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Entered as Second-Class Matter at Postoffics Jndisnnpdia 9, Ind. Issued daily except Sunday
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Two Suspects Quirzed | in Apartment Fire; 50 Rescued
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or Pause That Wars Poochie' s ow: Saturday Set as Deadline : For Taking Over Indus
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By UNITED PRESS President Truman moved to prevent an achta meat shortage today. He ordered federal seizure of closed packing houses Saturday. The White House said the agriculture depattrent? seize the strike-bound plants. Output of these amount to about half of the nation’s normal meat pro tion. The agriculture department will have “the aid the war departipent if necessary.”
STRIKE 10 EN ty amt Hom, AT PLAN VERE
settle the strike of 80 1.0. and AF. of Lo. YE tore Insley Meets Wage Demand.
for r a
Th BLOCKS DEPORTATION OF SGT. BAUER
mn S. Court Acts on Petition’ Filed for G. |. Held in Spy Probe.
An order restraining the | deporttaion of former S. Sgt. | Frederick Bauer, Ft. Harri‘son's alleged German spy, was issued today by Federal ‘Judge Evan A, Evans in Chicago. ; Entered over the objection of U.S. District Attorney B. Howard Caughran of Indianapolis, the order n {stalls Bauer's deportation pending further aotion of the court. Judge Evans acted on 4 complaint filed by Indianapolis attorneys for Bauer, seeking his release from Ellis Island where he’s been interned since Dec. 12. ! In the complaint, filed in federal | district court here against U, 8.} {Atty. Gen. Tom Clark, Bauer's
| three-man counsel demanded an! hearing on Bauer's
State and city fire atthosities [vestigate thé Elizabeth apartments, 35 W.- Gapitol ave. -on- aamicion of arson in today’s fire. Checking are (left to right) Marshall Potts, state chief inspector; Michael J. Mulvihill, nd: fre inspector, and John Taylor, chief of the state arson division.
State and city fire authorities today are questioning two persons on ¥ suspicion of arson in an early morning blaze at the Elizabeth apart-
Socialist Cisen & to Succeed ments, 245 N. Capitol ave. i More than 50 residents were rescued from the smoke-filled buildGen. De Gaulle. | ing after fire was discovered shooting up from the basement stairway. B TIN | The investigation was started when it was learned that this was PARIS, Jan. 23 (U. P.).—Felix
the fifth fire in the past eight. Gouin, Socialist chairman of the
Investigation Is Started as Officials Suspect Arso
By VICTOR PETERSON
“Poochie,” who's a cat, shows a different way to get a glow on in a tavern.’ After an into the zero weather, “Poochie” returns to the Wheel tavern, 219 N. Capitol ave, and warms her paws at the heater. “Poochie’s” the pride of the proprietor, Mrs. Louise Giroff.
Morrow. The concern is one of fhe nine
local plants affected by the strike of the United Steelworkers of Amer- thelr. Jobb—even X
years.
constituent assembly, was elected president of France today in succession to the resigned Gen, Charles de Gaulle, By PAUL GHALI Times Foreign Correspondent
Chief suspect under grilling by, the state fire marshall’s office is al man said by authorities to have a long criminal They said his crimes included charges of armed robbery and manslaughter. He will be given a lie-
and prison record.)
ORDERED TO PAY | FOR LOST EYE
| immediate
SID, a judgment dePhi iced n fo citizen | of the United States.
