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While most citizens are panting and panting, the Misses Lillian
Stewart and Marjorie Schutte ( painting.
While most people are taking their coats off, Miss Marjorie Schutte, Bridgeport, is putting one on, Comfortably dressed in shorts, Miss Schutte is putting a coat of paint on her home. ’ But first she bought some paint | and then apprenticed Miss Lil- |
left to right) are painting and
lian Stewart, 5602 W. Morris st., as an able assistant of the Knights of the Brush: Everything, went along fine un- . til they opened the paint cans. “You know there is an art to mixing this stuff,” Miss Stewart
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Wheeler, Isolationist, Backs
World Charter ‘Reluctantly’
By JOHN L. CUTTER United Press Staff Correspondent
ASHINGION. July Senator Burton Ki Wi vate “reluctantly” : for
today. he will. vote He served notice, however, that
(D, Mont.) | fon. of the
he will malls a fight later against
delegating to any source other than congress the power to send American troops abroad as contemplated in the new plan for a world security
organization.
He announced his position in al senate speech in which he severely criticized many aspects of the charter. The “real fight,” he warned
implementing the charter and putting this country actively into it. Earlier Senator Alben W. Barkley (D. Ky) called for ratification of the Charter and said that the centuries-old effort to achieve lasting world peace “is worth renewing.” Ratification is expected by the end of the week. He reviewed the history of organized peace efforts from 545 B. C., | to the League of Nations proposal after the last war. “Th e longing for peace among the peoples on the earth ‘is not a new sensation,” he said. “The desire for peace among the peoples of the world was never absent. from 545 Senator Barkley §' BE 0 1919
Barkley recalled the “Pax Ro-
the papal “Truce of God” of the middle ages, the Holy Alliance of Russia, Prussia and Austria after the Napoleonic wars and the Versailles Treaty after World War 1 Then he recited the series of similar efforts since 1919—the Locarno Pact, .the Washington Conference, the Nine-Power Pact, and the Kellogg-Briand Pact which 65 nations signed renouncing war as an instrument of national policy. “After all these international arrangements,” he said, “the peoples who bear the burden of all wars thought they saw an era of peace. They began to stand erect and turn the hills whence came = their strength, as they imagined. He refused to assess the blame for failure of these efforts to prevent World War II. But, he argued, we can profit by the mistakes which
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TIMES INDEX
Amusements .. 6 Eddie Ash ....
Mrs. Roosevelt.11 Side Glances . .12 Wm, P. Simms. 12 Sports .. .....18 State Deaths . 8 Grayson Henry Taylor 12 Inside Indpis Jane Jordan ..17| Weller . 11 Al williams Rg Women's News 14
Ruth Millett . 11
Jas. Thrasher. 12] °
AIMS NEW BLOW
AT STEPHENSON
State to Demand Return to Michigan City.
Deputy Atty. Gen. Frank Coughlin today said he would file a motion in Hamilton circuit court at Nobles-~ ville to remand D, C, Stephenson, ex-Ku-Klux Klan grand dragon, back to the Michigan City State prison. He said the motion will be entéred today with the Hamilton circuit court clerk. Stephenson, serving a life term for murder, is now in the Hamilton county jail, awaiting action on his plea for a retrial hearing. Mr. Coughlin said the state is seeking Stephenson's return tothe state prison on the theory he was brought to Noblesville “because of the imminence of his retrial hearing.” He said it now appears that legal machinery in the Stephenson case will be idle until October, when the Indiana supreme court recon-
Fvenes.
Privileges Criticized
Therefore he contends there is “no necessity” for Stephenson's continued presence in Hamilton county this summer. Recently, Atty. Gen. James A. Emmert has criticized privileges and courtesies extended Stephenson by the Hamilton county sheriff during his stay in the Noblesville jail Stephenson had been preparing his case and holding conferences in the sheriff's home. Deputy Atty. Gen, Coughlin said He thought Marion county, from | which the. Stephenson trial was originally venued, would be obliged to defray expenses of his incarceration at Noblesville, = No Claim Presented
County Auditor Ralph Moore, however, said thus far no claims have been presented from Hamilton county. ‘Stephenson was convicted in 1925 of the death of Miss Madge Oberholtzer of Indianapolis. He is petitioning for a retrial on grounds that his original trial in 1925 was prejudiced.and intimidated by the|. Ku Klux Klan which, he Shages, “framed” him,
Michigan State Prison Branded As A ‘Cupid Club For Lovelorn’
By CLARENCE REY United Press Staff verrespondent LANSING, Mich., July 24. Jackson state prison inmates have converted the world’s largest penitentiary into & virtual “Cupid Club for the Lovelorn” with dope, liquor
MALLORY PAY BOOST ORDER | STIRS DEBATE
bOpen Letter Signed by 142
Merchants; Cain Gives Reply.
