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WARNS OF 50% PRICE ADVANCE WITHOUT OPA
Spokesman Fears Inflation As Farm Senators Plan Attack.
WASHINGTON, April 19 (U, P). —Deputy Price Administrator James G.' Rogers today forecast price boosts of 50 per cent in the next 10 months unless “we get proper legislation without crippling amend= ments.” But if price control is extended in such a way as to permit OPA to 80 ahead with its present program, he said, it is possible that 10 months hence farm subsidies and most price controls can be removed without legislation. Mr, Rogers addressed the Ameri-
Lan Society of Newspaper Editors
at its meeting here. He admitted that “there have been some irritations and some inequities” in the
administration of price control.
“But,” he added, “there have been no. inequities lke inflation.” Farm senators, meanwhile, were
“planning other restrictions on OPA
in addition to those already voted by the house in a price extension bill passed yesterday. Republicans Undecided They rallied around Senator Elmer Thomas (D. Okla.), who proposed an amendment which would permit OPA to control almost nothing but rents, 4 Senate Republicans were not yet certain what reception they will give to the house restrictions, which administration sources have said would amount to repeal of , price control, The senate Republican steering committee. in closed session discussed the house OPA amendments. Senator Robert A. Taft (R. 0), steering committee chairman, said the Republicans reviewed the house amendments informally but reached no conclusions regarding which ones they would support in the senate. “The general principle of the amendments is not destructive to OPA, but they are subject to some criticism for going too far in some mstances,” Mr. Taft said, Defends Profit Theory
“We bape to develop a better pro<
s@vdtn” which will continue OPA, but| tries
still prevent the stupid sdministra-
tion that has marked the perform-|
ance of Chester Bowles.” Mr. Taft defended the theory of the house amendment which calls for price ceilings assuring “reasonable profit” on all items produced | and sold. He said it is based on the |
. economic fact that when production |
costs are allowed to increase through wage raises or other factors, the! price must be raised accordingly. The house voted to beat most of| the life out of OPA before passing! and sending to the senate an| amendment-riddled bill Yesterday. | The house measure extends agency for nine months beyond ef present June 30 expiration date. The vote was 355 to 42 for the final version of the measure. Price Chief Paul Porter said the bill could cause a 40 per cent rise in the | cost of living End Subsidies This Year The house bill would end farm subsidies at ‘the end of 1946, and meat subsidies June 30, It would guarantee “reasonable” profits to producers, distributors and retailers on every item. Mr. Porter forecast soaring prices for alitomobiles, electric refrigeratgrs, radios and most household appliances—with no restrictions on! most farm products. Other OPA spokesmen feared widespread speculative buying and hoarding. C.1.0. President Philip Murray telegraphed his unions throughout the country to “act at once” to get every C.1.O. member to protest to his congressman against the house bill.
BABY IS BORN EVERY 16 SECONDS
CHICAGO, April 19 (U, P.).—One patient was admitted to a hospital in the United States every 19 seconds last year and a live baby was born in a hospital] every 16 seconds, the Journal of the American Medical association said today. The A. M. A. council on medical education, in its 25th annual report, said that 16,257,402 persons, exclusive of out-patients and newporn infants, were treated in private and government hospitals An 1945, This was the equivalent of 12.3 per cent of the total population, based on the 1940 census.
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Back From Greek Assignment
FRIDAY, APRIL 19, 1946
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Entered as Second-Class Matter at Postoffice Indianapolis 9, Ind, Issued daily except Sunday
OPA Probing Sales
Used Cars In Indianap
FILES REVEAL POLLARD LED CHARMED LIF
Record Shows Amazing List Of Escapes From Prosecution.
Bv HEZE CLARK
Through jumbled police and court records, Howard Pollard’s primrose path career in which he “advanced” from a juvenile delinquent to a murder suspect, was traced today. | Named in police identification | files as having been slated 18 times before his last arrest on a murder charge Tuesday,r Pollard never served a jail sentence. He once paid a $3 fine—for speeding. Now
terwd-U President Herman B Wells . . . back home in Indiana.
WELLS BRINGS Gold Divers FAMINE NEWS| Brush Aztecs’ falas.
Death Curse pie of Indianapolis.
