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G. W. Sargent, 707 N. Routiers

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G. W. Sargent vent Dies as Car Is Hit on East Side.

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FORECAST: Clear ang mild tonight; fair and warm tomorrow.

ave, was killed instantly this morning when his car was struck by a Pennsylvania train at a crossing here,

Armed Mobs in Buenos Aires Demand Release of Peron

Rioters Cause Strikes to Spread; Burn Busses, Streetcars; Cabinet Choices Rushed.

BUENOS AIRES, Oct. 17 (U,

P.) —Armed street mobs paraded

G. W. Sargent, 38. of 707 N. Rou- | | through Buenos Aires demanding the release of Col. Juan D. Peron today.

tiers ave. was killed instantly this |

The wave of strikes and terrorism generated by the ex-strong man's

morning when his car was hit by a, arrest overflowed from the suburbs into the capital proper.

Pennsylvania railroad fast passenger |

train at the 8. Kitley ave. crossing. Driving south across the tracks in the 6600 block east, the car was hurled 200 feet from the crossing with debris scattered 500 feet from the wreck. Mr. Sargent was thrown about 45 feet from his car. Engineer R. J. Werner, Columbus, O., said the train was traveling between 60 and 65 miles an hour at the“fime, inbound from Columbus, O. There are no gates or flasher signals at the crossing. irr Auto Demolished

The accident happened at 6:43

a. m. The time also is attested by the recovery of Mr. Sargent’s wrist watch in an adjoining field. It was stopped at the exact minute. He was driving a 1939 gray Plymouth sedan, which was demolished. The impact was so great that inner tubes were torn from tires wrenched from the car. A heavy lug wrench was thrown nearly 1000 feet. F. BE. Belzner was ‘the fireman on the train and C. R. Lively, conductor, both of Columbus, O. A resident of this city for the past five years, Mr. Sargent was employed at Allisons, He was born in Hoopston, Ill. He is survived by his wife, Marie, and three children, Robert, 4; William, 9, and Peggy, 13.

Services will be held from the crimination” by OPA rent policies, Moore Mortuaries Irvington chapel.|ihe National Association of Real

URGES $52 BILLION SLASH IN SPENDING

House Group op Acks Pressure’ To Speed Demobilization.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 17 (U, P.). ~The house appropriations committee today called for cutbacks of $52,453,535,278 in appropriations and spending authority, It proposed that the armed forces be put under financial pressure to speed demobilization. The cutbacks would apply to the current fiscal year which ends next June 30. The committee asked congress to authorize army and navy cutbacks $1,240,000,000 greater than proposed by the budget bureau. It gave this explanation: “The committee is not satisfied that ft is not practicable for both services to attain = the presently established. (demobilization) objectives more rapidly.” The committee complained that it had found “a number of instances” in which agencies had been to give up appropriations despite the fact they had been pro-

vided solely because of war condi~|

tions.

TIMES INDEX

. 16, 17H. Marchant. 11 Nat Barrows. 3|Ruth Millett. . 11 «+ 8 Movies....

Business . Comics ...... 19] Obituaries ... 9 Crossword

.«. 19|Dr, O'Brien .. 11

16, 17| Pe: a “The ‘adoption of such a system

of organization of our armed forces g|1s best calculated to maintain that|-—The Limberlost Memorial assosecurity and the continuation of

By mid-day the Plaza Mayo in

Police charged into one group and, dispersed the rioters with tear gas.| | The Federation of . Telephone | Workers, strongly pro-Peron, an-|

ment at midnight tonight. Telephone service throughout the coun= try will be halted for 24 hours. The rioters burned streetcars and busses, closed down the main su-

Rent Control Change Asked By Landlords

By NED BROOKS Scripps-Howard Staff Writer

WASHINGTON, Oct. 17.— Organized property owners renewed . their battle against OPA’ rent controls today as top government officials isearched for a formula to pre[vent runaway prices in the sales of homes.

Charging that landlords have | been made “victims of class dis-

Estate Boards asked Price Administrator Chester Bowles to: ONE: Remove rent controls on all housing retiting for $75 or more a month, TWO: Exempt all new housing | from rent controls,

THREE: End all controls in areas where they are “no longer | needed.”

FOUR: Empower local OPA officials to make adjustments for hardship cases.

FIVE: Revoke the new rule under which tenant evictions must be deferred for six months when properties are sold. Meanwhile, the inter - agency committee created by Reconversion

front of the government buildings

in the center of the city was packed with demonstrators,

fectively sabotaged the southern railway suburban system by cut- | ting the signal and telegraph lines. The outbreak came at a critical

nounced it would join the move-| moment in the Argentine political

impasse when leaders of the new military triumvirate were struggling to form a civilian cabinet over the

opposition of the Peronists and the til 1047.

powerful Socialist party — itself a

burban meat packing plants and ef-| vigorous ophgnent ¢ of Peron.

