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TUESDAY, NOVEMBE

R 26, 1946

Entered as Second-Class Matter at Postoffice Indianapolis, Ind. Issued dally except Bunday

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CONSERVATION OFFICIAL WILL STICK TO POST

Wilcox Fails to ‘Follow the Leader’ After Quster Of Matter.

By ROBERT BLOEM State Forester gRalph F. Wilcox sai today he would stick with the congervation department, at the governor's request, despite the raging political battle there. His' statement blanked rumors that the resignation of Conservation Director Milton Matter yesterday would be followed by a generab walkout among key department

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heads. Backers of Mr. Matter in}.

the fight which led to his ouster by the governor had included Mr. Wilcox among those who would

Other signs of the disintegration predicted by those who sought to

were conspicuously absent and the department appeared to be running normally today. Expect New Appointment Meahwhile the appointment of a new director to succeed Mr. Matter was expected momentarily. Political observers generally assumed the new director would be John Nigh, 10th district Republican chairman and enforcement chief in the fish and game division. Only other new development in the conservation situation today

E. Greenlee, Democratic state chairman, “branding the whole affair a “disgrace.” He charged the patronage feud within the department would be “a matter of indifference if it did not. invglve one of the state's most important departments.” > Lost Job Yesterday Mr. Matter lost his job yesterday when the governor, weary “of

months of bickering which had}

brought department morale to an all-time low, asked him to quit. The governor was acting along a line long advised by State Chairman Clark Springer. Mr. Springer held Mr. Matter was acting as a front for an anonymous former member of the commission who was seeking to force a merit system of nis own design onto the commission. The

the legislature could change the status of the department which has traditionally been an open field for patronage under both parties.

GUILTY OF BURNING HIS WIFE TO DEATH

NASHVILLE, Tenn., Nov. 26 (U. P.).—Dwight O. Carman, 62, was found guilty of first degree murder by a circuit court jury today. He was convicted on charges that he burned his wife to death because of his infatuation for a 16-year-old bobby-soxer, The jury recommended a sentence of 25 years at hard labor, and Judge Charles Gilbert agreed. The prosecution charged that the former ice company employee set his house afire last August and allowed his 61-year-old wife, Melissa Carman, grandmother of 13 children, to burn to death because he was “desperately in love” with 16-year-old, once-wed Bobby Ann Keith, ? .

REFUGEES WOUND

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Grounded physically but with

dampened his enthusiasm for a local appearance as much as the drizzling rain. “I'm sorry to have to give up speaking here,” the Rev. Hainsworth said. “However, I plan to stop in some small town on my way to St. Louis. The buildings will be lower and I think it will be just about as effective.” He.said he was considering Plainfield.” However, Plainfield officials were still waiting for him to show up this afternoon. The graying Congregational minister last Sunday abandoned his pulpit in Dexter's Webster Congregational church in favor of the roof of the two-story Dexter coffee shop.

10 BRITISH IN RIOT

LONDON, Nov. 26 (U, P.) —Palestine dispatches said 10 British soldiers were wounded in an hourlong riot touched off at Haifa today when troops tried to board the Jewish refugee ship Knesseth Israel. Al injuries were reported to have been caused by missiles thrown by the refugees. Four saldiers suffered serious head injuries, dispatches said. After tear gas was loosed on the ship, the refugees began leaving it quietly, the reports said. Twenty of the refugees were said to have leaped off the ship onto a tug, but their attempt to reach shore was thwarted by police. Authorities were quoted as saying that a nervous soldier discharged his rifle into the air, and that firing over the heads of the refugees’ was unauthorized.

EXPLOSION ROCKS TEXAS POSTOFFICE

MULESHOE, Tex. Nov, 26 (U.

injured today when an explosion rocked the postoffice building in this small west Texas town. * The explosion was believed caused by an accumulation of natural gas.

