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Street Fixing

Long Past Due

se) VOLUME So NUMBER ? a oo ete = TI nee Ne , HST Truman Urges Congres Brital

HEALTH UNIT

: U. S. Funds Being Sought

WEDNESDAY, JANUAR

FORECAST: Cold wave tonight and tomorrow ; cloudy, light rain early tonight changing to snow flurries; lowest temperature, 12.

Y 30, 1946

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

To Okay Loan

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For $7,000,000 Expansion.

By VICTOR PETERSON Indianapolis will be assured one of the nation’s finest health centers if a seven million dollar expansion plan for ‘City hospital is fulfilled, The Times learned today. Almost revolutionary in scope, groundwork for the gigantic program has been plotted steadily for the past year by the board of health | and Dr. Charles W. Myers, City hqs-

Purdue Ends FBI. Cio, CPA |Hopes for Steel Peace Rise;

Enrollments In Next Term

PURDUE UNIVERSITY today | clamped the lid on its enroliment | for the March semester. Applications received after noon on Saturday for either new admissions or re-entry as under graduates will be rejected, President Frederick L. Hovde announced. ‘

| A state road crew patches a chuckhole in the 200 block of N. Capitol ave. ; v bs

pital superintendent. Currently the project is being considered by federal authorities with a view toward acceptance. Federal stamp of approval would make pos- | sible the immediate drawing of all architectural plans at national ex-

nse. Funds for the mammoth program would come principally from a city bond issue, Dr. Myers said. Cost Set’ at $6,814,000

“Undoubtedly we visualize much | Myers said.

and future citizen in mind.”

Deep enough to step out of, this chuckhole is in the 5600 block of E. Pleasant Run parkway.

Ft. Wayne ave. and Delaware st. . . « A miniature mountain range as seen from the air. .

{reason given was fear that the

{federal authorities would not sanc-

{tion such a sweeping program. “The federal government, howlever, is vitally interested in the | health of communities. ireason they withstand the archi-

|tectural expense of such a pro-

{gram,” Dr. Myers said. Either a joint unit or two new wings are considered for contagious diseases and psychopathic cases. The wings would be built tp be interchangeable in case a flood of patients should require admittance to either.. They will be about 100 ‘beds each. : os Addition to Nurses’ Home

An addition will be necessary to for nurses’ infirmary also is desired.

construction of a separate building with private rooms for paying patients. It would be about 200 beds and charges would be at a minimum rate consistent with providing some revenue for the city. Another plan considered is the eventual construction of an administration building which would house all city health functions. This would make a clean sweep of health offices in City hall including laboratories. Here would be housed all certificates for birth, health and

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PRE-NATAL CRASH

Paper planning places the esti-! mated cost at $6,814,000. |

For that.

the nurses’ home of about 50 rooms more nurses who will’ belg with the expansion. A

\ Dr. Myers also is advocating the

Add Welcome Signs of Spring: Chuckhole Campaign Planned

LEAVES BABY SAFE

An estimated 60,000-plus chuckholes pocking Indianapolis’ 1000| Accident Overtakes Mother

miles of streets are due for a filling.

The city engineer's office and the state maintenance of roads department today planned the annual “dental” work on corrugated streets,

On Way to Hospital.

A baby boy greeted the world at

For the first time the state actively will participate in‘ thie repair.| Methodist hospital today, none the The 1045 legislature handed some 58 miles of city streets, which SarTy worse for the auto crash"his mother

state highway traffic, to their care. Continuations of state roads, they | include virtually every highly] traveled road in town and are among those most urgently needing attention. Both Frank Unversaw, assistant eity engineer, and Lawrence Walker, state senior field engineer of maintenance, readily admit city streets are in bad shape. “It's a constant fight to even begin to keep them in shape,” they chorused, Both men bewailéd the shortage of manpower and equipment with which to handle the job and expressed dissatisfaction with the 75-

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Radio Easy for Gracie Fields

LONDON, Jan, 30 (U. P.)— Gracie Fields sdid today she had

{underwent on the way to the hos- ‘ i pital. > Ww. C. 1. U. ASKS PROBE! His mother, Mrs. Margaret Gowen, 18, of 919 N. East st. was being

