Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 August 1945 — Page 5

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| TUESDAY, AUG. 14, 1945

Ton} Finds An Impromptu

This crew of hilarity makers Just came out of nowhere to brighten the night at Monument Circle a few

minutes after the Japs’ Domel News agency put out:the news.

" Ed #

Hilarious Celebrants Swim

“In Monum

’ By EDWIN It was a wonderful night on will never forget.

ent Circle Pool

C. HEINKE the Circle.

It was a night of automobiles recklessly whizzing around the Circle,

8 few of them careening over the

af the Crossroads of America became filled with a roaring, raucous blast

of automobilé horns and yelling,

It was a night when scores of}

youngsters and men and women, some of them -gray-haired, tossed caution behind them and jumped headlong into the pool. Some of them were fully clothed when they leaped ‘“belly-whopper” into the pool. Sailor Nearly Drowns A sailor nearly drowned and is in the naval armory hospital. And it was probably only the beginning of what was to come later in the day and tonight. For the momentum was gathering steadily as the red - flecked streaks .of dawn gently changed Into cool daylight. It was only a mattef of minutes after the shrieking newsboys swept Into the neighborhood districts and after the first flashes came over the radio that people began tumbling put of bed. Sit Up To Listen Most of them stayed at home. A tour through neighborhood streets showed hundreds of families: sitting sn their porches or clustered around the radio in their living rooms. A lot of them, however, decided “hey'd better get downtown and see They were spearheaded by members” of Indianapolis’ tavern society and others vho had spent the warm night dppling with their girl friends. They headed straight for the sircle. It was a conglomeration of eu. ire, redfire, toilet paper flying in very direction, liquor bottles being :mptied and tossed onto the sidevalk or into the pool. The swimners didn’t mind. Jump in Again © Bud Sawin, coach of the chamslonship Riviera club swimming eam, would have screamed in igony at the diving and swimming 'xhibitions. Many of them were linable to.walk out once they had plashed in, but the more sober

ssisted them to the rails, Then |F

hey'd jump again. Lodgers at the English hotel, /hich overlooks the Circle, joined he merrymakers. It was imposible even to think of sleep as the in increased. There were girls in bathing suits, horts, playsuits and housecoats. ‘hey were being kissed galore: by he soldiers and sailors, who had a eld day. Nobody objected. At around 5 or 5:30 .the "crowd rowed signs of getting out of hand. Tiving on the sidewalk was {n‘easing in popularity, until Police apt. Audrey Jacobs and Lt. Albert jagentenner quickly put a stop to at, Chief Urges Safety .

At police headquarters, Chief Jesse .Murtry said he hoped everybody ould have a good time, then uemnly warned people not to enanger life and property. The words ere hardly out of his mouth when atrolman Dan Scanlon called in 1d reported a sailor had drawn a In on a policeman, Police rushed over, then found sey had misunderstood. Patrolman "anlon had reported that a man 1s believed drowned. Ambulance ctors arrived and they gave first d to the sailor, believed to be ‘onc Chapin, 27, of 628 Eastern 'e., Home on leave. He had been ving in the pool, they said. No sponer had the ambulance i*m away to the Naval armory an a group of soldiers and sailors binted out a couple running down ‘e street. They had fished Chap's billfold out of the pool with a bber cane that had a hook on ¢ end. The couple was caught arding « streetcar was taken to e police station and charged with grancy. Around’ and Around ne of the chief objects of the rade that swirled aroundi and nd and made you dizzy was a loppy with ‘a dozen young. boys

neing all over it. One lad, who!"

; astride the radiator, carried a ge American flag. ‘Another ungster kept up an incessant ankee Doodle” on his trumpet.

Chere Were reports that 300 mili- |

y policemen would come here ‘today from Cam ‘Atterbury _Dobody seemed to 80 or not.

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sidewalk, The ordinarily stilly air

vat-in a brewery around daybreak and _you- practically could see the fumes wafting into the street. At about 6:30 police succeeded in erecting barricades at the street entrance into the Circle to Keep off trafic. They had a time of it because the Speedway-trained drunks decided that fast driving around the Circle would lend more atmosphere to the midsummer night's festivities. Whatever happens from now on is your guess.

