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LEGION, VAPULL “NO PUNCHES IN VETERAN FIGHT

Better Conditions.

By VICTOR PETERSON The American Legion and the Veterans’ administration plunged headlong into their fight here today — with no punches pulled. Here is how it shapes up. The Legion state paper, The Hoosier Legionnaire, devoted its front page to what they call the “tragic breakdown” in the VA. The page was topped by two eight-column banners charging the VA with keeping 7000 veterans over the nation waiting in hospital line and backing National Commander John Stelle’s campaign. Meanwhile,. the Legion Indiana department loosed a barrage against the VA and called on ‘the Veterans of Foreign“ Wars, the Disabled American Veterans and all world war II veterans’ organizations to join in common battle for better over-all functioning of the VA. Continues ‘Recruiting Nationally the Legion readied itself to fight for a congressional in- » vestigation of the “breakdown.” A special committee, headed by Cmdr, Stelle, is scheduled to visit Gen. Omar N. Bradley, VA director. The Legion also has asked the army and navy to co-operate with the VA by releasing physical records of 480,000 veterans. Fighting back; the VA in Indiana continued a vigorous employee recruiting campaign to staff the two buildings recently leased from the state on the Fairgrounds. Some 575 employees are needed. To date 130 have been sworn in at the Old Trails building, Washington st. and Senate ave. Persons hired are put to work immediately on a short training program and then thrown into the

breach fo process the 17,000 claims

backlog swamping the VA. Move to New Cite

In further centralization moves, other(.VA offices around the ity, such as those located in the Big Four and Circle ‘Tower buildings, today are being moved to the Old Trails building. At a ceremony yesterday, 60 employees were sworn into VA service. The VA has promised the state they will be current with claims by June. However, the VA is not satisfied with the present arrangement and still Is seeking ar over-all downtown site which will house all direct service to the veteran and files. In the drive to clear the “breakdown” in Indiana, every Legion service officer has been asked to report in writing outstanding cases where delay and inefficiency of the VA has caused needless distress to sick and disabled veterans.

Charge Veteran Died

The Legion charged in the state paper that a veteran of Whiting died while waiting “for more than two days for the Veterans Administration hospital at Hines, Ill, to send an ambulance to get him.” Another veteran, legless; sat for hours in the regional office of the VA hospital here, the Legion alleges, while the Legion carried his fight to Washington to get ‘his artificial leg repaired. Red tape complicated the process. The veteran was told repairs could not be made because he did not have papers on him to show his case. was service-connected. He also was told that bids would have to be received for replacement. The Legion contacted the VA in

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LATE TAG BUYERS MAY BE ‘GROUNDED’

Hoosier motorists who insist on waiting until the last minute to buy licenses may face the prospect of putting their cars on stilts for a few days, State License Commissioner H, Dale Brown warned today that with only seven days left in which to buy licenses, it may become physically impossible to handle the last minute rush by the Feb, 28 deadline. “If persons who haven't purchased their licenses come in now we can take care of everyone,’ Mr. Brown said, “The last three or four days there will be long lines and some may not make it. “If that happens, unlicensed vehicles will have to be kept off the bighways until their owners can get plates.”

TIMES INDEX

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Forum Gardening ....13 . G.I'Rights.... 8

LR: «sus 14|State Deaths... 6 Bob Stranahan 10 Troop Arrivals. 5 Leigh White ..12 In Indpls...... 3| Women’s .. 16,17

VOLUME 56—NUMBER 297

‘Imperialism!’ Perils Peace, Pope Asserts

VATICAN CITY, Feb. 20 (U. P). —Pope Pius XII declared in a radio address to the world today that “modern imperialism” is endangering unity and enduring peace among all nations, “Modern imperialistic empires are being maintained by force and have no solid basis,” the Pontiff charged. “Such organisms, owing to their fragility, are ever more exposed to a breaking up and to the creating of new frictions.” The Pope delivered his broadcast from Vatican City immediately after the solemn imposition of the scarlet berettas on 29 of the 32 Roman Catholic prelates present in Rome for their elevation to thé college of cardinals. He hailed the choice of these cardinals, drawn from 19 different nations scattered around the globe, as fresh confirmation of the “supernationality of the church.” “The church embraces. the whole of human society,” he said. “The church has never intended to dominate the world, not in the imperi-

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SAYS RUSSIA

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WASTE DENIED IN JUNKING OF LOCAL PLANTS

U.S. Officials Say Big Losses Can’t Be Avoided ip Property Disposal.

