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~~ Meet Pay Demand. (Continued From fage One)

or, and the United Steelworkers 1 .0.). and set a pattern for tire industry.

Truman Studies Appeal Elsewhere on the labor front in

= ONE: President Truman was said | to be considering how strong to ~ make his new appéal to congress | for statutory fact-finding boards fol- | lowing the Géneral Motors Corp. walkout from the panel inquiring | into its dispute with its workers. Sources close to the President |

sald his faith in his proposed fact-| finding boards with power to sub-| ~ pena company books is -unshaken. i They sald he felt G. M. had in- " vited public disfavor by quitting the present panel, which lacks subpena powers, because it objected to the panel's decision to consider ability to pay wage increases. Despite the company walkout the panel planned to continue looking into the facts in the 39-day-old General Motors strike today. Union ~ Vice President Walter Reuther was: _. scheduled to conclude presentation . of the union's case. He sald yesterday the union’s case was based on General Motors annual reports and government figures. The panel sald it would sift this data. TWO-~The national labor rela- * tions board quit taking strike votes after President Truman signed legfsiation prohibiting use of govern- | ment funds for such polls. Labor officials. believed unions still would have to file 30-day strike notices Smith-Connally act. NLRB polls have cost the governnearly $1,000,000. . All schedpolls now have been called

THREE The new wage stabiliza- _ tion board which will replace the war labor board next Tuesday announced its plans for handling wage It will not touch labor dispute cases but will rule on wage * increases based on agreements between employers and employees which may effect price or rent Sellings. Delays Appointment Mr. Truman delayed appointment of a fact-finding board in the steel

_dispute pending OPA action. Under WSB rules the Little Steel formula, which during the war limi wage raises to 15 per cent of January, 1941, levels, will be vir- ~ tually tossed out the window along with wage brackets. Instead the - 'WSB will grant raises (1) to com- . pensate for higher living costs - where straight time average hourly _ eaMmings are less than the recently | estimated 33 per cent living cost | increase, (2) to correct inequities between plants and (3) to ease; manpower shortages in certain bot." . fleneck industries

Voluntary wage raises not affect. ing prices do not have to be sub: '- _ mitted to the WSB, a Considers Formula i The office of price administration is reported ‘to be considering a formula by which it could consider| fourth quarter earnings of the U. 8. Steel Corp. and its subsidiaries as the basis for higher prices. Meanwhile five U. 8. Steel Corp.

war labor beard to grant severance. pay to employees -pertiiitiently disShey to amp closing of less efficient " plants. The companies involved are L Carnegie-Tilinoia Steel Corp., Amer- | - jcan Steel & Wire Co. National

‘Tube Co., Tennessee Coal, Iron and | Sitioq Co. and “Columbia . Stel

rhe WLB also recommended thai

make severance payments to ome - ployees permanently laid off in warexhausted mines,

CHINESE PREPARING

Authoritative ' sources reported ; 20 that the Chinese government | “Was preparing a “satisfactory’ ‘reply & formal Communist proposal | Be the. civil war: It was understood that the reply* will contain one important condition | ~~that the Communists must evac-| po Uste sections of railways in their | reas of occupation. oo v A spokesman “announced meanir ‘while that the government was in| complete agreement with the Big,

NEW MEDITERRANEAN CHIEF FRANKFURT, Dec. ¥ (UU, P)—| Lt. Gen. John C. H. ¢, coms | manding general of European thea-

‘$3 DIE IN BUS CRASH °

“ PUEBLA, Mexico, Dec. 20 (U. P).| =A collision between two busses on

ak nr ger Er

| duction.

| operate better with White House.

| up between him | government, he probably will, He's

NOTE TO COMMUNISTS.

CHUNGKING, Dec. 20 (U. Py —

{ington

ike to. A Weekly Sizeup by the Washington Staff of the Scripps Howard Newspapers,

(Continued From Fase One) They give companies rebates on exces profits taxes if earnings fat -

| below 1936-39 average.

Look for General Motors strike to end with workers yielding i on their demand to examine company books, and getting in return |

what amounts to guarantee of steady work.