“P. R. Mallory & Co.'s decisipn to appeal the recent war labor board decision giving
1 Mallory employees a 5-cent
wage increase drew criticism
today from the union and an explanation from Mallory President Joseph E. Cain. The criticism was in the form of an open letter signed by 142 mer= chants and small businessmen ant
“‘pliid for by the United Electrical,
Radio and Machine Workers of
‘| America, the C. I. O. union repre~
senting Mallory workers. One union officer said, however, that some of the merchants had contributed money for the advertisement. The letter said, in part: “Many of our customers work at P. R, Mallory & Co. We have learned from them that after 14 months of investigation and consideration, the war labor board has approved a 5 cents per hour increase in their wage rates. Now we understand that the {P. R. Mallory Co. is contemplating {an appeal for a reconsideration of this increase. Express Surprise “This information has surprised us.because we had always regarded — firm as a leader among progressive employers. We believe that you, Mr. Cain, as president of the Indiana Committee for Economic Development, were in the forefront in planning for full employment after the war. But to reach this goal the average standard of living must be increased at least 50 per { cent, according to Senator Kilgore's Committee on War Mobilization. “1f the P. R. Mallory Co. takes the lead in a movement to hold down wages, even after the war labor board 'has decided that an increase is in line with the wage stabilization policy, then what can we expect from the other concerns in Indianapolis? What can we ex- | ect in the post-war period? . “We are taking this extraordinary step in appealing to you -publicly because we feel that the attitude vour company and other progressive business take on the wage question now is going to determine whether or not we will have prosverity, full production and full emloyment in a peaceful world. Appeal for Leadership
“Your employees . . . have stayed on the job during the lone, trying veriod of ‘negotiations. We know that economic pressure on many of them has tempted them again and again to use other means than negotiation to, gain the increases they felt were due. But they have loyally stuck to their jobs. For the kind of a future we all want and need, we appeal to you fo be the leader in our city and state, to accept the decision of the war labor board and to urge other concerns to follow your example.” Charles Walker, president of the union stewards’ council, said the company’s management would be asked in a meeting Thursday to drop its request for a reconsidera-
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BILBO DENIES ANY INSULT INTENDED
Regarded Term ‘Dago’ as ‘Old Southern Custom.’
WASHINGTON, July 24 (U. P). —Senator Theodore G. Bilbo (D. Miss,), today told Rep. Vito Marcantonio, (ALP, N. Y), that it is “an old southern’ custom” to refer to persons of Italian descent’ as “dagos,” without intending insult. Bilbo wrote his explanation to Marcantonio after the New Yorker demanded that Bilbo apologize t0 Miss Josephine Piccolo of Brooklyn, for addressing her as “My Dear Dago.” Bilbo's original reference to the Brooklyn woman was in a letter replying. to one from her telling Bilbo that he ought to “hang his head in shame” for his opposition to the fair employment practice committee. ; “It is an old douthern custom to use. the word in ieferting to members of the darker skinned races from southern Europe,” Bilbo told Marcantonio. “It is generally used without any suggestion of contempt.” Bilbo said Marcantonio’s demand for an apology was “audacious, arrogant and presumptuous.”
| tained in a sensational '80-count Indictment of the Bifsen’s amin: concluding * a fouratrath in vesignion: of "activities at Jackson, : ARE EY Three
tures are expected to be six wd
‘We Wi tnessed A
By MILDRED KOSCHMAN DID IT, or didn’t it?
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tween firemen of station 13 at
olic church, 129 8S. Capitol.ave.
the cross atop the north steeple of the church bent at a 45-degree
ig That's the subject for debate be- | A
The question is whether or not |
Miracle,’
| angle during Sunday's storm and | then straightened up again. The firemen say it did. | Msgr. Henry. F. Dugan and a few other clergymen are doubt-
Kentucky ave. and Maryland st. | ful, and the clergy of St.John's Cath- |*
| at about a 45-degree angle and had a twist in it" | Chief Charles Gregory explained, using his hands to give a pictorial
LINKS PETAIN WITH 10-YEAR
closely at the north | Did it bend or not?
