Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 July 1947 — Page 2

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Senate Due to Double Flood Control Fund: Indiana Share Raised

Sy Fall Creek Project in Indianapolis, Reservoir . Near Spencer 4 Are 2 Biggest. Hoosier Additions WASHINGTON, July TS Congressional “plans to adjourn this wéek- |

end faced their biggest threat today in senate-house differences over

government spending. The sharpest division came on the agriculture department appro-

‘water was spilled on him acei-| and workers at {dentally as he played on the kitchen

The . priation bill ‘Senate and house conferees were $86 million apart. oi was sent back into conference and senate members ! were instructed

to fight for an increase In the) Cor mm Cyl LL” book, “I Chose house-approved bill, The disputed Presdon.”

funds covered soil Sensetvation, He said that he knew of at least! meat inspection, tenan two instances in which official Rus-

the school lunch program. sian visitors had collected confidehAnother stumbling block to d= | 1" sion military secrets.

journment may arise over the war . department civil functions bill. The Harness Takes Credit portedly was ready to give speedy approval to a measure providing| Chairman Forest A. Harness (R. $209.900,000 for general flood con-| Ind.) of the $25,000 house subcommittee on publicity and propaganda house has recommended. Other | in items in the senate bill were cor-| credit for driving civilians from the respondingly higher than in the war department payroll who were have to be resolved in conference, training The flood control funds were rec- In a second report to the house, ommended ‘by an appropriations| Mr. Harness named Alan Coutts Chan Gumey (R. 8. D). Ter employed by the war departThe funds for the Ohio river basin | ment to boost UMT, This jesulted include $3,684,000 for Indiana proj-| directly from his subcommittee than was provided in the house bill | M————————— for Indiana. Both house and senate are agreed | p S ow iS er on flood control work at New Al- | “re Ruled U. S. Reds The senate committee, however, . . added numerous other projec at Indianapolis, $1 million for the —A Detroit salesman told a federal Cagles Mill reservoir on Eel river/court jury today he was thrown near Spencer; $600,000 for Cannel. lout of the Communist party in 1034 Jeffersonville and Clarksville; $300,- | him to support the party line, or 000 for the McGinnis levee, and else.» $300,000 for the S8huffieberger fevee.i The witness, Joseph Zack Korn- | Even the senate figures, however, | for the Communist party, were below the requests of army, He described a clandestine meetengineers transmitted . to congress. {ing-with- Eisler in a New. York paper | asked $1 million each for the Pail! | described by the FBI as the pre-] creek and Cannelton projects, $600,- war director of Communist under000 for the New Albany project and| cover work in this country, ordered | e Ohio. |be expelled. \ Sones. Seeks Method He said he told Eisler he had a right to talk as he saw fit Of Avoiding Impasse Kornfeder, said whether to risk a Dem " buster to ip ~ on poralte AN Mr. Kornfeder testified at Eisier's sponsored resolution to i Lorin on charges of making false in the Kansas City vote fraud case | [ist affiliations in a passport applicaThe senate Republican policy| '1o™ committee named a three-man sub-| He said Eisler personally selected action. Senator James P. Kem, munist party in 1934. sponsor of the resolution, urged | Mr. Kornfeder, himself a Moscow.that adjournment be postponed if (schooled former representative. of Republican. leaders were gencrally troduced to him as the “reprgsentaopposed to such a move, | tive of the Communist Internation-| le.” All Hoosiers in House * 1 Although all nine Indiana Re- | publicans. votsd for the poll- ~tax | 200-112, the sole active ss Amexation Plan from the state, Rep. Ray Madden of Gary, took the house floor to urge its adoption, A resolution opposing the proleck (R. Ind.) answered a question | *®8, to the city of Indianapolis was | regarding statements attributed to! adopted today by Marion county him and Rep, Gerald Landis (R.| commissioners. would be passed partly ih revenge ordinance now pending before the for southern, . Democrats - voting | CIty council, proposing to annex as against tax cuts. | part of the city an area along Arthat this is not & jnove in. opalin- and east to Kitley ave. tion .against anyone, from: ' “If this ordinance - is passed, it south,” Mr. Halleck replied”, the| annex a strip of territory not tax legislation was highly necessary {take from the county highway sys-| at this time because it will-give the the | tem most of North Arlington ave.’ franchise to almost 16 millien. citi- | the commissioners’ resolution stated. D : annexation would be impracticall lares All Russians and unsound because it would not| In U. S. Are ‘Spies’ join properly with the present city Victor Kravchenko, once a Soviet |

