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Lt.-Governor Talks to Times By Trans-Atlantic Telephone.

- By SHERLEY UHL Beginning today, top-hat-ted United Nations delegates in London were to undergo a solid week of old-fashioned, Hoosier cloakroom “politicking.” Interviewed this morning by transAtlantic telephone, Lieutenant Governor Richard T. James told The Times he would remain in London for another week to “lobby” before the biggest organization yet conceived, . . All the persuasive technique learned in years in the Indiana general assembly were to be used by Mr, James to (1) obtain the UNO world capital for the United States, and (2) have it located in Indiana, “Indiana has as good a chance as anybody,” barked Lt. Gov. James’ husky voice over the ocean-spanning

wires, U, 8. Spokesman The portly lieutenant governor said he went to London to promote Hoosierdom's bid for the “world capital,” but ended up as ambas-sador-of-good-will for the entire U. 8s. : He served as a sort of unofficial spokesman for the U. 8. in a new-ly-developed wrangle over whether permanent UNO headquarters will be established in Europe or America. Mr, James explained that the U. 8. state department had assumed a “hands-off” policy in regard to this squabble. So, as one of the last Americans to appear before the UNO, he became a‘ national, rather than an Indiana representative. He By 'HEZE CLARK asserted, modestly, that newsmen| An attempt by two injured but | in London were referring to him desperate prisoners to flee the City]

~ as the “unofficial” U. 8. spokes- j,spital detention ward yesterday The lieutenant governor said he| Vs thwarted by a physician, a

hadn't expected to participate in|Purse and a medical student. | : The prisoners obtained a key to

Mrs. Wilma Bauer . . . Fights for her husband's freedom.

Col. E. L. Strohbehn . . . “Bauer will get a blue discharge.” }

Foil Break by Two Prisoners From Hospital

James Grant of 2352 8. West st., held under $52,000 bond on charges of rape, robbery, auto-banditry, car! theft and second degree burglary. | He was shot and captured by city and state police Oct. 20 in Crown

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POOL BOOKS, 3 MEN ARE NABBED IN RAID

Police-Haul 4 Truckloads of Material From House. |

Thousands of baseball ticket books | yet unexplained. . were confiscated and three persons| The men waited until the ward were held by police following a raid was attended by two gurses befor® on a residence at 122 N. East st. at | making their bid for freedom. First’ Aoon Joaa: nian w Ca they unlocked their bonds. Then Chute ier oh nel vonr{Grant allejedly gmbbed ‘» vise, ". warrant hauled four truckloads of | (Continued on Page 2—Column 1) material to police headquarters, in- | - Tn Du - cluding packing cases of baseball tickets, and office furniture, Charges of operating a lottery and

Both Shackled | Eugene Murphy of 1500 Tacoma | ave, bound over to the grand jury {Nov. 17 on ‘an auto-theft charge. {He was taken to the detention ward Friday to have a bullet removed from his leg. Both prisoners were shackled. Sometime Saturday, however, the shackle ' key: disappeared from its customary place. How it reached

the hands of Grant and Murphy is| is freedom voluntarily from the | army anyhow,

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The place of Indianapolis in postwar aircraft industry has been strengthened by the cross-country speed dash of the Allison-powered Douglas XB-42 bomber, “Landing at Washington's Bolling field at 6:39 p. m., E. 8. T., Saturday, the new plane with twin Allison engines and pusher propellers set a new transcontinental speed {record of five hours, 17 minutes and 34 seconds. = The. experimental bomiber, nicknamed “Mixmaster” because of its

FIRE FATAL TO TWO STARTED BY BOY, 12

CLEVELAND, Dec. 10 (U. P).— Juvenile suthorities held a 12-year old boy today after he to police that he started a $200,000 ards fire, fi which two firekilled, “for a thrill.” e! Union Stockyards March 11, 1944, injured firemen, and two civilians, animals were killed.

