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FORECAST: Cloudy and colder Aonight. and temorrow.

Washmglon Calling—

Outlook for 1947: Price Cuts, Higher

Rent, Stri

ke Drop

Scarcities, Except Houses, Due to End;

Foreign Affairs Pict WASHINGTON, Dec.

ure Not Encouraging

28. —New Year looks better, from this point, than 1946.

As its outlines begin to

emerge, this is what we see:

1947 will be a year of declining prices, the year that

scarcities end—except scarcity of houses. Rents probably will rise; auto prices probably will

stand still; down.

but other living

Women's clothes will be among first to drop.

should go down considerably, Land

cost items are due to start

Food

values will drop. Housing material

shortages soon will be thing of past.

There'll be fewer strikes, maybe no big ones. no more |

about at end. They'll than 10 per cent, maybe less, i big industries. »

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Watch ‘Inspection’ On foreign policy, the picture is darker. For 1947, don’t bet either on international agreement

for atomic control or on disarmament. Insiders say the catch will be “inspection.” Western powers interpret it one way, Russia another, just as they differ on the meaning of “democracy.” Betting here is that Russia will place a narrow interpretation on armaments inspection, won't agree to blanket permission for international inspectors to look into everything. She may demand specific charges against specific acts as condition of inspectlion,

too much

may demand the right to veto |

action against a violator. That sort of inspection of Russia is felt to be futile, since Soviet Union and its satellites occupy

fifth of earth's land surface. Spe- | if |

cific charges would be difficult, not impossible, when other countries are denied freedom of travel or information in that area. It looks to us as if the foreign ministers will not be able to agree on treatment of Germany and that stalemat: will continue with things much as they are now. Hemisphere defense program '—to send military missions and supply arms to Latin-American republics—will be dropped. The

state department has withdrawn

support. President Truman will not resubmit it to congress. » " =

Halleck Among Powers

It will be a year when politics tinge every aspect of public life. Though it is not election year, everyone, in both parties, will have 1948 in mind. Robert A. Taft will be the dominant figure in Washington. Only Truman and James F. Byrnes will figure much among Democrats.

Wage increases are

0.8. Shoppers Get Bargains

Merchandisers Doubt Selling Market Over

By UNITED PRESS The nation's shoppers, for the

first time since 1941, had a field day across the country’s bargain counters today. Stores slashed prices

and held

suits, dresses, shoes. furs, household {goods and some foods. | The reductions ranged from 33] to 50 per cent, and in some cases items were going for cost. Cuts in fodd prices were limited to butter, eggs. a few meats and ‘certain types of canned citrus juices The price drops were attributed by merchandising men to either: ONE: Overbuying by stores, TWO: General post-Christmas inventory clearance,

mas stocks and a desire to “clean out” wartime manufactured and make way for those of post-war materials. None of the merchandisers Jaid | the reductions to a break in the | “seller's market,” qr a “buyer's |strike.” Some economists, among | {them Dr. Melchoir Palyi of the! {Central Life Insurance Co., believes {the boom still is underway. He said the bulges in the price {line were being straightened out Ly | {reductions in luxury item prices, {women’s clothing and farm equipment, but that the general trend | still was upward.

Portal Pay Suit Sets New High

By UNITED PRESS

almost-forgotten clearance sales of |

THREE: Late delivery of Christ= |

items |

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

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1946

Arson Charged As Gambling House Burns

$20,000 Blaze Levels Suburban Dwelling

A $20,000 fire last night destroyed an elaborate suburban dwelling north of Traders Point in Boone county, identified by state police as a former “big-stake” gambling salon, The blaze, discovered about 4 a. m., completely destroyed the house and contents. Laskey and Lola Farb, owners, charge the fire was caused by arson, A large lock on a gate had been broken, Mr. Farb observed this |morning, suggesting that the fire was of incendiary origin. Richard . A. Sutton, 11-year-old | son of a state police sergeant, discovered the fire. . The Sutton family lives about one-fourth mile from the Farb house, located at Kissell rd. and 96th st. House Not Insured Last summer, the Boone county | structure was the rendezvous for gay parties of Indianapolis resi|dents, who sought the results of

