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FORECAST: Oumsional showers early tonight, followed by clearing and cooler weather.~ Tomorrow partly cloudy and ooler.

FRIDAY, MAY 24,

1946

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7 Seized in Raid on 'Social Club’

Photos by Vic Police charge J. E. Thornton,

plush Clermont gambling house which they raided last nigh’.

Troopers Robert Mason, Harry Lusk and E. E. Harris examine the roulette wheel which operators dismantled as the raid started.

(Other Photos, Page 3.)

Gambling | Suspects ‘Missing, State Police Are Puzzled

Seven men arrested when state elub” on the edge of Clermont las

of Hendricks county jail and released without bond. A hearing on the charges will be held today at a joint meeting of the Hendricks county sheriff and prosecutor and a state police repre-

sentative, at the prosecutor's office. of keeping a gaming house when some 15 troopers crashed into the Chesterton Social Club, Inc., shortly before midnight. Twenty-two fashionably dressed patrons, some from Indianapolis and others from Cincinnati and Louisville, were questioned and released. Three employees, said to | be kitchen and dining room work- | ers, also were released. Those arrested included J. E.

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HOPES FOR SUNNY .. WEEK-END MOUNT

LOCAL TEMPERATURES Sam ...67 0am... 0 Tam ...00:0am...7 Sam ,... 68 12 (neon)... 72 Sam, "1 lpm ..7n

Old Sol the last two days winked out of his inertness and somewhat reversed the prediction of weather experts for the week-end. The afore-promised cool weather apparently broken up by the sun's rays yesterday and Wednesday, we now have a promise of at least a warm Sunday. Showers today and tonight will produce lower temperatures which will remain slightly below normal

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Indianapolis resident, heade’. the

| Leading carriers spurted more

police raided sn exclusive “social t night were whisked in and out

The men were arrested on charges

LOCAL GHAMP LOSES SPELLING BEE FINAL

‘Mendacious’ Trips Bill Frazer in Washington.

By ART WRIGHT Times Staff Writer WASHINGTON, May 24-—A 10-

letter word eliminated Bill Frazer, Indianapolis champion, from the national spelling bee today after

an hour and 30 minutes of gruelling |

competition,

“Mendacious” was misspelled by

the John Strange pupil. it “mendatious.” Winner of the bee was John McKinney,

He spelled

championship has gone to Iowa.

Runner-up was Mary McCarthy, 13, of the Bronx, N. Y, Young Mctroublesome

Kinney “flaccid”

spelled the

after Miss McCarthy

missed it, then cinched his victory

tomorrow, giving way, i balmy weather on Sun Monday and Tuesday prod the threat of thunderstorms. amin] an inch of rain is predicted to fall in the next four days.

INDEX

Inside Indpls, 23 Jim Lucas .. 17 Ruth Millett. 23 Movies ...... 36 Obituaries .., 18 Dr. O’'Brien.. 15 J. E. O'Brien 38 P. ©. Othman 23 Radio ....... 43 Reflections *.. 24 Mrs. Roosevelt 23 Serial ....... 34 Sports .....37-39 State Deaths, 18, Troop Arrival 44s ‘Washington . 24 Women's ..28-30

TIMES

Amusements , 36 Aviation .,.. 23 Eddie Ash ... 38 Frank Aston. 8 Business ar. XT Jack Bell ... 23 Classified .40-42 Comics ...... 43 Crossword ... 17 Editorials «4 Europe Today 24 Fashions ..29-30 Mrs, Ferguson 28 Forum . 24 G1 Rights. 16 ; Meta Given . 20 " Home king. 29

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ATTEMPT TO DERAIL

“Tennessean” ‘here last night.

a spike” over the tracks in the path of the train en route from Washington to Memphis. Harkleroad said only the fact that the train passed over the spike at a slow speed “prevented a possible wreck.” “There is no way that it (the spike) could have gotten there accidently,” he said, The train wi

13, of Woodbine, Iowa, who correctly spelled the word “flaccid” after weathering 28 rounds. This was the fourth time the

FAST TRAIN -PROBED

BRISTOL, Tenn. May 24 (U, P). —Bristol police and railway special agents today investigated an apparent effort to disrupt service of the Southern railway streamliner

R. H. Harkleroad, Bristol - yardmaster, sald “someone had placed

CROWDS IAM BUS STATION N TRAFFIC PINCH

Fear Local Effect of Rail Strike May Become Serious Soon.

