Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 August 1945 — Page 2
WASHINGTON
A Weekly Sizeup by the Washington Staff of the Scripps-Howard Newspapers
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sion of Japan. Decisions-'will have to be made whether they'll be turned around or told to proceed to Philippines or other Pacific islands. In either case they'll have to discharge their cargoes before they can be used to bring men and surplus supplies back home, Manpower problems add to headaches of maritime commission, war shipping administration. Government needs everything that floats to bring back soldiers and supply those still abroad with food, clothing, medicine, housing. Some men who sail ships show signs of thinking it's “all over wanting to return to jobs at home. na. i ] INDUSTRY: It's not ready for speedy reconversion; there'll be considerable unemployment till it is ready. Outlook for early big-volume production in auto plants is bad. These factors block quick changeover to’, peacetime production: 1. Government was late in okaying construction of new auto © industry plants; didn’t act till last month. » 2. No chance of getting enough machine tools quickly. 3. Government has been slow clearing its materials and equipment from plants where ‘war orders have tapered off. Auto industry has been pressing for faster reconversion for months, But it agrees government had to give first attention to running the war, isn’t doing any name-calling now. THE IMMEDIATE OUTLOOK: Flat-rolled steel and textiles have been tight but should loosen. Auto makers have learned to use substitutes—alloyed lead and tin for example. . Auto people .will ask for increase—maybe complete removal—of quotas for 1045 production. . If government. cuts red tape quickly. enough on machine tools they think they can get up tos60 per cent of capacity in 1945. They hope for new auto ceiling peices from OPA within a week.
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UNEMPLOYMENT won't be so sudden or so wide- * spread in citied making large quantities of materials or semifinished goods—like Pittsburgh and Cleveland.
Outside of automobile industry, few large plants will have to do |
extensive reconversion. Most have made war products much like their peace products. Look for heavy migration from Detroit and other northern trial cities to villages and to the south. It's already under way. There'll be no unemployment in steel or coal, in the near future. ® = . ” » » LABOR: No-strike pledge is void on V-J day. Expectation is ‘there’ll be strikes—and more strikes—from now on. Number and amount of- violence will depend partly on employers’
efforts to take advantage of changing labor market. Union leaders will urge moderation but may not be able to control rank and -file.
In general, unions will strike for higher wage rates. They want same pay for 40 hours they've been getting for 48. There'll be jurisdictional disputes; efforts to transform maintenance of membership clauses into closed shops. : A. F. of L. executive council, in session in Chicago When surrender news came, was caught by surprise like rest of the country; quickly reconverted program to reconversion problems. F FI ” ” » GOVERNMENT LABOR CONTROLS: War manpower commission expects to go out of business soon. Chairman McNutt is hurrying back here, from the Philippines, prepared to lift manpower controls. ! 'U. S. employment. service; biggest agency in War manpower, goes back to state control three months after * President proclaims end of war. Organized labor would like to see it stay in federal control but states object and congress backs the states.
War labor board probably will losen up a little on Wages next week. Outlook is for a new order okaying voluntary wage increases by an employer where price of product is not changed.
Wage stabilization act is on the books till next July 1 unless con- |
gress should repeal it, and administration doesn't intend to let wages jump clear out of control. : War labor board worries about what to do when one plant grants a voluntary raise and union demands it for another plant in the same industry. *# x =n g 8 INFLATION: Danger isn't over and some controls must be kept. That's the thinking of top OPA officials. They argue this way: As long as huge backlog of savings is available to bid for short supplies of goods, lack of price control would skyrocket prices. They could lead to demands for higher wages and. start a spiral that might be disastrous. (Inflation really took hold after, but not during world war 1) ; Yet, strangely, there’s some danger of deflation, they say. Economists predict it in some regions, some industries, where big cutbacks come quickly, where men are unemployed till plants reopen. In such regions buying probably will fall off, prices “soften.” Stabilization Director Davis has already given OPA Director Bowles leeway to slacken controls where markets are soft or where maintenance of controls costs more effort than results justify. ” » » » "
” SURPLUS PROPERTY: There'll be no sudden dumping of goods. Neither army nor navy has made detailed plans for declaring large quantities of war goods
to be occupied are determined. Spot inventories of goods now in this country or on their way from Europe to the Pacific will be ordered. It will take several weeks 10 finish them. Then sales may start. First big move in disposal picture will concern war plants 1. Machine tools. 2, Consumer goods suitable fof civilian use nance and weapons, Ofcials of army and navy, surplus property board, department
Next: 3. Ord-
of commerce, and other agencies scoff at reports that surplus will |
total $100 billions. It'll only be about half that, they say, with perhaps not more than $10 to $15 billions suitable for civilian use. There'll be about a million kinds of surplus items. Many will ‘be declared surplus in foreign areas, can't be brought back to the United States for resale, -UNRRA will buy e¢lothing, medical supplies, food and similar items Some things that may be sold at home: bought 50,000,000 in this war); boots and than 100,000,000 pairs). ” ” ” n ” n CENSORSHIP: Director Byron Price has plans for liquidating his organization quickly. Since V-E day he’s cut, his forces from 14,500 to 5000. Plans call for closing all censorship field offices in 60 days, closing the Washington office in 90 days. OWI: Twenty per cent cutback in OWI personnel had been announced by Director Elmer.Davis before the Japs folded. This will be increased now.
