Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 January 1950 — Page 1
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VA Chief Hits At Rackets in Gl ‘Education’
‘Many ‘Schools’ Really Private Businesses, Congress Told
By JIM G. LUCAS Staff Wri WASHINGTON, Jan. 27-
of money for the education and training of veterans for which no honest value is received.” “There is nd doubt,” he said in a report to the House Veterans and Senate Labor Committees, “that veterans’ education has been an extremely lucrative and profitable enterprise for certain types of businessmen.”
‘President Truman yesterday]
asked Congress for another $800 million to meet the “still rising” cost of traini ex-servicemen under the GI Bill. The Veterans: Administration wants to limit enrollments in avocational schools, Last September it required ex-servicemen to submit “substantial justification” that such training was necessary before tuition would be paid. Mr. Gray said that would save $100 million a year. The idea was abandoned, however, after protests from Congress. 951% Profit Mr. Gray today submitted a bill of particulars to back up his charges. He cited: ONE: A luggage fabrication school which offered a 51-week course to 129 students for $2626 each. The Veterans Administration was billed for $306,000. Investigation disclosed that the]
“school” formerly was a luggage] factory. It failed, and its owners opened a ‘‘school.” Their total] assets were $3575. Their return would have been 951 per cent]
on a 51-week term. The Veterans Administration agreed to pay 46 cents—instead of $2.06—an hour. TWO: A linoleum laying school which offered a 50-week course to 170 students at $1.17 an hour or a total tuition of $1467. The government was billed for $225,000. The school's assets totaled $8180. Jts officers would have
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cents an hour. Use Dummy Corporations Some school oWRSEA Mr. ny said, establish dummy cOrporas tions owned by their wives of felatives, Then they buy their supplies from these companies at retail prices. One dummy corporation recently sold to a owned by the same individuals— supplies worth $10,928 for §22.-
Others, he said, sell or transfer their real estate to dummy corporations controled by their relatives. Then they “rent” it. The Veterans Administration gets the
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Hot soup for flood victims is brewed by Salvation Army Capt
| Cort Roberts. His charges, Linda Jones, Paul Hart, Billy Cloud, | Larry Lady and Beryl Jones (left to right) were evacuated from high water near Troy Ave. and Harding St.
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IMissing | Start Making H-Bomb Now, Vinson Urges
Similar View Given By Baruch Prior To House Hearing
BULLETIN WASHINGTON, Jan. 27 (UP) —David E. Lilienthal, chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, said after a meeting with President Truman today that published and broadcast accounts of his opposition to
construction of a new super- |
bomb were “completely inac: curate.”
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$100,000 in Furs,
Jewels Stolen
NEW YORK, Jan. 27 (UP) Half-pint showman Billy Rose didn’t mind today that bandits stole $100,000 in jewels and furs {from his home. But he was just as glad that {his wife, former Olympic swim{ming star Eleanor Holm, was out {on the town with him wearing $250,000 worth of diamonds dur{ing the robbery. | “I'm sure happy my baby wore {her war paint,” Mr. Rose said. |“But I don’t care about the jewels {as long as no one was hurt.” Although the robbery took place lat 10:30 o’clock (9:30 p. m. Indian: apolis time) last night, it wasn't until the 50-year-old Mr. Rose and {his beautiful wife arrived home
WASHINGTON, Jan. 27:at1:20 a. m. today that he learned
(UP) — Chairman Carl Vinson of the House Armed Serv-/ Rose asked as he stepped from a ices Committee, said today! taxicab in front of his town house
The Georgia Democrat said:
of it. “What's this all about?” Mr.
on fashionable Beekman Place
(that this country must start); pe greeeted by a crowd of remaking hydrogen ‘sup er porters and photographers. bombs” at once. }
Reporters explained that three bandits, one armed with a gun, had forced their way into the
Sure Hoppy She Wore Her War Paint’— Diamonds Worth $250,00 ‘As Bandits Loot Billy Rose's Home
Forecast as Floods Recede
White River to Crest Today at 12.5 Feet;
Families Again Evacuated From Lowlands
The Weather Bureau today promised warmer temperatures and fair weather over the week-end as upper flood watrs crested and
began to recede,
Although classing Indiana's latest high water threat as a major flood, Paul A. Miller, chief Weather Bureau meteorologist, said crests will generally be “not nearly as severe,” as those reached by rampaging streams earlier this month.
