Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 September 1945 — Page 1

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58M, STORM LASHES MIAMI * GAINING SPEED

Main Force of 150-Mile Wind May Miss City; Keys to Be Hit.

BULLETIN MIAMI, Fla, Sept. 15 (U. P.).— Winds of 58 miles per hour whipped down Miami's palm-lined streets today. But the weather bureau said the main force of a 150-mile an hour tropical hurricane would miss the ¢ity, The barometer pressure was falling from Miami to Key West, and the winds were increasing in

strength. The center was to pass south of Miami.

MIAMI, Fla., Sept. 15 (U. P.).— A tropical hurricane will bring 125 mile per hour winds to the Florida keys this afternoon, Miami will feel winds of not

more than 75 miles an hour, the weather bureau said today. A 9:20 a. m. (Indianapolis time) report predicted the storm center would pass between Key Largo and Key West by mid-afternoon. It was

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located 150 miles east of Key West, sticking fo the west-northwest course it set four days ago. A swing to the northward, which might bring the storm over Florida in full fury, still was considered possible but a pressure area in the Gulf of Mexico area might stop any deflection from the present course,

Johnson said the Miami area should receive only “near hurricane” winds. Hurricane strength is rated at 75 miles an hour. He said that if the center passes over the Keys and continues into the Gulf of Mexico, it would remain & powerful storm, The Keys

break it up. Prepared for Seige While squalls hammered the battened down southeastern coast and residents made final preparations to fight the elements, Key West reported the sun was peeping through the clouds and the people apparently were unconcerned. Key Westers sre hurricane wise. The weather bureau early today placed all the tip of the state on a hurricane basis, Vessels sought port, windows were boarded and emergency stocks laid in. The weather bureau ordered hurricane warnings hoisted from Ft. Lauderdale south through the Keys. Storm warnings were up as far north as Melbourne on the east eoast and Tampa on the west coast. The east Florida coast was warned that the center may swerve northward to cut across the mainland. Bahamas Damage High The hurricane caused tremendous property damage as it swept over Turks island in the southern Bahamas. Observers said it appeared to pick up force as it left the islands for the sweep across the open water to Florida.

Army and navy fliers reported that winds in the center reached as high as 150 miles an hour. Center ‘winds were believed to be as strong as those in the September 1935 storm which killed more than 400 persons in the Florida Keys. All disaster units of the Red Cross, army and navy were alerted for full emergency duty. Public buildings were prepared for persons evacuating their homes. Military personnel housed in the former luxury hotels were confined to their buildings. Personnel from nearby bases were taken to Hialeah race track last night for protection in the track's heavy concrete stands. Houses Boarded Up

Home-owners boarded up their houses and beachfront residents prepared to move into public buildings today. Many of them moved out last night, Stores reported heavy runs on food supplies, flashlights and candles. Restrictions on the sale of

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REDEPLOYMENT RECORD CITED

Army Officials Point to Speeded Operation.

By EDWARD P. MORGAN Times Foreign Correspondent FRANKFURT, Germany, Sept. 15. —Congressional commotion over alleged lags in getting our soldiers home, leaves American army officers in the European theater seemingly’ unperturbed today. “They can’t be aiming at us” seems to be the prevalent reaction of high authorities of the U. 8S.

one whose key assignment since V-J day has been redeployment. It was recalled that in the last four months, approximately 1,100,000 troops have been shipped out of Europe and that redeployment today is continuing at the colossal rate of 400,000 troops a month. Army officers, with some pardonable pride, recalled that this figure contrasted with the buildup of between 3,000,000 and 4,000,000 American troops in Europe, which took nearly three years to accomplish after Pearl Harbor, “I feel that we can pat ourselves on the back without much fear of criticism on our redeployment assignment,” one general said. One overriding impression here is that much of the Washitigton palaver today over demobilization is dic~ tated by local considerations, including some vote-getting tactics which are expected to die down as the U. 8. becomes adjusted once again to peace. It is admitted that there are undoubtedly some isolated cases of injustice where a man with 95 points is “temporarily: forgotten while somebody less eligible is shipped home. But it is argued that these are exceptions If there is a single ship going home. from Europe with any extra space, it is news to the U. 8, forces in Europe authorities. And it is something they intend to rectify instantly if it ever actually happens, they promise.

LANSING FIRE ENGINE HITS INTER-GITY BUS

At Least 18 Persons Are Injured in Crash.