Blankets (army has shoes (army bought more
THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES
SATURDAY, AUG. 11, 1945
U.S. 'Sweating Out’ Official ~V-J Day: Chinese Celebrate
Manila, Honolulu, Guam and other far places where Americans had died—they did not wait. They celebrated hard and long. London Snake-Dance
Nor did the people wait in Lon-
HIROHITO FATE SUP TO ALLIES!
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might be longer if something went ‘wrong. ‘ The waiting would end, in all likelihood, with simultaneous proclamations in Washington, London, | Moscow and Chungking. don, Paris, Brussels, Olso. - They, This time the waiting was not so{ too, had sweated out bad times and bad. Americans had waited before. | they were through with waiting. . ! Sweating Out Not New In London they snake-danced in {anese imperial headquarters ? the streets with Yanks and Canlof the surrender terms feces- They had sweated out the hours|gdians—anybody in uniform, {° es >" |and days and the weeks after Pearl| Americans in Germany were sary to carry out the provi- Harbor. ” {among those who had waited long ‘sions of the Potsdam declara.| The! bed sweased out ‘Bataan enolgn fo hey Slentated wo, Hod {tion, and shall issue his commands | . caring-whel.ier was yet 0 . to all the Japanese military, naval! They had sweaise oul 8 scorejof In Nuernberg, While dead-faced Germans . looked lifelessly on, an
: horde d toa |D-days — from Guadalcanal and and air authorities and to a Orces north Africa to Normandy and Iwo| assembly of Americans shouted and cheered and laughed—and maybe
under their control wherever locat~ land Okinawa. led to cease active operations and |
the signature by the govern‘ment of Japan and the Jap-
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[UNVEIL T-YEAR
New A-Bomb Outdates One MASTER PLAN
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The success of the Nagasaki raid outdated - the type of bomb used on Hiroshima, Farrell said. In reporting that the second had made the first obsolete, he revealed no information about either type. Secondary Target Sweeney disclosed that Nagasaki was a secondary target to which he “ turned when bad weather necessitated a change in the origi= nal plans for the second atomic bombing. ; | Sweeney had to swing far off course in~his approach to Japan because of the Weather. The extra
bomb, dropped by. the Superfort “Great Artiste” under the command of Maj. Charles W. Sweeney, scored a direct hit in the heart of the Mitsubishi steel works in Nagasaki and the blast gutted most of the city. : “The city was wiped out as a target as soon as the bomb hit," Sweeney said. “Probably all industrial targets were vaporized, by the blast, We could see fires on both sides of Nagasaki harbor., We felt more of a blast than we did at Hiroshima.” treet The crew of the “Great Artiste” flew in an observation plane to see the results of the first bomb,
Program Cost Estimated at $25,000,000.
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tion and off-street parking projects, $4,000,000. ~ FIVE: New and remodeled public buildings, with special emphasis on county agencies, $2,000,000. SIX: Enlargement and modernization of the public school system, $3,000,000. ¢ SEVEN: Airport and aviation developments, ,$1,500.000. EIGHT: City hospital expansion, $1,000,000. # NINE: Extension and enlargement
that he had to make an emergency landing on Okinawa.
