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VOLUME 56—NUMBER 149

FRIDAY, AUGUST 31, 1945

Entered as Second-Class Matter at Indianapolis 9, Ind.

Postoffice Issued daily except Sunday

PRICE FIVE CENTS

Japanese About-F ace—F rom Bayonets To ‘So Sorry, Please’

—even weeks—ago were bea with bayonets. ' Today they bowed politely “So sorry, please!” The Tokyo newspapers about-face. Gen. Douglas MacArthur's modore Perry 92 years ago. “Japan's reconstruction

By JAMES McGLINCY United Press Staff Correspondent

TOKYO, Aug. 31.—The Japanese only a few months

ting and jabbing Americans

y,.as if to say:

also have done an abrupt

The English language Nippon Times likened ar

rival to the coming of Com-

can be possible only in a

spirit of friendly co-operation with other countries of the

world,” The Times said. “Only through such amity can Japan expect good relations in return and evetually, aid and co-operation.” w From the hill above looking down on Tokyo, much of the city still appeared intact. Block after block of modern concrete or brick office and apartment buildings stretched below. But when we drove down past them, most were little more than burned-out shells—destroyed by ° American bombs. 3 Only in downtown Tokyo did we find a few buildings still standing. The Domei news agency was housed in a modern six or seven-story structure. A similar building (Continued on Page 2—Column 7)

40,000 Occupation Troops Take 200 Sq. Miles.

By WILLIAM B. DICKINSON

United Press Staff Correspondent GEN. MacARTHUR'S] HEADQUARTERS, Yoko- | hama, Aug. 31.—U. S. air and | sea forces mounted armed guard over strategic points| within a 200 square mile sec-|

| tor of the Tokyo plain today. Gen. Douglas MacArthur pre-| pared to receive’ Japan's surren- | der Sunday. In light drizzling rain and under | grey skies armed units of the 11th] airborne division fanned out over

the metropolitan Atsugi- -Yokosuka- ___ | yokohama areas.

TRUMAN ORDERS OWI ABOLITION,

a Suggests New Agency to Spread Information.

WASHINGTON. Aug. 31 (U. P). ~President- Truman today ordered abolition of the office of war im-

formation but instructed Secretary of State 'James F. Byrnes to prepare a program for continuing U. 8. propaganda abroad. OWI's foreign operations were transferred to the state department effective at once. Its domestic. branch will cease to exist on Sept. 15. Final liquidatfon of the wartime agency, including the office of the director, will not be completed until Dec. 31. In ordering Byrnes to set up a program “to. maintain informational activities abroad as an integral part of our foreign affairs,” Mr. Truman said this country would not enter into any propaganda contest with other nations. “Rather,” he said, “it will endeavor to see to it that other peoples receive a full and fair picture of American life and of the aims and policies of the United States government.” The President added that the government will not compete with private news, communications, and motion ‘picture interests. Also affected by the President's order was the office of inter-Amer-ican affairs, formerly- headed by Nelson Rockefeller, who resigned

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PLEASANT, BUT HOT, THAT'S PREDICTION

A pleasant week-end was predicted for Indiana by the weather bureau today, but it still will be hot today, tonight and tomorrow. The thermometer will drop a little tomorrow night and remafh cooler through Sunday and Monday, and will rise again Tuesday and Wednesday. There will be scattered thtindershowers throughout the state tonight and tomorrow and again Wednesday,

" LOCAL TEMPERATURES

6am.... 73 10a. m 7am.....73 1llam 8a. m..... 77 12 (Nooh),, 87 9a.m...., 80 1pm, . 88

TIMES INDEX

Amusements , Business i... Comics ... Crossword ... Editorials .... Fashions Forum: .;....

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Swiss Internal Crisis Back

Of Edda Ciano's Expulsion

By PAUL GHALI Times Foreign Correspondent PARIS, Aug. 31.—A ‘Swiss internal crisis lies behind the sudden! expulsion from Switzerland of Edda Ciano, once described as the “Axis Egeria” and Europe's “fatal woman.” No allied demand had been made for her extradition. Since the day of her arrival on Swiss soil in January, 1944, this tragic woman, whose husband was shot on her father's orders, has been the butt of violent Socialist, and Communist attacks. Around

AGENCIES GUT

~ They set up guard posts at the | main intersections, bridges, strate | | gic poin

TOKYO, Aug. 31 (U. P), == “Tokyo Rose,” whose dulcet voice “poiiréd propaganda at dllied troops throughout the Pacific war, was actually four or five girls who played the role at

: LOCAL ‘STAFFS

Hours Also Are Reduced for| Federal Workers.