Deportation Asked
Hoosier Dies on ley Streets; Freezing Cold to Continue
jet (OC. I O.). Agreement was made today to -the union's demand of 18% cents total increase on the hourly wage. Some 400 employees will return to their jobs, including members of
An official of
The war Dep justice departments - lh International + Association of
Death rode with motorists over icy Indianapolis streets today as Machinists (A. P. of L:) who were
Nine Detondants nts. Must Give are seeking to deport Bauer to his t),, weather forecast promised only temporary relief from freesing native Germany on grounds he! | temperatures. $50 Each to Shulers. forfeited his naturalized citizenship | The latest traffic fatality is Lyman Winkley, Gosport, Ind. killed state chief inspector, and Michael! A 21-year-old marine vetéran of 1940
Iwhen he entered the Nazi army in when his light truck skidded through an icy intersection. Five other persons were injured in accidents:last night and early J. Mulvihill, city fire inspector, were Tarawa and eight teen-agers today | Held incommunicado at arid today. iit ‘agreement that the fire bore all were under juvenile court order to Tison last summer and fall, Mr, Winkley, 33, was killed inAlte earmarks of arson. pay $50 each to the parents of 5.{“X:Post photographer was reed “ LOWER UTILITY stantly at 10 D. m. yesterday, at “Statements by residents of the {here Dec. 11 by. federal Og the intersection of Blackford and | building further pointed to arson. | year-old Mike Shuler. | tion authorities and taken Michigan sts. {The chief suspect and his wife] The smiling, friendly son of Mr. | Island. ‘Bauer's fiery, in by oi ly were ‘ordered to vacate/and Mrs. Lavern PF. Shuler, 2813 Wikia, Sill proclaiming her bus r Db Jor aTious reason ly band’s Inbocence, followed him
(he © pent assem- | a adiator from the third to the waitress. She's allowed four hou bly met for five minutes, but ad-| ond floor. aceg charges of. throwing - bobijes with him each week -at- Ellis
journed without setting a DEW pe igents said that he and hto| 200. ti fig 3 or ~Halloween ', ond. The couple formerly re- | meeting time.) : |wife had drawn up a petition ask-| A: glass sliver from: one of the | ided at 1533 Carrollton ave. "here. | The Communists achieved a m&- jg they be allowed to remain In|, ies struck Mike as he plaved | The attorneys are Andrew Jacobs, | ‘Plans were announced today for|yr H in jor step toward power and secured ine pyjlding. R. M. Kroger and J. T. Mazelin, I... Haynes: were .injured.. Mr. an even firmer position before the {with a lighted pumpkin on *he| of. Indianapolis... Mr. Jacobs] the Public Service commission 10 winkiey was moving the Woods French electorate when Gouin, its : Statement Cited porch of his home. After many days| 4 Mr. BD re in Pring ° i bring. about reductions in rates nominee, was accepted late last’ Some refused to sign and they of trying to save the sight of his | day conferring: with: Judge oso | charged consumers for public utility night by the Socialists and Popular stated that the man said: right eye, Physicians were forced to| |A. Evans of the federal cireuit| “Tye throughout Indiana. Republicans. “If I can't stay here. no one remove it. oor f a The plans, were announced by ol. appea | Governor Gates after a morning-
! Fell Into Trap else is going to live here.” Unaccustomed to his new artificial! ‘ During the blaze, firemen rushed eve, he accidentally bumped a chair] Hearing Would Be Here | long conference with members of Judge Evans of the U. S. circuit the Public Service commission.
jalists and National Re- » | He Bails 0. fell into a ladders to upper story windows to as he moved about the courtroom. | P |court of appeals, will act on their, According to the governor, a pre- |. | complaint in the absence of Fed- | liminary survey conducted by the|family to Gosport in’ the truck.
| r trapped residents. Held as Delinquents Communist trap. escue que ginni ¢ the crisis, The fire victims were taken to the| ou a : EE dramatic and sud. lobby of the Plaza’ hotel until fire- | co, 0 hate | IBFeNCE| eral Judge Baltaell here. If the| PSC showed that with elimination owned by the state forest con-| ope : citizenship hBaring is ordered, it|of the excess profits tax on corpora- | servation department. . would be held in Indianapolis. | tions and other federal tax reduc- | As the traffic toll mounted today,
den resignation of President Claticsimeh Tought SouD Dames on tributing to the delinquency of the lear that » . f De. Gaulle: 8 Wwe & ki [treated at City hospital for burns, Sifht others. - They wis helq. a A hedge-podge of charges and | tions, Hoosier utilities will save an| {the weather forecast indicated icy| It also called for immediate dis-| The issue, Mr. Eastwood said’ Communists dreaded i ing Pree} Sate'W h delinquents. Ironically, Johnson also} ~~ _charges, the case of Sgt.| estimated $25,000,000. to $30,000,000 streets might thaw slightly today.|charge of all soldiers not perform- not whether wages shall be raise the government at such a cri ave Woman an og | 's known as Mike and also has only annually. | Temperatures which will dip below | ing essential duties. | but where money to meet the “We feel that this reduction in| freezing tomorrow night, however,| Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, army | creased expense can be obfa
