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VOLUME 56—NUMBER 313
MONDAY, MARCH 11, 1946
Entered as Second-Class Matter at Postoffice ¥ Indianapolis 9, Ind.
Issued daily except Sunday
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fl Exclusive—Bauer Tells
FIGURE IN ‘SPY CASE CHARGES
PERSECUTION
Attorney Says He'll Call Gates and Sherwood As Witnesses. (Editorial, Page 12)
By VICTOR PETERSON Copyright, 1946, by The Indianapolis Times
Frederick Bauer, Germanborn ex-U. S. army sergeant, today blamed “army brass” and the photos he took of nude dancers at a Ft. Har-
rison stag party for the six-months-long drive of the war department and the department of Justice to cancel his citizenship and ship him back to Germany. In an exclusive interview with The Times in Marion™ county jail, Mr. Bauer today gave the first public statement he has been permitted to make on his case since army authorities clapped him into prison last August.
One of his attorneys, Joseph T. Mazelin, who heard his statement, charged afterward that not only “army brass,” but also state pol{ticians were responsible for Mr. | Bauer's difficulties. Wants to See Photos He announced that he will ask a court order to compel the FBI to produce copies of the photos, which Mr. Bauer said show nude and seminude entertainers, high Indiana state officials, military officers and members of a Latin American diplomatic mission. Mr. Mazelin also said he would call Governor Gates and Elmer Sherwood, former adjutant general, as witnesses when Bauer's case comes to trial before Federal Judge Robert Baltzell. He also said he would try to locate the entertainers: Mr, Bauer was held incommunicado by army authorities for 10 weeks at Pt. Harrison, given a discharge “without honor” and rushed to Ellis Island for deportation. This was blocked by an order of U. S.. District Judge Evan A. Evans of Chicago, under which he was returned last week to Indianapolis. In a court hearing here he will ‘seek to establish that his citizenship in the United States, granted in 1937, is still valid. No Charges Filed Army spokesmen originally made] many allusions to espionage but an| official war department statement later said no evidence that Mr. Bauer was a spy had been found. No charge of any kind ever has been filed against him. Mr. Bauer denied that he ever) went to a German espionage school. | He charged that his wife, who instituted his fight for freedom, had ‘been tlireatened over the telephone. He declared she had been prom{sed that he would be given an honorable discharge if she ‘kept quiet.”
Bauer's Statement Here is Mr. Bauer's statement: “The only reason for this-whole persecution is the question of the pictures. “The war department, four months ago, in a quoted statement to the press said I had committed no acts of espionage and that no .eriminal charges will lie against me. “In the same statement they recommended that the justice department have me deported to my native Germany. “1 the war department says I am guilty of nothing, why do they con‘tinue to persecute me? “Ordered to Take Pictures “Col. Tisdale (Henry Tisdale, at that time commandant of Ft. Harrison) issued the orders for me to take pictures of the activities at the party. I also had orders from the fifth service command to take pictures. of the activities of the Latin American delegation. «1 felt- doubtful about taking pictures of that entertainment (the nude performers). To make sure I asked Col. Tisdale who sald, ‘Yes,
show me your art.’ “The post control officer, Maj.
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TIMES INDEX
AIUsSIEHGS , . 6, Wm, Newton. .10 Aviation 11] Obituaries ... 4 By DOUGLAS SMITH , Business ...... 16 Dr O'Brien. . .11 Scripps-Howard Staff Writer Classified ,.17-18 J. E. O'Brien.. 8 WASHINGTON, March 11.—1In Comics .......19|Radio ........ 19|New York- recently a girl fell 11 Crossword ....13| Reflections ...12 stories.. and broke both her legs. Editorials... ""12! Mrs. Roosevelt. 11 | Her first words to the doctor Were, Fashions Le 14| Scherrer So 12|“Be careful with Whose: SlovKIngs, Forum .......12|Side Glances..12 They're nylons.” Meta Given ..14|Sports he g-g| In every. city, women stand in In Indpls...... 3 Stoneman ..15|!ine for hours to ‘purchase nylons Inside Indpls..11| State Deaths. 13 and for sthem women hound thelr
Jane Jordan. .
Labor ........ 11{ Troop Arrivals 2 Jim Lucas ....11 he naton “13 ‘Nylons are scarce, but not that . Ruth Millett. 11 Women's ..... 14 | Scarce. They have become a symbol, «Movies ....... 6 World “Affairs..12 like the mink coat,
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GOP DISPUTE MAY BECOME COURT FIGHT
Ostrom and | Registration)
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Board Members Differ On Law Point.
