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TENSION RISES

Mobile Patrols Are Used To Aid Intelligence Agents, Police.

JERUSALEM, July 26 (U, P.).— British police and intelligence agents supported by mobile patrols today rounded up more than 1000 persons suspected of carrying out attacks and violent ‘operations. Many of those arrested had been taken Into -custody in previous roundups but were released on parole with a requirement they re-| main in their homes after sunset and report to police twice a day. These persons were arrested in their homes or when they went to police stations to report. Patrols also arrested all Jews who had been detained in Eritrea and released only recently.

76 Now Dead

Ten more bodies were taken from the debris of the King David hotel to bring the casualty figures of the bombing to 76 dead, 33 missing and 46 Injured. Tension was high throughout the Holyland.’ When an armored car broke down on Jaffa rd. Jerusalem's main street, with a puncture in one of its tires, panic-stricken citizens rushed away from the vicinity, apparently expecting a pitched battle to break out immediately. Almost the entire city was cleared within a few moments as rumors spread and hundreds of troops rushed toward police headquarters to protect it against a rumored attack. Hours later it was learned the whole panic was caused by the punctured tire. British Jitters Recalled Some said tension in Jerusalem resembled that in London during the blitz with residents expecting something to break loose at any moment. The first wave of arrests was in the Kar Em Abraham area of Jerusalem and surrounding quarters. Authorities did not indicate at once how much territory the roundup was to embrace. The administration of Sir Alan Cunningham, high commissioner for Palestine, had given every indication it was preparing to put into action the counter-measures devised after the bombing.

LONDON, July 26 (U. P.).—The British government was believed today to be racing to formulate a Palestine solution before the Sept. 23 United Nations general assembly meeting in order to forestall Soviet intervention in the situation. A foreign office spokesman said British and American experts have completed negotiations. here on Palestine and submitted their recommendations to their respective

The experts’ plan, it was believed, ealled for a federated Palestine with separate séi- autonomous Jewish and Arab provinces and a central administration eontrolled by the British.

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pointed out. “OPA then will set an eviction date if the case warpants an eviction.” Unless specific grounds for posseston of rented property were during the OPA interim theve oan be no eviction, he

‘Must Have Reason

“A landlord must have a better reason than just wanting his rented house,” Mr, DeWeese stated. The state rent director estimated that state-wide rental increases averaged 52 per cent. In IndianapoNs, real estate agents estimated only 18 to 20 per cent of all landlords’ hiked rents. Meanwhile, with revival of OPA regulations, Mayor Tyndall's fair rent committee ceased its “nonlegal” landlord-tenant arbitrary function, "#1 see no reason for the continuance of the committee now that OPA is back,” Mayor Tyndall said. The committee, in operation three weeks, attempted to “compromise” hardship rental increase cases.

Long-Range Housing Bill Approval Drive Starts

“WASHINGTON, July 26 (U, P). ~The administration today started a last-minute drive to secure house passage of the Wagner-Ellender-Taft housing bill before congress adjourns. House Speaker Sam Rayburn (D. Tex.), who earlier this week Informed President Truman the sen-ate-passed measure was “dead,”

said there was “revived hope” for}

the bill His statement followed a letter from the President urging quick action on the bill which, he said, was essential to the veterans’ housing program. A meeting of the house banking eommittee was called in an’ effort to send the bill to the house floor.

UNLUCKY PARKING SPOT

PHILADELPHIA, July 26 (U. P). ~After thanking police for recovering his automobile, John P. Quigley drove it back to the place where it had been stolen. Two hojirs later

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into fur coats purchased by many low-income families. There will be no more price ceilings, however, on muskrat, marmot, pony, South American spotted calf, Indian lamb, Lincoln*lamb, Indian and African kidskin, hare and squirrel,

