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FORECAST: Fair and warmer tonight; increasing cloudiness tomorrow, with showers in the late afternoon ‘or early evening.
MYSTERY AUTO BLOOD HUMAN, TESTS REVEAL
Police Check Clues Found At Rensselaer in Car of Missing Veteran.
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RENSSELAER, Ind, May 22 (U. P.) —~Laboratory technicians identified today as human the samples of blood and part of brain tissue taken yesterday from an automobile in which Charles Fodor Jr., 21, Chicago, disappeared’ last Sunday night. Capt. Robert O'Neal, Indiana state police detective, said technician Robert Borkenstein completed laboratory tests which showed the blood was human, and that fragments of bone and tissue found in the blood-spattered car were from a human skull and brain. Meanwhile, Jasper county and state police combed a sparsely populated area around Rensselaer in search of a body. They believed that Mr. Fodor, a war veteran and church official, might have been the victim of a “hitch-hiking” slaying. Check Chicago Angles —Chicago—police—entered—the investigation, checking - with Mr. Fodor's mother, Emma, and his Chicago acquaintances in an effort to learn more about his activities| Ahe day he disappeared. “The automobile was found in a tourist camp. Sheriff Vern Michal said a blood-soaked overcoat, covering the blood and tissue on the automobile seat, was identified by Mrs. Fodor. Mr, Fodor, a veteran of 26 months service in the Pacific, last was seen alive by his family Sunday affernoon, when he left their Chicago home to drive to a church youth organization meeting at South Bend, Ind. He was auditor of the West Side Hungarian Reformed church, Chicago. Report Seeing Two Men Mrs. Fodor reported his disappearance when he failed to return the following day. Sheriff Michal investigated the case after a neighbor reported seeing two men leave the car in a tourist camp near the city limits.
Mr. Fodor's coat had been thrown)...
over bloodstains on the front seat of the car in an effort to hide them. A bullet was lodged in the roof near the sun visor. Sheriff Michal speculated that if there had been a slaying, the men might have “dumped” the body and driven the car to the tourist camp where it was found. He said there was no apparent motive except robbery, perhaps by hitch-hikers.
OPA RAISE SEEN FOR LOW-PRICED SHOES
WASHINGTON, May 22 (U. P). -—OPA {is planning a price increase of about 10 per cent in standardtype, low-priced shoes for men, women, and children, it was learned today. The increase, expected to go into effect about June 1, would be granted manufacturers, but, since there would be no dealer absorption, the entire increase will be passed on to consumers.
OPA hopes the proposed increase
will curb the diversion of materials into the manufacture of higher priced lines.
MARKET NEEDS TOLD AT FEED CONVENTION
Times Special FRENCH LICK, May 22—"If we are to have a wholesome agricultural economy either for -domestic or export needs, we must have free markets,” Samuel D. Jackson told the American Feed Manufacturers association here today. The governor of the Associated Commodity exchanges asserted that a free economy hinged on free commodity markets and called for less governmental restrictions,
SAYS MEDAL CHEAPENED HONOLULU, May 22 (U, P.).~— Former M, Sgt. Charles Avedon, ex-rthanaging editor of the midPacific edition of the Stars and Stripes, said today he had written Gen. Dwight D, Eisenhower declining the bronze star because “the medal has been so cheapened.” Sgt. Avedon is a former screenwriter in Hollywood.
CONSIDERATE THIEF NEW ROCHELLE, N, Y., May 22 (U. P.).—A very considerate thief, who. stole Arthur Horton's automobile in Mamaroneck and abandoned it in New Rochelle, sent him a telegram from New York telling him where he could find it.
TIMES INDEX
[sirrs owas) VOLUME 57—NUMBER 62 ‘Let Them Starve? I'll Tell About Bill’
-|shame the city chose asphalt sust| because it wanted to hurry it along|lis there's a quiet white-haired lady
{who shakes her head in gentle be-
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HITS SURFACING OF CAPITOL AVE,
Concrete Cheaper in Long Run, Says Murray.