LANSING, Mich., Sept. 15 (U, P). ~At least 18 \persons were injured today, most of' them seriously, when a Lansing city fire engine plowed into an inter-city bus loaded with Saturday shoppers,

CHARGE YOUTH WITH |. SLUGGING OF NURSES

Albert McKenna, 17, of 536 E. 30th

"Welcome Home, Cecil’

Mom fried the fatted chicken.

First Local Prisoner Home From Japan Wants Chicken

By DEAN TIMMERMAN Those three words were fepeated time and again last night as family and friends crowded 1638 Carrollton ave. to greet Cecil Eugene Baker, the first Indianapolis boy to return home from a prison camp

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mammoth platter of fried chicken that he'd been longing for during vears of constant hunger and Jap brutalism. He wired home yesterday to tell his mother to have it on the menu. Fireman 1-c Baker was one of 42 survivors of the U, 8. S. Sculpin when it was sunk by a Jap destroyer Nov, 19, 1943, off Japan. He was liberated Aug. 29 from a camp near Tokyo and flown back to Great Lakes, Ill. ” s » DURING his imprisonment Fireman Baker fell from 160 to 97 pounds. He got back a little weight when {liness forced the Japs to take him off work in a copper mine and put him on duty in a kitchen where he could steal food. After.he described the fare of prisoners, his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Chester O. Baker, understood why fried chicken was one of the first: things he had thought about in connection with home. “Our food was mostly steamed chicken feed, about the size of buckshot and just about as hard, and a soup made of raddish and carrot tops and potato and tomato vines,” Fireman Baker said as he tore into another drumstick last night, ” » » AFTER JAPS picked him up out of the water, the prisoner spent 10 days at Truk where he was beaten regularly by his captors. He later was taken to Ofuni camp, where allied survivors were questioned for military information and beaten. After he reached the camp in which hé was to be held at Ashino, the sailor was put to work in a copper mine. Prisoners

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OWI ENDS DOMESTIC BRANCH ACTIVITIES

Handled War News During Past Three Years.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 15 (U, P), ~The domestic news bureau of the office of war information closed up shop last midnight after three years of operations, Domestic OWI has run the largest news room in Washington; it has “cleared” thousands of news releases of the war agencies to keep down inter-agency conflicts and duplication and guard war secrets; it has. dist d releases to corre. spondents sent them out on mailing lists to all parts of the country,

VANORMAN'S WIFE IS AWARDED DIVORCE

MT. VERNON, Ind, Sept. 15 (U. P.) ~Harriett VanOrman, Evans

awarded a divorce today in Posey count circuit court’ from Harold VanOrman, Midwest and Evansville hotel operstor. She was awarded $21,580 alimony, the largest ever awarded in Posey She also was awardResi of her 8-year-old som, and a monthly of $100 for his support.

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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1945

* By ROGER BUDROW IF YOU RAISE the fares of 54 million trackless trolley riders and 42 million streetcar riders,

how can the public save $100,000 or more a:year through a fare cut for only 23 million bus riders? That is the $64 ‘question which has stumped a number of people since last week's announcement of new fares on Indianapolis Rail« ways, starting today. ‘ Well, three months from today they ought to have the answer. For the new fares must

go on a. three-month trial before being finally approved by the state public service commis sion. The most that the public could save would be $130,000, the public service commission figures. But if 5 per cent of the riders pay cash instead of buying tokens, the public would be paying $23,000 a year more than it is now, The new fares, temporarily end~ ing a 2'%-year-old rate case, are this: Eight tokens will cost 55 cents, instead of the former four for 25

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Will Riders Save $100,000? Time Will Tell

cents, but they will be good on busses which charged 10 cents formerly, in addition to streetcars and trolleys. Cash fare will be 10 cents; it's been 7 cents on streetcars and trolleys. Transfers still will cost 2 cents but you'll need only one, no matter how many times you transfer, Feeder line transfers remain free, Owl line (after midnight) charges, formely 10 cents, will be the same as the new daytime charges. When the public service come mission announced that the pub-

lic would save $100,000 to $130,000 a year under the new schedule, it assumed two things, because you

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have to make some assumptions in such calculations. But neithes of the assumptions will be completely true. The commission assumed that as many people would be riding the streetcars, trolleys and busses the last six months of this year as did the first six months, for which they had actual figures to work with, But the layoff of many war workers and the end of gasoline

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rationing is already slicing the number of riders, The first 10 days of this month. showed an 8.26 per cent drop from the same period of last year. The. result is that any saving would be smaller. ; The other assumption was that everybody would buy tokens. Un= der the former rates, about 25 per cent of the streetcar and trolley passengers, the only ve= hicles on which tokens could be used, paid cash. They saved only

WAGE STRIKES SPREAD WITH 160,000 IDLE

Ford Plants Shutdown as Auto Industry Faces New Demands.

