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read into Somammliigd records also that May acted as for a Ken Ss lumber comny which received from two parof the combine $48,000 that was never deliv-

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was revealed to have committee in closed session that he recalled helping but that he never made of the dealings. Mead described as “wholly inadequate” Mr. May's testimony in last month's closed

Recorded Phone Calls Senator Mead also denied reports

‘War Robert P. Patterson will testi-

fy such charges. He pledged that the com mittee will go ahead with the ne vestigation “regardless of any efforfs at coercion or intimidation.’ Senator Ferguson sald that if Mr. O'Connell had resigned as chief war profits investigator, it would have “left the committee high and ‘because he was the principal the O'Connell told his story with of a recorded telephone call to Chief Committee Coun-

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Garsson said Pields talked about ‘the that Henry Garsson his brother, Murray Garsson, were undergoing, “the banks being reluctant to loan money while the investigation is going on.” Asked About Report i Later in the afternoon, he said, : Sosaph T. Freeman, Washington . representative of the Garsson firms,

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Mr. O'Connell said, Martinez told ‘him to be in New Mexico by Jan. § and “handed me $500 in five $100 bills” In his telephone conversation with Senator Mead, Mr. O'Connell said he had gone “hook, line and sinker” for the New Mexico deal | until it occurred to him that Fields’ primary interest was not politics | but the Garsson case. py Back to Hotel “The thing developed in my mind after I got home last night” he told Mead. ‘This morning, 1 hur ried to the Drake hotel apd caught Joe (Martinez) in the bathroom in his’ pajamas and gave him his money back.” Senator Mead congratulated Mr, O'Connell for the “forthright” manner in which he handled the whole affajr, ; J “This is another instance’ on the part of interested parties to stop work” of-thisaocem ine”

this kind ‘they are attempting to intimidate. an arm of the government. It is a serious matter when men are so corrupt that they resort to dealings of this kind.” : Senator Mead said the commit-| tee had been informed that Fields has “gone on an extended trip.” Admits Making Calls The text ‘of Mr. May's statements before the committee a month ago showed he testified that: ONE: “I may have called somebody for them (the Garssons) at some time for an engagement to see somebody with respect to some

been manufacturing the goods. I do not know. My recollection is that I did on one or two oecchsions, TWO: He was appointed process agent for the Cumberland Lumber Co.,, one of the. “empire” firms and was the only person authorized | to draw on its bank account, THREE: He never had any financial interest in the company, never made any profit out of it and that all checks drawn on the account “were entirely disbursed in the business of the company.” FOUR: The company kept no books except bank statements and canceled checks. FIVE: His soit and nephew were on the lumber company’s payroll,

appeared at the Drake suite and quet given by the Garssons, during the conversation “they asked only “as an observer to see what | me what my report would contain.” | inducements they were giving to] Mr. O'Connell said they also|/the veterans they had employed; tried to learn if he would try to get|they were putting on a considerable|of the summer just how successful out of the/show about veterans they had hired, of certain restrictions | that somebody in the government the Central Aircraft Corp. here. But Mr. Poulin, an authority on

| Brie basin and Batavia metals in-|regardless | vestigation.

and a $600 check made out to his son was for funds “that he would

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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

re Behind Attacks On Him, May Says.

_ MONDAY, JULY 8 1046.

Hovering over a herd of cattle, a helicopter equipped with “Kelley Kootie Killer,” provides a quick and effective insecticide dusting.

Together with the tractor and the plow, the helicopter and its insect spray may become an effective farm tool.

Helicopter ls Used to-Dust DDT On

YAKIMA, Wash. July 8.—An item “Kelley's Kootie Killer” is threatening to shove the helicopter right into the front row of the farm implement picture alongside the tractor and the plow. is an aircraft crop and cattle dustthg machine adapted to helicopters by Frank H. Kelley Jr, farm specialist for Bell

The “Kootie Killer”

Aircraft, Coupled w ith

{to stifie the buzzing of files and mosquitoes which were threatening |

herds of cattle.

Use Rotor Draft

The helicopter made

four runs. over the cattle to accustom them to the flying windmill, hovered just over the herd, releasing DDT. Down-draft of the rotor shot the insecticide to the ground and then swirled it up

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and around the cattle.

The samé plane was dry a cherry orchard which had If allowed

become rain soaked.

disburse on the job."

but

When he left the Drake hotell had put on it some way.”

to dry naturally in the sun, SIX: He attended a $16,000 ban-| cherries would have split and been

ruined for marketing.

the helicopter is as a chine,” says Herman

+ May ‘Fan Away Insect Warries

the windmill-type alreraft, the killer has been buzzing lover the countryside in these parts

copter, acting as a giant fan, blew the water from the cherries.

