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It Was A Postman’s Party And The Whole Neighborhood Chipped In
Postman John M. Baldwin, happily embarrassed, receives a pat on the cheek from one of his route patrons as they swarm about him on his 25th anniversary. Mrs. Baldwin (extreme right) had a wonderful time. James T. Kirby, 655 N. Rural st. stands by to present a a $150 gift.
BACK AT CRITICS
Deplores Connecting FDR With His Affairs.
Brig. Gen. Elliott Roosevelt, son of |i the late President, wants his critics 4 to confine their attacks to him in- | stead of spreading “pernicious lies” Ek about his father, “a man who can't k talk back.” : Young Roosevelt lashed out at his | enemies late yesterday” na iy, . ment in which he assumed full re- | sponsibility for his much-publicized i. business affairs, including several i loans now being investigated by con- : gress and the treasury. lL He took cognizance of charges that . his father had helped him negotiate { the loans and described these as . part of the “hate campaign” being
¢ dent's memory by a small segment © of thé press. ; Ran Own Affairs ! “Pranklin D. Roosevelt never proi moted or assisted my personal business affairs,” he said. “Any statement that he did so is a deliberate, infamous lie. I conducted my own business affairs. The responsibility for them was and still is mine and mine alone.” The ‘statement was Roosevelt's first comment op, the controversial Joan operations. He said he was! confident that the current treasury investigation of the loans would
i answer “the falsehoods, half-truths]
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SEEK 2 IN $110,000 HOLLYWOOD HOLDUP
BURBANK, Cal, Aug. 1 (U, P). ~S8lim clues today pointed to a recently discharged soldier and a former Lockheed aircraft employee as the two bandits who took $111,300 from two Hollywood State bank messengers. A horde of law enforcement officers had their first lead when $2293 in silver and pennies was recovered in a garage rented three months ago to a soldier, Seven-year-old Gilbert Abel found the money when he chashh
After Raging
Times
this morning. Damage is expected The blaze had destroyed three
JET-OPERATED
Under Construction.
LONDON, Aug. 1 (U. P)~-Lt Robert Morgan, 26, British fleet air arm pilot, disclosed today that he and associates had developed a jetpropelled car which he hoped to drive .at a speed of approximately 520 miles an hour. Motigan plans to make the main trial run on a Chilean beach within the next year. The car is now under construction. It will look like a bomb~ which is the name Morgan and his designers have given it. It consists of a single giant wheel,
GAR PLANNED
British Pilots ~~ Creation strove. Fourteen persons registered
$150,000 Salem Fire Quelled
for Five Hours
Special
SALEM, Ind, Aug. 1—Fire which for five hours threatened the heart of the Salem business district was brought under control late]
to reach $150,000.
business places and spredd over al half- -block area before Are e companies from Salem and four nearby
towns fought down the flames. » Discovered at about 4 a. m. in the
store, the fire turned the two-story | brick building into a raging inferno! in a few minutes.
Mead Hotel Destroyed
The 15-room Mead Hotel above (the dry goods store dlso was da
at the hotel escaped injury. The fire also destroyed the MeClintock drug store, immediately north of the dry goods store and spread to the Fair store, to .the south. At one time firemen feared flames would envelope the whole business area on the east side of the public square. The drug store was listed a total loss, with no estimate of damages available. The Fair store was gufted by the flames.
Heavy Losses by Water Damages were estimated. between $100,000 and $150,000 with heavy losses caused by smoke and water, Basement of the dry goods and
12. feet in diameter, covered by a stream - lined pear - shaped body!
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LATE GROPS MAY DELAY CLASSES
Pupils Will Be Needed Harvest Rush.
{Fair stores are under more than five {feet of water. Owners said the en-
tire Christmas stocks, which had been stored in the basements, were irreparably damaged. Firemen from Salem, New Albany, English, Scottsburg and Washington township _ brought the fire under control the first time at about 8 a. m. Flames, however, broke’ out again in the drugstore. In a few minutes the area was again turned into a raging furnace. Flames reached the city hall and the fire station. Firefighters, how-
School bells in Indiana may begin ringing as much as two weeks | late this year, according to Dr.| Clement T. Malan, state superin-| tendent of public instruction. As in the last two years, school opening dates will be adjusted in order to pérmit boys and girls to help harvest perishable crops, Dr. Malan explained, and this year two crops will be about two weeks late. Sweet corn and tomatoes, late because of excessive rain, may push the peak of the packing season to
his baseball into the garage.
between Sept. 1 and Oct. 15, he said
Empire State Building Crash
Spurs AAF Safety Drive
By KIRSTIN LEE
ever, had already moved out the contents and damages were slight. Firemen played a stream of water on the Odd Fellows building and
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INDIANA BELL ASKS RADIO CHANNELS
tween Autos Planned.
