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Marshall: 'No Hope For Peace in China’
Politicians Cooptate Glaives For Equinoctial Plebiscite
END OF STRIFE POSSIBLE, REPORT SAYS
Marine Train Guards Again Exchange Fire With Armed Band.
By WALTER RUNDLE United Press Staff Correspondent
SHANGHAI, Aug. 10.— Gen. George C. Marshall and U. S. Ambassador John Leighton Stuart in a joint statement admitted today failure in the effort to conciliate China's warring Communist and Nationalist factions. - “It appears impossible for the two parties to reach a settlement of certain issues which would permit issuance of a general order for complete cessation of hostilities in all China,” the statement said. Marines, Chinese Exchange Fire
Meanwhile U. 8: marine headquarters at Peiping announced a second incident within two weeks of gunfire between marines and Chinese troops. Four murine guards riding in the caboose of a coal train attacked 60 miles northeast of Tientsin last night returned the fire and reported two probable Chinese casualties. Some 50 unidentified Chinese attacked and derailed the train. The marineg suffered no casualties and were picked up by an 80-man rescue expedition. The incident occurred while a group of Americans and Chinese of the Peiping executive headquarters were investigating the first affray on July 29 at Anping. Not Giving Up Completely Today's statement did not indicate that Gen. Marshall and Mr. Stuart were giving up completely in their ing into full scale civil war. But it indicated deepest pessimism over the results of Gen. Marshall's months-long fight achieve an! agreement between“the two groups. An unofficial report circulated in| Nanking ‘that Gen. Marshall would return to the United States about Sept. 15, “with little likelihood that he would return to China.” Nanking | advices noted that the statement]
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was given out at a time when the| situation appeared hopeless as a re-|
sult of an apparent decision by the] Nationalists to obliterate the Com- | munists militarily. ap Fighting Spreads
and threatening to engulf the coun- | try and pass beyond the control of those responsible.” China's economic situation, said Gen. Marshall and Mr. Stuart, is] so critical that it “demands prompt solution if a disastrous collapse is tg be avoided.” bling block to agreement between the nationalists and Communists the question of political control, particularly the character of local or county governments to be mainteined in the regions which will be evacuatec as a result of military redispositions. SEEK CLERKS FOR LEAVE PAY JOBS President Truman's signature of the bill giving terminal leave pay | to G. Is has created a new employment problem at Ft. Benjamin Harrison. f The finance office tHere an- | nounced today it will need at least! 30 additional clerks and clerk-| typists to handle applications for | terrmainal pay. Orville Allinson, di-| Jeelop 2 civilian personnel, said |
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erans. | To avoid still another problem, Maj. Robert Metcalf Jr, finance officer, urged ex-G. 1s not to come to the fort for their terminal pay. Application must be made on forms which will be available in a few weeks, he said, and payment cannot be made “over the counter,”
WHEATLAND MAN DROWNS VINCENNES, Ind, Aug. 10 (U, P.) —State police said today the body of Harold Thomas Baker, 40, Wheatland, Ind, had been recovered from White river, two miles south of Route 50, He drowned yesterday, | | |
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United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Aug. 10.~Democrats and Republicans today co-
optated their kukri and glaive for the ascerbitious conventicle plebiscital gigantomachy come the hiemal equinox. And a helluva battle it should be, too.
Double talk? Hades’ wheels, no publican way of saying that the their weapons for the big congressional election battle this fall, It'll be dictionaries (unabridged) and thesauri. And let the $40 words fall where they may. Words like in-
gannation and obfuscation. Abstruseness, that is. ” ~ » TWO-BIT stuff is out. Ain't
classy enough, son. This is the big leagues. President Truman, No, 1 Democrat, and Rep, Clarence J. Brown of Ohio, Republican national committee campaign director, gave the bewildered customers a sample ;esterday of what's to come. They pulled no pundits. Fact, is they dished it out like a couple of veteran glottologists. Mr. Brown started it all by accusing Mr. Truman of “ingannation” about balancing the federal budget.
= = » INGANNATION is an obsolete word meaning deception or misrepresentation, Easy! A federal budget is something with figures that never seem to balance.
SHERIFF FORMS 2 VICE SQUADS
Orders County Toured on Word Gambling Revives.
Reports that gambling was in the process of being revived in
Having delivered his etymological] armigerous battle.
