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FRIDAY, MAR. 25, 1049 ___ Congress— -

Lucas to Fight

Capehart’s Plan § For ERP Slash

Hoosier Wants $3 Billion Cut:

Taft Favors $1 Billion Decrease ~ WASHINGTON, Mar: 25 (UP) — Senate Democratic Leader Scott W. Lucas of Illinois today predicted passage

by midnight of the administration's $5.58 billion Marshall Plan renewal bill.

Mr. Lucas told newsmen he believes the coalition of

internationalist Democrats and Republicans will defeat any attempt to curtail foreign-aid of ‘their state's governor. The spending during the .sécond conferees hold their first meeting year of the recovery pro- later today. gram’'s operation. * : Spies But-S8en. Robert A. Taft (R. 0.) gald that about #1 billion could be tivities

trimmed without program.

Committee said harming the Soviet officials jn the United NaSen. Homer Capehart tions, . diplomatic officers and

(R. Ind.) set his sights on a $3 trading commiissions are directing. “thousands” “of agents -who are|

billion cut. Current European recovery ‘selling -us down the river.” spending ‘authority expires on Apr. 3. The pending bill would on Spies,” the committee said the extend the program for another United States is “the number nne 15 months. target of Russia's spy effort ~ ECA*Bogs Paul G. Hoffman, .Based on FBI estimates has said the $5,580,000,000 total Communist? Party membership, it represents a “rock-bottom” figure said, the United States “at a time for successful operation of. the of national crisis” would have ald program. nearly 825,000 persons “who are During Senate debate on the either spies, traitors or saboteurs measure yesterday, Chairman working against us from within.” Tom Connally (D. Tex.), of the rp —— ites Benate Foreign Relations Com- J* mittee and Sen. Arthur H, Van- Ti S on Weat Hi denberg (R. Mich.), steadfastly They said the program has bolstered Western

* 1 - Europe against communism and Durin Vacations that it must be continued in ful ) ) .

force to meet the ‘critical pe-| ’ Je riod” ahead. I Prophet Purcell Winds

Pensions | Up Wind Study

» | Times State Service led"by Rep. Walter B. Huber| o.oo evar 25 — Hoo

The House Un-Américan Ac-! that,

In a pamphlet called “Spotlight 1

of the “white

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(R. 0.), a group of House mem- 1

8i / dvised today to plan bers whe helped kill the Rankin %/'8 Were a y le pension bill, rallied around a sub-|their vacations in the first few stitute plan to help veterans. weeks of summer or toward the Their proposal is to liberalize ex- end of the season. The above isting laws which permit most|came from Mark Purcell. Indi-65-year-old veterans in need to ana's veteran weather prophet. receive pensions of from $60 to ‘That's when the weather will $72 a month. be best,” he said. The original bill of Rep. John, Mr. Purcell, who. bases his long ¥. Rankin (D. Miss.), would have range weather predictions on pre-

given all veterans of World Wars |vailing wind directions, completed *

I and TI $90 a month, regardless his annual summer forecast ves of negd. The House rejected this terday. His aerial soundings bebill yesterday by voting, 208 to 'gan Sunday with the arrival of 207, to send it back to Rankin’s spring and were finished Wed-

Veterans Committee, |nesday. Rents | A warm breeze from the south was interpreted by Mr. Purcell as Senate-House conferees faced , gre sign of.warm weather for two major hurdles in their|

the first few summer weeks: efforts to reach agreement on a

compromise rent control exten-! sion bill. Sen. John J. Sparkman

Ala.) said they were: (Mr. Purcell said this meant

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Gang Slayers Believed Holed Up in Kansas City

Police Find Getaway Car After Country Club Manageér Is Cut Down by Hail of Slugs

KANSAS CITY, Mo. Mar. 25 (UP)—Three out-of-town killers believed stranded here when their specially-equipped getaway car overheated, were sought today for the gang slaying of a prominent

country club manager.

