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FORMOSA
IS BLAMED ON U.S.
Writer Says Chinese Are Looting Isle Turned Ove. to Them by Hastily Demobilizing Yanks.
By WILLIAM
Scripps-Howard Staff Writer
TAIHOKU, Formosa, March 23.—An inept and unrealistic American foreign policy, coupled with frenzied demobilization of American forces after the Jap surrender, is at least partly responsible for the widespread misery of Formosa’s seven million inhabitants. After conquering Japan the, United States turned over
this former Japanese possession to jurisdiction of the
Chinese. And the Chinese are systematically bleeding the people by graft and shakedown.
If there were any strings attached |
to our delivery of Formosa to the Chinese neither the Americans nor the Chinese occupation officials here are aware of them. And if the United States had any intention of establishing an. honest, efficient and democratic form of government here it has failed to «do so, America’s sole contribution was to transport two Chinese armies here and to maintain a skeleton force of 65 Americans to assist with the repatriation of Jap troops and civilians, Children Seized
Under the rule of Chinese occupation officials the people of Formosa live in constant fear of robbery and death from organized gangs called “Roma.” The Roma is a vicious eel which preys on other fish in the Formosan waters. -Hundreds of Formosan children have been kidnaped and shipped to China as slave labor. The Formosa people pay tribute to grafting officials for food and other necessities. The Japanese who are being re-
patriated by order of the United scheduled for 10 to 12 days.
States must pay graft for their transportation to seaports and they pay graft to have their names included on repatriation lists. Civil liberties are suppressed and the Formosan people are forbidden to form political parties or organizations without government permission.
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MISERY
H. NEWTON
CLEAR CREW IN BRAWLS PROBE
Complaints of ‘Nightmare Crossing’ Dismissed.
By JIM G. LUCAS Seripps-Howard Staff Writer WASHINGTON, March 23.—The U. 8. coast guard today “white~ washed” the crew of the U. 8S. 8. William Libbey, against whom charges of inefficiency and neglect of duty were leveled by passengers making a recent crossing from England. 3 “Due to.the infinite practical difficulties presented by the unavailability of the witnesses and other probative evidence, it is felt no further coast guard action is indicated,” Rear Adm. L. Spencer, chief of the office of merchant marine safety, ruled. Passengers . described the fourweek crossing which ended in Philadelphia oni Feb. 19 as'a “nightmare journey.” The trip originally was
In a petition to the maritime commission, which later was passed on to the coast guard for investigation, the passengers charged drunkenness among the crew, that a ship's officer offered to sell liquor to passengers at $5 a bottle, and cited labor troubles and favoritism. Admiral Spencer said, a coast
Prominent citizens have been! jailed without hearings on the un- | supported testimony of anonymous | complainants.
One Officer Sent
Any realistic appraisal of thei government of strife-torn China itself should have made it obvious] to our state department that China is not capable of rebuilding still more territory or even of maintaining and operating the valuable industrial properties here which sur-| vived American bombings. During the war the United States trained more than 2000 arm and navy officers for occupation and | military government duty in For-| mosa. Of this number, only one officer—a navy lieutenant was sent | here. No one has clearly defined the status of Formosa. Little guidance on the subject has been received by American officials here from either China theater headquarters | or from Washington. Questions of | policy which involve millions of dollars worth of reparations from | the Japanese go unanswered. Chinese occupation officials say airily that Formosa is now part] of China. But in the courts some! people are being sent to jail under Japanese law. Factories Looted Japanese factories and mines— such as the Japan Mining Company's enormous copper, silver and gold refinery near Kirun—are being!
looted of machinery and equip-/
ment and what remains is rusting
away in neglect. This one plant is|
worth $150 million, according to the! appraisal of an American engineer | who spext weeks examining it. An indication of American vac-| illation as to the status of Formosa and American intentions here is provided by the title of the American military mission. The first unit was officially identified as the Formosan advisory group. A few weeks later the name was changed to the Formosan liaison] group. Still later the unit was| stripped of all but a handful of] personnel and the name was] changed to the Formosan repatriation group which confines its ac-| tivities to supervising the loading of | Japs on Japan-bound ships. Copyright, ‘1945, by 19486, by The Indianapolis Times
FORMER RESIDENT
guard officer made a “routine | boarding” at Philadelphia on Feb. 119. Single Complaint Made “At that time,” the admiral said,
“no complaints were made to the |
| boarding officer by passengers or {crew members, other than one regarding a single instance of [rarcing 2 on the part of a crew imember, who was thereupon dis|ciplined for such misconduct.” The iadmiral did not describe the disicipline imposed. The éxamining officer returned to y ihe Libbey on Feb. 27, Adm. Spencer ¥ | reported, but. “by that time all {passengers had been disembarked {and had departed. | “All crew members had been paid off and had left the vessel except ithe chief engineer, the first and second assistant engineers and the Kein operator,” he said. “These men were interrogated in (detail. However, from their testi-
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Council Head Says Teachers’ Pay Must Be Raised.
