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TUESDAY, NOV. 9, 1948

12,000 Rail Strikers

Tie Up Chines

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Demand Pay in Rice as Yuan Fails; |i] to Ask %%

Red Army Reports Sea Port Seized

war-threatened Shanghai, Nanking and Hangchow. Trainmen refused to work when the government railroad administration could not meet demands that work be paid for in'rice instead of the plummeting Nationalist gov-

.SHANGHAI, Nov. 9 (UP) — Twelve thousand rail Hike n Funds : - workers struck today, halting all rail service in and out of

Prepare Operating Budget of $9 Million

Times State Service BLOOMINGTON, Nov. 9—Indiana University will ask the 1949

ernment’s gold yuan. |

Q It was the first organized Escapes Death protest in the area against the rice shortage. But mobs of hungry Chinese have been looting] empty rice shops and vegetable stalls. Eight shops were wrecked today by marauding Chinese. { ‘Rice was selling at 1500 gold! yuan—377 U. 8. dollars at the official .rate or about 65 U. S.! dollars at the black market rate, ~per 110 pounds. f People Are Angry f Pork sausage sold for as much! as eight U. S. dollars a pound and price of all commodities spiraled by the hour. ? - A U. 8. Army officer and long-| 5 phot” time resident of China said: “This is the worst I have ever, seen. These people are angry.| They are just ripe for the Communists.” | Only a matter of days ago thei American Embassy in Nanking| and the consulate in Shanghai warned Americans to leave China| before Chinese Communist troops moving south plunged the area into a battleground and the hard| winter period, with-its food short-| attempted

A state of emergency prevailed in Cairo today after the assassination of

age began. 1 Mustapha = El Nahas Pasha, Roger. D. Lapham, Economic! {ormer premier of Egypt. Co-operation Administration chief! : a

= " in China, promised large quanti-| . » ties of rice and flour was on its; Ir way from the United States and] remain calm until Dec. 1 but the appeal met little response. Earlier the Chinese Communist, : > radio claimed Red forces had cap-| Proclaim Emergency shek's Great Wall stronghold off, CAIRO, Nov. 9 (UP)—An unShanhaikwan and advancedjantified gang attempted to kill Shanaikwan lies at the point in north China where the Great Wall pha El Nahas Pasha with ma-

Siam. He asked the population to =» On Ex-Premier Take Stronghold { " tured Generalissimo Chiang Kai- In Cairo After Attack southward toward Tientsin. former Egyptian Premier Mustameets the sea and along the route chine gun fire and a bomb near

Red forces from Manchuria would his home in the center of Cairo|university asked an average in-

follow in a drive south. last night, it was revealed today. There was no confirmation of, Nahas escaped injury. A state Shanhaikwan’'s eapture from of-/of emergency was proclaimed in ficial sources. But military ob-|Cairo. servers said the Communist re-| The former premier was returnport might be true. Such a vic-/ing home from a meeting of the tory would give Red forces an{Wafdist party's executive comopening wedge for a drive be- mittee at Wafdist ieadquarters tween Peiping and Tientsin. when the attack occurred. Mansions for Sale Toss Bomb at Car Meanwhile, wealthy Chinese in| The would-be-assassins tossed Peiping sought to unload big{a bomb at the Nahas car near the homes cheaply in order to take|house. It missed. up residence in smaller houses,| At the gate to the house the

legislature for an annual operating appropriation of $9,123,474, an increase >f 26 per cent in the institution’s current operating budget of $6,883,411. The university's request was presented by its board of trustees today to the state budget bureau. The net increase asked amounts totaling $2,240,063, including funds for the Medical Center and its hospitals and clinics in Indianapolis. The increase was described by the board in its letter of transmittal as “the minimum amount necessary to give Hoosier youth aqual educational opportunity with those in neighborng states.” 23 Per Cent More Students The IU trustees in the budget request said the university is providing instruction for 23 per cent more students than two years ago when the legislature

increase in enrollment of 4463, the board added has been accompanied by a growing concentration of students in the junior and senior years and graduate study requiring smaller classes, more faculty members and more matured and higher paid instructors. Present enrollment of 14,414 full-time and 8717 part-time credit students, it was said, is expected to continue unchanged through the next two years. . In addition ta the request based on higher enrollment, the board asked an annual increase of {$923,546 for salary adjustments {to raise teaching and non-aca-|demic salaries. An increase of $505,276 for each of the two years is asked |for staff additions and an aver|age increase of $342,156 is re{quested to meet the rising cost of |supplies, repairs and equipment isince 1946.

