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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1945

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By GERALD

Douglas MacArthur was not s sense. authority that the Nips were

Times Foreign Correspondent TOKYO, Sept. 8.—All Tokyo was awed today by its first full-scale view of American military might—a sight every Japanese here will remember to his grave. The entry of 1st cavalry division units and Gen.

But it was done with such an air of military

R. THORP

pectacular in the Hollywood

impressed instantly.

Streets were lined by stony-faced Japanese who stared

impassively at the strangely silent procession. . But when the troops took their stations throughout the city a lightning-like change flashed over the faces of

the Japs. They were quite amazed, rymen, and again at their i forms.

first at the size of the cavalimmaculate, well- Rtting uni-

Japs began chattering excitedly, gesturing vigorously to indicate the height of the rangy, muscular soldiers wearing. carefully pressed, combat boots and helmets. The Nipponese almost stampeded at the first sight of huge amphibious trucks, known in the army as ducks. A soldier eventually explained.the use of the monster

sun-tan uniforms, polished

SLUGGING LIST GROWS; 6 MORE 1 VicTIv A ADDED

Police Baffled in Hunt for Woman's Attacker; Reward Posted.

Four women and two soldiers were added to Indianapolis’ ‘mounting list of sluggings and robberies today.

continued unchecked, police were baffled in their search for the assailant who criminally assaulted Mrs. Alice Hamilton, 52, of 2002 Winthrop ave. Thursday night. Rewards totaling $185 for in-{ formation leading to the arrest of the slugger-rapist were posted as police continued their search for Mrs. Hamilton's attacker. Her husband, Orville C. Hamil ton, a funeral director, has offered $100 and the Madden-Nottingham post 348, American Legion and aux-

---$Hary,-of--which-Mzrs.. Hamilton Ww Nas, . a member, has offered $85. City hospital officials today re-|.

ported Mrs. Hamilton's condition as fair. Mr, Hamilion said his wife would be returned to her home toMOITOw, Lack Silamtion

Detectives John Bevin and Charles Burket, assigned by Police Chief Jesse McMurtry to investigate the case, said today they had absolutely no information as to the assailant’s identification. Miss Annabelle Silcox, 27, of 1506 E. 17th st. told police she was awakened last night when she heard “someone on her back porch. Grabbing a revolver, she said she went to the rear door where she saw 8 man starting to run away. She fired one shot and wounded a man who gave his name as Earl R. Watkins, 35, of 1502 E. 17th st. Watkins was taken to City hos-

as not serious. As she got off. a streetcar early today at Laurel and Prospect sts, Viola Joseph, 21, of 1106 Laurel st., reported two men got oui of & taxi cab and grabbed her, Assailanis Flee In the scuffle, she told police, she fell and screamed. The men then ran, A few minutes later Kenneth Bhinkle, 20, of 1012 S. Rural st, the taxi driver, and Wiliam Humpert, 27, of 1115 Gimber st., appeared at police headquarters where they said they were the men involved in the case, but that they thought the woman was a friend of theirs. Both were arrested on charges of assault and battery. Lucille Clements, ‘46, of 1817% Broadway, Apt. 2, told police that a man started following her as she got off a streetcar at 19th st. and College ave. last night. She said “she was able to run away from him, but that the same man had previously followed her.

Threatened With Gun At 14th and Illinois sts, Miss Myrtle Clements, 31, of 544 Middle dr, Woodruff Place, reported a middle-aged man took out a gun, threatened her and then ran. She described him as wearing a dark coat, blue overalls and a railroad,

cap. Pyt. Richard Koen, 18, of Camp Atterbury, was too fast for the man who tried to rob him of $5. The soldier told police he was walking north of the bus. station last night when a man approached him. The soldier said he had a few drinks with the man, who then asked him for $5. Pvt. Koen declared, when he refused to give the man, the money, he grabbed it and ran. After a chase of two blocks, Pvt. "Koen caught the would-be thief, and retrieved his money. The man, who gave his name as C. V. West, of Whitter, Ky., was charged with drunk and vagrancy. Four youths, approximately 18 or 19 years old, were reported beating up a soldier, Opl. Anthony Vuocolo, 31, of Stout Field, early today. When police arrived they found Cpl. Vuocolo unconscious. The youths escaped.

