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ACTIONBY U.S. TAKEN T0 SPUR “NEW HOUSING
‘Homeless’ Veteran.
By HELENE MONBERG United Press Staff Correspondent
WASHINGTON, March 26. —The government today issued its long-awaited “stop” order on virtually all new less-essential construction to
save building materials for the . emergency veterans housing program, The drastic curbs are effective at once. They require government permission to start any new construction or repairs over certain dollar minimums ranging from $400 for private homes and farms to $15,000 for certain specified industries. Construction work already substantially under way will not be affected. This includes projects where the basic materials required for the new building already have been incorporated in the structure. Specific exemptions probably will be announced later. The program also will not ban all new construction in excess of the stated minimums. In cases where the work is absolutely necessary, such as factory buildings which would provide additional jobs and amooth the reconversion task, permission will be given.
Wyatt Issues Order
Public works projects, utilities and certain private projects such as farm silos and fences also were exempted from the program. Maintenance and repair work in industries, utilities and transportation systems likewise were not covered. The order was issued by Housing Expediter Wilson W. Wyatt and| “Civilian Production Administrator John D. Small. They planned to disclose further details of the program at a new conference this all Srason. Small said the success A, of the program hinged (oi public support. So He pointed out that President Truman already has indorsed the order in principle when he approved Mr. Wyatt's program —for building 2,700,000 new homes and apartments for veterans during the next two years. This 1,200,000 units this year and 1,500,~ 000 units in 1947. “We know the good sense and the good heart of the American people well enough to be sure of _ their desire to do the fair and just thing by the ex-service men and women,” Mr. Small said. “That is why we are sure the public will back this regulation.” Break for Veterans
Mr. Small said the program would be administered on a local level Citizens committees have been set up in each community to screen all building applications. Even if proposed projects are found essential, every effort will be made to defer them as long as possible. FHA will automatically approve all applications for veterans housing. Priorities assistance for ma-| terials will be granted only for vet-! erans and a few “critical” other classes of essential construction. Thus, all permits to build under the order will not necessarily carry | priorities assistance. The order had been delayed beeause CPA had no funds to put into operation. That barrier was removed when congress passed the Mead resolution permitting the National Housing Administration. to
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fers =howeey VOLUME 57—NUMBER 13
Russia Demands UNO Drop Iran Case Without Debate: U. S., Britain Stick to Guns|
By R. H. SHACKFORD United Press Staff Correspondent
NEW "YORK, March 26.—The Soviet Union today de-
manded that the United Nation
Britain, Australia, Egypt, The
Iranian case without discussion. But the Russians faced certain defeat when it met immediate and strong opposition from the United States,
s security council dismiss the
Netherlands and Mexico.
Only Poland, which usually
move made by Soviet Ambassador | Andrei A. Gromyko after he officially notified the council” of ‘a Soviet-Iranian agreement. Russia must garner seven votes to dismiss the case or even to post- | pone its consideration. { After two and one-half hours of debate on the Russian proposal, the | 11-nation council recessed for lunch. | Discussion will be resumed later] today.
tary of State James F. Byrnes and
SET KERCHEVAL | HEARING APRIL 3
in ait
Case to Be Final.
The state alcoholic hearing on a citation for the removal of Thomas W. Kercheval, Republican, president of the Marion
county liquor control board.
ings against Mr. Kercheval was issued ‘by the commission yesterday, climaxing several weeks of investigation into alleged “shakedowns” of tavern owners seeking liquor licenses here. ° Specific charges on which the
Charged With ‘Negligence’ The ouster citation charged Mr. Kercheval with “negligence in performance of his duties” as member of the county liquor board. tie charges, compiled by. Glenn “Markland, prosecutor far ABC, are upheld by the commission following the hearing, Mr. Xercheval will automatically be removed from the board. oe commission's ruling on the|
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oceedings will be final with no bonds, and the entire ward of 20 | beer includes | rod to the courts under pro- [patients was thrown into screaming | | visions of the state alcoholic bev- [confusion as he seized the metal |
erage laws.
ogan for doubting the accuracy of votess#¥ith its Soviet neigh-|his announcement that the Iranian bor, supported the Russian | dispute was settled by a SovietIranian agreement for | of Russian troops from Iran.
| insisted agreement be fully reported to the | 'council and fully discussed in that!
