Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 September 1945 — Page 2
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THE INDIAN
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Parties Approve Truman Choice. (Editorial, Page 12)
By REUEL 85. MOORE United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Sept. 19. ~Capitol hill resounded today with praise for the appointment of Robert P. Patterson as secretary of war and predictions of his speedy confirmation by the senate, The 54-year-old Patterson, who had served as undersecretary of war gince June of 1940, was named by President Truman late yesterday to succeed aging Henry L. Stimson es secretary in the first step in the 1ng-expected shakeup in the war
: ; Senators of Both Major
PPOINTMENT IS WIDELY PRAISE
Robert P. Patterson
department and army high com-! mand. { Patterson, like Stimson, is a Re- | publican, His choice made it clear | that Mr. Truman would retain al cabinet with a two-party flavor at 12ast through the principal stage of | the difficult reconversion and de-| mobilization period. Chairman Elbert Thomas (D. Jtah) sald his senate military | gfTairs committee would consider the nomination next Tuesday. He expected speedy approval, Appointment Lauded
Senators of both major parties _ » lauded Patterson's elevation to the cabinet post. Senate Majority Teader Alben W, Barkley sald it was an admirable appointment, Adding! “He has rendered a great service and has the administrative qualities to carry on the work to the finish in the matter of demobilization and readjustment.” Senator Styles Bridges, New - Hampshire Republican, said Patter- _ son's appointment was “logical.” "His years of administration as Undersecretary have given him an Insight into the problems of the department that few other men : have.”
No Scandal
It was widely acknowledged here that Stimson, who will be 78 years old on Friday, had stesred the war department through the best Fie snducted war in ‘American his-
There has been a notable ‘lack of scandal or profiteering, a tribute both to the retiring secretary and to the manner in which Patterson,
SHIRLEY TEMPLE 70 WED FLIER TONIGHT
HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 19 (U. P.. ~Shirley Temple, on her second film career at the age of 17, becomes a post-war bride tonight when she marries army alr forces
Bgt. John George Agar Jr, 24. . “I want to be his wife before he is sent across” sald the future Mrs. Agar,
The Beverly ay Cal, sergeant has only a seven-day furlough before he is due back at his Spokane, Wash., base for overseas duty, Agar’ met the former child star, now playing glamour roles,’ two! s years ago at a swimming party. There will be few motion picture celebrities at the Wilshire Methodist church when Rev. Willsle Mar- _ tin performs the ceremony at 8:30 P. m. But prop men, wardrobe girls and electricians will mingle with Shirley's socially selected schoolmates from the West Lake School for Girls. When they first announced their engagement, Miss Temple and Agar promised their parents they would | walt “at least two years” but the redeployment assignment changed their minds.
ARRIVES’ IN BOSTON
{come in the near future. | Secretaries
{as undersecretary, headed the great procurement program. Patterson is an able dawyer and a specialist In contract termination, one of the big jobs remaining with [the war department. Other changes in top war department. personnel are expected to Assistant John J, MeCloy and Robert Lovett have submitted- their resignations to President Truman, but they have not yet been accepted. Marshall May Retire Changes also are expected in the military hierarchy. There have been reports that Gens. George C. Marshall, chief of staff, Henry H. Arnold; commander of the air forces, and Brehon B. Somervell, chief of army service forces also will step down soon. Gen. Dwight -D. Eisenhower has been mentioned most frequently as Marshall's successor. Gen. Douglas MacArthur also has figured in the speculation as next chief of staff, But he is one year past the retirement-age of 64 and served once before as chief of staff, Eisenhower will be 55 next month, Some believe that Marshall may prefer to stay at his post until congress completes its Pearl Harbor investigation, He was criticized by an army board of inquiry for failure to give adequate’ warning to the Hawaiian command, although both Mr. Truman and Stimson said the criticism was not justified. Patterson's appointment was the seventh cabinet change that Mr. Truman has made since taking office. He now has left only three members of the cabinet inherited from the late President Roosevelt,
Ration Calendar
MEAT~—Red stamps V2 through Z2 good through Sept. 30. Stamps Al through El are valid through Oct, 31. F1 through K1 will be good through Nov, 30. L1, M1, Ni Pl and Ql will be good through Dec. 31 Meat dealers will pay two
red points and 4 cents for each pound of waste fat.
SUGAR~Stamp 38 1s good for+five pounds. Canning sugar forms are avail. able at ration boards. Spare Stamp 13 In Book 4 must be submitted with application for each person listed. All applicants must establish. eligibility for canning sugar,
SHOES-—No, 1, No. 2, No. 3 and No. 4 “airplane” stamps in Book 3 good indefinitely,
POW’S 0 S OUT OF SIAM
CALCUTTA, Sept. 18 (U, P).— U, 8, army air forces have come pleted evacuation of American prisoners of war from Siam and adjacent areas and operations now are under way {or removal of captives from Sumatra and Java, itt was announced today.
