Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 January 1946 — Page 1
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VOLUME 56—NUMBER 257
FRIDAY, JANUARY 4, 1946
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TRUMAN ASKS | PUBLIC TO PUT
ON ‘PRESSURE
Urges Action Now to Stave Off Economic Chaos; Raps Congress. (Editorial, Page: 18)
By LYLE C. WILSON United Press Staff Correspondent
WASHINGTON, Jan, 4.— Elements of labor, management and congress stood charged by President Truman today with hindering reconversion and exposing the na-
tion to economic disasters. Hi chief complaint was against congress. His sharp words inevitably will Invite a counter attack . when the house and senate end their vacation on Jan. 14. But he also objected to “mis representation” of his policies by some spokesmen of both labor and management. In that vein the President appealed to the people for emergency support in a broadcast last night. His speech was touched with the fireside chat strategy of the late Franklin D. Roagevelt. There ‘was & phrase in the manner of Woodrow Wilson when Mr. Truman protested the powers often wielded against him on Capitol Hill by “a handful of men.” Sees Co-operation
Balked in congress, he asked the |"
people to join in a great pressure group movement to bring congress— and all hands—back into line. © Members of congress reacted to the President's words with mingled resentment and predictions of greater co-operation. Their comment was divided largely along party lines. Senator Walter F. George (D. Ga.) believed the President “will get hearty co-operation on all '‘impor-
(D. Mich) sald Mr. Truman's legislative program should be adopted but also called for more. efficient
Truman's Major Proposal What Congress Has Done
WASHINGTON, Jan. 4 (U. P.).—Here are some of President Truman’s major domestic legislative proposals and their status in congress: Fact-Finding Boards in Labor Disputes—Hearings begun in house, not yet scheduled in senate. One-Year Extension of War Powers—Congress extended them six months. Full Employment Bill—Different versions passed both houses and now in conference; President has denounced house bill as not acceptable. Expanded Unemployment Insurance—Approved by senate but pigeonholed by house ways and means com-.
mittee,
Higher Minimum Wage—Hearings held in both houses put no committee action, Permanent FEPC—Approved by house labor committee but bottled up in rules committee. Health and Medical Care—No action yet in. either house. Peacetime Military raising —Hearings begun in house, not yet scheduled in senate. Armed Forces Merger—Hearings under way in senate, not in house, Presidential Succession Changes—Bill house, no action by senate. Ceiling Prices on Houses—Still in committee stage.
Presidential proposals that have been passed by congress include measures for reorganization of executive branch of the government, lower taxes for 1946 and a single administrator for surplus property -disposal.
passed by
operation by government departments. There Was an angry note in com-
speech, he said, “will have no effect on congress whatsoever.” Cites Finance Hazards Senator Wayne L. Morse (R. Ore) | said the address was a “sad confession of the Democratic majority in congress under the President's . ership.” He called for elecfion © i .. balloting. In his speech, Mr. Truman said the dangers of inflation or deflation confront us but that congress has done little—very little—to stave them off, “Time is running out,” the Presi- | dent said; citing dangers of a col-| lapse worse than that which hit this nation in 1920 after the victory of world war IL “What the American want,” he said, “is action!” Labor-management strife is the
Highlights Of Speech
WASHINGTON, Jan. 4 (U. P).— Following are summarized highlights of President Truman’s appeal
people
to the nation for support of his|-
legislative program: 1946 is our year of decision. This year we shall have to make the decisions which will determine whether or not we gain that great future at home and abroad which we fought so valiantly to achieve. » » » I have outlined legislative pro‘posals to meet the problems which lie ahead, A few have been adopted. Progress on most of them has been distressingly slow. » # » The legislative branch has done ita full share toward carrying out its responsibilities in foreign affairs. It has contributed toward co-oper-ation among the nations of the world in their search for peace and prosperity, LE. When we turn to. our domestic problems, we do not find a similar record of achievement. ‘We have
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Truman Appeals to Biggest ‘Pressure Group'—The People
‘Man on the Street’ Here Backs Truman's Main Aims
By VICTOR PETERSON PRESIDENT TRUMAN took on new stature today with the “man on the street” in Indianapolis following his radio address last night. Regardless of political party, most of those interviewed expressed a new confidence in the nation’s leader. Most agreed in the main with the points he presented.
