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Murray y Pleads Charge Russ Give Arms to China's Communist Armies
Secret Report Lists Several Cases
For U. 'S Aid On Jurisdiction
Disputes Not Justified, Senate Group Told
Read an Editorial, “Time For Wiser Tachics,” Page 14.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 19 (U, P.).—C. 1. 0. President Philip Murray asked the senate labor committee today to help him and A. F. of L. Presjdent William Green work out an agreement for settling jurisdictional dioputes. Mr. Murray made the proposal in testimony protesting against pend-
ing legislation which he said was designed to “shackle” organized labor.
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today that Soviet Russia has
well-informed Chinese sources. It cited more than 30 instances during 1946 in which the Russians—either directly or ins directly—ajded Chinese Communists forces against the Nationalist government.
Neither this reporter nor any other is in a position to verify each
aid to Chinese Communists during the last, year—Ilargely by giving them captured Japanese arms and munitions. A secret report, listing instances of Soviet intervention in the'Chinese civil war, was obtained by this reporter from
Seripps-Mownrd Stall Writer
SHANGHAI Feb. 10.—Indications were found here
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provided substantial military
specific charge in this extraordinary document. But the source is considered to be as trustworthy as any available in China. The data were obtained for publication only on a pledge that the source’ would not be identified. . The Russians themselyes have
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That statement promphéd Senator Wayne L. Morse (R. Ore) to ask Mr. Murray if he opposed all legisJation to correct labor “abuses.” Senator Morse nanied the jurisdictional strike as such an abuse. Mr. Murray said there was “no moral justification” for Jurisdictional disputes whith threw men out of work. He said he yould offer 2 “reasonable plan” for settlement of sich disputes.
‘Send for Green’ “Have your committee send for Mr. Green of the A. F of L.” Mr. Murray suggested. “Bring him down here and let him and me work out any t in: your: presence. I'm prepared to do it.” Yesterday, committee members fold the A. PF. of L. head to get rid
of his “negative” attitude towardg
labor problems. They asked him to offer concrete solutions since con-
legislation restricting labor anyway. Mr. Murray was asked if he meant just disputes between the A.F.of L. and C. I. O. He said he meant all jurisdictional disputes, including those between affiliates of the same parent organization, When Senator Allen J. Ellender (D. La.) asked why the two labor leaders should not undertake an agreement without the committee, Mr. Murray replied that he -had tried to get together with the A, F. of L. on the issues. y Settle Right Here
“Get Willie Green down here and ask him if he is prepared to sit down with Phil Murray of the C. I. 0.” Mr. Murray continued. “Let's work out an agreement to settle that right here.” “I'd like to see it tri=d,” Senator More said. Mr. Murray’s proposal was made after he warned the committee that congress would thrust the nation toward economic “catastrophe” if it attempted to weaken unions instead of business monopoly.” The silver-haired labor leader, who also is president of the United Steelworkers union, took .a different tack than that used by Mr. Green yesterday in his testimony before the committee. Mr. Murray concentrated his attack on current economic trends rather than a section by section criticism of labor bills as made by Mr. Green.
‘Patriotic Duty’
The discussion of jurisdictional disputes began when Mr. Murray complained that labor was being threatened with “punishment for doing its “patriotic duty” during and after the war. “Labor must .be punished — for what?” he asked. “What crime have these organizations, to which I have referred, committed, except to perform their patriotic duty as Americans?” * Mr. Murray paid little attention to his prepared statement. He departed from it to blame industry for the steel and automobile strikes a year ago. He said the unions had acecpted government settlement proposals while the companies refused.
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A YOUTHFUL Indianapolis athlete today made a daring jump from the second story of a burning house
rying his grandfather in his arms. Joe Piggott, 24, former tackle on the Holy. Cross church football team, réscued hh grandfdther, Patrick Murphy, , from their burning home at 1325 E, Vermont
grandfather in a second-story bedroom. He had attempted to awaken Mr. Murphy but the older man had been overcome by smoke. In- the meantime smoke and flames blocked the stairway.
” » * GATHERING the unconscious | man in his arms, Mr. Piggott went to & front window to summon help. Two men in a Kroger: Bakery Co. tractor-trailer saw the pair and backed the. truck under the window.
A perrace halted’ the truck about six feet from the window. Mr. Piggott then swung his
grandfather up to his shoulder and climbed out on.the ledge. As watchers held their breath he leaped, landing safe on top of the trailer.| » = ~ :
FIREMEN who. arrived shortly after rescued the pair from the top of the truck. Mr. Murphy was taken to a physician for treatment. Fire broke out in the basement of the house at 5 a. m.. Two other persons asleep in the house, Mrs. Mollie Koval and Mrs. Nora Mulrine, made their way to safety from the smoke-filled house.
