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LEVY ON SALES UNDER STUDY AS POSSIBILITY

Coming Assembly to Face New State Needs and Increased Costs.

¥ By ROBERT BLOEM Before the end of the coming

VOLUME 57—NUMBER 226 .s

New Tax Proposals Left Up to Gates

Dangerous Hoax to Learn

U. S. Secrets of A-Bomb

By WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Scripps-Howard Foreign Editor

WASHINGTON, Nov. 29.—Russia’s grandstand play for disarmament is fooling neither American nor United Nations officials. 7t is one of the biggest and most dangerous hoaxes ever perpetrated on a war-weary, tax-burdened world. It is bound to fool some people. Russia could not disarm now if she wished—not unless

general assembly Hoosiers will come face to face with a grim picture— the sales tax. Political leaders and governmental officials are’ facing it now, wishing they could back away, and | coming ever nearer the conclusion | that it can't be done. { While they still don't discuss it for the record, high political and | governmental sources admit today | it's not just a bad dream they can roll over, close their eyes and forget. The Governor's tax study commission is nearing the end of its] long study of the tax outlook. It | hasn't found a pretty picture, and 7although it is nearly ready to come | forth with its recommendations to Governor Gates, those recommenda- | tions won't include anything on the | subject of new taxes. Back in Governor's Lap That question has been laid] gently back in the governor's lap. | The inescapable facts are that Indiana needs a health program, it needs a new and more vigorous, institutional program, it needs a lot | of things it hasn't got. Even the, things it has cost more these days] than ever before. And the chief source of revenue, the gross income | tax, just won't carry the load any! longer, tax experts agree. | When the study committee flipped | back the new tax question to the] governor they admitted the question was too tough for a mere study group. The committee still will have some important suggestions to make and some valuable and pertinent data to pass on to Gevernor Gates. |

2 Major Studies Completed Two major studies already havel been completed, according to State Treasurer Frank Millis, commission | chairman. Sub-committees on the] proposal for a new, integrated de-| partment of revenue and the ever-/ touchy question of reimbursements to local units of government, are set to turn in their reports to the] commission as a whole. The third sub-group, studying the advisability of an early scientific} state-wide reassessment of prop- | erty, will meet tomorrow to wind up its job. Briefly, if the whole] commission approves the work of its | subcommittees, the prospects are | these. ONE: The governor will receive by Jan. 1 and probably will pass.on to the legislature a proposal. for setting up a single departméfit of revenue. Indiana now subsists on more than 90 taxes and fees which are collected by 45 state departments, agencies and commissions. The new department is not expected to get all the jobs at once, but probably will be set up to absorb them eventually, Mr. Millis forecast that the tentative plan presented to the governor would include his own biggest sub-division ~—the gross income tax division— in the new department. It would, presumably, be operated by a board. Best bets advanced from the sidelines today were that this governing board “would be made up of the governor, the treasurer and the auditor. TWO: Education will come in for a top spot in new legislation affecting “kick-backs” by the state to local governmental units. The commission has heard discussions of plans to give state support to a 9-months school year program and proposals to authorize stepping up the school-tax-levy unit from the present township status to county level. . 3 THREE: * Although final recommendations on the re-assessment program have not been drafted for consideration by the commission as a whole, it was learned the prospect was not bright. Scientific re-assess-ment, many tax experts seem to feel, could not be accomplished under present inflated eonditions, probably will have to wait until prices settle: down. The question which strikes closest to the purse strings of Mr. and Mrs. Average Hoosier—new taxes—probably will fall to the Republican policy committee,

{He says Russia is building a giant | territory as do the United States

(of Russia's position on disarma-

she changed both her form of government and her foreign policy. » ” ” » » » BEING A police state, she rediiires an enormous force to maintain the Soviet order. And, as the world's sole remaining empire that is expanding, with numerous annexations present and future to keep in line, she needs a large army. Russia herself, therefore, has no intention.to disarm. So, what is

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1946

‘BREAK HINTED IN RILEY NURSE

MURDER PROBE

7 = Russia's Arms Plea Called Crawley Quiz Is Surrounded

With Secrecy as Police Keep Mum.

