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FORD PLANTS T0 BE CLOSED IN COAL CRISIS
110,000 Auto Workers Will Join Idle Tonight as U. S. Plan Fails.
By UNITED PRESS More factories closed, more persons were thrown out of work today. More railroads reduced service and more brownouts were imposed. The coal crisis grew more serious by the hour. As the coal mine strike began its 88th day, these were the major developments in the coal shortage that has imperiled industry and disrupted the lives of millions:
ONE: The effects of the coal shortage hit the great Detroit ing dustrial center. The city council passed an ordinance for a drastic power dimout, The Ford Motor Co. announced it will close most of the plants of its far-flung system at midnight tonight. About 110,000 workers will be unemployed.
TWO: Chicago, hardest hit by the shortage, faced the prospect of a complete blackout, with’ all business and industry closing down for two weeks. Only essential public services would be left operating if the black-
THREE: The government prohibited delivery of coal to household users who had more than a five-day supply on hand. Exempted from the restrictions were hospitals, public utilities, railroads, food
plants and other essential users
with less than a 10-day stockpile on hand.
FOUR: The Virginia Electric & Power Co. announced it would ration electricity in 63 Virginia counties beginning tomorrow.
FIVE: The government set up an emergency control board charged with the task of keeping the nation's electric power, gas and water systems. operating. SIX: Both the mine operators and the striking. A. F. of L. United Mine Workers brushed aside a government proposal for settlement of the prolonged mine walkout, In other major labor developments: ONE: A pilots” strike against Transcontinental & Western Air, Inec., was postponed shortly before the midnight deadline last night. A federal fact-finding board was established to study the dispute. TWO: Portland, Ore. waterfront employers signed an agreement with the C. I. O. Supercargoes’ and Checkers’ union, ending a strike which had halted port activities for the past eight days, THREE: A 35-man strike committee met in San Francisco to formulate strategy for a proposed nation-wide “unity” walkout of seven C. I. O. and independent unions representing 216,000 maritime workers. FOUR: Representatives of Detroit's 6000 food retailers sought a court order to put an end to A. F. of L. teamster efforts to organize the dealers against their will. FIVE: Representatives of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen and the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers went ahead with plans for a nation-wide strike May 18, involving 300,000 workers. Ford was the first victim of the eoal famine among major automobile makers. M. L. Bricker, vice president in charge of production, said the shutdown was prompted by the railroad tie-up and a shortage of steel and parts as well as a lack of coal 75 Per Cent Cut
The Chicago brownout, he sald, was affecting more than 40 suppliers of Ford material and parts. Production men and industrial sources believed Ford's action foreshadowed what will happen when the freight embargo ordered by the office of defense transportation goes into effect Friday. Under the embargo, many railroads sald their shipment would be eut 75 per cent, except for those
row] VOLUME 57—NUMBER 50—
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(An Editorial) HE conduct of the central count of votes cast in yesterday's primary election is a disgrace to an
Ameriéan- community.
It is proceeding today in a maze of confusion, ineffiTwelve hours after the polls closed not a single precinct had been counted. Ballot boxes had arrived—and been accepted—in such condition and after so much delay that they could easily have been opened and counted in advance, and stuffed with phony ballots at leisure. They could still be stuffed after they reached ‘Tomlinson Hall, as Times Writer Dick Lewis has
ciency and irregularity.
demonstrated.
Watchers assigned to verify the counting for antimachine candidates were being arrogantly pushed around, worn out, and prevented from checking to see whether votes were indeed being honestly counted.
HE inexcusable delay and confusion which prevail at
Tomlinson Hall could inefficiency. We hope it is. much worse.
opportunity is there. If we
mating an honest tally of the votes cast yesterday it will be only because the Bradford-Ostrom machine henchmen | who control it display truly remarkable integrity and selfWe hope they do. The people of this county are entitled to a fool-proof,
restraint.
fraud-proof, machine-proof
The central count, as now constituted and now going - on, clearly is nothing of the sort.
The stage is all set for fraud.
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FORECAST: Fair tonight and tomorrow.
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be only incompetence and It could be something very The get anything even “approxi-
But that isn’t enough.
election count.
Move to Block
2d 'Execution’ Of Youth Fails
ST. MARTINVILLE, la, May 8 (U. P.).—Legal efforts to save a young Negro murderer from a second trip to the electric chair failed today. District Judge James D. Simon denied a writ of habeas corpus which would have at least delayed the - execution of young. Willie Francis. The second electrocution of the 17-year-old Negro is scheduled in Louisiana’s - portable ' electric chair tomorrow. The first -eléctrocution last week failed to cause death.
