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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1946

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The march on the statehouse. . . , Organized veterans 200 strong

demanded G.

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Crowd of 200 Labor Veterans Stages March on Statehouse

ial session of the legislature will be discussed , Governor Gates today promised organized labor

3 $1010 Jeokome, Sous Bd and Mishawaka a demand

aited patiently in the statesryotunda while eight picked : es laid their. demands

Wouldn't Promise Governor Gates, however, de¢lined to give assurances that there would be a special session and he declined also to commit himself definitely on the broad program the labor

The special committee, led by Elroy Campbell, Indiana Harbor three-point program on the governor. Its first demand was for a special legislative session to provide unemployment gompensation for strikers, to initiate a state housing program for veterans, and to pro-

- vide additional veterans’ hospital~

fsdtion, Liberalizged Bill of Rights The second demand ‘was that the throw his influence with congressmen and senators behind liberalizing provisions proposed as amendments to the G. I.

. Bill of Rights.

Thirdly, the veterans urged the governor to voice opposition to the Case “No-Strike” bill passed by the house and now before the U. 8. senate. In promising to consider the merits of a special session, Governor Gates warned, however, that “legislators are free and independent citizens in their own right and I would not try to dictate to them. Therefore, there is no assurance that even with a special ses-

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FLORIDA TAKES OVER RINGLING MUSEUM

SARASOTA, Fla. Feb. 8 (U, P.), ~The state of Florida today was to take possession of the Ringling Art Museum and home in Sarasota, bringing to an end 10 years of litigation in settlement of claims against the estate. The museum, which contains paintings valued at millions of dollars, and the property, will become

. permanent property of the. state to-

day in ceremonies attended by Gov. Millard Caldwell and members of the state cabinet,

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Amusements.. 31 Anderson ..., 17 Around U. 8.. 2 Aviation Eddie Ash..., 26

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Ruth Millett . 17 Movies ...... 31 Dr, O'Brien .., 17 Obituaries ... 13 Othman ..... 17 Radio ......, 30 Reflections .. 18 Mrs. Roosevelt 17 Scherrer .... 18 Side Glances . 18 Wm. P, Simms 18 Sports .....26-27 In Indpls.... 2{Troop Arrivals 24 Inside Indpls., 17! Lyle Wilson,. 19 Jane Jordan... 30 {Women's .. 20-21 La Moore. .... 17|World Affairs 18

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Classified Comics Crossword ... 30 Editorials ... 18 Forum ...... 18 Meta Given ., 21

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RUSSIANS MUST BUILD UP ARMY

Increase in Armed Might Urged in ‘Encirclement By Capitalist Powers.’

MOSCOW, Feb. 8 (U. P.). —Two top members of the all-powerful Soviet Politbureau declared today that Russia is still “encircled” by

the world’s capitalist powers and must take steps to strengthen her armed forces. Addressing a mass election meeting in Tashkent, Lazar Kaganovich, the “iron commissar” of the state defense committee, called for a strong and vigilant national policy to maintain the Soviet Union's present position. “We are still within the capitalist | encirclement,” Mr. Kaganovich warned, “Therefore, there must not be any smugness or complacency. We. must not weaken, but on the contrary we must strengthen Bolshevik vigilance.” ‘Strength Respected’ Simultaneously, G. M. Malenkov, secretary of the central committee of the Communist party and Politbureau alternate, told another election rally that: “It is no secret that our friends respect us because we are strong. We must always remember that our friends will respect us so long as we remain powerful. . , , That is why, in order to consolidate our victory, we must first of all strengthen the Socialist state and strengthen the glorious Red army.” Both speakers accompanied their warnings with the promise that Russia would continue to carry out a “peace policy” built upon protection of the “state interests” and security of the Soviet people.

