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Time for spring cleaning. . .

. A séason’s accumulation of rubbish and garbage is piled high and

spilling over into the alley, behind the lot adjoining 812 Coffey st.

' A safety hazard. . .

."This deep chuckhole on 34 th st. between Ceniral ave. and Washington blvd. re-

mains unrepaired as a threat to passing cars,

| CLEANUP DRIVE BEGINS APRIL 15

Civic Leaders, fers, City Officials Map ‘Year-Around’ Plan.

City officials and civic leaders will team up April 15 to launch a gigantic “year-around” cleanup campaign. Mapped yesterday in Mayor Tyndall’s “office, the drive will climax

a series of sporadic moves started

The Junior Chamber ‘oI'* merce volunteered its services in the drive which will send municipal collection and maintenance forces on systematic cleanup missions in all city districts. “Indianapolis is a dirty city,” said Noble L. Biddinger, Junior Chamber of Commerce president. “Our organization is glad to head this cam-

paign with the co-operation of alll’

citizens. Old Ordinance Cited Mayor Tyndall indicated the city will invoke a 1925 ordinance imposing $50 fines on persons convicted of cluttering up public or private property. He handed cut copies of the law for neighborhood distribution. Municipal department heads, conferring with the mayor and Junior C. of ©. officials yesterday, outlined the following program: Park department crews will scour and repair boulevards, parks and vacant lots suitable for conversion into playgrounds beginning April 1. The city will .be zoned into three districts in the park rehabilitation campaign. By April 15, the street department will start a block-by-block cleanup of city streets, sectioning

_ The rains came . . the corner of Orange and Madeira sts. into a mud ple that bogged down a school bus this morning. z

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the city into four districts. City to Be Divided | Street Commissioner Luther Tex | said the city would be divided at 16th and Meridian sts, “just as it was for tin can collections.” He said his department would assign 55 trucks to the crusade. Mayor Tyndall said the administration would purchase additional

Citing examples of filth in various neighborhoods, the mayor said: “There is no more war. This is'no clash affair. We must clean up the city and follow through with the program.” Earlier, the works board instructed police to enforce a ruling levying, fines against persons found guilty of overloading trucks and spilling their contents. Also attending yesterday's conference were representatives of the Chamber of Commerce, Federation of Civie clubs, Council of Women's clubs, Merchants association, Indianapolis Real Estate board, Council of Parent-Teachers association, utility firms and the three daily newspapers,

LOCAL TEMPERATURES

PUT OUT "47 CARS

Full

Production Promised

Within 30 Days.

SOUTH BEND, Ind, March 27 (U. P.).—The Studebaker corporation will be in full production of 1947 passenger cars within 30 days, President Paul G. Hoffman announced today. Mr. Hoffman said that the new | cars would involve “more than minor design and mechanical

changes.” The corporation will manufacture both the Champion,

its lowest priced model, and she more expensive Commander, soon as plants here can be Teweil he added. “These cars are true post-war models in all that the term implies,” Mr. Hoffman said in an announcement’ to Studebaker dealers throughout the nation. The Studebaker plants here halted production of 1946 Champions several days ago in order to revamp machinery. Mr. Hoffman said important engineering developments which have been under test for several months will be utilized in the 1947 models. Some 5000 production workers were temporarily laid off because of the retooling work, . Mr. Hoffman predicted that the “quick changeover” would be followed by a “sharp increase” in the

_ | produotion of 1947 models.

2-DAY CLINIC OPENS |

LAFAYETTE, Ind., March 27 (U. P.).—A two-day agricultural-finan-

cing clinic wil be held on the Purdue university sampus April 11 and .12. n Headlining the clinic speakers will be Governor Gates, C. W. Bailey, Clarkville, Tenn., vice president of the American Bankers’ association, and Dean V. C. Freeman

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Girl Cut as Nail Polish Explodes

ELKHART, Ind. March 27 (U. P.).—"“Be careful where you put your bottle of fingernail polish,” Miss Doris Jones warned members of the fairer sex today. Miss Jones, 20, was recovering from a three-stitch cut in her right leg and cuts in her right arm suffered when her bottle of fingernail lacquer exploded. She had set it on the stove.