Look steeple.
Reynaud Says Hero’ Sought to Be Dictator of France.
—By HERBERT KING PARIS, July 24.—Pale adn trembling, Marshal Henri Philipoe ‘| Petain heard himself branded in court today by Paul Reynaud as an arch-apostle of defeatism who for 10 years k was in league with the Nazis and sought to establish himself as dictator of France. i Edouard Daladier followed Reynaund on the
Mercury Soars Toward 96, Heat Record for Year
LOCAL TEMPERATURES 12 (Midn'ht) 81 Ta. m.... 1 lam... 17 Sam...7 2a.m.... 79 9a. m.... 8 3am....7 10am... 86 4a. m....76 11am... 88 5a.m....7 12 (Noon) . 9a’ 6a m.... 76 1pm... 9
A new heat record for this year probably will be set today when temperatures are expected to soar to the 96 mark. The mercury climb, however, will not break the all-time record of 104 degrees for July, set in 1934.
Only a few scattered thundershowers tomorrow afternoon and evening may ofter any relief from the sweltering heat. The weather chief promises fair skies and warm’ temperatures for tonight. Throughout the state tempera-
ness. He was pre- | mier of France from the begin-
Paul Reynaud through its “sitz-
Reynaud, eight degrees above normal for the
treason. He “accused the 89-year-old
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BOY SEIZED IN |= ‘He charged that Petain plotted OU STODY FIGHT under a mantle of false prestige to ! seize power and opposed an ex-
tension of the Maginot line along the Belgian border where the GerIs Back at Home mans broke through. He accused the marshal of preach-
Lad, 7, Of Grandparents.
Seven-vear-old Steven Pitman, ; central figure in a complex child Hero of Verdun Is ‘Piffle custody snarl here, was back with| Speaking without notes, the wiry] his grandparents today. He was Reynaud‘ pitilessly flayed Petain| picked up and driven away from inland with him Gen, Maxime Wey- | front ‘of his mother's home last/gand, Pierre Laval and Camille] night, police reported. Chautems as the men responsible His mother, Mrs. Thorena Stone- for the fall of France. house, and her husband James Stonehouse, 327 Leeds ave., reported Petain, the “hero of Verdun” the incident to police as a “kidnap- |first world war, Reynaud thundered | ifig.” Mr. and Mrs. George Pitman, dramatically: the lad’s grandparents, who have “The myth of the victor of Verlegal custody of Steve, said the dun is sheer piffie.” FBI. came to their home to in- He recalled that Marshal Ferd-
vestigate. (Continued on inued on Page | 10~—Column 3)
a Se le THREE. AWAIT
defeat.
His mother, Mrs. Stonehouse, was holding the boy in deflance of a court order issued by Sam B. Huffman, sitting as special judge.
NAZI WAR PLOT |
‘Verdun.
ning of the war
who was premier in 1940 when France was collapsing, lashed Petain mercilessly for three -|and one-half hours in the stifling {courtroom where he is on trial for
ing the gospel of France's inevitable
Joe Gets Break
“Good Humor doe” Paremba
1. S. MAY ADMIT
1 | Stang as thel POLISH YOUTH second state Wit-|
Boy Smuggled Into U. s. by Army Pals.
NEW YORK, July 2¢ (U, P).—
krieg” period in the winter and local spring of 1939-40, giving way to! Reynaud during France's supreme Joseph Eugene “Good Humor Joe” crisis.
| Parsmba, fighting 12-year-old waif and mascot .of a 2d division artillery | battery, learned today that he won't nave to go back to Poland if his story stands up. In Washington, the justice department said the voluntary G. I, who came to America in- a barracks bag, may stay in this country if investigators confirm that he was orphaned by German cruelty in a suburb of Krakow. Joe was brought here aboard the transport Marine Panther by G. 1s of the 38th field artillery, 2d division. Suggests Method
Ugo Carusi, commissioner of immigration said there were several ways to establish Joe as an American, even though he entered ille{gally. One would be to take him |to Canada and admit him legally | | from there. | Earlier, W. Frank Watkins, dis- | trict. director of immigration and | naturalization, said Joe's case was
Dipping deep into the history of being appealed to the attorney genn the
eral. Cpl. Leroy Ritchey, Tulsa, {Okla., wants to adopt the boy, but Carusi said that if Joe remains, he would be sent to a boys’ school until { he becomes adjusted to his adopted { country.
| Then, ‘Carusi said, it persons of |
[ifke religion and proper qualifica- |
ns wish to adopt him, they will| joo allowed to do so.
