Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 August 1945 — Page 3
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‘Sure- Victory’ solved, Tokyo Asserts.
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 18 (U. P.).—The Japan Political associatipn—Nippon’s Lotalitarian “sure vietory” party—has heen dissolved, Radio Tokyo said today, speculating that four new political parties will emerge in post-war occupied Japan. Another Tokyo broadcast, heard by United Press in San Francisco, said the Japanese cabinet held an “extraordinary” session »late today. Tokyo said “there are many indications of a vast and complete shake-up” in the Japanese diet. The broadcast said members of the “now defunct” Japan Political association under Gen, Jiro Minami would form one new party; Liberal diet members would form a second; the Social Masses party would com‘prise a third, and that the fourth would be composed of “young and fresh members." ‘ ‘Raise Nation’s Morale’
Tokyo said Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu “will take charge of functions between the imperial government and the high command of the occupation forces, and thereby raise the morale of the nation.” | The prediction was made by the
Party Dis-| |
Navy, Marines’
WAVE officer
newspaper Asahi, which also said Prince Fumimaro Konoye, former premier, now acting as minister without portfolio. would be vice premier to Premier Gen. Prince Naruhiko Higashi-Kuni, Tokyo gave no details of cabinet meeting. Dome agency quoted Shigemitsu as declaring his job would be “obtaining the world's sympathy and unQerstancing for Japan.”
LOCAL BRIEFS
TS aBaptiman Raymond H. Fields of Guthrie, Okla. took over his] civilian job as national public relations director for the ‘American! Legion here yesterday, 30 minutes! after he doffed his army uniform | and the gold leaf insignia of al major. ‘Fields returned to civilian life after three years and three months in the army. He formerly was managing editor of the Okla- | homa City News.
the news
! The Senate Avenue Branch of the! Indianapolis Servicemen's Centers, Inc., will celebrate its 3d anniver- | sary today and tomorrow at thel center, 219 N. Senate ave. A formal dance will be held tonight for sol-| diers and cadettes. Featured entertainers Sunday will be the Hamp-, tonian family and the Kingan Glee club.
The Sahara Grotto band and the Shortridge high school girl's glee! club will present a concert in Gar-| field park tomorrow at 8 p. m. The| glee club is directed by Mrs, Geral-| dine Clippenger and the soloist is! Miss Betty Oakes. The concert is| sponsored by the city park and rec-! reation department. |
Wrr— | A would-be purse snatcher was!
repulsed by a nail file last night in the 1900 block of S. Pershing ave. | Mrs. Elnora Shorten, 20, 2003 S. Pershing ave. reported to police that when a man seized her purse, she wielded a nail file and he “took it on the lam.”
Three boys, barely teen age, in. possession of two revolvers and a stolen car, were caught last night by State Police Officer Walter Schofleld. They will be held for Kankakee authorities, whence the car was stolen,
Cathedral high school will reopen | Wednesday, Sepi. 5 for their fall term. Registration for freshmen will be Wednesday, Aug. 22, and sophmores, juniors and seniors can register Tegister during the day on Aug. 28,
| bilized on same basis.
| points for
exceed three,
personnel, 35 points
UNDER NEW discharge sys-
tem, navy personnel is allowed one-half point for each year of age, for each month of active duty gince Sept. 1, 1939,
pendents,
one-half point
of number, be given - those sea or overseas and guardsmen will be: demoAnyone the following navy decorations, or army equivalent, is entitled to release upon | request: Medal of Honor, Navy Cross, Legion of Merit, Silver Star, Distinguished Flying Cross. Marine corps system (right) al lows one point for &ch month of service since Sept. 16, 1940, on peint for each month overseas or afloat since that date; five each decoration and bronze service star, and 12 points for each child under 15, not to Total points needed for release are shown above and at nght.
regardless Preference will Jlongest at coast
holding one of
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and 10 points for all de- .