Secret discussions are in progress on this formula: Company to |

| grant a 15 per cent wage increase gent in escrow. This money goes

and to lay aside another 15 per back to company if workers get

50 weeks work in your, If not it goes to workers.

| Look for Higher Prices

LOOK FOR prices to continue rising AS wages rise. | and it'll pick up speed after first of year

halted with more production. Price ceilings probably will fall before cry that they hamper pro-

. . Election Talk THIS IS election year. With | party control of house at. stake, Democrats in congress will co-

They'll give President substitutes for most of things he asked for, try to persuade him and country they're just as good. Will the Republicans win house? This staff is sharply divided. A small majority thinks they will. Don't bet on it, though party out of power traditionally | makes gains in off-year election. Senate's not likely to change to Republican rule, Look for Tom Connally to be re-elected, to continue being top man in congress in handling foreign relations. It looks as if Mr. Bricker will go to senate from Ohio, starting his climb back toward the Republican presidential nomination, Governor Martin of Pennsyl.vania may try to unseat Senator Joe Guffey, has good chance to do it if he tries.

Senator Willis (R. Ind.) may have trouble getting renominated. Rep. Charles M. LaF te is going to campaign agal ’ as “radical Republican,” may keep him from nomination even though he doesn’t get it himself, Senator Shipstead will have to fight for renomination. Senator Robert M. LaFollette may change fo Republican party. Governor Goodland of Wisconsin has vetoed attempt to prevent by law any switching from one party to another,

» » v MacArthur's Position GEN, MacARTHUR probably will not quit over creation of a policy-making commission on Japan. But if any agency is set and Japanese

said to feel that he alone should tell the Japs what to do, that any change in this setup would make his position untenable. » » is DON'T LOOK for atomic bomb tests on ships for at least six

But’ it's kind that may be

months. Joint army-navy pian-

| ning board is still undecided who “Twill | though ‘Adm. Bland seems likely |

be in charge of project,

choice. Only two things now certain: Tests will be made in Pa-

| cific, and some of our own ships |

- addition to enemy vessels, will be used as targets. CLOSEST congressional contest in next few months will be over approving British loan. It will be okehed eventually, perhaps with

| some reservations.

. Legislation CONGRESS will get joint committee recommendations on modernizing its machinery and procedures but will be slow to enact them.

It will not override presidential | {| veto of the rescission bill,

based on employment service issue. Sen-

ate votes were too close when |

issue was before it. Look for senate to bury Bulwinkle bill immunizing railroads from anti-trust prosecutions; to pass a bill for consolidation of government research, perhaps Kilgore bill.

Labor legislation will be more

- along line of Hatch-Ball-Burten

bill when it emerges than factfinding boards proposed by President,

Don't expect changes in taxes. bill for domestic control of atomic power will pass eventu-

him | ®y, but will be much less dras-

tic than house bill. Veterans administration will get all money it's asking for new vet‘erans’ hospitals.

. ~ Two May Quit LOOK FOR Mr. Ickes and Mr, Schwellenbach to resign. Mr. Ickes will write, Mr, Schwellenbach Will go back to federal | bench. His successor will be less of believer in good-will methods of dealing with disputes,

. » . THERE'LL BE more war scandals before the year's out. Congress may look inte glider construction here, ask why prac: tically all these we used in Europe | were British-built,

» ~ . TWO MORE New Deal books are coming out soon. Frances Perkins 1s writing a history of labor under Mr. Roosevelt. Oscar Cox is’ writing a history of lendlease.

Karpex Factory to Expand

30 Per Cent Here Next Year

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/pex name are rubber mats to ease

imust stand. Among them are! dental, barber and household mats and kneeling pads. Other products ‘include cushions, tire repair patches, hospital mattresses, cushions’ and bumper mats in breweriéé aiid oil plants on which! Ad drop the barrels. . »'»

2 KILLED IN STATE; _ SEVEN INJURED HERE

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from a skidding truck at Alabama St. Clair sts. was reported alr “condition in City ‘hospital. - Collarbone Fractured Alphonso - Tenna of 247_8. Noble st, received a fractured collarbone when. hit- by the truck ‘driven by Pat Dollins, 32, of .3030-Kenwood wre, last night. The vicitm's vision as reported impaired by a scarf he wore over his face and a mackinaw’ sollar pulled Around ‘his head. _.Stipping * ‘on “the “lee. as a track{less trolley pulled away from Me|Carty st. and Virglivia ave, John Minor, 24, of 450 8. Keystone ave, {received a fracture of the left ankje.

