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Italy, Romania - Sign Formal Peace Treaties
British Brigadier Killed Near Trieste
PARIS, Feb. 10 (U. P) Italy was officially at peace today 41 months after she surrendered to allied armies swarming across the Mediterranean from North Africa. The peace treaty formally putting anh end to the hostilities between Italy and the 20 nations that fought against her was signed at 5:30 a. m. (Indianapolis Time). With the signing, Italy became the first of the former axis partners to achieve peace. This afternoon the Romanian treaty was signed. Treaties the for
ending War
Bulgaria, Hungary and Finland were
to be signed still later today. Yugoslavia, Greece Object Yugoslavia signed the Italian treaty and surprised the diplomatic| world by accepting the terms of the
ever since the Big Four foreign min- | isters first announced the treaty provisions. Both Yugoslavia and Greece issyed statements criticizing the treaty for not meeting their full demands. However, . failure to sign the] treaty would have prevented the two countries from taking posses-
sion of the territory the treaty! forced Italy to cede them or from
obtaining reparations from Italy.
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57th 'YEAR—NUMBER 28
Isbell Quits Purdue To Coach Pro’ Te Team
5-Year Contract With Baltimore Club Accepted
Quits Boilermakers With ‘Deep Regrets’
BALTIMORE, Feb. 10 (U, P.).~— Robert Rodenberg, head of the new Baltimore club in the All-America conference, today signed Cecil Isbell of Purdue as_ head football coach for five years: Rodenberg said that he and Isbell would start out in a station wagon right away on a coast-to-coast scouting trip.
Terms Not Disclosed
Rodenberg, who sald that he was elated to get Isbell, did not disclose terms of ‘the contract “but it was good enough to take Isbell away from Purdue where he was very happy.” “We will leave in a few days in {the station wagon for California.” | he said. “we intend to contact
Dit in the country before we
lare through.”
and Isbell did not intend to attempt to land players for their team who still had courses to complete in | college.
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| Choice of Players
| Isbell said his resignation at Pur- | {due was submitted “with deepest | regrets,” but that he felt he owed it ~ to himself to accept a big opportun-
The five losers signed without an ity.
opportunity te protest the pacts
which stripped them of most of
their armed forces, imposed more|ths Green Bay Packers of the Na-| or less serious territorial losses, and 4iona] Football league, inherits a saddled them with crushing eco-
nomic burdéns for years to come. Rioting in Rome
Isbell, former Purdue halfback! and a great professional player with!
large array of talented players. | The Baltimore club, which suc-! {ceeds the defunct Miami Seahawks |
In Rome, Nowever, rioting flared in the new professional circuit, was | in protest against the treaty. A provided with pool of players from |
score of if oes were injured, hundreds of windows were broken in! also will have his choice of ihe ¢ C building, and an American flag and laurel ‘wreath |Seasom
the Yugoslav were ripped to shreds.
At the peak of the rioting, the
British army announced the assas-
sination of Brigz R. W. N. De Winton, commander of the British garrison at Pola, near Trieste. Pola the |
goes to Yugoslavia treaty.
under
Brig. De Winton was inspecting | his troops when a woman walked up to him, drew a revolver from and shot him. The woman was arrested immediately. The announcement did not identify her and gave no clue to the
her ! purse
motive.
The Rome rioters tried to march from the Yugoslav mission to the ~ They were blocke¢ by a cordon of heavily
Russian embassay.
armed police. “Silent Mourning”
The American flag was on a
wreath placed last week by U. 8,
the other teams in the league. Isbell players ¥ho were with Miami last
ak Bae + Excellent Record
Isbell, an exponent of the “T” formation, has been at Purdue since | the start of the 1943 season when | he left the pro ranks to become
|head coach, Elmer Burnham. Only 32 years old, he is one of the youngest of- the two big-time football coaches, but his record has been excellent. Except for last season when Purdue had a weak team which finished far down in the Big Nine race, the Boilermakers
succeeding
of the conference. Rodenberg and Jack Esty, general manager of the club, said they were elated to get the services oi Isbell, with whom they had been negotiating for more than a week.
ambassador James C. Dvnn on the Purdue Scans Field
tomb of Italy's unknown soldier. |
About 25000 Italians gathered in| the square before the tomb in|
“mourning” over the treaty.
Silent “mourning” for 10 minutes coupled with a nation-wide work! stoppage was held in all large cities
throughout Italy. All of the Big Four powers mus ratify the separates treaties indi
FORECAST :
Rodenberg emphasized that he i
have fared well both in and out!
