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pital, and Sgt. Cy Macey. With Mr. Whaley are (left) Sandra Lee and (right) Shirley. Mrs. Hazel Plain, Mrs. Whaley’s mother is in the background. :
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1945
Mrs. Edna Peters (left) looks on tfensely as her father, David Bright, receives first aid ye Nurse Mrs, Mande Slaughter, 3232 N. Illinois st., who came in to offer her help.
C. M. WORKERS VOTE STRIKE OK
But Union’s Leaders Say Other Means to Be Tried.
By UNITED PRESS Rank-and-file members of the C. I. O, United Auto Workers today gave the union authority to strike against the huge General Motors corporation, Meanwhile, the numbers of strike-idle American workers’ dropped below 200,000 for the first time in five weeks, Voting results across the nation showed one trend—70 to 90 per cent
National labor relations board representatives - started counting city and state ballots in the na-tion-wide U., A. W. strike vote at 10 a. m. here in Red Mens’ hall, W. Morris and Lee sts. They said the total would be pooled and sent to the NLRB in Detroit later today. Although progress of the count was kept confidential by the NLRB and the union, U. A, W. spokesmen said the trend favored a strike if necessary, The ballots came from General Motors plants in Indianapolis, Muncie, Kokomo and Bedford.
of the General Motors workers in favor of walkout. Despite the strike sentiment, U. A. W. officials sald no walkout would be called “until we have ex-
hausted every other avenue of remedy for our problem.” Chrysler Motor Co. employees
were taking a similar vote today. The strike votes were ordered after the companies had rejected the United Auto Workers’ demand for a 30 per cent wage increase, Greyhound Strike Threat Another strike threat appeared as 12000 Greyhound bus drivers, maintenance men and terminal employees east of the Rockies voted
is made in their contract negotiations.
Both Sides in Auto Wage _ Crisis 'Opposed to Strike,’
But Fears
By EDWIN A. LAHEY Times Special Writer DETROIT, Oct. 25.—Both sides in the automobile wage crisis are now on record as opposed to a strike. ; The fears of observers that there will be one have been accordingly
increased.
General Motors Corp., which had allowed itself to be outlapped by the
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Are Overcome By Gas In Home
Police and doctors give artificial respiration fo 2d Lt. Leonard Bisanti as others carry out his wife, also overcome. pitalized. Mrs. Bisanti is in serious condition,
AGREEMENT ON TAX CUT SOUGHT
House-Senate Work on Compromise Bill.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 25 (U. P.). —The 1946 tax reduction
Butler Happy,
For Hinkle Is On Way Home
Happy days are here again out on Butler campus. Lt. Cmdr. Paul D. (Tony) Hinkle, the university's famed athletic bill| coach, will be back from the navy
today. At least 12,000,000 present
reached its final congressional stage|
to stay next week, probably by Wednesday.
United Automobile Workers in the publicity battle over the C. I. O.
UNION DEMANDS STEADY WORK
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Another C.L.O. Group Seeks Year-Round Guarantee. (Another Perkins Story, Page 19)
By FRED W. PERKINS Scripps-Howard Staff Writer WASHINGTON, Oct. 25.—Labor demands pile up today for General Motors Corp., largest concern in automobile manufacturing—the industry which was to be the bellwether of reconversion, The expected heavy vote favoring a strike by members of the United Automobile Workers, if 30 per cent wage increases are not granted, is followed by a new set of demands from another big C. I. O. union— the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers. y This union makes the first specific demand in the current wage drive for a guarantee of 40 hours’ work a week. This is to cover all employes who were on GM payrolls on V-E day as well as all employees on military leave. Thus the company would have to guarantee steady work for a year to all its V-E day employees and to all the returning veterans seeking their old jobs. Clifford McAvoy, Washington representative of the United Electrical
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‘DEATH SENTENCE OF
union’s demand for a 30 per cent wage increase, ran its chief labor negotiator, Vice President Harry W. Anderson, into the publicity arena yesterday,
Walter P. Reuther of the auto workers, in its desire fer industrial peace. Reuther on the day previous had made some fine protestations as a peace lover, Valid Reasons for Delay But even though each newly expressed desire for peace brings General Motors and the U. A" W. closer to a hammerlock grip, there seemed little danger of any immediate strike, since all the antagonists have much to gain from a delay in the showdown, Industry has valid reasons for delaying a wage showdown, since President Truman's big labormanagement conference opens in Washington on Nov, 5. While the stage managers of that show hope to conduct the conference without reference to the vital post-war wage issue, they still express hope that a way will be found for solving labor problems without interruption to reconversion. Similarly, the auto workers, though determined to get a healthy wage increase without a general price increase, are in no hurry to precipitate the issue before the JDetroit municipal elections of Nov. 6.
