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By THOMAS L. STOKES Scripps-Howard Stafi Writer WASHINGTON, Jan. 24.—The almost incurable schism between the left and right wihgs of the | Democratic party again became | glaringly obvious with’ the oust- | Jog of “Banker” Jesse Jones and | the ré-emergence of "Common | Man” Henry A. Wallace ‘to a top strategical position in the Roose-. | velt administration, |
SENATE GROUP T0 HEAR JONES! TESTIFY TODAY
Meeting Called « on Ability Of Wallace to Head
Commerce Bureau.
By LYLE C. WILSON United Press Staff Correspondent
WASHINGTON, Jan. 24.—Secretary of Commerce Jesse H. Jones— | who has been fired but is waiting | around for a successor to accept the | keys of the office—appears af 1:30 p. m. (Indianapolis time) today to explain to a senate committee why he believes Henry A. Wallace is not
fit to administer multibillion dollar federal loan operations, Wallace will appear tomorrow to defend his-competency. The hearing is before the senate commerce committee which originally planned to have the two administration enemies confront each other at today’s hearing—an occasion which would.have been second in public interest onsy to the time a midget sat in J. P. Morgan's lap when Judge Ferdinand Pecora was investigating Wall Street. But the Jones-Wallace performance will play to a packed house Jue ihe Spe. $5 the big senate room, Senator Walter FP.
with Jones, George Bill Is Up
When President Roosevelt fired Jones and nominated Wallace for his post, George immediately offered 8 bill to separate from the ecommerce department the reconstruction finance corporation and affiliated lending ‘agencies. A companion bill has been introduced in the house. .The bills and today’s hearing are conservative maneuvers to prevent Wallace from gaining control of vast government financial resqurces. From Wallace his opponents want to know what social-economic obJectives he would ‘undertake if he supplanted Jones. Primarily, however, they hope to arrange it so that he will not supplant Jones or anyone else as chief of the lending agencies. Vast Sums at Stake Through these agencies the seerefary of commerce, in the role of banker, is a potent force in Amerfcan industry. More "particularly, he would be a potent force in determining how federal loans shall be liquidated when the war ends. Vast sums were provided by the government for construction of war industries to make all sorts of weapons from small arms ammunition to ships, airplanes; tanks and guns. The government owns ese great plants. The secretary of commerce will be one of the controlling figures in determining how they shall be disposed of in time of peace, Therefore the clash of temperaments and ideas between Wallace and Jones is much more than. personal. It is basically a symptom of the contest here in Washington between. conservatives on the one hand and liberals or radicals on the other to chart the course of Amer-
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VOLUME 55 NUMBER 273
It has yesopenedwand bitterly -the “ideological warfare,” as it. is known these days. The replacing of Mr. Jones as secretary of commerce by former Vice President Wallace had been’ rumored for several days... But when it came it was a sensatiop., This was because of the revela-" tion that Henry Wallace would
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Shift Would Give Wallace Control Over War Plants Here
Hoosier Heroes—
ONE IS KILLED, FOUR
An Indianapolis soldier who previously was wounded has been killed
missing in Europe. In addition eight have been wounded.
KILLED
College ave, in Belgium,
MISSING Pvt. Clyde C. Richhart, 3011 Kens» wood ave, with the 106th division. Sgt. John R. Clarke, 2622 Allen ave, in France,
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Beech Grove Check-Casher Slugged, Robbed of $25,300
Albert Gubin; Beech Grove check-
easher, was slugged and robbed this
morning of more than $18,000 in| , eash and $7000 in checks as he left
TIMES INDEX
What will become of this giant war baby after the war ends?
ARE LOST, 8 INJURED,
in Belgium and four local men are |
8. Sgt. Donald McQuistan, 3601 |
By CHARLES T. LUCEY J Scripps-Howard Staff Writer WASHINGTON, Jan. 24. — The most. powerful position in the United States next to the presidency—that's the way the new job of Henry A. Wallace, as Secretaly 0 f—COIINerce stacks NP. ge... If you made Mr. Wallace president of General Motors, U. 8. Steel Corp, the Ford Motor Co.
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Commerce Dept. Interests Run Over $450,000,000 in Indiana
By ROGER BUDROW
Business Editor
Times
i Henry Wallace should inherit
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 24, 1945
Next to FDR.
and the nation’s two largest banks and then double the size of all of them, he'd still control less money than as top boss of the Reconstruction Finance Corp. and its appendages. Altogether they have assets runing to some 14 billion dollars. But eRe PoC: hascommitmente-totaln- - ing 3% billions. 2
Just. what they wanted, and why.
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Whoever is secretary of ‘commerce may have the say-so about Allison plant 5.
Another big government-owned war plant here is the Bridgeport Brass ordnance works.
