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VOLUME 56—NUMBER 200

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1945

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

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U, S. NABS NAZI SPIES IN JAPAN

Raid on Hideout Follows Stories in Times.

By SIDNEY B. WHIPPLE Scripps-Howard Staff Writer KARUIZAWA, Japan, Oct, 30.—

Following my disclosures of international intrigue and espionage in a recent series of articles, Amer-

fcan counter ' intelligence agents swept into Karuizawa and today eoncludéd "a 96-haur roundup of Nazi spies, and other dangerous characters. |" : Eight notorious figures are now held incommuhicado at the Green hotel, outside of this village 120 miles northwest of Tokyo, while 13 others are held under house arrest at the Mampei hotel ‘in’ Karuizawa and in various cottages nearby. "Quiet Probe Preparations for the sensational raids began in Tokyo soon after the first of my dispatches to the Indianapolis Times and other ScrippsHoward newspapers hit the censor’s desk. I was informed at the time by the chief censor that the material was being submitted to the VU. 8. counter-intelligence corps. Two weeks ago the first contingent of American agents, accompanied by a small group of intelligence workers ostensibly as 97th division publications officers, . arrived in town. They began a quiet investigation of the Nazi community in

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Geese on Way South Give an Air Show Here

Nature added a “P.8.” to last week's air show this morning with some special “alphabet” formation

fiying. : The “airmen’ were approximately’ 100 geese, ‘who came in low over 38th st. and College ave, just before 0 o'clock and buzzed a group | of 50 skywardlocking specta~

In though mild weather is predicted to continue the geese are taking no chances on sudden winter—and then "perhaps they heard of that likelihood of showers tomorrow and they headed for the sunny south. The fowls were first seen from the vantage point of a three-story house roof at 3747 College ave. The amazed witness was Charles W, Richards, 1230 Calhoun st., a roofing contractor. Formed in four flock-squadrons, the white-breasted ganders and

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at the sound of a back-firing automobile, reported Mr, Richards, “But it didn't take them five minutes to reassemble and this time add a new twist to their aeroacrobatics, They furned themselves into four perfect “A's,” zoomed over 38th st. a couple of blocks and then headed south,” he explained.

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Glass Splinter From Bottle Thrown Out of Truck Pierces Eyeball of Lad on Porch.

By DONNA MIKELS

Roustabout, tow-headed Mike

hospital, his right eye covered with a large white bandage. He was put there by the criminal acts of Halloween vandals. When he leaves, one of his bright blue eyes may be sightless. The 5-year-old tot's eyesight was placed in jeopardy last night by vandals who hurled two soda pop bottles from a speeding truck,

into a yard at 2023 Westbrook st. where Mike and several other children were playing. Shattering against the porch railing, one bottle sent a long sliver of glass into Mike's right piercing the iris and imbedding ‘itself in back of the

eyeball.

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_gred army-like vehicle, sped on

down the road, leaving sobbing Mike hurt and bewildered. Over at “the hospital, where surgeons will fight to save Mike's eyesight at 4:30 this afternoon, nurses and doctors, as well as Mike's parents, are incensed over the deliberate act of cruelty. Mike's wide grin and irrepressible good nature have made him one of the favorites on his floor, Chewing gum and funny books have been showered on him by people who stopped in to see him. » ” . . SCOOTING up and down in his hospital bed, Mike has asked his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Lavern Shuler, 2912 Westbrook, a thousand questions about the hospital. He wonders whether he'll be taken away in a white or green cart—he's hoping for the green one, where the pretty nurse went, how Spotty. his dog, is. if the kids miss him, when hell go

home. - * Once in a while he gazes wistfully at the

through a large window but he hasn't once complained. » » » WHEN he gets out he's going to buy “10 icecream cones and a coke” for himself and one of his idols, a boy named “Tommy.” He's making money hand over fist in bed, winning $5 from his mother this morning by making Ruesses as to whether or not his father would get off when the elevator stopped outside his room. His mother spent the night in the hospital with her only child while Mr. Shuler went home to feed the pets and to answer a

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BULLETIN

WASHINGTON, Oct. 30 (U. P.) ~The house today approved the final version of the $5920, 000,000 tax reduction bill after

hearing preliminary talk of further cuts next year.

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Shuler today was in Methodist

VANDALISM HITS ALL-TIME HIGH

Worst in History.

