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U. S. Expediter Wants Powers to Cover . Commercial Buildings as Well as Homes "By EARL RICHERT, Scripps-Howard Staff Writer

WASHINGTON, Sept. 19—Federal rent control offi-| cials are preparing to ask Congress for powers more sweep-| ing in some respects than those in effect in World War IL. Housing Expediter Tighe Woods wants to retain au-|

thority to impose and retain federal rent cont®ols wherever

they are deemed necessary.

i = ” » And—here’s the new thing 1] 000 1 nt U it —Mr. Woods says any new y e : n S

rent control bill should au-

thorize control of real estate sales and rents in commercial build-| Lb.

ings.

This power never has been |

granted by Congress.

Mr. Woods has been outlining| West Coast conferences with rent con-

his views in a series of trol officials and advisory groups. Will Renew Fight The long fight over rent control will be renewed whenever Congress comes back, either after the November elections or in January. President Truman said in his recent radio talk that the present rent law was inadequate and should be improved. He urged state and local governments to keep present rent controls in effect. Mr. Woods' ideas on how the law should be improved, in addition to controls over real estate sales and commercial rents, cre: ONE: The present provision requiring city councils to ask for continuation of rent controls after Dec. 31 should be eliminated. (Rent controls go off automatically then unless city councils take action.) TWO: Elimination also of the local option system which lets

state and local governments de-|

control themselves. (This would permit Mr. Woods to restore federal rent controls on any area which had decontrolled itself.) Hopes for Early Return Rent control officials are hoping that Congress returns soon after

the November elections so that “ghocked” to hear of commercial fairs—a field forbidden to the!

the rent battle can be fought out before Dec. 31—the date cities

must take affirmative action 1/4. 1 wid be similar to that im. Sions”

rent controls are not to expire. Chicago and Boston are the largest of 101 cities whose councils already have passed resolutions asking that federal rent controls be retained. (New York State is operating its own rent control law, which covers New York City). Rent control officials say they have no desire to recontrol all, or even most of, the localities which have been decontrolled since World War IIL But, they said, they need authority to recontrol rents in some areas where they now are powerless. They cite this situation in Indiana as an example: Col. James A. Murphey, commanding officer of Camp Atterbury, has asked for recontrol of all rents within a 50-mile radius

| Controls Would Also

Hit Commercial Realty

All of commercial Indianapolis {and more than 7000 new renters {of housing here may have their {rents frozen before next spring. In addition more than 100,000 tunits now controled may still be |under government ceilings despite {the see-saw battle in City Council lon controls. This was evident todav in re{quests by Rent Director Tighe E. {Woods to impose or keep ceilings on housing and commercial property. | Boon to Renters | The new requests, a boon to renters, puts a higher barrier before landlords who have been trying to lift their properties from the control abyss, in effect since 1942. And, for the first time, managers of commercial properties would join the operators of rental housing in registering their rental holdings with the local area rent |office. According to tax assessments Sheets, there are more than 187,000 parcels of property in Center Township, Marion County, alone. All would probably be affected by

| trol. | ‘The local area rent office was

Office spokesmen said they assumed con-

{property under control.

posed on réntal housing.

with the office and rents would be frozen on a “certain date” yet to

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B. M. Woodsmall Diesat? ‘8

Well Know a Educator,

Insurance Executive Barrett M. Woodsmall, nationally known educator and Indianapolis insurance executive, died

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the-new Wood#4’ requests for con-|

2 TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1950

| " | Agree to Resist All Assaults From Any Quarter NEW YORK, Sept. 19 (UP) \—The United States, Britain land France pledged today

‘that they will consider any | Po jattack on West Germany or [Berlin “from any quarter” as ‘an attack upon themselves. The announcement was made by the Big Three foreign ministers at the end of a week of conferences here. . { Their promise’ means that the {united stand against aggression {adopted previously in the Atlantic Pact. and the Rio De Janeiro |agreement has now been extended

{to all of Germany free of Rus[sian control.

| The communique announced that, in order to strengthen the three nations’ “peaceful and

friendly relationships” with West |Germany, the technical state of war with Germany will be ended |as soon as possible. | The foreign ministers an-i jpounced that they also have: ! | ONE: Approved a mobile police (force for West Germany, to be {organized on a state-by-state basis but subject to control of the German federal government! in emergencies. i TWO: Promised to “increase {and reinforce” their own forces in Germany to strengthen West Germany’s external and internal security. : THREE: ‘Rejected the idea of creation of a German national jarmy. But they noted “sentiments

and elsewhere in favor of German participation in an integrated force for the defense of European freedom.” ?