By ROBERT BLOEM The multi-million dollar war machine which mushroomed in Indianapolis during the war is breaking up with a

mer and torch.

But government officials denied hotly today that usable machinery was being junked or that millions were being wasted.

Such charges have come both from within the government's disposal setup and from veterans and businessmen who have sought unsuccessfully to tool their >wn enterprises from war surpluses, At ‘his moment, aircraft parts which cost the nation millions of dollars are being cut apart for scrap. Hundreds of tons of alum. inum, bronze and steel delicately tooled to precision dimensions are no longer useful to a nation at

PERILS PEACE

Briton Charges Reds Create: Atmosphere of Suspicion.

LONDON, Feb. 20 (U. P.>.—~Conservative Harold McMillan accused Russia in commons today of attacking “all the weak links in the chain of world security and peace.” Mr, McMillan asked whether Russia wanted to dominate the world or was merely bent on insuring Soviety security. He opened debate in commons on foreign affairs. > Soviet diplomacy, he charged, “seems to be concentrating upon outward pressure in the Mediterranean and in the Middle East”—the lifeline of the British empire. Russian support of Yugoslav claims on Trieste, Mr. McMillan said, has been a stumbling hlock in drafting an Italian :peace treaty. He reported rumors of a “sudden and dramatic turn in Soviet policy.” but did not explain. *

‘Atmosphere of - Suspicion” Russian imperialism ‘or promo-

are “possible explanations” of! Soviet actions, McMillan said. Un-|

of suspicion.

spy mystery to complete the whole | dreary picture.” Already, Mr. McMillan said, the Anglo-Soviet-American alliance is virtually if not formally “in abeyance.” Relations between the great powers “are greatly—even alarm. ingly—strained,” Mr, McMillan said. In wartime he was a diplomatic trouble-shooter for Winston Churchill’'s government. Held in Abeyance “It would be folly not to recognize that the Anglo-American-Rus-sian alliance that held so firmly in spite of so .many difficulties throughibut the years of the war is virtually if not formally in abeyance,” McMillan told the house. He described the deterioration in relations’ as “dangerous, but not fatal.” “New groupings of minor satellite nations around one or another of the Big Three have taken shape,” Mr, McMillan said. Mr. McMillan spoke from his background as.a British official in the Mediterranean area during the war, He also’ was air secretary in Churchill's “caretaker” government after the wartime coalition broke p.

APARTMENT BLAST |

TOLL RISES TO 3

NEW ORLEANS, La., Feb. 20 (U. P).—~While workers still searched explosion-torn wreckage of a New Orleans Negro housing project, police and firemen probed a blast that early yesterday killed at least three persons, injured 34, and: left five still missing. Officials said reports that tenants ot the project “had complained of gas leakages” in the 14-apartment unit, were being investigated.

peace, Many of the parts stored at the air forces depot at the fairgrounds here are obsolete. At the Curtiss-Wright plant, one of the city’s biggest war plants, machinery is being carted out, some for smelters, some for sale, some for storage. Losses on materials sold as salvage alone will run to an estimated $3,000,000 or more in a matter of | weeks, But, say the government spokesmen, it’s still being done as “economically” as possible. The cost is part of the cost of victory, they contend, and despite confusion and alleged inefficiency, any other plan of disposal would be vastly more expensive to the country. Millions in Plane Parts At the fairgrounds, the picture is roughly this: The end of the war caught Uncle Sam with an inventory of plane parts valued roughly at $20,000,000. Less than 1 per cent of the “otal was usable—the other 99 per cent

crash, much of it under ham-|

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1946

OPA To

FORECAST: Fair and colder tonight, Lowest temperature 16 to 20,

Fair and warmer tomorrow.

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SLOWED BY ICE

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is of value only for the metal it contains and it is estimated will, bring $350,000 for scrap. 4 When material is sold for scrap, officials point out, it ‘cannot he ! for its original purpose. Nobody

prices. { Sold for Junk "4

Cohen’s Sons; successful bidder | 2,000,000 pounds of parts. These parts are now being separated into aluminum, bronze, steel and mixed metals in a 10-acre yard at Raymond and Harding sts. preparatory to sending them to tie] smelters. At Curtiss-Wright; however, the situation is more complex. Jachinery there, much of which would be useful in machine shops and ‘he like, is broken down into three cate-

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CLAYPOOL SUSPENDS INGREASE IN RATES

Old Charges Are Restored Pending OPA Study.

