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VOLUME 57—-NUMBER 212
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1946
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Indianapolis, Ind.
It was a farmers day in India
Direct Primary Urged by Farm Bureau Heads
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napolis today as members of the
Indiana Farm bureau and the In-
diana Rural Youth organization convened here. Among those attending the youth session in the War. Memorial building were (left to right): Joyce Lawyer of Washington, Ind.; Virginia Welling of Cumberland, Ind, and Ronald Smith of Jonesboro, Ind, District 4 vice president.
3-DAY MEETING T0 DRAW 5000
Tax Hike to Come, Gates Tells First Session.
Hoosier farmers today were urged to support adoption of the direct primary for nomination of candi-
dates to the U. S. senate and state
offices,
Addressing the annual conven-
tion of the Indiana Farm Bureau, |
Hassil E. Schenck, president, pointed that Indiana is “one of a very small minority of states which has clung to a convention system of selection of political candidates”
and that its functioning “has proved
its extreme undemocraticness.”
Earlier, Governor < Gates,” whose]
political faction bas. opposed the
direct primary, told the fafmers|
that they could look forward to some increased taxation by the next legislature to improve health service and to aid rural recreation facilities. Urges Broad Program
Nearly 5000 farmers from all over
the state were expected at the three-
day convention, which opened this Temple.!| Memphis, Ind, a delegate to the Farm bureau convention, as he
morning in the Murat bers of the Indiana Rural youth met in the Indiana War Memorial building to elect new officers. They were to join the farm bureau in session this afternoon. In a broad program suggested by Mr. Schenck for adoption as. farm bureau resolutions before the close
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Rapt attention was on the face of Fred H. Scholl (above) of
listened to Governor Gates in the
Murat Temple today,
U. S. Is Probing Reported $28,000 Tax Dodge Here
Investigators of the internal revenue bureau intelligence unit~today Beach.
of the session Friday, he asked for 1 regsed an inquiry into charges that a downtown tavern owner failed to report more than $28,000 of taxable income during a three-year period
an improved state high school curricula, an “adjusted” teachers’ salaries, a revised state tax program, promotion of 4-H club work, and higher dues for farm bureau membership. Defends Co-Operatives The farm bureau executive said that no other organization, outside the church, “has done so much with so little.” He proposed raising individual membership dues from $5 to $10 annually. He recommended that the farm group discourage any type of public building not of immediate necessity but urged that hospitals and medical centers be erected as fitting
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Werlie F. Heater, owner of the named in federal court yesterday as
Saratoga Bar, 16 S. Illinois st. was the alleged tax evader.
His accuser was Frank D.-Allen, a former manager, who was being
tried on charges that he hid liquor to avoid payment of $472 in federal taxes. A continuance of the Allen case for 30 days was allowed by Judge Robert H. Baltzell. This was requested by Allen's attorney so that additional arguments might be presented. Decision Due in December The judge's decision will be made sometime after Dec. 12. Also aired at the trial were allegations that an internal revenue agent was discharged for accepting a bribe from Heater. The ‘agent, Raymond E. Barnes, was identified by Allen as the person who accepted a note signed by Heater in favor of the Fidelity
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Mother, 43, Out of Names As Her 25th Baby Arrives
LAMESA, Tex. Nov.“13 (U. P.).— [terey, Mexico. Their first child was |
Mrs. Bernardino Lopez, who has
given birth to 25 children in the last 33 years, complained today that she was running out of names’ for her offspring. Mrs. Lopez was a slender girl of 11 and Mr. Lopez was 13, when they married ‘at Uvalde, Tex. in 1913, Both had come there from Mon-
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Amusements . 20 Ruth Millett . 15
Eddie Ash ... 12 Movies ...... 2 Boots ......< 26/Qbituartes .\. Business ... 8 Dr. O'Brien .. 15
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Fashions ...22-23 Mrs. Roosevelt 15| records ¥ which substantiated 16 claim, Dr. Smith said. | When he returned to\the Lopez home to‘examine the mother and baby, he found Mrs. Lopez prepar-
Mrs. Ferguson 22|Scherrer ..... Forum ....... 16| Science vive 1D Gardening ... 10{Serial ....... 3 23|Side Glances. 16 Homemaking . 23 | silly Notions 15 Home Page 10 Sports 12-13 In Indianapolis 4 StranahanInside Indpls. 15° Weather Map 18
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born a year later. The 25th—an eight-pound girl— arrived Sunday. Mrs. Mrs. Lopez, now 43 and plump, said she named her new baby “Sunday” after her birthday because she and Mr. Lopez couldn't think of anything else. Twelve of their - children, are living. All 25
Iwere born singly.
