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SATURDAY, MAY 11, 1946
Entered as Second-Olass Matter at Postoffoe Indianapolis, Ind. Issued daily except Sunday
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RAIL EMBARGO LIFTED, G. M. T0 KEEP OPEN
Chevrolet Body Expects Word to Return on 2d Shift Monday.
BULLETINS Chevrolet © Commercial Body Corp., which began laying men off within the last 48 hours due to the coal shortage, today expected to return the second shift to work Monday afternoon as soon
as word is received from General
* Motors in Detroit. It was expected
that 1000 workers laid off would be back at work Tuesday. The lifting of the rail freight embargo resulted in suspension of G. M. plants to shut down starting Monday. Chevrolet here had started laying men off Thursday.
WASHINGTON, May 11 (U.P.). =Col.. J. Monroe Johnsen, de- | fense transportation director, today suspended the ODT embargo | on all non-essential rail freight shipments. The suspension is |
effective at midnight tomorrow.
A “brownout” of 22 counties in| northern Indiana was lifted today a8 approximately 7500 state coal miners prepared to return to the mines Munday for a “truce.” The Indiana public service commission was notified this morning of an immediate restoration of normal service in the northern Hoosier counties by the Northern Indiana Public Service Co. Consumers have heen receiving! limited service under a “brownout” 24-hour-a-week service schedule. Other - utilities throughout the state continued plans for strict con-| servation of electric power. Only ‘Drop in Bucket’. They pointed out the “breathing period” will provide “only a drop in a bucket.” i The same thing was true in other parts of the country. Spokesmen for! industry and commerce said the crippling effects of the strike would linger for some time to come. , | The nation’s reconversion stride | has been broken, before it reached its full power, by the most serious labor crisis since the siidown
two-week
strikes of the last decade. |
The two-week truce (fi the coal strike called by John L. Lewis will
prevent a collapse of essential serv- |
ices, but industrial soutces said it would be of little immediate help| to most basic industries. Lift Some Restrictions Reports showed shortage will remain critical in many industries and in many areas. Some restrictions on the coal-generated eleciricity will be lifted, but in many spots the brownout will continue for the time being. The possibility of a renewal of the strike in two weeks clouded the | industrial scene. For the most part the automotive industry went ahead | with plans to-close plants. | Ford already had begun shutdowns throughout its far-flung sys- | tem, and Chrysler said it had made no change in plans to close its plants. General Motors welcomed | news of the truce and said it would] continue. to operate its 92 plants if the railroad freight embargo is lifted. Governor Gates proceeded with] for a meeting Monday of state utility officials. A possible
state-wide power rationing plan § will be discussed. | @ Robert Gray, state director of]
the federal solid fuels administra-| tion, said the backlog of orders for |
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2 HOOSIER TRAFFIC VICTIMS IDENTIFIED
State police early today found the bodies of a northern Indiana couple near the spot their automobile had overturned on Road 43, north of Wanatah, They were identified as Stanley Barnes, 27, of Wanatah, and Geraldine Davidson, 29, of Westville. The automobile in which they were riding apparently left the road, overturned and hit a tree, state police said. The body of Mr, Barnes Was taken to the Haverstock funeral home at La Porte, The young woman's dy was taken to the Boehlke funeral home at Wanatah, TO0K MRS. ROOSEVELT'S CAR| POUGHKEEPSIE, N. Y., May 11
(U. P.).—James Johnson, 24, onetime chauffeur for Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt,” today began a Six
months®Eentence in Dutchess county jail for stealing her automobile. Mrs. Roosevelt had hired Johnson through the U. 8. employment seryice here,
TIMES
INDEX
Amusements ..12| Ruth Millett... 9 Aviation ...... 9 | Movies .......12 Eddie Ash.....16/ Obituaries ... 3 Churches ..... 4|J. E. O'Brien. 16 Classified ..13-14| Othman ...... 9 Comics ....... 13| Radio ........15 Crossword ..12| Reflections ...10 Editorials .....10| Mrs. Roosevelt 8 Forum ......,. 3 Serial: ..... sue 8 Gardening .... T|/ Sports ....... 16 Homes ...... 6-7,State Deaths .. 5 Don Hoover ...10| Tillie's Noteb'k 9] Inside Indpls.. 9|In Washington. 10 Jane Jordan..15| Women's .....11 Douglas Larsen 9! World Affairs .10
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‘Condemned’ Hoosiers Get Reprieve |
Stark's
J. B. Marshall, sole owner of the Carbon bank . , .
drawing on their reserves.”
