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Public Relations And :

ul: Oe : Personnel Division Carl Schmidt to Be Named Lieutenant ~~ In Charge; Setup will Speed News

THE POLICE DEPARTMENT soon will have a modern pew personnel and public relations Al

The first step. in the new day when Carl Schmidt, sta

will be patterned after the handling of reporters to get it by { Officer Schmidt tourt, 3 atching

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assignments as personnel boss "policemen to avoid

show them how to present evidence “more convincingly.” YM now on, too, there will be

When the new city administra-

tion took over on New Year's day They

Moré emphasis on a sharp ap-|it learned of. the hose

pearance.

Withdraws Objections

| THE CITY NOW plans to with-!

will shortly move in court to end! the controversy. : Plans to pull out of the court!

tration counsel's feeling that the Park Board had no right to*con13 the first place.

law gives it control of any buildfog within 500 feet of a park. The park in this case is Tarkington Park across the street from the Hiser site: The building is a continuation of the N,

- #® . Remember the cry of “where's Enoch” when Enoch Shriner disagainst him? Enoch dropped by n a neighborhood ry store the other day and he fund 10 Send Bis attorney in that to defend a local veteran in trouble. : When it was learned that Mr. Dawson, known as ithe “strap-

ETP iE The Eureka Fire Hose Co. of | Cincinnati is getting. back the 1000 feet of hose it shipped to the | fire department just before the first of the year.

Washington Calling—

WASHINGTON, Jan. for Republican nomination,

Ohio delegates to Stassen.’ - will—accept vice presidential up right. About Vandenberg: Senators talks report he always stresses h

“formulate real world policy, stres

About Taft: Stassen effort in Ohio is going to be major one. He's out to get 23 of state's 53 “delegates, and is lining up topflight delegate candidates. Political observers say he'll get atJeast-five; “probably -wil-get eight, might get 10. ; Late Sen. Borah picked up five delegates without appearing in Ohjo at all, when Taft Was favorite son in 1936. That was before Taft was national figure, If Stassen gets only handful, it will be important psychological blow to Taft campaign; will show weakness as vote-getter in his own state. Fellow Senators think his eleventh-hour appeal to Stassen was bad Strategy too, showed weakness, » »

Support for Stassen

STASSEN CAN count on Some support from Ohio Democrats. Unless they get concerned about ‘governor race, AFL and CIO members likely will take advantage of chance to club Taft by crossing >ver and voting in Republican primary, It may be significant that Sen. Bricker hasn't joined oartisan chorus condemning StasSen, though he’s supposed to be all-out for Taft. About Stassen as Vice President: Withdrawal of Eisenhower has pumped new life into Stassen campaign and he now adds score or more of delegates

Times Index Amuse, .... 6-9) Dan Kidney 10

start the|they

couldnt, however, find any order for it but they found the bil all right—for $1340.

After mulling over the mystery

fdraw its objections to Walter > few weeks, city officials - clad Hiser's automobile service build-| 0™eb0ody in the old administraat 39th and Tilinols Sts. 3¢ ton had closed a verba! deal, ing forgetting he wouldn't be around

to finish what he'd started.

fight are based on “the adminis- Gotan Extra 5 G's?

ANYBODY GOT $5000? That seems to be about what it will

the bogrd take to. get straightened out on

the deal for the: Veterans Administration to —get-hold of the

site near the Medical Center where it plans to build a muiti-

million dollar VA hospital. To give clear title to the fed-

just any buyer will fill the bill if he can foot the bill. » v

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get cratic bill will be offered just pe-

hangers’ friend” for his one-man handy lot is in a jam. It seems care fares, might be headed time back and snitched the mietal abroad, one prominent citizen !AD assigned to the then Mayor

and: turned the license number of the vehicle in to the statehouse. At last report, statehouse lot custodians were waiting for the guy to show up at the lot with the number. i » » .

