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‘Indianapolis was the coldest spot within a radius of miles from the city today. The official low at the downtown weather bureau was degrees at 7 a, m., but residential areas felt a season's
ow of 4 degrees below zero.
No relief from the frigid weather is in sight as tem-
ratures continued to range rom 6 to 832 degrees below a
ormal 28. The mercury plunged lower than nticipated overnight as skies, jeared and a calm set in.
to double up with friends and relatives,
prices during the emergency. Numerous complaints of a “grey t” in oil have been reported. Officials Close Jail Officials at Cashton, Wis, said “e town had only 500 gallons of il left for some 400 consumers. “At Mellen, Wis., the library, police and jail’ closed to conserve The city hall closed last week:
ormed in the Canadian Yukon and
“Plan to Divorce
JAD from Police "Feeney Calls Agency “Political Football’
By LOUIS ARMSTRONG
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[Deny Defense
Mistrial Motion In Watts’ Case
Effort to Discharge Jury Is Overruled —
aeys for Robert Austin Watts to file motions for mistrial and discharge of the jury.
of Watts for the shotgun slaying of
sn = ; LOCAL TEMPERATURES Ms. Mary Lau Burney continued. ] deplay came about at Watts 00) It TE} [ma seine ow sae pes Tam fam 3.00 threatened to run a knife “am... 6 10am ,..§ Samo: 5am. 3 Mrs. Merrifield. 5a m 3 12 (Noom) .. 9 Mrs. Mabel Merrifield, prominent | am ..3 1pm.9.
signed confession to the slaying. He is being tried in the shotgun killing only. - oT Demands Their Identity Watts made a side comment
Fey the knife state police are al{leged to have threatened him with 'as being one he had seen in the courtroom while ‘the trial progfressed: + 5 el . Aaa Xr Prosecutor Stark demanded that Watts identify which of two butch-
Plans to divorce the Juvenile Aid| er knives, introduced as evidence, from the Police Department were| he referred to. \
announced today by Mayor Al A verbal battle between Mr. Stark Feeney as he continued to probe and Defense Attorney Emerson
the handling of juvenile cases Brunner ensued and Judge Barger
within the city. Labeling the Juvenile Aid Divisjon as a “political football” in the past, he said inexperienced personnel had been forced on the division’s director who had no rebut to accept them. Mayor Feeney said the plans for removing JAD from the police department would reach a conclusion about the end of the year. He sald the division would be given its own separate budget. No Need for Policemen
—*There’s ‘no -need for a lot of
mission to ask Watts a preliminary question. Mr. Stark displayed two butcher knives, one found beside Mrs. Burney’s body, the other in a home of a state witness, and asked Watts to say which 6ne he referred to.
30 I can see,” Watts said. Defense Attorneys Object “This is as close as I want you to be to them,” Mr. Stark said holding them three feet from Watts. It was this remark which brought defense attorneys to their feet. They objected to the remark being made in the presence of the jury ‘and branded it misconduct on the part of the prosecutor. Meanwhile, Watts told a tangled
tale of beatings which he said-he
received at State Police headquar.
interrupted to give Mr. Stark per-|
“Well, bring them over closer
Golden held a
The . Mayor and Capt.
Reynolds, JAD director, ‘confession Nov. 18.
noon. The Mayor said Capt. | flicted with that which he gave
lengthy conference yesterday after.| Several times. his testimony eon- fAF abs | Filter ing
Reynolds agreed that several per. during an earlier hearing.
