Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 May 1946 — Page 1

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FORECAST: Cloudy and cooler with occasional light rain tonight. Tomorrow partly cloudy and continued cool.

INDUSTRY HERE GAINNG SPEED SURVEY SHOWS

Tempo Is Fastest Since V-J Day, Records ’ Indicate.

By Edwin C, Heinke Times City Editor Indianapolis industry is stepping along at a pace faster than at any other time since the end of the war, a Times survey showed today. For the first time since last September, the number of claims for compensation filed by the jobless has dropped sharply. Veterans as well as civiians are landing jobs. Employers’ openings are increas-

ing. Applications of job seekers are decreasing. Demand for skilled workers is increasing. The general labor trend will continue upward. Strikeless, the city faces a peaceful future. Notes Downward Trend The downward trend in unemployment compensation claims was detected this week at the U. 8. Employment Service and brought wide | smiles from Manager Thomas wi Bennett and his staff. During the first week in April there were 8210 claims filed. In the second week there were 9737, the, third week, 7219 and the final week, 7532. Even though the claims increased |

for reasons not yet analyzed by| USES officials, the downward trend is unmistakable, Mr. Bennett said. March Average 8500 In March the average number of claims filed was approximately 8500 a week. During the month ending April 15, *. representative manufacturing establishments not directly involved in work stoppages increased employment approximately 1000. Lesser gains were registered by non-manufacturing concerns, chiefly trade and construction. Significant employment increases were reported by the chemical products, fron and steel and automotive industrial “groups. Minor decreases, chiefly due to material shortages, were reported in rubber products, ‘electrical machinery, other ‘machinery and food products groups. Shortages of steel, textiles, electrical products and livestock are still seriously affecting the area employment level and all estimates of anticipated employment are dependent upon solution of the dispute in the coal industry. A job development program launched at national and local levels a few weeks ago by USES to locate high caliber job openings for veterans particularly, is coincident wth a 20 per cent increase in local job openings for Aputl over March. The ,2972 employers’ openings on hand in the USES office at the end of April had increased 402 as compared with March. Applications of persons seeking jobs decreased by almost 1000 from March to April. Mostly Veteran Placements The 1710 jobs filled with local employers through USES in April was an increase of 221 over jobs | filled in March, with veteran placements accounting for almost the entire increase. “Employers’ figures indicate that demand for skilled workers will increase and that the general labor trend will continue upward,” Mr, Bennett said. “Employers’ anticipated needs have been reported conservatively since the possibility of work interruptions cannot be entirely disregarded, despite the peaceful outlook on the local employment front.” Although ' the general**employment situation is still regarded as serious despite the current improvement, it Was ‘pointed out that Indianapolis probably was one of the few cities in the U. S. to report the present optimistic conditions.

SATURDAY, MAY 4, 1946 _

Entered as Second-Class Matter ‘at Postoffce senee

PRICE FIVE CENTS

Indianapolis, Ind. Issued daily except Sunday

Husband Kills Wife, Self

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SOME RIOTERS | GIVE UP; ONLY 4 HOLDING OUT

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Guards Are ‘Going in After Desperadoes in 3d Day of Riot .

BULLETINS SAN FRANCISCO, May 4 (U. P.) ~—Alcatraz prison guards reinforced ‘by Leavenworth sharp- | shooters opened fire on. mutinous | convicts in a cell-block inside the building today and have begun “going in. after them,” a penitentiary spokesman informed the police department.

SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, May 4 (U. P.).—Federal Prison | | Director James V. Bennett said

had been informed some of the rebel convicts at Alcatraz have surrendered and he believed there are about four still holding out.

