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May Unable to Testify Due To Heart Attack; Doctor Reports on Condition.

WASHINGTON, July 26 (U. P), ‘=The senate war investigating committee today asked the general accounting office to make a’ full ‘scale investigation into alleged “war pralihessing by the Garsson munitions combine. The committee made the request ghortly after it officially was informed a heart attack would prevent Rep. Andrew J. May (D, Ky.) from testifying for a week or

The geheral accounting office is barred by law from conducting such inquiries unless a congressional committee demands one or “evidence of fraud” comes before the

agency. The committee also was advised the general accounting office was seeking to get back money paid to high-"anking army officers for travel expenses on their trip to attend a wedding party at the Hotel Plerre in New York in January, 1044, "Capone Visit Bared party, also attended by Mr. Miy, was in honor of the wedding of Natalie Garsson, daughter of Murray Garsson, key figure in the munitions combine accused of war]

“alone. . Committee ‘Chairman James M. Mead (D. N. Y) told Wiliam L.

VEllis, an assistant. to the comptroller of. defective 43-inch mortar shells

‘Committee will turn over its record in the case to enable government accounting office into activities of this combine from the time

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FRIDAY, JULY 26, 1946

Accounting Office To Enter Garsson Quiz

those 54 years go?”

- explain his activities as unofficial Washington “expediter” for Erie Basin and Batavia Metal Products, Ine, key firms in the $78,000,000 Garsson empire. * 48

About Defective Shells WASHINGTON, July 26 (U. P.. senate war investigating committee today directed the army’s chemical warfare service to dig up more details on the manufacture

that exploded prematurely, Killing 20 American soldiers and injuring 83, The request followed committee rejection of a preliminary CWS report on the shells as “incomplete and Unsatisfactory.” Maj. Gen. Alden H. Waitt, CWS chief, in his preliminary report said of the 3,000,000 mortar shells fired in combat or training 47 went off prematurely. Defective Fuses Blamed Committee Chairman James M.

Brothers Are “Reunited Here After 54 Years

Wallace Smith py Smith Srader, reunited after more than a half century. . . . “Where did

'Wouldn't Have Known Him,’

Is Pair's Mutual Comment

By ED SOYOLA Fifty-four years is a long time not to see one's brother. have that long lost brother nonchalantly walk in on you and ask, “Can you sell me a new car?” is one for the books. And the memory books of Oscar Smith Srader, sales manager of

Pennsylvania Motor Inn and Wallace opened wide yesterday.

But then to

T. Smith (the long lost brother)

The reunited brothers are trying

unsaid New Market, Ind., 54 years ago. Mr. Srader has used that name since his adoption in the Srader family in Linden, Ind. in 1904.

Went West in 1892

“Why I didn't know Oscar from Adam,” Mr. Smith said. “I didn’t realize he had changed so much since I last saw him in 1892." Mr. Srader quickly replied that he, too, would have difficulty distinguishing “Wal” from Adam after more than a half century. Since Mr. Smith went west in|

Mead (D. N. Y.) said he was dissatisfied that Gen. Waitt had failed to determine which of eight companies made the defective projec tiles.

Erie Basin Metal Products Co. a part of the munitions “paper empire” headed by Dr. Henry M. Garsson and his brother, Murray, was one of the eight companies producing the 4.2-inch shells. The premature explosions, Gen. Waitt said, were caused by defective fuses, rather than defects in the shell bodies. He did not state whether fuses were manufactured by the Garssons. Interest Transferred Dr, Garsson announced in .Chihe had transferred his interest in the Batavia Metal Products, Inc., another combine subsidiary, to Rausch Industries, Inc.,, Detroit. Garsson, president of the Batavia firm, explained that, “my usefullness-to the company has been impaired by recent publicity.”

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1892 from New Market, he has been a lumberman in South Bend, Wash, in the grocery business in Spokane, Wash., hotel business in Minnesota, and at the present time he is truck farming in Yakima, Wash. But he says he’s still a Hoosier at heart. “After all those years, Indiana still beats any place I've been by three to one, as far as beauty goes” he said. “I don’t dare go back home,” Mr. Smith said, “until I buy a pair of nylons. I promised my daughter a pair and I can't disappoint her, How long I stay in Indianapolis will depend on how long it takes me to get those nylons.” If Mr. Smith doesn’t buy a pair of nylons before Sunday he plans to go to New Market and hear one of his West Coast neighbors give a sermon. on John _dohn Smith, another brother

