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: Labor representatives and Democratic party leaders meeting today at the Claypool hotel included: First row (left to right) Joseph Williams, secretary of joint council 69 of International Brotherhood of

Teamsters; Walter Frisbie, secretary of state industrial union council (C. I. 0.), -man of the Democratic platform advisory committee. Second row (left to right) are Michael C. Granat, president of joint council 69; Fowler Harper, Indiana university professor of law and party platform committee member; Powers Hapgodd, state C. I. O. director, and Kenneth Dempsey, mayor of South Bend.

UTILITY FIGHTS Democrats Urged to Adopt PIPED-IN FUEL

Gas for Indianapolis.

By RICHARD LEWIS The Citizens Gas & Coke utility|

[res howa=sd VOLUME 57—NUMBER 76

State-Wide

By ROBERT BLOEM Hoosier labor groups today urged Indiana Democrats to adopt a!Sided tribunal since the days of Battles Move to Get Natural platform outlawing the ku klux klan, demanding the divorce of liquor, | from politics and calling for a state-wide primary election. The Democratic platform advisory committee, under the direction of Fred Bays, former state chairman, heard representatives of 2h and judicial posts. |{C. 1. O. and A. F. of L. as a two-day platform session neared a close

| The group has conducted hearings

. : FRIDAY, /, JUNE 4 1946 Sah

AS COURT HEAD

Kentuckian Anes Appears Certain Of Senate Approval as Chief Justice.

(Editorial, Page 18)

By JOHN L. STEELE United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON,

M. Vinson, who rose from

{ lawyer to win nomination as U. 8.

| chief justice, today appeared as-

and Fred Bays, chair- | sured of quick senate confirmation.|

| that the Republican party virtually has been ousted from the Supreme court. Democratic and Republican members generally hailed the appointment of the genial, 56-year-old treasury secretary. But some G. O. P. senators complained that President Truman's failure to name

Primary Planks

a Republican to the high court

established the most politically lop-

Abraham Lincoln. Mr. Vinson, who succeeds the late 'Harlan Fiske Stone, has spent 26 years in federal legislative, execu-

Snyder Is Chosen

June 17. — Fred) the | obscurity of a small town Kentucky |

This was despite some grumblings'

Atterbury Commander Is Shot

| | |

Col. and Mrs. Ernest A, Bixby

Wounding of Col. Bixby Is Reported as Accidental

Col.

| she with “nervous reaction.”

P. m. Tue m. Tuesday. The offick

the time,

Entered as Second-Class Matter at Postoffice Indianapolis, Ind. Issued daly except Sunday

U.S. Considers Refioning Bread: Milk Hiked 1 Cen

PREDICT QUICK OK FOR VINSON

Ernest A. Bixby, commanding officer of Camp Atterbury, and his wife, Martha, were in the hospital today, he with gunshot wounds,

Following an investigation, Camp Atterbury officers disclosed the colonel was injured in a shooting which oocurred at his home at 11:40 The official report of the incident said only Col. Bixby ——|and Mrs. Bixby were present at

Bowles Says Government | May Control Supply of Loaves to Retail Stores |

WASHINGTON, June 7

He said the government of wheat stocks to millers, of

to retail stores.

[that the oA and the agricul

PRICE OF MILK BOOSTED HERE

Cream, Butter Costs Also Hiked by OPA Orders.

Prices on all milk products were {upped today by an order from the national OPA office. C. W. Hunt of the Milk Foundation here said the order affected prices throughout the U. B. Producer prices on bulk milk were up 40 cents per hundredweight. Previous top price for bulk milk was $3.51.

Consumer price increases were: Milk, 1 cent per quart; cream, 1

Chester Bowles said today that rationing of bread to retail | stores is under government consideration.