OF SOLDIER’S CASE rushes to the hospital in a police

EVANSTON, Ill, Jan. 30 (U.-P.).|car when it collided with another ~The Woman's Christian Temper- | 2Ut0 at 16th and Meridian sts. , h { Driver of the second car was James ance Union asked President Tru-| pv, Givens, former Indiana state man today to “order the arrest and treasurer. trial of those who sold or gave Pfc.| Police Sgt. James Langsford and ; [Patrolman Thomas R. Flannary Joseph E. ‘Hicswa the liquo . P * iq or "| were injured slightly. Police had which he became ‘drunk; to kill tWolpeen summoned to the Gowen home Japanese civilians.” lafter the worried parents-to-be An army court martial found were unable to get transportation Hicswa, of Wallington, N. J., guilty |to the hospital. Following the crash, of killing the two Japanese and sen- a taxi, hailed at 16th and Meridian tenced him to death. |sts., sped the expectant mother the Mrs. D. Leigh Colvin, W. C. T. U. rest of the way to Methodist hospresident, said Hicswa, 20, “was ob- | pital, viously not used to alcohol, and it] Mr. Givens was slated on a charge acted as violently as a bombshell on |of failing to give right-of-way to an his brain,” | emergency vehicle,

To Our Readers and Our

1 [pe and thus leave little Iran |

ss 8 =» . THE ACTION was taken after a consultation of university officials because the estimated enrollment of 7000 students will be all the school’s instructional and housing faciilties can handle, Mr. Hovde announced. . The semester's length is 16

weeks. » » »

CLOSING DATE for the summer session that begins June 26 was set for June 8 and the clos-

begins Sept. 9 was set for Aug. |

| {which never will come to pass,” Dr.| 19. {of living committee sent a hot “But we have the | health of every Indianapolis citizén| diana university officials said "| I. Us housing and instructional The master plan has been a facilities still were sufficient to | closely guarded secret. The primary| handle all admission requests.

Informed of Purdue's action, In-

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BIG 3 CLASH ON

U. S., Britain Protest Russ "Move to Evade UNO.

LONDON, Jan, 30 (U. P.).—Russia tried to take her dispute with Iran out of the hands of the UNO security council today and drew vigorous American and British op-

‘The security council took up the

time and a barrage of charges and counter-charges started in which the United States and British delegations aligned themselves with Iran and against Russia. Replies With Blunt ‘No’ Iran offered to negotiate the dispute directly with Russia, but insisted that the negotiations be conducted under the jurisdiction of the security council. Russia fired back & blunt “no,” charging that such a procedure would make “a fiction” of the ne- | gotiations. Mr, Bevin made an eloquent ap- | peal to the Soviets not to insist that {the council wash its hands of the

to negotiate with big Russia, which still has thousands of troops on { Iranian soil. Mr. Bevin told the Soviet spokesman, Andrei Vishinsky, he was disturbed by Vishinsky's statement [that the Soviet high command had stopped Iranian security troops from entering the north - Iranian {province of Azerbaijan. Violation of Treaty | That, he said, was a violation of | the Anglo-Iranian-Soviet tregty insuring Iranian sovereignty and pledging a hands-off policy with regard to Iran’s internal affairs, including the movement of security | forces. | Edward R. Stettinius Jr. of the

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COLD WAVE MOVING DOWN FROM CANADA

Rain May Turn to Snow by

Tonight. LOCAL TEMPERATURES 6am... 35 0am... 43 Tam..... 3 1lam..... 4“ Sam.... 37 12 (Noomn).. 45 aa.m..... 40 1ipom..... 45

today along the nation’s shirt front.

number of tempers.

{tration charged with the announcement it is investi‘gating a report that a New York {wholesaler had 2,000,000 white navy

IRAN DISPUTE ze: for export and couldn't re-

lease them for domestic consump- gids declared following a directors’ duct

~~ Inside Indpis.-11| Women's...

found out it doesn’t take brains to be an American radio star. she said: “Everything is written for you. One doesn’t have to use one's brains.”

TIMES INDEX

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difficulties of the war period.

