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k, Dewey Brant., is reported in Long hospital. was driven by Milan, Tenn.

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today at $50,000 stroyed the two-

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109 Die In H THREE KILLED IN CRASHES ON INDIANA ROADS

Mishap at Ligonier Fatal to Two Ohioans; Spencer Woman Is Victim.

By UNITED PRESS Americans observed their first postwar Memorial day in pre-war style, The same old automobiles sped over the same old highways to bring a return of the peacetime automobile accident and death rate. At least 109 persons were killed in accidents yesterday, Of these, 44 were killed in traffic accidents; 34 were drowned; and 31 died from falls, fires and other miscellaneous causes. 4 The National Safety council had predicted 57 persons would be killed in automobile accidents. The council's figure included those who would die subsequently of injuries suffered on the holiday. :

Three in Indiana

Indiana state police . reported ree Indiana fatalities in holiday traffic accidents. John H. Sheats, 70, of Dayton 0. and Charles F. Sheats, also of Dayton, were killed yesterday afternoon when their car was hit by a freight train five miles north of Ligonier. Mrs. Emery Grey, Spencer, died in Monroe County hospital from injuries suffered in an auto-truck collision just south of her home. The greatest number of motorists since 1941 swarmed over the nation's highways to begin a fourday week-end of travel. The safety council said at least 320 persons would die in week-end traffic accidents. The peak is expected Sunday night. Many persons were injured in accidents. Thirty, many of them children, were injured when a zo00-

Dad's Spectacles Are Luck Charm

—Acme telephoto. Making her screen debut in International's “Bella Donna,” Gloria Lioyd, 22, daughter of Film Comedian Harold Lloyd, clutches her father’s famous spectables as a good luck charm,

'500' Winner Ran Car in Ditch Driving Too Fast on Way Here

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Still unused to being a public

and was entered in the race here | ReTO: he shies from crowds. When

bound Chicago streetcar crashed into the rear of another trolley. three years before it was suspended jaded wo Sen an gr wgtaph. be California reported the most fa- in 1941, es ys, ? , golly. tilities, with 11 killed—six in auto- Pirst thing he wants to buy with | Jud how he ae bug flectad mobile accidents. 'his winnings is a new racing car| physically, he sa ers Two freak accidents occurred in| . pic oun Says he will try for urt. : Los Angeles. {the national A.A.A. championship “What's wrong with them? a A woman was killed when shel his vear. d signed wo many Cp e spent the -

oliday Acci

* | Sheriff Petit was educated in the

SHERIFF PETIT DIES: RITES SET

Veteran Law Officer Had Been lll for Months. (Continued From Page One)

lieutenant in charge of radio broadcasting. He became the first police instructor in the present merit school and was instrumental in establish ing regulations for police radio techniques, later adopted throughout the nation, In the course of his career, Sheriff Petit ‘ developed a method of blocking highways and surrounding entire districts with radio cars in pursuing criminals. Born in Indianapolis Feb. 11, 1889,

public schools here.

HIROHITO VISITS CEN, WARTHUR

Political Significance Talk Discounted.

TOKYO, May 81 (U. P)—Emperor Hirohito visited Gen. Douglas MacArthur for 90 minutes today in the supreme commander’s American embassy residence for what the imperial household called “a very sincere talk.” Topics discussed by Gen. MaeArthur and Hirohito were not disclosed officially, but the food situation was among them. Sources close! to Gen. MacArthur said the topics | were not of especial importance. Both Japanese and headquarters sources tended to belittle the political importance of the visit, Hirohito’s second call on the supreme commander, His first visit was last September. There was no evidence to support speculation that the emperor discussed abdicating. Hirohito, wearing a light business suit, drove from the imperial palace to the embassy. He and his party, including his household minister,

Viscount Yoshitami Matsudaira, rode in two automobiles without guards.

