Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 November 1949 — Page 11
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. *Monopoly Cap italists’ Suspected
‘The Communist-dominated government in the Soviet| PC geared today for a widespread
purge of non-Communists who sabotage” and “espionage.” The Eastern government
would be tried for “economic
last night armounced the ar-
rest of eight public figures, including Leon Herwegen, for- : Christian Democratic
elfare in the province of Saxony- ;
jaxony-Anhalt. A ninth German escaped to| Wesatern Germany. All were
Taegliche Rundschau
that “more arrests probably will =
follow.”
Anti-Communists predicted al
“show trial” would be held soon in Eastern Germany. to find scapegoats for the zone’s economfc difficulties.
Soviet Union
MRS. MURIEL. DRAPER, mother of Paul Draper and president of the American Congress of Democratic Women, said today that her organization would be] represented at the Congress of) Asian Women in Peiping, China, Dec. 6 to Dec. 12, : Mrs. Draper said her organization, listed as subversive by the United States government, would be represented by Mrs. Paul Robeson, Ada Jackson and Elizabeth Millard,
Italy FOUR Communists have been sentenced to prison on charges of premeditated murder in the death of Christian Democratic Labor Leader Giuseppe Fanin in San Giovanni, near Bologna, it was losed today. Mr. Fannin, leader of antiCommunist farmhands, was killed in the “Red Emilia” region during a Communist-led farmhands strike a year ago. He opposed the strike. |
Great Britain THE DAILY MAIL reported from Western Union military
France, today that the United States had developed a “baby” atom bomb for tactical use in close support of troops. : “This bomb, . which ' could be “by close ‘aircraft against tanks and infantry without causing widespread devastation, is a jor step in strengthening the defense of Western Europe,” Mail correspondent J. Selby Bradford said. He sald the new bomb probably did not weigh more than 250 pounds. China COMMUNIST troops have taken Kweilin, Kkangsi provincial cap*|
king, authoritative sources in| Chungking reported today. Meanwhile Gea. Pai Chung-hsi: rushed back to his home province from Chungking, where he had
‘been conferring with -Generalissi-|
reinforcements to Batangas Province south of Manila today in an attempt to smash an uprising of 600 las in which 14 men have been killed in two days of
the uprising “very serious,” but said he was confident reinforcements would bring it under control. ' He said the revolt was an aftermath of the Nov. 8 election “by people who don't concede my victory.” :
Colombia
THE Liberal Party intensified its campaign against the Conservative government today by calling a nation - wide general strike Friday. A presidential election is slated for next Sunday in Colombia, where recent political riots between Conservative and Liberal elements have taken hundreds of lives. The government proclaimed a state of siege to stop the rioting. :
Charged With Mailing Obscene Pictures
A 29-year-old Muncie man, charged with sending obscene pictures through the mall, will appear before U. 8. Commissioner Asa J. Smith for hearing today. H. Franklin Ketcham, a painting contractor, was arrested in his home in Muncie last night by
Deputy U. 8B. Marshal James Campbell and Postal Inspecto J. Simon. "Two rolls of pictures were
ing and printing h Official Weather UNITED STATES WEATUER SURRAD Sunrise. 7 | Samet ya 4:28
Denies Romance
The official Soviet newspaper) commented
oo Ed Wall
The name of Mr. Wall, 28, editor of an AFL newspaper, has been linked romantically with that of Margaret Truman, but be would not discuss it with newspapermen at Phoenixville, Pa. the Freedom Foundation awards ceremony. “Right now I-am not romantically interest-
pegoats i
| {lice defenders of the incumbent
] ident fired on a to the presiden in HE 0 he Wendentinl F.
