Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 January 1946 — Page 1

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VOLUME 56—NUMBER 278

Harry Hopkins, FDR Confidant, Is Dead in N.Y.

Former Presidential Adviser Succumbs In New York Memorial Hospital; In lll Health Since 1938.

By RICHARD G. HARRIS United Press Staff Correspondent

NEW YORK, Jan. 29.—Harry Hopkins, who was the confidant of Presidents, prime ministers and dictators throughout the world, but never lost his touch, with the common man; died today in Memorial hospital.

Mr. Hopkins, plagued by ill health since 1988, was 56

years old. He had been under treatment’ here for the last 11 weeks, but Dr, Cornelius P. Rhoads, director of the hospital, said that the nature of his ailment was “obscure.” The man who was constantly at the side of the late President Franklin D. Roosevelt during his more than three terms resigned his $15,000-a-year job last July to “take » rest” He returned later, however, to become a special adviser to President Truman. Dr. Rhoads said that the nature of Hopkins’ illness could not. be determined “until further facts are available.” There was no:immediate announcement as to whether an autopsy would be performed. The Memorial hospital specializes in cancer cases. Funeral arrangements were {o be announced later.

Rose from the Ranks

Hopkins, frail son of an Iowa harness maker, was a social worker in his earlier years. He became a power in national and international affairs as an assistant to President Roosevelt.

He will also be remembered by the nation—which for a time was the world’s biggest employer—as relief administrator in the depression of the 1930's. Like Mr. Roosevelt, he fought constantly for the underdog. He came from humble beginnings, but through his missions for the Presi-

in May, 1945, when President Truman sent him to Moscow. At the same time Mr. Truman sent Joseph E. Davies, former American ambassador to Russia, to London. Talked With Stalin The topics of their conversations were not disclosed, but Hopkins conferred for three days with Premier Stalin. The trips were believed linked with difficulties besetting the San Francisco conference at that time. The urgency of the missions was indicated by the fact that both Hopkins and Davies were ill at the time. It was believed they would hardly have been summoned by President Truman for such arduous duties unless the situation required quick discussions between highranking officials of the United States, Great Britain and Russia. Hopkins first became associated with the New Deal in 1933. In -less than six years he virtually influenced the lives of more than 15,000,000 Americans #¥ he directed the expenditure of more than $9,000,000000 of public funds through the federal emergency relief administration, the civil works administration and later the works progress administration. Soon Became Target

The WPA soon became a target for the administration's political opponents and for the wealthy as a Hopkins-created political octopus. The word “boondoggle” then came into common usage. A newspaper columnist attributed to Hopkins the line that was to haunt him and the administra-

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RAIN, SNOW, COLD FORECAST HERE

LOCAL TEMPERATURES , 6a m.... 27 10a m.... 35 74. m.... 27 11a. m.... 35 8a m....2 12 (noon) .. 36 pa m....32 1pm... 37

Don’t let the sunshine fool you— rain and snow are on the way again. The weather bureau forecast fair weather for today but said that raindrops will begin falling tonight and that it would be decidedly colder throughout the state tomorrow and Thursday. Rain in the south and rain or snow in the north tomorrow will bring the precipitation near onehalf inch, the bureau said.

TIMES INDEX

8| Jane Jordan . 19

Amusements , Aviation ..... Business ..... ‘Carnival ..... Classified, 17, Comics

6| Charles Lucey 11 12| Ruth Millett , 11 18 Movies ......s 19| Obituaries. 4, 19 Radio ...vee.e «+» 12 Reflections ... . 14| Mrs. Roosevelt 14. Science 12! Sports 14 State Deaths. 9 Tom Stokes... 12 Don #Hoover . 12| Troop Arrivals 8 In Indpls. ... 2{Women's .... 14 Inside Indpls. 11 World Affairs. 12

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Editorials Fashions . Mrs. Ferguson Forum ....... Meta Given... Paul Ghali ..

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FORECAST: Rain tonight and tomorrow, Warmer tonight. Decidedly ¢ older by tomorrow evening.

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TWO NAMED AS KIDNAPERS OF | DEGNAN CHILD

Harry Hopkins . . . dead at 56

ORDER DEATH OF TERRORISTS

British Army Begins Harsh Measures in Palestine.

