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2221 FAIR AND FIRST VOL. 43. NO. 190 WEDNESDAY MORNING. DECEMBER 12.

195 FIVE CENTS The Day In Indiana STEEL WALKOUT DATE SET Byrnes Seeks Russ Aid On Atom By Maurice Early Profitable Blunder U.S. Gains $1 76,000 Pirating JSurses Home Priorities Reconversion K.O. Wife Says Is Sent To She 7 Go Too If Bauer "Face Death "In Reich Woman Dies hen Struck By Streetcar House Lack Vexes Vets In Calumet oan Diffieully Kevealrd Vl Mate rrnmrnt I'arlrv Truman's Appeal Is Rejected Union Leaders Call On 700,000 To Quit Work On Jan. 1 Although her husband faces deportation as a Nazi spy, Mrs. Frederick E.

Bauer said here yes-yesterday that she, like Ruth of the Bible, will go too if he goes. Even though Sgt. Bauer faces death in the Nazi underground if he is sent back to Germany, Mrs. Bauer said she is willing to take her chances there with him. But.

if she chooses, she, an American citizen by birth, can re- i main in this country even though TTNCLE SAM made a mistake when he bought 15.000 acres of Hoosier land during the "national defense" period prior to the war. It was thought farmers displaced by the purchase of thousands of acres for industrial and military installations would be crying for land. BI THIS IS one mistake that ha turned a profit for the government. The records of George Rfum. regional director of the Farm Security Administrate show that M06 acres in Benton, 0 Warren and 3ssW Tippeeano Counties cost M05.7IS when purchased rarly in I'U I ami have been sold for This Is one deal where the government made SITfi.SS8.S0 a gross profit of almost 22 per cent.

DURING THE WAR this land was leased for farming purposes by the Defense Relocation Corpo ration, a unit under the FSA. It KM W. F.I. I.I M. Star Staff Correspondent East Chicago, Dec.

11 The ever-mounting housing prob-lent and the difficulty in obtain- ing loans through the Gl Bill of Rights were revealed here today as the most serious obstacles fac- i ing veterans of the Calumet re-IM as they return from battle duty. This was just one phase i of a wide range of vital public issues that took attention In the tirst Indiana governmental set v- Geimanv before enlisting In the ice conference as Governor Ralph I'nited States Army. Is entitled to F. Gates and more than 60 state hearings with counsel before de-department heads met with sev- portation ran he ordered. No date eral hundred public officials and for a hearing has been set.

school children to talk over the ings may he held either in Detroit state-community relationships. or Philadelphia, Pa. This conference, unique In gov- More than three months of In-ernmental affairs in the 1'nited vest Igat Ion by Army Intelligence States, was held in the Indiana nd by the Federal Bureau of In- her husband may be deported. SGT. discharged from the Army, without honor, yesterday, was taken to Detroit.

by George Tellefsem, chief of the Detroit bureau of the Department of Justice's immigration and detention section. The man who admitted he was a lieutenant In the German army and was schooled in espionage tn Ill's III lilis i iiuiiu nun 1 1 i i .1 1 i were brought against him, AFTER habeas corpus proceedings were instituted, the Army i gave him i "blue" discharge i without honor) yesterday, and ht was taken In custody by immigra- t)on auihorities Thr of Justice con- tends that Bauer was ritizPn, hp abrogated his citizenship on his return lo Germany In lfl.18 by Joining the German Army and taking an oath of allegiance to Hitler. Bauer, in a 1. 400-page state ment, declared that he Joined the Cniversity extension center here vesication, while the Fort Benja-under auspices of the Hammond i mln lt photographer Times, and Indiana and Purdue was nuarters here, Universities, to bring public re- lo cnnn.iKiiiti.. ,.1.

Hmmjs lever engaged in espionage nctivl- Mrs. Wllma Bauer, hrr husband. Frederick E. Bauer (renter), and their attorney, Joseph T. Maselin, conferred frequently yesterday had been the government plan to his assignment as special ambus-cut up the large acreage holdings sador for President Truman in into family-sized farms and to China, Byrnes said.

A plane is build houses and farm buildings ready to take off with Mnrshnll on each unit. Before this could as soon as the Pearl Harbor combe done the war restrictions put a mittee releases him. Byrnes. Mar-clamp on such activities. But shall and the President conferred that did not work out to be a at the White House today.

