Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 February 1947 — Page 1

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Gates Hints Solution Near On Teacher Pay

No Details Given; Won't Mean New Tax

More Legislative News, Pages 3 and 4

By ROBERT BLOEM Governor Gates told his press conference today the solution to the teachers’ pay question might be announced in a matter of hours. At the same time he warned elties and towns that whatever new help they get from the state for teachers will be all they'll get this

year. The legislature is expected to provide cities with new taxing

powers, he said, and after that municipal governments will have to pay their own Way. Should Get Legislation Quickly The governor met at noon with members of the Republican legislative policy committee and chairmen of the house and senate edu- | cation committees. “I think we have worked out the | answer to the teachers’ pay in-| crease puzzle and the problem of | how much the state can pay.” the | governor said. “If the policy group | and the education committee chairmen agree, we should be able to get legislation quickly.” He declined to give advance details on the solution ot the problem which has stalled the legislative “mill almost ever siice the direct primary election fight was settled early last week. He did say, as he has said several times before, it would involve no new or increased taxes. Urges More State Money On the cities and towns, the governor replied to questions brought

up in a letter from Vincent Youkey, mayor of Crown Point and secre- | tary of the municipal league. Mr.| Youkey's letter was addressed to all| legislators and urged more state money for municipalities, “Return of a more equitable por- | tion of the indirect taxes ‘taken away from our people will help save the life of local governments,” the letter said. “The league has been led to believe some of this money would be returned to help in our) present crisis. “Our patience is exhausted, but] we still hope to receive what is right and just.” . Have an Alternative

The governor told the press conference: “We have no desire to be uncooperative with cities and towns, We| must remember, however, that aves) are paid into the state treasury by rural people as well as by city peo-! ple, and it would not be fair to| return more of this money to city! governments.” As an alternative, the state has proposed legislation to enable cities) to levy a 20 per cent surtax on gross income tax payments. This can used, if the legislation is passed, to, bolster the tottering financial structure of needy cities. On the question of state participation in the federal school lunch program, the governor said he had “advice from Washington” that the program was going to be scrapped. The senate has engaged in two periods of hot debate over a bill to enable the state to continue participation,

Holy Land Quota Won't Be Raised

LONDON; Feb. 18 (U. P.).—Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin precludéd an early increase in Jewish immigration to Paletsine today. He told commons that Britain had found the holy land mandate unworkable and would turn the problem over to the United Nations.

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DEATH HOVERS — Priscilla Wagner, 7-year-old twin, may die, the *

victim of an alleged drunken ambulance driver.

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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1947

It's Another Girl in Holland; 51 Guns Boom Out News

Dutch Crown Princess Becomes Mother Of Fourth Daughter; People Disappointed

AMSTERDAM, Feb, 18 (U. P.).—Fifty-one gun saluates booming in

i the freezing dawn announced today Crown Princess Juliana.

The birth continues the all-feminine line of succession to the

Dutch throne.

The 6-pound, 9-ounce girl was born to 37-year-old Princess Juliana

at 1:30 a. m. in Soestdijk castle, 25 miles from Amsterdam.

Most Hollanders learned the news at 7 a. m.,, when the church bells! rang and cannons roared out the tidings. Men and women rushed into ‘the | streets to learn whether it was a boy, as they hoped, or another girl. Most of them were disappointed when the guns stopped after firing 51 shots. If a boy had arrived, it would have been a 101-gun salute. There had been no male. ruler of The Netherlands since 1890, when Queen Wilhelmina succeeded her father, King Willem III. The House of Orapge has become entirely feminine. Juliana is the queen's only child. She and Prince | | Bernhard have three other daughters, or whom Princess Beatrix, born in 1938, is the eldest. A national holiday - was proclaimed. The nation has been ex-

but gelebrated the birth quietly. Both mother and daughter were | reported doing well.

Murder Charge Greets Edman

Times State Service

COLUMBUS, Ind. Feb. 18. — A first-degree murder indictment was | waiting for David Edman 8Sr., 40, on

his arrival today from Tulsa, Okla,, where he was captured Saturday after a 53-hour, 11-state manhunt. The indictment was returned yesterday by a Bartholomew county grand jury composed of four farmers and two Columbus businessmen, There were indications that Edman, who admitted he shot his exwife, Ruth, 38, last Thursday at the home of her father, Nate Clark, 69, may attempt to escape the death penalty with a temporary insanity plea.

