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May Is Subpenaed By Mead Commi ttee

GOP PUBLICITY c=! PLAN ASSAILED BY DEMOCRATS

VOLUME 57—NUMBER 112

Munitions WASHINGTON,

Co-ordination of Statehouse, war contracts. News Stories With Committee Hit.

By SHERLEY UHL Democratic dander was

{despite the immunity he has | \while congress is in session. | It notified him that other-!

aroused wise he would be compelled to tes-

here today -over ‘an innocents tify as soon as congress adjourns : . Bo aa is expected late this sounding Republican “publicity | month of early next month. plan.” . Mr, May previously appeared beIn a meeting at G. O. P. state fore the committee in closed session headquarters last night, Republic-| The committee repeatedly has in-|

state | Vited him wo testify in a open hearing under oath Mr. May had

ans agreed to “co-ordinate” house news stories with those re- | leased by the Republican state] committee. Democrats charged this is a congpiracy to subvert duly elected pub-|— lic servants to roles as Republican propaganda-disseminators. | “I'm pretty soré and so are a lot of other Democrats,” said an Indianapolis city councilman. G. O. P. Official Explains He pointed out that state officeholders’ salaries are paid by tax-| payers and that as state employees; they are supposed to serve the public. not the Republican party. | State Republican Chairman Clark | § Bpringer and State Secretary Hor- | ace Coats were unavailable for! comment, but one G. O. P. official | who attended last night's , session | explained it this way: ! “We, as Republicans, have a| policy and program to uphold. | Therefore, we think publicity on | state operations should be co-or-| dinated to avoid duplication and | confusion.” Republicans present at the “har-| mony¥ meeting denied their strat-

replied that he

{mitted to _question other witnesses.

egy portends an attempt by the] state committee to censor all news | Miss Rita Poad. . Killed inissued by state house departments. | stantly in auto crash.

July 19 (U. profits investigating committee today subpenaed Rep. drew J. May (D. Ky.) to testify about his connections with la Midwest munitions combine that received $78,000,000 in|

{would not accept, unless he was per-|

Combine. P.). war | An- |

—The senate

The committee asked Mr. May to appear next week,

Chairman James M. Mead |N. Y.), signed the subpena after announcing that he had been authorized by the committee to do so

“We expect Rep- May to appeal before the committee at a meeting next Tuesday,” Mr. Mead said.

The constitution protects a memsber of congress from subpena or arrest while congress is in session. Senator Owen Brewster (R. Me.)

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FORECAST: Partly cloudy, warm and humid tonight. Occasional thunder showers tonight and tomorrow.

FRIDAY, JULY 19,

OSTROM BALKS | AT RESIGNING, GOP AIDS HINT!

ed to Testily About Connegfions Fall, Campaign Machinery In Group's Probe of Midwest

To Be Set Up at Once By Party Chairman.

By NOBLE REED | Word has gone out from the Marion county Republican head-| quarters that Chairman Henry E.|

| Ostrom has decided not to resign.

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a member of the war investigating

committee said, that the immunity

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2 Die i in Automobile-Truck Crash

Lawrence Aschoff Jr. Survived air war to die in traffic.

ly deadlocked However, the fight to oust Mr, Ostrom is still going on under the| banner of the Citizens Republican| committee May Make Trade Donald V. Gerking, committee | chairman, said “we hope to have, something definite worked out on al new chairman in the next few] | days.” | He admitted, however, that this] ‘may be wishful thinking.” and added that “we may have to sac-|

}Ostrom’s resignation.

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He will set up machinery immediately for the fall campaign, learned today. The decision to retain the chair-| | manship in the face of bitter fac-|

tional opposition among several of | #3 the leading candidates, was reached!

this week, His associates said. It came after efforts to agree on| a new chairman appeared liopeless-

rifice something in order to gain a few of our objectives.” | Members of the commitiee—com-= | posed of anti-organization leaders |

at city hall—have been conferring]

{ with candidates for two weeks in|

-a fruitless effort “to agree on ‘a compromise chairman The committee is demanding Mr. | Members say | his leadership of the party was de- | cisively repudiated by a majority of voters at the primary polls May 7. Won Five Nominations At least five of the major nomion the county Republican ticket were backed successfully by | the Citizens committee against the |

| Ostrom machine. !

Charles Huff, secretary of the | committee, said the nomination of anti-organization caadidates means a majority of Republicans want a

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1946

Mercury Climbing Toward New Record

Guess Who Has the Hottest Job

Who has the hottest job in town?

test job in town today ended right there.

TRAIL IS LOST

organized’ Hunt Hunt Disbanded:

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in YowimYodse Right

The Times hotweather reporter found Mrs. Bettie Musser Emerson ave, sterilizing the baby’s bottles over a hot stove and making formula. The guest for the hot-

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SHOWERS DUE TONIGHT; SOME RELIEF LIKELY

95-Degree Reading Posted Yesterday Is Highest | For 1946.

