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Get the Gl.s Home For Christmas

(An Editorial) JNDIANAPOLIS is jammed with holiday travelers as never before in history, Thousands of soldiers and sailors, many of them on their way home from overseas, are stranded here because the railroads and the airlines simply cannot handle the

crowds who want to ride. Some of them have been sitting®

in our Union Station for 17 or 18 hours now, trying to get on trains already crowded beyond capacity. . Lots of them are going to miss their first Christmas at home in years—unless something is done, and done quickly. There are 100 Greyhound busses, sitting idle in Indianapolis. They could haul 5000 or more G. L.'s at a single trip—maybe 10,000 or 12,000 a day—on their way homeward. They have been idle for nearly two months because of a strike of Greyhound drivers. : We're not going to discuss the merits of this strike, pro or.con. Whatever the grievance of these drivers against their company, they've got no grievance against these veterans coming home from the war. Whatever “the feeling of the company toward its workers, it has no dispute with American soldiers and sailors. :

s ® . » " x ’ ‘sides have an obligation that goes far beyond any dispute with each other. Those idle busses ought to be meeting it—RIGHT NOW. We suggest, to the Greyhound bus company and to the union of its employees, that they agree to break this bottleneck and get those stranded G. Ls home for Christ. mas. That they agree—without advantage and without

prejudice to either side in their dispute—to get those

busses out and start hauling men in uniform only, through next Tuesday. . ” We know there is a tough job of maintenance required : Saget the idle busses running that soon. It can be done. t wasn’t any picnic those G. Ls had on Okinawa, either. ‘We know both sides may feel that they are making a "concession of their own rights to do this. Maybe they are. . But anything they lose that way will be mighty small compared to what they'll both lose if they let their own | private quarrel make these G. Is spend their first Christmas “at home” in, some railroad station. Time is running out. Christmas Eva is just about 50

WASHINGTON, Dee. 22.—Look for President's armynavy merger plan to pass congress fairly early in 1946

cloudy tonight and tomorrow; little change in temperature.

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Record Jam Of Yule Travelers ~ Swamps Rail And Bus Lines

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POLICE CAR 13 AND OFFICER ARE MISSING

Mystery” Veils Disappear-

ance of Patrolman Here About 5 A. M.

The mysterious disappearance of a city patrolman and police car No. 13 had all available police on the alert here

Patrolman Allan Steger and the radio car he was driving “dropped out of sight” under circumstances clouded with mystery about § a. m. Admittedly baffled by every development, Police Chief Jesse McMurtry called upon every policeman, including state police and the sherifl’s office, to aid in tracking down the missing car and patrolman. An extra radio car was called into service to concentrate on what is termed at headquarters as the most

Jbaffling search ever made here.

Drove Away ‘ Steger’s disappearance was discovered by Patrolman Charles Burton when Burton came ont of a restaurant at 1110 E. 38th st. where he had gone about 10 minutes before “to get a sandwich.” His report states he had left Steger in the

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Clyde E. Whitehill . . . he lends the mind of a businessman and sportsman to the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce,

56th Head of C. of C. Here

Clyde BE. Whitehill, who has been listing his age for years on his hunting license application as 60, is one of the busiest men in town as head of the Indianapolis Chamber, of Commerce. Yet he claims that being a sportsman is his C. of C. duties head of Banner-Whitehil the

“1 hépe to continue the fine work that has been started here on slym ‘clearance, Since our action, I have noted every day over the nation where other action is being] . Nothing is more important to this city than that ac tion plus the resulting construction. “Right now the city is like a

BOTTLE NEAR ARREST

State police today closed in on the persons believed responsible for

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WARNS RUSSIA OF DANGERS LAND DEMAND

Gen. Karabekir Says Turks Will Resist Any Territorial Grab.

ANKARA, Dec. 20 (U.P). —Russia will suffer losses “fearful to an immeasurable degree” if the Red army and Turkish army clash over Soviet territorial claims against Turkey, Gen. Kazin Karabekir claimed today in the national assembly. (The Ankara correspondent of the London Times quoted Karabekir as stating that Turkey would have no alternative but to fight ¥ Rus-

plained.) Gen. Karabekir said that any clash resulting from Soviet territorial demands on Turkish Armenia

About ‘Assassination.’

TOKYO, Dec. 22 (U. P.) ~The first reported threat against the life of Gen. MacArthur was revealed

SURVIVE EAST VOTE

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Army Probes Jap’s Remark

'GIVE US BOX-CARS'— Gl's Waiting In Vain for a Way Home

MANY WAITING THERE have been a lot of une : happy men’ milling about Union

ET, ee est"3 has. “They! 300 Per Cent Above Normal, ie of mitary sevice. | Depot Agent Says; GI's Start ‘Thumbing.’

These men want to get home for Christmas. Most of them already are discharged and they are so close to being in their own backyard they almost can taste it,

» . " “HELL, this is worse than sftting ; ; on the West coast,” one disgruntied| Busses that are running GL A thi HOTEL oy cena { ino are jammed 50:the Hil t ront of the ga si outlet Tor Ale at the traction terminal as ready he had tried to get on three and had sweated it outsin the station for 15 hours. “Give us boxcars and we'll wrap up in our coats,” another sald.

» » . FIVE sailors coming from the West couldn't get a spot on any train. Counting out their savings they hired a car and made the trip in 58 hours. “But somebody sure is making money on this deal” said Radarman 2-¢ W. A. Campbell, Montclair, N. J. “We asked about a oar and was told it would cost $40 a plece. The next day the price was

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POLICE CAR STOLEN

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A sedan belonging to state police was back on duty today after it

{(U. P.).~Five-year-old Donald Di was. stolen last night from its

| Giacomo, who celebrated Christmas last Sunday, died last night of parking place at Market st. ahd leukemia. His father, Marine Sal-| Capitol ave, The car Was recovs vatore Di Giacomo, flew home from | ered at Georgia st. and Capitol ave, Saipan to attend the early Christ- ; mas party,

A VETERAN SPEAKS—