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wers —nowarn VOLUME 57—NUMBER 208
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1946
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Automobile That Flies Passes First TestFiight
Shown here as its wings and fuselage are detached in
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be converted from plane to car in seven minutes. es ogg wings is Robert Fulton Jr. builder of plane and descendant of inventor of steamboat.
| tie organizations of its ilk.
OTE REGHECK FAVORS ARNOLD
iven 400 Lead Over Hohit In Council Race.
Unofficial totals from official elec fon returns show Harvey Arnold, iridgeport Republican, may be the vinner of the third district county ouncll rece over Harry F. Hohlt, daywood Democrat. Mr, Hohlt previously was rehorted leading by about 300 votes. \ recheck of figures in the unoffiial count shows Mr. Arnold ahead iy more than 400 votes. Official totals will not be known mtil the election canvassing board ompletes its fabulations today or omorrow. Republicans were elected to the ix other seats on the council for he first time in 20 years. ‘They are: harles O. Sutton, Harold C. ihulke, George Kincaid, John E. nnis, Paul B. Clark and Eugene 4 Fife Jr, Official totals are expected to ive Rep. Louis Ludlow, Democrat or congress, a majority of about 200 over Albert J. Beveridge Jr. tepublican. Joseph O. ‘Hoffman, Jemocrat has been elected juvenile ourt judge by a majority of around 700 over Judge Mark W. Rhoads. Republicans were elected in all ther races here by majorities enging from 94,000 to 26,300,
3ROADCASTS FROM RUSSIA ARE HALTED
NEW YORK, Nov. 8 (U, P.), — iroadeasting from Moscow by umerican radio correspondents has een halted, at: least temporarily, : was learned today. The Russian government . has rithdrawn short-wave facilities for he transmission of these broadasts to the United States,
TIMES INDEX
musements . 32 ddie Ash...
Movies Obituaties ... Dr. O'Brien., 28 PF. C, Othman 19 Radio Red Spy Ring 21 Reflections .. 20 Mrs. Roosevelt 19 ‘ | Scherrer ditorials .... 20 Serial ‘ashings . 24 [Side Glances. 20 frs. “Ferguson 24|8Silly Notions. 19 Sports Stranahan ... Washington . 20 Weather Map 3 Joe Williams. 30 Wom. News. 23-4 19 ' World Affairs. 20 5
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shown in test flight over Danbury. It has m. ph and is capable of 45 m.p. h. on
Takes Off Within 400 Feet, Cruises Over City 120 MPH
By H. D. QUIGG United Press Staff Correspondent
DANBURY, Conn., Nov. 8.—Robert Fulton Jr., a descendant of the inventor of the steamboat, hooked wings and fuselage onto an aluminum-bodied convertible coupe
gl ee ROGGE TO SPEAK HERE WEDNESDAY
Danbury airport yesterday. Ousted Justice Prosecutor
The invention of the air-age Mr. Fulton, a “roadable” airplane, came Will Address Kiwanis. O. John Rogge, fired from the
through its first test flight with U. 8. justice department following
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Four Sections Affected by Police Order.
To relieve late afternoon traffic congestion, four additional street sections today were ordered banned for parking between 4 and 6 p. m. Inspeetor Audry Jacobs, traffie department head, said the following areas come under the restriction
flying colors. With Mr. Fulton at the controls, its three-bladed propeller pulled it through the air within 400 feet, and it cruised over Danbury at 120 miles an hour. Bringing his oraft down to a (Continued on Page 6—Column 3) | disclosures from his report on pre- —————————————— war Nazi-American tie-ups, will speak in Indianapolis Wednesday NEW PARKING BANS [5 noon uncheon meeting ! Kiawanis club at the Antlers hotel. * His subject will be, “American ARE ORDERED HERE! ruses meconversMr. Rogge's dismissal from the justice department last <- month aroused nation-wide comment. He was the prosecutor in the trial of the 29 seditionists. He won distinction as the justice department special prosecutor who broke the Huey Long machine in Louisiana.
