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FORECAST: Mostly cloudy tonight and tomorrow with occasional show ers tonight and early tomorrow. No decided change i in inperature,

VOLUME 57—NUMBER i.

Brown County Lambs Are On Diet Like Other Stars

Woolly candidates for potential stardom in Walt Disney’s next film, “Midnight and Jeremiah,” to be shot in Brown county, are displayed by the family of Hansel Mead, Brown county state park superin-

tendent. The lamb at far left has the inside track for the featured role of aspirants are (from left) Byron, Mrs. Hansel Mead, Molly Ann, Hansel and Ronnie.

6.0.P. SENATE RACE BECOMES 3-WAY BATTLE

Aspirants for Nomination Represent Opposite Political Views.

By SHERLEY UHL Indiana’s Republican senatorial race today stacked up as a fight between an “ultra-

conservative,” a “professional politician” and a “radical idealist.” > Incumbent Senator Raymond

Willis. is the conservative, William E. Jenner is the politician and Rep. Charles LaFollette is the “radical.” Mr. Jenner, who resigned as G. O. P. statecommittee chairman yesterday, will announce his candidacy Wednesday. Senator Willis and Rep. LaFollette are already in the

“*Paking his cug from Mr. Jen ner's resignation, Rep. LaFolletts] today entrained at Washington for Indiana with a briefcase full of campaign ammunition. He hopes} to blast his way through the Re-| publican state organization in an effort to win the nomination,

“Midnight.” Cuddling the

Looking anything but sheepish, the No. 1 choice for the “Midnight” role flashes his photogenic qualities.

Chubby Woollies Training For Walt Disney's Comedy

NASHVILLE, Ind, March 23 (U. P.).—Ten little Hoosier lambs, who weren't born when they were signed to a Hollywood film contract,

Disney camera.

| weren't quite ready today to go through intricate paces for a Walt

They are on a diet, Just like like motion picture actresses, because they

‘Verbal Meataxe’ Times Washington Correspondent | Daniel M. Kidney said Rep. LaFollette indicated he would “stalk| Jenner with a verbal meataxe.” He] speaks at Bloomington tomorrow on “You Can't Make a Better America by Standing Still.” Senator Willis, too, was on his way to the banks of the Wabash to mend -political fences, Elsewhere on the local political front, state Democrats converged on Indianapolis for their annual Jackson day dinner tonight at the

WASHINGTON, March 23 (U. VU.) ~President Truman will be the principal speaker at the Democrats’ main Jackson day dinner here tonight where party members will pay $100 each for conservation plates of 700 calories.

Claypool, demanding a fund-raising campaign. Senator Harley M. Kil- | gore of West Virginia is principal speaker, but the diners will. pause to hear radio addresses by President Truman-and Henry Wallace, Also in Democratic circles, strong,

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CONTINUED SHOWERS WEEK-END FORECAST]

LOCAL TEMPERATURES

Cam... 42 1am, ... 48 "am... 43 Ham... 9 ga m .,. 47 12 (noon) .. 48 9a m.. 4 1pm ,.. 48

Showers this morning forced park department officials to cancel the annual kite-flying contest scheduled for Riverside park this afternoon. - The rainfall coincided with the weatherian's week-end forecast of showers. With a hopeful eye on the weather almanac, park officials rescheduled the kite contest for next Saturday. Occasional showers were scheduled for tonight and.tomorrow. with mot much change in temperature. Yesterday's high for Indianapolis was 72. Miami, Fla, reported an 81 yesterday.

TIMES INDEX

LIGHT PRIMARY VOTE IN COUNTY E) EXPECTED

‘No More Than ‘han 60,000 Likely

To Go to Polls May 7.

Unless public interest nomination of candidates for the fail election increases considerably here in the next six weeks, probably not more than 60,000 of an estimated 325,000 voters in Marion county will go to the polls May 7. Two years ago, when several hot contests in both Republican and Democratic races spurred public interest in primary balloting, only 65,800 voted. Of this number 43,798 called for Republican ballots and the remainder, 22,191, asked for Democratic baljpts. ® Democratic leaders say they will get—out—to—the—peolls more party voters in the primary this year in order to put over what they hope will be a slate of prominent men identified more with civic affairs

{than with party politics,

Republican balloting in the

{primary may not be as heavy as

two years ago because of the apparent’ lack of anti-organization leadership and the absence so far or an organized campaign for candidates opposing the regular G. O. P. machine's choices.

BARRYMORE SEPARATION HOLLYWOOD, March 23 (U, P.). —Diana Barrymore, actress daughter of the late John Barrymore, and Bramwell Fletcher, her husband of four years, have separated, friends said today.

