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NAVY OFFICERS

Charge Thousands Paid as

Protection in 1944-45 at Pearl Harbor.

By Scripps-Howard Newspapers PEARL HARBOR. Aug. 26. —General courts-martial have been rec-| ommended for 10 naval reserve officers implicated in operation of} a wartime “little Tiajuana” bling syndicate here in ‘which professional gamblers allegedly paid | “thousands of dollars a day” for protection. | It promises to be another sen-| sational Pearl Harbor scandal. A naval captain and nine offi-| cers of lesser rank were cited by a court of inquiry headed .by Rear Adm. Ralph W. Christie, commandant of the Bremerton (Wash,) navy vards, Findings at Capital Vice Adm. James Hall, commandant of the 14th naval district, Pearl Harbor, forwarded its court's findings td Washington over the weekend with an indorsement of the court-martial recommendation. The charges grew out of an investigation into conditions at a civilian housing area—wartime home | of 12,000 civilian shipyard workers— | by the navy, federal bureau of investigation and the senate war investigating (Mead) committee, The inquiry has had a top secret classification. In June. Rear Adm. A. K., Doyle of the naval inspecior general's office asked the Mead committee not to question him about the matter because “the investigation still is underway.” Permit Poker Games The story as now unfolded by Adm. Christie's court of inquiry reveals that in 1944 and 1945 the navy agreéd to permit penny-ante poker and dice games in the civilian housing center recreation rooms. Although such gambling technically violated navy regulations, authorities reasoned it was the lesser of many evils. The civilian employees frequenting Honolulu gambling dives were often involved. in brawls with police. 118 at. would be able to regulate and control professionali. gummblers: could be excluded. “In our naive way, we reasoned that we could make gambling good, clean fun,” a high-ranking naval officer recalled. Civilian recreation rooms were set up under the supervision of navy lieutenants and lieutenants (j. g.). with Capt. John Kanegeter. housing center commandant. in over-all command. Games Lose Amateur Standing Within a week, however, the court of inquiry found, poker and dice games lost their amateur standing. Professional gamblers, some among shipyard workers and others in uniform, took over the play. Recreation halls were jammed each night with thousands of war workers, anxious to chance their 1 checks on the turn of a card. On week nights, $50,000 to $75,000 would change hands. On weekends, the turnover was as much as $150,000 to $175,000. The court of inquiry found that the Pear! Harbor command was unaware that its penny-ante gambling had gotten out of hand. Occupied | with more important matters, Pearl Harbor top officers left management of civilian housing areas to their subordinates, Emphasizes Professional gamblers who over the games paid “thousands of dollars a day” charge of recreation rooms for protection to. conceal “the true state of affairs” from their superiors, the board reported. The report emphasizes the plural—“thousands of dollars a day.” As a result, navy-sponsored “little | Tiajuana” game rooms operated during 1944 and 1945 with the Pearl! Harbor high command unaware that they existed. Mead committee investigators now are in Honolulu, Sig hast own inquiry. Copies of Adm tie’s findings will be sent hg com- | mittee in Washington. Navy courts martial are expected to convene in Pearl Harbor, Gen-| eral courtssmartial, the severest | form of navy discipline. are em-

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Return From ‘Dead’

Jackson Family Removes Gold Star from Window as Muncie Soldier is Found Alive in Germany, Suffering from Amnesia.

By SHERLEY UHL Times Staff Writer

MUNCIE, Aug. 26.—There’s a trace of pathos in the | happiness at the Albert Jackson home here today.

{ Pvt. Genie Jackson has “returned from the dead,” but his m#&m-«

ory apparently is completely destroyed.

! He may have to remake the acquaintance of his Muncie parents

and his wife, Esther, Nashville, Tenn, The army officially deelared him dead a year ago. -. alive and his identity was established while he was recuperating in a

He was found

gam-| hospital in the American-occupation zone in Germany.

» n " n » ” HIS FIRST two letters to his mother and dad requested photo- 1 graphs of all his immediate relatives. “I'm afraid I don't remember much’ about -my home life or anything that happened before,” he wrote.

