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BY INFLATION’
New Economic Stabilizer Urges Extension of Price Control,
By SANDOR KLEIN United Press Staff Correspondent
WASHINGTON, Feb. 18.— Chester Bowles, newly designated economijc stabilizer, warned congress today that the nation’s economic system would be smashed “beyond hope of repair” unless it extends price controls to keep the lid on the present “inflationary dynamite.” In his first trip to Capitol Hill in his new role, the retiring OPA chief urged the house banking committee to approve speedily a pending. bill
to continue the controls a year aijer).
the present June 30 expiration date) He also urged continuation of food subsidies and establishment of price ceilings on homes. Continued inflation in the real estate market, he warned, will “undermine the construction industry just as it di x onl Says Extension Is Vital Mr. Bowles said extension of the stabilization statutes — promptly and without amendment—was vital to making President Truman's new wage-price stabilization program effective until increased production makes if sale to 1emove all government controls. He said he expected fo announce within a few days a series
In the meantime, he said, it should be “emphatically” wunder-
“speculative fever” reminiscent of 1929 was now showing up in the stock and real estate markets, and was also manifesting itself in demands by “irresponsible” groups for removal of price ceilings on this or that item. “But let me make the situation. clear beyond all question,” Mr, Bowles added. “The price line simply must be held. The prices of food, rent and apparel must be kept from rising. On that all important sector there can be no retreat.” Prices of furniture, home furnishings and services, which also figure importantly in the cost of living, also will be held at present levels, Mr. Bowles said.
BULLETIN
MONTREAL, Feb. 18 (U. P.). ~The Royal Canadian Mounted police have arrested six persons in Montreal in connection with the international “leaks” of secret and confidential information, it was learned today,
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Notre Dame Student Tells of Inheriting Uncles Fortune.
/ 32-year-old fori t ‘who was wounded. in Siciliy and who is uttending Notre Dame university under the G. I. “bill of rights,” “said today that he had inherited “from $1,000,000 to $1,500,000.” Love, a husky 210-pounder with ambitions to play football for the Irish, said the money was willed to him by a bachelor great-uncle, Claude Logan, who died four weeks ago in Olympia, Wash... The Notre Dame sophomore said he learned of the will two weeks ago “but I thought somebody was kidding me because, while uncle always called me his {favorite nephew, I never thought he would ever do anything like that.” Young love contacted his father, Attorney Jack C. Love, Hagerstown, Md., and said that his dad confirmed the bequest today. Tells Story to Reporters Mr. Logan, who lost a leg during his * travels in South . America, owned extensive mining operations in Chile, oil wells in Oklahoma and lumber mills in Vancouver, British Columbia, the younger Love said Mr. Logan’s property also included, he said, real estate in the states of Texas, Washington and Maryland. Sitting on the edge of his bunk in a Notre Dame dormitory, Love
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MY DAY ... By Eleanor Roosevelt 'Germans Are Treated Justly, Must Learn They Lost a War’
LONDON, Feb. 18.—I was driven around Berlin during my stay there, and I think I may say that'I am saturated with ruins. The
city seems completely destroyed, e I doubt if anyone would recognize {
xcept in certain outlying sections.
he Tiergarten or Unter den Linden.
