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s-wowaroj VOLUME 56—NUMBER 291

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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1946

FORECAST; Rain changing to ‘snow flurries and colder tonight Tomorrow partly iy and colder.

Entered a8 Second-Clase Matter of Postoftice Indianapoliag, Ind,

Issued daily except Bundsy

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ophandie strap of atent 3.00 plus tax

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ouch Handbag of Jastic 5.00 plus tax

ie of Paperhanging Job Called 'Exorbitant’

Mrs. L E. Parker, 647 E. 32d st. . . . cleans up affer new but “exorbitant” paperhanging job.

OPA Probes Violations of

Decoration Cost-Ceilings|

By KENNETH HUFFORD Widespread violation of OPA ceiling prices for paperhanging and

home interior renovating jobs was Times. Simultaneously, OPA officials a pleints of Indianapolis housewives

disclosed today in a survey by The}

nnounced they were studying comand reports of flagrant abuses of

the ceiling prices preparatory to launcHing an investigation.

SEES NEED TO CONTINUE DRAFT

Patterson Says Volunt Recruits Not Enough.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 13 (U, P). —On the basis of present recruiting, the army probably will have to request continuation of selective service after its present expiration May 15, Secretary of War Robert P. Patterson declared today. Mr. Patterson sald this was the ease even though the army has obtained a record enlistment of $00,000 men in recent months. He pointed out that many. of these enlistments came, from among men already in the service. He told newsmen at the National Press club that a final decision on extension of selective service would likely come within a month. He said the army's requirements of 1,500,000 men as of June 30, 1946, would substantially shrink as the occupation activities are stabilized and the less active theaters were

. abandoned. The army strength as

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of June 30, 1947, he said, “will certainly be less than 1,200,000, the exact figure will be stated before jong.” The army demobilization I gram rounded out its ninth full month of operation: with the release of the 6,000,000th person fo civilian life since May 13, 1945, the war department announced meanwhile.

NEW BRITISH CHIEF LONDON, Feb. 13 (U. P).—Alr Chief Marshal Sir Sholto Douglas has been appointed commander of the ' British occupation forces in Germany to succeed Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery. “Monty” will become chief of the British imperial general staff June 26,

TIMES INDEX

. Amusements . 8 Jane Jordan.. 19 Around U. 8B.. 2| Labor Shae 11 Eddie Ash,... 7/Edwin Lahey. 20

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The abuses are confined to “transient” paperhangers and wall paper cleaners, who march out every spring to do the renqvating work in Indianapolis. Part-Time Workers

Complaints have not been received against reputable firms. Here is the picture: Most paperhangers are part-time operators, spending their off-season in factories or at other wark. For the most part, they maintain few records. While prices formerly were quoted on the basis of a single roll, the prevailing practice is to “contract” a job. The housewife is given one figure for the entire work, never knowing what the roll price is. The more expensive the paper, the more it costs to hang it. No one was able to explain this puzsling formula. It apparently is another form of ability-to-pay economics. Costs Manipulated

Wallpaper is not covered by OPA price ceilings, making it possible to manipulate these costs to include labor or anything else. Many paperhangers refuse to accept a job, unless the paper is bought from them. Cost of cleaning wallpaper ranges from $2 to $4 a room, compared to about $1 in March, 1942, the period on which OPA prices are fixed. Ed Lahmann, OPA industrial materials price specialist, estimated over 90 per cent of all Indianapolis paperhangers are violating price regulations. Wallpaper contractors, under OPA regulations, are allowed to

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RAIN, THEN COOLER WEATHER FORECAST

Snow Flurries Predicted for Northern Indiana. LOCAL TEMPERATURES

6am... 4 Vam.... 4 Ta. m..... “4 lam. ...48 $a m.,, 4 12 (Noon)., 46 Sam..... 4 lpm... 46

—p— wi Wet streets and cloudy skies greeted Indianapolis residents this

morning and the weather bureau continued to forecast more showers

for today and tonight. It will be cloudy and cooler toymorrow with snow flurries predict ed for the northern part of the state, The rains, which began early this morning, followed a brief hailstorm which struck scattered sec-

cis aw Fs 4~Cot

Ed Lahmann, OPA industrial materials price specialist . . . “More than 90 per cent of all paperhangers are vielating price ceilings.”

