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FORECAST Partly cloudy and warmer tonight ‘and tomorrow.

SLAYING PROBE

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BLIND ALLEYS

Police Redouble Search For Pollard, Wanted For Questioning. State police admitted today that

all leads in the brutal-dismember-ment slaying of Leland Paul Miller,

blind alleys. This, however, has resulted in a redoubling of effort as they press a nation-wide search for Howard Pollard, 24, wanted for questioning In the gruesome, abandoned-farm murder. Pollard, arrested 18 times but hever imprisoned,” is believed by police to be fleeing or in hiding. His parents said he and his wife left on a fishing trip Monday. Overnight, every hangout on the West | side frequented by the former railroader was subject to close examination, The state police have focused their attention on Pollard as 11 months ago he was shot in the neck by the murder victim who lived at 1230 N. Alton st.

Feared Revenge

According to the parents of Miller, who also had a police record, the youth had expressed fear of revenge after the shooting which, according to his story, was done to stop Pollard from assaulting a woman. Late yesterday officials expressed the belief that they were closing in on Pollard. He has not been seen gince several days before the murder and is believed to be driving a 1941 black Oldsmobile. The car corresponds to the description of an auto seen speeding away from the) scene where the hands and crippled foot of the murder victim were found in a bonfire near Advance in Boone county.

License No. 41-584 The black 1941 car is the property of Pollard’s father, Homer, 218 S. Arsenal ave. and bears the license number 41-584. Meanwhile blood taken from the heart of the victim was tested at the Indidn®& university medical center. It further proved that the charred torso found in the rfins of ‘a burned and abandoned farmhouse near Ladoga and the hands are those of the same body. To thwart any effort by Pollard to flee the state’ or Midwest, state police have broadcast his description and that of the car over a radius of several hundred miles.

Funeral Tomorrow At 1 p. m. tomorrow services will be held for the victim at the Charles H. Leap funeral home with burial at Russelivilie, Putnam county, former home of his mother. Only the family and immediate relatives will attend. In a chain of bizarre and gruesome events, the murder unfolded along lonesome country roads in two counties Thursday. Warm gporing weather had changed into a cold, cloudy wind-swept day when Howard Troth, veteran and farmer, kicked out a fire along Raccoon creek near Advance, From a smouldering army blanket tumbled the hands and foot. Pingerprints provided the identity of the victim, Later a fire in a 75-year-old cabin on the property of Mr, and Mrs. James Chaffin, Montgomery county, revealed a body burned beyond recognition. The hands and a foot were missing from the charred re- | mains and the head had been severed.

MARINES ANNOUNCE NEW CUT IN POINTS

WASHINGTON, April 13 (U, P.). «Marine headquarters has announced new point cuts for male personnel effective April 15 when discharge points for enlisted men will drop from 38 to 36. The twopoint cut will make an estimated 8800 marines eligible for. discharge. Other point cuts were: May 1, 33 points for men, eight for women; June 1, 28 points for men, four for women; July 1, 25 points for men, gero for women. AftemsJuly 1," the marine corps said, men with 30 months of service will be eligble for discharge. From V-J day through April §, the marine corps discharged 205,830

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WINS LOCOMOTIVE

HOLLYWOOD, April 13 (U. P.).— Paul Snell wondered today who won the friendly little gin rummy game which he played with a friend. Mr. Snell, a press agent, held the winning -hands and he won a 1928 cow-

“ catcher, boller, bell, ete. Now he's stuck with a $55 monthly storage bill.

TIMES INDEX

Amusements.. T|Jack Kofoed., 9 Bddie Ash.,,. 8{Lucas ........ 1 Carnival ,.... 10/ Ruth Millett.. 9 Chigches ,... 6 Movies ..... . Classified. 12-13| Obituaries ... 3 Comics ...... 14/ Radio ..... oH Crossword .... 4 Reflections ... 10

Editorials ,,.. 10 Mrs. Roosevelt 9

ers onan VOLUME 57—NUMBER 29

How to Grow Your Own Criminals

An Editorial WHETHER or not Howard Pollard had anything to do with the murder police want to ask him about, his record in this community is a scathing indictment of law enforcement around here.

