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vithout these n.

the supreme court.

claims she has spent move than

: transferred to his grandparents June i 7 by Special Judge Sam B. Huffman because his mother had married Mr. ~ Btonehouse,

¢ county prosecutor now with the | state securities commission, had] - forbade the mother to associate with

i remained married. Last {Stonehouse was divorced. On May

% him. Without hearing testimony, & and in private chambers, he awardi ed Steven to his grandparents.

! riage of Steve's mother and Stone-

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E MISSING B-24 PILOT

# slavia and a local sergeant died ih : Italy. ' wounded in the Pacific and another

8st. in the Pacific.

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FORECAST: Fair and warm tonight and tomorrow.

FINAL "HOME

The Stonehouse family. . ve

Case Up to Supreme Court

After 23

Snared in a maze of red tape and human emotions, a bitter fight over custody of a child today was awaiting action here by the Indiana

supreme court.

Contesting for the care of 7-year- -old Steven Pittman are: HIS 26-year-old attractive mother, Mrs. Thorena Stonehouse, 327

Leeds ave. HIS grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. George Pittman, 902 S. Missouri st. The lad’s father, Charles Pittman, 1s a coast guardsman on the West coast. He and Mrs. Stonehouse | were divorced in 1939. In five years, 23 court actions: have been filed in superior court 5. In the last year, the case has de- | veloped into a sort of legal football ~kicked around by Marion county's

Ask for New Judge That's where the supreme court comes in.

ready, two of them of the “special” variety. Now the Pittmans are requesting another special judge—this one to be selected from a panel chosen by

The’ thother—Mrs. Stonehouse——

$400 in attorney fees. Frustrated by legal barriérs, she still wants her|

£ son. ; |

By -court order, the Pittmans now

3 have custody of the boy. |

Last; Saturday Mrs. Stonehouse |

B went to the Pittman home to get!

Steven for a week-end visit. front<porch melee with Mrs, Pitt-

# man followed,

Defies Court Order

The mother then took her son In| defiance of the court order. Now|

E she faces an assault: and battery| t= charge.

Guardianship of the child was

Mr. Huffman, former Marion

Stonehouse, then a married man. Steven's mother said she obeyed this decree as long as Stonehouse August

20 of this year, he and Steve's mother married. Three weeks later, Special Judge Huffman called all litigants before

Mr. Huffman contends the mar-

Stonehouse says he will divorce

IS REPORTED KILLED

A B-24 pilot, mising for over a year, is reported killed over Yugo-

Two Indianapolis men were

is recovering from combat fatigue. KILLED 8. Sgt. Adolph - (Jerry) 819 S. Randolph st,, in Italy. Lt. Edward B. Johnson, 239 N. Illinois st., over Yugoslavia. Y WOUNDED Pfc. Lewis R. Morris, 1060 8. West

Turpin,

Marine Cpl. Joseph W. Palencer, 2346 Collier st., on Okinawa, Marine Pvt. Fred Lorton Fobes, 714 E. 23d ‘8t., recovering from combat fatigue.

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| ties There have been three judges al-|*

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Legalities beset their paths. »

Suits Are Filed

OUTLINE DRIVE ~ON-RACKETEERS

Take Store ot Cr at Crime Clinic To Protect Servicemen.

City, county and military authori“today were preparing some secret weapons” in their offensive

to halt the victimizing of servicemen by hoodlums and V-girls. At a crime clinic held last night in the Columbia club, civil and military enforcement officials, aided by othér city and county officials, drafted a program, The group of {wo dozen authori Hes. beard €0l.- Hepry E. Tisdale, Ft. Harrison commandant, assert that {“rolling” of servicemen reachéd its peak in June.

Taxi Licensing Urged

“As far as soldiers are concerned, [ believe it has decreased considerably since the authorities

recognized the problem and went /stiffiy at attention as Old Glory| Meridian st. cigar dealer. Sam and Charlie were just mounted over what he called the | i like brothers, said Mr. Hunter, and so it was quite in

after it,” the officer continued. Enactment of a city ordinance |

licensing taxicab drivers was sug-| He said that in raising the flag it| ~~

gested as a means of “preventing many of thesé cases from ever! happening.” Co-operation with the alcoholic | beverage commission and the strict | enforcement of regulations in suspected taverns also was a suggestion. The newest “racket,” Police Chiet {Jesse McMurtry declared, is an ar{rangement between taxicab drivers and waitresses. A serviceman is told that for $25 he can have a “party” that includes everything. The waitress calls the driver into the plan. Often,..the “deal” progresses neo further than the advance payment Sometimes, however, the serviceman is taken to the “party” in the hope of getting more money from him, the chief added. “There's “a discharged veteran. He's our meat.” This, Col. Tisdale said, is the battle cry of those who prey upon the money-lush dischargees. © An insignia worn on the right side of a soldier's blouse. “tips off the