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Important News

Pay Hikes oki

Council Turns Down Child Welfare Survey

By NOBLE REED The proposed new juvenile court salary revision schedule, increasing the salaries of several key staff members by abolishing four jobs, was approved today by county council.

At the same time, the council in a surprise move turned down a re-

On Inside Pages Page to Sell UNRRA

China Seeks | Goods on Black Market ..... 2 2 Top WAA Officials Fired ..... 2

Adopt 2 Liquor Reform Amendments Green Raps Strike Curbs Are Jet Planes Too Fast For Us? Cab Driver Routs Stickup Men.. Woman Bank Bandit Offers IOU’s +18 Supreme Court Portal Pay Rift. 22

Defend Acheson ‘Slur’ on Reds

WASHINGTON, Feb. 18 (U. P.).

|—The United States today defend-

ed as a frank statement Undersecretary of Staté Dean Acheson's observation «that Russian foreign policy “is an aggressive and |expanding one.” The United States’ position was contained in a formal note from Secretary of State George C. Mar-

V. M. Molotov. Mr. Molotov had protested that Mr. Acheson was guilty of “slander”

in making the statement under

questioning before a senate committee, “You characterize the content of his statement as a rude slander and hostile to the Soviet Union,” Mr. Marshall's note to Mr. said. “Under our standards a restrained comment on a matter of public policy is not a. slander. Therefore, I know that on second thought you will not attribute hostility to frankness.” The note was dispatched to Moscow yesterday and was made public today after its delivery to Mr. Molotov.

World Almanac § Goes on Sale ¥*

The 1047 World Almanac will go on sale in Indianapolis tomorrow at leading départment stores, book shops and news stands. Published by the New York World-Telegram, a Scripps-Howard newspaper, the almanac contains 912 pages of facts about the United States and the world. The issue on sale here tomorrow is paper bound and the supply is limited. The cloth bound edition

Amusements. 17 Douglas Larsen 8 Friend Tells of Injury Eddie Ash... 6|Legislative A friend, James B. Powers of Boots ...... . 201 News ....., 4 Winston-Salem, N, C., said he Business ..., . 8/ Ruth Millett. 11|would “go anywhere” to testify that Carnival .,.. 11}Movies ...... 17/as result of a head Injury suffered Classified.. 18-20] Obituaries ... 9/14 years ago the wealthy, retired Comics ,..... 21| Dr. O'Brien.. 10|electrical engineer and war conCrossword ,.. 20|Oechsner .... 8{{ractor” had mental lapses over a Editorials ... 12|F. C. Othman 11 {recent period.” Edman was not Fashions. . - 15-16/ Radio ....... 21 mentally responsible for slaying his Forum ...... 12! Mrs. Roosevelt 15 wife, Mr. Powers said. Meta Given... 16 Serial ....... 10 + In his oral confession to Tulsa “Hollywood .,. 11 Spelling Bee.. 21 police where He had been caught Don Hoover.. 12] Sports ..... 6-7 waiting on a money order at a Indiana Saga. 12| Teen Talk ... 16 western Union office, Edman at I a 3 a i first readily admitted shooting his ve Women's... 15-16 wis, Then he Shanged his Calendar .. 4|World Affairs 12 (Continued on Page 5—Column 4)

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quest for $10,000 to finance the pro-

ities in Marion county. The $10,000 fund was appropri-

than a year ago for the child survey, but it was not spent in 1946 and thereby reverted to the general fund for reappropriation. Several civic organizations backed the county welfare department in the proposed project more than a year ago. Explained Survey George Kincaid, council president, said” members turned down the request because they did not consider that Arthur E. Wooden, county welfare director, had “given them sufficient reason for the survey.” Mr. Wooden previously” had explained that the survey was to provide the county with detailed information on child welfare facilities as the basis for long range ‘mprovement program. In approving the juvenile court salary project, council members said they felt Judge Joseph O. Hoff-

