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VOLUME 57—-NUMBER 216

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. °° MONDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1946

Entered as Second-Class Matter at PostofMce Indianapolis, Ind. Issued daily except Bunday

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‘SOMETHING I HAPPENING IN REDS’ CAPITAL

Riddle of = Stalin’s Health| Again Poses Question—Is Policy Change Due?

By LUDWELL DENNY Scripps-Howard Staff Writer LONDON, Nov. 18.—The British are talking again about Josef Stalin's health. And the probability of a change in Russian foreign policy. There are good grounds for believing that “something is happening in Moscow.” There is some evidence of modification in Soviet methods. But extreme conclusions drawn from these straws are sheer guesses ~—though they always are recognized as such either in Britain or America. This talk has been stimulated by: ONE: Stalin's absence from Moscow during the recent celebrations of the revolution anniversary. TWO: The current parliamentary revolt of labor leftists demanding a softer British attitude toward Russia, THREE: By certain Soviet gestures of Big Three co-operation in Berlin and New York. Less Active Now As for Mr. Stalin, he is less active now. He takes longer vacations and handles fewer details. Also, he is occasionally ill.

But whether his illness is serious

Victim of Attack by Club Wielder

Mrs. Edna Long . . . Police are seeking the club wielder.

U.S. Gets Court Order Barring Mine Walkout

MURRAY SAYS HUGE PROFITS IMPERIL U.S.

Threat to Free Enterprise, Says CIO Head; Warns GOP on Labor.

ATLANTIC CITY, N. J, Nov. 18 (U. P)~C. I. O. President Philip {Murray today called continued |staggering profits of American {business a threat to American free enterprise. ; He said the Republican party had received no mandate in the Nov. § | elections “to put a cross on the i. |back of labor, march it to Capitol t |Hill and there in public gaze wit- | ness the actual crucifixion of { American labor.” : Opening the C. I. O.s eighth constitutional convention, he predicted on the basis of government estimates that business would earn $15 billion profit in 1946. “A $15 billion profit for Ameri-

Office Resumes Search to Relieve Housing Shortage

TAKES ACTION AS THOUSANDS START STRIKE

Workers Jump Deadline And Leave Jobs in Seven States.

By UNITED PRESS

The government today obtained a temporary injunction requiring United Mine Workers Chief John L. Lewis to uphold his end of the contract with the government for operation of the soft coal mines. Judge T. Alan Goldsborough signed the temporary restraining order against Mr. Lewis and his union in response to a petition filed by Attorney General Tom Clark. The proceedings were designed to prevent the nationwide soft coal mining shufdown threatened for Thursday. A justice department spokesman

Gates Skirts YOUNG MOTHER

or merely an inevitable slowing |

down from age is not known. In any event, unless Mr. Stalin were mentally incapacitated — of which there is no evidence whatever —he certainly continues to make all final major policy decisions. And if he were to die, absence of his experienced hand might well lead to more rather than less ruthlessness. Indeed, those competing for his Job could be expected to outdo each other in toughness. Of course it is not necessary to assume Mr. Stalin is passing out of the picture to think Moscow is getting ready for a change of diplomacy. The notorious for sudden reversals. Recent Soviet feelers in the allied control council in Berlin regarding economic unification of all Ger-

Kremlin has been

Question of puestion of SERNLSLY I

Governor Gates made only faint allusion to the local option question today, as he addressed a session of the 34th annual national

Brutal Slugging.

BULLETIN

convention Re he 2uisgaloen A second suspect in the slugesne ad rs r ewan | ging of Mrs. Edna Long was ar-

Speaking before state superin- | rested at noon today by Detectendents of the league, one of the tives Jack Bevin and Walter nation’s foremost local option sup- | Houck. The suspect is a juvenile, porters, Governor Gates sidestepped | detectives said. Possibility of a mention of the term “local option” | break in the case late in the aftby saying he “recognized the prob-| ernoon was seen at police headlem” the delegates were ‘interested |. in”

Police Hold Suspect After

can industry constitutes a danger{ous threat to our national economy. |It is a greater threat to the free |enterprise system in America,” he i said. | “The boom ig on in the fourth quarter of 1946 and if there is a continuation of these staggering profits, the bust is bound to follow. No one can stop it except the exploiters of our system, the {exploiters of our people.” “Understanding” Recalled

Mr. Murray said the profits of { American big industry are a more | dangerous threat to the nation’s economy than the Communist party —his only reference to the Communists in his keynote speech.

