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The Indianapolis

FORECAST: Fair tonight. Sunny and pleasant tomorrow,

WEDNESDAY, JULY 3, 1946 - . “i

Entered as Second-Class Matfer at Postoffice Indianapolis, Ind, Issued daily except Sunday

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CPA APPROVES §1.150976 IN NEW BULDINGS

35 Applications, Valued at $455,640, Are Rejected By Administration.

A $100,000 expansion of the Banquet Ice Cream and Milk Co. 1214 Southeastern ave. today topped a list of new constructipn approved here by the civilian production administration. A two-story brick addition. to present facilities of the milk plant

was one ‘of 51 projects totaling} |

1998 anprcyed. by OPA. 10F, the} |

week ending June 27. ‘A total of 35 applications representing $458640 in proposed construction was denied. Six Churches Denied Banquet officials told the government ‘agency the proposed building will-permit an expanded production needed to accommodate increased business. .- Among other Indianapolis applications approved were Union Title Co., remodeling to cost $75,000; Barrett- Hardware Co., expansion, $19,000; Calvary Tabernacle church, $8400; Southport high school, $2000; Hilton and May Helen McBroom, electrical repair service, $6000, and Fletcher Trust Co., $2000. Among applications denied were those for the construction of six churches. In addition, one providing for a church dorinitory costing $110,000 ‘was rejected. Projects planned in Evansville where nearly $2,500,000 worth of building * was approved includes: $43,000 for several new buildings at Evansville college; $81,000 for & de-

Leo Schear Co. Inc.; $66,000 for a physician's clinic building to be’ erected by Dr. C. A. Hartley Jr, and $40,000 for a tool and die business by Claude Leroy Miller, OK Tipton Utility

The CPA also approved a $125,000 expansion of the electric power utility at Tipton and erection of a $67,583 building by the Cleveland Graphie Bronze Co. of Ft. Wayne. Other state applications approved included: Wabash County Farm bureau, Wabash, soybean storage, $18,000;

University of ‘Notre Dame, Notre

Dame, engineering department, $33,000: Maxwell Methodist church, Maxwell, church building, $25,000; ‘William Kallal, Monticello, ' repair farm equipment, $20,000. Crawfordsville Plant

City of Crawfordsville, electric power utility improvement, $98,000; Marsh Foods Inc, Muncie, food store, $14,000; Goss Bros. Electric Co., Gosport, $8000; ‘Everett R, Ellerman, Ft. Wayne, warehouse, $5000; Iva K. Vollmer, Osgood, grocery, $4500. : _ Carnegie-Illinois Steel = Corp, Gary, repair blast furnaces, $62,000; Muncie Airport, Inc. hangars, $31,160. George L. Potler, Lafayette, fom mercial shoe repair, $2500; Frue hauf Trailer Co., Pt. Wayne, shipping building, $40,000; Charlestown | Hardware Co, Charlestown, ware-| house, 000.

GIRL | GETS 7 “YEARS | FOR KIDNAPING BOY

ASHEVILLE, N. C, July 3 (U.| P.).~Loretta Brozek, 20-year- old| farm girl, was found guilty yester-| day of kidnaping four- -year-old | Terry Taylor of Charlotte, N. C. She was sentenced to: seven years confineinent. Federal Judge E. Yates Webb recommended that the Detipha, Neb., nursemaid be sent to a eral institution to be rome] by the U. 8, attorney general, taking) into consideration her health: Miss Brozek was working for Dr. and Mrs. Andrew Taylor, a promi-

nent Charlotté couple, as a nurse=|

maid when she ran away with Terry last: February. She was arrested two days later in Annapolis, Md. The child was unharmed.

NYLON, MEAT LINES COLLIDE; NONE HURT

NEW YORK; July 3 (U. P)—A nylon line ran into a meat line today. There were no casualties. The meat line, composed of 200 women, extended south from a market in lower Manhattan. The nylon line formed at a shop on an intersecting street-to the north and grew around the corner until its tail bumped into the head of the meat line. The women of the two lines exchanged polite hellos.