Official records on Pollard’s crim'inal activity are scrambled, incomplete and occasionally conflicting. {Sketchy notations jotted down by police and court clerks are notably {lacking in detail. In some cases, ultimate dispositions are not given. Names of prosecutors or deputy prosecutors partially responsible for
I. U. President Returns MIAMY, Fa. Avril 19 CU. Pom
ii | Musfoptume visited the Irwin AfP From Visit to Greece. Williamson expedition again today. | By EARL HOFF It nearly choked out the lives of! Herman B Wells returned to In-|the three main characters in the! diana today, convinced after two!dramatic quest for fabulous treas-| months in Greece that America| ure buried 146 feet beneath the! must help keep the rest of the world | surface of the sea. the constant leniency shown Polfed. Mr. Williamson seeking the le- lard are seldom listed in the recImpressed with what he saw in|gendary fortune ' paid by Chief grqs the war-torn.country as an official | Montezuma of the Aztecs to Herobserver of the recent election, be | igneo Cortez in 1520—returned to said that “if it is necessary for|Miami early today. His undersea : Americans to reduce their diet a for $330.000.000 in gold was Suter Serving gure pol bp help the other countries in the Stymied again. Herbert M. Spencer, 1936 world, then we should do it.” While Mr. Williamson and divers | here wers Her pen The Indiana university president parol 8: Ey oa, in asserted that American prestige is {Continued on on Page 4—Cojumn 5) {ihroug
4 to the present. very high in Greece and that “if|
ea father, Homer Pollard we accept our responsibilities we| will be a very important influence | for the maintenance of democratic |
Father in Politics However, Marion county prose-
{of 218 8. Arsenal ave. is considered a Republican power in the second ecinct- of the 16th ward. Though
(Hie boasts some politically influAGAIN MOVING ential friends, he was twice defeatfe ie or ob ore icinet committeeman.
by step Pollard’s brushes Ex- | with the law in Indianapolis, be-
furnishing food, clothing and other Sugplies to Greece and other coununtil they pass the present
crisis.” He asserted that if it were not for Coriinifios | fs
Thousands Join
At Good Fri
By EMMA RIVERS MILNER Times Church Editor Today brings another Good Friday and an ever-popular prayer day to Indianapolis. If you don't go to church today, you fall out of the procession, Thousands mill along the downtown streets crowding into the churches, into services in the English and Keith's theaters and the War Memorial plaza. Special policemen guide pedestrians to avoid
(Editorial, Page 18) congestion. Neighborhood houses of
worship overflow. In fact, it almost,
seems as if a score of Sundays have been rolled into one to make the spirit of this one Friday. And the core of all the interest is a simple cross. Every day, high over our heads as we hurry unseeing along, Ine dianapolis steeples would remind us of . the Savior's death on a cross
|that first Good Friday long ago.
{They would recall for us the promise lof “everlasting life bound up with the sacrifice. There is one type of cross on Christ Episcopal church and another on St. John’s Catholic church—both mean the same thing and both churches scheduled three hour services and other observances today. In varied patterns and sizes
tions of the city.
cross—small and white and ‘plain, Its image is graven on the hearts of certain Indianapolis families. The original is not here but thrusts its base into foreign soil away beyond the seas. Today, while ministers and priests thank Almighty God for the cessation of the wars and ask guidance in the ways of permanent peace, those “certain families” will have
(Continued on “Page 4—Columa 6) J
Arguments for
{food and clothing bundles from| Run charitable Americans and the work! change for Co- -operation. of UNRRA the Greeks would starve. Several good crop years would settle things back to normal, he said. Met at Union station by his |
(ginning when he was 14, were as | follows: Dec. 22, court charge {within the city
1936—Faced a juvenile alleging “shooting limits.” Case was late Judge John
Further revamping of plans zor the city’s annual clean- up week | continued today. 3 {heard by the Executive directors of Mayor | Geckler. | Tyndall's cledn- up commitiee met | White's Manual Labor institute. noon today to revive the!Then he suspended the sentence, | clean-up campaign, halted: by a |placing the defendant on six-months three-day strike of city street |probation on “promise of good be- | cleaners that ended Wednesday. havior” A Mr. Rolles (no first Galen /L. Parks, chairman of the name recorded) was the probation | clean-up and beautification com-|officer.
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PLEASANT EASTER WEATHER FORECAST
Tompetalure Will. Be Mild And Skies Clear,
LOCAL TEMPERATURES a .45 10a m ... am. .. 11am .., A. m. ‘ 12 (noon) ,. a
ip.m ... |
{lard was held for vagrancy on July {trucking company executive, Th eatherman’s announcement | y e weatherm nity clean-up movements before the | discharged. | recovering in a hospital today from | {contend the company is making a
of mild temperatures and NO RAIN | for Sunday just about clinched |
mittee, reported that a bulletin Ba) being prepared to enlist civic clubs and city youth organizations in | Monday after a week's delay. i The bulletin will set forth plans | of the central committee and encourage the exchange of communi{ty ideas through committee head- | { quarters, 815 Board of Trade bldg. | “We want to establish commu- |
city equipment arrives in the neigh- |
court charge alleging
| tracks of B. & O. railroad.” {the campaign scheduled to begin | tby Judge Gecekler, who withheld!