165 GUB LEADERS

COMPLETE COURSE

Sixty-five den chiefs and cub leaders of the cential Indiana council, Boy Scouts of America, today hold certificates for completing ‘a council-wide den chiefs’ training course, The course was held Sunday in the Brookside Park community house. The noon and afternoon meals were prepared and served by the Parents’ Council of Cub pack six sponsored by the Centenary Christian church. Mrs. J. M, Welsh, hostess chairman, was in charge of:the faod. Arthur L. Bailey, chairman, npened the program with general in‘roductions after whicn the Scouts’ nwn religious service was conducted by Donald H. Barnett, director of cub scouting.” Instructions were given in handicraft, ceremonies, story telling, den program planning, games and tricks. Mr. Bailey is east district commissioner of cub scouting. Others who assisted him in the training course are: Willlam T. James, Robert G. Bain, Warren C. Wardell, John McWethy and Theodore H. Smumpson, central district executive, central Indiana council, Boy Scouts of America.

ND TRUCK TIRE RATIONING WASHINGTON, Aug. 14 (U, P.). —Used truck tires will be removed from rationing Aug. 17, the office of price administration announced

Those who were there

OFFIGIAL PEAGE

Bring General Closing.

Indianapolis ‘commerce and Industry today were awaiting official word of Japan's surrender before closing doors for a rousing V-J holiday. All major war plants were operating, although many phoned in to learn whether factories were open or whether their jobs were still there. Absenteeism soared to what might be a record high as an aftermath of early morning confusion and celebrations. One large war plant reported a 20 per cent slump in attendance. Industrial executives unanimously agreed to tie down their whistles and release ‘all "employees for the rest of the day whenever President Truman, or any responsible U. 8. authority, announces the war's end. Storés to Close Murray Morris, executive secretary of the Indianapolis Merchants association, “likewise asserted retail stores would remain open until the peace was official. He said all stores would close immediately upon an authoritative announcement from a U. 8. source. Some taverns were open, others closed as the town launched what promised to develop into an extended V-J spree. The state ‘alcoholic beverage commission has “requested” liquor dispensers to padlock their establishments for 24 hours after the official peace declaration, The order is not mandatory, but most downtown taverns indicated they would obey the request. Fear Boisterous Crowds Numerous restaurants and lunchrooms in the downtown district either cautiously remained closed or delayed their openings this morning. Street throngs were waxing boisterous, with wild looks in their eyes. All shopkeepers were altered for possible jubilant riots or destructive merry-making. However, it appeared that the city's business and industry generally were sticking it 6ut until the

today.

armistice was “on record” as a reality. :

Never Anything

began to smell Like a! iment 0

Like This Before

HOLIDAY AWAITS

Victory Proclamation Will

and seven days since Pearl Harbor day hy every mother with a son, every wife with a husband in uniform, and every sister with a brother fighting for his country. And perhaps it wasn’t. Underneath the hilarity there was that sobering thought. Celebrators were held back by a. caution that said wait until President Truman makes the peace official. Instead of snake dancing in the streets, thousands knelt in prayer at church. As the nation awaited word from Washington the celebrations in most cities were tame compared with the wild jubilation of Armistice day, 1918. People in many towns took the early news calmly and soberly. San Francisco Starts Early San Francisco had the biggest early celebration. The news of the Tokyo surrender broadcast hit that Pacific embarkation port at 10:49 p. m. while the streets, restaurants, night clubs and movies still were filled. Thousands of servicemen waiting for ships to take them into battle went wild with joy.

A navy ensign swaggered down San Francisco's Market st. sporting a colonel's.cap. A sailor climbed to a theater marquee and tossed the letters from the sign onto the crowd below. The crowd estimated at perhaps 50,000 persons broke into liquor stores and overturned automobiles. San Franciscans, who took V-E day in their stride, cut 1o.se with all the revelry they had stored up for the firing of the last shot in|: the Pacific. Streetcar service on the main street had to be discontinued because of the crowds. A group of soldiers and sailors commandeered a truck and rolled it over. They ripped off the tires and pulled out the wires. A blond danced in her bare feet, and police and shore patrolmen stood quietly aside and watched the fun. New York Calmer New York, the nation’s biggest city, took the good news more calmly. Crowds gathered slowly in Times Square, and the revelry was confined during the first hours to the blowing of automobile horns. By 10 a. m. police estimated 50,000 were packed on the sidewalks between 42d and 48th streets along Broadway, Traffic still passed through the square and hundreds rode in .automobiles decorated with paper streamers and flags. A score of

“trucks filled with children, some of

them with cymbals and horns, wound in and out of the area. A steady stream of paper, and confetti, showered the streets. A

‘group of boys hung an effigy of

"| Hirohito. Soldiers and sailors with

their girls yelled at the moving new sign on the New York Times building: “Hurry up, hurry up, hurry up.” The celebration was held in check only by the fear — as one soldier put it — “There might still be a gimmick in it.”