But Mr. and Mrs. Jackson are unreservedly joyous over the prosThey're “fixing up his room just |

pect of seeing their only son again.

like it was before he left. Maybe he'll remember then.” n n " » " ~ THE JACKSONS already have removed the gold star from their window. And city fathers will expunge one name from that list of world war II fatalities posted on the courthouse lawn. Hope was first reborn in the Jackson household three weeks ago Alice Fisher, Muncie Red Cross worker, came to compile a summary of Pvt. Jackson's “social history.”

She asked a lot of questions—about his friends, education,

when

previous occupations.

istics, including scars.

» n " n " = “A FEW days ago, Miss Fisher returned and told us Gene definitely was alive,” his mother said. : “I didn’t cry. I don’t cry easily. But I still can hardly believe it I intended to hold memorial services for Gene, but I just didn't think I could go through with it.”

After she received the Red Cross message, Mrs. Jackson telephoned |

That same evening they sent her a wire confirming the fact her son is alive. She immediately dispatched a cablegram to him,

joyed at the news. Have been worried about you. us all.”

the war department in Washington.

It said: *“OverBest wishes from

» = ” = n ” HIS MOTHER said the war department had never explained exactly what happened to her son, or why it took so long to establish his identity. “I suppose his papers and dog tag were lost and he just couldn't remember anything,” she sighed. “Sometimes I get angry about it, but then, with Gene back, I'll forgive anything.” Last Thursday, she received two letters from Gene. They said: “I'm all right, but I don't remember much. I'll be home for Christmas.” (The Red Cross said he may be returned within a few weeks.)

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From the tone--of--his letter, Mrs. Jackson said she judged his

memory was still totally blanked out. injury, she said. : It was the first time he had written since September,

the letters quit coming. ” ” a » ~ - FIRST HE was declared missing. A Christmas package and letters sent to him from Muncie were returned. A year later, the war department listed him as “killed in action.” the official report of world war II dead released in June. In Nashville, Tenn., Mrs. Esther Jackson, wife ot the 26-vear-old amnesia victim, said her love for him and a “hunch”

Kept her faithful to their marriage during the past two years. = = » 5 n ” “I NEVER thought of remarrying,” she said in" a voice quivering

with excitement. “It wouldn't have been fair to Gene.” The couple met while Pvt, Jackson was’ stationed at Camp Forrest, Tenn. They were married in May, 1942. His wife, parents and two sisters, Geneva and Eileen are looking forward to a reunion with ‘him soon. Said his mother:

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chicken and dumplings. That ought to_help a lot toward restoring his memory.’

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1944. Then

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he was still alive

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Strengthen Alaskan Forts

As Russ Look Warily On

FIRST OF A SERIES OF ARTICLES ON ALASKA

She also made a report on his physical character- |

” Ras wounded In the knee and arm and

By JIM G. LUCAS Scripps-Howard Staff Writer FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Aug. line of deiense

The late Gen. Billy Mitchell foresaw it at the end of world war 1 | he predicted, can rule the world if it |

Che nation that holds Alaska, chooses, The ‘late

GATES DELAYS CALL + FOR EXTRA SESSION “Se aii cri

Plans Analysis of Welfare dubbed “Seward's folly” Picture First.

Governor Gates said today he

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| eral allotments to the aged, blin and dependent children without] legislation, The governor said he did not plan to call a special session of the|the czars right to sell Alaska. legislature which he has be (vised may be necessary in order to] raise new state matching funds un-| til he gathers more information.

miles across Russia watches intently.

in Alaska during {openly réferred to it | territory.

Along the Siberian coast, “I want to get a much

picture of this situation before anything at all is done,” he said. “ appears now as though some legislative action want to determine how much would planes have to be done by amending the| siberia. statute and how much we can do| ourselves.” ‘Under existing laws, the state's needy are rece.ving maximum payments, Federal increases in welfare

| one major air and naval base. | Her American bases in

are denied the, air

Drilling for Oil At Umiat, where the U.S.

mile Barrow basin, brewing. The discovery of

grade petroleum in crease payments in some

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26.--Alaska has become America’s first

Jones, Canada's chief of naval staff, foresaw it at the end of world war II. An enemy blow for a knockout against the United States in a future war, he predicted, will come across the

Modern military technique is dicAlaska, territory when the United States bought it for $7,200,-

