Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 April 1948 — Page 1

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} Germany, to make her home with platform, was met by three sons, Ro

ed Seeks Release i Reuther Case

Police Ask More Questioning Time DETROIT, Apr. 23 (UP)—Police sought today to hold Nelson Davis, Communist, who, a tipster said, boasted he knew who shot Walter P. Reuther, CIO United Auto Workers chieftain, another 12hours for questioning. Mr. Davis, Ford Motor Comny foundry worker and minor UAW official, filed petition for a release on a writ of habeas corpus from Circuit Judge Arthur Webster. A hearing was scheded for this afternoon.

Toy said that a mysterious "Mr. K" informed him he overheard Mr. Davis say he knew the gunman who fired a shotgun blast into Mr. Reuther’s right arm and chest Tuesday night.

“We are going to ask the judge to adjourn the hearing on the writ until Monday to give us me to question Mr. Davis and

Has Eye on Rackets The commissfoner said he was not overlooking the possibility” That Mr, Reuther’s attack resulted from the UAW head’s opposition to numbers rackets which flourish in some automobile plants. “High UAW officials working with management are trying to stamp out this racket,” Mr. Toy said. “We know Mr. Reuther is one of this group.” Mr. Toy also askéd the UAW for a transcript of proceedings of two or three union executive board meetings and other union records in the hope of uncovering a clue to the would-be killer’s identity. Meanwhile, Emil Mazey, UAW Fecretary-treasurer, said Dr.

neuro-surgery at Duke Univerity, Durham, N. C., has arrived to confer with Mr. Reuther’s phy-

physicians Mr. Reuther was reported in good condition at New Grace Hospital, but doctors have not determined the extent of his arm wound, Mr. Mazey said Dr. Woodhalls presence did not indicate an

emergency Efforts to detain Mr. Davis, who signed an affidavit admitting he is a Communist, followed disclosure that the Federal Bureau of Investigation will enter the case to see if there was any violation of federal law.

Residents Travel Alleys As Ohio River Rises ROSICLARE, IIL, Apr. 23 (UP) Residents here were forced to go down alleys to pick up their mail today after the turbulent Ohio River rose six inches in 24

hours.

| Water stood within three inches of the floors of business houses and their patrons had to cross walks to get to the movies. The Evansville Weather Bureau reported this morning that the Ohio had reached 52.6 feet at Fords Ferry, 14 miles up the river frim Rosiclare and was expected to reach it's crest there sometime this afternoon or early tomorrow.

SPELLMAN IN 'FRISCO SAN FRANSISCO, Apr. 23 Francis Cardinal Spellman and 13 other dignitaries of the Catholic Church arrived here today on a chartered plan en route to the Far East.

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Amusements. 30 | Editorials. . 22 Eddie Ash. . 28| Foreign Aff. . .22 M. Childs. . .22| Forum. . . . 22

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Comics. . . 31| Mrs. Manners 3

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59th YEAR—NUMBER 37

HERE TO LIVE— Mrs. Louise Wroblewski arrived yesterday - from Berlin, Germany, to make her home with part of her family. Mrs. Wroblewski, on platform, was met by three sons, Robert, Rudolph and Paul (left to right).

Flying Trip From Germany Unites Mother With 3 Sons

Big Celebration Greets Woman, 70, Who Will Make Her Home on South Side

Mrs. Louise Wroblewski slept late this morning Yesterday had been a very big, very full day. She began her life here in a new city and a new country. Now 70, she arrived by American Airlines at Weir Cook | hall

