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Hollywood ‘Lightning’ Darts at Three Shortridge Boys

Bill Stephenson gives out with a few sample bars while Robbie Robinson and Jack Metcalf, dancers de luxe, wait to let the rhythm trickle down to their feet.

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School Vaudeville

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EGGS 27 CENTS AT FARM, SELL NITY FOR 50

Spread of 40 to 50 Per Cent Blamed on ‘System’ By Producers.

BY ROBERT BLOEM Hoosier farmers are about

and it isn’t the eggs. From Washington comes word that the OPA’s price ceilings on eggs will remain in effect despite the fact that the hens apparently have completed their reconversion and are producing at a terrific rate.

budget for a dozen eggs at 50 cents

or more. But the farmer is getting ‘as little as 27 cents a dozen for eggs from the hutkster who serves as middleman between producer and jobber. That's rock bottom, the

tre ot nen we Steel Strikers Go to Church

steelworkers of the J. D. Adams Manufacturing Co.

Picketing steelworkers and their families join in Sunday worship in the personnel office of the J. D. Adams Manufacturing Co. Striker Robert Whipple leads them in singing “Rock of Ages.” °

Pickets Attend Sunday Worship Inside J. D. Adams Plant

In Company Personnel Office

When pickets can’t go to church, the church goes to the pickets. That is what is happening every Sunday afternoon with the striking

RIOTS IN EGYPT ENTER 30 DAY

Transit Strike Halts All Public Transportation. - In Eastern City.

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By UNITED PRESS All public transportation for Philadelphia's 2,000,000 residents was stopped today by a strike of 9655 . transit workers. : The entire rail and bus network of the Philadelphia Prans« portation Co. was shut down at 12:01 a. m. Every trolley, bus, subs way and elevated train was parked in a car barn or at a terminal point, The company sald it would not attempt to operate any equipment. The Philadelphia walkout boost=

ed the national strike-idle to 1,470,000 persons.

Singled Out by Movie Scouts

By DONNA MIKELS

. rat - ! At 2 p. m. on Sundays membérs of local 1262, United Steelworkers Anti-British .. Demonstrators

of America (C. I. O.) hold worship. A : Pastors of various denominations and faiths are invited to deliver ‘Hurl Stones at Police.

price low at which the government has promised to take a hand with

HOLDS UP BANK

Fred Harman

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—By Martin

Escapes With $800 After Brook, Ind., Robbery.

BROOK, Ind, Feb. 11 (U. P).—

" A gun-toting youth herded three

women employees into a back room of the Community State bank here this morning and fled with approximately $800 from the cash . . Indiana and Illinois in search of the hold-up automobile, which was believed to be a 1940 or 1941 black Ford sedan. Miss Marie McCoy, cashier, described the youth as about 19 or 20 years old, thin-faced and swarthy. He wore a brown leather jacket, blue and grey tweed trousers, and a khaki hunting cap. Was in Bank Earlier

He entered the bank about 8:30 8. m. with a cigar box full of loose change. Miss McCoy said he asked fop bills in exchange, but didn’t know how much he had in the box and didn’t seem to care. After she gave him the bills, he left the bank and entered an auto-

mobile parked on a side street.

Miss McCoy asked a customer, “Do you know who that fellow was? He acted very peculiar.”’ Scoops Money From Drawer A few minutes later the youth returned. He placed the cigar box in Miss McCoy's cashier window, whipped out a gun and said: “Fill it up!” Miss McCoy screamed and ran toward a back room. The bandit dashed around the. counter, forced Miss McCoy and two other employees, Mrs. Bethel Folger and Mrs. Phyllis Warrick, into the room, and shut the door. He then scooped all the money from the cash drawer and left: The rest of the bank's money was under a time clock.

