Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 February 1949 — Page 2
By LOUIS
\ with all of its “Tomorrow will see the end’
‘be introduced will be required to suspend the Thus far 861” excluding | ™ sesbations,
“Editorial on Page 26
oF this number 425 have been introduced he House and 2
House committees have fot ‘passed - down one-fourth - of ~ total number of bills Introduted
Benate will soon receive House “measures on each of these two ks the lower as-
in the regular manner.
méaRires have two,
Measure Covering Its Own Pay Only Bill Passed in First 31 Days
ARMSTRONG 86th Gerteral Assembly begins the last half of its
work still to be done. of the period in which bills may Thereafter the two houses fr in ordar 0 admit another
State Funds Aid
al Veteran Groups
4 More Outfits Also Want Money
By IRVING LEIBOWITZ Indiana taxpayers are contributing to four organized veterans’ faced with prospect of paying out $150 milthen for a soldiers’ bonus. More than $40,000 is lifted out tel or the state treasury each year to {subsidize the Veterans of Foreign Wars, Disabled American Veter: ans, United Spanish War Veterans and the Grand Army. of the Republic. . . The biggest single veterans’ p subsidy still being paid by
group reo. Indiana taxpayers is the $2.5 mil-
lion outlay for a building to house the American Legion National Headquarters in Indianapolis. Not until 1951 will the building debt be paid and the one mill tax cease. Push For Funds Now, all the other veterans’ organizations want to get in on the act. Four other GI groups are militantly pushing four separate bills to give them a total of $23.-
4/500 each yéar.
“~The American Veterans Committee is asking the state Senate
thei ror $5000. while its former -com-.
rade-in-arms, the AMVETS, want $10,500, The Lower House has re- 0 ceived requests for $5000 from the Marine Corps” Léague and $3000 from the Indiana Squadron Navy ub
groups with cash on line, is-just a trifle embarrass. ing to the “economy-minded” administration, The General Assembly can't
the ‘the
schools, turn the later-day veterans down
for fear they will raise the cry of “discrimination.” Neither does it have enough in its jeans to pass out “gratuities.” Thus, the state finds itself in the position of being virtually!” obligated to subsidize the various GI organizations and pay a foldiers’ bonus.
apolis AAUW, Béfore eoming to the U. Ss. In September, Miss Rautanen worked mm “Hix years with ‘the Finnish gove ernment being responsible for - 2000- children when they were _evacuatéed from Finland to Sweden during the war, ? Studies and Works Here In the States she divides
children” ahe said, “there isn't
I meet in Finland and en I meet here, too.” a came to the U. 8. because felt it was the only place In “the where a welfare proKram had
been preserved on a peace time leyel.
any difference at all, All the)
: AAUW Visitor From Finland Finds Americans ‘Sweet
Miss Elina Rautanen . . . prob. Toms everywhere are the same.
IU Center Mere ‘Opens
New Term Tomorrow. _ First class sessions for the spring . semester at Indiana University extension center will be held tomorrow. Enrollments will! be continued throughout the week. The curriculum will include about 19 courses, school admin-
istrators said, and there are still
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“The United States is the one country that is now able to give
in the world,” he sald. ecddtiioUgh- the Finnish -institu- | tions are all state supported she . objected to the word socialism, i - feclaring. “We are the state. / re are no rich men so when ‘We need a hospital, the state, build it.”
gram in Finland to. care ndents because of the acute g shortage. Everyone in the country is limited. to one room per person. Very Serious Minded Miss Rautanen is a very serious minded young lady. She spent her Christmas vacation looking over the social welfare set-up in
in our art museums, Her | dxperience of the American | theater was
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in Indianapélis she will 1, the Council he Goinel
something to the other peoples |
There 1s no foster” home pro-|enroliment for courses during the untit 8 p.m, and from.8 a.m. flying boat crashed while landing
for de-| fall semester reached 272.
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“Born Yesterday” | and it aldn't rate too high with |Vrote to her—-there was “100 much swear-|tha
in pre-medical and pre- business; = classes, |. Extension classes composed of | {a lecture series for adults not [WOFRINE toward a with-be offered in labor contracts, devel opment of map, interior’ decora-| tion, vocabularly improvement, t books, and several other
+ that 18| subjects.