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PROFITS TAX: MEASURE

WASHINGTON, July 20 (U, P.. ~The house completed action today on ‘a corporate tax bills raising the excess profits tax exemption and authorizing a speed-up in payment of more than $5,000,000,000 in tax refunds. Chairman Robert L. Doughton (D. N. C) of the house ways and means committee asked the chamber to accept the one amendment written into it by the senate, which passed the measure late last night. His request was granted without objection or discussion. The bill is designed to assist industrial reconversion. It does not change ay taxes on individuals.

Hideous Fish C

WINTHROP, Mass.,- July 20 (U. P.).—A Boston harbor historian believed today he had caught a hide-

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common 20,000,000 years ago—and

caught the queer fish. 1 ~ Here's the. w way Snow described it:

ous-looking fish that may have been

he has photographs to prove it. Edward Rowe Snow the historian, caught the 81-pound sea inhabitant on a handline and hook. Snow was ‘fishing with Edward Freeman, a 13-year-old neighbor, off Point Shirley in a 17-foot canoe when he |s

WORLD PEACE

| time.

emotion and determination as he

(quest, and do not want a single

May Be Prehistoric Creature

MAINU. AIM, TRUMAN SAYS

Interest President Asserts in - Berlin Speech.

By MERRIMAN SMITH , United Press Staff Correspondent

BERLIN, July 20.—President Truman, speaking briefly at a symbolic hoisting of the Star and Stripes over Berlin, said today that America’s only aim was world wide peace and prosperity, involving no territorial ambitions, Truman was flanked by the American chieftains who took leading roles in the defeat of Germany

—Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson, Gen. Omar N. Bradley and Gen. George S. Patton, whose presence in Berlin for the Big Three conference was revealed for the first

Speaks Five Minutes The flag raised at 2 p. m. over U. 8. group control council headquarters in a former air defense barracks in the Dahlem suburb

in Territory,

FRIDAY, JULY 20, 1945

Indianapolis 9, Ind.

HALSEY MANEUVERS FLEET FOR NEW ATTACK ON JAPAN'S COAST

Entered as-Second-Class Matter at Postofce Issued daily except Sunday

PRICE FIVE CENTS

was the one lifted over Algiers and Rome. i It fluttered over the capital when | a state of war with Germany, Italy | and Japan was declared. | Truman spoke for five “minutes at the ceremony wedged into the | round of Big Three conferences, | over which the obscuring veil of | secrecy-still hung. Adm. Emory Land, American war shipping administrator, and his staff were revealed to have arrived to join the Big Three consultations. They reached the closely guarded Potsdam compound yesterday.

“This is a historic occasion,” Tru- home, 1019 N man said at the flag raising cere |that his garage houses the first automobile ever seen

mony. “We have conclusively |

proven that a free people can sues |

cessfully look after the affairs of the world.”

‘Hail the Chief’ Troops of the 2d armored division,

the occupation forces in the Ameri-{

can zone of Berlin, were drawn up

in smart formation for the cere-

Tony,

The division's band gave Mr. Tru-|

man four ruffles and then swung into “Hail the Chief” dential anthem. Later it played the

the presi-|

Melvin Hunter, the oldest automobile: mechanic in the United States, rode in this first gasoline-propelled horseless carriage in Indianapolis back in 1893. He has the relic stored away in his garage, "J »

® Pioneer Molar Mechanic Still Owns Car

In Which He Rode 6 Costly

By ANTON SCHERRER

MOST PEOPLE who stroll by Melvin Hunter's . Alabama st., are ignorant of the fact

first to share Mr.

car. And, believe to go with him. They started a sylvania sts., the and headed west.

on the streets of Indianapolis. Mr. Hunter was 76 years old the other day and in a reminiscent mood. He recalled that 52 years ago, in 1893, a - gasoline - propelled horseless carriage arrived in Indianapolis. - Nothing like it had ever been seen around, here. The historical fact ig fixed in Mr. Hunter's mind beKQOIE, Ahat mas the.same popxihet ~ he got 4-job in the wood and paint department of Charles H. Blacks carriage factory. Rumor at the time had it that

and Washington

Mr. Scherrer sylvania st, at w

“Star Spangled Banner” while the flag was going up over the bomb(damaged barracks. Gravely proud, Mr. Truman stood |

capital of our great adversary. |

{should be remembered that this was! done in the name of the people of | the United States who were looking ' forward .to a better world with the | benefits shared by all, not Jusy a few | at the top.