TIMES INDEX

TRUMAN AID SOUGHT— Mother Tries To Save Colby

From Gallows

Times Special GEETINGSVILLE, Ind. Sept.

8.—Frantic in her efforts to save her son from being executed for murder, Mrs. Florence Ethel Colby, was trying to’ speak personally with President Truman

today. The village switchboard operator's son, Pfc. Robert Colby, 22,

Mrs. Florence Ethel Colby “Yd like to speak with President Truman, please . . .”

is in an army stockade in Germany. He has been sentenced to death for the shooting of a U. 8. army captain and lieutenant. The conviction has been affirmed by Gen. Dwight. D. Eisenhower. At 7 a, m. yesterday Mrs. Col called the White House and # for either the President or Mrs. Truman. She was told by the Washington operator that neither was available. * x 2 “I WANT to ask him to have Robert's trial held in the States so that we can see our son and talk with ‘him. Then if the sentence is to be carried out, we'd want Robert to be brought home where he'd love to be,” said Mrs. Colby. “I'l keep trying,” she sobbed. Meanwhile other residents in the Presbyterian farm community fought unwaveringly for its farmhand son despite the information from overseas that he had killed two army. officers. “We're just as much back of

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FIND. UNIDENTIFIED MAN NEAR DEATH

Accident in Hospital.

An unidentified man was near death in City hospital today as a result of an accident, or slugging, last night. Police found him when they were called by Mrs, Edna Moore, 347 W, 16th pl. She looked out the window this morning and saw the man! lying in her yard. He had received a possible fractured skull. Police said the man could have been the victim of another slugging or that. he could have been hit by a train on the Big Four tracks near where he was found. They found one of his shoes on

a coal yard 150 feet from where he was lying. A pocket knife and a notebook were found on the tracks with two sets of keys. The notebook was empty except

There was no identification.

llinois Mother Seeks Ban

+on—Mrs;—Vashti— MeCollum’s

_|most of the week -in Champaign

will be called upon to prove her

“Ydestroys his oWal “created childrefi:

Victim of Slugging or Train

the railroad tracks and another in|

for a cross mark on the first page.

COURT TO HEAR SCHOOL BIBLE TEACHING SUIT

On Religious Education Program.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill, Sept. 8 (U. P.).—Counsel for both sides reported today they are ready to go to trial Monday

law suit to halt religious education in the Champaign schools. The case will be heard before a three-judge court. With 19 witnesses summoned by Mrs. McCollum's attorneys and an undisclosed number prepared to testify for the school board, it was expected that the trial may require

county circuit court. All three judges of the sixth district. will hear it. If the school board's plea to the court is granted, Mrs. McCollum

beliefs as & professed atheist off =

“rationalist”. which, her petition says, cause her to accept “no part of any Bible as true where such part is not in accord with reason.” F Quotes Father's Beliefs __A pamphlet written by her father. Arthur G. Cromwell of Rochester, N. Y., was specifically made a part of her complaint. In it he said: “Let us stop trying to make our young people believe ‘that if there is God, he is a fickle, escentric, selfish, unreasonable, and brutal monster somewhere in the skies that silently accepts our adultions yet drowns, burns, slays and otherwise

“Religion never filled an empty belly, saved a drowning man, relieved any of us of toil, prevented sickness, or overcame the democ-| racy of death, and it will never satisfy the natural yearnings of a youthful heart.” The school board's answer to the suit neither admitted nor denied Mrs. McCollum’s beliefs. Instead it asked the court to require “strict proof” of them. Mrs. McCollum, wife of a University of Illinois professor, filed her suit June 6, asking the court to halt as illegal the religious education classes taught here for five years. Says Son Embarrassed She said her 10-year-old son was | “embarrassed” because he was the {only member in his room not en- | rolled in the classes taught during school hours by teachers employed

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by an association representing Catholic, Jewish and Protestant faiths.

