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VOLUME 56—NUMBER 268

Blames Ice and Carelessness _ For Lag in Trash Cleanup

Tmpropee sonar ks thse bind. the 280 ck an Genie ae, ull apart when boltd, ef Sai

The cans, paper and debris have no place In a garbage container,

A housewife in this 31st st. backyard near Harding ave. safd her

trash hadn’t been picked up for six weeks. .

the backiog on snow and ice.

tation Chief W. H. Frazier.

+ + Mr, Frazier blames

HOUSING WOES T0 BE RELATED

Big Turnout Expected for Conference Tomorrow.

By ART WRIGHT

The tenant and private home owner will relate their woes tomorrow at the state housing conference at the statehouse, By letter and telephone calls to the Indiana Economic council and newspapers, many individuals have related personal grievances in the homes shortage problem , , , and some of them say they'll “take the floor” during the conference in the house chambers. The afternoon session which starts at 2 p. m., is expected to develop the greatest “heat” when the veteran and average citizen is given an opportunity to “speak up” during the panel discussions. The conference will open at 9:15 a. m. Registrations will begin at 8:30 a. m.

Luncheon Scheduled A luncheon will be held at noon in the Riley room of the Claypool hotel, and reservations show that the average citizen will be well represented there with the representatives of government agencies, builders’ groups, labor organizations and other affiliates of housing interests.

Individuals have indicated they|{"

will bring personal problems such as these to the conference: ONE. The family of four who are cramped into a two-room apartment for which they pay $40 per month while the house they own is rented out for $17 a per month. They say their tenants will not move and as a resuly two of this family of four must sleep in the

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TIMES INDEX

Thieves Take Choice Meat

SOME THIEVES with strong

shoulders and a big appetite found the answer fo the meat shortage today. | But William Zaph, proprietor of a cafe at 801 E. Market st. doesn't care for the way they solved the problem. They broke into his establishment and carried away all the ingredients for several eight-course meals. Mr. Zaph discovered his cafe had been ransacked at about 2:15 a. m. today. Included in the loot was 200 pounds of tenderloin, 10 pouhds of butter, one case of applesauce, one: case of catsup, three boneless hams and one French fry cutter. The prowlers also took 55 care tons of cigarets, four boxes of cigars, three boxes of candy, two boxes of gum and the money from a juke box and several pinball machines.

WARMER WEATHER

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REPORTED ON WAY,

Clear and Mild: Forecast For Tomorrow. LOCAL TEMPERATURES

Spring dropped in for. a prema-| |ture showing'today and éven cupid | felt like getting ready for action. The weatherman said it'd be {clear and mild through tomorrow but he wouldn't stick his neck out to say just how high the mercury would -climb. The bureau indicated that it'd go higher than yesterday's 33.

Unseasonably warm temperatures were recorded throughout ‘the central plains states. The mercury there jumped 30.or more degrees above the near-gzero readings of two days ago. But left out in the cold again was an. area in the southeastern coastal states, centered in Virginia, Kentucky and the Carolinas. Memphis, Tenn., was covered with. a four-inch blanket of snow and the predawn temperature at Bowling Green, Ky. was two above zero. The coldest part of ,the country was Caribou, Ky, where the mercury went to 10 below. Miami welcomed vacationers with temperatures of 86, the high for the

By SHERLEY UHL NOW, ICE and careless housewives are the major. bottlenecks as far as city garbage and ash collections are concerned. Bo states Sanitation Chief W, H. Frazier, in accounting for complaints mounting in the sanitation department during the past few weeks. Slippery streets, beginning

