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only by raising new revenues, In referring to the cigaret tax, the Governor stated he had hoped, earlier this , the revenue a sol-
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also collect the needed revenues with scarcely any additional cost to our state government.” Urges Withholding He recommended withholding the tax by employers as a means of gaining additional revenues “lost to the state because of the failure of many citizens to pay their-gross income tax.” He said the loss was estimated at several
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Two Crashes Drive Home a Moralluy to CEE { Lottey Probe
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May Be Charged As Result of Local Investigation
.. Marion County Grand Jury the alleged baseball lot- , activities of two Republican pol ticians probably will conclude its deliberations tomorrow, Prosecutor George 8.-Dalily announced
today. At least five persons may be charged in connection with the lottery activities, it was learned. Principal targets of the probe are a. Republican lawyer specializing in Police Coutt cases and a tavern owner, Meanwhile the dove of peace flew around the offices of Mr. Dailey, Mayor Feeney and Chief (Rouls after losing a few tail | feathers yesterday. No Friction Here | Everybody was agreed on one | Polat thers is: no friction be‘omce and the”
“The Mayor and I have never had one cross word" sald Mr. Dalley. “There never has been a bad
word between us” said Mayor Feeney. . The tor denied he had
ever “rebuked” the Mayor or his police chief, The situation developed yesterday when police stopped Fletcher Rahke, baseball ticket manufacturer who has been the chief witness in the probe. In his car they found packages of lottery tickets. Two othér men in the car, Robert G. Brown Sr. and his son Robert Jr. were arrested and charged with operating a lottery. Before Municipal Judge Alex Clark this morning their cases were continued until Feb. 17; Becomes: Irritated Rahke was permitted to proceed when he produced a Grand Jury subpena. He was on his|m way to festify before the Grand Jury. He already had testified several times. i Mr. Dailey became Irritated when he learned a policeman had seen Rahke on the street last ‘Saturday and asked him what was going on in the Grand Jury. He called Chief Rouls to the jury room and asked him to inet policemen not to interfere
State ‘Cracks Down’ On General Finance
The State, of Indiana cracked down yeste¥day on a wayward finance . company, assessing
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City Councilmen reviewed the
and soft coal dealers in a stormy
$26,838 in penalties for violation of the State Retail Instaliment Sales Act. The defendant, the Finance Corp., Chicago, had been charged on four counts with overcharging auto loan customers, accepting “blank” contracts from dealers, selling customers single interest instead of full coverage auto insurance, and failing to discount prepaid contracts sufficiently,
dollars annually. Governor placed much of
get in the increased cost of oper-| ating state institutions, but he added: 'e cannot deny the opportuniof advanced education to boys d girls who are being graduated from Indiana's high schools, nor can we limit or impair the facilities of our mental hospitals and benevolent institutions, our penal and correctional institutions.” Gov. Schricker pointed up the $4.5 million deficiency appropria-
tion necessary to operate the 1h together,
state government until July 1 when the new budget takes effect. He declared his ‘opposition to deficit, financing and announced he had called on’ the Division of
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Fy artment helicopters stood
Hubert Hickam, of the law firm of Barnes, Hickam, Pantzer &!|
company, waived right of appeal and agreed on a compromise in which the firm: paid, but not without protest, the penalties in cash. The irregular practices of the firm, brought to .light by The Times ‘last year, culininated in two hearings, the first of which was disqualified because a quorum of the commission--had not been presént for all of the sessions, : Yesterday, the State got a ran quickly over ‘the evidence and “levied a $25,000 -penalty plus $1838 costs. Originally Thomas H. Cougill, supervisor of the small loans department of the State Department of Financial Institutions, asked a revocation of the firm's license. Yesterday he pointed out that the company had made restitution of all of its overcharges, and withdrew his request.
Hunt Lost Plane With 7 Aboard
TEHRAN, Iran, Feb. 8 (UP)—
cluding the personal flying fortress of the Shah, searched today for a two-engined U. 8. Embassy plane missing since yesterday afternoon.on a flight to the
Gulf, The plane ‘reportedly carried seven persons, four of them American officers. Two Ameri-can-manned Iraqi AgHicultare by at dad to join the search if they are needed. :
jand bootlegging - by. ineffective “legalization” of one |type of fuel.
