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Unlon Chief States He Has Done All He Can in Wage Dispute.
By UNITED PRESS C. L O. President Philip Murray declared today that “wa have done all we can” to settle the steel strike and that “it's now up to the Presi‘dent.” : Mr, Murray, who also is president of the C. I. Os United Steelworkors, sald the union had gone, as far as it could toward reaching an agreement and intends to make no further overtures to the steel industry. The C. I. O. leader made his statement after conferring an hour and a half with Secretary of Treasury Fred M. Vinson. He and C. 1. O. Counsel Lee Pressman, Mr. Murray said, discussed with Mr. Vinson refund provisions of the revenue laws. He has charged that struck industries, under these provisions, are in effect compensated for loss of production by means of tax refufids. Seek Easing of Price Control Meanwhile pressure for relaxation of price controls increased today, An appeal for ending most price controls, blamed by industry for its unwillingness . to boost wages, was
industrial circles saw government action to boost steel prices as the only hope for ending the 11-day steel strike. Demands for higher pay and the ghortage of steel have brought hundreds of strikes and shutdowns, idling nearly 1,500,000 U, 8. workers, GM Talks Resume
Workers were scheduled to resume
30 per cent higher wages. The company declined yesterday to offer its 175,000 workers more than a 13%cents an hour increase. Harry W. Anderson, G. M. vice president, indicated indirectly, however, that the company might raise its bid if certain objectionable features of ‘its old contract, Including & maintenance: of membership ¢lause, were removed, Warns Strike Will Continue ©. A. W. President R. J. Thomas warned that the T3-day strike would continue until the company receeded from its stand. In other labor developments: ONE: The Wheeling Steel Corp. followed the lead of U. 8. Steel in refusing to grant wage Increases "until the OPA price situation is clarified.” TWO: The Ford Motor Co. said # would have to shut down completely this week unless the steel strike ends. Ford already has laid
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WEATHER NIPPY; COULD BE WORSE
‘Moderate’ Is Forecaster’s Term for Cold Wave, LOCAL TEMPERATURES
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Low temperatures and snow flurries will prevail here today, but the weatherman describes the latest cold wave as “moderate” only. Overnight the mercury plummeted 30 degrees from a balmy 50 recorded late yesterday afternoon to 20 at 9 a. m, today, The local forecast was: “Moderate eold wave with snow flurries today and tonight. Friday fair.” ‘Cold blanketed most of the mnation, with the exception of the ex-
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Amusem’ts 10,11, Movies ...,10, Around TU, 8 2|Obituaries ,.. Eddie Ash ... 20(O'Brien ..... vss. 25| Dr, O'Brien ..
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Murray Says Steel Peace 'Up to Truman
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for such things as food and rent was He said the move would achieve
production and thus head off “run-away inflation.” The appeal was made to Reconversion Director John W, Snyder in a telegram :in which the youthful president of the Ford Motor Co.
[End of Price Control Urged By Ford to Stop Inflation
DETROIT, Jan. 31 (U. P).—An appeal to end price controls except
made today by Henry Ford II, labor-management peace, increase
warned that his firm would have to] shut down completely this week unless the steel strike ends. He implied that lifting price lids}
out. “I am now convinced that if government control of, prices is removed promptly, management and labor will settle their differences
where price fixing is forcing them to go,” he said. ‘Mass Production’
“To my mind, you cannot have a freely competitive mass production industry with even ‘just a little’ government price control,” he continued. “When you fix prices, you control every production operation.” As an example, he told Mr. Snyder that setting the price of a casting made in Almbama might force a wheel manufacturer in Ohio out
of business and stop an automobile assembly line in Detroit.
would result in an end to the wage thing which was curtailing prodispute which caused the steel walk-| duction of 1946 cars and trucks in his plants across the nation. |
Mr. Ford said it was this sort’ of |
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Ford employees are not at fault,
them crippled for lack of steel; |
others were slowed by strikes or | lawyers and businessmen who were! were losing their employees because active in politics before they enthey cannot raise wages.
