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BEER DROUGHT THREATENS TO SHUT TAVERNS
Many Owners .Here Ration Brew While Others Cut Selling Hours.
Scores of Indianapolis taverns may be forced out of business this summer by the beer shortage. In the state, many small town bars have already been victimized
by the brew drought. Numerous taverns here are remaining closed one day a week in addition to Sunday. Others are restricting beer sales to half-a-day each day. Some are rationing beer to one bottle or glass per customer. Tavern Owners Resentful
About the only thing brewing these days is a rising tide of resentment amorig local tavern owners. Some charge the beer supply, always a political football, has been kicked out of bounds by political chicanery. Other voice suspicions of a conspiracy among conservative farmers and “drys” to bring prohibition back by withholding grain from the market. Tavern proprietors complain their brew supplies have been cut, not 30 per cent as per the government's recent order, but as much as 50 and 70 per cent. These facts were unearthed today by Times Reporter Frank Widner. Those devastated by the beer dearth are tavern owners possessing | beer and wine licenses only. They | can’t depend on liquor sales to! tide them over. Bartenders Idle More and more bartenders are spending their time reading newspapers, playing solitaire or fiddling with the pinball machines behind barred doors. No beer. The East side was a desert with few oases last week-end from 3 p.m. Saturday to 8:30 a.m. Tuesday. Monday is a poor day on which to try to drown your sorrows if you're a beer drinker, Mr. Widner learned. Reason is that Tuesday is the big delivery day and by the Monday before the outlook is ag dry as a bartender’s wit, Tuesday is a good suds day. Neighborhood tipplers had a field day yesterday until the coils ran dry. Draft beer is very, very hard to find, however, with premium bottled beers predominating, Some lower-middle-class taverns are selling 20-cent beer for the first time. |
Wait for Rush Trade
Most spots reserve their beer for).
periods attracting the heaviest trade. Thus, those serving foods as a specialty, will tap their supplies in the afternoon for restaurant customers. Others, playing for the “drink and be merry” clientele, release their brew at night | only. - Sometimes patrons who walk | in at precisely the wrong time are unable to detect any system whatever in beer sales. In one case, three taverns in the vicinity of 10th St. and Holmes ave. were reported working in relays —each closing on a designated day so they can “share” the thirsty customers. Bartenders report inveterate imbibers, deprived of beer, are turning to hard liquors, especially rum. Wine, essentially a European beverage, still isn't clicking with Hoosiers. Tavern men alsq say they pereeive a liberal] sprinkling of strange faces among their patrons. The thwarted thirsty are caroming from tavern to tavern, far off the beaten path. Harold Feightner, executive secretary of the Indiana Brewers association saw little hope of relieving the condition, Charles Johnson, secretary of the Indiana Retail Alcoholic Beverages association said he thought something would happen “under pressure” later this summer. He said there had been some talk of further reducing grain allotments to distillers and diverting it to brewers.
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Prudent LeConte ..". He longed for an Indiana heme.
Mr. and Mrs. Dale Goss . ,. “We did all that we could.”
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 10, 1946
VOTE IS SERN IN PRIMARIES
Estimate 242,000 Eligible;. Doubt Ballots to Surpass 60,000.
By NOBLE REED The total number of voters eligible to cast ballots here in the May 7 primary was estimated by | the county registration board ‘today at approximately 242,000. However, if the public doesn't {show any more interest in the pri{mary this year than in previous | years, less than 30 per cent of the | registered voters will go to the polls | here on May 1. ! Two years ago, when presidential issues spurred public interest in local primaries, 65,000 voters cast ballots in the May voting in Marion orate 43,000 Republicans and 22,000 Democrats. { Election statisticians this year are | predicting that the total vote this | primary in Marion county may be (as low as 60,000 unless more public |interest is manifest in momination | 'of candidates during the next three | weeks. { 221,000 in 1944
| w In the 1944 general election, 221,{000 cast ballots in November out of {an estimated 286,000 total registrations. Those who failed to vote in 1944 | were purged from the files, leaving
ian estimated 221,000.
{ | From this total 1500 were can-
{counties in the state and 5000 were {removed from the list as the result of deaths in the last two vears. This left 214,000 on the list at the beginning of the registration period a month ago. Since then 12,000 voters listed their names on the
{of 16,000 men and women in the
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Indianapolis 9, Ind.
