Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 January 1946 — Page 3

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' tests. Lt. Gen. John R. Hodge told

THURSDAY; JAN, 10, B. 1S COMPLAIN OF ‘MUZILING'

Demobilization Plan Protests Clash With Orders.

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France and Hawail. They démanded replacements in Japan and Germany so combat veterans could be demobilized, Mass meetings continued in the Pacific and Europe. New agitation and-protests were reported despite efforts by military and political leaders in Washington to reassure the men, In Honolulu, the Mid-Pacific ‘edition of the army newspaper Stars and Stripes received orders from Lt. Gen, Robert C, Richardson Jr, theater commander, to refrain from printing criticism of “anyone in authority.’ The newspaper was told specifically not to criticize President Truman, Secretary of War Robert P. Patterson or Gen. Dwight D. Eisen~ hower. _ Appeal to Eisenhower More than 1500 soldiers at Fort Shafter, in the Hawallan islands, demanded that the army publish a definite schedule of demobilization and asked that occupation forces be limited to hostile territories. The Hawalian demonstrators adopted a resolution for relay to Eisenhower and Gen. Douglas Mac~ Arthur stating, “We believe that far greater numbers of men are held overseas than are actually needed for accomplishment of duties as prescribed by the war department.” In Korea, more than 1000 soldiers met in a theater to add their pro-

them he believed the war department and congress were doing all they could to get the tro8ps home| and still fulfill world-wide occupa-| tion needs. Try to Rush Office A detachment of paratroopers car-| rying rifles broke up a rush by 5000 solders in Prankfurt toward Gen. Joseph T. McNarney's office last night. At least 20 soldiers were arrested ‘when they became rowdy, al-

l through the demonstration broke l up quietly when the paratroop rein-

forcements arrived. McNarpey was not in his office at the time. Eight thousand soldiers on Guain held a protest meeting “at Harmon veterans committee headquarters. Al signal eorps sergeant told the meet-| ing that his company had sent 10,000 . demobilization protest messages in two days.

1946

It. Col. Gregory (Pappy) Boyington is ‘shown ‘carrying his new | heusing.” bride, Frances Baker, 32, across the threshold of her Los Angeles’ apartment. The couple was married in a surprise ceremony in Las coming six. months ago,” he said.

Vegas, Nev., yesterday.

PLAN NEW FIGHT ON CUT IN FARES

Railways Officials Study Next Legal Move. (Continued From Page One)

study the effects of the order.

far less drastic than was anticipated. In setting up the reduction order, the commissioners noted the fact

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Socialite Claims

Pappy Jilted Her

By PATRICIA CLARY United Press Staff Correspondent

HOLLYWOOD, Jan.

quiz game today. : Mrs. Malcolmson, at Reno, Nev

“effect i {wanted to kngw why she was jilted. I Re It was understood from talks With Col Boyinigton, in Hollywood; asked and ra un Tr interested parties that the rate re- | v | whi , iam) her to explain what.happened 10 | which close their doors to veterans, 1000-word cable to the American qyction ordered by the PSC were $18,000 he said he gave her. Col. Boyington was married in Las as we expose war slackers.” | Vegas, Nev, 24 hours after—Mrs.| left her shortage’, he said.

Malcolmson charged—he

h \virtually waiting at the altar and | lieve it. that present schedules had resulted’; 14 her she was mistaken about|jearned there is no more extrava-

The keynote of the speeches Was i, an increase of $154.000 during the their marriage plans.

that the army should “announce a definite plan and stick to it.” A cable from 1800 officers and men of the 8th fighter command stationed in the United Kingdom to the United Press asserted that in-| discriminate issuance of battle] credits was responsible for the de-| mobilization confusion. “Had battle participation credit been awarded instead of issued indiscriminately redeployment of this group would have been completed months ago,” it said. The French Press Agency reported today that 80 French and! American soldiers battled with knives and fists at Marseille last night. { The French dispatch said the battle started when a group off American soldiers leaving a cafe attacked a civilian. The French, soldiers defended the civilian, and | a free-for-all developed. Several Frenchmen were wounded by knives and daggers before police intervened, the dispatch said. It did not state whether any Americanr were wounded,

INFLUENCE IS SEE ‘the two-day hearing before the|8nd pay for their keep.

| commission on the emergency rate| His attorney, issue. Company attorneys, contend- | ing the emergency “matter consti-|ing of the money, Col. Boyington ‘tuted a threat to their rights in the Said.