* Administrators said oe total
“The ‘problem of supplying all, veteran
openings in the courses, especially]
. (Naval
70 Measures |
Aim % to Be tter 2 1 p
* Veterans’ Lot
6 Bonus Bills In Legislature
pun Into Snags PHILIP ¥. CLIFFORD IR. e Indiana legislature's answer to the peoplé’s mandate for a soldiers bonus yesterday added
proposed and not one passed.
gavel in both Senate and the House of Represtutatives, signal“izing the opening of the more than 20 ‘pieces of legisiation (including the. six bonus ibills) have oeen tossed into the hopper for the financial improvement of the veterans. ; The 20 inciude such items as exempting a bonus from Federal tax, and assistance to veterans organizations, Both Democrats and Reépublicans alike agree the veteran [should have a bonus and the party policy bonus bills any only ney dn. the benefits to vet. | "Only in the question’ of payment do the legislators fall out. Republicans shout, “No increase in {gross income.” g Proposes Bonds Democrats would increase gross income and amend the constitution so that the state might issue bonds for the multi- million dollar bohus debt. The Democrat financing proposal was submitted in the House last week by Rep. Joseph Klein (D: Gary), chairman of the House Military Affairs Committee, His measure would amending the state constitution to permit .issuance of up to $150 million in bonds and amending his party's present bonus bill to include a gross income surtax of one-fourth of 1 per cent. Of the more than twp score measures - introduced in both houses stipulating benefits and privileges for . Hoosier veterans, only six have been earmarked for bonus payments, " They. include: ONE: An administration backed bill introduced by Reps. Ries and Walter H, Mashing _( Haute). This calls for a oo top and $30 minimum: TWO: The GOP's bill, 0-au-
Bates (R. New Albany) and Milford E. Annes (R. Metamora), which would provide $400 for do-
duty, $600 to the beneficiary, and an additional - connected disability,
Sen. John Blunt (D. Little York) and Wesley Malone (R. Clinton)
spectively, with a maximum yy | ment oF $600. It is suppdrted b the rican Legion, Veterans of
erans of America. FOUR: found in BB 35, offered by Sen. Louis F. Baldoni (D. South Bend).
iby Rep. Roscoe (3. Scott (D. Greencastle), veterans would re-
ceive $200 for service overseas
and $100 for domestic service. The bill would levy a blanket tax on cigarets and all alcoholic ‘beverages. SIX: A long-range bonus payment plan is embodied in HB 39 co-authored by Reps. Harry B. Danielson (R. Plymouth) and Charles T. Miser (R. Garrett),
{Principal of the measure would
Set aside entire proceeds of cigaret tax for 10 years. First half of
-|bonus would be paid in five years
and the balance at the end of the 10 year period. Many statehouse observers are
“wondering If the highly ~ con-
|troversial bonus question still will {be unanswered, come the end of [the current session. | Its just a political football, ithey say, And neither teat has a
{man strong enough -to run the|
field for a - touchdown,
[Purdue Center to o Open |
egistrations Thursday
R Registratioris for students taking college credit courses at Purdue University Center here’ will open Thursday and continue through Satuiday for both day and evening classes. For-the first-time; with Dr. James Heyda of the Ordnance Plant as in|structor. 4 Other courses will include Modorn English and American Poetry; Creative Writing, Industrial Management, International Relations, | Psychology, . Speech, Chemistry and Advanced Mathematics. On Thursday dnd Friday, regis: trations will be held from noon
until noon on Saturday.
Pickle Man, Judge and Grocer Say Their Say About State's Laws
Did you ever wonder what a legisiator's mail (incoming and
‘Chicago and New York. Speaking outgoing) looked like? about American men, she said, |
» . A PICKLE Au Cte in! the northern part “of-the state] “our representative” t “if Shricker and the Farm
Have ybu ever wondered what Mr, John Q. Public talks’ of. otis “Honestly, I haven't had time » when he writes to his lawmaker and what the lawmakers write in| “I'm requesting you to vote ‘no’ form- any opinion but 1 Suess |reply? they're 'o. k.” Here is a sample tiken from the, flles of An unsuspecting Re-| She had no opinion either on publican lawmaker in the 86th popular music but likes the sym. General Amembly, | phony. concerts and the many old |
A CIRCUIT fudge wrote con[cerning two bills dealing = with {the courts, “It does not seem to us that these bills should pass” he sald. (One would provide at|torney fees for plaintiff's attor-
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{would remove the $10,000 limits
(Bureau “have their way the bus-ioy 'y measure of recovery in
iness man, the state employee
iand the factory ‘worker will pay/
for the bonus, Come down and see us, bring the family.” The tative replied:
bling gross income tax, | lutely against this proposal. Senate oy very itely fav-.
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“The House is In favor ‘of dou-| gy I am|™
dea th cases.)
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is Interested in
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gram informing: him “the
up to six different bonus bills) 8 Since the first pounding of the!