Christmas week, jammed the pickup schedule, Mr, Frazier con-

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cedes. Before that, he claims, the schedules were better observed than they had been “for a long, long time.” By now 90 per cent of the winter backlog has been tleared, he contends, and should be completely wiped out in a few days. » = » MR. FRAZIER, who even in ordinary times is smothered with more than a hundred complaints a week; has a few complaints himself. For instance, he points out, Indianapolis people have a habit of putting out ashes and garbage whenever and wherever they please, often ignoring pickup schedules themselves. Consequently, in winter, the refuse freezes and can't be dislodged from the cans. Then, if collectors try to khock it out, housewives mutter darkly about dented containers. Disregard of collection sched‘ules "leo causes huge Eatiuge and

the sanitation boss aserts

SOME RESIDENTS, he continues, use oversized containers that would pose a weighty problem for Superman, not to men-

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CITY CLEANUP OPINIONS VARY

William H. Book Proposes

New Personnel System.

Civic spokesmen exprested varied opinions today

street-cleaning and garbage collection problem.

Some thought the cleanup lag was |

an inevitable winter phenomenon— almost a tradition.’ Others wanted fo break with tradition by demanding revitalized post-war municipal services. The Chamber of Commerce sug- | n end to political patron-! age practices in the city street and | sanitation departments. Said William H. Book, executive secretary of the Chamber of Commerce: “Almost universal shortages . made it extremely difficult to maintain. sufficient manpower and equipment to carry out normal city

services and justifies the mayor in|

asking for the ‘patience of the citizens. Every northern city at this time has a dowdy appearance. “As more normal conditions re-| turn, however, it is time for our city |

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FINLAND PRESIDENT EXPECTED TO RESIGN

Cam... 22 10a. m..... 30 LONDON, . Jan. 17 (U, P..—A 7am v3 AE I 34 [iadio Moscow dispatch from Sa.m.... 23 12 (Noom).. 37 |Helsinki predicted today that Baron 9am 21 1pm 38 [Carl Gustav Mannerheim would

{resign as president of Finland either | today or Friday. Mr. Mannerheim has been in a | Helsinki hospital since his recent returii’ from Portugal. He is 178 | years old.

GOP Move to Labor Bill Lo:

WASHINGTON, Jan. 17 (U, P.).— The house’ labor committee by a tie vote today rejected a surprise Republican motion to approve ' President Truman's dabor bill without further hearings. The committee later decided, however, to vote ‘again on the factfinding bill early next week.

“The vote will .-be made at least! by Tuesday,” a committee source!

said, The bill would meet Mr. Truman's | request for fact-finding boards with | statutory authority and permit them

on Indianapolis’ |

THURSDAY, JANUARY 17, 1946 oh

STEEL STRIKE

PERIL GROWS; RESUME TALKS

Truman Will Offer Plan, of His Own if Leaders Do Not Agree Today.

By FRED W. PERKINS United Press Staff Correspondent

WASHINGTON, Jan, 17.— Danger of a great steel strike next Monday grows today hrough the mechanics of the situation developing in the White House conferences. President Truman, his office announces, will make his own proposal to end the stalemate if the

contending parties are still deadlocked this afternoon. One of the parties is Philip Murray, president of the C. I. O. and of the United Steelworkers. He has reduced his original demand of a pay raise of $2 a day or 25 cents an hour to 19% cents an hour.

with the general tendency of government fact-finders to settle around 18 per cent instead of the 30 per cent that was generally demanded by C. I. O. unions, Expect Compromise Plan The other party is Benjamin P. Fairless, president of U: 8. Steel Corp., who has made an offer of increasing wages 15 cents an hour. Through force of circumstances, U. 8. Steel appears here as the practical but unofficial spokesman for the entire industry.

