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BROUGHT FROM GERMANY MAY TESTIFY TODAY

Introduced in Court as One Of 3 ‘Mystery’ Figures From Berlin.

By SHERLEY UHL ~The first of three “mystery” witnesses imported from Germany by the justice department to testify against ex-F't. Harrison photographer Frederick Bauer was intro-

Bauer, alleged Nazi spy, already strained and haggard from a morning of rapid-fire cross-examination, nodded toward the witness and {identified her as “my former wife.” The well-groomed, brunette, Mrs.

Ruth Edith Bauer, ‘of Berlin, was|

led into the court late in the session long enough to be identified. She Is expected ‘to be called to testify sometime today,

Denies Conversation

In brief stacatto retorts, Bauer denied in rapid-fire succession that he had ever: Told his former wife that she eouldn’t accompany him to this eountry because his “mission” was “too dangerous.” Told her that “some men serve at the front , , . others as I do.” Stated that he felt he should enter the German army: because his father and brother were “professional German army officérs.” Immediately prior to a brief reeess, the defendant also identified an officer's uniform as one “similar” to that which he wore while serving in the German army.

Adimts ‘Heiling Hitler’

As the hearing resumed this morning, Bauer admitted he had closed two letters to Germany in 1939 with the salutation: “Heil Hitler!”

The letters, to the Siemens-|

Halske Electrical firm in Berlin, were entered as evidence in Bauer's citizenship hearing at the federal

building before Judge Walter Lind-|

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mitted he “believed” he took active] steps to repatriate himself as a]

German national shortly prior to i

his entry into the German army in 1940. . To Germany in 1939

He said he received “some kind of document” testifying to his Germen repatriation from the Zehlendoef, Germany police department. Bauer returned to Germany from the United States in 1939 after he bad been naturalized as a U. S. oitisen. “Then, isn’t it a fact” asked Robert L. Werner, special assistant fo the U. 8. attorney general, “that you are at this moment a German eitizen ?” “No . . .,” Bauer replied. “I do pot believe 50.” After conceding he had made “an extensive investigation” of his snoestry, the witness emphatically denied he had done so in order to promp himself Aryan as suggested by Me. Werner,

Pencll in Evidence ;

The government introduced as evidence a styptic pencil, which it

contended would write invisible|

messages. Bauer identified it as one of the items in his possession when he wag taken into custody at Ft. Harrison last fall. But he insisted the styptic pencil was ‘part of a first aid kit.” “Looks sort of innocuous, doesn't #? Mr. Werner asked. Bauer

shrugged his shoulders and smiled |

noncommittally. The witness denied categorically s line of questioning implying he hed been sworn into a Nazi intelligence unit’ in 1940. He had "no recollection” of anyone administer-

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‘CASTOR OIL’ STRIKE

JERSEY CITY, N, J, May 16 (U. P).-— News {item for _ children: Workers at the Jersey City and Bayonne plants of the Baker castor oll works went on strike today, halting production,

TIMES INDEX

Amuse... 14-15 Ruth Millett... 19| Aviation ..... 19/Movies ....14-15] Eddie Ash,... 31 Obituaries ... +4

Under questioning Bauer ad-! 3

OSTROM HINTS AT

VOLUME 57—NUMBER 57

‘Bauer s Ex-Wife Is Here as Witness

The Indianapol

Photos by Lloyd Walton

Ex- Staff Sgt. Frederick Bauer on the witness chair in federal

oourt, ., . . “I didn't tel my ex-wife that ‘Some men serve at the

front—others serve as I do.”

Sgt. Bauer's ex-wife, Mrs. Ruth Edith Bauer, of Berlin, leaves the courtroom with one of the government men.

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THURSDAY, MAY 16,1946" . -

[U.S. PROBING PLANS TO SELL LOCAL BONDS

‘Securities of Two Utilities Here Are Involved in Anti-Trust Study.