'MORE PLEDGES

HIKE FUND HERE

| Drive Total Is Pu Is Pushed Past Half-Million Mark.

Pledges from mercantile establishments and industrial plants reported at today’s meeting of volunteer workers in the United War and Community PFund’s victory campaign in the Claypool hotel set the pace for the home stretch drive toward a goal of $1,821,000. The annual campaign, which will be the final appeal for agencies of the war fund, closes Tuesday, and indications at today's meeting pointed to a successful windup. Mercantile and industrial divisions in the campaign organization, always regarded by campaign leaders as “slow starters,” reported pledges which indicated they are gathering momentum for a driving finish, Reports from these divisions, as well as from the residential division, boosted the amount of pledges to well past the half-million dol-

the last meeting on Monday, J, G. Sinclair, campaign chairman, again warned his army of more than 4000 volunteer workers against -over-optimism, and said the goal will not be attained if

now in the “critical stage” of the drive,

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PATTERSON URGES JOINT ARMY, NAY

War Secretary Says,

WASHINGTON, Oct, 17 (U. P.).— Secretary of War Robert P, Patter-

the armed forces as the best means of maintaining national security and promoting world peace, “In my opinion,” he told the senate military affairs committee, “the an essential step in the develop-

future security of the American peo-

world peace.

tion.

Patterson listed the

ment:

“Fanny.

Essential Steps for Security,

unification of our armed forces is

ment of a sound program for the

“As secretary of war, -I wish to place on retord my earnest advocacy of the principle of unificaW "

following

1, Inegration of the mia pro-

Lt. Col. Urven V. White, chaplain, !1st troop carrier command, Stout {Jeld, was the principal speaker on

e program. The invocation vial

(Me I by the Rev. Cornelius Sweeney | of the Cathedral ‘Catholic church. |

|A program of entertainment was| Bri ri g ht—B ut

| provided by musicians from WISH. |

COUNTY GETS $51,000 FOR SUNNYSIDE JOB

Marion county was allotted $51, 015 today by the federal works agency to defray expenses of drafting blueprints for a new building 1 i and repairs at Sunnyside sanitarium. son today called for unification of The new structure will cost 32. 800,000. When it's completed, the|® Woman trying will accomIts maximum occupancy is now 250. Senator|Out of 20 difRaymond Willis was notified of the| ferent

tuberculosis hospital modate 500 patients,

FWA grant in Washington,

PORTER, APPLESEED

Porter and Johnny Appleseed,

Geneva next week. department has ‘made a prelim-

BIGGER CUT IN

|late investment into new business

lar mark which was established at |

there is any slackening of effort

MEMORIAL PLANNED came

DECATUR, Ind, Oct. 17 (U, P.).

ciation has been formed by citizens from Adams and Wells counties to restore the Limberlost area near Geneva and memorialize its famous 'residents—Gene Stfatton-

Incorporation of the association reasons for a single defense depart- will be discussed at a meeting a

The Indiana state conservation nary nafection Of the ates, and will submit r

dations to the for a state

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1945

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Lewis Calls Off Strike: Miners Return Monda

TAX URGED BY BUSINESS MEN

Industrialists Say Relief Needed Now to Speed Reconversion.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 17 (U. P.).—The National Association of Manufacturers denounced the pending $5,350,000 tax reduction bill to-

day as “too little and too late” and urged cuts closer to $8,000,000,000. H. E. Humphreys, chairman of the N. A. M, tax committee, told the senate finance committee that maximum tax relief now “will do more to speed reconversion, stimu-

and increase production than will any manner of spending the government might undertake.” “Only the defeatist can fail to see that such tax reductions will

Jong haul—next year and the years to come,” Humphreys said. “Tax {encouragement should be made where it counts—in the family pocketbook, and in wages and dividends that keep it supplied.” . Urge 20 Per Cent Cut

His proposals included outright repeal of the corporate excess profits tax at the end of the year and a flat 20 per cent reduction in individual income vaxes. The house bill cuts the excess profits tax from 95 to 60 per cent in 1946 and would delay repeal unOn individual taxes, the house measure would remove some 12,000,000 persons from the federal |st. rolls with reductions ranging

Another industry representative, Chairman Ellsworth C. Alvord of the U. 8. Chamber of Commerce fax committee, also urged repeal of the excess profits tax by the end of fhe year. Calls Tax ‘Unfair’

