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[ckirrs sowie] VOLUME 57—NUMBER 42 oe

MONDAY, APRIL 29, 1946

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where they had braced themselves

HOW CAPITAL OF MANCHURIA FELL 70 REDS

First Story of Battle’s Last Stages.

In the following dispatch, Reynolds Packard, veteran United Press war correspondent, describes for the first time the fall of Changchun, capital of Manchuria, to Chinese Communists.

By REYNOLDS PACKARD United Press Staff Correspondent.

CHANGCHUN, April 19 (Delayed) | ~—With bullets whistling around my ears I watched today some 30,000] veteran Communist 8th route stmy} troops blast out the last remnants] of the Nationalist garrison. | The Nationalists were driven from their final redoubt in Utopia circle, the inner plaza of this Manchurian capital, The veteran Chinese Communist troops—armed with 75's and 37 mm. artillery ' and firing Japanese and American Winchester rifles—literally blasted the remnants of the 9000-man Nationalist garrison from six large buildings on Utopia circle

for a last stand. The Communists troops were veterans and they moved in efficiently despite their ragged uniforms ,and well-worn equipment, Escapes Being Trapped I narrowly escaped being trapped in the middle of the Utopia circle battle. I watched the final phases) from the Changchun méyor’s house| which was under Nationalist fire.| The house was being used by the Communists as a firing point. {

| Emma is his wife, Empress Nagako.

Charlie and: Emma They're Still Business at Jap Imperial Palace—

Much to the Surprise of 45-Year-Old Hirohito and His Empress.

By WILLIAM McGAFFIN, Times Foreign Correspondent TOKYO, Japan, April 29.—Charlie and Emma, gs the old Japan hands used to call them, still are doing a thriving business at the old stand—the imperial palace—on Charlie's 45th birthday today. Charlie is more formally known as Hirohito, emperor of Japan, and

Probably no one in Japan is more surprised than the bemoustached little Charlie that he should be —r observing another pirthday on the persons are agreed that this made throne, with his country defeated our advent to Japan easier and and full of the safer. conquering enemy.

Japanese close

» » ” I HAVE heard a few voices in

MIKHAILOVITCH “DEFENDED BY YANK AIRMAN

Saved Many Downed Americans.

By CHARLES T. LUCEY Scripps-Howard Staff Writer WASHINGTON, April 20.—~Gus T.

Brown is a .clear-eyed, red-headed young man from Luling, Tex. As engineer aboard a flying

to the throne tell me that the em- * peror expected he would be made to | abdicate after the various details of t h e surrender ere carried out in autumn last

§ | the wilderness crying that we are | playing with fire. | They point out that the much-| | used Hirohito was used by Jap militarists; now he is being used | by us. What is to prevent his be{ing used by the militarists again at some future date, after we leave Japan? Hirohito is notoriously weak.

year. He was pre- : a iti ! . Mr. McGaffin nly sure safeguard would be vented from abdt to exile him and the rest of the

cating, they say, by American policy. |; f From the start we have followed mperial family to life internment a policy of using the emperor. Most| (Continued on Page 3—Column 5)

Fortress he did a good piece of fighting for this country overseas. He is one of a score of American airmen here today to urge a fair trial for’ Gen. Draja Mikhailovitch, captured by Tito's Yugoslav government. . Ex-Sergeant Brown's right to take a hand in this fight comes, as he sees it, from the fact that after parachuting onto Yugoslav soil in January, 1944, he spent five months with the Chetnik forces led by Mikhailovitch. ; “The true story of what Mikhailovitch did never got back to America,” the Texan said. “The propa-

Big 4 Comes TRUMAN WILL To Grips on | MEET HUGHES Italian Issue oe ‘Conference Is Presumably Over Court Post. By MERRIMAN SMITH

By JOSEPH W. GREGG JR. United Press Staff Correspondent PARIS, April 29.—The Big Four

foreign minjsters today came to grips- with /the toughest questions United Press Staff Correspondent

on their” Ttalian agenda—Trieste,] WASHINGTON, April 29.—PresiTripolitania and the fate of the dent Truman today scheduled a 3 Dodecanese islands. p. m. (Indianapolis time) appoint. The foreign ministers’ deputies| ment with Retired Chief Uustice agreed to put the three hot ques-!Charles Evans Hughes, presumably tions on the agenda for today’s{to obtain his advice and guidance