stage. Firemen were forced to return to|one eve. The other was lost in | Bauer was spotlighted after his | y ly of n | wife claimed he was a “forgetten Their policy consisted mainly the third floor after one resident | service. 8 are’ expected to glaze the streets chief of staff, told a group of pro-| Elsewhere in the troubled recons | again. | testing wives yesterday that there| version picture:
shifting the responsibility of the blocked the fire escape and refused | “I can't see how society would be| | prisoner” a4 Ft. Harrison. Army | Lhe {aX Jong foe Shee corporations dire present on to some weak per-ito leave until her dog was saved. |served b hi hil | secrecy veiled his plight until Mrs. |§ reflec in a corre- 4 rr whose strings they would Firemen followed her back into the | | And d oy Duss MRE eight Shildren, | Bauer. revealed he had taken |sponding reduction in rates to| Other accident casualties today are Haw O00 Tuthers 1 — ONE: ‘There was no move to res be able to pull from the wings. |building and rescued both her and | | stances, » Judge Rhoads opined. | Photographs of nude dancers at a users and consumers of public included David E. Klingler, 35, 1840 and a it . the G8W mel negotiations in the erucial The new French government. the dog. |“These are normal, American boys|riotous Ft. Harrison party, shiow- | utilities in Indiana,” the governor Barth ave. - He received minor in.|T¢'® oh hi strike of 750,000 C. I. O. steelwork. which will remain composed of Another resident, Mrs. Ethel land girls.” ling high army and state officials | said. {juries when his car was hit by a demobilization plan. 2. militar ers, now in its third day. three antagonistic parties equally| Sharp, policewoman, remained in{ Mr. Shuler testified he had spent lin the background. Commission members said they taxi at S. West st. near Maryland | a Yhree san a. oils? | TWO: Government-sponsored mee ‘powerful numerically, is bound to, {her quarters during the height of | $751 ‘alteady, trying to save Mike's] The army then disclosed Bauer | would complete their survey as last night. a airs Suv ss on A |diation conferences were be confronted by the same diffi-'the fire. She told firemen this| sight. Future expenses will approxi-|had been investigated as a spy Soon as possible’ and then would| The taxi, reportedly stolen, spun hearings following i {tomorrow in New. York with Gene culties and political jealousies thal morning's: blaze was the fifth fire! mate $200 additional, he estimated. | suspect, but later conceded no |initiate whatever action may be on the ice, sideswiped the Klingler Piotuster that demobilization was rs! Electric and 4 Westinghouag beset the De Gaulle regime. in the building in eight years. Phe juvenile court judge then necessary “to pass these savings on : But it will be handicapped by a Mrs. Russel] Sullivan is owner of | asked Jone aie — Jhage he (Continued on Page §—Column 3) ' to the consumers.” The senators urged that the rate | (Continued on Page S—Column: )
major difference which the Com- {the apartments. Cause of the fire | would be willing to waive all future ol Semebiiation of oe juat eu
PARIS, - Jan. 23.—The tripartite agreement to approve Socialist Felix Gouin as France's new president! was viewed here today as a Communist party victory. Many htful Prenchmen looekd upon if merely as 8 transitional expedient. = (A United Press dispateh said the scheduled election of as Presidght Was a Gelajed by a Lr
detector test today. Earmarks of Arson
Capt. John Taylor, chief of the state arson division; Marshall Potts, !
JERAL RMS! pickets: Meat Workers to Moet Meanwhile a mass fneeting was called for members of United Packinghouse Workers of America (C. 1. 0), local 117, at 10 a. m. crease tomorrow in Union hall, 241 W.|would permit substantial wage. ins Maryland st. Local President Cecil ine Douglas will ‘discuss the proposed government seizure of action at that time, : Otherwise the strike scene around | Indignapolis remained unchanged today with pickets continuing their 'stand before plants in bone-chilling | weather, | The United Steelworkers of Amer- | U jca remained out from the eight Officials of the big four local plants now affected. Some gyire Armour, Wilson and 11,000 are on strike. , I
URGES RELEASE OF. "we, GI DADS BY JULY 1a, iieit can sett ae wage de
' WASHINGTON, Jan. 28 (U. PJ.| and closed the plants despite
—A senate subcommittee investiga- | paramount imporaies to to livestock ting demobilization today urged the | producers and
release of all fathers fron the army | | Gebige A. np Armour *p by July 1. dent, said.
ie Tried ta Step “His car slid out onto Michigan st wsafter he tried to stop at a traffic | light, colliding with a car driven by Indiana PSC Cites Cuts in William Haynes, 3, of WI¥ Back: gs pels in the truck, Mrs. |
Corporation Taxes. om Wood and George Wood, and | movement
gates meet
LOCAL TEMPERATURES
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munists have shrewdly and fully] weighed. and symbolic De Gaulle, the country's leader will be the weak, uncertain and virtually unknown Gouin. To overthrow him at the strategic time should be comparatively easy.
and the Communists, no doubt,!
have already given much thought to this possibility. Many Warn Gouin Mare thoughtful Frenchmen, conscious of the danger, already
are warning Gouin of the precipice
opening under his steps. The conservative newspaper Le Figaro called upon him today to consider his leadership as purely] transitional. and intended to speed | the completion of a new constitution.
tions promptly. Figaro doubtless | hopes that - quick elections forestall’ the Communist plans.
