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RACE PROTEST BY JACKSON IS BEING CHECKED

Study of Official Record for ‘B00’ Necessary, Says Chief Steward.

Members of the American Automobile association technical committee and scoring and timing officials today were checking the merits of a protest filed by Jimmy Jackson, second-place finisher in the 500-mile race. J. H. Mehan, chief steward, said that checking the official ticker tape for the race was a “four or fivehour job” and this would be necessary before it is possible to determine whether or not there was “any meat in Jackson's protest.”

Violation Alleged

Meanwhile, The Times learned that Jackson had complained that the winner, George ‘Robson, remained in his car at the pits. during a refueling stop. This was said to be contrary to A.A. A. regulations. Joel Thorne, owner of the race car Robson drove to victory, stated | this morning that he did not know | of any protest being lodged by Jackson. “If a protest has been made, we'll thrash it out today at the Speedway,” he said. Referring to Jackson as a guy,” Mr. Thorne added: “I think somebody is putting bugs in his (Jackson's) ears.”

“swell

TOJO SELECTS COUNSEL

TOKYO, May 31 (U. P.).—Former| Premier Hideki Tojo has selected John W. Guider, Washington, D. C,, as his defense attorney in the forthcoming mass far criminal trial, it was announced today. Mr. Guider formerly was chief counsel for a large portion of the American bituminous coal industry.

STETTINIUS 1S TRYING TO QUIT

Truman; Asked to Stay.

WASHINGTON, May 31 (U.P) — President Truman said today that Edward R. Stettinius Jr. had submitted his resignation as U. 8S. representative on the United Nations security council but that the President is trying to persuade him to remain on the job. Mr. Truman said at his news conference that Mr. Stettinius sent a letter of resignation to the White House two or three days ago. The President has not yet answered it. Mr. Truman said both he and Secretary of State James F. Byrnes wanted Mr. Stettinius to stay. The President added that Mr. Stettinius’ desire to resign had been a surprise to him. Thinks Job Completed The President said he thought Mr. Stettinlus would stay on the U. N. job. Mr, Stettinius told Mr. Truman In his letter of resignation that he thought the original job he assumed on United Nations—to stay with it until the organization was well under way—was completed. Mr. Truman said he would not act upon Mr, Stettinius’ resignation until he had sent him a letter

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CHICAGO BREWERS FACE INDICTMENTS

CHICAGO, Il, May 31 (U. P).~—|_

A federal grand jury investigating beer black market operations, extending into southeastern and southwestern states today indicted four Chicago area breweries and distributors and nine individuals. They were charged with over ceiling sales of $342,500 worth of beer in the past two years.

EXPLOSION IN OHIO ARSENAL INJURES 5

RAVENNA, O., May 31 (U, PO} «An explosion at the Ravenna arsenal’s renovation division today sent. five oivilian workers to a hospital, two with critical injuries. The accident occurred while the men were working with deteriorated ammunition: Cause of the explo

Names of the people hurt were

not released pending notification .of the nearest of kin,

TIMES INDEX

Europe Today 18 Mrs. Roosevelt 17

Inside Indpls.. 17 | Washington .. 18 Jane Jordan., 20 | Women's 20-22

FORECAST: Showers and thunderstorins this afternoon, ‘tonight and tomorrow; much cooler tomorrow.

VOLUME 57—NUMBER 70

miles an hour.

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Mrs. George Robson and her hero husband . . . they just couldn’t believe it.

'500' Winner Ran Car in Ditch LOW COST SHOES Driving Too Fast on Wey Here RAISED IN PRICE

(Details of Race, Page 24; Other Photo, Page 17)

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By DICK BERRY

Driving to Indianapolis from Los Angeles, George Robson ran his Mercury into a ditch, He said he was traveling too fast at the time—T70/

Yesterday, the same George Robson entered motor racing's hall of!

fame by wheeling his Thorne Special around the Speedway for 500 miles —OPA at better than 114 m.p. h. to win the classic whirl

OWA TOWNS ©

HIT BY TORNADO

Damage Million in Creston.

Born in England, the new speed

champ shuttled back and forth be-| tween there and Canada for many years before finally settling in Maywood, Cal, a suburb of Los Angeles.

25 before coming to Indianapfor this year’s spin, George and

| is brother, Hal (also a race conIs Estimated at testant, but eliminated by motor trouble), in California. A machinist trade, George, 37, says he's in the

‘sold their machine shop by

CRESTON; Ia, May 31 (U. P.).—{racing business to stay now.