State police today were alerted fo restrain pre-Halloween vandalism as the state toll of property destruction reached an unprecedented high. As city. county and state authori-| ties termed the destruction the! worst in the state's history, State Police Buperintendent Austin R. Killian ‘ appealed to. celebrants to cease destructive pranks and threw his ‘troopers: in: the fight against vandalism. | Commanding officers of 10 state] police districts have ordered night | patrols te watch for vandals. Costly Damage Col. Killian said vandals apparently were “more numerous and | damage is heavier this year.” | Heaviest damage from a single act. of Jaga Yue reported at South Bend re foreign substances were put in the gas tanks, | oil lines and grease cups of heavy | construction machinery. ers estimated the loss at $3000 to] | $4000

At Anderson, two teen-agers were | {apprehended in a cemetery, where 115 tombstones and monuments had | been overturned, at a loss estimated | by the sexton at $2000. Greensburg authorities reported vindalism was- causing damage of $300 to $500 nightly. Bronze stars were plucked from

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BUTLER GYMNASIUM ROBBED BY BURGLARS,

Burglars took almost $230 worth of property from the women's gym-

nasium at Butler university some{time between 4 p. m. yesterday and 9 a. m. today. Mrs. M. A. Davis,

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reported the theft, said the building had been entered through an east window, Property stolen included 40 arrows, three fencing foils, three soccer balls, four basketballs, two hockey balls and two. soft balls, two | bows, a ball bat, seven hockey sticks, two tennis racquets, & bowling board and other smaller equipment.

CITES ‘FLAW’ IN

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Property Damage in State

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qualified to bid.

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SUSPECT GANGLAND VENGEANCE AS MOTIVE IN DOUBLE SLAYING

OTY'S METER REQUIREMENTS

Purchasing Agent. Requests ‘Limit’ Clause Be Deleted.

By SHERLEY UHL City hall confusion was rife today over what may be a clause” in parking meter specifications drawn by the city engineering depart-

it got there originally. The clause may have the effect of limiting compliance with the specifications to one firm only. It says: “In an automatic type (parking) meter, the winding shaft shall not be accessible to the public.” City Purchasing Agent Edward G. Herth today informed City Engineer Arthur B. Henry that this requirement “appears” to limit eligible meters to those produced by only a single company. This is the KarPark Co. of Cincinnati, Asks Clause Be Deleted

In a memorandum, Mr, Hereth requested Mr. Henry to delete the “winding shaft” clause from the specifications. - He also asked that another specification setting forth that all meters shall be of stainless steel” be altered to read

The purchasing agent said the flat “stainless steel” specification might tend to further limit the number of parking meter companies

A previous municipal parking meter contract awarded the KarPark Co. was canceled after disclosure the wrong city department had received the bids. The safety board had supervised the original purchase: Under a 1945 law, jurisdiction over parking meters was vested in the works board. So after much backtracking, the works board on Oect. 2 approved Mr. Henry's specifications for the second bid-taking. Mechanism Exposed

Purchasing Agent Hereth explained that to his knowledge meter types other than the Kar-Park model have their rewinding” mechanism exposed. On the Kar-Park models, the winding shaft recedes back into a metal cylinder which can be opened only by a special

City Engineer Henry department had copied the “wind{ing shaft” clause from a sheet of legal paper containing “possible” iparking meter specifications. He displayed the paper, but was unable to explain where it came from, “It was in the files. That's all I know about it,” he said. Although most parking meter

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RECEIVES CUTS, BROKEN ANKLE

Ft. Wayne Friend Also Hurt Near Noblesville.

Today brought two more 'firsts” for Indiana Junior Senator Homer

E. Capehart—his first auto accident and his first broken bone. Minus some of his usual foviiity, the senator today was nursing a broken right ankle, a Iscersted tongue and a mass of cuts and bruises at Methodist hospital. He was injured at about 1 a. m. today about five miles south of Noblesville when the ear in which he was riding was in a head-on collision, In the bed next to him in Room 136-B is W. P. Merchant, Pt. Wayne, jongtime friend of the manufac~ turer-senator who was driving the car. Pulled From Traffic Line Mr, Merchant received a broken wrist, also his first broken bone, two cracked ribs and “lost a lot of skin” when his car was in collision with one driven by Ralph Erton, soldier stationed at Lagrange, O. The senator was dozing en route back from speech making in Ft. Wayne when the accident occurred. Mr, Merchant said the soldier's car pulled out of the oncoming traffic, evidently to pass another car, The Ft. Wayne man hugged the guard rail of a curve to give the

designs on file at City hall were | compiled by Mr. Hereth, the pur-| | chasing agent said: “I've never seen that paper before. Henry Baffled Shaking his head bewilderedly, | Mr. Henry admitted the paper full |of * ‘possible specifications had him {temporarily baffled.” He asserted, however, that his department had thought it sensible to require meters which the public in general couldn't tamper with. “We don't want people going {around winding those meters,” he | declared. “That's why we believed the shielded winding shaft speci{fication a reasonable one. The first Kar-Park bid was ap-