American and Iranian planes, in-|
island of Bahrein in the Persian|
Soft coal dealers, represented [by the Coal Merchants of Indian-|
permit monopoly price-fixing of! “legalized” coal. Carefully prepared ‘statements | {of policy by the Coal Producers, Committee for Smoke Abatement, the New River Coal Operators Association of West Virginia and ithe Indiana Coal Merchants Association predicted that any ordi-
of fuel to be burned in private hand-fired furnaces, was doomed to- failure. Bome of the reasons given by the dealers for concentrating on “what comes out of the furnace” rather than “what goes in" ‘were hardships to the small wage earner and creation of black markets
These reasons were given in addition to the contention that present ‘deposits of low: volatile fuels are insufficient to supply Indianapolis. The danger of creating a fuel monopoly and conse-
After Stormy Three-Hour Session
trol ordinance today after listening to the conflicting views of hard
quent “4xing of prices was cited by soft coal retailers. The Indianapolis Coal Merchants Association also . intro-| duced results of its recent postcard survey and a petition of signers against any ordinance, which) together represented 8000 Indian-| apolis dwelling unfta,
You Can Get
Gloves Tickets ® You can still get good ringside and reserved seats for Friday night's finals of The Times-Legion Golden Gloves tournament. ® The downtown ficket offices are in Bush-Calla-han's’ Sporting Goods Store, 136 BE. Washington St, and The Sportsman’s Store, 126 N. Pennsylvania St. ® Prices are: Ringside and first row balcony, $2; downstairs reserved, $150.
admission tickets ($1 for
All Gone
Memo to two disap pointed hold-up men: You know the bilifold took from Albert Ken-"
either adults or children) will go on sale at 6:30 p. m. Friday night at the N. Pennsylvania St. Armory - boxoffice, ‘® Times Sports Writer Jim
Prices include tax. General ° |.
whole problem of the smoke con-
Freeze to Follow
three-hour session last night. |
The Pocahontas Coal Producers Association of West Virginia, represented by Bert Asbury, its distributing counsel, said it could supply an ample supply of hard low volatile ‘coal.
The postcard survey indicated |
General apolis, challenged this statement. nearly three to one against fuel| They charged that fuel control regulating provisions of a smoke gnring weather today before shift. would create a black market and/ordinance. More than one-fourth {ing winds were due to bring tem-
{of the persons questioned were | |againét an ordinance in any form. The survey was attacked immediately as biased and unrepresentative, Robert L. Wolf challenged the survey and referred to the association as “sort of a country club affair, benefiting the
coal Sulens. but. burting the. public.” He cited to show that
Indianapolis dealers make ‘$1.40 more profit. margin on certain types of fuel than merchants in St. Louis, who must absorb an S4dmiondl 85 cents per ton freight
Livestock Bip
Near OPA Level
BULLETIN CHICAGO,
gle day's decline since the big postwar break a year ago. Grains led the decline with all futures contracts at Chicago dropping the limit permitted in a day's trading. Grain futures at other markets also slumped.
Livestock prices in Indianapolis are ‘dipping close to figures In OPA-controlled days, stockyards officials said today. High receipts and a seasonal drop were blamed for the decline, as local meat-packers purchased choice grades of hogs for lowest prices In 11 months and steers at a two-year low in the cattle market, Top hog prices of $20.75 In early trade today and $20 in late trade were compared to an all time high of $31.25, less than six months ago. Today they held even with the former post-OPA low of $20.75 a hundred top price, estab. Later tabula-
Heyrock's™ story on the ' Golden ta be
found on
Feb. 8 (UP)— | Commodity market prices tum- | bled today in the sharpest sin- |
$14 to $22, set in January, 1047. © conse the cases Under OPA, tops were fixed at) Mr! Rilng belloves can be $16.25 for hogs and $20.25 a hun- saved, dred rn, Peary 2 he i . prices were y lifted first eo mn apJOct. 15, 1946. a
Today's High of 50
World Reccliones
Trial Brings
Heavy Wave
Of Protests
Cardinal Forced To Plead Guilty,
Joseph "Cardinal I Mindszenty {was sentenced to life imprison-
| ment by a Peoples Court in Com-|
‘munist-dominated = Hungary to-|
the western world. From the Vatican to Whitehal to Washington, Catholics—and
tested that the cardinal had been forced to plead guilty to the treason, espionage and black marketing charges against Rim. Reaction from Russia and the other nations of the Communist blac still was awaited. But there was no doubt, on the basis of previous pronouncements, that théy would side with Hungary ih ten charging that the oardinal and his six co-defendants worked with the imperialistic West—and primarily the United States—in a plot ngatint 4 democracy. CommuHue léd democracy in Com< ist
