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By GERALD R. THORP Times Foreign Correspondent - MANILA, July 18—~The mountains and plains of Manchuria may. well be the scene of Japan's last bitter stand against the allies, after the home islands have fallen. Some military observers long. have "conceded that Japan foresaw this possibility as-soon as it felt the impact of the American offensive in the Pacific. ‘Develop ~-ments of recent months have

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strengthened the prospects for a last desperate battle in Manchuria. A large percentage of Japanese war production now is believed to be coming from Manchurian factories and steel mills, which as vet hardly have been scarred by the war, A few B-29 raids were made on industrial targets there last fall by China-based planes.- Since then, however, Manchurian pro-

+ duction apparently has been .un- - hampered. Japan, in 1942 and 1043, began relocating many of its most important war plants in the big satellite state and since then has steadily increased its industrial investments there. Many of the enemy’s new synthetic rubber and. oil plants are in Manchuria as well as powerful hydro-electric plants. The country: is a rich storehouse

Chicago Vandal, a Nationalist Promoter,

Recruits Sluggers for Terrorist Bands|

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New York called “Money. » Several monetary outfits, which are associated with Smith and other nationalist leaders, are working for monetary changes, including abolition of the Federal Reserve system. They contend that it is an instru-

organization

ment by which “international bankers” control the nation’s]. economy.

Another exhibit is the letter of Earl Southard to Don B. Husted of Mantua, O. Southard, who speaks of his constant communication, and co-operation with Reynolds, is the head of the Citizens of U. 8. A. committee, a Nationalist organization in Chicago. Husted is a promoter of the “monetary reform” movement. Well Regarded in Germany Reynolds was well enough regarded in Germany to get an article under his by-line in Adolf Hiter's personal newspaper, Volkischer Beobachter, It appeared February, 1939, * six months before Hitler started the war. In part, it said: “What business is it of ours, of the American people, what form of government Germany, Italy, Japan or any other country on earth has? “I claim that we should create jobs for 1000000 men in the United States before we attempt to tell Hitler or, Mussolini how they should govern, especially because we_all know there is absolutely no unemployment in Germany or Italy. "Mote and Gerald Smith “I am happy to state without the feast hesitation that TI am abso= lutely against the United States waging war for the purpose of protecting. Jews anywhere In the

world.” This was a year after Reynolds had made a trip to Europe and, on his return, said: “Hitler and Mussolini have a date with destiny; it is foolish to oppose them, so why not play ball with them?” Reproduced here also is a letter from Scott, the New York money man, to J. Victor Malone, a representative of Reynolds. It was sent to Malpne while he was in Cleveland solieiting contributions to the SRT Pay oa: {zeussinls, ists. This letter is particularly rele vant because of its reference to the appearance of Carl Mote, head bf the National Farmers’ guild, and Gerald ‘L. K. Smith as speakers at the monetary congress.

Little Doubt of Aims

The presence of men- like Smith and Mote among the monetary groups leaves little doubt of the nationalistic character of this group. Even men under indictment on charges of. sedition were contacted | by Reynolds’ representatives. | : Joseph E, Nelligan, New. York J Btate chairman of Reynolds’ Nationalistic party, held a conference June 22, 1945, with Col. E.. N. Sanctuary, and Willlam Robert Lyman Jr. of Detroit, both defendants in the Washington sedition trial. The meeting took place at the Lafayette Jestatrants Bergen and Sixth aves., rooklyn Also present was Bmith, chairman of the Eastern Monetary Congress. Nelligan is a distributor of Reynolds’ publication, “The National Record.” Expects $75,000 a Year Although Reynolds’ literature says Rll workers contribute their’services lo the party, his 'money-raiser, Malone, tells friends he expects to take $75,000 a year out of his Nationalist activities. At least 20 men are out soliciting funds for Reynolds’ Nationalists. Besides Malone and Joe McWilliams, hlleged seditionist, they include y Ralph Forsland, who is working j Boston and the New England states tinder the name of J. A. Forlines, George Faist has the New York territory and solicitors in Chicago are one O'Toole and Harry E. Prettyman, a high-pressure promoter who was in the real estate business Florida until his license was

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tevoked, Malone worked for him there. Says He Made a. Deal Malone now is confiding to friends | shat he has made a deal with the American Democratic national committee, a right-wing group which oroke with the Democratic party furing the last presidential camsaign. He says he has established neadquarters at the committee's ofaces, 3068 W. Wabash -ave., Chicago. Head of the American Democratic

Archer, president of Suffolk colege, Boston, ‘and the secretary is Robert E. O'Brien, president of TaJor college, Tabor, Iow.. . -

TOMORROW: “ “Mothers” and the “Women’s White House.”

