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VOLUME 56—NUMBER 170

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBE

R 25, 1945

Hugh Baillie Interviews Nippon’s Defeated Mikado

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Emperor Hirohito of Japan.

JES TIGHTEN RMAN REINS

To Wipe Out Mil

BERLIN, Sept. 25 (U. P.)

of German activity today.

The allied control council

Unlimited Occupation Grip Ordered

limited occupation grip on Germany and virtually all forms

Their announced intention is stamping out completely and forever the German military tradition.

itary Tradition.

~The allies clam an un-

laid down the law for a de-

feated nation in a 4000-word codification of rules, responsibilities and requirements for

Germany. The council's general proclamation No. 2 authorized reparations, seizures, confiscation, territorial demands and other regulations—Hm{ted only by the discretion of allied representatives. Grim Future

The proclamation laid the groundwork for the grimmest kind of a potential peace settlement with Germany—and for a stern and thor-sugh-going rule in the meantime. The “codification. contained nothing tmexpected and little that the control council had not already anhounced piecemeal. But inasmuch as the council's first proclamation only announced Its supreme authority over Germany, its second comprised a comprehensive book of rules. The proclamation placed the final stamp of legality on the rules under which Germany already was being administered, At the same time it

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NAVY WILL RELEASE ALL FATHERS OF 3

WASHINGTON, Sept. 25 (U. P.). «The navy ruled today that any enlisted man with three or more shildren less than 18 years old will be eligible for discharge upon application, There are about 97,000 enlisted men in this category, an official spokesman said. The new ruling does not include officers,

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Keeani

COMMITTEEMEN

—Congress’ Pearl Harbor investi-

gating committee decided today it {will visit the Hawaiian outpost as

T0 VISIT HAWAII

Plan to Carry on Inquiry at Pearl Harbor. WASHINGTON, Sept. 25 (U, P.).

soon as possible. Senator Alben W. Barkley (D. Ky.), chairman of the special 10man joint committee, said the committee will fly to Pearl Harbor ‘as soon as it has familiarized itself with other testimony regarding the physical layout of deéfenses at the time of the Japanese attack on Dec. 7, 1041. The commtitee decision to make the trip came during a two-hour

Police to Guard Rush as

By HUGH BAILLIE

President of the World Copyright,

in an enterview today.

The emperor said that a democratic Japanese form of

government which will evolve

follow the exact pattern of democracy in the United States But it is his desire and intention that his people ‘be made to -appreciate the value of democratic

and Britain.

government. Hirohito said that Japan

He is much exercised about the prospects for winter when . millions of Japanese will be without clothing, shelter and

fuel.

According to court procedure, my questions were submitted in writing several days before the audience. As 1

NYLON HOSIERY

70 BE PLACED ON SALE HERE

Murphy Store Sells Them Tomorrow.

That pre-war luxury which has been every woman's own post-war plan—going to the store to buy some nylon hosiery—will become an actuality in Indianapolis tomorTow. The (. C. Murphy 5 and 10-cent store at Market and Illinois sts. has 600 pair of nylons which it will put on sale—one pair to a customer —beginning at 9:30 tomorrow morning. The store manager, William H. Meckling, said “Yes, indeed!” when asked if he planned having some policemen on hand to keep order when the ladies storm the counter. “Six of ‘em. Four at a Time “And we'll let only four people in the store at a time to buy the nylons. They'll have to line up at

1945, TOKYO, Sept. 25.—Japan is now on an entirely new footing and will prove itself equal to membership in the family of nations, Emperor Hirohito told the United Press

United Press by United Press

in time may not necessarily

was in urgent need of food.

the certer door on the Market st. side. nylon counter, so no one can get in the nylon line by comirg in from some other part of the store.” The stockings are slight irreguJars, Mr. Meckling said, of 54 gauge and 30 denier, selling. for $1.75 a pair Only four or five of the

{ 207 Murphy stores throughout the

nation have the nylons for sale, he said Not ‘every Murphy's other Indianapolis store, at 1053 Virginia ave. was lucky enough to draw some of the nylon quota Employees Can't Buy “My instructions are that our own employees are not allowed to buy any, inéluding me. It's a good thing Mrs. Mecking has been hanging on to two pre-war pairs’ Meanthile, Indianapolis hosiery manufacturers said that, generally speaking, the trickle of nylons mig be going steadily by November and that there would be plenty of all ‘sizes and quality by the first of the year. The reason they can't promise

closed meeting.

