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VOLUME 56—NUMBER 258

SATURDAY, JANUARY 5, 1946

Entered as Second-Clase Matter at Postoffice Tndianapolis 9, Ind. Issued daily except Sunday

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AGREE TO HALT CHINA FIGHTING T0 TALK PEACE

Outer Mongolia’s Independence Recognized by Chiang Regime.

By WALTER LOGAN United Press Staff Correspondent

CHUNGKING, Jan, 5.— The National government and the Communists have agreed on a procedure for ending hostilities in China's civil war and for restoration of communications, it was announced tonight. Details of the suspension of hostilities and restoration of communications will Be worked out immediately, K. C. Wu, minister of information, announced. The unity conference delegated

Chou En-lai, Communist leader, and Chang Chun, governor of Szechwan, to meet and work out the detailed , Plan. Wu said that Chou and Chang probably would issue the actual cease-fire order after conferring with Gen, George C. Marshall

Talk With Marshall Wu's “statement indicated that Chou and Chang probably had been designated by the Communists and National government respectively

to serve with Gen. Marshall on the three-man arbitration committee which will seek to resolve China's

"differences.

A Communist announcement appeared to confirm this interpretation. The Communists said a joint communique would be issued shortly. Gen. Marshall met with Chou today and later lunched with Marshal Chiang Kai-shek. In another major development announced today, China recognized the independence of Outer Mongolia after a unanimous Mongolian plebescite, officially ceding to Soviet Russia a dominant role over 1,000,000 square miles of territory about which the two powen have argued for 25 years.

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The piebescite was held by open baliot on Oct. 20 after China promised Russia she would eran independence if a mejority of the Mongolians voted for it. Simultaneously, a Central news agency diepatch reported that the Central Chinese government has reached a peace settlement with the rebellious Kazkhs in the remote Sinkiang province at the northwest corner of China, immediately southwest of outer Mongolia. This agreement, negotiated in the Sinkiang capital Urumchi (or Tihwa), granted the Kazkhs a high degree of autonomy. Granting of independence marks the biggest official Chinese territorial loss in 100 years. However, Other Mongolia has been independent for practical purposes for a quarter of a century. ‘China has maintained official sovereignty over the territory, but has been without administrative power there since 1920, when the Soviet influence spread through the f area, Sparsely Settled The Russians have strongly supported the “Mongolian People’s Re-

public.” They have called it “a tried ally of the U, 8 8. R. for many years.”

Outer Mongolia lies along the southern frontiers of the Soviet Union to the north of China. It is a sparsely settled, rugged land interlaced by many rivers. The population totals roughly 1,000,000—one person to every square mile. In the northeastern corner of Outer Mongolia is the great wall of Ghengis Khan, built as a protection against invasion. Official Chinese abandonment of Outer Mongolia was part of a deal made when the Sino-Soviet treaty was signed last August. China agreed to give up Outer Mongolia in return for Soviet support for Chiang Kai-shek's government against the Chinese Communists, and recognition of Chinese sovereignty over Manchuria. .

UNRRA REQUESTS

MORGAN TO RESIGN

LONDON, Jan, 5 (U, P), — UNRRA spokesman said a cable was sent today to Lt. Gen. Sir Frederick E, Morgan at Frankfurt recalling him to London and formally requesting his resignation. The request for Morgan's resignation resulted from his assertion at a Frankfurt press conference Wednesday that a scheme for a Jewish migration from Europe to Palestine existed. .

TIMES INDEX

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army to handle the long-term occupation assignment in Germany. Gen, McNarney said he was convinced the occupation should last at least 10 years, and on the basis of ovresent evi dence he favored an even . longer term, By July 1, he sald, the army plans to send more than 500,000 troops to the United States, while receiving ¥ necessary rein« Gen. ‘McNarney forcements from home. Redeployment has been slowed!

ARMY TO SLOW 61 DISCHARGES

Occupation Needs to Rule Overseas Return.