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of complete and satisfactory- service

Old man weather just keeps follin’ along with a typical London drizzle falling from cloudy skies today. But keep that overcoat handy for the weather bureau forecasts colder temperatures with possible snow flurries tonight. . . The mercury was expected to drop to 12 above during the night. A new cold wave, accompanied by ‘strong winds, is moving down

The federal weatherman at Chi-

proximately 48 hours.

from central Canada and will cover most of the Midwest by nightfall.

cago said that the cold air mass was moving in a southeasterly direction and would continue for ap-

The Indianapolis wedther station recorded a ‘low of 34 at 10 p. m. last night, while a national low of |. 113 degrees below zero was noted at Caribou, Me! Miami, ¥la., was the warmest spot with a T8-degree tem-

ALL ON TRAIL General Motorsand C.1.O. |

Chiefs Meeting in Detroit

OF SHIRT TALES

Who's Hoarding? Who Can't A drive to end the reconver-|sion-choking

Sell ’Em? Rumors Stir Quite a Dither.

By UNITED PRESS Things. were unbuttoning

There weren't any more|

ting frayed and so were a! Everybody ‘seemed to be saying | somebody has got those shirts tucked away, but just who, nobody

ing date for the fal] semester that mew. ‘

In Washington, the C. I. O.& cost|

telegram to President Truman (who has shirts). The committee demanded that something be done about 3,000,000 shirts and 400,000 men’s suits which press reports said manufacturers were hoarding. The civilian production adminisinto the picture

tion. No Dealer, No Shirts |

preventing the wholesaler from selling the shirts domestically. Look-| ing further, the agency couldn't find | the wholesaler. And looking further than that, it couldn't find the shirts.

William Beck, a New York manufacturer’s representative, appeared to be the guy who started that ball rolling. He let it out that he would have not 2,000,000 but 2.400.000 shirts

"for sale, but only for export sale. He was sorry. i The report was all over the coun- |. Soviet-Iranian wrangle for the third try in a few minutes. Citizens in|

various stages of rage, shirt manufacturers, navy procurement officers, exporters, retailers and newspapers rushed him. The F. B. I. On the Trail

An F. B, 1. agent tore into Mr. Beck's office. Maybe he neéded a shirt. He said he was checking up. Mr. Beck admitted he got the tip from a friend who said that 200,000 dozen navy officers’ white shirts made by a Troy, N. Y., firm were being released. The friend admitted he got it from “some fellow.” Sorry, no shirts today.

CPA Moves to Free Hoarded Clothing

WASHINGTON, Jan. 30 (U. P). ~The government and the hosiery industry came up today with sharply conflicting explanations of the women’s stocking shortage. The government meanwhile moved to force clothing held back: for higher prices out on the open market. Howard D. Salins, managing director of the trade publication | Flax and Fiber, charged that the civilian production administration had done nothing to get yarns into hosiery production, “There are hardly any yarns in the mills or plants,” Salins said in a letter to CPA. CPA - officials said, however, that the hosiery industry had been reJuctant to manufacture rayon hose after V-J day because of the popu-

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Amend ‘No Dog’ | Rule for Sinbad

{ CHICAGO, Jan. 30 (U. P.).— Hotel Sherman amended its “no dogs allowed” rule temporarily yesterday when Photographer's Mate Leonard: Webb arrived with a sophisticated 9-year-old mongrel. Officials were informed that the animal was no ordinary dog, but Sinbad, mascot of the U. 8. C. G. cutter Campbell and officially sea dog first class of the U, 8. coast guard.

Fugitives From

By ROBERT C. RUARK Scripps-Howard Staff Writer

NEW YORK, Jan. 30. — A new species of fauna has cropped up in Greenwich village — always the happy hunting ground for pseudo

toil. The new species is the G. I. version of village hedonist—thé lads who, suddenly out of the army, have

grateful employer. ’

Morris in Savings—Safe for 24 years. mn 1% Interest at Morris Plan with ho Washington st.~Adv,

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIVES

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By J. ROBERT SHUBERT United Press Staff Correspondent

PITTSBURGH, Jan. 30.—

steel

By ROY J. FORREST United Press Staff Correspondent

DETROIT, Jan. 30.—Gen-|

‘eral Motors Corp. executives : walkout and the negotiating commit.| Tent Sends through conciliatory price re-|tee of the C. 1. O. United Auto| visions was reported under Workers scheduled a meeting

FAVORS GR

IN INTEREST OF

Message

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On Agreement Involving $3,750,000,000.

way today.

|C. I. O. workers for a $148 a day

| wage Doget Sudsey Seeper Into. re- effort to end the Tl-day strike |

shirts, but the front was get-|°L U: 5. Steel Corp. and key nego.

here were optimistic. Officials of | sevéral union negotiating committee and

heard settlement might be reached | within a week, but they were ine] YoU attend the meeting. definite as to the basis.