May 23, 1938—Faced a juvenile | “entering on Heard
| judgment on Pollard’s {good bahavior.” July 19, 1939—Arrested on ‘va-| grancy charge, later dismissed by | former Municipal Judge John L.| {McNelis. (State police files say Pol-
“promise of
1939 and later | Whether this was a different case,
come the steeple crosses in all sec-
But there is still another kind of .
in Worship day Rites Here
The cross on the steeple of ‘Christ Episcopal church . . . a perpetual menument to the first Good Friday,
Indianapolis today became
Thirty-one persons in Mic
above ceiling prices.
25% U.S. BREAD; CUT ORDER NEAR
Truman to Broadcast Food| Appeal Tonight.
WASHINGTON, April 19 (U. P.. ~The government was ready to lssue an order today which would cut this couhtry’s bread and flour diet 25 per cent for at least two months. The action will be taken to help beat off the specter of famine overseas, The order was expected to be coupled with an announcement that Canada is prepared to dig deeper into her domestic grain barrel to match America’s contribution, Brit ‘ain may be brought into the agreement later.
the gravity of the food emergency in a world-wide broadcast at 6 p. m (Indianapolis time) tonight. - Hoover Speaks From Calre Former President Herbert Hoover, who has been touring hunger areas, will speak from Cairo on the same broadcast. It was believed likely Mr, Truman personally will announce the new bread and flour order om tonights radio program.
and Against
This is the third of a series on the Indianapolis Railways rate case
By RICHA In the pastel green chamber of“the Indiana public service commis- | Ching and Japan, however, and was He sentenced Pollard io sion, it is possible to get a number of different answers from the same reluctant to interrupt his trip now. ! Secretary of Agriculture Clinton P. They get used Anderson, who revealed that Mr.
set of facts.
It doesn’t seem to surprise anyone that this happens,
to it in this financial land of Oz.
RD LEWIS
Do. current lares enable Indianapolis Railways, Inc, to make a fair!
INDIANA TRUGKING EXEGUTIVE KNIFED
In Lafayette Hospital, Tells Of Chicago Robbery. LAFAYETTE, Ind. April 19 (U: P.).—Wilson House, a Chicago
Was |
{knife wounds sustained in a Chi-
preparations for successful Easter | (Continued on Page 4—Column 8) lor a mistake in transcribing the | cago robbery last night.
day observances today. Churches and special sunrise services were expecting record ‘at-| tendances bolstered by discharged | veterans. who will see their first
'BURGLARS RANSACK HEDY LAMARR HOME
HOLLYWOOD, April 19 (U. P.).|
July 19 arrest is not known.) Nov. 17, 1939—Questioned by juvenile aid officers for allegedly | taking two young girls into his home. Charge was unproved and |
peacetime Easter service in several|—The palatial home of Hedy La-|he was released to his father on|
years. { Egg rollings and the annual parade of new summer clothing is| another must for which the weatherman promised suitable weather. Mild temperatures are forecast | for all of Indiana until Monday | when scattered showers are due to
fall.
NO ACTION REPORTED IN BUILDING STRIKE
Marion county members of the! Carpenters Union remained on strike today after it was reported no action was taken last night on a proposal to arbitrate the wage! dispute. An arbitration offer had heen made by the General Contractors association earlier in the week in a meeting arranged by Robert Pilk-| ington, U. S. department of labor! conciliator, The carpenters seek an hourly | wage of $1.80 compared to the pres-| ent wage of $150. An offer of $1.62'%% cents has been made by the contractors.
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{actor John Loder,
marr was a shambles today after burglars took $17,000 in jewelery {and $20,000 in furs and clothing | belonging to the actiess. None of the items was insured. | The home was ransacked while! Miss Lamarr and her husband, were viewing a rough cut of her latest picture, | « “The Stratige Woman.”
