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NEED HELP OF SOCIALISTS TO ACHIEVE POWER
Resignation of of DeGaulle Leaves Fourth Republic Future in Doubt.
PARIS, Jan. 21 (U. P.)— The Communist party made its greatest bid for power in France today. The party demanded that
its leader, Maurice Thorez, be named president to succeed Gen. Charles de Gaulle, who resigned] last night. The communists issued a communique demanding election of| Thorez to the De Gaulle post after) & noontime meeting of Communist! deputies. Thorez is secretary gen eral of the party. Jacques Duclos, Communist party | secretary, announced—after confer-| ing with the popular Republican| party leaders and later with So-| cialist leaders—that the Commu-| nists were demanding the president's post in a new coalition government, Lack Major Strength The Communists are the largest political parfy in France. But they are too weak fo form a government without joining a coalition. with at least one-other- major party,
would fail in their efforts to eapture the presidency. The consultative assembly was expected to meet at 3 p. m. Tuesday to hear De Gaulle’s resignation letter read officially. Heads of all political parties will speak in the debate leading to election of a new
Communist tactics seemed to be an attempt to form a purely leftwing government with the Socialists and Radical Socialists, headed by a Communist. This would be
ular front. Duclos said such a government would be logical, since the Communists were the largest party. Durable Bloc Seen “Together with the Bocislists such a government could have a majority in the assembly and constitute a coherent durable left-wing bloc,” Duclos said. If the Socialists refuse to accept a Communist president, the leading choices for president of a left-wing coalition were former Premier Edouard Herriot, Radical Socialist, and Vincent Auriol, Socialist minister of state. De Gaulle “definitely will retire from politics for the present, observers believed, despite forlorn popular Republican efforts to change his mind, De Gaulle’'s Reason Many astute observers believed he would remain aloof from politics until the nation grows weary of squabble and demands his return, presumably after the June elections. The official reason given for DeGaulle’s resignation was said to be his refusal to accept a 20 per cent
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ship Huddleston from Cherbourg, It was a “dream ship” for wounded veterans, since there were only 281 patients aboard. They received
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Death With Hitler Orders
NUERNBERG, Jan. 21 (U. P.). —Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, Germany's “desert fox,” drank poison as an alternative to trial for plotting against Adolf Hitler's life, documents in allied hands disclosed today. Hitler personally ordered Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel to arrest Rommel for complicity in the July 20, 1944, bomb plot against Hitler. Kettel, a defendant in the war crimes trial, sent two generals to make the arrest. = n s HITLER'S orders were that Rommel must commit suicide or face trial by the Nazi's dreaded “people’s court” as a bomb plotter, the docurhents said. Hitler was “extremely reluctant” to order Rommel's death. He told associates, including former Reichsmarshal Hermann Goering, that Rommel had died of “bleeding in the brain” as result of skull injuries suffered during an allied strafing, the documents state. Rommel was still convalescent from the wounds when he was arrested on Oct. 15, 1944. n . = ROMMEL was given 10 minutes to say farewell to his wife and son. The documents said Rommel drank poison from a small vial’ while he was seated in the back seat of an automo-
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50,000 Jam W To See Kais
NEW YORK, Jan. 21 (U. P)— Hand-tooled models of .the Kaiser and Frazer cars were on display in the Waldorf-Astoria hotel today and a Hollywood movie premiere wouldn’t have attracted more attention. The new cars, products: of the newly-formed Kaiser-Frazer Corp., were unveiled to the public yesterday~ when 50,000 persons jammed the showroom. The crowd was so great that-a private showing for invited guests, scheduled for 3 p. m., was cancelled. The models on display were a green, four-door Kaiser sedan and
TIMES INDEX Amusements . 16{Jane Jordan. 13 * Wddie Ash.... 6|Ruth Millett,. 9 Churchill .... 10 Movies ...... 16 Comics ...... 13| Obituaries ... 4 Max Cook. . 9/Radio ....... 13 Crossword ... 16 Mrs. Roosevelt © Editorials ... 10|Scherrer ..... 10 Peter Edson.. 10/Henry Shapiro 11 . Fashions... 1% Wm. P. Simms 10 Forum .....»10(8ports ....... 6 G.1. Rights.. «11|Stranahan ... 6 Gmeliner ..... 9|Robert Taylor 9 Meta Given... 12{Geo. Weller .. 2 Ae Indpls. 9! Women's News 12
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aldorf-Astoria er, Frazer Cars
a red, four-door Frazer sedan. Both cars were displayed on revolving, felt-covered daises. The Kaiser—the first low-priced car with front-wheel drive—will retail for about $1100 in New York and the Frazer will sell for approximately $300 more. Both prices were estimates made by Henry J. Kaiser, chairman of the Kaiser-Frazer Corp. He sajd that the exact prices of both cars would be set ‘after OPA ceilings had been announced. Production of the Frazer 4s scheduled to begin in May and manufacture of the Kaiser will begin shortly thereafter, Joseph W. Frazer, president of the company, announced. The new cars will be produced at the rate of 300,000 units annually, he said. Of this number, 200,000 will be Kaisers and 100,000 Frazers. Engines for both cars will be manufactured by. Continental Motors. The Kaiser is a six-passenger model powered: by a six-cylinder motor and contains mény new engineering * features.
