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VOLUME 57—NUMBER 58

TRUMAN CALLS Ove FINAL PARLEY | IN RAIL CRISIS

Makes Last-Minute Effort! To Prevent Strike | Without Seizure. |

Ry UNITED PRESS |

President Truman made a final attempt today to prevent tomor-! row's railroad strike without gov.

ernment seizure of the railway system. ’ He called unjon: and management | representatives to the White House for a series of conferences begin-| ning at 2:30 p. m, Indianapolis | time. If his efforts fail again, the gov-| ernment wlll seize the carriers in| time to permit government orders § to be issued well before the strike| J deadline at 4 p. m, tomorrow.

The government also was being y 2 driven toward seizure of the coal Race driver Duke Nalon holds mines. That situation was not so

urgent because the two-week strike truce has another eight davs to rum. The railroad crisis and the coal strike were so eritical that Mr. Truman canceled plans to spend the week-end in Kansas City. He reviewed both situationg at his regular Priday meeting with the cabinet. : Perfect Seizure Plans The office of defense transportation perfected plans to take nomi- | nal charge of the railroads when Mr.. Truman gives the word. Heads of the brotherhoods that] have called the strike withheld assyrances that their men would work for the government. Government officials hoped they would. The army prepared to take over abdut 1000 large private airplanes to haul the most essential freight tf the railroads are tied up. Most of that burden, however, would fall to the truck lines. See Test of Labor Act Management and some labor leaders said the whole future of the 20-vear system for settling disputes | on the rail lines was at stake in| § the way Mr. Truman met the] erisis. No nation-wide strike has! 3 occurred under the Railway Labor | Act passed in 1926. On two previous = occasions, unions exhausted the law's orderly | procedures but strikes were averted: by direct presidential intervention.

will make his rocket run.

There -has been no nation-wide] ig strike by operating unions in 60! years.

Meanwhile the President's fruitless efforts to settle the long coal!

dispute pushed him today toward | government seizure of the mines also. i

i labor officials con-| no other course,

Government fessed they saw

but they expressed uncertainty; whether even that device would] work.

Arbitration Rejected Like earlier government settle-' ment efforts, Mr. Truman’s own attempt to find a solution hit a dead end late vesterday when his proposal that the dispute be submitted to arbitration was rejected by both sides. Seven hours after he made the proposal, John L. Lewis, president] of the United Mine Workers (A, F.| of L.), reported to the White House | that" the union negotiating com-| mittee had no autherity to submit to arbitration, Dapper Duke Nalon nonchalantAt the same time, Charles O'Neill, ly announced yesterday that he will spokesman for the mine operators drive a rocket-equipped car on a negotiating committee, handed Mr. | demonstration run at 2 p. m, next Truman a letter saying the in-|Tuesday at the Speedway. He even dustry was willing to arbitrate only showed skeptical newspapermen the wage-hour issues. | rockets, It was not willing to “arbitrate | The Duke is readying a dirt- track other issues, including Mr. Lewis’ car which .will have racks for two: demand for a seven per cent pay- 41-pound Jato rockets, similar to roll levy to finance ‘a union-con- those that assist Se 1hal suis anplancy in taketrolled welfare fund. Meanwhile, feeling in congress

and even in high administration! Says Average

eircles was running high on the ‘U. S. Woman |

subject of labor in general and Mr. | Is 'Fat Mess’

Lewis in particular. House and senate By CLAIRE COX United Press Staff Correspondent

The Buck Rogers era may be just around the corner.

committees!

both were devating legislation |

(Continued on “Page 3—Column 4) |

TOP 100,000 MARK AT ‘HOME 0’ IDEAS’

With two days still to run, the Indianapolis Home Show already

American man is no prize, average American woman is'a mess,

has broken all previous attendance Dr. Wilton M. Krogman said today. }

records, it was announced today. Judged by Hollywood standards,

Since the opening in the Manu- Miss Average America is stacked facturers’ building at the Fair-|

grounds a week ago, more than jmore like a haystack than a beauty 100,000 have attended the exposition (queen, he said. She is fat, flatand stood in line to inspect the chested, knock-kneed and waddles “House O' ldeas” and the “G. Joe’ home, .