He was there long enough to upon repeal of the $5-a-year auto-| Tony's home« assert that, the corporation yields t0| mohjle use tax and freezing the on 3 t {coming crackled
taxpayers were guaranteed that they will owe nothing next year. The hill went to a senate-house conference with both sides agreed to permit individual exemptions to that extent. They also were agreed
Butler's sports stock was already soaring high today in classroom and corridor specs ulation as news of
social security paypoll tax at 1 Periynipuoh Fairview cent each on employes and ef campus like a ployee for another year. {brush fire. . The conferees faced the task of] Just returned { Compropising Sher Siflerences be-| from the Pacific, Tony Hinkle tween the $5,788,000, MEASUTe | pony leaves San Diego today via approved by the senate yesterday| : troop train for Great Lakes, where and the $5,350,000,000 bill passed by he'll. be disch d. He i the house two weeks ago. 8 CISCHATEEE, ae i 10 he met there by Mrs. Hinkle, who is Differ on Four Points driving up from their home at 4600 These differences include: Sunset ave. 1. The amount of relief to be Collegian Rejoices allowed 36,000,000 individuals re-| mothusiasm over Hinkle's im-
maining on the tax rolls. pendin g return was summarized in 2. Whether to repeal the excessin, gytler Collegian’s column, “The profits tax on corporations Mec Fighting Ory,” written by Sports hve Deed! — Solin bit & I€- | mditor Bill Tobin. The column was . * headed “Happiness With Hinkle,” or : on othe or ay a: Rhapsodized Student Tobin: v do 2 - in excise taxes which affect such ty Sood news? There could: hard items as jewelry, furs, liquor, rail- |" ’ im ; road tickets and theater admissions. With Hink's return the days of 4. Whether to provide special tax benefits for veterans. There was only a little difference!
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with no children would owe nothing on income up to $1000 a year. |
Dick Frankensteen, the popular vice president of the union, is a candidate for mayor, and a strike crisis on the eve of election would | militate against his own excellent | chance for election,
to individual income taxpayers. 12 Million Off Rolls Dates Fixed for Arrival of Hoosier Guards.
In either case a man and wife A couple with two children would Los Angeles arrival dates of six
owe nothing on earnings up to $2500. This was part of the program under which 12,000,000 tax-
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TEAGHERS HERE 15,000 STRONG
Stores Hang Out Bunting For 1st Rally in 5 Years.
By DONNA MIKELS Downtown Indianapolis 15 a bad place to split an infinitive today. Anyone of the crowd of people around you on the streets, massed in hotel lobbies or surging through stores is apt to be one of 15,000 Hoosier educators in town for the 92d annual Indiana State Teachers’ association convention. Welcoming them to the first peacetime convention in five years, downtown Indianapolis husiness places have strung out thq holiday bunting. School supplies companies have taken over the lobby of the Claypool to display their wares to the visitors and stores have set up exhibits of interest to the schoolmen and “marms.” Detailed Plans Drawn Setting the pace for the parley, administrators and executives of the association met last night te complete plans for the sessions today and tomorrow. Committees readied their reports to be given at the business meeting tomorrow and the executive committee drew up detailed plans for proposed convention work. City and town superintendents met yesterday at the Hotel Lincoln | to hear Dr. Stephen 8. Cory, of the University of Chicago, nationally known authority on juvenile problems, County superintendents also convened at the Lincoln to discuss proposed legislation henefitting rural schools. Speakers at the ses sion included Dr. Clement T. Ma-~ lan, state superintendent of public instruction; Dr. Harold D. Fish of the American Cancer society, and Dr, Edgar Dale, authority on visual education.
Mrs. "Oldham Candidate Today, one day before the elec-
Mrs. Fay Steele . . .
overcome by the gas fumes but not hospitalized. ‘
Both are hos-
SOME VICTIM FOUND IN COM
Several Taken to Hospital Seriously Ill; Leak
Hunted in 16-Inch Main.