Chinese Reds Seek "Stowdons
On Communist
By ALBERT RAVENHOLT United Press Staff Correspondent CHUNGKING, Aug. 18.—-Mao Tze-Tung, Chinese Communist leader, demanded a showdown on the rights of Communi / troops
today before acting on Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek's invitation (to a personal conference to settle China's internal crisis. Mao made known his stand in a
{telegram to Chiang as the gener-
alissimo’s underground took over control of the former Communist stronghold of Peiping and Chungking troops prepared to march into ‘Canton tomorrow to disarm Japa-
| nese troops.
29 and 30, and at night ‘on Aug. 31
land Sept. 1,
Regular classes of the Indiana Central college will begin Wednesday, Sept. 12. Registration for fresh- | men will open on Sept. 8, and upperclassmen can register on Sept. 11.
The Indianapols Hebrew,, Con- |
gregation, 10th and Delaware sts,
will hold victory and memorial serv- |
ices at 8 p. m. tomorrow. Rabbi| Morris M. Feuerlicht will officiate
Priestly, ‘Blushing, Admits
Tale of Waste
LONDON, Aug. 18 (U. P.).—Playwright J. B. Priestly, calling him-| self “blushing and stammering,” apologized in a letter to the London Times yesterday for citing ‘false allegations of waste and de-
Wronged U.S.
Priestly said he had been told
of steamrollers crushing crockery MacArthur supervises the signing| and of grand pianos being smashed.
Priestly said the army, with page ‘after page of typewritten proof,
Troops’ Rights
The Communist leader said he! would consider the question of a!
meeting with Chiang have expressed an
“after you opinion” on
to Chiang to cease attacks on Communist troops and permit them to! accept the surrender of Japanese! troops they had surrounded.
Chu said he would
Japanese held cities.
Chiang had sent his invitation to Mao ift the hope of preventing| further strife that threatened to|
Chiang’'s crack new first army of veterans of Burma was assigned the | task of taking over Canton, first of |
Communist Gen. Chu Teh's request |
ignore | .1Chiang’s order not to occupy any
burst into full civil war in China. |
CONTIN SOME WORK FOR NAVY
otffer Local Plants Given . Cancellation Orders. (Continued From Page One)
pany's alloy, contact, electrolytic condenser, vibrator and eleetronic parts division will be producing civilian goods at near capacity levels. The rectifier and special products divisions will not reach capacity production until 1046, Cain said. War contract cancellations in these departments will mean some temporary unemployment, he said, but no substantial unemployment. The company's engineers are working avidly on re-designing for civilian production the tropical dry cell battery invented during the] war and used by the signal corps, | Mr. Cain said. “We are optimistic| that this will form the basis for| substantial post-war business in the not too distant future,” he said.
Into New Fields
P. R. Mallory, which has made aircraft bearings for some time, now plans to enter the automotive and Diesel bearing fields, Mr. Cain disclosed. If this materializes, employees and manufacturing facilities made idle by the aircraft bear-| ing cancellation may be employed,
THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES,
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Swift, Giant
Navy: 428,726 men 7,695 ships Air Forces:
ships sunk damaged 953
men and 92,185 ships, and air forces
Weak in manpower and equipment, the United States was almost totally unprepared for war at the time of the Pearl Harbor atiack. military consisted of 1,588,000 men in the ‘army, 428,726 men and 7695 combat ships of all types in the navy, and 5265 combat planes, for both _army and navy, many of which were obsolete.
Strides Marked U. s. Road to Military Leadership
Air Forces:
Army casualties:
Navy casualties: 9 / 103 ships lost Tie ed te Aug 19) a : Army: 287,752 Navy: 47,100 199 ships lost
actions: RAE Its
At the peak of ils strength this year, it consisted of an army of 8,300,000 men, a navy of 4,036,901 of 88,776 first line army and navy combat planes. Graph above shows the incredible increase in less than
four years, according to figures from the war and navy departments and official publications.
Today's casualty report lists one | Indianapolis corporal who died in| | France. DEAD
| he said. Mr. Cain said an analysis of possible 1946 business shows that | volume and employment will be|
| size. When the war is officially clared ended, pre-war restrictions on hours of work for women in Indiana factories and for all jobs will be in force. again, Charles W. Kern, state labor commissioner, pointed out today. Two ‘acts adopted by the 1943 legislature and re-enacted in 1945 to permit full use of womanpower during the war emergency, end at the war's end, which will be either the President's proclamation or an action of congress, he said.
