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First Driver Signs Entry for 500-Mile Race Here May 30

Joie Chitwood (center) signs the first entry for the forthcoming Indianapolis Speedway “500” as Wilbur Shaw (right) and Lou Moore “Now I want to be No, 1 in qualifying trials!”

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G. I'S COMPLAIN OF "MULLLING’

Demobilization Plan Protests Clash With Orders.

BULLETINS FRANKFURT, Jan. 10 (U. P.). «The redeployment chief of U. 8. forces in Europe assured a -- delegation -of soldiers and WACs today that those with 55 peints or better should be out of the theater by the end of February and the 50-pointers by the end of March,

WASHINGTON, Jan. 10 (U. P.). «~The senate military -affairs commitiee today appointed a subcommittee to conduct a public Investigation of the demobilization controversy.

By UNITED PRESS Enlisted men on two Pacific edi-

tions of the army newspaper Stars and today that “muzzled in their coverage of the world-wide soldier protest against ‘demobilization polcies. A formal statement by the enlisted personnel of the Tokyo Stars and Stripes claimed that open pressure against them by officers had changed the paper into a “house organ for the war department.” The Honolulu Stars and Stripes staff said they had received orders not to print letters or stories which eriticized “anyone in authority.” Protest meetings were reported from all quarters of the globe. A was made by demonstrators in Hawaii that American occupation forces be restricted to former enemy territory. Spokesmen Called High officers of the European headquarters in Frankfurt called a meeting of G. I spokesmen and newspapermen to record the grievances aired by a crowd of more than 5000 troops Which tried to storm Gen. Joseph-T.-McNarney's headquarters last night. Brig. Gen. Edwin L. Sibert said at Prankfurt today that . soldier demonstrations in occupied zones eould have a serious effect if German malcontents tried to exploit them. Sibert, U. 8. intelligence chief in the European theater, said: “Demonstrations are not wise in the occupied zones because they show the Germans our weaknesses.” The Tokyo Stars and Stripes statement claimed that the paper had been forced “to delete, distort and play down news to serve personal and professional interests of the army hierarchy, and in many instances officers in general.” Everywhere the protesting troops demanded quicker trips home, clarification of policy and explanation why American soldiers were being kept in friendly territories. The soldiers said they wanted to get out of China, the Philippines,

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Early Housing Aid Promised

Former G. I's

By NED BROOKS Seripps-Howard ‘Staff Writer WASHINGTON, Jan. 10.— Home-hunting woes for 100,000 veterans’ families will be ended within three months by the reuse of temporary houses and dormitories built for war workers

G. L's. This was the promise today of the federal public housing authority, which has been given $191,000,000 by congress to demount, move and reassemble the war-built structures in shortage areas.

- = = JUST TO prove what can be done, FPHA opened a 20-acre showcase in nearby Silver Spring, Md., where drab, tar-papered barracks and other structures have

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COLLEGES TURN VETERANS AWAY

Gl Scholars Have Trouble Finding a School.

By JIM G. LUCAS Scripps-Howard Staff Writer WASHINGTON, Jan, 10.—Bewildered, angry and frustrated, thousands of ex-servicemen wander from university to university today searching for the education guaranteed them by the G. I bill of rights. Senator Wayne Morse (R. Ore.), former dean of the Oregon University law school, charges those guarantees are denied to the veterans by an apathetic government and-—an-——indifferent educational system. ~ Veterans haye headed back to the classroom to find the doors locked. Ohio State turned away 5000. Hamfltoa University in New York—a school, with fewer than 100 students 18 months ago—won'’t take transfers. North Carolina refused 450. Stanford has turned back “hundreds.” Some state ‘universities deny admission to out-of-state residents. George Washington University is one of those still accepting veterans. ‘De You Have Opening? “Their first question: is ‘Do you still have an opening?’ " said Dean Mitchell Dreese G. W. U.'s director of veterans education. “The best of them have been rejected four or five - times. . George Washington is taking ‘men who had no intention of going to school here. Now they're willing to go wherever théy'll be welcome.” Dr. Raymond F. Walters, president of Cincinnagi. university, re-

