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Patterson Says Posts Will
Not Be Refilled; ‘Protests Continue. "BULLETIN
By UNITED PRESS - Secretary of War Robert P. Patterson, seeking to calm worldwide demands by Amer-
“ican soldiers for faster de-
mobilization, announced in Tokyo today that more than 400,000 men will be brought home from the Pacific before May 1. Mr. Patterson told a press conference that more than half the 807,000 servicemen in the Pacific on Jan. 1 would be relieved within four months. No replacements will be sent Yor them. He said he found troop morale in the Pacific good. Three thousand soldiers in Hawaii presented demands to Washington today for “a clear foreign policy” and faster demobilization. Mass Meetings Banned At the same time, Lt. Gen. Roy
8. Geiger, commander of the fleet
forces in the Pacific, issued orders forbidding marines in his command Irom holding mass meetings. He told them to submit their complaints through normal command channels. A five-point demobilization plan was adopted in Schoefield Barracks Bowl, Hawaii, last night by 3000 soldiers and sent to Lt. Gen. Robert C. Richardson Jr, mid-Pacific army commander, for relay to Washington. The American veterans committee sponsored the rally. The soldiers’ plan proposed autorelease of two-year men on
Song Writer, Formerly of Indiana, Dies
EW YORK, Jan. 11 (U. P). ~Harry Von Tilzer, 73, song writer who wrote “Wait Till the Sun Shines, Nellle” and “I Want a Girl Just Like the Girl That Married Dear Old Dad,” was found dead yesterday in his hotel ropm. He had died in his sleep. Mr. Von Tilzer once said that he had written about 8000 songs and that about 2000 of them had been published. His real name was Harry Gumbinsky, Mr. Von Tilzer also was the author of “A Bird in a Gilded Cage,” “Down On the Farm,” “In the Sweet Bye-and-Bye,” and many others. ' He was a native of Goshen, Ind, and lived during his youth in Indianapolis. He.was survived by four brothers, Will, Jules, Albert and H. Harold,
Left Indianapolis
For Song Career - By ANTON SCHERRER SIXTY YEARS AGO when I wag a kid, Jacob and Sarah Gumbinsky (husband and wife) had a “hair goods” store on E. Washington st. in the neighborhood of the old Maennerchor Hall which wasn't a bad place to do business. The time to do business was all right, too. It was the period of chignons, wigs, switches, - rolls, puffs, false curls and frowsy bangs. ” » ” : BESIDES having a paying business, the Gumbinskys.also had a family. The home was in 8. Illinois st., somewhere around Mc-
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11, 1946
To Solve Murder of Kidnap Victim.
CHICAGO, Jan. 11-4U. P.).— As mourners attended the funeral of little Suzanne Degnan ‘today, police found a clue which might lnk her Kkidnap-siaying with the recent “lipstick murs der” of WAVE Frances Brown. Detectives found scrawled on a post, near where Suzanne's body was butchered, this message: “Stop me, before I kill more.”
By ROBERT T. LOUGHRAN United Press Staff Correspondent
CHICAGO, Jan. 11.—Little Suzanne Degnan was buried today while detectives min-| gled with the mourners-in the search for her slayer.
As the funeral services were held for the 86-year-old kidnap victim, - ether detectives retraced their steps in the Degnan neighbor-| hood with the hope of uncovering} some clue previously overlooked. There was not a major suspect in police custody today, and police adniitted that only a “lucky break” would lead to an immediate arrest. The funeral services were held at St. Gertrude’s church where a mass of the Angels was sung. Most of Suzanne's first-grade classmates attended the rites. f The burial was in ‘All Saints cemetery.
