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"GO FLY A KITE!"—That's what the Alpha Chi Omega of Butler University J re told coed Charleen Buttz (seated) when she was named to pilot their entry in the Sigma Nu kite flying contest for Butler women's organizations yesterday. Here she ran into a sabotage plot as Kappa Kappa Gamma Billi Elff (left) and Pi Phi Joan Tucker (right) tried to scuttle her kite. Helping her defend is Sigma Nu Paul Goeke (center). While the four fought it out the Tri Delt entry won the contest.

THURSDAY, MARCH 18, 1948

Entered as Second-Class Matter at Indianapolis, Ind, Issued daily

Postoffce except Sunday

PRICE FIVE CENTS

Italy Menaced By Russ

Rockets In Yugoslavia

Apr. 18 Held - Lero Day to Act on Draft

Italian Elections Called U. S. Test

Bead Editorial, Page 20.

0K Bus Service For H. S. Pupils

Works Board Approves

Belmont Ave. Line The Indianapolis Works Board

ways permission to run crosstown bus service on Belmont Ave. for the benefit of Washington High School pupils. At the same time, Mayor Al Feeney announced he had instructed, the Police Department to make a traffic safety survey along the routes which Wash-

school. An article -in The Times lastit

week disclosed the inadeduacies|fopeclosure on their bonds if they

Jenner to Keep Them Guessing

of transportation to and fromthe school, and the dangers to which hundreds of pupils were exposed daily in making the trip to and from their studies. . Up to Commission Harry Reid, Indianapolis Rail: ways president, appeared before the Works Board with the request to establish the: line. He said the request must also receive approval of the Public Service Commission. The cross-town service will be operated only during school hours. Service will run north on Belmont Ave. to Michigan St. east to Lynn 8t., south to Wilcox St., west to Belmont Ave. south to Morris St., east to Hiatt St., south to Lambert St., west to Belmont Ave, and thence north over the route.

To Probe Hazards Mayor, Feeney, who has been co-operating with high school officials and parents to, establish the route, said police would begin a thorough investigation of traffic hazards over a wide area south of the high school. The Times article last week disclosed that many pupils walk or hitch-hike to school daily, some of them crossing as many as four railroad crossings. In some localities pupils are required to walk in the street because there are no sidewalks. The Mayor sald a report of the traffic hazards would be made directly to him by the Police Department, and that some type of corrective measures would be taken.

Monon Plans to Add 550 New Freight Cars

The Monon Railroad plans to add 550 new freight cars. The cars will be .financed partly by a trust certificate issue of $1,800,000 awarded to Salomon Brother & Hutzler at a bid of 98.16 at 25% per cent, J. W. Barriger, president of the Monon (Chicago, Indianapolis and Louisville), announced yesterday. °

‘Purple’ Home Owners To Meet Tonight |

Home owners in southeast Indianapolis whose homes were turned a “deep purple” by chemical fumes from Citizens Gas and Coke Utility will meet tonight to

Utilities Scored On Street Repair

apolis utilities in city streets was branded as ‘sloppy .and a iraffic|. hazard” by Mayor Al Feeney today. LENA) :

fail to restore the streets to their former condition after they tear today granted Indianapolis Rail-|¢nem yp to make installations.

inspectors of the City Engineering Department to instruct them| that a closer watch must be kept in the future on work done by the utilities oughfares.

coempanjes are bonded to put the ington students take tb and from streets back into their former condition, and he declared that

denied here today that he will announce his candidacy for the GOP governor nomination during] his visit in Indianapolis the rest of this week.

this morning as one of the principal speakers at the Columbia

Club’s annual Beefsteak Dinner tcnight, for Republican leaders. Jenner might formally announce the dinner.

by taking advantage of the din-

may

Repair work done by Indian-

He declared that the utilities

He said he was calling in the

in Indianapolis thor-

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hey would be threatened with

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not do so,

Denies He Will Make

Formal Bid at Dinner U. 8. Sen. William E. Jenner

He came in from Washington

a formal get-together

It had been reported that Sen. his candidacy for governor at “I would not embarrass anyone

ner program to make any political announcement,” Sen. Jenner said. He also said he would not comment upon Indiana politics publicly during his visit here. Meanwhile, however, Sen. Jenner's unannounced campaign for

market, to be passed on to the housewives probably this weekend.

