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16 ARE KILLED AS TRANSPORT FALLS, BURNS

In the Air, Passengers Burned to Crisp.’

CHESHIRE, Conn,, Jan, 18 (U. P.).—An Eastern Airlines plane caught fire in flight to-

g wooded patch near the state reformatory, killing its 13 passengers and crew of three. The plane was en route from New York to Boston when the crash occurred, _ There were no survivors, d. The bodies of three women were found among the victims. An identification disc bearing the name “F. W, Bassett, Pan-American Airways” was found at the wreck-

age, Caught Fire in Air Eyewitnesses reported that the fwin-engined airliner caught fire

state

With smoke trailing behind the plane, the pilot apparently tried desperately to set the plane down in an emergency landing. But then an explosion shook the

plane. ; C. A. Goddard, president of the Ball & Socket Co., said when the explosion occurred “the wings of the plane folded and the plane came straight down.” Peter Ricco, an overseas veteran, saw the plane catch fire. He ran to the scene of the crash but flames and the intense heat kept him a distance from the wreckage. “No one got out,” he said. “Everybody evidently stayed with the “ship.” Constable R. E. Warner said the

The occupants were “burned to a crisp,” he added. wings floated to earth after plummeted to the ground,

wreckage. ; Mr, Warner said there was “no Houbt everybody was killed.” An hour after the crash, the wreckage still was burning. “Firemen had to chop down two barbed wire fences and let apparatus through one at a time,” Mr. Warner said. “There's wasn't much they could do after they got there except watch the plane burn.”

JUNE-IN-JANUARY HERE FOR FEW DAYS

LOCAL TEMPERATURES

6am.....,30 0am... 7am....3 1llam.... 44 $a m.,...32 12 (Noon).. 46 fam....36 ipm ... 8

Indianapolis could almost get out its spring coat and straw hat today and tomorrow, for the mild weather bas decided to stay a while. Weather Chief R. M. Williamson gays the city will have partly eloudy skies through tomorrow, but the mercury will stay up around the 40's. Today, he predicted, the temperatures will climb up to nearly 50. Most of the nation was enjoying June-in-January weather, too. But the weatherman in Chicago warned that the mercury would drop suddenly before the week-end. A large cold-sir mass, forming in west central Canada, will reach into the north centra) states and move south throughout the Midwest, the Chicago forecaster said. He said temperatures in Minnesota, northern Iowa and Wisconsin could be expected to fall “well below zero.” However, the cold wave evidently will bypass Indianapolis this week. Mr. Williamson sees just slightly colder weather for the state to morrow. and’ Sunday, but rising temperatures again Monday arid Tuesday.

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REJECT MOVE TO CALL CHURCHILL

Pearl Harbor wor Probers Vote 6 to 2 Against It.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 18 (U. PJ. ~The Pearl Harbor. committee to-

witness. LE The wollen wai de. by Sena tor p (Rs Mich).

He ‘wanted 3c: ask ME. * Churchill about his Atlantic conference with the late President Roosevelt in

August, 1041. Senator Ferguson and Rep. Bertrand W. Gearhart (R. Cal), the only two members of ly "i man joint congressional committe voting in favor of the motion. The two other Republicans on the committee—Senator Owen Brewster of Maine and Rep. Frank B. Keefe, of Wisconsin—voted “present.” ‘ Voted Against It All six Democrats on the committee voted against calling Mr. hill, The vote was taken after -Senator Barkley recalled that Mr. Ferguson brought the question of calling Churchill during his (Barkley's) absence yesterday afternoon. Mr, Barkley announced that he would neither invite nor subpens the former British prime minister unless instructed to do so by the committee. je He suggested that since the question was raised in open session, it should be settled in open session. Senator Ferguson said he wanted to ask Mr. Churchill about Atlantic conference discussions regarding the Far Bast, particularly proposals for

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LANDIS ASKS $40

Slaps at Giving of Money to Foreign Nations.

Times Washington Bureau ' WASHINGTON, Jan. 18.—Declaring that “if we can give or lend money to foreigh nations we can take care of our own people,” Rep. Gerald W. Landis (R. Ind.) today introduced a bill to pension every one over 60 at $40 per month. Yesterday he used the same argument to introduce a world war II bonus bill which would pay every

man who served $1 a day for time {served in the United States and $1.50 for foreign service. | In presenting the bill, Mr. Landis

19 brought forward petitions signed 31|by 30,000 war mothers asking that 10 /this be done.