TIMES INDEX

Amusements, 8;Larsen ....... 9 Eddie Ash..,. 18) Ruth Millett,, 13 Aviation ..... 13| Movies ...... 8 Boots ........ 22| Obituaries ... 11 Ned Brooks ., 10| Dr, O'Brien,, 15 15

Classified ,.20-22| Politics ...... 12 Comics ...... 23| Radio ....... 23 Crossword ... 23 Reflections .. 14 Editorials .... 14! Serial . Fashions ..... 16! 8illy Notions. 13 Mrs, Ferguson 16| Sports 18-19 Forum ....... 14 Teen Talk.... 16 Meta Given .. 16) Washington . 14 Indiana Saga. 14 Weather Map 6 In Indpls..... 11| Women's News 16

The mild-mannered soft-voiced pastor explained his sudden urge for elevation with the St. Matthew's passage “What ye hear in the ear, proclaim ye from the rooftops.” He then set out on a tour, with Indianapolis as a first stop. : “I don’t mind making a spectacle of myself if I can rouse the sleeping Rip Van Christians.” The Rev. Hainsworth spent the night here with the Rev. Marcus Johnson, pastor of First Congrega-

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CHRYSLER BOOSTS PRICES, $3 TO $104

Plymouth, ‘Dodge, DeSoto Cars Affected by Hike.

DETROIT, Nov. 26 (U. P.).~ Chrysler Corp. raised Detroit fac tory retail prices today on Plymouth, Dodge,’ De- Soto and Chrysler cars “in conformance with current costs.” The company announced that the increases ranged from $8 on the lowest priced Plymouth fourdoor sedan to $104 on the Chrysler four-door New Yorker sedan. It said ‘the price .adjustments varied by. body types. Chrysler was the second member

to raise prices since OPA regulations were withdrawn. General Mo-

would hold the line.

from $32 to $64.

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Rooftops Too High, Red Tape Too Deep

The Rev. William Hainsworth, “rooftop preacher” from Dexter, Mich. . . . his mission failed in Indianapolis but he hopes to find a better reception in some smaller Hoosier community.

Preacher Looks for Smaller

Town After Night Spent Here

By DONNA MIKELS

of the auto industry's “big three”

tors Corp. raised its prices $100 per model on” all its cars, Ford said" it

The Studebaker Corp. announced at South Bend yesterday that it had raised list prices of its new pessenger cars about 3'% per cent. The -hikes on various models ranged

Hudson Motor Car Co. announced hikes of $60 to $90 on current models last week. Willys-Overland and Crosley previously had raised their

Layoffs

Local Industries Facing | By Next Week |

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POLICE SCORED | FOR ARREST OF 4 YOUNG BOYS

Charge Youths ‘Snatched’ From Homes for Questioning.

By RICHARD LEWIS A group of East side residents was up in arms today at police tactics in snatching four youngsters out of their homes and MNustling them off to jail for questioning in regard to a three-weéeks-old Halloween prank. Irate parents told The Times that the police “invaded” the homes last Thursday at supper time without warrants and seized the youngsters with a brusque, “Get your coat on, youre coming with us.” The four boys were taken to police headquarters in a squad car and turned over to the juvenile aid division. There they were questioned about the breaking of a milk bottle on somebody's porch the night before Halloween. All four were released two hours later to their worried parents and relatives who were forced to come downtown to get them. Somebody Tattled The series of arrests, according to police reports, were made on the basis of tattling, There was no other “evidence.” Police Chief Jesse McMurtry said he was unaware of the incident. He said department procedure in such cases was normally to order the parents to bring vandalism suspects to headquarters. ~ “we don't arrest juveniles tinless we catch them. cold turkey” said the chief. “We don’t issue warrants juveniles. We generally

soaring spirits, the Rev. William

Hainsworth, Dexter, Mich. “rooftop preacher,” today abandoned his plan for a rooftop sermon in Indianapolis. He set out along U. S. 40, searching for a town with lower buildings and less red tape. The height of downtown Indianapolis buildings, plus the necessity of obtaining permission from the board of safety,

STATE GOP BANS

Legislature to Stick to

Party Program.