I. |when she walks, Dr, Krogman, professor of anatomy and physical

LOCAL TEMPERATURES anthropology at

a.m .. 5 10 a. m. ..: 51 (the University of Chicago, already 73m 50 11 a. m. ... 54 [has classified the average man as a 8am. ... 51 12 (Noon) .. 56 |skinny, balding, half-toothless in9am 51 1-p.om. ... 87 ldividual. He believes Miss and Mr. —— mir mm | (("ontinued on Page 3—Column 6) Amus, 32-33 Edwin Lahey, 1! | Country Auction— Eddie Ash .. 35 D. Larsen .. 30 Business .... 16 Wm. McGaffin 7! ® The “carnival” spirit that Classified. 36-38 Ruth Millett 21 attends the auction sale of Comics .....:. 39! Movies .... 32-33 Crossword ... 33! Obituaries ... 4| a farmer's household effects Editorials .... 22| Dr. O'Brien , 21 and implements is caught Europe Today 22| Radio ....... 39 in today's “Camera CloseFashions... 28-29 Reflections 221 ups” yn | ‘, ips” by "Times Photographer Mrs, Ferguson 28: Mrs. Roosevelt 21! p y grap Forum ...... 22| Science ..... 21 Victor Peterson. G. 1. Rights. 15 Seiial ....... 15 e It's as fresh ax newMeta Given . 28 Sports: .,..-34-35 . { mown hay,

Burton Heath 21! Troop Arrivals 9 In Indpls. ... 2 Washington . 23. Inside Indpls. 21 Whmen's . 27-20

Jang Jordan. 30 World Affairs 23.

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Duke Nalon to Test 'Rocket Car

he will use on his speed test next Tuesday at the Speedway.

In this four-cylinder dirt-track cdr owned by Paul Weirick, Nalon |

Mrs. Duke Nalon, former New York model, is the business manager for her husband's rocket project.

CHICAGO, May 17.~The average | but the

. FRIDAY, MAY 17,

PARTY WON ‘TURN HEAT’ ON A FOLLETTE

Springer Acts Second Time To ‘Cool Off’ G. 0. P. Liquor Controversy.

By ROBERT BLOEM

Charles LaFollette, red - haired “radical” candidate for Republican | senatorial nomination, was assured | today that party Chairman Clark | Springer would not “turn on the heat” to oppose his senatorial bid. | It was Mr. Springer's second decisive move since Wednesday to cool off the intra-party controversy | raging about liquor, Mr. LaFollette and William E. Jenner, former state chairman. At the Wednésday reor- | ganization of the state committee, | the chairman said: bluntly liquor | was on its way out of politics and the divorce was due “soon.” { Hold Conference :

Today's statement was made to Mr. LaFollette in a 45-minute conference between G. O P. ing. Mr. mediately after the session: “I am taking Mr. Springer at his {word that he, himself, is not threat. {ening any retaliation against county chairmen

one of the 41-pound rockets that |

'as they please.” At the close of the conference. Mr. Springer, showed good-humored | reluctance to discuss the matter at first. “Charlie (LaFollette) and I are both in the green vegetable business,” he quipped, “and we were just discussing secréts of the trade.”

Confirms Statement | He confirmed the statement that

{he had assured he would not “turn! {on the heat” to block the LaFollette | ibid, and added: “I went further than that and {assurred him no Republican in In{diana will be fired because he is for for against some candidate. I will {not be placed. in the position of {using patronage or beer, either one {for punitive purposes.” “So long as I have anything to say, there will be only two reasons | for firing a Republican from his job lor office,” Mr. Springer said. “Those i reasons will be inefficiency or disloyalty to the Republican party. Mr. LaFollette, who has conduct- | ed a scalding campaign against} { what he has termed liquor-patron- | age pressure on county chairmen and delegates to the coming nomiI nating convention, said: Row With Jenner “My quarrel is still with Jenner and the allegiance which he is receiving from the county chairmen and their friends who received liquor licenses while he was state chairman, I still think he is at{tempting to convey the impression that these people must support

offs. He plans to release the rockets as he enters the straightaways, and he predicts he will get a 60-mile-an-hour boost in his speed.

