Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 May 1946 — Page 1
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RACE CLAMS WAN INTEREST
Organization Control May Hinge on Contest of Stark and Clark.
By NOBLE REED Republican voters will decide at. the polls here tomorvew.ome of the bitterest:fights in the histoty of the organ- | ization. Jt is a battle between the | regular G. O. P. organization and| forces supporting Judge Judson L. Stark for the prosecutor nomination |
and other “anti-machine” candidates The regular machine, headed by,
Chairman Henry E. Ostrom, James L. Bradford, former county chair-
man, and Joseph J. Daniels, 11th district chairman, is supporting Alex- M. Clark for the prosecutor
nomination. The test of the machine's control will hinge almost entirely upon the] outcome of the race for the prose-| cutor nomination.
. Predict Light Vote
Despite unusual interest ‘in some.
of the Republican and Democratic races, election officials predicted the total vote may be as low as 50,000, which is less than a fourth of the
A list “of Marion county voting places appears today on Page 5; state election story, Page 2.
eligible voters, and that under the most favorable circumstances the total would not--exceed : 70,000 or less than 30 per cent of the 247.000 registrations.
Two years ago The total vote: in rc To | ferent or an unwilling sheriff, or commissioner for instance,
the May primary was 65,000 which was considered moderately heavy due fo public interest in the presidential election. In the 1944 primary there were 43,000 Republican ballots cast and 22,000 Democratic! voters. “Machine” Advantage Regular G. O. P. organization leaders are predicting that the Republican vote will total less than 35.000 tomorrow A light vote in the primary always is regarded as an advantage to regular organization forces since the absence of “independent” voters from the polls gives the organization workers a better chance to pile up a majority. For more than a month the “anti-machine” candidates, led by Judge Stark and the Republican itizens Committee, have been campaigning for a large turnout of voters to combat machine control. The hottest races in the Demoprimary are for the proseand criminal court nomina-
cratic cutor tions. Clauer Backs Blue Arthur J. Sullivan is being supported by a majority of ward Democratic chairmen for the prosecutor nomination and Jacob L. Steinmetz has. a majority of the organizations support for Criminal court. Running against Mr. Sullivan is Norman E. Blue, supported by a! faction headed by William Clauer,!
former Democratic county Chair man. Edward McEliresh, Democratic
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ILLNESS TO CONFINE
. MAYOR FOR WEEK
Mayor Tyndall will be confined to his bed for at least a week with
a respiratory infection, . The payor experienced a heart disturba s an aftermath of the
respiratorv® ailnfent, contracted while attending last week's Metropolitan opera performance at_Indiana university, A physician said his condition is not critical.
During the mayor's absence, City
Controller Roy E. Hickman will be |
the city's chief administrative
For Juveril Court... For Prosecutor (An Editorial)
HE TIMES indorsement of candidates we believe best | fitted for the offices to which they aspire appears today on Page 14. Two of these offices, however, seem to us to be so important that they merit special consideration—the offices ' of prosecuting attorney and of juvenile court judge. In each the administration now in office has been con- | spicuously unsatisfactory. In each Republican voters are | being asked to indorse that unsatisfactory performance and vote to continue it for another term. For the good of this
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county and their own party they should not do so.
Uv ENILE COU R T is the children’s court. It's chief job is to keep boys and girls who have made their first | wrong step from growing up tobe hardened, habitual criminals. It isn’t doing it. As now constituted it hasn't even
seemed to understand what the job is.