He. was reported .run over by the |iNE their parents’ absence, The

vehicle. He was taken to St. Francis hospital. Hurt in Falls A 56-year-old woman was hit by! an automobile while crossing Wash- | st. west of Addison when she slipped on the ice. Mrs. Bess 'Evans, 617 E. dr. Woodruff pl.’ was treated at Methodist hospital for injuries to the left side and -arm. Driver of the car was Elton R. Joseph, 41, of 562'S. Warman ave. A fall on the ice sent Daniel Jines, 63, of 2021 Ida st to’City hospital. He received a fracture of the right ankle. Anna Holloway, 34, of 728 NN. East st, Apt. 8, received a laceration of the nose and abrasions below the left eye, when she fell in the 500 block of Massachusetts ave. She was taken to Methodist hospital.

mat for yse on ships as_Lhey nose | review by the allied powers: Russia {into dock.

which becomes . subsidiaries were directed by the working conditions for those who! water- logged.

It will replace hemp, too hard when They” will he for |

craft in the yacht classification_ as. officials believe they could not beiy made strong enough for lirer use

A complete rubber factory from |

Asulanee the compounding ‘with either crude or user synthetic

stock, Mr. Wotring be-

leves they will thrust into the field | of plastics. “The plasti rubber E-, - PRESENTLY the ~ company Is {are closely io sd. To fields ‘44 Lake Superior iron ore mines | planning to redesign the bumper | ing processes and at

times it almost | is impossible to tell where ‘synthetic | | rubber leaves off .and Dlastic begins,” | he said. ‘w

THE COMPANY maintains a lab. BS Three agreement hampered | oratory for experimentation on their lown products and those on subcontract basis. proven that ft will be enlarged tfiree dreamed it would” he said.

So useful has it

times in the near future. _ The present company has been

in existance for 13 years, - Officials other than Mr. Wotring ifhclude Frank’ Weirick, vice president and

urer. c agent and personnel man- party. ager, E. A Wilson, sales man.

Richard ‘Whipple, pure

ager.( J

5 CHILDREN BURN BRIDGEPORT, Conn. (U. P.).—~PFive children were burned to death today as a blazing Christ- | mas tree destroyed their home dur- |

victims were the children of Mr. |

and Mrs. home shortly before the fire

It's inflation, |

{not land at Washington, {were not needed, | Chairman Tom Connally " Tex.) of the senate foreign relations

substantiaif

- | us about it."

BYRNES 1S BACK FROM MO MOSCOW!

Secretary to to Be Asked to| ‘Explain’ Big 3 Parley.

(Continued From Page One) ‘good and bad weather "

‘ness or mishap. Calls Meeting ‘Constructiv: He described the foreign: minisconference as “very construc-|

| ters’ tive.” | “Equally important with the de- | cisions made is the fact that rela(tions were established that will! make decisions easier on other matters in the future,” he commented. | Greeting the. sécretary at the | Washington National airport when [the piane landed at 11:09 (Indian |apolis time), were Mrs. Byrnes, ! Undersecretary of State Dean | Acheson, Assistant Secretary Spru- | /iile Braden, British Ambassador | Lord Halifax and other diplomatic {officials. - No representatives of the Soviet embassy were in the group. The Byrnes plane flew direct from | Stevensville, Newfoundland, to Washington. The army air trans-| |port command took precautionary | measures to provide other landing | facilities in case the plane could | but they