By ROBERT BLOEM Demand on bus facilities for

saturation point here today as the travelling public began to react to the pinch of the railroad strike, The dispatcher's office of the Pennsylvania Greyhound system reported that from a relatively quiet demand early ‘this morning, the number of persons seeking transportation out of the city had reached crushing proportions. Every vehicle in running condition was being pressed into service and second and third sections were being added to most runs, 30 Cents a Mile Taxicabs, too, were being used for long trips. The Red Cab Co. here reported 16 pay loads of passengers booked for Cincinnati at the out-of-town rate of 30 cents a mile, Meanwhile the Railway Express Agency here reported 540,000 pounds of express shipments stranded despc the fact that no packages were accepted after 4 p. m. yes-

NEW YORK, May 24 (U. P.. —Railroad shares advanced spire L itedly in the fourth hour of trading on the stock market today, lifting the whole list with them.

than three points from early Jans. Steels sattied.

Pray rie pied

Fibra: bie Farad Po dais goodie

Jocal business firms for storage or sale. Two carloads of small livestock, mostly poultry, were sold to dealers. Forty-five cases of highly perishable penicillin consigned to Wakeman hospital at Camp Atterbury were among the items stranded, but army officials were scheduled to pick them up here. At the Hawthorne rail yards, 10 tracks of idle railroad cars stretched {to the west as far as the eye could reach. One Train Goes Through By mid-mérning of the railroad strike's first day, a single Pennsylvania express train had passed through Union station since 7 p. m., yesterday. The train, manned by a non-union supervisory crew, pulled in from the east at 6:55 a. m, and was on its way to St. Louis a few minutes later, Effects which range from a serious possibility of food shortages to an awesome unemployment problem threatened the city. This was true despite the fact that, compared to other cities in the country, Indianapolis was “lucky.”

transportation mounted to near thej-

16 MENTAL PATIENTS ARE STRANDED HERE

Spend Night in Special Car On Railroad Siding.

Sixteen mental patients, includ-

Practically no effect was immediately visible with the nation-wide strike against the railroads less than 24 hours old, but economic ob-

pending on rail shipping for both incoming and outgoing shipments were in the most perilous position. On the food front, the city was

Rail Strike

Summary

By UNITED PRESS STRIKERS: The Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen and the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, with a combined membership of 250,000. NEGOTIATIONS: Meetings continued between the carriers, the striking brotherhoods, President)

tives of 18 other railway unions.

EFFECT Association of American Rallroads termed strike nearly 100 per cent effective, Milk, troop and hospital trains allowed to run A few trains operating with ald of supervisory personnel.

COST: Up to $25,780,000 daily revenue lost to railroads every day strike continues. Daily wage loss to striking workers, $435,000. Loss to industry, inestimable.

INVOLVED: All of the nation’s railroads with exception of 27 small switching lines and Illinois Central railroad, which has been under fed« eral operation since last fail; and one line in Maine.

ISSUES: Union seeking changes in 44 operating rules and wage increase above 16 cents recommended by Presidential fact-finding board.

- EMERGENCY STEPS: ODT took over control of ck, bus, airline and shipping facilities to assure

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being erated by an “improvi crews.

priony for } emergency eight,

servers forecast the city would not) have long to wait. Industries de-|

ing one six-month-old baby, en route from California to their home | states’ in the East, today were| stranded’ here by the train strike. | In a special Pullman car, they {had spent the night on a siding here and this morning were moved

to the Central hospital. The group was in charge of Dr

(Continued on Page 3—Column 2) | Theo Miller, superintendent of the Indianapolis to Chicago. . || Napa, Cal., state hospital;