Hurts 19 In Mic

[fate on a roulette wheel, state police alleged | Public attention for several

months was focused on the Boone county establishment and a similar one in Hendricks county, both regarded as competitors for the “carriage-trade” ganiblers. State police said the Boone county | establishment closed shortly after| |t-oopers raided the Hendricks place, Mr. Farb told state police he bought the dwelling about a year ago. The house and contents are not insured, he added. ! Mr. Farb lives in Indianapolis, using the Boone county house only infrequently of late. | The dwelling, an addition to which was built soon after Mr. and Mrs. Farb bought the property, nestled in a heavily wooded area of |

14 acres. Approach was by a long v vy . ane to the structure, knbwn os. STRUCK DOWN-—Here is 8-year-old Marlene Roe, fhe city's latest traffic “The Farm.” victim. She was struck by an altomobile while crossing S. WMinois st. last night. Nurses

No fire-fighting. apparatus was | sent to the scene.

Man, 84, Is {Is Slain: Girl, 8, Run Down wn by. Car. WAA Surplus Maid Is Beaten On Way ‘Home From Store Probers Here

Motorist Charged With Drunk Driving, | Use Chisel to Kill

| Bertie Eavey fleti) | and Connie Darnell are attending the child, who is critically injured.

Freed on Bond of $550

Action Follows X Legion Charge Wealthy , Chicagoan Eight-vear-old Marlene Roe of 640 S. Illinois st. lay critically in- | 9 9

CHICAGO, Dec. 28 (U.' P.).—Two Jjured in City hospital today, the city's newest traffic victim. | War Assets administration in-hard-bitten murderers—who drove The child ran across Illinois st. near her home. She was struck by Vestigators conferred with Amera chisel into the skull of a wealthy & car eperated by Ray Willis, 30, of 1026 8. Pennsylvania st. ican Legion officials here today on 84-vear-old retired businessman and Willis was charged with reckless driving, operating a motor vehicle 'alleged irregularities in the sale of | viciously gun-whipped his elderly While under the influence of liquor and having inadequate brakes. surplus goods to veterans.

| house maid—still were at large to- ~~ He was released on a $550 bond| The investigators arrived here! | day. {furnished by Mary Rapia, pro- from the Cincinnati regional office The slayers struck when their h Burn to Death | fessional bondswoman. |vesterday in response to a Legion burglary of a palatial lake front, 3 { A police “blockade,” which was demand for a probe of war ep home in suburban Wilmette was| announced yesterday to check/|Sales. They are Maj. King Ray and

drunken driving and the operation|Norman Sterrett.

Airliner Crash Kill

Pilot, Co-Pilot Die:

Constellation

i i | killed instantly when the plane |

Crash Kills 12

hig

Some Passengers Seriously Injured

Trees Mowed Down for 300 Yards As Plane Comes Down at Botanical Garden

MICHIGAN CITY, Ind., Dec, 28 (U. P.).—Two persons were killed and 19 injured today when an American airlines plane developed engine trouble and made a crash landing at the edge of a botanical garden. The dead were the pilot and co-pilot, who were identified by the airline as Capt. Frank Hamm Jr., Bridgeport, Conn., and Harmon E. Ring, Muscatine, Iowa, The pilot apparently was

smashed to the ground. Mr, Ring died later in a hospital, - Mr. Ring and seven other persons were taken to St. Anthony's hos pital, Twelve injured were taken to Clinic hosiptal. Several were in serious condition.

11 Hurt in Eire TWA Accident

SHANNON, Eire, Dec. 28 (U. P). ~The TWA Constellation, Star of Persons who saw the wreckage Cairo. erashed and exploded ca a said the crippled plarie cut a swath mud island in the Fergus river, through a grove of trees for 300 [three miles from Shannon airport feet before it hit the ground.

