Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 August 1945 — Page 2

' .. By HENRY SUPER United Press Staff Correspondent: i SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 17— Vice Adm, Takijiro Onishi, chief

minister in committing hara-kiri to atone for his nation's defeat. The. official Japanese news agency reported he took his life at ! 3 a. m, yesterday in his official

| “Ever convinced of final victory, you fell . gallantly as human | bullets. But that conviction | finally hasn't been fulfilled. With

. ‘of the naval general staff—who is wredited by Tokyo with having priginated Japan's Suicide air force ~-has followed the Japanese war

dressed “To the ‘spirits of the | ment for all you candidates and members of the special. attack | members of the bereaved.” corps” which said: Onishi’s suicide followed by less

residence after leaving a note ad- | my death, I aspire to make atone- |

than 48 hours that of War Minister Gan. Korechika Anami. Thus both the Japanese army and navy have “atoned” for their failure to win the war for Emperor Hirohito. Circumstances . suggested that { Onishi may have been elevated to | chief of the naval general staff

| {

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

lip Navy Chief Of Staff Commits Hara-Kir

especially for the honor of hara- | naval general staff, however.) kiri. He previously had been | - Still Another Japanese officer— listed only as vice chief of staff, | Lt. Gen. Kiyotomi Okamoto, Japwith Adm, Soemu Toyada as chiet. = anese military attache to Switzer- | land—committed suicide at Zur-

ich. yesterday, but Japan's defeat

Perhaps Toyada was considered too valuable to be sacrificed. { (Another Domei dispatch, di~ | rected toward Europe, referred to

mass suicide first anticipated. Onishi as still vice chief of the |

SHORT SHORTS

THE WORLD—

ONDON, Aug. 17 (U, P.) —There will be absolutely no press cen-

JAPS' ENVOY TO ARRIVE SUNDAY

‘MacArthur Orders Peace

wD : : sorship when Hermann Goering and Mission Speed Up. other accused Nazi war criminals go (Continued From Page One) on trial for their lives in Nuernberg : : : next month, regardless of what em- | “set the imperial mind at ease by | barrassing diplomatic secrets Hitler's confirming the imperial will” fallen aids may reveal. This was an-| ‘Cease Fire' Order | nounced today by U. S. Supreme; ,. (ho came time, Japanese gen) Court Justice Robert Jackson, Amer- ory) headquarters notified Mac- | fcan co-prosecutor in the forthcom-| sytpyr by radio that members of|ig trials, the emperor's family had left by | ARIS ._ |plane for Manchuria, China and | PARIS—A foreign office Spokis- |p 01," 1144. Gliing. to Inform Jap. | "rr Galle ua iit visit New ‘anese forces there of Hirohito's

| cease-fire order. York, Chicago, and Canada as | + i - well as Washington during his 10- | Tokyo said Gen. Yasuji Okamura,

: : |supreme Japanese army commander day trip to confer with President 3p China, had notified GeneralisTruman {simo Chiang Kai-shek that his OSLO—German ammunition be- forces had ceased hostilities against ing loaded aboard a lighter in Oslo China, but still were being attacked harbor exploded today, killing andiin some sectors by Chinese troops. injuring an undetermined number! Okamura said he chose to believe of persons. The explosion rocked the that Chiang had not ordered such gitv. There were many casualties| “unlawful” Chinese acts and warned | among the German troops who were that his forces might “take action doing the loading. | for self-defense.” !

GREAT CROWD

War Veterans Cheered in Victory Procession.

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Af LONDON—The Prague radio said {got task of his new government INg In the center of the street. that Czech military authorities re-| vould be to sign the peice terms But while adults beamed happily, cently caught a band of 37 German, rfi]l the requirements of the youngsters screamed and blew | werewolves" in whe Broumoy dis- | potsdam declaration. horns and the tiny tots looked a trict and that military Se Other Developments little bewildered, there were Taany were gradually purging the | Other developments in the fast. | eRe to remund everyone of the

gi otherh, {breaking Pacific situation included: PF ol viclary. * LONDON—The Norwegian in- | 1. Japan formally asked Mac"formation service reported that Arthur to halt the Russian offena firing squad had executed Rei- [sive in Manchuria on the ground dar Haaland, the first Quisling [that it was making Japanese comwar criminal sentenced to death pliance with a cease-fire order difby Norway's supreme court. ficult. Tokyo said the Soviets were

approaching a point west of inPEARL HARBOR—Army bombers |... ia)ly_jmportant Mukden after, » mining the Chinese coast and the