Mrs. Lopez’ birth record came to light by accident. While filling out a birth certificate, Dr. A. H. Smith, who delivered the baby Sunday at
how. many children she had. “This is the 25th, doctor,” sai
7 Mrs. Lopez. ) : } "You don’t understand,” said Dr. Classified ..24-26/F. C. Othman 15 gmith, “I asked how many children
you've: had.”
Mrs. Lopez insisted the number .-16|was 25. An investigation produced the
{fig breakfast,
Dr. Smith ‘ordered Mrs. Lopez to ordinate its . 12 bed for a week's rest. !
the house,” she protested
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HALLECK BOOSTED
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FOR HOUSE LEADER
Campaign Planned at 2d District Dinner.
Times State Service MONTICELLO, Ind., Nov. 13.—Republican party workers of the second district resolved last night to enlist every effort to insure. election of Rep. Charles Halleck as floor leader of the house when congress convenes,
| The resolution backing Mr. Hal-| leck was passed at a district victory dinner at the Sportsman hotel near} here. More than 200 party work-| ers were guests of Mr. Halleck, Dis-| trict Chairman Ira Dixon and Mrs. {Mabel Fraser, state vice ehalr- | woman. Among the top-flight state party! heads who pledged their backing of | Mr. Halleck for majority leader were! Governor Gates and Clark Springer, | state chairman. The governor de-| scribed the coming congressional] session as “vital to the nation’s] future.” Mr. Halleck, thanking the party workers for their support both now and in the recent election, said the problems, congress now faces are “so great as to sober the judgement and temper the feelings of anyone who seeks the post of floor leader.”
ELECTRICAL WORKERS DEMAND WAGE HIKES
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New wage increases to offset “sky-| rocketing prices” were demanded
13 Students Injur
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MONTGOMERY 150 Others Escape Unhurt WARD MAY BID When Explosion of Boiler Wrecks Two Classrooms ON PLANT HERE
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AIRLINER LOST IN CALIFORNIA WIND AND RAIN §
BARODA, Mich., Nov. 13 (U. P.).—Superintendent of ‘Schools Howard Walter said 13 persons were injured today : : ; when a boiler room explosion wrecked a section of the BaroMail Order Firm Considers j, .onsolidated school. ] 9.State Warehouse, | Berrien County Sheriff Erwin Kubath said the exploRetail Store. |sion wrecked two schoolrooms on the first and second floors ’- . {above the boiler room. There was no fire. a By RICHARD BERRY About 15 to 20 children were in that section of the pe a A building at the time, he said. Some 150 children were in | gomery Ward & Co. of Chicago, it another part of the building havitig luc, and escaped le | J .
{was learned today. us 4 ere was an unconfi rm oo
lA group of Montgomery w= WETTER T0 GE plane was feared to have crashed officials, headed by Sewell Avery, ‘report that one’ person Was
within three minutes flying time of presideny, was to arrive in the city| | missing after’ the blast, but GOP SUPPORT rescue workers digging in the
Aboard; Search Is Started.
BURBANK, Cal, Nov. 13 (U, P.).|
transport with eight passengers and | a crew of three aboard was overdue and reported missing today on a| flight here from Las Vegas, Nev. | Western Airlines reported the
0. John Rogge
i minal. .,.4. 4 i “The sherif's sub-station at Mont- Bia) ® ig She Pull Creel corres serine” rece ROGGE WARNS [Resins 2 * debris of the wrecked rooms port, in the hills near Sunland, | The group will survey the former said they had found no Indicated bodies.