Plans in Indianapolis’ for twoway radio-telephony between automobiles moved ahead today as the
basement of the Salem Dry Goods!
Two-Way Telephones Be-!
Indiana Bell Telephone Co. applied
forces revealed today that they had for permission to install a radio-
By VICTOR ' PETERSON
Tall, but stocky Mailman John M. Baldwin walked slowly north on Rural st. It was 8:30 a. m. | and few answered his ring. The | street was nearly deserted. It never had been that way before. He looked a little puzzled as he came up the walk of 655, mopping the sweat from his brow. Then bedlam broke loose. From |! inside the home of Mrs. Catherine | C. Kirby, from the backyard and around the house swarmed neighbors, far and near, by the dozens. The crowd, the noise of , apy
voices, the laughter and cries of |
| congratulations swamped the | mailman. Today marked nis 25th
year on the route. He seerged a little embarrassed, but mighty happy when an elder- | ly lady patted his face motherly. | It was the first time since | July” ‘1, 1869, when 16 postmen began free delivery here, that | one was honored spontaneously | for 25 years of service. Mr, Baldwin was flustered, he | couldn't find words until the cameramen appeared. Then he | got his voice back,
{ dog by its.
“Here none of that,” he cried | good-naturedly and tried to duck from sight. But lve ducked right
| into the motherly pat. |
According to people on his | route, ‘Mr. Baldwin knows every | child by his first name and every | When there is a letter from a loved one in service he always rings the bell. If the mother, the dad, the™ wife is‘in the yard, he comes up the walk waving the welcomed letter, He stops to chat, ask how | John or Mary are and chides an-
other “down in the dumps” ber
cause there was “no mail today,”
¢ In fact, he became an institu= tion . , . at 49, :
The idea of honoring Mr. Baldwin just grew, At first. people on the route thought it would be nice to give . him a dollar for every year. But it didn’t tun out that way. On that basis, he would have to work another 123 years—for 488 people gave $150. Besides that he was
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NIGHT SESSION T0 CONCLUDE
Important Concessions Are Reported Won by Truman.
POTSDAM, Aug. 1 (U. P.). —The Big Three met in plenary session today and it was
end tonight after a final ses-
sion to approve the official communique. The -conference drew: to—a-close with .word that the United States has won a number of important concessions from Britain and Russia.
sessions would $be over by tomor-
Wi LGOX MAY row when: President Truman -is-ex-pected at Plymouth to meet briefly GET TAX POST with King George VL. » It was understood Mr. Truman
will waste no time in leaving Pots{dam the moment the conference
New Albany Man in Line to business is concluded. ; Succeed Smith Brie! Stop at Plymouth
His stop at Plymouth will be Shirley Wilcox, prominent New Albany amusement executive, today loomed as the No. 1 prospect to succeed Will H. Smith as In{diana internal revenue collector here. Mr, Wilcox’s name "bubbled to jue Jopol- a churning rumor stew brewing in Democratie” political | circles.
A close associate of Federal Judge Sherman (Shay) Minton of New Al-
bany, Mr. Wilcox is manager of the Switow Theater Co. operators of three movie theaters in the southern Indiana city, A lifelong Democrat, Mr. Wilcox has been extremely active in party affairs. He also has been in the vanguard of American Legion activities in New Albany, of which he is a native, He has a wife ard two sons.