Labor Law Provisions
Provisions of laws which become effective are: 1. Women 18 years old and over may not be employed in any capacity for the purpose of manufacturing between the hours of 10 p. m. and 6 a. m., except that any manufacturing industry which operates two shifts of not more than eight hours each and not more than five days a week may employ any womjan 18 vears old or over between {hours of 6 a. m. and 12 midnight. (The temporary wartime law pro- | vides that women 18 and over may [be employed at any hour of day.or| { night.) 2. No boy between the ages of] {14 and 16 and no girl between the ages of 14 and 18 may be employed in any gainful occupation, other than farm labor or domestic service or as-a caddy or a carrier of newspapers more than eight hours |in one day nor more than 48 hours
[in ahy one week, nor more than six.
days in any one week, nor before '6 a. m. nor after 7 p. m. of any day. (The temporary wartime law provides that girls between the ages of 16 and 18 may work at “non-haz-‘ardous” occupaticns intl 10 p. m. | End of the war, Mr. Kern said, will not immediately affect another wartime law, permitting the issu~ ance of conditional chauffeurs’ licenses to boys 16 and 17 years old. | This statute, enabling such boys to
'the big Chinese cities surrendered operate light delivery trucks of not
by the Japanese.
| Canton is the largest strictly | Chinese city in south China captured Hy the Japanese. It is exceeded in size in that area only by Ine former British crown colony | Hongkong. It yas occupied by — (enemy Oct. 21,
| The tn cities of Shanghai and .Peiping also probably soon will be entered by Chinese troops. possibly flown in by American planes. + | Undekground radios said Chinese | victory celebrations had begun in| [both cities without Japanese in- | [ter ference. The formal surrender of all | Japanese forces in China probainy will be sighed at the Chihkiang air | base in western Hunan province | | immediately after Gen. Douglas |of a general surrender. Generalissimo Chiang Kai- Shek | this morning ordered Gen. Yasuju Okamura, supreme Japanese com-
struction by the United States had shown the report to be ground- |mander in China, to send his emis-
army. Priestly admitted his lacked any basis of solid fact and said a group of “large American | officers, amiable but firm, descended | upon me” and demanded explana-| tion for the statements ade at a) Labor party rally on June 24. |
“The American officers, heads |
held high, leave the court without Lawrence Township Women's Republican| Gertrude C. Gentry, oh, i St. Vincent's, |
a stain on their characters, but also leave me blushing and stam-| mering in the dock,” Priestly added, Priestly in his speech had cited charges that the U. 8. army burned sheets and blankets and smashed crockery ang grand pianos upon evacuating a hospital site, —Priestly's letter said in. part: . “Enter rumor painted full of tongue,” says Shakespeare. This old and very artful deceiver seems to have done very well out of us during these last few months, “I plead guilty on one count myself. This is in the matter—to give it official title—of ‘alleged destruction of United States army prop- | , erty.’ . “I had heard rumors for weeks that the Americans were feeding great bonfires with everything from blankets to bicycles.”
TWO U-BOATS PL MISSING, LONDON SAYS
LONDON," Aug. 18 (U. P.).—~The surrender of the German submariné =977 in the River Flap to Argen-
tin leaves two U ts unacLO! nted for, naval fuarters aid}
These sources assumed that the and its crew ultimately will d to the allies,
less, He ended with: “Let us greet ‘believing such nonsense about them!
land then with a a cheer.”
saries to Chihkiang rather than to
“rumors” the U. S. first with a ‘sorry’ for |the smaller airfield at Yushan in
i Kiangsi | directed.