Four other bonus

: 20| bills are already pending in the

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| Dickie Hopes He Can Keep Pony

Dickie Land and “Grampa,” his pony,

Farm Boy, ||, Pays Farewell

No Longer His

By VICTOR PETERSON

A chill wind kicked -around the corners of the barn, The sun hung on the horizon, casting long shadows across the rutted barnyard.

But from inside the barn came the plaintive moo of a cow that

A short, chubby figure came trudging along the road, eyes cast

down. Dickie fumbled opening the gate, squeezed through. It was 11-year-old Richard Land coming home to a motherless, fatherless, brofiseriess house # WEDNESDAY MORNING. Richard was orphaned when Mr. and Mrs. Richard Land and Clayton, 2, were killed as their farm truck was hit by a train in Lawrence. Triple funeral services will be held’ tomorrow. 3 Dickie didn’t seem surprised to

“Hi, puppy.” Dickie said and stroked the dog's head. “Puppy isn't feeling so good. He was hit by a car out in front of the house two weeks ago,” he said. Dickie checked the livestock, turned out the lights and went in the barnyard. A shaggy pony, almost toothless, nosed his arm. “Hi, Grampa,” Dickie said as he threw an arm over his neck. “1 sure hope I can take you with me,

» » » “I PON'T want to go in the house but I better get my sled,” he said. Walking over the ruts he stopped to kick a pile of boards. “There's the sides of the truck. That's all that’s left.” Dickie got his sled and stopped to take a look around the house. A pile of clothes lay on a table and in a basket, “Mother washed the day before she . . , the day before the accident.” y

» ” ” HE PRIMED the pump to get a drink of water. The water squirted out. Dickie said: “That happened to Mother one day and it blew all over her.” His brother-in-law, Howard Gastineau, with whom Dickie will stay, drove up with a little trailer. It was time to take the livestock to his farm for keeping. Dickie pulled at his cap and went over to help with the loading.

tet ———————————— PLAN LOAN FOR CHINA WASHINGTON, Jan. 18 (U. P).

—The export-import bank said tor day that it will lend $33,000,000 to per cent interest to purchase raw cotton in the United — }

China at 2%

States.

John M. Gillespie, Veteran Leader of Teamsters, Dies

Ul.-S. CONTROL OVER HOUSING HIT AT PARLEY

‘Take Lid Off Prices’ One Spokesman Suggests At State Meeting.

By ART WRIGHT Government controls were blamed today for the nationwide housing shortage as several ‘hundred persons sat in a day-long Indiana housing conference at the state house. War veterans, average citizens and persons interested in the housing industry sought a solution to the No. 1 post-war problem.

The first representative of the industry to speak, Carl Steeg, chairman of the Indiana construction industry policy committee, recommended that the government “take the lid off the prices.” He advocated that the government get materials to the builders, and forget cost for a while, He charged also that federal agencies paid more attention to the need for new automobiles after V-J day than they did to the housing shortage. Too Many Controls Ed Griffin, local chairman of the Producer’s. Conference, in representing manufacturers of building materials said, “Legislation cannot build

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Streets Held Seasonal Job

By SHERLEY UHL ; GEVERE weather forced a virtual suspension of city street cleaning activities this winter; say street department officials.

“Street cleaning is a spring, summer and fall proposition, any-

how,” asserts Assistant Street Commissioner William E. (Billy) Hamilton.

“The stuff has been frozen to the pavement now, so that none

homes: He also charged there were too many government controls and that

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manufacturers were kept busy coping with price controls rather than overcoming the shortage of materials

Problems faced by the universities and colleges were outlined by R. B. Stewart, vice president of Pur due university. He said 41 per cent of the returning soldiers ‘are trying to enroll in 38 schools, which include Purdue and Indiana universities. A new problem facing campus housing, he said, is that 25 per cent of the veterans are Mr. Stewart warned that if housing is mot provided by March 1, 800 veterans seeking to attend Purdue will not go to school. Representative Earl B. Teck -| meyer of Indianapolis declared that |

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NAME EDWIN PAULEY

* Pythips combination in labor, died

& Pinn fumeral home, 1639 N. Mes ridian. st. The body will. then be|

AS FORRESTAL'S AID

‘Believed Likely to Replace Navy Secretary.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 18 (U. P.), —President Truman today named Edwin W. Pauley, California oil man and former Democratic party treasurer, to be undersecretary of navy. It was expected that Mr. Pauley eventually would succeed Secretary of Navy James Forrestal. My. Forrestal’s desire to leave his cabinet post has been known for some time. Indications were Mr, Pauley will be stepped up to the secretaryship when Mr. Forrestal retires. As undersecretary, Mr. Pauley succeeds Artemus L. Gates, who resigned several weeks ago. The Pauley nomination was one of a series of major government