Wolf Rimann, 45-year-old husinessman, socialite and former not idgntify two suspects shown | golf professional, was cut down by a hail of shotgun slugs as he to her In police headquarters a

raced for his automobile at an east side Intersection yesterday. Mr. Rimann had taken a chair

to a bar fixture manufacturing : : company for repair. As i linois Bell Case

emerged from the firm, a black

1946 Ford sedan pulled up and by stopped. Two men with shot- Commission on a motion to re- |, der an empty railroad box car One man remained ‘gpen the hearing in the rate case where he ripped off her ‘clothes

guns gat out. behind the wheel,

The club. manager apparently Co. ! wensed danger. He started to run. Porter Counties, Examiner J. B. A shotgun blast struck him in Bailey said today.

the chest, but he stumbled to his

car, opened the door and fell in. the case was made by PSC Public women passersby Counselor William E, Steckler.

Several screamed.

One of the assailants, undis- would also rule on a motion by turbed by the screams of more the Rev. Emerald Olson, Whiting! than -a dozen horrified witnesses, minister, who requested trat any strolled calmly to the car and new hearing be held in the Ham- an appointment to meet a friend

(pumped several pistol shots into mond area. The wind then changed direc-|Mr, Rimann’s body.

tions to the southwest, west and | (D northwest for another 18 hours. |

ONE: The House provision Period of changeable weather «own street and the radiator was

; weain Would follow the warm spell. guaranteeing landlords a fair| ” ; ) return on his investment” (t Winds changed again and blew Senate bill, instead, merely pro-/ffom the east and southeast for

boiling. Find ‘Arsenal Box’ Police said the car had been

vides for two 5 per cent rent More than eight hours indicating equipped with a siren, its switch

boosts). warm weather would TWO: Different “local option” toward the end of the summer. provisions. The House bill states, counties and municipalities|/shifted to the northwest. to decontrol at will. The Senate wind change was taken by Mr

bill would allow municipalities to'Purcell to mean cooler days ‘In cause the motor got

decontrol only with the approval the last week of summer.

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Just before Mr. Purcell finished tors would allow his study of the winds. the hreeze DOX"—a steel case to store loot This Weapons or ammunition,

'the slavers were Kansas City, hired {slaving.”

tives, said Mr, parently was slain because he was dren. | “expanding too rapidly.” The vieftim was manager of the swank ministration has ruled that any ;fouth side Hillcrest Country Club, milk containing DDT would {operator of a string of automatic/subject to seizure, if it crosses a coin machines, an associate in state line.

lof bonded {City warehouse.

Flo ~ Fishing Village

PORT ALLEN, La. Mar, 25 that a human who drank that

moved across the rive Rouge when water crept into the

return/concealed in one of the ash travs.

Under ther back seat, investiga-

found an empty “arsenal

“They had to leave the car he tou Lot ald Homicide Lt. Charles Welch 1 think they are holed up on foot in Kansas City.” According to vehicle license rec

“Lee Harris” ot

strangers

Frank Collins, Rimann

the Arctic Refrigeration Co. and control over intra-state food ship- ligating another reported rape.

had several other business enterprises.

Jackson County

od Threatens

(UP) — Flood waters swirling

{through a wide break in a Mis{sissippi River levee today threat{ened to force complete evacuation,

of 1000 to 1500 residents of a

bayou fishing settlement west of " |here.

At the same time, the Red

[Cross ordered 600 refugees spend-

ing the night in shelters here to Baton

outskirts of town. - Meanwhile, some 1000 volunteers and National Guardsmen fought a night-long battle to throw up an emergency around the break. Working in water three to five

giant bulldozers to shove great gobs of mud and gravel agalhst ‘a fence of posts barbed wire to form a semi-circu-lar earthen bank around the 700foot hole in the levee. Work Against Time They were working time, The river was biting great chunks out of the Jevee just below the break, threatening to widen the crevasse to 1000 feet,

second break comes before night-

away, Already, they estimated, water

rate of 22 miles per hour and 3.6 million gallons per minute. Waters threatened some 6000

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residents of this lowland area. tion homes when the

(cracked yesterday. No casualties ‘have been reported thus far,

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Detectives found the getaway rate increases for Lake and Por- 2PPear,’ she’ said, car shortly after the killing. It ter Counties, 2 had been abandoned on a down-

. 10 Keep what one official termed cat Where Lhe attack took place.

