Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 July 1945 — Page 13

WEDNESDAY, JULY 25, 1945

* MAY LIFT SOME | PRICE CONTROLS

OPA Gets Power to Free Non-Vital Items.

WASHINGTON, July 25 (U. P). ~The OPA was authorized today to remove or suspend price controls on non-essential goods or those not significant in the battle against inflation. The authority, contained in a directive from the office of economic _ stabilization, put OPA in a position to concentrate its energies on basic items like food, fuel, clothing and rent. It meant also that OPA would proceed with pricing programs for

essential products beginning to come |

off reconversion production lines. The directive empowered the OPA to suspend controls when such action would not be followed by “an

increase in the general level of |

. prices of the item involved.” Such items will include ¢jewelry, fur coats and some liquors with the exception of whisky.

Try-Out Period

Any ceiling price suspension would be tried out for a period of about six months. If no price increase occurs during that time, price-con-trol would be removed permanently. If the price were to rise, control would be resumed. In the case of a commodity which figures to any degree in the cost of living, OPA must ask approval of OES to suspend price control. If, after five days, OES has not disapproved. the action, the suspen- * sion may take effect. Controls ‘can also be suspended: When the commodity does not affect cost of living or business costs. When continued control is more of a burden administratively than its. stabilization value warrants, When suspension does not divert materials, plants or manpower from war or essential civilian production or impair effective price control of other items.

LUDLOW LOW COMBINES PEACE PROPOSALS

WASHINGTON; July 25. — Rep. | Louis. Ludlow, Indianapolis Democrat, has coupled his plan for a war referendum with that of Mi-

nority Leader Martin (R. Mass.) in a resolution introduced in the House. | In presenting the resolution, Mr. Ludlow praised the Martin plan to| have President Truman seek aboli-| tion of universal peacetime military service ‘throughout the world, rather than its adoption here, With this Mr. Ludlow would also seek referendums on war in all countries and among all peoples. - “I believe that in Mr. Martin's resolution, and my addition to it, ~ the peace-loving people of America and of the world will find a proposal that merits their utmost consideration, now, when we are so anxiously exploring means to make a better world, * Mr, Ludlow declared. -

ASSISTING in the giant spike driving ceremony this morning at Unoin Station as a part of the nation-wide railroad recruitment drive are: Lt. Col. Ira B. Cross, Chicago, regional director, rail-

Symbolize Railroads Minpatior Needs

road manpower project; Mayor Tyndall; Mary K. Schuck; Michael Dunn, radio announcer; William J. McKetrick, superintendent, Indianapolis Union Rail+ road, and L. J. Leiland, general

chairman, Order of Railroad Telegraphers, Little Miss Schuck, whose father, Gene Schuck, 1809 N. Meridian st.,, has been a railroad employee 20 years, presented the spike to Mayor Tyndall.

EIGHT LOCAL MEN GIVEN DISCHARGES

Five Indianapolis men were discharged from Camp Atterbury separation center on Sunday and three local officers reverted to inactive status. The ‘servicemen who were released under the discharge point system were T. 5th Gr. Bernard A. Brent, 406 Harvard pl.; T. bth Gr. Richard D. Morgan,.3010 Graceland ave.; Cpl. Earl M. Hull, 515 N. Linwood ave., and T. 5th Gr. James L.

“McKee, 1301 N. Alabama st.

The officers are 1st Lt. Jack W. Bishop, 1606 E. Washington st.; 1st Lt: David W. Duthie, 2104 Park ave., and Capt. Charles E. Daugherty Jr., 5360 N. New Jersey st. Cpl. George A. Offenbacker, R. R. 12. -Box--204,--was- discharged. .Sun~4day from Camp Atterbury in accordance with the regulations releasing men from service who are 40 years of age o of age or over.

