Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 August 1945 — Page 1

The Indianapolis Times

SCRIPPS — HOWARD VOLUME 56—NUMBER 135

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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 15, 1945

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Peace—A Time For Us To Be Humble—The Beginning of Our Test

By THOMAS L.STOKES

WASHINGTON, Aug. 15.—This is the victory. The din of celebration crashes up from the streets far below. The scraps of paper whirl by the window, spiralling downward upon the exuberant, shrieking, half-crazy crowd. This is America, yours and mine, in victory. A sailor with a bottle. A girl with a horn.

The surrender finally came,

President Truman sent

out the word. A mob of weary news$papermen dashed

through the corridors to his office. They Stood about in

a tense circle. . He gave out the long-awaited news. Later he and his wife, two simple Midwest Amer-

icans, walked out on the lawn of the White House to wave at the crowd gathered behind the high, iron fence and pressed tightly against it, thousands of them.. Some had come every day for. several days to wait for

the news—there in the park across the street where An- | sodas, and jitter-bugging and hard whisky.

drew Jackson perpetually rears his horse, and where, at the four corners, are the figures of those foreign officers ‘who came over and fought beside us for our freedom in

the revolution. These were Lafayette, Rochambeau, von

Steuben and Kosciusko, French, German and Pole.

Here in the crowd are representatives of all those

nationalities and of many others, now plain Americans, lovers of the hot dog, and roasted peanuts, and ice cream

Ancient Rome Had Its Forum, New York Has Times Square—Here It's Monument Circle

All Indianapolis headed for that traditional place for celebrations—Monument Circle —when the news flashed over the world last night that peace at last had come for sure.

V-J HIGHLIGHTS —

IT'S HISTORICAL AND HYSTERICAL

Most Celebrants Go to See Others Make Whoopee

By ROGER BUDROW

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Every Emotion Gives Way In Wild Celebration.

By SHERLEY UHL Indianapolis awoke this morning to a sun-swept dawn of total peace after a historical, hysterical 24-hour victory spree, The air was crystalline pure and freshly cool today. It- gave the effect of serenity. The city celebrated final victory with utter abandon. The V-J frolic attracted the most rousing, - rips roaring downtown pedestrian and traffic jam in-this community's caeer. Most downtown streets were “miraculously cleared of debris this nmiorning, but the bombastic salute to peace was not yet complete, More to Come Lesser festivities, both scheduled and spontaneous, were to follow in the two-day holiday period. Tomorrow a tremendous V-J, parade to end all V-J parades will be held. Sponsored jointly by the American Legion and the city's V-J commit tee, the procession is scheduled to get under way at 2 p, m. from Pennsylvania and St. Clair sts. The parade will roll down Pennsylvania st, to Washington st. across Washington st. to Illinois st. up Illinois st. to Market st., around the «Circle, up Meridian st. to North st. Troops from Ft. Harrison will be in the vanguard, with other band and marching units participating. A concert by the George W.

downtown last night after the suppertime announcement of victory, But it seemed that most of them came to see other people celebrate. Thousands just stood or walked around looking at thousands of others standing or walking around. Many of the real celebrants were drunks, “I DON'T see what kick they get out of it,” observed a shore patrolman directing traffic at Meridian and Ohio sts. “If you'd told 'em they would be acting like this on V-J day, they'd have told you that you were nuts. But just look at 'em!” The Claypool ‘hotel lobby was turned into a community sing when a soldier began playing the piano there. When he broke into a rhythmical tune, several couples started dancing. But a hotel official put a quick stop to that, ONE DRUNK. wobbled up to the Claypool hotel desk and tried to get a room. “We've turned down a thousand already, buddy,” he was told. “Where's the manager?” the drunk demanded. As he was shown the assistant manager’s office, one desk clerk sarcastically observed to the other: “Uh huh. He'll get a room.” Scores had whisky bottles with them and when they were drained, threw them on the streets where they broke to bits, This was hazard enough for the throngs on the downtown streets.