G'S TO HAVE | USUAL | EASTER BAKED HAM,
WASHINGTON, April 19 (U. P.). —Army cooks will serve G. I's the traditional baked ham for Easter! dinner but the usual American] abundance of food, will be tempered by a wheat conservation measure, If the cook prepares cake, he must not serve rolls or butter. If thet |rolls are served, no cake. The Easter menu also includes!
of his “good!
the parents’ Preise behavior.” Jan, 4, 1940 — Arrested on vaigrancy charge, dismissed by Judge | McNelis to permit reslating on Jan. 10 on. a vehicle-taking charge. Fined $50 and costs by Judge McNelis, who suspended the sentence ‘during good behavior.” March 15, 1940—Arrested on va- | grancy charge. . This was dismissed by Judge McNelis to permit police ito reslate Pollard-en- March 16 on grand larceny charge, later ea to petit larceny. Judge McNelis fined Pollard $25 and costs and sentenced him to 180 days on| the state farm, but placed him on | probation to enable him to pay he $25 fine. In this action, records dicate, he was defended by rm ang Edwin Smith. March 20, 1940 (while on Doha: tion)—Arrested. for reckless driving;
parsley potatoes, buttered peas, let- fined $10 and costs by the late, Mu-
tuce with French dressing and ice cream,
| (Continued on n Page 19Golurnn 2)
"Police Say Miller: Shain Here;
Pollard Calmi
The murder of Leland Paul Miller was committed in Indianapolis, probably in a home, it was learned | today as state and city police tried to weave a tight web of evidence around Howard Pollard Charged with the slaying, Pollard, 24, of 1812 Spann ave, tained a silent composure at Marfon county jail, where she was hustled last night from Lebanon.
Imotive, the state's case against Pollard would {to visit be based on a main- [Miller shot a quarrel over a woman last May,
lard has
n Face of Quiz
pending what they’ termed a| ‘cleanup” of the case. Police likewise were
although it was
“revenge”
steadfastly
collapsed at Boswell,
down a flight |station last night. incident including the exact locale, [today in, Long hospital,
theory. [Herschel I. Pollard in the neck in (born. st.
Mr. ing that he was robbed of a watch and “a considerable sum of money”
|as he walked from a restaurant to
the Stevens hotel. He was slashed on the face, back and arm by a knife wielded by the attacker, Mrs. House said. She came| here from Terre Haute to be at Mr. House's bedside, Mr. House is Eastern Motor
the | and |
president of Express Co.
the House Trucking Co. of Chicago. |
He lives at Terre Haute, Ind.
After the attack, Mrs, House said, | (Continued on Page 11—Column 1 |
hér husband got in his automobile land drove toward his Terre Haute home, 200° miles away, Half-way home, driving along U, S. 41, he Ind, and was| taken to St. Elizabeth's hospital in| Lafayette Mrs, House declined to say how | much money was taken from her husband in the robbery.
WOMAN DI DIES AFTER Presbyterian Minister, Once
UNION STATION FALL A Missionary, Dies at 53
|
Comerwile " Resident Way From Florida.
of steps in Union
She was Mrs. Margaret Johnson, |
relatives, Mr, and Mrs.
Mr, Cotton, who had gone to ine]
. An affidavit filed in Beech Grove (divulge any information othér than| Mrs. Johnson is survived by two
magistrate’s court charges Pollard |that he spent part of the evening daughters, Mrs. Ethel Zell, Florida; |at 4750° N. Meridian st., was born long a center of religious meetings shot Miller to death with a .38 before the murder (April’ 11) with | Mrs, Connersville; | July 7, 1892, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. and he and his wife often enter-
| calibef pistol. Buf police continued
to. withhold “delalls of the alleged
Hazel Wright,
House's wife said this morn- |
|return on the value of its property? | | (Continued on Page 4—Column 2)
[The answer in the green room is | both yes and no. Reading the figures it has pre. sented to the commission in own way, the company says it .— take a loss.
Renting the figures in their me
Increase in Fares Reviewed
|
way, Public Counsellor Glenn Sien-!
Wg Frank J. Murray of the In|dianapolis Assessment and Tax Re-| |Search association, OPA Attorney Julius L. Rudolph and City Corporation Counsel Arch N. Bobbitt
| profit.
The company says it lost $48,000 in February on the basis of its | financial statement for that month at current rates,
Using the same statement, C. J. | Stanford, an accountant serving as |adviser to the city in the case, |found the company made, or should
{
Mr. Truman talked with Mr. Hoover by telephone this morning and agreed that the former Presi-
President Truman will emphasize |;
Local Investigation Mads After 31 Are Indicted
In Three Bordering: States
a focal point in a nation-wide
dent should complete his world famine tour before returning to this country. T Mr. Hoover still hag to visit India,
| Truman had. acceded to the former
DOCK STRIKE CAUSES + ALASKA FOOD GRISIS
Many Take to Wi to Woods With Guns to Relieve Situation.
KETCHIKAN, Alaska, April 19 (U. P.).—Hungry Alaskans took to
{the woods with their rifles today.
