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STATE'S PENAL | SYSTEM FACE NEW SHAKEUP

Mrs. Adeline Lehman Is Named New Superintendent Of Girls’ School.

By SHERLEY UHL A shakeup in supervision of the state’s penal system reportedly was pending today on the basis of rumors circulating in administration quarters. Since Indiana Republicans took office in January, new superintendents have been installed at the

State Farm, Greencastle, and the Girls School, Indianapolis. New heads are also expected at Pendleton reformatory; Boys School, Plainfield, and the state prison at Michigan City. Yesterday, Mrs. Adeline C. Lehman of Washington, Ind. was named Girls School superintendent to succeed Miss Rebecca Arbogast, whose term expires Aug. 15. Other Changes Forecast Administration and political reports also indicate the expiration of terms may signal the end of regimes elsewhere in the penal and correctional network. Here are some of the rumors: Pendleton reformatory—Superintendent A. F. Miles reportedly is facing ouster sentiment. Ralph Howard of Greencastle, formerly active in penal affairs and an ex-

cise officer, is touted as his possible successor. Boys School—Superintendent E. Millard Dill is said to be on the verge of resigning .preparatory to accepting another post in New England. Michigan City—Warden Alfred Dowd's record and experience is counteracting dismissal talk, but ground beneath him is shaky. Men= tioned as a possible replacement is Lawrence Schmuhl, former deputy warden at Michigan City, now a major in the army. Hemmer Already Out Floyd J. Hemmer, Democratic candidate for lieutenant governor last year, has already quit his post as state farm superintendent as a matter of political expediency. Albert E. Virgil is the present superintendent. The name of Mrs. Marian - F. Gallup, superintenfient of the Woman’s prison here, has evaded the rumor whirlwind and her position is believed to be relatively secure. Penal and correctional chiefs are not under the merit system. They serve until the conclusion of their

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Thousand Idle In Freak Strike

DETROIT, Aug. 2 (U. P)— More than 1000 strikers were idle at the Graham-Paige Motors Corp.~today in one of the most unique strikes reported during the war. Approximately 3375 more were idle in additional - strikes. Fourteen inspectors of the Wright Aeronautical Corp., Lock= hart, O., walked out yesterday because they were not paid for time lost during the recent Graham - Paige strike. Their walkout created a bottle-neck, and the company was ferced to send the other workers home. The inspectors are members of local 647, United Automobile Workers (C. I. O.), whose comntract epecifies that the men are to be paid for time when they are called out to work. The Wright company holds it is not responsible for strikes, while the local company declined to pay the men, declaring they are not Graham-Paige employees.

NAZIS ARE INACTIVE

IN AMERICAN ZONE!

WASHINGTON, Aug. 2 (U. P.).— Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson just returned from Germany, said today that Nazi underground activity in the American. occupation

. zone has been negligible.

“For the present, at least,” he said, “the Nazi party in our zone seems to have vanished.” Stimson reported that denazification" of the German government within the American zone has made “very substantial progress and is working very well.”

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Inside Indpls.. 17 Jane Jordan... 20 Daniel Kidney 18 Mauldin .... 17 ||Ruth Millette 17 {Movies .i 34 Obituaries. . 2, 22 Dr. O'Brien... 17 Othman .... 17 Fred Perkins. 17

VOLUME 56—NUMBER 124

Slays 3 POW's

ARMY PROBING CAMP SHOOTING

Hoosier Veteran Says Trio Planned Attack.