Describing the levy as “discriminatory, arbitrary, monopolistic and unfair,” Alvord said its repeal should be measured in terms of revenue lost for any stated year since it would promote long-run -tax returns by stimulating business. Alvord also favored a flat percentage reduction of individual taxes “with decreases to be as great as revenue requirements permit.” He proposed no specific figure but though the cut could: be somewhere between 20 and 25 per cent to bring relief from “present onerous rates.” The Chamber of Commerce tax program also called for “as much reduction in the corporate normal and surtax rates as revenue requirements will permit.” Again Alvord mentioned no specific reduction, nor did he estimate the total tax reduction involved in his program, Hearings Near End The senate finance committee planned to wind up public hearings {on the bill today and begin the job of rewriting it in executive session tomorrow, Despite the calls for more tax relief than the $5,350,000 outlined in the house bill, some members of the senate committee were opposed to- cuts of more ‘than $5,000,000,000 in 1046. : Chairman Walter F. George (D, Ga.), said he would like to hold

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‘Not So Blue— Weather Here

Warm breezes here today promised opportunities for autumn picnics and Indian summer activities. The local weatherman, fickle as

to select one pair of nylons

shades, gave out a promise of, “fair and warmer” and the sun out to back up his prediction.

conscious.

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ingprease the total tax take over the |

{upward from 10 periestt™ "|

As all the little lines on weather charts promised .a true Hoosier autumn instead of a sudden lapse from summer into winter, the town suddenly became Brown county

Many a reiread seems destined to get a workout on the way to the Hoosiers’ autumn haunt this week-

Col. Cyrus J. Clark (left) and Maj. Donald E. Wood. eso The colonels

grin was

VANDALS BREAK AUTO | WINDOWS

Tires Punctured, Neon| Signs Are Smashed.

Broken windows, damaged cars, punctured tires and smashed neon signs were the ruins left today after young Indianapolis vandals

chalked up another night of destruction. A loss of $100 resulted last night when four teen-aged youths threw rocks at the big “V” neon sign in front of the Victory Cleaners, 2706 E. Michigan st., breaking out all the lights, according to police reports. Noble Dunning, 5479 Hibbon ave. told authorities someone threw a rock through the windshield of his Sar us he Waa difving an New York at Temple ave. Let Alr Out of 1 Tires. “A parked car at 1802 Howard st. suffered an sven worse fate. Vandals let all the air out of three of the tires, punctured two of them and stole a hydraulic jack and some wrenches, owner of the car, V. W, Collins, of Bargestown, Ky, told police. An iron gate the home of Mrs. Gerald Childers, 2166 N. Wallace st.; a window was broken in the home of Marie Ward, 408 S. Butler st., by a young boy; and an insulated front porch post at the home of Mrs. Dewey Anderson, 2201 - N. Drexel ave, was scorched when vandals held a flaming paper against it, other police records revealed today. Boys throwing tomatoes smeared

up a car and dented its side door at 82d st. near Castleton, R. J Hopkins, owner of the car reported. Other tomato throwers broke a front window in the home of Claud Chandler, at 544 E. Camden st.

PRUDENTIAL SEEKS BACK TAXES HERE

The Prudential Life Insurance Cos attempt to recover $452,000 in back taxes from the state was heard today by the Indiana su-

preme court, If the court rules for the Prudential Co, it will cost Indiana

about $700,000 in reimbursements of taxes paid under “protest by that and other insurance companies. Prudential is contesting an Indiana levy of 3 per cent on all insurance premiums paid from Indiana to out-of-state firms. The insurance company contends the law is in restraint of interstate commerce, Cleon . Faust, deputy attorney general, Is arguing the case for the state. Eleventh District Republican Chairman Joseph J. Daniels represents the Prudential Life Co.

Clark Drops ‘Colonel’ for rar

was stolen from |

HOME.

FINAL

RICE FIVE CENTS .

Coal Union Leader Orders 208,000 Workers Back as

U. S. Fue

By UNITED PRESS United Mine Workers President John L. Lewis today called off the soft coal strike which had cut fuel supplies to the nation’s steel mills. Lewis said the miners would return to work Monday. The coal strike, with 208, 80,000 steel workers laid off had accounted for more than

wider.

|. U. Physician Is Discharged

ana’s politically manipulated beer At Atter ury and liquor business was cited as a

COL. CYRUS J. CLARK apd Maj. Donald E. Wood were both

pretty happy this morning, but the colonel's grin was just a litle bit broader. The two close friends who had been together in the Indiana university center-sponsored 32d hospital division since 1043 were both feeling pretty good because they were back in Indianapeis together.

