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Bottoms Up! Sea Monster
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"By FREDERICK C. OTHMAN United Press Staff Correspondent |
(256 CENTS PER HOUR) ROW-BOAT: OF OTHMAN-ORSINGER SEA MONSTER EXPEDITION, July 30.—~Two intrepid, ahem, scientists floated in the Potomac today, serenading Percival, the sea monster, with a
portable phonograph. One of 'em felt silly playing hill-billy music to a monster that he oud. even see. Or could he? “H-s-s-5-t,” said Fred G. Orsinger, director of the federal aquarium at the commerce’ department, pointing through the mist 100 feet from the Washington shore. “There's Percival.” He was dark brown, knobby, and about as big at one end as the other,
2 x = “He I8 not, either, a log,” Or singer insisted. “He's a sea monster iike all these other sea mons, sters all over the world. Either you see him; or you don’t, and the only trouble with Pervical is, he's shy.” If I hadn't been along, Orsinger said, Pervical wouldn't have kept his head under water. He'd have lifted his beautiful tan whiskers (parted in the middle) and glided up to get his back scratched. So be it. You don't catch me “guestforing the -eyesight= or the veracity of the government's most distinguished sea monster fancier, He's had trouble encugh, mostly with Mrs. Orsinger, and (as he
» » 8 > JONE WEEK ago today I wrote the original dispatch about Per-
length on sea monsters in general and in particular, (Percival was 30 feet long, looked vaguely like William Howard Taft, and enjoyed Tschaikowsky concertos.) Came trouble, then, for Orsinger, One of his big-wig scientific associates commented pointedly on the strange things that can be seen in bottles. A citizen in a letter fo the said the only sea monster ts was a veteran named tus, who consumed vast quantities of paper clips, leave slips, rubber bands and carbon paper and who lately had gone on a diet of war production board application blanks. - ” . MRS. ORSINGER announced that it always had been problem enough living with her husband, but that since she. learned he communed with a sea monster, she had developed nightmares. From Gus Foster, a San Antonio, Tex., music Tover, came a
he didn’t doubt that there was a sea monster in the Potomac. All he doubted, he said, was that Percy liked highbrow music. He added that he was shipping an assortment of phonograph records of Texas music for Percival's pleasure. That wasn't all he did. . » » HE DEMANDED that Senator W. Lee O'Daniel of Texas report on Percival's reactions. Orsinger rebelled. He said he’s pestered Percival enough, with-
He said he didn’t think Pers +¢ival liked senators. He said he'd probably snap at ‘em, with teeth two feet long.
This left Orsinger with recordings of those beautiful ballads from Texas, entitled “Sweet Getsy from Pike” and “Sweet Naomi Wise.” It also left him with me, 88 3 “WHAT YOU want to see a sea monster for I cannot understand,” Orsinger said, “They are very common. You can read about em in the papers every summer, when the weather gets warm.” ted, we rented that boat auditor:-I paid for. it) and we played that Texas music for Percival. “It isn't a log, I tell you,” Orer sald. “And if you keep sneering, Percival’s going to ‘feel hurt and go away from here.” I hope he does. In fact, I think he'd better,
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VOLUME 56—NUMBER 121
GOP VICTORY IN BEER WAR 15 CONCEDED
20 Democratic Wholesaler Litigants Dismiss Their Suits.
Democrats today conceded virtual defeat in their bitter wholesale beer war with the Republican state administration. wb 3 : Twenty Democratic exwholesalers dismissed their - own suits: against the new G. O. P. liquor code in federal court here this morning. At the same time, Pleas Greenlee, executive secretary of the Indiana Licensed. Beer Wholesalers association, said plaintiffs in other defeated beer suits would not take the Democratic argument to the
1U. 8. supreme court.
