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Russ Move Indicate Early Berlin Accord
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Wins UN Vote Delay On Small-Nation Offer For Compromise Plan
Neutral Members Suggest Mediation of Dispute by Foreign Ministers Group By R. H. SHACKFORD, United Press Staft Correspondent PARIS, Oct. 22—Hope for early settlement of the Berlin blockade crisis rose today as Russia requested-—and received—delay in voting in the United Nations Security Council on a small-nation compromise formula for settle-
Pop Bests Mom At Changing Baby,
Resolutions demanding the removal of the state superintendent] go « tof public instruction's office wom Diaper Man Says {politics and greater centralization mis {of the Hoosier public school] NEW YORK, Oct. 22 (UP) the In- The hand that rocks the cradle
M H d : * ’ “diana State Teachers Associa-|1sn't the most adept at changing Fliers Deaths tion. here today. ibaby, George Garland said to-| |
t hand belongs to Pop.! . The “resqlutions urged that the day. That P ill 1949 Legislature take the office] Mr. Garland, the secretary of General lan to K of superintendent off the ballot {the National Institute of Diaper| Airmen Charged | =o Services, is a man who knows| | ANSBERG. G Oct. 22 nd make it appointive. They] , 4 “Ry, (Germany, Oct. aed also ena tnt of Jaws Whereof he speaks. He was in| yp)_Ten former Nazi 88 of[gt {town, along with some 200 other|foarg were hanged today on giving school teachers. greater dl N. |[D-men from 34 states, to atten {charges they participated in a security and equal benefits to men] rent { and women in the profession. {the NIDS annual convention. |common design to kill all Allied ‘>. | “When It comes to diapering fliers who parachuted into Ger-
[system were adopted by
Adoption of the resolutions fol: nay,” sald Mr. Garland, “the | many from disabled planes. ment. : 1 lowed election of R. E. Hood, OX-|men_have it all over the women. The prisoners were convicted The council adjourned late today until Monday after lv r ford school principal (Benton They don’t depend on intuition | 4yring a trial at Dachau in 1947.] ———— ~—v—delegates had debated briefl e County). as association president, like a woman does. - * |The executions were completed B ! y ford, vice Promdent, OF Bed. GIVE A np 4 ‘Job Tike that] YIHOUL incident 4t.4.30 a. m. (In- ne ed ’ urt the resolution of He, ix ’ : : ’ ’ 3 ; : {dianapolis Time). a " i ‘ 3b Aegon Kindergartens Asked, and I Hosa A a relen| Tre cxecutions were delayed fol- : Neutral nations of ‘the Re CB nt :Resoluti Als ad for. the tific fas h “ + CON lowing - conviction . because the . Ay , : onsen A LE rent entne omit, because liens meurpmine wore at Lov 3 AHO sf: The. Eesolution salied an, the.. building programs and the in. 10 OVETEOMme 4 RATUrATTATErIOTty f ichlia D. Clay And in SOME CARER] + 0 TERR SCMINA veot Bge Pour: tor énd the: hlockads clusi ki riens™ . (to the United States Supreme ’ cris Ww, ugges CounIntegral A Derr esa A a! For expectant fathers he had court. In all instances, hos Security Guards i ie now and s sted a SH Ja system : hE thie advice: Don't worry about|she death penalty was approved. Battle Strik cil of Foreign Ministers. meeting y TA state-wide: school: t of [learning the art of diapering. It's Shot Allied ¥iers e rikers on German problems about Nov. : sation og (Getting easter, . PARIS, Oct. 22 (UP)—Strikers|30. n nine months, centralization of | i a The S88 men were found guilty ver curricula and improvement in! y of shooting without mercy any and Republican security guards Just .why Russian delegate An« transportation were cited as allied fliers forced to land in Ger- opened fire on each other near St.|/drel Vishinsky asked a delay in necessities for an improved edu-| ir man territory during the war. |gtienne today in the first gunfire|voting on the resolution was not Cc cation system. Several also were found guilty|of the 19-day wave of Communist-|clear. The teachers proposed that the of mistreating prinsoners inijeq French strikes. 4 state supervise the buildiig pro- Dachau and Mauthausen concen-| - One miner was killed and 10 Hint New Russ Move
{sions and annuities from federal
: Photo by John Spicklemire, Times Staff Photographer. "GOOD OLD DOG"—Little Tommy Spitzer doesn't quite understand that. his dog "Colonel" probably saved his life when he ran away yesterday, but he likes him anyw8y. Police today were criticized for separating the dog and boy and leaving the dog to find its own way home across busy streets.
