Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 September 1945 — Page 6

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S J TE BABY SHORTAGE.

pn Britain Probes $ ‘Big Decrease in

“ Births Risked Death to Get News Rate of

—~ LONDON, Sept. 28 (U. P)Of Outside World. The government, frankly worried, By GEORGE WELLER

announced ‘today tHat it has Times Foreign Correspondent

‘decided to invade «the sanctity NAGASAKI, Japan, Sept. 22 (De-| Ny i 8) ~How two. of the largest | A white paper issued by the richn prisoner of war camps! royal commission on population able to pierce the Japanese solemnly warned that the situa.out on overseas news with| tion is serious. : | tish nation faces ulti tiny secret listening sets—operating| art

| “produce more children, the papersald. o " » REPRESENTATIVES of the commission will call op’ 1,500,000 | | married women In thelr homes | and ask pertinent—some wives may regard them as impertinent —questions in an effort to de~ termine the causes of a drop in | the total number of ‘births in. the decade 1930 to 18939 Those callers, who will visit Mr. Weller Mindanao, and at Cabanatuan, out-| side Manila, In defiance of the death penalty. Not only was each camp ignorant | “that the other possessed a set, but| any, only the American commandant | ; NEE, ‘gnd the Inventor in each. camp “MARRIED couples who can knew that any such set existed, The secret was kept By the fn- | yentor himself. Each thinking that | Be alone had outwitted the Jap-| nese.

wives, will seek information concerning age, occupation of husband, date of marriage and. the

The fall in the tofal numbers {f births in the dgeade “is proSmuggled Parts {0 ; When the yan inventer ~| foundly changing the age dis~

| tribution of the population and death-march veteran Capt. Russel

J. Hutchinson, Albuquerque, N, M— was transferred by & Japanese troopship, hundreds of miles to ‘the north, to Cabanatuan; he smuggled, slong parts of his set in corned beef cans and cakes of soap, Police today were searching for After working his way into the two teen-aged bandits, who last Cabanatuan prisoners’ engineering night jerked g trolley from its wire, aristocracy,”

gonsequences, ” it said.

“TEEN-AGE TROLLEY"

‘already functioning there, | Squier, of $20. What made his hair stand up was| The robbery was committed at the the unbelievable coincidence that! Broad Ripple park end of the ColCabanatuan inventor was also! lege ave line, police said. One of named Hutchinson — Lt. Howard the youths, described by Mr. Squier, tchinson, formerly a ayil ‘eh- as between 16 and 18 years old, wore ‘gineer in Manila, The Davao Hutchinson was al-, Teady heavily under suspicion as! the operator of the Davao set and feared that a set leak would occur imperiling the life of the Manila Hutchinson as well as his own. Peril of Death

. Bo he had the Davao set—brought ‘under peril of death from Mindanao to Manila and already secretly in ation in Cabanatuan’s chapel— smantied. It eventually was buried in the latrine at Camp Canabatuan by rmer Davao Commandant Lt. Col. Oley Olson. Cabanatuan’s set disappeared somewhere in Abe. maglstrom of war, The sets were similar only a that they were single-tube affairs. The Davao Hutchinson depended on a in the electric light socket,

of his face.

LOCAL LIEUTENANT WINS BRONZE STAR

First Lt. James W, Kiesle, husband of Mrs. ’irginia Kiesle, 2134 Central ave, has been awarded the bronze star for meritorious service in combat in Italy. Lt. Kiesle has served in the 350th “Battle Mountain” regiment, 88th “Blue Devil” infantry division of the 5th army. He was a graduate of Cathedral high school and attended Butler university, He joined the army in October, 1941. ares se ————— : SERVED ON 26 FRONTS | NEW YORK, Sept. 28 (U, P)~| The Salvation Army sald today that | it had served allied soldiers in 97 countrigs and on 26 fighting fronts | | during the six years of world war IT. |

