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AFIRETRAP' IN LEGION REPORT

Lacking in Doctors And Nurses.

By EDWIN C. HEINKE Times City Editor

| MARION, Ind., March 25. +-Several of the buildings at he antiquated U. S. Veterans 10spital here, are firetraps. ' They should be razed im‘mediately “to prevent them

A mental institution, the hospital houses 1891 patients, all but a few from Indiana and a good many of them from Indianapolis. The present load. has exceeded the official capacity of 1721 and is shooting at the emergency load mark of 2086. The hospital, efficiently directed by Col. H. H. Botts, also is horribly understaffed both as to doctors and nurses, the report further charged.

Built in 1888

The report has been gent to Gen. Omar Bradley, director of the U. 8. Veterans Administration, and an Amerigan Legion committee in Washington for immediate action. | The Legion has recommended | these changes in the hospital, which was built as an old soldiers’ home in 1888 and which now is known as. “one of the two worst veterans’ institutions in the nation”: 1. That 24 doctors are needed at once, |

2. That something be done at |

once to secure new construction to the high levels needed to lick inflation. '

prevent some of the buildings from burning and killing a large number ! of veterans, ! 3. That a better type of women attendants be hired for female, veterans. (There are 14 WAC'S| and army nurses now patients at the hospital.) 4 That a new administration building be built at once.

Nurses’ Quarters { 5. That construction work on the pew dining room and kitchen start, as soon as possible. 6. That the size of the laundry be doubled. 7. That a new building be constructed for nurses’ quarters. The present one is a firetrap and is located a half mile from the hospital building. In an interview with a Times reporter, Col. Botts said that of the 211 buildings, only four were fireproof, one of them being the administration building. The “old treatment” section, which is a hospital in itsélf, is a firetrap and the remainder of the buildings are only semi-fireproof, Col. Botts said.

Wards Very Old

In this section of its report deal- | ing with the firetrap conditions, the Legion stated: “In our tours of the wards, we noticed. that No.’s 1920, 1921 and | 1922 are still in use. These wards: are all very old and of wood con- | struction inside. - They are con-| nected by long covered hallways. If a fire ever got started in these wards it would be almost impossible to get all of the patients out as most of them are bedfast and help- | less.” -Hardship encountered in obtain: ing nurses to adequately staff the] institutions” probably can be traced | to the conditions described in this paragraph of the Legion report: “The place is very clean but is of wood frame construction and is ready to fal down. The flooring on the main ficor is sinking and uneven. The nurses quarters are a firetrap and a new building should be constructed at once. The nurses report there is. no running water in any of their rooms and that there is' only one bathtub to each 16 to 18 nurses.” Dr. Botts declared that the shortage of physicians, who are attracted to the better pay in private practice, has forced the present

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rarer amet CHINA REVEALS BUDGET CHUNGKING, March 25 (U, P.). ~—China's budget for 1946, the first made public since before the war, today estimated expenses at $1,262,450,000 and revenue at $613,900,000. The estimates in American dollars

are based on an exchange rate of |

2000 to 1.

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Amusements . 8|Bill Mauldin. , 22 Eddie Ash ... 16/ Ruth Millett. 11

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Byrnes Urges Nations to Settle Own Disputes Where Possible.

By R. H. SHACKFORD United Press Staff Correspondent

NEW YORK, March 25.— Secretary of State James F. Byrnes, welcoming the United Nations to America, today appealed to members of the world organization to settle disputes without resort to the security council, if possible, He warned, however, that no nation has the right to take the law into its own hands, That statement at the opening meeting of the United Nations Organization security council here, plus Mr, Byrnes’ reiteration of a pledge not to consider ancient privilege sacred, indicated his willingness to accept any reasonable and honest settlement of the Sovi-et-Iranian dispute reached “out of court,” provided a full report on it is made to the council. President Truman at the same time ‘reiterated his pledge to give {the United Nations the wholehearted co-operation of the United States now that it has established | its headquarters in this country.