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TIMES INDEX

Amusements.. 17 Jane Jordan..21 Barrows ..12 Mauldin..13 Business .. 18 Ruth Millett . Comics .. 21 Ruel Moore .. 7 Max B.Cook ..13 Movies ..17 ICrossword {... . 21 [Obituaries ... Davis .- 13 Dr, O’Brien .. 22 David Dietz.. 13 Fred Perkins.. 13 Editorials .... 14 Radio .. 21 Fashions .... 16 Mrs. Roosevelt 13 Forum ...... 14 Scherrer . .14 Heroes ...... 6 Wm. P. Simms .. 14 Meta Given.. 16 Douglas Smith .. 14 Homemaking..18 Sports .. 11 In Indpls.. 3 Tom Stokes.. 14 Inside Indpls. 13 Women's News.. 16 500 MEN WANTED International Harvester Co. needs 500 men immediately. We have received a huge increase in orders for Motor Truck Engines. This is an old established industry where employment will be continuing. Apply 5565 Brookville Road or United States Employment Service, 257 W. Washington Street. -- Adv.

But when it rained, many took| off their shoes and stockings to go barefoot. Scores were badly cut. The Red Cross first-aid mobile on the Circle treated 34 people between 6 and 10 p. m.,

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A limited number of copies of The Indianapolis Times' Peace Edition, which was on the street seconds after President Truman announced surrender, are available. They may be obtained at The Times' business office,

214 W. Maryland st.

MOST OF Indianapolis hurried

the majority for cuts. Twelve of

VICTORY BRINGS TWO HOLIDAYS

General Shutdown Today; Thursday Plans Varied.

Government agencies, with the exception of postoffice, were leading the way in holiday observance to-

day. All were to be closed today and

tomorrow. The postoffice had one

delivery schediiled today. Officials were undecided what to do about tomorrow.

Department stores generally were

to be closed both days. Bank enployees were told not to come to work today or tomogrow. Stock-—markets wl to-observe-a two-day holiday, The Indianapolis | livestock exchange was open today | but, will be closed tomorrow, All taverns previously had been

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Official V-J Day Will Come Later

By UNITED PRESS Today and tomorrow are the “victory holidays.” V-J day will come later, and it will not be a holiday. It will be proclaimed after the Japs have signed the surrender papers. The V-J proclamation will be largely a legal matter for the purpose of setting a date for the end of hostilities as required by various laws.

Blame Slugger In V-J Death

A few minutes after he had participated in a V-J bonfire rafly, a 47-year-old widower and father of five, died of a head injury on the rain-soaked sidewalk in the 2300block of E. Wash-

ington st. last

night, The dead man is William E. | (Billy) Disher of 17 N. Jefferson ave. Police believe he was a slugging victim. Mr. Disher was found, unconscious by police at 9:35 p. m., a severe gash in his skull. He died before the ambulance arrived.

Homicide detectives reported that Mr, Disher had engaged in a fist fight with a neighbor in the course of a V-J celebration at Washington|

! st. and Keystone ave. The neighbor, Thomas Dodson. 40, of 207 N. Jefferson ave. was held for questioning after detectives learned the two men had clashed a second time after leaving the scene of the V-J frolic. ; Witnesses of the first melee said East side residents were tossing straw hats and pieces of furniture into the bonfire when Disher and Dodson started arguing. Later, they swung at each other. Both are widely known in the E. Washington st. district. A truck driver, Mr. Disher is suf-

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TEMPERATURES 6 a.m ...10 a. m....71 7 a.m. .. 64 11 a.m. 73 8 a.m. 67 12 (noon)...74 9 a. m. 1p. m.. 75

27 Hoosier on Indianapolis;

Three Local Men Are Missing

Three Indianapolis men are missing and another was wounded when two tremendous torpedo explosions sank the heavy cruiser Indianapolis July 30 in one of the worst U. S. naval disasters of war or peace. Possibly still carrying some atomic bomb materials, the 9950-ton ship went down in less than 15 minutes in the Philippine sea, within 450 miles of Leyte, presumably the victim of a Japanese submarine. The disaster at 15 minutes past midnight during an unescorted fast run from Guam, where atomic bomb supplies had been delivered, to the Philippines.

There were 1196 casualties --every man aboard ship. Of these, 880

were killed or missing, 316 wounded. Missing crew members: from this city are Seaman 1-c Robert E. Kollinger, 19, of 245 W. Morris st.; Seaman 2-c Eldridge Wayne Bowles, 516 E. Iowa st.; and Seaman 2-c Carl E. Mires, 24, of 1445 N. Alabama st. James E. O'Donnell, wa-

was wounded.

listed as crew members on the final trip of the cruiser, which was formerly the flagship ot Admiral Raymond A. Spruance, who regards Indianapolis—the city—as his home. Survivors told Hazel Hartzog (Continued on Page 3 -- Column 2)

ter tender 3-c, of 206 Parkview st, was wounded

Twenty- three other Hoosiers were

BEGIN ALL-OUT

RECONVERSION

Drastic Stoppages Sent Out

On War Work.