Follow Molotov’s Lead

The prepared addresses followed the theme laid down by Foreign Commissar V, M. Molotov, who declared in a radio address Wednesday night that Russia was bent on making the Red army as strong as any other nation’s armies. Mr, Molotov attacked what he called “dangerous talk of a third world war” hich he said was being

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OKAYS CEILING PRICE ON HOMES

House Committee Approves Patman Bill, 11 to 9.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 8 (U. P.).— The house banking committee tocay approved the Patman housing bill which would place price ceilings on new homes, The vote was 11 to 9. Proposed authority to impose price ceilings on existing homes was stricken out of the bill by the committee, The legislation, Rep. Wright

introduced by Patman (D. Tex.),

‘would create an office of housing

stabilization with a housing director. He would be empowered to allocate materials to areas where they are needed most. His powers would extend to June 30, 1947. : It was presumed that Housing Administrator Wilson Wyatt would be appointed head of the new housing stabilization office if the bill is enacted. The bill also would give veterans prefererice on new homes, but not on existing ones. A provision of the bhill' which would have given the director power to place subsidies on housing units was eliminated by voice vote. However, Mr. Wyatt already has the power to grant subsidies on housing materials. A proposal to place a $6000 ceiling on new homes also was defeated by voice vote. Price ceilings on new homes would be regulated by the housing director.

PRESIDENT DECREES YAMASHITA TO HANG

Truman Denies Clemency to ‘Tiger of Malaya.’

WASHINGTON, Feb. 8 (U, P).~— President Truman has decreed that Japenese Gen. Tomoyuki Yamashita must hang for his war crimes, The war department announced today that Mr, Truman has decided to take no action in Yamashita's

plea for executive clemency from the death sentence imposed by a U. 8. military commission, The announcement said the White House had advised the war department of Mr. Truman's decision, which was relayed immedi ately to Gen. Douglas: MacArthur, Before the clemency plea was filed with the President, Gen. Mac Arthur had ordered that Yamashita’s execution be carried out. He directed that the ‘Tiger of Malaya,” his military opponent in the Philipnes campaign, be stripped of his orm and symbols of rank and

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Mr. Kaganovich and Mr. Malenkov were among the last of a long array of top Soviet leaders to speak in the current election campaign which ends with nation-wide balloting for members of the supreme Soviet on Sunday. The general elections normally are held every four years, but none has-been coriducted since the war began.

Decorate for Election

Moscow presented a carnival appearance today, with homes and buildings decked out with Soviet banners and mass meetings under way in factories, schools and public buildings. Party leaders and organizers went from house to house checking the registration to insure a 100 per cent turnout for the voting. At the same time, it was announced that #drrangements have been made for travelers to vote on trains and ships, that reindeer and dog-sled teams will. be sent into the Arctic areas to collect thé) votes there, Ice-bound crews in the Soviet polar weather stations will be permitted to vote by radio. 3 ARRESTED AFTER STOLEN CAR CRASH A stolen auto smash-up today led to the arrest of three suspects in a filling station burglary Wednesday night. State police arrested Paul Foster Livingston, 22, Maywood, and two juvenile companions after they began searching for occupants of a stolen vehicle which was wrecked and abandoned in Mooresville shortly before midnight. The three were discovered when police spotted a bonfire in a boxcar on the Pennsylvania railroad siding along state road 67. Articles in their possession were identified by Wilbur Moon as part of the loot taken from his filling station, 3750 W. Troy ave. The juveniles were turned over to the juvenile aid division and Livingston, was held on a burglary charge,

By DONNA MIKELS E-HEXING Done Here!” - That might well be the sign on a little frame house at 1018 N. Missouri st, where the “King of Poison” lives and plies his trade. “De-hexing,” the art of removing “voodoo” from a victim, is just as lucrative a racket as is the actual “hexing.”

