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VOLUME 56—NUMBER 152

| Wedding Belles

‘There Are No Cutbacks in Contracts at Marion County Marriage License Bureau, G. |. Business Booms,

South meet West . « «+ Miss Mellicent Stalder and Capt. Henry

Adams,

KE ! Childhood sweethearts . .. Pfe. Thomas Eggers and Miss Daruthy

“The fleet came in, + + Miss Flaracos Miller and Edward Biter,

radioman,

Dan Cupid's Arrows Sill Hit Targets as World Rolls On

By VICTOR:

New love and true love .

. it must be a wonderful thing. The fact that it has been going en for centuries gives it some political or economic significance,

.| gress meets tomorrow in emergency

FORECAST : Fair and wartier tonight and tomorrow.

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1945.

By BETTY SHERRITT The family of Louis Leaver will stay together—because Mr. Leaver has a job making locks for the Best. Universal Lick Co. 5 Today Howard Sweetman of -the lock firm paid a. visit to 1007 E. Georgia st, to give young Mr. Leaver his first lesson in putting the locks together. The trade will take a total of

four hours to learn .. . his start ing pay will be 55 cents gn hour, ‘With smiles such as haven't brightened their faces in 30 months, Mr, and Mrs, Leaver, little Joanne and Dolly Marie examined the gifts,. groceries and money which Indianapolis givers preferred to say came from the Lord. a Yesterday a total of $137 flowed » " »

FOR CONGRESS; BIG ISSUES UP)

Major Changes Seen Coming; Truman to Tell More Atomic Secrets. By LYLE. C. WILSON

United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Sept. 4.—Con-

session to deal with domestic and |§

A long wait . . . Cpl. Richard Isenhour and Miss Ruth Gam-

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to farm state protests. Prestdent|

“ bowed out of the war.

land senate leadership,

international problems ranging i {rom repeal of federal war time to!§ SH disposition of our atomic bomb Se=t

crets. The over- all challenge to con‘gress is the cutting of a pattern

Life Jouks bright todan:

Mr. Leaver.

st. They are (left to right) Mrs, Leaver, Joa

into the tiny home bringing the money received since Saturday fo

“more than $377. A score of letters

giving aid to the stricken family

-arrived this morning and the

total of money was boosted to $400. : A mile away from the happy home on Georgia st, lies the young woman—also a shut-in— who told the Times of the plight ~ Rn »

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of the Leaver family. She is the Rev. Roxana Petry, 632 N. Pine st, who will cele brate her 38th birthday this Fris day. ’ A back injury 17 years ago, weakened her spine and her condition became gradually worse until for the past five years she has been bedfast. With a correspondence of more than 200 other shut-ins, she has

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invalid, broidght aid to the Leaver family.

for reconversion and our post-war economy. Wartime will succumb

PRICES OF FAIR RIDES CRITICIZED

Truman has promised to make some suggestions in a message soon about the future of atomic secrets. Both houses will meet at noon tomorrow, their ~ projected two months’ vacations having been cut in half when Japan unexpectedly

Patrons Claim.

Charges that prices are too high for rides on the Midway at Indiana’s “stream-lined state fair” which opened yesterday were being made by disgruntled patrons today. A tour of the fun alley is expensive, they complained phone calls to newspapers, Orville Pratt, Indiana state fair board secretary, said, however, that the charges ware prevailing prices and no higher than those posted

Gets Conference The President scheduled a White House conference with congressional leaders tomorrow to discuss final arrangements for his message, which he will submit to Capitol Hill sometime this. week: Ross said this week's message ‘would ~be “quite comprehensive” and he hoped it would be available to reporters 24 hours in advance to permit a thorough study of its contents. Neither house will transact any significant business before Monday. The senate will adjourn immediately. until Thursday out or respect to the memory of the late Senator Hiram W, Johnson (R. Cal), who|at smaller country fairs. died during the recess. __House committees are ready with How They Stack Up Bills for the disposal of surplus] A survéy of the midway showed property and surplus ships. this morning that prices are posted as follows: Political Truce Over Octopus 2c : The political truce of sorts which|' merrig wheel ‘ > 25c. prevailed during the war will end} miit-A-Whirl Le. with a bang as congress meets| Guess your age. . . 25c. again. So, probably, will the polit-| ferry. Go-Round . . . 20c ical honeymoon enjoyed by Presi-| ohair.0-Plane . Ne, dent” Truman since he succeeded te *