ee Ts. give speedy For Army Payroll Cut trol projects—twice as much as the executive departments, took house version. The differences will} “lobbying” for universal military subcommittee headed by Senator and Mrs. Arthur Woods as no longects. This is about $3 million more | hearings, Mr, Harness indicated. bany, Ind. costing an estimated | $750,000 for a project on Fall creek] WASHINGTON, July 22 (U. P). ton, $65.000 for Delphi, $200.000 fo: i» month after Gerhart Eisler told both of the latter on: the Ohio. . |feder. was Cleveland district leader by President Truman. The army in August, 1034. He sald Eisler 000 for levee project No. § on|him to support the party line or| Republican 163d 65s pundoretipy.™ oon, later 1 was expeiten,” the justice department's conduct | Statements concerning his Communcommittee to decide 6n a course of | the national committee of the Comnecessary to allow time for action | the Comintern, said Eisler was inVote for Poll Tax Ban County. inty Opposes repeal hill, which passed the house Majority Leader Charles A. Hal. | Posed annexation of an East Side Ind) that the poll tax repealer | Commissioners referred to an w “I say eel a | ave. from 16th to 21st sts Mr. Madden said the A0ti-pal | contiguous to the city and it would zens of our country of all rdbés. “The commissioners feel that the | | Umits.”

purchasing tgent in this country, |

a cid the howe un-American setv-| Dgwoy Held Up’ By Cowboys

responsible representative of the| CODY, Wyo, July 22 (U P).—|

Soviet Union in the United States may be regarded as economical or political spies: group of cowboys and “Indians” | Mr, Kravchenko, who served on a faked a holdup of New York Gover- | Soviet purchasing committee in this|nor Thomas E. Dewey's automobile country, later broke with the Rus. |NeAr here yesterday. sians over Communist policies and| They “forced” Governor Dewey | c—— from the car and madé him, his| {wife and two sons ride into Cody | In in a stage coach. | Following his arrival here, Gover- | . % - nor Dewey was presented a pair of | Indianapolis engraved spurs by the Cody Amer- | ican Legion. Said Governor Dewey: — “I hope I don't have to use them | tn the near future | |

BIRTHS

Gir At a Francis—Llo; th Gladys McCarty Margaret Collins. Arva, Prieda a: and Robert, Diane Struck At Oity-Charies. Nellie Gilmore At Cole ~Dennis, : Barrett,

Russ Tactics on oil

—C Equipment Protested | Robert, Edrea Purcell, Donald. Harriet WASHINGTON, July 22 (U. P).| » hens, and Marvin, Helen Wallace

ethodist Charles, Eudora Burkert | —The state department is trying) Ro Geraldine Herron, Louis, Chesiyn; John, Mary Lang, Wanda Mullin Lela Bainter, and William, Home — Herbert, 4202 .Indianapolis

Boys At St. Prancis—Oha res,

rao | to learn what Russia is going to) do aboiit returning $1 million worth | of equipment taken from a Standard Oil (N, J) subsidiary in Ro-| lizabath Star<| Mania. Ee oxeot., and, Following nine conferences over a he Coleman-—Robert Donnie Pelkin 33-month period, a Jott COMMIS, Marion, Lorene Hurst, and Wilbur, June | SION set up at the Potsdam confer | est | ence gave “up without reaching a, At Methodist— Will Bonnie Wool } Ra Sihalist Williah, Beynie Hise | decision. The state department

uit Katie Ray

Elizabeth Ba: HL and Cnecirr Dorothy announced yesterday that it had Hamiion | protested the Russian tactics and DEATHS had asked Moscow to reveal its

doses Bathual Abbett, 73, at 614 Collage, “views and intentions.”

Hell, 84, at 1735 N Tacoma, sare

3 Mendenhall, 55, at 952 N coronary occlusion

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~WAA Center Nearing Completion

- d Pointer, 47, at 5081 BE. New , "CH unk, A. at’ Methodist | THE new Duster Service Center rotic ear the - A 57. at 801 W. 44th, coro-| 9 arott bldg. 342 Massa-

chusetts ave. is nearing completion | el aa §20 E. Vermont, arterio- | and {s already staffed with experJohn Shelton, 48, at St. Vinegnt | lenced sales personnel to handle’ ir SR: er, 8, 300. Cres. ourrent inquiries, H. G. Drake, In-|

WAA, announced today. 44, 1 City,

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| Dispute Over $86 ‘Million Snags Congress

TUESDAY, JULY 2, 147

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2 Babies Scaided Jewish Fund Heads

At Homes Here | Two babies were in hospitals today because of burns received when! To Hear Venezky

scalding water fell on them fom, stoves in their homes. Julian Venezky, national chair.