“Just Want Peace’ The President’s voice tensed with

said: i “We are not interested in con-

piece of territory from this war, We just want peace and prosperity —that is what we are fighting for, and that is. what we propose to wim. “Let us not forget we are fighting

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Police Probe Pet Poisoning

POISONING of eight cats and a dog recently in the vicinity of the 1800 block of Lockwood st. was investigated by police today. Mrs. ‘Alice Whitehead, 1805 Lockwood st. and Mrs. Ray Dodd, 1818 Lockwood st., reported the pets’ deaths to police yesterday. ; Mrs. Whitehead said two of her cats had been poisoned. Two others have disappeared, . Mrs, Whitehead also ‘said a police dog belonging to. her son, Carpenter's Mate F-c Paul Whitehead, now on duty inh the Pacific, was sick yesterday. It probably had eaten a small dose: of the | poison, / Mrs. Dodd reported that four of her cats and one dog had been poisoned within the last six months,

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TE in East

had two arm-like appendages, sort of flippers with which it apparentiy pushed itself along the ocean figor. Both jaws would bend so when its mouth was open it was oval shape. You could easily put a football in it without touching. : “There were about 40 teeth on its upper and its lower jaws, needlelike and about three inches long. When it opened its mouth you could

the new-fangled contraption was the work of one Karl Benz and | that it had come all the way from Germany. It had

‘been consigned to Sam D. Pierson, a prosperous S. Started.

sound.

the nature of Shings that Mr, , Black should be the

EXPECT CROWDS. AT PARK OPERA

‘Pinafore’ To Be en At Garfield Tonight.

Thousands of Indianapolis’ light |. opera lovers are expected to turn out for the first performance ot “His Majesty's Ship Pinafore” tonight at the Garfield park open air theater. The Gilbert and Sullivan favorite is being presented by the Indianapolis Opera theater in co-opera-tion with the park department. Performances tonight, tomorrow and Sunday will begin at 8:30 p. m.

Ex-Sailor Killed

Ted Jones

FALLS FROM BOAT, .

This substitute for the horse

~ Trail Blazers: The First and Second Automobiles Seen | in Indianapolis

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BIGGEST B29 “BLAST SETS 5 CITIES ABLAZE

4000 Tons of Fire. Bombs

Showered on 310-Mile Area in Japan.

By FRANK TREMAINE United Press Staff Correspondent

and buggy, now on display in the

Children's Museum, was the second automobile seen on the streets of

Indianapolis. It would go about 12 =

Blocks in 1893

Pierson’s secret. Indeed, Mr. Black

was the first Indianapolis man to drive Mr. Pierson’s

it or not, he invited Melvin® Hunter

t the corner of Maryland and Pennsite of Mr. Black's carriage factory, At the old Grand Hotel corner

(Illinois st.), they ran into a buggy, damaging ‘its wheels. It didn't ruffie Mr.- Black a bit. He said he’ d | Rosenberg, ‘have the buggy fixed up like new if the owner would haul it to his shop. After which they resumed their trip. “They turned the corner successfully. At Illinois

sta, at the old Occidental .eorner,

hich peint they again found them-

The demolished

31455 6, 1S LAND INN. Y.

Greatest Ninber to Arrive In Single Day.

from European battlefield in a &in-| gle day—began pouring into New| York harbor today. The entire 44th infantry division —14,756 officers and men—was due aboard the huge liner, Queen Elizabeth.

An automatic postponement of 24

hours has been arranged if any performance is" prevented because of rain, The cast of 31, directed by Charles Hedley, consists of local talent, including ‘Fred Koehrn,. Alan Hamblen, Marion Thompson and Billie Cole: Music will be provided by a 25piece orchestra consisting of members of the Indianapolis Symphony and the Indianapolis Concert orchestras, Seating accommodations - inélude

4400 seats plus room for 2000 spec- boat, “So Long,” and was struck on |New Jersey national guard units. A| ~The war production board and|

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SEASON'S FIRST HEAT WAVE IS PREDICTED

Indianapolis today can prepare itself for the first real dose of hot! summer weather this year, Already at 9 a. m.' the mercury] hit 80 degrees and sunny and warm weather is predicted for today and tomorrow. Throughout the state for the next five days temperatures will average

HIT BY PROPELLER.