TLtA MKS Ml I II Willi NEY Struck by a Fairground street car as she crossed Kairlield Ave nue at Guilford Avenue, Mrs. Nellie Rue Whitney, 75 ears old, I 022 Fairtleld Avenue, was killed instantly early last night. The streetcar was operated by William Archer, 54, 3429 Kn- i wood Avenue, who told investigators that he? did not see Mrs. Whitney until she was directly in front of the car. She already had cleared the tracks, but was struck by the front part of the ca overhanging the track.

Dr. B. W. Cohen, deputy cor- oner, said Mrs. Whitney suffered a snuii iraciure.

lie sent ner body to City Morgue. The widow of W. A. Whitney, "eit? in imi, mrs. Whitney had been an Indlanap oils resident tne last 50 years Survivors include a niece.

Mrs lone Dohson of Indianapolis, and a nephew, Chnrles Burnett, re- cently discharged from the Navy, nd a sister. Mrs. Mildred Do- Fiates of Chicago, Funeral arrangements have not been completed. Mrs. Whitney's death was the 7flth fatality in the city this year and raises the total for the city and county to 103 deaths.

Hailing In Boxes On Sired Urged From now until Christmas, mail deposited in street letter boxes will be collected more frequently than indicated by the collection schedules on the boxes, Postmaster Adolph Scidenstlcker said yesterday. He urged patrons to deposit their mail in the boxes rather than to give it to their carriers, who will have a heavy enough burden delivering the holiday mail. I I I nm1 this Peace High On Agenda For Parley Secretary Of State To Push Idea For European I lenient Washington, Dec. 11 The United States will seek Russian support in organizing a special United Nations Commission to handle atomic problems. Secretary of State Byrnes disclosed tonight on the eve of his departure for Moscow.

Byrnes also revealed at a news conference that he would renew his plan for writing the peace of Europe in a general peace conference for which preparations would be made through revived sessions of the inactive Foreign Ministers Council at London. Byrnes will leave for Moscow tomorrow at 8 a.m. CST. taking along six advisers and aids. Hi conferences with Soviet Foreign Commisar Molotov and British Foreign Minister Bevin are scheduled to start Saturday.

Gen. George C. Marshall may be able to leave in two days for BYRNES ALSO told reporters that: Britain is proposing to Russia co-ordinated withdrawal of their armies from Iran as soon as pos- sible. The British reported this in a note, saying that they would not try to get out by Jan. as Washington proposed, since Russia had declined to do so.

Byrnes has changed his mind about releasing the report of Publisher Mark Ethridge of Louisville, on political conditions in Romania and Bulgaria. He is taking this report to Moscow and use it wjth Molotox and Bevin. Dr. James B. Conant.

president of Harvard University, who has worked with Byrnes on atomic energy problems, will be the secretary adviser in Moscow on that subject. OTHERS WHO either will fly with him from Washington or meet him in Moscow include John Carter Vincent. State Department Far Eastern chief: H. Freeman Matthews, State Department Eu- Turn to Page 2. Column 4 Injured Patton In Brave Fight ''True Soldier." Say Attending Nunef Heidelberg.

Germany. Dec 11 JF Gen. George S. Patton par-alvzed bv a broken neck, was im- tontght after a half an hour talk with his wife and his rondition was described officially as "very satisfactory." The colorful United States Army general was fully conscious, rational and taking nourishment. Nurses attending the former Third Army commander described him as "one of their best patients" and said Patton was ac cepting his condition like a "true "normally active" tendon reflexes.

A medical bulletin issued at 6 p.m. omitted th phrase "prog- no sine l.TOth Station Hospital at Heidelberg Sundav. after an auto crash near Mannheim. (A prognosis is a prediction or conclusion in regard to the course and termination of a disease Mrs. Patton arrived at her 60- Turn to Page S.

Column The Weather Jim Craw aays: A ith so msni ther a a i a a wanting lo borrow maney. the S. can aualify sonn as mm. Fair and eon- today with increasing and a bit and continued slight? Ind.anariolis Indiana Fab- cold today with s'ughllr rising hardship. The displaced farmers apparently did not want farms.