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Cease-Fire Order Is Issued In Chinese Civil War Truce

CHUNGKING, Jan. 10 (U, P.).— The long-awaited cease-fire order in China's civil war was issued officially today shortly before General‘issimo Chiang Kai-shek convened the political consultative council

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and outlined a program for polit[ical freedom and democracy. The order to cease hostilities was announced by goverment representative Gen. Chang Chun and Communist Representative Gen. Chou En-Lal after a. series of meetings with Gen. George C. Marshall, Pres~

TIMES INDEX

Robert Meyer 28 Ruth Millett.. 17

Amusements., 14 Anderson ,... 11

Ned Brooks... 18 Movies ...... 14 Business ,,... 24|Obituaries ....10 Callahan ...,. 17|Dr. O'Brien... 17 Carnival ..... 18/Fred Perkins. Y Churchill ......18| Radio ,...... Comics ...... 27| Mrs. Roosevelt “a Crossword ... 10/Shackford ... 3 David Dietz.. 17, Wm. P. Simms 18

Editorials .... 18) Fashions ,.... 20

Sports .... 22-23 State Deaths. 10

_ Forum ......, 18/Thos. Stokes. 18 Meta Given .. 21|Stranahan ... 23 Burton ath oi Troop Arrivals 15]:

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ident Truman's special envoy to China. It had been approved by Chiang and Mao Tse-Tung, head of the Communist party, The order provided for immediate establishment of executive headquarters at Pelping to carry out the agreements for ending hostilities. Chiang announced the truce at the opening of the consultative council called to prepare for 4 na= tional assembly and drafting of” a constitutional government. The generalissimo outlined a four point program: “ONE: People’s freedom—for all

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SPEED CHAMP PLANS TRYOUT

Joie Chitwood Will Drive Car That Won in "41.

By ART WRIGHT Joie Chitwood, auto racing champion of the East, is the first driver to sign an entry for renewal of the 500-miile “International Sweepstakes. at the Indianapolis speedway next May 30.' Hardly had the printer's ink dried on the official forms yesterday than the Cherokee Indian pilot affixed his signature making him the No. 1 entrant, Mr.. Chitwood waited more than an hour at the Speedway offices on N. Capitol ave. for arrival of the first forms from the printer, Thus he gained a distinction sought by many of the nation’s top-ranking speed kings. With Mr. Chitwdod at the “sign up” was Lou Moore, owner of the “Noe Out” special when ‘it won the last race here in 1941 but now the property of Chitwood’s backer. Moore now heads Chitwood’s mechanical crew for the forthcoming classic, Entry Accepted Wilbur Shaw, three-time winner of the race and twice national champion, accepted the Chitwood entry. Shaw is president of the speedway corporation and will not be an entrant this year, Smiling broadly, Mr. Chitwood said: “Now all I need is to be No. 1 in qualifying trials and sit on the pole position.” He said No. 1 was his lucky number for he held that position in the Eastern dirt track championship running in 1939, 1940 and 1942, He is the current champion of the East because no: official A. A. A. sanctioned races were run on the point circuit since 1942, Mr, Chitwood, who started in racing in 1935, ran here in 1940 and 1941. He says he wasn't “up front”

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WEATHERMAN CAN'T MAKE UP HIS MIND

Winter and Spring Both Figure in Forecast. LOCAL TEMPERATURES

6am:...3 10am..... 35 T7am.,... 33 11am... Mu Sam 34 12 (Noon).. 33 Sam..... 34 1pm... 33

Indianapolis’ weatherman today couldn't make up his mind, He blows cold and hot. Abut the only thing we feel positive of is that there will be weather within the next 24 hours. Even the skies are in a blue funk. Today and tonight it'll be winter, Tomorrow it'll be spring again.