By SHERLEY UHL Following an investigation, Frank| J. Murray, taxpayer representative,! today said he believed it would have | been advisable to repave Capitol ave. with concrete instead of blacktop. He said it would have been “cheaper in the long run” for the| city to pay the increased $10856 difference between the price on the current asphalt surface and the bid quoted on a concrete top. “We feel Capitol ave. will present
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years as it did before it was torn | up for resurfacing,” the executive secretary of the Indianapolis assessment and tax research bureau asserted.
Work Was ‘Hurried’
“I've studied the Capitol ave. project carefully, and it seems a|
to accommodate Speedway traffic.” His statement followed complaints |
isn’t firm enough to securely anchor starve” the new asphalt top. Critics also|ejoners?” accused the city of executing a “rush job” on the thoroughfare.
time limit in order to complete the officer, job before Speedway race day.
have been laid in that time.
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JUDGE FINES WOMAN x. FOR 33 DOGS, 4 CATS
Thirty-three dogs, four cats and two roomers are too many for one house, Judge John L. Niblack ruled in municpal court today. The judge leveled a $5 and costs fine against Maude Jackson, 1121 Fowler st, on a charge of having no dog license, and told her to get rid of her pets. The case had been postponed from May 3. At that time the animal population at the house was | reported as three cats and 15 dogs.
LOCAL TEMPERATURES
6am..... 53 10a.m...:. 65 Tam....5 lam... 68 [trols from $am.... 58 12 (Noon).. 68 Sa. m..... 61 1pm... 67 food.
William B. Rudy . . by the of his “enemies.”
from Capitol -ave. businessmen thay|¥Hderment when she hears the street's gravelled macadam base |now-frequent remarks of “Let ’em or “Why feed those for-
» ” MRS. 0. H. RUDY. 136 E. 44t and her son, former prisoner of war William B. Rudy, feel they owe a little group of “foreigners” small Yugoslavia town a debt so great they can't even think of it in terms of getting along with just one slice less bread or a little less food. Her son, who's in an army hospital learning to use an artificial leg, was shot down over Yugoslavia Aug. 17, 1944, and was a prisoner until November, 1945. During that time his life was saved and his lot
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Mrs, O. H. "Rudy Past wish they could . read these letters.”
. Saved
“charity and compassion”
the same washboard effect in a « Hero Found Kindness in
Enemy Land
By DONNA MIKELS OUT IN NORTHERN Indianapo- |
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“When I hear those things I wish I could tell them about Bill,” she'll In its contract with the Middle say, glancing fondly at a photoWestern Co., the city set a 40-day|graph of a smiling young air force “I ‘wish everyone ‘who reAlsents a small sacrifice could read concrete surface probably couldn't|these” pointing to three well-read Capi- | letters written
in dignified slant
land biblical language.
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LIFT SPINACH CONTROLS WASHINGTON, May 22 (U. P)). —OPA today removed price confrozen and canned spinach, except that used for baby
in a
WEDNESDAY, MAY 22, 1946
Entered as Second-Class Matter at Postoffce Indianapolis, Ind. Issued daily except Sunday
Miners Stopping Work Despite Seizure By U.S.
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Men in Pits Skeptical of Rocket Auto
By RICHARD LEWIS
Veteran mechanics at the dianapolis Motor Speedway's 2050+ |
line alley looked up from their engine parts today and predicted that the rocket assisted racing car, like the Wright Bros. airplane, isn't here to stay. “They'll never run one in competition at this track,” said Harry
| Bennett, assistant chief stewart of
the American Automobile Associa-|
tion. “Why you couldn't have a race with those things.” | The rocket-assisted car was dem- | onstrated yesterday afternoon at {the track by Duke Nalon of Beverly | | Hills, Cal, a veteran in gasoline| grind. It was the first rocket test Jot its kind ever made. There was some dispute as to|
| how fast Nolan traveled. The Duke
the field of 33 cars for the 30th 500-mile race are scheduled to continue today until 7:30 p. m. Five or six cars are expected to be ready for the four-lap speed tests,
| Qualification runs for places in | |
estimated 140 m. p. h. on his -sec-~ {ond demonstration. Some track | {observers doubted it. No one, as| far as can be determined, clocked him.
| The Duke attached two 41-pound |
{rockets to his Special and began easing the car
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JOIE CHITWOOD
Averages 119.816
|a Pennsylvania dirt track race last | Sunday, Joie Chitwood today came the tenth speed king to qualify for the 500-mile classic.
