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LAVAL ORDERED 0UT OF COURT
Defendant Screams at Judge.
By JOSEPH W. GRIGG United Press Staff Correspondent
PARIS, Oct. 4.—The first
son trial broke up in tumultuous confusion today with the Vichy collaborationist ordered out of court and shrieking
“condemn me right away—it
Judge Pierre Mongibeaux, heckled endlessly by Laval throughout the clamorous opening day of day of the trial, the trial, finally
ordered a recess at 6 p. m. He announced that the trial will go on tomorrow without Laval.
The order blocking Laval at least temporarily from his own trial apparently left him without any form of defense whatever. The appointed lawyers had refused earlier to defend him, and that left the case in his own hands.
Day of Bickering
The stormy scene which broke up,
the first trial session in the French high court of justice climaxed a full day of bickering and recriminations among Laval, the judge, and other participants. Laval was wending a crafty way through a bid for sympathy when Mongibeaux began shouting an accusation that the defendant was trying to confuse the issue. Laval’s always sharp ‘temper snapped. His face crimson, his arms flailing the air, he howled his sarcastic proposal that he be condemned summarily. “Remove the accused,” beaux shouted. A young man in the courtroom, son of Pierre Cathala, former Vichy finance minister, clapped loudly and the judge shouted: Laval Pleads “Arrest the demonstrator and take him off to the police station Immediately.” After a brief recess Laval, standing with hands fclded and a picture of ostensible humility, pleaded: “Mr. President, I am without de-
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ARMIRAL HALSEY TO
‘Mongi-
BE HERE NAVY DAY
Admiral William “Bull” Halsey, commander of the navy’s hard-hit-ting 3d fleet which drove the Japa-
nese out of thelr own waters, will
come to Indianapolis for Navy day, Oct. 27. He will come here as a special
guest at a Navy day luncheon at
the Athletic club, sponsored by the Indianapolis council of the Navy League of the United States. A telegram accepting the invi-
tation to Indianapolis was received
today by C. Harvey Bradley, chairman of Navy day arrangements.
LOCAL TEMPERATURES
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Pierre Laval . . . after surrender to the allies. »
session of Pierre Laval’s trea-
will be clearer that way.”
TRUCKS, WYSE START 2D GAME
Warmer Weather Greets Another Sellout Crowd.
By LEO H. PETERSEN United Press Sports Editor DETROIT, Oct. 4—A baby-faced Cherokee Indian and a sailor home from the service took up the cudgels today for the Chicago Cubs and the Detroit Tigers in the second game of the 1945 World Series. The pressure was on the ex-sailor for if he doesn’t come through, it will mean that the Tigers, the
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American league champions, will be two down fo their National league rivals. The betting was 8 to 5 that the Oklahoman would make it two in" a row for Chicago. Part Irish, part Cherokee Indian and, according to rival National league hitters, plenty pitcher, Henry (Hank) Wyse was Manager Charley Grimm's selection. Grimm chose him to take up where another Hank, Fordham's Borowy, left off yesterday when he put the Cubs off to a golden start in the series by shutting out the Tigers, 9 to 0, Warmer Weather Weather conditions were much more favorable than yesterday. The temperature, with the sun beating out of a clear blue sky, was 60. Although the crowd which jammed Briggs stadium to capacity again was wrapped in top coats, the fans didn’t have to huddle up because the cold wind which swept
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FLAYS LABOR POLICY WASHINGTON, Oct. 4 (4. P).— The United Mine Workers Journal today charged that the current strikes are the result of the wartime government policy to deal with industrial relations “on a pattern designed for political purposes rather than economic justice and the fullest possible production.” The Journal reflects the views of U.M. W. President John L. Lewis,
Army Plane Speeds on Last Leg of World-Circling Trip
HAMILTON FIELD, Cal, Oct, 4 (U. P.)~~The army transport command Globester today was en route to Washington, D. C., on the last leg of a round-the-world flight which it was expected to complete
in less than 150 hours,
The world-circling plane arrived at Hamilton field, 35 wifles north of
Ban Francisco, from Honolulu at 2:13 a.m. (P.8.T.. After a stopover of slightly more than three hours, it took off for Washington 5:35 a. m. (P.8.T). Weary and hungry passengers were taken to the casual officers mess for drinks and a steak dinner. United Press Staff Correspondent
TIMES INDEX
Frederick C. Othman sald he had
Amusements. 25|Jane Jordan. 31
Frank Aston.. 18| Wm. McGafin 17 Business 28|Ruth Millett. y7ot the Giobester, estimated the trip L Bryehias ,. 11 : vinies BRiivOm, Hamiion Bed to ashington
a1] Obituaries: .. Somics Cook. 17{Dr. . Crossword , .4 31 Pred Perkins.
