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5 SATURDAY, APRIL 8, 1944

- Hoosier Vagabond

WITH FIFTH ARMY BEACHHEAD IN ITALY, April 8 (By Wireless) ~About 13 months ago - I struggled one forenoon into a” cactus patch about halfway between Sheitla and Faid Pass, in Tunisia. Hidden in that patch was all that was left of an armored combat team which had been overrun the day before, when - the Germans made the famous surprise break-through which led finally’ to our retreat through Kasserine Pass. A few of you more tenacious readers may remember my writing about this bunch at the time. I found them almost in a daze— and a very justifiable one, too, for they had been fleeing and groping their way across the desert for 4 day and a night, cut to pieces, and with the swarming Germans relentlessly upon them. The few who escaped had never expected to survive at all, and on that weary morning they were hardly able to comprehend that they were still alive, 1 had good friends in that gang, and I've just seen them again after 13 months. Talk about your family reunions! It was like old home week for a while. 1 stayed with them two days, and we fought the

._"Punisian wars over and over again, I can just visual-

ize us on some far day when we cross each other's paths back in America, boring our families and friends to distraction with our long-winded recountings and arguments about some afternoon in Tunisia.

Another ‘Bird Dog’

MAJ, ROLLIN ELKINS, sometimes known in fact as R. Lafayette Elkins, used to be a professor at Texas A. & M, College Station, Tex. He is one of this old gang. His nickname is “Satch,” and he goes around in the green two-piece coverall of the infantry. Everybody loves him. That memorable night in Tunisia I excitedly went away and left my helmet and shovel lying under a half-track in which Maj. Elkins was sleeping, and never saw them again. In our reminiscing I told the Major how last fall, when I was home, several

Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

WHILE WATCHING a traffic policeman shoo foolhardy pedestrians back to the curb yesterday when they tried to cross in the middle of the block, Illinois north of Washington, we saw an incident that struck us as the wrong way to enforce the law. A gray-haired woman dodged traffic and got clear over to the curb on the opposite side of the street. The policeman, then about 50 feet from her, sprinted after her and caught her arm as she was walking down the sidewalk, He waltzed her right back out into the traffic again, and made her récross to the side from which she had started. We're all for educating pedestrians into following safety rules. But the object is to prevent needless risk to lives—not just to enforce a law. In this case, we think, a lecture would have done more good for pedestrian safety than to make the woman recross Illinois street and again risk iife and limb--the very thing we're trying to avoid. . . . Mrs. Roy Lanham, whose blind husband has a refreshment stand on the main floor of the statehouse, will open a lunch coun~ ter on the third floor Monday in preparation for the special session Tuesday. She and her husband are hoping the session lasts a lot longer than the single day planned. . . . Mr, Walter L. Thoms, president of the Indianapolis Federation of Parent-Teacher associations, and a member of the committee arrapging cleanup week, April 15-22, thinks something ought to be done during the week to educate folks not to throw Kleenex and similar tissue on the sidewalk and street,

How to Use Eggs MAURICE GRONENDYKE thinks he has a

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lution to the oversupply of eggs. To get folks to eat more eggs, he advises: “Tell them how to make a ‘Desert Island,’ sometimes known as a ‘Denver OneEye,’ or ‘One-Eyed Connolly's.” We never had heard

of such a concoction, so he explained: “Take slice of bread, cut a hole about two inches in diame eter out of the center of the slice, using a round cookie cutter, or a knife, Place the bread in a buttered