5 minutes and 00.46 seconds, Chitwood was credited with an official average of 119.816 miles per hour. The Cherokee Indian was at the wheel of the car which Floyd Davis and Mauri Rose drove to victory in the 1941 classic. It is a four-Noc-Out Hose an Offenhauser
cylinder
| Special, engined |
hi {creation which Lou Moore recently |
sold to Chitwood’'s backer, Fred | Peters, of Paterson, N. J.
Anxious to get under the wire
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WASHINGTON, May 22 (U, PJ.
international emergency food coun-Anglo-American-Canadian board.
17 nations invited to join the coun-
agriculture organization by a com-
with the global food crisis.
° PROBE 3E “FARCE
Miller-Offenhauser | The indictment followed an investi-
Eastern Dirt Track Victor
Fresh from a sweeping victory in allegedly were allowed
be-
U.S.. BRITAIN PROPOSE WORLD FOOD COUNCIL
—The United States, Britain and Canada today proposed a 20-nation
cil to replace the present combined| Russia and Argentina were - mong
cil. The recommendation was made | to the United Nations food and! TT TT
mittee on future machinery to deal
SHERIFF POSTS BOND, LABELS
Noblesville Official Says He Was ‘Prapositioned’; Blames Politics.
Times Special NOBLESVILLE, May 22. —After peeling off $5000 bond to stay out of his own jail, Hamilton County Sheriff George Michelfelder today termed the grand jury indictment against’ him a “political farce.”
The sheriff, his bride, and his housekeeper are charged with contributing to the delinquency of three farmers’ daughters by per- | mitting them to visit prisoners in | the county jail. A prisoner, Thomas igdon, 28, also faces a rape | charge. The 45-year-old sheriff said he | had been offered an: opportunity to resigh instead of having the ine | dictment returned against him, his | bride of a month, Mary, 40, and | Mrs. Bernice Maker, 30, a widow. He said he had been proposi- | tioned thusly “just before the grand | jury reported.” He refused to name | his propositioner “at this time.” Indictment Follows Probe “It's just a fight between the welfare board and the sheriff's of-} fice,” Sheriff Michelfelder drawled.
gation by the welfare board.
In a special report, the grand jury stated: “We found very lax| conditions regarding prisoners and visitors at the jail , terest of good government, we| {strongly urge the sheriff to resign.” Sheriff Michelfelder, was criticized for his chummy treat-
held i Rp during his fight for a retrial, said he definitely would not |resign. His second term ends next Jan. 1. He is a Republican, | The three girls, all 14 years old, to visit prisoners in their county jail cells] {each afternoon. The grand jury charged that the girls stopped by the jail on their way home from
with prisoners for several hours. Sheriff ‘Denies Guilt
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{0TH QUALIFIER :=5s is
title for Donald Yates of Mars Hill
‘The Champ' and Winning Marble
City Recreation division tournament,
SEEK T0 AVERT
BREAKDOWN IN COAL INDUSTRY
Report ‘Final Offer’ Made in Rail Dispute as New Deadline Nears.
By UNITED PRESS Coal miners’ traditional reluctance to work without a contract threat ened to block operation of coal mines under government seizure today. Meanwhile labor, manage ment and government officials ate tempted to avert a breakdown in the coal and rail transportation industries.
The government seized the coal flelds effective at one minute after midnight, under President Truman's order. But reports from major coal fields showed that in an increasing number of cases, miners were not at their jobs, A majority of Indiana's estimated 9000 members of the A. F. of L. United Mine Workers refused to work today, idling nearly all shaft mines and some strip mines in the state, 3 Union spokesmen said they had received no official notice of the government order to seize the coal mines.
Fear Walkouts to Spread
"Spokesmen believed the walkouts would spread to the strip mines
The lone marble shown here won the Indianapolis ‘championship ines have been in operation dur-
school in the finals of The Times-
wearing is the gift of The Indianapolis Times in recognition of the.
