Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 February 1947 — Page 2

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f 63 Univers “American Youth for Democracy’ Faces yster Proceedings at Colorado School

By LY:.&Z €. WILSON oy LY Saft Correspondent

chapters in American universities.

ih Others estimate the number somewhat higher. And is is the student Senator Robert A. Taft (R. Ohio) |

Sees Debate

J ~WASHT N N, Feb. 13—Communist-sponsored student organizaHons Hees io be flourishing without any discernible faculty op- : of American university campuses. : is i + publications say there are 63 American Youth for

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Will Be on Floor |f By March 15, He Says

Today's developments in congress, Page 12. .

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Vote on Arms

Ballot Waits Accord On One Clause

(U. P.J).~—The

Mr, i "ae woul incl In Power Crisis Qol, University of Oolorado thicalling on a commission on con-| “uy. cop oietion of the budget! Feb. d

Now in Boulder,

thorities are trying to boot their . Y. D. organization off the cam-|,n nian for world disarmament. pus. | Delegates meet at 2 p. m., IndiThe charge of communism lev- | 4 napolis time. eled against A. Y. D. is a serious) ony the final paragraph remained one because: the evidence is piling|y, pe approved before a vote was up that communists are suspect', yon on the resolution as a whole. fifth columnists, |That dealt with the part to be Committee to Rule {played by the military staff comLouis F. Budenz, former editor mittee. of the Communist Daily Worker,! The only outstanding issue to be who deserted the party in 1045, has settled was. Britain's attempt to charged publicly that “the Com- write into the disarmament resolumunist party in the United States tion an April 30 deadline for a Big is a direct arm of the Soviet foreign Five agreement on the “basic prindepartment.” |ciples” of a United Nations world

Final decision whether Colorado's police force. It was expected to be A Y. D. shall continue to function settled without great difficulty. will be made next week by a joint] The delegates were optimistic student-faculty committee. over final approval to the resoluthe university's professors; tion authorizing:

Two of claim that “some credible evidence] ONE: A new United Nations

security council was expected to take a final vote today on a resolution

ventional armaments to start work

has been raised indicating that the National American Youth for Democracy is a Communist front or-

American Youth for Democracy on the record is a communist-con-trolled organization with a thin, if any, veneer of non-communist ap-

Here is some of the evidence, which seems credible enough: Hoover Has Fat File J. Edgar Hoover, director of the PBI, has fat and accurate files on American communism. Last month he took another whack at the Communists, warning that “too often liberty-loving Americans dismiss the menace of Red fascism as incon-

sequential. He mid that youth centers estab. [mittee has done almost

lished by American Youth for Democracy ostensibly to combat

commission. on conventional armaments which will work out ways to pare down national armies and armaments. It will consist of the

-111 nations on the security council.

TWO: The state of a new, and perhaps decisive, phase of atomic control negotiations. The council must immediately take up the United Nations atomic energy commission's report, with its endorse-

THREE: A speed-up in arrangements for the United Nations world

today outlined’ a five-point program before the senate for completion by § April 1. The program included a wien re steering com-| VICTIM—Walter C. Kocher mittee leader, said a labor bill would | of Logan, Ind., near Lawrencebe brought .to the floor by March| rq, confessed he shot his wife, 15 and would include the provisions | \.c Margaret Kocher {above) of the Case act vetoed by President | p10. years of living together of

Truman, the labor commit | 9uring which they seldom spoke.

CONFESSED KILLER—Kocher (above center) told State Trooper W. W. Woods (left) and Sheriff F. E: Negengard that he and

his wife arqued whiie she did th to blows. He shot her then with was believed to be suicide.

April 1, Taft Says LL Army Reveals First Flight |Of Human-Piloted Rocket

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'. HAWTHORNE, Cal, Feb. 18 (U.|that the aerojet rocket motor was P.).~Some 8000 feet above the earth not powerful enough for military a man lay on his stomach in a use in the rocket-race with Ger-

| cramped cockpit. Suddenly he re. many,

leased a towline and history's first In Mr, Crosby's second flight six human-piloted rocket—the North. days later he plugged in & power

long white plume trailing from the exhaust.

the army, were disclosed today for the first time. 6000 Feet Straight Up Under the control of Test Pilot Harry Brosby, the rocket skimmed

data for the building of other rockets, including the flying ram XP-79, a heavily armoted plane designed to shear {wings from enemy aircraft. ‘The o family washing and finally came flying ram was the world's first jet. a rifle, he said. The slaying earlier (powered fying wing.