By KENNETH HUFFORD An air of secrecy suggesting a possible break in the two-month-old Alberta Green murder case today surrounded the continued questioning of Samuel Lee Crawley, 22-year-old confessed slugger. Time was taken in the questioning

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Eritered as Becond-Class Matter at Postoffice Indiangpolis, Ind. Issued daily except Bunday

Judge Deals Double Blow Against Lewis

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to allow Crawley to appear in municipal court 3 this morning on a charge of assault and battery with| ° intent to kill.’ The charge was filed against him several days ago after he admitted the club-attack Oct. 17 of Mrs. Zdna Long, 20, who was battered into unconsciousness as she walked near her West side home. ’ Seriously injured, she was released Wednesday from City hospital.

Hearing Is Continued As expected, the municipal court

now going on in the United Nations is a combination ‘propaganda drive and fishing expedition. Foreign Minister Molotov is seeking: | ONE: To make the world believe that Russia wants to disarm and! that the democracies do not, TWO: To find out certain details regarding our armaments, especially the atomic bomb.

OLD HANDS among United Na-|centrate her war industries west of | tions diplomatis remark that Mr. the Urals, : Molotov has not invented anything | 8 un -8 | new. MOSCOW'S plan then, and now, | At Geneva, in 1928, Maxim Lit-!was to shift the center of Russian vinov (then Soviet foreign minis- population eastward, along with ter), did the same thing. He got Russian industry, so that no matter up before the old League of Nations | what happened in Europe, or the and proposed “total disarmament.” Far East, Russia would have, in beThen, as now, nothing was said|tween, enough to carry on a war. about any real inspection to see to| That vast movement is in full it that nobody cheated. The only | SWing now. result was a torrent of talk and; Any disarmament. agreement considerable pro-Russian propa- Which fails to take into considera- | ganda. \ | tion Russia's hidden empire in Asia | ® 8 = | —twice as large as the United EARLIER in the week this writer | States—would imperil the democreported the current conviction that | yacjes. Russia is already well on her way ; 2 8 a towards an Oak Ridge atomic plant] THE PROOF of a nation's sinof her own—probably in the heart cerity, when it talks disarmament, of Siberia. is: Will it agree to genuine internaWriting in the Saturday Evening tional inspection? Will it permit Post, Victor A. Kravchenko, former | newspaper correspondents — and Soviet official, adds his Sestimeny.|others—to travel freely within its

secret arsenal between the Urals and the other democracies? If it and the Pacific. {refuses, it is because it has someLong before world war II, Russia thing to hide and we'd better look realized it was dangerous to con- out.

Russia to Insist on Right To Veto Disarmament Plan

By ROBERT J. MANNING, United Press Staff Correspondent

LAKE SUCCESS, N. Y., Nov. 29.—Russia announced today it would hold on to its right to veto any United Nations plan for world disarmament or enforcement of a disarmament scheme. “Our position on unanimity remains unchanged,” Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei A. Vishinsky told the United Nations political and security committee, “We uphold the principle of the and demanded to know “how can unanimity of the powers and do | there be security when such a dannot mean to renounce it.” |ger is hanging over us?” Mr. Vishinsky also charged today | Earlier Mr. Connally emphasized that U. S. possession of the atom that the U. S. still regards the bomb constituted a danger “hang-|atomic energy - commission as the ing over us by a thin thread” and !cornerstone of any United *Nations demanded the outlawing of atomic disarmament plan. This contrasted warfare as the first step in general | with Mr. Molotov's proposal that in-| disarmament. spection commissions be established

Answers Mr. Connally “within the framework - of the He said Russia agreed fully to an Security council, international system of inspection| Meanwhile, Australia demanded

to guarantee that all nations ad-!® clarification of Russia's proposal here to a disarmament pact. j for - control of atomic energy and He answered Senator Tom- Con- | disarmament, and warned that unless the United Nations members waive their veto power over control machinery “the whole system” would fail.