Harold W. Hensley . , . “Facing judgment with head up.”
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tana AWOL for 20 Years, Minister Confident of Rejoining Family
Times Special
CAMP CAMPBELL, Ky, April 10<“All I'm praying for Is th chance to tell my complete story. I'm confident the Lord will return’ files and- the absentee registrations me to my family” : ; A 39-year-old Evansville Mo:
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LESS THAN 20% | Ags Chance to Tell His. Story
rmon minister sat quietly in his cell as {armed services were added to the he spoke these words. Thé preacher, Harold W. Hensley, was arrested
{ files, making a total of about 242,- last Friday as an army deserter, almost 20 years after he went A. W.O. L. | commen -— Bsmt — m——
| Victims of the Belvidere street|CODtract negotiations with eight He was arrested by the FBI justiy,.,. were: Mr. and Mrs. Anthony | Major motion picture companies
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company officials for énding {company strike. | United Mine Workers C members of his negotiating soft coal wage conference
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BLAME FIREBUG FOR 8 DEATHS
‘3 Children, Policeman Lost In Boston Blaze..
By THOMAS LYMAN United Press Staff Correspondent | BOSTON, April 10.—A firebug | roaméd Boston's Back Bay near {dawn today, touching off three | apartment house fires that brought
| death to eight persons—includin |a heroic policeman and three ekhildren, p= > Twelve persons were rescued dra- | matically by firemen: Nearly a score of others leaped | to safety from windows or fled down | smoke-choked stairways from the
| buildings in the congested rooming | the deadline for a strike of sugar
hotise area of the city.
Fire Chief Napeen Boutilier an- |Poard.
nounced that a firebug was respon- { sible, Thee Buildings Fired
bish piles.
{were lives lost.
(that occurred a few blocks away. .
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Settle Harvester Strike
Ry UNITED PRESS Negotiations collapsed today ‘walkout, which has made 400,000 bituminous miners idle, but a settlement plan was agreed upon by the union and
in Washington shortly before
g+ The agreement is to be submitted
Chief Boutilier said that the fire-|2nd some 7000 harbor workers who bug sneaked into the three buildings that are only a few blocks |®Xpected 10 apart and set fire to basement rub-
Only at the Colonial Chambers, a Belvidere street apartment house, But other sleepers! narrowly escaped from the two fires Gent of the A. F. of L. American
The Indiana home this house home for “Danny the Darling.”
BULLETINS
{the train-to come in.”
WASHINGTON, April 10 (VU. i P.).~The senate today denied housing Expediter Wilson Wyatt power to put price ceilings on existing homes and building lots. The vote was 41 to 33.
NEW YORK, April 10 (U, P,). ~Poland demanded United Nations security council action against Franco Spain today, implying that German scientists hiding in Spain may be working
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Amusem’ts 10-11 Aviation ..... 13|Jane Jordan.. 23 Eddie Ash ... 18|Bill Mauldin. 12 Books ....... 8 {Ruth Millett.. 13 Business ..... 9! Movies ....10-11 Robt, Casey.. 6 Music . Carnival ..... 14| Obituaries ... Classified. 19-21|J. E. O'Brien, Comics ...... 231 Radio .....:.. Crossword ... 19|Reflections . 14] Editorials .... 14 Mrs. Roosevelt 13 Mrs. Ferguson 16 (Serial ....... 15 Forum ....... 14|Sports ... Gardening ... 13 Meta Given ., 17 Homemaking. 17 ‘Don Hoover... 14
Down at the Indianapolis Union station today, Dale 8. Goss, Lafa- | yette, waited impatiently to make connections that will get him to Ellis | ident Truman, who sent them to Ww. |istane, to bring home Prudent LeConte, a 16-year-old French boy he |the justice department. "They were!
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French Stowaway Freed on Appeals of Gates and Willis
By DONNA MIKELS On either end of the line, a couple of old pals today are “waitin' for mouth, and Jonas A. Miller, Waka-
And oyt on Ellis jsland the four-feet-three-inch French boy is anx-
iously waiting for .the ‘soldier who ——v——r— en
wouldn't make him a promise we HOOSIERS ADMIT
kept it anyway.
