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ps-nowanp§ VOLUME 56—NUMBER 174

It may not be the In, game in the world they're playing out at Butler today but it's the first since Butler's men marched off to war. And it heralds the day’ when Butler again will take its place in the athletic world. Three of Butler's fairest pose for the kickoff game with Eastern Illinois Teachers college.

Left to Hghi-doan Mawson, Peggy O'Donnell and Joy Mudd.

C00L WEATHER GRIPS MIDWEST|

17 Above Zero Reported in Wisconsin Area.

LOCAL TEMPERATURES 6am... 10am. 9 7am.....48 lla m ...48 12 (noon). 49 lpm... 89

The Midwest had ifs first taste of fall weather today with early morning temperatures as low as 17 above zero at Land O' Lakes, Wis, In Indif#spolis, the weather bureau predicted colder weather tonight, © with temperatures rising slightly tomorrow afternoon. The U. 8. weather bureau at Chicago reported heavy frost over northern Iowa, most of Wisconsin, and Nebraska, and all of Minnesota. Temperatures fell throughout the Great Lakes region, middle Mississippi valley and all of Texas. The mercury dropped to 28 at Martha, in southwest Texas. There were snow flurries yester-

9am... 48

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1945

By RICHARD W. JOHNSTON Copyright, 1945, by United Press SHANGHAI, Sept. 20. — Gen. James H.. Doolittle’s three martyred Tokyo raiders were tied to crosses and shot by their Japanese captors on Oct. 15, 1942, in a Shanghai graveyard still red with the blood of a thousand slaughtered Chinese. Today I saw the airmen's place of execution near the old Kiangwan race track and learned for the first time the detailed story of how they met death that October day.

“Ten families of Chinese peasants were frightened witnesses to the somber parade of captured Chinese patriots brought into the old Confucian cemetery to die under the headsman's ax, They saw the three bound American fliers brought in at the end of the procession, and watched as the Japanese tied them to three low crosses. They saw the Japanese axes brandished over the heads of a thousand kneeling Chinese and the firing squad line up before the doomed Americans,

G.0.P. EDITORS \MAY FIGHT OFF | WILLIS’ RIVALS

Senatorship Issue Takes Spotlight at Rally in French Lick.

By BOYD GILL United Press Staff Correspondent FRENCH LICK, Ind., Sept. 29.—Indiana Republican Editorial association leaders scheduled an off-the-record talk for his afternoon on the. possible renomination of U.S. Senator Raymond Willis of Angola. George Huish of East Chicago, vice president of the I. R. E. A, will preside at the session. He said the

‘WASHINGTON

American high command.

3d army territory.

German heavy industry is being restored, encouraged to operate, Information here indicates that German synthetic oil plants have been rebuilt, are supplying occupation forces with oil “to save

shipping.”

State department is supposed to have vetoed plan of American milifary officials to set up German chemical companies in business again, paying top American executives to do it. mans make nitrogen, sell it abroad.

time, diverted to TNT for war.) sure veto is final.

Kilgore committee will issue

revelations about Nazi war potential, and Chairman Kilgore may take

A Weekly Sizeup by the Washington Staff of the Scripps-Howard Newspapers

WASHINGTON, Sept. 29.—Patton incident will touch off a far-reaching probe of our occupation policies in Gepmany. Kilgore committee will make it. Committee wants to know what steps are being taken to destroy ‘German war-making ‘potential. ; ;

“It's expected to ask about reports that: Basie directives for occupation are not being carried out by the

Retention of Nazi officials has been widespread, not confined to

Some officials here want to make

editors will be invited to “let their hair down” on state political issues, particularly the future of Willis. There is some sentiment in party circles to oppose Willis for renomination in favor of ounger man. Huish. would not cite any figures, but he did say that a large majority of the editors wers “in accord” on the Willis question on the basis of a recent questionnaire. He would not say what the majority opinion was, However, several leaders among the powerful Republican editorial group predicted that the G.O.P. press would wage a battle for the renomination of Willis. Editors who backed Willis in 1940 indicated ~that ether: groups within the party for any other candidate would force them to campaign actively for Willis, Actually, the I.R.E. A. never has officially supported any candidate for senator and, it was learned, is unlikely to endorse by resolution the candidacy of Willis or any other senatorial hopeful. The future of Senator Willis drew most of the attention as the editors moved into Prench Lick last night and this morning for the annual two-day affair, The formal week-end program opened this noon at an. editor's luncheon, Governor Gates and State G. O. P. Chairman William