greatest since the boom that followed removal of OPA ceilings—

has cut the nation's meat supply in half.

is at a standstill while a presidential fact-finding board inves-

Predict Rise In Meat Price

. Wholesale Costs . Go Up. in Strike

Prices were up on meat, lard and butter today in the wholesale

The meat price increases—the

grew out of the nation-wide packinghouse workers strike which

In most of the nation the strike

In ‘Indianapolis, however, one major packer announced steps toward a stopgap settlement. The meat increases resuit from an anticipation of short supplies should the strike be prolonged, observers said. They stressed, however, that there is no panic buying and that housewives especially have helped the situation by refraining from scrambling for present supplies. Lard is expected to follow meat prices up. 6-8-Cent Jump Today the increase was most apparent in wholesale buying and had not yet reached the meat counter. Observers said, however, the 6 to 8-cent jump in pork loins and increases in fresh dressed beeves would probably reach che housewife by the week-end. Meanwhile, Howard Greer, manager of Kingan & Co. here, said his plant would try to make a stopgap settlement with Local No. 117 (CIO). The Kingan union did not strike but the plant is virtually idle with all but about 500 of the 2300 workers laid off. * Mr. Greer said the plant was “limping along” because it could not resume full operation as long as the union reserved the right to strike on 24-hour notice. He said he planned to talk to union officials today to see if a plan could be worked out. Butter Going Up

the governor nomination was stepped up to full-time operations with headquarters in the Claypool Hotel. Republican forces booming Sen. Jennersfor governor clashed headon last week with the state GOP faction headed by Governor Gates who brought out Walter Helmke, Ft. Wayne attorney, as the administration’s choice for the governor nomination. The Governor became more realistic in his Helmke boom by dismissing two top state officials from his cabinet last Monday, it was reported, on the grounds that they were supporting Sen. Jenner for governor. Sen. Jenner declined to comment upon these developments here today, indicating something be said on the subject later.

ODT Cuts Rail Travel

WASHINGTON, ‘Mar. 18 (UP) —The Office of Defense Trans-

discuss means of protection. Residents of more than 400 homes affected will meet at 7:45

P. m. at Woodside Methodist Church,

On the Insi

portation today ordered a 25 per cent cut in passenger service on coal-burning railroad trains. The |curtailment is effective midnight {Sunday on all railroads.

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“We'll try to work out an ar- | rangement under which full pro- | duction can be resumed with the understanding we can take up negotiations for final settlement after President Truman's factfinding board makes its report,” he said. Butter prices were generally up or getting ready to go up following a jump at the Chicago market yesterday. Most Indianapolis butter suppliers follow the Chicago market. Some local firms did not take the increase yesterday but

following today's market action. Even if the

made to cover yesterday's jump.

| The sharp advance was attributed partially to the shelving in Congress of a proposal to reon oleo-

{duce federal taxes

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‘Storm Clouds, Rain

‘Weather Menu Here | LOCAL TEMPERATURES 6

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~A pessimistic weatherman pre|dicts cloudy weather and rain for {Indianapolis tonight and. tomor-

planned to make an adjustment

Chicago market should level off today, some upward adjustment probably will be

By LYLE C. WILSON United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Mar. 18—War fears chilled this capital today

hung over non-veterans ‘aged from 18 to 25. Taxpayers could look forward to the likelihood of new expenditures for national defense, at least for the Air Force. All hands are facing 30 dangerous days. At the end of that period Italy holds her national elections. If communism is rejected ihere and cannot impose itself by force, the tension here and abroad will ease. / Some officials estimated that from 800,000 to 1 million men would be taken within a year if another peacetime draft were passed. There are about 3 million non-veterans in this country within the suggested age brackets. Secretary of State George C. Marshall and his advisers were known now to be fearful that even Premier Josef V. Stalin could not stop the westward movement of the Communist steamroller in Europe. The thing may have gone too far. But itis believed Russia does not want a war, Overt Act Dreaded What is dreaded here is some overt act by a Russian captive country or militant Communist organization which would impose a war despite Moscow's reluctance. President Truman cited Russia as a disturber of the peacq yesterday. He asked Congress for temporary enactment of a selective service. He said it was essential to support the democracies of Europe against Russian aggression. The draft would be a stopgap pending enactment of universal military training which he also requested. :

was that it vote European. recovery funds, but fast. Congress Uncertain Congress is uncertain. Potent members prefer to vote new billions for the Air Force as the best guarantee of peace at home and abroad. One or the other seems|

Republicans and Democrats| alike apparently are agreed on|

billion sought for national defense in the next fiscal year beginning July 1. A Republican drive is developing to hike the Air Force appropriation beyond budget limits. The new budget would provide about $3 billion for the Air Force.

