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= VOLUME 56—NUMBER 117

SHAKEUP NEAR IN COMMUNIST PARTY RANKS

Browder Ouster Due Secret 3-Day Convention Opening Tomorrow.

By FREDERICK WOLTMAN Seripps-Howard Staff Writer NEW YORK, July 25.—-America’s Communists, in a three-day, secret national convention starting here tomorrow, will institute the most drastic shake-up of leaders and principals in the 26-year history of the movement. They will give the boot, and hard, to Earl Browder, since 1929 their leader and idol. And they will scrap his wartime and postwar program of co-operating with the American system of free enterprise, now that the Nazi threat to the Soviet Union is terminated.

From a no-strike, all-out-to-win- | i the-war policy, they will vote to|*

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By HERBERT KING United Press Staff Correspondent PARIS, July 25.—Albert Lebrun, last president of France's third republic, sobbed today as he testified against Marshal Henri Philippe Petain on trial for treason. Lebrun said Petain demanded his resignation, insisted on an armistice, and fought a move to continue resistance from north Africa A tall, dignified figure in a black cutaway coat, Lebrun told how the government decided -to quit Paris and went to Tours where Gen. Maxime Weygand proposed an armistice be sought with the Germans. Petaln, he said, seconded the proposal. Lebrun said that Prime Minister Churchill, Foreign Secretary An-

Lord Beaverbrook were present at the Tours cabinet discussions. He said that Weygand supported the armistice project but “I myself refused to listen to talk of an armistice.” Describing the Tours meeting, Lebrun recalled a message from President Roosevelt saying the

"| United States never would recognize

territorial changes resulting from German aggression, and expressing regret that at that time he could offer nothing more. “Only congress can put the armies in motion,” Lebrun quoted the message. He said the cabinet showed a clear majority against those who wanted

thony Eden, Maj. Clement Attlee,

return to what their leaders call]

“the Marxist-Leninist track” of “hard, relentless class struggle against the American ruling class.” To Name Foster Their new leader wil] be Browder’s bitter foe, William Z. Foster, who says he never goes wrong on the infallible rule that “what is good for the boss is bad for the workers.” From nazism and fascism the Communists’ weapons will be turned

once more on the old foes—"Ameri- | *

can Imperialism,” “Reactionary Capftalism,” and ‘The Bourgeoise.”

The Communists’ convention {it- ot

self will be strictly a rubber-stamp affair, The 90 delegates have had the new line pounded into their heads by--their- own leaders who ganged up on Browder. And these include some of the quickest-change politdecal chameleons in America. This was accomplished by an outpouring of words in letters published over the last two moriths by the Daily Worker and other official Communist organs.

Berate Browder Stand

In them, America’s Communist leaders beat their breasts unmer- - cifully for succumbing to Browder’s “opportunism” as they all did enthusiastically while Russia needed American military ‘aid. This process is known as “Bolshevik self-criticism.” It. is a kind of se-hypnosis Communists under-

$0 when ordered to reverse: that |

ideas suddenly, In this case the Browder honey moon ended last May. At that time the Russian Communist party, headed by Joseph Stalin, administered a verbal thrashing to the American party foy climbing off the class struggle wagon and collaborating with American capitalism. This criticism was transmitted through an article signed ' by Jacques Duclos, French Communist secretary, after his return from Moscow, * The Stalin rebuke was kept a secret by the Browder clique here. Then the New York WorldTelegram made it public May -22. Two days later, Browder shamefacedly acknowledged its existence. It came as an “ideological bombshell” and “knocked the political ground from under the whole leadership,” write Gilbert Green, nae tional Communist vice president. A wild scramble started for the bandwagon, over Browder's bewilGered but protesting body. Overnight, “Browder turned into A “crass bureaucrat” to his erstwhile fervent backers, They began to sneer at “catchwords” he used, such as “the American way of life.” By vote of 53 to 1 (Browder’s) the Communist national committee wrote Duclos’ “drastic reversal of American Communist policy into a resolution which will be presented— and adopted unanimously—at the convention, Meanwhile, to eradicate any dounthyon the subject, they put it into effect immediately.

BOYD GURLEY DIES; EX-TIMES: EDITOR

Won Pulitzer Prize in Fight Against Klan.

