Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 February 1946 — Page 2

Renews Request for 4-Way . Legislative Action. ~ WASHINGTON, Feb, 15 (U. P.)~— today urgently

Ep . 5» 15 (0. P).—Silk hose, dresses and other ‘way back~but don't look for large quantities very ; oe will be high. The commerce depart-

TWO: Extend th - bales of government-owned silk the subsidy Wo

gram for another full year. It now Is scheduled to end.next June 30. | |The President has not recommendah ed bh specific new expiration date. WW

3 P38 for Pleasure THREE: Enact promptly the 1. Fl F }

Cal, Feb. 15 |(U, P.).—Nadine Ramsey was the to own a P-38. And Miss Ramsey—a just the girl who can fly it. She proved h plane from an army surplus stockpile in

¥ $e ay “the war and I've always wanted one,” she & VI radio set.” oho pL a Ty vie OLNEY, Tl, Feb. 15 (U. P.)—The Red Cross searched In Europe for Sgt. William Keen of Olney. He will be inf that his n war bride died here from pneumonia—contracted on her trip

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TAX PROBE FUNDS APPROVED BY HOUSE

WASHINGTON, Feb. 15 (U. P).

year, which the house approved and sent to the senate late yesterday.

AWOL SOLDIER FACES AUTO THEFT CHARGE FT. SHERID

AN, II, Feb. 15 (U. P) ~Stanley Riddle, 23, Marion, Ind, who said he escaped from an army guardhouse in and reached .the U, 8, as a stowaway on & liberty ship, faced a general court-martial today on a car theft charge. ‘Riddle told authorities after his arrest in Chicago Jan, 27 that he had been attached to the 3d air force at Agra, India, and escaped from the guardhouse there after learning his outfit was to be moved to Japan. Pt, Sheridan officers said they had been unable to learn of any 3d air force in India and had asked the adjutant general in W to ascertain to what unit Riddle

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«1 Riddle was arrested after a stolen auto he was driving crashed into a lamp post.

CANADIANS TO RETURN OTTAWA, Feb. 15 (U, P.).—Canadian troops in the army of occupation will be withdrawn from Germany, beginning. early in April "|and, with the present shipping forecasts, should all be back in Canada by September or October, Prime| Minister MacKenzie King announced |

Clears Patrolmen of charges of |) a pair of school students. re levelled by|g drug store and called police hedd-

fia of the North as they

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PURPLE HEART GROUP BACKS -GEN. BRADLEY

_ Chapter 32, Military Order of the Purple Heart today entered the dispute over services provided by the Veterans Administration with indorsement of Gen. Omar ‘Bradley, administrator, ;

MINIMUM PAY BILL

| WASHINGTON, Feb. 18 (U. P). —An administration-backed bill to increase minimum wages to an

heading today toward a battle on the senate floor. : ' Many Democrats—victorious in recent filibuster against anti-discrimination legislation—were cool or downright '10stile to the measure approved by the senate labor committee. i Committee Chairman James E. Murray (D. Mont.) estimated that the bill would bring pay increases for 6,000,000 workers. About half of these would be

the A This would be accomplished by reducing the exemptions from the present law which ealls for minimum pay of 40 cents an hour in all enterprises engaged in interstate commerce, bi The new bill proposes a 65-cen minimum wage for two years. Then the minimum would jump to 70 cents for two years, and after that

,{it would be 75 cents,

Affected employees working more

than 40 hours weekly would have

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eventual ' 75 cents an hour was|!

brought under wage regulations for | fifst time,

ONE HOSPITALIZED AS GOACHES LEAVE RAILS

FT, WAYNE, Ind, Feb, 15 (U. P.)~Omne person was hospitalized and several others were injured slightly when two, rear parlor coaches of the Pennsylvania railroad's Rainbow Limited, eastbound, were derailed herb last night. The Rev, H. B. Kennedy, 45, Baptist pastor of New York City, was treated at Methodist hospital for bruises about his head. The Rainbow, running late out of Chjcago, was gaining ' speed when the derailment occurred, It was caused by a brake beam truss rod which dragged under the wheels of the first coach. Damage was negligible and traffic was resumed early today, David Smucker, superintendent of the Pt. Wayne

division of the railroad, said.

WASHINGTON, Feb, 156 (U. P).) ~Hold-the-line Clester Bowles, the government's foremost inflation fighter, won new power today and

tion director. : The OPA chief had to let the “line” bend in order to do it. He agreed to a policy of more liberal price increases than he previously had favored to offset wage raises. But he got the stabilization nosition, in which he will have control over both wages and prices in carrying out President Truman's new wage-price policy. From that command post he will now fight a new campaign to hold

which he has retreated. Under Mr. Bowles, in charge of OPA, will be Paul A. Porter, another, advocate of a firm-hold-the-line policy. . Mr, Porter recently has been chairman of the'federal communieations commission. Previously. was rent administrator in OPA. * Also under Mr. Bowles, on the wage side of the picture, will be the stabilization board. W. W.

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the somewhat inflationary line to|s!

Bowles Given New Powers * = In Fight Against Inflation

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Mr. Bowles' new office as stabill-

ministering the new wage-price policy or he would not have taken

sanctioned. by the admin. istration. But he won a consolidated new position from which to try to hold the new line. . Mr. Bowles is a Jean, 45-year-old

Ww will continue to head it.

former New York advertising executive with liberal views.

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