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Allen, ‘Jester’ To Truman, Quits RFC

Suggests Agency Be Reorganized

WASHINGTON, Dec. 27 (U. P.) — Jovial George E. Allen, longtime friend and political associate of President Truman, quit the Reconstruction Finance Corp. today. At the same time he submitted proposals for “A complete revision” of the RFC act. Mr: Allen's resignation becomes effective Jan. 16, exactly a year from the date of his appointment to the RFC board of directors. Mr. Truman appointed John D. Goodloe, RFC general counsel and a native of Kentucky, to succeed Mr. Allen, Holds 10 Directorships

Mr. Allen, who agreed to serve only for a year when he was given the RFC post last January, said he planned to return to private husiness. He now holds directorships in more than 10 major corporations. The good-natured Mississippian, whose skill as a teller of anecdotes has been a source of pleasure to the President, rose in a comparatively few years to a position as qne of the most powerful men in the nation's capital. His joviality caused him to be dubbed “court jester” of the Truman administration. Although he is severing his official connection with the government, Mr. Allen said he would remain available for any future governmental or political chores the President may want him to perform. Simplification Suggested Mr. Allen and Mr. Goodloe, in behalf of the RFC board of directors, submitted to the President a report advocating drastic legislative revisions in the structure of the RFC. Mr. Allen told Mr. Truman that the recommendations would “simplify and consolidate into one enactment the provisions for the basic lending power of the RFC.” “They repeal all of the corporation's extraordinary wartime powersd and eliminate all peacetime powers which experience has shown to bé DoW unnecessary,” he wrote. ‘No Choice,’ Says Mr, Truman The President said that because MY. Allen had accepted the RFC post originally for a period of only one year, he had no choice but to accept the resignation. “I am grateful to you for your service during the past year,” Mr. Truman wrote to “Dear George.” To Mr, Allen's suggestion that the board's recommendations for legislative revisions be submitted to congress, the President promised the report would be given his “immedfate consideration.” “You know, without any formal word from me, that I shall feel free, as the occasion may arise, to call upon you for counsel,” the President wrote Mr. Allen. “The best of luck to you in your future undertakings.” Two Reasons for Leaving Exactly what these undertakings will be, Mr. Allen would not say 88 he left the White House today. But his friends said Mr. Allen was leaving the government for two primary reasons: ONE: To repair his income, which suffered somewhat during his year of government service. O: Leave himself in a freer position to assist Mr. Truman politically than he would have been in if he had remained in the government, particularly in the RFC. Under existing law, all of the lending and other powers of RFC will end on June 30, 1947. For as long as these powers must be extended, the board proposed-consoli~ dation of RFC authority and funétions in one single law. The powers of RFC now stem from a number or different grants of authority passed at different times since 1932.

Viet Nam Attacks Repulsed, French Say

PARIS, Dec. 27 (U. P.).—~French troops have repulsed violent counterattacks by Viet Nam insurgent forces at many points in the northern Indo-China battle area, today's French high command communique from Saigon announced. The communique, which summed up the situation as of early today, reported .heavy Viet Nam activity in the Hanoi area. It reported ‘counter-attacks by Viet Nam units at several points in the city but said the attacks were turned back with losses to both sides.

TIMES INDEX

Comics ...... 24|Reflections ,, 16 Crossword ... 24|Mrs. Roosevelt 18 Wallace Deuel 12 Scherrer ..... 16

Editorials ... 16!Serial ....... Edw. Evans .. 4|Side Glances. 16 Fashions ..18-10|Silly Notions. 15 Forum ...... 16(Sports .....20-21 Meta Given ,, 19|Stranahan ,, 20 Hunting ...., 6 Washington , 16 Income Tax., 17| Weather Map 4 “In Indpls. ... 6 Wom. News.18-19

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FORECAST: Cloudy and warmer with occasjonal light rain tonight; cloudy and much colder tomorrow.

57th YEAR—NUMBER 250

presente

in New York.