The Claypool hotel has agreed to restore its previous room rates pending an Investigation of a rate increase, OPA Rent Director Robert DeWeese said today. In its amended price list filed yesterday, the hotel doubled charges on some rooms, Mr. DeWeese said He said the Claypool management had revised the rents to compare with the highest rate charged in June, 1941, OPA’'s “base” month. Through a recent audit, Mr, DeWeese said, the management discovered rates in June, 1941, had soared as the result of a heavy demand for rooms caused by an American Legion and a Shrine convention. Following a consultation with hotel executives, Mr. DeWeese said they agreed to re-establish the old charges while OPA drafts a new rate list based on rents charged on| July 1, 1041,

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Thousands of employees straggled in late this morning as one of the worst snow and ice films of the winter crippled transportation. . j trolleys and busses were running from 15 to 20 minutes late,

tion of international communism!/is buying airplane parts at junk Street Railways Inspector Edward

R, Kealing said. Trolleys coming in from the far reaches of the

certainties fostered by them, he| Buyer of the bulk of the scrap | North and East sides in some cases said, “have created an atmosphere parts was the local firm of Alex| were 50 minutes to an hour en

route. Some vehicles were stuck

It only needed the addition of a against more than 40 others, for/to curbs by deep ice grocves.

Several minor accidents were reported by city police. Most drivers were proceeding with extreme caution at snail's pace, Below Freezing

Temperatures dropped to freezing

{at midnight and at 6 a m. had]

skidded to a frosty 26 after a night of snow flurries. Today's local forecast was: “Partly cloudy. Fair tonight and tomorrow. Warmer tomorrow.” State highways were glassy, especially in the north portions. Bus traffic was slowed, but ndt seriously, state police said. Trains from the east, impeded by a snowstorm there, were ‘running from 30' minutes to an hour late at Union station, Heavy Snow in East ; Eleven inches of snow fell at Harrisburg, Pa, center of the storm, and nine inches were reported at Middletown ahd Altoona, Pa., and Hartford, Conn Seven inches of snow were measured at New York City’s La Guardia airport, grounding early morning flights. The federal forecaster at Chicago sald the snow extended as far

(north as Bangor, Me. and west-

ward through central Pennsylvania. Isolated snow falls also were reported in Michigan's lower peninsula where six inches was added during the night to the foot of snow already on the ground.

Falls Injure Three

Mrs. Anna Komer, 74, 1701 Mil- |

burn st., received a possible fractured shoulder when she slipped on the pavement while crossing Harding at 19th st. Dottie Hazelrigg, 34, of 109 N. Euclid ave., injured her ankle when she fell in the 4400 block Washington st, . Alva Ellis, 57, of 1453 English ave, received a broken shoulder when he fell at English ave. and Spruce st.

FAILS TO BACK UP

Confirm or Deny.’

WASHINGTON, Feb. 20 (U. P)). —Former Undersecretary of Interior Abe Fortas said today he was unable to back up charges by his erstwhile chief, Harold L. Ickes, against Edwin W. Pauley. * Mr. Ickes had told the senate naval affairs committee that Mr. Pauley tried to get him to drop suit, for federal title to tideland oil by promising that oll interests would cofitribute $300,000 to the Democratic campaign chest. After President sided

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On two good legs, Joseph Maled stops at the foul line and throws his bowling ball for a strike.

His legs are artificial but don’t interfere with his carrying his son and walking down the stréet with his wife. A disabled veteran, he has become an able one as he mastered his handicap.

LOCAL TRANSIT Joseph Maled Is No Longer

Disabled by Battle Injury

Joseph Malgd, 1230 N. Holmes

ave. is on his second pair of legs.