By NOBLE REED A Republican dispute over voters'| registration policies today threat- | ened to develop into a legal fight | in the courts to oust members of the registration board. County G. O.'P. Chairman Henry | E. Ostrom charged that the twoIman bipartisan voters’ registration | board had failed to provide the Re-| | publican committee with a list of | legally registered voters before the] | deadline last Friday midnight, | Also, Mr, Ostrom said that the | { Republican member of the registra- | | tion board, George K. Johnson had | appointed several members of the | | office staff without clearing them/| {through the G. O. P. committee. The charges climaxed pressure | broQight by a large group of G. o.| | P. precinct” ‘committeemen and followers of Mr. Ostrom to oust Mr. Johnson from the registration post. Johnson Replies Republican committee officials, close to Mr. Ostrom, hinted that | they plan .“some legal action” | against Mr, Johnson and David | | Klapper, Democratic member of the registration board. “This whole thing ‘is nothing more than an attempt to remove {me from this job,” Mr. Johnson | said. “We have followed the law | in every respect. I don't mind being criticized for something I have done wrong, but I don't like to take
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Bowles Sees Lo
WASHINGTON, March 11 (U.
and men's apparel. The OPA announced iis long- | awaited price revisions for men’s clothing last night. The increases are designed o end hoarding of Nice ol manufactyrers ant low-cost shirts, suits and other men’s. clothing on the market.
a plan to guarantee 1500,000 pounds of rayon yarn monthly to hosiery manufacturers in answer to protests from stockingless| women. Mr. Bowles told his news conference that the clothing price in-| creases might well bring actual re-
For Buyers of Clothing
Bowles believes that recent price increases granted to clothing manufacturers may result in lower costs for consumers. He made this statement at a news. conference as the governmen moved against the clothing shortage on two fronts—women’s hosiery
to oth ue by ”
The civilian production admin- | istration, meanwhile, was drafting |
the heat for doing a job the best] way it can be done.” No criticism of the registration boards’ actions has been made by the Marion county Democratic chairman, James L. Beatty. Différ on Law Conflict over interpretation of the 1945 election law regarding tl preparation of the registration lists | developed ‘between Mr. Johnson and Mr. Ostrom. Mr. Ostrom interpreted the law to - mean that the entire list of legally registered voters should have been submitted to the G. O. P. committee last Friday. Instead, he said, his office reéceived © a lst of cancellations | from the registration lists. Mr. Johnson and Mr. Klapper | contend that they were not re-| quired to furnish the = complete | registration lists last Friday be-| cause of an order of the state elec-| tion commissioners, requiring an| entire new file of voters to elimi- | nate thousands of errors found in| the 1944 voting lists. Not in Files
wer Costs
P.).—Economic Stabilizer Chester
3 IFS HOLD “BACK GOODS
Bowles Confident WagePrice Policy Is Solution. | By SANDOR S. KLEIN
United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, March 11.—Eco-
nomic Stabilizer Chester Bowles de-
UAW LEADERS
Flora $ Small, but the Town! s Ticket Demand ls Large
State basketball tournament tickets are the most precious commedity in Indiana this week. To obtain Flora high school’s allotment, Principal Russell D. Callane (left) and Coach Leonard Reid (center) called today at the Circle Tower office of L. V. Phillips, Indiana high school athletic association commis-
sioner. certain the town's ticket Supply wo!
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Deny ‘Politics’ tics’ Will Hamper| G. M. Negotiations.
ETIN DETROIT, March 11 (U, P.).— The three top leaders of the C. L 0. United Auto Workers said to- | day they were united in their strike aims against General Mo-
tors Corp. “Regardless of any personal differences.” U. A. W. |}, A pF of L International man. President R. J. Thomas, Vice | . | President Walter Reuther and Brotherhood of Carpenters and] Secretary-Treasurer George F. | Joiners.
Addes joined in the statement | after union factions engaged in | political sniping as a preliminary to the national U. A, W, convention at Atlantic City, N. J., March
23.