Today's action left the Democrats high and dry, without a law suit, or much beer business, to their names, 4 : Most Demacrats Replaced Most of them had already been replaced by Republican beer distributors, granted licenses under the Republican-enacted liquor law. Democrats contended the law was unconstitutional in that it arbitrarily clipped off their flowering beer wholesale business. But a northern federal district court and the Indiana supreme court ruled otherwise. The Democrats evidently didn’t think it worth while to con-
+tinue. the. fight. in the southern dis-
trict federal court here. Seek Other Businesses: Nevertheless, Mr. Greenlee said, the Indiana Licensed Beer Wholesalers association will remain intact. Its Democratic members, ne said, will turn to other businesses to tide them over the political drought. Mr. Greenlee himself owned a wholesale beer company in Shelbyville before the Republican usurpation. He now says he has arranged to take over an automobile agency in that community. Recently, the new G. O. P. wholesalers organized their own little group, entitled, “the Beer Distributofs Association of Indiana.” -
Herriot Testifies FDR Pledged Aid
Before Armistice
PARIS, July 30 (U, P.).—Former| Premier ‘Edouard Herriot testified today at the treason trial of Marshal Henri Philippe Petain that] President. Roosevelt promised France material pt eer aid from America before the armistice was signed in 1940. “I know Mr, Roosevelt was convinced that he
ask the United States to - enter the war,” the 73- | year - old Herriot ’ said in mustering Herriot arguments of the French republicans against the armistice which Petain negotiated. Petain himself was suffering from an acute attack of laryngitis, Judge Pierre Mongibeaux revealed in announcing that today’s session of the trial would be shortened. The strain.on the. 89-year-old marshal was becoming more evident daily. Petain’s counsel said he had a “fairly high” temperature yesterday and was not at all well. He was suffering from a severe head cold and coughing occasionally, Herriot
collapsed. His report of Mr. Roosevelt's prof-
argued against the necessity for an armistice and said French republic-
possible from the debacle.
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By EDWARD J. BYNG WHAT BAFFLES most Americans is the unique way in which the British people combine their deep devotion to liberty with an almost religious reverence for
t{led police through the mile-square
|| intersection.
/ Dillinger whose rampaging life was i ended by G-men July 21, 1934, has
was president of the chamber of deputies when France
fer of “material aid came as he
ans wanted to try to save anything
Herriot, wearing the red ribbon of the legion of honor, hurled a charge
in describing "how the parliament
By SHERLEY UHL BOTH CASH and information are tumbling pell-mell into the internaal revenue collector's office here as a result of the widelypublicized drive against tax evaders. Thousands of dollars in “back” taxes have been voluntarily reported by Hoosier businessmen and others who suddenly recalled portions of their income that
ADMIT MOVIE OF DILLINGER LED T0 CRIME
Six Delinquents Tell Judge They Were Influenced By Film. By KENNETH HUFFORD Teen-agers of today still are being influenced by that fabulous Hoosier hoodlum of the early '30s, John Dillinger. At least:six juvenile offend-
ers recently have confessed to Judge Mark W. Rhoads’ of
adventurés were inspired by the audacious gangster, A civil suit is pending in circuit court against the producers of the film, “Dillinger,” which ' recently ended a ‘two-week’ showing -at the Lyric theater here. Show Now at Marion The picture. still :is being shown to Hoosier youth, despite the belief of police and court authorities that other teen-agers will be encouraged to criminal acts after seeing the film. Marion, Ind., youth now are seeing the movie. - Today's youth was learning its A. B. C’s when Dillinger's sensational career was headlined. The film won't be playing again
Carl’ Harthill, manager of the Monogram Pictures, Inc., office here, said. Echoing police officials and others, Judge: Rhoads asserted: “Since the picture appeared here, We haye had in juvenile court at least six delinquent children, perhaps more, ‘who admitted they had seen the film.” . ‘Tomorrow, the judge will hear the latest case of this group—that of a 17-year-old orphan boy whose | last three years have been spent jsraveling around the country with arnival, Sister's Suit Pending The boy was arrested a few days |after the Dillinger film opened here. |He is charged with vehicle-taking (following a wild case by police that ended at 10th st. and Central ave. Driving an automobile he admitted stealing - from a downtown parking lot, the youth and a companion
at-a high rate of speed. The companion jumped from the car before it side-swiped six hoiises at the
Mrs. Audrey Hancock, sister of
sued operators of the Lyric theater and the Monogram producing firm. She alleges that the film of her brother’s life is inaccurate. It was Mrs, Hancock's home near Maywood that G-men watched often in the closing days of the desperado’s career in the hope he would return to his native Indiana. } Waived to criminal court by Judge Rhoats were the cases of two other 17-year-old boys, Charles Corn and Charles Storey. They admitted seeing the film and then committing burglary. The “heavy-footed” orphan youth denied reports that an attorney was preparing another suit against the theater and film producer, asking damages in behalf of the boy. He said after leaving the theater, he drank some whisky and took the automobile when he saw it unlocked with the keys in it.
COLEMAN QUITS BRAVES BOSTON, July 30 (U. P.).-Of-ficials of the Boston Braves National League baseball club announced today that Manager Bob Coleman has resigned -and*-that Coach Del Bis« | sonette has been appointed to succeed him. .