$1000 AWARD—A Scripps-Howard check for $1000 as the national grand prize for the Coach of the Year Plaque design was ER to Grant W. Christian, 7033 College ave. (right), by Walter Leckrone, editor of The Times. Mr. Christian's design won the contest recently staged here by The Times. The $1000 check was his award for also winning out in the national judging

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1946

Gross Income Receipts Hit All-Time High

Estimate Cheers Foes Of Sales Tax Plan

By ROBERT BLOEM Political opponents of drastic new tax legislation were cheered today by an official estimate setting gross income tax receipts for the year at a new all-time high. State Treasurer Frank Millis said the final tabulation on receipts from Indiana's No. 1 source of revenue | probably would show a return of {$48 million for the calendar year. {Such a figure would be $2 million over the 1945 record.

makers. for the third straight year.

year behing Shirley Temple, who tinkled the cash registers loudest for a record four years. Crosby fans swarmed to his three pictures in circulation during 1946— “The Bells of St. Mary's,” “Road to Utopia,” and “Blue Skies.” "Miss Bergman crashed the Big 10 for the first time. She jumped from 13th place with four box-office hits— “Bells of St. Mary's,” “Notorious,” “Spellbound” and “Saratoga Trunk" ~in which she played everything from a nun to a beauty of questionable morals, She took the place of Bobby£Sox Idol Van Johnson, wh sone notch to third plac In fourth-piace was Gary Cooper,

Crosby and Bergman Top Box Office Money-Makers

‘The Groaner’ Leads List for Third Straight Year; Van Johnson Third, Gary Cooper 4th

HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 27 (U. P.).—Crooner Bing Crosby and Actress Ingrid Bergman today reigned as the year's biggest box-office money-

Motion picture exhibitors chose “The Groaner” for the No. 1 spot

This puts him on an equal footing with Mickey Rooney. And one

veteran of the 1946 list with eight straight appearances. Clark Gable, all-time winner with 12 successive times in a row before he went in the army, finished 13th

Bob Hope, who's been on the list every year since 1941, grabbed the poll championship for top 10 repeats by a comedian.

from. seventh fo Aft place hi%isnd other public charges is in the Humphrey Bogart placed sixth.

He came

Margaret O'Brien, only child star on the list, was eighth, Betty Grable was ninth. Roy Rogers, first in the cowboy poll, took 10th place,

The announcement was expected to have the immediate effect of rallying opponents of sales tax proposals for the coming legislative fight. A possible new tax program already had begun to revolve around the encouraging gross income tax picture.

Many in G. O. P. Favor Sales Tax

Currently the air over the prelegislative preparations is dotted with trial balloons, most prominent of which is the sales tax feeler launched several weeks ago. Sentiment in some quarters of the Republican party, which controls the legislature by an overwhelming majority, has swung strongly to the sales tax. Other party leaders, feeling the opposition of farm and labor groups to sales tax should not be ignored, are working hard to convince Gov~ ernor Gates and other policy mak. ers the present tax is sufficient. The governor has made known that an extensive program to improve the lot of Indiana's mentally ill

legislative cards regardless of. cost.

hold it is the only way the state can finance its increasingly numerous and expensive functions. Cigaret Tax Suggested : To offset the swift rise of this feeling, opponents of change now

Capsule to Keep Fliers of Future From Destruction

BOSTON, Dec. 27 (U. P.) —Airmen who pilot supersonic planes of the future will be encased in special capsules to protect them from destructive wind blasts. This is the belief of Brig. Gen. Balcom C. Grow, army air surgeon general. Gen. Grow addressed the American Association for the Advancement of Science today on the problems of research in aero-medicine. As speeds and altitudes increase, Gen. Grow said, it will become nesessary to encase the entire individual in a protective ‘capsule. This will protect him against wind blast, temperature extremes—and the adverse effects of very low barometric pressure, He said the maximum tolerable naked wind blast for man is reached at 500 miles per hour, according to German research. An air blast greater than that would penetrate the lungs, distort and lacerate face tissue and possibly fracture arms and legs, he added.

Boy, 3, Drowned When Ice Breaks

SHELBYVILLE, Ind. Dec. 27 (U. P.).— Five-year-old Gary Woodall always wanted a pair of ice skates, his parents said today. So Christmas day, Saata Claus brought the youngster a pair of shiny new skates. He could hardly wait to try them out on nearby little Sugar creek, . his griefstricken mother, Mrs. Robert Woodall, recalled. Yesterddy, Gary took his new skates to the creek and joined his older brothers and sisters on the ice. But the unseasonably warm December weather had softened the

ice. Gary slipped and the ice cracked. The other children called neighbors, They recovered Gary's body an hour later.

Death Toll in Shanghai Crashes Reaches 70

SHANGHAI, Dec. 27 (U, P.).— Deaths of injured passengers raised the death toll in three Christmas night airliner crashes to 70 today. There is still the possibility that at least 10 more persons may have died aboard a fourth plane missing 48 hours, . Capt. J. M. Greenwood, Austin,

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jonly. fireiguer among the. dead.

