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| i rane PRICE FIVE CENTS | [sprees —nowarnl] VOLUME 57—NUMBER 35 . SATURDAY, APRIL 20, 1946 a oriomey geen :

Wounded Holdup Victim Slays Downtown Bandi

CUT IN FLOUR ARMITAGE'S PRODUCTION TO BEGIN MONDAY

‘Truman, Hoover Ask for Sacrifices to Help Hungry World.

By GRANT DILLMAN United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, April 20, —The government decreed today that Americans must eat at least 25 per cent less bread and other wheat prod-

ucts for a while. The reason is so this country can be sure of mee:ing its food pledges|. to hungry veoples of the world. Coupled with this sweeping order was an offer of a 30-cent-a-bushel bonus to farmers who will make precious wheat and corn available for-immediate shipment overseas,

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LIQUOR BOARD | - Explains Tie Meaning of Easter POST GIVEN UP mn BY KERCHEVAL

Smith Named Successor; Council Commends Retiring Head.

Thomas M. Kercheval today *resigned- as president of the Marion county liquor board. Robert S. Smith, attorney

dnd world war II veteran, was appointed to succeed him. Named by the county council, Mr. Smith, a Republican, said he ac-| cepted the post only on condition| “that there are| absolutely nol strings of any) nature attached to it.” A resolution] commending Mr.! Kercheval was| adopted by six of! the seven county council members | . present. ©ne| member, Council-| Rebert S, Smith man- Richard 8mith, declined to sign the resolution. : t After Mr. Kercheval's attorneys) had read their client's letter of] resignation, Councilman Smith] moved to accept it. At this point} Council President Addison Parry interceded by reading the complimentary resolution.

Rex Moonshower, Shot in

Back, Turns to Empty Gun Into Assailant. A neatly dressed, red head-

ed bandit was killed and the manager of the Hoosier Mint" Co. seriously wounded in a gun battle today at the firm's offices, 308 N. Capitol ave. Rex Moonshower, manager of the. company, was shot. once in the ex~ change of bullets and was taken to St. Vincent's hospital. A second

Ab St. Vincenf's an emergency operation was performed on Mr. Moonshower and his condition was ; reported as very serious. ft This was designed to draw -out| With Mr, Moonshower in the of«

|large grain stocks now Stored on] r ’ fice at the time of the holdup wal farms. Police Lis. Roy Reeves and Roy McAuley (left to right) search the body of a bandit killed In & | wing, Armitage, owner up the

Cleared of Charges | * Photo hy Dean Timmerman, Times Staff Photographer. These dramatic actions empha-| ga A : ! ) . " mat > i ylight hold-up attempt of the Hoosier Mint Co. 308 N. Capitol ave. firm. He told lice the Edwin McClure, attorney for Mr.| “Easter brings God's gifts of growing flowers and sunshine,” |. .: (he administration's deepening | s po bandit, .

tentatively identified as * Wilming+ ton, Cal. man, entered the o and, announced: “This is a hold-up The bandit fired as Mr. Moonshow: er turned in his chair. Mr. Moonshower, although wounded, pulled a revolver from his coat pocket and returned the fire. Both men emptied thelr guns, The bandit was hit four times;

Kercheval, said the resigning presi-| Geerge C. Hewson explains to: (left to right) Bobkwz West. Nanette |... with the spectre of global ———

dent, a real estate agent, “couldn’t| Seibert, Michael Ahern and Marilyn Henzie ina, the Zion woclical |o. sation a concern underscored afford to put up with this bad| and Reformed church. wr | by Presiaws Man when he told PO publicity.” hy ]

; ce ie——— 2 bn | Mr. Kercheval was cleared of . ol Zi a bE * | LONDON, April z'. P.) —~ *negligence” charges by the state Chi ren at 100 vange ICa | The critica). European food si. ST UP FEUD age may cause the resignation of | ;

alcoholic beverage commission two

i vl . weeks ago. The commission had Ch h Wi R po + | Sir Ben Smith, British food mincharged he refused to vote on a urc ter | eceilve an S|

ister, in the first shakeup of the Hg

tavern application. The application By E A RIVERS MILNER Labor government, the London : : SHR twice near the heart and twice in was submitted by a Lawrence y gy HAimes Church Editor Daily Mirror predicted today. Police Charge Petit With the abdomen. Two of the shots woman, and rejected by the liquor Children. Flowers. Neuy~ life. Easter!

penetrated his body. : A second man, believed to be an accomplice of the bandit, was in

0 attends the cradle roll class, tomorrow, inian international radio audience last | Bid for Publicity.