: an indicated advance of 250 miles. | Yangtze river tied up the Japanese

purple heart for wounds, many a mother brought a handkerchief to a tear-dimmed eye. And then, sit{ting straight in his wheelchair was a Negro veteran of the famed Buf-| falo division, Camp Atterbury trained. | Knew Victory’s Cost

His chest was coverad with cam-|,

Demonstrate Latest in Plane Control

A TAA pilot flying “blind” . . . he madg a perfect landing.

PARADE DRAWS |

Premier Higashi-Kuni said the lined the walks—they were march- |"

- Many a soldier parading wore the | =

John A. Hilton, CAA control tower operator . .. he “stacks” planes.

A Show Stresses Destiny

7 /

chief’ of the naval general staff May 29, 1945, succeeding vice Adm, Jisaburo Ozawa, after commanding Japanese army and

_ FRIDAY, AUG. 7,

i To ‘Atone’ Fo

IRA fo --

1945

% 1 La - dirsetor of the general affairs buéau of ‘the aircraft ordinance

" headquarters -in the munitions ministry,

“I-still has not brought the wave of |

He served as chief of staff of the Japanese combined fleet in 1939 and in 1942 was director of the general affairs department of naval aviation headquarters,

land-based planes in the PE pines. | He became a | May, 1943, and fro

| | |

miral in ovember of

Victory Horn Tooters” Run

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[who heads ndianapolis traffic | bureau, repefted that the influx of [traffic yesterday into the downtown jarea wis the biggest that he had ever, seen, Local authority was {augmented by the addition ce Jduxiliary police for the two-day round of revelry. City police had their ' greatest difficulty with motorists whose cars stalled in the downtown area due | to batteries going dead. It seems | that Marion county motorists, horn- | happy over the V-J celebration, had | tooted themselves out of transpor|tation and batteries went on the blink. State police reported an unprece{dented amoun} of reckless driving | The situation was most dire in the | Lakes region where motorists had |gone out to fish after the ban was | lifted.

Supplies Near at Hand Highway troopers had difficulty {with moterists who forgot that while the tanks were full, the tires were worn, The nine police posts | throughout the state reported that |ditches from one end of the state to the other were lined with cars | with flat tire and empty gas tanks,

Local petroleum distributors said | everything was fine and dandy on {the demand situation. The only | difficulty lay in the fact that dealers could not be supplied. Crews | were off for the most part Wednes- | day.

’ 2. Japan admitted that Japanese portation system so thoroughly |j),;es attacked some 12 allied! paign ribbons. One leg stopped at the enemy was denied vital war 7") supplies from her stolen South Pakific empire, it now can be re-

vealed,

PRAGUE—Eduard Benes, former president of the league of nations, said that the defeat of the axis powers has rot yet restored peace to Europe and probably will not for years. He said: “The consequences of this second world war will be more far-reaching than Jhose of the first one.”

JHE UNITED STATES—

: SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — The patince of onue Springfield ‘taurant’s diners has been rewarded. Restaurant Operator Paul Graham-—grateful for the loyalty of his steady patrons through meatless and butterless days— dooted the bill for more than 1000 free meals yesterday.

NEW WEAPONS ARE REVEALED

“A “Victory Sunday” service will

be held at 10 a. m. Sunday at the : (Central Avenue Methodist church. Super - Super - Bomber One Of Developments. ~

The Rev. F. Marion Smith, pastor, (Continued From Page One)

(will speak on “Central Peace Time.” {Others on the program include M.

K. Johnson, R. L. Klausmeier, and| . Robert H. Burton. which a country's major . cities

{might be destroyed overnight by | : (an. ostensibly friendly power.” Band concerts are scheduled at 2. Remotely guided missiles cap-

two city parks Sunday. The Plain-| i able of hitting targets a mile square fleld boys’ school band will play in or less “at any part of the world

University park at 3 p. m., and the y » Sahara Grotto band and chorus from IY yas x tue wotla: planes {will present a program at the Gar- traveling faster Tm sound (ap-

| field park open air theater at 8 p. Mm. | roximately 700 miles an hour).