Boyd Gurley, former editor of The Indianapolis Times, died June 12 in Mexico, friends here learned today. . = Mr, Gurley was editor of The Times from March, 1926, to February, 1833, heading the paper when it won the Pulitzer prize. The award was made in 1928 for

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TIMES INDEX

Amusements. .® 6 Business ...... 7 Canning ,.... 3 Comics .......15 Crossword ...15 David Dietz... 9 Editorials ....10] Peter Edson...10 Fashions ..,..12 Gardening 3

Inside Indpls.. 9 Ruth Millett, .: 9 Movies ....... 6 Obituaries ... 4

Grayson ...... 90

GUILTY FORGER FINALLY CAUGHT

N. Y. Man Exonerated After,

NEW YORK, July 26 (U. P.)~— Bertrand M. Campbell spent three years and, four . months in Sing Sing prison for another man’s crime, He waited four more years for exoneration,

He "sat ‘last night in a shabby four-room flat and told his wife and three children: “I have been mentally dead for seven years. But now, thank God, it’s all over. Then Campbell told his story to a reporter for the New York WorldTelegram. It was the story of a middle-class suburbanite — a securities broker — innocently involved in a clever forgers ruse, apd a case of mistaken identity which deceived even Campbell’s close associates.

Shunned By Friends

It was the story of a bewildered man, now gray and 57, found guilty of a crime he knew nothing about. He was excoriated by a judge who called him a forger and thief; separated from his sobbing and trusting wife; thrust into a prison life that he ‘now calls a “blackout” period. Then he was paroled after three years only: to be shunned by his former business associates. The story came out yesterday when the . real forger, Alexander D. L. Thiel, was sentenced to prison on another charge and made a full confession exonerating - Campbell, The resemblance between Campbell and Thiel was not the least of the amazing features of the case. Both have gray mustaches, walk

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By ROBERT ZIMMERMAN. ‘United ‘Press Stal Correspondent LEADVILLE, Colo, July 25.-A

to continue the struggle.

'Mentally Dead for Seven Years'

* Bertrain M. Campbell . . ; resurrected from “mental death” after seven years . . . and Mrs. Campbell.

3 Years in Prison. |*

Alexander D. L, Thiel ,.. admits guilt.

finally

ATTORNEY WANTS

OPA INVESTIGATED

Shouts Opinion as Client Is Penalized.

“It ought tobe investigated” is James A. Watson's opinion of the Indiana district OPA. He is attorney for Roll Hoss, operator of the Embassy room, tavern at 3512 College ave. He shouted this belief during an OPA hearing ' yesterday at which Mr. Hoss was suspended for the duration from dealing in meats and _ The tavern operator was found guilty by Frederic S. Glover Jr. OPA hearing commissioner, of transferring 272 counterfeit red stamps. OPA attorneys charged Mr. Hoss transferred the stamps to a wholesale firm in ration payment on margarine, Attorney Watson contended that the OPA showed partiality in not prosecuting the wholesaler, George Kistler; OPA enforcement attorney, said the difference was that “the wholesaler was authorized to deal in stamps and Hoss was not.” He admitted that the wholesale - firm might have been

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tiful Mrs. Annette Springhetti Peterson, 37. ‘ Police said the miner took his own life 90 days after the woman died only five blocks from her husband’s home. The finding by City Marshal Carl Youngstrom of skilled miner Ivar

| Johnson dead in his shade-darkened

} frame home here

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WEDNESDAY, JULY 2, 1945

join the government, and Petain “opened his pocket and pulled out a paper, saying, "That J 2 my governe ment”.” The paper contained a list of Petain’s proposed cabinet, he said.

defied the court, refusing to answer questions about a message he sent to the Nazis after the Dieppe raid Jn 1042,

Earlier at the trial today Petain

Through his counsel Petain stub-

bornly refused to comply with an order of Judge Plerre Mongibeaux that he answer questions about his reaction to the Dieppe commando assault. The old marshal showed clear signs of weakening under the three days of testimony denouncing him

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Lebrun Sobs. As He Tells How Petain Insisted on Armistice

deputy - leader of parliament, 4nd[On June 16 he asked Petain to

as a traitor to Prance. He fingered | his gloves nervously during the wrangle with thé judge, and was heard to complain querulously to bystanders: “1 don't know what is going on. I am very hard of hearing.” Choked - With Emetion

The dispute over the Dieppe telegram broke out after Edouard Daladier, former French premier, completed his formal testimony. Daladier ripped into Petain with | an oratorical vigor that worked up! to a frenzy of shouting, his face flushed crimson and streaked with tears, his voice’ choking with emotion.

