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The little ones call him Roy, their parents call him Roy. He has brought peace and safety to the city playground at Ringgold and Cottage aves. Here Roy Lees, 924 N. East st. talks with some of his small charges (left to right) Jerry and Martha Bishop and Mary Farley, all of 724 Prospect st.

Hometiu Phifosephy “Keeps: SLAYS COUSIN

Calmly Tels 5 Stabbing Youth 17 Times. | the park board.

WINONA, Minn, July 21 (U. P) f Sixteen - year - old Teresa Kouba, [Rinescla I ouage ye tibo| = - who" admitted slaying her 15- -year-|, . . old cousin because he attempted to! attack her, was calm and dry-eyed| today when arigigtied on a second o.ound It was dominated by older | SETeS turds! ge. charged “with | 278 adept #1 Swearing and brow! beating the youngsters. | stabbing Donald Cada, her second cousin, 17 times with a Commando knife, I The slaying 00k place in a wil- 'adays children are lined up at the flow thicket on the bank of the 8ate waiting to get in when he arMississippl river Wednesday night! Teese sy AER AaLRETS bring; following a waterrpelon party. Don- | their little tots to play fn we: <zad) ald’s body was found Thursday, and or just to sit and enjoy the sun. £ he was buried today. * Municipal Judge E. D. Libera ground. "The reason goes back to fruled that Teresa should be ar-|ROY's philosophies. kraigned in juvenile court. She may | be bound over to district court after! a grand jury investigation. In Ba f ‘event a conviction would bring

rd i "pod NAZIS DOUBT

Five-Inch Marine Knife [| Teresa had, shown no emotion | {since making” ‘her confession after Fleight hours of questioning. The death weapon _was a sharp,

By VICTOR PETERSON ‘Roy-Lees; 924-N--East-st-is-a-publie servant with-homely philosophies. | serve.

EX-MAHARANEE

For years many families feared sending their children to the play-

Little Tots Come

- With Mental Cruelty. "SANTA ANA, Cal, uy 10.

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wealthy Indian potentate.

| ters, charged | Charles. ‘Masters,

the postman,

| Nev., last Jan. 15, a year and a half

i five-inch marine Knife her brother, In Berlin After tor Dale U-Boat after the maharajah, one of the i had brought home on an army furF Jough. Teresa said she took it with | E her to carve watermelon

world’s richest men, divorced her in |Reno, Nev. They separated five! Left Port. | months later when the attractive CY, > KIEL, July 21 (U.. P).—High maharanee, a former Fargo, N. D,, Teresa told police that after the German naval officials say Adolf Bree, {oud We wir + alk sar. Donald lured her Hitler and Eva Braun definitely | 3

: Masters, who gave u stal ito a thicket by promising to ShOW |. 14 not have escaped to Argentina |cervice to become a a

ridges, but when they arrived he | Aboard the recently interned U- | tisherman, had been living with his f made improper advances. jam 530. Eberhard Godt, chief {bride in .the maharajah’s Laguna “We started to struggle, I yesched| ice. Adm. rhard Godt, chief} peach, Cal, ,» | executive staff officer of Germany's for the knife with my right hand, | U-boat fleet under Grand Adm.| (Continued on Page 2—Column 1) she said. “Then I stabbed him |p. noenitz said yesterday that

'with the knife in the chest and | honider. He yelled. Then he came! | the U-530 “went 10 sea from Kiel "YANKS TO USE NAZI

Rr . or a Norwegian port—but probably ARMS IN PACIFIC

I struck him again with | gm Kiel on March 3." e knife.” Hitler was known to have been! LONDON, July 21 (U. P.)—GerI Left Him There’ still in Germany later than that. man miltary equipment will be put i As the boy started to fall, she| British intelligence officers said [into use by American troops fightaid, she stabbed him again in the|they were “99 per gent” satisfied|ing in the Pacific, Maj. Gen. Henry wside near the heart. that Hitler and his girl friend did |B. Sayler, chief U. 8. ordnance of“He fell on his side and rolled|not escape by sea and that Adolf | ficer in the European theater, reover on his back,” she said. - “I|died in Berlin. vealed today. left him there.” Vice Adm. Helmuth Heye, one of | Sayler, a native of Huntington, | Teresa said she went home and |Germany’s greatest naval intelli- |Ind., said all German military supcleaned her bloody shoes and threw gence chiefs, said: “I believe that|plies were being examined with a her stained blouse and bobby sox | Hitler died in the Berlin chan-|view to using them against the Japinto the wash. | cellery.” anese. He declined to specify items.