. + . Bill Frazer in his moment of triumph at |

The Champion! Caleb Mills hall at the end of The Times Spelling Bee . . . . wearing his gold wrist watch prize, champion’s pin—and the No. 7 identification card which he said Brought him luck. :

By EDWARD L. THOMAS United Press Staff: Correspondent SAN FRANCISCO, May 4 (0. P.).] —Rifle fire today again broke out {in the bloody battle of Alcatraz S| island as prison guards prepared to go in after the desperadoes holding

Township Winner in Final

By ART WRIGHT Bill Frazer, 12- year-old eighth grader from the John Strange school, | of fighting. Washington township, is the 1946 Indianapolis Spelling champion. The renewed fighting, after an Grasping a rabbit's foot and four-leaf clover in one hand and |eight-hour lull, followed an attempt fingering his “lucky” No. 7 identification number with the other, Bill | | by prison guards to induce the hold- | last night spelled down 19 other finalists in The Times Spelling Bee. | out convict killers to surrender by The match was held at Caleb Mills hall, Shortridgé high school. [sending another convict to “reason” ‘before an enthusiastic audience of | With them.

3 ‘more than 1000 persons. A man wearing a prison inmate's MUD ONLY SUR 1 The Washington township repre-| uniform was seen from a nearby | sentative earned the coveted title|Police patrol boat climbing a ladder

land the free trip to Washington, behind which the mutineers were

re C. by spelling “exonerate” after| barricaded. ed the spelling of ’ Convict Withdraws

Er cama. wittin. Bat fozeseh of ‘the lower ‘celiblock : : when Solomon Edwards, 13, ‘Graham Entries Favorites go, 7 missed on i when he quickly spelled “orb—"|oyt of the line of fire of the tra For 72d Classic. | then stopped. It was too late to 2 armed convicts. ped, LOUISVILLE, Ky., May 4 (U. P.). | back, for the rules of the contest) —The richest Kentjcky Derby in |58Y a letter cannot be changed! once it has been pronounced. history came up today for- its 72d1 - Thirty minutes later more shots Aman] raping’ vith & Woman. who Quiz Kid” Hailed |were fired, and guards reinforced g It was a popular victory, for Bill! by sharpshooters from the Leaven-

| sion—and withdrew.

sending three horses after Col. Matt tograph seekers and was carried on to open an all-out attack. ‘Winn's blanket of roses. {the shoulders of a group of young-| At 5 a. m, (P. S. T.) a prison And the betting was eight to five Sters to the rear of the auditorium. | official told the United Press. by |- “Third-place winner was Shirley telephone that the situation was that one of Mrs. Elizabeth Arden ,p, pessler, 12, of Little Flower|: ‘unchanged” after an uneventful Graham's hopefuls would bring her Catholic school, who lost out on|pjght during which no shots were turfdom’s greatest honor. She used “specie.” Fourth-place winner, De-ifired by either side since shortly her cosmetic millions to engage lores Xramer, 12, of Holy Crossigfter 10 p. m.

Catholic school, stumbled on “covKk ’ hres of the greatest jockeys in the | tous » Fifth place went to Dor Bazookas Ready

{othy Wuensch, 12, of St. Catherir Attacking U. 8. marines and Lord Boswell figured to be her school, LO thertng prison guards held bazookas, demo+ leading Did so she pi Eadie Ar-1out on “vehemence.” {lition bombs, hand grenades and caro, gunhing for his fourth Derby| po4i,¢ foremost “Quiz. Kid,”| White phosphorous grenades in vitory) up on him, LS horkiovns her: Richard Williams, was the pro- readiness as daylight came over the nem BML WH - BN alo] nouncer when Bill Frazer won the] strife-torn island, | The barricaded badmen answered shot, Perfect Bahram, will have Ted | j (Continusd on Page 2—Column 7) | the wartlen’s latest demand to sur-

Atkinson in the saddle. 3 : renin | render unconditionally with a burst Should all 17 go to the post, of gunfire.

w is unlikely in view of the DRUNK DRIVERS FINED ® wasden has said thal Iie dove: Cimost sue prospects of « mudes| $2206 DURING APRIL| “ooo oe of

track, the net value to the winner | | (Continued on “Page 8—Column 1) will be $96,400. Each horse oil Motorists charged with drunken rm clared out will subtract $1000 from driving paid a total of $2206 in EARLY- “DERBY LOSERS” that amount, but it wasn’t the |fines during April, Inspector Audry| CHICAGO, May 4 «(U. P.).—Mr. money Mrs. Graham was worrying | Jacobs, Indianapolis police depart-|and Mrs. William Wray, McCook, about. She wants the glory of win- | ment traffic chief, said today. Neb., ning and of being the seventh Of 62 drivers convicted of the

woman in history to have a Derby charge, five were sent to jail or the winner, state farm. Five others received

