Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 April 1946 — Page 2

MANCHURIA

Government Says Russians * Are Aiding Move.

UHUNGKING, April 11 (U. P)— ~ $bvernment quarters charged today

‘A strong protest was made to the command, it was reported, ainst the action of Russian tanks destroying barbed-wire barrides which the Nationalists had ected as protection against Comt attacks. Chinese Nationalist forces were drdered not to fire at the Soviet thnks but government commanders ted. increasing concern at the or of Communist forces which were said to be preparing for a offensive against the -Mukden railroad. Gen. Tung Yen-Ping, the Nationalist commander, said that negbtiations for use of the railroads th Nationalist troops were continuing with the Russians at

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HUMAN NATUR | + BLAMED FOR THEFT!

“COEUR D'ALENE, Ida. April 11 (U. P) —Plumber ©. M. Weller todiy attributed the theft of his houseboat to “human nature.” He told sheriff's deputies his neighbors stood: by idly and watched while a group of men took the houseboat apart and carted it away

NFLUX CHARGED

Eiffel Tower,

may soon start coating famed’ Eiffel tower with 4735 pounds of paint to brighten it up for the tourist rush France hopes will come in the near future. : ? The U. 8. army, has just relinguished its radio transmitting station on the third platform of the tower, 897 feet up, which it used to maintain contact with occupation forces in Germany. The signal corps took over from Gen. Jacques Leclerc's 2d armored = division, which in turn grabbed it from Gerhan occupying forces August 24, 1044. Eiffel Tower, Corp. officials re sumed operating control of the building when the army moved out. The company director was indignant at rumors that the tower was unsafe. “It's good for many years to come and furthermore, I defy anyone to do anything better today,” he said. “It still represents an engineering feat which has no counterpart in any other country of the world. Until the Empire State and Chrysler buildings were completed, it was the tallest structure in the world.” : Made entirely of steel, the Eiffel tower is 977 feet tall and weighs 16,400,000 pounds. There are three platforms, the first 18% feet up, the second at 374 feet, and the third at 897 feet. All can be reached by either a stairway or elevators. Restaurants once flourished on the first and second platforms, but their business ended when the war swept into Paris. Late last summer, & night-club for allied enlisted men was opened on the first platform, and more than 665, 000 G.I.'s and their dates came to enjoy the view, and dance and

drink. The club closed Nov, 12,1945. |the French military again took | Alexandre-Gustave Eiffel built |control, but managed to smash all| — M———— —————————————— —

- Weller's absence.

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C nce Prize of Corigu Armies, Is Brushed Up for Tourist Trade

Eiffel tower, military prize of armies and playground of G. Ls, gets |

ready for tourist trade it hopes will come soon.

the tower for the Paris Exposition of 1889. Parisians in those days thought it a blot on the landscape —until it became a mecca for tourists. During world war I it was taken over by the French military and held until 1920. In world war II,

annual ground rental.

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install their own transmitters before the elevators were repaired.

ARSON SUSPECT

Writer of Mystery Stories -Pleads Innocence.

BOSTON, April 11 (U. P.).—Wilfred Henry Baetz, 35, of Boston, a self-styled radio script writer, pleaded innocent today to an arson charge when arraigned in muncipal court in connection with one of three incendiary fires that took eight lives in the back bay district. Baetz was ordered held in $10,000 bail for a hearing April 20. The arson charge was based on a blaze which drove 200 occupants from an Irvington street apartment house early yesterday. At abofit the same time, two similar fires occurred in the same back bay neighborhood, one of which killed eight persons, State detectives said Baetz would be questioned further concerning the latter blaze. . Suspect Has Record : A writer of mystery stories, the suspect was seized at his Newbury street bachelor quarters yesterday a few hours after an incendiary fire wrecked the nearby Colonial Cham- | bers, killing an entire family of five, two other tenants and a policeman. Two. other incendiary blazes broke

[no fatalities. Although the dapper suspect ridi-

mechanical equipment, from radios | ed the idea that h t to elevators, just before the Ger-| oon Colonia: Chambers fire, do. mans arrived on June 14, 1940. The yo 4;veq said he acknowledged havGermans had to climb the hundreds |; o been at Ue scene “oS 3 Spee of steps to the third platform to|¢atnr » rnvestigation showed he had and then left the party at 2 a. m.|university’s Public Safety Institute,|wants. arriving home a few minutes later.| was for the purpose of training of-| in Roxbury, Brookline and Boston|He did not leave the house again, |ficlals in arson detection and in- professor of rhetoric and oratory The city of Paris owns the tower, lhetween Nov. 11, 1938 and June 26,|he said, until he heard the sirens|vestigation. z and its operators pay the city an|1945; that twice he was sentenced|of fire apparatus racing to the|tended from 21

|been arrested three times for arson

to long terms in state prison but ac-

HELD IN BOSTON!