By REUEL S. MOORE United Press Staff Correspondent ... WASHINGTON, Jan. 5.— Army discharge point requirements will be lowered more slowly from now on. Occupation needs rather than shipping will determine how quickly men are returned from overseas. Lt. Gen. P.’Lawton Collins, army information chief, indicated that the army will cut its discharge

U.S. Force in Europe to Drop

July, Gen. McNarney Says

FRANKFURT, Jan. 5 (U. P.).—Gen. Joseph T, McNarney said today that the American force in the European

616,000 men to about 300,000. It will remain at this strength indefinitely. Gen. McNarney, commander of U. S. forces in Europe,

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down somewhat, he said, by the failure of selective service to provide sufficient replacements in Germany to meet the requirements of the military government. Mobile armored task forces numbering some 38,000 troops will range the American zone in armored cars as the mainstay of the U. 8. occupation forces. In addition to the mobile police force, the occupation army will consist of three infantry divisions totaling about 45,000 men, an air foree, 12 light tank battalions and supporting service, and administrative echelons, By July the total force will be cut by more than half, to remain

said.

Invite Fliers To Speedway

AVIATION enthusiasts at the air show at Miami, Fla. were extended invitations yesterday to attend renewal of the 500-mile auto classic at the Indianapolis Speedway. A committee, headed by Col." Arthur W, Herrington, is working out plans for a “Fly to Speedway Race” campaign. It is planned to extend invitations to fliers in all corners of the nation

before the Speedway classic May 30.

point total again Feb. 1 but that the reductions probably will be | smaller. He said nearly 4,000,000 troops hdve been returned from overseas since V-E day. Meanwhile, the navy announced new point reductions. through March 2 which will make an additional 188,750 officers and enlisted personnel eligible for discharge. The critical point scores for most navy enlisted men under the new schedule will be set at 23 on Feb. i$

point score for enlisted men now is set at 34 effective Feb. 2. The army's critical score for enlisted men has. dropped from 85 points after V-E day to 50 on Jan. 1. At the same time, service requirements dropped from four years to 42 months. Cuts on this scale can't continue, Gen. -Collins. said, because there will be a slowing down in the rate of return of overseas soldiers. “Our overseas forces would be dangerously understrength in occupying hostile ‘ countries if all eligible men were to be returned ‘before sufficient - replacements. arrived.” Gen. Collins said. He said 650,000 soldiers were re-

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Thief Returns $1000 Watch

A WRIST. WATCH valued at between $1000 and $1500 is on the way to its Marion, O. owner today because the thief got cold feet. Allard Hardy, national’ Red Cross field worker, and his wife stopped for lunch at an E. Washington st. grill yesterday. Mrs, Hardy left her purse in the restroom from which the watch was taken. It is an -18jewel, platinum, Swiss set with 64 diamonds. It was an heirloom gift from & millionaire uncle who was a diamond broker, Police took up the search but the mailman delivered the goods. This morning an envelope was delivered to the grill. Packed in cotton and cardboard was the valuable heirloom.

SAYS NAVY BARRED ALL SECRET PACTS

Adm. Stark Admits ‘Conversation’ With Allies.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 5 (U. P.).— Adm. Harold R. Stark told the Pearl Harbor investigation today that naval representatives abroad were barred from making any political commitments to the British

and Dutch in connection with posgible Japanese attacks on their possessions. The 1941 chief of naval” operations said he had instructed Adm. Thomas. C. Hart, then Asiatic fleet commander, to tell the British and Dutch that their strategic arrangements should not count on intervention by the United States. because of “doubt” whether congress would declare war if Japan should attack ahy country but the U, 8. Stark admitted, as have previous witnesses, that there were ‘American British-Dutch conversations on mutual . arrangements in case the

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JULIETTA WING +| USE PROMISED BEFORE FEB. 1

County Commissioner Says|. Hospital Building to Be Occupied in 20 Days. (Editorial on Page Six) The long-vacant $500,000 annex at Julietta infirmary will be occupied “within the next 20 days.” '