One of the best known *“‘unvoodooers” in Indianapolis is a

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“Dr.” Leslie Edwards, at the ) Missouri st. “clinic.” Although he freely admits he is not licensed, “Dr.” Edwards averages between 75 to 300 “patients” .a month, according to his own estimates. » . ” AS A matter of fact, patients who make previous appointments with him complain that they sometimes have to wait in their cars because his house is too small to hold all his callers. He even asks “cured” patients to recommend him only for “serious” cases. He doesn't have time for small “hexes.” The “King of Poison” does his curing in a small sitting room lighted by the glow from a dangling overhead light, In the middle of a consultation hell leave off making it hot for the “little devil spirits” and go over to light his pipe from a coal in the pot-bellied stove.

FARM POLICIES RAPPED BY GOP

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Congressmen = Say Crop Production Stifled.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 8 (U. P.).— Adifiinistration farm policies were blamed by some Republicans today for this country’s inability to funnel more food to hungry and destitute peoples abroad. The charges were made as: government agencies went about the job of implementing President Truman’s program for saving food at home in order to relieve starvation in war-ravaged-areas of Europe and Asia. Farm ‘state Republican congressmen—attending their annual Lincoln day dinner here—agreed that this country should and must do its share to feed our allies and, if possible, our former enemies. Stifled Production But they said that the United States might have been able to send far more food overseas during the current crisis if administration farm policies had not stified food production. They were particularly critical of subsidies and price control. Typical comment was that of Senator Bourke B. Hickenlooper, Iowa Republican, whose home state

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U. S. GROUP WILL WATCH GREEK VOTE

WASHINGTON, Feb. 8 (U. P.)— Twenty-five planeloads of Americans hae already left for Europe to observe the Greek national elections there on March 3l. A last plane, bearing special Ambassador Henry F. Grady, chief of the American group, will leave Washington next week. The observers, including more than 600 military men and civilians, are being “concentrated at Naples. There, billeted and fed by the U., 8. army, they are being coached in their jobs of assuring free and democratic elections.

LOCAL TEMPERATURES 32

35 12 (Noom).. 50 ipm..... 52

Here we go again! Rain and snow are on the way and the thermometer is headed downward. The new cold wave, which- is massing in -the Dakotas along the Canadian border, is expected to striké ‘ Indianapolis and vicinity sometime tomorrow. Rain was forecast late this afternoon and tonight, changing to snow flurries by tomorrow. The weatherman said the mer~ cury would nudge the 50 mark in

Indiana, Liingls and Iowa before

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the cold air moved in from the north and west. Also, moderately heavy rains are headed north from the Gulf of Mexico, giving rise to a forecast of snow flurries when they come in contact with the cold mass in the Midwest and central plain states late today. The mercury was above the freezing mark here this morning, jumping three degrees to 35 at 8 a. m. The nation's temperatures were unusually warm yesterday, the ther mometer recording 71 degrees mt Dodge City, Kan, and 62 at Kansas City, Mo. Miami again was the warmest spot in the nation with a temperature of 81. The coldest was Minot,

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‘BLACK MAGIC’ IN INDIANAPOLIS—No. 5

De- Hexing’ —A Profitable "Arf

. Through this door the “cursed” enter and

‘the “cured” depart.

THE TOUGH job of “de-hexing” a poor soul who's been put under a “black art” spell is done mostly by herb and prayer. Just what herbs and what prayers “Dr.” Edwards would Just. as 300n. keep to himself.

or partly destroyed 1710 towns and leaving 26,000,000 persons homeless,

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fever and by, mass executions. Gen, Rodenko- estimated that the total damage “from criminal acts of Hitlerite armies was” 679 billion rubles (approximately $135,000,000,000 at prewar rates) in 1941.” He said the Germans burned, looted, destroyed or desecrated 2800 churches or church buildings in Russia, including 237 Catholic churches. They also destroyed 40,000 hospitals, 84,000 schools and 31,850 factories, he said. Gen. Rudenko said German soldiers dressed in church vestments, kept horses and dogs in the

“IVs that doctors’ board, you know,” he confided to a Times investigator. “They ask all sorts of questions—they just want to find out about these so's they can