PAVING CONTRACT LET. The Works board today awarded a $1576 contract to Schwert Brothers for paving of Charles st. from Adler st. 220 feet south.

TIMES INDEX

Amusements, 4-5, Don Hoover.. 10° Eddie Ash ... 6|In Indpls. ... 3] Book PHge ... 7|Inside Tapia, 9 Business ..... 12{Lucas 9 Churchill ,... 10{ Ruth Millett, 9 Classified.. 13-14| Movies ...,..4-5 Comics ...... 18 Obituaries cl

Two Killed and One Critically Injured ir in. Traffic Accidents Mere

pi Ana nism?

near 11th, ing the driver.

Death was a passenger in this truck. , , . After overturning, it slid 30 feet before slamming against a utility pole on Pennsylvania st,

BILBO HOLDING Driver Is Trapped in.Cab

SLIM MAJORITY When Truck Skids Into Pole |g Ny, 1 WEAPON

Two persons died here today in traffic crashes involving ice idk.

Run-off Election Possible: Rankin Wins Again.

The dead are: Jewel W. Daizell, 34, of 1135 Groff st.

| Gordon Jenkins, 31, of 5300 Cornelius ave.

Mr. Dalzell was killed in a truck-auto collision on Washington st.| {near Lyndhurst dr. which also critically injured his brother, Eugene |

JACKSON, Miss., July 3 (U. P.). Dalzell, 28, of 1618 W. New York st. om

—Senator Theodore G. Bilbo held al scant majority over his four rivals}

in the Mississippi Democratic Pri-| on at.

{ rammed the rear of ‘an ice truck as|left,

The grocery truck swerved to the | careening over the east curb

{both proceeded west on Washing-|and sliding 30 feet into a utility pole. in’ the 5300 block. Both |The cab was smashed by the impact

They were riding in a car that|

mary today in a race so close a run- | vehicles were badly wrecked. Driver | Mr. Jenkins was found dead at the

oft election may be necessary.

from 1378 of Mississippi's 171% Bre-

With unofficial returns tabulated! Rv R, 7, who was not injured.

'of the truck was Lloyd Minton of Wheel. Police said the ice truck, driven! 2102 Hight:

- ht Janes: : Ws XHied “I0=T, 14 pl. had started to make a left

cinets, Senator Bilbo, campaigning|stantly this morning when he Was|tyrn onto 11th st. when Jenkins

on a platform of white supremacy, | Pinned in the cab of his overturned | drove up beside him on the leit, [tion at Pearl Harbor—where planes | truck at 11th and Pennsylvania sts.

held. a 1442 vote lead over the combined total of his four opponents.

clipping a fender. Driving a truck for the Bortztruck from around The truck: was

91,201; Tom Q. Ellis, 55853; Ross {both vehicles were traveling south|loaded with 100-pound sacks of]

Collins; 18,042; Nelson Levings, U510, and Frank Harper, 1367. Unless Senator Bilbo* obtains a majority of the total votes cast, he, will face Mr. Ellis, former state su- | preme court clerk, in a run-off. Two Incumbents Win Rep. John E. Rankin, who also

premacy ticket, won renomination | in the primary which observers had | feared would be punctuated with race trouble if poll officials fol-|

| Mississippi. Two other representatives, Arthur | | Winstead and William M. Colmer, | won renomindtion, bu

| with John Bell Williams. Rep. Rankin's closest rival, Judge |

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ARMY, NAVY MERGE

{pad built his race on a white su- But Her Husband, 18, Is a

| lowed Senator Bilbo's admonition “Grandma” {to prevent Negroes from voting in| | bride,

t Rep. Dan |N. Y., where they were scheduled |

| McGehee was forced into a -runoff [to make a four-day holiday week- | lend appearance.

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9- YEAR- oD BRIDE Fair Weather SET FOR LONG TRIP Is Forecast

For Holiday

LOCAL TEMPERATURES

sugar and other staples.