Pollard's Story Target of State

By ROBERT BLOEM Times Staff Writer GREENFIELD, Mar, 18— Prosecution in the hands-and-foot murder trial apparently had suceeded today in establishing that the element of self-defense did not appear until after the accused slayer. had talked to an attorney. Virgil Quinn, Marion County deputy sheriff, testified that Howard Pollard, the 25-year-old defendant, had consulted with an

The third request to Congress.

A Fetch Your Spears To the Wars, You, Or Else Go Hang

By Ser Howard Newspapers WASHINGTON, Mar. 18—Selective service was a comparatively simple matter for Emperor Haile Selassie when Mussolini attacked Ethiopia in 1935. Army sources here say he issued this draft order.

“ONE: When this order is received, all men and boys able to carry a spear will go to Addis Ababa. “TWO: Every married man will bring his wife to cook and wash for him. “THREE: Every unmarried man will bring any unmarried woman he can find to cook and wash for ‘him. “FOUR: Women with babies, the blind, and those too aged and infirm to carry a spear, are excused. “FIVE: Anyone found at home after receiving this order will be hanged.” :

Rout Recluse With Tear Gas Deputies Fired On; Shells Fail to Explode

Deputies routed a 48-year-old recluse from his barricaded river cabin with a tear gas bomb today, after he held them at bay with a loaded double-barrelled shotgun. . Neighbors complained to the sheriff's office that the man had tried to shoot his brother and that he was threatening persons with a gun. When deputies reached his cabin on River Road east of Keystone Ave. he locked himself in and refused to come out, : He brandished the shotgun at Peputy Robert Reasner who tried to break in the door, Later examination showed he had pulled both triggers but the shelis failed to fire. } Se He was routed after a second carload of deputies brought tear gas. He gave himself up as the gas filled the cabin. The wind later swept fumes toward law officers, choking and blinding several. The man is held on a vagrancy charge for mental examination. Deputies reported his 50-year-old brother and 93-year-old father said he often became angry and periodically went on “rampages.”

‘Russ ‘Mine’

now to be inevitable. ‘Believed Cover-Up

Times Foreign Service FRANKFURT, Germany, Mar.

voting Mr. Truman the entire $1111 German geologists with in-

timate, personal knowledge of the areas believe that Soviet “mining” of uranium ores in regions near the Czech border is a cover for other activities. Deposits of pitchblende, from which uranium is extracted, have been known to exist in the mountainous section south of Chemnitz for 100 years, these men report. However, the metal, which is the basis for atomic energy and weapons, exists in such minute quantities that its production is impractical, they say. Foreign visitors have been rigorously excluded from the “mining” regions.

Long-Married Couple United Even in Death

READING, Pa., Mar. 18 (UP) {—Death couldn't separate Wil{liam B. Marinitz, 69, and his wife, Katherine, 63, after 39 years of married life. Mr. Marinitz died yesterday.

exactly an hour later,

Indianapolis Attorney, Peter Cancilla, before making a ‘“confession” on Apr. 19, 1946. The fatal shooting of Leland Paul Miller occurred on Apr. 10. His body was found the next day almost consumed by fire in a blazing cabin near Ladoga and about the same time the victim's

raked out of Advance. Contends Pollard Menaced Deputy Quinn statement given to him by Pollard, but admitted under crossexamination that the statement was not in Pollard's exact words.

a brush fire near

terially from another “confes-

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{remain near 60 during the day, ’ {with the mercury hanging around Three Women Chute

140 tonight.

The weather is expected ‘0 be| generally mild tomororw despite

the rain.

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{tures and some cloudiness.

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sonal plane, the Sacred Cow.

Safely From Plane | BERLIN, Mar. 18 (UP) Brig.

|chuted from a crippled U. Army C-47 over Berlin.