By SANDOR S. KLEIN United Press Staff Corréspondent WASHINGTON, Aug. 15.—The government embarked on an allout effort today to win the battle for full employment, a stable economy and unparalleled prosperity by the spring of 1947. Reconversion Director John W. Snyder announced with high confidence the nation's strategical plan for cushioning the shock of vast war contract cancellations and achieving victory in-a-broadly-con-ceived campaign for “a total and stable prosperity in peace.” Machinery, Munitions Cut With war contract cancellations expected to reach $35,000,000,000 in a few weeks, in the face of mushrooming unemployment which may

|reach 8,000,000 before next spring, and despite the manifold hazards of readjustment from war to peace,

Snyder declared: “The outlook for this peacetime victory is bright, but it will not be won easily nor immediately.”

He said it would take “at least

12 to 18 months” to achieve the ex-

panded economy requisite to full

employment. As an example of the tremendous dislocations which industry will

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BULLETIN

WASHINGTON, Aug. 15 (U. P.). ~The navy announced today it will reléase 1,500,000 to 2,500,000 men and women in the next year to 18 months under a new point system,

Victory Holiday

® All Times editions of today and tomorrow will be published on the schedule effective on other holidays.

* Death notices and lost and found notices for classified pages for Thursday editions | will be received until 8:30 a. m. Thursday. The want ad department will remain open until 1 p. m. Thursday to accept ads for Friday's edition.

Japan's agreement to unconditional surrender last night at 6 o'clock

It. has made this sturdy, | who are celebrating their vict

Lafayette, Rochambeau, von | far across the seas.

representatives of all those '| President Roosevelt could be

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Enemy Surrender Delegate Told to Go To Ie Island, Then to Manila; - Code Word: ‘Bataan.’

-By WILLIAM C. WILSON United Press Staff Correspondent

MANILA, Aug. 15.—Gen. Douglas MacArthur, taking over as allied supreme commander, ordered Japan today to cease hostilities immediately and send a “competent representative” to Manila to receive surrender terms. MacArthur already has established radio communication with Emperor Hirohito and the Japanese government, a spokesman revealed. Allied forces throughout the Pacific and Far East will be directed to cease hostilities only after the enemy has complied with orders, MacArthur said in a radio message to Tokyo. No Formal Cease Fire Order Allied forces aiready have been ordered to cease offensive operations, but no formal order to cease all fire has been issued. Radio Tokyo announced resignation of Premier Kantaro Suzuki's war cabinet shortly before MacArthur's order was dispatched. Suzuki's war minister already was a suicide. American forces were ordered to cease offensive action

| last night. “Tokyo broadcast to Japanese troops-at 11 p. m.

Tuesday (Indianapolis time) Wednesday Japanese time, the announcement of agreement to surrender. But Adm. Chester W. Nimitz announced that Japanese

_|planes attacked the U. S. 8d fleet after 2 a. m. Wednesday

(Indianapolis tirge). Five were shot down. It was not immediately clear whether the attacks were continuing. "Nimitz asked MacArthur to tell the Japs that we will shoot down any planes approaching our fleet, Orders Chinese Halt : Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek ordered the Japanese in China to stop fighting immediately, but told them to | keep their arms for the time being in order to maintain | public order, ®

The melting pot has proved itself again.

It has made this sturdy, free and independent people who are celebrating their victory against a trio of tyrants far across the sea.

President Truman says only that he wishes the late

President Roosevelt could be here.

Roosevelt, and his ancestors, were Dutch.

GAS RATIONING IS OVER---RIGHT NOW

Order Japs to Cease Fire

LIMIT OFF ON CANNED GOODS AND FUEL OIL

Tires Will Be Next to Go Without Coupons, OPA Says. ,

WASHINGTON, Aug. 15 (U. P.).—Gasoline rationing is ended, the office of price administration announced today. Nor will canned fruits and vegetables, fuel oil, and oil stoves be rationed any longer, OPA said, Rationing stop orders are effective immediately,

But rationing of meats, fats and oils, butter, sugar, shoes, tires and other commodities will continue in-

WASHINGTON, Aug. 15 (U. P.)— The OPA said today it doesn’t care what motorists do with their gasoline ration books. You can tear them up or use them to light cigars—the OPA won't mind.

