Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 January 1946 — Page 1

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By H. D.

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United Press Staff Correspondent

NEW YORK, Jan. 15.—Production of most of the country's home electrical appliances. and industrial electrical machinery stopped today with a strike of 200,000 workers in 78 big and little plants scattered through 16 states. The strike hit the “big three” of the industry—General

Electric Co.,

Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co., - and the electrical division of General Motors.

The walkout

came one hour before the first shifts reported across the

country.

Picketing was peaceful, but marchers at most points

were massed. The walkout, long threatened, was called by the United Electrical Radio & Machine Workers of America, known in union circles as U. E.-C. I. O,, third largest union in the C. I, O. family. The union demanded wage increases of $2 a day. The electrical workers’ walkout brought the nation’s strike-idle total to 616,000. In the overall labor front, whefe

an additional 1,000,000 workers were |.

scheduled to strike momentarily: ONE: Representatiye$ of government, major meat, packers and two unions conf erred in an attempt to i Some 2500 meat packers of Kfhgai & Co. today began their

Wright, spokesman for Kingan's, said the members of the United Packing House Workers of Amerfea (C. I. 0.) were leaving the plant as they finished their day's work,

avert a nation-wide meat tie-up, set for one minute after midnight. TWO: Benjamin Fairless, presi-

whose 200,000 steelworkers have, agreed to a rock-bottom 19% -cent hourly raise. THREE: Congress reconvened amid a clamor for legislation to cope with the mounting wave of industrial disputes.

FOUR: C. I. O. United Auto

175 per cent wage increase from the Ford Motor Co. in settlement of their 30 per cent demand. Wage talks with Ford resume today. Pickets Begin at Dawn

Picket lines began . forming around the plants of the “big| three” of the electrical manufacturing industry as the dawn moved westward, heralding the beginning of a test of strength between the three companies and the U, E, the third largest affiliate of the C. I. O. Every phase of electrical production from the manufacture of tiny hearing aids to giant turbines, was affected by the walkout which forced workers in 16 states into idleness. Included in the list were such war scarce items as radios, washing machines, vacuum cleaners and electric toasters. Peaceful picketing was the order of the day as the workers took their places in the lines strung around the struck factories. Little violence was anticipated. - However, in the majority of places, extra

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TALK SET TO AVERT PHONE STRIKE HERE

Negotiations Open Thursday

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SENATE LABOR ACTION RUSHED

Legislation by Feb. 1.

/By LYLE C. WILSON United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Jan. 15.—The senate labor committee agreed today, as .th® nation’s strike picture

‘became increasingly —critical,~to-

speed hearings on labor legislation with | a view to presenting it to the senate shortly after Feb. 1. The agreement came as the second | session of the 79th corigress awajted Mr. Truman’s annual message on the state of the Union and possible clarification of the national labor situation. The tentative day for completion of the senate committee's work was set after Senator Robert A. Taft (R. 0.) protested against what he filed the leisurely way in which the hearings were being conducted. Committee Chairman James E. Murray ‘(D. Mont) hotly denied he was 1 the hear-lo

“|would be willing to call “morning, evening, and night sessions of the committee to complete work in two! weeks.” Depends on Conditions

Mr. Truman's message is scheduled to be read in each house by clerks Thursday. Whether that schedule will be kept or delayed pending clarification of the labor situation probably will be revealed this afternoon at a White House conference. The consensus is that the gravity of the labor situation cannot be properly measured before next Monday. Decision on a steel strike has

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Homer Mosteller . » . “Dan's feed was waiting.”

By SHERLEY UHL

A PLODDING, dollar-a-day dray horse, Dan, was pulling for home yesterday after a tough grind through Indianapolis alleys. At 5 p. m. on W. Washington st., the icy twilight wind sweeping up from White river bit deep. into Dan's big-boned frame.