The visit was more cordial than Hirohito's previous call, imperial

fell from a window while watching busses get under way following aj driving one car and coaching JOIN IN FIGHT ... |another ,.. when brother Hal was i

city transit strike. ; {in trouble, George nodded encourMan Electrocuted In ’ ] agement to him, When Hal's car A man was electrocuted when a broke down in, the 36th lap, George powerline, which had been snapped waved an “I'm.sorry” to his brother. Community Asks Council to Close Area. She was in- |

by an airplane, fell on his auto- Wanted Lots of Water

mobile George doesn’t smoke nor drink.

Leslie Ann Rose, 2, Detroit, al the first child fatality. He says the best thing about the

She died of a skull fracture in; the hospital where her brother had

CHINESE REPORTED IN HARBIN SUBURBS

NANKING, May 31 (U. P.).—

been born Friday. jured when her father, Edward 24] fell while carrying her downstairs. | joined more than 125 property ownA Chicago woman was killed ers living near'the “traditional cir-| when an automobile struck her cus lot” at Southeastern and Key- ! while she was sweeping leaves into stone aves. in appealing to the city the condition of his car. He bethe street. council to close the area. lieves that preservation of harmony At Wauwatosa, Wis, John J.| Mrs. Roy Reel, 2008 E. Maryland will make the car better in the long Dunn, 65, a Spanish-American war st, disclosed that her neighbors run. veteran, died of a heart attack were joining the other residents to| George entered the race with the during a Memorial day parade. | “present a stronger community ap- idea that an average speed of 115 peal.” | miles per hour would win. His fasti The residents from State ave. east | est lap was just under 120 miles per DYNAMITE USED 'to Rural st. and from Maryland st.! hour. , south to Prospect st. reported that| When told yesterday that Rex they must clean their streets and Mays would give him relief if he T0 TRAP BEAVER rovers after the circus and car- wanted it. George refused to quit, inival visits. said he believed he could make the William C. Rowell of South Bend, | “What further irritates us is the whole run. the only man in Indiana Who can uct that the street-cleaning de-| Throughout the race, the designer trap or kill beaver legally, said partment neglects our area’ said 8nd owner of his car, wealthy today he had used almost a ton of Walter Pence, 316 8. Hamilton ave. sportsman Joel Thorne, gave George : i instructions from his wheel chair in dynamite in the last seven months Charges Lack: of Cleaning the pits. to blast beaver dams. | He charged that the neighbor- | Infired I Year * Employed by the state depart-| 1,004 had not been cleaned singe | ai : ast ya ment of conservation, Mr. Rowell | gartember, 1945. Joel was seriously injured in a answers calls of Hoosier farmers| pp. pence and Harry C. Roberts, motorcycle crash last year in Caliwho find their fields covered With| 209 Southeastern ave, stated that fornia. He still wears his left leg water overnight as a result of NeW councilman A. Ross Manly would | In a steel brace. : dams built by the busy animals. | sponsor their petition Monday night | George was asked four times beMr. Rowell is on 24-hour call to, attempt to close the privately fore he agreed to drive the Thorne any part of the state to Answer | ouned lot. Mr. Manly was unavail- | Engineering special. _— complaints. He said there is no|.uie for comment. : | Modest and unassuming, he open season on beavers and he is Asserting that users of the] neither” dodges nor “Seeks publicity. the only man who legitimately an! ground were “under contract” to When told he was to have a suite work with basket trap and dyna-| jean the property after renting it, of rooms at one of Indianapolis’ mite to stifle the animals’ industry. |p, D. Gleason owner of the “circus! finer hotels, he¢ remarked, “We're The trapper does not destroy the i,t» saiq that the health depart- . beavers, he said, but transfers them ,...¢ approved the use of the land than one room. : to other sections of the state and| aie. the departure of Cole. Bros. A dyed - in - the - wool automobile nation. However, he admits 40 .;cys on May 6. He had previously his answer 10 3 query regard. were killed accidentally last year | tated that Sahara Grotto, sponsofs | \°8 his hobby was, “Isn't racing and the conservation department's os the recent World's Fair carnival, | SPOUSH? . fish and game division netted an!ywoulq “see that the land is cleaned.”| Mrs: Robson says he’s a family average of $28 a pelt. F Garden Syot (man. He's helpful around home, Greatest Indiana beaver popula- ormer (arden Spo but he'd rather putter around with tion is in the flat Kankakee ditch: Formerly used as garden tracts, motors. country of northwestern counties, the lot should be used to erect’ George stands 5 feet, 6 inches where the animal is hailed widely houses in the present housing-| tall, weighs 145. He has two conservationists and roundly | shortage crisis, the neighbors as- children, Beverly June 6, and cursed by farmers. | serted. | George William, 12. The beaver was introduced into| However, construction experts) When he has any spare time, he Indiana six years ago when 12 were | Stated that the area was unsuitable likes to play golf . . . he won't tell sent here from a western state. | for further housing development his score, says “Let's stick to i e—— —————————— because of the proximity of the!'racing.” FT WAYNE FIRM BUYS Prospect st. gas plant and the lack He can't quite get it through his . of drainage. head that he won the race. After 3-STORY BUILDING Housing FExpeditor Thomas R. he read the papers his first comTERRE HAUTE, Ind, May 31 Jaceby was in Chicago today con- ment was, “The boys had a hard ; | ferring - with the Federal Public grind.” — et a Housing authority on the housing- George says the Indianapolis race Insurance Co. Ft. Wayne, today location areas for Indianapolis, Tl o_touh N He Lucien to announced the company's purchase! 4 ac at 1t's no snap, r. of a three-story Terre Haute busi- DISCHARGE HOOSIER ness building. 'G. I.’S AT FT. SHERIDAN Previously owned by’ the .Charles COLUMBUS, O { Mitchell estate, the building has| , Si Oy May 31 40. P, been occupied for the last 34 years n Fmy-personnel-whose-homes-are n Indiana will be separated from!