Instead they found war industry jobs. SOME OF THE Defense Relocation Corporation land in Knox County has not been sold. It remains to he seen whether It also will turn in a profit for Uncle Sam. END OF THE war has not brought relief to the Indianapolis City Hospital, which is still short of nurses and sees no prospects of getting a complete staff. there are many reasons why this and other hospitals are critically short of nurses and probably will continue to be.

ABOUT 50 City Hospital nurses Joined the armed forces. Onl) three of those discharged have returned. It is found many are married, some are taking advantage of the Gl Bill of Rights to get additional education. Desperate for nurses, the veterans' service are bidding up the salaries of nurses to a point where local public and private hospital' can't compete. AVERAGE SALARY for staff nurses at the City Hospital is SI.

800 a veer for a 48-hour week. Veterans' services are paying for a 40-hour-week with overtime, bunging the annual pay up to (3,016 for a 48-hour week. ADDED TO THE worries of the hospitals is the fart that icirls are showing little Interest in entering nurses training. Benefits of the radet nurses program are about to he ashed up. Then the hospitals foresee real trouble.

IF PRESIDENT TRUMAN reestablishes priorities on building materials to channel them from commercial and industrial con- in t. Room 6, on a writ of habeas Case Dropped Against Petil Attorney Surrender Slirim-r. His leCWCT Finis was written to the Sheriff Otto W. Petit Impeachment rase in Circuit Court yesterday when Judge Lloyd Clnycombe sustained a motion lo dismiss the Impeachment ieiltlon. About the time Judge Clay-combe was making his finding, Louis Rosenberg and James Dawson, attorneys for Knoch Shrlner, who brought the Impeachment action, surrendered Shrlner In Criminal Court to answer incest and criminal assault charges.

Judge Clay com lie upheld the contention of Glenn W. Funk, personal attorney for Mr. Petit, that an Impeachment petition must be filed by the prosecutor. PROSM I TOR Aood Blue was of the same opinion In a letter he sent to the Circuit Court Judge. Neither Rosenberg, former attorney for the sheriff, nor Daw-son disrlnsed the whereabouts of Shriner durine the last sovaral days.

They said they found him in his home at 1.105 West 19th Street. Shrlner disappeared fol- lowing the issuance of an a'fl-, davit charging him with the Turn to Page IV. Column Train Efita Truck, Driver I ninjared leaping from tin truck, stalled in the path of a fast passenger tram at the Sherman Drive crou-inr over the York Cmn rm I Railroad tracks, John Frey, 5f)' North Tacnma Avenue, escaped injury. Frey's truck was damaged when it was knocked off the track by the Cleveland bound train. Frey was charged by police with disobeying a railroad warning signal.

Polno said Frey was making turn off Massachusetts Avenue at Sherman Drive when the truck engine stalled Ht THE ASSOCIATED PBMfl The giant CIO United Steel Workers Union, In the largest strike call in the history of Amer i. an industry, rejected President Truman's appeal for a work continuation yesterday (Tuesday) and directed Its 700,000 members to quit work Jan. 14 In support of a $2-a-day wage rate increase. The union's 175-man wage policy committee, representing locals throughout the country, took tho action at a closed session presided over by Philip Murray, head ot the steel workers union and th'a CIO. If the strike is ordered and other continuing disputes throughout the country remain unsettled, the number of persons Idle In labor disputes now about 400,000 would shoot above the 1,000,000 mark.

Tilt UMI CALL was authorized by the membership In a strike vote under NLRB supervision Nov. 28, which carried by a S-lo-1 ratio. It followed refusal by the steel companies to grant the wage boost and rejection by the OI'A of the steel company's request to raise prices. In its resolution calling the strike, the wage policy committee accused the steel Industry of "determined arrogance" and "adamant refusal to meet its public obligations" and said It "must stand condemned as being solely r. sponsible for the present impasse." The committee, whose action rejected President Truman'a suggestion that the men remain, at work until a fact-finding committee could be named to study the steel wane issue, said in another resolution: "A FACT-FINDING hoard for the steel industry is unnecessary.