Homes Registry reopened for business today in City hall. Up stepped Kilbourne L. Fontaine, just ar-

rived from Dayton, O., who wants an apartment or a house for himself, his wife and 3-month-old son. The ex-G. I. went out of the army Sept. 15, 1945. Homes Registry workers facing him are (left to right) Betty Buell, Mrs. Denise Turrell, director and Mrs. A. Madelyn Pert.

merely sald the charges upon which the government based its petition would be made available as quickly as possible. : The injunction was obtained as miners answered the government's “stay-at-work” plea with wildcat walk-outs in many areas.

Sets Hearing for Nov, 27

He charged that American big ibusiness had gone on strike against the government early in 1946 when

Homes Registry, the city's clearing house for housing, reopened Volunteer Appeal Sounded cies with the registration agency. Fund campaign today. presenied a|equipment and telephone.

today at city hall. As Deadline Nears. . Renewal of the service is being financed by private funds from threat that the drive may fall short| A Homes Registry office was con-

PUSH FUND DRIVE Appeal for Vacancies Made TO ACHIEVE COAL As Homes Registry Reopens dwening va” Og ois sppeniod a Property owners to Hs vaca ew: oie industrial division; which has when t rE oy og pin

HINT WETTER'S

It was presumed that the govern ment suit was based upon the con | tention of Secretary of Interior J. A. Krug, that Mr. Lewis could not legally terminate the present con-* tract. . Mr. Lewis, on advice of his own legal counsel, maintained the posi« tion the contract was reopenable and that it could be terminated at his will. / On this basis, he had served notice that he was terminating the contract as of Wednesday night.

many and the Potsdam limitation on the Reich's industrial capacity could be forerunners of positive action, It is not impossible that the slight bargaining concessions hinted by Molotov and Vishinsky in New York presage a more concilatory at-

Steps by Legislature

“progressive legislation” on the subject. The most. encouraging note of his address to the anti-salooners

whatever it might be, would be “un-

He added a promise that the questioned by detectives today in legislature would take steps toward [connection with the brutal club-

11432 Shepard st., after she stepped off a bus near her home early yes-

was his promise that the legislation, |

: . 1. O. work stoppages ocShe ie 5 Pp | the largest quota of the 10 solicit-

He stated that labor had “a presi- | ing divisions, has turned in $237,355, dential understanding” that major | °F 52.7 per cent of its quota assignbusiness in the United States “could | ment. | make possible 24 per cent wage in- | New reports will be made at the| creases without starting any in- | DeXt-to-last luncheon meeting to- | flationary spiral.” . {day at the Claypool hotel. Reports at the last meeting showed sub-|

A 23-year-old suspect was being

{bing of Mrs. Edna Long, 20, of

terday. Heard Several Screams

| dianapolis community fund. The reopened agency now has no connection with the community fund. Since July, a housing office has been open at city hall for the placement of veterans in city housing projects and Tacoma Village. Openings in the city’s four barracks

CHANCE SHAKEN

The court ordered a hearing Nov, 27 on the government request for a permanent injunction. ; In its temporary order, the court recognized the “no contract-no work” policy of the United Mine Workers and said the “resultant stoppage in bituminous coal pro-

Report Ostrom ‘Reconsidering’ Choice for Judge.

titude.

fettered, uncontrolled and unpres-

“And the President so stated,” he

Reports were circulating among

duction will cause great loss and

* suppose that if Russia reverses her |

But all this is a far cry from conclusions that Russia is about to change her basic policy or purpose. The Kremlin's historic changes in the past—for instance from antiNazi to pro-Nazi and back to antiNazi—were reversals of policy only|

So far the local option question has been recognized as a “hot potato” by Republicans. Off the record, the leaders are as opposed to-it as|

mate purpose remained the same. Requires New Method Russia's’ unchanging aim to use Germany for her own purpose— political, economic and military— is no longer advanced by methods of the past year. Thus she requires a new method | to exploit the situation. Similarly. | since Russias’ strong-arm methods! in international councils and conferences unify. and strengthen the]

opposition—instead of achieving the | lUMerous articles on legal, legislative and enforcement phases of the

desired Soviet dominance — Mr. | | liquor problem.

Stalin and his political bureau should be considering a more we{ SAI scheguied Ses uD Sette ghey, f and danzerous. to {Conn., executive secretary of the 8 Council on Christian Social Progress

Leads Advertising Fight

Two’ lecture sessions were scheduled at this afternoon's meetings.