FLOODS THREATEN SOUTH’S LOWLANDS

By UNITED PRESS Red Cross workers in two north Georgia cities worked with highway patrolmen Monday evacuating families made homeless by surging floodwaters. German prisoners of war were put to work sandbagging the saturated levees of the Yazoo river below Greenwood, Miss. Record rises in the Yazoo and other nearby rivers were predicted. Capt. K. E. McLaughlin, public re-

lations officer of . the Vicksburg.)

Miss, U. 8. engineers office, termed conditions “very serious.” Heavy rains over the Red and Ouachita river basin also . have caused those rivers to rise above

8IE3 | weighing pro and con.

Three kids—just ordinary looking teen-age kids—scuffed along the

halls of Shortridge togay with a mental wheels going around.

They might have been upset about a civics test. It might have been best-girl worry—or any of the thousand and one other “troubles® that

beset high school students. But it was far from that: It was a streak out of the blue, a chance of a lifetime—a hoped-for but not looked-for freak of fate. It was a possible Hollywood offer that Bill Stephenson, Robbie and Jack Metcalf were

Talent Scouts Watch The three boys were among those who put’ the annual Shortridge vaudeville over in a blaze of glory. What they didn’t know as they knocked themselves out putting the show over last Friday night was that two Warner Brothers’ talent scouts were sitting in the crowd— looking. They looked and they liked what they saw. When the last curtain fell Miss Lucia Perigo and Ire Epstein—who had come all the way from Hollywood to see the show— pushed their way backstage. They rushed to Bill Stephenson, chubby, bespectacled piano-man deluxe. Students Interviewed While one scout asked the bewildéred Bill leading questions, the other tracked down Jack Metcalf— a wiry good-looking kid who does a “sorta different” kind of tap dance. A third youth they looked for, quiet Robbie Robinson—whose feet flow with rhythm—was nowhere to be found. ‘He'd had an early spot in the show and had beat it out to meet some other kids for a coke date, never dreaming that the chance he’d longed for was right out over the footlights in Shortridge auditorium, The scouts wanted to see him badly enough that they called the school later and made arrangements to see him at his home.

Await Actual Offer

None of the kids is quite sure what the conversation with the scouts means in terms of an actual offer. The scouts wanted to know how long 15-year-old Bill had been

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MORE JUST $0-50 WEATHER FORECAST

Light Snowfall Blankets Southern Indiana.

LOCAL TEMPERATURES 6am..... 20

worried look that always indicates

PASTORS HEAR OF ‘BLACK ART

its support program. Blame System “This is once we can’t blame it on the government,” one farm expert said today. “That's too big a spread for the middlemen and the fault lies in the distribution system somewhere.” The fact is that although. the

See Curbing of ‘Religious’ : i Rackets as Church Task. | By EMMA RIVERS MILNER | Times Church Editor { Need for the established church to curb the alarming growth of religious rackets was urged in an open forum last night. The forum on “Is Religion Becoming a Racket?” was held in the Roberts Park Methodist church. Miss Donna Mikels, editorial staff member of The Indianapolis Times, was the speaker. Forum participants charged that the established church has ‘fallen short to a certain extent, and that it must rise to meet the needs of its bewildered members. This, they believe, is the only way the grip of the religious racketeers can be broken. Tells of Investigation

Miss Mikels based her talk on the

Times. Dr. Sumner I. Martin, host

and Dr. F. Marion Smith, pastor of the Central Avenue Methodist church, also made a few remarks.

medium said she was once a Methodist but became a spiritualist because she found the church so cold and aloof on every day except Sunday. In reply to the question of one spiritualist pastor, Miss Mikels explained that some of the spiritualist churches were indignant at the black art being foisted on the public by other spiritualist churches. However, she said that 80 per cent of the spiritualist churches give “readings” which amount to

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C.1. 0. COUNSEL HITS" ANTI-STRIKE BILL

