Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 February 1947 — Page 1

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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1947

"OUR KIND OF MUSIC" — The West Point Symphony orchestra, introduced fo the house of representatives this morning by Rep. Jess C. Andrew as "our kind of music,’ warms up in the speaker's office before the legislative concert. Symphonists (left to right] are: R. E. Wien, banjo; Elmer Wien, violin: Mrs. Thelma Ransdell, _ accordion, and Harold Fos bass.

6 0.P. Precinct West Point Symphony Gives Men Reorganize House Some Hoosier Music

Four-Piece Orchestra Beats It Out In Electing Officers In Concert for Legislators

a | By HENRY BUTLER Disgetisions in: the. Tanks of tne) It was a real Hoosier concert in the house of representatives this Republican Precinct Committee- | 0 ning. men’s association resulted today in The four-piece West Point Symphony orchestra, sponsored by Rep. a complete reorganization of the Jess C. Andrew, saluted the house and Mr. Andrew on the ways and | group. | means committee chairman’s birthday. The charter of the old group Introducing the oichestra in a brief recess, Mr. its chief competitor, the Indian- ~~ wasiabandoned yesterday and a new ooo symphony orchestra, Which the Straw” filled the house, Senator, organisation to be known as the played for the house last Jan. 10. Herbert M. Copeland of Madison Federation of Republican Precinct! “Our kind of music comes-from called the square-dance into the Committeemen, Inc, was formed ‘the other side of the tracks,” Mr, microphone figures with professionwith new by-laws. Andrew said. ‘al skill, dissension | “They're real country folks. They Representatives who warmed to ; over the per- Milked early this morning. the con the music and removed thelr jack-

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House Defeats Bill on Grade Separations

Legislators Deny . Any Lobby Pressure

Crown Champions | In Golden Gloves. Finals Tonight

f Wholegal part- throu reets, pushing . all shucked and now they have a ets included Mr. Andrew, who Was the bill on that occasion had re-| of the Retail & = De through the st ALO: isporting a lemon-colored shirt and considered by, -today and voted, hotel and restaurant workers: union.

a the Symphony, Mr." Andrew introduced Members of the West Point Syin. | | West Poin

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MISSING MAN—David Edman Sr., 40, today was object of ‘manhunt which turned toward Los Angeles, Cal. Authorities sought him as the slayer who struck down Mrs, Ruth Clark Edman with a shotgun blast yesterday morning.

Entered as Sccond-Class Matter at PostofMee “ a C . . Armory. Stage Demonstration {way promptly at 8 p. m. Tickets) Sn —— 17 o'clock. jernment employees walked off — David Edman, 4, tives today voted down the to-Chicago to seek further laurels of his blond ex-wife, The eight novice class winners | a standstill in the French cities. Thayer, Bartholomew county 8 p——————— cost of living. 64 to 29. afternoon. Mrs. Mary Youngmdrk, kill the measure, legislators denied were dead, as was the metropolitan pay 80 per cent of the cost of every about 4 p. m. The workers took Are on Strike terday’s lobby “deal” was to have | ing their demands for pay and car= management were to request with- ‘strike today after negotiations for! paris was in confusion as hunthe goods in the senate yesterday. Members of the. Hotel, Restaur- Citizens were unable to reach grade separation bill. at 7 a. m. today witk banners! The French radio, a government! | I Whether or not the agreement! mv. pickets’ banners denounced | France already was without news|days ago an effort to kill the bill {hotel. \snarled. Column after column of}