tee predicted about two weeks |

that LAKE SUCCESS, N. Y, Feb. 13|of debate would be held on the | ». “ . ; United Nations/labor measure by the senate. I nS Mr. Taft said other measures be- | ! : ore

the senate prior to April 1 de

y 15 with from four and onehalf to six billion dollars being cut $37,500,000,000 recom- . - mended by President Truman. Saving of Coal apprond constitutional amendment| LONDON, Feb. 13 (U. P) —Prime the presidency. Mr. Taft favored {house of commons today that Britthe bill. He said he believed the |g in nag made gains in the fight senate would approve it, but that

ito © the power emergency, Deus held the balance of the but he added, anxiety now was aris-

ing over possible gas shortages.

act would be allowed to expire on |i. emergency controls on power had March 31 but the senate would |c,veq 78,000 tons of coal from Monprobably enact control bills cov- day through Wednesday, slightly rubber and several|;n,n ving the general position. The saving yesterday was 25300

Attlee Reveals

stocks has been arrested” However, he added that the position “remains dangerous.” Defense Regulations Involved

All of England, Scotland and Wales were on a wartime basis to fight the “dangerously critical” coal shortage. Invoking defense regulations, the government ordered jail sentences and fines imposed on all persons who violate orders drastically restricting electric consumption. . A maximum sentence of 500 pounds ($2000) and two years’ imprisonment was authorized.

Daily Power Shutoffs

Effective this morning, the twicedaily power shutoffs in homes and offices were extended to cover all of England, Wales and Scotland. Householders were warned by the

ministrative difficulties of effecting a cut in withholding tax before that date. He favored a 20 per cent cut in taxes. Bu: he said the taxation committee wouid have to decide whether the cut would be a flat 20 per cent decrease or on a gradual scale. en ey In reporting that his labor com- | mittee would have a bill ready for. senate consideration by March 15, ' Mr. Taft said about 100 different }-

his police force. Por nearly s year the Proposals had been made to United Nations military staff com- Committee in three weeks of hear-

nothing about determining how much and/ He said only a few recessary prowhat kind of armed — each Visions would be added to the Case

Juvenile delinquency “more properly could be termed Communist youth recruiting centers” Communists, | be said, concentrate particularly on | trade unions, religion, war veterans and American youth generally. A writer in the January, 1947, Issue of Plain Talk estimated that

make available ‘bill. He said he favored the crea gs The a eo che | sion of a commitiee to study laers contend no disarmament is pos- bor-management relations and possible until these arrangements are sible further laws’ governing unions. agreed upon. | Mr. Taft said he believed there iwas a definite place for state acResins Session, | a HANS Yvon in labor legislation. He said Austin of the United States and mediation commissioners of

{New Y New Jersey and Penn"American Youth for Democracy Andrei Gromyko of Russia, ap-| ory, y |

still was functioning on about 65 proved the resolution paragraph by American college campuses, but paragraph except the final one

i tion in cases in which state mediawith reduced membership approxi- dealing with the military staffs. |

mating 8000. . | Yesterday's debate was over the The article also quoted from the section of the resolution setting up report of John Gates, a leader of ‘the disarmament commission but the dissolved Young Communists drawing a distinct line between League, before the youth conference it and the commission on atomic of the New York state Communist energy.

party on March 2, 1946. | When the tter came to a vote, Gates said: | Mr. rnd merely abstained— “The decision was made to dissolve not casting a negative vote which the Young Communist league and would have raised the veto issue form the American Youth Democ-|_leaving it clesr that he favored racy. It was not from the pointithe first half of the passage, but of view of abandoning Marxism, {still disapproved of the second half. “As a matter of fact, that the; When the session broke up, Mr. Young Communist league was dis- | Austin pumped Mr. Gromyko’s hand

solved and the American Youth ivigorously, and Mr. Gromyko smiled. for Democracy formed, had pre-|

supposed that this would mean and! the

constitute a strengthening of Samuel A. Johnson Communist party's role as leader!

of youth and an expression of the| D1€8 mn Hospital Communist party's work among Samuel A. Johnson, salesman for youth.” {the Crescent Paper Co. died this morning in Methodist hospital. The ako IM hoqut uur of | 73-year-old native of St. Louis, Mo, had been ill t ars, Leon Wolfsy of the New York A oi To lis for 39 . American Youth for Democracy or- Po tion makin : years, he was a member of North ns ion 4s & Gates’ point|pary lodge, PF. & A. M., and Sahara

. “I think we came here” Wolfsy|

Grotto. He is survived by his wife, | Ward into peacetime the mutual de. |

Mrs, Bird Johnson; a daughter-in-|fense pact observed by the two! Wald, “with the purpose that this iy’ ‘Mrs Dorothy Beldon with

' Johnson circult court today. ‘1946, 1s being brought by Carl L.

conference should lead toward clarity and a united policy to build the (Communist) party, to build Amerfean youth for democracy and to build the youth movement

whom he lived at 1222 W. 29th st.; one grandson; two granddaughters, and three great-grandchildren. Services will be held at 2 p. m.