DISPUTE FLARES OVER CITY DUMP

Resident Charges ‘Something Fishy’ at City Hall.

Alexander of 1406 W, 35th st. Mr. Alexander appeared before

(Photo, Page 13)

Ickes Resigns,

‘Oil

BREAK IS NEAR WITH REGIME IN ARGENTINA

Full Aid to Axis Charged in ‘Blue Book’ Evidence Found in Germany. By UNITED PRESS The United States appeared ready to break off diplomatic relations with Argentina today. The state department made

an unprecedented attack

charging the South American nation with totalitarian policies.

force to deny individual rights.

Aires believed that President Gen. Edelmiro Farrell, whose regime was

western hemisphere base. for futufe

"| Nazi activities, nfight sever diplo-~ matic relations, without awaiting

action in Washington

on Feb. 24.

Lari

[Charges Argentina Violated Neutrality

y RALPH HEINZEN a Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Feb.

And Assistant Secretary of State Spruille Braden implied she had violated the United Nations charter by using

Diplomatic observers in Buenos

charged with giving war-time aid to the axis and with providing a

The “blue book” indictment submitted by the United States to 19 other republics of the western hemisphere, as well as Mr. Braden’s attack in a speech in New York City today, were timed for possible effect on the Argentine elections

Mr. Braden, referring directly to Argentina, asserted that no government which denies and uses forces to prevent the expression of the rights of the individual “can be considered in our eyes to be a legitimate, and thus a respectable;

13. — The

Divorce From Dan Topping

CHICAGO, Feb. 13 (U. P).Ice skating star Sonja Henie today was granted a divorce from | New York millionaire sportsman | Dan Topping on charges of desertion. The suit was uncontested. Superior Court Judge Edwin H. Robson granted the decree after taking the case under advisement last Friday to ascer3 tain whether 3 Miss Henie ace Sonja Heple tually was a resident of Cook county, Illinois. Neither of the litigants was in court. Miss Henie, who appeared: for the first hearing, was in Holly~ wood. A photograph of Topping, dining in a New York night club with Kay Sutton Weaver, former movie queen, appeared in Chicago newspapers as his divorce was granted. ¥ ” ” REVIEWING the case, Judge | Robson said that Miss Henie had presented proof that she “was and is” a resident of Chicago. The judge added that the screen star also had proved that she and Topping had separated on Jan. 11 last year and that he had told her on Jan. 23 that their marriage Was over. : Miss Henle, 32, and Topping, 33, were married July 4, 1940, in Chicago. It was the Norwegian-born skater’s first marriage, Topping’s | third. He divorced former aptress | Arline Judge in May of the same year.

SEEK LISTING OF | FOR AS \S SOLDIER

Sonja Given 3 STRIKEBOUND

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(CITIES RESUME BUSINESS LIFE

Order Curtailing Activities in New York City Is Lifted.

By UNITED PRESS It was-business as usual for 112,000,000 Americans today after 18 to 48 hours during which utilities, transit and tugboat strikes crippled three great cities. But labor troubles still kept | 1,528,000 workers away from their | Jobs in the nation's troubled post~) {war industrial situation. The strike picture by cities: Pittsburgh An independent utilities workers {union called off its 20-hour strike against the Duquesne Power and {Light Co. last night. | The company agreed to resume negotiations “starting from from scratch” | on union demands for a 20 per cent | wage increase for 3400 workers. | Before the strike ended, 1,500,000 Pittsburgh residents learned ais it meant to go without light, radios and refrigeration. From 10 to %| ‘minutes at a time Samlies huddled huddled {over flickering candles I= dahseied | homes as the compan ror

Power ines 0 keep etoctrselty flowling. Street cars were halted, mines |and mills closed down and af ‘streets were dark. Philadelphia Trolleys, ‘busses, subway and de] {vated trains rolled today for the {first time in 48 hours, after 9655 | C. IL. O. transport Warigry dccepied 12-cént an hour wage increase

jmidnight. Inst night. The worst traffic jam in Phila|delpitin’s 1 J ‘resulted when 4, 3and suburban [0% a off from public trans{portation, depended on autos to get