‘POKER FRIEND DUNKIRK DEATH

‘Sheriff Hears That ‘Mild

of Cyrus Frazier as a possible suspect in the slaying yesterday of the 38-year-old York-

|slumped over the steering wheel of

% |any robbery motive when a small

‘I phoned his former father-in-law,

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§ Imile and a ha}f from Dunkirk,

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 21, 1946

NOW SOUGHT IN

Argument’ Occurred Prior to Shooting.

DUNKIRK, Ind., March 27 (U. P.).—Police today sought an elderly card-playing friend

town farmer. Sheriff Isaac Cook said that the victim was reported to have engaged in a “mild argument” with the elderly stranger less than 15 minutes before he was shot to death in the cab of his truck near here. State police and Cook said they could “crack the case” if they could determine what transpired in the 10 or 15 minutes after Mr. Frazier drove his truck away from the Busy Bee restaurant in Dunkirk early yesterday morning. Doubt Robbery Motive Mr, Prazier's body was found his truck, which was loaded with wire and tile. Authorities admitted

sum of money was discovered on the bullet-ridden body. Mabel Jackson, a waitress, told Sheriff Cook that Mr. Frazier tele-

Daniel Bans shortly after midnight, . ‘Banta told police that

his former wife, Mrs. Pauline Bantz, to see his two children. Mr. PFrazier's second wife lived with him near Yorktown. Believed Going to Bantz Home

Police believe Mr. Frazier was en route to the Bantz home, about a

when he was waylaid near the Odd Fellows cemetery about 4 a. m. Police were at a loss to explain why Mr. Prazier planned to visit his two children at such an early hour, Mr. Bantz, a Blackford county farmer, told them Mr. Frazier had not seen the children in “a long time.” Sheriff Cook said he was investigating to determine if the “elderly man” followed Mr. Frazier from the Busy Bee restaufant. Mr. Cook said Donald Hassner, a Dunkirk factory worker who lives above the] restaurant, said Mr. Frazier and the stranger had often played poker to- | gether.

~ |OPPONENTS IN UAW

AWAIT SHO SHOWDOWN

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Reuther Leads aads Thomas in Early Balloting.

ATLANTIC CITY, N. J, March 27 (U. P).—R. J. Thomas and Walter P. Reuther, former friends | and now bitter opponents for -the presidency of the United Automobile

ABC LISTS SPECIFIC

KERCHEVAL GHARGE

2 Complaint Save He Failed | To Vote in Tavern Case.

Lawrence's “overheated” tavern controversy erupted again today in the ‘alcoholic ‘beverages commission’s disclosure of its specific “negligence” complaint against Thomas Kercheval, president of the Mar= fon county liquor board. Hinging on a technicality, the A. B. C. charges Mr, Kercheval, a Republican, “failed and refused” to vote for rejection or approval of a tavern application submitted by Esther M. French of Lawrence. On official county records, the liquor board is listed as having rejected Mrs. French's application. The A. B. C.s complaint is In the form of a removal citation re-

AT PURDUE APRIL 11

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kers Union (C. I. 0), awaited the showdown today. After two hours of balloting, Mr. Reuther was leading Mr. Thomas, the incumbent, by more than 300 Unofficial totals Mr. Thomas 2247. who is fighting for

votes. Reuther 2572, Mr. Thomas,

~| re-election, was nominated by Ben

Garrison, a delegate from local 400, Ford Motor Co. Highland Park, Mich,, shortly after the morning session began. The nomination sparked a demonstration for Mr. Thomas as hundreds of delegates leaped to their feet and marched through the convention hall, shouting and singing. Refuses Reuther’s Hand Mr. Reuther, the 38-year-old vice president who led the General Motors strike, smiled during the demonstration and then stepped across the officials’ platform and extended his hand to Mr, Thomas, Mr. Thomas remained seated and coldly turned his back on his for.’ | mer friend. Mr. Reuther turned and walked back to his own seat. When the demonstration subsided, Edward J. Rote, local 174, Detroit, Mich., placed Mr. Reuther's nomination as “the man responsible for us being at this convention.” The nomination of the red-haired Mr. Reuther, whose labor policies have taken. other roads than the conservative ones followed by Mr. Thomas, touched off another noisy demonstration which appeared larger and louder than We one for

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Got Souls About u.