Plans Further Appeals
Judge Simon also denied a motion |
for a restraining order to stop the execution. Bertrand Deblanc, St. Martinville attorney, made the efforts to save the Negro. ‘He said he now would appeal to Gov. James H. Davis and also carry his fight to the state supreme court. Meanwhile, acting Gov. Emile Verret was waiting for the state attorney general to rule on whether the confessed murderer must walk the last mile for a second time. The opinion was expected some time today. Unless Atty. Gen. Fred S. Leblanc rules such action illegal or the supreme court intervenes, Francis will go to the chair again. A nation-wide debate over legality of the second electrocution has developed, and an appeal by the famous Father Flanagan of boys’ town for mercy has been received in Baton Rouge.
U. S. TO WITHHOLD IRAN ‘SECRET’ BOOK
Security Council Wilt Decide Course in Russ Case.
NEW YORK, May 8 (U. P.).— The Uhited States holds a “hook” ofjcsecret documents about alleged viet interference in Iran's internal affairs. But it will not offer them as evidence to the Unitted Nations security council when # meets today— without the Soviet delegate present —to decide whether to drop the Iranian case. It was confirmed shortly after noon that Soviet Delegate Andrei Gromyko would not attend today's
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PSC Aims to Ration Power in State, Change Utility Order
The public servicé commission today modified its northern Indiana “brown out” order and prepared to tackle the state wide rationing of electric power. In ‘an effort to make the “brown out” more flexible in the 22 counties affected, the commission ordered
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Radio ....... TT] Reflections .. 16 Mrs Roosevelt 15 Schérrer .... Science Serial Sports ... State Deaths. Washington. . Women's ..20-22 World Affairs. 16
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that industries can use as much as 10 per cent of the power used in April provided they, do so within the 24-hour-a-week-use limit. Under the old order of May 2, industrial users were limited to 1-30th of their April consumption.
Fix Own Schedules
The modification order also enabled theater owners, bowling alley
-| proprietors and similar groups to
agree schedules for the expenditure of their 24shour weekly power allotment. Whereas the old order limited them to the hours between 2 and 6 p. m, six days a week, the new order permits a
PF. C. Othman 15 change of the hours to the evening
provided the entire group complies.
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The rationing question confronting the commission was presented in petition form by the Indiana state-wide Electric Co-operative,
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The co-operative, according to its manager, Hugh Abbett, seeks to-ra-tion the electric power output of
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MORE SUITS FOR | MEN EXPECTED
CPA to Offer Pl Plan to Increase Cloth Supply.
WASHINGTON, May 8 (U, P.)~ The Civilian Production administration is expected to offer tomorrow a plan to make more cloth available for men’s suits and less for women’s suits.
the men’s suit industry to produce at near capacity. Philip Maguire, deputy OPA administrator, told reporters that a a certification plan would be presented to an industry group toMOrrow. This_ plan provides that men’s
The plan was designed to enable |
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A close-up of workers in the central vote counting at Tomlinson hall today.
| 'Stuffed' a Ballot Box With 1000 People Around Me—Nobody Noticed
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By RICHARD LEWS I “stuffed” a ballot box while surrounded by a thousand people last night at Tomlinson hall. But nobody noticed it. The box had been impounded following disclosure by a es photographer that it had | fastened
was not entirely covered.
box had also been set aside. These
suit manufacturers will be: given preference ratings on their order
mills. that all the fabric they purchase] under preference ratings ‘will be! used to make men's suits.
Enough . Fabric
Mr. Maguire said that this plan would not prohibit the manufacture of women's suits, He said that there is enough fabric on hand to take care of the demands of men’s suit manufacturers and still leave substantial amounts for women's suits. CPA hopes the plan will result in the production of 10,000,000 more men's suits annually than would be made at the present rate. Manufacturers of “women’s suits would not be entitled to any preference rating but: would use the cloth remaining after the men’s orders were filled. :
Severe Quake
Is Recorded In S. Pacific
NEW YORK, May 8 (U, P).—A “very severe earthquake in the South Pacific was recorded early today on the seismograph at Fordham university. Father Joseph Lynch, seismologist, sald heavy shocks were recorded at 12:42:49 am. (Indianapolis time) and 12:42:49 a. m. and were repeated on a lesser scale around 5 a m, He said the temblors were at a distance of 9700 miles from New York and probably were between
New Guinea and the Dutch East Indies.