Body Found .Hour After White River Accident.

An honorably-discharged was killed yesterday in

sailor ‘White |

his pride and joy. He was Ted Jones, Ketcham st.

33, of 945] who fell out of his |

Six other transports .had dock-

ing orders, and army reception cen- |

ters in this area buckled down to! {the business of preparing steak din- | ners for 26,779 GI's. The other 1561, arriving on the

| noepital ship Francis Y. Slanger,| \ Petit Tuesday. wi

11 be taken to Halloran general hospital in Staten Island; N. Y,, for! Irest and treatment.

With 7th Army

i by th tor boat th { Ty Yue moar A Rg i Most of the 44th division soldiers RATIONING OF GAS

will be home when they enter the harbor, because the outfit was com- | posed originally of New York and

NEW YORK, July 20 (U. P.). Exactly 31455 U. S. grec greatest number ever to come home

to 14 miles an hour,

JUDGE PRO TEM |: RAPS LAWYER

Court's Wrath L Leveled at’ Former Petit Aid.

Judge Pro Tem George Henry in superior court 4 today accused Louis former attorney for {Sheriff Otio Petit, of “trying to carry. water on both shoulders.” The judge ~denounced Rosenberg

SFC Dinck Jou saulqol. of. the, car au san smack Joie, {5% S0CtUng o cus Involsing three. Fa Bins window. Mr. Black told the enraged, store- 58 cinirgés i keeper to. send him: the bill The trip east on Washington st. was nothing short | (office at a time when -Rosenberg of a triumph until they reached the corner of Penn-

Buths 7 ¢ ssault and battery by the sheriff's

(also was representing the sheriff. | The robbery suspects became

selves in a show window (the Model clothing store). jRosenberg's. clients on M ag at, By this time they were a block from where they haa | Judge Pro. Tem Henry d They reached their destination safe and Mr. Hunter recalls that it cost Mr. Black Pad the job of supplying legal adexactly $125 to drive six city blocks.

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Simultaneously, he said, Rosenberg

[vice to Sheriff Petit and deputies who arrested the yeuths. ‘Didn’t Use Information’ “As the sheriff's lawyer didn't you have access to. Petit’s confidential files 1d this case?” Henry asked Rosenber The attorney ® lied that he did, {but had never used information| (obtained from the sheriff's files in | behalf of his defendants. James Dawson, another lawyer, | is also representing the robbery-| jassault defendants along with Rosenberg. “What makes {Judge Henry,

me mad.” said “is that despite this wave of sluggings there are -attor-| {neys who at one and the same time {owe allegiance.to both law enforce- | {ment officers and law breakers.” He termed Rosenberg's reported |action in hiring out his legal serv-| ices to persons on opposite sides of the law in the same case as “a | jeflection on the legal profession in| { Indianapolis.”

PEARL HARBOR, July 20. |=~N er ve- shattered Japan (waited for the next blow to(day after being told by its | . {own propagandists that Adm. William F. Halséy’s mighty combined fleet is steaming some= where off the Japanese coast preparing for a new strike. Fires still flamed above five Hon{shu war centers which were gutted {during the night by a record force {of American Superfortresses, | Tokyo. still vibrating from 11 days {and nights of intermittent naval jand air attack which saw 7500 tons lot bombs and shells crashing into a 600-mile strip of Japan's Pacifie coast, warned its people that the

attack might come again a any -

[Eme. Still Off Coast { The Japanese said Adm. Halsey's | 150 battleships, carriers, cruisers and supporting warcraft were still. maneuvering - off western Honshu after thrusting into the mouth of | Tokyo bay early Thursday in an ate {tempt to lure the Japanese fleet out to fight. Fleet Adm. Chester W. Nimitz gave no additional details on the bombardment of Nojima cape. . In the Superfortress raid over 600

the Japanese will have to be cut back sharply within two weeks unless a strike at the Detroit plant of the U. S§. Rubber Co. is. énded immediately, Maj Gen. Lester T. Miller, deputy ome mander of the air technical service command, said today.

a 310-mile trail of fire and ruin {across central Honshu before dawn (today. This carried the pre-inva-ision attack into hs 45th consecutive | day. 4000 Tons of Fire Bombs

