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‘Reactionary,’ Says Senator

Reece's Harmony Tie > HS Plea Is- Criticized | said today. “WASHINGTON, March 3 Uv. PY Mr. Sorrell; ~Senator Wayne Morse (R. Ore.) | whose six-month-today called Republican National! 0ld film strike has Committee Chairman Carroll Reece's caused , repeated violence, was pled for G. O. P. team play a “bras! f,,n4 at 10:30

demand for reactionary con- p. m. by a pass- | ing motorist and at! takén to Ridgem |! crest hospital in

. HOLLYWOOD, March 3 (U. P). —Herbert K. Sorrell, president .of | the A. F. of L. Conference of Studio | Unions, was beaten and tossed from | {an automobile 130 miles north’ of there on the desert last igh, police |

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zen trol of the Republican party.”

“As one Republican I deny th “the group of Republicans for whom Carroll Reece serves as chore boy | Serious SHINN, represents the rank and file views) de on soul y of - registered Republican - voters,” puties said Mr.

| Sorrell had been lared tatement, | Mr. Morse declared in a § BEER ‘on. the head. BRP ont.

The “harmony ‘call was carried in with ‘a ‘gun, after being “kidnaped” today's issue of ‘The Republicans gq, Coa. Cal. 8 P News.” torial:

"Mr. Sorrell trussed up ind foot waves to within 100. feet of the

RRY VANDERNOOT

collier today,

which executes the signals called | Union mass meeting ‘at Hollywood the craft's rail.

by the duly chosen quarterback! 3

Hauled to Safety

‘Breeches Buoy, Tossed From Car “Rescues J] From Collier

Waves Rip Bow Off of Vessel

United Press Staff Correspondent CAPE ELIZABETH, Me, {3.—Two waves ripped the bow off a heavily: -loaded : |drove it ashore in a nor’eastar. But | within eight hours the coast guard manned a breeches buoy and res{cued the entire 31-man crew. { Misguided inte shoal waters by a {Mghtship which had been blown {five miles, the Oakey Ls Alexander {was smashed and 'buffetted by 20-

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rocky bluffs that mark the shore. As it stood there=—cargo and ves-| d di- ei beyond hope of salvage-—coast Mr, Reece sald in ap edi-| He had’ taken. his wife, PFreida, guardsmen mounted the bluff and) A successful team i§ one to ¢hurch and was en route to. a with cannen fired a thin line to {

Mr. Morse ‘called it “graguitous (Continued on Page 8=Column 2) ! advice” and added’ that he was] mre Crewmen snatched it, “hauled! “amused.” . aboard the heavier rope attached to! ity and made it fast> Then over]

Sell Defense Short 1 “It is Mr. Reece and the machine | politicians for whom he speaks who | would have us vote for a tax program that would sell national defense short: that would sell the value of the American dollar short; that would have us vote for a budget program that would sell the West short; that would sell our ha

House Passes Gates’ Fiscal Bill

tite waves.

\ Saturday Adopted ternational obligations short; and that would sell a sound Republican | program short.”

day. passed the I eR d tha Rebub | measuré’ to streamline fiscal manis Mr, Reece an e Repub- x lican machine for which he speaks,” |sgemen of ‘the ‘state governins at,

. Mr. Morse continued, “that would | reversing Saturday's vote.

take us back to the depression-| Ib ‘Was the second time in two causing economic policies . of the 1eSislative days the administration

Republican party of the .i920's. | was forced to go to‘bat to pass one “His. group has demonstrated. in| lof its bills which had failed, enngress that they haven't learned | The bill to outlaw strikes in pub- | anything since 1920. If they have lic utilities was called up and passed their way they will lead this coun-| Saturday after failing to pass Fritrv back.to the laissez faire econ-| day. The fiscal management bill omy which rests on the principle! [failed to pass Saturday by a. vote of

of the exploitation of human be-|

ings for profit dbllars.” : pass the fiscal management bill. | Make Rich Richer The first. was canceled because of Mr, Morse assailed proposals for a technicality, 20 per cent tax reduction, . “being Senate Votes Rent Control |

made by some Republican leaders Meanwhile. th * with whom Carroll Reeée thinks we e, the senate passed and happened,”

should play ball,” ‘as designed to, make the rich richer and the poor| poorer, Mr, Reece asked G, O. P, con-| gressmen to adopt the spirit of the|