Wee Admiral was almost sure to |Suspended sentences. Police arrested 72 on charges of

(Continued on on \ Page 8—Column 1) {drunken driving in April.

lost $1044. before they even reached | the track. "Thieves pried open the! window of their car and took a trunk and two suitcases valued at that amount.

today on his arrival here that he (¢

out in cellblock C on the third day|

A marine poked a carbine in one of} fired a shot. The convict then went “arbitrator”| yp the ‘ladder, remaining carefully! |Co.,

He apparently failed in his mis-

is out for glory rather than the gold immediately was surrounded by au-| worth, Kas., prison, appeared ready

stopped here yesterday en route to the Kentucky Derby and

Apatiment House Where Double Tragedy Occurred )

AR STAIR A TIS PATE

The four-unit apartment house where tragedy siruck in the second floor back apartment. Inset are Mrs. Ada Sawyer, the murdered woman, and her sen, Robert Stephens.

COAL SHORTAGE TIGHTENS HERE

Industries May Close Unless:

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PISTOL SHOTS END LIVES IN N. SIDE HOME

Ada, Levi Sawyer Victims In Slaying, Suicide at 36151, Graceland.

By HEZE CLARK An. estranged husband who had failed in repeated ate tempts to effect a reconciliation with his wife invaded the bedroom of her north side ‘apartment this morning and (shot her to death. He then turned the murder weapon, a .38 caliber revolver, on | himself, inflicting fatal injuries. The murder-suicide climaxed an argument and a wild struggle,

which: the woman's ‘crippled son tried vainly to stop. The murdered woman is Mrs. Ada Sawyer, 48, of 36156% Graceland ave. Her dead husband is Levi Sawyer, about 54. Police found her body, with bullet

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Stgirs leading to her apartment.

her feet, He had fired two bullets into his head.

Bloody Trail The revolver was found under-

| Strike Ends by June 1. -| | | The coal shortage tightened on Hoosierdom today like the noose | around a condemned man. Indiana Chamber of Commarce| § figures pointed to the bleak outlook. Unless the nation-wide strike is settled before Jupe 1 virtually every ind SA Reema Le The Indianapolis Power & Light backbone of city. industrial power and servant. of home elec-

WASHINGTON, May 4 (U. P). —The government moved today to restrict domestic soft coal deliveries still more as efforts to end the 34-day strike by 400,000 bituminous miners continued fruitless. The solid fuels administration drafted new orders that will tighten deliveries of coal to homes, limit deliveries at lake docks and the use of coal for bunkering purposes, ' ‘

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trical needs, has a 35-day supply of coal for normal operation. Officials said, however, if no settlement develops within two weeks a curtailment will be necessary. First to be hit on a rationing plan! would be the 400 large customers who consume 60 per cent of the] electrical output. “These plants are our largest customers,” said John Longsdorf, public relations director. “It only is - Weekly Sizeup by the Washington | fair to service the greatest number | |for the greatest good. The remain- | {ing 40 per cent of our power goes (to some 143,000 customers.” Meanwhile the Citizens Gas & Coke Utility today called on industrial users to curtail voluntmly

| Staff of the Scripps-Howard Newspapers

WASHINGTON, May 4.—Wyatt Housing program's in trouble. Officials now admit goal of 1,200,000 new units this year can't be reached because materials production is so far behind.

Civilian production administration foresees 1946 deficits in critical materiais ranging from 10 to 44 per cent, Here they are:

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WILLIS AND JENNER

A Day in the Lifé of John L. Lewis—Who

'ERANS GET 157 VETER $13,000 IN LOANS More than $13,000 in state funds were loaned through the Indiana department of veterans’ affairs to 157 former servicemen at 17 Indiana institutions, director, pointed out today. In operation four weeks, the department: lends funds to veterans until subsistemcé checks are obtained, Mr, Stalnaker said.

LOCAL TEMPERATURES 6am ...55 10a. m ... 62 Ta. m ... 58 11am... 62 8am ... 51 12 (noon)... 61 9am... 58 p.m... 00

TIMES INDEX

William C, Stalnaker, |

5; Jane Jordan . 7| Ruth Millett. .

