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VOLUME 56—NUMBER 191

FRIDAY, OCTOBER

19, 1945

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

PRICE FIVE CENTS

BADLY INJURED BY HIT-RUN CAR

Pvt. Wininger Struck While Walking With Bride On Highway.

Pvt. Paul Wininger had two strong legs when he marched away to France to fight for his country, He came back with a crippled right leg,

wounded in battling the Nazis in Prance. Today Pvt. Wininger is again fighting for his life, this time because of the criminal carelessness of -a hit-and-run driver who ran down the veteran : 88 he limped: along the road: with his new bride last night. ° The same leg that stopped a German shell and : ‘then was re broken in a motorcycle accident while Pvt, Winfinger was convalescing at Wakeman hospital was snapped by the impact of the car, Car Swerved From Road

The wounded soldier and his wife, Ellen, to whom he had been married only a few weeks, were walking off the pavement along road 431 last night. A black Plymouth sedan which was speeding down the pavement swerved from the road and hit the veteran and sped on without slowing down. The veteran was taken to Oity hospital, where his condition was reported as “serious.” He was then transferred fo Billings hospital, where his condition is still described as grave today. State Policeman Lawrence Broderick; who investigated the accident, today had assembled a group of clews which he hopes will enable him #0 track down the driver, Was Visiting Sister "Ihe car ‘was about a 1835 model, be seid, and apparently had been 4 black over an original finish, The right headlight * was broken when the car struck Pvt. Wininger. Pvt. Wininger, who has been at Wakeman hospital since he returned from France, was here with his bride visiting his sister, Mrs. George Stimson, 4026 Madison ave. He is from Loogootee, Ind. He was first injured serving with the infantry in France about a year ago. His right leg had just about healed when he re-broke it aftempting to start a motorcycle causing complications which left him with a serious limp.

Other Pedestrians Hurt

Two other accidents involving pedestrians caused serious injuries last night. Fourteen-year-old Edward Judkins, of 907 N. Delaware st, received injuries when he was hit by a car driven by Jack Whitt, 20, of § B. Oriental st. The accident occurred at Kruse and Washington sts. The boy is in City hospital. Milton Chulz, of 245 N. Delaware st, is in a serious condition st City hospital, He was injured last night ag he was crossing the Pennsylvania and South st. intersection when he was hit by a car driven by Keith Mance, of 1526 Linden st.

VENEZUELA REBELS SEIZE KEY SPOTS

Fate of President Medina Remains Uncertain,

CARACAS, Venezuela, Oct. 10 (U. P.)~A military junta revolted against the Venezuelan government of President Isaias Medina today. First reports indicated the rebels had gained control of Caracas and nearby Maracay. Pour of the five principal army in Caracas had surrendered to the rebels by mid-day, along with the central police station. Strong tank forces were reported en route from Maracay to the capi tal to support the insurrection. The fate of President Medina still was uncertain at noon.

Pvt. Wininger

postmaster of Plymouth, Ind,

-ling back home. Now they've grown

| sity, after studying two and a half

NAME PLYMOUTH POSTMASTER WASHINGTON, Oct. 18 (U, P.).— The senate yesterday confirmed the nomination of Jesse Yoder to be

Gl Marriages Fill Divorce Courts Here

By DONNA MIKELS Contrary to the old adage, many couples who “married in haste” during the war aren't “repenting at leisure.” Instead, theyre getting divorces in a hurry. The county courts are starting for the first time to hear divorce petitions that seem to prove a husband in camp or overseas is something else again from a spouse around the house every day. The first divorces which heralded the bust-up of wartime marriages began trickling into Marion county courts as dischargees began com-

to a steady stream. Love Flew Out Window If there is any one predominant reason for divorces, the stoppage. of government allotments probably takes first place, according to superior court judges. The large number of cases in which it was frankly stated by some wives in court that the marriage was made to obtain government allotments, tended to prove that love flew out the window when the postman stopped bringing that small brown check, Some of these are women who married for the $50 a month and who now do not want a' normal married life. Others, equally prevalent but less evident because of

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PROBATION AIDS’ RECORDS GITED

Two Under Fire Are Veterans,.Another College Man.