Juvenile offenders pass through this court again and again. Each time their list of crimes grows longer, and the crimes more serious. Each time they are turned loose without correction, and without supervision—to be heard of no | more until the police bririg them back again with a new list of burglaries and holdups and auto thefts. Nearly every home-grown criminal with whom our | police have to deal is a graduate of this procedure. Howard | Pollard, sitting in jail with a murder charge against him, is a fair example. There are today a hundred others free in this town with incredible records of crime, learning in the | same school that crime does pay, that law-breaking carries no penalty. The court’s probation system is a farce. The court is staffed by small-time politicians without training and without qualification for dealing with children. of its own judicial hearings—and the language used in them ! —i8 frequently disgraceful. This county might almost be
better off with no juvenile court at all than with a continu- |
ance of this kind of administration. The Times joins with the citizens of this county who have
studied the situation most carefully, in urging your support tomorrow for Harold N. Fields. » » Tie Pl {0SECUTING ATTORNEY is the key to good |
nment in this county. He has the pawer, and the old other public officers in line, to compel an indif-
to enforce the laws and to obey the laws himself. The present prosecutor has not done While gambling flourished openly in the county and reached its sinister fingers into county government, he has closed his | eyes. When liquor permit distribution became ‘an open scandal he has Jlooked the other way. When a hundred | thousand dollars or so of your money disappeared into thin air in the building of Julietta he wasn't interested. When | the heat has grown too great to ignore he has covered evervthing with a smooth coat of political whitewash. Today he asks—and the RBradford-Ostrom Republican machine asks—that one of his deputies be nominated to carry on. This deputy is individually a fine young man. He has] a brilliant war record and many” admirable persqnal qualities. His whole experience months,
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and most of them have been‘spent as a deputy prosecutor, sional experience that any prosecutor must have to stand off the cynical forces that now threaten to take over entirely the government of this county. forces, be it noted, also eagerly urge that he he nominated and elected. ~ The Times has indorsed for this nomination a man who does have the professional experience, the successful record, and the demonstrated ability to handle this job as it should be handled—Judson L. Stark,
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SCIENCE NEWS... By Special Wire
U. S. Scientists Doubt Early
Possibility of Cosmic Bomb
By WATSON DAVIS, Director, Science Service
WASHINGTON, May 6.—Any immediate possibility of a cosmic ra
bomb a billion times more powerful than the atomic bomb, as suggested here. It is true that energies giving rise to the cosmic rays somewhere in the depths of the universe are measured in billions of electron. volts volts,
by European cosmic ray scientists, is discounted by scientists
millions of electron » ” The Indianapolis Times augments its extensive news coverage
compared with atomic nuclear energies of | But it would be a very long step from a discovery of the cause of the cosmic rays to making a bomb
out of the method of generating by use of Science Service's wire them, + service inaugurated today. Our It may turn out that the condi-
readers will receive this institu-
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In eur opinion he does-not have the profes- |
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officer.
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tions under which cosmic rays are | generated are impossible of achieve{ment here on earth. Astrophysicists feel confident that {the Bethe theory of -the origin of | the heat of the sun is correct. Li they despair of creating the millions of degrees of heat neces-| | sary to make it operate. The ‘Bethe theory is that atomic energy is obtained in the sun from| being |
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Worried M ost
About Her Nylons
PHILADELPHIA, May 6. (U. P.).
| Sixty-year-old Mrs, Julia Parker | British demonstration, possibly in| against was knocked down by an automoa central city
bile last night at intersection.
But when she arrived at a hospital for treatment her chief conIt was the ruining of her nylon stockings. She refused to prosecute the au- | ai passenger in the car took off her
cern was not her injures,
‘fomobile driver, however, after own nylons and gave them to Mrs,
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MONDAY, MAY 6, 194
PRICE OF MILK HERE MAY RISE THREE CENTS
Provicers Base Basa Demand on!
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Entered as Secand-Olass Matter at Postoffce Indianapolis, Ind. Issued daily except Sunday
Increased Cost of |. Production.