He Just Wanted Place to Sleep
THE NIGHT was just too warm for sleeping—or at least. it was in the bedroom of Ben Nixon, 1326'2 W, Washington st. And so Mr. Nixon hied himself to the Indianapolis Brush & Broom Mfg, Co. plant at 26 Brush st. This in itself probably wouldn't have caused any commotion, but ~Mr, Nixon forgot about the plant's | A. D. T. burglar alarm system. The alarm functioned efficiently. Sgt. Orel’ McClain and police officer Dennis Maxey found Mr. Nixon asleep on a pile of sacks, A trusted employee of the broom company, Mr. Nixon convinced the officers he was not a burglar and
brief, not more than a few hours; as he is eager to hurry back to the United States. The communique, it was understood, may not be issued until 24 hours or more after the conference actually breaks up, possibly sometime Friday. The communique will probably be couched in generalities but, Mr. {"Pruman fs planning a detailed and | specific report to the American {people in a radio address shortly | after his return.
Home on Cruiser
(London said President Truman was expected to arrive by plane at Plymouth, England, tomorrow to board the American cruiser Augusta for his trip home. King George VI will leave London by special train tonight for Plymouth and plans to greet the President at the Airdrome, London said.) (A London daily express dispatch from Berlin speculated that the Big Three communique to be issued following the conference may -announce that Russia considers herself at war with Japan.) The nature of the American concession’s cannot be made public at [this time, but President Trliiman was reported highly satisfied with the progress of his discussions with Premier Stalin and Prime Minister Attlee. The communique to be issued on conclusion of the conference probably will state the allied position on the future of Europe with particular emphasis on Germany, but {is not expected to contain any reference to Japan. .
SPRING CLUTCH BUYS MARS HILL PLANT
BIG, 3 PARLEY
believed the conference would |
Officials” tacitly agreed that the|
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tinue to operate the Indianapolis Speedway when Yickenbacker said in,Colum-
* In Columbus for the premiere of the movie, a story of Rickenbacker’s life, the president of the Speedway Corp.
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“Captain Eddie,”
the track will be sold. statement was not amplified, it eans that the proposed sale to
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It also disposed of rumors that the property
up as a real estate development
or that the Firestone Tire and Rubber Co. was
a deal. ent owners will reopen the Speed-
. way at the earliest possible moment after the victory over Japan,”
Rickenbacker said. 500- mile race was held Memorial
PARIS, Aug. 1 (U. P.).—Adm.
your principal aim was to. protect
U.S. RELEASES
PORT SECRET
Greatest Munition Pier in Shadow of New York.
NEW YORK, Aug. 1 (U. P).—The, army disclosed today that the great- | est munitions shipping point in the world operated secretly throughout the European war within three miles of New York City skyscrapers. The $17,000,000 secret pier is at Caven Point, N. J, only half a mile south of the Statue of Liberty. In a “now-it-can-be-told” statement, the New York port of embarkation disclosed the pier's identity as the last of 1800 ammunition ships sailed from the terminal. Its load brought the total ammunition shipped during the past three years to 2,696,811 tons, ranging from six-ton blockbusters to loose powder, -with only one fire to mar its safety record. Will Now Be Closed Port ‘authorities said the terminal was “one of America's best kept) secrets of the war.” At will how be closed as an ammunition port unless “future developments compel its use as such,” the war department said. It took 54,000 freight cars, rolling down the 2200-foot caliseway to the 1800-foot pier to load the ships with their fighting cargo. ~ It took .an average staff of 2000 civilians and 1000 military personnel, plus 11,000 stevedores on call, to serve the giant installation, the largest .of its kind in the world. Ceremonies marked the departure of the last ship, and the first time that the pier was open to the
that he was only trying to find a cool spot to sleep.
STORM DAMAGE HIGH IN GARY VICINITY
GARY, Ind, Aug. 1 (U, P).— | Lake county residents™ were ‘today {surveying damage caused by high winds and heavy rain yesterday. Wind caused several thousand dollars damage to buildings and crops when it deroofed several dwellings and flattened cornfields.
Machinery Will Be Moved to New Site Soon.
The L. G. 8. Spring Clutch Corp. of Ingianapolis, wholly-owned subsidiary of Curtiss-Wright Corp., has bought the three-story Mars Hill plant now being used by Allison for its service school, it was announced today. The building, owned by Arthur Jordan Foundation, contains 86,000 square feet with 30,000 more square
Lightning was reported to have
feet in other” buildings on the 25-
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JAMES ROOSEVELT
BEVERLY HILLS, Cal, Aug. 1 (U. P.).—Col. James Roosevelt was advanced today as a possible candidate for governor of California by the Beverly Hills Citizen, independent weekly published by Will and James Rogers, sons of the late
As Maj. Gen Clarence H)|
Leahy Letter Reminds Petain That Lethargy Hurt France
William D. Leahy, former U. S.
ambassador to Vichy, was quoted today as having said in a letter to Marshal Henri Philippe Petain last June 22 that. he was
“‘convinced the French people.”