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! Just the new Democratic and Retwo political parties have chosen
| blooper ball, Mr. Brown sat back to watch the fun. But Mr. Truman was equal to the challenge. He countered in kind. | Mr. Brown, the President said, {was simply attempting obfuscation. | Furthermore, Mr, Truman said, the | word used by Mr, Brown was a $40 | Republican word which was an at-| | tempt to add to the obfuscation of |all of Mr. Brown's other state-
| ments. . - » » BY NOW, the President was
handlnig the world as if he owned it. He said no Democrat would have any truck with a word like ingannation, But he thought it was perfectly all right to use the ‘word obfuscation. A baffled reporter wanted to know what obfuscation meant. Mr. Truman said this was a Democratic word meaning to mix up. Webster says it means to confuse or bewilder. | But, getting back te the congres{sional campaign, it ought to be an
Albanian Bid To Peace Talk
{ + : Raises a Row PARIS, Aug. 10 (U. P).—The {peace conference wrangled angrily | today over whether Albania should be permitted to come to the ses-|
sions” and finally postponed a de-|
FORECAST: Fair and cooler today and tonight. Tomorrow fair and con tinued cool. :
SATURDAY, AUGUST 10, 1946
BUS CRASHES AT LAGRANGE;
38 Persons Are Pinned Inside Wreckage as Vehicle Overturns.
LAGRANGE, Ind. Aug. 10 (U.P), —Three persons were injured seriously today when a Greyhound bus left the road, mowed down two trees and then overturned on the
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highway, pinning 37 passengers and :
the driver,
State police and Lagrange county |
sheriff deputies removed the pas-
sengers through the windshield. The | §
bus was jacked up to remove two
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passengers whose arms were hanging out a window when the crash | occurred,
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taken to a Sturgis, Mich., hospital. They were Marjorie Wilson, 18, |
Wellsville, O., serious arm fracture | Cheiw- | sis, 49, Argo, Ill, possible fracture |!
and lacerations; Exsiconia left shoulder and lacerations, and John Cservenyak, Chicago severely torn and lacerated left leg and pos sible fractured arm.
Doctors said Miss Wilson's arm || might be amputated. She and Czer- |}
venyak were pinned to the ground by the heavy bus. The other 34 passengers were treated for minor cuts, bruises and shock and released. The bus was bound for New York by way of Cleveland from Chicago. The crash occurred at 3:24 a. m. near the west city limits of Lagrange on U. S. 20.
State police and Sheriff Dwight |
Hostetler said the driver, Walter Paul Pirchmer, 20, Chicago, would be held pending an investigation.
HUNGER BRINGS CONVICT ARREST
Alcatraz Prisoner Now in Ft. Wayne Jail,
PT. WAYNE, Ind, Aug. 10 (U. P.).—Alfred Minutole, 34, a “dan-
Marion county today led to the for-|.igion after an uproarious debate | 8€TOUS” bank robber who ‘escaped
mation of two special vl by Sheriff Magehieimer’ to tour the county and make arrests. “Word came to me yesterday that the slot machine and crap
shooting boys were getting ‘active |pefi pleaded Italy's case before a through a passenger rain window.
again and I've ordered two squads to get out and search for any evidence of gambling,” Sheriff Magenheimer said.
Searches Ordered
He did not name any specific|a provisional peace treaty now for river while federal, state and local places but said .that the reports |
were that slots were being moved back into private clubs around the county.
“I've ordered my men to search| launched into a speech in Russian only river water to drink. The statement said that fighting every club and place suspected of | without waiting for is daily growing more widespread having gambling activities and to!from Bidault. the sheriff |
make instant arrests,” declared. A total of six men comprise the squads, he said. Gambling has either been .dormant or “sneaked” since Magenheimer took over the sheriff's du-
| ties recently, but little has been
done openly.
PALESTINE SEARCH
ENTERS ARAB LON | The session then was adjourned |, Cgesarian section a few seconds until Monday without a decision) after his mother died of infantile
: 3S Moslems Show Irritation in
Holy Month.
JERUSALEM, Aug. 10 (U. P.).—
| British troops and police turned |siavia and Greece.
their search for extremists into the mixed. Arab-Jewish quarter of Jerusalem for the first time today. Authorities suspected that members of the Irgun Zva Leumi and the Stern gang were hiding among the Arabs, First reports said five Jews had been arrested.
