Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 November 1946 — Page 1
FORECAST: Rain and warmer tonight; tomorrow partly cloady, warm
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‘Cap’ Johnson Winds Up His Campaign Here for Sheriff
VOLUME 57—NUMBER
Lewis (Cap) Johnson (left), Demoeratic candidate for sheriff, outlines his campaign strategy with members of the Wayne township Democratic club at a meeting last night at their headquarters at Harris and Jackson sits. Democratic leaders assisting in the campaign in Wayne township are (left to right) Hubert Stevens, James Carter, David Taylor and Samuel W. Johnson,
HOUSING RECORD | SHOWN ‘WORST’
Only 44 ol s Sheltered 14 Months After V-J Day.
First of Three Articles.
_By RICHARD LEWIS
Fourteeri months after V-J day, the City of Indianapolis has provided public housing for 44 of the 4000 veterans’ families which have been knocking at the city's door |. since the war's end for shelter, This is one of the worst records of any major municipality in the{’ United States, according to figures of the federal public housing administration. Thirty-six families are now living in reconverted army barracks at vthe west end of Stout Field. They moved in about six weeks ago. Eight more will move in soon. Approximately 726 additional units are under eonstruction by the federdl public housing. authority. None of these: will be ready for occupancy before the first of next vear, and not many of them will be completed before next spring. Blame City's Program * Alghough the delay is primarily attribhited to shortages of materials, a good part of Tt ‘has been blamed | by critics on the city administra- | tion's housing program, The city did not sign the contract with the federal housing administration for the emergency’ dwell-
paign today with a series of rally meetings. three of his campaign workers (left to right) Mrs. Mazie Etter, Mrs, Josephine. Miller, amd Mrs. Mayme Wilson
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SHOT BY POLICE Talk Tonight “By LaFollette
Rep. Charles LaFollette of Evansville, “man without a party, described his scheduled appearance ‘here as a “holding action against the’ possibility. of | hysterical reaction.” Mr, LaFollette will speak at a | public ‘meeting in the Claypool hotel tonignt to indorse two: Democratic candifiates. He emphasized in an*interview, ‘however, that he has not become a Democrat and ‘does not intend to -become one, but simply carries ope & ‘personal fight “for - liberalism™ the over,
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RAIN TO STOP FOR FOOTBALL SCHEDULE
The rain will stop in time for
tomorrow's football schedule, the Wounded in Neck When He weather bureau said this ain oo | Disobeys Order
Forecast for today was” Rain today, ending tonight; - and “warmer tomorrow, | ‘A man waving a gun menacingly In aMive-day forecast, the bureau [on the street in the 2600 block, ‘said fhe week-end will be mild, with | Northwestern ave, was shot through a warmer trend Monday or Tues- the nee by police . officers : Jast
gayg It will turn considerably cold- n ’ WF dgain Wednesday, the bureau Fi n he refused to drop the Weal. )
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706 Edgemgnt ing to witnesses, he pulled out. a gun and threatened. to kill |€everal persons in a pool room on [Northwestern ave |” He expressed no excitement, ‘how-,| | Several men in the place grabbed
1 -» “3 ever, over the prospect of a Re P. + 2 __1him but were unable. io get gun publican congressional victory over away from him. As he ran into
a ri . A ie s 1 y DIES FOR MURDER OF ine street, a police squad roared jinked themselves. with reactionary KING'S HOUSEKEEPER us othe curb
Democrats to make congress ‘thickly Jesse Hadley jumped out and conservative, he pointed 6ut, and HONDON; Nov» 1 SU Pier roe Carpenter to drop the gun. abou the only real difference a thur Robert Boyce, 45, was hanged | «1q hell with you,” replied Car- . at Pentonville prison today for the ro
|G. 0. P. majority would make would penter, murder of Elizabeth McLindon, 41-year-old housekeeper far King George of the Hellenes. Miss McLindon was found shot fo death June 13 at a Westminster house, She was preparing the house for the king's occupancy while he waited for results of the Greek] plebiscite returning Him to the throne,
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DR. JUS GAUSS DEAD \ HERE AT 74
Condition Is Serious