The rockets are the product of him.” < the General Tire and Rubber Co.| A¢ the end of the conference, Mr and are constructed to last Just | gpringer reiterated his promise of while the car is in the straightaway. jjquor-politics divorcement, | Don't look for the rockets 10 be lined to discuss details of the prostandard equipment in racing com- ,equre he intends to use. petition, though. The exhaust lit- Since the present liquor laws are erally would leave other drivers in regarded generally as among the a fog. pest in the nation, however, it was speculated any steps taken to elim- { ' inate liquor-patronage “heat” would SEE POLE POSITION be administrative. | It was presumed eyentually an announcement would be made, SPEED AT 12 M. PH, either from Governor Gates’ office or the Alcoholic Beverages commis- | sion, that political control of license] Cars to Race Clock at applications no longer is Pyssible| and that the doors are being thrown i Speedway Tomorrow. open to any who can qualify under the law. By J. E. O'BRIEN ! mma Quick men in quick automobiles STUDY TIME RATING will race the clock tomorrow for| yapAy ETTE. Ind, May 17 (U. Speedway's most precious prelimi- p, _ Nearly 100 industrial engineers nary prize—the pole positiorf in the fron mid-western states today at30th annual 500-mile Memorial day (.ded the third annual motion and a be the first ¢Mcial 0 time study session at Purdue uni- , W e first official action i g y in' five years at the historic halo of VessiLy, Developments di ume Suds haste, and the drivers’ four-lap, I Lavin oe ey Yeo iscusse mile journeys for choice positions in the 33-car lineup is expected to entice some 20,000 speed-minded | spectators, | The automobile and driver clocked | Tel ls by the electric-eye timer at the | fastest speed for the 10-mile sprint will be awarded the No, 1 place in| BOSTON, May 17 (U. P.).—An 8the first row of the Memorial day year-old Roxbury, Mass, schoolboy

array, regardless of speeds achieved confessed today that he had pushed {bY latecomers on future qualifying a younger playmate to his death in | GAYS. The track will be opened for {rials {at 10 a, m, and will remain open until 5:30 p. m. Another period for | | qualifying will be allowed on Sunday between noon and 5:30 p. m., P and those eligible cars still not | Dermott told Police Capt. Edward

{qualified will have the opportunity | The body 0! 3-Yeal.old

a canal, He tearfully led police to

the stream where the victim's body was recovered from 15 feet of water. “We didn't have no fight. TI just ushed him in,” little George Mc-|

B. Cain.

(Continuo on Page 34—Column $) Boxury canal ot Massachusetts AWAIT NEW BOMBERS Johnny was one of two Massa-| WASHINGTON, May 17 (U. P.). chusetts boys who were objects of | A war department spokesman said \organized searches during the night. {today test models of two new [The other, | bombers the Northrup B-36 flying found alive and

wing and the Consolidated six- morning at Berlin, three miles from -| engine | "to the army ai forces this year,

B-38 should be delivered hie Northbore home.

Bauer In Nazi Spy Unit, Captured Records Show

the two men at} headquarters this morn-| LaFollette commented im- | -

| or holders of liquor li-| |censes who let their delegates vote!

but de-|

* Just Pushed Him In, Boy. 8, Tearfully

Johnny Harris was fished. out of the |

Robert Vickers, 5, was unharmed this! Roxbury juvenile court, probably to- Vickers.

| Capt. Cain sajd young McDermott, think any action will be taken wanderings.

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1946

ALLEGIANCE TO HITLER SWORN, U.S. CONTENDS

‘Government Offers Four | Witnesses Brought From Germany. BULLETIN

Shoulders back and heels clicking, a professional German army officer today demonstrated in federal court the procedure and oath by which officers are inducted into the German army. The witness, Col. Kurt Walter, was presented by justice Segattment attorneys, who | this | Emil fcan citi

mn 3 The ¢ Yr raded “expert” witnesses and 1 (sheaves of German army rec-

One of the justice department's imported ‘Ger- ; , ox the war department, was one of the government's | man witnesses, Paul Wiegand, confers with Robert lords in federal court in its

Philip Tucker, chief of intelligence control for !

I. Werner, government attorney at the Bauer |aitempts to prove ex- Ft, Hare

hearing. rison photographer Frederick Bauer had been a Nazi agent. Photostats of records salvaged by thé American army were displayed, showing Bauer had been inducted

witnesses as they continued a fight to deport Frederik Bauer today.

PSC REFEREES New Drive for Tesh: Age

into a Nazi counter-intelligence BANKING FIGHT Draft Is Started in Senate iu: 3, 3a, cote niigens ' Tucker, chief of intelligence control

By JOHN L. STEELE ‘ United Press Staff Correspondent for the U. §. war department, “spe-

WASHINGTON, May 17.—A new senate drive to draft teen-aged ¢lalizing in military intelligence of $30, 000, 000 Local Stocks boys was touched off today by President Truman's order for conscrip- oe. German er herd | tion of childless men 20 through 29 years of age. rom the records, Mr. Tucker de--And Bonds Involved. Senate Democratic Leader Alben W. Barkley (Ky) announced he duced that “a German soldier By RICI iD LEWIS will ask the senate to take up a teeri-age draft hill early next week, Named Frederick Bauer had been The Indiana Public Service com- The senate military affairs committee scheduled a meeting Tues- assigned first to a Nazi unit conmission found itself in the position | day to plan support for legislation y=" - — sisting of specially picked person.

