Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 July 1947 — Page 2

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BATAVIA, July 21 (U. P) ~The Dutch army announced tonight that it had opened warfare against the Indonesian republic with destructive sweeps by American-made Mustang fighters. Other sources reported that heavy ground fighting was going on. (The Republican radio Jogjik= arta, heard in Singapore, reported that Dutch planes bombed the Republican capital at Jogjakarta but did not say how many planes were involved or done.) Bids United Nations Act President Sukarno of the Indonesian republic appealed in a radio broadcast to his people for United Nations intervention 10 hait the Dutch attack. . (In Washington; the U department said it had blessing yesterday to a futile St tempt by Great Britain to settle the dispute peacefully.) The Dutch announced they be-

gan military operations only alter " pr ' prolonged negotiajions for peaceful ph § " : settlement of Dutch-Indonesian ate PEDESTRIAN TRAFFIC DEATH— John Rupe, 78, became the city's lates!

rences failed. ve j , 3 Jeronmug fal. art com-| traffic victim this morning when he was struck by a truck in front of his home

munique of you campaign in at 909 Prospect st. the steaming jungles of Java. Ti sees y= - 'Flying Parson’ Takes Over 3000 Square-Mile Parish

reported that Dutch airmen fying] . . the P-81's of world war II ame Jet-Drive Bicycle shot up and blasted strong had and Prange with enemy Is Demonstrated fighters. | ’ Plane Shot Down By Ohio Inventors LEMMON, §. D, July 21 (U. P).|yesterday for an installation cereOne Japanese-type Repulilican FR | ~The Rev. Norval Hegland took mony for the preacher. plane was shot down in flames &f| DAYTON, O. July 1 (U. P)—| 2000 aupriomite | The Rev. Mr. Hegland will make Kalidjatl..: Near Serang » number | 1... a bird, it's a plane, it's Super- . pa par his first circuit next Sunday, of gasoline tanks were blown up - and workshops were” hammered, manne, it isn't - It's a Jet-pro-, the communique said. | pelled bicycle Lt. Gen: Sudirman, Indonesian Inventors William Tenney and commander 2 in - chief, reported Charles Marks demonstrated the man-made wings. “heavy fighting is beginning In | fjet-bike at a sneak preview yester- | The 32-year-old "flying parsun” Semarang,” on the northern coast day at the fairgrounds. It looks will serve five widely scattered of Java opposite the republican | liks an ordinary bicycle with a triple congregations in the nation’s largest capital of Jogjakartas. Gen. Suder- airhorn mounted on the rear Evangelical Lutheran parish. man said the Dutch began their! fender and a small tank under the! He will cover the distancé in a attack st Semarang with a heavy seat. The three tubes un ihe rear Piper cub plane. Two automobile artillery bombardment. are the jet engines and the tankitrailers will serve as a “roving

Republican Premier Amir Sjari- '8 for fuel | parsonage.” fudin, In an emergency broadcast; 5 8 8 Hundreds said the Dutch “started violence not THE MOTORS blast the bike wide-spread only at the front, but bombed out along at a 35-mile-an-hour clip and cities of Malang, Solo and olhers, when they are “souped up’ will where people uve.” push faster than that.

“I accuse the Dutch of Uying 0 gj ce uision 15 by Jet. just, SAN DIEGO, Cal, July 21 (U. P.. ; Jonialize us.” Premier Sjarifudin' prop y Jet, jus , , y Three Indianapolis Water

td a8 in Aircraft, no drive is used be-| —Mira Elizabeth Ingalls, (Srmer staff members are attending the Republican and Dutch officials! tween engines and wheels and there | BOSton socialite, was on the verge of national convention of the Ameri- . . { ai !a nervous collapse in San Diegocan Water Works association in have agreed that the Indies should are no belts chains or gears used county jail toda receive full independence in 1949,!to turn the wheels. : y San Francisco starting today.

today. He prepared to spread the gospel to South Dakota's outland sheepherders and cattle ranchers on

Reva, Piresteel and Isabel. All are small communities within 60 air. miles of Lemmon, which will serve as the central base for the parish. The Rev. Mr. Hegland came here from a Miles City, Mont., parish. He regards his new assignment as “a great adventure.” He obtained his pilot's license a year ago. . His wife and their three children will follow him around the circuit in the two trailers, one a mobile of persons from the | parsonage and the other a conferparish gathered here'ence room and study.

Woman Is Convicted Water Company Officials Of Slavery Charge | At National Convention

interim arrangements. {Is needed as. the engines have only |, The Dutch repeatedly have &c- one moving part which requires no

cused the republicans of violating lubrication. A federal court jury failed to reach| W. Niemeyer,

la verdict on a similar ~harge against | distribution,

Indonesian troops number about 200,000. Many wear Japanese uniforms and use Japanese arms. The Dutch forces were led by a| division which trained at the U. 8. marine base at Quantico, Va, In preparation for fighting Japanese.

Plan to Re-enact Blast on Yacht

SANTA ANA, Cal, July 21 (UO. P.).—The state today planned a -courtroom re-enactment in miniature. of the March 15 timebomb blast which sank the yacht, Mary E, and the bludgeoned bodies of its owners, Mrs and Mrs. Walter E. Overell. Prosecutor Eugene D. Willams contended that the dynamite blast was intended to conceal the mur- | ders for which their daughter, Beulah Louise, 18, and her 21-year-old flance, George (Bud) Gellum, are on trial | Criminologist Roger 8. Greene was to set off the demonstration, explosion, using a standard photoflash bulb. The Dulb was wired to an alarm clock of a type found aboard the yacht As the trial entered its ninth week prosecutors expected that their case would require at least three more weeks to present. The defense planned to take four to six weeks.