City Blockades To Check Autos

Police Crack Down As Deaths Mount

Another severe “crack down” on |provement of state institutions. | erring motorists was launched by police today as the traffic death toll means to plug one of the present here mounted to 105 for the year.|major leaks in the gross income tax Four Indianapolis persons were in 73 Christmas holiday traffic accidents here and the state death toll mounted to 17 since

Traffic blockades were set up all over the city again today. Officers stationed in these places will stop all motorists to check their cars, |increase in the present gasoline tax licenses and their breath for signs|from 4 to 5 cents a gallon to bolster

A fifth Indianapolis traffic fatality was Dince Gordon, 37, of 512 Minerva st, who died of injuries received | tinuance of the gross income levy Dec. 14 when he was struck by a |rather than substitution of a sales car at Blake and Michigan sts. Others killed in state during the | receipts on the income tax will be last 48 hours were: James Hampton, of Rich-|announcement by Treasurer Millis, mond, who was struck by a train|they insist, is proof enough that

Herman L. Hogan, 61, Terre Haute, who was struck by an automobile near his home. Bismark L. Heldt, 67, killed when his car struck a tree in Evansville. Two other Hoosiers, George Hunt, Muncie, and John Hunt, of Princeton, were killed in an automobile accident near Lewisburg, Tenn. Indianapolis pedestrians were seriously injured here last|operated without funds and without

Mrs. Anos Regan, 46, of 227 S. Ran- | mission could do a thorough job dolph st, and Charles Roberts, 8, |and come back to the 1949 genof 701 Woodlawn ave., were injured | eral assembly with a comprehensive when they were struck by a car|and scientifically designed tax prodriven by James Wade, 22, of 403] gram. Drexel ave, at Virginia ave. and

Nine-year-old Marjorie Holland, |two days before the general assem521 Birch st. was struck and badly|bly convenes. The group will reinjured by a car driven by Mil-|port its findings to Governor Gates dred Roth, 30, of 1814 W. Wyoming | at that time.

Funeral Tomorrow

For Hauptmann Attorney

NEW YORK, Dec. 21 (U. p)—| Charge Landlord Tried Funeral services for Edward J. 1 Rellly, 64, criminal lawyer; who un- To Break Up Marriage : successfully defended Bruno Richard Lads Hauptmann in the Lindbergh baby|A landlord who allegedly “tried to will be held to-|break up a marriage fn order to

Mr. Reilly, who defended more|day for $30,000 damages. than 2000 criminal cases during his B legal career, had been ill since the|the suit against Everett Clay, who, conviction of Hauptmann in 1935.) they charged, told Mr. Atha “wholly He claimed the trial broke him both | false” ‘stories about his wife enterphysically and financially, He died| taining other men while he was Christmas day of cerebral throm-|away. Tex., pilot of one plane, was the ;

are offering a program which would include a cigaret tax and a use tax. Rather than commit “political suicide” with the controversial sales tax, proponents of this program say, the present structure can be| made to carry the load for at least another two years. The cigaret tax,

With sales tax support on the in-{ Greer Carson Was seventh, SKidding| epee, backers of that drastic step

DOUBLE JUSTICE—Municipal Court Judge-appointee Alex M. Clark [right] paid a visit to Judge John L. Niblack's court today to watch the procession of law offenders pass before the bench. Mr. Clark will take over the municipal court 4 bench Jan. | when Judge Niblack takes over as judge of superior court I.

Health Board 0K's County Jail

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Enfered as Second Olass Matter at Postoffice Indianapolis, Ind. Issued dafly except Sunday

Lower Cost-Of-Living Seen In Food Price Drops

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Youth, 17, Slugs Boys' School Aids

Petit Was in Charge

Courity health officials inspected Sheriff Al Magenheimer’s jail today, following the sudden death of a woman prisoner yesterday and charges by a federal physician that nine prisoners got sick from contaminated food. It was the first inspection staged by county health officers since the late Otto Petit was sheriff. They gave the jail a clean bill of health. The dead prisoner was Mrs. Future Dalton, 37, of 3109 Martindale ave.,, who was serving a petit larceny sentence. She was found dead in her cell]

together with an existing excise tax for institutional building, would be designed exclusively for the im-|

The use tax is being talked as a

setup. It would hit the mail order business coming in from ont of the state, taxing goods purchased through mail order channels on the | basis of use rather than of income produced. Gas Tax May Be Raised

The same program calls for an

the highway department's ambitious construction and repair plans Republicans holding out for con-

tax admit that if recession sets in,

seriously impaired. Yet today's

it will hold up for a time. As a final incentive to settle for a couple of new props under the present tax structure they offer a full-time tax study commission. Such a commission, they say, could take up where the present probers named by the governor several months ago left off. 1949 Report Suggested

Whereas the present committee

a full technical staff, the new com-

Pina] meeting of the present tax study commission is set for Jan. 7,

It will make no recommendations of new sources of revenue, though it definitely is expected to report finding a need of some new taxes,

get a vacant apartment was sued to-

Mr. and Mrs, P. E. Atha lodged

yesterday morning, after a night of violent illness. Medical aid was not summoned for her despite her repeated complaints of illness for several days.

