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VOLUME 56—NUMBER 147

By ROGER BUDROW

More than 200 local industries plan to spend $50 million during the next three years on new plants and

‘expansions of presént ones, Commerce reported today.

the Indianapolis Chamber of

The chamber’s survey of 850 concerns shows that “long-term émployment prospects were never brighter

in the city’s history,”

U.S. WILL KEEP EAGLE EYE ON HOME BUILDING

Aims to Keep Prices Down; Fight on Controls Shaping Up.

declared” Edwin S. Pearce, Cham-

FORECAST: Partly cloudy and continued warm tonight and tomorrow.

ber of commerce president.

At the present time, about

15,000 have been laid off by local war plantse, the U. 8S. employment service has reported. “Indianapolis so far has been very fortunate,” Mr.

Pearce said, has resulted in a reduction of only about 10 per cent.

“in that the cancellation of war contracts

of our industrial labor force Everyone expected some un-

employment’ during the reconversion period, but our

Teaches Veterans How to Cast

By Scripps-Howard Newspapers WASHINGTON, Aug. 29. — If]

you're going to build a home, you'll probably need a government

If you're going to buy one, the government will be looking over your shoulder to see that the price is right. | These are major elements in the

eonstruction co-ordination commit-| *

tee's program for continuing and | expanding federal supervision over | peace-time home building, it was learned today. The -building industry has been led to believe that all wartime restrictions on home wasiive so. would be lifted as soon as material and manpower shortages had eased, | probably about Sept. 30. Industry spokesmen now say they will carry their fight to congress to have the regulations removed. Hold Prices in Check The proposed controls are dereigned to combat runaway prices, maintain existing rent ceilings and channel home building into the low and middle price brackets, Under the co-ordination committee's plan, the national housing agency would supervise the issuance. of permits, approving only building programs. which appeared to meet a given community's most Vrgent needs. Sorel over selling prices would be imposed by the office of price ad~ ministration under formulas said al- | ready to have been prepared. The government heretofore has not attempted to regulate real estate prices, although the office of economic stabilization has considered a plan to require down payments of at least 35 per cent of urban property sales. Restrictions on building would bes continued through retention and revision of war production board limitation orders. WPB has advocated the removal of all controls on home building but the move has been opposed strongly by OPA and NHA. Restrictions were imposed originally to conserve materials and labor, but under the OPA-NHA plan they would be used mainly as an economic weapon.

Other Controls Lifted

Controls on- other types of construction are being lifted by WPB, - and all of them, except on housing, sare expected to be off by Sept. 30. NHA has estimated that the peacetime era will produce a market for 1,250,000. or more. homes

Officials have contended that this demand will be filled only if builders can reduce their costs and be persuaded to concentrate on the low and middle income market.

SIAMESE TWINS “MAY NOT LIVE BUT WEEK

PHOENIX, Ariz, Aug. 29 (U.P.). =~ The Miranda Siamese twins struggled for life today but doctors ‘sald the infant girls could not be severed and probably would die within a week. Unimpressed by distinction as the parents of the only Siamese twins, Joinéd at the front, farm worker Jesus Miranda and his wife, Rita, .. 25, thought the babies—Louise and Macila—ghould ‘be taken home so they could be nursed. Other recorded sets of Saniese twins were joined at the hips, buttock or shoulders. The Miranda twins are joined from breastbone to lower abdomen. The infants, born late Saturday, have only one liver and their intestinal tracts are joined.

PUPPET COMMITS SUICIDE BAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 20 (U. P.).~Chen Kung Po, acting president of the former puppet Nanking Chinese government, died today of self-inflicted wounds, the Domei < news agency sald in a dispatch from Peking.

TIMES INDEX

Amusements., 6|Jane Jordan.: 19 Business ..... 16|Mauldin ..,., 11 Ned Brooks 11-12|Ruth Millett. 11 Movies 6 Anton Scherrer 12 Fred Perkins. 13 Radio ....... 19

Andy Talks to a Wounded G. IL

'Flying Fisherm

an’ Brought to

Occupation Nears.