Milk producers in the Indianapolis area today “demanded” price increases for whole milk which, if granted, threatened increases to
| cents a quart, The producers committee, headed | by Cash M. Bottema Jr, of Bridgeport, made its demands in a letter) i to Carl Hedges, manager of the In-! dianapolis Dairymen's Co-Operative, Inc. The committee set $4.50 a hundredweight as its price goal. “The selling price of milk today is. § below the cost of production,” the | letter said, Cost of Feed = Citing increases in the cost of feed {and other elements of production, {and pointing out labor demands for 30 per cent wage increases to offset [the rising cost of living, the letter | continued: “The same influences effecting other items of daily consumption | demand that the producers of milk | be granted a fair increase so that | they will not be driven out of busiIness. An increase to $4.50 is not all | the producer of milk should have, {but it is the minimum to keep the farmer producing milk in ‘this | Althou Although neither Mr. Hedges nor jT Bottema could be reached early for comment on the letter, another| | member of the producers’ commit~ tee said the increase sought was mainly to offset threatened loss of | government subsidy. He pointed out that unless fairy farmers receive increases in prices they-cannot hire] labor in the present “highly competitive” labor market, Increase to Farmer C. W. Hunt, secretary of the In-| dianapolis Milk Foundation, said | the present price ceiling under OPA | — regulations governing payments to! | producers is $3.51 a hundredweight. | An increase to $4.50, if granted, he | said, would represent a price in-| crease of two cents a quart to the| | farmer, Inferring from -Mr. Hunt's sate. ment. and 8 ki ‘into &ctount com- | ' missions to drivers, increased in-| come taxes and other added expenses involved in a price rise, it appeared an additional cent would | have to be added to the price by the ° | time it reached the ultimate ‘user. | The producers’ letter to Mr. Hoover said today | Hedges also urged reduction of the is the “most acute the world has| “| butterfat requirement * from four'ever seen.” He urged that food be | { per cent to 3.5 per cent. imported into Japan. “There is no logic In requiring the] : producers of whole milk in. this! He told a press conference ; market to produce milk containing tween now and September there is| 4 per cent butterfat when Indian- Boing de be 3 Burgh world at the apolis ordinanee Yequires onty 35 Mr. Hoover said the whole food |
per cent,” the letter said. “There 2 HO 2 that the public Situation” wou e helped greatly is no question but t Pp f Rosle world
s only 3.25 r cent.” secure pet and Korea part hey have secured in Manchuria.”
CHEMIST'S SUICIDE |e mar IS AN ‘EXPERIMENT
Music hath charms te soothe.
morning broadcast.
HOOVER URGES
30 Years.
1 former President said he So at length with Gen. Douglas MacArthur... The told him the Japanese food situa"tion was the worst in 30 years,
release in China| of the foodstuffs!
Mildred Wells puts another platter ¢ on the turn table in an early
FOOD FOR JAPAN
Crisis Is “Called Worst ]
TOKYO, May 6 (U. P.) «Herbert the food crisis!
“he-!
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general
Kills Self in Gas Chamber “Japan must have some food imports,” Mr. Hoover said. “With-| In Laboratory. out them, all Japan will go on a!
ration little better than that which NEW YORK, May the Germans gave the inmates of Police reconstructed today the final vo p\,chenwald ‘and Belsen concen-| hours -of Murray Churchill McNab, | tration camps.” 38, brilliant Canadian chemist, who! “It is impossible to conceive that, | chose an experiment in death be-| the American flag will fly where | cause he found life too complex. such conditions exist,” he said. They found his body in & glass| “Aside from any Christian spirit, inclosed experimental gas chamber,ifood impos are required if Amertwo feet wide, 10 feet long and five|ican boys here are not to be en- | feet high. dangered by disorders and epidemics | On a table outside was three-| inevitably arising from starvation. I'page note, an almost’ empty whisky Need Food to Work bottle and five cigaret butts. . unless there are. food
6 (U. P.)—
“This is my last experiment,” the “Moreover, note said, “and it is in self destruc- imports, the people will not have tion,” the stamina to work upon the reWhile Manhattan's night life construction or inthe fields for the
next crop.’ He sald amounts of food required for Ww hic h should go to China, India, the
revelled below him Saturday night, McNab sat’ alone in a 12th floor laboratory, pondering over science, philosophy and God When he reached his decision. he philippines or Korea-
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Because the odor! pve the entire world during the of illuminating gas offended him, crisis between now and the next he methodically rendered it odor- harvest.
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entific precision.
and died. McNab had a bachelor's and master's degree from Queens university, Kingston, Ontario, He got a doctor's »degree in chemistry at {the University of Chicago. He had taught in an eo Houtiurel
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An added inducement . . . Marjorie Amon tells two appii- | cants they shall have music wherever they work. They get everything but Sinatra (he records for a rival vompany).