Barely Over Flood Stage
14 feet Mere earlier in January.
Corps Hall.
bill. In some cases, he ‘said, “the
In the Indianapolis vicinity, Gray | Where lowland families again were atated as water invaded thelr’ Homes, the White River will crest play at 12% feet, Mr, Miller said.
This is a half-foot above flood stage, agcording to the Weather Bureau, White River crested at
The rising water at Harding St. and Troy Ave. area forced 60 per-
Highest flaod points were expected to be reached on the west | fork of White River below Indianapolis. On the main White and| Fem world atomic control plan re-|cut diamond ring. She also wore [jected by Russia in the United |a mink stole over a low-cut gold {Nations said this country should|/lame gown. make the hydrogen bomb If it can
lower Wabash Rivers, crests will fall well below earlier peaks.
Cold Wave Due To Blanket U. S.
False Spring Flies the Coop
CHICAGO, Jan. 27 (UP)—A cold wave was expected to sweep sons in 10 families to take refuge yer most of the nation today, at the Salvation Army's Belmont ;,uting all the pretty girls posing as sunbathers during the phe- | Red Cross officials said their nomena) winter heat spell of reorganization fed and Clothed| qo, ¢ days.
rental claimed is deliberately in-imembers of five other families in
flated.”
cooks' and bakers’ school whose bills for “instructional supplies” were considered too high. It was found, he said, that it was fur-| nishing meals to all students and
faculty members. A tailors’ |
school, he said, was “found to)
ground.
At Vincennes, where the Wabash was still falling today, {the river gauge read 21.9 feet at |7T a. m. Mr. Miller said a prob-|
_|reached Monday or Tuesday combe buying large amounts of qual \pared to the earlier crest of 28.6
ity goods” and letting students; ’
make and keep their own clothes.
Breaks in levees in that vicinity
pected to hit all of the Atlantic Coast except the extreme eastern Carolinas by nightfall. Weather forecasters said cold moderated as it crept over {the Appalachian Mountains about bie Crest of 235 feet will be dawn, but that it was still severe |enough to shrivel the plants and [bushes that budded and bloomed in the false spring Easterners en-
Uncle Sam got the bill in bothig,, not aiow the river to come
cases. ) “In the case of ‘profit’ schools,
he said, “it definitely is to the
advantage of the institution to| yp, keep students as long as possible.| ypected to reach a high of 34 to-| One device is to lengthen the gay after a low of 20 degrees at| time required to complete courses. 7 a. m, Low tonight will be 20. Little additional content is in-| Increasing cloudiness tomorrow cluded; (instead) the previous will be accompanied by a high of course content is stretched out 43 degrees. Rain along the Ohio “iver tomorrow night will move 4 additions § orthward to Indianapolis Sun-|
is for the school to or advanced courses . . . in a great many cases, the advanced courses represent the same general material in the basic course.”
and diluted. Anorpe techniqu-
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janywhere near its previous de-
| structive height. { Low of 27 Degrees Seen
day.
| The first crest to be reached in | his latest flood threat occurred at| [Anderson early today. High [point there was 14.2 feet, com|pared to the previous high of
174.
| The river will crest at Noblesville late today at 17 feet, 11; feet |below the earlier peak. At Spencer it will reach 21-22 feet tomorrow, almost the same height attained two weeks ago. Main roads again are blocked by high water.
| Estimates of Crests
25 feet.
weeks ago.
Cold Grips Staté
dianapolis temperatures were
Crests were reached at BSeymour and Columbus this morn-| ing, “th flood stage being]
rea’ ‘t Columbus. Seymour set above flood stage, but 45 feet over with its previvus crest.
Elliston will get a crest Sunday of 27.5 feet, two feet below the last high water point. Newberry, also due for a crest Sunday, will have 1.5 feet less than formerly. Edwardsport will have a crest of 245 feet Monday. Previous| high was 26 feet. At Lafayette, | the water will rise to 21-22 feet) late today. The earlier crest was
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Terre Haute will get a crest] Monday of 20-21 feet. The flood peaked there at 25.5 feet two
Generally cold weather was gripping the state today, but the|
course, build every weapon of ceeded to loot the third floor bed{which she is capable, as long as TOOMS. } |these weapons also are in the Wearing Diamonds, Mink grasp of potential enemies.”