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SGT. BAUER T0 BE REARRESTED

Discharge From Army,

8. Sgt. Frederick Bauer will be released from the army and his Ft, Harrison barracks prison by tomorrow morning, HE, But his freedom will be shortlived, federal officials said this morning. They indicated the FL. - ” Spy immediately be taken into custody by 'U. 'S. immigration authorities. Bauer's - fate was today at a habeas corpus hearing in federal court, pressed by his attorney, Joseph T. Mazelin. On the witness stand, Col. E L. Strohbehn, Ft. Harrison post commander, said a special army fact-

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Bauer a “blue” discharge, “Without Honer”

This, he explained, means he” will

be discharged “without honor,” a'strike for a 30 per cent wage boost. ! non-committal release mid-way be- |

tween an honorable and a dishonorable discharge. Federal Judge Robert Baltzell dismissed the habeas corpus action on the theory Bauer was to achieve

Col. Strohbehn asserted Bauer's separation will mean the military

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BOYD GILL NAMED U. P. MANAGER HERE

Boyd Gill today was named In-|

diana state manager of ‘the United Press by Mims Thomason, central division manager, is Mr, Gill . ceeds Roy J

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Gen. Patton Paralyzed : fter Auto-Truck Crash

JOHN L. LEWIS FLAYS G. M. AND C10 FOR STRIKE

‘Labor Leader Says U. A. W. Action at This Time Was ‘Stupid.’ By UNITED PRESS General Motors and the C. I. 0. United Auto Workers resumed negotiations foday as the union warned that the number of strikers might swell to 200,000. U. A. W. Vice President Walter P. Reuther was absent from today's negotiating session because of cold. The session lasted only two hours. Company and union representatives

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Lewis told the house labor committee that the “dishonesty” of General Motors “on one side is equalled

on the other.” , Mr. Lewis went before the house { labor committee to denounce Pres- | ident Truman's proposed fact-find-{ing solution tor major labor dis-

U.S. to Seize Him After Doce * “an evil, foul-smelling

i Calls Action ‘Blunder’: | He said the General Motors strike, the dispute which called forth the ! President's proposal, could be setitled in 10 days if the government | would permit automobile companies to raise prices. -

Mr, Lewis went on to chide the

|C. IL. O, Automobile | for now,” He ‘that {cause of tax readjustments due the f frst of the year, the company can {make more money now by remaining idle than it could by producing “But the poor blundering leaders of the auto union,” he said, “picked | this time to close up the General Motors plants.” Meanwhile General Motors faced a challenge that C, I. O. electrical workers would shut down five G. M. appliance plants unless the coms= pany made definite concessions to the 175,000 auto workers now on

| [If the new strike broke out, the ‘total of G. M. plants idled. would | be boosted to 98. Five thousand offiee workers would be thrown out of

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CLOTHE-A-CHILD— | 5 Fatherless Children High On Times List

TROUBLES are coming in big bupches these days for a widow and {her five ‘children. The father of the children was {killed in an accident. at his work [last year. Since that time the fam-

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independeént, { Within the last few weeks. how- | gver, managing on the slim budget {of $10 a week has become imposisible. The four school-age children have no winter clothing. i . » ~ + MEANWHILE, the mother, whom investigators describe as a “splendid manager.” has other troubles coming her way. She must move from their present home to another residence, which costs $4 moré a month, |. This means that the 18-year-old daughter, «the family's only wage

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NUERNBERG. Dec. 10 (U. P.) — | Joachim Von Ribbentrop believed (that Germany might have reached an understanding with Great Brit- | | ain, avertitig the war. if-the Duke of | Windsor had retained the throne, | evidence at the war crimes trial re-

