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ASHINOYU VILLAGE, Japan, Slept, 18~American authorities today began questioning over 3000 Germans living in this attractive oriental Berchtesgaden in an attempt to run down persistent rumors that Hitler is hiding in the area. : It also was considered possible that other Nazi war criminals could have accompanied the

fuehrer in a last-minute sneak by submarine to Japan. Many Tokyo Japanese whisper that shortly after Germany's col lapse a Nazi submarine arrived at Yokosuka naval base on lower Tokyo bay and deposited Hitler, who was immediately whisked up a back-country road into this cloud-enshrouded mountain hideout. There are no concrete facts to support this story, but the Japa-

nese point out that their nation was the only one left in the world which was still committed by treaty to the Germans. They also insist that such a submarine trip would have been extremely easy. It is definitely known that Germany and Japan, throughout the war, have exchanged liaison officers and limited quantities of precious war, supplies by submarine, :

Japanese sources said German submarines sometimes came all the way to Yokosuka, but most of the time met Japanese submarines at Surabaya, Batavia, where oil and rubber or military personnel were exchanged. Riding in a jeep up the road to Ashinoyu we were impressed by the blonde German types which we passed on the road, looking as if they had just stepped out of Bavaria, Little

Japanese boys ran toward us yelling, and thrust up their hands in a Naz _ salute. The German nationals are now under the protective custody of Col. Robert V. Laughlin, judge advocate general of the U, 8. 8th army, g “1 would not rule out the possibility that Hitler is in this area,” Laughlin said. “I have called upon H. G. Stahmer, Germany's ex-ambassador to Japan, as

nominal head of this colony to deliver a complete roster of all those present.”

staff is quartered in a picturesque Alpine-like hotel at Miyanoshita under the direct charge of Warrant Officer «William E. Spatig of Cleveland, O.

Germans exclusive of naval personnel in Japan and most of them

The German ambassadorial

“There are approximately 3000

ive here in the Hakone mountain

area” Ambassadorial Secretary | 8. J. Klimek told us. He denied any knowledge of Hitler's whereabouts. He said that he had last heard from Capt. Fritz Weidemann, Hitler's company commander in world war I, and former consul | at San Francisco, in July and at | that time Weidemann was in Tientsin, . We pushed on up the narrow mountain road past hiking Germans and thick-legged frauleins

Rumors with packs on their backs until

we reached Ashinoyu and the Matsuzakaya hotel, headquarters

for Germany's former naval mission, ‘The ranking officer, Cmdr,

Thomas Bloomfield, said blandly that he knew nothing of the Hit= ler rumor. He volunteered the. information that he himself had only been in Japan since May 10. The clear-skinned, blond Bioom= field implied that -he had mads the trip by U-boat.

‘THE DAY IS SET— Boots Ready To Say '| Do’ To Lucky Man

2 LAMOROUS Boots, lovely comic-strip juggler of hearts, has finally found THE MAN and said “yes.” On Oct. 2, Boots becomes the wife of lucky Rod Ruggles, stalwart ex-gerviceman from Peculiar Grove, Tex. He is the dream man Boots has waited for these 20 years and more. Fan-friends of Boots have nour-" ished wild speculations concerning the romantic fate of the

Boots and Rod

beautiful pen-and-ink heartbreaker. In the past society has linked Boots’ name with that of many an eligible and desirable bachelor.

” » . IN 1934 Boots was wooed by Ronald Ross, who pleaded his suit vain, her fans were all agog had taken up with roy=" alty. Prince Franz of Grandalia, alias Mr, X, was getting ready

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to move over on his throne. Neither the violence nor the ardor of Prince Franz's courtship found favor with Boots, Some time later, a highly demonstrative suitor bid for the hand of our lady fair. Jonathan Marlsboro Jones saw fit to plead his case through the medium of skywriting, phonograph records snd newspaper advertising. Boots was not impressed, oy 8»

CEOIL LIVINGSTON, handsome and scurrilous, made Boots the subject of his attentions. When the Mr, Hyde side of this Dr, Jekyll came to light, the ro - mance ended. Handy Andrews in 1938 had a very decided “in” but the affair blew over, Impressive as this roster of eourtships is, it's worth a mere snap of the fingers in the light of the real thing. The love of Boots and Rod makes every past at-

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WEATHER TO STAY ‘UNCERTAIN’ FOR WEEK

The weather will keep Hoosiers guessing for another week with temperatures sliding up and down, the weather bureau predicts,

clothes may feel just right on Wednesday, but Friday is

supposed to be cooler after rain and thundershowers,

Thursday and Friday. For week-

end outings Sunday may warm up

a bit.