[ 3:17 po 'm.
I’ back into place.” “It bent over ‘from the center | | Dugan laughed when he was told BaMtalion |
| who is acquainted with the struc-
Firemen Insist
“This was at about | ture of the spire, the cross towers about 200 feet into the air and is ~ “Then I had to.go out on a.run | made of copper and wood. ; and when I got back it had moved | The vertical bar of the cross is braced inside with timber spiked together and running about a foot above the copper horizontal bar. Msgr. Dugan hinted that the report of its bending “must have
description.
“The wind must have blown north and then south,” Msgr.
about the strange happening. According to Chief Gregory, (Continued on Page 3 —~Column 4)
fesse
1000 U.S. CARRIER PLANES | PLASTER JAP NAVY HIDEOU
Part of Long-Hunted Enemy Fleet Is
Trapped in Kure Harbor
By Halsey’s Armada.
By WILLIAM F. TYREE United Press Staff Correspondent
GUAM, July 24.—More than 1000 American car rier planes pounced on a concentration of Japanese warships at the Kure naval base today. They left it a holocaust of burning wreckage. Japanese ground gunners and fighter planes fought back desperately. The invasion-marked Japanese homeland rocked under unprecedented aerial blows from some 2000 American wars. planes. These included a record armada of more than 600 Superfortresses, which loosed a torrent of bombs on Nagoya, Osaka and five Japanese war plants. Fleet dispatches revealed that the carrier planes swarming all day over Kure scored direct hits with heavy bombs on
fe Japanese warships. They set fire to a number of others. Pounding It to Pieces Early reports indicated that task force 38 of Adm. William F. Halsey's 3d fleet finally had found a big part lo the surviving Japanese fleet—perhaps the major part— and was pounding it to pieces. : | The air force hoarded by the Japanese for the showdown battle of the homeland was stung to action in the defensé’ of ‘Kure and its warships. . Airmen returning to their carrier bases reported numerous dogfights swirling through the sme “skies over Kure: They said the anti-aircraft fire. was the mos intense they ever saw. But the Helldivers pressed home their attacks. : x U. S. Plane Lost
One veteran squadron alone tangled with 12 speedy Japanese fighters trying to intércept them as they came out of their dives over the Kure anchorage. One enemy plane was downed and one U. S. plane was lost. Ensign Glenn M. Even of San Diego said he hit a warship with a 1000-pound bomb on his second run over Kure. All day long the carrier force stnashied at “military targets” at Kure. A fleet dispatch said it was common -nowledge that the base was among Japan's greatest naval centers, and might shelter “much of” the enemy fleet. “Many” Japanese warships were caught riding at lanchor in Kure (on the Inland sea), United Press War Correspondent Richard Ww. John-, ston reported from the at- frst waves of fighters, dive bombtacking fleet. ers and torpedo planes from a fleet Tokyo admitted “slight” smdesrous Sha TY aa — damage to warships at Kure,| ; goo but claimed that 30 American Caught flatfooted in the opening
| planes were shot down or damaged. minutes of the American strike, The carrier strike kicked off 8 the Japanese reacted at first with {day of unprecedented American a terrific anti-aircraft barrage. {aerial offensive during which per-{ Then, for, the first time. since haps 2000 Yank warplanes, ranging Halsey began his fleet assault on from fighters to giant B-29 Super-|Japan on July 16 Japanese fighters fortresses were over the enemy rose to meet thé attacking Amerihomeland.
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She took him from the Pitman home July 14 after she and Mrs. Pitman engaged in a front porch scuffle. At 7:30 p. m. yesterday, a Sedan drove up in tront of the Stonehouse home where Steve was playing. A
man leaped from the car and, ac-|
cording to Mr. and Mrs. William Pitts, 322 Leeds ave. “took the boy by his arm and shoved him in the car.” = The Pitts were sitting on their front porch at the time. Held by Grandparents Following investigation, detectives said they learned that occupants of the car were Steve's grandfather, George Pitman, and a neighbor of his, Police Officer Ernest Lepper. The Pitmans and 8Stonehouses later were taken to the juvenile aid division. There, police allowed the Pitmans to retain the child onthe
(Continued on Page 3 Column 8) GIRL BORN TO JAMESES Rotund Lt. Gov. Richard T. James was really puffed up today. Barely able ‘to retain the buttons on his vest, Mr, James was the proud father of a baby girl, born yesterday ‘in Coleman hospital. Mr. and Mrs. James already have a 5-year-
CHURCHILL'S FATE SSE SYERSEAS met
British Election Results May, wasuiNnGTON, July 24 (U. P..