By WILLIAM C. WILSON United Press Staff Correspondent

MANILA, Aug. 29.—Gen. Douglas MacArthur arrived in Okinawa and Adm. Chester W. Nimitz flew to Tokyo bay today. The zero hour approached for mass allied air and sea land-| {ings in the greater Tokyo area. ! The first sea-borne troops will #0 ashore on three fortified islands, | guarding Yokosuka naval base: in { Tokyo bay at 6:15 a. m, tomorrow | | 4: 15 p. m. today, Indianapolis! tiem). At 10 a. m, tomorrow (8 p. m. today, Indianapolis time), MacArthur will land with thousands of

* ° air-borne infantrymen at Atsugi air Hospitals Here by The Yimeols To Pe tent of Tokyo, and

Andy Anderson, “the flying fisherman,”

will step off a Chicago and | °

Southern airliner at Municipal airport late tomorrow for a solid week- | end of Indianapolis appearances under guspices of The THgianepolis

Times. Andy, who in normal times is (Scripps- Howards and. pais:

38TH MAY HOME BY JULY’

Guard

Demobiization Units Indicated.

Hoosierland’s fighting 38th division may be home from the Pacific by July 1. Maj. Gen. I. H. Edwards, assistant

chief of staff, told the house mili-!

tary affairs committee yesterday men how to cast with bait and|,

that National Guard units will be

demobilized and returned to the

states. In many cases it was National Guard divisions which held Lhe first thin allied lines-in the war with Japan. These are believed due for early repatriation, possibly as units. The 38th, however, did not show in combat until early this year and it is reasonable to believe that’ it will be among.the last of the guard units home. It is estimated that approximately 10,800 men of the 38th are from Indiana ‘with Marion county contributing better than 1000, The division was mustered out in 19019 after serving in world war I It was reorganized in 1923 and Mayor Tyndall’ was given command of the division. During the closing months of the war, the 38th fought in the northeast section of Bataan in the Philippines and spearheaded the landing on the west coast of Luzon, Nine of the 20 U. 8. army divisions identified .in the Pacific were originally Nati National Guard divisions.

ARREST BOY, 13, AS GERMAN PISTOL THIEF

Police today arrested a 13-year-old boy and retrieved the German pistol he stole last week from Dorn’s drugstore, 572 Massachusetts ave. A reward of $100, offered for re-turn-of the gun, went to the. police pension fund. The boy was taken to

‘juvenile aid division.

LOCAL TEMPERATURES 10am...

Sports. editor of The Houston ‘Press rE HF gknown fishermen, is|& 1 Baching wounded war 'Pactiic ngage ne to fish. His appear. ances here at Billings, Wakeman

and Veterans hospitals: will be his)

66th, 67th and 68th, respective hqspital visits. ale in town he also will appear he band concert of Hilton U. [2 Te Jr. post, American Legion, Thursday evening, and in Caleb Mills auditorium later the same evening. He will be at Billings { hospital Friday, at Wakeman Satlurday and at Veterans Saturday evening. © Casts in Wards In the military hospitals he goes right into the wards and shows the

with flies, how to handle rod and reel. He. has taught more than {20,000 veterans the art of casting, and says' he can teach any willing pupil in 20"minutes. He has also invented and turned over to service organizations, gadgs ets that make it possible for a

one hand, or in a few cases with no hands at all, In addition to his talks and demonstration he shows. a fishing movie and tells the “tall tales” dear to the heart of every fisherman. In 40 years of fishing Andy has tried every section .of North America, Mexico and several South American countries.

HOOSIER'S REPRIEVE IN HANDS OF IKE

Sentenced to Die.

|final decision by Gen. Eisenhower on the fate of one of its local sons, Pfc. Robert Colby, who wrote his parents from Germany that he was sentenced to die for murder. Parents of the condemned 22-year-old Clinton county farmer, Mr, and Mrs. L. O. Colby, operators of the telephone exchange at Gettingsville, received this letter from their son on Friday: . “Dear Mom and Dad: This is awful hard to tell. My chaplain

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disabled veteran to fish with only

Neighbors Pray. for G. I.|

All Gettingsville today awaited a

10,000 marines and bluejackets will warm ashore from ships at Yoko- | suka itself.

| Biggest Pacific Show In preparation for the post- -sur- |

sud sts Deets ever gathered “ARK JAst-mintite

apart.

staff flew from Manila to Okinawa and watched the vanguard of the air-borne troops who will accompany him climb into their transports on Okinawa's airstrips. Nearly 1000 miles to the northeast, Nimitz—MacArthur's partner in the conquest of Japan-—landed on the green waters of Tokyo bay off Yokosuka in a giant Coronado seaplane escorted by fighters. The white-haired commander of | the Pacific fleet immediately board- | ed the battleship South Dakota, which will serve as his flagship.