"destruction of the French republic and. of democracy. " Accusing Petain of going beyond | the mandate giveri him by the national assembly meeting at Vichy “under the pressure of German bayonets,” Daladier cried:

“We saw the birth of a regime;

French state, was to replace the republic, suported by a band of adventurers and traitors,

| “We, however, refused to believe in France's irremediable. defeat, |

steamer Massilia, While on the] high seas we learned of the ar-| mistice conditions, and ‘decided to

But ‘Daladier was brought back to “France to become a prisoner and {to face a Nazi-dominated French court in the incompleted Riom

Daladier then told of his hope that Petain would raise the flag

which, under the name of the of ‘resistance at the time of the allied invasion of North Africa.

“At the time of the American landings in North Africa,” he said, “I expected great things from | Vichy, but was terribly disappoint=

and left on June 20, 1940, on the | og when I saw that nothing hap

pened.” Under cross-examination Dala~ dier answered a, (ruestion by De-

He charged that Petain and the|organize in North Africa a resistr | fenge Counsel Ferdinand Payen

Vichy regime of which he was chief | of state was bent solely on the

ance movement among French pa-| triots.” |

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ID RIPS JAPAN AS

‘NAVY WRECKS ENEMY WARSHIPS

CUT IN PRICE

FOR CLOTHING

1S POSTPONED

Opa Sees Change as Too Abrupt; Holds It Over Until Next Year.

WASHINGTON, July -25 (U. P). -—A 6 to 7 per cent reduction in “inflated clothing prices, for which

OPA and WPB began to plan last|¥

January will have to be postponed at least until next year, OPA said today. The reason, OPA spokesmen said, is that. the proposed rollback would have been too abrupt for an industry that must make its plans a long time in advance of execution. The rollback program, first projected last Jan. 23 and after some delays scheduled to take effect this month, was designed to: : 1. Divert a greater amount of . available fabrics. inte manufac ture of low and medium-priced essential clothing. : 2. Reduce “inflated clothing prices by about 6 or 7 per cent.” 3. Improve the quality of low and medium-priced garments. Fabrics Difficulties

It was in the manufacture of woollen and worsted fabrics, rather than in garment production, that the difficulties arose which forced postponement of the clothing price rollback, it was said. In announcing last June a maximum average price program to go into effect July 1, Price Administrator Chester Bowles promised that some form of relief would be worked out for mills faced with hardships as a result of ‘the order. . Discussions with “a task group” of ‘the fabric industry disclosed subsequently that it would be advisable to change the pricing regulations for the third and fourth quarters of this year, Bowles said. As a result, woolen and worsted fabric manufacturers will be given what amounts to a per price increase for these periods, affected by a change in the basing system Total Supply Not Affected Over -the "six months, however, the change will mean practically no change in average prices now in effect, it “was said. The socalled increases, for practical purposes, amount rather to a cancellation of projected reductions. . OPA still hopes, however, that the program will have developed sufficiently by next year to bring about reductions in the -price of essential garments then. Meanwhile, the current revision of policy, spokesmen said, is ex pected to mean more woolens a moderate prices and fewer at low prices than had been anticipated. Total civilian supply will not be affected.

STRIKE HALTS FORTRESSES

PATERSON, N. J., July 25 (U.P.). —Approximately 15,500 production

workers in four Wright Aeronau-|

tical Corp. plants in this “area walked out today in sympathy with strikers at the company’s Woodridge, N. J, plant and virtually halted production of. engines for

Superfortresses and navy dive bombers. .

Find Body of Leadville Society Beauty In Home of 57-Year-Old Miner Suicide

Youngstrom said Johnson's body,

bullet in his head and a revolver at his feet. Johnson's eyes were fixed in death

‘NO IMPLICATIONS'— Billy Hamilton, Active Politico, Out at City Hall

ASSISTANT Street Commis= sioner William E. (Billy) Ham=ilton, doughty city hall politico, has been ousted from" his job, effective Monday, it was learned today. £ Mayor Tyndall today said Hamilton, who managed city hall's primary campaignin 1944, had been dismissed by

PRESIDENT T0

PAY IKE VISIT DURING RECESS

Plans. to Inspect Troops While Parley Awaits Churchill, POTSDAM, July 25 (U. P).— President Truman will fly to Frankfurt tomorrow to confer with Gen.