Mr. Bowles told the senate small business committes

has moved to block any attempt to| with a wide variety of groups and introduce natural gas into Indian-| | Spwhise tions representing classes | n county, The OF VOLers Sadi are Klan Mentioned Specifically { The C, 1. O. platform, presented | The move was made without con- by state C. I. O. Director Powers| sulting the city corporation council,| Hapgood, urged the party to set up | despite the fact the utility theo-|& program to outlaw any organizaretically is operated by the mu-|tion advocating intolerance, racial nicipal a * lor religious hatred. He mentioned

CASE BILL VETO

REPORTED NEAR

Message Is % Being Drafted, Congressmen Assert.

Mr. Truman nominated Recon- | version ' Director John W. Snyder

to succeed Mr. Vinson as secretary lof the treasury. The President also nominated John L. Sullivan, assistant secretary of the navy for air, to 2h undersecretary of the navy. the job to which Mr. rs tried unsuccessfully to appoint Edwin W. Pauley. All three of the new nominations.

SLOT MAGHINE SPREAD BARED

‘One-Armed od Bandit Hit by Beverage Group.

jannounced at a White House press

| conference, are subject to senate Slot machines are “beginning to

Neither Hurt Seriously cent per half pint; butter, 10 cents Neither Col. Bixby nor Mrs. Bixby | a pound; chocolate milk and but-| /is in serious condition. The post {termilk, 14 cent per quart, commander, who headed an in<| Hallf-pints and one-third quart vasion unit on the Nomandy beach- sizes of milk received “substantial” head, was admitted to Wakeman |increases, general hospital's surgery ward early| Cottage cheese was up an unWednesday with .22 caliber pistol | disclosed amount. slug wounds in an arm and leg.| New prices on bulk fluid cream {Mrs. Bixby, highly nervous, entered are set at the highest prices {the hospital shortly thereafter. {charged from May 1 to May 15,

| Col. John E. Haten post exec | 1946.

Jane Jordan.. 28

The utility, bh ie attorneys, spgsincally the ku klux klan. n Thompson, & Smith, filed Hapgood further - an mpean, Oi before the Bl 1aws to remove re-

‘ington Feb. 14 charging the Panhandle & Eastern Pipeline Co. and

the Eastern Indiana Gas Co. with |

violating its franchise by selling Texas gas to the city of Oaklandon. Cite 1931 Agreement

Basis of the complaint is a 1931 agreement between the city and the Ohio Fuel Gas Co. a predecessor to the Panhandle & Eastern Pipeline Co. Under the agreement, the Ohio company was permitted to run its transcontinental the northwestern part of Marion

county provided it would not try!

to sell natural gas here without the permission of the city, the county and the utilities district. This pipeline, now operated by Panhandle, .serves the city of De-

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RUSS REPORT DRUG TO AID CHILDBIRTH,

LONDON, June 7 (U. P.).—Radio Moscow said today the Central In-| stitute of Obstetrics and Gynecology had developed a new anesthetic which is injeéted into the muscles | to hasten childbirth and contribute |

pipeline through

Scions an: in po

for U. 8. senator, governor an other state offices now are nominated in convention. The A. F. of L. platform pro-| posals were offered by Carl H. Mul-| len, state president of the federa-| tion of labor. His proposals would | oppose repeal of liquor laws in In-| diana but would crack down on the alleged close alliance between the liquor wholesale and retail branches and political organizations. Wage Law Urged Both groups urged platform com-| mitments for increased workmen's! compensation and unemployment benefits and for state minimum wage and hour legislation. Other groups scheduled to appear before the close of the plat- | form hearings included veterans’ Tanja, legislative committees nd representatives of editorial and nae bar groups. pon conclusion of the hearings, lus rie will begin drafting a proposed platform for presentation to the Democratic state con- | vention to be held here June 25.

34 WOUNDED BY GRENADE

to painless delivery. { CAIRO, June 7 (U. P.).—Thirty-

The broadcast said ‘experiments| have established that the new|

four persons were wounded when

a mills grenade exploded in an em-|

(vide for direct iad nomination | gressional source said today Presi- man's selection of Mr. Snyder for clared today in its news letter. of all state candidates. Candidaies} dent Truman has directed the! {the treasury post.

