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57th YEAR—NUMBER 237. .

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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 12,

Entered as Second-Class Matter at Postoffice

1946

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Indianapolis, Ind, Issusd datly except Bunday

tate Offered b Million ridge Plan

Toll Spans Asked . Over Wabash, Ohio

By ROBERT BLOEM Indiana's nine-year-old toll bridge commission, which has never built a bridge, today laid before the legislative policy committee nearly $6 million worth of toll bridge plans. The 16-member committee niet in the governor's office this morning to discuss policy stand on a foot-high stack of departmental legislative programs. Among the other agencies which | offered proposals this morning were | retiring Attorney General James A.| Emmert with a bill to outlaw the | ku-klux clan and -other hate-| mongering organizations in Indiana; | representatives of the state highway department and of the conservation Cepartment with major legislative programs for the coming year, Tentative Plans The toll bridge program calls for the building of a $2,784,000 bridge across the Wabash river at Mt. Vernon and a $3,080,000 structure over the Ohio river near Lawrenceburg and Aurora. | Tentative plans for the two bridges, which would serve the great agricultural areas of southern Indiana, were presented by Commission Chairman Walter Koch, Evansville. The Wabash bridge would be known as the Wabash Meniorial| bridge and the Ohio river structure | the Indiana - Kentucky Memorial | bridge. Both would be dedicated to war heroes of southern Indiana; both would be four-lane structures designed to meet the needs of 20

be toll bridges financed by Indiana.

Outlines Unique Program Mr. Koch also outlined a unique | program for financing the bridges. Instead of issuing bonds immaedi-

qtely, the state would provide a!

revolving fund for cash-financing

snd bond issues would be delayed | Tor four yess ubtil the : revenue}

producing capacity of the structures could be nined. pr By taking speculative considera~ tions out of the bond deal and by saving four years interest, the financing could be handled at a net savings uf more than $1,500,000 the commission said. Mr. Koch attributed the burst of activity by the erstwhile relatively dormant commission to the “interest and co-operation of Governor Gates.” ‘The policy group was scheduled to continue its session throughout most of the day and wis expected to require several more days’ in which to look over program proposals.

BULLETIN

Charges made

by Detective

handling several criminal cases

brought a challenge today from

Prosecutor Sherwood Blue for a “complete investigation of the whole matter.” Prosecutor Blue suggested that Chief Sanders may be putting up a “smoke screen in an effort to hide your own inefficiency.”

Hunt for Marine

Plane Renewed TOLEDO, Wash., Dec. 12 (U, P.). ~A search party set out at day~ break today through hesawily-wooded country to investigate the source of a green flare which may possibly be a signal from a missing marine transport plane with 32 passengers aboard. A party sent out last night returned shortly after midnight when its members could not penetrate the dense underbrush and fallen tree obstructions. The 25 searchers began their hunt today after local residents reported seeing flares in the rugged, mountainous country seven miles east of here,

Army Seeks 300 to 900 AWOL's in Manila

MANILA, Dec. 12 (U. P.).—Flying squads of American military police and Philippine civil authorities scoured the Manila area today. Their concerted effort was directed at rounding up an estimated 300 to 900 AWOL U. 8. army and navy personnel believed loose in the city.

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Republican |

| was believed today to be a case of

{lieves the men actually may have Chief Howard Sanders that the |been detectives who were sent here prosecutor’s office was improperly {to obtain custody of this child in|

{may have thought it was the one they had been sent to get, police

SAFE AT HOME—Mrs, Virginia Barber, 1808 Wilcox st., holds

her 7-month-old niece, Barbara Enlow, after twb men, posing as |

Minnesota detectives, tried to take the child from her home.

Menped Cid Feo So Taking Foiled

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je office of war mobilization and

joomie stabilization,

Raise in Rents Two Efforts Made

To Obtain Infant

—A real estate board

A strange incident involving an Said today a survey by his group ..... i emaining to CPA. All of these attempt to remove a seven-month- showed 96 per cent of the nation’s except priorities on building mateyears from now, and both would | ©ld baby from an Indianapolis home tenants would be willing to pay a rials expire March 31 unless ex-

by two men representing themselves

! 15 per cent rent boost if they could tended by congress.

as detectives from Winona, Minn, get a year's lease,

mistaken identity of babies.