The Arabs were extremely sensitive to the search. It was the Arab holy month of Ramadan. ‘ Meanwhile, sources in London said the intensive security measures in Palestine were aimed against an anticipated Arab uprising as well .as Jewish underground warfare and illegal ‘mmigration. A British informant said there was reason to believe that the next large-scale landing of illegal Jewish immigrants was to have been the signal for an Arab revolt. A high Arab source in Palestine recently warned that 50,000 Arabs “might” stage a massacre of newly arrived
[ immigrants.
PREDICTS CONTINUED CLOTHING PRICE RISE
WASHINGTON, Aug. 10 (U. P).|
rd 1% . ye 11 | for it. —Price Administrator Paul Porter Ray, deputy sheriff, in juvenile sWered Mr. Ray. “I'll sure be willling to give the boy and his dog | Specifically, the kindly faced said today that tlothing prices will| court. He smiled as Judge Mak e oe kay with his Woman is charged with administercontinue to increase until sometime | Rhoads said he could go home WRI tr: y ing the mercury found in invalid next year. Mr. Ray. | The mother gave her consent; so|Mrs. Mamie McConnell, who In his weekly radio address| The boy and Palestine, the puppy, improving at Kings Daughter hos-
(ABC), Porter said that “the average cost of clothing will probably go up considerably for a while,” But, he added, “I think there Is good reason to expect that the average cost of clothing. will come down somewhat during 1047 as supplies expand and as competition reasserts itself, bringing more lower priced clothing into the market.”
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in which Chairman Geocges Bideft vainly pounded his gavel and | sounded a clanging gong attempt{ing to choke off a speech by Soviet
Delegate Andrei Y. Vishinsky. |
| Later Premier Alcide de Gas-
appealing passionto lift
{ plenary session, lately for a “generous effort” the treaty burden on Italy. The frail Italian leader pleaded { with the 21 nations to defer a final | decision on Trieste and write only |
his country. : M. Vishinsky, who first rose to {fame as prosecutor of the famous| | Moscow purge trials, rose and|
recognition | Gavel Is Unavailing The French foreign minister angrily rapped his gavel but the flow of Russian words continued unbroken, Angered, M, Bidault clanged |the gong which i# only used to open {and conclude sessions. | M. Vishinsky went right on talkling, amid mounting turmoil, When Vishinsky finally sat { down, M. Bidault angrily ordered {that for the record M. Vishinsky’s speech would be ignored.
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from New ork detectives but sur-
in custody today at the Allen county
I jail,
Minutole escaped from the detectives Tuesday night by leaping
He was arrested yestérday when a farmer saw him trudging along a dirt road. .He offered nq resistance, He told police he had hidden in a small park along the St. Mary
authorities maintained a giant road block. : He said he had eaten nothing since Tuesday night and had had
Minutole, recently released from Alcatraz after serving a 10-year
ngs of Hunger, was
’ - i ! Recovering from mercury poisoning in King's Daughter hospital, Madison, is Invalid Mrs. Mamie McConnell. Authorities charge the mercury was administered by her nurse, Mrs. Lottie Lockman. Dr. E. C. Cook, family physician, takes her pulse,
mW Nursing Home Here
ARE MAN! T0 THER Prosecutor Conducts Raid
On Complaints by Relatives,
Police today raided a prive ate nursing home at 1828 N,
Margaret charges of
Colvin, 50, on assaulting and
.|mistreating her “patients.”
The raid on the home was led by Prosecutor Sherwood Blue, who acted on complaints by relatives of the home's patients. Mr. Blue said he found several aged women mane
straps and chains. One patient, he revealed, was fase tened on a table by thongs about her wrists and her ankles, . Charged With Assault Specifically, the charges against Mrs, Colvin were for assault and
ing a nursing home without a le cense and malicious mayhem, |
named with her in the h At 1 p. m,, an hour after the raid; authorities still were busy releasing
Some of the patients appeared te
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sentence for bank robbery, was peing returned to New York to face charges of armed robbery, Authorities said they would hold him at Ft. Wayne pending word from New York.