City officials said today that a 20-

He entered the business by acci-

| prices

FRIDAY, MAY 31,

‘OPA Allows. | dias Jn crease of 10-15%.

WASHINGTON, May 31 (U. PJ). today increased ° ceiling on standard low-priced shoes 10 to 15 per cent to spur production. The order takes effect immediately at both. manufacturer and consumer levels. It is expecte” to affect one-fourth of the present shoe production. Examples of the retail price inorease: Men's and women's shoes which sold for $4.30 in 1942 will cost from $4.75 to $4.95; children’s shoes that sold for $250 in 1942 will cost from $2.75 to $2.85. Shoes selling at the higher prices

1946

WORKER SLAIN AT NIGHT CLUB, YOUTH SEIZED

Doorman Is Found Dying of Knife Wounds After He Captures Prowler.

While dancers swayed to the rhythm of hit tunes only a few yards away, Earl FP. Hinds, 28, of

1429 Carrollton ave. lay dying In a pool of blood, the victim of knife (Photos, Page 2) } wounds at Terrace “Beach in | venswood early today. A few minutes after deputy sher-|

ifs arrived he was dead. Charles N. Elliott, 18, son of wy and Mrs. William Elliott, 2210 KE | 75th st. was arrested at his home| half an hour later and held under | a $10,000 bond as a suspect in the killing.

Knife Found

A blood-stained folding knife with} a sharp, five-inch blade was tound | today by deputy sheriffs a few yards| from the scene of the killing. Virgil Quinn, chief deputy sherifr said Elliott has confessed the stab-| bing although no signed statement had been obtained from him. Robert Cruse, manager of the Wharf House, Ravenswood night! club, said shortly after midnight | one of the musicians reported N man was “acting suspiciously” outside the window of the club. Chases Prowler

Mr. Cruse said he went to m vestigate and found a man prowling around parked cars and ac-| | costed him. The prowler, he said, him on the head with a Se ' lL. “1 struck him in the face With! my fist and he ran toward the! beach,” Mr. Cruse said. At that time, Mr. Hinds, doorman at the Wharf House, left his post and ran after the fleeing assailant, capturing him at the beach. Mr. Cruse said Mr. Hinds held the prisoner while he telephoned the sheriff's office. When Mr. Cruse and others returned Mr, Hinds was lying on the ground bleeding profusely and his prisoner was gone. Stabbed in Two Places He had been stabbed in the stomach and in the throat.

From a description of the assailant given by Mr. Cruse deputy sher-|

{ must be similar to the 1942 models

minute tornado that swept through dent back in 1930, when a call jp style and ruggedness.

$1,000,000 damage

town of 8500 population, leaving in its wake at least 100 Samad houses, streets filled with rubble, | and broken power, telephone and! telegraph lines. No fatalities were reported, oe several persons were injured. George Searle, advertising manager of the Creston News-Adver-tiser, flew -over the town immediately after the tornado subsided. “here was rubble in practically every street’ in this town,” Mr. Searle said. Church steeples and the tower of | the Union county courthouse were demolished, he said. Twenty-four freight cars on the Burlington system tracks were overturned. Mr. Searle said hailstones one and half inches in diameter, caused considerable damage to corn fields near the city.

ARKANSAS CITY, Kas, May 31 (U. P.)~—Extensive property damage was caused yesterday by a light tornado that ripped through the south side of Arkansas City. Several buildings were damaged by. the twister, but no deaths or injuries were reported. Deputy Sheriff Hugh Killblane said the tornado was one of two observed within a few minutes. The

second moved north without touching earth here.

COSHOCTON, O., May 31 (U, P.). —Marshall Jacobs, 35, who won fame by outclimbing a “human fly,” idled away the time today atop a 176-foot flagpole where he vowed to perch until July 4. Jacobs, first postwar sitter to seek new endurance laurels, hoisted himself atop the flagpole on the Coshocton fairground yesterday. His parents said he had been training for the contest since he was 2. The beginning of the 35-day sit was marked by ceremonies including a speech by Mayor William E. Martin who thanked Mr. Jacobs for bringing Coshocton “nation-wide recognition.” Everybody wished “him Juek but the telephone company, which. refused him a phone.