The two rival parties fell! for the shunned the experiment in the state | — ia
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TIMES INDEX
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Instead of solid, popular |
may detector ‘test.
was undetermined, but it apparently | started either-at the foot of .the| basement stairs’ or near the fuse | box. Meanwhile, neighbors today ‘came to the aid of the Pleasant Blaylock |
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WORKMAN BALKS AT LIE DETECTOR TEST
| nosoutes Farmer Taken Back to Prison.
Central figure in a ‘parole case (under investigation by the govérinor, Ott Workman was back in
| following his refusal (to take a lie-
Workman, serving a life sentence, |
| police laboratory yesterday. Pre-| viously, when interviewed by Atty: Gen. James A. Emmert at the state prison, he had volunteered to undergo ‘the examination, «A. wealthy Loogootee farmer, Workman obtained - a parole last|
Business Robert Casey. Churchill
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| September under circumstances that | ki o Fred Perkins I led’ Governor Gates to launch a Comics .*19| Mrs. Roosevelt 11 [Probe of the proceedings. The ors"
; |ernor said a flurry of “rumors Oi Th 19} Side. Cilances. 2p rompted the investigation, directed |
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Sports later revoked, was | Ruth Gmeiner 11
: laramsed by the parole board after Td 3 Ste. Donde ole board received a letter from Lt Lr Petersburg Attorney Carl Gray, who Inside Indpls. 11| Thos. Stokes 12), 00504 doubt as to Workman's Jane Jordan . 19) Troop Arrivals 10|g,0¢ pe said tits letter was hot to coo 30{Al Williams. . 11{pe songtrueted as a recommendation . 11 Wom. News.. 1» for Workman's release, however. to} Workman was sentenced eight, VERYs.. i. "war ago on an armed robbery charge.
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| civil prosecution against andthe parents of the eight youths, '
Johnson
provided: each paid- $50 toward |
Mike’s expenses. Mr. Shuler agreed. |
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NAZI WAR CRIMINAL HAS HEART (ATTACK
BERG, Jan. 23 (U, P.).~
ment,
Allied prison authorities an-|
nounced that’ the Jew-baiting ‘Nazi | last night by Vice Adm. Louis E
gauleiter was stricken at 1:50 p.m today. They said he symptoms suggestive of a paroxysmal tachyoardia”—a violent quick-
| lasted: far about 15 minutes, He was gitena sedative and con fined to bed.
‘See Here, Hargrove, We Made You What You Are Today,' Is Army Answer to Critic
By ROBERT C. RUARK Seripps-Howard Sta Writer NEW YORK, Jan. 23.--Ex-Sgt.
Marion Hargrove—a brash young
rE uma. a major defendant The navy estimated today that 191, | thing but skunk. |in the Naz war crimes trial. suf- 000 additional officers and enlisted |
‘{Iered a heart attack today and was personnel will become eligible for ‘ordered to bed for emergency treat- discharge under new point reduc-| ..¢» ang “civet.”
exhibited | De
It urged him to hold new elec- (Michigan City state prison ‘today, ening of the heart beat—which scores
SKUNK 1S SKUNK, COMMISSION SAYS
WASHINGTON, Jan. 23 (U. P.).| ~The federal trade commission in- | | sists that a skunk is a skunk—no |
| Finley 2,000,000 surplus men now in
BEVIN REFUSES TO wry we ce
SUBSTITUTE BILL ON DISCUSS INDONESIA JUVENILES ESCAPE: FAGT- FINDING DRAWN. CAUGHT HOUR LATER
| h hi : a Tom Jun me Hm orl Cites Statement of Policy| Two boys who escaped from ju-| Measure May Be Introduced venile court this morning were re-| In House To day
ANNOUNCED BY- NAVY ‘As a result a Washington fur] Made Nov. 23. | WASHINGTON, Jan. 23 (U.