He will represent President Truman and the United States at Japan's formal surrender aboard the battleship Missouri next Sun-| day. { MacArthur will sign the document as the supreme allied com- | mander. | | Adm. William ¥/ (Bull) Halsey brought the 53,000-ton Missouri, | his flagship, into Tokyo bay with

{scores of other allied ‘warships,

transports and hospital ships today in preparation for tomorrow's | landings. MacArthur left Manila after in- | viting Lt. Gen. Jonathan M. Wain- | wright, his successor on Bataan and | Corregidor in the dark days of 1942; to be his guest at at the surrender |

render invasion, the greatest air

MacArthur and. his headquarters

Times

Entered as Second-Class Matter at Postoffice

WE DNESDAY, AUGUST 29, 1945 : Indianapolis 5 Ind : Issued dally except Sunday

reduction so far has been smaller than was anticipated.

“Despite the closing of cellent employment opportun

some war plants, many ex-

many persons believe we still have jobs for everyone

who cares to work.” Mr. Pearce said that th

sions are in addition to those expansions made during He recalled that a survey made last year by

the war. :

Hermann Goering

Joachim von Ribbentrop

JUMPS GUN ON NAZI TRIAL LIST

French Pager Bar Bares Names And Crime Charges.

By PAUL GHALI Times Foreign Correspondent PARIS, Aug. 29.—In defiance of a | | four-power agreement not to re veal it until Aug. 30, L'Humanite, French Communist newspaper, today published the first official list

| ities are still open. In fact,

e 200 firms planning expan-

bh) Early Cut in Navy.

TOKYO BAY, Aug. 29 (U.

MARSHALL, STARK CRITICIZED IN REPORT ON PEARL HARBOR

Nimitz In Te okyo Bay; M Arthur Due Today

Zero Hour for Jap! Face War Judges? Nimitz Promises

P.).—Fleet Adm. Chester W.|

Nimitz said today that de-|

mobilization of the navy willl |take place as rapidly as pos‘sible and steps already are! lunder way to return navy men to [the United States as fast as ships | {are available to carry them.

In a press conference, Nimitz said |

ithat the navy's was a 300,000:man peacetime fleet, Asked how seriously the allied sea blockade affected Japan, Nimitz said: “It brought about their surrender —I don't know how much more than that!” Nimitz said it was now impossible to tell how the invention of the atomic bomb would affect future navies but he said it was certain

| time reaching submarines. He added

“One thifig should impress every thinking person,” Nimitz said. “Here's an island empire with its

+larmy intact, with a large airforce

but “with practically no navy. It was brought to surrender before any assaults had taken place. “That was brought about by seapowér—seapower spearheaded by our carrier-borne air forces and raided by the excellent and efficient work of our submarines. ‘This seapower made possible the advance of our Pacific fleet tward. It made possible the bringing up of forward troops--soldiers and marines. It made possible the seizure of forward bases for/ shorebased air. “It was that seapower that made it possible to use the atomic bomb by seizing bases from which planes could carry it over Japan: “Without seapower we could rot have advanced at all.”

RUSSELL B. MOORE

The works board today approved a contract with the Russell B. Moore Co., local engineering firm, for a-$75,000 survey of city sewers. Funds for the project are provided as follows: $25,000 from the

lof Nazi war criminals to be tried in | city and $50,000 ia the form of a

| (Continued on. Pag on Page. 7—~Column 3) | Nuremberg in October and sent! loan from the state.