“We won't know until the,

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aerial farm dusting, adds “we do know that the helicopter is far more efficient than a regular air-

plane because it actually is dust60 seconds and can, be reloaded right on the farm.” ~* Mr. Poulin says a standard. air{plane dusting fields or cattle is over its ,working area ‘only seven Seconds out of a. working minute The rest of the time, because the plane must make wide turns and travel much faster, is used up in making approach runs. “We believe,” he says, “that we | have a machine here that will save {the farmer a large percentage of the six billion dollar loss he suffers every year from bugs, weeds and rodents. “We'll know for sure by October.”

Man Just Made

Himself at Home

FT. WAYNE, July 8 (U, P.)— After this, Charles Graft will lock his door. Awakened yesterday morning by a fog of smoke in his apartment, Mr. Graft found his davenport going up In flames and an unconscious stranger on the floor. A drunk had wandered in, set the davenport afire accidentally with a lighted cigaret. and then { rolled off on the floor.

CUBAN DANCER IS AWARDED DIVORCE

HOLLYWOOD, July 8 (U, P).— Cuban Dancer Olga Loriz held a | default divorce decree today after testifying that her husband, Screen Writer Robert B. Mitchell, 31, said | he didn’t want to live with her any | more when he got out of the army. During the last year he -was-in

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service. he never wrote her, she told Superior Judge William J Palmer Shortly afterward, she said, she

[found a night club photograph of | her husband with a strange blond | woman. An out-of-court settlement provided for support of their 3-year- | old son, Gary.

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‘ARMY ENLISTMENT "POLICY ANNOUNCED

The local army recruiting station {has received authority to continue {to re-enlist all honorably discharged | veterans who left the esrvice after May 12, 1945, in a grade appropriate | to their military training and ex- { perience if they sign up for three | years. | Former officers, flight officers and warrant officers who are not eligible for enlistment in the first grade under current war department di- | rectives still can request appropriate grade and assignment from | commahding gener] of the major {force in which they wish to enlist 'provided they enlist for a threeyear period.

3 NAVAL OFFICERS FACE COURT MARTIAL

MANILA, July 8 (U. P.). = The navy announced today that three of its officers ‘had been relieved of duty and were awaiting general court-martial on charges of black marketing, bribery, and misappropriation of government property. The three men were attached to the submarine supply center on Subic bay. They were Lt. Cmdr, C. B. Sprott, Oakland, Cal; Lt. H. C. Bates, San Francisco, and Lt, H. L. Blakley, "litted as from Brisbane, Australia, with ho U. 8. address given. | #fhey have been in the service | 29, 25 and 26 years, Tespectively,

OPEN HOUSE IS HELD BY ‘OSTRICH SITTER’

offspring could spefid 48 hours in a | oronder to gain strength for public

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STOCKYARDS JAMMED BY HOGS AND CATTLE

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the. big news in middle western stockyards today. ? Cholce Cattle High One local packer pointed out that the fact that a record catle price was established today did not mean | an even higher price on the Indi- | anapolis retail market, Most of the high priced cattle, he said, went to eastern shippers,

The $21.50 was bid only on strict- |

{ly choice cattle, which represented

3 |only about 10 to 15 per cent of the

total receipts, the spokesman said. {This left a bulk of some 80 to 85

\per cent of the cattle which was

classed as medium grade and sold on a much lower level, The $21.50 was the highest price paid for cattle since the boom days following world war I, When, a $21 price was established. The $21 mark

| was reached at the local stockyards ast week on a few choice cattle,

Suksidy. Dropped

The same cattle .that sold at

$21. 50 today were held at an $18.06

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i Buje igh ening: : A. TAMIA. government | subsidy of $3 which the ‘govern: meént paid - packers for buying at the ceiling.’ Local packers pointed out that this means at least $3 of the increased price already was being paid indirectly by the consumers, through the subsidy. Thus the price ‘of cattle today is only a small increase over what packers call “fictional OPA prices” andthe price which beef was bringing on the biack market.

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Mrs. Frank M. Pauvre, widow of Frank Maus Fauvre and lifelong resident of Indianapolis, died yesterday at the home of her daugh; | ter, Mrs. Thomas Wiles, Hingham, | Mass., after a short illness. She jas 87, - ‘ Mrs, Fauvre, who lived at the |Marott hotel, was visiting her | daughter. She was born at Henry- | ville, Clark county, Sept. 11, 1859, Formerly active in elvic, art, and {music circles, {member of the Matinee Musicale, land it was at her home, 28 W, [North st, that the examining tryouts for active membership were givens in the early years of the club's ‘organization, Active in Clubs She was also a charter member of the Indianapolis. Propylaeum, Women's Department club, Cather ine Merrill club, John Herron Art

institute, and the Indiana Historical society, Mrs, Fauve was the’ "daifghtér of Mr, and Mrs. Charles Sulzer | Scholl.

