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Arab states, He told the they seemed to be as (far

fs ever.

with the Jews and Arabs mit partition of Palestine, An official government

pected. Final Meeting Friday

the held Friday. Colonial Secretary Arthur

Palestine conference

that time.

Jected the British partition Mr. Bevin said that the

not to outrage’ disturb political relations

parts of the world.” He said"the Labor party

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LESS OF AGE ONDITION

The hanging of Dov Gru

at least for

behalf to the London privy M. Kirtzman, counsel for

in due course, it was learne The technicalities such prospective procedure

execution for months. Gruner was sentenced to

lice station.

LOS ANGELES, Feb. 12

$1000 he had just withdra a bank, Paul Rubins saw

faster. to run. ‘So did the man. Mr.

called police. cers roared up.

$1000. Rubins’ pocket.

the station.

ATHENS, Feb. 12 (U. P.

said that a band of 300 attacked the town of Const

and others,

Times Index

Amusements,

+ Eddie Ash ..'10 Movies ...... 18) 0 oon rg ‘| house on the night of April 30, 1865, ~ Boots. ....... 23 | Obituaries 6 f AMG land made the -death mask while mask for Classified. 21-23 Dr. O'Brien . 15 ICES 0 Lincoln’s body lay in state. of Lista, he Comics ...... 24|J. E. O'Brien 11 : Emanci- | 8raphe or Mr. Crossword ... 23|F. C. Othman 13| TRIESTE, Feb. 12 (U. P).~—An Se Loa of the Great in Indi-|three years ago, is “under lock and Editorials ... 14, Radlo ....... 24|attack on allied military govern- |gnanolis en .route to burial in key™ in the Indiana room of ‘the Forum. .../.. 14| Reflections “.. 14|ment headquarters at. Comeno by a Springfield, Til. ® |state library, Mr. Scherrer said to-| Gardening .. 19| Mrs. Roosevelt 17|pband armed with machine guns and v Reed. 5 { Enos Reed {day. i ; Meta Given . 17|Serial ....... 12|hand grenades was disclosed today| YOUnB Teed, son 0 '| “The death mask now in the state a Homemaking. 17|8ide Glances. 14|by amy authorities . (Who published a local weekly called youse may be a plaster cast of the| Home Page 8! Spelling Bee. 24 A civil policeman was killed and “The People,” and nephew of B. K.'one Reed is said to have made that trial shutdown Indiana News 4! Sports ....10-11 another was wounded in the fight- Foster, then state librarian, may night,” Mr. Scherrer added. In Indpls. ... 3&{Stranahan .. 10{ing, touched off by the onslaught have had access to the state house | Harold F. Brigham, state librari-|216 Inside Indpls. 13| Washington . 14 against the allied headquarters just keys. At that time the keys were an, commenting on the 'egend, said off, Labor ....... 9 Weather Map 2Z|north of Trieste Monday. |in the librarian's custody, accord- today, “It's a good story, but 50, 1 Legislative Women's ..16-17| The attack was the second on ing to Mr. Scherrer’s story. |far we've been unable to get ii { . "Calendar... 4 AMG headquarters. ©" | Reed may have used his deathitive verification” * '

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| Bevin Admits Britain Can't

| No Further Proposals, Arab Leaders Told

'. LONDON, Feb. 12 (U. P.). = Foreign Secretary Ernest | The 59-year-old actor had been! Bevin today admitted the|ill for three years. But he con-|

ence to settle the Palestine tense he hardly could walk. He said that Brit-|

the whole issue to the United Na- (ho vole of the suave Chinese de- |

. Mr. Bevin made the statement Warner Oland, a Swede. at a meeting with delegates of the |than Mr. Oland, he was like him solution of the Palestine problem made 25 Chan pictures. Mr. Bevin's statement appare

British to achieve a compromise

man said that no new British pro- | posals on Palestine were to be ex-

A final—but routine—meeting of and went on the stage at the age of Mr. Bevin

Jones will give the Arab states the | British views on future action at

Both the Arabs and the Jews re-

ment had sought a middle course of action. He t.was designed b opirion or

Middle East and also “to take ac-| count of public feeling in other!

posed the government white paper | of 1939 because it felt that the white | paper restrictions could not be en- chusetts ave, was decapitated and | forced indefinitely by British troops. | gied instantly at 9 a. m. today when |