Arrested 18 times in seven years, this 1 man has never served a single day in jail, never paid a penny of any fine, never accepted even the incredibly mild punishments that have been decreed for his crimes. Right now, while the police hunt for him again, two felony charges lie against him in Marion county courts, either of them serious enough to call for a long term in state prison—and on one of which he has already been convicted. He first fell afoul of our notoriously inept and fumbling juvenile court—and got no punishment. A trifle older, and a trifle tougher, he was arrested again and again by city police—and turned loose in court without punishment. Naturally his crimes got more serious—what' else would you expect? For stealing an automobile, instead of the prison term the law provides, the court ordered a $50 fine—and then -suspended it and released him “on good behavior.” Almost immediately he was back, charged with grand larceny this time. But a kindly prosecutor and a benevolent judge let the charge be reduced to petit larceny, ordered a fine of $25 which he never paid and a jail term of 180 days which he never served—and turned him loose again—presumably for more “good behavior.” Today— and last Thursday while a youngster was being brutally murdered—Howard Pollard was still out on “good behavior” on those two offenses, on bail awaiting trial on a charge of assault with intent to rape, and on bail pending an appeal from a jury’s conviction that he robbed a grocery store and stole $800. EJ » » . » . HERE was the prosecuting attorney while all this was going on? Well, the record doesn’t show. Buf it shows plainly enough he wasn’t doing his job, and his deputies weren't doing their obs, and for that matter the courts who handled these cases weren't doing their jobs, | either. Here is a young man who has been trained to be a criminal—by the courts and the .prosecutors of Marion county. It would be almost a miracle if he turned out to be anything else. And this is no isolated case. There are a hundred youngsters in this town with longer and darker records than Howard Pollard—youngsters whose crimes cover everything in the statute books except possibly murder, and who have never suffered the slightest penalty, or the slightest punishment at the hands of our courts. Let's not forget that.men we.have elected to office have done this—and that many of them right now, while the police comb the countryside for Howard Pollard, are asking that we elect them again. Marion county primary elections are May 7.

DIES IN CRASH AT COATESVILLE

Express Messenger Victim Of Train Accident.

GREENCASTLE, Ind, April 13 (U. P.).—An express messenger was

killed today when a Pennsylvania passenger train and a work caf col-

Times Change— But Which Way?

A time-zone map of lyre | Soe the summer of 1046 wi piece of cloth with a a checker-board and polka-dot pat) tern. The majority of Hoosier cities and many counties will switch over to daylight saving time late this month. Numerous others all over the state will stick to central standard time. Others-—possibly as many as 30

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Tentatively O.K's Ban On Teen-Age Draft

U.S. T0 SEIZE NAZI AGENTS NOW IN CHINA

Post VE-Day Help to Japan Will Be Charged Against Group.

By WILLIAM H. NEWTON Scripps-Howard Staff Writer SHANGHAI, April 13.—Within 48 hours U, 8. military authorities in China will arrest a group of key Nazis who will be charged with espionage against the United States after the unconditional surrender of Germany. It was understood they will be held for trial as war criminals or for violation of the German sur-

MADRID, April 13 (U, P.).— Spain today invited the United Nations te send ’technical commissions to inspect Spanish factories and verify the fact that there is no atomic experimentation under way in Spain.

cided what they are going to do. Daylight time becomes effective in the Hoosier- capital of Indianap-

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NEW YORK POLICE KILL TWO BANDITS

Surprise Pair in Attempted Hotel Holdup.

NEW YORK, April 13 (U, P).— Two former army tank corps comrades were killed by police this morning when they were surprised while holding up the night clerk at the Hotel Berkley in Manhattan’'s swank upper west side. The bandits were identified by army discharge papers in their pockets as Albert J. Roy, 38, of New York, a former second lieutenant, and John J, Farragher, 32, of New York, a former corporal. They were the seventh and eighth men to die in New York's weekold crime wave.

LONG BEACH, Cal. April 13 (U, P.) —Operators of two big openair “cosmic ray” factories, where they claim to cure everything from cancer to combat fatigue, try out their cosmic powers today on a

are charged with violating health ordinances. They were arrested yesterday at their ray-therapy plants, where officers found more than 100 elderly patients wired to cosmic ray outlets and munching “cosmicked” food. : Charles and Paul Beebe, whose father, Roy, invented the box to harness the cosmic, were charged, on eight counts, with violating business and health codes and county ordinances. -Ralph Hylton, 36, operator of a Desrby drive-in cosmic ray center

Iton's for Health’ was

per cent of Indiana's 102 incorpor- Hie at a switch in Coatesville, t. nicipalities—h ot de- : vied my Pp pe The victim was Amos Wells, 55,

Columbus, O Mr. Wells was thrown against a shipment of farm machinery in the express car of the passenger train by the impact. He sustained head injuries and bled to death before medical aid arrived. None of the other crewmen and passengers on the 1l-coach train,

en route from Indianapolis to St.| Louis, was injured. A railroad em-

ployee riding in the work éar also was unhurt. Bumped Off Siding A. F. McIntyre, general superintendent of the Indianapolis, division of the railroad, said the accident occurred near the Coatesville station when a spreader car, used to clear ditches, left a siding and ran out on the main track.

