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Bill Asks End
Of Rent Control
Senator Serves Notice On State Lawmakers . WASHINGTON, Feb. 5 (U. 'P),
=Three Republican senators today
Introduced legislation that would
kill OPA and end federal rent con- | trol on April 30. | introduced :
The measure ' was Jointly by veteran G. O. P. Senator Kenneth 8S. Wherry (Neb) and freshmen Senators John J. .Williams (R. Del.) and Arthur V. Wat-
* kins (R. Utah).
Mr. Wherry, who is senate Republican whip, told a reporter such a bill would “serve notice on state legislators” now in session that they would have to pass special rent control statutes if they want to
* maintain rent ceilings.
The senate banking subcommittee which will write rent legislation is divided 3 to 2 along party lines in favor of a flat increase in rents. The subcommittee would continue controls for a period yet to be determined. Senator Homer E. Capehart (R. Ind), a member of the banking . “one of turn the task of controlling rents over to the states.
Benator Capehart suggested that|track. states might be in a better position | to do the job than a federal agency spewed against the windows where
working from Washington.
‘Spending Money’ Must Pay Fine
A 22-year-old youth today had the spending money he gets from
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ROSE QUEEN CANDIDATES — One of these Butler university freshman coeds
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will reign as Rose Queen at the annual freshman Rose dance Friday at the university. Awaiting the deciding vote of freshman men, students are (left to right) Evelyn Ensinger, 801 N. Campbell st., Delta Gamma; Margery Cunningham, 1152 Dawson st., Zeta Tau Alpha; Peggy Harrison, Matoon, Ill, Pi Beta Phi: Barbara Moore, 4303 N. Capitol ave., Kappa Alpha Theta; Patricia Welch, 4545 Central ave., unorganized; Anna Bowyer, 2702 Allen ave., Trianon; Barbara Boyer, 958 Parker ave., Alpha Chi Omega; ppa Kappa Gamma, and Carolyn Johnson, 5128 E.
4 Die, 64 Hurt as Train Strikes Oil-Laden Truck
' Southern Pacific Streamliner Carrying 263 Passengers Is Enveloped in Flames
KINGSBURY, Cal, Feb. 5 (U. P.).—Fire-blackened cars of the Southern Pacific's proud orafge and red streamliner “San Joaquin Daylight” were hauled today from the scene of a& collision with an oil-
| laden truck. The crash caused four deaths smd injuries to 64 other
persons. . Seared foliage, charred: railroad
{up the traller of a Stal yesterday afd dragged
As the train stopped, jets of flame
263 passengers looked out in horror. Among them, but unharmed, iwas Amos Alonzo Stagg, patriarch of American football coaches. He was on his way from Los Angeles to Stockton. Stagg Is Unhurt
Mr. Stagg, the grand old man of {football, was returning to Stockton,
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it down, ‘thie,
ties and scattered bits of burned
Capone's Grave To Get No Stone
Former Gang Pals Attend Last Rites
CHICAGO, Feb. 6 (U. P). eo Frientls said there probably would be no separate stone monument to distinguish the grave of Scarface Al Capone, one-time lord of the underworld A Bh
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Truce Possible | Personalities Key
+ To AFL-CIO Peace
§ WASHINGTON, Feb. 5 (U. P.).— {Chances appeared about*even today | that C. I. O. President Philip Mur-
his father reduced for 37 weeks by where he recently resigned as head |" 80d President John L. Lewis of
court order. .
jcoach of College of the Pacific. Al-
{the United Mine Workers (A. PF.
The youth, Curt H. Hagemier, though he was unharmed, eigiit:of L), will call an early truce in
$220 N. Pennsylvania st., was found guilty by Judge Joseph M. Howard of municipal court 3 on four traffic charges, including a hit-run count. Fined a total of $37, the youth was ordered to pay at the rate of $1 a week from his money. : The Butler university student was stopped hy: Sgt. Frank A. Mueller a week ago after a long chase through West side streets. The police sergeant, firing several shots from his gun, finally brought the fleeing car to a halt. The youth is alleged to ‘have struck a taxicab earlier at Capitol ave. and Michigan st.