Indianapolis, Ind. Issued daily except Sunday CHAMPIONSHIP _ honors in the annual Times - Legion Golden gave 0 S Gloves will be decided tonight in the important finals session at the Government Workers The title bouts in both the open land novice classes will get under | ———— . ) Other legislative news, Page 19; | still*available will go on sale at the PARIS, Feb. 14 (U. P.).— Calendar, Page 3. | Armory, 711 N. Pennsylva nia st, at An estimated 5 million govBy JACK THOMPSON THE WINNERS th ht th bs late tod lectri The house of representa- open class Nuke bn the oi ol eit Jobs Tate RY oo wealthy e cal ; 80! The strike paralyzed trans- sought as the shotgun bill which wold have divided i" the annual Tournament of| |portation, closed government Champions at Chicago Stadium. (offices and virtually brought life to ‘equally between cities and 5 3 8, today was believed ¢ | raiiroads the cost of grade will reign in their weight brackets' - The demonstration was for high- or Los Angeles, ‘Cal, \separations. The vote was until the 1048 Golden Gloves, er wages to meet the inflationary : said. A The strike was scheduled as a Authorities said he had Although the action appeared to demonstration, and to last only this . complete a “deal” between railroad ni p $ management and railroad unions to It deprived the city of telephone service. All lines to the provinces |testily that any lobby pressure pe d ool Hotel been brought to bear over night. automatic network. Hoosier taxpayers will continue tol The sudden walkout occurred Says 206 Workers railroad grade separation as a re- to the streets for massive parades sult of today’s house action: Yes- along the Paris boulevards, chantprovided: Several groups of employees of rying big banners. ONE: Lobbyists for railroad the Claypool hotel went out on All Is Confusion |drawal of a full-crew law repealer ® union contract and higher wages dreds of thousands milled in the] opposed by labor. They delivered collapsed at 6 p. m. yesterday. streets or demonstrated. TWO: The railroad brotherhoods 8nt and Cafeteria Workers unio {their homes because all public} lin exchange were to help kill the | (C. I. 0.) began picketing the hotel transport had halted. Reconsider Vote {branding the management unfair to enterprise, went off the air pre-| lits workers. | cisely at 4 p. m. had any effect on the final vote “starvation w ages of 35 cents an papets due to a strike. the fact remained that only two! 'hour” being paid workers at the: Never had Paris traffic oo a was defeated in the house. A] The st: m number of those who voted to save Fike was galled by als government. workers marched

avid’ Ed- | /ment. Store union: under which the mobiles-eut of their path and ol i at fi rst fold Colument, ids siseolal iad — | Ind. i folie he drove hs er evards were virtually : tucky & The Marion, county go deut 206 Out, Says: Agent’ blocked: BY i of | | saying’ El un Sojud silidly against the grade | joseph Romer, state director of abandoned by their drivers. Thon gf changed his story. The: the union, said 208 of the hotel's 300 Police Join Parade youth remained dry-eyed in the Celurabus jail :

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Representatives Edwin Haerle and |op,piovees were on strike. Thére was no means of restoring oo. John Tinder, both Marion county tne note] management has flatly order because all police had left! CN |regustieans gave the following refused to continue negotiations for |their beats to join their comrades ! reason for their vote: a contract,” Mr, Romer said. “The I” the demonstration.

“As things are now, Marion |nanacement even re - county is just about to get some. 8 fused to con-| One police sergeant led a parade,

grade separation work done. We | are interested in speeding up tis

sent to an election among the 'carrying a red banner adorned with |employees to determine if a ma- a yellow hammer and sickle. jority of them recognized the union} Behind .the sergeant paraders Jo, nok In yeidwg "2 we feel las their bargaining agent. There sang the Communist Internationale. Ss OY Toyaort | was nothing else to do But strike.”| "Adding to the confusion were 5 is that no matte | Thaddeus Snodgrass, manager. of | {thousands upon thousands of school veryone ows ri m ro the Claypool, said “only 15 or 20; children, turned out by thé striking {how rich and pover ul they may De, employees are out on strike.” school teachers. Those who lived| jralifoads only have so much MONEY| “The hotel is operating at 100 per: any distance from school could not to spend on grade separations. This) jcent efficiency,” he said. “All de- get to their homes because of lack

|bill would have meant that Marion | partments of the hotel are operat of transport. county might have had to wait 8'ing as usual” pe v 50

long time for railroads to have] enough to build grade separations | Denies Union Claim

| Mr. Snodgrass said only a few Power Com ain (Continued on Page S-—Colima 8) dishwashers and some maids were

- - - jon strike, denying the union's claim that 206 employees walked off their GOP to Caucus 5 0 S SMOKE i clo:

“The union demanded a sohp and more money,” Mr, Sod. In an effort to reduce ‘the city's) | House and senate Republicans (Continued on Page 5—Column 1, ¢ will caucus today to decide disposi-

{erass said. “We had a union con- smog problem, the Indianapolis tract with the maids for a time but ‘Power & Light Co. today announced 'tion of four “hot” labor measures | iow before the legislature. ‘German Girl VV ins | | The Republican legislalive policy:

first and then sent & waded blasting into the back of Mrs, I En man's neck, She ran VICTIM — Dead was Mrs. lit didn't work because the workers pias of an anti-air pollution pro- Ruth Edman, 38 (above). Her m. | father, Nate Clark, 69, lay Within the next two years the. wounded in a Columbus hoscompany plans to spend about pital. $300,000 to stop the smoke pouring (from its stacks. a | Included in the program is the U. S. Firing Squads | employment of a full-time combus-

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bas been increas bo petuation in office ol a few directors and ‘officers. They eontrolied the little ‘spare ‘ting, to play for you" vide for elections b; BA owe dons by t Director Elmer Wien as phony, besides Mr. Wien, are R. E. lecti ¥ “Elmér Wienovitzky." ‘Wien, Mrs. Election Each Year | © As the lilting notes of “Turkey in Harold Peldt. ang directors will be elected every year with all members participat- British fo Put Ul. $ Recalls ing. i The first election by the new or- Palestine Up fo William G. Shaffer, Center town- ! / Envoy to Poland ship trustee, was re-elected owe- United Nations | dent. Other officers are Fenton m— | —The United States backed up its placing Rufus Kuykendall and Rob- | {displeasure at the Polish elections ert Rutherford, 'secretary-treasurer, British government decided today) day with the recall - of Ambas-! lacing Robert Hathaw [as a result of the failure of a Lon- | replating Sober) anWHY. 'don confererce on Palestine to re- | post in Warsaw. B. Kent, "Frank Haugh, Arthur : | Diplomatic quarters said the acLynch, Arthur Boone, Arthur Mec- snlenggen Joy land 10 the. (tion foreshadowed a period of “cool! Gahey, Harold Sprouse and Charles : An official announcement of the Soviet-influenced. Polish. governVoice in Parly Affairs {details as to the time and tech- ment. The incorporators of the federa- nique in referring the problem to | But they doubted the U. S. would tion ‘are Donald Burge, Virgil Nor- the United Nations. [pean listening post by severing all t michael and Mr. Rutherford. | problem” recalled the frequent sug- [plomaiie telniions. U. 8. embassy “The reorganization was effected 'gestions—principally - by Winston . * to give every duly elected Re- Churchill—that Britain give up its report 18. Secretary ‘of State Marion county a greater vaice in| = = = [SO Marshall but that the party affiairs,” explained President| ar. Ghurchill's to Shafter, |was that unless the United States| The statement indicated that Bid: BYGY duly slected commit-| a 50-50 basis with Britain, the might be delayed until the United member of the fe Sony mes. # mandate be surrendered to the| States determines the future apurse ep a1 | United Nations. of its policy toward Poland. our expenses by nominal dues of 25 cents per member annually. We| will do all within our power to keep Marion cpunty. . . Fields Given WASHINGTON, Feb. 14 (U. P.). ~Benjamin PF. Fields, and war contract expediter, was in jail and fined $250 for contempt! of congress. Felds - was cited “for contempt

organization unter BY-laws that did’ Under the new charter, officers! ganization was held yesterday. WASHINGTON, Feb. 14 (u. P). Bluestein Jr. vice president, re-| LONDON, Feb. 14 (U, P).—The {sador Arthur Bliss Lane from his The new directors are: Mrs. Ella the “whole problem” of the and reserved” relations with the 4. SrowR, | government's decision lacked any {deprive itself of a valuable Euro-' ris, Morris Denton, Mrs. Bess Car-| The emphasis on the “whole said Mr. Lane would leave Feb. 24 publican precinct committeeman in! mandate over Palestine. latest proposal turn to Poland.” ” We have 10 axes to grind, he! came jn on the Palestine problem,|appointment of a new ambassador | no financial drives. We will meet the Republican party united in 3-Month Term sentenced today to three months, when he refused .to give details to

A house conunittee on surplus prop-

erty of a deal whereby he made a $4000 profit on the purchase of $8000 of wire screers from the war |

assets administration without put-|

ting up any money. Fields refused to tell committee members the names of those with whom he split 2 fee in the transaction.