(Editorial, Page 10)
apolis Public School Teachers presents its proposal for increased teachers’ salaries to the school board
backing of the Indianapolis Council of Parent-Teacher Association. “We must continue to raise the high standards: of our teachers,” Mrs, Walter L. Caley, president of the council, strongly asserted today. “To do this,” Mrs. Caley explained, “we must raise teachers’ wages in Indianapolis.” Cites Training, Costs Asserting that the council was in favor of a wage increase, she stated that it is the duty of every adult to insist that teachers’ salaries be commensurate with the training required and present living costs. The federation is asking for the annual raise as provided by schedules, placement of all teachers on the present 22-step schedule and additional increases in salaries of from $100 to $150 annually, J. Clayton Hughes, executive secretary of the federation, said. “Unless these adjustments are made,” he said, “the profession will become less and less attractive to college students.” See Need for Increases
Harry L. Gause and Edgar A. Perkins Sr., members of the school board, were convinced that teachers were not being paid enough. Although Mr. Gause would not express his opinion concerning the proposed wage increase, he said, “I will go along with the bodrd’s decision concerning salaries. The board will have to take some action soon and salaries must be raised, I'm sure.” “I will vote in favor of a wage increase for teachers,” Mr. Perkins said. “Teachers should have an increase.” He admitted that there is one person who pays for any increase in teacher's salaries. “That person is the ultimate consumer—the taxpayer,” he said. A Times survey yesterday showed that any increase in téachers’ pay would raise the 1947 municipal tax rate approximately 7 cents. The present school city tax level is $1.10. Pay Trails Cost Rise However, the National Education association pointed out that cost of living salary adjustments for teachers throughout the nation averaged only 15 per cent, while the cost of living rose 33 per cent. “The rate of living costs in In-
PAY INCREASES
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Pretty Janis Carter smiles happily after being chosen as “1946 motion picture sweater girl” at the National Knitted Outwear association convention in New York City.
DENIES USE OF YOUNG GUARDS
Ft. Harrison Commander Says They Were Replaced.
Col. Benjamin B, Albert, disciplinary barracks commanding officer, Ft. Harrison, today branded as false a statement that the majority of guards under his command are teen-agers. It was reported that probably two-thirds of the men assigned to guard hardened military prisoners are teen-agers with little more than basic training and a 30-day military police schooling. Col. Albert said that he had made a survey of his guards and found that only 10 per cent are teenagers,
Replacing Young Men “This number: is much smaller than it has been in months,” he sald. “A recent directive stated that guards must be 22 years old or more and at least five feet 10 inchés tall, weighing a minimum of 160 pounds. A number of teenagers were working as guards when the order was issued. “We have been replacing these men as rapidly as others come in. Most of the new men are regular army enlistees and soon will constitute our full strength of more than 1000 guards.” Prisoners held at the fort have been convicted of such crimes as
of the national median,”
Hughes stated.
crease, all teachers must be placed on the board's present salary schedule, he declared. Unless this occurs, 27 per cent of the non-degree classroom teachers, 25.7 per cent of the instructors with bachelor degrees and 71.1
{mony no cause of action could be {developed legally sufficient to war[rant the convening of disciplinary | hearings.” | Maritime commission spokesmen prev iously had indicated they were | junwilling to take up charges made | {in the petition signed by 11 pas|sengers.
CHINN'S “HIMMLER
AIR CRASH VICTIM?
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—Gen. Tai Li, head of the Chinese secret police and one of the most mysterious and powerful men in China, was* believed dead today |after the crash of his plane at Nanking Thursday. The circumstances of his reported death were almost as mysterious as his little known role behind the scenes in China. Some quarters scouted the re{ports of Tai Li's death and sug- | gested he may have chosen this {way to disapear in order to con[tinue his operations with even {greater secrecy and mystery.. Details of the reported plane |crash were conflicting but govern{ment sources agreed that Tai Li's {plane had crashed and that the | secret police chief whose powers (had been compared to those of {Heinrich Himmler apparently had | been killed.