Gen. W. Bedell Smith of Indianapolis, new U.S. ambassador to Russia, and Mrs. Smith wave from an army transport at the Washington National Airport, just before departing for Russia. The former army officer, nominated by President Truman, succeeds W. Averell Harriman, who will be the new ambassador to Britain,

Baruch Asks Ban on Strikes For Year to Prevent Chaos

WASHINGTON, March 25 (U. P.).—Elder Statesman Bernard Baruch told congress today that strikes and lockouts must be prevented for at least a year—by law if necessary—so production can reach

At the same time, he called for creation of a high court of commerce, “a sort of supreme economic council,” to help settle clashes be5

tween all segments of the national] a

warned, “we shall soon find our-

selves in the morass of confusion that will - bring us either to fascism or communism.” He told the house banking committee he was in favor of the pend-| ing bill to extend price controls for’ another year after June 30. i Price Control Insufficient | “Price control by itself will not be| effective,” he said. “It-must go! hand in hand with a sharply de-!

Truman's Message Read

Mr. Byrnes opened the first security council meeting at the Huni- | er college site with a short address and read a message from President |

Critical Week Js Forecast Truman, who had cancelled earlier In Negotiations. » Mr. Truman's messag

G SE hoped appesl for unity among ) | Government conciliator P28 | Nationd--an appeal for the mem=) fined tax program; the siphoning, ... tat jabor peace would return pers to stick together and work: to-|

“If this is not done,” Mr. Baruch

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week might be one of the most| it 4 4 SD Inceins. Jdl OCEUOT worct ce the thee] Walt | ie ation to the greatest needs, and above Strikes against Westinghouse Elec-|yniteq and continue to work to-| all, by increasing production.” tric and International Harvester gether, as they have fought to.) In a direct rebuke of the admin- remained to be settled, and the gether, for peace and for freedom,” istration, Mr. Baruch said the gov-| United Mine Workers (A. F. of L),| Mr. Truman said. * ernment should “stop, bunking the were threatening a walkout in the| Secretary Byrnes® address was! public by saying wage increases can; bituminous coal fields. | delivered In the council's thterim BS without, Increase ‘in| Federal ,mediators reported that| chamber—the converted gymnasium |

| plans to attend in person because of | the press of official business.

e was an’ the United

Rival Auto Union

Conferring at the opening session of the U. A. W. convention at

Atlantic City are George F. Addes,

zation; Walter P. Reuthé}, vice pre

presidency, and R. J. Thomas, president since 1938. s

Murray Neutra Quarrel of U.

(U. A. W. Story by Fred W. Perkins, Page 11) ATLANTIC, N. J, March 25 (U. P.).—Philip Murray, president of the Congress of Industrial Organizations, said today that he would not support either R. J. Thomas or Walter P. Reuther in the bitter battle|crease United Automobile Workers union, the C. L O.'s| employees. podst alone would add more than Catapulted into the dispute between Thomas, president of the U. A. W.| half a million dollars to the utility's

for the presidency of the

largest organization.

INDIANA BOOSTS TEACHERS’ PAY

Will Subscribe 100 Per Cent Of Minimum.

The state of Indiana today recognized that Hoosier teachers are underpaid, with the announcement | that inthe fiscal year 1946-1947 the

{new attempts might be made thisjof Hunter college—before other |g ta will pay 100 per cent of the founded,” Murray said. “As presi-

The 18';-cent hourly wage In-| week to settle the 70-day-old West-| members-of the 11-nation council,| imum teachers’ salary.

days. | The council began what will be “This,” he said, “will be followed 10 the General Motors strike,.ad- | a “continuous session” in its new | by increases all along the line, no ditional settlements were reached) home while delegates awaited of-! matter what anybody thinks to the at - local plants and company ficial confirmation of Radio Mos-| contrary.” sources -hoped that the 175,000 cow’s report that the critical Soviget- | Secs Uniimited Demand striking members of the C. I. O.| Iranian dispute over Russian troops | America, Mr. Barych said, faces United Automobile Workers would | in Iran has been settled by an agree- |

tration calls it—but a “break, and Starts Continous Session

a grave one.”