where he attended the |
T Dead, 11 Wounded PANAMA, Nov, 23 (UP)—Two presidents claimed the right to rule Panama today after a night gun battle between police and legislators in which a 5-year-old boy was killed. At least 11 other persons were wounded, -Sporadi¢ shooting conmidnight, but
The shooting started when po-
Chiari to succeed Mr. Chanis. Flee After Shot Exchange
Mr. Chanis and his supporters fled after exchanging shots with the police. Reliable sources reported later that he was safe and in touch with Peruvian Ambassador Emilio Ortiz de Zevallos, dean of the foreign diplomatic corps. : Mr. Chiari served notice from the presidential palace early today that he intends to keep the presidency and regards the oath the took Sunday as president {as binding on him. Mr. Chanis began his comeback attempt early last night before the National Assembly. He told the assemblymen that he con-
-ed-in- anyone He sald in
Monty to Describe Defense Planning
Confers With U. S. Chiefs on Pact Policies
WASHINGTON, Nov. 23 (UP) may all be massacred.” —U. 8. officials planned to ob-| Ten thousand persons crowded tain from British Field Marshal the central plaza as Mr. Chanis, | Viscount Montgomery today a carrying the national flag, -led first-hand account of Western Eu- the procession into central plaza. irope’s defense planning. | Viscount Montgomery, chair- opened fire. Several marchers man of a five-nation Western) also began shooting. 4 Union military committee, sched-| ; uled a series of conferences at the wag killed by a stray bullet. His Pentagon with Defense Secretary | ather, Julio, was Aden Mr. mar N. Chanis and the National AssemBradley, chairman of the Joint! Chiefs of Staff and Gen. J. Law-| 00 men disappeared.
Léuis Johnson; Gen,
ton Collins, Army Chief of Staff
A . = His mr1irtary committee = Three In ured m slated to be one of the regional defense groups under the North! Atlantic Pact set-up, and his ex-| periences are expected to help) U. 8. officials to carry out pact defense policies and the military]
aid program.
for a 12-day visit. He was honored yesterday at a tea in Gen. |Bradleys’ office and made "his incurred in home accidents here ital 375 miles southeast of Chung-|3rst public speech at a Press yesterday. :
The hero of the battle of El} Alamein arrived here as hon | Chews a Mothball
Club luncheon. ¢ which we make war.”
development. .
Author of ‘Brigadoon’ To Wed Film Starlet Lerner, 31, will marry Starlet Nancy Olson, 21,
time next fall. «vo ova 3 Miss Olson, daughter of Dr
Los Angeles.
He belittled the atom bomb, describing it as a “nasty” thing!mothbal] which slid from between that hasn't altered “the way 1H ots being unpacked bv hi He said human relations will decide thelg world’s future—-not the pre-emi-
nence “of ‘any ‘nation in atomic! its] iid Yeturned Home yesterday
HOLLYWOOD, Nov. 23 (UP)— Broadway Playwright Alan Jay Movie “some-
and Mrs. Henry J. Olson, Milwaukee, Wis. was discovered by film scouts while a dramatics student received a head gash and was at the University of California at treated at General Hospital before
{tional president because he had resigned the post only under duress.
Cancels Resignation
Therefore, he said, he was withdrawing - the resignation. The Assembly voted to reinstate him, |then walked out in a body to {escort him to the presidential palace despite a warning by Deputy Jorge Illueca that “we
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I Armed police intercepted and|
Five-year-old Manuel Oazmino
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Home Accidents Youngest Victim
Two children a.nd a woman were [recuperating today from injuries
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| The youngest of the trio, John Fortune, 9 months old, chewed a
blankets being unpacked by his mother, Virginia, 121712 N. Ewing He was treated at General Hos-| in tearful condition. Shortly before John's misfortune, Helen Esther Hartley, 3, fell off a chair and bumped her head in the apartment of her mother, Mrs. Mary Hartley, 931% N. Alabama St. Mary was also treated at General Hospital and released. The third accident resulted when Nora Bilance, 54, of 855 .|Birch Ave. fell off a sewing machine on which she was standing to fix window blinds at home. She
{returning home.