By RICHARD LEWIS The United States department of justice has opened an investigation here of proposed securities sales by two Indianapolis utilities, as part {of its nation-wide probe of what it | believes are monopolistic practices [in investment banking, The Times |learned today. Agents of the department are] | scanning plans of the Indianapolis | Power and Light Co., and the In- | dianapolis Water Co. to sell nearly /$30 million in company bonds at | private sale to eastern investment | houses without competitive ‘bidding. «Both are “refunding” issues, de- | signed to replace old debts with| {new at lower interest rates in to-! {day's booming money market. Practices of the eastern investment houses concerned have been under scrutiny by the justice de- | parfment’s anti-trust division for {more than three years. Two of

|these, closely allied, were said to|

lhave an “inside track” of years |standing on financing of the local utilities. } PSC Hearings Open | The justice department's anti | trust division officially stepped into the Indianapolis picture this morning, when the Public Service com-

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FORECAST: Cloudy and cooler tonight; temorrow partly cloudy.

=>. . . Buotered as Sscond-Olass Matter at Postoffce sone Indianapolis, Ind. Issued daily except Sunday :

| mission opened hearings onthe In-

Mdianapolis Water Co's petition to! sell $14,750,000 worth of bonds in a

privately negotiated sale, Anti-trust Attorney Henry Stebbins is conducting the investigation here. He was to advise the] commission today of the division's interest in proceedings.

has not been disclosed officially, it was rumored in investment banking circles here that the company had

Drexel & Co. of Philadelphia, which is identified in banking lore with the house of J. P., Morgan. It was learned, also, .that the deal provided for the distribution | of the secuirties through Drexel to

110 big insurance companies,

Probe Eastern Control The anti-trust mvestigation —

termine whether the expanding control over U. S. invéstment capital ‘by eastern houses is being accomplished in violation of anti-trust laws. The attention of the anti-trust division was directed to Indianapo-

worth of stock to Lehman Bros. o New York and associates. The private sale was blocked by| the Indiana Public Service commission, after two Midwestern banking houses and the city hall intervened. The commission ordered the light company to advertise for competitive bids on the stock, setting a precedent in Indiana. As a result of the competition, |

GOP PARTY SHAKEUP

Conform With Primary.

+ By NOBLE REED Dismissal of some Republican

ward chairmen as the first phase of a general shakeup in party lead-

ership to conform with primary | election results was hinted today | his convicition in Hartford, Conn.

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Litherar Pastor Is Reinstated

UCK HILL FALLS, Pa, May 16 P).—The Rev, Kurt E. B, Mol- Doesn't Want Soviet Help in|

Steps Way Be Taken to Hoh Philadelphia Lutheran min[ister convicted of conspiracy to violate the neutrality act in August, 1942, was reinstated in the Lutheran Ministerium of Pennsylvania today.

ARABS SAY FAROUK OPPOSES RUSS AID

Palestine, They Say.

JERUSALEM, May 168 (U. P).— Arab leaders said today they be{lieved King Farouk of Egypt was organizing a campaign to halt a

Rev. Molzahn, who was sentenced | swing of Arab states toward Rus10 years in federal prison after | sia.

They made clear they do not expect Soviet help in Palestine.

by Henry B. Ostrom, county chair- | jon charges of permitting the use of King Farouk has invited heads

man,

didates who fought the regular party machine that he would re-

{move any of the ward chairmen

whom ‘the candidates considered “objectionable.” This was regarded as formal gesture on the part of the chairman to attempt a harmony movement to heal some of the worst factional breaches the party has had in many years. The whole primary campaign of the winning “anti-machine” candidates was directed against the

leadership of Mr. Ostrom and his ward chairmen.

Mr. Ostrom himsell may have

to resign the chairmanship in favor of some compromise party leader before the fall campaign: since Judson L. Stark, the G. O. P, proseoutor nominee, and Albert CC,

Magenhelmer, sheriff nominee, bitterly denounced the party leadership in their successful campaigns Meanwhile, Bruce Savage, real

Nat Barrows, 9 E C, Othman, Ie. | estate man, who ran a poor third

Business ..... 16 Dr, O'Brien,

Classified ..32-34 Radio ........ 38 Comin on Page 3—Column 4)

Comiog ...... 35 Reflections

" " Crossword ... 32 Mrs, Roosevelt 19

THIEF STEALS CAR OF

Basorils .... 20 Serial ........ 8 COUNTY PROSECUTOR

Forum ...... 20] State Deaths. 4]

A car thief who stole a car out

Meta Given... 25 Bob Stranahan 30 of the Delaware Motor Inn last Don Moover,, 20| Washington . 20)niglit should have looked more In Indpls..... 3 Geo, Weller. . 22 | carefully before he leaped in,

Inside Mdpls. 19 Whipple .... 10

He stole the car. of Sherwood

Jane Jordan., 35 Women't.. 24-25|Blue, Marion county prosecuting

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Edwin Lahey, 10 World Atiaies, 30 ation.

