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IRISH VS. ARMY IN GRID CLASSIC
Scalpers ‘Receive $300 for. “Sideline Ticket.
By OSCAR FRALEY United Press Sports Writer NEW YORK, Nov. 9.—The mythical national football championship gleamed on the 50-yard line today. The fighting Irish of Notre Dame collided with Army at jampacked Yankee stadium in the 33d renewal
ARMY NOTRE DAME 35—-Villanova .. 26—Illinois ...... 6 21—Oklahoma, .. 7 33—Pittsburgh 0 46—Cornell ..... 21] 49—Purdue ...... 6 21—Michigan ...13| 41—IoWa ..sc.... 6 48—Columbia ...14] 28—Navy s.e.. 0 19—Duke ....... 0 5 10—W, Va. ...... 0 209 85/177 18
of one of the gridiron’s greatest
_ classics,
Tickets for the game were at such a premium today that scalpers asked and received $300 for a sideline ticket which cost $4.80. Box seats which cost $7.20 went for as high as $500 each. End zone seats brought up to $200 each. One holder of five end zone tickets sold them for $1000. Despite “the high prices; however, not many tickets found their way irito the hands of scalpers. Most of the 74,000 who held tickets wanted to see “the football game of the century. Both undefeated and untied, each team had a private crusade to be carried out. The odds were 6 to 5 and pick with neither able to draw the favorite's role. Notre Dame's motive was one of vengeance. For during the last two years when most of its current players were wearing Uncle. Sam’s colors, Army was rolling up a string of ‘25 consecutive triumphs. And two ‘of those West Point wins were over the Irish—by humiliating scores of 59-0, worst in Notre Dame history, and 48-0.
In other games today involving state teams, Butler was at home against St. Joseph, Purdue was at Minnesota and Indiana met Northwestern at Evanston, TI, At Minneapolis, Minnesota and Purdue hoped to escape the conference cellar at each other's ex-
pense, Other state games were: Oberlin at DePauw, Michigan Normal at Ball State, Canterbury at Earlham, Southern Illinois at Evansville, Franklin at Manchester,, Indiana
Central at Hanover, Eastern Illinois at Indiana State, Lake Forest at Wabash . and Cedarville _at Rose Poly,
TIMES INDEX
Amusements . 6 Ruth Millett.. 9 Eddie Ash...,. 8|Movies' ...... 6 BOOKS :4saves. 16 | Obitubries .., 12 Boots .........14]J. E. O'Brien. 8 Carnival ,.... 10|F, C. Othman. 9 Churches ....' 4{Radio ........ 15 Classified ,.12-14 | Mrs. Roosevelt 9 Comics ...... 15 | Science ...... 9 Crossword ... 16 [Serial ....... 6 Editorials .... 10 Silly Notions.. 9 Forum ...... 10 | Sports 8 Gardening .., 9 Teen Talk... 7 Don’ Hoover. . 10 | Washington . 10 |
| “Miss Indianapolis”
VOLUME 57—NUMBER 209
: Natural Color Photo by Lloyd B. Walton, Times Staff Photographer. PATTY GATES, daughter of Governor and Mrs. Gates, displays some of the beautiful flowers which may be seen in the National Chrysanthemum show in the Murat Visiting hours today and tomorrow are from 10 a. m. Yo 10 p. m,
ARMISTICE DAY PROGRAMS SET
Bauer Named
Head of U.S.
Floral Group
RALPH O, BAUER, Indianapolis florist, is the new president of the Chrysanthemum. Society ‘of America.
Mr. Bauer was elected last night |
at the opening session of the 45th annual three-day show of the society in Murat temple. More than 2000 people were on hand yesterday to see the exhibit.
Thirty-five new varieties of chrys-|
anthemums are on display, according to Edward C. Grande, general chairman. The show will be open to the!
public from 10 a. m. to 10 p.m death march in world war II will weeks has revealed that at least a
today and tomorrow.
= ® ® SPONSORS are the Allied Flor-
Downtown Parade Will Feature Observanve,-
Armistice day, which marked the
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Entered as Second-Class Matter at Postoffice Indianapolis, Ind, Issued daily except Sunday
Veterans Housing Call Answered By Plumbers
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OTHER GROUPS OF KLAN ‘TINGE FACING PROBE
Emmert Says He'll ‘Get to Bottom’ of ‘Whole Rotten’ Racket.