Several government agencies are

| Tokyo. One radio: official said one of them was a Los

ts and around the build |

| various times, according to Radio |

Angeles-born |

Andy Shows How

JAP SURRENDER

YANKS SPEED UP RESCUE OF TORTURED WAR PRISONERS

Prepare for Surrender Signing

Captives Show Scars Left by Jap

| |

Fifty per cent of the 1500 allied war prisoners already

Brutality; Died From Beatings.

By FRANK H. BARTHOLOMEW United Press Staff Correspondent

ADM. BADGER'S FLAGSHIP Yokosuka, Sug 3l1.—

Report Some

‘rescued: from camps in the Tokyo area were treated so ‘brutally by the Japanese that they need hospital care, Cmdr. ‘Harold E. Stassen revealed today. Most prisoners ‘ said * they were beaten regularly by —— Japanese = seeking informa-. tion. Some showed torture sears on their hands, apparly the result of thumb screws or Ol oe devices. Stassen, former governor of Min. {nesota and a member of Adm. Wiljis F. Halsey's staff, said there ere . many reports of prisoners’

POLIGY § STATED

Rulers Exmeti — Hope for ‘Fairness.’

TOKYO, Aug. 31 (U. P.). — The first official statement of Japan's surrender policy was made to the American press today by T. Kase, | Harvard - educated Toreign - office] spokesman, who pleaded for American “friendship and understanding.” Kase said Japan was ready to]

SYDNEY, Australia, Aug. 31 (U. P.).—British fleet aireraft units have atfdbked three Japanese ships which tried to flee Hong Kong, British Pacific fleet headquarters announced today. One of the ships was sunk, one was forced to the beach, and ‘the third was chased back into the harbor.

| dying from beatings and lack of

the asylum which was Edda’s last home, Swiss leftists had organized a thorough system of espionage to ‘report all her moves. Two elements contributed to bring the campaign against her to a climax. Edda Ciano’s name had been constantly associated in the Edda Ciano leftist press with that of German Minister Bern Kocher, who was rightly accused of having covere: all Nazi gestapo activities in Switz- | erland since 1938. The papers clamored that Kocher, | as the big Nazi refugee, and Coun- |

| tess Ciano, the big Pascist refugee, should be expelled, Having sent | Kocher back to Germany last month, Swiss federal authorities were in a weak position to insist on having Edda remain. Another element contributing to her. expulsion were the revelations {in the Ciano diary, published by { The Indianapolis Times. | Although Count Ciano's last letter from Verona prison showed that: | Mussolini's daughter had finally | | recognized her mistakes, certain | { passages in his diary threw light on [her political activities in favor -of kt: axis The Geneva paper, La Suisse, pub- | lished seven installments of the Ciano diary. but was prevented by (the Swiss” government from con-

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Grasshoppers Strip Lawns,

WASTA, 8S. D, Aug. 31 (U. P.).—Their once-green paradise stripped of its foliage and victory gardens, 500 Wastanites today peered fearfully from barricaded homes as officials fought to stem a tide of hungry

“cornhoppers.” Several million of the ravenous hoppers which appear during the day before yesterday. Soon the town’s pride and joy, green lawns and gardens kept fertile in this arid land by irrigation, were wrecked. The parasitic insects, many 2% inches long, gobbled up all vegetation, then started eating clothes off the line. The hoppers even got into homes, some crawling through chinks in the walls. Leading the battle against the grasshopper horde was County Farm Agent Kirk Mears, who said Wasta had experienced such attacks before, “but never like this.” Mears sald that 10 tons of sodium flousilicate had been brought In

(Continued on Page 2-——Column 3) GERMAN PRISONERS ASSIGNED TERMINAL NEW YORK, Aug. 31 (U, P.).— Caven Point terminal, which shipped a major share of the munitions that beat the Nazis, is being transformed into a staging area for the home-bound shipment of German prisoners of war, the New York port of émbarkation has announced. Two groups of German miners— 2201 in all—have already embarked from the New York port to return to work and help relieve Europe's critical fuel shortage. . Some 24,300 more prisoners are expected to move through the in- +| stallation in September a Octo- 1a

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'Taking' Town;

Scare Chickens

cornhoppers, actually outsized grasscorn season, descended on Wasta

GOVERNOR ASKS IKE FOR GOLBY'S STORY

Had Good Record.

Governor Gates today sent a letter to Gen. Eisenhower requesting details on the death sentence of Pfc. Robert Colby of Geetingsville The governor explained to Gen Eisenhower that Pfc. Colby’s plight has aroused the sympathy of all Geetingsville. He also cited the youth's exemplary career in the small Hoosier town and the fact that his parents, Mr, and Mrs. L. O. Colby, are outstanding community cititzens. Mr. Colby operates the telephone exchange at Geetingsville: The parents received a letter from their son last week informing them he had been sentenced to be shot, but without any further explanation. They appealéd to the governor for aid.