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Services for Sohn M. Gillespie, general secretary and treasurer of! the Teamsters International union, will be held Tuesday in Boston with burial there. i Mr. Gillespie, who along with Teamster President Daniel J. Tobin made up the greatest Damon and

yesterday afternoon in St. Vincent's He was 68 and lived at

A short service will be conducted |’

“by the Rt. Rev. Msgr. Raymond R. Noll of $8. Peter and Paul eathedral at 11 a. m. tomorrow, in the Speaks

. faken to the Frederick J. Crosby funeral home in Boston, Mr. Gillespie, known to most of

the union men as “Genial Gill"|

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of our equipment ean pick it up. . . Besides, this is a tricky business. We might flush the streets during a thaw, then have thai waterflim freeze Within a few

total of 20 men, plus’ about 20 truck drivers. Thirty-five white wings tour ‘the mile square, weather allowing, in the wee small hours. The remaining 45 sweepers are supposed’ to tend the neighborhoods, zoned into five distficts. “They used to carry 65 or 70 men for the neighborhood area,” Mr. Hamilton recalled wistfully,’

- - . UNDER “perfect” weather conditions, neighborhood crews can cover the town in about six months, he added. This apparently means outlying streets are brushed only once a year, since there are only about eight months of “perfect” weather. He conceded the ‘department hadn”t been able to “get to” the city’s alleys for quite a while. Indianapolis cleaning crews have been spending most of the wihtée hauling cinders for the unimproved streets division, re-

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Whose responsibility is this sidewalk debris on New Jersey st, Just north of St. Clair?

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& {last peacetime year, had produetion schedules indicating about how! {many autos and trucks it would be

Dirty water and slush, like this behind city hall, is an inevitable consequence of winter, says Assistant Street Commissioner William E. Hamilton,

Gutter residue is frozen te the pavement, refuses to budge before the street department's antiquated equipment, Mr. Hamilton claims. . , «+ This is near city hall, too.

Riddle: How Did 6 Octopi Get in Hills?!

THOMAS, W. Va, Jan. 18 (U, P.).—Who put six octupi in a

Black Water river swimming hole? Were they maliciously left there alive or dumped in dead? Theories were a dime a dozen today in this excited mountain hamlet of 1448 persons. That they were octopi appeared to be an established fact. . ” ” THE SIX eight-armed devilfish were found Yesterday by a group of high school students. The largest weighed 40 pounds and had a 48-inch spread. It was taught by Teddy Peters, 15, who said he “lassoed” the octopus and had “fo kill it” to get it loose from rocks to which it ‘was clinging with its tentacles. Prof. L. H. Taylor of the voology depattment of West Vir« ginia university sald it was “unbelievable thaf an octopus, a salt water fish, could live In the fresh water ‘of our mountain streams. » ¥v Sis ONE GROUP wipe bt

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DRAFT EXTENSION ASKED BY HERSHEY

Wants Every Inductee to Serve 18 Months.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 18 (U. P). —Selective Service Director Lewis B. Hershey today asked congress to extend the draft act immediately and amend it to provide that every inductee serve a specific term, preferably 18 months, Mr. Hershey flatly rejected, however, a proposal that the present draft age, 18 through 25, be raised to speed the flow of replacements to occupation theaters. Instead, he recommended that the army and navy lower their physical qualifications to make more men in the present age group eligible for induction. Mr. Hershey was called before a senate military affairs subcom-

about 35,000 of the 50,000 men a| month requested by the army. The war department has attributed the recent demobilization slowdown to lack of replacements, Mr. Hershey told the subcommittee that $0,000 to 80,000 temporarily deferred high school students would become

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A TIME TO BE “NONCHALANT

= BOSTON, Jan. 18 (U. P)~In answer to a call that smoke was pouring from a window In a Roxbuty hotel, firemen burst into a room to find a woman taking a

bath In steaming water, Red: faced, » yx ted, wie by

.S. Steel Turns Truman's W

Rejection Comes After clo 4 Union Accepts President's

STRIKE LOSSES 1960 MILLION DAY

|| Estimate Covers Industries

thow much production. though layed now, may be made up later,

1800-a-day peak Feb. 1. Chevrolet

million dollars a day, $18 billion a year—that's about the normal output of FP" |threatened industries bogged down ¢ by failure of management and labor to settle disputes without work stoppages.