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crease of $469,085 for each year jot the biennium.

Fleming to Quit State Senate Seat

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|lost $25,000 in back pay and ex|penses for state jobs when the court held the constittuional. pro-

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feeling the Reds would not persecute those living in modest circumstances. As a result, small homes now command more money than huge mansions. Reports from Tientsin said outgoing ships were loaded with fleeing passengers and baggage. But the U. S. consulate in Shanghai revealed that none of the 3000 Americans there who had been warned to leave have registered for evacuation.

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gang opened up against. Nahas hipition of dual job holding apand a Wafdist leader named Sere-|pjjad to them, too. geidin with machine gun fire. Se-|" Mr Fleming’s resignation from regeldin pushed Nasha to safety|ine Sendte will leave one seat and escaped injury himself. |vacant. However, no special elecFour guards at the house were| tion in Lake County was anticireported to have been hit by ma-|pated because the cost has been chine gun bullets. estimated at $90,000 and it would It was at least the fifth attempt pot change control of the Senate, on Nahas’ life. He has survived which Republicans dominate now, without injury machine gun fire,|og to 22. 1and grenades, pistol fire and dy-| Mr. Fleming also set applicants ‘amite exnlosions. {for branch auto license bureaus ST TTT {straight on his policy in that quarter. He said he would accept arm reall | Sino application for transfer of the bureaus to Democrats, but that |all applications would be handled

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W. H. Adams,

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(Of Supreme Court, Is Dead

Will H. Adams, 3970 Winthrop Ave. attorney and former ree {porter of the Supreme and Appellate Courts, died today in his home {of a heart attack. A native of North Manchester, he was 66. { Mr. Adams was the Indianapolis representative of the Peoples {Life Insurance Co. of Frankfort for 20 years. An attorney with

{offices in the Indiana Trust Bldg. he had been in the mortgage, -

{loan and investment business; many years. He resided here 32 years, : i |° Mr. Adams received his educaition" in- North Manchester. He {was graduated from the Indiana| {University School of Law in 1905. After receiving his degree, Mr. Adams practiced law in Wabash for several years. He became {part owner and publisher of the {Wabash Plain Daler. ! He was elected to the post of {Supreme and Appellate Courts reporter in 1916 and moved to Indianapolis the same year. In| {1920, he was elected to a second! term. { Mr. Adams worked in his office! |yesterday. Becoming ill last] {night, he died early today. i He was a member of the First|

pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, will officiate. Burial will be in Crown Hill

Final Arguments On in Oder Case

(Continued From Page One) as her ex-husband came stalking up her walk, tracking her down. And before she shot she warned him not to come into the house.” The 46-year-old brunet housewife admitted during the trial that she fired three revolver bullets into her ex-husband. Harvey Samuel Broglin, 35, as he came up the steps of her home,

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nie PATS PERD COPR 1948 EOW. L. A WAGNER a RIGHTS RESERVED. TONIGHT AND TOMORROW —Rain from Delaware to Georgia; more rain ‘in. Wisconsin, Michigan and Ohio down to Louisiana and _eastern Texas is the official forecast for tonight

Wisconsin.

and early tomorrow. A light snowfall is pre dicted for the northern parts of Michigan and

In Senate Subcommittee

By DAN KIDNEY, Times Staff Writer | WASHINGTON, Nov. 9—Due to the recent election upset, Sen. Homer E. Capehart (R. Ind.) will be succeeded by a Democrat as| chairman of the Senate subcommittee investigating the basing-point| price system. : The senior senator from Indiana made that point clear as he opened hearings here today. He read a telegram from Sen. Edwin C. Johnson (D. Colo.) pointing ——— — _ aT out that he (Johnson) will wl | S S ceed to the chairmanship under, : pp S dry the seniority rule. But he advised © © © Sen. Capehart to proceed as) . { planned and commended him for| his conduct of the subcommittee. 1r] or oma Sen. Albert W. Hawkes (R.| i i [N. J.), who didn’t run for re-| election, and Sen. Brien McMahon (D. Conn.) were present. Absent, besides Sen. Johnson, was Sen. Owen Brewster (R. Me.). William| WASHINGTON, Nov. 9 (UP)—| Simon, general counsel for the| Government prosecutors said| subcommittee, conducted the today they will seek an early} cross-examination and the first trial for Rep. J. Parnell Thomas witness was John Hancock, mem-| N. J), who has been in-| ber of the Commerce Depart Re or Ee ra padding his | ment’s advisory council. He ar-| ” { ued 'm favor of basing point BL the, doubled, the, fa) “ i y pricing as part of the freedom/, January. The 53-year -old| {chairman of the House Un-| It was outlawed by the Su. American Activities Committee |

