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Draft Extension Passed by House
VOTES 259-110 10 KEEP ACT T0 MARCH 31
Army Also Calls ‘Holiday’ During July And August.
WASHINGTON, June 25.— The army today ordered a draft “holiday” for July and August so the house passed and sent to the senate a compromise bill extending the draft until next March 31. The house approved the draft extension by a 259 to 110 vote. Secretary of War Robert P. Patterson said that even after August the army will limit draft calls to provide only such manpower needs as cannot be met by voluntary enlistments. He advised Rep. R. Ewing Thomason (D. Tex.) that he and Gen. Dwight. D. Eisenhower hope that all army needs will be filled “in the near future” solely by volunteers and that an “extensive rercuiting drive” is in preparation. The army decision not to ask for draftees in July and August means an almost total draft “holiday” in those months as navy calls have been inconsequential.
Read to House
Mr. Patterson's letter was read to the house just before it approved the compromise draft extension bill. This will permit induction of 19-year-olds, but exempts 18-year-olds, all fathers and most ex-servicemen. A few minutes previously, the house had passed and sent to the senate legislation providing pay increases for all members of the armed forces. The raises range from 50 per cent for buck privates and apprentice seamen to 10 per cent for five-star admirals and generals. The draft extension was approved after the house rejected, 182 to 74, a motion by Rep. Dewey Short (R: Mo.), to send the measure back to a senate-house conference commit-
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In Marijua
The group, which included an 81-year-old fathér and 52-year-old son combination, was charged with conspiracy to raise the weed crop without provision for payment of federal taxes. In May, 1945, the youngest- defendant, James A: (Pig) Alsman, Carthage, is alleged to have visited an Indiana ave. podiroom where he was told by two hidentified men that there was a “Jot of money” in raising marijuana.’ Fullmer and Regfiolds each werc senténced to 90 days in jail and fined $10 and James Alsman was sentenced to 18 months in the penitentiary. Judge Baltzell stayed each
Barmaid Ready
July 4 to marry the former G. I, it Miss Carpenter handle the three c
Carpenter expects to be married to| William Thompson of Pittsburgh, Pa,. the children’s father. she booked the flight today, ! Miss Carpenter said she expected | Mr. Thompson to send her the money for passage. \ | Given Undated Visa At the American embassy Miss Carpenter was granted a visa after fingerprinting and a medical examination. But she was no GI. bride and thus would have no priority on transportation. The embassy issued hér an undated visa.
tee with instructions to eliminate the 19-year-old group. Draft Age—19 to 44 The compromise extension, worked |
out int conference, permits induction |skirts as she passed through the of draft registrants 19 through 44.|examination room. It was doubtful, however, whether third of the survivors who is ro-| Wounded last night when he stopped
anyone over 29 would be drafted.
way for the marriage to Miss Carpenter, Madeline and Maureen, dressed | in baby blue sunbonnets and frocks | to match, clung to Miss Carpenter's |
Michael, the
bust and red-haired, chattered with
Mr. Patterson told Rep. Thomason his grandparents who came from
that, with the pay increase bill, he hoped the army could meet its re] quirements with volunteers. “The war department,” Mr. Pat- | terson wrote, “does not desire to| have a single man drafted unless| he is needed to fill an existing or! anticipated shortage.” : He said he and Gen. Eisenhower urged extension of the draft so “we will be able to carry out our occu-| pational commitments and protect the national security” if there are not enough volunteers.
September Draft Unknown Revealing the July-August draft] “holiday,” Mr, Patterson said it was| impossible to determine in advance whether the army would be able to| meet its manpower requirements in| September without inductions. He assured, however, that induc- | tions would be held to a “minimum” | if September needs cannot be filled by voluntary enlistments. Rep. Thomason told the house that if the present voluntary en-| listment rate continues, he hoped | it would be unnecassary men in the fall. But he urged extension of the draft law, saying: “We have a sick, chaotic world.
