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VOLUME 57—NUMBER 33
Hoover Is Called Home by Truman
In Crisis
on Food
President Wants an Eyewitness Account To Spur U. S. Program for Relief
Of Starving.
WASHINGTON, April 18 today asked former President
(U. P.) —President Truman Herbert Hoover to interrupt
his world-wide famine inspection trip and return immediately to report his “eyewitness account of the necessity for greater assistance from this country” to starving nations. Mr, Hoover is now in Cairo. He will speak from there tomorrow night on a radio
program with the President in
a world-wide broadcast about
the acute international food situation, Mr. Truman today asked the honorary chairman of the famine emergency committee to return home immediately. “An urgent need has developed in this country,” Mr. Truman said in his message to Mr. Hoover, “to bring forcibly and drastically to public attention, as a spur to the food-for-famine effort, the facts about conditions in Europe which
your visit and inquiries have brought to light. Advises Return
“Therefore, I wish to suggest the advisability of your return fo the United States immediately after completion of the engagement in Cairo, in order to bring directly home to the American people your eye-witness account of the necessity for greater assistance from this country. “This would make your trip to India, China and Japan, by way of the United States.” . Truman's message to Mr. Hoover came as U. S, government agencies and the combined food board sought a solution to the momentous problem of dividing precjous grain reserves among the hungry peoples of the world. Officials Encouraged Government officials were encouraged by a British offer to make available at once 200,000 tons of cereals, provided the U. 8. and Canada would guarante#-they would be replaced later. The offer wag made at a meeting of the combined food board. Mr. Truman's famine emergency committee disclosed, meanwhile, that it had recommended a sevenpoint program for channeling more U. 8. food overseas. High point of the FEC’s program was a proposal to raise corn ceiling prices temporarily in an effort to lure more corn out of farm cribs. The committee also recommended a flour restriction order and flour set-aside to make sure this country meets its commitments abroad. 60,000 Tons of Grain The question of a flour restriction order also was closely linked with the British offer to divert grain now en route to Britain to European famine areas. The British said up to 60,000 tons of the grain would be given to the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration. In return, however, the* British demanded ‘ that this country and Canada take steps to insure a comparable saving of cereals. Maurice I. Hutton, British member of the combined food board, said several possible proposals had been considered. He was asked if a proposed order which would limit U. 8S. bakers to 75 per cent of the flour consumed during the corresponding period of 1945, would be sufficient assurance. Mr. Hutton replied that it would be “a very substantial cut.” Demands Stepup UNRRA Director General Fiorello H. La Guardia has demanded that UNRRA's cereal allocation be stepped up from 275,000 to 700,000 tons a month the first of May. He also wants another 350,000 tons of cereals immediately. The famine committee said it was asking a corn price hike so processors of human food could compete with livestock feeders, It said the price increase should be absorbed by the government -at the processor level, presumably through subsidies. 1t specified no amount for the price hikes. The committee also proposed price increases for flaxseed and byproduct feeds and said set-asides should be increased on edible fats and tallows. It said further use of edible tallow and oleo oil for soap should be banned, ’
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‘STEVE’ ON WAY BACK TO PRISON
Ex. Klan Heads | Appeal on
NOBLESVILLE, Ind. April 18 (U.
P.).—D. C. Stephenson was on his way back to resume a-life sentence|
in Indiana state prison today after a court order, ended his latest attempt to gain freedom. - Hamilton Circuit Judge Cassius M. Gentry dissolved the last legal technicality ( keeping Stephenson in the county jail here. The former Ku Klux Klan leader was taken immediately to the prison at Michigan City, Ind, by Sheriff George Michelfelder. Judge Gentry’s action was a mere formality since the Indiana supreme court last night entered a permanent writ of prohibition against his hearing Stephenson’s latest plea, a habeas corpus action. Stephenson was disappointed at the outcome of his 41st attempt at freedom. “That's apparently, —the only thing he (Gentry) could do.” He said, “I'm ready to go back.” Convicted of Murder Stephenson has waged a 13-month-long battle in jail here in an effort to gain freedom. He has served more than 25 years of a life sentence imposed following his conviction on second degree murder charges. Two Michigan City guards cooled their heels at Noblesville last night after they were refused custody of
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TRUMAN TO TAKE "ATLANTIC CRUISE
Airplane Carrier.