Others Removed

OPA, emphasi®ing that most of the de-control actions would have little effect on the basic cost of living, also abolished restrictions on rubber mats and runners, automobile seatbed units, household vitrified China and dinnerware and umbrella frame, No longer will there be ceilings on rental fees for power lawnmowers, musical instruments and some sporting equipment. A couple of items were placed under ceilings. Imported Norwegian kippered snacks of all brands must sell for 13 to 26 cents a can, depending on size of the container and location of the store in which they are sold. The prices paid by importers for foreign leather also were placed under ceilings. Boosts in ceiling prices kept the OPA busiest, however. It authorized a $1-a-ton increase in ceiling prices for chemical industrial and constructional lime sold east of the Rocky mountains, a boost which may be passed on by resellers. Brick Ceiling Raised Ceilings on insulating fire brick used chiefly for relining open hearth furnaces were raised about 20 per cent at the manufacturers’ level and will be passed on to manufacturers who use the material OPA made clear that many other increases were inevitable, Price control officials pointed, too, to the the items now completely free of controls—butter, milk, meats and such dairy products as ice cream, all of which go to the highest bidder unless controls are clamped on after Aug. 20. The law signed yesterday, provides for restoration of price controls on livestock, meat, dairy and poultry products only if a threeman control board decides such ao tion is necessary to prevent infiation. The revived OPA lost no time in restoring rent controls which were in effect when the agency died June 30. Signed ‘Reluctantly’ The new OPA act got only a lukewarm reception from some administration officials. President Truman signed it “reluctantly” and warned that if the measure didn't work he would call congress back into special session to “strengthen price control laws.” The department of agriculture said that unless price controls are restored on food, meat prices may clin to 35 per cent above the old OPA ceilings by winter, Nor were opponents of the OPA+ enthusiastic about the measure. The American Meat institute, spokesman for the major packers, said the bill “threatens to renew chaos in the meat industry just as consumers are beginning to enjoy more meat.” “Among other things, the law provides the price control board shall determine by Aug. 21- whether regulation of certain commodities, including meat, is enforceable and in the public interest,” the institute said. CIO Continues Protests “However, the past has shown with clarity painful to everybody gxcept black market chiselers that the regulation of meat in peacetime is entirely - unworkable and impracticable ‘and not in the interest of the consumer of meat or the future production of food animals.” The first reaction from labor came in a statement by Walter P. Reuther, president of the big C. ©. United Auto Workers union, pledging a continuation of the union's buyers strike. Charging the new bill “only pretends to restore price control,” Mr, Reuther claimed OPA already has prepared orders boosting phices on

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Devises Hinges for State Hospital Windows

Picture, if you can, a fireman getting through one of these barred windows apparatus. Fire marshals, budget committees and engineers have been inspecting Central State hospital for years but a medical man, Dr. Max Bahr, superintendent, had to devise a plan which calls for putting some of them on hinges and locking them from the outside.

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more sanitary. He has things clean and spotless everywhere else, He also would like to correct the chapel fire-escape which is blocked at the top by a radiator (hot in winter) and at the bottom by a jutting-out portion of the building. He has a couple of diesel generators to boost the feeble lighting system to 240 kilowatts, ag improvement over the present 100 but still not the minimum need of 300. Unfortunately, the new high-powered electrical setup requires new wiring, and there will have to be a temporary ward to house patients while this and other remodeling is done. That all costs money.

Employment Is Problem

Of course, there is a post-war building fund mounting in the state treasury, but that is excise tax fund the legislature forgot to appropriate, so it isn't usable. The legislature got credit for creating the fund, the public has an interesting list of excuses why it couldn't used anyway, but the unfortunate pa~tients at Madison still can't read after dark or on dull days. And then there's employment. It's worse at Madison than at most places. In addition to long hours, low pay and sometimes disagreeable working conditions, a third of the employees at the institution is housed in single rooms with one window in each rooni. These two-by-four quarters are equipped like a gold-rush hotel in ’490—bowl and pitcher for washing, and the unlovely and disagreeable sanitary facility our grandparents called the “night jar.” The proper care of patients depends on doctors and attendants, and neither will live in quarters like these for long, at any salary, One state effort has been made to improve the lot of its employees

State Mental Hospitals Cover Up Backwardness

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THE INDIANA

with fire-fighting

Madison lost its blacksmith, a scarce craft these days, by retirement. At Richmond, -a state “engineer” noted the need for a roof and ordered $7000 worth. of roofing slate. That was several months ago and the slate is still lying in a heap, because the hospital hasn't the $10,000 it would take to put the slate on the leaky roofs. In 1944 a more generous than average . budget committee noted most of the old-fashioned buildings at Richmond were fire traps. They recommended something be done, so the state put in some fire escapes. The type ordered and approved by the fire marshal were tubular, such as used in old-time school buildings.

50 Attendants Needed Now psychiatrists doubt seriously whether enough patients could or would use this type of fire escape

to have any material effect on the fire danger. They insist each patient in some wards would have to be “stuffed” forcibly down the tube, a sizeable undertaking in wards

. Plan to Congress.