The Communist forces drove Into) session, thus making a showdown Changchun with precision, gradu-| between the western Allies and Rusally driving the Nationalists into sia on the controversial issues likethe center of the town after seizing'ly.

the airfield and the railroad station| Three-Hour Talk

in choosing a successor to the late Chief Justice Harlan Fiske Stone. The White House announced the conference as informed sources reported that Mr. Truman had nar-

ganda wags all on the other side. “HH he a traitor, then so am I. | “But he and his Chetniks saved i my life and the lives of other Americans forced down there. “I don't see how we can let him down now.

Objected to Communism

“I had a chance to learn something about the situation there. The Chetniks were opposing the Coms= munists and both were fighting the Germans. “Gen. Mikhailovitch told me the reason he was fighting the Communists was he wanted a democratic Yugoslavia and not a communistic Yugoslavia. “He asked me; ‘The Communists came to America would you not fight against them?’ “I told him I would.

Texas Flier Says Chetniks

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to prevent Nationalist reinforces wo. ... oo io poo modified her

'demand for a trusteeship over

ments from arriving. Day after day, thé opposing Chinese forces battled from street to street, from housetop to housetop. ; Argillery Display The Communists steam-rolled into Changchun. from four directions, supported by the greatest display of artillery they had yet shown in Manchuria. They smashed through the city’s inner defenses and pushed the Nationalist garrison back into Utopia

Tripolitania—opposed by Britain— her support of the Yugoslav claim to Trieste—opposed by Italy—or her opposition to giving the Dodecanese islands to Greece is not known. However, it was learned that Seeretary of State James F, Byrnes had a three-hour private discussion with Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov and Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei Vishinsky yesterday in which it was believed a thorough exploration of American and Soviet view-

“Mikhailovitch told meswhat he] wanted out of the war was not political power—he was a soldier]

and wanted to remain a soldier. |

rowed the choice between Justice Robert H. Jackson and William O. Douglas. Mr. Hughes retired in July, 1941.

President Roosevelt to succeed him, | cratic Yugoslavia and the Atlantic White House Press Secretary| charter pledges kept.” Charles G. Ross was asked if the Ran Out of Fuel conference concerned the supreme 'S 8 Jan. court vacancy. He told newsmen to a y oe the draw their own conclusions. He in-|goth bombardment group out of dicated that an anhouncement will Foggia, 4Italy, bound for a raid on be made later in the week. Sofia, Bulgaria, then in German

Mr. Stone was named by' the late! But he did want to see a demo-| —

Conference Delayed Mr. Truman originally was ex-

hands. His plane ran out of tuel| Jenner. y

forcing the crew to bail out. ;

points was undertaken. Bevin Returns From Trip

circle—Tatung Kwan Chang. This is. the hub around which the city with its 800,000 inhabitants Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin] sends out wide geometrical high- returned to Paris today after al ways like spokes. It seems like 8! 94-hour trip to London, where he| miniature Washington, D. C. consulted dominions representatives

Jammed into Utopia circle like oi attitude toward th e Itali sardines, the Nationalists converted |p 0 ¢u issues. ig

six ‘public buildings into makeshift The ministers met at 4:03 p.m. |

redoubts, (10:03 Indianapolis time). { Results of talks this week will make the conference a success or| 1500 Nationalists who: attempted &| failure. Even the most hopeful | last stand in the Central bank|predicted hard verbal slugging be-| building were killed in a final fore any agreement is reached. suicide sortie. { The sortie was reported to have been led by Maj. Gen. Chen ChiaTsen,” National commander in Changchun. He was described as coming out of the building, pistol in hand, at’ the head of his forces. He was taken prisoner by the Communists after a machinegun bullet clipped him in the leg. | The Nationalists had turnd build-| 19-Day Lapse. ings of ‘Utopia circle into citadel. 8y UNITED PRESS They Blocked oe Windows will Se Industrial coal supplies dwindled | books, municipa gers 8, |,» pieces of heavy furniture and rama the danger point today as the| sandbags, hoping to hold out until | government sought settlement of the new Nationist 1st army could/the coal strike and renewed at-! arrive here. tempts to prevent a nation-wide Blast Stronghold | railroad walkout. : However, the Communists, armed] AS the coal strike entered its fifth | the striking United Mine