by the 8. 8. Kresge Co. The Kresge py Sheridan, - Ill, following the The newspaper Hisinminpao said pa,

company’s lease was extended for 27) years. Purchase price of the building was not announced.

closing of the Camp Atterbury, Ind, today Nationalist troops had enseparation center, fifth service com-| tered the suburbs of Harbin. There {mand headquarters announced to-| was no official confirmation.

3 MORE WAR BRIDE a Atterbury was scheduleg to] T511S10aTs 178 miles northwest of ABIES STRICKE receive 11a last servicomen | for] > PAR. is the next objective of the B | separation on June 30. Soverniment troops, the paper said. NEW YORK, May 31 (U. P).—| Soldiers whose home are in Ono, | p Meanwhile ED oS fe Three war bride babies were in West Virginia and Kentucky will be| the United States is participating the Ft! Hamilton army hospital to- | separated at Ft. George G. Meade, | day with what was believed to be Md.

in civil war in China by transport > A Heli | ing troops, arms and ammunition epidemic diarrhea contrac ur- em ——————— for the Nationalists in Manchuria. ing the Atlantic crossing from | URGES LOAN TO BRITAIN ttt mp Southhampton. | WASHINGTON, May 31 (U. P). MOTORCYCLIST KILLED Four babies in. all were taken to —Retired Supreme Court Justice] Elbert D. Johnsott, 20, of Wash-

the hospital when the bride ship Owen J. Roberts said today “we can! ington, D. C,, was killed today when

‘ John FEriceson docked yesterday: not have world order or restore in- a motorcycle he was riding struck

ternational trade” without the pro- a tractor driven by Jessie Davies, | posed $3,750,000,000 loan to Britain. Tipton county. treasurer, west of Tetersburg. The body was sent to Young Funeral home in Tetersburg.