Two Kiddie Rides , . , l4c. the late Franklin Delano Roosevelt By way of comparisc sadn ity y way p! n, prices at

the Riverside Am Mr. Truman's five-point program usement park, 30th

i st. and White river, generally are submitted before the recess is head=| 1g cents for little ch 0 rouble. He. called for tle children, 14 cents

for others. There are a f more adequate unemployment com- hI iam

too in

Tickets Cost’ Too Much,

Two Hossiers. on. Job at Kanoya

Two Hoosier officers were in on the ground floor today as airborne American troops landed in force at Kanoya, in southeastern Kyushu, opening a second avenue of entry into Japan. Capt. Prank Stanley of Gary had preceded his outfit, the 873d aviation engineers, who will arrive. tomorrow to begin work on the black-surfaced strip which is 15,800 feet long by 150 feet wide, The second Indiana officer was Col. Benjamin Wimer, Terre Haute. He is reported to have discovered an asphalt dump not previously declared by the. Japs. This will be used to protect the airfield against its being gradus ally ripped to pieces as the overworked Atsugi. strip is now suffering.

'\WAVE OF STRIKES

HITS AUTO INDUSTRY

Unions Blame Accumulated Grievances.

DETROIT, Sept. 4 (U. P.).—Production tieups overspread the automobile industry today in a wave

of strikes growing from three years’ accumulation of union grievances,

More: than 20,000 workers were idle as strikes stopped passenger

pensation, a “full employment” =: cent: charge, none with 25 commitment by the federal govern=ment, new surplus property legislation and continuance of some of the functions of emergency war agen- | cies. it is up to the Democratic house meantime, to head off any opposition move to proclaim the end of hostilities by congressional action. Such a proclamation would start ticking off the 60-day period at the end of which the various war powers—including price controls—would expire, Other Issues Up Pressing some of Mr, Truman's proposals for congressional attention and support are other issues,

seven rides for children under 10, {charges 10 cents a ride or tivce | rides for 25 cents, The rides are! merry-go-round, sailboats, auto ride, tanks, -aerial swing and Ferris wheel, | Most of the others are 14 cents. | The two roller coasters and the big Fun House are 20 cents. The Tailspin is 10 cents while the train and ponies for 10 cents for children under 6 and 14 cents for older children.

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claim to being an enduring institution, At least the marriage license bureau in the courthouse. hasn't had ~to close up shop. because of war contract cancellations. Business is booming and it looks like it will keep right on as more

and more servicemen return from overseas to marry “THE GIRL” who waited. Saturday morning sees tie heav~ fest business of the week as serviceman after serviceman with their one-and~onlys saunter in oblividus to the world or extremely conscious that all eyes are upon: them; In they. come, hind in hand, arms around one another, happy . smiles on their faces, Or, in they come trying to look as though it is . Just another day in their lives. Regardless of their attitude they have one thing in common on leaving, Stardust in their eyes, In the 45 minutes before the nogn closing time Saturday couples swarmed -the bureau. Typical are the five interviewed. Childhood ‘sweethearts, Pfc. Thomas Eggers, 1806 W. Minnesota st, and Miss Dorothy Moon, 2234

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1 Amusements. 20 In Indpls. .... 3

Eddie Ash .... 16| Inside Indpls.. 11 Prahk Aston. v1 jjune Jordan. n

sew. vere gong sec married GATES TO PRESENT

whether the war went on A veteran of the European theater, Pvt. Eggers holds the purple heart with two oak leaf clusters for wounds in 16 months overseas. Miss Moon clutched the wedding booklet | tightly as they left, Mill Florence Miller, 1054 W. 31st st, has been walitnig for the fleet to come in. It brought Edward L. Etter, radioman 1l-c, Newport, Ky., and the couple headed for the courthouse, They, too, were waiting to hear the wedding bells even if the war. lasted 100 years. He hopes to be discharged in three or four months. Since they were in first grade Miss Ruth M. Gammon, 1735 W.