about 12 miles from Lockheed air OF U S FASCISM sions“ summicins intention Ward Chairman terminal, Searchers were sent to 1 Un | oroperty. Bids will be opened Nov. As. Niblack’s SUCCESSOF. Two of the injured . were. under a stood critical condition, -
Tod Visibilny Sampered a8 serial : Maki | aaministration regional office. By NOBLE REED | Teacher Injured mountains aud the Hollywood hills, in Making; May Bring Retail Store | Republican party maneuvers made| si bjuned was s eadher. which were isolated by drenching’ Ex.l, S. Attorney Says. | If the mail-order house is suc- in the pre-primary election deals npicq Mira Spackel. » rains. The sheriff's office and police # cessful in obtaining the property last April began to take shape to-| The explosion occurred in a new: Started: & ETOUNY Search. By RICHARD LEWIS in event a bid is made, the struc- gq in the forthcoming appointment | brick addition to the original one No Hoosiers Aboard O. John Rogge, former assistant |ture would be turned into-a huge | a new judge of Municipal court | Story building. : Pilot Gerald Miller contacted the U- S. attorney general, was fired | Warehouse Wo serve a Rinesstate | d the 1947 It | Rescue workers estimated that it control tower at 5:37 a. m. (Indi. from the justice department be-|area with Indianapolis as the dis-|4 an Mayoralty race. | would take eight or 10 hours be he mentioned the names of lributing point, it was said. It was learned authoritatively fore all the debris was cleared away. g Senator Burton K. Wheeler and It was also reported that a retail hat regular Republican party lesd- The injured were taken. by am{John L. Lewis in making public store would be opened at the ware- lers have decided tentatively to rec- bulance to. at. sanitarium 40 miles distant at 5:24 a. m. and | Nis report on Nazi activities in the house, jommend Paul C. Wetter, 13th ward | and ‘Mercy hokpital-at St. Joseph. officials said his final report placed U- S. in the early days of the war, The Pall Creek plant was con: GOP, chairman, for appointment | Unofficial reports. dad some might the plane only 18 to 20 miles away. Ne told The Indianapolis Times to- structed in 1942 at a cost of hy Governor Gates to the Municipal | die. in {
» i Other crew members aboard were 98Y. : $3,750,000. {court 4 judgeship. i Co-Pilot Ted Mathis and Stewardess. He named Mr. Lewis as the
- poe | The Municipal court post will beJoan Fauntleroy. number one candidate in his opiné come vacant Jan. 1 when nae EMPLOYEE bias 2. All of the passengers were from ion for dictator in the uniea LAFOLLETTE T0 AD. {John Niblack will leave that hench os : A ye. 8 Canada and the U. S. Far West. | States if such a movement ever got | to become judge of Superior court 1.| ASKED 0 Me NAZI PROSECUTION, ... rc nemmet ol TONY LE ME FUND Y ANG Tea SE EO TT Lia Areas
under way and he warned that a Half of Seats Empty | er. hn Fascist movement | candid The plane ‘was more than half is now in the making. | : The field of. candidates for We a 1a ak Bantly haweyer, becguse it ordi-| Mr. Rogge, whose dismissal as | > ‘Mr. Wetter this week after regular | DFIVE iff" narily ac odates 21 PASSENGETS. result of revelations in a speech at Congressman Will Leave organization leaders Were: oder] ' Se ee |stood to have eliminated Judge - Also-R
For Germany Dec. 1. ol | y Mark W. Rhoads, defeated for re- | communtiy SRE Bbunteer with:
election to Juvenile court, from the By DANIEL AL_RID NEY list of possible contenders. ers today redoubled their efforts on able to contact him again. : | WASHINGTON, Nov. 13. — Rep.| Mr. Wetter is said to have the residential and employee group The weather bureau hoisted storm _ His subject, “American Fascism cparjes M. LaPFollette, Evansville support of County Republican | solicitations to fill their quotas .in Reconverts,” will be repeated at papuplican, will go to Germany to Chairman Henry E. Ostrom and |
verify. the report. 120 at the Cincinnati, O., war assets
Strong Move
flying at 9000 feet and preparin for a landing. He was over Newhall,
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when Pilot Miller was directed t0 sation, arrived in Indianapolis today land. but rain poured on the field {to address the Kiwanis club at a shortly thereafter almost obscuring | noon luncheon at the Antlers hotel. vision. The control tower was un- To Make Night Talks
| easterly winds of 50 and 60 miles
{an hour whipped up a rain that al-
{ready has caused another airliner 'some trouble in landing. |at the Indianapolis Press club.
nearly {municipal airport last night after {if Was unable to land here because
lof the low ceiling.