Still others, he said, have| they lost money at their ceiling! price.” { The young executive pointed out| that the Ford Motor Co. had grant- | ed its factory employees an 18-cent
hourly wage increase and its salary
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Japan; ‘Many’
Australia, New Zealand, India and United Kingdom who are about to share the “arduous and difficult duties” of occupation. “Their presence,” said the supreme allied commander, “will materially broaden the base along international lines of a burden which up to this time has, of neces sity, been carried to a large extent unilaterally by the United States forces and cannot fail to be of
overall beneficial effect,
our own strength and will thereby bring welcome relief to many individuals.” ; i The state department said MacArthur would readjust the schedule for withdrawing American troops as soon as possible. MacArthur assigned the British commonwealth occupation force
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CHINESE CIVIL WAR ENDS IN COALITION
Interim Government to Rule! Until Next Spring.
CHUNGKING, Jan. 31 (U, P)— China’s 18 years of civil strife ended tonight when leaders of the nation's major parties agreed unanimously on formation of a coalition government to rule until the new democratic constitution is adopted next spring. The interim government plan was approved without a dissenting vote at an extraordinary session of the people's consultative assembly which has been meeting almost continuously for the
‘program, The ‘delogates, representing all of China's leading political factions, adopted five resolutions on which the broad platform of national unity will be erected. A military resolution called for reduction of the Nationalist armies 6-90 divisions and the Communist forces to 20 divisions, both to merge and reorganize along western lines under supervision of a joint committee, with U. 8. ambassador Gen. George C. Marshall as special adviser,
Bridgett, a gallant little cocker spaniel, today owes her life to city firemen. But she had already shown herself to be a heroine at heart. Bridgett and her master, Harry Melville, who lives at 1840 8. State ave. and operates a tavern 2djoining the residence, were awakenéd at 4:30 o'clock this morning by ® passerby who told Mr, Melville the house was on fire. Mr, Melville called: the fire department and exclaimed that his wife was trapped on the second floor, He tried to ascend the stairs but smoke and flames drove him back, Bridgett, however, raced through to her mistress’ bedroom. Mr. Melville didn't know until later that his wife, who had been visiting friends during the evening,
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WASHINGTON, Jan. 31 (U. P.).—A British Commonwealth force of land, sea and air units, will start moving into Japan within a week to share occupation duties. Their arrival will hasten repatriation of “many” American troops, the state department announced today. Gen. Douglas MacArthur, in a statement from his headquarters in Tokyo, extended the “heartiest possible welcome” to the men from
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GOP VETERANS URGE CURB ON PARTY HACKS
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Want Public Offices Run By More Competent Candidates.
By EDWIN C. HEINKE Young, energetic Republican veterans today had served notice on the regular G. O. P. organization that they'll fight for a county governed by competent persons rather than “political hacks.” The regular Republican organiza- | tion felt the punch and vigor of the | veterans at a meeting called by| Henry Ostrom; Republican county |
chairman, and Herman C. Wolff, | Republican Veteran county chair-|
he said. Rather it was the short- man, last night at the Columbia age of parts from suppliers, some of | club.
Attended by 20 young Republican
tered the service, the meeting was planned by Mr. Ostrom to acquaint
“stopped making our parts because them with what has happened po-|
litically in the county since 1940. The Battle-Cry
It was a friendly meeting, but the! fresh-faced, serious servicemen de- | clared in no uncertain language that | good government and better candidates will be the battle-cry of the! veterans in the upcoming May pri-| marjes and November election. The veterans want the primaries) “kept open” instead of having the! organization pick its own candidates | to the exclusion of others better qualified, Attorney Erle A. Kightlinger declared. Mr. Kightlinger, a self-proclaimed “idealist” because he wants open primaries and better government, led the veterans in explaining their aims to Mr. Ostrom. Served in India A major in the army and stationed in India at the close of | the war, Mr. Kightlinger is on terminal leave until Feb. 10. He enlisted as a private and went to officer's candidate school. “I maintain that it is the desirea
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Danger of Diploma Mills’ Cited by Educators.