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‘SIXTH VICTIM OF PLANE CRASH DIES

PORTLAND, Ind. Oct. 30 (U. P.). —Maj. John G. Magossen, 26, Deerwood, Minn., died last night ih Portland hospital, the sixth vietim of an army transport plane crash last Saturday near Pennville, Ind. Magossen, second highest ranking officer aboard the C-47 plane en route from Wright Field, O., to Minneapolis, Minn,, died without regaining consciousness. Four servicemen were killed and! a fifth died Saturday of injuries | sustained when the plane crashed into an oak tree on the Salamoine Iriver while attempting ‘a forced landing.

Michigan City police, headed by

Chief Joseph Wolf, today directed.’

a diver searching the bed of a gravel pit, Raymond st. off West gt., for murder weapons. Combing the pit renews a 13month search for three revolvers believed used in the killing of Harry 8. Akchevoun, Joliet, Ill. grocer. He was killed in September, 1944, at the home of his brother-in-law, George Nahas, night club operator in Michigan City. Shortly after the slaying, divers searched the canal here and found several shell cases said to have been used in the killing. Walter Johnson, Chesterton, is the diver. With Chief Wolf are Capt. Edwin Fedder and Detective Roscoe Stephenson. Two men are awaiting trial on murder charges in connection with the case. They are John Hanrahan, Indianapolis, and Robert Brown, Niles, Mich. They are

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'Boom Nears,’ But So Far Is

Only a Trickle

Sandor 8. Klein, of the United Press Washington staff, has just completed a 32-day 7500-mile aerial tour to survey reconversion conditions,

~ Has industrial reconversion been accomplished? If we're talking about miachinery in’ place tp make the pots and pans, automobiles, radios and the other items we've had to do without for about four years, the

the answer is: Reconversion is

pleted.

” » ¥ IF WE'RE talking about walking into stories and showrooms first thing in the morning and gesting these things on demand, the answer is: No. These answers were apparent to all of us, wherever we went on our reconversion tour—in the South, the Southwest, the Pacific Coast, the Midwest and the East. We saw spanking new automobiles rolling ¥ff production lines, We watched new refrigerators. new radios, new washing -machines, new electric gadgets of all kinds taking shape on assembly lines.

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» BUT THE fact was that only a trickle of all these items were flowing out of the factories, Why, 1 asked the men who were responsible for making them? The answers were the same all over. “We need more men in our factories.” “Our parts suppliers plants are on strike.” “We can't get all the parts we

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STRATEGIC BOMBING KNOCKED NAZIS OUT"

Board Says Invasion Only Speeded German Defeat.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 30 (U. P) Allied strategic bombing brought Germany to the verge of a collapse, It would have ended the war within a few months without an actual advance into the Nazi homeland, a civilian survey board reported today. The board, composed of 12 impartial experts, was assigned more than a year ago to assess the strategic bombing of the Nazi homeland. It is now engaged in a similar study of the bombing of Japan. Pranklin D'Olier, president of the Prudential Life Insurance Co. is chairman of the board. ' The long-range bombing of Germany made possible the successful invasion of the continent, the board said, and brought the German economy “to virtual collapse.” f “It brought home to the German people the full impact of modern war with all its horror and suffering.” the board sald. “Its imprint on the German nation will pe lasting.” The board did not say that strategic bombing alone won the war but it sald that “indicatio are convineing” that the impending home front collapse would * have

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B'S STRAINING U. S.-FRENGH TIE

Attitude Laid fo to Delays in Sailing for Home.

By NAT A. BARROWS Times Foreign Correspondent

——— LE HAVRE, France, Oct. 30.— Madison sala, com no record Gnawing deeper by the hour, a 1 Chief. _— SANDOR 8. KLEIN pl of demoralization, indiffer- Lengyel, who conducted SHILADELPHIA, Oct, 30, [Hes ind "utter “boredom, grips | BAtPeL SERRA Ci “PH For awaiting - wife nearly two

ward ships or aweating out lowpoint scores in service troop jobs. It is not a pretty story, no mat. ter how or where you look at it. And plenty of people back home are not going to like facing some of the raw, undeniable facts. For 10 days I have been eating, living and talking with homeward bound Americans, 1 have been visiting homesick, depressed, spiritiess, low-point men in Normandy, Paris, Marseille, Cannes, Nice and in be~ tween,

Talked to 300 Men

Over and over, I have heard the same story until it is like a night- | mare filled with a dozen phonographs incessantly blaring the same records. I suppose I have talked person- | ally with 300 or 400 men--aboard

ships, in redeployment staging areas, in Red Cross doughnut queues, I have questioned them in!

crammed troop trains and in sumptuous Riviera casinos. Out of this conversation has come some rather devastating conclusions. Franco - American relations — at

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JAP PLANES DROPPED FIRE BOMBS IN U. S.