streamlined pattern but is equipped with a 100-horsepower motor. Both automobiles will be produced
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TRUMAN SENDS CRISES MESSAGE
Unprecedented Step Stresses Domestic Problems.
By LYLE C. WILSON United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Jan. 21.—President Truman sends to congress today an unprecedented combined budget message and annual message on the state of the union. Congress and the people look to
program to protect the nation from disastrous labor-management conflict. Mr, Truman discussed domestic problems, and policies in a broadcast address on Jan. 3. It was in the nature of an annual message. on the state of the union although it was delivered during © a - congressional recess and aimed directly to the people instead of to the house and senate. That address was an appeal to the people to put the heat on congress for enactment of Mr. Truman’s legislative program, especially creation of fact-finding boards to prevent strikes. : Since the congressional vacation ended one week ago there has been
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MOVES TO SLASH ARMY'S-FOOD FUND
Will Speed Demobilization.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 21 (U. PJ). —A move was under way in congress today to force the army into speeding up demobilization by slashing its funds for feeding and housing troops. Rep. Everett M. Dirksen (R. IIL) said he would offer the proposal as an amendment to a bill coming before congress next month to return approximately $6,500,000,000 to the treasury. Most of it, he said, is from funds previously appropriated to the army and navy. Rep. Dirksen said frankly that his theory is that if the services do' not have money to feed and house personnel, they will have to bring them home. Instead of giving the army and navy subsistence funds, Mr. Dirksen said, the appropriations should be allotted in monthly quotas, based on the number of men scheduled to be released each month. - Asked if his proposal would . be based on the, discharge program outlined for congress last week by Gen, Dwight IJ.” Eisenhower, Mr. Dirksen said: “It might go even further than that.” Gen, that an
Eisenhower told - congress estimated 3,000,000 men
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BIG 3 PACT ON
ATOM ADOPTED BY UNO GROUP
Whole Assembly Expected ‘To Approve Control Commission.
LONDON, Jan. 21 (U. P.). —The UNO political and security committee adopted unanimously today the-Mos-cow resolution for establishment of an atomic energy commission.
to 0. The Philippine commonwealth delegate was the only member present who abstained from voting. The Philippines raised the only objection to, the composition of the propose commission.
Committee action on the atomic energy resolution was tantamount
The resolution still requires formal approval by the full assembly before the commission can actually oe created. But the same early action appeared assured, since all 81 United Nations were represented: on the committee. Delay Voted Down Some of the small nations pieaded for a delay in the voting, but were overruled. came unexpectedly today after the big powers: had appealed for quick action. British Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin led the campaign for action now. He said the resolution had
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nation had proposed an amendment. If there were further delay, he said, the world would not understand. Senator Tom Connally (D. Tex.) opened the debate before the committee with an appeal for quick creation of the commission. He said the Moscow resolution provided the necessary safeguard for atom bomb secrets “at every stage.” Safeguards Outlined Mr. Connally, seeking again to put at rest concern among such Americans as Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg, also a delegate here, repeated for the committee records the statement by Secretary of State James F. Byrnes. “It is understood,” Mr. Connally said, “that matters of safeguard will
the commission in relation to every phase of the subject and at every stage. Indeed, at the root of the whole matter lies the problem of providing the necessary safeguards. Mr. Connally told the committee that the commission must be operated within the framework of the powers conferred on the UNO by the charter. He said it would be authorizedto “make recommendations, hut not to compel action.”