[rere getting too chubby. “They have to have cute figures,” their trainer said. “When they | started getting pot-bellied, we gave them more exercise and more grass srazing and cut down on their

si lambs were contracted, sight unseen, to appear in Disney's next picture, “Midnight and Jeremiah.” The film setting is Indiana's scenic Brown county, a hilly wooded sec-

in the tion 40 miles from Indianapolis.

A whole family is training the lambs—the family of Hansel Mead, superintendent of the Brown county state park. Appealing Faces Mead, his wife, Marguerite, and their four children scoured Indiana early in February for 10 lambs “with the most appealing faces.” “We've taught them to start and stop walking on command, to climb on rocking chairs and rail fences, to jump over wash baskets and pull clothes off a clothesline,” Mead said. “They learned the clothesline routine rather easily,” he said. “I guess they are that much like goats Mead said the lamb training program was ordered by a Disney rep-

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1-POUND BABY GIRL BORN IN HOLLYWOOD

HOLLYWOOD, March 23 (U, P.). —A one-pound baby girl, born prematurely Thursday night, was in “favorable” condition today at Hol1¥wood Presbyterian hospital. baby was delivered by caesarian operation to Mrs, Linda Ververs. The infant, two and one-half months premature, was only 10 inches long and attendants described her as “much tinier than a doll.” They said she cried feebly and was normal in every respect,

| 1th District Still Lacking Congressional Candidates

By NOBLE REED Only two weeks remain in which td file declarations of candidacy for

the May 7 primary election and nobody is sure yet who is going to run for congress fromthe 11th district, one of the most important spots on any campaign ticket, The congressional candidacy is becoming .the major headache to Republican leaders, They are not sure who their candidate will -be. Democratic leaders are presuming that their old faithful, Rep. Louis Ludlow will be a candidate again but he hasn't said so formally. Thus the status of the congressional races here has set a precedent in lack of candidates at this late date. In former campaigns, half a

dozen candidates were in the field long before this with campaign material flooding the district two

months before the primary. It is known that a lot of ground work in the precincts is being done by Mrs. Fern Norris, reporter of the Indiana Supreme and Appellate courts and 11th district vice chairman, for her congressional candidacy. But she has not announced her candidacy publicly and so far as anybody‘ kfiows, thé Republican high command has not given her the “go sign” as a candidate for congress, She did the same thing two years ago but withdrew from the race

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SATURDAY," MARCH 23, 1946

Special diets are none too good for the would-be actors, whose waistlines, by terms of a ony contract, must be slim and trim. Only one or two lambs will be singled out for movie training routine includes climbing chairs and fences, jumping over wash baskets and pulliig “clothes

from clotheslines.

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STEEL ‘BREAK’

Schwitzer - Cummins - Co. Tieup Is Ended.

A break in Indianapolis strikebound steel plants appeared today to be setting the stage for a return to work move on the part of many of the United Steelworkers of America (C. I. O.). More than 1100 Schwitzer-Cum-mins Co. employees will begin the trek . back to the benches Monday. They have been off work since Jan. 21 when the steelworkers struck on a national scale. Settlement of their dispute was

union accepted a wage proposal which gives the workers increases ranging from 13% to 17% cents an hour. Meanwhile, however, more than 4000 other local steelworkers still are out in the two-month strike. The largest to be involved is LinkBelt Co. with some 3500 employees. Started Week Early Workers at the company jumped the gun on the national walkout, striking a week early. Local issues are involved and continuous meetings have ended in stalemates. The latest session was held yesterday afternoon but proved fruitless, =aid James Robb, district head of the steelworkers. Local .members of the Indianapolis Drop Forging Co. are meeting today to discuss ratification of their contracts as are J. D. Adams Manufacturing Co. union employees. In both cases the firms have offered a flat 15 cent-across-the-board increase, Mr. Robb said that one of the two locals may accept the increase. Some 500 workers are involved in the J. D. Adams dispute and 150 with Indianapolis Drop Forging. Still out on strike, with no settlement in view, are union members of the Thomas L. Greene Co.

BATTLES FOR JOB

ON LIQUOR BOARD

Situation Remains Tense in Control Dispute.

Efforts to pry one member loosé from the Marion county liquor

city’s tavern control situation remained tense. The member in question is said to have retained an attorney who represenfed - him yesterday in a huddle with County Council President Addison Parry and Republican County Chairman Henry Ostrom. Quster of one and possibly two liquor board members was still touted as a possibility next week. It is understood they will be “invited” to resign by the alcoholic beverages commission. Next scheduled meeting of the A. B. C. is Tuesday. The A. B. C. is probing “tavern shakedown” rumors alleging some proprietors have paid “extra funds” for the privilege of doing business.

POPE, HOOVER IN FOOD CONFERENCE

ROME, Murch 23 (U. P.).—Pope Pius XII received former President Herbert Hoover today in an audience at which informed circles said the world food situation was discussed, It was’ believed that the pontiff assured “Mr. Hoover of Catholic support for his efforts to ease the European shortage. Mr. Hoover is on a special mission for President

Truman.