By ELIAV SIMON United Press Staff Oorrespondent JERUSALEM, Jan. 20—British officials threatened death for every member of Palestine’s outlawed

The British said they were moving swiftly to forestall a threatened terrorist outbreak, Veteran observers feared the outbreak might prove the bloodiest in the mandate’s history. The British invoked what amounted to military law for all Palestine. Harsh Measures Ordered British military commanders were empowered to try and execute the outlaws on the spot. The harsh counter-measures were ordered inl the wake of a raid on an R. A. F. station in South Palestine' at noon yesterday. Fifteen bandits—disguised as British fliers— stole 200 machineguns, and a considerable quantity of ammunition, It was announced last night that British patrols had recovered all the machineguns. They were in close pursuit of the raiders. The raid occurred near the Jewish colony of Rehovot. British said it apparently was part of a welllaid plot to seize British weapons. Slug British Airmen

The bandits slugged a Jewish civilian and four British airmen guarding the camp's arsenal. They fled with the weapons in a stolen R. A. F. truck and a jeep. British regulars corddned off the Rehovot colony .and rounded up hundreds of Jewish settlers for questioning. In Jerusalem, Sir Alan Cunningham, the British high commissioner, issued a proclamation. This amended the Palestine defense law to permit

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HANGAR FIRE DEATH TOLL REACHES TEN

Workers Search Ruins for More Victims.

OKLAHOMA CITY, Jan. 29 (U. P.).—~Workers searched through the ruins today ‘for possible additional victims of a fire which destroyed the main hangar of the army air depot here. Ten persons are khown dead. ’ Thirty-eight others of the approximately 1500 workers in the

hangar were injured, none critically. The blaze, believed touched off yesterday by an’ explosion of cleaning fluid, caused damage officially assessed by army authorities at $750,000. The general office of the air de-

pot maintenance division, housed 8|the hangar, was destroyed algAg t.

with much mechanical equi The rest, of the hangar, covering 15 acres, was not badly damaged. Ten army B-29 Superfortresses were burned slightly but did not explode. The intense heat—which melted steel girders—prevented fire fighters from entering the building until

several hours after the blaze was

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Ex-Inmate of Reformatory And Roommate Are Under Arrest.

CHICAGO, Jan. 29 (U, P.). ~—A former reformatory inmate told police today that his roommate and another man were the kidnapers of 6-

year-old Suzanne Degnan. The informant was Theodore Campbell, 22. He said he had planned the kidnaping with the two others but had not participated in it.

tello, 18, as one of the two kidnapers. Costello denied it. Police were skeptical. The Degnan child was carried away from ‘her home near Lake Michigan early in the morning of Jan. 7. The kidnaper left a ran-

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som note demanding $20,000. He killed the child and dismembered her body without trying to collect. While police were inclined to doubt Campbell's story, they quickened their investigation after both Campbell and Costello admitted making telephone calls to the Degnan home on the day of the slaying. Both were: held on open charges for furthér questioning. / Questioned 9 Hours Police Commissioner John Prendergast directed the questioning of Campbell for nearly niné hours. Police said the two had been in the St. Charles, Ill, training school for boys on charges of attempted robbery. When arrested late last week they were roommates in a building only a few blocks from the Edgewater Beach neighborhood where Suzanne was kidnaped and dismembered in the most vicious crime on Chicago police records. Chief of Detectives Walter Storms said both Campbell and Costellc claimed that they had alibis for the hours during which the child was kidnaped and killed.

home from a drug store. They disagreed on the spot from which another call was made. One said it was from a hot dog stand and the other said it was from a Rapid Transit “L” station. Storms said that on the first call Campbell asked “Is Suzanne there?” Then he got panicky, Storms said, and turned the telephone over to Costello, who hung up: Police, on the day of the kidnaping, reported receiving such a call at the Degnan home. Study Handwriting The second man named by Campbell was not identified by police. Storms said samples of the handwriting of Costello and Campbeil

the handwriting on the note which was left in the kidnaped girl's bedroom, demanding $20,000 ransom. Campbell told his questioners that the object of the kidnap plot which he discussed with the others was to be ransom. He did not explain why they believed that the child's father, James Degnan, a $7500 a year office of price administration official, would be able to produce the ransom. Campbell told police the kidnaping’ originally was planned as a three-man job but that he was left out at the last moment. He said the crime was planned a week in advance and that the motive was money. Campbell said that on the day of the crime Costello told him about the kidnaping. Campbell said he expressed doubt at Costello's story and that they then made the telephone calls to the Dégnan home to confirm it, Police said Costello was given a lie detector test last Saturday and the results were inconclusive. He said Campbell probably would get a lie test sometime today.