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{local levels. A permissive measure, aWay ev {the bill

{late housing and control rents. jem.

football field in the interest of party harmony. The budget department bill, which| “You'll have some idea of the size ing. JHornback, . 1, Meanwhile, Speaker Joseph -W,|S€tS UP a central purchasing agency of those waves when I tell you they | He’ left without further instruc-| Ward, 14, who Martin (R. Mass.) and Majority And pre-audit of all state expendi- Were 40 feet high. | tions. [Ith | rst. degree. murder

Leader Charles A. Halleck (R. Ind.) |UUrS: Was placed on the calendar | have ‘the “rebel situation in hand in| Over the Proesis of several legisla- | the house.

| fContinted on P fon But the division in senate Repub- | ate Lojuim 3 lican forces is worrying party lead-

ers, It is loaded -with political Hoosier Is Killed

‘danger for 1948, Senator Robert! Ag Plan A. Taft's leadership is taking some | . Crashes |

pastings. Mr, Reece's admonition to pipe down and follow the leader did|fed the pilot of an army air force | not impress some who have chal- | Deter plane who was killed when lenged party leadership repeatedly.| Dis plafie crashed into a field west “No Republican. member of con- lof here yesterday evening as Cap. gress is bound to follow the: direc-|Charies W. Riffie, Union City, I tion of party leaders unless he be- | Capt. Riffle was on a a] lieves those leaders’ thinking is flight from Selfridge Field, Mich., what is best for the country,” said to Patterson field near here when Senator George D. Aiken (R. Vt.). he apparently became lost during a He said he believed the rebellion|Snow storm. He crashed info a field against “reactionary leadership” near Eldorado in Preble county. would mushroom and added: Residents of the area said they | Kept In Line heard the plane, apparently in trou- |

ble, and then an explosion, | “If the party elects congressmen, Statism rgmiesisan how go they explain the fact that HEALTH MINISTER ILL go often the renegades run far| LONDON, .Marc uy. P) ~~ preg ot -the. regular Republican| health HR 3 U. £: | tiations. In the fiouse, Mr. Martin and was ‘suffering from pneumonia, but | Mr. Halleck have been able to keep | that he .was progressing satisfac-| members in line. on most issues. torjly.” ae And. many “members have gone along: with party position even though disagreeing with it. ‘ This was true, for example, ‘on or ABSALON 00 ROLLA PRS 8G. ON Nn Joiiing Wik SPECTRAL corumitraes” pete Ning BRlleck, in the Interest of promoting harmony, has been drop- ) . ping in on new members in their|, Hesvoflices al Salking- Pies overawitly!

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| this line they were hauled to safety a bosun's chair one by...one, \drénched by ‘spume and ducked in]

those aboard the -stricken 5284-ton Measure That Failed collier was injured. + Shortly before dawn the first] ¢frantic - SOS told of the peril of The house of representatives to- | fhe. givin hi43 an fr papi administration | for mearby Portland. Rodney Turner, lookout, told ord the ‘tollier came to grief. Turner said he was oo

he | “The waves were pounding]

so. calm and collected.”

Phone Union Tests

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outlaw strikes in

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solemnly in” the Barthdlomew circuit court Virgil Johnson, both 17, wént on trial today for murder. To be tried later are their girl companions, Vera Jean Despite their baitering, hone off Ho Hornback, 15 (left). and Wary Ruth Ward, 14, ii

Bandit Ties Up 2 Eight Excused as Jurors At Drive-In Cafe [In Tro®per-S

i: - $ix Farmers, Housewife and Contractor Don’t Believe in Death Penalty for Youths

“Suddenly there was a big wave— blvd: and ‘E. 38th st. It hit'hand and foot early this mornin “thin man” bandit who ap- with killing State Patrolman Herbert, Wade Smith last Dec. 5. -Impaneling of the jury to try Wiliam Francis Price and William | | Cow” at 9:54 a. m. (Indianapolis The’ lightweight gunman drove up Virgil Johnson, both 17, for first-degree murder began here this morning: | Time) on.a neighborly visit. of three Nine remaining prospective a

