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Giants" Stars Tell o $2500 Bribe
they were offered $2500 each throw the Giants SPARduikip amy with the. Ci.
They mid that Alvin 3, Pari
“28-year-old Broadway character,
offered them jhe bribe. before the National Proféssional league game Jast month Girls, restaurants and cabarets, Were among the inducements the novelty manufacturer and gambler used in an attempt to bribe the ace
‘backfield men, Hapes testified.
They were witnesses at the trial of Paris in general sessions court, where he faced two counts of attempted bribery, Former 1. U. Star Pilchock is a former Indiana university player and now the passing star of the Giants... He followed Hapes to the stand as a prosecution witness to detail the repeated overtures he said were made by Paris to the two men, Like Hapes, he told of being lave ishly entertained at New York night
_ apots—at parties attended by girls
who were identified only by their Christian fiames—“Betty” and “Emmie Lou,” for example, After describing several parties at which he was a guest of Paris, Filchock went on to tell of his last conference with the gambler, It took place on the day the Giants went to Bear Mountain to “rest before the championship game, which the Bears won, 24 to 14, he sald, : ‘Ain't Gonna Do It’ “He asked me what I thought of the proposition,” Pilchock testified. “I told him: ‘Hot dam, Alvin, I
Mayor Piichock said he heard nothing more about the matter until he was called to a conference with Mayor William O'Dwyer the night before the game. Under éross-examination, Filchock admitted he told Mayor
. O'Dwyer that he had been offered
8 bribe by Paris. PFilchock was
. permitted to play in the champfon-
ship game, and threw two touchdown passes. Hapes was not allowed to play. Filchoek told of attending a cocktail party at Paris’ apartment Nov. 30, where he met “some very nice girls." Like Hapes, he said he first was approached by Paris to join the latter's novely company as a salesman, Just Not Interested Later, he said, Hapes told-him during practice at the Polo Grounds that Paris wanted to see him. / “Paris asked me if I thought a football game could be thrown,” Filchock said. “I told him I didn’t see how it could be done. He said he would like to make a little money of the game with the Bears and I could make $2500 and a $1000 bonus. I sald I just didn't give a damn, I
“wasn’t interested.”
“What happened when you broke up?” asked Assistant District. Attornew George P. Monaghan, prosecut~ ing the case. “When I left,” Filchock replied, “Paris said ‘Think over what I've told you! I said: ‘No soap, and left.” Before Filchock took the stand, Hapes testified that he, too, ‘had resisted Paris overtures. On cross-examination, Hapes admitted that Paris telephoned him at Bear Mountain the day before the
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$10,000 Fire Destroys Greensboro Postoffice
NEW CASTLE, Ind, Jan 7 (U. P.)—~Damage was estimated today at more than $10,000 in a fire which destroyed the postoffice, a grocery store and a home in nearby Greensboro yesterday.
The fire originated in the store
57th YEAR NUMBER 269
Lavish Parties Are Revealed
one Weather Removes Glaze From Streets Here
LOCAL TEMPERTAURES 6am... 30 10am .,, 34 78m... 38 EL eM Sam... 32 12 (Noon) , Sam, 34 Piggy fgg
Warming weather today melted an overnight snow, freezing main thoroughfares of a glaze that tied up early morning traffic. Btate roads, however, were still heavily iced and treacherous in all portions of the state. The weatherman said it would be cloudy with little change in temperature tonight and tomorrow. Meanwhile, slick streets slowed down ortation in Indianapolis this morning. Long creeping lines of traffic formed on main thoroughfares during the morning rush hour, as motorists were forced to cut speed on ice-glazed streets. + A tie-up in bus and trolley transportation also held up travel, Indianapolis Railways vehicles fell behind schedule, lining up three and four deep as traffic became snarled. Street commissioners today said city trucks were sprinkling salt over Intersections, as were crews from the Indianapolis Railways. Main thoroughfares were reported the “most hazardous.” Less heavily traveled side streets were less treacherous, with a coating of snow giving motorists protection against the ice,
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controlled congress headed for a showdown battle over taxes today
Jr. made it clear that the Republican leadership intended to insti-
ing tax cuts—for that proposed by Mr. Truman said} tax relief was not warranted at this time and that the expected budget surplus should go to debt reduction.
the President.
