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ERNIE PYLE'S LAST COLUMN: TO CONQUERING YANKS ON V-E DAY
‘My One Great Regret Of The War... I Am Not With Them When It Ended’
PYLE
MacArthur's Newest Order Aimed at
More Controls. (Editorial, Page 6)
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By FRANK TREMAINE United Press Staff Correspondent
TOKYO, Sept. 22.—Gen. Douglas MacArthur demanded a complete financial accounting from the Japanese government today preparatory to clamping new controls
on the beaten enemy. The directive coincided with the arrival by plane at Tokyo of George Atcheson Jr, recently appointed political adviser to MacArthur by President Truman. He will act as sort of liaison agent between Mac~ Arthur and the U. 8. suate department, MacArthur also ordered the government to wrrest ailing, elderly Gen, Nobuyuki Abe, ousted gover-nor-general of Korea, and turn him over to the American 8th army. He presumably was wanted ‘for trial as s war criminal, Abe was removed fom his Kore~ an post Sept. 14 by american occupation authorities hd was believed
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Konoye Doubts Nips Are Ready for
Elections.
By RALPH TEATSORTH United Press Staff Correspondent
TOKYO, Sept. 22.—Prince Fumimaro Konoye frankly declared today that he felt the Japanese people were not ready for any January elec-
political understanding. Konoye, minister without port-
Hirohito would abdicate,
Two Indianapolis women, former aids to Dr, Toyohiko Kagawa, express their views on the Japanese Christian leader, Page 8.
tions because of their lack of
folio in the new Japanese cabinet and one of the closest men in all
Japan to the emperor, told a small group of American correspondents that he personally did not think
Even while he spoke, noted pre-
By ERNIE PYLE And so it is over. The catastro-" phe on one side of the world has run its course. The day that had so long seemed would never come has come at last. I suppose our emotions here in the Pacific are the same as they were among allies all over the world. First ‘a shouting of the good news with such joyous surprise that you would think the shouter himself had brought it about. And then an unspoken sense of gigantic relief—and then a hope that the collapse in Europe would hasten the end in the Pacifie. It has been seven months since I heard my last shot in the European war. Now I am as far away from it as it is possible to get on
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1045
After Ernie Pyle was killed b Te island, one of his columns was army forwarded it, together with Mrs. Pyle in Albuquerque, N. M.
It was a column. for release on He had previously written Mrs. Py
Ernie wrote to her:
But he did, a couple of weeks
a column, In a letter dated April 15,
y Jap machine-gun fire on found in his pockets. The Ernie's other possessions, to She has sent it to the
Scripps-Howard newspapers for publication,
the day of victory in Europe. le that he might write such three days before his death,
“I've intended for weeks to send in a column to be held until V-E day, written mainly to the boys in Europe and to be reprinted in the Stars and Stripes. one yesterday I discovered that I have been in the war so long and am so sick of it that I haven't anything to say—so when the day comes I may not write anything at all.”
But when I tried to write
before V-E day—here it is—
Entered as Second-Class Matter at Postofce Indianapolis 9, Ind, Issued daily except Sunday
and that's why I am writing this column. It is to the boys who were my friends for so long. My one great regret of the war Is that I am not with them when it has ended. "For the companionship of two and a half years of death and misery is a spouse that tolerates no divorce. Such companionship finally becomes a part of one's soul, and it-can-not be obliterated. - True, I am with American boys in the other war not yet ended, but I am oldfashioned and my sentiment runs to old things. To me the Européan war is old,
and the Pacific war is new,
this globe. This is written on a little ship lying off the coast of the Island of Okinawa, just south of
Japan, on the other side of the world from Ardennes. But my heart is still in Europe,
Last summer I wrote that I hoped the end of the war could
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ACHESON STAB AT WARTHUR STIRS SENATE
Senator Asks 10 Questions To Be Answered by Monday.
By LYLE C. WILSON United Press Staff Correspondent
WASHINGTON, Sept. 22, —Senator Kenneth S. Wherry (R. Neb.) submitted 10 written questions to acting Secretary of State Dean G. Ache-
son today and asked for public answers by Monday. The senate again will consider Acheson’s nomination as undersecretary of state Monday.