East side of Capitol ave, from South st. north to the railroad elevation; South st. on the north
By RICHARD LEWIS Housing prospects improved today. for the Robert E. Johnson family as calls kept coming in to north side of New York st. from The Indianapolis Times offering Meridian st. to Capitol, and south side of New York from Pennsylvania to Delaware sts,
ily of three children who face winter in an unheated garage.
jer, which have revealed some or- - |ganizational activity.
GATES T0 ASK OUTLAWING OF KLAN IN STATE
Will Demand Legislature Act to Nip Revival of Secret Order.
Governor Gates today assailed reported ku-klux klan organizational activity in Indiana and said he would ask the 1947 legislature to outlaw the klan and all organizations like it. “Disclosure that the klan once again is rearing its ugly head of reaction, bigotry and intolerance, in Indiana is shocking and repugnant to every right-thinking Hoosier,” the governor said. “There is no place in our way of life for such secret, uh-American organizations as the ku-klux klan.” He said he had asked the legislative bureau to obtain copies of Kentucky, New York and other state enactments designed to cope with klan resurgence, These, he said, will be used as a pattern for an immediate drive in Indiana to outlaw the klan and other ritualis-
Emmert Takes Action
“The ku-klux klan in Indiana” he said, “must be unrobed and stamped out for all time.” Earlier, Attorney General James A. Emmert took steps. designed to nip the sudden outburst of klan organizational activity. As klan leadership stepped boldly into the open in the state for the first time in 20 years, Mr. Emmert promised legal action “to end this racket.” He said he would investigage parties who were openly conducting a drive for klan membership in the state, notably one Harold Overton of Wilkinson, admitted king kleagle for the Hoosier state. Mr. Emmert said he already had wired attorneys geheral of Kentucky and Georgia for information as to what legal action was contemplated or had been taken in those states. Enters New Phase The attorney general's office stepped into the -picture on the basis of several investigations, conducted independently of one anoth-
establish the old klan nucleus which functioned in the 1820's, but it appeared today the expansion was entering a new phase. The growth of the klan, explained. away by many sources as a “natural outgrowth” of the late war, coincided with investigation of other groups organizing along identical lines of terrorism and racial hatred. An independent investigation during the past six weeks by The Times has revealed that at least five other organizations in Indiana alone are organizing along distinctly K. K. K. lines, ' Use Various Names Inflammatory literature has appeared under the names of the “Native Americans ° Club,” the “Fraternal Order of Rangers,” the “Rock for Freedom,” the “Loyal Liberty League,” and “Modern Minute Men.” = Creeds of several of these and similar groups are lifted almost verbatim from the kloran, the secret ritual of the klan. Questions
‘Leader of Hoosier Party
Irate Democrat
Pleas Greenlee . . . He's irked by Hannegan,
GREENLEE MAD AT HANNEGAN
Heads for Showdown.
By ROBERT BLOEM Pleas Greenlee, Indiana Democratic state chairman, will go to Washington next week to square off with national Democratic brasshats in what may be the first round of a battle for party control. The burning question, Mr. Greenlee said today as he grimly laid his plan of attack, is whether or not the party is going to be liberal, as it is in Indiana, or continue with demonstrated lack of success to be “all things to all people.” For the opening salvo, he will lay on the line incontrovertible evidence that while nationally the party was taking one of its worst lickings in history, Indiana Democrats held their ground in congress. Boiled ‘down, according to Mr. Greenlee and other Hoosier Democrats, the implication is this: “In Indiana, where the Democrats stuck doggedly to Roosevelt liberalism, they breasted the G. O. P.
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INDUSTRY SHOW DEDICATED HERE
Butler Students Are First to View Exhibit.
By RICHARD BERRY
PENICILLIN CAN
NOW BE MADE
SYNTHETICALLY
Synthetic Method to Make Drug May Lead to More Effectiveness.