Bit Reluctant. |

LOUISA, Ky July 3 (U. P)— 6am 57 Wa WK... 13 S 0. M0 » Ver 1d 7am.....60 lla m 75 Prose, Heyear ola! fam. 65 12 (Noen).. 76 and her husband, Delbert,! 9a m..... 69 1p. iwi. 1]

|18, were on their longest trip from | home today, en route to Buffalo, The local weather bureau today

| promised Indjana pleasant Fourth of July weather. Official forecast today was:

One of their managers, S. B. Noe, Gen-

|Claude F. Clayton, conceded defeat Said “Grandma was rarin’ to go,|erally fair and warmer today, - toat midnight with Rep. Rankin] {but Shorty was sorta’- reluctant to |

| travel.” {night and tomorrow.

It will be the second public ap- Temperatures were expected to] pearance for .the Sprouses since |stay at about 2 to 4 degrees above

their marriage June 7. On June 23 {the seasonal normal. A rising trend | wrought, had it been dumped, say,

they were part of a hillbilly band |... indicated by an 8-degree jump

show at Huntington, W. Va. { {in two hours this morning.

ATOMIC RESEARCH traFaLGaR TO VOTE | .eAmNG SET TODAY

Moye to Co-ordinate New

Defense Projects. |

WASHINGTON, July 3 (U. P.).— The army and navy today announced establishment of a joint board to co-ordinate their research and development of atomic weapons and other new aids to national defense, Named as chairman of the board, was Dr. Vannevar Bush, director of | the office of scientific research and|

the atom bomb project. Secretary of War Robert P. Pat- | terson and Secretary of Navy James | Forrestal said the purpose of the

tional defense,

Navy . representatives on

erations. Carl Spaatz, air forces chief, and | Gen. Jacob L. Devers, ground forces | commander, Dr. Lloyd Berkner of the Carnegle institute of Washington will be executive secretary.

5-INCH BABY DEAD;

LIVED FOR 17 HOURS

ALLENTOWN, Pa, July 3 (U, P.. —A premature baby girl, only five inches long and weighing less than one pound, died today 17 hours after her birth. : ; rai The baby, born to Mrs. Viola Deutsch; 26, had been in an incubator and was fed with a medicine

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board was to develop a strong and| Jesse E. McCoy, Cloverdale, unified research program for na-| Harley E. Miller, Greencastle, have

the| nam county hospital: board by the board are Assistant Navy Secretary | county commissioners. W. John Kenny and Adm. Dewitt ceed Mrs, C. Ramsey, vice chief of naval op-| | Theodore Brown, both of Green-!O’Rear has said his wife is not Army delegates are Gen. | | castle, who resigned July 1.

ON INCORPORATION "yy" NARCOTICS CASE

FRANKLIN, Ind, July 3—An| Mrs. Pauline O'Rear, 24, who with election to .determine ‘whether to|her husband, James O'Rear, 37, was | incorporate the town of Trafalgar [arrested last Friday on. a charge will be held at the Trafalgar branch of forgin narcotics prescription, of the Union Trust Co. July 17, ac- | BNE 3 P put was to face preliminary hearing!

cording to an order by the Johnson | county. board of commissioners. |today before a U.S. commissioner.

The territory contains 226.15 | Her husband waived preliminary acres. A census of the resident pop-|hearing when arrested and was ulation of the territory, taken bound over to the federal grand

June 3, showed a population of 415, of whom 309 were qualified voters.

| Jury. Bernard B. Peterson, federal narcotics agent, said the Tuscaloosa, Ala., couple first became active a week ago at Louisville. Their trail was picked up here and traced to! GREENCASTLE, Ind, July 3. — a Massachusetts .ave. drug store, and where they attempted to obtain an |opium derivative with a prescrip[tion alleged to have been forged. Police were called and arrested | |the pair, who had become suspicious | and was attempting to Ileave.|

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Jewish Terrorists’ Sentence Commuted by Commissioner