WASHINGTON, April 18 (U. P.). —President Truman will leave Sunday for a brief cruise in the Atlantic to observe maneuvers by a navy aircraft carrier task force, the White House announced today. Mr. Truman and members of his immediate staff will leave here at 4 p. m. Sunday aboard the presidential yacht Williamsburg. Monday morning at Hampton Roads, Norfolk, Va. the President will board a big new carrier,’ the U. 8S. S. Franklin D. Roosevelt, and sail into the Atlantic. He will spend Monday and part of Tuesday witnessing maneuvers. The task force will be commanded by Adm. Mark Mitscher, who bossed Task Force 58 in the Pacific. ' The Franklin D. Roosevelt will detach itself from the maneuvers about noon Tuesday, April 23, and take the President back to Hampton Roads.. About 4 p. m. Tuesday the President will return to the Williamsburg and spend the next five days on a vacation cruise in Chesapeake Bay and on the Potomac river, He will return to Washington late on the afternoon of April 28.
Habeas Corpus Dissolved.
President Will Board New,
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BROWN HURLS DOUBLE CROSS MP AT B0SS|
Prosecutor Candidate Says
Ostrom Admitted Party Workers Wanted Him.
By NOBLE REED The story of what was described as a “double-cross” among the high command of the regular Republican
organization on candidates for the May 7 primary was revealed today by Leo T. Brown, an organization man running for the G. O. P. prosecutor nomination, | Mr. Brown said Henry E. Ostrom, county Republican chairman, “told | me several months ago that a ma- | jority of precinct committeemen "me ward chairmen were supporting me for prosecutor.” .Then, about the same time, Mr. | Brown said James L. Bradford, a| power behind the regular G. O. P. machine, “told me that.this would be strictly a ward chairmen’s primary, meaning, of course, that the| party workers would be given al chance to make their own choice of candidates.
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do something that never before has been done by a county chairman . . he made up a slate of organization candidates without consulting ward chairmen and precinct committeemen,” Mr. Brown said. “Mr, Ostrom and Mr. Bradford | are forgetting that in the final analysis the ward chairmen and precinct committeemen still have a chance to pick their own candidates at the polls . . . they are the| organization, not Henry Ostrom.” Mr. Brown referred to an ane nouncement two weeks ago by Mr. Ostrom and Mr. Bradford that they were “slating” Alex M. Clark, young world war II veteran, for the G. O. P. prosecutor nomination. “Since that time, a large number of organization ward chairmen and precinct committeemen have con-
they are supporting my candidacy and that I am the logical man for the nomination,” Mr. Brown said. 20 Years a Worker
In a speech scheduled at a candidates’ meeting at the county jail tonight, Ma, ‘Brown said he will
has served as a ward chairman and precinct committeeman for 20 years and that “the party owes me some consideration in this primary.” Without mentioning Mr. Clark by name, Mr. Brown referred to “one candidate running for the prosecutor nomination who has passed over lightly his experience in criminal prosecution work and has never mentioned how long he has been an attorney.” Mr. Clark, who is 29, served as deputy prosecutor for a few months before he entered the army about four years ago and a short time after his discharge recently. He was admitted to the practice of law here April 30, 1939.
FALL OF CHANGCHUN
CHUNGKING, April 18 (U. P.) — Manchurian dispatches said the fall of Changchun to a Communist siege army of 30,000, which hammered ceaselessly at a dwindling pocket of fewer than 3000 Nationalists defenders, appeared at hand today. At Peiping, Gen. Tu Li-ming, commander of Nationalist forces in northeast China, confirmed that the Changchun garrison was outnumbered more than 10 to 1. He indicated that all hope of defending the Manchurian capital had been abandoned.
‘MUSIC DIRECTOR AT ELWOOD RESIGNS
ELWOOD, Ind., April 18 (U. P.). —Superintendent of Schools C. C. Hillis today announced the resignation of L. Rush Hughes as music director of the Elwood city schools, effective June 1. Mr. Hughes resigned to become sales manager of the Heinz manufacturing company here. :
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of merchandise.