For months he thought he was on his last legs after a double amputation below the knees followed injury in battle. Life held no cheerful prospects and he dreaded the day he must tell his wife of the operation. But his wife, Mary, took his blow in

stride and an indomitable courage Today he is a living example of what other disabled servicemen can do with their lives. He no longer is disabled. Wounded in late 1944, he was ' operated on early in 1945. Last September, he got his second pair of legs,

8.8.0 “RIGHT AWAY 1 started walking.” he said. “Why nothing that I wouldn't try. And that should. go for every other fellow in the same boat I am in.” The big test came when he tried his favorite sport, bowling. Before entering » service he averaged about 167. His new legs haven't interfered at all. In one of his first games he rolled 173. “I'm sure that I can get my average up higher than ever before,” Ex-G.I. Maled said. “I've even tried running and it works pretty well. I don’t think Ill have any trouble when I get my permanent legs soon.” #” » » RIGHT NOW Mr. Maled goes dancing with his wife, drives a car and is looking forward to summer months of golfing and swimming. At the moment he wants to get into business but ‘has been stopped temporarily. Interested in opening a combination bar and dining room, his license request was deferred Monday because a group of citizens objected by petition, It was zero weather on the battlefleld in Germany when a shell fragment tore into his left shoulder, As he lay there, paralyzed on his left side, two of his

returned.

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DOUGLAS COOL TO CABINET POSITION

President Truman continued his search for a new secretary of interior today amidst reports” that al leading prospect, Supreme Court| Justise William O. Douglas, was re-| luctant to accept.

Douglas has a position that he can hold as long as he wants—and one] that is insulated from the present | turmoil surrounding the Truman administration.

there would be no guaramtee that|

Presidential elections.

Other leading possibilities’ for the/

CHARGES BY ICKES

‘Ex-Interior Official. “Can’t

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C. O'Mahoney (D. Wyo.) and Acting | Interior Secretary Oscar L. .Chapman,

Adm. Spruance Combs Back

For Visit at S

By LARRY STILLERMAN Adm, Raymond A. Spruance, former commander of the Pacific fleet, returned to his alma mater today. And on hand to greet the famed naval commander at Shortridge high school was his old English teacher, Miss Flora Love, ‘just to see if Raymond still uses proper grammatical sentences.” Miss Love, who refired from the

Shortridge faculty. eight years ago,!’

had an opportunity to listen to Adm. Spruance use the “proper” language when he brought his war

swelled within him.

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UMAN SIGNS

‘Start’ by President.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 20 (U. P.. —President Truman today signed into law a compromise employment measure which he said was a start toward a healthy economy although he had hoped for a stronger bill. Mr. Truman signed the measure —the “employment act of 1946"— in a White House ceremony attended by members of the senate banking committee and the house committee on executive expenditures, In a special statement Mr. Truman said the legislation gave expression to an overwhelming demand of the people “for a conscious and positive attack upon the everrecurring problems of mass unemployment and ruinous depression.” “The employment act of 1946 is not the end of the road, but rather the beginning,” he said,

‘Promise to People’ “It is a commitment by the gov-

The bill was a house-senate com-

e government to strive for the “full employment” goal sought by the President. The act does, however, declare that it is the federal government's

For six days he huddled in a | promise which fell short of for the| GAS C0 REVENUES th ! I

(URGES. U. S. TO LEAD |

IN WAR-TORN EUROPE

NEW YORK, Feb. 20 (U. P.)—

“moral, spiritual and ohysical” leadership of Europe “for the sake of all humanity.” In a speech before the women's

whole of Europe is hungry—but

out any social structure.” ‘Mrs. Roosevelt, a delegate to the

interior post were Senator Joseph| United Nations Organization meet-|

ing just concluded in London, returned to the United States yesterday by plane,

hortridge High

experiences to the students in Caleb Mills auditorium, Adm... Spruance fook his high school audience from the inception of the Pacific war until the time when he and Adm. Bill (Bull) Hal sey walked amid the ruins of Yokohoma. “That was a pleasant sight” he remembered Adm. Halsey had mentioned at the time. “Bad weather delay sey and me from

Adm. Halat Pearl

JOB MEASURE

~tnere 49 Weakened Bill Is Termed dot a srike” ;

ush Productio Of Low-Priced Clothir

Loss of Legs Fails to Stop Local Veteran

disclosed today by Economic Bowles.

IS THREATENED

Phone Union Leaders Hope To Avert Tieup.