sons in his department lacked | Once Watts said he was se badly efMotency tn “thelr work and he beaten that he could not remember recommended certain replacements, |2nything which occurred two days Quarters Dis oP after his arrest. Later, however, Mayor Feeney sald the first prob- he described in detail every thing
lem in “revitalizing” the division “Dich he sald happened to him
was to obtain larger working quar-|C cY d8¥ and- night between Nov. |
THURSDAY, JANUARY 22, 1948 Harassed Legionnaires Ponder ‘New Look’
Thousands of Women Members Watching (CONTROVERSY ripped the ranks of the American - Legion wide open to-
“day. The storm center is: What about the “new look” for
1 the thousands of women in the
Legion? 8 From coast-to-coast Ladies of the Legion are in an uproar. They want an up-to-the-minute snappy outfit which conceals yet reveals. . . n TWO-FISTED, he-men Legionnaires are in full flight, That is, all but an unhappy seven-member committee which must meet here Jan. 31 for a
“through my throat like I did to| three-day session to consider the
| explosive subject, The 20th national convention
club woman, was killed a few days last August dumped the assignbefore Mrs: Burney and Watts has| ment into the lap of the all-male
committee. It is up to them to determine & standard official uni form for the women. :
~ ” . . THE BULK of the feminine members are veterans of World War II and are acutely uniformminded.
.-sérvice outfits and take a dim view of ‘the present’ charm-hid-
blouse. “It's nothing but Pop's suit cut down to size,” the distaff side wails.
But what to do about it? There are 192 all-women's posts and that means 192 uniform ideas. There are more than 300,000 more who belong to predominantly male posts, and these women have thei’ ideas, too. - ® . 7 NOW ALL this brings out | such problems as length of skirt, « blouse flare, derriere constraint and other such delicate, unmentionable items which completely | befuddle hard-hitting, old-time | Legionnaires, . D. L. Haffner, Garrett; Ind, chairman of the national emblem | committee which must consider | .the “project,” plans to approach | the problem like a turtle with head tucked under. Meanwhile, the 58th Legion de-
paruments have been asked to |
submit specifications for a .
Into Palestine
Prepare Bases For Fight to Come
By SAM SOUKI
They recall their eye-stopping
ing Legion skirt, coat and belt or
STORM CENTER—Plans to create a new uniform for women
Entered as Second-Class Mattel at Postoftice
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Russian Tactics
Truman Rags Hoover's Plan For Aid Slash
Taft Backs Cut As ‘Right in Line’ WASHINGTON, Jan, 22 (UP)— Président Truman ‘today bluntly rejected former President Herbert Hoover's call for drastic revision of the administration's European
_|Recovery Program as some Repub-
lican congressional leaders lined up behind the “Hoover Plan.” 2 The battle over the merits of the. Marshall Plan appeared to: be de[veloping into a political slugfest in this presidential campaign
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#4 Kremlin Stirs Europe Unrest
Fears ‘Blunder’ By Reds in Greece LONDON, Jan. 22 (UP)~ Britain warned Russia tonight that any attempt by a single power to dominate Europe “will inevitably lead
| | SPEAKS OUT—Moscow was | solemnly warned by Foreign Minister Ernest. Bevin in:.Com. t mons. today. against fomenting !sslemn tones. by Foreign. | European unrest.
year. - .} I Ma h em Mr, Hoover has called for drastic {foreign policy sharply oriented changes that would slash more Wan (LH) omes toward the United States and re- | Russia.
: $4 billion from Mr. Truman's against | members of the American Le. |ou at for $6.800.000,000 to run the’ Mr. Bevin said flatly that Russia gion have evolved 192-plus {recovery program fob the first s For 45-Hr Week Is trying to extend Communist con ideas. Male Legionnaires are |months. He also opposed “even a tral to west as well as east Europe quick to add that the outfit moral commitment” to a four-year and warned Mbscow of the “grave worn by the model "merely is [program and said “the country Wants Overtime #4 "00 any. Bovis a suggestion,” needs tax relief , . ." For Extra Work blurder” in Greece. » Doesn’t Approve Seeks to Wreck THE RESPONSE has been | Mr. Truman told a news confer-| WASHINGTON, Jan. 32 (UP)=—| «1 am sure that the House and overwhelming—nothing from any. ence he simply did not approve of | AFL President William Green pro-/the world realises that if a policy a rei ce er J ee at eos. onJeotne|Poted today that bor and {ndustey is pureed of trying to dominate in- complete disregard to current (saying he felt that his disapproval #8ree to lengthen the work week rer ob Bg. Sine or indirect-—one styles : would have to stand for itself. by five hours, to be paid at overtime y.; 1, pe frank he sald. “You These “results,” and the great | As to the international and vco- rates, as a substitute for increas-io;.e griven to the conclusion that
variety of them, have pained deeply firm believers of orthodoxy
iin the Legion.