Michigan Communists
Face Investigation
LANSING, Mich., Feb. 5 (U. P). Governor Kim Sigler said today he intended to “investigate Com-
* munist and subversive activities in
every phase of Michigan life.” The announcement resulted from & state inquiry into activities of the American Youth for Democracy, accused of being a Communist front organization, on the Michigan State college campus here,
Army Enlistments Show Drop in January
WASHINGTON, Feb, 5 (U. P.). «Army enlistments dropped from 9210 in the second week of January to 8647 in the third week, the recrufiing service said today. Enlistments still meet, replacement requirements. The generally high level of recruiting is expected to have a! sirong effect on the army's recom- | mendations to congress on whether | the draft act should be extended. | It expires March 31. |
Times Index
\ | Amusem’ts 16-17 Charles Lucey 4
Eddie Ash .,, 8 Ruth Millett . 11 Boots ....... 20!Movies ....16-17 Business .... 7|Obituaries ... 10 - Classified ..18-20| Dr. O'Brien . 21| Comics ...... 21|F. C. Othman 11 | Crossword ,.. 20 {Radio ....... 21 Editorials ,,. 12|Reflections .. 12] Fashions .,.. 15|8cherrer . 12] Forum .,,,,, 12 Silly Notions. 11 Gardening . 13 Serial ....,.. 13| Meta ‘Given . 14 Spelling Bee. 21 Burton Heath 7 Sports ...... 8-9 Hollywood ... 11/State Deaths. 3 Home Page .. 6|Stranahan 8 In Indpls. ... 3 Washington . 12
‘Inside Indpls. 11| Weather Map 17
Doug. Larsen. 7 Wom. News: 14-15 Leg. Calendar 15 World Affairs 12|
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{members of the I14-player San {Francisco Shamrocks hockey team !were hospitalized.
Dr. R. W. Binkley, Selma, said
|two were burned so critically they |
{might never play hockey again. The
night was canceled. { Among the injured hockey players | was George Defelice, formerly with the Indianapolis Capitals of the American league. The explosion and swirling inferno of ignited oil killed George
! the engineer;
| Scheneckenberger,
Ernest M. Comer, the fireman, both |
of Bakersfield, Cal.; Mrs. Sara E. Badgley, an aged passenger from Dunsmuir, Cal, and Miss Kay Hansen, Pasadena, Cal, who died early today of burns. Mr, Schneckenberger apparently threw on the locomotive’s brakes be- | fore he died. If he hadn’t, officials said, the | fiery train might have continued for {miles across the plain—with other |trainmen unable to reach the cab | because of the flames. A steam loco[motive has no “dead man’s throttle” | to halt it automatically. Leap in Panic The driver of the truck, Philip Lee Mayer, 21, Fresno, Cal. escaped injury, | Early today, 46 people still were in San Joaquin valley hospitals, (mostly suffering from minor burns. Passengers said flames licked up [the sides of the coaches. Oil stuck
{in window crevices blazed in haloes |
{around the glass panes. Passengers leaped up in a panic in the combination coach-baggagge car, two diners, a club car, a parlor car and eight coaches; Many broke windows and the fire raced inside, searing passengers, upholstery and (luggage. The bodies of the dead were burned crisp.
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their long personal feud and begin (work for C. I. O.-A. F. of L. amalgamation, ¥ - Mr. Murray -and Mr. Lewis, according to their associates, have not
spending | shamrocks' game with Fresno last Spoken to each other since 1941.
| That was when Mr. Lewis expelled | Mr, Murray as vice president and | his chief lieutenant in the U. M. W. | The expulsion followed Mr. Murray's {refusal to join Mr. Lewis in walking out of the C. I. O. Their principal meeting since, if not their-only one, occurred at the 1945 national labor-management conference. Mr.. Lewis and Mr. Murray squared off in several bitter debates in open and closed ses-
remarks through the chair and only indirectly to each other. The A. F. of L. now has invited Mr. Murray to name a five-man C. I. O. committee to discuss mierger of the two rival organizations. Informed sources believe Mr. Murray may go along. A. F. of L. President William Green already has named Mr. Lewis to the A. P. of L. merger committee. :
Hoosier Farmers Given Bad Checks
Times State Service
| WABASH, Ind. Feb. 5.—Operajoer of three livestock sales barns jm Wabash county today prepared {legal action against a Bucyrus, O., buyer who “blew up” last week, {leaving them holding $60,000 in {checks believed worthless. The man, who operated a $200,000 a week business in Indiana, Ohio and Michigan, was believed to have fled to Canada. | C. W. Speicher of La Fountain, lone of the sales barn operators, said a lawyer had been engaged to institute bankruptcy proceedings against the buyer. Mr. Speicher pointed out that all three of the sales firms are bonded and that farmers whose cattle they sold to the Bucyrus man would not lose in the transaction. Mr. Speicher said that last week |agents for the Bucyrus buyer took
for sale. This week checks started coming back markéd “insufficient funds.” - Ah investigator was told the unnamed buyer had left the Ohio city, Si :
" Lo EN Se |. His grave’ in Mt. Olivet
was marked today "only by "ugly tracks in the show and a handful
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In Indianapolis
Another Bill Allows
| - ‘Outside’ Police Chief ™
_!sold to the Food Machinery Corp. of San Jose, Cal, for a cash purchase
More legislative news, Page 3; Calendar, Page 15. |
A bill to create a second criminal courtroom in Indianapolis was in-' troduced in the house today to break the Marion county court bottleneck. A second bill to be introduced either today or tomorrow would give | the mayor of Indianapolis the power | to appoint a chief of police from {outside of the police department.
