Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 September 1945 — Page 1

>Ta 26, 1945 JUP WILL (OMORROW

for Edutation by or a business ses« e reports at 7:30 WISH studios. Young, president, and Miss Mary 5 secretary. Com re Miss Mary Jo wart, Mrs. Ressie Thompson, Mrs, and Mrs. Bess

'S KILLED [AR BLAST

PO, Cal, Sept. 26 cials today blamed or a mortar-shell 2d three members mberwolves) die | 22 others.

lgating the exe 5

urred on the fire \y, said the shell off because it delayed-detona« \ the fuse,

expressed to MacArthur his willingness to ‘abdicate. The broddcast| said the Japanese constitution ale

He wants to see Detroit ‘In the

book with Nurse 1st Lt, Elizabeth Johnson at Billings General hospital.

FORECAST: Occasional showers tonight and tomorrow.

VOLUME 56—NUMBER 172 ig

Will Wounded G.L’s Dreams Of Seeing Tigers

Medical authorities said today, however, that it would not be advisable to move him so far by ambulance. Ward-mates, who have been pulling for the Then one suggested that if he could be flown he possibly

could make the trip. , The plane is lacking . . . the series draws

world. series. Pfc. Erwin Lewis, Pontiac, Mich, looks over his scrap-

HINT HIROHITO OFFERS

10 GIV

UP HIS THRONE

PAYS MARTHUR A ‘SOCIAL’ CALL

Trio Breaks 2000-Year-0id Japanese Precedent.

By FRANK TREMAINE _ United Press Staff Correspondent

TOKYO, Sept. 27—=Informed Japanese sources said that Emperor Hirohito, dur-

ing an ‘unprecedented visit with . Gen. Douglas Mae-

Arthur today, promised to do: everything’ in’ his power to insure} faithful fulfillment of the surrender terms, ‘ (A B. B. C, broadcast reported by N. B. C, said it was “strongly|’ believed” in Tokyo that Hirohito

ready was being ‘re-drafted to pro- " vide for the abdication. Contents of the conversation between the supreme allied commander and the emperor who must obey his orders were not diyulged, but Japanese sources believed Hirohito also pledged all possible aid in rebutlding’ Japan into a democratic, peaceful nation. Stayed Half Hour Hirohito called on MacArthur at the American embassay and talked with him for mors than a half hour with only the emperor's interpreter present. The meeting, {argely $0~ cial, broke a precedent of more than 2000 years. Prensier Prince Naruhiko Higa-shi-Kunj left his official residence this afternoon to call on the em-

peror. ‘There was‘no immediate in-|

dication whether the visit was connected with Hirohito’s conversation with MacArthur or an earlier report regarding a possible re-shuffle of the Japanese. cabinet. . The bespectacled “Son. of Heaven,” |

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~ofsimperial gravel to call on Gen.

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‘guarded the entrance to the grounds.

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INDEPENDENCE, Mo., Sept. | (U.. P.).~The: “Little White House” will pe closed this week-end when President ‘Wruman's wife and | daughter join him in Washington. Mrs. “Bess ‘Truman and So Margaret, Truman will travel by| train, leaving either Friday or Saturday, They will’ be 'accom-

panied. by. Mrs, Truman's mother, |

Mrs. D, W. Wallace, and several friends of the family. Miss Truman spent the entire) summer in Independence, but her, mother came here from Washington | only- two weeks ago.

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Amusements. 24 Doug. Larsen. 17

Business ‘ 28 Charles Lucey 17 Carnival .... 18, Ruth ‘ Millett. 32 Comics ...... 31iMovies ...... 24

Max B, Cook. 17/ Wim. Newton. iv

Crossword ... 81 Dr, OBrien. Editorials Ta Fashions .... 21 Radio ....... a : 18! Mrs, Rooseveit 17

Such Goings-On

Mikado" s Un- Imperial Action in Visiting Gen. MacArthur Tough on Hon. Royal Ancestors.

By GERALD R. THORP, Times Foreign Correspondent TOKYO, Sept. 27.—~Emperor. Hirohito today donned

his high silk hat and his Sunday suit, climbed aboard the imperial limousine and was swirled away amidst: a cloud

Now this event, so they si, is Sa all the

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1945

By VICTOR PETERSON THE BLEACHERS for Briggs stadium, home of the Detroit Tigers, extends all the way

to Billings General hospital. There, badly wounded,

stands when that first ball is

ARMY RELEASE FOR 7 MILLION SEEN BY JULY|

Patterson Says 6 of 7 Men Now in Service to Be Out in Year.