five to seven years of unlimited de- Sia 10 their jobs within a Ee the troops already | mand. And the measures taken| ° : ya = % now, he declared, will determine| ~ At La Grange, IIL, 7600 produc-| Council consideration of the dif- : nt | tion workers of the G. M. electro-|flcult Iranian situation was post-| (Continued on Page 5—Column 2) motive division voted overwhelm-!poned until tomorrow to deyote to= ee ——— ingly to’end their walkout with set- EN y |tlement of local issues. At South YCuntinued ” Page S=Columu-4) 2 TEEN-AGERS 11 Gate, Cal, 1100 production workers | : J voted by 7 to 1 to accept settlement c HELD IN Ki of local issues. L Meanwhile, mine operators worked | ; * |against time to avert a coal strike. IN STATE TRAFFIC : | Apparently none of them believed 21-Year-0ld Missouri Girl that a walkout, seheduled to begin| tems Rescued Unharmed., | (Continued on Page 9—Column 2) [ndianapolis Man Dies as | . CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo, March 2 GO TO CHAIR FOR Cars Collide. 25 (U. B= 190 teen-aged kids, $60 HOLDUP-SLAYING. Ninegpersons died and 15 others one a gun-toting girl, were held to-| BELLEFONTE, Pa March 25 (u.| Vere J \red. three critically, as| day as suspects in the kidnaping ofp y Two Williamsport Pa men Hoosier motorists crowded the] the 21-year-old daughter of a prom-| calmly walked to the. electric chair| an ang highways. over: the] inent local businessman. | at Rockview prison early today and | Included in the fatalities was onel Arrested at Millersville, 35 miles, paid the death penalty for a rob- Indianapolis man. Logan Ta flor 69 | north of here, were Ruth Mary bery-slaying which netted them $60.| J» ong; RODS we onan ty two. | Gregory, 17, dressed in denim jeans | John D, West. 37, and Robert, car crash in which four or were | and with a boy-bob, and Donald E.|W. Pepperman, 29, were convicted jo oq ; |

| Bragg, also 17. Both are from Cape Of first degree murder in the slay-| 6,4 of the injured persons, Mrs

Girardeau. |ing of Joseph B. Campbell, retired] { They told police they abducted Erie, Pa. industrialist. The sgec| a Jatewn, Jr.ot he Allen 9% pretty Mary Jane Vandeven and her Man died in his home last Aug. lly) aite hospital, ~Other, ir 3 a companion, Lt. A. W. Aubuchon of After the pair had beaten him with | w..o pre Thelma T oe pg Chaffee, last night “because we ® SliPper. The slayers fled with a ByOn, eM wanted their car.” ; | $60 and Mr. Campbell's car. After robbing him of $350, the | : [ret youths fet the army officer out of | the car and told him they were keeping Miss -Vandeven “for protection.” She was not harmed. The Gregory girl and Bragg were picked up after a tip by two

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Russ Atom Spying Spurred After Bombing of Hiroshima

farmers who had passed them-on{ MONTREAL, March 25 (U. P.).— at the hearing for Fred Rose, Comthe ‘road near Millersville. ; Moscow made a demand of its Ca-|munist member of parliament, and The farmers had heard™$T the |nadian ‘agents for a. documenta: |Prof. Raymond Boyer of McGill | the radio—along|tion of information on the atomic |university, both charged with giv{with a description of the abduetors. | bomb less than two weeks after ing Canadian secrets to Russia. They notified officers. the second historic explosive was| past week. evidence was introA state police squad car hurried | dropped on Japan, it was revealed | quced showing that Russian agents

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to the scene where they found |today i i { . were seeking information on atomic {the two farmers blocking a country| The demand, on August 22, 1945, | secrets held by the United States | ane with their car. The. abductors | came in a cable to the Soviet mili- {and Canada even before the first put up no fight, the police said. tary attache in Ottawa. He was in-|bomb was dropped on Hiroshima

structed to “take measures to or-|on August 6. The second bomb fell

LOCAL TEMPERATURES ganize SocumnujiEtion on the atom- on Nagasaki on August 8.

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This would mean that the state will provide 5 per cent more of the minimum pay for teachers than during the present fiscal year when it paid 95 per cent of the minimum, a total of $27,764,600.75. Under the new plan the state wil pay $29,225990.26 in the next fiscal year, representing the total amount collectible in that fund for the oneyear period. This represents an increase of $73 for each of the state's 20,009 teaching units, Request No Slash

The state finance board, which authorized the boost, supplemented

its announcement With the Tequest| o,~ on sirike during. the G. M.

that local boards of education and

local taxing authorities in the state! iteq

not *decrease the amount of money they are now contributing to teachers’ salaries. The board pointed out that with the state paying the full minimum, funds which formerly ‘had been raised by local taxation to go to-

{ward the minimum, now will con- | stitute a raise in pay for the Hoo-

sier educators. See Increase Justified In passing a resolution pledging the increase, the board declared that the raise “does 'not begin to equal the increase which is being granted to those in industries throughout the. state. “It is our feeling that, due to