TEMPERATURES YESTERDAY |

12 (Noon)... 89 “7pm .... 90 pm... Spm....90 2pm 2 Spm... 0 88 3pm....% 0pm....88 dpm... 9% Illpm....MM, 5p.m..... 9 12 Midnight. 83 6 p.m. . 92 TEMPERATURES TODAY 1am.... 81 Sam . 82 2am. 80 Sam. .....88 3am....7 am... 4am 19 Nam. 92 5am....7 12 (Noon). . 93 jG am... 98 p.m. 04 Tam 39 2pm... Indianapolis temperatures

surged toward a new record today, threatening the alltime ‘high for the day, 98 degrees, set in 1930. After yesterday's new 1946 high of 95 degrees, set at 4 p. m,, the temperature had pushed up to 94 at 1 p. m. today. Hottest temperature ever recorded here was 106, which was reached three times, all in July, in 1801, 1934 and 1936. : Humidity te Continue ; The weather bureau said it would be cloudy, warm and humid tonight with occasional thundershowers tonight and tomorrow. It will be cooler tomorrow, was the promise, # The Indianapolis Water Co. fé-

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Party Welfare Ignored At one time. #t was planned to’ channel all state néws through Mr. Coats, but this misfired when several department heads bucked. Virtually all major state departments, have public relations directors. State committee officials complained some of these publicity men were promoting their bosses politically and ignoring the welfare of the Republican party as a whole. However, last night's huddle was characterized by state publicity directors who. attended as “very harmonious.”

PUTS ‘JOINT’ ACTION IN MECHANICAL ARM

NEW YORK, July 19 (U. P).—| Samuel Alderson, research physicist, disclosed today he had developed an artificial arm operated by a small but powerful motor which gives.the wearer use of the wrist, forearm, elbow and fingers.

Mr. Alderson, formerly of the University of California's radiation laboratory, developed the device at

the International Business machines research -Jaboratory at Endicott, N. Y. .He began work on it last October. The arm- is powered by several matchbox-size storage batteries concealed in a strap that holds the device in place.

‘SHEIK BANDIT' FACES 15 YEARS IN PRISON.

CHICAGO, July 19 (U. P) ~Mar-| tin Durkin’s 30-day stay of execu-| tion, granted to enable the one- time| sheik bandit” to “clean up some| business affairs and complete some! writing,” expired today. E. J. Sullivan, chief deputy U. S.| marshal, said Durkin will go out} with the next shipment to the U, 8.| penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kas., presumably next week, There he will begin serving a 15-| year sentence for violation of the Dyer automobile act. Durkin re-| cently finished serving 19 years for| killing an FBI agent. HUGHES’ CONDITION REMAINS UNCHANGED BEVERLY HILLS, Cal, July 19 (U. P.).—The cohdition of millionpire sportsman Howard Hughes remained unchanged today. The flier was reported resting more comfortably followmg removal of more than a quart of fluid from his left chest. y

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‘change in party leadership. ‘Warm Leads’ Followed.

Judge Judson L. Stark won the nomination for prosecutor on a flat janti-Ostrom platform along with | Sheriff Albert Magenheimer, banded today and detectives settled | Other anti-organization candi-| gown to sift several “warm. leads” dates who won over the Ostrom gag to their identities and where- | machine are Judge Mark W. Rhoads, ghouts. of Juvenile court; judge Hezzie B.. The gunmen, who robbed the New | Pike of Superior court 2 and Judge pajestine bank of $15,000 yesterJohn L. Niblack of Municipal court qayv. are now believed to be sep{4 who was nominated for judge of arated and “on foot.” Plainclothes{Superior court 1 men have unearthed several clues, Appeal for Change the nature of which was not disJudge Stark, Judge Rhoads andi closed. {Sheriff Magenheimer have publicly] Fleeing in four successively stolen lurged a change in the charimanship|cars, the bandits eluded a vast [to “conform with the wishes of a|police manhunt in east-central In{majority of party voters.” {diana yesterday. State police said But they haven't been able tothe men apparently separated at {find a candidate for the chairman- a farm near Richmond when their ship who is acceptable to all fac-| car bogged down in a cornfield. One

The organized pursuit vouthful bank robbers was dis-

VICTIMS KILLED NEAR LEBANON

Another Person Critically Injured in Accident.