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once had been conveniently forgotten. In addition, the revenue collector’s office is kept busy investigating scores of, “tips” on secret incomes. Some of these are motivated by vengeance, others by profit. © Because if the department collects as the result of a tip, the informer receives a percentage—not more than 10 per cent—of the
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amount collected. The informant’s share is based on the value of his assistance. From one small-town tipster, | Revenue Collector Will Smith got a. congratulatory note, following a successful probe: “You did a good job,” said the message. “Now here's another one.” Many notes tattling on the failure of neighbors or business acquaintances to report all their in-
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Berlin army billet today.
letter from his brother. This, he says, reported the death of his first wife in ar automobile accident. “I left it on top of the radio yesterday and the German housekeeper here must have thrown it away,” he told me. While he talked to me he was giving directions for the removal of flowers from a Berlin church| where he would have formally married Kannella Koulouvaris, 24-year-old Brooklyn WAC sergeant, if his first wife had not turned up —very much alive—in Chicago. “Anyway, the letter has disappeared and I am at wit's end trying to find it,” he said. Prefers Sergeant The WAC whom Capt. Schultz legally married in a German civil ceremony. & week ago today has started inquiries toward obtaining an annulment of the marriage. The general feeling among. her friends was that she had been an innocent victim. This .was borne out today by a statement given me by Schultz. “I desire more than anything else in the world to clear the name of the most wonderful person I have ever had the pleasure to meet— Kay” he said, “ t action my first wife, Ruth, may take can never change my feeling toward Kay.
“I am ready to face anything that anyone may have to offer. And in so doing I sincerely hope to clear the name of the WAC sergeant involved. She had nothing to do with this and is innocent of any besmirching of her name.” “One Sweet Mess” The captain paused and put his hands over his face. : “Do you know, I have only had four days leave in 2% years?” he said. “I am tired, very tired. But no matter what the army does to me, I still love Kay. If there 'is) any way for me to get a divorce, I
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Britain Combines Love of Liberty With Deep Respect for Symbolic Traditions
Labor's sweeping victory in
been termed a “revolution,” which will drastically affect British domestic, empire and foreign policy. If it is a revolution, it is a bloodless one brought about. by.
the recent British election has
U. S. Mate Spoils Berlin Wedding
Mrs. Ruth Schuliz, 23; of Chicago, and Capt. Carl Schultz.
Officer With 2 Wives Says He Thought First One Dead
BERLIN, July 30.—The man with two wives sat miserably in his
He was worrying about the good name of his second wife, an army WAC sergeant, than about what happens to him. Restricted to quarters except for meals, Capt. Carl G. Schultz of Chicago spent all last night and most of this morning trying to finda
“tradition, ceremonies and pageantry. Yet the key to understanding the British spirit is thé realization that there is no contradiction between the Englishman's love of liberty and his respect for The average American tourist,
ballots: rather than bullets. Behind this capability of the free Englishman for democratic processes is a long chain of historical events and tradition, of freedoms won and preserved. They add up to what makes the British governmental system tick. This background for the recent election results is discussed in a series of articles by Dr. Edward J. Byng. Dr. Byhg was for years general manager of the United Press in 16 countries in Europe, and was a student at Oxford., He has had personal acquaintanceship among the men who have been voted out of
who watches some colorful British ceremony with a mixture of cu--riosity and mirth, fails to understand that some uf that pageantry
wrested 1 way,
power: in Britain, and those who replace them. - °
mon man gver his king's attempts to ehereite ditatorial power.
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some victory of England's com-
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form. The deep psychological & political significance of. som ‘Britain’s ancient and pic habits and ceremonies furnishes the key to the right Interpreta-
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Correspondent
FIND NO PROOF
Russians Continue Probe of Whether He Still Lives.