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the needs of the municipalities. “Home rule” also was séized upon and reiterated by the governor, “It is a known fact,” he sald, “that government performed on a local level will be less expensive and yet more effective, and will rendér the greatest benefits to the people.” Urban Invasion

Mayor George W. Welsh of Grand

with Governor Gates. He spoke on the “Battle of the Cities.” Declaring that cities always “seem to receive the short end of the deal in the distribution of the tax reve ue,” the visiting official urged Indiana mayors to fight “vigorously for additional revenue.” Earlier, Mayor F. Kenneth Dempsey of South Bend had sketched to the 432 delegates a picture of how the state government ‘was invading the domain of urban administration. Mr. Dempsey said that no state official has a right to criticize the federal government for interference in Indiana affairs until the state has righted its invasion errors. “The state can be no apostle of liberty,” the mayor said, “by destroying its city foundations.” The delegates also heard a report on the governor's commission for the recodification of city and town laws of Indiana by Arch N, Bobbitt, Indianapolis corporation counsel, and chairman of the commission. Attend Film Preview “Relieving the Housing Problem” was the subject of a series of five minute reports by Mayors John R. Britten, Richmond; George H. DeVault, Lafayette; Loba (Jack) Bruner, Bloomington; Homer T. Sho-

walter, Wabash; City Attorney Samuel Dubin, Gary, and Mr. Dempsey.

The group also heard discussion yesterday afternoopson “What Becomes of Your 5% Cent Gasoline Tax,” and “Master Planning and Zoning.” The remainder of the afternoon's meeting was, devoted to speeches on “Municipal “Ownership in Indiana” and municipal water treatment. Shortly after midnight the municipal officials attended a preview of the movie “Night and Day” based on the life of Cole Porter, Hoosier composer, simultaneously with the world premier of the show in New York.

“stuff” 40 or 50 patients and then save himself. Superintendent O. R. Lynch at Richmond estimates he needs 50 more attendants, more if he has to shorten working hours which he agrees ought to be done. He has only three doctors, including himself, and one summer interne. Four more doctors would be needed to do a proper job, Dr, Lynch feels. Electric shock therapy at Richmond is reported showing good results in recent months since it was installed, but more doctors to use it would help improve those results still further. Doctors cost money, and while science and medicine can improve the results of treatment in mental cases, only the taxpayers, through the legislature, can pro-

—the pension plan. As a result, »

Here are some things you should know about insanity: Indiana spends only half as much, roughly, $0 care for a mentally ill patient as is spent on the care of a criminal in Michigan City prison or Pendleton reformatory. » ” » Half of all the patients ooccupying hospital beds in the United States are hospitalized for mental illness. It is more prevalent than polio, cancer, tuberculosis or any other of the dread diseases the public fears so much. » # » Indiana's Logansport hospital for the insane started receiving cases in 1888. The 15th patient ever admitted to the hospital died there only five years ago. » ” . The surgeon general's office esti-

ported yesterday that its wholesale price index rose 2.9 per cent last week, making a total increase of 10 per cent for the first three weeks since the lapse of price controls, Rising agricultural prices, particularly food prices, were the prinéipal cause of the increase, the bureau said. President Truman warned it | would be a tough job to keep rolled back prices at the June 30 level— or anywhere near it. Price Administrator Paul A, Porter, said, “We think it will work.” Adjustments Are Ready OPA officials, working frantically to jam the new bill into operation, foresaw widespread confusion as an inevitable immediaté result. Not even they knew yet the full implica~ tion of the extension bill's amendments. = By Dec. 31, nothing can remain under ceilings except products held

the cost of operating a business.By April 1, OPA must be out of the business of subsidizing food. Whether dairy products and meaf are subsidized again ‘depends on a ge control board to be named by President.

125 commodities. The’ bureau of labor statistios re-

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Half of Hospitalized Patients Today Suffer Mental Illness

mated not long ago that 8,000,000 Americans are suffering from niental illness of some sort. This estimate, described as “conservative,” means one person in twenty is affected. ” » » All agencies engaged in research spend about $1 a year on psychiatric problems for each total disability from mental illness. The comparable rate of research on polio (infantile paralysis) is $100 a case. It costs 100 times as much, statistically, to care for the mentally ill as to provide facilities to treat and prevent mental troubles before they can reach the commit ment stage.