All six passengers and five TON, Mar. 18 (UP) crewmen who bailed out have} WASHING erg Pid C./been heard from. Gen. Taylor] was hospitalized for a sprained!

headquarters reported.

severed hands and one foot were}

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The statement did not vary masion” made at Indianapolis City

Gen. Telford Taylor and his wife | redfcted were injured today when: they ild with seasonable empera-| and nine other Americans para- |§ 8.

shock and the others suf-|E=

ROCKET SITES for Soviet buzzhombs face Italy, Greece and Trieste.

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POCKET SUBS [ee shipped 10 jo IFiume by U.S.S.R.

BIG RED GUNS bristle from new batteries along Adriatic coast.

His wife died in the same bed

Defense Chief Eyewitnesses Report

Pictures Need Launching Sites Along

In Manpower

Calls U. S. Weak For Crisis Abroad

WASHINGTON, Mar, 18 (UP) —Defense Secretary James Forrestal told Congress today our armed forces “would be inadequate” in event of war with Russia and should be boosted above the present manpower ceiling of 1.7 milljon. Mr. Forrestal and Army Secretary Kenneth C. Royall went before the Senate Armed Forces Committee to press home the administration’s request for a revived draft and universal military training. Both said the armed forces cannot meet their requirements by voluntary methods, and in any case a boost in congressionallyauthorized strength is necessary. Requires Study Mr. Forrestal gave no specific figures for the increase he would recommend. That will require more study, he said. But he gave some indication of what may be asked by telling the committee that the Army wants an authorized strength of about 900,000 men as compared with the present ceiling of 669,000, The Army actually is 119,000 men under authorized strength now, This is the way the military picture shaped up to Mr. Forrestal and Mr, Royall: ONE: World War II veterans would be excluded from the limited draft asked by President Truman,

3 Million on List TWO: About 3 million men between the ages of 19 and 25 would be subject to the draft. THREE: Draftees would

years.”

trained for combat, FIVE: Reports of some demobilization by Russia were dis{counted as “propaganda.” SIX: The U. 8. has seven or eight divisions overseas, of which none is combat-ready.

Feeney to Cut City's Expenses

Mayor Al Feeney announced today drastic cuts are to be made in city expenses in an effort to reduce the $807,000 municipal deficit. Tomorrow he will call in the first of the department heads to

inform each what per cent he must slash his expenses. “Tha Zafigit s going to be re-

departments must reduce personnel to ma2t ‘heir individual cut, they will have to do so.” Urges 20 Per cent Cut The Mayor indiccted demands for reductions ranging from 10 to 20 per cent would he handed the department heads. Those scheduled to get the expense-slashing ultimatum tomorrow are Phillip L. Bayt, city controller; Noble Hollister, plan commission secretary; D. G. Watkins, municipal garage superintendent; Tony Maio, street commissioner; Lewis 1. (Cap) Johnson, traffic engineer, and Earle Clements, City Hall custodian. The remaining department heads will be given notice of the cuts expected of them within the next few days.

KE: called for “not more than two

duced,” the Mayor sald, “and. if|ing

BIG AIRFIELD at Sombor- taken over | by Russians for their exclusive use.

Adriatic as

All Done in Name of

That information comes

domain as I did to escape the |fate that befell liberals in other Russian satellite countries.

The rockets are captured German V-1 buzzbombs and V-2s, which presumably came from the great Nazi rocket experimental station at Penemunde in the S8oviet zone of Germany. To these the Russians have added their own “improved” version, supposedly capable of soaring 400’ miles in 17 minutes. Such bombs, fired from newiy built bases on the Adriatic coast, could reach Rome, Naples or Salerno, More launching platforms menace Italy from northwestern Yugoslavia and ring the Free State of Trieste, where 10,000 American and British troops are held on a combat footing. » . ” OTHER rocket sites in the southern mountains overlook Greece where government troops are battling guerrilla forces. Those facts come to me in letters which bear a Swiss postmark and the handwriting of a trusted exile, safe in Swiss neutrality, whose name cannot be mentioned. Inside the envelopes is ‘the

the been delivering and the bases iby slave labor, y report! : Torpedo boats, in dismantled form, are being delivered to the former naval base at Divuljana, near Split, on the Adriatic. (Trucks sent to Yugoslavia by the U, 8. were assembled here in 1941.) At least 14 of the torpedo boats have been assembled. Pocket submarines, also in dismantled form, have been shipped by rail by the Russians to Flume, just south of Trieste. After being put together, the submarines move by sea in Tito-held waters, probably to underground bases which have been observed under construction on the Albanian coast. Combat aircraft -— the World

