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mwa \/OLUME 56—NUMBER 143

FRIDAY, AUGUST

24, 1945

Entered as Second-Class Matter at Postoffice Indianapolis 9, Ind. Issued daily except Sunday

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Don’t Expect Those Post-War Dream Items Too Soon, WPB Warns

WASHINGTON, Aug. 24 (U. P.).—There's been a lot of shouting about quick termination of government controls and speedy reconversion, but it's still going to be some time before store shelves blossom out with the things you've been wanting. Chances are that this Christmas will be the best since

1942 because a lot of civilian items which went by the boards during the war will make their reappearance. But not many of these will be, in sufficient quantity to go around. And there will be still other things that will be relatively scarce. What's more, it’s going to be tough to insure equitable distribution of the newly-re-turned Prova among the goods- hungry public.

That was the summary of the civilian goods situation given today by a high-ranking official of the war production board. He expressed the hope that its meaning would be clear to those ‘‘eager-beaver” civilians who dash madly into stores and demand their dream items every time another production control is lifted. The official pointed out that there are many time-

NATIONALISTS STEP UP DRIVE TOWINPOWER

Peace Used to Feed Racial

Hatred at Meeting of ‘Rabble-Rousers.’

By EUGENE SEGAL Scripps-Howard Staff Writer

DETROIT, Aug. 24.—With the return of peace, Nationalist groups in the United States are intensifying their effort to. build political strength during the unstable post-war period by inciting racial] hatreds and discontent. . Typical of their most recent activities was the Congress of Monetary Reform organizations, held in Detroit last week-end. Details of the gatherings closed sessions became available today. The sessions were conducted at 8127 E, Jeflerson ave. This is the so-called “women’s white house,” meeting place of the nationalistic “mothers” organizations, which was described in a series of articles appearing last month in Scripps-How-ard newspapers. The monetary reform groups, through their leaders, are associated with Gerald L. K. Smith, rabblerousing head of the America First party, and former Senator Robert R. Reynélds’ Nationalist party.

Propound Disunity

1though the Detroit c¢onvention was « held ostensibly to discuss monetary reforms, the open sessions were devoted largely to propounding the distinity creed of the nationalists. dian _- ‘Speakers condemned arrangements for maintaining the peace, “international bankers” and use of the atomic bomb in bringing about Japan's defeat. At last Saturday afternoon's session, the Rev. Sam

Time-Table on

Civilian Goods

WASHINGTON, Aug. 24 (U. P.).—Here is the timetable on civilian goods supplied by a high ranking war production board official today. In few, if any, cases are the items expected to make their first appearance in sufficient quantities to meet initial demands:

ALUMINUM POTS AND PANS—Since these involve a comparatively simple industrial process, it is expected they will be among the earliest consumer needs to return to store shelves. A fairly adequate supply should be on hand by the end of October.

ELECTRIC RAZORS—These involve various components and it will take some time to assemble them before manufacture can be undertaken in sizeable quantities. At any rate, some plants which have been producing them for the army and navy will have a supply of them in retailers’ hand by Christmas.

CUTLERY—Because they were In very heavy military demand, | the reconversion problem is comparatively simple. But an extra- | heavy demand is expected not only from those seeking replacement but from those who were married during the war and will set up in housekeeping for the first time. A fair supply by October, MISCELLANEOUS ELECTRIC APPLIANCES (Toasters, Electric Irons, Waffle-Irons, etc.) —Limitation on their production was lifted last June but materials are only now becoming available, Thanksgiving ought to see some retail distribution. POTTERY—Because of war-time military demands, reconversion will be necessary, | end of October. -

QUICK HOME FREEZERS—Before the war, there was practically no manufacture of these. Some are now in production but the big hitch is that there isn't enough tin for pipes. A few thousand may be available for .Christmas,

TOYS—This is going to be the first Christmas since the start of the war that there will be a great variety. There will be plenty made from rubber, steel and wood, and this means electric trains, metal construction sets and metal wagons.

LAWN MOWERS—There will be enough to meet next spring's demands.