Aid and Comfort

WASHINGTON, Apri] 8.—For the first time, the department of labor has put out something that sounds as if it might be used in the current drive of labor unions to smash the government's wartime wage controls, particularly the Little Steel formula. This is an official finding by the bureau of labor statistics that the considerable wartime increase in average earnings of factory workers means little because the rise in living costs and increased deductions from pay envelopes, including taxes, leaves the wage earner with not much more, and in many cases with less, in actual “spendable earnings.” Spokesmen for the A. F. of L. and the C. I. O, who have been highly critical of the bureau's liv ing-cost figures, asserting that they show only about half of the actual rise, are much more favorable to the new report. It became known through dn article in the official “Monthly Labor Review” by N. Arnold Tolles, chief of one of the bureau's branches. Blunt union spokesmen were quick to see its significance, and it was cited by David Kaplan, research director for the Teamsters’ union, before yesterday's final hearing by the war labor panel, which has been receiving evidence from the A. F. of L. on why the Little Steel formula should be junked. »

‘Comparison Misleading’

“THE COMPARISON between the 68.4 per cent rise in gross factory earnings and the 234 per cent rise in the bureau's cost-of-living index,” wrote Mr. Tolles, “is misleading. . . . Any gains made in spendable earnings have been small, quite different from those. implied by comparing the gross average of earnings with average living costs. Neither widespread deprivation nor widespread inflationary spending can be found among the factory population.” This survey asserts: “The worker who earned the average (weekly)

My Day

WASHINGTON, Friday—In none of my columns since I came home, or while I was on my last trip,

have I told you of many letters that came to me

from ladies in various islands and in the South and Central American countries. Some of these ladies were writers, some of them ladies in the woman suffrage movement of their countries, some of them were leaders in the organized labor movement.’ All of them wanted me to express to the women of the United

show. up,

By Ernie Pyle

people told me that this steel. helmet was now in .somebody’s house out on Long Island. How it got there I haven't the remotest idea. But I've got another helmet now, and Satch Elkins has another nalf-tfack, “Bird Dog the Second,” to replace the old one that was shot out from under him that ‘awful Tunisian afternoon, I saw Sgt. Pat Donadeo of Allison Park, a suburb of Pittsburgh, who is one of the best mess sergeants overseas. He has lived in the field for nearly two years, cooking in a truck on his portable kitchen, turning out excellent meals, and always having a snack for a correspondent, no matter what hour you

Ernie's Life Work.

AND THERE'S Lt. Col. Daniel Talbot, who owns a big cattle ranch outside of Ft. Worth, Tex. His nickname is “Pinky,” and he doesn’t look like a warrior at all, but he is, Col. Talbot used to have a driver named Manuel Gomez, from Laredo, Tex. One afternoon beyond Sidi-bou-Zid, a year ago, the three of us drove up to the foothills so we could look down over the valley where the Germans were. Shells were falling in the valley, and every time we'd hear one we'd ditch the jeep and start for the gulleys, although they'd actually be landing a mile away from us. Private Gomez is still driving for the Colonel, and the three of us laughed today at our inexperience and nervousness so long ago, None of us has got brave in the meantime, but all of us have enriched our knowledge of shell sounds. Today we think it’s far away when a shell misses by 200 yards. Our tanks haven't had much chance to do their stuff in the Italian war, because of the mountainous terrain and the incessant rains, But the tankers are ready, and they're hoping. They know that sooner or later their big battle here on the beachhead will come.” When I walked in, they laughed and said: “This must be it. Every time you'd show up in, Tunisia, we'd have a battle. This must be the sign.” So you see I have my life work cut out for me. I just go around the country starting battles, like a nasty little boy, and then Immediately run back and hide.

skillet, crack an egg and dump the contents in the hole in the bread. While the egg is cooking the bread will be toasting. When it's done on one side, take a pancake turner and carefully turn it over. And when it's done, you have a feast fit for a king.” Dyke says it tastes best as a midnight snack. . . . Lt. Bill Madigan, the Associated Press reporter, has been home for a day or two, en route from one air force Base in Texas to another in Utah. Not exactly a straight line route. , . . George Campbell, 25, who was blind until he was 18, has been speaking in various industrial plants, urging the importance of wearing safety glasses to avoid accidents which might cause blindness. When Wayne Whiffing, president of the Industrial Safety club of the local C, of C, was making arrangements for Mr. Campbell to speak before the club, he noticed that the safety glasses advocate himself was wearing just ordinary specs. Mr. Whiffing sent Mr. Campbell to Dr. Emerson J. Soland who made a pair of the non-shatter variety for him.