Sgt. Hadley opened fire and the victim fell Carpenter's condition at City hospital was reported as serious. He was charged with drunkenness, vagrancy and violation of the fire arms act. Ernest Lagle, 31, of 5123 W. Le-| Grande ave, proprietor of the Gulf filling station, 1060 W. 16th st.; re- | ported that an armed bandit robbed him of $600 last night. “I was busy in the station and {suddenly a man stuck a gun in my 14! back,” Mr. Lagle said. “The bandit Obituaries ... 8 grabbed my money purse containing “Pr, ‘O'Brien... 21 8500 and fled.” F. C. Othman 21| Russell Day, 38, Radio #9 Quincy st. employee ofa garige at | Dr. Gauss, a staff member of Reflections .. 22 34th and lllinols styl, said a bandit!methodist and St. Mrs, Rodsevelt 21 forced him to dMvé dne of the cars| pitals, had practiced gyne | Scherrer ...,. 22 out of the garage, He said when general medicine in India Fashions 26, 26, 27 | Serial ..32 they were several blocks awhf’ the|aars, Forum «22 Silly Notions: 21| bandit took $10 from him and ‘led| gory at Cottleville, Mo. he was Paul Ghall ., 13 Sports .. ,.34-35 in the car, graduated from the University of G. 1. Rights. 33] Stranahan ... 35 John Duncan, 13, night watchman’ onieago and Rush Medical college Meta Given. 27 Washington, 22 at the Kroger laundry, 933 E, Mar {in 1008. He served his. ipterneship | Hunting ..... 31 Weather Map 4 ket st, reported ‘that two men he| \at Michael Reese hospital in OhiInd. News, 18, 10 Women's {found in the building about 1:30}, cago and was associated with the hb
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Dr. Julius H. P. Gauss, professor at the Indiana university school of medicine, died last night in his home, 502 Blue Ridge rd. 331 N. De- He was 74,
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Entered as Second-Class Matter at Posfoffics’ Indianapolis, Ind. Issued daily except Bunddy
Coal Mine
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Arson BR Incident Comes Few Days After ‘Murder-Suicide.’
LOGANSPORT, Ind. Nov.'T (U. R.).—Fourteen seniors agreed today to return to classes in Kawanna high school, ending a five-hour strike which started ‘when Principal Willis Bawen- expelled them for playingedvokey. | Mr. Bowen announced the setile- | ment after a conference of strike | leaders and parents in his: office. | Times State Service He said the students, including | | MITCHELL, Ind, Nov, 1.-~The half the boys of the basketball frame home in which Monte |team, agreed to make up later the Burton, 67. and his wife, Mrs. Ethel time they lost when they observed Burton, 52, were found Sunday “sneak day”.by being absent from: apparent: victims of murder and Ischool yesterday. suicide, was destroyed by fire early He said they would return .to today. school this afternoon, and that & Fire Chief Charles H. Bales said basketball game at Star City to-!'that while a definite cause of tne night would be played as scheduled. blaze has snot been determined;| a ‘All except three members of the arson is suspected. } 3 graduating - class of 17 students! He asked the state fire marshal’s | struck this morning, charging that! office in Indianapolis to help in| 2 their Principal was “ruining future the investigation: | citizens.” They said they were ex- | Chief Bales said that the alarm ercising an established right to pb- was turned in at 2 a. m, today by serve “sneak day.” lan unidentified person who called Mr. Bowen suspended the seniors from a pay. station. temporarily and said they couldn’'t| When ‘the Mitchell fire depart-re-enter classes ‘until they brought ment arrived, the two-room frame | their parents to school with-them, structure was destroyed along with Parents went into conference with all the furniture. {Mr. Bowen and demanded their Has Other Clues
children’s presence at the session| cheif Bales said he had addl- | over the 8 Objections of the strikers. tional information which he could
EE not release immediately. Tonia i from Columbus, nd. ann, Democratic SA have denounced methods being used | State Parent of Children “The court does not deal with the |
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| waiian islands today failed to ma-| ialize at the scheduled hour. | {Beach residents began returning to | physiology yesterday in Stockholm, the homes they had evacuated sev- he has been attending a confereral hours earlier. |ence at the Camegie institute. Pacific fleet headquarters warned | The Nobel! prize committee anthat a wave churned up by an nounced that Dr. Muller was {earthquake in the Aleutians was awarded the prize for his discovery |expected to strike the islands at of the production of mutations by {5:40 a. m. H. 8. T, (10:19 a. m. In- X-rays. |dianapolis Time). At 7 aim. H. 8.{ mp, prize totals $33,333, only & few high ‘waves had} 051 DU. only a year ago! i washed against the shores of Oahu, to join what has become known: as |however, ‘These were receding, =. .nding group of geneticists gradually to normal. {in the U. S. Others in the group {are Dr. R. E. Cleland, head of the ‘department of botany, and Dr.