In 1044, more Loan 49 per cent of the army's disability discharges and 33 per cent of the navy's were for neuro-psychiatric disorders, despite careful screening of inductees for just such troubles.

days were likely to be caught in a squeeze. OPA said they must sell at ceiling prices, regardless of costs.

And even where increases are required under the new act, retailers must continue to sell at June 30 levels until OPA actually authorizes the increases.

President Truman, signing the extension yesterday, said It fell far short of his hopes. “I am advised, however, that it is the best bill the congress will now pass,” he said. “It is clears however, that it is a better bill than the one I was forced to veto on June 29, “If the bill had became law, inflation would have been inevitable, While the present measure by no means guarantees that inflation can be avoided, it offers a sufficient prospect of success to warrant the making of a wholehearted effort to keep our economy on an even keel until a flood of goods makes further controls unnecessary.” The President .said defects in the bill, and months of delay in its passage, call for other stern measures to check inflation. Federal expenditures must be reduced, he said, and if that fs not enough,

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“more rigorous” tax policy must be considered. ¢

MILITARY. SITE!

By EDW. L. A. WAGNER NATIONAL FORECAST SUMMARY: Except for widely scattered afternoon and evening thundershowers in the southeast states, the Dakotas and western mountainous areas, the weather aver most of the nation will be generally fair, Coolest sections are going to be those to the north of the cold front, which extends into South Carolina and northern Georgia. (See map), It will be partly cloudy where shown on the cloudy areas chart, but elsewhere mostly clear skies are predicted. A cool air mass centered over western Pennsylvania and New York is moving southeastward. Its leading edge is the cold front pictured on the map which is expected to range deep into the southeastern states breaking up a hot humid spell of long duration there, Temperatures north of this front will be lower Friday night.

ATOMIC BLAST ‘TOLL BOOSTED

Ship Is Listing.

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CECIL GRAY, FORME BALL PLAYER, DIES!

Services for Cecil G. Gray, retired Indianapolis policeman and once an American league baseball star, will be held at 9 a. m. Monday at St, Thomas ue Aquinas Catholic y church. Burial will ! be in Holy Cross cemetery. § Mr. Gray died yesterday. Born | 8 near Jamestown, ; _ Ind., he had lived most of his life in Indianapolis. He started his baseball career in the SB8outhern league as a pitcher and after he broke his arm transferred to the outfield. Later he was promoted to the major leagues. As a minor league player he held the home run

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Returning to Indianapolis, Mr. Gray managed several semi-pro teams, He served as police officer under Chief Michael Morrissey. His wife, Mrs. Grace Bennett Gray, died a year ago. He is survived by a daughter, Marguerite Gray of Rochester; a sister, Mrs. Ruby Maners, and a brother, Harry Gray, both of Indianapolis, Services will be in charge of Little & Son,

46 Brides-to-Be Delayed on Ship

SAN FRANCISCO, July 26 (U, P.) —~Forty-six disconsolate young brides-to-be from New Zealand were held aboard the liner Mariposal yesterday while their American veteran flances dug deep for $500 bond each to permit, them to enter this country. Embarrassed U.S. immigration officials sald the unhappy women would not be permitted to land until bond is posted assuring they will marry within 90 days. . The bond, required by a new law, is returnable. ’ A. J, Phelan of the San Frantisco immigration service said the confusion resulted when many of the women got their visas before the law was passed June 29.

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dragged her anchor dha changed | positions during the upheaval caused I by the bomb blast, Radioactivity Prevails The radioactivity in the target area must decrease further before the damage from the atomic depth charge can be measured accurately. Every man who made the initial tour of the contaminated water ab-

radiological penetration, the normal maximum working tolerance. Since the visit lasted only a short while, task force experts felt no harm would result. There was a difference of opinion