New Cuts to Be Effective in March and April. | store has agreed in the future not | captured on the west side an —- | to label coats made from the fur of{ LONDON, Jan. 23 (U. P.).—Por-| later and sentenced to the Indians] A move was under way in the house | fused in commons today to discuss | Both youtlrs, aged 16 and 15, were | today to strengthen the labor ‘coms
WASHINGTON, Jan. 23 (U. P.).=~|the “little spotted skunk” as any- | eign Secretary Ernest Bevin re-| Boys school. The FTC had objected to the use! rndonesia, where Russia charged | arrested by state police several days | mittee’s ‘watered-down version of {of stich substitutes as “natural civet| that the presence of British troops age near Brazil. At the time, the|President Truman's fact - * nding, was a threat to world peace. teen-agers were driving an automo- | bill: of Laborite Sir Charles Edwards bile that had been stolen at Terre! Supporters of strong anti-strike asked the government to state its Haute, authorities said, | legislation were working on a coms ROME, Jan. 23 (U..P).—The | intentions regarding Indonesia, The boys were sitting In a juve-| prehensive substitute which they | Italian foyal family, in an effort|. wnat our responsibilities are, nile court waiting-room and escaped | hoped to press when the committee to re-establish its former Secure | what interests we are serving, and| while a policeman left to open abil reaches the floor. position, may move the court window. The substitute will be introduce Milan and turn the throne over t0|.ve to remain there.” | Both boys were on probation for|in the house shortly, possibly late have discharged two-|'ne 8-year-old prince of Naples, | Mr. Bevin replied that Britain's previous charges of truancy and|today. It was learned that M | high-ranking British officers closely | ogition already had been made] vehicle taking. central theme probably would {associated with the royalty pre-.| s.r He sited a statement by him- “mutuality of contract (Continued on Page §—Column dl dicted today. self before the house on Nov. 23. bllity”—meking unions and ems ployers equally responsible under 5%
and Prime Minister Clement Attlee’'s assertion in commons yester- the: law #0 live up to contracts, day that the British aim through- Some proponents of more § out had been the amicable and labor laws have long speedy settlement of the trouble statutory penalties against unions there. which fail to live up to no-strike provisions in their contrsicts. =~
" POINT REDUCTIONS
tions effective March 15 and April 2. The point cuts were announced PRINCE MAY TAKE THRONE |Denfeld. chief of the navy person- | They do not affect the marine corps or coast guard. Adm. Denfeld said the new point | would mean that the navy by | April will thirds ~1 1ts peak strength of ap-
0 | how long it is expected we should |
Suburban Estates Are Difficult to Procure
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man whose utter lack of talent |
as a soldier was transmuted into a vast chunk of dough—is busily biting the hand that fed him ideas. Far - from wing slavishly grateful to the. army—which evidently never fully appreciated ‘Hargrove the man--the young gentleman {is presently going about the eountry making Jec-
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duce immediate apoplexy among especially those in the recruitment department, ~ » ~ MR. HARGROVE pulled fame and wealth from a book and a cauple of movies about the army. But he just plain doesn't like the army. He breaks out in a rosy rash when he sees an officer, Even today, memories of G: L chow induce violent indigestion.
gretful about the famous private’s allergy to his old employers, and dismiss the matter, That is, if only Mr. Hargrove would just stay home and cavil at a smal) circle of friends.
. » » BUT MR. HARGROVE persists in making a lecture tour to tel the citizens all over that what the most publicized G. I. of world war II thinks of the army is scarcely fit for girlish ears.
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the United Nations assembly a
{charge that the presence of Brit-| {ish troops in Indonesia and Greece
[constituted a’ thredt to the peace, {and asked the UNO to investigate.
DIES IN | TRAIN N COLLISION MUNCIE, Jan. 23 (U.P. ~George W. Emshwiller, 36, Hartford City,
|was fatally injured yesterday when
the automobile in which he was
|riding was struck by a Big Four passenger train. His brother, Rus-|
sell Emshwiller, 41, driver of the car, leaped to safety and suffered only minor injuries, >
chanting stream and waterfalls, approgimateny 8% miles northwest on improved - highway: this has a wonderful setting; room with fireplace an losking the wooded hillside and stream with its waterfalls; attractive dining kitchen with glass Jalnauol oe Plenty cabinet #space thete are age hed rms. with large Slonsta on ist 4 och having its own tile bath floor age 2 large Dedroowis J one yn bath; a large Monge Shout op ced Sloat, and a well-equipped In with complete path aural La ne plant. “Also a two-car at
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