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sucht From U. S. at Low rice, Sold High to Private

of many talents, told a house investigating committee today

reselling them to private en

disposal ageney, and that other persons in his contact with| “=, IE a

said there was “no diffiout what material

The portly witness, a central figure in the senate investigation of Garsson munitions firms, said fee as contract broker property deals was five the purchase value. he also received “a split” erence between the cost | prices of goods involved that he arranged. $4000 Commission was called to tell, among: things,” how he obtained | 8 bronze wire screening from i The committee, investi disposal of surplus property,

hes heard testimony that d 539 rolls of the sereen- already have been arrested for bo-

B. Warr, Oklahoma City |gus surplus deals, and 26 of these tractor, for $8000 plus a $4000 have been indicted.

commission. ‘ 4 | Fields testified he found he Senate Probers Eye screening while visiting a _ Junkets for Officers

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mond, Va. surplus property warehouse. He said at the time he had (AgHINGTON, Aug. 12 (U. P) an order on his desk from the Warr | _ ry. genate war investigating firm for such screening. committee expected to receive toPunctuating his testimony with day a detailed report on army of“I don't know” or “I can’t remem- gq... travel allowances. ber,” PFelds said he did not re- The report by the genera] acmember who showed him the . ing office may reveal who paid g st the’Richmond depot. ¢,; the officers’ trips to such extrahe remember with whom 'cyrricular affairs as the New York talked at the WAA. [wedding party for the daughter of Fields also said he could not re- nr ray Garsson, Illinois munitions ber the exact terms of an or-| aker whose profits are under com=for wire screening placed with | pjitee investigation. him last April 20 by Baumrin| committee officials reported the Brothers, a New York firm. | war profits story has almost unDeal Had ‘Fallen Through’ [touched chapters on free-spending Plelds said later that the Baum- Washington lobbyists, lavish gifts to rin screening deal was arranged by | government employees and lush ena business associate no longer em- | tertainmen met, reportedly at governployed him, He said the deal men . had 8 through” because the| The committee this week plans material was supplied too late. As to push further an inquiry into rehe recalled, he said, the agreement ports that well-heeled lobbyists with Baumrin was for sale of the obliged minor treasury department screening at eight cents a square officials with “gratuities” for their foot. favors in connection with lend-lease Flelds, who allegedly has pro-| purchases. fessed to be everything from a| The committee also vigorously publicity man to a representative of | pursued- reports about contractor- . King Farouk of Egypt. was ques- sponsored New York excursions for tioned closely by house committee | government officials, sometimes in Counsel Hugh D. Wise Jr, about| company with their stenographers. his wire screening deals.

The committee has felt the scarce | wire should have been set aside for THEFT Of PURSES veterans housing. Fields, nattily dressed, explained the Warr firm needed the screen-

ing urgently “because he (Warr) was building G. I. homes in Okla-

to be “hand processed.” which contained

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Firms, Ex-Convict Admits

, Aug. 13 (U. P.).~—Benjamin F. Fields, ex-convict

by buying government surplus war materials at. below marterprises. ently called the war assets administration, govern-

AT HOSPITAL PROBED

Police today were Investigating] rh homa.” So, he said, the order had |the theft of two purses, one of OPA HIKES PRICE OF $500 cash and

rings worth $2100, stolen from their owners yesterday as they sat in the

Mrs. Nellie Ross of 615 E. 44th

you take by the hand and follow through. In other words, this check taken to the Philadelphia office d and then the order was to Richmond by hand.” recalled the hand processing performed by Glenn A. Dies, associate in his office. During his testimony, Fields’ cur-

At one point, Mr. Wise asked committee Chairman Roger OC. Slaughter (D. Mo.) for permission to insert some contracts in the records as exhibits.

Rep. Clifford Davis (D. Tenn.), ap-

feud over the committee chairmanship,

Atlanta, Ga. No Illegality Shown

House committee officials conceded that they knew of nothing ille-

officials in a “tight position.”

Before Pields was called to the witness stand, Mr. Slaughter ang

parently patched up their budding

The two sat together amicably as ivi | youths who were driving it. the hearing opening. Mr. Davishad pave one of whom carried an auto. threatened to boycott the hearings) matic pistol, and call a meeting of his own at

gal in Fields’ purchase of scarce items at a WAA sale in Philadelphia. But Mr. Wise repeatedly claimed the committee's investiga-

tion will place some rovernment FLIER TOSSED FROM |

A WAA spokesman said today the agency is tightening procedures and

st. told police she had napped as she waited in the lobby. When she awoke, she said, her purse con~ taining $500 and three diamond rings worth $1000, $500, and $600, Was gone. Mrs.” Ella Mayfox of 3731 Rockville rd. said her purse, which also was stolen, contained $8 and some keys. Charlie Weber, who lives at the Linden hotel, told officers he was robbed last night by two men who| dragged him into an alley and took his billfold, containing $2. Indianapolis police today were hunting the owner of a black Buick sedan bearing a Kentucky license which was stolen yesterday from a downtown parking lot. The vehicle’ was recovered yesterday when officers arrested two The

were taken to the juvenile aid division. Thieves who stole a “for sale” truck from Howard Throckmorton's filling station at 1910 8. Meridian st, returned it a few hours later . . +» and backed it into the station, breaking two plate glass windows valued at $150.

