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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1945

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spector Don Tooley.

To combat the ever-rising tide of crime, police and their auxiliaries met this morning to map strategy. Shown are (left to right) Police Chief Jesse McMurtry, Maj. Harry Houghtalen of the auxiliary and In-

RUG-CHEWING MYTH—

Hitler Doped

Doctors Say

By EDWARD P. MORGAN Times Foreign Correspondent

OBER-URSEL, Germany, Sept. 14. — Adolf Hitler, an itinerant Austrian house painter — whose delusions of grandeur plunged civilization into the most tragic mess it has ever known—was inspired by hypodermic needles, but he never chewed carpets. Today he is as dead as Pharoah. This is the unanimous and hitherto unrevealed opinion of four of der

fuehrer's pers Mr, Morgan gonal physicians, who are preparing here for the

American army the most detailed $%dy of the dictator's life ‘that may ever be compiled. : This report, which already bulks 175 pages after six weeks’ work, may take another two months to finish. Then its highlights will be released to the world, according to Brig. Gen. Edwin Luther Sibert, chief intelligence officer of U, 8. occupation forces in Germany. # » # A VISIT to “Dulag Luft,” six miles from Frankfurt—a former German prison camp for allied airmen where Nazi war criminals and war prisoners themselves are being held now in sweet poetic justice—also developed the following kernels of information about Hitler's henchmen: Walther Funk, once powerful president of the Reichsbank, is now a flabby patient in a Frankfurt hospital. He was taken to the hospital from his quarters here two weeks #g0 in excruciating pain. ® 8 =» KARL HAUSHOFER, 76-year-old founder of the Gropolitical Institute—whose ideas spurred Hitler's plans for world conquest «became ailing of high blood pressure and a weak heart, while a prisoner here. The authorities

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KILLED IN AUTO WRECK SHELBYVILLE, Ind., Sept. 14 (U, P.).—Jose 8. Foster, 16, Greensburg, was killed in a collision of two passenger automobiles three miles east of here last night.

LOCAL TEMPERATURES

UNREST GROWS IN ARGENTINA

Plot to Overthrow Present Leaders Reported.

BUENOS AIRES, , Sept. 14 (U. P.) —Vice President Col. Juan Peron conceded in an extraordinary proclamation today that a plot to overthrow: the Argentine government was gaining support and called upon the army to resist. all appeals to revolt. % Peron charged that leaders of the conspiracy already were seeking supporters within the army with full knowledge that any revolt! would fail without them. ! While the conspirators had failed | to organize the mass of Argentine public opinion, he said, “It is undeniable that many people . . , carried away by their love of freedom and democracy fell victims to & propaganda which spared neither resources nor means.” Peron named as leaders of the conspiracy: : 2 ONE: Politicians defeated in the

“who are using even infamy to promote foreign intervention.” TWO: Employers who resist Peron’s social policies in his concurrent post of secretary of labor, THREE: Capitalists who suffered at the hands of the present government. : At the same time, Peron promised that there ultimately would be free elections in Argentina in which the will of the majority would prevail regardless of the results. Gaining Support Government police last night closed the anti-government local labor union, which boasted a membership of 200,000 and rapidly was weaning away supporters of Peron’s rival general labor confederation. The United States has put Argentina in a class with former enemy countries so far as post-war trade was concerned. There were rumors that Peron was contemplating a move to force the resignation of Foreign Minister Dr. Juan I, Cooke, who has been attempting to bring about some measure of rapprochement between the United States and Argentina,

BRITISH WAR CRIMES COMMITTEE CHOSEN

LONDON, Sept. 14 (U. P.),~Appointment of British war crimes executive committee members has been completed by Attorney General 8ir Hartley Shawcross, the foreign office announced today. Members include Shaweross, chairman; Sir David Maxwell Fyfe, deputy chairman; Sir Frank Soskice, solicitor general, and 11 others.

BULGARS COMING TO U. 8, LONDON, Sept. 14 (U. P.).—An unofficial Bulgarian political mission has left Sofia for the U. 8. a Bul-

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garian source here said tonight.

Public Makes $

In Trolley Token Purchases

Indianapolis Railways has been nicked for about $10,000 by bar-gain-hunting token buyers, When the announcement was made just a little over a week ago that tokens, which have been selling four for 25 cents, would go up tomorrow to eight for 55 cents, the public begap buying up tokens. The company normally has one

TIMES INDEX

Amusements. , 24

10,000 Profit’

million tokens in circulation and half a million or so in reserve. By today that reserve had melted to practically zero, even though a limit of eight to a customer was put into effect early this week. The utility tried to order another half million but was told it would be a month before they could be delivered, So some tickets were printed hastily, just in case. #It was a good thing because some

tokens when they ran out today. . There was talk that if the loss

D.| Pack in navy appropriations.

mendation ferring at the White Houseewith top naval | concerned with navy ‘legislation.