In the south the temperatures the north they will drop from three to|

will average normal, but in

five degrees below normal. LOCAL TEMPERATURES

6am.....58 Wam..... 58 Tam..... 58 1lam 0 gam..... 58 12 (noon)... 60 Sam..... 58 1pm... 60

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—Some persons here believed

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MACARTHUR'S

ARMY FIGURES

Cut of 700,000 Men Like ‘Bolt From Blue’ to War Leaders.

By LYLE WILSON United Press Staff Correspondent

WASHINGTON, Sept. 18.

today that there was more than met the eye in Gen. Douglas MacArthur's Pacific demobilization bombshell. The war department hasn't been more surprised since Pearl Harbor.

The general said right out of the blue that it may be possible to reduce American forces in Japan to NOT more than 200,000 men after six months. : Less than 24 hours previously Maj. Gen. I. H. Edwards, assistant chief of staff, had estimated a force of 900,000 for the entire Pacific theater. MacArthur's estimate sharply curtails that and all previous figures on Pacific needs.

MacArthur Estimates

In defense of the war department, it is explained that its earlier Pacific estimates were made on the basis of MacArthur's own previous estimates. The state department, too, was completely taken by surprise by MacArthur's declaration that 200,000 troops would be enough to police Japan after six months, Acting Secretary of State Dean Acheson said in a terse statement that he was looking into it. MacArthur announced the 200,000 man figure at a time when war department generals stand backs to the wall defending themselves against congressional and public complaints about slow demobiliza~ tion. The criticism is so hot that Gen. George C. Marshall, chief of staff, has made a date to discuss demobilization Thursday with house and senate members, Face Future Criticism If the war department could have been the bearer of good news from the Pacific, the defense of its policies might have been somewhat eased. More likely now is that the department will be further ecriticized for seeking to hold in foreign theaters more men than generals on the spot require. To some extent, therefore, Mac-

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SHERIFF PROBES FATAL SHOOTING

River Shack Death Follows Drinking Party.

night as the aftermath of a drink-

the sheriff's office today.

bed and Lynhurst dr. held for questioning.

spine.

ties found him dead.

The fatal shooting of Frederick H. Grimm, 39, 723 Exeter ave, last

ing party was being investigated by

Grimm died as the result of two shots fired at him as he attempted to re-enter a shack, occupied by Coy Spratt, 59, at the old Eagle Creek Spratt was

Deputies said the shots were fired by Spratt from a revolver. One hit Grimm in the mouth, lodging at his Grimm staggered about 20 feet to his automobile, where.depu-

Bpratt was arrested on a technical charge of vagrancy and placed under high bond. Four other persons who were drinking in the con-

BACK TO MOTHER— Flees Shack of

Wooing Tarzan’

On Lone Prairie

DENVER, Sept. 18 (U. P.).—Mrs. Ada M, Patton tried today to forget the mail order swain who, she said, held her captive 18 days in a lonely Wyoming cabin, She charges he tried to woo her by parading about beating his chest “like an ape.” Mrs. Patton, a Mobile, Ala, woman, pined for romance in the golden west. She is held in Denver on a federal auto theft charge after “escaping” in the car of the 67-year old rancher whose “romantic” let~ ters promised her a “happy, west ern style marriage.” » 8 » TRIM, dark-haired and 47, Mrs. Patton is twice divorced and once was a child bride. She said her latest “romance” began when she answered a matrimonial advertisement in a magazine. First married at 14, she was divorced from her second husband in 1942. She has a daughter, “I knew many women find happy marriages through answering such advertisements,” Mrs. Patton said, “so I thought I'd try.”

MAN ROBBED AT

Holdups, Sluggings, glary in Night's Crime.

had tried to aid early today.

the city several weeks, three unsolved murder cases. Latest fatality

lain unconscious since he

night. Knife at Throat

today wae Arthur Roder, 6251 N. Illinois st.

go with him.

robbed of $70.

place last night.

walked toward the car. souri sts.’'and took $160.

17,000 DOCTORS TO

civilian life by Jan, 1. Col.

PASADENA, Cal, Sept. 18 (U, P.). ~The white - haired Rev. Charles G. Long and his faithful

followers began fasting today. This is part of their atone-

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Swami Says World Isn't Mean Enough Yet for End to Come

facilities are effected.

years ago.

lowers.