Grunewald has been almost entirely cut down for firewood. About 3,000,000 people still live in Berlin, but civilian Germans
have no coal. They have to cut their own wood, which is rationed. Each person has enough coupons for one fire to cook meals and to boil a little water for washing during the day. In addition, one fairly big hall in town is heated so that the people can come there to get warmed up on very cold days. Again looking at the people as carefully as possible, I found that
There is hunger but no starvafion. ‘There are people hauling little carts with wood who probably never hauled carts before in their lives. ‘There are women working in groups to clear away the debris—far more women than. men, Only civilians doing essential work can use a car. Automobiles are appearing which were Hidden away before, and the little Hitler three-wheel cars with truck bodies are much in evidence. There are many bicycles, but walking is still the main means of getting about. The Germans are being treated justly, but they should learn that they have lost a war—though only rarely do they seem willing as yet to accept the blame,
to. see the building where Hitler lived and the shelter where he took refuge through the bombings, The great hall through which you walk to his office, and: the office in which he worked, are all in varying degrees of destruction. I haven't quite thought of whit it all meant to me, but I believe my
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By RICHARD LEWIS
Cartoonist Bill Mauldin was in town over the week-end. Last time 1 saw him was a little over a year ago in Paris, in a restaurant on
Then he was wearing ‘a beat-up cap, a field jacket, what looked pair of paratroop boots. He's wearing
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pants ever issued and a well-worn the same thing now. : “Have you ever noticed how G. I. clothes really hold up?” he commented. ; I felt like a dude in my felt hat and lavendar necktie. At first I thought maybe he hadn't been abie to find a suit. It turned out he was driving to New York from the
We had a chance to talk things over up at the Rose Tire Co. where Bill's car was being repaired. He has been taking a month’s vacation, driving around the country, getting his bearings. It's a curious thing: He has been out of the army for some time now. He finds he can’t dope out the civilian picture as well as he could the army. Maybe that’s because he was in the army nearly five years and he has been out only a few months. Tougher Opposition Before he goes back to his drawing board, he wants to get clearer insight into what's happening around him. He has carried over his
civilian cartoonist. It has resulted in opposition of a tougher kind than what he ran into from the army brass, “I've had to fall back to regroup,” he said. “This month's vacation hasn't been a sulk. I really needed a rest.” Bill Mauldin doesn’t draw simply fo amuse, His work represents his
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BLAMES SMOKE FOR MORNING DARKNESS
Weatherman Puts Visibility At Eighth of Mile.
LOCAL TEMPERATURES
6am..... 30 10am..... 41 Tam.... 30 lam... 42 Sam..... 31 12 (Noomn),, 45 Sa m..... 38 1pm... 41
For several hours this morning, Indianapolis residents had to “grope” their way about town as smog held the city in a murky grip. By mid-morning, however, Ole’ Sol broke through the overcast to bring light to the city. The weather bureau predicted warmer weather with increasing cloudiness tonight and said that tomorrow would bring rain and mild temperature. The atmosphere was yabout as transparent as clam chowder and the local weather bureau blamed it all on smoke. The city was cradled in a dead calm, the weatherman explained, with no perceptible wind blowing from any direction. ’ Although many motorists and pedestrians swore they couldn't see their hands. two feet in front of them, Indianapolis’ metereologist measured horizontal visibility in the downtown district at an’sighth of a mile at 9 a. m. By 9:45 the sun had partially penetrated the overcast. The ‘mercury hovered around the 30-degree mark. From Chicago, the federal fore-
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CARDINALS IN | ROME APPROVE
4 Americans in Group of 28 0f 32 Elevated to College Today.
By CHARLES T. LUCEY Scripps-Howard Staff Writer
Holiness Pope Pius XII shortly before 11 o'clock this morning lifted his eyes to meet those of
Roman Catholic Apostolic church. Softly he addressed them in Latin: - / “Quid vobis videtur?” The venerable cardinals sitting before him nodded, lifting their small red zuchettes, or skull cos in symbolic response, With that they voiced the reply in Latin: “Placet.” Thus the College of Cardinals approved nomination of 32 prelates to become new members of the college in a historic ceremony cast in the mold of centuries, MembersHip Now Totals 69 This largest mass appointment in: the church’s history—with the 32 new cardinals drawn from 19: different nations—brings the membership of the College of Cardinals up to 69—one short of the traditional limit fixed by Pope Sixtus V in 1586. 5 The centuries-old ritual ushered in a new era of church histor§, resulting for the first time in an Italian minority in the sacred college—27 Italian and 42 nonTialiap eardinals—and..
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These four employees of the First Federal Savings and Loan Association of Indianapolis who were victims of a lone bandit today are, left to right, Emil A. Gruneisen, secretary; Mrs. Geraldina Veach, clerk; Fred W, Asperger, vice president, and Miss Nellie Moran, cashier. The bandit escaped with $669.