CHUNGKING, March 23 (U. P.).|
| per cent of the teachers with mas- | ter's degrees will still be below the wage rate, he said.
2 RECOVERING FROM | AUBURN PLANE CRASH
Two men were recovering today from injuries received in a plane crash at Auburn, Ind. yesterday. Walter Bates, pilot, and Jack Da{vis, passenger, both of Auburn, were slightly injured. Walter Kalil, also of Auburn, was. unhurt. [ Mr.
150 feet. He banked to avoid hitting a house, struck utility wires that sheared off the right wing and landed in a roadside ditch.
SALE . OF LIGHT BULBS A 15-day sale of surplus light bulbs and neon and argon glow lamps began today under army: direction, The sale is being conducted through the regional office, consumer goods division, war assets corporation, Cincinnati. A total of 874,320 lamps are on the market.
dianapolis . is slightly below that) Mr. |
Aside from a possible salary in-|
Bates told state police the | motor of his light plane failed at]
assault, rape, drunkenness and being absent without leave.
O. E. S. Officers To Be Installed
Mrs. Mary F. Middow will be installed as worthy matron of Queen Esther chapter 3, O. E. 8, in a public installation at 8 p. m. today in Masonic temple, North and Illinois- sts. Other officers to be installed are G. C. Park, worthy patron; Mrs. Lena Mitchell, associate matron; Frank Mellis, associate patron; Mrs. Esther M. Hallberg, sec-
Mrs. Middow retary; Mrs. Mary E. Penrod, treas-
urer; Mrs. Mabel Reinacker, con-ductress;-and Mrs. Frances Speers, associate conductress.
40-POINT MEN REPORT YOKOHAMA, March 23 (U. P.) — Eighth army enlisted men with 40 points today were ordered to report at the replacement depot by March 28. Approximately 1500 men were involved. Some, but not all, are scheduled to leave for the United States: .
As 'Victim' s Victim NASHVILLE, Tenn, | (U. P.).—The “victim”
March 23 of a two-
DIES IN HOLLYWOOD, Bodies ‘of Tai Li's bodyguards {®a0ld “murder” is working and
Raymond F. Buckley,
day in Hollywood, Cal. He was 53. | Mr. Buckley had practiced here and in Detroit before going to California five years ago. Services will be held at 2:30
p. m. Tuesday in the Moore Mort- | Burial |
uaries Northeast chapel. will be in Crown Hill. survivors are his wife, Mrs. Dorgthy Buckley of Hollywood, Cal;
former Were found but some reports said | patent attorney here, died yester- | that positive identification of Tai |
| Li's body was lacking.
| One government official pointed | lout that Tai Li had a double and|M8 UP the mystery of that the double might have been | 3PPearance in the crasn. rather than
killed {Tai Li.
DIES OF CRASH INJURIES VALPARAISO, March 23 (U, P.). |—Wayne Buchanan, 35, Hebron,
going to night school here. George R. Ellis, 16, formerly of {Cannelton, Ind. "was discovered living in a church dormitory, clearhis disfrom a benefactor's {farm home in Indiana, Sept. 19, (1944, William Lenhart, of Cannelton, who took the youth in after ' the {boy's mother and stepfather allegedly disowned him, was charged with
aldied in a hospital yesterday of in- | murder in the case but was released
daughter, Miss Opal Buckley ‘of | juries received. in an automobile last December for lack of evidence.
Winchester, Va.; a son, Donald F.| Buckley, in the army in’ China; a sister, Mrs. D, P. Lapham of Indianapolis, and two brothers, Roy A, Buckley of Detroit, and Charles W. Buckley of Hollywood.
