Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 November 1945 — Page 1

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FORECAST: Partly cloudy and colder today:

Fair and continued colder tonight and tomorrow.

|HOM Reunion At Union Station... We Give Thanks With All Our He a ts AI0DE | N SPREADING * STRIKE WAVE

600,000 Workers Off Jobs.

Lowest temperature tonight 15 16:20 degrees,

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BN VOLUME 56—NUMBER 220 °°

SGT. BAUER TO 70 DEPORT HN

Wife Calls Army’s Request In Photographer’s Case An ‘Outrage.’

S. Sgt. Frederick Bauer, imprisoned Ft. Harrison photographer, will fight deportation proceedings if they are filed as recommended by the war department, his wife Wilma said today. “It's an outrage,” exclaimed Bau er's dark-haired, olive-skinned wife, referring to the army's request that her husband be sent back to his native Germany. “They admit he's dons nothing wrong in America.

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1945

Indtenapolis 9, Ind. Tssued daily except Sunday

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By UNITED PRESS *" The number of strike-idled American workers soared toe ward . the half-million mark today as labor and management locked horns in a clis mactic battle for wage ins creases. Most serious of work stoppages, idling 477,000, was a system-wide: strike against the General Motors Corp. The walkout, =alled after three months of negotiations, took 1715000 G. M. employees off their jobs at once and threatened to

throw out of work a total of 600,000 workers if not settled promptly, A few hours after the strike went into effect at 10 a. m. Undianapolis time) yesterday, the U. 8. labor des partment announced it would send a special representative to Detroit, He will attempt to bring the diss putants together for fusther diss cussion of the issue, the O. I. O. des’

mand for a 30 per cent wage ins

Freeman Knotts, in. m. 3-¢, hugged his wife, Marjorie, and his discharge simultaneously. In & worl of thelr own , . . : Lo By. VICTOR PETERSON for good. Discharge buttons sewn on uniforms stood out HATS were knocked askew, women cried openly and all-over the place. ~~ ho : Babies cried as strange men kh

Pte. Ellsworth Cox held his son, Dennis, as tight as he could when they met, Chief Boatswain's mate A. L. Steele and his wife, Al-

_berta, of Greencastle didn’t even see the flash of the “photographer’s bulb as they threw themselves into each-

— many 8 returning serviceman: refused to-hold-back -

the tears at Union station last night. -

It was Thanksgiving eve and these people were giving -

thanks with all their hearts.

+Jf was a different atmosphere, this first peacetime Thanksgiving since 1942, Gone was that tenseness and

air of “perhaps we'll never meet. again” that filled the station last year until it seemed to pound the walls. Last night it was the calm of peace but the welcomes

were no less fervent. Most of the veterans swinging

Mothers said, “That's Daddy.” But thebab

even tighter. . ____'The story was repeated poured its happy throng into the statien. . ~~ Mrs. Marjorie Knotts couldn't wait one extra minute to see her husbaid. She came in from Cincinnati yesterday afternoon to catch tip on just & few extra hours with her husband. Fresh out of the navy he had been away 29 months. . He hugged his wife and his discharge simul-

od ~ them “tight. ut the , still bawled and Dads laughed all the harder, gging the little ones

endlessly as train after train

other's arms. It was their first meeting in 24 ‘months and the first time she had seen him as a civilian in a lot longer time. He was out of the navy only six hours when they met. Pfc. Ellsworth Cox, 4205- Glenwood dr., was one of the fathers who laughed when his baby cried. The meeting was a new experience for both of them. A mafine who had. seen action at Iwo Jima, he, too, had just been discharged. = No doubt, there are lots of happy people in Indianap-

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through the gates, eyes searching’ for loved ones, are home . SIFT TONS Cold

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ted on Nov. 14, with what doctors said was “a severe type of pneumonia,” : At his bedside when he died were Mrs, Julia L. Patch, his wife; Mrs. Charles M. Drummond, his daugh«} ter; Maj. Gen. Joseph D. Patch, |

in the city and completely tied up service in scores of downstate coms

October, 1944, while leadinfantry “company of the

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: {New Greek Cabinet Family Makes Long Trip in Takes Power Four Months. ATHENS, Nov. 22 (U. P.). =~ The

. 0 $50,000 GOSHEN FIRE EACH, Pia. Nov. 7 0. Sohovi » 2 YN. P)—The yawl “Estonia Sxk” siid|and Greek troops, took power today| Production of ~Cadillsc, Buck, , hy into the Miami Beach yacht basin/in the face of angry royalist pro-|Didsmobile, Pontiac and Chevrolet ol i Cn 2 : 4 ; nd Fi = n after completing a four~ tests, after the resignation of Arch- cars was stopped immedi tely on : Ane onth, 5000-mile voyage from Swe- | bishop Damaskinos sg regent. workers in 102_G.M. plants sp : EAE " Forces of both nations in Athens swered the union’s strike call yess od ; the | were alerted for a possible outbréak terday. The company’s G.M.C. G. Albrecht of New York,| GOSHEN, Ind, Nov. 22 (U. P)—|sault which crushed Germany. 4 ar Lend oe Oe daar | Piaber bot g . member of the American my, oersons were one| During the last days of the war, ay w we , Se soe offered as evidence » chart| luis "uy ‘re which swept «| his name was constantly before the (Continued on Page 3—Column 1) business :

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PRESIDENT SPENDS - QUIET THANKSGIVING

WASHINGTON, Nov, 22 (U. P). Truman spent a quiet

i The walkout was orderly and care ried out almost simultaneously across the nation without inéident, U.A.W. officials sald strikers would abandon the picket lines for the Thanksgiving day dinner table today but would be back in force

Mala, 9, and tiny blond 9 months of age. July 11, the family set carried two compasses as y le in the

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Anthony Eden were features of | the observance here.

NIFICATION URGED BY AVIATION CLINIC

In other labor developments, Be gotiations between the U. As and Ford of Canada broke ¢

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