Nicolai year-old Russian navy lieutenant, was in jail today, charged with

espionage ‘against the peace and they had ineulclent, evidence 10 Gini“ ‘re United State of America.”

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(Read Othman’s Story, Page 15)

WASHINGTON, March 27 (U, P.).—Housing EXpediter Wilson W. Wyatt today outlined plans for building 850,000 “durable, liveable, safe” prefabri-

cated homes for veterans this year

“average factory price” of $4000 apiece.

The expediter testified before a subcommittee.

administration's emergency housing bill,

to produce 2,700,000 low-cost homes

the end of 1947. The 850,000 prefabricated dwellings

would be part of this total,

Mr. Wyatt wants the subcommittee to write into the measure a government guarantee of a market for 75 per cent of the prefabricated homes built

this year and 50 per cent next.

He said the 850,000 ready-made houses are needed “because it would be utterly beyond the range of

HOLD RED NAVY "Murder" Victim Will Face

OFFICER AS SPY

S. Tender, Says FBI.

By NICK BOURNE United Press Staff Correspondent PORTLAND, Ore, March 27. Gregorvich Redin, a 20-

He was the first Russian to be arrested on espionage charges since before world war IL Federal Bureau of Investigation agents seized the stocky navy officer last night as he tried to board the Russian cannery ship Alma

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At a brief preliminary hearing before U. 8. Commissioner Robert WASHINGTON, March 27 (U. P.—The arrest of a Soviet naval lieutenant in Portland, Ore. has no connection with the atomic bomb, an authoritative source stated flatly today. The armynavy task force in charge of the forthcoming atomic bomb tests said the destroyer Yellowstone was not involved in them. Informed sources speculated that the Yellowstone might have some special ‘machinery or equipment aboard which is still classified as secret.

Leedy, he was accused of getting secret information about the U. S.

The senators are considering the

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Effort To End Russ-U.S. ‘Deadlock On Iran Fail

Wyatt Outlines Plan to Build 850,000 Pre-Fab G.I. Homes

feasibility” to produce enough low-cost conventional

homes for former

to manufacturers

and next at an Mr. Capehart

ernment to loan senate banking

that could result Mr.. Taft said

designed for veterans by

house will not be tion costs would

harges of

CANNELTON, Ind, March 27

| faced charges of grand larceny brought by a farmer who last fall was

accused of his murder:

i William Lenhart, Cannelton stock farmer, filed the charges against George Rayburn Ellis, accusing him of stéaling his bicycle and a gun. Ellis disappeared from the Lenhart farm, where he was employed,

two years ago. A grand jury indictment was placed against Lenhart for second degree murder but dismissed for lack of evidence. Several days ago Ellis was located in Nashville, Tenn, where he was living in a church dormitory and going to night school when he wrote Sheriff R. M. Hobbs of Perry county that he had just heard of the charges against Lenhart, He said they were not true. The boy who had gone to live with the farmer when ‘his parents disowned him said he rode away on the bicycle

as a climax of an argument,

the bicycle.

SEES BLACK MARKET RIVALING DRY ERA

(Cattleman Holds Further

Price Fixing Perilous.

WASHINGTON, March 27 (U.

|P.).—~A Texas cattleman said today

that subsidies and price controls threaten to produce a black market | racket rivaling the prohibition era |

naval destroyer tender Yellowstone from an unnamed person, with intent to transmit it to Soviet Russia.! The complaint did not identify the person who allegedly gave Redin

. | the information. Redin was jailed in lieu of $25,- | ratsers had submitted to govern- |in past campaigns by the associa-

000 bond. Tossing back his shock of heavy| ! black hair, Redin listened as Commissioner Leedy read the charges and on called for “the Russian

jit Bok to this business,” said. Daniel Kladov, representative of the Russian purchasing commis-

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ST. LOUIS, March 26 (U. P).— Dr. Forest Ray Moulton, permanent secretary of the American Associa~ tion for the Advancement

men planning to witness the atomic bomb tests at Bikini “might as well | stay home and tend their gardens.” Dr. Moulton said the congressional observers would not be able to see

of what is happening.”

explosion might cause ships to capsize or be crushed and could cave in the mightiest battleship.