They were looking for food. Larders were shriveled by an Alaskan longshoremen’s trike which cut off food shipments from the United States. The labor strike sent prices to gold strike levels. Tomatoes were worth a sizable pinch of Klondike
have made, eneugh profit to pay a (Continued on + Page 4 4 ~Column 3)
| 50 per cent return on the common | | stock.
| What is the value of the common
istock? It has no par value. Its stated value is $10 a share,
RECOVER JAP SILVER
TOKYO, April 19. (U, P.) —More {than $61,000 in silver ingots, part of {an estimated $2,000,000,000 in {precious metals allegedly dumped into Tokyo bay by Japanese mili-
|tarists, was recovered by navy divers | medical
j today,
The Rev. Harry E. Campbell,
terian church in Indianapolis and |
former missionary for ihe Presby- | form missionary work ‘at | terian board of foreign mission in| school in Etah and remained there! A 77-year-old Connersville woman | Etah, India, died late last night in nine years. was fatally injured when she fell { Methodist hospital.
He was 53.
for the college.
Campbell also was chairman of the sisters’ the Misses Mary Campbell, Ella Campbell and Carrie Campbell | a; Despite continued grilling, Pol- |Station to meet Mrs. Johnson, wit- | and ministerial relations for the | of Cedar Rapids, and a brother, refused to |nessed the fall.
comm!ttee
local Presbytery. The Rev. Mr, Campbell, who lived,
{two granddaughters, and her niece,| He was graduated from Coe college
(Continued on Page 4—Column ni
‘Mrs, Cotton,
~
and studied theology in McCormack
FIND HUMAN SKULL IN BOXCAR HERE
The frontal part of a human
skull was. found by workmen at the Prospect st. plant of the Citizens |Gas & Coke Utility today and
viens to police headquarters.
As- | Theological Seminary and the Union sistant pastor of the First Presby- | versity of Chicago.
|the United States and served as | He was a member of the’ board |student pastor at the University of She died early | of directors of Hanover college and | Wisconsin and was affiliated with | Chairman of the faculty committee |the Congregational church at MadiHe, also, was pres- | son, Wis. {who was returning from visiting | ident of the board of directors of mum on a a dgughter in. Florida and was | the Peabody Memorial home in Lilly of Anderson June 29, 1935. } assumed (stopping in Indianapolis overnight | North Manchester. |She survives him. Also surviving A former moderator of the In- |are twin boys, George and David, Cotton, 2708 N. Dear-|dianapolis Presbytery, the Rev, Mr. land a daughter,
for Christian education |)
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officials said the skull was in a box-car of coal received at the plant last night. The skull ‘probably had been used by a student and discarded, 1 police theorized
Gas company
In 1921 he went to India to pera boys’
He later returned to He was married to Ella Marie | Carolyn; three {sam Campbell of Chicago. His home in -Indianapolis was
tained , sia y : workers visiting
black market prices by dealers as
$250 by private citizens, In that way, they said, some cars sold for as much as $600 above OPA limits, Mr, Lehr said the investigation involved hundreds of persons, ine cluding 125 Detroiters who admit ted selling to the ring. The ine vestigation started last September and evidence has been presented to the grand jury for three weeks. Mr. Murphy, in charge of the Dee troit district OPA office, was in charge of presentation of evidence, He was aided in the extensive probe by regional offices at Chicago, Dale las, Atlanta and Cleveland. Lehr said the investigation cove ered transactions dating back te Nov, 1, 1944,
POLICE SLATE DRIVER IN FATAL ACCIDENT
Mrs. Louise Cole, 37, of 1110 N. Tremont st, died in city hospital today of injuries received April 10 when she was struck by a car in the 900 block of W. Washington st, She was awaiting a streetcar near White river boulevard. After the accident, police slated Dr. Milton B, Morris, 47, of 44 8. Fleming st, driver of the automobile, on a recke less driving charge.
Tndianapoiit.
MARSHALL ACTS CHUNGKING, April 19 (U. P)— Gen, George C. Marshall plunged today into a series of consultations on the Manchurian crisis p tory to a new effort to halt Nation | alist-Communist hostilities.
‘BATTLE’ SPEED PERSISTS CHICAGO, April 19 (U. P.) ~Are rested for speeding, Raymond Yen. chus, 27, told Judge Leon Edleman that, he could not accustom himself to civitian driving. He was an ame |bulance driver overseas.
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used car black market investigation as the federal govern ment announced it had smashed a $3,000,000 black market Ri racket in Detroit—biggest in OPA history, i higan, Kentucky and linois were named in federal indictments. OPA amnounced some 5000 used cars were sold in those states for as much as $600 g
The indictments . charged 3 purchase of the automobiles
in Detroit and their resalé into other parts of the nation,
Cairo and Murray, and still another :