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House Cites Eisler For Contempt

WASHINGTON, Feb. 18 (U. P.). —The house today cited Gerhart Eisler, alleged Russian secret agent, for contempt of congress. Eisler had refused to be sworn in as a witness before the house un-Amer-ican activities committee. The committee reported to the house that by refusing to testify, the bespectacled German Communist deprived it of “necessary and pertinent” information on subversive activities in this country. In the citation approved by the house, the committee said Eisler’s refusal to be sworn was “willful and deliberate.” Committee members have insisted that Eisler never intended to be sworn in because he feared to face the committee's questions under oath. y

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ALLEGAN, Mich,” Feb. 18 be alone—bequeathed his small and actress. This was disclosed today Irving Tucker,

her she has been left $20,000 by British-born Edgar H. Donne, The recluse was found dedd last September in a shabby one-room shack on a ‘barren farm near Allegan, The will, written in England te Sept. 12, 1936, says: \ “1 hereby give my estate to Greta Lovisa Gustafson, whose stage name is Greta Garbo, to her and no other. If Greta Garbo becomes my wife, then it goes to Greta Lovisa Donne.” °° Before the husky-voiced screen player can receive the estate, however, she must do legal battle with the state of Michigan and possibly Mr. Donne's brother, reportedly to be a resident, of; Devon, England. State Public Administrator Archie

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Hoped to Wed Garbo, Hermit Wills Her $20,000

State of Michigan or Recluse’s Brother Expected to Fight Payment to Actress

(U. P.).—An eccentric 70-year-old hermit passionately enamored of Greta Garbo—who also wanted to

mysterious fortune to the Swedish by Allegan county Probate Judge

Judge Tucker said a letter has been mailed to the actress notifying

case on grounds Mr. Donne probably was not mentally competent to make a will and that the estate should revert to the state. Mr, Frazer, who called” Mr. Donne's “movie complex” not a rarity, said he was checking reports that the lonely recluse had a brother, Duncan James Donne, in England. If the brother is alive, he said, the state would step aside and let Duncan, Mr. Donne's rightful heir, fight it out with Miss Garbo. The estate includes $15,000 in English securities and jewelry, on deposit in a London bank, $900. in U. S. cash and war bonds, and more than 160 acres in land holdings. Mr. Donne was born in England in 1876. He became a naturalized

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FORECAST: Partly cloudy ” Sonight and tomorrow; colder tonight, with Jowest temperatures between 16 and 20 degrees.

FIGHTS FOR LIFE — Patricia Wagner was soronly ied The mother, Mrs. Eleanor Wagner, is in critical condition.

Charge He Was: Drunk, Caused Crash In Which Patients Were Injured

Twin 7-year-old girls and their mother are fighting for their Hives in Indianapolis hospitals today, victims of a crash in: "which the diver . of an ambulance is alleged to have been drunk. Only recently the sisters had been released from Riley hospital, after recovery from rheumatic fever. The ambulance driver, who was taking the girls to their homes

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Some of Victims Are Army-Navy Servicomen; i Indianapolis Man Among Injured

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{training station. Some of the others were army | ‘bound for Camp Kilmer and Ft. Dix, N. J.

at Marysville, Ind., after .a checkup by. physicians here, had been arrested four times previously on charges of drunken driving, according fo state police.’ The accident happened Saturday, The ambulance driver, John M.

| Monroe, 52, also’ a funeral direc-|

tor at New Washington, Ind., again is charged with driving while intoxicated. The mother and her daughters are Mrs. Eleanor Wagner, 26, and Priscilla and Patricia.

Suffers Skull Fracture Riley hospital authorities today said it is doubtful that Priscilla will recover. She suffered a skull fracture and was operated on yesterday but has not responded to

treatment. She also is paralyzed extensively. Meanwhile, in another ward,. her blue-eyed, blond-haired sister is swathed in a cast from her hips to her left foot and to her right knee. Her left leg is broken in at least two places. Her condition is serious, but today she clutched a pair of dolls and smiled wanly.