Suicide Sortie It was reported that 300 of the

MINE WORKERS TO |

RESUME COAL TALKS

Agree to Negotiations After,

pected to announce his selection at a news conference tomorrow, along with appointmer®of a New associ ate justice to fill the existing court vacancy. But Mr. Ross said the conference would be held “later this! Richard Hobby, of Storrs, Conn. week.” > “We made a tent for the night | The President does not want to|With my parachute. About 10 o'clock | hold the news conference until he We saw a group of Germans com-| can announce the names of his ap- ing toward us, but they went around pointees. us. We stuck it out until 4 a. m. | The: President, it can be revealed, |and decided then we'd have to already has decided to elevate one 8ive up or freeze to death. of the eighit present members of} Rescued by Chetniks the court to succeed the late Har-| «we figured that, as prisoners, | lan F. Stone as chief justice. And ye still might escape. We started | persons close to Mr. Truman be- calling. Some (hetniks heard us. lieve-the post will go to either Mr. When they found we were Amer-| Jacksoni or Mr. Douglas. icans, they gave us cigarets, took us| Just who will be appointed &s the|down the mountain to a house'and | ninth member of the court remained | provided warm milk and cheese.” | a complete mystery as Mr. Truman| The Chetniks, the ex-sergeant returned to Washington yesterday (said, took them to where other U. |

“I landed alone in waist-deep| snow,” the flier said. “I started | down a mountainside, but turned back when I heard a shot. Then

from an eight-day cruise on -the|s, filers had been found. Then be- | presidential yacht Williamsburg. gan a difficult six-week journey to The President wound up his trip Gen. Mikhailovitch’s headquarters | with an all-day shipboard confer-|in the mountains south of Belgrade. ence with Chairman Robert E. Han- [Often the Americans were sheltered negan of the Democratic national|by Chetniks who constantly risked | committee. Mr. Hannegan presum-|German reprisals for such action. ably was consulted on the court ap-| “If Mikhailovitch’s people were pointments.

SUGAR STAMP 39 EXPIRES TOMORROW

WASHINGTON, April 29 (U. P|

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SAYS CZECHS FIRE

? , and Mrs. Shults and their triple threat to show that Dennis, Donald and Danny are lined up left to right.

WILLIS 1S STILL IN SENATE RACE

La Follette Oppose’ Incumbent. U. 8. Senator Raymond E. Willis,

sons. . . .It takes a careful

\dentical Triplet Boys Make Indianapolis Their New Home

! By DONNA MIKELS One-zy, two-zy and then one more-zy. That's the lineup in the crib

U.S. Troops Quell

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UNREST BOLS PERSONS CAMP

{German Civilians Attacked in . Town Where Adolf Hitler Wrote ‘Mein Kampf.’

MUNICH, April 20 (U. P)~A, 10-day sundown curfew was imposed today on ‘the displaced persons camp at Landsberg after approxis mately 1000 rioting Jews attacked German civilians in the town where Adolf Hitler wrote “Mein Kampl.” Twenty Jews today went on a hunger strike at Landsberg and

look and a peek at their bracelets

AT DISPLAGED

at the George Shults residence, 553% Massachusetts ave., where the six-month-old triplet sons of Mr. and Mrs. Shults are getting acclimated to

Indianapolis.

in Indianapolis today completing]

might drop out of the race before the state Republican convention!