Tinder Charges Passersby Assail Police Democrat ‘Plot. For Parting Lost Boy, Dog
E | “Colonel Stood by Child, 3, Through Peril - Says ‘Syndicate’ Seeks
grams of county and township schools and: provide more statecollected funds to the local systems.
Call for Exemptions They asked exemption of pen-
income tax up to the subsistence level. equal protection and privileges under tenure laws for men and women, A hetter retirement law and extension of the state's Indefinite contract law to all teachers. wr Resolutions
specifically re-
[quested the Legislature to follow
the program outlined by the In-
diana School Study Commission
which has drawn long range plans for improvement of the school system. : The second day of the convention opened with business sessions and an address by Mrs Agnes E.
of “Journey
Corp. issued single interest insur-|
land consumer credit, testified he
Plan Assailed
General Finance Contracts Submitted
Testimony that General Finance
ahce in automobile finaricing deals| without the approval of the purchaser was given at the firm's hearing today before the State] Department of Financial Institu-
tions, Thomas H. Cougill, the department’s supervisor of small loans
had made it “perfectly clear” to the firm's branch manager here that this action was considered filegal by the department. He also sald the company had cons tinued ‘the practice after he had issued the warning.
tration camps. In many instances, the court found, the prisoners died as a result of the beatings and tortures. An Army announcement said those hanged included: Hans Trummler, mander of Rhein-Westmark area. He issued orders to all his subordinates to kill captured Allied fliers and “handed out cigars” for those who did, the announcement said. Wiadislaus Dopierala, 59, an 88 guard at Mauthausen, convicted of killing 400 Polish inmates, Arthur Fuhr, 39, an 88 and gestapo guard . who, with two other men, shot an American
48, com-
flier in the head while driving
him from Wiesbaden, where he
had made a forced landing into
Frankfurt, 3 Shot, Beat Inmates
Alex Bernard Piorkowski, 44,
_police in the
other strikers and three security guards were wounded. The shooting occurred at the Comebefort mine at Firminy, about 12 miles southwest of St. Etienne. It was not determined immediately who fired first. In Northern France, strikers \seized four coal mines in the Valenciennes area. They ousted non-Communist miners who had remained in the pits to carry out maintenance work. : Gendarmes stood by without intervening. Dock workers at Calais a
an-
nounced said they wo 350,000 to unload coal at that port, (In Brussels, a the Belgian government secr amount of coal to France to hel
the French government weathe
support striking coal miners by refusing high source said
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Western big power delegates appeared optimistic, however, as they emerged from a private meeting in which they approved Mr. Vishinsky's request. It was believed 4 mew Russidn move might 5 be-
Russia had not agreed to ae cept the compromise however. A high American offi cial when asked if he could firm a rumor to that effect, re.
They|
But there
had indi prepared to ssttiement of
commander at the Dachau concentration camp from March,| 1940, to June, 1942, who was charged with mistreating in-
the wave of strikes.) 4 Killed By Gas At Lille, gas from fixtures left
‘Wid 0 City’ | Of Traffic, Then Left Behind, Women Say Tvonah author, Single interest insurance proe pen I
Police today were criticized for separating a lost boy and his! Rep. Walter H. Judd (R. Minn.) tects omy the ph Soinpany {dog after the dog had stuck faithfully to the side of his 3-year-old delivered the principal address at in case of loss. 8.10 : An attempt on the part of AD runaway master. : {last night's ap : |sidered illegal if issued with ap-
old “Democratic. syndicate” 10) .7Tne dog “Colonel” and his master, Tommy S rere . 1 of the purchaser. open during a gas shut-off killed ar NT A A CRT i. TT ar ad Enrsaur iat on oh ’ ” pitzer, 3, were N {proval o - n mates, “ia bring back” (he “IdSH "AAV" oF "i trapped fi traMic At 28Eh RNA MUFilan Ste yesterday wher Mrey iz peaks a Junsis, Frsiato Tha. alate. iofroduced as evi: [TIBLe8, soi-Tants ds mhoiook nas Dergns ii their liome. The Betiin wide open city” was charged by Harry Case, 6106 Crittenden Ave, setting “along without Russiagence contracts from three dif-
and Mrs. Max Blough, Marott, captured American to a wood
| {Is the first step to getting along|ferent Indianapolis automobile b a Republican -spegker “hers last Ho rs whinzed right around| * with her,” Rep. Judd told conven-|geglers, which all contained the|Outside Bensheim. There an as-imunist Party was acting under night. {nem Not one a " Mrs.| O | ot tion delegates. same handwriting on many of the siatant or Raaf killed the Instructions the Cominform|jern Speaking at .a 14th ward meet-/Case said. ’ "| n nsi pe) ou we demonstrate that we can (items filled in to the contract. merican. to “do everything to ruin French
t along without Russia.” he Karl Franz Stattman, 37, for-/economy, cancel American aid,
ing at Howard and Harding Sts.,| The two women parked and| John G. Tinder, GOP candidate ran after the pair. Taking them Creighto for the Legislature. charged that|!0 A drugstore. they consoled the
n low man on along with hg. our alternatives
said, “I predict we'll begin to getigilI's testimony this morning, the
Upon completion of Mr. Cou-
state rested its case.