Reformed Sunday school, will receive a growing |pight that America could not turn | Howard Pollard’s “private” mureagerly forward to the day and to the flowers. its back on the world's misery. { der confession to Sheriff Otto Petit

board as a whole. Every little shaver w His resignation follows several the Zion Evangelical and months of local turmoil over Marion 'plant. The children loc’

county's liquor business, “during| George C. Hewsonjg 3ssistant to the pastor of the Zion church, the! The government was shifting today provoked a bitter law enwhich the A. B. C. investigated Rev. F. R. Daries, and the Sunday school teachers illustrate the meaning | from a completely voluntary pro-| forcement feud here. : rumors of an alleged “shakedown” | _ ____ ___ _® of Easter with the flowers. They gram of food conservation to a| State and: city police, whe directed against tavern proprietors. A full page of taster church become, not a reward, but part and |more-hard-fisted plan to control the| had been concentrating on the

The new liquor board president,| mews, Page 13; edit @ ial Page 10. parcel of the Resurrection day. | flow of food to the retail market Robert 8. Smith, has heen an’ at- | “God gives life to little children the processor level torpey here since 1926. He entered and to the flowers,” explain the Order Effective

the army in 1942 and was later with 3 teachers. “But if the flowers are to] mn or SH WILD riseo-bine maflitarp- government s~otion of DEVOUT : THER {continue to grow, you children must plan the 101st airborne division.

Ne i confession. 1 \ ltend and. water them” In to process only 5 per cent of the! Detective Chief Howard Sanders He was military governor of Bas- § togne during the siege there, and | ¥

at| Miller murder case and carefully { fitting pieces of evidence into al pattern, were “cold shouldered” on ng Pollard

these | profound, though simple, words the amount of wheat milled during the Fefusad o Secon: : ened gl t corresponding period of 1945. Any e confession sen police headtrue significance of Easter is 3 flour in excess of that quota must quarters by Sheriff Petit and asalso governed Berchtesgaden . (Hit- brought home to the mind of a ler's old hideout), Salzburg, and fs _several other German cities follow-

little child {be sold to the government for ex- | Serted police would make their own| | ; : | port. | investigation. i | & { It is the very same thought which |

tod —_ : i ! In a written statement scrawled ing the occupation, He supervised 35 000 Visitors Crowd City lies at the heart of the carols to pe), The gider 4s eHective Money and in his own handwriting before The red-headed b an army search in which $7,000,000 : (sung at the Monument Circle Easter roe until June 30: oreriff Petit. at the jail. Pollard from the office,

worth of Nazi loot, including famous| For Easter Ce| "éMONIS. | Sunrise service and the many other| UPless extended. 'early today admitted shooting and services throughout the day tomor-| AS 8 result of the orders, bakers : y & art treasures, was unearthed. y lomor killing Leland Paul Miller, He said JERUSALEM, April | 20 ‘U. P).— row in Indianapolis. Couched in Planned to ask the OPA for a retail : ’ Text of Letter * or ” .. price increase of 1 {he did it in self-defense. : . Some 35,000 pilgrims . and visitors one phrase or another, they all will Se 0 cent per pound Mr. Kercheval's letter of resigna- |S express the idea of renewed life °° bread.

