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Has Spreading Soviet Influence Been Checked In Europe?

By DAVID: M. NICHOL

Times Foreign

A good case could be made this week for the argument that the spreading influence of the Soviet Union in Europe has encountered its first real check. Contributing to this seeming paradox are two factors. One is the election of a Labor government in Great The second may be found in the agreements

Britain,

News Analyst

Potsdam.

Churchill.

reached by the Big Three leaders in their discussions at

Many were inclined, as the scope of the labor victory | became apparent,.to feel that the last continental barrier to Russian ambitions had been removed with Winston They re-acted in varying degrees of alarm or elation, depending on their sympathies.

But at least one shrewd ently.

Powerful as the Red army has proved itself to be, he

argued, Russian prestige is n

over Europe there are restless, weary. people, who want

something different than the they associate with war,

student saw it quite differ-

ot exclusively military. All |

governments and leadership

Often their aspirations are vague and ill-defined. They

The great majority hates

| know far better what they don’t want, than what will | take its place.

and fears Nazism. It feels

| almost as strongly against the leaders who brought | their peoples into conflict, hopelessly disarmed, both physi=

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U.S. BIDS FOR NEXT MEETING OF BIG THREE

Conference in Washington Would Be Triumph™ For Truman.

By MERRIMAN SMITH United Press Stat Correspondent ABOARD U. 8. 8. AUGUSTA,

WITH PRESIDENT TRUMAN, Aug

ww

‘! 4 (U. P). — President Truman, it

was disclosed today, suggested at the Potsdam meeting that the next Big Three conference be held in ! Washington. Russian Premier Josef Stalin : tentatively agreed, depending on ! whether conditions at the time make it possible for nim to travel so far "from the seat of his government. : The British attitude was not made . known. Presumably Prime Minister * Clement Attlee would be willing to

‘come to Washington if Stalin agreed.

The British have. however, been f trying to get the Big Three to meet i -in London for some. time. .

The time of the next Big Three

meeting has not been determined, or even discussed as yet,

Stalin Travels Little

Should Stalin journey to Wash- ' ington it would be the first time i that he has strayed so far from his native Russia. During the war he was unwilling to go further than i Tehran, Iran, to meet with for- ! mer Prime Minister - Winston ¢ Churchill and the late President Roosevelt. His second meeting i with them was on Russian soil. A Stalin visit here would be regarded as a diplomatic triumph of no little consequence for plain-

| the Russian leader ‘would have ac- | ceded to Mr. Truman's expressed wish in such a connection. {| Stalin sent Foreign Commisar V ‘M. Molotov to the San Francisco | conference, contrary to his earlier lf announced intentions, after a peri sonal request to do so from the | President shortly after Mr. Roose3 velt's death. ] Truman Proves Mettle

The man from Missouri is proving himself far from backward in as- | suming leadership in Big Three affairs, despite his relative inex- | perience in foreign affairs when he took office last April. I has already been disclosed that he was chairman of the Potsdam conference. Now it is possible to report that an American agenda put forth by the President at the first session of the conference July 17 served as the basis for action in the following sessions. It was the first in Big Three

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GOOD SLEEPING IS TONIGHT'S OUTLOOK

LOCAL TEMPERATURES

Temperatures which dipped into the low 60's and drew out Indianapolis blankets last night are scheduled for a. repeat performance tonight. It will be fair today and warmer and partly cloudy tomorrow, the weather bureau said. - High temperature yesterday was 88 and low was 61,

GOERING’S FORMER

MANSION IN RUINS

BERLIN, Aug. 4 (U. P.).—Karin hall, Reichsmarshal Hermann Goering’s former mansion 40 miles east of Berlin, was revealed today to be in ruins, It probably was destroyed by luftwaffe guards. Deer and boar remain in the hunting preserve, but the bison have disappeared. They may have been killed for food. -

——————————— SUBMARINE LOST WASHINGTON, Aug. 4 (U. P). ~The 1525<ton U. 8. Submarine Bnook is overdue from patrol and presumed lost, the navy announced today. be

TIMES INDEX

Anyons. Got a Briefcase?

Shows.

Coxswain W. J. Campbell, 4058 W. Michigan st. (right), holds his 2'2 yard roll of 100 blue point coupons issued for his 30-day convalescent leave. Cpl. Hubert Poynter, 933 Livingston ave. (left), trades some coupons. for a_can of peaches and a can of corn, Their grocer is Mrs. Birdie Farley, owner of Farley's Food Market, 3629 W. 10th st.