Attorney General James A. Emmert said today that he will investigate several other organizations @ecruiting members in the Hoosier state as well as the ku klux klan, Mr. Emmert said specifically that he will launch an inquiry into the activities of the “Loyal Liberty League,” the “Modern Minute Men,” the “Rock of Freedom,” the “Native Americans Club” and the “Fraternal Order of Rangers.” From his home in Shelbyville, the attorney-general told The Times he intended to “get to the bottom of this whole rotten mess and root out the racketeers behind it.”
Attacked by Gates
Earlier, Governor Gates had attacked the reported klan reorganization move. He declared “disclosure that the klan once again is rearing its ugly head of reaction, bigotry and intolerance in Indiana is repugnant and shocking to every right-thinking Hoosier.” The governor said he will ask the 1047 legislature to outlaw the klan and all other organizations of its nature. He declared the klan in the Hoosier state must be disrobed and eliminated for all time. State officials said they already have written to officials of Kentucky and Georgia, requesting copies of state enactments to suppress klan reorganization. Deputies Now Probing Governor Gates said these will be
fied as pattern for an | drive indians: 40-stamp out
an. intensity of the investigation
iend of world war I, will be observed Monday throughout the city, highlighted by a parade through downtown streets. Civic and patriotic groups will
{observe the occasion with special meetings. City schools have planned
patriotic programs. Brig. Gen. Clifford M. Bluemel, commanding general of Ft. Har|rison, and a survivor of the Bataan
review the parade which will be held at 10:30 a. m. Participating in the parade will
ists association of Indianapolis and pe veteran groups, state guardsmen, the Indiana State Florists associa- Li Scouts and R. and'R. O. T. T. C. units.
tion, Other officers elected last er were Gus Poesch, Columbus, O.,! secretary, and Cloy Miller, Barberton, O.,. treasurer. Displays include small gardens, a specimen plant trained into a pyramid and a wedding scene. Many of the flowers are of the small blossom type. Under sponsorship of the Allied florists, an amateur photographers’ contest is being held in connection with the show. Prints will be judged in the Hotel Severin Dec. 1.
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URGES VETERANS END
ORGANIZATION FIGHT
WASHINGTON, Nov. 9 (U. P.). —Marine Maj. Gen. Graves B. Erskine, retraining and re-employ-ment administrator, today called on veterans organizations to stop fighting among themselves, “Bickering, jealously and disputes among rival groups serve only to discredit all the veterans’ organizations and weaken the influence which the veteran can bring to bear on community and national affairs,” he said. He spoke at a meeting of the National Countil of American Veteran organizations. He reported that of every five dollars the government spends during the current fiscal
year, one will be for veterans bene- ert,
fits.
GIANT PLANE MAKES
FIRST FLIGHT TEST
92-Ton Carry 400 Passengers.
BURBANK, Cal, —Lockheed’s giant 92-ton Constitution, capable of carrying a 400 pas-
|senger military load, flew. on its
first test today.
The world’s largest
at Lockheed air terminal.
tween 20 and 25 seconds.
Nearly 10,000 aircraft workers and their families turned out to watch
the. Constitution fly in a mid-morn-ing haze. There was no wind,
About three-quarters of the distance down the east-west runway,
the plane's wheels left the ground. It lumbered at low altitude across nedrby buildings and homes. Within minutes, .the Constitution droned off in a climb toward Mu-
{roc dry lake on the California des-
where Chief Test Pilot Tony Levier planned to bring it down.
Constitution Can
Nov. 9 (U. P).
transport plane, a double-decked carrier with a tail assembly standing higher than a three-story building, took off slowly on the 6000 foot runway It was aloft on its maiden flight in be-
|mounted, Mr. Emmert said he slAHID ready has a number of deputies on {the case and will add more if the need arises. The state entered the klan picture ‘after one Harold Overton of Wilkinson admitted he is king kleagle for Indiana and apparently No. 1 man in the reorganization move { here. An independent investigation carried on by The Times the past six
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Community Fund
Thermometer GOAL $1,328,000
$561,194
" An increasing number of red feathers appeared in windows here
as the Community Fund thermometer rose to the $561,194 mark to-
Times P-80 to Be Christened Tuesday for Air Show Race
An army P-80 “Shooting Star” plane sponsored by The Indianapolis Times for a five-city jet-plane race: during the National - Aircraft show at Cleveland will be christened here Tuesday. An army air forces pilot, Lt. Arthury Murray, of Harrisburg, Pa, wil fly the plane into Municipal airport at 11 a. m. The ceremonies will be attended by Governor Gates, Mayor Tyndall and other dignitaries, The pilot and the official
party will attend a luncheon at the Columbia club following the ceremonies. . y “Miss race
Indianapolis” will
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time set the day before by a P-80 The day after “Miss Indianapolis” zooms “Miss Cincinnati” followed on Monday,
christened ‘Miss Cleveland.”
over the course, will race, Nov. 18, by “Miss Columbus, O.” The course will be from Cleveland to Indianapolis, will
Cleveland. The planes
vice.