|clipped four feet off a power-line pole as it attempted to land. Later,
DOUBTS FORT PRISON
warnings earlier today after south- s } meetings at 8 p. m. at the Y. M. C.'}a)n prosecute Nazi . industrialists [Joseph J. Daniels, 1ith district | {* drive which closes next WednesA. before the American Veterans Ay. Committee and later in the evening
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for war crimes, it was learned here GOP. chairman. - x ' today. | ‘This support is understood to have |, Although the army of more than
7000 volunteers is doing a splendid Assistant Secretary of War How- | been the outgrowth of a maneuver | i ahistgers 1 to be done,” said Mr. Rogge told. The Times that o.q4 ©. Peterson today confirmed made in the primary campaign mud- | er ) »
Attorney General Tom Clark hadithe LaFollettee appointment with |dle over a candidate for the prose- | hai " tion 6 the comment: | cutor nomination. | ime, i rio gh “The war department is happyto| Spearheaded Boom have yet to be solicited.” . obtain the services of a man of his| Mr Wetter spearheaded the orig-| Drive officials expected the goal caliber.” {inal boom behind Leo T. Brown, thermometer to pass the 50 per cent With the confirmation, Rep. La-|geputy- prosecutor, for the Repub- mark by the next report meeting toFollette outlined some of his plans. |jjcan prosecutor nomination against! morrow noon at the Claypool hotel. He said the cases already have been the regular organization's Alex M.| However, Mr. Leckrone said, is prepared, but what was needed was clark. will be necessary to boost the pera trial lawyer~They will be tried in| A week before the primary, Mr. centage figure to near the twothe American occupation zone of grown suddenly withdrew from the thirds mark by the end of this week, Germany ‘under the U. S. system of ;5ce in favor of Mr. Clark, who was!if the goal is subscribed by Nov. 20 jurisprudence, as recommended by subsequently defeated by Judson L. the closing date. Bo |Supreme Court Justice Jackson, giark | Workers. already have reported a who represented the Uniled States| goon after that, Mr. Wetter be- total of $635,274 in subseriptions at the Nuerenberg trials. {came a leading candidate for the toward a goal of. $1,328,000. “I expect to leave Dec. 1 and will \ynjcipal court judgeship in the! :
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A 44-passenger Western transport crashed at Los Angeles
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Another plane, a four-engined Pan-American airways transport, was forced away to Palm Springs airfield, where 29 passengers were marooned for six hours awaiting customs officers. {
T0 ‘LEND' PLUMBERS
Mayor Makes New Appeal For Housing Project.
Mayor Tyndall today enlisted the aid of Indianapolis businessmen in
WILL BE ABANDONED
Army headquarters would be against the closing of the’ U. S. disciplinary barracks at Ft. Harrison, Maj. Gen. Manton 8S. Eddy, deputy commander of the 2d army, declared yesterday. “This is one of the army’s model prisons,” he told Brig. Gen. Clifford | Bluemel at the reservation yester(day. The final decision whether {to abandon the local prison camp | will rest with the war department, he added.
solving the knotty Stout field housing problem. His_decision came at a meeting | {of building contractors and repre-! sentatives of construction labor held to determine the number of available plumbers. ! At the suggestion of this group; | the city's head promised to extend | his appeal for assistance to officials of plants and stores where postwar building is in progress The meeting opened with a poll to see how many plumbers each |
be over there a year or more, Mr. gvent Judge, Niblack
LaFollette said.
After getting settled he will be| .pymors are circulating around [party headquarters that some oppo- |
joined by his wife and daughter, the latter probably enrolling as a student at the Sorbonne in Paris. Mr. LaFollette will not resign his congressional seat. His term expires Jan. 3.
Martinsville Fire
was elected. to ‘Superior court.
{sition is developing to Mr, Wetter's |candidacy for the appointment. The
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SMUTS DEFIES UN ON
NEW YORK, Nov. 13 (U, P.).— be a start, a rallying peint for |"
Kills Mother of 3 ANNEXATION POLICY
MARTINSVILLE, Ind. Nov. 13 (U. P.).—Three small children and South Africa Refuses to
their young war-veteran father to- ¢ Offer Trusteeship Plan.
day mourned ‘the death of their | mother and wife, killed late yester-| day when a stove exploded in their! LAKE SUCCESS, N. Y, Nov. 13 small, three-room home. ' (U. P.).—The Union of South Africa The body of Mrs. Ruth Brummett, flatly refused today to put South-
“The policy, now is to combine contractor could spare. A tally ac-| wherever possible but the disciplin-{counted for 101 of the estimated ary barracks at Ft. Knox is much 185 plumbers on local union rolls. more temporary than the structure The remaining plumbers are emat Pt. Harrison,” he said. | ployed by contractors not repre- —— | sented. When nothing tangible had deVATICAN CITY, Nov, 13 (U. P.). veloped in the form of volunteers —Funeral services for His Em- to work on the Stout field project, inence Camillo Cardinal -Caccia! Mayor Tyndall demanded a reason. 26, was found in the charred ruins Dominioni, who died here last night He was told that workmen could not of the kitchen after a fire had after a brief illness, will be held be promised definitely without con- gutted the frame structure. Friday at the Church of San Carlo sulting business executives to whom | Orla Brummett, the husband, was al Corso. | contractors are obligated. | working at a Martinsville tire shop.