“ YIELD MARCUS ISLAND GUAM, Aug. 31 (U, P).—Marcus island, Japanese bastion 1400 miles southeast of Tokyo, was formally surrendered with its garrison of 2445 army and navy etsonnel in

| will be down to 15 by Sept. 22,

Tells General Doomed Boy

| rushed by thousands of laid-off war workers, will continue to w 44

‘la long line of people,” ‘| John K. Jennings, state WMC head,

{etting local office employees go, as | wartime controls are removed, and | overtime work has been reduced or | eliminated, a survey showed today.|

The war production board's dis-! trict office in the Circle Tower | building, which had 64 employees | at the beginning of this month, is reducing its force to 34 by the end of September. As in most federal working hours which had been 48 a | week until] a few weeks ago when | they were cut to 44, have been further cut to 40. . WPB employees no longer will work on legal holidays, thus giving] them Labor day off. For the past four years, they have worked every holiday except Christmas, Albert O. Evans, WPB district manager, said. | Many of the employees to be | released are finding jobs ahead of | time, Mr. Evans said; with the re- | sult that perhaps only 15 actually | will be released Sept. 30. WMC Down to 29 The office of price administration, which will let 14,000 employees go nationally. will reduce its Indiana staff by 400 as of Sept. 30, although around 10 per cent of that number will be transferred to the price enforcement program and 50" in Indianapolis rationing boards will go to the district office here. The office of defense transportation,” which has had 40 employees,

agencies,

George F. Burnett, ODT district manager, said. The war manpower commission, which ‘had around 150 employees at its peak, is closing all but its Indianapolis area offices and now has only 29 employees. The U. 8. employment Service,

hours for a time, staying ope urday mornings. “They're understaffed now and we just couldn't close the doors on explained

Sat-

who supervises the USES.

City Pools Won't Close 'Til Sept. 9

i. Municipal swimming pools will remajn open until Sept, 9 and possibly Jonger, the city recreation department announced/today. Although the pools are usually closed when school opens each fall, continued warm weather may keep them open -on limited schedule this year as long as attepdance warrants, Regular summer schedules will continue in effect through next Tuesday. When school starts on Woneday the pools will be open

“ceremony today aboard he: de. seoyer. U.S; 6 Bagley.

wii vy ls 4

{| render ceremony.

girl named Eva Togure, about Hy who at present was in the coun- |

try and might be back in a day or two. any of the other Tokyo roses.

ings which have been taken over by°the American forces. . More than 40,000 American army and navy men were ashore and thousands more were pouring in. MacArthur in his new head{quarters at the New Grand hotel] was busy arranging for the surLt. Gen. Jonathan ‘Wainwright, his companion {of Corregidor, arrived to witness it. Japs Co-operate

No untoward iricidents of any na- | ture with the Japanese were re-

ported and it was said that they

continued to co-operate fully. Tokyo itself was off limits to { American forces but correspondents who inspected the Japanese capital said it was the “worst beaten up city” they had ever seen. Japanese informants placed de- | struction at “about 60 per cent.” Yokohama was about 75 per cent burned down by American incendi-

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BETTER GASOLINE

ON WAY, OPA SAYS

Higher Octane tane Won't Reise Price of Fuel.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 31 (U, P). ~The best gasoline you ever put in your car tank is coming, and it

won't cost a cent more than the low quality stuff you've been using during the war, the office of price administration announced today. The octane ratings of both regular and premium gasolines will be higher but no changes will be permitted in ceiling prices at filling stations, tank wagons or other retail outlets, OPA said. '

been about 70 octane. The new gas now on its way will rate at least 72 but probably will hit 74 and In some cases will exceed 75, OPA| said. The pre-war premium gas had to rate 75 but now must be at least 78 octane to be labeled “pre-! mium.” OPA also announced continuance | for two more months of the 3-10th of a cent increase in fuel ofl ceiling prices. T. W. A, AIR HOSTESSES NEEDED If you are 21 to 26, 5 feel 2 inches lo 5 feet 6 inches, 100 to 130- in weight,

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Since mid-1944 regular gas has

pay the price of defeat, but that the | Potsdam terms were ‘stringent” and the war. criminal problem {“very, very delicate.” “Stevenson said it takes two to] make a kiss,” said Kase. takes two to make Japan is ready on her part.” He said America should be firm— but fair—in dealing with conquered |

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Anderson . . . his specialty. » ” ”

Specializes in Expert Casting

And Tall Tales

| | Casting 'em and spinning tall | varns, Andy Anderson, fisherman de luxe from Houston, Tex., way, entertained two Indianapolis |said. audiences last night. “The question of war First local appearance of the widely known sports editor of The Houston Press, sister paper of | The Times, was at the band con-