BERLIN, July 30 (U. P). —Col. Gen. Alexander V. Gorbatov said today thére still is no defirtite proof that Adolf Hitler is dead, and an investigation is continuing to. determine whether he still is alive. Gorbatov is the Russian representative on the interallied command of Berlin, also called the Kommandantur, . “We do not exclude the possi~ bility that Hitler is still alive and in hiding,” Gorbatov said at a press conference.’ : Two Types of Rumors Gorbatov said ‘two types of rumore were circulating in Berlin. One was that Hitler is dead. This, he added, was designed to halt further efforts to locate him. The other is that Hitler is alive. This, he said, is designed to inspire -hope- among the Nazis. Borbatov said there was some underground activity in Berlin but that it was “very deep underground and shows little on the surface.” Gorbatov said he had “heard reports” that Hitler's dentist was ex~ amining a jawbone believed to be
on the point. *
OFFIGES LOOTED IN
NEW YORK, July 30 (U. P).—
dollars from the devastated Cathe olic Welfare office in the Empire State building, which was struck by a B-25 bomber Saturday. : The 102-story building, largest on earth, escaped structural damage from the crash. and is safe for occupancy, Chapin L. Brown, vice president in charge of operations at the building, announced. “I have reports, however, that several thousand dollars in travel« er's checks were looted from the safe in the office of the war re-
olic Welfare Conference following the crash,” he said. All offices in the 102-story structure were open for business except on the purned and blasted T8b and 79th floors The gaping, 18-foot. hole torn by the exploding bomber at the 78th floor level was shored up cand 15 men were at work on a scaffolding outside the bulldihg All elevators to the: 87th floor were back ‘inservice and five Sievaints were apdraling from 67th to the floors. Burchards,
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Tax Drive Nets Thousands In ‘Forgotten’ Income
HITLER IS DEAD
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amends with the government are said Mr. Smith, the collector's office “processes” all information. He tells of one Indianapolis businessman who, upon voluntarily | “overlooked” real estate deals have
come are anonymous. Nevertheless;
declaring a chunk of previously | been disinterred suddenly by jitwithheld income, asserted: “Well, I've paid the right amount. Now I'm going to see that some other people do too. Here's a list of names for investigation.” Few of those prompted to make
Smith.
ordinary wage-earners, said Mr, Smith. Most are entrepreneurs and independent agents. Many
tery land speculators anxious now | to pay taxes long due, said Mr.
Since the treasury drive started about a month ago, he asserted, some 50 persons have “got reli-
gion.” They usually trod meekly into Mr. Smith's office and “con~ fess all,” implying. that everything was a big mistake. Gamblers frequently come ae forth with the innocent remark: “I didn't know MY profits were taxable.” The internal revenue collector is disposed to be lenient with those who voluntarily os over.”
NEW CARRIER PLANE BARRAGE
CITIES FOR 10 HOURS
Do We Want
Jap Territory?
By ROY W. HOWARD President, The Indianapolis Times
MANILA, July 30.—The joint statement of the United Nations’ leaders, except Russia’s, on what unconditional surrender will mean for Japan, has the hearty indorsement of American army and navy leaders in the advanced Pacific areas. They believe that, regardless of the immediate reaction of the'Jap military Gickatorship, the state ment will tend to shorten the war.
dam statement that “there’s not one piece of territory that we -want out of the war.’ There are several pieces our military men want for future defense. = They were heartened, however, by a phrase in paragraph 8 of the joint statement to Japan. In referring to future Japanese
sovereignty the statement limited it to the main islands “and such minor islands as we determine.” This, it is hoped, was to make possible continuance of our hold on Okinawa. 8 2 » = NAVY AND ARMY leaders agree that future security in the Pacific will be dependent upon air dominance. Air dominance is dependent upon control * of many insignificant but strategically located islands and even tiny atolls of palm-studded coral and sand. - These islands and atolls, whet wi be social and economic liabilities, can verted into invaluable substitutes for fea-mition-tollas airplane carriers. Their depreciation and upkeep will be less of a problem and they are unsinkable. Our fighting forces still face potential losses—which may prove staggering both in men and dollars—before the war is “secured,” to use the military term meaning finished successfully or buttoned up.
2 = » » TS talk oo giving up the keys to American Trily in the Pacific before the concrete has fully hardened on the island
ire of buck privates and generals, gobs and admirals. For six weeks I have been in close association with top-flight army and navy men who are fighting this war to a spectacularly successful conclusion, None of these men knows yet which of these bases we have taken and developed will be necessary for our future security. Objection is to any and all Commitments which might ‘mortgage our Tune action. : = » IT IS oo oepted that. individual security within the framework of the United Nations’ Charter is to be the No, 1 post-war aim of each of our allies. This idea makes sense to our own fighting leaders. Their concern is that American policy shall be equally realistic. I have just returned from Okinawa--which is already’in the process of becoming the greatest mili air base in.the worldandthe key to our strategy in the northwestern Pacific.
Our’ forces are now building 1100 miles of modern hardsurfaced roads, 22 airfields and a thoroughly modern harbor with up-to-date piers and dry docks on Okinawa.