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ifect to the surrender td#ms.” Will Use Emperor
his prestige would be used to persuade Japanese fighting men to stop fighting.
and to fulfillment of which the emperor will be compelled to lend (his authority, is that immediately ‘upon - sutrender all
| LONDON, Aug. 11 (U. P).—A | |
Swiss broadcast quoted the Japanese radio today as saying that { all military operations have been | cancelled. All Japanese broadcasts reported by other .sources. however, indicated that Japanese
armed forces still weré under orders to fight. :
to safety where they can be taken aboard by allied transports. The long years of waiting, starving— and worse— are about over for {those who survived. The note was framed as a reply |to the Swiss. government, which | transmitted Tokyo's surrender pro\rectly to the Japanese. | “With regard to the Japanese gov{ernment’s message accepting the terms of the Potsdam declaration,” {the note said, “but containing the | statement, ‘with the understanding {that the said declaration does not | comprise any demand which preju- | dices the prerogatives of his majlesty as a sovereign ruler,’ our posi- | tion is as follows: | “From the moment of surrender {the authority of* the emperor and {the Japanese government to rule [the state shall be subject to the su- | preme commander of the allied pow|ers, who will take such steps as {he deems proper to effectuate the | surrender terms.” States Hirohito ‘Duties’
Then follows the key paragraph | stating Hirohito’s responsibility tc ‘underwrite the surrender and to | make it stick. | “Immediately upon the surrender.”
| government shall transport prison-
{posal, rather than as a reply di-|
the note continued, “the Japanese]
{the day on which they finally did.
In some parts of the world the | In that language the allies at least people did not wait for official V-J told Japan that the emperor and |day to let relief and joy possess
them, Set Off Firecracker
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ern career of bloody aggression.
So the Chinese waited no longer. navy will take longer. civilian and [In Chungking they let go. The immilitary prisoners. shall be brought passive Chinese were: no longer im- | Like their comrades in Germany, {passive. They were wildly, crazily, | many of them will have to serve on
{noisly drunk with happiness.
| Szechuan.
{ In New York, in Washington, in
| Smithville the people waited quietly. The 3d fleet was ordered to con- ! They had jumped the gun once.
This time they would wait. But Americans in
They had sweated out the 10 tense (to surrender their arms and to issue | days ofanxiety last spring between such other’ orders as the supreme the time when it was falsely re-
commander may require Jo give ef- 04 the Germans had quit and
The Chinese had waited almost 14 A condition imposed upon Japan years — ever since the Mukden in{cident launched Japan on her mod-
They set off firecrackess. They turned on searchlights. They am- { bushed Americans on the streets and | men who fly the B-29's waited to {plied them with the flery liquor of see whether. the “surrender would
Okinawa,
cried a little—for seven minutes without pause. These Americans, and those other Americans in the Pacific, had been waiting for years. They had been waiting to go home. On farflung bases in the Pacific, waiting Americans looked at each other and said, “Now we can go home.” But most of them will, have to wait some more. If surrender of a beaten enemy takes days, demob{lization of a victorious army and
And not all will be deinobilized.
las troops of occupation. Many Americans in the Pacific knew a special kind of waiting. The
!stick, or whether they would have to bomb up again for Japan.
tinue offensive action. But its men | —the pilots, the gunners, the crewmen and the sailors — watched in-
Jap Papers Face Defeat's ‘Reality’
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 11 (U. P.).—Saturday’s Tokyo news= papers said editorially that Japan must “face reality with courage” and that it was “useless” to discuss hte war further, “To discuss the past of this war and our lost areas is as useless as to count the age of one’s lost child,” one Tokyo editorial
Press,
condédlent even at this juncture to show one’s own stripe. Reality must be faced squarely. The only thing left to be done is to think out how to cope with this stark reality. * “Now it is high time that all of our nation should face reality squarely. Everyone should have his own :firmest declaration. | “Let us point it out again. War is a reality. No amount of wish- | ful thinking is a reality, One i must do one’s thinking strictly on: | the basis of reality. There is no escape from reality, Only with the greatest determination can
ers of war and civilian internees to| One cope with reality of war.”
places of safety, as directed, where they can quickly be placed aboard | allied transports. “The ultimate form of government of Japan shall, in accordance with the Potsdam declaration, be established by the freely ex
of the Japanese people. The armed
forces of the allied powers will re-| main in Japan until the purposes]
set forth in the Potsdam declaration are achieved.”