Charles | |G. Winterbower, deportation super- | visor, California mental hygiene | department, and 10 attendants. | They left California last Sunday ls in a special train. Dr. Miller said it is customary to return transient mental patients to their home states. The group includes nine women, six men and the child. He said California officials ha al been assured the group would be

get. emergency transportation if the | strike materialized,

Truman's advisers and representa-|

2 WHO SHOT STATE TROOPER SENTENCED

COLUMBUS, Ind, May 24 (U,| P.) .—Willie Lee Hopkins, 29, and william Steele, 26, both of Gary, were sentenced to life imprisonment today after they plead guilty to charges growing out of the shooting of State Trooper Robert Bennet last February. The two Negroes will be turned over to Indiana authorities at the end of five-year federal prison terms which they are now serving for auto theft, Trooper Bennett was wounded seriously when he was shot {ive times after stopping a car on a highway near here for a routine traffic checkup. He was reported completely recovered but has not returned to his police duties. Steele and Hopkige were bfought

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en route to Wakeman General hospital, Camp Atterbury. cifically “Do not store over 50 degrees” Fahernheit,

Only thing moving on the Union station overhead this morning was a U. 8. army hospital and troop train, trailing steam in the background. Strikebound in massive silence is the N. X. C's elite “Knickerbocker” (Pullman cars in the middle of the picture). .

F. S. Widner, route agent for Railway Express agency, checks 45 cases of penicillin stalled here

On the cases are pasted labels stating speThe army will truck it to the hospital.

S. Industry Is Closing Down;

In Rail Strike

today called an extraordinary

a half this morning.

DETROIT, May 24 (U

rail strikes continue.

The nation was struck tod railroad walkout. they ever suffered.

meeting to analyze the strike. Negotiations between the

spread over the 227,000-mile the major developments:

Trains Due To Arrive

assenger trains which are still tentatively scheduled to run today

NEW YORK CENTRAL

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NO IMMEDIATE STATE /BROWNOUT’ IS SEEN

Coal Situation Not Serious!

PENNSYLVANIA New York to St. Louis | St. Louis to New York

MONON (Tentative) 4:00 p.m. (All trains are running off sched(now times listed are the time trains now are expected in Union Station. | The service is restricted to coach passengers. )

EMERGENCY TRUCKS HERE HAUL MAIL 0UT

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‘Going Through.’

Under a drastic nation-wide strike | | hands of municipal power utilities

{emergency ban today, the Indian-

Lapolis postoffice handled only first for at least 15 days.

class letters and postal cards. | Even first class mail must be lim{ited to one poun Meanwhile, the first emergeney mail truck left Indianapolis for Cincinnati at 6:30 a. m. today, loaded with first class mail “stranded” by the rail strike. % Other trucks, all of them privately owned and under contract to the Postoffice department, left shortly afterward for Lafayette, Kankakee, Ill, and other points. “The mail” said Postmaster Adolph Seidensticker, “is going through. It's too early to tell how all our plans for the rail emergency are going to work out, but there probably will be no serious delay in handling of first class mail.” Secor, third and fourth elass | matter already has been suspended on authority of the department in

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. {telephone check of the principal

treated as hospital cases and would |«Stranded’ 1st Class Matter, mediate

lof possible compulsory

(reported today.

Now, Utility Men Say.

Indiana does not face an immediate crisis in operation of utilities, despite warnings from Washington “brownout” in the midwest, utility spokesmen Sam Busby, secretary of the Public Service Commission, said a quick

power utilities in the state, both private and municipal, indicated no emergency steps were regarded necessary yet. In reports from the national capital, 21 midwest states and the District of Columbia were promised a compulsory “brownout” unless both railroads and coal mines are in full operation by Monday. Northern Indiana Public Service Co., hardest hit of the state's major private utilities during the re-

cent coal crisis, reported coal sup-|Mobilize Planes, Trucks, Ships. . 17 plies better ‘than they were two|Local Strike Photos .. core 23 weeks ago, Officials of the com-|Editorial . pany, Mr. Busby said, saw no imneed to reinstate the| other departures doubtful. Scout | erstwhile “brownout” of the 21/and California Limited due into | northern Indiana counties it serves. |Chicago from West Coast. No Average coal supplies in the|freight trains moving.

over the state appeared sufficient

With a “pretty drastic” order already prepared, the civilian production administration in Washington sat back to see what hap-

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Wallace: Truman

Will Run in 1948

NEW YORK, May 24 (U. P).— Secretary of Commerce Henry A.

railroad officials.

The flow of metal

be halted by nightfall.

week if the strike continues. - FIVE: Large cities such Pittsburgh suffered shortages

within a day or two. Railroad stations, the sc yesterday, were deserted toda

greatest rail center.

the Bangor & Aroostock, ove

At Philadelphia, however, lington, Chicago and St. Louis.