Report Vandenberg 'Open’ To "48 Race Despite ‘No's’ GOP Colleagues Say Senator Is Critical of Truman Failure to ‘Shape World Policy’

31—Presidential bulletins:

Senate colleagues of Sen. Vandenberg say he’s available

despite denials. Taft's in

trouble in his home bailiwick, may, lose as many as 10

And Stassen will—repeat nomination if things shape with whom He's Ad confidential is party loyalty, doesn’t like use

of “bipartisan” in discussing his stand on foreign affairs. They say he's critical of Truman administration's failure to

#68 That he has no commitments

to support President's recommendations for Europe or elsewhere.

to first-ballot strength of 200 he had claimed. Political -observers- say you can put it down as certain he'll

- take second place if Vanden-

berg, —Warren—or dark horse: wins top billing. They point to his statement this week that facing up to issues is more important for GOP than selection of any individual as President, Vice President or precinct cap tain. : But if Taft or. Dewey should be nominated, count him out. They'd want no part of him, #” . ». No Place to Go

YOU CAN TAKE that south- .

ern talk about bolting Democratic Party with plenty of salt. It always happens when Democratic President criticizes Jim Crow. “| Fact is these would-be rebels nave no place to go. Repub-

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U.S, Italy to Sign

Trade Agreement

ROME, Jan. 31

navigation next Foreign Office reported today.

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. It will be permanent, the For-

éign Office reported, in the sense that no expiration date will be

specified.

The treaty report came after mufder was part of a conspiracy hi in stich a procession as India the government had told Russia which has “spread its tentacles had never seen.

that Italy, as a sovereign state, was the ond to .raise objections,

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~From a public relations standpoint the new department!outhorities announced today. of the state police; designed to speed ~clim without interfering with the right of Ives if they want to. been a week-long “observer” in municipal

n ormance of cops who show up as witnesses. superiors say one of his first ?

3) 18 30 ive out: & acheme. tor occasional of memory which hurt their’ testimony. He's to

|... The Democratic bill, which

(UP) —Ttaly | Sum and the United States will sign|dia’s a treaty of friendship, trade and Monday, the

The treaty will be the first signed by the United States with!, 4 wrecked them. any European country since the war, and the first signed by Italy

Buiered aa Secofd Class Matter at Poscolice eon 4 i Indianapolis, Ind. Taeued daily except Sunday Ar Ig

French search plane is missi and believed to have crashed the Alps, making a possible tri

Ground rescue teams

east of here, reached the crash scene of an American C-47 .ransport and Flying Fortress search plane today and confirmed that 21 persons were killed in the double disaster. All But One Dead All 12 transport, including three American Army wives and their five children, and nine of the 10-man crew in the Flying Fortress were dead. ;

The missing French plane, which joined in the search for the transport last Wednesday, has failed to return to its base at Istres Airfield, near Marseille, and is presumed lost, officials said. : ?

the Fortress to survive was idenDes Moines, Iowa. Re

Propose Substitute "For Knutson Plan WASHINGTON, Jan. 31 (UP) —House Democratic leaders today agreed on an income tax reduction bill that will be offered

Monday as a substitute “or the $6,500,000,000 Republican tax cut

House Democratic Leader Sam Rayburn of Texas said the Demo-

fore the GOP measure comes to a vote.

the mountains near Digne, north-!

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~The only man in the crew of} tified as Sgt. Angelo LaSalle of

Democrats Agree |

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Ruling May Be Based On Lack of Evidefce

By DANIEL M. KIDNEY Times Staff Writer D....C,

WASHINGTON, : Jan, 31—Housing Expediter Tighe E. Woods will turn down the 25 per cent across-the-board rent increase recommended’ by the Indian-

week. Mr. Wi has never granted such a large increase po case, - {The Indiangpolis. re; n may be based on both lack of evidence to justify such a large increase and because the board asked for

‘Woods has no jurisdiction: | The Indianapoliscommittee its recommendation for the

8 after hearings. Storm of Protest

Brings The Indianapolis committee's decision immediately brought a

sion of the group Jan. 8 and enag in a verbal clash with DEATH KNOWS NO SAFETY ZONE—Robert Leffler, 26, of 5359 Sunset Ave. was crushed fo death he comitiiitag Woo

early this morning in a freak accident at the Pennsylvania crossing on Southeastern Ave. when a switch engine - "safely" parked car, mashing the front end of the auto. Five others-were

“injured, three in cars waiting for the locomotive fo clear ‘fhe crossing. xT

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stands no chance of being passed, calls for: : i

ONE: An ine in personal income tax exe from the

ifernment $3200000000. The Knutson bill would increase exemptions to $600.) TWO: Extending the community property “split-income” prin-| ciple to all states, Mr. Rayburn said this would gut revenues by| about $803 million annually. (Tne, Knutson bill contains this.) THREE: Imposing an excessprofits tax upon corporations to provide estimated annual revenues of - $3,200,000,000. (The Knutson bill would not raise any taxes.) The Republican bill would cut income tax rates from 30 per cent in the lowest income brackets to 10 per cent in the highest, The Democratic bill would not +o this, but would achieve some reduction through the incréased exemptions and community property provisions

Hunt Guests In + p- - . y a - - vce. cn Broker's Murder PASADENA, Cal, Jan. 31 (UP)=-Three men who were overnight guests of George T. Judd, 55, early this week were sought today for questioning in the knife-and-fork murder of the wealthy socialite broker, . Contractor R. A: Elliott, Altadena, said Mr. Judd telephoned Nim either Tuesday or Wednes-

recommend a plumber to fix a broken shower. | Mr. Elliott said that Mr. Judd told him three. men had stayed) overnight and one of them broke the fixture. Mr. Judd's body was discovered | late Thursday. An showed that he died of strangu-| lation Wednesday.