{ William L. president of the union and first | vice president of the A. F. of L,
uld fall far short of the demand.
arpenters’
By FRED W. PERKINS Scripps-Howard Staff Writer BALTIMORE, March 11.—A
union scandal that goes back to collection of large sums for “work
[drive that preceded America's en-
try into World War II will be aired yp Rep, Charles A. Halleck lin the convention next month of Ind.) for Republican national chair-| {of force
| the carpenters hope to exact from |
Hutcheson,
s UNO | Periled by Churchi
Although Flora’'s team represents the smallest community of the four finalists, Mr. Callane was
Union Scandal CARRIES S DRIVE PLEDGE UNITY, To Be Airedby Tg WASHINGTON
Gates Boosting ssting Halleck fo
{the house Republican congressional Officers of Baltimore Local 101 of | committee has made Charley Halleck ideally suited to succeed Hergeneral | bert. Brownell,” Gov. Gates declared.
{lose his invaluable leadership in the house. So I am advising that
PRAVDA DA AVERS
‘Proposed Anglo-American Alliance Seen as Death Of United Nations.
By HOMER JENKS United Press Staft Correspondent
LONDON, March 11.—-The (official Moscow newspaper | Pravda today accused Wins |ston Churchill of trying to start a war against Russia. The paper warned that an Anglo-American military alliance would mean the death of the United Nations Organization, Pravda unleashed its full fury against the wartime Brifish premier in an editorial denouncing his speech at Fulton, Mo. six days ago. It accused him of plotting secretly against Russia all the time he was co-operating with Genheralissimo Stalin during the war, Everyone knows, Pravda said, that Anglo-American alliance proposed by Mr. Churchill would be aimed at Russia. “Who does not see that this means the liquidation of the United Nations organization?” Pravda asked. “Thus in one stroke Churchill does away with the organization whose defender he professes himself, “A military alliance of two partners of the coalition against the third means the liquidation of the coalition of the three great powers r ‘which was formed during the second world war. Thus in one stroke | Churchill sweeps away what he had helped to build during the war." Ridicules ghanl | Caus'
G.0.P. Chairmanship,
By DANIEL M. KIDNEY © Times Staff Writer ~~CFOV.
ASHINGTON, March 11 that Mr.
permits” in the defefise bullding | Ralph Gates arrived here this ‘Churchill “Tdrieted himself at the fer
"morning and af once began talking saviour of Europe from Communism, (R. | Pravda said his plan was “a policy ” which would mean liquida= tion of the United Nations Organis zation. Then it referred to his state ment rejecting the inevitability of a new war. “Int reality he was trying to convey the idea that a new war is in-' evitable,” the newspaper said, “More than that, he was instigating a new war and calling for war against
“His expert work as chairman of
“Of course we wouldn't want to
tail prices down.
market shirts available are about $2.50.
$1.25 Shirts Predicted
Under the new price adjustment, he said, manufacturers will find ja |®
now. The
lowest- -priced |,
it has ever seen.
1 Serv.
For example, he clared today that three major “ifs” said, there are no $1 shirts on the stand petween the country and, the| “greatest flood” of consumer goods
Asserting that “fear and doubt and blind self-interest” ing as production bottlenecks,
were now
It was revealed today that thou-| sands of legally registered: voters] were not on the files, many of them | appearing in the lists of cancella- | tions. Registration board members explained that these were the result | of errors on the part of the 1944
[to 649,000 workers today.
The three were scheduled to resume negotiations with represenatives this afternoon. ‘By UNITED PRESS The nation's strike toll dropped
an explanation why he has been islow in prosecuting men they] charge with embezzlement of sev-|
of the huge “take” from men who had temporary jobs in cantonment |and other defense construction, Given ‘Closed Shop’
More steel workers returned to
eral hundred thousand dollars, part |
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possible to put out a shirt to sel for $1.25, which would result in a
{50 per cent cut in the cost of the
lowest-priced shirt available. Mr. Bowles said charges that price controls have slowed down produce tion are “fallacious.” He said OPA and his own otlice) of economic stabilization were de- | termined that prices should not interfere with production and intended to grant price relief whenever it was justified. The CPA rayon allocation for |
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NEED SHIRTS? HERE ARE MILLIONS OF 'EM
'Writer Stares . Bug-Eyed At Navy Surpluses.
By FREDERICK ‘C. OTHMAN United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, March 11.—Need
a few shirts? I know where you can buy 11,380,368 in two qualities and all sizes. Your shorts are ragged? 1 have
5,606,127 pairs for sale, 2,006,029 in size 34, alone, The government owns this haberdashery.
without mercy.