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SEEMS CERTAIN
OPA Reported "Ready . Recommend Boost.
An increase in the price of milk Indianapolis appeared
{in
nearer | Yates, Completing the 10-mile run in|high school, and frequently stayed |today with reports that the Cleve- | school, won the Indianapolis cham-
MILK PRICE HIKE Mears Hill Boy:
Wins Marbles
hampionship
By ART WRIGHT In a thrilling finish to The Times- | City Recreation division marbles tournament last night, Donald 13, of the Mars Hill county
land office of the OPA was pre-|pionship title.
pared to recommend a boost for
Rigdon, who is married and is|its entire region.
serving a vagrancy sentence, was {the only prisoner named In the |dictment. Judge Cassius M. Gen|try, however, said that ‘‘three or|
Clamp | four other prisoners might have Operative, Inc,
been involved.” The sheriff and his wife denied any guilt and said there had been | no rape. “I'll fight this to the supreme court,” Sheriff Michelfelder said. “There's nothing wrong with allowing visitors.” Under Indiana law, the sheriff must be arrested by the county coroner, Coroner C. M. Coaltrin arrested both the sheriff and his wife.
NAZI ‘PROTECTOR’
In a telephone conversation with
ins|the Cleveland office of OPA this Times.
morning, Carl Hedges, manager of the Indianapolis Dairymen's = Co- | was informed the | | recommendation would go to Wash- | ington Monday, Mr. Hedges said his Cleveland contact was “definite” |
He earned a gold watch and an all-expense trip to Cleveland, O.,
| both awards of The Indianapolis
At Cleveland, he will compete in the national marbles tournament June 3 through 7. Not until the last marble in the { four-hour playoft at Willard park was Donald certain of victory over Gordon Handlon, 14, of school 2 and
{in his statement the price hike | the South section winner.
would be recommended.
a price increase of one cent a quart to consumers and 45 cents a hundred pounds to producers. A special committee of producers, however, has applied pressure for a wholesale boost from $351 to $4.50 a hundred pounds which market experts believe would translate it- A self* into a rise of at least three cents a quart to local consumers.
OF GZEGHS HANGED
Prague Radio Flashes Word Of Frank Execution.
A blind woman who cooks for ill neighbors and telephones at least two shut-ins each day to offer words of encouragement is this week's selection of The Times Good Neighbor Committee. Even before she lost her sight some 20 years ago, Mrs. Rilla Reinken, 2404 N. LaSalle st., took an ac tive part in civic activities of the Brightwood community, according to the letter which resulted in her nomination for the singular honor, Mrs. Reinken will be a guest of the Edgewood Parent-Teacher as~ sociation and the Indianapolis Times with three other Good Neighbors during the benefit “Breakfast in Hollywood” program Saturday
school, 1406 E. Epler ave, Her Good Deeds Here, in part, are the neighborly
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Blind Woman Who Cheers Other Shut-Ins Selected as This Week's ‘Good Neighbor’
Current events learned from Braille magazine redding (as shown above) keep Mrs. Rilla Reinken—this week's Good Neighbor—abreast of
dally esirversations to cheer shut-ins of the: Bright-
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LONDON, May 22 (U. P.)—The Prague radio said Karl Hermann | Frank, Nazi “protector” of Bohemia‘Moravia during the occupation, was hanged today. The execution took place in,the| courtyard of Pankrac prison. Frank was cofivicted of wholesale atrocities, including the destruction of Lidice. The Czechoslovak radio in reports recorded here flashed the first word
by the people's court had been carried out. The court tumed down an appeal by Frank's counsel to let him live in prison to observe the effects of Nazi policies on Europe and write a book on the subject.
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that the death sentence given Frank) Session, 23, missing since late Mon-
There still was no indication as] to the exact increase to be recom- | mended by the Cleveland OPA, but | it was understood universities in| each of the five states it serves po | been asked to furnish data on effect of feed price Ci on the cost of milk production,
SEARCH UTAH HILLS | FOR LOST MOTHER|
OGDEN, Utah, May 22 (U, P.).Deputies and volunteers searched the Wasatch foothills today for a grief-stricken young mother, who wandered away from home after seeing her 6-year-old son killed in a fall down a mountainside. Police said pretty Mrs. Frances
day, apparently “started walking’ to. forget about the boy and just kept walking.” Airplanes joined hundreds of police, highway patrolmen, sheriff's deputies and Boy Scout patrols searching the mountain area. Police feared the young woman would die of exposure if she spent | another-night inthe open...