(D.,

‘committee and several committee | members were among those who, ‘hoped to have an early talk with Mr. Byrnes. { Questions Unanswered They felt Thursday night's for-| mal communique failed to answer 'many questions about the powers of the proposed four-member coun- | cil in Tokyo and the 11- member

lington. They particularly wanted {to know to what extent Russia, through her veto powers on the |council and commission, would be | lable to affect Gen. Douglas Mac- | Arthur's rule of Japan. They also wanted the inside story on why the munique failed to | mention. Iran Palestine. One thing congressmen were cer-| | tain of was that this country will | not give away the secret of the atom {bomb without congressional ap- | proval. | Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg | (R, Mich.) said he had been told {by the state department that all plans for controlling atomic energy would be submitted to congress for

‘ THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

.| forces under t

ADM. TOWERS TO HEAD U. S. PACIFIC FLEET

WASHINGTON, Dec. 20 (U. P.. ~The navy's peacetime high command structure apparently was | nearly compléte today. The navy announced orders yesterday which put all Pacific fleet the command of Adm. John H. Towers, its No. 1 aviator. Adm. Towers took his flight training under Glenn H. Curtiss in 1911 and has been a booster of naval aviation ever since. He will be the new commander-in-chief of the Pacific fleet and Pacific ocean areas, succeeding Adm. Raymond A. Spruance who becomes | president of the navy's war college at Newport, R.3. R.L

RACE TO REACH

“BOUGHT BY RCA _

Million Dollar pollar Expansion. Here Announced. (Continued From Page One) Victor operation here will be pro-

ducing for the civilian market

“within six months.”

continue at the original plant. Radio-phonograph consoles have been produced in the new plants since the war, but none has come off the assembly line for the civilian market as yet. Need of parts is said to be holding up completion of those already built but it was

MORE MINERS

Rescue Workers Fighting Ahead; 8 Out Alive.

(Continued From Page One)

mine tragedy which killed six miners, Townes directed his men in throwing up a barricade of shale | to seal the precious air in their side

time” the shortage of parts would

anticipated that “within a short

be alleviated Peak in 6 Months Assembly lines must be built before wholesale production will be possible, and it was estimated that six months will be required to attain peak production. - The few navy contracts still on by schedule’ are set for completion

shaft and keep out poisonous gases. | Find Footprints | The first traces of the trapped’ men was their footprints on the dusty floor of the main shaft. Then | the rescue crew came to the barricade. In front of it was a note

signed by Townes which said: |

“Nine miners in here. 11a. m.

| Thursday.” There were other annotations that Townes had scribbled previously as the men ppl for help knew was on the

The rescuers tore teverishly at] Inside they found |

|Far Eastern commission in Wash- | more footprints and arrows drawn |

the barricade.

by Townes toward where the mines] | were lying motionless to conserv their air supply. “If the others have a veteran Townes to keep them from wearing themselves down, we ought to get them out,” a rescue worker said. Hatfield said his crew was work- | ing in a corridor known as “5-left,” and the others were in “6-left” about 300 feet away. None of the men knew what caused the explosion which trapped the men and damaged the electrical system which ran their ventilators. It appeared to have occurred near where the 31 men were working two miles inside a shaft which slopes down gently from the side of a mountain.

final approval. | “Any disclosures regarding the, {atomic bomb should be part of a | complete plan for adequate world{wide inspection and eontrol,” he, said. Senator Vandenberg, a Repub- | | lican leader in foreign affairs, called [at the state department yesterday and later accompanied Undersecre- | lary of State Dean Acheson to the | White House to see Mr. Truman. Senator Vandenberg's statement | did not. however, eliminate congres- ! sional uncertainty over some aspects |of- the Moscow agreement. “A lot of us are confused about [details of the communique,” said a | Democratic member of the senate |toreign relations committee. “The | secretary undoubtedly will have to come before the committee to tell

