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Police Sound Appeal For Careful Driving
Winter came to Indiana today, bringing with it a two-inch snowfall which caused six traffic deaths in the state and 43 accidents in the
city. Highways were passable - but treacherous in spots. State and Indianapolis city police warned
motorists to drive cautiuosly. The prospect of slightly rising temperatures today indicated that snow would begin to melt this | afternoon, There will be little] change in temperatures tomorrow— the first day of winter at 4:54 a. m.
Skiddy highways and streets resulted in six Hoosier deaths up to noon today. Mrs. Rose Evinger, 30, of 2145 N. Leland st., was killed on U. 8. 40 near Stilesville when the car in which she was riding to Terre Haute skidded into another car, Dies of Heart Attack
Dead also was Harry Smith, 60, of 1258 W. Washington st, who apparently succumbed to a heart attack brought on by excitement when a light truck he was driving skidded into a parked car near 1912 W. Vermont st. yesterday afternoon. Mrs. Eva Malott, 63, of Petersbyrg, was killed when a truck which | her husband, Perry, was driving, crashed into an automobile near | Malott and Mrs. Hazelton,
of the car, were injured. Two state highway department workers were killed in a twotruck crash near Converse last night. The dead are Leroy Rees, | 51, and Rutherford O. Brodt, 50, | both of Amboy. Ironically, they were hemeward bound 'in their truck after working, for hours to clear snow from roads|. in Miami county. Near Converse, a| semi-trailer truck skidded into|
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State Teachers Ask $700 Hike In Pay Base
9-Month Term Urged For All Indiana |
Hoosier teachers today prepared | to ask the Indiana assembly which] convenes next month for a $700: { boost in annual salary. Minimum salaries for teachers now ‘range from $1300 to $1700. First in {a dozen proposals to be presented | {to the legislature will call for a ernor. [new minimum of $2400. The increase would affect only teachers now in lower brackets, | Other legislative aims outlined by | the Indiana State Teachers asso-| | ciation, county superintendents and |
“Gallus Gene | P.-T. A. in a conference with Govm ge ies | ernor Gates (oday:
| State fund distribution on the 1 ‘ | basis of a nine-month term inWon 4th Georgia | eaq of eight and distribution of Ter Go | the state funds to teaching units m ‘as vernor {of 25 pupils instead of an average ATLANTA, Ga. Dec. 21 (U. Pp.) ©0f 30, and inclusion of kindergartens : Z in the sharing of state funds. Governor-elect Eugene Talmadge Improvements in teachers’ retirewho won an unprecedented fourth| ment fund law. | Support of reassessment of real vember on a promise to maintain| estate. : : white supremacy died this morning. a ensioh of indefinite contract His death at the age of 62 came : Consolidation Favored less than a month before his sched- Youisiation 1 Xe the ofies of luled inauguration. w DH
state school superintendent statuThe end, came at 6 a. m. (Indian- tory. (The state constitution makes apolis time) in Piedmont hospital, the office a two-year elective one.) |where members of his 1amily and a] Increased state education departfew close friends had kept vigil since ment budget. condition - took ‘a un for thelofiicés.
STORMY LIFE OVER—Death today ended the colorful career of Eugene Talmadge, preventing |
his inauguration in January for a fourth term as Georgia's gov-
and county education boards Supervision of school. building programs. Adequate supervision of corre- |
In contrast to the stormy and life that marked his {ascendency in Georgia politics, Mr. | {Talmadge passed away quietly. spondence and home study schools. | Suffered No Pain Consolidation of local school Mr. Talmadge suffered no pain in|units. : his last hours but physicians said| More efficient organization of “his kidneys and liver both locked.” school transportation.
His death climaxed an illness| The program, adopted after con~ 1.,,415r4 is trying to build a Son, ‘passed out” promptly while e watching on the screbn the mesmeric eyes| Mr. Grinslade protested the price,
'that was aggravated by the zeal ference of key teachers’ organiza-| and drive of his 1946 political cam-|tions in the state, is expected to be |
them. Its driver, Raymond C. Ed-| eign when he stumped the state pushed in the next session of the
dington, 28, of Elizabethtown, Ky.,| was injured. Emmett C. Bailey, 50, of Spice-| land, was killed instantly near, New| Castle when his car skidded into al truck driven by Cleatus Brayton,| 42, of New Castle. Five Cars Crash The 43 accidents reported since) noon yesterday in Indianapolis kept police squads and ambulances busy, but with the exception of the one fatality, only one person—an elderly man pedestrian—was reported seri-| ously hurt. Most spectacular of these was a five-car crash at E. Michigan st.| and Hamilton ave. at dusk yester-| day when blinding snow and mist made visibility nearly zero. Two women—one a passenger, the other a pedestrian—were injured in
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bound trafic on Michigan st. 40] minutes. The injured women were Mrs.