Amusements . Jack Bell . Carnival ..... Churches ,.... 4 Obituaries ... Classified., 12-13| Radio Comics ...... 14| Reflections ..

‘Crossword ... 10{ Mrs. Roosevelt T[bvd., he decides

14! lovely despite its need for a coat’or |

turn American coal production on|selection of “fan mail,’ assembled things), like yoi would control the sweet. Also, he looks over water from a spigot. ( paper clippings, Around 9 o'clock in the morning | publicity man, John L.“I%¥wis’ pre-war shiny Cadillac pulls up outside his|

compiled by his| “Casey'-Adams, from | (Continued on “Page 2—=Column 2) but still] “ 4 =n nn 8

house. Jim, the chauffeur who WHILE WE FUSS ABOUT FRANCO AND Sones as handyman, is at the ; CONGRESS FIDDLES

Mr. Lewis, wearing his battéred old felt hat and an unlovely raincoat that might have come out of the mines with him; steps from his home on Washington st. in rearby Alexandria, Va. It is a rambling | frame colonial mansion that is still]

(An Editorial)

If your-lights go off Or ‘your cook stove quits Or your toilet won't flush Or you are held up in“a dark alley

7|two of paint. Mr. Lewis is due-at a bargaining Or your trains don’t run Or your food spoils And our whole independent economic machine shivers,

to go first to his| ghrivels and stops

Bditorials .... 8|Sports ...... . 6loffice. Forum ...... 8|State Deaths. 10| This is on the sixth or top floor And you lose your job— Gardening +, 10| Bob Stranahan 6|of the United Mine Workers build- Don’t fail to realize that this is our nation’ s greatest Homes -...... 10| Miss Tillie .. 7|ing, formerly the University club. | demonstration of one- -man rule. Don Hoover .. 8 In Washington 8|His office is bigger than that of) The man? In Indpls, ... 3] Women's .... 9|President Truman, and it is re-| . 2 »

Inside Indpls. 7! World. Affairs

A NEW SERIAL STORY, THE HEART ue FIND, STARTS IN THE TIMES MONDAY—WATCH FOR FIRST CH Al

8 {markable for its decorations—walls

JOHN L. LEW IS.

Turn American Coal Production On or Off

Then Mr, Lewis remembers the| and off (and thereby a lot of other to include both the bitter and the [coal conference, He goes down to| news- his car and Jim drives him there.

“i GALLED ‘DECOYS’

Radiators 44 per cent under requirements, sinks 40, gypsum board,

32, plywood 40, furnaces 24, brick 22, bathtubs 20; lumber 18, clay sewer pipe 10. DY bo Group Sees Halleck Coal strike has slowed output of some items. Iron, st€el, chemicals, porcelain, felt, other raw materials are still. tight. -Black markets |

drain materials to. non-housing projects. Dealers" supplies don’t begin to cover veterans’ priorities issued against them,

As ‘Harmony’ Candidate.

By FRED W. PERKINS remindful of timbering in. a mine, the voluminous press mention’ of{ (County Politics, Page 3; Editorial,’ Prefabricated home producers suffer from material shortages too. Scripps-Howard Staff Writer laa a chandelier festooned with|the coal strike. He dictates letters Page 8) < . WASHINGTON, May 4-—A day miner's tools. to his personal secretary, Miss | : (C ontinued on Page 2—( olumn 2) in the life of the one man who can| At the office, Mr, B.owis reads a lmizabeth Covington. Charges that the Republican ma- |

chine of Governor Gates is maneuv-

cna ner one: Murderer Survives Electric Chair—'I+ Just Tickled a Bit

the senatorial nomination, , were | made today by the United Labor Political committee.

current perfectly okay. Hn he. least.”

after’ the death-dealing failed to do Ld usual work.

jous to labor than either Mr. Willis ‘lor Mr. Jenner.”