June, 1948, "revolution and those [Sifuetion: program, and. on. various,

lines had to substitute tickets for|

Truman Asks Navy Cutback Of $17 Billion

WASHINGTON, Sept. 14 (U, P). —President Truman today recommended to congress a $17 billion cut-

He suggested a $11,518,301,253 cut in current appropriations and authorizations for the navy department and $5,306,252,674 in unrequired balances of past year's appropriations. : The President "sent the recomto congress after conand congressional officials Mr. Truman asked congress to “give consideration to a complete review of . existing legislation authorizing theiconstruction of naval vessels.” Based on Program . : The President's recommendations were based on the navy's 250,000-man-a-month demobilization program on cutbacks in its ship con-

other related cuts in expenses. resulting from the end of the war, | In his letter to congress, Mr. Truman said that full consideration had been given “to the tremendous problem of demobilization and the yet undetermined requirements for a peace-time navy” before the cutback figures were decided on.

PEARL HARBOR

crime situation today were: sol ders Were Vis.

ime at times to exercise that degree

ONE: Auxiliary police will} be thrown into’ the fight against crime tonight as they

dianapolis.

cordon. | watch

continued a vigilant over

{and fatally beaten. {had developed in numerous slugging | citizens to co-operate with the.aux- {others will cruise in iliary officers and enlisted their aid marked “Auxiliary Police” a daylight holdup of a filling sta-| City and auxiliary police heads|in the fight by requesting prompt | cards. tion today eluded a nine-car police | met today to map the part which| |the auxiliary forces are to play in|

TWO: Stick-up men who staged | cases.

FOUR: Police still faced a blank

No new leads

| |

THREE: Military police Fatmisfivie campaign against crime.

The auxiliary force of 150 men |

NO KID GLOVES, MACARTHUR'S EDICT ON JAPS

Closes Domei News Agency As He Disclaims ‘Soft Peace’ Talk.

By WILLIAM B. DICKINSON United Press Staff Correspondent

TOKYO, Sept. 14.—Gen. Douglas MacArthur today closed Japan’s last propaganda outlet, the official Domei news agency. He also answered critics of a “soft peace” with an announcement that he has no intentibn of applying surrender terms in “kid-gloved fashion.” ' MacArthur said the Japanese government already wag “completely controlled” by occupation forces and pledged the “prompt, complete and entire fulfillment of the terms of surrender.” First Phase Different

“It is extraordinarily difficult for

of patience which is unquestionably demanded if long-time policies which have been decreed are to be successfully accomplished without repercussions which would be detrimental to the well-being of the world,” he stated.

“But +1. amp. restl g. myself fo the best of my Sp MacArthur explained that the

first phase of the occupation of necessity was based on military considerations involving the landing of American troops, demobiliza-~ tion of the enemy, and rescue and

SO HAPPY, PAL— Fawning Japs Wine & Dine 'Chummy Gls

By GERALD R, THORP Times Foreign Correspondent TOKYO, Sept. 14.~The occupa~ tion of Japan has turned into a tourist's trek for army personnel and correspondents. It has become a gold mine for a people which a month ago was resigned

They will be attired in the regular

go on patrol duty all over In-| Dorothy Steck, who was attacked be armed with regulatiorr clubs, Police Chief Jesse McMurtry asked shifts, some patrolling in pairs while | up when he went in to get a spark

reports to police of any crimes. i “The auxiliary police are out report to the police station regu- men. “to larly through Gamewell calls. Chief | | McMurtry and Maj,

there for business,” he said, help us stop this crime.”