June 13. i “I'll be a candidate for renomi-| nation until the last ballot is taken at the state convention,” he said in announcing he had set up campaign organizations in every county in Indiana. : Opposing him for the nomination will be William E. Jenner, regarded generally as the “regular state organization candidate” for the senatorial nomination and Rep. Charles La Follette, Evansville, who is campaigning independently as the liberal candidate for the nomination. Senator Willis said he will set up headquarters here next month with a state-wide organization to contact delegates to the state convention from all 92 counties, He gaid more than 60 Republican newspapers in Indiana have formed a Willis-for-Senator club and a total of 147 newspapers in the state have pledged their support to his| candidacy.

Six-months-old next Friday, Don-

I met one of my crew members, his campaign organization for re-igid, Dennis and Danny already have | nomination, dispelled rumors he five teeth each. Dennis weighs 16%

pounds, Donald. tips the scale at 15 pounds seven ounces and little Danny tags behind at 14 pounds 14 ounces, Identification Bracelets They're identical and have no individual marking. Mr. Shults still has to consult their identification Bracelets to tell them apart. When they were born, everyone

{told Mrs.* Shults they wouldn't

make normal progress, - She's not worried now, though, since they have gained consistently, cut teeth at the regular time and already are beginning to crawl around. As a matter of fact, she points out, their progress has been pretty much the same as that of her older. son, James David, who's just short of five years.

Cramped for Space THe milk and diaper consumption in the Shults household is immense. The babies drink one case of canned milk a week. Diaper usage ranges at about 40 to 50 per day.

ON YANKS, GERMANS senator willis is publisher of a| Right now the only difficulty the

The triplets, born in Norfolk, Va, where Mr. Shults was stationed with the navy, arrived in Indianapolis Saturday.

HOOSIER GRAIN CROP" OUTLOOK BRIGHTENS

. They were quieted and back into their camp on the skirts only after American

and hurled rocks at them. UNRRA Official Stoned

Farmers Hope ‘Cloudy Sky’ Forecast Brings Showers.

Indiana’s grain crop outlook brightened a little today as the weather bureau forecast cloudy skies, Although the weatherman did not forecast rain, farmers hopefully reasoned that the cloudy weather today and tomorrow might produce some showers. The week-end - showers were plenty for city dwellers but the downfall was only half of what is needed to aid retarded wheat and oat crops. Approximately three-quarters of an inch of rdin fell locally: The slow, steady downpour was absorbed Immediately by the parched lands, however, and the land stood almost dry again today.

Lt. Abraham Klausner, Denver, chaplain at Jewish headquarters in’ { Munich, said an American UNRRA official was stoned when he ate tempted to quiet the rioters outside their camp. He escaped serious ine jury. * Dr. Leo Strole, UNRRA director, said after the riot: “I've never seen any people act like this.” Lt. Klausner said the Jews were at “lowest moral ebb because they were about to celebrate the first anniversary of their liberation bus still were in a D. P. camp.” He said similar feelings exist in other Jewish camps, where sensational rumors threaten to touch off mass emotions,

THWART MONARCHIST

| Moscow radio said today that a plog

The ‘rain was heaviest in the for a Monarchists putsch in Hune

central section, medium in the

| gary had been thwarted by the are

PUTSCH IN HUNGARY"

LONDON, -April-29-4U.-P). ~The -

with 75's and 37 mm guns as well week

FRANKFURT, April 20 (U. P.).—

newspaper at Angola and originally | Shults age experiencing is the hous

as automatic weapons mounted on| nearby rooftops literally blasted the|

Nationalists out of their strong-' lapse of 19 days. hold. A labor department spokesman

the buildings into Utopia circle itself and there in the open many| Would meet jointly at 2:30 p. m. (InNationalists were mowed down by|dianapolis time). machineguh fire or taken prisoner. The resumption was arranged by