However, one baby was said to be ill with bronchitis. 5 One baby died aboard ship last | He testified before. the house bankSunday. i . ing committee, hey

Low Pk

jend of the race was the bottle of | ofarenewed Russian criticism of his milk his mechanics handed him. He}.

wanted two gallons of water, hel

re ; dst: today Said. He had one sip of water dur- tivity and the “h camCitiséns on E. Maryians = "ing each of his two stops at the pits. y nai

A skilled machinist himself, he|irg the Japanese people on friend- | never fusses with mechanics about| |y terms. Japanese Communists ad-

not big people, we don’t need more

in Japanese life. The Russian press has been condemning his ac~

paign in which he has been meet-

| vocate his abdication.

BELIEVES BIRD MAY HAVE CAUSED CRASH

While the 500-mile speed classic came to a climax yesterday afternoon, Mrs. Rudi Caracciola quietly sat at the bedside of her uncon{scious husband, the European racing champion who crashed Tues-

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Rites for Teacher

Mrs. Gladys M. Smith

Services were scheduled at 3 p. m. today in Brownsburg Christian church for Mrs. Gladys M. Smith, a teacher for 17 years at Fleming Gardens public school 14. Burial was to be in Greenlawn cemetery at Brownsburg. Mrs, Smith, who was 40, died Tuesday in St. Francis hospital. A native of Hendricks county, she had lived five years at 725 S. Epler ave. Survivors are her husband, Voris; her mother, Mrs. Laura Jones of Danville; three sisters, Mrs. Cordis Blanton and Miss Catherine Jones of Danville, and Mrs. Freda M. Smith of Indianapolis, and four brothers, Herschell, Clarence and Harry Jones, all of Indianapolis, and Ralph Jones of Danville.

STETTINIUS OFFERS UN RESIGNATION

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requesting him to remain as U 8S. representative to United Nations.

Delegate Believed

Irked at ‘Treatment’ By NED BROOKS Scripps-Howard Staff Writer WASHINGTON, May 31.—Edward R. Stettinius Jr. has handed President Truman his resignation as the United States representative on the United Nations security council. Mr. Stettinius, whose state department career was devoted almost exclusively to pioneering the organization for world peace, was understood to have based his retirement on a desire to return to private life. In other quarters, his resignation was attributed to his treatment at the hands of the administration— first, his replacement as secretary of state and later his subordination in policy-making matters concerning

|the United Nations.

| discharged from the hospital, offi-

ad Toll With SCIENTIST DIES FROM RADIATION

7 Others in A-Bomb Accident Out of Danger,

LOS ALAMOS, N. M,, May 31 (U, P.).~Officials of the atomic bomb laboratory here announced today that Dr. Louis Slotin, 36, exposed to radiation <n an accident last week, died yesterday. Dr. Slotin, a native of Winnipeg, Canada, was one of eight scientists injured in the accident May 21. The others are recovering or have been

Award

Indianapolis Man Wins Art

cials said. Dr. Slotin was credited with. “dispersing fissionable material” when thé accident occurred, preventing more serious injury or death to others present. The nature of the accident was not disclosed. The death was the second at the laboratory, Another scientist died nine months ago after being exposed to radiation. Dr. Slotin's parents flew here from Winnipeg and were at his bedside when he died. rnd ——————————

OPTOMETRISTS SET SUMMER MEETING

A midsummer convention will be| held by the Indiana Association of | Optometrists June § and 10 in| Terre Haute. = Approximately 200 are expected to attend. Speaker for the Sunday after-| noon session will be Dr. Charles Sheard, director of the division of biophysics at the Mayo foundation, Rochester, Minn. He will speak on “Causes and Correction of Myopia.” Participating in the convention will be Dr. Roy E. Denny, first vice president and finance chairman; Dr. W. Li Van Osdol, third vice president and legislative chairman; Dr. Charles O. Jeffrey, industrial vision chairman, and Dr. Robert]

G. Ledig, chairman of the central CUI DREN CONTEST CONGRESS ‘COOL OFF’

soglons oi of Tostasavets URGED BY SOCIALIST,

Mrs, Denny, president of the ' CARL MOTE'S WILL CHICAGO, May 31 (U. P.).~S0«

women’s auxiliary, will conduct a jcialist Norman Thomas said today

business meeting and tea June 9 B04 Sune Io, Tie ausiny will visit |someone should introduce a “Case . y . bill" to make congress “cool off” bee Thomas Jefferson, Andrew fore passing anti-labor legislation, and Abraham Lincoln—| The Case bill would force labor

PICKS CONGRESSMAN sekson {unions to cool off before striking.

