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| U. 5. Plans For Self- Rule Called Best Hope of Germai
Namé Presidential Candidate? Today—But It's All in Fun
a By DOUGLAS SMATH * Scripps-Howard Staff Writer WASHINGTON, Aug. 6.—A presidential candidate will be nominated in Washington today, after which all the convention delegates will g0 swimming in the navy's pool. The nominating convention will be addressed by Robert E. Hannegan and Carroll Reece, who ordinarily aren't seen dt the same gather-
ings, as chairmen of the Democratic and Republican parties, respec- |
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Police Step on Mouse to End Apartment Rattlesnake Scare
A man's cries for help n an sbber and no evidence of mental, apartment building
in the 2100 derangeemnt. hed blogk, College ave. . brought police They explained, that they lon an emergency run last night.
heard a rattle exactly like that of When Patrolmen 11
ROAD. AIRPORT WORK MAY END
$700 Million Slash in U. S. Aid Program Ordered.
POTSDAM PACT, IS IGNORED BY OTHER VICTORS
|a rattlesnake and that the thing back had thrown itself against the wall and Richard Plummer arrived at! near their bed.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 6 (U. P).—
tively, But it's all in fun. Whoever is nominated for President will be a high school honor student like all
the other delegates to the American Legion’s first Boys' Forum of national government, One hundred Woys from all over the country are meeting here this week to hold mock sessions of congress, the supreme court, and political party committees. The idea is “to stimulate interest in good government,” Legion Commander John Stelle said. ~ Three Indiana boys are attendIng. They are Donald E. Bitsberger and Walter Paul Helmke, Ft. Wayne, who were governor and lieutenant governor respectively at the recent Indiana Boys State, and Andrew Fraficis Davey, Frankfort. ’ Truman to Welcome Boys
President Truman will welcome the boys to the White House Friday morning when a “cabinet” will meet to discuss the top problems of the executive department. Tomorrow will be legislative day, when the “boys’ senate” will hold ! sessions in the caucus room of the | Capitol and be addressed by Senators Connally (D, Tex.) and Cordon (R. Ore), FBI Director J. Ed- |
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Monroe Johnson. Chief Justice Fred Vinson will address the delegates Thursday before they organize a moot supreme court, Last night the boys had dinner with newspaper correspondents and radio commentators. Earlier they visited both the Pentagon and the navy department. They were addressed by Adm. Nimitz and Gen. Devers. They also placed a wreath at the tomb of the unknown soldier and held ceremonies at the Washington monument. American ‘university is host for the forum. The delegates are being housed in former navy parracks.
FOOD PRICES DROP SLIGHTLY, STILL HIGH
WASHINGTON, Aug, 6 (U. P.).— |
The bureau of labor statistics re-
ported today that retail food prices are declining slightly after a rec-
lord increase of 13 per cent between | June 15 and July 15.
Average food prices dropped about 1 per cent the last week in July, the agency said. It added, how-
ever, that food prices are still about | 31 per cent higher than a year ago.
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Occupation Zone. By LEE HILLS
Times Foreign Correspondent
FRANKFURT, Germany, Aug. 6. ~The United Statés is cutting a
its German zone which holds the best hope for the future German nation.
Indeed, we are the only one of thé four occupying powers which has made a start on this phase of
ratization of Germany.
Britain, France and. Russia in reviving self-government
‘Elections Are Returned to
pattern of democratic self-rule in|
the Potsdam policy—the democ-| We are so far out in front of |
rnat it's |
the public works program during the current fiscal year, Reconversion Director John R.| Steelman ordered all government | agencies to halt award of con tracts under the construction program from today until Oct. 1. In all, Dr. Steelman said, the building program must be cut from $1,600,000,000 to $900 million. States Maich vs. Spending
Although Dr, Steelman did not | disclose where the public money was to have been spent, it is known that $309 million was earmarked for the public roads administration. | The civil aeronautics administra- | tion planned to spend $50 million
| shaking from fright—but perfectly
apartment where the screams were) emahating, a man inside said he! {couldn't come to the door. “There's a rattlesnake in here,”
[he explained.
officers gave each other a knowing nod-—alcoholic delirium tremens, probably. Heard Rattle Suddenly’ the man inside made one jump from a bed to the door and opened it, jumping back into bed. There the man and his wife were standing in the middle of the bed
| Projects now under way may con-
Government officials believed today | the building, the man's calls for Baby Sleeps On ie i : roads and airports may be chief (help had become screams. Stealthily the officers peered People in American victims of & $700 million cut in| Knocking on the door of the around the apartment. Presently
| & mouse darted out from the kiteh
en In a scramble for cover, After a wild chase, the officers | stepped on it and killed it. - The man and his wife were lefh
| standing in the middle of their beds
Nearby in a crib, a baby was fast asleep.