Mother Is Unconscious

At Long hospital the mother battles for life. She is unconscious and in critical ‘condition. Monroe was released yesterday on $500 bond in Columbus eity court by Mayor C. S. Folger. ’ The twins were brought to Riley hospital Saturday by" the mother for a check-up. Mrs. Wagner had hired Monroe to bring them home. Monroe lost control of his car on the return trip and crashed into another driven by Carl 8S. Garrett, Austin, Monroe and the other victims first were taken to the Bartholomew county hospital. His injuries were minor. The twins were moved here Sunday. Yesterday Mrs. Wag-

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Buy Ice-O-Rama Tickets Downtown

Several thousand 50-cent mezsanine tickets still are available for The Times Ice-O<Ramia Thursday night in the Fairgrounds Coliseum. But purchasers were urged. today to buy the tickets at thé downtown box offices to avoid standing in line at the ticket windows Thursday night at the Coliseum. Here's where tickets are avail able until 4 Jp m, « Tintsday L. 8,

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13 Die, 16 Are Hurt Near Michigan City

MICHIGAN CITY, Ind, Feb. 18 (U. P.).—Witnesses who saw a speeding one-car electric train knife through a bus load of Tafiroad workers, killing 13 and injuring 186, said today they could’ jee no reason for the accident. The bus driver," Glenn ‘Morris of Michigan City, had an unobstructed view for miles either way down the track. Apparently he did not see ithe train as it bore down on the bus at 65 to 70 miles an hour at a grade crossing five miles east of here yesterday. Mr, Morris stopped the bus, witnesses said, and then started slowly across the tracks in the path of the Chicago, South Shore & South Bend passenger car, Bus Cut in Twe The collision sliced the bus in two, strewing bodies of the dead and the screaming injured along the track. Mr. Morris. body ‘as found 500 yards from the crossing. W. E. Willard, 45, South Bend, motorman on the suburban train, and one of his passengers were treated for injuries at a hospital and released. The other 25 train passengers continued on their way after transferring to another South Bend-to-Chicago suburban train, Mr. Willard said he had no time to stop. He said the bus stopped, then slowly moved into the path of his train, Ambulances were rushed from hospitals and mortuaries in a 25mile radius. Witnesses helped doc-

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British Ask U. N. Mine Case Action

LAKE SUCCESS, N. Y., Feb. 18 U.P.) .—Great Britain called on the United Nations security ¢ouneil today to find Albania guilty of “the serious and sinister” grime of sowing mines in the Corfu channel of the Adriatic without regard for lite or international law. Giving vent to Britain's anger over the death of 44 British seamen in Corfu mine losions last Oct. 22, Sir Alexander ogan, British delegate, demanded that the council make Albanian officials sit down with the British‘and negotiate a private settlement of issue. He said the council should k the dispute on its agenda to that Albania. Smplies, i

roilroad’s Red Ariow express, 8 1 the Allegheny mountains an hour and six minutes behind schedule, plunged from the winding tracks today. At least 17 persons lost their lives. Seven additional bodies arrived here aboard a relief train shortly after noon, Ten arrived previously. The railroad reported that about 85 were injured when the two locomotives and five cars hurtled over a steep 90foot embankment and ground into an awry, twisted wrecks Three other cars toppled on their sides. Railroad officials feared the toll would rise. Reset workers, using acetylene torches, cut through a maze girders, jammed doors and broken compartments seeking {dead and injured. \ Railroad officials said determination of the cause of the derailment must await completion of the rescue task examination of wrecked equipment and ripped out rails. : Many of the injured, brought here in hospital trains, were reported in critical condition. ta

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Cresson + 4 The injured were sheltered na an upright coach from the sub-fressing weather, until. the rescue ag arrived. Altoona’s two hospitals filled rape idly as the relief trains bringing in the injured. were used to supplement lances.

Six Bodies Identified

M.’ engineman of the second ie R. K. Henry, Derby, Pa. fireman of the second engine. Prt. George H. Stacy, FM. os N. J. ” Mrs. Sadie Taylor, New Del.

soldier, Du Bois, Pa. Hospital Train Arrives The wreckage was strewn across three of the four tracks of ! right-of-way hampering rescue oo forts. A 14-car hospital train, with all available nurses and doce tors arrived at the scene,

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