Gromyko sharply rebuked Secre- ch
withdrawal |
And when Mr. Byrnes and Mr. |
| Cadogan insisted that the agree-| ment be’ brought to the council,
| Gromyko blithely suggested that
| those interested in details could get
the facts on their own. Both Mr. Byrnes and Mr. Cadogan | that any Soviet-Iranian|
amber, Gromyko had the final word at
British British delegate Sir Al Sir Alexander Cad-| “ad-| (Continued on Page 5—Column 2) morning
Wild Maniac
Escapes From | Bellevue Bed
NEW YORK, March 26 (U. P.).—
| Special police details under orders county, said that a farm couple wit~ 'to beverages | violent maniac who was believed to! room window of their home but commission has set April 3 for abe the only man ever to escape were unable to see clearly because
“shoot to kill” today sought al
{from the psychopathic ward of famed Bellevue hospital. The madman, described as of the
most violent type, was identified as| were awakened by the sound of a A notice of the ouster proceed- |Leonard Gains, 38, a powerful six-!truck motor idling in a gravel road
foot Negro. His escape this morning into the busy streets around the hospital] was as violent as the movie escape from the same ward by Ray Mil-| {land in the film, “The Lost Week-|
FORECAST: Rain tonight. Tomorrow partly cloudy and cooler.
TUESDAY, MARCH. 26, 1046
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Entersd as Second-Class Matter at Postofice Indianapolis 9, Ind. Issued daily except Sunday
Lewis Calls For Strike In Coal Mines Monda
FARMER SHOT
T0 DEATH ON DUNKIRK ROAD
Yorktown Man ‘Man Killed by 3| Bullets; Assailant Flees in Auto.
DUNKIRK, Ind, March 26 (U. P.).—A farmer was shot to death on a lonely country road in an early fog today, and police | sought an automobile in: which his | assailant fled. The victim was Cyrus Frazier, 37, Yorktown, a fermer Dunkirk resi taurant owner. Authorities said he was shot three times while seated in the cab of his farm truck. The truck was loaded with bailing wire and tile.
Isaac Cook, sheriff of Blackford
nessed the shooting from the bed-
of a heavy fog and darkness. Sheriff Cook said that Mr. and Mrs. Harry Peters told him they
in front of their home. Both arose, looked out the window, heard three shots and saw an automobile speed away. rd Telephoned State Police Mr. Peters telephoned Indiana
End,” was crafty.
Gains broke the bonds which tied at { him to his cot. He felled a male
| State Police Trooper John Webster Dunkirk, He and his wife |stayed in the house until Troeper
Mr. Kercheva] receives the notice | |nurse, Wallace Lucker, 50, with a Webster arrived 30 minutes later, of the hearing, later today.
{heavy metal chair. Then he terrorized a woman nurse before he fled | into the streets after stealing a | blue: coat and trousers from an] outer room.
Gains had been committed to Bellevue last Friday at the request ‘Bis wite. Since then he had | been kept bound because of his | condition. Today, as nurse Lucker worked with another patient, Gains suddenly went berserk. He broke his
they said. The trooper found Mr. Frasier {dead, bullets through his neck, his ‘left side and one ankle. Authorities said investigation disclosed that Mr, Frazier left his farm home near Yorktown yesterday morning and had not Hign {heard from since. Sheriff Cook said Mr. Frazier was bringing the baling wire and tile
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| from Muncie! He said that Mr. | Frazier had been seen in a Dunkirk
{ night. Authorities said as to his activities |
“there. were no | fclues at all”
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whether further action is planned | in connection with its investigation of the local liquor Ugehsing situation. Some tavern owners have charged that they were required to pay “extras,” ranging from $250 to $2500 to obtain permits.