We've Been Insulted

OUR ITEM the other day about how Mayor Tyndall and some other citizens were shown as characters in a Capt. Marvel comic book which has Indianapolis as a locale, brought a couple of comments, One a postcard from some uncouth characters signing themselves “Teckites”—they probably meant termites—read: “Your writer L. Nussbaum said he would like to be in comics. Shucks, all the kids in our neighborhood always turn his page and look at his mug, and do we laugh. It's the most comical thing printed in your daily.” Guess we'd better get that picture retouched. . . . The other was from an insurance executive (don't use my name) who comments that the artist “had done a pretty good job for

Indianapolis, its buildings, its citizens of note etc.|a) py price control. It is a The Marvel influence was noticeable, however, in! ¥ Price good

two things: Gilbert Forbes’ remarkable ability to change his clothes instantly—from blue to green— and the astonishing height of the Soldiers and Sailors’ monument—824 feet, 6 inches. I doubt if even Capt. Marvel could stretch the monument from its customary 284 feet—if that's the correct height.” The exact height of the monument is 284 feet, inches.

{President Roosevelt's

line program has “slightly lowered”

PRICE REVIEW REACTION GOD IN CONGRESS

Little Likelihood Appears of| Any Change in Basic Policies. .

WASHINGTON, April 8 (U. P.)— anniversary review of the “hold-the-line” stabilization program has been generally well received by congress, and there appears to be little likelihood that the basic policies will be disturbed. However, some Repub were cynical as to the accuracy of the figures presented, and one, Senator Clyde M. Reed (R. Kas), said the program was “inflationary.” He threatened to “blast into Bowles” in a speech following the recess. Labor spokesmen also indicated

, THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES ° Crucifix Dominates Scene at World Wer Memorial

The crucifix in the center of Obelisk Square of the World War Memorial dominated the scene for the Catholic “Way of the Cross” devotions yesterday.

LACKS A PLAN FOR POST-WAR

Officials Shy Away From Any Specific Public Improvements.

By SHERLEY UHL After more than a year of postwar planning, Indianapolis doesn’t have a post-war plan. “The 12-month period has largely been taken up with organization land policy-making routine, with officials shying away from the cold, irrefutable lines of blueprints defining specific public improvement projects. So far, only three post-war development programs have pierced the realm of broad generalities. They are the 27 million dollar track elevation blueprint and the citywide sewer plan submitted by City Engineer Arthur B. Henry and a list of proposed park and boulevard

that :the fight for a more liberal wage yardstock than the “little steel” formula, defended in the administration review, would not be relaxed.

Claims Lower Costs

The anniversary report was presented to the President yesterday over the signatures of Stabilization Director Fred M. Vinson, Price Administrator Chester Bowles, War Food Administrator Marvin Jones and Chairman William H. Davis of the war labor board.

After stating that the hold-the-

the cost of living during its one year of existence, the four administrators declared:

“We must not jeopardize these gains by any change of policy or relaxation of efforts in the critical months ahead. All the underlying conditions which could cause a sharp rise in prices are still present.” Typical of congress response to the review was that of Senate Democratic leader Alben W. Barkley, (D. Ky.), who said, “on the whole the statement is justified, and it fortifies the position that the OPA ought to be extended without substantial change.”

Act Expires July 1

The price control and stabilization act expires July 1, but congress already is preparing to renew the act. Hearings are under way in the senate, and will begin before the house banking and currency committee next Wednesday. Senator John H. Bankhead, (D. Ala), member of the banking committee who previously led the fight against use of consumer subsidies —one of the major elements of the stabilization program—said of the review: : “It is a good showing and a healthy statement for the public. However, part of the result has been brought about by use of treasury money in subsidies and not

argument in favor of continuing the program.”