At least 16 persons were overcome as escaping gas spread along the 2400 block on Central ave. this morning, As ambulances carried away or treated a steady stream
of gas victims, all available workmen from the Citizens Gs & Coke utility began digging down to a 16-inch high pressu gas main from which it was believed the gas might hav — leaked. Groups Here to | First victims of the gas & ‘were seven persons at 2410 Be Happy Even | Central ave, Police were called . [there when Mrs, Martha Whaley, If Rain Comes 128, and her two daughters, Shirley, : _|11, and Sandra, 4, all became ill, Indianapolis may have to raise) . her umbrella. ceiling tonight to Found Unconscious meet the weatherman’s prediction| Shortly before police arrived Mra, for brief showers, but chances are! Whaley went upstairs to summon no rain will [two roomers for aid and discovered dampen the | Mrs. Dorothy White, 23, unconscious spirits of three lon the bathroom floor and Mrs special groups. (Faye Steele, 22, just lapsing into Enjoying their unconsciousness in her bedroom. two - day vaca- Patrolman Carl Elder, who ane
tion, the city's |swered the call, summoned ‘ambu« thousands of lances and with Mr. William Whal« school children ey, who had been called home, be= will have just gan a check of the house next door. as much fun in | Using a ladder to gain entrance their raincoats, Cloudy |to the locked house, they found four
and the Hoosier teachers will still persons unconscious at 2418 Cenenjoy their annual convention, tral ave. Mi¥ Ralph Johnson, wife meetings and guest speakers, of a soldier stationed at Ft. HarBut the sunniest part of the city |rison, had collapsed, and Lt, and Is over on Butler university's cam-| Mrs. Leonard Bisante were uncon< pus, Ome of its war heroes, and|scious in bed, These three persons, famed athletic coach, Lt. Cmdr.|all believed seriously ill, were sent Paul D. (Tony) Hinkle, will be back |to City hospital. on the campus soon. Going downstairs in the Cloudy skies and colder tempera-|they found Mrs. tures are on the weather bureau's overcome. chart for tomorrow,
house Cora Gary, 50, Ambulances took the
LOCAL TEMPERATURES
victims to hospitals for treatment. Reports Spread
Mr. Anderson, the General]
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tion, the name of Mrs. Anita Old-
American Airlines’ transcontinental and trans-Atlantic service wag threatened as ground crew members ‘began walking out in sympathy with workers in the com-
VICHYITE COMMUTED
PARIS, Oct. 25 (U, P.)~The | newspaper National said today that | President Gen, Charles De Gaulle any’s export branch. has commuted the death sentence Phe strike spread to a third city | 8iven Gen. Henri-Fernand Dentz when mechanics quit work at the|fOr treason to ‘life imprisonment Detroit terminal. Service there |at hard labor. . was cancelled by the company. Dentz was convicted last April The strike previously had halted] 20 Of treacherous conduct as. Vichy flights hetween New York and Chi- | Nish commissioner for Syria, where cago, New York and Detroit, Chi-|Ne led Vichy troops against De | Gaulle’s fighting French troops and | British units.
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DISCUSS SPEEDWAY JET-PROPELLED CA
AAA Contest Board May Change Racing Rules.
NEW YORK, Qct, 25 (U, P.), = With Chairman Capt, Eddie Rick-
national guard) division personnel
[PYLE AUXILIARY VFW |oack nome have been announced | TO MEET TOMORROW! The ships and their arrivai dates
Ernie Pyle auxiliary 1120, Veterans in Los Angeles are: {of Foreign Wars, will meet at 7:30| Uruguay, Oct. 27; Young America, p. m. tomorrow in the World War Oct. 29; Funston, Oct. 29: Marine | memorial, Mothers, wives, sisters| Tiger, Oct. 31; Santa Isabel, Nov. and daughters of world war II vet-6, and Mormaec Dominion, which {erans are eligible for membership. sailed Oct. 18, but for which no ar-
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{| Mrs. Allen C. Harper will preside. rival date has been announced,
| Visiting Teachers Line Up for Room Assignments
ham, Knightstown teacher and former state association vice president, was being tossed from group to group as the person most likely to carry off top ‘election honors.
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Mrs. Oldham, who has taught in Knightstown 19 years, served as vice president of the association from 1939 to 1940. A graduate of
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POINTS ON BUTTER T0 BE CUT SUNDAY
Ration Values og Fats, Oils | Also Will Drop.
| WASHINGTON, Oct. 25 (U. P),
Sa m..... 4 10am... 51 As news of the gas leak spread Ta. m.... 44 11 a.m...., 53 |over the neighborhood, police be« 8am....,45 12 (Noon),, 55 |gan to get calls from several other fam .. 51 |residences reporting persons overs
come. Lewis Bright, of 2418 Central ave, went to his home and found his mother, Mrs. Nola Bright, 50, unconsciolis in the front room, and {his father, David, 62, overcome in {an upstairs room, They were sent | to City hospital.
| At about the same time, Mrs. Jane Stropes, 33, and her father, John Wise, 2420 Central, became
ill after returning from the Whaley residence where they had gone to
$494,000 Still Needed in
enbacker presiding, the American Automobile association contest
board opened -a three-day special session today. They were to consider possible rule amendments
| —Ration values of butter, mar-| Delp the first gas victims. | garine, lard, shortening and olls | Mrs. Elizabeth Brown, Tl-years were reduced by the OPA. today old resident of 2408 Central ave. from 12 to 8 points a pound for the | Was discovered overcome in her rationing period beginning Sunday. home by helpers who were checking
Ration values of ail’ meat wil | through the neighborhood.