B. Huff (R. Indianapolis). {
noon session today and was to reconvene at 2 p. m. to complete its | regular order of business.
Would Create 2 Divisions The criminal court bill was introduced by Rep. Wilbur H. Grant! (R. Indianapolis) and Rep. Edwin| Haerle (R. Indianapolis). It would create two divisions in the present | criminal court with a judge for each. The division would take effect after the election of 1950 and | Jo of the judges would serve four- ! year terms. i The measure carries the indorsement of both the Indiana and the Indianapolis Bar associations. Another municipal reorganization bill was introduced by Rep. Huff and Rep. Haerle would abolish boards of public works and sanitation. The measure would substitute a separate board to control departments of sanitation and a separate board to control the public’ works depart-
representatives from most industrial counties of thé state jamified the
Fall Creek Plant Court Sought Sold for $861,000
California Company Purchases Facilities And Will Manufacture Pumps Here
Sale of the Fall Creek ordnance plant and of the aircraft test
installation at Speedway City was The Fall Creek ordnance plant,
price of $861,000. The plant was originally constructed by the government for war work at a cost of $2,198,659. The final awarding of the ordnance plant followed several
months -of negotiations. Wm. H.| Block Co. and Stokely Foods, *nc.,|
also had bids in for the plant. Block’s bid was for $651,000 and Stokely offered $458,000. Stokely had also offered to lease at $90,000
Author of this bill is Rep. George a year for three years; with option the
to buy at $1,250,000.
The house called its first after-| WAA said its decision to sell to feet of floor space and 10 acres of |Food Machinery was that the new ground. No machinery or equip-
factory here would increase employment, while the other two firms wanted the plant primarily as a warehouse. The Food,sMachinery Corp. will convert the ordnance plant to the manufacture of pumps, through its
Discuss Screening Of Feehle-Minded
Conference Called By Gates Today The possibilities of screening out
juvenile inmates of Indiana institutions for the feeble-minded and re-
ernor Gates’ office today.
The governor became interested after an article—published in The
ion officials in Washington today.
storing them to their families were to be discussed at a meeting in Gov{tall af. the. nation’s -15 million
announced by war assets adminis-
21st st. and Northwestern ave. was
| | Peerless Pump division, A peak employment of 1075 persons to {manufacture deep ‘wells, centrifugal /sewage, jet and household pres|sure pumps is expected. Production is expected to start as soon as conversion is completed. {The pump products are critically {needed for housing projects, particularly in rural areas of the south |and southwest. The cash purchase price included plant's two major and seven {minor buildings with 305,000 square
{ment was included in the sale, WAA {officials said. | The aircraft engines test cell in- | stallation at Speedway City was sold
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‘Never Will Sign For Closed Shop, ‘Says G. M. Head
a ins. WASHINGTON, Feb, 5 (U. P).— Charles E. Wilson, president of General Motors Corp.; charged today that union membership would be put above American citizenship if the closed shop principle is extended
unionized workers. - -
In a blistering attack on
the
of frozen gardenias.