HOOSIER STUDENT INHERITS MILLIONS
Root, Coca-Cola Heir, Now Indiana State Student.
TERRE HAUTE) Ind., May 8 (U. P.).—~An ex-G. I college student turned 21 today and became the legal heir to the income from an estimated $11,000,000 Coca-Cola bottle manufacturing estate.
Chapman Shaw Root, grandson of the late Chapman J. Root, founder of a firm which held many CocaCola bottle patents, studied at Indiana Btate Teachers college while attorneys prepared to turn over the receipts from the vast estate. Mr, Root, who served as a corporal and saw action with the army in France and Germany, will receive the bulk of the fortune when he is 40. Mr. Root's father, the son of the firm's founder, William R. Root, lost his life in a plane crash in 1932. The grandfather died last Novem-
ber at the age of 80. He organized the Root Glass Co. of Terre Haute.
for wool and worsted fabrics from | They would have to certify]
at his Homan, Ark.
boxes, from the 13th. precinct of
the 17th ward, both were discovered|”
{by The Times. But four others slots were also partially opened were not impounded and | were distributed to the counting | staffs. Election Board President Mike Hanrahan, who ran the show at the central counting bureau, insisted a ballot would be mutilated if stuffed into the apertures, and thus disqualified. To prove his point, he went to hunt up a blank ballot, but he couldn’t find one. When the impounded boxes are opened after all others are counted, the election board will find that one of the boxes in‘question—a red one—has been stuffed. : This was done at 10:25 p. m.
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workers by this reporter before the partially opened slots were brought to the election board's attention. A slip of paper was inserted, marked: “This could have been a ballot.”
Another carelessly fastened ballot}
full view of the hordes of election)
incorrectly so that the ballot slot] «3
After his attention was directed
fastening had been deliberate.
them if we hadn't wanted you to?”
Could this ballet box have been “stuffed?” inserted through the slot of the first box challenged because of an improperly placed hasp which left a small opening after it had been sealed.
A blotter is being
were mounting between G. O.P to the boxes, Mr. Hanrahan ridi- | iculed any idea that the improper |
organization men and. the citizens’) | committee as crawled along in low gear.
Flare-ups over watchers and the “We left those boxes out plain} presence of ‘Sheriff Otto Petit's depwhere you could see them,” he sald.|uties began to build up tension last “Do you think you would have seen night. Peculiarities in the conduct
Meanwhile, tension and suspicion! (Continued on Page | 2—Column 3)
PHANTOM’ CAUSES CURFEW ON LIQUOR
Texarkana’s Nerves Frayed By Killer.
TEXARKANA, Tex, May 8 (U.
weeks by a phantom slayer have | frazzled the nerves of virtually all] of Texarkana's citizens, liquor dealers today effected a vdluntary curfew by closing at 9:30 p. m. nightly. Liquor dealers in a joint statement said they fully understood the state of mind which now grips Texarkana. “We are selling no liquor to persons, who already have been drink-
ing,” they said. “We do not wish to add further troubles to the police.”
The city today still looked toward washington, where the Federal Bureau of Investigation was examining clues from the slayer's latest work—the murder of Virgil Starks farmhouse, There was some speculation that a man found dead beside railroad tracks 14 miles north of Texarkana might be a sixth victim of the phantom killer,
LANDON, TUNNEY JOIN IN MIKHAILOVICH PLEA
NEW YORK, May 8 (U. P.).~<Alfred M. Landon, 1936 Republican candidate for President, and Gene Tunney, former heavyweight boxing champion, joined four governors to=day as sponsors of the committee for a fair trial for Gen, Draja Mikhailovich. : The governors are Dwight Griswold of Nebraska, Simeon Willis of Kentucky, Coke Stevenson of Texas and Ernest Gruening of Alaska. The committee of congressmen, educators, churchmen and leaders seeks to have the trial' of Mikhailovich, the Chetnik guerrilla leader, given to an international tribunal rather than fhe Yugosluy
government.
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incomplete returns from yesterday's
|ed today to appeal through the
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ARABS: ASK RUSS
AID IN IN PALESTINE
Propose Fight on Plan of U. S .and Britain.
