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HOWARD |. VOLUME 57—-NUMBER 20
, Indianapolis 9, Ind.
Entered as’ SBecond-Class Mafter at Postoffice Issued daily except Bunday
Tromen Asserts [il
Coal Tiel
To Reconversion
Says Industry Is ‘Over Is
. Progress Can Be Nullified by . | Failure to Control Prices.
WASHINGTON, April 3
said today that reconversion is “over the hump.” But he warned that a long coal strike would give it a knockout blow and that progress thus far would be ‘“com-
pletely nullified” by failure to
The President issued a statement at his news conference commenting on a quarterly report in which Reconversion
Director John W. Snyder said of a boom and must beware
of inflation. Mr. Truman said that if the strike of 400,000 United Mine Workers (A. P. of L.) is protracted it would constitute a knockout blow to the progress of reconversion. The strike started Monday and | negotiations currently are dead-| Mr. Snyder's report said produc-| tion is now at the annual rate of $150,000,000,000, an all-time record. Byt he warned that reconversion still is jeopardized by the threat of inflation. The President said that although “we still have large, critical problems ahead of us” the country is “over the hump of reconversion.” But, he added, “our progress fo date will be completely nullified if we do not have an early extension of our price control and stabilization laws.” Without these laws, the President said, “progress will be turned into economic chaos.” Can Delay Progress “Likewise,” he continued *“protracted work stoppages in any one of a number of important fields— for instance, in the coal industry— eould seriously delay our progress.” Underscoring. Mr. Snyder's plea
his own, the President told Ameri+
- they must not be “compla-!
_— Present industrial
mo wand Mgnt avs i A Be Eeipute
prices, Mr. Truman said he was against it. This plan, he said, would upset the ‘apple cart if passed. Mr. Truman cited especially the fact that production of goods and services for the civilian market is higher today than ever before. In appealing to the nation not *to relax for one minute our battle against inflation,” the President said: “Our progress to date will be completely nullified if we do not have an early extension of our price eontrol and stabilization laws, for without them progress will be turned into economic chaos. “Likewise, protracted work stop-
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BULLETINS
CHICAGO (U. P.).—A Carne-gie-Illinois Steel Corp. spokesman said today that coal shortages would force curiailment of operations at steel producing plants in Gary, Ind, and South Chicago beginning tomorrow or Friday. . Earlier the spokesman had said that curtailment might begin by Sunday, and initial curtailment would involve layoffs of 25 per cent of the 40,000 steel workers at three mills in this area.
CHICAGO, April 3 (U. P.).— Bert M. Jewell, president of the railway employees department of the American Federation of Labor, said today that a railway arbitration board "had granted wage increases of 16 cents an hour to approximately 1,000,000 nonoperating railroad employees.
LOCAL TEMPERATURES
Te ping
up Peril
‘Over Hump, but
¥ (U. P.).—President Truman
maintain price control.
the country is in the middle
COAL LACK CUTS ‘STEEL OUTPUT
Ford to. Lay 0ff 35,000 Because of Steel Shortage.
.. By UNITED PEESS Steel production was curtailed in Pittsburgh foday as negotiations between the striking United Mine Workers (A. F. of L) and soft coal operators verged on a- breAkdown. Meanwhile, the Ford Motor Co. announced ‘today that 35,000 employees will be 1aid off for one week starting tomorrow because of the steel
shortage. Approximately 18,500 athployess in the Detroit area will be idle 16,500 in Ford plants throughout the nation will not report to work. Nearly 700,000 U. S. workers were idle because of strikes and shutdowns. The mine workers’ strike accounted for 400,000 of the idle. U. S. Steel Corp. ordered a 53 per cent cut in production at its Pittsburgh plants as a new split between the operators and the U. M. W. threatened to extend the mine
dle and about 20 homes 1 saw, only one
‘It Could Have Been Worse’ If Holiday Crowds Had Thronged Beaches.
(The destruction which Pacifie ocean tidal waves wrought upon Oahu Island, known to thousands of American servicemen, is described in this dispatch by the president and general manager: of the Honolulu Advertiser).