To the Japanese plea for their
emperor, the allies didn’t say yes 2 : But they | Imperial system of government in
d/Japan and It is up to Japan now to Person or future of Hirohito. It is
and they didn’t say no. evidently have said all they inten to. say. take it or leave it—or else.
the fight goes on.
{An unofficial truce in the Pacific was ended as the fleet and air forces resumed action after a day's inter- |
lude,
Prior to announcement of the al-|* ; Hille. . lied reply to Japan, there had been| White House for a 9:30 a. surplus. They'll wait till size of post-war forces and areas unofficial indications of the varicus
powers’ point of view as follows:
ssed will]
The Understood that this government
atomic bombs are lying ready and has felt that Hirohito or the im« .Iperial system could be useful in
The title of the editorial was
“Reality.”
FORMER HOOSIER KILLED
DECATUR, Ill, Aug. 11 (U. P.) —
The body of Russell H. Riggen, 35, was shipped today to his former ‘home at‘Dana, Ind, where funeral | services will be held tomorrow. Rig- | gen was decapitated when he fell from a moving freight car yesterday. He was yard foreman for the Baltimore & Ohio.
any threat to the
the future government and civilization of the Japanese people, Here ‘at home Mr. Truman summoned Senate Majority Leader |Alben W. Barkley (D. Ky.) to the m. (Indianapolis time) conference to |discuss calling congress back from
MOSCOW: The government con- | tS vacation to work on recon=| trolled tadio broadcast ta statement Version plans.
that “unconditional
surrender is
Some. Uneasiness Some allied uneasiness
is. war-|
unconditional surrender; there can |
be no plainer words.” a Russian intention
That implies |* to refuse to Hirohito nor his ministers had in-|
ranted by the fact that neither
give Japan assurances of any kind formed the Japanese people of the|
before she quits, CHUNGKING: New government, which reflects views of Chiang Kai-shek, Japan offered the kind of conditional surrender which cannot accept—we are that America, Britain Soviet either LONDON:
Wources
and
indicated that the
if that were United States | WASHINGTON: | propaganda in
satisfactory. to
seeking
The Central Daily , official organ of the national i the | said: | unwe confident the | Union are unable to accept!
Usually well informed | British government would be agreeable to continuing Hirohito on the throne the
United States|yhen to break
{surrender offer a full 17'2 hours lafter it was broadcast to the rest {of the world. The federal communications com=- |
today. It did not mention the peace Japan's Future Outlined f Japan was agreed upon and
made public in general terms.
situation In nation was government
Germany where s0 malled that remained—or would | {have been permitted to remain | the allies took over, 2. Allied troops will occupy des-
Under the war powers act, OWI has to be out of business six {Japan's war spirit has avoided with ignated places in Japan to oversee
months after the shooting stops. Some OWI officials think it may Obvious intent any challenge to the such conditions as may be imposed |
be necessary to establish some sort of information service to carry on perhaps in state department. OWI employees get 30 days “notice” when laid off. New Yor office gets the deepest cuts now. San Francisco office, with 860 employees, will drop rapidly. .
ARGUMENTS START VALUE OF GERMAN AT PETAIN'S TRIAL
. PARIS, Aug. 11 (U. P.) —Prosecu- |
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POW. LABOR CITED
FT. SHERIDAN, Ill, Aug. 11 (U.!
TWO KILLED WHEN
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The soldier was reporting there fol lowing a 30-day furlough. It was said the engine of the ca
was no suggestion of total occu-
va the defeated enemy. But there taken place
{pation as has in | Germany. 3. Japan must withdraw to her
BUS STRIKES AUTO... 20%. meme ttnee an en
other, smaller and insignificant, {islands as may subsequently be -|allotted to her. 4. Manchuria, Korea, part of r{China, French Indo-China, Thai-
wo tor Andre Mornet opened sum-|P.)—Brig. Gen. John T. Pierce said Was overheating and that Mr, Schu-|land, Malaya, the Netherlands East mations in the trial of Marshal today that German prisoners of war Macher had parked half-way off th
Henri Philippe Petain- today with a|in Illinois, Wisconsin,
as Vichy leader was to destroy the from Jan. 1 to July 28, 1945
the Nazi invaders,
Michigan | charge that Petain's main objective | performed work valued at $3,620,000
pavement to permit cooling off. Bus Driver Not Held
Lester L. Johnson, 31, of 107 W. | Civilians using war prisoner labor Walnut st, driver of the bus was republic and form an entente With ,.i4 $3035000 of the sum. he said. laken to state police headquarters
“The plan this man followed was performed .on government contracts. held.
