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WEDNESDAY, JUNE

HERE COR

13, 1048

Landlords. Here Join Denard

For Rent Ceiling Increase

(Continued From Page One)

1accelerated depreciation in comput{ing operating costs and leeway for

Rent Administrator Ivan D. Carson po equalization of rents. in ap

dare to appear

sition to the demands for rent in They plan also to oppose

creases.

wotel owners’ appeal for a 15 per ent boost in room rate ceilings.

before the house apartment building. committee later this week in oppo- |

Food Up 45 Per Cent The boards withheld .their demand while the OPA bill was be- | fore ‘the senate banking committee, | explaining that they did not’ wish |to disturb controls until after V-E

Rents of between 14,000,000 and | |day. OPA, said President James C.

15,000,000 cted by

tenants are

“freeze orders.

now proWith a

| Downs of Chicago, has * purposes” - of eight

‘ignored the liberalizing

ingle exception, controls are Now| amendments written into the price

n operation in every urban area | { 50,000 or more population. More

act last year. The Apartment House Owners'|

han 70 -per cent of the urban|ggsociation justified its proposal for popillation is included in the 479, ceneral 15 per cent increase on

control areas. per cent

iner ease,

{the grounds that rents have lagged

it 1S|pehind the economic trend. While Ated, would add in excess of pyjlding prices have advanced more |

$60,000 000 a month to the nation’s|than 30 per cent, rents have in-

OPA control. Opposition to a general increase appeared to predominate in ouse committee and some members viewed the demands as bar-| gaining grounds for other concessions being sought by the owners’ organizations “The real estate boards are seeking legalization of the present advisory committee on rent control, liberalization of the act's provisions governing “hardship” cases, recognition 1 of deferred maintenance and

the|

bill if applied to all units|creased only 3 per ‘cent since 1939

U, S. REFUSES

Area Held by Yanks.

(Continued From Page One)

back to the w est bank of the Mulde river, The Bada moving in behind them yesterday took over about 320 square miles. The occupation shift around Chemnitz went off without a hitch. But a 12th army group staff-officer disclosed that

ican-held territory “the Russians

were to occupy, the word had not seeped down to this level yet.

Movéd to Take Over The lack of understanding ap-

land actudlly are under their 1942 {parently accounted for the situa-

level, the association asserted. Since 1939; the association added, {food has advanced 45 per cent, clothing 41 per cent, house furnish-|t ings 39 per .cent and weekly earnings 75 per cent. The organization told the committee that OPA has resorted to "half-truth propaganda” in quoting net operating figures to support its claim that “the vast majority of

landlords have prospered under rent

cont rol. ”

Anti-Closed Shop Decision

Serious Threat to Unions

(Continued From Page One)

first’ time the closed-shop issue has come up for final determination, and

objective of labor union.”

He described the case as the most ital to organized labor since guarantees of free speech were upheld

any

Victories so far won, he said, .in- . volved less sweeping questions. . Another factor heightening the

importance of this case is that it| involves an amendment to a state constitution, regularly adopted by voters last fall. Most of

amendments passed on by the electorate, :

“the closed shop is the main!

r lorid the er in which the supreme court has knocked down anti-union|

laws have involved acts by state! legiclatures, which -~ are not regarded as having the force of

Ing to Mr. Thatcher, no effort has {been made to inforce it. | Labor spokesmen contend, however, that the Florida law may en-

courage similiar efforts in other states, especially if the Tampa court should be upheld by the eu-

preme court. Federal administrators have shied away from this dynamite - laden |question, although the late President Roosevelt once said the govesnment | | would never force a man {to join ga jabor organization. However, feddral policies have encour {aged -rather than retarded thei! closed shop. WAB. Sidestepped Issue The war labor board ‘has sidestepped the issue by granting maintenance of membership to | unions during thie emergency. der this system union members

tion in western Czechoslovakia, The Russians made a move to take over

Americans, but which is expected

[to be allocated to the Red army.