Charles Lucey 6 World Affairs 18

Creston yesterday caused at least! was issued for stock car drivers at! la county fair. The tornado skipped through this driving on dirt tracks ever since, |

George has been

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CHILDREN CONTEST CARL MOTE'S WILL

Question ‘Legal Entity’ of! Beneficiary.

Children of the late Carl H. Mote, Indiana telephone executive and politico-publisher, today contested their father's will in a petition filed in probate court. The children, Carl Mote Jr. of Indianapolis, and Martha. ~nd David Mote of Cold Springs, Ky. allege thefr' father was “under undue influence” when he executed the will. Mr. Mote was publisher of “America Preferred.” He once was affiliated with Gerald L. K. Smith's America First party. He left three-fifths of his estate in trust to be used to “revive, restore and perpetuate the American way of life as bequeathed to my generation by George Washing-

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Sitter on 175-Foot Flagpole Vows to Stay Aloft 35 Days

a 16-inch square wooden swing. A loudspeaker permits him to talk to the crowds he hopes will flock to Coshocton to see him. His meals and a daily newspaper will be delivered by elevator. A small radio will help while away the time. His only other equipment included a tiny septic tank and a cellophane sack to protect him from the weather, Mr. Jacobs previously won fame by “out-flying a human fly.” That

OPA admitted that low-priced), shoes—particularly for. women—| largely disappeared from the mar-| ket during the war. Many * manufacturers dropped low-priced shoe . lines during the war. By restyling their footwear, | they received higher ceiling prices | trom OPA because of increased costs. Rationing of shoes also drove manufacturers out of the lower | priced lines as consumers limited their purchases generally to qual-|u ity footwear. ' Since shoe rationing ended last year, however, the demand for lowPriced leather shoe leather shoes has In has increased.

IN BUILDING HERE

CPA Okays Construction And Remodeling.

The Office of Civilian Production Administration here today announced the granting of approval for construction of new buildings and remodeling of others totaling $387,500, A $47,500 building will be erected at 1212 N. Pennsylvania st. principally for doctors and dentists, Co-

| owner Jacob Zier, 4031 College ave.,

said. Veterans will receive priority

{for space in the one-story building.

Approval also was given the Capitol Packing Co., 801 Kentucky ave. for remodeling to the: extent of| $130,000. Others—giventhe-go-ahead—sign include the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co., 59 8. State ave, $150,000, and the Newspaper Boys of America, Inc., Wulsin Rulsin buileing, $60,000.

FAMOUS DIAMOND

HAVANA, May 31 Cuban secret service department announced officially today that Herman Gerstel had been arrested in connection with the theft of the

was in 1926 when “the fly,” with great fanfare, climbed the side of| the county court house. ‘Halfway up, he was halted by]

} architecturalsobstruction. Mr. Jacobs

immediately took off his shoes and climbed around him to the top of the structure to show “how the

Mr. Jagobs will do his sitting en

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bulding should he clumb.”

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Capitolio diamond from the floor of the national capitol. | Police found four small stones in |Herman's house which were believed to have been cut from the large diamond. The diamond was stolen several weeks ago from its glass encasement in the floor of the capitol

{and hands covered with blood.

APPROVE $387,500

IS FEARED CUT UP

(U. P.).—The|

iffs identified him as a youth who) lived in the neighborhood. Officers said they found Elliott at his home|

in an alcoholic stupor, his clothes! since Wednesday, was expected to lin would be held at some | be only temporary.

Funeral in Bloomington Mr. Hinds is survived by a divorced wife, Mrs, Pauline Hinds, | and a son, James, now living in| Morroco, Ind.; a cousin, Mrs, Pauline Faulkner, 5170 Ralston dr. and| a grandmother, Mrs. Mary Hinds of | Bloomington. Mr. Hinds lived in Bloomington | until he came to Indianapolis in 1935. The body will be taken to Bloomington tomorrow for funeral and jana, ‘

JAMES ES ROOSEVELT IN MINOR OPERATION

HOLLYWOOD, May 31 (U. P.).— | James Roosevelt, eldest son of the | 1ate President, was pronounced “getting along nicely” today after a minor operation. His wife, the former Romelle Schnejder, said he should be out of St. Vincent's hospital in a few days. She did not disclose the nature of the operation, performed Wednesday.

OCCUPATION COMPLETED | ,KURE, Japan; May 31 (U. Po) .— The British commonwealth octapn| tion force in Japan was completed today with the arrival of an In-| dian brigade of the British-Indian division.