GIRL IS AUTO VICTIM ENGLISH, Sept. 19 (U, P).—Fu-
One Indianapolis soldier is sched tiled to arrive at the Boston port of | embarkation tomorrow aboard the Samuel Adams. He is 8. Sgt. Donald | R. Boles, 4250 Evanston ave. who| will be processed at Camp Atterbury.
Harold Raymond Vogel, 1412 Prospect; Dorothy Marie Clapper, 4964 Kingsley, John Allen Smead, 334 Whitter pl
MARRIAGE LICENSES |
Helena
Almeda Elliott, 5345 BE, Washington, Apt. 26 Thomas Stafford, 805 Broadway)
Evelyn | Kinnaman, 8085 Broadway |
‘Ken cin es Richard White, U. 8. army; Bdith emary Hamilton, 1211 N. Tibbs, George a or Dick, Gleveland, O.; Laura
217 N. T50N wae 3 ie Fahrbach, 1485 8, Lynhurst Mary George . Putehp, 703 N. Afs
Richard Francis Litseh, Pt. Harrison Norma Elaine Lunsford, 054 Highland
t Gritin Jr. Splotiand; Barbara ho 328 WwW. le rd, = Bugéne Seller, 1038 N. New Jersey; Jo Ann Ranstead, 6255 Centr James Prederick Summers, 1448 Letener; Mary Jane Hilgadinck, 428 8. Hamilton, Edinburg;
neral “arrangements were made today for 15-month-old Anna Pearl Cox, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Cox. who was injured fatally Monday when struck by an automobile as it backed from a driveway at her home,
IN INDIANAPOLIS
BIRTHS Girls At St. Francls-Clifford, Jessie Maze Robert, Margaret Munke
At City-—Leon, Minnie Louise Harris At Coleman- Hayden, Amelia Martin; Thomas, Josephine Ridde!
Erie B, Benjamin, Columbus, O.! Ardell | At Methodist William, Lucille Carlin; Joanne Rice, Springfield, O Hobart, Ellen Hargis: James, Emma Kenneth Allen Robbinett, 1101 Kappes:| McClarren: Robert, Opal Peace: Daniel, Patricia Lou Pinch, 1175 W. 20th Martha Martin: Noble, Avis Smith TAWIENos Carl MeOHRIT 795 N. Delaware’ [At Sto Vinesnt'sc<Alva, Ronena Christie; Doris Elizabeth Sewell, 2051 Washington] Alfred, OGface Cooper: Alfred, Susan hilvd. Huewman, Robert, Jean Ingersoll; Paul Fred W. Sunderman Jr., 2015 Massachu.| Elizabeth Off; Charles, Henrietta setts; Betty Kathryn Parris, Acton |~ Wright Edwin Stanley Bowen, 3534 Fall Creek | At Home-John, Lillian Durham, 2302 8. blvd: Mary Olive Davis, New Castle | Pennsylvania st Rawiete L. Paught, 308 E. 11th; Lillian Boys orris, 922 N. Concord - . : Richard Casper Phillips, 1101 N. Belle] Alp Rt Francis-Paul, Norma Bracken: hi l.; Virginia Rae Reinhard, 2814 Scaggs ! : Charies Arthur White, 1747 W. New York; wifi, Anna Miles: Domes, ~ Myr Bun Elizabeth. Cherry, 1747 W. New| - ns Noble Mears. me, Kirkwood hotel; One| A Meibatit Charis Beulah Coline Gehe Davidson, 1475 Roosevelt. Rowls il fg Jack Nicholas Contino, ‘San Jose, Cali|a¢ St. Vincent's -- Benjamin, Remare Joan Marie Bennet, ot) N. Bancroft, Blake: Raymond, Roberta Koers: Clare Eugene Francis Poore, U. 8. army, Oha-| ence, Mary Kreis; Louis, Phyllis Schaf. 8 Reid. “Hinois; “Mildred June Lane,| At Home Clinton, Dorothy MeCollum,
1656 English: Harry, Louise Minor, 2134 Hovey: Emil, Naomi Reed, 231 Sprin William, Marguerite Robinson, 1078
DEATHS
William J. Brown, 40, Veterans, noma, Florence Anna cholecystitis, Lucy B. C abbs, 89, . mcute cardiac dilatation. Fran Treuhan, 73, 1622 Union, chronic endoc is. Bes jamin Samuel Redwine, #4, Long hosDita hosis of liver ries 64,
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APOLIS TIMES
WEDNESDAY,
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REP. WILSON URGES LESS GI'S IN EUROPE
Times Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON, Sept. Won
in Germany, Rep. Earl Wilson (R. Ind.) declared today. . His personal trip among troops there convinced him that thére is a great manpower waste he said. He expressed approval of the new selective service ruling not to draft young men who have not
finished high school, but contended that with proper quotas for the armies of occupation no draft is longer necessary. “Let us use Chinese foot soldiers
in the Pacific and Prench in Europe,” Mr. Wilson advised his house colleagues, “Since we are feeding these people, they should perform some service and release our men so that they. can come
home and help reconstruct Amerlca.”