mer sergeant who killed three American airmen near Bensheim.| Emil Hoffman, 55, group leader
hinder the organization of a United Europe and impose the return to power of Communists,”
George 8. Dailey, Democratic {rightened tot with candy while party poll but GOP jen't day on A with Roars in the Nazi Party, who murdered Comndlia 3 foday by > candidate for prosecutor, was/they tried to learn his name and selling him short . . . |A return to isolationism, appease. Cost an American airman near Lau- : . , ment of the vots So resoh being supported by the same Rddress. last of a series by Dan ment, dependence on our own! Nn erpass bach. ester ine tion - i y clique of “politicians ‘who were Dog Left Out Kidnev Page 3/5trength, or organizing the world | \ Herbert Kunze, 33, German . . in power here when gambling was, A police car arrived and Pa-| worry roo HARE {on a sound basis with those coun- army lieutenant. He “killed an In its heyday." [trolmen Willard Reed and LeRoy| Girls, need extra $50 ...a [tries who agree with us in the American airman at Constanz,
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Mr. Dailey declined. to comment | on the charge other than to ! that during nine of the ery Finally, they were able to find 1 atest results of The Mr. Tinder is talking about|that his name was Tommy and SU Reginald Sulivan was mayor and | that he lived on 26th St. Michael Morrissey was chief of It was then, Mrs. Case charged police and the people of Indian- {0d2Y, lnat the police Jetuged to) apolis consider those years the » dog which had stuck finest law enforcement period in| with the runaway to ride home the city’s history.” him in the police car. | “Mr. Dailey always has been a
member of the McNelis-Clauer ._|patrolman ordered her to take. it Bridge Hng {former Judge John McNelis| saying “we don't ride dogs.” Business
and William Clauer) and they are| 1 hi his chief backers in this cam- | 8he said he told her the dog'M. Childs....24 Radio
paign,” Mr. Tinder said. Accuses ‘Syndicate’
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(could follow the car. Might Have Been Killed “The d be “No informed person doubts iiied in that trafic,” sme said. Editorials .. the purpose of this ‘syndicate’ |r )irted it out of the police car, Forum which once dealt in special privi-| » two Meta Given...
carried it to my o car t , leges when there was wide open blocks away without help trom Hollywood ++.30 Women’s .27,28 gambling in practically 1 Tr
! every officers and followed the police tavern in Indianapolis,” he said.lcar home to the boy's home.
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Dai. Finder charged hat ae “It was a terrible thing for y's special assignment dur-them to do,” she added. “If it i ing those days was to “sit in hadn't been for the dog we In 3 Molestings for Judge McNelis whenever an|wouldn't have seen that little, A young woman and two teen-
underworld case became too hot|child in that trafic. He might aged girls reported being molested for the judge.” have been killed.” |yesterday by a man riding a “I challenge Mr. Dailey to read| Mrs. Eugene Spitzer, 30 W. 26th bicycle. the records of the cases in which|8t., the boy's mother, said that| The woman told police she was he rendered the decisions.” she believed it was a misunder-/accosted by the man in an alley Names ‘Members’ standing and that officers had in-between Alabama and Delaware Mr. Tinder said members of the tended to let the dog lead them Sts. Her screams (rightened ‘syndicate’ besides Judge McNelis to Tommy's home. away her attacker, she said.