Today Russia and Canada figure (they, too, have a stake in Alaska— for a detailed analysis of how much per haps more mmportant in the dethe state can increase its welfare | termination of a permanent peace

payments to match increased fed- | than anything at issue in the Paris

Bering

“The Soviets never have conceded Rusen ad-| Stan airmen and seaman stationed world war 11 as Russian

i Russia | CIEATEr jas hastened completion of at least |

patrol planes fly daily over : the Aleutian may be required. Ii jqands while at the same time our

Over | ys, Gifts aid “Tito .

navy is drilling for oil in its 35,000-square-trouble may be highcommercial

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oY COUNCIL, GAS UTILITY IN FUND PARLEY

'We Won't Disband,’ G. A. R. Delegates Say

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Step Is Taken Toward Truce in Long Battle Over Till Tapping.

By RICHARD LEWIS The eight-months feud hetween | the city hall and the municipally| owned Citizens Gas & Coke Utility moved a step toward the peace-| making stage today as the dispu- | tants sat down to confer for the first time. { City Council President John A.| Schumacher and. Herman E. Bowers, the council's finance chairman, were to meet with the utility's directors at 2 p. m The subject under discussion is $1,000,000. This is the amount the council claims from the utility by way of back taxes. Now Paying $90,000

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Three “oldsters” talk things over in the lobby of the Claypool hotel as they await the opening session of the G. A. R. encampment. Left to right are: Orlando LeValley, 97, Caro, Mich.; John H. Grate, Atwater, O., and Wiliam H. Osborn, 103, Joplin, Mo., believed to be the eldest of the 10 delegates.

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ATLANTA, Aug. 26 (U, An aged but actiye grey”

sent his: “heartiest greet-

that] ings” today te the “boys in blue” by —the Grand Army of the Repub-

lic encamped in annual session at Indianapolis. an honorary

Henry Dowling,

The G. A. R.'s national commander-in-chief, Hiram R. Gale, 99, Seattle, Wash., stands with the Soldiers and Sailors monument on the Cirele as his backdrop.

” general wo is one of Georgia's

erans to

burning, keep up the encamp> ments as long as you can.”

Any increase in the payment to the ‘city of $90,000 which the utility reduce the tax rate next year, tentatively set by the council last week at $2.11 per $100 assessed 101, property valuation. Today's conference precedes final action of the 1947 civil city budget and tax rate by the council by are to vote the budget into law § tonight. It is the most expensive budget and calls for the highest tax rate in the history of Indianapolis. ; ’ ; Today's utility pow-wow is un- First Business Session recedented in more than 10 years P Opens at Claypool Today. and the he Sones Jdependently RB poisons wea CHR be eA Rh athe, ag Rad Catatutory safeguards, the Grand Army of ithe Republic wen ut ite has béen operating independ. into their first business session at ently of city government, although the Claypool hotel today, deterit is’ teehnically a municipal depart- ni, 04 that this won't be their last ment. : convention. r The question of increasing the Decision on whether to hold a eral fund was raised last winter bY possible successor to CommanderCouncilman Bowers when the threat j,.Chief Hiram %S. Gale. Seattle, of a city financial shortage forced wash. topped the business agenda. officials to hunt for new revenue. Talk of this year's meeting being Mr. Bowers wrote a letter tO «the last” was discounted yesterThomas L. Kemp. general manager gay when at least two of the group's of the utility, asking for an increase eldest members scoffed at any idea in place of taxes. campments. Mr. Kemp consulted his board of Commander-in-Chief Gale promdirectors and then replied to the jsed future meetings. councilman with a polite “No.” “The encampments will keep rigitt Council Balked on going to the last man. When The council then began an in- he's gone, the daughters and the vestigation to determine whether ™ more. It found that under existing statutes. the council cannot force the utility to do anything. It also discovered, however. under terms of the agreement which the city acquired the utility as charitable trust, gas management {annual sum equivalent to what it] i would pay in taxes were it privately owned. | eight surviving Confederate vetCouncil determined that the dif< erans, asked the matron in the | ference in the amount the utility| Confederate . Soldiers’ home © E C I L | 1 F hy a bas paid the city and what it would| (4 word te the G. A. R. vet- ven a rol n ere a e have paid under®he agreement adds “keep the home fires T G + 'B 'F } GC ENGINEER KILLED ST. LOUIS, Aug. 6 (U, P.) —Lester Heideman, 45-year-old telesons will still FN “naving their meetings.” Mr. Gale said at the fates that kept him from seeing his “Bums” tangle with the IN TRAIN WRECK * Former Commander Robert M.| Cardinals. ownd 102, Ripley, N. Y. gave Mr. Heideman loaded his wife and 8-year-old son Robert in the Rox assurance: y family jalopy last Priday at Brooklyn and headed for St. : “I want to let the people of In- 56 the “‘croocial” four-game series, First Reports Meager, Fear dianapoliss know that if they'll in- They got lost a couple of times 'FROGMEN' SOUGHT | Several Injured. |vite us back next year, we'll all be ©n route west and the jalopy found happy to accept the invitation.’ the trip rough going. IN HAIFA SABOTAGE