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NO VISIT T0 MOSCOW NOW. SAYS ATTLEE

LONDON, March 25 (U, P).— Prime Minister Clement R. Attlee told commons today he did ‘not consider it advisable at the present time” to visit Moscow to discuss security questions ,with Premier Stalin. . Vernon Bartlett, Ihdependent; asked in commons whether Mr. Attlee would go to Moscow for frank talks with Stalin, se@king “how and to what extent Soviet preoccupations with security can be reconciled with Britain's.” , “I am ready to adopt any means likely to improve relations between the great powers,” Mr, Attlee said. “However, since the United Nations security council now is holding a meeting in New York, I do not consider it would be advisable for me to make a proposal of such far

| reaching importance to Marshal | Stalin at the present. time.”

Leaders Confer

ABC Seeks Kercheval

Post

'Negligence in Performance

Of Duties, Charged Against

GOP Liquor

Board Member

The state alcoholic beverages commission today filed

a notice of proceedings to remove Thomas W. Kercheval, Republican, from the Marion county liquor board.

The notice of removal from office, prepared by Glenn

The removal citation set

secretary-treasurer of the organisident who is being boomed for the

| in Bitter A.W. Leaders

3 FOR 25C FARE

PETITION HEARD

Public Service Commission

Studies Transit Plea. Indianapolis Railways today be-

gan presentation of its case before {the public service commission for permission to sell street car tokens

at 3 for 25 cents, The company filed a petition March 12 for an emergency increase in token fares based on the

it faces an operating deficit of more than $350,000 for the rest of this year, Present token rate is 4 for 25 cents. No immediate change is sought in the current cash rate of 10 cents. L. T. Hixson, secretary-treasurer of the utility, told the commission this morning that one of the principal factors in the need for higher rates was a 15-cent hourly wage in-

who is fighting for re-election, and Reuther, the youthful vice president who led the U. A. W. in the General Motors strike, the whitehaired Murray asserted his com- | plete neutrality. | As 2300 delegates at the U. A. W's {10th convention waited tensely to {learn whether he would take sides in the presidential campaign, Murray denounced as “a lie” a report that he and C. 1. O. staff members would come to the convention in an effort to influence the election of either cahdidate. Denies G. M. Report

utterly

“That report is undent of the C.1.O. I have never 'interfered with or attempted to in[tervene in the affairs of the U. A.W, We are not going to influence the decisions of the delegates; We couldn't if we would, and we dont’ want to." ” Then in rapid succession, Murray also denied what he said were

recently granted to company He estimated the pay

annual expense. Return Would Have Dropped Had the pay increase been in effect during the month of February, Mr, Hixson testified, the company’s net operating return would have fallen more than $10,000 short of paying the utility's bond interest for that period. He pointed out that under the present rate setup only 10 per cent of the company's riders are paying the cash fare of 10 cents. During February, he sald, the operating revenue was $77.000 less than "it would have been under the previous token fare of eight for 55 cents. In its petition the company seeks to have the fare increase made effective by April 21. The petition cites inflationary operating costs and prospects for a decline in passenger traffic as reasons for seeking an immediate increase. In State of Flux

rumors and reports that as head | of the C.1.O. he did nothing -to | help- the. G.M. strikers; that he | had requested the G.M. fact find- | |ing {wage increase from 24 cents to| {1912 cents, and that he had made | fany agreement that provided that | under no conditions would steel Murray is president of the | Steelworkers Union; i | He said the report that he had | [gone to the G.M. fact finding {board and asked for a lesser rec-|

strike

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VON PAPEN UR NAZI-ALLIED PACT

| PHILADELPHIA, March [P.).—Former Nazi Vice-Chancellor

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| servicemen quit his peace time job

| Franz Von Papen made peace overtures to the Allies in 1944, offering | siirrender of .all German armed | forces on condition a joint Ger- | man-Allied army be maintained on the Eastern front to hold off Rus- | sia, it was disclosed today. Details of the peace offer were | revealed by George H. Earle, former U. S. minister to Turkey and | Austria and governor of Pennsyl{vania, The offer followed an earlier peace feeler put to. the Allies through Earle by Von Papen in | 1043.