JERUSALEM, July 3 (U. P).-— members of the Irgun organization. The death sentences of two young| The death sentences were comJewish extremists® convicted of {muted by High Commissioner Lieut. terroristic activity were commuted | Gen. Sir Alan Cunningham, today and it was believed that| The men were Joseph Simhoni three British officers -held as/and Isaac Ashbel. They had: been hostages by the underground might condemned to death by: the Jerusabe released tonight as a result. lem military court. Ti The three officers have been held| It was reported without confirmaby the Irgun Zvei Leumi under- tion today that two Jewish soldiers ground organization which said it [had been kidnaped at .Haifa by would -. ‘hold them = as hostages | unknown persons. Police were inagaing, the id Sauais1e both | vestigating the pond

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MEAT GOUGING DOUBLES MOVE, 70 ‘HOLD LINE’

Big Packers, rs, Retail Groups Fight Boosts Made at Smaller Stores.

By DONNA MIKELS Scattered reports of higher meat prices in Indianapolis independent | stores today found large packers, retail food organizations and chain stores redoubling efforts to “hold the line.” The threat of re-establishment of OPA controls if meat prices continue to rise resulted in these “hold the line” developments:

livestock purchases, rather than pay hog prices some $3 over the two-year ceiling, and the highest cattle prices since 1919. Armour & Co. and Kingan & Co. followed the pattern of other large packers over the nation. They decreased purchases to try to force the livestock market to 1 reasonable level. Shippers and | small packers, however, continue to pay high prices and bought most of Writer Points ints Out Damage Par 18 At Bikini. TWO: The two large packers and |the city's chain stores kept meat

| (Other A-Bomb Test News, Page 2) | | prices at the OPA ceiling, although [there were scattered instances of

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HOLD THE LINE

Inflation ... and

The Price of Pork

(An Editorial) JTUSEWIVES, shopping for \ tomorrow's . ditiffer are up against their first real test today on price inflation. Scdttered around town are a few markets asking fantastic prices for meat. * There is no reason why they need ask such prices. Beef and pork at the stockyards ‘are up only two or three cents a pound. Huge supplies have poured in this week. Every meat market in Indianapolis could sell, today, at or near the prices charged last week. Chain stores and reputable ‘indepenednt stores are holding to those prices. Major packing companies are refusing to pay inflated prices for livestock supplies. For the moment they are being outbid by a cent or two, by the same kind of operators as were outbidding them. a week ago and sending nearly all meat into black markets.

PLEDGES SENT 10 $8

Capehart, Willis Are Urged To Kill Price Control For Keeps.

By DANIEL M. KIDNEY Times Staff Writer

WASHINGTON, July 3.— Business groups are-busy toe day trying to get the senate banking and currency come mittee to kill OPA for keeps, Wires from various Indians organizations pledging to hold the price line have been received by both Senators Willis (R, Ind.) and Capehart (R. Ind). The latter is & member of thé committee which is handling OPA. He. moved to bring the Byrd bill to continue rent cone trol to the floor, but was defeated, he said. Senator Capehart believes Mae jority Leader Barkley (D. Ky) intends to take the 20-day revival bill. passed by the house and makes it into some sort of OPA continue ance for one year which Presideny Truman will approve. That would mean watering down and revamping the Taft-Wherry

doubled prices at smaller stores. Times Foreign Correspondent N

IN BIKINI LAGOON, July 3.— The atomic bomb, which struck the anchored fleet in this lagoon on | Monday, did more damage than a sthgie bomb ever dif to ships before. To compare it with the destruc

sized, - however, that some hike would be necessary soon, because of increased cost and discontinuance of subsidies. wind MHREE: The Indiana Retail G cers association appealed. to members to “go meatless” rather than buy from small wholesalers at prices that would force retail prices up. The pressure of the organization will be brought against members who hike prices, forcing a hardship on other members and | paving the way for renewed price controls, H. C. Hagelskamp, secre-

submarines combined in a hammer-blow at our fleet—is ob- | viously unfair. | So is a comparison with the Japanese ships we. sank in the Coral | sea where hundreds of bombs and | thousands of shells brought about ’ debacle. tary, said. This was a single bomb and if| FOUR: A similar “hold the line” its results were less than some of |APPeal was made by the Indiana

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| us anticipated, it still remains. as |Festaurant association. Members the most horrible weapon in the | Were asked to keep increases “reaslong history of war. y onable.” until a price level is reached.