WASHINGTON, Feb. 11 (U. P)). ~The C. I. O. today. denounced the Case strike-control bill as a “punitive expedition” against organized labor. C. I. O. General Counsel Lee

the sermons in the plant personnel office, whith has been made available by the company. Yesterday was typical as some 25 pickets and members of their families joined to sing “Rock of Ages” and other hymns under the leadership of Striker Robert Whipple. The Rev. J. Clinton Swanagan, Mars Hill Free Methodist church,

the Mafs Hill church.

delivered the sermon based on John 3:16. Special music was provided by Mr. and Mrs, Charles Wyatt of

As the benediction closed the service, the congregation stopped in

CAIRO, Feb. 11 (U. P.) —Rioting broke out afresh in the heart of Cairo today, the third straight day of violence touched off by student demonstrations against British policy in Egypt. Stone-throwing students and po-

little groups to talk.

signs and began the march up and down before the plant.

CALLS BRITISH

indicated that the most farmers are getting is 30 cents a dozen for ungraded eggs—that from a retail store which buys directly from the farmers, The same store is selling the eggs at 40 cents a dozen, a margin of" 33 per cent to take up spoilage and breakage, and profit, Buyers’ Advantage The lowest retail price found locally was 37 cents a dozen in cartons on grade A medium-sized eggs. Without the carton that would be about 35 or 36 cents a dozen. Far more estdblishments, however, were found to be charging in the neighborhood of 50 cents a dozen, slightly more or less depending on quality and the classification of the store under OPA regulations. Farmers complain that buyers are taking advantage of the present egg glut in the market to pay low

research she had made for a series prices. Prices are so low, in fact,

of articles on “Black Art in Indian- that hatcheries and other poultry apolis,” published last week in The |eglers in the central part of the

state reported farmers getting noth-

pastor, served as forum moderator, ing for their work.

Feed Shortage The prices they get for eggs, these

During the query period thrown |Observers say, barely pays for the open to the audience, a woman who | investment in feed, chicks and housidentified herself as a spiritualistic |ing. There is no profit.

Inauguration of government sup(Continued on Page 5—Column 7)

U. S. AIRLINER SETS NEW FLIGHT RECORD

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, Feb. 11 (U. P).—A T. W. A. Constellation arrived at 11 a. m. today after what was described as the longest sustained flight ever made by a commercial plane without extra fuel tanks—3370 miles from Cairo to Changa in Rhodesia. Officials of the line said the previous record was 3180 miles from

ACTION ‘WAR

Delegate Assails Policy in Java.

LONDON, Feb. 11 (U. P)— Ukrainian Delegate Dmitri Manuilski charged before the UNO

security council today that Great Britain was waging war against the Indonesian people—“war with all its consequences.” Manuilski reopened his attack on British policy in Java with the strongest denunciation of Britain yet made by the Soviet bloc. Going far beyond earlier Russian claims that the situation in Java threatened world peace, Manuilski

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STORE MANAGER IS SLUGGED BY BANDIT

Man Who Asked to See Rugs Demands Money.

An attempted holdup at the Star Furniture Co., 502 Massachusetts ave, failed today after the store's manager was slugged by the bandit. Simon Hurwitz, 45, of 1204 Union st., the manager, told police a man about 25 years old came into the store shortly before noon and said he wanted to buy a rug. Mr. Hurwitz took the man into a rear room where the rugs were kept. The man told him to “give me your money or I'll kill you.” When Mr. Hurwitz called for help, the man slugged him over the head

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Prestwick, Scotland, to New York, also set by a Constellation.

with a paper-covered object and then made his escape.

Russ ‘Support’ Vote Is Cast By 100 Million

By HENRY SHAPIRO United Press Staff Correspondent . MOSCOW, Feb. 11.—In carnival

day in a national election. The vote was certain to yield an overwhelming endorsement for Josef Stalin and the Communist party.

world’s surface—9,000,000 square miles—cast their votes yesterday in

They balloted for Stalin and approximately 1400 other members of Russia's “Who's Who” for membership in the Supreme Soviet.

(Radio Moscow said election re-

It said that at least 96 per cent of the eligible voters cast ballots in an atmosphere of “tremendous political enthusiasm.”).