MEN'S SUITS—At best there will be. an “uncomfortably short supply” throughout the winter because the army took virtually all the worsteds that were available last spring and summer, the seasons when fall and winter clothing are produced. Men discharged from the army will add to the demand. MEN’S SHIRTS, UNDERSHIRTS AND SHORTS—The situation wil be the same as for men’s suits. WOMEN'S DRESSES—They will start to: appear during the early | fall, .but won't be in general supply before next spring. WPB is at‘tempting ip stimulate produdétion sf-low-gcost apparel for men, women | and children by offering priority assistance to manufacturers who are willing to produce any of 84 sorely-needed items, NYLON-—-WPB said the other day that nylon stockings ought to be on store shelves by Thanksgiving or Christmas at the latest. With

little or no Look for the flow to start by the

Hardin of the Church of Christ's |

Coming, Chattanooga, livered an address blamed Jews for troubles. The most virulent anti-Semitic

the

action of the convention, however, |

was reserved for executive sessions. |

Resolutirns adopted at these closed | meetings included one condemning | imprison |

Jews for “conspiring to loyal Americans,” another which accused them of carrying on an| anti-Christian campaign and a third ‘which praised Dartmouth college for maintaining a quota] against admission of Jewish | students.

Sedition Delegates

The 125 delegates at the convention included “mothers” leaders | from various parts of the country, | alleged seditionists and propa- | gandists. Among them were Hudson De-| Priest, Eugene Sanctuary and Ernest Elmhurst, sedition defendants; Homer Maertz, who served a prison term for smashing windows of]

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OPA ORDERS GAS, OIL | ~ STAMPS DISCARDED

WASHINGTON, Aug. 24 (U. P.. ~The OPA said today that rationing coupons aand certificates for gasoline and fuel oil may be thrown away. Gasoline ration coupons are not| needed to obtain tire purchase certificates, Neither will they help] an applicant obtain a tire certificate, OPA said. Fuel oil coupon sheets that have] been turned over to dealers and! suppliers need not be returned to! consumers and may be discarded | too. OPA Instructed ration banks to| close out all consumer and _ industry accounts -on gasoline and fuel oil so

-that-no more deposits-or withdraws

als can be or should be made,

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TIMES INDEX

17, Ruth Millett. . 14 Movies 13 | Music is Sia omics 19| Dr, O'Brien.. Max _B. Cook. 13| Fred Perkins, rossword ... 19|Radio .... Editorials .... Fashions Mrs. Ferguson

Amusements. . Anderson ,. Jack Bell .... Business .«....

13 17 17 5 13 13 vii 39 14 | Betty Pryor... 10 15| Mrs. Roosevelt 13 15| Scherrer .... 14 14 "Wm. P. Simms 14

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fair and equitable distribution of nylon hose, most women ought to | have one pair to wear at Christmas, but hardly more. WORK PANTS AND WORK CLOTHES—There is abundant capacity but it will take time to get adequate distribution. A fair quantity ought to be handy by October. SHOES—Inventories are now at their lowest point in history and they probably won't be rebuilt to meet all demands until the end of the

year. Officials still hope to get shoes off rationing by Christmas or before.

AUTOMOBILES—Won't be enough to meet demand until some time next year.. Indications are that between 400,000 and 500,000 will be turned out during the rest of this year. TIME—Chances are that Indiana will.go back to Central Standard Time. ClocKs probably will go back an hour soon after congress reconvenes next month. The President expects to ask congress to put the country back on sun time by repealing legislation under which, early in the war, clocks were advanced an hour to conserve daylight, electric power and fuel. PAPER BAGS—Increased supplies available soon.

HOURS—President Truman ordered most government workers back on 40-hour week.

Local Stores Not Equipped To Deliver Packages "Til Nov. 1

In Indianapolis today— It is still necessary for shoppers .to carry their purchases. In the day or so, salespersons have been erroneously telling customers all their | | packages can be delivered. “The craziest scramble you ever saw,” was the way Murray Morris described it. He is manager of the Merchants Association of Indian-| apolis. Pre-war service of this type cannot be resumed before Nov. 1, he the price.-ef milk at a pre-war an industry spokesman said.

