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MONDAY, AUGUST 13, 1945 Entered as Second-Class sie at PRICE FIV E CENTS
By SHERLEY UHL
EVEN UNDER the stress of an expected sudden reconversion job, the Indigna, Indianapolis and Marion county post-war picture bears a distinctly optimistic hue.
With the post-war era almost a reality, some of the details are «Still lacking and question marks appear between the broad brush strokes. But spokesmen for business, .industry and government say the state, city and- county are-ready to shift into peace, full steam ahead. . Nobody denies the prospect of an employment gap while industry is effecting its complete changeover. But none of the Ale,
thorities polled by The Times believe the employment lag will pro-
duce’ anything like panic or soup.
Jines,
In fark. Syria Green, executive secretary of the Council for Economic Development here, predicts a higher employment level
DURING the reconversion period than there was in 1939.
Louis Ruthenburg, state chair man of the C. E. D, points out that industry generally in Indiana is “straining at. the leash” to get back into civilian production. On the basis of his statewide ob-
‘servations, he asserts that every major industry in Indiana at least has a post-war plan. None of the big companies is proceeding willynilly. Clareftte Jackson, executive secretary of the state chamber of commerce, says manufacturers are
already “fighting for position” in , the race* for post-war markets. One of Indiana's greatest assets, he declares is variety of
“tremendous industrial products.”
Because the state is so versatile, industrially, its output won't be
its
WOMAN KILLED BY ATTACKER: MINISTER HURT,
o Dorothy A. Steck, 51, | Dies After Slugging Saturday Night.
A woman was murdered and a |
prominent minister was beaten over the week-end as Indianapolis’ | wave of sluggings continued un- |
| abated. Mrs. Dorothy A. Steck, 51, of 846 |
| N Chester st., died last night at | City hospital after being slugged 19 hours earlier. 8he nodded to police questions on whether she had been criminally assaulted. Early Saturday morning Mrs, Dollye Grothe, 57, of 2247 Leland 1 st, reported she was assaulted when she entered her home by a man who had entered while she was out) Police believe the two attacks were by the same man. The Rev. Sidney Blair Harry, pastor of the Meridian Heights Presbyterian church, was slugged
a vouth rally. Herman Steck, 54, returned from work early yesterday morning to see his wife staggering up the walk back .of their home. She was so | severely beaten she could not talk. ! Bhe was rushed to City hospital. : Deathbed Description The only lead to the killer's iden-
1 tity is a pencilled deathbed descrip-
{| late Saturday while returning from|:
Slugging Victims
Mrs. Dorothy A. Steck isn dhe | died from another Indianapolis slugging. 2 >
The Rev. Sidney Blair Harry
{ tion which describes the Sta as a “tall stocky built white man.” Presumably the killer stalked Mrs. | [Tuk when she got off the bus | i at 10th and Denny sts.
The coroner's report said that| Mrs.” Steck suffered a broken right Jaw and a fractured skull. | apparently hadgbeen struck eves times with a blunt instrument. Her purse was missing.
A native of Sheridan, Mrs. Steck { had made this city her home since | 1011, Survivors, besides her husband, include her father, George.A. Cox: a son, William Goodner; two | grandchildren, all of this city; a sister, Mrs. Bertha Stout, Sheridan, | and three brothers, Ralph, Kermit { and Dolph Cox, Indianapolis, Gives No Warning The slugging of the Rev. Mr. | Barry occurred on 48th st. between Broadway and College ave.. Without warning the assailant {cnn the minister and then Jumped into an automobile and d drove away. Unable to hold church services yesterday, the Rev, Mr, Harry today is reported in good condition. He was treated at Methodist hospital but not admitted.
| OVER MILLION YANKS RETURNED TO U. S.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 13 (U. P.).— The number of soldiers returning to the United States from all overseas theaters -since May 12 will pass the million mark today, The war department said arrivals { today would send the total to date to 1,011,432. This figure includes | wounded men and those returning for discharge and redeployment.