Peter
JENNER DENIES GOP SEEKS 2%
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ON BEER SALES
Never Any Discussion of Such a Program, Says State Chairman.
By DANIEL M. KIDNEY Republican State Chairman William E. Jenner brought the underground talk about the. G. O. P. and the booze business into the open today by lashing back at the critics
of administration policy. He said that the whispers about the politicians preparing fo skim
beer and whisky business in Indiana is “just a lot of double-talk by Democrats and disgruntled persons.” Mr, Jenner declared that there never has been uy discussion of such a program, which, -accarding to rumor, would be set up on a sort of “Two-Per-Cent Club” collection basis. Since he handled the “reconversion” under the new state liquor law, Mr. Jenner recognizes, how. ever, that it has created some criticisnt® of himself as a possible organization candidate for the U. 5. senate next year, or the governorship. in 1948. “Out of Politics” That “reconversion” consisted in part of cutting the Republicans in on the beer and whisky business profits. It was handled in each locality by the county chairmen. An odd angle was that this was ~~ [termed “taking it out of politics.” Since 1934, ‘when Governor McNutt set the Democrats up in the business, each G. ©. P. state platform promised to take it out of politics when they came into power. But now it would seem to be the old play with a new cast of char acters here and there—all the new ones being Republicans. The “million dollar plan” was outlined, by those who contend it was contemplated, somewhat as follows: Outline of Rumor Two per cent of the gross from beer wholesalers to be split 50-50 between the state and county organization men; one-half of 1 per | hospital cent from whisky wholesalers, and |Sciousness. $5 per month from tavernkeepers. Rough estimates were that the beer take would net around $400,000; whisky, $200,000, and taverns $300,000. This would total $800,000, with the possibility of & million in sight. “Such talk is sheer nonsense,” Mr. Jenner said. “In the first place the law itself forbids any such political shakedowns or contributions. There isn’t a chance to collect such a huge sum in so-called ‘soft money’ without getting caught. Just Hunting An Issue
“Of course I have been in politics long enough to know that a man who made a nice soft profit by virtue of being picked for the business by his county chairman may find some way to make a round-about contribution, : “But that always has been the case. There has never been any discussion of such collections by either our state or local organizations so far as I know. I think that it mostly is a case of Democrats looking for an issue. Maybe they are getting tired or just fighting among themselves.” There was much underground discussion of the matter at the French
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R 4, 1945
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CO-EDUCATION—
Lone Man Goes To Smith Class With 2055 Girls
By JOSEPH NOLAN United Press Staff Correspondent NORTHAMPTON, Mass., Oct. 4. —Smith college girls finally have a classmate they love to help with homework. His name is Meredith Stiles and he’s the first male student in the 74-year history of America’s largest women's college. Smith's cloistered corridors are a war casualty and Stiles is ‘the envy of his Amherst college fraternity brothers as he attends daily classes on a campus with 2055 girls. » » » THE handsome 23-year-old Essex Fells, N. J., student described his reaction: “When I walked into my first class this week, some of the girls looked at me as though I didn't belong there. But I looked right
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GLIDDEN SPURS MURDERER HUNT
Brutal Slaying of Night Watchman Unsolved.