COUNCIL REQUESTS MORE DATA ON GAS

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{timates from Panhandle on when | projects for expanding their lines {to this area could be completed. It was made clear in their discus|sion, however, that year-round supiplies are not available now, because {most of the capacity of the pipe [line already is under contract to {Detroit and other northern cities. | Lighter use of gas in these cities {during the summer months leaves |a surplus available for sale here {in summer, but none for winter use. Indianapolis already has adequate summer supplies of fuel, but {needs additional gas for winter, {when loads approach a peak. | Mr. Bower said he understood | the original negotiation was for | natural gas to fire coke ovens for | the production of coke and manu{factured gas, and that Panhandle was unwilling to build a tie-in line to their main conduit at Zionsville unless they could sell more gas than that. Ready to Buy

Mr. Kemp, however, revealed yesterday that the utility is ready to buy large supplies of natural gas for mixture with the manufactured product as soon as. Panhandle, or any other company, is ready #%o furnish it at fair rates, Panhandle has a large scale ex{pansion project in the planning stage awaiting federal approval, which presumably would enable it to meet: that requirement when completed. Some estimates on the time re{quired to complete it are as low as 18 months, although most observers believe two to two and one-half years is the shortest time in which it could be done.

PREHISTORIC ANIMAL BONE IS UNCOVERED

to catch up on all the things left [living in New Market, since Wallace Smith left Rev. Ajax, a full-blooded Indian

evangelist, is to preach there Sunday. When Mr. Smith left Yakima valley he did not know the Indian preacher also was coming to Indiana.

The last time Mr. Smith visited |

Indianapolis he was 10 years old. “1 was sure surprised how easy it 18 to get around town. Of course the city has changed . . . in fact Jt don't remember a thing about

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PIPE SHORTAGE HALTS GI HOMES

Utilities Also Are Blamed + For Delaying Work.'

City emergency veterans’ housing construction today is being thwarted by water pipe shortage and fail-

These charges were aired yesterday by members of Mayor Tyndall's voluntary advisory housing committee as constructidh was halted on 100-unit prefabricated dwelling project in the Forest Manor area. W. E. Mohler, president of the Wemed, Inc, in a letter to the committee, said only 36 units would be completed in the project. . Gas Utility Balks Construction of other units in the

Wallace st. was being curtailed because of: ONE: Shortage of water pipe. TWO: Unavailability of gas heating units for basement-less homes. The Citizens’ Gas & Coke ‘utility has refused to accept contracts for domestic gas home heating. THREE: Shortages of electrical supplies and fixtures. FOUR: Lack of sewer construction in the area. L. 8. Finch, chief engineer of the Indianapolis Water Co. explained that scrap iron needed in the man ufacture of water pipe is now being processed for automobile production. Expects U. 8. Control “We can give no assurance that we'll receive water. pipe soon to aid in construction of emergency housing,” he said. He said federal control of scrap iron allocation was expected by Aug. 1 Urging establishment of a city housing authority, E. W. Kightlinger, veteran representative on the committée, charged that “we are pawns of a few who control supply of housing material.” He complained that hazy interpretation of priority ratings for housing material was thwarting construction in Indianapolis. Bypass Priorities Contractors are bypassing one priority field to get material in another rated region, he said. Complaints that the present state building code was antiquated and hampering rapid dwelling construc-

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as coach and choral director of “We the People” program, He recently concluded an appearance on “Chapel of the Air,” a Sunday morning broadcast over WOR, New York City. Born near Akron, Ind, he attended high school in Macy. After a summer course at Manchester college, he returned to Macy to teach in grade schéols. Graduate of I U. From Macy he went to Indiana university, where he was graduated cum laude in 1925-and receivell a three-year fellowship at Juilliard School of Music in the east. While at Juilliard, Mr. Duey became interested in radio broadcasting and remained in that fleld until a short time ago. He made his -concert debut at Town Hall in New York City in 1936. He has participated in vaudeville, opera, oratorio and has made some movie shorts for Warner Bros. The noted singer was the original soloist of the Phillip Morris broadcast, a position he held .for three and a half years. Right now, though, Mr. Duey isn't thinking about his past accomplishments. He said he and his wife are searching all of the classified ads in an effort to find a place to live here.

ARMY POLICE QUELL

WOLFRATHAUSEN, Germany,

gAmerican gestapo,” were forced back into the Foehrenwald camp last night after they had surrounded, American military police who broke up a riot, officials said today.

by bayonets. Military government

turned over to the D. Ps.”