Here's the forecast: “Partly cloudy and somewhat colder today and tonight; tomorrow, fair and warmer.” This. morning the thermometer also was in a very undecided mood. At 6 a. m, the mercury stood at 35. At 7, it drooped to 33. Then it rallied to 34.

Relief from incessant rains that had forced rivers in the south out of their banks and accounted for. at least 22 dead and millions of dollars

day with a forecast of - clearing skies apd -cooler weather, Flood waters that had inun-

lowland were receding in some sections, but the death toll was placed

in Arkansas, six

had been forced from their homes.

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at eight persons in Tennessee, six in Kentucky, Mississippi, Tennessee and Georgia. They estimated that at least 450 families were homeless in Tennessee, Georgia and Mississippi, and that some 5000 Kentucky residents

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BELGIAN MADE HEAD OF FIRST UNO ASSEMBLY

Attlee Calls for New Global Policy to Accept Atom Challenge.

By R. H. SHACKFORD United Press Staff Correspondent

LONDON, Jan, 10. — The United Nations assembly met for the first time today, elect-

Paul Henri-Spaak as its president,”and heard a plea by Prime Minister Clement Attlee that it become the “overriding factor in the foreign policy” of the whole! world. _ Henri-Spaak, once a power in the league’ of nations, defeated Norwegian Foreign Minister Trygve Lie for the first UNO assembly presidency by a vote of 28 to 23. Attlee delivered the welcoming address at the first meeting of the UNO assembly in Central Hall. He sald the UNO must dominate global policy because of the advent of a new atomic age which has “destroyed the illusion of isolationism.”

Warns of Atom Danger

Edouard Zuleta Angel of Colombia, temporary president of the convocation, formally called to order the first assembly meeting of the 51 nations which have pledged their collective effort to avert ‘future wars. The blue and gold assembly hall was jam-packed with delegates, their advisers, the press and radio, and the public. Attlee welcomed a decision to remit the atomic control problem to the UNO but warned the -assembly that the atom bomb invention was fraught with danger. “It is for the peoples of the world, through their representatives, to make their choice between life or death,” he said. He outlined what he considered should be the “ultimate aim” of the UNO. Must Enlist All “It is not just a negation of war,” ‘he said, world of purity and freedom, of a world which is governed by justice and moral law. We desire to assert the pre-eminence of right over might, . and general good against selfish and sectional aims.” ~~" Attlee also emphasized one of the cornerstones of recent British

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By UNITED PRESS THE IMPACT on youthful minds of the kidnapmutilation murder of 68-year-old Suzanne Degnan in Chicago had repercussions from Massachusetts to California today. Medford, Mass., who confessed luring two small boys into an abandoned house late yesterday and stabbing them repeatedly with an icepick. He said he had intended to kill them. He said Te had read accounts of the Degnan murder avidly. The high school youth, Richard Emerson Stearns, was held in $20,000 bail after he pleaded innocent to two charges of assault with intent to murder. The case was continued until Feb, 13, Police said the boy confessed that he knocked Francis Piscitello, 7, down and stabbed him seven times in the body and once in the face. Then he choked Barkley -Glaven, 6, and stabbed him six times.

‘Impact of Degnan Tragedy Upon Youth Reflected in Flareup of Juvenile Crime

hospital, The Piscitello boy was taken from the hospital by his family despite doctors’ protests, In Long Beach, Cal, ll-year-old Jean Patricia Brock stopped a manhunt fors«her gun-toting ab-

| ductor today with the confession that she had made

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playing hookey. Jean stumbled into a stranger's home in Palos Vedes Hills yesterday and said a man with a gun in his pocket had forced her into an automobile but that she escaped when he had engine trouble. Sire described heér kidnaper in details man about 20, 5 feét 10 inches tall, dark hair and eyes and needing a shave, wearing a cap with a button pinned on the visor, !

Under close questioning by police she confessed.