“Unsolved.” This notation still prefaced the police account of the robbery-slay-ing of Clemens August Benner, Glidden Co. nightwatchman, today as the fourth week of investigation got under way. ; Mr, Benner was fatally slugged and robbed of as he made his stop on the last d Sept, 13, his last day at Glidden before taking
feed division of Glidden, where ‘the slaying occurred, today stressed the fact that his company is pushing the investigation to the limit,
$1000 Reward
In addition to full co-operation with the police, the firm has offered a $1000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the slayer. The manager stressed that the informant need not actually participate in the capture, but need only give police information. Mr. Marsh poinfed out that the Benner slaying is the first such crime to occur on the company’s premises in more than a quarter of century in business, with branches all over the country. He added that the local firm, as| well as the parent office in Cleveland, O.,, has pledged full support to tracking down the slayer. The aid of the company, such as turning over personnel records and
U.S. T0 SEIZE STRIKE-BOUND PLANTS TODAY
Oil Firms Reject Proposal For Compromise on Wage Demands.
By UNITED PRESS President Truman will order seizure of all strikebound oil plants today. This will leave the way clear for top government officials to step into other major disputes threatening the nation’s fuel supplies. The seizure announcement was issued from the White House last
night.
It came less than three hours after all but one of 11 oil companies
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(Fred W. Perkins writes about the effects of wildcat strikes on reconversion of the automobile industry. Page 17; Editorial, Page
arbitration. It was not
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AUSTRALIA TO FIGHT RUSS PLAN ON JAPAN
LONDON, Oct. 4 (U. P.).—Australian Foreign Minister Herbert Evatt flatly rejected today Russian proposals that control of Japan be handled solely by the Big Four powers. Evatt told a press conference
Ohio Governor Declines to Comment.
COLUMBUS, O., Oct. 4 (U, P.). ~Maj. Gen, Curtis Le May, com~ mander of the famed B-29 bomber group which leveled Japanese industry, has been offered the interim appointment to the Ohio U. 8. senate seat, it was learned reliably today.
he had talked with the 38-year-old general at the airport here last night but he declined to comment “on the subject of our discussions.” He sald he was not yet ready to announce appointment of a successor to former Senator Harold H. Burton who was elevated to the U. 8. supreme court. Le May left for Washington today. His acceptance of such an appointment would make it necessary that he be released from the army.
WOULD USE FORCE TO “WASHINGTON, Oct. 4 0. P)— | Senator JEdwin C. Johnson (D.
{to the use of U. 8. troops in Pales|tine if a step-up In Jewish immigra-
Gov, Frank J. Lausche said today |
AID PALESTINE JEWS .
Colo.) said today he would agree
to maintain inter-
{that Australia was determined to have a voice in settling Japan's
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guards charged ties at the
fate.
Great Britain's reconversion will
{U. 8. because of the shortage of manpower, materials and money, Savell O. Hicks, British war production official, said here today. Mr, Hicks was in Indianapolis to speak to a group of businessmen at a luncheon at the Indianapolis Athletic club, given by Kurt Pant. zer, Indianapolis attorney, Mr. Hicks, who is regional controller for the ministries of production, supply and aircraft pro duction in the northern island rewon of Great Britain, is in the
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Mr. Hicks said.
rejected a proposal to submit the coast-to-coast wage controversy to
immediately clear whether rank-and-file oil workers, on strike in plants and refineries over a 15-state area, would return to work under government super-
In Washington, President O. A. Knight of the United Oil Workers International union (C. I. O.) disclosed that the union's executive board would meet today when it “might have a statement.”
Ten oil companies had rejected his compromise proposal to restore production in the nation’s oil re-
Previously, it had appeared management would enter negotiations in the union's demand for a 30 per cent wage increase. As the White House prepared to direct operation of the oil industry, the labor secretary was reported ready to move into strikes in the soft coal fields, where an estimated 350 mines have shut down. fuels administration yesterday exended emergency controls to two more mining districts. were essential users such as hospitals,
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WITNESS DESCRIBES PRISON ‘FIRE DEATHS’
LUENBURG, Germany, (U. P.).—Joseph Kramer,
A Polish Jewess witness placed direct responsibility for that slaughter upon Kramer, No. 1 defendant among the 45 Nazi men and women
Belsen and Oswiecim concentration camps. The woman, Regina Rosenthal, | said the fire episode occurred at Oswiecim, where Kramer served as a chief guard hefore his promotion to the post of commandant at Bel-
Savell 0. Hicks
built our: foreign trade through lpans: you can do the same now,” today. the White House will hold
‘Although U. 8. can develop
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J. 0. Cottingham looks over a specimens, »
for he has studied them for 25 years.