Plan was to let Ger~ (It's used for fertilizer in peace-

statement next week with more

MINUTE MEN—

Fire on Stunting Parachutist in

Belief He's a Jap

HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 20 (U. P.). —Police today hunted still warjittery Hollywood residents who: interrupted a vetwork radio program by shooting at paracauting stuntman George Z, Waltz. Waltz was floating down from Paul Mantz’ plane. Strapped to his chest was a portable radio transmitter so he could be heard on the “People Are Funny” show last night, : Halfway down, for help. “Someone's shooting at me,” Waltz yelled as bullets whined about him, “Hey, stop ’em.” ys . HIS FRANTIC shout was heard. $y the National Broadcasting Oo. audience, many of whom called the NBC studio- to learn what it was all about. As part of the same stunt, 21-year-old veteran Tom Reed was stationed in a tree with a para chute as if he had jumped from a plane. He did jump when a passerby cried, “Must be a Jap. Let's get him.” Reed talked fast and convince ingly, and was unharmed.

BRITISH SPEED TROOPS TO JAVA

Act to Quell Spreading East Indies Revolts.

BINGAPORE, Sept. 20 (U. P).— Two thousand British troops landed on Java today to heip put down a spreading native insurrection and other empire reinforcements were reported en route to quell a similar outbreak in French Indo-China. The British move followed weeks of - spreading riots and nationalist disorders throughout Java and Indo-China, apparently fomented by die-hard Japanese militarists, The first British reinforcements into Java today were. believed to have landed at Batavia, capital of

Waltz called

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okyo Raiders Tied to Crosses, Slain’

New details were learned today of how three airmen in the first American rald on Tokyo three and a half years ago were execut= ed by the Japanese—in a grave‘yard where 1000 Chinese had been slaughtered. The first account of the proceedings is given here.

Then they were herded into a temple building until the slaughter was finished, so there would be no actual witnesses to the mass executions.

U.S. ABOLISHES CENSORSHIP OF

FINAL HOME

PRICE FIVE CENTS

The three murdered fliers; “guilty” of bombing the Japanese homeland six months before, were

Lt. William G. Farrow, of Wash«

ington and Darlington, S. C., Lt. Dean Hallmark, of !Dallas, Tex, and Sgt. Harold A. Spatz, of Lebo, Kas. After the shooting. their bodies were cut down from the crude

crosses and hauled off to a crema~ | torilum in the Honkew section of |

Shanghai to pe burned. (Their ashes later were turned over to the International Red Cross by the commander of the

Woosung prison camp with the ex~ planation that they were the “remains of prisofiers who died.”) Farrow, Hallmark and Spatz were convicted “by a drumhead court-martial where they were given no chance to defend themselves, Japanese documents found here earlier this ‘week showed that their trial was conducted entirely in the Japanese language and “consisted of a 30-minute recital of the regulations under which

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Answers Ban on Hirohito Interview; Most of Home Army Demobilized.

By FRANK TREMAINE United Press Staff Correspondent

TOKYO, Sept. 29.—Gen. Douglas MacArthur today ordered abolition of Japan's | long-established censorship.

government reported most of its home army of more than 2,000, 000 men had been demobilized, MacArthur's abolishing of censorship came in a reply to the Japanese government's temporary suppression of interviews by American newsmen with Emperor Hirohito. Supreme headuuarters was advised officially that the Japanese had completed demobilization of troops in northern Honshu -— the area occupied by the U., 8. 1ith army. Nearly all troops have been re-

turned to civil life in central Honshu, the report added, while demobilization of the remaining troops on Japan's main island and on Kyushu had heen delayed by the typhoon of Sept. 17. Maetia wan ésked to permit feniporary resumption of air travel be~

“| tween Osaka and Fukuoka to speed

demobilization in the south. 81 Pet. Demobilized

Eighty-one per cent of the 2,253,000 armed Japanese who stood ready to defend their homeland only last month had been discharged from the armed forces by last Moriday, the report said. MacArthur specifically directed the government to repeal all restrictions—some dating back to 1909— on “any form of the written or spoken word.” The government was ordered to report its progress in detail on the 1st and 16th of every

NEWS BY: JAPS|

Meanwhile the Japanese|

REFINERY AT

WHITING IS BLOCKADED

Gates Watches Moves at Standard Oil

Plant; N.Y. Elevator Strikers

Agree to Return.