- » » » » . Joseph Greer, 3231 N, Illinois st, deliveryman, said: “It was a swell speech and I feel the President is really for the working-man. I'm going to get in touch with both my senators and all my repre
Joseph Greer Mrs. E. Raab C. W. Blacklidge Donna Lovelace
sentatives and let them know what I think. That's what Truman said and I agree. “I was worried about him when he took office,” but now I think he's going to work out swell. I don't think any man could be more fair and SonScletioue.” » » » » Mrs. Emin Raab, Lawrence, local store clerk, ao was worried about President Truman to start with. “We never know what's in a package ‘til it has been opened-and that is- just about the way it is with the President. He really hasn't been opened up yet but last night he gave us a pretty good idea. “He has had lots of experience in congress so he should know what he is talking about, and I think he will make a good President in the long run. And that goes even though I did vote for Dewey. “I think everyone should co-operate with him and agree we should get in touch with our congressmen. But I'm not so sure on this fact-
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finding committee, I'm a little afraid that it might give the government just a little too much power in the long run, “As far as I am concerned, labor has the government going now, I think they should Jos, keep on riding hard.” » # » ” . C. W. (Ted) Blacklidge, 444 N. Oakland ave, clothing store pro-
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POLL STARTED T0 DETERMINE HOUSING NEEDS
Mayor's Committee Will Be
Given Results of City Survey.
An extensive survey to determine exact housing needs in Indianapolis is under way today. The poll, conducted through the co-operation of the Junior
and newspapers was designed to give the mayor's emergency housing committee figures on the housing shortage.” Walter Evans, chairman of the committee, said results of the survey would go a long way toward helping the group in its plan to meet the need. Every resident who requires additional living space or who plans to buy or build a house is urged to fill out the questionnaire which appears in this edition of The Indianapolis Times on Page Two.
Census Ald Asked
of census is being sought to strengthen the results of the survey. Mr. Evans has requested the bureau to make a poll similar to that ‘conducted in 1942 but said it was “too early” fo determine whether the bureau could co-operate. When the survey has been tabulated, the resuits will be reported to the state economic planning commission. Local draft boards will attempt to list “how many” returning veterans will require housing facilities of what type. Service men reafter
Chamber of Commerce, draft boards}
A spot check by the U. 8. bureau |*
NEW BUILDING NEEDED BADLY
Furnishing Is Delayed by War Shortages.
By SHERLEY. UHL Julietta infirmary is jammed to over-capacity but its new $500,000 annex, completed a year dgo, is still unoccupied, still a “white elephant.” The lavish, tile-walled addition was begun in 1937 to ease overtaxed facilities at the county institution at that time. The facilities are
still overtaxed. So is the county budget which bore the brunt of
civilian life in 1946.
GERM WARFARE IS ‘PRACTICAL’
Army, Navy Tests Prove Disease as Weapon,
WASHINGTON, Jan. 4 (U.P) Wartime research proved conclusively that disease-spreading bacteria could be used in future wars but the United States already has developed effective. counter-meas~ ures, it was disclosed today. Separate reports made public by the army and navy said independent research by the two agencies had proved: the practicability of germ warfare. Ahead of Axia Japan, the war department said, had made “definite progress” ‘in preparing for. bacteria warfare but the war’ ended before she could develop this: weapon for effective use, The allies, however, were far ahead of the axis in this fleld. They did not intend to use germ warfare unless the enemy did first, the army said. Navy research conducted over a 33-months period confirmed that man-made epidemics could be an effective weapon in a future war.
