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MONDAY, APRIL 21, 1047

Next Few Days Test Whether Congress

Can Dodge Question

Buck Has Been Pased to Everyone, * Now Decision Faces Banking Committee

By CHARLES T. LUCEY Seripps-Howard Staff Writer WASHINGTON, April 21.--Rent control has turned out to be the real political hot potato of this session of congress. Whether the Republicans get stuck with it or manage to heave it into the Potomac for a permanent cooling-off may be decided in he’

next few days,

In both senate and house the question of continuing rent controls |

or ending them has been an on-again-off-again proposition since Januapy.

controls in the postwar period con-'

cede a strong case can be made for

Hearings have gone on for weeks. allowing more leeway in rent rises® It’ remains almost the only im-!

A wide variety of compromises have been suggested.

{portant living cost factor in which.

‘Leaders have sweated.to find 8 there has been no general increase.

solution that would not be dam-

aging politically. But still there is no decision.

The house banking and cure]

rency committee will meet tomorrow to wrestle with it again, but nobody will predict the result: Fear 1948 Election : Whatever is done, politicians who come up for election again next year fear some groups are bound to be angry. ! Nor have Republicans alone been stumped by what to do on rent controls.

In January the OPA sectionsof are

Most Voters Are Tenants

The groups in favor of ending §

rent controls or at least granting

an increase are reminding the Re- # |publicans that pre-election bill-

boards all over the country last {year read: “Kill OPA—Vote Republican!”

These groups insist that everyone, assumed that “New Deal controls” (were coming off. Yet the Repub. | Nicans have been running the show {in congress for four months, they say, and nothing has happened. But the Republicans know there! more voters among tenants!

the office of temporary controls than among landlords.

prepared an order announcing a general increase in rent levels, At the last moment this was] tossed overboard by the White House. Modifications of rent control, said President Truman, were up to congress. Up or Down? The issue is just about as hot! economically as politically. The administration’s big push dometically

Again, some congressmen argue that the high living cost “squeeze” on millions of average families has |been great and that any rent jump would make it just that much more difficult for them. Let's wait a few months, they say, until the downward living cost {movement really has taken hold— then rent relief “could be granted without upsetting the wages-and-

livingin the last month has been to drive ng-cosis balance.

down the cost of living. Passed Over Twice The most recent government fig-{ An early drive in the senate for ure based on the Feb. 15 to March 'a flat 10-15 per cent rent increase 15 period, showed a 2 per cent ad- | Was turned back by the banking vance. and currency committee, which has But a telegraphic survey of prices reported out a bill which would in leading cities indicates the rise allow “hardship case” rent inhas been halted — that the mid-|Creases to be granted by local March to mid-April trend was boards. downward by about 1 per cent. |

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Politically, this solution escapes and shotstrings.

THE INDIANAPOLIS. TIMES

Quesiion | Of | Rent eranse ce C

Acme Telephoto. WAIT FOR PARENTS— Virginia Ross, 5, leans ‘on the shoulder of her big brother, Johnnie Ross, 7, as they wait for their parents at the child welfare center, Cincinnati, O. They were found crying in a doorway and police believe they were abandoned. The chil-

| dren said they had come to Cincinnati from Leavenworth, Kas.

Confessed Slayer of Girl

Imprisoned in

Threatens to Kill Himself

PASADENA, Cal, April 21 (U.P). In the tiny padded cell where he | has threatened to take his life, 18- | &

year-old Gerald Snow Welch poured

forth a tale of love and frustration |

today. He said it led -him to kill his 16-year-old sweetheart, Dolores Fewkes. “I'd rather let the state execute

me, but ? would kill myself if I got!

the chance,” he said. Besides incarcerating him in a} padded cell, «police removed his belt Only a mattress

So now the question is: Would | some of the danger involved in a was placed in the cell.

a 10 per cent rent advance force flat incréase or a flat refusal to

the living cost level up again just increase. But the bill has been | dered to police Saturday. as hope arises that a downturn on passed over twice on the senate showing officers her bullet- ridden, said. At dawn she sat on a bench

high prices at reached? Averaged nationally, such an in-!

has been calenddr already, and there is no, !great enthusiasm to take it up.

last

per family. It could be used as a about midweek. lever, of course, for higher wage!

lc.o.P. The labor bill is expected now to there was wide disagreement there. 2live, he clubbed her to death with crease would mean $4 or $5 a month follow the Greek-Turkish aid bill | Tt was passed then to a joint con-|the rifle butt. |gressional economic committee. The house banking and currency |

The curly-haired youth surrenAfter

steering committee, and

But tomorrow it is expected to

demands and contribute thus to an'committee voted a 10 per cent rent {land back in the banking and cur-

inflationary trend. increase some weeks ago. Even some who have been strong- moved to reconsider. est for eontinuing price and rent

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Then |{rency committee—still a hot potato | the church.

many congressmen would like to |

The issue was taken to the lignore.

