Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 January 1948 — Page 1

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MUKD:! Only the most energetic

Of Manchuria to Reds Within Three Months + Writer Says Only Strong Offensive, U. S. Aid Can Salvage Country From Soviet ‘Grab’

By CLYDE FARNSWORTH, Scripps-Howard Staff Writer (UKDEN, Jan, 28—China is losing Manchuria.

and resoureeful rescue meas-

wes by the Nationalist Government, with the aid and ce of the United States thrown in, can save one of the naturally richest areas of the world and its 40-odd milfon people from forceful inclusion in the Soviet line-up.

red by your oday. Thre There are at most three Ho. 3601p op gonths in which to act— | women) firee months. in which to : a osing. SHEUYG=3A an o P. M~ Begin king statement.

makers like to promise but which jer strategists and tacticians for 4 variety of reasons never seem able to deliver, Defeat is implicit in ‘the fact fiat the Nationalists hold less than 10 per. cent. of Manchuria and yet have 90 per cent. of the people on their hands without

Read an editorial, Page 19 ines of supply for either troops

or civilians. . The Nationalists area faces a million -ton food shortage this year. Roughly, the Chinese Communists control the "agriculture of

plants. Yet this industrial tial 1s virtually useless to the Nationalists owing first to plant and factory looting by the Russians two years ago, and second, to subsequent Communist disrup-tion--of communications. and .occupation of parts of the industrial

Need U.S. Aid

The Communists are, above all, waging a successful economic

BULLETIN

~ "FRESNO, Cal, Jan. 28 (UP)—The sheriff's office reported today an American Transport Co. plane crashed at 12.30 p. m. (Indianapolis time) today and. 10 bodies have been re- . covered so far,

GM Must Face Denham Charges

Allegations - Stem From. UAW Report WASHINGTON, Jan. 28 (UP) ~—Robert N. Denham, general counsel of the National Labor Relations Board, today charged

fusing ‘to bargain and with attempting to force employees to join a company-sponsored insur-

war and the Nationalists lack the resources of imagination or} material, or both, to turn this attack. An observer here is left wmcertain which category of} Amétican aid is more needed to save Manchuria — material help or responsible guidance. There dre authorities here who believe that, even as deficient as the Nationalists are in war materials, they might well, regain all of Manchuria if an efficent, biegrated command of ground be.

Whar on the Reds in the battle Manchuria.

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id supplies held at the war's @d by the powerful Japanese Kwantung army were, through the good offices of Russian forces! that occupied Manchuria briefly ifter Japan's surrender, turned over fo the Chinese Reds. Na-|

tionalist occupation of Manchuria | 200

bad two strikes on it at the start: | i Np: Russian looting of Mandustry to the tune of) $858 million, oy - TWO: Rearming of 400,000 ists with equipment and Supplies with which a million Japinese had been expected to carry 91a war of endurance from the Manchurian fortress. Strike three is coming up, unlexs It is within the power of the iese command to reshape its and tactics, fcan-help; “advisory and ‘materiaf’ At may well prove

ford Aid Stricken On Yacht Off Bahamas

Na Fla., Jan. 28 (UP)—A Physician was fo eave reir $éaplane today to dy to : Islands ‘where AToert! te T¥ning, vice president of! Ford Motor To. and former Mistant to the Secretary of War fe ported seriously ill aboard ch Panda. wf Was expected that the former] adler general would be evac-| 10 a hospital here. ‘The! ofthe. Panda--deseribed Browning's . condition as but did not go into de-

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‘phure55-Year-Old tional Check Artist’ |

TERRE HAUTE, Ind.. Jan. 28| oo "A 55-year-old man de-! Vd by police as a “nationally| "WR check artist”, was held J0dny after allegedly pass5 0 Worthless checks totaling