Easter bunny tied on the handle,
$1.89. No black jelly beans, either. As you get in the lower brackets, |
Eddie Ash ... 26|Jane Jordan . 31 Ask Me ..... 1T|Labor :....:.. 1 Aviation ..... 17| LaMoore . 19 Business ..... 24|W. McGaffin. 25 Carnival ..... 18| Ruth Millett . 17 . Robert Casey 2|Movies ...... 22 Classified ,.28-30| Obituaries ... 9 Comics ...... 31|H. V. O'Brien 17 " Crossword’ ... 31| Dr. O'Brien.. 10 Editorials . 18| F, C. Othman 17 Europe Today 18| Radio ,..,... 31 Fashions . 21| Reflections .. 18 Mrs. Ferguson 20| Mrs. Roosevelt 17 Forum ...... 18| Serial ,...... 7 G. 1. Rights.. 10} Sports ..... 26-217 ‘Meta Given . 21! Troop Arrivals 16 Don Hoover . 18 Washington . 18 2| Women's 20-21
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If there's one thing the dispensers |
of Easter cheer aren't doing this| |family to think highly of the Easter it's putting all their eggs in|
they're putting very little of anything in cipal item in that is a stuffed bunny their Easter baskets and selling/and that's about the only thing the
In case you feel put_out by the|bought cellophane and ribbon to make up for the lack]
A sand bucket with a shovel, some paper grass and a small cellophane bag of jellybeans had a cardboard
announcing that it could be had for there's a single gum drop in a be-!
ribboned paper coritainerZ10 cents. little rough on papa’s pocketbook. Or metal, plastic and wood toys tied | | Better just te] Aim the Easter bun-
ket, You'll
Pay Plenty for Your Basket
Or, if you want the child .in the
bunny, you can get a little bit more candy in a $4.98 basket. The prin-
basket has stuffed in it. Jelly beans
For a price like $2.98 you get a are scarce.
The selling point for the baskets
candy bars and nine or 10 weak-| 1s the inclusion of one well known looking gum drops or jelly beans] | brand candy bar or a good brand of
(chewing gum-—pieces that can't be separately ACross the counter, In case the customer gets any bright ideas about fixing up a home-made basket, there, too, the pocketbook is going to take a beating, A goodsized basket -will cost 35 cents, empty decorated car dboard containers’ are as high as 59 cents and artificial grass sells at 10 cents for a small sack. All in all, Easter’s going to be a
to a seck of five to 10 hard candies ny was a victnd of the meat short-| Jilted som Slaktss 03 9 sess iain Rr Si
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It's a Strike, Peanut Man 'Grooves' One
The pitchers weren't the only ones throwing strikes last night as the Indians opened the baseball season against Toledo at
Victory field. William Lannon ‘grooves a | sack of peanuts for a hungry customer,
Here Vendor
BRAVE COLD AT Transit Firm on Offensive
OPENING GAME
Indians Meet Toledo.
By J. E. O'BRIEN The opening-night baseball crowd came to Victory field in large num-| bers and topcoats. It was a highspirited, hungry, thirsty gathering, | with the result that the beer supply | didn’t last as long as Toledo’ 5 starting pitcher. OR The chilly weather failed to keep the fans away (11,090 was the official attendance). By 7:30 p. m. parking space was at a premium and there wasn't even a place in the | Jarger area on 16th st. where a
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ome-run ball over the left field eo is likely to crack a windshield or dent a fender. A half-hour before game time the standees had picked out all the choice spots be-
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Family Plans Reunion With
Times Special MUNCIE Ind, April 18.—Muncie's wealthy E. Arthur Ball family today were trying to pick up the peaceful pattern of their lives that was interrupted by the sudden disappearance of Dorothy Ball from an eastern school last Sunday. The 20-year-old blonde heiress, who has been deaf since childhood, | was located last, night in a Salvation Army lodging house in New York City. Her father, Mr, Ball! who had flown to New York to help in a search that covered 11 Eastern states and Indiana, whisked | her from the hotel out of sight. The mother of the Mount Holyoke college student said today she will leave Muncie to join her husband and daughter in New York for “an Easter reunion.’ The reunion will be at Andover, Mass., where her young son, George, is enrolled in an academy, It was expected that another daughter, | Barbara, 22, of Hartford, Conn, | would join them there. Mrs. Ball said she had not talked
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‘AIRLINE PILOT WARD OFF MILITARY PLANE
NEW YORK, April 18 (U. P.).— An Eastern Airlines plane, en route from New York to Brownsville, Tex. with 21 persons aboard, was dived on by an unidentified military plane near Philadelphia this morning, E. A. L. offices here said today. The pilot of the passenger plane. Capt. Joseph Kelly, reported the military plane dived on him without warning. When Capt. Kelly saw the mili-
Dorothy Ball
Since Secret
RE-MAP PLANS FOR CLEANUP
EXTEND PRICE
CONTROL FOR NINE MONTHS
Bowles Warns U. S. Faces ‘A Joy Ride to Disaster.’
