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British Accuse Stalin Of Smokescreen Tactics
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Refute ‘Lie’ Charges, Cite Detailed Figures; Charge Plot to Split U. S. and Dominion
LONDON, Feb. 17 (UP)
—Britain charged today that
Soviet: Premier Josef Stalin was trying to throw a smokescreen around Russia’s huge armament effort with his new statement that “war is not inevitable.” The British Foreign Office issued a stinging reply to Premier Stalin's charge, made in an interview in the news-
paper, Pravda. Premier Stalin had accused British Prime Minister Clement R. Attlee of lying about Russian policy and trying to draw his own people into a war being instigated by the United States. Britain said the Western nations were taking defensive measures only because of the “aggressive and suppressive” policy of Russia. e British Foreign office said, despite Premier Stalin's protestations, the Russian figures of 175 divisions, 25,000 tanks and 20,000 aircraft “speak for themselves. Charges Attlee Lied Premier Stalin coupled his estimate of the prospects for another world war with a warning that Mr. Attlee is leading Britain down the American path toward another conflict. r He said Mr. Attlee lied when he told the House of Commons last Monday that Russia not only has not demobilized its armies, but constantly is increasing them. Premier Stalin's statement appeared in Pravda in the form of an interview and was broadcast by Radio Moscow early today. British and other Western sources said the statement was made in an obvious attempt to split the es. Further ‘evidence of this came when the Soviet safellite of Poland, only a few hours after Premier Stalin's statement was broadcast, disclosed it had sent notes to four small Atlantic Pact nations asking them to.urgeé the Big Three Western Powers to enter discussions with Russia about German rearmament before it is too late.
Charges Military Testimony Gagged
White House Curb
On Troop Issue Seen
WASHINGTON, Feb. 17 (UP) —8Sen. Kenneth 8S. Wherry (R. Neb.) charged today that a White House “gag” order is blocking military testimony against sending more troops to Europe. ; The Republican leader said in an interview that a presidential order issued Dec. 12, is having that effect. As a result, he said, the Senate Foreign Relations and Armed Services Committees are hearing: only “rubber stamp” testimony. The President’s order told government officials to cut the number of speeches on foreign and military policy and clear them with the State and Defense Departments to assure conformity with established policies. Sen. Wherry made the charges as the committees awaited replies from former President Herbert Hoover and Gov. Thomas E. Dewey of New York—who hold widely conflicting views on the troops issue—to invitations to appear next week. Sen. Styles Bridges (R. N. H.), urged in a speech at Waterville, Ni Y., last night that Gen. Douglas MacArthur be called to give the committees his views on the Korean War andthe over-all Far Eastern situation.
Calls for Conference
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Triplets Join the Family Circle
They're home and deing fine, the three bright-eyed Conly triplets, The 27-day-old infants who won the heart of the city when o i ree days after their birth, pose for their first pictures with their two older brothers and their dad. Left to right Michael, 5, holds Emily Louise; Danny, 4, holds Sally Susan and Morris Conly cradles Timothy.
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Recess: Kelly Trial For Week-End
Defense Attack on Evidence Fails By JO ALLISON
GREENFIELD, Feb. 17—The trial of 16-year-old Earl Michael Kelly went into week-
Referring to a list of high Air|énd recess here yesterday in Han-
{cock Circuit Court. The Indi-
The Polish notes went to Bel- pe called by the committees, Sen, 2napolis youth is charged with
gium, Denmark, The Netherlands, and’ Luxembourg. They warned, that there must be a Big Four conference on preventing rearmament of Germany, “which we consider would inevitably lead to war.” The British foreign office, in a formal statement read by a senior official at noon, said Premier Stalin's statement was a typical example of Soviet designs to sow dissension in the ‘ree world.” “We therefore feel that this statement requires some comment,” the statement said. “It has been made clear by government spokesmen "in this country that it is only in the face of aggressive and suppressive policy of the Soviet government backed by the threat of overwhelming So-
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‘Just a Fizzle'—
‘So What?” Say
Wherry said “if the White House is going to put the heat on, there is no sense in getting them here.” Sen. Wherry said two days of administration testimony have produced “pretty much generalities,” and that the plan to station six U.S. divisions in Europe for the Atlantic Pact army is a “toe in the door” approach.