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TO JUMP THIS WEEK

The heat held off for Labor day festivities, but now it's going to be

some of them of equal or greater| WASHINGTON, Sept. 4 (U. P). —National selective service head-

is ris in both houses a There is r ng mn quarters today announced elimina-

IN DRAFT DROPPED

car output at seven plants of the | Briggs Manufacturing Co. and four

The “Aladdin's Lamp” which has divisions of the Hudson Motor Car

Co. . | Ford Motor Car Co., meaniime, halted - automobile assembly in its

whip, huge River Rouge plant and at

branch plants in Edgewater, N. J., Louisville, Ky., and Dallas, Tex. The Ford shut down -resulted from a Kelsey-Hayes production ' tieup. Spokesmen for the United Automobile Workers (C. I. 0.) said 11,000 workers were out in the Briggs and Hudson strikes. The union spokesmen said the grievances had been ignored by management. “We didn't do anything about it because of the war,” a union offi= cial said. “But now we are going to strike until our grievinces are considered and adjusted.”

1spectful distance.

HIROHITO ASKS FOR CONFIDENCE

Hearing Emperor:

By FRANK H. BARTHOLOMEW United Press Staff Correspondent TOKYO, Sept. 4 (U, P.).—~Emperor Hirohito today personally read an imperial rescript calling on his people to seek the “confidence |’ of the world” at the opening of the 88th extraordinary session of the Japanese diet. The emperor read his rescript to the combined membership of the house of peers and house of representatives shortly after both houses convened at 11 a. m. Many members emerged from the diet's first post-war session’ {weeping openly. Hirohito was fn full uniform, including hoots and spurs and: wearing nrilitary decorations when he arrived at the diet building. He traveled from the palace in a well-worn black Rolls Royce, escorted by black-uniformed police riding bright red motorcycles. Boy police kept the crowds at a reThey uncovered and bowed gravely.

B-29 ‘Buzzes’ Palace

A few minutes later a single Superfortress “buzzed” the imperial palace grounds—a sport Japanese planes were never permitted. At 11:05 Hirohito rose and read the rescript, which to the Japanese has the force not only of temporal but of divine law. The emperor spoke in a clear, firm voice. Members who had been céncerned about Hirohito’s health | said the address convinced them | it was good. { “1t is our desire,” the emperor said, “that our people will surmount the manifold hardships and trials attending the termination of the war, make manifest the innate glory of "Japan's national policy, win the confidence of the world, establish firmly a peaceful state and contribute to the progress of mankind. “Our thoughts are constantly directed to that end.”

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

Leaver Family Happy—He Gets Job Making Locks

Diet Members Weep After]

{of the doctor's testimony just yet.

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made helping these people . her religion. “It was through folks from the Calvary Tabernacle church that 1 heard of Mr, Leaver,” Rev. Petry explained - today, “We've never met, but we've become good friends over the “telephone.” It was difficult for this shut-in, who spends ner time sending fruit, money and groceries to oth-

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er people, to talk about herself. Yet she did admit that her am~ bition is to form a club for shut ins in’ Indianapolis. “I belong to several such clubs of other states, and they do so much for we people who can't go out of our homes.” “Right now my first ambition

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HIROSHIMA A

CITY OF RUIN —-AND HATE

First u. S. Correspondent Finds an

‘Epoch of Destruction’—Unable to Verify Jap Medical Reports.

enit from Hiroshima, The writer was transferred to the Pac after covering the American advance throdgh France and Germany, during which he saw most of the heavily-bombed cities of Europe.