FOUR: Approved authority for {the West German government to create a ministry of foreign af-

{Germans until now. i { FIVE: Approved “major exten-i

est German government

All units would be registered RFOUBh amendment of the occu- gz... i Acine Telephoto.

{pation statute, : {| SIX: Agreed to make ‘fearreaching reductions”

man economy. : SEVEN: Agreed to strictions on ‘German industry, many-of “Which date back to the! Potsdam agreement. ! EIGHT: Lifted all limits on the size, number and speed of cargo vessels built for export. “This will facilitate the defense effort of the West,” the communique added, without elaborating. NINE: Lifted the present steel production limit of 11.1 million tons a year. : ————————

today at Methodist Hospital. He

of .the camp. Eight decontrolled towns are involved.’ On five of| them, rent controls can be slapped’ back on because the housing expediter himself removed them. But they cannot be restored under present law on the three towns. — Franklin, Martinsville and Bloomington — which decon-| trolled themselves. . Cite Sharp Increases ~

was 48, His epitaph was inscribed min-| utes later by a close friend and local lawyer, Robert Bash:

“Mr. Woodsmall was one of! the best guys I've ever known.!

He had great strength of charac-| ter and a wonderful personality.

His influence in the community! will be felt for years to come.”!|

Tells of Attack

Times Reporter

Learns of ‘Ambush’ By HEZE CLARK | In a locked and guarded Gen-|

Rent control officials point to| A lifelong Indianapolis resident, , a1 Hospital ward, Albert Mage!

sharp rent increases in such de-| controlled cities as Birmingham, Ala, and Richmond, Va., to prove that rent controls should be re-| tained in most heavily populated areas. : - In Birmingham, rents went up more than 16 per cent within two months after rents were decontrolled in. late May. However, government statistics show that rents, as a result of] controls, have gone up much less, than any other important item in the ‘cost of living. . Rents, nationwide, are only 24.4 per cent above the 1035-39 base, while food is up 110 per cent. Clothing :prices are up 84.7 per cent and household furnishings 86.4 per cent: - -, More than one-third of the na-! tion's rental units have been decontrolled since April, 1949, Seven states are now completely decon-

Arizona, Nebraska, Texas and

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Johnson Steps |

WASHINGTON, Sept. 19 (UP) —Louis out as Defense Secretary today. Promptly at noon, he closed | his desk and stepped into a pri-| vate elevator in his third floor Pentagon office. He emerged in| a basement garage, climbed into an official limousine and drove off to the downtown Wash! n Hotel where he and his wife live. He and his wife planned to) ‘leave town later today for a short motor trip before he resumes law practice. « . Brig. Gen. Louis H. Renfrow, special assistant to Mr. Johnson, quit with his boss. . Mr. Johnson's departure left Deputy Secretary Stephen T. Early in temporary charge of the Defense Department until Gen. George C. Marshall can be con-| firmed by the Senate and sworn in as secretary. Mr. Early himself is quitting at

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{the locked ward during the night {and placed under 24-hour police Major victory. Detectives said they —

today regained Sonsciousness closely 3 rn Sate long enough to tell me he had Thompson sub-machine , the 0 one SO by a man hiding weapon that Chicago gangsters budget is being sPent on arma-|to {referred to as a Tommy gun. .

in the back seat of his car. Mr. Magel, who was found beat: |

fen and robbed in an alcoholics’ around the able. aun “jungle” Sunday, groaned several gates examine ft and A. through except Jacob Malik. the Russian, Chinese peasant. could learn to ed out and stayed out/fire them effectively in a week. . [

machine gun They may be obsolete but they

times

| swollen lips. Until I spoke to him He walk Johnstm quietly. bowed this morning, Mr. Magel was un- until interest in the {able to give a coherent account had subsided.

of the attack when questioned] by police. hs : Parallels Murder

parallels the Aug. 5 robbery-mur-| der of Lewis Poynter. Both had been beaten, clothing and _

chocked field in the 2300 block of duce

Oliver Ave.