night

Aug. 26 (U.' P).—A Delaware & 80 years ago. at Indianapolis,” Mr, Heideman re- . Other delegates lated. “No tickets to the game, no Hudson railroad engineer was killed William H. Osborn. hotel rooms and everybody on the

now makes in lieu of taxes would matter of hours. The councilmen of aloofness between the utility The 10 aging delegates to the utility’s payment to the city’s gen-| 1947 meeting. and election of a in the annual $90,000 paid the city for termination of the annual enthe utility could ‘be forced to pay had promised to pay to the city an] up to $1.000,000. phone worker, headed back for Flatbush today complaining bitterly SOUTH GLENS FALLS. N. Y., The G. A. R. was founded here ‘Theré we were Saturday

registered are 103, Joplin, Mo, today when two passenger trains believed to be the oldest delegate: collided head-on a mile and half John H. Grote, 101. Atwater. O.: south of the Glen on the company's! Albert Wolfson, 99, Duluth, Minn,: | “So I got Lippy Durocher (BrookAdirondack branch, | Theodore A. Penland, 98, Por'lanag, !Yn manager) on the phone Sunday The engineer was identified as Ore.: "Orlando LeValley, 98, Caro, |Morning, person to person, too, I Four thousand British troops earFrank N. Keenan, Saratoga Springs, Mich.; Hiram Shumate, 97, River- asked him to get me some tickets ried out a house-to-house search Y. n, Ill; Charles L. Chappel, 99, for the.double-header even if he|Of the little village of Caesarea toFirst reports of the wreck were Be Beach, Cal, and John C.'had to pay 50 bucks apiece for day in their search for the * meager. It was indicated that oth-| Adams, 99, Jonesboro, Ind. them. men” who last week sabotaged a| ers may have been injured in the| Mr. Chappel came to Indianap-| woop ship in Haifa harbor. accident. Cause of the accident was olis by airplane because he said “Lippy was so sympathetic it'd Caesarea is a little fishing village not determined immediately. trains “made him fidgety.” make your heart bleed,” Mr, Heide- | *f 300 persons north of Tel Aviv. The Adirondack branch connects Highlighting yesterday's opening man said, “and promised to try to British Woops under cover of North Creek with Saratoga Springs, was a memorial service in honor of fix us up. But he warned that St. | darkness moved into the town after| and is a single track line, the organization's dead. Com- Louls was enemy territory, jit had been cordoned off. sel ——— | mander Gale commended the gov-| “He wasn't kidding, either.” | Palestine. police- boats off, shore | erument’s action in designating The Heideman auto finally and royal air force planes in the portant. News |v. 8. Highway 6. running across wheezed into St. Louis a couple Rif supported the operation.

| the nation from East to West, as! hours before the game started.| On Inside Pages

“The Grand Army of the Republic Durocher had no tickets | Highway.” | Heldeman finally got three 90-cent Page| ' | Molotov Opens Up on Australia . 2

Truman's Band Plays [portion sata tor 45 ewan. ul the harbor last week. | Hot Words Fly Over Balkans... Last night the old soldiers were The village, which depends for Yugoslavia Crisis Eases

2 {first pitch from a mild hea - ; entertained by President Truman's p 0 Yb at-liic Jivelihood on fishi Kn {tack and was carried out of the ing, recently | Diamond ‘Rings Stolen Here ... 2) United States Marine band. The ©| was reported as a disembarkation

band will play for other sessions Stands and taken to St. John's| ..+ on hundr 4 and for the parade Wednesday. hospital. PO eds of Hllegal immi.