ONE OF the city’s vital social services faces the fiscal guillotine Oct. 31 unless funds are obtained for its continuation, The threatened agency is the Indianapolis Emergency Day Care service. During the war it played nursemaid to thousands of youngsters whose parents were in war work. On Oct. 31, the federal works agency withdraws federal support from the project on the theory the child day care crisis is ended. But this is a false assumption according to findings of a special joint committee formed to survey Indianapolis’ child nursery needs in peacetime. The need for qualifled day supervision of small tots remains acute, they assert. 800 Need Care From questionnaires, this group le. ned that three-fourths of the mother: using day care centers during war expect to continue

800, the war As a and with part

unity fund for which to main a of ‘the day during

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care the war. day

‘as compared with 600 before _ §

result the committee this week will petition the United War money program 4

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Day Care Service for Children Unless New Funds Are

annually, with the government providing $60,000 of this. The rest was defrayed largely by fees averaging 75 cents a day for each child enrolled. If the extended program is continued, officials hope to reduce expenses substantially.

We're going to rope off the

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2 ACCUSED OF HOUSING FRAUD

Hackley and Welch-indicted By. Grand Jury.

A criminal court grand jury today returned she-indictments against two Indianapolis men who are alleged to have fleeced 3T prospective home builders out of approximately $7000, a majority of whom are discharged sepvicemen. Operators of Co-operative Homes, | a purported home-building business, | John W. Welch and Forrest L. Hackley, wére charged jointly with

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Indianapolis’ pre-war day care facilities consisted of two nurseries—one, the Day Nursery association at 542 Lockerbie st., the other at Flanner house. Under

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left the imperial household departmental building the questions and written answers were handed to me.

However, my conversation with the emperor lasted

25 minutes during which tea

conversation, the emperor said that he expected to have a visit with Gen. Douglas MacArthur very soon, In written answers regarding the democratic future of Japan, the emperor said that he believes that an imme-

diate revolutionary change of

Japan is neither possible nor desirable. The emperor said that he would like to ask people of the United Nations to observe the future trend of Japan closely now that the nation has started on what he described as a new road of peace. this path he said he would employ every means at his disposal to reach the desired goal. The audience started promptly at 4 p. m. and ended

at 4:25 p. m. Exactly at 4

Hoosier Ex-Prisoner of Japs Joins Army

Edward C. Keith (right) who wants to go back to the Philippines, is being resworn into the army by LL.

Col. Joseph C. Chedister.

Truman's Job Pay Bill Put on Shelf in House

WASHINGTON, Sept. 25 (U. P.). |—The house ways and means committee today shelved the administration's unemployment compensation bill, handing President Truman his first major legislative defeat, By a vote of 14 to 10, the committee adopted a motion to postpone the measure indefinitely “so the committee can receive more concrete information as to what the unemployment situation is to be during the reconversion period.” The motion was offered by Rep. Wilbur D. Mills (D. Ark). The senate last week refused Mr.

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May Be Ended Here Found to Replace U. S. Grant

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Entered as Second-Class Matter at Postoffice Indianapolis 9, Ind. Issued daily except Sunday

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irohito Pledges Full Co-Operation In Turning Japan Into A Democracy

his chamber opened and Hirohito entered. He was attired in a frock coat, striped trousers, stiff batwing col-

lar with curved rather than pointed edges and a four-in-hand tie.

was served. During this

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the form of government of

In furtherance of

o'clock the double doors of

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tional college professor. twice as it would between any two men. He broke it once by asking me about my hobbies—if any—and a second time by inquiring what fronts I had visited during the war,

tween us, no one else present said a word.

imperial households, S. Ishiwata; the grand chamberlain

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Hirohito impressed me a§ being rather taller than I : He wore steel-rimmed glasses and his air was not as closely cropped as I had anticipated. He had a rather scholarly air reminiscent of a tradi-

During the 25-minute audience, silence fell once or

During each of these brief intervals of silence be-

The emperor was accompanied by the minister of

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TIEUP MUM END QUICKL

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Schwellenbach Says Conciliation Has To Succeed; Chrysler, U. A. W. Open Talks. =

Officials representing 26,000 striking oil workers met

with company and government represenfatives in Chicaso today for a conciliation conference which Secretary of

Lewis B. Schwellenbach warned “must not be permitted to fail.”

DEATH MARCH 6 I. RE-ENLISTS

Gary Man Asks for Duty in Philippines.

And now he wants to go back.... The “death march,” escape from a Japanese prison camp, service in thé Philippine zuerrilla army--that wasn’t enough for Edward C. Keith Jr. of Gary, so he re-enlisted in the army yesterday at the Federal building. Keith, who is 23, has received the presidential citation with two oak leaf clusters, the bronze star, the purple heart, and is an honjorary member -of the distinguished | seruice cross bestowed on Gen.,| Jonathan Wainwright. | Upon completion of the infamous “death march” in 1942, Keith was held at the prison camp.