The doll-like youth who hopes to jockey has
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this country after Governor Gales and Senator Raymond E. Willis ap-
“|pegled to immigration officials on
his behalf. . The boy, known to G. 1's as “Danny the Darling” appealed to Mr. Goss to bring him to this country from France after another soldier had broken his promise to bring him in. “I wouldn't promise but I told him I'd do all I could,” Mr. Goss
. 2 said. He then adopted the boy,
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CONFESSES STRANGLING BERLIN, N. J, April 10 (U, P.) —
18, 19 Clarence Huff, 37-year-old gardener, Anton Scherrer 14| has d¢onfessed to the strangling of Troop Arrivals 15| Mrs. Alice Sadler in a Waterford In Washington 14 (township tavern, state police anWomen’s. .~16, 17|nounced today. Mrs. Sadler's body World Affairs 14 ‘was found behind: the bes.
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SLAYING AT PAOL
‘Police Say Youths Confess To Killing Driver.
PAOLI, Ind, April 10 (U. P.)— Two Jeffersonville, Ind. war veterans today admitted they shot and killed James J. Williams of Louisville, Ky., last March 18 when he gave them a ride near here. Indiana State Police Detective Capt. Robert A. O'Neal said Paul Edward Gibson, 21, and Ernest Wil-
sions in Orange county sjail here panion injured when they were at-
tacked by highway south of here. Ford and
eventually captured in Ft, Worth, Tex: °°...
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| bers said cancellations were still |coming in for persons who moved | to other counties in the last 30 days. | Meanwhile, the state electior board ruledgthat primary poli§ all
{over the state will open and close
jon a standard time basis, regardless of any shift to daylight savings time.in somfe cities. Indianapolis is scheduled to move its clocks ahead one hour for sum-mier-daylight savings time, starting April 28, a week before the primary. New Opening Time { Under the state election board's [ruling Indianapolis pells will open
7p. m * To avoid the confusion of having {gity polls open and close an hour later than the polls in the surterritory, the board said all polls will open and close at 6 a. m. and 6 p. m., stand|ard time.
INDIANA'S SENATORS JOIN CLEMENCY PLEA
Capehart and Willis Appeal In Behalf of Auctioneers.
Times Washington Bureau WASHINGTON, April 10.—Both Senators Willis and Capehart today
have outlawed his arrest.
|two months short of the expiration | yoo coal) and their three children— | bY presenting 91 demands, includHowever, registration board mem- | {of the 20-year mark which would |g can 2: Peter. 3. and Linda. 6: |iDg one that the present minimum { " ’ .
and his sister [Salary of $5200 a year be doubled.
Frank Le Pette
tervention ne Deadlock:
in the 10-day-old coal
the International Harvester
hieftain John L. Lewis and committee stalked out of the
noon with an announcement |that further discussion was futile. The miners’ walkout—reportedly the result of the operators’ refusal . to report a disagreement to the full [raee conference of mines and oper= |ators—followed hints by Secretary f Labor Lewis B. Schwellenbach {of possible government intervention unless progress was reported within the next few days. > Representatives for Inte Harvester Co. and 30,000 €7\1. O. United Farm Equipment kers reached agreement last night on & {new contract providing an 18-cent {hourly wage increase.
[to the.union’s harvester council to[night. If accepted the workers are |expected to return to their jobs this week-end. Other labor developments: ONE: C.1.O. and A F.of L. unions set midnight Saturday as
[refineries along the Atlantic sea-
TWO: « Striking tugboat workers witharew their picket lines at most plers in the port of Philadelphia
had refused to cross the lines were return to their jobs. |caing 35,000 production workers laid off. because of the steel shortage.
FOUR: James O. Petrillo; presi-
| Federation of Musicians, opened
TEACHERS’ PAY
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$2000-$3600 Schedule Is
Effective in July.
Superintendent of Schools Virgil Stinebaugh today had an overall $200 to $300 raise in salaries for prospective and present Indianapjolis classrooms teachers to take home in the school year 1946-47.
As indicated by The Times last
| ranging from $2000 to $3600.
| The new schedule, effective in moriths was sentenced to a year and|both of these buildings when the| With speedy settlements.