HE wey Identified as Everett ens of Dallas, Tex., who! " had’ been passing bad| ks In Ohio, Michigan, Illinois | “odiana since his escape from | 0is state hospital in Chit November. :

with goodness ad

A Landis whose, term cxpired days; Capiz, on northern Panay; | k « could tell you sbost B® Cold for Honeymoon pec’ 31 Pires] Bone. Marinduke lstand. south x ec rges " imi ents ROE, Wis.. J CX | Luzon, and on Romblon Island, way value. Ny Joseph Bx rbd JURE ; forth of Panay in the Sibuyan ‘ - s 3 i Woy , 7, a. ; ; vow Pontiac, we 1, hat the and her musbana, J S Or acks Do | Seven minor tremors shook | More Freedom ; Wh \ Nr. red in 1897 and . : lloilo yesterday while govern-| ; riful Pontiac ever built ™ Postponin thelt ars ago, . | ment experts were trying to calm| PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 28 (UP) atiac ever built il Summep ay one moon Alien Reds |the population by explaining the —The demands of war-torn coun-| baiké 1 now,» 00 {cause of the earthquakes as a tries are placing a serious drain viiat NE Hyd® Br | w NGTON. Jan. 28 (UP) | mantin reat Slipping. of.» the ou the bg . wong aifehay yeneral M Tn. ASHI . Jan. JP) | earth's crust. weakened by “our fo yesional cost. - Mes Index “1—The Justice Department's im- A survey showed that 15 terday,” Rep. Charles A. Halleck : dis y in oof ents eee | MAG TALON service has started a churches on Panay, mostly built (R. Ind.) House majority leader, ere -—on y Ash ares. Othman 13 sweeping crackdown on alien|py the Spanish conquerers, were 58d last night. gf most ¢ ‘+ 18| Patterns’... 17|Communists, it was disclosed t0-| gestroyed with damage amount. Mr. Halleck said the U. §. must 7 | ht " Mrs. Roose- ig “prominent Commbnists. ing to $3,500,000. aie vale Tocipies ot velt ...... 16/Herbert Bittelman and Claudia dom in order to face and meet INTIAC, INC. myst, remain strong. Only the 3 productive, and only

action cleared the way for him to seek an injunction against the company to halt

tices: ) mination of the charges. Plan

Insurance Pl: ! United . Auto ‘Workers!

for Feb. 10 in Detroit. The case covers more than 250,~ employees in 100 General] Motors plants across the nation.

MOSCOW, Jan. 28 (UP)—The| Soviet government

impossible. ing ‘house for contact with the electric chair. .

outside world. | the’

The only exemptions to

blanket decree were the Ministrydrama reached its peak, spec- Crown Prince .Abdul-llah, who

Jopposing counsel,

Genersl Motors Corp. with re}

Vote Fate of Watts: Late Today

Death in Chair Demanded by State

By DONNA MIKELS Times Staff Writer

Jury May

argumién demanded death in the electric chair for the 25-year-old former Indianapolis city truck driver.

Brunner gave the closing argument for the man the state ac-

Burney in her north Indianapolis {home Nov. 12. Trial Began Jan. 12 | The trial had started Jan. 12 in Shelby Circuit Court.

bate yesterday was punctuated with verbal fireworks between

Shelby Prosecutor Harold Meloy demanded the death penalty for Watts in the state’s opening] address calling on the jury “to

a mad dog.” aaah of the defense lawyers— enry Perry, William Henry and

home until

5p. m

to go

innuendos not supported by any!

evidence. The judge then in-!

making up their verdict as Mr. Henry continued to shout he had “the right to draw a legal inference.” Mr. Brown extended his sym-

t, again

Counsel "Emerson

cuses of slaying Mrs. Mary Lois)

The first phase of closing de-|

destroy this man as you would!

room: into an uproar with some|phase of their closing statements.| Mr. Henry gave an account of]