Eleven gravediggers with snow-
Times last Saturday—discioséd a new closed: shop, he told the senate “method” of teaching feeble-minded committee that he never would sign children. ‘The method had been a closed shop contract.
galleries of two housés this morning. They were scheduled to
labor
sions but always addressed their
{nearly every meat animal offered.
crusted overshoes, baggy coats and ear-flapped cape trudged over the hard ground yesterday. They laid Capone’s coffin in its final resting place. There was less ceremony than that given any two-bit gangster in Capone’s hey-dey. No Long Procession _There were no politician-pall-bearers in high silk hats and swal-
Eleven automobiles filled with Capone’s former lieutenants—now all top men in the infamous, bigmoney vice syndicate he founded— arrived singly. They waited for a hearse to bring Capone’s body from a temporary vault to a small tent erected at the grave side. As the hearse doors opened, none of the former lieutenants stepped forward. There was no movement from the
(Continued on Page 5—Column 6) U. S. Ready to Carry Portal Pay to High Court
DETROIT, Feb. § (U.. P.,).—Assistant Attorney General John F. | Sonnett said today he had the per=
carry the portal pay test case to the | { U. 8. supreme ‘court “whatever the outcome.” Mr. Sonnett has petitioned Federal Judge Frank Picard to let. the government enter the Mt. Clem-| lens, Mich, pottery workers case as| a “proper party,” giving it equal] rank with the plaintiff and feted ant.
He agreed with Mr, Sonnett that the case should be appealed to the supreme court,
low-tailed coats; no mile long fu- | neral procession. |
mission of President Truman to]
lice and publisher of the Wall
Judge Picard said he was “In-| clined to let the government in|
come down floor following the sessions and buttonhole their local representatives and senators
developed . by Dr.
and draw their attention to labor legislation. In the senate brief memorial services were held for Senator Charles R. Morris (D. Salem) who died at his home yesterday.
Three Improvements Senators Hoyt Moore of Indianapolis and Charles F, Fleming of Hammond were delegated to represent the senate at Mr. Morris’ fu-| neral tomorrow. | A Republican policy bill to liberal- | ize workmen's compensation was in- | troduced in the lower house by| Floor” Leader George Henley (R. Bloomington). The measure would provide three | “improvements” over the present |
law: | ONE: Increase the number of | days of medical service to an injured workman from 120 to 180 Idays. . TWO: Step up funeral benefits | from a maximum of $165 to a posisible: $300, > { | THREE: Enable injured workmen’ to collect benefits for disability in| addition to medical benefits. Under | the—present—act;,-time—spent—in—a-i f (Continued on Page §5—Column 5) |
Hogate's Condition
Remains Critical
PALM SPRINGS, Cal, Feb. 5 (U, P.).—Kenneth' G. Hogate, 49, president of Dow-Jones news serve
Street Journal, remained in a critical condition today from a cerebral hemorrhage. Mr. Hogate, a native of Danville, Ind.,, was vacationing here with his wife when he suffered a stroke last Thursday.
Patsy Ruth to Get Pri
LOS ANGELES, Feb, 5.—Sixteen | today to give up her high school seeing-eye dog.
that meant giving up the social life The city board of education German shepherd to’ school any more. It promised instead to send a tutor to her trailer home.
“It'll be lonely staying home all alone,” Patsy said. “But I can’t give up Lucky, ever.” “All IT want to do now is get through my next thrée semesters of high school ‘in a hurry so I can go to junior college. They let you take dogs to classes there.” [. Superintendent” Vierling Kersey ‘assured her she could whiz through her studies as fast as she was able. Maybe her quick mind and ready | memory would master the remain | ing courses under drive, irs
Blind Girl Gives Up Classes To Keep Seeing-Eye Dog
Hurry Through to Junior College
By PATRICIA CLARY, United Press Staff Correspondent
The blind girl said she couldn't part with her dog Lueky, even if)
vafe Lessons,
-year-old Patsy Ruth Fergus decided friends and classes to keep her
she craved.
said. Patsy's classmates at Alexander Hamilton high school petted and pampered Lucky. The dog took Patsy to movies and stayed by her side on street cars and busses, “She never even barked in classes,” Patsy said. “I can't understand how they could think she was dangerous.” Patsy’s school friends didn't think Lucky was dangerous either They petitioned the board of education to make an exception to its rule |
could not.