Acheson and Gen. Douglas Mac~ Arthur are central figures in a hot post-war political dispute over demobilization. The next development will bé in the ‘senate Monday when administration leaders renew Sele foquascl: for confirmation of Acheson. Sharp discussion is expected of his rebuke this week directed at MacArthur, who had announced he shortly would be able to reduce occupation forces in Japan to 200,000 men, Answer by Monday
Wherry asked for a public reply to his questions “by Monday morn~ ing, at the latest, since my further interests in your confirmation will be largely conditioned by your answers.” In an interview with Hugh Baillie, president of United Press, MacArthur said yesterday that the Potsdam declaration terms were being absolutely enforced in Japan. He said he was “abolishing” the Japanese army, and that of the navy there shortly would remain only specimen remnants suitable for scientific or museum purposes. He foresaw a long occupation of Japan—“many years to fulfill the terms of the surrender.” Asks About ETO Cut
In one of his questions today, Wherry asked Acheson if the “real ground” for the quarrel were not the fact that the general “did not use the normal channels” to transmit to the American people his | conclusion on the future needs in Japan. JH he had used the normal
war social worker Toyohiko Kagawa met with Japanese proletarian leaders to plan the organization of a combined party which will work for Japan's immediate switch to de~
mocracy. Princeton-educated Kagawa and his co-workers pledged themselves
channels,” ‘Wherry . asked, “What guarantee is there that the Ameri can people would have been informed?” Wherry also asked if the assumption was not warranted that Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, European
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STE LEGON
world wars I and II who have been filtering into Indianapolis for the last several days established their beachhead last night and today the city was theirs.
‘CAPTURES’ CITY
Parade Tonight to Draw Huge Crowds.
The Legionnaires have landed. The blue-capped veterans
of
Flags and bunting waved throughout the downtown area as the city welcomed the ex-servicemen back for the Indiana department's first full-scale post-war convention today and tomorrow. Last night downtown Indianapolis took on the aspects of pre-war days as be-ribboned. blue-capped Legionnaires swarmed the streets, hotels and restaurants, There were executive meetings at the Claypool but the great majority of delegates and " members were
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Parade Route Parade will assemble at 6:30 p.m. at 16th and Delaware sts. Route: South on Delaware to Ft. Wayne, cross to Pennsylvania st., south on Pennsylvania to Washington st. West on Washington st. to Illinois.st., north to Market st.,
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Russia Shocks
Democracies By
'Trustee' Claims
By HAL O'FLAHERTY Times Foreign News Anslyst Russia ‘again has shocked the western democracies by logical argument and hard trading. This time, the scene is laid in London with the foreign ministers of the five powers, Britain, Russian, China, ¥rance and the United States, meeting to discuss post-war problems. In the rough and tumble fight that took place in the first days of
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to break loose from the past inertia caused by government oppression
LOCAL TEMPERATURES
around Circle to Meridian st., north on Meridian st. to St. Clair st. The reviewing stand will be at University park, dis-
and to seek a wider membership| & a m..... 63 10am... 66 throughout Japan, Their first mass| 7 & m..... 63 lam... 70 —— sam..... 64 12 (Noen).. 72 (Continued no Page 2—Column 3)| 9am... 65 pm...» 73
bandment point at St, Clair st,
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Bandit Held by Police, Admits 4 Holdups
A stickup man who confessed he| couple of blocks and watched him
was pulling off his fourth filling station holdup last night was apprehended by police 20 minutes after he held up the same man one time too often. Eddie Stephenson, 35, of 831 N, Capitol ave, was taken into custody in connection with a $50 holdup at the Snsstaria station, 726 N. Dela~ ware st He later admitted that holdup and three others In recent weeks in a written confession, detectives said. Stephenson went in the station at 4 p. m. and drew a gun on Orville Young, 33, of 262 8. LaSalie st, manager, He was taking the money from the drawer when another attendant, Kenneth Thayer, 18,