McIntyre said the train stopped |

before the collision when the engineer saw the work car edging onto the track, He said an engine which had been pulling the work car bumped the car off the siding. It rolled down a slight incline into the passenger train. None of the coaches was derailed. The locomotive was disabled and main line trafic held up for a time.

‘Rube Goldberg’ Cosmic Ray Lands 3 Operators in Court

Carl Anderson, California Institute of Technology professor and Nobel. prize winner who went along with raiding officers, said the “cosmic ray” boxes from which the “health currents” purportedly flow were “Rube Goldberg” machines that couldn't cure a stiff neck. Officers added some of the wires the patients clutched weren't even attached to the cosmic box. The Beebes said their father was the first one to control the cosmic in 1912 and had been using it ever since “to keep static pushed back out of the air.” “When people are full of static

they get sick, or they get fussy and

start persecuting us,” they ex-

plained. Officers confiscated stacks of “Copmicked” - food-—bread, water and wheat treated at the cosmic

v render terms. The arrests are in response to strong pressure from the U. 8. state departnient. Military authorities will start a roundup of key Nazis in Shanghai —oprincipally officials of the notorfous Erhardt bureau, a German military and commercial espionage organization—on Monday morning. The Nazis will be held under American military guard in the Ward road jail where Jap war criminals, including killers of the Doolittle fliers, are held. They will be held for investigation pending trial either by a Chinese or a joint Chinese-American tribunal. Penalty May B¢ Death They will bé charged with having aided Jap military authorities in the war against the U.S8.—A& direct violation of the German surrender terms—and those guilty are subject to punishment, including death. They will also be charged with engaging in underground and subversive activities against China. Members of the Erhardt bureau are known to have opérated radio monitoring stations in China -and to have turned over information about the U.8. navy to the Japanese navy. Acting on such information the Japs are known to have sunk a number of American vessels, it was learned. Ten Nazi agents are alrgady under arrest at Canton where they are being held at the request of American officials by Marshal Chang Fah-Kiwei, military commandgr of Kwangtung province Marshal Chang is the only high Chinese official who has demonstrated any real concern over the

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SURPLUS PROPERTY SALE PROBE. URGED

GOP Asks Democrats Join Demand, Avoid Scandals.

WASHINGTON, April 13 (U. P.), —Senate Republicans demanded today that Democrats join in a congressional investigation of surplus property disposal or take the consequences for any scandals which develop. The complaints include charges that veterans are failing to get the preference which congress intended they should have in acquiring surplus government property for use in farming or setting up businesses. Senator Homer Capehart( , R. Ind.) termed “scandalous” the advertisement of Gimbel's department store in New York that it had 600 new Studebaker trucks made for the army. He sai dhe had received word that an Indianapolis department store was selling or planning to sell surplus army equipment. Downtown department store merchandising managers in Indianapolis here sald this was news to them,

ia Governor's Daughter—

Being the daughter of Indiana’s chief executive means extra work for Pat Gates at Indiana university. You'll see. for yourself when you follow her “around the clock” in pictures and story * in today's ° Women’s section,

By DICK BERRY

Mrs. Dorothy Edwards, an English war bride, and her 8-month-old son, Richard William, arrived in Indianapolis this week to make their future home. But there was no jubilant husband to greet ‘his new bride and to see his son for the first time. Richard: Edwards, the husband, was fatally inJured last Dec. 6 after working but an hour and a half on his new civilian job. He died two days later as a re-

sult of injuries sustained when his motorcycle crashed into a streetcar.

Ld “ Ls" BUT Mr. and Mrs. Bert Neitzel, the stepfather and mother of Mr. Edwards were there, trying valiantly to make the homecoming

seem bright . .., and to offer a home to Mrs. Edwards and her infant son.