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+ hookey, and she invented the kid- | nap story. The girl lives with her grand- |

parents. Juvenile authorities began any witnesses or even to cross-ex-| The only other way he an investigation of her home con-|amine those who appeared for the an accounting, he claimed, was to ; : | marry Mrs. Malcolmson. He charged In ‘Elgin, Ill, police arrested Allen D. Pisk, chief accountant that she had said as much, prompt- | 1 James Zenk, 17, Barrington, Il for the PSC, one of the witnesses, |ing him"to give her a high school student on a charge of | told the commission the trial sched- ring worth $5000 which he bought kidnaping-nine-year-old Mary Lou ule rates, combined with reductions|for $2000 “because it looked dike a

ditions.

Jennings as she was on her way to school, They said an examining physician reported she had been | raped. f Mary Lou identified Zenk as the|

Police were notified when the sisters jumped out of the car and ran to a nearby farm home as the driver] stopped to examine a flat tire. Police sald Zenk apparently became frightened and let Mary Lou out of the car at Bartlett, Ill, about five miles from her home. She made her way home three hours| later. Zenk was arrested after she @ “the license number of his automobile, which belonged to his grandfather. Zenk denied he had kidnaped or raped the girl.

NEGRO POET DIES NEW YORK, Jan. 10 (U. P),— Countee Cullen, 42, Negro poet, died yesterday in Sydenham hospital. Cullen had won many poetry prizes and hag- studied abroad under a Guggenheim fellowship. He was a! graduate of New York university | and Harvard. ‘ {

Blames Hand-Milking of Cows for Failure Of Boys and Girls to Stay on Dairy Farms

to represent the milk industry rather. than any particular. manu- '

WHY DO boys and girls tend to leave dairy farms? ' Dr. George H. Hopson of New | York, eonsultant veterinarian and milk sanitarian with De Laval | Separator Co., believes the neces- | sity of hand-milking cows twice daily is an important reason. Here to address the Indiana Veterinary Medical association convention, which opened yes- | terday and will continue through tomorrow at the Severin, Dr. Hopson stressed the tedious and

recent 91-day trial period over what

schedule in effect prior to Sept. 15, 1945. It also took note of decreased taxes which would tend to swell the company’s net profits. Hearings Jan. 21

Lawrence Cannon, commissioner who presided over the hearings on the emergency rate issue early this

ule, as changed by the newest order, is strictly temporary and will remain in effect only until final action on the company’s petition to make the trial period rates permanent, The change. also will give the commission a chance to study the effects of a modified schedule during the action on the main issue. | Hearings on the company’s petition | have been set for Jan. 21. | Besides being ordered to reduce token fares, the company will be obliged under the emergency order to make monthly reports to the commission on revenues, number of passengers carried and other data. It was estimated’ final action on the petition to have trial rates made permanent would take at least two or three months. . OPA’s Position Only two witnesses appeared in

main petition, declined to produce!

public.

in taxes during the coming year,

indicated a possibility “the company | Col. Bovington added that he had | might realize as much as 30 per cent received a letter from Mrs. MalDr, Lawrence 8. Rnappen chlor] son recently calling him names motorist who abducted her and her economist for the OPA’s utilities Sug lke, Appleaye k Moony _ two sisters, Joy, 6, and Diana, 5. branch in Washington, testified that | c.o petween them “was no longer.” the present rates were inflationary | .. '

profit during 1946.

and that the prospect of a 30 per cent profit by the utility was “unconscionable.” f

COUNTY TO SPEED JULIETTA ANNEX

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Times published an article pointing out that the wing had been com-

At that time Mr. Ayres said “a

few” residents had beén moved in.|

Mr. Mendenhall said today that the contractor hag visited the infirmary to allow an accurate estimate as to when he could provide the needed beds,. linens, cooking utensils and ice boxes, ¢

wearisome task of hand-milking as & major factor in many farm youngsters’ decision to seek other

employment.

- Besides driving young people away from farms, hand-milking is time-consuming and often harmful to the cow's health, Dr. Hopson said. 3 Unless it is done just right, ~ hand-milking may result in udder

| inflammation and other disorders injurious to the cow and to the

quality of the milk."