T0 SUCCEED GLASS especially American constitutional | pT hg Presiderit True

RICHMOND, Va, May 31 (U. p.. |§overnment, which in my lifetime man and congress, by their actions —Rep. Thomas Granville Burch, of [I have learned to describe as in the labor crisis, have proved the Martinsville, elderly Virginia ryt American nationalism.” United States needs the “demoman,wwas scheduled today to take a ‘ {cratic socialism” which he said ex« seat in the U. 8. senate, replacing | Deny “Legal Entity’ {ists in Great Britain. the late Senator Carter Glass (D.| Mr. Mote also asked that the

va.). (funds be used also to “resist en- HOSIERY UNION , The 75-year-old Burch was named croachments against American na- AGAINST CASE BILL

HOOSIER WOMAN . , . By Edmund Brucker

An oil painting by Edmund|visifors for the most popular piece Brucker of Indianapolis, winner of of art at the show. “Hoosles | a $50 prize offered by the late Booth Woman” won first with 108 of: the | Tarkington, will be on display at votes. {John Herron Art Museum until] A second entry of Mr. Brucker, Sunday. | “Sisters,” placed second with 98 At that time, the 39th annual ex-| votes, while a painting by Ruthven hibition by Indiana artists will Byrum of Anderson was third with close. {47. Ernest Roose of Indianapolis More than 1500 votes were cast by was fourth.

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News No Surprise Informed sources knew of recent development which might have prompted his resignation at this time, although they were not greatly surprised by the news. When Mr. Stettinius resigned as secretary of state on June 27, 1945, and was named security council representative and chairman of the U. S. delegation to the general assembly, it was generally believed that his tenure would not be a ong one. Since then Mr. Stettinius is said to have concluded that the United Nations has been by-passed in the conduct of world affairs and that some of its original concepts have been sacrificed. He is understood to feel that the foreign ministers’ conference has assumed some of the functions which originally were expected to fall within the United Nations sphere.

day on the southeast turn. Although his blood pressure and heart action were reportedly normal, head injuries prevent X-rays or examination. Hospital attaches said he slept well last night and “appeared to | be somewhat improved.” { Mrs. Caracciola expressed belief | that something hit her husband's | face as he made his fifth lap Tues- | day afternoon. Although he wore a crash helmet, his forehead is badly swollen above and between the eyes, Parts of a bird were found in the ithe track near the scene of the crash, she said, and perhaps that was the cause of the Swiss driver's losing control of the car. “Rudy enjoyed the track so mu and especially liked its curves,” the old racer said. “He will be so sad that he could not even &ee this pate in it.” | “The drivers’ wives have been | wonderful to me. We have found |only the best sportsmanship here. (It is true, race drivers are one great big family, all over the | world.”

MUD AND SILT LEFT

CIN WAKE OF FLOOD

"By UNITED PRESS | Thousands of southern New York | land Pennsylvania families began digging mud and silt from their homes today as the Susquehanna Iriver receded after taking 22 lives land causing millions of dollars | damage. 2 Although the crest of “the flood ssed Harrisburg last night, water | still covered large portions of communities along the stream, At Sunbury, the Susquehanna continued to flow into the heart of the city through a 60-foot gap in\a dike. At Pittston, flooding of a number of mines was feared after water filled the upper workings of an abandoned Pennsylvania Coal Co. shaft through a cave-in, Mine officals said if the walls of the'flooded mine collapse, all mines in the vicinity may be flooded.