2 . |Against these and against guided SOVIETS ‘SLAY | missiles the only defense would be we | {out and destroying them “in the WITHOUT MERCY’

missiles automatically seeking them jair, or the stratosphere, or the

4. Perfected communications beween air and ground making ‘possible highly intricate maneuvers by piloted planes or pilotless missiles.

Japs Implore MacArthur to Speedy Invasions

Stop Russians. 5. Development of airborne force |techniques so that campletely (Continued From Page One) equipped armies could be landed {“at "any point in the world in a matter of hours.” “If another aggressor rises 1o strike the peace-loving nations.” Arnold said, “it will be with things

| ionosphere.” it

counter-attacking rather.than halting resistance. Radio Khabarovsk, voice of the Soviet Far [Eastern . command, broadcast a new call for Soviet ad- | like tiiese that he strikes.” vances some three hours after ~ Arnold said new weapons already: Tokyo sent the note to MacArthur in existence, in addition to the “Our offensive is continuing,” atomic bomb, make it absolutely esKhabarovsk said. “Your orders are sential that this country continue to advance. Forge ahead until the intensive scientific research while Japanese imperialists are forced YW maintaining strong and far flung air {lay down their arms and surrender bases. into your hand. . .. He disclosed these new weapons: “We call on you to avenge the, 1—A super-super bomber with a death of your comrades. Kill with- range two and a half to three times out mercy Make sure tlie beasts greater than the B-29 Superfortres:. ‘don't get away. Pursue theg with- {He said it could cover all Asia, the

time yesterday, but pointed out that

had issued cease-fire order. 3. The official Japanese Domei

news agency said Japan has made

the incident occurred four hours {before Hirohito

transports which approached eX- the knee. H tremely near the coast of the home

island of Shikoku at noon Tokyo,"

ictory. For a parade formed on t

Under sunny ies they

ds, soldiers,

e knew what went yite lL

Of City in A

{ days’. [Even to the casual observer it isi conditions closer to that experi- of gas. notice, the people got their/money’s clear that Indianapolis is headed worth. stood for an hour as ba 0 the state guard, veterans’ organiza- ests turning more and more to the the air transportation control divi- e tions and their auxjfaries streamed city's facilities for establishment Sion of the CAA.

toward a great aviation destiny. With commercial aviation inter-

ibutors oui, respite. Cut off the enemy's to the ways of retreat save one—into the

viation's Future .l their trucks scu

local outlets that had been depleted grave. Make sure he does not get] : But the public just wasn't sway alive.” enced under good weather condi- content with standard gasoline. | z nA | tions,” asserted Glenn Gilbert of They wanted the premium grades. | Jo to Lay Down arms | Washington, D. C. He is chief of For the greater percentage of driv- Sah Massiial eam ya. rs, it was ethyl gasoline or nothing SMUEVSKY. € : > a ¥ ho "8 | Eastern armies, ordered the Jap-

|anese Kwangtung army defenders of

o On Thursday, the big ete

at all.

Mr. Gilbert explained to a group City Fortunate

Pacific, and the Atlantic from pres-

ent U, S_k ses. Thus far it is nameless. 5 | 2. A ro®ket that is drawn auto-

matically to its target by the 'presence of heat, light, or metalyn. the target area. Bombs by Television 3. Bombs guided by television apparatus operated by a man in a

res-,

arrangements to return the occupied Portuguese half of Timor isJand northwest of Australia to Portugal. Another Hara-Kiri 4. Tokyo said Vice Admiral Ta- { kijiro Onishi, chief of the Japanese naval general staff, had committed

| : It seemed

spontaneity. men drove

things.”

anyone who wanted to get in. It's municipal airport, a ‘heavy flow of |

lines to bow at youngsters. Indian-'dent at yésterday's demonstration costumed men whooped it up and py the civil aeronautics administraplayfully scalped the “pretty young tion.