Governments for the Liquor Problem.” Mr. Dunford, attorney for the

methods because old methods have| (Continued served their purpose or failed, she’ - thereby changes her totalitarian aims. The best that can be hoped is that she will realize before it is too| late she is too weak to dominate | the world, that she has more to

ARRESTED BY POLICE

BOWLING ALLEY SAFE Caught After Holding Up

IS CRACKED, LOOTED Man Near Greenwood.

Safe crackers who broke in the] Two modern “highway robbers" Pritchett-Hunt & O'Grady bowling | sought by both state police and the alley, 7700 E. Washington st., dur- |FBI were arrested early today, a ing the night, took an undisclosed [few ‘hours after they robbed a amount of money. stalled motorist at gunpoint. State police who are investigat-| The youths, Herbert Gabbert, 20, ing said the loot included Sunday |Oakland City, and Paul Meyer Jr, receipts. The burglars broke a rear |16, Glezen, surrendered without redoor and punched the safe. sistance when state police found EC A —— them walking along U. S. 31 near

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sured.”

were the Democrats. The legislation

in the sense of method.” The ul ._ |is generally regarded by leaders of | uly | both parties as a wedge for prohibi- |

Dr. Edward B. Dunford, Washing- | ton, D. C,, the league's attorney, was | ! ; 'to speak on “Present Areas of Re-| Mr. White said he called police! ny. oo nvention will receive a| Put much of the city remains to be

sponsibility of Federal and State|a few minutes later when he saW|,.,o.am for economic action call-|covered. Everyone connected with

'a man wearing a white raincoat |, | stantial wage increases, {walking from the lot. Jing for substan g

league for 20 years, is author of|

2 HIGHWAY ROBBERS |

Mrs. Long, mother of an infant son, was reported in a serious condition at City hospital today with a severe head wound. She was found lying unconscious in a vacant lot across the street from her home with ‘her clothing torn and disheveled.

stated, referring to President Truman’s wage-price radio statement of Oct. 30, 1945. Mr. Murray sald the “economic or wage aspects of collective bar{gaining bound to ensue by many of our organizations following this Mr. and Mrs. George White 1428 | Convention” constituted the moet Shepard st., said they heard several jim portan: Hem = ihe convention Screams abou, 12:25 8 n Sunday. | President Carl Holderman of the Looking out, Mrs. White said she | yew Jersey state industrial union

saw a man “dragging something| ...., called to order the 600 dele-

BETS the street toward the vacant {gates from 41 unions claiming more lot. {than 6,000,000 members,

i nN | low-paid w Mrs, Long, after regaining con- | reduced taxes for low-pa orkers

sciousness at the hospital said all| (Continued on {she remembered was that she] {stepped off a bus and that when {she was within half a block of her {home “some one- struck me on the {head.” ' Police found a pool of blood on {the sidewalk and nearby was a two-by-four piece of wood about 30 inches long with blood stains on it. A piece chipped out of the wood. Unaware of Attack Out in the street, police found 'Mrs. Long’s shoes and her purse, | Her husband, ‘Robert Long, 20, {he was at home at the time of the attack, didn't learn about it until police called at the home half an hour later to question him. The suspect was arrested on a description given of the man neighhors saw walking out of the vacant lot. He was identified as a man who had been around the neighborhood frequently for the last several weeks. The suspect said he was home at 12:30 a. m. yesterday (time of attack) but his wife told police that he didn't get home until after 1 a. m,

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MISS INDIANAPOLIS! HITS 458.2 SPEED

Times Jet Plane Entry Bucks

Terrific Headwind. (Photo, Page Three) By ART WRIGHT The Times’ “Miss Indianapolis” entry in the five-city jet-plane race yesterday set a breath-taking gait of 458.2 miles per hour for the, 820mile course despite a terrific headwind. The elapsed time was 1 hour 47 minutes 59.5 seconds. The average speed was described at the National Aicraft show in Cleveland—the takeop point—as a