Padded Cell

Gerald

Delores

battered body in a borrowed car parked outside, he told of a.long- | contemplated suicide pact. He said lit failed because he had to use his {only two rifle bullets to kill her.

They spent the night together at a picnic grounds north of here, he

while he shot her twice with a 22caliber rifle. Discovering her still

He had contemplated suicide, he said, because of his inability to “fit lin” on jobs, with his family or in But Miss Fewkes (“couldn't stand to be left behind

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2 Are Quizzed In Safe-Cracking

Strand Theater Robbery Thwarted

A 26-year-old paroled convict was held on vagrancy charges today after a tip to police from a passerby early yesterday broke up an attempted safe-cracking at the Strand theater. Under arrest was Edward Kellums, 26, of 2311 E. Washington st., who was captured as he fled from a rear door of the theater at 1332 E. Washington st. Another man leaped a fence in the rear and escaped after police had fired a shot. Later they arrested a man who said “ran around with | Kellums.” He was being questioned today. . g Nucleus .of Mob After confiscating a large amount

ot equipment police said the cap-

ture broke up “the nucleus of a

~ | safe-eracking mob.”

Both men are being questioned

‘ |about a $1057 safe burglary at the

theater Feb. 16. When arrestéd, Kellums had a loaded pistol. Police were called when a passerby saw two men enter the parking lot next to the theater. Patrolmen Gene Gandolf and John Gillespie approached quietly and saw that the rear door had been forced. Call Emergency Squad They then called for an emergency squad, but both men attemped to leave before the squad arrived. Gandolf fired at one man as he leaped the fence and then captured Kellums, In other crimes last night bandits escaped with over $300 worth of cash and jewelry. William Grace, 1210 W. Washington st., who operates a Pure Oil

station at that address reported that

two men held him up at gun-point early today and took $100. Mrs. Celia Singer, 57, of 1027 S. Kenwood ave. said a tall man grabbed her purse cofitaining $411 in cash and’ jewelry white she was walking in front of 12 W. Ray st. Saturday night.

Robbed of $60 James A. Lacefleld, Cincinnati, O., said three men struck him on the head in the rear of the bus terminal Saturday night and escaped with $60 and a $250 bond. Stella McCarty, 70, of 2138 N. Illinois st., said a masked man forced his way into her home at gun-point early today and after searching the house escaped with $16. Miss Mary Clark, 19, of 3554 E. Michigan st., told police two youths grabbed her handbag containing $12

Gets 87 Diamonds As Anniversary Gift

Princess Elizabeth, heiress presump-

tive to the British throne, climaxed the celebration of her 21st birthday

whole life” to the service of the empire. Elizabeth made a five-minute broadcast to the empire over which she is destined to reign. She set at rest once and for all the sometime idly. recurrent speculation that she might follow the example of her uncle, who as Edward VIII re-

I love.” “I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long

-Jor short, shall’ be devoted to your |

service and the service of our great imperial family to which we all belong,” said Elizabeth, who is to become Britain's first queen since Victoria. Elizabeth spoke as a “representative of the youth of the British family of nations.” In that role she asked the help and support of the empire's youth to “make this ancient commonwealth an even grander thing.” n “In our time,” she said, “Britain has saved the world first, and now has to save itself after the battle is won.” Bells Ring for Half Hour She spoke from Capetown, 6000 miles from the land of her birth which she left for the first time to make the good will tour of South Africa with her parents and sister. Bells pealed and naval guns boomed in celebration of the princess’ birthday. The carillon in Capetown’s city hall pealest for half an hour. From many parts of the world presents. were sent to government house for the slender princess. The most magnificent gift was; from the South ‘African government. Premier Jan C. Smuts was making | the formal presentation af a ball at government , house. Eighty-seven diamonds, weighing 90.69 carats, were presented to her to be strung as a necklace. The collection was valued conservatively at no less than $100,000. Another birthdays factor in the economic field, at 21 the princess income automatically went up from $24,000 to $60,000 a year. In addition, she now can manage her own finances.

en on / Dedicates Whole Life to

CAPETOWN, April 21 (U, P).—

with a solemn dedication of “my|

nounced the throne for “the woman |

Londoners Had Expected | Announcement of Troth|

|and we decided to go together.”

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i BIRTHDAY PICTURE—Princess Elizabeth, elder PR King George VI and Queen Elizabeth and heir to the British th is pictured at Natal national park during the royal family's ro South Africa. The princess celebrates her 21st birthday today. ~~

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nouncement that she was. engaged to Lt. Philip Mountbatten, who was Prince Philip of Greece. - The opinion among those disappointed by the lack of an announcement today appeared to be that it was merely a matter of time. At any rate they conceded that with the royal family far away in- South Africa, the tidinig could not be ex-’ pected before the return to Britain next month.

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