of operations, peacetime will bring! bins -S to local airports, especially the Of air line and aviation company t a officials, as well as newspapermen Horse- | traffic. jand writers from national publicaA foreshadowing of this was evi- | tions and news services, that the new methods permit landing four ing the higher priced brand. times more planes during bad Three of the biggest local dis- | weather. {tributors reported that sales had Instrument Landing been ‘upped’ approximately 20-25

to be’a parade of almost Motorists, steeped in the wartime

tradition that the best gasoline

Was marked. {would give the longest run, fre-

eir mounts to the side- |

Already the center of the government's experimental opera-

quently passed up the stations lack-

{Manchuria and Korea to cease all yperations, lay down their arms and | surrender by noon Moscow time Monday. Soviet troops in turn will cease military operations after the Japanese begin laying down their arms, Vasilevsky said.

plane 15 miles away. And “the time is coming.” he said, “when we will not have any men in bombers; they will be directed from distant bases until they approach their targets, when they will ‘home’ on their targets automatically.”

surrender. /

5—A new Japanese cabinet heated by Prince Naruhiko Higashi-Kuni, a

suicide at his official residence yes-| 4 terday — the second top-ranking} /Spongored by the 11th district of {was the scene of a CAA review of Japanese officer in three days tofy. American Legion, the parade advanced blind-fying techniques. commit -hara -kirl after. Japansi wi) orobably go down in history as| The day-long demonstration was i : ) followed by a dinner in the Colum-

{the “Big Show” ending a bigger| | show, the war,

Place in History

| |

As the last unit of the parade

cousin of Hirohito, was sword in al wont yy and the noise began: to|

tions in aviation, municipal airport |

bia club under sponsorship of the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce aviation committee.

The thrust to the western approaches of Mukden apparently was made by Marshal Rodion .¥. Malinoveky's Trans-Baikal army, which previously had outflanked Mukden 1some 300 miles to the southwest. The southern spearhead of the trans-Baikal army was last re-

CAA and army air force pilots, per cent. operating the demonstration planes,' Indianapolis motorists were more {landed them three minutes apart by fortunate than their driving broth|instrument alone, their ‘plane ‘ers in many parts of the country. windows having been closed from This city is the site of three pipeview. Present methods, using lower [line terminals which assure a frequency radio transmission-—sub- | greater supply than most towns of

Aruold said the United States inust maintain adequate bases In the Pacific. He said one chain of bases would be necessary extending from San Francisco along a line through Honolulu, Midway, Wake ‘and Marcus island to Tokyo. Tokyo ‘must be retained as a base for some

ject to static and poorer recep- the same size are accustomed to

450 miles!

ROCKVILLE, Ind.—Andrew 8. , Brown died from injuries received when a one-horse wagon ; he was driving was struck by an automobile,

" NEW YORK-—Ira Mosher, pres: *fdent of the National Association of Manufacturers, said that an N. ‘A. M, survey indicated that fewer ‘than 1500000 industrial workers would be unenmiployed during the

ported at Changpeh, southwest of Mukden and 125 miles! from a junction with Chinese Com-

time, he said. Another line of necessary bases would be from San Francisco to Honolulu, Johnston island, Saipan, Tinian and Guam and thence to Okinawa and Manila. | A third line should extend simi‘larly southward to Truk. |

'PATROLMAN SLUGGED

tion—require an average of 15 having. Standard Oil and Mara-! isles to land % plane during in- thon terminate their pipe lines in clement weather. Indianapolis while the Shell re- 3nd The planes took off at the start of fineries have a terminating pipe- Unist forces near Peiping. the trial and gathered at a fantail line at Zionsville. | Another column captured Taonan, marker at Mooresville, 10 miles from| Today, normalcy was beginning 250 miles north of Mukden and 180 the field. The planes were “stacked” [to return to a city that thirsted|miles west of Harbin, yesterday by the serial control tower opera-|to fill its gasoline parched tanks.! after beating off Japanese countertor at 1000-foot levels. The highest Indianapolis had weathered the attacks. was at 7500 feet and the lowest at!storm of the abnormal and the! 1 2500. TE tanks were full! !

the imperial palace. ; fade in the distance, a blond girl] A surprise guest at the dinner, MacArthur's call for the imme- |i red in her mother’s arms. E | Senator Homer Capehart praised diate departure of a Japdnese armi-| Blue, eyes looked out from under | the CAA, “particularly its contribustice delegation for /Manila was heavy lids. ition to aviation communications.” radioed to Tokyo in response to an “I hope to see every town in In-| / ' Let's go home mummy. enemy request for, clarification of ir ed” she said the exact duties of'the envoys. So were SOMiC 200.000 or 36 other Shows Impatience | Hoosiers. :

The supreme occupation com-| It had been a big week. mander showed increasing impa- |

Tm ana with its own airport,” the | senator declared. He expressed re{gret that bases used by American |aireraft during the war would revert to their former ownership at a time when this country's avia-

{ First Army Busy

1st!