. : Lu MONDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1947
Cold Breaks And Mercury Begins Climkr
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NEW JOB-—Cecil Isbell gives
| up Purdue football post to Iiomer complaints. Some homes! coach Baltimore professional ihave been almost without heat] team. ool ives Tuesday.
Dahlia Slayer’
Soldier's New Story Being Checked
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+ + . "warmer tomorrow." «The government weather bureau here today promised frozen Ifidianapolis a break in the void which has kept the city in an icy grip.
yesterday's high of 19 by noon When
continued climb, the forecasters said. | Meanwhile, however, Mrs. Flor-|
ence White, 55, of 765 Indiana ave, rear, heated room. thorities said she froze to death as she sat beside her unlighled stove.| °
Lake Sullivan brought a dislocated shoulder to Warren Dwyer, 20, of 1635 Fletcher ave., when he tripped iwhile skating.
Massachusetts ave., jured ankle when he slipped on ice in the 3300 block W. Vermont st. |
Coke Utility are working around the |
: clock to clear clogged mains in the| | : Garfield park area.
pany has been flooded with cus- |
Fair tonight and tomorrow with, increasing cloudiness late tomorTow;
Warmer Forecast Again Tomorrow LOCAL TEMPERATURES
Here's the best news in a week
The temperature today passed |
was 22. Tomorrow should see a
died yesterday in her un- | City hospital
Youth Injured While Skating
A week-end skating party on]
William Winkler, 39, of 351%
suffered an in-!
Employees of the Citizens Gas & |
Many Homes Chilly For the past few days the com-
The company said that there ol
plenty of gas for the city and that | industry will not be shut down. The | trouble is local and is the. result of | a “gum” forming in the mains and|
Tells Details a solvent now is being used to clear | t |
he passages, the company said. | While Indianapolis got the “go
'sign” for warmer weather, Florida could use some of the same. Many | a youngster in the “sunny” south | {saw
snow ‘for the first time yes-
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4 Nis At By } ’ Fh pe pe slowly rising -temperatures tomorrow. .
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‘TALL DANCE" —For: the first time since it was organized six years ago the Tall Girls club, Chicago, has welcomed all comers to a dance. Here is Photographer's Mate Joe Som- | mers, Great Lakes Naval Center who is 5 feet tall dancing with Kay Puppio. b feet | inch.
« PT, DIX, N, J, Feb, 10 (U. PI lverday
Joseph Dumais today “con | fessed” that, De. was. the. slayer o Elizabeth Short, the Los Angels
| Black Dahlia, and gave details |the mutilation and dissection of | torists father. and their 19-month-old son |
her body, army officials said.
of, the southern told wave, however, mn. ‘Cat Caught *1 Drift
Hoasierland would have traded for |
Near South Bend yelterday. #0- rg kept passing a mother,
Authorities telephoned details of {When the family car caught in a
his statement regarding the actual]
they had provided the Ft. Dix offi-
actual slayer could answer correctly. Used Meat Cleaver Dumais said that he was “responsible for the crime,” authorities said, and added that he used a meat cleaver to sever the pretty brunette's body after stabbing her in the back and cutting her face and mouth with a knife. He said he then washed the portions of the body of blood and left them in a vacant lot in Los Angeles, where Miss Short’s body was found on Jan. 15. Dumais said, according to Maj. C.|
‘For Isbell’s Successor
LAFAYETTE, Ind. Feb. 10 (U. {p.).—Athletic Director Guy (Red) | Mackey of Purdue university said] today it would be difficult to find a (replacement. for Cecil Isbell, head | football coach, Who ‘quit to become head” coach of the Baitimore Colts. “We have no particular candidate
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thirds of the U. 8. senate.
Lilienthal Faces Attack WASHINGTON, Feb. 10 (U. P.). —Senate Republican’ leaders are considering opening a full scale
attack on David E. Lilienthal's |
nomination to be chairman of the: federal atomic energy commission, it was learned today.
BILLION-DOLLAR SURPLUS WASHINGTON, ~The treasury today showed a $1,239,402,676 surplus for the 1947 fiscal year to date—the third successive day with a surplus of more than a billion.
GEORGIA COURT TO ACT: ’ ATLANTA, Feb. 10.—The Georgia supreme court will hear arguments either March 10, 11 or 12 on the state's governorship dispute, the clerk of the court announced today.
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Feb, 10 (U. P).!
For the United States|gaiq. ratification must be voted by two- (1. fad of av
mind to fill the post,” Mackey] “However; we will canvass| ailable coaches and. |
will name the best possible succes-i,u. in San Francisco either Jan.
gor as soon as possible.” Mackey
with the Colts. “1 hated to give up my position with Purdue,” Isbell was quoted as! saying. “But I couldn't pass up! that opportunity.”