and Mr. Clauer were Edwin | | and E | While walking in the 1000 block Isael and Egypt
in High 8t., a man riding a bicycle mer Supérior Court judge,” and’ Kirk: 6:15 1 Frank McKinney, treasurér of the Jo Indfana Democratic Committee. “Everyone remembers. when Eddie Smith, former law partner - of Judge McNelis, was the busiest ‘police court lawyer in the city and Mr. Dailey as special judge heard many of these cases argued by Mr. Smith,” Mr. Tinder said. “In those days Democratic leaders dealt in privileges touch-
ast night, police wene|
; {In High St. As she searched the TEL AVIV, Oct. 22 (UP)—Both,, with the aid of a flashlight, |
Israel and Egypt accepted the a man believed to be the one who United Nations cease-fire order molested the two other pedestritoday and directed their troops in(ans, made obscene remarks and| the Negev region of southern Attempted to grab her. Palestine to observe the United
LOCAL TEMPERATURES
ing on liquor sales and gam- ] io r to restore . Mm... Mm... bling,” he said. “Authority for Nauom oie d wore peace to 3 a A ’ 1 2h ju the ‘go sign’ depended first on the the Holy Land. A.M... am... 53 DIALAR CF he ope a Oy The truce went into effect of-| 8 a.m... 49 12 (Noon). 58 er anc liquor a 1aV-igsially at 6 a. m. (Indianapolis) 9 a. m... 49 1 p.m... 60
ern-keeper handled.” Mr. Tinder urged the election of Frank H. Fairchild, Republican candidate, for prosecutor.
time), but front line dispatches!”
sald both sides had ceased hours Collection Dates
before the deadline, The deadline was set by ac The collection division of the » fe Y HUME City Sanitation Department
; Palestine mediator Dr. Ralph : Faméd Racer Robbed |Bunche after both governments| Will SWIRg over to winter “Cannon Ball Baker. veteran had indicated the cease-fire wopld| Schedule Monday with colleccross - country and endurance be observed only if the other side tion of trash and garbage once driver, reported; to police today agreed to it. weekly, each. Persons may obthat two letters containing money . Several Doms were dropped on pos 4 Information ou the days el Aviv this morning during the| were stolen from the mail box at 8 g AI hg oligeted 69
his home, 902 Garfield Dr. One/second of two air-raid alerts, but letter contained a $400 check and officials sald there was little ‘ the other $1. Tn |damage and no casualties.
Bartlett helped question the boy., new Times contest Page 4|United Nations,” Rep. Judd said.
She said she put the dog in the Amusements .30 Inside Indpls..23 were told |back end of the car but that one Eddie Ash...36'Mrs. Manners 29 Schools were not offering “any-| r the underpass ++....30/thing like adequate education op-|‘° make way fo 7 ....33 F.C. Othman 23 Portunities,” in an address by| ; Edgar L. Morphey, Florida edu-| Classified .38-43 Side Glances.24 cational expert,
[land, superintendent of Topeka .24 Teen Probs..28 Kas., ‘schools, told delegates that
: i» Xa [told, a 17-year-old girl was trying ce 1] [to find ‘her wrist watch which shel: . | believed she lost in the 1000 block
his order,
Evansville Speaker { Dr. Harold Hunt, superintend- |
educational
In Gary, regional delegates!
that many Indiana |
In South Bend, Kenneth McFar-|
‘Education is the biggest busi-
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Several resolutions were adopt-|
ed in "Ft. Wayne by some 2500 Would be studied to underpa members of the Northern Indiana rail intersections and open up Ww. {Michigan as a principal West Side
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Teachers’ ssociation, a branch of artery.
the ISTA. cluded one providing for the “re{moval of the office of state super-/work out a method. of underpass|intendent of public instruction|ing in conjunction with industrial [trom politics.”
The resolutions 'in-
Hopes Get Jolt
i |W. Michigan St. underpass apTimes straw vote. .Page 4/ent of Chicago schools, said thel VV g |present |“should be
American Legion. . Page 10|ticular age’
Programs New York Central and B & O jashicned to this Mov. | railroad officials disclosed their ’ in his address at-Ev-| r the job at City Hall. ansville before regional delegates. | PUIIAtes fo 3 cated that it would cost $1,750,000 to move the tracks west in order
at the rail intersection without encroaching on business properties,
cost of the underpass well over 1$2 million.
officials
Cost of track removal far the
ared to be prohibitive today as
The railroad executives indi-
This would run the proposed
After conferring with railroad this = morning, Mayor said another method
Feeney 88 the
He said city engineers would
Wenzel Wodak, 38, concentra-| tion camp guard who shot and
beat inmates.
Fritz Dietrich, 50, lieutenant colonel who ordered police at
area. . The executions brought to 162 the number of German war criminals hanged at Landsberg.
Fire-Gutted Home Yield’'s Man's Body
BLOOMINGTON, Oct. 22-—Po-lice digging through the burned wreckage of a farmhouse on the Brown-Monroe County line, today found ‘the charred remains of Charles Owings,” 74, a retired farmer. Mr. Owings, lived in the house on a farm owned by his niece, Mrs. Edgar Bartlette, The house burned last night,
and business owners.