Earlier in the evening, Handlon
Mr. Hedges and other producer|defeated Yates two games out of representatives already have asked |three.
In the last three-game playoff Handlon won the first game, 7 marbles to 6, and Yates tied it up winning the “second game, 7 marbles to 2. Thirteen marbles were in the ring at the start and the first to knock out seven was game winner. Handlon got off to a good start in the third and deciding
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ENEMIES’ ACCUSED
BY HOLLINGSWORTH
Blames Primary Defeat on|
‘Foes of Economy.’
By NOBLE REED The defeat of Addison J. Parry, cdunty council president and Councilman George R. Hollingsworth in the May 7 primary election was maneuvered by foes of “our strict economy program,” Mr. Hollings-
-|worth charged in a statement to-
day. Both Mr. Parry and Mr. Hollingsworth lost their contests for renomination to the council on the Republican ticket. “It has been claimed we have been too ‘tight’ with .county spending,” Mr. Hollingsworth said. “Part of this claim is true. We have | been too ‘tight’ with those in-
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That watch “the champ” iw |
later today or tomorrow. Both type
ling the A. F. of L. “truce” period. | In. coal- fich Peunayivania, about
tions of government operation, Members of the United Mine Workers in southern Illinois like- | wise were staying home. All U M. W. Mines in the Herrin area, once a mine union battleground, were idle, State U. M. W, President Hugh White at West Frankfort said it was “up to the government to make the statements.” West Virginia production was checkered: Miners in the southern section seemed inclined to work une« til the strike truce expired at midnight Saturday and then do what they were told by their chieftain, John L. Lewis. No Public Statement
Mr, Lewis made no public state ment of his intention toward miners’ operations under government seizure. He met with Interior Seeretary J. A. Krug, who operates the mines under government seizure and is authorized to negotiate a new contract. Neither were there definite progress reports in efforts to stave off a walkout- scheduled for tomorrow on the nation’s government-seized railroads. Embargo orders on perishe ables were held ready. The rail« road trainmen’s and engineers’ union gave the carriers what they called a “final offer” to settle the wage dispute before a five-day truce expires tomorrow. Details of the offer were not dis closed by Trainmen President A. FP, Whitney. Nor would he say whether he and Engineers President Alvan ley Johnston definitely would break off negotiations again if the prope sition is rejected. Meanwhile, it was learned that union officials have been asked to
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‘I JUST KNOW IT— AND SHE WAS RIGHT,
GOSHEN, Ind., May 22 (U, P.) ~~ Mrs. Homer Bartow was convinced today that the selection of a hospital room plays an important role in the birth of a child. She had been assigned the same
‘had given birth to a son, When she was given a different room yesterday, she remarked, “I just know it will be a girl this time.” It was, 3
By JANE STAFFORD Seience Service Staff Writer DETROIT, May’ 22. — Lockjaw, which our grandmothers dreaded when someone stepped on a rusty nail or was pricked with a rusty pin or needle, soon may be con-
,| quered by an antibiotic drug of the
penicillin class. The cause of the deadly ailment was not the rust on the nail or pin, but a. poison produced by germs called tetanus bacilli. They are found in the soil in many regions and could get on nails or pins lying on the ground. wht wounds
Penicillin Drugs Soon May Conquer Once-
Dread Lockjaw
these germs.
today are protected against these germs by shots of tetanus toxoid, a substance made from the germ poison and treated so- it will not cause harm. but will stimulate body defenses against the germs. Now scientists have found that a
ganism will neutralize the poison of the tetanus bacillus. This discovery was announced by Dr. Bruno Puet-
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also likely to become infected with
Our troops and many children
chemical produced by a micro-or-|
Charming English Brick Located on Kessler Bivd.
Facilities for every comfort and convenience are combined in this attractive home situated in school 80 and Christ the King _ district ha