The Americans refused to permit them to send a trainload of troops to the western border of Czechoslovakia after Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower's supreme headquarters denied the request and ordered the United States forces to continue the occupation of this sector. The “area in question is a rela-|

tively narrow corridor running| north and south just inside Czechoslovakia.

Gen. George. S. Patton's 3d army |and on ships in surrounding waters. |

forces occupied it in the closing] days of 'the European war, Just how. far the Russians are scheduled to move is unknown. There has “been no definite announcement. German civilians have been predicting: that the Russians witl-take over most, of central Germany, including Leipzig, Weimar, Erfurt and as far west as Kassel. But the 12th’ army group staff officer said today there was absolutely no agreement known at this

{ occupational

group level as to just how much the Russians will occupy. In accordance with pre-arranged plans, the Russians

| took over the area east of the Mulde

The Florida amendment provides must continue to pay dues during | the life of a labor contract unless |

that no man must belong to a labor union for the right to work, and it prohibits employers from making union affiliation,” or the. lack of it, a condition of employment. Similar laws have been proposed in other states, but an anti-closed shop statute is on the books only in South Dakota. There, accord-

they take advantage of a brief “escape period” at its inception. The Florida case was argued. by { Padway and Thatcher. The C.1.0. | filed a supporting brief. The A. F. of L. lawyers argue that the closed shop is necessary | for protection of union security against discrimination, for achieve- |

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JUDGE BRILL DIES

IN DANVILLE HOME

DANVILLE, Ind, June 13 (U. P.),

Z| —Former Circuit Judge George W.

Brill, 85, widely known Democratic jurist and attorney, died in hishome last night. 2 : Brill, who retired 18 years ago | because of ill health, served as fifth judicial circuit judge from 1913 to 1919. He was born in Hendricks county | Dee. 15; 1859, and was educated in public schols and Central Normal college In 1890, he formed a law partner- | ship with the late George C. Har[vey. He gave up an $18,000 yearly | law practice to become circuit judge. Survivors include the widow, two sisters and a granddaughter, Maj | Louise Bain, tormer aide to Gen. | James Doolittle with the 8th air force in England.

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Funeral services will be held Fri- |

day.

JUDGE HAMMILL WILL, ‘ADDRESS G. 0. P. CLUB

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Judge Ralph Hammill of Marion |

|county -superior court will speak

meeting of the Warren Township Republican club. A moving picture of scenes from European battlefields will shown.

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further occupation of American-|where the Australians still had to| Dressed Un. | held territory would take place im-|meet any kind

| mediately pending definite agree-| sistance. Bulldozers were blazing a blades of the light infantry flashed

ments between ‘Russia and the]

United States.

Both the Russians and Americans |

have indicated they were ready to move in or out as the case might {be, in keeping with government |agreements. But until yesterday

al {both sides had kept still for lack

of orders and liaison. The 12th army group staff officer sald it was impossible to speculate ton how long it would take the Rus-

their assigned territory just haven't any

because “we idea here as to

{what the area will consist of.”

IKE VISITS QUEEN MARY LONDON, June 13 (U. P.) —Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower visited Queen Morner Mary at Marlborough house following his trip to Buckingham | palace, it was announced today. He

{was her first official visitor since|Aviation Club, was on a flight | American

her country.

Fun . .

RED ARMY MOVE

Russ Kept Out of <Czech

if the allies had agreed on just how much Amer-|

the aera held by: the],

|EIGHT INDUCTED INTO SERVICE .BY BOARD 3

Eight = more registrants. have been inducted into .the [evel forces through -the county selec- | tive service board three. Seven he ‘tered the army and one. was accepted for navy duty. Taken into the army were Jay| Valentine Schilling, 5835 N. Keystone ave.; Wallace Orison Lee Jr. 4829 Central ave.; Sidney William | Maurer, 2931 N. Delaware st; Charles Francis Deardorff, 3946 Cornelius ave.; Lawrence R. Hubbell, 3137 N. Park ave.) and Dean Thomas Burns Jr, 3635 N. Pennsylvania st. Theodore Ralph LeMaster, 3254 Park ave, entered the navy,

U.S. SQUEEZES : “OKINAWA JAPS

Frantic - Suicide uicide Charge of Foe Smashed.