Of singular importance to Indianapolis is the fact that the planes
will be pdwered by the J-33 jet en-
gines built here at the Allison diviE. B. Newill, general manager of the Allison division, will attend Tuesday's
sion of General Motors.
christening.
All planes will be sponsored by
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Scripps-Howard newspapers. '
Evansville, Cincinnati, Columbus and back to be checked by an electric timing de-
day. Walter Leckrone, campaign chairman, expressed belief that the $1,328,000 goal will be réached by the close of the drive on Nov, 20, He added a word of warning. “We cannot slacken our efforts and coast along, even though the campaign is running ahead of last year’s drive,” he said. “Over optimism: can defeat our purpose and from now on our 7000 voluhteer solicitors will find the going tough.” The following figures were reported during the third workers’ meeting in the Claypool hotel yesterday: The industrial division has subscribed 30.9 per cent of its $450,000 quota, or pledges for $138,803. The commercial division tallied 27.3 perqcent of its $125,000 quota’ with $34,004, Jumping into second place, the
cent of its $220,000 goal. The special gifts division led the drive with pledges for $153,825, or
mercantile division reached 40.8 per i
Assessor, Is Dead at 70
Samuel L. Montgomery died early | today at Methodist hospital, four days after his re-election as Marion | county assessor, He was 70. Mr, Montgom- ms , ery, widely known in Indianapolis : real estate circles, suffered a paralytic stroke yes- -? terday and was ; taken to the hos- * pital. He had served as assessor since Jan. 1, 1943. | A native of Marion county, he omery played an active Wy. Monty role in Republican politics for years, | He was born April 2, 1876, the son | of ‘Charles Augustus and Nancy | Harding Montgomery, and attended high school in Indianapolis. After graduation he farmed] until he was 23, and later became sales manager for Prest-O-Lite Co. Inc, from 1912 to 1921, He then became engaged in the real estate business here and lived at his 45acre estate, 8111 E. Washington st.| Committee Treasurer Mr. Montgomery served as Marion county inheritance tax appraiser | from 1823 to 1933 and was treasurer of the Marion County Republican | Central committee four years. He also was Warren Township Repub- | lican chairman and a member of | the Warren Township Republican |
He married Gertrude ®. Terrell, | a native of Marion county June 22, | 1898. They had one child, Marjorie, | since deceased. Mr. Montgomery was a member of the Moose lodge, Modern Woodmen of America, Indianapolis Real Estate Board, Residential Appraisers, Knights of Pythias, Athenaeum, Columbia club and the Emerson
id at 3 p.m & Buchanan mortar. 5. pura vill be In Crown
Survivors besides his wife include three sisters, Mrs. M. H. Davis and Mrs. W. L. Mount, both of Indianapolis, and Mrs. Sarah McCray, Los Angeles, Cal.
FOOD PRIGES JUMP
Figures Show Increase From June to September.
Price of food to Indianapolis consumers jumped more than 21 per cent from mid-June to mid-Sep-tember, Pigures disclosed today by the U. 8. bureau of labor statistics show that most of this increase occurred from mid-June to mid-July, when OPA controls were temporarily suspended. Meats were not included in computing food increases, with the exception of August. Prices of all living essentials for moderate-income families during the same period rose 10.8 per cent, the government agency said. Rents held steady, but all other items in the average family budget increased. Coffee, for example, Increased one-third in price for the threemonth period, the bureau said. Clothing costs advanced 9.2 per cent, due principally to rises in the price of men's dress shirts, wool suits, overcoats, work clothes, pajamas, wool jackets, undergarments and other articles of wearing apparell. House furnishings advanced 6.9 per cent the bureau said. Higher charges for haircuts, pipe tobacco and gasoline were among the items included under a 3 per cent in< crease in miscellaneous goods and services,
CHIANG’'S ADVISER DIES SHANGHAI, Nov. 9 (U, P.).—W. H. Donald, internationally famed “old China hand” and political adviser to Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, will be buried tomorrow in the China he loved. Mr. Donald, 71, died in a Shanghai hospital early today of cancer,
Peace Parley—
® Churchmen of all faiths will seek a pattern for world-wide peace in a conference which opens here tomorrow,
® The Times church editor, Emma Rivers Milner, today brings you thes, complete story of this all-important conference of the World Alliance for International Friendship Through the Churches,
78.9 per cent of a quota of $105,000. »
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Montgomery. TRUMAN READY
| President Truman
lence Monday morning.
club.