-dominated nations. Vatican Aroused The Vatican newspaper Osservatore Romano tonight compared the conviction and sentencing to the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. It said in a special editorial that the Hungarian primate had been condemned niquitously and has * ded his Calvary amid = admiration and gratitude of all the civilized world.” Authoritative Vatican sources Hig Holiness Pope
again praised Cardinal = Mindszenty's conduct during his trial. “As long as his imprisonment
LOCAL TEMPERATURES
6 a m.. 51 10. a.m... 48 7 a. mm... 38 11 a.m... BO 8 a m.. 35 12 (Noon) 55 9a m.. 40 1p m.. 5
Indianapolis had a fore-taste of
peratures down again tonight. .Breezes and intermittent -sunshine today, with a high of 55 degrees, were expected to give way to a low of 25 tonight, according to the Weather Bureau. Tomorrow will be clear and cold, with a high of 32 degrees. In its long-range forecast, the Weather - Bureau predicted - near~ normal temperatures in Indiana for the next five days. (Normal maximum in the north is 34 degrees, and 45 in the south. Normal minimum 18 north, 26 south.) A cold day tomorrow willbe followed by rising temperatures Thursday and another cold snap +Friday. Sunday will be.warmer. Precipitation will average %i inch in the northwest and % inch in southeastern Indiana for this period. It will occur as rain or snow late ‘Thursday and again about Sunday.
Textile Union Drops \Fight for 10c Hike NEW YORK, Feb, 8 (UP) Some 65,000 woolen and worsted, mill workers have been advised! {by the CIO Textile Workers Union to drop arbitration Fro. (ceeding for a 10 cents an wage increase.
given yesterday official newspaper, Textile Labor, which said that layoffs and short-| work weeks have hit dll sections) of the industry during the past two months,
Your
Marriage—
“@ Here it is at last—a plain spoken, down-to-facts _ column, free from the usual hush-hush on marriage problems.
It is written by Samuel G. Kling, Baltimore law-~ yer, who has talked half of his clients out of the divorce court. His wife, a major in psychology, acts as his marriage
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lasts,” it said, “the people will know. that liberty is not extinct, that ifs ancient value is not dead.” Protests in Britain In Britain, the rising tide of pro-
treaty provisions guaranteeing) personal and religious freedoms. More than 26,000 Catholics t meetings in Albert Hall and elsewhere in London last night, and heard a statement by Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin—who is hot a Catholic—expressing “profound indignation” |. and tondemning Hungary for the! arrest and trial of the cardinal. The Archbishop of ' Liverpool, after Britain had received news of the sentence, issued a statement in behalf of the ailing cardinal Griffin, senior member of Britain's “Catholic hierarchy, In which he siserted that a “travesty of justice had been played out.to the end.” In Washington, leaders of the American Congress ' condemned the conviction and sentences as a “shocking and sinful” demonstration “of Community “depravity,”
‘land some of hem called for a
many of other religions—pro-
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Reds Rap U.S.
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Encouraged Primate = . To ‘Speculate on War®
Charges American Drive Against Jews; Mindszenty to Appeal Prison Sentence fs 1
BULLETIN NEW YORK, ¥eb. 8 (UP)—A spokesman at the Hungaan {Consulate said today that Bela Balassa, ranking Hungarian official’ TRE Lint combs: and sight subnrdintey 2 | and Cleveland, were resigning in protest to the "life
Joseph Cardinal Mindszenty.
By EDWARD M. KORRY, United Press Staff Correspondent ; BUDAPEST, Feb. 8—Joseph Cardinal Mindszenty—w day, and a wave of protest rose/first prince of the Cathclic Church to be thivughout (charges in modein times—was found guilty of treason by a Hungarian Peoples Court today.
He was sentenced to life
other groups throughout the
— if he approved the appeal,
at Dr. Olti as he spoke. A few moments later he was led back to his prison cell. The courtroom was hushed as Dr. Olti rattled oft
Bh the probe by asiing: ques-| A PE nde ah ! [compied with writt in order to) "as grieved” by the : » ment on the case, but he told a Sa Lo ke or, Fuel Control Here Weatherman ives: =o: ov vi Penalized $25,838 Would Create Black Market grin prayioy tent ms $4 or ws ra. he Coal Men Differ on Smoke Regulations g ,, The twe-co slum long « att Spealing. But the’ prosecution
mand for a death sentence for the primate and higher sentences for the others. In the past there have been some cases in which the supreme tribunal has increased \sentences assessed by the lower court.