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{ the Cagayan valley north of Baga- | bag. The air forces gave the attacking 37th division close and effective support, plastering enemy ‘positions with 322 tons of bombs. Liberators Join |

B-24 Liberators joined in the at{tacks on Japan's homeland, for the {first time. They teamed with navy | privateers for raids ‘on the island {of Kpzu, 100 miles south of Tokyo, |

{Six cargo vessels were sunk or damaged in the raids off Kozu and | {oft the southwest coast of Honshu. The Japanese took a look at the | general picture and said they'dhave| to fight harder. Premier Kantaro! Suzuki promised a “drastic intensi-| fication” of the war effort ‘after the diet gave the government dictatorial powers. The Nippon “Times, quoted by Radio . Tokyo, said there could be! “no thought of such a thing as un-| , conditional surrender” — indicating | again they certainly wished" there! was some alternative way of making | peace.

Bulldozers Blaze Path

The type of fighting now raging in: Okinawa was unlike Borneo,

organized re{path through the jungle toward | Brunei town, and it was slow work. Gen. Douglas MacArthur visited {the front line on the mainland] yesterday—a front in. a garden | setting of lush, tropical vegetation. The sultan of little Brunei was reported hiding in the interior hills with his harem, awaiting the favorable moment to return to his reign.

{sians to complete the occupation of PLANE STRIKES ° TREE,

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MARION MAN INJURED

CONNERSVILLE, Ind. June 13 | (U. P.).—A forced landing on a golf course yesterday resulted’ in minor

| injuries to Everett Rider, 38, ‘Mar-| | on, when his plane crashed el some trees. Rider, a member of the Marion |

him to make a crash landing.

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VETERAN OF 98 RECALLS JAPS

They Were Sneaks in Our War Then, He Says.

(Continued From Tage One)

on Panay. Nothing much happened. A few “bushwacking” skirmishes | flared between guetrillas and what {former Sgt. Merritt chose to call

“detachments sent out into ! | woods.” Occasionally, a sniper a pot-shot.

1t was 1900 and the PhilippineAmerican war was on.

in the Manila district.” The U. S.

ad subdued Spain and paid her

$20,000,000 for the Philippines. those days, they apparently figured

you shound pay for things you took. | while peach stealing complaints had

Filipinos Rose Up

However, the deal didn't

click |

with certain Filipino revolutionaries | ready to go,

under

outside nation, be it Spain or the

U. 8. Other Filipinos, less inde-! | pendent, ‘evidéhtly didn't give a darn. Anyway, Sgt. Merritt and a

lot of other Yanks sat around on| until late |

| lentent and fraternizing. Among others who didn't relish |:

Panay, in 1901.

holding "it down,

| the American occlipation were Japs sald Mr. Merritt, “They were just as sneaky then | as they are now, if not sneakier,” said the ex-color sergeant. “They | thought they ran the Philippines and instigated a lot of trouble.” The testy 76-year-old veteran said | e didn't think he ever managed to | pick off a Jap, ‘but if I didn't it wasn’t. my fault.” Last Man's Club Mr. Merritt said he {would like to revisit Panay, but points out it might be embarrassing at this time. Yanks haven't con|quered - that particular island vet, “I've been following ‘em pretty close on the map." All this is by way of leading up a new item announcing the annual meeting the “Last Man's club” of Co. D of the 158th Indiana infantry, United States Volunteers. Mr. Merritt is president. This unit originally was the “Indianapolis Light Infantry” long noted as one of the best. drill outfits in the nation. smartly in light blue | trousers and dark blue coats, the

