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VOLUME 56—NUMBER 197
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1945
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PRICE FIVE CENTS
TEACHERS GIVE TOP PLACE TO LAW PROGRAM
Officers Approved, Redugs| tion in Size of Classes Recommended.
By DONNA MIKELS Hoosier educators, 15,000 strong, today laid the framework of a progressive school program in post-war Indiana as they met for the business session of the 92d annual convention. A 10-point legislative program, based on reports of the resolution committee, was accepted without amendment by the members of the Indiana State Teachers association as they convened at Cadle tabernacle. The teachers met at 9 a. m. at the tabernacle, with committee reports as the first issues of the agenda. One
of the early reports confirmed was that of the nominating committee, presenting a slate of officers selected at a a meeting last night, for the association's approval,
Nominations Approved
Chosen to take over as executives next year were Mrs. Anita Oldham, Knightstown, for president; Henry McHargue, Gary, vice president, and E. B. Hargrave, Washington high school, treasurer. After hearing a lecture on international problems last night by Henry C. Wolfe, foreign expert and war correspondent, the teachers foday concentrated on legislation
Later today, they were to get an insight into national affairs as they heard Mrs. Raymond Clapper, author and radio commentator and wife of the late Indianapolis Times correspondent, Mrs. Clapper was to speak on “Behind the Washington Scene” at 2 p. m. today at Cadle tabernacle.
Concert Program
Also scheduled on this afternoon’s program was a talk and concert program by John Charles Gilbert on “The Mirth and Melody of ‘Gilbert and Sullivan.” Eleven hundred state high school pupils will take part in the annual state choral festival tonight at the tabernacle, and Dr. William Fielding Ogburh, University of Chicago, will talk on “The Impact of Atomic _ Energy on Society.” Included in legislation which was recommended by the resolutions committee were proposals urging the reduction of class sizes and one asking educational advantages for
disabled veterans and aid to Hoo-|§
siers who dropped school to enter service. i A resolution commending the 1945 general assembly for its revision upward of the teachers’ minimum salary law also was introduced, as was one asking the next assembly to assume a larger share of the support of the entire school program. Several colleges have meetings’
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6. I VISITOR HERE ROBBED OF GIFTS
Accepts Auto Ride, Wakes Up in Franklin.
An engagement ring, a wedding ring and a lady's wrist watch in his pocket, LaVonne Phillips, 26, of Bemis, Tenn., was sober, happy and minding his own business last night. Just discharged from Camp Atterbury after long service in Europe, Pvt. Phillips also had a railroad ticket to Bemis, where he was to be married. This morning, he was still Sober but the wedding gifts and his good spirits had disappeared, So had a $92.50 government check, $200 in cash and his own service watch. Pvt, Phillips’ innocent misfortune began last night when he wearied of waiting around Union station for his train to pull out. Might as well see the city, he thought. So he hired a cab and took a pure and smple sight-seeing tour. No women. No night clubs. Suddenly he had one of those devil-may-care impulses typical of men recovering from war's unreality
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TIMES INDEX
Teachers Inspect Equipment
wants te be a teacher. parents.
Miss Rosemary’ Moeller, senior at Greensburg high school (left)
So she came to the convention with her Here she looks over a book display with Miss Georgann
BOLD VANDALS ENTER CHURCH, DEFACE BOOKS
Boys in Auto Fired on as Mischief Makers Defy Police. :
Shuffiebarger, freshman instructor at Martinsville high school.
Here is something first-graders can do, thought South Bend: téachers Miss Vivian Hollopeter and' Miss Inez Winter (left to right).
The latest in globes for the school room is examined by (left to
recent wave of destruction was
{fontaine st.;
1College ave., told police a man fire
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flabby body of Robert Ley.
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right) Mrs. Gertrude Shank and Mrs. Agnes Meyer, Pulaski.
Nazi Labor Boss Is Buried in
Potter's Field After Suicide
ROBERT MILLER
Ignoring a warning by Police Chief McMurtry to cease pre-Halloween property destruction, a wave of deliberate vandalism continued here last night.