Both sets were used principally at ht, with an elaborate split-fec-ond system of American guards and

was down to 55 seconds for complete’ | dismantling. Hutchinson's listening post was a watch repair shop, run by air corps | Warrant Officer Jack Day. ; Re] Copviieht 1945, By The anol) Times

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of the home to find out why, Britons don’t have more babies. |

mate extinction unless couples |

| one-tenth of Britain's 16,000,000 | dates of the birthiof children, if. |

| have children shoyld ‘have an | average of well above two if" the | population is to be maintained,” ! the commission's white paper said. |

this hag already ‘had important

BANDITS ARE SOUGHT

he discovered that a boarded the streetcar, drew a gun | set built inside a water canteen was and robbed the operator, oly de H.

| a handkerchief over the lower part

To thorough hearings which were report which has been before the

| ia ; U.S. MILITARY |soecica shor mir nl alta TRUMAN EXPANDING | Match Box Radio STATE DEPARTMENT)

make in the structure and organi soliaation on every ate ng ging, PLAN HELD Up =i of the navy due to probable | {the congressional, where it apparWASHINGTON, Sept. 28 (U. P.).

| emergence of new weapons employ- ently. has taken over Chairman | jing the principle of .the robot and Andrew J. May (D. Ky.), of the {atomic bombs.” |house military affairs committee, ~Fresident Truman's decision to A Question raised here today is, In a general way the army is Centralize all government tunctids | | whetel le study of sore Fompe favorable to consolidation of the pertaining to foreign affairs in the and rocket and jet propulsion is two departments. The army air| ; complete, The armed services ap- forces are hot either for consolida- rr. department will revoluvionize | By LYLE C. WILSON parently are moving toward an up- tion or for creation of a third sery-| [at staid old department's future Upited Press Staff Correspondent {heaval of dispute over reorganiza- ice department for air. (role. WASHINGTON, Sept. 28.—Mem- tion of national defense gnd the use, The report now lying before the For years—especially under warjoint and development of new weapons. joint chiefs was made four or five {chiefs of staff appear today to be in It looks. like it will develop into; mon: ths ago. In response to wir] me Preside Ta during Sorgel hiels pp a row between the army and navy. ten: requests for copies the joint, Hull's secretaryship—the departcahoots to delay publication of im- | Army-Navy Merger lchiefs have replied that they do ment resisted all attempts .o have! portant official observations on the | Meantime the joint chiefs of stafr!10t consider it appropriate to make! it abandon its purely policy-making

House Group "Proposing penny match box

Navy of 1079 Ships.

{bers of the United States

against both the Germans and

|postsWar organization of our ma- ,.. iting on recommendations Public ¥eports of their subordinates, [role and place it in the fleld of| Japanese: tional defense. which are understood to support the! The chiefs added, however, that operations. The fuse, a self-contained

While this report remains inthe {argument for consolidation of the they would in time make their own) Joint chiefs’ secret files, the house | 3 med services. {report to the president. Now Mr, Truman, [naval affairs committee has hu wd The four members of the joint] Meantime responsible members of | {ried to the house floor a project 0 lchiefs are: Fleet Adm. William D.!| the house and senate tell question- | authorize a post-war navy of 1079 [[eahy chairman; General of the ers *hat the issue of consolidation is ships |Army George C. Marshall, army dead. “The 1078-ship program was pro- chief of staff; Fleet Adm. Ernest J. | te ————t posed. to congress last Sept, 10 along | | King, chief of naval operations, and| QUITS OWM POST with a joint statement by Chairman General of the Army Henty. H WASHINGTON, Sept. 28 (U. P.). Gar] Vinson (D. Ga.) of the house!Arnold, commanding army air, —The office of war mobilization and naval affairs committee, and Chair- forces, | reconversion today ‘announced the {man David 1. Walsh (D. Mass) of | Marshall and Arnold are pre- | resignation’ of Dr. Willlam Haber, {the senate naval affairs committee. {sumed to be sympathetic with the director of manpower. liaison and Their statement said there would | ‘general recommendations of the! co-ordination.