Times Index

Amusements . Eddie Ash Boots Business Classified Comics .

.14 | Ruth Millett. .. 26 | Movies 14

11'F. C. Othman 17 ..28-30| Outdoors ..;. 32 31 | Reflections ...18 ..30 | Scherrer 18 Editorials ... 18 /Serial Fashions. 21-22 Side Glances. 18 ..18 rSpelling Bee . 31} Meta Given. 22 Sports. aes 51 Hollywood ... 17 Stranahan .. Homemaking . 22 | Washington HH Inside Indpls. 17 Weather Map 4 Legis. Calendr. 8 Women's . 21-22

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30 |Obituaries .... 7

Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin closed out the Palestine conference with a review of the government's efforts to find a solution of the problem. In the conference the government advanced stop-gap proposals designed to tide over the current crisis period with a view to re-examina-tion later. Both Jews and Arabs turned it down.

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NAMED BY DEMOCRATS WASHINGTON, Feb. 14 (U. P.). —Mrs. Chase Going Woodhouse, former Democratic rom Connecticut, today was ap(pointed executive director on the | women's division of the 'Demo-

cratic ‘hational committee, ; — rides

|committee turned responsibility for In Legion Oratory Mr. Lane's recall was no surprise action on the measures over to the

here. Mr. Marshall said a week 8go|fy]l G. O., P. memebrship of the FT. WAYNE, Ind., Feb. 14 (U. P.).

[tion engineer to work with others 'so employed, installation of dust

Execute 5 in Germany | LANDSBERG, Germany, Feb. 14

that he would be returning soon for "consultations on the Jan. 19 elections in Poland. The United States has charged repeatedly that the elections were! rigged in favor of the governmentbacked Communist bloc parties, in! violation of the Yalta and Potsdam | agreement for free elections.

WARN OF CATTLE THREAT

| WASHINGTON, Feb. 14 (U. P.) — Leading Texas cattlemen told Presi- |

representative | dent Truman today that the hoof |

land mouth disease prevalent in| Mexico is beciming an increasing | [threat to this country’s cattle in(dustry.

Feeling Chipper? It's Just That First Sign of Spring

Old ‘Man Winter Groggy as Mercury Jumps 7 to 9 Degrees Above Normal

That feeling of spring is in-the air today. It almost is as: though Old Man Winter has relented for his bitter

cold attitude of last week.

It: will be fair and mild today through tomorrow. High temper-

seasonal normals. Yeéterday, with a high of 49, it was 9 degrees above the norm. | Meanwhile, the nation’ enjoyed {mild temperatures again today. Weather forecasts said the absence

23. of rain eliminated the danger of ~~ TT TTC

river floods in areas where deep Snow is melting. ; 4 | Snow depth in porthern sections 7 of Wisconsin, and Michigan was ‘enough “to cause anxiely” had ‘heavy rains. fallen.. It ranged from 10 to 20 inches. .

17 atures will continue through Monday averaging 7 to 9 degrees above

| LOCAL TEMPERATURES Sam... 3 10am Tam... 11a m....5 12 (Noon)... 52 {9a 1pm, 5

mild and seasonal | prevailed in California.

temperatures

A ‘mild rush of colder Canadian, air produced: a mixture of light for the purpose of race-baiting or Wiring cost, he adds, is & big ‘item per wires in your home radio set,

snow and sleet in northern North Dakota and Minnesota. The colder

| temperatures were not expected 10 000 fine and 10 years Sistraliehises with the vest of the future,

Legislty. News.19 World, Aa 18) Florida's, rains were, ending aud move very far southward.