Cotton at 1947 High;
Grains OF Fractions By UNITED PRESS ‘Cotton prices were at the highest] level. this year today, but grains | were. slightly below last week's -27year record. Cotton to be delivered in March sold in New York at a high of 33.38 cents a pélind. Coffee and hides, also brought higher prices in New| York.
Saturday's quotations in Midwest markets, with corn showing the least tendency to drop. Stock trading on the New York market was irregular and, after a busy first hour, dull.
U. S. Backs Reprieves
For Witnesses in Greece
LAKE SUCCESS, N. Y., Feb. 10 (U. P). ~The United States today urged the United Nations security council to give its Balkans investigating commission the power to seek stays of execution for doomed men possessing information about border trouble in the Balkans.
as the council met in emergency session to consider charges that the Balkans commission, by obtaining reprieves for! 11 Greeks con|demned to death, had _meddled In
s| Greek internal aflairs,
! 90 said Isbell telephoned him from Baltimore this morning|. estioned by officers in an effort and informed him that he signed |" establish Y nn
The American proposal was made |*
T. Morris, that he first stole an| automobile and a rope, then went | on a date with Miss Short, tied her |up, and stabbed her. i Discrepancies in Story But there were many discrepan- | cies in the 29-year-old soldier's! |story, which still were being | Ichecked. Earlier he had said he “pelieved” he might have killed Miss. Short. He said he had gone into a blackout” while on a date with
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whereabouts at the time of the actual slaying, presumably Jan. 13 to 15. Maj. | Morris said the man asserted he! saw the corporal on the Ft. Dix post | in that period. Eight other soldiers have volunteered similar information, he said.
Expect Marshall To Talk to Stalin
WASHINGTON, Feb. 10 (U. P.). |—Seécretary of State George C. Mar[shall is expected to meet personally
All grains were fractionally below it}, premier Josef Stalin during
the coming Moscow conference to survey unsolved issues in U. 8.-
{snoydrift. backfield coach. After a yeareat slaying and mutilation to Los An- Snyder and the child: are in’ a that post, he took over in 1944 as | geles police for checking. Los An- Mishawak: hospital today suffering geles police had said earlier that from exposure.
cials with questions which only the to a farmhouse for aid when motorists refused to help.
ture was varied.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert |
They walked a mile and a half
a Kenneth Romney, former sergeant- | Indiana industry continued to at-irms of the house of representasuffer the effects of the cold wave. tives, on charges of defrauding the If an anticipated additional 6300 |United States. The charges are in Ft. Dix Evansville workers are laid off to- |connection with a $125,563 shortage piss slumped to the floor. morrow because of gas shortages, |in accounts of the house bank. TET the total of Hoosier idle will reach 25,000. Last week 7000 Evansville counts. workers were sent home from work. | “knowingly and wilfully” a
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Grand Jury Charges Ex-Sereant-at-Arms
Romney was indicted on three Two alleged that
Over the nation the weather pic- amounts of cash on hand by rep-
The severe cold wave
(Continued on Page 5—Column 1) he would face a maximum jail term blackened ruins of a Berlin dance| my.ic group would rate each case lof 30 years and a maxinium fine of hall today seeking additional vic-| according to the part played in ruy.”
McNutt Expected To Resign March 15
WASHINGTON, Feb. 10 (U. P.).— Paul V. McNutt will resign as am-| bassador to the, Philippines republic|
about March 15, diplomatic quarters at-arms in 1931, when the Demo- .; wat jeqst 81” last night when la-!
predicted today. | The former Indiana governor, it was said, is awaiting only conclusion | lof a U. S.-Philippines treaty on military bases before submitting his!F resignation to President Truman.
MANILA, Feb. 10 10 (U. P.).—Cmdr. Julius C. Edelstein, USNR, infor-; mation director for the American embassy, denied today a Washington report that Ambassador Paul V. McNutt would resign in March.
was known, that Mr, McNutt planned to resign when he finishes] his job in the Philippines, but ‘that it “definitely would not be as early as March 15."
{resenting worthless which [other paper obligations as cash. brought snow to northern Florida The third accused him of eoncealtor the first time in 30 years and tied up transportation in the Ror
| {since 1890, disclosed the shortage. | Another police official said the!
checks and
ing the shortage which at one time. was as much as $143.963.