STATE’S FARM BUREAU NOW SECOND LARGEST
The Indiana Farm Bureau reported a 1946 membership of 62,120 Hoosier farm families today, the second largest state total in the nation. Vice President Larry Brandon
than the 1945 final membership. He said only Jowa had a larger membership. Mr. Brandon added that 19 In.diana
Bartholomew, La Porte,
ton, Miami, * Wabash,
aware, Hancock, Madison - and Vigo,
said the intermediate report for this year was nearly 4000 higher
counties had surpassed the
1000-membership mark. These were Porter,
Allen, Dekalb, Elkhart, Cass, Clin-
Tippecanoe, Boone, Fountain, Montgomery, Del- Bother ' Wayne
(collision,
i Ellis said he bicycled away from
Farmer Cleared of Murder
Turns Up Alive
Lenhart’'s home and pedalled his way to Nashville. The youth told police his mother ‘and father were divorced and that {his mother and stepfather “ran me off” in 1943. He said he went to live with Mr. Lenhart next door. “Bill treated me better than anybody,” Ellis said, but he said he left Mr. Lenhart's home after the Cannelton farmer knocked him the length of the barn during an argument. Ellis learned of e charges against Mr. Lenhart when he visited his parents recently and wrote a letter to Sheriff R. M. Hobbs, of {Cannelton, “explaining everything.”
MARRIAGE LICENSES James D, Fletcher, 3820 N. Temple; Virginia Louise Cavender, 204 8. Ritter. Guy Wilbert Sims Jr, 3426 Kinnear; Geraldine Worley, 4216 Sunset. Harding Witty, 219 Hiawatha; Perkins, 1050 N. Delaware, Clarence D. Knoche, 120 Ww. Wafaut; Willie Neal Maynard, 120 W. Walnut. Laurel Guy Drollinger, Margaret Jane Morris. Morris Nahmias, 1124 8. Illinois; M. Abraham, 614 8. Pennsylvania. Harold Joseph Raney, 6232 N. New Jersey;
Alice L.
Daugherty, 2538
Robert Edward Swift, R. R. 1, Box 326; Rosemary Jessup, 1911 N. Alabama. Homer Dietzer Jr. Gerald Johnson, 847 W. 30th; Jeanne Innis, 847 W, 30th. James Henry Townsend, 834 8. Sheffield; Helen Marie Blythe, 1124 W, Yew York.
Newman, 123 Dickson. 627 Berwick: kyille
ave. Ada Theodore James Bchuck,
Jefferson Hotel; Ww. | Charles McCallister,
Esther
Elwood; Helen Jacobus Betty
Gerald Duane Stinger, 330 N. Highland
IN INDIANAPOLIS--EVENTS—VITALS
Lawrence Fred Moon, 4716 W. Washing ton; Mildred Ruth Gipson, 4940 Washington, Albert Lerory Smith, 2658 McClure; Mary Helen Coryell, 1410 Spann. Richard LeRoy Mears, Anderson; Evelyn Jean Stewart, 248 8. Fourth, Beech Grove, ‘Emerson “Allen Jameson, 137 - BE. Ninth; Adell Virginia Chriswell, 127 E. Ninth, Howard Earl Dillon, 316 N. [tental; Rosemary Scott, 604 8. Edgehl 2010 Re ontaine; Marie Hodge, 1951 Cornell Robert E. Mikesell, Westfield; May Irwin, 1812 N, Capitol.
58'2; Mary Elizabeth - Gardner,
Aud Srey J. Boltinghouse, 1321 Mar- South Lynhurst Drive. Whitt, t. Sterling, Ky.; Martha Albert. Carlton Baker, 350%; E. Wash. Coazies Whitt, M Murra Tig. 3 y ington; Amanda Mae Simms, Indiana Mmiiton W. Butte, 3171 iaceland: Nina hotel, Marie Kearney, 1747 Watson Road.
Stafford Babbitt, 1260 S. Reisner; Evelyn June Miller, 1450 N. Mount. Clyde H. Rhorer, ' 2636 Sscille Allen; Westfield. in R. Baldridge, 2454 N. New Jersey; 4343 EB. Bt
Foliz; Maxine
Esther Rase Baldridge, Clair,
BIRTHS
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W.| At Coleman—Raymond, Rhea
Gladys
Millard LeRoy Springer, R. R. 3, Box 2252
George, Clo M. Herring. Roberts; Wesley, Geneva Nuetzman; Arthur, Betty Wickner, and Jacob, Ethel Wyatt, At Methodist—Russell, Janet Fields; John, Mary Nice, and Charles, Ihlia Thomp-
son. At St, Vineent's—Otis, Dorothy Lee; Fred Harry,
Jr, Media Bonnet; Lucille Duvall; Silas, Ruth Kivett, and John; Mary Mullen. > Boys
At St. Francis—Bernard, Mary Maltingly; Wendell, Harriett Mikels, and Frank, Mary Straub At City—Thomas, Ruuyia ah Harden, At Coleman—Levi, arriet Cooper, and Raymond, Phyllis Stockholm. At Methodist—Gall, Ann Poley At St, Vincen ‘a—Rudoiph. Ll Lilifan Kipuss meler, and Charles, Rust uth Rust.