Killed Jap Guard i

While working in a rice paddy | one day he and two fellow prisoners overpowered and killed their Jap-| janese guard with a shovel and | |attempted to escape.’ Keith made {his way to freedom. His two com~ panions were killed, Contacting the Philippine guerrillas, Keith joined their forces] ahd served with them from May, 1942, to December, 1944. He rose | to the rank of 1st lieutenant and! at on? time commanded 500 men. His band operated between Clark field and Manila until contact with American forces on Leyte was | established. The band had man | aged to assemble a transmitter and receiver and had been furnishing valuable information concerning the Japanese forces and military movements before the American landing on the Philippines. | Sent overseas in September, 1941, Keith was stationed at Clark field when the Japs. attacked Luzon, Keith had been 2 technician 5-c. Discharged in July Keith has requested reassignment to the Philip pines. 1

ATTACKED HOSPITAL SHIP WASHINGTON, Sept. 25 (U, PJ. ~The Germans didn't attack any 1. 8. hospital ships in world war II, Japanese suicide planes dam-

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is that the panel will have no. of enforcing its findings exc through public opinion. Mr. Ric

‘Schwellenbach said “some agreement must be reached = | through which the workers President Hails return to work immediately.” . ; . He said the nation’s oil and / ndiana S J oint gasoline reserves would be depleted “In a very few days” if Labor Char ter the strike continued. ; ) His warning came as the na= Np La he Sunt-aine | tional labor relations board received tangible evidence that leaders of | petition from the C. 3. O. Unite management and labor can find | Auto Workers lor BD so means of settling their problems |smons Nn WOrRers n Tyas at the conference table,” sald | er _Digtor Pp: pamS. ith President Truman today. i The union began Qiscussions wil a The President's praise was con- hry Ser Sop. So mans : tained in a letter to Governor |°f * ee TE ereNce Wan Gates congratulating the gover- Et wind) ape RIN tude nor and Hoosier labor and man- it 5 fon t. deman dq on the Autom agement on adoption of the na- is Jay big RE . i ’ “ i 1 u . ¢ pri hoi ib ge wo usirial With a strike election already seb was signed at a recent meeting for Oct. 24 in the General Motors in South Bend : system, the U. A. W. said it had reon. juested the national labor relations IN HIS letter to the governor, (board to set a ballot date among President Truman wrote: 150,000 Chrysler workers. A Ford “My wholehearted congratula- strike vate will be asked about Oct, tions go forward to you, to the |1, the U. A. W. said. state of Indiana and to the rep- Some 600,000 workers are affected resentatives of labor and industry [in the three organizations. General who executed the first state labor- [Motors has offered to discuss the management charter. wage request. “The action which this docu- Elevator Row Spreads 3 ment represents is a hopeful in- x i . gk dication of the determination of Maatwiie, 2 Strike of slevatat £ our people that strife between la~ |operators whieh nas para’y bor and management shall not [major part of Manhattan's coma impede our. return to normal | mercial activity threatened today peacetime producitivity and eco- 2 Spread Jo wo additional New nomic security for all.” { York City boroughs. S Scunsy i Indications mounted that the 2700 TROOPS FROM { walkout of 15,000 elevator operators {and building service employees-= FAR EAST DUE HOME members of ‘locals 328 and 164, i 7A loyees Inter« J NEW YORK, Sept. 25 (U. P.).— |Bullding Service Emplos RY More than 2700 troops and 335 al- national Union a,» of L)-woild lied civilians arrive from the Way be Sxiended to the bronx East today aboard the coast guard | oan : transport General Greeley, which] David Sullivan, president of local sailed from Calcutta. |32B, said, however, Wat 83 action The 61st railway operating bat- Would pe taken ny a apart talion came on’ the Greeley, along| Ment houses. Re 2 Vveen with 291 patients, five navy per- representatives which a sonnel and seven military depend. | *2led this morning was canceled. ents United States, - Canadian Sullivan also disputed 2 police British Chinese aol Indian "a '| estimate that 2015 buildings in Mas it # truck. Sullivan tionals were among the civilians on Tan had been 8 3 board. "(Continued on » Detroit H Richberg Urge C | Arbitration La By FRED W. PERKINS Seripps- Howard Staff Writer DETROIT, - Sept. 25.—~Results of efforts in Chicago ‘today to settle the big oil strike will be contrasted officially with the methods advo-

‘located here yesterday by Donald

Richberg for handling important labor-management disputes. The Chicago effort involves a new méthod for bringing agreements —a three-man panel headed by a

poard and “causing 63 .

one in the Pacific, killing 20

‘jurist and including two conciliators of the labor de-

8 difference between it and the

berg is an advocate of the H Ball-Burton bill, now pending the senate. The bill would uli arbitration in a restricted class cases in which the public inte or safety is deeply involved,

such a publio effect is & questio