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. THURSDAY, APRIL 25,108. _.

School 47's Best Mibs Players

BLAST C10, AFL

Unaffiliated, Unions Seek Equal Representation. |

WASHINGTON, April 253 (U. P.). =Don Mahon, president of the Con--federated Unions of America, today listed the things that independent unions “don’t like’ about the A. F. of L and the C. 1. O, He said they gvere: ONE: “Racketeer” some A. F. of L. unions. TWO: “Communist” leanings of| some C. I. O. unions. | THREE: “Dictatorship methods” in both groups—+administration of} union affairs from the top down instead of from the bottom up. FOUR: Too much catering to political parties and not enough attention te winning more benefits for the workers { Favoritism Charged Mr. Mahon held an hour-long| conference late yesterday with Sec-! retary of Labor Lewis B. Schwel-| lenhach during which he criticized | government labor policies as “fa. | voring” the A. F.of L. and C. I. O.| Mr, Mahon, head of the National ‘ Brotherhood of Packinghouse Work- | ers, and officials of many other| independent unions, are here to| : 24 press government officials for “equal! representation with the C. I. O

and A. F. of L.” in labor +0 Two Playoffs R The group winds up a four-day » Times Marble

visit today. Two

aspects of

will represent school 47 in The Tim

Mr. Schwellenbach promised to give “every consideration” to ‘appointment of one of their number 85 an assistant secretary of labor. He has already pledged one of the three $10,000 a year jobs recently created by congress to the A. F. of marbles tournament. L. anda second to the C. 1. O. After-school hours today and

LED DUROCHER NOT 55 mtd sii GULTY OF ASSAUL

ings. Principals are required by the (Continued From Page One)

plavoff periods

tournament regulations to have fhe 'names of their building winners on the official roster by Saturday. Results are being sent to Mrg, Norma Koster, marbles tournament direcitor at the City Recreation division assault charge would have carried | County schools have until May 2

LE . 2 maximum sentence of five years to file the names of their school

in prison and a $1000 fine. | winners, The district playoff here Conviction also probably would! for eity and county schoois will be have meant the end of Mr. Du- held May 4. On May 11 the May rocher’s colorful baseball career. 4 winners will play at’ Willard park For only once in the history of or-iand on May 18 the finalists. will be ganized baseball has a convicted matched to determine the Indianfelon been permitted: to play the apolis champion. game. That player was Alabama] The champion Will go to Cleve-

Pitts, who was granted special per- land, O., in June with all expenses nard Bennett, Fred Holland and] Billy!

mission to play after serving a paid by The Indianapolis Times to term in Sing Sing prison for rob-/ compete in the national marbles

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| Here are three of the best marbles players and alternates who

es-City Recreation division playoffs,

Left to right are Wilma Pruitt, Fred Holland, William Harris, the champ, Billy Cloud and Bernard Bennett.

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Tourney Opens

remained tournament, Valuable prizes will be starving millions need to avert fam-| | today for city schools to select their lawarded to winners in the finalsiine was moving slowly from (teams for district eliminations in here in addition to the awards farms of America’s grain belt today “Radio,” to his master, Otto Greibling. The clown and his amphibious The Times-City Rbereation division awaiting the champion at Cleve- under the spur of a new govern~; companion will be in town with Cole Bros. circus on May 2 for a four-

land, Here are the latest schools to report their winners:

School 58--Leo Ahearn, Paul Al-,

ward, Herman Bolmer and Wiliam Sharp, alternates, John Dunseth and William Reinecke. School 3T—Robert Jones. Daniel Shamber, James Ewing and Gerald Mixon, School 8—Donald Palmer Lucas, Robert Grener and Raymond Wesley. School 91—Roger Hoskins, Edward Danforth, Bill Hanna and Martin Doak®es; alternates, Myron Hack {and Dwight McCready. School 23—Thomas Ramsey, Ralph Rhodes, Mack Shead, Lawrence Turner, - | School 47—William Harris, Ber{Arthur Holland; alternates, {Cloud and Wilma Pruitt.