DEATHS
Donald E. Buckner, 1, at City, influenzal meningitis, John Kinnett, 75, at 2345 N. Dearborn, cardio vascular renal. ois Baldwin, 75, at Veterans, arterioscle-
osis. James Wi C wifliam Rogers, 29, at City, chbleit Robert rT Linville, 53, at St. Vincent’ 5, acute leukemia
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co-operative organizations,
By UNITED PRESS The possibility of a nation-wide shipping and waterfront strike arose today, But another major labor dispute, the 123-day-old General Motors ‘walkout, appeared near final settlement, In the General Motors situation, Walter P. Reuther, vice-president of the striking C. I. O. United Automobile Workers, said that local issues would be settled soon and that the 175,000 strikers would retur’ to their jobs in a few days. Local disputes have delayed final settlement of the walkout,
The national contract between General Motors and the U. A. W, has been ratified’ by all U. A. W. locals, Mr. Reuther said, and only | 12 locals remained with individual | grievances. { Urges ‘United Action’ In the shipping dispute, the National Maritime Union (C. I, 0), yrged west coast longshoremen to postpone their scheduled strike until May in favor of “united action.”
The request was made by N. M. U. President Joseph Curran in a telegram to Harry Bridges, west coast leader -of the C. I. O. longshoremen, Mr. Curran asked Mr. Bridges! to delay the coastwide strike, sched- | uled for April 1, until after six C.| I. O. maritime unions and. one independent organization hold a con- | ference at San Francisco May 6. | Meanwhile, strikes and shutdowns | across the nation kept 406,774 workers idle.
State police stood guard over the| Westinghouse Electric Company's Pittsburgh plant to prevent a re- | currence of Thursddy's rioting. Federal conciliators withdrew from'| conferences after reporting that ne- | gotiations had broken down and! that “there appeared no possibility | for compromise.” |
Differ on Offer
Mediator W. H. Davis said the company’s final offer “involved cer-| tain deductions from the 18!: cent national wage increase pattern. The! C. I. O. United Electrical Workers union said the offer constituted a! raise of 97 cents, while the company | contended it would raise wages 15! cents per hour. |
Negotiations in the C. I. O. Farm | Equipment and Metal Workers unjon strike against International! Harvester Co. were recessed until next Tuesday when principals will seek to settle fringe issues at a Washington meeting. The union {said it would accept the company’s. offer of an 18: cent hourly increase but would not order 30,000 strikers | back to their jobs until other issues | were settled, i Mine Parley Recesses | Meanwhile the United Mine Workers and the soft coal industry | still were far apart in their contract | negotiations today—only eight days | before the deadline for a nationwide strike. Bargaining sessions were in recess | until Monday and the coal operators
ground” on which they could build their case in reply to union President John L. Lewis. | The operators were not optimistic either over the .chances-of avoid-| ing a strike April 1 or the prospects | for agreeing on a new contract by! the deadline.
SAYS CO-OP LEVY CALLS FOR STUDY
Dr. Joseph G. Knapp, of the Farm-Credit administration, yester-| day urged a study of taxation of | stating | that such a ‘survey recently made | in Canada was favorable to the cooperatives, | Dr. Knapp addressed 400 dele-! gates to the annual stockholders’ | meeting of‘ the Indiana Farm Bu-! reau Co-Operative Association, Inc. | at the Severin hotel. | Another speaker, A. F.-Anderson,-of the Illinois school of agriculture, revealed that a recent university study showed that 97 per cent of all war veterans returning to rural life want farms of their own. Two of the association's forthcoming projects, according to I. H. Hull, general manager, are incentive payments to employees and a | poultry co-operative. i Other speakers on the program {were Dr. M. O. Ross, president of Butler university, and Raymond W. Miller, president of the American | Institute of Co-Operation. |
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Local Briefs |
An Easter party will be held tomorrow in .Veterans hospital at | Marion sponsored by the U.S. A. chapter of the American War Mothers, Chartered busses will take the women to Marion at 9 a. m, Mrs. Rose Bernhardt is hospital chairman. The organization's kitchen band will furnish music | and Easter baskets madé by the war mothers will be distributed.
| “The Armored Cow” will be the subject of Marion Moore when he | addresses Indianapolis Rotarians at a luncheon Tuesday in the Clay- | pool. A native of Indiana, Mr. Moore ‘is vice president of the In- | diana Condensed Milk Co.