21 PER GENT Bese
10 REVEAL HIS FUTURE POLICY
White House Won't Say
Whether Decontrol Is Included.
The White House said today that would. make a policy statement at a press confer-
Immediately foliowing the an'nouncement there were unconfirmed rumors that Mr. Truman | would at that time order decontrol |
| of Sverying except sugar, rice and |
on these rumors, the New York | | stock market, particularly metal and automobile shares, rose as much as five’ points a share, President Truman could include
ithe. administration's new program
for wage stabilization and price de{control in a policy statement. How lever, White House Press Secretar Charles G. Ross was i on this point. Mr. Ross said only that it would be a brief general statement on policy. Concerns Past Election Policy
“You can call it a policy stateiment,” Mr. Ross said. “Naturally [the President is going to say somei thing.” Although Mr. Ross would not say 1 80, it was obvious that Mr, Truman ’| would outline in general terms what he plans to do in light of the election of a Republican congress. The press conference is scheduled for 8 a. m. (Indianapolis time) on
Coed Safe
Mary Zimmerman . . . Missing Bowling Green, O., coed found in Ft. Wayne working as a house-
CONTRACTORS OFFER AID TO GET 708 DONE
Meeting Scheduled Monday To End Bottleneck After Mayor's Plea.
Answers to Mayor Tyndall's appeal for plumbers to com= plete the 874-unit veterans’ housing project at Stout Field rolled into City hall today. The mayor said he has plenty of plumbers lined up for the job. Orville Wise, chairman of the
keeper.
FIND STUDENT IN FT. WAYNE HOME
> Employer's Suspicion Ends 4-Day Search.
FT. WAYNE, Ind, Nov. 9 (U.P). —Mary Zimmerman, 19-year-old runaway college coed, today sald she was “just nervous” when she ran away from Bowling Green State university in Ohlo last Tuesday. The missing Ohio coed said she planned to continue with a housekeeper's job which she took here Thursday in the household of Lawrence Levy who suspected she was
police. Miss Zimmerman said she did,
Monday, to permit President Truman to participate in the Armistice | day ceremony at Arlington cemetery an hour later. The OPA said that the White House would announce early next week the list of items to be decontrolled.
employees and to result in the resignations of Price Administrator Paul A. Porter and other top officials.
swept away at the same time. Small Likely to Quit
In addition to Mr. Porter, those expected to resign after the order is put out-are John D. Small, civil= ian production administrator, and the three members of the price decontrol board—Roy L. Thompson, Daniel W. Bell and George H. Mead. About 9500 OPA field employees will be given their pink slips on Tuesday. OPA gave notice to 600 employees yesterday. An additional | 10,000 will get their walking papers when the 61 district OPA offices close soon. Regional Offices Stay Open Burke Fry, chairman. of OPA's! new liquidation committee, told re-’ porters about 13,000 employees will be kept to administer rent and sugar controls and to liquidate the agency. Mr. Fry and Deputy Administrator Max McCullough outlined plans for closing OPA district offices and other liquidation problems to the eight regional OPA administrators meeting here today. A few employees are expected to be retained in various cities throughout the country to handle the sugar rationing program. The eight regional offices and the hundreds of area rent offices are also expected to continue operating for the time being at least.
LOCAL TEMPERATURES
6am 44 10am... 46 Bee rvss 4 11a.m..... 46 Samm. ois ‘4 12 (Noon)... 47 Sa. m..... 4 1pm... KY
Wage controls probably will be]
at Bowling Green and got her pres{ent job through a newspaper advertisement,
She came to Ft. Wayne after vis- ’ Mins
Mr. Levy, a clothier, said he and
This decontrol order is expected to|his wife were “more than happy to bring wholesale discharges of OPA have Miss Zimmerman stay as their the first of the year.”
iting ‘her high schoal" Dora Damron, at Bryan, O.
| housekeeper. Content With Studies “They'll just have to go back without me,” the sophomore girl said when reminded that her parents were on their way from Bowling Green to take her home, She discounted rumors that she had quarreled with her fiance Donald Webb, 20, Tuesday morning. Miss Zimmerman said Shé was perfectly content with her studies in which she made above-average grades as a physical education major. “I guess I'll go back to my books sometime but not yet,” she said.
