Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 December 1945 — Page 1

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FORECAST: Increasing cloudiness tonight and tomorrow; light snow; not so cold tomorrow.

| Biter a8 Second-Class Matter at Postoffies ; : :

GM Office Workers Pass ickets to Enter Plants |

LOWER FARES UAW. ORDERS | NEAN PAY CUT, LOCALS TO LET | SAYS UTILITY CLERKS MSIE

Rate Question. Latest Move.

Emergency reduction of By ROY J. FOREST.

. . | United Press Staff Correspondent city transit fares would] DETROIT, Dec. 17.—Thou“automatically” lower wages .

auton y” lower sands of non-striking General of n Sanapolis Railways em- § Motors office workers - wee ployees, the uiity's attor- turned to their jobs today. he wes ane of several railway The C&O. Unitel) Awe - § company objections before the Pube| & Workers Union announced Jt 8% = lic Service commission today against JAPAN'S foremost objective in |o0 “emergency” fare decreise joining the axis was to settle the recommended by Public Counsellor war. with China, the documents |Clenn Slenker. said, The P. 8. C. took no action toKonoye said he thought Ja day, but set two future public hear? could settle the China a aapan ing dates. At 10 a. m. on Jan. 1, any way she chose if she were the commission will hear arguments allied with Germany, Russia and on Mr. Slenker's motion that bus Italy against an “Anglo-Ameri- |*d trolley fares be lowered pendcan” combination. ing a hearing on permanent rates. Her second r n was the hope Mr. Slenker declared continuation of preventing ane European war of the current fares an “emer-

|. U.'s '‘Bo' McMillin Named of] Continwed an Fags Column 8)

As 1945 Coach of the Year CHIANG MAY PUT Jan. 21 was named by the P. 8. C. By LAWRENCE ROBINSON REDS IN CABINET

as the date on which it will begin a public hearing on a permanent rate schedule. The utility has moved to keep the current rates in effect. Seripps-Howard Staff Writer : NEW YORK, Dec. 17.--Alvin Nugent McMillin, best known as Bo, is 1945 Coach of the Year, : : The silvery mentor of Indiama university’s Big Ten champions, re-|, K. C. Wu Says Generalis--simo Will Accept Coalition. CHUNGKING, Dec. 17 (U. P.).= Information Minister K, C. Wu said

Seeeeam)] VOLUME 56—NUMBER 241 °°

Winner in National Grid Poll RELIEF FRON : FRIGID WAVE S FRECKST

Firemen Kept Busy During Cold Week-End; Burns Fatal to Woman.

LOCAL TEMPERATURES

6am...6 10am..10 7a.m......5 1l'am ...15 | S$am.....5 12 (noon)... 17 | 1pm... 18

Relief from the frigid wave was predicted for Indianapolis today as temperatures began to climb upward from 5 below recorded at 4:40 a. m. at Weir Cook airport. The local forecast: Fair today; increasihg cloudiness tonight; occasional light snow tomorrow; not so cold tonight and tomorrow.

At noon the Weir Cook mer‘Jeury stood at 15 above. Atop the Federal building it was 17, rising from a downtown low of 5 above at 7a m. Meanwhile, one person had died and two more were burned by winter fires. City and county firemen

Konoye Notes Show Regret At Russ Pact

. By CHRIS CUNNINGHAM United Press Staff Correspondent KYO, Dec. 17.—~The private papers of Prince Fumimaro Konoye, former premier of Japan, disclosed today that Japan signed the tri-partite pact thinking that Russia would become the fourth member of the axis, Konoye come mitted suicide by taking poison Sunday a few hours before he was due a ® to surrender as | aed a suspected war | LS @® criminal. ay 4. American Prince 'K _ counter - intellince flonoye gence officers seized the papers shortly after Konoye's suicide. They turned them over to Joseph B. Keenan, chief allied prosecutor in the forthcoming war trials. Konoye's secretary, Tomohoko Ushiba, outlined the principal points in the papers to the United Press,

Fruit Jar ‘Banking’ Loses Favor

- Alvin Nugent (Bo) McMillin . . . chosen as fop coach of 1945 in New York World-Telegram poll.

Laborer's Savings of $2400 ~ Stolen From Hiding Place

A 58-year-old laborer whose life savings of $2400 were stolen from a fruit jar buried at his home had been “eunverted” to modern banking

Meanwhile, the OPA joined with City Corporation Counsel ‘Arch N. nowned as an after-dinner spellbinder and beloved throughout the coaching fraternity, becomes the 11th of his craft elected to the highest coach union contracts provide for “incen- | today.