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TUESDAY, JANUARY 15, 1946

‘ALL 24R. 6S ON WAY HOME

Discharges to Be Speeded, New Chief of. Staff Tells Congress: ° By DEAN W..DITTMER

Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, a chief of staff, today anunced that army discharge requirements will be eased during the spring. He aslo said that every drafted enlisted man with two years’ service will be discharged or en route home by July 1. He coupled his announcement with a plea to the G. 1's and to congress to halt their clamor against the army's demobilization “There will no longer be any useful purpose in troop ‘demonstrations for faster discharges,” he said “The time has, come to replace hysteria with calm judgment and sound discipline.” The new army chief of staff appeared at a joint meeting of the house and senate along with Adm. Chester Nimitz, navy chief of opjerations. to answer complaints against the demobilization slowdown. Keep up Occupation He told the congressmen bluntly that the army has no intention pf

_|abandoning its jobs of occupying

GePmany and Japan end guarding billions of dollars of government property abroad. And, he said, these jobs cannot be done without manpower, Eisenhower said that by next July 1 every man in the army who

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NEED § MILLION “35000

‘House Shortage to Double By End of Year.

(First of a Series)

By NED BROOKS Scripps-Howard Staff Writer

WASHINGTON, Jan. 15.—America faces the next decade needing about 8,000,000 homes costing $5000 or less, Employment of four to five mil-|

been postponed by the C. I. O. steel | workers union until that day.

considering several labor bills, agreed to limit to around 24 the number of witnesses it will hear. Some 100 persons have asked permission to testify. The days first witness” was the former war labor board chairman, William H. Davis, who strongly opposed compulsory settlement of labor disputes. He argued against the fact-finding machinery, with its 30day cooling off period, which President Truman has asked congress to pass. Mr. Murray, meanwhile, called for careful consideration of. all proposed legislation. “We ‘are on the eve of a new era of great prosperity in this country,”

Troop Ship Is in Trouble

—U. E. W. Workers Split.

"Contract negotiations to avert a| fenewal of the strike by the Indiana Telephone Workers Union, Inc, will be held at 2 p. m. Thursday in the offices of the Indiana Bell Telephone Co., 240 N. Meridian sé Meanwhile, 20 members of Local 904, United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America (©. I. ©) today struck at the Westinghouse Electric Corp. 551 W. Merrill st, and began picketing. They joined some 200,000 fellow members over the nation which

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TIMES INDEX

12 Edw. Morgan. 9 ane 13

Amusements . Churchill .... 10| Movies ..

Comics ...... 16/| Music ....... 12 Crossword ... 16| Obituaries ... 4 David Dietz . 9|Dr. O'Brien.. 9 Editorials ... 10| Fred Perkins. 9

Fashions .... 13/Radio ....... 16

Inside Indpls. 9|State Deaths. 4

Jane Jordan . Jim Jim Lucas ..

16| Troop Arrivals ‘8

.. 10{ Women’s News 13

Savings—safe for 24 years.

at Morris Plan with . Bby—Ady,

BOSTON, Jan. 15 (U. P.).=The |army transport Henry Baldwin |carrying 589 troops to New York | radioed today that a crack had developed in her afterdeck and that |she was being pounded by ‘heavy seas about 300 miles southeast of Cape Race. Rescue operations were turned over by the eastern sea frontier in New York to task force 24 at Argentia, Newfoundland. The cutter Modock was dispatched under full steam for the scene. The navy said the navy tug Paiute, on duty with the north

Atlantic fleet, also was dispatched to the Baldwin, Not an 8.0.8.

A spokesman at the first naval district here said that the message picked up by the naval radio station at Marshfield, Mass, was a regular dispatch and not an 8,0. 8. He believed that the transport was in no immediate danger. He placed the vessel's position as about 1000 miles from Boston. ‘The Baldwin's troops included the 3631st and 3884th quartermaster

engineering petroleum distributing

| from Antwerp to New York.

NEW DIOCESE. SET UP VATICAN CITY, Jan, 16 (U. P).