Pappy, 35-year-old congressional yersit; campus. they would have been under the old reer honor winner, kissed his | which claim be ‘full to capacity’ repeatedly for photo-| could take another full enrollment graphers as he explained why he| without overtaxing.” didn’t marry Mrs. Malcolmson but | |did marry Mrs. Frances Baker, 32, man must have a Ph. D. to teach estate! in a university is stupid.”

new bride

pretty Los Angeles real

broker. “It was just one of those things

Col. Boyington said.

‘week, pointed out that the sched- more and more in love as time went

on.” { The newlyweds had met months ago at a friend's home,

‘Romance By Mail’

“Any romance I carried on With! o.iiec theyre expected to work of the third janitor, said to have | day and night, 12 months a year,”

Mrs. Malcolmson was by mail which you've already seen,” he sal

10.—Lt. Col. Gregory (Pappy) Boyington, marine air ace, and Mrs. Lucy Malcolmson, |New York socialite who claimed he jilted her, conducted a cross-country

“I became;

COLLEGES TURN VETERANS AWAY

GI" 'Stholars Have Trouble. Finding a School.

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ports thit 78323 veterfins had enrolled as of Nov. 1 in 539 colleges and universities as full-time students. With overseas troops coming home at the rate of 600,000 monthly, he predicts even more in February,

first influx.”

Yet enrollments are still considerably below the 1939 peak. College officials explain that the wartime slack caused them to cut their faculties. Building Programs Neglected

In addition, building programs {were neglected. Today, housing is| a major problem. A large number of the returning veterans are married, dnd few colleges are equipped to care for couples or families. In addition, classroom facilities are said to be taxed to capacity. Almost equal in importance is a| shortage in competent instructors. For 16 years, the government has | drawn heavily on college staffs, The army raids completed the process. Since the average college, professo: in the service holds a rank of major or lieutenant commander and makes more. money than he did in the classroom, the return of competent | teachers has been disappointingly,

slow. Senator Morse charges that the

“administration “must take tull re

sponsibility for failure to provide “I warned them this thing was

“There has been no program, no planning. Now everyone professes (0 be caught off gudrd. It's time we quit making promises and keep the promises we've made.” Bill Still in Committee Senator Morse pointed out his bil! "Ito provide emergency housing, introduced May 7, still was before the senate banking committee when congress recessed. As for university officials, he declared: “They must streamline. They must realize this is an emergency and +| they're going to forego the academic iuxuries they've taken for granted.” “He denounced “slacker colleges”

;and said they “should be exposed “Universities speak of a ‘space “I don’t beIn 25 years’ teaching, I

| gant waste of space than on & uniSome colleges

Senator Morse said “the idea a

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Dr. Walters warns this “is just the|:

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SEEK DENTIST IN KIDNAP-MURDER

Police Have Until 4 to File Charges on Janitors. (Continued From Page One)

years ago because he had questionable habits. a Police also sought to fit- a shiny new door key into the complex assortment of clues, Detective Sgt. Jack Hanrahan said the key unlocked the door to the laundry room of a northside apartinent building where the little kidnap victim was cut to pieces by a maniacal killer who tried to rape her. The key, Hanrahan said, was among 21 others in the possession of Desere Smet, 35-year-old former janitor of the building, & Edgewater Beach home where Suzanne was snatched from her bed Monday. Hafirahan said that Smet “has beef cleared” by a lie detector test given last night but that he had ordered the man held pending outcome. of his investigation of the key's origin and its implications in the bizarre slaying. Friend of Verburgh

Smet was described by police as an intimate of Hector Verburgh, 65, present custodian of the building where the dismemberment ‘was said to have occurred. Verburgh and Smet, chief suspects, both were undergoing further questioning. Police said late yesterday they

‘Boys Want Education’

hundreds of capable men in serv-

two ice willing to fill in. They'd do 8 executive who discovered the girl

good job. The best teachers I've | known were not Ph. D.’s.” “It is time someone told our uni

‘| he continued. “These boys want

referring to letters and telegrams) ,, eqycation. They expect to work,

the comely New Yorker had made | oq they expect’ the same thing of

public.