MRS. LOUISA ZELLERS 100 YEARS OLD TODAY
KEWANNA, Ind, March 26 (U. P.) .—Mrs. Louisa Zellers celebrated her 100th birthday today at her home here. The last survivor of a pioneer family of 15 children “Aunt Lide,”
GREEN ASKS PRICE
CONTROL EXTENSIO
Warns Fale Bo to Act Will! Bring Inflation.
WASHINGTON, March 26 (U.| P.).—A. P, of L. President William
must be continued another year. Otherwise, he told the banking committee, the nation will
as she is known to Fulton county residents, health.” Ber husband, Samuel Zel- | | lers, died 40 years .
‘FRANCE CURBS S DEMAND
PARIS, March 26 (U. P).— France today agreed to hold up temporarily her demand for United Nations security council action. on Spain but called for immediate cessation of all trade with Spain and withdrawal of ambassadors from Madrid. . ?
U.S. Ban Seen Hore as Blanket
Stop on Ind
“Tt looks like a blanket stop order on future industrial construction here, but its purpose is to expedite housing for veterans—and that's as it should be.” This was the reaction of Merriam Graves, president of the Marion County Residential builders and local construction spokesman, to the government's new non- -essential building ban. He said he interpreted the order as a virtual return to the * ‘old War Production board days when all
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building was channeled through government-controlled priorities.” The program will be administered locally by the Civilian Production Administration office to be reopened soon in the Circle Tower building. Building industry reports indicate
Albert Evans, former war produce |.
tion board administrator here, will head the Indianapolis CPA office. Mr. Evans said a local “screening committee, composed of top-flight construction and businessmen,” will serve in an advisory capacity. The OPA office will determine essentiality of building projects. It also will define whether industrial projects, already undef way, are advanced far enough to be allowed to continue. Mr, Evans said a number of large scale construc “programs had been -announced here recently, although planners realized the government intended to ban such projects. He said the projects would have to be past the “concrete block in a corner of ‘the
{foundation stage” before their com-
pletion will be permitted.
STUDY WAR DISPERSAL PLAN WASHINGTON, March 26 (U.P), -—The army and navy high commands are looking into the possible | military = necessity of American industry and building underground factories.
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dispersing |
{would result from permitting incollapse.” Mr. Green told the house banking committee that a “firm commitment” by congress to extend price control until July 1, 1947, would
as a date for termination of the wartime price control for all time.” The committee is considering a bill to extend price control a year beyond the present June 30 expiration date. Mr. Green. said he was not giving blanket endorsemént to the entire economic , stabilization program as it now stands. He said the government's stabilization policy is a “patchwork of conflicting decisions.” Careful restudy and rethinking are necessary to “arrive at a sound revision of the program
in its entirety,” he said. LOCAL TEMPERATURES Gam ... 55 10am, ... 57 7am 58 11am ... 59 8am ... 56 12 (noon) .. 61 9am ... 56 1pm .:. 62
Green today said - price control!
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“enable us to look upon that date]
occupants of the other car. ‘Played Cards a Lot’
=i victim's wife, Mrs. Anna | lliam Prazier, told authorities by
ibe from Yorktown that her
| husband “played cards an avi io and often stayed out late
| J vig Frazier was the father i {four children, two by his present | wife and two by a former wife, | Mrs. Pauline Frazier, north o
| Dunkirk. {
His present wife's father, the late Marion Williams, was a former member of the Indiana state fair board.
| 3 2, v » { be faced with even more far-reach- | Mr. Fraziors hogy wes. takes 1
said she enjoyed “good|ing governmental regulations, which | nga vin Robbins said following a|
a Dunkirk funeral home. Coroner
preliminary investigation that the
| Ration ‘to bring us to the brink of bullet which entered the victim's
[neck caused his death. Sheriff Cook said Mr. Frazier resided on Cornbread road. four miles! south of Muncie, near Yorktown. His wife formerly - was a school teacher at Marengo. m
OCD OFFICIAL SAYS JAPS HERE IN 1943
STOCKTON, Cal, March 26 (U, P.).—A former official of the office of civilian defense asserts that “from 12 to 15 Japanese soldiers” landed on the coast 15 miles north of San Francisco in November, 1943. Kenneth Hammaker,, former western states director of OCD, said the Japanese soldiers, apparently brought to the California coast by submarine, were captured by a U. S. army unit, The report could not be confirmed immediately either at west-
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ters, San Francisco, or the federal bureau of investigation.