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SENATE ‘COOL TO STRIKE BILL

See Modification; Complete Rejection Possible.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 8 (U. P).~— The senate gave a cool reception today to the two-fisted Case strikecontrol bill which won overwhelming approval yesterday in the house, The bill got hardly a nod from the senate labor committee which was about to start writing its own labor measure. It plans something far milder than the house bill, which was approved by a 258-155 vote. Some senators saw a strong possibility that the senate would reject the Case bill completely, In any event they believed it was in for at least a major overhauling to eliminate some of its teeth. Senator James E. Murray (D. Mont.), chairman of the senate labor

By Nazis, Russian Charges

NUERNBERG, Feb. 8 (U. P) Soviet ‘Prosecutor, Gen. Roman A: 'Rudenko told the war crimes tribunal today that the Germans destroyed

70,000 villages in the Soviet Union,

He charged the Germans plotted extermination of whole races and carried out the program by

inoculating victims with spotted

NUERNBERG, Feb. 8 (U, P.). ~—American security officers announced today that G. I. bodyguards have been assigned to all United Nations judges, prosecutors and assistant prosecutors taking part in the war crimes trial. The move was described officially as part of an “overall tightening of sécurity.”

churches and made bunks in the sanctuaries. “We haven't the right to leave unpunished those who organized and

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In Bus Crash

CINCINNATI, O., Feb. 8 (U. P.). —A crowded Greyhound bus en route from Chicago to here crashed into a streetcar in Cincinnati today. At least 17 persons were reported injured. Police reported that all except

bus, Most seriously injured was the bus .driver, Donald Fisher, 37, of Cincinnati. Fisher was cited on a reckless driving charge. The street car was derailed by the impact and pushed to within six feet of the curb. Mrs. Rosemary Keller, 26, Lafayette, Ind, was among the injured.

STRIKES SOON WILL OUT TIRE SUPPLIES

For Lack of Wire.

By JOSEPH E. KUEBLER Times Special Writer “AKRON, Teb. 8—America's tire problem has been caught between two strikes, and the net fesult may leave Mr, Average Motorist farther behind the eight-ball than he expected to be. Strike No, 1, the 12-week-old General Motors walkout, benefitted the car owners as far as tires are concerned. More than 2,500,000 casings which otherwise would have gone on new cars, have been diverted to replacements, but this barely created a ripple. Strike No, 2, the 4-week-old tieup of the steel industry, has shut off all steel wire supplies. Unless’ relief comes soon, rubber plants will be forced ‘to shut down much of their tire manufacturing facilities in the next week or. 10 days ‘because of lack of bead wire. Therefore, what little advantage the tire trade has gained by the delay in getting auto production under way, will be more than offset, by the enforced idleness facing the gum factories. . Cora The’ Ch by Sha Tndiakupelis Times

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Charges Paul Brown Used Falsehoods in Row.

COLUMBUS, O., Feb. 8 (U, P.).— Accusations of deliberate falsehoods and attempts to undermine the athletic administration at Ohio

{State university today were hurled

at Paul Brown, former Ohio State football coach, by Athletic Direc-

[tor L. W, St. John.

The charges were made in a letter written by Mr. St. John to Mark A Fuller, a Cincinnati alumnus, and published today in the university's alumni monthly magazine. “Ohio State is counting itself exceedingly fortunate in having Paul Brown eliminate himself from the university picture,” the letter said. Mr. Brown left the university on leave of absence to enter the navy after the 1943 season, and became head coach at Great Lakes, Professional Coach

He later accepted an offer to coach the Cleveland team in the All-America professional league, at a reported salary of $25,000 per year and a share of the gate receipts. 8t. John's letter said that Mr, Brown had deliberately falsified ac~ counts of conversations between them, and had threatened to “ruin Basketball Coach Harold G. Olsen's chances of ever succeeding to the headship of the athletic department.” Mr, Brown has been reported by several sports writers as saying he had been virtually forced out of the position at Ohio State by the attitude of athletic department officials. Mr. St. John wrote that “Paul Brown’ has by his false statements definitely unfitted himself for all time to come for holding any posi tion in a reputable institution.” The athletic director said he had told Brown the university could not match a pro offer, but that the athletic board and board of trustees would seriously. consider an offer of a $15,000 a year salary, equal to