DAVIS, SCHRICKER ROTARY SPEAKERS

Times Special

By F red W. Perkins

factory wage of $26.44 in January, 1941, had $26.27 to spend on current living. By October, 1943, price | increases had raised the cost of this standard from $26.37 to $3254. Average weekly earnings actually advanced to $44.86 by October, 1943. However, out of this $44.86, the average factory worker with a family of four had a currently spendable income of $38.19, while the worker without dependents had a net of $32.76 per week. Thus, the net addition to spendable earnings over this period amounted to $5.65 per week in the case of the married worker used as an example and to 22 cents per week in the case of a worker without dependents.”

24 Earn More

TABLES ACCOMPANYING this statement showed that in 28 manufacturing industries the married-with-dependents employees in 24 are earnfhg more “spendable” pay than is required to keep up their living standard of January, 1941. Such employees in four industries are earning less. The largest excess, in locomotive manufacturing, is $8.52 a week. The largest deficit, in the newspaper industry, is $740 a week. The picture changes sharply, according to the statistics, with unmarried wage earners having no dependents. They have less exemption from income taxes. Employees of this kind in 19 of the 28 industries were on the minus side, the largest deficit being $12.86 a week—agaln in the newspaper business. The largest excess was $2.69, in typewriter manufacturing. “Typical of the situation of married workers in many industries,” says the survey, “was that of the steel workers, whose gross weekly earnings advanced by 57.4 per cent, from an average of $33.60 in January, 1041, to an average of $52.88 in. October, 1943. In the latter month the cost of a January, 1941, level of living was $41.04, while the average spendable earnings had advanced to $43.68. The average steel worker with three dependents thus had a net gain of $2.64 per week after paying about $4 in taxes and subscribing $529 in bonds.” The Steelworkers’ union is leading the C. I O. attack on the wage formula.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

working on problems of nutrition and better child |”

care, That is a natural outlet, because families are large and women have lived much within the walls of their own homes. The war is drawing them towards a point of view which has long been ours—that interest in our own homes leads us finally to interest in our communities and in our government. The three ladies with whom I spent two full days were Brazilian ladies. wife of the minister of aviation for Brazil; Madame

Amaral, head of the Legion for Assistance, and Miss

Aranha, daughter of the minister of foreign affairs. They were sent by Madame Vargas who has been ill for some time, but who has been very active in organization of ladies’ work along many lines. _

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FRENCH LICK, Ind, April 8.— Tom J. Davis, Butte, Mont., past Rotary international president, and | Governor Schricker will speak at {the annual 156th Rotary district conference here April 19. Dr. I. George Blake, Franklin, district governor, said delegates from 22 southern Indiana clubs would discuss means of increasing their war services. Mr. Davis, an attorney, is a trustee of the Rotary foundation and a member of the Rotary international finance committee. Elections and finals of the high school discussion contest sponsored by the district will be held. Harry Hougham, Franklin, is conference chairman; Larry Kigan, Terre Haute, secretary, and Ralph Thompson, Seymour, treasurer,

262,000 REGISTERED FOR PRIMARY VOTE

Eligible Marion county voters in the May 2 primary election number approximately 262,000, almost 33,000 under the county’s peak registration two years ago. The estimate made yesterday by A. Jack Tilson, county clerk, was based on the number of legally registered voters in the county as recorded by Morris D. Moss, chief registration clerk. From March -1 to April 3, the dead-line for registration, 15,260 men and women of voting age transferred their registrations or reregistered, thus qualifying them to vote in the election. A large percentage of new registrants, Mr. Moss said, came here from other sections of Indiana or other states.

EGO "HURT WILLKIE

Business men were for Wendell I.

his individualism and egotism, ac-

mittee in the 1940 campaign.