The emblem committee has
nomic recommendations also made this week by Bernard M. Baruch, the President said he was pleased to read most of these recommenda= tions,
{posal tothe Senate Banking Com=| up Bevin charged that
ing existing straight-time rates. |;+ oq inevitably again te Mr. Green submitted his pro- Ind »
mittee in 8 statement emphasising(jeq de that his proposal would he work-{ he Marshal Plan at all cost.
come up with one temporary solution. ; _ The President said he agreed with able only if Congress adopted an) y4e said the United States “seems |__It commonly is called “buck (the Barach recommendations inso- {effective anti-inflation program i.; yn, o sort of bogey in people's | passing.” * [far as Mr. Baruch agreed with his Which would apply to other phases. qs Everybody has the ides the As a last resort, it can toss the [own recommendations to Congress. |of the national economy. United States has a-great fund of | “hot potato” to the national Myr. Baruch proposed to the Sen- Charles E. Wilson, president of |qo10ry it 15 trying to hurl at every= | executive committee which meets Ste Foreign Relations Committee General Motors also has recom-i.,qy for some ulterior motive, But {tiers May 3. <7 Monday a U. 8. defense alijance mended extension of the work-week|,s o,viody tries to follow these — {ih Marshall Plan countries in| from: 40 o 45 hours ahve Bowne! negotiations through Congress, I do Burope a rigid domestic eco- time think red Urges U. Ss. Import nomle ad 4 including wage/ President Truman at his new con- ot » it will bear interpres stabilisation, reduction of prices, ference today criticized Mr. Wilson's Quotes Threat :
Danish Butter To Drive Price Down
i ————————————— WASHINGTON, Jan. 23 (UP)— A California butter wholesaler buttonholed government officials today to explain his plan te drive down
no tax cuts for the next two years|
proposal. He said he thought Mr.
Wilson was living in 1890. He sald there was no political
and an increase in excess profits
Mr. Green's proposal. 2
Taft Backs Hoover Warns of New Raises
Mr. Truman voiced his opposition | to the Hoover Plan in the midst of | Mr. Green said that recent wage
. increases had been offset by inhese sist Marshall Plan develop [creased cost of living. Dut he
{~ Mr. Truman was not asked abou Motive behind the Marshall Plan
“other than the o
and Foreign Minister Georges Bi.
ters. He _.labeled the — and 18. quarters -in the basement of City, Hall “disgraceful” and sald he intended to eliminate the small cubicles in which juveniles -are questioned. |
Indiana University’s social servicé agency, is to meet in a few days with Mayor Feeney “und Judge Joseph ©. Hoffmann . of - Marion
dwn to id air already has pushed the) Hig pi to 30 below in sec4 Upper-Mississippt Missourt Valleys, The leading edge of the cold Wave should grrive at the Atlantic Ost either tonight or tomorrow 0d may push nto Florida to endanger the citrus fruit crop again. Light Snow Forecast Light snow is forecast for scat-
“After Third Fire = | On Same Lot | A)
Couple Homeless |
MACK KOREX stood in his shirt sleeves in the near-zero weather
|cers
threatened him and his family with estine from Syria and Lebanon to/butter wholesalers {mob violence and tried to make s
County Juvenile Court. The Mayor thholding The frigid weather is being said he had arranged the meeting jatate a ina he- ow in order to discuss the overall juve- |," o i4.rce and some 18 confes paris. of..Central-Canada—are nile question in. Indianapolis. 50 below zero. today...The | >
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Alleges Police Beatings alleged high state police offi= beat him with blackjacks,
He
‘deal” to declare him insane in re.