‘headquarters. ‘on & month to month basis. Police were told a pair of well-, Mr. Snyder said 87 per c mannered and courteous men came the reporting cities indicated

{4 the Barber home, where the property owners would offer such pediter Wilson W. Wyatt, who re-' by, Barbara Enlow, was being yearly leases if they could raise signed last week, and named two [rents 15 per cent above those in’ on to succeed him. } oe

{ba | kept while her parents worked. | ‘They askéd for Barbara, identify- effect last Sept. 1. ing themselves as detectives, but] |saying it was “not necessary to show credentials.” Return Second Time | When Mrs. Barber refused, the

{ men left, but returned a second ; | time. This time, the child's aunt Ww ire tdid not open the door, she told Sgt. !

Forrest Allison of the J. A. D. | Investigation disclosed that Mrs. | | Barber had a roomer several months | ago who moved to Winona, Minn. | The woman later was" believed to have had a child, bringing the child here to live at a Pleasant st.! address. Mrs, Barber told police she be-

Damage Estimated

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| Flames swept two

a family squabble. Seeing the Enlow child, the men

| deduced: 24th and Yandes sts.

No further trace of the self-styled sleuths has been found. While police were piecing. the story together, James E. Enlow, | father.of the child, rushed to J. A. D. headquarters, He was assured his,

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Amusements. 32 Inside Indpls. 23 Boots ....... 42 Eugene Lyons 11 Business. .... 36 Ruth Millett, 23 Olassified.. 40-42 Movies ...... 32 Comics ...... 43 Obituaries ... 8 Crossword ... 43 F. C. Othman 23| Editorials .... 2¢ Radio ....... 43 Fashions ..28-30 Reflections .. 24 Mrs. Ferguson 28 Science ...... 23 Forum ..... « 34.8erlal ....... 35 ‘G. I. Rights. 37 Sports 38-39 Meta Given . 20 Stranahan ., 38 Ernie Hill ... 12 Teen Talk Don Hoover . 24 Indiana .. 13-14 Whipple ..... 21}

Indianid Saga. 24 Women's 28-30

In Indpls. ... 4 World Affairs 24

Four firemen and Legionnaires, smiled a welcome to their chief today as he paid a special visit 40 The Indianapolis Times Mile-O-

Chief Harry Fulmer found them!|/by The dressed in “battle” regalia, a pro- About 180 tection against the blowing rain,

available on their days off.

Two Plants Here

WASHINGTON, Dec. 12 (U. P)).| spokesman

Calvin K. Snyder, secretary of the |realtors’ Washington committee of agency. Gen. Fleming will continue Two efforts made yesterday to\the National Association of Real to serve also as federal works ad-| g obtain custody of the infant from Estate Boards, told the senate small /ministrator, en aunt, Mrs. Virginia Barber, 1808 business committee that a poll of | The President's executive order, Wilcox, st, brought terrified tele- 886 local boards indicated that 91 wiped out nearly all the remaining, phone calls to juvenile aid division per. cent of residential renters are, wartime agencies except those oan- | f 8 i cerned with housing. ;

Near $50,000 in Blaze

industrial plants here last night.causing damage estimated between $45,000 and

Fire believed to have started from a gas unit heating apparatus swept through one section of the Enterprise Iron & Fence Co. building, | of the civilian production adminis- |

The styncture is one of 18 indus- [e housing activities. G {Foundry Co., all operated under head)of the national housing ad- judgeship next month.

It was the second fire among the ' federal housing program since 1934. C. & G. buildings in the last two |

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FIRE CHIEF HELPS MILE—Fire Chief Harry Fulmer (left) .adds his dime to the growing number at The Times Mile-O-Dimes. Watching the chief are (left to right): Capt. Paul Boling, past commander, Fireman's American Legion post; Capt. Lee Fulmer, adjutant and the chief's son, and Pvt. Francis Commons, commander.

Members of the Firemen's American Legion post ‘will serve through width to 25 lines, representing about all kinds of weRther until Christ- $3740 in contributions. .. 28 Dimes, located in front of L. §, Mas, receiving .and guarding the Weather Map 31 Ayres & Co. and 8. 8. Kresge Co. [dime contributions received for use mile in length.