County Commissioner William T. Ayres after The Indianapolis Times yesterday reminded officials—and the public—that the “white elephant” wing still was unused. . Asked for a specific interpretation of his statement that the annex, long a source of controversy, would be used “most any day now,” Mr. Ayres promised full occupancy “within thé next 20 days.” He ssid some equipment was yet to be obtained. Completed Year Ago Admitting that parts of the annex could have been used for some time back, Mr, Ayres said some of the residents already have been moved in. He said others had not been moved betause it was the de-

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sire to “move everyone at one time.” completion of furnishing the unit. |

more than .a year ago. Wartime shortages of - equipment | were blamed by Mr. Ayres for the | slow progress. He said it was not possible to] place a deadline on delivery date of furnishings. Bidders, he said, were reluctant to accept contracts where failure to meet a deadline would in forfeiture of the contraglor’s bond. He said that de-| livery *within reason” was accepted by the commissioners. Some of the contracts were awarded last

AIR SHOW TAKEN BY PUTT-PUTTS'

1-Man Fliers Pro Prove Merits! Of Air Transit.

By MAX B. COOK % Beripps-Hpward Aviation Editor MYAMT Jan. ~§.<Jet propulsion, army, navy and marine air fighting power vied with the lowly putt-

putt of the one-man flier at aviation’s first post-war air show today. But the putt-putts stole the show and proved the point that aviation for John Doe is really here. Scattered about.the country east of the Rockies were hundreds of small planes unable to reach the All-American air maneuvers because of bad weather. Despite the weather, however, more than 2000 light planes fought their way through. They proved the point that the light plane, like the auto, is to be 8 dependable means of future transportation in the U. 8. Those planes brought in approximately 4500 persons, some from points as far distant as Colorado, Texas, Towa and Minnesota. Legless Girl Flies One amazing example was the flight made by a legless girl, Miss Alverina Babbs, 27, of Sharon, Pa. Miss Babbs’ Ercoupe broke a piston over Georgia and she made a forced landing in a plowed field near Dalton. She finished her journey by rail. Despite her‘handicap Miss Babbs can fly any twocontrol plane like a veteran. The first day of the show brought out a large crowd under cloudy skies. War had wiped out the possibility of any speed races so the light planes had their day. Jack Snodgrass “of Waterloo, Iowa, flying a Taylorcraft monoplane, won the Taylorcraft license C race of 12% miles in nine minutes and 47 seconds. Woody Edmonson of Lynchburg, Va., won the Aeronca licerise C race over the same distance in 10 minutes, 23 seconds. Both were a far cry from national air races’ Thompson trophy speed of 283 miles an hour, but these were private fliers doing their stuff in big. time.

PASHA WOUNDED

CAIRO; Jan. § (U. P.)—~Amin Osman Pasha, former finance minister, was shot and wounded by an Egyptian outside his office today. The assailant escaped. Osman was taken to a hospital.

{July and others last November. Yet to be filled are part of the | November contracts and K a “small part” of the July contracts, he | said.

Parry Urges Speed ! While it was emphasized that the county commissioners made every effort ‘to speed occupancy of the addition, begun. in 1937, Mr. Ayres

need space” to meet present needs. Addison Parry, president of the county council which appropriated funds for the annex, felt that occupancy should be speeded. When The Times article was brought to his attention he said he probably “should have got on” someone about the long delayed move into the building. He said the council has continually fought for the completion, ' Dailey McCoy, superintendent of the infirmary, could not be reached for comment. He has been.ill in. with the “flu” for several days.

Hovde Becomes

Head of Purdue!

Times Special . LAFAYETTE, Jan. , Freda L. Hovde, who headed the government's wartime rocket-bomb project, today assumed his duties as new president of Purdue university. . He succeeds Dr. A. A. Potter, dean of the engineering schools, who has been acting president since the retirement of Dr. E. C. Elliott July 1. Mr. Hovde arrived yesterday from Washington and immediately began a series of conferences with faculty and student groups. He was greeted by Dr. Potter and Vice Presidents A. B. Stewart and Frank C. Hockman. REPORT JAP GIRLS ‘TEMPORARY WIVES’ LOS ANGELES, Jan. 5 (U. P.) — Japanese girls are offering themselves for purchase as “temporary wives” of American occupation troops, two returning veterans said today. “Any American soldier can buy a Japanese bride for 1000 yen— about $67; Pvt. George F. Doherty, Riverside, Cal., a member of the 11th airborne division, said. The girls: offer to go through a Japanese, marriage, which is not legal in the United States, Doherty said, then the American soldier gets a divorce when ready to go home. Cpl. Robert Hahn, Los Angeles, corroborated his story.