Police said Mr. Magel's at- Plan to conquer the world.

{tacker evidently believed he was 30me way could be found to cut own

dead when left in the field. -

recently expressed in Germany|

of the authority of the

in other! controls, especially over the Ger- |

stripped of their sion. She and one of her satel-|

In Final Night Assault; South Koreans in Pohang

during 1950 and found on the South Korean batiefront. » » » »

review re. » : * 'f rted to h - IM >" lwest bank. : Austin Waves Machine Gun ois ror ley tia eu, Margaret Terwilegar, Vernon, [Yt bnk © were fan : + : Ini ti ighted In Security Council Meeting... sucniior wo, sens

Charges 1950-Dated Weapon Is Proof Soviet Supplies Red Korea Aggression

his desk and waved it in front of his face.

He did not specify whether it contained any bullets, but it

was loaded in every other sense. '

The gun was stamped “1950.” It was made in Russia and China. Saturday is the fifth an-

captured in Korea. | It gave the lie to Russia's per-

sistent denial that she currently tories in North Korea,

troops. . Gun Not Modern

The gun was not modern. resembled an old-style

1t Bkoda Works i

| men

4 Mr. Austin passed the gun One thing

with interest Korea: They are simple.

still kill and wound.

Mr. Austin produced the gun to

{dramatize one fact that colors High Winds Stop Jets the thinking of all the statesmen Police aré especially interested Who are trying to prevent World, o/in the robbery-beating because it War IIL | NEW YORK, Sept. 19 (UP)— Two American jet fighters turned back from an aftempted nonstop left in a weed- lites—Czechoslovakia—must pro-trans-Atlantic flight today after WH come to Indianapolis next almost all the weapons the high winds upset their in-air’ re- month to be guest speaker at a Communists rieed to further their fueling system over Prestwick, dinner of the Columbia Univer-

‘Arsenal of Aggression’ | Russia is the arsenal of aggres-|

If | Scotland.

industrial production

said here.

‘This Is Yours, Russia’ French Attack YanksOpen Road North

U. S. delegate to the United Nations, Warren Austin, waves a | machine gun he told Security Council members was made in Russia

By HARRY FERGUSON, United Press Foreign News Editor

! Warren R. Austin, chief American delegate to the United Na{tions Security Council, pulled a sub-machine gun out from under

Bartender Wakes,

There aren't many major fac- NivVersary of the return of that husband of Mrs, Jane Grabowski,

China, is furnishing the Korean Com- Hungary, Romania or Albania. garrison, munists with the weapons they If the Communists are going to about 500 men, was not known. are using to kill United Nations fight they are going to do it with The ‘|weapons made {h the factories at night that casualties were about! Stalingrad, Leningrad and the 40 killed and 80 wounded. A lack , op 5% Charles H. Henninger, umn of trucks pulling out north. Czechoslovakia. of The United States Army esti- more detailed reports. | op) i sum th mates that 30 per cent of Russia's! The paratroopers were reported pl. William A: Kays Jr.,, son Sou orea and North Korea.

On Trans-Atlantic Hop

The scheduled 10-mile-a-minute diana. in flight—with three refuelings = x h { —wr . t 1d ar TI and now pregiMr. Magel was tr Russia and Czechoslovakia, the flight—will be attempted again in In World la p as 1eansieprnd S0 democracies would have won a the near future, Air Force officers dent of Columbia U., will be prin-

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Fort Seized - From Pusan Beachhead By Viet Minh By Seizure of Waegwan

Gls Set Up Third Naktong Bridgehead; Charge Red China Kimpo Airfield Again in Use as Fighter Base Gives Foe Arms

{ | By RALPH TEATSORTH, United Press Staff Correspondent | In Indo-China

TOKYO, Wednesday, Sept. 20-—U. S. Marines have SAIGON, Indo-China, Sept. stormed across the Han River in darkness for their final 19 (UP) — French Legion- assault against Seoul, {naires and paratroopers coun- It was the climax to Gen. Douglas MacArthur's surprise [ter-attacked today against Janding last Friday at the port of Inchon, 150 miles behind