vanity of power,” Mornet said. “He | hated the regime which preceded | him.” ! “the opening of the arg i .of the trial of secondary |
nS lig A y
‘IKE’ EXPECTED IN MOSCOW . . LONDON, Aug. 11 (U, P)-An| This latest fatal accident ‘moved Interest in the trial revived with N. B. C.. broadcast from Moscow state police to remind highway, ents. The said today that Gen. Dwight D. motorists that 48 per cent of state again, as it Eisenhower was expecieq- ta arrive accidents involving two or more cars the Russian capital tomorrow | have been caused by parking either a social visit as guest of the on the yoad or FSA, = L X 7 ment, 4d
e|Indies—all these shall be taken away from Japan, That means that they must be occupied, reorganized and either made independent or be {alloted in some way. as trusteed | spoils of war. 5. The 1,000,000 Japanesd® troops
The remainder was paid for work where he was questioned but not | the by-passed islands must be
rounded up and disposed
There were no passengers on the —— +
bus at the time of the crash.
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partly off tire pave-
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Some
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said, according to a Japanese ra- | dio broadcast recorded by United |!
“It is wishful thinking and self- |
of 12 1. A Japanese government . will|great railway hub, military and continue to function, unlike the industrial city of Harbin in central
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a Manchuria. no
{tently to see if the cease fire order | was coming soon. The Japanese, too, were waiting.| | But it was a new and good kind of { waiting for those who had survived the hell of two atomic bombs. A few hours before, they had been waiting in terror of death when their radio told them Japan would | surrender, They had been waiting for the | third atomic bomb.
ALLIES RENEW BLOWS ON JAPS
U. S., Russ to Push Attack
Until Nips Quit.
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Thursday and the success of the bombing and had outdated the type of atomic weapon dropped on Horoshima three days earlier. Admiral Chester W. Nimitz’ order to continue “offensive actions” sent the U. 8. 3d fleet back into action against the Japanese ‘homeland, where its 1200 carrier planes had | destroyed or damaged 523 enemy !aireraft on central and north Hon|shu during the past few days. | Gen. Douglas MacArthur's Oki-{nawa-based planes already were at- | tacking the Japanese home islands
on an uninterrupted schedule. Radio
of waste disposal facilities through installation of sanitary sewer interceptors and rehabilitation of the disposal plant, $3,500,000, TEN: Expansion and improvement of the municipal parks and recreation system, $200,000. ELEVEN: Construction of a modern public auditorium and modernization of police and fire department facilities and equipment, $1,000,000. Pian Flood Control Program The committee also scheduled a seven-year $1,710,000 bond issue for flood control purposes. ’ Mr. Peterson emphasized that the
bonding amounts would not neces-! sarily be entirely consumed by the
projects, or portions thereof, “It is understood,” he said, that projects will be carefully analyzed by the committee as they are presented, especially in regard to the need
ing margins of the various bonding districts.” The post-war planning group also recommended installation of an effective smoke elimination program, administered at a cost of $40,000 a year, It advised a primary outlay of $300,000 for a modern reassessment of real estate and property improvements. Other Tax Proposals Financing machinery to defray expenditures of a $1,100,000 slum clearance program has already been set in motion by a 10 cent tax levy enacted by the last {egislature. Other tax proposals would levy about 2.89 for reassessment and smoke control. Exclusive of these, the committee estimated that the total tax addition for the first year’s post-war expenses would be about seven cents per $100 property valuation. “Each year afterward a considerably smaller increase (about 3!i cents) above that will be needed,” the committee continued. New Sources of Revenue “The program outlined for our communinty is neither over-ambi-tious, nor does it portend exorbitant taxes,’ It anticipated that many projects will evenually pay for themselves. The group also recommended a study of “how the city can develop new sources of revenue so that it can reduce the burden it places on real estate and tangible property.”