bery. Under baseball law, the matter would have been up to Commissioner A. B. Chandler, who would have had the power to bar Mr. Durocher had he decided that his actions were detrimental fo the game.. Mr. Durocher, the highest paid

3} manager in the game last year with (Continued From. Page Orme

an ineome estimated at $45,000,Nad | the critical 60 to 90-day period just | {

settled a civil suit with Mr. Christian out of court, paying the ex-G. I. $6750. The money was loaned to him bv! can pry loose from the storehouses President Gecrge Mclaughlin of and grain bins of Americas farms the Brooklyn Trust Co. a loyal before the winter wheat harvest Dodger fan. comes in.

LAST SEMI-FINALS SET FOR TOMORROW

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ahead.

cent per bushel bonus on corn and wheat stored now, hoping fo raise 160,000,000 bushels of wheat and 50,000,000 bushels of corn off farms Grain circles in Chicago asserted that meeting those demands would scrape the bottom of the bin and of most famous of radio's “Quiz Kids.”

One Chicago source esimated that

dianapolis championship title, he

will have an active part in the there Were 204000000 bushels of | The trade still was uncertain asiplus army and navy trucks imme- { wheat on farms. He said 125000000 to how much grain could be pried! diately to break a- bottleneck in| Minnesota | bushels are needed as a “carryover” {off the farms through the bonus! shipment of wheat to market.

program. Those attending tomorrow night's | match will be entertained from 17| . . lance” on J o'clock until starting time by music|? on July 1 each on the theater organ. The public] i= invited and there will be no ad-|

a sort of emergency “bank balvear. pointed out that 40,000.000 bushels of wheat go into American bread

The government has offered a 30- |

leave America’s farmers in a pre-

Bumper U. S. Wheat Harvest Is Assured—If Rain Comes

every month and there must be a No increase in receipts until the

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igovernment exported

These men are after what they ' bushels of wheat during the first | program. three months of this vear Chicago | grainmen pointed out—as much ay cials, said the full effect would not is exported during an entire normal be felt until about May 1, as grain

year.

year, {were about 1,000000 more bushels of corn. —

sale.

lorder. Farmers in the grain belt

He worried about what they would do SEEK OUSTER OF 2

for feed if they sold all their grain and new crops didn’t come through

mission charges of any kind

oi eet meres ote Truman and Other Notables

to the 40 still im the contest and| the 20 who were spelled down last | Monday. The medals designate the pupils as winners in the didtrict | - eliminations. Medals will be ‘mailed | ts those spelled down last Monday if they do not attend tomorrow's match. Because of the keen competition the altar which has developed, special in-| Only vitations have been issued to alll ‘ school children to witness the spell. | S2TLer, down. cruise,

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from the White House sat alone in

and one-half hours vacation left

two interrupting 2a Mr, Truman had

go to Washington, D. C., with all va, He was accompanied by Adm expenses paid by The Indianapolis sxy1a m D. Leahy, his chief of staff; Times to compete in the national | qo Clark Clifford, his naval aide, spelling bee May 23 to 26. In ad- and Maj. Gen, Harry Vaughan, his dition to the valuable prizes await- military side. ing the champions at Washington, The" President drove from Quan awards will be made here. _|tico to the White House where he winners of the local contest will! receive a 17-jewel gold wrist watch. |) ain daughter, Margaret, for Second place will get a gold Ever funeral. sharp fountain pen and pennil set] Immediately behind the White and Eversharp pen and pencil sets) House party sat the honorary pall-

will be presented to third, fourth, ...c" 10 of the 11 living jurists

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‘the first pew on the left, facing |

the | The Indianapolis champion will | yacht Williamsburg at Quantico,

{was joined by Mrs. Truman and]