Heanor with their daughter. When the children were born, | Thompson proclaimed his desire to|
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22 ADMIT SELLING | BLACK MART AUTOS
Plead Guilty to Part in Vast
Price Dodging Ring. |
Five Ripley County Farmers Sentenced in Federal Court
To Wed G. |. Father of 'Quads'
LONDON, June 256 (U. P.).—Nora Carpenter, the English barmaid who bore quadruplets to a U. 8. army sergeant, has obtained a United States visa and will fly to America with her three surviving children
arrival in the United States, Miss, — !
James M. Ragen Sr. Shot by
| and their weapons.
na Conspiracy
of the sentences 10 days, to give the men time to settle personal affairs. The elder Alsman was fined $100 and Quinius, whose farm was used for the crop, was sentenced to 30 days in jail,
MAYOR WARNS HIGHER TAXES ARE DUE HERE
Says Proposed $15,000,000 Budget Necessary to Meet Increased Costs.
By RICHARD LEWIS Mayor Tyndall announced today
Five Ripley county farmers, four of whom are more than 70 years| ‘Nat he would ask the taxpayers old, were sentencéd by Federal Judge Robert Baltzell today on charges of conspiracy to raise marijuana for possible sale later on Indiana ave. f Judge Baltzell, who said the case was “a little like liquor bootlegging days,” passed sentence after all five pleaded guilty to the charges.
to support a greatly increased
municipal budget and tax rate for}.
1047, In the first public statement of his position on the record, $15, 000,000 budget request, the mayor said:
“We have come to the point where we have to stop kidding ourselves that taxes can be reduced.
After obtaining marijuana seeds from the unidentified men, he is] said to have conspired with his] father, William Henry Alsman, and John H. Quinius, 70, Jacob T. Full{mer, 74, and Charles H. Reynolds, {72, to grow the crop without provi{sion for the payment of federal taxes. Quinius, on whose 76-acre-Ripley i
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The fact is, they can't. We are going to have to raise taxes next year and we want the public to understand why.” Two Important Factors Increases, he said, were mandated by two factors: ONE: Skyrocketing costs in labor and materials plus the city’s mushroom growth during the war, necessitating more services. TWO: . Underfinancing of last year’s budget which wiped out balances and left a deficit which the mayor estimated at $300,000. “I know this is going to bring a lot of heat on me,” the mayor said. “But we have no alternative. “We will pare down the requests as much as we can. People want services. They want their garbage collected and their streets main-
was announced today. |
The Pan American airline is arranging special facilities to heip
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Chicago Mobsters. |
By ROBERT T. LOUGHRAN United Press Staff Correspondent CHICAGO, June 25, — Police
of Chicago gambling—sought five former leaders of the old Capone| mob today in the ambush shooting |
{of James M. Ragen Sr. wealthy!
tycoon of racing information. Ragen was shot and seriously
his sleek, silver-colored car for a red light at a busy intersection. The shots came from a dilapidated fruit truck covered with a tarpaulin which hid the assailants
Police said the shooting was carefully planned and executed in typical gangland technique. The camouflaged truck, however, was an innovation in Chicago shootings, and led police to believe that the gunmen had been imported. | + The shooting was the second attempt on Ragen’s life in seven weeks, Police believed it marked renewed | efforts by former henchmen of
| Scarface Al Capone to musele into
DETROIT, June 25 (U. P.).-—| Twenty-two of 31 persons indicted | on charges of conspiring to operate | the largest used car black market! in history pleaded guilty today before Federal Judge Arthur A. Koscinsk. Seven others pleaded not guilty and the remaining two were severed from the trial by court order.