Big Three Believed Preparing to Make : Decisions on Some Major World Issues

POTSDAM, July 21 (U. P.) ~The »

; Big Three has reached the decision.

i making phase of their discussions, A Weekly Sizeup by the Washington

11 was belfeved today. Staff of the Scripps-Howard Newspapers

at the]

estate. He met her

That was indicated by slatemonts [from the American delegation that ithe work of the conference is going| Lforward steadily and that “much rious business has been done.” The Americans revealed that President Truman, Premier Stalin and Prime Minister Churchill have met an average of three hours

The three foreign secretaries have been meeting even longer hours while the numerous subcommittees

WASHINGTOR¥, July 21.—Truman holds high cards at the Potsdam poker game. Halsey and Nimitz feed him aces, daily, from the Pacific. « Congress is equally helpful. Enactment of Bretton Woods, broadening of export-import bank legislation, promise of quick action on United Nations organization, give him chips and fill his hand. For good measure, polls show public confidence in the President at an all-time high. . Contrast this with Churchill's situation. He isn't. -even sure he's prime ‘minister. Truman needs every vard he can aot. Dorit expect him to come

"back. with Japanese surrender offer. But he may win valuable help in Pacific. Was Substanual concessions ¢ on organization of post-war

yorked into the late evening hours preparing material for the Big Three. ‘The material is screened by the

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«Playground Patrons Happy

And the people he serves are heaping praise on him — heaping praise in a nation where it has become almost a custom to criticize those who | At 59 Roy had to find lighter work than driving a tractor for He was assigned as Supervisor of the playground at

ASKS DIVORCE

lit Mr. Lees changed all that. Now- Charges One- ne-Time Postman make the trip.

3 Pp. ) —The Tormer maharanee of InThere is & calmhess over the plaj- | dore today asked a divorce from the rials. { postman who used to bring the mail “There never was anyone so bad to the ocean front estate where she lived with the Maharajah, fabulously

‘Mrs. 2 pues L. Holkas Mas27, with mental| turn to London tomorrow. Negotia{cruelty in a brief complaint filed in|tions on an agreement to establish ESCAPE OF OF HITLER | Orange county superior court. an international military tribunal The couple married in Las Vegas,

| was killed and 14 persons injured | last night when a truck sideswiped la small bus crowded with 28 pas-

SATURDAY, JULY

21, 1945

Entered as Second-Class Matter at Postoffice Indianapolis 9, Ind.

PRICE FIVE CENTS

Issued daily except Sunday

Nationalists Plant Bait To Attract Veterans

(This is ‘the last of six articles on the growth of the Nationalist movement in the United States.)

By EUGENE SEGAL Scripps-Howard Staff Writer CLEVELAND, July 21.—Twelve million=war veterans represent a Int of power and nobody is more aware of it than the Nationalists of former

WAR CRIMINAL TRIALS TO BE

Allies Select Nazi City in Gesture of

—The trials of European war criminals will be held 1n

revealed today. American, British and French |

mission, which selected the site, left by plane today for Nuernberg to ex-

amine courtroom and other facilities for the trials. Decision to try the

| turesque German city where the | Nazis held their annual party congresses was a gesture of retribu- | tion. ‘Russians Absent

Further details of preparations for |

|the trials were expected when the |delegations return to London to- | morrow. of Russian delegates — 2 aieq nih flying to Nuernberg caused surprise, The only explanation was that “circumstances had arisen unexpectedly which made

impossible” for the Russians to

Observers recalled that the westsome ~difficulties- in

concepts to be applied in the Justice Robert H. Jackson, chief American prosecutor, headed the U. S. delegation and Attorney General Sir David P. M. Fyfe the British. The French delegate was Robert Falco. The group was scheduled to re-

for the major trials will continue | then.

Data Sought or on (Guilt of Quisling

OBLO, July 21. (U. P.).—Nor- | wegian investigators have been sent to Berlin to study documents bearing on Vidkun Quisling’s guilt as Nazi lord of Norway, Special Prosecutor Annaeus Schjoedt said today. Schjoedt revealed that he had given Quisling’s attorney two weeks dating from last Monday to complete his defense. It i4:.not believed that the prosecution’s Berlin investigations will require over two | weeks. Schjoedt said it was likely that the trial will begin in mid-August during the last eight days of court, with two days left for reaching the verdict and delivering the sentence. Justice Erik Solem of Norway’s supreme court will. preside over the seven-member court.