province = as originally
IN INDIANAPOLIS
EVENTS TODAY
eiub, picnic meeting, afternoon, res dence of Mrs, Noble Winton, 42d st -
slate rd. 67
EVENTS TOMORROW
Plainfield Boys School band, versity park Sahara Grotto band and chorus, 8 p m,, Garfield park open-air theater Pike gounty reunion, J10:30 a. m., Garfield park. '
3 p.m, Uni
BIRTHS Girls AT ST. FRANCIS—Ollie AT CITY-—S8toughton, Margaret Brooks, Effen, Alvera Burnell . AT COLEMAN — Eu he, Nancy Hibbs; Roy, Ernestine Washbur AT METHODIST—Charles, ®porothy Fields; Earl, Evelyn, Halbe; Maxwell, Esther McCoy; Robe .. Mildred MeGinty: RayOn, Anite YWalker; James, Lorene t AT ST. *VINCENT'S— Thomas, Lucy Anderson; Wilford, Mary Jane Gre SY AT HOME—George, Mary Cork, 2 Ww. Ray; John, Lucile Richardson, 42 Cora; Roger, Mary Rumery, 306 N. Dorman; Lutits, Rosemary Stamatkin, 122 N. Pel-
nt. AT "EMHARDT — Clarence, Helen Bray;
Victor, Theodora Jordan; William, Vondell Swindell; Owen, Sarah Young,
Boys Janice
Dorothy Riggs
HT. Balley, Walter, Raith Ollan OLEMAN William, Grace Bushelle; A Mary Johnson; John, Bertha
Schmutte. AT METHODIST — Oliver. Bétty Cates; H . Harold, Emma Ravmond. Lillian Rice; Emerson, Doroth ith, AT BT. VINCENT '&Grova, ‘Anna Ilich; Fou, Elsie Plunkett HO yimore, Katherine Longelin, le Hainer,
Law;
Evans, Mattie Tutl, 030 AT - "EMBARDY.-Dovaid, Maud Pace,
gy L. Fo ‘36, a - — su
Onvil Garner, 71, at 2308 N,.
Nora Tanner, at City, hypertension sarcoma James McCoy, 178, at hemorrhage. Emma L. Harvey, 76, at chronic myocarditis, Morris Cleveland Little, 61, at Webster, mitral insufficiency Clarence Landon Burns, 71, at 1536 Prospect, arterioslerosis. James Keith Shaw, 8 at Riley. infectious diarrhea, ‘Charlie Hancock, 75, at 345 cardio vascular Vuchko Petkovich, 67, at coronary occlusion Joseph J. Cain, 53 at Veterans, nephritis. John D. Reed, 83, at 1406 Castle, car-
cino Lillie ‘McGinty. carditis John Edward Branstetier, 65, cerebral hemorrhage. Ollie .Maddox Staggs,
noma, Paul John TFewell, 55, at Methodist, branchopneumonia Fred A. Henning, 49, at Methodist, monary embolism. William Clone
Ear weedy, 75, at Methodist, obstruction.
Long, 2133 Webb,
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Indiana
Methodist,
at Long,
East,
obstruction,
erbie, jsterioacisrasia. Brenda Jean at 6202 Haverford, tuberculous es is, Hattie B. oT ins, 178,
at 1119 Evison, carcinom Charles 8. *Pisher, 63, at 5225 w. Morris,
carcinoma. Freida Howell, 54, at 4336 BE. Minnesota,
carcinoma.
ton, rebral’ hemorrhage. August CPrederick Cordes, 81, at 123 W.
33d. carcinoma Joseph Mgr, 77, at Methodist, 62. at 1045 8. Ti
carditis. Millie Mae Langley, nois, a myocarditis, Smith Kelly, 79, at St. noma. Pauline P. Bruner, 68, at City, a .
cerebral
55. at 2534 E. 25th, myo78, at City, pul53, at Long, carclintestinal
Mary Josephine Ishmel, 73, at City, bowel James Harry Wamscott, 61, at 517 Lock-
Claude x. Brinton, 47. at 832 N. Hamilendo-
Vinecefit's, earc-
earch Effie Afton and Peggy Van Vleet.
