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Stalin Praises Red Army on Its 28th Anniversary.

LONDON, Feb. 23 (U. P.).—Generalissimo . Stalin ordered the Red ‘army on its 28th anniversary today to grow even strenger and guard the Russian people while they increase their economic might.

troops on their first peacetime anHe told them they had greater tasks than resting on laurels won against Germany and Japan. ‘We must overcome the prewar standard of production and heightthe military and economic might the Soviet Union,” Stalin said.

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Rioting Continues The end of the mutiny, however, did not halt the rioting which had been touched off originally as a sympathy gesture to the sailors. Crowds of about 100 men each set fire to a branch of the Imand attacked the municipal building in the Moslem quarter. Another throng tried to set fire to the Salvation Army building in the downtown area. The Congress party threw its weight behind efforts to calm the outbreaks. Six loud speaker vans bearing Congress party volunteers toured the city urging the people to be peaceful. Traffic and business life were boulders, bricks. and debris from ruined buildings blocked the streets. Garbage piled up everywhere, adding a heavy stench to the tenes atmosphere, Fresh reinforcements of British troops and police were rushed into

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, United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Feb, 23--It's

a teddy bear. And 600,000 G. 1's are easier’ to get across an ocean than are 60,000 war brides. ; The man who says so.s Brig, Gen. Robert H. Wylie, the army's assistant chief of transportation who is charged with bringing an estimated 67,000 soldiers’ dependents to this country. ” . . “WE SHOULD get the last of the 60,000 from Europe and 7,000 from the Pacific over here -by the end of June,” Gen. Wylie said. “That is, we should make it, if our job doesn't multiply.” By that he meant that publicity given the program is bringing in an increasing number of applications from army men who want their dependents brought here. , That's the way the program works. The soldier applies to his commanding officer. The war department makes arrangements and, in accordance with an act of congress, foots the bill. » s . IT'8 STRICTLY a first-come-first-serve deal. Enlisted men get the same consideration as officers. The only priority is given to hardship cases—for example, . when a soldier-father is critically

The dependents are given routine immigration department physical examinations at the staging areas. Women more than six months pregnant and babies younger than six weeks old must wait a while, Adults are allowed to bring 350 pounds of belongings apiece and 50 pounds for each child, except for infants in arms, . » » IT WAS the luggage. allow-

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ance provision that suggested to Gen. Wylie the comparative logistical problems of moving tanks and teddy bears. Aboard the government provides meals and such standard equipment as common baby foods, cod liver oil, paper diapers and safety pins. It also furnishes

army doctors and nurses. On trains the dependents must pay for food. All along the routes are Red Cross workers Tesdy to help with countless problems,

r ~~ . THE ARMY does a bit of shipboard indoctrinating, too, through movies and lectures dealing largely with geography and everyday, life If the United States.

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anchored to the decks, and that cribs must be free from splinters. . = - THE ARMY has brought about 4000 dependents (four shiploads) from Europe, chiefly England, and the first lot from the -Pacific is due at Francisco Wednesday. Eventually the army will have Seven bride ships in operation on both oceans. Largest is the British Queen Mary, which the United States borrowed in. exchange for the use of 10 victory ships. “It's a problem,” Gen. Wylie said. “The logistics operation for “the North African campaign was easier.” :

RADIO. SINGER HAS COMPACT COLLECTION

HOLLYWOOD (U, P.).- Dolly Dawn, radio songstress, has one of the largest and most unusual collections of compacts, thanks to the

Yonks who were former members of her orchestra. Her “boys,” scattered all over the globe in the armed forces, send her powder-and-puff sets from places ranging from Panama to Alaska

OLD CATTLE BRANDS FORM RUG DESIGN

POMONA, Cal. (U. P.)—After more than a year’s work, Miss Alma Brown has put the last stitches in a huge rug made from old stockings and bearing the brands of famous Montana cattle ranches. The rug will hang in the V Lazy U ranch, owned by Dr, George D. Brown, Miss Brown's nephew,

PRIEST STILL ACTIVE DESPITE 89 YEARS

JOHNSTOWN, Pa. (U, P.).—Believed to be the oldest active priest in the United States, the Rev. John | Martvon, 89, continues his normal duties as pastor of St. Stephen's church, which he has headed for more than half a century.