and fifth place winners. Medals| "coved with Justice Stone on also will be presented to all finalists}. o/h ema. court. They included as well 2s district winners. retired Chief Justice Charles Evans eT Hughes. Only Justice Rohert H § Jackson, in Nuernberg at the war LOCAL CARPENTERS crimes tral, was absent. Sons With Widow STRIKE IS SETTLED By themselves in a pew at the : right of the altar sat Mrs. Stone Approximately * 1600 - union car‘ and her sons, Dr. Marshall H. Stone penters: who have been on strike of Oatirisee Mass., and Col. Lauxi | son Stone of New York here the last 10 days were Back at Rain clouds obscured the sunlight work today: as the hearse stopped before the A requested 30-cent increase, to| cathedral and the ceremony began. $1.80 an hour, was submittéd to the| Between two lines formed by the U. 8. labor department’s wage ad-| honorary pallbearers, clad in dark justment board at Washington, D.| business suits, the casket was borne C., for consideration, | into the church where the President Meanwhile, members of the and his party already had taken! Building Contractors’ association their places, | of Indianapolis ‘have accepted the| The honorary pallbearers and the | proposal on Aa tentative basis. [Stone family walked behind the In a prepared statement, the as- bier.. sociation declared the $1.80 wage] The meager light of a rainy aft-| figure would bring objections from ernoon filtered softly through the] both contractors and unions in cathedral's giant rose window as nearby cities of Terre Haute, mourners Joined the choir, banked Evansville and South Bend { behind. the clergys in three hymns, A leading member of the associa- 0, God, Our Help in Ages Past’! tion who made a private agreement “Now Thank We All Our God" and with the A. F. of 1: Brotherhood The Strife Tx Over of Carpenters and Joiners of Amer-|

Attend Justice Stone Rites

Dr. James in reading the service, which included this benediction: “Unto God's gracious mercy and protection we commit voli . . . the {Lord lift up hix countenance upon vou and give vou peace, both now and evermore . Cemetery ‘Rites Private The cathedral rites ended on a note of Faster triumph. As the casket—preceded hy the President and his party, the bereaved family and the honorary pallbearers—left the church for the place of burial in Rock Creek cemetery, the mourners and choir sang:

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“The strife is o'er. the battle done, The victory of life is won, ! The song of triumph has begun. | Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia!” { | The cemetery rites were private,

attended only by the Stone family. close relatives, and’ intimate friends. The chief justice's grave lies at the foot of a fir tree in the shadow of tiny St. Paul's Episcopal chureh built in 1813, A few hundred varos away is the famous shrine where sits the hood ed flgure of a sorrowing woman sculptured br 8t. Gaudens erected by Henry Adams in memory of his wife, The honorary pallbearers at the cathedral were Associate Justices Black, Reed, Frankfurter, Rutledge

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and Burton, and three retired jus-

tices, Chief Justice Hughes and Justices Roberts and McReynolds. Delegations of six members each from the senate and house were named to represent the legislative branch of the government at the funeral services, Legislators, members of the cabinet, diplomats and others of official Washington were assigned seats behind the family ‘in the shadowed nave, The public was to sit in the transepts, galleries and recessed chapels, Waodrow Wilson lies in a crypt ih the basement: of the massive

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Under UNRRA requirements, the larger marketing as farmers be-| 110.000.000 come beiter - acquainted with the

The Chicago board of trade said, VAtOrs that the 21 large terminal markets) in the United States had 20589.000! bushels of wheat on hand as of last estimated that its corn trade had |eral clauses which were bbjectionSaturday, about 48,000000 bushels picked up 20 per cent this week.|able dnd could not be accepted from less than on the same date last In neighboring Peoria, dealers pre-|a state level. In the same markets, there dicted more grain would come in

of . Most of this grain, it was pointed as D., Campbell, member of - Presi- | quest for, the reopening of MinAlthough Richard won't] carious position, if nature should | out, is merely stored for various in-!dent Truman's famine emergency esos st. due to the fact that we compete in the battle for the In-| frown on the crops now growing. |dustries and is not available for! council,