fords, the car had been purchased DDT to kill insects.” {in St. Louis by {Kansas City. Police said, how- but it will also. sccumulate in |ever, the name and address were the cow and then seep into the { fictitious. | None of the witnesses could give said. {police a good description of the (trio. Lt. Welch said he believed cologists of the Food and Drug 2%saulted. to Administration as

for a “gang ‘even small amounts of DDT in of the attack, police picked up

Prosecutor: Henry A. Fox Jr. said Mr. Ri- flatly that DDT is a ‘slow, in- fropt ‘porch of her home. She {mann had stored $100,000 worth vidious noison” for which both sald ‘she was forced to get into liquors in a Kansas/the cow and the human drinking an automobile where another man

* [logical magnifiers.” [tions of DDT-—one part in one

[million —entering a cow will ao |cumulate in the cow's fatty tis- (p.

(as much as 15/1,000,000th DDT.

levee “glanche Courtney Roney, 21, 3138 Ken

feet deep, the flood fighters used Eukene Hendrickson, 21, 4231 Boulevard Ag Cole 5. Shel

As up Aubrey Keller, 45. 2403 Collexe; Mary Ann Hovey

and peonard Forehand, 41, 333 Toledo: Katie

against!

Army engineers said that if a DIVORCE SUITS FILED

2 Lilly; Margaret vs, Warren A. Stephens fall all their work may be’ swept Jan

is roaring through the hole at a Ora Glore: Emma Lou va. Paul 1. Stone

War Bride Victim | Of Attack Here

Viennese Girl Fails To Identify Suspects

A Viennese war bride who was raped early this morning could

— few hours later, 1 : The victim, who sald she Ruling Monday in was married to an Indianapohs. GI in 1946, told police she was walking in 8S. Illinois St. A ruling will be made Monday 4fter midnight when she was acthe Indiana Public Service ;osted by a man who dragged her

involving Illinois Bell Telephone 4,4 attacked her.

and citizens of Lake and She told police her GI husband deserted her 10 months ago and went to live in Hartford, Conn. Divorce proceedings against the husband were being arranged here, the girl told police,

lequest for a new hearing In

Mr. Bailey said the commission

Had Appointment Last night, she said, she had

in a 8: lllinois St. restaurant at When he failed to she started walking toward the plant where {he is employed.

. | Two blocks from the restauI Can Poison rant, the girl said, she noticed ihat a man who appeared to be drunk, was foiiowing her. She

- started to rin but the man | arms 'caught up with her. He clapped| y . . iis ‘hand over her mouth, warned |

y . 3 oe her against making an outcry WASHINGTON, Mar. 25 (UP) ' ) ) The government acted today aud dragged her under the box

The utility is seeking telephone midnight.

a slow, invidious poison” seeping Into the supply.

Demanded Money

Following the attack, she said, the man demanded money. She ‘Ihe Agriculture Department told him she had sone and offered | warned dairy farmers: “Don’t‘te show her eliply purse, but he Spray your cows or barns with Staggered off, she said.

from naltivn’'s milk

{ J/T'lie hysterical girl said she ran r ‘ nm a 1t will Kill the insects, all right, 10 a nearby office where she saw a light, and called police, Al General Hospital, where she was taken, doctors confirmed her toxi- Story that she had been criminally

milk she gives, the department The department quoted

saying that A few blocks from the scene

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a food such as milk . might a man who was brought to the

chief of detec- prove harmful” to humans, espe- hospital, ap- cially to infants and small chil-

When the woman could not | identify him, he was tried on a| charge of drunkenness and given | a short jail sentence, police said. Another Rape Reported Meanwhile, police were .inves-

It said the Food and Drug Ad-

The agency has no

ments. A 24-year-old woman said she

‘Slow, Invidious’ was grabbed by a man who was One official of that agency said hiding in - the shadows on the

the milk would serve as “‘bio- sat at the wheel.

After riding around the city for awhile, the woman sald, the driver halted the car in an East Side alley. The man seated in rear with her, she told po-| assaulted her. later, she| sald, she was thrown from the! CAr near her home,

He explained that tiny por

sues until her milk may contain jj.