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invested in the household furnishings which were crammed into this portable garage low was two below zero, LOCAL TEMPERATURES in the 3400 block, S. Harding St, A fire yesterday destro ervthing. The $2000 | Low for tonight is ex-/DSwatows Alrpord loss was uninsured. 3 yn toyed everyfhing $ - [pected to be three to six n Hapa 1 = wT ami e og = shore mn The pein) 33 W824 Gl ® ] -. go . sen . LR pr Premier of Iraq (Couple Sees Fire Destroy |. mawoemnd $2200 3 S| Flees After Riots ($2000 Worth of Furniture [55s bass loin on : diction of Mark Purcell of Rush- amo —2 _— | Took 10 Years to Purchase Goods; Blaze ville et 14 Dead, 65 Wounded Forces Pair to Start Saving, Buying Again bed or wn Aid: cad } - m. vere 3 3 In Baghdad Strife Mr. and Mrs. Walter Thomas have been married 10 years. |. o = ML 13 eens nM ; 2 BAGHDAD, Jan. 28 (UP)—The | 4 oq nh), have been buying a piece of furniture,at,a time: and iiyres are not 1pm. 1 13

resigned Premier Salem Jabr fled

{Iraq by. plane. today. in the wake | ot rioting in which official reports

listed 14 persons killed and 65 ns

Stark of “using pro-| fanity” in the trial. After he had ishouted that he had “never before seen a -prosecutor ~toop to profanity,” Mr. Stark leaped to his feet and challenged the defense attorney to prove his allegation by a check of trial rec-| ords.. Judge Barger smoothed. over this incident. { A short time later, however, Mr, Stark and Mr. Brown again

prohibited clashed after Mr. Brown lowered and rifles crackled through the Russians from talking to for-|his voice and with dramatic ges- streets all day yesterday in efeigners today and designateditures was relating to the jury forts to put Without Amer- Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov's the minute-by-minute agonies of tions, but Foreign Office us the sole -¢lear- gy mancondemned-to-die inthe egugh sity last might. : : {. raffic disa

Deathi Chair Agonies

As Mr. Brown's one-man

one of the British air bases in| collapsed under the pressure of resentment | against his signing of a treaty with “Great Britain earlier this month: The treaty would have permitted Britain the continued| use of air fields in this country. Police Open Fire The crisis came to a head with the unseating of Mr. Jabr shortly after his return from London and with rioting in Baghdad. Police fire from machineguns

er Drop To 10

~ TEN—YEARS-WORK — All the savings of Mr. and Mrs. Walter

reports lacked details. He had! small structure {been reported seeking refuge at the new home next sj

spring. | fuel has But, misfortune struck yester- 0 dustry ° EEE aan en ph 5 mporary home ca Two youthful bandits held up RY . Jett Udine, Italy, with from a kitchen sual stove, lan East Side real estate office ae yo waathee pap six children and: three adult pase Mrs rine an screami /today and escaped with $1200 with dust storms and bitter cold a . : NE after forcing the lone Woman|n New where: schools! 11, transport took off frome next door to the home of her hus- |oiork into a rear room. 1 air center near Marseille at

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Sunshine Here—For A While; Forecast Near 32 Tomorrow

Frigid Weather May Return Saturday; Fuel Shortage Keeps Many Plants Closed

Weather at a Glance INDIANAPOLIS—Break in winter's coldest wave foree cast for tomorrow with rise in mercury to near 32, | + Lowest temperature of season at downtown weathep bureau recorded today—2 below zero, Airport res corded 10 below, : INDIANA—Gradually moderating temepratures follows + - ing sub-zero readings, NATIONAL—Break in cold wave beginning to be felt, California hit by dust storms as cold wave closes schools in New Mexico. Industrial production paras ' lyzed in many areas as fuel supplies fall short, = |.

Bright sunshine brought the mercury up from the wine ter’s low of 10 below zero today and the weatherman said the coldest snap was over—for awhile, mg The eight-year record low was registered at the Municipal Airport Weather Station, where conditions core respond to residential areas. At the downtown office, the

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Thomas were

ming of a home of their own, ¥ i Last spring, the young couple—he is 29, she, 28—moved into

ss 2 § It was more a storeroom of furniture, including the latest

eas. NOD Real Estate

Heat from

“A pile of lumber was beside the , to be used for _

band's brother, Irvin, 50. In her| ope tered arms she hugged four-month-old Lay Surin real 4 he Karen Biggs, her niece. 4610 E. Michigan B8t.,

The Ohio River along Indiana is clogged with ice, the first time

The Thomases, who have No shortly before noon. One of] ®nce 1940. Several Indignaleastern I near Trieste. Nothe! : children, have been caring for the them, after asking for change for towns have had to cut off gas to|ing had been heard of it since ; baby the past two months. {a“$5 bill, thrust a long barreled industries. Zinn . 7

Coldest spots in the state were Seymour and Vincennes, where it was 14 below, .