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his home as mailing address for Mr, Ostrom is reliably reported to | German agents, was freed after have told some of the winning can- President Truman commuted his sentence last June,

LOCAL TEMPERATURES

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of Arab states to a conference on

Egyptian fear of Soviet claims in Libya, coupled with general Arab approval of the British evacuation gesture in Egypt, were seen as | reasons for Arab reluctance to en-| gage in & serious conflict with Britain and the United States, even] over Palestine.

Shigeru Yoshida, Diplomat,

Appointed New Jap Premier

By FARNEST HOBERECHT

United Press S4aff Correspondent TOKYO, May Yoshida, a steely, little 67-year-old man who has spent | lifetime

Shigeru

, of his diplomatic {service, was appointed premier of Japan by Emperor Hirohito teday: He received the indorsement of Gen. Douglas MacArthur. Hirohito's command to form a new Japanese government was after an audience in the imperial palace. 2 Yoshida immediately began interviewing prospective cabinet members, and a spokesman for the new premier sald he expects to complete formation of his new government by Friday. - The appointment of Yoshida a moderate—to succeed Baron Ki--jure Shidehara climaxed a 25-day

to Yoshida

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1 v! VanBlaricum . .

While the water company deal]

arranged to sell the securities to]

probably the biggest staged by the| government since the days of Thur-| man Arnold—is attempting to de-|

ago, Also will appeals in San Francisco, Denver,

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This week's Times Good Neighbor selection—Miss Daisy Jean . when she leaves her work bench at the Diamond ‘i Chain she spends her Span Yu time e hieiging others others in her neighborhood.

Woman War Worker Given 3d 'Good Neighbor Award Federal seizure of the nation's other firms flying such “charter”

"PRICE FIVE CENTS

27 Die as Airliner Crashes and Burn

Spends Spare Time Helping Others.

HINT RAILWAY SEIZURE NEA

BULLETIN WASHINGTON, May 16 - ( P.) ~Civilian Production Administrator John D. Small today called for emergency legislation | to outlaw strikes for six manths, | In a public statement he said: “Not only must strikes be stopped but also, if we are to get maxi-

come to a halt.”

By UNITED PRESS

railroads within the next 24 hours trips, : | appeared likely today when labor- | A woman war worker who found time to befriend a war veteran management negotiations broke contained 23 names, including those

and his wife and continues to aid others in her few spare hours is this! gown again.

| week! s selection of The Times Good Neighbor committee.

Chain and a resident of 632 Marion st.

. Meanwhile, President Truman to- spécified that these were only the She is Miss Daisy Jean VanBlaricum, an employee of Diamond day asked the deadlocked miners names of those known to have | anid soft coal operators to submit boarded the plane at Newark.

Miss ‘VanBlaricum, with three other Good Neighbors will be honor their dispute to arbitration.

GCN CR SR guest at the benefit “Breakfast in! | Hollywood” show in the Edgewood utes with John L. Lewis, president | Richmond, where it landed shortly of the United Mine Workers (AF. | betore the crash. Others may have and Charles O'Neill, spokes- boarded it there.

SEES POLITICS.

LIQUOR SPLIT

Springer Promises Separa-

tion Will Be ‘Soon.’

| Liquor and politics appeared on lis last month, when the Indian- | pe verge of divorce today following

apolis Power & Light Co. attempted | outburst by Republican State

to sell privately about $15 million! ¢ | Chairman Clark Springer in which

{he promised separation would be {brought about “soon. To Senator Raymond E. Willis| | went the credit for smoking the] liquor issue into the open in What | started out to be simply a well-oiled | | state committee reorganization ses-| sion yesterday.