Then there was an- by a Both of ‘em. came right over parently, got mo. loot. f

“When I could look up I did. The to the restaurant: shortly after 2! bow was gone—I don’t know where.” Raymond Lewis, Norfolk, ! 19, ‘of 268 N. Keystone ave. andthe defense. Neither side has .ex-j |Va., who kept to tradition by being | Joseph” Durham, 27, of 2627 North-'ercised any of its “peremptory chalthe last man off the ship, said: “I was on, the bridge when it| “There were both employees to lie down on the | sent to the house a measure to set two waves and they engulfed the!floor:. {up interim rent control agencies. at entire ship, The first one carried they authorizes counties and wouldn't have been any use any-| cities to adopt ordinances ‘to regu-|Way—you couldn't have launched | They did't look, but they heard

I never

| Radio Operator Lorenz Connelly, and a friend who {33 Boston was lashing out SOS | messages by radio and with a steam He said it seemed hours anything of value. before he received a reply from the |purse, laying on a table, was unDAYTON, O, March 3 (U.P.).— coast guard but that actually it was touched. Wright field officials otday identi-! only a few minutes.

First test of, Indiana's proposed public utilities loomed today even before final passage of the measure. Telephone - workers have served |pole pandit get out of a dark ca notice under the national Smith- near the state fair grounds and Connally act that after April 7 they heave a heavy object over the wire | !may strike in current wage nego- fence into the grounds.

The bill is now in "the .senaté their lights in the snow, the pa- | |that Health Minister Aneurin Bevin | rio o rough ride through the trolmen found a blue zipper bag

It carries an “emer- with a set of burglar . tools:

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Cloudy ‘Skies, Snow Flurries Predicted As- State Digs Out of White Blanket

Over the state temperatures hovered “Just. "below freezing. Ice and with winds up to 60 miles: per, hour. Pp).

|arive-n restaurant at Fall Creek|

| western ave. were on duty.

“FORECAST: Partly cloudy tonight and tomorrow with little chatge in temperature.

MONDAY, MARCH 3, 1947

Searches Tee Pee,’ Makes Escape

Two employees of the Tee Pee,!

Entered as Second-Olass Matter at Pastofiige Indianapolis, Ind. Jssued daily except Sunday

SOLEMN — fhe at teen-agers caged with the murder &f State Trooper Herbett Wade Smith sit

in Columbus

By VICTOR

ir Times Staff Writef COLUMBUS, Ind., March, 3—Eight prospective jurors who said they were bound do not believe in capital punishment for teen-agers were excused today g from serving in the murder trial of two-of ‘the four teen-agers charged dent Truman arrived here today

a. m. where Mts. Dorothy Morgan, jurors have yet.to be questioned by

| lenges. He flashed a pistol and ordered

Johnson,

d 1 “Then he tied their hands form,

{and feet. “Don’t look.at me too good or I'll

shoot you,” he said.

Seated beside

‘him. rummaging arund and mutter- bobby-

Shout Instructions were released 15 minutes Mrs. Morgan's husband | came to'call for Was

They be tried later.

{later b y murdered

‘her.

Mrs. Morgan's road.

The : employees Francis Healy and Clyde Henning-.to a halt.

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telephoned police that he; too, had seen the thin man.

skirt. Climbing the fence and flashing |

back's shoulders, Mrs. William

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and white shirt. | ine. About an. hour after the holdup, Charles Jones, ‘21; of 1910 E. 38th| mne two girls,

six | Price; Mrs. Virgil Davis, | husband, Price's stepfather. During .&._ten-minute recess, she (Continued oni Page 6—Column fH (Continued on “Page 9—Column 4 Constitution does ‘not « provide rushed up and kissed her. son and | —- put her arm around Vera Horn-

Schooner Sighted

Girl Companions Present still in his army uni-, and Price sat . facing the ' prospective jurors in’ the 75-year-jold Bartholomew county courtroom.

them were their

-sox companions, Vera Jean|

and Mary Ruth]

are also charged |. in -the| patrolman’s deathh The Bits will

The state charges Trooper Smith

after he - stopped

: |their car outside of Shelbyville for The bandit left without taking running on the wrong side of the