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ern defense command headquars
Eight of the candiflates for Butler university junior prom queen smile and link arms as they. await
the outcome. Left to right are Ann Clem, Covington, Zeta Tau Alpha; Elizabeth Fendig, Rensselaer;
Barbara Seeger, Indianapolis, Kappa Kappa Gamma; Helen Brinkworth, Indianapolis, Delta Delta Delta; Carol St. Clair; Indianapolis, Delta Gamma;
Omega;
Marjorie Yelvington,
Joan Durbin, Indianapolis, Trianon, and Kitty Jo Denbo, Indianapolis, Kappa Alpha Theta. Two candidates not pictured are Ann Gill, Pi Beta Phi, and Mary Louise Miles, Butler, Independent association, both
of Indianapolis.
WARNS WORST HEAT
SHORTAGE FAL FAGES U.S.
City Consumers Will Be i In Next 6 Months.
WASHINGTON, March 26 (U.P.}| —A livestock expert told congress today that city consumers are | threatened with meat shortage in history within the next six months. H. M. Conway, research director of the National Livestock Producers association, told the house agricul-| ture committee that unless something is done, meat supplies will be | extremely short. or non-existent, | As a remedy, he .urged the re{moval of all price ceilings and sub- | sidies on livestock on June 30— present expiration date of the price! control act.
the removal of these controls would be an increase in the price of highgrade cattle and a decrease in the price of poorer grades. Mr. Conway told the committee that under present regulations, the feeder simply cannot make a profit on heavier, better grade cattle. He said, however, that a “free play” in pricés would result in a more equitable price spread between high and! low grade. cattle. Anyway, he sald, price controls are being ignored throughout the nation.
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Draft Action Is Deadlocked
WASHINGTON, March 26 (U. P.).—~The senate military affairs | committee deadlocked today on a | proposes six weeks extension of the draft. The Fr draft act expires May 1 i The 3dr was 8 to 8 on a motion {to extend it for six weeks to July 1. Two members were absent and unrecorded.
CHEMIST ADMITS GIVING RED SECRETS
Says He Knew Formula Was Sought by Russia.
MONTREAL, ‘March 26 (U. P.).— Prof. Raymond Boyer, wartime chemist at McGill university, ad-
mitted today that he gave details of a secret Canadian. explosive $0
GARY WOMAN HELD IN FURNAGE DEATH
Tells | Child Into Blaze.
GARY, Ind., March 26 (U. P).— Mrs. Secora Ramos, 23, threw her -months-old: nephew. into a roaring furnace and then had to argue his mother into believing what she had done, Detective Capt.’ Peter | Billick said today Capt. Billick filed homicide | charges against Mrs. Ramos. After | questioning her today, he will take her to the Lake county ~jail at Crown Point. | He said she was alternately jubi{lant and gloomy, under questioning, but admitted that she killed ‘the | child yesterday.
From Mrs. Ramos’ sister, Mrs. Carmen Mireles, 26, mother of the child, and another .sister, Mrs.
Cleofas Rinas, Capt. Billick .pieced together the story. The child was killed at the Rinas home where Mrs. Mireles lived with her three children. Mrs. Ramos, he said, .came to call yesterday. She was doing house work, complained of the cold and sald she would “stir up the fire.” She went to the basement. Soon she came upstairs and an-
nounced :
i 1 Just threw Ricardo--into the furnace.” Mrs. Mireles and Mrs. Rinas said | they did not believe her.
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Pred Rose, Communist member of parliament, and that he knew the {formula was sought by Soviet | Russia. Boyer, one of the suspects arrested in connection with the Soviet espionage ring in Canadas, made the admission at resumption of preliminary hearings for him and Rose. Both are charged with violation of the official secrets act. Boyer said the details of the explosive, known as RDX; were given to Rose “in someone's house” late in 1943 and in 1944, The chemist told the court that he was “anxious to do what I could to give the Soviet Union the process.”