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 30 (U. P.) ~Japanese submarines, prowling the Oregon coast in 1942, twice launched small planes which dropped incendiary bombs in north-

western forests but caused no| damage, the fourth air force re rted today. |

The Oregon bombing was another | chapter in the fourth air forces ‘War Memoirs,” heretofore secret military information. The small bombs fell Sept. 9 on | ‘Mt. Emily near Brookings and Sept. 20 on Cape Blanco. A fire| broke out on Mt. Emily but it was quickly extinguished.

POLICE LE LEARN TYSON WAN

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A have supplied the motive be(hind the slaying of a 38-year. jold fugitive and his brunette sweater girl riddled hodies were dumped in 8 shallow grave here.

yesterday as George Tyson, 38, and Ethel Sparks, 22, both of St, Loujs, IL, are alleged to have been ine

volved in fatal gunplay in a Madi son, Ili,

sued against Tyson in conn with the shooting of Joe C {22, an East St. Louis iron {last July in a Madison ta week later Miss ‘Thelma | 22-year- old waitress, chief witness |= Callahan's murder, was shot and killed in the same tavern.

police found $3200 secreted, was a a waitress, working with the firs shooting fatality in the same tavern in which the feud apparently had its start, state police said.

police in copnection with the

been seen in Ste. Genevieve, shortly after the ‘Madison shootings,

underworld feud ‘furnished police new lead which caused them vir tually to discard two early theories concerning the mysterious slayings.

theory that the two might have been involved in the burglary of Richland bank, near here, recently, The money found on Miss Sparks 27 bills of $100 denomination an

| Wine took the obvious alternative

AS MURDERES

$3200 Knew Victim of Illinois Gunplay.

Times Special ROCKPORT, Ind., Oct. 30. “gangland feud” may

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MISSING MINISTER FOUND UNHARMED

Absence. From Revival Alarms Friends. s Special

Time: SEYMOUR, Ind., Oct, 30—One of the shortest manhunts on record | ended today when a “missing” mine | ister from Farmland turned up at a Nazarene revival here. Friends of the Rev, Gilbert Wire, 63, became alarmed when he failed to appear several hours after he was known to have left Franklin on his way to the revival last night, State police alerted local authorities in neighboring cities and reported that “foul play” was suspected. Mr. Wine's explanation ~ “The |lights on my car failed and I was {forced to stop overnight at a farm

home ‘about 10 miles outside Franklin.” TER Failing in attempts to notify =

friends of “his predicament, Mr.

\and waited for daylight, proceeded lunmolested to Seymour and called 'off the search.

Reporters Say

By PARKER LA MOORE Seripps~-Howard Staff Writer WASHINGTON, Qct. 30.—~The| undeclared “civil war” reported raging in China between central gov-| ernment and Communist forces | isn't as yet the full-dress conflict | between the two factions one might |

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assume from Chungking and Ye- | nan reports. According to state department

officials the fighting is the same type of guerrilla warfare which has been going on for months. Previously, accounts of border clashes. were suppressed by central government censorship. Now not |

but central government spokesmen stress the seriousness of such inci- | dents. Formerly, only the Communists used the term “civil war" with ref- | erence to this sporadic fighting. The central government consistently

‘Civil War' in China Not a Major Conflict

only are reports of fighting released [grou

Parker La Moore, veteran Scripps-Howard political reporter, recently obtained his release from the army. His last assignment, as a lieutenant colonel, was several months’ tour of duty with the American embassy in Chungking,’ where he had unusual oppertuns ities to gain an insight into Chi« nese political and economic life. He has joined the Washington staff of Scripps-Howard news papers.

Miving may be some significance

this change. gi Yd representatives of two Chinese factions are an amicable unification of the A ups in conversations cont in Chungking. Yet clashes bet: the armies of the two groups. | mounting, with offensives and ¢ ter-offensives reported trom | provinces. 4 Actually, both in the ¢ in Chungkiag, and; in’ the.