By LORRIN P. THURSTON , Written for United Press HONOLULU, T. H, April 3.-— Many of the beaches of Oahu today are a shambles of smashed homes, shreds of pavement, and debris buried in spots under tons of sand and coral. But it might have been worse. Had the waves struck Sunday, when beach homes are crowded with |. week-end guests, the loss of life would have- been far greater. Had they hit Waikiki, Waimanalo and XKailu beaches, the loss of property would have been far higher. As it was, the rubbish tossed up by the waves can be found a good 30 feet above the normal water level on the beach just beyond Koko Head, where the water reached its greatest depth. | The tidal wave at Sunset beach seemed the next deepest, and that at Kawela beach a close third. Of any district on Oahu, Kawela bay—considering the number of homes involved—took the greatest damage. On the bay proper, of
was not badly smashed. One home was washed intact from its foundations fully 200 feet away and gently deposited .n a cane field of the Kahuku plantation,
Almost Ruined
Kawela beach comes closest to being ruined of any on the island. Tremendous amounts of sand were washed away by the waves and
try’s two-week The cut was to be effective at noon today.
Sime sale ues M.'W. Pres.
Mr. Lewis presented the opera-
they
ment’s counter-proposal on these
issues. Meanwhile, decisions were expected at Chicago today that would
country’s railroad workers.
special arbitration boards set up to .settle a wage dispute between
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VOTE IS NEAR IN LINK-BELT STRIKE
Proposal Tomorrow.
Striking production workers at
Co. will vote tomorrow on a tentative agreemefit reached last night in an effort to settle the 11-week-o0ld walkout,
other issues at stake in the strike, will be presented to. members of Local 1150 of the United Steel Workers (C. I. 0) in a meeting at Tomlinson hall at 2 p. m. tomorrow, In a joint statement, company and union negotiators said: “Representdtives of the Link-Belt Co., members of the negotiating committee of Local 1150 and representatives of the U. 8. W. district office agreed to settlement of the 11-week-old strike at the two plants of Link-Belt Co. at Indianapolis to-
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96 More Pupils Join Honor Roll in Times Spelling Bee
By ART WRIGHT Ninety-six more grade school pupils were added to the “honor roll” of The Times Spelling Bee last night when they survived the spell-
TIMES INDEX
Amusem’ts. 18, 19, Jane Jordan.. 23 Aviation ..... 13|Ruth Millett. 13 Eddie Ash.... 10{Movies.... 18, 19 Books ..... . 8|Obituaries ... 9 Business ..... T!/H. V. O'Brien, 13 Classified. 20, 22|Dr. O'Brien.. 13 Comics ...... 23| Radio ....... Crossword ... 20, Reflections .. 14 Editorials ... 14|Mrs. Roosevelt 13 ~ Burope Today 14|Scherrer ..... 14 Fashions ..... 17 8erial ....... 12 Mrs. Ferguson 17, Sideglances .. 13 Forum .....:. 14 Sports ... 10, 11 Gardening ... 13| State Deaths. 9 Meta Given. 17| Troop Arrivals 19 Homemaking. 17, Washington... 14 . In Indpls..... 2|Joe Williams. Inside Indpls.
13, Women's... 16, 17
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munity centerssand three churches. In matches at Roberts Park Methodist, Tabernacle Presbyterian and St. Paul's Methodist churches, 25 contestants were selected to return to each site for the second preliminary next Tuesday night. Thirteen at Rhodius community center and six at Déugldss community center earned the right to the . second eliminations at their centers for next Tuesday's prelim= inary. Ai At the Norwood community cen-
23 |ter the group was eliminated until
only two remained. They will 80, to the semi-finals at Caleb Mills] hall, Shortridge high. school, on the night of April 22. The winner was Susie Roscoe and the runnerup was Barbara Betty. Both are enrolled at School 19. No match will be held at Norwood next week. Tonight's preliminaries will be mt :
shutdown beyond the steel indus-| “safety. margin."
Announcement of the steel cur-|pounds
tors with a three-point union safety and sanitation ultimatum which rejected categorically. Mr. Lewis, in turn, vetoed manage-
affect the wages of 1,300,000 of the The decisions will be made by two
the two local plants of Link-Belt |
The agreement, calling for a 18cent wage .increase and settling
down in preliminaries at three com- |a
full grown trees have been uprooted.
Thousands of coral heads, some
: twisted and torn Joose by Eg uel
rific force of the water and is now piled up on the beach in tremendous quantity. Hauula and Punaluu sections took by far the greatest amount of destruction of private homes. Millions of dollars in damages were sustained by the -army airfleld at Kahuku. Waves apparently topped the crests of protecting sand dunes at a number of places and poured in torrents down onto the airstrip.
dunes, leaving great channels; through which succeeding waves | {poured thousands, if not millions, {of tons of sand, coral and debris.
of which must weigh at least 1000 !