PLANS RECRUITING MOVE

pation army of 600,000. APPROVES VETERAN CENTER’

The veterans Muncie, Ind. EX-SHERIFF DIES

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WASHINGTON, Feb. 23 (U, P.). =~ Chairman Carl Vinson (D, Ga.) of the house naval affairs committee today planned to try to prevent permanent extension of the draft law by introducing a bill providing for the recruiting of an overseas occu-

WASHINGTON, Feb, 23 (U, P.) —~ administration said today that it had approved contracts for a new veterans’ guidance center at Ball State Teachers college

LOGANSPORT, Feb. 23 (U. P). ~Services were arranged today for Miller, president of the Elevator company and former sheriff of Cass county, who night

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because probably no other Demoerat could win in Wyoming's Senatorial election this year. : 8»

Officers who were singing blues month ago now are all smiles. They figure public has lost interest; congress is loath to reopen issue; Mr, Truman has spoken piece and won't have anything more to say, Indications are navy is right. House committee on expenditures in executive departments, where hearings have been held, has the bill pigeon-holed. Committee attaches say it isn't scheduled to be brought out “in the foreseeable future.”

. War Surplus Some trade-name manufacturers are concerned about resale of their brands of War Assets Corp. Items originally were intended for overseas sales only. Due largely to shortages, many are far below standard. Manufacturers fear sale on open market will result in lost prestige and customers; would gladly buy back entire lots at loss if it could be arranged. Law doesn’t permit this, however. » w s Chances for the St. Lawrence seaway appear dim unless more congressional support can be ob-

interests in East and South, project is disliked by railroads. Sentiment for seaway is by no means unanimous even in Great Lakes

iron ore deposits in Minnesota are exhausted, steel mills in the Great Lakes area will have to get ore from newly discovered deposits in Labrador and Quebec. Transportation costs would be too high without a seaway.

» » . Mine Wage Plans SIGNIFICANT advance 'ndica~ tion of this year's United Mine Worker demands, threatening bituminous coal strike after April 1, came from convention of District § in Pittsburgh. This is one of ‘he largest miner districts nd its heads were elected with John L. Lewis support. District 5 resolved in favor of same pay for a 35-hour week as miners now get for 48 hours; more vacation pay; 10 cents per ton “royalty” on coal production to go into a welfare fund. Also, Mr. Lewis himself has indicated he may renew effort to force inclusion in his union, or a subsidiary, of mine foremen and other supervisory employees, This

Housing Order ORDER defining what ean and can’t be built under new material control program is being held up by two tough problems: (1) How

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ing Expediter Wyatt demands it. It will defer nearly all federal public works and com-

will advise, by Wyatt representative who will have final say.

Building organizations, however, are warning members against starting homes unless they are in low-price bracket.

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the execution. He is eligible for discharge with 129 points, but had remained in the Philippines to hang Yamashita. ' Ultimate Disgrace The execution was carried out in intense secrecy at Los Banos camp pear “Manila. Newspapermen sand photographers were forbidden to approach the 40 square-foot inclosure containing the gallows, and the execution hour was rot “nnounced in advance. A wire fence 25 feet high surrounded the gallows, and it was covered with a camouflage netting. A heavy guard patrolled the area. , the general was hanged on the first anniversary of .he liberation of allied priseners of war in

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Stockinger fgnores Flurry . Caused by Selection. Wesley A. Stockinger was busy in voters’ registration -

his appointment aroused in the ranks of loyal Republican precinct committeemen, » y A former committeeman himself, Mr, Stockinger ann his complete “neutrality and disinterest” toward which the committeemen made over his. appointment, !

of opinion,” he said philosophically, “there always. is a horse race.” He made it clear he wasn’t obligated to any group. in his new

Job. " Appointed 10 Days Ago “I'm working today for 400,000 people,” he said, “and 'it's going to keep me pretty busy.” He was kK named registration

K. Johnson, Republican, and David Klapper, Democrat, voters’ registration officers. It soon became evi-

like the appointment. Mr. Stockinger lives at 5023 N. Capitol ave. He was employed for the past year as fleld supervisor in the Indiana Gross Income Tax division. He is a graduate of old State Normal school and Columbia university, has served as head of

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the Noblesville public schools, teacher at the Park school and has

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425 STILL MISSING IN RUHR MINE DISASTER

HERFORD, %Jermany, feb. 23 (U. P.).—Rescue work at the .donopole coal mine in the Ruhr was resumed today after the escape nf one miner revived some slim aope or the lives of 425 men still missing. The missing miners were cointed as dead yesterday, and workmen began sealing the openings of the sprawling mine at Unna, ‘heir -oncrete emplacement forming a vast tomb for the men trapped “yy a series of explosions. : I But late yesterday a 32-year-old pit electrician, Enio Gronar, was found haggard and half-dead n a tunnel that would have been sealed within a short time.