By SHERLEY UHL Two of the five juvenile court probation officers now: under fire as “uncertified” appointees are rerofl veterans, it was learned today. Another cited as “uncertified” is a graduate in social studies from Indiana university and has four years’ experience in city reecreas tion and Boy scout work behind him, * One of the veterans is still under a veterans ‘administration physician's care for traces of malaria, contracted while fighting in the South Pacific. He is Kaye Swain, ex-marine sergeant and veteran .of devildog battles at Guadalcanal and Bougainville. He was a tank corpsman, . The other dischargee, now accused of being “uncertified,” was a lieutenant who left Butler univer-

years, to enter the army. He as a personnel assistant in vdrious training camps. Neither he nor Swain eould possibly have been “certified” through examinations given by the state probation board. Both were in the armed forces when the last exam ination was held in December, 1944, They, and Guy E. Russell, the Indiana university graduate, have been pointed out as drawing $170 a month, possibly “illegally” because the probation board had not yet passed on their eligibilty,

Ritterskamp Accused

The two other juvenile probation officers who have been criticized as unqualified are Mrs... Mary Brown and David E. Ritterskamp. All were dragged into the limelight after Ritterskamp was alleged to have “steered” the parents of a juvenile defendant to an attorney who was an acquaintance of his. Juvenile Judge Mark Rhoads has said he will fire Ritterskamp if the charges are confirmed. Mr. Swain was hired by juvenile court through a local service bureau. A During his later months in the marine corps he was also

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PART OF ALLISON PLANT 3 FOR SALE

A small section of Allion's Plant 3 was included in the list of gov-ernment-owned war plants today offered for sale by the Reconstruction Finance Corp With the exception of this small area, Plant 3 and all other Allison division plants in Indianapolis are owned by General Motors. Allison's Plant 3 has been idle engine

ed more than double,

U.S. RELEASES 2400 HOOSIER G'S EVERY DAY

«Rate of Discharges in State

Increasing Rapidly in All Services.

By BOYD GILL United Press Staff Writer

Indiana's men and women of the armed forces are shedding their service uniforms at the rate of 2400 a day, a speed much greater than in-

ductions during the peak of the Hoosier mobilization period. If the present rate of separation continued, the state's servicemen and women all would be in civilian clothes by the middle of next February. But such a bright picture as that was considered an impossibility. Maj. S. 8. Springer, chief of the veterans’ personnel division of Indiand selective service headquarters, disclosed today that state draft officials had observed a briskly increasing pace in the arrival of discharge notices from army and navy separation centers. Almost as many Hoosiers are released in one day now as were mustered out in a whole month at the beginning of the point system. mobilization program last Springer said. 9500 Out This Month From Monday through Thursday

processing notices involving Indiana men and women were received at state headquarters. Springer said that a total of 61,759 notices had been received since the point program became operative

the soldier or sailor receives his honorable discharge, the veterans’ personnel chief added. The 61,000 Hoosiers who traded civvies for khaki and now are back in peace-time apparel, represent about 18 per cent of the 350,000 Indianans who entered the service, either by enlisting or being drafted. Springer said that 2063 Hoosiers were processed for discharge during the first month the point system was operated, in May, 1945, Thereafter, for three months, the monthly discharge rate gained momentum slowly. The June total for Indiana was 4066; July, 6000; August, 5280. 16,208 Out in September The end of the war with Japan was a signal fof a nationwide pickup in the demobilization setup. In September, the Hoosier processing rate was 16,203, almost as many as were mustered out in the four preceding months combined. The October total bids fare to and perhaps triple, September discharge number, Up to Oct. 5, he said, 7526 notices arrived. Total for the week ending Oct. 12 was 9200. During the height of the draft, Indiana never furnished as many

the

service. State headquarters fished around in their records and came up with the discovery that the peak month was January, when 11976 Hoosiers were inducted. That was a rate of 400 a day

UNITED DEFENSE IS

Air Control.

WASHINGTON, Oct, 19 (U. P.). army air forces, said today that merger of the armed services is necessary to give the United States control of the alr, He said a future war may start with attacks launched from bases 3000 miles away. Arnold testified at a senate military affairs committee hearing on a ‘bill to authorize creation of a single department of national defense with co-ordinate land, sea and air arms. He said the German V-2 rocket has a range of 250 miles. But by putting wings on it and using electronic guiding devices, he said; it can easily be stepped up to 3000 miles or more, Such a development, he said, “is

contract cancellations,

. TIMES INDEX

By JOSEPH L. MYLER

United Press Stall Correspondent WASHINGTON, Oct. 19.~Un-

Amusemen! Nat Barrows. a E. Bogardus. 36 Business Comics 33 Edw. Morgan. vos 33 Movies

David Dietz,. 19, Obituaries

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t4.° 28| Jane Jordan. 33 Charles Lucey 20 . 16 .vss 30 Ruth Millett. 19 6 . 28

ev 20, Fred Perkins. 19

Dr. Orlando Park of Northwestern university's zoology depart ment made this prodietion in to-

ence.”

day's issue of the magazine "Sci1t is possible, he said, that even

just in'the offing.”