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U.S. CRACKDOWN

Government Insists on Proi portionate Flour Cuts. | (Cqntinued From Page One)

| cent-a-bushel bonus on wheat and | corn delivered by May 25. ‘Offi als, said they were “en- { couraged” at the response so far] [but not “overly optimistic.” | }

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‘Amendment Ready The flour order amendment was | | prepared several days ago while of-! { ficials still were studying the order itself. Even then, some officials {feared that bakers would take ad-! {vantage of the lack of regulation | and make the entire cut in bread It finally was decided to withhold | the amendment, however, and let ithe bakers work out their own ways of absorbipg the cut, ! | Officials did not believe the hak-! Lers would date to cut bread produc- | tion disproportiongtely and take a ‘chance of rousing public anger { The government already has been informed that at least two Balti-] {more bakers plan to cut bread pro-| lduction to concentrate on pastries, | There also was reason to believe the! same thing was happening in other, cities, |

{Corn, Wheat Moving Slowly From Farms

By UNITED PRESS : | The golden grain which Europe's;

the

iment subsidy. { Farmers were showing interest in! — - the program, dealers and elevator]

men of the grain belt reported They said many were holding back | | thus far only until they learned the! ISPUTED

mechanics of getting the 30-cent|

per bushel bonus which the govern-| ment has promised on higher grades; of corn and wheat. : First grain movements in drib . : lets’ of hundreds of bushels, were State Seeking to Regain reported from the small elevators; . which rise above the grain lands Control of Title. rom Niiihols 15: Nebraska sng be: Differences between the state and | " Some farmers were “sore” about the suddenness of the

national government over use of reported! ; Stout field were revedled here to-

day in a letter from Governor! bee thev| G8) bonus announcement bec ause they Gates to County Comnissioner had sold their grain before it came. | oi nm E. (Bud) Bosson They figured they lost money. al : > :

Increase Is Expecled tration would “do everything posJames A. Cole, district director sible to get title to. the field back of the Commodity Credit -Corp., to the state of Indiana, where it Minneapolis, said that “mercy”’|{belongs.” {wheat was starting to move into; Commissioner Bosson had re{Minnesota elevators. He said the ferred to the governor a frictional

| plan had been in effect too short 2; community issue involving the pos- |

'time to show a definite trend. sible reopening of Minnesota st. i Ww. E. Root, president of the | now barred by Stout field's extended | Wichita board of tirade, expected| wartime runways.

See No Hope for Permit Governor Gates told Mr. Bosson a usé permit to allow the state cer | tain privileges at Stout field “has | never heen perfected and custody inf the field still remains in the ‘U. 8. army. « . « We are advised

i jnow there is apparently very little ust ore as, Sountry _ele- likelihood of this use permit bein © |granted.” : Corn Trade Pickup He said the government had in-

The East Peoria, Ill, Elevator Co.!cluded in the proposed permit sev-

i first of next week. He predicted

Kansas City board of trade offi-

“Therefore.” he concluded, “it ap!'shortly. i In Washington, Brig. Gen. Thom- | lo do anything concerning your re-

said ex-servicemen should | have no control whatever over the |get an emergency priority on sur-|fleld.” y G, I. Housing Unaffected st. residents claim {they are forced te drive two and a {half miles additional in detouring jaround Stout fleld to highways

BOARD MEMBERS {leading downtown, } .i Ruel Steele, the governor's execuEVANSVILLE, Ind. April 25 (U.itive secretary, said failure of the 'P.) —An Evansville parent-teacher |State to negotiate a use permit with | committee circulated petitions today! the federal government has “no ef- | seeking the resignation of the two | fect” on the conversion of Stout { remaining members of the city|fleld barracks inte veterans’ apartschool board which touched off a|ments. . student strike by demanding the! — i resignation of a basketball coach. | | Mrs, Jane Lockyear and ws! SOUTH BEND MAN | Neva Sandelben were the only re-|

{maining members who were on the| hoard when jt requested Centra y athletic director and basketball ivy ‘coach Glen Bretz to resign. The re- SOUTH BEND, Ind, April 25 (U. quest was prompted by charges by PJ) -Laren Richard Hitt, 50, waited { Mrs. Lockyear that Mr. Bretz would, behind a tree for his estranged wife Bob le} Jenmiess of Mis vu Stalelto pass on her way to work today hardwc nalists play ootball, the Shot GRA eA Her { Three other members resigned), oo woundin himself [after some 5000 students went on y € ved, strike and parent-teacher members|” , ° tii : . deinanded a new board. i Authorities said Mrs, Harriet V.