AUTO WORKERS T0 PRESS FOR

Union Leaders Hit ‘Wildcat’ Strikes: Ask for United Effort.

to fight us to the death. # No one who talks through i the streets of } Tokyo can § longer cherish the illusion that 31 one of these fine fall days | suddenly there will be a sem= blance of stern= ness in our at-

Mr. Thorp titude toward our “hosts.” Things have gone too far for that. We are being wined, dined and fawned upon by big and little

people in Tokyo, And we are acting as pleased as a schoolgirl, who gives an apple to teacher and gets a smile in return. » » THE ‘JAPANESE, considerate of pleasure-seeking Yanks without recreation in Tokyo, have opened a huge beer hall for “personnel of the U. 8. army, navy and marine corps.” #+ The opening Was a gala affair. rty M. P.'s were on duty, The Americans have stripped department stores and shops of geegaws and knick-knacks, paying prices which have more than doubled in a week. Everyone smiles when a ‘sale is

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PROBERS NAMED

6 Democrats, 4 Refublicans Form Committee.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 14 (U, P). -A 10 member joint congressional

crats and four Republicans was named today ,to investigate the Pearl Harbor disaster. The group probably will be headed by Senate Majority Leader Alben

of the five senators on the committee. Barkley was author of the resolution proposing the investiga tion, Other senate members are Senators Walter F. George (D, Ga.), Scott W.- Lucas (D. Ill), Owen Brewster (R. Me.), and Homer Fer guson (R. Mich.). House Members

The five house members are Reps. Jere Cooper (D., Tenn.), J. Bayard Clark (D. N. C.), John W. Murphy (D. Pa.), Frank Keefe (R, Wis,) and Bertrand Gearhart (R. Cal). The senate appointments were

McKellar (D. ‘Tenn,), president of the senate, House members of the committee were named by Speaker Sam Rayburn, The congressional committed 1s expected to start ‘work shortly, It will study the reports of previous investigations of the Japanese attack on Dec. 7, 1041, against the Hawalian naval base—including the still<secret parts of the army and navy findings.

GOV. GATES OPPOSES FEDERAL AID BILL

Governor Gates was on record today as opposed to provisions of the Kilgore bill to bolster state unem-

ployment compensation benefits with federal money, wrote to U. 8. Sepator

Walter FP. George (D. Ga.) yester-

committee composed of six Demo-| §

W. Barkley (Ky.), who will be one|

announced by Senator Kenneth DJ

M. 8, ... saved a ship.

Kin Hear of Ensign’s Bravery

Mrs. Fern H. Gruber and her daughters Pat, left, and Judy, examine a fragment of a Jap suicide plane,

Ensign Edward J. Gruber, U. 8. Petty Officer 1-¢ Richard T.

Gruber . , , near Guam, tJ n ”

Y. BUTLER

That's .the kind of phrase they use in military citations for ex-

“And if 22-year-old Ensign Edward J. Gruber, U. 8. maritime serviee, 1933 N. Alabama st, had been in the army or navy instead:of the metchant marine, he would undoubtedly have been decorated with the!

{same work

DETROIT, Sept. 14 (U. 'P.).—The automobile industry today faced a powerpacked demand for a general 30 per cent wage increase. The international executive board of the United Automobile Workers (C. I. 0.) cracked down

will ing.

30% PAY HIKE|

lice Called To Fight Crime

Developments in the city’s servicemen in Indianapolis to pre- will go on foot patrol and cruising | An office for auxiliary police of-|will direct the combined operation, | vent recurrences of crimes in which duty tonight after gettin, nstruc-

|ficers is being set up in the police] Edward Baldwin, operator of the tions at the regular police rollcall, |

station, from which Major Harry | Shell filling station at 1643 KE; auxiliary commandant, | Washington st., was robbed of $73

The men will work in irregular in

private cars pl by white |

Assigned auxiliary - officers

uis-1at

| police cruisers and an emergency: will | car into play to catch the holdup

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10:30-a. m. by two stick-up men. The men drove into his station a black Chevrolet and stuck him

ug for them. i The robbery report brought nine

Two suspects were picked

Holdup Victim

Edward Baldwin , . , another day-

on both management and defiant “wildcat” strikes. The board, aiming at a systematic pressure strategy to enforce’ its wage demand, called officers of Local 174 to a hearing to show cause for continuance of the 29-day-old {strike of 4500 workers at the Kelsey-Hayes Wheel Co. The workers have defied a board { back-to-work order, which carried | the threat that international offi- | cers ‘would appoint an administraitor to gun the local. The strike | halted Ford car output for five days. The Kelsey-Hayes dispute and l other lingering strikes made almost 22,000 workers idle in Detroit alone. Warns Against “Wildcats” The 10,000 strikers at Ford motor company's Windsor plant, who parred 1200 office workers from their jobs, brought the total idle | for the area to almost 33,000. The U. A. W. executive board warned its members against “wildcat” strikes, which might upset its strategy for forcing industry into line on the wage demand. The U. A. W. said it would call no general strike to force acceptance of its proposals. Instead the U. A. W. international executive board said © yesterday, the auto workers will pick one corporation as a “test” company and concentrate all its strike powers there, ' R, J. Thomas, U. A. W. president, said “we hope we won't have to use this strategy, We are not interested in putting firms out of business.” He sald the U. A, W. was already filing a petition ta hold a strike vote in all plants,