{ vesled this today. Ribbentrop’s notion was expressed in a conversation with Hirosi Oshi- | ma, Japanese ambassador to Berlin, on Feb. 23, 1941, Ribbentrop told the ambassador that Hitler always had wanted an understanding with Britain, certain possibility (for an understanding),” Ribbentrop said, “had existed in the person of King Edward even though it had been | doubtful from the beginning whether the king would prevail.” | Ribbentrop made the statement in {the course of an effort to persuade Oshima that it was to Japan's advantage to come into the war, Misjudged U. 8. Ribbentrop. said the American navy wouldn't dare sail west of Hawaii and described President | ‘Roosevelt as “the most bitter enemy | of Germany and Japan.” But he isaid the American people did not swant to fight. Even if they entered (the war, he said, it would have-little effect on the conflict because of the vast distances involved. “A landing In Europe is impos-

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‘BRITISH WANTED U.S. SHIPS AT SINGAPORE’

Marshall Testifies That U.S. Officers Opposed Move.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 10 (U, P.. ~Gen. George C. Marshall disclosed today that the British wanted to have part of the U. 8, fleet based | at Singapore in the fall of 194]. | American officers opposed the move, | {and it was not done, ! | Gen, Marshall told the Pearl {Harbor investigating committee {that the British made the proposal in connection with Joint staff con-| |versations on mutual : defense | {against Japanese aggression in the; Pacific. Testifying for the third day, the! former * chief of stafl = reiterated| {that there wee no. definite com-. |mitments on joint military action |agatnst Japan prior to the Pearl {Harbor attack Dec. 7, 1941 ' He said he had believed, howlever, that the United States injevitably would become involved in ‘any Pacific hostilities between Japan land Great Britain, . | Senator Homer Perguson (R, Mich), asked Gen. Marshall wheth‘er there was any consideration at time—November, 1941—of mov*ing the 'U. 8. fleet from its Pearl

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" OL’ MAN WINTER came riding in on a snow flurry with the season's lowest yes~ terday ang today, with a drop to 8 degrees predicted for tonight. ) Gripping the nation, the cold wave sent t e in peratures BN zooming to b] zero through

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CODE ONLY LINK WITH DYING BOY

Tapped Out on Palm of Doomed Lad

DETROIT, Dec. 10 (U. P,).—~The Morse code provided the only link between a mother and her dying

{son today.

By tapping out words on the palm of his wasted hand, Mrs. Fred Sarchet brought cheer to 14-year-old Jimmy Sarchet, who is blind, deaf and mute because of a spinal inJury. Jimmy, who doctors say may not

!live until Christmas, “talks’” to his

parents with a toy telegraph instrument.- They answer by tapping out the codes on his palms. * ~The Sarchets taught the boy the Morse code when they learned that

and his body began wast--WAY. As he lost his sight and hearing, they returned in desperation to the code and Jimmy learned rapidly; despite his illness,

the Dakotas and , Montana, and the wave is expected to continue through Wednesday, Indianapolis will have continued cold weather tomorrow with a partly cloudy sky.

” » ” DURING the morning the lowest temperature was 16 degrees, the chilliest record in the state this year. The high yesterday waf 44 at 1 a. m. Other Hoosier cities recorded snow flurries and temperatures ranging from 16 to 21 degrees. -Staté highways remained in practically normal” condition. Although there was light snow in the north and central parts of the state, the snow was not sticking to the roads.

~ » » IN MINOT, N. D., the temperature was 15 below, and in Pueblo, _Colo., 13 below. Other cities reported sub-zero temperatures with 1 below at Alexandria, Minn. and 12 below at Aberdeen, 8. D. And we think we're cold!

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ASSAILS PENICILLIN PRICES WASHINGTON, Dec. 10 (U, P.).— Rep. Danie] J. Flood (D. Pa.) said today that drug ‘manufacturing companies are receiving excess profits for the sale of penicillin. These companies “should not be allowed to make a racket out of this life-saving drug,” he said.

Share-the-Ride

Now; the little boy can arouse {his parents at night by tapping on {the telegraph key at his bedside {The set is connected to one in their ‘bedroom, Jimmy no longer can dis/tinguish night from day, depending on his parents to talk to him by {tapping on his hand, | Before his illness, Jimmy was a normal, bright little boy and he loved music. He learned to play in the family orchestra, learning from

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Blue wil Act To Halt Petit ' Quster Action

| "An impeachment suit against | Sheriff Otto Petit, charging opera-

{tion of slot machines was permitted.