Tee Clogs River

Fire equipment arrived prompt- | at the clerk, Mrs, J ly, but too late to save .the small BIR ner. : ule home with its uninsured contents.| They went around the counter ‘We'll Make It’ [then and forced Mrs. Finkbiner

down the demonstracrowds still surged

ppeared as riot. id's streets,

t.!

shouting in favor of the

of Foreign Trade, which may|tators and jurors alike hung on announced Mr. Jabr's: résignation.|

handle foreign contacts with permission of the foreign office, and such.-.working people.. as. clerks, waiters and ticket sellers. The clerks and waiters, however, were warned they must re-} strict their conversations with s-to-the “limits. of their,

usual functions”. on penalty of admonished the jury “not to take

prosecution under the criminal

code. Punishment was not speci-|interruption changed the mood

fied.

Professor Turns Down CAB Post

Wi TON, Jan, 28 ~The White House said that President Truman has failed to get a Harvard University transportation export as chairman of the Civil Aeronautics Board because the job pays only $10,000 a year, The White House dis~losed that the job had been offered to

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(UP) today!

George P, Baker, director of the cession today and one new death 100 votes, held the balance of {was reported from Capiz; in the power in tlie assembly,

School of Transportation at Harvard. Prof. Baker, turned it down, however, because of the salary. That has been Mr. Truman's dif-

get a man for the job since he) decided not to reappoint James |

to every word of his description of the death chair agonies. Just as..he built. .up.to.the. climax, However, Mr. Stark broke the suspense With ‘an objection to that line of argument, " Although the lawyer was al-

. after the ] -— . - y - they .Jeft. | cations have to be eliminated.” sdmonished the 1 iakel PARIS, Jan. 28. (UP) — me That D Hee Mrs. Finkbiner was able tols2l [0 0 YON BAO0et Oe to , Dr. Brower had said earlier fos “into-constderation ”-the- timely: gust Party tong to’ QF _DOeS f= __ give o;ly a partial description ot, imma rssiimnree OBES ME. WHEDE would ree... CRC the two men. She said they ap-| yoo while the mass of warmer Pain in Miami Valley Hospital $1

of the room. . z One spectator near the prose-

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ith Quake Shakes Panay; 21 Dead

MANILA, Jan. 28 Earthquake shocks shook Panay Island for the fourth day in suc-

island, |

northern part of the bringing the death toll to 22.

The new shocks were felt in nists and their supporters would! and-carry ficulty right along in. trying to|¢ne Panay capital of Iloflo, half 80 against Mr. Schuman.

destroyed by 30 tremors in three

Vote on Schuman

abstain in the critical assembly vote on devaluation measures

thus . apparently averting the!

threatened overthrow of Premier Robert 8chuman’s government.

The Socialist decision to ab-| ST. HELENS, Ore, Jan. 28 stain broke up a majority in the|/UP)—Customers streamed

National . Assembly banded together

had

free market in gold.

The government had threatened Dutcher was offering them 10 tine Commission will challenge after a cabinet meeting earlier{Cenis each to carry away three Great Britain to explain—Arab (UP) — today to resign if parliament per-/slices of ham free.

sisted in fighting the devaluation program. The Socialists, with more than!

After: the Socialist decision it| appeared that only the Commu-!

+ “in their faces as they stood hand-}. jering embers.

to defeat thel/land, some. 50 miles up the Co{government proposal to create a/lumbia River, to take advantage

|admitted, though, ‘how much he was losing.