BABY IS BORN AFTER POLIO KILLS MOTHER
DENVER, Aug, 10 (U. P) —Phy-
sicians at Colorado genere' hospital |
today kept a watchful eye on a four-ppund baby boy, born through
Forrest McConnell, husband of Mamie (center), talks over the case with Deputy Sheriff Walter Sauley (left) and State Police Detective Graham Tevis.
. sm I FUTURE OF PROBE UP TO soewsts WASHINGTON Jekyll-Hyde Picture Chena Weekly Sizeup by the Washington .. Of Suspected Woman.
By VICTOR PETERSON
Staff of the Scripps-Howard Newspapers
Times Stall Writer res PRR cre. mm of vee] JADISON. Tut”. 10 Greek Premier Constantin Tsaldaris |g. bie BR ay Sas — ‘break” in little Dupont’s and Mosha Pijade, a Yugoslav dele- | arior Mrs. Frances Carvel, 31, died | Poison mystery will come togate, who Charged that the Greek | of polio. His twin, also a boy was | Morrow. {had made “a cold-blooded proposal” | jead at birth. By that time, experts at
{to divide Albania between Yugo-| so———————————— | { 2 1 3 » | SHOE PRICES MAY RISE |the Indiana university med-|
WASHINGTON, Aug. 10 (U, P) lical center at Indianapolis will] y | cod to] het. ot there is peison |for the division of Albania. He tried| —Sho¢ Prices may be increased to know whether or n havin. {to get the floor as soon as the Yugo- eompensate manufacturers for|in the organs Murs. Minnie | : higher leather costs, OPA sald 'moconnell, body Was ex(Continued on Page 3 lumi 1) | today. | Jumed in quaint Lancaster ceme-
Brush With the Law Wins {oul sons
Out on bond on a charge of at-} New Home for Boy and Dog
| tempted murder by poison is a| woman who evidently has two sides! to her nature—62-year-old Mrs, Lottie (Tot) Lockman. = To’ stay with his dog, Palestine, your pooch, do you?” the marshal Hint Jekyll-Hyde Nature a slender 14-year-old Loy has gone | asted. erate. Io So Considerable prying of the clamthrough more ordeals than mOSt|, coeq his dog to him. The marshal mouthed Dupont townspeople who, people encounter in a lifetime, {called state police who brought | like other Hoosiers; are loathe to| Slight and serious-minded, the|the boy and his dog Back to In- [talk about a crime in the comlad was scuffing .along past the | diamnapolis. They spent the night, munity, portrays Mrs. Lockman as:
White 7} two toBether, in the Marion county jail, ONE: A good Samaritan who naval ‘armory on 2 river WO. ‘When the boy appeared in court Was a typical good neighbor, bring-
years ago when he saw some men (today with Mr. Ray, he said he |ing cakes to. the bereaved at fubooting a little white, short-haired didn’t want to go back home. Mr. |nerals, and generally helping the ' dog. J Ray said if it was all right, he distressed. He ran over to tid puppy, gath- | would keep the boy and Palestine | TWO: A rough, profane speak-| sre it up in his arms and fled. bn one of his farms and send the ing woman, who called you nice Then began a friendship that en- boy to school. names to your face and hurled in- | dured through fights, family trou-| “You're dippy over dogs, aren't sults and profanity at you behind ble and legal tangles. | you?” laughed Judgé Rhoads. | your back and who never bk care | Today the boy stood beside Otto “Yes, I've got 14 of them,” an- of anybody unless she was paid
| Premier Tsaldaris shouted a de-| nial that he ever made a proposal
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the boy and Palestine now have a new home-—one where they can run around and play together all they
had run away from the home of his
pital at Madison. mother yesterday. They went to
Mrs. McConnell had a “feeling”
Kirkiand 10.get Job picking t0-|, that she was being poisoned by mEloes. ral of KikiAnd saw the somebody, she told state police and boy ER On Hr O0eire Hoa the | LOCAL TEMPERATURES hess investigators at the hospital street after they had failed to get| 6 a.m... 65 10 a.m 032 | ‘of got to sleeping more and more work. He walked over to him and| 7 a.m. ... 65 11 am ... 78 |,.40 1 was sleeping most of the began to question him. | Ram ... 60 12 (neon) .. 75 | oe di ; “You don't have a dog license for| 9a m. ...71 1pm... | (Continued on: Page 3—Column 3) wy 4 ‘oh. :
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WASHINGTON, Aug. 10.—Here's outlook for “Opetation Pocketbook”: Price rises aren't over. .OPA authorizes new ones daily—as it must under new OPA law. Look for cotton