By

UNITED PRESS

Pickets belonging to the C. I. O. International Oil Work=

ers union massed shoulder-to-shoulder at Whiting, Ind., today in an effort to close down one of the world’s biggest refineries as their representatives at Washington sought : settlement of the oil strike.

The C. I. 0. members blockaded the Standard Oil Co.

refinery at Whiting, The action kept workers belonging to an independent union away from their jobs and indicated an early shutdown of the plant, which turns out 2,500,000 gallons of gasoline daily.

Indiana state police and state guard officials were watch.

ing the situation.

STRIKES STYMIE: FOREICN POLICY

Rob U. S. of Force to Back

Up Decisions. By WALLACE R. DEVEL

Times Foreign Correspondent

WASHINGTON, Sept. 20.—Labor and management in this country played bigger parts In American | foreign policy this week than did all the professional the state department and our em-

diplomats in

State Police Superintendent Austin Killian and Brig. Gen. Elmer ns state adjutant general, the |

help in keeping order “if necessary.” The governor was standing by at French Lick, where he is atte the fall meeting of the Indiana Re= publican Editorial association. ' The Standard plant was the only major refinery in the Chicago area still pouring gasoline into the nation's dwindling supply. A coms {pany -spokesman said the night |shift workers would remain in the {refinery and keep it operating as long as possible. © He said that closing of the plant would begin reducing gasoline supplies in Chi« cago within three days.

the Dutch ession. bassies and legations overseas put day in Colorado, Nebraska, Towa,| ® SIap at occupation policies to-date. poss month, Tank Car Service

Wisconsin and upper Michigan. Steamers on Lake Michigan re-

ported 50 mile-an-hour winds last).

night and the wind dashed 10-foot waves over Chicago's outer drive. Elsewhere the weatherman said, conditions were normal, The weather bureau predicted that the frost belt would expand tonight to take in all of Towa, with the exception of the extreme southern counties. The thermometer will rise to near 80 in some parts of the midwest tomorrow, the bureau said.

INDIANAPOLIS AMONG SAFE TRAFFIC CITIES

with Standard Gas & Electric.

Meanwhile senate’s Mead committee has hanging fire a full-scale investigation of alien property custodian's office under Leo Crowley. Crowley, who has just resigned all government offices, retains job Committee may look into connection

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E. Jenner got the program underway. Tonight, Senator Homer E. Ferguson (R. Mich.) will deliver the feature address at an evening banquet. Republican editors got a pat on the back from Governor Gates for

Flying fists and missiles of groceries proved ‘more effective than bullets when holdup men robbed Mr. and Mrs. John Hull, 2725 N. Meridian st, in the alley back of their home last night.

Couple Fights Off Bandits

As Revolver Fails to Fire

The two men, George Denahigh,

“sincerity of purpose and public service” as.he addressed assembled newspapermen at noon, The governor stressed the im-

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31, of 2224 N. Arsenal ave, and James Dullin, 30, of 2330 Sheldon st., denied the robbery. The third, Charles Townsley, 31, of 2038 Cor~ nell ave, is sald to have admitted

TROOPS HONOR FALLEN LEADER

(A BBC broadcast reported by NBC said British and Indian troops began landing at Batavia while planes circled overheaa and two destroyers stood by outside the harbor. Four thousand Dutch troops also were said to be on their way to Java and 27,000 more were expected to be shipped within the next five months.)

(A London Daily Herald dispatch from from Indo-China sald sporadic bursts of gunfire still were heard Friday night in Saigon. Even newsmen were -carrying machineguns for protection against native Annamite snipers, the dispatch said.) Adm. Lord Louis Mountbatten, allled commander in southeast

Meanwhile,

ation all available merchant ship ping as soon as possible.

confiscated Tokyo's three morning newspapers

Baillie, president of the

New York Times.