By PAUL F. ELLIS United Press Staff Correspondent
NEW YORK, Nov. 8.-—Penicillin, | the most powerful yet safe drug that science has produced, reached a new milestone today. It can be synthesized. That, was a step that may result in néw, even more powerful, types of penicillin—new weapons against disease, possibly tuberculosis and the common cold, Furthermore, a new type penicillin may be developed that will remain longer in the body, thus increasing the effectiveness of the drug. At present, one of penicillin's bad traits is that the body eliminates it sometimes too rapidly for good therapeutic results. The report of synthetic penicillin was given in the magazine Science, publication of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, by Dr. Vincent du Vigneaud and a group of collaborators of the department of bio-chemistry, Cornell university college, New York City. The fact that sclence now has the formula of synthétic penicillin does not mean, the bio-chemists say, that American laboratories can discard equipment now turning out the drug from mold. Cost Now Reasonable Production of »the natural peni-
it is available everywhere and can be purchased at reasonable cost. The result of the new development, Prof. du Vigneaud points out, will be more work on the remaining mysteries of the drug, such as what is its structure. Once that is determined, then the doors will be open for the preparation of new types of penicillin. Such was the story of sulfanilamide. Determination of its structure and subsequent synthesis led to such types as sulfathiazole and
England, Meets All Tests Prof, du Vigneaud and his associates, including Drs. Frederick H. Carpenter, Robert W. Holley, Ar-
Butler university journalism students today were the first to view the Indianapolis Industrial Exposition, officially opened yesterday with ceremonies at the Union station, The exposition drew high praise from railrodd executives and industrial leaders from throughout the nation at the dedication dinner last night at the Claypool hotel. “The new exhibit is a credit to the farsighted businessmen of Indianapolis,” said James M. Symes, Pennsylvania railroad deputy vice president in charge of operations. Acting as toastmaster for the dedication dinner, Mr, Symes called the exposition a great civic accomplishment “because it is educational and will bring home to the
asked prospective members are the same as or similar to those on| membership application forms flooding Indiana from klan headquarters in Georgia. Another such group said to be sifting into Indiana from Kentucky is called the “Continental League for Christian Freedom.” The chief organizer for this league in Louisville is a notorious active klansman of She past. All such organizations appear to ibe playing a heavy appeal to veterans and the “bitterness” they are | supposed to have brought home | with them from the wars. While Senying their racial implications, hey ‘resort to such mincing of et as: “The Rangers are not grganized to injure any race or creed. Membership is confined to White-Chris-tian-Native Americans because they are the majority and have the right to decide any issue.” Boasts of Membership Some such organizations, sponsoring klanlike attitudes, play on such devices as sickness and health benefit plans for members to appeal to the self-pitying elements of the nation. The klan membership has reached the stage where it is allowing estimates of its menibership to creep into the public prints, an obvious organizational appeal to the timid
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Times Story Brings Housing Offers to Veteran's Family
greatly distressed at the family's plight. Mrs. Betty Johnson, the vet|eran’s wife, began to look into the offers today. Before she could get
refuge to the veteran and his fam- |started, she received two offers per- (hospitals must have the recreational
sonally. A man who visited the family as
During the evening rush hours, left turns will not be permitted at the triple intersection of Delaware and New York sts, and Massachu-
Callers to The Times offered an|soon as he saw the story of their apartment, rooms and a two-bed-|plight in yesterday's Times offered room suburban bungalow. A widow |two rooms. His visit was followed
oc haan, Ameren that the as
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$361,000 PLEDGED IN FUND CAMPAIGN
Community Drive Halfway Mark.