MORE TRAFFIC PENALTIES

A safety board report today showed that 19,133 traffic tickets brought in $38,572 from Jan. 2 to May 25. .Duking a similar period! in 1945, 15278 stickers produced

Son | contemplated

unique race, let alone not partici-|

Some members of congress be- | lieved Mr. Stettinius’ resignation | would compel Mr. Truman to draw

ithe issue cn the United Nations'|

{ future role. {

Doubted Position | Secretary Byrnes’ action is taking

| over leadership of the U. 8. repre- | sentation at security council ses- | sions both in London and New York

was said to have given Mr. Stet-

| tinius doubt as to his position in council affairs, ’ Byrnes as-

In ‘New York, Mr. { sumed personal charge during con- | sideration of the Iranian crisis, | when Russian Ambassador Gromyko withdrew ‘from the sessions Although such substitutions - are in these situations and are/practiced by other .governepdS: Mr. Stettinius is reported to

small, blond wife of the 50-year- | 2 DAS

| have been embarrassed by the in- | cident. - He also was said to have been [irritated over Mr. Truman's han|dling of proposals for succession of | the presidency. While he was serv- | ing as secretary of state, Mr. Stet- | tinius was first in line of succession ‘but the recommendation submitted by the President to congress would have made the speaker of the house first and then the presiding officer of the senate. Ha When -Mr. Byrnes succeeded Mr Stettinius in the cabinet, the legislation was quietly shelved

" Quits $100,000-a-Year Job

Silver-haired, 45-year-old Mr Stettinius joined the government in 1940, resigning his $100,000-a-year chairmanship of U. 8, Steel Corp. His. first assignment was as a member of “the advisory commission to the council of national defense. In 1941, he became director of priorities for the office of production management, predecessor to the war production board. In the same year he was appointed director of the lend-lease administration. He entered the state department in 1943, succeeding Undersecretary Sumner Welles, who resigned in a dispute with former Secretary Hull. Mr. Roosevelt named Mr. Stettinius to the secretaryship. Dec. 1, 1944, to replace the ailing Mr. Hull, He was succeeded by Mr. Byrnes 10 weeks after Mr. Truman entered the White House:

BYRNES SEES AMBASSADOR WASHINGTON, May 31 (U. P.). —~Lord Inverchapel, the new British

| ambassador to the United States,

made his first call on Secretary of

| Btate: James F. Byrnes today.

last night by Governor William |4iona1ism » | Closing a three-day conference

Tuck to succeed Mr. Glass as an | { “interim” appointee until the! The contestants charged in their, é the excentive of ‘the

|vacancy can be permanently filled Petition there is “no corporation Or ymerican Federation of Hosiery in the November elections legal entity known as the American’ Workers (C. 1. O) today voted to Mr. Burch, a realtor and banker way of life or American national- request President Truman to veto {before entering politics, has been a’, {the Case anti-strike bill now on his

{life-long Democrat. ® : desk. The appointment raised the pos- A fifth of Mr. Mote's estate was) The group, in conference in’ the

sibility Mr. Burch might run for left in trust to Miss Opal Tanner, | Antlers hotel, also voted to request the senate after his temporary of Indianapolis, his secretary, and the U. 8. labor department to elimi= term. He had served continuously |one-fifth to Wilbur Smith, a busi- nate home manufacture of hosiery in congress since 1930. ness associate of North Manchester. as detrimental to labor.

STRAUSS SAYS:

We Stenuss Steednoy Taply

FOR NINETEEN FORTY SIX

As a tribute to Speed — and as a compliment to the International Character of the event = L. Strauss & Co., Ines”

of Indianapolis presents, as a trophy,

A WORLD AIR TOUR

VIA TWA

GEORGE ROBSON

The 1946 winner of the world's most renowned motor

AWARDED TO

race—the 30th Annual 500 Mile Memorial Day Motor

Classic — (renewed after a 4 year war interval) at the

INDIANAPOLIS MOTOR SPEEDWAY

Awarded to the Winner = and fo the Race itself. It is a Citizen's token of appreciolion = a mark of recognition = to an occasion that puts .

Indianapolis on the Front Pages throughout the World.