‘seconversion period.

BECKET, Mass.—Belatedly cele- + brating the surrender of Japan,

s+ Fire Chief George J. Crochierre |

.-0btained permission from Mrs. ‘Julia Barber to burn the ruins of : her house which was destroyed : partially by fire a few weeks ago.

tience with /what appeared in many respects to be deliberate Japanese {stalling And unnecessary requests.r The Japanese sent seven messages in six/and one-half hours today. |

Japan sent her request for clarification of the mission's duties only . lafter MacArthur had consented to around wearing glider nylon tow- for two advisory councils, one com{postponement of the flight beyona ropes. [posed of private fliers and the the original deadline of today to en-| Nylon ' hose are manufactured Other of commercial interests. This

{tion operations are spreading

NT Hope for Nylons [im cwerstions a : Next December co oF conan, sate ao

C. F. Cornish, state aeronau{tics commission director, was an-

(Continued From Page One) other - speaker.

" BOSTON—The U. 8. destroyér able the enemy to “complete ar- from 30 denier, the most sheer from Would give each a “direct voice in

Ernest G. Small, honoring a late rear admiral who distinguished himself as commanding officer of the! U. 8. cruiser Salt Lake City, will be by U. 8. Secretary of State Byrnes commissioned Tuesday at the Bos-/'and MacArthur made

"ton navy yard, ROCKFORD,

Il1.—City cA meet today to discuss delaying the| opening of Rockford schools, set for| Sept. 4, on account of an infantile |

rangements.” 20 denier. A tow rope is about 1500 | helping ‘make Indiana the aviation Japan said a slight difference in denier’ when completed although state.” language between notes sent her the individual strands are finer. | Using six transport planes yesThe wartime use of nylon called |terday, the CAA demonstration exact for a heavier thread. Its use prob- proved that use of high-frequency duties of the mission obscure. ably wonldn't be too flattering. {radio transmission during blind“In any way,-we assume that the —-— flying operations speeds up the signing of the surrender terms is at 9:30 a. m. bound for south- landing of aircraft at an airport. not among the tasks of the Japanese eastern China and French Indo-| “The objective of the CAA'is to represetitative in question,” Tokyo China to notify troops of Japan's|bring travel during bad weather

the |

said.

He outlined plans!

The planes were moved down | {1000 feet at a time until the lowest {was ordered at 1500.feet to glide to the field for a landing. Radar Experiments 1 CAA already has made radar| {experiments and this equipment 1s {stored at the Municipal airport | headquarters. When it will be {ready for installation in control {towers for use in guiding aircraft, | Mr. Gilbert could not say. i Others who spoke at the dinner | !last night included Don Stuart, {director of technical development | {for the CAA; Henry I. Metz, chief! {engineer at CAA’s. experimental istation here, and Mr. Gilbert, | Lt. Col. Walker W. Winslow, air-| {port superintendent, lauded the]

OPA OFFICE HERE KEPT IN DITHER

(Continued From Page One)

I assume they're no loner needed, from Washington announcements.

| “I can see how they might be,

used in the future for meats and fats purchases—to save printing additional red stamps. This is pure speculation on my part, however,” the usually well-informed Mr. Strickland added.