Terrorist's Appeal To Delay Hanging

believed today to have been blocked {ck was demolished. several months

received a letter from High” Com-!drove onto the tracks. The locomomissioner Alan Cunningham saying ftive was backing up with a string! an appeal to the privy council had of five cars. been accepted and would be heard| The engineer in charge. of the involved

garded as. certain to delay the house on the younger man's prop-

participation in an attack on a po-

Drops $1000, Runs From Honest Frien

=Returning to his cafe today with

following him. He walked a little So did the man, He started

Rubins reached his cafe, turned on the burglar alarm and Four squads of offi-

The man handed Mr. Rubins his It- had dropped -out of Mr. Mr. Rubins gave the man, identified only a8 George, a $60 reward. Police went back to

GREEK FIGHTING FLARES army reports from Salonica today antia late

last night, killing 25 men, women children and wounding 30 selective

18 Ruth Millett. 13

FORECAST: ‘Mostly cloudy tonight with lowest temperature about 30; tomoirow cloudy and warmer.

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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1947

ndon Parley On

Sidney Toler Famed For Chinese Role

HOLLYWOOD, Feb. 12 (U. P). —Sidney Toler, “Charlie Chan” to! {millions of moviegoers, died at his! home early today. He had been | bedridden: for several months with! | intestinal cancer.

‘tinued acting until six months ago

onfer- | o, though his pain was so in-|

His wife said he never knew the nature of his illness.

submit ! | Mr. Toler, a Scotsman, assumed

|tective in 1938 after the death of | Taller| m that {in that he needed little makeup to from a|bring out Chinese features. He; !

“Once I started, no one could

ago.

| Mr. Toler, whose first wife Vivian,

to per-

‘Mrs. Viva Toler, 34.

spokes-

|G. Toler, famous Kansas breeder!

|of trotting horses. He was reared on a stock farm near Wichita, Kas. will be 13 in Kansas City's Ninth

and theater's “The Master Man.” Creech !

st.

; | STRICKEN AT 59—Sidney ntly imagine me doing anything but| Toler, who played the title role marked an end to the efforts of the Charlie Chan,” he said a few years) jn 25 "Charlie Chan" pictures

| died today in Hollywood,

ito Hollywood in 1929, He played

‘Charlie Chan,’ Film Indiana Offers Detective, Is Dead

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| Hoosiers paused

§ birth to Abraham

near the Ohio river.

| coin.

lorial services. Special School

cial convocation

{ernment position

Train Hits Truck,

| Do Fairy Story

At ‘Winchester,

== Riler Is Killed Endings Cause : nN try's chief bulwark vwr.io VIM], \Broken Homes? | ie Sue ma 0 a Didi’ Hear Warning = ss —————— am

Bell, Says Driver

had op-| (Photos, Page 2)

| the truck in which he was riding

engine at the Olney st. crossing. He was thrown out of the truck] | cab by the force of the impact.

ner Was/escaped uninjured although the Jjev

by | council. |

| He explained that he didn't hear Gruner, the crossing signal bell ringing and

d. | switch engine was Leo Cannaughin ton, 267 Iowa st. were re-| Mr. Sloan lived alone in a small lerty. He made the trip this morning

“just for the ride,” Mr. Hill said. |

Destroying Draft

hang for

(U.P).

Cards Is Crime

{be WASHINGTON, Feb. 12 (U. P.).!chi —Selective service headquarters |

wn from a man

ment and $10,000 fine.

scription proposals, Reiterating a statement of days ago, selective serviee said the| law ‘also requires all persons| registered under the draft act to carry their registration and classification cards at all times, The maximum penalty for violation of this requirement is the same as for destruction of cards. The service act, it was pointed out, remains in force until Maral (31.

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{| LOS ANGELES, Feb. 12 (U. P).! | —A noted psychiatrist said today that movies and romantic fiction ite stands in his senate votes on near death in City hospital today TT stressing the “lived happily ever (nh, following issdes: after” theme have done more to|

Frank Sloan, 73, of 4975 Massa- Sal unhappy marriages than any- ‘the federal budget offered by Presi- | thin.

g else.

Dr. Frieda Fromm-Reichmann of | { Rockville, Md., and New York City, for everyone. i 0 explained to the annual clinical! THREE: A 25 per cent reduc- | was struck by a Belt railroad switch assembly on obstetrics and gyne- tion in federal personnel. h : FOUR: A clear | Movies and stories that end with [compensable work to end portal- | a closeup of a happy just-married [to-portal pay strife. ; yeRUS Feo 12 0. P) Raleigh B. Hill, 56, of 4975 Massa- |couple give false education, which | > . ALEM, Feb. (U. P).—|chusetts ave. driver of the truck, |

cology:

{the first minute, when actually | State Auditor {there are many difficult ments to be made. everything else being a good marriage partner takes! gend. training and adaptation. |

Dutch People Hope To Get a Prince

‘THE HAGUE, Feb. 12 (U. P.).—| Princess Juliana is expecting her Great Britain was repor | fourth child and the Dutch nation!to have launched a desert intrigue | Rain Warmer wonders if the arrival will be a boy{in-the Middle East. ! . —the first in two generations of to create a “greater Syria” under {the ruling family, Her three children are girls, and which would guarantee Britain's | he Dutch people are speculating as superiority in the strategic, oi

1d.