Jesse Jones’ cabinet job as secretary
of commerce, he would also inherit control of some $450,000,000 worth of war plants scattered around Indiana, one-third of them in Indianapolis, The biggest of these is the huge plant southwest of the city at May-
wood, known as Allison's plant five.
by the defense plant corp., a parf,
which is part of the commerce depaftment. DPC also owns a small part of Allison's plant three, in° Speedway City, and machinery scattered throughout all the plants. Together, they hrepresent an investment of about $100,000,000.
Other Heavy Holdings
The DPO also has approximately $28,000,000 invested in the Bridgeport Brass ordnance works and
his home at 119 8, 9th st, Beech Grove, He reported te police that two men robbed him of a total of $25,300 which he used to cash checks for employees of the Big Four railroad. Mr. Gubin said that two men approached him and one slugged him with the butt of-an automatic. As he fell, the bandit picked up a blue zipper bag containing the money. The men separated as they fled, but Mr, Gubin chased the one carrying‘the money for a block, He said one man was 6 feet tall, weighed about 200 pounds, was 45 yours old and wore. a. black over"The other/ he described as a ar and about 40 years old. A former tavern owner, Mr. Gu-
Amusements. . 12|Charles Lucey 1 Jack Bell .... 9 Ruth Millett. 9 Business ..... T{Obituaries ... 4 Comics ,..... 17/Radio ..... er: XT Crossword ... 17|Ration Dates." 6 Editorials ,... 10/Mrs. Roosevelt 9 ; Forum sven 10 Side Gllances’ 10 Freckles ..... 15|Wm.P. Simms 10 Meta Given., 13 Sports ....... 14 John Hillman 10| State. Deaths. 4 |con In‘ Indpls..... 3|Thos. Stokes. 1 . IniService ... 18 Up Front .... 9 Inside, Indpls. 9 Al Williams “ 9 13
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around $25,000,000 in the CurtissWright propeller plant here. In addition, there are several millions invested in P.-R. Mallory & Co. Two other major local. war plants are not property of the DPC. The naval ordnance plant operated by Lukas-Harold Corp, is owned by the navy itself and the Fall Creek ordnance plant, formerly operated by E. C. Atkins & Co., is owned by the ordnance department. . Total Still Growing * Arpund the northern industrial cities are a number of other war plants built with government money and operated by private concerns, such as the Studebaker plants: in South ‘Bend and Ft, Wayne, costing some $30,000,000, Electric addition
the Senna in Pt. W aye, woltl around $30,000,AON 3 the. big
It is operated by Allison but owned of the reconstruction finance corp.
in South Bend, costing Altogether they add up to around $450,000,000—~and the total is still growing. Mr. Wallace would find that Indianapolis banks, which once had
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By EARL RICHERT Seripps-Howard Staff Writer WASHINGTON, Jan, 24.—There'’s a considerable amount of smoke here about a “big” federal job for former Senator Sainve] D. Jackson of Ft. Wayne. Mr. Jackson's appearance for the Roosevelt inauguration and accompanying festivities here gave added impetus to the talk of a major appointment that has been going the rounds since he was defeated for Wari{governor in Indiana last fall. ‘One line of talk is that he may
Common Man’ Hoiry A A. Wallace vs. ‘Banker’ Jesse Jones— Stokes: ‘A Major Conflict’
McNeil:
By “MARSHALL MecNEIL Scripps-Howard Staff Writer WASHINGTON; Jan, 24.—Jesse Jones always has had a way with congress. Others in the government, seeking broad powers from congress, have had to explain in detail
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Yanks About 50 sut 50 Miles From Manila With Bamban Within Grasp. By WILLIAM B. DICKINSON
United Press Staff Correspondent GEN. MacARTHUR'S HEAD-
QUARTERS; Luzon, Jan. 24.—Japa=
nese forces have abandoned new,!
| well-prepared defenses in the hills
northwest of Bamiban, 53 miles from Manila. The fall of Bamban, last bastion]
minent today.
14th corps already may be within] 50 air miles of Manila at a point]
east of Bamban. Concepcion, 53 miles northwest of the Philippines’ capital and six and a half miles northeast of Bamban, was overrun yesterday. Japanese opposition stiffened yesterday afternoon, Hewlett said. Dual purpose anti-aircraft-anti-tank guns silenced enemy batteries, | however. Most. enemy snipers soon afterward fell back south. The abandonment of defense positions was taken as a sign that the enemy will not attempt a strong!’ stand even at the Bamban river. American engineers with bull-)| dozers, scrapers and other equip-| ment were awaiting the capture of | the Bamban airstrip eagerly. | With hundreds of acres of dis-| persal area, the field offers unlim-
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POLES ASK ALLIES | TO RULE UNTIL PEACE
WASHINGTON, Jan. 24 (U. P.. ~The Polish government in exile has presented to the United States | and Great Britain a memorandum | asking the allies to rule Poland until free elections can be held after the war, it was learned today. | The state department declined comment on such a suggested solu-| tion of the present political impasse | in Poland. But it was learned that the pro-| posal for joint allied rule had been | placed before the department in a memo delivered by Polish Ambas-| sador Jan Ciechanowski. Diplomatic observers here were
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Jackson Mentioned in Line | For.Postmaster Generalship
ministration leaders since he turned in an outstanding performance as chairman of the Democratic national convention at Chicago last summer, Mr.. Jackson himself says that he has been offered no job but that Jn: has been told by those in| high places that something is in| the offing. He said, as he was leaving Here) yesterday, that he expects to be | back in Washington “on business” within two or three weeks. It would take a major appointment to interest Mr. Jackson since
he has a lucrative law practice in|
Ft. Wayne. “I am not interested in a pay check,” comments Mr. Jackson
{ when asked about -the possibility
IS J4kIEG 4-Judoiel Apgoniment.