She said she had been reading about the Degnan kidnaping and had taken a long walk instead of going to school yesterday. Then she got to thinking what her grandmother might do to her for playing

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2 TEEN-AGERS STAGE HOLOUPS

Young Gunmen Sought for Crime Spree Here.

Two teen-age gilnmen believed to-have- staged -a- series of stickups within 22 minutes in the northeast section of the city were sought by police today. Victims in scattered areas gave similar descriptions of the bandits and police immediately set up a dragnet to curb any new outbreak of youth crime here. Consideration for the first vietim's service in the army overshadowed the gunmen's desire for

The Glaven boy was in a critical condition in a

Dentist in

By ROBERT T. CHICAGO, Jan. 10—8quads of

insane dentist today in. their quest Suzanne Degnan.

Hospital for the Insane, who once

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Police Seek Insane Former

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of 4 p. m. to build a case against their chief suspects, searched for an

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Kidnap-Murder

LOUGHRAN police, working against a deadline

for the kidnap-slayer of 6-year-old

had worked AS A handyman at a

nursery school Hear He's home. - He was dismissed from the job because of his strange behavior. Detectives drained ecatch-basins, cesspools and sewers in the vicinity of the crime today in an effort to find the child's arms. Other portions of her body were found earlier in four cesspools. Dishwashér Picked Up

When Thomas A. Webb, 22, of 2267 Wheeler st, handed over his wallet at the point of a gun about 10:12 o'clock last night the gunmen saw Webb's army discharge ‘beside the $2 in ne bifold. Money Returned Shaking their heads, the youths

foreign policy—that political problems cannot . be settled until the peoples of the world are fed, clpthed and housed. He warned the delegates that they must enlist the support of all peoples everywhere. He added: “They must understand that we are building a defense for the common people. In the purpose of the United Nations Organization we have a link with the achievement of freedom from fear, delivery of mankind from the peril of want. To the individual citizen the spectre of economic insecurity is more constant, more imminent than the shadow of war.”

Peace Indivisible

Attlee recalled the famous phrase of Maxim Litvinov, former Soviet commissar, in the dying days of the league of -—nations—“peace is. indivisible.” He said other nations of the world ignored Litvinov's warning, and the series of aggressions leading to the second world war followed. Litvinov's statement now has become one of the underlying principles of the new world organization. : ‘ There was a tendency after the first world war, Attlee.said, to re-

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County Speeds Julietta Annex

County commissioners had moved today to. fulfill their promise that the $500,000 annex at Julietta infirmary would be used in its entirety before Feb. 1. Commissioner Ray D. Mendenhall said the commissioners were awaiting a-report from‘the contractor as to how soon the balance of the furnishings could be installed, “Then,” said Mr; Mendenhall, “we can set the exact date for moving into the annex.” On Jan. 4 Commissioner William T. Ayres told The Indianapolis Times that the annex would be in full use “within 20 days.” His estimate came after The

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By ROBERT BLOEM

Officials of Indianapolis Railways met today to determine their next step in their transit rate case before the public service commission which last night ordered an emerency cut in the price of streetcar tokens to four for 25 cents. Company spokesmen said there was little doubt that the P. 8. C, order would effect the company’s revenues adversely but indicated it might take considerable study to determine the exact result and to