WASHINGTON, March

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» » . Dewey's Strength Growing nation for U. S. senator. Friends re-elected governor.

U. S. to Probe

LAS CRUCES, N. M., March 23

L.. Col. Harold R. Turner, The rocket to be fired almost vertically weighs 13% tons, is 49 feet long and six feet in diameter. Col. maximum velocity of 3000 miles an hour, returning to _earth in seven minutes from the launching, and would hit the ground traveling 1800 feet a second. The rocket will carry no explosives. Previous record height for the V-2 was the 62-mile altitude attained by the German explosiveladen missles fired during the war. A change in the controls will enable the test rocket to reach the greater height, Col, Turner said. Scheduled for mid-April, the first \experjmental firing will be secret. similar test later in the month Az be open to the press. Col. Turner said that the rocket, one of three now built at the White Sands project, will be launched from the same type of equipment used by the Germans. The rocket will be. aimed to land somewhere within a flve-mile area at the northern section of the proving grounds. It was revealed only Thursday that German scientists brought to this country on a yoluntary basis were assisting arms ordnance experts in the rocket experimental work.

GOLD MINE YIELDS $2 MILLION .IN LODE

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo, March 23 (U. P.).—A $2,000,000 gold strike was reported today in the fabulous Cripple Creek mining district. The lode was discovered in the Golden Cycle Corp.'s Ajax mine, Merrill E. Shoup, president of Golden Cycle, said the strike was orfe of the largest continuous lodes of gold in the history of the district. ° “It is the biggest strike in this area in the last 10 years,” he said, “and their is yet no real eftimate of how far the lode extends.”

EXPECTED HERE WASHINGTON

A Weekly Sizeup by the Washington Staff of the Scripps-Howard Newspapers

cratic party unity to emerge from tonight's Jackson day dinner. It's more precarious than you think. President Truman would like to purge some liberals from party ranks as much as Wallace would like to purge southerners who vote with Republicans. from Mr. Pauley’s defeat, talks bitterly about Democrats who didn’t go along on the nomination. Fact that both Mr, Truman and Mr. Wallace will address $100. dinner here symbolizes the split.

Of men close to Truman, only National Committeeman Hannegan still worries about getting part, at least, of Roosevelt domesti m translated into law. And" Mr. Hannegan's approach is crf ac. If he resigns, party will move openly toward right. to stay, however, until after 1948 campaign.

Mr. Truman will make another major speech on Army day, April 6. Look for impertant policy announcement affecting armed services.

PUT NO STOCK in rumors that Governor Dewey will seek nomi-

This, they say, would put him in running for presidential nomination in 1948 just as effectively. He's stronger than he was few months ago. He's been getting

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With German V-2 Rockets

pierce the stratosphere for a_record 100 miles from the earth's surface next month, the army revealed today at its White Sand proving grounds. For the first time in history, records as to temperatures and atmospheric conditions at that great, altitude will be recorded, said commanding o officer of the project.

28.—Don't look for Demo-

He's smarting

"PRICE FIVE CENTS

Monday.

Iran's side of the dispute.

A-TEST DELAY EASES TENSION

Truman Order Comes on Eve of UNO Meeting.

By HARRISON SALISBURY United Press Foreign News Editor The diplomatic skies appeared to be clearing somewhat today in advance of the crucial United Nations security council meeting Monday to consider Iran's charges against the Soviet Union, Two moves—one by Russia and

{ likely

the other by the United States— materially reduced the tension

under which the

meeting convene and encouraged diplomatic ‘belief that by one means or another the world will work itself out of the latest crisis.

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Stratosphere

(U. P.).—A V-2 German rocket will

Stalin Backs UNO The moves were the strong statement of staunch support of United Nations Organization principles issued by Generalissimo Stalin and the surprise action a few hours later by Président Truman in postponing the spectacular atomic bomb demonstration which had been scheduled for May 15 on the Pacific atoll of Bikini. A White House spokesman insisted today that the six-week postponement ordered by the President | was no sudden decision and that] pressure of congressional business was the real reason for it. Although the’ White House insisted that there were no diplo-

COLUMBUS, 0. March 23 (U. P.).—A resolution will be intro-

EX-6. |, NOW SOUGHT: IN HTEHHNE KLLNG

Two Held at Kankakee, lll, Are Released.