OVID, Colo, Aug. 2 (U, P).—A military . investigation ‘was - under way today in the slaying of three Nazi prisoners of war by their American soldier guard as they worked in a potato patch. Officers at nearby Camp Carson, Colo., prisoner of war internment center of which the Ovid camp is a branch, said Purple Heart wearer Pvt. Harold W. Garland, Columbus, Ind. shot the men yesterday when, he reported, they threatened to- “rush” him. Garland, wounded in the North African campaign, was -guarding--a group of 15 German prisoners as they weeded potatoes, He reportedly fired with unerring accuracy, despite a crippling arm wound, killing the prisoners instantly. The victims were identified as Cpls. Helmut Pfifferling and Anton Nauner, and Pvt. Hugo Quaas. They were among approximately 100 German war prisoners engaged in farm work in this area. : Had Made Threats bp The shooting occurred, the Camp Carson public relations office said, on the \secluded farm of Hylbert Richie] Jr., as other members of the detail looked on, Garland was quoted as explaining: . “The prisoners made threatening remarks to me before I fired. I fired my carbine at them when it looked like they were going to -rush me.” Capt. Gordon Randolph, Camp Carson public relations officer, said Garland probably would be held in military custody pending an army court martial. "Randolph pointed out, however, that the Indiana soldier had a “good” army record and was a veteran military policeman. ' ‘Harbored No Grudge’ At Columbus, Mrs. Charles Garland, the American soldier's mother, said she “had hoped he'd never have to do it” when she was told her son had killed three German prisoners. Mrs. Garland said she knew of no grudge harbored by her son against Germans although he was wounded fighting them in Africa. Slaying of the war prisoners here was .the second such occurrance. in the mountain states recently. An American guard turned a machine gun on sleeping Nazi POW'’s, killing nine and wounding 19 others, at Salina, Utah, last July 8.

HOT WEATHER STAYS

Woman Hit by Lightning During Storm.

LOCAL TEMPERATURES 6a. m,....72 10am Ta.m....72 5 wes 14

The mercury went soaring upward again today as the weatherman predicted another scorching afternoon in Indianapolis, Clouds which earlier in the day promised rain disappeared and took with them any promise of cooler temperatures this evening’ Yesterday's pigh of 93 degrees was climaxed~ by a drenching thundershower in the evening. Mrs. Grace Braun, 64, of 47 8. Tremont st., was shocked severely

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NEW NAVY COMPOUND REPELS MOSQUITOES

WASHINGTON, Aug. 2 (U, P).~ The navy said today its researchers have developed a secret formula for a mosquito repellent. It is said’ to

11 hours, The formula was compounded at the naval medical research institute after some two yeass of experiments with 2000. trial mixtures. Called N..M. R. 1.201 because it

p ISpetgenis mt 201st different com-

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be effective on the skin for up, to

LOCAL TRUCK FIRM TO ENTER TROLLEY FIELD

Marmon - Herrington Has Orders From Indianapolis, Columbus Railways. {Piciures, Piso 19)

Marmon - Herrington, Inec., Indianapolis truck and tank manufacturer, is entering thé city transit vehicle industry with a line of trackless trolley

coaches, it was announced today. , The concern already has orders from Indianapolis Railways-—which has a ber of such vehicles in service #ithough made by another concern—and by the Columbus & Southern Ohio Electric Co. .fer Columbus, O. . The trolley coaches will be in two models, for 40 and 44 passengers. Other types and sizes may be made later. Guernsey in Charge

In charge of the new work as vice president, will be Charles Guernsey, who was with the J. B. Brill Co. of Philadelphia, which makes trolley coaches, more than 20 years. Mr. Guernsey was vice president in charge of engineering, sales and service for Brill from 1936 until he resigned last September. He was on leave of absence as technical director and Jater as production chief for the Philadelphia ordnance district during part ot | the war. Marmon-Herrington, 1511 W. Washington st., was formed in 1931 by the late Walter C. Marmon, auto pioneer, and A. W. Herrington, British-born automotive engineer, to make heavy-duty all-wheel-drive trucks and military vehicles. Converted Trucks

In 1935 it started converting standard Ford trucks to all-wheel-drive, Later many specialized types of vehicles were developed. During the war the company has built combat tanks, trucks and scout cars for allied as well as U. 8. forces. Mr. Herrington said full-scale Biiraacturs of the company’s regline of trucks and Ford conversions for commercial and indus« trial services will be in effect by early fall. The expansion of Mar-mon-Herrington’s plant during the war will provide enough capacity for the new line of trolley coaches, he said.