Times Clothe-A-Child. needed to complete the ‘traditional members of the post are

8 Are Dea As Blast

Truman Ends 4 Agencies, Creates One

Fleming to Finish Work of OPA, CPA

WASHINGTON, Dec. 12 (U. P.).—President Truman! today wrote out of existence four wartime agencies, | Their controls once extend-| ed into nearly every phase of home and business life of Americans. He created a new “office of tem- | to take over the |

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porary cotnrols” few remaining functions of the agencies. i

The now dead agencies are the {office of price administration, the | civilian production administration, |

reconversion, and the office of ecoChief functions of the new agency {will be to ration sugar and control | rents. It also will administer price | ceilings on rice and sugar, the only other commodities under control. Many Powers Die March 31

The agency takes over the dozen or so priority and distribution con-

| Mr, Truman named Maj. Gen. | Philip B. Fleming to head the new

Me split up the functions fore} merly performed by Housing BEx-

Yh : ™ Mr. Truman told his news con-

Mr. Truman tid bis news con-| CRUSHED LIKE AN EGGSHELL—Here is 8 general view of the shattered

crease is in prospect as far as he] New York tenement house which was destroyed today when a brick wall collapsed

knows. He added, however. OPA| on if after an explosion in a nearby ice plant. Firemen dug into the debris searching 1d be working on a plan for an . cot So >on ap | for bodies of the victims. owe “TeikEolis

OPA rent officials, however, have =

repeatedly denied any increase is ; - “4 Fria; TP on | . ss, To vee, Igo H. Foust CIO Starts Drive |{lyjz Accountant For 25 Per Cenf Succeeds Emmert

considering one relaxation of rent | Wage Increase On Ir olley Cost New Attorney-General wi The possibility of another strike

controls. They may remove ceil'ings from rents on transient hotel — Firm's Surplus Profits enough White House support. Appointed by Gates wave arose today as industrialists Reduced + Million Governor Gates today received expressed opposition to the C. I. O.'s

rooms, Mr. Truman named Frank Creedon to succeed Mr. Wyatt as housing expediter. Mr. Wyatt resigned | because he felt he was not getting Foley Heads Housing Cross-examination of public servMr. Creedon was manager of con. | the resignation of James A. Emmert “second round” for 25 per cent wage ice commission accountants on the struction of the atomic bomo plant from his post as attorney general increases. |complicated system of at Oak Ridge, Tenn. Since then he and named his chief deputy Cleon Many big corporations, however, ! costs and profits of the Indianapolis has served as deputy administrator H. Foust, to succeed him.

{withheld comment pending the i | A s ted t y by Mr. Emmert was elected to the actual wage demands by the va- Railways, Inc, was started today by

| tration in charge of its construction Supreme court bench last Nov. 5 rious C. I. O. unions. Other com- Attorneys for the utility. and today’s resignation simply panies said any increases would: The hearing was u resumption of Raymond M. Foley was made paves way for him to. assume thie have to come from the consumers’ testimony started earlier this week {pockets in the form of higher on the Indianapolis Railways’ reMr. Foust, whose home is in prices. |quest to make permanent the reColumbia City, has been serving in| Still other industrial spokesmen cent temporary increase in trolley his present post as first deputy termed the C. 1. O.'s new wage pro-'and bus fares here. attorney general for four years. The gram “silly” and “unthinkable.” allen Fisk. chief accountant for unexpired term which he will finish Comments expressing ends in January, 1949, (came ‘from most of the basic in- port he made six months ago conEmmert Succeeds Richman dustries. [cerning the company's profits. Mr. Emmert has been attorney . The new wage drive was opened) Mr Pisk testified that for the | general since the office became ap- .. Washington yesterday by C. I. O. years 1932 to 1046 the company's f pointive in “3043 and *before ' that President Philip Murray at a lunch- surplus profits were $9,683,000 but | time spent many years on the Shel- eon attended by government, busi-|rajlways’ attorneys elicited informa{by circuit court bench. He suc- "°° and labor leaders. Mr. Mur-ition from him that this net surplus | ray said the increases should be 4 niv | ceeds Judge Frank N. Richman of a , was actually reduced to only $I | Columbus. who was retired from the paid out of increased profits, not 653,000 by subtraction of more than post by the 1946 Republican nom- by raising. prices. {$8 million which was listed as inating convention. He cited a special report made by “property depreciations.” Mr. Foust attended Wabash" col- Robert R. Nathan, economist, which | Elgin Byrne, assistant accountant | lege, Harvard law school and the asserted that huge industrial profits of the PSC, also WAS Cross-exam-law school of the University of ined at length regaramgftofits and | Arizona. He is a member of ti. losses showing on the books of the

bar, both in Arizona and in Indi- SEIZE SUSPECTED REDS railway corporation.

ministration. He has been in the|

At the same timeé, Mr. Truman's

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ing the attorn eneral’s staff. ! , g the attorney g police’ and troops in Canton hWd po..r had previously testified that

