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BYRNES TOASK UNO TO RECESS AND ‘COOL OFF

Will Induce Russ to Lift Boycott.

By R. H. SHACKFORD

United Press Staff Correspondent

tary of State James F. Byrnes, having won his fight to let Iran tell her side of the controversy with Russia, plans to ask the United

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Union a chance to answer Iran's denial of a Soviet-Iranian agreement, The council—with Russia still absent—holds its second hearing on Iran's case against Russia at 2 p. m, (Indianapolis time) with Polish Delegate Oscar Lange “doing my best” to act as peacemaker between the great powers. Mr. Byrnes first presented his idea of asking both Iran and Russia certain clarifying questions before deciding to proceed with full investigation of their dispute, at yesterday’s secret session. He obtained immediate support from Britain and most of the other members. He hopes today’s sessien will so develop that his suggestion can be made in an informa] mannér rather than by a stiff, rigid resolution. s May Confer With Truman

If Secretary Byrnes’ plan is ac<epted, he and his top advisors may take advantage of the long weekend “cooling off” period to return to Washington for consultations with Presidenitt Truman. % The Soviet consulate, which has been a focal point for reporters ce Russia walked out of the uncil Wednesday, was barred to the press this - morning. Soviet press attache Victor Ulanchev ordered reporters out and announced “we won't have any statement for _the press today. I don’t know what's going on.” : Russian Chief Delegate Andrei A. Gromyko, who walked out on the council Wednesday when Secretary of State Byrnes and other delegates insisted on hearing Iran without granting a Soviet-demanded adjournment, said that he was not sure whether he would attend today's meeting. But it was known that Iran would be discussed and other members did not expect him. The council was ready to hear an Anglo-American “recess” plan which it was hoped would take some of the heat off ‘the Iranian crisis and possibly induce Gromyko to call off his E boycott. Will Hear Iran

Hope Anglo-American Plan

NEW YORK, March 29.—Secre-

Nations security council today to take a three or four-day breathing

The recess would give the Soviet

VOLUME 57—NUMBER 16

Charges Meat Prices High in Most Stores

WASHINGTON, March 29 (U.P). —The American Meat Institute said today that independent mation-wide surveys show that four out of five stores in America’s largest cities charge black market prices for meats. R. J. Eggert, associate director of the institute’s marketing department, told the house agriculture committee that the average housewife in these cities must pay $1.20 for meat priced by OPA at $1, He said the black market is growing. The surveys were made by the Statistical Research Co., Chicago, and the C. C. Chappelle Co., Chicago, Mr. Eggert said. There companies, he added, based their findings on individual meat purchases in 1803 stores in 11 large cities. Mr, Eggert said above-ceiling prices were charged in 83 per cent of the stores surveyed. yO The overcharges generally were “widespread and flagrant,” and, in some instances the black market

Los Angeles and Dallas; Tex. Smoked ham will go up one cent

price was three times the legal

price, Mr. Eggert said.

MEAT CEILINGS ARE BOOSTED

Price Increases Announced On Pork, Beef Products.

WASHINGTON, March 29 (U. P.).—The office of price administration teday boosted retail ceiling prices on 75 per cent of all pork products and 33 per cent of all beef products. The increases, effective Monday, will average one-third of a cent a pound on beef and three-quarters of a cent on pork. . OPA said the boosts resulted from the general 16 per cent hourly wage increases recently granted 90,000 production employees of the five major packing companies. The increases will not apply uniformly throughout the country. For example, the ceiling price of porterhouse steak will go up one cent a pound in such places as Chicago, New York, and Nashville, Tenn. But it will remain the same in

in Los Angeles and remain the same in Chicago, etc. The beef price increases will affect better grade cuts such as porterhouse, T-bone, sirloin and club steaks as well as round and flank steak and hamburger. The largest beef price increases will affect bulk dried beef which will jump four cents a. pound, and beef liver and corned beef brisket, which will rise two cents. Other in-

creases will be held to one and two cents a pound. - The pork price hike will affect

It will hear Iran's answers to some questions by the Polish delegate and then probably be asked to

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seek by direct communication with the Soviet and Iranian governments # clarification of their conflicting statements on basic issues. If the Russians declined to ani swer, the United States and Britain would be prepared to proceed’ full

Ek Russia in her absence. (United Press

hams, pork loins and sliced bacon. Shoulder cuts will remain un-

speed ahead at midweek with a hearing on Iran's charges against |

Correspondent

changed. The increase alse applies to whole dressed hogs or sides, It

GOP HARMONY

Daniels and Bradford May Split, Posing Problem For Ostrom.