Any such proposal is but a falsa trail of fruitless delays which can serve only lo undermine labor." The resolution condemned the Ptesldent's proposed legislation for fact-finding boards as "vicious anti-labor and an attack on our basic democratic liberties." Meanwhile, in Washington, the House gave right of way to legislation outlawing asserted racketeering practices by labor after sidetracking another measjre Turn lo Page 8, Column 4 Roberts Park Plans Repairs Methodists To Spend 815.0(H) On Edifice Already the oldest of the downtown rhurches and expected eventually to be one of only two or three churches in the downtown area, Roberts Park Methodist Church officials Sunday will announce details of a $45,000 renovation program as the congregation begins a 125th anniversary The present church is an outgrowth of the city's first religious service. The structure now occupied by the congregation at Delaware and Vermont Streets was built In 1868 and in archituctursi Turn to Page 2. Column 5 Association at a dinner in the Columbia Club last night. "When lawyers representing labor and lawyers representing management sit down around a table, each respecting the rights of the other, but each willing ta compromise some of his rights to settle the case, then and only then." he said, "will our so-called industrial warfare end" HF. SAID THE same policy should be followed in dealing with international problems.

"We as attorneys must take a position in public affairs, a position lawyers who helped found this nation took. We must do this before our house of cards falls in on us." Theodote L. Locke, attorney and former member of the Indianapolis Board of School Commissioners, was elected president sw kjgfl I Page 4 Yuletide 12 Days Off; Star San ta Needs Aid luring the hearing In Superior corpus. James Builds Up 500-Mile I'laiiH To Invite I uroH'uiiH Urn-Ac! mg as amliassador for Indl- ana greatest spurts clasrlr, Richard T. James, Lieutenant iovernor.

now In England, will ry re-establish the Interna- Moral popularity of the annual i ihiit- fi w.delv known among European sportsmen as it Is today in America. Mr. James Is acting upon a suggestion of Anton liulrnan chairman of the Speedway's board, and other race luminaries, he told The Star last night in a trans-Atlantic telephone conversation. The Lieutenant Governor plans to convey racr invitations "in the name of the people of Indiana" In Sir Malcolm Campbell, the Knglish speed king, and all other British and French automobile raring figures he can contact. ENOMHIf and Kremh sportsmen will be reminded of Indiana's contribution to the automotive science.

Mr said Mr. James reported that he has succeeded in "getting a line" on Turn In Page J. Column 7 Niblack Raps Handling OS Felon uses Marion County's custom of dismissing criminal cases through grand jury action was thrown into ouestion by Judge John L. Niblack Municipal Court. Room 4, yesterday after hearing that 24 of T7 cases referred by Municipal Courts have been dismissed.

Judge Nihlai contended that fenv rases in Municipal Courts are referred to Criminal Court for future a-'ion. but that the prose cutor has been taking them he- fore th grand jury, where the cases eventually are dismissed "It is not necessary to have an indictment by the grand jury before a suspected felon can be tried in Criminal Court," Judge Niblack averred. "I'nder Indiana HT. hahi that Judge William D. Bam of Criminal Court had ar, proved forms used by Municipal Courts in binding suspects to Criminal Court and that he does not know why "these rases constantly show up before the grand Jury and are dismissed" He said, however, he contem- farion County find out what the law contemplates the grand jury onlv of murder cases and original cases filed before Criminal Court after Tara ta Pace 4.

Cetaaaa 4 i and boenita) with a Mtrns Plan Loaa IIS Fhese SLa. Aa. i a communities. The next such event is scheduled for South Bend, in January. HERE ARE other extremely important developments of the Otto C.

Wulfman, chairman of 'be state board of tax commls- sessions mi- saved the taxpayer of Indiana moil- man in insi-s lor lOlfi by paring local and county budgets without cutting the ef- nclency of these units. Harry C. Short, Calumet man- ager of the Purdue technical ex- tension division, declared the three counties In this tne state, wnicn now are the Mines (III.) district of the Veterans' Administration, should sniiui'l be Joined with the remainder Indiana as one state district. Wil- liam C. Stnlnaker, state veteians' iinairs anener, sain mat nospitai service is oetter now lor these tmrT iwuniit-s unnuac ru mi' nines connection nut mat tne new Fort Wayne VA, hospital, recently authorized, will clear the way for placing them with the remainder of the state.