WASHINGTON, April 18. (U. P.).—A rebellious house today passed and sent to the senate an amendment-riddled price control bill despite warnings by Economic Stabilizer Chester Bowles that it would start the nation on an inflationary “joy ride to disaster.” : The final vote passing the ew, tered bill was 3565 to 43. Voting for the bill were 205 Demo-' crats, 148 Republicans, and two minor party members, Eight Demo~ crats and 34 Republicans voted
against it, It was one of the worst legislative defeats suffered by President Truman, who had requested a one= year extension of price control
_ | without crippling amendments. ‘
Nine-Month Extension The measure would extend the price control act only until next March 31. It carries a series of amendments which administration supporters said would “wreck” price control. / The amendments provide for:
Strike Is Ended.
Meeting in '45
This is the second of a series of articles on the Indianapolis Rail-
ways rale case By RICHA
nearly filled with officials, interveno You can always find a chair to | Indianapolis Railways, Inc., {act without a climax in sight. | The three members of the com- | {mission are sitting behind their pol- | {ished bench, listening to an attorney examining a witness on a HR cial matter, One of them yawns, another stares into space. The atmosphere of the hearing! is calm, subdued. In a corner, a reporter sits fast asleep. The asse depreciation, and woe of Indianapolis Railways, Inc. beat against his ears in a meaningless tide of sound. This is a summer day in 1943.| Or an autumn day in 1944, a win-| ter day in 1945, a spring day in 1946. It's all the same inside the pale
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TRAIN HITS SCHOOL BUS, 14 INJURED
Freight Train Overturns Carrier at Greentown.
KOKOMO, Ind. April 18 (U. P.). —Fourteen Greentown, Ind., school children were injured today when
grade crossing. | Roland Riley Jr. 14,"one of six {children of Mr, and Mrs. Roland Riley who were riding the bus, was { hurt seriously. The others and bus | driver Fred Rody of Greentown | were shaken and bruised, and three {of them treated by physicians for| | lacerations and possible fractures. ? The accident occurred on a crossing two miles west of Greentown as | Mr. Rody drove the bus toward the | Greentown ‘school. The coach was [hit by a Nickel Plate freight train Other injured were Webb Riley, 10, brother of Roland, who tained head and arm cuts and a possible skull fracture; Jerry Pence, | 8, son of Mr, and Mrs. Ralph Pence, | head cuts: Charles Spangler, 15, son of Mr. and Mrs.. Irwin Spanger, arm injuries. > Witnesses said the rear [the bus was hit by the train, said the coach overturned.
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RD LEWIS | The pale green walls of the Indiana public service commission hear- | ing chamber are bright with indirect light.
The high-ceiling room is rs and spectators, but not quite. watch the slow, dull drama of the
rate case, which is now well into the third
Delayed by a three-day walkout
of city street cleaners, plans for the annual clean-up week will be re- . mapped by executive, directors of ¥ Mayor Tyndall's clean-up commit
tee at 5:30 p. m. today. Efforts for a co-ordinated cam- | paign were scrapped Monday when more than 175 street cleaners struck for recognition of the A. F. of L. Teamsters’ local 135 and a demand
— | for higher wages.
ASKS H. S. PUPILS
FOR VOTE COUNT
Stark Wants Safeguard Against ‘Manipulation.’
Appointment of high school pupils |for tabulation of votes was urged
today by Superior Court Judge Judson L. Stark as a safeguard against | any attempt to “manipulate” the {counting of ballots in the May 7 ! primary. Judge Stark, “anti-organization” candidate for the Republican nomination for prosecutor, declared that it is “common talk on the street that political manipulators may interferée with the correct counting of votes and handling of the ballots.” Referring to the recent appointment of Michael J. Hanrahan, as a | Republican majority member of the county election board, Judge Stark said: Warns Machine “There has been much specula[tion as to who may be scheduled to | assist Mr. Hanrahan in the counting and tabulations. are being said, whether true or false, do not reflect credit upon the Republican party. “I am told that the power of this machine (regular G. O. P, organization) is to be directed particularly
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“But now that the strike has been settled, we will map new plans today with the co-ordination of community civic clubs and city youth organizations,” George H. Deck, publicity chairman of the committee, announced. | Galen H, Parks, chairman of the mayor's clean-up committee, urged citizens to “get off the front porches into the yards and help clean up and beautify our city.” The committee announced that this’ “awakening of civic responsibility” was only the beginning of a year-round clean-up effort in the city. Besides civic clubs and boy and girl scouts, Mr. Deck announced that city and state cleaning equipment and crews would follow up
where the householders complete beautifying yards, walks and porches,
City Street Commissioner Luther {Continued on on Page 3—-Column 7
DAUGHTER OF ITURBI LISTED AS SUICIDE
(No Reason Given in Death Of Mrs. Maria Hero.