Mote Faction Meets Here to Reorganize
Presiding over today’s national convention of the Carl Mote faction of the National Farm guild was 0. L. Hart (left); diseusting 2 resoixtion here wilh-Arthur H. Beath of Sandoval, INL, secretary-treasurer
of. the United Farmers of Illinois.
Resolves to Adopt New Nate: CHURCH FIGHTS
Plans 'Producti
By SHER While their leader, Carl H. Mot
ion Cost Fight'
LEY UHL e lay critically ill in Methodist hos-|
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Russian Demands for Ol Concessions and Azerbaijai Autonomy Told by Toh
NEW YORK, April 8 (U. P.).~Iran dotnsed the 0
troops from 'ranian territory. But Iran offered to withdraw all her charges ho Russians would promise to get out of Iran unconditi
by May 6.
tonomy,
It was learned that Col. vigorously objected to even an
of the Soviet-Iranian dispute
PARKING FINES
pital, a faction of the National Farmers guild resolved today ‘to ‘re- Noblesville Police Break Up.
organize.
They decided to adopt a new name and “fight for cost of | for the farmer.”
One Cent a Quart Hike Is| Possible. Prospect of an increase in milk
prices in Indianapolis loomed today with reports from Washington
in a few days. . Proposed increase in the price of fluid milk, it was understood, would |
IN MILK PRICES
production
Jostute the Parmers guild. > Slgwevet, the guild, as incorpo-| in the secretary of state's
jo officers. Referring to these officers, the | Mote guild faction resolved: “Let them have the name they | smeared; let them have along with lig the discord, the malicious maligning, the lying and name-calling which, because of their contemptible acts, that name has come to | represent in the minds of honest,
They quickly cut through the... . ceneral milk price revision | Upright men.’ {for the country was expected with- |
About 50 Delegates Here | The delegates, about 50 in num- | ber from ‘Indiana, Iowa, Illinois, | { were to select a name for themselves
Great sections. of six to elght- result from an attempt to alleviate jater today.
{inch pavement are piled like poker {chips ros a table. Buildings on the flat land ad- | acent to the airstrip have col- | lapsed Equipment, lumber and |P*
build dozens of homes lay there
|
KENTUCKIAN KILLED IN U.S. 52 CRASH
Former Hotel Manager's Car, Truck Collide.
Sam Friedman, 57, of Anchorage, Ky. former manager of the Kentucky hotel in Louisville, was killed in a car-truck crash today on U. S. 52, a mile east of Templeton in Benton county. He died in St. Elizabeth hospital, Lafayette, of chest injuries. Three passengers in Mr. Friedman's car| were hurt, They are his sons, J.| Friedman, 30, and Morris Friedman, 25, and his daughter-in-law,” Mimi | Friedman, 26, all of Anchorage. The truck: driver, Raymond Paugh, 22, of Versailles, Ind, also was injured.
WORKS BOARD LETS | $19,069 CONTRACT
The works board today awarded $19,060 contract to the Tri-State Construction Co. for the installation of outside water and sewer facilities at, the . veterans’ housing project at Stout field. The board today aiso received bids from the Raleigh Burk Co, and the Tri-State Construction Co. on paving materials for Drexel ave. between 37th and 38th sts. Bids were referred to City Engineer Thomas Jacobi,
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Union Naber. Will Hear supplies which would be used to]
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{the squeeze on dairies which can[not pay producers as high a price, | under present’ Tegulations, as are| paid by manufacturers of milk products. . C. W. Hunt, secretary of the Milk {Foundation of Indianapolis, ex-
| (Continued on Page 2—Column 3) pressed belief’ the increase, if and | district 50 organization.
when -it comes, would not be more than 1 cent a quart to consumers. Pressure of manufacturers pay-|
ing higher prices for milk has only | been felt sharply by local dairies
during tBe past month, he said. Equalize Difference
Washington reports indicated the difference in prices paid would be equalized by combining the price increase to consumers with a cut-back in the price which manufacturers of condensed milk, butter, cheese and other milk products will be permitted to pay producers, Meanwhile, Mr. Hunt reported, the supply situation is the best it has been in several months in Indianapolis. Principal cause of the {growing squeeze, he indicated, has been a tendency of producers to | sell as much of their milk as possible to the manufacturers who are | limited in the price they can pay. Principal reason cited for the anticipated price boost from Washing-
(ton was to avert’ a possible short-
_ column in The Times. .