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miniature sending and receiving set installed in the nose of shells, bombs or. rockets, automatically explodes the projectile when it is close to the target.

THREATENS USES MOVE WASHINGTON, Sept. 28 (U. P)).

contrary to some high-placed advice and to

some budget bureau recommencdations, has dumped large chunks of the office of war information, the office of strategic services dnd the foreign . economic administration into the lap of the new secretary, James F. Byrnes.

favors as weapons. thing.”

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Sets Predicted

WASHINGTON, Sept. 28° (U. P.),—A radio set the size of a | is a definite | possibility, Harry Diamond, a government scientist said last night. Diamond, bureau of standards radio engineer, told newsmen that at least two radio firms see such palm-sized sets for the future as a result of the development of

the radio proximity fuse which was used with devastating effect

—Senator Clyde Reed (R. Kan.) ‘said today he would Introduce a Some opponents of centralization | bill Monday to return the United

fear that it may lead to: a policy States employment service to the | of ‘power’ polities with financial states “if the house doesn't do any- | partments downtown don't Tyn foo,

FRIDAY, SEPT. 28, 1945

FEDERAL AGENCY

* LOBBYISTS. WARNED

WASHINGTON, Sept. 27 . P.. { —House speaker Sam Rayburn yes- | terday warned government agencies | to quit lobbying on legislation involvihg their reorganization.

| dent Truman authority to reargan~ ize, eliminate and combine. agen-. cles, want to be exempted. “The representatives of some of’

the hill wanting this or that set up exempted and so forth,” Ray

ference. “I know they've been ‘up “hers and if 1 hear of any more'of it I'm going to call names,” he said, © Rayburn said ‘the house exeoutive expenditures, committee had approved “What I think is ‘a good” “We'll pass it if some of the -de--

much interference,” he-said

Rayburn said that “some” agen. cies ‘in the measure giving Presfe »

the affected set-ups have been on-

burn told reporters at a Dews cots.

FRIDAY, 23 INDI WEN Eight Offic

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1230 Shepard;

. George Pyt. Charles L. Ma Pfc, Carlton B. H Ray Rainwater Jr Lawrence N. Jiatt, D, Raia Jr. 952 8. Fred Denzio, 917 E 3. F > Johnaon. ‘R.R. Delp, 1850 W. Wri 723% E. 25 eive

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Laird, 5700 Allis Cove, 3104 Central a Wilvert Tuzedo: 5th G 2308 Pane T. : 1710 E. Ohio; T. 3 225 N. Oriental; B Sanders; Pfc. Wi Oriental; T. sgt. M, Bgt.

Quiilora; Ala Norman

"gt. at Cpl. Robert 1] ward B, |

y M t. Ned Smith, Charles B. Giiphn Gr. Harley O, Charles L. es D. MacPherson, 33

Epsteen, 3518 Dantes R. Roth, 1 On I

Eight local of

_ active list are:

1st Lt, Clifford Chester; Capt. T 8311 Biosdway; N INF, De Berry, oe White, AAP, G. Farmer,

Gibbs, AAP, ] Wedell C. Kelly, }

19 LOCA ARRI

Five Indiar listed as havi yesterday abos tory en route f Atterbury, Tt Capt. Edwa Hawthorne I Thomas, Sgt. T. 4th Gr. H Cpl, Thomas A local vete arrive in N aboard the Ze ert Burrows, : Fourteen lo due to arrive aboard the M: to Camp Atte: T. 5th Gr. Delmer H. Gs ford W. Bal Trump, Pfc. 8gt. John C. Campbell; T Harp, Capt. " W. 32d; T. 5t lott, 1609 Gim C. Pittenger, Trimbath, 13] John J. Mon; Poynter and Burrows.

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