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Award |. U. Heg Masonic Degree

Times State Service BLOOMINGTON, Ind. Dec. 28.—| President Herman B Wells of Indiana university was awarded the 83d degree Scottish Rite at the annual St. John’s banquet held here last night in the |

A $200-million portal-to-portal pay suit, the largest yet brought, was filed in U. 8. district court at Philadeiphia today against the Bethlehem Steel Corp, The suit, filed by 20 locals on behalf of 13,000 employees at 23 Bethlehem plants, may reach the haifbillion mark when 87,000 other mem- | toys, bers of the national union join the suit, officials said. Miss Held lay critically injured in truck on a snow-packed bridge near In South Bend, Ind, the Allis- gq hospital, her skull fractured in here. Jewel Cnalmers Manufacturing Corp. was four places. At least 14 others suffered injuries. | day |vamed defendant in a $11- -miliion Detectives found three blood- The bus driver remained mm a {similar suit, filed by United Farm gn eared fingerprints in the home. |exitienl condition today. Masonic temple. | Equipment and ‘Metal Workers | Police Sgt. Thomas Laffey, the! Authorities sdid the charred conMore than 400 Masons saw Hiram | {union «©. I. O.). The suit concerned expert whose identifications helped | {dition of the bodies made positive P. Stonecipher of Indianapolis, | J Danis a La Porte, | link William Heirens with the |ldentification difficult. commander-in-chief of the Indian- | Ee rhe, hk ’ Curtiss-Wright] Shane Degnan murder, said the] | - apolis Valley of Scottish Rite, make | on™ workers in Columbus, Prints were “clear and distinct.” He both vehicles after the crash. the presentation to Mr. Wells. + !said the prints would be checked Screaming bus passengers fought to alleged that the company owes them with those of the maid and the g6t through windows when they

interrupted by Otto E. Freund, formerly the head of a Chicago en-

graving company, and Miss Marie

Held, 51, the maid. WORLAND, Wyo. Dec. 28 Mr, Freund was stabbed in the {os jammed safety door was behead nine times, apparently with a|lieved to have caused the flaming chisel he had been using to repair death of five passengers aboard a

day. Skull Is Fractured

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his grandson's broken Christmas Wyoming-to-Montana bus yester-|

The bus collided head-on witn a

Flaming gasoline quickly enveloped |

[of faulty vehicles, made no arrests last night. At headquarters, officers were not certain the blockade was in operation.

Marlene, a blond, doll-like little! girl, was returning home witn her | brother, Jesse 106 from the drug- | store, where they had purchased some soda pop. + Jesse sald he stepped off the curb { first, followed by his sister. He saw [the car bearing down on them, screamed a warning and leaped back to the curb. But little Marlene looked up too late. Falls Out Window She suffered a broken right arm and head injuries, Quivering, weeping, Mrs. , her mother,

{

Lillie

Rowland D. Schell, said that

In Cincinnati, {regional WAA director,

ithe Legion apparently had been)

satisfied when the investigators ex|plained the apparent irregularities. Méantime, William C. Stalnaker, Indiana department of veterans |affairs director, charged that war |assets sales im Indiana were a | “hodge-podge” of confusion. Charges had been made at Legion meetings that veterans were not be{ing notified of surplus goods sales in time to permit them to exercise their purchase priority. As a result, according to the charges. industrial buyers were get[ting a crack: at the goods ahead of the veterans.