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“Miners are
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Miners Henry F. Wagner and Albert Zentko (left to right) . . . They will fight until they win.
Granville MeMains, grocer. .. . for more nourishing foods.”
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“The people are giving up luxuries
saw no frost.
la boon to farmers although it may
| “corn
| ground now will be saturated to
| threatening early vegetable crops, | orchards and grain fields.
{ by the downpour,
Margin Widens;
Magenheimer In Lead
COOL WEATHER STAYS; FROST SEEN IN STATE
40 Degrees Forecast Here
Tonight; Downpour Clogs Sewers. LOCAL TEMPERATURES 6am 81: 10a. m. ... 49 7am +5 Mam... 8 am . 54 12 (noon) ., 53 gam 50 1pm. .i Light frost. was expected in
northern Indiana today. Temperatures in Indianapolis were expected to fall to 40 degrees| {but weather bureau officials fore- |
A heavy overnight downpour which struck the city was regarded
delay the final cutting of alfalfa, ground,” hardened since] April, Horace A. Abbott, county agricultural agent, said. He added, however, that the enable planting by May 20. Threatens Early
A near-record spring eold wave swept across the Great Plains an Upper Mississippi Valley states,
In the city, sewers were clogged and streets flooded as a result of last night's heavy rains. Gardens in the city were damaged
| | Indianapolis weather was pre-|
| dicted clearer and cooler tonight,| | A mysterious gunman
| with fair and cool tomorrow. Combat High Water
‘Record Crowd Attends Opening of Home Show Here
ThePlargest crowd in the history of the Indianapolis Home Show was on hand last night for the today
279 PRECINCTS OF 380 TOTAL ARE COUNTED
G. 0. P. Machine Candidate For Sheriff Trailing First Time.
BULLETIN Tabulation of 279 out of 380 precincts this afternoon showed the following vote in the G. O. P. contests:
For Prosecutor—Judson L, Stark, 16,142; Alex M. Clark, 15,850. :
For Sheriff —Albert C. Magenheimer, 14,555; Charles J. Russell, 14,305,
(G. O. P. Table, fage 3)
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By NOBLE REED Primary election tabulation of 273 out of 380 precincts showed Judson L.
opening of the 2lst annual housing display in the Manufacturers building at the state fair grounds. Sta rk still gai Pictured above is part of the line of people waiting to tour the five-room modern bungalow. The show 2 ning over Alex
which attracted 7000 last night will be open daily through May 19 from 11 a. m. until 10:30 p. m.
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(Story,
2 6. I'S SLAIN IN NUERNBERG
Gary Girl Sits in Jeep, Sees Companions Shot.
NUERNBERG, May 11 (U. P).— killed two U. 8. soldiers last night as they sat
As more than two inches of rain-| with a third soldier and three wom{fall in the last 24 hours forced the en, one American and two British,
mercury = down, crews from ‘the street foner's office sped to various sections of the city during the night to combat high water conditions.
om a jeep near: a Nuernberg -park
| frequented by fraternizing G. I's. Army investigators were working today on a tentative theory that
Residents of the West side near the sniper might have been a Ger-
Bloomington and Court sts, were | in danger of being marooned as|
|a clogged sewer sent water slopping over the curb. Street crews relieved | | the condition when they cleared |
| the sewer.
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| Pleasant Run blvd.;
Carbon, Ind, population 600. , , . The community reflects in minjature the nation’s coal strike.
Carbon Mining Community
Practically a ‘Ghost Town’
By VICTOR
PETERSON
Times Stall Writer CARBON, Ind., May 11.—This little coal and clay community lives today under an 11th hour reprieve much the same as t condemned
man snatched from the gallows.