Demands Clarification N. J. O. Makin of Australia told the political and security commitI 5 tee that many nations regard Mr. Molotov's suggested approach to the control problem as “too nar-

FOR'S SON DENIES row, too restricted.” PRO-RUSSIAN TALK He 'asked Mr. Molotov to ‘explain the Soviet conception of “interna-

j Horial controls,” and asked if the {Soviet is ready for international Was inspection to safeguard against violations of control agreements. Mr. Molotov, in a surprise move yesterday, proposed “special organs MOSCOW, Nov. 29 (U, P.) —Elliott [of inspection” and urged establishRoosevelt charged today that a ment of control commissions to aspublished report quoting him on |Sure. execution of atomic and disRussia's position in international ARaTen BC : pecial “Inspection” affairs was incorrect. He sad it He presented a resolution for eswas the result of a “put-up job itablishment of “special organs of (by the U. S. embassy) to bait me.” inspection” within the framework The full story of what he said

of the United Nations security at an unofficial reception here will council. This. would allow any memhave to remain untold, Mr. Roouse-

ber of the Big Five to exercise its velt said, “since I refuse to divulge

security council veto power. the conversation of others at a

“This - question must be elaborated in detail,” Mr, Molotov told private party, just as I expect others to respect my conversation.”

the committee. “We can not exReturning here from Leningrad,

nally (D. Tex), and Sir Hartley Shawcross, U. S. and British delegates, who had asked clarification

ment; Mr. Vishinsky described the atom bomb as “the sword of Damocles”

Declares Quotation ‘Put-Up Job’ by Embassy.

clude the possibility that discussions will arise on separate aspects of

{hearing was continued again until |

{in connection with the Sept. 11

|Green, a Riley hospital nurse.

Dec. 13 to permit detectives to add | further questions to the thousands they already have asked Crawley

slaying of the 21-year-old Miss

A high bond of $25,000 remained on Crawley, who was not represented in court by an attorney. A sudden tightening of informatjon pertaining to activities of homicide teams assigned to thé nurse j murder case was ordered by Detec-| tive Chief Howard Sanders. He refused to allow detectives to be interviewed except under his supervision.

Quizzed in Attack Chief Sanders admitted, however, that Crawley also was being ques- | tioned in connection with another West side attack case and that the victim and her mother already had viewed the defendant. . They were uncertain in their identification, he added, although!

EX-U. S. AGENT ACQUITTED HERE

Bernard Peterson . .. freed by directed verdict.

the methods used in this case, the Green case and the Long case bore a striking similarity. In each instance, it was learned, the assailant walked or ran with a distinct stoop, a characteristic all witnesses have mentioned. Witnesses in the Green case—two nurses who were in the lonely corridor with the young woman when only a slight rustling sound preceded the brutal club-slaying—as yet have not been brought to headquarters to see Crawley.

Plan More Questions

This will not be done until Crawley is questioned further. Possible identification of him as the Green girl's murderer will only be a “clincher” to the solution, detectives believe. : ; The West side attack, whose victim was unable to identify Crawley as -her assailant, happened a few weeks prior to the tragedy involving the popular nurse of children: The West side victim and ner mother, hearing a prowler outside their Haughville residence, went to investigate.

"Attacked from Behind The younger woman was attacked from behind in a vicious manner, she related to police. After a mauling, she was released by the prowler, who slid along the house’ in a crouch to make his escape. Crawley, who has no previous police record, has an army record of disorderly conduct. Detectives say he is addicted to the use of a drug often used as a stimulant. Witnesses in the Green case described the fleeing attacker as having a dazed expression. Hints of an out-of-town airplane flight to interview “important” witnesses to tighten the web around Crawley were made by detectives.

SHOTGUN WOUNDS TWO YOUTHS, GIRL

Struck by Pellets While Hunting in Woods.