Prince Bernhar warned again today that wilfull! Juliana were asked recently whethe destruction of draft cards is a crime they would prefer a boy or a gir punishable by five years’ imprison- and the prince replied that “whether| Britain also is la boy or a girl, it will be received sources say, to im The selective service statements hy us with the same enjoyment.” were prompted by reports that)" If the child is a boy,.he wou raft card-burning demonstrations become the heir presuinptive to the Egyptian ave been planned in various places throne, replacing the present eld-|ish mastery of the Middle as a protest against peacetime con- ‘est girl, Princess Be

Times Columnist Ws Explained Lincoln Mystery

Legend of How Death Mask Was Supposed To Have Been Made, Told by Anton Scherrer

incoln death mask in the state house base- Oregon, northern California. and | d narrated in The Times for western Nevada.

The mystery

ment may have heen explained by a legen

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| Armed Men Attack -- Lincolniana, told the story o : | lanapolis sculptor, who supposedly ga

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{dent Truman. TWO: A decrease

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Creighton A.

in life,|jate Judge Donald

For ‘Greater

| King Abdullah

before on the sex of the expected area.

“Greater Syria,” r|

between Turkey

atrix. be assured.

of the L

nist Anton Scherrer,

f Louis Henri Reed, daring young In2 the old state

ined, entrance

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Annual Homage To Lincoln

Memorial Service Held At Mother's Grave

homage on the anniversary of his

# (spent part of his formative years in a southern Indiana log cabin

At Lincoln City,- memorial serv-. {ices were held at the grave of Lin{coln's mother, Nancy Hanks Lin-

| The Indiana legislature briefly set \aside the business of making laws ‘to observe the occasion with mem-!

| The Republican party continued a series of annual Lincoln day ban-| i iquets which started Monday and will occur every night this week. Public schools also planned spe- ; programs i | classroom celebrations. |died four years ago, is survived by | He toured for several years with Two leading figures in Repuba Toler, 3! renin |Julia Marlow on the legitimate! lican politics declared war on un- | ME A we rg, Mo., stage and won fame in New Yor! American “isms” in Lincoln day | 5 as the son of Col. H !with David Belasco before coming! speeches in the state last night. . At Valparaiso Rep. Charles Halin such movies as /leck (R. Ind) said “Communists, | “Madam X."” “The Gorgeous Hussy," |fellow-travelers and all who prefer | “Gold Is Where You Find It” and some form of absolutism must bej “The Kid From Kokomo,” in addi-!and will be removed from the gov-| tion to the Chan series. i through ‘the New Deal.”

Homer E. Capehart said the three “big menaces” to the American way of life must be controlled if free, enterprise is to remain as the coun-

mepaces; he said, are

Pledges Income Tax Cut Senator Capehart pledged defin-

FIVE: More home rule, includ{too many people unfortunately be- ing state rent control. fo y Other G. O. P. leaders who spoke | Such stories keep up the great'were Lt. Gov. Richard T. James at|

. ¥| “It seems like a miracle but I pretense that everything will be i ; acknowledgment of an appeal on his didn't get a scratch,” Mr. Hill said. wortderful about a yn Mad cdi Indiana House Speaker|, ps driver passing the tourist inn

adjust- | Greencastle, Supreme Court Judge {Dan Flanagan at Frankfort, Appel- | ;

Sixteen more major Lincoln day Noticing that the room hadn't] appearances were scheduled tonight! wormed up, he got up again and by Republican leaders.

Britain Launches Plan |

CAIRO, Egypt, Feb. 12 (U. P).—

d and Princess| sponsible Arab circles, would in- | clude Transjordan, 1!and the Arab part of Palestine.

1d states so that when the present 1 deadlock is solved, Brit-,

y Have

in a feature story of that issue ficial to the crops and that they had |

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today to pay

Lincoln, who

Programs

and

for removal of the pin.

they obtained

U. S. Senator

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After Fire Here

against “isms.” oh

labor and “‘bigt

} | Two Indianapolis persons were

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as | in income taxes |€

on Highway 52 northwest of here] arly today. |

13048 College ave., and Mary Frances |

definition of Lepper, 25, of 2606 N. Butler ave. |

started by an explosion in a gas! {heater about 7 a. m.