NEW CANNING CLASS

_A canning class sponsored by the nutrition service of the Red Cross will be opened next Wednesday in the Citizens Gas & Coke utility. The class will be for the Women’s Federated Club of Indianapolis. It “will meet ffom 2 to 4 p. m. on ext Wednesday and from 9 a. m. until noon on Aug. 2 and 3. Mrs. Anna Lou Talley. will be the instructor, assisted BY 4 Mrs. F. 8S. Wood.

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. Objectors Try. ! “ge ’ Combat Fatigue PASADENA, Cal, July 25 (U. P.).~Twelve yawning conscientious objectors today were in the third day of a combat fatigue experiment at California Institute of Tecnology, trying to keep awake for 112 straight hours. The dozen anonymous “guinea pigs"—all volunteers—are fed four times a day and are kept constantly on the move--hiking, participating in athletics and working on the campus. At night they stroll Pasadena streets as a group. They awakened at 5:45 a. m, Monday and will try to stay awake until 10 p* m. Friday, with their reactions recorded by medical supervisors during the four-and-a-half-day period. Results of the experiment will be used by the armed forces in research on the effects of sustained a acuity | on - Bghting men,

OPENS NEXT ASS « SURRENDER DUCE’S

SON TO ITALIANS

LONDON, July 25 (U. P.).—Allied | military authorities, according to the Swiss radio, have decided to surrender Vittorio Mussolini, eldest son of the slain Duce, to Italian justice. f The allies also will surrender Vittorio’s cousin, Vito Mussolini, former editor of the Fascist newspaper Popolo D'Ttalia, the Swiss broadcast said. Both men are accused of collaborating with the Nazis and thus would be liable to execution.

GEN. MERRILL GETS NEW ASSIGNMENT

NEW DELHI, July 25 (U, P.).— Maj. Gen, Frank D. Merrill has left the India-Burma theater for what was officially described as “an important undisclosed assignment,” ut was revealed today. Merrill won fame as the commander of “Merrill's Marauders” and has been deputy commander of the India-Burma theater for the

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past eight months.

FOOLS JAPS AGAIN

WASHINGTON, July 25 (U. P.). —The light cruiser St. Louis, twice damaged in the Pacific war, was badly battered a third time by a Japanese suicide plane off Leyte last November but is now back in! action, the navy revealed today. The St. Louis, a veteran of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, had been supporting ground troops on Leyte and was refueling when 100 Japanese suicide planes appeared. Several of the enemy planes were shot into the sea but one, hit and burning, managed to crash up-side-down against the cruiser’s starboard side. It broke through into the forward hangar area. . Fifteen crewmen were killed at their battle stations. While the skipper, Capt. Ralph H. Roberts, Tuscola, Ill, maneuvered his vessel to dodge new attacks, control parties managed to save the ship and it was returned. .to the West coast for repairs.

SEES HIROHITO FATE SAME AS MUSSOLINI

LOS ANGELES, July 25 (U. P.).— Emperor Hirohito will meet the fate of Benito Mussolini when the Japanese people rise “in one of the bloodiest revolutions in history,” Rear Adm, Thomas Leigh Gatch predicted today. Adm. Gatch, hero of the battle of the Santa Cruz islands and: now judge advocate general of the navy, described ds “pure bunk” the theory that the emperor is a god to the Japanese people. “We will . soon see just how venerated he is,” the naval officer told a war chest campaign meeting. “1 am certain he will die like Mussolini.” “It is the Samurai—the 300,000 military leaders—who ‘must be destroyed, but I dont think we'll have to do the job,” he added. “We are going to see one of the bloodiest revolutions in history in Japan which will liquidate both the em-

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

WARDENS KEEP

0CD HELMETS

Other Material to Be Sold,

. Says Fire Marshal.