Officers Non-Committal Consumer Profests of Task

High-ranking officers Force No. 1 and ‘members of the The general banding together of President's and.the joint chiefs-of- | \AT8er food outlets came as constaff's evaluating commissions are | SUmers over the city protested hikes completely non-committal about. | °F meat ‘prices, The OPA office | those. results up to this point. made up tables comparing ceilings Their attitude is understandable, 10 today’s Prices, after complaints because it will be months before a of increased meat prices. completely factual report can be| Lhe hikes, all in small-independ- | o. ent stores, included: Hamburger, ceiling, 29 cents, present price, 50 cents; pork chops, ceiling, 38 eents, present ,price, 80 cents; Tebone steaks, ceiling, 54 cents, up to 73 and 80 cents.

However, there are interesting conclusions to be reached from what we have seen in the lagoon. This bomb was ‘of the Nagasaki type, but admittedly not quite as | powerful as the one dropped on the Butter 73 Cents | Japanese city. Butter prices were ranging from | What damage would {t have |73'td 90 cents over the city. {price of lard today was 30 cents wholesale and "as high as 34 cents retail, compared to 16-cent whole= sale and 20-cent retail OPA ceilings. Meat hikes came as a direct re-

| on New York City?

| Guess of Writer This Is what I would guess would ‘happen to New York if an atomic bomb fell say at Broadway and Wall streets. The guess Is based on what hap- | pened to the ships in Bikini lagoon. | I would imagine that those! | buildings in the immediate vicinity { might be gutted from top to bot- | tom, leaving the steel framework | standing, , Some -of the upper floors would be sliced off as though by a | sharp knife and hurled into the street. Trinity church and some of the dld buildings in the vicinity would be: completely demolished. The loss of life within an area of .some| | blocks would be very high.

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WHOLESALE FOOD PRICE INDEX JUMPS

Some Mereases Are Felt at Retail Level.

By UNITED PRESS Food ' prices went up today in many of America's major cities as No Repetition trade associations appealed to their However, conceding that the| members to hold out against infla- | bombs were of equal strength, there | tionary trends. { would be no repetition of Hiroshima! In New York, Dun and Brad{or Nagasaki in New York. street, Inc., reported wholesale food | The blast has a habit of seeking| prices have boomed to the highthe easiest point of escape. | est general level since July 29, 1920 In the tight, hard streets of lower | following the end of OPA. | New York, it would strike brutally Lat all sides of the detonation point,

York rose 9% to 14% cents a pound. The food price increases also were beginning to be felt at the retail level

3. INJURED AS BUS. I=L jevel, Sumpie: reports from AND TRUCK COLLIDE NEW YORK-—-Meat pricés up an

average of 20 per cént.” Butter up CANTON, Ill, July 3 (U, P.); —| 10 cents a pound and milk expected Three persons were in serious con-

: to go up two or three cents a quart dition at Graham hospital today | tomorrow. following an accident in which 19| PHILADELPHIA Hamburger Caterpillar Tractor Co. employees selling at 37 cents a pound as comwere hurt when a bus collided with | pared with the old ceiling of 30 a livestock truck near here, cents. The impact tore away the side] BOSTON-Milk prices three cents of the bus, crumbling the roof and|a quart higher. Dressed poultry nearly half the seats. ’

seven cents a pound higher. Seriously injured were Fred Dol-| DETROIT—Pork chops ‘at bne lar, St. David, Ill; Leo F. Grigsby,

store sold at $1.10 a pound with Lewistown, Ill. and Lester Phil-| customers standing in line to get lips, Bryant, Ill. “The rest of the

them. White corn meal sold at ony were released after emer-|$2.25 a bag as compared ‘with OPA ney treatment. .

ceiling of 60 cents, @

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Packers and chain stores empha-|

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Wholesale butter prices in New|

ACT UALLY the picture has not changed a bit from last week, except that what were then black market practices now are out in the open. Such meat as escaped the black markets then was on sale at dependable stores at ceiling prices. Such meat as vescapes such channels now is | still for sale at dependable Istores at the same prices, There is just as much meat for sale here at last week's prices today as there was last week. The housewives of this town can break this profiteering in 48 hours. All they need to do is say “NO.”