ally across the dead. A roll of insulation found near the body,

Neither state nor city police were

i : horoughfares ” | & to be used to bind intend tion follows: ; | thronged the ancient #0 Eg “and fresh beginnings granted by| MI- Truman asked the people to presen When the statement was &= A social security “I deeply appreciate the confi-' of Jerusalem tonight ¥¢4S the holy ,God, but linked with the necessity StP UP their voluntary efforts to taken. The slaying occurred inside : card, and a selective dence reposed in me by the en-| prepared to observ ® the cere-"for man, himself, to carry on. conserve food. He suggested that | 10€ iy Jas, at Pollard's home, Rex Moonshower, manager of the Hoosier Mint Co., is placed on [found on the bandit a tire Marion County Council in Ne} okies of the resurrecyg ion: | This then is Easter as we sh {Americans go on a European Pa : a stretcher by police and City hospital doctors after he was wounded [name of Arthur C eal

appointment of me as a member of hear its message to “starvation diet” two days a week! Detective Chief Sanders of the yo. oven f gunfire with the hol i ; 1 ] : weeks of ge tomorrow in the oe : : xchange of gunfire w the holdup man. Mr. Moonshower’s |chanan of Wil the Marion county alcoholic bev-| By chance the Easter. ‘story of Christ's resurrection from © avert “the greatest threat of | City police said his department had fire killed the bandit. HAH berth Gp mington, C

erage board and to the best of my| the western and Oriental churches, 5, o © = 0 we see it daily in Mass starvation in the history of 2rTansed to take a statement from

ability have discharged the duties | coincided this year. The ae et the sunrise, in growing things and | Mankind.” | Pollard on Monday morning. the body. required of me as chairman of in Jerusalem this Holy ‘e 1 Y+!in our little children. Million Face Starvation Alleges Self-Defense Revolver on Pa that board. ; | adding to the picturesqua¥® eect of .e “We would not be Americans”! “We're proceeding with those ar- Police found eight b “As you know, my pfitsonal ‘af-|the ohservances. |. ! Mr. Truman said, “if we did not rangements, regardless of whether & high-top desk, fairs hate called for so much of| The narrow streets leadring to the SUN WILL SMILE wish to share our. comparative the sheriff or the king of England holder and two of the my time that several months ago I| Church of the Holy Sepulchre were plenty with suffering people. I am |intercedes” Chief Sanders said.

discussed with you the question of | crowded with Christians of high sure I speak for every American | “It's unfortunate that Sheriff my resignation so that I could give and low degree seeking fl 10 Witness ON EASTER PARADE when I say the United States is Petit and his deputies had to resort