ARRAIGN COLLINS IN
Charged With Grand Larceny and Forgery.
NEW YORK, Nov. 9 (U. P)— James Collins, Hollywood and Broadway habitue who uses several names, was arraigned today on charges of grand larceny and forgery in connectibn with the swindle of almost $1 million from the Mergenthaler Linotype Co. and was held withoGt bail for a hearing on Nov, 14. Dapperly dressed, Collins was arraigned before Magistrate Charles E. Hirsimaki under the mame of “Julius Lobel” which he said was his real name.
ARGENTINA, RUSSIA TALK BUENOS AIRES, Argentina, Nov. 9 (U. P.).—Argentina and Russia have started negotiations for a commercial treaty.
WASHIN
Rep. Charles A. Halleck in the 80th congress. Rep. Clarence J. Brown (Oh
Reece, the committee chairman.
Santa Claus, and they're for him. ”
Labor Still Wants Raise
Indications are that returns,
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A Weekly Sizeup by the Washington
Staff of the Scripps-Howard Newspapers
(Ind.) will be majority leader
He will be elected unanimously.
io) won't be candidate. Mr.
Brown created resentment during campaign by bludgeoning his way into a newly created post—director of Republican national committee—and then blacking out Carroll
He's also handicapped by coming
from Ohio—a state with two presidential candidates. Thomas Dewey's friends in House and those of other candiaates are for Mr. Halleck. As chairman of the Republican house campaign committee, Mr. Halleck dealt out most of the dough, So all newcomers think he's
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WHAT ABOUT labor, ‘now that Republicans have won?
highly displeasing to the C. I. O.
but causing no great complaint from the A. F: of Ly will not slow,
Wignio $50 Sri
the missing gir! and reported her to |
housework for her board and room
| voluntary advisory housing come ‘mittee, sald he received calls from two contractors last night offering | plumbers for the project. “The big difficulty now is to get union and non-union plumbers to reach some kind of agreement,” said the mayor. Plumbers’ Union Small Contractor for the project is Freyn - Brothers. They employ union labor, : Though Indianapolis has many. non-union plumbers, there are only 147 members in the local plumbers’ union, The mayor suggested that Freyn {Brothers sublet their plumbing con= tract to some contractors employing non-union plumbers. Whether this can be done or not will be discussed at a meeting Mone day morning in Freyn Brothers’ of« fice between representatives of the {Master Plumbers’ association, the advisory hounmg: committee and the union.
pleted and ready for occupancy by
The mayor's action followed pubs lication of a series of stories in The Times pointing to the tragic breake down in housing provisions for vets erans in Indianapolis. This week The Times revealed the
“Iplight of the Robert E. Johnson
family which has been living in an unheated garage. - Many warmshearted citizens called The Times offering to make provisions for this - veteran and his wife and three children in their homes. "16 Housing Units Ready Sixteen Stout Field units, come pleted except for sinks, were to be ccupied by veterans’ families -tday, leaving 314 dwellings to be finished, | Delivery on the sinks is to be made
-|soon, according to the mayor.
$1 MILLION SWINDLE
Thomas R. Jacobi, city engineer, and Larry Parsons, city personnel director, along with - several other officials have completed a check of the materials on hand at the Stout. field project. “Commitments on 170,000 square feet of wall board have not been made and there are shortages of fittings and pipe,” said Mr. Jacobi, “But it looks like there are plenty of materials on hand to keep the job moving along.” ~ Work for 60 to 90 Days
Said Mr. Parsons of the supplies on hand: “The present stockpile is large enough to keep 60 plumbers busy for 60 to 90 days. In that period the project could be prace tically completed.” Mayor Tyndall, in his appeal to plumbers, contractors and induse tries now using plumbing supplies for non-housing work, declared: “We must break the deadlock in the veterans’ housing program here. The health and lives of families now living in garages and attics depends on speedy comple tion of the city’s projects.”
MARY CHURCHILL TO WED
HASTINGS, England, Nov, 9 (WU. P.) ~Miss Mary Churchill, 24-years old youngest daughter of Winston Churchill, said today she and Capt. Christopher Soames of the Cold= stream guards hope to be married in January. Miss Churchill and Capt. Soames met one month ago in Paris, .
Bungalow Near Lawrence With Breezeway, for Sale
With all the shopping conven jences of “this lively = suburban town, close by. 4a well stl grade and high schoo! home has an exceptional suburban
location. fda
4509 Longsworth Drive, pt La ndisn: 5-room ern !