The sendte committee, which is! {1,300,000 dwellings and the short-|

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Due to Storm

truck companiés, and the 2838th

company © The ship was en route

Pope Plus XII has created a new diocese of Madison, Wis, it was an-

lion persons in home-building and {allied occupations is possible. Right now there is a deficit of |

age is expected to reach 3,000,000 by {the end of 1946. The shortage hasn't developed overnight. It has been in the making for 15 years. The plight of returning veterans, with no place to live, has served merely to dramatize it. The homebuilding industry enters its era of greatest opportunity poorly prepared to meet the immediate or long-range demand. The long-awaited “boom” could fizzle out, The revival now getting under way will produce, at the outset, a limited number of homes at $6000 to $10,000. It will produce rela-

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34,700 HOMES ARE

Indianapolis Figure Not

Included in Total.

By ART WRIGHT » At least 34,700 housing units are needed in Indiana—outside of Indianapolis—and the shortage 'will become more critical within the next six months, This summary of the state's No, 1 post-war problem Was revealed today by Kenneth L. Schellie, director of the Indiana economic council. The figures were obtained in a survey .of second, third, fourth and fifth "class towns. Indianapolis totals had not been completed. Results of the poll will be the basis of discussions in the Indiana housing conference Friday in the house chambers of the statehouse.

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VA WORKERS LOSE MILITARY TITLES

WASHINGTON, Jan. 15 (U. P.). —There’ll be no “pulling of rank”

for help:

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on former enlisted men when they|tives wanted to question them about 80 to the veterans administration blood stains found in Mrs. John-

Gen. Omar N, ‘Bradley, veterans a garage the night of the kidnapadministrator, has ruled that ex-|i 3 officers in VA posts henceforth will

He explained that use of "mili-|found ih the automobile was being taly titles on doors and name|checked to determine if it bore plates, customary around VA in|resemblance to the Paper 0 on which the past, “presents practical dif-|the Kidnnaper ) wrote his

has a right to expect release by that date will have been discharged. By April 30, he said, all army en{listed men with 45 points or 30 {months service will be separated or aboard ship returning home. By June 30, all enlisted men with 40 points or two years service will be separated or enroute home. ‘ The present requirement for dispid is 50 polats J that

gress n has been faster

[{ctmes Chief of Staff Gen. George .. Marshall. To discharge men faster would be "eatastrophie, ” he | said, Navy Ahead Nimitz and Adm. L. E. Denfeld, navy personnel chief, said the navy’s program was ahead of schedule and that they saw nothing to prevent the navy from com-

'Says Navy Deprived Him

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KIMMEL: ‘DIDN'T GET A CHANGE’

Of Information.

By JOHN L. Fa WASHINGTON, Jan. Adm. Husband E. Kimmel today accused the navy department of depriving his Pacific fleet “of a fighting chance to avert the disaster of Dec. 7, 1941.” The navy, he charged, withheld from him “information which indicated the probability of an attack at Pearl Harbor at the time it came.” If he had been’ given that information, Kimmel said, his ships

pleting its demobilization program by Sept. 1. When Eisenhower finished, he| offered to answer questions, but not | a single member of. congress raised { his - voice, | ! Afterward, however, members ex- | pressed conflicting reactions. Eisenhower said G.I. demonstrations around the world were un-| fortunately “subject to misinter- | pretation.” “No disorders accompanied them. They were occasioned by homesickness.” A G.L’s Friend

“In no question involving the G. 1. will I ever appear except as his friend and his advocate, although I may be of the brass,” he said. “1 feel confident that when the reasons for the change in vace in the demobilization program are recognized by our soldiers and they have full knowledge of their outlook for the next six months, they will accept, with that mature jupdgment Americans always show, their own responsibility for finishing the job.” He said that on V-E day there were 8300000 men in the army. Sincé that. time 5,000,000 have been discharged and 2,750,000 more will be discharged by July 1, he said. 500,000 to Be Left This will leave 500,000 V-E day men in the service on July 1. Between now and that date the army must get another 1,500,000 in order to accomplish its mission, Eisenhower said, and if it fails the result will be “catasptrophic.”