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stone ave. who suffered injuries, and Mrs. Sophia Neitzel, 69, of 3501 E. 10th st, who was knocked down as she tried to cross the street. Both were treated and released at Methodist hospital, None Hurt Seriously The five-car pile up came when two automobiles driven by W. J. Spires, 75, of 602 N. Gladstone ave, and Kenneth Hare of Zionsville crashed on Michigan st. Mr. Spires’ car was spun by the impact into. another , automobile heading west on Michigan st. This car was smashed into a car parked at the curb. Mr. Hare's car, meanwhile, was spinning, too, and it smashed into another parked car. Mrs, Neitzel was bowled over by one of the skidding cars as she was crossing Michigan st. hurt seriously. Early this morning, George Scott, 67, was struck by an -automobile driven by’Willlam Mears, 20, of 4910 8S. State st. Mr. Scott was attempting to cross Shelby st. in the 2000 | block. He was taken to City hos-
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| Death was due to complications teacher organizations;
internal |
to make 272 speeches against the legislature by the Indiana State advice of his doctors. | Teachers association and other
following the stomach hemorrhages
suffered at Jacksonville, Fla., Oct. 3. | H With him when he died—but not Mistletoe angs
{all at the bedside—were his wife,
In White House
WASHINGTON, Dee. 21 (U. P).
{the former Mattie Thurmond Peterson, his son Herman, and two daughters, Mrs. Charles Smyly and Mrs. W, H. Kimbrough, and two The White House, gaily decked sisters. lout for the Christmas season, boast- | His son, a carbon copy of his|ed its own bunch of mistletoe to{father in Politics and personality, day. | had managed Mr Talmadge's last | But the feminine members of two campaigns. Like earlier one's; | President Truman's family weren't {there to stand under it. Both Mrs. Truman and Miss { Margaret Truman were at the | family home in Independence, Mo., { where they will be joined by the] While Bed Burns | President Christmas day. | FOND DU LAC, Wis., Dec. 21 (U.| There were several Christmas| {P.).—Firemen marveled today at) | trees in the White House but one [the way J. L. Peachy, 44, can sleep. | especially for%he President in the |. Mr. Peachy’s bed caught fire. An|East room. Standing 18 feet high | was sounded. Firemen |it was decorated with white lights | {rushed to the rescue, lifted him| and icicles. Mr. Truman will broad- | from the flaming bed and carried cast yuletide greetings to the nahim to the street. Then they woke | Ition on Christmas eve during treehim up to scold him for falling lighting ceremonies on the south asleep while ‘smoking a cigaret. la of the White House.
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2 More. Days to Give—
Several Hundred: Children
Still i in Need of Clothes
3 List of Donors, Page 12 : w By ART WRIGHT SEVERAL HUNDRED needy children were wondering today if the! prospects of & merry Christmas through Clothe-A-Child would matepialize inthe two d left for shopping. Some of them wil be made happy Monday and Tuesday . , .
others
No one was reported gio the prospect of wondering next Wednesday morning if there really _y,ttle
|is a Santa Claus for them, '| Aiding The Times progiam | Cash contributions, too, are help- | | greatly in the last remaining days ing Clothe-A-Child to increase its | | are the donors who take children to benefits in these pre-Christmas | the stores and spend their own |days. Yesterday's largest contri{money to outfit them. {bution was the $500 received from Yesterday 59 donors made it pos- | Peoples Church, Inc. ~Cadle Taber-|. sible for Clothe-A-Child to outfit hacle. {101 youngsters. It brought the | [total for the 14 shopping days of| THERE IS “sur time to join the Clothe-A-Child to 794 youngsters. | many patrons of Clothe-A-Child a eight Shiidren re Suis who are providing a merry Christted by employees of National MalJeable and Steel Casting Co. yester- thas with funds for warm. clowhing. day. It was She argent donor group.