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neecessar : Susi ; : y Housewives are asked to continue

| their valuable wartime practice of collecting waste fats. The national It is problematical whether local supply of fats and oils is the lowest milk companies ever return to daily | |in years, Perry Richey of the U. 8.| deliveries. Certain economies ef- |department of agriculture office] {fected during the war as a result Inere, reminded. Soap, pharma|of an every-other-day arrangement Lo have enabled the companies to hold | (Continued on Page 3—Column 8

You May Find a Maid Soon, Or Perhaps Even a Butler

By JUNE McKOWN C Diwan

Don't let your hopes rise too high (8 owen

or too quickly, but before long you may be able to have a maid or even a butler. Mrs. Guinevere Ostrander, head of the hotel, restaurant and_ domestic division of U. S. employment service, looked up from a desk swamped with’ orders for domestic aides to say business had picked up on both supply and demand in her division, Seated in rows in front of her desk, dozens of men and women waited patiently yesterday for interviews in regard to permanent positions in homes, hotels, and eat ing establishments. Mrs. Ostrander said their number las been in- ° creasing as layoffs have increased

GI Rights..,. 9! Meta Given., 15 State Deaths. Heroes 3 Roger Stuart. apts. +.» 3/Robert Taylor 22 . Indpls.. 13 Geo, Weller . 6 ou Keemle. 12| Women's News 15

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better working conditions than ever

in war plants during the last five | weeks. During the past week, there has been an average of id a day. The domestic worker is going. 0 demand and receive higher pay and

the ordnance plant on S. Holt rd. It made shell cases during the war,

DE GAULLE DENIES

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SPECULATE ON FUTURE USE OF PLANTS HERE

Government Agency Has Huge Investment in Facilities.

By ROGER BUDROW What will become of the six large government-owned war plants in Indianapolis? Will they become ghost plants? Will they be kept by the military services as “standby” facilities? Or will they be sold to private companies for peacetime use? The man in the street, thinking of the city’s future employment prospects, is beginning to ask those questions. But it is too soon—a little more than a week after Japan's surrender—to answer them, industrial and military officials said today. The government's industrial investment here includes the big plant 5 at Maywood where Allison is making jet engines, the Fall Creek and Bridgeport Brass ordnance plants, the naval ordnance plant operated by Lukas-Harold, the battery {factory operated by P. R. Mallory and the CurtissWright, propeller plant. Allison Plant Largest Biggest of these, in size and money, is the Allison-operated plant 5. It cost about $17 million to build, and covers 37 acres. Altogether, the government has about $104 million invested in that plant and a small portion of Allison's plant 3 in Speedway City. Most of that money iis tied up in equipment. The plant. is-miill: in operation, making Jet ‘engines. Allison hasn't said whether it would be interested in buying or leasing the plant, after its war job is over. Now idle, except for ‘inventorytaking, is the army-owned plant on Kentucky ave, where CurtissWright ‘made propellers up to V-J day. The building cost around $5 million and the equipment $17 miilion, Formalities clearing it for sale are expected to be finished soon, officials say. Still Doing Navy Work The navy's ordnance plant on

consuming steps between the moment a control is lifted and the goods appear for sale in retail establishments, | There are the problems of getting the producing machinery into place, assembling materials, setting up a sell« ing and distribution system. Then there are manpower and financing problems, not to mention a multitude of others.

ALL RESTRICTIONS LIFTED ON OUTPUT OF NEW CARS

They Find Adults Are Joey in Jive Era

These Weniage debs and squires had something on’ their minds besides- dates and cokes when they

WEATHER MAY

Japs Report Typhoon Has Hindered Preparation. By RALPH TEATSORTH

United Press Staff Correspondent MANILA, Aug. 25 (Saturday).—A

Arlington ave, where ILgkas-

Harold made Norden bombsights | {and other fire control mechanisms, although on | 4ised a -possibility

The , slight hitch in carrying out Gen.|

still is in operation, a gradually-reducing scale. navy expects to take over operation next month, using it for making navy manufacturing and some experimental work. How many will be employed, as civil service, is something which cammot be determined yet. Bridgeport Brass is still operating

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ANNEXATION HOPE

'Seeks*No German Territory, He Tells Press. WASHINGTON, Aug. 24 (U. P)).