NORWEGIAN TO GET BIGGEST UNO POST

LONDON, Jan, 29 (U. P.).—The United Nations Security Council tonight unanimously nominated Trygve Lie, Norwegian foreign minister, to be the first secretary-general of the world peace organization. The Big Five agreed on Lie as a compromise candidate. The choice broke a deadlock between the AngloAmerican and the Russians, and cleared the way for the nomination to the most Mipertant single UNO office.

Campbell named Vincent Cos-|

were sent to the federal bureau of investigation for comparison with | dumpIng” Signs.

TUESDAY, JANUARY 2, 1946

Entered as Second-Class Matter at Postoffice Indianapolis 9, Ind. Issued daily except Sunday

Seen In Detroit

Section of White River Blvd. Going to the Dumps

Mounds of debris, within sight ment to the “beauty” of White river

‘NO DUMPING’ ‘SIGNS IGNORED

dy Trucks Unload Refuse, On East Parkway.

A section of White River blvd. is going to the dumps, because one hand of the city government doesn't know what the other hand is doing. Last year the park department landscaped the east parkway of White River blvd. between W. 10th and W. Michigan sts. At the park depatimanite

tracks ave rg 4 pons trash in the area. The “no dumping” signs are all but blotted from view by rubbish and ashes. Protests Planned West siders are aroused. Both the W. Michigan Street Business and Professional club and the Tibbs Avenue and Eagle Creek Civic club plan to protest the mess before city council. “It’s horrible,” said Mrs. William H. Owen of 3707 W. Michigan st, a

of a “no dumping” blvd. \

sign, are contributions of the city street depart-

May Spee WASHINGTON, Jan. 3 (U. P)

nearer the day of radio-controlled

disclosed that the army already

bouncing raddr pulses off the moon, | he added, means that scientists can | now work out the problem of guid- | ing space ships with radio waves projected beyond the earth's atmosphere, ;

gi the works

oh from any starting iE

rocket combination,” bell said.

maintain momentum, he said. See Accuracy Improved

“it will be.”

member of both organizations.

“Can't those city truck drivers]

read?”

Only last Thursday, she

its contents near one of the “no

Promise Action

Park Superintendent Paul

shell, but, he added,

Gen. Campbell's disclosures followed an announcement by Maj. re- Gen. George L. Van Deusen, the counted, city street truck 20 emptied |, vis chief signal officer, that the

| ppwer and sensitivity of the radar | set which contacted the moon on|

!Jan. 10 are being increased.

V.] The improvements, he said, will Brown loday said he would ask the | mae it possible to observe the

city street department to clear the oon throughout its nightly course.

strip. Works Board President Sher- | The present equipment is able to lie Deming said he would “correct | establish contact for only 10 to 15 City | minutes at moonrise and moonset. So far as the feasibility of space ships is concerned, the chief value of the army's moon contact is that it proves that radio power can be sent through the ionosphere, the electrified atmospheric layers beyond which ordinary radio waves

the situation immediately.” Street Commissioner Luther Tex| said he didn’t quite know what had happened, but added, “I'll look into it.” Mrs. Owen said West side clubs also would request cleaning and remodeling of the W. Michigan and Emerichsville bridges. In some places, she said, wooden planks had taken the place of concrete guard rails. “The bridges are unsightly and dangerous,” she declared. “What will our Speedway visitors think this spring?”

9 PERSONS ROBBED BY FOOTPADS HERE

More Than $200 Taken From 6 Women, 3 Men.

Six women and three men were victims of footpads and strong-arm bandits who obtained more than $200 in attacks in the city overnight. Two of the purse-snatchers were frightened away when their intended victims screamed for help. Mrs. Carl Reitz, 55, of 106 N. Drexel ave. told police two young men knocked her down and grabbed her purse and $6 at Drexel ave.

cannot penetrate. Navy to “Shoot” Moon

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the moon. Dr.

navy will

Beach, Md.

The army used only one.

through solar space. Gen. Campbell that

said, however,

for guided missiles. That, he said, would be up to the Manhattan proj-

tion.

GOUIN NAMES BLUM

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By ART WRIGHT

Joe Louis will do his preliminary training at French Lick, Ind. for the world’s heavyweight title fight with Billy Conn, the champion told The Indianapolis Times in an interview last night.