TWO MINESWEEPERS ~ LOST NEAR BORNEO

WASHINGTON, July 18 (U. P.).— navy today announced loss of

aational gommittee is Dr. Gleason |

e oe minesweepers to enemy action In the Bornep area. «. The navy sald there were no dead » ) missing aboard the ¥MS-50 and © the YMS-365. It has not yet been determined whether there were] ~ wounded, the communique’ said. « : S068 of He Wo vessels sous naval craft Jost

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This photostat of a letter from John G. Scott to J. Victor Malone, Reynolds’ money raiser, further shows the tieup of Nationalists and

the Money Reform group. It alse

exposes the affiliation of this group

with Gerald L. K. Smith and Carl Mote.

40 Valuable Portraits in

Danger of Being Damaged

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in the house balcony and an anteroom nearby. Dignified Ira J, Chase rested in his gilt frame in an isolated spot loverlooking the floor of the: senate. Even a dust spot on his aristocratic nose failed to detract from his stand-oifish appearance, William Henry Harrison peered forbiddingly out from under a protecting cloth thrown over another row of the: “Boosier historics. ” ” DESPITE an fort to protect the pgintings by standing them

TPH sire C ptetunes ke - slanted back on large canvasses

in a way which may crack the brittle fibers. Several antigue frames lean perilously against | each other. Art experts who have heard of the removal of the portraits have voiced concern over the unique method. of storage. The concensus was that the present treatment may damage or ruin the pictures, some Qf which cost as high as $500. ; In many cases, the portraits are the only ones existing of the former governors.

| work of well-known artists.

” ” ” GOVERNOR GATES, who thought the pictures were somewhere on the third floor, took time out of a conference to promise an investigation “if the pictures are being damaged.” He added that the arrangement was only temporary, while the walls and pictures could be cleaned. “They were in bad condition and need to be taken care of,” he said. - A. V. Burch, state auditor, © who's directing the cleanup, echoed the statement. Theoretically, Harold F. Brigham, director of the historical bureau, should be responsible for the care of the collection. He said, however, he didn't know where the paintings were stored or how, explaining that the old law which makes him responsible may have been overridden by a recent opinion, placing museum material entirely under the conservation department's administration, n n » MUSEUM OFFICIALS said they never have beemr responsible for .the pictures, but admitted they were worried about the irre placeable oils. The museum men ‘were just as worried about some other his~ torical material that's taking a | beating while the statehouse takes a cleaning. A stack of silken, tattered flags of Indiana regiments of past wars are stacked between file cases in a basement store room Mountings which were made for the flags are stacked on top, apparently put aside in the middle of the job of preserving the banners. Nan JLONG SHREDS of crimson and yellowing silk hanging from a broken staff is all that remains of the flag that flew over Gen, Sherman's carriage when he visited Indianapolis. It was tossed between about 200 regimental flags, stacked on a table. Verne Patty, curator . of the museum, looked sadly at the stack. . : v “The old Veterans wouldn't like this,” he said. “They used. to come from miles away to see their regiment's flag. Used to stand by them with tears in their

eyes and kiss the cases they were

in. “They're almost all gone now, though. »

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the historical bureau, the library or the museum. A battle flag committee of three appointed by the governor is responsible for the preservation of the gallant banners. The flags and a thousand and one souvenirs of Indiana's past:

moved into the World War memorial basement where a submuseum is to be Un J Ww be created.

LINK ‘RED TINGE’ T0 16 ARMY MEN

House Group Says Officers Lean to Communism.

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{named in his report have ° back- | grounds reflecting communism in some form. Their names and activ{ities as listed by the subcommittee: Maj. Edward Newhouse, Washlington, D. C.—Writer for the Daily {Worker and other left-wing pub|lications and a sponsor for the writers and artists committee for ‘medical aid to Spain. Capt. Herbert Aptheker, 940 field artillery battalion, A. P.O. 408, New York—Contributor to. new Masses and a “donor” to Social Worker Today, which was described as “primarily a vehicle whereby the line of the Communist party is promulgated among social workers.”

pier Field, Ala.—Panel member of the National Action Conference for Civil Rights. Burton said the conference was called by the National Federation for Constitutional Liberties which “has perhaps been the foremost Communist-front organization in thé United States.” Capt. Horace Warner Truesdell (also spelled” Truesdale), Hq. 7th |Civil Affairs United, APO 654, New York: Member of the American league for peace and democracy and president of Russian Reconstruction Farms, Inc. Lt. Richard C. Criley, military police corps, 7th civil affairs unit,

APO 654, New York: “Helped handle California Young Communist League.