Holdup Man Gets $50
At Liquor Store
A stick-up man who pretended to have a gun took more than $50 in cash last night from the Chester Liquor Store, 3913 E. 10th St. : : Miss Frances Krieger, 39, clerk, said the man led her to believe that he had a gun. He escaped in a waiting car,
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To Stalin's Old Malarkey
State Department Fails to Get Excited; Lawmakers Tell Russ to Use Deeds, Not Words
By JAMES E. ROPER, United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Feb. 17—Premier Joseph Stalin's razzle-dazzle interview with his own newspaper was just a fizzle by the time it
reached Washington. State Department underlings
casually read Premier's Stalin’s
statement and promised to relay it to top department officials
when they are not too busy with The department’s Russian experts studied the interview for possible significant “sleepers” or “loaded phrases.” But on first reading, diplomats found “nothing to get excited about.” Congressmen branded the Stalin interview as propaganda, and challenged Moscow to use deeds—not words — to demonstrate it wants peace. ‘So What?
Washington officials--the ones taking a “so what?” attitude—
mier Stalin had given a full-dress interview without impact. That raised the question of why Premier Stalin gave the interview. It was printed textually in Pravda, the Communist Party newspaper in Moscow, and broadcast textually by Moscow radio.
The Kremlin obviously wanted to get the widest circulation for the statement—but it added almost nothing to the routine propaganda charges that are sounded daily by Soviet representatives in the United Nations and by Communist publications, A number of Washington officials thought Soviet propagandists are having such a hard time sel their “line” that they have pla; thelr trump ace—words di-
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range of current Moscow propaganda. It protested that Russia had only peaceful intentions. It predicted that United Nations forces will lose the Korean War, but only because they do not want to fight—not because they are poor soldiers, or because the war is spreading. That was as belligerent as Premier Stalin got. He denounced the West for planning aggression in order to make super-profits, and sald Russia had disarmed after World War II Sen. Bourke B. Hickenlooper (R., Ia.), said it was “just the same Old Communist malarky and propaganda.” “If he really wants peace,” Sen. Hickenlooper said, “all Premier Stalin has to do is lift the iron curtain and deal with other nations on a basis of peaceful intentions.” Rep. John M. Vorys (R. 0.), a|
leading member of the House Foreign Affairs Committe, said
Premier Stalin's claim of Russian demobilization was a lie. Sen. Kenneth 8. Wherry (R. Nev.), said if Premier Stalin wants to prove his peaceful intentions, he should call off the Chinese Communists in Korea and lift the iron curtain to allow travel and trade between Kast and West. %
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the robbery-slaying of Albert M. Thayer, Indianapolis attorney, June 10, 1950. Miss Frances Neal, prosecutor of Hamilton County where the killing took place, yesterday completed her case against the thin, sallow boy. The defense, omitting an opening statement, immediately began calling character witnesses. »
Nod to Prosecution
The prosecution weathered an
{attack yesterday on its efforts to {introduce substantiating testi mony on the robbery of Mr. Thayer. A -newspaperman testified Kelly had told him in Missouri that he had taken the murder victim’s billifold and watch and had given the watch to another youth also facing charges in the slaying. The defense made a bid to stop introduction of the billfold and watch. The state has charged Kelly with murder in the commission of a robbery. The robbery evidence was considered a vital link in the state’s chain of facts, Mr. Thayer's watch was admitted and shown to the jury in one of the last moves before the proseicution rested its case.
| Tolls of Narration
Pfc. Don Meier," Ft. Leonard Wood, Mo., told the court of Kelly's narration of the kililng on a lonely road near Geist Reservoir. Pfc. Meier formerly was a newspaperman in Springfield, Mo., where Kelly and two others charged in the killing were arrested after they crashed Mr. Thayer's car into a truck near Springfield, killing the driver. The other.two men charged in the case are James Chalfin, 17, slated to go on trial Monday in Tipton Circuit Court, and Carrol Dooley, 26, now in the Indiana Hospital for the Criminally Insane, Character witnesses called yesterday by the defense included neighbors of the Kelly family and other persons who had taken an active interest in the youth's welfare. Also called were two youths who had known Kelly in the Gibault Home for Boys at Terre Haute where Kelly had asked to be sent in 1949.