He will open his training camp at the: famous Hoosier spa March 1 and will set up living quarters at nearby West Baden. ‘After a “two months’ workout

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Louis Will Start Training For Conn at French Lick

Lakes, N. J., to complete his condi tioning for the fight which is scheduled for June 19 at New York's Yankee stadium, The soft-spoken champ appeared here last night in a floor show at Tomlinson hall. It was then that he learned from | yesterday's final edition of The Times that his former manager,

allies.

the nation’s economic crisis.

speed up food deliveries.

John Roxborough, had lost his bat-

tle to gain freedom ‘from a jail sen

2 New Army Discoveries

d Space Flights

~The army today announced paral-

Jel radar and rocket developments which; a spokesman sald, should bring

ships plying solar space,

Lt. Gen. Levin H. Campbell Jr., retiring chief of army ordnance,

possesses a radio-controlled rocket

weapon capable of rising 50 miles above the earth. The signal ¢orps' achievement pp—T-—

Wage Meeti

By ROY J.

SITES SELECTED

Tentative Locations to Build For Veterans Listed.

By LARRY STIHLLERMAN Tentative sites for establishment of temporary and semi-permanent dwellings for veterans and their families in Indianapolis were announced today by Walter M. Evans, chairman of Mayor Robert H. Tyndall's emergency housing committee. “Final locations,” Mr. Evans said, “will, of course, depend on the number of houses the government gives us. Proximity to public utilities and sewers is also a requisite.”

United Press Staff Correspondent ¥ DETROIT, Jan, 29.—General Motors Corp. ad CL 0. United Auto Workers agreed today to meet with a federal labor mediator in an effort to end the 70-day old stake of 175,000 G. M. production workers. Charles E. Wilson, president of General Motoms, and Walter P. Reuther, vice president of the United Auto ol Workers, agreed to the meeting. The report came in the midst of separate conferences. held by James F. Dewey, 59-year-old representative of Secs retary of Labor Lewis B. Schwellenbach, with Mr. Wilson and Mr. Reuther. | Mr. Dewey talked first with-Mr. Wilson. They were closeted for an

FOR DWELLINGS -

CHILD CHAINING

Even now, Gen Campbell said, the army's presently eariibound rocket

“The artillery gun, as we now know it, will some day become obsolete and replaced by a gun-and-Gen. ‘Camp-

The missile will be fired from a gun but will use rocket power to

Gen. Campbell cenceded that the rocket is not yet as accurate as a

Meanwhile, the navy has decided to catch up with the army and surpass it in radar exploration of A. Hoyt Taylor, chief electronics consultant at the naval research laboratory, said the shoot the moon with equipment to be set up at North

Dr. Taylor said that the navy wotild use four to- six widely separated frequencies simultaneously in its assault upon the ionosphere.

There has been much spculation as to the possible use of atomic power to drive radio-guided craft

the army ordnance depariment has done no research work on atomic power - either as a rocket propellant or as an explosive charge

ect, the symys atomic energy sec-

TO SEEK U. S. LOAN

PARIS, Jan. 20 (U. P.).—~The new | French government appointed former Socialist Premier Leon Blum today as extraordinary ambassador to negotiate for assistance from the

Meanwhile, Premier Felix Gouin prepared to lay before the assembly a folir-point program for solving

The 73-year-old Blum, who headed the French “new deal” administra|tion in 1936, was designated after an all-night cabinet meeting to negotiate financial agreements and

His appointment stressed the importance Gouin’s “government at-

Unsatistatory.

Juvenile Court Judge Mark W. Rhoads today withheld judgment in the trial of a farm couple charged {with chaining two small girls in a cow stall. The action was taken after a county welfare visitor admitted that prior to the time the two girls were placed in the farm home of Mr. and Mrs, Victor Wiese, R. R. 11, Box 266B, “housekeeping standards at the home were known not to be The couple is charged with child neglect and with chaining the girls, Barbara, 5, and Lorraine Hankins, {6, in a cow stall at the farm home. The children are wards of the counity welfare department. They were placed in the foster home and the Wiese's were paid $40 monthly for the childrens’ care.

Mrs. Virginia Viadoiu, testified she made a “home study” before the

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children were placed in the Wiese home and that “housekeeping standards were not good when I visited the home.” Policewoman Metta Davis, who investigated at the complaint of neighbors, described the home as “dirty and without heat.” The policewoman said she was taken to the cow stall, where Mrs. Wiese admitted chaining the girls. The. defendant declared she had been told by a county welfare department visitor to “punish the children as I saw fit.” Deputy Sheriff Nick Rawlings also | testified that the “home was dirty and clothes were thrown all over the floor.” Appearing with the Wieses was their minister, the Rev. William Ellis, of the Old Bethel Methodist church. The two girls are now at the board of children’s guardians’ home,

couple was arrested Jan. 12.

