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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1946
Entered as Second-Class Matter at Postoffice Indianapolis 9, Ind. Issued daily except Sunday
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TAX EVASION CASES PROBED
NET BY util «+ Treasury Agents- Che 40,000 Reports.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 12 (U.P) — More than 40,000 cases of wartime tax evasion, many of them involving black market operators, are under investigation or awaiting investiga~ tion by treasury, it was revealed today. these “only scratched the surface” of such violations.
The disclosure was made by the house appropriations committee as it approved an outlay of $8,786,180,137 for fixed and continuing expenses of the treasury and post office departmeénts in" the 1947 fiscal year, beginning this July, The total included $5,000,000,000] for interest payments on the- huge public debt. In addition, the committee approved estimated disbursements of $2,840,254,870 by the treasury from various trust funds administered by the department but hot involving its funds, including the old-age and survivors insurance trust funds. Over Billion Unpaid Treasury officials told a house appropriations subcommittee that the drive on black market operators and other tax evaders, which began last March, should recover more than $1,500,000000 in unpaid revenues by the end of June, 1947. W. H. Woolf, chief of the internal revenue bureau's tax intelligence unit, said that 2168 cases are now under investigation and that 30,000 other *leads” are awaiting check-up. Among the “active” cases, he added, are 1449 involving black market operations in the textile industry. Mr. Woolf said the treasury’s drive is only now picking up speed. He said that in a few months it hopes to have a force of 5000 treasury agents hunting down evaders. Since the drive began, Mr. Woolf revealed, cases involving 230 defendants have been approved for
(Continued on Page 3—Column 1) RED CROSS CHECK IS LEFT BY YEGGS Yeggs who entered the Great American Tea Co., 650 Virginia ave, early today respected the Red Cross. A safe containing $25 and financial reports was carted from the store and recovered later in a woods at Road 31 and Eppler ave. It had been emptied of everything
but a check for $25 made out to the I American Red Cross.
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Mrs. Lena Schaefer, 69, oceu~ pant of the house, escaped injury when the truck made its wild plunge.
LINGOLN'S BIRTHDAY IS OBSERVED HERE
City and County. Joining-in Annual Holiday.
Indianapolis and the state join American today in tribute to Abraham Lincoln. A legal holiday, with banks and public offices closed, along with speeches and programs marked the birthday of the Great Emancipator. Many private business places also were closed. Special Lincoln references were to be made in classes at public and parochial schools which remained open. Hoosier Republicans were to observe the day with luncheons and
highlight the Indianapolis celebrations when he addresses the Indian-
dinners, and Governor Gates was to
apolis Women's Republican club in
TRUCK CRASHES
A diminutive 89-year-old woman emerged uninjured today after & truck crashed head-on through her modest -one-room home at 1305 S. Meridian st. The home occupant, Mrs. Lena Schaefer, who weighs less than a hundred pounds, was sifting on her bed listening to her favorite radio program when the runaway truck plunged through her ‘front wall, Plaster and wreckage fhowered down on her, but she escaped unscathed. Police said the truck driver, Roy Green, 23, of 455 Agnes st, swung around in a complete semi-circle after approaching the dead-end “T” intersection of Orange and Meridian sts, Orange st. ends at Meridian st.
‘Things Went Black’
Green said “everything went black” when the row of houses on the west side of Meridian st. loomed up in front of him. However, tire marks indicate the truck turned completely, doubling back on’ itself and crashing into Mrs, Schaefer's home on the east side of Meridian st. Arrested on charges of reckless driving and failure to possess a driver's license, Green said it was the first time he had ever driven a truck. The small frame structure was demolished. Ruben Weisberg, owner of the South Side Butchers Co., said Green was an émployee of the
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KILLED BY CAR: DRIVER IS HELD
Body of Michael D. Cain Hurled 73 Feet by Impact.