Lt. Irving Fajans, office of strategic services, Washington, D, C.— Honor roll member of Young Communist league members fighting in the Sparish civil war. ; Lt. Edward W. Finkelstein, 26th {field artillery battalion, A. P. O. 9, New York—Chairman of the Phila« delphia district International Workers order, “a subservient instrument of the Communist party in the United States.” Lt. Irving Goff, office of strategic services, Washington, D. C.—~Fought with the Abraham Liricoln brigade in Spain, and protested imprisonment of Earl Browder. Lt. Vincent Lossowski, office of Strategic services, Washington, D. C.: Fought with Abraham Lincoln brigade. Lt. Jerry Yeauber, 978th field artillery battery, » APO 339, Néw York: Member of international workers order executive committee, and other . organizations listed as Communist hy the report. « Lt. Milton Wolf, office of strategic services, Washington} D. C.: Commander of the Spanish red battalion and member of the New York Young Communist league. Second Lt. Gerald Cook, 46th Amph. Truck Co. APO 230, New York: Fought in the Spanish Civil war with Shun Republicans army

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Capt. Henry Clovis Collins, Na- |

of mineral deposits cluding. iron, coal, magnesite and oil shale—all easily accessible to industrial centers. The Showa steel works at Anshan is, reputedly, the

largest iron and steel plant in’the Orient. Manpower, for Japan's agricultural and industrial interests in the country is provided in” ample .quantities by serf labor from North China and probably a large

REPORT NAVAL PLANE SMASH

Say New Carrier| Strike Under Way.

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than 250 carrier planes for 25 minutes. The Domei agency reported that ‘about 1000 persons were killed’ or injured in the week-end attack on Hokkaido, the northern home island. + It claimed that anti-aircraft gunners downed 32 carrier planes and damaged 17 more in the assault Saturday and Sunday, Factories, homes and docks in the wood-and-paper cities lining a 50mile belt of Japan's eastern. shores | above Tokyo were blazing turiously | from the two-hour night bombard- | ment by the allied surface raiders. | United Press War Correspondent Richard W. Johnston reported from the bridge of an American warship that the bombarding fleet wrecked the huge Hitachi steel plant at Mito, only 35 miles from Hirohito's palace in Tokyo. Pumping in shells at the rate of a ton a second, the great battlewagons biew the steel works into a mass of flaming rubble ard withdrew without taking a single answering shot. “We knocked down Tokyo's front door,” Johnston said. Fleet Faces Southward A radio report from the fleet said the Anglo-American warships, perhaps 150 strong, were racing south~ ward under forced draft in the direction of Tokyo itself. With the Japanese shore batteries and -their--sea and air forces still {mysteriously silent, all of Japan's | Pacific coast appeared to be at the

mercy of Adm, William F. Halsey's|

| marauding American 3d fleet and its British units. Led . by the 45.000-ton dread- ! | aught Iowa and the Royal navy's | {35/ 000-ton King George V,“a pows= erful segment of the fleet steamed within six miles of the enemy {shores last night to shell scores of targets ranging from 75 miles northeast to about 25 miles eastnortheast of Tokyo. A communique from Fleet Adm Chester W. Nimitz’ gave no immediate details on the

still on to report terrific destruction along the enemy shore.

Fires Spreading Broadcast accounts of the action, | interrupted by the thundering | crash of the battleship guns, said great fires were spreading up and

down the blacked-out coast, particularly’ in the main target city of Hidachi. Hidachi is the center of the] teeming industrial - area north of | Tokyo, site of an important engi- | neering works that already had | been partly wrecked by B-29 Super- | fortresses. ; Also in the area are aircraft, electrical, precision instrument and ra-| dio factories and a complex rail-| way’ system, | Tokyo broadcasts said the warships also shelled Sukegawa, just south of Hidachi, and Daigo, 50 miles farther south. | No Counter Fire