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thored - by Sens. William Caleb
mestic service, $600 for a combination of domestic and foreign
- $100 for serviceTHREE: 8B 168 introduced by
Offers $10 and $15 a month for domestic and .fofeign service re-
Fotelgn Wars and Disabled Vet. Roines, Manual honorary organi-
Identical benefits are!
FIVE: Under HB 176 introduced
Demacrat vacency on Worth,
Balance Restored On Works Board
Feeney Appoints Republican Member
Bi-partisan balance of the fourmember City Works. Board was restored y pointment metal works proprietor, to fill the Democrat vacancy.
place Paul D. Cave, former board
Cave resigned from the board to his. furniture -business.
Hall last week.
‘dent under the Democrat city leave of absence, was by-passed in the snd a Republican member Martin McDermott was given the presidency. "As Mr. Feezle was the only]
board, most observers felt he would be made permanent president, under the Democrat city np. When board, members met for "thelr election they were told Mayor Feeney. de-
tsfred the rotated, with | each member holding the office one year,
Fourth member of the board is Carl N. Angst, Republican. With the appointment of Mr. Gardner the balance of two Reand Publicans and -two - Democrats was restored. Manual Graduate Mr. Gardner is. manager of Joseph Gardner Co., sheet metal! works, 147 Kentucky Ave, and owns an interest fn the Gardner Realty Co. His wife is the former Helen Wiebke of Indianapolis. He is a graduate of Manual ¥ High School and founder of
zation. In 1926 he served as presjdent of the Manual Alumni Club: Mr. Gardner is president of the Indianapolis Sheet Metal Contractors Association, secretary and © director of the General Protestant Orphan Association
28 hillor |
posure Mr. Gardner was named to the|blizzards and tornadoes; 191 in board by Mayor Feeney to re- highway accidents attributed to
last week to devote more {ime cluding
Sin
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Bulldozers Save 25,131 Persons, 550,740 Cattle
CHICAGO, Feb. winter can be deaths since Jan, 1 of 579 persons and property losses totaling more than $236 million. Meat-producing and bread bas-
the most. Gale-whipped. snow. marooned communitiés and livestock. Human beings and animals froze to death. To a lesser extent, snow, _ice and cold caused deaths;
A nationwide survey, completed
esterday with the ap- today, showed these losses for 35/distant future, but in these days. of Edward A. Gardner, days
PERSONS KILLED: 235 by and from "ex , in
the weather; 96 in fires and 57
president who had been on leave In Miscellaneous accidents blamed of : absence since August. Mr, of the weather.
TOTAL PROPERTY LOSS (in livestock and . crops) $236,036,000, That is $10 million
The appointment and a surprise more than the assessed valuation {reorganization of the board of the state of Arizona. Crop loss touched off a minor Burry. at city alone totaled $116 million.
LIVESTOCK KILLED: An es-
timated 174,200 cattle and 153,200
sheep, valued at $29,006,000, most
ber who had been acting presi-|of them in the disaster areas of
Wyoming, Nebraska and South! Dakota. In addition, 4.7 million cattle and sheep, valued at nearly million are imperiled by lack of feed, but Army and Air Force
ste or allocated for relief in the West: $2,360,000. ~The dozer” by a Fifth Army disaster force in Wyoming, Nebraska and
‘South Dakota, and the 10th Afr
Force “operation hayride” has not been estimated. “Operation bulldozer” has in seven days liberated 25,131 persons, 550,740 cattle and nearly 100,000 other farm animals from snow-bound areas of South Dakota, Wyoming and Nebraska. . ; Hits Wool Supply
manding the operation. said toss of life has been negligible since the rescue work began. “We.do know we've helped a lot of people,” he said. “We can't say how many livés were saved.” Wool buyers and manufacturers sald the sheep loss would affect the wool supply. Each sheep produces eight to nine pounds of wool.
It was doubtful what effect the loss of livestock would have on the price of meat at neighbor-
and a former director of the Indianapolis Board of Trade. He is 4 member of Zion Evangelical and - Reformed Church, Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce, Rotary Club and Scottish Rite.