By NOBLE REED A deadlock over the Republican county committee's choice of a candidate for prosecutor today threatened to split the regular organization’s ranks wide open if the fight goes to the polls in the May 17 primary. Party leaders are lining up In about a 50-50 division with followers of Joseph J. Daniels, 11th district G. O. P. chairman, on one side and backers of James L. Bradford, former county chairman, on the other. The Daniels clique is supporting Leo T. Brown, deputy prosecutor in charge of ‘the grand jury, for the prosecutor nomination and the’ { Bradford group is backing Alex M. |Clark, another deputy prosecutor

{and a veteran of world war II. | Deadlock Persists Several party conferences during the last week ended in deadlock. { Unless a compromise is reached on {one candidate or the other before the last day to file candidacies | April 8, there may be a scrap that | would change the whole complexion lof the party leadership. | County G. O. P. Chairman Henry |B. Ostrom is trying to sit out the |fracas on the fence but he will | have to take a. position one way jor the other if a compromise is {not reached without a battle at the | polls. And a defeat at the polls on the {prosecutor contest alone would jeoplardize Mr. Ostrom’s position as {chairman at the county G. O. P. | convention May 11. An undercover |maneuver to elect a new chairman ihas been going on for several {weeks, although it hasn't come into the open. : City Hall Opening If the organization deadlock con{tinues between Clark and Brown] {for prosecutor, ! {natural opening for anti-organiza-| tion Bepublicans at City Hall and Sheriff Petit's group to ‘enter a third ‘or even fourth candidate to; split the votes. i With the regular organization di-! vided on two candidates, a strong| third or fourth contestant might] maneuver enough organization votes to win a bare majority. | The contest may develop into a four-way race, resulting in one of| the most complicated party alignments the Republicans have en-| countered in many years. Charles M. Clark, another deputy prosecutor and a former member of the legislature, announced his candidacy in the G. O. P. prosecutor race today.

Might Confuse Voters |

will average about one-fourth cent a pound in such cases.

OPA CRACKS DOWN ON NEAT BLACK MARKET

Wins $13,500 in 1st Round Of Drive in Indiana.

Meyer Handler meanwhile reported from Moscow that the United Nations' decision to discuss Iran in i Russia's absence was interpreted there as a gesture of hostility toward Russia.) : The Anglo-American plan, supporters of which hope may be a j devices for bringing Russia back to

(Continued on Page 4—Column 6) NEED NEW JUDGE TO TRY JUDGE LENSING

EVANSVILLE, Ind, March 29 (U. P).—~—The Indiana supreme court must select the names of ¥ three more judges from which one Ek will be chosen to hear the trial of Probate Court Judge F. Wendell

b the council table, was discussed at

The OPA won a consent judgment of more than $13,500 against Hilltop Packing Co., Huntingberg, Ind, in the first round of the state-

wide OPA crackdown on alleged black market meat operators. The battle was scheduled to enter its second round today as Vincent T. Russo, chief of the food enforcement sectioy, announced he would file suits at Hammond against four northern Indiana meat packing

Lensing. Leonard Ashley, Boonville attorney, previuosly designated as the

houses. The judgment won from the Hilltop company was one and one-half

ENOZ j special judge in the case, today|times the amount which the OPA declined to serve, Judge Lensing charged the firm had received MOTH SPRAY g faced charges of conspiracy to com-| from gyer-ceiling prices on sale of

i mit a felony in an alleged plot 10}, ang beef. The case was heard

Kills the wor ® Increase inheritance tax fees. yesterday in the U. S. district court

that causes § He allegedly attempted to get at Evansville. trouble. 79%¢ ® Vanderburg county Assessor Clyde | Phe OPA originally ‘entered suit Pint ices G. Gaisser to share the increased (; collect triple damages from the

fees with him.