36 YEAR PERIENCE SERVING FOOD. 3] Uhinmady,
Glistleys 's Restaurant, us
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The navy doesn't want it any longer, and why it isn't helping |
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Ny lon: Hoarding by Women Is Blamed for 'Shortage’
husbands - and hosiery - merchants
Statistics indicate that there will be engueh hosiery produced this
Mr. Bowles expressed confidence
election boards in failing to mark | a voter as having cast a ballot. | Under the law, voters who failed to vote in the last election are stricken from the file. Mr. Klapper also explained that many of the legally registered voters, whose names are no longer on -the lists, were fost in the master | files before the new board took over last summer. Board members explained that] names of these voters will be back on the lists in plenty of time for the primary election.
(Questions and answers clarify ing U. 8. wage-price policy, Page 5).
(that President Truman's new wageprice policy provided the blueprint to remove those obstacles.
“I believe that we can make the (plan work and get the all-out production needed eventually to lick {inflation,” he said in a statement. ‘We have no right to expect, howlever, that this plan will work auto- |
matically.” Mr. Bowles then listed the three WANTS CIVILIAN major conditions which he sald must be met: CONT OL 0 A ONE; Every employer, worker and 4 F TOM farmer must “want to make it work.” This means a “little less selfinterest; a little less scrambling to Senator McMalion Would get ahead of the next fellow who | vs may seem to have some slight, tem- Check ‘Military Powers. air fective Boveri WASHINGTON, March 11 (U.P. | ' : fy : ’s Thi —Chairman Brien McMahon (D.| mental tools Io do-the jo ¥ S!conn.) of the senate atomic energy means extension of the price con=| , mittee recommended today that trol act without crippling amend- control of the atom bomb Be vested ment: retention of food ‘subsidies in a military board, subservient to to keep food prices from SOAring;|. .ivivan Commission. and restoration by congress of re- The military board would be apcent cuts in vital appropriations to pointed by the President. "It would the OPA, wage stabilization board | [ve empowered to make recomand civilian production Sdpinistins/ mendations to the civilian commistion. {'sion regarding military applications THREE: “All government agencies| of atomic energy. In event of disinvolved in the new stabilization |agreement between the two groups, * final decision would rest with the
President. x Senator McMahon long has advocated civilian control - of
atomic energy problem. His recom. | mendation was regarded as a compromise to stem strong committee sentiment for army and navy rep-|
mission.
WARNS STAMP. 9 ONLY GOOD FOR CANNING
, Hoosier housewives - today were warned not to use sugar obtained | on spare stamp 9, which becomes valid today, for purposes other than | canning. William Aitchison, food rationing officer for the district OPA, explained that the stamp was being made effective now because of ripe crops. in the. south, but stated that no extra sugar would be available when the Indiana fruit harvesting season begins. T=
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year to supply the needs,of American women, if they buy only what they need and take cate of’those they have. But statistics apparently have little effect on women. “There are shortages in a lot of things,” said a retailer, “but hosiery is In a class by. itself. We have tried every’ different kifid of distribution system we can. think of, and still they drive us crazy.” He explained that small ship= ments arrive often, but that each dealer must ration them to his customers in his own way. Hoslery makers say- they. expect
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their ‘jobs. Western Electric .plants in New York and New Jersey resumed production. The C. I. O; steel workers union reported that 600,000 of the 750,000 workers who struck Jan. 21 for an 1812 .cent hourly wage increase were back at work. The union predicted that agreements covering most of the men still on strike would be reached by the end of the week. Ford Motor Co. plants put in their | first day of final assembly since the end of the steel strike and more than 9000 assembly line workers were recalled to their jobs. The first of 17,300 Western Elécite workers returned to their: jobs inder an agreement reached FriLos At Gary, Ind, bus and street car service was halted by a wage strike transit workers. The strike left thousands of work-
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Mad Musician Still a Master | Of Keyboard
By ROBERT W. HEFTY United Press Staff Correspondent
DETROIT, March 11.—The world lof delusion today engulfed the tall,
held a radio audience breathless for a few short minutes. Last night, mad Master X, one the 4000 .mental patients at)
lof
resentation on the control com-|Wayne General hospital, played for teorday was Yuma, Ariz,
|the world. n ” on
IN THE hospital auditorium, more than 100 persons — doctors, | scientists, music students and news- | papermen—watched solemnly. |" An immediate hush fell on t {audience as the tall, slightly- [ stooped, graying Mr. X-a well{known pianist before his mental | ie a onto the stage, | looking neither to right nor left, | and sat down quickly at the piano. Any doubts as to the patient's ability to play the plece selected for the broadcast were dispelled as he ran through 45 minutes “of clas-
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‘Temperatures
One of these projects was build-
ing of barracks and other emergency structures at Ft. George G. Meade, Md., midway between Baltimore and | Washington, where more than 50,000. workmen were hired during | several months of 1940.