Blanket Increase

Thomas did not say how the “test” plant would be picked in the |

five-point program: ONE: A request for a 1 per cent increase to standardize pay for the in the same type of] plants throughout the industry; a 3 per cent increase for equalization of wages between jobs; 3 per cent for a social security plan including hospitalization, sickness and death benefits, and 23 per cent for a blanket wage increase for all auto workers. *

TWO: No local union will be permitted to accept less than a 30 per cent payroll boost. However, if a settlement is reached for less, the acceptance by the union shall not abrogate its right to seek more money. THREE: The executive board agrees not to take any general wage demands to the WLB, and will. withdraw, demands now before the WLB, FOUR: Wherever wage demands are started, all union resources will be concentrated on obtaining the increase from that particular corporation, i FIVE: Three regional conferences will be held in the West, Midwest and the East in the near future to keep regional and local union officials informed on U. A. W's grand strategy.

RECONVERSION ROAD GOOD, SCHRAM-SAYS

Heconversion prospects are good, according to Emil Schram, native of Peru, Ind., who is president of the New York Stock Exchange. Attending a meeting yesterday of the advisory committee of the state department of commerce and public relations, Mr. Schram said that reconversion was moving along faster than had been expected. ’ Declining fo discuss the remote

A x : For Ensign Gruber saged the 8.'a letter to The Times dated Nov. | that the sale of scarce consumer

r censorship until yesterday. y

=| The letter describes

Ruth Millett.. 19 day that the Kilgore bill was un- atom Eddie Ash ... 26| Movies ..... «= BALI0. Siken Siogeding wus We lage fair. He explained that the largest By HENR Ned Brooks... 2{Dr. O'Brien... 19 Hoi y uy new ones and | gunniementary payments would be Above and beyond the call of duty. Business ..... 16|Obisaries ,,.. 13|€xc 80 hem Yo She od 2 made by the federal government to Comics ...... 21|Radio ....,... 27|getting might Ve | states whose pensation benefl J Crossword ... 21|Ration Dates . ‘a|been impossible, even if they coUd | scares wera ths rr A aol David Dietz .. 19 Mrs. Roosevelt 18 been bought cheaply enough . Editorials .... 20| Anton Scherrer 20 '0 Maks an exchange worth while) ~cwEss GROUPS ELECTS Edw. Evans .. 20 Wm. P, Simms 20 LOGANSPORT, Ind., Sept. 14 (U, als. : Savi wee 201SpOMS ...... 2¢| Figuring 1600000 tokens in eir-ip) "Glen Donley, iG Se. 14 re- Migah fucted medals (mained as president of the Indiana's, Chess association today after aitering and death-dealing disaste meeting last night In during the battle of Leyte in Oc Were. re-elected. tober, 1044:© = | \

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Benjamin I. Wheeler from shat- 6, 1944, and delayed in delivery by 800ds

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‘economic future, Mr. Schram sald

should assure

immediate | prosperity. : !

at ‘length! In Indiana for a two-week vaca-|

|tion, Mr. Schram attended the

event of a strike. He outlined this th

13,000 DOCTORS

| ME SOON the elements—the heating rains and "The storm ps winds, re

25,000 Nurses and 3500 Dentists Qut Jan. 1.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 14 (U. P). —The war department today announced details of a plan to return 13,000 physicians, 25,000 nurses, 3500 dentists and many other army medical department officers to civilian life by the end of this year, By July, 1946, the war department said, it expects to release 30,~ 000 doctors, 10,000 dentists and more than 40,000 nurses—a 70 per cent cut in the medical corps’ peak strength on V<E day. Any army doctor or dentist, with the exception of about 200 scarce

specialists, may now be released if he: 1. Was in service before Pearl Harbor. 2. Is 48 or older. 3. Has 80 or more discharge points,

100 Points Reduced Heretofore doctors and dentists needed 100 points for discharge, or 120 if their particular skills were classified as scarce. The previous | discharge age was 50. The pre-Pearl Harbor qualification is new. Any one of the three qualifica~ | tions is sufficient for discharge. Army nurses will be released if) they have 35 points, or if they are | 35 years old, or if they are married | or if they have a dependent less an 14 years old. Nurses formerly had to have 65 points or had to be 40 years old to be released. |

‘BOY USES DYNAMIT

ON JAIL AT KOKOMO

KOKOMO, Sept. 14 (U. P)~| Sheriff Lew Stewart said today that a mystery blast heard in Kokomo Wednesday night was caused by dynamite which David Anthony, 15, exploded in the basement window of the Howard county jail. Stewart said Anthony apparently was angered when he was refused permission to visit his 17-year-old brother, Pearl in jail. Dayid con-| fessed stealing four sticks of dynamite. He said he wanted to scare! the jail inmates. The explosion windows in one

| blew out all the! wall of the county | highway garage and two basement windows of the jail, but failed to! damage the walls of either building, |

URGES NATIONAL LOTTERY

benefit of disabled veterans.