Kroger Executive
To Address Council
‘Stephen A. Douglas, sales promotion, merchandising and advertising manager of the Kroger Co., Cincinnati, will address the Inflianapolis Sdles Executives council Monday evening, Feb. 14, in the Riley Room of the Clay pool Hotel,
(Gen
{advanced calculus will | be offered,
General Motors Plans Detroit Show
General Motors is staging its first complete automobile and product show ‘in Detroit since be-{tore-the war. —It-will-be-set up-in; Convention Hall, Apr. 9 through 15. GM will bring the “Transportation Unlimited” show which: launched Chevrolet and Pontiac from New York's Walavr! 4 Astoria for the: exhibit exhibit.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 5 (UP) Defense Secretary James Forrestal reported to President Truman
ney in negligence cases, the other
{ “I am in full. accord with your |upposition to the two bills, I see
HERE 18 "his" reply to a mak the two jority of teople in your, county are omit dmise om asolg- a tavor of Central Standard
[tonight that the western atorm | disaster is being brought under. control,
FOUR DIE IN AIR CRASH CALI Colombia, Feb, 5 (UB)< Four persons were killed and 10 injured today when a Catalina
ron-B Buenaventura. Bay.
“I am in sympathy with Central Standard Time. However, .I | will: vote on this bill-in the same manner that I think’ the people of our county would in case there |is a referendum.” A woman , constituent wrote,
| to the repeal of the lien law bill.” | He replied: “I was very much in favor of its enactment two years ago and I hope that it remains in its present stage.”
» ” » ; THE. CHAIRMAN of the coufi= {y Republican Central Committee’ wrote he thought the change in “age of voting from 18 to 21 was a “grave mistake” as “many who are 21 do not know what ft He also wanted
=|for .the soldiers’ ~tmethod.”
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hood butcher shops, because the {final toll of the blizzards will not {be known until ntil spring.
New Storm Perils Haylift' Gains
CHICAGO, Feb. § (UP)—New
snowstorms and high winds threatened today to wipe out the
gains made in the blizzard-bur-
dened West's struggle against one
of the worsi winters on record.| A stormy front swirling across the Rocky Mountains increased] -
the peril to 4.7 million cattle and
-|sheep threatened with starvation
on frozen rangelands. U, 8. weather forecasters predicted that winds of 30 to 40 miles per hour would whistle across the western and central Nebraska plains tonight and tomorrow; with
ing snow.”
It was feared that the new storm would blow shut many of
the roads the Army bulldozer|
crews had labored to clear during the last seven days. Ready to Shift ..~ The new threat arose fust when | it appeared that rescue crews were gaining the upper hand in the struggle to-save starving livestock and relfeve ‘human suffering. Maj. Gen. Lewis A. Pick, commander of Operation Snowbound, said at his Omaha headquarters
hat, if the new storm develops,
the Army bulldozer crews “will
turn around from their work, on
secondary roads and work with| state highway departments clearing main n-ighways: A
John Q. Public Sits Down And Writes His Legislator
ANOTHER CONSTITUENT wrote he thought the two school consolidation bills should be passed so the schools will operate “at less cost for better service.” The lawmaker replied: “There 1s no question but what they will be passed. They have my full support. " ’ . ” ANOTHER LETTER WAS Trecelved from a grocer objecting to the increase in gross income tax. In answering- that one the Representative hedged slightly from the views of his earlier letter on the same sbject. He wrote: “I am opposed to any increase in gross income tax in any form. However, it might. be necessary, as a last resort, to raise money bonus by this
letter consisted of these words:
cerely hope that it will be possible for you to visit the House
ing ‘salaries local county officlals, I will be “to talk with Jou on this Saturday or
sometime during this Come
ket states of the West suffered—death by hanging—for himself
prayer came to my lips.
rescue - forces are cutting the veteran Democrat member on the|t, ar
al dai i to ha federal fuhds appro-
ost. of “operation Bully
Maj. Gen. Lewis A. Pick; com-}
Prosecutor Asks “Heaviest pony Drags Truman's Name Into Trial
By EDWARD KORRY, United Press Staft Correapondinnt
tonight before a People’s Court in the shadow of a possible 100ath sentence wad prayed fOr the wurt and the state. In a dramatic final statement, the 56-year-old Primate: of Hurigary sald he stood by his admission of guilt in" principles to
| the the governmen* brought against him. But he insisted he was. t of plotting to 45. pegpie’s Court, as he deliv overthrow the Hungarian gov-l, eq his 25-minute appeal.
"In Nis statement, the primate sald that ‘“aceording to my conscience, I was and am not an
final statement repeated his_pre-
* guilty of some of the charges against him, “I never wanted to get into conflict with the Taw,” he sald. “If (Sn AtARGe my control ¢ brought me into conflict with the law, I here today have conwifessed it, and I regret it again how.”
ing. * Sentences will be prono at 2 a. m. Tuesday, Indiana; time. E Only a few hours
.