Community fund workers today neared the halfway mark in the 27th annual drive for funds to support red feather agencies and the U. 8 0. At a luncheon meeting in the Claypool hotel it was reported $561,194 had been pledged. This is 42.3 per cent of the $1,328,000 goal Two teams have gone “over the top,” leaders reported. F. Shirley Wiloox, heading the Federal offices section, listed pledges of $1630, or 163 per cent of quota, to lead the field. The residential division, led by Mfr's. Nettie Meadows, reported collections of $338, or 106 per cent of quota. Leaders were confident the halfway mark will be passed by next week, In addition to the 46 red feather Community Fund agencies to be} supparted by the proceeds, workers are stressing the continuing need for Indiana's support for the United Service, organization, Walter Leckrone, general campaign chairman, pointed out that the USO still has an important task with 1500000 men in the armed forces and 215,000 wounded in hospitals. “If we are to maintain an army of 1,500,000 men there must be a substantial measure of public interest, approval and support,” he said. —*Th addition the wounded in the
Nears
facilities .and the camp shows that only USO provides.” Maurice Early, columnist, was the speaker at today’s luncheon 'meeting. Rabbi Maurice Goldblatt, of
thur H., Livermore and Julian R. Rachele, working at the New York hospital-Cornell medical center, experimented with the chemical compounds that had been recognized by other scientists as being related to the penicillin molecule. They tried different combinations and from one reaction, they discovered that type G-penicillin (or bensylpenicillin) was being synthesized. The new product withstood all the tests. It had the same effectiveness against the samé bacteria which natural penicillin goes to work on. It also was inactivated by penicillinase, an enzyme that renders penicillin impotent. Thus the isolation and synthesis were proved. The pure synthetic drug has the same color as the natural product— white crystalline substance. Dr. du Vigneaud and his associates now have on hand about 10 milligrams of the new product. Wrapped up in a ball, that would be about the size of a small pea.
Seek to Learn Structure The structure of the synthetic
| product - must now be determined,
Dr. du Vigneaud said. In his report in Science, he says: “As long as an unequivocal synthesis of penicillin by any -ether approach has not been demonstrated, the study of the mechanism of the synthesis is extremely important. Such a study might lead either to a proof of structure or to an improved method- of synthesis or both.” He also said that the new develop- | ment offers the possibility of “a series of entirely new and different
sirable therapeutic properties.” Penicillin now is effective against many types of ‘the so-called gfaimpositive group bacteria, inciuding |’ pneumonia, blood poisoning, gonorrhea and syphilis. Its future may bring a weapon against some of the gram-negative type bacteria, such as tuberculosis, the common cold, typhus and malaria.
PA Seems ertain to Raise Rent
Nearly All Other Cailings Head for
Discard; Wage Controls Due to
End at Same Time.
By HELENE MONBERG United Press Staff Correspondent
WASHINGTON, Nov. 8.—Rent control will survive the government's forthcoming decontrol order, but reat ceilings will be increased, it appeared today. With virtually all other government wartime controls headed for the scrap heap, a spokesman for Reconversion Director John R. Steelman said OPA will have to “give a little” on rent ceilings if it expects to hold rent under control, At 0oPA' 8 request, Mr. Steelman is preparing for PresiFema | dent Truman's a pproval
US. TAX RELIEF 5mm aid
| ministration plang to keep under control as long as possible,
cillin has reached the point where!
and great sums of money were spent both in this country and in
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penicillins which nlight possess de- |
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BELIEVED NEA
New Congress + Expeited to Seize Purse Strings.
By LYLE C. WILSON _ United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Nov, 8.—A new broom Republican congress and the Truman administration headed toward a tax and spending battle today with a pretty good chance that the taxpayer may come out on top. Best bet of all was that congress again would seize the purse strings of government—ending the system of blank check appropriations which it willingly adopted during the; Roosevelt administration. The plan is to make congress—
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‘80GUS' PEPPER RACKET PROBED ===
Investigations.
By GRANT DILLMAN United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Nov. 8.—The government sald today that it is investigating the newest thing In rackets—bogus pepper—and expects to wipe it out soon. , The federal food and drug Edministration said it is co-operating with local authorities in several states to stamp out a shortage-born racket of selling imitation pepper as the real thing. Although pepper is arriving in the United States in quantity for the first time since the war, it still is critically short. Consequently there is a heavy demand. Pepper is snatched off retail shelves as fast as it shows up. As a result, nearly a dozen food wholesalers located mainly in Chicago and Philadelphia areas have been marketing imitation pepper, made of cottonseed or soybean hulls mixed with a little oil of pepper, as the real product. Must Be Marked Dr. Paul B. Dunbar, chief of the food and drug administration, pointed out that it is not illegal to sell imitation pepper. But he said it is illegal to pass it off as real pepper. He said imitation pepper must be plainly marked as such. “It's been quite a racket,” he said. “But I think we're stamping it out now.” He said a quantity of the imitation pepper has been seized and destroyed and the wholesalers cited to appear for hearings at the | administration's field offices, The
cern {itself with individual retail-
Ht the wholesalers fail to convince the government they acted innocently, they can be prosecuted n the federal courts, Conviction can carry a fine of up to $10,000 and three years in prison on each count, Meanwhile, partment predicted
the agriculture dethe pepper
In Woods of
Times State Serviee JASPER, Ind, Nov, 8, — Four-year-old Victor Kelsey of Ferdinand, Ind. was home today after wandering all night in the wooded, hilly farmland near his home, clad only in shoes, trousers and a thin shirt. State police reported the frightened boy was found at 5:15 a. m
his faithful dog “Blackie” and a neighbor's dog which had accompanied him on his wanderings. e was missed by his mother, . David Kelsey, at 3 p. m. yes-
the Indianapolis Hebrew congregation, gave the invocation.