BEVERLY HILLS, Cal,
Hero, 28, daughter of Spanish Pianist Jose Iturbi, was listed officially | as suicide today, Why Mrs. Hero fired a .38 caliber bullet from her father's revolver into -her right temple early yesterday, however, remained a mystery. | But it was recalled that in 1940
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Free One Suspect, Seek 3d Man in Torch Slaying
One suspect was free and another {was sought in the torch-butcher slaying of Leland Miller today while
Mr. Rody told authorities that|,,. concentrated their powers on
| his view of the tracks was obstructed by one of the riders on the bus.
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(Howard Pollard, already charged with the murder. | Released after questioning at Leb{anon last night was Harry J. Adams, 23, of 253 Tremont st., Indianapolis. Adams was one of two men, state police said, who had been drinking with Pollard and Miller on the eve of Miller's murder last ‘Thursday. - Although they remained mum on their strategy, the police said they sought a third suspect. It was also believed’ Adams may have supplied additional information, not yet released by detectives. * Nabbed Tuesday night six-day hideout in Ki
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shot him in the neck in a fracas over a woman last year. He admitted however that he, Miller and “two other men” had toured Indianapolis taverns the night before the murder. He said he was with Miller “only during the early hours of the evening.” Pollard refused to take a MHedetector test, saying he wanted “two or three days to think it over.” He said he fled Indianapolis after learning, via a mysterious phone call, that he was wanted for Millwas found at
Ladoga, after his
covered fromm a brush fire at Ad~ Vance.
At Lebanon, where he was taken. after .a' yesterday to face the murder t, ueky, Pol-| Pollard was quoted as saying: vp ard denied killing Mile, who had, realize I'm in a ell. of a spot.”
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April 18 (U. P.).—The death of Maria Iturbi
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hands and crippled foot were re-
ONE: Elimination of meat subsi« | dies on June 30, with a correspond« ing rise in prices, TWO: Termination of all price roll-back subsidies on farm produets
next Dec, 31. THREE A guaraniee of costs. plis-a-reasonable-profit to produce ers, distributors and retailers on all items. The votes for a decisive modifica~ tion of price control were taken by a coalition of Republicans and farm bloc Democrats who turned a deaf ear to warning by OPA Administrator Paul Porter that the action amounted to “repeal of price cone trol.” The majority of the house, however, felt it was time for a lot less price control, Administration leaders looked to the senate to eliminate some of the drastic house provisions and salvage price control legislation in something nearer the form sought by Mr. Truman. Dilemma for Truman
A spokesman for the office of economic stabilization said that # congress enacts the house version or similar “unworkable” legislation before June 1, there is “a damn good possibility” that Mr. Truman will veto it and ask congress to start over again on a bill more acceptable to the administration. But if congress sends a bill to the White House after June 1, it was said, there would not be enough time for congress to work on a new
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LEAGUE OF NATIONS VOTES TO DISSOLVE
GENEVA, April 18 (U, P.)—The League of Nations today voted its dissolution, effective at midnight tonight, The action minutes, President C. J. Hambro read the formal. resolution dissolving the league and then asked the leader of each of the 35 delegations present if they gave their assent, Each answered: “Yes.” Py J. Noel Baker, British delegate, then spoke. “Our work is not ended,” he said. “It has only just begun, We start again from this afternoon.”
DR. LAPENTA STRICKEN
Dr. Vincent A. Lapenta, 62, of 6464 N. Meridian st., became ill at his home here today and was taken to St. Francis hospital where his condition was described as serious. Dr. Lapenta was stricken about 11 a. m. but the nature of his illness was not announced at the hospital,
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