HOUSEWIVES laden down with For only a 30-day leave, 100 ration books and tokens travel | plye point coupons and 60 red

light these days compared with : soldiers who gg shopping while on poi, foupons are issued, making a neat bundle 2!; yards long, de-

furlough. : Coupons the size of dollar bills | spite the paper shortage. Only explanation for the king.

take the place of the civilian's tiny ration points for the veterans. | sized food coupons came from ration board branch 49-4," where it

And these add up into yards of paper if the G. I. has a 30, 45 or | was said: “Theyre harder to lose.” .

RATION HOLIDAY ON SOME SHOES

Low Priced Footwear for Adults Affected.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 4 (U. P). —Low priced men’s and women's shoes that have been deteriorating on dealer shelves may be sold without ration stamps beginning late this month. —The office of price administration announced its district offices would approve ration-free sales of shoes priced at $3.50 or less from Aug. 27 through Oct. 13. Only shoes marfiufactured before March 1, 1944, may be sold rationfree, OPA sald, and children’s shoes were specifically excluded because of low stocks. Rationing May Continue The announcement came as indications appeared that shoe rationing might end early next year even if the war is continuing then. John D. Small, chief of staff of the war production board, told the United Press he expected shoe rationing to continue “for several months” despite WPB authorization for manufacture of an additional 2,000,000 pair of leathertype shoes during the last three months of 1945, Another government shoe expert sald he believed shoe rationing would end “during the early part of 1046." The lifting of rationing controls on shoes will be determined by military cutbacks in leather.

Navy Veteran Dies When Auto Sideswipes Truck

A discharged naval veteran of the

ELEMENTARY, WATSON—

‘Guilty Look" Is McNew's Tip in Store Looting

L. C. HEUSTIS, druggist at 1828 College ave. is today a staunch believer in the sleuthing ability of at least one city detective. Early © yesterday morning Mr. Heustis found a brick® had been tossed ‘through a plate glass wine dow of his store, and that -the “tosser” had - entered and taken merchandise and $1.14 in’ cosmetics' tax.

» » . HE REPORTED to police who sent Detective Emerson McNew to the scene. The detective, finding six: boys grouped in front of the store looking over the gaping window, selected one he said had a guilty look and took him aside. After some questioning the boy told the detective he would take him to where the loot was hidden. » " » THE CACHE proved to" be across the street in some weeds. It yielded a camera, a deck of playing cards, a bottle of sloe gin and two postage stamp machines, in addition to the tax money. The boy was taken to juvenile aid division, / “Say,” sald the impressed Mr. Heustls, “I had a burglary here about six months ago. Maybe you could find that stuff for me.”

ARTHUR ASSUMES COMMAND ~ OF INVASION SPRINGBOARD AREA

Poisdim Report May Hasten Nip Surrender

Army Shift ¢ Seon as

First Step in Big Push.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 4 (U.

P.).—The extension of Gen.

Douglas MacArthur's command to Okinawa and the other Ryukyu islands was seen here today as the first step in carrying out Anglo-Ameri-can decisions reached at Potsdam for pushing the Pacific war to a conclusion. MacArthur now 1s in direct command of the American-held Pacific bases closest to both Japan and China. His island territory, including the Philippines’ as well as the Ryukyus, constitutes, as his head: quarters puts it, “a great semicircular base” for the launching of invasion forces either against Formosa and the Chinese mainland or against Japan itself. This move presumably was part of the British-American plan for a reshuffling of ‘areas and commands” in the Pacific discussed at Potsdam and refered. to yesterday in a joint communique from the cruiser Augusta bearing President Truman homeward. Next Spring _It was believed here that the next allied move would be extension oi Lord Louis Mountbatten’s southeast Asia command to include the East Indies, now under MacArthur's jurisdiction. Such a move, .it was thought, would be preliminary to British action to recover Singapore and the important strait of Malacca which would provide a 5000-mile shorter war route td the Pacific theater. It would also free MacArthur to concentrate on the attack on Japan Many military authorities have said

{an attack on the Chinese mainland {must precede an invasion of Japan|

itself. The Japanese have long been expecting an invasion of China, The invasion of Japan presumably will await full massing of redeployed American troops, not expected before spring. Plans for the invasion of Japan also may have been’ agreed on at Potsdam, much as the late President Roosevelt and former Prime Minister Winston Churchill formulated plans for the

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TROLLEY AND AUTO GOLLIDE AT GORNER

Some Passengers Sustain Minor Injuries.

A trackless trolley and auto collided at Massachusetts ave, and St. Clair st. today. There were no serious injuries, police said. The trolley, coming in from Brightwood, was driven by Oel Thayer, 51, of 1140 S. Belmont ave. The auto was driven by Harry Kleis, 54, of 2423 N: Alabama st. The trolley, not stopped by the collision, tore through a safety zone guard and struck an out-bound College ave, streetcar. A City hospital ambulance doctor treated several of the trolley’'s 52 passengers for injuries, among them a 10-month-old baby. None was taken to the hospital. Police made no arrests.