Pickets on Duty at Belmont Exchange Here
Pickets paraded, but local, phone servies ‘was uninterrupted. , , . Thess pickets are In front of the Belmont exthange at 18 N. Belmont ave,
Police Watch Crowd Detectives - watched the fringes of the crowd on the chance that the sadistic slayer might have been drawn to the church or cemetery by morbid curiosity, Held in technical custody for ques-
HOLD ‘PRICE TOP" ON.SUITS. | COATS
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ASKED BY SPAAK
UNO Leader Seeks Support 0f Common Cause, By R. H. SHACKFORD
United Press Staff Correspondent LONDON, Jan, 11.— Paul-Henri
Service. AY, fall use ob: available transportation and “a clear foreign policy.” > Leaves Canceled
Gen. Geiger’s order applied to] meetings “on or off station.” Navy mutiny orders also were. read to marines in Hawaii, military police were alerted, and officers’ liberty: leaves were cancelled. In Washington, it was learned that Gen, Dwight D. Eisenhower may be called before the full congress next week to explain the army command's side of the demobilization controversy. Senator Edwin C. Johnson (D.! Colo.), said that many congressmen favored an appearance by the chief of staff before the whole congress possibly next Tuesday, followed by a discussion of details between him and a special senate military affairs subcommittee. Gen. Eisen-| hower already has been asked to appear before the sub-committee. Protest demonstrations
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G.I. College Muddle Hit
(Read “Indiana Colleges Welcome | G. L's,” Page 4)
By JIM G. LUCAS United Press Staff Correspondent: | WASHINGTON, Jan. 11.—University presidents were charged today by one of, their own number with being “Shortsighted and unimaginative” in handling the problem of educating veterans under the G. I bill of rights. Dr. Cloyd H, Marvin, president of George Washington university, asserted:
“Buch headlines as ‘5000 students turned #Wway’ and ‘law school quotas filled’ reflect a “surrender rather than an attack on the problem.” At. the same time, Dr, Leland Bradford. adult education director for the National Educational association, said many schools show a “negative attitude” in refusing to accept veterans over the normal enrollment., “Veterans will pay the taxes and trol the spending for the next 50 years,” he said. “I wonder how
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5, |Spaak of Belgium, president of the
{22-year-old war veteran, and Rob-
tioning were Francis Cyril Perry,
jert Groetzinger, 46, a dentist who once had been an inmate of a state hospital for the insame and | formerly was employed by Perry's mother. Both have sex offense records. Administra Chester Perry told police he had. been Brits Sor bowling until 3:15 am. Monday, [CoA eee. in mara:
Bowles Says No No Wag To Be Allowed. WASHINGTON, Jan. 11 (U. P),
Nations. genom) : appealed to the 51 member nations | today to subordinate their particular interests to the general interests of everyone in the world or-! | ganization, Spaak made his acceptance address as president when the second | {plenary session opened at 10:30] a. m. He was elected yesterday in a contest against Foreign Minister | Trygve Lie of Norway. The assembly picked Ukrainian | Foreign Minister Dmitri Manuilski | by acclamation today as chairman
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proximately 2:30 a. m, Mr. Bowles Fmany of these Groetzinger was picked up at his home, where he was hobbling about | market hetause. of a rumor tha {on crutches, and his physician said | | prices wo be Inugased. act a leg ailment would have made it| He emphas at manufactur-
: : ithil ers have no justification for wit | Speed Blo lor ne deus: lo have {holding clothing in hopes of higher | profits. May 5 Seushtes me X The agency plans to issue shortly istration official, was missing from | {a new regulation which will remove her bed early Monday. Later that | | inequalities in the price structure. | {day parts of her mutilated body | *The eflect of .the new regula
tion,” Mr. Bowles said, “will be Wo were found in four different neigh-| = borhood cesspools. i stabilize the August, 1945, manu
| facturers’ level of prices. Any in-| Ladder Stolen | crease beyond that point would be Perry and Groetzinger were ques- inconsistent with the Siaiiization tioned after Perry’s mother, Mrs.
program.” Margaret Perry, operator of a
Mr, Bowles said that industey | children’s rursery, identified the
earnings are now ‘well above peace-
17% G. M. Boost, Urged by Board, Sets New Pay Formula
By RAYMOND LAHR 8 oy ted Press Staff Correspondent
WASHINGTON. Jan, 11.—President Truman pinned ‘his hope for industrial peace today on a formula calling for. wage increases of 17 to 18 per cent over basic wartime rates. Wage adjustments in that pattern were recommended by the President's fact-finding board for 175,000 striking |
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Phone Tieup Long-Distance Ser
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Workers Picke
By GRANT NEW YORK,
of ; telephone exchanges in key
Vensiingon:
PICKETING HERE WILL . CONTINUE
But Tieup Not Not Empected Here, Union Says.
Picket lines will continue to be maintained at all Indianapolis tele-
immediate threat of a local communications tieup, union officials
said today. Meanhile,
Indianapolis
telephone service in and throughout the
Governor Gates today expressed gratitude to Hoosier telephone operafors for continuing on the job Stipite picketing in four Indiana
UIA the Interset of publi health and safety,” the governor's statement sald, “it is reassuring to know that the telephone and clérical forces in the tele Indiana
In 44 States and Opera Refuse to Go Throug |
ted Press Stal Jan. 11. —Long Sattnce dephone sarviog, : across the nation was paralyzed today. Li Local service was curtailed at many points. ra There was no immediate prospect of an end of picketing 5
Secretary of Labor Lewis B. Schwellenbach called a cone jciliation meeting to begin at : Preputing “to-leave-for-~Washington
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cities of 44 states. 4 o'clock this afternoon im
tend the meeting, Ernest Weaver, president of the
Equipment Workers.