It was just “overseas nerves” that

their professors.” He pointed to “thousands of ex-

prompted him to write them in the|, ,fessors in government and pri-

first place, he said.

Then Col. Boyington asked the

$18,000 question.” When he ‘left for overseas,

ents in Brewster, Wash.

the | flier said, he made Mrs. Malcolmson lega] guardian of his three children; Gregory Jr; 10; -Sue; 8;-and; Gloria, 6, now living with his par-

{vate business.” “They are highclass men,” he said. “Called upon, they'd .be willing to go back to the campus until the situation returns to normalcy. We can use emeritus professors. We need every available teacher.” : Many colleges, faced with government inertia in providing ade-

He said he sent her approximately |quaté housing, have failed to ex$18,000 in the form of allotments! plore other fields, the senator point-

take legal steps to get

Couldn't Get Accounting

bargain.”

“Appleduck,” Mrs. | sa a telegram to her.

“I honestly believe that Pappy Malcolmson “But I don’t want

truly loves me,” Mrs. { protested tearfully in Reno. he’s married now.” anything more to do with him.” Col. Boyington, medal of honor and navy cros

‘sald he and his bride would start a cross-country lecture tour Jan. A regular, ineligible for discharge, Col. Boyington will return pleted a year but still was unused.|to marine duty at the end of a

17.

| three-month leave.

wife in Seattle,

Mrs,

1932 from Russell Francisco.

Stating that he was here

h engagement NO POS

Malcolmson id, was how Col. Boyington signed

wearing his

Col. Boyington divorced his first Wash., in 1941. Boyington, daughter of the |late Mr. and Mrs. Henry Reiman of San Francisco, was divorced in Baker of San!

led out, adding that idle liberty

Arthur Miller, will | ships could, in some cases, be utian account- lized either as dormitories or class-

rooms. “Aircraft carriers like the Enterptise or the Saratoga, slated to

could get|be scrapped, could be made avail-

{able,” he declared. “It's not a ques|tion of ‘Can we do it?’ But "How is it going to be done?” We're in ition to break faith with these men.”

week going “from agency to agency” with an official of Oregon university attempting to purchase 75 idle housés on an abandoned government reservation.

Early Housing

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been transformed into more reasonable facsimiles of the G. L's dream house. The temporary quarters are being offered free to cities, colleges and universities which agree to use them for veterans and supply the sites and utilities. Some 26,000 units already have been spoken for.

” » . HOW “TEMPORARY” the homes will become is still uncertain. Local governments and colleges accepting them are required to demolish them within | two years after the “emergency” is declared ended. But nobody knows when that will be, and an extension of the two-year limit can be granted under special conditions.. FPHA, which must approve thé rents fixed locally, estimates thatthe charges will range from $28 to $36 for unfurnished quarters, $40 to $42 for furnished.

facturer Dr. Hopson listed a se- | 2 8»

ries of steps in the‘ mechanical

THE HEADACHE of deciding

milking process which must be . Which veterans get the houses is followed to insure best results. one which must be borne loeally. “The annual milk supply in | All FPHA requires is that the the United States would fill a | veterans be in “distress.” This

river 4000 %miles long, 40% feet

wide and 2% feet deep,” he said

‘Every hour of the day 6,500,000 quarts of milk flow from our dairy farms tor meet the demand of the

* American people.” td ii

may mean that the veteran isn’t

broke; but only that he cannot |

find living quarters. Or it may | mean that he can't afford what landlords are asking. : FPHA. commissioner Philip M. ne y ® AL :

“That's another luxury well dis- | pense with,” he said. “There are the kidnap victim,

The senator said he spent last

100,000 Veterans' Families

were hunting a third janitor, reportedly missing from a basement {flat he occupies near the home of daughter of James E. Degnan, 36, Chicago OPA

{ missing and found a crude note demanding $20,000 ransom, ; y A police detail waited at the home

| been “drinking heavily.” Believes Two Involved

At the same time, Hanrahan said na had concluded that the crime

had beén committed by two men. He said he believed that one man climbed through the first-floor Wwin{dow of the Degnan home, took the girl from her bed and handed her down to another. | Smet, now custodian of three puildings near the dismemberment scene, identified 20 of his 21 keys, -Hanrahan-said,-but-contended--that |the last key was “an old one” and {that he did not know what it fitted. The officer, however, told reporters that the key was “new.”