The Republican legislative policy committee met in the governor's office today. They announced they would limit their activities in the coming general assembly to the broad party program, No public hearings will’ be held on controversial matters ; as has been done in the past, the 16member committee announced. At the same time, Governor Gates announced to the group arrangements have been completed for the entire legislature to visit Purdue university on Dec. 9 and Indiana university Dec. 10. The legislators will study the critical housing shortage caused by the influx of veterans at the two state schools, a program advocated by the governor. Other Visits to Be Made The governor also has indicated similar visits would be paid by the legislators en-masse to one or two other institutions. Invitations and a program for the day-long visits will be planned by the institutions themselves. The policy group also pointed out that the “broad party program” on which they would pass included platform pledges and ‘utterances of the governor and other party leaders.” The statement immediately gave rise to belief that the party would consider such statements as the governor's promise to divorce liquor from politics last June as outright party commitments. The policy-makers pointed out at the conclusion of their announcement that they would be “only recommending” to the legislature and that the final legislative action still rested with the regular house and senate committees and with the two houses themselves.

REPORT ‘BABS’ READY T0 WED 4TH HUBBY

PARIS, Nov. 25 (U. P.).—Barbara Hutton, heiress to the Woolworth

fourth marriage.

OPEN HEARINGS

millions, has .checked into a suite at Paris’ fashionable Hotel Rita, reportedly on the threshold of her

The Spanish news agency Cifras reported from Tangier that Miss Hutton, until recently the wife of Movie Actor Cary Grant, was in Paris to marry Count Alain d'Eude-

against avi them in to the juvenile aid division.” The chief added that last Hal-

loween had been “pretty rough” on the east side. “I know,” he said. “I live out there. If the parents would take care of their youngsters, everybody out there wéuld be a lot happier.” Boys Name 2 Others

The arrests were touched off when an East side resident telephoned headquarters last- Thursday night that he was holding two boys whom he had caught throwing stones at his house. Placing the boys under arrest, the police questioned them in the squad car about the bottle throwing prank. According to the police, the boys named two others wnom they thought had done the deed. The police then proceeded to pick

One boy was eating dinner with his parents as police entered the house. Another was reading in the living room. His widowed mother said she was so amazed at the procedure that she couldn't protest. From the second pair of boys, the police learned the names of two more youngsters who might have been implicated in the bottle throwing and immediately proceeded to invade their homes and pick them up. One was eating his supper. Another was doing his homework. Parents of the latter said they were out of town on a business trip at the time and the boy was being cared for by his grandmother, who was recuperating from an illness. In three of the arrests, parents said they were told only that if they wanted the boys back, they

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TRUMAN WILL SEE ARMY-NAVY GAME

WASHINGTON, Nov. 26 (U, P). — President Truman will go te Philadelphia by train Saturday for the Army-Navy football game, the White House snnounced today. The President will sit on the Navy side during the first half, then move over to the Army side for the second half. He will. retirn to Washington immediately after the game.

“shilly-shallying” and agree to pub-

up the two boys for questioning.

Stop Dallying, Reveal Troops,

U.S. Tells Russ

LAKE SUCCESS, N. Y., Nov. 26 (U. P.).—~The United States demanded today that: Rusisa stop

lish figures on its armies at home. And the Soivet Union proposed that the powers reveal an inventory of all their arms, including atomic bombs. Soviet Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov said before the United Nations political and security committee that the Yigures on troops at home and armaments should be revealed when the United Nations gets down to proposals for world disarmament. Senator Tom Connally (D. Tex.), U. 8S. delegate, demanded that the figures on troops, at least, be disclosed now. Mr. Connally, who spoke after Mr. Molotov, skipped. over the Russian proposal on listing armaments. However, Philip J. Noel-Baker, British delegate, accused Russia of bluffing, saying flatly, “We are no more ready to reveal this information than Mr. Molotov himself.” “We shall give it’ Noel-Baker sald, “when we reach a stage of disarmament which enables us to know that the whole fhing is a reality and not a sham.”