The senator, seeking renomina-

ion against powerful opposition, | was recognized by the chairman for | (Continued on Page 3—Column 2) the customary “few words” allotted | She cooks and takes whole meals | officials and candidates. Without | {mentioning liqugr, he warned of 3 ‘ugly rumors about the party in] mornings ond evenings when she {Indiana” and said it was up to the| i. ot work. | Hoosier G. O. P. “to set our house in order.”

rns of ‘Divide, Conquer’

William E. Jenner, staté chair- |

man and candidate against Senator | Willis for the senatorial nomina-!

ton, spoke of sinister influences within the party threatening to (Continued on Page $—Column 4)

“divide. and conquer’

Governor Gates followed with the IRISH | FOOD STRIKER

remark that certain regrettable

“misapprehensions” had arisen

{He said steps would be taken soon | [to correct them. He did not men- | tion liquor.

Then came Mr. Springer, with

an unexpected fulfillment of the day today, has developed a throat

volved in a pur» politics tie-up,

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BARNEY OLDFIELD BACKS SAFE DRIVING

LOS ANGELES, May 16 (U

—Barney Oldfield,. cigar- emi]

“daredevil” racer of the early 307s: | today was en route to Detroit, campaign for safer driving. Oldfield, whose 6#0-mile-an-hour |

i speeds shocked spectators 50 years!

apolis and Chicago. He left yesterday on Lhe (woweek Sampaign,

KILIAN WINS DELAY BAD NAUHEIM, May 16 (U.P.

—Col. James A. Kilian, former Chiang Kai-shek, commander of the Lichfield rein- 42 years service with the regular forcement depot, today was granted army. a delay until June 17 in his trial on| charges of mistreating G. I. pris- jocal army post from the fall of | 1940 until March, 1943, when he was assistant chief of staff to Gen, Joseph W. Stilwell in China, HONOLULU, T. H, May 16 (U.|returned to Indianapolis in NovemP).~Middle Pacific army head-|per, 1044, and was placed on the quarters announced today that | inactive list. 2,400,000 bottles of beer stored here | have. been declared surplus and|married Miss Mary Miler of this will be released for civilian eon-

oners at the camp.

ARMY HAS BEER SURPLUS

sumption. later this month,

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grade school at 9 a. m. May 25. That day the outstanding good of L.), { neighbor of the four selected from man for the soft coal operators, in weekly letters mailed to The Times an- effort to determine whether it| Reports. to the C. A. A. indicated will receive the good neighbor or- was worthwhile to resume negotia- that 27 bodies were found. | chid which characterizes the daily tion which were broken off yester-| Tom Breneman broadcasts from day, Hollywood. The program is heard I locally through WISH. Final Letters This Week Letters for this week's nomina- , the last, must be postmarked

these good deeds:

fairly |

“She has lent money to people is so| -In other labor developments: { generous of her own worldly goods! ONE: Approximately 1200 drivers | it is a wonder how she gets by her- and mechanics’ of the Southern

| Railways bus lines, serving a nine- | (Continued on Page 3—Column 3) Indianapolis | state area, struck at midnight safter |

three years ago with my husband | | negotiators were unable to agree 2 Army Men Are

INFECTION

BELFAST, May 16 (U,

Belfast prison entered its 57th |

His older brother, Patrick, failed | p— a

. Patrick, a former TRA leadwas granted a week's parole

Va.

Va.

Col. Drysdale, whose many friends included China's first lady, Madame completed

He was commanding officer of the He

that he

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noon, Continue Discussion

controversy.

The letter which nominated Miss Say# Carriers Reject Demands | VanBlaricum came from the war' (meantime Alvanlev Johnston out nresident of the Brotherhood of

. Locomotive Engineers, reported that Although she works at the Dia- carriers again had rejected union Vagos were being used to remove

mond Chain, she takes care of a wage demands. I . Mr. Johnston said the nation-| arge yard in good condition, yet wide rail strike set for Saturday]

neighbors. | wij] come off as sure as shootshe finds out some! _

| one is ill, she is right there to help.

ing.

feired for 45 minutes with rail officials, On Other Fronts

n & new contract,

|coal industry

Col. Walter Drysdale Former, oF. Harrison Commander, Die

Walter 8. Drysdale, a former make safe-driving a. officer of Ft. Benjamin Harrison, will be buried with Salt Lake City, St. Louis, Indian- | full military honors tomorrow in Arlington cemetery, Arlington, y of a cerebral hemorrhage at Charlotisville,