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POINT OF KNIFE

Bur-

One man was robbed at the point of a knife over the form of an unconscious slugging victim whom he

Last night brought no letup in the crime wave which has gripped bringing

is Clemens A. Benner, 41, Glidden Feed Co. nightwatchman, who died yesterday at Methodist hospital where he had was slugged at work last Wednesday

Victim of the knile robbery early 28, of Roder started to call police when he noticed a soldier lying in some weeds in the 700 block on N. Capitol ave, but returned to help the soldier after a man who was passing by offered to

When they reached the alley the man placed a knife against Roder’s {throat and took $10 and a watch and pen and pencil set valued at $77. Police found Sgt. Joseph F, Long unconscious in the grass nearby, He told police he had been slugged and

Two more slugging-robberies took Fred Coy, 40, of Greenwood, said a man whom he! had met in a bar offered to drive him home but slugged him as they He said the man hit him at Maryland and Mis-

“Two soldiers who started drinking with Paul Kerry, 49, of 303 8. Audu- | Stimson will resign soon-—possibly bon rd., slugged him and took $52, Kerry reported to police, He said

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BE RELEASED IN 45

WASHINGTON, Sept. 18 (U, P.), ~The army promised today to return more than 17,000 doctors to

W. Paul Holbrook, air surgeon now surveying military medical needs, told the senate military affairs committee that even more doctors might be released as greater economies in staffing service medical

and his son, Richard, with their 40 believers, scorned the swami’'s words. They waited for the fulfillment of Long's vision of seven

They prayed and meditated as

SECRETARY OF LABOR TO GET WIDE POWERS

Truman Expected to “Give Schwellenbach Reins Over All Agencies.

WASHINGTON, Sept, 18 (U., P.).—President Truman today prepared an order that will make Lewis B. Schwellenbach the most powerful secretary of labor in history. The reorganization, which will be announced at Mr. Truman's news conference late today, is under{stood to involve the labor func{tions of virtually every other gove ernment agency and may become the death warrant for the war labor board. . Informed sources indicated that Mr. Truman's plan would probably: ONE: Place functions of the WLB, army, navy, war production board, maritime commission and other agencies dealing with labor disputes completely under Schwellenbach’s authority, TWO: (Transfer the national labor relations board, which decides issues over bargaining representatives and unfair labor practices, to the labor department, THREE: Place the U. 8. employment service, the federalized ‘job placenient agency; statistical agencies of the war manpower commission; federal security agency and other government branches dealing with employment .and -upemploy~ ment figures, payment of benefits and other related matters in the labor department, FOUR: Give Schwellenbach a voice in formulating national wage policy which is the root of most of the hig developing disputes. Appointments Seen Schwellenbach scheduled a news conference to follow Mr, Truman's, | at which he was expected to announce several important appointments within the labor department, including ‘a director for the conciliation service. After a conference with the Pres-

auditorium

- Experts Optimistic Over Post-War Shipping Business

Transportation experts study post-war shipping needs at the Ohio valley transportation advisory board meeting today at the Hotel Lincoln. Seated, left to tight: Mendel A. Keith of Columbus, O., general traffic manager of the International Derrick & Equipment Co. and chairman of today’s meeting; W. E. Callahan of Washington, D. C., manager, open car section, ear service division of the Association of American railroads, and J, J. Brinkworth, vice president and general manager of the New York Central system, serving in the conference as chairman of the railroad contact committee. Standing is J. P. Dockter of Cincinnati, O., district manager, car service division, Association of American railroads,

PRISONER CAMP REMOVAL ASKED

Lawrence Citizens Vote to Push Action.

By HENRY BUTLER Residents of Lawrence and vicinity last night voted unanimously to petition the removal of the dis-| ciplinary barracks from Ft. Harrison. Held in the Lawrence high school and presided over by Hugh Fountain, president of the Lawrence Lions club, citizens carried the prison-removal campaign one step farther, After reports from Mr. Fountain, Charles Garrison 8r., chairman of

ident late yesterday Schwellenbach said his department would step “right square in the middle” of the explosive Detroit labor situation as| soon as Mr, Truman announced the | reorganization plan.

DETROIT, Sept. 18 (U. P.)3The C. I. O's United Auto Workers union said today it would withhold

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PATTERSON HINTE AS WAR SECRETARY

Stimson Resign Soon.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 18 (U. PJ). Informed quarters said today that Secretary of War Henry L.

this week—and that Undersecretary Robert P, Patterson probably will {be named to succeed him. These sources also predicted that Gen. Brehon B. Somervell will re|sign as chief of the army service forces to take a position in private | industry.

G, Ross was Truman would announce any eabinet changes at his news conference this afternoon. “1 cannot tell you that” he replied. Mr. Truman

Kansas City Baturday that

high military posts this week.