Hoosier Youth Killed In Head-On Crash
Times State Service OTTERBEIN, Feb. 17—Jack L. Harrington, 20, R. R. 10, Lafa{yette, was killed two miles west of here today, when his car hit a tractor-trailer head on. The truck which belonged to a Chicago firm was being driven by Vernon Mosier, Scottsburg. He was not Injured. y Police said the Harrington car was. on the wrong side of the road at the time of the crash.
Biggest of the requested appropriations above the budget is the proposed increase of $15 million in state aid to schools demanded by teachers for salary raises and addition of new teachers to handle bigger enrollments. At present, the budget provides $53 million state aid to schools. Pressure has been brought to raise this to $68 million.
Reductions Made The House Ways and Means Committee recommended increases totaling $886,738 for the next two years but made reductions totaling $746,502, leaving a net boost of $140,000. Biggest increase approved by the committee was $364,000 for raising the pay of state police troopers $25 a month and providing additional raises of $10 a month every three years instead of the present $5 a month. Other increases included pay rises for employees of state institutions. The biggest single reduction in the budget was $505,000 in the cost of automobile license plates made possible by passage of a bill to substitute small date tags over the old plates during the next two years. Another big slice was $109,000 off the budget of the Bureau of Commerce and Public Relations, leaving it only $25,000 to operate the next two years. - Proposed abolition of six other state bureaus would save another $400,000.
Speed Law Fails to Pass
The bill to fix speed ‘limits on Indiana highways at 60 in the daytime and 50 at night failed to
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House Unit OKs $140,000
Increase in State Budget
Dozen or More Bills Which Would Add $17 Million More Still Pending
not include a dozen or more bills still pending in the legislature to add still $17 million more to state spending.
Thieves Take TV Sets, Waffle Iron From City Store
Two crooks with a yen for hot waffles and a possible love for Kukla, Fran and Ollie, went to great lengths . today to satisfy their whims. They tossed several bricks through a window of the George J. King Appliance Store, 2037 E. 46th St., and carefully selected the items they needed. | Taken were two table model television sets and a waffle iron. Mr. King; owner, said the window damage was in excess of $140 and the sets were worth more than $500. A witness, Morris Parr, 42, 2048 E., 46th 8t., who called police, said the pair took the loot away in a car.
Fair, Mild
Due Tomorrow LOCAL TEMPERATURES
‘6 a. m... 33 10 a. m... 85 7a m..-88 © 11 a.m... 36 8a m.. 34 12 (Noon) 39 9a m.. 84
Humidity at noon .... 89%
| Take cheer, Indianapolis. | The Weatherman predicted |“fair and mild” wealther for tomorrow with a high of 52 degrees and sunshine. He also cautiously said it “looked like” this may mark the seasonal change from bitter winter to blustery spring. Subject to change without notice, of course. Clouds today were to begin (clearing this afternoon, with a
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PRICE FIVE CENTS
Closer Collaboration
BELGRADE, Yugoslavia, warned the Soviet Union and
believe such a war is possible
Yanks Smash Red Push on Chechon
Counter-Drive Hurls Foe Back Two Miles
By EARNEST HOBERECHT United Press Staff Correspondent TOKYO, Feb. 17—U. 8. forces hurled North Korean Reds back two miles today in a counter-at-tack against spearheads of three Communist divisions threatening Chechon, mountain gateway to southeast Korea. By 2 a. m. (Indianapolis Time) the Americans had driven one Red column back to a point seven miles north of Chechon, a road and rail hub 20 miles southeast of Wonju on the east-central front. Other American units ran into mortar fire four miles north of Chechon, a U. 8, 10th Corps spokesman said. He said the battle was on an irregular line across mountainous terrain.
Ease Chechon Threat
U. S. Hopes to Level
level off prices by mid-summer at a pont somewhat higher than the present levels and to hold the line there as long as possible.” He said he will do his “best” to protect the public from “the unconscionable. profiteer and the greedy person who sees in war only an opportunity for wealth and self-aggrandizement.” He said his office is now working to correct “inequalities” that resulted from the general price freeze three weeks ago. :
Mr. DiSalle made the statement in a speech prepared for delivery to the National Canners Association. Warn of New Rule
He joined his Assistant Stahilizer, Edward ¥. Phelps Jr, in announcing that the price control agency soon will issue “tailored mark-up regulations” to permit the wholesale and retail food industries to pass on to consumers some of the higher prices they have to pay for farm produce. Both officials warned that food prices probably will continue to rise, and told the food industry it must live in a “goldfish bowl for the duration.”