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firm, but settled for half of that amount. The Hilltop company also was

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$25,000 BAIL SET FOR SPY SUSPECT

ROYAL Amusements., 22|Morgan ..... 5| MONTREAL, March 29 (U, P.).— CLEANSER ~ & fl Anderson... 21/Movies a...ss 22|Bail of $25,000 was set today for | Aviation ..... 19|Musel ....... 5 Fred Rose, Communist member of Cleans painted Business ..... 26 Music ....... 22| parliament accused of espionage, surface, linoleum § Classified . 32-34 Obituaries ... 16/hut he was unable to raise the or tile, 29¢ ® Comics ...... 35|Dr. O'Brien... 19/amount immediately and remained 3% Lb... Crossword :.. 26|H. V. O’Brien 19|in custody. Editérials +... 20|J. E. O'Brien. 30] Rose's bail, before being held for {Fashions ..... 24|Radio ...... «+ 35|trial, was $10,000 and the increased a 22¢ Mrs. Ferguson 24| Earl Richert. 28|amount was fixed by Justice WilNeaner______23¢ : Forum ....... 20 Reflections .. 20 fred Lazure at a hearing today. : 29 G. I. Rights... 19|Mrs, Roosevelt 19| Rose is among a group of persons ne Meta Given.. 24|Serial ....... 36|charged with giving Canadia Lola 29¢ } Hannah ..... 19(8ide Glances. 20 secrets to Russia. « 9¢ Homemaking. 24|Sports .... 30, 31 warm me Smomstasatianios en - In Indpls. ... 4|A. Scherrer .. 20| FRENCH NATIONALIZE GAS I nt oe oe -- 18¢ Inside Indpls. 19|Stranahan .. 30 PARIS, March 29 (U, P.).-—Na- , 20 ot: —...33¢ Jane Jordan., 35| Troop Arrivals 8|tionalization of the French gas and gl To A Labor........, 19 Whipple ..... 28/electrie industries was approved pm en | SON Good Manners 36 Women's, 23-25/today in a bill passed by the ’ EE Ruth Millett, 19 World Affairs 20 assembly. __, __ _._. ._.

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His backers, mostly among orlg- |

{inal anti-organization Republicans, | Heincy, 72, and his son, The following table shows the | are figuring that his name on the | 45, ‘both illiterate Missouri back-

{ballot with Alex Clark would con- |

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{too, might have a chance to slip| {in a majority if the organization | {remains deadlocked. Also prominently in the prosecu- | tor picture at present is Judson L.| Stark, judge of Superior court 1, | whose backers already are dickering | with - organization leaders for sup-| port. . ! And, it was learned authorita-| tively, some promises along those | lines . have been made ‘to Judge | Stark by party men identified with | the regular organization. = Since the race right now is anybody’s guess, some observers are thinking that Judge Stark might end up as a compromise candidate. Or, some guessers are speculating that Charles Clark might split enough votes from Alex Clark’s following to permit Judge Stark to move into top position, if the latter decides to get into the race,

CONDITION GRAVE AFTER AIR MISHAP

ELKHART, March 29 (U, P).The condition of -Miss Geraldine Varns, 22, passenger in a plane that | {crashed here Wednesday, remained, {critical today. She suffered com-| {pound fractures of both arms and |both-legs in the accident. The pilot | {of the plane, Harley E. Huffman, | |32, Middlebury, was killed. |

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FRIDAY, MARCH 29, 1946

Marcia Sue Is Only 9, but Hard Study May Win Times Spelling Bee

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Indianapolis 9, Ind,

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Union Says Induction of 3500 Power Workers Is ‘Slavery.’

RICHMOND, Va, March 29 (U. P.).—Governor Wil-

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Eighth graders in The Times Spelling Bee don’t “scare” Marcia Sue Newman (above), a 9-year-old pupil in 3A at School 2. She says she's

studying hard to become the Indianapolis champion and it will provide a ~~ 5

FATHER AND SON Entries Rocket

DIE ON GALLOWS

Pair Hanged Together for Murder in lowa.

By DALE JOHNS United. Press Staff Correspondent

By ART WRIGHT Co-operation of teachers in pub-| lic and parochial schools sent the] list“ of entries for The Times Spell-| ing Bee skyrocketing today. | St. Patrick's Catholic school led in the number of group entries] when 78 were received yesterday|

win the free trip to Washington, D. C,

Entries are still being. accepted, so if you haven't filled yours clip the

entry from these pages and mail or| Democrat Leader Vague on

bring it to the Spelling Bee director at The Times.

Entries are numbered in the or-

der they are received. This gives the “early birds” the advantage of

Names, Places. By ROBERT BLOEM

Forces which bred the Ku Klux

panions in robbery, kidnaping and | Grace Meng sent in 60 entries from | her pupils. School 2 filed 16 entries|

murder, were hanged together at] dawn today in the Iowa state penitentiary.