when the United States district at-| torney’s office announced smashing of a $3,000,000 black market in
control of Ragen's lucrative news|
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RADIO-ACTIVE BELT FAILS TO SAVE GIRL
LOS ANGELES, June 25 (U. P.).| —Aronette Rubin, 10-year-old At- |
always-fatal night. The girl was brought here by. her
ailment, died last
| which some 5000 used cars were father two weeks ago for treatments | Chief Justice Fred M. Vinson,
tained. We're going to give them the best service we can,
Wants Public Informed
“I think some of the taxpayers’ organizations understand what we're up against. I want the public to understand it, too. “We've go! be realistic this year. 1 have only one ambition. That is to keep this city in good condition. We need sewérs. We need better streets. We've got to pay for them.” As the mayor was outlining his views, City Controller Roy E, Hick-
| man and his deputy, Larry Parsons,
were conducting their review of the $15,000,000 budget requests by department heads
Mayor Tyndall said he would not ~~isit in on these reviews for the pres: She has riot seen Thompson for | fearing a sidden outbreak in the ent. Employees 15 “months. He whs divorced Te |long-smouldering war for control JC €C cently in Pittsburgh, clearing the | i
the mayor's
however, and it was evident he Bad passed his instructions on to sub-|
ordinates. Explanation Appended In a typewritten summary of the budget prepared by the controller,
| the following explanation was ap-
pended: “As many reductions will be made as possible, but city officials and tax experts and civic organizations agree: “That the percentage increase is nearly in line with those experienced in private business and industry; “That the city is faced with the same situations confronting nongovernmental organizations of increased wages, rising materials and supply costs and the availability of products and equipment which
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SNYDER DEMANDS BALANCED BUDGET
New Treasury Secretary Takes Oath of Office.
WASHINGTON, June 25 (U, P.). —John W. Snyder today became
|lanta, Ga., leukemia sufferer flown | 53d secretary of the treasury and] (here for radio-active treatments in | called for a balanced budget — or|
to draft| ne 31 were indicted April 19|* vain hope of curing the nearly- | better—in the fiscal year that starts
Monday. With President Truman looking on, Mr. Snyder took the oath from his
careened in the controller’siroad in 2
7 BALL PLAYERS KILLED IN CRASH
Former Second Baseman of Indians Injured.
By JACK PYLE United Press Staff Correspondent SNOQUALMIE PASS, Wash. June 25.—Seven professional baseball players were killed and eight teammates and the driver were injured
ibankment. The special bus, carrying all but
* (three of the Spokane, Wash., West-
{fern © International league team, pitched off a hairpin curve at the 3400-foot level of this treacherous {mountain pass. - | It ripped through 100 feet of {guard rail before it rolled down the steep, muddy bank. The flaming bus crashed to a stop at the bottom of a ravine. The injured scrambled from windows and split sections. One of the |players was hurléd through the roof {as the bus started its fatal plunge. | The front door was torn off durling the descent and an axle and two wheels were found 100 feet from the charred wreck.
Rope Down Incline
Rescue squads, led by state high{way patrolmen, roped down the [slippery incline to the wreck with {the aid of red emergency flares and | spotlights which cast a garish light over the tragic scene, | Bound for Bremerton, Wash. for a crucial series, the fifth place Spokane team virtually was wiped out of baseball as the bus skidded down the treeless slope and burst linto a flaming pyre. | The dead: San Francisco, unmarried. George Risk, 23, shortstop, Hillsboro, Ore., married. | Fred Martinez, 23, San Diego. | Mel Cole, 25, catcher, Sacramento, | Cal., married.
Bob Paterson, 23, outfielder, San
right fielder,
The Coliseum again breathed politics today as the Democratic state convention got underway.
last night. v ‘en a chartered bus off 4 narrow mountain} drigZling; rain. It plunged} jin flames down a 500 -foot em-
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Judge Earl R. Cox, former Circuit court judge, was the temporary chairman, .
Pepper Urges Liberalism, Sees Truman Versus Taft
By DANIEL M. KIDNEY A pléa for a “liberal Democratic party” was made by Senator Claude
state convention, All liberals should be Democrats, Senator Pepper declared, and issued a special invitation to Rep. Charles M. La Follette, Evansville, to join, Mr. La Follette and his “radical
ded the only i {spark in an otherwise listless | Democratic state convention
Judge Cox Scores Party
For Defeatism;’ Klan Is Under Fire.