He { and usually come away with just
seemed called for,
‘Jesse Had a Way’ ¢
mittee table and tell a story or two (bawdy, if the session were closed and :- no ladies present). would “kid” his opposition,
about what he wanted. He would compromise, .essary, make a “trade,” promise radical or
if necif that that he'd do nothing un
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CONSTITUTION BILL HANDED 70 ASSEMBLY
Weasiie Proposes Referendum to Streamline
State Government.
By NOBLE REED A bill setting up referendum ma- | chinery to draft an entirely new | and modernized state constitution | that would eliminate present cum-
{ introduced in the house today. | The measure, submitted by Rep. |
| Frank J. O'Rourke (D. Hammond) {and Rep.
Earl B. Teckemeyer (R. Indianapolis) would provide for an election on the question of calling a constitutional convention
majority of voters favor changing | the - constitution, a convention to
! the convention would be selected | at ‘a special election to be held] the first Tuesday after the first |
{ Monday in March, 1947. | Non-Partisan Delegates Delegates would number equal to the membership of the! legislature and apportioned the same way. Delegates would be selected on a strictly non- -partisan | basis. The bill would prohibit po-| | litical parties from participating in ithe election of delegates. The convention, if called, would | joe Sold the first Monday im Muy,
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REDS STORM HOLD-OR-DIE
. |British Radio Reports Great River Barrier Breached: 6th Soviet Army
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BULLETIN
24 (U.
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nounced today that he had hurled a sixth Russian army into his unprecedented offensive. Marshal Rodion Y. Malinovsky’s 2d Ukrainian ammy extended the offensive front another 100 miles southward into Hungary with an attack along the Hungarian-Slovak
frontier.
He broke through on a 23-mile front and carried westward 12 miles.
LONDON,
By ROBERT
MUSEL
United Press Staff Correspondent
Jan.
24.—Russian armies today stormed a | broad stretch of Germany's hold-or-die defense line along | bersome government methods was! the Oder.
They also stormed the East Prussian capital of Konigsberg and the Polish bastion of Poznan, 136 miles from Berlin. Kalisz, 66 miles southeast of Poznan, fell to a Soviet
{thrust.
The German high command acknowledged wholesale
{ JAPS ABANDON Under provisions of the bill, if a setbacks from end te end of the front.
It said that the “decisive battle” was nearing a climax, draft ‘a new state bill of rights|and had reached a pitch of ferocity and violence “which can- | would be held in 1947. Delegates to| not be surpassed.” The Germans said two columns of Marshal Gregory K. |Zhukov's army were storming the city from the east and
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PARIS, Jan. 24. —American forces’ on ep. O'Rourke said the idea of! | plunged toward’ the German Sieg-
bill is streamlining the state’s| fried positions east of the almost shielding Clark field, appeared im- [04-year-old constitution which, he| vanished Ardennes bulge today.
| said, contains archaic and conflict | Maj. Gen. Oscar W. Griswold’s! {ing provisions that prevent smooth | the Germans were hastily drawing | day that the Russians had crossed
150, command admission of “embittered fighting” there indicated *
NAZIS SHIFT TROOPS FROM WEST TO EAST
By BOYD LEWIS 5,
he city’s fall was imminent. Soviet dispatches reported
‘the attack on Konigsberg and
aid that other Russian forces
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Its fall would slam the door on
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There were gathering signs that |
j operation - of modern government | strength from the Western front | to meet the crisis in the East. The American advance was roll-|
units. Tax System Criticised”
“The whole tax structure of our state is confused and overlapping
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ing steadily.
By UNITED PRESS The British radio reported to-
the Oder river and established a bridgehead on the west bank.
Ahead of the ground forces U. S.| province. The German high comunder the present constitution with | tactical air forces struck at fresh mand aamitted the Russians were
"many duplicating functions of gov- | targets—convoys moving east.
Reports came from several sectors Other new bills introduced would: | of the front indicating that the | Marshal Ivan 8S. Konev’s army
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{in “the area” of Elbing.
On the other wing of the front,
| fighting in the West was being | massed on the east bank of the
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army now storming Poznan would “British and
be 136 miles east ‘of Indianapolis at Sringfield, O, Other Red armies in East Prussia would be - about the same distance as Cleve