Bus Driver Sees Blaze { The fire was first discovered hy.

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at Winamac, 5, Highway 52. He-aroused others V. Burch ab; nearby cabins. Mr. Williams. told Deputy Sher-| fils Everett Maxwell and Louis Bowen at South praqt that he arose early this morning and lighted the gas stove.

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|lighted another match, he said.

|The explosion followed.

Syria’

' Brandenburg.

ted today!

The plan is |

Predicted Here

of Transjordan

I-rich | LOCAL TEMPERATURES

Sam ....3 10am. .... 37) i Ta M.. 31 11la.m.....39 C~ SOCOPMIng Ao 8a m..... 31 12 (Noon).. 40 9a.m....33 1pm... 4

Syria, Lebanon, | | |

: imbir e atures and rain anxious, these! Climbl ng temper 5 |

prove relations | predicted for Indianapolis to-| Arab {day and tomorrow. | The government weather : bureau here forecasts the weather today, 1 be warmer than the 36-degree, high of yesterday Tomorrow will | {pe even warmer. Occasional rains |are due. | Over the nation moderate winter | temperatures prevailed. The Cana-)

and = the

East will |

‘cold snaps, regarded as weather bureau. Rain Lashes Coast Rain and high wind lashed the | Pacific coast states, and additional | {rain was forecast for Washington, !

“temperate”. by’ the

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Farmers in the |area said the rains would be bene-’ ‘nothing to fear from the wAnds. | In California the wind got in one | good lick when it pushed a Grey-

a’ bas-relief he later did bound bus off the highway and over The bas-relief, photo-|a. T5-foot embankment. There were / -

/Scherrer’s story no passengers and the driver suf- | |fered only cuts and bruises. Considerable cloudiness prevailed over the southern states. Light snows were forecast for Arkansas nd southern Missouri. ! As the cold wave receded, indus-

ages of ‘natural gas ended 000 persofs, who had been laid began fo return. to. work. At Detroit, nearly all of 100,000

have returned to their. jobs.

las the result of severe burns aver the largest state in the union: A cut of $5 billion in most of their bodies after a. fire} Nancy Huval, 13, ‘Pampa, Tex, in a tourist cabin at Bradbury Inn ote she wouldn't mind if Alaska

Their names were listed at Citv|cu . hospital as John Willlams, 56, of |T

The double cabin was destroyed her mother w |by the flames, believed to have been home state.

The Bradbury Inn, composed of figure, it was disclosed "today,

12 cabins, is owned by Mrs. C. T.!, hou . i itt se armed servicés committee | | ’ as the bas - 'hearir at which they urged enact- Ment, was the basis of Judge Hen

ment of universal military training | legislation.

s "caused by short-|

and |

workers idled by the gas shortage |

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Entered as Second-Class. Malter at Postoffice Indianapolis, Ind. Issued daily except Sunday

Two Near Death. ¥hy One Texan ~~ Opposes Alaskan

| Statehood

Gas Hedter Sefs {on oro ves 13 (0.9) | Tourist Cabin Ablaze a Texas schoolgirl has asked President Truman to see to it that | McDONOUGH. Ga. Feb, 12 (U. Alaska doesn't displace Texas as P.).—Superior Court Judge Walter | Hendrix ruled today that Héerman' ; Talmadge's election as governor by,

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exas. | To make her request more peruasive, she

Plan to Reditce Army to 875,000

| WASHINGTON, Feb. 12 (U..P). —The war department plans to reduce the regular army to 875,000 whenever its no longer necessary to | maintain occupation forces abroad.

Department spokesmen cited this ing the battle against Mr. Talat, madge to Lt. Gov. M. E. Thompson, 'whose suit for a declaratory judg-

In addition to the proposed 87 national

680,000

With the help of universal train

'ing, this force could be increased 5,500,000 a year after M-day,

to the congressmen were fold.

chance of such a program.

400 HOUSING AIDS FIRED

to’ one-third of 1150 employees.

housing problem was crystalized.”

Here's

told Mr. Truman that as from Missouri, his

=day force of |

Red Cross Leaders

195,000 reserves for a total of 1,250,

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| be a pin-up girl. She came too close to that yesterday when she swallowed safety pin. She doesn't look with pleasure on the one held by Nurse Ardith B at Riley hospital.: She was rushed here by her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Herman Alber,

~-Photo by Victor Peterson.