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woodsmen. It was the first simulson for the same crime on American | criminal records. The gallows traps for both men | were sprung by a sheriff who! pushed two levers at once at 6:01} a, fon plunged downward a split second ahead of his father. Three physicians pronounced the father dead at 6:12 a. m. and the son at a. m, Neither man showed any emotion or-said-aword-as-they walked slowly ‘across the prison yard, climbed to the. gallows, and awaited the adjusting of the hoods and nooses. Executed for Murder The Heincys were sent to the gallows for killing Robert W. Raebel, 65, a resort operator at West Okoboji, Towa, during a robbery Dec. 16, 1944. ! The father and son had spent more than 20 years trying to. make

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WOMAN DIES AFTER

and Holy Trinity Catholic school| match according to their numbers| Ewing, Democratic national vice

the preliminary spell-down. The spellers will be lined up in the

| [eure up for the benefit of the

Klan two decades ago are being

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Republican party in Indiana,” according to a statement by Oscar

liam Tuck today inducted 8500 employees of the strikethreatened Virginia Electric Power Co. into the state militia bat his action was challenged by the American Federation of Labor which described it as “involuntary servitude.” Seeking to end the threat of a power blackout in the state, Gov. Tuck sent notices to male employees of the utility that they had been drafted “into the service of the commonwealth to execute the law which requires that yout provide electric service to the people of Virginia.” : Gov, Tuck said in his order that he was acting under power granted him under sections two, three and four of article six of the military code of Virginia, and under section 4006 of the code of Virginia, The latter, he said, requires the company to provide electric service to the people of the state customarily served by it, Challenged by Green The A. F. of L. challenge was voiced in Washington by A. F. of L. President William Green who said

== | that ‘Governor Tuck's action in-

as Teachers. CHARGES .0.. Back Times Spelling Match STIRS UP* KLAN

volved “the principle of servitude

involuntary

policy,” E. J. Brown, president of the International Brotherhood of Electrical workers (A. F. of L.), denied that Governor Tuck had the legal right to induct the union members. But he said that the union would wait for the law to decide legality of the move. Offered to Arbitrate “We followed government proces dure and we even offered to arbitrate, but the company refused, and we don't think the government has

the right to tell us we cannot strike,” Mr. Brown said.

submitted 11 to swell the roster.|assigned when entries are received. | chairman.

: ws | Most of the public and parochial The executed men were Phillip| 01s were well represented.

DRIVE OVER TOP

RED CROSS FUND

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FBI Continues Extortionist

Mr. Brown was critical of Gov= ernor Tuck because “he went to the company. and got the names of each worker and then notified them that they were in the militia although they had taken no oath whatever.” The strike has been called for Monday, April 1. Denouncing the electrical work-

| The charge, issued at a press conference late yesterday, reiterated |a statement made several weeks {ago by Mr, Ewing. But on the sub- | ject of names and places, Mr. Ew{ing continued to be vague. { Pressed for details, Mr. Ewing {recalled the 1944 election of Robert |W. Lyons as Republican national

m. (Indianapolis time). The Workers’ Report $11,000

Ahead of Quota.

e Red Cross 1946 fund drive

today was declared “over the top”

with

learned that they had achieved the

$11,000 to spare. Workers

~ Suspect Probe

The FBI continued checking to-|

{day the record of 46-year-old Don|ald Chester Wilson, alias John R.

| Frost. He is being held in Marion] county jail under $10,000 bail after

committeeman and Mr. Lyons’ resignation 11 days later under severe

| pressure of charges that he had

once been treasurer for the Klan. “Mr. Lyons resigned his official position with the party,” Mr. Ewing said, “but I understand he still exercises a great deal of influence. “I think it would be very inter-

ers leaders as dictators, Governor Tuck promised that the state would take every step necessary to insure continuous electrical service.

SOUTH BEND SCHOOL TEACHERS GET RAISE

SOUTH BEND, Ind, March 29

judge, by threatening his two sons.

LY he confessed that he attempted 10,0), office in Indiana and. how goal last night at a final report extort $5000 from on YadiEEapoiE many men asgiHng 15" meeting at Ipalco hall. Some 200 volunteer workers heard |

esting to know how many men in| gy p) Annual salary increases of

from $200 to $250 were anticipated by South Bend public school teach ers today. The board of education

yesterday voted the increases to be

|many - men “aspiring fo high office | the lives of|/are or have been on Mr. Lyons’ { payroll.”

the report by Frank J. Hoke, gen- | eral chairman. A total of 3591 0001 was collected, over the goal of $580,-

are yet to be reported. One of the last minute contribu- | tions was that of the Red Cross| Canteen corps. The corps gave]

Wilson: was arrested Wednesday

ald W. Ohrn,

| On Checking Visit

| He said he did not know exactly night by FBI agents in the tele-|, “op 0 orient the Klan is being 000, and several thowsand dollars phone booth ef a Ft. Wayne ave. revitalized in Indiana, but expressed

{ ceremonies.