ONE KILLED, 14 HURT IN BUS-TRUCK CRASH

Four of Injured in Hospital At Bedford.

BEDFORD, Ind., July 21 (U. P.O. —A 50-year-old Heltonville man

sengers. George Stevens, one of the "28 per: returning home from work at the nearby Crane naval depot, died on the way to a hospital. His chest was crushed and one leg was broken. Only four of the injured persons were hurt seriously enough to remain in the hospital. They were Harvey Beckart, 22, Bartlettsville; Mrs. Minnie Houston, 72; Mrs. Lois Todd, 39. and Mrs. Jo-Ann Clancy, all of the-Heltonville community. Police reported that the truck, driven by Beckart, ‘and owned by a: Bedford stone company, sideswiped the hus while SHampting to pass on a curve.

KILLED BY TRUCK HUNTINGTON, July 21 (U. P). —Sharon Ann Smith, 2, daughter of city policeman and Mrs. Robert C. Smith, was killed instantly yester‘day wheil she was hit by a Huntington Gounty Farm Bureau grain: truck driven by George A. Liners man, ‘Huntington.

CHINA RIGHTS RELINQUISHED | puNaRIG July 231 (U.P).—| Sweden relinquished

her extra-ters | yesterday |

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Shrine

Retribution. \ | - LONDON, July 21 (U. P.)..

Nuernberg, the Nazi shrine city where the German Fas-|

cist party met each year to

lay the foundation for war, it gd THE G. L's call him * Homior Jos

ik their respective’ egal“

Gerald L. K. Smith,

Leaders of the old line veterans’ organizations have cautioned discharged servicemen about joining two new Nationalist groups. These are the Nationalist Veterans of World War I and we Committee of

The Story

By JACK

ters for a hearing today.

ship in a barracks bag.

The G. L's,:who shared their foxholes with him and let him

"carry ammunition during the d out for the occasion. ‘He wore ETO ribbon, with combat star, a humor” medal. = » w

to adopt him.

The whole battery is determined that he shall be permitted delegations of the war crimes com-| Joe was found on a farm near Prankhausen. had killed his mother and. father. He fell in on the march with battery C, 38th field artillery,

to stay in this country.

_ 2d infantry division, and sh

His buddies say he earned his sharpshooter Tnedal major Eu|ropean war criminals in the pic-]

away. Every officer and man in

touched the barrdcks bag in which he hid, so that all would

| be -equally-culpable. They pcoléed $1000 for him.

» » » service here today.

closed to reporters. home to his wife, was present.

OE is a slight, handsome voy,” oP

£05.

in America. A

for a special riiling. . » » fously awaited the outcome. he wanted to go to school.

was,” he told them.

Senator Robert R. Reynolds and;

They are making a strong bid to| * | gét hold of that power.

Good her Joe

: United Press Staff Correspondent EW YORK, July 21.—Twelve-year-old Joseph Eugene Paremba—a Polish waif picked up on a German battlefield—was brought to immigration headquar-

He was accompanied by his “buddies of Battery C,” who smuggled him aboard their homebound troop

ITTLE is said ot how he got aboard hy troop ship.marine | Panther, which docked at Piermont, N. Y., this week. | “One Story was that eight colonels connived in the stowing

his pocket when he came down the gangplank.

IMMIGRATION agents took the. boy to Ellis island—then to the executive office of the U. S.

A staff car load of G. 1.’s followed ‘the immigration agents’ car, The soldiers were admitted to the office but the hearifig was

Cpl. Lee Roy Ritchey of Tulsa, Okia., who. wants to take Joe

He said he and his wife, both teachers, had no "ohildren. 80 ern allies and the Russians had .. 8 8

the immigration office he was heard to say that He Tiked “these beeg tavitings.” and HAL Ie wast 1074tay

‘Immigration officials said that under the exclusion act, aliens

entering this country as Joe did must be deported ta their country ° of origin. But they said ‘Joe could appeal to the attorney general

A SPECIAL board of inquiry was considering the case. Every man in Battery C, now stationed at Camp Shanks, anxHis buddies said that if he was permitted to stay in America