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- By ROBERT MUSEL United Press Staff Correspondent " LONDON, April 11.—After some 40 years of study and research on the subject Dr. Maurice Ernest said today that he is convinced that no one has even lived longer than 112 years. This considered opinion is based on hundreds of inquiries into claims of greater age, ranging from a savage in Bechuanaland to Zaro Aga, the toothless Turk who toured the United States about a decade ago. A small, plump man, Dr. Ernest bounced into the lobby of the Savoy hotel with a spring step which has fooled other medical men into guessing his age at 51 or 52. Actually, he's 75 and so firmly convinced he will top 100 himself that he has founded ‘centenarians club” dedicated to helping people live that long or longer. “Zaro Aga is a good case in point,” said the doctor. “He was palmed off as 150 years old and had quite a profitable time in your country, I hate to be a kill-joy but all evidence indicates he was be-

Women Live Longer Than Men, but 112 Believed Limit

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tween 70 and 80 and probably closer to the former than the latter. | “You probably don’t remember | the Bechuanaland Savage case, but officials there wrote ‘the Times’ here. that he was guaranteed 140. I challenged them and instituted my own inquiries whigh showed he was the village magigian arid he thught up the age to confound credulous white administrators. He was fairly old, though—about 90.” Dr. Ernest said women live longer than men and that all four cases of 110 and one of 112 authenticated by him have n women,

Dr. Ernest Said his club includes people of all ages as active members with all persons reaching an authentic hundred becoming honorary members,

Recently he made 90-year-old George Bernard Shaw an honorary member because he's sure the Irish dramatist will reach a century, He received a shavian letter stating, “you ought to call your club the tercentenarian club because we both know people would live to be at least 300 if they lived properly.”

tually served only a few months in jail. He still was on probation when seized, police said.

Offers Alibi

had entertaiiéed @ woman friend

lout in the same neighborhood al- Tuesday night and she had taken motion picture most simultaneously, but involved a midnight train for New York. elimination of pictures that may

| After. that, he said, he accepted an |invitation to a party given by Harvard students in an apartment on

Ipswich st, He said he had a couple of drinks

apartment blaze at 4:15 a. m,

RECOMMEND WAYS

The suspect's: story was that he

{children and the co-operation of the

OF REDUCING "CRIME

LAFAYETTE, Ind. April 11 (U.| |P) ~Closer parental supervision of

THURSDAY, APRIL 11, 1046

NAZI ASSUMES

DEATH BLAME

Kaltenbrunner Says He's Responsible for Atrocities.

NUERNBERG; April 11 (U. P.) — Ernst Kaltenbrunner accepted full responsibility today for mass atrocities of the Nazi security police under him, then plunged into a glib attempt to convince the war crimes court that he never had any executive power whatever, The scarfaced Kaltenbrunner opened his testimony in his own defense with a pretense of shoulder - ing the blame, However, soon his testimony assumed the now familiar pattern of that by other war crimes defendants —that somebody else, the dead Heinrich Himmler, - the missing Adolf Hitler, or others among their sycophants actually issued the orders which appeared over the name of the accused. Kaltenbrunner characterized Himmler as a power-mad police chief who coerced him into accepting the hatchet-man job and then issuing sadistic orders in the name of the new appointee. “Orders for killing people,” Kaltenbrunner said, were issued before | he took office. Kaltenbrunner said he did not know of the “misuse of concentra-

industry in the

[stimulate crime was advocated to{day Wy mid-west firemen and police |ofctals. | They concluded a three-day school at Purdue yesterday. The school, conducted by the

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tion camps and internees.”

‘GETS HARVARD JOB, ‘ALSO PASTURE RIGHTS

| CAMBRIDGE, Mass., April 11 (U. |P).—Dr. Theodore Spencer can pasture his cow inthe yard of historic Harvard university if he

Dr. Spencer was named Boylston

{at Harvard, a post once held by i President John Quincy Adams, and the office includes pasturage rights.

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