—Gen. Charles de Gaulle today reof German territory, but he called |for international control of the!

the western bank of the Rhine, At a press conference at the] French embassy, De ‘Gaulle also the economic ° assistance which the United States already is He added that it} would be necessary to draw up al long-range program for reconstruc-| tion of his country. The French chief of state remarked in a jovial manner that the United States press had not been too kind in the past in their articles about French policy. This was a rejoinder to President Truman's charge to a group of French jour-

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CONTINUED PLEASANT * WEATHER FORECAST

The weather bureau today continued to be kind to Hoosiers who have enjoyed recent cool weather. The prediction was for pleasant

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slow rise in" temperatures tomorrow. 2 : After the rise, the thermometer

Tuesday. The only rain forecast in the state was occasional showers in the southern portion on Tuesday. : 500 MEN WANTED International Co. men immedia

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to. | moonlight on the water.

typhoon which delayed Japanese | arrangements for the arrival of | U, 8. occupation troops today there might be!

Douglas MacArthur's surrender program. It was noted here that MacArthur had specified that the ini-| tial landings Tuesday were dependent upon weather conditions. The Japanese advised the allied supreme commander today that the Atsugi airfields where MacArthur and U. S. airborne forces will land have been left in very muddy condition due to rainfall accompanying the typhoon. Whether the fields will dry out, in time to allow the landings to proceed as planned was not yet| known. Report New Landing Plans The Japanese reported that the allies would follow up their occupation of the Tokyo area with new air and sea landings on southern Kyushu beginning Sept. 1, the day after the scheduled signing of the Japanese surrender. MacArthur advised the Japanese | -

{today in an official communication.

that he desired Japanese munications officials to meet

coms=- | his |

Ruhr valley and French control o® |advance party Aug. 26, prepared to]

{set up telegraph and radio com- | munications. He said he wished direct wire | facilities between the supreme com-

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Led Navy Landings

By LISLE SHOEMAKER United Press Staff Correspondent A NAVAL DEMOLITION BASE, MAUI, Hawaii, Aug. 24.—The navy disclosed today the story of its! hitherto ultra-secret “wave before | the first wave’ the daring underwater . demolition men who swam ashore on enemy-occupied islands | from .the Marshalls to Borneo to| blast a path through beach obstacles and defenses for the main invasion forces: : The. husky UDT crews hit the beaches sometimes days before the invasion flotilla arrived. They wore swimming trunks and swam ashore with loads of explosives on their backs. , Their faces were guardeds by water masks, arid they wore rubber fins on their feet to help them plough through the surf. Af night

which blended with the shimmer of

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SLOW M'ARTHUR

got together Yeteriay at Sub-Deb headquarters at : Ayr, The weighty problem was_ Jarenta

Nothing like a game of bridge te remind you of parents. Left to right are Bill Eastes, 238 N. Temple ave.; Joah Kelly, 321 W. 30th st.; 26th st., and Bitsy Feezle, 2829 N, .

Seaman 2-c Harold Fryar, 28 W. Meridian st. o

ToenAgers in Breeze Huddle Agree Parents Are Mostly Hep

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Who are' they . .. parents. Yes, Indianapolis parents. . to their teen-age offspring.

BRITISH UPSET BY LEND-LEASE ENDING

Attlee and Churchill Economy Is Hurt.

By PHIL AULT United Press Staff Correspondent,

LONDON, Aug. 24.—Prime Min~| ister Clement Attlee and Opposition | Leader Winston Churchill joined today in condemning the United States’ sudden termination of lend-| lease, but both expressed hope that | means could be found of softening the blow. Attlee revealed in commons that!

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Viscount Halifax, Treasury Expert Lord Keynes and other British of-!