350,000 OF NAZIS’ ‘SLAVES’ MISSING

FRANKFURT, Aug. 4 (U. P).—|

Fewer than 50,000 of 400,000 persons sefit to Germany from con-

quered nations by the Nazis have

WASHINGTON

A Weekly Sizeup by the Washington Staff of the Scripps-Howard Newspapers

WASHINGTON, Aug. 4.—Potsdam report may hasten

Japan's acceptance of recent

Some officials here think we may know in less than

a month.

During thre week between the two stateinaris Japan's

present government rejected

insiders here do not consider that rejection final.

then:

ONE: Japan has had time to give more thought to the fact that

surrender or die” ultimatum.

terms of the ultimatum, but Since

B. 29's Drop

3,000,000 Leaflets on

Japan, Outlining Potsdam

J apan today.

W. Nimitz.

ultimatum was issued from a conference at which Premier Stalin was host. His name was not mentionéd, but it's certain” he knew about it’ and did not object to manner in which it was made public. TWO: Report, though it does not disclose Russia's intentions toward Japan, puts Big Three on record as praising Italy for entering

war against Japan. Stalin signed

this statement.

THREE: Report gives Japs further details of what they may ex-

pect if they surrenders now instead Germany's.

LE: Germany will have no central government until the (Continued on Page 2—Column 1)

Refused to Sign Military Pact |

With Hitler,

Laval Testifies

PARIS, Aug. 4 (U. P.).—Pierre Laval testified today that he i

to sign a military alliance with Germany the day the allies landed &

North Africa.

Marshal Henri Philippe Petain, he said, repeatedly instructed French African troops to aid the allied invasion. Laval, testifying in Petain’s treason trial, said that formal orders had

CLEAR HOOSIER IN POW DEATHS

Army Reports Nazi Trio Attempted Escape.

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. Aug. 4 (U. P.).—Routine murder charges were being prepared today against Pvt. Harold W. Garland, Columbus, Ind. But the 23-year-old wounded vet~ eran stood clear of any blame in the fatal shooting of three German prisoners of war. Lt. Col. Peter Fredericksen, Camp Carson inspector who investigated the slaying, announced that Garland

was found faultless in the slaying|-

but that general court-martial charges of murder, under the 96th article of war, would be preparéd to officially close the case. ‘In Line of Duty’ Garland was not confined but held in technical custody in the prisoner | of war camp area at nearby Camp Carson, Fredericksen said. The three Nazis, killed Wednesday at Ovid, Colo. in an escape attempt after they refused to work, were to be buried today In the prisoner of war cemetery at Camp Carson. They were Cpl. Anton Nauner, Cpl. Helmut Pfifferling and Pvt. Hugo Quaas. Fredericksen declared that Garland, a wearer of the purple heart, acted in the line of duty when he fired on the trio in a potato fleld near the Ovid branch of the Camp Carson prisoner of war center. Earlier it was said that Garland shot the prisoners he was guarding

lo aid the allied landings. {generals in Africa, he noted, went

been issued to French forces in North Africa—as one of the terms of the armistice with Germany—to resist any aggression from any {quarter—British, American or German. Despite these orders, Laval said, [pe could vouch for the fact that! | Petain told the French commanders

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“Al the

over to the side of the allies.

Takes Scuitling Credit Laval also claimed some eredit for the scuttling of the French fleet at Toulon. He said he was awakened at 4:30 a. m. by the Germans who told him they had entered Toulon and were boarding the French war: ships. : He said he telephoned Toulon and

scuttled. “If we had been in collusion with the Germans,” he said, “don’t you think they would have been able to get these ships?” - Laval claimed he had saved the lives of Leon Blum, Edouard Daladier, Paul Reynaud and Gen. Mau-

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Vandals ‘Dunk’ Park Bathhouse

Vandals gave the Willard park bathhouse a bath last night ad Park Superintendent Paul Brown is mad as a wet hen. He said some kids, of the Katzenjammer variety, amused themselves by dunking the bathhouse in the Willard park pool. It happened sometime between 10 p. m. last night and 7:30 a. m. this morning. Mr. the pool would be closed tem-

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porarily.

Buchenwald 'Finger Man’ Is

By ROBERT MUSEL United Press Staff Correspondent FRANKEURT Aug. 4.—A former

'Only Honest Nazi Newsman’ .| Robert L. Mason, building contractor; Guy O. Ross, retired rail-|

choosing. He was a Jew. Most of those that he sent to the crematorium were Jews. “I sent the weakest because the strong might survive and help a reborn Germany,” Carlebach said. Many of the relatives ‘of those who died opposed his appointment on the Prankfurter Rundschau. But Lt. Col. James Chesnutt, on leave from the San Francisco Call-Bulle-

approved. Dipping into the cesspool of Ger-

old

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found that the warships were being

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|John S.-McCain's flagship off

Surrender Edict.