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Mrs. Fauvre was 4a,

Mrs. Frank M. Fauvre Dies

With Daughter

The family moved here in 1870, When Mr, Scholl was elected clerk of the supreme court, their home was on the present site of the state historical library building. A.graduate of St, Mary's of the Fauvre also attended Oxford college for women in Oxford, O. . Married in 1880 "

Mr. and Mrs. Fauvre were married in Indianapolis in 1880 and made their home here. Survivors include two daughters, Mrs, Wiles and Mrs, R. Wynn 8 Owen of St. Petersburg, Fla.; three sons, FPrancis. M. of Julian M. of Decatur, Ill, and Irving M. Fauvre of Indianapolis; two sisters, Mrs, Ray C. Scott, and Mrs. Robert Bartol of Hood River, Ore.; one brother, Logan: C. Scholl of Indianapolis; nine grandchildren and four, great-grandchildren. Services and cremation will be Wednesday at 3 p. m. in Flanner

A Frantz of the Pifst Presbyterian

"SERVICE 1S: PLANNE

The ram's horn, or shofar, usually heard only om the Jewish New year's holiday, will call interested persons together for an emergency

at 7:30 in the synagog of the United Hebrew congregation,

"Rabbi Samuels J. Fox, spiritual

the service assisted (by Solomon Greenberger. “The service is being called in.

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prayer service for Palestine tonight |

leader of the synagog, will conduct | Cantor |

world of the reign of terror instituted by Great Britain’ over ‘the Jews of Palestine,” Rabbi Fox explained. Rabbi Fox cited the instance of | an aged Palestinian rabbi who was| brutally clubbed by British soldiprs

Evansville, |

& Buchanan mortuary. Dr. George |

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ator Shipstead and Gov. Thye for the senatorial nomination. Gov, Thye is actively supported py ex« Gov. Harold Stassen and Senator Shipstead's isolationist record has been made a predominant issue. If, as administration leaders exe pect, Senator Shipstead is unseate ed, the result will offset the isola« tionist victory ‘in Nebraka, where Senator Butler won handily over Gov. Griswold, whom Mr. Stassen also supported, : Cite “Landis Figures Meanwhile, house opponents of the British loan cooked ups new schemes. Rep. Landis (R. Ind, cire culated his district’ with . figures showing the share of the loan fr which each country and city would be responsible, He also computed each state's share—{rom $377 mile lion for New York to $3 million for Nevada. Numerous others have: copied the idea.

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church will officiate, Seveniy*five mem bef Ti of them Republicans—decreed toffay " wiles “veterans ‘and oid’ age..peasion a att Cpe | HAL wings sted ‘by the” VE TRBbINGLE GIT font Brita hb ‘ the. Holy And panes means to y bre ddVarteageously onde tik ns prayer to God and a protest to the Ceefils.

BRIEFS

Speaking Spinsters of School 57,

{ because he refused to violate his a 4-H club group, will meet tomore

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, By VIRGIN] United Press He BEVERLY I (U. P.).—Mult man Howard F jured when th graphic plane h in a residentia given his secor since the accid ' His physiciar son, said the signer and mov ed wel to tr night but coul a 50-50 chance

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Hughes, wha make. movke Jean Harlow Jane Russell, flight of his st terday when hi Eighty minu 1ast night, the, veloped motor down in the residential ‘dist The plane st plowed into setting off a s plosions that hood. Doctors at ( pital said Mr. critical conditi Consciot

His injuries rib ®which pie: possible skull collar bone, DP ture, a badly broken nose bruises. “He was con the crash,” a said, “an he while we were Lana Turn gossips insist before too lon appearance af stead, her Hughes’ docto he was hurt. Engin When the twin-engine X wing, began | Hughes attem] to a nearby engine conked sputtering mo Mr. Hughes, flier and pain radioed the © before the cras landing gear ti sage said he fairway of the club. He missed t blocks, -howeve one house, sli roof and side block away, palatial mansi Meyer, No. 1 i crime trials in Splits Mrs. Meyer, escaped injury The crash s| and flames wh later, burned wing assembl) flung onto the tail. assembly motors scatter Sgt. Willian pass from El rushed in and from the burn He was aic Guston, 22-ye Guston, retire {st and owner hit by the plu

Shirt “Hughes wa ear, his nose

Durkin said, ° ing to himsel him out he | ‘up. Lay me o conscious anc His shirt was pletely off, missing.” A curious c including sev swarmed arou Firemen, ca O'Keefg, Whe fought for h flames. The fuselag: hour after | Meyer home at dawn. Splint Eight hund line, stored | exploded after pact also spl under the ho that burned f Mrs. Gusto from where motor clippe home, rushed mink coat sl gow® She ca arm. Only casua household wa nian; who w flying glass. .. The XF-11, built :in coamiy’s air ms a wing span and was 65 fe had a speed 1} an hour, PILOT TR ' WASHINGT prior to Pearl forces trained in 1943 ‘more instruction ir training cent;

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