Son Touches Torch as

NEW DELHI, Jan, 31 (UP)

violence touched off by his assass The ancient Hindu ceremonia

But even as eldest son of the slain leAdér, was

sume the earthly remains of Inat soul Bombay was again torn by savage riots. Mr, Gandhi's supporters today descended on the headquarters and offices of the Hindu ex-

y reinforced police opened fire on the

angry throngs. Already the death toll on Bombay stood at six dead and 46 stabbed and wounded.

{Bombay and charged that the

round New Delhl.” Spread of rioting and violence

7 if any, against the presence of throughout India was feared as ers left t 7 American warships in Italian police pursued their investiga- the bier in Soviets had objected

tion of Narayan Vinayak Gs

would cost. the.gov-]-

day morning and -asked—him—to:

| ELKHART. Ind. Jan: 31 (UP)="ing with Jesse Buck, autopsy |

{who disappeared Thursday.

Gandhi Still Lives'— Mourners Mass at ‘Saint’s’ Pyre

Riots Flare Anew in Bombay Sector

Gandhi today was committed to the flames of the burning ghat as

the sacred river Jumna, one of the five sacred rivers of India, in a massive demonstration of national grief. Gandhi,

touching fire to the pyre to con-| tremist organization, Mahasabha, |

Police arrested 15 persons in modern streets of New Delhi and

'the extremist Hindu editor. Adve on Mr. Gandhi's body.

Driver Dies as Locomotive

Western Os Driver Dies as Locomalive Pee Bak be fouy Boost TPPias nak Coming Acido, 0A FUEL USE

\ New | - i" ie . 3 oganod 4 on ord hon man i cil sia foro With New Confract | A ‘métorist was Killed and thrée othiérs were ‘injured today! “Tonight, T — Record Call re - WASHINGTON, Jan. 31 (UP) "hem as they awaited at the Southeastern Ave. crossing for the omorraw Rec 4

and not on a general but on an individual basis.

Jetter to Mr. W apolis told him

when a huge Pennsylvania Railroad switch engine toppled over LOCAL TEMPER ATURES Cold Hits

~The threat of a nationwide 8 a ss 9 10.8 Mus od telegraph strike this spring was] train to Juss: a men also were injured. | : a.m... i 1 hn. B East—28 Below erased today with announcement The fatality was 26-year-old Robert Leffler, 5359 Sunset Ave, Ar. Mass On) 1 fas ) that wage dispute between West- driver of one of three .automo- —————————————— fa m.. 12 Lp m.. "J At Utica, N. Y.

Ee : accident prevention bureau said] Ee ———— [Vien Patiod Sie ne weibound! nis investigation disclosed dirt! Gas service was restored to NEW YORK, Jan. 31 (UP)— oo the Eh |and ice on the rails. The street ore than 15.000 consumers in The record cold wave of the sea Cros n . level is higher than the tracks Atl vo big downstate cities today son hit New York City today, Ice Derails Engine the intersection, he added: This } plunging

boost. . Adolph Brungs, t of i by cold sending temperatures Due to an accumulation of ice caused water and dirt to drifg/after a Siasupion saused ry nto zero, delaying trains from the

presiden the Western Union division of the I | weather, Commercial Telegraphers Union and dirt on the tracks, according on the tracks to the point where] OWH If An upstate pipeline cut| west as much as three hours and (AFL) said that a majority of|to police accident probers, the the locomotive's wheels were de-| or as for several hundred other halting all snow removal and the 55,000 employees involved in engine was derailed afd fell on railed, the police official said. | oy | garbage collections. 3 the dispute voted last night to|its side directly on top of Mr. Mr. Leffler was crushed in the "U0 0 0 Indiana] The mercury touched. the zero accept the pay increase and con-| Leffler's car. wreckage. He was dead when a industries faced further fuel cur- Mark briefly at 5:25 a. m, then tinuation of the present contract] A passenger in the. Leffler auto- police emergency squad reached tajlments beyond the week-end as Tose to one above = half hour until April 1, 1949, mobile, Mrs. Jesse Mills, 25. of the, scene. federal restrictions threatened to later. No relief from the cold “That wipes out the threat of 1517 E. LeGrande St. was taken _ 1Dhe engine was traveling about; ow additional thousands of Was forecast for today but the a telegraph. strike this year to St. Vincent's Hospital with five or 10 miles an hour at the Hory workers into idleness. | Weather bureau predicted some then?" he was asked. burns. Her condition was re- time of the accident, Lt. Hague ‘actor :