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J Arthur H. Booth of Sandoval, Ill,
{said he would propose working | agreements with other farm groups | promoting similar ideas. Mr. Booth is secretary-treasurer of the United |
{ate of the United Mine Workers!
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GEN. HOMMA DIES BEFORE FIRING SQUAD
MANILA, April 3 (U. P.).—Lzi. Gen. Masaharu Homma, in full military regalia, was executed by a U. 8. army firing squad today (Tuesday, Indianapolis time) only | 75 paces from the gallows where| his fellow officer, Lt. Gen. Tomoyuki Yamashita, was hanged in disgrace nearly six weeks ago. Stoical and proud to the end, Homma stood firmly at the execution post while a 12-man firing
into his body from 30 paces. The
execution took place at Los Banos, 20 miles south of Manila.
tary tribunal. He was charged with
and Americans.
Their marble game ended in ow +++ Richard Hiatt (center) and
erry Lee, six, and Forest Jr, eight.
pared today to take
Meeting With Stickers.
its fight!
commission.
$1 fines in Mayor E. R. Pertig’s
city court yesterday after police broke up a “Youth for Christ” rally
CATS. The Rev. Homer Rich, pastor ot the church, said today that he had received permission from the |
mobiles on the west side of Slat e| Road 37 near the church. ° parking” signs line the west ~ of the highway.
Rally in Progress
“I'm going to Indianapolis tomorrow to discuss this matter oo
Farmers of Illinois, a former afili- [get
| tervened while {going on, he added.
the minister said.
squad pumped a volley of bullets)
Homma, who ordered the Bataan “death march,” was convicted as a war criminal by a five-general mili-|
‘garage.
the state highway commission,” Rev, Mr. Rich said. any satisfaction, higher.” He said that city police officers |
I'm going |
{Monday night while a rally was | in progress at the church. He inthe services were |
“I went down to the city hall” “The city council was in session. I tried to get them to make the stickers warnings and keep my church members {from being arrested and paying fines. But they made them pay.”
Charges Traffic Hazard
The Rev. Mr. Rich said he previ-| {ously had contacted the police and
{was told they were “too busy with |other things” to make arrests of ¢hurch members for parking violations. | The pastor said parked on the west side because they would have to walk across the busy highway if they parked on the east. “That hazard,”
would be quite a traffic
the minister said,
{to go to church.”
A four-year wi boy who was
played in an alley near his home yesterday, remained in a serious conFour other persons, including two children. also were injured in traffic accidents yesterday. Richard Hiatt, son of Mr. and Mrs. Forrest Hiatt Sr., 517 N. Traub ave, was injured as Ne and his brothers played marbles in the rear of
dition in City hospital today.
the Conkle funeral home, 1934 W. Michigan st. The driver of the
ambulance, Harry Lewis, 33, of. 526°
ran over the boy as he into the
we
Alton st., backed the ambulance
The driver said he.did not see the boys playing in the alley. The mother of the injured child stepped out of her kitchen just in time to witness the accident. The driver and Mrs, Hiatt pot the child into the ambulance and
Thirty-five church members paid |
by pasting arrest stickers on their| Azerbaijan autonomy;
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city and state police to park auto- | !
the members|
“with | 42 specific crimes against Filipinos 350 people walking across the road
The Russians insisted that their réquest for oil “cone cessions was not connected with evacuation of her tro But they did not mention the quesfion of Azerbaijan oo
These latest developments in the week-old United Ni tions security council crisis came at a short; half hourcoun‘fil meeting after a four-day recess. » The Iranian and Russian replies to the council request for. more information on the Iranian situation arrived loss than two hours before the meeting. 3 ; The council ‘scheduled a closed session for 1 30° pe me (Indianapolis time), but a member of the secretariat s that it would “not be a formal executive meeting, rather “an informal get-together.”
Opposes Secret Session
first raised it at the London meeting in January. Soviet Delegate Andrei A. Gromyko was not present at today’s meeting. He continued his boycott of the council while it considers the Iranian question.