Bobbitt in intervening against the MOSCOW ATOM ES | tive. pay” based on the firm's gross] Felipe Privitere was back dt work at the Fairmount Glass works

current transit charges. Clyde H. ’ | government in China, ,

motion, railway attorneys asserted

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Jones, district OPA price attorney, Chiet a y L since he “got mad” at a bank some Gillion ‘objected. to an imme-

entered the opposing appearance. diate decrees on grounds that: He. discovered several days ago, that someone had dug up” the con-

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Big Three Ministers Stick to|mve.

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‘Policy Basis.” national defense council could be reorganized into a supreme national ~ MOSCOW, De¢, 17.—The Big|. political Three foreign ministers will sit 2g dol

Slenker's emergency fare reduttion out jurisdiction to put pura Jo Sans such 2 Ie: ing not even the jar: It wasn't|pney (When the current revised rates until late Saturday that Mr, Priviwere adopted last September on .motion of Indianapolis Railways,

tere reported the loss to police. No More Home’ Banking

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| ‘Indianapolis’ Skipper Tries :

To Refute Charges.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 17 (U.-P.). «Capt. Charles B. McVay IIJ, skip- . per of the cruiser Indianapolis, will testify tomorrow : before a& navy

| attempt. to refute charges,

down around the green baize table in Spiridonovka palace today for their first blunt talk about the The session will be the second F._ Byrnes and Foreign Ernest Bevin with Foreign Commissar Viacheslav -B, Molotov fince their week-end arrival,

Mr. Bevin told a press conference that the tomic’ bombo ques-

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RAIL CRASH IN FOB

Another at Siding.

—KOLLOOK, 8. C. Dec. 17 (U. P)

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KILLS 7, HURTS 62

4 Luxury Train Smashes Into

~Heavy winter fog was blamed to-

hs Chinese Communists and for eventual con-

come other Wu

about a week hence. Chungking from Peiping, Wu said

and Communists to hands off your guns” council meets.

‘Argue Instead of Fight’ “The government should

order,” the newspaper said. “Come munists should halt their plans to overthrow the government. Argue it out at the conference table Instead of fight it out on the battlefronts.” “The various pronouncemefi's of Chinese policy followed President Truman's week-end - statement on American policy in China. Chinese Communists said ‘they welcomed Mr. Truman's statement. They interpreted it § mean the “giving up of (former. Ambassador .| Patrick) Hurley's rotten policy of supporting the nationalists with arms to carry on a civil war”

See Truman's, Words Helping China Muddle

WASHINGTON, Dec. 17 (U. P). ~Diplomatic observers believed today that President Truman's new statement on U, 8. policy toward China had better prospects for unifying China's two rival political

between and

solidation under the government of

members and occupy high posts in the government. said Communist delegates called on government delegates today in an exchange of opinions preliminary to the forthcoming political consultative council opening

‘The conference will open as soon [as possible after Chiang #pturns to

The army newspaper Ta Kung Pao! .|editorally urged both ‘nationalists| “Keep your stantial increase in gross revenues until the|of the company under the. present

stop planning a much feared punitive

there was no hearing. This is one of the main objections of groups now opposing the rates), TWO: “The motion does not state & proper emergency. . . none exists under which such an order could be made without a hearing.” THREE: “The ordér would be void and a violation of the utility's constitutional rights to a hearing.” Public | Counsellor - Slenker declared: : " “Evidence now would show a sub-

rate scale.”

The scale was adopted on a three-month-trial basis, without a public hearing. At the time Indian. apolis Railways and the P. S.C.

. In fact,

Her Third, Fourth Husbands Wounded in Duel.

VINCENNES, Ind, Dec. 17 (U, P,).-Police today questioned two young children who, officers sald, saw their mother shot to death and a gun due] between her third and fourth husbands. Both men were critically wounded. Mrs. Leona Lloyd, 27, was killed last night, the ddy after her fourth inarriage, in the home of her third husband whom shé had recently divorced.. Her second husband heard the shots and called police, Police said bullets from a 22caliber rifie owned by Ward Wright, 36, husband No, 3, and bullets from a 32-ealiber revolver owned by Donald Lloyd, 30, her fourth husband,

groups. 4 “Mr. Truman called for & truce; Nationalists

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SAYS KIMMEL NOT IN’ ON CODE BREAK

WASHINGTON, Dec. 17 (U, P), ~The Pearl Harbor investigating committee heard today that the navy provided special equipment to break Japanese codes for the U. 8. Asiatic fleet at Manila—but not for the Pacific fleet at Hawaii where

blow. Vice Adm. T. 8. Wilkinson, former chief of naval intelligence, testified that -the special equipmen sent to Adm. Thomas C. Hart at

were found in Mrs. Lloyd's body. Sho His Bride Mrs. Lloyd's two children by Wright were witnesses to the shooting. Police said the children told them that Lloyd, a discharged soldier, walked into Wright's house and shot his bride. The children said Wright then appeared with a gun and shot Lloyd and that Lloyd

Both men were taken to the Vine cennes hospital after Claude John son, the woman's second husband, who lives nearby, called police. Officers tried to learn why Mrs. Lioyd was in Wright's home.