Music Hits Memory's Chord
diately known:
Doctor, Amnesia Victim for 20 Months,
Called Back Home by a Song—'Because’
Old Wedding Tune Returns Physician to Arms ‘Hands Pick Up Practice
"Of Family; Calloused
“No, I don't believe .. ." He turned so the light from the
living room caught his profile,
“Bill!” she said. Dr. William Aston, 35, told to-
day of his homecoming after wandering for 20 months as an
umnesia victim. His appearance’
had changed so much that his wife didn’t recognize him for a moment. and his children, tricia, 5, and Kathy, 3; had forgotten him.
Pa-
~ ” » “MOTHER, WHO is that man?" Patricia asked. Dr. Aston sald that he was sitting in a Chicago restaurant eating dinner last Monday night when the song “Because” made
He looked at his hands. Once
the hands of a promising young
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GRAND RAPIDS. Mich. Oct. A tall, face deeply tanned, his hands calloused, knocked on the door of a modest Grand Rapids home in the night and said, “Do you know me?” Mrs. William Aston looked for a moment at the man and said,
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memory snap into working
22 (UP)--A tall, gaunt man, his
doctor, they were covered with calloyses and the nalls were broken. He looked at himself in a mirror. Instead of a well-fed, bespectacled physician, he saw a thin, deeply tanned workman. “I didn't know what day fit was,” he sald. “I didn't know where I was. And worst of all, I didn't know where I had been.” » » » i THE SONG that brought him back to his family also wiped out all memory of the 20-months of his other life. Dr. Aston disappeared in early 1947 while driving to Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., for a physical checkup. His automobile was found In Norfolk, Va. Mrs. Aston never
A Norfolk family saw his picture in a newspaper and wrote to Mrs,
-t Aston: that they had. seer him: on
a Norfolk street. She took a job as a nurse to support: their: two children and keep their home in Grand Rapids where Aston came to: practice after leaving military service. He is a graduate of the University of Texas. His ~live- at Vernon, Tex. ; aN» “I MUST have worked as a laborer because of the tan I have and the large callouses on my hands,” he said. “The t that I remember was thinking that the song over the radio had been played at my wedding. Then I remembered my wife and our children, Then I remembered who I was and wondered what I was doing in that strange restaurant. But what did during those months is a blank.” q / Azton looked at his wife, then at his children and smiled,’ The children smiled back at him. \ “I'm going to do the only thing I know how to do,” he said.
gave up hope that he was alive.
“practice medicine.”
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sick children in their hospital beds :
Cause of the fire was not imme-|
On Assault Count |
Orville C. Wiley, 31, an admitted sex offender, sobbed convulsively and nearly collapsed
8aarbruecken to kill American ioqay in Municipal Court, Room 4,|took their places at the couneil airmen who parachuted in the'ay he entered a plea of guilty to "lan assault and battery charge.
He was arrested a week ago and charged with molesting three
In a confession made to Detective Forrest McKeighan, after his arrest in his Lawrence home, Wiley sald he molested and indulged in indecent acts with at least 42 boys and girls in the past 18 months. Immediately after accepting the prisoner's plea of guilty, Judge Alex Clark imposed a fine of $500 and costs and sentenced him to serve 180 days on the state farm. Since the specific crime for which he answered today was only a misdemeanor, this was the maxi mum penalty Wiley could get, Judge Clark said. First Arrested in '43 State Prosecutor John Carson, told the court proceedings were in motion to have the prisoner, a World War II veteran, made a ward of the federal government. If this is accomplished, Carson sald, Wiley, after his release from the state farm, would be placed in the veterans hospital at
Wiley, a laborer and father of two small children, was first arrested for. sex offenses against children in 1943. At that time he was released to his parents on
of chair man of the council, and accepted request. : Their smiles as they finally
table suggested that Mr. muglia, who had talked — with Mr. Vishinsky, had given them reason for optimism. Then Mr. Bramuglia, who has been the leader in mediation efe forts of the small-nation members of the council, introduced the compromise resolution with the statement that it offered a way “to avoid a dangerous decision which might lead to war”.
Charge Racketeer Fund Campaign
Times State . GARY, Oct. 23 While Republi« cans wound up a two-day ecara« van of candidates and Holl celebrities, racketeers © were charged here with shaking down Lake County slot machine operators for last minute campaign funds. In an unsigned page one story, |the Gary Post Tribune said yesterday the “slot machine treasure was rolling Into the.Gary gambling syndicate’'s election ware chest.” ; The story set the “shake” price
and said the operators faced loss of the machines and hence their
kick in.
their promise that he would undergo an operation, . Police records, however, do nb show that this was ever done. l
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