Wherry Criticizes Under the Moscow agreement | Russia would be able to veto Gen. MacArthur on certain questions and | could override him pending 8 final

specifically could veto any’ proposed

“The blast almost tore our ears off, but the fire didn't touch us,” {Hatfield said from his bed in the Pineville community hospital. “At first we tried to Work our way | | out, but the heat was too awful and the gas and smoke made us go back. “We decided to wall ourselves off in the side shaft and just wait and hope. “We knew when the rescue work started because they reversed the ventilating fans to-biow air out jrto the main shaft instead of in to us. That caused us some trouble. The fans were Fl clear the ‘shaft of smoke and poisonous gases. Hatfield said the x men had plenty of water, and ‘they rationed the food from the lunch pails they had taken into-the mines with them. The cutting off of their fresh air made fhem tire quickly, he said. “J” remember almost everything up to the time they brought me out,” he said. ' “Prom then on, until I. woke up here in the hospital, my mind's a blank.” Dr. Charles B. Stacy and Dr. Adam Stacy, both of Pineville but no relation, had set up a first aid

basic. change in the Japanese government,

“put her foot in the door.” “If we have given to Russia a veto power which restricts carrying ou [the . fill terms jof the Pottam ement which provides the setIt up of democratic form of government in Japan, then we have

| said. Praises MacArthur

I Rep--Mike Mansfield (D. Mont.) | [said it would be “too bad” if the

MacArthur's work in Japan. “Gen, MacArthur ‘has set 1p michinery in Japan which is furnc- | tioning more smoothly than I ever

have nothing but the highest il and admiration for-his work.” flicting opinions on the results of the Big Three meeting were .ex-

pressed by the National Farmers | the hospital, then the lights were

Union and the U. 8. Socialist

President James G. Patton of the | Farmers Union hailed “the accord {of MoStow.” He said it could befeome “as historic a victory as any

Dec. 29 1itls nation has éver won. A victory |

| for peace and world unity.” Norman Thomas, veteran Soclal{ist leader, denounced the agree-

Samuel Carcare, who left | ment in equally strong language as “Start- | & “new Munich” and a “total vic-

ed to open their gasoline station 'Ory over liberty and justice.”

several blocks away. . FLOOD HITS SUBWAY

| He sald the agreement insured {the triumph of “the new Soviet * in Buitpe. He de-

| imperialism NEW YORK, Dec. 20 (U, P).—|clared that America's conscience Partial service was resumed on the| “has been smothered by the inBMT. subway lines by 8 a. m. todsy |expert bungling of our state deafter ¢ water main break in lower partment, our government's desire Manhattan had flooded the Canal|for bases and oil concessions and st. station at 4 a. m: and tied upithe relative deference = Stalin

has service completely. No injuries were [shown fo American wishes In : China”. ' : 5

Outside congress, violently ‘ con- |

[sttaion a mile and half inside the ‘mine. . Dri” Charles—Stacy told the

[cade of “5-left.” Saw Cap Lamps The first, sight of the men was [ore feeble glow of their cap lamps. “We administered stimulants and { black. coffees’ before rushing them

are mold- made a concession to Russia,” he to the surface,” Dr. Stacy said.

|" The nine were carried from the {mine on stretchers. A blanket cov'ered the face of Bennett. The ‘eight [survivors were rushed to hospitals in waiting ambulances. Dr, Stacy said difficulty was en-. éountered in operating respiratory | equipment to give the men a reviv|ing shot of oxygen. It was almost 1/4 minutes after they were found {until the first was ‘brought’ from | the Ime,

~- Talked With Families

The rescued miners were allowed {to talk briefly $0 their families at

}

| turned out in their rooms. The oecurred in the

first shift entered the -shaft after | the Christmas holiday. a Hatfleld and Tawnes, Mitlér, Charles Lingar, Ivan Phil. pot, McKinley Leach, John Bran- | stetter, Tom “McQueen.

Organizations

Tutuday at 8 Dp mW Jones is )

UNO ELIMINATES

explosion mine four miles from Pineville |, ‘Wednesday, 93 minutes after the.

rescued. alive “included Huey

Ne. 481, 0. EK. S. wu

by April, “or possibly earlier.” The plants are on E. North st, near the firm's No. 1 building and | offices at LaSalle and Michigan sts. The expansion program follows a | statement of company officials is"sued at the close of the war that RCA planned bigger and better things for Indianapolis’ business picture with ever-increasing employment.

3 SITES IN EAST

° Millions to Be Spent for City ‘Near N. Y. or Boston.