State-wide attention has been focused on the trial. An- organization representing Protestant, Catholic and Jewish churches in the state has been] formed to aid the school board and has retained a Chicago attorney to work with school ‘board counsel. The civil liberties committee, which with the Chicago action council, is backing Mrs. McCollum has called a mass meeting here for tomorrow night to perfect a local committees to support het efforts. Circuit Judge F. B. Leonard said | that since the case appears to be a fest case, Judges Martin E. Morth- | land of Decatur, and Grover Watson | of Farmer City, will hear the case] with him.

FIND BOY, 9, LOCKED

Nine-year-old Charles Mondy of 2811 N. Gale st. was found this morning locked up in the meter room of the Moonlight Bowling alley,” 2411 Station st, by Terce| Henry, manager of the alley. The boy told police that three other boys had locked him in the room early today. He was unharmed. |

WASHINGTON

A Weekly Sizeup by the Staff of the Scripps-Howard

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Washington Newspapers

WASHINGTON, Sept. 8.—First real test of the big powers’ ability to work together comes when foreign - ministers assemble in London next week to write peace

treaties with Italy, Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary, Finland.

jealously.

ns. 7 ‘Senate, not represented at ‘the meeting, ‘will watch. it

Truman—who doesn’t intend to go down in Hishaty

Ce § Wm. P. Simms 6 as the man who lost the peace—will also watch it. - This in where big powers leave ‘territories. Por instance,

the realm of theory, talk disposition at "Wil rie be. shen. ts Eritrea be

LIFE " CONTROLS

machines and his words were quickly translated.

Directs War

Dr. George E. Gould , .

Expert Finds D.D.T. Boon to Mankind if Used With Care

By VICTOR PETERSON

Times Staff LAFAYETTE, Sept.

Writer

world,

ON LIVESTOCK Frome so

Officials Rationing May Be Near.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 8 (U. P). —The office of price administration announced today that controls on] slaughtering of livestock and the shipment of meat have been re-| moved, effective at once. Price Chief Chester Bowles said] the action was taken on recom-! mendation of Secretary of Agricul- |? ture Clinton P. Anderson. Meat rationing is not affected by the] action, Agriculture department sources |” indicated, however, that the action might be a forerunner “to the lifting of meat’ rationing in October, Removal of slaughter and distribution controls was considered necessary by the agriculture depart. | ment if packing plants are to handle the unprecedented run of cattle now | arriving on the market. Cattle marketings for the last | month have topped those of -1944,| the previous record year, and they | are expected to increase even fur-

{ther this month,

Agriculture officials said an average civilian per capita supply of 140 pounds of meat a year would enable the government to elimiinate meat rationing. They now be- | lieve that supplies will reach an|

three months of the year,

{would be 25 per cent more than has stood

IN BOWLING ALLEY! been available in recent months,

Today's action suspended the slaughter and distribution controls indefinitely, but did not drop them | permanently, OPA could [state the controls at some future [time if § Necensary.

EX-SAILOR ADMITS STRANGLING GIRL

Says He Killed Her When She Spurned Him,

BELLE VERNON, Pa, Sept. 8 (U. .P.)~A husky, freckled-faced discharged sailor confessed today to the brutal slaying of 17-year-old Anna Elizabeth Dreyer, the “sunshine girl” of Fayette City. Then 18-year-old Frederick I. (Red) Hauser, a wounded veteran of Bouth Pacific warfare, dropped off into a deep sleep which even!

failed to disturb. , “I don't know why T did it.” the tougle-Baired youth ¢ told Distriet At-

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LOCAL TEMPERATURES Sam IA m8 1 -B Mam... 8

on Bug Pests

+ he is death to insects, »

8.—Insecticides that made life easier for the! fighting men’ soon may be available to scratch-happy civilians. Then will come the day when you can pitch your tent in the woods, release a little jnsecticide in the alr and kill every mosquito inside.