“difficult assignment” for Maj. F. E. | Everest, who was to make the sec-

| scriptions of $836,301, 63 per cent of | | the goal of $1,328,000. 1 Campaign leaders have appealed! {to volunteers to contact every possible contributor to the fund campaign, which closes Wednesday. Still Possible to Go Over Top Walter Leckrone, general chairman, previously pointed out that {unless 75 per cent of the total goal was subscribed by the end of last week, the drive faced the possibility jor failure. | “Our workers have done an out{standing job,” Mr. Leckrone said,

| this campaign is working at double{time to see this job completed suc{cessfully “Early reports gave us reason to {believe that our goal would be sub{scribed. We did not anticipate the {losses that are now being noticed in jcompany employee gifts. Every ef- | fort is now being exerted to make {up for these losses. | “It is yet possible to go over the | top, but everyone in Indianapolis and Marion county must help if we are to make this drive a success, and uphold our reputation across the country as a community that meets its needs.” "

projects for veterans are now filled and long waiting lists have been compiled. Expect Booming Business Veterans and non-veterans in need of dwellings may list their names and needs with the agency on the fourth floor of city hall. The agency will then attemipt to match them up with any vacancies reported by property owners, Homes Registry manager is Mrs. Denise Terrell, who operated the city housing office. She is assisted by Mrs. Madeleine Pert and Miss Betty Buell. Fifteen minutes before the office opened this morning, the first applicant appeared—wife of a veteran employed at the veterans administration seeking an apartment. Homes Registry workers expected business to beom.

1800 CARPENTERS ORDERED TO WORK

Return to Jobs Pending Wage Negotiations.

‘WIFE OF LEBANO BUSINESSMAN DIES

Times State Service LEBANON, Ind., Nov. 18.—Serv[ices were held yesterday for Mrs. {Charles L. Mitchell, wife of the | proprietor of the Mitchell & Berry | drug store here. The Rev, Carl H. | Barnett and Fred W. Wolff officiat~ red with burial in Oak Hill ceme- | tery. Mrs. Mitchell died in Witham hospital of injuries suffered in a

(Continued on Page 5—Column 2) 'fall at her home.

Carpenters were ordered back to {work today in Indianapolis pending the outcome of wage negotiations between the union and the Indiana General Contractors association. The threat of a strike arose Friday when ‘the carpenters’ local 60 notified’ the association of its demand for $1.80 an hour straight | time, Current rate set last spring | by negotiations between the union and the association is $1.67'%. The local which had indicated ft might pull 1800 carpenters off the job starting today agreed to con-

Republican leaders today that county G. O. P., Chairman Henry E. Ostrom was “reconsidering” his earlier proposal to recommend Paul C. Wetter, 13th ward G, O. P. chairman, as the new judge of municipal court 4. His position in favor of Mr. Wetter was reported to have been shaken by increasing opposition to the ward chairman's candidacy for the judge-| fare and safety.” ship. The order restrains the U, M. W. Opposition to the proposed ap- chief and the union from issuing pointmerit of Mr. Wetter was spear-|or giving publicity to .any notice * headed by the Marion County Re-|that the present-Krug-Lewis-agree-publican Veterans of World War II|ment has been, is, or will at some who are demanding. that one of future date be terminated, or be their members be given the judge- come void at any time during gov ship. : jernment possession of the mines. Governor Gates, who will make| It further restrains them from the appointment, has been confer-| “coercing, instigating, inducing or ring with party leaders on the mat- encouraging” the mine workers to ter for three days and Saturday | interfere with operation of the agreed to delay his decision on the mines by strike slow-down, walks appointment for several days. out, cessation of work, or otherwise, Chairman Ostrom conferred with{ A survey of mining operations the governor for more than an hour | showed: ’ Saturday but their discussion was' PENNSYLVANIA: Approximately not made public. 5000 workers walked out in the rich A delegation of Republican war | Western Pennsylvania field closing * veteran was to confer with Chair-|10 pits. Production dropped 23,000 man Ostrom this afternoon in an! tons daily. J effort to force the final showdown! WEST VIRGINIA: In the Wil. on the judgeship appointment. |liamson field, 6000 miners left their The municipal court 4 bench wii}: Jobs in 23 pits. Union leaders be vacated Jan. 1 by Judge John blamed a “disturbed state of mind.” L. Niblack, who will become judge] ILLINOIS: Scores of mines of superior court 1. {ojos with more than 20,000 mina o— ers absent from their jobs.

GIRL, 17, ADMITS SHE ALABAMA: Between 2500 and

[3000 of the state's 22,000 UMW PUSHED BOY IN RIVER | members off the job. " 5 | KENTUCKY: Officials of the B pA a oe treat. | SADdy-Elkhorn Coal Operators’ Big ,) s Katherine Wanstreet,| tion today reporied 100 . 17, who told police she pushed a 9-| al Day ¥e o workers , vear-old crippled boy into the Blue NITE Yark hid Sots. i river, read comic books in her jail reported "i Indi nd Virgie

cell today while police continued to drag the icy water for the body. In southwestern Pennsylvania

The girl told Police Lt. Charles| five of the 14 mines of Pittsburgh

irreparable damage” to the govern= ment, Bans Coercion The court also held that “such stoppage will directly interfere with governmental operations and sovereign functions, and will adversely affect great public interest, and will seriously endanger the public wel-

LOCAL TEMPERATURES Whiteland.

tinuation of work during wage parleys following a meeting of the |

Wesh she lured the boy, Ross Keys Jr., to the river and pushed him.