By JIM G. LUCAS . - Seripps-Howard Staff Writer
and re-employment administration director, has asked the bu bureau for immediate allocation of $1 million to avert what some ‘educators warn may become a ‘national scandal” in on-the-job training under the G.I. bill of rights On-the-job training is new. It does not “necessarily mean .f education,” as pointed out by TG.
| Pullen Jr, of Maryland, president of’
the national council of chief state school officers, “Under the law, one man can train another,” he said. “It can B® done on farms. Our concern is 18 see the veteran receives actual training, gets what he contracts to get, and that neither the veteran
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Once a project is approved, the veterans administration is required to make up. the difference between an apprentice’s wage and the normal earning power of a trained man up to $85 a month for single men and $90 a month for married men. . Responsibility for supervising and accrediting rests with the state, As a result, Mr. Pullen said, “policies are as varied as the number of
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cooky or re Ponouion GROSS INCOME TAX
DEADLINE TONIGHT
If you haven't paid your gross income tax, better do it right now, State Treasurer Frank T, Millis warned Hoosiers that today is the last on which the tax may be paid without penalty. He indicated lastminute payers would be given a break up to 8 p. m. but after that it's too late. Doors of the gross income tax division at 141 8, Meridian and of some neighborhood distribution points will remain open until 8.
Spaniel, Trapped in Burning House, Rescued by Firemen
placed ladders at the side of the house to rescue Mrs. Melville but when they broke into the room they found only Bridgett, fright ened and huddled in the corner. The firemen carried the dog down to safety and, except for a few singed hairs, she wag none the worse for her experience.
including $2000 worth of new furni-
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resulted in injury to one. fireman, Emmett Schill,
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Damage to the home was $7000,
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Other fires in the city overnight
45, assigned to Company 29, received a broken arm when he fell off a fire truck on the way to a fire at the Garfield bakery, 2210 Shelby st. He was taken fo
A burning e¢igaret in a paper chute
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Firm Reports Increased
Demand for Trucks. | A $360,000 expansion of the foun- | dry at the Indianapolis plant of i
situation to have the organization
(exert its influence negatively to op{pose in a primary election a candidate who is obviously unqualified,” declared
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¥ Indianapolis who would make excellent candidates. “The veterans are interested only in good candidates and not political hacks. These men have too many irons in the fire, they owe too many people for obligations in the past:
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CIVILIAN CONTROL OF ATOM IS URGED
Sec. Wallace Sees Chaos as Alternative.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 31 (U. P.). —Secretary of Commerce Henry A. Wallace today asked congress to turn over full control of the nation's atomic energy program-—in-
to a civilian commission, He urged an immediate end to present military control of atomic energy. Mr. Wallace told the special sen{ate atomic committee that this nation's present international policy lon atomic energy “offers the only | possible alternative to an atomic arms race and ultimate chaos.”
AUTO VICTIM KEPT ALIVE BY SAILOR
‘Pharmacist’s Mate Gives First Aid Treatment.
A naval pharmacist's mate was credited with saving the life of a 54-year-old victim of a hit-skip automobile last night. The man remained in a critical condition today. The injured man is James M. Griffin, 15 N. East st. His left leg was almost severed when he was struck at East and Washington sts. by a car which failed to stop, police said. A 33-year-old woman, Mary Kieffer, 542 8. Fleming st, was arrested later by police and slated {for failing to stop after an acci- | dent, having improper license plates and operating a car under the influence of liquor, She was held under $1025 bond. Police said that when they arrived at the scene of .the accident, they found James R. Duvall, 2, 3-¢ Phm., USN, of Evansville; on his hands and knees administering first aid to Mr. Griffin, The injured man would have died of
ald from the navy man, police said.
The sailor was on’ a 30-day furlough and was passing through the city, fra police.