Year-old Stephen E. Jackson, 8 map of regions for the United of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Jackson, is} i 1720 Asbury st, was scalded J Appeal, will address Indian

yesterday when a pan of boiling | apolis Jewish Welfare Pund leaders

be p.m. Thursday = floor. His condition in St. Vincent's in Kirshbaum |, [hospital was serious: | center, About 8 a m. today Stephen, Mr. Venezky Mayes, 15-month-old son of Mrs. | will report on the Pearl Mayes of 905 E. 23d st, was| | new ecrists which scalded when he pulled coffee water | faces relief and | from a range and spilled it on him-| re tation in self. He was in fair condition in ie with the © | City ‘hospital, liquidation of UN

RRA and the deRail Strike Ends {lay in forming BAN FRANCIBLuU,

Mr. Venerky P.) ~Negotiators for the Southern tional Refugee Organization.

Luly 22 (U.| the new Interna-

Pacific Railway and the Brother-| His visit will inaugurate the sechood of Locomotive Engineers ond phase of the campaign in con-

reaghed agreemienli ay oday 9 | nection with the nationwide drive

lived strike on one-third of the| for $170,000000 for large-scale re-

Far West's rail transportation, lief.

Last of F. D. R. ‘Brain Trust,’ Benjamin Cohen to Quit

Hoosier Leaving State Department Post At End of Month for ‘Much-Needed Rest’

.. By MERRIMAN SMITH, United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, July 22.-Benjamin Victor Cohen, the last of the origina] New Deal “brain trust,” will end 14 years of government service at the end of this month. . At that time the soft-spoken native of Muncie, Ind. quits his post of counselor to the state department. Mr. Cohen's resignation was announced by the White House yester-

day. |53-year-o1d Hoosier would stray far Charles E. Bohien, young career from the Washington scene. He is diplomat, was nominated by Presi- jdependently wealthy, partly as the dent Truman to : [result of smart stock trading in the

succeed him. Mr, |late 1920's. Bohlen ‘will have ; Mr. Cohen Was a daily figure on the Jang ot Pak ithe front pages when he was work- . HH d th satan Beau. ng during the early days of the

{New Deal along with Thomas Cor- ' |coran—the famous “Tommy the Cork.”

month told Mr, f Truman that'f

after 14 years | Mr. Corcoran and Mr. Cohen were government serv- [two of the top advisers to the late fce he thought

President Roosevelt in the early |days of the New Deal. They helped [to draft some of the most imporHe gave no other tant of Mr. Roosevelt's reforms. reasons for leaving, Mr. Cohen played a leading role in

he deserved a long-needed rest.

or . Mr. Cohen

. |and later the public utilities holding

pieces of New Deal legislation—the securities and exchange act in 1034,

company act, No Impressive Titles Despite his powerful role in the New Deal, none of the numerous titles Mr, Cohen held was very impressive in this rank-conscious town. Mr, Cohen came into the government in 1933 as an attorney for the public works administration. He later served as a special assistant to the attorney general. At the start of the war he had pretty well faded from the public

spotlight until he ‘went to Great

Hungary Orders U. S. Oil Firm to Pay $15 Million

BUDAPEST, July ‘22 (U. P).—

Government officials reported today that a special tax would be levied on Hungarian American oil company profits in excess of 8 per cent

Britain in 1941 as an adviser te Ambassador John G. Winant. . Drafted by Byrnes’ James F. Byrnes, who had known Mr. Cohén for years, drafted him for service in the office of economic stabilization, and later as general counsel for the office of war mobili." zation. When Mr. Byrnes became secretary of state he took “Ben” along with him to be counselor, Mr. Bohlen, his successor, is a product of Harvard who has been in the foreign service since 1929. He served as a special adviser to Mr. Byrnes and to Secretary of State George C. Marshall.

Paper Company Reports Six-Months Earnings

Pt. Wayne Corrugated Paper Co. . today reported a net income of

$1,321,207, or $4.08 a common share,

for the six months’ period ended

to recover an estimated $15 million. June 30.

Officials said the American-owned

Those Who knew him doubted the drafting two of f the most famous

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This figure compares with $563,

firm invested omly $2 million in- 067, or $1.74 per share, the previous

stead of $17 million as claimed.

year.

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