{July, replaced the present wage rate adopted in 1945 which pro-
election | yjded a minimum of $1700 for be-|
| ginning instructors to a maximum {of $3400 for instructors with a mas|ter's degree after 22 years’ service. ! In other action on a heavy agen- | da, the school board also: ONE: Approved a new salary jschedle for public library person- { nel. TWO: Adopted a pension plan
THREE: Deferred action on jan-
| for a war job.
“I don't feel like a criminal” said | the deserter who has used his right | name, registered for the draft, and | : allowed himself to be fingerprinted |
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story:
Policeman Robert Mahar,
Policeman Is Trapped Policeman Mahar, one of the first
Relaxing in his cell, he told this On the scene, was trapped in the {building” after entering to arouse |
FIVE: Busdrivers and mechanics struck at Pontiac, Mich, forcing {residents to walk or hitch-hike to | work. Confident of Acceptance
Grant Oakes, president of the
“I was 17 when I joined the army. residents. He leaped from a third | C. I O United Farm Equipment
[I began corresponding with a girl but a man in the camp post office took my letters and he began writing to her, too.” He left camp to court her and later married her.
floor window, but died within a few hours at a hospital of internal in-
Juries, The fire, which caused $10,000 damage, was in full blaze when
“Before their wedding I ran away| ‘he alarm was sounded for the sec-
| trom camp to see her. I couldn't
{get her back and I was miserable. just couldn't bring myself to go
He later re-enlisted and in a few
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Carpenter Parley
Union carpenters and officials of |
[the : construction industry here were deadlocked in a wage dispute today
for all non-teaching employees of |at the adjournment of a concilia-
| the schools [as meeting. The session was held |
{itors’ salary increases until after|conciliation service in an attempt
|a private Tuesday afternoon. FOUR: Approved the issuance of
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in the offices of the United States |
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April 15. Representatives of the A. F. of L.'s
ond block on nearby Irvington st.
in a four-story apartment Loss
! | “I didn't intend to desert but I| Was only about $1000, but here anat 7 a. m,, daylight savings time, in- | Friday, the school board last night | !
stead of 6 a. m. and will close at| approved a teachers’ salary schedule |p...
other series of spectacular rescues occurred. Pire apparatus still was outside
| third fire was discovered in a building on Huntington ave,
Deadlock Marks PARENTS ASSAILED
IN SCHOOL STRIKE
Evansville Board Hits. Back At P.-T. A. Group.
EVANSVILLE, ¢{nd., April 10 TU P.).—Evansville's school board, un-
informal session next!to avert a threatened strike set for der fire for the past week, today
fired counter charges of “‘contributing “tb juvenile delinquency” at a
$200,000 bond for construction |United Brotherhood of Carpenters Parent-Teacher group which it ac-
| joined in.the plea for executive|°l ® New building for school 63,/and Joiners of America are de-| cused of fostering a student strike.
clemency for Harold Steiner, Ply-
| rusa, ‘sentenced for OPA violations. The senators sent letters to Pres-
acknowledged by the presidential
secretary, Matthew J, Connally, who |
pointed out that recommendations from the attorney general are necessary before the President takes action in such cases. Since Atty. { Gen. Tom Clark, is a close personal | friend of Alex Campbell, federal | district - attorney for ‘northern In- | diana who prosecuted the men, it is | considered unlikely that clemency will be extended unless Campbell changes his present opposition to it. Only Republicans have joined in the plea so far. First to send a letter to the White House was Rep. Robert A. Grant, South Bend. He pointed out, as did the senators, that “these men are not criminals” | land contended that they were tried {without any jurors drawn from! {their neiglibors. Both are auctioneers. Governor Ralph Gates’
letter
| rived, White House Press Secretary
AUTOR VICTIM DIES | PT. WAYNE, April 10 (U, P.).—
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ceived Sunday night when struck | by an automobile in Ft. Wayne. °
115 N, Traub ave. destroyed by manding a wage
fire Jan. 8.
increase of 30 cents an hour, increasing the scale |
In heartily approving the adop- to $1.80 an hour. |
tion of the new schedule, Super- |
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$300 BASEMENT FIRE |
Fire this morning broke out in| the basement of 5373 E. Washington st., home of Funeral Director Luther Shirley. Firemen said the blaze was started by “spontaneous combustion” in the coal bin. Mr. Shirley estimated damage at $300.