their vim and snap in just about every Gay 90's parade ever held in this city. Smallest in Unit They practiced at the old Masonic hall at “Capitol ave. and Washington sts. Mr, Merritt was nicknamed “Runt” because he was the smallest man in the entire unit. “That was the West Point of Indiana,” reminisced Mr. Merritt, of rough-cut. “We've got only 46 out of 109 left. Not more than a dozen show up at our reunions anymore. They're | scattered all over the country.” The boys are meeting fora basket dinner home of Fred Rubins, 5825 Oak ave. Roll call will be at 2 p. m.; then g get-together featuring “talk of the Gay 90's.” At the outbreak of the Spanishwar in 1898, the Indi-

return to London from -the!alone "when engine trouble forced anapolis light infantry enlisted as| But they never saw action

a unit.

It’s Made for Lots of Summer

Slack Suit in Voyageur* Crisp Rayon

. a Smoothly Tailored

Only it was| on mostly up around Luzon island,

In| had been ordered to Cuba, but each

Aguinaldo, who quickly de-|had been wiped up. clared their independence of any!

certainly |

at 1 p. m. Sunday at the |

‘THE LAST SUPPER’ SAFE | GLENDALE, Gal, June 13 (. PJ. —Leonardo Da Vinel's famed paints ing of “The Last. Supper” escaped damage from bombs which fell about" it at Milan, Italy, Forest Lawn Memorial park officials’ learned today. :

Sydney Girls Are Clever, - b Yanks Are Never Lonely

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rout about it and determined to cook him a wild duck dinner, : Wild duck is rare here now and when they sat down to dinner my

illustrative. The lieutenant was sitting alone in a restaurant when {the -waitér brought him a nate. It

read: “Dear lieutenant: "You look KSloriished frond askad wheve she Vv - {lonely.. I am loriely, teo. Why ah 1 hich hea YOORHMIS A Can't-we-be-lonely-together>” ly a slight blush she con-| pi | Too, the girls — here can per- fessed she had lured it from the form the impossible. royal botanical "ghrdens with bread

A friend of happens to be His girl found |

crumbs. Est.

eo | CAN'T | ~ =| LOSE AT | | | lc |

| your correspondent’s fond of wild dr ick

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in that conflict. The outfit had craps right with the enlisted men,” VOORMIS drilled painstakingly for 21, years, he recalled, scoring a bulls-eye with you're not completa 1 b ate . } Y : ae i but it sweated out the Spanish-'a wad of tobacco into his front 2 with your ail | American war guarding Tennessee zoom cuspidor, portrait, ‘your * deposit wi {peaches in a Southern training It took a couple of months to ré- either be refunded or we'll

| camp at Chickan 1auga. Three times the y

remake the picture as no

turn to the states, he remembered, Xira cost to- you. ’

because the ship “fooled around from island to island.” When Mr. Merritt got back to Indianapolis he entered the cleaning and dyeing business up in

were told they \ CABINET

report proved a false alarm. Mean- | rolled

the 400 block of formed,

Massachusetts ave. Over his door | was the sign: { “Some men live to die; but J. E.| i |

in and peach By the the

details were time they were Cuban cRmpaIgn

Appointment Not Necessary When mustered out, “most 6f the men returned to civilian life, but | ei about 25 re-enlisted for the Ph ilip-| TWO NAMED BY GOVERNOR

pine war, : " Governor Gates today named two | Mr. Merritt was one of these. The | . 3 8 Panay occupation wasn't particu-! appointees to-the Indiana board of

larly boring, he said. Officers were {oe bos and terminals, They are 85s

Harry W. Frey, Michigan City, and shoot ! George A. Nelson, Valparaiso, PTA lt MERIDIAN ST.

Merritt dyes to live.”

“They'd play

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poker and

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