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terday. . : Neighbors reported seeing the boy
Find Boy of 4 Lost Overnight
standing in a thicket guarded by|
Dubois County
and the two dogs walking along county roads southeast of Ferdinand and a searching party was organized. . They traced the boy until he left
‘Federal Government Enters’
| Rent is the only thing certain to be {on the list, aithough OPA wants | building materials and several other | commotion included as well. Wage Control on Way Out The spokesman said wage oontrols would be covered by the ditective and “will be swept away to the same extent that price controls are removed.” Mr. Steelman’s advisory board has recommended to Mr, Truman that sll wage controls be removed except in cases where higher wages would mean added cost to the gove ernment,
Support for ng ceilings came meanwhile Senator Wayne L. Morse (R. Ore.) who said “it is not ‘fair to lift controls on everything else and single out real {estate owners for discriminatory | treatment.” Senator Morse favored Individual atjustapeia, however, rather than | blanket increase. \ Meantime, OPA anntunced a 15 per increase on | types of | dria rubber product, lan 11 per cent increase om loom flax carpets, and 4&1 per cent Bolt In the ceilings on many durable rayon fabrics. End of Clothing Control Seen Mr. Steelman reportedly was une | decided whether to decontrol build ing materidls. According to the national housing agency, decontrol would mean the $10,000 ceiling on veterans homes could not be held, and might even threaten the veterans housing goal of 2,700,000 homes begun by the end of next year. Mr, Steelman's office believed, however, that it would be virtually impossible to hold prices on builds ing materials with everything élse decontrolled. All price controls on textiles and clothing are expected to be swept away by the Steelman order. In that event, OPA will be unable to continue its allocation controls over textiles and clothing, and plans to discontinue its low-cost clothing program which has channeled millions of yards of cloth to manufacturers of low-cost apparel,
‘KRUG WILL ENTER
COAL MINE TALKS
WASHINGTON, Nov, 8 (U, P.).— Secretary of Interior J. A. Krug today notified President John L. Lewis of the United Mine Workers (A. F. of L) that he would be pres« ent Monday when U. M. W. officials resume contract negotiations ah the government. Mr. Lewis, who has failed 0 ate tend the conferences while Mr, Krug was absent, was expected to join the negotiations at the same time. Mr. Krug returned today from an extensive western trip and attended
{the weekly cabinet meeting at the | White House.
WAC ESCAPES 2D SENTENCE FRANKFURT, Nov, 8 (U. P.).— Kathleen Nash Durant, former WAC captain who was sentenced to five years at hard labor in the Kronberg jewel robbery, was ace quitted today of contempt and dis. obedience charges growing out of her refusal to testify against Maj. David Watson.
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Good Turkey-Poultry Farm Ten Miles East on 38th St.
Just consider the excellent prices which producers are get ting for their turkeys and chick« ens, There's enough acreage to Taise some of your feed . .-,
the road and wandered through thick undergrowth. | The boy was found by Ferdinand | Marshal Joseph Brannicker, Aivin| Kelsey and Elbert Petry, | Authorities believed the boy had | wandered more than 10 miles as he attempted to find his way home, The two dogs had stayed with him throughout yesterday afternoon and last night. The boy was suffering from cold and lack of sleep. :
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