Then they took up their picket |lice armed’ with staves clashed in the center of the city. First reports

The newspaper Al Balaga said a reduced the number of persons were reported ® perilously low level voted killed in today’s skirmishes in Alex- to return to work and submit their andria and other delta communi-| dispute to arbitration. Representaties. Authoritative reports of casu-|tives of 91 tugboat companies still alties were lacking.

70 Casualties on Sunday Demonstrations yesterday in spirits Russia today counted more|,jeyandria resulted in 70 casualties, than 100,000,000 ballots cast Sun-|officials reported. Students clashed with police, and 34 were arrested. university students barricaded themselves inside one of the institution's main ruildings yes terday against besieging government forces. The students for a time Voters from one-sixth of the|held a captured police commissioner under guard. Thousands of policemen, . troops the first national election since 1937.|and frontier guards concentrated around the college with heavy armament, including tanks and armored cars. Students Aroused at Premier A senior police officer said Premier Mahmoud Norkashi Pasha was silis will be antiounced ‘Tuesday... ied to init the demonsion= tions and crush what he considered a “grave revolutionary movement.” The students tried all day to give to a schoolStalin in an eve-of-the-poll speech | mate killed under the wheels of a called - the balloting *‘a verdict on|police truck, but failed in the face

the rule of the Communist party.” |ot concentrated police and army

Voters had no choice of candi-|forces.

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DISCHARGE DUE FOR

ROONEY THIS WEEK GROCERY TRAILER DESTROYED BY FIRE

Edible Cargo, Bound South, | ne blocks. Cars jammed Market

Goes Up in Smoke.

Note to housewives in Martins ville, Bloomingtan and Bedford: The reason you didn’t get those

American forces radio network an-

nounced Mickey Rooney, the movie star, will be redeployed as a high point man for discharge at the end of the week, it was announced today. The ‘army newspaper Stars and Stripes said Mickey planned to resume the Andy Hardy series in Hollywood and later probably would

branch into producing,

Homma, 'Death March' General, to Be Shot:

Student sentiment swung against Norkashi, as compared to their earler denunciations ‘of British policy.

a “national

funeral”

groceries you ordered for today is because they went up in smoke early this morning on State Road 37. A semi-trailer owned by the Kibler Trucking Co., 60 S. State ave.

were considering Mayor William

O'Dwyer’s proposal to submit the dispute to arbitration.

looked to for a settlement of the company's dispute with 175,000" striking auto workers and a strike in two other electrical appliance firms.

FOUR: City and state officials today appealed to the federal gov ernment to take over the operations of Duquesne Light and affiliated companies to prevent a power blackout in Pittsburgh and most of Allegheny and Beaver counties. Em~ ployees meanwhile went ahead with plans for the strike, ; At Philadelphia while the transit company’s normal rolling stock of 3268 stood idle, the city’s streets reflected the difficulties encountered by workers, many of whom left their homes before dawn. Weather Clear, Cold 5

Philadelphians with nothing te depend on but leg-work had at least clear, if biting weather for their walks,

with share-the-ride passengers formed solid, almost impassable lines in the central city, while headed for outlying industrial areas, On’ Chestnut st., one of the busi. est thoroughfares, the motor parade became so heavy at 9 a. m. that it took 18 minutes for a car to cover

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RACKETEER LUCIANO RETURNING TO ITALY

NEW YORK, Feb. 11 (U. P).— Charles (Lucky) Luciano, Brooklyn waterfront racketeer, was en route back to. his native Italy today aboard the Liberty ship Laura

At daylight, automobiles packed bp

loaded with produce for the three| Keene, his passage arranged by U, U. S. Supreme Court Refuses to Intervene southern Indiana towns, caught fire |S. immigration authorities. Pressman told the senate labor 2 five. miles south of Glenns Valley

flood stage and Capt. McLaughlin said the levees of those two rivers were being kept under close scrutiny,

