Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 December 1946 — Page 2

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arings on charges that Senator contractors whom he befriended closed last any wrongdoing.

niture for his dfeam house No. 2. They were Christmas presents, he said.

Senator Bilbo insisted that he intends to repay the friends from whom he received loans or servFices. But he didn't know when he would get around to paying all of the debts he owes ‘He estimated that they exceed $30,000. And, he added, they don't include $30,000 received from two war contractors, F. T. Newton and B. L. Knost, as contributions for the 1942 senatorial campaign of former Senator Wall Doxey (D. Miss.)

= Britain Promises = To Free Burma

Attlee Pledge Brings Angry Churchifl Reply

LONDON, Dec. 20 (U. P.).—Prime ,| Minister Clement Attlee announced lave give today that Britain was feady to » p give Burma her independence. We Rarcokies brea in The announcement drew an angry | ription. blast by Winston Churchill against | , carving any such slice out of the g | British empire. Mr. Churchill's oratory ‘was at te best. He charged that the Labor! | government “has in fact shorn! Burma from the British crown” in| the “process of the decline and fall of the British empire.” Mr. Attlee told commons that the | first step toward giving Burma in-| dependence “within or without the testimony on the svb- commonwealth” would be taken! at the close of a seven-day |soon. on the war contract]! Churchill Charges Undue Haste Burmese leaders will be invited | to London to discuss self-govern- | ment for the colonial realm Ranking | India, Mr. Attlee said. Red-faced and irate, Mr, Church. ill lashed back at the Laber govern. ment. He assailed the government's ver | i traordinary haste” to get out of | Burma so soon after the enormous | | sacrifices of British and Indian | blood to Uveraie. Burma. from she)

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Japanese, Want No “Unwilling Peoples’ Mr. Attlee said {t as the govern- |

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path possible. $1000 contribution for the Juniper | “We do not dans to retain ith. Grove Baptist church project that ip the commonwealth and empire | the senator promoted as a family [Any unwilling peoples,” he said memorial. Independence of Burma “within” | the British Commonwealth of Na-| Other Charges Overshadowed |. would give it a status similar | Mr. Ferguson sald bank records |to that of Canada, Australia, or the | failed to show any such deposit in| Union of South Africa. the special church account, held : CT SL 4 P ‘ contribution, r The drug charge, injected in the orgers Purse, final two gays by Senator Bilbo's Loses $13, 250 former secretary, Edward P. Terry, | overshadowed the original Fiehbiy ST. PETERSBURG, Fla, Dec. . that the Mississippi senator received 20 (U, p.)—Eiderly Mr. and Mrs.

George Morley sold their Richfield Park, N, J, home and pocketed $13,250 to buy another home in this |

resort city, They stopped in a cafeSenator Bilbo, in day-long testi- teria for lunch. pe

mony, entered a categorical denial| Five minutes after they left the of any wrong-doing. He admitted restaurant Mrs. Morley remem- | that he tried to help his constit-| bered leaving her ‘handbag in a uents. chair. But when they got there | sa, the only gifts he! the handbag containing all the cash | them were a Cadillac car was gone, =in keeping with an old southern custom—and a few pieces of fur- I ee ee ———————

Holdup With Bottle Nets $4000, Capture |

MIDDLETON, Tenn., Dec. (U.| P.).—A man identified as Roy Mc- | Duffey of Wilmot, Ark. was in police custody today after a daring | bank holdup with a bottle Police | recovered more than $4000. Lester Simpson, bank cashier, said that the man covered three em- | ployees with “something concealed in his pocket.” A posse trapped McDuffey in a| school building attic. He sur- t rendered a whisky bottle, but no gun,

Senator Asks Older

Occupation Troops |

LONDON, Dec. 19 (U. P.).—Sen- | ator Wayne Morse (R. Ore.) decried | the youth of American occupation | troops in Germany today. { He announced that he would de- | mand in the senate that the army send mature, better trained soldiers | and so maintain American prestige. Senator Morse has just Sompleted a six weeks’ tour of Europe. He said in ‘an interview he® wlio! would press congress to increase ap- | propriations for American military governments in Europe, which he | declared could not function effec. | tively because their funds ahd/ | |

and services from Mississippi contractors he helped get wartime con- | struction jobs.

manpower had been cut. The impaired efficiency of mili-| tary government units has cost! American taxpayers millions of |

dollars through pilferage and theft, Senator Morse said.

‘Be Nice to In-Laws, ‘Veterans Are Told Ki : { WASHINGTON, Dec. 20 (U. P). ow ot 400 2% about the administration's ne program with this ady

Christmas, because you’ re go-|

~Allen Solada, nationa) director of | Amvets, today expressed his feel-|

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