{for fees, may be dismissed tomor|row by Judge Liloyd-D. Claycombe of circuit court. The court indicated last Friday at a preliminary hearing that he would follow the recommendation {of Prosecutor. Sherwood Blue. | “The facts alleged in the ‘accu- | sation are not sufficient to consii|tute legal cause for impeachment,” was Mr. Blue's conclusion today. The suit was filed on relation of Enoch Shriner, 1305 W. 19th st, with the state as plaintiff. Mr. Shriner has been missing ince last Wednesday. Sheriff's deputies have been looking for him, meanwhile, to drrest him on a rape charge, filed after Sheriff Petit be- | (Continued on Page 2—Column 2)

Campaign to

Speed Gl's on Yule Journeys

A Share-the-Ride plan to help servicemen. get home during the holiday rush is being set up by the Indianapolis chapter of the American Red Cross, W. 1. Longsworth, chairman, announced today, All local automobile owners, planning’ trips out of the city during the holidays and having extra space in their cars, are asked to call the Share-the-Ride desk at LI. 1441. The Share-the-Ride desk will help persons register théir car, the

for servicemen and ex-servicemaen still in uniform. They are asked to register at

for car owners and servicemen.

the Hoosier camp council,

the same number, LI. 1441. Early registration is urged! (Continued on

Camp and hospital committees of the American Red Cross throughout the state are co-operating in plans to provide real Christmas at-

Doctors Report Condition ‘Critical’; Wife Is Flying to Bedside With U. S. Surgeon

HEIDELBERG, Dec. 10 (U. P.).—Gen. George S. Pat-

vertebra in an auto accident,

‘He is completely paralyzed below the third cervical vertebra, an army medical bulletin revealed today. (The third cervical vertebra is approximately at the

0sis made at 5 p. m. Sunday,

about six hours after Patton was injured when an army car near Mannheim, also found a “posterior “| dislocation

of the fourth

cervical.” The seven cervical vetebrae {form the top part of the spinal column, Ly ; A bulletin on the generals cone dition issued at 11 a. m. today said: | “A restful night, slept five hours, quite comfortable, complétely tional, condition

gleally 7 changed. X-rays show almost complete reducation of the dislocation. Prognosis guarded.” In simple terms, this means the doctors were not making any fore cast as to what progress can be expected. The Sunday evening diagnosis said textually: “A fracture, simple, of the third cervical" vertebra with posterior dislocation of the fourth cervical. - Complete paralysis below the level of the third cervieal. Prog nosis guarded,” The swashbuckling. hero of the

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Western front also suffered head.

2:30 p. m. (8:30 a. m. Indiana time), wounds, which have been stitched, . Patton's wife Beatrice, al

from Washington Sunday night to {help nurse him. She was accom« panied by Col. R. Glenn Spurling, a leading army neurology surgeon, | who was called from a train in Cincinnati, flown fo Washington and hustled aboard the plane for Germany, British Surgeon Arrives Hugh Cairns, British professor of neurosurgery at Oxford university, arrived by air from England today at Mrs, Patton's gequest and ime mediately began examining the general. . ‘ Doctors and nurses have been

men concerning Gen, Patton, and the hospital grounds are closed to the press. Inside, American soldiers talk freely about the general, saying he is in bad shape, .

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LEND-LEASE MISUSE

* ALLEGED BY HURLEY

Charges Acheson Blocked Corrective Measures.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 10 (U. P), Patrick J. Hurley, resigned ane bassador to China, charged today’ that the British distributed Ameyican lend-lease supplies in Iran and

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{tended to build up a British trade : monopoly and exclude American businessmen. He told the senate foreign rela {tions committee that he tried to {get this practice ended. He said {he had the support of the late | President Roosevelt, but was thwarts ‘ed by Dean Acheson, then assistant Page 2—Column §)

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