_ Holdups in city streets last night cost the victims nearly $500. The biggest haul was taken at McCray and Jackson sts, where two men dressed in’ army uniforms jumped out of an automobile and robbed Cpl. George J. Peposky of Ft. Sheridan, Ill, of $400. Two other military uniformed = men waited in the car, according to

police. Kenneth Day, 29, attendant at the Gaseteria service station, 1502 N. West st., reported being held up by two men at the station. They escapéd with $40 cash and a $35

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Bandits Get Haul of $500 In Street Holdups Here

A taxi driver, Walter Read of 628 N; Alabama st., reported he was held up by a passenger dressed in a soldier’s uniform and relieved of 34. Two youthful purse snatchers netted $3 from Mrs. Helen Buner, 42, of 728 W. Market st, as she walked néar hef home with her 6-year-old daughter. The boys were described as beg about 14 years old, I Ellis Bibb, w, of 419 W. 17th st, told police someone tore the pocket from his overcoat containing $37 while he slept in & chair. He said

Eighth District Congressman Charles LaFollette announced his candidacy for the Republican U. 8. senaHe said this would have to await| torial nomination last night at Evansville, but his party was shunned by regular Republicans. Shown here in the office of Evansville Mayor Manson-L. Reichert are (left to right) William Gilmore, Clarke county Erection of the wing was completed chairman, Bap1aNl LaFollette, Mayor Reichert and New Albany Mayor Raymond Jacger. a ~ dead—13

HANDFUL OF GOP LEADERS SHOW

Report Party Heads Told to "Snub Candidate.

By SHERLEY UHL Times Staff Writer

EVANSVILLE, Jan. 5—It was

Republican high command today | after his “coming out” party as a senatorial candidate was hexed by mysterious telephone calls from Indianapolis. ; The calls, placed this week, ad-

Follette announced his U. 8S. senate bid. Nobody would identify the caller, ! but several who received message |

and came any way, hinted it was a powerful G. O. P. whipcracker, “The chips are down,” asserted the self-proclaimed Hoosier “radical.” “The battle lines are drawn.” Mr. LaFollette had invited = 24 eighth district Republican . party officials to his debut as a senatorial contender. Only four appeared in the office of Evansville Mayor Manson Reichert, scene of the afternoon parley.

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© Mystery Calls Hex LaFollette's ‘Coming Out’

WASHINGTON

A Weekly Sizeup by the Washington Staft of the Scripps-Howard Newspapers

WASHINGTON, Jan. 5

Deadline is Feb. 2 under 2 which said, “The amount

from the western zones on account of reparations must be | determined within six months from now vat the latest.”

to German ability to make war.

United States has special stake in seeing that the Potsdam agree-

ment is observed. This country Ia

They had their roots in old American directive to U. S. occupation

forces from joint chiefs of staff.

Also President Roosevelt and Generalissimo Stalin agreed to idea fhe south, then Vhipping of reparations-in-kind at Yalta, may even have agreed as to Russia's

share.

Senate's: Kilgore committée, disturbed at present situation, "thinks of taking a hand in seeing that terms of the Potsdam agreement are lived up ta. It is especially interested in elimination of Nazi chemi-

cal colossus, I. G. Farbenindustrie.

Committee may hold hearings in Germany, calling top-flight Farben officials to testify. Tentative plan alse calls for questioning American administrators, civilian and military.

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5.—First class four-pewer row may be brewing in allied control council in Germany as deadline approaches for settlement of reparations.

Been tiv decison, on how wal steel Germany shall jsodiuce, and tise is key to Germany's industrial future, as well as to reparations—and

Potsdam declaration of Aug. of equipment to be removed

rgely was responsible for its terms.