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ARKANSAS BIS STIR ‘CLEANUP

County Election Officers “ Face Charges.

By BOB BROWN United Press Staff Correspondent BATESVILLE, Ark, Aug. 12— Charges were to be filéd here today against 16 Independence county election judges and clerks as GI politicians awaited answer to their demands that two county officials anf two county Demcoratic central committee members resign. The charges and demands were drawn up by 200 ex-servicemen here yesterday meeting as a “better government committee.” After obtaining a court’ order and examining’ duplicate ballots cast in the July 30 preferential primary, they tossed out 200 of 3936 ballots cast, R. W. Tucker, attorney for the G. I's announced he would file charges ‘of “making false returns” today against 16 election judges ang clerks in four Independence county precincts, Back No Special Ticket The committee, headed by army veteran Herman (Bubba) Boykin, and ex-navy Lt. Clem Moore, ememphasized they were backing no special ticket and making no threats of violence. “We want only to clean up the dirty politics in Independence county,” they said. They asked Chairman Jake Engles, and Secretary Burt Stephens, of the county Democratic central committee, to resign on “grounds that there was negligence in handling ballot tabulation sheets. It was pointed out that County Treasurer Ernest Stroud and County Clerk Richard W. Sturch had the ballot boxes in their care following the election. “Proof of Tampering” The veterans charged there was “definite proof of tampering with four boxes.” An 87-vote discrepancy in the county treasurer's race, discovered last Friday, put war veteran Norman Gray on Tuesday's ruh-off ballot with incumbent Ernest Stroud, long-time office holder,

Pledge to Refund Salaries Over $5000

ATHENS, Tenn., Aug. 12 (U. P). —PFive G. 1. nominees named to office here 10 days ago in a bullet punctuated election, today pledged to refund all their salaries and fees in excess of $5000 a year to McMinn county. > Jim Buttram, campaign manager for the G. l.-non-partisan ticket, said most of the five positions were required by county law to refund all

chine didn't do it,” he added.

METAL FURNITURE

WASHINGTON, Aug. 12 (U. P). —OPA today boosted the retail price of metal household furniture nine per cent. Manufacturers got a seven per cent increase. This will be passed on to the consumers, along with an additional two per cent. The two per cent previously was absorbed by resellers from an earlier seven per cent rise granted manufacturers. Such absorption by middlemen is banned by the revised OPA law, The new manufacturers’ increase, OPA said, was based on increased wages and materials cost since 1941.

SURRENDER ANNIVERSARY TOKYO, Aug. 12 (U. P.).—Officers and men of the Pacific command will celebrate Wednesday, Aug. 14, as the first anniversary of the Japanese surrender, Gen. Douglas MacArthur announced today. All men will be granted a hol-

{iday except for skeleton crews to

handle emergency matters.

money in excess of $5000. “Buti pa.eq4 by the farm bureau from members of the old political ma-| tne Conklin Lumber Co., Indian-

| Fire Destroys

BLAZE IS FANNED BY BRISK WIND

Officials Estimate Loss at Over $22,000.

A brisk wind which fanned a fire of undetermined origin throughout the Marion County Farm Bureau Lumber Co. sat Oumberland yesterday sent fire losses near the $22,000 mark, officials estimated today. The blaze destroyed a two-story frame warehouse and a pile of critically scarce lumber which the shed housed. The fire broke out in the lumber yard yesterday afternoon and was spread quickly by the wind. Piremen were unable to combat the rapid spread of fire, but were

f Profits On Deals In Surplus

Farm Bureau Lumber Yard at Cumberland

Thick clouds of smoke billow up from the fire that leveled the Marion County Farm Bureau lumber yard at Cumberland, as the flames eat through the remaining section of the warehouse.

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DEPUTY HUNTED IN TOWN FIGHT

Free-For-All in Shoals Quelled by Police.

Times Special SHOALS, Ind, Aug. 12—~Where's Elmer? State police today sought Deputy Sheriff Elmer Holt on charges of assault and battery after a Saturday night free-for-all reminiscent of frontier days. Officials at Jasper state police post said Deputy Holt is believed to have been the leader of a “posse” which threw the town marshal here into his own jail—among other things. Nine other members of the self-appointed rangers already have been arrested. Described by town residents as a {blood feud between the deputy's [family and town marshal Mack

|Ross, the trouble started several {days ago when the deputy’'s son Donald Holt, was arrested by Marshal Ross on an intoxication count. Marshal Ross is successor to the {elder Holt who resigned as town marshal two months ago. Saturday night, when Marshal Ross attempted to arrest another man on an intoxication count, the [“posse” intervened. Marshal Ross { was relieved of his gun and thrown into jail where, he complained, the

TOKYO, Aug. 12 (U. P.).—Although Japan’s new constitution provides for equality of men and women, the throne is still a man’s

tee emphasized today. The experts revising imperial household law decided to retain the section’ which limits the

Jap Women Equal Men, Up to Throne

job, a special legislative commit- |

jail's only other occupant took the opportunity to give him “a cuffing around.” During the confusion, excited] | residents called in state police who | restored peace and quiet,

throne to “male descendants in the male line from the imperial ancestors.”