Those OCD’ helmets distributed throughout the state are considered “expendable” and will be kept by now demobilized civilian defensé

volunteers, State Fire Marshal Car« ter Bowser disclosed today. About 162,000 helmets were al-

government, State OCD Property Officer Joseph Rudd said, Other equipment assigned to state communities during the crisis, he said, included: 163,969 fire extinguishers. 223,000 feet of hose, 350 pumping units, some mobile, some mounted. In addition there are thousands of ladders, buckets, axes and other accessories. . Frown on Speculation Disposal of surplus property, now stored in fire stations and garages throughout Hoosierdom, is an undecided question, said Mr, Rudd. He recently received .a communique from Washington requesting the state to refrain from selling OCD equipment to “speculators” whose purpose is to resell it at higher prices. He sald the federal government, thus far, had indicated that the material eventually will be sold either to Indiana commmunities as auxiliary fire fighting equipment, or to large manufacturing concerns for use in their safety programs. None Sold Yet

None of the OCD surplus has been sold as yef, but'some has been reallocated to the army, Mr. Rudd asserted. “ Most of the medical sup-

| Plies have been shipped to the

fighting fronts, he added, although some hospitals have sought to retain it as emergency stock. Indianapolis Fire Chief Harry Fulmer said the OCD here, in the course of its career, received 14,164 extinguishers, 14,000 helmets and 60 mobile or mountable pumpers.

Audit Being Made -

State OCD Director Clarence Jackson said a complete audit of remaining OCD accounts and property is now being made by the state board of accounts. A Plymouth automobile, formerly owned by the OCD, has been turned over to the state clemency commission. Other offices are scrambling for OCD furniture. So far, the gross income tax divi sion, the flood control board and the department of commerce and public #elations have managed to acquire OCD desks and chairs. The state department of public instruction also has its bid in.

Teen-Agers Have

Choice of Dances

INDIANAPOLIS teen-agers this week-end have their choice of attending five orchestra dances. The summer balls include: A baseball dance given by Jive Hive from 8:30 p. m. to 11:30 p. m, Saturday at the Pleasant Run golf house with Don .Lane’s orchestra; a street dance by the Harmony Hut Saturday night at 30th and Rader. sts. a Hawaiian dance at Garfield community center Friday night; a summertime swing sponsored by Cornegie Hall at the Riverside picnic pavile lion from 8 p. m. to 11 p. m. Friday with Barton Rogers orchestra, and a baseball dance given by Jumptown at Rhodius center

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By GERALD R. THORP Times Foreign Correspondent MANILA, July 25~The Jap on Luzon has just a‘ fatal introduction to the secret weapon of Pfc. oe Siragusa, New York City. was hauling cooks and breakfast to the 43d division troops “ when the party

truck and hurled four oversize kitchen spoons at a him. Mr. Thorp The Jap ducked but when he regained his balance the grenade had cooked too long. It blew up in his hand. Siragusa's weapons are all still in use, but only for non-military purposes. A patrol of the 151st infantry spotted three Japs and opened fire,

State Breeds Tan

Raccoons—to Hunt

NEXT TIME you ask an Indiana hunter, who was that blond I saw you with last night?— chances are he’ll answer: “That was no blond, that was. a raccoon.” All because the Indiana conservation department is bent on breeding raccoons with light tan fur. Paul Squires, conservation department publicity director, said the state raises raccoons only for hunters to shoot at. He said, no, absolutely none of the blond raccoons would be converted into fur coats on a political patronage basis. The blond raccoon idea, he declared, is “simply an experi. ment.” Don Hughes, superintendent of

nounced that Hoosierdom this year is launching the “greatest raccoon propagation program” in its history.

{RUBY KEELER BABY

"DUE IN FEBRUARY

HOLLYWOOD, July 25 (U, PJ).

star and ex-wife of Al Jolson, now married to Navy Lt. John Lowe, expects a baby next February, her mother, Mrs. Ralph Keeler, revealed today. ‘Miss Keeler married Yow, a Pasadena, Cal, broker, Oct. 29, 1941, nearly two years after divorcing Jolson. Lowe is stationed at San Clemente, Cal.

