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The Indianapolis Times
Entered as Second-Class Matter at Postoftice Indianapolis 9, Ind Issued daily except Sunday
, in 1944, the city hall faction of the
‘ weeks ago were discussing the pos-
OPPOSITION T0 COUNTY 6.0.P.
BOSSES FOLDS)
- Party Machine Expected to
‘Handpick’ Ticket for November.
By NOBLE REED
All organized opposition to the regular Marion county Republican
machine appeared today to have
collapsed. Unless some anti-organization leadership develops in the next two weeks, the party machine bosses will be free to dictate a “hahdpicked” ticket for the Novémber election. City hall Republicans and other ty leaders who fought the reguorganization in the 1942 and 1944 elections said they plan to offer no organized opposition to regular machine in the May 7 primary. Two weeks ago city hall Republicans were planning to enter candidates against the regular” organization for prosecutor and sheriff in order to control the law enforcement machinery for the 1947 mayoralty campaign. Machine Too Strong
But a spokesman for the antiorganization Republicans today| said “we’ve. decided not to fight it out this year because the central committee machine has become too strong . . . we can’t buck it successfully.” In 1942 when Mayor Tyndall was nominated in the primary over regular organization opposition and
party had slates of precinct committeemen running against the regular organization in strategic wards. : But this year not -a single city hall precinct committeeman candidate has appeared against the machine choices for precinct posts. : Notify Ward Leaders Thus the Republican slates, picked by County G. O. P. Chairman Henry E. Ostrom, 11th District Chairman Joseph J. Daniels and James L. Bradford, former chairman and their advisers, will win in a walk-away race at the pri-
ot the anti-drganization Republicans in the last two weeks have notified the regular ward chairmen, most of whom Were picked by Former Chairman Bradford, that they will work with the regular organization in this primary. One’city hall Republican, a leader in the fight against the regular organization two years ago, notified the chairman of his ward that he was “ready to take assignments” from the party leadership. Stark Might Run The only chance seen now for anti-organization leadership is in the possible candidacy of, Judge Judson L. Stark of Superior court 1 for the prosecutor nomination. Also mentioned as a possible candidate for prosecutor against the regular organization is James M. Dawson, young Indianapolis attorney with offices in the Odd Fellow building. They would have to run against Alex M. Clark or Leo T. Brown, grand jury deputy prosecutor, one of whom is expected to be the regular organization's choice for proseeutor. Some city hall Republicans two
sibility of running Glen Funk, assistant eity attorney, for prosecutor against the organization but little Suppor has appeared on this proj-
8h io city hall Republicans were reported teaming up with Sheriff Otto Petit to support an antiorganization candidate for sheriff but this appears. to have faded out rapidly-in the last few days. However, followers of Mr. Petit said they still intend to have a can-
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CLEAR AND WARMER WEATHER PROMISED
LOCAL TEMPERATURES
¢éa m ... 10am ... 47 7am ...4 11a m ... 48 8a m. ... 4 12 (noon) .. 48 9am ...0 46 1pm ... 48 The weatherman - recommended
topcoats for today but he promised clear skies and warmer weather tomorrow. Temperatures will average 10 to 15 degrees above normal and unseasonably mild weather will be with us through Sunday. Precipitation will average one inches with recurrent shower peri-
ods late Thursday through Sunday.
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stop and laugh as her chubby son, solemnly came up and said ° a present.”
to two
Brother and sister . . . David Heath
Game of 'Gifts for Mother
Ends With
His mother had smiled and said her the “present” yesterday, so tiny
His mother,
Boy, 24, Dies in Odd Accident .
hands and toddled back to get her another “gift.” later the laughing two-and-one-half-Mrs. Franklin Heathco, 750 N. Emerson ave. getting ready for the Monday morning washing but she took time to
Judge Tentatively Deni Bauer's Request Fo
co and his big sister, Judith Ann.
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Child's Death
“Thank you, Davie” when he gave David Allen Heathco clapped his A few short minutes year-old boy was dead.
was
hand a small flat screw, somethi {he had found in the hall.
When she exclaimed and care-
fully put his present away, David ran back into the hall to find “mommie another present.” But
the next screw found its way into the boy’s mouth, causing his death by strangulation. When the mother heard the child choking, she summoned a doctor who arrived within a few minutes. He was too late, however, to save the boy's life; even with an emer-
‘I have! gency operation. The boy had been He held his fist over| | playing in a bedroom with his sister, hers and dropped into her open while his mother sorted clothes be-
| fore he wandered out into the hall {and found the tiny screws.
sister, in the RCA test equipment department, the child is survived by his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Ernest C. Emery and Mr. and Mrs. Arthur F. Heathco.