The Japanese said small formations of Superfortresses and Liberators, the latter escorted for the first time by Black Widow night fighters, bombed the Kanto sector around Tokyo a few hours before the naval assault begun. Eyewitness accounts said there was no counter fire from the Japanese coastal batteries during the early stages of the bombardment and no enemy planes appeared over the fleet. The Japanese air force appeared

by yesterday's furious air strike during which some 1500 American and British carrier planes raked Tokyo's 80 airfields from dawn to dusk. Nimitz gave no details on the results of the air blow in his early communique, but the enemy's losses in grounded planes were expected to be high. Tokyo's only explanation for the mystifying lack of opposition to the allied sea and air blows was that the Japanese air force was being hoarded for the “last battle” of the war—to defend the homeland against invasion.

student © union which once was identified before the Dies commit tee by Lash as a “Communist front.” Sgt. Marc Blitzstein: Assigned on detached service to the office lof war information, contributor to |The Daily Worker and various | |other publications listed as “Com- | | munist” by Burton. T/5 Theodore Draper, hq. 84th infantry division, APO 84, New York—contributor to China Todav and editor of student review, both alleged to have given prominent space to Communist news and ad- | vertisements. Sgt. Samuel Dashiel Hammett, hq. Alaskan department, editor of | camp newspaper-—sponsor of relief ship for $pain during Spanish civil war, - member citizens committee. ‘for Harry Bridges, signed paper

headquarters |

Sosiacdaind; Sut Halsegoodaake 4 radio silence while the attack was.

to have been pinned to the greund+——m—

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number of occidental war prisoners. It is estimated that the enemy has a large portion of its troops in ‘Manchuria. - It is believed that these could be more than doubled in a comparatively brief time if the Japanese chose to withdraw across the Sea of Japan when the fall of the home islands appears inevitable. Such a retreat would be logical

Help! Help! Paper.

STATE CLOSES

Drive Is Lagging

THE NORTHEAST and southeast sections of the city today

savers in the local waste paper drive.

| were called upon to be the life- |

Salvage officials said only 41,105 |

pounds were collected in

southwest section of the Monday and 55,680 in the northwest yesterday. This was several

hundred pounds below what was |

expected. City-owned trucks will pick up

| scrap paper in the northeast sec-

tion today and in the southeast tomorrow. Meridian and 16th sts. are the dividing lines. The paper is to'be tied securely in bundles and placed on the curb by 8 a. m. the morning of the collection.

LOCAL WOMAN HURT

the | city |

enough In view; of the fact that it | ‘industrial fortress of Manchuria

actually Would shorten enemy's supply lines. Whether Manchuria’s steppedup production could meet alone

the demands of the Japanese army is debatable. But Japan, itself, should learn the answer soon. Continued destruction in Japan proper will leave Manchuria the chief source of supply. Japan is well aware that

MUNCIE GAMING

Gamblers in Many Other Cities Jittery, (Continued From Page One)

Governor Gates to nip gambling in

the bud.

It was nipped for a short time, but then resumed with a flourish. Elsewhere throughout Hoosier-

|dom, gaming continues with little]

{or no resistance from local officers.

| reportedly is touchy. | the

The situation in Gary, however,

Calumet district has

(looked upon by state enforcement

IN SHIP DISASTER

At least 16 passengers of

the

cruise ship Hamonic were reported | in 'a” serious condition today as a result of the fire which burned the |p. ticipants in a bitter feud that liner to the waterline in St. Clair\ may or may. not have something!

river yesterday.

Allisonville rd., Indianapolis passengers on the ship. |

one of the four

officers as a Chicago bailiwick and the ax there. State Police ‘knocked off” batch of slot machines in Valparaiso- upstate, early this year, but | hs is-said to have provoked poli-| ical repercussions that are still para.

Sheriff Leaves Town Meanwhile, in Marion county, two!

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nas seldom been wielded

the |. may become the target fof satu-

ration bombing. A type of attack that is not now available.

This would squeeze the lifed out of the production lines asf@ffectively as is now being done ‘in the”home islands.

"If Manchuria’s inviting facil-

ities are reasonably intact when -

the seizure of the home islands nears completion, it is almost in-

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patch is strictly a job of report-

Ing by ear. The writer has seen’ neither Japan or Japs, Kamikazes nor

bombs bursting in air, The story 18 being written as details ot the | far-flung action” are received apoard via the fleet intercommunication, The system of {following the | action from a position on the bridge of the flagship out of sight and sound of the bombard-[-ment and air battles ashore, was i strongly -suggestive: of covering

| returns at police headquarters on | Traditionally, | been |

election ‘night or collecting the | details of a suburban- disaster | from the desk of a metropolitan | newspaper. Keep Out of Sight The reason none of today's action was visible to those aboard the flagship. is that our giant | carriers do not stick out their necks or their flight decks in | _present- day battles. I'hey engaged ‘in no sightseeing excursions today. They kept out of sight. And while their slugging was

| effective it was entirely vicarious.: |

Their blows were delivered from

{to do with gambling, were both | the beaks and. bellies, the maMrs. Henry S. Allen, 82d st. and | gut of town.