nized him as the same man who had held up another Gaseteria st 1502 N. West st. Sept. 15 Thayer had been transferred to the Delaware station yesterday The
of | tions at Market and West sts., and at 3030 Station st., came in and recog-
_ holdup man locked Young, Thayer ‘and a third clerk in a back room
get in a taxi, | Following this lead, police ap- | prehended the cab driver and {traced Stephenson to the 800 block on N, Capitol ave, where. they arrested him. He was arrested by Sgt. James Langsford, and Patrolmen Ernest Lepper and Joseph Fowley and identified by Thayer and Yeung. Police today were examining 32 and 38 guns which Stephenson had in connection with the slaying of William Raeber, East side grocer, in an attempted holdup recently. A bag of currency «also was found in Stephenson's room. Detectives. said Stephenson confessed other holdups at filling sta-
Michigan st. and Senate ave. He was booked on a vagrancy charge with no bond. Thayer, whose aptitude at gets ting out’ of locked FOOMS WAS res sponsible for Stephenson's apprehension, chuckled last night be-
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Sate in: two {fies the landis failed |
Legionnaires Re-Enact Familiar Scenes
st like the old days last night atomnd tik Claypoot tel 35.8 the Indiana dvpartment of Legion prepared to open its two-day convention. Here Joe E. MeCurdy, LaPorte Legion“Besser (let Mrs. Mildred Joyce,
Back in a quieter corner, rivals for the post of state leader conDon P. Spurrier, Whiting
ferred on campaign Issues.
(left) and Henry Siebenmark, South Bend, both candidates to replace retiring State Commander William Brown,
The retiring state executives open the first business session of the Left to right are Robert L. Kuntz, Kokomo, northern vice commander; Commander Brown, Bloomington, and Fred Hasselbring, Indianapolis, southern vice commander.
convention.
“ ~ “
Legion Convention Program
TODAY 1 p. m.~Opening
ployment service, D.C.
They are:
convention business session, Tomlinson hall. ip m.— Address by Perry Faulk-
ner, chief of the Veterans’ BmWashington,
4p aslo adjourned.
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6:30 p. m.—~Departmerit parade. +12 Midnight—District caucuses,
Claypool hotel, TOMORROW
10 a. m.—Final convention bus: ness session, Tomlinson hall.
2 p. m.~Address by Governor "Grates. Election and ° installation of officers.
r~¥ hie saw io’ reason for ‘the
PRICE FIVE CENTS
RATIONING AGAIN? Drivers Here
Fill Tanks in
Strike Scare |
ALTHOUGH the local gasoline supply today was reported as “reasonably assured,” Indianapolis motorists were taking no
chances on a gas drought. Division managers of six large oil companies expressed guarded confidence that the gas supply would continue adequate, but stated that they could not predict what might happen next week. v ” » ” MEANWHILE cars crowded into filling stations to “fill ‘er up.” In scences reminiscent of the days just before gas-rationing, some car owners even brought extra cans and jugs to hoard as much as possible of the precious fuel. “People have gone nuts,” said one local manager of an oil firm. “Everybody's rushing to fill his . tank.” Business in one local chain of filling stations was reported as “two or three times normal.” » » ~ * SUPPLIES of ethyl gas were rapidly dwindling, with many stations completely out of it. On the bright side was the report from the local manager of one large company that Indianapolis. was still far better off than Detroit. “Supplies are still coming into Indianapolis, and if nothing unforeseen happens, we may come through all right,” he sald.
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ANOTHER company official said ‘public
to become panicky. Tank cars were temporarily solving the problem caused by pipeline shutdowns in other parts of the country, The consensus was that the public would probably know within a week whether there will be a serious shortage,
WOMAN'S DEATH
Fractured Skull Kills Beech Grove Housewife.
An autopsy revealed today that a fractured skull caused the death of Mrs. Daisy Irene Hubble, Beech Grove, who deputy sheriffs sald was
GAS STRIKES MAY CRIPPLE U. S. TRAVEL
(vital
QUIZ TRUCKER IN
Government Calls
Meeting Tuesday To End Row.