prietor, also agrees that congress should he kept under the voter's finger. “The President needs a lot of help right'now and every American should “ack him to the hilt. I don’t think, however, that he is vigorous enough, He should crack down and crack down hard, No man ever faced more or tougher problems. “Personally I think thmt General Motors should co-operate and that the fact-finding committee could go a long way in averting the
strikes facing the nation.” » . ” » » y
Miss Donna Lovelace, 2231 Broadway, elevator operator, isn't old enough to vote yet but she has some very definite ideas on how this | country should be run, “The outstanding point of his talk was his plea that the common people put the heat on congress. I am. sure we will respond. He ob-
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By FRED W. PERKINS Seripps-Howard Staff Writer
* congress to “do somethirig substantial about strikes.” It has just 10
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WASHINGTON, Jan. 4.--Messrs. Green, Murray and Lewis, who do most of the powerful talking‘ for American organized labor, say they speak for welfare of the public, but 18 today they have, a competitor for 18 that -audience—President Truman, 24| Never before has a President tried 7.50 zealously to mobilize the “most pressure . group 13 world” against the other. pressure 17 groups that are scaring . congress away from laws to control indus-
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trial disturbances. That “pressure “group,” as Mr.
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days to work on the legislators before they get back here. Mr. Truman pointed out, with apparent regret, that this biggest pressure group isn't organized. Being an old hand at the legislating he seemed to recognize {that a comparatively small number of people, under centralized direction, can be more influential than a much larger number who sit ‘at-home and merely alk Aahout big publié questions, From the primer on infhiencing. congress: This is an eléction year
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The navy said its highly-secret jrestaren had resulted in informa-
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KNOX REPORT SHOWS JAP ATTACK FEARED
Findings Quoted at Probe of Pearl Harbor,
WASHINGTON, Jan. 4 (U, P).— The late Secretary of Navy Frank Knox found in his Pearl Harbor investigation in 1941 that Wash-
ington had “plain intimation of some surprise move by Japan” before the attack on Hawaii, it was disclosed today. The Knox report to the late President Roosevelt was read into the record of congress’ Pearl Harbor investigation by Adm. Harold R.- Stark, former chief of naval operations, Mr. Knox reported that neither Adm. Husband E, Kimmel nor Lt. Gen, Walter €. Short, navy and army commanders at Hawaii, expected the raid on Hawali because of the supppsed danger fo any attacking Japanese carrier force from “the preponderance of- American naval power at Pearl Harbor.” _ “Neither Mr. Short. nor Adm, Kimmel had any knowledge of the
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Ayres says use of the three-story|/ wing has been deferred by inability of the county to furnish it adequately. due to war shortages. Bedding Lacking Especially lacking, he says, are bedciothing, pillows, pillow-cases and mattresses. Some furniture is yet to be installed.
furnishings have been awarded, but have not been filled. He said material shortages have forced the county - to string out purchase of $25,000 worth of fittings over a period of a year. Meanwhile, expensive equipment placed in the annex’s dark, cavernous interior more than a year ago gathers dust and rust and the infirmary struggles along with dilapi-
use in the old quarter. Partly Furnished
Among items installed in the lonely annex upon its completion were beds, chests-of-drawers, refrigerators, stoves, portable kitchens, operating tables, sterilizing units, aluminum utensils, sinks, toilets. While aged occupants stumble over each other in the infirmary’s old section, a modernistic auditorium in the new annex, spotless and retaining the odor of fresh plaster, stands idle. It's empty except for a féw rows of folding chairs, There are no colorful accessories such as draperies, rugs or wall ornaments, 46 warm its cold, bare appearance. . Similar. chilliness prevails elsewhere. With medical facilities pathetically cramped in the old adjoining building, a new operating room and hospital ward in the
unused annex are as bleak and | vacant as a haunted house. A costly
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COACH BADLY HURT BY HIT-RUN DRIVER
Oscar White, Technical high school freshman basketball coach is in serious condition at Methodist hospital today, a victim of a hitrun driver last night. He was struck in the 1400 block of E. Washington st. and thrown against a streetcar. was broken. The 30-year-old - coach also assists with varsity football.
Mr. Ayres said contracts for the
dated, time-worn appliahces still in|
His left leg!
Completed a Year, County Infirmary Annex Stands Idle
The jinx is on Julietta. Started In 1937, the new wing to the county infirmary still is unoccupied. Here
are beds but no bedclothing,
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B. I. SLUGGER IS ON LOOSE AGAIN
Soldier Who Robbed Local Woman Escapes.