STEAL CASH, CHECKS: AT DOCTOR'S HOME
Loot including $75 in cash, $17 ins checks, a wrist watch and pen and pencil set, was taken from the house of Dr. Victor Teixler, 3674 N.
| which meets at Stuttgart every few | weeks under American direction. It | operates like an American legisla-
! to elect their own. |
| budding democratic | been the voting. |
| eligibles turned out for township,
on airports, | tinue. Delaware st. ‘after the screen wa$ Civilian production administra-| ,e.. oct 1, most proposed fed-| removed from a side window. is tion officials said that the roads) ., oo.« spending must be okayed| Dr, Teixler's wallet, minus the and ‘airports program cut actually. .guance by Oivilian Production money, was found on the driveway may amount to $1 billion as fed-| 4p inictrator John D. Small |of a home at 3623 N. Pennsylvania eral money for the projects Housing projects will be screened st. which also had been entered matched dollar-for-dollar by the |" uo ng Expediter Wilson W. | through a forced rer door and rane states. | Wyatt, sacked. Other Mr. Wyatt, Mrs. Ida Vandiver said a box of
getting a little embarrassing to {the others. So the British have announced elections for Septem- | her and October. The others say! they will follow before the end of the year. Set Up 3 States “No interruptions, Miss Bodkin. Americans have set up a civil — RH
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projects which may -be|
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government structure that parallels ’ | county ballot. The state election{thrown out, or drastically cur- intention con- | golf balls, cigarets and a sports coat the military occupation. BOARD VOTE 0K S !poard last week voted to permit tailed. include reclamation, federal | tioned the army's in to {ro { vert barracks into apartments at had disappeared overnight {rom oe NE ie has been di- ~~ CANDIDATE LISTING vot parties on the stale baie, | ities DuBIngs ay opera some Overseas posts, now may cut her garage, rear of 3652 N. Delas vide n ree states, called construction plann J ects. ware st. The coat was found on & “lands” ‘They are Bavaria. Wurt- Following a policy adopted by the {aiid navy. off such proj
state election board, the Marion TOKYO SUICIDES SOAR county board of election cémmis-| ToKyO Aug. 6 (U. P. —The| To Be Okayed in Advance green light to the veterans admin-| Apartment dwellers at 3233 N, |sioners today voted to permit both | | Dr. Steenman sald President istration, the Manhattan atomic Illinois st. reported somebody had the Communist and the Prohibition| 10k¥0 suicide rate has more than rryman authorized the cut-back to bomb project, the federal publi chisled open a back screen door, "parties td list candidates on the doubled, police statistics showed t0-|stem inflation and conserve scarce | housing authority, and to the army |foraged through several apartments, “INov. 5 election ballots, | day. During the first half of this materials, and navy for necessary overseas but took only small change and & Both parties have indicated that! year, 569 suicides were recorded as: NO new contract will be author- | reequiremeents. Those favored pro- “piggy” bank. William Means, - |they will list several candidates/ against 505 for the entire year of ised during the next 56 days with-| grams add up to more than $700 resident, said he heard an ve [for the state legislature on the! 1945. lout Dr. Steerman’'s permission. | million, {roaming the building at 4:30 a, m.
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Dr. Steelman, however, gave a|porch at 3670 N. Delaware st.
temiberg. -Baden and Greater Hesse. Each of the three lands has a | minister- -president and a cabinet, { These are all carefully screened janti-Nazis, many {rom concentra | tion camps... J A Over the three states is the | council of the lands, or laenderrat,’
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ture. Committees process all matters involving more than one land and the laenderrat then acts on them for the whole area. Until recently, military government has chosen all German civil officials except the most minor ones. Now were teaching the Germans
Draft Constitution The most promising sign of some interest has
From 70 to 83 per cent of all
county, city and constitutional convention delegate elections. A constitution governing the 17,000,000 | Germans in the U. S. zone is being {drafted this month. It will 80, {to a vote of the people this fall. { The Americans, so far, are the { only conquerors with the vision | and courage to strike out for the! | eventual reconstruction of German { political life on a democratic basi. | | Our top men here believe it is pay-| ing off. “The co-operation of the Ger-| mans chosen for this task is almost embarrassing,” said Dr. James K. | Pollock, senior representative of our | | military government, who oversees | the laenderrat. | I attended conferences with the | cabinets of all these “lands” and | saw the laenderrat functioning in| | Stuttgart. These Germans impress | | you as sincere, hard-working and { trying their best to get Germany | on a peaceful new path. Few Good Leaders » |
{ But they also are old and tired. | Their average age is 60 or more. | Many of them date back to the | Weimar republic. There are a few first-rate men among them, but as a whole they are disappointing. They do not look or act like-leaders-able to bring a broken nation to | its feet. Yet they are symbolic of Ger-| { many today. The intellectual pov{erty is appalling. Any real leaders | who didn't join Hitler either fled or were killed off. They were his No. 1 enemy. Anyway, we are putting the Germans through the motions of democracy, and with some encouraging signs like the elestions. Another is the active rivalry of political parties, the first since 1933. Trade unions are developing again. A feeble start has been made toward a free press. It isn’t an effort to force democracy down German throats. It's an attempt to give them the machinery of freedom and let them learn to want’ democracy by prac-
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SIX HURT IN BLAST OF STORE GAS PIPES
Six persons were recovering to-| | day from injuries and the effects { of fumes following an explosion of | gas pipes at five places in the Sears, | Roebuck & Co. store, Alabama and New York sts. yesterday.
Most seriously hurt was John M. Laker, 47, of 452 N. State ave., the workman who was blowing out the gas lines with an oxygen pressure tank. He was cut and badly bruised by flying bricks and plaster when fumes in the pipes exploded. Others Injured Others injured by flying debris | were,Mrs. Norene Nipp, 55, of Rush- | ville; Wayne Riggs, 29, of 1847 W. Washington st., his brother, Robert Riggs, 20, of Clay City, all store customers standing near the pipes when the explosion occurred. All| | were treated at City hospital and | | sent home. Mrs. Glenora Bell, 3728 N. But- | | ler ave, a store stenographer, and! Miss Bertha Beck, 1619 N. Alabama | | st., a customer, were overcome by | gas fumes. Their tondzion was not’ 3 serious.
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