All the hiring was done through
local 101, which has a normal mem- | bership of 2500, but in the defense campaign was times that size.
swollen to several
The local was given “closed shop”
irights at Ft. Meade and other big projects,
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DAYS OF SPRING
{Mr. Halleck likely would be major-
and collected $25 apiece |Ljeut. Gen. Wheeler, chief or army {engineers regarding some $6,000,- |
WEATHER PROMISED
dirner at the Statler.
Up After Snow Scare.
LOCAL TEMPERATURES
Cam ... 2% 10 a.m... 36 Tam 20 11am... 40 Samm... "32 (Noon) 43 Jj9a. m ... 34 1 pm. >
The weatherman promised a bit| out.
'o spring today after that weekend snow scare, Temperatures throughout Midwest are warming rapidly, [casting warmer weather tonight! land tomorrow. The mercury dipped to 10 below zero at Bellston, Mich. last night
the grey, stooped pianist who last night! and nine below at Cadillac,» Mich.,
[but warm air moving eastward from | northern plains states has sent temperatures upward. Warmest spot in the nation yeswhich recorded a comfortable 91.
How to Haunt A House ... ® The story of the Ghost
of Noah's Ark, another thrilling chapter from the history of .
OUR TOWN By Anton Scherrer Today jon Page 12
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‘tenants from a building where they | the have no place to go and re-establish fore- | their businesses.”
' ent Had Been Despondent.
| Brasher, 33, wife of a federal gov-
the Soviet Union.” A Moscow dispatch from United Press Correspondent Henry Shapiro described the Pravda article as “bitter, vigorous language such as is seldom used" in that paper. He noted that Pravda reverted to its pre-war type of editorial castigation in branding Mr. Churchill as a hardened reactionary, war monger ard hypocrite for being a false friend to Russia, 3 Columns of Space The editorial filled three columns on Pravda's front page. It was broadcast three times, While radio Moscow was slamming at Mr. Churchill, a United Press dispatch reported the unex pected and unexplained postponement of the opening of the supreme Soviet meeting in Moscow from to= day until 5 p. m. Tuesday. The Russian denunciation of 000 of approved flood control projects for the state, Governor Gates | Churchill contained more fury and invective than any Moscow pfo-
‘enorted. Tonight he has invited all mem-|houncement about a major world nig . | figure except Adolf Hitler,
of the Indiana congressional | ‘ Slaps Vandenberg
delegation, including Democratic | Ludlow and Madden, to a| Pravda slapped at Senator Are | thur Vandenberg (R. Mich.), who While here he also expects to-find | recently urged a stronger American
he stay in congress and become national chairman also.” So far Mr. Halleck has turned {down consideration of the chairmanship. He is often mentioned |: now as a possible G. O. P. nominee {for the senate, instead of Senator | | Raymond E. Willis (R. Ind.) He has announced for renomination in the second district congressional primary. Should the Republicans win the house in November,
ity leader or even possibly speaker of the. house. Plans Conference With VA’ Governor Gates is accompanied here by Chairman Anton Hulman of the state flood control and water resources committee and Clyde] Black, committee secretary. They will confer tomorrow with|
Reps.
in Midwest. out, the future status of the various|policy toward Russia.
army installations in the state and| The false speeches on democ= { confer with the Veterans adminis-| racy and freedom made by reac= tration regarding the prospective|tionaries of the Churchill type and | purchase of the Century building in|his American friends of the Vane anapolis;-the governor said. |denberg camp will not: succeed in e have given the Veterans ad-|geceiving those who are real friends ministration some quarters at the] of both democracy and freedom,” state fairgrounds, formerly used by |i said. [the army,” Governor Gates pointed| with bitter irony Pravda sald [that the only consolation Churchill ° “It is a difficult thing to oust 70! ands in a Europe is in Athens, “Churchill's idea of liber.
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GIRL DEAD--SISTER, MOTHER MISSING
Body Found in Creek; Par-
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NEW ALBANY, Ind, March 11 (U, P,)~Authorities found the body of 3-year-old Louise Lynn Brasher in Silver creek today. They expressed the belief that they would find the bodies of her g-year-old sister and their’ mother nearby. Missing
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ernment employee at Bloomingto n, Ind, and the couple's 6-year-old daughter, Sally Ann. ’ Police and coast guardsmen from
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