; of thei ; : on the sidewalk near’ ; my full attention to my own busi-| the ancient ceremonyn a] determined to .do everything in its|t0 such unethical methods in order body and seven e . ! ness. “Search for the Body oft Cvs, | | power to relieve the famine of half|to0 obtain publicity.” were found in his coat “However, when the State Alco-! performed by Abyssinian or the world.” Though state police declined billfold contain n . holic Commission saw fit to file a| The coming of Easter siice over- Pleasant Weather Forecast His solemn warning was support-| comment on Sheriff Petit's confes- Mr, Arai a od ’ charge against me of not taking|shadowed®all else in the rA°ly Land,| For Most of State ed by former President Herbert, Sion “coup. is was learned Pollard money in the office action on a license application, I|even the paralyzing strikes which | . Hoover, who.spoke from.Cairo. He had made what amounted to a ver- the attempted holdup, thought it better to hold off my gripped Palestine’s whole pe LOCAL TEMPERATURES said his tour of famine areas had Pal admission to them several days M : resignation until the State Alcoholic | Monks in Procession } | 6a.m ...5 10a m. ”. 5 |convinced him that upwards of B80. anages Mint Board had cleared me of this un-{ io rily robed Abyssinian! 7 a.m. ...51 11a 'm.-... 61 |150,000,000 Europeans plus countless| , There were reports that Pollard Mr. Moonshower, whe warranted charge, As this last’ oc (ened tonight's ceremony 8 a. m. ... 53 12 (moon) .. 62 eee | bad tried to “dicker” with state §35 E. 58th st, manages : t action has now been taken, I feel | ith a slow procession, "CArmed | Sam ... 5 1pm ...63 (Continued on Page 2—Column 2) police for a lfe sentence. He was Mib¢ Co. for Mr. mies aay ’ | that I am now free to proceed With| c.iio" cote the flagstontes 10! slid : | told, it was reported, that such i a. Armitage’s namepqlitical ! my original intention of resigning. ovo way for the procession. Nprany| You can take the weatherman’s . matters were within the jurisdic a ed on Rumerous OC'hhe May “Therefore, in view of the reasons| » 1. "monks marched beneath Word for it. Easter Shopping tion of the prosecutor only, ey machine” in that \G S : given you in this letter, and none, ce umbrellas, some red and ptue, | Go right ahead and deck your- . Pollard 4s charged with murder in on i He is the’ other, I hereby tender this, my'g 0 + oolden filigree. %, |selves out in all your Easter finery Sales Hi Record! a state police affidavit. e in Republican resignation, to, you as president of “yo nionks beat a monotonoud?| lOMOITOW and join in thé tradi- In his statement, Pollard said he Rever heid ofice, 1h Siders Plus 20% the Marion County Council, as thelysyng on drums. All carried lighted ' 0DAl parade. Suriny skies will] Indianapolis shoppers, out to re. shot Miller, a cripple, in_self-de- . hen former Police gmphi= Federal - “member” appointed by your board.qn4jes. Thousands of devout cop-|sWnll€ down on’ the family's new|plenish their war-worn wardrobes, {nse after the latter attempted to h eeker first took ©, Richard Tax to this board; the same to take. pilgrims and many curious sight- outtfits and the weather will pe this week engaged in a shopping knife him. Later, he said, he Pesoalially directed ¢ 4 thelr effect at the pleasure of the council. seers followed them. | wari spree which sent sales figures up! Continged on Pare. 3-Cal I 3 against the firm, Indi y “Thanking you and each member| A swelling chant of the monks| Th#%. day will be perfect for|15 to 20 per cent over last years '_Crtinued on Page opus Jy} on + Setiate ave. Nh are y pouches . of the council in advance for this'was led by a black-garbed abbot.|church-p£0ings in the morning and pre-Easter shopping season. ; Qosier Mint Ov, re der straps courtesy; which I feel you will ex-|pritish officials and Anglican clergy | outings in . the afternoon. | Local department store managers Irom the candy mint zgjijeste), simulated tend to me, I remain.” |watched as the procession wound| And that™ just about the wilk-|reported that sales were heaviest in | GUARD CONVICTED merly were verided Bf The county council resolution | three times around the courtyard|end forecast Or the state, too, with items of apparel. Easter finery, Shiri. said in part: .., (and then disappeared into a huge the exception ®0f a few light and such as ladies’ dresses, jewelry, hat AT LICHFIELD TRIAL poessories “The council desires to herewith tent where the monks were spend-| scattered showetts on tap for theland gloves were the use ) WINE Causes

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express its thanks and apprecia- ing the night in prayer and medi-| extreme Horthern fend early mmr. to items, with men's shirts and P,).—~When James 8