If convicted on all three counts,
$30,000. The cashier's office of the house sergeant-at-arms acts as a bank for house members. Romney, & Democratic appointee from Montana, was named screeani-
crats won control 6f the house from the Republicans. .=___ When the Republicans returned ito power last month, William H. Russell was appointed to succeed Romney. He refused to take over the office until audited. A general accounting office audit,’ the first in the office's accounts
Speaker Joseph W. Martin Ir,
turned the case over to the justice Carter Edelstein said it generally department for action.
Romney, who served as cashier in the sergeant-at-arms office for 13! years before being named to the top post, has made no public state- | ment.
Russian relations.
ference would provide an unusual), opportunity for Mr. Marshall to discuss Russia’s lend-lease bill and other “ticklish” topics with highranking Soviet authorities, including Mr. Stalin, As now scheduled, the foreign ministers of the United States, Britain, France and Russia will meet in Moscow, March 10 to begin negotiation of “the German add Austrian Peace treaties,
British Duke Dies LONDON, Feb.s10 (U. P). — A report from. Seaford, England, today, announced the death of the Duke of Manchester. peer married Helena Zimmerman of Cincinnati, O., in 1900. The marriage ended ty divorce in 1931. as ]
The 69-year-old |
ing a $140,000 Rembrandt the government at Dayton, at the Dayton art institue,
enemy act. “The announcement said the paintings had been stolen from a museum at Weimar, Ger-
many, in 1922 ¢ Mr. ‘Clark said alien property. in-
German ‘seamen who brought. them to New York in 1934, He sald a Dayton resideiit, who’ was not identified, purchased them from the seamen, knowing that they were stolen property. ’
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vestigators found that the paint-’ ings later had been sold to two
$140,000 Stolen Rembrandt Painting Seized by U. S.
Taken With Two Others From Museum in Germany, Found in Dayton
WASHINGTON, Feb. 10 (U. P.).—Attorney Sinead Diplomatic quarters said the con- Tom C, Clark announced today that three paintings, includ- | If-portrait, have been seized by | » ‘The paintings were on exhibit
The seizure was ordered under the trading with the
| Therefore, Mr. Clark sald, the Weimar museum still had full legal title and the paintings thus are considered alien property. |
Besides the Rembrandt, there was one by J. H. Tischbein, valued at $1200. The other, valued at $2000, was by Ter Borch. The justice department said later
up for sale as enemy property in about 60 days.
Amok on Train, Plea for Slashes Three
PHOENIX, Feb. crazed Filipino ran amok with a knife in the lounge car of the Southern Pacific's westbound Sunset Limited early today.
seriously.
by gunfire.
tion. Barangan, about 30, from a U. 5. marine hospital in Carville, La
129, also was taken to the hospital, | slashed in the abdomen.
'Mich., and Harvey Montgomery, 24, {Shafter Ca' also were injured. They, left for Los Angeles on a later train, however.
lacerations on the abdomen and right hip, Mr. Montgomer— on the right shoulder and right knee.
shoulder and right hip.
the Phoenix Union station about 2 a. m. the Filipino had terrified the Senator Milford passengers. They cowered in their, seats as he threatened first one and then another.
‘R. T. Quint,” Tucson, Ariz, and “only a dummy” Porter Judge Harris that he would ommendations er everybody if anyone left the special parole car, Mr. Quint sent a message that eventually will
{man Gus ‘Oviedo lcar from one end. Dtective Charles Heyser 4nd Patrolman | Clarence Meyers from the other.
uniformed men he drew an open {knife from his pocket.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 10 (U. P.)— began slashing right and left, infederal grand jury today indicted Juring the three persons.
{shoot because of the chance of | hitting a passenger. Then the two | detectives both fired end the Fili-
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Subdued by Guns Of Phoenix Police
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Budget editorial, Page 12
j By ROBERT BLOEM Governor Gates virtually slammed the dook of net ‘treasury today against demands from local gov for more funds. His More than half the state's already badly . |. budget is earmarked for return to local units. as it is, he ‘told the general assembly in his long-awaited budget 1 il Although he stuck to his plan . ‘one new taka Set per package
Senate Gets Bill: For Parole Td
New Three-Member Board Proposed
The senate today received a bill | which administration Suurges avy would become the nucleus for pio Wai Shel in. ie radical reform of Indiana’s parole Insténd, he recommended board d probation system. general assembly empower’ Before police ed the car at ne > He Sysiam. ativducd vod Te ax Anness (R. Meta- come, thus increasing the mora) and ip its present form income tax outlook: Presumably the would set up a three-member pa- new city or county income taxes role hoard separate from the pres- would be paid at the same. t ent clemency commissicn and from |the gross income tax and on ithe present state probation set-up. ! same form. x It was described, however, as a Governor Gates made no into which the rec-' recommendation for adding of the governor's gasoline tax, but. indicated study commission such an addition must will be written.