One is Sheriff Otto Petit. The

was treated for shock and slight | [other is Louis Rosenberg, his former

burns on the hand.

juries. Other Indianapolis residents who

escaped injury are Henry S. Allen]

lof the 82d st. address and Mr. and |the payroll.

The sheriff, at that time said only: “Any employee of mine who is loyal to me can remain on Any employee whe is

Mrs. Alvie T, Wallace, 3727 Watson not - loyal canhot work for me.’ rd. The two couples had been oh’ a vacation eruise to-Duluth, Minn. Pro Tem Richard Miller at 3 a. m.

They will return to Indianapolis in |this’ morning to obtain a commit- | a

a few days.

escaped death.

- The fire started in freight sheds | car to Mr, Miller's home to pick up|

All of the 397 persons on board | | prisoner to Michigan City

The sheriff's office awoke Judge

iment with which to transfer At 5 [a m., the sheriff dispatched a squad |

{on the docks and quickly spread. | the commitment. The Hamonic was cut loose from | Upon receiving ‘the document.

her pier after she already was afire Sheriff Petit left

in hope that she could be saved.

More than 200 persons were res- companied

cued from the water by small craft. Damage to ships and docks was|whose name has entered into the

estimated at $2,000,000.

for the state prison. He reportedly was ac-| by Randall (Rags)|

Mitchell, .a close political friend

local turmoil on several occasions.

chine guns and the bomb “bays of the war birds taking off from their decks, while the carriers {| themselves cruised along under

She was one personal attorney whom he fired | a protective umbrella of their own of 200 being treated for slight in- yesterday.

| fighter planes many miles out at sea. i Just as the returning fliers were | seeking . openings in the fog, | through which they might dive for the flight decks of the. carriers, the routine test of the | morning. general alarm signal | sounded through the ship. This was¥followed by a few seconds of silencé and a baring of heads for the customary morning prayer of the ship's chaplain,

Land on Any Carrier

This morning, as all hands watched the danger shrouded planes seeking - a landing, the

nds Japs May F lee Bomb Blasted 1 Isles For Last Stand In ‘Manchuria

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g of Japs ‘Gesture Of Magnificent Contempt’

voice of the padre over the ship's"

loud speaker sounded clear above |ades and told to get in there and

the fog:

-{commander of the 32d infantry di-

evitable that “the Japanese SHIA make their last, stand there, : .. And even if "Manchuria by that time should be hollowed by constant bombing, the Japanese might still choose to make it their Tas gaa battleground of the war, Jn the vast expanse of yn a numerically great Japanese army could -be maneys vered more effectively than in the confines of the home islands.

| “Give us, oh God, that courage | which Thou alone can give that we may calmly accept whatever | the future holds for us and act bravely whatever deeds we do, through Jesus Christ - our Lord, amen.” ; b= Meantime the fog menace “ showed no signs of abating. With ships, it's any port in a storm. With these planes, it was any flight deck under a zero ceiling. The fliers landed on the first carrier whose deck shook off the fog blanket. The flying technique of these kid pilots was of a sort to restore elasticity to calcified arteries. It war magnificently dare ing and it was successful. Not a returning plane failed to hit the deck right side up- and funce tioning.

Fished Out of Sea One landed with his last spoon= ful of gas. After he had cut his motor to land he did not have enough gas to restart to

taxi the length of the deck. Another had to ditch his plane because of flak damage to his landing gear. A destroyer, standing by for just such a job, dashed “up and quickly fished him out of the drink, suffering from nothing more serious than goose pimples and chattering teeth. The last of the first flights of planes landed back on the care riers in the early morning. Bee fore 11, the weather repented, the wind whisked the fog away, and blue sky. showed in every quarter. The bombardment ships, screened by carriers, had dashed ahead of the rest of the fleet. before the fog had lifted, pre=- . pared to strike. -

MADE PATIENTS FIGHT WITH THE 32D DIVISION ON, { NORTHERN LUZON, July 18 (U. P.).—Maj. Gen. William H. Gilly

vision, said today that the Japanese even used hospital’ patients in their {efforts to halt Americans advancing jon northern Luzon. Patients who could walk were often given gren=

pitch.

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