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Dr. Muller Recsives $33, 333 Award for Study of Genetics
Times State Service BLOOMINGTON, Ind, Nov. 1.—Most of the students on the Indiana P.).—A tidal wave which the DAVY university campus were trving today to remember what Prof. Herman J. Shad warned might strike the Ha- Muller looks like as the school prepared a welcome home for its first ers of more than 3000 coal
PRIZE CLIMAYES
MARTINSDALE, Ia, Nov. 1 (U. P.). — A brakeman on the Great y Western railroad was burned to death and four other persons critically burned when a gasoline transport was cut in two by a freight train near here last night, The dead man was. Paul Detosky, (Continued on Page 4—Column 5 St. Joseph, Mo,
THE TIMES STRAW VOTE—
GOP Leads in 3 Offices, Democrats 2, in Final Tally
THE FINAL TALLY showed these results: W tepublicans ‘won out in three offices—senator, tutor and sheriff, Democrats topped the votes for congressman and juvenie court judge. : -- “Split” ‘tickets for the 10-day returns were. more numerous than either party's straight ballots, as 41 per-cent*of the voters “scratched” one or more candidates. Straight Republican ballots numbered/30.1 per
cent and straight Democratic votes were 289 per cent. ” ” ” » ~
HERE ARE the percentages for the 10 days: Republicans Jenner .. Beveridge
Tracy M. Sonneborn, professor of zoology. With his colleagues, the energetic Dr. Muller, described by associates as short in stature with balding, | gray hair and eves that sparkle| behind glasses, has been working! under a six-year Rockefeller foun-; dation grant of $95,500 ‘in gene- | tics research. Worked at Columbia | + He comes in little contact with | students except a. few research | workers, although he is well known | {to a number of faculty members, Associates said that the 56-year-old geneticist made the discovery in the late 1920's which lead to the award years later. He discovered the production of mutations by X-rays. Fellow zoology department professors said that, in.Jayman’s terms, the research which led to Mr. Muller's award dealt with material detérmiining. the hereditary chasacteristics of organisms in general
The house was owned by Albert MODEL JUVENILE <= Chief Bales said he was informed the property was not covered by |insurance. oy Jhoutie ago the house was with their three children, Roy, 15, oi Stress Reforms yi pers, 13; and Bruce, 11. The Lawrence County Coroner indorsed by Hoffmann, | "he anid be stil is inves: By NOBLE REED |tigating the case. He said he would | y “thodél - juvenile NOt render an: official’ verdes. for ‘TIDAL WAVE FAILS. judgeship—were outlined today A¥ 1 {national and local experts on ¢ | TO STRIKE HAWAII | welfare, | HONOLULU, T. H., Nev.'1 «U. The brochure on needed refo in the operation of the court prepared at the request of civic a by Mark W. Rhoads, present juvenile court judge, seeking re-elec-! tion at the polls next Tuesday. The experts stressed the peed for | a trained court staff—completely removed from the domination of “The juvenile court should oper-; ‘ate under the principle that the; [state is the parent of all children.’ |And it’ acts when natural parents | either cannot or will not provide | proper care, protection and control,” | LoTee for which retributive punishment is to be exacted. Rather it is concerned. with, the offenses of children as symptoms of problems which must be treated and corrected -before the child can be restored
1 The Times Straw Vote today
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MEMORIAL RITE FOR WILLKIE POSTPONED
Democrats Townsend Ludlow Sullivan Johnson Hoffmann
Senator Congressman Prosecutor Sheriff .. Magenheimer Juvenile Judge ...Rhoads
In leading their tickets ‘at the finish, Superior Judge Judson L Stark and Congressman Louis Ludlow retained the positions they held at the start of the straw vote, : . RO" "” ” » » TODAY'S AGGREGATE tally showed a Republican increase over vesterday's figures in the race far senple, congresy and juvenile court The Republicans gained In the prosecutor and sheriff votes, There was an increase in straight tickets for both parties and there were fewer “split” ballots, : The Times Straw Vote has been presented as a public’ service! feature to show how a cross-section of Indianapolis and Marion county residents indicated they would vote at the time they received the Times ballots by mall, These results &f¢ by no means a Times prediction of result of next Tuesday's election, ~ » r ~ ” » | THE TIMES used the new city directory rather than the jelephone “hook in order to obtain the truest cross-section on all income, brackets, LA total of 4336 straw vote ballots were needed to poll the rire diréctory with names selected at exact intervals. rector -general, would make one of {- All'straw votes show a higher return of “split” tickets than usually the addresses in honor of the 1940 occur on election day withivoting machines. However, the heavy return | Republican presidential candidate of “split” tickets in the straw poll may indicate a greater tendendy to {and author of “One World.” party lines this year than ever before, Mr, Willkie died in’ 1944 and a ‘Keep reading your Indianapolis Times for the latest pre-election | large cr erecied at his grave in pews, and the official results , . . and be sure to cast your vote at the. Est Hill cometary was to have been
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Times State Service | RUSHVILLE, Ind, Nov. 1.—Un-~| veiling ceremonies ath.the memorial | to Wendell L. Willkie scheduled for
Nov, 10 have been indefinitely postponed, it was announced today. Inability of several speakers to| arrange to be present at the date selected, necessitated the postpone- | ment. it was anndunced last night | at the meeting of the Rushville} Rotary club, sponsors of the affair. It already had been announced tnat former New York Mayor Fiorello’ LaGuardia, \now UNRRA di-
| plans on going to Stockholm to re-
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OWNERS CALL NEGOTIATIONS | ‘HUMILIATION
White House Expected to . Have to Make Final Decision in Case.