He slashed three passengers, one
The Filipino had to be subdued
He was taken to St. Monica's hosital, Phoenix, in a serious condi~ sage. He was believed to be Sosana |
Chief Petty Officer Jannings hon
Two Others Slashed Mrs. Goldie Hoffman, 61, Detroit,
promise ‘of recommending ‘ : money. for Hoosier school teh
Mrs. «Hoffman suffered minor
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Threaten Train Personnel Despite a ‘warning to Conductor |
TAD Was, sunning amok on the
the 10 deadling with its recommenda- |
tions, By. getting the Anness bill in on the. last . day . for. introduction of bills, parole reform spcnsors elim-| ° inated the principal mechani hazard in the way of their pe,
The moment the Pilipino saw the
He lunged at the passengers and
gram At its weekly meeting Saturday, | the study commission heard recom- | mendations of ‘three Indianapolis psychiatrists who proposed that an expert parole team be set up to study ‘parole aplications. Group of Four Sought mented: The recommendation -was made| “I agree with the governor’! by Dr. Vernon Hahn, Dr. Murray this is not a time to be hoard DeArmond and Dr. E Rogers taxpayers’ money and if his p Smith. | doesn't reduce the treasury Under their ecoiimendation, the [below a safe figure of say, 1 expert team would consist of 2 million, then it's a good pan, peychiatrist, a psychologist, a psy- Chief Concern = {chiatric social worker and a phy- | “My chief concern is that : siclan. legislature will not walk out of h land leave an embarrassed
At. first the officers feared to
: Hunt More Bodies In Berlin Fire
BERLIN. Feb. 10 (U. P.).—German workers shuffled through the,
tims of the flash fire that killed at!the original crime by environment, | The govetnor's message least 81 masquerading dancers Sat- intelligence ‘quotient, mental dav nizht.” : physical illness. dozens of urday nie | It was expected the study group iio pills now in the ways Paul Markgraft, Berlin police would have to meet at least one; cans committee and his pla | president, officially set the death toll! and possibly two more Saturdays to economy ) {hear proposals before drafting rec- Andrew to comment: {ommendations to- the ‘governor for “We'll probably Jost. hare to bun
its books were ing
that, the paintings. will be. sent to New York where they will be put
borers searching the embers of the Cafe Loebel called a halt until dawn. British public sdfety officers sald! an additional 10 persons known to have attended the dance were miss!
Eight of the dead were iio soldiers. The cafe was in the Brit ish zone of Berlin.
bodies were so horribly dismembered that the exact death toll might never be known, More than a hundred persons | were reported by hospitals to have {been treated for bums and other injuries. | An estimated 800 relatives at a masquerade were in the building| |when fire broke out at 11 p. m.| | Saturday, apparently started by an igi stove.
Urge Truman Veto Any ‘Rent Hike
WASHINGTON, Feb. 10 (U. PJ). | —President Truman was urged by! ltwo former government officials to- | day to warn congress now that he will veto any bill for an across-the-board increase in rent ceilings. The request was made by Tormer OPA Chief Leon Henderson and Ex-Housing Expediter Wilson W. Wyatt, now serving as co-chairmen of Americans for Democratic action. They said in a letter to Mr: Truman that he should make a nationwide radio address to oppose’ the “landlord's lobby” for a flat 15 per cent increase in ceilings. “The administration has a moral obligation to assime leadership in this fight,” they said, “we urge you to accept this challenge unequivo-
the parole and probation reform
Sure Court 0K’s Hatch Law
WASHINGTON, Feb. 10 (U. P). The supreme court today upheld the “clean politics” section of the | Hatch act which forbids federal em-
ployees to engage in politics. Justice Stanley F. Reed delivered the 4-to-3 decision. Justices Hugo
William O. Doyglas dissented. Justices Robert H. Jackson and Prank Murphy, both former attors neys-general, did not participate in the decision. ‘See No Obligation’ Mr. Justice Reed wrote in the majority opinion that if” the con-
from government workers “by prohibiting active participation in politics as party officers or workers, we see no constitutional objec~ tion.” In a dissenting opinion Mr. Justice Black said the result of the court's ruling is that “all these millions of citizens” employed by federal and
really effective part in campaigns
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gress and the president judged that} ‘/efficlency may best "be obtained
state governments “can. take mno|
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their lives, their fortunes, and| their happiness” merely because! they are Ponta ou ot ih” publ] 4 treasury.” Twelve tedera emplrees und the United Federal Workers of fca (C. I, O