KEEPING HER ON JOB
BOSTON, Aug. 11 (U. P.).—Carpenters, carrying out orders of a building inspector, boarded up the
dropped on Hiroshima by Lt. Col. Paul W, Tibbets Jr.'s B-29 named “Enola Gay.” It was disclosed for the first time that crew members of the
i planes which will continue carrying
atomic bombs to Japan unless the enemy surrenders, trained for a year without knowing the nature of their mission.
U, S, CANCELING WAR CONTRACTS
Plan to Free Materials to Speed Reconversion,
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to cancel immediately their orders
and cost and the effect upon bond- | ¢,, critical materials to permit the
{flow of these articles into expanding
civilian industries. In turn, the civilian production will provide employment and needed civillan goods, he said. Snyder said the war production board will channel released war materiale into civilian production “as rapidly as these permit.”
WMC to Revamp Program
The war manpower commission, the said, will overhaul its facilities to handle the re-employment prob-
from war to civilian output.
He explained that the navy and army stop orders and the importance of redirecting materials and manpower to civilian production prevented the government from notifying management and labor in advance, Pleading for the co-operation of
“the difficult reconversion period,” Snyder urged workers affected by cutbacks to register immediately with the United States employment service, : Likewise, he
asked employers
said the committee. |
| problems
| their manpower needs with the | USES.
| Regarding the navy's $1200,000,-
1000 cutback in ship construction, | Snyder said the navy has scheduled (a series of meetings with war contractors here to give them details {of the slash in ship output. “The contractors, of course, will iconsult with labor leaders on the of mutual interest in- | volved in the cutbacks.”
The “Great Artiste” made three trial runs over the first and une identified target, then turned away because the crew had orders to loose the bomb only visually and the cloud cover prevented that. Then it tuned to Nagasaki. Just as it flew over, Capt. Kermit K. Beahan, the bombordier, saw a hole in the clouds and let go.¢ Crewmen said three wide “shock circles” rose from the smoke, flames and dust. But they were “more interested in getting the hell out of there than in watching the clouds. cloak: Nagasaki,” one of them sald.
Heavy Damage Conceded Reconnaissance photographs showed that almost the entire in= dustrial section, including the Mitsublshi aircraft assembly plant and numerous shipyards, steel . works
and arms plants, vanished under, the impact of the terrific explosion.
lem as the nation’s factories shift|-
the size of!
both workers and management in|
with job opportunities ‘to register
Radio Tokyo conceded that “exe tensive damage” and a “large num {ber of casualties” were caused by the blast. One Tokyo report suggested that more than one of the new bombs was dropped, but. other enemy broadcasts spoke of only a
single missile.
12 TAVERN OWNERS SUSPENDED BY ABC
The Indiana alcoholic beverage commission; today announced sus pension of the retail licenses of 1. | liquor dealers. Suspension ordeys for refilling liquor bottles were issued against John DeMartino, Brono Konefal and Clara Sonoff, all of East Chicago, two days: Nick Katsianis of] { La Porte, five days; Lillian Ranzino and George Gural of Gary, two | days; Fred Beck and Stanley Kae zerski of East Chicago, five days and John Tenkeley of East Chi cago, 10 days. Helen Lowery of Terre Haute re. ceived a five-day suspension fo selling to intoxicated persons, and | similar penalty was given Fred Van Horn of Thorntown for selling in toxicants on Sunday and to intoxi cated persons. ' ” Justin F. Gladieux of Ft. Wayn {was suspended 15 days for selling] to standing patrons.
cutbacks |
"BANKS PLAN TO STAY OPEN ON V-J DA
Don E. Warrick, secretary of the {Indiana Bankers’ associatidn, an
Tokyo said that 150 bombers had | dropped fire and demolition bombs | on the northern Kyushu industrial city of Kurume this morning. Kurume Fired
Pires broke out in Kurume, but most were controlled by 12:50 p. m.,
| Tokyo said,
Maj. Gen. Curtis E. LeMay, chief | of staff of the U. S. strategic air forces in the Pacific, said that his airmen would continue the fight against Japan until notified officially by the war department that the war had ended. His announcement, made shortly before. midnight and reported from a followed a day in which B-29 bombers of the 20th air force had not carried out any missions against the enemy, There was no immediate word as to when and if the B-29 Superfortresses would resume their attacks. Earlier Gen. Carl Spaatz, strategic airforce commander in the Pacific, had- said that they would not fly today.