| trained to take part in the n= , || authorizing conscription of the 18’ gm ne of referee today in a baitle roya and 19-year-olds, including 80,000 OTHMAN S TRAVELS | vasion. of England” « -

{ Baste | BOWER: powetiul Brows 9 SION | tudents already found ft for Pa Ci by i | Later, a, ricer wid, reading | Involved inthe battle 18 more| Service. arisian u Shefagidiernamedite

aan ty wag trhnsterrea to another ! super-special outfit “which would be trying to penetrate the intelligence

L Doviest ovey- ovies service of other nations to try to 4 WwW Id sabotage their activities.” “ Spoti in or Reads Nazi Oath 1

Another government witness, Dr. Henrich Kronstein of the justite department, also a professor at —~What is 800d Georgetown university, testified” #s expert on German law, “Pr. And if she says the Kronstein read an oath which fe the greatest declared was taken by Germans in» 1 ducted-into the Nazi army. The oath said: “I swear to Ged

Teen-agers were exempted from the draft in the recent stop-gap extension of selective service until July 1. The new proposals would Both utilities have sought to sell draft them after that date, and ie "| take the pressure off older men. their securities to Eastern invest- The senate previously has gor men bankine houses PEivate fie on record in favor of teen-age congotiation. This excludes a ) at the business by bankers in the Jenption for 2 iid time. The United Press Stall Correspondent

Middlewest. | President Truman, in a stinging PARIS, May 17. Probed by U. {rebuke to congress, late yesterday | enough for Marlene Dietrich is good an The whole struggle is veioe in- stepped up the maximum draft age enough for me. vestigated by the U. 8. department; from 26 to 29 in an effort to save Monseignor club is of justice as part of its three-year the “near wreckage” of the sélec- | night club in the world, who am f possible anti-trust law vio- | tive service system and make up to disagree? 4 | probe OL a manipula-. for ihe loos Of tiie toGli-agers. | It's the lovey-doviest place I ever 'this sacred oath. That I shall.gi*e

« Mr. Truman told a news confer- saw. If Marlene and her Jean |unconditional obedience toi: the Gabin want to hold hands there, I Fuehrer of the German Reich sand

(Continued on Page 3—Column 1) .... understand. the German people, Adolph (Hitler, sea After a couple of hours of it T also Supreme commander of the armed wanted a hand (my bride's hand) forces, and that I will stakeoamy it hold. : life ‘at any time for this oath.” e tell you about that Mon- The government contends Bauer SET FOR TOMORROW br on and we will see what SWore to that cath and forfeited it does to your blood pressure. his naturalized American citizen ship by doing so. Government attorneys this moe ing also filled a motion demanding revocation of Bauer's U. S., citizens ship, alleging he was repatriated as a German national in June, 1940, (The motion was admitted By “Fed The check room girls are beauties, ©78l Judge Walter Lindley * over daughter {marbles tournament will play at 9 in evening gowns. So is the lovely objections of Bauer's attorneys’ rat a. m. tomorrow to determine the _, places a silver bowl of red| their client had only “taker ‘steps Indianapolis champion. roses on your table when you sit to regain his German nationafity, leader and philanthropist, died to- = rhe finals will be run off at Wil- down. They said no actual proof of Ger= day at her home, 401 E. 55th st lard park, E. Washington and State! The walls are velvet the color of Man repatriation was on regord. Miss Taggart, a lifelong resident Sts. The ceiling is swirls Trained In Espionage . + of Indianapolis, was graduated First selections will be for four of the same, Bauer, who lived at 1533 Garyollfrom Vassar college. She was sectional title holders, The four will “8 n ton ave, while serving at Pt. Har« {president of the Indianapolis Vassar then play off for the championship EXACTLY 25 small tables line the rison as post photographer, admits {society and a member and former (tjtle, {three sides of the room. They are| he took training in German esploh|president of the Indianapolid, The Indianapolis champion will covered with crimson cloth. age methods but insists he did: so {Women's club. She was a lifelong go to Cleveland, O., with all ex-| In each table beneath the cloth only as a ruse to return to the Unite member of Meridian Street Meth- | penses paid by The Indianapolis' is an electric lamp. This is the] odist church. | Times, to compete in the national|only light in the room. Each lamp (Continued on “Page 3—Column 2) Miss Taggart is survived by two marbles tournament June 3 through |sends up a soft pink glow which sisters, Miss Gertrude Taggart and 7, A round of entertainment has/ makes a’feminine face above it look JAP WHO SLAPPED T0JO CALLED INSANE

than $30,000,000 in stocks and bonds issued by the Indianapolis Power & Light Co. and the Indianapolis Wafer Co.