Resistance Dwindles

{ today. The crash took the lives of 12 of The site of the crash was a grove 23 persons aboard. a few hundred feet from Interna~ {The pilot of the plane, “in trou- tional Friendship Gardens, near the : shores of Lake Michi once con= | ble.” altempted a forced landing. oo. gan, The nature of the plane's diffi- - red as a site for United Nations on which developed after It lett "auarters. Orly field, Paris, were not imme- the * ake; of the Mane. in which diately revealed. {ne ilo} and "Pils ware asated, | However, pretty Vina Kay Fer-' h : Wings ware ‘guson, hostess aboard the plane, | * cared off and the tail assembly had warned passengers to fasten smashed. their safety belts and advised them All Boarded at Buffalo that an emergency landing would Airline officials said theré were 21 be necessary. | persons aboard, including the crew Blast Felt Miles Away lof three. All rs had { Capt. Herbert Tansey, pilot pf the the plane at Buffs Bi oi | Star of Cairo, was believed by air-| {look off at: 45 4. {men onthe “to nave tempted time), {to bring his big four-engined plane’ troit and revues its flght om down on the flat fields adjoining that city at 7:42 a.m, | the river, { AMmerican airlines officials at Chi« | However, the attempt fell short cago said the plane last was conby a scant 100 to 200 yards and the tacted by radio at 9:03 a.m, when [nireratt smashed into a tiny mud the pilot reported hé was having | fat island and exploded with a roar engine trouble. Airline officials esti- { which was felt here at the airport mated the time of the crash at building three miles from the crash. 9320 a. m. The back of the plane was broken, The radio report was made from {throwing out the passengers and the vicinity of South Bend. A few crew and scattering them over a minutes later the pilot picked out 50-yard radius. an outdoor garden display at a The fact that the passengers had showplace on the eastern edge of fastened their safely belts and Michigan City and tried to set the braced themselves for a rough land- big plane down. ing in response to the cool instruc- Passenger Describes Crash tions of Miss Ferguson was credited | Robert Ritter, 28, @hicago, whose {with holding down the death toll! right arm was injured, described though all survivors were injured. { First Fatal Crash at Shannon Today's accident was the first fatal crash ever suffered at the {great Shannon airport and was the first time any passenger had been ‘killed in the crash of a Constellaion. | Flames shot more than 50 feet into the air from the ship's blazing fuel tanks. The crash occurred about 2 a. m. as the plane came in for a routine landing on the ParisNew York flight: The plane carried 14 passengers and a crew of 9. were killed and three members of the crew, Two Hours fo Reach Scene Rescue crews started immediately | for the scene but it was two hours |

before they reached the scene after

istruggling through reedy marshes.

Nine passengers

the crash from his hospital bed. | “The plane crashed so fast none {of us knew what was happening,” he sald. “I was wide awake a moment before the crash. “All of a sudden we were going down, hit the tree tops and came to a stop after brushing the trees for a few hundred feet. *I think I was lucky crawling from the wreckage. Most of the other passengers couldn't move and had to |be taken from what was left of the plane by stretcher crews.” Injured Listed

St. Anthony's hospital said the injured taken there were indentified

“DR. M. J. LOBEL, 40, New York City. ANTHONY B. CUVIELLO, 23, Buffalo.

Dr. Robert C. Rogers, Blooming- | {and other workers in excess of $25ton's oldest practicing physician, | inion for unpaid work. They have | “PY and “if they don't match eguld not open the safely door. was to have received the 100ge’s|, yo the federal district court there 50-year gold award, but ill health [to determine the exact amount. prevented his attendance at the

banquet. The presentation will be | i made at his home early next week, | Kentucky Derby

prayed for her daughter's survival, | PARIS, Dec. 28 (U. P..—The, “Marlene is just like a sweet little French high command reported doll,” she sobbed. [from Saigon today that its troops Mr. and Mrs. Roe are the parents {had fought their way into the strahi of six children, two of whom have tegic rail junction of Phulang- | r "Sus huong, 30 miles northeast of Hanoi, | In Chicago Mor ve Two “hammer-wielder’ suspects died of illnesses. { Raleigh C. Cagle, secretary of the Sot for May 3, 1947 Detectives 90 were Toye is were held under $1500 bond today. Four months ago, their 3-year-old ‘against dwindling Viet Nam resistMasonic order, said here today, LOUISVILLE, Ky, Dec. 28 (U.|the identity of a man whose vody | The Ten re Willian: Bey Dope! gull Litte, Jel out x 2 mise. ance, \ P.).—The 73d running of the annual (lies in the Chicago morgue, |1nnd, 23, and George 8 Lope- window to the sireet, but miracu-