Two unidentified men were being sought by police today in connection with the shooting of two youths and a girl in a woods near the 3300 block, W. Washington st. yesterday. " One of the youths, Arthur Blunk, 16, of 2736 Villa ave. was in City hospital with a shotgun pellet in his right eye. Physicians said there was only a 50-50 chance of saving the vision in the eye. Miss Gail Beyers, 17, of 1236 E. Ohio st. and James Hawhee, 17, same address,” also were” wounded by pellets in their heads, arms and

Inside Indpls. 10|World Affairs

Mr. Roosevelt was “told by the United "Press of a report published by the American magazine NewsAmusements , 25| Ruth Millett , 19|Week of a meeting here at which Eddie Ash ... 30Movies ,,...., 25/he was one of the honored guests. Aviation ..... 19| Music v...v.. 25/The magazine said he had made a Nat Barrows.. 18/Dr. O'Brien ., 13|Pro-Russian speech, BOOtS sisi. . 34|/F, C. Othman 19 Business ..... 26| Obituaries vor 16 Classified ..32-34/Radio ....... 36 Comics 35 | Reflections ,, 20 Crossword ... 26| Scherrer ..... 20 Editorials .... 20 Serial. ...... . 28 Fashions .... 24 Side Glances. 20 Forum .,,.... 20 Silly Notions. 19 G. I. Rights., 356 Sports .....30-31

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ARGENTINE BOMB EXPLODES

BUENOS AIRES, Nov, 29 (U. P.). ~A small bomb exploded today at the entrance to the home of Dr. Fernando Bustos, government replesentative at the Buenos Aires university. There were no casualMeta Given ., 24 Washington . 20(ties. The attack was bélieved conHunting ..... 12| Weather Map 2|nected with the recent ousting of In Indpls. ... 5 Wom, NEWS 32.24 opposition professors from the faculty. :

this problem. “Nevertheless, we should all agree with the correctness of a recent statement of the head of the Soviet government, J. V. Stalin, that in this case ‘strict international control is necessary’.”

+ Statement “Warmly Welcomed”

“If we agree in principle with the necessity for strict international control, we should also. be able to reach an agreement on the concrete matters.”

Sir Hartley Shaweross of Great|

Britain promptly replied that the United Kingdom “warmly welcomes” the Soviet statement, Sir Shaweross cautioned, however, that “words are not is urgent,” 3 4

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legs... .. They said they were. walking through the woods, looking for targets to shoot at when one of two men, hiding behind some bushes, fired at them. They said they saw the men running after the shot was fired.

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Baltzell Rules Evidence Fails to Show Guilt.

in the narcotics case of ex-federal agent Bernard D. Peterson was sus- | tained today by Federal Judge | Robert C. Baltzell. Judge Baltzell ruled that the evidence in the case failed to show that Peterson is guilty rof charges that he violated the narcotics law and defrauded the government. Motions for a directed verdict were filed for Peterson and two co-defendants after a “hung” jury was dismissed last week by Judge Baltzell. It was the first time in 22 years that a federal grand jury here failed to reach a verdict.

Two Others Freed

The co-defendants, James Wooden and Charles Kahler, were included in Judge Baltzell's ruling. Peterson was federal narcotics agent here until several months ago, when he suddenly resigned. The resignation followed the arrest by Indianapolis detectives of a group of dope addicts. They testifled in a municipal court trial that the ex-agent had approved their {purchase of narcotics from local | physicians. Peterson was then indicted by {the federal grand jury in Septem{ber on the narcotics and fraud | charges. Indicted with him were Wooden and Kahler, both previously convicted of state narcotics law violation in municipal court. Testimony in -the federal trial showed that both Wooden and Kahler were suffering from incurable. diseases at the time they received narcotics supplies from physicians. Judge Baltzell ruled that the physicians were justified in issuing what narcotics they thought the defendants needed for treatment.

KIANGSU BATTLE RAGES

NANKING, Nov. 20 (U. P.).— Fighting raged in north Kiangsu | province today. Nationalist sources sald Communists were deploying their forces near government communications centers pending - the signal for a nationwide attack expected if the Nationalists open their

Is Case of Real Honesty

CHICAGO, Nov, 29 (U. P).— Mrs. Mary Loes, housekeeper at an {Omaha, Neb, hotel, mailed a towel ‘marked “Congress Hotel, Chicago” to its rightful owner.