The Communist forces, mainly Secretary of Labor Lewis B. Schwel- _ veterans of the famous 8th route| lenbach as the month-long strike

army, were under the command of| reached the point where really one of their top military leaders, crippling effects} on the nation Gen. Li Piao. seemed imminent, The victory was most important| Mr. Schwellenbach met for strategically as well as politically | minutes this morning with Presi-

ince it gives the Communists con- nr 5 8 (Continued on Page 2—Column 6)

| Workers (A. F. of L.) agreed to re- —The OPA reminded housewives |sume negotiations today after a. today that sugar stamp No. 39 ex- Gen. Joseph T. McNarney charged pires tomorrow. Spare stamp No. 49 will be vali- | trols are firing at Americans; and |

tionalists were forced from announced that negotiators for the dated May 1. The Nationa union and the soft coal operators! five pounds of sugar through Aug.'of ‘the boundary along the war 'C ARL J M 1

OPA said ‘provision will be made

was sponsored for the senatorial|ing problem. They're cramped for

| today that Czechoslovak border pa- PSt by the Indiana Republican space in the apartment above the

It will be good for Germans on the United States side

tion zone, Gen. McNarney's charges against!

Editorial association.

OTE DIES;

to validate a spare stamp for sum-' Czechoslovakia were made in his mer home canning in June or July.| weekly report as military governor)

Sugar for spring canning was pro-| vided with recent validation of spare stamp No, 9. MAY 12 IS MOTHERS DAY | WASHINGTON, April 29 (U. P..| | —President Truman today pro"claimed May 12 at Mothers Day.

of the American occupation Zone.

LED FARM GROUP

“Czech patrol are firing indis-’ : criminately across the internation- Head of Phone Companies ST. LOUIS, Mo., April 20 (U. P.).

al border, and frequently enter Germany illegally and search the premises of German residents under pretext of seeking Sudeten Germans,” the report said,

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st oie - - By JIM G. LUCAS TIMES INDEX , Scripps-Howard Staff Writer

Da | WASHINGTON, April 29.—Joan

Amusements . 12' Ruth Millett. g Crawford got a divorce last week Aviation 9 Movies ....... 12 and the staid civillan production

Eddie Ash.... 7 J. E. O'Brien. 6'administration is still groggy. Business ..... 13| Obituaries ... 5 Not that CPA is concerned about

Robert Casey. 9 F.C. Othman. 11 Miss Crawford's personal affairs. | Classified ..16-18' Politics 15/ But. CPA ‘is. upset about fhe dress Comics ...... 19 Radio ........ 19) Miss Crawford wore to court. Her

Crossword .... 7 Reflections ....10 gkirt fell about five inches below her « Editorials ..:. 10, Mrs. Roosevelt 9 shapely knees.

«oes 14 Scherrer i ’ y Fashions "". 10 Side Glances. 10' CPA Textile Director Herbert G. IL Rights. 20 Serial ......... § 10% would say oly “no. comment~| Meta Given. "15 Sports ...... g.7 but one of his assistants said’ CPA In Indpis.. .... 3 Troop Arrivals 1 1 “takes an _ extremely serious view" Inside Indpls.. ® Washington , 10 Of the Crawford dress. :

JgneJuedari,. 19 Women's J. 14- Se at De pi Labor ... 9 World Affairs 10 5 ’ - THE Crs vORITE EATING PLACE long skirts. Textile division ofCharley's Restaurant, 14 E. Ohio—Adv.| iCIals j boasted . they had Paris

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skirts. CPA regulations, they boasted, were “ironclad.”

But the Crawford dress rocked | ‘em back’ on their heels. CPA didn't

| blame Misé Crawford but admitted

Lope cold” in its drive to lower

it would be much happier if she'd | worn a bathing suit to court. “We don't say Miss Crawford has done anything wrong,” a textile di[vision assistant offered unhappily. “We think whoever sold :her that dress violated the law.” As for Miss .Crawtord, in agency | | language she is put down as a “stimulus” for “an artificial, infla~ | tionary consumer demand” which could wreck the whole CPA dress program. . “Movie actresses set the styles,”

Joan Crawford's 'Below-the-Knees' Dress Causes Consternation Among CPA Officialsuius meme co uma we

women who saw her picture are probably out now raising cain -because their tavorite shops can't supply a dress like hers. It has frightening possibilities.” CPA said its regional office “probably” would look into the matter. The agency was only slightly less put out with Dorothy O'Hara, a Hollywood ‘designer who last week gave a preview of fall fashions. Miss O'Hara said the skirts on her suits “approach the mid-calf length.” . Mr. Rose's staff grimly contend it can’t be done. Regulations forbid. Take a look at regulation L85, Miss O'Hara. You can't get around it. Just what will happen if Miss O'Hara goes ahead and starts selling dresses with skirts whigh end at

one CPA execufjve said. “Half the

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mid-calf «CPA won't say,

Ill Several Months.