Municipal Airport after an ocean was reunited with three of her so

Townsend Urged For Cabinet Post

May Succeed Anderson As Agricultral Chief By DANIEL M. KIDNEY Times Staff Writer WASHINGTON, Apr. 23--The name of M. Clifford Townsend, former Governor of Indiana, is

from New Mexico The cabinet post had been slated to go to his assistant

Charles Brannan, but possible difficulties over the latter's confirmation has brought other names into the picture, Among others discussed are Nelson Krachel, former Governor of Iowa, and Carl Vrooman of Illinois, former assistant Secretary of Agriculture. During the war, Mr. Townsend was assistant War Food Administrator, and he had previously served in the Agriculture Department under Secretary Wickard. Rates Chances ‘Good’ In Indianapolis, Democratic National Committeeman Frank

chances for the appointment as “good.” He said the development was new and the name of Mr. Townsend had been brought into the picture within the last 10 days. State Democratic Chairman Pleas Greenlee said he had not discussed the matter with President Truman or national party leadérs on his recent trip to Washington but added that “Mr. Townsend's qualifications for the job are well known in Washington.” Both Mr. McHale and Mr. Greenlee said the former governer had the unqualified support of the state Democratic organization for the cabinet post.

Weather Forecast Warm and Windy

LOCAL TEMPERATURES

6a.m ..58 10am ..7 a.m .. 55, 11am ..78 8am ..59 12 (Noon) 80 9am ...66 1pm... 80

High temperatures of from 76 to 80 degrees today are the offi-| cial forecast of the U. S. Weather Bureau for Indianapolis and vicinity. Cloudiness and wind accompany the warmth today and tonight as a mercury low of from 60 to 62 is predicted. Tomorrow will be windy and warm with widely scattered showers late in the afternoon.

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Outdoors , . , the fishing outlook for the week-end.Page 13

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E. Minnesota St. But last night there was a big celebration at Robert's and Paul's home, 712 Lincoln St. -.. German Folk Songs The crowded basement rocked with rousing German folk songs to the actompaniment of a tinkling plano, At the keyboard sat Mrs. Wroblewski, alternately laughing and _ctying with happiness. at each song. She played one after

Sing" : voi tl town, there She thought of two other sons, Joseph and Franz, 4nd two daughters, Mrs. Louise Beckman and Mrs. Cenzi Dieterle, who still are in Germany. : Dies of Malnutrition And she wished that her husband could be here to join in the merry-making. Mr. Wroblewski, who had been a teacher, died from malnutrition during the war. : In a way, the war seemed far in the past, but the memories still are bitter. Hers was a family fighting

against itself. Franz and Joseph

fought in the German army, not from choice but from force. Paul

hes: Woodhall, professor of|McHale rated Mr. Townsend’s/was in the U. 8. Army while

Robert and Rudolph worked in| war industries. Joseph. was taken ‘prisoner by the Americans in Italy and was sent to ‘this country for imprisonment. Before he was returned to Germany, the three local brothers had the opportunity to visit him,

Senate Group Approves

Harriman as ERP Envoy

WASHINGTON, Apr. 23 (UP) —The Senate Foreign Relations Committee approved unanimously today the nomination of W. Averell Harriman to be roving ambassador for the European Recovery Program. The committee approved Mr. Harriman’s nomination after questioning the former Secretary of Commerce for about an hour. Senate approval of the appointment is expected Monday. This is the fourth time Mr. Harriman’s name has been before the Senate for confirmation. He was approved previously as ambassador to Russia, ambassador to Britain and Secretary of Commerce. As roving ambassador, Mr. Harriman will receive $25,000 a year. ]

2 Teen-Agers Admit $815 Burglary Series

Two {een-age boys signed a statement today admitting four burglaries in which they obtained $815.14, police said. The thefts, which were all committed since the first of the year, included the Renee Bakery, 114 Monument Circle. The boys said they took $800 from the bakery, using $350 to buy a used car.

New Arlington Bus Line To Start Here Monday

The new Arlington Ave. crosstown experimental bus line will begin operating next Monday morning. It was approved today by the Board of Works. The line runs from 10th St. north on Arlington to 38th St. east to Road 67 and southwest back to Arlington and 10th St.