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The street car fare situation here has been in a state of flux since September 15 of last year when the PSC authorized a trial schedule

board to reduce a recommended | calling for eight tokens for 55 cents, |

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BRADLEY: 1 OF 5 ENG. QUIT JOBS

Says Re-employment of Veterans ‘Acute Emergency.’

25 (U. P.).—Gen. Omar N. Bradley, vet-

(U.| erans administrator, said today that

lone out of every five discharged | after a few weeks of employment, Gen. Bradley said the re-employ-ment of these veterans is an “acute emergency.” He asked a senate labor subcommittee to postpone returt of the U. S. employment service to state control. Such action, he said, might “throw the | whole system into confusion.”

MARY PICKFORD TO BRITAIN LONDON, . March 25 (U. P).— Mary Pickford arrived today at Hurn airport after a trans-Atlantic flight from New York.

Phone Girl Hears Blasts Marking Murder, Suicide

AKRON. Ind, March 25 (U. P).—A telephone operator fold today {000 deaths in the United States how she heard at her switchboard the murder-suicide of & man and wife. |last year. hi Miss Joan Heeter, the operator, answered a call and heard Ruth Eber, 17-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs, Lester Eber, scream for help. The scream was interrupted by a single shot that tore into the

prospect that at the present rate)

A. Markland, prosecutor for the A. B. C., charged that Mr, Kercheval should be removed from office because of “negli gence in the performance of his duties.”

out specific charges against

Mr. Kercheval in connection

with his duties on the county board but A. B, C. members

declined to make them public until the board member had ree ceived the notice. The A. B. C. this afternoon was to wet a date for ‘a hearing on the citation, giving Mr. Kercheval an opportunity fo answer the charges. Silent on Future Piling of the proceedings to ree move the board member climaxed several weeks of ‘investigation by the commission into an alleged “shakedown racket” in which tavern owners were reported to have paid from $250 to $500 for “extras” in connection with “obtaining their licenses to sell liquor. A. B. C. members did not disclose what further action may be taken as a result of their investigation into liquor tavern conditions here, In another meve connected with the liquor investigation the A. B. C, last Friday issued an order prohibiting Carroll Kramer, Republican fourth ward chairman, from writing surety bonds for local tavern owners,

UKRAINE SAYS U. S. SHELTERS TRAITORS

ATLANTIC CITY, N. J, March 25 (U. P.).~The Ukranian delegate to the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration

charged today that the United States army is sheltering gestapocollaborating Ukranian fascists in an American-controlled displaced persons camp at Augsberg, Gers many. The delegate, A. N. Baranovsky, demanded that hereafter UNRRA cease sheltering citizens of any na« tion without their own govern= ment's approval. The charge followed British denials of Polish charges that proe Nazi Poles were being permitted to re-form military units within UNRRA camps. . : 2 “Many a war criminal who should be brought to trial is hiding in displaced persons camps,” Mr, Bare anovsky said. “These war criminals fled from Ukrania with their mass ters and are now hiding in camps in western Germany and Austria, particularly Augsberg, where the camp is under the control of the Ukranian Peoples association, which is a Fascist group.”

WAGES FIGHT FOR | CONTROL OF PRICES

A spokesman for the “Indianap-

lization still in its infancy, said toe day that the league is prepared fo wage “a fight to the finish for the continuance of price controls.” He said the league is carrying on its campaign by “numerous” letters and telegrams to the president, sen ators and representatives, The spokesman blamed “greedy landlords” for the eviction from their homes of “more than 6000 families in the past month” He said this was 400 per cent above the normal eviction rate. The organizftion charges that priorities for building materials are being granted to industries and core porations while private citizens, even veterans, can get none,

CANCER DEADLIER THAN WAR—TRUMAN

WASHINGTON, March 15 (U, P.),=President Truman reported today that cancer deaths in the United States during the war exe ceeded battle deaths. He proclaimed April as cancers control month and invited gover nors to issue similar proclamations, The President noted that cancer, the second highest cause of death, was responsible for more than 170,«

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Heeter heard. another shot, appar-|he apparently had taken from the

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found Eber dead with believed |the pistol in his hand, His wife, that Ebef killed his wife in a fam-|Ruth, who helped at the postoffice, ily quarrel, then shot and seriously |was lying unconscious, and died she |en route to a hospital. The daughhelp. |ter, a student nurse, was lying Then, Mr. Sinson believed, he shot|{nearby. The telephone dargled

‘himself with the 45 caliber pistolifrom the hook. i : ha

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