Walter, an employee of Kingan into a washroom telling her “if & Co, rushed home from his you come out before 10 minutes WORK... o.oo occ (wel RiEyowt co He and his wife showed despair Rip Out Phone | P After-pulling the phone from NF below’ the wall they scooped: the cash ue 1 out of the drawer and escaped in| "yo. Lo LL said today hg black Dodge sedan. =. (hat 11 barges which have been ® money represented ross ......nd in the Ohio River near N 2

DAYTON, O. Jah, 28 (UP) The condition of Orville Wright, | 76-year-old “co-inventor of the | who collapsed in

in-hand and surveyed the smold-

But, today, Walter was back at his job. Part of his first paycheck will be set aside, if possible, toward acquiring more furniture. “Jt witl be a long pull; We're. ¥: hand. we will make it” Mr. and Mrs. Thomas declared grimly. - .

income tax payments and money on hand to cash checks and “|money orders. TUT jay unt peach Howes “condition at, the. present : said today's temperatures, low-| “ight be serious. Certain

| “In their haste the bandits {dropped a $1 bill on the floor as

Free Ham PLUS |

for at least two days for rest and observation. .

Ten Cent Bonus _

nere Britain fo Face today from a% far away as Port- Palestine Probe

LAKE SUCCESS. N. Y., Jan. 28 of a meat price war in which one | (UP)—The United Nations Pales-

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eared 10 en ase Jn jo omar moved southeastward | out of Canada. merely wi acre a an attempt to disguise jor from the sub-nOFMAL TOWS me o . pe ; : of the past two weeks. IFiring Pin Flaw The coldest spot in the nation . . early today was Fraser, colo. Balks Killer in where the mercury plungéd fo 27S Ca er below zero. Denver reported 20 |bélow, the coldest day since Feb. | nap son Trig ger RR a isi, Be by gig . SOUTH ST. PAUL, Minn., Jan, I" Bel |28 (UP)—Kermit Solberg, 34, ade ! ow in Colorado itted tod that h | infiltration into Palestine, it was a ny e Pointed 8 The price war, which has been learned today. - MEP TLUNS Wate S3pectid tajioaded revolver at his former on for several weeks, was stepped] The commission dec range {wife yesterday and pulled the up yesterday when Meat Dealer the ron up Ay irghd {above mero in Minnesota and the trigger seven times. Jack Sappington, formerly of after Moshe Shertok of the Jewisn | Dakotas, the first states to be| The gun did not go o: because Dallas, Tex. came up with his|agency protested that Arabs *hecied Dy the warm front, of a defective firing pin. 10-cents-and-ham offer yesterday. crossing the border into Palestine orig Tro oie on hy or gan| “At first 1 was so surprised I He made the offer on & “cash-\were making an invasion which Cor ning its grip on the eastern didn't have a chance to think.” ” basis only. ithe United Nations was obliged hoor. the nation, California suf-|said his wite, 21-year-old Betty fs =» ito stop. (fered dust storms, a cold snap King. “Then I just prayed and “CUSTOMERS who want their, : {and the worst state-wide drought prayed as he kept “pulling the ham delivered will have to take in 70 years. |trigger and the gun kept clicks it for nothing,” he said: Citrus Crop Periled jing.” ' Customer reaction was swan] The * drought threatened the| She was shaking and sobbing taneous. Some ‘towns forined | |state with water and power when she swore out a complaint motorcades to bring shoppers here {shortages and ‘severe damage to/agdinst Mr. Solberg, who readily when news of the new markdown [its multi-million dollar ‘citrus admitted that he attempted to got around. They carried away | crop. kill her “because I loved her so 40 hams in three-slice ' portions | | Meanwhile, the cold in the much.” with a dime for each portion: | United, States made deep inroads | s sn» Sappington said his free ham | on remaining fuél supplies and! HE SAID he wanted to ree offer was his answer to a rival disrupted industrial production. \marry his wife, who was r who was giving away a pound of | Thousands of . workers ‘were! permission to resume her maiden hamburger to each customer. He | idle in five states and at least name when they were divorced that he was 200,000 more expected to be laid at Granite Falls, Minn, last Nos afraid to look at his books to see, off in the Detroit area tonight. |vember.

| Many schools, including some! Police who examined the pistol {as far south as Alabama, ‘were Said the firing pin had dented

Anderson Gets New 1000-Gallon Pumper

- * Times State Berviee ANDERSON, Jan. 28-Ander-/ son has received a new 1000-gal-on. Tote pumper that was or-