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tion for the great personal tation. row. . suits runn j : sacrifices which Mr, Kercheval has| °° ~ — | Loe v Stila Tunping 3 close Skoond, Sergeant Gets 6 Months on 7 fendant in an assy made in conducting the affairs of | | W William Armitage, owner of the Hoosier Mint Co. (left), supplies Suze, Saligh one of ia} .." . i ils of the holdup to Capt. Claude Kinder. ng at the prosecutin his office. As the result of nis NATIONALISTS VERIFY D > IR 4 - ht Brutality. Charge. | detai : 1 personal integrity and devotion to “¥ | ecision mn are a e Ig 4 rere . Swplaingd 10 the his work he retires with the com-| ‘ > lsia LONDON, April 20 (U. P.).—S. u 0 a mi plete confidence of the county | JSS OF CHANGCHUN Ma Aff ct Other Utilities Sgt. James Jones of Muskogee, council,” : 9 . Y { Okla., was convicted today on three | ONE OF KNOX p it 27 " RICHARD Liwis." | of eight charges of brutality tof \ * | . . f y American soldiers at Lichfield and Vv TIMES INDEX Manchurian Capital Falls, The case of Indianapdlis llways, Inc., before the Indiana public| was sentenced to six. months a ERY PROD | service commission, goes fiirther\ than the plea to hike the fare two cents.| hard labor. The value of Amusements . 4 Jane Jordan . 18 After Bloody Battle. Behind the scenes in this chse is a significant economic battle. It| Jones, .a former guard at the A Weekly Sizeup by the Washington county is alm 7) Ask Me ...... 9-pan Re 1 CHUNGKING, April 20 (U, P) — 18 related not only to the Peiteningt inflation, but to a theory of public | Lichfield detention center, was! > nation and this Prank. Aviation ..... 9 Ruth Millett. ’ "today | Utility rate fixing affecting every ufility and consumer in Indiana. found guilty by a court-mactis! ‘ ; ably known Eddie Ash 8 Mrs. Milner , 13| The Nationalist government today a Staff of the Scripps-Howard Newspapers uni oct 4g H. Butler ...4,13| Movies ...... 4 acknowledged the loss to- Com- Politics has operated behind the ¥cenes, apparently against the utility, after 50 minutes of deliberation. pap munity— $ Mation Carnival ih ' 10| Obituaries ... 3/munist forces of Changchun, capital| If the Democratic administration —4———"—o i He had been charged with eight through oh Churches .... 13 H. V. O'Brien. 9 of Manchuria. ' |in 1943 opened fire on the company| \This is the last of a series of | counts of assault and battery. Con- - St minote Classified ..17-19|J. E. O'Brien. 8| Government’ and military sources by asking it to show cause why'its| articles on the Indianapolis Rail- | Viction on all counts would have WASHINGTON, April 20.—Civilian production ad- the an 18! Radi 18/in. Nanking said the Communist [rates should not be reduced, the| ways rate case. subjected him to a maximum pen-| So gel iily iL . : - 2 . i ne Comics ...... 18/Radio ....... (in. : i rE —— alty of 13 months | ministration will do something about the men’s suit short- ture, Crossword ..., 7|Reflections ... 10 army of Manchuria had completed | Republican organization also has 29:1 s, l . : Editorials ...., 10|Barl Richert © 3|the occupation of the capital city |infiltrated into the case to do some some members of the city council] The conviction of Jones climaxed | age. Look for action this week. Forum ....., 10 Mrs. Roosevelt 9 after a bloody battle in which the |effective sniping, ~ |were tipped off that instead of tak-/a hearing marked by frequént Few days ago Maj. Gen. G. B. Erskine, director of Gardehing ... 7 Serial ..... .. 'T|Nationalist defenders, outnumbered) Cracking down on the old utility ing a loss, the company would gain | charges of prejudice and shady ac- tiaini d ov t. th ’ Hannah ..... 7|Sports ....... 810 to-1, were worn down by sheer bugaboo appears to be” worth iis|at incresged cost to the ratepayers.| tivity. At one point the charge was| TeLrAININg and re-employment, threatened to write. an ) Homes. Page, 6, 7 Miss Tillie ... 9| weight of numbers. on weight in votes. A mee§ing was held at which made that high military quarters) order himself if CPA continued to delay. Now CPA AdDon Hoover . 10/Joe Williams. B8|4iicna Easter Sunrise Fervice at Drive-in| nen the company proposed ils County Gy O. P. Chairman Heary| were bent on whitewashing the of-| ministrator John Small, who once vetoed proposed controls In Indpls. ... 3 Women's 11] Theater, Pendleton Pky tomorrow, 6 a. m, ial rate last winter, the Republican : —— ficers in the case and railroading : i Inside ndpls. 9 Wopld Affairs 10! "lire, bv jhe Lutheran Ohareheslydministrations at “city hall and (Continued ‘on Page 2—Column 3) the enlisted men. : ol! (Gfptinued on Page 2—Column &) oy

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