That class now has become the Mycology club, with 13 members collecting and studying the many forms of fungi under Mr. Cotting+ ham’s supervision. Also 50 specimen's were brought in at the last meeting, coming from members’ homes, the woods and some from a member's cabin in Morgan county.
” “ » EACH MEMBER of the club has a text book, “Mushrooms and Toadstools,” by Gusson and Odell, and they also use Mr, .Cottingham's reference books. To the person who thinks of mushrooms with steak, the multicolored and various shapes and sizes of mushrooms in the club's collec tion would be amazing. Coral hydum, as the name indicates, resembles white masses of coral formation and is commonly found in the woods around Indianapolis,
restricted to
Oct, 4 “The was branded to-
ing, has been Anvaluaple to policel 4ay as a deliberate murderer who # x x
personally drove 300 terrified prison {camp inmates to their deaths in a
“PUFF BALL” mushrooms come in small and large sizes and look just like a big puff ball. The collybia are characterized by their. long stems and the mycenas grow in clusters, on bark and other fertile habitats. Pollypores are another group of fungi, differing from the other
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SEATTLE MAN, 9, HEADS GRAND ARMY
Indianapolis Bids for 1946 Meeting—If Held.
COLUMBUS, O., Oct. 4 (U, P.) ~~ Hiram R. Gale, 99-year-old Seattle veteran, who fougnt with the Union army through sorae of its bloodiest campaigns and was discharged before he was 20 years old, was elected commander-in-cnie{ of the Grand Army of the Reputlic today. Gale took over the command of the surviving remnant of- the once 400,000-strong G, A. R., succeeding Isaac W. Sharp, 47-year-old “youngster” from Warsaw, Ind. William H. Osborn, 102, of Joplin, Mo, had been wiged for the position but had contended throughout that he did not want it. Indianapolis bid for next year’s encampment—if one is to be held.
were well enough to make the trip here this year.
MRS. TRUMAN BANS
Mi formal social season this winter,
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J. 0, Cottingham Followed Hobby Here for 25 Years ue im
edge was contagious and a year ago several members of the Nature Study club organized a class with Mr. Cottingham instructing,
Only 14 of the surviving 162 veterans
BIG SOCIAL SEASON
WASHINGTON, Oct. 4 (U, PJ. ~Mrs. Harry 8. Truman decided
She was represented as believing markets in China and elsew eat a full-bloom social season would he said, it still is to America’s ad- be | vantage to have a prosperous Great current food shortages and the fact BHAA Detaise Bain tx our basi iis any families sti have mem |
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mushroom-—one of Bis many fon
as & hobby. His interest and knowl-
CONGRESS ACTS ON ATOM BOMB
Truman's Plea for Control Board Spurs Action.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 4 (U, P).— {Congressional leaders hung a “top priority” sign today on President Truman's request for creation of a special commission on use and development of atomic power, Bills setting up an “atomic energy commission” were started through both the house and senate. There were general expressions of
A discussion of the atomle bomb’s effects on world diplomacy, Page 10. The possibility of American cities being built underground as a defense against atomic bomb warfare Is considered, Page 17.)
approval for the recommendations made by the President late yesterday in his long-awaited passage on atgmic power and the atomic bomb. In his message Mr, Truman: ONE: B8aid the secret of atomic bomb, now held by the United States, Britain and Canada, would not be disclosed. TWO: Expressed hope that the
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the
DISCIPLES" SORROW —
Find Old Record Of Christ's Trial
In Burial Place
JERUSALEM, Oct. 4 (U. P.).— Archaeologists have uncovered an ancient burial ground containing what appeared to be a record of the trial and Crucifixion of Christ. It may have been written by Jewish disciples less than T0 years after his death. The find was made in a cave just south of Jerusalem. Digging parties unearthed numerous stone burial urns on which were inscribed in Hebrew and Greek the lamentations of Jewish disciples over the death of Christ. ~ » . MEMBERS of the archaeological group expressed belief that the instructions could not have been written later than the first century after Christ.
man said, “it is possible only to say that ‘the pottery inscriptions and ossuaries (burial urns) date from the period immediately preceding the destruction of the
BANS SECRET POLICE, OUSTS
“For the present,” one spokes
NIP MINISTER
New Directive May Speed Fall of Higashi-Kuni Government.