“Therefore, it's easy to see that God won't destroy the world by Friday,” said the swami, “We have passed through the material cycle of God's plan into the electrical and atomic age which will last 100 years,” he explained. A “Then we will enter the mental age of 3600 years.

| i {the Pt. Harrison prison, the meet-

Is Expected to

the Lawrence Lions civic improvement committee, the Rev. B. J. Renner, pastor of Lawrence Methodist church, and John McCormick on their recent inspection tour of

ing was thrown open for discussion. Seen as ‘Public Menace’ Complaints were voiced that the inspection tour had glossed over facts and that the U. 8. D. B, constituted & public menace, if only because it “depressed realty values” in the neighborhood. In discussing a more suitable location for the disciplinary barracks, Dr. Frank Jennings, head of Sunnyside sanatorium drew laughter with his suggestion, “It seems to me that a peach of a place for the D. B. would be the desert of Arizona.” Dr. Jennings also called attention to the confusing similarity between prisoners’ uniforms and the uniforms worn by Billings hospital patients as involving risks. Urges Lelters

William Cooley of Wayside gar-

White House Secretary Charles asked if President

told reporters at he would be able to discuss changes in

dens, suggested that, besides the Lpetition, a number of individual letters be sent to Rep. Louis Ludlow | | glving specific reasons for the re-| quested removal of the D, B. Mr. Cooley also stressed the possibility that the barracks might be| increased in size, in view of the Rev, Mr. Rennér's report from official sources that 30,000 military prisoners are still overseas awaiting disposition. “There wasn't room for the D. B here in the first place,” he said. The deadline for the petition was set as Oct. 1, with a total of 5000 signatures hoped for,

with the statement ‘nothing worldly today Long read from Chapter 3,

Verse 10 of the second Epistle of » Peter: “But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night, in which the heavens shall away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, and the earth also, and the works that are therein shall be burnt up.” Long's vision said the world “would end on the 14th or the 21st day of the ninth month of 1045.

day. Long wasn't to certain about the exact date. He admitted that the end might not come before Sept. 30. : :

TAVERN GIFT—

Safety Board fo Hear 'Frame-Up' Charge of Haugh

Charges by William A, (Red) Haugh, 51-year-old veteran police officer that he was “framed” in his recent demotion from acting sergeant, will be aired at Thursday's safety hoard meeting. Haugh has appealed to board from Police Chief Jesse McMurtry’s action Saturday in

demoting him to patrolman for allegedly “shaking down” a South side tavern operator. Haugh formerly was a South side district sergeant,

the

# 8 » THE POLICE officer, a Republican, admitted he accepted a carton of cigarets, a bottle of whisky and a case of beer from Rocky JIaria, operator of a tavern at 317 8. Noble st. This was .a voluntary gift, Haugh claims, made before he went on his vacation July 26, Later Ilaria discussed the mat« ter with inspeetor Don Tooley at police headquarters and the demotion followed. Haugh declared the true reason was an arrest for drunkenness he made recently of a precinct com-

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RAILROADS SEE 600 BUSINESS

| Transportation Leaders. in

Session Here.

the final quarter of 1944, in car loadings, the outlook for railroad business in the final quarter of 1945

is good. This is the prediction of forecast= ing reports studied today. by the Ohio Valley Transportation Advisory board at the Hotel Lincoln in their first meeting since victory. The board, a co-operative organ=ization of shippers and carriers, is studying transportation needs of the post-war era, Serving as general chairman is Mendel A. Keith of Columbus, O,,! general traffic manager of the International Derrick and Squipment Co. Mr. Keith sdid today that esti-) mates indicated a probable decpease of 47 per cent in Ohio valley] transportation needs from the final!

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TRUMAN SAYS KOREA | WILL BE INDEPENDENT

WASHINGTON, Sept. 18 (U, P.).| President Truman said today that | Japanese retained in official posi-

” THE POLITICIAN was said to he “one of Mike Caito's hoys.”. Caito is a Republican ward chair man on the South side, A “vigilant” policy meanwhile was being maintained against further “shake-down activities,” Inspector Tooley said today. He admitied, however, that no speci« fle information has been submit-

| ted to him other than that by | laria. 1

STORM HITS TOKYO,

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SLOWS OCCUPATION

Storm Slows Movements of Occupation Troops.