od morrow when a ; ts A crew of some 70 workers re- ™ eration = tomorrow “That's right,” Mr. Brungs re- ported good. disclosed. Only the engine and | stored gas service to New Albany light snow is expected.

ern Union Telegraph Co. and three AFL unions had been settied for an eight cents hourly pay

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plied. Morris B. Rees, 41, of 42.8 tender left the rails and the ooup | Jeffersonville after a big pipe _® = ou i : E COLD WAVE blanketed Mr. Brungs said the agreement Gladstone Ave. engineer, also ling with passenger coaches was running from Louisville beneath a COLD AVE Blanks

was reached during the past few was in good ‘condition at St. Vindays after Cyrus 8, Ching, direc- cents. Hospital... He received a tor of the Federal Mediation and dislocated shoulder. Conciliation Service, asked the, Hit W. Ss! 5 parties to try to work out a -set-| t 'Warniug Signs

{ pie rar All 12 Escape Injury ai tlement in advance of a fact, Treated aL EL Vineours Hosfinding board's report due next * OF Tier inNiFles “were

. ; minor injuries were 11 Carr Accident Joseph F. Rambaud, 23, of 1218] Bonday. ce m— Proupect St., driver of a second Te Jraploese of ne Indias gtd pant yy SA er . car; Dale Barrett, 28, of -432 8. apolis Water Co. esca serious ing gas lo agiac - e Bandits Get $85 |Oxford St. and James Smithers, injury last night wher a Frapk- thugan, Nich. sido from. ana Babs May Face Three mien; one armed with a #0, of 822 Spruce St. Passengers. ot: motorist. crashed into x piled n : : Oper : rfle, held up a filling station at in the Rambaud .automobile, and " rots excavated from 3 proven THE north of “the University or Second A ation 1502 N. West St. early this morn- Darrell F. Fowler, 41, of 232 N.| : 8 Notre Dame stadium and the] BERN, Jan. 31 (UP)—Barbara ing taking They-foreed-Rob~ Colorado: St.—locomotive fireman, Water main, . |Indiana-Michigan state line were g,iion has been stricken with ert Morely, 19, 1222 W. 30th St. En route to the Union Station. | The motorist, John . R. Reed, | without service. intestinal paralysis in a sudden to hand -over the money and then the engine left the rails, struck 38, was. charged with drunken- Late this morning, the source|tyrn for the worse and her physifled. \ a traffic warning signal and "ai ness. : of the stoppage had not yet been cians are considering a second utility pole before sideswiping an| The workmen were digging in the discovered. operation, hospital sources reautomobile waiting at the cross- center of Delaware St. near 19th| At New Albany and Jefferson-| ported today. 47.-of -8t.. 8t., when. police said Reed ripped. ville. gas service was stopped oo! The heiress to a Woolworth at the wheel. Both into the pile. One of the work. all consumers when & big piPeirortune suffered a relapse after Buck, who was a men ducked Into a large hole in/running from Louisville beneath zn gppendicitis operation, and Ler [whieh he had been working and 8 bridge over the Ohio River csndition is grave, informants ‘froze” late yesterday. said. A condensation -of moisture ac-| A new infection developed and cumulated in a pocket and froze, caused intestinal paralysis, pers blocking the movement of-the isons at the hospital said. They

(Continued om Page 2 —Col; 3)|Teported her doctors feared the

—— " —— posiibility. of peritonitis, Board Submits 4 At the banks of the Jumna the Nabobs with rubles as big as