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where near so tough as the house bill introduced by Rep. Francis Case (R. 8. DJ. One Provision Popular Most senate committee members warmed up to only one provision in the Case bill—the one calling for a strengthened and better-paid mediation service in the labor department, The committee was split sharply over other sections, including a provision to make labor unions subject to -civil suit for the strike violence of breach of contract. It also appeared likely that the senate committee might not approve the Case plan to take away a union's bargaining rights because of strike violence. The house-approved bill also would permit labor-management boards to use court. injunctions to enforce a 30-day cooling off period before a strike may begin in a major industry, It would crack down on jurisdictional disputes, and pro-

men's unions. { Southern Democrats Help Voting for the bill in the house were 149 Republicans and 109 Democrats. Against it were 120 Democrats, 33 Republicans and two minor party members. Southern Democrats joined Republicans in supporting the measure, While senate concern over labor problems has increased steadily since the start of the reconversion strikes, Mr. Murray predicted that a sudden settlement of major disputes would ease pressure for strikecontrol legislation. Some labor committee members sympathetic to unions have suggested all labor legislation be delayed until labor-management relations are more “normal.”

AMBASSADOR BERLE RESIGNS RIO DE JANEIRO, Feb. 8 (U. P.).—The resignation of Adolf A, Berle Jr., as United States ambassador to Brazil was announced officially today.

PROTEST “TOO MUCH WORK” HAVANA, Feb. 8 (U. P.)~Dispatchers and signalmen of the Brit-ish-owned United Railways of Havana were on strike today in a protest against an “excess of work.”

BLOOMINGTON, Ill, Feb. 8 (U. P.).~Formal charges of aarder] were on file today against four Toledo, Peoria & Western railroad guards, charged with killing two union pickets and wounding three others. The murder warrants, issued by Circuit Judge A. L. Campbell, were signed by Garland ¥. Brown, Peoria, Ill, chairman of the strike committee of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Enginemen and Miremen. The brotherhood has been on strike since Oct. 1, when the road

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By UNITED PRESS President Truman today put a damper on hopes for arly’ solution of the nation's labor crisis by abruptly canceling the

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Previously, three new wage agreements had bolstered. hopés of breaking the post-war strike crisis. Strikes and shutdowns idled 1,460,000 American work+ ers. The White House announced that Mr. Truman had canceled a, two-week Florida

cruise because of “the immediate critical situation.” Yesterday, the President had said he might have an | by today or tomorrow about gn X= pected new policy on wages and prices, awaited by the country as a possible means of bringing peace in the steel industry. i Speaker Sam Rayburn (D. Tex) voiced the general immediate

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» , Pessimism Spreads : “The cancellation comes as a dis appointment to me,” he said. “I had’ hoped that by yesterday or today they'd settle these strikes. Thad now dosn't. look Nike IVs. neds ate.” Around the White House, 00, there was an air of pessimism about prospects for early strike "tle ments,

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New York harbor tugboat The Briggs Manufacturing Ce, signed a contract with the C, I. Oy United Auto Workers, - A few hours earlier the U. AW signed an agreement for pay raises of 18 to 26 cents an hour, claimed to be the largest in the industry se far, for 900 eshiioyees t tha Chiapte

boat strike precipitated a eritieal fuel shortage in the New York City area, Other labor developments; ONE: The meat fact-finding panel recommended a 16-cent an hour wage increase for packing house workers, The A. F. of L. Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen's union said it would recommend that tha proposal be accepted. The 0. I. OF Packing House Workers union was to consider the proposal next week. The meat industey raised the poss a

Guards Face Murder Charge’: In Railroad Strike Deaths

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