Organizations |
The Women's ‘Drum and Bugle Corps | and Kitchen Band of the Women of the Moose, Indianapolis chapter 11, will parade at 2 p/ m, tomorrow in Martins. | wile. The Men's Drum and Bugle corps, Ritual team, Marching club ang 1 fonnaires of indianapolis lod ye oyal Order of Moose, also wil pa | The parade will precede an Initiation of candidates in a _hewly organized lodge. |
Fidelity ‘Rebekah lod lodge No. 207 a frost Monday at 3d or at Btate Prospect sts. A he nd ity will be Ad
Blaine, Wilson, bid Roc! Girls Grover C. Lemon, 87, at City, verebral ” Al hr i 40% Dotothy Plercy, and wits / rei R, , 1427 s fam Barl Nees, 28 days, . al Cole- : e O, Sy N. iain MN City Whedisr, og Cheeks, and an, + Puimortaty atelectasis, x :
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Mareh 23, 1946
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Flashing its oficial debut this week, spring bathed the city in sunlight and warmth, brushing aside winter's smog and chill, . For the first time in several months, skies were completely cloudless and occasionally the air seemed pure enough . to drink (advisable only in suburban districts where carbon monoxide is not an ingredient). .., Most quaffers preferred bock beer, staging a limited comeback after a two-year absence. . , . Like » newborn gazelle, temperatures bounded from 40 to 70 and in between. Further spicing the zany season, hailstones as “big as marbles” (so awed resident claimed) pelted the East side. . Spring's cheery note was partially soured by the plight of soine unfortunate veterans who, unable to obtain jobs or housing, were re-enlisting in the army at the Federal building in what appeared to be a “flight from civilian life.” . Another post-war bottleneck—a black market in Indiana livestock—curtailed production of local meat packers more than 50 per cent and spurred an OPA investigation. Hoosier farmers
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were asked by the Indiana council of the U. 8. agriculture department to stop feeding wheat to the spring pig crop. . . . The Marion county liquor board refused to grant additional tavern licenses during the current grain shortage. . , Signs of the times: Union station's 24-hour serviceman’s canteen was converted after four years into headquarters for the Travelers’ Aid Soclety. ¢ & STRAUSS SAYS: ; GIVE TO THE RED CROSS. Your contribution will be oh biasing le peosie ll ovr, a2 , home. And the act of scribing gives you » L. STRAUSS & CO. INC. e & & Butler's Eager Beavers— Branch voter registration offices opened this week in scores of schools and fire stations. Democrats and Republicans turned over their precinct lists to the Marion county chapter of the Indiana Cancer society, now engaged in a campaign for funds. . . , Some 200 residents of Acton, i New Bethel and Beech Grove () converged on the statehouse y in a demand for improved electrical service. . Governor Gates pardoned a family man who escaped 27 years ago from the Indiana state farm and hadn't been heard from since until Cincinnati police picked him A up by mistake. . . The governor's safety committee recommended installation of driving classes in all state high schools. . . . Butler university campus is flowing with beards grown by participants in the annual junior prom beard-raising contest, the winner of which gets a free ticket to the dance, and a trophy. . . . Methodist hospital feted 150 recently - returned’ physician-veterans with apple pie, cheese and swing music. . President Herman B Wells of Indiana University popped up in Salonika, Greece, where he's a member of the American mission to observe the coming, Greek elections. enrollment for this semester reached an all-time high of 7876 students. . . . With 250 more .veterans enrolling at Butler university, the school's total number of ex« servicemen students climbed to 1300. . . . Easter Carol Service, Inc., which will prepare for the 24th annual sunrise worship on Monument circle, opened office in the Soldiers and Sailors monument, . ¢ © STRAUSS SAYS: ~ ’ WHEREVER GENTLEMEN'S -— FINE HATS are checked—it's y Cavanagh and Debbs — the Man's Store is so closely iden~ tified with Dobbs and Cave anagh that the mere mention NY of one—brings the others to mind. Both will headline the hats in the building next door. L. STRAUSS & CO. INC. > PP "The Melting Pot— The town was a bit of old Ireland and several other nations this week, thanks to the Ancient Order of Hibernians and a scattering of foreign war brides and visitors. . The Hibernians did things up green on Bt Patrick's day morn by reviving their
annual breakfast with some 800 sons of Erin attending. Indiana