Teachers Win. Pay Increase Fight
State Minimums to Be 30 to 45% Higher
Hoosier teachers have won their salary increase battle with the state administration and today_are ¥ir« tually assured of from 30 to'45 per cent increases in minimum pey. It took eight days of high-pow-ered “arithmetic and Jugging of the’ state’s financial picture before administration leaders and teachers’ representatives could agree. The result, which will be incor-
v \ Mr. Piggott was trapped with hisfnorated in an amendment to a
teachers pay bill now in the house ways and fheans committee, comprises this pay scale: Minimum pay of $1600 for teachers with two years college training in an-eight months job to $2400 a year for ‘teachers with four years college training in a nine months job. ‘ . First Asked $2000 The $1600 figure corresponds to a present minimum of $1200 a year and the $2400 figure corresponds to a “top minimum” of $1650 a year. The teachers original bill had asked $2000 a year for teachers with two years college training in ‘nine months jobs, and other increases up to the $2400 figure. The state will pay only about 85
where this year it paid 100 per cent. The new increase, however, will boost the state’s annual contribution to minimum pay by $10 million dollars. This means a contribution of $39,500,000 annually of the state treasury as compared with $29,500,000 now being contributed. As a result of the increase the budget will be trimmed to cover the $8,500,000 additional expense. The remainder will come from sources
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Felony Charge Against Hired Driver Possible
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A probe. into the circumstances of an accident in which two twin girls and their mother were injured was announced today by Columbus, Ind., officials. John M. Monroe, funeral director of New Washington, Ind., is charged with driving while intoxicated in connection with the case. Bartholomew county authorities at Columbus said they hope to place a more serious charge against the funeral director who was driving the injured persons when the acci« dent occurred Saturday near Columbus. } Convicled Once State police have on record four other cases in which he was arrested on charges of drunken drivI" He was convicted once. As a result of the Saturday accident, Mrs. Eleanor Wagner, 26, | Marysville, and one of her T-year-old twin daughters, Priscilla, are in critical condition. The other twin, Patricia, is in serious condition. The mother is in Long hosptal, the daughters in Riley hospital. Trial of Monroe at Columbus is being held in abeyance until Prosecutor William M, Leinberger, can investigate the full details of the
Felony Hinted A city official . indicated that 8 felony charge. may be placed against Monroe i the case carried to the circuit \court. Action was taken upon disclosure in The Times yesterday of Monroe’s record of arrests op charges of drunken driving. Meanwhile, lie is free on $500 bond. Law enforcement officers in. his {home area today described Monroe as being a heavy and frequent drinker. Joseph R. Peyton, Charlestown, Ind., town marshal, said: “I have. arrested Monroe at least twice myself. Both times his cases were kicked around until they were dismissed or didn’t come up. “lI ‘personally know of, several instances’ in which -his drunken driving has forced cars off the road. This accident bears out what many
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‘Church on ( on Circle Gets Shade Trees
Two 30-ft. Norway maples have been given by a parishioner to shade the yard of Christ Episcopal church on the circle. One of the trees was planted this morning and preparation was being made to set in the other. The church possesses the only lawn on Monument circle,
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POLIO "FIGHT" RESULTS POUR IN—First of the 1100 March of Dimes collection boxes arrive in the offices of the Merchants Armored Car service. On hand fo open them were (left to right) Eugene J. Monroe, company operations manager tics of collection; Ls, OO, F, Andrey and Ernest G. Minnear, chief of thes state
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Circles -2 Ships = In Atlantic Ocean
NEW YORK, Feb. 19 (U, P.).— An Air France Constellation airliner, in distress, was circling above two’ steamships in the Atlantic today, and it appeared that it might have to make a crash landing in. the water. i A terse message received by the coast guard and the army air forces here indicated the crippled plane had jettisoned all possible cargo, but still was aloft. \It was circling an area about 340 | miles southwest of Lisbon, Portugal. Two steamships were standing by. They are the American S. S. Robert Fultom ‘and the Norwegian vessel Estrella. \ Nature of the trouble ahoard the big four- =engined landplane was not known. ; It was en Toute from Bermuda
{to Casablanca, French Morocco. It
hdd landed previously at Lagens field in the Azores. The coast guard said at 1 p. m, (Indianapolis time) that it had intercepted a message to the plane from the army air force. command at Lagens, in the Azores, suggesting that the. pilot make a “controlled landing” near the Robert Fulton. The coast guard’s latest information was that the plane was ‘still aloft, but. with one engine out and one giving only partial power. The distress message from the big plane was received by the coast guard here at 11:20 a. m. (Indianapolis time). Air France headquarters in New York said six passengers and 11 crew members were aboard the big plane. One American from White Plains, N. Y. was among the passengers.