Warn I. U. Coeds Of Housing Crisis

Times Special BLOOMINGTON, Ind. Aug. 2, ~Five hundred prospective women students at Indiana university, freshmen and transfers from other colleges, were warned today by the university that there is slight chance of their finding university-operated housing accommodations in Bloomington for the semester opening Sept. 20. The housing shortage for women exists despite an increase of 19 per cent of facilities over last year, said university officials. There are noW 1146 spaces come pared with the total of 923 last year. Trustees urged Bloomington residents. to. list rooms adapted for student housing. The housing shortage, it was explained, does not as yet apply to men students, for whom accommodations are still available.

FEWER OPTIMISTS ON PACIFIC FRONT

EAST HARTFORD, Conn., Aug. 2 (U. PJ).~Vice Adm, Marc A. Mitscher, former commander of task force 58, said today that there are “far more optimists on the home front than there are out in the Pacific.” “This is not the time to leave ‘the stadium,” Mitscher told United Aircraft workers at a 20th anniversary observance, “Our fighting men,” he said, “ynow the Japs are a tenacious foe who won't roll over and lie still.”

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Jap Phosphorous Bomb Explodes in Path of U. S. Bomber

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A B-24 Liberator bomber (left), heads for certain death as a Jap phosphorous: bomb, dropped by an enemy pilot, explodes in its path over the Jap homeland. The 5th air force flier who took photo said the B-24 was lost in the incident.

REMY WARNS OF NAME CALLING’

Welcomes Harger Criticism On Safety "Problem.

“Par from resenting Dr. Harger's Lremarks; we shall try to profit from them. However, we believe no good will come from name-calling. Safety is everybody's problem.” Thus Will Remy, safety board president, today - answered the criticism of Dr. R. N. Harger, shairman of the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce enforcement committee. In 8 talk before the Indianapolis Junior Chamber of Commerce yesterday, the out-spoken Dr. Harger leveled his frank comment at “laxity in traffic law .enforcement.” Among other things, Dr. Harger, professor at the Indiana university medical school here, declared emphatically that “traffic safety will never come in Imdianapolis until we have officials who have the ‘guts’ w enforbe the laws.” Mr. Remy advised his critic to “remember that the police department is woefully short of personnel.” : He added that the safety board agrees that there are too many traffic fatalities. “The traffic problem, however, is not exclusively one for enforcement and court officials. It's everybody's problem.. ’ “Our greatest strides, opinion, are being made in tion. The schools, for example have done a splendid job of pedestrian control,” the safety board president asserted. He said the board had advoeated

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HOOSIER WRITES NOVEL

SHELBYVILLE, Aug. 2 (U. PJ). —A "full-length historical novel based on the Civil war’ and written by Mrs. Leone Kenton Lowden, Fountaintown, has been accepted for publication by the McBride Publishing Co., New York. The locale is laid in Ripley county, In-

diana.

Army Sticks to

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tm—— WASHINGTON, Aug. 2 (U. P). ~4The army today stuck to its determination——despite congressional criticism of its manpower “policy— to maintain its strength at nearly|000. 7,000,000 men and women for the Japanese war. Secretary of War Stimson said the critical score and individual computations under the point dis-

Manpower

Quotas Despite Criticisms

and. under the proposed revisions, a total of 1,500,000 men and women will have been discharged by next June 1, Stimson said. Another 500,000 will be released for reasons not conneoted with the Fons plan, making the total 2,000,-

New inductions, meanwhile, will maintain the army’s strength at the 6,968,000 figure stated last May. The critical score under which enlisted personnel become eligible for discharge will stand at 85 points, accumulated as of May 12, Stimson Subsequently—“early next year”— the critical score will be changed and the system of individual

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U.S. Fighters Rip Japan After Biggest B-29 Raid in History IN PETAIN TRIAL

By WILLIAM F. TYREE | United Press Stall Correspond

GUAM, Ang."2.~~Two armiadas central Japan today in a follow-up

~a 6632-ton pre-dawn rai@ by 820 Superfortresses. Radio Tokyo reported the new attacks while four Japanese war pro-| duction cities and an oil centér still blazed furiously from the early

JAP ISOLATION ‘SEEN IN MONTH

Chennault Points to Grows ing Air Power.