By UNITED PRESS The nation's strike poll dropped

first time since Jan, 21 toflay. However, new walkouts were threatened in the railroad #nd telephone industries, Steel workers continued ‘thelr back-to-work movement, cutting the number of strike-idle American workers to 998,000. The major developments: ONE: Two railroad brotherhoods threatened a nation-wide rail strike within two weeks. The walkout would tie up 300 main line railroads. TWO: Member-unions of the National Federation of Telephone Workers voted to call a nation-wide telephone walkout, but the federation promised to meet the come

THREE: Repbesentatives of General Motors and the C. I. O. United Auto Workers failed to agree on

175,000 G. M. employees. FOUR: More" than 300,000 C. I. 0. steel workers still were on strike. About 450,000 had returned to work

cent hourly wage increases in line

price policy. FIVE: Twelve thousand C. I. O. electrical workers rejected proposals by Westinghouse Electrical Corp. for ending their month-long walkout. SIX: Economic Stabilization Di. rector Chester Bowles charged Henry Ford II, president of the Ford Motor Co. with requesting what he termed an “outrageous” 55 per cent increase in auto prices, SEVEN: District presidents of the United Mine Workers assembled for a conference with John L. Lewis | today amid growling speculation {over the probability of a new wage

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TOTAL $10 WILLION

WASHINGTON. Feb. 20 (U. P.).—| (Continued on Page 3-~Column 5) Net Income for 1945 Listed

At $588,000.

| The . Citizens Gas and Coke] { Utility last year took in more than

| Mrs, Eleanor Roosevelt urged today 10 million dollars, more than a In the Supreme court, Justice that the United States assume the half million of which

was net | income after payments to the city {in lieu of taxes, bond retirement |and profit and loss adjustments.

| In the 11th annual statement the

{division of the United Jewish Ap-|board of directors of the city's If he accepts a cabinet post now, peal, Mrs. Roosevelt sald that “the department

of utilities revealed that gross operating revenues for

he, would have it after the 1048| worse than that, all Europe .s with-|the municipally owned utility in a | 1945 was $10,132,945.75. Net income

| was $588,032.74. Gas sales for the year totaled $4,686,430.93 while by-product sales of coke, coal tar and water gas tar, and amonia amounted to $4,806.

(Continued on Page 3—Column 8) POLICE ASK AID IN SEARCH FOR. CHILD LOS ANGELES, Feb. 20 (U, P.).— Sheriff . Eugene BiscailuZ today appealed to every southern California resident for aid in the five-day-old mystery kidnaping of little Rochelle Gluskoter. ; Detectives, who sald they had no definite evidence that the child ever was seen after disappearing into a stranger's car, admitted they were “just waiting for the breaks. ~The immediate break they hoped for was the discovery of the kidnap| car, described by witnesses a Y

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Bowles Outlines Plans to : Make Price Adjustments, Increase Textile Supplies

WASHINGTON, Feb. 20 (U. P.) A new program stimulating the production of lower-priced clothing was

Mr, Bowles told the house banking committee that the office of price administration soon would make price adjusts ments for textile mills to “sweeten them up” and encour age them to go into lower-priced textiles. : At the same time, he disclosed, the civilian production administration will help garment manufacturers get sup-

IRAILWAY STRIKE

below the one million mark for the |

major issues in the 92-day strike of Ia

under new contracts providing 18% {yep 04

with President Truman's wage-|¢n,

| Henry J. Kaiser, to tell it what they

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for Stabilization Chief Chester ,

plies of the low-priced textiles through a system’ of priori= ties. Ti The retiring price administrator sald that the program is expected to bring an initial 40 per cent in< crease in production of low-priced garments, but “we hope to be able to increase it by 50 per cent.” Gives No Details " He did not go into full

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ir. others we're not.” J 3 Asks Permit to Write Sa Mr. Bowles asked the commit Lee's "permmsion? to write Mr. Ford and k into any com > especially those ap ou : culty of getting parts because of ree strictive OPA ceilings, “and see if there are any corrections we will have to make.” J “But I see no sense in carrying on an argument like this” he | added, offering to provide the coms = mittee with a full statement of | OPA's price negotiations with Mr, Ford. Mr, Bowles has accused Mr, Ford of complaining about OPA =~ ceilings on automobile parts when there are no ceilings on such items, They were removed last August, Bowles to Get Excused , The banking committee, now in its third day of hearings on a bill to extend the price control law for another year, agreed to excuse Mr,, Bowles after today’s session for res call at a later date. The committee has asked Mr, Ford and his new business

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(Continued on Page 3—Column 4) ) 13 JURORS SELECTED IN VINCENNES TRIAL VINCENNES, Ind. Feb. 20 (U,

P).—A jury of 13 persons was ses lected today In the first

fourth husband, Donald E. last Dec. 16. As the trial opened cuit court, the 13th pe pointed to serve juror,

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