Truman GOP Showdown Due On Tax Cuts
Republicans Insist They'll Slash Revenue
By LYLE C. WILSON United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Jan, 7.—President Truman and the Republican
with other policy conflicts develop ing rapidly. Republicans insist that taxes will be cut. Mr, Truman's annual méssage on the state of the union is under a barrage of friendly but firm G, O, P. fire. The Republicans are standing pat for 1947 income tax reduction. And congressional reaction ‘indicates dissatisfaction with the Presi dent's labor-management proposals on grounds they do not go far enough, House Speaker Joseph W. Martin
tute its own fiscal program—includ«
Mr. Martin said: Balance Budget “The Republican goal is to bal-| ance the budget, make payments! on the national debt and reduce personal me taxes. “Through reduction in personal
Fugitive Is Slain
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Shot to Death In Gun Battle
COBLESKILL, N. Y, Jan. 7 (U. P.) ~The body of Alphonse Rocco— who duped a girl friend into trying to kill his former wife but fought when cornered by police in “Patchin’ Hollow—lay unclaimed today on a slab in Ernest Bundy's funeral]
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girl, a letter fromi a girl, a 4-F draft oor an automobile operator's license, two pairs of glasses, a wrist watch, and a pencil flashlight, Rocco, who fashioned an ingenious camera-gun with which a girl shot and critically wounded his wife in Times Square a week ago today, was not so gun-shy last night. Shot It Out Twenty-five policemen tracked him to a snow covered mountain recess near here, and he chose to ‘shoot it out. The posse, headed by State Police Inspector Charles A. La Farge and New York city detectives Henry Strauss and James Neylon, found Rocco lying in a sleeping bag on the snow mountain slope. Moving up behind ridges to keep from being silhouetted in the moonlight, the officers hid behind trees.
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Canada Marks Dec. 31 As End of World War Ii
OTTAWA, Jan. T (U, P.).—The Canadian government announced today that, for official and legal purposes, Dec. 31, 1546, is to be regarded as the closing date of world war II. A government order-in-couneil revealed the decision as to the official date. ‘The order allowed veterans one year from Dec. 31, 1946, to apply for certain benefits which it had previously been agreed they would be entitled to seek until one year after the war's end.
and more revenue.”
taxes, we want to increase the takehome pay of thé workers and provide the incentive for business expansion, which will mean more jobs
In view of the Republican reaction to Mr. Truman's fiscal program, it is likely the President will veto at least two G. O. P. tax bills this year, One reduces personal taxes and the other immediately eliminates certain wartime increases in excise taxes on Juxury items. : Mr. Truman’s labor-management proposals—including compulsory arbitration for unjustified labor prac tices—were somewhat better received. But Republican spokesmen oy it Was no more Shan,
It was on issues of tagation and labor-management relations that the Democratic administration and the Republican congress were heading for their sharpest 1947 disagree ment. The G. O. P. shied away from Mr. Truman's aid-to-small-business program. This was done on the grounds government intervention on the scale indicated, including use of federal credit to promote new firms; woyld hamper free enterprise
Widespread opposition developed to the President's suggestion that selective service might have to be extended beyond the March 31 expiration date. But there was considerable Republican support for unification of the armed services and a willingness to consider wuni-1 versal (military) training on its merits. Congress apparently will give a
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Germany's Worst Cold
Wave Threatens Crisis
BERLIN, Jan. 7 (U. P.).—Germany’s worst cold wave in 18 years threatened a new occupation crisis today. a From all four zones came disturbing reports of critical coal shortages, industrial Shuidowns and school closings. The fourth straight day of zero or near zero weather found millions of shivering Germans huddled in bomb-damaged houses un-
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C. S. Woolworth,
3 & 10 King, Dies
One of Founders * Of Dime Store Chain SCRANTON. Pa., Jan.7 (U. P.).~— Charles Sumner Woolwarth, younger of the two New York farm brothers who built a country store bargain counter into a world-wide chain of 5-and-10-cent stores, died at his homie here today at the age
of 90. Woolworth died in the town where in the chain which in 1933 bodated 2495 units. Started in Watertown Frank W. and Charles S. Woolworth started in Watertown, N. Y. The dime store was born when they conceived the idea .of a five-cent ‘bargain table to get rid of slow moving stock. Frank W. died in 1919. Charles Woolworth was Poorary chairman of the board of’ the Woolworth chain, into which he had brought his own 15 stores in 1911, In recent years, Woolworth was famous for many grants and endowments to. schools and colleges. He held a trusteeship at Syracuse university, and 11 months ago gave $100,000 to the university, At the same time, he made gifts of $50,000 each to the Johnson Industrial school, Scranton, Keystone college at Laplume, Pa. and to the Gelsinger Memoria] hospital, Danville, Pa He is survived by two sons, Fred E. Woolworth, West Chester, Pa. and Richard W. Woolworth, Salem Center, N. Y., and a daughter, Mrs. Samuel Huber, Scranton.
Injured in Plunge Through Skylight An 18-year-old repairman was seriously injured in a 20~foot plunge through a theater skylight today. Raympnd - Cutshall, 3830 E, 11th st., broke an arm and an ankle and suffered possible internal in-
juries as he fell through a skylight at the Oriental theater, 1105 8S.
heated except for single rooms,
Meridian st., where he was working.