A voung Indianapolis girl and an| ex-air corps bombardier, who sur-| Europe, were killed instantly at 2 a. m. today in an automobile-truck crash | on J. S. 52, north of Lebanon. The dead were Miss Rita Rae|

Poad, 22, of 5375 Graceland ave., and Lawrence D. Aschoff Jr. 23, tions, especiaily the large bloc of of the bandits continued on foot, of 224 E. 46th st, army air corps} precinct committeemen who are while his companion stole a farm

and roared away. One Lost at Fair The bandit who ran from the

following Mr. Ostrom’s leadership. car And it would take a majority of

|the precinct committeemen to make

veteran The tragedy raised the 1946 death | toll of .Indianapolis residents iri city

Miss Elizabeth Hyland in

critical condition.

and state traffic to 110. |any change. = 2 cornfield later hitch-hiked into Seriously injured was Miss Eliza- HOG PRICES CLIMB Lia: at Ofacly aad followers of Farmland, Ind. and “buried him- | leith F: Fiyland, 28, of bets - SE or tol ormer ChAIr= | e)f” in a county fair crowd there. man, decided they

still had con-|™" ep 01g also mingled with the| trol of the organization. }

“Why turn. over control to lerowd but were unable to spot any ” h 3 suspects in the maze of gaily-ban-| minority group?” asked one of the k ok | regular organization chairmen nered concessions. It has be vumored. for sey Ta) After fleeing the holdup scene at sh 3 era noon yesterday in a stolen car, the

nois st. She was taken to W hospital in Lebanon with iy in- | juries and two broken legs. Unaware of their Gather s crit-

AS RECEIPTS DROP

ents, Mr. and Mrs. Lyle J. Hyland, Quotations Range 50c¢ to are en route to California on. a $1 Higher. (Continued on “Page 4—Column 2) men ‘were next traced to Cambridge g €ity, where they abandoned the,

vacation trip. Authorities are tryIg 10 TONEY thom. (Local livestock quotations, page 8) INDIANA- BORN WIDOW Eelaway a ng Sole Muolner, ri ar en OF TYCOON IS DEAD

Returning to Indianapolis State police. patroled the RichLOS ANGELES, July 19 (U. P).|

Ar. Aschoff and the two young women were returning to Indian-| |dianapolis stockyards as today's mond area by air in a state plane —Funeral arrangements were being and blockaded highways, concen-

[Sholis. rom Lalayelie wheh, heir}; cp receipts fell nearly 8000 below | q {the number received yesterday. — 1,..4e today for Mrs. Louise Eshman | trating ‘on heavily-traveled route For hogs prices ranged 50 cents |Kerckhoff, 87, philanthropist widow [40. The bandits apparently veered

Prices swung "upward at the In-|

| truck 14 miles north of Lebanon,|

Seerauem coroner HN ep higher Wan yesterday: . of a wealthy lumber executive, Jake Miller, 36, of Louisville, Ky. Jeceipts today were O8S,| Mrs, Kerckhoff died at her home| was reported stolen. {the truck driver, apparently -suf- 1075 cattle, 475 calves and 1900 yesterday after a month's illness.| They were spotted next pr sheep. |A native of Terre Haute, Ind., she

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| philanthropie projects . started by

te i es. e was taken, Times Special red minor injuri H |her husband.

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| ground because it is so hot? The

ON GAMING COUNT because the people have been be-

The youngsters know how to beat heat. Louis Cameron of 5117 E.

Michigan st. holds the hose for“ Stephen Haehl, 5118 E. Michigan;

Marlene Prose Pi Ne Emerson ave. and Jack Bash), Sievie’s brother. | ~

So You Think It's Hot; in Iran | Temperature Hits 175—Br-rr

By FRANK WIDNER i Just in case vou thought it. was hot out today, did you know: That the hottest temperature ever recorded was reported in a

to Centerville, where a third car|jjttle village called Dizful, in Iran? I know because I've been there.

This temperature was 189.3 Qegrees, It was recorded in the sun, sun,

C-47 TRANSPORT CRASHES, 13 KILLED

in a because there is no shade.

That the people there live undertown is called “City of the Blind”

neath the desert so long?

to the Lebanon hospital with Miss] RENSSELAER, = July — The | Times Special Hyland. Rev. Joseph Otte, C. PP, 5 assist | FRANKLIN, Ind., July 19.—John-| That the average sun tempera- 3 Mr. Aschoff had gone to Lafa- ant professor of accounting at St KING GUSTAV FORCED son county authorities and Rens ture of Abadan Iran in July last Plane Falls During Storm vette to make housing arrangement Joseph's college here, has been ap- {lin city police started out this _ was" 178 deqiees? (A. Yeu! ; | for his re-entry into Purdue umi-|pointed treasurer of the college. JO. ABANDON JENNISH eek to do some target practicing Sn ey A) In Kansas. { - ST a v ( Y a | versity this fall. * Early last night, Father Otte will direct the fi Ju at Blue river near Edinburg and That you don't perspire there DENVER, July 19 (U, -Ten