TIMES INDEX
4 Amusements... 7|Scherrer .....10 j Anderson +++..10|In Service ....11 [nside “Indpls.. 9 Jane Jordan...1 Mauldin Ration Cal. ... 8 Ruth Millett .. 9
i Crossword - ....15 Watson Davis. 9 David Dietz.... 9 i Editorials 10 j Edw, Evans... 2 Fashions .. 12-13
Obituaries — =." "4 Fred Perkins., 9 Radio | Mrs. Roosevelt, 9 Gardening . fi G. L ghts. . “a iven +13
8 Side Glances .10
State Deaths.. 5
ev. aN W attacker beat him Severely.
SLAIN MOTHER SPURNED ADVICE
‘Forewarned’ by Landlady; Husband Critical.
“I'm warning you, if you go to]
see your ‘husband something will |
happen,” Mrs. Louise Lawson, land- | lady at 814 Division st, told her roomer, Mrs. Willie Mae Thomas. “I was born with three veils over my face and I have a premonition of tragedy,” the landlady continued. She claimed re- gw markable powers of “second sight.” Mrs. Thomas, a 22 - year - ola mother, shrugged ! off these admoni- § tions as pure superstition, It. was shortly after: noon yesterday. The young, 8 mother left the : house with Odie Thomas
mingled joy and apprehension, Her
intention was to visit her 6-year-old|
daughter, Ruth, lame since birth.
Ruth was staying with her father,
Odie Thomas, 34, a war worker. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas had sep-
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Figure in Domestic Tragedy
the individual tax burden.
EARLY SLASH OF INCOME TAX ‘IS PREDICTED
. Normal Levy of 3 Per Cent!
On Individuals May Be Eliminated.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 13 (U. P.). —Cancellation of the 3 per cent normal tax was viewed today as a likely first post-war step to reduce
This could be done easily and [could be in effect by Jan. 1 while
| congress considered more thoroughgoing tax revisions. Repeal of the normal tax would {eliminate income tax obligations of ‘persons now paying .up to $39 an[nually under the present structure. It would mean a reduction for all the remainder of some 50,000,000 taxpayers.
surtax which starts at 20 per'e and graduates to 91 per cent, ace cording to income.
Early Start Seen
The house ways and means comsmittee, where tax bills originate in congress, had planned to take up tax matters late in the year. In view of ‘war developments it may | g0 to work earlier. The present income tax law as it affects the individual is made up of the normal tax and surtax. These are based on percentages of income but with different rates and exemptions. For the normal tax an exemption of up to $500 is allowed only for those ‘members of a family who actually receive income. For instance, a married man with wife and two children gets only a $500
Still standing would be the heavy | :
normal tax exemption (unless the wife and children have ‘income of | their own), For the surtax, however, | Wage earner. may take a $500 ex|emption each for himself, his wife, and each other dependent relatives. Would Exempt Many If the normal tax is repealed, a family consisting of man, wife, {two children with a gross income of $2000 and a present tax -bill of $39 would no longer pay any tax. Likewise a. married couple with one child and a gross income of $1500 would no longer pay the tax. The same goes for a married couple {with $1000 of income. In all these|© cases, none is subject to surtax. | A man with a $5500 income, a |wife and one child would find his {tax bill lessened by $135 per year. | Secretary of the Treasury Fred M. Vinson, while he was war mobilization director, said that ‘the post-war federal budget probably would be about $25,000,000,000, or roughly three times that of pre- | war budgets. The present budget | | for fiscal 1946 estimates costs of | government operations at about
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Third Fleet Planes Meet Only Slight Resistance.