19 ARE INJURED

IN TRAFFIC HERE

41 Accidents, Approaching

Cold Bring Warning.

LOCAL TEMPERATURES

Porecasts of a cold wave moving toward Indiana brought warnings

of dangerous traffic hazards as

persons were injured in 41 acci-

dents here last night and today.

Rain and poor visibility, blamed for most of the high accident toll, may become worse with sleet and snow in some parts of the state to-

night.

The, local weather bureau predicted dropping temperatures and

more rain here while the foreca

for northern Indiana was for sleet

and snow,

The mercury dropped to below

zero early today in Minnesota ar

North Dakota where temperatures

were reported 11 below,

Austin R. Killian, state police su-

perintendent, warned that 60 per cent of all winter accidents occur when streets and highways are covered with snow or ice. “Tragedy threatens when drivers fail to adjust their driving to the variety of road conditions in winter months,” he said. v In addition to the 19 persons injured in Indianapolis last night, two persons were killed elsewhere in the state. Edwin Hill Jr, 7, of Hammend, was killed instantly three blocks from his home last night when he was struck by a hit-run driver. Police were unable to find any

DRAFT LIKELY AFTER JAN. 1; RECRUITS OFF

Further Drop Is Expected During Christmas Holidays.

By WILLIAM F. McMENAMIN United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Nov. 26—8agging recruitment figures made it increasingly probable today that the | army will have to resume induc-| tions after Jan. 1, The war department announced that enlistments for the week of Nov. 8-14_dropped 4444, less than half the rate needed to sustain an all-volunteer army. This com-| pared with 4851 the previous week and a record 28,303 for the week ending Oct. 7. ° The army has declared a draft holiday until Jan. 1. A’ high war department official said resumption of inductions after that time was a “virtual certainty” if the downward trend in enlistments continued. He said one reason why fewer men are volunteering now is that they want to spend the holidays with their families, This is expected to bring a further drop in the next few weeks. Whether enlistments pick up after the holidays may. determine whether the draft is resumed.

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Needs 40,000 a Month

Utilities to Pool Coal:

to issue a co-operative order.

MOVE TO OPEN Believe Plan Under Way for

appearance here of Cyrus S. Eaton, Cleveland financier, and a meeting between him and John L. Lewis, served ‘today to bolster reports that secret moves are in progress to end the coal strike.

Schools to Curtail Some Activities, Stretch Supply

By VICTOR PETERSON A creeping paralysis slowly is crippling Indianapolis in= ustry as a result of the coal strike. Effects of the walkout: Iso are gnawing at the school system and might possibly \ urtail public entertainment. To combat a possible crisis in utility service, Sam Busby,

ecretary of the public service commission, today prepared 4

Should the coal situation become eritical a stringent conservation program will be instituted and all utilities in the state will pool both their coal and power supplies. In this way any unit running short could be serviced by a co-operating agency, : An Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce survey disclosed that the strike already is being felt by industry. Currently, production is moving near to normal with only. one large: plant reporting any GW layoffs, 2 8: All industries, however, are plan= ning retrenchment programs, and the C. of C. said that if the strike’ continues into next week the results will be serious. Foresee Layoffs The rail embargo and the curtall ment of utilities will strike right to the heart of the Indianapolis indus« trial frame. Officials foresee, under these conditions, a wave of layoffs and a shortening of hours, i Many small plants have reported that their coal supplies will be ex'hausted within a week while most

MINES HINTED

Resumption of Talks.