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Manly Plan Gets Gusrded O.K.— Industrial Relations Experts Here Favor ia rt oe ni” coving Truce if Production Can Be Guaranteed “x. the annexation bid was re-
Southwest Africa was owned by By ROBERT BLOEM |sociates and specialists in the in-/ Germany until the end of world Industrial relations experts in Indianapolis expressed belief today dustrial relations field had studied war I. that most industrial leaders would favor some sort of labor-management /an advance copy of the Manly, Gen Smuts said that it was imtruce for 1947 if it would insure production. plan, | possible for South Africa to counter The plan proposed by Basil Manly, former joint chairman of the | Mr. Griffith was unable to give the the expressed desires of the Southnational war labor board, in The Times yesterday is “full of loopholes,” plan a thorough study in the brief|west African natives in favor of they said. But they agreed that from industry's point of view it could time allotted, but agreed in a annexation. M—————— — | general way that production is the | The South African pronounce~ | Manly plan included James PF. Car- answer to the economic situation. |ment came after Arthur G. BottomHe felt this or any other practical ley, the British delegate, had said
CARDINAL'S FUNERAL SET
west Africa under United Nations trusteeship if the United Nations rejected the South African proposal for annexation. Premier Jan C. Smuts told the
trusteeship committee that South Africa would continue to admin-
'| tegral part of the union,” accordin
solidly constructive action. | In seeking industrial reaction to roll, president of the Indiana Cham-
today. by the United Electrical Ra-|the Manly plan for a year’s labor- |ber of Commerce; Howard T. Grif-|plan, if it will insure production, |that the United Nations charter did
dio and Machine Workers (C.I.0.),| management which has 600,000 members in elec- checked - certain trical manufacturing plants|ployers, but relied mainly on tne ®
throughout the country.
The union, largest in the OC. I. O, |experts.
announced after a two-day meeting jon wage policy that it would codemand for wage
| boosts with those of the United “I have too many things to do Steel Workers, the United Automo- action t , bile Workers and other big C, I. O. survey of employers. | :
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Times | fith, former president of Associated |will solve the problem of runaway|/not force any nation to pub its em- | Employers of Indiana and himself |inflation. mandated territory under trusteefurniture manufacturer; Fred| ypanimous reaction of all who|ship. Mr. Bottomley warmly supBeyer, industrial relations head for|ciudied the plan carefully, was that ported the South African proposal. the Indianapolis Chamber of Com-|ny Manly's proviso for voluntary! Soviet Ambassador Nicolai NoviThese men, because of their con-|merce; Henry Cochrane, executive|y pitration by both labor and man-|kov previously had denounced the tacts with large numbers of indus-| Secretary of the Indiana Manu- cement would be viewed with sus-|plan as a flagrant violation of the trialists, were regarded as reflecting facturers’ association. and .George,icion and disfavor, probably by|United Nations charter and had ‘a broader view of industry-wide re- Applegate, research .director of the jap6, ag well as by management. [labeled the polls taken by South n could be obtajped in a Same organization. Arbitration. they said, was(fair in Africa - to. determine’ whether the Mr. Carroll spoke in a prepared : {natives of Southwest Africa w the statement, issued after his as-. (Continued on Page 2-—Colunin 2) annexation as “fictitious.
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2 BOMBS HURLED IN
HOLLYWOOD, Nov. 13 (U, P.).— | Homes of two non-striking movie studio ‘workers were blasted early today by mysterious bombings which police said were connected directly | with the strike dispute. { Most violent of the explosions was 'at the West Los home of | Paul B. Byrd, Columbia studios su« | perintendent. The entire -neighborhood was shaken and windows shattered in several houses. The second explosion seriously damaged the front of the home of W. J. Soltis, Paramount studio machine shop foreman, who lived in Hawthorne,
| XRUG, LEWIS TO CONFER WASHINGTON, Nov. 13 (U, PJ, —Secretary of Interior, J. A. Krug |today conferred with spokesmen (for the soft coal industry and then {scheduled an afternoon conference with’ John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine oWrkers (A. F. of
(La), on the same wage dispute.
FIRE DAMAGES RESIDENCE
The: home of Robert Freeline, 316 | 8. Dearborn st., was badly damaged |by a fire which started before noon |today. No one was injured and the | cause of the fire and the exact loss have not been ascertained.
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Modern Bungalow With Four Acres Facing Southport Road
A superb suburban site easily ac~ - cessible to downtown Indianapolis, with a good future income from a young orchard. .. .
HOLLYWOOD STRIKE