. y Appraisers for Gl S Kentucky Derby will be held May 3,| Detective Chief Walter Storms of | land, 22, of R. R. 10, box 550. Judge lously escaped injury. | “" 1947, at historic Churchill Downs, [the Chicago police John Niblack continued their cases | Oh, I hope I tan be as 3 lueky

. department | Tem oratdne Dip S Will Be Selected lit the Kentucky racing commission [notified local authorities that the Until Friday. [ith Marieve,” said Mrs. Roe. P e P The Veterans’ Administration will approves, Col. Matt J. Winn, Downs man has been identified tentatively | Two of my 27° In 8 Hours

Polide checked to “find if either urend hose epitals begin Thursday to select the ap- as Malcolm Ward, 35. |was the hammer wielder who seri- children died there | president, announced today. , . praiser when property is to be evalu- | He was described as five feet, Mrs. Roe said she had started out Winn said nominations for| to go to the dentist last night, leav- After Worm Spell LOCAL TEMPERATURES

(Continued on Page 2—Column 1 ‘Hammer Wielder' |

seek Identity of Man Suspects Held

Col, | ously injured one man and sent! ated for G. I. loans, Heretofore, the [11 inches tall, weighing 147 d eral others to the hospital for the $100,000 added run for the roses | ghing pounds, | severa p! lender has made the selection, VA | oq close Feb, 15. {5 upper teeth, wearing a coat with | treatment following an E. Wash- (ing her husband. Joseph, at home. | officials pointed out today. the label of an Indianapolis depart- ington st. tavern brawl Thursday She had a raging toothache, she ment store, night. | Ald, |

If plans are approved by the com- | This move is intended to provide| co "ipa spring meet will open

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John E. Buenting, Indiana gional loan guarantee officer of the| LISBON, Dec. 28 (U. P.).—ReVA, said the new system “v®! elimi- [ports from the Azores today said nate the tendency on the part of three sharp earthquake shocks some lenders to use exclusively the | rocked Terceira island within half services of ‘obliging’ apraisers who | {an hour. No casualties were re-| are most amenable to turning in a | ported. high appraisal when necessary to meet the asking price.”

The mercury “plummeted 27 de-| grees in eight hours today from a sizzling all-timé December record | lof 64 set at 1 a. m. { The weather bureau said a cold | Wave moving in from Montana and

‘Moral Bills’ in Assembly Trains Crash

Parishioners Will Be Informed When Lesion rg Head- on, 12 Hurt e Dakotas would depress the tem-

By ROBERT BLOEM RALEIGH, N. C., Dec. 28 (U, P.), [te Dale to 20 by morning with clear | The Indiana Council of Churches today rounded out plans to in- —An eastbound Southern Railway and colder the prediction for tonight form the Hoosier public on “bills of moral or religious significance” as Passenger train loaded with holiday and tomorrow. 2 appear before the coming general assembly. {travelers collided head-on with a Wartn southerly winds. were re-| A special legislative information committee, according to Council |slow- -moving freight train seven | sponsible for the unseasonable heat 6! |Ruth Millett . . ta Ralph L. Holland, is preparing to undertake the job. | miles east of here today. wave that had many city residents | .14 Movies ..... "ee 5 The parishioners of member churches are expected to make their | At least 12 persons were injured sweltering in overheated Homes last | 12 |F. C. Othman. 7 sentiments known to their legisla-, ——— — {and several cars were derailed. | night, | «+++» 8 Radio 13, tors as quickly as possible after they | telligent reactions to their legis-| Two train crewmen and 10 pas- | The 64 degree mark was three de-|