'CHENNAULT FEARS ANOTHER JAP WAR

MIAMI, Fla, Aug. 20 (U. P.).— Maj. Gen. Claire L. Chennault expressed fear today that the Jap-

anese imperial family would be able to re-establish the military strength of Japan and again seek world conquest. Chennault, recently resigned as commander of the 14th air force in China, said here that the American people themselves could play a part in restoring Japanese militarism by becoming sympathetic with the beaten people and allowing them to grow strong. Chetnault said . he had considered returning to China as air adviser, the first job he held there. He will make no decision, however, so long as hé is on the United

States’ active list,

40 Minitot Too Long. to Wait for Food, Noblesville Jurist Rules in Cafe Lawsuit

Times Special J NOBLESVILLE, Ind, Aug. 29. —How long should a lunchroom ‘customer wait on a waitress without getting ted up, not with food, . but with the service? \

haa Joliger than 15 or. 20 min-

Thus, he acquitted Leo Wynn, charged with skipping a meal check for $1.70 at the 37 Grille _here. The case, hotter than a cookstove griddle at times, required half a day and the efforts of Hamilton County Prosecutor Lloyd Garrison. Mr. Garrison's side lost. In snnouncing his ruling, Justice Wise declared:

the customer could do about it, If such a practice were adopted, you might never get fed.” Justice Wise said he'd never seen anything quite like this par--ticular case. Much of the testimony involved how long it takes to brown French fries and. al hamburgers for a lunchroom f -of people. : Testimony indicated Mr. Wynn ‘and - ‘three guests ordered ham-

foreign office officials into fits of| |rage. An immediate investigation 'was ordered into the leakage. Among those reported as charged were: Hermann Goering, Rudolph Hess and Joachim von Ribbentrop. In accordance with a pact signed |

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CALL CONFERENCE 10 DISCUSS DRAFT

Officials Hore Boards’ Protests.

Btate selective service officials wil confer Friday with former members

of the ‘Rush county draft board in an initial step to cope with post-war anti-draft sentiment in Indiana. Status of the Rush county board was a question mark. The board resigned en masse in protest against the peacetime draft, but later wrote state draft headquarters in quest of registration information. Col. Robinson Hitchcock, state selective service director, said he didn't consider

{the resignation official.

However, Carl G. Diekman, a member, said” the board had definitely quit in conformance with a decision reached the day Japan surrendered. Warrick county draft machinery: at Boonville was at a standstill. It

to auell

The city will pay for the part | pertaining to storm sewers and the | state for a sanitation sewer survey. In other works board action, | Raleigh Burk received two contracts for street improvement. One for | Kingsley dr. from 59th to 61st st. | totaled - $12,421. Next lowest. bidder was Tri-State Construction Co.

125. For the improvement of Gimber st. from Stanley st. to Allen st. ‘Mr, Burk’s successful bid was $5702. The Tri-Staté firm bid was $5890 | and the Sheehan Construction Co., $6015.

ITALY CELEBRATES ROME, Aug. 20 (U. P..—Italy officially commemorated the end of the ‘war last night with the first state reception in historic Camp Idoglio palace since the liberation of Rome.

“shooting figure”

{that when the full story of the subsoi ALines pasticipation. inthe war. 484

that such bombs would have a hard}.

TO SURVEY SEWERS:

FINAL

HOME |

PRICE FIVE CENTS

200 Local Industries Plan $50 Million Expansion In Next 3 Years

the local committeé for economic development forecast that Indianapolis would have more than 100,000 jobs in its industries after manufacturers convert from war to

peacetime production.

“This compares with 64,500 in 1940 and only 55,000 in 1939,

” Mr. Pearce said.

The Chamber of Commerce did not reveal names of firms planning expansions, but several expansions already

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Gen, George C. Marshall . . . criticized hut defended.

Adm. Harold R. Stark... criti-

cized but not defended.

RAISE FIRST U. S. FLAG IN JAPAN

Fliers Regaled With Beef,

Cucumber Salad.

By HUGH CRUMPLER United Press Staff Correspondent

OKINAWA, Aug. 29.—The first American flag was raised over

terday on Atsugi airstrip by members of the 5th airforce’s “flying circus.” The Stars and Stripes slipped into the breeze from the peak of the Japanese field's radio mast. American officers. returning from the first reconnaissance landing declared today that the Japanese had smothered them with politeness, feeding them turtle soup and roast beef at a flower be-decked table. There was a chubby little lieutenant general on hand to greet them. He and his fellow officers appeared in high good humor, smirking and saluting at every opportunity. Col. John H. Lackey Jr. of Norfolk, Va., who piloted the first plane to land on ‘the fleld, said: “There were all kinds of sandwiches, turtle

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KEEP ELLIOTT LOAN SECRET WASHINGTON, Aug. 29 (U.P). ~The house ways and means committee today refused to make public testimony involving the $200, 000 loans obtained by Elliott Roosevelt. The committee said the disclosure at this time would violate the internal revenue code.