MacArthur directed the Japanese to work on a round-the-clock T7-day-a-week basis at all shipyards in order to put in oper-

MacArthur acted soon after police | leading Mainichi, Asahi and Yomiuri—for carrying interivews with Hirohito by Hugh United Press, and Frank Kluckhohn of the

Col. Donald D. Hoover of Indian apolis, MacArthur's civil censorship officer, notified the management of the three newspapers that they

together, They did it by failing to reconcile their differences and settle the strikes which now afflict the country, Unless the oil strike is settled by the end of next week, the army and navy say they won't be able to move their ships and vehicles freely because they won't have enough gas. If this should happen American foreign policy will be temporarily crippled. No foreign policy is worth the pretty papers ib is written on if there is no power to back it up. If the nation’s armed forces are para-

then the nation's foreign policy is’ paralyzed, too.

still will get a “substantial” amount of gasoline by pipe line and tank car from other sections. : Oscar R. Hewitt, Chicago com= missioner of public works, said the city had a seven-day supply of gasoline, In picketing the Standard plant, the C. I. O. used 2000 automobiles, & in addition to thousands of men, to keep the independent union mem=

through the gates.

Elsewhere in the Chicago ares

lyzed because its gas tanks are dry, |General Motors electromotive di=

vision plant was shut down by a | strike of 7500 workers. Most of the

Oil industry officials said that if {the Standard plant closes, Chicago

bers on the day shift from passing ] :

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driving a green coupe in which the

Indianapolis was one of 51 large wl 1945. by The Indianapolis Times [strikers were members of the C.1LO.

cities which reported decreases in traffic fatalities from last year; the National Safety Council reported today, The council reported that with in two weeks after the end of gas rationing, the nation’s traffic death toll jumped” 26 per cent over last August.

Wife of 'Boiler Kid' Has 3d Child

CHICAGO, Sept. 29 A daughter was born today to Mrs. Frederick B. Snjte Jr, 31, wife of the “Boiler Kid" who has lived In an fron lung most of the - time since he was stricken with infantile paralysis in 1936, It was their third child. The infant, weighing 5 pounds, 13 ounces, was delivered by Caesarian section. It was born prematurely and placed in an in cubator, Physicians at the University of Chicago's Lying In hospital said the ' condition of both mother and baby was “fair.”

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on the couple, 56-year-old Mr. Hull went into action with both fists on both men. He continued flailing at the holdup men even though one man pressed the trigger of a revolver four times and finally hurled the gun at him, Defective ammunition saved the lives of the couple. Mr, Hull's fists and a barrage of eggs, vegetable shortening and other groceries which Mrs, Hull kept hurling at the bandits were too much for the armed men, who fled with Mrs, Hull's purse containing $40. A few minutes after the hold up, police arrested three men. Two of the trio were identified by the cou~ ple and had articles from Mrs. Hull's purse in their possession.

Police today were Investigating

men made their getaway, Mr. and Mrs, Hull were returning from the ‘grocery and had put their car away when two men stepped out of the shadows.in the alley and said, “This is a stickup.” Instead of submitting, however, Mr. Hull dropped both bags he was carrying and began a furious fight with one of the bandits, Mrs. Hull kept the second bandit dodging a

To "General Rose.

NEW YORK, Sept. 20 (U. P).— Col.. John A. Smith Jr, of Dallas, Tex., arrived here today as a representative of Gen, Dwight D. Eisenhower to present to officials of the General Rose Memorial hospital at Denver a check for $30,000—the gift steady stream of groceries until both | of the late Maj, Gen. Maurice Rose's men fled to their waiting car. "Imen. When police arrived at the scene| The unprecedented collection repMr. Hull described the holdup car,! resented the contributions of 10,000 even to a small triangle shaped dent | officers and enlisted men of the in the back. His description en-|3d armored division. It was made

Raise $30,000 for Memorial |

abled Detectives Robert Butler and

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Girl Escapes Assailant in Bold Attack on City Street

on one payday after the war department had approved the divisionds request to “be in on" the

residents, great pride in his Smith, staff, said, “Rose,” he said, “had a habit of

leadership,”

war memorial planned by Denver The division had a “feeling of

who was Rose's chief of

being at the front and it cost his life last March 30 as his division neared thé end of a 100-mile drive which closed off the Ruhr pocket.” Rose's ‘jeep was stopped in the dark by German tankers who shot m.

