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GAS TILL TARGET OF TWIN ATTACK

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more detailed breakdown than the |J utility’s quarterly financial reports |

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This move on the financial sector

of the utility's front appeared to be driving toward a vulnerable spot. Simultaneously, Corporation Counsel Arch N. Bobbitt probed the legal possibilities of collecting more than the $160,000 a year the utility has been paying: the city in lieu of taxes, Preliminary reports on this phase of the offensive indicated Mr. Bobbitt was not at all optimistic over the city’s legal position. * So many statutory fortifications were erected a round the utility to guard it gainst raids in its impoverished infancy that it seemed to be impregnable in its ripe and rich maturity.

Thus far, city officials have dis-|#

covered the disposition of the utility’s ‘profits is in the hands of its board of directors, a self-perpetuat-ing body over which nobody has any immediate control. It’s ‘Operation Gas Drawer’ If the board decides, as it has in the past, that the profits (aggregating $8,000,000 in the last 10 years) are to be spent on ‘increasing coke

production, the city may not get a | nickel more than it has been col-

lecting in the past. So the offensive, which several cynical citizens at the gas utility dubbed ‘operation gas drawer,” stood today. The lines were drawn and nobody yet showed signs of retreating. Down on Pennsylvania and Maryland sts, the utility was working out defense strategy with its heavy artillery, the law firm of Thompson, O'Neill & Smith, and was prepared to hold the city’s spring offensive if it took all summer, Control Is Basic Issue Up on Alabama st, the attack: ers were figuring on more effective legal weapons and avenues of approach, and it was not improbable that they might have a secret weapon or two on tap if they need it. Behind the whole deal was the basic question of who controls the gas utility, which theoretically is owned by the citizens of Indianapolis and which the city hall says should bear a larger share of the expense of running the city. A wistful note in the whole campaign ws that it was being conducted in the absence of Gen. Tyndall. The mayor this forning was still home in bed, but battling his physicians to get up and get

THE INDIAN

Waiting for the rest of the Republican district chairmen to show up for a strategic caucus at the Claypool hotel today, early arrivals discussed polities and riding horses. The district heads are Dr. Harry Murphy (left) of Franklin, seventh district; James Fulton of Hartford City, fifth; Secretary of State Rue Alexander of Pine Village, sixth; John Nigh of Greenfield, 10th, and Fred Malotte of Petersburg, eighth.

Among the key figures in the Republican problem of naming a secretary of state candidate were present at a caucus of district leaders today. They are Joseph J. Daniels, 11th district chairman; LeRoy (Toby) Yoder of Goshen, third district head; State Chairman Clark Springer; second district chairman Ira Dixon of Kentland, and first district head James McShane of Hammond. ’

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2 HOOSIER BANKERS TO AID IN BOND SALE

Two Indiana bankers today were named to poditions on the American Bankers association savings bond committee by Frank C. Rathje, A. B. A. president. Charles H. Buesching, president of the Lincoln National Bank and Trust Co. of Ft. Wayne and president of the Indiana Bankers assocation, was appointed Indiana chairman of the savings bond committee. Burr S. Swezey, president of the Lafayette National bank, was named a member of the national committee, They will direct Indiana banks’ participation in the savings bond

up and get back to his office to take charge.

promotion month which begins to-

morrow, . Banks during the month will urge customers to invest in sav{ings bonds.

YWCA SETS SPECIAL SWIMMERS’ CLASS

Special swimming lessons for girls 12 to 18 will be offered at the central Y. W. C. A. from June 24 to July 19 with classes three afternoons a week. Graded classes will be taught by Miss Mary DeVore, Y. W., C. A. health education staff member and all class work will be under Red Cross regulations. Registrations are being taken now. : Beginners, intermediates and advanced Red Cross certificates will

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to argue at length prevented final senate action last night on draftextension legislation, Before reaching the Revercomb amendment the senate voted to: ONE: Extend the draft to May 15. TWO: Permit drafting of single men from 18 to 45, provided the afmed forces stay within announced goals for the coming year. THREE: Raise the pay scale for enlisted personnel to encourage volunteering. ; FOUR: Limit every draftee to an 18-month hitch. FIVE: Specifically exempt from the draft all fathers, scientific students and teachers and veterans with honorable discharges who already have been overseas or served six months in the U, 8 A war department spokesman said the extra precaution to prevent recalling veterans was unnecessary. He claimed nothing of the sort was in prospect. Nevertheless, the amendment was offered by Senators Edwin C. Johnson (D. Colo.), and Kenneth S. Wherry (R. Neb.), who said they understood otherwise. Enlisted Men Due Boost The senate approved the teenage draft by vote of 53 to 26. It was a sharp rebuff to the house which voted in March and again in May on a July 1 stop-gap extension that the draft age should be raised to 20. The house- bill also would halt all drafting Feb. 15 and impose a holiday on inductions until Oct, 15. The senate also wrote the Increased pay scales into its draft extension measure whereas the house passed a separate bill on the subject. The senate’s raises would apply only to enlisted personnel. They ranged from a 50 per cent increase for privates—from $50 to $75 a month—to a 2 per cent more for master sergeants — raising them from $138 to $140 a month, The house version offered the same scale for private through buck sergeant but would give more to the higher grades of non-commissioned men and grant commissioned officers increases ranging from 10 to 20 per cent. Senator Robert M. LaFollette (Prog., Wis.) sponsored the senate's pay-raise plan and estimated it would cost $350,000,000 a year to make army service so attractive