One of the worst outrages of the
committeed as vandals broke ‘into a church. The Rev. Roscoe Kirkman, pastor of the West Side Disciples of Christ church, discovered the vandalism after ke found the front doors of the church at 1520 W. Ohio st. standing forced open. Vandals had entered the church through a coal chute and scattered hymn books and other articles over the room. An unestimated amount of damage was caused in breakage, evidently resulting from using hymn books as missiles. The Rev. Kirkman asked police that the culprits, if found, be turned over to him rather than placed under arrest. Shot at Auto Another incident which police believe may have been the work of a prankster endangered the lives of three 17-year-old boys last night. The boys were targets for three revolver shots as they were driving near 20th and Harding sis. last night. Paul Bennett, 1624 BelleJoseph Quinn, 1907 N. linois st., and Oscar Rynard, 1666
the three shots, hitting the car door once, and then ran south on Harding st. They described the man ‘and said he may have been the same man who pulled a gun on one of the boys in a theater last week. Paint Is Smeared A gang of boys armed with paint and brushes dobbed large “X’s” on the side of a drugstore at 24th and| Illinois st. = A house across the| street at 37 W. 24th st. also was defaced with paint. Mrs. Mary Peltz, 19 N. Randolph st, told police a gang threw a bottle through her front room window. The theft of two large vases, valued at $20, from the porch of the Howard Miller residence, 1515 Brookside ave. also was reported. W. G. Sampson, 4401% W. Washington st. told police pranksters broke three door handles off his car last night as it was parked in front of his house. Four wheel and tire thefts also were reported.. Millard Wells, 1434 Richland ave., surprised a man who was just getting away with ‘a wheel and tire from his car early today. The man fled in a waiting car. Jack Romine, 1369 Hiatt st. also reported the theft of a wheel and tire from his car as it was parked near the Parkmore restaurant last night. Mrs. Gertrude Lewis, 1514 8. Belmont afe., reported that someone threw a dozen milk bottles on her front porch at 10:45 o'clock last night, narrowly missing a large front window,
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BE $100,000 SHORT :
Chairman Sinclair Praises sroans.
The final report of workers in the United War and Community Fund's victory campaign, to be given tonight at the Claypool hotel is expected to be approximately $100,000 short of the goal of $1,821,000. J. G. Sinclair, campaign chair-
iman, was high in his praise of the . 24 | Ruth Millett.. 19, volunteer organization of more than
“1t will be no fault of the organization of volunteers if the goal not subscribed,” Mr. Sinclair sald. | 1 ok have worked tirelessly against vsrovie 38 almost unsurmountable odds to make this campaign a success, es19! pecially in the last three days of 19 the extension period since Tuesday.” Wm. P.8Simms 20. workers turned in $174,366 in {Pledges in the threesday extension However, many solicitors
In a barren cell of Nuernberg prison next to that of Rudolf Hess, Ley fashioned a crude noose from a bath towel last night and hanged himself from the overhead flushing iever of the toilet, He gagged mself with dirty rags torn from fo underwear to stifle his last
Guard Absolved of Blame
Prison officials absolved the guard before Ley's cell of any blame for the suicide, The guard explained that he saw nothing suspicious through a slit in the cell door until Ley was dead.
Other Nazi war criminals held with Ley for trial next month were not told immediately of the suicide. But flurries of activity at the prison made it impossible to conceal the fact that something had happened in cell No. 9 where he had been held. Justice Robert H. Jackson, chief American prosecutor of war criminals, sald investigators would consider the legality of testimony given
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GOVERNOR ATTENDS FUNERAL COLUMBIA, CITY, Oct. 26 (U. P.) ~Funeral services late yesterday for Dr. O, V. Schuman were |attended by Gov. Ralph F. Gates, a life-long friend of the doctor,
‘Tests Indicate Planes Can
Mrs. Augusta Myers, 1435% N. Missouri st. said a rear wheel and | tire was taken from her car, parked |
The Nazi labor front boss killed himself | (Continued on | on Page 5—Column 5) | rather than face trial as a war criminal. ay devastating than
Ley's grave was unmarked, and officials said the site would be kept secret to thwart possible Nazi plans to find it.
| 1400-MILE-AN-HOUR
SPEED IS PREDICTED
Reach High Rate.
BUFFALO, N. Y., Oct, 26 (U. P.). —8peeds of more than 1400 miles an hour—almost twice the speed of sound-—-already are being flown by: special experimental devices, Dr. C C. Purnas, research chief for the Curtiss-Weight airplane division, revealed today. He predicted that. such speeds would be feasible for commercial aircraft in about 25 years. Dr. Furnas made these disclosures in an interview with a group of 16 reporters who are making a reconversion tour of the nation’s key industries. He would not disclose what kind of flying devices are being used in the experiments with supers sonic speeds but said that some were winged. All of these ultrahigh speed tests have been carried out at relatively low altitudes. The special flying devices used in the experiments were built by the Curtiss-Wright airplane division research laboratory in co-
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Adm. William
His Words Hurt Japs' Dignity
(Bull) Halsey
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Here Tomorrow for Fete
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Colorful Pacific War Record.
A By SHERLEY UHL AGAINST THE Japs, Adm. Halsey was tough, cagey, unpredictable. Like a bull with a sense of humor. The Japs hated “Bull” Halsey like they despised no other U. 8. comHe bombarded them with words, then he
mander because he was rude. bombarded them with shells. For unlike most men of action, 0. He’s probably the most fluent top-ranking navy chief in history. His barbed words stabbed into! the Jap conscience as deeply 5 hs 3d fleet stabbed into their watgrs. And brother, that was Rome Right to the very edge of the mainland, in Joe.