Price is charged with having: shot the trooper without warning as. he told - Patrolmen approached the car; after waving it State police captured er that the thin man wore a gréen the two boys and ‘girls hiding in overcoat, a gray hat a white scarf 'a cornfield shortly after the shoat-|

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Mother Kisses Son

who" had sung

who manages the Shell station | «pjstol-pPackin’ Mama'-in the Shelat 3820 Fall Creek blvd. nearby, |puville jail the night after the kill-| Buren and Wells sts. ing, were. subdued as they watched the jury being formed to try their

$100 Taken From Safe | boy Fienes. Sob taok. "Sadie Bot wore y-S0X, He said he had seen the Sear shoes ‘and pink sweaters. Vera,

tJean Hornback wore a gray-greén| | skirt and Mary Ruth Ward a gray

In court dumng the long, mum-=-bled- questioning of the Jury Was pq Pappas, owner of a restaurant one with the Mexican eagle and|shall is Secretary of Treasury, C he white-haired mofhiédr of William 4p pulling, 7 evn ol and. her | w

John son, ; a trim-

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Waters’ Mass., March 3-(U.

—Stripped of her mainsails and 8ix traffic deaths, all on snow-covered roads,| : The storm piled heavy snow on helpless in 8 aging gale, the Ais were reported over the week-end, ‘Traffic moved slowly, but there were|the New England states as it moved ing New Bedford fishing schooner; northward and forced cancelation |, . y Evelyn, with a 12-mian crew,

of airline schedules and blocked was sighted in “dangerous waters

highways throughout the area with off, West, island today. A coast guard | cutter was dispatched to the scene. {The wind: was blowing at 65 miles

huge drifts. The storm. struck western New|

York, blocking many rural roads hour:

- Hollywood ... 13 ‘Weather Map 8 side Indpls. 13} Women's News 18 th Millett... 13 World AS 4

tod "The 1 fortonet. for Indianapoiis-to-tay Sioned, no Sleactng or over-

day.

sil A som. which laid down a heavy

cast skies and little change in tem-, the area south of Buffalo, N. Y.,

fared better: Over

Shen,” S—_—— we SOW LETS ence oy tase rt. snow ‘packed highways. Times Index ; : no major tieups, Amusements ..17] Movies - ..17| ‘The U. 8.- weather bureau here LOCAL TEMPERATURES Eddie Ash... 1o] Sik o Othman 2g 81d the week-end’s snowfall was 5.2. "va 2 1 Be BB uss thy 0, akan " i as-m..... am... Business ...... 20] Reftections 14th heaviest “by far” of the 1M8-|-¢ .* .""""" a1 12 ‘(Noon).. Classified ..20- 3 Mrs. Roosevelt 18/47 winter. Depth of the snow ranged| g a.m... 22 1p. m... Comies- .,..... 23| Scherrer ,....14|uP to six inches, with the hegviest Crossword -» 3} Seria} drial 12|layer covering southern Indiana, ¢ Editorials" ,...14| Side Glances..14{ In, Indianapolis, the mercury perature. Fashions .... 18 Sports Ceika 10-11 hovered 10 degrees, below the sea-| Hoosiers, however, ~Forum....;.. ,.T4 Stranahan ...10 sonal normal. The low point in|than the rest of the nation, Meta Given ..18, Washington -..14 the ‘last 24 hours was 20 ‘at 6.4. m. the country, the weather. is the

principal topic of sonversation: to- | “Temperatures were. below. freer

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carr ied away her sails Thursday, the. The high winds extended west-| 'three-masted schooner twice was wird over the Great Lakes Area jst by the coast guard cutter Liner il the powers of James, C. Petrillo, 'and southward into the Middle and gare which first tok | her in. tow - ean America P of _| Friday moraing. ng | NATIONA] LY FAM MOUS ron | RATION: SALLY,

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where William Francis Price (left center] and William

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“Colorbul € from = ~ Greets President

By MERRIMAN SMITH United Press Staff Correspondent

MEXICO CITY, March 3.—Presi-

PETERSON

in his private airplane the “Sacred

ne days. It was “the first visit by a U. 8 chief ‘executive to this Mexican capital in the history of the two nations.