long future”

fishes, the dinosaurs,

cousin,

killers, some of them,

destruction of his own kind.”

of this week, Springer said, 9541]

last May 12. Notices are mailed as|.

as 2400 men a day to selective

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‘| erect during the ordeal. Prince George's County Circuit],

URGED BY ARNOLD

bu Merge Armed Forces to Get! prison and thereby hurt the very

—Gen. H, H. Arnold, chief of the

Man was fourth in line of sue« cession among major rulers of the earth. Preceding him were the and the giant mammals to whom he is

The dinousaurs were competent but it remained for man, Dr, Park said, to show ‘real progress in the

“Our plight,” he added, “is not so much a Jack of ideas or

Truman Wage-Price Plan To Be Revealed Monday

WIFE-BEATER IS BIVEN FLOGGING

Game Under Ordeal as Mate Waits His Return.

Bridgeport Brass Negotiating fc for Purchase of $15 Million War Plant

The $15 million government-owned Bridgeport Brass Co.

Permanent

being negotiated by the company, it

comment.

UPPER MARLBORO, Md. Oct. 19 (U. P.), = Lloyd O. Busching, 175-pound - gas company employee, silently received 10 lashes on is bare flesh’ today for beating his 98-pound wife. Sheriff R. Barle Sheriff, a 200pounder, laid on the whip. under a 64-yedr-old Maryland law before only a few witnesses. He said Busching, stripped naked and handeuffed, flinched with each lash but “never muttered a sound.” The lashing—administered with a four-foot, four-strand, rawhide whip borrowed from a horsetrader —raised welts, the sheriff said, but drew no blood. The officer said he did not shuck his coat for the whipping but bore down with sufficient force that Busching “knew he was hit.” Wife Awaited Him The flogging was given in a second-floor corridor of the neat little red brick’ Upper Marlboro jail. Only a small crowd of newspaper reporters, photographers and others gathered outside, Busching returned to his cell after the lashing to put on his clothes. Ready to welcome him back home was his wife, Dorothy, who said she still loved him. He was convicted of beating her last June 30 in a domestic quarrel. Sheriff said Busching was not tied. But his hands were cuffed together through the bars of a cell block. Sheriff sald Busching stood

Judge Charles Marbury, who imposed the sentence, said he was convinced that it was a just one. He was not among the 20 witnesses, “It was either let the law ocollapse completely in this case,” Marry said, “or send the man to

person justice was attempting to help, I think the lashing was the best course.’

U.S. S. NEW YORK TO ° ARRIVE HOME TODAY

NEW YORK, Oct. 19 (U, P.)—The battleship New York, the only major ship to stay on the job at Okinawa without relief for 79 days, was scheduled to arrive home today for cheering welcome from thousands of New Yorkers. She will join the 10 other warships already berthed here for the celebration of Navy Day Oect, 27, when President Truman will review a fléet of 50 navy vessels. The New York, third oldest of her type, was built in New York in 1911. She was the flagship of the American squadron at the German

JAPS STALL ON MONOPOLY BAN

Fail to Decide on Order to Break Up Trusts.

By RALPH TEATSORTH United Press Staff Correspondent TOKYO, Oct. 18~~The Japanese cabinet today balked at immediate action ‘on Gen. Douglas MacArthur's demand that Jindustrial monopolies be broken up. A Japanese source said the cabinet discussed the demand for some time at today’s meeting, but failed to reach a decision, “The issue concerns the very foundation of the Japanese industrial system and has immediate, far-reaching effects on the people's livelihood,” the informant said in explaining the government's apparent reluctance to take immediate action. “First to Rejoice” Even before the cabinet meeting; Foreign Minister Shigeru Yoshida told a press conference he doubted that dissolution of the old "“Zaipatsu” — such family industrial trusts as Mitsui, Mitsubiski and Sumitomo—would benifit Japan in the long run, He contended jt was mainly through the efforts of these estab lished monopolies that Japan's trade originally was built up to a point where the nation prospered. “The old Zaibatsu built up their enterprises in times of peace and

Company Plans Operation as

Steps to purthase the $15 million government-owned Bridgeport Brass plant and operate it as a permanent Indianapolis industry are

Local officials of the Bridgeport, Conn, company had no immediate However, a detailed announcement of the firm's plans for the big factory near Stout Field is expected to come within a month or

‘porarily, then reopened on a pers

Local Industry

was learned today.

two. About 500 men are being employed now, on government contracts for melting down vast quan tities of shell casings brought back from the European and Pacific battlefields. : This job is expected to be com= pleted within three weeks. The plant probably will be closed fem~

manent basis, Negotiation Requested In Washington, it was learned that Herman W. Steinkraus, presi» dent and general manager of Bridgeport Brass, had written a letter to~ the Reconstruction Finance Cofp., asking that negotiations towards acquisition of the plant be started.