Baruch voiced a similar view to |the United Press. The author of The 36-year-old Mrs. Rose was
LOCAL TEMPERATURES
hearing of the Congressional Mr. Rose said the bandits left] ye Ae Eg jon|/at 9 a.m. (Indianapolis time),
The cold, which pushed temperthe: same vicinity, all forced tog. es to 30 below zero at PemMr. Gray cited the case of a move from their homes into the bina, -N. D., early today, was ex- sald {homes of friends on higher|
atomic weapons.
. . | " The cold wave extended ‘Question Answers Itself’ Milk Marketing Plan nate. Louisiana and Texas and was| expected to move all the way to the Gulf Coast. Slightly Warmer Those sections that were hit by the cold earlier this week enjoyed slightly warmer weather today. But even in towns such as Chadron, Neb:, and Livingston, Mont., where the mercury climbed 20 to 30 degrees, the temperature was) still below freezing. The Pacific Northwest was threatened by another severe storm from the ocean last night {but the blow lost its punch and merely sifted rain and light snow along the Washington coast line. In New York, temperatures were dropping steadily as the cold air seeped in from the West. mercury began a long slide at 3 p. m. yesterday and by 3 a. m. today had dropped 47 degrees from| yesterday's record high of 70.5 which was above the city’s average mean temperature for June.
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“even if I have to use a bulldoger,|”) 'een-agers, reported to be
@ Prices are; Ringside and first row balcony, $2; downstairs re
adults or 3 fo ther or ¢ ren. Prices include
“The United States must, of house, tied up the butler and pro-
Mr, Rose, accompanied dy his
Bernard M. Wife, then went into the house Elder Statesman with detectives to assess his loss.
wearing a diamond necklace, a World Report, Page 5 |diamond bracelet and a square
Police believed the bandits may . 1ave been the same gang which The Vinson and Baruch state- had carried off more than $1,500,-
came while ke congress-|000 in jewels in a series of robHains Sal exploring Ey H-bomb beries in New York in the past issue with atomic officials in a two years. {secret hearing at the capital. | The bandits apparently were
{familiar with the layout of the Refuses to Comment lavish 12-room house betause they Chairman David E. Lilienthal went directly to the bedrooms,
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of the Atomié Energy Commis They also chose the night when
sion refused to comment on Ba-! " ruch’s views, He left thé closed James McDonald, were out of the) yy
all the servants, except Butler
untouched his $500,000 collect
worth of antique gilver.
new weapon venture. | Told what Mr. Baruch had said,’ KEY LARGO, Fla. Jan. 27
__ Eleanor and Billy Rose
Norther
wis has notified the operators he would meet with them | Feb. 1
| {due to answer National Labor |ence with President Truman, of Modern Jaltings ung $75,000} - elations Board charges in Dis-
| Mr. Truman is now studying |with his advisers the problem , . i of whether this country should O Dwyer s Florida Stay | chairman of the national bitumiillions of dollars to the | . . commit milion Extended Two Weeks nous wage conference, wired Mr
[trict of Columbia federal court.
; “Knowing that your attorneys Mr. Liliénthal grinned. (UP)—Recuperation from a virus have agreed to appear in your “I am not in a position to infection will keep Mayor Wil-'penalf make any statement at all,” he liam O'Dwyer from his New federal court at the time and date York duties for two more weeks. you have asked us to meet you Mr. Truman has pledged Mr. Mayor O'Dwyer ‘said he feels|and feeling that the court should Lilienthal and other atomic. de- well enough to go back to work. immediately rule on the legality Niblack today overruled a motion
Superior Court Judge John L.