WASHINGTON, April 8 (U. P.. —Senator James E. Murray (D. Mont.), co-author of the Wagner-

LETTER TO FDR |Former Nazi Leader Shifts GETS RESULTS HOLLYWOOD, April 8.—. -

Draft of Father Delayed troops, who was marked for liquidation in the “blood purge” of June § So, He May Be Home

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betterments composed by Park Superintendent Paul V. Brown.

Plans “Premature”

Mr. Henry's track elevation proclamations, though joyfully received by South siders who have | been wailing for such things for | years, were ignored in certain ad- | ministration quarters where they were considered “premature,” slightly sensational and without adequate long-range survey foundations. This necessity for scrupulous

30, 1934, is now a private in Uncle Easter Sunday.

Sam's army. ATLANTA, Ga., April 8 (U. P.).— The Memis Montrose Jr. family will be the happiest in the Atlanta Easter parade tomorrow because 9-year-old Barbara wrote President Roosevelt asking that her “daddy’s” induction into the navy be delayed so he could spend Easter at home. Montrose was to have been inducted Thursday. He told Barbara that it was all out of his hands, and that about the only thing she could do was write to Mr. Roosevelt. So she did, saying: “I am 9 years old and I have a little sister 5 and a little brother 7. My little sister will be 6 years old on Easter Sunday. My daddy has to go to the navy April 6. I asked him why he couldnt stay until after Easter. He told me I have to ask President Roosevelt, So I am asking you. We love you (Signed) Barbara Montrose. Rosemary Montrose. Monty Montrose.”

Col. H. Cliff Hatcher, assistant di-| of selective service in|

“Dear Miss Barbara: “You letter of March 27, 1944, addressed to President Roosevelt concerning the induction of your father in the armed services has been referred to this headquarters for attention. “We have contacted the local board and advised them to delay the induction of your father until Monday, April 10, and we hope that you will have a very happy Easter and your little sister will have a very happy birthday.”

62 U.S. Seamen

Lost on Rocks

LONDON, April 8 (U. P)— Two ‘teen-age members of the armed guard on an American Liberty ship revealed today that they lost 62 of their companions in a ship wreck 60 yards from shore with an escort vessel standing helplessly by. ‘ The bluejackets, John E. Foy, 17, Troy, N. Y., and Henry C. Donnelly Jr., 19, Stratford, Conn, both seamen first class in the naval reserve, were among 12 survivors. ) The ship foundered on rocks and slowly was dashed to pieces by huge icy swells while crew members sought refuge on the flying bridge, last remnant of the 10,000-ton ship to withstand the pounding waves. Foy and Donnelly just had come off watch and were chatting and joking when the ship was driven on the rocks. “We heard a terrific crunching noise like a cross’ between a torpedo hit and ramming,” Donnelly said. “The noise came from right below.” The ship had discharged its cargo and was sailing under ballast.

CLAIM OF 27 PLANES CHALLENGES RECORD

LONDON, April 8 (U. P).—Lt Don Gentile, 23, Piqua, O., Mustang fighter pilot who is credited officially with shooting down 20 énemy planes, now has seven other claims, including two probables, before the claims board of his fighter command. If all seven are approved he will

In fact, it was almost a double ceremony when Peter Pohlenz, reeently a Hollywood actor and technical adviser, was inducted. He received his citizenship papers at 9 a. m. and was sworn into the army at I' p. m. !

ganda and photographic division.”

camp and then. join the storm troops to prove his party loyalty.

Crippled by Work

In the work camp, he almost became crippled by being on his feet from 4 a. m. to 9 p. m. every day, receiving full army training in addition to road-building assignments.

to celebrate "their 25th wedding anniversary. Pohlenz was given a fur-

just four miles Seok the Czech, border.