By FREDERICK C. OTHMAN

[lation tions of the eastern bankers, The public service commission will decide®the winner when it ile: £ on whether the Indianapolis Wa can sell its securities Hs Water © or, " MARBLES FINALS like the light company, it must sell at competitive bidding. First round in the big, post-war financial fight was won last month |

a» (Continued on Page. 3—Column 1, 1S a tiny place in a marble 4 Times-City Recreation Title iis in Montmartre. i The head waiter looks like Don| At Stake. Ameche in a full dress suit, the district

Mona Tagan! Di H | gixt h fons. In other waiters are almost as imixteen § > champion! essive. ies at ome The Times-City Recreation division pre

Miss Mona L. Taggart, ‘of the late Alexander Taggart, civic

pine needles,

{Miss Lillian B. Taggart, and two been planned for the champion in/like, well, Dietrich’s.

| brothers,” Alexander 1. Taggart and the Ohio city. So you gaze at your girl friend Edward B. Taggart, all of Indian-| [The present Indianapolis cham- TOKYO, May 17 (U. P) 48h apolis. | pion, Kenneth Heath, who won last {Continued on Page 3—Column 7)| Okawa, held as a Japanese fou Services will be held at 11 a. m. year, lost out Wednesday in his rT criminal, who slapped. ex-Premier’

Monday at Flanner & Buchanan district playoff at Northeast commortuary with Dr. Logan Hall, pas- munity center. He won his Jeague, REVEAL YOUTH, 11, tor of the Meridian Street church, division but lost out for the dist 'oMciating. Burial will be in Crown title to Bob Schubnell, of School eH YHill. Kenneth also attends School 51.

Hideki Tojo's bald pate at’ opening of the war crimes was declared officially insane today

ARRESTED I I TIMES by examining doctors. The slender former officer of ¢he

south Manchurian Railway <: alleged to have perpetrated the Latest Court Aieirancs IS! Mukden incident, was said to be in.

he tertiary stage of peresis, allied On Car Stealing Charge. |peadcuarte " quarters announced. Police as Playmate, 5, Drowns : record of 11 arrests during the|,, “ype gonoye cabinet and the

Yosuke Matsuoka, foreign minister be- last six years was revealed today |. 0 ond absentee defendant in. the

McDermott boy in the case of a 17-year-old youth | was said tobe

Ia second-grade pupil, told this story: against the

“1 played hookey from school cause he apparently acted on im- held t { steal) trials, meanwhile, yesterday. Me rand my brother pulse—it was just a boyish prank. "¢ on x Nghe Of Sea us seven | “dangerously ill” with tuberculosis, Roy and Johnny Harris went to a [There was no intent to kill.” automobiles within a mon aa 3 LA

The prisoner was first arrested |

in June 1940, After a brief hear- | Popular Size Farm for Sale ing in juvenile court, he was re-| leased. . Records show: he was arrested {and released four more times during the next two years before he | was ordered to a clinic for mental|

vacant lot near Massachusetts ave.| pending court action young Met Johnny was standing near the edge 'npermott will be permitted to reof the water, I just pushed him p4in at home. in. I don't know why I did it. We = johnny had disappeared yesterdidn't have no fight. day whilé visiting his grandmother “After he was in the water I|/who lives near the spot where his grabbed a stick and tried to fish |phody was found.

With Immediate Possession

In fertile Montgomery County, convenient to Crawfordsville, and just a pleasant drive from Ine dianapolis.

Capt. Cain sald that when ques-| Charles Nelson, a Berlin house tioned, ‘Roy corroborated his broth- ‘painter, found the boy on the porch er's story. lof the D. 8. Lucler estate, ° The case will be presented 16" “I want my mummy,” said young |

|his being sentenced to the penal | | arm for six mfonths. He was out. of the penal farm only a few weeks when arrested

morrow, Capt, Cain said. | Except for scralches on his legs, this time on vehicle-taking charges. |

“However,” he Added, “I don't the boy was none the worse for his He will be sent to criminal Solr) {for tial instead of Juvenile court.

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