NAZI PLAN TO SEIZE FOOD 1S REVEALED

Russians Were to Starve ~~ Or March to Siberia. By ANN STRINGER

United Press Stalt ‘ NUERNBERG, Dec, 17. n

lepders starve “tens of millions” of Russians

CLOTHE-A-CHILD—

31 Men at Billings Buy. Clothing for Two Childreniisss rosin mr v=

SO MANY boys won't be home|over with T. 5th Gr. Clare Schneider of Chicago and 8. Sgt. Donald

to death or force them .to march into Siberia so Germans at home could have a larger meat ration, the war crimes tribunal was told today. . ts introduced - by the

all Russian livestock after the 1941 invasion to restore the cut in the German meat ration, The Nazi food plan for the in. vasion admitted frankly that “many

to Siberia.”

deliberately planned to]

tens of millions of people in. this area will become redundant and will either die or have to emigrate

| The number of defendants was {réduced, af least tethporarily, to 20

The glass worker lved alone in a small frame house at 2122 Pleasant ave. Each time he got a couple of hundred dollars saved up" he added it to his savings and carefully buried the container lagain. While Mr. Privitere had his own ideas” about the. identity of the thief, he couldn't figure out how anyone located the hoard. But of one thing he was certain ~his money goes in a regular bank” from. now .on. And, with prospects of a slim Christmas, he says he might even start a Christ. mas. savings account for next year,

Yule Program Opens Tonight On the Circle

CHRISTMAS observances will officially open on Monument Cir« cle tonight when Mayor Tyndall delivers his Christmas proclamation in a program begining at _7:30 p. m, To be heard on the air over | WISH, this: first of a series of yuletide programs sponsored by the Indianapolis Municipal Christ mas commijtee will have a military aspec . ” .

OPENING with a fanfare by trumpeters from Ft. Harrison, the program will include: A prayer by Chaplain Bernard DeCrane, the mayor's proclamas« tion, and choral] numbers by the Technical high school Boys’ Concert club, directed by William Moon, and the Indiana Medical center Nurses’ Choral club, directed by Helen Thomas Martin, both groups in uniform. The ‘combined choirs of nearly 100 voices will sing “The First Noel” and “Silent Night” Separately, they will present other

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SECTION OF BRIDGE

BOSTON, Dec. 17 (U, P.). = The liberty ship Joh Hathorh crashed into a bridge connecting Boston's north end with Charlestown today and a 90-foot section of the strweture plunged into the water. No one was injured, but all foot and vehicular traffic was halted. The Boston elevated railway halted service over the trestle-like struc-

SHIP KNOCKS DOWN run without acting on either

might propose a counter-offer, TWO: Henry Ford II, company president, emphasized “that his sms ployees were not to blame for. 's limping production. Mr. Ford said the company had produced only 30. 000 of an 80,000-car schedule bee cause of insufficient parts. i - THREE: General Motors and union officials were to meet briefly = today ‘before recessing their Detroit negotiations to -confer with Presie dent Truman's labor fact-finding board in Washington Wednesday. FOUR: Washington reports sald Mr. Truman might take his fight for immediate passage of his facte = finding legislation to the public in & radio address 3 FIVE: An official British spokes« man sald in London that Prime Minister Attlee's government would

{not intercede in the General Motors

strike as requested by R. J. Thomas, ° U. A. W. president. A Bank of Eng« iand spokesmen said that the 400 * 000 General Motors shares pledged by the British government to the U. 8. Reconstruction Finance Core = poration as collateral against a loan in the early stages of the war bes longed to British individuals, and

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MERGER MESSAGE TO = BE SENT WEDNESDAY =

«President Truman's message tb congress on merger of the a i services is virtually completed. It probably will be sent to Capitol Hill Wednesday, White House Press Secs retary Charles G. Ross announced today. 4 Mr. Ross’ announcement came ag congress appeared determined to its Christmas recess this

the President's labor or housing programs. y

WASHINGTON, Dec. 17 (U. PJ,