| population return to their original

[today with a federal labor| Meanwhile the 10-day strike of mediator presiding. The meeting will be held in

Benjamin F. Fairless, president deadlock. James F.. Dewey, tiator of the steel industry, returned | sentative of Secretary of Labor to his New York office after a tWo- ip ui Bg Schwellenbach, announced day: “mystery” visit to Washing- iy.¢ negotiations, broken off Dec. ton. His activities were believed | 56 would be resumed at 1:30 p. m. connected with the OPA announce-| (1 gianapolis time) in the General ment of steel price increases which | Motors building is expected Friday. : C. 1 O. President Philip M | Mr. Dewey drranged the meeting sito Was 1s ~ en " or Ln |atter a day and a half of conno was ashing = ” ah ist. ferences with Charles E. Wilson, stay giving rise to persist-|,oqiqent of the strikebound corent reports that settlement Was | ration and President R. J. Thomnear in the walkout of his 750,000 oo. 4 "vi President Walter v United Steelworkers a8 A ot tt * g | Reuther of the U. A. W. Both Sides Optimistic | “Top Executives’ to Attend Both industrial and labor sources| ,.. Dewey announced that the

small companies said they |i, executives of General Motors”

| The mediator said that he had | failed in his attempt to “convince U. S. Steel Chairman Irving 8. both sides of the necessity to con- | negotiations with smaller,

'meeting yesterday that his com- stream-lined committees,” apparent- ments = ) \pany would need a price boost of ly referring to his attempts to limit | : e CPA couldn't find any 1a | $6.25 a ton to meet President Tru- the meetings to Mr. Wilson and |

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CHILDRENS HOME Clear Trash 1 ALK PROPOSED From Parkway

County Board Would Meet With Social Agencies.

County commissioners today proposed a meeting of social agencies to discuss + overcrowded conditions at the Childrens Guardians home in Irvington. : william E. (Bud) Bosson Jr.! board president, said he had invited representatives of various civic organizations to convene and determine what the county’s future social needs may be. “Will our wartime congestion continue, or will some of our working

WHITE RIVER BLVD. from W.

dore Howard, a truck driver, was out of a job. Full responsibility for indiscriminate dumping of street department rubbish on the White River parkway strip apparently devolved on Mr. Howard. Street Commissioner Luther Tex said he had dismissed Mr. Howard for dumping on the boulevard site.

» ” ” A PAIR of motorized graders and a bulldozer cleared the debris from the east parkway, today, while works board members looked on. “No dumping” signs

homes?” the county official asked. “We commissioners don’t want to be placed in the position of denying

on (U. Tr (today asked congréss to ap 'prove the $3,750,000,000 loan | special repre- [to Great Britain. He stated

WASHINGTON, Jan. 30 P.).—President Truman

Along River us 5

Michigan to W. 10th sts, had been | | cleared of trash today, but Theo- |

he was urging approval te enable Great Britain “to move side by side with the United States tos ward the common goal of eX+ | panded world trade.” i 2 Such expanded world trade, the President told congress in a longs. awaited message, “means expanded. production, consumption and emis ployment and rising standards at living everywhere.” $y .The loan would provide with a $3,750,000,000 credit” on

and interest would be 3 per cent. The interest, however, could be waived in years when Britamn's exports did not provide her with: enough dollars to meet the pags.

Includes Lend-Lease : | The agreement also provides that |Britain is to pay $650,000,000 in {settlement of lend-lease aid y principal thus would be $4.400,000,000, although the $3,750,000,000. tlement is gressional -

not

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{the Bretton Woods agreements be made effective sooner than believed possible, the President said. The financial agreement, he coh. |tinned, precludes the possibility of |economic controversy between the two countries. Calis Loan ‘Another Phase” | Mr. Truman said that the loan {represented another phase of inter. | national economic co-operation.

| He reminded congress that in es=

funds to the home, but if we gren’t in too much of a hurry some of our problems will straighten themselves lout.” He believes the county welfare department has been “lax in anticipating our needs.” The welfare department is sponsoring - a survey to .determine the institution's needs.

GILLIE TO RUN FOR CONGRESS AGAIN

Times Washington Byreau | WASHINGTON, Jan. 30.—Rep.!