HONTENS

SIZES 18

Jap, Busy Ddding Sooner ~ Holds Grenade too Long

game farms, had previously an- |

—~Ruby Keeler, former tap-dancing

All three fell but, as the Yanks drew nearer one of the trio opened up with a pistol. The G. 1's shot again and the pistol fell from the hahd of a Japa-

|nese woman, wearing full soldier's

uniform. Pfc. Edward Moffitt, Charlerol,. Pa., gave her blood plasma and the Yanks started to take her to an aid station. “American soldiers,” she conceded during the journey, “are gentlemen. » She died a short time later. An American soldier with the 38th

{division was talking in Japanese to

a newly captured prisoner. Suddenly the American unloosed a flood of words in Japanese. When he 'was through the: prisoner nodded his head vigorously and gave a loud reply. “What goes on?” the other soldiers asked. “He told me he renounced American citizenship several years ago to return to Japan,” said the American, “I told him he was a damn fool. He said that I was absolutely right.”

THREE MORE ARE ROBBERY VICTIMS

Three more persons, one of them a Camp Atterbury soldier, today were added to the list of victims of the robbery and slugging wave in Indianapolis, Pvt. Eugene Kamnerer, home on

police he was robbed of $25 in cash and a $75 money order when he took a ride with a young woman in a taxicab. He said he got in the cab at Ft. Wayne ave. and Alabama st. Carl Gunter, 61, of Noblesville, re-~ ported that he was slugged and robbed of $75 in the 400 block of W. Washington st. shortly after midnight. He was arrested on the charge of drunkenness. A passenger on a bus coming to Indianapolis, Louis Borenstein, 66, of Chicago, was robbed of his billfold containing $300. A drunk drew a revolver on three young women at 10th and Alabama stg last night. Miss Pauline Power, 20, and. Josephine Comerford, 20, both of 240 E. St. Joseph st., and Mary Paul of 239 E. St. Joseph st., said the man tried to talk to them in the 900 block of N. Alabama st. and then drew a gun at 10th and Alabama when they refused to enter an alley.

PLAN CARD PARTY The Edelweiss Ladies society will hold a card party at 8 p. m. Saturday at the Southside Turners

furlough from Camp Atterbury, told’

Governor Confers on Plan For New Bureau.

Indiana took steps yesterday to make a bid for- chi sourisg trade, Governor Gates ana represmite tives of four departments con ferred on preliminary plans for the establishment of a tourist bureau, to be a part of the department of commerce and public relations, The bureau would devote its full time to promoting travel and vacation business in Indiana, the Bovernor said.

mated to total $10,000,000,000 ane nually in the post-war period, the state government leaders laid the groundwork which would enable Indiana to snare a goodly portion of that trade. The governor pointed out that because of the state's central location, thousands of motorists would pass through Indiana on vacation trips. Welcome Signs To induce these motorists to stay. in Indiana, the tourist bureau must sell “Hoosierland,” Gates said. The bureau would provide for large wele come signs at the state border, publish Hoosier literature, stickers and maps, and arrange for the ese tablishment of more roadside parks and information bureaus. Gates listed as specific advantages Indiana’s state park .system, rated second in the nation in beauty and completeness of facilities; a model state highway system, and a nae tionally-recognized efficient = and courteous state police system. : The group decided against a coe operating advertising program in conjunction with other Great Lakes states. Gates said that such a coe operative endeavor would not help Indiana as much as the other states, who inaugurated the pro= gram several years ago.

VANDALS BREAK INTO SCHOOL; DAMAGE $250

Vandals broke into school 12 ag West and McCarty sts. last night, causing $250 damage. Fred Pharel, . school custodian, reported this morning that 15 wine dows were broken out of the new section of the school and paint was

The “old building also was rane sacked. School 12 was sét on fire abou a year ago by one of the pupils,

V-8 CLUB CARD PARTY

The V-8 club will sponsor a card party at the Citizens Gas & Coke Utility office at 1:30 p. m., toe

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