Andy casting is

Shigemitsu. Want Friendship

[thing possible to start on the long

criminals it depends on you¥

: Japanese government was asked to cert of the Hilton U. Brown post |t,rn over former Premier Hideki of the Anierican Legion in Irv- (the razor) Tojo. Kase said: ington. From there the bait tosser | wy the Japanese people can be! went i the Teen Tanicen party | convinced that any man designated at 5 JoriEage lo entertain’ | as a.war criminal should be brought FOUnNgSWeIs: : [to justice, they will not object.” | He was to entertain veterans at | “pro ooo ocked whether he thought | Billings Despiial Sb BY. Slarsison | Japan would want to make another Y. : i i Pr = Wakeman General hospital at joy al world Som Neto 32 per Camp Atterbury. |haps 50 years irom : {shrugged and looked through the

op Dderson is recognized as one the most proficient fishermen |Sitviow at the panorama of ‘bombed |

very great However, if | | Japanese people will react,” he said. |

atomic bomb nor Russia's entry,

Read Andy ‘Anderson’s column, [the war caused defeat. Page 14.

AON os BULB BURST STARTS FIRE LOST AT SEA PORTLAND, Me. Aug. 31

WASHINGTON, Aug. 31 (U. P).

"4612 (v.

| | | |

today that 4612" American soldiers |electric light bulb burst and ignited | lost their lives at sea during world | fumes in the empty main tank of war II, the Norwegian tanker Herbrand..

Indianapolis Man Among U. S.

Fireman 1-c Cecil Baker, son of and happy. Fireman Baker is a Mr. and Mrs. Chester O. Baker, araduate of Technfeal high school and was employed at the Ertel 1638 Carrollton ave.,, has been Hb-| vtachine Shop. before he enlisted in erated from a Tokyo prison camp|cioher, 1942. He has been overby Adm. Halsey's ’ {seas since May, 1943. {3d fleet, he | Two of his five sisters lost their He was listed | husbands in this war. Mrs. Maxine as missing by’ the Hendrixson is the widow of Metal|riavy on Jan. 14,8 smith Jay Hendrixson who was {1044, when hisgy | submarine Was lost and in April was wepor prisoner of

{last July at a naval base in Mass- { achusetts and Mrs. Lore Walker | a the | Walker, a P-40 pilot who died in a | erash last January in Florida. His other sistess are Miss Georgia ceived two mess i Baker, Miss Ruth Baker and Mrs. from him, Cecil Baker |. irey Mathews, all of Indian-| One last December and one in/apolis. Fireman Baker also has a Yapiacy WHS Su 1. wM edie, Arzie Leroy, Indianapolis.

“It also area, with the exception of one friendship. prison camp, have been liberated.

Japan. Kase reflects the views of | 10 Japanese Foreign Minister Mamoru |

“Japan is anxious to do every-|

’ ; {Dutch prisoners {road to—shall I say friendship?” he|

is the greatest that faces us. Again’

Asked what would happen if the

{ «*You | ‘hospital’

care. No instances of deliberate | nenutions yet have been reported, sald. Al allied prisoners in the Tokyo

|Some T00 were released from the {Omori camp.

| The Japanese had held about

0,000 prisoners on Honshu island, 6000 within a 100-mile radius of Tokyo and about 1600 in Tokyo and vicinity. The latest count showed 1484 American, British, Australian and liberated and aboard the hospital ship Benevolence. Those who do not require hospital treatment will be ‘transferred soon to army ships alongside for transportation home. “Inquisition Center”

Some prisoners told of an “ine quisition center” inland from Tokyo. Airmen and submarine crews were the main “customers,” Stassen said. Shiragawa “hospital”. also was among the worst places, prisoners (said. shouldn't use the word for that place,” Stassen said. “You could only describe it as a hellhgle. The filth was in- | describable.” An American doctor captured on Guam was given a pick and shovel job until recently and not per-

| your treatment is too severe, the (Continued on Page 2—Column 1

Kase claimed that. neither the | PERRY’ S FLAG T0 FLY

DURING SURRENDER

YOKOHAMA, Aug. 31 (U. P).—

commodore Matthew Perry's faded

Prisoners Freed in Japan

{killed when lightning struck him |

‘the widow of Flight Officer Hugh | -

P.).—Three crewmen were believed 31-starret American flag will be on — The war department revealed to have been killed today when an display for the second time in 92

vears Sunday during surrender ceremonies aboard the battleship Mis json.

The flag, which Perry hoisted on fis battleship Mississippi July 14, 1853, when delivering a letter from { President Filmore to the Japanese imperial high command, was flown here from Annapolis, Md.

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