TIMES

Amusements. . Around U. 8.. Aviation Business

INDEX

Jim Lucas ... 10 Chas. McCann .20 Ruth Millett ..11 Movies Obituaries ... Dr. O'Brien...11 Radio Richards .:.. Editorials ....12| Earl ‘Richert. 10 Peter Edson...12/Mrs. Roosevelt. 11 Scherrer. ,..,..12 Sports 8 Bob Stranahan 8

Classified .. Comics

Inside. Indpls..11/Geo. Thiem...11 Jane Jordan. ..19| Troop Arrivals 7 . Labor ........ 11{ Women's, ..14-15

Larsen = 10/World Affairs.12

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Cloudy skies with little change in temperature was the weather outlook for Indianapolis today. That's the way things will stand through tomorrow the weather bureau promised. Snow flurries were forecast in the northern part of the state by nightfall, Motorists discovered this morning that Jack Frost did a pretty goed job on autos that were left outside last night as the temperature dipped to 20 degrees at 6 a. m. The state highway commission reported two to five inches of snow on highways in the extreme southern part of Indiana near Princeton and New Albany, The roads were expected to be cleared today. Two other highways were reported covered with water. They were State Road 39 south of Tampico and Sfate Road 256 west of Austin.

committee that the bill, under the guise of trying to prevent violence, sought to destroy labor but remained “strangely silent concerning the conspiracy of American industry to defy the government , . and its laws.” Mr. Pressman’s testimony expanded on a statement by C. I. O. President Philip Murray on Saturday that the organization opposed any labor legislation at this time. The committee originally intended to start writing its own labor bill this week-end but scheduled new testimony on the Case bill, which was approved by the house last week.

GOLD STAR MOTHER DIES PHILADELPHIA, Feb, 11 (U. P). ~Mrs. Mary Frances Hill, 75, national president of the Gold Star "Mothers of America, died at a private nursing home here yesterday

after a seven-wheks illness.

By WILLIAM C. WILSON United Press Staff Correspondent MANILA, ' Feb. 11.—Lt. Gen. Masaharu Homma, conqueror of Bataan and Corregidor, was convicted by a U., S. military coms

‘|mission today of permitting his

troops to commit atrocities. He was sentenced to be “shot to death with musketry.” The verdict. held Homma directly responsible for~80,735 killings and tortures. These included those on the Bataan Death March and in the bombing of Manila after it was declared an open city, Dec, 26, 1941, He was acquitted of a charge in a second indictment that he refused

to grant quarter to American troopS ,;ci0n, The crowd ‘had been Yamashita, who was sentenced by warned previously that the verdict|an army commission to hang. must be received in silence.

in Manila bay when Gen. Jonathan M. Wainwright offered to surrender May 6, 1042,

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WASHINGTON, Feb. 11 (U. P).land was destroyed at 4:30 a. m. -The supreme court today refused today.

to intervene in the war crimes trial

of Japanese Gen. Masaharu Homma. | fire stations fought the blaze, which Homma was sentenced a few|gpparently was caused from frichours ago to be shot for his partition when the brakes on the huge in’the death of thousands of U, 8.|{rajler froze.

and Philippine war ‘prisoners. The court refused petitions by Homma’'s American military attorneys asking that his trial be removed from jurisdiction of the military commission.

It was the second time the court |, government study showed toda: had declined” to step into the trial |y sugar stocks in. the United

general for WAI gi,ies are at thelr lowest since early 1942 but are expected to improve by spring.

of a Japanese crimes, Last week it denied similar petitions in behalf of Gen. Tomoyuki

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SUGAR STOCKS MAY |

look is Cuba where the new crop may reach 4,750,000 tons, compared In the Yamashita case, the court w..;, . 1945 output of 3,925,000 tons, Some early 1946 Cuban sugar is now moving to the mainland under an “inter (Continued on Page $-Column 4) signed with Cuba,

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