Mr. DiSalle said that if food prices do not level off by spring, he will ask Congress to permit a freeze of food prices at farm levels, , Although the recent price freeze caused some injustices, he said it saved the public “millions of dollars.”
Mr. Phelps told a convention of the National American Wholesale Grocers Association that the Office of Price Stabilization will reissue the World War II market markup regulations for the food
Inside Story
{high of 45 degrees today and a low of 30 tonight. | Rain and melting snow were] causing flood stages on nearly alll streams below Indianapolis. How-| ever, the Weatherman said it was| “nothing alarming,” and would! subside unless heavy rains altered! the outlook. |
'|Stabbing Victim's
Condition Critical General Hospital attaches reported Cecil Wayland, 45, of 3037] Kenwood Ave. in critical condi-| tion today as police pressed] charges against the woman ac-| cused of stabbing him. ! Mrs. Alberta Jane Spiegel, 52, of 252 Berkeley Rd. was charged | with pre-assault and battery with intent to kill. Bail was set at $2000 in Municipal Court 4 today by Judge Alex M. Clark. The case was continued until Mar, 4. | Police said Mrs. Spiegel stabbed Mr. Wayland after a brawl and wine drinking party at her home Thursday. .
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Statement by Marshal Brings Loud Ovation From Red Delegates
Yugo Leader Acts to Prepare Party for
With Western Powers
Feb. 17 (UP)—Marshal Tito her satellites today that any
attack on Yugoslavia might set off World War III, “The least possible event in Europe is a localized war,” Marshal Tito said in a major policy speech.
“Those who must take note of this.” Marshal Tito’s warning was made in a widely publicized
speech to 2400 Communist Party members of the elite guards division of the Yugoslav Army. The official report on the speech said his statement about a war brought the delegates to their feet in a long and loud ovation for Marshal Tito, whose nation faces Soviet satellite armies on four frontiers. Confers With U. 8. Chief He spoke only three days after a conference with U, 8. Assistant Secretary of State George Per-
Europe. \ In an apparent attempt to prepare his Communist Party for closer collaboration with tue eap~
By NOBLE REED : £ , Increases totaling $140,000 in the all-time high $531 milli Off in Summer state. budget were. pecommen : House of - esi CHICAGO, Feb. 17 {(UP)— here today bY (BeWWays and Meahs Committee, ~~ [Price Stabilizer | V., Dif least] The ‘biennial budget as approved by the committee does/ Salle said today he intends “to/ on, y Were a
already east and southeast of Wonju an steadily Increasing pressure against the new Chechon defense line. The mass enemy breakthrough forced other 8th Army units to abandon Pyongchang, 20 miles northeast of Chechon, and pull back from the 38th Parallel on the east coast. Fighting between South Korean units and 1500 Reds was reported under way at three points four to 10 miles southeast of Pyongchang. Another 3000 North Koreans were reported six miles east and southeast of the town. Enemy Losses Soar The new Communist thrust also endangered the eastern flank of United Nations troops who broke the back of the six-day-old Communist offensive against Wonju and Chipyong on the central front. Chinese-and Korean Reds have lost nearly 32,000 in dead, wounded and captured, most of them on the central front, since they launched their offensive last Sunday night. Fighting on both the western and central fronts diminished steadily as airmen reported Chinese pulling out of the WonjuChipyong sector to reinforce the North: Korean assault toward Chechon. A 10th Corps spokesman said, however, that it still was not clear whether the new enemy thrust was an all-o0t assault or merely
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Set Trial for Driver Cited for Leaving Scene
An Illinois trucker, with leaving the scene of an aceident in which a 61-year-old grandmother was injured, was scheduled for trial in Municipal Court 4 today. William J. Ridgeway, 31, Anne apolis, Ill, also is charged with drunkenness, operating under the influence of liquor and reckless driving. He was arrested last night at E. Washington St. and Shadeland Ave., less than an hour after police said his truck was in collision with a car driven by Dale F, Keller, 17, of 2326 Goodlet Ave., at New York and Pennsylvania Sts. Mrs. Katheryn Keller, 61, a passenger in her grandson's car, was injufed and sent to a physician for treatment.
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