By FRED W. PERKINS Seripps-Howard Btaft Writer WASHINGTON, Nov. 26—Re-

Mr. Eaton appeared as an unofficial mediator between Mr, Lewis, the government, and the coal operators in the coal strikes of 1943, His role now is belieyed to be similar. He is reported to be working in co-operation with Reconversion

The army needs 40000 men a month to meet its requirements. It now has signed up 1,050,712 volun-

6am ..36 10a m .. 37 (transportation corps, leaving the 7am ..36 11am .. 38 combatant arms with low strength Sam. 36 13 (noon) 33 levels ; 9am ..3% lpm. About half of the army's 500,000

three-year enlistees

19/of 1,300,000 on Jan. 1, 1047, and pi so y not learned. ’ ! Ln a L 1047. droPDIOE| It was surmised that Mr. Eaton .. School Coal Supply : y ¥ y was trying to get Mr. Lewis to] The public schools have & two

believes

to increase enlistments.

forces. Conducts New Drive

extend them to a full three years. Some 270,000 men are now eligible

teers since the end of the war. will be affected as utilities are he is a director of the Chesapeake | u But most long-term enlistees joined & Ohio railway, W gets most of curbed and subcontractors fail to the air forces, quartermaster and 9 whieh b demands,

are in the The artiy-is planning or & force

it has done everything possible in the way of inducements

Whether the army asks congress to extend the draft after it expires, March 31, 1947, depends on the international .committments for overseas occupation and United Nations

The army i8 now conducting a drive to induce men who signed; up for short term enlistments to!

with Mr.

benefits under the G. I. bill of rights and the family allowances which had been suspended earlier

and that a new enlistment is an

AFL Meat Workers Accept Pay Offer

for discharge by July 1, 1947. These men have been offered full

for new volunteers. This was done under a legal ruling that they signed up before the suspension

“extension of their contract with the government.”

STUDY PIPELINE USE

of the larger concerns have a 30 to 60-day reserve. Nevertheless, the larger industries

Director John R, Steelman. - Mr. Eaton's most direct connection with the coal business i= that

its ‘income from hauling coal, He meet order is known as “a friend of the White| All of this later could affect § House" among coal operators. retail prices as the me. 18 Mr. Eaton would not see reporters, |C0mes ate slashed or :

But it, was learned that Mr, . A y R Lewis! Meanwhile, Virgil Stiriebaugh, su-

had lunch yesterday with him. Sev- 7 perintendént of schools, plans to pressht ooOfiservation rec« ommendations to the school

eral other men were reported at the conference, but thelr names were

agree to a plan under which he would resume wage negotiations with the mine owners and at the same time order the 400,000 strikers back to work. Ezra Van Horn, also of Cleveland, and the chairman of the joint negotiating committee of operators and miners, said he had heard ‘nothing from Mr, Eaton, In operator circles the opinion was expressed that most of the mine owners want government efforts continued for a showdown Lewis. But operator

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to three-week operating supply which can be stretched the weather is mild. Some of the steps to be considered tonight ine clude the curtailment of none school activities such as the P-T. A, civic meetings, scout groups ‘and industrial aghletics, Curtailment of the schools’ regular basketball activities also will be studied. Night school classes will i continue. § That school holidays are at hand will ease the situation. Including to« day there are but 17 more school

(Continued on Page _§~Column 2) MILLION MAY BE IDLE IN U. S. COAL STRIKE PITTSBURGH, Nov, 26 (U. P,) — - Industrial unemployment climbed

today as a result of the soft coal

strike and mass layoffs appeared imminent, As the nation struggled to cone serve its fading coal supplies with dim-outs and school closings, ins dustrial cut backs slashed deeply

IN FUEL SHORTAGE

U. S. May Run Gas Through Big and Little Inch.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 26 (U, P.). —An interior department official

witnesses, James M. Brown, 30, of Warsaw

HEZE CLARK PIC ALL-STATE TEAM—

® Veteran Times Reporter Heze Clark has made his 43d annual selection-of the all-state Indiana high school football team. Four teams have been named by ‘Clark from his own obser- | vations as a spectator and | official . . , and with the aid of coaches, football players and fans. e Watch for these important selections in tomorrow’'s Indianapolis Times.

was fatally injured late yesterday, when his car went out of control on a curve two miles west of Warsaw. He was thrown out of

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CHICAGO, Nov. 26 (U. P.).—Bar{gaining agents for the A. F. of L. Meat Workers union have accepted a general wage {increase of 111-5 cents per hour for union members employed throughout the country by Armour and Swift, the nation’s two largest packinghouses, a union official said today. The announcement came as the I. O. Packinghouse Workers union, representing 200,000 workers, called a meeting of its national strike strategy committee for tomorrow. The C. I. O. union notified its locals on Nov. 12 to prepare to strike within two weeks. The strike deadline was reached today with negotiations still in progress, but a C.I1.O. spokesman said the strategy committee would “meet anyway.”