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He was not harmed

neath his body. A bloody trail led through the tiny, three-room apartment down the stairs and out onto the porch | where the wounded Mrs. Sawyer had fled to summon help after her husband shot her inthe side. Then she attempted to go back upstairs. Mr, Sawyer, who apparently had followed was waiting int the entrywiy. Gg Bnd in BE head. She collapsed in a pool of blood. Sawyer then shot himself. He was still alive when police and the ambulance arrived at 8:30 a. m. He died a half hour later at City hospital. am Sobbing, Mrs. Sawyer's 23-year. old son by another marriage, Robert Stephens, told the story. He is an infantile paralysis victim and moves about on crutches. He was helpless to halt the tragedy. Sawyer had left the apartment to live elsewhere two months ago, the youth said, after a series of quarrels. He was employed at Kingan’s and worked nights. Mrs. Sawyer had day work as an inspector at P. R. Mallory & Co. “She was wonderful to me,” he said weeping. “She did everything for me. She never knew ‘anything but work.” i Pleads With Her

Mr. Sawyer, he said, had returned once to the apartment about nine days- ago. But he constantly accosted Mrs. Sawyer on the corner as she got off the bus coming home from work, to plead with her. “It got so bad,” said Mr, Stephens, “that mother would get off several blocks away and walk home, trying to avoid him.” This morning, according to the

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150 HOOSIERS WILL GO TO SAFETY MEETING

A delegation of 50 Hoosiers goes {to Washington Monday to attend la highway safety conference called Toy President Truman, The delegation will be headed by Secretary of State Rue J. Alex~ ander, Others will include Prof. J. L. Lingo, Purdue university, di rector of the Indiana trafic commission; Paul G. Hoffman, South Bend, president of the Indiana Traffic Safety council; Col. Austin R. Killian, superintendent of In diana state police; John Lauer, chairman of the state highway commission; State Superintendent

The group is composed of repre-| NEW IBERIA, La, May 4 (U.P | The slim, rpild-mannered slayer [0f Public Instruction C. L Malan, sentatives from both C. I, O. and —Willie Francis, a strapping young |was escorted back to his cell, mut- | $e Atwiney General James A. ¢ Ratay {| Emmert., A. F. of L. unions. Negro condemned murderer "DO | toring “The Lord was with me, the “We have reliable information the survived his own electrocution, I Hy Gates machine is using U. S. Sen- hummed spirituals in his lonely cel] [Lord was with me il This H H ‘M h ator Raymond E. Willis and William today, convinced he was divinely (| “Ah feel fine, " he drawled. “Ah'm Is Mome Mas Many Extras That E. Jenner as decoys to fool the ‘spared. | perfectly all right. I didn't hurt Add to Comfort and Happiness public and has no intention of nom-| while Francis prayed, electricians [none when they threw the switch. inating either one for the U. 8S. examined the chair to see iI it was [Tt just kinda tickled a little bit” Say Ri. ding & senate at the state convention June rigged -up right when the execu- No one ‘was able to explain why that is glass enclosed with ina 13,” the committee said. tioner threw the switch the state's portable electric chair ' terchangeable screens atop the '. “Instead, after Willis.and Jenner| [Louisiana l¢gal experts hurried to | failed to work garage. have drawn all the fire from inde-!their Jaw books to determine if the | “We strapped him in the chair pendent voters, Rep. Halleck fs to state can try once more to take Ms and threw the switch, Sherift Basiusive, towel wi ile ba ali on on be brought forth as harmony can- life, |Leonard Resweber said. frst floor. Al] otty didate to defeat Rep. Charles M.|. Governor James H. Davis ranted | “Francis started squirming and al fenced, NORTUE ABT, 3 ere La Follette,” \the 17-year-old youth a reprieve Mighting and trying to break loose ov A os Lovely 1 The committee pointed out that until Thursday while State Attor|from the straps. He couldn't move room with ie frame Rep. La Follette is the unanimous ney Fred S. Leblanc reaches a de- uc h, but we could see that he rick Areplae And choice of organized labor and other! cision. {was alive and fighting. He con- site ae en ih progressive voters and asserted: | Francis was led, shaking with [tinued to fight and strain, tion turn el “This statement is to serve notice fright but otherwise. unharmed,| “After the current passed through, in today's : that Rep. Halleck is mote obnox-| from the death chair lagt night we unstrapped -hjm and he was | TIMES CLASSIFIED ADS

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