Uniformed guards with tommy-
{the prosecution had demanded
{guns patrolled the fog-shrouded and his criminal acts, and that test reached beyond church lines. streets outside and paced the cor-/his priestly functions were A foreign office spokesman said rigors. Security police not in uni- made the subject of orminal Britain ts interested in how Hun-|¢orm swarmed in the courtroom. |charges, " Mr. Olt! said.
gary is carrying out the peace| pve and six checks were made on {the credentials of all who were
admitted. “Extenuating Circumstances’
Dr. Oiti made plain; in explain-jor disguised attacks against
ing the sentence of the primate, | that Cardinal Mindszenty had) escaped a death sentence--which
only because cumstances” case, . He sald the court invoked a paragraph ol he Hungarian
“extenuating efrwere found in his
“Reds Who Judged Cardinc Declared Nazi Turncoats
"By DR. BELA FABIAN; Written Exclusively for The Times NEW YORK, Feb. 8—-Of all the’ weird and peculiar of the trial of Joseph Cardinal Mindszenty. the strangest of all is. thisg... He was arrested, tried and condemned by Nazis
Turncoat Nazis, to be sure,
Rap Conviction 0f Mindszenty
Indiana lawmakers today- con-|
Reason for the decision was demned the conviction of Joseph| the trial is Dr. Martin Bodon in" the union’s|Cardinal Mindszenty as a “tras Under the name
vesty on justice.” Sen. Louis ¥. Baldoni, Democrat industrial worker from South Bend, introduced a resolu tion in the Senate denouncing the
[trial of the Catholic primate by
a Hungarian ' ‘Peoples Court” as “wholly unjust.” He said the “world will long remember the inhuman treatment of the 56-year-old cardinal who was a martyr to Communist corruption. Branded as ‘Farce’ Ben. Edmund F. Makowski, East Chicago Democratic leader, termed the episode “a shocking spectacle” to the civilized world. “Cardinal Mindszenty committed no crime,” Sen. Makowski! added. “He was convicted by a court dominated by the spectre of Communist The trial was branded a “farce”
Hitler and now give the same cruel subservience to Stalin,
The president of the People's Court, Dr. Vilmos OIlti, was a member of the vicious ArrowCross Party, the Nazi branch in Hungary during the German occupation. He served as a judge {then as hé does now. He became a member of the Communist Party In 1045. Listed as State Prosecutor in yl. of Martin Sch-| weitzer he was assesser of the military tribunal under the Naz controlled regime. He did not a once become a Communist when the Russians marched into Budapest, but when the Russians beasigan to put on the pressuré he quickly joined the party. ; Since then he has participated in most of the trials in which the death penalty was demanded, against the public opinion of the entire country. He i a “reliable” man, by Communist standards. His voice does not tremble, Not Surprised Most of ‘the police officers who fabricated the case against Mindszenty are Hungarians of Schwab German ancestry -— imm from Wuertemburg many ago—who took part in the N movement. I have seen the list of these ‘officers, brought out of
now has fled to Vienna, I was not
The Primate of Hungary heard the verdict and sens tence which ended his historic trial in silence. He spoke only once during the climactic court session of a dramatic trial which already had evoked protests from Catholic and
hat was when his attorney announced that the sens ould be appealed to the Supreme Peoples Tribunal, | . Vilmos Olti, president of the five-man court; asked
“Yes,” replied the 56-year-old cardinal. He spoke in a low voice, but looked directly;
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regime, in order to cause difficul ties for the peoples democracies. “The court left these facts out consideration. None of the ane fendants spoke about y of ‘religion in the course-of the trial.” (Vatican and other sources
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Men who once goose-stepped tor :
Dr. Bela Fabian, writer on Hungarian politics, is now in the United ..States, an exile, Seventeen years a. member of the Hungarian parliament, he was » Russian prisoner during py World War I and in War IL, served In four Nazi concentra~
sitting in judgment for the Reds . over Mindszenty, It was he same when Julius Maniu, : manian peasant leader, was Sos t victed. For the Communists, former Nazis are always the reliable. They have no Jorupies. WHA {out a flicker of |obey every order. tures of the regime,