The letter presented at the treason trial of Petairr quoted Leahy, now President Truman's chief of staff, as reminding the old marshal
that “your refusal to do anything against the axis eventually harmed France.” Petain’s defense chief, Fernand |Payen, caused a Sensation on the {uinth day of the trial by announc-
PARIS, Aug. 1 (U. P.) —Pierre | 2 arrived by plane at Lebourget field tonight at 7:30 p. m. | (12:30 p. m. Indianapolis Time)
| from Straushourg in the custody of French officials.
{ing that Petain had just received the letter from Leahy. It was dated June 22, and answered one from Petain "on June 10. Payen read the letter while Gen. Maxime Weygand was waiting to polish off his main testimony of yesterday. When he finished, Judge Pierre Mongibeaux observed, “So Leahy says your action eventually harmed France?” Payen protested that “apart from that one single line, there are 10 lines of praise.” “Your June 10 letter was given me today by a mutual friend,” the {letter said. “I learned of your sad | situation. “It is impossible for me to be im{plicated in an “internal French {erisis,. My knowledge of your personal attitude toward the axis is
SANDERSON OUT AS MUSEUM DIRECTOR
\Disanvesrsenton on Patronage Matters Reported.
Zachary Sanderson ‘of Marion quit his job as state museum director.today. Circumstances surrounding his action were confused. One version
{had it that Mr. Sanderson's resig- | nation had been demanded by Con~ | servation Director Milton Matter
as sorhiewhat disgruntled over at matters in the conservation department. A Republican, Mr. Sanderson came to the conservation depart-
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B-29'S ATTACK CITY ON “DEATH
LIST, APS SAY
Two Other Areas Blasted in New Air Offensive, Tokyo Reports.
By WILLIAM F. TYREE United Press Staff Correspondent
GUAM, Thursday, Aug. 2. \—Tokyo reported several formations of Superfortresses ‘bombed targets in Japan in | 4 two-hour raid last night,
Mittieg at least one city ~~ |which had been warned by Maj. Gen. Curtis E, Lemay’s “death notice” leaflets. There was no immediate c¢onfirmation of the enemy report from U. 8. sources. A Japanese broadcast - said for mations of B-29s comprised of about 100 planés each attacked the Kawasaki and Niigita districts, and the city of Nagaoka. Nagaoka, a city of 70,000 on the northwestern coast of Honshu, has been warned twice by Maj. Gen. Curtis E. Lemay that it will be fire-bombed. It first received = leaflet warning July 28, and again yesterday. On Tokyo Bay : | Kawasaki is an industrial suburb ‘of Tokyo. A city of 154,748, it lies {south of the capitol on Tokyo bay. {16 was 20.2 per cent destroyed by | Superfortresses July 13. {-Niigita. is .a_ port city 25 miles | north of Nagaoka. It is Strategically . |important as a receiving harbor for supplies shipped from Korea and Manchuria. Small formations of B-29s laid mines in waters off Niigita in previous Tokyo-reported strikes. Earlier todayz-American landbased planes using rockets, and a submarine bombarded Japanese L bases. The 3d fleet remained under a security blackout off the enemy coast for the second straight day. At the same time, Japanese imperial headquarters conceded that American carrier planes and land. based bombers had caused “con~ siderable - damage” to Japanese cities, factories and shipping in attacks last month. U. 8. Sub Attacks Radio Tokyo. reported that 20 American P-51 Mustangs bombed, | rocketed and machine-gunned air {bases and transportation facilities
|in the Osaka-Kobe area southwest of Tokyo for 50 minutes beginning at 9-a. m. Another Tokyo broadcast said an . allied submariité’ boldly surfaced sa few miles off the south coast of. | Hokkaido, northernmost of the Jap|anese home islands, and shelled the ‘city of Tomakomai for a half hour about 6 p. m. yesterday. | Damage was “extremely slight, | the broadcast said. There has been ne word from the {3d fleet since it sent destroyers into [land-locked Suruga bay to shell the {city of Schimizu Just after Mon- | day midnight. In today’s only communique, Adm. Chester W. Nimitz announced that the fleet's carrier planes had de|stroyed or damaged 89 more ‘Jap-
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{tightened safety