goods to shoot even higher; few items, if any, will drop. Chances are 50-50 for recontrol of beef, ' wheat, dairy products. Ceilings are likely to go back on pork and lamb. Be wary of any drop in meat prices before Aug. 20. = Decontrol board decides then what to do; industry will try before then to drive prices down and avoid recontrol. Statisticians gasp at bureau of labor statistics figures for price rises June 15 to July 15—period when OPA was dying. Food costs went up 13.8 per cent. Total cost of living 5'z per cent,
Black Market Not Considered
Statistics ‘based on ceiling prices In June, sales prices in July —do not take into account actual black-market sales prices in June, There's been no statistical rise like this in any period. Normally economists. worry, statisticians recheck, if they find a 1 per cent a month increase. Labor and consumer groups urge people to continue buyers’ strikes, though business journals
to report evidence of artificial | meat shortages, tie-in sales, any say they were ineffective. Con- | other unsavory practices; promsumer groups will testify before | ises to prosecute. i ", ” ~ n Secosrol bord, IT MAY be David Lilienthal, Justice._department.has—plans | head of T. V. A. for chairman for helping retailers fight pinch | of new atomic energy commission, on meat if they will co-operate. |
Anti-trust division urges retailers | (Continued on Page 2-Column 6)
With 58 Million at Work
WASHINGTON, Aug. 10 (U, RP) Agricultural employment during] Employment reached a new- peak, of Hebout ancbangtd 58,130,000 in July, an increase of More returning veterans have nearly 4,000,000 over July, 1945, the| yemained outside the labor force bureau of the census reported. than had been expected, the bureau Unemployment also rose—to 2.-|said. Sipe 270,000. This was an ‘increase of| A survey during the week ended 1,300,000 over the July, 1945, figure.| July 13 showed 3,820,000 persons in The civilian labor force reached|the labor force were away from 60,400,000, up more than 5,000,000 their jobs during the period. since July last year. The group in-| These persons are classed as emcludes the total of employed and ployed, since they had jobs to reunemployed—those persons able and turn to. More than 2,500,000 were willing to work, | {on vacations, the bureau said.
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the 12 months ended with July was |
be mental cases, others aged persons,
WABASH RIVER OIL IS EYED BY STATE
Indiana is preparing to tap a new source of revenue — its own off flelds at the bottom of the Wabash river—an announcement from the state department of conservation
indicated today, estimated, ty
Department officials Seordl ng to the announcemen t had current permit been drilling in the aia since 1942, the state would have re. ceived royalties amounting te around $2,000,000. As a result, com« mission members are con | revoking the two permits held by J. B. Cogan of Vincennes and Dae vid H. Smith of Worthington,
nouncement said, may be to “throw the field open” rather than limit drilling permits to one or two opers ators. The flelds include those - around Mink island where oil is reported flowing abundantly, Welby VanHorn, deputy attorney general assigned to the oil case, said permits are subject to revocation on grounds that failure to drill cons {stitutes non-compliance with permis
contracts. :
WAA REORGANIZED TO HELP VETERANS
t WASHINGTON, Aug. 10 (U. P.); !—A drastic shakeup of the slece tronics division of the war. assets (adminjstration has been ordered |after revelation that millions of | dollars ‘worth of surplus commus | nications equipment has piled up | while thousands of veterans vaine ly sought to buy it. Robert M. Littlejohn, new chief of the most reorganized agency | Washington, demanded fastest ac tion on the applications of 10,000" G. Ls for goods tied up in a back log of 75,000 surplus declarations from army and navy. , As a starter, 52 paid consultants were discharged,
OVERTIME IS AUTHORIZED WASHINGTON, Aug. 10 (U, P), - Between 1,000,000 and 2,000,000 government employees today wers authorized to draw overtime pay retroactive to ‘1934.
Four-Bedroom Brick Just One Block From School 70 For Sale
Located midway between Washe ington Boulevard and Central Avenue. It's convenient to five churches and best bus service in the city , . .
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The prosecutor also’ ordered the : arrest of Thomas H. Colvin, 30, son of the home’s proprietor, who wag
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