By WILLIAM F. TYREE United Press Staff Correspondent

GUAM, Aug. 4.—Gen. Douglas MacArthur assumed « ...- mand of Okinawa and the whole Ryukyu spraingboard against

Japanese planes began to hit back again at American (forces massing there for invasion. . An official announcement said that MacArthur had taken over command of thesspringboard area from Adm. Chester

A dispatch sent Thursday night by United Press War Correspondent Earnest Hoberecht datelined “Aboard Adm.

Japan” indicated the 3d fleet

{was still poised in enemy home waters. Nimitz has not reported on the fleet's activities since its

carrier-based attack on the on Monday.

of making a last-ditch stand like | |anese coast line and had found

Tokyo-Kobe area of Honshu

The dispatch said carrier pilots had surveyed. the Jap-

“an exceedingly great number

lof beaches excellently suited for invasion.” | The announcement of MacArthur's command over the | Ryukyu area giated that “These islands form a great semi-

JAP TRICKERY

“1S DISCOVERED

2a Ship - Guns, Munitions.

By HUGH CRUMPLER United Press Staff Correspondent MANILA, Aug. 4—An allied naval | boarding party . discovered . arms, ammunition and-faked “wounded” aboard a Japanese hospital ship, Gen. Douglas MacArthur announced today. The ship is being brought into an allied port for further examiination. It was. boarded Friday in the Banda sea north of Dutch Timor “in the course. of routine by an allied naval force from blockading vessels of the 7th fleet,” MacArthur's headquarters said. Unauthorized contraband found aboard by the original searching party was said to include 23 heavy machine-guns, 15 light machineguns, an undetermined * number of| 15 millimeter shells and quantities of other ammunition, The shells were packed in boxes marked “hospital suplies,” headquarters said. Also aboard were 1500 Japanese listed as patients. Examination of bandages of some “patients” showed no wounds, however. The announcement said the boarding was in strict conformity | with international law and the] Geneva conventions. | “Its purpose was to see that no

improper use was made of a hos-|

| pital ship,” the announcement said. |" The ship had a crew of 13 of- { ficers and we men.

WATCHDOGS" 0F

| BUDGET NAMED

“two warships probably were hit by

|

‘Proposed Expenditures to Be Reviewed.

Séven “budget watchdogs” today |

were members of the Marion county tax adjustment board. On Sept. 10, they'll begin the task of reviewing city, county and township budgets. They are:

Godfrey D. Yeager, attorney;

road conductor; Fred ‘C. Albershardt, public accountant; Harry L. Gause, dttorney; Roy E. Hick~ man, city controller, and Raymond Sanders, businessman. Mr. Mason, Mr, Ross Sanders are Democrats, mainder © Republicans.

‘e- | tin, investigated the circumstances ou : and Carlebach was

Mr." Mason, Mr. bershardt. ‘

Carries.

réircular base from which" a mighty invasion force is being formed under the primary responsibility of Gen. MacArthur for the final conquest of Japan.” This places all army forces in | the Ryukyus under MacArthur {with the exception of Lt. Gen, James H. Doolittle’s 8th air force. Only yesterday Doolittle appealed for the appointment of a single su-

CHUNGKING, Aug. 4 (U. P). -—The American-British-Chinese ultimatum to Japan may eventually generate such reaction that the Japanese government will be forced to reconsider its refusal te surrender, Dr. Sun Fo, President of China's legislative yuan, said | today. “The Japanese military will fight as long as possible, but the allied proclamation may affect ecivilfans,” the son of the founder of the Chinese republic, Sun YatSen, said.

preme command in the Pacific embracing land, air and sea forces. The renewal of Japanese air attacks on Okinawa brought the sinkling of one American light naval | unit and damaging of another, The American warships presum- | ably were destroyers or destroyer escorts.

Leaflets Dropped ; B-29 headquarters on Guam re- | vealed that Superforts have dropped more than 3,000,000 leaflets on {Japan, outlining the Potsdam sur{render ultimatum. American planes attacking the | Tokyo area met opposition by 20... |Jap fighters. Although Japanese opposition was on only a small scale, it never-the-less marked the first time in 10 days or more that the enemy has mus {tered sufficient strength even to {challenge American air domination of ‘his homeland area. details were available of the | Japanese air attack on American naval units off Okinawa, but the

enemy suicide planes. The sinking was the first in Okinawa walers since June. | Two Shot Down Ninety-seven Iwo-based Mustangs were intercepted by 10 Japanese fighters during a bombing and strafing raid on the Tokyo area yes-

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NAZI SPY RECORDS UNEARTHED IN REICH