The 600 people who make up the town are but enough to be a dot on the map. But it is just such little towns that make up the nation. Similarly the coal miners living here are but a small part of the
61 FOUND GUILTY
IN TRIAL AT! DACHAU
Nazi Camp Workers to Be Sentenced Monday.
FRANKFURT, May 11 (U, P). —8ixty-one former attaches of the
Mauthausen concentration camp were found guilty today at the conclusion of their trial at Dachau, The conviction of all 61 defendants in the Mauthausen case was announced late today. Individual sentences will be passed when the U. 8. military court before which they were tried teconvenes Monday. oa ————— DEADLINE FOR JAP FLEET
WASHINGTON, May 11 (U, PJ). —QGen. Douglas MacArthur, suprema allied commander for Japan, has ordered, destruction by April 30, 1947, of the last major remnants of the once-proud Japanese fleet, army civil affairs esmen revealed today.
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thousands who will go back to the mines Monday under a two-week truce. n is a link in the great gous ho pry and not a weak link either—although the outlook is |bleak if the strike should be re-
{sumed and continue for any con-
siderable length of time, For nearly six weeks now the
miners have been idle and this com-;
munity reflects in miniature everything being felt nationally. Here it becomes a matter of personalities rather than generalities. J. B. Marshall, sole owner of the Carbon bank, has lived his life among the miners and the clay workers, Today he sees repeated the very events which have crippled Carbon in other years. “Deposits are beginning to fall
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TRUMAN'S SPEECH ON AIR
WASHINGTON, May 11 (U.P) — President Truman left today by plane for New York where he will receive an honorary degree from Fordham. university, The President later will make a 15-minute speech which will be broadoast by the four major radio. networks at 4 p. m.
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| sult of high water were:
Other streets blockaded as a reSherman | English ave. and Southern ave. and Minker sts.; and Pleasant Run
dr., between
‘between Shelby | Colorado ave.
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: WARK OF DECREASE IN SUPPLY OF MEAT :
man who mistook the women in the | jeep for fraternizing German girls. The identity of the victims was withheld until their kin is notified. Army sources said they were attached to the Stars and Stripes at Hoest outside Frankfurt. Several fraternization incidents have been touched off by resentful German men at the park near
| which the men were shot. The jeep was on a street lined with U. 8.
army and civilian billets. Gary, Ind., Woman The American woman in the jeep was Rose 1. Korb, Gary, Ind, who served four years in the war department at Washington and now a civilian employee in the | Nueruiberg office of internal se-
curity.
Bonies Sees Cut as Result’ Of Increased Grain Price. WASHINGTON, May 11 (U. P..
| — Economic Stabilizer Chester
Bowles predicted today that the nation will have to get along with
|less meat this winter and next
spring as a result of increased prices offered for grain. Mr. Bowles said. the decreased
meat supplies will be an outgrowth of the government's raising ceiling prices on wheat, corn and rye—a move designed to release additional food supplies for shipment to starving nations. Mr. Bowles said, however, that meat supplies to consumers actually will increase temporarily during the summer and early fall when ranchers and farmers are moving their livestock to market. Farlier, hungry peoples overseas had received the stunning word from that the United States will be unable to help them as much as it had planned because of an 11 per cent drop in winter wheat crop estimates, The United States probably will not be able to export more than 350,000,000 bushels of wheat next year compared with a goal © 425,000,000 bushels. “Either our eattle and hogs would have to eat less grain,’ Mr. Bowles said, “or else tens of millions of hungry men, women and children in Greece, Poland, Germany, Yugoslavia and China would be left without any food at all to keep life in their bodies.”
VINCENNES TAVERN
VINCENNES, Ind.) May 1+ (U. P.) Two bandits herded employees and customers into a rest room, and fled with $1500 from & tavern today, after drinking five hours at the place.