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Shuts Down Today; 3500 Men Thrown Out of Jobs
By UNITED PRESS Thousands of workers were laid off today More factories reduced their output as the coal shorts
The steel industry cut still
(age tightened its grip on the nation.
further the flow of steel from
blast furnaces and open hearths. The Carnegie-lIllinois Steel Corp. would close the world's largest steel mill at Gary, Ind., today,
announced that it
The eOmpany said 3500 employees would be laid off. The
BREAK IN COAL
STRIKE IS SEEN
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Hint Settlement or i. Si.
Action by Wednesday.
By FRED W. PERKINS Scripps-Howard Staff Writer
* WASHINGTON, May 6.—Some- |
thing should be popping in the’ ccal| strike on Wednesday.
Something in the way of settle-
| rest already had been sent fe during the last month as the company reduced its production bit by bit. The Youngstown Sheet & Tube | o0- planned to close two of its | Chicago area mills today, throw. ing 800 employees out of work. The coal famine already had
| plunged Chicago, Washington und
Philadelphia into semi-darkncss. In Detroit, the city council ap proved re-establishment of wartime brownout regulations “for the durae tion of the emergency” to conserve vital fuel supplies. Five railroads had cut their Mid«
ment by John L, Lewis andthe coal| western seyvice sharply to save fuel,
operators, or something in the way
of vigorous government action to state-| Of the office of defense transporta-
replace numerous official ments, Wednesday looks like the day be-| cause the United Mine Workers| | policy committee will be here to-| Morrow, This body of 200 men will either] back up their boss for a longer. {and even more costly strike; or will give him a graceful exit from his situation, They're ikely,
| whatever “Mr, Lewis recommends. Suppose they resolve that in thel blic interest the time has come) forget about a welfare fund and | shipments. ; of foremen and concentrate on a good, juicy raise:
| pul
Chance for Change
Col. J. Monroe Johnson, director
| tion, said the strike of soft coal miners will affect the railroads ane other year—even if the walkout is | settled soon.
Col. Johnson said coal which should be moving now will have to ‘be moved by rail next fall, This, he said, will cause a freight log-jam At the time when recone
of course, to do] version is hitting its stride.
At Duluth, Minn, the Duluth, Missabi and Iron Range Railroad announced a reduction in iron ore
Loagied On Ships. ‘ The road is one of the two prine cipal carriers that hauls ore from
Then there would be a Joo; the great Minnesota iron range to ‘chance for the miner- operator hud- {the or# docks st: Dultith and’ Stie
'dles to get off the dead center they |
{have been on since March 12. | the mines | keep doing what he has beén doing: |
Mr. Truman could do
| several things:
ONE: Call the parties to | White House for a heart-to-heart|
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MURDER CHARGES FACE DESPERADOES
Tense Peace Reigns After Alcatraz Mutiny.
By RONALD WAGONER United Press Staff Correspondent SAN FRANCISCO, May 6. — A sullen, over Alcatraz federal prison where | three convicts in solitary confine-! | ment awaited possible murder in-!
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| dictmeénts for their part in a bloody
By DONNA MIKELS
ONCE UPON a time there were
little dwarfs who advocated 'the theory of “whistle while you work.”
Japan will not hinder supplies
provided there recorded his deliberations with sci- jg full co-operation and distribution|
OF ‘NOT GUILTY’
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CAIRO BOMBING HELD Of War Crimes.
PALESTINE PROTEST
TOKYO, May 6 (U, P.).—Former| CAIRO, May 6 (U. P..—An| Premier Hideki Tojo and 26 other | THE WORKERS at RCA get|thousands of miles, will pull into
| Egyptian police officer said today] | war crime suspects pleaded inno-|
(that the Y. M. C. ‘A. service club! bombing in which 16 persons were|
injuged was “obviously” an anti-{Sion, mutder, and
humanity.”
| protest against the Anglo-American, date wds set for June 3.