Rep: Landis Named

To Labor Committee WASHINGTON, July 21 (U.P) ~—Rep. Gerald W. Landis (R. Ind) was named today as a member of the joint congressional labor committee created to study labor probJems and the operation of the TaftHartley law. The 14-member committee—seven cach from the house and senate. | labor committees—was established by the new labor law to study the causes of labor unrest, the administration of federal labor laws, In. dustrial productivity, collective bargaining practices and. other problems. Senator Joseph H. Ball (R Minn.) was elected chairman and Rep. Pred A. Hartley (R. N. J) as vice chairman. Mr. Landis was placed on a six-man subcommittee which will prepare & program for

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Now is Chief Snag WASHINGTON, July 21 (U. P..

* |=~Republican leaders voiced confi-| % dence today that congress would |

dispose of all - remaining “must” legislation in time to meet its Saturday night adjournment deadline. Senator Robert A. Taft (R. QO), chairman of the semate's G. O. P. policy committee, sald he saw no reason why all major measures couldn't ‘be on the way to the White House by the end of the week.

scheduled to hold day and night sesisons this week. was intended to put finishing touches on seven money bills for government departments, the armynavy unification measures carrying top priorities.

Leave Bond Cash Now Up to Truman

terminal leave bonds for hard cash probably will stand out as the major veterans legislation of this session {of congress.

| This bill awaits President Tru-|

{man's signature. ‘Secret F. D. R. Papers 'Subpenaed by Senators

The senate war invesiigating committee, about to launch a new inquiry, has subpenaed some secret papers of the late President Roosevelt. In a series of hearings to begin July 28, the committee will seek to determine if there was any connection between Elllott Roosevelt and the $40 million in war plane orders which Hollywood Magnate Howard Hughes never delivered.

Charges ‘Filibuster’

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Senate Republican Whip Kenneth {Wherry sald the senate would be {kept in session all night if neces{sary tH get a vote on a resolution {to investigate justice department

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| fraud case The measure has been stalled by what the Republicans call Democratic filibustering. i In the house, meanwhile, Re- | publican leaders today rode rough- | shod over a fighting southern fli{buster and passed the anti-poll tax bill by a vote of 290 to 111. The bill, which would ban pay-

‘ment of a tax as a condition for Co. | voting, now goes to the senate. It is conceded no chance of passing at

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PITTSBURGH, July 21 (U. F).~— Mrs. Ruth Harkness, 46-year-old women explorer wha brought the | live panda to the United States, died of acute alcoholism, a eoroner's report said today. Mrs. Harkness’ body was found yesterday in a partly filled bathtub |in her room at the William Penn | hotel, where she had registered Thursday. Police at first suspected murder until ghe autopsy report by Dr. T. R. Helmbold showed she died of acute alcoholic gastro-enteritis. Originally a dress designer! Mrs. Harkness turned éxplorer after her husband, William H. Harkness, well« known explorer, died in Shanghadl in 1935 on the eve of a panda hunt in Tibet.

To Give Ships to Reich NEW YORK, July 21 (U. Poe The American Merchant institute protested today a plan before congress to turn 75 Liberty .ships over to Germany.

The institute, an areanization of shipowners, said the plan was a violation of the Potsdam agreement and might result in rebuilding the

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The following year she went inte Tibet and almost immediately captured a baby panda. : It was brought to the United States, where it was accorded a re-

In U.S, Aid Reds

‘Editor Gives Estimate To House Commitiee

Most Are Sympathizers Mr. Steele said the total estimated membership probably would break down into 100,000 card~ carrying Communists, 100,000 candi~

"ldates for party membership and

4,800,000 members of Communistfront. organisations or Communist sympathizers, im Committee Investigator Robert Stripling said Mr. Steele's estimate was the “largest ever given the com~ mittee” Mr, Steele testified on two bills which would outlaw or restrict the

7 |activities of the Communist party,

He said that two menths ago he had turned over to. the army a list of 2000 servicemen, ‘He said he had found them to be members of the Communist party or front organiza= tions, Mr, Steele said many of the Come munists and sympathirers he #iscovered in the armed forces "are now on reserve, subject to a». ..e in case of another war. “Their loyalty is to the Soviet union in the event the United States engages in war with Ruse sia or any of her satellites,” Mr, Steele said, .

quarters disclosed that che war dee partment's drive against Commie nists in military and civilian posi»

ception rivaling that of a foreign celebrity. The bear was taken to the Brookfield soo in Chicago, where it died in 1938 after it had heen joined by another panda, also captured by Mrs. Barkness, : Mrs. Harkness later wrote several books on her experiences, including “The Lady and the Panda,” “Pangoan Diary” and “The Baby Giant Panda.” Police said Mrs. Harkness gave her address as Fulton, N. Y., when she registered at the hotel.

Rumanian Political Chief Imprisoned

LONDON, July 21 (U. P).-Dr. Jules Maniu, leader of the Rumanian Peasant party who was under house arrest, has been placed in a prison, Exchange Telegraph reported today from Bucharest. The government had Dr. Maniu arrested last: week on charges of

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