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Hope to Agree on Nominee For Secretary of State. (Continued From Page One)

vehicle commissioner under incumbent secretary of state Rue Alexander. Other Things on Agenda Mr. Brown was believed to have the support of 11th district chairman Joseph J. Daniels. While the secretary of state nomination topped the agenda of today’s caucus of district leaders, it appeared possible the. political tate of State Auditor A. V, Burch also might come up for discussion, Mr,

J { June 12. That program included a luncheon meeting with county chairmen and vice chairmen as guests. » In charge’ of vote tabulation at the : convention was Clarence E. Ruston; chief examiner of the Indiana state board of accounts.

to act as his assistants. : The state fairgrounds Colifeum was scheduled for decoration and convention seating preparations on June 10. George W. Henley, Bloomington, convention chairman, said that on June 12 delegates will meet by districts to name from each district a member of the resolutions, rules and credentials committees and to select a convention vice president and. an assistant secretary. ‘The committees, he said, will draft a state platform the night before the big session. . Governor Gates was scheduled to deliver the keynote address opening the June 13 program.

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Burch, reportedly at odds with a considerable segment of his own district, may be added to the growing list of incumbent elective officials scheduled to have opposition in the convention June 13. Whether or not Mr. Burch gets the party nod for a second term nomination apparently depends on his own district, the eighth. S8hould District Chairman Fred Malotte of Petersburg relay to the caucus his organization's dissatisfaction with Mr. Burch, it is expected he will be asked to suggest a successor. Governor Attends

The auditor situation appeared mildly related to the secretary of state race. It seemed probable that

eighth for their secretary candidate will be expected to offer support in return for an eighth district move to oust Mr, Burch, Attending the caucus of district leaders were Governor Gates, Lt. Gov. Richard T. James and State Chairman Clark Springer. Both the governor and lieutenant governor have a stake in the secretary of state nomination. Primarily the governor is concerned over any potential addition to his official administration family, The office also controls a sizeable piece of patronage power through the auto license branches and will bear sharply on the 1948 ambitions of both top state officials.

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United Dry Forces To Support Willis

Senator Raymond E. Willis today had the support of the Indiana Council of United Dry forces in his campaign for renomination, Clayton M. Wallace, executive secretary of the council, urged delegates to the June 13 Republican state convention to back Senator Willis. In letters he sent to delegates, Mr, Wallace said Senator Willis "has made a splendid record in the senate during the last six years.”

GENERAL SAYS NAZIS CAUGHT UNPREPARED

NUERNBERG, June 5 (U. P.).— Col. Gen. Alfred Jodl told the war crimes tribunal today Germany was totally unprepared for war against England and France when she invaded Poland. There were not enough men and munitions to man and equip all the Siegfried line positions, he said in

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speak tomorrow night. Gen. Omar Bradley, Veteran's administrator, and target earlier this year for Legion barbs on veterans’ affairs, will speak Friday. Hershel V. Johnson, deputy representative of the U. 8. to the United Natioris conference, had been scheduled to address the commanders. Only meeting scheduled at the Legion today was that of the finance committee, Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt Jr. widow of the late Brig. Gen. Roosevelt, was to arrive here today from Oyster Bay, N. Y, to witness the unveiling Friday of a bust of her

his third day on the stand.

As a possible candidate for governor in 1948, Mr. James would be interested in having a friendly secretary of state rather than one

ernorship,

retary of state who conforms to his own leadership and would support any ambitions he might have to enter the national political scene in 1048. Among the other candidates for

| Gilbert Ogles, of Greencastle, Putnam county chairman and deputy secretary of state now. Mr. Alexander, as sixth district chairman, reportedly is behind Mr. Ogles for the nomination but both were beleved willing to throw support to one of the other leading candidates in retum for assurance that Mr. Ogles would remain on as chief deputy.

Expect 2129 Delegates At GOP Meeting Here

Arrangements for Indiana's Re-

neared completion today as the G. O. P. state committee prepared for some 2129 delegates at the Indianapolis coliseum. Chairman H. C. Springer said interest in the convention was at “an

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reports that the couple was injured in the Chicago La Salle hotel this morning. i : According to reports, Mr. Stoner, a traveling representative of a Chicago manufacturing concern, was more seriously hurt. The couple, parents of three children, went to Chicago yesterday, where Mr, Stoner was scheduled to report back to work at the Reliance Garment Manufacturing Co. He had been recovering from an illness which had kept him off the job for sometime, Two young sons were with their grandparents, Mr, and Mrs. Clifford Smith, near Greenfield, today, A daughter lives in Indianapolis.

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