Carl H. Mote, telephone company executive and president of the newly-organized “United Farmers of America,” died today at his home, 5685 Central ave. He was 62,

He was president of the Northern and the

upstate utilities. Active in Hoosier right-wing politics for many years, Mr, Mote, an attorney, also published “America Preferred,” a monthly pamphlet. In 1944, he was an Indiana senatorial candidate. However, he failed to obtain the nomination at the Republican state convention, That same year, he was chairman and principal speaker of the America ‘First party national convention in Detroit. ‘ He had been ill-for several months

odist hospital. For a year prior to 1945, he was president of the National Farmers guild, However a factional split in that organization resulted in the separate formation here on April 3

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and only recently had left Meth-

Cameo Press, where Mr. Shults is associated in business with his father. Between feeding and diaper changing, both of them are snatching at the want ads to find a place for the -triplets to have a little more elbow room,

SEE MY SECRETARY

| | |

—8ign in the window of a St. Louis tavern: “Beer by appointment

south and light in northern Indi~| rest of 70 members of youth groups ana. Indianapolis got .79 while the | who devised it. \ rainfall was only .60 in Lafayette| youth groups attached to the and 53 in Terre Haute, the tWO|Hungarian Small Holders’ party next highest spots. plotted the Monarchial coup, the Horace E. Abbott, county agri-|goviet broadcast reported. It quoted cultural agent, said farmers would Hungarian press reports. like to see another three-quarter| wfoscow said that in making the

inch of rain in the next couple of days. During the unusually dry spring weather, the grain crop has virtually stood still in the ground. The weather bureau had one other good word for the farmers. Mild temperatures with little possibility of any damaging frosts were forecast.

only.”

NEW YORK, April 20 (U, P).— The lush living of William ‘B. Ben-

jamin, former $100-a-week salesman turned war plant owner, faded

bag for $649,000, which he lost in a final three-month gambling spree. Benjamin, 36, plump, debonairly gray, said his taste for high living was whetted by the $200,000 his small, plant earned during the war. | District Attorney Frank 8. Hogan {said Benjamin admitted he paid ino income tax on his war profits. When the ‘plant's earnings fell loff, Benjamin. allegedly used his | business prestige to obtain loans from one creditor after another, and went on his spree of spending. He told Mr. Hogan: = : ped $46,000 in a single day

Ex-$100-a-Week Salesman On $649,000 Spending Spree

He bet $12,000 across the board, or $36,000 on a single race. His smallest bet on a single horse was $1500.

He lost $5000 in a rummy game, His living expenses ran $1000 a week. Benjamin, held on $50,000 bond on- charges of grand larceny and

forgery, declined to name the book-|

makers who won his illegally gained funds. :

“If T did I would be buinped off,” |

he said. A ‘He itemized all of his losses and was- able to account for all but $80,000 of the money, Mr. Hogan said. A . Benjamin, whose wife lives in

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arrests, police found “a large nume ber of weapons, ammunition and exe plosives.”

PLANE MISHAP ENDS | LESSON ON CRASHING

Times Special SANDBORN, Ind, April 29.While an instructor taught a stue dent flyer what-to do in case of a crash landing yesterday, the pair

crash landed in a field a mile north

of here. Although the ship was damaged badly, the pilot, Floris

received superficial cuts only.

Large oi Two Small Families

. Favorably located near a ‘good public school and the tine sho ping - center at Thirty. and Keystone. . . . :

Possession: 3637 N. Tacomas bedrooms can be used hardwood floors; kite breakfast room, full dry, auto. water 50 heat

lost control of the plane and it |

Richardson of Bicknell, and the student, Paris Vaughn of Linton, .

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