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handed the wallet, with its money intact back to the ex-soldier. Accosted by the gunmen at 23d and {LaSalle sts., Webb had been ordered, “Let's have your money.” A few minutes later, Charles Ramsey, 18, of 2448 N. Delaware st., | and a companion, Lloyd Green, 16, of 1434 Broadway, were held up in a parking lot next door to a restaurant at 5108 Massachusetts ave. A driver's license and the $1 contents of Ramsey's wallet were taken and the billfold ghanded back to the victim. Nothing was taken from Green. “Let's Have Your Money” At 22d St. and Olney ave., Ernest Followfield heard the curt order, “Let’s have your money,” from the youths, Mr. Followfield, who lives at 1937 Adams st. said that when he handed over $1 from his billfold the gunmen wanted to know, “Y'u got any change?” Followfleld added 70 cents to the loot. The victim said the youths drove up in an old car and only one of them alighted. He said they drove west on 22d st. Oliver R. Hugey, 29, reported to police that a man pulled a gun on him as he locked his car in front of his residence at 3902 Broadway. He said $8 was taken. A stickup by a lone bandit netted $111 at Sarah's Liquor Store, 920 W. Michigan st. Morris Bernard, 53. of 2043 Park ave. owner, said the man wore a handkerchief over his face, When the handkerchief fell: to the floor as the gunman made his getaway, Bernard noticed he wore a small mustache. William Herche, 22, of 1801 N. Alabama st., was treated at City hospital for a cut in the head received when he was attacked by two men near his home. He said he was searched after the assault but that his money was not found.

——————————— EDUCATORS MEET CLEVELAND, Jan. 10 (U. P).~— Some 500 educators from all parts of the country assembled here today for the 32d annual convention of the Association of American Colleges. Theme of the meeting was |“War Lessons for the Colleges.”

The commission order made an emergency cut from the present token rate of eight for 55 cents but left cash fares as they are now at 10. cents, a ride for all company transportation. The new rate becomes effective at 12:01 “alm. Jan. 21, allowing the company 10 days in which to make any possible move to block the order. ; Addison M, Dowling, local rate attorney for the OPA said the OPA probably would take no action until it had an:-opportunity to study the commission's ruling and make . Mopory to the Washington office.’

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Police picked up another man {for questioning early today, He was Frank Holland, 46, a dish-

Investigators had until 4 p. m. to place charges against two janitors and the wife of one of the men. If not charged by that time, they will be released by court order. State's Attorney William J. Touhy said he did not have enough evidence “at this time” to seek an indictment of anyone for the crime—the most brutal murder in Chicago's history. The search for the insane former dentist was started after Mrs Margaret P. Perry, the nursery school operator, identified a ladder which may have been used in the kidnap-slaying. She said she was sure it was one which was stolen some time ago from her home. It had beeri used by roofers working on the house, At the same time Mrs. Perry revealed she had discharged a male employee of the nursery about three

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PREDICTS MORE FOOD THAN BEFORE WAR

Grocery Group Soup Head Sees 11 Per Cent Increase.

CINCINNATI, O, Jan. 10 (U, P). —Civilians will have 11 per cent more food in 1946 than they did in the five pre-war years, it was predicted today at the food editorsprocessors conference here .by Paul 8. Willis, New York, president of

the Grocery Manufacturers of America. Mr. Willis said that contrary to

popular impressions, the civilian population had more food and of better quality throughout the war than in preceding years. Shortages of individual items created an illusion of a curtailed national diet, he said. The food executive: sa‘! that “total food production in the war years averaged 35 per cent above that of the five pre-war years.” Mr. Willls made a number of other predictions for 1946: “Prospects ‘for a good meat supply in 1046 are good. We will probably have an_ average of 145

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Railways Officials Planning New Fight Avainst PSC Order to Cut Transit Fares

"He said the rate cut ordered “might change our entire plan of action.” Federal Judge Baltzell-last week denied the OPA an injunction by whieh “it sought to force Indianapolis Railways to return to its pre-September schedule.

Attorneys for the company employees’ unions, who had. indicated earlier they would jump instantly to the courts in an effort to halt any emergency rate reduction, said last night they probably would sit tight now until they had time to

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DECATUR WINS

Non-dial telephone was suspended in Washington. 9 today - when 3000 operators. left their switchboards to attend a “continuous session" meeting called by their union, The walkout started at § a, mh.

(Indianapolis time) when operators left for the meeting, scheduled to

facilities were shut | : After leaving their OE hadi the operators met Joe two hours

BOUNDARY SUIT

Court Decision Restores” Power Plant to Township.