However, physicians were said to be placing great faith in the use of penicillin. One source described them as having “no imhuge mass of humanity, wailing pigeon eggs gleaming in . their mediate Worry.” and. weeping in sorrow, packed. leathef-bedecked turbans. ' ew Id C U es —— around the newly bricked burning The shouting of the crowd rose Arkansas Opens Law platform as far as the eye could uo surf-like thunder as the cre-| yy, \yrhic. rules recommended School for Negroes se: ' mation proceeded. Again and by the safety board will be sub-| FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. Jan. 21 Mr. Gandhi's body was rever- again they shouted. victory 0 mitted to City Council next week (UP)—University of Arkansas ently placed on the pyre with Gandhi! Gandhi still lives! tor approval. |graduate schools were open towood heaped below and around it. The multitude. watched as the "They are: ¢ = Rv for the first time to “qualis A While the crowd raised A Cry: flames licked up through the san-| ‘ONE: Downtown traffic rout- ged” Negro students. Gandhi! Gandhi! Gandhi!” De- g31wgod pyre and seemed to ex- ing be completely revised, includ-| niversity: President Lewis vadas began the ceremony which perience a proxysm of emotion AS|ing institution of many one-way web, Jones said yesterday that has been followed for generations! the fire began its task of con- streets. 1 a SA ha ah by the Hindu faith. suming Gandhi's earithy remains.| Two: Traffic policemen to get in the graduate law school |and terrorists who long have First, an unguent, a mixture of within the funeral grounds additional training so that the = = 0 "oooommodate Clifford |advocated a blood bath to purge liquid butter and incense, Was| there was an incedible mixture of | public can expect uniform signals Little Rock Negro who India of all Moslems and return Poured over the pyre. Then De- people—India’s leaders, Premieriand know what they mean. - I oT son pore [the land to the reactionary orth. VAdas faced toward the sun, now pandit Jawaharlal Nehur, Sardar) THREE: That policemen “get ®PP (0 0 Ln ve lodox Hindulsm of medieval 10Wering to the west, and began patel, “iron man" of the All-/into the street” where people can mon ag ae | times. : to chant the ancient verses of the India Congress, the Moslem Con- see them instead of standing on| The gradua sthool ac a Sanskrit Veda, the oldest and gress leader Maulana Azad, and the curbs. the first positive move il For the moment, however, In- most holy book of the Hindus. | Baldev Singth—and the plain men| FOUR: That police district cars a Southern state waivesat Hy jdia's capital was unified by grief The verses committed Mr. an women of the hundreds of he expected to help the traffic di- admit Negroes since He a . aver: Mr. Ghaudl’s aati. Gandhi to the gods who will be races and sects which comprise vision by watching for trafic vio- preme Court ruled that Okizhoma | His body was borne through the| responsible for his next reincar- India’s polygot population. |1ations. Heretofore, police often must provide equal educational natign. Mixed with their grief was an | A fe chanting ceased. De- undercurrent of fear over what! when traffic was not their Ag HURT IN MOB PROTEST vidas took flame from the sacred the future will bring. The ques- ment. td with » lamp which had burned all night tion on many lips was: “Who will] Mayor Feeney reitera N some 500 DOS passed the peside Mr. Gandhi's body and be next?” and the names that emphasis that no one hav ng po ne ad the Reatee a ii { thousands of mourn- thuched it to the pyre. were mentioned were Néhru and lice business will get any a > storm Soda), a airy Buren ir places and followed ~ All of Delhi gathered at the Azad-—both of whom Jave long ho 3 Bot Pri Py ar al Rit yest a Jada pegs process t wound pyre in final tribute - been targets : ex- : et + | J + : miles or a - oo Gandhi ward Roult’ attention has been Shanghai's dance halls, and 3 " lusiied to the matter. persons were injured.

b the engine's over- . BO rash added. 8! A Ja bin over the Ohio RIVET mercury dipping to 28. - No sooner had the troulle pany, N. Y., reported 25 below at been repaired than the Northern 5:30 a. m. and it was 23 below at Indiana Public Service Co. Tre- now Hackensack, N.Y. Hartford, ported what appeared to be AN. c5nn registered nine below and identical situation near South’, New Haven it was one above. Bend. A wsix-inch pipeline carry- ;

DRAG RIVER FOR BOY

Police and firemen dragged the Paul, Ind. fcy Elkhart River today ‘in a'he and Mrs. search for Charles Lorenz, 11, passenger,’ were unhurt, | Lt. William Hague of the police avoided injury.

Thousands Wail in Grief;

The body of sainted Mohandas K.

ination flared anew in Bombay. I was ‘carriéd out on the banks of

| Joona, who struck down Ghandi. | ‘There were indications that Gadse was linked with a widespread band of Hindu extremists

‘the teeming quarters of old Del-

As the cortege hundreds

more than five miles long be- ahi. There were leprous beggars | tremists | who struck in the crowd and there were true down, =

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