“well-dressed” men came into his bar and remained until closing time, then forced a waitress to turn over the day's receipts 5
the agriculture department |
IS ROBBED OF $1500
Owner Walter Gilkerson said two
Army investigators refused to let correspondents see Miss Korb, “This case has so many angles and is so complicated we can’t let anyone say anything right now,” a spokesman said. Except for the slain soldiers, no one else in the jeep was injured. Sounded Like Carbine A former combat soldier who was in one of the nearby billets said the shots sounded like those of a U. 8. army carbine. “An expert marksman must have fired the shots from extremely short range to get two perfect hits out of three shots fired,” an army investigator said. “Whether a German or other foreigner or an American was involved we do not yet know.”
LOCAL HOLDUP FOILED
A holdup attempt late last night was foiled by a 66-year-old man in the 500 block on N. Delaware st, police reported today. Raymond L. Treese, 242'¢ Massachusetts ave, told police he knocked down one of a pair of bandits who attempted to rob him on the street. The pair fled.
‘Long
The familiar cry of “we wuz
to prove anything.
Republican Citizens: statement drawn by its chairman, Don V. Gerking.
fraud,” Mr. Gerking said.
consider fraud.” Prepare Affidavits “If we get the evidence, nitely will bring eriminal against whoever is responsible.”
Count' Theme: Wuz Robbed—or Wuz We?"
“We feel certain there is a lot of | “Our watchers have seen a lot that 5
we defi-| action
'We
robbed” echoed out of the primary
election count today in anticipation that somebody might be. Nobody knew who would be robbed, if anybody, and nobody offered
Figuring that the deal was stacked from election night on, the committee charged
imua, dn the count In al
CHOOSE COUNTY
CHAIRMEN TODAY
{M. Clark, regular G. O. P. candidate, in the race for Republican prosecutor nomination, A survey of 107 precincts yet to be tabulated indicated that Mr. Stark would win the nomination by 1000 to 1500 votes, election board officials estimated at noon today. At 273 precincts, Mr, Stark was leading by 108 votes with more pre« cincts showing further gains in the next few hours. : Albert C. Magenheimer, antihe jWachine Shudidiate for sheriff nomiin on, swung into the lead for the Jom time wg an 80-vote advan. | tage’ over Charles J. Russell, regu { lar, regular organization candidate. The I of aeauntad precinets
ho nding may win the | nation by 800 to 1000 votes. Other Nominations
Ostrom, Boetcher in Line! several other anti-machine oan-
Mr. Gerking said he had been
informed certain afdavits are For Posts. being or already have been prepared. The chairman said he] Both Republicans and Democrats
wasn't sure against whom charges would be made.
Saw Figures Altered
lin Marion county were setting up!
| their political leadership today for]
the fall election, as central counting | {in the primary wound its weary way |
The committee said its watchers | io a conclusion.
have seen figures altered and yotes|
incorrectly recorded. Candidates, meantime, watched anxiously and| some of those who were running be-
Henry Ostrom, storm center of {one of the most bitter struggles for! power in the G. O. P. here for years, merged today from the smoke, fire!
hind said privately they were bene und hullabaloo still county chair-!
“counted out.” “But don't quote me,” they sald| worriedly. Election officials, harassed, were able
who looked
going, but
it up.
Organization men remained silent, and began to look a little pained, as|
their candidates began to-slip behind anti-machine men.
New Anti-Malaria Drugs Reported
DETROIT, May 11 (U. P.) —Dr. Louis F. Fleser of Harvard univer- | sity today revealed discovery of new compounds in the field of chemo- | therapy that may prove more beneficial than quinine or atabrine in the prevention and cure of malaria. | Dr. Feser identified the substances as “hyvdrolapachol4 and “naphtoquinones,” which he said possessed the power of destroying malaria parasites in the blood
stream. He said one variety was!
15 times as potent as quinine,
BURGLAR COMMUTES WOODMERE, N. Y., May 11 (U
P.) —Chester Jones, 18, admdgsed to
police today that he commuted reg-
ularly every night from New York City on the 8:06 to loot more than
30 houses In this
$25,000 in valuables,
WASHINGTON:
woods yet on coal.
steel and tinplate.