The overall job will be. greater than the combined effort on Guam, Saipan and Tinian. In addition, Okinawa will furnish a broad wiadow from which to observe what is going on within Japan proper during the next generation—the generation in which Japanese militarism must be permanently uprooted if we are to have a longtime peace in the Pacific. » » ” " tJ ” ANY officers believe that occupation of Okinawa by American forces for an indefinite period after the war is a must for our security. They point out: THAT the island is not a part of Japan proper. THAT its inclusion in the empire is of comparatively recent date, . THAT its occupants are not, in fact, pure Japanese, but a mixed breed of Chinese, Japs and Aborigines, It is not ‘proposed that America annex the island, but that
our flag shall remain’ there. Another spot which American military men believe should remain under the American flag is the tiny island of Manus, in the . Admiralties. It was wrested from the Japs by American
possesses a harbor capable of accommodating .the combined navies of the world. It is a natural southern bastion of American defense of the Pacific.
Pacific—in which Britain, Australia and America have common in-
should be made a subject of peace table negotiation.
capitulation.
ht Truk, formerly held by the Germans, was turned over to the
Japs under 3 League of Nations mandate. Japan's” treachery and violation of her obligation unger mandate have invalidated any claims she might advance. *
Military men were jarred by President Truman's earlier Pots-
runways or the paint has dried on the tens of thousands of white * crosses on strategically valuable and bloodsoaked islands, stirs the
American military needs alone shall Nt ie ng of time
bayonets. The island, Yormerly under Australian mandate, has no eco-: nomic value. It does offer great possibilities for air strips and
. . ” SINCE it has been demonstrated that neither Australia nor far-removed Byitain can any longer guarantee the peace of the
terest-—it is felt that American maintenanc® of a base on Manus
A third important base by-passed and neutralized is beleaguered Truk, which wil! fall into our hands with Japan's
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: American British-Chinese ultimatum péllng out uncons oe ditional surrerider terms, our navy and army topsiders bepower of the Jap. mili
300 MILES OF | ENEMY AREAS RAKED BY FIRE
Battleships Blast Only Six Miles Off Shore.
By WILLIAM F. TYREE United Press Staff Correspondent
GUAM, July 30.—Between 1000 and 1500. carrier planes blasted and burned a 300-mile stretch of Central Japan from Tokyo to the great OsakaKobe industrial area today— the 21st day of an offensive softening the enemy homeland for invasion. : . Radio Tokyo said the raids began at 5:30 a. m. and still were going
on at 3 p. m,, almost 10 hours later. Before dawn, American and British. battleships and other 3d fleet units set fire to the Japanese industrial center of Hammatsu, roughly midway between Tokyo and Kobe, with a bold pre-dawn bombardment from only six miles off= shore, :
Coast
Open Atiack at Dawn Tokyo broadcasts said surface units also shelled the southeast part of Kii peninsula, below Hammatsu. after the main bombardment. Carrier planes of the 3d fleet opened their new assault on central Japan at dawn with attacks on ; transport, airfield and military tar-
{gets in the Tokyo area, a Pacific
fleet communique announced. \ A dispatch from Vice Adm. John S. McCain's carrier task force dis-
extended their attacks from the far side of the Tokyo plains southwest to a point beyond the big port and industrial center of Kobe. 60 Airports Hit Within the area lay burning Hamamatsu, the aircraft manufacture ing city of Nagoya and Osaka,
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gest war production center. The task force dispatch said the principal targets included 60 airdromes, and their satellite landing fields. Radio Tokyo said the main weight of the assault was directed against the capital and adjacent prefectures. Airfields, war factories, communi1cations and shipping were hit by five waves totaling T00 planes dure ing the morning and early after. noon, Tokyo said. A sixth wave-of about 100 planes attacked the Tokyo area in the late afternoon, a later enemy transmission said. Bombed 3 Hours Tokyo said 200 other allied planes, including P-51° Mustangs from Iwo, raided the Osaka and Ise bay ine dustrial areas in two waves for
a.m. Air’ bases, warships and military establishments were . bombed and machine-gunned, Tokyo said. Thirty-three Superfortresses mined Japanese waters during the
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DROP SOONG FROM CHINESE CABINET
Minister Out in Midst of Talks With Stalin.
CHUNGKING, July 30 (U. P.)~= China abruptly shook up its inet again today, dropping
closed that the aircraft subsequently ~
three hours: beginning about 8:30. %