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American firing cycle and a boat,

aT A TE two houses Yesterday. The policy gh school girl who came to collectors and air jets at the various, (U. P.).—Two The youth showed no

makers themselves were non-com- the United States eight years ago| | plants and the completion of a pro- squads executed five displaced per- y mittal on the bills. |to escape Nazi persecution in Ham- posed power plant, 18 miles south sons in a snow-covered cabbage “H the ; Senate Republicans will have to burg,” Germany, today held first of the city. {patch behind the Landsberg prison Ss Hot type of boy to er decide what is to be done on the, place. in an American Legion | The company burns about a third today. Prost Lienbesger - sald = hl Tae question of permiiting women to, oratorical contest. lot the coal consumed here. The| Officials said the executions were Be wor. Youth. : work round-the-clock in industry, Edith Schimmel, 17, senior at step is being taken not only in the the first the army had carried out her's ¥ hefieve pes Yelling the

| One bill reported out yesterday Central high school here, spoke not | public interest, but for fuel econ- by shooting in Germany since the

would remove all restrictions while another measure would extend the (night work deadline from midnight | to 1 a m. No Action on Closed Shop The senators also face a decision [in the so-called anti- obstruction | = measure, tion by pickets in a labor dispute] to block enfrance to a struck plant. House Republicans, will meet in a separate caucus to consider | measures to compel arbitration in| public utility labor disputes and to outlaw interference with traffic on the public highways. Sa far no caucus ‘action has been scheduled on a senate measure which proposes to outlaw closed shop union contracts.

Anti-Hate Bill

Sent to Governor

The house today passed unanimously the senate measure to outlaw the ku-klux klan and similar hate-based organizations. ‘Representatives paused in their | {business long enough to applaud "| themselves for their action which now sends the measure to Governor Gates for signature. “The bill forbids groups to organize

hate-mongering. Violators can be penalized two years in prison, $10,- |

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The bill would outlaw ac- f

dios possible can reduce the cost printed wire.

a word of English when she came omy, company officials said. here from. Germany. | The company said cxpansion of! Last night, however, her oration its steam-heating in recent years two Greeks. in English on

|end of the war.

The victims were three Poles and They were convicted ¢ “The Constitution has eliminated 1430 smoking chim- by military government courts on safeguarding her

to authorities that he

in a Changing World” won her first neys of industrial commercial and charges of armed robbery and mur- five figures.”

place in Allen county's eliminat tion. residential buildings. | der,

Broadcasting Station the Size of Lipstick To Send Out Its First Program Tonight

Engineers Will Demonstrate Transmitter Made Possible by Printed Wire

By RON ROSS (Copyright, 1947, by Science Service) COLUMBUS, O., Feh. 14.—~The world’s smallest radio station*—com- circuits. Dr. Brunetti’s lipstick plete with a tube and circuit which will fit in a lipstick. container—will |tainer-size radio station has broadcast for the first time here tonight. circuits painted on a small A complete radio on a plastic card the size of a calling card will| Tiny batteries from & h make its debut in New York next month to complete the vest-pocket . radio transmitting and receiving unit, Dr. Cledo Brunetti, an electrical world’s smallest radio station, engineer at the bureau of standards circuits can be printed on cloth. In addition to ‘the inchin Washington, will demonstrate his, The inch-long* transmitter and broadcasting unit, Dr. Brunett! will tiny but complete broadcasting sta- the “calling card radio. have been tion to the Columbus section of the developed from the wartime proxInstitute of Radio Engineers to- 'imity fuse. This had a complete night. ‘radio sending and receiving station He predicts that the printed wire ito guide shells accurately to enemy process which makes his midget ra- lines. It was made possible with

lution to complete the circuit,

the complete equipment

of wiring radios 30 to 60 per cent. Instead of the complicated copin the price you pay for a radio. the proximity fuse and “Dr. Brus Vest pocket radios may even come netti's radios use lines of “silver Dr. ink,” a solution of fine silver (or silBrunetti said that complete. radio, ver iin palpted o

To complete a radio set, tiny tubes are soldered onto the printed

The jewelry had been the

carbon ie are painted in over| another stencil with a carbon so-