Capital Crowds Swell

At Washington a small crowd gathered before 4 a. m. in Lafayette park across from the White House. That little gathering of about 200 persons grew hourly, At Detroit, the nation's biggest | war production center, workers gen~ lerally received the fiews quietly until office workers began showing up in the downtown section. Then a band played: in front of the city hall and people danced * in the streets. Most of the * big Detroit war plants planned to wait for the official. peace announcement before declaring a holiday, but 4200 workers walked out of the Ford River Rouge plant to celebrate. Officials felt sure other thousands would follow before the day was out. Chicago received the news cautiously. There was some celealong "the Randolph

a. m.; but a sudden fain sent most

For some reason that police could not make out, nobody was hurt in the . wild race around the Circle. Here's a midget entry.

Tide of Joy Sweeps Nation, San Francisco Cuts Loose

By JOE W. MORGAN United Press Staff Correspondent A tide of joy rose gradually across the United States today. Peace seemed to be just around the corner. The news that Japan was ready to surrender unconditionally to the United States brought people tumbling sleepy-eyed out of bed in the early morning hours from Broadway to Main st. : This, perhaps, was the day awaited fom three years, eight months

bigger stores began boarding up their windows. The first fatality from the peace hilarity was reported at Denver. There, a soldier fell out of a third story window of a hotel where a celebration party was in progress. The newspaper publisher at Rolla, Mo., found out how to sell extras while people are asleep. He equipped every newsboy with a whistle, At St. Louis a crowd of about 150 persons swarmed around a Catholic church. By banging on pans, ringing bells and blowing whistles they finally persuaded the pastor to open the church-for services at 2 a. m, Memphis reported that everything there was “perfectly normal’ except an ordinance against blowing of automobile horns was suspended temporarily. In Mexico City the champagne was on the house at Ciro’s night club. Celebrators in Brooklyn carried an effigy of Tojo in a coffin and hanged it publicly. Pearl Harbor, where three years, eight months and one week ago the Japanese struck treacherously, set the stage for celebrations which probably will sweep the United States. Every .ship in the harbor was lit up like a Christmas tree. The warships blew their whistles until they were out of steam. But in the ‘United States where the enemy broadcast was received in the early morning hours, the first reaction was different. New York, the nation’s largest city, took the news calmly. At 2 a. m. only a few people stirred in Times square. But as the minutes went by and newspaper extras came out, the crowd increased. By 5 a. m. the crowd had grown to more than 3000 and was increasing hourly. Chinatown Happy

" Automobiles, their horns blowing loudly, moved slowly down Broadway. Hundreds of servicemen gathered quickly ‘and cheered as they marched down the streets and jumped on the cars. Probably the most riotous, spontaneous celebration began in New York's Chinatown almost immediately after. the Japanese broadcast. The Chinese set ‘off firecrackers and the popping went on for hours

narrow streets. Chicago also was slow to react. But police predicted that Chicago would have the wildest celebration in its history.

tavern and liquor stores. immediately after the enemy broadcast. Squad cars began patrolling the streets to prevent a repetition of the 1918 celebration of more than 1.000,000 persons in the Loop area. Store windows were wrecked then and all saloons were emptied of liquor. Honking Signals Joy Detroit was quiet at first. But churchbells began ringing in the suburban areas pnd general shouts and cheers greeted the Tokyo announcement. Sirens sounded in the west Philadelphia section and some automobile horns began , honking— giving full indication that a celebration would grow as the day progressed, x Shortly before 4 a. m. more than’ 200 persons, mostly servicemen, had gathered in Lafayette park across from the White House in. Washington. » At Lincoln, Neb, soldiers from a troop train jammed the United Press office, asking: “Is it true? Is the war over? Maybe we wori't have to go overseas now.” War workers coming off the 4 a. m. shift in Kansas City began impromptu’ celebrations, screaming and tooting horns as they moved down the main streets. In the

.|residential sections, police reported | theatrical district shortly after 1

that some overjoyed citizens who were awakened, dragged out firearms and began shooting in the alr.-

ERIC PHIPPS DIES .,. NDON, Aug. 14 (U.P). —8ir

as they snake-danced through the-

{tung coast, have captured the road Police were ordered to close alll

Car after car traveled around the Circle. Even several taxicab drivers and one bus driver who forgoh : he was supposed to be on a route joined the fun.