MILLION DOLLAR FIRE LANCASTER, Pa. March 27 (U.

tobacco warehouse here today.

much from their remote vantage point “nor understand a great deal

crime wave. +C. E. Weymouth, president of the | {Texas and Southwestern Cattle | Raisers association, told the house | | agriculture committee that cattle

{ ment regulations during the war {through an attempt to “do our full duty.”

“Although the government does-

n't seem to know it we have learned from our returning soldiers that the war has ended,” Mr. Weymouth said. “We want to throw off these shackles that were placed on us and be allowed to function in the Amer{ican way of life and business.”

Mr. Weymouth urged abolition of | price controls and subsidies on cat- | tle and meat after June 30. He said TO SEE A- TESTS) there were enough cattle on the | ranges now to keep prices down to | “average actual prices” of beef to-

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of Mr. Weymouth said that before the committee finished with its Science, sald today that congress- hearings it would be given “startling market in

evidence” ‘of the black ,| beef sales.

‘GATES TO ADDRESS

p.m. April 3 in the Columbia -club.

The conference is sponsored by

the Indiana state board of health

and the health officers’ association

to discuss problems of public health and plan future activities and pro-

P.).—A $1,000,000 three-alarm fire grams. Meetings will be held April destroyed the A. K. Mann and Sons |3 and 4 in Hurty hal] at the Indiana

university medical center.

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If the government wants the houses built, Mr. Wyatt said, it ought to be willing to guarantee

Republican Senators Robert A. Taft (0) and Homer E. Capehart (Ind) weren't so sure.

homes enough money to get going, but he would object to guaranteeing him a market.

facturer) assistance, not set him up in business.” He said there should be at least a limitation on the

total guarantee the government could . make, Mr. Wyatt's plans call for 250,000 of the readymade homes in 1946, and 600,000 in 1047. He assured the subcommittee that “the prefabricated

after Lenhart ‘knocked him the length of a bam

Lenhart placed a value of $40 on

HEALTH OFFICERS

| Gov. Ralph F. Gates will speak He said the low compressibility of |at a dinner meeting of the Indiana water under pressure of the atomic |Health Officers’ conference at 6:30

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G. 1's this year and next. that they can sell their product,

said he'd be willing for the gova manufacturer of prefabricated

He said

in “subsidizing inefficiency. “we ought to give him (a manu-

a flimsy house.” Land and erec-

be sddisional.

Grand Larceny

(U. P).—A 16-year-old boy today

JENNER ENTERS SENATE RAGE

Former G. 0. P. Chairman Officially Announces.

By ROBERT BLOEM William E. Jenner of Bedford, until last BR chairman of the Republican state committee, |® today officially entered the G. O. P. race for senatorial nomination. Mr. Jenner's announcement, an off-the-record fact since his resignation as state chairman, placed him squarely in the middle of a three-way race for the top spot on the party's ticket. Already in the race and well along in their campaigns are incumbent Senator Raymond Willis, slated by the party's inner circle for rejection at the June 13 convention, and Rep. Charles La Follette (R. 8th Dist), “radical” exponent of a progressive G. 0. P. Announcement Timed Mr. Jenner's announcenient was timed to precede the Republican | Editorial Association eonvention {scheduled for Saturday. Backers of the Jenner candidacy have ex- | pressed hope the announcement, | coming at this time, would fore{stall the possibility of an editorial |indorsement of Senator Willis, himself a publisher and strongly backed

tion. Despite the careful timing the editorial convention was seen in political circles today as a major hurdle in Mr, Jenner's campaign for nomination. A substantial segment of the association still is steadfastly com“ited to Senator Willis. A smaller but equally militant group still smarts under setbacks handed out under Mr. Jenner's chairmanship in. the’ matter of editorial representation in the state organization picture:

La Follette Asks

Jenner Intentions

EVANSVILLE, Ind., March 27 (U. P.).—Rep. Charles M. La Follette demanded today that William E. Jenner tell Hoosier Republicans whether he aspires to be Indiana | governor in 1948, Rep. La Follette, who opposes Jenner for the G. O. P. senatorial nomination, issued a formal statement today in which he wanted to know now if Mr, Jenner planned to serve two years in the senate and then vacate his Washington seat to run for governor. “There have been persistent rumors that he really wants to be governor,” Mr, La Follette said, “and not the U. 8. senator from Indiana. The Republicans of Indiana are entitled to know ‘whether he is seeking nomination as a two-year senator or a full-term, six-year senator. I call on him to answer that question now.”

THREE NATION

GROUP MAKES NO PROGRESS

Neither Country Willing to

Back Down From Position.

By UNITED PRESS A special three-nation

security council subcommite

did not get together”

tee failed to break the Amer= ican-Russian deadlock over Iran and the United States

will press again for an immediate hearing of the Iranian case. Secretary of State James PF, Byrnes, Soviet Ambassador Andrei A. Gromyko and French Ambassador Henri Bonnet conferred for 90 minutes this morning in a New York hotel suite in a last minute but futile attempt to find a formula that would keep the Russians from carrying out their threat to take a temporary walk from the United Nations council, if the Iranian case were heard. One of Mr. Bonnet's aides ane nounced after the meeting that the special subcommittee “simply He added that the three men would so report to the council at its afternoon meeting and that they would not ask for an extension of time to make another try, :

Neither Side Yields

American spokesmen still ine sisted that Iran be given at least

eating on that subject until that Mr. Bonnet failed in his mission to make peace between the world’s two giants. He himself had proposed the subcommittee at the end of yesterday's dramatic council session in an effort to avoid a vote which is bound to lead to much bitterness on both sides. When Mr. Bonnet discovered toe day that neither Mr, Byrnes nor Mr. Gromyko were prepared to give —even a little—the French ambas< sador decided to return the issue td the council itself. He was repre sented as unprepared to make such a crucial] decision on the delicate Iranian matter in the name of France, ¥ Bonnett Dodges Decision Had Mr. Bonnet sided with either Secretary Byrnes or Mr. Gromyko, it would have left one of the big powers faced with the necessity of making a minority report .to the council. Ambassador Bonnet indi. cated yesterday that he favored at least some postponement but was unwilling today to choose between Russia and America in the subcommittee,

under the threat not to any

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agree set the stage for another explosive council session during which the members may take the step which will force

The subcommittee’s failure to

Gromyko,

under his instructions from Moscow, to leave the table. Secretary Byrnes supported his adamant insistence that Iran be given a hearing with official. re~ ports. from Tehran that there is no Soviet-Iranian agreement as claimed by the Russians as their reason for wanting to avoid dise cussion of Iran now. This was in direct contradiction

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HEARINGS 7 TOMORROW ON ‘CASTE SYSTEM

WASHINGTON, March 27 (U. PJ. —Lt. Gen, James H, Doalittle said today that a special war department board investigating charges of a “caste system” in the army Joes yori but oma! “cure the iis of wor, ” ho “ injustices in the army oy ca The board Bed a & brief ‘meeting at which Gen. Doolittle announced the hearings rg be closed. He sald they last about six weeks and Secretary of War ‘Robert P. Patterson ‘would ane nounce the conclusions. The hears mgs will start tomorrow.

Rep. La Follette also demanded to know Mr. Jenner's stand on current national issues. He said that Mr. La Follette and Senator Ray-| mond’ E. Willis, who also seeks re- | nomination, “have to vote and show our- hands on national issues.”

NEW CASTLE PLANT CLOSED BY STRIKE

NEW CASTLE, Ind, March 27 (U. P). — The Western Products Corp. plant remained closed today following a walkout of workers yes terday over a wage disagreement.

hardware and industrial oil Suraing

The plant manufactures builders'|

In Spring the Home Seeker's Fancy Turns to the Suburbs

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