Snow, Colder Due Tomorrow .
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Indianapolis is getting another taste of cold weather. There is a bite to the air today. At 6 a. m. it was 13 degrees above zero. / The cold will coniinbe at least through tomorrow, but cloudy skies, scheduled today, will send down snow beginning tomorrow. Meanwhile, a cold air mass spread over Midwestern states and moved eastward. Foresasters.said it would not reach “cold wave proportions.” . The mercury tumbled to below zero in the north central states and fell 10 to 15 degrees in the central states as the cold fanned out. The U. 8. forecaster at Chicago said the c6ld would bring subnormal temperatures throughout most of the northeastern sestion of the nation, but would not affect
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ICE-O-RAMA HEADLINER — Rex Cook, Indianapolis skater who has appeared in amateur ice shows throughout the nation, will again headline The Times Ice-O-Rama tomorrow night in the Fairgrounds Colssun for the Infantile Paralyse Fund.
Tickets Are Going Fast
Box, Parquet Chairs Exh 50-Cent Mezzanine Seats Si
Distress Signal For Times Ice-O-Rama
g but’ Are Availabl e
By ART WRIGHT A record- breaking advance ticket sale for The Times Ice-O-Rama
today indicated one fact:
Nearly everybody wants to see the ice extravaganza which more
than 400 local amateur skaters will stage for the Infantile Paralysis fund
tomorrow night. in the Fairgrounds Coliseum. A last-minute clamor for the $1 reserved box and parquet seats has
exhausted the supply ... are several thousand mezzanine chairs still available. Many of them will be on sale at the Coliseum box
offices starting at 6:15 p. m. tomor:- |
yor night. Until 4 p. m. tomorrow the 50 cent tickets—the only seats remaining—will be on sale at the downtown booths of the Infantile Paralysis committee in L. S, Ayres & Co, Wm. H. Block & Co, Indianapolis Water Co. L. Strauss & Co., H. P. Wasson & Co. and The Times. Bands to Play
Preceding the show, starting at 7 p. m., Cathedral and Howe High school bands will play for one hour to entertain the early arrivals. The pre-show entertainment is provided because the more than 5000 meszzanine seats are sold on a first come first served basis. Only $1 seats are reserved, but there also will be a seat for everyone buying a 50-cent ticket. The ice show will start promptly at 8 p. m. The Coliseum doors will open at 6:30 o'clock. Those who viewed the dress rehearsal yesterday applauded the two-hour show as the “best ever.” Dressed in the gala costumes, the skaters went through their final drill, Headliners of the 1945 and 1946
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Oil Strike Postponed SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. -19 (U, P.) —C. I. O, oil workers today postponed for 24 hours a strike called against the West's largest oil reflheries. Union leaders and a major oil company planned a meeting aimed at settling their wage dispute.
Despite Party Squabbles, OS
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Push GOP Program In Legislature
Other Legislative Stories, Pages 5 and 6.
By ROBERT BLOEM Administration leaders today be-
gan the job of prying loose policy |;
measures which have become stalled
in legislative committees. After reporting to Governor Gates that. the Republican program was half completed with nearly three weeks of -the session yet to go, liaison officials concentrated first on the house ways and means committee. The party and the administration have sponsored a total of 161 bills, 80 of which already have passed one house or the other. Twenty-two program measures have passed both houses and either have been signed by the governor or are awaiting his signature. Virtually all the major bills in the administration program are well on their way toward final passage, but four are still in house committees, They are the administration liquor reform bill, the pre-audit and control measure to revamp : the state's fiscal management system, city and county surtax on gross income tax, and the 3 cents per package cigaret tax.
Three of the bills are tied up in the ways and means committee,
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Prosecutor's Bid fo Buy New Car For His Office Voted Down by Council
Despite party factional differences, Henry E. Ostrom, county Republican chairman, indicated today he may help Prosecutor Judson | Stark to get an appropriation for a new automobile. Prosecutor Stark’s request for $2100 to buy a new .car for his staf
was turned down by the county council by a vote of 3 to 2 'yesterday. ] In a lengthy statement, Mr. Stark said that operation of his office again
over a wide territory of law enforce ment requires some kind of trans. | one portation. His office has no ‘auto-joRICE mobile. : Three members of the council
who voted down the appropriation be dene about it yet,” Mr, failed to follow the advice of their said. y
county G. O. P. chairman on’ the
matter, Mr. Ostrom posed Prosecutor Star Mr. Ostrom said previously tion in the primary 1 apport {MAY,. said political
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