Iran Ruler, Weering To Hear 5th 21-Gun
party are definitely a convenience Before you start screaming,
President Roosevelt and by Pres ident Truman. .
ready has invited Mr. to pay him a return call, will roll out that magic carpet. be burned in his honor,
of state. Quick-Change Artist
riving in this country, and today’ should bring
Gunpowder Greefings—
West Point Cadets Prepare Bang-Up Welcome for Shah
NEW YORK, Nov. 23 (UP)—Dear Taxpayers: Your guest is enjoying your hospitality. He finds the Waldorf suite quite comfortable. The five Cadillacs you have provided for him and his
member that His Majesty, the Shah of Iran, was invited to come and see you, both by the late,
You can’t entertain a king on quet tendered by the Iran Founpeanuts, and you may get your money back-—in a way. He alTruman
5 Andiof night-clubbing. Didn't bother if the President ever gets down ”
ithat way you may be sure Tehran
Today a little gunpowder will He's + lgoing up to West Point to review the cadets. Naturally they'll give him the 21.gun salute due chiefs
He's had four so far since ar-
the total of 105 guns fired. There's a little doubt about this figure as some suspicious soul who counted the bangs at Annapolis last week only heard 17. His majesty didn’t seem to notice. |
His Soldier Suit, Salute at Academy
“Send the bum home,” please re-
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World War II. He also has troops on. Russian soll-—he was
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TODAY AND TOMORROW-—Cold wintry temperatures, cloudy and snow flurries from Pann: “sylvania along Great Lakes to Dakotas. Thanksgiving morning mercury will be in 30's from Boston to Atlanta and Memphis while near the Great Lakes it is expected fo drop into the 20's.
Gen. Soule Served in Siberialiog Rush Brings With U. S. Forces in War
Speaks Chinese and Some Russian;
~~ Veteran Also of Famous ‘Can Do’ Regiment By Scripps-Howard Newspapers WASHINGTON, Nov. 23—-Brig. Gen. Robert Homer Soule, who is detained in Nanking by the Chinese Communists, is a combat infantryman and paratrooper who achieved a notable record in
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had the distinction of commanding American
“a young second Heutenant and
machine ‘gan ofMcer-in-the 31st
American Siberian expedition of 1919, “Shorty” Soule, as he is known to his friends, is a ruddy-faced, vigorous man of 49, short in stature but compactly built, He speaks Chinese well, and some Russian. Born at Laramie, Wyo., on Feb, 10, 1900, he attended the University of Wyoming where, in 1918, he was commissioned a reserve
‘second lieutenant in infantry. He
entered the regular Army in 1920. —In World War I, he served at a machinegun training center at Camp Hancock, Ga., subsequently joining a machinegun battalion at Camp Lewis, Wash. From this post he went with the 31st Infantry to Siberia. When our forces were withdrawn. Lt. Soule, by now a machineg 1 instructor, accompanied the regiment to the Philippines.
he served five years at Ft. Douglas, Utah, and then went to the Infantry School at Ft. Benning, Ga. In 1929, he was ordered to Peiping as a Chinese language student. While in this assignment he fulfilled a special mission for the State Department to Sianfu, in Northwest China. Returning to the United States again in 1933, he first commanded a company and then a battalion of 7th Infantry at Vancouver Barracks, Wash. After depres-sion-days duty with the CCC, in March, 1937, he was ordered back to China~this tire “as -Chinese| language, officer and regimental staff officer with the old 15th (“Can Do”) Infantry then stationed at Tientsin.
Goes to Pacific When the 15th was brought
Army's Command and General Staff School at Ft. Leavenworth,
Department. General Staff
More Than
-/to the Waldorf to don white tie and tails for a reception and ban-
dation, a group interested health work in his country. Later, for thé second night running, he slipped out for a bit
to change. Some rugged Americans who have long espoused the republican form of government are beginning to wonder if there isn't something to this king business, after all. For example, take tickets for “South Pacific,” New York's top musical. The box office. will sell an ordinary citizen a pair—for next July. His majesty got six — for tomorrow night. .
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a remembered service,”
Back in the United States in 1922,
home, Capt. Soule attended the
At the outbreak of World War, II; he was serving with the War | —Bloomington,-Ind., is “eligible” in/for a new postoffice building to Washington. By January, 1943, cost no more than §725,000, the hé succeeded in getting away General Services Administration from the Pentagon and again was said today. given troop command-—this time] f with the 188th Glider Infantry,|cities on a so-called eligible list 11th Airborne Division, serving approved by Congress, -
Infantry which took part in theat Camps Macall, N. C., and Polk,
| In May, 1944, his unit went to the Southwest Pacific where the regiment was trained as paratroopers. Subsequently the 188th Regiment, under Col. Soule, took part in the Leyte campaign in the Philippines, and spearheaded the 11th Airborne’s landing on Luzon, followed by participation in the capture of Manila.