THE “BULL” who ” ES here 3 morrow as star attraction of the city’s Navy day celebration, had a habit of spitting verbally into the Japs’ faces, then rubbing salt in their eyes with a follow-up. First, he called them monkeys, Right out in public, with all his gold braid backing him upg No other brass-hat had made that statement, not even MacArthur. Then came forth his eight-word advice on how to win the war: “Kill Japs, kill Japs, then kill more Japs.” ” » » HIS FLAIR for satire gave the nation a belly-laugh last February when he cracked off: “I'd sure hate to have them kill the emperor's white horse, becausé I want to ride it.” After the first V-J announcement, |
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EUROPE FACES HUNGER LONDON, Oct. 26 (U, P.).—Eu-
NUERNBERG, Oct. 26.—A mud-splattered American anibulance today carted away to a potter's fleld on the outskirts of Nuernberg the in front of her house, and that rope is hounded by hunger and pri-|
Isey Arrives
Peace.Time Life After
“Bull” Halsey was a man of words
: PARADE STARTS HERE AT 10:30
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Secret C.1.0. Wage Pact Denied By Ford Officials
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STRIKE OK'D IN CHRYSLER VOTE
Workers Ballot 20 to 1 for Tieup Action.
By UNITED PRESS Chrysler Corp. employees joined General Motors workers today in voting ‘overwhelmingly for strike action to back pay demands. Approximately 193,000 workers in other U. 8. industries stayed away from their jobs because of strikes and shutdowns. Early returns from a national labor relations board poll conducted in Chrysler plants yesterday showed the workers 20 to 1 in favor of a strike. The vote was requested by the United Automobile Workers (C. 3..0) Complete returns+of the systemwide vote were to be announced late
White Collar Strike Meanwhile, New: England's biggest “white collar” strike In years began in Providence, R. I, when 900 clerical employees of the Brown & Sharpe Manufacturing Co. walked out. ‘The strikers set up picket lines which 6100 members of the Office Employees International Union (A. F, of L.) refused to cross. The walkout threatened complete shutdown of the company, largest manufacturing plant in the state. At Brockton, Mass., 800 lasters in the shoe district continued {their wildeat strike, but lost the support of 350 vampers after representatives of 26 companies involved submitted a compromise wage proposal. Members of the Brotherhood of Shoe & Allied Craftsmen walked out yesterday in an effort to get a 25 per cent wage boost. Miners Back to Work A 36-day strike in four Pennsylvania mines operated by the Tones
Planes to > Escort Halsey From Bunker Hill.
Roaring squadrons of planes over= head will welcome Adm. Halsey here tomorrow, The commander of the hard-hit-ting 3d fleet will arrive at 10 a. m. at Municipal airport aboard a C-54 flown here from Bunker Hill with at least a 50-plane escort, At the airport, Adm. Halsey will be met by an official recepticn committee headed by Governor Gates and Mayor Tyndall Although . the airport
will be
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FINAL ARGUMENTS | IN'WORL TRIAL TODAY
MARION, Ind, Oct. 26 (U, P.).— Final argument were scheduled tos day in the trial of Vance Worl, {on a charge of involuntary man-, | slaughter in connection with the
vation that threatens to prove more | fatal shooting last July 14 of Don-
bomb,” Bevin told commons today.
“gun or atomic | ald Smith, Foreign Secretary Ernest street car motorman, wept on the
25. Worl, a former
| witness stand yesteréay.
TWO HOOSIERS, a mother an
of Mr. Lucas which were printed
“Hitler youth,” the mother concl the service and our youngest will
expendable youth.”
and draws attention to what he c advocate conscription,
2 Replies to Ji By Soldier and a Mother
im Lucas—
d a Camp Atterbury sergeant, today
joined in letters to The Times In opposing the views of Jim Lucas, Scripps-Howard writer, on military training. The mother, who asks that her name be withheld, and Sgt. Edwin H. Sauer, Camp Atterbury, have written at length assailing the opinions
in Monday's Indianapolis Times.
Drawing a parallel between proposed compulsory training and the
ides, “Four of my children were in not return, so you can understand
why 1 so bitterly oppose our country’s taking its protection from its
Sgt. Sauer writes that he fears the creation of “a military caste”
all§ the selfish motives of those who
A Mother Writes:
SOMEHOW I doubt that Mr. Lucas is a father. And I am sure Mr. Lucas does the “little people” an injustice in blaming us for wars, In the first place In peacetime there is very iittle publicity given ‘on our war strength. The general public has had very little education on this very important gov~ ernmental structure. We have had good radio reception for more than twenty years,
and stvival physicisns irom Ngetheastern Indiana cities.