By. FRANK TREMAINE United Press Staff Correspondent PEARL HARBOR, Aug. 13.—
Allied forces stepped up the attack
today while Tokyo still debated surrender terms. Enemy broadcasts ‘reported two Soviet landings on the Japanese half of Sakhalin island which lies within 20 miles of the home island of Hokkaido. Allied carrier planes from the U. 8S. 3d fleet destroyed or damaged several score of enemy aircraft parked on an airfield in the Tokyo area today. Pilots reported only slight anti-aircraft fire. ~ Hundreds of other carrier-based American and British planes bombed {and rocketed a submarine “base, | shipping, railway and other targets in a sudden resumption of their assault against the enemy homeland. Tokyo said the Russian amphibious landings were at two points 60 miles apart on Sakhalin,
M. Vaslevsky's three Far Eastern armies gained up to 80 miles in swift advances toward the military and railway hub of "Harbin, 150 miles south of Changchun,
Orders Speedup
Moscow ordered the attack-speeded up and Japan reported the partial evacuation of Changchun (Hsinking) the Manchurian capital, Soviet amphibious -forces captured the Korean ports of Yuki and Rashin, 12 and 19 miles south of the Soviet border, in twin landings yesterday under cover of a bombardment by the Russian Far East fleet. A second port, Seishin, 38 miles
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CHILD, 3, INJURED
IN TRAFFIC MISHAP
Three-year-old Timothy Halcomb
received minor bruises Saturday afternoon when he ran into the side of a car as he was crossing the street at State st. and Woodlawn ave.
He is the son of Mr, and Mrs.
Herman B. ( Baleom, | ToL, ‘Wood-
ave,
In Manchuria, Marshal Alexander |
"| road.
He'll Be Jap Emperor If Hirohito Abdicates
If the allies reject Hirohito but agree to continuation of the emperorship with limitations, the Japanese throne would go to the emperor's son, 11-year-old Crown Prince Kotaishi Akihito, shown (right) in his latest picture to resch the United States before He war, and (left) on his pi birthday.
As Planning
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 13 (U,
drastically curtailed by a slump in any single item. Industrial variety is also Indianapolis’ ace=in-the-hole; accord= ing to Mr. Green. Its market is “guaranteed,” he says, because the city is a center for the manufacture of “component parts” rather than complet ed products. “There are few communities in the entire country in as good a shape as we are,” he added. While some firms here anticipate substantial cutbacks, others ! don't expect to miss a lick” Mr. Green observes, Length of the actual recgnversion period depends largely upon© federal | government policies, he believes.
If Enemy Is
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' Japan's surrender offer. The broadcast, recorded
90 HOURS—AND STILL NO JAP REPLY
Industry Here Optimistic, Despite Reconversion T ask CHINESE C
CLAIM
SOME TROOPS SURRENDERING
Mighty " Allied Forces Ready to Hit Hard
Stalling With
Peace Negotiations.
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 13 (U. P.).—Radio Chungking said today that Japanese troops in Chekiang province on China's east coast had ceased fighting because of
by the FCC, said a Japanese
liaison officer had been dispatched fo the Chinese first ground division in that area “to negotiate surrender.”
“It also was revealed
that Japanese troops were
being disarmed in that province,” the broadcast said. Chekiang province lies just south of Shanghai.
By LYLE C. WILSON United Press Staff Correspondent
WASHINGTON, Aug. 13.—The hours—and the war—
a dragged on today. Nearly 50 hours after. ti
1e allied reply to Japan's sur-
‘render off had been dispatched, the White House had received no official word of acceptance from Tokyo.