Hyland and Miss nances of the 55-year-old educa- | King Gustav's physician said today | while there accidentally came upon which will have | the 88-year-old. monarch’s heart|1] men participating He also|had suffered a “certain weakening” {game on the river bank. the that has forced him to cancel his| The target practice was called | tennis playing. oft and the 11 men were ordered

{he asked Miss Poad of they would like to accom- tional institution, | pany him for the ride. {a fndl enrollment of 616 | Miss Poad was the daughter of will mandge the business of Mrs. Stanley J. Whiteman and had college stock farms, which have a | | been employed as a technician at|total of 1800 acres. The new treas-| The king usually plays tennis|to appear in the Franklin justice of | the Eli Lilly Co. She was a gradu- urer received the degree of master |daily and was scheduled to take the peace court tomorrow when ate of Whitworth college in Mis- of business administration from the |part in a tournament at the resort|they will be arraigned on a gaming

in a dice

sigsippl. | University of Michigan in 1942. | town of Baastad next week. count, Surviving Mr. Aschoff are his = d—— w——— parents, Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence D. ET TE Alrlines Here Move to Help War Veteran

Aschofl.

The bodies will be brought to

Whose Heroine Mother Is Dying in Paris

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passengers and three crew RN of a C-47 plane were killed when, the transport crashed 10 miles out- | side of Goodland, Kas., on a Topeka | to Denver flight, officials at Lowry | field, Denver, said today. Scheduled to arrive at Lowry field (early oday the plane was reported {downed during a heavy thunderFAVORS MERGERS storm shortly after leaving Topeka. It last was heard from at 8 p. m. Times Special | Army officials said the transport BLOOMINGTON, Ind, July 19.— was on a routine coast-to-coast Consolidation of American rail- fight rom en Bel4 in ; .| Massachusetts to alifornia. It roads to contain Seen ve | stopped at the Kansas air base for tems was urged today by John W.l.opn no hefore proceeding on its Barriger, president of the Monon | oo led flight to Denver. railroad, at the Life Investment | Lowry field officials informed of Seminar on the Indiana university |, passengers’ and crow members’ Campus. fate, immediately dispatched medi-

But, Mr. Barriger said, the move hinges on organized .labor, witich |] Officers, a chaplain and guards

now opposes consolidation. to the scene. . = > pears MAY BIRTHS DOUBLE DEATHS . SENTENCED TO DEA WASHINGTON, July 19 (U, P.), VIENNA, July 19 (U. P). ~~ The —Estimated births in the United

in the sense you do here? The sun dries the perspiration up before it, can pop oui on your forehead You just get caked with salt The temperature yesterday here was 95 at 4 p. m. Brr-rr-r-r! |

MONON RAIL CHIEF

{gallons for 1946. The greatest pumpage recorded by the company was

{when the

| its warmest July 18 in history. The

{4:40 p. m.

| and humid day yesterday. Officially,

| apolis and Pt, Wayne.

| states _horthwest of Indiana.

ported today that yesterday's pumpage set a new record of 64,030,000

66,550,000 gallons on July 10, 1944, temperature soared to 98. More Due Next Week Last night, the hottest of the year, temperatures remained as {high as 83 at midnight, dropping {to a sticky “low” of 78 by 6 a. m. More of the same kind of weather is forecast for early next week. Showers are scheduled to last only through tomorrow afternoon. Tem- , peratures will stay near normal Sunday, becoming hotter again Monday and Tuesday, the weather ™ bureau said. Kansas Town Is Hottest The rest of the midwest also sweltered in yesterday's heat. Hottest town in the nation was Salina, Kas,, where the mercury soared to 111 degrees. Chicago had

mercury climbed to 99.9 degrees at

La Porte sweltered in 105-degree temperature at the height of a hot

| the top marks were 99 at Terre Haute, 98 at Lafayette, 97 at South Bend, 96 at Marion, 95 at Indian-

The state's southernmost city, | which normally would ber the warmest, had the lowest maximum of the day—90 at Evansville—while the northern cities were the hottest. Meanwhile, as temperatures. mounted to or above yesterday's marks, the weather bureau said cool breezes were sweeping slowly ‘across

DRAFT DODGERS GET THREE-YEAR TERMS

CHICAGO, July 19 (U. P.).—Four brothers who evaded the draft by { hiding for 47 months in a tiny attic room in their Ontarioville, Ill, farm {home were sentenced today to three years in a federal penitentiary. Albert Gabriel, 40; Frank, 29; Henry, 26, and Ernest, 23, all pleaded guilty before Federal Judge Walter J. Labuy.

BAKER'S SONS STRIKE AGAINST THEIR DAD

PEKIN, Ill. July 19 (U, P.).—~The three sons of a local baker were on strike against their father today. They walked out when the bak- . ers union to which they belong called a strike against wholesale bakeries, including their father’s.

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