By FRANK TREMAINE United Press staff Correspondent TOKYO, Sept, 18. »~ A typhoon struck Tokyo today, interrupting occupation operations and ewrecking

makeshift homes of hundreds of air=|. co. their protection and to pre-|over the family mantel, it is &

raid victims. . All military and naval planes were grounded. Small-boat communications between American

naval vessels in Tokyo bay and the |

shore were halted temporarily. Gen. Douglas MacArthur's headquarters, meantime, revealed that

occupation forces have spread out 800-mile stretch of the Sixty-five thousand or more troops were concentrated within a 30-mile radius

over an

Japanese homeland.

of Tokyoe

MITSCHER TO SPEAK

WABHINGTON, Bept. 18 (U. P.). ~The Veterans of Foreign Wars | sald today that Adm. Marc A. Mitscher, depity chief of naval op-| erations for air, will speak at the ; 46th annual encampment of the

tions in Korea are being utilized lonly as “servants of the Korean [people” and our forces because of {their technical qualifications. Mr. Truman issued a statement |outlining this country’s attitude to{ward the Korean situation. He {said the major fighting powers) agree that Korea “shall become free and independent.”

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said today.

Despite expecled decredses from

ALL GURBS ON CONSTRUCTION TOEND OCT. 10

Six-Point Program Formed To Speedup New %, Building Era.

WASHINGTON, Sept, 18 (U, P.)—~War Mobilization Director John*W, Snyder dis« dlosed today that government restrictions on home con« struction, public works and commercial construction will end. Oct. 15. Snyder’ disclosed a six-point proe gram to speed expansion of the construction industry. x ONE: A government campaign to increase supplies of scarce building materials through such steps, if necessary, as price and wage ifs creases and priorities to break bots tlenecks, . = : # TWO: WPB action to prevent hoarding of building materials to avoid artificial stortages. iE THREE: The OPA will tighten bprice controls over building mas terials to counteract inflationary pressure, FOUR: The federal credit agens cies will discourage excessive and unsound lending on mortgages, FIVE: Representatives of indus+

ference here to map out a volun: tary program to -increase -quickly the production of mater) ifacilities needed to exps " BIX: The national housing agency will supply public information and an-advisory service on home val

try groups will be called into cons =

private construction as of Oct. 18, Snyder said:

struction greatest single source of jobs in our entire economy.” time it should be recognized thas

not enotigh to expand construction,

In lifting all restriction om

“The rapid expansion of the cons industry ean be the

Snyder added that at the same the mere lifting of restrictions was

but that active steps should be taken ‘to expand the production of building materials. President Truman in his recent message to congress described the field of housing as offering the largest single opportunity for rapid post-war expansion of private ins vestment and employment,

Construction Work Here May Be Slow

The lifting of government ree strictions on construction projects probably will not unleash any great amount of building in Indianap« olis immediately, This was the opinion of local building and construction authorie ties today ag War Mobilization Die rector John W, Snyder gave the go ahead signal for both private, public and commercial building projects. The government embargo is only

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MUST PREPARE FOR WAR

LOS ANGELES, Bept. 18 (U. PJ. ~British Air Marshal Sir Arthuy Coningham, ending a visit here toe day, said that he did not think there would be another war buf

about Nov. 1, authoritative sources added that the United Nations have [to prepare for one,

Registration with a police agency of souvenir firearms was requested of overseas war veterans by .Col Austin R. Killian, superintendent of | Indiana state police today. The request was made of veterans

vent a crime wave” Col. Killian said. All types of firearrhs should be registered, he added, Col. Killian also threatened action against firearms dealers failing [to make a prompt fgeport to police agencies of the sale of small arms, as required by state law. Concern over the possibility of gouvenir Japanese or German weapons falling into criminal hands brought the police official's request and warning, ki * The announcément was sanctioned hy the Indiana Association of Chiefs of Police and the Indiana Sheriffs = association. Police Chief Morris J, Carter of Anderson, secretary. of the chiefs’ group, and Clifton Small of Kokomo, sheriffs’ association secretary, pledged com-~ plete co-operation of their organs izations “in the interests of ‘en post~ ? »

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Killian Urges Registration Of Souvenir Nazi, Jap Guns

“Thousands of Hoosier men and | women in the armed forces have sent wartime firearms home a8 | Reepsakes,” said Col, Killian, “While {many of these weapons will remain

fact that many others are being sold for profit.” : The guns, he said, may drift into underworld channels and may be turned to criminal purposes unless preventive steps are taken. “It wouldgbe ironic if an’ enemy weapon were used in the commis sion of a4 ¢rime in peacetime Indie ana,” the police head declared. i To eliminate this possibility, he urged that (1) owirs of souvenir guns register them state police

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