to exceed 1'2-ton capacity, provides that conditional licenses may be| \issued ‘which expire not later than | March 1, 1947,
GRAND JURY TO HEAR
ABOUT FRISCO RIOTS
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SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 18 {P.) —District Attorney Edmund G.! | Brown will report to the grand jury | on the three victory riots which cost 11 lives and 1000 injuries and caused
damage estimated at more than
$25,000. | Market street, the city’s principal {thoroughfare where rioting and looting occurred Monday, Tuesday land Wednesday nights, was quiet again last night as reinforced police land army and navy guards patrolled the streets. Liquor dealers in San Francisco promised city and state officials to limit packaged liquor sales to a two-hour period from 10 a. m. to noon until V-J day, when all sales will cease for two days. Bars will be closed V=J day for-48 hours. A 12th naval district order restricting naval personnel within 100 miles of San Francisco was lifted lat noon yesterday but liberties were restricted to 50 per cent petty officers and 25 per ceht non-rated men.
two and one-half Mallory's pre-war |
de- |
girls in|
Cpl. Cecil H. Whalin, 1407 Lawton st., in France.
DEAD—
Cpl. Cecil H. Whalin, son of Mrs. Hazel Cassady, 1407 Lawton st., died July 15 in Orange, France. His mother has not received any details on the cause of death. A member of the 749th tank battalion, Cpl. Whalin spent 194 consecutive days in combat and his batfalion traveled more than 2000 miles across France and Belgium’ into Germany. He enlisted in January, 1943, and has been overseas since February, 1944, Cpl. Whalin attended schools]
{in Brownsville, Ky.
His brother, Pfc. Roy Whalin, was killed in action on Luzon | June 12. Survivors besides his’ mother, in-| clude his father, Wilson Whalin, | Marion, Ky.; three sisters, Miss Goldie Whalin and Miss Laverne Whalin, Indianapolis, and Mrs. Elsie | Johnson, Louisville, Ky. and two brothers, Charles and Clyde, In-
dianapolis. 2 x2 =n
'HONORED—
Capt. Edward Boyer, husband of | | Mrs. Gladys Boyer, Thdianapolis, | {won the bioaze star medal fcr| heroism in the battle for Peleliu lisland. Ie administered firsy aid to a wounded man whi le under in-
What Are Japs Hoping to Gain By Peace Stall?
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stolen art treasures in salt mines, for example. Are the Japs doing the same thing? o ” . THE NAZIS who were connected with such international cartels as | 1. G. Farben tried to hide their official documents. But our men found them in beer taverns, in a monastery, in a memento box beneath heirloom silver, buried in gardens and packed in stray box cars. The Japs. by their stalling, | have given their industrialists time to hjde whatever they think | should be hidden. The Japs themselves once experimented with atom-smashing. Could their scientists be "using this interval to destroy their apparatus, and tuck away reports on their findings? Have their laboratories produced any other secret weapons they might like to hide?
” un ® THIS stalinz gives some Jap leaders time to lose themselves among the millions of plain eitizens. Remember how the Nazis tried to escape in this manner? Himmler was disguised and had phony papers when caught. The trouble in Japan in this regard might be even worse, for we say we “can’t tell one Jap from another.” Is it not possible that Japan was harboring some Nazi war criminals and scientists?
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COULD the delay be used to destroy the Japs’ .new airplanes, with the hope that the blueprints might be used as the starting point for another war? Remember the Nazi were‘wolves? The Japs could use this stalling time to organize their own underground.
By BETTY SHERRITT More than 300 convalescent soldiers watched the lights dim. and the curtain rise on their second workshop production, “My Sister Eileen,” at Camp Atterbury last night. Crowding themselves little barracks-like building wounded men from colonels to privates turned “first nighters.” The workshop theater, operated by and for patients of Wakeman hospital, began this summer with the the musical comedy, “Hi Yank.”
Wounded Men in Cast
Last night wounded veterans from Normandy to Leyte, now recovering at Atterbury, made up 90 per cent of the cast, which handed in a near professional performance, Enthusiastically received by their khaki-clad audience were the stars, two professional New York actresses,
__ Hoosier talent was present, 00.
into the}.