Thursday at Shirley Brothers’ Ir{vington chapel,
| Washington Park. | | said that state farmers could save
In addition to his mother, his and his father, a foreman
Services will be held at 3 p. m.
with burial in
Firemen Dine
While Flames Eat Elevator
GREENTOWN, Ind, March 19| (U. P.).—Greentown’s volunteer fire department decided today to :publicize plans for its next get-together. The Greentown grain ‘elevator was totally destroyed by fire last night while 14 of the 15 mefnbers of this small community’s volunteer fire department feasted on venison steaks at the home of a member.
» = WHEN the fire broke out, bystanders were puzzled as to the whereabouts of the. fire fighters. A call to Fred Richer’s garage, where the town’s fire truck is housed, failed to locate them. But at Fred Richer’s home, where there is no phone, the fire department was just starting dessert. By the time one of the boys dispatched to inform the firemen had located them, a strong wind had swept flames through the elevator.
n ” on JAMES ROSE, a world war II | veteran, who recently leased the| elevator, estimated damage today | at’ $15,000. Mr. Richer today described the incident ag “just one of those things.” He said that he and Fire Chief Paul Caldwell thought everybody knew where the firemen were, After the flames were brought under control, the department returned to the Richer home—and finished the dessert.
NAVAL REDUCTION HIT BY ADM. NIMITZ
Says 6 Months Needed to Regain Fighting Strength.
WASHINGTON, March 19 (U. P.) —Fleet Adm. Chester W. Nimitz told congress today that it would take “a minimum of “six months” to bring the navy to fighting strength in the event of an immediate emergency. » The silver-haired chief of naval operations made this statement during a naval affairs committee hearing to determine the effect. of a $2,100,000,000 cut by the budget bureau in the navy's estimates of its requirements for the fiscal year 1947. “If the nature of the emergency were such that demobilization could be stopped,” Adm. Nimitz said in reply to a question, “I would estimate that a minimum of six months would be required to bring the navy up to its strength of last fall.” Earlier, Adm. Nimitz told the committee that the budget bureau's action, if sustained, would “jeopardize this country's position as a world leader.” He said it would
force a reduction of 114 ships in
{six days
FORMAL CHARGE FILED BY IRAN
STOP FEEDING WHEAT TO PIGS,
FOOD WARNING
Expert Says Indiana Could Thus Speed Relief For Europe.
By VICTOR PETERSON Hoosier farmers were called on | today to stop the feeding of wheat to the spring pig crop in an effort to help alleviate the threatened | world-wide famine, The Indiana Council of the U, 8. department of agriculture meeting today in the AAA offices in the Big Four building began mapping plans for Indiana to aid in feeding the world. Members of the council agreed that the major factor involved is the sending of wheat to Europe and Other portions- of the world. Although Indiana is a small producer of wheat in comparison with some of the western states it was estimated that a million and one-half bushels could be made available immediately,
Take It From Pigs
J. R. Wiley, Purdue university agriculture -experimental station,
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this amount of wheat if they would take it from the diet of the spring pig crop. Members of the council expressed the opinion that the impending famine could be eased more rapidly
Tells UNO Russia Violated Pledge to Remove Troops.
By HARRISON SALISBURY United" Préss Staff Correspondent Iran announced today that she has filed a formal complaiht with} the United .Nations organization, charging ‘Russia has violated her 1942 pledge to remove Soviet troops from Iranian territory. The complaint was filed with Secretary General Trygve Lie of the United Nations organization immediately after. his arrival in Washington yesterday. The action insures security council hearing of the Iranian case when it assembles in New York Tity next Monday. Iran’s move coincided with reports that President Truman is considering a direct appeal to Generalissimo Stalin in an effort to break the’ Iran stalemate in the remaining before
{council meets.