By UNITED PRESS A post-war strike wave flared today into a major economic battle. The nation’s labor forces girded to keep wages at war-

time levels and spread work opportunities in the reconversion period. Industrialists claimed wage increases were inconsistent with the government hold-down on prices. As the total number of workers idled by strikes soared past 160,000, the C. I. O. United Automobile Workers union yesterday served notice of revolutionary tactics to force wages up. The executive board of the big C. I. O. union, representing 1,250,000 automobile workers, unveiled a power-packed weapon—a systemwide strike of ‘a single company-— to be used, if needed, to gain a 30 per cent wage boost for the industry. Swiftly on the heels of this announcement came a statement from Ford Motor Co. in Detroit that, plagued by suppliers work stoppages, it had ‘laid off 50,000 employees, halting production: of Ford cars.

Steel Raise Sought

A similar blanket demand for wage increases came from the United Steel Workers of America This was answered from management's standpoint last night in New York by Benjamin J. Fairless,, president of the U. 8. Steel Corp. Fairless, commenting on the steelworkers’ request for a $2 a day pay hike, said flatly there could be no wage raises without an increase in steel prices. The steel company executive said that steel production prices were already “so high in relation to OPA ceiling prices that two-thirds of the industry’s production of ordinary steel products is now being sold at an average loss.” Brig. Gen. Leonard P. Ayres, vice president of the Cleveland Trust Co., held that reconversion employment was not depression employ: ment. Ayres said federal Jaws and pun lice works would be of little aid in|

returning servicemen because of the need for {ast peacetime plant-re-tooling. Several unionists have asked a shorter work week to spread employment.

Detroit Is Battleground

Detroit, the nation’s top reconversion hot spot, became the chief labor © management battleground when a high U, A. W. official suggested that General Motors Corp., the Ford Motor Co. and Chrysler Corp. be subjected to the proposed labor squeeze, George Addis, international secretary and treasurer of the U. A. W., said no agreement had been reached as to which of the “Big Three” auto manufacturers would be affected by a mass walkout, One union official sald General Motors, considering the 30 per cent pay boost in reopening of contract negotiations, would provide the “best possible test , . , because it employs the - greatest number ' of automobile workers and possesses

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Japs Advertise For 3000 Girls To Fete G.l.'s

TOKYO, * Sept. 15 (U, P).— Geisha girls left their power drills in the war plants and re- {

turned to blushing from behind powder puffs today. | The newspaper “Tokyo” yesterday published the following | announcement: “Wanted immediately — 3000 Geisha girls for entertaining occupation troops. Girls with-

experience will be given superior treatment. Those without experience also will do. Conveniences will be offered in case travel is necessary. After contract is signed not only food but also a liveli~ hood is guaranteed. High income.” The advertisement was signed by the *“All-Japan Geisha Federation,”

23 SOLDIERS DIE IN PLANE CRASH

Kansas City, Kas.

KANSAS CITY, Mo, Sept. 15 (U. P.) ~The death toll in the early morning crash of a C-47 plane carrying combat veterans to their West coast homes from European assignment rose to 23 today. The only living survivor is in critical condition. Three of the men were Temoved, still alive, from the flame ing wreckage of the big plane but two died in general hospital within eight hours of the crash. Names of the victims were withheld by the army pending notifica-~ tion of next of kin. The big plane, a new one, took off at Fairfax fleld in Kansas City, Kas, at 12:15 a. m, (Indianapolis time) where its crew was changed and where 600 gallons of gasoline was poured into its tanks for the flight to the West coast.

YANKS ARREST

16 Other

T0GO,NO.2 IAP WAR CRIMINAL

High = Officials Surrender, or Are Ready To Do So.

By WILLIAM B. DICKINSON United Press Staff Correspondent

TOKYO, Sept. 15.—Shigenori Togo,- Japan's “Pearl Harbor” foreign minister and No. 2 war criminal, was under arrest today.