tleship New York suffered. Some correspondents reported she appeared undamaged, and believed an upended airplane on her catapult appeared to be the only casualty. Nagato Is Listing Adm. Blandy learned as the result of his inspection the . battleship Pennsylvania was damaged and settling slowly by the stern, During the war, the Pennsylvania suffered bomb damage to her stern but temporary repairs apparently were unable to. withstand the atomic blast. The destroyer Hughes was on an even keel but deep in the water. Adm, Blandy ordered crews to tow her to shallow water so that if she sinks, she can be studjed by navy divers. The transport Fallon was listing 10 degrees to the starboard while the Nagato, also listing slightly to the starboard, appeared to be lower in the water.s An airplane on the forward deck of the transport Gasconade was smashed, apparently by a high wave, The submarine Parche and Skate still were on the surface. Oil and dirty water found bubbinig up from the bottom prompted Adm. Blandy to say, “Sure as hell something sank there.” It may have been the spot where the gallant Saratoga met her fate. The underwater burst threw some small boats 20 to 30 feet on to Bikini beach and a landing dock was torn and tipped. Robert Bennyhoff, United Press correspondent, who flew over the target fleet from the air, said the twisted and crumpled carrier Independence still was floating, still

with the same list to starboard she

CLEVELAND, July 26. (U. P). ~A Chicago hobo looked up and down last night and then decided to take a shortcut across the Nickle Plate railroad trestle suspended over Cleveland's flats and the Cuyahoga river, Midway between two safety platforms, 66-year-old William W. Taylor was blinded by the light of an on-rushing ‘train. Frightened he turned to seek safety on the platform behind him only to see a second freight train lumbering toward him. Caught in the middle, ‘Taylor dropped over the end o a projet.

Police, Firemen Rescue Hobo Trapped on Bridge

ing railroad tie, suspending himself with his right arm as his toes barely touchéd a beam of the trestle structure, The trains passed over and then he discovered he couldn't hoist himself back on the bridge. His cries finally attracted a watchman who summoned police and the fire department. Shouting words of encouragement, the rescuers spread a life-net and raised a towerirg ladder to, Taylor. Today, he sat in his police cell

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Hot and sultry comditions will persist south and southwest of the cold front. Tropical air currents will again move into the Plains states as the : warm front over the center of the cour moves northeastward bri g a return of high tems peratures in that region. It will continue hot in Texas and the southwest, except for cooler and less humid night conditions in southern California, There will be thunderstorm activity in the southeast frontal. zone and the eastern and central Gulf states will again have their normal quota of afternoon and evening thundershowers.

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whereby they would eliminate the reptile from the aroused community for a certain compensation. Norristown residents are openly discussing possibility of offering a

reward for the serpent. Mr, Dodd, however, would prefer to undertake the project on a refainer fee, just as he does in tracking down wayward husbands, wives and other quarry. - One farmer has already offered to chip in $500 for the snake, that is. Although most Norristown residents appear to be sincerely positive of the python's presence (other neighbors have spotted him at intervals over the past five years), a certain amount of healthy skepticism pervades the countryside. As of today, there are several theories to the effect that snake rumors are circulated by: ONE: Real estate speculators anxious to devaluate the property around Norristown, then buy it up at bargain prices. TWO: Moonshiners interested in discouraging, picnics and other expeditions in the vicinity -of their stills, THREE: Persons who were opposed to location of the Indianapolis Boy Scout camp on Flat Rock river above Norristown. , YOUR: Farmers, whose unguardliad after underoging the first atom explosion three weeks ago. The cruiser Salt Lake City, her smoke stack still crushed and lurching crazily from the midair blast, was listing slightly to starboard, Mr. Bennyhoff said. “There seems to be an almost complete lack of heavy surface damage to superstructures and fixtures,” he said, “Some ships close to the target center have radar, radio masts and antennas and I can see very little deck damage anywhere.” »

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ed blackberry patches are periodie cally raided, But these are roundly by Mr. Gearhart and matics Keller, Farmer Gearhart took five 22 rifle pot-shots at the snake, which, he says, untangled itself from a - positien in the river.and glided away, its head jabbing above ny’ surface like a periscope. : x

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congress on this Matter Te Moving a | southward, instead of north. , “This movement of air south has attracted a cool air mass in he northwest, which will probably get. = heated up again before i go * adjourns.” Mr, Brown seid, ‘off the recoed, that the autumn tinge in the siv = today was partly if not altogethex the result of his new asbestos ther. - mometer, specially constructed #e'" keep the mercury down. “The sun,” he predicted, “pose. tively will shine on Sunday ale though if it's cloudy we may not be able to see it.” According to his 10-year fore: cast, Mr. Brown ya retitled would expect. ’

FISHING STREAMS ARE STILL MUDDY,

Although streams throughout the state continued to be muddy, the conservation department reported a more optimistic forecast for weekend fishermen, 1 The weekly report, filed by wardens, showed fishing ranging from poor #0 fair,

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