‘Why haven't our our representatives (Continued on “Page 4—Column 5
A Soldier Writes:
I SHOULD LIKE to address the following letter to Mr. .Jim Lucas mn opposition to his plea for peacetime military conscription which appeared in your paper on Monday, Oct. 22, 1945, DEAR MR. LUCAS, I thought you might be .interested. to hear what a serviceman who was a _tfeacher in civilian
—and, by the way, let's keep calling it that instead of “com-
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and Laughlin Steel Co., ended when 3100 miners returned to the pits. The dispute had involved the discharge of one employee.
The United Automobile Workers armed with an overwhelming vote of confidence from its membership, resumed negotiations with General
|Auto Workers Still Hope For Back-Door Contract To Force Others Into Line
A. LAHEY
Times Special Writer
DETROIT, Oct. 27.—The Ford Motor Co. today official-
has flourished this week with
y Ford II would sign a back0. auto workers that would
break the resistance of the industry to the union’s demand
=|for a substantial wage increase.
It is no longer a secret that the auto workers had hoped—and still hope—to come up with a spec« tacular new contract with Ford. Thus they could whip General Motors and Chrysler into line with a wage increase not too far below the 30 per cent they have demanded.
Opened Bidding
It is further known that in private and preliminary negotiations with the union nearly two months ago, the Ford people opened the bidding with an offer of 15 per cent. These negotiations cracked up when the OPA let it be known that increased wage costs could not be passed on to consumers. Because R. J. Thomas, president of the Auto Workers, has his sights set on a generous and amicable con~ tract with Ford, the rumor that he might attain it has refused to die. Today, however, a spokesman for the company, after an assiduous canvass of the front office, said
cooking with the union nor with administration officials in Washington, The company has no official meets ing scheduled with the union on wages until Nov. 20. A strike vote of Ford employees will be taken Nov. 17, completing the poll among the Big Three of the auto industry, Steelworkers Meet
The center of gravity of the re conversion wage price crisis moved meanwhile to Pittsburgh, where the wage policy committee of the C. 1. O, steelworkers is meeting today with President Philip Murray. The first steps toward a strike vote among steel workers will be taken at this meeting, as the result of the refusal of U. 8, Steel operating companies to consider a demand for a $2 a day wage increase. Here in Detroit, Vice President Walter P. Reuther of the auto workers returned to the fray with General Motors, and was to finish this afternoon his brief in support of the argument that General Motors can raise wages 30 per cent without 4ncreasing the price of automobiles. Reuther and his wage committee were further sparked by the Wash. ington report that government economists had figured that the
wage increase, Returns from elections in 97 G.| M. plants showed a six-to-one ratio favoring strike action, In addition to support from rank-and-file members, the union entered | negotiations amid signs of growing {government inclination to grant in-
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CIO PREPARES T0 PICKET STATEHOUSE
Motors on demands for a 30 per cent
auto industry could increase wages {24 per cent without asking the {public to assume the cost of such a
aise “Reconversion is not a factor in | determining whether or when G. M, can pay a 30 per cent wage ine crease,” Reuther said in his argu« | ment today. “Claim Dispelled” “The facts revealed by G. M, | executives themselves completely | dispel the claim that a 30 per cent | wage increase now would endanger | the corporation's reconversion and | post-war expansion program, “On the basis of production figures given to the press by C. E. Wilson and other G. M. executives,
é G. M. will be producing at the rate Flaws’ in Compensation of 1,150,000 cars a year by Decem~ To Be Protested. ber. This is 50,000 cars higher than |their break-even point which, ale The C. I. O, today prepared to |lowing for a 30 per cent wage inpicket the statehouse tomorrow crease and a 15 per cent increase while Governor Gates said he was|in material costs since 1941, is a
trying to speed Indiana's ployment compensation process. Henceforth, the governor
the docket
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sald; one check will be issued covering the total amount now due each un- { employed worker, in order to clear of backlogged claims. [He predicted jobless pay allotments | will reach an all-time high of 40,-
production rate of 1,100,000 cars a year,”
Jack Frost on Program; May
000 claims this week . John Bennett of the Allison U, N p T A. W. local asserted the statehouse | eac ers picketline will protest “flaws” in the | The fair weather treat Indians
unemployment compensation proc- | He said that at present allotments are issued from five to six
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weeks late, Primary objective of
cial legislative session at whic
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jobless pay could be increased. He | bring the cool said no attempt will be made 10 |. 0) today, coninterfere with the going or coming tin ino of statehouse employees. Sponsored |... with temby the unemployed council of the | | peratures a litAction | 4) higher. ColCommittee, the picketing will In-|{j.00 games and clude delegates from Evansville, FL. | geek and jaunts
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DUBLIN, Ind, Oct. 26. — Mrs. schedule.
life has to say in opposition to | Columbia Mattix, 39, of Cambridge
peacetime military conscription.
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