By JAMES F. McGLINCY “United "Préss Staff Correspondent

HIROSHIMA, Sept. 3, (Delayed) Hirosliima is all the ‘ruined cities of the world put together and spread out. Yet only one bomb did it—a single atomic bomb dropped by an American Superfortress on Aug. 6, the first atomic bomb to be Joosed on a hostile land. : 3

We drove into the center of what only a month ago was a prosperous modern city and for two miles in every direction found nothing but complete and utter ruin. By Aug. 20, the Japanese had counted 33,000 dead among those ruins. The total reached 58,000 last Saturday and more still dying every day in hospitals: around Hiroshima. Thirty thousand persons are missing. No one knows how many were wounded. a Japanese doctors fear that} 0) FRAN everyone wounded, no matter how slight his scratch, is doomed. They say the death toll ultimately may exceed 150,000 —nearly half of Hiroshima's prewar population, The doctors tell of how the wounded's hair drops out, thelr gums bleed, their kidneys refuse to

function, how the number of their white blood corpuscles are found to total only one-seventh - what they should, how they grow weaker and weaker, and how they firfally die.

the white corpuscles in the man blood stream.” ; He declared, however, that his informant said that Japanese reports that emanations from the bombed area damaged the health of visitors three weeks later might : be exaggerated. Indescribable . Ruin

We cannot check on the accuracy

tricts in London, Munich. Then you. enter the city proper— and you know that this is more than just another bombed city. It is just an epoch of destruction.

But we can confirm Japanese ac~ Cologne and

counts of the terrible destruction wrought by that lone bomb a month ago next Thursday. It is -almost indescribable, No one in the United States could conceive or ever know what it is like unless he has seen it, or Unless— God forbld—an atomic bomb some day falls on America, ’ The trip through the suburbs didn't prepare us for the shock of total devastation awaiting us In| repair. e center of the city. - There were bombed and burned. | The stench of death is every

had been bombed flat. Only a few concrete buildings appear still upright, and those are little more than optical illusions. They are burned out and the steel girders in them are twisted beyond hope of

American correspondents were

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tion of class 2-B, which covered

naval air stuoents (NAVY RESCUE TEAMS

“| year. The total for the entire fair

| booth along a pe

registrants deferred because they were necessary workers in war pro-

duction activities. All registrants in this group are to be transferred to class 2-A, which includes registrants found to be “necessary to and regularly en-

mse a—— gaged in an activity in support of

4-H Club Event Draws Huge| the national health, safety and interes ~ Crowd at Opening.

Governor Gates was scheduled to visit the Indiana 4-H fair club ot for the change. was’ responsible the state fairgrounds today and to- | morrow with thousands of other] Hoosiers, Besides participating in several | broadcasts over stations WIBO, Indianapolis, WBAA, Purdue, and WLS, Chicago, from their stations in the Coliseum, the governor was to present the Hampshire sheep trophy at 1:30 p. m, today in the

fo surrender of Germany and

President Truman today asked for full particulars in the case of sheep judging arena. Robert A. Colby, -Geetingsvlille The trophy is awarded each year soldier, sentencéd to die for murder by leo T: Dwyer, Indianapolis, |in : owner of a flock of Hampshires, to the club member showing the blue ribbon single ewe lamb of the breed. The 4-H clib got off to a flying start yesterday by breaking the full three days’ crowd record ‘of last

Etirope. Presidential action came after Governor Gates appealed to the White House and war department for an investigat. of facts surrounding the 22-year-old Clinton county farm boy. As yet no record of the case has reached the war department from overseas - and the apeeific charge Sains young Colby is not known

. a his life has ‘been spared temporarily until a complete yvasiigation can n. be 1 made oF the

was 10,061, Yesterday 26,000 RK hoo thousands in inived ly from bo booth doin

ticket windows AY gate, people stood in lines a block ar Aae

| Housed in the Coliseum dormi-|

MAY LEAVE SERVICE

BUNKER HILL, Ind. Sept-4 (U, P.) ~Capt. Edgar T. Neale, commandant of the Bunker Hill naval training station, said today that 1000 aviation sutdents at the base have been offered the- option of | withdrawing by Sept. 14 or remaining in service. Neale said that those who with-