Tests on other animals indicate

milk for six months might ac { cumulate as uch as 123/1,000.-. Steamer Capsizes vo 000th DDT in his fat tissues, the Cs , official said. HONG KONG, Mar. 25 (UP) “And.” he added, “that defi- At least 40 persons were killed | nitely is a dangerous amount.” and scores were injured today! Although there is no record yet when the Chinese River steamer | of any aumans being harmfully “Miss Orient” hit a mine and capaffected by DDT, the official said, sized in Elliot Passage near Can ‘there must be some; we'll learn ton. An estimated 300 persons

| Stephen, Violet Chaleff; Stephen. Mar-! David William Brown Jr, 29, Atlanta, Ga garet Robbins; Charles, Marjorie Edmondson

| __ wood. At St, Vincent's Paul, Maymie Crooke; William D. Brosius, 24, 1417 8. Lynhurst Willlam, Elnora Bristow,

JoAnn Youse, 20, 149 Berkley Rd At St. Francis—Howard, Bertha Key

man Alvin. Madeline Levinson Pl: Rosémary Mains, 19, 835 § 3 |

Girls fleld Home Millard, Currie Griffin, 2023]

Kean, 44, 2403 College

| Methodist - Furman, Wyatt; |

1 Lucille Frank, Virginia Russell

Robert, Sarah

Place Everett L Kinnelt 22, 208 N. Talbot Joan Holden, 18. 2617 Central

Mae Hanna, 32, 333 Toledo McClelland: Damon. Helen Belcher | Charles R. Nichols LL Lonma In AL 8 Francis Keith, Marguerite Her-| Arminta Alice Andrews, 63, 601% E 12th bert John, Irene Williams; Maurice, | Edward Dobbs, 25 1166 Spann Wilda Rosemary Miner | Dobbs, 41, 1166 Spann t Coleman Casey Palricia Lane: Rob-| Vern Keller, 57, 2802 Lockburn; Hilda el. Agnes Marsischke Agnes Sevedge. 40, 261% Collier AL St. Vincent's -—-Orvile, Virginia Young. | Curtls Southerland. 28. 3231 N. Meridian . : — —— | Georgie « Byoum, 36, 200 Boulevard DEATHS | | |

Hilbert Breidenbaush. 47, at 87 N. Addi. Sl, Curouary occlusion Herman Hilbert, 7% at 2123 N. Bosart, cerebral hemorrhage | Fliviius 8, Samples, 65, at General, esr-| clihoms | Georgia va, Alton Walker: Mary vs. Gus Ora R. Christie, 65, at 1000 Churchman, | myocardial Infarction, e vs, Louthan Van Meter; Helen K. Frank Hall, 74. al Velerans, leukemia va, Jesse Woods; Lerraine va. Paul Faulk: Minnie A. Johnson, 79, at 2318 Brookside, Elaine Toth vs. Robert R. Lawless; Louis! nephritis F. vs Alma Pay Lublinski: Etta J. vs. Samuel R. Randolph, 78, at General, cere bral thrombosis Betty Marie vs, Lester Lawrence Johnson: Frank H. Somhorst, 50, at 714 N. OGladjDorothy M. ve Cecll W. Rau: Cleatls -E.| stone. coronary -occiusion

| vs. Robert B. Webster nna M. Thomas, 64. at 1043 Alvord, Ite TC —— | carcinoma. od \ [Lida M. Crousore, 76, at 4627 Guilford, BIRTHS : | myocarditis

Twine {Isom Halfaker, 82, at Long, earcinoms. More-than 2000 fled their planta- At Weme—William, Frances Hearn, 1021 James Hols *5 » | levee! oe, boys:

4 AL General, arteriosclerotic heart. * . . William Edward Romine, 19, at 207 W | Pearl, cerebral thrombosis, ~

Charles, Anna Whitley, 1218 25th, boys.

Margaret Young; Donsld, Mar-

thrombosis,

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There are 356 shirts, broken lots with prices deeply cut— every last one is apt to go out Saturday. . 2.15 group of colored and white shirts (some are slightly soiled) Also at 2.15 are Tuxedo Shirts—fresh. In the $3 bracket are pedigreed shirts, including matte weave oxfords and stripe broadcloths (were 5.00 and 5.50) Sale prices while they last

215-41 11 MENS PAJAMAS

riced to sell on sight! Broken lots—Rayons and cottons— fond jersey knits are included at $3) While they last (were 3.95-$5 and up)

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