There was no indication of Moscow’s reaction to the Iran action. The Moscow press and
radio continued their campaign of denunciation against, allegedly hostile moves in the Middle East, Iraq Watching It centered its attention on alleged efforts to set up an Eastern block of Turkey, Iran, Iraq .and Afghanistan directéd against “the Soviet Union. Reports from Baghdad said that Iraq is watching closely activities of the wild Kurdish tribes which inhabit the isolated region in the area where Turkey, Iran and Iraq join, Travelers reported that rifle supplies are much. more plentiful among the tribesmen and linked this with rebel Kurd chieftains who have taken refuge in the Soviet zone of Iran. Washington suggestions of presidential intervention came as the situation, on the surface at least, appeared to be quiet
further significant * Soviet
movements in Iran,
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BOY, 5, KILLED BY LOG BEDFORD, March 19
Raymond Pond, Springville, in crushed skull.
logs rolled off his wagon, on which he was riding.
in the crisis
ing. There were no reports of any hew move by the British from London nor was there word of any troop
The Russians were believed still
U. P)— Byron Noble, 5-year-old son of Mrs. died a hospital here last night of He was struck on the head by a log when a load of stepfather’s
if a variety of grains could be sent abroad. The bar to this solution, however, | is found in the habits of the foreign people, who unlike Americans, do not know how te prepare these grains for the table. To them, for example, corn. always has been a livestock food and not for human consumption, Need Immediate M. M. Justin, agricultural statistician for Purdue university and the department af agriculture, said” “Ag I see it, the need of the world for grain is immediate. It is what we have on hand that we must part with. “We cannot increase the current crop of wheat as it already is in the ground. Increased production in all farm production this summer would come too late to alleviate*the current crisis. “Jt is the next few months that count in Europe. I feel that after their present crisis is over, they
24 schools.
ARREST 49 IN 3 _ GAMING RAIDS
=
8 Facing Charges in Court Today as Operators. (Photo, Page 7) :
Charges against 49 persons whom police arrested in three raids on alleged gambling places yesterday weré continued until Maxch 27 by Judge Joseph M. Howard, in Municipal court 3 today. Seven of the defendants are charged with keeping a gaming house, one is charged with operating a gift enterprise and the remaining 41 were slated on
should be able to take care of them-
the | selves as their wheat crop will be | | harvested about the same time as)
[ours.” Matter of Habit It was expressed in the meeting that the farmers will have to be conditioned to the program insofar as much of their work on the farm is habit. Also hindering the sending of wheat abroad is the fact that it is currently more profitable for the farmer to feed nearly every type of grain to his. livestock. Meanwhile, farmers in the wheatproducing states in the West are casting a wary eye on the weather. To date, conditions have not been too favorable for a mammoth crop. Consequently, many of the wheat growers ‘are. holding on to about half of last year’s crop still in the bins. Suggest Government Purchase
The reason for this action is to provide them with a margin of safety against a poor crop this year which would give them seed for planting and also would make the remainder sell at a higher price. One council member who preferred not to be quoted said that one solution to sending wheat abroad would be for ‘the government to buy the total output and allocate it on the same basis as the commodity credit corporation has done in recent months with soybeans. L. Marshall Vogler, state director of the Production and Marketing administration, is presiding at the meetings. He was named by Secretary of Agriculture Clinton P. Anderson to head the Hoosier program to speed food production and conservation. »
Hoover Arrive To Face '12
PARIS, March 19 (U.
that 500,000,000 persons throughou
next harvest would be critical. “The problem is one of 120 days,”
mission for President ‘Truman.
Amusements.. 14 Ruth Millett., 11 the planned post-war fleet and. reBusiness ..... 8/Movies ...... 14 duce naval manpower ‘from 500,000 Carnival ..... 12{Obituaries ,.. 4|men to 437,000 by March 1, 1047, Classified... 16-18| Dr, O'Brien ,. 11 ’ Comics ...... 19|Radio ....... 19 Crossword ... 19| Reflections .. 12| IT'S OUR Editorials ,... 12|Mrs. Roosevelt 11 Forum ...... 12/Sclence ...... 11 BUSINESS— G. I. Rights . 20|Sports ....... 6 “We have forgotten the Meta Given , 13|/8Spy Nest .... 11 2 of world war I,” writes Don Hoover . 12 Stranahan he 8 Donald D. Hoover, discussIn Indpls. .... 2|State Deaths, 10 ing unification of the Inside Indpls.. 11|John Thale . 11 armed forces. Jane Jordan.. 10| Troop Arrivals 20 : : . Charles Lucey 20| Washington . 1 : Read today's. editorial Bil Mauldin. 20| Women's .... Page a ! . Labor seasons 11 Wi World a I + . - a
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P.).—Former President Hoover - said today
the world are short of food, and the period between now and the
Hoover sald at a press conference shortly after he arrived by plane |from the United States on his food
Hoover was greeted at Orly air port by Ambassador Jefferson Caffrey, Herve Alphand, economic diréctor of the French foreign office,
s in Paris 0-Day Problem!