Turn Clocks Back Tonight

Asia, ordered one battalion of the British 23d division to Batavia to augment landing parties from the royal navy's Sth cruiser squadron, It will be. followed shortly by Indian army forces. Other United Kingdom troops, it ‘was reported, would make landings in the Soerabaja area of Java,

INDIANAPOLIS MAN HURT EATON, O., Sept. 20 (UP.) ~Miss Ellen Loomis, 20, Park Ridge, Ill, was killed and Lee Strange, 24, Indianapolis, was injured seriously last night in a two-car collision east of here. Mrs. Henrietta Hawley, Day~ ton, driver of one car, was uninjured,

FILE SUIT TO BREAK

Times Special NOBLESVILLE, Ind., Sept. 20. Relatives today brought suit to set aside the will of Charles C. Olson, Indianapolis and Chicago theatrical enterprise agent, who died recently. |

wife, Ethel, and Riley hospital, The sult filed by Paul, Fred, Robert and Charles Flaskamp, Mellie Betige |

1928 stipulated that the

the estate.

He left an estate of $500,000 to his |

and ‘The Chicag The Chicago Dally News, 1 Ine,

WILL OF C. C. OLSON PATTON EXPECTED T0 FIRE 20 NAZIS

‘Leaves to Carry Out a

Issued by lke.

United Automobile Workers union who had voted the walkout en Aug. 15. The dispute was over union demands for a 30 per cent wage {increase and various other differences, Elevator Strike Over At New York, David Sullivan, president of local 32B, Building serv= ice Employees Internation! union | (A, F, of L), ordered 15,000 strike {ing members to return to work im=

FRANKFURT, Germany, Sept. 20 | mediately today after union and

will begin an immediate purge of all Nazis remaining in municipal

WASHINGTON, Bept. 20 (U. P.). ~The senate tossed the administrasion’s full employment bill to the house today with senate Republicans, including some of the pill's SUPPLIERS maintaining if won't work unless the government inanages to achieve. stable labor-man-agement

relations. The senate late yesterday passed

Jobs-for-All Bill, Passed By Senate, Goes to House

THREE: plan for federal spending to create jobs be balanced by a plan for additional taxes to return the money to the treasury over a period of years. Some observers felt the final ver sion was too watered down to be of much value but sponsors apparently considered it satisfactory as they did not object very strenuously to the amendments.

itures ‘committee. -

It provides that any

and industrial offices. Patton was believed to have gotten his final denazification orders yesterday during a 2%-hour conference with Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower at the supreme commander's headquarters here. Eisenhower summoned Patton be-

and Elsie Lindquist charged that an | {(U. P.).—Gen, George 8, Patton [owner representatives agreed to sub ante-nuptial agreement executed in| {left for his headquarters in Bavaria widow [today and on his arrival probably was not to receive any portion of |

mit their dispute to an arbitrator to be appointed by Gov. Thomas BE. Dewey, Shortly after Sullivan announced that the union had agreed to accept Dewey's proposal to appoint an ars bitrator, some union members were reported straggling back to work.

However, it appeared unlikely that = all strikers could return to their =

jobs before Monday and end the elevator and building service strike

ed that at least holding offices i tion zone as of yesterday.

fore him to explain his stewardship in Bavaria, where Patton had admitted retaining some secondary Nazis in office for the sake of effi ciency. Official army investigators report Nazis still were Patton's occupa-

The bill now goes to the house which actually has already been working on it for a week by way of hearings in the executive expend-

‘The bill provides that the Presiopr) each year survey the employt and

‘AXIS SALLY’. GUILTY

SROME, Sept. 29 (U. PJ) —Rita|G Zucca, “Axis Sally” of Italian propaganda broadcasts, was convicted today of Maving sntelligence. with the enemy and sentenced to four years p and five months imprisonment.

CANADIAN VISITOR OTTAWA, Sept. 2 (U. P). Prime Minister Ww. L, MacKenzie | No

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SENDS LOCKE TO CHINA WASHINGTON, Sept. 20 (U. P.), —President Truman announced tos day that he is sefiding Edwin A, Locke Jr. to China as his i representative to discuss peacetime economic reconstruction and des velopment of that country Generalissimo Chiang

INVESTIGATE NEY SPRINGFIELD, TIL, Sept.: P.).-~Authorities today inv a head-on collision late between two motor

4. which _took” a