“| three-act “comedy, weeks, according to its producer
Atterbury Patients Applaud Buddies in 'My Sister Eileen’
feave—of—absence—from—the First Presbyterian church at Martinsville, took part of Sherwood, the girls’ father, Rev. MacDonald, a naval veteran of world war I, has been an army | chaplain 19 months. Soldiers Experienced
The soldier-actors were not without experience. Spme have starred | in college plays, others have done | radio and stock work, and a few plan to make the theater their post-war careers. t “My Sister Eileen,” the current will ‘run two| and director, 1st Lt. Willlam W.| Merrill. A new production is to be given every month, Lt. Merrill said, with!
tresses imported each time. Main- | stay of the casts, however, will al- | ways be the veterans themselves. Choice for next month's performance will Jropany be either “Kiss
Hoosier Heroes: Local Man [TWO LOSE CASH AS | Is Reported Dead In France| HOLDUPS CONTINUE
some professional actors and ac-
‘Ere Don't Scare The King's 'Orses
LONDON, Aug. 18 (U. P.).—At« taches at Buckingham palace toe day asked the public not to throw paper streamers at the royal carriage during. the royal family’s drive to St. Paul's cathedral for a peace thanksgiving drive Sunday, The announcement said the royal horses were not used to the American habit of celebrating with streamers and showers of papers and might become fright« ened.
ESCORT CARRIER IS HIT BY JAP PLANE
Police today investigated new { robberies and holdups in a continu-| ation of crimes which have plagued | {law enforcement officials in the past | several weeks, Arthur Roseberry, 48, of 1201 Ba- | {con st., reported to police that early |
this morning two men entered the filling station of the Site Oil Co. | 1111 W. Washington st., at which he | is attendant, and forced him to] ride in a car with them to White! river, The men took his money | changer and $52.30. While waiting for a Riverside jtrolley at Indiana -ave, and New * WASHINGTON, Aug. 18 (U. P.), { York st. last night, William H. Whit-| —The escort carrier Sangamon, {ney, 77, of 1447 Montcalm st., was! which has seen service from North “strong-armed” by. two men who|Africa to Okinawa, was knocked took $100 from him. out of action by a Japanese suicide A man lurking in the shadows of | plane, the navy revealed today. la garage at 36 W. 30th st., threat-| The converted tanker, one of the | ened him with a tire tool, Julian|first of the navy's “baby flattops,” Eight Indianapolis men, members| ware, 23, of 322 S. Capitol ave. told [suffered casualties of 12 dead, 13 of the 320th bomb group of the 9th alice. Ware said the man told|missing and 18 wounded. She was air force in Germany, are privi-ipjm he was waiting for “the’ man swept by raging fires for five hours, leged to wear an oak leaf cluster|gity the money.” He fired two| The action took place off Kerama
fon their distinguished unit badge. sh : : y “|shots at the man, Ware reported. |Retto, near Okinawa, at 7:33 p. m, They have twice received the high lon May 4.
est citation the President can award
Be nt 'HONORS FOR DE GAULLE
The men are T. Sgt. Cleo Homrighous, 1510 N. Colorado ave.;” 8.| WASHINGTON, Aug. 18 (U. P). ot. James Doneff, 1512 N. Meridian|{_The state department announced : Sgt. Blaine Farkus, 712 Arnolda | (o4ay that President Truman will ave. Sgt. Hubert gallaghen i receive Gen. Charles De Gaulle at Cenighnial Si} Sst. Frank HanieYjine White House with full military Boats, 1802 Ruckle st.; Cpl. Robert | honors when the president of the Cain, 1129 S. Senate ave, and Cpl.| French provisional government ar-|
Harlan Dillahy, 522 E. Merrill st. rives next Wednesday.