| Palestine report. Tojo's ey Seven Brilish service men were ;, the prisoners’ box while the | among thosé hurt yesterday ‘when | charges “were read. He almost
the club from a passing automobile.! when he said “On all. counts,
—— | plead not guilty.” INDIA PARTY LEADER DIES BOMBAY, May 6 | bhai Desai. 68. oneoof the leaders of national [the all-Tndia congress party, died early loday. : -
military tribunal
| cent today to 55 charges of “aggres-| (Continued on Page vicious crimes
Their trial 'THE HEART
a hand grenade was thrown info! gouted into the court microphone I
Sir William Webb, of Australia, 6 (U. P.).—Bhula-| | presided over the Far East Interbefore
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is all but for= has deunder
ditty gotten now, but the idea veloped to vast: proportions the label “industrial music.” One of the national leaders in the industrial music field is the RCAVictor plant of Indianapolis, ~
The dwarfs’
weapons during the .war, Now
periments during the war into a
peacetime industrial music project uprooted fixtures and bullet-scarred in
which is attracting nation-wide attention, Itt doubtful if even the keen-eyed dwarfs would recognize their idea the way RCA has expanded it, Several hundred speakers, dustrial music specialist, a control)
board as complicated as the atom | Operation Muskox, the army's 3200- | |theory—they're all a part of the| {mile trek through Canada’s north- | Its men, who
music system at RCA.
music . while Whey work. But in-|
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| day riot.
an in-|
| mutiny which cost five lives, Warden James A. Johnston said| has “dis-| closed six ringleaders in the three-| Three were dead and the!
an investigation thus far
others were solitary confine-
ment,
in
He said they waged their bitter | fight with only a rifle, a 45-caliber a knife and
Colt automatic pistol, a few gas grenades. They had 50 rounds of ammunition for .the rifle and 21 | pistol
An investigation was under way MUSIC as a factor in production| to ascertain how many other conwas one of the RCA's psychological |
if any, were involved.
At the same time, federal bureau they're compiling the results of eX¥* of investigation agents moved cau-
tiously through the twisted steel,
concrete walls of the prison
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OPERATION MUSKOX ENDS IN TRAIN RID
one of!
tense peace reigned today,
for the
| perior, Wis., where the ore is load
But suppose these 200 men from ed on ships. “direct” Mr. Lewis 't0| he ghips normally return from
|the East loaded with coal, and the
Then either President Truman or yards here supply coal to Minnes {the senate could get- into action, sota,
and the indications are one or both! | will do so.
the Dakotas and Northern Wisconsin. As a result of the coal shortage, |officials of the yards said they | would begin laying off employees toe | morrow, At Chicago, the Pullman-Stane dard Car Manufacturing Co., which builds railroad sleeping cars, ane | nounced that six of its plants were | operating on reduced schedules and | were facing shutdowns because of the coal shortage.
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but about 50 of Chicago's 334 i picture theaters were closed today. Officials said they would re{main closed until the coal strike is | settled. Iowa appeared coal strike. A state of emergency was declared at Muscatine, lowa, because the municipal power plant was running out of fuel. The Interstate Power ' Co. said rationing of electricity may be necessary soon at Dubuque and several other Iowa cities served by the company. : City officials of Marshalltown, Iowa, asked shops and stores to turn off lights on signs gnd in show windows. The Detroit
hard hit by the
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LIQUOR BOARD DENIES TAVERN NEW LICENSE
The Marion county liquor board today launched what its new president,’ Robert 8. Smith, termed a “spring cleaning” by refusing a lie cense renewal to an alleged “troue ble tavern." The board declined to renew the permit of Horace Stone, operator of a tavern at 505-511 Indiana ave, Mr. Smith said the tavern had a record of “frequent” police calls in« The board also held up several other re= newals pending investigation of past records.
Ed ison Co. said
“This is the beginning of the a
EDMONTON, May. 6. (U, P.) — sweep,” Mr, Smith said.
[land ends here today. {have been riding snowmobiles fo
this city by train. . Col. P. D. Baird,
decided to complete
B. C., over the last lap of might do extensive dam
age to the ten snowmdbiles:
of Montreal, officer commanding the expedition, the 8l-day | Journey by train because travelling { over the dusty road from Ft. Nelson, the
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