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phone exchanges but there is no |plck
its seven-week strike at all G. M.|in Detroit Sunday by representaplants in the country, tives from more than 100 G, M. While government officials were plants. confident the recommendation| Reuther did not indicate defiwould be accepted, there was no pijtely what his recommendation definite indication from either the | {would be. He said the wage pro{company or the union. “The com- | posal was a “fair finding” on basis pany withheld comment pending of 1041 production, but was inadestudy of the report. { In New York, U. A. W. Vice Presi-
Says Public to ‘Back Decision
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PACKING STRIKE
of!
Salted Autumohlle Workers {C. LO myloyet in Geveal 1 aiviicn ht
state Temained ‘normal as ‘operators
items had been withheld from the | lan hour-=about 17. 4 per cent a vote of acceptance or rejection of | crossed picket lines to go to work. t|—and called on the union to end! the panel's findings would be taken Company officials said their operat-
ig staff was at full strength, in- | cluding long-distance operators. Charles Hemm, Indiana representative of the Association of Communications Equipment Workers picketing in connection with their | strike against Western Electric Co., emphasized that operators were not crashing picket lines, but were con-
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mittee is one of the most important | {ladder used in the Degnan kidof the UNO since it will consider | |naping as one stolen from the
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TIMES INDEX usements. 8-9]Ruth. Millett... 15]. ess ,.... 10|Edw, Morgan 15 hurchill ... 16|Movies ..... 8-8 mics ...... 26| Obituaries: .., 5 ax Cobk ,.. 15/Dr. O'Brien ,, 12 word ... 26|Othman ..... 15 torials ... 16{Radio ....... 25 ons .... 19/Mrs. Roosevelt 15 rum ...... 16|Scherrer ..... 16 Ghali ... 26|Side Glances. 16 ean George.. 15| Wm. P. Simms 16 ta Given., 19|Sports ....... 20 Heath 15|State Deaths’ 5 Hicks .. 17|Thos. Stokes. 16 Indpls. ... 3|Stranahan .. 20 e Indpls. 15| Troop Arrivals 11 ane Jordan. ." 25| Women's McNeil .... 3! News ... 18-19 ints received by Jan. 15th at Morris 0 8 E Washington a. earn 14% |
commission. Other chairmen elected were: Economic and financial ecommit-
Waclaw Konderski; social, humanitarian and cultural committee, Prime Minister Peter Fraser, New Zealand; trusteeship committee, R E. MacEachen, Uruguayan ambassador to Britain. Spaak called upon the nations to abide by the decisions taken in the
RAIN, THEN SNOW THEN"COLD SPELL
LOCAL TEMPERATURES
6am... 31 0am... 34 TAM 32 1lam..... 36 8am... 33 12 (Noon): . 36 Sam... 33 lpm... 36
Get out your raincoats tonight and be sure that cracks in the bdsement walls are calked. The weatherman promises a heavy rain, Tomorrow you probably will want your skid chains, heavy coat and snow shovel. The weather is on its way toward being as temperamental as a cubistic artist. There will be snow fiurries on the morrow with the temperatures taking a nosedive. And for the next five days the mercury will sit about three degrees below normal. A slight rise is promised Tuesday and Wednesday with about one inch of precipitation resulting from rain and snow,
WOMAN KILLED AS CAR STRIKES TREE
Mrs. Blanche Barry, 60, R¢ R. 2, Greenwood, was killed instantly today when she lost control of her car and crashed into a tree at 4217 8. Meridian st. Driving south, the right-side wheels slid off the road onto the shoulder. In attempting to regain the road, the wheels caught on the edge sending the car into a spin,
CLINE FACES CHARGE
SAN ‘FRANCISCO, Jan. 11 (U. P.) —~Charges of forgery and grand theft were filed today gainst Alfred L. Cline, 56, who is being in. vestigated in connection with the |oeaths or disappearances of 11 persons. .
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|the resolution for an atomic energy nursery several months before.