definitely, OPA said, until military cutbacks and increased production can balance civilian supply and demand. Price Administrator Chester Bowles said that “right now it's impossible to say just when all civilian buying restrictions can be ended forever,”

Military Cutbacks

Chiang's move may reflect rising tension between ‘the national government ‘and the Chinese Communists who want the Japanese in areas adjacent to their territory to | surrender to them. Soviet forces in Manchuria were advised of the Jap-~| anese surrender, but there was no indication that they had halted their advance which was rapidly closing in on Harbin and other major centers of Japanese strength in Manchuria and Korea. In Moscow the Russians and Chinese signed a treaty of friendship and alliance, terms of which were not im-| mediately announced, which was expected to ease friction over their conflicting interests in Asia and over the ‘question of Chinese Com-|

munists.

The Tokyo radio broadcast a long

The Tokyo radio broadcast a long series of messages to the Japanese

|people. One provided a plan for post-war reconversion of Japan. The tone and text announcement indicated the Japanese still were harboring a belief that they were to be the masters of their own (Continued on Page 9—Column 3)

World Enters Era of "Peace In Our Time'—At Long Last!

By LYLE C. WILSON United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Aug. 15.— The world today entered a bright new era of peace. The victors at home already were on a two-day holiday binge and celebration of the victory-—a victory beyond which lie the gravest conceivable dangers of reconstruction But at long last there is peace in our time. Italy, Germany and Japan. were beaten. The axis is dead. President Truman announced

The tiny Pacific island of Ie Shima figured in the news again today. It was on Ie Shima that Ernie Pyle, beloved war correspondent was killed April 19 by a Jap sniper's bullet. A large wooden sign marks his grave. It will be on Ie Shima also that the Jap surrender delegation lands, on a flight from Japan, to be taken to Gen. Douglas MacArthur at Manila for the surrender terms.

were to be masters of their own |

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Hirohito, a .puppet now. was on the air four hours after Japan's agreement to surrender was an-| nounced. He told his people the war was over, and why. He and his premier said that our atomic bomb had blasted them to defeat. Before that, Hirohito and his advisers had detected a trend.

“The war situation,” said Hirohito, “has developed not necessarily | to Japan's advdntage. The general trends of the world have all turned against her interest. Moreover, the enemy has begun to employ a new

surrender last night at 6 o'clock Indianapolis time. There arose from the vast homelands of those who: love democracy a shout heard ‘round the world.

With the consent of the allies,

Japan, he continued, had declared war only for her own self-perservation "it being from our thoughts either to infringe upon the sovereighty of other nations or to em-

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as far as we are concerned.” Bowles said. “You can be sure that these items will go on the list the minute we hear that supplies are anywhere near big enough to go around.” With the lid off gasoline pure chases, motorists may now shout "fill ’er up!” to filling station operators ‘for the first time since rationing started on May 15, 1942. The lifting of rationing on gasoline and fuel oil was made possible by tremendous cutbacks of military purchases. Reconversion director John W. Snyder revealed earlier today that with the end of the war, the military will require 44-per cent less gasoline. And the army-navy petroleum board .had announced it will reduce its fuel oil and gasoline supplies for the ‘armed forces by about 565,000,000 gallons a month.

Quality to Improve

The petroleum industry is now operating at an all-time record rate. Not only. will civilians get more gasoline, but the quality will return soon to peacetime standards with the cutback of military requirements for aviation fuel. Removal of blue-stamp canned fruits and vegetables from the ration list was made possible by good crop prospects as well as by military cutbacks. But to remove other rationing controls “too soon,” Bowles said, would cause inconvenience and “hard feelings resulting from competitive buying ‘at the neighborhood grocery stores of the scarce foods." “I am sure everybody will agree that we can’t go overboard on things like meat, sugar, tires, and shoes until we have .good evidence that there is enough in sight to go around” Bowles said. “We are confident that consumers and businesses affected by the res airing rationing programs will continlie to co-operate in making them work until they are no longer needed.” Speeding Solutions

To keep these programs operating, Bowles asked members of the nations 5500 local rationing boards to stay on their jobs for the present.

“We will continue to need their help at least until meat, tire and shoe rationing can be eliminated," he said Tires, the first commodity to be rationed, may be among the next items to be removed from rationing. In any event, today's announcement could be depended on to make U. S. motorists happy.

he sald.

Aug. 15 (U.

“It certainly can't come too soon