Deny Food Contaminated

The death of Mrs. Dalton evoked numerous complaints from prisoners of gastro-intestinal upsets after Christmas dinner. Both Sheriff Magenheimer and Dr. John J. Briggs, county jail physician, denied that any county prisoners had become ill from contaminated food. “I saw all of our prisoners yesterday,” Dr. Briggs said. “They didn't look sick to me. They just heard about somebody getting sick and wanted to holler. “The girl who died ate about as much Christmas dinner as you could put in half a teacup. The matron sat beside her and ate a big dinner. The matron didn't get sick. { “I don't believe that girl died of ptomaine, She had been desperately sick before, That's the only fly in the salve. If they knew she was sick, they should have called me.” The cause of Mrs. Dalton’s death was tentatively labelled “gastroenteritis” by Coroner Roy B. Storms, after an autopsy. But the coroner said he couldn't be certain, Food cultures and cultures of her

record is lsmgthy with interstate depredations, appeared to be headed for the Indiana reformatory today. It was a move described by police as “long overdue.” Had this action been taken yesterday — when urged by La Porte county law enforcement officials — two Indiana Boys’ school child welfare workers might not have been slugged by the youth, Edward Blake, Michigan City. It was while the officials, J. N, Grifin and James Gilley, were returning Blake and another youth, Willard Newlin, 15, Mishawaka, to the Plainfield institution from South Bend that the slugging occurred. Hits 2 Officials Riding with Newlin in the rear of an automobile, Blake hit the two officials as the ear neared Kokomo. He swung with a crudelyfashioned blackjack made from a water faucet, a type well known to inmates of the I. B. 8, from which the youths escaped Monday. When Newlin failed to help him, Blake hit the younger boy, Kokomo police were toldy The welfare workers struggled with Blake, while Newlin lay dazed. Overpowering the older boy, the two officials took both youths to

Girl, 4 Dies In Muncie Fire

MUNCIE, Ind., Dec. 27 (U, P.).— An overheated stove was blamed to-

three-room garage-home, burning to death Sandra Ann Evans, 4. The girl, daughter of Joseph Evans, Indianapolis, and Mrs. Rodella

building. Her three brothers, ranging in age

from 3 to 9, escaped.

Portal Pay Su

its Snowball

Toward Billion Dollar Mark

Congressmen Predic Only One Case Filed

t Legal Limitation; Here

By UNITED PRESS

The portal-to-portal pay drive lar mark today. Labor unions file $51,050,000.

snowballed toward the billion dold new suifs against employers for

At Washington, meanwhile, some congressmen predicted that congress will impose a time limit on suits seeking back pay.

Today's suits brought to $905,1 unions across the nation in suits filed to compensate members for| property. Only one suit has been filed so’ far in Indigna. { The biggest suit today was filed by the C. I. O. United Steel Work- | ers at Pittsburgh against Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp. The union asked $37,400,000 in portal pay and damages to cover the claims of 19,000 workers. Another Pittsburgh suit for $16

The Athas are still livigg in Mr. rs duplex, i

million was filed by the same union

69,400 the amount sought by labor

against Allegheny-Ludlum Steel

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 27 (U.’P.).—| unpaid time spent on company Corp.

At Boston late yesterday 70,000 former employees of the Bethlehem Steel Co.'s Hingham shipyard filed suits seeking a total of $50 million. Meanwhile, at Cincinnati an official of local 647 of the C. I. O. Unit« ed Auto Workers said his union would file “the grand-daddy of all portal pay suits” soon against Wright Aeronautical Corp. He sald

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day for the fire which destroyed a|

Evans, Muncie, died in her bed as| border. The cold wave centered in the flames enveloped the small North Dakota and Montana during

PRICE FIVE CENTS

Variety’ Is Word

Butter Down

Broad Trend Noted . Across Nation

Across the nation today ins dications were cropping up that the bottom was begin~ ning to fall out of the cost of living, Reason apparently was a tremendous {increase in agricul« tural and industrial production, plus opposition to high prices, In Indianapolis butter prices were down 4 to 5 cents per pound today, selling at 85 cents. Bales were under way in departs ment stores with prices greatly slashed. The sales had started before the Christmas buying rush ended. Livestock prices locally continued a general decline today, with hogs down as much as $1.75 per cwt. Cheese Price Drops Egg prices have dropped 7 cents in the last two weeks. Poultry prices were generally lower, Meat prices have lowered generally a few cents in the last several weeks. From Chicago there were reports of a general decline coming in milk prices, Tt was pointed out, however, that Indianapolis probably wouidn't be immediately affected since the price here is 18 cents a quart compared to 22 cents in Chicago. The National Cheese Institute confirmed reports of a l4-cents per