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TENANTS KEPT BABY IN DRAWER
Hid Other Children in Closet To Fool Landlord.
Times Special FT. WAYNE, Feb. 18.—How a Ft. Wayne family was forced to keep a baby in a dresser drawer and
cape eviction from a one-room
Thus the United States gained four new princes of the church— half as many at one time as all the cardinals in American history.
This is considered a significant recognition of the increasingly important place America’s 24 million Catholics have in maintaining and directing the course of the church. Four Americans Elevated Thus, too, each of four men— Francis Cardinal Spellman of New York, John Cardinal Glennon of St. Louis, Samuel Cardinal Stritch of Chicago and Edward Cardinal Mooney of Detroit—became “your eminence” instead of “your excellence.” It was at this consistory that, properly speaking, the new cardinals were created. A half mile away in an old chancellory on Via Victory Emmanuel, the four new cardinals awaited arrival of a black sedan carrying a young American priest, the Rev. Martin Gilligan of Cincinnati, Under his arm were the bigliette or official documents from the papal secretariat of state notifying the Americans of their elevations, The priest-messenger had left St. Damasus square near the consistorial hall at the moment final action was taken by the college of cardinals. At the chancellory the ceremony was most simple, Father Gilligan took from a square envelope the bigliette, giving them in order to Cardinals Glennon, Mooney, Stritch and Spellman, Signed by Giovannia ‘Battista Montinni, acting secretary of state of the Vatican, they notified the Americans who previously had been archbishops, that His Holiness had
apartment was told in juvenile court here today. The family had been living in a house for several years, but were forced to move when it was sold. Three of the children were sent to the home of a relative at Grand Rapids, Mich. The other three, including a baby, were moved into one room, The baby was kept in an open dresser drawer. When the baby cried, the drawer was closed fo stifle the noise. Hid Children in Closet
When anyone knocked on the door, the. children were hidden in a broom closet, the mother said. She explained she was responsi. ble for the children’s failure to attend school, asserting: “I did so in order to hide them so we could hold the apartment. . . . If anyone had known we had children, we would have had to move out.” Juvenile Court J William H. Schannen ordered the children to the Allen county childrens’ home and said he would help the family find adequate quarters. He added they were responsible persons, regularly employed, but merely victims of the housing shortage.
CURLEY GIVEN JAIL TERM, $1000 FINE
WASHINGTON, Feb. 18 (U, P.). —~Rep. James M. Curley (D, Mass.) today was fined $1000 and sentenced to a jail term of six months to 1% years following his conviction last month on mail fraud charges. District Court Justice James M. Proctor said he would allow Curley to remain free on his present $2500 bond while an appeal is taken, Cur-
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CHUNGKING, Feb. 18—Events of the next 10 days will determine whether China will lose her richest provinces of Manchuria and with them all hope of becoming a strong and independent nation. This is the confidential opinion of high Chinese officials who refuse to be quoted for fear of olfending Russia, Meanwhile, in their first public expression on the continued Soviet occupation of Manchuria, leaders of the Chinese Communist party today advocated immediate withdrawal of the Russian forces and recognition of Chinese Nationalist leadership. Chinese Nationalist fears of losing Manchuria are based on the following facts: ONE: Despite Russian and Chinese mutual expressions of esteem, China today has no sovereignty and scarcely any more au-
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A TIMES EXCLUSIVE FROM CHINA. . .. By William H. Newton Chinese Communists Join Nationalists In Opposing Russ Grip on Manchuria
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Chapman-Price Plant Is
First to Reopen. BULLETIN WASHINGTON, Feb. 18 (U. P.). ~Judge John C. Collet, shortly to be replaced as stabilization administrator, today formally announced the promised increase of $5 per ton in the price of all carbon and alloy steel mill products.