Police began rechecking early leads yesterday after releasing on writs of habeas corpus two janitors who had been questioned for 48 hours. Hector Verburgh, 65-year-old | Belgian-born janitor of the apart-| ment building where police said the child's body was dismembered, was on the verge of collapse when he appeared before Judge Harold G. Ward in criminal court. “They handcuffed me and hung me up,” he said. “I can't lift my arms; they are so sore. They blindfolded mé. I have had no food or sleep for two days.” Detective Sgt. Jack Hanrahan denied Verburgh had ‘been mistreated and said the janitor had refused the food which was offered to him. Released with Verburgh' were his wife, Mary, 65, and Desere Smet, 35, another janitor in the neighborhood where the crime took place. ‘Still held was Frank Holland, 46, a dishwasher who was found in an alley near the slain girl's home. Although a lie detector test indicated he had no connection with the slaying, he was detained for further questioning.
{ time levels.” Civilian Production Administrator | John D. Small told an industry advisory. committee yesterday that his agency would continue its low price clothing -program-—inte-the second quarter of 1946 to stimulate the pro- | duction of 3,500,000 low-cost mens) suits. |
LEGION SEEKS WAY T0 AD 82D 6. 1S
Asks Passage to N. Y. for Billings Internees. |
Hospitalized veterans of the 82d airborne division at Billings General hospital will be in New York tomorrow to see their buddies parade if the American Legion can swing it. National, state and 11th district strength has been thrown back of the project to gét the six able of seven 82d division veterans east. Action was taken following disclosure in The Indianapolis Times yesterday of these excited, tense but unhappy men who yearned to be
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Morris Moss, G. O. P. Worker Here for Many Years, Is Dead
Veteran Marion county Republican political worker, Morris Moss, died early today ‘in his room at the Barnes hotel. He was 62: Death is believed to have resulted from a heart attack. Funeral services will be conducted | at 1:30 p. m. Monday at Planner & Buchanan mortuary.
he investigated state election results for the Republican state committee, and in 1936, he was an in: vestigator for the G. O P. national committee | He was early agent here for the | Pinkerton and Quigley-Hyland de|tective agencies. He once operated a private detective agency himself. For many years he was an aid to
Of Fact Board
STILL THREATENS
Parley Deadlocked as Price
A Glance
By UNITED PRESS
| not agree.
‘STEPHENSON BRIEFS
Relief Offer Is Rejected.
By UNITED PRESS A deadlock developed today be{tween the meat packing industry land C. I.°O. Packinghoues Workers union, scheduled to strike Wednesday, when Swift & Co. and Armour & Co. rejected as “impractical and inadequate” a government price relief offer. : After receiving the packers’ reply, U. 8. Conciliation Director Ed-
(Editorial, Page 16)
By FRED W. y. PERKINS
United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Jan. 11.—General Motors and the C. I O. United Automobile Workers may But many if not most citizens are expected to sup-
port President Truman's opinion that the report of his fact-finding board is “thorough and reasoned” and “will commend itself to the good judgment of the American public.” Laymen who have studied the 11.000-word document say . its arguments, practically as well as judiciously balanced between employer and worker interests, might not be wholly correct, but they sound mighty convincing.
» # » THE BOARD'S ‘members—Dean Lloyd K. Garrison, Judge Walter P. Stacy and Milton Eisenhower— are believed to have made a contribution that will help to bring peace in automobile manufacturing and--through modified applications of its philosophy—in the other industrial fields where important strikes are going on or are threatened over post-war wages, The board's recommended that | General Motors hourly wages be increased 19% cents, or 17.4 per cent, is close to the 18 per cent guess of observers acquainted with the history of the case before the fact-finding board took it over. That figure represents a compromise between 11.6 per cent offered in early December by the
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NEW KENSINGTON, Pa. Jan, 11 (U. P.).~—A strike of 4500 C. “I. 0. workers closed the Aluminum Company of America works here {oday—680 hours before the union's, scheduled nation-wide walkout against the steel and aluminum industries.
gar L. Warren commented, “the seriousness of the situation has increased. At this moment it looks very bad.” The government propgsal amounted to a price boost~6F 50 cents a
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Bes tsarans
6. M. FORMULA MAY SPUR FORD PAY PACT
Company nl & Union Meet Again Today on Wages.
By ROY J. FORREST United Press” Staff Correspondent DETROIT, Jan. 11.—The Presidential fact-finding panel's recommendation of a 17.4 per cent wage increase for General Motors employees was expected today to spur efforts of the Ford Motor Co. to reach a speedy settlement of wage
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| Mr. Moss was an ‘evaluator in the ‘George (Cap) Coffiri, former In- | department, of financial institutions | gianapolis G. O. P. boss. Later he at the statehouse. He also was 8 continued his intensive activities partner in the M & M Liquor store, |among Republican ward and pre143 E. Market st. cinct leaders and was a supporter In 1943 andl 1944, he was chief [of Gen. Robert H. Tyndall for the
vote registration clerk under Repubiican nomination for . mayor County Clerk Jack Tilson. .. {in 1942. His lengthy political career in-{ Mr. Moss, widely known as
cluded 4 term as deputy under for- |“Morry,” was a spade-worker and mer Sheriff LeRoy: Portteus back wheelhorse of Republican organimI 1912. He was a candidate for zations here over a period spanning sheriff in 1934. nearly half a century, He is surAt intervals, Mr. Moss served as vived by a daughter, Mrs. Ellen a special investigator for both polit-| Kirkman, and a son, Legis Moss, ical and privatd sources. In 1040{ both of Indianapolis, .