By HEZE CLARK An army private who escaped from niilitary authorities after he confessed to brutally beating =a §5-year-old Indianapolis woman was being sought sag ; pgain today. Frank E. Burman, formerly’ of Ft. Harrison, who was apprehended in the west by City Detective William F. O'Rourke, broke out of the army's Luke Field stockade near Phoenix, Ariz, on Dec. 26, ¥rank Burman It was not learned here until today that the ex-convict, “confidence man” and alleged draft dodger was at large. Word came to Indianapolis police from Camp Croft, 8. C,, from which post Burman is reporfed A. W. O. L. Confesses Theft
Sgt. O'Rourke said Burman confessed at Phoenix to having ripped a two-karat diamond ring from the finger of Mrs. Nellie Brooks, 4312 Winthrop ave. after beating the widow about the head and face with a whetstone at her home. He told O'Rourke that he sold the ring in Chicago for $450. Burman rang the bell at the Brooks home about 3 a. m. on last Oct, 20, the victim told police at
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DUKE TO VISIT LONDON,
PARIS, Jan. 4 (u. P.) ~The Duke of Windsor will go to London soon, probably Monday, for a “private visit of a day or two,” his secre tary said today. The secretary professed to have heard nothing of a rumor that the duke intended to
return to Nassau.
8800 G. |. Godfathers for
Triplets Need Basic Training
“By H. D. QUIGG United Press Staff Correspondent NEW YORK, Jan. 4-—-The only trouble with having 8800 G. I. godfathers for your babies, a British bride said today, is that none -of them knows how to wash a diaper. That's particularly bad when the babies are triplets and there are 36 diapers to be done..every day. Otherwise, according “to Mrs. Robert H. Glass; a young Englishwoman who married an American staff sergeant, the adoption of her|.
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triplet sons by - the ‘hard-boiled veterans of the 82d airborne division was just about the nicest thing |" that could have happened to them, The . Glass - triplets..and their mother. and ‘8800 godfathers arrived yesterday aboard the Queen Mary, The Glass family was among. 12
brides ‘and nine children brought!
to this country on the British liner. The newspaper of the famous airborne division said the adoption
" |{demand, and his name was stricken ‘ {from the list of UNRRA employees.
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UNRRA Chief Is Ousted for ‘Exodus’ Talk
LONDON, Jan. 4 (U.P.).—The UNRRA today discharged Lt. Gen. Sir Frederick E. Morgan, its chief of operations in Germany, for saying Wednesday that organized Jewry was plotting a mass migration: from Europe to Palestine, A swift series of announcements by the UNRRA revepled that Gen. Morgan had been given a “suggestion” that he resign. He refused. The suggestion was made a blunt
Soon after the, regional office of UNRRA issued a formal announcement that Morgan had been asked to resign, an official told the United Press:
UNRRA'’s standpoint. Gen, Morgan has been deprived of authority and pay, and is without a job in the UNRRA. No statement he ean make will alter the situation.” Gen. Morgan, who was recommended fo UNRRA by the British war office, will be returned to the war office, an official of the relief organization said, Lt. Gen. Sir Humphrey Gale, personal representative of UNRRA Director Herbert Lehman in Europe, will assume “long distance author. ity” over Morgan's area until a new chief is appointed for Germany, the oficial said.
SEVEN-GENT CASH FARE TO BE ASKED
'P. S. C. Will Be Given City’s Proposal Monday.
Establishment of a seven-cent cash fare on all Indianapolis transit vehicles will be asked of the Public Service Commission Monday by Public Counsellor Glenn Slenker. Mr, Slenker today said he would follow the rate schedule ‘proposed by Indianapolis city council in making his recommendations to the P
tokens for 25 cents, a five-cent fare for school children and free transfers. Monday's hearing is on the public counsellor’s motion to reduce ' the present fares immediately on an ‘emergency” basis. It was filed
rent fares had cost the riding public
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to help formulate occupation 3 The commission has not yet b to function. Potsdam Policy A headquarters spokesman the directives were based om Big Three Potsdam conference munique of last July. The Potsdam document “there must be eliminated for : time the authority and influence of those who have deceived and mise led the people of Japan into ems’. barking on world conquest.” “These directives will elimin the most undesirable elements. the Japanese government,”
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