So far, the plant which turned out millions of shell casings dur ing the war has not yet been declared surplus property, Louis Bean, who is in charge of liquidating war plants for the RFC, de~ clared. The Bridgeport Brass Co, will have a 90-day option after work stops, which will be wifhin several weeks, it was learned. Grew From Cornfield “The RFC has been making an appraisal of the property and the Bridgeport Brass probably will get it as soon as it is declared surplus, RFC officials told Rep. Louis Ludlow of Indianapolis. “Bridgeport Brass will either buy the property outright or take it on a long-time lease.” The Indianapolis war plant cast its first bar of brass on March 30, 1042, less than 10 months after the Holt road cornfield had been trans-

TRIAL OF NAZIS TOOPENNOV. 20

Top War Criminals to Face Big Four Tribunal.

SEEK TO END CAUSE OF PAY STRIFE IN U. §.

Heat Cut Off From Battle Creek, Mich., as Power Strike Spreads.

By UNITED PRESS President Truman today discussed the current wageprice situation with his cabinet, but delayed until Mon« day a promised announce-:

ment on the establishment of new machinery outside the war labor board to deal with the problem. The President told his news con« ference yesterday that the ane nouncement would be made right after the cabinet meeting today. While the cabinet was in session, however, White House Press Sec retary Charles G. Ross said the announcement would not come until Monday. Meanwhile, as new wage disputes broke out, heat was cut off in downtown Battle Creek, Mich. to= day by a spreading strike of Michi~ gan utilities workers. Elsewhere the fuel shortage was essed as coal miners began returning to the pits

| today.

NUERNBERG, Oct. 19 (U. PP) The trial of Nazilsm's foremost surviving war criminals will open Nov. 20 in this one-time shrine city of the party which started the second world war, it was announced officially today. The four-power allied military tribunal which will conduct the Nuernberg trial announced that the date of its opening had been ket for four weeks and four days from

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The trial date was set shortly after the sille, war crimes jndict~ ment was served on the bulk of the defendants—a who's who of the remaining Nazi hierarchy -- in the Nuernberg prison. The. proceedings cleared the way for the trial, save for the grace period given Reichsmarshal Hermann Goering and his cohorts to arrange for their defense against the historic indictment. Walter Punk, former president of the Reichsbank, was the only one of the Nuernberg defendants showing emotion when the indictment

in Pennsylvania. sumers’ Power Co.'s central heating

Btiity Workers Council of Michie gan (C. I. O) in a strike against the power company.

Michigan City, except Detroit, with gas and electricity.

service ‘to the company’s 2,000,000 customers in all other communities. The only other interruption was & one-hour shutdown shortly after the strike bgan.

t idle as the result of strikes.

mines have been reopened and 3200 miners have returned since United Mine Workers President John IL. Lewis called off the coal strike last Wednesday. miners Monday to the eastern soft coal pits,

Maintenance workers at the Cone,

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plant in Battle Creek joined the

Consumers erves almost every important

420,000 Are Idle Bkeleton crews were maintaining

at Muskegon

Elsewhere labor tension eased, als hough 420,000 workers still were

Thirty-two = Pennsylvania coal

The remaining 208,000 3 were expected to return

was served, He burst into tears,

Weather Man Due to Offer

This weather is as changeable a a woman's mind, And now, after the balmy inter lude of warmth and sunshine, i has decided to rain a little today and turn m u e¢ h cooler,

they were the first » rejoice in the ending of the war,” Yoshida said. Only the new Zalbatsu—' 80 numerous I can’t give their names” ~—co-operated with the military| during the war, he contended. Asked by a newsman if he were connected with Mitsui, uakida replied: “Unfortunately n MacArthur submitted el demand for dissolution of Japanese industrial monopolies to Prime Minister Baron Kijuro Shidehara during a personal conference at the supreme commander's headquarters Oct. 11. Defends Constitution

American sources long have contended that such family industrial trusts as Mitsui, Mitsubishi, Yasuda and Sumitomo helped finance, then exploited Japan's conquests in China and the Pacific. Elsewhere in Tokyo, 5000 demonstrators, mostly discharged soldiers, defended the emperor system and demanded immediate jobs at a noisy organizational meeting of the “all-

navy's surrender at Scapa Flow in 1918.

ameliorate species longevity.” Dr. Park oon

over the

Japan tollers’ federation.”