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NOBLESVILLE, Ind. Jan. 11 (U. P.) Special Judge Cleon Mount today considered briefs in D. C. Stephenson's 39th petition for, a new trial. Assistants to Attorney General James A. Emmert delivered the state's answer yesterday. Judge Mount has until Feb. 4 to study each side’s brief. Then he will hear arguments on the case.Stephenson, former grand dragon of the Indiana Ku Klux Klan, is serving a life sentence for the murder of Miss Madge Oberhol{zer in Indianapolis, i
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differences with the C..I. O. auto workers. ; + Ford and the union were to continue what both sides termed “seri ous” discussions of the wage question this afternoon at the Dearborn Inn
Ford’s best offer to the U. A. W, has been for a pay hike of about 124 per cent. The union has demanded a 30 per cent wage boost throughout the industry. “Rumors have persisted in Detroit, despite denials by the company, that
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THE NUMBER of strike idle workers soared toward the hal‘. Telephone service was disrupted in a work stoppage which, if 100 per cent effective would add 263,000 tb the 400,000 workers already idle. Other major disputes: AUTOMOTIVE—President Truman's fact-finding board recommended a 19% cent hourly wage increase for 175,000 striking General Motors workers. MEAT-—A deadlock developed between the meat packing industry and the C. 1. O. Packinghouse Workers Union, scheduled to strike Wednesday. STEEL—-C. 1. O. and industry representatives continued talks in an effort to avert a threatened steel strike. COMMUNICATIONS — Seven thousand Western Union operators continued .on strike in New York City. LUMBE R—-Thirty thousand lumber and sawmill workers remained idle in the Pacific north-
west. GLASS—Eight thousand C. I. {| O. glass workers have been on | strike since Set. = 4 seven states.
Local industry By Tieup
The tieup of ‘Tong ‘distance telephone service is beginning to give local industry a beating around the ears, Today with shortages still existing among cfitical metals “and parts, many plants almost are on a hand-to-mouth basis, Long-distance calls to a number of suppliers dre necessary to secure needed parts and overnight deliveries are a must in many cases. Slowdowns, bottlenecks and even possible shutdowns were reported by evety plant contacted as a result of the tieup. Meanwhile plant switchboard operators were warned by supervisors to try to get calls through as soon as possible for there :was danger every passing minute that the tieup would spread. R. C. A, which normally places about 100 long-distance calls a day, has been told that calls ls one east
phone Workers (Ind) ——
in reply to a question on point, he said: “If we get the picketing called off, it may not be necessary.” Full extent of the tieup could not yet be assessed, as across the NHR SOt Uidel WAY 8b MEME hours. The majority -of workers had not been due fo report for work at most points until later in the day. But in such major cities as New
Dallas, only emergency long distance calls were being accepted. It ap« peared that by this afternoon teles phone communication among most
'of the nation’s cities would be prac [tically at a standstill.
Dials Unaftected -So Far - f Dial service. which covers the
bulk of telephones in most of the
larger cities of the country, was unaffected thus far, but manual telephone subscribers at many points were without service. Such services as information, trouble, and the like, were affected, Picketing started after a night of rapid-fire developments in which the A. C. E. W. action was first on, then off, then on again. President Weaver first said that plans for picketing the exchangey would go ahead. Called Off Once
But U. 8. Conciliator J. R. Mane delbaum, making every effort to avoid the tieup, reported to Secres tary Schwellenbach. The secretary shortly before 10 o'clock last night made an urgent appeal to the A. C.
dispute to meet with him at 4 p. m. today in Washington. Mr. Weaver enlisted the aid of press and radio at that time in an
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Handicapped | of Phone Calls
“violent” emergency. They avy | : tried and failed to reach New York, Philadelphia, Camden, -N. J, Des troit, Chicago and t. Production Manager L. J. Smee tana, Stewart-Warner Corp. said “We depend on long distance 18
determine the whereabouts of vital parts. The tleup could stop produce | tion. We had one case develop thig 53 morning.” John Smith, vice president of n
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