Rewards Total $36,000

Meanwhile, Mrs. Helen Degnan, mother of the slain girl, learned for the first time the gruesome details of her daughter's death, Rewards for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the kidnap-slayer totalled $36,000 today. The Chicago Times offered a reward of $15,000 and last night the {Chicago Tribune offered $10,000. Previously Mayor Edward J. Kelly offered $5000, the Chicago HeraldAmerican $5000 and two private citizens $500 each.

Aid Promised

| Klutanick said the units can be | relocated and ready for occupancy within 45 to 60 days after the government closes the contract. The structures, cut into panels or otherwise knocked down, will be shipped by truck, flatcar or boat to the new site. LY » » ~ R. KLUTZNICK said the cost of demounting, hauling and reassembling will be only 50 to 55 per cent of the cost of a similar new unit, Moreover, he added, the program will...conserve materials | urgently needed for new permanent housing. Demounting houses will require only about 5 per cent new material, while the recon- | version of ‘dormitories will take 20 per cent and barracks about 33 per: cent, FPHA estimates. None of this will come from material supplies set aside under priorities for pernianent $10,000 - or - less homes for veterans. J » » » INCLUDED in the FPHA display are other structures reconverted from temporary war housing—farm buildings, garages, filling stations, tourist accomodations and small community build- , ings. FPHA's disposal program covers | some’ 320,000 temporary units, of - | which 100,000) will be relocated for veterans. The remainder are:

er-Kidnap Scene Shows |

stoffe’s throw from the fashionable

Arthur C. Becker, dean points out the resemblance musical signs, He says this

STRAUSS SAYS:

| being offered for sale for the other | uses. .

L STRAUSS

Acme of the Music School at DePauw univ

kidnaping

otos ersity, under way at the track. It is esti ransom note letters to mated that some $350,000 will be indicates that the slayer is a musician.

i then because until now he has. never had a “winning car.” =

The “Noc Out” Special ight from Moore by Fred Peter ‘hite wood's backer, carries the ame specifications it had when ‘loyd

Davis and Mauri Rose drov. victory in the 1941 classic. Built in 1939, it has a four. | der Offenhauser engine, It’ drive, non-supercharged ian engine of 270 cubic inch displacement. Recognized as one of ’ test” drivers ever to invade tough dirt track circuit of the Mr-—Chitwood holds more -

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score of speed records for and half-mile tracks. He is a native of | Oklahoma but has made his home in Reading, Pa, since driving his» first race along the Atlantic sea= board. rn "Mr. Chitwood, who was in Ine

dianapolis for the convention of fair managers and secretaries of Indiana, said he would return to the city within a short time for an. early workout on the bricks. £ When not racing, Chitwood stars.

entered = “hell driving” follow. the death of Lucky Teter here

® [the state fairgrounds in -1041.. ; Specifications for the Decoration

day race are unchanged accordingclose at midnight, May 1.

and identical body styles as run here in the 1041 classic. The dates for qualifying trials will be ses

form. . In anticipation of the greatest ! crowd ever to attend the “500,” the speedway corporation already has an extensive construction program

| spent on improvements.

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“Good things

cost less than

Bad ones.”

THERE IS still something to be

said for Quality...

there is

still something to be said

for Value . .. there is still a lot

of Virtue in being Selective.

We only know whet we read in the papers...

and we noticed in The Daily News Record ,.

(a paper that circulates largely in retail circled + « » that a writer opined , . . that merchants '

who pursue tactics opposite these

enumerated above . . . the more stocks they are able to assemble . . . in the present

chaotic markets.

WE WOULDN'T know as to that... because we'll go along on Value, on Quality, on Integrity, on Selective Taste and Judgment . . . (that's all we know) and let the chips fall where they may! AND WE ARE pleased to report that everything considered . . . we're doing all right. The fine manufacturers with whom we've been closely identified through decades see to it . . . that we get our share of the good things . . . and they are working tooth and nail te expand their shipments to meet the Strauss

‘aver-widening clientele . . . (and to meet the requirements of the corner building next : door . . . which we shall occupy 2

soon (we hope)!

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prior to May 1, according to entry