will ‘be arraigned in federal] frenie. = ourt In the: Semitnt, Jase district court next Tuesday, Commission. Sen. Capehart’s com-| When he will plead innocent or! mittee is expected to study the SUllty to the charges. impact on all U. 8. industry and| The indictment returned by a make recommendations to Con- federal grand jury yesterday gress as to whether or not the accused Mr. Thomas of conspir-basing-point system should be Ing to defraud the government legalized land of making theee fraudulent “The FTC is quite naturally op-| claims on congressional disburs-| ing officials. { posed to all price fixing conspira- { cies,” Sen. Capehart said in ee It charged that Mr. Thomas |

“ put two “dummy” employees on Spening statement. 1 an no less) is payroll and then worked up opposed 10 any price UXINg CON-|,, elaborate scheme with his

spiracy than is the commission. Sp a that the Congress, as Secretary, Helen Campbell of well as the overwhelming major-| Washington, whereby he would ity of the American people, are reimbursed monthly in the equally opposed to any conspiracy amount of their salaries. Miss

Campbell was indicted for parrelating to the price at which any product is to be sold.” Hoisting in the alleged con-

C. of C. Opposes |. —————. ‘Basing Point’ Banquet to End Session

Of Farm Bureau Group The Indianapolis Chamber of

The 12th annual convention of Commerce Manufacturing Com-|agents of th Farm Bureau Inmittee today raised its voice surance Service in Indiana, beagainst” the ‘basing point” de-/ing held in Murat Temple, will cision of the U. 8S. Supreme Court close with a banquet at 6:30 p. m. and urged Congress to pass a law, today.

Arraignment Set On ‘Padding’ Count |

Supreme Court Acts

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Holding Roundup

Agents’ of the Farm Bureau \ |Insurance Service met for their Th {annual roundup in the Murat \% x today with James A. \( J {Worsam, of Seventy-Six, Mo., to

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iby Tack F. Raésébrough, generk} ‘manager, and accepted by Tom Womacks, president: of the Century Club. hi | Speakers on today's program |were Hassil E. Schenck, presi|dént of the Indiana Farm Bureau, Inc.; "Kenneth Wiseman; Jasper County; Ed Keller, Delaware County; Alden Palmer, vice {president of Insurance Research and Review; Nolan Smith, Jack{son County; William F. Mann, {Ripley County; Richard Willsey, farm safety director, Purdue Uni-

Doliar-Chub will be made f-ngnt(

by party, county and district

chairmen. | |

| No Mass Turnover | Yesterday Mr. Fleming an|nounced there would be no mass turnover of employees in the secretary of state's office. He asked {Republicans who hold the jobs {now to extend him the “courtesy”

/ |deliver the banquet address wl f at least two weeks notice be{night on “Low Pressure Selling.” |

re leaving and guaranteed them) Same _ consideration before

of state’s directiol be filled immediately, Mr. Fleming said. These key posts include his_chief deputy, head of the securities commission and director of the bureau of motor vehicles. Mr. Fleming said he had not decided on the men to be named to these posts yet but would announce them some time before he |takes office. Changes in the auto license branch management, <he said, will be orderly and will be carried out as rapidly as books of the retir-

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State Library Displays Photos of Holy Land

Thirty large photographic panels displaying pictures of the Holy Land are arranged for the inspection of visitors in the Indiana State Library, 140 N. Senate” Ave. The exhibit will close Nov. 21.