CHESTERTON, Ind., May 31 (U. P.) —Residents of this northern Indiana community today had just about decided that the “strange, eerie lights” visible in the sky for three straight nights were caused by a man-made searchlight. “I saw two brilliant shafts of light high in the sky,” said Mrs. Audrey Gillette, an employee of the weekly Chesterton Tribune. “Unless they're connected with the heavens, they must be searchlights for they circle around real fast, disappear and then flash back.” Cleon Trowe, another resident of the town, sald he didn't believe the lights were “supernatural?” “I think they are searchligi.is,

Entered as Second-Ulass Matter at Postoffice Indianapolis, Ind. Issued daily except Bunday

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PRICE FIVE CENTS

Sheriff Otto Petit.

ummm Sheriff Petit Is Dead After Long

. Death olimaxed ; a long Police « career.

HOOSIER MINERS Stalin Visit to RETURN 10 JOBS U.S.Prevente

Local Gas Utility Still Short On Fuel. (Story.on Strikes, Page 2)

Indiana coal —— in scattered’ sections of the stale started buck to work today

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By Ill Healt

WASHINGTON, May 31 (U.P)— President Truman disclosed today that within the last 30 days he had

lines:

mediately.

VETERAN LAW OFFICER ONCE WALKED BEAT

Coroner Will Serve Until County Commissioners Name Successor.

Marjon County Sheriff Otto Petit died at 10:18 a. m. today at Methodist hospital following ‘an illness of several months. He was 57. County Coroner Roy B. Storms assumes the office of sheriff me He is empowered to serve until county commissioners

| appoint a replacement, pending

{election of a sheriff in November. - Sheriff Petit entered the shortly after he was defeated in his bid for the G. O. P. county treass urer nomination in the May primary, Ly Widely-known here, he had many personal political followers and played an important role in the re-cently-established Republican Citizens committee, anti-organiza-tion G. O. P. faction. Former Policeman Before campaigning for public obs fice in 1942, Mr. Petit had been on the Indianapolis police force for 21 years, resigning as a lieutenant. J He was president of the Indiana Sheriff's association and a member of the Praternal Order of Police and the Cosmopolitan club. & The sheriff died of a blood dis~ Sartunse called “acute blood dys asia,” it was learned. The ail« oo. it is a t was | but Sheriff Petit is said not to have been aware of this before the past few days. Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Margaret Scribner Tn; bi g co :

| visit Washington, but that Stalin declined because of poor health. Mr. Truman told his news con-

As operators pre- ference that he had not proposed Sieteq full scale operations by Mon-'a formal Big Three meeting, but | 9:30 a. m. Monday in Kirby's mor-

had simply invited Stalin here for

“The brightened state coal picture, what he described as a social visit. however, will not benefit the Citi-

zens Gas & Coke utility which has come to Washington for the

Mr. Truman invited Stalin to}

reduced industrial users to 24 hours| Three meeting last year but it was

service a week because of low coall held at Potsdam instead. | ‘The President said that on both | Republican organization in the May,

piles.

The local utility gets its fuel from | occasions, Stalin told him his doe- ‘ West. Virginia where the solid fuels|tors did not think he was well Fr and took office in Janu-

administration has placed a freeze enough to make

such a long

order on the shipment of coal un-| journey.

til mine operations resume. Sulphur and ash content of Indiana coal is too great for the utility's purposes. ‘Position Bright’ The West Virginia order,

C. J. Hanley of Coal Trades as-|

Asked if he planned any meeting | elsewhere with Stalin, the Presi-| dent said not in the immediate fu- | ture. He then was asked if this

in effect meant that a conference with Sta-

time in the more or less distant future, Mr, Truman replied that it did

sociation, Terre Haute, said nearly| Not, that his statement meant only |

all strip mines in Indiana were being worked today and half normal crews were at work in five dee pit mines. “The situation is very bright, The | miners are coming back to work! sooner than we expetced,” he said. Robert E. Gray, solid fuels area| administrator here, predicted full production by Monday.

RAINCOAT WEATHER TO CONTINUE HERE

Cool forecast for Indianapolis lomortow. It will remain cool Sunday, be-| coming warmer again Monday and

Tuesday, the weather bureau said.