——— By ROBERT BLOEM A contest for the U., 8, senatesnomination today pros
‘| seats as the convention dragged te
a start, 35 minutes late. lolled lazily in folding chairs, ofw
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fering occasional smatterings of ape
plause to oratory streaming from the platform.
the keynoter, could evoke a roofs raising ovation. Loudest handeclapping and cheere ing greeted Indiana University Professor Fowler Harper's reading 4bf the platform preamble denouncing the Ku Klux Klan, fascism and communism, Compare Conventions Observers said the convocation appeared to be even less inspired than the colorless G. O. P. conclave two weeks ago. Qne of the early speakers, former Circuit Judge Earl Cox of Indiane apolis, aroused delegates from time to time by sheer weight of eloquence, He scored his listeners for suce cumbing to a “defeatist attitude.” “There seems to be among some weak-kneed Democrats,” Judge Cox roared, “an uncalled-for complex of
Victor Picetti. 19. first baseman. Pepper of Florida teday in sounding the keynote for the Democratic |defeatism that has reached a mild
form of hysteria. That defeatist ate titude has been inculcated by yours selves through apathy and indife ference.” Greenlee Takes Over
Republican” ideas: were rejected by {the Republican state convention two weeks ago. . “Republican leadership today
Democratic
Francisco, married. Bob Kinnaman, Brooklyn, Wash.
|sold for as much as $600 above |? Dr. Nathaniel Davis, who hoped | predecessor as secretary of treasury. | Gelling prices {the action of a radio-active belt Mr. Snyder, said: : st the blood | “It is the responsibility of the At that tim _ | might help cure or arrest p 3 | toms were Te Sulla ivestiess yma; Atlanta businessmen | government to reduce its expendi- | f y helped pay for the treatment trip.| tures in every possible ‘way, to
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IN COFFEE THIS WEEK
WASHINGTON, June 25 (U. P..| -—Retall coffee prices, which have remained steady since the early part of the war, probably will be increased three to five cents a pound later this week, a government spokesman disclosed today. Representatives of the office of economic stabilization, the agriculture department, Reconstruction Finance Corp. and state department of OPA met yesterday to consider the new coffee price formula. , The boost will compensate producers for loss of payments when the coffee subsidy ends on June 30. A three-cents a pound subsidy has been in effect since Jan. 1, 1945.
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Indianapolis and Cincinnati. Those who pleaded not were Ben Fishel, 33, Cairo, Ill: Noble Dick, 37, Murray, Ky.: John D. Lovins, 35, and John C. A. Nelosn, 45. Paducah, Ky.; Kenton Far-
guilty |
SAYS U. S. EMBRACED
maintain adequate tax rates during this transition period, and achieve a balanced budget—or bet-
| GEN. MIKHAILOVITCH|ter—tor 1047.
BELGRADE, June 25 (U, P.).—|
Mr. Snyder, St. Louis banker and
; ior | former reconversion director, said ley, 37, and Gordon Ivey, Benton, Milos Trifunovic, Yugoslav senior| , ¢ Ky. and Ed West, Popular Bluff statesman, told a military tribunal the task of converting the nation’s
Mo.
today that Gen. Draja Mikhailo-
industrial machine to peace is vir-
Selection of a jury to try the vitth had strong support in the| tually complete.
seven who pleaded not guilty began immediately.
BANK HOLDUP NETS $44,000
United States in the early war years. Trifunovic testified at the trial of Mikhailovitch and 23 other Yugo-| slavs, Upright and clear-voiced despite]
He warned the United States cannot be prosperous or peaceful without a stable world. And he said the country must prevent “the seeds of isolationism from springing
POUGHKEEPSIE, N. Y, June |his 75 years. Trifunovic is one of|UP both here and abroad.”
25 (U. P).—~Two armed robbers, wearing leather flying jackets, held
up two bank messengers in down- |
town Poughkeepsie today and escaped with $44,000.
[the few ‘wartime emigres who re- | | turned to Yugoslavia without facing | charges, He served briefly as premier of the government exiled in London, !
2 Wreck Stolen Staff Car’ After Ft. Harrison Escape
After wrecking an army staff car, two fugitives from the Ft. Harrison disciplinary barracks were captured this morning by military police. One of the fugitives, Ollié Fugate, 26, of 2354 California st., Indianapolis, was injured seriously after the
car overturned at state road 67|darted across open farmland.
and Post rd. PFugate and Henry J.