THE REASON for the colonels cheerful outlook was that today at Camp Atterbury he will drop the title “Colonel” for his former one, “Doctor.” The major, now stationed at Billings, doesn’t expect to get his | discharge } until some time in December, He drove Col. Clark to Atterbury today, however, just to show there were no hard feelings, ”

THE MAJOR was executive officer to Col. Clark, commanding officer of the 32d, but returned to this country in January. The colonel arrived in Indiana yesterday with 10 other members of the Hoosier hospital unit. After a vacation he will resume his practice and return to Indiana university center as a staff physician and clinical professor,

MAY CONTROL SOME

Bowles Sees Price Ceilings On Beef, Sugar, Fats.

WASHINGTON, Oct, 17 (U, P.) — Price Administrator Chester Bowles believes that price controls must be retained on choice cuts of beef, sugar, canned fruits and fats and oils through next spring, it was disclosed today. His forecast on when OPA con- | trols could be relaxed was contained in a letter dated Oct 1, to the house appropriations committee, “Although control of - good and choice cuts of beef must be continued . through spring of 1946,” Bowles wrote, “there is reasonable possibility of suspension of controls of low-quality, utility, stew and | processed meats during the grass- | fed cattle run. “Bugar, canned fruits and fats and oils will probably be controlled through June, 1946.”

SENATE COMMITTEE (Editorial, Page 12)

WASHINGTON, Oct, 17 (U, P.) ~~ The senate foreign relations committee today unanimously approved the nomination of Spruille Braden, former ambassador to Argentina, to

Latin American affairs. The action came in a closed session after members reviewed State Department correspondence on the postponement of the scheduled Oct.

il | 20 Rio conference.

Braden's appointment was expected to have an important bearing on the future of this nation's good neighbor policy.

RUSSIA AGAIN ASKS VOICE IN JAP RULE

WASHINGTON, Oct. 17 (U. P.), ~8ecretary of State James F. Byrnes revealed today that Soviet Russia has reiterated Its suggestion that four-power control machinery for Japan be set up before | the formation of a Far Eastern advisory commission, "

Seal. body fof Japan, where ‘ |control ‘now is exercised

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APPROVES BRADEN

be Assistant Secretary of State for)

PASADENA, Cal, Oct, 17 (U.P). | ~—One million earthquakes a year! are recorded at the California Institute of Technology seismological laboratories, Dr. Beno Gutenberg | sald today. One to 2 per cent originate in| California, with the rest along an| earthquake belt stretching from the | Aleutians through South America, | |New Zealand, New Guinea Japan | {and back to the Aleutians, he said.

members of local unions that BEER LAW HT discontinued” and “future efforts to

‘Horrible Example,’

Repeal Association, Inc.

prohibition repeal, having worked successfully to bring it about, It is non-partisan keeping the beer and liquor business decent enough so that another prohibition wave is prevented.

no help, rested originally with the Demoorats, who put the liquor business into politics under former Governor ” Paul V, McNutt, it is pointed out. Now, however, Republicans political system and control through the G. O. P. state and county chairmen.

‘Such is the analysis of the Indiana situation appearing today in the “Repeal Review,” of the Repeal Associates published here.

handed a powerful, loaded weapon to the drys of the state to be used in efforts to return statewide prohibition,” the Review states,

the Hoosier state, licenses to sell beer at wholesale have been established as legal tender in the payment of political debts.

one of the strongest indictments of the saloon as it then existed was that it was tied up with polities, and usually with the more malodorous sort of politics.”

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‘Chief Orders

Repeal Associates Declare.

By DANIEL M. KIDNEY Times Staff Writer WASHINGTON, Oct, 17.— Indi-

“horrible example” today by

This organization grew out of

and dedicated to

In this matter Indiana has been they maintain. Blame

it lies with the who have kept the taken over

Analysis Published

official organ

“The politicians of Indiana have

“It is saddening to note that in

“Prior to national prohibition,

With repeal the states generally

Round Up of All 'Bar Molls'

“Women barflies” were considered fair catches for the police dragnet today, Police Chief Jesse McMurtry ordered his men to round up women tavernsfrequenters whose objective is to relieve cash-flush alcoholics of their funds,

| Supply Drops

000 miners out and at least

half the nation’s 365,000 Strike-idle workers.