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“ 8 SHE PHM hd » ‘douse yourself with various repdfiente and walk Yapplty ~= through fields free from ‘abuse by buzzing mosquitoes, ticks and chiggers.

Yes sir, it will be a wonderful ly after the American

Experimenting with

THOUSANDS OF YANKS OCCUPY TOKYO, KOREA

MacArthur Directs Raising Ceremony In Capital,

By WILLIAM B. DICKINSON United Press Staff Correspondent TOKYO, Sept. 8.—Thousands of American troops be-| ‘gan the occipation-af Tokyo and Korea today. Upwards of 15,000 troops from the 1st cavalry division | and other army units rolled into | Tokyo by jeep and truck. Gen. Douglas MacArthur proudly unfurled the Stars and Stripes over the surrendered, wrecked capital. Some 725 miles Pacific veterans of the Tth division splashed ashore from landing | craft at Inchon (Jinson) on thet t- |west coast of Korea preparatory | i_|to occupying the capital city. of | Keijo 25 miles inland, and alr] southern Korea, ; Cross Yellow Sea Lt. Col. Albert V. Hartl of Bismarek, N. D, led the 17th infantry regiment across the Yellow Sea beaches from landing craft of! Vice Adm, Daniel E. Barbey's Tth amphibious force. The big guns of nearly 50 warships of Adm. Thomas C. Kinkaid's

Flag

| Tth fleet covered the landings, but]

{rio resistance was encountered. The troops were veterans of battles on Attu, Kiska, Kwajalein, Leyte and . | Okinawa. bay Russian Torces” are obepyHiE in northern Korea. Japanese civil police fired into a crowd of Korean demonstrators in front of the Inchon city hall shortlandings. The Japanese who are policing the area until the occupation is com= pleted said the Koreans were “Com-

insecticides

Dr. George E. Gould, research en{tomologist in the Purdue university

munist demonstrators.” At least one Korean was wounded

humans,

SHIP, Sept,

f the toxicity.

rove fatal.

“Used as a dust on the body it | {p. m. apparently is harmless. Use in an|Soon afterward, occupation forces |oil spray creates the danger of ab- | will ‘| sorption through the skin. | internally it is only slightly Jess! Hokkaldo, | poisonous than arsenic. “Anyone can see that it should | be handled with care. {danger that some fly-by-night com-|of atomic-bombed Nagasaki Sept.

GUAM, Sept. 8

than 12 hours.

Tndicate End of agricultural experimental station, .‘Tops on the list of miracle workers is the now famous D. D. T. “It i8 the best ever known to 'man,” Dr. Gould sald, {will not, kill every insect. going to prove quite a surprise to, |some people. “And they are going to have to anchored in Mutsu bay {handle B. D. T. with care, 100,” he |said. “Ag¥yet scientists are not sure We know that it is & nerve poison both to insects and We believe that {human absorbed enough it could| Adm. Frank J. Fletcher's flagship

{average of 145 pounds in -the last birds, and less than 500 of This | 2250~ -man garrison could have with- of about 2000 Japanese

any American Invasion longer ling

This. was revealed

By JOHN GROVER Representing Combined Allied Press

ABOARD TTH;

fleet, disclosed today.

in the shooting. The incident occurred apparently before any of

area of Inchon, American occupation of northern Japan also was imminent. More than 50 warships of the powerful] North Pacific fleet] at the northern tip of the enemy's main {home island of Honshu today.

Sign on Panamint

Japanese representatives will sign it a formal surrender terms aboard Vice

“but it still This. 1s

| American

{ Panamint at 10 a. m. tomorrow (8 today, Indianapolis time).

land at the Ominato naval Taken base on northern Honshu and on northernmost of the Japanese home islands. (Radio Tokyo sald the American There 15 | schedule also calls for occupation

26. the Sasebo naval base on Sept.

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WAKE ISLAND JAPS PLAGUED BY HUNGER!