Dwight D. Eisenhower and review American troops during the brief

Street Commissioner Luther Tex., “presumably for inefficiency.” The mayor denied that there were any political implications whatsoever in Hamilton's ouster. Nevertheless, Hamilton recently . had organized the “Friendly Re~ publican’ club!” a development

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STORM BREAKS HOTTEST WAVE

Mr. Hamilton

Stick Around.

LOCAL TEMPERATURES Sa.m..... 8 10a m.... Tam....72 11am... 8am . 73 12 (Noon)..

78 9 81

Thundershowers which broke over a sweltering ‘Indianapolis early this morning will continue throughout today, promising temperatures a good 10 degrees below yesterday's heat wave. The U. S. weather bureau predicted that. cloudiness would continue, in which case the temperature would not reach above 90 degrees. Weather experts added, however,

‘{that a higher temperature may be

expected if the clouds break up. Yesterday Hottest Meanwhile yesterday's high of 87 degrees at 2:30 p. m. won it the title of “Hottest Day of the Year.” The heat caused the death of one person and sent two other persons to City hospital. Deputy Coroner Fred Worth today blamed the heat in the death of Henry Johantges, 65-year-ol@ employee of Holliday park, as he operated a power mower in the park yesterday afternoofi. Heat prostration victims were Roy Shane, 45, of 128 W. 21st st, who fainted at Illinois and St. Clair sts., and Benny Gaddis, 49, of 518 W. 28th st, who collapsed while working at the Fame Laundry plant. Both cases occurred yester-

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GIRL IS CHAINED T0 BED IN HOME

On Farm Near Noblesville; Parents Face Arrest.

NOBLESVILLE, July 25.—Eight-year-old Georgia Lewark was found chained to a bed today in a farm home reeking with filth, Deputy Sheriff Carey Davis,’ answering a call of neighbors, found Georgia fastened with a five-foot chain and two padlocks. She was holding a little sick kitten and crying. ; \ “They fasten me up like this every day,” she said, referring to her foster parents, Mr. Mrs. ‘Marion Lewark, who leave for work at an Anderson war plant at 6 a. m. She

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day or nig

Relief to Continue if Clouds,

Sa Bl

lit was announced today.

Truman will inspect the 84th in-|.

fantry division and the 3d armored | division at Frankfurt, He will {lunch with Eisenhower and his staff. Truman will Teturn . to -Postdam tomorrow night and it was expected that Big Three sessions will: resume either Thursday night or Friday morning. While at Frankfurt, Mr. Truman will decorate six British officers. He wili be accompanied by Secre-

{tary of State James F. Byrnes,

Brig. Gen. Harry Vaughn, his mil-

secretary. No announcement was made of Premier Stalin's plans for to IMOITOW.

the Big Three site. ; The Big Three held a final dis+ Minister Churchill, together with

and oposition leader Clement Attlee left by plane for Britain to receive

| MOIrow.

Expect Churchill to

Have Plurality

LONDON, July 25 (U. P.).—Prime Minister Churchill arrived ‘by plane from Potsdam this afternoon to await announcement tomorrow of the results of Britain's election. Churchill arrived in London shortly after 3:20.p. m. and left by automobile for 10 Downing st. immediately. Tonight he will be received in audience by King George VI. He arrived to find British political forecasters predicting that his conservative party probably would not poll more than 40 per cent of the popular vote but it was generally expected he would retain a plurality if not a majority in the house of commons.

U. S. ALLIES JOIN

LONDON, July 25 (U. P.).—Two

either yesterday or early today. Rome reports said that American

Vienna.