———— EE | Hitt, 39, left a South Bend city bus with three other persons to walk PLUMBER SAFE AFTER 10 a nearby brewery Where oe was 'SEVEN-MINUTE BURIAL employed. They said her husband

i _ stood, behind a tree and. heavy | SOUTH BEND, Ind., April 25 (U.|phushes nearby. i

: |P)e—pt plumber, Dried ‘aiive for | Police said several witnesses told seven minutes When one wall of an| ner, Hitt fived two shots, fatally

eight-foot ditch caved in, | Wounding his wife. Then he stepped treated for minor bruises and shock} toward the tree, took a drink from

today. {a bottle, and shouted “I told you Mathew Stewart, 50, was Working | 1 would get you,” ‘before shooting in the bottom of a sewage diteh. | himself with another gun, police The bank of the ditch collapsed and | gq44, 5 he was covered with loose dirt. | Police said -Hitt waited in what Members of a police emergency | t)ey described a “natura! ambush’ squad who rescued him said he was| for his wife to pass, iable to breathe because he covered | ‘Hie mouth and nose with his hands |

before police

Saw Woman Stagger Three persons walking with her , Police and other employees of the 0 the brewery told authorities PE. “1. White Plumbing On, shoveled j they did not hear the Arsi shot but

“Dis circus business sure is de nuts,” quacks the famous duck,

| day engagement at Keystone and Southeastern ave. i

| treasurer, They succeed L. T. Hix- on yesigned April 1.

The governor said his adminis- |

pears it will be impossible for us|,

frantically through the dirt to reach ! Stewart. He wag dismissed from | {Memorial hospital after treatment. |

FILES DAMAGE SUIT | FOR FALL INJURIES,

A $25,000 damage suit was filed | in Superior court 5 today against Sheriff Otto Petit and County Commissioners Ray Mendenhall, William Ayres and William (Bud) Bossoil Jr. . The - plaintiff, Grace Allen, al-| leges that careless operation at the | county garage caused her to fall! into_a grease pit there Oct.-12.-She| | received a. broken back and other | injuries. her suit states

Bishop’ Angus Dun of the Epis- cathedral, which i§ being gradually Failurs 10 provide a guard ratip THe gy air transpirt command

noticed Mrs. Hitt . when she staggered on. the sidewnlie of the narrow street Sy The first bullet from s 22 caliber rifle. entered her chest. A second shot struck her In the temple, po+ lice said. ‘Hitt apparently killed himself with a .32 caliber revolver he pulled from his pocket, authorities explained. : Dominic Simeri,. a world war II veteran walking with Mrs. Hitt, said he heard the second shot. A

neighbor; Mrs, Walter Smith,. toid |

authorities she saw Hitt fire’ both shots at his wife, 10,000 WATERPROOF SUITS WASHINGTON, April 25 (U, P)

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Flee in Hail of Police Bullets (Continued From Page One) | near Mr. Skidmore's ear in the 1000 4 RL e tavern ‘Fountain Square holdup revealed Ey eaveIn, {that the three bandits who held up| atierncon. He told police he was ‘Mr. Skidmore had left a RELOWAY|maling his weekly withdrawal’ for lear parked in a side street off the qo in cashing checks at the Grafid

| square. .___|Oanyen Inn, 1702 Engl hich Police believe it may have "been po operates. ic Al'ave, wi 3