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W. R. Hodgson of Auta informal closed meeting.
ay
The Iranian-Soviet replies and Iran's new offer to the Russians appeared to bring the council closer to a solution. ;
than at any time since Iran
But United Nations officials said Iran's offer’ would be delivered to him by Secretary-General Trygve Lie's office.
immediately.
The fact that Iran and Russia replied to the countil’s
{request for information—even though the Russian: answer
|that other questions such as
gettted Russ Insist *
| The Soviet reply contended that thé question of evacusagainst automobile parking reguia-| tion of Soviet troops from Iran had been solved with an |omee. is ruled by an opposing set tions to the Indiana state highway | understanding to get out within one and a half months;
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oil concessions are not con-
nected with withdrawal of troops.
The Iranian reply charged that as late as March 24 the Russians had raised the question of oil concessions and
PET LAMBS HALTED
Brown County ate Trier Gets
NASHVILLE, Ind, April 3 (U. P.).
appeared they wouldn't get to act]
in the movies, after all. Hansel Mead, whose family has|
| parts in a Wal} Disney production |
informed by a Disney represenia-| tive that the filming in Brown county ‘state park would have to wait | until next fall.
that no Soviet-Iranian understand-
or agreement has been reached ; prea the Russians
‘have declined to promise un{conditional withdrawal of their | troops,
The council adjourned until 11
a. m. tomorrow to give delegates a chance to study the Iranian and | Soviet replies at the request “of
| New Order From Disney's. secretary of State James ¥. Byres
| who, however, first called for any further statement Ala wished to
N the | Indiana’ s Hollywood-bound lambs | make, I don’t | were a crestfallen crew today. It| «If a representative of the Soviet
Union would be willing to withdraw the conditions attached to with drawal and assure us that the So«
secretary. lasisreq the cars with stickers | been training. the lambs for their|viet withdrawal of troops will be
completed unconditionally by May
| since February, said he had been |g, then I would say that my gove
ernment would not press its charges further,” Ala told the council After adjournment, Ala told reporters he was convinced that the
By that time, the 10 lambs Mead | council's action had strengthened has trained as movie stars will be|the United Nations in the eyes of full-grown sheep. They won't have|the world and especially in the eyes any lambish personalities and prob-|of “small naticus.
ably will have forgotten their spring training, Mead said. Letters from Lair
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CHIEF W'MURTRY IS |
BACK ON THE JOB!
Police Chief Jesse McMurtry was
back on the job today, after being|
confined to his home because of a {leg ailment for the past several weeks. Inspector Don Tooley acted as | chief during Chief McMurtry's ab- | sence,
4-Year- Old Boy | Hurt Seriously as Ambulance Backs Over Him
run over by an ambulance as "he
of 2434 Prospect st., was injured as ghe_ ran into the side of a car near her home yesterday. She was treated at City hospital and returned to her home. The child ran into a car driven by Arthur J. Derdaet, 23, of 109 W. 16th st. A car driven by Ernest Willis, 57, of 2105 Boulevard pl, struck 12-year-old Elmer Bently, ‘of 2315 Northwestern ave. as he turned off
took him to @ity hospital. The father of the injured child, discharged {rom the army several months ago after serving in -Ger-
many, is employed at the Amerioan| was struck by a Belt railroad en-|
Foundry.
Another child, Donna. Roberts, 3 (Continued on’ Page 3=Column LJ
: oe
Northwestern onto 25th st. yester-
“I am equally convinced that the
y Lansburgh, | (Continued. 9 on Page 2 Column 1)
HAPPY ENDING SEEN IN DRESS THEFT
WHITE PLAINS, N, Y; April 3 (U. P.).~Joan Smith, 16-year-old high school student charged with stealing a $5000 wedding trousseau, was remanded to jail today pends ing a hearing next week, but, hey | case may have a happy ending. Although the girl's Park ave, fos ter parents, Mr, and Mrs, A. D, | Brewer, ofs New York, failed to ap«
| pear on her behalf when she waived
a hearing today, her sweetheart, Roy Turner Jr. 19, of Norfolk, Va, | did. “#olice said the youth flew in by plane last night and told them that he hoped his young sweetheart might be forgiven if the property she took for love were returned.
3.Bedroom Bungalows } Are Always in Demand
A ready resale is an
day afternoon. The boy was treated (at City hospital.
Two were injured when an auto
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