Eisenhower should follow the lead | of Gen, MacArthur and scale down | his demands for occupation troops
‘MacArthur Suspends 2d Jap Newspaper
“By FRANK TREMAINE United Press Staff Correspondent TOKYO, Sept. 19.—Gen, Douglas MacArthur today suspended a sec~ ond Tokyo newspaper, the Nippon Times, for violating his press directives. | The Times is usually regarded as a mouthpiece<of the Japanese gov= ernment. MacArthur's headquarters slapped a 24-hour suspension on the Eng-lish-language Times for “failure to submit certain copy for censorship prior to publication,” an official announcement said. Tt took effect at 3:30 p. m. (1:30 a. m. Indianapolis time) and will prevent publication of the Thursday morning edition, The action followed by only a day suspension for 48 hours of another morning newspaper, the influential. Asahi, for publishing “inflammatory” headlines and dispatches in violation of MacArthur's directives. Asahi was scheduled to resume publication Friday morning, barring an extension of the sus-
TOKYO, Sept. 19 (U. P.) ~Mrs. Douglas MacArthur, wife of the supreme allied occupation com‘mander, arrived In Tokyo today: She will join her husband at his residence in the American embassy. Mrs. MacArthur and their son accompanied the general on his trip from Bataan to Australia in the dark days of 1942 and rejoined. him in Manila following the liberation of the Philippines capital last year. *
The twin suspensions clearly showed that MacArthur was determined to prevent the Japanese press from printing colored news that would tend either to incite the Japanese against: occupation troops or to shift some of the blame for the Pacific war, Asahi had called the American use of the atomic bomb as a violation of international law and had cast doubt on the authenticity of an
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American report on Japanese atroci-
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ties. Offending matter which appeared in the Nippon Times was not disclosed immediately. The Japanese government, meantime, moved to give legal effect to MacArthur's various directives to Japan, The official Domei agency reported that the government: had decided to ‘promulgate an extraordinary imperial decree automatically legalizing all measures taken by the government at MacArthur's orders. Domei said a draft of the decree probably would be submitted to the privy council tomorrow for approval.
LEGION CONVENTION
GROUP IN MEETINGS
Preparing for the state American Legion convention this week-end, the committees on trophies and awards and on resolutions and assignments will meet at Legion headquarters, 777 N. Meridian st, tonight.
All other Legion committees will meet Friday night at the Hotel
Claypool.
Bedding, Fifth Floor
verted gymnasium here,
SAYS BELSEN CAMP WAS ‘MASS MURDER
LUENEBERG, . Germany, Sept. 19 (U, P).—An affidavit of a Brit= ish medical officer introduced today at the trial of 45 Nazi bosses and guards of the infamous Belsen concentration camp said living conditigns there added up to mass murder. The court ordered . the murder” reference stricken from the records, apparently on the grounds that it tended to pre-judge the case. “It is impossible to describe adequately the atrocious, horrible and inhumane conditions,” Lt. Col. James A. Johnson reported. He arrived at the camp April 17, soon after it was overrun hy he British second army,
The trial of the German men and women went into its third day before a British court in a cone
“mass
Firemen Escort
Costs Woman $10
NEW YORK, Sept. 19 (U, P.).— Mrs. - Bettie Nepolito, 48, was walking home with her 2-year-old daughter from a visit with friends. It was late. It , was dark. She decided she was lost. She solved the situation by turning in a false fire alarm. Firemen and police directed her to her home seven blocks away. Magistrate John A, Dwyer fined her $10,
GOV. EARLE’S EX-WIFE IS BROKER'S BRIDE
HAVERFORD, Pa. Sept. 19 (U. P.).—Mrs. Huberta Potter Earle, divorced last June from Pennsylvania's former governer, “ Cmdr, George H. Earle, was on a haneymoon to Mexico today following her marriage to Maj. Theodore Campbell Sheaffer, Philadelphia broker, Mrs. Earle was granted a divorce from the former governor in Montgomery county court last June on grounds of desertion. They were married in Jnauary, 1916.
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ARTHL IN “Hf
George Atche Diplomat,
By DOUGL NEA Sti WASHINGTON Dec. 12, 1937, stood with 72 dip dents and crew the American gu when Jap bombe in a furious and attack. He escaped in by Jap pilots. The spot he wt lukewarm by co hot spot to whic! assigned as state cal adviser to Ge thur in Tokyo. Modest and s son takes over w been stationed in without ever ha eral. The job nm American civiliar cupation forces. Rise
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DR. GIVE AT CALE
Dr. Willard ington, D. C speaker at a r day in Caleb high school. Announced man of the I of Commerce the occasion ing of India: ers, school offi professional n A native H executive secr Education as with him will of Washington cation .comm States Cham] The theme “The Growin; Standards in Born in Ma derson, Dr, C university an diana univer: ing experienc schools.
SIX SEN BY DI
Six registre into the an county local Army ind Chadwick, Harold W, C ave.; John 1 ington blvd.; 4376 Centre Joseph J, Vi st. Willlam J. throp ave, ¥