Prof. Benjamin Meeker, head of, oor" 2" oon session.
He also said the shotgun, which
has. been identified as the murder tq,
, Was in state police hands night of his arrest. He charged
tstons which — he was *foreed” % helping to make explosives. — make”t0 other murders. - “eet i ot
Watts was on the stand two on Page 13~Column 4)
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Police Emergency,
aes 5x eee woe Ait Collide
bers and ashes lying where his five,
sections of the Middle West room house had been at 3251 8.
aad East today, but no serious are expected while tem - tures remain cold. pent Meanwhile, safety officials fear prolonged cold will raise the Tation’s toll of 92 deaths attributed eclly or indirectly to the bad Weather. Seventy-four persons died fires caused by overheated stoves 40. furnaces during the past nine As. Sixteen others froze to death 20d two died of over-exertion.
Truck ‘Lost’ in Snow
nIOSTON, Jan. 22 (UP)—When in melted a huge snowdrift, podistovered a ton and a half Panel ‘truck which they had been ioe since it was reported stolen
———————— Urges European Pacts ne TLANTA, Jan. 22 (UP)—Secx State Georg e C. Marshall, Anew for nationwide - Prt of the multi-billion-dollar Euyr Recovery Program, said tothe United States must seek in Western “to save civilization itself”
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‘{lot. - Twice before, houses
Lockburn-8t. f His wife, Ada, 61, was being
house. : . Finally, Deputy Sheriff Ernest Crickmore persuaded the sorrowful 54-year-old man to - take shelter from the bitter’ wind. . . ” A DEFECTIVE .flue caused the fire, which’ residents in the vicinity sald was the third one on the same
burned there. The previous ewner became disgusted and sold the lot te the Korex' for $00 two years ago. Mr. and Mrs. Korex then built the home that burned today, The homeless couple was given
treated for shock at a neighbor's{to ive an
Richard ©. Nolan, 43, of 1436 E. 10th §t., today was the 16th person | to be arrested on a charge of falling | vehicle the
right of way since the death of a fireman last Saturday. Nolan was driver of a truck owned by the Weimer Typesetting Oo., 16 N. Senate Ave., that collided with the police emergency car this moming st Alabama and New York Sts. 3 The emergency squad was én
had [route to a fire at 14th and West
Sts. Patrolman James Mangus was the driver and was turning west init New York St. when the aceident oceurred. Patrolman Mangus sald he was using his siren and red light. No
‘Go Back to Jobs
United Press Staff Correspondent - [the price of butter. ES BEIRUT, Jan. 22-— Responsible! It's very simple, he said. Den. witnesses reported today that thou-/mark” has & butter surplus. The sands of Arabs had infiltrated Pal- price is low. Let him and other 10 mil-
import prepare bases for bigger action to'lion to 50 million pounds ef Danish come, } : |butter. Even with the tariff, he There are signs, too, that the|said; the butter could be resold to
: {warned that labor will be forced to _ ONE; _ en. Robert A. Taft of [4 004 fo raises unless the up-
lican congressional leaders rallied behind Mr, Hoover's call for dras-| tie revision of the European Ald
mer head of the wartime Office of |
promise of bigger action’is not just U. = consumers below today's high An unusually reliable source said|- Government officials said there that 16 Germans, including. three Was nothirig wrong with the plane former officers in the German except that it would throw the in. | army, had arrived §h this region ternational food situation into ‘B aboard a Norwegian ship, and were tangle, raise the cost to the U. 8. taxpayer of getting Europe on its THe Cefmans are not training féet and get the British angry af the Arabs, the source said, but are us. LR; contributing their technical knowl- . The U. 8. goveinment today won't |this
and mines, country, And, officials
Several hundred Arab volunteers that ban will be neckssary “as long) -
crossed Into Palestine during and 8s it's our national’ polly to after an attack by Palestine Arabs a hungry, bankrupt Bureps.” on a Jewish-held castle dating back
to the Crusades in western Galilee, : age éL i according to persons whe said they | = accompanied them tothe border. i anion