REDS. URGED TO SHOW NO MERCY

600 U. S. Superforts Drop 3200 Tons of Bombs.

PEARL HARBOR, Aug. 14 (U.P). —Soviet troops, urged by their leaders to ‘show -the Japs ‘no mercy, thrust deeper into western Manchuria today. Meanwhile, more than 600 American Superfortresses and fighters ripped central Japan, as Tokyo reported that Japan has decided to accept the Potsdam ultimatum to “surrender unconditionally. (A Swiss broadcast reported that the Japanese had accepted allied surrender terms, but it wasn't clear whether they were repeating radio Tokyo or announcing new information.) The Superforts dropped 3200 tons of bombs and left two arsenals and a clogged railway yard on Honshu wreathed in flames. Russian tanks and Mongol horsemen swept across the Manchurian wastes for more than 120 miles in the fourth and newest of their offensives during the six days of fighting. Peace News After Raid Less than an hour after the last | B-29 had turned home from the raids on central Japan, Tokyo made the announcement that Japan has decided to accept the Potsdam declaration. Most of the giant raiders still were on their way back to the Marianas. At the same time, the Japanese claimed their suicide planes had made another assault against Adm. William PF, Halsey’'s mighty 3d fleet. Radio Tokyo said the suicide planes attacked as late as 12:30 Tokyo time. The Japanese surrender broadcast came at 2:49 p. m. The Japanese broadcast claimed that five other suicide planes had crashed into an American aircraft carrier off the southeast coast of Okinawa last night. The 313th heavy bombardment wing hit railway yards at Marifu, only 22 miles west of atomic bombed Hiroshima, at 12:30 p. m. today with 300-pounders.

Blast Naval Arsenal At 12:15 p. m,, the 58th and 73d wings blasted the Hikari naval arsenal on the inland sea and the Osaka army arsenal, the largest in Japan. Russia, broadcasting three hours after Radio Tokyo's surrender message, exhorted her advancing Manchurian armies to overtake the fleeing Japanese forces and to “show them no mercy.” Moscow said Soviet armies were driving into central Manchuria from the west, northwest, northeast and east as fast as their transport.can carry them. Tt Chungking reported that Chinese forces driving toward the Kwang-

It was a field day for the soldiers and sailors.

High Jinks—~Celabriling Boys Paint Girl Friend Red

SEVERAL V-J celebrants on Monument circle decided early today literally to paint the town red, starting with an 18-year-old girl. Armed with stiff-bristled brushes and a can of red lacquer, the youths proceeded to administer a pain job on Miss Joyce

Feld, 817 8S. New Jersey st., than one. They began at her white shirtwaist and brown slacks. When Miss Feld approached her mother, Mrs. Myrtle Feld, in a restaurant on S. Alabama st. near police headquarters, another scene ensued. Mamma almost swooned. She thought it was blood. Police helped Mrs. Feld scrape the fresh red lacquer off her daughter with paint remover. 2 » 2 “We face future responsibilities with the confidence justified by recent great accomplishments and proven abilities,” sald Mayor Tyndall in a V-J statement today. “Here in Indianapolis we have just cause to be proud of our part on every phase of the total effort it has taken to meet and defeat the challenge to freedom.” ” ” 5 THE BREAST-DEEP Monu-* ment circle pools weren't built for diving exhibitions. James Holliday, 16, of 210%: 8S. Oriental st., and George G. Scecker, 37, of 545 Dexter ave. can testify to that today. Overwhelmed with V-J joy, Jimmy executed a Steve Brodie in the west pool, receiving a three-inch head gash for his enthusiasm. Mr, Scecker was not a willing performer. He said somebody shoved him into the Circle wash from a railing on which he was viewing the hi-jinks. A finger was wrenched and severely cut when his ring snagged on an object as he plummeted toward the pond.

yr High school adolescents violated the law of gravity by scaling the Claypool walls up as high as the third story in an eccentric outburst of V-J spirit. ” » » A COUPLE of humbly bowing effigies of Hirohito did everything but lisp “so sorry please” when hauled through downtown streets by auto-riding high ‘school students. As the kids shouted ‘take a bow,” Hirohito,” those holding the dummies bent- them ‘double. The toothy grins painted on the effigies’ faces did the sun god nothing less than justice.

» » ” One tipsy V-J day observer tossed caution to the winds and a pitcher of ice water from the eighth floor of the Claypool hotel. It plummeted with a resounding crash on the Jllinois st. sidewalk, empty at 3 a. m.