Russ Smash On
nounced today that most Indian banks are planning to remain ope on V-J day unless a proclamatio
U. S. STATEMENT
only exit from the cupola of City hall. © Then they discovered that . i .| WASHINGTON, Aug. 11 on. t Mrs. Martha E. Geer, 8 city Stauis- |, nt expenses and receipts for the i8 issued declaring the day a lega. tician, was at work in her office in current fiscal year through Aug. 9 eom- potiaay {pared with a year ago | ay. He said that because of the re $ 10,720,616,312 § 10,519,133,887
the cupola. ; | WOMAN DIES IN CRASH "9.106.972.136 ~ 9.422 402 322 | Sponsibility and liability of ban Receipts 3,586,539,699 2,988,006.083 | in relation to legal instruments
RIPLEY, Tenn, Aug. 11 (U.P). x, "pq 7.134.076,113 1,531,087,363 : —Mrs. Mary D. Forsythe, 30, of | Cash Bai 21,318,768 088 0700 aaa 41 they are hesitant to close. /ic Debt 282, 845,674 522,024.62 Evansville, Ind, was killed In- coi pclr, “20151 136 027 Fp tpt] stantly yesterday and her husband, Bert Forsythe, was injured critically when their car collided with|. = The first B-32 Consolidated super , gz” $ 5,537,000 a truck on the highway near here, Debits 18.366.000 oombers have arrived on OKinawd Sheriff Oscar Griggs reported to-| | from the Philippines, it can be re
TEARS ERLE Rhea ,807,000 day. Cleasings 320.801. 000 vealed today.
(U. P)~—~Gav-
This Year Last Year | Expenses | War Spend
SUPER-BOMBERS READY
INDIANAPOLIS CLEARING HOUSE OKINAWA, Aug. 11 (U, P).
Russia ordered her Far Eastern |!
armies to smash on‘ mercilessly against the Japanese despite their
mission monitored a Japanese broad- | surrender offer. cast to home and empire audiences |
the east, north and west 3000-mile front against
Moscow announced Russian gains to 105 miles toward the
KILLING RESULT OF PLAYFUL SCUFFLING
Following a round of drinks and playful jostling, Harry Minor, 39, of 2063 Yandes st., was shot and killed | last night at 19th and Yandes sts. Luther W, Caldwell, 42, of 923 E. |16th st. # under arrest and held lon charges of murder. Police say {he confessed.
PATRIOTIC COWS PLYMOUTH, Aug. 11 (U, P)~ The cows on Earl Nifong’s farm may be conscious of the meat shortage and are doing their patriotic bit. Two cows gave birth to two sets of twins within 24 hours. :
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Mayor Robe the emperor i their religion, and let us ac terms. But he to have any po
Dr. Guy O. superintendent Indianapolis Broadway Me! feel we should terms and end keep the emp will have a gov with. The tr now is that th head of the cot
Senator Ho: Japan meets ¢@ Potsdam decla: the time being present form their emperor opinion, we shc render, We s emperor when lished as to emperor has b and whether ol nese people are to express the sirous of the present form o
Mrs. Harold ave., housewife conditional sur take nothing e dictate the pe: not be the vic will be a mat And even thou more lives, I f tinue until th conditionally.” Fr. Ambrose chaplain of wi Holy Cross Cs certainly shoul surrender off years has the real importan is only a repr and pride of | of England, preservation c preserve order chaos of start crew. The er debted to us i _ throne and we on him, since power to see t the condition:
Maj. Willias Jutant of the feel we shoul the surrender Japanese peop hito in the 1
Mrs. John president of t t Voters: *I | dance that th | try will make sonally, I havi mind as to wh | accept the su I qualification’ Dr.M. 0. Ro university: * stand by the | the Big Thr that we shou tional request I think it shot the Japanese, peror should “Then 1 thi democratic later on it mn Hirohito. Als facilitate sur nese armies | some Pacific | Guy A. Wa general man: Chain Manuf so grateful ft that I'm not lar about the emperor.”
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