University Grid Coach Bo McMillin, principal speaker, sported an Irish brogue with southern accent (Bo is from Kentucky). . . War brides rejoined their husbands here from Ireland, France, New Zealand and England. . Joy Ruth Gray, 16-year-old Chinese adopted daughter of Miss Cammie Gray, local migsionary, came home to Indiana with her mother. . And Manuel Ponciano, fresh from Guatemala, is teaching Spanish at. Shortridge high for a month on an exchange professorship basis. . , . The county welfare board seeks $10,000 to finance a county child
240 garden plot memberships this summer for $1 apiece,
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Death ended the 50-year career of Meyer Efroymson, prominent Indianapolis retail businessman. ¥ , . P, R. Mallory purchased for $425,000 the government-owned war plant at Moore and Parker sts. , . , The city zoning board authorized the Marion Manue facturing Corp. to erect a $500,000 sulphurie acid plant adjacent to Union stockyards, . + +» Acme-Evans Co, sought permission to build 27 additional grain storage bins at & ° cost of $120,000, . . . Burns & James, archi« tectural firm, will draft a new master plan for Weir Cook airport, . . . Weir Cook played host for the first time to a foure motored Lockheed Constellation, huge 46« passenger transport. . , . Col. Oliver H, Stout was named commanding officer of the Indiana National Guard air component,
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Sweeping Events— . Indianapolis police are armed with new “weapons,” namely brooms with which they will sweep: up glass whenever they spot 1% on city streets. , , , Police Chief Jessg McMurtry was granted a brief leave of absence to recover from an ailing leg and Inspector Donald Tooley took over. , . , City sanitation workers demanded an employees' pension fund. . . . A detailed model of the proposed Garfield park amphitheater was unveiled with much fanfare at the park board. . Highland Acres Civic league planned to construct a community “hobby house” and also resolved to oppose removal of soil from adjoining farms for construce tion of an elevation over the N. Y. C. tracks north of E. 38th st. . . . Drexel Gardens resi« dents asked county commissioners to reopen Minnesota street through Stout field, whose extended runways closed the thoroughfare in 1942. . . . Permission to build a movie theater in University Heights was requested of the zoning board. . The board likewise was asked to approve construction of a new branch postoffice at 1138-1144 8. Belmont,
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* 00 Sport Spotlights—
The Caps are two down in their four-out=
of-seven playoff series with Buffalo in the
American Hockey league. . . . Indianapolis battles Buffalo here tomorrow night after dropping 5 to 1 and 1 to 0 decisions {v the ‘Bisons in the East. , . . Rex Mays, current A. A, A. driving champ
previous Speedway races, entered the 1946 renewal of the 500-mile classic. . . . The Pure due relays tonight at the Boilermaker field house match more than 300 athletes from 24 schools. . . . National swimming competition returns to Indianapolis
_ REX MAYS this week-end with a series of A. A. U,
events scheduled at the Athletic club. . . . Howard Deer Jr. won the Bemis Bowling Award. . . . June Swiggett was renamed president of the Indianapolis Women's Bowling association. . . . Indiane apolis sluggers scored decisive wins ovér Terre Haute . leather-pushers in Golden Gloves strife hetween the two cities. . , Anderson's Indians reigned as state baskete ball champs after a torrid high-scoring 67 to 53 win over Ft. Wayne Central in the state tourney final. . Bob Cripe of Flora captured the Arthur L. Trester medal for mental attitude.
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Juveniles ‘Fenced In’
Police raids on three N.-Illinois st. estabe lishments netted the arrest of 49 persons on gambling charges. . A masked bandit who robbed the Karpex Manufacturing Co, oi E 19th st. of a $3000 payroll was still at large. . . . A 20-year-old youth fought two officers who ran from a restaurant in time to prevent him from driving off with their squad car, . Havoc reifned at a’ Sigma Alpha Mu alumni meeting after a thief took 13 topcoats and four hats while the exe Purdue and Indiana students were in the recreation room. . . . Two ravished bandits ate at a restaurant in the 5500 block of B, Washington st., then held the place up. County commissioners decided to fence in the juvenile detention home after eigh youths escaped. . . , Fines of $25 each were boys
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