Following release of two men quizzed about the hitchhike slaying of James J. Williams near Paoli, search for the killers focused on a former soldier identified as a suspect from pictures in the Champaign, Ill. police files. Lt. Norman Lee of the Illinois

highway police said a picture at Champaign headquarters was singled out by several persons as that of one of two men who fatally shot Williams, 32, of Louisville, and beat up his companion, Marvin Skaggs. Mr. Skaggs, 23, was one of those making the identification. The suspect, Illinois police said, is a former Wisconsin soldier, discharged from the army in August, 1043. A pair of men held yesterday at Kankakee, Til, were freed after questioning by Indiana state police from the Dunes park post. Also, a quiet raid on a Chicago apartment Friday night, staged by the FBI and Indiana and Illinois state police, proved futile. It. was made on an anonymous tip. Mr, Willlams-and- Mr. Skagg were attacked in their car as they drove two hitchhikers from New Albany to near Paoli. Police traced the killers to Tolono, IN. then to Urbana and Chanute” field, IIL.

LIVES UP TO HIS NAME CORONADO, Cal, March 23 (U. P.)—Charles Free today celebrated the arrival of his first son by giving away butter to the first 2400

persons who entered his store.

duced within 10 days in the U, 8. senate to postpone permanently the stom bomb test in the Pacific set for July 1, Senator James Ww. Huffman (D. 0.) said today.

bomb delay the decision had its strongest impact in the diplomatic sphere.

cions regarding the post-war world has been the American atomic bomb secret. Only this week the Soviet press charged that some

quarters hoped to establish an “atomic dictatorship” over the world.

Speaking of the delay one Wash- | ington official suggested that conducting the Bikini test at a time the United Nations Organization | was meeting would be like "showing; off our atomic muscles.” Officially, the White House at-

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SAYS RUSS LISTED SECRETS DESIRED

Radar Data Sought.

MONTREAL, March 23 (U. P.).— Soviet Russia's spies ordered their Canadian agents to get information on atomic research, on radar appliances for 4 battleship destined to serve in the Pacific, and on a new explosive, it was revealed today. Documents produced by Igor Gouzenko, Soviet code expert, at the preliminary hearing for Fred Rose, Communist member of parliament charged with giving secret infor. mation to Russia, also disclosed the agents were instructed to obtain information on Canadian military strength at Valcartier, The documents told of a radar “rush Job for, a battleship for the

~—Poremost among Russian —suspi-1-

Iran Premier Hints of Early Russ Accord

Says Red Troops May Quit Country Before UNO Meeting Opens

By SAM SOUKI United Press Staff Oorrespondent

TEHRAN, March 23.—Premier Ahmed Ghavam said today that direct negotiations may settle the dispute with Russia before the United Nations Organization security council meets. He said he may come to the United States himself. Ghavam said it was possible that Soviet troops would be withdrawn from Iran before the security council meets

Ghavam gave the first detailed picture of the Iran crisis in an exclusive thirty-minute interview with this correspondent following a press conference with the foreign press, He said that “it was not beyond the realm of possibilities that he himself would come to Washington to handle

Ghavam said that he was confident that Iran would | obtain satisfaction either by direct talks with Russia in Tehran or by ction in the United States.

“There are hopes of renewing in the very near future direct talks with Russians,” he said. “This possibility as well as the fact that the problem any how is being placed before the security council makes me hope that the matter will he satisfactorily settled.” I asked Ghavam whether the new Soviet ambassador to Iran had brought with him new proposals from Moscow or a message from Generalissimo Stalin as had been widely reported. No Word From Stalin “No message has come from Stalin,” Ghavam said, “and no des: tailed discussions have ed with the Soviet But even after my failure to reach

pute, “My hopes of success,” he said, “are based on many common ties and interests between Russia and Iran as well as a desire of the Persians for good relations with their northern neighbor. We feel that the Russians reciprooate this..” . Als Reprimanded? Iranian political circles believe that Hussein Ala, Iran's ambassador to Washington, has been strongly reprimanded for pressing for an im- | mediate tackling of the Iran probe lem by the security couucil. Ghavam was believed to feel confident that he could settle the affair in direct talks with the Soviet

matic motives behind the atom |dmbassador and many believed here

Ghavam already is in consultation with the Russians. Ghavam is anxious to maintain good relations with Russia and was believed to feel that if the direct talks fail the matter could quickly and easily be placed before the

|security council.

| Local Girl, 11,

- SAN FRANCISCO, March 3 (U. P. .~Eleven-year-old Hope Meredith of 806 E. 11th st, Ine dianapolis, Ind, was en route by Pan-American Clipper for Honolulu today seeking the warmer climate doctors said was necessary if she was to escape death from rheumatic fever. Hope boarded the plane alone last night for the 2400-mile, 15hour flight after arrangements were made for her to be met at Honolulu by Miss Alide Meredith of Makaweli, Kauai. Hope's mother, Mrs, Hope Ann Meredith, died six months ago of rheumatic fever at Indianapolis, and doctors there said the only hope for the girl was the Hawaiian climate, as no ares within the comtinental United

| States was suitable.

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Hope is the daughter of William Meredith, Indianapolis. A last-minute cancellation by one of Pan-American's clipper pas sengers made her flight possible,

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