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A strike notice filed with officials |
cludes approximately 130 general! contractors and sub contractors. . | Robert Pilkington, a U, S con-| ciliation commissioner, presided at! today's negotiation session. The federal official said that the first meeting ended in a wage deadlock, but that further meetings would be held ‘in an attempt to reach a com- | promise. Time of a second meeting | will be set later, he added.
ART WRIGHT ‘Ten more grade school pupils— only one of them a boy — were added to the lineup for the semifinals: in The Times Spelling Bee today after they won out in five
liam Ford, 24, both signed confes-|asking clemency has not yet ar. | City district eliminations last night.
They will compete April 22 at
Williams was killed and a com-| Charles Ross reported again today. Caleb Mills hall, Shortridge high
school, in their next step toward the Indianapolis Champion's title and a free trip to Washington,
Gibson were sought by police in|Miss Mary Miller, 76, Pt. Wayne, D. C. southern Indiana and Illinois but|{died late yesterday of injuries re-|
First - and second place winners last night, in the order named -led
10 More Reach Semi-Finals In The Times Spelling Bee
Douglas community center—Mary | McCord, School 56, and Eleanor | Patterson, School 37.
Rhodius community center—Joseph Commisky, Assumption Catho-
School 49.
Roberts Park Methodist church— Delores Kramer, Holy Cross Catholic school, and Betty Baker, also of Holy Cross. = St. Paul's Methodist church—Luanne Bardsley, Holy Angels Catho-
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The four remaining members of the board issued a statement in which they charged “certain members” of the P.-T. A, with “using
{intendent Stinebaugh asserted that of “the Building Contractors Asso-|some of the public school build(ciation of Indianapolis. which in-| ings to advocate and encourage ju- weather, but the
venile delinquency.” The charges were made in a let-| ter to City School Superintendent | Alex Jardine who said today that he was in “complete sympathy” with demands that Evansville high school students return to classes. Jardine said an (early attendance check this morning showed a “very good” attendance at Central high school. He was hopeful most of the nearly 5000 striking students had resumed studies this morning at Bosse and Reitz schools. “The children should be in school,” Mr. Jardine said, “it is not their business to settle the current dis-
Mr.
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COMMITTEE 0, K.'S LOAN.
WASHINGTON, April 10 (U. P).|
lic school, and Juanita Gribben, |—The senate banking committee
by a vote of 14 to 5 today approved the proposed $3,750,000,000 loan to Great Britain, .
ANNUAL SIOUX HUNT BISMARCK, N. D, April 10 (U. P).—8ioux Indians started their
annual spring hunt yesterday and | Chief of Police B. A. Wohle warned |
dog owners to watch thelr peta 8 ka . 20 ; i “i Ww
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and Metal Workers union, said he was “quite confident” that the union's Harvester committee would accept the new contract. Eleven Harvester plants have | been strikebound for 80 days. | Assistant Setretary of Labor John { W. Gibson, who personally conducted the Harvester negotiations, said he was hopeful that AllisChalmers and the J. I. Case Co. { would follow the lead of Harvester
Sugar workers set their strike date after three companies operat~ ing refineries in Boston, New York, Philadelphia and Baltimore refused {to accept a government fact-find-{ing board as arbiter in their wage dispute. The unions demand an |18%3-cent hourly pay boost and the (companies have offered 13 cents,
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‘GARDENS SAFE, NO FROST LAST NIGHT
LOCAL TEMPERATURES
6am «38 Ym. Mm... 14 Ta. m..... 33% Nam 41 Sam 41 12 (Noon). .B 49 Sam... 6 42 Ipm. 50
A light, nurturing rain following on the heels of nippy spring weather was promised tonight for amateur gardeners who have proudly been watching their plants shooting up through the ground. A threatened frost here last night was dispelled by cloudy, windy Ff. Wayne-South Bend area was whiténed by a frost that did no damage. Temperatures will rise slowly tonight and tomqrrow, the weatherman said.
Who Could Ask For Anything More?
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water heater, laundry, water softener laundry ‘ and’ totlet. Large rear yard ix fenced and has 3-car
large incinerator and
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