WITH ADM. BADGER'S OCCUPATION FORCES, TOKYO BAY, Aug. 20 (U. P).—The American navy was urged today to rush adequate food supplies here at once to combat dysentery, by International Red Cross representatives, They informed Rear Admiral Oscar C. Badger that at least 5000

was halted by local selective service|of 34,000 allied war prisoners in

heads who protested the drafting of 18-year-olds,

Japan were ill and needed immediate attention.

Navy Will Speed Aid to 5000 Men II} in Jap Prison Camps

. | visitation of over 1100 taverns, restaurants and drug stores for food

Diego, and revealed that milk and SUgAr were needed urgently for the prisoners, He told Badger that 6000 prisoners were held on Central Honshu in

the Tokyo area, with an estimated | |8000 in the Yokosuka area.

* Those at Yokosuka-—only a few hundred yards away now-—may be | released soon. The Japanese admit that 2500 of them are ill but

|Junod’s investigation indicated that

double that number require medical

Dr, Marcel Junod, ‘Swiss repre- aid, : (United Press Correspondent :

Japan's home soil at 12:10 p.m: yes=1;

Truman, Stimson Disagree; Defend

Chief of Staff.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 29 (U. P.).—President Truman today made public army and {navy reports on the Pearl | Harbor disaster containing

{serious charges against Gen. | George C. Marshall, army chief of staff, and Adm. Harold R. Stark, who was chief of naval operations when the Japanese struck. o Both Mr. Truman and Secretary ‘of War Henry L. Stimson, however, {strongly denounced the criticism ‘of Marshall contained in the report jof an army board of inquiry. They {reaffirmed their faith in him. { There was no official disagreement however, with sharp criticism of Stark and of Maj. Gen. Walter C. Short, larmy's Hawaiian department, and {Rear Adm. Husband E. Kimmel, {commander of naval forces at Pearl Harbor.

. No Courts-Martial No courts-martial were Tecom-

mended. for any officers...

any position in the U. 8. navy which requires the exercise of superior judgment.” Both Stark and Kimmel are on the®retired list, although Stark until recently served as commander of 1U. 8. naval forces in Europe. Secretary Stimson repeated an ‘earlier finding that Short had made {errors of judgment which had de{manded his relief from command. {Short also has gone into retirement {and apparently will stay in that status. Congress Asked Probe

The army and navy boards investigated the Pearl Harbor attack, which plunged this country into the war and broke the backbone of its Pacific fleet, under the authorizaition of a joint cungressional resolution approved June 13, 1944. The army board report disclosed that the late President Roosevelt warned his high command at a White House conference on Nov. 25, 1941, that the Japanese.might attack the following Monday. Present at Stimson, Marshall, Stark, former Secretary of State Cordell Hull, and the late Secretary of Navy Frank Knox. What Mr. Roosevelt told them was recorded in Stimson's diary, excerpts of which were contained in the report, “The President brought up the relationship with the Japanese,” the diary said. “He brought up the event that we were likely to be attacked perhaps as soon as—perhaps next Monday, for the Japs are notorious for making an attack without warning. And the question was what we should do.” The board repoyt also contained this line: “It is important to observe that the President of the United States

had béen very careful, according to

the testimony of the secretary of war, to be sure -that the United

|States did nothing that could be

considered an overt act or an act of war gainst the Japanese.” Both the war and navy departments, the report said, made it

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CHIEF OF CITY FOOD INSPECTORS TO QUIT

William Lightcap, chief inspector of the city health board's food division, will resign Sept. 10. He has charge of the city’s rat eradication - program. Also, Mr, Lightcap directs six inspectors in the

violations. He has three inspectors to visit bakeries, fish and poultry i a groceries and meat mare

kets and commissaries.

then commander of the _

: oF Kimmel ever again “should “hold >

the meeting were _

CEN hea

Mr. Lightcap, whose salary iy: :

$2460 annually, feels the com

tion is insufficient for the sponsibilities involved, ws min.