‘black-uniformed Communist the enemy's southern battle lines. viet Minh troops. Who saps United Press Correspondent Jack James reported he on the Chinese Communist border. Was Waiting at the Han to follow the Marines across as A French commtnique sald flat-| QWIC nd usstale ly that the Viet Minh forces were, en. MacArthur's two-front nuterack was ; armed in Red China. giovine: fast er operation ' “We can say that for the first g last. ms {iCal fra aged On the Pusan beachhead perimeter, Americans of the units recently a “hina,” | tial J the communique said. |24th Division captured Waegwan, opening the door north. It also said {he oF Nuns ward along the main highway from Taegu to Seoul. captured the Dongkhe fort after Body hand-to-hand fighting with| South Koreans stormed into the ruined port of Pohang, gallant PO who fought On all fronts the enemy was in retreat. : : Reds Octupy Fort In the Inchon-Seoul area, 150 miles north of the Pusan A French observation plane Deachhead. American and Sora Kaftan latives and the that returned from a flight over = rmy rps th Division the town reported that the mud- : . ! . 1 a _. |walled fort and the town Jnelt 2 Hoosiers Killed et aking eis Jositions * |were occupl y e n . y ol n iKiver as meth{troops. The Reds attacked it Sat- In Korean Fighting; ogicany a3 students . lurday with the aid of field guns 17 A Ww d d » ’ hy prepar | believed to have been sent across I re oundge {ing for fire drill. {the border from Communist — Improve Positions |China. | The Department of Defense to- The Marines were in the Seoul French army heatiquarters con- day announced two Indiana men [industrial suburb of Yongdungpo {firmed that the town had falten killed in action, One Indianapolis/and were consolidating positions [and that the Red Viet Minh flag man was wounded. for nine and a half miles along {floated over the Dongkhe fort. | KILLED IN ACTION {the west bank of the Han oppo- { Meantime, a second Communist| Pfe, Glen L. Cox, son of Mrs. *t¢ Seoul. Yongdungpo is on the |

{of Dongkhe, and other Commu- Walter H. Oliver, Muncie. [ning southward toward Suwon, WOUN™ED IN ACTION highway hub, 15 miles south of

Seoul. frontier post near the China Sea.| S8t 1/¢ Ernest A. Smith, son| A skyir 119 “flyin - hy some 4000 or 5000 °f Mrs. Ella V. Smith, 119 Mc-| yirain of C119 yng boy Communists are believed involved| [an Place, Indianapolis. STH ARMY HEADQUARHi the operations. Pfc. Elmer W. Carlin Jr, friend) TERS, KOREA, Sept. 19 It was not clear yet whether Of Miss Elsie Riggle, Sellersburg.| yp)_p contingent of Philipthe Communist attacks were the| CPL. Willlam H. Clampitt, son| sing army troops has arrived prelude to a long-predicted gen- o¢ Mrs. Blanche O. Clampitt,| \ 'wopey a U.S, Army spokes. eral Communist offensive in Indo-| Scottsburg. ; man disclosed tod. H {China or merely localized opera-| CPl. Marion L. Funk, husband fused to. d Bye TS Toe tions in protest against the re- °f Mrs. Marion L.. Funk, Terre i to disclose the size of the

turn of French control to Indo- Haute. | Sontingent or when and: where M/Sgt. Frank J. Crabowski,! it would be committed.

cars” and C-b4 Skvmasters roared Into Kimpo Airport all Tuesday (afternoon, bringing gasoline and ammunition for Marine fighters. Carrier planes blasted and ale {most completely destroyed a cols

control, residing in the Far Bast Com-! The fate of Dongkhe’s French mand, sn believed to

of Mrs. Regina Granumber bowski, Whiting. Pfc. Fred W. Harrison, son of

garrison radioed Sunday Guy Harrison, Scottsburg.

other of Mrs. Willie M.- Fresch, ward from Seoul. only 30 miles

communications Lebanon. {from the 38th Parallel dividing

prevented

have been dropped near. Of -Mrs. Eva Marie. Kays, Hunt- American reconnaissance planes |Tatkhe, about 12 miles southeast !PEDUrg. reported the Communists were Pte. Thomas L. Killian, son of Withdra¥ing to escape U. 8. Ma‘Joseph W. Killian, Battle Ground. fines massing for an assault. Pfc. George E. Livengood, son Men of the 24th Division, of Mrs, Esther Lavengood, Ft. fhifted secretly from the norths | Wayne. ‘eastern end of the Pusan perime- | Cpl. Willlam- A. Morviliys, hus- ter, took bitterly-contested Waeg« |band of Mrs. Maxine N. Morvilius, | wisi Vesa.