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Indictment Appears to Clear 3

Lobaugh in Howard Slaying

FT. WAYNE, Ind, Nov. 9 (UP)—Raiph W. Lobaugh, who is awaiting execution for three slayings which he alternately confessed and denied, appeared today to have been cleared of ! suspicion in one of them. The Allen County Grand Jury yesterday indicted Charles D. Dodson, 30, Memphis; Tenn., a former soldier stationed at Baer {®eld here, and Robert Christen, {30, former Ft. Wayne druggist concerning Mrs. Howard's death. |and operator of a Denver, Colo, He was arrested upon his arrival {notions store. {in Ft. Wayne. Christen was ar-

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EVENTS TODAY

|Wemen's Press Club of Indiana Luncheon

—12 (Noon), Washington Hotel Art Students League 12th Exhibit—Wm. H.

American Association of University Women Dinner—6:30 p. m, hurch.

EVENTS TOMORROW Indiana Farm Bureau Convention—Nov. 10-12," Murat Temple. Lecture on Interior oration—7:30 p. m., Indiana University Extension, 122 E. Michigan 8t. Great oks Courses, First and Second Year Grou ms 162 and 263,

MARRIAGE LICENSES John Willlam Mayotte, 50, Rennselaer: Edith Florence Middleton, 46, 5846

1 . m., utler University.

| i «| Julian. { Allen County LY a Bg held for re jack Roger Feldman, ord Sou fess; i e . argaret oyt, 18, arroliton. cutor Evere pom Sa Kenneth H. Harrison, 26, Frankfort; Alma

men were charged with first-de-| Ft. Wayne authorities said po-|

|gree ‘murder in connection with lice secretly conducted their probe

lthe death of Dorothea Howard into the death of Mrs. Howard

w days after she was at-even after Lobaugh confessed to 8 Sow gays raped in an alley|the crime. Their contention that near a Ft. Wayne Tavern. {the Kokomo, Ind. factory worker Granted Fourth Stay may be innocent in spite of his | Mrs. Howard, wife of a Ft.[confession was made stronger | Wayne soldier, was one of three when Lobaugh denied his guilt women figuring in Lobaugh’s|While under influence of “truth conviction of murder. Lobaugh, serum” at the state prison last in Indiana State prison after be-|March, they said.

Williams, 21, 1109 8, Jackson

Roy Elmer Rhoda, 28, Chesterton; Lenora K. Lantz, 26, R. R. 9. Harry Goldfarb, 35, 2145 Broadway;

Mildred Kuhns, 31, 2145 Broadway. 1, 25 Southeas n. Clarence Eugene Turner, 19, R. R. 6; Martha Ann Johnson, 18, 206 8. Sher-

man. Harold L. Church, 35, 1527% College; Geneva H. Carter, 25, 1537 College.

DIVORCE SUITS FILED

Mary Margaret vs. Waldo P. Beebe; L. vs. Basil Grider; Thelma May vs. Otto

ing granted his fourth stay of| Mr. Bloom refused to say

lexecution in eight ‘months last| Whether indictments had been re-%.

|Friday, has alternately confessed turned in connection with two He was other deaths, those of Anna Ku-

{scheduled to die Jan. 15 while 2eff and Wilhelinina Haaga.

‘his attorneys prepared defense! Lobaugh walked into the Ko-!

\briefs in their effort to. obtain a komo, Ind., police station in 1947 {new trial. |and confessed to all three mur- | Mr. Bloom said Dodson was|ders. brought here from Memphis to| Both Dodson and Christen-were testify in a grand jury hearing/held without bond. -

E. May: Marcus vs. Dora Goudy; Mary E. vs. William “W, Dunham; Patricia vs. |Samuel . Hall: Helen vs. Earnest Lawson; {Irene H. vs. W. Leroy Hunter; Eris vs. |8im Graves Jr.; Ruth E. vs. Arthur R. 1Hutzer; Uneda Imogene vs. Leonard P. Stark: Lee vs. Florence Primm: Paul L. vs. Missouri Apple; Clara * Dorothea vs. Charles PF. Landers.

| Twins go | At Bt. Franely-Russell, Agnes Speck, girls. r

At Heme— 631 WwW. | Willie, Anns Smith,

The Supreme Court ruled in a|stresses

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Speakers on the program, which

sales and advertising {techniques, includes James A. Worsham, sales consultant of

Seventysix, Mo., and Alden Palmer, Insurance Research and Re-| view Service, and G. A. Saas, ad-! vertising agency owner, both of Indianapolis. Hassil E. Schenck, president of Indiana Farm Bureau, Inc. welcomed the agents.

