Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 44, Number 90, Decatur, Adams County, 16 April 1946 — Page 2

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Anti-Petrillo Bill Is Signed By Truman Measure Aimed At Cubing Music Czar Washlugton. April id tVi’t President Truman today sinned a bill desfgpsd tn prevent James <*. Petrillo, president of the Amerlinn federation of musicians (AFL). from coert inx l>roadca*ters 111 labor matter*. The new law provides lanaltii-* for anyone found'guilty of forcing radio station* to hire more |mm son* than needed for bio.«d<a»t*. The legislation originally wax de Maned to prevent Petrillo from inteiferlna with broadcast* at the Interim hen, Mich , music school 4 ongre-s hrumleUed it* provisions to make it applicable

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to al! broadcasters The law prohibits anyone from using threats or violence to "coerce. compel or constrain or attempt to coerce, or constrain" a radio station to: 1. Employ more persons than an- needed in a broadens! X. Pay a penalty for not hiring more (H-raonn than It needs. 3. Pay more than one* for services (onnected with a broadcast. 4. Pay for service* which are not performed 5. llefrain from broadcasting non-paying agricultural and noncommercial program*. 8. llefrain from broadcast mg any programs originating outside the flitted States. The law also provides tliut radio stations shall not be forced to pay royalties on re< oniing* and transcription. or be lestrlctod in the production or use of recording equipment. Anyone convicted of v totaling the law would be Ilal de to a sic-e of J! one a yeur in prison, or both. -- - o Four Veterans Bock With State Police Indiauapuita. April 18 -lt'l‘l 10l Austin II Killian, -tat* |w»lk«oupei iiiteiident. today anti mneed the return of four former Indiana slate iKiitee officer* from military service. Two war veterans also were appointed radio operators, lie said Leave* of alweiice were lermibilid for Jean M riches. Remington. of the itnnes Park post; Robert W. Miller. Evfiusville. Jasper post; Ltan Smith. Indtanapolta. headquarter* post, and William H. Ives. Valparaiso. Seymour post radio operator. New radio operator* to serve in the Indianapolis communication division were Robert F. Haas. Evansville, and Clayton J- Heller of Connersville. uh. . i --in nw „■■■■■■ — ' Tile soft. easy, parasite*' life seldom produces, anything but stagnation.

Infra-Red Devices Os Army Disclosed 11 - — L 11 Army's Night Sight Equipment Revealed » Indianapolis. April 14 — tfl’i The army its* taken th" wrap* off t the "sniperscope" and the snoop- • oriMftw." two infrared devices I credited with 30 percent of the H Jap casuaitie* on Okinawa r ! The devices enabled I S- soldiers and marines to *eek out and kill ’ the enemy in total darkness by r means of ittfra-ied radiation. Among the num i-arefillly-guard--1 rd secrets of the war. the "sniper- : scope" and "snooperscope" were demonstrated yesterday by the : manufacturer, the Electronic lais ' oratories of Indianapolis. The army permitted the demonstration after It was learned that the Ger- | mau* hail used “night sight" equip mem during the war. The sntpdnirv|M-. mounted on a .30 caliber carbine, and the snoop eiseope. a hand model, made it |MH>«ihir for fighters to “hoot an Invisible beam of light Into the night. Both models have wluit ap pear* to be a fog light. Its glass face painted Muck, and eyepiece 1 resembling a telescope. The entire unit is connected to a power *up ply carried on the soldier's back. Here's how the sniperscope works A fighter hears ,a sound. He points the sniperscope into the darkness, peers into the eyepiece mid turns on his (siwer supply. He swing* the weapon back and forth like an invisible searchlight until lie sights the enemy. The enemy soldier is unaware . that he is surrounded by an aura ot greenish light, tin the eyepiece all objects appear as various shades of green.) • Tile soldier takes a bead on the I enemy through the eyepiece and fires his carbine.

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The snooperscope. operated In, the same fashion, enables a platoon leader to signal in the dark or direct concentrated fire by loca-1 ting the euemy. Qi— Prominent Muncie Girl Is Missing Miss Dorothy Ball Reported Missing South Hadley. Mass. April Id (UP)— Mlsa Dorothy Rail. fit. of Muncie. Ind. a Mount Holyoke; College junior, was reported missing today ami police throughout the eant were asked to watch for her. A police search was started in woods In this area but this was *oon suspended when a studentfriend reported that she saw Mis* Ball iMMtrding a bus for Holyoke here at !» 30 a. m. yesterday. She said the missing undergraduate carried a suitcase and had a coot over her arm. Miss Hall failed to sign oat upon leaving her dortnltoiy, as required by college rule*, but college authorities professed to be unworried. A Mount Holyoke spokesman said that students occasionally left, on trips without warning. Th" missing student was described as blonde, five feet six inches tall, and weighing 125 pounds. Father “Punled" Mumle. Ind.. April 18 tl'Pi— Members of the prominent Rail family here could shed no light today on the reported disappearance of Mis* Itorothy Ball. JB. from Mount Holyoke college in .Massachusetts. Her father. E. Arthur Ball, weal thy vice president of tbs- Ball Brothers company, said he was "parried" by her ai t ions hut said be (inspected no foul iday. He said the girt was “totally deaf" but had completed three years of college work by leading