Here's how you can help: CASH CONTRIBUTIONS—Send AMONG TODAY'S 5 donors was |checks or bring money to Clothea group from Purdue extension A-Child, Indianapolis Times, 214 here. The students and faculty of |W. Maryland st. 9 the extension pooled $102—enough | DONORS-—-Msake a to outfit four children—as a re- pointment to take a {sult of a. series of speeches made ping by telephoning
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FORECAST: Mostly cloudy tonight and tomorrow with light snow tonight.
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1946
ETCHED IN SNOW — From a window overlooking the monument at fhe dity's hub, Times Phetouiapher John Spicklemire snapped this "Christmasy scene as the winter's first heavy snow blanketed Indianapolis.
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Entered as Second-Class. Matter at PostofMce Indianapolis, ‘Ind, Issued daily except Bunday
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Legion Joins
Tegal Aid ~
To Father of Five |
American Légion officials today |-
assured a ‘34-year-old veteran with five children he would receive their | aid in fighting eviction from his bome at 321 S. Noble st. where the
ally. The suit was filed several a
| ago by Virgil Norris, attorney for | Pete Iaria, operator of a tavern, |
{against, Chris Murphy, the veteran.
The tavern operator plans to wreck the house and construct a bowling, aliey on the site. Mr, Iaria's attorney said he nad reached an agreement with Mr.
| Murphy not to press the suit for 30
days, provided $52.50 back rent is paid. { CPA Denied Permit | Meanwhile, Mr. Ilaria has em-| i ployed workmen to begin wrecking one side of the double house where the Murphys live. 1° The civilian production adminis-| tration of the office of temporary controls has twice denied a permit for the bowling alley. An official of the agency said it was not likely that the venture ever | {would be approved, although he | quoted Mr. Ilaria as claiming ‘severe hardship” in the case. Representing - Mr. Murphy are Oscar Brown, Indiana department service officer of the American] Legion; Jack H. Carr, commander, Robert Linehan post, and Norman Drybreak, post service officer.
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'Didn’ t Hurt You, Did I?" Boy, 12, Asks Dead Pal
NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 21 (U. P).j Joseph Saussaye didn’t know his father's gun was loaded. That's why his best pal, 13-year-old | Andrew Best, lay dead today. The boys couldn't wait to see what | Santa Claus had for them for| Christmas. They were poking around | {in a chest of drawers at Joseph's home when they found a gun. Joseph, 12, playfully pointed It at Lis buddy, and the gun accidentally discharged. Andrew fell to the floor, mortally wounded. “1 didn't know it was loaded,” Joseph sobbed. “I had played with it before and it never had been loaded.” He leaned down over his best pal. “It's a joke. I didn't hurt you, did I, Andy?" But there was no answ er. A man
to classes by Jack Thompson, He Arrangements will be
8 first gave the Clothe-A-Child talk child to meet you at Clothe-A- suid softly: . 11jas an assignment. for classwork. {Child headquarters—241 W. Mary- | The elder Saussaye said he usually |
who Heard Joseph's cry for help
{entered, did not produce a gun, but!
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Modern 'Merlin' Too Good, Banned From Television
Hypnofist Puts 4 Victims to Sheep In Trial RUA @'BBC London Studio E
. By GEORGE WELLER Times Foreign Correspondent
for a long, restful sieep today.
The British Broadcasting Cofp. decided ‘that hypnotism was too crans at E. 30th st.
| dangerous for television, Four out of six men and girls, in a trial run at the London studio,
and hearing the somnolent voice of | a 25-year-old former naval officer. B. B. C. decided that all of Bri-
at five times -as many as in the) United States—might do the same
Bandits Get $80 At Liquor Mart i Casson; the six-foot; quiet-
A lone bandit held up the fliois mannered Merlih who put the exLa Mart, 1518 N. Illinois st. at perimental group to sleep, was able noon today and escaped with $80. (to wake them up after 10 minutes. Manuel Leve, owner of the mart,/ But, nobody knows whether the said a middle-aged man with a | waking- -up process can be as effecmustache and. dirty felt ' hat tive as hynotism when televised.