Japan and the resultant end of | draw would be subject to the draft’ | Beet

after their return to civilian

| status,

(sentence is confirmed, Colby will be {assured a full hearing before the

war department clemency board. Federal Circuit Court Judge Sherman Minton, former Indiana senator, is head of ghe board. The parents, Mr, and Mrs, L. O. Colby, have received no further detalls of the case. Yesterday, however, they received a second letter from . their son. Mailed Aug. 20, he told them he was in good health and that the “Lord wi , Tl talk to you again.” Then he ed that he hoped everyone at home was well. The first, indication Mr. and Mrs. {Colby had that their son .was in trouble was a brief letter received Aug. 24 stating he was sentenced to die for murder and asked Je. get.

EVACUATING POW'S

Liberated “Prisoners Placed On 4-Hospital Ships.

By HAZEL HARTZOG United Press Staff Correspondent TOKYO BAY, Bept. 4.—Third rescue forces shifted their ns 1256 miles -squthwest of oday and began the evac~of- liberated allied prisoners of war from camps in the Hama- { matsu area, Rescue teams under Commodore | Roger Simpson ‘and Cmdr. Harold Stassen, former governor of | Minnesota, already have moved 1500

Tokyo bay area to hospital ships and transports, Carrier plane pilots, reported sighting 60 additional prisoners in a camp at Hikone village, approximately 50 miles west of Nagoya, They said one prisoner

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JAPS START PLANS FOR TOURIST TRADE

P.) ~Japanese industrialists today looked hopefully toward a rebirth | of the Nipponese tourist industry, | Radlo Tokyo reported today. Broadcasts recorded here said the Japanese Hotel association “is planning to Increase first rate hotels for international tourists.” Fourteen of such. hotels remain

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Yanks Land on Kyushu, Reach Tokyo Area in Swift Moves

By WILLIAM B. DICKINSON United Press Staff Correspondent | GEN, MacARTHUR'S HEADQUARTERS, Yokohama, Sept. ‘ —’ Thousands of American troops began the occupation of southern Japan | by séa and air today. Kyushu’s most important airfield and a large port, were taken over, Some 600 miles to t= northeast, the first 200 of an ultimate force of 20,000 American air and ground force erewmen moved into the Tachikawa army -air | se, eight|” . MRR miles west of Tokyo, ur an 56 | tearing of all harbors and prompt pation program that wi'' Hut troops | release of allied prisoners.) in the Tokyo metropol. .n district]! Japanese Foreign Minister Ma~ Friday. |moru Shigemitsu conferred at Large-scale transfer of troops | length with MacArthur at the gen from Atsugi to the Tachikawa air-|eral’'s headquarters today for the

excluded from the session addressed

| drome will begin Thursday, 19 days second straight day.

\ahead of schedule. | Landings on the southern tip of Gen. Douglas MacArthur, su-|gyushu, southernmost of the Jap= preme occupation commander, prob-|anese home islands, began at dawn ably will move his headqaurters | without incident. In compliance

(former prisoners from camps in the gon, yokohama to Tokyo proper | with MacArthur's surrender orders,

{next week. not a single Japanese plane Was (A CBS dispatch from Yokohama | seen in the air. said MacArthur issued his second | A huge fleet of air transports fers general” order as allled occupation | ried airgborne infantry from Oki~ commander today, calling for the nawa to Kanoya airfield, just souths immediate demobilization and dis- | {armament of He Javanese army, (Continued un “Page : «Column 2) . Lis _

Add Jip Cruelties: Letters To Rpriarers Undelivered

Times Foreign Servie# are behind an ron grill which one © YOKOHAMA, Sept. 4—In a ware-| finds easy to open: ‘house on a pier jutting out into] These inert gray sacks, full of Yokohama's virtually unbombed love and hope. longing and ist waterfront lie piled dozens of gray are. testimony of bags full of heartbreak. = j a a le pan le es sent a Js for Atnarionn prisoners of w

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was like a lot of other bombed dis- :

The center of Hiroshima literally .

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