you gentlemen will have to decide what we must do,” he told the congressmen.* “I know congress would not tolerate a reduction in occupational forces below the requirements needed in Europe and the Pacific,” he said. “We must have the men indicated

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TWO SURRENDER IN DEGNAN INQUIRY

' CHICAGO, Jan. 15 (U. P).—A man and woman wanted for questioning about the kidnap-slaying of 6-year-old Suzanne Degnan surrendered to police today. Mrs. Louise’ Johnson, 32, and Harry Weil, 36, walked into a milk store operated by Well and waited there for police to arrive. Detec-

son's automobile which she left in

ng. Police Lt: William Hanrahan said that a piece of grease-soaked paper

$20,000

“If that situation should develop, |

would not have been surprised at {anchor by the Japanese. Instead, {he asserted, he could have ambushed the enemy striking force as it approached Hawaii. The former Pacific fleet comjmander, relieved of his post after {the crushing defeat of four years ago, told his side of the story in public for the first time to the congressional Pearl Harbor investigating committee,

Breaks 4-Year Silence

Adm. Kimmel broke his four-year silence with a fighting 27,000-word opening statement to the committee. He declared that history would vihdicate him. Adm, Kimmel had an air of confidence in the verdict as he began his testimony. He was in a good mood.. He smilingly struck a fighting pose,” with pointed finger upraised, for photographers. - Klieg lights threw a blinding glare over. the witness and the audience which packed the huge senate office building caucus room. Motion picture cameras whirred to record the deposed admiral’s first public statement on the events of more than four years ago. Adm. Kimmel was flanked by

form and one in civilian clothes. The retired admiral wore a blue civilian suit, white shirt and blue and white necktie. Adm. Kimmel stood erect with

four attorneys, three in navy uni-|

Calls Broad Ripple Plaque ‘Best War Souvenir’

“Thanks for the tank—here’s your plaque,” says Tank Cmdr. Robert Davis to K. V. Ammerman, Broad Rive High school principal.

Local G. |. During Battle Of Luzon.

By DONNA MIKELS

OUT OF THE LITTER of war |

trophies that covered Luzon, an Indianapolis tankman brought back what he calls “the best souvenir of the war.” / It is a metal plaque which was attached to a light tank that traveled all the way from Indianapolis to the front lines of Luzon. The plaque marked the tank as a gift of Broad Ripple high school, through the purchase of more than $87,500 in war bonds, / ;

. » » » ROBERT DAVIS, son of Mrs. Edith Davis,” 3126 Central ave, got the tank as a replacement after his ‘own vehicle was put out of commission in battle. He drove it from February until October, when the bulletscarred tank was mustered out of service. When he turned the tank in, the Indianapolis veteran pried off the piaque to bring home. Yesterday he visited Broad- Ripple to show his trophy to K. V. Ammerman, Broad Ripple principal, and others at the school.

o . FIVE JAPANESE campaign flags also were added on the tank as ‘it carried the Indianapolis soldier fhrdiigh the campaigns on Luzon, Panay, Negros and Mindanao.

hand upraised as he took the oath. | (Continued on Page 5~Column 2)

» Kimmel ® o ' Highlights "WASHINGTON, Jan. 15. ~Highlights of Adm. Husband E. Kimmel’s defense in testimony to the congres-

! sional Pearl Harbor inves-

tigating committee: The Pacific fleet was “deprived of a fighting chance because the navy department withheld” from Kimmel “information which dndicated the probability of an attack at Pearl harbor at the time it came.” » ” ” None of his information from Washington indicated an attack .on Pearl Harbor was imminent or "probable, On the contrary, Washington messages in late November and early December, 1941, pointed to possible Japanese Boalities in the Far East. “m:n Before Pearl Harbor, “he had been led to believe he was eng