JERUSALEM, May 8 (U. P)— The Arab higher committee decid-
Soviet embassy at Cairo to Pre-
mier Stalin for Russian support of Arabic opposition to the AngloAmerican recommendations for Palestine, The higher ‘committee met for four hours today to deliberate what should be done in case the Anglo-American proposal that 100, 000 Jews be admitted to Palestine is put into effect. The committee decided to direct] to Stalin through the Cairo embassy a copy of its letter sent earlier to Prime Minister Clement R. Attlee on the subject and to appeal to Stalin for help. The letter to be sent to Stalin committed the Arabs to “oppose by all means” any attempts to carry out the Anglo-American report on Palestine. . In it the Arabs said they would defend themselves and organize a “national struggle.” INDIANS DIE IN CRASH GALLUP, N. M,, May 8 (U. P) —la Five Navajo Indians were killed today when the truck in which they were riding was struck and demolished by the first section of a west-
bound Santa Fe train,
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P. A. C. Candidate Loses in
ad in Alabama
By UNITED PRESS The C. I. O. Political Action Committee, polls, lost one in Ohio and is in a close contest for the other in Alabama,
in two major tests at the
primaries showed today.
Winner of the Ohio Democratic race for the U. S. sénatorial nomina- | tion was Senator James Huffman, who defeated three other aspirants P) —Because five murders in $1] including | Marvin Harrison, Cleveland, backed by the C. I O.
Mr. Huffman will seek re-election | in November against former Gov. John W. Bricker, who won the Re- | publican nomination without opposition. With the Ohio voting extremely ht, Mr. Harrison was running third behind dark-horse Stephen Young, Cleveland. Fourth was Dr.| Edward Huth, The vote in 8773 precincts out of 9031 ‘gave Mr. Huffman 102,399; Mr Young, 78.846; Mr. Harrison, 68,122, and Mr. Huth, a Dayton university professor, 11,406, In Alabama, J. E Folsom, with C.I.O. indorsement,| held a slight lead over Lt. Gov.! Handy Ellis, in the five-way race for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination, A run-off election was certain, The vote of the two leaders was:
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TRUMAN OBSERVES 62D BIRTHDAY TODAY
WASHINGTON, May 8 (U. P)~— This is President Truman's 62d birthday and if you have any™*last minute present, he'd love to have a coal strike settlement. Mr. Truman planned only “business as usual” during the day, but his staff probably will attempt to surprise him with an impromptu party before the working hours are over. He'll probably have a family birthday dinner’ tonight. J One of his birthday’ gifts will be sculptured “portrait” of the hands of his daughter, Margaret. Mr, Truman %will receive it from the sculptress, Miss Ray Shaw, at a White House ceremony this after-
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Entered as Second-Olass Matter at Postoffce 4 Issued daily except Sunday !
Clark Takes Lead Charges ‘Election Steal
‘Confusion, .2-Hour Delay
the election countp
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PRICE FIVE CENTS
Stall Counti Candidates
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Unofficial tabulation of
sional primary, Albert J. votes, was pacing the field 142, was second.
| date, 380 to 145.
official 317 vote lead_in the
was attempting to “steal the
all contests, rule-of-thumb co Judge Stark declared tha central county bureau in Tom
floor were:
Magenheimer, 796.
INCUMBENTS IN
Rough-Shod Over Rivals. |
By BOYD GILL United Press Staff Correspondent
yesterday's Hoosier
primary.
congressiona.
than those of 1944. In the 11th district, Congressman
whelming margin. Generally Light Vote
of a light vote over the state. But!
ballot-casting was more brisk in|
| some districts than was expected.
For instance, in the 10th district {the same G. O. P. candidates who
vied in 1944 polled more than 40,000 votes, compared with 30,000 two Years ago. Republican ballots predominated over most of the state. One of the 11 Hoosier congress. men, Rep. Charles M. La Follette, (R. Evansville) dropped out of ‘the 1946 race to run for a seat in the U. 8. senate. The others, however tried for another two-year term All of them have been in Washington at least two terms, or four years, * Hold Strong Lead
. Incumbents who held strong leads over ‘their opponents with most of [the state's 4000-odd precincts reporting were Rep. J. Madden | First District) ; leck (R. Second); Grant (R. Third); Harness (R. Fifth): Johnson (R. sixth); Rep. Earl Wilsop (R, Ninth), and Rép. Raymond 8. Springer (R. 10th). Two other incumbents were nomiinated without contest, Rep. George |W. Gillie (R.), fourth district, and {Rep. Gerald W. Landis (R),
Rep. Forest A. Rep. Noble J.