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LOCAL TEMPERATURES

a he Many Unique'Stories Lie Behind Times Annual Ty T2 own. Fund Drive to Provide Clothing for Needy Tots

Rain, rain, go away . . , it will. By ART WRIGHT “Sometime tonight a cold mass of | air, sweeping in from Canada, Will ‘that makes possible the operation of The Times Clothe-A-Child. chase the wet weather. | Many times there's a unique story bend the annual contributions The weather bureau promises a|g.... employees of industrial plants, business places and officers, Often sharp dip in temperatures for wel early gift of cash has been the result of one person's campaign within morrow with a forecast of much ® Yearly g : psu | ‘Of ope persons oa Bn | colder. that organization. | | All this might alter any plans you! The Packard Manufacturing Corp. from last year pioneered the idea to The 88-foot ribbon has grown in made earlier in the week when the is one group where the employee give the money to Clothe-A-Child five-day forecast foretold tempera- participation in Clothe-A-Child had instead of exchanging gifts. As a tures 5 to 10 degrees above nor-'s unique start. The north plant | result, ; | mal with rain today and tomorro’”. workers had always exchanged gifts raised to®date. Each line is one-sixtieth of a| Just cancel that all out. - = ‘that cost no more than $2. | : | The weather, like a woman, 10 y Sixty lines. are|

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N.Y. Building Is Smashed by Brick Wall

‘Condemned’ Structure Had 92 Occupants

By FREDERICK M. WINSHIP United Press Staff Correspondent * NEW YORK, Dec. 12.— The brick wall of a flaming. lice house crashed upon an |adjoining tenement house there early today. i It killed or injured a mas= { jority of thé 92 persons who lived {in the six-story building. Residents said the building had been condemned “years ago.” ;

Firemen and police emergency squads searched through debris in an effort to reach at least 30 sons still missing. A prelim check showed eight known dead, and at least 25 injured. #4 It appeared that almost all i still in the ruined brick buil were injured or dead. ¥ Detective Finds 4 Bodies

The cries of some of thoss trapped could be heard tt intervals, One man who had screamed almost constantly for many hours, “get out of here,” was removed alive. One of several crawled through a hole in one of the shattered brick walls and administered last rites for three persons whom he believed were beyond hope. A detective who also entered the wreckage told of finding four bodies, Four persons difd in hospitals after five alarms sent fire and ress, cue equipment ta the scene on New York's upper West side, % Wrecked by Wire The big ice plant of the Knig bocker Ice Co., abandoned some. 18 Years ago, was wrecked by fire and explosion. It was the rear wall of the big building which crashed upon | the tenement. : Fire Marshal Thomas Brophy, who began an immediate investigas fon, said that several small fires set [by boys had occurred in the building previously, -one of them ony

I Police Capt. Thomas V. Hannigan {said that four boys, all 10 or 11 - | years old, had admitted they started vesteérday afternoon’s-fire in the ice plant while playing with candles. The identified were: 3 Frank Moorhead, a fireman, who’ was among the first to answer what appeared to be routine call at 11:48 o'clock last night. ; Antheny Biancardi, 11, who was taken from debris piled high on the tenements third ‘floor and died en route to a hospital. Daniel Dorate, 21, a tenant. | Thomas Phillips, 70, a tenant. I Rose Raguso, 20, a tenant who was carried out dead. She had lived on the third floor with her mother, who was rescued earlier. Nick Sloane, who had been pinned down for hours by a beam, said when he was freed that his wife and three children #nd his brother were in his apartment when the building caved in.

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| “I don't know whether they are dead or alive,” he said. Bleeding profusely, he was given a hypodermic and taken to Mother Carbini hospital. | Peter Lagatta, 68, who left for work shortly before the crash, said his wife, Mary, 59, and his daugh~ ter, Julie, 26, were trapped on the second floor and probably were dead, Mr. Lagatta's son, Joseph, 35, was not at home when the building cols lapsed, He arrived shortly after the crash. x Mr. Lagatta said the building had been condemned as long as eight years ago but because of the war no one had: beew forced to move,

Administers Last Rites

“We always knew it was a fire trap,” he sald, “but we had no place else to go.” | The Rev. Fr. David Rea of St, | Elizabeth's church, glimbed up a ladder into the wreckage to give the last rites to victims of tie crash, Two of the persons he said gre were dead were believed

to be Mr, Lagatta’s wife and daughs ter. Ten-year-old Joseph Popper Jr, was one of the first to be carried

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