: ‘Not An Enemy’ The Cardinal then pointed out that, the Hungarian Board of Bishops had approved of land reform under which the big estates of. Hungary were broken up and
“God give peace In these A&YS. 4+given-to.small-landholders..
v He pointed out that the Vat“Not for the near future of the dean did not disapprove of this
point of - view. “I thank God,” he sald, “that In the course of the investigation, to my own severe conscience I did not prove to be an enemy of
and the six other defendants,.| Cardinal Mindszenty rose from his bench and told the hushed courtroom: “This morning, the following
“1 ask this peace for my church, my love for which I brought here, also for the Hungarian state toward which I showed by obedience, and peace for my own soul.
5—<Joseph Cardinal Mindszenty asked
vious testimony that he had ‘been |2PPE
G, by t cifically for a death ~only that the be given the “heaviest iment.” The “heaviest for treason and plotting to ¢ throw the. government is d by hanging. : Dr. Kiczo Kalman, defense sel, reminded the court that Hungarian law. granted it the to grant clemency and reduce i own sentence by one degree, example, from death to life prisonment. He said Cardinal ‘Mindszenty’s al from a jail cell to U, 8. Minister Selden Chapin for help
othe: in "an ivory tower” names of President ‘Truman, bishop of New York; to Budapest, and Mr. Schoenfeld’s successor, into the state's summary of the case.
repeatedly asked for American
intervention in Hungary's inter nal affairs in his desire to over throw the government and re-
store the Hapsburg monarchy, Called Nonsense “He even wanted a declaration of war,” exclaimed Alapi. “Again. and again he urged
the. people. “I was never against peace be-
” tween church and state, but I| & sentence Which will guarantee a emphasized that there were con-|
’ solution abroad and here." | ditions for it, and I wanted it to “He did not elaborate on his ref- be a lasting peace. erence to a “solution abroad.” His | “As far as the fact is conmention of-a solution “here” pre-icerned that I got into conflict
“I ask the Lord to give the court the wisdom that it can pass
first Schoenfeld, then Chapin and even President Truman to inter- | vene,” Mr. Alapt-said:
jreference to Mr, Truman. He said Mr. Schoenfeld finally “clamped down on Mipdsunty's most ardent wishes.”
sumably .referzed to the dispute with the law beyond my own will
between the Catholic Church and!in one respect or another, I. did!
the Hungarian state, {confess that, and as to the finan-| ‘The atmosphere was tense as cial damages I have done, I have] Cardinal Mindszenty, clad in a offered to repay it, and I meant, black cassock, made his final ap-|/that.” peal. - He looked straight at Dr.| After the Cardinal concluded Volmos Olti, youthful president of his statement with his prayer for
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wouldn't kill its visions. The Democrats still more by Re ings that the GOF
the Senate floor . Grill Lg The flare-up | . ‘hours of -testimo examination of L New York labor ney and author of treatise in labor Teller spoke agair administration bil the Taft-Hartley Democrats want t After Mr. Tel testimony, with th: _ ule more than a d of the Democrs members met priv means of speedin
Sen. Claude Pe said “it looks lik tempt or an incon: ness on the part of drag this out by s exanimation.” Republican Ser Aiken of Vermont Morse of Oregon intention of stall said. the Republic: most of the ques nesses because the convinced the adr should be passed : Prepare for “You are not pa ested in questio nesses,” he added. Both [GOP senat against the Den trary action,” in s deadline for comp
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“If we find we cs next week,” Mr. Democrats, “then cannot escape th for extending the | Mr. Morse also & lican committee n to “lay the ground I think is going portant debate on Senate.” Both Mr. Morse along with Sen. F nell: (R. Mo.), spe session questioning the President's “in to prevent natio strikes. Mr. Teller said President has such Truman himself ec earlier this eels.
Russ Film Storms Ho
MOSCOW, Feb. Bolshakov, Sovie
~ Hollywood and Ei “flood the Europea low-quality films hatred of the Sov Mr. Bolshakov 1 ‘ment in addressi conference of the | Communist party. He said Hollyw display “obscurant they are designed | “the alleged supe Anglo-Saxon race “torious American > The superior qu films, he sdid, ha strated<by their d the World and “tl Aess with all pe " progressive.” He 1948, “250 million saw our films.”
Col. M. G. H Special MOW
Col. Manford G commander of the of World War awarded the order tinguished service Col, Van R, H. f tional MOWW co The award cite “exceptional” séry ganization's expa An Indiana, Michig Axveteran of ‘bo |» Col. Henley was » for civilian defens ‘West. Descended ‘fro Order of Cincinn: George Washingt Order is one of th zations of Its kin States, The orde sor of Army Day
Columbia CI Columbia Clul Tas
JK. Ruckelsha - and Aibert E. Ul