A few committeemen wanted to go all the way on “equality” and revise..the heoks.lo permit a

female sovereign, but imperial household ministry officials over-

HEADS 5TH LEGION DISTRICT WABASH, Ind. Aug. 12 (U. P). —The new district commander of {the fifth district of the American | Legion is Herman Yates, Hunting-

ruled them. Iton, elected yesterday.

MONDAY, AUG. 12, 1948

Nar Goods

Coiled Snake Foils Police:

It's Stuffed

“Sighted snake—swept up same” was the unofficial report sent back by a squad of police who rushed to 115 E. Ohio st. on a report that a huge snake was coiled menacingly beneath a grating there. Fearful that the Norristown snake had changed habitats, the police dispatcher last night sent Sgt. Charles Schwinn, Cpl. William Lare man and Patrolman Cecll Maddae« lena to the “pit,” armed with shote guns. The policemen scrambled out of the car and rammed shotguns through the grating in front of the Indiana Music Co., drawing a bead on a king-sized water moccasin, They sheepishly withdrew their guns when the snake remained immobile as if it were stuffed—which it was.” Police later found a broom and swept the stuffed snake, apparently one which had been used to deco= rate an ash tray, back under the grating to avoid future scares. The snake had been under the grating several weeks, apparently put there by a practical joker, ALABAMANS TO FACE TRIAL IN NEAR RIOT ATHENS, Ala., Aug. 12 (U. P.) — City officials said today that Roy and Ben Massey, brothers, whose fight with two Negroes here set off a near race riot, would be charged with being “drunk and disorderly.” Fifty state patrolmen were rushed here and 60 Alabama guardsmen assembled at the Athens armory after an estimated mob of 1500 pere sons angrily stormed the courthouse

here Saturday night intent on freee ing the youths,

able to save two boxcars and an annex. The Indianapolis group | fought flames off the adjacent] building, where turpentine and paints were stored, and the Warren

Township volunteers saved one empty boxcar and one loaded with! lumber. Harold Jordan, manager. said the | loss was “fully covered” by insur- | ance. The lumber yard was pur- |

apolis, several months ago.

U.S. 38-DAY DEFICIT 1S $1,270,000,000

WASHINGTON, Aug. 12 (U. P.).| ~The government in the first 38 aa of the current fiscal year has run up a deficit of about $1,270,000,- | 000. That is about two-thirds of what President Truman recently estimat- | ed the deficit would be for the entire fiscal year ending next June 30. He estimated the year's deficit at $1.900,000,000. The figures show Mr. Truman will have to get results on his demands for economy if the deficit is to be held within his estimate. Total government expenses from July 1 through Aug. 7 were $4,317, 000,000. This is a big drop from last year, when the war was still on. In the comparable period then, the! government paid out $10,737,000,000. | Receipts, however, are holding up well. The figures are $3,047,000,000 against $3,384,000,000 last. year.

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bolstering its enforcement staff to|(U. P.).—Cmdr. Joseph W. Runyan, | head off repetition of the “too|Newport, fell 6000 feet to his death many” irregular operations disclosed | yesterday when the naval ‘training | by recent investigations, | plane in which he was flying lurched Officials said veterans who “front” | and tossed him through an escape | for civillans—buying scarce surplus | hatch. | goods with high GI priorities, only| Cmdr. Runyan, who was taking a to turn the goods over to others— | refresher -course at Quonset naval! constitute the biggest problem. air station, had just shifted from Joseph Carroll, compliance direc- | the co-pilot's seat to the bombar- | tor, sald there is a general reluc-|dier's position in the nose of the © tance to prosecute veterans, how- |plane. . ever, civilians who conspire with| A life jacket supported the body | ex-servicemen can expect to be until it was recovered by a private I hafled into court. Thirty civilians | yacht cruising off Point Judith, | | |

Wisconsin's La Follette Seeks ~ Senate Seat as GOP Choice

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Republicans in Wisconsin and jont nominate senatorial can-

term as Wisconsin governor is 83-year-old Walter 8. Goodland, the oldest state chief executive in the nation. | Vermont Republicans have a choice between Sterry R. Water- | man, a lawyer, and Ralph E. Plan- | ders, Vermont businessman, who are running for the senate seat va- | cated by Warren R. Austin. "Mr. Austin resigned to become United States delegate to the United Nations security council, | Other primaries this week will be held igs South Carolina and: Delaware. South Carolina will-vote to- | {morrow but Delaware Democrats t will hold their election Saturday. “=. | Delaware Republicans = will _hold their state convention Wednesday.

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