Hurled more than 70 feet when he was struck by an automobile on the South side today, an 83-year-old man was killed ‘instantly. * The driver of the car was slated by police on charges of reckless driving’ and involuntary manslaughter. | Michael Daniel Cain, the victim, was struck as he was crossing Me- | ridian st. at Arizona st. Both shoes were knocked off his feet and one was hurled 25 feet farther than the body. Driver of the car, police said, was Charles Hodges, 23, of 15 Schiller st., who was accompanied by his wife, Mary, 22. They were on their way to work when the accident occurred and were driving north on Meridian st. On Way to Cafe Mr. Cain, who lived at 138 W. Arizona st, was employed as a
. watchman at the American Special-
ty Corp., 225 W. Morris st, and apparently was on his way to Rybolt’s Cafe, 1357 8S. Meridian st, he ate breakfast each morning. He was identified by an employee of the restaurant and later by the operator of the rooming
out ‘the! state for many years. His wife ‘died 35 years ago. Survivors are a son, Frank Cain, two - grandsons, - Robert and Paul Cain, and two nieces, Viola and Aleda Cain, all of Indianapolis. Meanwhile, 23-year-old Donald Moser, 2002 Kenwood ave., remained in serious condition at City hospital following an accident in E. Washington st., 3500 block yesterday afternoon. Mr. Moser received head injuries when he was thrown against the windshield after the car crashed
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SECOND DAY’S RIOTING
CALCUTTA, Feb. 12
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ADMIRAL TELLS | OF 1937 PLANS
‘U. S. and Britain Prepared
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MAYOR ORDERS SHUTDOWN OF N. Y. BUSINESS
Tugboat Strike Brings Drastic Measure.
By H. D. QUIGG | United Press Staff Correspondent
NEW YORK, Feb. 12.— |The nine-day-old strike of —18500 tugboat operators {brought to a complete stop-to-Say all activities in greater New York except those neces-
|sary to sustain life. The city of 7,000,000 persons was!
Strikes of 16,500 500 Worker Cripples Normal Activityi 3 of Largest Cities in U.
By UNITED PRESS Three of the nation’s largest cities, representing 7 per cent of the population of the United States, were tied up Fuel Shortage Caused bY today by strikes of approximately 16,500 workers. The ‘strikes shut off fuel and electricity and halted transportation. The latest workers to join the series of walkouts were the 3400 members of an independent union who left their jobs at power plants in two Western Pennsylvania counties at 3 a. m. (Indianapolis time), causing a blackout in Pitts-
STEEL CENTER
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fplaont under the seldom summoned Proclaim Emergency, Ask
disaster control board composed of | the commissioners of the city's 22]
U. S. to Intervene.
burgh, The walkout boosted the number of workers on strike throughout the ‘mation to 1,475,000.
In New York City, a strike of 3800. tugboat workers forced Wil. liam O'Dwyer to close down the nation’s All business not wy th : to
public health was ent an
3 purpose the talks was to “explore” what
Jap War Defense Then.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 12 (U. P).— Adm. R. E. Ingersoll disclosed today the late President Roosevelt sent him to London in 1837 to discuss with the: British admiralty problems that would face them in the event of war with Japan. Adm. Ingersoll, former assistant chief of naval operations, was head of U. 8. navy war plans division at the time of his trip to London. He described the assignment to congress’ Pearl Harbor investigating committee, which is investigating the Japanese attack Dec. 7, 1941, that put the United States into the War. Adm. Ingersoll said the work he did in London conferences in 1937 became a “dead cat” later, however, when the United States, Britain and Canada entered an’ an known as "A-B-C.l, ng
war it would seek the defeat of Germany and Italy in the Atlantic before turning the offensive against Japan. He said the primary of forces could be used in the event of war, prepare codes and ciphers and make command arrangements if possible. He said he also discussed
-| with the British the matter of get-
ting out of limitations on battleships imposed by the 1036 London naval treaty. Adm. Ingersoll emphasized that
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RAIN AND COLDER WEATHER FORECAST
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Police Commissioner Arthur W. Wallander, virtual czar of the city in his post of chairman of the 22man board, said as the board went into session that “the main problem is to get fuel into this city— the tugs are going to be manned.” Fuel Supply Low Mr. Wallander said the supply of fuel oil was “very low" and that there was a “severe shortage of bituminous coal and very little anthracite.” The shut-down order, issued by Health Commissioner Ernest L. Stebbins last night and signed by
NEW YORK, Feb. 12 (U. P.)— The federal government appealed to 3500 striking tugbeatmen to return to work today and end a
By J. ROBERT SHUBERT United Press Staff Correspondent PITTSBURGH, Feb, 12.—Independently organized unionists struck at the Duquesne Light Co. power system today. The strike disrupted transportation, closed schools and factories and brought threat of complete blackout for 1,500,000 people. Four hours after the 4 a. m. walkout of 3400 members of the Independent Association of DuLight Co. employees, company reported that it was still operating two of its four big power plants at a greatly reduced rate.