Workers at the Indianapolis plant of Armour & Co. will not benefit by the increase announced

Lost Boy of 11

"VAN HORN, Tex., Nov. 26 (U.P)

mountains.

condition was good.

—An 11-year-old boy who kept his wits and settled down in a sheltered spot to wait for rescue parties to reach him had cheated death today in the snow-covered Guadalupe

Lynn Ussell of Clint was missing in a snowstorm and high winds for almost 30 hours when he was found last night, cold, hungry and tired, in a hollowed-out place by the side of a steep mountain. He was treated for exposure, but doctors said his

He told the rescue party that he

Cheats Death

30 Hours in Mountain Storm

~—#gg~f-thought it best if I got-com fortable as I could and waited,” h explained. ' Lynn became separated Sunda

sell, during a hunting trip,

KING'S EX-BODYGUARD DIES

rick Hamilton, retired English arm

_| after a heart attack.

morning from his father, W. J. Rus-

‘BERKELEY, Cal, Nov. 26 (U. P.). —Funeral services were being arranged today for Maj. John Pat-

officer who once served as personal bodyguard to King George V. He died at his home here yesterday

today, since they are members of the C. I. O. union. *

PERMIT FOR TOURIST HOTEL IS PROTESTED

More than 200 property owners east of Sheridan ave. on E. Washington st. filed a petition in superior court 5 today appealing from the decision of the city zoning board which granted Drive-In Hotels, Inc, permission to erect a $250,000 tourist hotel project. The petition protested that proposed erection of these tourist hotels at 6221-6401 E. Washington st. would violate a zoning ordinance.designed to protect residential property in that area. The city zoning board recently granted a variance from zoning regulations to give the hotel com=

into workers’ pay checks. More than 1,000,000 of the nation's wage earners may be idle by next week, if the strike of the A. F, of L. United Mine Workers 400,000 bituminous miners continues. The country's steel industry, with produttion reduced by more than one-fifth, cushioned the economio shock for mill workers by shorten= | ing hours and alternating shifts. ' But more than 40,000 already had

disclosed today that his agency is considering government operation of the “Big Inch” and “Little Inch" pipelines to carry natural gas to the fuel-hungry East coast. The house committee investigat-

ing surplus property today summoned Interior Secretary J. A. Krug to testify whether such a plan would help alleviate shortages caused by the coal strike. , been idled because coal supplies This move would supply only 1 to| were insufficient to keep the blast 3 per cent of the fuel needs normal- | furnaces, open hearths and Besse= ly taken care of by coal. mer converters burning at full-rate,

St. Paul Teacher-Pickets Get Support From Pupils

George Sjoselius said that a cone ference of an eight-man strike sets tfement committee appointed by Governor Edward J. Thye had been “very profitable” yesterday. committee was composed of city and state officials and ‘members of - 1) (Continued on Page T-—~Column 4)

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ST. PAUL, Minn., Nov. 26 (U. P.). —Holidaying students helped today to bolster morale of striking A. F. of L. teachers picketing their schools. The city's 10 public high schools and 67 grade schools remained ¢losed. “Considerable progress” was reported by negotiators trying to settle the wage strike which started an unexpected vacation for 30,000 pupils yesterday. ai A teachers’ union spokesman said it was the biggest school teachers’ strike in the nation’s history. In sub-freezing temperatures some pupils appeared outside the deserted schools to keep the pickets company. One high school sophomore said he didn't want the strike to end} “prematurely.” Several grade school children | said they were waiting to see theirj} own teacher carry a picket sign.| The teachers were picketing in re-

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