Sent to Japan
Thereafter, Col, Soule commanded the parachute, ground and amphibious forces that liberated the prisoners at Los Banos Camp. . In March, 1945, the colonel was promoted to brigadier general and made abdsistant division commander of the 38th Division. In October of that year he rejoined his old division; the 1ith Airborne, in Japan and served as assistant division commander until he. was named Military Attache at Nanking on Oct. 10, 1946. Among the general's 'decorations are the Bronze Star with Oak-Leaf Cluster, the Silver Star, Legion of Merit with Oak-Leaf
Cluster, Distinguished Service Cross, Air Medal and Purple Heart.
3 Veterans fo Attend
Three veterans today were named to represent the American Veterans Committee steelworkers Chapter 6 at the fourth annual ‘convention starting tomorrow in| Chicago. The delegates who will attend the four-day pariay -are R: ‘G. Fritzmeier, 2014 N. Illinois 8t.; H. ‘A. ‘Rasmussen, 507 Lemcke
Kokomo, Ind. : Alternate delegates. are Rob-
~jert G. Robb, Thomas J. Corey
land Frank Masarachia. Sam {Macer is chairman of the. steelworkers’ chapter. :
Kas. Afterward, in 1940, he was Bloomington ‘Eligible’ assigned to the 16th” Infantry *!!For New Postoffice
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Pork Price Drop
Meat Markets React To Stockyards Rush
corner meat market with the flood of hogs to Midwestern livestock centers. Indianapolis packers reported today that “wholesale prices have] dropped 5 to 10 cents a pound on various cuts in the last month. All this means more pennies in the purses of Indianapolis housewives. y The American Meat Institute sald “many cuts now are being offered the public at retail prices more attractive than at any time in recent years.” And local packers substantiate the report. This {is particularly true of pork chops, sliced bacon and whole said. . Ham Prices Tumble In Indianapolis, packers sald prices of pork loins have dropped 7 to 10 cents in the last month. Whole ham prices tumbled 5 to
period. One packer added that lesser cuts—such as end pork chops— are “really attractive” now. “Butchers sometimes have to sell end cuts at wholesale,” he said. More than 105,000 hogs arrived at 11 major Midwestern markets yesterday, the Department of Agriculture said, and the heavy
to 50 cents a hundredweight. The Indianapolis Stockyards reported receipts of 10,175. Buyers paid an extreme top of $15.85 a hundredweight—well below the latest OPA minimum of $16.25. Packers here said the hog run will © be “extremely heavy through February or March. The institute estimated a 7 per cent increase in kill,
TRAFFIC VICTIM DIES _ VINCENNES, Nov. 23 (UP)—
of a triffic accident. Mr. Schwerdied yesterday of injuries suffered recently when hit by a car driven by Mrs. Marie C.
Pork prices are skidding at the|;
smoked hams, the institute Amer
receipts sent prices tumbling 25 X
Services were arranged today for victim
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Merit Commission Gives Approval
Thirty-six rookie policemen were sworn in today by city of delals. Fe
Appointment of the probationary officers is effective Dec. 1, All examinations
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haye ’ % U.S. Statement - ‘Watts’ Wife WASHINGTON, Nov. 23 (UP)—Oovern« . AER pa § i Sues, for Divorce Bineinss HS dy ni. Robert Austin Watts, who is Receipts 12810374016 1349 Swaiting stead |: trial for the it 3007.300.28% ©... i. ia; sex of an Sion ARE RH Somer ie mr a Reserve 1 Hl 504 vorce in Superior Court 5. INDIANAPOLIS CLEARING § Her complaint charged “cruel SleRtIMgE . .x-:oueinriny s ee and inhuman” treatment, but te eee | made NO reference to her hus. Local Produce band's alleged crimes. . a Pore — — Mrs. Watts, who under’ ¢% Tbs. and 1c: “heavy | PAI defense witness $n. 18¢c; cocks. 14e. oy 2 try, ¢ a for. = ent rece 85 lbs. to case. |. te oes Poll
Local Truck Grain Prices
red truck wheat. $1.81, white corn, $1.20. yellow corn. $1.
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