Must Keep Records One thing of which he is sure,

Marshal K. A. Meretskov's | Far Eastern army advancing on] Harbin from the east captured the! railway junction of Wangching, 225 miles east of Changteh and 25 miles north of the Korean frontier, Another first army force beat off, a Japanese attempt to recapture the Korean port of Seishin, 140 miles south of Vladivostok. | In northern Manchuria, Gen.! Maxim Purkayev's 2d Far Eastern, |@rmy seized the river and railway|

BY TWO SOLDIERS

Patrolman Dennis C. Maxey, 29. of 1314 Cottage ave, is in fair condition at City hospital after having neen sluzged by two unidentified soldiers last night, according to police reports. An army sergeant told police that he saw the soldiers attack Patrolman Maxey in front of 420 W, Washington sf., and then run away. Patrolman Maxey was unable to

{town of Kiamusze, 190 miles north- | tell officers what happened.

(east, of Harbin, with the aid of the Soviet Amur river flotilla after stiff |

wz How to Live a Happier Life

Hoosier Heroes

The names of the following In-!

a Ld {CAA and the Allison division for 0 ; ; , Paralyse outbreak Wiich fee. ake surrender. The flight, originally | { though, is that low-priced shoes— djana servicemen appear on today's; He thought up an idea worth money—

43 lives. ELKHART, Ind. —After 61 years

as operator of a photographic | re- |

stiudio, Elliott M. Mudge tired today because - of the ill health of his wife,

“Your assumption , MacArT replied.

Mission to Get Terms

The Japanese mission—consisting of a single person representing the

« « is correct,” scheduled for tomorrow, was under-

taken immediately “in order to avoid any possible delay due to bad weather.” The emperor's rescript to Japa |

emperor, the government and the nese forces to lay down their arms]

{imperial general headquarters along" ST. LOUIS, Mo.—The one million With advisers from the army, navy| persons of greater St. Louis were and air without newspapers for the second |&rmistice

force—will receive

straight day today as the two eve- and take them back to Tokyo.

ning and one

morning paper

MacArthur also was expected to

as regarded as another attempt | by Japan to .end hostilities. A

Rescript Asks Discipline rescript also called

The on

suspended publication because of a answer Japan's “urgent” request for Japanese army and navy forces in strike of carriers, |intervention to halt the Soviet of- all theaters to “maintain solid Ginity |fensive in Manchuria at the earliest 2nd strict discipline in their move-! senate possible moment. However, it was ments.”

GAMBLING HERE FLARES UP AGAIN

(Continued From Page One).

operating in the open in some

the 'eScript is regarded as the most places, on the sly in others. terms from MacArthur POWerful type of imperial order.

Card games likewise are beginning

to emerge again from the clamp-|

down shell. . The largeg, and more obvious outright county gambling emporiums, however, are still dark. They were

g the Municipal airport “as|y, ... unger $350—have been re- official casualty lists:

{fine as there is anywhere in the! | | world.” y {leased from rationing, effective to- ARMY DEAD—PACIFIC REGIONS

. ,...| 8 Sgt. Robert D. Thrasher, Bloomington. | day. Dealers still must maintain Bu. a Ee hair, De WANTED STATE'S HELP IN ‘SUICIDE’

records of the number sold, how-' Sgt. Charles E. Davis Jr. Marion; Cpl ever Anthony C. Janulis, New Castle. XY a : . : ARMY MISSING—PACIFIC REGIONS We're right in the middle of the Second Lt. Donald K. Parker, Kendall-| reconversion picture,” Mr. Strick- ville. | NAVY DEAD | “OPA has a heavy load now in nan Nobbs. | (Continued From Page One) |pricing articles again for a peace- NAVY WOUNDED . iti e're try-! Marine Pfc. Richard Marion Fladder, going to commit suicide anyway ‘ime market. | Generally, > TY | sartiord City; Marine Cpl. Francis Edbecause his girl was stepping out ing to set prices somewhere Near yur Myers, DeSoto: Marine Pvt. Walter