WASHINGTON, Sept.* 27 (U. P.).—All but 1,000,000 of the 8,000,000-man wartime army will be discharged by next July 1. A few weeks thereafter the army's strength will be cut to 1,630,000 or less. : This was disclosed today by Sec retary of War Robert P. Patterson. The difference between the eontemplated 1,630,000-man force and the 1000000 will be made up by draftees and volunteers, : Promising that personnel will be released as fast as possible, he also revealed that the army's discharge rate now has reached 26,000 a day. He said that more than 1,000,000 men have been released since V-E day and that more than 2,000,000 more will be discharged by Chrismas. This means that six out of every seven men now in the army will} be discharged within a year. Patterson spoke at a press conference an hour after he was | sworn in officially as secretary of! war, succeeding Henry L. Stimson, | who retired last week. “Keep Selective Service” ~ Patferson aso: ONE: led for continuation of selective service, arguing that immediate abandonment of the draft} would mean that a large number of veterans now scheduled for release would have to be retained in the army “for the benefit of men who have not served at all.” The army is counting on 50,000 draftees and 30,000 volunteers per month. TWO: Gave assurances that the army. will not keep men in the service “to give jobs or rank to higher ‘officers, -or because we want a large army or bécause of any long- ‘| range policy for the military establishment.” THREE: Warned, however, that adequate military strength must be

. : , Gen, Douglas MacArthur and Emperor Hirohito

world may never know whether the Japanese emperor and the American general talked about crops, weather or the Brooklyn Dodgers. Newspapermen were barred. So, in lieu of a report of the tete-a-tete itself, you might like to know what went on up to the time MacArthur and Hirohito said howdy and sat down to talk ‘things over. We jeeped to thé American embassy about 9:30, more or less confident that the emperor was due to arrive there

. at 10-a, m.’ It was not particularly surprising to find that

we were a little less than welcome. * Two stern-faced M. P.’s, with bayonets on their rifles, And it only took . another minute or two before we learned that even our presence in the vicinity of the gates was downright undesirable. Pfc. Elmer F. Ell, St. Charles, Mo., one of the guards, ‘informed us that he had been instructed not to permit newspapermen or anyone else to loiter near the entrance. Pfe. Elmer F. Cermak, Sturgen Bay, Wis., the second guard, told us that we could not come within two blocks of the entrance, . + 80 we retired behind a rock pile to speculate on whether the two Elmers would become full-fledged cops (Continued on Page 3 —Column 3

Browder Says He's ‘Proponent Of Revolutions’

_. By LYLE C. WILSON United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Sept. 27. — Earl Browder, deposed American Communist Party leader, testified today that American Communists do not favor the “violent overthrow” of the U, 8. capitalistic system. But he sald that he is a “pro2| ponent. of revolutions.” was founded by a e told the house tom-

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tion risk “a world war nm» said the nation must not shirk the {task of enforcing the surrender of |

Germany and Japan, including the a time.

{occupation of hostile areas.” FOUR:

{per cent of its production program, |and that it is prepared to settle contracts promptly. | FIVE: 8aid a new undersecre- | tary of war will be named “in the | war future.” To Speed Releases His estimate of an army of 1,630,000 or less within the next year followed a recent White House announcement that the army's strength probably will be cut to 1,950,000 by next July 1. Patterson said the White House figure included 320,000 men who will be in the process of discharge Patterson sald personnel will be discharged from the army as fast As possible, irrespective of the future size of the army. The future size of the army, he said, will not become a determining factor in the rate of discharges until next April when a decisioh is | made on the army's future strength.

'GOV. DURBIN’S WIDOW DIES AT ANDERSON.

ANDERSON, Bept. 27 (U, P.).— | Mrs. Bertha McCullough Durbin, 92,

I{llness of nearly two years

Chicago attorney, survives.

{in 1928.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 21 %U. P).

of ‘Sunday.

lies Pfc. Lewis, Pontiac, Mich., as enthusiastic a fan as ever yelled, “Murder the ump.” With all his power he is pulling for his favorites to sweep into the world series. With all his heart he is hoping to be in the

BUILDING MAY

Factory Once Manufactured

Northwestern ave. and 21st st. has been declared ordnance department and unless some other branch of the war department wants it, the several mil-lion-dollar factorv will be up for sale, if was learned today.

as operated by the Indianapolis saw retained lest the hard-won victory | manufacturers, E. C, Atkins & Co, “slip from our grasp” and the na- | until armorplate production was He! sliced by war's changing tactics,

iverted into a shell-making plant to Revealed that the war be operated hy | department now hag terminated 90 Tank & Pump Co. of Ft. Wayne.