The temperature will drop again Wednesday. The mercury will remain about degrees above normal in the northern part of the state. Showers are forecast for ‘the Ohio river region for tomorrow and for the rest of the state again Mon{day or Tuesday. Present indications are that 1 to 2 inches of rain will~fall,

LOCAL TEMPERATURES 6am ...62 10a m 3 7am ,..65 11 a m. 70 Sam ... 60 12 (moon) 70 LS mm ovo oR we T

Strange, Eerie Lights in Sky Baffle Chesterton Residents

They may be anti-aircraft lights In Chicago, however.” All who witnessed the spectacle said the two streaks of light were visible only in the upper parts of the sky. Mr. Trowe said he believed clouds hid them from view below, Chesterton, a town of some 2500 inhabitants, is only 50 miles from Chicago and a few miles from Lake Michigan, located at the entrance to Dune state park, “They aren't coming from over the lake, * said Mrs. Gillette, and our airport, six miles away, only has one beacon. They don't look like airplane lights to me anyway.” Mr, Trowe said residents of the town had noticed the lights every

Probably somewhere around Gery.!

night since Tuesday. - &

weather and showers are}

| time

what he said. He emphasized that he had not

p proposed another meeting of the |

Big Three. | Stalin's health has long been | | topic of conversation in diplomatic circles. President Truman's state-| ment was the first official word that the Soviet leader's physical condi | tion Hus not been good.”

MARITIME. OUTLOOK DARK, TRUMAN SAYS

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'and a sister, Mrs. Carrie McClellan. "Funeral Monday

| Puneral services will be held at

tuary and at 10 a. m. in St. John's church. Interment will follow in Calvary cemetery. The body will lie

Big at Kirby's mortuary.

He was first nominated for sher~ | iff over the opposition of the county

, primary. He was elected in

ary, 1943. In 1044, he was renominated as a | Republican organization candidate and won the general election over Lewis (Cap) Johnson, Democrat, Once ‘Pounded’ Beat During his service on the police force, he “pounded” wa district beat for three years, then was promoted to motor-police and assigned to the old substation 1 at 24th st. and Ash~ land ave, Later, he was transferred to substation 3 at Indiana ave. and Michigan st., where he was posted for six years. He later earned a sergeancy through a merit examination taken during the administration of former | Chief Claude Worley. He was subsequently promoted to | leutenant by former Chief Jerry Kinney and was assigned af an | emergency squad lieutenant. Set Radio Technique ng Mayor Sullivan's first ad ng Ma Chief Kinney advanced him to a captaincy. In Jan-

| uary, 1939, ex~Chief Michael Mor«

f |rissey reduced Mr,

Navy to Move ir in if Strike! Is Called June 15.

WASHINGTON, May 31 (U. P.). ~President Truman told reporters today that all facilities of the navy, the coast guard and the war shipping administration will be used to keep the U. S. maritime marine operating if a strike is called for June 15, Mr, Truman admitted the marisituation looked dark at present. He said the government is taking every necessary preparation to be sure that the ships would continue operating. At the same time, the President reiterated his whole-hearted support for the emergency labor legislation he requested of congress last week at the height of the rail-road-and-coal crises Mr. Truman said he thought the so-called draft provisions of his emergency legislation had been misrepresented and misinterpreted. He said it has long been the custom of this country, even on a county level of government, for sheriffs to deputize citizens in the event of a civil emergency, This, the President said, was what he had wanted—the authority not to draft labor, but to deputize civilian experts to cope with the current crises.

OPA STAND WASHINGTON, May 31 (U. P.). ~~Chifrman Robert F. Wagner (D. N, Y.) of the senate banking com-

FIR IRM ON

mittee today failed to get the dom-

mittee to reverse its vote to lift price controls on meat and dairy, Products June a

Petit to desk | Continued on “Page 3—Column 4)

ALTER PARADE FOR

CRIPPLED CHILDREN

BUFFALO, N. Y, May 31 (U, P). The city’s Memorial day parade turned a half block from where 60 excited children in wheelchairs or with their legs in heavy crowded near the windows of the Crippled Children's Guild. “Can't you get them to go past so the children can see?” 4 woman spectator said to Patrolman Cor nelius Reilly. Patrolman Reilly cleared trafie from the block, and Police Capt. Raymond Smith’ stopped the parade. Then for the next half hour flags waved ‘and 9000 uniformed marche $i pardaded pas. hs Guild. build... ng.

Out Where Taxes Are Low And the Cool Breezes Blow yet just a short drive to downe

town Indianapolis is ern bungalow with

space for a large truck ,

and chicken park . ,