By GEORGE E. REEDY JB.

"not thusiastio about Mr. Tru-

"| ustice department to prepare a| May Challenge Choice | veto message on the Case labor, No formal campaign against Mr. | control bill. Snyder's nomination was expected! | ‘This source, a member of the so- from Democratic members, But it| | called pro-labor bloc which opposed was considered likely that some | | the measure, predicted the veto Republicans would challenge Mr. | | message would reach congress early | Snyder when he comes up for con-! | next week. | firmation. Another congressman close to the, Mr. Sullivan was not expected to| administration claimed the Presi- encounter difficulty in winning sendent indicated to him early in the ate approval. He earlier had been week that he would veto the meas- confirmed as assistant navy secrelure. He said Mr. Truman believed tary and assistant treasury secre-' the bill to be too drastic. tary. - Mr. Truman said at his presscon-' Criticism of Mr. Vinson's nomiference yesterday, however, that he nation was not centered on Mr has not made up his mind on the Vinson personally, but on the fact

measure. The President said he that Harold Burten, former Repubwas studying the bill. lican senator from Ohio, remained Congressional sources reporting the G. O. P.’s lone court representa-

preparation of the veto message as- tive, serted the President believed his| Senators Are Critical own emergency bill, now awaiting] Mr. Vinson's confirmation will house action, is the measure needed mark the first time since the Linimmediately to handle the current coln administration that either ma-| labor situation. More permanent jor political party has had fewer legislation, Mr. Truman was said than two members on the supreme | to feel, should await further con- court. gressional study. This criticism came from Senators | Opposing sides in the dispute re- Chapman Revercomb (R. W. Va.) |

tures to petitions urging Mr. both members of the judiciary com- | Truman to reject or sign the bill. mittee scheduled to pass on Mr. |

method is “very effective and abso- [pire troops theater last night, it was| The petitions were considered a test | Vinson's nomination next week.

lutely safe for mother and baby.”

officially announced today.

Pittsburgh Boy

Wins Marble

Crown, With Local Entry Out

BY ART WRIGHT Times Staff Writer CLEVELAND, O., June.7-—Ray-

mond Ryabik of Pittsburgh, Pa. today won the national championship crown in a close finish of the national marbles tournament. The Indianapolis contender, Donald Yates of Mars Hill school, wound up in third place in his league. Donald had been counted out yesterday. The Pittsburgh boy is the brother of Richard Ryabik who won the national crown in 1943. Raymond took third place that year. In| winning the title, Rayiaond won seven games in his 13-game playoff against Richard Zielinski of Cleveland. A sore shooting thumb and tension which gripped the players in the final stages kept the Indianap-

TIMES INDEX

Ruth Millett.. 17 Movies ....... 14

Amusements . 14 Eddie Ash.... 24

Business . ®.. 20 [Obituaries .... 9 Classified ..25-27|Dr. O'Brien... 17 Comics ...... 28H. V. O'Brien. 17 Crossword ... 25 F. C. Othman. 17 Editorials .... 18|Radio ....,... 28 Europe Today. 18 [Reflections .. 18 Edward Evans 22 Mrs. Roosevelt 17 Fashions ..... 21 | Serial 8 Forum ...... . 18}8ports ....... 24 G. 1. Rights... 30 State Deaths. 9 Meta Given .. 21 | Washington .. 18 In Indpls. .. 2 Lyle Wilson. . 11 Inside Indpls.. 17 (Women's .. 20-21

olis mibs king from winning the league title. It denied him the right to battle in the last round for thé national championship title. Today, the winners of the four leagues played for the national crown. Donald was watching from

| CONNERSVILLE PLANT the

Mr. Revercomb expressed disap- | pointment that Mr. Truman failed more nearly balancing between two political parties” in his | court appointment. Mr. Stanfill declared that much would have been gained by a “balanced court.” | Chairman Pat McCarran (D.!