Affect Parley.
By MERRIMAN SMITH United Press Staff Correspondent
POTSDAM,
ain’s elections, Thursday.
t d Pre-! But President Truman and a Mead's pr tollowed testis
mier Stalin will continue their tal
next week regardless of who wins | it was learned
the British race, authoritatively today.
The only official information on the conference today was a bare
statement that the Big Three met.
The British ‘announced’ joday IN HER FIRST TRIAL
that Churchill] was going to London for the Thursday election results, but added the “Berlin conference” would not end. Churchill plans to leave Wednesday for London and if he wins the election he is expected to return by Priday when the Big Three will | resume its meetings.
British Foreign Secretary Anthony [She deadlocked the jury for eight
old son, Dickie.
Others were transported by prison employees to houses of prostitution in Jackson, or taken on wild week-end parties with
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‘was no control of sex perversion.
July 24—~The Big] Three conference will recess tomor- |
row to learn the outcome of Brit-| to be announced | tempting to handle the gigantic job
. A record fleet of over 600 B-29's| bombed Osaka and Nagoya, and Tokyo said another 400 army fighters and light bombers also hit Hon- | —Chairman James M. Mead (D. N. hy; trom their bases on Okinawa Y.) of the senate war investigating and 1wo Jima. committee proposed today that the| The main blow at Kure opened army discharge or furlough service- | a4 dawn, when Halsey launched his
(Anpther Story, Page 8)
| cans. Climbing through . their own blazing flak screen, the enemy fliers [put Up a desperate but apparently Ja battle ‘to defend the great naval anchorage. By all accounts trickling into fleet
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men who have been working on railroads overseas. He sald ‘these {men are needed by railroads at-
jof transporting returning soldiers; | to the West coast. f
mony Director J Mottoe Joh | 1 yianaots men who bar portation that the railroads must | been prisoners of the Japanese have 75,000 more men’ “right now." since the fall of Bataan, today have x a REE d | been reported as killed in action on ‘SHE’ S ALMOST VICTOR a Jap transport ship last Dec. 15. They are: Maj. Ralph Rumbold, | husband of Mrs. Mildred Rumbold, MARION, Il. (U. P.).—Anna Ma- | 618 E. 34th st. and 8. Sgt. Howard rie Bowen, Herrin, first Williamson | |I. Massey, husband of Mrs. Ruby | county . woman-lawyer, pleaded her Massey, BR. 13, box J19. first criminal case here in circuit, The bad news arrived at the court recently. {Rumbold home this morning and Although tlie 23-year-old girl law conflicted with A report that Mrs. yer lost her first case, that of de- Rumbold had received last March fense for Robert Petty, ex-convict—|that the major was safe in Japan. A letter written by Maj. John hours before they convicted the self- | primrose, a liberated prisoner from confessed robber. the Philippines, said: “The ship was bombed but I am nappy to report that Ralph was | not reported killed . , . undoubtedly he is safe in Japan. | “Ralph asked me on the day! for Shen after this blows over” if (he left Bilibid prison, Manila, they refused to talk. | Dec, -13.~ 1944, with 1600 officers Jackson has served as warden and enlisted men, presumably going 15 years in three different terms [to Japan, to mail this letter to) since 1925. He was in Lansing'as |you at the first opportunity” Maj. the report was issued, but refused wl comment. 3 In addition to interference with’ the investigation, Jtison officials
(ontmed on age
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Hoosier Heroes: 2 Local Men Killed on Jap Prison Ship
he was a prisoner at Cabanatuan, Mrs. Massey is treasurer of the Pacific, Prisoner of War society. Surviving besides the wife, are been in Bilibid prison for two months and that he previously was interned in Cabanatuan and at Davao and Mindanao. Mrs. Rumbold is president of the’ Officers’ Wives club and until ree |cently was vice president of the Pacific Prisoners of War society. She has just returned from the East coast this week and ‘had planned to mové to the West coast soon. . Sgt. Massey, who had bee} in the army 10 years, left the United States In October, 1941, landing in Manila on Thanksgiving day of that year. He was serving with a tank battalion on April 9, 1942, when Bataan fell, Forced to endure the infamous h of death,” the 32-year-old