FLORIDA GOES

‘Hurricane Sweeping Over

P.).—All of Florida was alerts ‘ed today for a severe hurris cane which was sweeping across ‘storm threatened to horthward tonight and possibly light holdup victim. strike the peninsula. : :

‘ing into the center to bring back

| Miami were halted before they en«

| (Delayed) (U, P.).—American and

WASHINGTON, Sept. 14 (U, P.).[the 38th parallel into the Russians ~Rep. Willlam B. Barry (D. N. Y.).|occupied zone of northern Korea. It today proposed a national lottery to|was the first contact between the provide a “tremendous fund” for the | Russian and American allies in the =

ON ALERT FOR SEVERE STORM:

Bahamas Threatens to Roar North.

MIAMI, Fla., Sept. 14 (Us

The slice

the Bahamas.

Residents of the Miami area and the Florida keys—made hurricane conscious by past storms—hastily began making preparations to fight

The storm passed over Turks iss’ land in the British West Indies as a “very intense small center” about 2 a. m. (Indianapolis time), the weather bureau said, ’ It was keeping a course that, if continued, would make the center pass below Key West, Fla, But the bureau warned that a slow curve to northward might set im after 12 to 18 hours. Fliers Check Storm

Weather observation planes of the army and navy were keeping constant watch on the storm, plung«

reports on its velocity, direction and speed of movement: Por three days, since ft first ap« peared as‘a disturbance on weather charts far in the Atlantic, the spe~ cially equipped aircraft had been on the job. The Red Cross here was in a preéliminary alert. Arrangements long have been made for food, shelter, and clothing to those who prefer to Jeave their homes, or are forced to. Emergency rescue crews know their jobs, At army and navy fields, pilots stood by their planes to fly them out ahead of danger. > 3 Air transport command planes flying veterans from Europe into

tered the Caribbean area. The huge Miami army air field's “green city," where internees can be housed in tents for a short time after arrival, was almost leveled,

No Flights Cancelled

Soldiers-worked to shutter luxury hotels on Miami beach. Thousands of returnees are housed in these hostelries, If the storm hits here, the. men will be confined to thelr | hotels. 4 Pan-American Airways said no flights yet had been cancelled, but added they were watching the situs ation “closely.” The last time winds of such velo= city swept out of the Caribbean into the Florida keys, 400 persons were | killed. That was in September, 1935, Seventeen years ago yesterday, another high velocity hurricane hit = Puerto Rico and took 3300 fives there and then swept on to Florida, killing 2500 along the peninsula,

YANKS MEET WITH RUSSIANS IN KOREA

KINKO ADVANCE RUSSIAN HEADQUARTERS, Korea, Sept. 11

British correspondents today crossed =

former Japanese-¢ontrolled nation.

Windsor to Vis In October—

NEW YORK, Sept. 14 (U. P.) ~~

The Duke of Windsor said today that he expects to visit England about the first week in October, But the Duchess will not accoms= pany himn to the British isles on that trip. » He said he expected to takeithe Duchess to England with ‘him: at sothe later date. : : At a press conference just before sailing aboard the Argentina for L¢ Havre, the Duke disclosed that he and the Duchess are going direct to Paris, They wil move into their rented apartment there, Later they will go to Antibes in the south of France, mo The Duke said he looked forward

very much to §

‘Gov. Richard T.

the office of

seeing his mother,

Wi ,

it England Without Wally

have seen my mother,” he said. The duke was asked, “do you gare to discuss the change in British politics?" ¥ : ; ! “I'm afraid that is a subject on which I have had to: keep my opinions ‘to myself,” he replied. “Are you going to get- another job?” he was asked. f *«1f there was one I thought IT could do well,” the duke replied.’ He was asked if there was any chance that he and the duchess eventually would set up a home in England. 3 La “I have no definite plans,” he res plied. Then he was asked if there any reason why be should not. “No, none at all,” he ‘The d

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