I lips. Police throughout the east searched for her today after she reportedly left Holyoke without permission of college authorities enriy yantetday Miss Ball, grandaughter of Frank i (’. Ball, one of the original Ball Brothers who ruse to prominence i In the stasa Jar manttfactertag field, studied art. her father said. He added that be thought she ' might have decided to transfer . to an art school “I wonldn t be surprised If there , isn't a letter from her on the way < now." he said. Ball is a former i state commander of the American legion am! was discharged from the army In December as a lieutenant colonel. High Court Delays Stephenson Ruling State Supreme Court Postpones Decision Indianapolis, Apr. 18—I UP)— The Indiana supreme court today postponed a decision upon which binges the outcome of D. C. Stephenson's latest attempt to gain freedom from a life prison sentence. Chief Justice Howard Young said it would "be a few days” before the high court rales on a jurisdictional squabble in Hamilton county, where Stephenson has Iteeu in jail for. 13 months. The court will consider reasons advanced by Hamilton circuit Judge Cassius M. Gentry why be should he allowed to hear a habeas corpus (>et it ion filed by Stephenson. The former Ku Klux Klan leader file*! the haliea* corpus procee ling* a few hour* after special judge Ch-on Mount had overruled his plea for a re hearing of his leqnest for a new trial two weeks ago. He was convicted in 1925 for the murder of Madge Oberholtzer, statehouse employe.

Gentry maintained that the action by Mount automatically returned the Stephenson case to his jurisdiction Rut the supreme court Issued a mandamus order prohibiting Gentry from acting In the habeas corpus action. Mount's order wh'ch directed Stephenson be returned immediately to Indiana stale prtedw, followed by Gentry's order to (.old him In the NoblesvWa JaiL left enforcement officers confuaed. Gentry said the order prevented him from ordering Stephenson removed to the prison. In his arguments now on file with the supreme court. Gentry said there was no "valid" conration of Stephenson in IMS. He adds that state law makes It a irtminal offense In habeas corpus proceedings for anyone having the petitioner under his control to remove or aid in removing him from the jurisdiction of court from which the writ was sought ' Stephenson, who has fought a legal battle for more than -<• year* in an effort to gain freedom. remained in the Hamilton county Jail pending action by the high court. •We want to be certain we have investigated every possible angle” said Young.

Big Vice Syndicate Revealed In Chicago Nine Persons Held In Opening Probe Chirago, April 18- IVPI—PMice today encountered a modern rice syudk-ate that usee limousine*, taxicabs and hotel* itmtead of the old fashioned houses of pnmiltitlion. An investigation. In-gun in secret a week ago. has resulted 1a nine arrests and has itncovered a Vice ring deserlbud try police commlMioner John Prendergast aa ‘ one <>t the targeot in the middle

west “ The investigation of Chicago's prostitution was the first in aevera! yours At the start of the war houses of ill-repute were closed when federal authorttiw* told Mayor Edward J. Kelly that If city poller failed to clone them the army and FBI would. The present “mobile" eyateni of pi-oetitution was believed to have de-vek>ped as « wartime expedient which could bette- nerve soldier* and sailers passing through the city. The syndicate catered to transients and servicemen through the cooperation of taxicab driven, ih> lice said. It also operated a "llmou»ln< service" that picked up "clients' and drove them to a "depot," where they were Introduced to girt* and driven tv a “eoopeniing hotel." police said. Police sought tc lounrnt thring with the gang-Myle slaying laat Wednesday of Louis J. (Tiny»' irntao. 34. Lain.) wtm found *h<s to death in hht auto. The Investigation was revealed yesterday after it had been dis cloned at a criminal court hearing on a petition for a writ of habeucorpus charging that three person* were being held illegally by po lice.

James V. Cunninghan, asetatam atatea attorney, -said the three. Di ana Dumont. Ralph MMcheli and Sam Levin, a call driver, were bv ing held aa the result of an Investigation by the police couunlsaloner. Haln-aa corpus applications <>n b-half of .Miss Dumoitt and Mil chell were quashed and police were ordered to book Levin or release him by 3 p in. today. - o—- ■ Assembly Line Down At Fort Wayne IHC Fort Wayne, Ind., Apr 18 — (VPi—The assembly line at the International Harvester Co. plant , here was cloned down today becauee of a shortage of wheels and bearings. Hugo A. Weias-

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