And 16 other persons accused of war guilt either surrendered to occupation authorities or announced their readiness to do so today. Togo—who directed the peace negotiations with Washington behind which Japan prepared for.the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor, was placed under house arrest in Tokyo. He was held there pending removal to a Yokohama jail to await trial, He notified 8th army headquarters that he was willing to surrender. Japanese newsmen who accompanied police to his Tokyo home reported Togo declined to be interviewed on grounds he was “too] tired.” Fourteen Surrender Fourteen other accused war criminals surrendered to the 8th. army during the morning. They included four more members of former Premier Gen. Hideki Tojo's “Pearl Harbor” cabinet and several prison guards accused of torturing allied war prisoners. Word that they, too, were willing to give up was sent to the 8th army by Col. Kingoro Hashimoto, one of seven alleged leaders of the terroristic Black Dragon society, and Vice Adm. Yoshitake Ueda, former chief of naval aviation headquarters. Hashimoto led the pre-war “young officers” clique which ordered the 1937 attack on the American gunboat Panay in China. He is the first of the leaders of the Black Dragon society to make known his

Crashed in Few Minutes Within minutes, it lay broken and | flaming, in Platte county, Mo, across the river from the Fairfax base, the bodies of its 21 passengers and three crew members scattered! about it, It struck the Burlington tracks near the site of the old Riverside race track, bounced from that into a weed patch, scattering wreckage as it came to rest. Eyewitnesses said that they heard an engine sputter before the plane {plunged to earth and-exploded with a flash seen for 20 miles, Some electric light ecifcuits went out in North Kansas City about the time of the crash, leading some observers

the wires.

OKAY HUGE BUILDING PLAN FOR ATTERBURY

WASHINGTON, Sept. 15 (U, P.). —A contract for $36,500 worth of construction at Camp Atterbury was granted by the war department today to help speed discharges from the separtion center, The A. L. Coupe Construction Co. of Louisville, Ky. received the contract, Construction will start immediately,

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TOUGH BATTLESHIP

readiness to face trial. Ueda a ‘Mystery’ Ueda was No. 24 on the wanted list. Little was known of his background. But it was possible he may have played a part in the organization of the navy’s suicide air corps. Three members of the “Philippine's puppet government—two of

Arthur’ s war criminal list—-were ar-

rested "at Nara, a resort town 20] miles from Osaka, and flown to! Yokohama. They were Jose P. Laurel, president of the puppet government; his|

BRINGS VETERANS

‘Old. Mary’ Survives 100 Jap Air Attacks.

BAN DIEGO, Cal, P.) ~The Japanese “sank” her at Pearl Harbor and hit her three times with suicide planes, but the veteran battleship Maryland was

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NOW OUT OF MAPS

FT. WORTH, Tex. Sept, 15 (U. J ~The end of gasoline rationing has brought on another shortage. | Two big travel agencies here reported today they were completely

KANSAS CITY, Mo., Sept. 15 (U. P.) ~President Truman, [at an impromptu news an. today, disclosed that he will go into the troubled Detroit labor situation when he returns to work in Washington Monday, ~The President also told reporters, in answer to a q n eoncern= ing a possible war t cab inet, change, that he could supply A better answer to that after he returns to Washington, leading observers to believe prospects for a switch shortly in that ‘post were

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Truman Says He'll Look Info Detroit's Labor Situation

in that growing trouble but said he was giving the matter no thought during the week-end at home, There have beén gecurrent reports in Washington recently that Henry L. Stimson, elderly secretary of war, was planning to leave the cabinet. As Stimson himself phrased it the other day, upon questioning about his retirement as he left a conference with the President, “his cannot go on forever,” Mr, Truman. was questioned about the filling .of several important government vacancies, in:lvrding one on the U. 8, supreme court. “He vol that he would hold a While House news confer-

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safe in San Diego harbor today | |after surviving 100 enemy air ate | tacks, “Old Mary” pulled into port yes|terday carrying 1500 overseas veterans. Singer Dinah Shore and navy and marine corps bands were on the pier with hundreds of other servicemen and civilians to greet the ‘battleship. The Japanese listed the Maryland as sunk at Pearl Harbor, but she went on to blast positions at Tarawa, Kwajalein, Saipan, Palau, Leyte and Okinawa, The ship, commissioned in 1021, is commanded by Commodore Herbert J. Ray of Dayton, Tenn, and Pledmont, Cal.

MEET IN FT. WAYNE

PT. WAYNE, Ind, Sept. 15 (U, P.).~8tate Chamber of Commerce directors, about 40 in all, arrived in Pt. Wayne last night and this morning to attend the board's twoday fall meeting. J. W. Crise, third vice president of the state chamber, said that meetings will begin this morning at the local Chamber of Commerce and will continue through Sunday. After a brief meeting this morning the directors will ‘be taken on a tour of the General

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First Husband

8. Sgt. Gene D, Birdwell, above, of Kansas City, Mo,, learned after his liberation from a Japanese prison camp that his wife, Anne, had married his uncle 12 days previously, Mrs. Birdwell, whe believed her husband dead, obtained an annulment Sept. 7 of the marriage to the uncle.