NEVER AGAIN — Two-year-old Barbara Alber, Rochester, Ind., doesn't want to

an open

h Barber

- |(R. Hagerstown), author of the

Lincoln Birthday: = ‘By RICHARD BERRY ~The bill to increase the salaty of Hoosier governors from $8000 to $15,000 a year was withdrawn from the house of representatives day at the request of Governor Gates. hee In a letter to Rep. Lothair Teetor

|bill, ‘the Governor pointed out it thad been the policy of his admine

listration to avoid all \expenditures and salary increases |Withdrawal of the measure, he ‘wrote, will clarify the position of the present administration in the eyes of the people of gle The measure would have boostec ine salaries of other state official [to $10,000 a year, but would nol have applied to incumbents. 5 Work on Schoel Bills

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-Of Legislature

{the state legislature was legal.

{by sustaining Mr. Talmadge’s mo-, | Present plans call for a regular tion for a demurrer to throw out |army of 1,070,000.

000, however, the war department

[wants a mobilization guardsmen and

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dian border states reported the only | Housing Expediter Frank R. Cree-|chairman, and even those were don sent out discharge slips today ate chairman: his staff to 400 of

i { came into the union just so it was He held Mr. Talmadge was tont up into states smaller Nani vionally holding the Georgia

executive offices which he seized last month. ; Today's decision was contrary to one issued last week by Superior Court Judge Claude Porter at Rome. Judge: Porter held that Mr. Talmadge’s. election as governor was glearly illegal. : Judge Hendrix's decision was expected to be appealed within a few days to the state supreme court.. The decision came four weeks

{from the day the general assembly elected Mr. Talmadge in an all- |e senate, Parliamentarian

ght Session,

Former Governor Ellis Arnall refused to yield the executive depar

ent to Mr. Talmadge.

Mr. Arnall later resigned, will-

|drix’ ruling. i The jurist reached his decision v

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Plan "41. Campaign

Plans for the

lock Co.

Goals of the organization were described by Hugh K. Duffield, Red Cross campaign chairman. Present were the following leaders selected WASHINGTON, Feb. 12 (U. P.).—|this week by Virgil Martin, division and Karl Ziegler, associ-

Tom Kimberlin, Morris Goodman, He said the dis-|John G. Williams, Al Mendenhall, | missals were possible because the|Robert Heuslein, Grover Millet, J: “pretty wel!!G. Sinclair, Al Kurker and Ralph

| Lemcke.

hat Cigar

et Tax

Does to Price of Smokes

Attention smokers—here'’'s how cigaret taxes like the one contemplated for’ Inaiana affect the price of smokes in neighboring states. In Indianapolis, the price of a. single ranges from 15 to 17 cents. There is no tax-—yet. In Kentucky, where there is a 2-cent tax on every pack, the price is 17 to 18 cents, There's a 2-cent tax in Wis“eonsin; too, There the- price by the pack is generally 18 cents, !

pack of cigarets

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Ohio has a 2-cent tax which results in a price range of from i% to 19 cents. In Michigan there is no specific cigaret tax but the sales tax stacts at 17 cents, running 17-cent cigarets up a cent ‘Many storps cut the. price ta avoid the sales tax, making the price 16 cents. ; St. Louis, ‘Mo. has a city tax of 2 cents which has the most. adverse effect on . of any place checked. A pack costs 19 or 30 cents.

er were made yes- | The old congress did not act on |i day at an Je ere n meeting |

§ sident Truman for | q ni 3 Eegess i bis pollen of the {for Red Cross leaders in the Wim. H.| Lake Sullivan was closed to skat-

1 hew one have said there is little

of teacher legislation began

The original bill would a employment of clerical principals in high schools of more teachers. Salaries employees would be paid school corporation funds, = Senator John S. Gonas (R. South Bend) was to introduce the amendment. ‘He said it would authorize school boards or township trustees to pay teachers $250 each at the end of every year as a “sort of be | Lincoln Day Observed 4 | Both houses held brief Lincoln. |day ceremonies today and then re'sumed work, although most offices lin the state house were closed, In “Albert |Ferris of Milton, gdve the Lincoln speech while the house heard Sen;.|ator W. A. Butcher (R. South | Bend), ol | Action on local option appeared imminent as the house public morals |committee prepared to meet behind [closed doors to discuss the subject. {. William Hostettler (R. :Bloom« field), chairman, said the committee discuss the administration

from

In beth houses growing" undercurrent referendum vote in the nexj pres-. idential election. . = Indications were, however,

“that lany such measure passed at po lcarry a clincher requiring at least:

(Continued on Page S—Cohima 1) Lake Sullivan Closed; Surface Too Rough =

ers today until further notice, city park department officials announced. : a They said the ice was thick enough to ‘be safe but that the surface was too rough. * It will' be worked over by park | ime crews and skating will be 1 & when the weather becomes cold enough to keep the ice solid. ori

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