0 Safely in Use Canadian Craft
Lead Search ~ For Transport
C-54 Last Reported Over Town- in Yukon Territory | EDMONTON, Alta., Jan. 27
|(UP)—An American Air
a |Force C-54 transport plane,
carrying 34 passengers and |an eight-man crew, is missing
{in the Canadian north, RCAF |oficials said today. | The Air Force said the plane | was en route from Anchorage, | Alaska, to Great Falls, Mont. | Its last reported position at was |over Snag, Yukon territory, at 15:09 p. m. (Indianapolis time) yesterday. Snag is 1311 air miles northe | west of here. | A glant search was under way {by the RCAF and was co-ordie {nated by Sqdr.-Ldr. Jack Arnold, with Whitehorse as focal point {of operations. [ ‘The 10th Rescue Squadron of {the U. 8, Air Force, based at Ladd Field, Alaska, had 12 aircraft {moving into the area where the {plane was last reported. | Aircraft Moved In | The RCAF was foving three {aircraft into the area, including {a helicopter. Eight other planes {were also standing by at Edmone ton and Ft. Nelson, B. C. | The RCAF was moving three {from Snag south to Watson {Lake, B. C. during the night but
n Coal Operators |: us ie miss uae Agree to Meet With UMW oon memein searned os Postpone Session fo Give Lewis Chance
To Appear at Federal Court Hearing fered nothing.
PITTEBURGH, Jan. 37 (UB) a artnet Canadian planes.aweuld make & John L. Lewis today they will delay réopening of negntiations until Planes. wets fter a federal court rules on the legality of the United Mine ot! sweep from Northway, Alaska, to
area while on a regular flight south. The Air force said a coms= {munications search had uncove
coal operators told|. The RCAF sald American and
Ft. Nelson, covering an area of: 20 miles on either side of the
{route believed taken by the miss the same day and hour he ing plane.
Parking Meter or ‘Kid Superstition’ Retrial Denied
‘Holds Death Grip 'On 6th Symphony
: Call |" STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Jan. 27 Ruling Expected to (UP) —S8ome English musicians
Open High Court Test believe that Tchaikovsky's “Pa-
thetique” is fatal to men who play it The director of the Nottingham,
fense and diplomatic officials to Byt Dr. Edward Bernecker, for-/of certain of your demands, we for retrial in a case contesting England, orchestra has banned
secrecy about the hydrogen bomb. mer hospitals commissioner of suggest Mr. Vinson is not a member of New York, said Mr. O'Dwyer gagement with the court go for- here the Congressional Atomic Com- must stay here another two|ward without mittee. But as chairman of the weeks to assure his recovery. [venience to you or the court.
House Armed Services group he The mayor 1s honeymooning
your previous en- the legality of parking meters
the symphony because one of his musicians died each time it was
James M. Dawson, lawyer and performed y publisher of a weekly newspaper y “We agree to meet you at the in Marion County, filed suit on ,¢ the Stockholm Concert Assoe
But Johannes Norrby, director
is fully acquainted with the mili- here with his bride, the former| Statler Hotel, Washington, D. C., behalf of himself and other tax- ciation, is not a superstitious man,
tary picture, including the role of gjoan Simpson.
He made his comment to a
|Feb. 1 at 1 p. m. or such other Payers contesting the use Of He decided to include Tchaikove
[later hours as you may desig- meters. sky's Sixth Symphon , Mr. Dawson filed a suit against ¢ ph o0 00 Wed p ¥ In a pers
the City of Indianapolis and
ednesday night. Just before the performance he
United Press reporter. He said he Changes Considered /may upset his new strategy, how- Named Mayor Feeney and City called a special press conference
has not communicated his view, WASHINGTON, Jan. 27 (UP) ever.
to President Truman, who will —A public hearing to consider make the final recommendation proposed changes in the federal
‘as whether to go ahead with the milk marketing program will be
new and more powerful bomb. held at Ft. Wayne, Ind, next 0 90.000 wildcat strikers |turn to werk Monday.
“Mr. Baruch was asked the Tuesday, a Department of Agriflat question, “S8hould we make culture spokesman said today.
“If you knew of any instru- Cleveland. O., where a hearing is mentality to defend your life, scheduled for Feb. 13, are regu-, would you try to get it?” Baruch lated by a federal order which| asked. “The question answers it-/fixes minimum prices self.” must pay dairymen.
“centralized,
Conflicting Stories Cloud
| week strike.