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| . 200,000 Germans Hurt in Car Crash Four-yearsold Frank Bingham FRANKFURT, Jan. 22 (UP)—Two Jr; son of Mrs. Dennice J. Bingham hundred thousand German: workers of Tyndall Towne, was in eritical returned to their jobs today follow-| condition at Methodist Hospital toing a 24-hour hunger protest strike. day following an automobile acc But a 24-hour general strike dent yesterday, throughout Bavaria has been A Ar driven by the child's moths ordered, beginning at midnight to- er collided with a coal truck driven night, in protest against food short- by Napoleon Riley, 33, of 310 Smith ages, Authorities estimated it would, St. police said. ’ make two million_ idle, Mrs. Bingham, 30, was slightly in. "In a surprise announcement, the jured and two in her Anglo-American Bipartite. Control, Car, Mrs. Bette Willey, 24, of Green. office approved emergency food field, O., and Roy Willey, her 6. measures that included the issuing month-old son, were treated for
has Jaunched - a world-wide “subversive war” which must be coun- | teraoted with a strengthened Marshall Plan. Mr. Donovan said ‘he Russians - have established aw
[network keyed to “the saboteur,|
the traitor and the hidden enemy.”
He proposed placing control of the program in the hands of!
jedge of such things as grenades allow any butter to be imported Inline Uy. 8. National Security Counsaid, .
ell. J THREE: Sec Olinten P. Anderson told ‘he House Poreign Aflsirs Committee that any out in the food estimates under the ~~ recovery program ou “endanger the success of the entire nderta “He “was éonviniced that the United States could furnish the necessary food “without adding any extrs strain on either our food or on foed prices.” hg 's views on the Marshall (Continued on Page 12—Column 8)
Agreement Reached
in Hudson Strike DETROIT, Jan. 22 (UP) — Five hundred striking forémen returned to their jobs at the Hudson Motor Car Ceo. today, jubilantly claim-
ley Labor Law Members of the Hudson Fore-
Ohio and several other Repub-| = + trend n-prices 1s halted.
Strategie Services, testified before. as .W re vo Fo said hing eke IG "Senate - Committas tht “Ryssny| DEOSTAMS. fall. He. said. labor. would... 1 said, not. bodstfully. but quietly. ne i that "R [rather have a [reduction in prices | that Great Britain had been ac-
{most likely on meat, is temporarily ¢ right.
| sald the AFL also wanted “to indi-!
ry of Agricutture |
== Sheriff Seeks == 14- More Deputies
‘were contained in a 3500-
ing a victory over the Taft-Hart-|
dault of France at Paris that “if we with this plan it would "Mr, Green also urged legislation] Pe bad for both ‘of us, particularly to “strengthen” rent control, restore France.” control “on installment buying, it is no secret.” Bevin said, “that
| tighten bank credit and to compel MOlOtov warned ourselves and
TWO: William J. Donovan, for-i oo cation of searce in-| France we should have to look out
dustrial ‘materials where voluntary fOr squalls if this thing went on,
than more wage raises. | customed to threats: and would face
Some form of consumer rationing, Nem and do what we believed to
Since then not only but urgently needed, he said. And Urselves but the French and others Ne gave qualified Indorsement to| n'e mever deviated from Président Truman's request 1 eourse: re standby price ‘control powers. He “Major Danger Points - He pin-pointed Trieste’ and cate its. preference” for -Mr. Tru. Greece as major danger points, |man’s $40-for-everybody- tax cut. |Characterizing the ring that country within the Soviet orbit.” : “It has been quite clear,” he said, f | “that the Communist process goes ruthlessly on in each country. We |bave-séen--the- game- played-out- tn (Poland, Bulgaria, Hungary and A-request for $20,000 additional More recently in Romania.” appropriations to hire 14 more| - He accused Russia of “torturing |deputies - was ‘made by Sheriff Al Austria over all these years” since Magenheimer to the County Council {the war, and sald he could not today. A |understand why Russia found it The Sheriff explained that more necessary to delay the Austrian indeputies aré needed to maintain 24- dependence treaty. He also sharply | hour patrol service in the county as criticized Russia's demand for parity part of his program to combat -in-|in consideration of a peace treaty creasing crime, [for Japan.