8 » r IN A V-J announcément today, Republican State Chairman William E. Jenner declared: “The sadness with which we remember

center of Hweilai on the Kwangtung coastal plain fewer than five miles from the sea.

those who will not come back is balanced by - gratitude for the knowledge that no more lives

Today's casualties include two Indianapolis soldiers who died in France. , DEAD T. 5th Gr. Ira B. Scudder, R.R. 6 in France. Pfc. Robert L. Miller, 4211 E. 11th st., in France.

DEAD— Pfc. Robert L. Miller, husband of Mrs. Mary Anna Miller, 4211 E. 11th st., died July 28 in a hospital” in France as a result of diphtheria and paralysis of the throat.

Overseas since last + November, Pfc. Miller was a graduate of Avon high school and was an employee of the E. GQ. Atkins & Co. before he enlisted in March, 1044. Pfc. Miller was a member of the ‘Brookside Masonic lodge. Survivors besides his wife Include his. parents, Mr. and Mrs. George Miller, 1238 N. Dearborn st.; two sisters, Mrs. Bernadine Mitenell and Mrs. Wilma Mitchell; two prothers, Fred and Glenn, Indianapolis, and a brother-in-law, Pvt. Ea:l Mitchell, in the Pacific.

Hoosier Heroes: 2 Local Men Are Reported Dead i in France|

| in the downtown district. Weary,

Pfc. Robert L. Milled . . . died in France.

neering company, Technician Scudder has been overseas since December. He was a graduate of Southport high schodl and of Rose Polytechnic Institute. Survivors other than his parents include two brothers, Sgt. George Willams, en route to the United States from Italy, and Floyd Scudder, Indianapolis, and a sister, Mrs. Ruth Tuell, Kentland.

. nm STATE— - The. ames of the foliqwing. Indie

ana servicemen appear on teday's 3

who turned crimson in more

ways face and worked down over her must be sacrificed to halt aggression. The people of Indiana, with those of the rest of the country, bow their heads today in reve erent thankfulness.” 2 8 » : Monument Circle fountains were turned off and the pools drained this morning to discourage any more risky horseplay 3t that — point. Police received frequent reports that' bystanders were splashed on and even dunked. s ” n Thoroughly blotched with red paint, the huge war ‘bond poster on Monument Circle was dismantled following last’ night's revelry.

s. » » Scattered paper showers lit. tered the downtown section. Spirals of adding machine tape unfurled from the Guarantee, Kahn and Merchants Bank build. ings. Toilet paper also was a fa-

the windows of printing firms. ; » ” » At intervals, Indianapolis went around in a circle at a terrifie pace. Autos swept around the monument, inches apart, at speeds ranging up to 40 miles an hour, Squad cars occasionally edged into the procession and slowed it down by creeping along in low gear. Also seen in the circle parade: An empty street railways’ bus. going round and around, followed by a private ambulance. # » » : Several teen-age girls spent the morning shoving each other around in a two-wheel trash cart, recklessly left unguarded by an unwary street cleaner. Whereabouts of the street cleaner was unknown. " ” » When the Jap surrender news broke in the wee small hours, a resident of . Ravenswood tele phoned the street railways ine formation booth at, Washington and Illinois sts. “Hey, how about sending a bus out here,” said an alcoholic voice at the other end. “We want to go downtown and raise hell.” » » » o Biggest business in many moons was enjoyed by ice cream and popcorn vendors. Dime stores were also jammed with customers seeking flags, noise-makers and

trade was slack; however.

. » ” “I WON'T believe the Japs have given up, until I hear the official = confirmation,” said a sprightly-dressed lady near the Illinois st. entrance of the. Clay« pool.. While her. last Word was still on her lips, an urchin exploded a firecracker almost under her nose. “I believe it now,” the lady shrieked.

| steps, |" antics of the high school set.

sylvania st. -

» » Celebrants of all ages flocked

but happy, elderly men and women sat quietly on the circle watching the jitterbug

Startled babes in arms were jostled along in the bedlam. n . » The war is still on even if it's off, as far as getting meat is concerned. Long queues lined up as usual at City market and at Buehler's meat stand on Penne

” ” ~ As the day wore on fewer servicemen participated in thw festivity. Purple Heart veterans remained: on the sidelines throughout. Othér battle vet erans . looked on with mild amusement. Some were slightly cynical. iz J » \ An impromptu tumbling’ ach, staged on the Circle by Ulrich of 1400 Orange st.

other novelties. Department store