Consolidation Coal Co., largest pros ducer of bituminous in the world,

Police began a search for the men

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State police said Gabbert and Meyer were also wanted for a similar robbery Oct. 29. At that time

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¥OR THOSE WHO LIKE FINE FOOD. Charley's Restaurant, 144 E. Ohilo.—Adv,

They are held at Johnson county Jail in Franklin, on armed robbery harges. Yi 4

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'No Clemency' Recommendat

A flurry of controversy was wag- | ing today over the trial of Joseph | Luther Woolridge, Bloomington handyman and convicted “stone quarry slayer,” although the case is officially closed. Lawrence: Shaw, attorney for Woolridge, today charged that Judge Frank Martin, who imposed a life sentence on the slayer of Mrs. Phyllis © Coleman Saturday, “overrode his authority,” by a post trial “no clemency” recommendation. » . After the trial Judge Martin wrote letters to the clemency commission and governor, stating that he thought Woolridge “too dangerous . . ever to be at large again . . ’ and recommending that he never be given a parole or commutation of sentence. Mr. Shaw sal the recommenda-

agreement between state and defense counsels. Through this agreement Woolridge substituted

guilty” defense, trial. The defense attorney also said

of coram nobis, protesting an error, Woolridge is now in Indiana state prison, where he was sent immediately after the trial. Judge Martin said the defense

and everyone went home,” was unfounded. :

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ion Protested

By Attorney for Convicted Quarry Slayer

tion was not mentioned in the! judge for his opinion on whether

| the prisoner should receive clem|ency. His letter, he said, merely

thus avoiding a jury

thorities expressed interest in four

{while hé was awaiting trial. One

that he contemplated filing a writ | leter allegedly threatened him, men-

| tioning the revival of the ku klux klan. : The letters were intercepted by | Sheriff Bert Downes and never

| reached the prisoner. Judge Mar-

attorney’s protests that he wrote tin said he believed the sherifl | wij hold public hearings on com[the letter “after court had closed planned to turn them over to state | plaints that Mr. Bilbo received

| police for investigation. United States Attorney B. Howard

“Shaw must never have seen a Caughran said he had been incommittment paper,” the judge | formed of the existence of the let- | tures committee voted Saturday to. protection against any helping hand added. He pointed out that the|ters. He said his office and the | start public hearings at Jackson, | that might be extended to Mr. regular form used in Indiana for FBI would investigate, if the state ' Miss., Dec. 2 into . committment of prisonef§ asks ‘the! turned the letters over to his office.. terances by the southq ‘ner.

letters, allegedly sent to Woolridge |

carpenters’ district council yesterday morning. Involved in the wage dispute is virtually all major construction in the city, including the municipal veterans’ housing projects.

SECOND BILBO PROBE ATORS

WASHINGTON, Nov. 18 (U. P.).— | A second senate committee decides today whether the congressional in- | vestigation of Senator Theodore +. Bilbo (D. Mass) will be formally turned into a double barreled affair. Senator Homer Ferguson (R. Mich.) said the special war investi- | gating committee would decide if it

gratuities from Mississippi war con- | tractors.

She said he had killed her pet dog. |shut down.

U: 5. Ready for Finish Fight | With Lewis in Mine Row

A high-placed interior department official explained it this way: “We're not going to knuckle under to Mr. Lewis, no matter what it costs. “And with the President coms

Read a story by Fred W. Per. kins, page 13,

By JIM G. LUCAS Scripps-Howard Staff Writer WASHINGTON, Nov, 18. — The government i prepared to fight John L. Lewis to a standstill—even if it means an indefinite national economic paralysis, Interior départment and coal mines administration officials who have demanded a showdown with the mine union boss are confident.

to slip in behind our surrender for us, no matter much he may want to, “It's going to hurts ernment, hurt the | miners, But the

The senate campaign expendi-

~Negro ut-

render—woutd hurt more, J “We cannot afford to commit this nation *o another spiral increase in

They believe they have adequate

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