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WASHINGTON The 20 t i bi : ee ——— : 0 begin hearings oq a bill 10|panila about eight hours to com- original message to the homeland |lian warned Sheriff Otto Petit tolstate could do the suicide job for! give President Truman unlimited'pminicate with Mosco d t ttrib ' : i wers to streamline the ted all Ww an the attributed Japan's surrender pri- clean up his -domain or he would. him po mine ¢ lederalimatter may have to be submitted marily to the introduction of the! L : ‘ fo | Later, it developed the crack-| Cosat, who lives at 3716 E. New ‘Important’ Matter “With the Soviet entry into the Governor Gates by the Marion [them to pick him up at Palmer are SMOKE SHORT | “This is a very important matter War and in view of the existing County Republican organization, Meridian sts. requiring immediate action,” a domestic and foreign situation, wel|leery of gambling's effect’ on the Detectives Wayne Baer and Dean 10 LAST FOR WHILE At the same time, the spokes- the interests of preserving fthe| ynside the city, whatever games crepancies in the boy's story, so man pointed out that Japan her- national policy and to avoid further | of chance are operating are doing he was held on a vagrancy charge | (Continued From Page One) self had notified MacArthur earlier Nt6diess disasters. so under wraps. The race wire [Of further questioning. and the slight increase we have re- could not reach troops on the Man- allied transports off Shikoku’ in the|tion discouraging to bookmakers. | CUT red at 11 p. m. Tuesday, when ceived will probably be cut back churian fronts for another six third of her messages to MacArthur. | They're struggling along with radio | Actually police had received, the resoon and go to them,” Charles|days. It said the planes “apparently|and telephone reports of race re. POrt an hour and one-half earlier. Importing Co, Inc, said diftéult’ for -the Japanese to claim that the attack occurred four hours| Indianapolis and Marlon county Of. Pisher, which looked nothing like The Smoketeria official said three|they had ceased hostilities in Man-| before the emperor's cease-fire order gampling entrepreneurs are net- hm, police sald, ‘Const imeiaflely of the major tobacco companies churia. A Soviet communique this Wes issued. |tled over rocky, unsettled conditions| d¢ciared. “That's him. week, but bad not actually raised | counter-attackirig in Manchuria, Order to reach the front line and |toward i i ; today. because, he said, other pris- ' gaming prevailing elsewhere their quota a single carton. The Japanese also admitted {n|Produce full effect” the message in the state. joners in the Jail told him he would - Bruce Hines, manager of theitheir seventh message to Mac-|5aid. “It Is earnestly requested that jonly be charged with manslaughter : Arthur—sent at 4 a. m., more than the allled forces will refrain from |ana community to feel the state po- | ment, said Haag's had received an hour after their request for his| approaching the islands of Japan|lice anti-gambling: ax. The ban afler ull th this itl i 10 per cent increase in the intervention with Russia — that|until the order will have been fully | wasn't extended elsewhere. uring Lhe case morning, six weeks, and that they might picuitess of Lie imp anily | . "Indoor recreation of the risk-tak- ice record : y troops in Man- : ing variety reportedly is readily ac-| Jude Nibla ; : ) ck fined him $50 and churia and China of the cease-fire; ENDS BAN ON GREETINGS |cogiple in other population centers! costs on the vagrancy charge. 9:30 8. m. today. . |~The government tiday removed ville, Vigo county, Lafayette, Jeff T - ’ \ } _ ) 3 ty, Lafayette, Jefler- struck during a bonfire fight at Te said 1 setond asa ire ban on congratulatory and sonville-New Albany, Ft, Wayne And | Keystone ave. and E. Washing PE i pur iy 2 aS Tokyo dL, ey : Sty 4 olf Uneoived

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udiciary committée today set Au, : h : ’ ’ 8 his | Police Superintendent Austin’ Kil- | he would get the electric chair. The yet. ko | government, | ie . | through, Washington. atomic bomb, his rescript said: down had been initiated through 'York st, called police and asked spokesman for MacArthur said. sued for peace with the four powers! electorate. Schwartz said there were two disme to smoke now tlian ever before ‘that Hirohito's cease-fire order| Japan confessed her air attack on service is still suspended, a condi-| COSat said the slugging had ocRumpf, president of the Smoketeria| This obviously - would make it caused some damage,” but explained sults. : | When shown a very old picture sent them an added amount last morning said the Japanese were “It takes some time for the said! here in view of the liberal attitude | The youth. Tevesled his deception Haag Drug Co.'s tobacco depart- Muncie was the only other Indi-|gnq wouldn't get the electric chair | members of the imperial family as. effected.” was disclosed that Cosat had a poget even more soon. order did not leave Tokyo until] WASHINGTON, Aug. 17 (U. P.). such as the Calumet district, Evans- The death of Air. Disher, who was Freeing telegrams. | smaller pons in Li ow h LA ‘

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