1 | 000 1 000,

Chdrges that “something fishy” occurred at City hall in connection with municipal dumping privileges on a West side lot were hurled at the works board today by C. M.|

the board today after his complaints failed to halt the disposal of city

state department unleased an un-| precedented attack on the total- | itarian policies of the Argentine military regime today. . In a blistering 32,000- word “blue | book” indictment, the department openly charged Argentina with violating her wartime neutrality by giving “positive aid” to the .axis and by even now giving Nazis a western hemisphere base for building a new war machine. The statement, which tacitly urged the. Argentine people to oust the Peéron-Farrell regime and its “terrorist methods,” caused sensational stir in both diplomatic and congressional circles. Senator Scott Lucas (D. Ill), a member of the senate foreign relations committeé, sald the state department’s blast has “every appearance of a rupture in diplomatic relations.” Senator Arthur Capper (R. Kas), another committee member, said the state department was “right in demanding an immediate showdown.” Argentina's attitude, he said, has “fora long time been indefensible.” Secretary of State James F.

dent.

'PRELATES IN PARIS | ON WAY TO ROME

PARIS, Feb. 13 (U., P.).—The TWA Constellation airliner “Star of Rome” arrived in Paris from Eire today with Rome-bound CardinalsDesignate Spellman, Glennon and Tien.

the canal between 35th and 36th sts. “Mr. Alexander owes the board

Gideon Blain, Other board members asked why,

Peter Edson , 12(8ide Glances. 12|tjong of the city early last night. Fashions .... 15/8ports ....... %| Police received several calls dur- . Porum ....... 12{John Thale... 1lljno the rain and power was off in Gardening ... 11| Ray Thompson 8|ihe vicinity of. 25th st. and Co-| No. 1 man in the state today Meta Given.. 15 Troop Arrivals 10| jumbia ave. for approximately 25 was Eagle Scout Fran MocAree, 2 Wom's News . 15 Troop 9, who Look over the duties

trash in a vacant lot fronting on dn apology,” said Board Member

Mr. Blain replied that in a telephone conversation, Mr. Alexander had asked him “who was getting

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Eagle Scouts ‘Take Over’ Local Government Offices for One-Day Rule

Archbishops Francis Spellman of New York and John J. Glennon of St. Louis and Bishop Thomas Tien of China landed at Orly airfield outside Paris at noon. They flew here from Shannon airport, Eirie, in about three hours, Before the departure from Shannon, the prelates were honored af a luncheon. Bishop Michael Fogarty

gram.

Eagle scouts held the reins of office downtown today as local, ' scouts observed the annual Civic day. Learning the ropes from Mayor Tyndall (left) were Riéhard Gause, Troop 75 (right) acting mayor,

and Waller Bulew, Telip ¥5 Wliertala.

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Heirs to Estate. Ask Tax Ruling in New York.

ALBANY, N. Y,, Feb. 13 (U. P.).

—Heirs of the late Franklin D.|, p of 1. tugboat crewmen which Roosevelt have appealed to the New | seriously curtailed fuel supplies. The York state tax commission to rule order, affecting 7454995 persons, that the President died a soldier, was learned reliably today. p” Through O'Connor, partner of the late Presidents the | | portation of 2,600,000° gallons of fuel

estate contends that the President's | Oil “role as commander-in-chief of the | armed forces entitles the heirs to a| substantial state and federal in- ordered closed indefinitely. come tax exemptions. The exemption would amount to thousands of dollars om the late President's income from his family holdings and his salary as Presi-

WAR ‘OBJECTORS’ TO BE SEA ‘COWBOYS

WASHINGTON, feb. 13 (U. P). —Some 250 conscientious objectors ate to be released from public service projects to serve as sea-go-ing “cowboys.” Selective service sald the objectors would serve as livestock attendants on ships delivering hotses, mules, cows and other under the United Nations relief pro-

livestock abroad

They will rective $150 for each round trip and will be under the direction of the ship's captain, Volunteers will be selected from men with farm experience,

jie work. Hundreds of persons were | forced to hitch-hike, but little ab-| 'senteeism was reported. New York City New York City Health Commissioner Ernest L. Stebbins last night rescinded + a disaster ruling, invoked because of a strike of 3500

it | remained in effect for 18 hours, Although there was little prospect | for early settlement of the strike, law) (city officials arranged for the im-

The situation remained acute, however, and severe rationing mea-

Under the history~shattered edict, every activity not directly concerned with the maintenance "of human life was halted. Broadway was dark and department stores, | offices, factories and amusement

The state tax commission de- places were shut down. clined flatly to either confirm or deny the information, Aiting a state law requiring secrecy on income tax | reports. However, the move by Mr. | (Continued on 1 Page 3-Cotimm 4) O'Connor was verified by an unimpreachable source.