Fatal Accident Probe
Injured Girl Gives Garbled Statement
Regarding Circumstances in Cubel Case
A haze of conflicting testimony today beclouded the investigation into the death of Harold Cubel, 26-year-old Navy veteran, who
| died of injuries received in a highway crash early Sunday morning.
Mr. Cubel died in General Hospital of a compound skull frac-|
| ture, several hours after his battered body was removed from the!
twisted wreckage of his car at the Belt Railroad underpass on Southeastern Ave. — - | crash was his fiancee, Miss Jean state police, said today. | Mootz, 18, of 320 N. Pine St. | “Parts of her story confljct In a statement to The Times, with others.”
(Miss Mootz said the crash that {led to Mr. Cubel's death occurred| {when Mr, Cubel attempted to
Pledge Surveillance { He added, however, that the] outdistance occupants of a |girl's statement would in no wise that chased them down Ind. 29. diminish his agency's interest in Cites Argument keeping the Ranch House and She said the wild flight was|Other “known trouble spots” un‘made after they left the Ranch der constant observation. House, county night spot, follow-| Sheriff Cunningham said he ing an argument. had conferred with C. B. France, Resulting from Miss Mootz's chief of the state excise police, Statement, Sheri Cunningham and would join forces with the ae ow he CE a a state bureau to halt the cor hour drinking and dancing spots sumption of “brought-in liquor
I'll push these trouble spots out|''ejuenting the Ranch House and of the county.” other after-hour places, Yesterday, however, Miss Meanwhile, Dr. Jerome E. HolMootz, who is in General Hospital|man Jr., Marion County Coroner, with a compound fracture of the said his office was continuing the right leg and multiple lacerations, investigation. : ‘questioned : Chief Deputy Prosecutor Dewey
of the accident but had this
Controller Phillip L. Bayt as defendants
Keeps Hands Off Judge Niblack ruled last Nov
Mr. Lewis’ move was reported
'the hydrogen bomb?” Milk markets there and at ld maintain policy three-day week then.
about the legality of the parking
meters.” Six doctors in the audience | Mr. Dawson's motion for a new rushed to the stand. They could trial was seen as the first step to |do nothing. They pronounced Mr - ..., appeal ‘the court's decision to the! Warschewski dead. ‘ and according pq... Supreme Court. { er . Mr. Dawson was unavailable
for comment State, Defense Rest
| talking about it, to the way they talked think they will return” |Ozanich, president of Local 6321, . Steel's Robena mine, the world’s largest commercial pit. “Most of them are afraid this fs some sort of trick by the oper-
$300,000 «of Age's Gems Returned state and detense rested ther Mysteriously
| PARIS, Jan. 27 (UP)-—S8ome murder of Robert G. Brown ‘in [$300,000 worth of the $710,000 in|a tavern shooting last July. * |Jewels stolen from the Aga Khan| After both sides rested Judge {on the Riviera last August were Samuel Offutt recalled Dr. Roger
[returned to Marseille police sur- gm; , reptitiously last night, French Na th of Indlanapolls to the
{tional Police announced today. | A mystery man, whom police {said probably was one .of the] (gang, left a package containing | The case was scheduled to go [the jewels on the sidewalk in| !e® the jury during the afternoon, front of a police station.
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National Police In Paris said| G2rdening ...........e., 310 experts examined the gems and| \ said there was ‘no doubt” they were the loot taken from the Aga Khan. -
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: of gems torn from their gold nate more than In tic
and platinum settings as well as BE. Myers, said his office had been| ip advised
launched no investigation at
to announce he was flouting the English superstition.
” ” LJ by qualified sources to be a signal 14 that parking meters were legal “TCHATKOVSKY'S Sixth Syme Grounds for Plea phony does not murder musice Attorney for Mr. Dawson filed ians,” he told the reporters. } {has been told by White House @ Motion for a new trial on the The orchestra went through the : Truman grounds that the decision of the performance without incident up “hands-off Court was not sustained by to and including Pathetique. Then sufficient evidence and was “con- they swung into Shostakovich's trary to law.’ Sixth. Halfway through the In ruling against Mr. Dawson scherzo one of the clarinetists,
dealers | pennsylvania and West Virginia again today, Judge Niblack sald|Ludwig—Warschewski, who had
have not changed my mind|played in the Stockholm Syme 'phony for 30 years, collapsed.
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