Meanwhile, Harry Ray, chief civil | Golden Gloves
deputy for: Sheriff ® Magenheimer | nearly. two years, announced he will
resign Feb. 15 to enter private| business, ! | Sheriff Magenheimer said he «Action Tomorrow lappoint Lewis Madison, former | Hard-punching, eager
[Ninth Ward Republican chairman, amateur boxers climb into
ar
| Greece «s ‘one of “ruthless war to.
shelter by neighbors until thejone was injured and only miner Korex' can make other plans. , |damage was done to both oars.
of neatly 5000 tons of imported fat snd 20,000 tons of imported Sugar as a fat substitute. Pat is Germany's most demanded
| minor injuries. Riley was charged with having no chauffeur’s license. 2p | [ <A pedestrian, Philip Pierce, 21, of |
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men's * Association, acting inde-|to succeed Mr. Ray as chief of the | pendenly of their parent organ- civil office in the Court House. Mr.|
of America, ratified arf agreement Mr. Ray:
sation, the Foremen's Association Madison is now first assistant to!
the ring at the N. Pennsylvania St. Armory to-
session of the 1948 Times
morrow night for the third
Johnson to Test Siren
walk. was ordered today by Mayor The Mayor called the police to large number of automobiles parked the city.
“The practice is causing, serious damage to Poth sidewalks
it must be stopped.” . o At the same time he asked Traffic Engineer Lewis L. (Cap) John- | son to make a personal test 3] see how far one can hear a police siren while riding in a closed automobile. ;
curbing,” the Mayor declared, “and |
"The mayor made the request after| Mr. Johnson was to receiving several letters and phone test this afternoon in a
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Feeney Asks Police to Halt Parking on Sidewalks
Says Motorists Destroying Curbs;
Sound Distance
A drive against motorists who park their automobiles on city side- |
Al Feeney. action after personally viewing the on sidewalks in varjous sections of
and | were not altogether to blame for | failure to give emergency fvehicles | the right-of-way. Many who communicated with
food. Qerman officials originally 1112 Central Ave. was treated at asked for 30,000 tons. General Hospital for injuries re. —~ se ceived when he was struck yesterday Says lke Won't Run
with the company. The firm confirmed that the strike ‘had ended but emphatically denied it had recognized the FAA. It sald that its agreement was with
at' Walnut and Delaware 8s. KANSAS CITY, Mo. Jan.
% ‘Police said he was struck by a |car being operated by David Lewis, (UP)=Roy A. Roberts, president of (35, of 4132 / ; the Kansas City Star, has told the! Cornelius. ve. local Chamber of Commerce that he beligves Gen. Dwight -D. Eisenhower may take himself completely out. of the political picture before June. He sald he would like to see the general in the presidency but that he was sure Gen. Eisenhower did not want #t. )
A a—— Reprimands Chinese BHANGHAL Jan. 22 — (UP)— Bir Ralph sent a stern repriChiness government of the British it was disclosed! : today, a i : i 1 St
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Legion Golden Gloves. Avold standing in line for
Work 10 (012 ‘Hours The retiring chief deputy -said he will open a Mw business at 2309 Pierson St. for the manufacture of sculptured photographs, a new process in development of photugraphy. : “The tremendous - increase in| serving papers fbr the courts and taking a larger number of risnners to Institutions will make an increase in the staff necessary,”
Callahan's, 136 E. Washing+ ton St. or at The Sports« man's Store, 126 N. Pennsylvania St, . Choice. seats still are available,
present staff to work 10 to 12 hours a day.
Far East Aid Bill Dve | WASHINGTON, Jan, 22 (UP) The administration plans to ask Congress for about $250 million-to start work on. reconstruction proj
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