At his home, he learned by radio]

army. Knowing that he would be! marked for killing by the very na-

, | ture of his rank as troop leader, he

escaped into Czech territory. He still has the letter of furlough, permitting him to be absent from June 29 to July 1

Returns to Germany

|cry had died~down, he returned to | Germany and was permitted to resume his university studies, eventually winning an exchange professorship in sociology at the Univer-

Pohlenz, son of a university professor in Breslau, was a public relations officer with the storm troops in Silesia in the “press, propa- -

He was forced to enter a Nazi work

. | mersed | {They're plowing through reams of | background and statistical material | | which they hope will enable them

detail-by-detail study of all factors entering into specific post-war rec-

'|ommendations is cited by those ‘| guiding city planning as justifi-

cation for their time - consuming

' | preliminaries.

Indianapolis planners are now imin .the drudgery stage.

= to fashion practical projects that i¥ (won't be blocked by unforeseen

Peter Pohlenz has changed uniforms since this picture was taken in Hollywood. He's a private in the army now.

Months later, when the hue and

On July 1, 1984, his parents were sity of Kansas and later at Kansas

City university. Thence he went to Hollywood as

Jough to join them at their home, a technical adviser on such pictures

as “The Hitler Gang,” “The North Star,” “Hostages,” “Action in the North Atlantic,” “Edge of Dark-

Yesterday a reply came from Lt. of the massacre of the troops on, iness,” and “Watch on the Rhine.” |orders of Hitler and the regular

He recently completed the role {of Reinhard Heydrich, “the hangman,” in “The Hitler Gang,” on which he also served as adviser. Pohlenz’ citizenship was granted after he had been thoroughly investigated by the FBI, and found to have no sympathy with Nazi ideologies despite having been forced to serve with the storm troops. As a fighting GI, he hopes for the chance to puncture — with a bayonet, preferably — some of the Nazi ego which he helped to inflate when he was a storm troop propagandist.

| | “hitches.”

For instance, City Plan Director

| Noble P. Hollister is conducting a

“land use survey” of every block in Indianapolis. Without such a chart, he reasons, it would be risky to proceed with costly undertakings

-isince “obviously you wouldn't knw

where you were going.” Director Checks Trenés The city plan director is checking other factors such as population and traffic trends and industrial tendencies. He's even trying to gauge the “personality patterns” of various districts with the purpose of avoiding. “abrupt changes which would adversely affect neighborhood cultural habits.” The ‘belief that theory precedes action and that wholesale policies should be established before the city's future is decided holds true throughout the local post-war setup. ’ Yesterday, for instance, the Indianapolis Post-War Planning committee headed by Post-War Chairman George A. Kuhn turned cold shoulder to a legislative plan which would commit the group to a certain fund-raising method.

INDIANA SEGOND IN TRAFFIC CONTEST

Indiana won second place in the Midwest division of a national 1943 traffic safety contest, Governor Schricker was notified today. Minnesota won first place in the contest that was sponsored by the National Safety council, with Iowa rating third among the 12 states in the division. Don F. Stiver, state safety director, will receive the award certificate, which will be presented to the governor and other state officials. Scoring was based on motor vehicle death rates, accidents reporting systems, traffic engineering and enforcement, child safety programs, public education and driver licensing. Ft. Wayne and Lafayette won honorable mention in their respective class cities.

REFUTES HAWAII DANGER

HONOLULU, April 8 (U. P).— Territorial Governor Ingram Stainback declared at a federal habeas corpus hearing yesterday that he believed Hawaii has not been in danger of invasipn since the battle of Midway in June, 1942.

DETAIL FOR TODAY Shavetail

top the record of 26 shot down by Eddie Rickenbacker in world war I, and two marine fliers in the Pacific area in this war. They are Majors Joe Foss of Sioux Falls, 8. D, and

A SHAVETAIL is a second lieutenant, usually of the 90-day-

PITTSBURGH, April 8 (U. P.).— Willkie in his 1940 campaign but they turned against him because of his “extreme internationalism” and cording to EB. T. Weir; prominent

steel executive and chairman of the Republican national finance com-

ATTACKS ‘SPECIAL INTERESTS

Murray-Dingell bill for extension of

down his 26th.