By FRED W. PERKINS Scripps-Howard Staff Writer WASHINGTON, Nov. l--Repres sentatives of the government and of John L., Lewis today began wage contract negotiations—and it's offie cial. The coal mines administration had been hesitant about accepting the date, until the White - House issued orders, The proceedings are ‘expected te wind up in about 4hree weeks in the same place, the White House, on the desk of Reconversion Direc= tor John R, Steelman - He is an old hand at yielding to the presi« dent of the United Mine Workers (A. F. of L), Strongest Labor Leader The main question seems to be how: soon the government will jump through the hoop held out by Mr, Lewis, the old ringmaster. He cracks 8 whip that both the Rooses velt and Truman administrations have been forced to obey. The whip’s handle is his control over nearly half a million coal miners. The lash is that when they stop work the country gets & spreading case of paralysis. No oth« er labor leader ever has been equipped with such an efficieng whip. Staris Second Team + Today's two sessions with Capt. N, H. Collisson, coal mines admine istrator, were regarded as merely & workout for Mr, Lewis’ “sé team,” headed by Vics John O'Leary. Mr, Lewis was not in the line,
conferences include the official whe signed a contract with him, last May, Interior Secretary J. A. | Also outside were the private owns ‘mines
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he was still i Washington where | According to operator spokesmen, | with Mr, Lewis was without their {advice or consent. They refuse to uke over the contract as agreed , and they say thas i a concessions 16 the mine worker boss will delay indefinitely a return to the private | system of operation.
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| Or. Muller FTraoms Research! wy. Bituminous Mine Operators
i | negotiating committee issued a Prefacing Nobel Award. Ft arin ssi Rig 2 By DANIEL M. KIDNEY ment’s decision to enter negotiae Times Staff Weiter “| tions with the union. WASHINGTON, Nov, 1—-Twenty | That committee's failure to reach years of patient research brought | agreement with the U. M. W. last Herman Joseph Muller, diminutive spring led to government ure of (5 feet 4 inches), 55-year-old. In-| the soft coal mines last May. diana university professor the- -1946 | The operators criticized “the Nobel prize for medicine and spectacle of a few powerful polie physiology. | ticians and another government of« The award means 130,000 Swedish ' ficial, whose intimate relationship krona or about $36,205. Dr. Muller with the president of the United Mine Workers has been well known
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PITTSBURGH STRIKE - ARBITRATOR NAMED
WASHINGTON, Nov, 1 (U, P), Secretary of Labor Lewis, B, Schwellenbach last night appointed George E. Strong, Washington, D, C., lawyer as third member of sn arbitration panel to settle the wage stitution and director of the office dispute between Duquesne Power. . of scientific research and develop- & Light Oo, Pittsburgh, and the ment and noted atomic scientist, |independent union of its employees,
Told ‘of Grant {an arbitration agreement which There he was informed of ended the 27-day Pittsburgh power $4500 grant made to finance his | strike earlier this month. The
research by the American Cancer! |ecompany and union have each ses [society. Tt had been announced abt'jected an arbitrator, Indiana -university at Bloomington, |
ih he had never heard of it, he SITE OF FOOTBALL : GAME IS CHANGED
“I heard that the award was based | The Shortridge-Manual city * ris | valry football game wus transferred to Delavan Smith field today in . last-minute shift, IN AUTO ACCIDENT Athletic Director Russel 8. Julius CHICAGO, Nov. 1 (U, P.) Frank jaan gd Shosteidse aud wai’ To: (Bring "Bm Back Alive) Buck, trap- » u . >
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celve the award he said. His first notification of it came late yes» terday afternoon when he was at-! tending a meeting of scientists at the Carnegie institution here. He| was called to. the phone hy | Swedish newspaper reporter Stockholm and informed of award
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TAXI DANCERS APPEAL
TOKYO, Nov. 1 (U. FP). Eighty of Tokyo's best looking Jax dancers, representing all the dance halls in the eity, marched on the city hall today. They “persuasively” appealed for abelition of the <100 per cent tax recently Fitesd "on
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