| Muncie. } te in the day, observation 0 fie ere 1 Pvt. Paul E. Muller, son of Aug- Plows reported a steady stream. of

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Communist assault,

University Alumni

To Hear President Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower

|sity Alumni - Association of In-

Gen. Ike, chief of Allied forces

cipal speaker at the Oct. 25 meet(ing. Subject of his talk will be

protection. feared the attacker or attackers “might return to finish the job.”! Mr. Magel, 41, of 23 N. Oxford St, is a striking International Harvester, Inc., worker, He had

been working as a bartender the

past two weeks. “Do you know who did it?" I! asked. i “He must have been hiding

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Vishinsky All Smiles As He Arrives in N. Y.

NEW YORK, Sept. 19 (UP)—

wide Yanety of sizes, Othman sssssssanusaenss 11 i prices, tions 4nd. | Radio ..sessirssinsersrs 3 IW broadly many new listings. 8o, Ruark dr iasssassais ens 11 {War. Ne Sulied broadly and re to find that special home Society tacsssussrenssren 6 Mr. Vishinsky was accompanied you want for your family. | [Eq 8avola .....vearsee.. 11 by 12 members and staff of his - READ THE RE AL | sports cecsrssenneesssdd517 (Russian delegation in first class ESTATE WANT ADE in i Earl Wilson .cceevenesess 9 accommodations. His secretary . Indianapolis Times, = Weather Map ........... 14 | many others were veling today ‘and every day! | Women's covers die peers 7 ina = but he didn’t ; Roi how

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Another Scoop

On Sept. 9 The Times carried an exclusive Page One dispatch written by Foreign Correspondent Fred Sparks from Saigon, Indo-China, which read in part: SR ‘ “In a matter of weeks the Allies — hard pressed in Korea—might face another ordeal in Indo-China. "In this teeming equatorial capital everyone tells me today: : "' When the October sun blots out the monsoon's waters the Indo-Chinese legions now being “trained inside Red Russia will invade'." Yesterday, The Times carried a Page One United Press dispatch which read: "Thousands of Communist troops were reported to be massing along the Chinese-Indo-China border and two French garrisons guarding invasion routds have been attacked." * “As usual, it was FIRST in THE TIMES.

announced later. The dinner will be at the Columbia Club. ’ { Three in Party Accompanying the genial general will be his aide, Col. Robert Schulz, and George Cooper, president of the federated Columbia {University Alumni Associations. | ' Louis A. Lukenbill, local presi-| dent of the Association an-! (nounced the following committee ° | appointments for the occasion: - {finance chairman, Harlan B.! {Livengood; program arrange-| {ments, Leon Shiman and Jack | { Brown; reception chairman, Rus-| sell T. Byers; decorations, Miss | Marilyn Niebergall and Herman | Kramer; schools contact, Virgil | Stinebaugh; entertainment chair-| man, Miss Margaret Plerson and!

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| publicity .chairman, Mrs. June! ( | Moll Wilcox. : : : LE EAT = | LOCAL TEMPERATURES Nektong breached west of Taegu (1) by 28d U. S. Infantry | 6a m..7 10a m.. 12 Division which cuts in back to capture Waegwan. Taegu-Seoul Tam. 7% lam. 2M’ d agai to Yanks. Americans set up second and thied 1 Sam. 90 23 (Noun) 18 | (oud 39an open lo fanki. wma P ahd . Maes 3 . bridgeheads southwest of Taegu (2) preparatory for a drive north am... Nn ‘2m... to oriole di ply Dr sh bani it Bd big broken | Humidity at 12 (neon) .. 84 | arrows). Inset map shows where Marines enter on : | —— Red start withdrawals, “Br Lib pensar fates Joust | Tth U.S. Infantry Division es it cuts south wi 48 grains per cuble yhrd of air, | | info Seoul. - in go S34