RUSS WITHDRAW GOLD WASHINGTON, Apr. 23 (UP) -~Russia has withdrawn $4,490, - 9210 worth of her gold deposited in the New York Federal Reserve Bank, Commerce Department figures revealed

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45 Knocked Down; Six in Hospital

of the Cudahy Packing Co. plant and then smashed the headquar

workers here in a bloody out break of strike violence today.

to the pavement as more than 100 policemen drove the pickets from the plant gate. Six persons, including. one with a fractured skull, sustained injuries requiring hospitalization. . Police smashed through the

Cudahy gate. When the strikers sought to take refuge within their héadquarters, police followed them. i Women Beaten Within 10 minutes the union was a bloody shambles, Many of the screaming, victims ‘of the police sticks women. “Two of those hospitalized were women strikers. David Carson, attorney for the = we protested to r Clark Tucker. Mr. Carson said the police “have no right to enter the union hall and beat up ipeople, and certainly no right to beat up women.” Capt. Eli Dahlin, detective in charge of the police detail, said the fighting began after he tried to reason with the crowd, described by Mayor Tucker as “an {overly large gathering of strikers gate

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(the strikers) ask for it, no matter who they are.” ¢ Capt. Dahlin said the trouble could have been avoided if pickets and strikers had obeyed orders to disperse. Instead, he said, “they swarmed together and formed a compact mob,” The brawl ended inside the union’s hall. Strikers, police said, ran inside the hall and locked the door. When the union members refused to obey a police command to admit Capt. Dahlin’s force, the police smashed in the door. Capt. Dahlin said he ordered the door smashed when one of the men inside the building “drew a knife.” Police Chief Will Johns said “ can enter the plant now + + « absolutely anybody . . . and no one will be touched.” He said similar steps to place the strike situation under complete police control had been taken at the struck plants of Armour & Co. and Wilson Packing Co. There was no violence at either Armour’'s or Wilson's today.

Pickets Shoot Chicago Officer

CHICAGO, Apr. 23 (UP)—Police searched through the rundown residential area near the Union Stockyards today for three pickets who shot and seriously wounded a police detective. The officer, Charles Nork, 41, was shot in the abdomen, wrist and knee last night as he and two policemen attempted to arrest the pickets in a South Side tavern. The officers had been summoned to the tavern by two women workers at the Armour Co. plant. They complained that three men and two women pickets had followed them as they left the stockyards after work. Police said Officer Nork was fired upon as he entered the tavern. He returned the fire but the three pickets fled. Their two women. companions were captured.

$30,000 Fire Razes Ft. Harrison Club

Fire destroyed the non-commis-sioned officers club at F't. Benjamin Harrison early today. Loss

club was reopened four months

ago. Soldier members of the Ft. Harrison' and Billings fire departments fought the blaze for more than two hours. 8gt. Fred Goodson, who acts as night watchman at the club, discovered the fire at 12:45 a. m. -Officers at the local Army post said they believed the blaze started in the oil heating plant room. 7 No immediate plahs have been made for rebuilding the club. I was uninsured. :

KANSAS CITY, Kas, Apr. 23) (UP) =— Club swinging police}: drove pickets from the main gate| =

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massed picket line and drove|3 the strikers toward the union hall diagonally across from the

was estimated at $30,000. The,

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Prices Cut 5% By Westinghouse

Action Follows Slash

By U. S. Steel ITTSBURGH, Apr. 23 (UP)— The electrical industry joined steel today in a big price-slashing movement to beat inflation. Westinghouse Electric Corp. an-

nounced price reductions on a wide range of eles products which will save in

The nation received U. 8 Steel's price-cutting plan with mixed. opinion. A member of President Truman's cabinet hailed the action as “very salutory,” but

manufacturers were suspicious. Westinghouse reduced prices on electrical equipment which controls and regulates the distribution of power, such’ as circuit breakers, metal clad switchgear, feeder voltage regulators, switches, distribution switchboards, lightning arresters and the like. U. 8. Steel slashed prices as an alternative to granting the CIO United = Steelworkers a third round of wage increases. The steelworkers regeived wage hikes in 1946 and 1947, but Benjamin F. Fairless, U, 8. Steel president, said they simply “wont work.” Westinghouse now is negotiating with the CIO United Electrical Workers for a new contract.