A RENT BOOSTS

OPA Protests Don’t Hit at Big Property Owners.

By RICHARD LEWIS

Rent increases reported to the | Indianapolis OPA district averaged 65 per cent since Monday when rent -cbhntrol ended, the defunct price control agency reported here today. This percentage held in increases reported to district price control offices at Lafayette, Terre Haute, Anderson, South Bend, Muncie and Bloomington. A similar rent picture was emerging from the cities of Cleveland and Detroit, according to exchange LO Jeceives here, 5 per cent increase in Ineo applied only to rent hikes reported to the OPA by ten|ants and landlords and did not re- | Rect an accurate city-wide trend. | This percentage increase did not reflect the modergting influence

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| Price of Beer

\Going Up, |-5¢

Some beer-drinkers are foaming at the mouth, depending .on where they trade. Here's what's ale-ing them: Beer is overflowing previous OPA price levels in scattered spots throughout the city. Price hikes range ‘from one to five cents per bottle, with ‘some taverns charging 20 cents for standard brands, 25 cents for prémium brands. Others simply added a penny to’ their OPA rates, making up for an 11-cent a ‘case increase recently awarded wholesalers, As of today, most Indianapolis barmen were heeding telegrams

Alcoholic Beverage association. The telegrams ask them to hold the line. Downtown hotel and night

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ARE CHARGED HERE":

sent them by the Indiana Retail |

amendments. Senator Taft (Rs 0.) is on the committee, :

N. AM Lobbyists Active

Meanwhile, the National Associse tion of Manufacturers has sent lo swarming to in an effort to keep the bill Sam’ Bledsoggand William Neal N. A. M. called on Senator Capes . hart. Indianapolis packers phoned te tell him that the hog market broke. They claim much of the meat was purchased by former black market slaughterérs, Senator Capehart said. According to the senator's office, 500 telegrams and 500 letters, most« ly urging restoration of OPA, were received from Indiana. The husiness telegrams were similar to the following from Sec retary H. C. Hagelskamp of the Indiana Grocers and Meat Dealers association, : Grocers Oppose Controls

“Indiana grocers will hold line, Urge you to work and vote against | 20-day OPA extension, We feel | veto attempt to confuse public and { ranater blame for inflation to cone

A wire from President Earl Hope ping of thé Indianapolis’ Indes pendent Retail Grocers and Meat Dealers association read: “ “Indianapolis grocers urge you to vote against 20-day OPA extension.” Senator Capehart sald a checkup of ‘25 ‘telegrams received in ‘one delivery showed five were Indians apolis OPA"employees. Senator Willis said he is for lete ting OPA die and see what hape

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ANDERSON’ ASKS MILK CEILING BE OBSERVED

WASHINGTON, July 3 (U. P.).—= Secretary of Agriculture Clinton PB. Anderson today urged the nation's milk producers’ to hold milk prices at former ceiling levels until cone gress decides whether to reinstate price control. Such action, he said, would be iu line with President Truman's ape peal for all groups to keep prices. in line until the fate of OPA definitely is determined. .

‘CHICAGO ELEVATED FARE CUT REFUSED CHICAGO, July 3 (U, P)—K ride on the elevated will continue to cost Chicagoans 12 cents. Judge Michael Feinberg of Cire. cuit court yesterday denied the Il+ linois commerce commission an ine junction -to prevent the Chicago

Rapid Transit Co. from charging more than 10 cénts a ride.

Bungalow Near Broad Ripple Pack Available Immediately Recent acquisition by the city of Broad Ripple. into the pubs lic parks system insures .its de= velopment as a recreation center, This homie, while not adjacent to the park, is Just a pleasant walk from. ft, . . .

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