‘Insect Rule” Seen if Man's Wars Continue

( ensuring its dominance in the

“Such a state of affairs is rious,” Dr. Park sald, and there is “no ground for the supposition that this state of affairs can continue very long.” Some things—the United Nae tions organization, for example persuade Dr. Park that men “may” forestall doom through cooperation, But “suppose that we can not stop killing one another in everincreasing numbers.” The result, Dr. Park said, will be that man’s fall “will be much

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‘Large Variety

Steel mills, which curtailed their output during the coal strike, began stepping up production again and recalled some of the 30.000 steel workers who were laid off because of the coal shortage. Dock Workers Back

Eighteen thousand of the 35000 A. P. of L. longshoremen who struck New York harbor in an intra-union dispute were back at the docks today, The back-to-work movement was expected to continue, A special labor department aid, John W. Gibson, former head of the Michigan C. 1. O. council, was dis patched to Lansing, Mich, in an attempt to settle the Michigan utilities strike. About 2400 workers have taken part in the walkout.

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party.”

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Statement lenged by Congressman, |

WASHINGTON, Oect, 19 (U. P)). Leader William Z. Foster sald today that the position the United Btates gov~ ernment in the Civil war “is precisely the policy of the Communist |

YANKS IN IN GIVIL WAR

Chal-

Foster's statement was made during questioning before the house un-American activities now investigating Communism, drew a protest from Rep, John E.

committee

Rankin (D. Miss.) committee mem- | be

next five - day { period, accord{ing to the | weatherman, Although it is supposed to be much cooler

Rain

| night, Sunday may be warm Ss {in Hoosiers may make it to Brown|

county yet before Wey start shove

rain. After all that will

cooler again,

LOCAL TEMPERATURES

It

6am ,680 10am 66 It) Ya.m.....60 1la m . 63 Sam . 62 12 (Noon). 61 fam . 63 lpm 80

ing snow, g for rat well carry your He confirmed that no announces umbrellas Monday in case of |ment wold be made until Monday.

showers and Tuesday or Wednesday for some good old Indiana be |

President Truman told reporters {he had called a meeting of his | cabinet for help in setting up machinery to handle the labor probe i lems underlying most reconversion ills. The President said he hopes to establish an agency to grant | labor’s demands for wage boosts, vet allow for price adjustments to _| prevent an inflationary. rise in live EB COSts. : Secretary of Labor Lewis Schwel« lenbach would not discuss what had

1« happened in the cabinet meeting.

Secretary of Agriculture Clinton (Continued on Page 8-—Column 3)

BUSINESS SUBMITS OWN JOB PROGRAM

“As a Southern Democrat, I re-| sent branding Abraham Lincoln as a Communist,” Rankin sald. Foster replied that Lincoln carried on a correspondence with Karl Marx, father of Communism. Foster described the civil war as a2 “revolution” in which, he said, “The American people by demoeratic procedure elected a government, whereupon the southern landowners took up arms.” “The American government de-

landowners),” Foster continued. “The position taken by the U, 8. government in the civil war

munist party.”

Russia,

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fended itself (against the southern

is precisely the policy of Ae Com-

Rep. John R. Miirdock (D. Ania.) asked him whether the Communist |’ species |party in this country has any relation to’ the Communist ‘party of

Foster said there was no relation

AWARD COL. GREGORY CROIX DE GUERRE|

CULVER, Ind, Oct. 19 (U,'P.) ~— Col. W. E. Gregory, superintendent of Culver Military academy, léarned today that he has been awarded the legion of Honor and Croix de Guerre with palm by France, Announcement of the decorations was contained in a special order coun-

Administration's Plan Is

Termed ‘Defeatist.’

WASHINGTON, Oct. 18 (U. P) == The National Association of Manus facturers, hitting the administra= tiod’s jobs-for-all bill as “defeatist," today offered its own program for

preventing unemployment. N. A. M. President Ira Mosher

tersigned by Gen. De Gaulle. Gregory, who returned to Culver| on July 14 after 39 months in| American armed service, also was] honored in March by France with the presentation of the Croix de Guerre. He was chief of the personnel branch of Gen. Bradley's)

bat stars. CONNERSVILLE MAN DIES

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78, past state president of Travelers Protective League.

12th army group and “has five com- sponsible for depressions

CONNERSVILLE, Oct. 19 (U. P).| credit system; gran of Funeral services will be held Sun-|oetuating day afternoon for Simon Doenges, prevention of an men

outlined the plan in t4Etimony pre= pared for the house executive exe |penditures committee, which is cons sidering the senate-passed full em= ployment bill. Mosher said there were three ‘economic errors”

unemployment, He listed them ment” of the