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HIT BY PAY WALKOUT

CONNERSVILLE, Ind, June 7 (U. P.).—Some 125 U. A. W.-C. I. O. workers failed to show up for work today at the National Metal Prod-|mittee declined comment on the ucts Co. following a walkout yes-|appointment which his committee | terday because of a contract con- | will consider. He did declare that | troversy. {since “the President has taken| Union employees established a plenty of time making up his mind, picket line around the plant after a|the committee might well take a

the cheering bench. Winner of Donald's league was | the Cleveland entry, Richard as! linski, who came from behind in the final stages. Although Donald held his own, with the Cleveland champ in win-|

SHOWERS SATURDAY, FAIR WEEK-END DUE

Summer thundershowers were promised tomorrow by the weather bureau but the week-end forecast calls for warm weather for the next five days. “Temperatures will average 5 to 8 degrees above seasonal normal,” the forecaster said. (Normal for Indianapolis now is about 70 degrees.) It will be a little cooler Wednesday, but nothing like the “arctic weather” of last week. Enough rain is predicted to wet the ground. Light showers Tuesday

World Affairs, 18

ning two and losing two games in|

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dispute over negotiating a new con- week” before sending Mr. Vinson's | tract. | name to the senate. |

Gen. Bradley Says Polifical Pressure Delayed

VA in Obtaining Central Hea

Gen, Omar N.

delay in securing a central veterans’ administration headquarters here.

In an interview here this morning, the tall, four-star general criticized the indifference of building tenants toward the need for a central headquarters in downtown Indianapolis.

“We had to have a bullding,” Gen. Bradley asserted. “But we were handicapped. when people appealed to Rep. (Louis) Ludlow to dissuade us from obtaining a central headquarters.” With the acquisition of the Century bldg., the Veterans Administration will be able to consolidate work now being done at the State Fairgrounds, Old Trails bldg. and Cold Spring rd. hospital, he said. (Merrill D. Cummins, regional manager of the VA, stated that

Gen. Omar N. Bradley . . . “po- « htioal pressure delayed central

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“njore than two dozen Blass;

|shipments to retailers and at the

doubled their efforts to get signa- and William A. Stanfill (R. Ky.)—|

Nev.) of the senate judiciary com- |

|The

| appear in taverns in many jeFtions pe Of the tate. thie Indiana Retail AL

| coholic Beverage association de-| [drawn ono a probe coil d by

Live officer, said neither had as yet . statement... His

The association, with headquar-|g, shot wounds from a .22 caliber | BO reduction in prices.

{ters in the Illinois building here, pistol. did not expand on its statement ex- time except Col. and Mrs. Bixby. cept to comment! “Slot machines 1 result of nervous reaction, 'have no place in public retail tav- shooting-was accidental.”

[Fr the s letter was the Sends Beport wever, new ‘ | first candid admission from within | Shp Snerbury Bytharjues the the trade that gambling is flourish- | ee De aborale on delals ol the | ne in numerous Hoosier counties. rg ult sd Be Todt sear al | Extent of gaming operations seem | . : 3 copy of the formal report to Fifth!

{to depend largely on attitudes of’ : individual county officials. | Service Command headquarters in'

| Columbus, O. Beer Shortage Discussed Col. Bixby assumed command of

The news letter also criticized Camp Atterbury and its vast army the apparent abundance of beer at discharge machinery last June. At the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, th! ne. ne a brigadier gendespite the severe suds shortage. or. 47 years old.