estimate the current loss to the na . {tional economy because of strikes. How far an industry has progressed lioday toward full Deatetiime produe.

output of 6800 cars and 2300 trucks daily by Oct. 1. Oldsmobile outpyt ' {by March 1 was to be 1300 a day and Cadillac, 320 a day.

of course, is the wage loss in each

only to 175,000 working when the

Proposal for

WASHINGTON, Jan. 18 (U, P.) —U. 8. Steel Corp. toh day rejected President Truman's compromise proposal foe {| settlement of the steel wage dispute although the unio accepted it. Mr. Truman, the White House announced, moaned general wage increase of 1814 cents per hour, retroactive Jan, 1

Hit or Threatened.

By CHARLES T. LUCEY Scripps-Howard' Staff Writer. WASHINGTON, Jan 18.—S8ixty

strike-stalled or strike-

Economists say it is difficult to

It appeared most likely that the union's 700,000 mbm would go on strike next Mons day in the light of the core poration’s rejection. |

18.5¢ Hr. Raise

White House Secretary G. Ross was asked whether Truman had any futher plans for action to avert a strike. “No,” M¥, Ross replied. . At noon the President received | from Philip Murray, head of the

But General Motors, which produced $3.7 billions of goods in Pe

was to have produced 40,000 cars in December and was to have brought 11 assembly plants into operation this month; it was shooting for an

Within the value of output, and representing a much smaller figure,

case. At G. M. this loss applies not

strike was called Nov. 21, but to a much larger number—somewhere

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STRIKE LEGISLATION * DROPPED IN SENATE

Movement Develops Force Issue to Floor.

By LYLE C. WILSON United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Jan, 18.— The responsible senate committee today temporarily abandoned strikeprevention legislation. A movement déveloped to force the issue to the senate floor for immediate consideration, The outlook for action was slightly better in the house Its labor committee agreed to take a vote by next Tuesday on a motiond to send fact-finding legislation of some kind to the house floor, In the senate, however, the labor committee suspended consideration of fact-finding legislation until

to

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er New York (C. I. OJ, said hi union was prepared to call a of 32,000 subway, bus, trolley elevated rallway workers through out the city to. halt wie of thies. city-owned power plants to the Consolidated Edison Co, Meanwhile, resumption of wag talks between Ford Motor Co. and the C. I. O. auto workers was poste pov un 130 3m Monday at the request of the union

ers—there were these developments: ONE: A fact-finding board began an inquiry into a three-day strike of packinghouse workers, which has . brought the nation face-to-face with & meat famine. TWO: Striking C, L O. electrical workers offered to submit to arbis tration a wage dispute which shut down 78 plants of General Electric, Westinghouse and Genéral Motors. THREE: The membership of fous unions of Western Electric em« ployees was polled on whether to walk out in sympathy with 1 my :

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other telephone workers.

Offers Plan After Deadlock Mr. Truman submitted his

House between Benjamin less, president of the U. 8. Steel . » Corp, and C. I. O. President Philip Murray, Whose. have scheduled ‘a nationwide walkout fos next Monday. .

A fact-finding. panel was for study 6f the meat strike late yesterday after an unproductive:

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Secrecy on Tru

' By FRED W. PERKINS Seripps-Howard Staff Writer WASHINGTON, Jan. 18.-—White

House secrecy about the terms of President Truman’s proposal “in the public interest” to end the threat of

a

mittee on demobilization In answer |& great steel strike is a departure to war department complaints that . his announced policy Sopp selective service is supplying only ing all possible light on labor-man-

agement disputes and depending on public opinion to help force the contending parties into agreement. The fact-finding procedure has been practically shelved in this case, probably because in the Presi dent's view it couldn't function in time to prevent an industrial stop-

| page of No. 1 magnitude now sched-

uled for midnight Sunday, ; Mr. Truman, with the aid of his special assistant, former conciliation director John R. Steelman, is acting

as a super-mediator in the steel

case.

of the OC. 1. O. United and Benjamin ¥. Fairless, presides ot Saige Sates ost Copy

Proposal Reverses Policy:

If both Phillp Murray, president. Steetworkers,

man's Steel ; :

an acceptance this afternoon Mr fi Truman will be pleased with the a5 sults and tT is tn tl : on the theory that the end : the means. x There was no ‘assurance today

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