WHEELER WILL TALK BEFORE |.

bas worked with almost 200

Gregory Boyington of Okanogan, Wash. - Boyington has officially been listed as missing since he shot

U. CLUB

‘Lawrence Wheeler, . executive director of the Indiana university foundation, will discuss the fund raising work of the: foundation at the Indiana University club luncheon Monday at the Columbia club. Mr. Wheeler, an I. U., graduate.

wonder species. He derives the

title 90-day-wonder from the three months spent in officer cafididate school. Most OCS graduates still have all of their enlisted men’s trappings and they usually take their shirts to: the post tailor and have shoulder straps sewn. on, the necessary cloth coming from youknowwhere ~hence, SHAVETAIL. There is nothing so eager as a SHAVETAIL right out of OCS. He's the soldier’s nightmare, for he is dripping .with fresh knowledge of all the courtesies and customs that

Woman Gives Eye To Aid Blind Man

NEW ORLEANS, April 8 (U. P.).—Richard Bienvenu, 33-year-old broommaker, was able to see his fellow workers for the first today, following a delicate eye operation in which the damaged cornea of his left eve was replaced by the cornea from the eye of a woman he didn't even know. The right eye of Mrs. E. E. Johnson of Marrero, La., sightless since childhood, provided the good cornea, and the operation was performed a week ago. “It's not many people who would go through the suffering and anxiety of an operation,” Bienvenu said, “and have their | eye taken out for someone they have never seen.” “The Lord gave me the eye for some good reason,” Mrs. Johnson said, “If I couldn't use it, I'm sure he would have wanted me to give it to you.” Bienvenu has poor vision in the other eye but said he now can see “well.”

BAALS DECLINES TO

—Mayor Harry Baals declined today to enter the race for the Republican gubernatorial nomination, but left the door open for a possible late entrance by admitting he would give the matter thought if the state convention expressed a wish for him to run. Baals, who has been mentioned prominently as a candidate for governor, said he was highly complimented but that his time was taken up with the business and problems of Fort Wayne.

SCHRICKER NAMES 28TH PROSECUTOR

Governor Schricker today made his 28th appointment of a prosecuting attorney. He named , Elmon M. Williams of Greenwood, Indianapolis atttorney, to succeed Richard L. La-

accept a navy commission. Mr. LaGrange recommended Mr. William’s appointment. Both are Republicans.

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RUN FOR GOVERNOR

FT. WAYNE, Ind. April 8 (U. P).

Grange, Franklin, who resigned to

SIDE COUNCIL

The legislation, prepared by the Indiana Municipal league, provides for a tax levy of up to $1.50 per capita population to obtain money for planning purposes. In order for Indianapolis to reap as much as $580,000 by this method, it would have to boost its tax rate: by 10.7 * cents. } Finance Chairman Dwight Peterson pointed out that to levy a postwar tax before actual projects are defined would be “placing the cart before the horse.” The committes thought it would prefer to see whether the Municipal League bill is actually introduced. If it isn’t, all right. If it is, the post-war committee, Mr. Peterson said, “intends to jump into the legislature with both feet.” The committee went on record as not indorsing any particular fund(raising scheme at this time.

ARGUES WITH MATE; 6 CHARGES RESULT

Results of an alleged argument | with his wife today left Paul Fuller, {6000 W. 10th st., with a bullet-sieved | automobile and a court trial facing

| |

After he allegedly wrecked fure {niture in his own home and that of {his brother-in-law, officers were called and Fuller left in his auto« mobile. Pursuing the car, Deputy Sheriffs Harry Foxworthy and Roy Smith fired at three tires and shot 15 holes in the body of the auto before the gas tank was hit and the car had to stop. Mr. Fuller will be tried in the Beech Grove magistrate’s court at 7:30 p. m. Monday on charges of disorderly conduct, drunken driving, reckless driving, resisting arrest, speeding and attempted bribery. He is being held under $5000 bond in the county jail .

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