“All of us retailers want to. do Ae has been tro the army since However, when we see is graduation from West Point in

our part. g Ain as: well known as C. V.| {1918. In world war I he served | (Champagne Velvet) holding down |¥ith the army of occupation in| Germany,

same time shipping large quanti- Wide Army Experience ties to the Indianapolis: Motor | Speedway, it gives cause to won- tioned at Camp Taylor, Ky. Hader whether or not the lowly re- wail, Princeton university, on retailer's business and his efforts are | serve duty at Louisville, Ky. at appreciated. | Ft. Leavenworth, Kas, and West “The law prohibits the sale of al-| Point, | coholic beverages on Memorial day | by act of the Indiana legislature. However, a temporary permit was issued to the Speedway Corp. and from personal observation by your secretary, there was plenty of beer available every day prior to Memorial day. I do not think the people attending the trials preceding the big race should be deprived of beer, but neither do I think that retail permitees who are in business the year ' around should be deprived | either.” The news letter was signed by C. E: Johnson, association secretary. Indiana Alcoholic Beverage | commission explained the Speedway | { did not sell beer on Sundays or Memor lal day.

operations division of the G-3 section of the army ground forces in| 1942, artillery commander of the | 4th armored division when it landed on the Normandy beach in July, 1944, and artillery commander of | the 90th division until the war ended in Europe. © His wife is the former Martha | Robertson of Louisville, Ky. They | have a. son, “Roper, 16.

STATE MAN MWe

Here After Accidents.

Another victim was added to he

en Charles Avery, of near Michi-

dquarters Here... auto death toll last night

Bradley today the lack of floor space and weight|8&n City, was killed when his car blamed political pressure for the bearing

tha| Was struck by a train at a recommendation of many.) south of Michigan City.

Decidedly encouraged with the In Indianapolis four drivers inacquisition of the Century bldg. volved in accidents were arrested May 20, the general stated that he for traffic law violations. was “very sorry to move people | Leon Ellis, 43, of 502 Holly st. from the building.” | was charged with disobeying a traf“But we needed the building and |flc signal when the truck he was we had to get it,” he said. |driving collided with a car driven Gen, Bradley also disclosed that|by Claude Ray, 43, of 501 N. West plans for the training of key per-|st., ht 25th st. and Central ave. last sonnel at the Winter general ‘hos-|night. Mr. Ellis was slightly inpital at Topeka, Kas, was being, jured when he was thrown out of completed to: prevent repetition of|the truck. the occurance at Marion veterans’| Harry Hackleman, 24, of 1854 N. hospitals where four attendants|Alabama st. was held on a charge were indicted for abusing patients. |of,failure to give the right-of-way Citing this case as an isolated| when his car collided with one one, the Veterahs administrator|driven by Charles Harmon, 34, of said that it had been impossible to|419 E. 12th st. at 12th and New acquire the services of “adequately! Jersey sts.. trained attendants.” ' | Uyal Friedman, 21, of 2810 Villa “However,” Gen. Bradley said. ave, was arrested on a charge of “we're planning to train our per- reckless driving and drunken oper-

capacity eliminated a crossing

VA headquarters here.”

were considered.” He ingiet the th

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No one was present at the |

Subsequently, Col. Bixby was sta- |

In world war II, he was chief of |

Four Drivers: Ave Nested

'|as bodyguard, the company said.

Mr, Hunt said the hike in butter {prices probably would not affect the |

Mrs. Bixby is in the hospital as a availability of butter due to the | He said grain supplies should be | The increase in prices of all other channeled into bread prod

| milk proguels. uu

PETRILLO OUTBURST PROBED BY FLORIDA

Check to see if if Sedition Law Was Violated.