New York late today.

non-union or supervisory crew land to New -York morning | and afternoon trains. ied

to operate four trains out of Detroit, including New York-bound Empire State and Chicago-bound Mercury. . CHICAGO & EASTERN ILLI-| NOIS—No trains running. SANTA FE-—Streamliner Kansas Citian leaving Chicago for Texas,

MORE STRIKE NEWS

Page Fred Perkins Story .......... i The Basic Is8U8S .....cciv.sesniB Crack Trains Are ‘Hotels’. varie 3

PERE MARQUETTE-—No trains running. Assistant Postmaster General Gael Sullivan predicted the strike would result In “civil insurrection difficult

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RAIL TIEUP TO SHUT STUDEBAKER PLANT

SOUTH BEND, Ind., May 24 (UO. P.) ~The Studebaker an-

TWO: Steel mills banked | furnagc was reduced drastica THREE: Coal mines began closing again. {spokesmen said 90 per cent of bituminous production would

nounced today it would close its| -

Big Cities Face Food Shortage

Negotiations Are Resumed

as President

And Cabinet Study Crisis

BULLETINS ~ WASHINGTON, May 24 (U. P.)~President Truman

conference of high govern.

ment leaders “to canvass the whole strike situation.” The President summoned the secretaries of state, treasury, war, interior, labor, the attorney general and Acting Secretary of Navy John L. Sullivan. He also called Reconversion Director John W. Snyder, ODT Director J. Monroe "I" Johnson and John R. Steelman, assistant to the President who has been directing mediation of the railroad strike. Mr. Truman met with the full cabinet about an hour and

. P.).~President Charles E. Wilson of General Motors Corp, said today the company would have to shut down within two weeks if the coal and

By UNITED PRESS

ay by the full impact of the

It disrupted the lives of millions, threatened their food supply and dealt commerce and industry the severest blow

President Truman summoned his cabinet to a morning

striking rail unions and the

carriers were resumed at 11:30 a. m. (Indianapolis time) at the Statler hotel in Washington.

5 Major Developments As the most crippling strike in the nation's history

network of rails,- these were

ONE: Millions were stranded but some roads faiaged to run a few trains manned by supervisory employees ad.

most immediate} Industry

FOUR: Government authorities planned to impose 4 severe brownout on 21 Eastern and Midwestern states next

as Chicago, New York and of fresh foods and meat al-

most immediately with the prospect of almost none at all

ene of milling throngs late

y. At Chicago, trains stood in long rows in the silent sheds and yards of the nation’s

The only roads operating were the Illinois Central, which has been under government operation since last summer, and

r which trains still chugged

their way through 603 miles of Maine pétato fields. Maintain Limited Service

the Pennsylvania announced

t would maintain limited service between New York, Wash-

The Trailblazer to Chicago

and the Jeffersonian to St. Louis were scheduled to leave

A survey of other roads showed: NEW YORK CENTRAL-—Operating a few trains with

s. However, cancelled Cleve-

UNION, OPERATORS BEGIN NEW TALKS

U. S. Brings Parties Together for Conference.

BULLETIN WASHINGTON, May 24 (U. P.). —Senator” Harry F. Byrd (D. Va.) sald today that President Truman is giving “full consideration” to Senator Byrd's request that he appear before congress and ask additional powers to cope with the strike crisis. By CHARLES H. HERROLD United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, May 24.~The government brought railroad strike leaders and operators in new cons ferences today in a desperate effort

to halt the nation’s worst railroad = |

strike in history, The strike was nearly 100 per cent effective thmoughout the country. A few passenger trains ran, but

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plant at 1:30 p. m. Indianapolis

Wallace stated flatly last night that| time. today, idling 9000 workers, if President Truman will run for re-|the rallroad strike did nop end by

election in 1948. “And I am going to support him,”

that hour..

Officials said

a considerable

Mr. Wallace told reporters at La/amount ot eoapplics was in transit

Guardia fleld who asked

dential nomination, ¢ spoke |

Mr. Wa night at a Jewish community ‘meet- | tall

od Brooklyn.

bim if he|when would be a candidate for the presi-|pany,