The world food problem today probably is more critical than after the first world war, Hoover said at his press conference ‘in the Hotel Raphael, ' attended by about 50 American, British and French reporters, “The number of people involved is about thé same, but we had more supplies to distribute after the last war,” he said. “This war lasted much
t
in all countries greater while western | Supplies for export are
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longer and the degeneration of agriculture has been much emisphere auch less.”
{charges of gaming. Two of the raids on downtown establishments were made “within {40 minutes. Police arrested four alleged operators and 28 persons whom they charged were patrons when they raided a.back room of the Grand hotel, 138 8. Illinois st.
Raid on Illinois Street
Booked on a charge of keeping a gambling house were Gordon Bankert, 45, of 2458 College ave.; Ernest Moddas, 58, of 138 S. Illinois st.; Frank McGrayel, 60, Stubbins hotel, and Frank Dobson, 37, of 138 8S. Illinois st. Twelve “patrons” and three men charged with keeping a gaming house were arrested when the -police raided the Illinois Smoker, 215 N. Illinois st. ~ Charged with operating a gaming house were Rudy Hines, 50, of 418 E. 24th st.; Leslie Oliver, 38, of 1222 N. Kealing ave. and William Hearing, 46, of 2514 N. Delaware st.
lishments. Robert Mitchell, 34, of 2237'% W. 10th st. was arrested on a charge of operating a gift enterprise after police alleged they saw him sell a baseball ticket. The purchaser was charged with gaming. Police confiscated 10 books of baseball tickets.
FEAR GIANT PLANE
Superfortress Disappears in San Francisco Bay.
HAMILTON FIELD, Cal, March 19 (U. P)~—A B-29 Superfortress flying from Hawaii to the FairfleldSuisun, Cal, air base with a crew of seven disappeared in stormy darkness over the San Francisco area early today and was feared to have crashed near the Golden Gate. Flying through rain and a murky, low-lying cloud bank, the plane approached the San Francisco coastline at 1 a. m. and contacted the Hamilton field air base, 25 milés north of San Francisco and 40 miles ‘west of the FairfleldSuisu nbase, : The pilot, apparently trying to come in for a landing, told the Hamilton field control tower that his plane was low on gasoline, with
Police confiscated tally sheets and | racing forms from the two estab-|
CRASHED IN DARK
Twins Reign as Dual Queens of Purdue Relays
With the attractive Vaughan twins, Mary left) and Marjorie of Lafayette, reigning over the fourth annual Purdue relays, the Boilermakers should heap double trouble meet, staged at the Boilermaker fiieldhouse Saturday night, will attract more than 300 athletes from
BELIEVE JENNER
'Hitch-Hiker'
Suspects Flee
have slipped through Illinois state police road blocks and escaped.
Illinois state police district 10, said he believed the men now were gut of his district and probably were continuing westward toward Peoria, All roads in the area around Tolono, a small town 10 miles south of Urbana, were blocked off yesterday when the men were reported to have abandoned their car there and fled on. foot. The car bore license plates with the same numbers as were noted on a car driven by the murderers of James J. Williams, 32, when they shot and killed him on an Indiana highway yesterday morning. Lt, Lee said Indiana police told him one of the men is believed to be named Carl Erricsson. A man resembling one of the suspects reg< istered at a New Albany, Ind, hotel under that name, he said. The
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LIGHTER HAUL IN
Police See Evidence Crusade Is Bringing Results.
sired effect.
greater caution, traffic
down has netted almost 400 arrests. Of those slated last night, three,
also face reckless driving counts.
booked on reckless driving charges, |
and open muffler charges.
Road Blocks
GOP "Circles Expect Action
Two men suspected of the hitchhike murder of a war veteran near Paoli, Ind.,. today were believed to
Lt. Norman J. Lee, commanding!
TRAFFIC DRAGNET
The traffic dragnet bagged only 26 offenders last night and police cited the small “catch” as evidence their crusade was having the de-
Confronted with speedtraps and roadblocks, motorists are displaying| officers pointed out. The week-long crack-
charged with drunken driving, were | Motors division, taken to headquarters, Two of these| more than 90 per cent of the|gritish) claim they are fatuing, our
14 for possessing improper lights, | two for failure to display drivers’ licenses and several others on inadequate brakes, improper parking| reached agreements on local is-
TO. QUIT FRIDAY
At Committee Meeting.