Other labor developments: ONE: Administration officials re- | portedly were putting the finishing

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‘WOMAN WINS IN

ATLANTA, Ga., Feb. 13 (U. P).— Tall, hard-working Helen Douglas Mankin became Georgia's first con gresswoman today. She beat out 17 men in a special election yesterday to elect a successor in the house of representatives for Rep. Robert Ramspeck (D. Ga.) who recently resigned to take a $25,000 job as executive vice president of the Air Transport association. Mrs. Mankin becomes the 10th woman member of the house, where she balanced ' feminine political power evenly between the Democrats and Republicans,

Eagle Scout Mark Ransom of Troop 338 tried out the lieutenant governor's desk . ayn his dneday tenure of office.

sures continued. City schools were}

GEORGIA ELECTION

WASHINGTON, Feb, 18

today accepted the resignation of Secretary of Ir {Harold L. Ickes.

Mr. Ickes left the cabinet

kind of political pressure which produced the Te oil scandal.

nearly 13 years in the same post, hes’ be ive Fridays’

. firey vg

Harold L. Ickes

CALCUTTA TORN BY NEW RIOTS

Casualties Mount: British

. ‘Troops Called Out.

CALCUTTA, Feb. 13 (U. P).—~ Police fired into a ‘threatening mob of Indian Nationalists in Calcutta’s

com- | Wellington Square today. The out-

burst added an undisclosed number of casualties to the toll of 17 to 20

ing of the past two days. (Exchange Telegraph dispatches received in London said 25 persons were wounded in the Wellington Square, clash today and that police

CAIRO, Feb. 13 (U. P.).—All three left-wing Koutls party members of the Egyptian cabinet resigned today in protest against the government's stern suppression of the recent anti-British disorders.

patrols had fired on demonstrators in four other sections of Calcutta). Fighting broke out in Wellington Square this morning when a mob of Nationalists marched into the area and began pelting the police with stones. Situation Remains Tense

The crowd scattered after the police opened fire, and order was restored by midday. But the situation throughout the city remained tense. British troops were deployed at strategic centers with orders to shoot down rioters. Richard G. Casey, . British governor of Bengal province, ordéred the troops into Calcutta to stop outbreaks of looting, burning, and fighting that have created extreme tension among the 2,000,000 population of India’s largest city. Rioting was the worst In the city’s history. There was a restless: calm this morning after 36 hours of violence. Calcutta was placed out of bounds for American troops. “This mob violence must be ended and ended speedily,” Mr. Casey said in a broadcast last night. “The mob is trying to take charge, and they are not going to be allowed to take charge.”

ARMY SEEKS HOMES FOR G. |. FAMILIES

Unoccupied Portions of U.S. Camps to Be Used.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 13 (U. P). ~The army is trying to help provide temporary shelter for the famflies of service men and veterans, and for single veterans as well, while they look for permanent places to live. It appointed a special board which will place the home seekers in unoccupied army camps or in unused portions of active army camps whenever possible, Cots and blankets will be provided in some cases. Housing facilities which are not required immediately by the army will be turned over to the federal public housing authority which will arrange for tenants. The ar was not able to estimate how much housing could be made available under the new pro-

sram.

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Politics’

Quits as Interior Secretary 8 After Nearly 13 Years in ¢

Assistant Secretary of ‘run the department until

killed and 200 wounded in the riot-|

(U. P.) —President

with a warning:

terior Oscar L. Chapman wil

ment’s legal proprietary rights. “The forces that ruined Secretary Fall will always be playing upon anyone who is secretary of the ine

swarming,” Mr, Ickes said he had “no apologies” for testifying to “anything less than the truth” about = Mr, Pauley, Criticizes Truman Action

And, he told President, “it was not proper for you, even although you be the President of the United States, to pass judgment on a tion of veracity between Mr, and myself. After all, I am a t ber of your cabinet at your own rew quest and I do not have a reputas tion for dealing recklessly with the

had been trying without success to get an audience with the President,