{| The sky giants rumbled across | their targets around midnight drop|ping almost 4000 tons of jellied {gasoline fire bombs on the industrial cities of Hitachi, Okazaki, | Choshi, Fukui, and the oil refinery at Smagasaki in the suburbs of Osaka. | Tokyo claimed that Itaga, west of Nagoya, and Takahagi, 13 miles

i southeast. of Hitachi, also were. hit -

—with big fires yet raging. 3 At Fukui, the raiders came over [while the city’s lights still beamed | brightly. The Smagasaki refinery was the {10th big Japanese oil center hit by | the Superforts in their 95 major

| Ousted Tuesday ras on the Japanese homeland. Rosenberg later charged Judge Total of 13,000 Tons Pro Tem Henry with “trying the| Tne 4000 tons of fire bombs | Petit~ ~Rosenberg feud instead of the|qropned during the raid raised the |robbery case.’ [total to 13,300 tons of explosive and | Rosenberg was ousted by Sherift incendiary missiles showered on Yesterday the al-|;anan in the past 11 days. levelled a derogatory blast] Compiled with the fleet attacks

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STOVES WILL END LEHMAN DENIES HE WASHINGTON, July 20 (U. P..! MAY QUIT UNRRA JOB

ATHENS, July 20 (U. P.).—Her-

\the head by the whirring outboard Salt Lake City officer, Maj. Gen. the office of price administration ert Lehman has no. intention of

[motor propeller. Mr. Jones was alone when the! accident happened - about one block | 'north of the Emrichsville bridge. “I saw him attempt to change | | trom the steering wheel to the | steering bar in the back of the | boat,” Charles Richards, 923 'N. Drexel ave. a witness of the tragedy, said. “He was making the change when apparently the boat swerved and unbalanced him. He fell into the water.

three degrees above normal with] Mr. Richards and William

little . change in temperature until Knight; 1611 Lafayette rd, a pas Wednesday. Rain also will be scarce with seat | (Continued on Page 4-—Column 7)

tered thundershowers about Tues- MET SH OWS | PROFIT;

day-and Wednesday. HELD ON CHARGE oF .f FIRST SINCE 1940

NEW YORK, July. 20 (U. P.).— STABBING AT ARENA The Metropolitan Opera association ‘Lawrence Jackson, 38, of 2310% reported today that for the first

Kenwood ave. today is being held . ased on the charge of assault and battery tithe since it purch the opera

with intent to kill after he allegedly house in 1940 it finished a season stabbed a spectator with a pocket with a profit. knife at the Sports arena, 500 N.| The association's annual statePesiaylvaats st, last night. ment showed an operating profit stabbed man is Howard of ‘$5872 for 1044-45. George A.

Hoe 50, of 2842'; E. 25th st. Sloan, .p president, said increased ls

18 in» fair condition in City tieket iaies and reduced real ssiate p a oeiving eval and taxis vere tie onites of Gu opera in the fracds. 2 nishing. in She black,

[William P. Dean, is their commanding general, Men of the 44th were attached to the Tth army, and were deep in Hitler’s “inner fortress” at Imst, Austria, at V-E day. They met their bitterest test tn France's Vosges mountains, where the division's 2d battalion held a

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announced jointly today fhat ra‘tioning of gas cooking and gas {heating stoves for civilian consum{ers will end July 31. pe. | The agencies said rationing would |" SAD. after reading a dispatch also end on that date for combina- | o.oo Washifigton in Tuesday's issue tion ranges except those combining | the army's Stars and Stripes pt and gas. saying he wanted to resign, said

Rationing will continue for oil yesterday he had no such intention. |cooking and oil heating stoves and “I have seen the great need ‘of

oil conversion burners for stoves. the ruined countries and the neces

quitting his post as director general (of the UNRRA so long as he can help inn the reconstruction of Eu-

sity to bring them help if we are to having Eg lasting peace,” he said.

Nationalists Adopt Pattern Used Successfully by Nazis

This is the fifth 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 Seripps-Howard Stat Writer CLEVELAND, July 20—Adopting the pat of political organization su ful in Germany, Italy and Russia, American Nationalists have created a youth movement.

Rev. Harvey Springer, a rabblerouser in the Gerald L. K. Smith manner. Present at the meeting were 350 young people and pastors from thurches in seven midwestern states. An organization was formed with the “Christian Youth for America” and national headquarters at 3170 8. Broadway, Englewood, . A call was issued to “all Christian youth. organizations in America to

the flood of communism in » the land.”

join us in a united front against|.

MILLER APPOINTED TO ARMORY - BOARD

Sidney S. Miller, attorney and former ‘city corpora tion counsel, ‘ithe Indiana armory board by Governor Gates. He succeeds John R. Ruddick, who died last week. * A veteran of world war I, Mr, Miller was a major in the Raiiwuw He also is a former su-

A man prominent. in Sains

Indianapolis today was named to

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