ON THE ADRIATIO shoreline from ¥Fiume to Kotor, the big guns from Russia (and bigger ones built in Yugoslavia from German prototypes) bristle from natural rock fortifications, pointtoward Italy. At Sibenik {near Split) and Kotor (across from Bari, Italy) are Russian coastal batteries; the one at Kotor guards a V12 base, All this, of course, is being done in the name of Tito, Yugoslav gauletier for the new Soviet order, But the men as well as the war machines bear an authentic “made in USSR” stamp. In every Yugoslav division and brigade, Russian officers and commissars instruct the Yugoslay soldiers. . ” . THEY WEAR Yugoslav uniforms and speak the Yugoslav {tongue as well as their own. Tito’s 78 generals are young men who rode through the ranks on the Red surge, but like Tito, ¥ . ~

Romania

Vote Nears

Tito but Men and

Machines Bear ‘Made in Soviet’ Stamp By BOGDAN RADISTA, Ex-Yugoslav Press Information Chief (Copyright, 198, by NEA Service, Inc.) RUSSIAN ROCKET BOMBS have been moved to launching sites along Yugoslavia’s borders as Italy pre. pares for her crucial election Apr, 18 and pressure increases on the tiny Allied token force at Trieste.

to me from reliable eye-

witness sources, Yugoslav friends who have fled from Tito’s

This is the first of a three part ‘bombshell report written

for NEA Service by Bogdan Raditsa, a brilliant Yugoslav author who became a diplomat in the pre-war Yugoslav government, was lured into believing in Tifo’s new “freedom,” and then fled fo America when he found the bitter truth of Communist “lberation.” ‘

Like a military intelligence

of Raditsa who have fled Tito's borders as he did before them. Week by week, these letters reach Raditsa via neu tral Switzerland. This week, as the facts added up to the over-all picture of a Balkan

businessmen: who ‘have to get to Italy and. there; in comfacts to Switzerland.

- See Dismantled Torpedo Boats, Subs

THEY HAVE s&een more than rockets which Russia has

slavia, built by the Hungarians during occupation, has been Tebuilt by the Russians ‘and now serves exclusively for Soviet aviation. Big guns—76 and 88 mm. ar« tillery~~and the tanks that ride

been co in from along with armored cars,

flage in a valley less than two miles from Gjevigelija on the Greek frontier, where even the camouflage cannot hide the guns in the chain of bunker fortificas tions.

Big Guns Bristle From ‘Natural Forts

they too, are puppets. The Russian commissars who stand bes side them are the real generals. Tito's top officers, as well as the specialists in his army, got their train in Russia. The So schooling has been strongest in the air force; large numbers of fighter pilots are ready to fly new-type Saviet planes, although these planes have:.not yet been seen in Yugoslay skies, » ” » THE YUGOSLAVS are re signed to seeing these planes in their skies -—— in action — by spring or summer. When I was in Belgrade in 1945, there was a great feeling of depression among the Communists after the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima: for two weeks, it served as the greates’ propoganda against commue nism. But soon the Reds were bragging again. And last November, Tito cone fidently told the Communist lead. er i Croatia: “We are ready to sink thelr (American) fleet in the Adriatic. their atomic bombs we shall use our own. We do not stand alone this time. Our ma-

ji terial comes from an inexhausti-

ble source,

r » ” ’ “RUSSIA workshops turn out 30,000 cars a month. Headquarters have at their disposal 1X0 divisions ready to march on 48 hours’ notice and capable of wip~ ing out all obstacles obstructing their advance to Paris. “Comrade, you know well that the people are not on our side. The farmers are perfidious and obstinate; and it is impossible to clear their brains of belief in

wal Priests and saints, When priests

DDEN TANKS wait near bunker chain on Greek fron-

toll alarm bells, there will wholesale insurrection.” Which explains why the 1 police—the UDB, or Office for the Security of the State, until recently called OZNA-—is 80 bug+ ily cataloging those who will be arrested when alarm bells toll. o * »

IT EXPLAINS, ‘too, who have

War II “Stormovik,” the “Petls

into combat ahead of them have : Russia, . Eighty of :the tanks wait under camou~ :

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