(the stolen car which the filling sta- | Ey tion bandits abandoned. They also, Ce Niece Waits in Car y were investigating a possibility that| As ‘he approached . his car, in —tthe—fourthvman—who—was-invoived -Which-his-niece-was waiting, a man {in last night's holdups might havelin an army jacket walked toward

{been an accomplice in the robbery)... a fof Mr, Skidmore. Y|him. As Mr. Skidmore got in the

The three gunmen ere waiting car the man pointed a un at him | : re : ~-=- and said: “Hand it over, Jack.” As

SEES COAL ACTION ‘he delaved the gunman threatened

him and two other armed men sp-°

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After he handed over the money, /the bandits ordered him to le on until the operators have expressed ‘his face in the rear of the car. They themselves on the welfare fund. held the girl between two of them | The operators have accused, Mr. ag one got behind the wheel and lewis of wanting to stall negotia- drove away. 5 tions until the coal crisis reaches, . After a few minutes, one gunman such serious proportions that bis jumped from the car. Five minutes {bargaining power will be more en- [ater the car stopped at Cedar and (hanced {Film st, where the other two gfunRead Different Programs ‘men fied, g

Thus the coal shutdown has

{been prolonged because operators LONG-STANDING BAN and Mr. Lewis insist on reading LIFTED BY D A R . » .

from different programs President Truman has warily WASHINGTON, April 26 (U. P.).

stayed away from the crisis, having —The Daughters of the American . {had unhappy experiences with Gen- Revolution, waiving a long-standing ral Motors and steel. ; ban against Negro artists, 2 No one has even suggested the invited the Tuskegee institute ny

appointment of a fact-finding panel, because it is regarded as cer- ' $ing in the D. A. R.-owned Con-

tain Lewis would ignore such a de-! stitution hall June 3. 5 lviee ne | Mrs. Julius Y. Talmadge, Athens, also believed certain Mr Ga.’D. AR president general, would ignore a government A of the coal mines, so jannounced that the D. A. R.'s ex. device. used several times during ®Cutive committee agreed unani--the wir to break a coal crisis, js mously to permit the Negro singers not expected to be used by Mr. Tru-|'® appear in the hall. : man, at least in the foreseeable! The invitation to the Alabams future (school, she sald, was “without {strings,” indicating that Negro amd

{white members of the audience’ Re-elected were Harry Reid,| I! is probable, however, that Mr. ooiq not he segregated. :

president: J. P. Tretton Sr. vice Truman is beginning seriously to) gw. rpg previous refusals president and general manager, and | WOITY this week about the impasse |i, normie Negro artists to perferm

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LOCAL TRANSIT FIRM ELECTS OFFICERS

Officers of. the Indianapelis Railways, Inc., were elected at the annual meeting of officers and board of di y

" r yr o directors today Truman Worrying’

| George C. Forrey Jr, vice president, | Secretary of Labor Schwellenbach|. “aongtitution hall—the largest

Charles Pinkerton was elected | Visited the White House with Mr. | a uditortum in Washington — had

treasurer and Miss Lillian Slegrist | Lewis last Saturday. John R. Steel- |, iiled it in numerous controverwas elected secretary and assistant iman, the President's special adviser sies since the rule was established labor matters (and a close in 1932 : jon, treasurer and secretary, who friends of Mr. Lewis), is with Mr.| arian Anderson, famed Negro {Truman on his sea holiday this contralto, did sing there in Januweek ry, 1943, after two previous rum

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The board of directors and executive committee were re-elected.

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a commendable respect!

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pleasure and satisfaction,

That's bacause-—of the knowledge— that there is nothing above a

Dobbs—in the Field of Hatting!

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ica forced other members to dis- copal diocese of Washthgton and completed ag funds are contributed and to clean grease from the garage’ 1s buying 10,000 waterproaf suits for;

continue ‘resistance to the uriton’s| the Very Rev, John W. Suter, dean hy worshipers of all faiths. Adm | floor catised her 4 fall, her attor= protection of air crash survivors ii \Gearge Dewey is also buried there,

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