For Weather Here

Colder Tomorrow,

LOCAL TEMPERATURES 6a m.. 4 am, . Tam.... 1 ‘Nam... 43 Sam... 42 12 (Noen).. 50 Sam... 443 p.m... 50

The new year probably will be ushered in the middle of a Hoosier rain, the weather bureau said today. 7 The bureau forecast rain Tuesday or Wednesday with reasonably mod-

now until 1947 will offer variety. High spots of the weatherman’s five-day forecast today are light rain today and tonight; warmer today; cloudy and colder tomorrow; snow flurries tomorrow; warmer Monday and so on into New Year's Eve. Little Rain Expected The temperature will average about 3 degrees below normal and about one-quarter inch of rain will fall, the bureau predicted. Cold weather prevailed over the northeast section of the country today, and in the far west rain and fog obscured highways, isolated low-lying communities and curtailed flying schedules, The weatherman predicted generally rising temperatures throughout the day in the North Central states, This is due to be followed {closely by a new cold wave which would send the mercury near zero in some parts of the area, during the week-end.

Cold Air Approaching In the remainder of the country, temperatures generally were mild, with an unseasonable 62 recorded at Kansas City, Mo. Federal forecasters at Chicago warned of a mass of frigid air moving south from the Canadian

the night and was scheduled to overspread Minnesota, Wisconsin and Iowa today and reach into

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Dies Atter Auto Falls Into River

MARION, Ind, Dec. 27 (U. P.).~ Bernard J. Richardson, 40, Gas City, died today of injuries suffered when a bridge collapsed yesterday, plunging his automobile into the Mississinewa river. Mr. Richardson succumbed early this morning. He suffered a fractured skull, concussions, and broken bones when the superstructure of the 200-foot bridge crushed his autbmobile. The suspension bridge gave way without warning when Mr. Richardson, a glass company foreman, drove his automobile about 15 feet onto the structure. It spanned the Mississinewa at 38th st. just outside the corporation limits, Grant County Highway Superintendent ‘Emmett Hoover said the

pound drop in cheese prices in the past 60 days. ] Grain prices In Chicago were lower today by several cents a bushel

Livestock | ‘Meross the couns try were weaker, following the tren

d, Most obvious break in the soars ing cost of Illving prices was the sharp dip yesterday in wholesale butter prices in the New York commodity market, The market recovered as much as 4 cents of the 10-cent decline today, but the break already had been reflected in lower prices at grocery stores. In the wholesale markets, experts explain the New York situation this way. In that eastern center, whole-

erate temperatures. Weather fromisale milk prices are pegged very

much on the basis of the price of “92-score” butter—a higher grade product. Artificial Demand

In an effort to obtain a high milk peg, produce operators in New York bought heavily in butter, producing an artificial demand and therefore an artificial price rise. : With the milk price safe for an other month, local observers say, the New York operators simply dumped the butter onto the market, cracking the price down a dime. Only in New York, Chicago and other very large metropolitan areas would the retail price drop be comparable, In Indianapolis, where “90-score” rather than “92-score” forms the basis for the wholesale market quo~ tations, the whole day's fluctuation was only 2 cents a pound. Consumer resistance continues great, however, according to local grocers, and even in the low eighties many housewives still refuse to touch butter.

Seamen Held in Death Of Police Inspector

HONG KONG, China; Dec. 27 (U. P.) ~Three British seamen have

been arrested here for fatally beat ing a police inspector Christmas night, it was reported here today. A police report said Inspector Alexander Anderson, a former mems« ber of the S8hanghal force, was attacked when he attempted to quiet the men during a disturbance, The report said they struck Inspector Anderson in the mouth, causin his dental plate to become lodg: in his throat so that he strangled

U. S. Ships to Use

New Manchurian Port

PEIPING, Dec. 27 (U. P,).—The Manchurian port of Hulatao will be enlarged and improved this spring to accommodate American shipping coming direct from U. 8, Pacific coast ports. A report from Mukden in the So« cial Welfare daily sald reconstruce tion includes building new docks and warehouses. It will enable stevedores to unload 1000 tons daily,

In Moderate

bridge had been in good repair gnd had not been condemned.

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