‘Douse That Butt, Bub—
How Does a Fireman Go About Sniffing
“Besides,” they pointed out,
Cigaret Smoke In Hotel Guest Rooms?
Fire Officials Doubt They Can Enforce New Ordinance Passed by City Council
The Indianapolis fire department today doubted it could enforce a new ordinance to prevent citizens smoking in bed. ‘Fire officials argued that there simply were not enough firemen on the rolls to make nightly downtown checks on hotel guests. “how would you go about the job,
R. C. (Bud) Dauss, council safety chairman, In other major action the council: : ONE: Withheld agtion for a sec~ ond time on two cab ordinances. One would increase the license fee from $36 to $100 and the other would increase the number of cabs operating in the city. TWO: Approved a letter demanding that the Citizens Gas & Coke utility answer seven questions regarding its operaton by Jan, 16. Action on the cab ordinances was delayed following a lengthy dispute over the number of taxis needed by the city. Mr. Dauss read a report to the council from 20 major cities showing that the majority of the cities had an unlimited number of cabs. The letter to the city owned utility asked:
ONE: What specific negotiations has the gas utility management made to obtain a supply of natural gas for Indianapolis? TWO: What is the cost of addi-
and appurtences purchased or being purchased since Sept. 9, 1935? :~ Does the gas utility ‘management intends to install additional or yeplacement Soke ovens
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Gen, Marshall asserted on the
Both Sides Suspicious Both side, he declared, are hopelessly suspicious of each other. Only China's as yet unorgdnized liberal groups can save the situation, he said. Gen, Marshall has been summoned home by President Truman after failure of his mission to bring China’s warring elements together in a representative, democratic government. He is expected to leave Nanking by plane tomorrow. His return will signal a complete review of this country’s Far Eastern. policies. In a long statement released by the state department here, Gen. Marshall said ostensible agreements. between Communists and Nationalists at a conference arranged by him a year ago could have put China on the road to 3niernal
.| peace.
Wrecked by Extremists
But Nationalist reactionaries and Communist extremists wrecked those agreements, he said. The “salvation of the situation,” Gen. Marshall said, would be assumption of leadership by liberals in the government (Kuomintang) and minority parties. “But dithough the liberals are a “splendid group of men,” they still “lack the political power to exercise a controling influence,” Gen, Marshall said. He expressed the hope that while China's constitution is being reorganized “the door will remain open for Communists or_ other groups to participate if they see fit to assume their share of responsibility for the future of China.” Gen. Marshall asserted that agreements reached at a political con-
tween China’s two warring parties were a liberal and a forward=lookihg charter “which then offered China a basis for peace and reconstruction.” “However, {irreconcilable groups within the Kuomintang party (the party of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek), interested in the preservation of their own feudal ‘control of China, evidently had no real intention of implementing them,” Gen, Marshall said.
Far ‘East Outlook ‘Bad’ American officials admitted on the eve of Gen. Marshall's return that the outlook in the Far East was “extremely bad.” Not only are the Nationalists and Communists farther from agreement than at any time in the last year, but Communist attacks on American policy are being supported in the Nationalist capital of Nanking by student demonstrations. Officials Here: would not say whether Gen. Marshall was coming home to stay. But significantly, none would predict he would return. Whether he retiirns probably will depend very much on Gen. Marshall ~—whether he thinks there is any use in returning,
MUST BE PRETTY COLD
ROME, Jan. 7 (U, Boh, 50 cold if Rome today that tore a new. com {rots 4 VemAS
and spread quickly to the postoffice anyway?” . and the ioe on elther side. ee ordinance, providing fines up| forgetful customers in Hie law Postmaster Bradley Garner said all|to $300, was passed last night by|lakes hold. The penalty Would mail was saved. city council. be uskeq except for persistent’ vio- . In taking ts action, however, the Hotel people said the law would . f council reasoned that if “only one hel t. down: damage %0 bed Times Index life could be saved the ordinance a 0 8 - would be worth while. y The council agreed that the Amusements. 8[Movies ...... 8|q onc Ordinance hong smujing In| smoking hazard may be reduced if Eddie Ash’... 18| Records ..... 15 downtown stares and Jed In ho-|the public is aware that there Boots ...... . 21] Obituaries... 9]: oops Eo Polmepitels- lis a law against smoking. Business .... 19|Dr. O'Briem-=x Tur gens sce how our dbnartamnt| The council shelved approval of Cartival .... 12|P. C. Othman 11] 00% S68 HOW Ou barunent purchase of $125,000 worth of fire Classified, 19-21|Radio ...... 