Cpl. Cecil H. Whalin , . , died in France.
tense enemy fire and then him to safety. o n 2
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SOONG, TRUMAN CONFER WASHINGTON, Aug. 18 (U. P). —Chinese Premier T. V. Soong conferred with President Harry 8S. Truman for 90 minutes today and then visited Secretary of the Treasury Fred M. Vinson, Secretary of State James F. Byrnes sa§ {in on the White House conference,
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Vol. 4—No. 6
Dear Fellows—
The home folks celebrated final victory with utter abandon and in traditional Hoosier style. . . This was it and every emotion gave way in wild celebration. . It seems that "all Ine dianapolis headed for that traditional place for celebrations— Monument Circle—when the news was flashed that peace at last had come for . sure, . The occasion ~~. attracted. the most rousiy ing, riproaring downtown . pedestrian and traffic jam in the city's history, It was a hysterical, historical victory spree. . « . The celebration actually started in the wee hours of the morning on Tuesday when word was flashed that a Jap surrender would be forthcoming. . “The heart of the U. S. A” really gave out, and how, : . ~ Literally hundreds of youngsters and men and women, some grey-haired, tossed caution to the winds and jumped headlong Into the Monument Circle pool. Most of them fully clothed, too; however, many streamlined bathing suits were evidenced. . Finally at about 6:30 a. m. the police succeeded in erecting barricades at the street entrances to the Circle to keep off traffic. . . It's only a miracle that kept the Speedway-minded drivers from running over the crowds in the early hours of celebration.
Aug. 18, 1945
hotel marquees became cheering stands. , ; . It seems as though all Indianapolis was downtown, half came to celebrate hilariously and the other half came to see other people celebrate. . . . It was truly an exemplifica« tion of a democratic celebration of free people. . . . Free at last from a terrible war,
Saturday
Bulletin!
As this issue of “What's Cookin'?" goes to press—the Japanese number is finally up—and PEACE has come to bless mankind.
“What's Cookin'?” has been such a deep source of pleasure and satisfaction to thousands upon thousands of our boys all over the world (We received a “ton” of letters—some of them so filled with appreciation and thanks—as to leave us humble) —that our course Is crystal clear!
“What's Cookin?” will contigue to be published as long as our boys are on foreign soil. It will continue to bring the Grand Old Home Town to them—wherever they are!
It will continue to appear—until it says “Greetings to you all—Glad to see you back—Mister!™
The Editors.
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The Whistles Blew and Blew—
The climax of the impromptu victory hullabaloo came at 6 o'clock Tuesday evening simultaneous with the President's surrender announcement. . . . Like the starting pistol at a ‘track the real celebration was instantaneous iw Church bells rang, factory whistles blew, fire sirens rang out, and auto horns tooted with drivers sitting on their’ horns, some of them literally. And to add to the din of the celebration came a cloudburst with lightning and thunder. . . . Celebrants, drenched to the skin, ignored the downpour and surged through the streets, laughing, sobbing, yelling. . . . Soaking wet celebrants didn't let puddles stop them, when wet shoes became a nuisance, many simply took them off and went barefooted and once again the Monument Circle pools looked like the Riviera. . . . Soldiers and sailors np longer felt the necessity of maintaining their military dignity and large numbers were in evidence babefooted and disheveled, . . .° The Claypool hotel lobby was turned into a8 community‘ sing when a soldier began playing the piano there. . . Many of the woud fos, Seike Bosiey Muster
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First World War 1l Parade— Hundreds of world war II veterans marched in their first public parade on Thursday afternoon in the official Victory parade, one of the biggest ever organized in Indianapolis... . . Churches on Tuesday and Wednesday were crowded to overflowing with special services held by all denominations, Protestant, Catholic and Jewish. Many home-towners unable to withhold their gratitude for the war's end prayed in the first church they came to regardless of its creed. . . . A two-day holiday was declared with all banks, stores, factories and offices closed. With the lifting of gasoline rationing the city streets were jam-packed with automobiles. . . . By Governor's order all taverns were closed for 30 hours. . . . American Legion officials immediately started laying plans for .a large-scale convention . next November in Chicago. . . . The roar of the Speedway will again reverbrate throughout Indianapolis next year; Eddie Rickenbacker announced that the race would be on and plans are under way to put the track and stands into shape before the winter sets in. . Simultaneous with Rick's announcement Wilbur Shaw. the biggest
meet
‘money-maker in Speedway history, said he