Free to Act
Any state would be free to consider, accept or reject any commission recommendation in accordance with its own constitutional processes, Mr. Connally said, “The only known use of “atomic energy at present is for mass destruction on a scale unparalleled in the history of warfare,” he said. “In view of the transcendent importance’ of security aspects of. the problems raised by the discovery of atomic energy, the resolution provides that the commission shall submit its reports and recommendations to the security council.” Heé explained that the security council would give directions to the commission in matters affecting security, and could restrain the pub-
The resolution was adopted 46
former Adele Astaire, sister of Gen. Jonathan Wainwright when
In a burst of enthusiasm at the Stork club tre, Lady Cavendish,
She left her escort without an apology to throw her arms about the unintreduced general as he entered the club,
dancer Fred Astaire, embraced she saw him for the first time.
Snow blanketed Indiana from the local weatherman predicted:
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60 KILLED IN GREEK RIOTS
Rigid Martial Law Is Imposed on Areas.
ATHENS, Jan. 21 (U. P.) ~The Greek government imposed rigid martial law in the southern Peloponnesus. cities of Kalamata
Motorized forces were dispatched to subdue an uprising by the monarchist “X" organization. that has cost 60 lives. Prime Minister Themistocles Sophoulis ordered establishment of courts martial with powers to carry out sentences immedaitely. Arrest of the “X” leaders in the| two cities was expected. Prison Guarded THe “royalist. forces have been rampaging since Saturday, when they kitled 30 left-wing supporters in a cafe fight, then attacked the Kalamata police station and freed 30 of their own men who had been arrested. Former members of ELAS, the military force of the left-wing EAM movement, were fighting beside the police’ against the royalists. Police and soldiers . guarded the prison where many ELAS men who fought in the 1944 civil war are detained. At least one attack against the
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JERUSALEM, Jan. 21 (U, P)i— Saboteurs blew up a coast guard station at Givat Olga, halfway between Telaviv and Haifa, last night.
Fourteen British soldiers and one British policeman were injured, authorities announced today. The new violence, blamed .by police on members of the Jewish resistance movement, occurred while troops and police still were investigating outbreaks which caused four deaths in Jerusalem Saturday. A British announcement said a number of arrests had been made in connection with the- explosion and police-military operations were con tinuing. : “The saboteurs were believed to
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Saboteurs Blow Up Station In New Uprising in Palestine
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troop pre-occupation with the Satur. day riots, bfamed on the Irgun Zvai Leumi “terrorist organization, to strike in the north. The northern group, however, was not believed connected with th? Irgun Zvai Leumi. The coast guard station had been blown “up once before—last November. Authorities said the explosives apparently were planted while workmen were repairing damage of the previous explosion. Reinforced troops and police, in extensive raids through Jerusalem
leved to be main Readquariers for the terrorists. Informed sources said the raiders uncovered a large cache of arms
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Steel Workers Join National Walkout at 12:01 A. M.
Nine of the 10 major steel plants in Indianapolis were closed down today. An estimated 10,000 workers were idle here in the nationwide strike of the United Steel Workers (C. I. 0). At the same time the total number on strike in the Hoosier state increased by hearly 100,000 as the
Calumet area and 13 other plants scattered over the state was hit by
increase approved negotiations. Similar last-minute efforts to keep plants of E. C. Atkins and company and the Insley Manu-
South Bend to Seymour today,
tangling trafic and slowing transportation services. Indianapolis was warned to dig in for another frigid waved as p “Cloudy and colder today; clearing and much colder tonight; tomorrow fair and continued colder.” Tow died in traffic crashes on ice-glazed roads in the state, while
38 accidents in the Indianapolis metropolitan district injured 26 within the past 24 hours. Yesterday's “flash” snow swirled over Hoosierdom from northwest to southeast, changing to rain in the far south. Along the Ohio river this morning it was still raining. But state police said the weather had begun to clear in the northwest, with sunny skies re ported over Chicago and the Calumet. Fatally Hurt in Crash Mrs. Nellie Veatch, 76, of Kokomo, was fatally injured yesterday in a two-car crash on a bridge on Rd. 31 near Kokomo. Her daughter, Miss Grace Veatch, driver of their car, and Forrest G. Manship, driver of the second car, are in serious condition in St. hospital, Kokomo. Richard Gerber, 17, of Boonville, was killed last night when an autonfbbile slid over glazed Road 162 into a ditch three miles south of Ferdinand. The youth was in the rear seat.