(U, jase troops that surrendered last | | Wednesday on historic Wake Is- | {land were reduced to eating rats or |

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P).—~Japa- |

LONDON, Sept. 8 (U, P.) —Britthe ish military spokesmen sald a band still is fightBritish imperial forces {southeastern Burma in defiance of |

in an an- Emperor Hirohito's surrender proc-

nouncement yesterday which said lamation, more than 3000 Japanese on the | rein« island had been killed by Ameri- holding strong positions can bombs and shells, or died of the BSittang starvation, since overwhelming the | Chaung, U. 8, marines’ garrison on Dec. 23, al. on

to be between and Shwegyin|

The Japanese were said

river

[the latter stream toward the Thai-| \land border.

Jap Guards Worked 2 POW's To Death, Kinkaid Charges

flogged almost dally. | pitiful scars,

|The American troops reached that

2000 5 Confinue Fighting in Burma

in|

trying to fall back across

Many bore including one man

Y Japs Awed By Display Of American Military Might, Size Of Soldiers

By late afternoon the sul Nips,

vehicles.

A few minutes ago the inevitable happéned. We were approached by a Jap who bowed and asked:

cigaret 7

go apparent in the morning, had melted away. Crowds of curious gathered around jeeps and other parked

len, frigid attitude of the

[1] Gotta

300,000 FACE

WAR T

IN GERMANY

Hearings of Nazi Bigwigs Start Next Month; ‘Small Fry’ Will Follow Soon After.

By LYLE C. United Press Staff

WASHINGTON, Sept. 8.—Trial of 300,000 to 400,000 wok. | Germans on charges of criminal wartime actions is exs pected to follow the master tridl of big shot criminals to the west, scheduled to begin in Nuernberg next month,

The United Press was gi

reliable and informed individual, meee pap dy have been named for the master trial which will be conducted by : commissioners

WARNS: T-GIRLS AGAINST SPIES

Army Briefer Surprises 23 Treasury Workers.

By EDWARD P. MORGAN Times Foreign Correspondent FRANKFURT, Germany, Sept. 8.

—Twenty-three United States treasury department girls, who ave just flown here fo Ww work for 1 3 ary ‘government, revealed oy that their army briefing officer at the Washington airport solemnly warned them that Europe was full of “Communistic spies.” He also instructed them to tell anybody who inquired that President Truman was making good in the White House and that the late President Roosevelt's memory Is being perpetuated. But they were told to keep their mouths shut about the Pear] Harbor disaster and the Negro question in the U. 8. A. The incident was carefully relat{ed “to this correspondent by A spokesman for the group, an experienced treasury department secretary of more than-five years, who paturally remains anonymous.

“I couldn’t believe my ears,’ ' she sald. She didn't know whether the

officer's routine followed a govern-

ment directive for briefing Europe-«i.

bound American travelers, or was some extemporaneous orientation {work of his own.

DIES AFTER BEING

iy France, the Soviet Union |and the United States. -

Goering, Rudolf Hess and hat included in the indictments is ph

the Nazi 8. 8. and the gestapo were criminal organizations, It is ex~

Nuernberg proceedings.

RIALS

WILSON Correspondent

ven that figure today by. 8 a i Twenty-four persons al-

and prosecutors representing Great

This group includes Hermann

Nazi stars.

pected that this charge will be proven adequately during the

Matter of Summary Thereafter the trial of

summary procedure. The gestapo members will make up large part of the 300,000 to 400,000

Rumors Revive Hunt for Hitler

LONDON, Sept. 8 (U, P.).— British press dispatches from Germany sald today that British intelligence officers had intensified investigation of reports “too strong to ig= nore” that Adolf Hitler and his chief deputy, Martin Bormani, had been seen recently in Hamburg. Investigators are also inquiring along the Elbe estuary, extending their search toward Kiel and Emden, the dispatches sald.

persons whose trial and - punishe ment is forecast. Some members of these’ eriminal organizations will escape punish ment on grounds that they were forced into membership and 00= erced into obedience:

STRUCK: BY AUTO

‘Charles Garahan, 71, Run! Over by Automobile.