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BULGARIA WARNED TO AVOID ELECTION

LONDON, Aug. 2¢ (U, P), — A British foreign office spokesman warned Bulgaria again today that if her election is held Sunday, as proposed, recognition of the Bulgarian- government will" be impossible, The new warning was issued as plans in Sofia went forward for conducting the poll which has been disapproved both by Britain and

a Uoiied. States,

sharp . “Don’t Fence Me In” Not by at least two decades,

The ‘awkward era when bringing up father|

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PRODUCTION UP TO CAPACITY OF MOTOR PLANTS

Prices to Be Higher Than 1941’s—O0PA; Spare Tires Ruled Out.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 24 (U. P.).—The war produttion board today removed all quotas on new automobile production, but ruled that

new cars cannot be equipped with spare tires. “In other words, producers can now proceed to make as many cars as their capacity permits,” WPB said. Until today the agency had ruled that the automobile industry could make only 250,000 new cars in the rest of this year. Now the ine dustry’s ability is the only limit, The OPA will announce ceiling prices for the new cars next week, They will be somewhat higher than the 1941 prices. WPB said that further considera tion of the spare tire question - od be given by the OPA. This apparently indicated that . the spare tires might be permitted by the time the new cars reach the’ public in. any volume. In the meantime, however, no spare tires can be put on the new cars by producers.

Substitutes Necessary ’

Availability of new automobiles for civilian use, WPB explained, now will depend solely upon the “capacity of the industry.” Cer~ tain materials, such as tin, will continue to be scarce, but the ine dustry has indicated a willinge ness to use substitutes, it said. The lifting of the quota limits applies to taxicabs, ambulances and hearses as well as to ordinary passenger cars. Meanwhile, the car-hungry pub= lic will know next Monday or Tuesday how much new automobiles will cost, The office of price administration is now putting the finishing touches on the new ceiling prices. OPA Chief Chester Bowles said they would be made public on the first or second day of next week. Boasts Business Meanwhile, OPA gave business— particularly newcomers in the field of small business—another boost with three orders caliing for: One: * Speedy fixing of ceiling prices in new industries. Two: Relief from price squeezes, Three: Suspension of price cone trols on three basic raw materials—e mercury, aluminum and magnesium, Bowles dodged newsmen's quese They're tions for a specific hint of the new car prices but he denied Detroit {reports that the forthcoming ceile {ings would be 14.4 per cent above 1942 levels. He gave strong indie | cation, however, that 1941 would be the base year in figuring the new | prices. John 8. Clement, OPA’s industrial - manufactyring - price director, was understood.. to have submitted te each car concern a separate formula on which’ to base new prices. OPA sources said that because various manufacturers had different price bases in 1941 and 1942, no uniform pricing formula could be jreled to the, whole industry.

WAINWRIGHT RETURN 3 IS AGAIN POSTPONED

“THEY'RE Woaeriel . + . they] CHUNGKING, Aug. 24 (U. P.).~= {take us real calmly,” declared dark- |Lt. Gen. Johnathan M. Wainwright's haired Bitsy Feezle, 18, of 2829 N.|evacuation from Manchuria has | Meridian st. “Mom, for instance, | been postponed for another three or luses more jive talk than I do.” She four days pending the restoration [even does.the Bunny-Hop.” tof railway services under Russian These comments and a wide- military guard, it was. announced [variety of others came from a cross |today. section of loeal- sub-debs and! U. 8S. army headquarters in Chungking announced the new delay in Wainwright's final returmg

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Lin, it seems. | » oh JOES and Janes _rgporf, théir parents honestly appreciate ‘smooth’ sic—at - least a goodly part of J do, What's more important, say the] ocal high school and early college! crowd, “parents understand us.” | Eighteen- year-old Anne Pope, 117 |N. Wallace st. put it this way, | “Parents are realizing our generation isn't as happy-go-lucky a everyone thinks we are—they know | jwe're more reponse.”

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FIRST FLIER TO TOKYO

OKINAWA, Aug. 24 (U. Pow Col. John H. Lackey Jr. of Norfolk, Va, flying in the vanguard of the Pacific's greatest allied air armada, (will pilot the first American plang to alight at the Atsugi airstrip near Tokyo, it was revealed today. =

| The China Clippers That Sailed From Jndianapélis.

Another chapter “from the story of

OUR TOWN

by ANTON SCHERRER Today on Page 14.