Uys Traffic accidents increase in!

‘icold weather. {

Col. Robert Rossow, state!

police superintendent, today re-|

quested all Hoosiers to remember that rule in the cold weather driving days ahead. | A total of 844 fatalities at the| end of October puts Indiana high-| lower than last year's 887 for| the corresponding period, the su-|

perintendent reported.

IN INDIANAPOLIS

| | At Methodist—Wilbur, Pauline Nelson; Ed- | ward, Mary Ethelynne Gerdt; George. ! Gladys Walker; Clinton, Evely Ginn; | Jack, Beatrice Fox: Rosalie | Harvey; Albert, Dorothy Huevel. { At St. Vincent’s—Frank; Margaret Mc-| { Kenna; James, Varna Davis; Glenn, | | Betty Jean Shortridge: John, Grace Hickey; William, Frances Dwyer; Darrel, Jeanne Mills. |At_Coleman—James, Anne Mathis; Alden, | Elizabeth Palmer; Charles, Katherine! ! Donegan: Charles, Martha Brosey, Mari shall, Bobbie Evanson. ! At St. Francis—Chester, Alice Seitz; Jo-| seph, Jean Piggott; Ray, Evelyn Cobb; Harlan, Erma Tyner. }

Girls At Methodist — Meredith, Virginia Haun: Anna Agan; Dona

Ellen Dick: Louis (deceased), Emily y At St. Vincent's—C. Richard, Charlofte Dawson: Irvin, Erica Rose; David, Vir-| inia Maurer; Milton, Emile Blieden:| Oakwood; Herman, |

Evelyn oode; Howard, Kathlyn ott. At St. Francis—George, Charlotte Dixon; Bert, Rosellen Whitley; Clarence, Marie Lee; Howard, Martina Goldman; Floyd, Margaret Denning; Carl, Mary Anderson. ” At_Coleman—Joseph, Frances’ Byers: Paul, Elva Bain; Edwin, Marjorie Munsell,

DEA%HS

Vernon R. Hampton, 33, at Veteran's, coronary occlusion. illiam A. Sheets, 78, at 1418 Blaine, cardiac hypertension

Nancy Jane Baumhofer, 86, at 1261 8. Reisner, cerebral embolism. Thomas J. 75, at 922 High, myocarditis. Philip Golden, 54, at 1102 Madison, ~oronary occlusion. | Charles Junken, 79, at Methodist,

|__cerebral hemorrhage. Minnje Jane Lamhdin, 77, at Methodist, coronary occlusion. Anna Jenks Coleman, 73, at. 1026 N Beville, coronary occlusion. |Cleona Grove, 63, at 1221 N. Park, cardiac | decompensation. Clara M. Risher, 78, at 835 N. Bolton, myocarditis. Burrell Wright, 55, at 4054 sylvania, hypertensive heart,

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way deaths for 1948 4 per cent|.

| Capehart to Lose Top Spot right Comet Spotted | Pp P p | PERTH, Australia, Nov. (UP)—A local astronomer said a bar, North Manchester. bright comet was sighted today |

Presbyterian Church, the Colum- 2538 Brookside Pkwy, lo pay her bia Club a the Indi 1 a call on the night of Feb. 3. ID ah an ¢ Indianapolis) Her attorneys are seeking her oe acquittal by attempting to prove | In addition to his wife, Cor-ithat she shot Mr. Broglin, from {nelia, he is survived by a daugh-| whom she had been divorced three ter, Mrs. Magdalene Davis; a years, in self-defense. Mrs. Oder ‘granddaughter, Miss Ann Davis.'said from the stand that Mr. all of Indianapolis; a brother, Broglin lunged at her after she Marion F. Adams, North Man- warned him not to come into the chester, and four sisters. Mrs. E. house. E. Kinzie, Indianapolis; Mrs. Eva, Indications are that the arguWeed, Washington, D. C.. and ments will consume most of the 8 Mrs. Myr Deal and Mrs. Joe Dun- day and that the jury of seven women and five men will receive Services will be at 10 a. m. Fri- their instructions from Judge Wil-

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