A Weekly Sizeup by the Washington
Staff of the Scripps-Howard Newspapers
WASHINGTON, May 11.—We're not out of the
Even if strike is settled during truce it will take weeks to get back to normal; Steel mills won't start furnaces for two weeks only. Won't pay them to fire up till they have coal stockpiles minor injuries were George Lang, to assure continuous operation. canning, fabricating and other industries will wait on
months in some cases.
Re-employment in auto,
Auto industry says if it shuts down completely, it won't get back | | to normal in less than 60 days after strike ends. Takes that long to
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to keep the stuttering machinery of the count weren't able to speed
community of|
a selection was to be formalized | {today at a noon meeting of ward | charimen. So it was agreed in a smoky session of the chairmen yesterday.
everybody was {line for Henry”
“going down the and there was no {audible dissent. Mrs. Arthur R. Robinson appeared to have the inside track for election as vice chairman, George Heiny as secretary, and Bruce Savage as treasurer. Mr. Daniels, himself, was to con-
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CONGRESS APPEARS
SURE T0 0. K. LOAN
House Avoroval of Grant to British Seems Certain.
WASHINGTON, May 11 (U. P.). —House approval of the $3,750,000,~
be bitter. Even such loan opponents as Reps. Frederick C. Smith (R. 0.) and Howard H. Buffett (R. Neb.) conceded that the bill would be passed. They doubted it even would he amended, The lengthy loan battle in the senate ended yesterday when Lhe measure was: approved, 46 to 34. All amendments were beaten down by forces under direction of Democratic Leader Alben (Ky). The house banking will operi hearings on Tiiesday Treasury Fred M. Vinson the first witness.
committee the loan
3 POWER WORKERS | INJURED IN FALL
Three Indianapolis Power & Light Co. employees were slightly injured this morning when they fell 20 feet from a scaffold at the Harding st, plant, Treated at Methodist hospital for
[1839 Applegate st.; 13421 8. New Jersey st., | Breedlove, 1004 8. Lyndhurst dr, The workmen were repairing the linside of a boiler and fell to the |steel floor when one end of ‘the | scaffold broke loose from a support-
Virgil Padgett,
Attorney Joseph J. Danlels said |
{ 000 British loan today appeared vir- | tually certain, but the debate will]
W. Barkley t
with Secretary of the
and Albert
| didates appeared to be assured of | nomination. They are Judge John L. Niblack for Superior court 1, over the or- | ganization’s Lawrence Hinds and Judge Hezze B. Pike for Superior {court 2, over Floyd Mannon. Judge Mark W. Rhoads, organisation man, continues to hold a 2200- | vote lead over Harold N. Fields for | the juvenile court nomination. A. {Jack Tilson, for county clerk, ap{peared to have won renomination {by more than 7000 votes over Dr, | Walter Hemphill, Louis Fletcher, regular organisation candidate, was leading Sheriff { Otto. Petit by more than 9700 votes {for the county treasurer's post. : Beveridge Seems ‘In’ | Albert J. Beveridge Jr. appeared {to have won the nomination for [11th district congressman, with a | 3800 vote lead over his nearest opponent, Mrs. Fern Elizabeth Norris, Mr, Beveridge and Mrs. Norris were double slated by organization leaders. The entire Democratic regular organization slate of candidates ap[Reseed to have been nominated
| ly Louis Ludlow was leading | the ticket. with 22,248 votes, com- | pared with less than 1000 votes for his nearest opponent, John K. Luts. Other Nominations | Other Democrats who appeared 19 be assured of nomination are: Arthur J. Sullivan for prosecutor; Chalmer Schlosser, superior court 1; Clyde Miller, superior court 2: Ned Corcoran; superior court 5; Jacob L. Steinmetz, criminal court: E. Curtis White, county clerk; Norman W. Gordon, for county auditor; [John T. Fogarty, for county treasurer; Katharine Price Dunn for recorder, and Lewis (Cap) Johnson for sheriff,
HIROHITO EXEMPTION SEEN TOKYO, May 11 (U, P.).—Emperor Hirohito will escape being listed as a war criminal suspect and will be exempt from testifying at the forthcoming trials of 28 Japanese militarists, reliable sources said today. .
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