stage.”
hospitals, clinics, institutions car-
drastic order O'Dwyer to combat the
strike. Action Unprecedented
ment of the strike.
Mayor William O'Dwyer, said the fuel shortage in the city “has now reached an acute and dangerous
ing for infants, the aged and the infirm,” and milk and food plants were permitted to operate under the issued by Mayor critical fuel shortage resulting from the tug
Mayor O'Dwyer took the sweeping action, unprecedented in any American city even during the war, after federal seizure and pleas from officials concerned with the health of the city failed to bring a settle-
The striking tugmen sought in-
Mercury Expected to Rise Again During Week-end.
HOURLY TEMPERATURES
creased pay and shorter hours. The operators balked at submitting the dispute to arbitration. Strikers and operators were in conference until 3 a. m. this morning and reported
government seizure of the utility
(In Washington, White House Press Secretary Charles G. Ross sald the President had considered Mayor Lawrence's appeal, but that no federal seizure of the Duquesne system is now contemplated. The announcement, he sald, did not exclude possibility of later action by the government). The union threw picket lines around the power plants; 27 substations, company offices and garages of the Pittsburgh
by a Duquesne Light affiliate.
conserve fuel, transit workers halted all
transportation for the secutive day.
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Strike Difficulties PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 12 (U. PJ. ~Traffic congestion eased some what in the central-city ares to-
in the second day of the city-wide transit strike.
traffic than yesterday, but the rush today was conducted in an orderly manner. Meanwhile, continued their efforts to end the strike of 9655 operating and maine tenance workers which lms deprived 3,000,000 ' Philadelphians of public transportation. Negotiations Collapse 2 Negotiations to end ‘the strike of 9655 operating and maintenance em. ployees of the P. T. C. collapsed yesterday after a series of cone ferences between Howard T. Cole vin, assistant national conciliation
federal concilistors
Motor Coach Co., whose buses are serviced
Many bus drivers refused to pass
director, and the company and the union, Mr. Colvin, however, was confident that he had evolved a plan that would break the strike that has ine
BEGINS IN CALCUTTA
(U, P)~— Rioting broke out in Calcutta for the second straight day today, and at least two persons were reported killed. Three U. S. soldiers were
The city’s tram, bus and ricksha services were paralyzed today when transport union workers observed a one-day strike in protest against police firing on demonstrators yesAuthorities said police gunfire killed one person and
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Somewhat warmer weather is due for the city today but the weather bureau predicted rain and colder temperatures tomorrow. Rains are predicted in the north and south during the remainder of the week. Temperatures are expected to average two degrees above normal in the south and near normal in the north,
spell Thursday.
THERE WAS never a train that took so dong in arriving. If you don’t believe it, ask the anxious husbands who paced Union station today awaiting for the arrival of a special train carrying six Indianapolis-bound British war brides. And for verification, see if the six girls who. were craning their necks to peer through’ steams covered windows for their first glance of their future homes don't agree, First off was Mrs. Kathaleen Holmes. Her husband, Ralph, of 4100- W, 79th st, had been keeping vigil in the station since 6 a. m, There was only one local mother’ and child combination, Sporting his daddy's combat infantryman badge on his blue sriowsuit, 16-month-old Michael lay quietly ‘in the arms of his’ mother, Mrs. Irene Bender. They were looking for their father” and husband, Arthur Bender, Clermont. Mike hadn't yet recovered from the bumpiness of the trip over on the Queen Mary. “He isn't feeling too well yet,” his mother said. “Tomorrow I'm going to take him out and get him overhauled.” Other war brides who arrived
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Six local men were reunited with their British brides today. at Union station here, Mr. and Mrs, Lawrence Woodard, Mrs. Gordon Meyers, Mrs. Arthur Bender and Son Mic
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The mercury is expected to rise over the week-end after a mild cold
progress toward ending the strike.