regulations * to lessen the possibility of similar ac‘cidents: At the same time they denied an increase in army violations of CAA safety traffic precautions such as low flying and “buzzing.” Newest safety rule under consideration by the air forces office for flying safety is a system whereby civilians who are ‘buzzed” by army planes will be able to identify the planes for the AAF. Subsequently, offending pilots can be disciplined. Under the new plan, army planes would .cafry large identification numerals on the wings. Currently, small identification Rymnetals are on the fuselage. Pigures on CAA violation inci dents released today by the indicate the air forces which now fly over 75 per cent of fic reported by CAA airway fic eon-
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two cars with this service, The transmitter would be placed | “lon the top of the telephone build- | ing at Meridian and New York sts. It would be a frequency modulated (FM) transmitter of 250watt power, which could reach all of Marion county, The application, made with the federal communications commission, requested two frequency channels in order that one might be used from the central transmitted to the automobile and the other from the vehicle to the receiving station, giving drivers, two-way voice communication. When developed for public use, telephones on mobile units will be connected with the general telephone system, so that any subscriber to the -tWo-Way mobile service can talk from any equipped vehicle to any other lepine, 1 the cont pany said.
| county. Two inches of rain fell within an hour in downtown Gary, flooding Broadway, the city’s main street, with six inches of water for several hours. Sewer facilities were inadequate to handle the downpour, engineers said.
W. W. - Gleeson, ' newly-elected president of the. clutch concern, said all machinery and facilities now at the company’s plant at Division st. and Gillette, leased from the Truscon Steel Co, will be moved to the new plant, which is near Stout field, as soon as possible.
Body of Soldier Recovered After Gravel Pit Drowning,
The body of Pvt. Nobert Archibeque, 20, a member of the 4th guard company at Ft. Harrison, was recovered by police early this morning in what is known as the “streetcar company gravel pit,” south of Minnesota st. and about a quarter of a mile west of Eagle The drowning occurred during a swimming party attended by Pvt. Archibeque, Mary Hudgins, 3823 English ave.; Josephine Burke, 127. N, Illinois st. apartment 12, and Pvt. Elmer A. Mills, also ots the 4th pit - when they Rokieed the soldier, guard company, The body was Digerati. the Pr. ing.
The Citizen, speculating editorially on Roosevelt's possible candidacy, pointéd out that the marine colonel had established residence in the state by buying a home in Beverly Hills. “There is still much vote-getting power in the magic Roosevelt name,” the editorial said. >
BURNED BODY PROBED
JERSEYVILLE, Ill, Aug. 1 w. P.) ~—State's. Attorney Frank Reisner of Jersey county said today that he will press an investigation into the death of Mrs. Nettie Dunham Ford, 53-year-old widow whose: burned and dismembered body. was oud in the basemént of her home esterday. oa an inquest last night, a cor .ioner’s jury returned an open ver-
. dict stating that Mrs: Ford died of ,{burns, cause of which was- “un-
known.”
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a controversy with Republican patronage chiefs and officials of the ‘conservation department. He contended that G. O. P. patronage dispensers were exercising too much influence in the switchover of the departnmient from a Democratic to a Republican controlled state agency.
navy fliers, it. was revealed today. The navy said that pilots of com . | posite squadron 83, operating from {an escort cafrier, conducted an intensive hunt for the enemy subs. Two attacks were made with unobserved results but the subs then | disappeared from the area,
NEW YORK, Aug. 1 (U. P)~— Brig. Gen. Lawrence G. Fritz, |piloting a C-80 Constellation plane, set a new non-stop record of 14 hours and 12 minutes on the 3600mile New York-Paris flight, it was announced at La Guardia field | today,
Atlantic wing of the Air Transport Command, eft New York at 4: p. m. yesterday and arrived in a 6:30 (BWT) a. m. today. |The record-setting
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MYSTERY OF WiDow's New‘ Record of 14 Hours Sef In New York-to-Paris Flight
pounds, carried a crew of 12 air force men, although its capacity is 60 persons. The interior of the plane was fitted with litter seats, Lt. Col. N. E.. Timper was co-pilot. Hd ATC's previous New York to Paris ;