White House Secretary]
‘Charles G. Ross said the allies | had placed no time limit for an]
answer, to their note dispatched at|
6:35 adm. sry: Asked whether a third atomic bomb would be dropped on Japan if no reply were forthcoming soon, he said: “I do hot know. |did, I wouldn't say.” The Chinese ambassador, Dr. Wei
(Indianapolis time) Sat- |
Tao Ming conferred with President | Truman briefly, shortly after 10:30
® a. m. (Indianapolis time). He told, - {reporters. later he personally be-! lieved that the
come at any moment.” Asked on
‘what he based his belief, he re-|
Notes Japanese Statement
“On many things, but I'd better 7 /not say. But it will come—I be- | |lieve it will come.” i | Ross noted a Tokyo broadcast
that the allied communication ar-|
rived in the enemy capital on Monday, Japanese time. (Monday in| Tokyo begins when it is about noon | Sunday here.) j= *If- that is true
he said, wey
STEP UP ATTACK Nip Broadcasts Hint Mikado ONLY U.S. HOLDS AS PEACE PENDS
to Quit Throne KEY T0 A- BOMB
P.).—Japanese broadcasts raised the
an today that Emperor Hirohito may be planning to abdicate in favor of his son, 11-year-old Crown Prince Akihito, with the emperor's Canada Fished Some
brother, Prince
but the fact that they singled out
U. P. OFFERS $5000
Pushes Investigation Into.
False Report.
NEW YORK, Aug. 13 (U. P.).—| Hugh Baille, president of the United | Press, last night offered $5000 reward for the identification’ and conviction of the person who fed into the United Press wire system’ shortly after 9:30 p. m. a false flash saying Japan had accepted the! allies’ surrender terms. The U..P. immediately reported the case to the federal bureau of investigation and the federal communications commission. Charles R. Denny, a member of the FCC, sald he would be glad to have |” all available information on the case. The flash was fed into the U. P.’ S| southern wire system at 9:34 o'clock last night. It carried a Washing- | ton dateline and said the Japanese had accepted the surrender terms. Within two minutes the U. P. as-
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NEW $200,000 PLANT PLANNED BY BOWERS |
A new $200,000 factory is planned for' the South side by the Bowers Envelope and Lithograph Co. now located at 941 W. Michigan st. Zoning board approval for the plant was being sought today. It would be a one-story structure, between Terrace ave. and Palmer st. adjacent to the Pennsylvania rail-
Clyde A. Bowers, company president, said it' would have 50,000 square feet, double the company's present facilities.
STOP RATION PRINTING WASHINGTON, Aug. 13 (U. P). ~The office &f price administration
printing on 150,000,000 new ration
| PCC,
affairs house demands selective service immediately upon | accepted a release to inactive status] Japan's surrender.
Nobuhitto Takamatsu, as regent after Japan surrenders. The broadcasts made no mention of Hirohito’s possible abdication, |
‘Raw Materials.’ Akivia and Takamatsu for special | ise at a time when Japan's sur-| OTTAWA, Aug. 13 (U. nar was under consitleraticn ap. nitions Minister -C. D. Howe re-' peared significant. vealed today that, while-the United Allied circles for some time have States, Great Britain and Canada
AS ‘FLASH’ REWAR | been speculating that Hirohito share the scientific knowledge upon | | might: feel it necessary to give yp Which the atomic bomb Js based, |
[the throne because of the loss of Only the United States knows the | details of. the bomb’s manufacture, Howe explained that Canada's {role in the production of the bomb! Tokyo said the newspaper Main- was to supply, “the essential raw
ichi reported in “detail” on the materials,” leaving it to the United virtues of Takamatsu, 40 years old| ps ————
|and third son of the late Emperor Era of Taisho, as director of the war vic-| tim relief society.
The broadcast,
face inherent in any surrender, Praise Takamatsu
Read | Power,”
“The Atomic David Dietz; starting today on Other atomic bomb stories,’ Page 5.
reported by the said that TaKamatsu, “de-| Page 9. spite his pressing military duties, is | constantly concerned regarding the undertakings of the society.’ States to devise manufacture Takamatsu also is a member of into weapon form. “Canada has! the Japanese privy council and the the right to ask for all the details navy general staff and honorary of manufacture, but so far has not president of the imperial inventions’ done so,” the minister stated. society and of the Japan Five Arts! He said Canada had not wished to association, [accept responsibility for No Combat Duty | leakage of manufacturing details Graduated from Navy college. In and that the United Kingdom had 1924, he served as squadfon com-| taken a similar attitude. mander of several battleships. How-, Soviet Russia, while familiar with ever, there is no record he saw®any the fact that atomic experiments combat fighting.
its
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{ CHUNGKING, Aug. 13 (U, P.), | ~The Chinese government, in apparent expectation of an imminent Japanese surrender, has appointed mayors for the occu- | pied cities of Shanghai, Peiping, {| Tientsin and Nanking, it was learned in reliable quarters today.