LONDON, Dec. 29 (U. P.).—A sixnation inspection commission today eliminated three possible sites for headquarters of the United Nations Organization—Westhampton Beach in the New York area and Cape Cod and Springfield in the Boston area. The inspection group also added one area in the Boston district— the North Shore—to those under The committee said it might in‘spect previously unmen “oson sites within the prescribed and New York areas. / The search for a spot to build the headquarters ‘of the UNO was Himited to thy outlying areas of New York and Boston. Away From City The objective is an idyllic spot where there is no danger in the foreseeable future of UNO headquarters being “overlain by a sprawling city or ‘sickened by industrial nuisances.” } When such a site is found UNO will be prepared to spend millions of-dollars to acquire land, truct impressive buildings and start the core of what. it hopes will become a truly internationalscenter. A special inspection group of six United Nations representatives will leave here late next week to visit 15 possible sites in the New York and Boston areas and probably any others further suggested in those areas.

HITLER LICENSE 70 WED FOUND

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2 NAVY PLANTS

One) becaise of the “brutalities” of! everyday life. Mr. Dreiser had been dubbed variously “America’s oremost novelist” apd “the great imaginative writer.” Others called him “a mere Fought Sinclair Lewis One of the first American realists

te ect with other writers. . He engaged In a fist fight with novelist Sinclair Lewis over charge that Mr. Dreiser p material in a book about Russia) written by Dorothy Thompson, then | Mr. Lewis’ wife. Mr. Dreiser also mixed with George Bernard Shaw, Irish satirist, when the American writer said in in England than the “horse-riding

1942 he would rather see Germans

snobs” who Mr. Dreiser claimed were running the country. Wrote ‘My Gal Sal

Mr. Dreiser objected strongly to

movie treatment of his “American Tragedy” and another novel, “Sister Carrie.” But he wrote the story of another motion picture, the musical “My Gal Sal” It starred Victor Mature as the Dreiser, Gay Nineties song writer

and Mr. Dreiser's brother. Another brother, Edward Dreiser of New York City, survived. The

{funeral will be at Forest Lawn

Memorial park at a time not yet announced, Born in Terre Haute, Ind. Aug. 27, 1871, Mr. Dreiser achieved an international reputation after wit ing “An American Tragedy,” {last published novel, in 1925. He had worked as a newspaperman on the Chicago Globe, St | Louis Globe-Democrat and other | papers until 1912, and had written

| many novels, essays, short stories |

and plays. J Worked for Magazines He also did spécial work for a number of magazines and was edi-

tor-in-chief of Butterick publications, In 1944 Mr. Dreiser was given

the award of merit medal and : $1000 cash prize by the American

Academy of Arts and Letters for his published works and for his “courage and integrity in breaking trail as a pioneer in the presentation of fiction of real beings and a real America.” Mr. Dreiser described American women as “good only for bearing children” and American society as “catering money.” “There has only been one good American woman and that was my mother,” he once told a scandalized Junior league tea. ‘Criticized Britain “The institution of marriage will always remain in this country, because once a woman gets hold of a man here, neither hell nor high water can pry him loose,” he said, “Then they have children and the poor susker has to-go out and work for a living.” + Mr. * Dreiser himself had no children. The American writer met censure in .1942 when he asserted

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army head- | quarters in Germany some weeks “| ago. recapitulating the best infagmation and deductions as to Hitler's fate. The . British statement said—as had previous reports based on interviews with persons in Berlin shortly | before it fell to the Russians—tha! { Hitler and Eva Braun were married at the end of April, that he shot himself and she took poison a few hours later, and that their bodies were drenched with gasoline and burned outside the chancellery, Truscott-said the original marriage license was witnessed by Martin Borman, missing Nazi party

apparently a suicide—in the last hours of the for Berlin.