By FRANK TREMAINE United Press Staff Correspondent
TOKYO, Oct. 4.— Gen. Douglas MacArthur today ordered the Japanese governs ment to oust its home mins ister, Iwas Yamazaki.
The Japs also were told to remove every {police chief in the country, to free more than 3000 political prisoners, and to restore civil liberties to Japan. It was one of MacArthur's most sweeping directives since Japan's surrender. He also demanded that the government abolish its notori« ous “thought police” and all other secret police, including those in the home and justice ministries. He ordered the removal of all restrictions on political, civil and religious liberties and an end to all discrimination on grounds of race, nationality, creed or political opinion. All persons jailed under those laws or held on technical minor charges because of their thoughts, or religious and political beliefs, must be released by next Wednes« day, MacArthur said, Three Communists in Group Among those ordered freed wers Communist leaders who. told
execution,
a Red Cross job in Washington, Compromise Rejected D. Q. He died Sept. 18 in Methodist| Secretary of Labor Lewis B. Earlier they had noaptl whoont recovering ‘con- Schwellenbach abruptly. | apes? By BARBARA SCHAEFFER + ‘| correspondent. tha conferences between union and in- THINK OF MUSHROOMS aud you. probably thik: of-» icy steal §E% oul of i 10. C. F. Marsh, manager of the local] dustry representatives yesterday. But to J. O. Cottingham m mean more than a steak garnish, | 8gainst Emperor
Japan's feudal system. i President Truman already directed MacArthur to remain aloof, if possible, from any Japas nese civil war. ] MacArthur's directive also banned physical punishment of all prisons ers and ordered that ample food be provided for them. All prison rec~ ords must be preserved and a full report on the government's progress toward complying with the direc~ tive must be. furnished by nexk Wednesday, MacArthur said. 3 The order for removal of Yamazaki and lifting of all restrictions on political discussions were expects ed to speed the fall of the HigashiKuni government, End of an Era MacArthur specifically directed that all laws forbidding “free thought and discussion” of Emperor Hirohito and the government must be wiped from the books. The order for the abolition of “thought police” and other secret police organizations completed the end of an era. Through these organizations, Japan's ruling clique had guided even the thoughts of her masses throughout the war and in the years of preparation before. The directive marked the first time that MacArthur has ordered the removal of a specific member of the Japanese cabinet, One other member, Information = Minister Taketora Ogata, was ousted by the cabinet on its own initiative after he was named by MacArthur as a war criminal for alleged lead= ership of the terroristic Black Dragon society. Charges against Ogata later were dropped without explanation, but he did not return to the cabinet, Cause of Ousler Two developments led to MaecArthur's order for the ouster of Yamazaki as home minister. The first was his admission to Japanese newsmen that “thought police” still were functioning and the second was the death in prison from male treatment of Kiyoshi Miki, 49, who | had opposed the Pearl Harbor ate tack. Miki's friend said a second pos litical prisoner, Jun Tosaka, had died in Nagano prison Aug. 9 also under mysterious circumstances, Shoichi Ichikawa, former leader of the Japanese Communist party, died at 54 in Miyagi penitentiary last March from “senility following pneumonia,” other Japanese sources said, It was estimated that 3000 “libs | erals” have been imprisoned by the Japanese since Pearl Harbor alone. Others were jailed as long ago AS 1028 on such charges as disturbing a the public peace.
LAST U. S. WOUNDED TO LEAVE ENGLAND
LONDON, Oct. 4 (U, P.) ~The Am n battle casualty patient nited Kingdom was ih Re from” the United States.
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