George W. Gillie, Ft. Wayne, today announced his candidacy for renomination in the Fourth district | Republican primary May 17. He is the first Indiana congressman to announce for renomination. | Rep. Charles M. La Follette, Evansville, in announcing his can-| didacy for Republican senatorial | nomination withdrew as a candi- | date for congress in the Eighth district.

PRESIDENT SPEAKS OVER AIR TONIGHT

the White House announced today. Mrs. Truman, accompanied by her daughter, Margaret, will visit each

had been posted in the area oy the works board at the request of the park department. West side complainants sald they had watched several city street trucks deposit their rubbish there recently. Telephone calls to city hall proved ineffective as complaints were relayed from department to department. Then they called The Times.

M’NUTT TO MAKE WASHINGTON TRIP MANILA, Jan. 30 (U. P.).—High Commissioner Paul V. McNutt will leave by plane tonight for Washington in connection with legislation affecting Philippine affairs before congress, A spokesman said Mr. MeNutt would urge immediate action by congress on the Bell-Tydings bill which provides for trade preferences with the U. S. after the Philippines receive their independence. He ‘said Mr, McNutt would take up an agenda of 30 items while in Washington, including tentative re-

WASHINGTON, Jan. 30 (U. P..|ports on collaboration during the —President Truman will speak for|Japanese occupation, agrarian unfive minutes tonight over all the rest, seizure of allied and enemy ma jor networks at about 10:55 (In-|property in the Philippines, vetedianapolis time) on a Roosevelt | rans benefits and disposal of surplus birthday March of Dimes program, |property.

KILLED IN SLATE FALL

FONTANET, Jan. 30 (U. P). — —y

tablishing the international mone« tary fund and bank under the Bret-

(would be necessary to make effec~ ive he operations of the bank and | una, Under Bretton, Woods, he continued, congress declared it the policy of the United States to seek further international economic cooperation. ph The loan to Great Britain is an

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Filibuster Gets = Help From Bilbo

WASHINGTON, Jan. 30 (U. PJ. —Senator Theodore G. (The Man) Bilbo (D. Miss.), set out today to add his gravel-voiced oratory to the senate’s southern democratic - filibuster against FEPC. : The pugnacious iittle senator announced his topic as “The Filibuster—the History and Glory of yg He promised to talk for 30 days,

if necessary. But it won't he Necessary, Plenty of fellow-southerness

were ready to help carry on the talkfest which today rounded out two solid weeks. hia

New York's Greenwich Village Is Shangri-La

artists with a chronic distaste for actor, and who is an authority on

discovered that Uncle Sam was al

LW “Under the G. 1-bill-of rights. -the+em on unemployment relief, Under man who wants to let his hair grow /the G. I bill, I'm entitled to.52 and live a life uncorrupted by la-

of the Roosevelt balls in Washing-| Services were arranged today for ton tonight. The first Jady will pre-| Harry Lee Dowell, 55, who was killed side at a cake cutting ceremony at|instantly yesterday in a slate fall a local arena. {at the Victory mine.

Toil Among Ex-G. I's Find

a job. Okay, I can't get a job. Who wants to hire a playwright? “That takes care of me for a year. At the end of that time, 1 will investigate the educational aspects of the bill. I'm entitled to four years of education, at $65 a month. When that runs out, I figure I can always catch tuberculosis’ and spend the rest of my life taking it easy in a veterans’ pital.” About

bor, has hit the jackpot. We have met several lately, and they can scarcely believe it's true. : “1 got $300 worth of musteringout pay,” one young man, who was once ¢ WPA playwright, a U. 8, O.

Shakespeare, explains: ‘ “At $100 a month, that keeps me for three months. Then I show up and register at USES as a writer. “All I have to do is show a manu-

scripts to prove I'm a writer, and I 4000 veterans in. the

Greenwich Village area are draw- |

It's A Happy Home £04 If It's Your Own Al

Have you ever ‘stopped to cons sider that $60 per month : in 20 will amount $14,400? Which will you sheaf of worthless rent or a home of your own .

3 BEDROOM BUNGALOW S$4if Indianola ~~ frame with

front—4 years old—master

one avSrags...tile bath — place in lying ih roont == modern kitchen breakfast nook—full with lIsundry and matic gas heat~-storm and doors ~ screened fromb porch—conerete side drive to garage—-$12,000. To read , plete’ intormation turn to 2: sification 24 in today's"

weeks at $20 a week if I can't get ~ : -

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