GOVERNOR GATES declared that he is going to insist that more educational facilities be provided in Lake County. "Sufficient facilities must he had to enable the extension centers here to take rare of all those persons who deaue higher eduration," he pledged. Indiana University extension Turn to Page S. Column I fiase aid from T' Star Rantn Claws Fassif as srell a an appeal ta the fortunate wao make the fund posif(e Dear Boys and Girls: Only 12 days until Christmas: If you could see these hundred of letters I'm getting every day. you'd know what a busy old fei-low I am.

and how The Star Santa Claus needs help. Thank vo-. Mildred, for writ- ing me again. In your first letter. you forgot to me your Turn to Pe 4, Column i orn-r of re gain his return to country, where he "double-crossed" the I rim: futile habeas enrnu proceedings in Superior Court hre yesterday.

Joseph T. Maze- Bauer's attorney, declared: "If this man Is deported to Germany his life will be forfeited within 24 hours for double-crossing the Third Reich." Throughout all his long Imprisonment, Mrs. Wilma Bauer, bride of little more than a year, Turn lo Page 2, Column 4 MfNulty Quits 12th Ward Post iction Peaki C.O.P. Appointment Feud By DONOVAN A TI RK The first political blood in the inter-factional Republican fight over the appointment of a judge of Municipal Court, Room .1, was spilled yesterday when Thomas McNulty resigned as 121h Ward OP chairman, ulty, local der of a to the orney, was Jlcen group intment of Judge John Nelis to the post. "Press of business" was the reason McNulty announced publicly for his resignation Henry E.

Ostrom. CO P. county chairman, received the written resignation and announced successor will be named imme- OtrntOM IM) Brad-rd. former district and county hairman. have been urging the will tm made by F.

Gates. Judge' ocrat. is compb term on the bei ana law. the ju to a Democrat Fxl McNultv. Ralph Dem- ut of the re-14th Ward He also Nlis in hi There sa not continue to sacrifice practice and business for Thomas McNulty d-'I do not have the time my law politirs.

clared. to devote to politics now." M.VH ot sa-aa inh Ward chairman about nine months ago to succeed Samuel Blum, at- tomey. who entered the Army. Blum since has been discharged lrom ne armeo service oecasa 4. Catoasa 4 struction to the building of resi- A examina-denre.

for veterans, it is antici- of injured commmnier Activity In Iibor Disputes I tl (hi Bar Association A Only 1, S. 11 da until thristmas. Mary rounls off her finger for the benefit of her bah) brother heater. Thi brother and sister are in one of the rhildren's homes that will be helped through The Star Santa la us Fund. SANTA HAD DONORS fTkia letter from The Star Yesterday's rantritrations.

Sautm CrVists rontntn p'li ter tm pa.eo mar.ne civilian rronur- Admmistra'ion 'the old War Production Board hich was to have folded up its field office in Indianapolis Dec. 31 will have to go into action again. ItllFRal. in Indi ana helwte the President ntemts to channel huHding materials tn houses ta sell lor a ceiling priee of M.o. But they aha feresee that if all materials are taken ram industrial caSMtra.

i- 1 1 help solve the critical housing shortage. iadus'riaJ reconversion trill be gl vest a knockaut Matt. A. O. EVANS of CPA directs attentioa to the vital need of completing the $1,000,000 addition of the Link-Belt Company.

Forty-ssrsen manufacturers of farm machinery are dependent on aa increased output of the Link plant to turn out the machines needed fcv the farmers. Likewise, the shortage of paper pulp can be relieved only by products from Link IDLE FACILITIES la asrsok aeaats asald pi ssaic i J.aae.- a month if men Attorneys should be active In labor disputes, representing labor snd management on both sides of lh conference table, not ducking resreinjubility, David A. Simmons of Houston, president of the American Bar Association, told members of the Indianapolis Bar In Today's Star Adam 15 Pegier 12 1 Amusm'ts 16, IT Pictures 28 Aunt Het Radio 13 Comics 20 Ration Data. .13 Cross-word Ripley 20 Dorothy 7 Sports ...18, 19 Dr. Barton Uncle Ray ...20 F.st -i Vets' Guide -30 Editorial ....12 Vital Day ...19 Financial ..21 Want Ads Grade What's Nufcsbeum .15 Winchell 15 ...12 Women 6.

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