v | Gates and Mayor Tyndall at the! more games of the series if it made | POLICE GET BURGLAR-ALARM Murat theater. him too excited. BOSTON, Aug. 26 (U, P.).—Bos-| More than 2000 members of mi. “Me see those bums play and sald today a C-47 transport crashed holding | not ‘get excited?’ Mr. Heideman! yesterday southwest of Munich and conjunction scoffed, “Nuts!” | ive men aboard were believed killed.

ton police headquarters was wired iated organizations are [today for: a modern burgtar- -alarm, conventions here in “I. shoulda stood home," ‘he sald.. Names of the dead were withheld. y . v Ny

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Village House-to-House. JERUSALEM, Aug. 26 (U, P.).~|

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villagers were responsible for at-!

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way telling us the park at 8t. Louis British Search Palestine

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OPA Adds 11 Agents

arket ACTS ON EDICT

10 TOSS BOOK AT VIOLATORS

Packers Cut Bids Here As They Await Return Of Meat Ceilings.

The state OPA will add 11 investigators to its enforcement staff as “shock troops™ in its war against Hoosier black marketeers.

John Gould, acting chief enforcement officer, said the new sleuths were authorized in come pliance with OPA Director Paul Porter's threat to “throw the book” at the black market. The Indians OPA now has about 50 investiga< tors. Meanwhile, livestock receipts at the local stockyards were still high,

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under last week's record prices. Ceiling Back Sunday Packinghouse spokesmen exe plained they were decreasing their bids because they won't be able to dispose of the meat at non-cons trolled prices. The OPA ceiling goes back on Sunday. In their efforts to beat this dead~ line, farmers were continuing to flood the local vards with hogs and cattle, Today, 15,000 hogs were res ceived as compared with 5000 a week ago. An estimated 5025 cattle were received, as compared with 2500 & week ago. Packinghouse representatives bhe!lieve the current onrush of hogs | and cattle will result in a virtual ! meat famine during October and November

Tw ordin {sold later. ‘average lighter weight of stock now received.

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| Hog Outlook Dim

Whether the anticipated shortage [will carry over to the winter and spring, however, was a moot point |among Indianapolis packers. They indicated there probably were plenty lof cattle on the farms, but were extremely pessimistic about the hog outlook Just how many of each will be {available, they said, depends largely {on how extensively the meat black | market flourishes during the next six months. Chicago had the biggest livestock run today since 1934 the year of the drought. Extra police were assigned there | to cope with block-long lines of {livestock trucks which by morning | had dumped 39,000 cattle and 15,000 hogs inte sprawling stockyard pens,

Most Light Weight

“The farmers are clearing out their stock, most of it light weight, {ahead of the right time, to make {money at these prices.” one stock« vard official said. “We're short of {pork now, and we’l] really feel it in { Ostober.” A department of agriculture spokesman said: “We're eating now ‘| what we should be feeding. What are we going to do later?” Chicago hog prices dropped $3 from Saturday, and $4 to $5 from Priday’s tecord highs. In St. Louis hogs were about $2 lower in early { selling. Stockyards in Ft. Worth were jammed. An Indianapolis official said: “We

Louis t to 0, probably will have one of the bigs

gest days in cattle.”

Rs Cal Call Chess Match Peace Aid

WASHINGTON. Aug. 26 (U. P), | —The official Soviet embassy news | bulletin today featured a story

labout an international chess match {to be played next month between Russian and U. 8. teams in Moscow, It hailed the match as “another means of further strengthening the ties of friendship between the two great peoples.” The publication noted that dure ing the last year Soviet clidss {teams defeated American, British (and: Czechoslovakian teams

FOURTH BODY FOUND

BELGRADE, Aug. 26 (U. The common grave of American airmen killed in the downing of | thelr transport plane a week ago | was revealed today to contain the: i mangled remains of only four men, leaving the fate of the fifth. still to be determined.

(Earlier Details, Page 2.)

MAP INDUSTRY MOBILIZATION WASHINGTON, Aug. 26 (U. P), ~The army and navy munitions board is formulating plans to mobi« lize the nation’s industrial resources in case of an emergency. A spokes man said the planning was “route tine.”

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