U. S. Labor Officials Predict ‘Rocky Days’ WASHINGTON, Apr. 23 (UP)— Some government labor officials feared today that. Big Steel's policy of price-cuts-instead-of-wage-boosts may touch off strikes if it is adopted by other industries. The price reduction by itself, they sald, is an encouraging development in the fight against inflation because of the steel industry’s standing as a pacesetter. ¥ But they expressed doubts that unions « unfettered by the CIO United Steelworkers” “no-strike” pledge will fall in line if industry generally tries to follow. “This action,” said one government official, “makes the next 45 days look pretdy rocky in labor relations.” ?

2 GUNMEN GET $16,700 PHILADELPHIA, Apr. 23 (UP) Two masked gunmen escaped with $11,700 in cash and $5000 in jewelry today after binding a restaurant owner and his wife with her silk stockings.

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Shot Breaks Up Burglary Here

Two suspected burglars were

after a shot was fired at one who tried to escape. Answering a telephone call fron a passing motorist that two men were ransacking the Marathon Service Station, 922 N. Delaware 8t., two police cruiser squads closed in on the place. When one of the suspects ran out the back door of the station, Patrolman Harold Jefferson jumped out of the cruiser car and opened fire at the fleeing man, The shot didn’t stop him and Patrolman Ray Whobrey chased him-on foot, capturing the suspect behind a building at 915 N. Pennsylvania’ St. The prisoner had a loaded pistol in his pocket, Meanwhile, Patrolmen Jefferson, Charles LaDuke and Edward Miers caught the other suspect hiding in the Ohio Oil Co. service station next door. He also had a loaded pistol in his pocket. The prisoner caught after the chase gave his name as William J. Hawkins, 22, of 347 8. Hamilton Ave. and the other gave his name as Harry LaRue Miller, 25, of 2341 Guilford Ave.

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Traffic Jam Plays Part in Capture Working on an inside’ tip that a major holdup was planned here today, police set a trap and captured two armed suspects in front of

a South Side bank. Detectives received a telephone

last night that two men were planning to hold up a Maywood

to the bank’ for money to cash payroll, checks N,( Officers got: in touch with :the

who. verified the telephone - tip that he goes to the Kentucky Ave. branch of. the Union Trust: Co.,

day to get: $2500 cash, Told to Go Ahead i ame mn he 3 : E » ™ and police do

Two detectives were stationed inside the bank. and 10:others, clothes men, were “at

Shortly after the. bank. opéned, the detectives inside - the ; place saw an ex-convict they recognized walking ‘up and -down' the ‘sidewalk in front of the bank.

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Acts on Advice of U..S. Atforney; Judge May Change Mind If Miners Strike

WASHINGTON, Apr. 23 (UP)—The government let John: L. Lewis go without further punishment today

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of the government, Federal Judge T. Alan Goldsborough postponed indefinitely any sentences .on Mr. Lewis and the:union for civil contempt of court for disobeying the Apr. 3 order to end the strike forthwith. ‘ The government eased up.on Mr. Lewis and the union beeause most of the miners are now back at work. On Tuesday Mr. Lewis was fined $20,000 and the union’ $1.4 million for criminal contempt arising from the same failure to obey the Apr. 3 order. He and the union will have to:pay those fines unless higher courts reverse Judge Goldsborough. But whether or not he and the union will be called up again .on the civil contempt. charges will depend on how faithfully the union obeys an injunction against further strikes in the coal fields. The government, in recommending against further penalties against the mine workers’ chieftain at this time, was more interested in getting. the soft coal fields back into production after the prolonged strikes. Reports from the coal mines indicated that production soon would be normal. The government estimated that 85 per cent of the miners had gone back to work in response to Mr. Lewis’ Sxbortation to return to thelr IS.