“ THIEVES FIND KEY,

| meet . via - foun J Bot Sk "i. COLD PDEPARATIONS Ne Pa ot 7:48 Pe It a

deputy, and Paul Joseph Goebbels, propaganda minister who died— Claas

Canadian speaking engagement.

t in Keritucky in 1981,

of misconduct with a

cluding novelist John Dos Passos, “Praised by Other Writers “He was undoubtedly the

informed of Mr, Dreiser's death.

idealism.”

a! Dreiser shared fame

late Paul |

tor of Smith's magazine and edi-|

to people who have]

that all Britain had-dene in the Twar was to borrow money, planes and guns from the U. 8. He was immediately banned from filling » ol iser was involved in an Senator Kennel 8. Wherry (R United Press of the dramatic finding so far as it went, with an an- armeiination of cou strike terrorism MEANS BETTER eb) said this was letting Russia of the footprints outside the barri- nouncement at British He was in-| dicted in Harlan, Ky, on, charges | “mystery” | ‘woman, and indicted again in Mid: | dlesboro, Ky. with nine others; -in+

on charges of criminal sydnicalism.

American writer of our generation.” | philosopher Will Durant sald when

“He was a monolith of pugnacious

~*“His death is & tremendous loss ta. American literature,” author Ben |

Theodore Dreiser. Hoosler 4 _ Realist Author, Dies at 74

Hecht said. “For 15 to 20 years he was the only first-rate writer fs country had”.

Dreiser Visited Here Last in "41

Theodore Dreiser, the novelist, spent his formative years in his native Indiana. Born at Terre Haute on Aug. 27, 1871, Dreiser was educated in the public schools there and at Warsaw, Ind. Later, he attended Indiana university and took his. first journalistic job on the Chicago Globe in 1892 at the age of 21.

with his | brother, Paul, who spelled his sure name Dresser. Dresser was best | known as the author of the song, { “On the Banks of the Wabash.” | Dreiser visited Indianapolis on | Nov. 21, 1941, as a club speaker. In

men on that visit, two weeks before Pearl Harbor, Dreiser praised John L. Lewis of the United Mine Workers, assailed the British and 1940 G. O. P. Presidential nominee Wen dell L. Willkie, a fellow native Hoosier who since has died. | .Dreiser said then that America’s best bet in the werld crisis was to back Russia. He said that “the crowd that runs England isn't worth saving.”

ARMSTRONG MAY RUN FOR CONGRESS

(Continued From Page Ome) the color of every farmer's beard and every eity feller's political credo. A Fofmer State Senator Mr;7Armstrong has a few friends mn, the district himself. He was Jélected to the Indiana state senate {in 1943 and while there established |a reputation as an accomplished legislator. And he’s only 26, going on 27.

that Ninth District Chairman Ivan Morgan, the dry-humored tomato | tycoon, is not one of Mr. Armstrong's {special friends. Mr. Morgan and Senator Capehart, Mr. Armstrong's present boss, were 1944 campaign foes inasmuch as Mr. Morgan booste ed James WI. Tucker for senator.

FREE VOCATIONAL CLASSES TO OPEN

Registration for free vocational classes sponsored by Indianapolis public schools will be held Jan. 8 and 10 in Stuart hall at Technical | high school. The classes include instruction in vocational -and technical training, jand will meet from 7 to 9 p. m. on Tuesday and Thursday from Jan, 15 through May 28.

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. WASHINGTO — President T Potomac aboar yacht Williamst He worked or

, report to the na down legislative The address all radio netwc room of the p. m. (Indianap »-t Mr. Truman on the holiday c bers of his staff cial counsel, Sa and his special Steelman. A major ‘part address was exp ed to the criti including his p to set up fact major labor dis To Se He will take however, to talk State James P. to join him as home from the

ministers’ confe Mr. Truman only-three hours Washington fr Christmas holid: His giant four plane, the Sacr murky weather ¢ port four hour after taking off Kas. The Presiden turbed at repor been some conce Told that “s been worrying al man smiled and needn't be.” F east was made the fog all the

Redepla G.I. Ui

PARIS, Dec. day's redeployn American divis pean theater: 26th, 86th, 8 fantry: On the 100th Infantr on the high se: 82d Airborn United Kingdon for shipment States. 80th Infantry sailed for th Wednesday; 175 the United Kin uled to leave United States 29th Infantr) moving into Br 2d Armored: | ing area. 84th Infantry “ments at Cam main body du Dec. 20 and 31 179th General for United Stat The First and ulating groups, 315th Field Arti 805th Combat sailed for th Wednesday. The 94th Inf: 22d Corps head alerted for ship

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