“Until I lived with Americans I didn’t realize how ignorant I

“belong to the Lost selling army goods and passes to |soldiers at Camp McCoy, Wis. On

Veterans of World War II, both,ple” and they formed by Smith. | Battalion.” * They are tting out attractive, The character of Smith's veterans’ | bait, but Ey e the veterans is not | organizations is made evident by the | May 3, 1945. he was sentenced 10 six {their purpose. |type of men he appointed to lead MONths at hard labor. The Nationalist movement thrives | them. The Nationalist Veterans of | Vose now is on tour for the Naon dissension and, to make certain | World War II was formed in De- tional Farmers’ guild, the agriculthat “it” develops among veterans, cember, 1943, with George Vose as tural wing of the Nationalist move Smith prods them’ with literattre in| its head. ‘ment, of which Carl Mote of Ine which they are told that they * ‘have, George Vose is a discharged army been virtually deserted by our peo-| {man who was court-martialed for|

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CRIME HERE CONTINUING UNCHECKED

> Holdups ‘and Slugging Give Police Busy Night.

Indiziapolis’ wave of crime rolled on unabated last night.

ROWLES

rive on Leipzig, had decked him a cut-down G. I. uniform, with sharpshooter's medal and a “good

» » ~ Four of them want

The Germans

all parts of town came early today when vandal-thieves ared the battlefield hardships. | wrecked a Kroger supermarket at Southern and Madison pi causing thousands of dolla¥s damage.

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tacked by two men, one a cab

the outfit, according to this story,

: : with slugging a soldier. Joe was carrying the $1000 in PROMISED HERE In five holdups bandits, some of them teen-agers, used guns and

oe. knives.

Goods Dumped Mercury Up i Ten Degrees The interior of the big Kroger Over Yesterday store was a shambles. A $3500 cash

immigration and naturalization

hurled about. Canned goods were swept from the shelves. Red stamps ‘|and tokens were scattered in alley. : Kroger district manager C. Snake the mothbalis aub:of that RERucay Seid he was unable. swimming sui. ih rte fren Today promises the summer's | high in temperatures. degrees warmer at noon today than|OhiO sts. with another woman. Anyesterday. : other man ‘was. in the seat with So if you haven't been near the the driver. watec yet, you will want to go/ She said they drove to a North during the week-end. {Meridian st. tavern, then to the i But yesterday wasn't cool. Indi- Other woman's home. She and the anapolis residents got a real taste {Wo men left the house; then she of summer as the mercury jumped Was attacked and robbed of $6, sae up to 91 to equal the temperature | said. She was treated at City hosof June 28 and 29. | pital.

12 (Noon) ..

- * cove 38 pm.

The G. I.’s have taught. him some

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WASHINGTON, July 21 (U.

dation available to the rich.” The Japanese are military, nav in Germany... The state department decided to keep them at the hotel in Bedford Springs, which Springer called “the rich man’s playground” ‘of Pennsylvania. The state department's attitude is that the 193 captured Japanese, including ambassadors and highranking army officers, are this country’s “blue chips” in the game of diplomatic exchange. It is hoped that they may be exchanged on the best possible terms for Americans now in Japanese hands. Springer said in a speech prepared for the house that “it is revolting to think of our own people pampering these Japanese prisoners, even of high rank, by giving them the best we have to offer,

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BERLIN prdbably is the most immoral city in the world, American chaplains and G. 1's complained "today in the German capital. Chaplain-Capt. Luke Bolin, 3325 N. Capitol ave, was more exPlleit. He said: Berlin is not immorl—simply unmoral.”

. » » UNITED PRESS Correspondent Charles P. Arnot, in Berlin, interviewed Capt. Bolin, who has been overseas since Noyember, 1942, and has been in every big city from Algiers to Berlin. “And this is the worst of them all . . , worse even than Sicily,” Capt. Bolin a

he added that “I have seen so much immorality that almost -nothing disgusts me any more.” Bul he dos. Det Saye his eves closed, nor does he believe the |, American soldier has Tost. is ideals. ; In letters home to his ‘wite, aberia; ee oid Tepeatedly ‘exceptionally

Soringer Says Seized Japs Are ‘Pampered’ af Hotels stoi v= veiw. wusgion

P.)—Rep. Raymond S. Springer ‘DARA (R. Ind.) today assailed the government for quartering - nearly 200 PACIFIC | WAR AIMS

captured Japanese officials “in a fine and commodious hotel at Bedford ARE EXPECTED SOON Springs, Pa., where they have rich food to eat and every accommo-