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4 PRANK. ARRESTS PROBED BY REMY

Safety Chief Points to High Cost of Vandalism,

Safety Board President William H. Remy said today that he would

boys who were arrested in their homes for questioning about a three-weeks-old Halloween prank.

any “oppressive” tactics were used by police. At the same time, he warned that juvenile. vandalism in Indianapolis still is “terrific” and that the police department is besieged with calls from householders complaining of breakage by gangs of teen-age and pre-teen-age boys. The case of the east side youngsters was brought to the attention of The Times by the boys’ parents,

(Continued on Page 2—Column 6) COAL STRIKE HURTS SULFA DRUG OUTPUT NEW YORK, Nov. 29 (U, P.).— The coal strike threatened today to curtail (possibly suspend) production of the life-saving sulfa drugs and many of the new postwar plastic materials. Coal tar derivatives are the basic chemicals for many synthetic products, including the sulfa drugs, such as sulfathiazole and sulfadiazine, which rank almost as high as penicillin in effectiveness against disease and infection. While chemical houses expressed concern over their dwindling sup-

PRICE FIVE CENTS

Plea, Upholds

To Enjoin

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Peterson Freed of Narcotic Charge |Court Turns Down Dismissal

Right of U. S. Striking Unions

OND LAHR

| United Press Staff Correspondent

WASHINGTON, Nov.

29.—Federal Judge T. Alan

soldsborough today dealt John L. Lewis a double-barreled blow which apparently pointed toward conviction of the mine workers’ chief on charges of contempt for refusal to call off the national coal strike. The judge formally denied a defense motion for disa. 8» |Wissal of the contempt « [charges.- wii | At the same time he knocked the 1 [props from under the union's con- | tention that the proceedings were IN STEEL MILLS illegal under the Norris-LaGuardia anti-injunction act. = : Midway in the second day of the i ‘contempt trial, in which Mr. Lewis Coal Strike Costs Millions of and his United Mine Workers (A. |F. of L.) stand accused of disobey-Man-Hours. ing a restraining order issued by Judge Goldsborough Nov. 18, the PITTSBURGH, Nov. 20 (U. P.).—|judge threw out the defense argu- { The continued strike of John L. ments. . |Lewis' 400,000 United Mine Work- Upholds Right of Court ers today was costing the nation's| He declared that: millions of man-hours a| “It is perfectly clear that . . , RfoLGMmY the court has the right to enjoin “ay as related production sagged. . | "00" ion ‘which 1s about. to Coal ' supplies dwindled at a0 take steps that would be against alarming rate. [the public interest, including the The industrial picture: ultimate interest of the union Steel—-More than 50,000 workers | core» : laid off. Thousands working part-| ... Lewis and the U. M. W. altime. Ingot production rate down | dy had admitted they had igto about 62 per cent of capacity. | oo tho order directing them to Transportation—Railroads counted keep the mines open while the more than 18,500 workers idle and... 1.164 on their right to termimany others on reduced schedules.| = their wage-hour contract with Pennsylvania railroad reported that|, government. o employment in its central division In so doing, Judge Goldsborough alone was down 2000 a day. asserted, they in effect pleaded

transportation, idle in the Pittsburgh district.

Curtailments Planned

West Virginia expected to idle 100, 000 within a week. Paper and Pulp—Complete pa

ralysis of production, with the ex-| within two

ception of newsprint,

weeks if the coal strike continues, Chemicals—Production of drugs, { plastics and nylon threatened by - |interruption of supply of coal tar

derivatives.

Tobacco—Shortages . predicted in about 10 days because of lack of

coal for drying.

tended the Thanksgiving vacation to conserve supplies, Agriculture — Fertilizer

| coke ovens.

STREAMLINER RAMS 2 FREIGHT ENGINES

No Serious Injuries Reported In Train Wreck.