» ¢ i Lewis wrote officers and

“all negotiations have been abate this controversy will be re« sumed at a later and more approe priate date.” The coal strike began when miners refused to cross picket lines set up by foremen seeking recoge nition of their supervisors’ union, a U.M. W, affiliate. A new threat to industry was posed, however, when the C.IL O.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 17 (U.P.). Congress swung into action today on requests io repeal the strike vote provisions of the controvers sial Smith-Connally “anti-strike™ act. The house military affairs committee began hearings on the subject after the national labor relations board, which conducts the strike votes, said it was swamped with petitions for new elections and appealed for help. The act provides that strikes can be held only after mnion members indicate their a) in balloting conducted by the # NLEB, Ag

utility workers «council ordered

Even with the Huaaptian of coal production on Monday, newly converted industries may lose as much as 225000 tons of finished steel this week, according to the magazine Iron Age. The ingot steel loss will be even higher =~ about 300,000 tons, the magazine said. Bere is the steel picture drawn pany spokesmen in the nae tion's rg producing areas: SOUTH CHICAGO-GARY, IND, Carnegie-Illinois—Production loss will reach 129,000 ingot tons by the end of the week and 70 per cent of the 36,000 workers will be laid off. {All but four of 23 blast furnaces, {30 of 84 open hearths and eight of (17 coke ovens will be down by Pri day. Inland Steel—Three of seven hlast furnaces are down. All personnel will be working on reduced time within a few days. % Republic Steel—The companv's one blast furnace is operating at 51 per cent of capacity. Youngstown Sheet & Tubg—Two of five sheet mills and one of nine open hearths are down. Some of the 7000 workers are idle, others are working shorter hours. Wisconsin Steél Division of Ine diana Harbor—One of three blast

{ furnaces -is down. ° Eleven open hearths are still operating, PITTSBURGH

Jones and Laughlin—Two mills are down, Twelve hundred of 18,« 000 workers have been laid off.

The chief pointed out several soldiers - had been “rolled” for large sums by “bar molls” lately. He added he Intended to squelch | th. practice before it becomes “widespread.” a ” ” MILITARY police have no au~ thority over discharged soldiers,

{ although they may be uniformed, the chief reminded. Most of the

dischargees . leaving the Camp Atterbury separation center carry considerable cash netted from back pay and discharge bonuses, he said, In the town's latest notorious “rolling” case, a woman known as “Grace” absconded with $798 in money orders and cash from a discharged serviceman who had asked her to hold his funds while he bought a ticket. to Terre Haute at the Terminal station,

TOKYO, Oct. 11 (U, P.)~Gen. Douglas MacArthur tonight ordered | the Japanese government to keep hands off the film industry and “permit it to reflect the democratic aspirations of the Japanese people.” MacArthur's film directive was | the latest in a series of orders free4 the Japanese people from totalitarian “thought control.”

nese cabinet abolished the religious

The United States opposes the organization control law in comformation of any four-power con-|pliance with MacArthur's demand where allied for religious freedom in aah by clear

It was not imm

It came shortly after the Japa-|

MacArthur Orders Japs

To End Film Censorship] mri ror work ss limites

tion would have the effect of abolishing state shintoism. This state religion compels Japanese people to recognize Emperor Hirohito as the

divine “son of heaven.”

While the cabinet was hewing 10.0 the gates of Warner Broth an American |. aio : et:

search party unearthed a cache of silver bars worth $1,100,000 presumably hidden awAy by Japanese militarists for future use. It was found beneath an adandoned navy machine shop on the shores of Tokyo

MacArthur's line,

bay,

Combat veterans of the Aiikpions division's 132d infantry regiment, &

former Chicago hational guare ac-| 1, made the discovery,

Carnegie-Illinois—Two of nine | plants are closed. Company is ope | erating at 28 per cent of full caw | pacity. Carnegie-Illinois and Nae | tional Tube Co., both subsidiaries of U. 8. Steel, are losing 15,000 tons lof production a day. Nearly 4700 | workers are idle, | Youngstown—Ten thousand worke {ers idled by reduced schedules. WESTERN NEW YORK | Bethiehem Steel—Daily produe« |tion loss estimated at 3100 tons of |iron, 3533 tons of steel and 3600 | tons of coke. Plant is operating at 50 per cent of full capacity, Fifteen { open hearths are down. : Wickwire Spencer Steel—Produce tion scheduled to halt this weeks end. oa Republic Steel-Production will be cut 25 per cent by the week-end. vh The Michigan utilities strike would affect more than 32000000 customers in virtually every impore tant city except Detroit. The union | seeks a 30-cent an hour wage ine | crease. Meanwhile about 8000 longshore«

operations were resumed alofig the New York waterfront, | and police cleared pickets away from a Holly wood movie studio for the second day. The pickets were unresisting and officers simply carried them away

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