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U. S. May Seize Industry if Stoppage in Pits Lasts Long.
WASHINGTON, March 26
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dustrial picture turned black again today when John L. Lewis ordered soft coal min. ers to leave pits all over the country at midnight Sunday;
It appeared likely that the gov ernment would seize the entire bi~ tuminous industry if the _| continues long enough to ‘| newly won gains in the battle | get peacetime production way, 5 The United Mine Workers’ press
wage-hour contract were getting no place and that the union had fled operators it was exercising option to terminate re agreement this week-end. 2 Although Lewis saw no possibile an agreement before mid night Sunday, representatives of the union and operators will cone tinue negotiations tomorrow. The stoppage—Mr. Lewis insisted it is not a strike—will come just as
duction after long strikes which had all but smothered reconversion. It will throw nearly 400,000 soft coal miners out of work. Many miners not in the U. M. W. follow
| tracts, Six els Mr. Lewis and the tors dis closed that the union rejected &ix management proposals on wage ine creases, a miners’ welfare fund and mine safety, and added penalties for contract violation. The U. M. W. chief called the proposals “mumbo-jumbo entirely | unsatisfactory on every point.” The operators said they offered to boost wages in line with increases granted recently in the steel, oil and aute~ mobile industries. These have ranged from 18 to 18% cents an hour, ; The government hoped other measures short of seizure could be found to prevent an industrys crippling coal shortage. Federal Conciliator Douglas Byrd, who has been watching the coal negotiations, conferred with his superiors at the labor department where hope was expressed that the parties could be brought together in 24 hours for another session. Prepare Another Proposal Labor department sources understood that the operators were pre pared to make another proposal to the union. But any government attempts to keep production going under extension of contract appeared foree doomed. Mr, Lewis declared thete would be no extension. He said miners were “defrauded of vast sums for retroactive work” during the war and would “not now ase sume the hasard of being again defrauded.” It was unlikely that the bulk of the country’s heavy industry could operate more than a few weeks with coal production stopped. Mr. Lewis said there was a 28-day
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More than 7000 Hoosiers shaft {and strip miners were scheduled today to .be idle next Monday if the strike ordered by U. M. W, President John L. Lewis materializes. A general strike in the soft coal industry would close 38 mines operated by 11 member companies of the Indiana Coal ‘Operators association and 18 member companies of the Indiana Coal Producers association, The operators’ association is made up of 15 rail-shipping shaft mines. The producers’ group companies operated 23 rail - shipping strip mines. A daily tonnage of nearly 100,000
ing the walkout in Indiana.
solid fuels administration in “adi-
sisted. They went to the basement! ana, said that Indiana's industrial
and Mrs. Mireles looked into the furnace. She said she saw nothing | but fire.
Then Mrs. Rinas looked in, and | pulled out a blazing bundle of | | blankets, in which lay the child. Capt. Billick said that physicians |
| recently told Mrs. Ramos that she He |
be unable to have children. and she was behind in her renk
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empire was stocked with a coal supply sufficient for several weeks.
“However, if a strike lasted 30)
| days or more,” Mr. Stockman said, | “we'd be in trouble.”
Mr. Stockton called the Indiana coal supply “fair.” He said it was not as bad as in “some other spots.” Smaller public utilities would be said her husband«had deserted Paras hit by a strike, partioupower and
larly muniolpaily owned
7000 Hoosier Miners Face
tons of soft coal would be lost dur-|
William G. Stockton, head of the
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electric plants, Stockton said. He added that hospitals and railroads also faced a shortage of coal in the event of a long strike. “Generally spegking,” Mr. Stock« ton added, “Indiana industry is in pretty good shape.” Indiana shaft mines normally produce about 56,800 tons of coal's day, while strip mines produes about 39,700 tons daily,
Trend to Super Market
has heen pronounced m the Jute decade. Opportunities similar to this one to purchase hs. busie ness and
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