Senator Kilgore has

HARVESTER GO. BUYS EVANSVILLE PLANT

For $5,648,000.

Times Special EVANSVILLE, Jan, 5—~The Republic Aviation plant here today became the property of the International Harvester Co. Purchased through the Reconstruction Finance Corp.:- for $5,648,000, the plant will be used for the manufacture of refrigeration equipment, including home freezers. During the war the factory built

will employ some 3500 persons here. About 175 executives and other division personnel will move here soon, said E. F. Schneider, general manager of the company's refrigeration section.

UNO DELEGATION

ARRIVES IN LONDON

Mrs. Roosevelt

Steals the Show.

SOUTHAMPTON, England, Jan. 5 (U. P)~Edward R. Stettinius pledged the American delegation to the United Nations assembly meeting in London t&day.to its utmost effort. to insure the success of “this

great adventure in world co-opera-tion.” Stettinius, three fellow delegates, alternates and more than 100 advisers and secretaries arrived aboard the Queen Elizabeth. The U/ 8. delegation, including Mrs. Eleafior Roosevelt, was proceeding directly to London. Mrs, Roosevelt almost stole the show at the Southampton docks. Photographers clustered around her, asking her to pose: with various members of the welcoming delegation, which included a party from

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U.-S. Is Rushing Parleys to Avert Walkout bof 2,000,000:

By UNITED PRESS Top government officials held hurried conferences on labor demands for higher wages today as threats of work stoppages in essential industries were pushed toward the strike stage. A total of 376,000 U. 8. workers were + idled by strikes, with more than 2,000,000 others scheduled to join them within the next two weeks. In the most pressing and farreaching disputes: ONE: Officers of the United Electrical Workers (C. I. 0) meet today to set a strike date, probably Jan. 14, for 200,000 members employed by General Electrical, Westinghouse, and General Motors’ appliance * division. TWO: The labor department announced a three-day mediation conference in Chicago next week, which it hoped would avert a strike of 385000 A. F. of L. and C. I. O. meat packing workers, called for Jan. 186. THREE: ‘A fact-finding board for the steel industry will begin

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| hearings Monday between the U. S. Steel Corp. and the United Steel Workers (C. 1. 0), whose 700,000

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The Indianapolis Railways has] petitioned the public service commission to advance the date for hearing on its increased schedule of fares to Jan. 14. The original date was Jan. 21.

for the transit company in the fare fight, said the request for the new date should refute charges by some persons that the transit company was “stalling for time.” Objections were filed by the railways against PSC establishing ex-

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Farm Hearing Be Advanced

Arthur L. 'Gilliom, legal counsel attempt to step \into the existing

isting rates as “emergency” or|over, a T-cent' cash fare fares, The “motion {will ‘be sought Monday before 4! said the comimission had no legal public service commission. Glenn R.. authority to declare an “emer |Sienker, public Sounaelior. “said diake the recommer

imembers are slated to walk out Jan. 14, FOUR: Approximately telephone

sympathy with 17,000 striking Western Electric employees. In every case, strike action was called to bolster demands for wage ( increases approximating 30 per cent. Announcement of the meat packing mediation conference came last night after the Amalgamated Meat Cutters (A. PF. of L.) “implored” President Truman to prevent the

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250,000 |an estimated 30 operators were being|aging 75 others, but polled on whether to go out in deaths were ai Clawson,

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walkout which would halt the flow of fresh meat to the nation’s butcher shops. Authorize Walkout Officers of the A. F. of L. union earlier authorized their 135000 members to join the walkout called by its C. I. O. rival. Administration officials, meanwhile, studied the possibility ol heading off strikes in the meat and steel industries by increasing manufacturers’ prices while holding the line on retail prices. Unlike the situation in the General Motors dispute, the steel

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| Attempt of the OPA to halt the | present fares hit a “stone wall” in {Judge Robert C. Baltzell's federal court yesterday. | Ruling against allegations in the, OPA’s injunction suit, Judge Balt-| |zell’s opinion rebuffed the agency's

fares battle. “Neither this (federal) court nor the OPA can fix rates for a public utility,” Judge Baltzell's opinion

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