Weather Blocks Emergency Landing, 3 Children and 3 Women Among Victims

By BETTY EWING United Press S(aft Correspondent

RICHMOND, Va., May 16.—A chartered airliner, operating without any federal supervision whatever, crashed in dense woods five miles from Richmond today. The 25 passengers and crew of two were killed. Most of the bodies were burned beyond recognition. The old two-matored, C-47 transport-—said to have been a bucket» seat model such as s the army used during the war—caught

| agency in New York which had

‘Truman Ble Mine Dispute Be Left to Arbitration. , the ship. :

{under supervision of the civil aero~ |nautics administration. The Viking {line had no office at Newark, N.J. {from which point the plane cleared iat 7:37 p. m. (Indianapolis time) {last night for Miami. No manifest

mum production, the leap-frog- | ging of wages and prices must

Mr, Truman talked about 15 min- |

He asked them to return for a Van Nuys, Cal, pilot, and David second conference late this after- Miner, Burbank, Cal, co-pilot, ae-

The conference was a continuaand tion of one begun late yesterday in matled to Good Neighbor Commit- Mr. Truman's office in an effort to almost vertically into dense woods.

214 W. jreak the long deadlock in the coal | 11® Others were burned and broken

He made the statement after he the city the pilot radioed the field and President A. F. Whitney of the control tower that he was having

|every day to their homes until Shey Brotherhood of Trainmen had con- {motor trouble and was returning. e

0 : : : TWO: A Hopkins county grand | Killed in B-17 Crash jury, meeting at Madisonville, Ky, indicted 17 United Mine Workers|—Two army men were killed ‘when (A. F. of LL) members for picketing | a B-17 flying fortress crashed on and forcing the shutdown of several|the rugged slopes of Mt. Tamalpais Da- non-U. M. W. mines vid Fleming, whose hunger strike] THREE Senate and house ecom- day. mittees pushed action on anti-labor | legislation aimed at curbing Mr. trapped in the wreckage, survived, Lewis and outlawing welfare funds{ The pilot and co-pilot were Palestine and other Arab questions |Sovernars prophecy of a moment and HOW infection. He may lose such as he is demanding for the! thrown clear, Critically injured, Without mincing words about) whether or not the part¥ was in-| i q0y jn attempt to persuade him | ATR MAIL PRICE REDUCTION lcollapsed on the front porch. | #WASHINGTON, May 18 (U. P.).| A lieutenant colonel was taken The house today passed and sent | alive from the Muselage by rescuers from the Curragh internment camp to the senate legislation to reduce to try to talk David into ending his! domestic first class air mall rates from eight to five cents an ounce,

S ports that evacuation of troops

3 Near Beautiful Fall Creek

“|heap of metal. Nearly twelve hours after the crash, the United Press { Was able to obtain from a ticket

handled bookings for. the. plane, .- operated by Viking Airlines, Glendale, Cal, an incomplete list of those believed to have been aboard

Ne C. A. A. Supervision -

The plane, flying a non-scheduled so-called “charter” run, was not

was filed at the field. The list of those possibly aboard finally came from Coast to Coast . (Cargo Air Lines, which books seats in New York for Viking and for

The passenger list as given out

of a Mexican family of five. It was

Al least two passengers were believed to have left the plane at

21 Bodies Found

Two crewmen were among the | dead. They were Dell Anderson,

| cording to information given out by {the Viking firm in Glendale. Four bodies were thrown clear as the plane apparently smashed

|in the wreckage. The woods in which the plane {crashed could be reached only [across soggy farm land, softened by {days of rain, and tractor-drawn

e bodies. Had Motor Trouble

The pilot took’ off from the Richmond municipal airport at 12:07 a. m. But 40 miles south of

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The weather was bad. Regular commercial airliners by that time had already messaged all pilots te by-pass Richmond. When the pilot first radioed the field, visibility at the airport was

FAIRFAX, Cal, May 16 (U, P.).

[17 miles north of San Francisco to-

Six others, some of whom were

|they walked and crawled two miles to a private residence were they

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‘BRITISH DENY CAIRO TROOP MOVEMENT

CAIRO, May 16 (U, P.) High | British military authorities said re«

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