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tion last night went on record in sald she couldn't take the white opposition to the Waco school’s, Invitation to the President. tion even faster than in class, he| The district convention confirmed (the stand taken last year by the state general convention. cised President Truman for his attitude gambling.
institution did not withdraw its invitation. The Phlesident eased the situation following the convention stand last year by announcing he would not accept any more honor. ary degrees.
cently - he would stop at c against dogs. The board said it|March 6, to pick up the degree,
Tue Prous 4a Bop,
Teachers college Haute, Dr. Schmidt and members of the Indiana State Mental Hygiene council were invited to attend the meeting by Governor. Gates. ‘Common Sense Method’
The Schmidt plan -evolves about a “common sense method” of teaching the feeble-minded how to do things for ‘themselves. It eventually restores them to useful places in
faculty,
society rather than having them ‘éPeal of the Wagner labor relations while Ft. Wayne and
committed ta institutions for the rest of their lives. Hundreds of children are permanent inmates ip institutions. Dr. Schmidt believes that a screening out and subsequent teaching un-
{der her system—which has attracted!
international attention—can bring, many of these children back to their families.
Read Story in Times Dr. Schmidt conducted experi-
ments at Northwestern university!
while working for her doctor's degree. The intelligence quotients of 254 children, who ordinarily would have been sent to institutions; were raised -to-a-level-where-all-are now living normal lives. The possibility of installing Dr. Schmidt's system into the proposed new mental screening hospital to be erected at the I. U. medical center was advanced by Governor Gates after reading The Times’ story. A bill to provide for special teaching of feeble-minded children in Indiana public schools is soon to introduced in the legislature. It is expected to be approved as a Republican policy measure. At present, there is no teaching of the feeble-minded in the public schools. Some teaching programs are in force in mental institutions.
Group Opposes Truman Degree
‘VICTORIA, Tex., Feb. 5 (U. P.)
~Disapproval by Texas Baptists of} a Baylor university decision to confer an honorary degree on President Truman continued to be heard today.
District 4 of the Baptist conven-
It crititoward drinking and
Despite the ' protésts, the Baptist
But Mr. Truman announced reWaco,
Bernardine Schmidt = of the Indiana State he sald, ““they’re going Terre farmer out of me.”
be| sonal and business ambitions.” | The principal witness, however, | was not “entirely above criticism!
“When it getés around to that” to make a
His testimony highlighted twin congressional hearings on antistrike legislation. The house labor committee, mean. while, heard Rep. Clare E. Hoffman (R. Mich.) charge that unchecked {labor strife ultimately would lead the nation to “civil war” and “fi-
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plunged to the season's low of 2 above zero at 5 a. m.
The mercury was to hover around 12 degrees there was the possibility *
nancial ruin.” ° | Rep. Hoffman, long a critic of {New Deal labor legislation, proposed
jact and substitution of a measure |that would “be fair to both sides.”
Call Primary
Teapot Tempest
The senate committee . investigating charges that employees of the state auditor's office were being used to promote a direct primary bill today termed the whole affair “a tempest in a teapot.” The committee divided its eriticism almost impartially between Auditor A. V. Burch, against ‘whom the charge was made, and Mrs. Claire Henricy, who brought the story to light. The report of the committee pointed out that it did not condone “the indiscretions of 4 high {elected official in pursuit of per-
since she had other recourse than that employed by her,” the committee’s report said. The committee criticized Mrs. Henricy primarily for answering the questions of a newspaper reporter. Her answers to reporters of The Times revealed that she was “under orders” to boost the direct primary to farmers who applied at her desk in the auditor's office for gasoline tax refunds.
- Russia Drops Arms Plan For French Compromise NEW YORK, Feb. 5 (U. P).— Russia dropped its own disarmament procedure proposals today in
Fight
lis in their grip ) straight day. It was zero at Marion |ported lows of 2. Evansville res corded a low of 8. ie
(of the state as gas cor Increased’
for domestic
terday. : Ta As the cold wave co. tinued fo {lash - the Midwest, a Hoosier died
a passenger in Mr. Martin's car, was critically injured. One : on the bus was injured. Warmer weather promised for t6morrow may be short lived. The
regional forecaster at ( 4 a new mass of cold air is form
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Los Angeles Sets Record With 86
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LOS ANGELES, Feb. 5 (U. P.):
favor of a French plan which came closer to satisfying the United’ States. 5 Thus Russia for the first time’ indicated its willingness to compre mise as six United Nations security council delegates met behind closed | doors. »
Andrei Bromyko of Russia, it was,
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learned, promptly moved that the!