Charles Garahan, T1, of 75556 Terrace beach, died early today at City hospital after he was struck by an {automobile driven by Robert Gauchat, 21, of route 13, box 635, at 75th st, west of Keystone ave, Police were called by Mr, Gauchat, who reported that he was driving slowly because of the fog and that suddenly he saw a form {lying in the street immediately in {front of him.

As. the figure was too close, for!

‘him to swerve, Mr, Gauchat told police he tried to “straddle” it with | his wheels, Mr. _|speak when the police arrived, io (he had lain down to ‘rest. | asked police to take him home, _ Sing that he wasn't hurt badly. Police told- the elderly man that they would take him to city hose

pital for a check up. The 1. | Garahan stated he had a wife, Detroit, He

| Edith, who was in died in the admitting room,

FLEET FLAG - | whose face was battered and mis-|

of war—including survivors of the British evacuation of Dunkerque were forced to work from dawn to the flash of a photographer's bulbs | 4 isk in the sweltering shafts of the | behind-—too ill to be moved, Navy

The two prisoners who were re-

8.—~Japanese guards at shapen from a broken jaw suftered WAINWRIGHT T0 GET

a Formosa prisoner of war campiat the hands of a sadistic Japanese, literally. worked two unsuccessful guard. escapees to death, Adm, Thomas C.| Kinkaid, commander of the Tth| | captured after an escape attempt |

‘BIG WELCOME IN U. S.

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 8 (U.P. —B8an Prancisco today prepared a

were driven at extra shifts of 1abor| hero's welcome for Gen. Jonathan More than 1200 allied prisoners) until they collapsed and died.

|living skeletons. Some were lef

Prisoners broke down and wep

Most of the prisoners brought aboard 7th fleet ships resembled

M. Wainwright, who was to see his native land for the first time after more than three years in Japanese| {prin camps, Wainwright, commander of the

|Kinkaseki copper mines of northi-| hospital teams reported that many troops who fought the Japanese on lern Formosa or on planfations op- probably. will die. ‘erated by camp commandants. i

| Bataan . and Corregidor until the tL bitter end, was scheduled to arrive

Kinkaid said revised figures for- at their first square meal in more at Hamilton Field today en route ‘warded to him by airborne rescue | than three years.

teams at Formosa showed some 89 prisoners were were Americans, most of camps, which were clustered chiefly j{ hie. survivors of the Bataan death! around Taihoki, met the rescue ; i din with wide ao sui and polite

ars

Japanese comma nders

of the

[to Washington, Tomorrow he will take part in a San Francisco victory parade which officials said will include the frst public view of je secret

| Garahan, who was able to

The Nuernberg master trial is expected to be the last joint prose= cution by the four powers. The thousands of additiona] individuals would be tried by local courts of various kinds, including military courts and courts of liberated states, The 24 master trial defendants, if they are present for the event, almost unquestionably will be exe= cuted, the United Press was ins formed. One still is missing, Mar« tin Bormann, Adolf Hitler's secre« tary, has not been accounted for, Another—Goering—is ill and may not live. long. Goering has been suffering heart attacks. The fat fellow was a drug addict.

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EXPLAINS OPPOSITION Tf, WOLF LAKE PARK

Milton Matter, director of the {Indiana State Department of Con= ge |eFVation, clarified the department's yo stand today against establishment of the Wolf Lake state park at Hammond. : Matter said ‘that the decision against the project merely meant that the department’ disapproved the site as a state park because it did not conform to “long-estab- = lished” policy on the Indiana state park system. The director pointed out that the decision would not prevent sups porters of the Wolf Lake - project from establishing a Lake county park on fhe site or from their getting funds from the legislature for the purpose.

SO SORRY _ ; SYDNEY, Sept. 8 (U. PJ, \ anese Li: Gen. Kand most “lost more than gainville during cere ‘he surrendered the Solo “He tore his pants off his sword. After