‘OCCUPATION NOT

Byrnes Says Army Should Boss U. S. Zone.

WASHINGTON, Jan, 20 (U, P). retary of State James F. Byrnes said today the army should continue to occupy and administer the American zone of Germany until it was possible to establish (a central German government, Mr. Byrnes said the White House and the state and war departments now agree on this question, He said he had persuaded both President Truman and Secretary of War Robert P. Patterson that the state department was a policymaking rather than an operating organization. v For that reason, he said, they agreed—Mr. Patterson reluctantly that the army should continue un‘der its present set-up until it was

tachies to forthcoming negotiations able to, turn the occupation job (Sontiniad an Fage 16:gfelumn 3) for a loah from the United ‘States, over to a small siiflan force,

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Vorker Says Home|

The welfare department visitor,

where they were taken when the]

One area under consideration for temporary housing is public property near Riley

city near Marcy village and around 34th st. and Sherman dr. The veterans administration is also considering the area around Riley hospital for construction of a new veterans hospital, Mr. Evans revealed. Acquisition of 100 quonset huts of the Kingsbury-type to house 200 families and over 100 pre-fabricated dwellings is pending federal public housing administration distribution under its “rationing” program. Already plans are being rushed to quarter 400 ex-servicemen and their families in barracks at Stout field. Tom Jacobi, city engineer, working as expeditor under Mr. Evans, announced that the FPHA must supply 55,000 applicants from 12 states under their Middle West jurisdiction from a total of 18,000 available dwellings. Members of the Indianapolis Homebuilders association and the

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‘BUTTER PRICE BOOST

IS HELD UNLIKELY WASHINGTON, Jan. 20 (U. P). —The office of price administration said today no price increases are in sight for butter. Several weeks ago Price Administrator Chester Bowles registered opposition to a butter price increase, which had been suggested by ‘ Secretary of Agriculture Clinton P. Anderson. OPA also reported that it had no power to force retallers to put butter on the market. It nad been | reported that retailers are holding | back their butter supplies in antici-

U.S. Labor Expert Arranges

ng Tomorrow

With Leaders of Both Sides

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hour in the General Motors building. Mr.--Dewey ws

Ford announced that it had offered a 15 per cent boost pay retro active to Jan. 1 to 19,000 hourly and

Ford-U.A. W. talks were to continue today to iron out other dee tails of a new labor contract— including the effective date of the 18-cent wage increase, company. security and worker produetivity,

1,600,000 Workers Idled by Strikes

By UNITED PRESS Across the nation, strikes and shutdowns have idled 1,600,000 American workers.

In the major labor developments: :

ONE: President Philip Murray of the C. I. O. steelworkers and Presi dent Benjamin’ F. Fairless of U, 8. Steel Corp. were in Washington,

{pation of a hike in butter prices) Feb. 1.

MIAMI, Fla, Jan. 29 (Us P).— John L. Lewis—for 10 years the undisputed leader of a powerful labor union—today meets with the American Federation of Labor execu-

STATE DEPT. JOB'

tive council as 13th vice president, Mr. Lewis takes his seat amidst speculation as to how long he will remain a subordinate to members who now outrank him. Bearing in his pockst the important vote of 600,000 U, M, W. workers, Mr. Lewis arrived in Miami last night by automobile. He refused -to have “a thing to say on the record except that I'm here.” He said he'd probably hold » press conference today after meeting with the council. A. F. of L. President William Green also may attend the press conference. Speculation has grown that C. I. Qu, Organizations would become the target of membership raids--spear-headed by Mr. Lewis, himself former C, 1. O. head. It was considered possible that

for C. I. O. members to follow him

he might make a personal appeal |.

into the federation.

Yesterday, while the council

recommended. The

waited for Mr. Lewis' arrival, an) A. F. of L. legislative program was!

: “onl

but they denied 4 yeporia they had

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Raid on C. I. O. Ranks Seen In Lewis-A. F. of L. Reunion

points: Granting of federal funds to raise state unemployment benefits to a $25 maximum for 26 weeks; passage of a full employment bill; increasing the war-time minimum wage of 55 cents per hour to: 68 cents, and approval of a bill setting up a system of federally-ad-ministered health instirance.

This Is a Seller's Market For All Types of Real Estate

Yet any attempt to determine