Local Chaplain, Overseas Since Fall of 42, Decides Berlin Is the Most "Unmoral’ City

- PHILOSOPHICALLY, however, ;

But you haven't seen anything] Argue In Hotel yet. It really can get hot here | The soldier slugged was Pvt. John in July. Back on July 14, 1936, it] (McNulty, Camp Atterbury, who bewas a mere 106. ‘came involved in an argument over So get ready. The weatheérman'a room at the Cameron hotel on

Police charged the night clerk, | Robert Castetter, 65, with wielding a beer bottle on the soldier's head. The G. 1. was treated at City hospital. WASHINGTON, July 21 (U. P.)., An original charge of vagrancy | ~The Army and Navy Journal, un- against Castetter was dismissed but official service publication, pre- he was convicted on a charge of dicted today that a new declaration | assault and battery this morning of allied Pacific war aims will be in municipal court. He was fined |issued soon, perhaps at the end of $25 and costs, both of which were

al and diplomatic officials captured ” »

JAP NAVY PREPARES

the war against Japan, the declara-| At Blackford and New York sts.

tion presumably would be tri-par-|/ David Townes, 42, of 642 w. North tite,” the publication said. “Other-| wise it is expected to be issued in | (Continued on Page 2—Colunn 8)

[Prime Minfster Winston Churchill, STEPHENSON JAIL VISIT 1S EXTENDED

Retrial

GUAM, July 21 (U. P.)~Tokyo claimed today without confirmation that 164 U. 8. carrier planes were shot down and more than 100 damaged over Japan between , July 10 and 18,

ree FOREST FIRES SPREAD By WILLIAM F. TYREE

United Press Staff Correspondent PORTLAND, Ore. July 21 w. GUAM, July 21.—-Tokyo spokes- | P.).—Forest fires in northwestern men hinted that Adm. William FP. Oregon drove residents of several | Halsey’s allied battle fleet was head- | small communities from their homes ing back’ for Japan today to fol- today as the Wilson river arid Sallow up its 11-day bombardment of | monberry river forest fires merged into one huge blaze, covering more | | (Continued on Page 2—Column 3) than 20,000 acres.” i

Dedition Delayed Until October.

D. C. Stephenson, ex-Ku-Klux ~ |Klan grand dragon, serving a life | term for murder, appeared assured of a summer in Noblesville today. The Indiana supreme court had

ruling on the state's motion for a

hy women—egpecially . ArnGt wrote. Me out of 10 persons on the streets are women. Most of them are poorly clad, undernour-

women, retrial.

Since February, Stephenson, from | the Noblesville jail, has been wagling A legal battle for a Hamilton {circuit court hearing on his retrial ished, and generally unattractive petition. During this time, he had by American standards. {free access to the home of the Among the troops, the Berlin sheriff, where he held conferences women have come to be known |and conducted business. as “Easy, but dangerous.” Ve- | Atty Gen, James A. Emmert, pro~ neral disease is rampant in the [testing this freedom of action, said capital and in most of Germany. he would seek to remand Stephen ® = =» higan 18 SCORES of women and girls TO he Such So a loiter on the streets until the 11 [ferred to another county. p. m. curfew drives them home. general is attemptThey hope to get a c'-aret, a bit TH SioImey of chocolate and a n—or just a man. Capt. Bolin, chaplain of the 66th armored regiment of the .2d armored division, offered this explanation: : “The Nazi doctrine held that woman's only duty was to bear children. Years of living. under this doctrine plus the hardships (9, of ‘the war left these people with- peg out any morals at all.” ”. x =

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Capt. Luke Bolin . . . Berlin unmoral. ;

fight the conditions the men find themselves Howe ie. rps THOUSANDS "poh thousands of Gerinans are in allied prison camps, and more hundreds of

SS ARREST Af met Sa BA di

Highlight of the activities which kept-police racing to ;

In addition, a woman Hacks she was criminally at-

HOT WEEK-END = as charged | A hotel clerk was charged

It was two/she got into a cab at Illinois and

g the Big Three Potsdam conference. | suspended, and sentenced to three » FOR ‘ONE LAST BLOW “If Russia should decide to enter days in’ jail. Er

adjourned until October without .

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