Community Fund Drive
| including changes to. permit jet- | propelled cars—for the Indianapolis 500-mile auto race in 1946,
remain the same during the Oct. 28-Dec, 1 period, except for a 4-to-
Two more residents of 2410 Cen
J Goal ................51,821,000.00 | munity Fund's goal of $1,821,000 is Reported to date .... 1,325,759,14 | reached. Amount needed ,.... 494,240.86 Here are two reasons why the Drive ends .......... Tomorrow | workers are sacrificing valuable
More than 4000 volunteer solicitors today faced the task of, raising almost a half-million dol.) lars between now and tomorrow night if the United War and Com-
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Amusements. ; 30| Movies APE , 30 Business ..... 32 {Obituaries ... 12 Carnival ..... 20 Pred Perkins.. 19 Comics .. ... «: 35 /Radio . ...... 35 Max B. Cook. 19 Ration Dates. 3 Crossword .... 35 Robt. Richards 27 Editorials . 20 Mrs. Roosevelt 19 Forum ...... 20 Wm. P. Simms 20 Meta Given... 23/M. Smith .... 19 Eine Hill .... 16 Sports... ,. In Indpls. . .. A State Deaths. 26 Inside Indpls. 19 Tom Stokes .. 20
Jane Jordan . 35 Roger Stuart 18 Daniel Kidney 20 Geo, Weller... 3 McGaffin ...., 11/8. Whipple .. 19 Ruth Millett. 19 Society .. 22, 23
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time away from jobs, business and households to make the goal and two reasons why they are appealing to everyone in- Indianapolis and Marion county to give if they have not given, Not long ago a check was made of the population of Indiana's penal institutions for men to determine if any of them had ever been a Boy Scout. It was found that not a single prisoner ever
Over at the English Avenue Boys’ club they are not worried too much about juvenile - delinquency.
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Final decisions on amendments are to be made on Saturday ac-, cording to the agenda, Secretary! James Lamb said. Today's session |
been a Scout. ;
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club serves a wide area in the 31 southeastern section of the city, and ‘has a membership pf about 800 cars” will be entered in the race Gorman, director, said next May 30, and predicted that that there has been no increase in Steps would be initiated to amend ' bn.
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was to be devoted to an open hearing of guggestions, ideas and recom~ mendations from a representative group of 25 drivers, car-owners and promoters on various phases of the annual classic. “The contest board will meet oe-
consider these proposals, and on Saturday will announce its decisfons.” The board anticipates discussion of jet-propelled cars, he said. Capt: Rickenbacker, who is also president of the Indianapolis Speed-
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) chairman of the housing bureau for the teachers convention, deals out lodging the present rulef to allow for this * to” three Terre Haute teachers, homeless in the convention filled city.
The teachers are (left to right)
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cuts of pork. ' ADIA
The pork cuts include fat backs LEGAL OPINION IN and clear plates, from 10 to 6 points| FARE STUDY SOUGHT
a pound; Jowls, from 7 to 4; regular | : , plates, from 10 to 6; bacon plate, City council today still awaited an official” opinion from Corpora-
from 10 to 6; bacon jowl, f 7 to 4: dry cure Pr on te g [ton Counsel Arch N. Bobbitt on its and barbecued pork, from 10 to B Hient to Seotest Indianapolis’ new OPA said it was reducin int | 3'reel rallway lares, values on butter, fats and : Herman E, Bowers, chairman of cause 12 per cent more butter and the Soundll are Swdy committess 39 per cent more lard would be|S BL available for civilians next month, |Statement from Mr. Bobbitt before largely because of large supplies re- jetsing a Sate Jor council's public leased by the armed forces. earing on the rates. Butter Price Goes U He said the public hearing probBut P ably would be held next week. ' Ail utter prices go up 5 to 6 cents|, erased, groups and persons will a pound Nov, 8 as result of termi~ pe inwited to air their view, he nation i BOTerTIment ig : dl added. Council was asked to interje S pg wies = {vene before the Indiana public serve Te would De per cent less. ommission against the new
month thai Qui OC ieate schedule by Frank J. Murray, and lamb but a 41 per cenit fg {SEC Utive secretary of ‘the Indian-
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