The former Dorothy Patullo, of Kettering, England, Mrs, Edwards met her husband when he was stationed near there as a staff sergeant with the 9th air force, They were married Aug. 12, 1944, and were together seven months. Then in March, 1945, the war took S. Sgt. Edwards away, first to France, then to" Trinidad. He didn't see his wife again, and never saw his son, In Trinidad, 8S. 8gt. Edwards began the long procedure to bring his wife to America. He was still trying to obtain passports at the time of his death. Then Mr. and Mrs. Neitzel took over. They advised Mrs. Edwards of the ex-soldier's death and urged her to come and stay with them. And they, too, began work on the necessary papers required for her admission to this country, Finally, in March, they were advised that their new “daughter” was on her way. She arrived w

Mrs. Dorothy Edwards and 8-month-old Richard William Edwards | . death intervened before they could close the 4000-mile gap between them,

and (inset) Richard Edwards .

week ago in New York and came immediately to her new home at 5218 W. Beecher st, where she was met with opén arms. Mrs. Edwards, while sad over the loss of her husband, was happy over the welcome she received from her new family:

War Bride and Child Reach Home Bereft By Death of Father Who Never Saw Baby MEN 20-29 IS

INDUCTION OF ASKED BY MAY

Bill Now Is Subject to a Roll Call Vote by Members.

WASHINGTON, April 13 (U. P.).—The house today tentatively approved a proposal to ban the induction of 18 and 19-year-olds after May 15. The vote was 1905 to 96. It is subject to a roll call vote before passage. The proposal to raise the minimum draft age from 18 to 20 was offered by Chairman Andrew J. {May (D. Ky.) of the house military | Aflairs committee on legislation to extend the selective service act nine months beyond its present May 15 expiration, y: Before accepting the May proposal to. set the draft age at 20 to 29 inclusive, the house rejected a substitute by Rep. Sam Russell (D. Tex.) to make it 21 to 20 inclusive. Mr, Russell's amendment was. re- ; | jected 149 to 62. ra | Final house action on draft ex- | tension is expected before night[fall It also is considering a pro- | posal to suspend all inductions from May 15 to Oct. 15 to see if voluntary enlistments will be sufficient to fill army manpower needs." Mr. May said Gen. Dwight D. “I Eisenhower, army chief of staff, had said that teen-agers are not suitable for occupation troops, and should not be drafted during peacetime,

“Americans are the most wonderful- poeple I've ever met,” she said. And little Richard is now an American. He has been registered

with the proper authorities and is “They're good fighters, but not a full-fledged citizen. \ good policemen,” Mr. May told the

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Two More Girl ‘Times' Spell

By ART WRIGHT

Two more girls were added today to the official lineup of Sontestants for the important semi-finals of The Times Spelling Bee as a result of last night's spell-down at South Side community center. Winning out in a field of 25 district finalists at South Side were St. Patrick’s Catholic school. pupils, Patty Prestel and Phyllis Carpenter. They are among the youngest slated to compete in the semifinals. Patty, first place winner, is 12 years old and Phyllis is 13. It was a first class match, for it wasn't until some three hours after the session began that the first place winner was determined. “Conscientious” = was the word that finally won out for Patty Prestel. While the group was eliminated down to first place for the purpose of district honors, both girls will be on: equal basis when they compete at Caleb Mills hall, Shortridge high school, the ‘April 22, They will match wits with 40 other city district winners and runnersup and 18 representing the

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Some cabinet changes are likely. there'll be: complete shakeup in armed services.

Schwellenbach will leave labor sometime this year.

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13.—Truman’'s second year: If merger passes, In any secretary. Chances are Mr. Con[annegan is growing but he's wants to. to be federal loan adminisirman. Mr. Pauley will get senate will confirm him, if

There's no immediate prospect of Mr. Truman regaining control

coalition will be cockier than ever

Best guess is Democrats will keep nominal control

1 production, full employment next the Southem<Rapublicen block will.

No Check on Black Markets Yo

Prices will keep on rising and there's, nothing in sight to check black markets raging in building materials, premium payments), meats, other foods. before election—nor after, unless world crop failure make it inescapable. Worst of labor troubles are over for the present. Foreign policy will be improvised as we go—just as it has been

rents, (secret illegal There'll be no food rationing

8 » STATE DEPARTMENT plans major reorganization of foreign It calls for more career men, higher standards of qualification, higher pay, more liberal expense accounts. would be raised to $25,000 from present $17 500. ambassadorial status. We now have 800 foreign service officers with-another 400 unfilled

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Top pay for ambassadors Long-range aim is