BRITAIN MARKS "40 AIR VICTORY

WOMAN ROUTS

BANDITS FROM CLEANING SHOP

Youths Flee as Proprietor, 65, Draws Gun; Six More Slugged.

A 65-year-old woman today bested two bandits by draws ing a gun on them and causing them to flee fromr her cleaning shop near Fountain = square. The morning holdup culminated a night in which six more slug« gings were added to the lists in the crime wave that has swept Indianapolis. 4 Meanwhile the Veterans of’ Foreign Wars offered Mayer Tyndall the help of overseas veterans in patrol ling the streets and assisting police and members of the auxiliary police who swung into action last night. In the latest episode of the crime wave this morning two youths entered the Prospect Cleaners, 1728 Prospect st. and ordered Mrs. Ollie = Van Note, 65, to “hand over the money.” One youth kept his hand jn the

Luftwaffe Never Had Chance to Win.

By WILLIAM H. STONEMAN Times Foreign Correspondent LONDON, Sept. 15~"Never "in the fleld of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few” ~Churehill; in the British house of commons, Aug. 20, 1940. « Britain today celebrated the fifth anniversary of its victory in the Battle of Britain—the battle that could not be lost—with a roaring air parade. The daylight Battle of Britain began on Aug. 8, 1940, and reached its climax on the sparkling after~ noon of Sunday, Sept. 15. On that heroic day the Royal air force destroyed 185 out of 500 German planes which came over to raid southeast England. Daylight battles continued into October but the tide had turned. By failing to knock out the R. A. P. the Germans had failed to achieve the condition necessary to an invasion

of England. They had not lost the

war but they had missed the best chance they ever had to win it. Today it is still unclear just how

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EINSTEIN PROPOSES WORLD GOVERNMENT

SARANAC LAKE, N Y., Sept. 15 (U. P,) Mankind has no other way to save itself than in the creation of a world government, Albert Einstein, said yesterday in an interview at his secluded cabin deep in an evergreen forest. “In my opinion there is no other salvation for civilization and even for the human race than the -cre-

{ation of a world government with

security on the basis of law,” he sald. “As long as there are sovereign states with their separate armaments and armament secrets new world wars cannot be avoided.”

WASHINGTON

A Weekly Sizeup by the Staff of the Scripps-Howard

WASHINGTON, Sept.

threatens government reconversion program. Close Truman advisérs worry at his failure to follow through on ‘his message; he’s taking one vacation now,

plans another soon. Congress, called back, great emergency,’ matters, shows no

of Feconversion, waits formulation ” . ”

Retiring Officers Suggested tion of generals, some co growing suspicion here,

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’ talks, recesses, considers small routine gms of passing urgent measures. Meanwhile War Mombilizer Snyder, boss of administration recone version: set-up, has gone to Europe. So has Director Symington, Disposal of government-owned war plants, major phase

KEY TO fast demobilization of soldiers is even’ faster demobiliza~

ngressmen Generals; reluctant to take off their wartime stars, lose pay, find “excuses to keep divisions, Few laymen

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pocket of his leather jacket and told her he had his gun trained on her, “Let's Have It Out” = Mrs. Van Note reached under counter and whipped out a gun. “All Hight boys, let's have it out,’

“The V.P.W. aid was offered n city in a letter by Ralph MN commander,

than 3000 members, “all expe: in guard and patrol duty and to defend themselves” “An entire post, the Ernie Py unit, is composed completely: men returned from combat and tl are more than a match for “women grabbers. and sluggers,” Mr. Mars tinie said. if

Six Persons Slugged

Of the six persons slugged last night, one is in a serious condition at City hospital. Ernest Farrington, 68, of 5618 Lowell ave, was returning from work at the Indiana theater when a car drew up back of him at Lowell and Layman aves. Slugged from behind, he received a severe head blow, then a second which fractured

WAINWRIGHTS GOING BACK TO WASHINGTON

NEW YORK, Sept. 15 (U. P).— Gen. and Mrs. Jonathan Wain. wright leave for Washington today for a week-end stop before going to White Sulphur Springs, W. Va. for a brief rest, The Wainwrights spent part of yesterday shopping here, Then they visited the Corregidor hero's cousins in Westchester county. } They will leave White Sulphur Springs Thursday for Syracuse, N. Y, and nearby Skaneateles where Wainwright will be given a hometown welcome, Mrs, Wainwright said they will return to the Springs after the Skaneateles celebration to stay “until the general gets well” °

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