CHUNGKING, Aug. 2 (U. P)— Japan will be isolated from the Asiatic continent wtihin a month, Maj. Gen. Claire L. Chennault, former commander of the U, S. 14th air force, said at a farewell press conference today. " American planes- based on Okinawa’s growing air fields can strike Kotea and southern Manchuria, Chennault said. - Commanders on Okinawa “are preparing the greatest concentration of air power in the world’s history,” he added. He said the allids would be forced to open a port on the China coast to save time, declaring there is a good chance such a port will be opened in the next five months. He added that had training and

ca~ | SUPPly of Chinese ground forces

been begun a year earlier, he be-

'lieves a ‘toast port might now be

in allied hands. Chennault said that without “an allied ground attack, the Japanese can maintain themselves indefinitely in Manchuria and North China, although cut off from the home islands,

Fagin Role Taken By Big Brother

JUVENILE AID DIVISION authorities today heard Charles Dickens and his immortal Oliver Twist brought up to date from the lips of a 15-year-old youth. The role of Fagin was being played by a stepbrother, James Goins, 33, who gave police addresses at 433% E. Washington st. and 1037 Tabor st. According - to police, the pair was apprehended early today in an automobile stolen from James J. McCaslin, 253 N. Arsenal ave. An unlighted- tail light attracted police attention. In the car police found two cases of whisky and two jugs of liquid soap, which Goins, who was said to have been wearing stockings over his hands and arms, admitted having stolen from a tav-

dent, of American fighter-bombers raked to the greatest air attack in history

morning B-29 assault. Tokyo said- 60 ~American Mustangs, presumably from - Iwo bombed and strafed the sprawling Osaka-Kobe industrial abea, heart of the Japanese war effort, at noon. A second armada, also totalling 60 Mustangs, raided factories and transportation facilities in another section of Honshu for two hours beginning at 1 a. m., Tokyo said. A few other planes attacked,tar-

gets in the home islands this afternoon, Tokyo added. B-29 crews returning from the

they had felt like “being in the pitcher's box at Yankee stadium.” The glow of the huge fires burning in the Japanese cities was visible for 180 miles at sea. The smoke and ‘heat waves rose as high as 25,000 feet. Fleet Under Blackout One veteran crew said the fires “were beyond description.” The B-29 fliers reported “good to excellent” results at all five objectives in the .pre-dawn assault, on Honshu industrial and transport centers of Hachioji, Toyama, Nagaoka and Mito, and petroleum installations at Kawasaki, a suburb ®f Tokyo. All four cities had been forewarned in" leaflets of their approaching doom, and preliminary reports indicated that the 20th air force would be able to cross them and the oil center off their target list as destroyed. The giant bombers swung back into action against invasionmarked Japan while the 3d fleet remained for a third day under a security blackout somewhere off the enemy coast, possibly rearming and refueling for a new round of

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CONFERENCE URGED ON LABOR PROBLEMS

End Strife.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 2 (U, PJ. a-Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg (R. Mich) "proposed today that labor strife in the United States be ended by a labor-management con’ ference comparable to the United

Nations conference to prevent war.

Vandenberg advanced his sugges-

sition for a “united industrial peace

conference” in a letter to Secretary of Labor Lewis B. Schwellenbach. ‘Schwellenbach discussed it in a two-hour ' conference in Vandenberg’s office and said he has “been thinking more and more dur ing these last few weeks about the

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LAVAL CALLED

Defense, Prosecution Both Wary of Testimony.

PARIS, Aug..2 (U. P). — Pierre Laval will testify tomorrow in the treason trial of Marshal Henri

| Philippe Petain, the judge of the

French high court announced today. Justice Pierre Mongibeaux announced the decision to summon Laval as a witness for what may prove to be one of the most dramatic events of the war criminality trials. Neither the prosecution nor the defense was anxious to hear Laval, the Vichy —chief —of government. They feared his testimony might tear the trial of Petain wide open.