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Los Banos camp by the U. 8. 11th airborne division. Thousands of allied had been rtured and mistreated by Yamashita’s soldiers in the camp. Death by hanging was the -iltimate ‘disgrace for Yamashita. His predecessor in the Philippines, Lt. Gen. Masaharu Homma, has been sentenced to death before a firing squad—considered a more honorable way for a soldier to die.

CONFESSES SLAYING OF HIS SWEETHEART

LOS ANGELES, Feb. 23 (U, P). —A confessed hammer-murderer, captured after he went through a stop light on his getaway flight, told police today he killed his sweetheart in an argument over money.

hours after the body of Mrs. Rae C. Krohn, 32-year-old divorcee, clad in a nightgown, was found stuffed head down in a cupboard of her kitchen. Police said Bierwirth confessed to crushing her skull with a hammer and using it to nail her body into the cupboard.

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search for a permanent downtown location” in which to house all its functions. This unified VA center would work hand-in-hand vith the community information center, Mr. Cummins said.

not be housed in any VA building under law,” he said. “The only agencies which could be housed with us in our center are the veterans service organizations and the Red Cross. “Also there can be no tie-up under. federal law of VA funds and state money available to the Indiana department of veteran affairs from the general fund. *“Pinance - of the community

later. It could be done on a mu-

veteran continues to get the runaround. He is the only loser . . advised, under-helped.

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a native ron of lodieas, with tweaty years experience in the service of major Indisas companies in the electric light and power : | industry, has been appointed Vice-President

Power Company, effective February 11. His long training will materially aid in effectuating Company policies and in stream lining extensive programs already under way throughout this system. His training as a. manager of rural distribution will help especially in the'early development of our previously planned, long-range construction projects, designed to handle load inereases sad serve buadreds of new customers. :

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WASHINGTON, Feb. 23..— The American Federation of

that it hoped to organize the entire chemical industry. Mr. Lewis likewise nodded to New York City’s transit workers now represented by the C. I. O. He said. he understood they were “not too happy with their present leadership. Our district 50 will be glad to take in any workers that are willing to come in.” He added that there was “nothing definite ,to indicate any amal~

Organizations

Methods to obtain funds for nursing scholarships will be discussed at a meeting of the Maj. Harold C. Megrew auxiliary 3, United Spanish War veterans, at 6 p. m. Monday. A supper will the meeting at Ft. Priendly, 512 nois st.

Crossroads of America lodge No. 901 auxiliary to the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen will meet Tuesday at 7:30°p. m. Trdinman hall. Officers and drill team members will meet at 5 p. m.

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RESCUED FROM SHIP KODIAK, Alaska, Feb. 23 (U. P.). ~Faint radio signals from U. S. rescue ships indicated early today that 23 crew members, including some women, had been rescued from a broken Russian tanker 360 miles east of the Aleutians. The fate of 16 others, including the captain, was uncertain.

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[because he thought it was ‘an’ American organization than the C. I. O. because it stands for free collective bargaining without depending entirely upon the

He was asked if the mine workers would pay much attention to the wage-price policy in its wage negotiations. Mr. Lewis replied that they would expect their problems to be settled “on the merits of the coal industry.” ; ! Mr. Lewis disagreed with Chester Bowles that the price line could he held in the face of wage increases He said there never had been a war without some inflation. The hint that the A. F. of L. may back Mr, Lewis in whatever position: he takes was contained in the A. F. of L. monthly survey which coupled a new attack on administration wage policies with a stinging sitack on the Congress of Industmial Orfanizations.

BUILDING EXPERT TO ADVISE EDUCATORS

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superintendent in charge of New York City public school buildings, was to arrive today in Indianapolis to counsel with Indianapolis school officials on new congtruction here. : He will visit Broad Ripple high school at 9 a, m. Monday to con{fer with Principal K. V. Ammerman on the school’s planned addition; at 10:30 at Howe high school with Principal Charles M. Sharp on the school’s proposed new wing, and at 12:30 at a luncheon at Manual high school with Principal |E. H. Kemper McComb and School {Board President Carl F. Brandt on the new Manual building. Mr. Engelhardt is scheduled to |confer in the school board office at |2:30 p. m. with all public school principals in the city and Superintendent Virgil Stinebaugh and his staff.

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