By ROBERT BLOEM Resignation of William E. Jenner as RepubMcan state chairman at a state committee meetings Friday was described in G. O. P. circles today as virtually a certainty. Whether or not Mr. Jenner would announce his candidacy for Republican senatorial nomination at the same time was a matter of conjecture. It appeared equally certain, however, that such an announcement would follow his resignation within less than a week. Announcement of the committee meeting was made this morning at state headquarters in the Claypool hotel. The announcement implied calmly that the meeting would be a routine one, primarily to work out details of the party convention set for June 13, Political observers laughed this implication off, however, in the face of prospects that the meeting would be one of the most critical
power in the last election. Mr. Jenner's resignation to run for the senatorial nomination will leave open the chairmanship. While Patronage Secretary Clarke Springer is understood to have the
become a matter of general dis-
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G. M. STRIKE NOW
OFFICIALLY AT END
(U:. P)~ The General Motors Corp. strike came to an official end today after
DETROIT, March 19
119 days of idleness for 175,000 C. I. O. United Auto Workers.
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Wife Cries, ‘I Won't |
since. the Republicans came into qneys contended it designated ems
inside track to succeed him, it has
cussion that certain forces within | the state committee do not want
Him in That Old Jail Another Month.”
Federal Judge Robert" zell today tentatively bail to ex-S. Sgt. Bauer and set his citizen hearing for April 28. The judge took \ plea for release on bond under visement but indicated it wou denied on the assumption court here has no jurisdic him, U. 8. District Attorney ard Caughran said the alleged | man agent was in custody © justice department, Upon hearing Judge tentative decision not to a Bauer to bail, Wilma Bauer, suspect's Hoosier wife, burst
tears. 4 Bauer Not at Hearing “I won't have him in that | jail for another month,” she. Bauer, former Ft. Harrison photographer, remained in county jail and did not wend bond hearing. His attorneys said they.
| ship at that moment, One Witness. in U, 8S.
Dist. Atty. Caughran said one’ foreign witness against Bauer was already in America., He added the justice department is trying to cons tact others to be present here at the April 23 hearing, Bauer's counsel contends he's still an American citizen and thus can't be deported to his native Gers many as the justice department des mands. Today's hearing was fraught technicalities. Principal hw velopment was the government's Introduction of two strongly prose German, anti-British letters write ten by Bauer. One sent to a “Mr. Wiegand” n Germany after Bauer had returned fo the U, 8, asked him to “commue nicate my best regards and greets ings to , , , the gentlemen with whom I have worked lately befors my departure,” Differ on Intentions
Mr. Werner - asserted this res ferred to the espionage branch of the German army. Bauer's attore
ployees of the Siemens-Halske elec trical firm in Berlin, where Bauer was once a patent official. : In the same letter, Bauer also asserted he was constantly hounde ed by the British intelligence serve ice during his journey to Americas via Spain. “I must say,” he wrote, “that if I as a harmless citizen noticed so | soon that I am watched and ine vestigated, this does not speak well for the intelligence of the intelli« gence service” The letter was returned to Bauer because of postal tieups. It was confiscated later in his apartment at 1532 Carrollton ave, Upbraids England Another message dispatched Bauer from Germany in 1839 to
Walter P. Reuther, U. A. W. vice|frionds in America, upbraids Enge president in charge of the General 1 for ah, ch on the announced that|y :h, declaring although they (the
Given court summonses were three| the national U A. W.-G. M. con- must be fighting the French or
union's membership had ratified { tract, However, the strike will continue
{in 24 of G. M.'s 92 plants where the | union and management have not
| sues. (Earlier Details, Page 3)
TRANSCONTINENTAL DIVI
Why Can't Ra
(First of a Series)
By FRANK ASTON Scripps-Howard Staff Writer
West? It halts trains going east or west.
continuing their journeys.
only enough left to keep aloft until 3am, 0,
country, north and south, withou
pwatersing Tn in, er say
WASHINGTON, March 19.—~What is this barrier that splits the United States, separating the East from the
At Chicago, St. Louis, Memphis and New Orleans, trains stop and passengers mist change cars before
They may ride up and down the
DE—No. | ilroads Break
Barrier Splitting East, West?
go in the same car from New York
Miami.
done, do it.
and Vancouver,
t
to Montreal or from New York to
But when railroads faced the problem of through service across| country they said it comida be
However, Canada found a way to Canadian lines furnish| through service between Mugtiyeal
In -the United States, a train traveler may be going from coast to coast. Or he may be traveling
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{troops have not met any, So
|other, , , . It is an actual fact, we pity the Prench for being forced to fight another war for Old Englands but we hate England, “That may be different with the
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"You Can Buy This Dream"—A Lovely Home
Is your family increasing? your children need an nd enclosed yard to play in? your service men
.