Driver Arrested
Six persons were injured here in {a two-car crash yesterday at Madison and South st. They were Paul H. Billman of 2225 Villa ave, and william Glenn Shutters of Kokomo, drivers of the two automobiles; Robert Sherman, 1328 Comer ave., passenger in Billman's car, and Mr. and Mrs. Chauncey Yaunt of 537 Eastern ave, Mary Smitha of Madison and Mrs. Christina Shutters of Kokomo, passengers in the Shutters’ car, Billman was slated by police on charges of reckless driving, operat-
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BOSTON BRAVES BUY STOCK IN INDIANS
Bush and | McKinney Continue in Controlling Interest.
Al. Schlensker, treasurer - of the Indianapolis Indians baseball club,
disclosed today that the deal has been consumated in Bostorl where by the Braves have acquired 40 per cent of the stock in the local A. A. entry. Frank E. McKinney, co-owner of the local team with Owen J. Bush, has assumed 10 per cent of the stock in the Boston club and will be on the board of directors. In return President Louis R. Perini of Boston will become an. Indianapolis director, Schlensker emphasized that the controlling interest in the Indians will be held by Mr. Bush dnd ‘Mr. McKinney. >
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facturing Co. in operation failed yesterday. Estimates 20,000 Others Out James Robb, regional director for the U. 8. W., said this morning that between 20,000 and 25,000 workers were out over the state exclusive of the Calumet area which is not in his district. It was reported the total out in the area around Chi-
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Lines Drawn
For.Long, Hard Steel Strike
ny FRED W. PERKINS s-Howard Staff Writer URGH, Jan. 21.—As cold Ti ne. and unyielding as steel itself —that is the spirit of the great steel strike which today paralyzes the huge and basig industry that helped mightily to win our wars against Germany and Japan. ! The last of the lights went out. at midnight—the luminous flares in the sky that told of men tending hot furnaces which would produce the metal required to get the United States back to full production of civilian automobiles, electric refrigerators and many other items that depend on steel. ® = =» oo THE MEN who manned picket lines today seemed to know not too much about the economics of the situation, but appeared convinced that the argument over
Biggest Strike in U.. History Closes 12( Plants in 30 Sta
By UNITED PRESS
The long-threatened steel strike became a reality today shutting down the nation’s mills, aluminum plants and ore mines. It boosted the strike rolls to more than et )
In the greatest single walkout i in history, 750,000 steelworkers struck more than 1200.
STRIKE CLOSES
gigantic steel machinery of theo.)
John D. Small in W termed the steel walkou “national disaster.” He warned some of the nation’s factories be forced to suspend within weeks for lack of steel
and unorganized plants such Weirton Steel Co, in West remained open, The strike began peacefully. agement officials in and Ohio, where half the nat raw steel is produced, reported they were ‘receiving excellent co=opel tion from. the union” in Closthg plants, Three danger spots loomed. MN
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By CHARLES T. LUCEY Scripps-Howard Staff Writer
WASHIINGTON, Jan. 21.—Amer|ica’s steel . industry, quiet today in ™ walkout of 750,000 strikers, at in-
tervals over a half century has been a bloody and violent battleground of management-labor warfare. Massacre and murder have come out of the bitter strife waged around roaring blast furnaces and open hearth mills. It was so in the historic Homestéad strike of 1892. There was widespread violence in the 1909 and 1918 steel strikes. In 1937 the “Little Steel” strike brought martial law, bullets, tear-gas and the Memorial Day massacre at Chicago.
workers were poorly organized; most of the time the companies refused even to recognize the unions. Never have there been such Holid ranks among steel workers as,in Philip
Steel ‘Industry Center of tl Historic Union Struggles
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