President Truman's proposal is expected to be a compromise figure between 15 and 19% cents—possibly 17% cents. If it is above 15 cents Mr. Fairless may be able to accept for his own company. But to gain agreement from the rest of the industry —including the large independent Bethlehem, Republic, Youngstown and other steel companies—will be more - difficult and may require some days. There is no assurance of unanimity among the steel concerns. ‘ Time Element Important The importance of the time element is shown by the fact that Mr. Fairless required three days

back to Washington from New York. A similar lapse now would run the negotiations past the new strike deadline—next Sunday midnight. Mr. Murray might be induced by the President to order another postponement of the strike, but it is recognized that every postponement téhds to weaken the position of the union with respect to use of its economic strength “against the employers. Mr. Murray may feel that one postponement is enough. Messrs. Fairless and Murray could g0 back to the White House this afternoon with an agreement. But as they left the presidential offices at 10 o'clock last night—after two sessions that had begun at 2 in | the afternoon—there was no in|dication ‘they would voluntarily agree, Meet in Cabinet Room The White House meetings were conducted "in the cabinet room. For most of the time the two principals were in the company of Reconversion Director John W. Snyder, Secretary of Labor Schwellenbach, and John R. Steelman, special assistant to the President. Mr.

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LEADERS IN MEAT | TIEUP GONFER TODAY

Seek Wage Are Agreement to End Nation-Wide Strike.

By UNITED PRESS | Prospects for settling the worst | industrial crisis in nine years cen{tered today in Washington, There disputing parties in the {meat and steel industries conferred with top administration policy makers. At issue in both cases was the extent to which the government would allow price increases to make {up for labor demands for more pay. | In the overall strike situation— | keeping more than 920,000 workers | from their jobs—the major developments included: ONE:

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Rush Truman ses by Tie Vote

would provide a cooling-off period of 30 days in labor disputes. The committee vote on the motion for immediate approval was 7-7,

with all Republicans present sup-|

porting the motion. It was offered by Rep. Gerald Landis (R. Ind.) during committee hearings on ah | enSizely different subject. Mr. Landis said that controversial provisions of the bill—the subpena |authority and the cooling-off pe- | riod~—could be. taken up later. Democratic members charged that

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Police Investigate Mysterious Series of Evil Deeds Pursuing Sanders Family Here

By VICTOR PETERSON Police today launched an investigation into a strange series of misfortunes that

have pursued a single Indi-| _

anapolis: family for almost a

year, Authorities began their probe after Charles E. Sanders, head of the mysteriously- jinxed household at 1306 N. Oxford st. expressed belief his . family's setbacks were not mere coincidences. His womenfolk have been molested and slugged. His home has been ransacked, robbed and burned. - - Latest adversity to strike the Sanders clan was a $1500 fire early yesterday, for which no “accidental” cause could be found. Reaspn Unknown “We feel sure the fire was set by someone who was out to get us for one reason or another,” sald Mr, Sanders. “Why, we don't know, but things are happening so fast, and s0 many at the same time, that it's past being just chance.” Their life, until last spring, was commonplace enough: For 16 years Mr. and Mrs. Sanders lived normally and placidly. Two children were born, a girl, Jean, and a boy, Charles. A young cousin, Jacqueline Phillippe, came to live with them. Both parents are Indianapolis born, Indianapolis reared. But early last spring things began to happen. In rapid succession one mystery followed another, Girls Molested Jean and Jacqueline were walking in Brookside park in the late afternoon when a man molested them. Following an arrest, the two girls, along with other children, identified man. His case was heard in and

ceived no word of the new trial.

“I called and tried to find out| |

about it,” Mrs. Sanders said today. “I didn’t get any satisfaction. I was told we would be notified. We still know nothing.” A few weeks later, on Sept. 26, Mrs. Sanders was beaten almost to death in an upstairs bedroom of her home. She had $50 to pay for coal. It was about 9 a. m. when

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then the family has re-|

Daughter Jean Sanders , , , the’ first victim.