their jobs of 400 steel workers employed by the Chapman-Price Steel Co, here, Although the strike situation in other local plants remained unmomentarily, James Robb, director of the United Steel Workers (0. I. O.) indicated other settlements might be announced in a matter of hours. Way for the return to production was paved over the week-end by agreement between U. S. Steel Corporation and the U. 8. W. A meeting of union representa tives with management officials of the ‘Link Belt Dodge and Ewart plants was set for Wednesday. Settlement of the Link Belt deadlock would return an estimated 3300 additional workers fo production. End of the Chapman-Price strike here came with the signing of a union contract by Continental Steel Corp. at Kokomo. Chapman-Price is a subsidiary of Continental Steel. The contract provided a pay increase of 9% cents an hour retroactive to Jan. 1 and a general boost of 18% cents an hour effective today. In addition to the
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tone. “very grave diplomatic debacle.”
Official reports said that
Communist resistance.
CHUNGKING, Feb, 18 (U. P.). — The Chinese press opened a vehement attack on Soviet Russia today, declaring that Red army actions in Manchuria had killed the Sino-Soviet treaty
Dropping their previous reticence, six of the 12 daily newspapers in Chungking printed editorials in a heavy anti-Russian They called the treaty with Russia meaningless and a
The attack on Russia appeared shortly after the official Nationalist quarters confirmed that the Chinese civil war has broken out again in Southern Manchuria.
armies drove 20 miles in one day to seize the important rail town of Liachung, 50 miles southwest of Mtikden, after -brief
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when the Japs were in full control there, TWO: Chinese civil officials sent inte Russian occupied area have no real authority there and are not even permitted by the Russians to visit many places in sections they are supposed to administer,
THREE: The entire area surrounding Mudken, Harbin, Port Arthur and Dairen are under complete domination of Russian troops. In addition, to the 300,000 Red army jroops, there are strong
Persecution of Jews Causes
~ By WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS
WASHINGTON, Feb. 18—The greatest Jewish exodus since the children of Israel crossed the Red Sea on dry land is now under way in
But now, as then, Canaan would
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vears, they have been so wantonly kicked around. - Before the war approximately nine million Jews lived in Eastern Europe. Germany had only about 500,000 Poland alone had some 3.500,000—seven times as many as Germany’ They constituted 10 per cent of the population. Leaving in Steady Stream Now and for months past, according to reports official and unofficial, Jews are leaving ‘eastern Europe in a steady stream. They bring stories of being dis possessed, of brutdl treatment and even of wholesale murder. It is clear that none of them— even those from areas where fair treatment has been officially promised—any longer has any faith in such pledges. A All want to go some place—to Palestine or some other countrywhere they can be reasonably certain of the future. Oddly enough—or perhaps it Is not so odd—the direction of this vast new exodus is westward.
Small Number in Russia
Soviet Russia is nearer than any other “promised land” but Russia is not inviting the Jews to come in. Moreover, Russia dominates all eastern Europe from which the Jews are fleeing—including Poland. Also Russia has the greatest land mass—nine million square miles— of any country, with only 21 inhabitants per square mile as compared with 48 per square mile in the United States. Some 15 years ago the world was told a good deal about establishment of a Jewish homeland in Russia. It was at Birobidjan, in Sieberis, about 150 miles west of Kharbarovsk. Today, however, inquiries reveal
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HEMPHILL LEAVING WORKS BOARD TODAY
Mayor Remains Silent as To His Successor.
Mayor Tyndall today kept mum on possible successors to the works board position left vacant by the resignation of Dr. Walter E. Hemphill. Neither had Dr. Hemphill any comments to make on his potential plans to run for the office of county clerk. He asked the board to carry out his plans for the W. Morris st. grade separation. Dr. Hemphill's resignation, tendered to the mayor Feb. 11, became effective today. He had served as vice president of the board for more than three years. The works board today let con-
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LEGLESS VETERAN’ TAVERN IS OPPOSED
Board Postpones Action on License Request.
A legless veteran's plans to open a tavern at 3018 Massachusetts
They filed a protesting bearing 40 signatures, : The license applicant is Joseph
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Farm Prospects Were Never Brighter Than in 1946
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