With visions of having to ring
demanded the contents of the cash the door-bells of 15000 television- |
register; keeping a hand in his over- set owners in London, to find out coat pocket. | whether their owners were awake, The bandit then fled, chased by|B. B. C., which is a governmental a passing motorist. He turned monopoly, gave an apprehensive | sharply into an alley. The motorist, shudder and decided nothing doing. | attempting to stop, skidded on ad One consideration which gave the the turn on the slippery street. 'authorities further pause was that ‘ Mr. Leve said that was the third Londonegs might drowse away with'
time he has been held up in six their bathtubs running and their, The corporation
Christmas birds in the oven.
‘Lefthanded’ Compliment Renunciation of the “S00 success- |
months.
a chance to go on a free,
‘Tank Ignites alcoholic “bender.”
TAYLORVILLE, Ill, Dec. 21 (U, (had three of his hypnotees reeling P.)—A farmer and three of his 11|around, believing themselves drunk, children were burned fatally last {and singing “Nellie Dean” in barbernight because one of them stood by |$hop harmony. with a lighted lantern to watch his older brother pour gasoline into the tank of their automobile, The mother, Mrs. Mary Clark, 43, and three other children were in serious condition from burns. The dead were Charles T. Clark, 45; two sons, Cecil, 11, and Janes, 23, and a daughter, Virginia, 12. Charles Jr., 15, was filling the gas | added ‘sleep can be ended by ae tank at their home in Morrison. | gestion, hut, if the suggestion is po ville, Mrs. Clark said, when Cecil | given, people wake up anyway af walked over with-a lighted lantern, |® short rest.’ The gasoline ignited. Two nearby The ex-navy man is proudest of gasoline drums exploded, enveloping | PAVIng put to sleep a sergeant i ithe car and the other members of MArines.
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moved the hangover by commanding | them: “You will remember nothing of what has happened.” Mr. Casson even hypnotized five of 12 B. B. C. announcers, A hypnotist since he.was 16, Mr.| Cassol said that the ban ag al ‘very lefthanded compliment.”
Washington Calling— Labor Peace Hopes Rise; Moderate Pay Hikes Seen
WASHINGTON, Dec. 21.—Prospects for averting new round of C. I.:O. strikes has improved in past week. Looks now as if wage demands may be settled by moderate rises; in some cases by industry concessions on “fringe issues.” Reasons for better outlook: Big steel .companies are said to be willing to give 10 cents hour raise to avoid strike; other industries probably
would too. C. I. O.'s Nathan report, counted on to sell theory to public that
“He's dead, Joe.”
Indiana Saga 10 Weather Map 3 [The students liked the idea, Mr. land st. (across from the Times)— kept his gun unloaded but had
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whatever dhy or hour, you loaded it recently bécause of so
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big wage increases can be given without raising prices, apparently | hasn't had that effect. Statements by President Truman and report of his council of eco-
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LONDON, Deé. 21. ~Britaids war-weary population lost its chance the price up on the Tacoma Village Uke.
tain's television listeners—estimated serted that costs had risen on the it receded.
Furthermore, Mr. Casson even re-|
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14. £86 H Houses Are Destroyed: Cities Smashed
No G. Casualties Have Been Reported
By MILES W. VAUGHN United Press Staff Correspandent TOKYO, Dec. 21.—A devastating earthquake and tidal wave struck Japan today. At least 1500 persons were killed; 20,000 more homeless, and at least 50 cities and vil~ lages on the shores of Japan's ine {land sea were smashed. The pre-dawn temblor was termed more severe than the 1033 "Tokyo quake which claimed nearly 1100,000 lives. It hurled a tidal wave (against 300 miles of coastline along {Shikoku island and ‘south-central | Honshu, Preliminary reports set the known | dead at 546. But other estimates | boosted that total by 1000. | The earthquake and the: tidal | wave demolished or damaged 14.686 {houses and 21 factories, and de« !stroyed more than 1400 Astang | vessels. No U. 8. Casualties as Yet Early compilations listed 628 pers “ons seriously injured and 823 miss ing. The only allied military casualty reported was a British soldier
Protests Tacoma
ualties among U. 8. military or Rising costs and extras forced Red Cross personnel in the earth-
missing at Miho in Hiroshima preHous ig Fige Ep 1 Says, Rising: COME: vg te neste Toe at iy Bo osted Pri ces prelimiky surveys showed no |