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Tight contests developed in sev-
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HOUSE GROUP 0X.S ENLISTEES LEAVE PAY
nosed Bill Wo Would Make Sum Retroactive.
WASHINGTON, May 8 (U. P.).— The house military affairs committee today approved legislation to give terminal leave pay retroactively to enlisted men. Only officers receive it now.
{RESPITE FROM RAIN
IS PROMISED TODAY
After several days of rain, Indianapolis was promised fair weather for today and tonight, with La temperatures today. Another fair day is predicted for tomorrow, remaining warm.
LOCAL TEMPERATURES
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Stark
Marion county precincts this afternoon gave Alex Clark 354 votes against 244 for Judge Judson L. Stark in the Republican prosecutor’s contest.
In the Republican juvenile court race, ‘Mark W. Rhoads led Harold N. Fields, anti-machine candis Charles Russell held a 124 vote margin over Albert Magenheimer, 317 to 193.
By NOBLE REED As his opponent, Alex M. Clark, drew away to an uns
Judge Judson L. Stark charged the county G. O. P. machine
With confusion and a 12-hour delay stalling official ‘tallies, machine-supported candidates ran slightly ahead in
effort to tire anti-organization observers and enable ballots to be counted without checking. Incomplete tabulations made by reporters from the
“STATE WINNING
Indiana Congressmen Ride | candidate for prosecutor). He also at el
Indiana's incumbent congressmen {rode rough-shod over all rivals in Margins were as great or greater
Louis Ludlow on the basis of six out | of 380 precincts was leading his|®Achored to. Democratic primary
Democratic opponents by an over-
Tabulations bore out predictions
(D.! Rep. Charles A. Hal-| Rep. Robert A.|
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the official ballot in ight,
In the G. O. P. congresBeveridge, with 281 official and Mrs. Fern Norris, with
Republican prosecutor's race, election.” unts showed.
t the turmoil and delay at the linson hall were a “delibera:
For prosecutor, 48 precincts—Clark, 1414; Stark, 1091, For sheriff, 41 precincts—Charles Russell, 1064; Albert
For juvenile court judge, 55 precincts — Mark W5
| Rhoads, 1440; | Fields, 948. For county clerk, 45 precincts— A. Jack Tilson, 1228; Walter B. Hemphill, 973. . Judge Stark said authentic ine formation had reached him that vote tellers had been instructed to “take care of Clark” (the machine
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fe charged that watchers the central count bureau by anti machine Republicans were arbitrar{ily assigned by Election Board | President Mike Hanrahan to ob-
serve the Democratic primary ] count. He alleged Mr. Hanrahan had
ruled that once watchers were ase signed to a given table, they could not thereafter be changed. This Nl ert anti-organization Republicans
tables. “If I am elected to office in spite of this attempt to steal the election, I promise I will prosecute to the {limit of my powers the felons res | sponsible for it,” Judge Stark ase | serted, “Will Ask Indictments” “Iwill ask for grand jury indiete | ments of every individual I know to be implicated in a vote count fraud.” Robert Worland was removed as a counting clerk after it was learned he was campaign manager for Frank Owen, Republican candidate for sheriff. Until recently, orland had been a deputy undep Sheriff Petit. Mr. Worland cone
'| tended Sheriff Petit fired him bee ‘| cause he didn’t agree with Petit on
certain primary election candidates, Only six precincts were tabulated on - the Democratic ticket at’ 31 o'clock today. Organization-slated Arthur J."Sullivan had 187 votes for prosecuting attorney and Norman E. Blue, 174. In the race for crime inal court judge, Jacob L. Steine | metz had 166 votes and Edward W, McElfresh, 160. As was expected, Congressman Louis Ludlow was running far ahead, as also was Lewis (Cap.) Johnson for Sheriff. Running about six hours behind schedule, the central counting staff at Tomlinson hall had completed tabulations in only two £ the 380 precincts by 8 a. m. tod The only tabulations available early today were compiled by newspapermen, taking figures from tally
(Continued on Page 3—Column 4) POPE PIUS SUFFERS LARYNGITIS ATTACK VATICAN CITY, May 8 (U, P.). —Pope Pius XII was suffering from a slight case of laryngitis today and a cancelled public audiences, sources close /to the papal household said.) It Was “explained ‘that the throat irritation was not serious, and that’ the pontiff will hold private au diénces today as usual,
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