The prisoners led police to a! nearby car which they said they had been driving. Police records show it had been stolen three days ago. The pair was charged with vagrancy pending further investigation.

Al Feeney is expected to put on cording to plans, the house will tomorrow morning. It's all part‘of the opening of the Clean Up-Paint Up-Fix Up Week campaign Apr. 25 to May 1, according to George W. Gable and Tony Maio, street commissioner, co-chairmen of the Mayor's Clean Up committee. « Arrangements to paint the vet-

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Home of Legless Veteran

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Mayor Feeney to Apply First Brushful;

Material, Labor Donated to Start Cleanup Frank M. Cox, former GI, 1850 Haliman Ave, will have his house painted free of charge tomorrow. Local paint manufacturers will supply the materials.

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metropolitan chaptef of the Carolyn, plans to. do the spring Painters and Decorators of cleaning after their home gets America, as the chapter's contri-|a new paint job.

As of now, the civil contempt

j verdict merely is held in abeyance,

Government: attorneys said that if the miners were to walk out again in a matter of a few days, the Justice Department could seek to have Lewis and his UMW sentenced for civil contempt.

State Mines Run Again Full Tilt

The soft coal Strike in Indiana was at a complete end today. All

Mayor the first brushful of paint. © Acbe painted in less than one hour ' us {bution to the clean up program. Mr. Cox, a former private first class, lost both of his legs when a land mine explodéd in France. {He saw 18 months’ service with {Battery ‘“A” 160th Field Artil!lery, 45th Infantry Division. | He has an 18 months -oid daughter, Diane Marie. His wife,

of the state's 8500 United Mine Workers were back on their jobs. After a holiday which lasted

| nearly 40 days, for many miners,

UMW officials reported 100 per cent turnouts of workers at some 50 open and deep pits in the Hoosier coal fields this morning, The resumption of coal production was felt in other industries. Some 2000 workers at New York Central's Beech Grove

shops in Indianapolis were or-

dered back {0 work after a. threeweek layoff use of the coal] stoppage: (A . rah

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further penalties dlive for use Ifithe| United Mine Workers should’ strike ‘anew. in violation, of a court

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in on information about the trap, rolied up in front of the bank

| The suspects gave their names’ as Joe Melvin, 30, of 940 Daly St., identified by detectives as the one walking in- front of the . bank earlier, and his companion, Terre

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had a loaded pistol in the car; Police records show that: Melvin ‘has been: arrested here 13 times and was convicted" twice for robbery, serving one 10° to 25-year sentence and ' another - 60-day term. Also the record shows he escaped from the .Indiana Reformatory at Pendleton several years ago. oi ulice here had -no record on shorn. A check is being made . at Terre Haute on. his record. ofe ¢ "eo . Lilibet .and Phil : . : » ARE ek Join: Ancient: + Order of Garter

WINDSOR, BE 23 (UP) -— Princess lizabegh™ and the Duke of Edinburgh were. in. vested with the Order: of the Garter today. The. ceremony was held -in ‘the vast - throne room of Windsor Castle. It was witnessed only. by those privileged: through virtue of their membership to attend.’ King George touched with ‘a sword ‘the shoulders of Elizabeth and Philip, and five noblemen also invested, to bestow the order, » » » THE OTHERS were Field Mare shal Viscount Alexander of Tunis, Lord Harlech, the Duke of Port land, Lord Cranworth and the Earl of Scarborough. According to the best doeu« mented legend, the order was founded in 1349 when Edward III was dancing with the Countess of Salisb : gal fell to the floor. Linabashed, the monarch retrieved it, slipped it on his own leg, and cried