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Here's How N.Y. Closing Order Affects Public
NEW YORK, Feb. 12 (U,P)— How the emergency order af-
iness life:
picture houses, theaters, night clubs, bars and grills, dance halls, bowling alleys, billiard parlors, places of assembly and other places of amusement, librar and museums, schools and other educational institutions, commer cial, business and industrial establishments,
ACTIVITIES CONTINUED — Public utilities, transportation and communications services; newspapers and radio stations; hospitals, clinics and institutions caring for infants, the aged and infirm; milk plants, establishments for the preparation and distribution of foods and fuels; dwellings; es tablishments essential to public health, welfare and safety such as police, fire and sanitation, water supply, gasoline filling and repair stations; doctors, nurses and persons in medical service,
TRANSPORTATION — Rigidly limited; subways 20 per cent curtailed.
THE PUBLIC — Persons normally engaged at now-closed places are directed to remain away; persons not in priority occupations are directed to refrain from using transportation.
G. I SLAIN IN GERMANY
However, Mayor O'Dwyer said his
fected New York private and bus- |
PLACES CLOSED-—AIl motion |
NUERNBERG, Feb. 12 (U, P,).~—
Hull,
An American soldier ‘was shot and killed in‘a U. 8. army barracks near the Nuernberg war crimes court toay. : 94
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HERE'S PITTSBURGH STRIKE SITUATION
Most of Power and Heat Service Shut Off.
PITTSBURGH, Feb, 12 (U. P.), ~Summary of effects of the
convenienced approximately 3,000, 000 people in the Philadelphia area. He declined to say what his plan was. Mr. Colvin expressed the. hope that further meetings would be heid today and that the apparent anxiousness of both the company’
and the union to reach a solution
would lead to a compromise. Offers to Aribirate The company offered to submit the entire dispute to an impartial board of arbitration. The union
strike of employees of the Du- ¢. quesne light company system: TRANSPORTATION -— All street car service halted. Operations of Pittsburgh Motor Coach Co. curtailed by picketing of striking servicemen. Railroad and independent bus line operations normal. SCHOOLS — Public and parochial schools closed due to lack of transportation and possible interruption . of electrically controlled heating apparatus. HEATING--Steam heat of Duquesne subsidiary shut off from downtown office buildings with
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By RICHARD LEWIS Times Staff Writer. PITTSBURGH, Feb. 12. — Pittsburgh, industrial giant of the world, bégan to slip back into the 19th century today. As dawn broke chill and gray over the foothills of the Alleghenies; this city of steé? began to grow. cold and lifeless, Virtually every phase of economic life in this modern metropolis of 2,000,000 was coming to a standstill in the grip of the strike by electric power employees.
Lossy
demanded that it be granted a
union shop and an improved pene
sion plan with 26 other issues, ine
{cluding a $2-a-day wage increase,
to be presented to a board of arbitration. P. T. C. President Charles Ebert, ‘acting for the company board of directors, refused the union mand. The strike, reported 100 |cent effective, followed immediately. | Though the company announced [that it would not attempt to ope {erate its 3260 vehicles, pickets, | working on four-hour shifts pa= | trolled the P. T. OC. trolley barns, { bus depots and subway and elevated (terminals. Strike captains at each |of the 52 picket points maintained an orderly vigil.
Pittsburgh, Industry Giant, Reverts to 19th Century
were closed. Thousands stayed home from work. Not since 1836 when floods. shut the power off as the, city fared
The myriad lights of the city were going out. Public transporta-| =~ om wig ging 4 bal. SSH}
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