{have had our terms only 12 hours.” " “But,” he added in apparent reference to the fact that the allied reply has been repeatedly ishort-waved to Japan, “they cer
“good news will [tainly Knew what . was in our
terms.” Meanwhile, a Japanese Domei news agency broadcast said. it was cancelling certain regularly sched{uled transmissions to the Orient for the next 12 hours. No explana- | tion was given. At Ross's: White House press copferencé a reporter asked: “Is it safe to assume that there |is no letup in the war? " “It 1s safe to say,” Ross replied, I that the war is going on.” : Ross was asked flatly whether any time limit had been set in the {allied communication.
No Time Limit
“There is no limit in our com{munication,” he repli Then Ross was asked whether there was any “understanding” jamong the allies as to how much time Japan would be given. “Not to my knowledge,” he said. He then added that “you have the {whole of it in publication” of the [note - dispatched Saturday. | ‘The Tokyo radio said the official allied note, transmitted through the Swiss government, arrived in the enemy capital on Monday, Japanese time, That apparently explained the Japanese delay jn replying—if the Japanese were telling the truth about its arrival. There was no (explanation, however, of the delay lin transmission. The original Jap anese surrender offer arrived here 11 hours after its broadcast by Tokyo radio.
Consultation Presumed Today's Japanese broadcast said Emperor Hirohito, who has become a sort ‘of pawn in the exchange of | messages, received Foreign Minister {Shigenori Togo at the imperial palace this afternoon Presumably they are consulting jon a reply. Meanwhile, the allies were prepared to unleash unprecedented blows against the Japanese if they decide to stall indefinitely. More atomic bombs aresready for use. : President Truman waited at the {White House for the news which would mean that world war II was over—except for the final formali
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{CONGRESSMEN URGE END OF DRAFT ACT
WASHINGTON, Aug. 13° (U. P). DIEGO, Cal. A 13 (U. —Members of the senate military | SAN EC I a f ug. : ¢| committee today joined | P.).—After nearly five years 0
for an. end of | service, Col. James Roosevelt has|
| because of a recurring stomach
books and 37000000 new A " wae: line ration books.
They: proposed that the army use | voluntary enlistments for its occupation forces. Chairman Elbert (D. Utah) said that
D. Thomas |
disorder, the marine corps 'an-
[nounced today. | “something | President,
Roosevelt, eldest son of the late was admitted to the
obviously must be done” to the, U. S. naval hospital here several
selective service act as soon a3
congress reconvenes in. September. |
500 MEN WANTED International Harvester Co. needs men immelliately, We have Porn a huge increase in orders for ih Truck Kagines, Shi is an eld a hed in. | Amiinyiten Le Poo at
dustry {ht Ay “3588 ¢ Sta tes Employmen sericn wi
weeks ago on orders of his amphibi« ous group in the Philippines: | medical survey board recommended
soo] DIS discharge because of a. stom !
ach ‘ailment which, it said, has been’ aggravated by combat fatigue. Col... Roosevelf has accumulated 26 months of combat since applying for active duty in November,
Col. James Rooseveli Is On Inactive List, Due to Ailment
11040. Before this nation entered
the war, he was an official U. S. {observer in Egypt, accompanied British forces entering Iraq and was stationed on Crete until the Ger- | many skyborne invasion, Roosevelt was awarded the navy feross for his part in the Makin | landings with the famed “Carlson's raiders” when he served as an executive officer in Col. Evans F. Carle son's second marine battalion, : ; participated - in landings on Kiska in the Aleutians, aided in the training and organization of army landings in the Gilberts, took part
later transferred.