Noel Testifies

The announcement was made after the court had heard the testimony of Leon Noel, called as a witness for Petain but who testifiled’ that the Vichy regime was servile and yielding to the Nazis. Noel signed the 1940 armistice. He was French ambassador to Warsaw when the war broke out. From the beginning, he said, the Vichy regime “got involved on a

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THREE NAMED T0 INDUSTRIAL BOARD

Political Status Changed To Republican.

Appointment of three new members to the five-man state industrial board in the labor division was announced today by Governor Gates. Joseph P. Miller of South Bend and Raymond J. Hitch of Evansville, poth Republicans, are holdover members. Mr. Miller was named board chairman. New appointees are J. Otto Lee of Indianapolis, Republican, and John J. Farley of Valley Mills and Rob R. McNagney of Columbia City, botii Democrats. Arthur B. Voyles of Salem was

| elected secretary to the board

Varidenberg Sees Way to

A full-time agency, the board administers the workmen's compensa-

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British spokesman sald the Big Three agreed on the machinery for the control of occupied Germany at the Potsdam conference which ended early today. William Ridsdale, head | ol the

HURRIES BACK

T0 U.S. FROM. BIG 3 PARLEY

Of Monarch Aboard British Cruiser.

PLYMOUTH, England,

‘Aug. 2 (U. P.).—President {Truman aboard the cruiser Augusta

sailed for home

today after a brief state visit

with King George VI aboard

the British battle cruiser Renown, Mr. Truman was hurrying home to report to the nation on the Big Three conference concluded early today at Potsdam. The President and his ranking advisers flew f Berlin for the historic meeting King George, The king received Mr. Truman for luncheon aboard the Renown and traveled later to the Augusta, where he spent half an hour. They were Wgettier 22 hours.

The Augusta started palling out of Plymouth at 3:55 p. m. (9:58 a. m.. Indianapolis time). King George had left the Augusta after half an hour aboard. When the king came onto the Augusta the President said: “I ama pleased to see you again.” George had welcomed the President aboard the Renown with “Welcvme to my country, Mr. President.” On the Augusta a marine guard of honor met the king, and a navy band played “God Save the King” as he came aboard. : Then the President and king med - and talked in the admiral's cabin

A crowd lined the Plymouth shore in the warm sunshine to see the two ships riding in the harbor, At the luncheon on the Renown, Secretary of State James Byrnes, the Earl of Halifax, British ambas~sador tu the United States, Sir Alan Lascelles, the king's private secree tary, and Adm. Sir Ralph Leatham ate with the President and his majesty. President Truman left Victory wharf at Plymouth harbor for the anchored Renown after motoring through the bomb ruins of Plye mouth from nearby Yelverton aire port. . In Six Planes He and members of the Ameri» can delegation had arrived at Yelverton at 9:45 a. m. in six planes fhree Skymasters, two Dakotas and a Flying Fortress. (A London dispatch said the President’s plane was reported to have made an emergency landing at another airport in England be cause of weather conditions before proceeding to Yelverton.) King George already was waiting aboard the Renown to greet his luncheon guest. He had preceded the President to Plymouth by special $a from London during iis night. - “The king was in full naval ul form as an admiral of the fleet in contrast to the plain business suit worn by Mr. Truman. Because Britain is still at war, no gun sa= lutes were fired. Dozen Naval Cars

The presidential convoy from the airport consisted of a dozen naval cars. Secretary of State James Byrnes rode with the President. Mr. Truman stayed in the plane some little time after it landed. He looked brown and fit, Byrnes and Adm. William Leahy, the Presi. dent's chief of staff, followed Mr. Truman from the plane. They posed for photographers. On the way to Plymouth persons along the roadside shouted and waved greetings, and some children waved flags. Mr. Truman inspected the guard of honor and then went with King

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Big 3 Agree on German Rule; Statement Due in Few Hours

POTSDAM, Aug. 2 (U. P)—A,

President Truman, Premier 8 and Prime Minister Attlee, at final meeting, approved a munique on the 17-day meeting the former German crown

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