American Red Cross representa« tives were rushing to the scene to learn what help was neeced. Homes Smashed Flat The thundering wall of water increase figure of $1116 on a three- swept in from the Pacific after the {bedroom bungalow published by submarine earthquake. It pulled |The Times yetserday. But he as- | thousands of houses out to sea as In other places, homes two-bedroom units by $600 in six were flooded or smashed flat. i | weeks. Thousands of families were with Increased costs developed on nu- out shelter in bitter cold weather, merous. items, he said. Plumbing, sith icy winds adding to he: costs went up. Watchmen had to misery. be employed on the project—a cost Japanese relief resources were not foreseen in the original esti- mobilized to rush aid to the strdekimate—and numerous repairs and en area. It extended from Hiroreplacements had to be made, he shima on the west to Osaka, Waka« | said. |yama and® Kainan on the eastern Some Features Added [edge of the picturesque inland sea. Shutters, window boxes, storm! Japan's home minister, Seiichi doors and sodding were added to Omura, told the house of repre the houses after the initial cost sentatives that authorities were do« breakdown by the non-profit cor- Ing their utmost to” utilize “shats poration building the project, he {®red communications (facilities, aid. {Food and shelter were rushed to
In addition, he said, many of the the disaster victims. heating stoves which came with the Citizens Are Terrorized houses were found unfit for use.! The mighty earthquake jolt came spent an extra'62 miles off the Japanese coast at $440 for parts to repair the stoves,!3:20 a. m. (Indianapolis time) to {he said. |day. It was felt almost immediately | Extra lumber was needed, he said. in dozens of cities and villages. |
No provision in the corporation's] Houses collapsed and citizens
prefabricated bungalows for vets and Tacoma lave, Thomas Grinslade, contractor, for the job, told The Times today.
ful” experiment deprives Britons of | gostimate was made for it. Since rushed into the streets terrorized.
{some wall partitions had to be re- | In Nara prefecture 100 houses
Mr. Casson later placed, expensive plywood had to|were demolished. Nine persons were
The Times
Mile-0-Dimes . located on W. Washington St. in front of L. 8, Ayres & Co, and S, S. Kresge Co. Funds used for _Clothe-A~ Child.
Each line of dimes is ex~ . actly 1/60th of a mile . ...
60 lines means a full Mile. the outlawing of ‘ \
Today's 5 Measurement 3 53 lines (4664 feet) or $7928.80 lh
be purchased, he said. |killed in the vicinity of the Horyu *| Mr. Grinslade, however, confirmed temple—believed to be the oldest {the new prices published yesterday wooden structure in the world-—bhy {by The Times, adding that these) {the temple, built in 607 A.D. and {might be cut somewhat when the housing world-famous murals, was lentire project is completed. The unharmed. | difference will be refunded to pur-| Then the sea, lashed upwards by chasers, he sald. Prices are $5400 on a three-bed-| (Continued on Page 2—-Column* 5 (Continued. on Page 2—Column 3) Pilot | Returns ‘Reward’ In Airliner Collision Pro ase Drunken | MIAMI, Pla, Dec. 21 (U. PJ | ifn passenger Ben J. Slutsky of Elfenville, N. Y., ‘got his $500 re[turned today even though he didn’t riving p g ony want it, He had given the money |to Capt. J. B. Kuhn, pilot of the. | resolution urging that opera- Eastern Airlines DC-4 passenger i of a motor vehicle while intoxi- [piace Vhish eoliided Ha a Uni cated be defined as a felony and be | oh. raTapOrs Ship wg days Add punished by a fine of at least $100 pilot for brilliant work in getting and possible imprisonment for not|the passengers down safely. |less than one year was adopted to-| But Mr. Kuhn, thanking Mr. day by the Indiana Prosecuting At-|Siutsky for the gesture, said that it torneys assocjdtion. {was “all in line of duty.” The resolution, which ‘will be presented to the 1947 general assembly as a proposed bill, suggested fines ranging from $100 to $5000 and possible imprisonment of a year or less, The attorneys concluded a lhreeday annual meeting today. The attorneys also voted to introduce a bill calling for financial and other expansion of the Indiana state police and to man each roving patrol with two state troopers. Another resolution adopted by the body called for “certain organizations breeding intolerance and hatred." Adoption of that resolution came on the heels of efforts of the ku-| klux klan and the Columbians, Inc.| % Jseorganize in Indiana. {
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