From the very “frst, the Broad

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KEEP O'COATS HANDY, YOU'LL NEED THEM

Sinking Mercury and Snow Flurries in Prospect. LOCAL TEMPERATURES

6a.m....28 10am... 28, 7a. mi... lam... 2 §a m. ...2% 12 (Noen).. 26 9am... 2 1p.m....2%

The mercury started on a downward path early today as. the weather did a sudden®switch from “fair and warm” to “cloudyy and cold.”.. r Overcast skies and overcoated residents were in prospect today. The weather bureau predicted clouds and low temperatures today and partly cloudy and colder tonight. The outlook for tomorrow is cloudy skies and slowly rising vemperatures for Indianapolis. The cold spell predicted here seemed to be spreading over the state today with cold weather and snow flurries’ forecast for today

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Tipple Wrecked.

WELCH, W. Va. Jan. 15 (U. P.).—Spokesmen for t New River and Pocahontas Coal Co, here announced at 2 p. m. this afternoon that

rescuing all of the miners who were trapped in an explosion wh

9 mine, one-half mile southeast of Welch, today. The Sompany's office at the Hears by Berwin mine said “of the 268 men who were in the at the time of the is more than 200 clready have rescued. Bodies of five. workers have been

Here is a close-up of the plaque that Davis brought heme. oF ¢

found and 12 46 15 other men have been taken to hospitals in Welch. Windows Broken

er Ln : plosion was “very violent.” Mr Chapfield estimated that from 275 to 300 men were at first believed i to be in the shaft. :

RAN MAY S| UNO AID IN RED DISPUTE

Regarded as “as First Urgent Problem of Assembly.

LONDON, ‘Jan. 15 (U. P.) —~Iran threatened today to appeal to the United Nations general assembly for protection of Iranian rights if Russian-Iranian differences are not settled soon. Iran's chief delegate, Seyed Hassan Taquizadeh, announced his country’s intentions of appealing to the UNO at the eighth full session of the assembly. The Iran-Soviet situation was lhe first of the urgent world political controversies mentioned in - the general debate which started late yesterday. “The possibility was seen that it might touch off discussion of other controversial issues. Mr. Taquizadeh did not mention the Soviet union by name during his speech. But he said “certain great

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ABC Acts in "Warm Beer Tavern Ruse

By ROBERT BLOEM Members of the Indiana Alcoholic Beverages commission announced today the commission had started action to end the “warm béer” racket in Indianapolis. Tavern owners have been unoffi« cially on trial since a series of liquor retailer meetings, sponsored by the ABC last December, at which they were warned against the alleged practicé of arbitrarily cutting off beer sales in the evening to step up the more lucrative “40 to 70 cents a shot” hard liquor sales. While critics of the liquor business charged the practice was causing a sharp increase in drunkenness in the city, members of the beer

trade denied’ that -there was any|

shortage of beer which might make it dificult to get.

Increased drunkenness, it pl

Crime Career : Nipped After Hotel Stickup four alleged bandits short today - the quartet launched what is lieved to have been planned as . series of stick-ups. ; Three gunmen and & woman or

arrested here at 2'a. m. They were being sought by state and local police after holding up the Crawford Crawfordsville, three hours earlier and escaping with $100. y

get-away car, reported stolen from Danville, Ill, when they were spotted by Police Sg Robert Smith and Patrolmen ron Rance and James Dunn. Two of the suspects, who

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ARGENTINE INDUSTF CLOSES ITS DOOR

BUENOS AIRES, Jan. 15 (U. —Private industry's lockout in p ‘test of the government's decree dering a bonus equalling a month pay and wage increases to workers moved into its second d today with nearly all of commerce and industry p

stands and the large municipal ket controled by the pvern

Not All the Nighead * People Are'in :

Many people who delved in t