8ST. PETERSBURG, Fla., June 7 (U.P. .—State Attorney Chester B. McMullen said he probably would | |reach a decision today on whether {James C. Petrillo, fiery chief of the {American Federation of Musicians, {had violated a 40-year-old Florida | sedition law, He said Petrillo would be arrested if there had been an apparent vio. { lation, Mr, McMullen worked late last | night. He poured over Florida stat-! utes to see if Petrillo’'s verbal attack here Monday on the National As{sociation of Broadcasters violated [the 1906 state law. The law makes it a felony to “incite insurrection against lawful authority.” The prosecutor said he had been |asked to make the investigation by Florida Attorney General J. Tom | Watson,” who said in Tallahassee, {that Petrillo had defied constitutional authority. It was Mr. Watson wh credited with sponsoring Flor {drastic labor law in 1943, outlawing

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Sales of whipping cream _ are is not the % ihe peincips! food on report. banned after July 1. Ice cream manufacturers now are a special board of officers, stated: permitted to reduce butterfat con-

“Col. Bixby is in the hospital with lent by 2': percentage points with cated. He pulled from his briefcase

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ture department are studying § rationing of bread at preconsumer levels. He said that | rationing of bread loaves fo | consumers would be “most difficult.” If the bread shortage is prolonged “over another three or four weeks” | ‘Mr. Bowles indicated that he bee lieved serious consideration should be given to putting the conifals into effect. Agrees With Capehart Va Mr. Bowles agreed with Senator | Homer Capehart (R. Ind.), that the | problem facing the country wes | one of distribution in a day of ades | quate domestic wheat crops. Oh Mr. Bowles said that some pros tection should be given small bread outlets. Otherwise, he said, larger outlets such as chain stores, would gain control of the greater portion of bread stocks. Likewise, wheat and flour should | be assured distribution on am | “equitable basis,” he said. LaGuardia Has His Say Mr, Bowles said adequate powers | for such a pre-consumer rationing | | program are provided in the second | | war powers act. He testified after P. H. Lev | | Guardia, director general of U.N. R. R. A. told the committee thas | the reported shortage of bread was “nothing to get het-up about.” | Mr. LaGuardia maintained that | “most of the noise is being made. hy | millers and bakers,” but that b

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photographs taken In hg. --4 bakeries yesterday, showing A heavy with cakes and cookies.

[rather than into the fancier types 'of bakery products.

Landis Calls Forced Wheat Sales Illegal

Rep. Gerald Landis (R. 7th Dist.) charged today government orders to force sale of wheat by farmers are unconstitutional and may have the effect of snatching bread from the mouths of starving millions. The Linton congressman arrived {in Indianapolis this morning to make last minute arrangements for a “quickie” conference of the publican congressional food mittee. The committee, composed largely of Midwest G. O. P. congressmen, will hear complaints of Hoosier farmers and seek a way 10 forestall the gathering food storm. “The government has made a serious mistake by ordering farme ers to sell half the wheat they put into storage,” Mr. Landis said. May Get Less Grain “Not only is the law unconstitu= tional, but because many farmers feel they are being pushed around by the order, it may result in much less wheat becoming available fer shipment abroad than could be ob= tained under a voluntary system Commenting on the session to be held tomorrow in the Claypool hotel, President Hassil Schenck of the Indiana Farm bureau expressed doubt Hoosier farmers would join

{the union closed shop in the state.

| By UNITED PRESS | Housewives “hi-jacked” truck drivers delivering bread to Denver grocery stores today as bread and meat grew more scarce across the nation. One Denver bakery announced it was putting two men on each truck because housewives drivers as they hauled bread into the stores. The second man will act

One driver complained housewives were waiting for him as he climbed from the truck in front of a grocery. He said he lost his breadbasket and his cap when “overpowered by women.” Elsewhere breadlines lengthened as supplies grew shorter, and the meat shortage continued with no sign of relief.

Mayor Ralph Johnson to reserve benches in the public square for residents who have to stand in meat and bread lines. The benches were ‘occupied by “bums and loafers,” she said. At Brooklyn,

N.Y. the word

After Women Storm Trucks

had mobbed |:

At Galesburg, Ill, a woman asked |

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that the Fort Greene market was getting in a shipment of 30,000 pounds of meat, The line formed early in the morning and police estimated that by 11:30 a. m. it consisted of 2608

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