Champs Join ing Semi-Finals

system. A group of those 60 will be eliminated that night and the balance will return to Shortridge May 26 for a match to select the 20 who will compete in the grand finals May 3 at the same place. On May 3 the Togisuapelis winner will be selected. itle-holder will leave on June alr Washington, D. C., with all wo paid hy The Indianapolis Times. There the champion will compete against champions of other cities from coast to coast for the national champion’s crown, Valuable prizes will be awarded the winners here and also in the national contest at Washington. The two semi-finals and’ the finals at Caleb Mills hall will be open to the public and admission will be free. Last night's events ended the preliminary contests in the city

week. i. The spelling bee committee, will review the results of both the city and county events during the weekend ‘and the official entry list for the first semi-finals will appear in The Times early nextiweek.

and no matches will be held next

: ranking minority member of he military committee, o STATE PEACHES She milsary He said it would leave 'screened,” Mr. Andrews said. “The 25 Per Cent of of BlosSOMS same way with the 20 and 21-year-Reported’ Nipped olds, so you know how many men

bo pins eenns. | NOUS, Would Continue Draft no one for induction. “Every 19-year-old has been In you'll -get- by resorting to those LOCAL TEMPERATURES |*6°%

FROST DAMAGES Rep. Walter G. Andrews (R. N. ine armed _ services or has been Mr. May replied that on last Jan.

$3 n 2 3 3 > n id B 1 there were 1,115,100 non-father Sam . 45 12 (noon) 59 |4F'S Who could be taken into the 9am se p. m "go [Service in place of the teen-agers.

“These 4-F's are the ofies who had jobs on fat pay while the 18-year-olds were out fighting,” he said. a

Fruit growers looked to weather bureau forecasts of warmer temperatures today to bring relief from

three nights of frosts which ruined up to 25 per cent of local peach blossoms. The mercury dropped to freezing or below in all parts of the state early this morning. The lowest mark reported by the Indianapolis weather bureau was 29 degrees at Terre Haute. It was 32 degrees (freezing) in such widely separated

downstate Evansville. Howard county orchardists reported that as much as 50 per

area were damaged. In Indianapolis, where the temperature -fell to 30, Marion County Agricultural Agent Horace Abbott sald that 25 per “cent of the peach blossoms in this area had been damaged. * He~said the loss would not affect the yield. Strawberries also were damaged by earlier frosts, Mr. Abbott added.

He believed the cherry crop and | other berry crops suffered only | minor dnmage

NERCHEVAL CLEARED AT ABC HEARING

Ouster Charge on Neglect of Duty Is Withdrawn.

Thomas W. Kercheval, president! of the Marion county liquor board, stood cleared today of negligence charges on which his removal was | sought before the state alcoholic! beverages commission. City authorities, ' meanwhile, in-| jected a new element into the some- | what fermenting county liquor situation by alleging A. B: C. commis= sloners were not backing them up in their efforts to keep Indianapolis taverns from petty law violations. Mayor Tyndall yesterday described the tavetns as “breeding places of crime.” Safety Board President William H. Remy complained to the mayor that the A. B. C. has the real policing - power, but is not cooperating with the city. Mr. Kercheval was acquitted in the ouster proceedings yesterday by the commission.” He was’ charged by A. B. C. Prosecutor Glenn A. Markland March 25 with negligence of duty in refusing to vote on a

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Mr. May and Rep. Forest A, Harness (R. Ind.) told the house that no men would have to be inducted if the armed services put on intensive recruiting programs. Favors Volunteers “I favor extending .the act and I think it would be tragic not to extend it,” Mr. May said, “but I don't believe you will have to call a single man if we go hfter volun. teers.” :

Mr. May and Mr. Harness urged an intensive recruiting campaign and ‘a pay increase for members of the armed forces. Mr. Harness said he would support an amendment to declare a draft “holiday.” “According to the war department's own figures the army will not face a shortage of men umtil Jan. 1, 1947,” Mr, Harness said. He urged approval of a propossl that would prohibit inductions until at least Oct. 15 to see if a volun{tary enlistment program would

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FACTORY RY WORKERS RIOT IN IRAN CITY.

TEHRAN, April 13 (U., P.).— Mounting friction between -the left wing Tudeh party and its opponents |in Iran was reported today to have touched off general rioting among 15,000 factory workers at Isfahan, [provincial capital 190 miles south of Tehran, One person was reported killed and 20 were reported injured in Daghat-Arabistan outside Isfahan in fighting between union workers and peasants. The wounded were hospitalized at Isfahan, and 12 persons were arrested,

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