“This can be done if the Com. Saturday at the Wald funeral home

| munists in American Youth for in charge of the Rev. Robert Lewis, !sions-

Democracy reorganize the imporfance of their work and the very Important® purpose of A, Y. D— which must bring whole sections of leading young people closer to our party, closer to Marxism-Leninism.”

Indianapolis Lawsuit To Be Heard Today

Times State Service FRANKLIN, Ind, Feb. 13. — A $10,000 damage complaint against the city of Indianapolis which was venued from Marion county, is scheduled to be heard by a jury in

. The action, venued here April 1,

sylvania had asked him to con- | sider outlawing federal interven-

tion was more effective,

U. S-Canada Pact Approval Voiced

WASHINGTON, Feb. 13 (U. ») : ~—Two leading members of the sen- | {ate and house armed forces com- | |mittees voiced approval today of! 'the U. 8.-Canadian agreement for !continued military collaboration. | They were Senator Chan Gurney | (R. 8. D.), chairman of the senate |pumen forces committee, and Rep. » |Carl Vinson (D. Ga.), former chair-| man of the old house naval affairs committee. “This is good news,” Mr. Vinson said. “It augurs well for hemis-' (phere solidarity and defense.”

Military Teamwork A The new agreement carries for-

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pastor of Seventh Christian church.

ONE: Interch Burial will be in Washington Park. ange of selected

personnel to increase each nation’s | familiarity with the other's defense | establishment. TWO: General co-operation and exchange of observers in military Times State Service exercises and armament tests.

Hoosier FSA Director Joins U. of Illinois

LAFAYETTE, Ind, Feb, 13.—Dr. Eventual standardiza- | Ernest H. Shideler, for the last nine tion of arms, equipment, organizayears Indiana state director of the, tion training methods and new defarm security administration, has|velopments. |been appointed to the faculty off FOUR: Each county's military, | the University of Illinois under-|naval and air facilities will be avail- | graduate division at Galesburg. able to the other for use as may be | Dr. Shideler will be chairman of|agreed in specific instances, as in | the division of commerce and busi-|the event of any attack upon the | ness administration. He formerly continent. This will permit the | was head of the department of|armed forces of each nation to cross economics and sociology at Frank-|the other's territory with military lin college, hu? aircraft and vessels, :

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rop MX-324-—shot forward with a dive from ‘sever

thousand feet” and leveled off to “skim the.sur|face” of the lake, then pulled "up

Details of that first flight, pre- almost vertically to a height of viously classified as top secret by 6000 feet.

In the cockpit his head rested in a sling that permitted him to look forward through a wind screen. The MX-324 was towed in the air by a pursuit ship. H

vanced model which will replace the flying ram. Known as the XS-4, it is designed to pierce the wall of sound with a speed of 800 miles-iper-hour or mare.

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The MX-324 has a wing span of | Dea |less than 30 feet. The flights proved Is d at Home

Harry W. Farris, Indianapolis resident for 10 years, died today in his home at 3036 Winthrop ave. He was 78. - - A native of Lancaster, Mo., Mr. Ferris was an employee dt the Wm. H. Block Co. for the past three years, Services will be held Saturday at 2 p. m. in the Moore Mortuaries Colonial chapel. Burial will be in Washington Park cemetery. Mr. Farris was a member of the Methodist church in Lancaster, Md., and Capitol City lodge 312," F. &

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Survivors are a daughter, Mrs. Margaret Irvin, Indianapolis; four sons, George E. Farris, Columbus, O.; Harry W. Farris Jr, Bedford, O.; Horace D. Farris, Howell, Mich.; Rufus O. Farris, Akron, O., and

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seven grandchildren and six great grandchildren.

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fuel ministry to use gas at the mini- | County Broadcasting Co., La Porte,| Services will be held at Tampa. WASHINGTON—Potatoss should {mum possible rate, even for cooking. (and Logansport County Broadcast- Cremation will follow, with inter- be cooked in their jackets if the

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until the 1948 fall crops. tons, compared with 24,230 the day FOUR: Senate debate on the p.iore A government spokésman portal-to-portal bill scheduled in |ggig that the “critical drop in coal Coal stocks at many gas works were [ing Co. Logansport. about two weeks. i et dace Mr. Taft said he did not favor a

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