Another manifesta~

$500, which it had raised through | commission hearing judge.

crime a paying proposition, but! pe sale of meals to civilians dur-

{ night.

tion, he said, was the rise to prom-

| He quickly confessed that he was ihence of “many persons formerly

ing the past year, to the drive last). writer of four extortion notes | connected with the Klan.”

to Mr. Ohrn, threatening the lives!

“The volunter workers who have, {

FALL DOWN STAIRS | people of Indianapolis and Marion

VALPARAISO, Ind, March 29 (U. P.).—Mrs. Eugene Sullivan, 40, of Valparaiso, died last night of injuries received when she fell down a flight of basement stairs.

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WASHINGTON, March 29 (U. P.).—The house today overwhelmingly approved a senate-house conference bill to impose stiff federal curbs on the demands of music czar James Caesar Petrillo upon radio broadcasters. Aproval came on standing vote of 186 to 16. Final senate approval is now all that remains to send the bill to the president. The bill, worked out by senate-| house conferees, would make it a penal offense for any person to. try| to force a broadcaster: | To employ “stand-by” orchestras: To refrain from broadcasting re- | cordings, or; To hire more employees than he] needs. | Violators would be liable to a $1000 fine and a year in prison,

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House Approves Rigorous Measure to Curb Petrillo

land the American public.”

Petrillo and his American Federation of Musicians have been accused of making just such demands upon broadcasters. The house passed a similar bill last month. The senate passed a much more moderate measure last year, and a conference was necessary. | The bill approved by the conferees and by the house today is virtually identical with the original house measure. Only two minor clarifying word changes were made.

House approval came after Rep. |

Clarence Brown (R. O.), one of the house conferees, explained that the measure affects “only Petrillo because he has taken a labor union and used it for his own purposes against the interest’ bf the Jeborer

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Cross,” Mr. Hoke said. He tribute to the press and radio

for an outstanding job of supporting the drive and to the canteen | corps, motor corps and staff assistants corps of the Red Cross for | their assistance. James PF. Carroll, a member of the board of directors of the Red Cross, spoke on the behalf of W. I. Longsworth, chairman of the Indianapolis chapter who is out of the city. He expressed the approciation of the chapter for Mr. Hoke's lead-

f his two sons unless his demand |

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Volunteers Can Supply Navy After Sept. |, Admiral Says

29 (U.|drafted into the army. T fear that if selective service act is not continued we are not going to get these

WASHINGTON, March | P.).—Vice Adm. Louis E. Denfeld, | chief of navy personnel, said today |

“The activity may not all be in the name of the Ku Klux Klan,” he said. “The same hates and prej-

effective in September. Minimum salaries in class IV graduates of a college or university recognized by the North Central

ates will have a minimum of an annual $1900 and a maximum of $3550, school board officials said. They said the total increase would amount to approximately $130,000 |annually.

udices are being played up by other| py rUAR SUCCUMBS

Mr, Ewing professed no knobwledge of terroristic rites such as the

TO AUTO INJURIES

CRAWFORDSVILLE, March 29 (U. P.).—Mrs; Belle Peyton Huron,

|drug store. He was making a call belief it was manifested only partly | ccaniation will be $1700, with 7 to.bargain for the $5000 from Ger- by reorganization of hooded groubs|annual increases of $100 up to a alcoholic beverage Who indulged in secret rites and mgyimum of $3350. Class V gradu-

desirable young men.”

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the navy can get along with vol-| unteers after Sept. 1. The navy now gets 1100 men a month through | selective service, Adm. Denfeld testified before senate military affairs committee | hearings on whether the draft act |should be continued beyond its [present May 15 expiration date. | | He said the navy hopes to reach | lits peacetime strength of 500,000 jenlisted men by Sept. 1. “The big question,” he sald, “is the effect that the selective service act has on voluntary enlistments. *. 1 feel, that we get many boys from 17 to 20 now due to the fact | that they know that if they don't

Penfield sald recruiting officers report that many of their voluntary enlistees say the draft act is a factor in their decision to volunteer for navy service. “If the draft act was continued

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