The Indiana supreme court today

returning the Perry-Decatur townHom and plabing the Harding st. Light Co. in Decatur township.

ruling of the Marion county superior court that the new boundary is valid. Chief Justice Howard 8. Young did not participate in the ruling on grounds that as an Indianapolis resident he was disqualified. The opinion noted that Judge Frank N. Richman concurred in the result. Second Attempt Dispute between the two townships dates back to Nov. 3, 1033, when the county commissioners set the township boundary gn the channel of the White river. The change placed the power plant, a lucrative source of tax revenue, in Perry township. : In 1943 the legislature passed a law designed to return the power {plant to Decatur township but the ‘act was held unconstitutional by the | state supreme court. The 1945 law, which corrected lo technicalities in the previous | abtempt provides that ndaries can be changed only bola the consent of the majority of freeholders within the to ps affected and that any boun es changed since 1919 without such consent should be returned to their previous status, Perry township attorneys, in their appeal to the supreme’ court, charged the law still was invalid on grounds that it was a special law rather than a general act as required by the constitution, that it dealt with more than one subject, that changing of boundaries was not a legislative function and that it sought to amend an act already held as unconstitutional. The court overruled the appeal on all four propositions.

SHARE-THE-HOME PLAN ADVOCATED

Solution in Crisis.

Share-the-home

School of Business. The educator told the Indiah-

meeting in the Hotel Washington:

“To even approximate a solution of present housing shortages would

income groups to share their dwellings on some basis or other.” Dr.

form of recognition for persons cooperating with the plan.

seem distasteful and and uncomfortable for the veterans.

upheld the validity of the 1045 law ship boundary to its pre-1933 locaplant of the Indianapolis Power &

In an opinion written by Judge Oliver Starr, the court affirmed a

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was advocated today as a solution to the critical housing shortage by Dean Arthur M. Weimer of the Indiana University

apolis Real Estate board at its noon

require a very large portion of the people in the higher and the middle

Weimer explained, however, that the problem was how to induce residents to share their homes. He suggested awards or some other Sharing the homes, he said, “may "uncomfortable, but fighting the war was distasteful “It does not seem to much to ex(Continued om Page 3-Colemn By VComimmat-n Fog S-oCuigte 41

in a sports arena. Then they re[cessed until 7 p. m. to permit union leaders to attend a conference with company officials and Howard T, Selvia, acting director of the U. 8

and the Western Union strike fn {New York left the capital and the nation’s largest metropolis normal rapid inter-city cations. Except for privately ; ‘wires, the mails were the only means pa communication be« tween the two cities, Use Army, Navy Facilities The White House was forced by the suspension to depend upon army and navy facilities in. the event of emergency need for: long distance communication service. It was explained that the White - House could make outgoing long distance calls to major. cities by means of special army and navy lines, ; The White House sald it had no plans for presidential intervention in the operators’ walkout. Mrs. Mary Gannon, head of the Washington Telephone Traffie union, said the walkout was not connected with the nation-wide strike of TEiEphonNe ~ iliStRLRGGE = pu workers against the Western Elec trie Co.

Pickets Due Tomorrow

These strikers, members of the Independent Association: of Come munications and Equipment Workers union, Have promised to set up a picket line tomorrow if their wage demands are not met. The telephone operators, Mrs. Gannon promised, will honor the picket lines, in which event nondial service would be suspended indefinitely. The Washington operators are protesting against” what they call “spying” by the company, a “speedup system,” involving operators and supervisors, and generdlly bad working conditions. Wages are not an issue. ’

389,000 Already Idle

the major developments shaped up as follows: ined ONE: Striking installation workers said they would set up picket lines tomorrow around 775 telephone exchanges from coast coast. TWO: C. 1, 0 and U 8

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to gotiations today after ment reportedly agreed to price creases of $4 to $5 a ton to the corporation meet union demands. About 700,000 steelworks ers are slated to strike Monday. . THREE: An unannounced price relief offer was made to two of the big meat packers which go! : officials hope will prevent a

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