‘Hamlet or 'G

By GWEN MORGAN * United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, question is, do G. L's love only, “garter” shows? * Or would they like an honest-to-gosh

as ? just such a Shakespeare production lined up. All that stands between it and the men in Europe is a war department colonel

Bem 5 corr ’

| recess in the Big Three conference, |

itary aide, and Charles Ross, his Mr. Truman's vilit to Frankfurt is his first trip since his arrival at

cussion today after which Prime

Foréign Secretary Anthony Eden

the British election returns to-|

RUSSIANS IN VIENNA

July 25. —The

production of ‘Shakespeare's “Hamlet,” with sultry Libby Holman

queen i The U., 8. O. camp shows have

who thinks Shakespeare is “over their heads.” Director Robert Breen—ex-G. L ‘and a former director for the late

'SEE YOU LATER'— General Loses

Redhead During ‘Jeep Roundup’

By MALCOLM MUIR JR. United Press Staff Correspondent PARIS, July 25.—Paris’ Joy-rid-ing jeep round-up continued on an intensified scale today with military police halting hundreds of army vehicles along the

La Concorde. Last night large crowds of G. 1's, surrounded: by slightly bewildered civilians, gathered at the M. Ps favorite “jeep traps” and alternately cheered or whistled as

curb. ” # » MILITARY policemen have tracking down all military transport being used for such nonmilitary - purposes ‘as carrying about beautiful blonds. The high point last night camewith the halting of a brigadier

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CALLS CHARTER

Champs Elysees and the Place de | -

car after car was waved to the |

nabbed 321 vehicles in two days of |

YANKS SWARM

BACK TO FNSH OFF SEN BASE

Skies in Double Air Assault.

GUAM, Thursday, July 26 (U. P.). — Superfortresses ‘blasted three more of Japan's [vital oil refineries early today. : At the same time more more than 1200 U. S. and British |carrier planes blew the Japanese {air force from the skies over west- ' ern Honshu as they swarmed. back into the burning Kure naval base to finish off .the crippled remnants of Japan's imperial fleet. Between 75 and 100 Bes 4 struck in a precision demolition raid near LONDON, July 25 (U. P.)~Moscow dispatches said the Russian army newspaper Red Star today

ROAD TO PEAGE

Burton Tells Ser Senate Pact Should Be Approved.

By JOHN L. CUTTER United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, July 25.—Senator Harold T. Burton (R.O.) told the {senate today shat the United Na-! tions Charter is the road to “peace on earth and‘ good” will toward men.” Burton led off the third day of] senate debate on the treaty to or-| ganize ‘a new world srganization | for peace. Ratification by an almost unanimous senate vote is expected by the end of the week. Meanwhile, considerable confusion appeared to exist in the senate {over how the United States should; place. its share of armed forces at| the disposal of the United Nations! security council. The issue, first in senate debate on the Charter, arose yesterday. The question was whether this country should provide its share of forces by joint congressional resolution, | through a treaty approved by the

senate, or by presidential decree. |

Burton lauded the Charter for

| viding a means for holding {gether the allied “world champion-

correspondents had left there for

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arter Shows’

‘Now Burning G. I. Question

playing down to the guys,” Breen said. “Their attitude is that the only things G. L's think of are

displayed prominently photographs of Soviet military maneuv+ ers on the “Far Eastern front.”

| Tokye shortly before midnight as {the U, S. 3d fleet maneuvered offshore after its devastating two-day strike at Japan's great Inland sea anchorage which blasted at least seven enemy warships, ? Hit Refineries Bombing at medium altitude the i Superforts struck at Japanese oil refineries .and installations. . | Targets were the Mitsubishi oil | refinery, the enemy’s largest producer of aviation gasoline; the Ha yama petroleum refinery and the | Asaishi Oil Co. adjoining each other in the Kawasaki area on | Tokyo bay. The raid followed by less than 36 hours a record strike by 628 Superforts on seven industrial tare

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‘WE'LL GO ASHORE ANY PLAGE'--KENNEY

Commander Says Bombers Will Smother Japs.

MANILA, July 25 (U, P).—~Gen. George C. Kenney said today that allied air power in the Pacific is so great that after the bombardment in future landing operations the

| troops will walk ashore virtually

ern air forces, said that in the very néar future the allies will be able drop 5000 tons of bombs in a single raid on any given target in

‘will reach 10,000 after redeploy= | ment is completed. | “Before we go in any piace? | Kenney said—-correspondents ate | tending his press conference noted | that “any place” included Japan--{“there won't be a bridge or decent foot road left. 5 “We expect our troops will