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Fireman Suffocated While Hunting

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. Dec, 28] (U. P.).—The records of Coroner Ray ‘Borland today listed suffoca-

Amusements... Eddie Ash ,.. Books . ... Boots ..., Carnival ,

Dr. James O'Boyle, airport physi-

PETER AVELLA, 25, Garfield,

cian and one of the first to reach N. J. (Continued on Page 2—Column 6) Buta LILLIAN McVAN, 45, Bu ale, ROSALINE BURNS, 39, RS:

DONALD BURNS, 46, Buffalo, MRS, ARLAIN LYONS, 46, Port

Remove 12 Bodies From Plane Wreck” HELEN. PRIKL, temas, 2,

South Glestonbury, Conn, Clinic hospital listed the injured (Photo, Page Two) nae Me { ARY SAN DIEGO, Cal, Dec. 28 (U.| gjpy. FEROLE, 37, New York

P.). — Rescuers fought their way,! ,HOMER head-down into a blizzard today, ton KERNS, 44, Forest Hills,

remove the bodies of 12 Persons THOMAS KENNEDY, age une [from the wrecKage of a Western | 1, own, Chicago.

airliner which smashed into boul-der-strewsi Cuyapaipe peak on bo LEN DAINES, ue unknown, Chrisymas; eve. ROBERT RITTER, 26, Chicago, The crash scene was located yes JACK STORY Jr. 20, Chicago. {terday on a rugged promontory in CHARLES ZEHLER, a. Buffalo, the towering Laguna mountain BETSY BLAISDELL, 20, James range between San Diego and Im- town N. Y. oT perial valley, 50 miles east of here. HELEN BASS, 24, New York City. All aboard apparently had been DOMINIC BIFRO, 20, Buffalo.

killed instantly. ROBERT FRENCH , Jersey The blizzard made it impossible | gity, N. J. 38,

{to remove the bodies until today,

Meter Youmk ‘Jenner Leaves

Hot Water Tank Wh ‘ ‘Explodes, 2 Die For Washington

| BEDFORD, Ind., Dec. POUND RIDGE, N. Y,, 3 (U.Ph

Dec. 28| 7, 8 Senator-elect Wil (U, P).~Two men were killed and | [Jenner leaves today for

a third was injured critically at [ton to begin a six-year term noon today when g hot water tank | the upper house of congress,

tion as the camse of the death of ChuroNes « ve 4 Mrs. Roosevelt 9 receive their “information.” lators.” sengers were treated for injuries./grees above the previous record set exploded. Mr. Jenner, his a Bloomington city fireman who) Classified 10-12 {Science ....... “The committee has not been or-| The information committee is the Several other passengers were in 1874, The ‘dead were A. R. Mathias, their son, Billy; : died last Sawirday while hunting, Comics ....... 13] | Serial tenaseae B first of its kind in council history,|shaken up. None required hospitali-| Beginning an upward trend yes- owner of the house in which the 11 ba anized as a pressure group,” said | 9 y: arewell banquet last Dr. Borland said Paul Bell was Crossword .... 5 Sports gr - In Pp group, It will use the chain method of dis- ‘zation. terday afternoon, temperatures re-|accident oceurred, and John W, | sponsored by the } groping under a large boulder for | Editorials ..... 8 Stranahan ein § the Rev, Mr. Holland. “We Will! cominating digests of the proposed| The engineer of the passenger|corded by the weather bureau, Tyler, his caretaker. of Commerce. : a rabbit when the stone toppled Forum ....... .. 8 Washington. .. 8 make no attempt to form the opin- legislation. That is, the central com- train and his fireman saved their|reached 60 at 9 p. m., 62 at 11p.m.| Police said the explosion was| Mr. enner,

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jons. Our object is to inform them | on proposals of moral or religious significance so 0 they may express in-,

over on him. His chest was crushed too much for him to breathe, the coroner said.

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