OGDEN, Utah, Nov. 290 (U, P.)— The Southern Pacific streamliner |“City of San Francisco” collided |with two freight enginers on a siding at Groome, Utah, early today. Railroad officials said there apparently were no serious injuries. A spokesman for the railroad sald a preliminary report from the conductor of the streamlined train indicated that one railroad worker suffered an arm injury. Some other crew members and passengers were shaken up or bruised slightly, the spokesman said. : “The conductor said positively that there were no deaths,” the spokesman added.

plies of pyridine, a necessary chem- | ical for the production of the sulfz | drugs, the plastic industry said flatly that it would be paralyzed if the

drive against Yenan.

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PROMINENT DOCTOR DEAD IN CHICAGO

CHICAGO, Nov. 29 (U, P.).—Dr, George J. Musgrave, 70, prominent nose and throat specialist, locked himself in his office last night and after telephoning his wife that he planned suicide, turned on his laboratory gas jets, swallowed a large dose of nembutal and then a quantity of sodium cyanide. Mrs. Musgrave called police immediately. When officers arrived at his loop office they found the doctor semi-conscious and rushed him to a

BUREAU FORECASTS

4 MORE MILD DAYS

Continued mild weather the next four days was promised by the weather bureau today. Tempera-

tures predicted will range from 3|

to 5 degrees above normal. Dropping . temperatures Tuesday will be accompanied by rain, the bureau forecast. From one-half to three-fourths inches of rain was predicted for Tuesday. >

LOCAL TEMPERATURES

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Layoffs hit trucking and river with 2000 workers

Steel Fabricators—Drastic curtailments planned because of shrinking | longs to you—if any of ours show gnnlies of semi-finished steel. Mills

up in Chicago, remember, reaiprocity | in western Pennsylvania, Ohio and |

, Automotive—Thousands of auto-| {mobile workers were on a “long” examine the case of four east side week-end as Chrysler and Ford ex-|

supplies He will seek to determine whether {cut by the closing of by-product

guilty to contempt. Denies Union Contention As for the union's contention that the Norris-LaGuardia act is binding -on the govermment and that the court order therefore was illegal, Judge Goldsborough said ly: | “The Norris-LaGuardia act did {not apply and does not apply.” Following Judge Goldsborough's ‘ruling, the trial was recessed until | this afternoon. | The original plan of the govern{ment was that Judge Goldsborough would be assisted in the contempt trial by an “advisory” jury which {would make recommendations alter hearing the evidence. The recommendations would not be binding on [the judge. In the light of Judge Golds~ borough's remarks during the arguments thus far, however, it appeared {likely that he would dispense with |such assistance. He had said that if the NorrisLa Guardia act did apply, Mr. Lew= is would have to be tried by a regular jury. If the act was not- applicable, he said, “the calling: of an advisory jury would be purely nonsense” inasmuch as the case {turns on questions of law rather {than fact. | Attorney General Tom C. Clark {announced meanwhile that Mr, Lewis will face only one legal battle (at a time. He told reporters after a White House cabinet conference that he plans no action against Mr, Lewis under the Smith-Connally |act until the contempt trial is concluded. .

Talks With President

Mr. Clark and others said coal was not discussed at the cabinet conference. However, he remained after other cabinet members left and talked privately with Presi dent Truman—presumably about coal--for more than an hour, Judge . Goldshorough's © decision meant that Mr, Lewis and the U. M. W. had lost a big round/in their fight to escape legal reprisals for the mine shutdown, The legal fight was over the temporary order issued by Judge Goldsborough directing Mr. Lewis to keép his 400,000 soft coal miners at work while the court decided whether the union had a legal right to terminate its contract with the government. Judge - Goldsborough in denying the dismissal motion cut through a maze of arguments. “This proceeding,” the judge said, “has been for the sole purpose of holding the status quo until there could be a court determination (of the contract termination dispute).” In any case, he said, it is clear that “the court has the right to enjoin a labor union which is about to take steps that would be against the public interest, including the intérest of the union itself.”