Husband, Overcome by Car Fumes, Is Rescued by Wife

There’s ng sorrow at the home of James Williams, 1244 Naomi st., as his wife and son, David, 15, gather at his bed,

BY AN odd quirk of fate, happiness instead ‘of tragedy reigned

today at the home of James Williams,

1244 Naomi st, The house

wore a family smile instead of a funeral wreath, At 9:45 last night, Mrs. Dorothy Williams seized her husband and dragged him from a garage choked with carbon monoxide,

Had she waited five minutes to the garage, Mr. Williams would have been beyond aid, city hospital attaches say. Mr, Williams mustered a feeble smile today and muttered, “It all seems like a dream. . . . This morning it felt like a hangover.” He eritered his garage at 8:20 last night to repair the tire mounts on his car. Then he remembered the sbattery was weak and decided to recharge it by running the motor. He pulled out the throttle and set it fairly high. » » » MEANWHILE, Mrs. Williams, washing dishes, kept thinking of her husband. “I don't know why,” she said, “but I was worried . . : I can't explain the feeling. I just thought something might be wrong.”

S80 she hurried to the garage herself. Mr, Williams was tinker-

longer to leave the house and go

WARNS MOTORISTS

Brown Says 80 Per Cent of Licenses Unsold.

H. Dale Brown, motor vehicl2 license - commissioner, today urged Hoosiers to buy their automobile license plates and driver's licenses as soon as possible to avoid the last minute rush, Although the deadline is nearly six weeks away, Mr, Brown pointed out that licenses can be purchased now with almost no waiting in line. “Eighty per cent of our licenses have yet to be sold,” he said, “and

unless drivers buy early there will

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TO BUY TAGS NOW:

Mes. Charles E Sandersaite-on the bod to whic she ‘was heundafter being slugged Sept. 26, It was but one of a series of mysteries.

Charles E. Sanders and son, Charles R.

KIMMEL ADMITS DOUBTING RAID

Tells Probers He Thought Japs ‘Knew Better.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 17 (U. P). —Adm. Husband E. Kimmel said today that despite the “war-warn-ing” that was sent to him, he didn't expect in 1941 that Japan would attack the United States—at Pearl Harbor or any other place.

The former commander of the’

Pacific fleet said he felt. it would be “national suicide” for Japan to attack the United States. He thought that the Japanese would have too much “common sense” to try it. Adm. Kimmel told the Pearl Harbor investigating committee that for months during 1941 he considered war with Japan “highly probable” but he’ never rated an attack on Hawail higher than “a remote pos-

“| sibility.”

Rep. Jere Cooper (D. Tenn.) asked Adm, Kimmel—if he believed war with Japan was “highly probable” —

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3 Pacific Demonstrators Confined to Quarters for Investigation. WASHINGTON, Jan. 17 Eisenhower revealed today

that he has ordered all army = theater commander to fore

Without adequate replacements, Gen. MacArthur said, the effect of

demobilization were too fast, Gen. Eisenhower said that in view of recent developments, spe cial boards have been set up for demobilization, “I will keep investigating, keep following events in view of the significance of what has heen hape pening,” he said, “I have commanded American soldiers, worked with them, lived with them and know them. I am only frail and human and can make many mistakes, but I do know hrs American soldier. “Forgive me for making a a speech,

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Reds Find 'Party Line' Uses ~ For Gl's Desire to Get Home

By CHARLES T. LUCEY Scripps-Howard Staff Writer WASHINGTON, Jan, 17.~The s “bring-us-home” drive may be a headache to the army, an embarrassment to the Truman administration and a serious concern to all Americans—but it's party-line stuff for the Communists and they're making the most of it. The same commies whose placards used to shriek that “the Yanks are .not coming”~in the early days of the “imperialist” war—are now doing everything they can to make sure the’ Yana are not staying. Le Long before the curtent series of

soldiers’ demonstrations broke out,|

the Communist Daily Worker was whooping it up to bring U. 8. troops back to this country. It turned elated handsprings-- over the one-day strike of the National Maritime ‘union, headed by Com-

munist sympathizers Joseph. Op

ran, to make “every ship a $00ps ship—bring our G. L's home.” The current Communist slant .

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No Worry About Strikes When: You Own A Farm

Your freedom and independence are of your own choice when you are on the farm Set

(U. P)~Gen. Dwight D,