By UNITED PRESS Breakdown of the nation’s motor transportation was threatened today as fill ing stations either rationed gasoline or closed down in the wake of mushrooming petroleum industry strikes in six states, So serious was the situation that the government called oil company
and union representatives to meet Tuesday in Chicago in an effort to
The possibility of compulsory arbitration as result of labor disturbances in turbulent Detroit is discussed by Fred Perkins, Page Two.
end work stoppages by some 25,000 refinery workers tieing up fuel output in three major refining areas. The strikers demand 30 per cent wage boosts to compensate for peacetime cutbacks on working hours and overtime. This wage demand accounted for most of the 200,000 idle in labor disputes throughout the country. . Texas Hit Hardest
The nation’s biggest production area and the one hit hardest by the strike was the rich Texas coast refining territory, The Calumet refining area near Chicago, the nation's third largest, was reduced to less than 50 per cent of its nor« mal production by the strikes. The third gasoline production center affected by the iabor controversy was in-Ohio. Petroleum industry officials est mated that at leas. 2 Hurd of fhe
intertered with the major: ¢ : centers in California, Okiahoms and New Jersey. Resumption of gasoline rationing was ordered effective today in To~ ledo, O., where every refinery was down and incoming: supplies were | dwindling. “Fill ’er up” proved a {short-lived post-war phrase in the {big Industrial city. Cabs Off Streets
In Detroit, its automotive industry already crippled by strikes, ‘it was estimated that 40 per cent of the city's 3400 gasoline stations had closed last night for lack of supplies. Checker cabs were to be taken off the streets there tonight as their {gas ran out. Most Ann Arbor, Mich., filling sta« tions had closed down. The remaining operators sald they had little reserve. At Flint, Mich., wholesalers and station operators met and decided to hold back 4000 gallons of gasoline for emergency needs.
either pushed or fell from a cattle | truck yesterday. Mrs. Hubble, 47, Beech Groce res- | ident 20 years, was found on Ar~ lington ave., more than one mile| from her home.
her body was found.
Dan Dorsey, 70, reported that they were going to Beech Grove when they noticed Mrs. Hubble enter the vehicle headed east on Churchman Pike towards her home. Mr, Brown, a cattle dealer, who was intoxicated when found at his home, according to deputies, has been taken into custody and is being
The witnesses, Alvin Cox, 70 and
The Chicago meeting was set for | Tuesday, but O. A. Knight, president of the C. 1. O, Oil Workers In{ternational union, to which the |strikers belong, said he might ask a delay so he might consult his
Two neighbors told Chief Deputy executive counsel Sheriff Virgil Quinn, that they saw | her get into the truck, which they | said belonged to Charles Brown, 53, of Acton, only 20 minutes before
Fourteen thousand workers were
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EISENHOWER, SMITH ARRIVE IN WARSAW
LONDON, Sept. 22 (U, P).— Radlo Warsaw veported that Gen, Dwight D. Eisenhower arrived in the Polish capital yesterday with Lt. Gen. Walter Bedell Smith, his chief of staff, The broadcast sald Eisenhower we greeted by Stafan Mtuszewski, Polish minister of information, and
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WASHINGTON
‘A Weekly Sizeup by the Staff of the Scripps-Howard WASHINGTON, Sept.
retire. Eisenhower is still best
Gen. Wedemeyer. He's als
get the top job in Europe.
and air forces. His message will
New secretary of war, Robert
i. | fication, can bé expected to push
is that former Dillon and Read problems arising between the If Forrestal leaves the navy,
Adjournment of cgpvention,
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due in Washington any day. political reasons, talks his way out of it, keep an eye on
top post in a defense department, to placate hostile navy. Forrestal. is being talked, also, for ambassador to
two countries from here on. y
Washington
Newspapers
22.—It will be Nimitz for chief of naval operations to succeed Adm. King, who wants to
bet for chief of staff, and he’s If he doesn't want it for
o en route here, from China.
If Eisenhower takes it, look for Clark or McNarney fo
» » r PRESIDENT Truman will soon ask congress to unify land, sea
touch off hearings on bills
introduced by Senator Hill (D:.Ala.) and Rep. Randolph (D. w.
P. Patterson, is an advocate of unie it. There's talk of offering Forrestal
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