Erwin trip, were

near. tossed,

BE UP

ns a

Armor Plate, The Fall ‘Creek ordnance plant at

“excess” by the

Built at the oeginning of the war an armorplate plant, it was

Shell-Making Planned

It was used for a warehouse for Recently it was being con-

the Tokheim Ofl

But the war ended before the plant was ready for Tokheim. The Pt. Wayne concern has no interest in buying or leasing the plant, should it be offered for sale, said E. 8. Higginbotham, vice president and general manager, Should no other branch of the war department have a use for the plant, it will be offered for sale or lease by the Reconstruction Fiance Corp.

TRUMAN COMMENDS Donors Urged to Give One

NEWSPAPERS OF U. S.|

NEW YORK, Sept, 27 (U, P.)~—

nation's newspapers today for thetr |

urged that the nation continue "to

world peace. The President expressed

~With civilian meat supplies rapidly swelling in volume, the office of price administration announced today that one-third of all meats will | be taken off the ration list next

Chief items to become, ration free with the ‘beginning of the October

praise in a message addressed “to

| the newspapers of the nation”

week, Oct. 1-8.

FLY EX-PRISONERS HOME

KARACHI, ‘India, Sept. 27 (U.| 600 freed

| from here to the United States by

One son, Fletcher M. Durbin, a {the army's alr transport command, Durbin, | it was announced today. An aver.

| Governor from 1901 to 1905, died|age of 50 former prisoners depart |

by plane daily.

Third of Meats fo Go Off

Rationed List Next Sunday iain T TENOR DENIES HE WAS- KIDNAPPED

ROME, Sept. 27 (U. P.).~BenjaPork, which. is still scarce, will |mino Gigli, widely-known Italian

grades of veal and lamb are classi= fied as cull.

ration free.

their present point values, Other less favored cuts,

continue at its vresent point values for all’ cuts except pork hearts, | livers ‘and tongues, which will be | had been kidnapped. | “It was only a stupid attempt to!

such -]

e Indianapolis Times

Cooler tomorrow; much cooler tomorrow night.

Entered as Second-Class Matter at Postoffice Indianapolis 8, Ind, Issued daily except Sunday

Play Come True?

sent Pfc. Lewis back to the states a hospital patient. There at Bastogne his good luck charm:

downcast at the news.

It was the Vicious Battle of the Bulge that

Saturday Night

IT'S .ORAY to set. your clock back one hour before you go to bed Saturday night and catch up oh that sleep you lost several years ago when war time daylight saving time was ordered by President Roosevel,

On Tuesday President Truman

set 2 a. m, Bunday as the time when" the nation would go back on standard time. Mayor Tyndall said the same thing goes for Indianapolis, ' # » o ALL PUBLIC grade schools and four high schools will revert to pre-war schedules Monday, said Virgil Stinebaugh, school superin~ tendent, But because of problems, Shortridge, Technical and Crispus Attucks will open at 8:45 a. m., while Broad Ripple, Manual, Washington: and Howe open half an hour. earlier at B:15 a. m. Grade school schedules will be

from 8:30 to 11:55 a. m, and 1:10 |

to 3 p. m.

RELIEF FUND GOAL SET AT $1,821,000

Hour’s Pay a Month.

An hour's pay a month for 12|a8e. President Truman commended the! months or its equivalent from each | shortages” employed person will help make | MO successful wartime operation under | ihe 1045 goal of $1,821,000 for the the voluntary censorship code and | ynited War and Community Fund. | The goal was decided upon after make a free press the true torch of | 4; exhaustive survey of business {and employment conditions in In-| his | dianapolis and Marion county, J. (3. Sinclair, general chalrman Inst the campaign which opens Oct, 8, | connection with national Newspaper | ¢aid the same standard of giving | as last year, and over- -subscription | would be necessary to meet budg- | fund |

etary needs of the 170 | agencies “There can be no. let down

{

FINAL HOME |

PRICE FIVE CENTS

ran its string.