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| the International Harvester Co. was} announced today by H. E. Gottberg,
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The expansion was necessitated by increased. demand for Interna- |
cording to Mr. Gottberg. Bigger Foundry Room
The Indianapolis plant manufac- | tures engines for International mo-| {tor trucks built at the company’s plants at Pt. Wayne, Ind., Springfield, O., and Chatham, Ont. The additional space will make | possible enlargement of the foundry core room and installation of in{creased equipment for casting en|gine cylinder blocks. | The mew expansion will be the {second enlargement of the plant's capacity for casfing cylinder blocks {since 1941, when its daily capacity was 660. In 1945 capacity was increased to {approximately 900 cylinder blocks a day. It will be increased by the | present expansion to approximately 11100 a day,
Unites to Be Enlarged
The new equipment will include a horizontal core oven. The core sand carriers and the roller conveyor system will be extended, and the present Pangborn shot-blast unit will be enlarged. The new construction will include all the safety devices and other in{stallations for the health and com{fort of employees which make the foundry of International Harvester's works one of the most modern in| the world.
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TIP TO MOTORISTS: GET LICENSES NOW Time's a wasting! With only the month of February {left tn which to purchase automobile plates and drivers’ licenses for 1946, H. Dale Brown, motor vehicle license commissioner, urged Hoosiers again today to “buy now.” During the next few days licenses can be purcBased with virtually no
Plans $360,000 Plant Expansion Here
The Indianapolis Works of International Harvester will be expanded because of new business. . . . Here workmen are lined up on the final assembly line,
Soldier Shot By Police in Wild Chase
A chase at high speed through South side streets early this morning resulted in the shooting and
FEUD SEEN IN
Ship Unreported in Rugged
—- Searching planes today: sighted what was believed to be the wreckage of a United Air Lines Mainliner, carrying ‘118 passengers and a crew of
land, Ore, to New York, had been overdue at Denver since 5:30 a. m.
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Mountain Area Near Denver. i DENVER, Jan. 31 (U. P.),
three, 65 miles northwest of Sins clair, Wyo. Ti et The plane, en route from Ports
(Indianapolis time). 3 The news that what appeared to be a wrecked plane had been seen in the rugged Elk mountain
‘Accord Among Sheriff, Po-
lice, Prosecutor Sought.
A city-county gambling
capture of a Camp Atterbury soldier suspected of car stealing by
ice. The soldier, 18-year-old John M. Price, was wounded in the right arm by Patrolman George Kahl, who fired four shots at him beptured. He 5 In City hospital, Police said they sighted the ear traveling at high speed at Virginia and McCarty st. and gave
a utility pole and the driver jumped out and ran, : Patrolman Kahl said he fired one shot at the fleeing man after he
failed to obey an order lo SWOP.|ggmpling clampdown launched in the! Weather bureau officials said
The man screamed and ran into an empty building, where Patrol-
When the man climbed out & window, Patrolman Kahl fired again and captured the man at a nearby street corner, Police said the soldier admitted stealing the car from the Circle Motor Inn. A member of the 86th division, the soldier had recently re-enlisted. He is held on a vagrancy charge and police gave his home address as 524 8. Pine st.
Phone Toll Rate To Be Cut Tonight
Reduced rates for long-distance telephone calls will become effective in Indianapolis and on a na-tion-wide basis at midnight tonight. The new rates, expected to save telephone users of the nation about $20,000,000 a year on longdistance calls, will go to users making calls over distances between 340 to 2140 miles. Indiana users will get an estimated $70,000 savings annually, {Indiana Bell ‘Telephone officials said, The approximate saving was estimated on state long-distance traffic during the past year. The new tolls were worked out during negotiations with the Federal Communications Commission, as a result of the continued increase in the volume of Ilongdistance calls.