Smith, 24, of 'Kansas .City, later the area discovered the men in a were apprehended by Ft. Harrison thicket. They surrendered without
guards at 38th st. and Post rd.
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Military authorities said the pair stole the army car and fled via Post rd, At its intersection with state road 67, they swerved into another car, forcing it into a guard rail. The staff car rolled over several times but its occupants scrambled out and
An hour later, guards patroling
HIGH TEMPERATURES
| FORECAST FOR CITY
[according to King County hospital
officials: George Lyden, 25, pitcher, Tensed,
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GERMAN POW DIES IN LEAP FROM TRAIN
Body Found Beside Tracks | West of Mellott.
Times Special
| The injured and their condition, | Townsend of Hartford City, former
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year, according to the prediction of | German prisoner of -war lay in al
the weather bureau. Thundershowers are expected tonight, and cooler weather tomorrow. Thursday the mercury will start Its upward climb again, remaining high over the week-end. Temperatures will average from 3 to 5 degrees above normal over most of the state. More thunderstorms are predicted for the entire state Saturday.
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funeral home here today. The dead P. O. W, was identified as Paul Witt, 38. His skull fractured, he was found last night by State Troopers Clarence Short and Charles Ellendorf two miles west of Mellott beside the Nickel Plate tracks. Military authorities said he jumped from a passenger train that had passed through Mellott 24 hours earlier. Witt's body was taken to the Fisher funeral home here, pending notification of the war department by Fountain county officials. State police from the Lafayette post were
investigating.
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Lineup
the lineup for today's
stands for isolationism and rou state convention:
tion while the liberal Democratic party stands for peace, health and
Here is Democratic
For U. 8. senator—M. Clifford Prosperity for the nation,” he said. ‘Taft vs. Truman’ governor, and John A. Watkins,| He predicted that the 1948 tickets Bloomfield publisher. {will _be “Taft against Truman” and
For secretary of state—Harry Mc-| that Truman will win, Mostly, however, he stressed the {“liberal” leadership of the late For treasurer of state—Timothy| president Roosevelt and urged conP. Sexton of Indianapolis. [tinued expansion of the New Deal For auditor of state — George Program. Barnhart of Brazil. | “Our task—the task of all liberals —is to make the Democratic party what Franklin Delano Roosevelt and every Democratic leader strove so mightily to make it—the party of militant liberalism,” Senator Pepper shouted,
Predicts Victory He stressed the need for world
For Clerk of the Supreme and Appellate courts — Jack Kale of South Bend.
For Superintendent of Public Instruction — Edward 8, Furnish o
Vevay, { |
For Judge of the Supreme court, |
VEEDERSBURG, Ind., June 25.—!§econd district — George W. Long | Co-operation in the preservation of The temperature today may jump Killed when he leaped from a speed-|of Columbus. {to one of the highest marks of the ing train in an escape attempt, a
{peace and contended that deep
|down the G. O. P. is “isolationist.” For Judges of the Appellate; «1 ap heartened to come to a
court, southern district (two to be! pemocratic convention which acnominated) —~Warren Martin of b
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BULLETIN |
NEW YORK, June 25 (U. P.).— | An oil barge tied up at dock next | to the Staten Island ferry house | at Staten Island exploded and |
For Judegs of the Appellate court, northern district (two to be nomi-nated)-—-Fay W. Lease of Ft. Wayne and Harry Stilley of Hammond.
AIR CRASH KILLS TWO
AKRON, O,, June 25 (U, P).— George Kling Jr., 29, and his companion. Mrs. Gennessee Fickle, 21, were killed today when their small airplane went into a spin and | crashed in a vacant lot on Akron's |
| time) today, A number of persons were believed trapped by fire In
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He urged the audience to “go home and talk to your friends and neighbors and make the Hoosiep Democratic party the David who will slay the Goliath , , .” A ripple of applause greeted State Chairman Pleas Greenlee's effort to infuse the gathering with optimism, Mr. Greenlee exhorted: “I am privileged to lead a united, unbeatable, wunconquerable Demo cratic party to a glorious victory next November.” He assured the delegates they would be “unhampered by any outs side influence.” Beaming down on the orators were huge magnified photographs
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