Dela |
Alay ware, Carc
cerebral hemorrh 1s,
XAlIADS BERL agaIps} dRALY QEUDIN UG Bnei QL BEALE: 40d.
His first wife died in June, 1044.
William, Vir-|
Carson, Mae Mali Ermine Radford, ad062 Cottage ave.;|
h we” prance Bartor, 87, at 3058 Wina1, at city, tuberculous
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Wendell, 81, at “City, chrono | 14 ot Long, womind
Big City Baffles Kentucky Youth
THE BIG CITY, especially Indianapolis’ “mail boxes,” was just too much for 17-year-old Eugene Head of Tompkinsville, Ky. He started out to mail some letters but ended up in the .juyenile aid division, The teen-ager, who arrived here Saturday, volunteered to
mail some letters for a friend, Mrs. Venia Graves, 370 Beauty
erect
sn
ave, yesterday. A passerby pointed to the mail box at Blake and New York sts. but wasn't too specific. Beside the mail box was a new style no-glass-to-break alarm firebox. The youth chose the wrong box for his letters and brought fire engines screaming to the scene.
Not until then did he learn the correct place to drop his letters.
LOCAL BOY HELD IN. CHICAGO HOLDUP CASE
CHICAGO, July 18, (U. P).—A 17-year-old Indianapolis boy, who police said bragged about 6 years of crime, was held. today after his ar-
rest for trying to rob three federal
reserve bank. employees. . ‘Police said that James Mescal confessed yesterday that he and two other youths tried to hold up the bank workers. Mescal was caught but the other boys lost their nerve and ran. Mescal admitted serving jail sen-
tences in Indianapolis and Arizona.
| Father of 15 Say’
LOS ANGELES, July 18 (U. P.). —Navy Chi#f Steward. Gregorio
children, today claimed the U..S. naval parternity champlonship. The Filipino veteran of 27 years in service listed his eight sons and seven daugflters and sald he expected to clinch the title when Mrs, Zagala gives birth to another baby in November, Zagala's record ‘ruled out the championship bid of 8. 1-c Roman
Zagala, 47-year-old father of 15 | from Dolores, 26, to James, 4. Two
He's Navy Champ
L Springer of Winona, Minn. father of 14 children. : The Zagala brood range in age
of the girls are married ' while three of the sons have followed their father into the navy and are now overseas.
PUBLIC INSTALLATION Council 350, Degree of Pocahontas, will install officers in a public ceremony at 8 p.m. tonight. Mrs. Bertha Doyle will be in charge.
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