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waiting; he’ ted out. Later-in the coming month Jast-minute buyers will jam statehouse corridors and license branch offices and the
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RETURNING TO SPAIN LAUSANNE, Jan, 31 (U. P)~— Don Juan, pretender to the Span-
going will be tough. | ish throne, confirmed today that
he would leave by plane Friday for
journey back to Spain,
The last reduction of tolls was]
flared here today after enforcement {officials had attempted to reach accord on -the issuance of search WArTants against gaming establish-
Simultaneously, police raided two
alleged gambling places late yesterday and nabbed 12 persons on orders of Chief Jesse McMurtry. Closeted in enforcement conhfer- : K 4 parts, ac-| ave 3 lences yesterday were Sheriff Otto tional motor frucks and, p ' | chase. At Merrill st, the car struck [Petit, Prosecutor’ Sherwood Blue,
{Chief McMurtry and Republican | County Chairman Henry Ostrom.
Petit in Threat Appdrently still smarting under a
| county Jast summer -by state police, | Sheriff Petit reportedly demanded a
{man Kahl fired two more shots. gi iar “tightening up” in the city.
| The sheriff repeatedly threatened {to send his own raid squads inside {the city limits. Both the sheriff and Police Chief McMurtry are said to have complained of difficulty in obtaining search warrants and arrest affidavits from the prosecutor's office. They {were told that in cases where their {requests fell short, their preliminary evidence was not deemed sufficient. Meanwhile, two distinct elements here were sniping at each other, verbally, on ‘the gambling front,
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PASTORS OPPOSE PARI-MUTUEL BETS
Warn Racetrack Bill May Be Presented in "47.
A strong stand against parimutuel ‘betting “or any other system of legalized gambling in the state” was adopted by the Indiana Pastors’ association yesterday, it was disclosed today. Declaring that efforts are underway to present &-bill to the. 1947 legislature to sanction pari-mutuel betting in Indiana, the representing churches all over Indiana, declared: “Many of our citizens, including four church members and constituents, are not’ fully aware of the evil which would come to the state with the adoption, , . “We call upon all our citizens who believe in civic righteousness {to use their influence to bring
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Moral: Always Be Neat With the Icepick
By ROBERT C. RUARK Scripps-Howard Staft Writer NEW YORK, Jan, 31.—If there is a moral to this tale, it is this: Always to be neat with an ice pick. And never, never ask & lady where the bedroom is at. Otherwise, you are apt to find yourself in the grease with - Pr. Irwin Conroe and his band of movie censors, : New Yorkers finally are to be allowed to see a movie called “Scarlet Street,” originally - banned by the state censorship board-—which
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married women and one gentleman Even though the movie had pre-
of Decency, a strict Catholic organization, the New York board, in Dr. Conroe’s absence, axed it. Since that time, Dr. Conroe has seen the show so many times he
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{now counts little ice picks. This is because Walter Wanger, who produced the show and who |is married to its leading lady, Joan | Bennett, came down out of Hol wood and hollered in anguish.
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that Mr. Wanger was going to lug the whole thing to court if somebody didn’t see the light, and the light eventually was seen. The picture was passed, with only two minor cuts.
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GAMING RAIDS °
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that early this morning the «skies were clear in the area where the plane was missing. At 10,000 feet, the weather bureau said, there were gusts of wind from 45 to 50 miles an hour, which was not unusual The planes which went out im search of the missing airliner encountered excellent flying conditions with a visibility of 40 miles and only scattered clouds.
First Transport Has Nylon Cargo
SANTA MONICA, Cal, Jan. 31 (U. P)~The first of eight Douglas . transports ordered by Australian National Airways hak left for Australia with a cargo of one pair of nylon stockings. The DC-4 was christened “Amana” by Australian-born ace tress Ann Richards who is sending the stockings to her mother, Miss Richards said it would be the first pair of nylons ever seen “down under.” ¢ Australian Airways has on or< der four DO-4s and four DOCSs but is topped as a Douglas foreign customer by the French pro= visional government, the coms pany said. The French order calls for 18 DC-4s and four DC-3s.
W. A.C. LISTS MARION PLANT FOR SALE.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 31 (U. Py, ! ~The Anaconda Wire & Cable Co. | plant at Marion, Ind. today was = listed by the War Assets Corp. a8 = available for sale or lease. Ha The plant made telephone wire during the war, 41
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