FALL CREEK WAR PLANT LISTED ‘EXCESS’ PROPERT

How. Fall: Creek ordnance plant looks from the air. Tt soon may be up tor sale . {EXTRA SLEEP—

Set Your Clock “Back One Hour"

Beneath his army uniform he wore a bat tered, old baseball shirt. Number 13 was em broidered on the back. : It didn't prove to be the perfect armor. A radio operator, he was hit by shrapnel from a German artillery shell and fell with’ severe wounds and several fractures.

Edgar L. Warren, chief of

transportation

in n | giving now If the people of Indian{apolis and Marion county provide {adequately for the 46 home agencles

'aske them to transfer

{conference to TEE oor

| After three days of confer-| ring the labor and manage{ment representtaives still appeared to be far from agreement, Warren gave both sides until this | |afternoon to decide whether to con-

{tinue negotiations in Washington tomorrow or Saturday. A spokesman for one oil company said the industry representatives were ready to go to the capital. | | The labor representatives met to decide the point. Richmond May Be First An oil company spokesman at-| | tending the industry's labor-man-| agement strike cohference said a survey showed that Richmond, Va, would be the first Eastern city to fel the pinche of the gasoline short. | He said there would be “spot of motor fuel at Rich-| nd beginning Oct. 1. Unless the® strike at gulf coast| | refineries is settled, he said, the | | gasoline shortage will hit Not folk | by Oct. 4, Washington Oct. 5, New York Oct. 7, Providence Oct. 9, and | Boston Oct, 10.

tert PP. Patterson” said today there was no army surplus of gasoline {which could be used to ease any |eivillan shortages. Across the nation, 678,986 persons | {were made idle by labor disputes, and other thousands were walking out, The total includes 300,000 garment workers who refused to crose

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{of the Community Pund and the 24 | nn

{War Fund organizations,” clair declared.

The Victory campaign, dedicated to men and women from Marion in the armed

county who served

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The better grades of beef, veal {rob me,” he told interviewers and lamb, particularly cuts such asf steaks, roasts and chops, will retain (had reported Gigli’s by a “Capt. Battaglia,” who had appeared at his home yesterday to short ribs, plates, flanks, shanks and’ “warn” the singer that he and his t war-

| family were named Tanta to be served

Earlier, the Italian news agency | You keep 'ém in morning, “kidnapping” | noon and night sessions unul That went on yesterday, and it had the day before, and it will go on today un-

Mr, Eh: |

By FRED W.' PERKINS Seripps-Howard Staff Writer CHICAGO,

{a give from either side,

| familiar in conciliation technique.

somebody cries uncle.

ee a

Government Conciliator Asks Hearing Be Moved to Washington. 5

By UNITED PRESS

conciliation service, was summoned today to the apparentlys deadlocked oil strike conference. An oil industry spokesman forecast shortages of gasoline for some sections of the eastern searboard by next. week. In a 10-minute Session with the negotiators, ‘Warren

| JOBLESS PAY BOOST

Tells House Group That

Meanwhile Secretary of War Rob- | pity his first major rebuff two day

Sept. . 27.~The old one-two-three js being administered to the parties in the big oil strike | by the super-duper federal econ jremor, was safe at his villa today |ciliators here, but up to this mornafter discounting reports that he | ing there was no tangible sign of

The one-two-three is a tactic

after-

the U. 8. labor department’

URGED BY TRUMAN

Senate Let Him Down.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 271 (U. P), —President Truman today stood firmly against the first major cons | gressional rebuff of his administra= [tion and requested that his original proposals for unemployment come pensation be carried out. : Mr. Truman told Democratie leaders of ‘the House ways and meang committee bluntly that the Senate had “let him down” on uns {employment compensation and that he did not expect the House to do the same. The 12 Democratic members met wtih the President for about 48 | minutes. White House Press Secres | tary Charles Ross later told newss men of Mr. Truman's position. The Democrats were called to | the White House after the house ways and means committee gave

ago by voting “14 to 10- to shelve {the administration’s unemployment | compensation bill. Of today's meeting, Ross said’ Mr, Truman “spoke vigorously and | said he stood-pat on 26 weeks and $25.” { Chairman (D, N. C),

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Robert L. Doughton of the committee Ap=

No “ign of Compromise Seen In Oil Strike Negotiation

Knaus of the Colorado state sus preme court. He is tall and elder, He walks with a. cane but he ways shows up ahead of time 19 the numerous conferences ta whic are summoned spokesmen for the eleven oll companies so far repres sented and for the C.1LO. Workers International union. Up fo today the union, with representatives headed by president, slight and bespect 0. A. Knight, was sticking up 30 per cent wage of the oil companies had