RIOTERS IN GERMANY

July 26 (U, P.).—Hundreds of Jew- | ish displaced persons, some yelling,

spit ~upon and slapped]

Six M. Ps. were slightly injured |

Hoosier-Born Philip A. Duey ‘Joins Jordan Music School

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$50,000 Fire Razes Elevator

At Middletown

Fire at 4:30 a. m. today in the Middletown grain elevator did damage estimated at $50,000. According to a report from state police, the fire in the granary, also known as the Better Taste Popcorn Co., was of undetermined origin, It

destroyed $25,000 worth of popcorn and a $25,000 building, Two Penn'sylvania railroad freight cars on a {nearby siding also were destroyed.

sponded to the alarm, ’ {

+ CHILD DROWNS AT DELPHI

officials said the camp leader later| DELPHI, Ind, July 26 (U. P).— “demand the American soldiers be Services were held yesterday for 19-months, who The second riot last night seemed drowned in a horse tank on the stemmed indirectly from a small] riot Wednesday evening when Ger-!Reynolds, Wednesday. The boy was

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The "Anderson fire company re-¢

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MILWAUKEE GAS C0. PRODUCTION STOPS

MILWAUKEE, July 26 (U. P).—~ The strike-bounid Milwaukee Gas & Light Co. warned its customers today to turn. off their gas supplies at the meters or risk possible explosions. Housewives, restaurants and hospitals were faced with the problem of providing hot food for the city's 600,000 persons without using gas. Bruno Rahn, company president, said there still was some gas in the mains, although production stopped when the last skeleton crew walked off the job last night. A gids explosion occurred last night in the heart of Menomonee Falls, Wis. Cause of the explosion was not determined although Menomonee Falls is served by the Milwaukee company. The blast shattered windows and destroyed two buildings in the downtown district. No one was injured. Striking C. I. O. United Coal, Gas, Coke and Chemical Workers broke off negotiations with the company last night and pulled off a skeleton crew which had kept a limited supply of gas available to housewives. Mr. Rahn charged the union had refused his offer of a fact-finding committee to mediate the dispute.

man police shot and killed Isaac| the son of Mr. and Mrs. Jack ReyFeldberg, a displaced person. ‘nolds.

Former Waif Now Seeks

Parents to Save Own Son

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tion prompted appointment of a committe to adopt a resolution supporting legislation to revise the

| anymore, but I wish more cities Were laid out ‘like Indianapolis,” | Mr. Smith said.

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cause she started to swim “instinctively” after jumping into the Potomac river in Washington yesterday. An Indianapolis girl, she enlisted in the WAVES three and one-half years ago after a divorce, rl

1913 code. Chairman Orville W. Wise named | {Charles E. Bacon, city building com- | | missioner; Elmer E. Meadley, secretary of Marion county residential builders, and Mr. Holmes to the committee,

MUNICIPAL GARAGE CHIEF SEEKS FUNDS

nicipal vehicles was threatened today while Municipal Garage Superintendent Stanley W. Myers sought $20,000 for his department. He cannot finance repairs. Mr. Myers said reduction of his original budget request last year may curtail repair operations in his garage. He was asking department heads today for unused funds to transfer to his repair budget. Mr. Myers’ budget for this year totaled $137,195. He estimaged that more than $30,000 was cut from his original request at budget- ~making sessions in 1945,

FOR SCOOTER THEFT BEDFORD, Ind. July 26 (U. P). —Charles McGee, 22, Indianapolis, today faced a one-to-ten-year sentence to the state reformatory on a vehicle taking charge. charged with the theft of a motor scooter.

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GREENSBURG, Pa., July 26 (U.He married Ann Louise Wilson, of | {P.).—Thomas Smith Jr. who was Clinton. Ill, and settled there. Al abandoned in a stable 26 years |baby was born to them seven) | ago, today searched for his par-| | months ago. {ents in hope that they might be | Shortly after birth, a scarlet mark | | able to provide the key to a strange appeared on the baby’s body. Now| | malady that has struck his infant five spots have developed, and son—their grandson. {physicians say more may appear. | Oct. 17, 1919, a three-day-old boy The doctors cannot diagnose the! was found in a box in a horse and | eae and believe Mr. Smith's family buggy shed in back of the First | packground may provide a clue to| Evangelical and Reformed church. |the strange, disease, which may be| The child was clad in a few old|pereditary. rags. | - The woman Mr. Smith believed | Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Smith of | was his mother died April 9. Last| Westmoreland City, Pa. took the! Thursday the elder Smith revealed baby and named him Thomas | | the truth to the young man for the| Smith Jr. Not until a few days | first time. i ago did the young man learn the| Heartsick at the thought of posSmiths were not his real parents. |sible tragedy to his son, Mr. Smith Mr. Smith Jr. served five years waited today for his parents to dein the army air forces as a sergeant. | clare themselves.

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