23] Cn EE EO a or have on wih cauipment until monetary dif Comics ...... 23| Reflections .. 12| 1° Pamper of men we have on the culties, with Woodruff Place, “the EdMorials ... 12|Mrs. Roosevelt 16] 7° city within a city,” are cleared up. Paul Ellis .,, 10{Serial ....... 15| Representatives from downtown| my, mast side community refused Fashions .... 16|8Silly Notions, 11|9epartment stores and the Indian-|y, ,4y §11500 demanded by IndianMiss Fletcher 16|Spelling apolis safety council lauded ‘the|, nos for fire protection. For the Forum ..... +13] "Primer ...., 2z|™ecasure. past three years Woodruff Place, a Meta Given .. 17|Sports ...... . 18| They said the law gives them the |sepatate corporationin Indianapolis, Income Tax.. 14|Stranahan .,.18|backing they need to take steps on| has been paying $7500 a year. Indiana Saga 13|Teen Talk .. 17 their owns “Requests that Woodruff Place be In Indpls. ... 3|Washington.. *12| One department store representa- [charged enough to keep pace with Inside Indpls. 11| Weather Map 5|tive suggested a few employees in |the rising costs of the fire departRuth Millett. ‘11| Women's. 16-17|his hment could trot around /ment., have . been. ignored by the |’ Aline Mosby. 11!World Affairs 12/the safety board
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{Marshall Blames Extremists ) For Balking Peace in China
President's Envoy Lashes Both Sides in
Statement as He Returns to Make Report
. By R. H. SHACKFORD United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Jan. 7.—Gen. George C. Marshall in a blistering ities of both Chinese Nationalists and Communists declared toa to settle China's internal strife had been frustrated repeal “by extremist elements on both sides.”
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Call 1 Police Foils Robbery, 2 Seized
An alert Indianapolis couple nipped a safe-cracking early today by calling police when they saw two yeggs enter the Cook Coffee Co. office at 936 E. Georgia st. E Five squads closed in on the office just after midnight and nabbed the yeggs just as they were rolling up their sleeves to punch open the safe. A punch, a sledge hammer, screw drivers and other burglar tools were neatly laid out in ‘front of the safe when the squads moved in. Saw Pair Leave Car The couple who phoned the alarm were Mr. and Mrs. Carmen Burtzo! of 943 E. Georgia st. They saw the pair alight from a black sedan and sneak around to the side of the low brick building. The would-be safecrackers were James R. Derrett, 217, of 606 er st., veteran of 16 encoun with the police, and Dale Finch, 35, of 1869 Shelby st., with a record of 10 arrests. They were charged with vagrancy and held under $3000 bond each = i - -
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CHICAGO, Jan. 7 (U. PY aeronautics administration
Persons watching the ship as it came in for the landing described it as a “flaming meteor” careening along the field. Ground crews clad in asbestos suits rushed to the scene. But the flames consumed the ship despite their efforts. Airline ‘officials valued the plane at $450,000. Also destroyed was the passengers’ baggage, together with a consignment of mail. ¢ Betty Bell, Minneapolis, one of two stewardesses aboard, calmed passengers as the big plane skidded to a halt. “We've got to hurry, but we'll get
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WAA Acts on Bid For Fall Creek Plant
"Times Special CINCINNATI, O., Jan. 7.—Accept-
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to his credit.
operation at French hospital yesterday, aided by three other speclalists. At its conclusion, he indicated that it had been a complete success.
Hospital Director Harry Kiely later issued a bulletin saying that Mr. Ruth's condition was “good.” It said he would be ablé to sit up and to walk around within a few days, unless unexpected complications arise. Neither Dr. Wertheim nor other hospital officials revealed the exact nature of the Babe's illness. They said only that the operation relieved uncontrollable pain which the former 'home-run king had been suffering.
“The hospital bulletin said - that two arteries in the left side of
hospital last Nov. 26, it was thought his headaches were caused by sinus.
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Mr. Ruth's neck had been ligated, |;
But later diagnosis revealed that | a condition in his neck eut down |j
Babe Hits Another Homer; Neck Operation a Success
Unless Complications Arise, King of Swat Will Be Up in a Few Days, Get to Go Home
NEW YORK, Jan, 7 (U. P.)—Doctors said today that Babe Ruth, baseball's greatest power hitter, soon would have angther “home run”
They said that “the Babe” will be able to go home in two weeks if he continues his fast recovery from a serious neck operation. Dr. Hippolyte Wertheim performed the two-hour-and-10-minute]
to come through. The . hospital! switchboard reported today that no}
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the thousands who were deeply in|;
‘terested, only two callers were als lowed at Mr. Ruth's bedside—his wife and an ‘unidentified “close friend.”
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