| As Mr. Truman descended from fl ast lis mL plane in front of the adminis-

| tration building, President Miguel

i riminh walked down a flight of J Wayne Couple | specially constructed steps from the | Victims at Chicago

| balcony of the building. “ When the President appeared in ——-—— the door of the “Sacred Cow,” ~~ military band ‘began to play and a 1 a ‘CHICAGO, March 3 (U. P.).— PILL onid 2 3% mm. guns stared Firemen = and police, searching Mr. Truman doffed his hat in rethrough a brick and rubble | pile sponse to a cheer and hand clapwhich ‘had’, been a three- Story | ping. pom the few civilians perbuilding, today found the body of mitted inside the airport. a third victim of a blast which! . Shake Hands Cordially shook the- Loop and: shattered thou AS. the salute ended. the “band sands of windows in the garment~ struck up “The Star Spangled Banmaking and financial districts. ner” after whic hthe two presidents| The explosion was believed to advanced from heir positions about | have come from accumulated, illu- a4 ¢aot apart to shake hands corminating gas in a first floor restau- dially. y : i rant. It tore the structure apart The introductions ® were made by’; shortly afer noon yesterday, U.S. Ambassador Walter Thurston, It blasted out windows of other oi. had met Mr. Truman at the offices and shops six blocks AWAY, fo6¢ of the steps leading down from jand 22 stories high, 'the plane. The levelled building was at Van! Alter chatting a few minutes and making formal presentations to Hurled 30 Feet in Air | members of the President's party Two of the persons killed,. Mr.(and Mexican~ officials, the party | and Mrs. Harry W. Koons of Ft. | walked between a double row ‘of (Wayne, Ind. were lifted from the | troops carrying bayoneted- rifles to! adjoining sidewalk™as they were out | a tribunal across the street. for a Sunday stroll, .tossed 30 feet! The edifice, specially constructed into the air and hurled onto an for the affair, was flanked on one lelevated train track. The third side by & column topped by the victim was tentatively identified as ! American eagle and on the other by

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serpent.

At the morgue, however, Mrs.| At the back of the tribunal were;

Supreme Court Again Fails

| ’ Agrees fo » Hear Arguments on on Law ~Curtailing Powers. of Petrillo.

today in the contempt of court case between John L. Lewis and the government. » The court adjourned. today’s decision session without announcing its decision in the case involving Mr, Lewis and the U ers (A. F. of L). Government attorneys had asked sjmed in i ease because of Mr. Lewis’ new coal | strike deadline, on .March 31. Walter J. Buy of. Chicago Inst ¢ De The court's priiictpal decision to- | cember in a ‘test. case “brought

(2 and closing numerous schools i Powerless sinte a furious wind day "was that it ‘would ' consider against Mr. Petrillo when he or-| |constitutionality of ‘the Lea act, dered a boycott of. Tedl sation

(a law designed by congress to curs WAAP, ‘Chicago.

nounced i of its 100,000 non-volunteer by June 30.

congress would oblige’ and let the selective expire as scheduled on

congress : message that the army and navy strength for the fiscal year starting’

said, to ask for & riew draft law later if voluntary enlistments turn

haps a few scattered. excep wr Son’ oil by difgharged, A The President said recruiti prospects 1b0k good and that appears to be logical time to der the risks involved” in all selective service to die. -

tension of the present draft law, President reviewed Mmifary. - | power needs.

thorized to emiploy

and authorized, to whatever extent necessary to balance any sage of enlisted men.

put-more than 10,000,000 men uniform, has been operating at snail’s pace since VJ day,

draft calls were omitted, and no

registrant has been” eatied to duty since Oct. 15.

RAED Ti anmmiencts ald

WASHINGTON, March 3 (W, 'P.).—The supreme court failed to rule|

United Mine Work.

There: was every indication

Mr. Truman told ope to maintain their

July 1 with voluntary recruitment, But they reserve the right,

“the o

1h Tecommendinie Against any

Asks Civilians Fill Gaps Mr. Truman put this

dition or his recommendation:

That the army. atid navy be a

above those now |

The draft, which during the ne

For two months last summer,

Out of Country

At Same Time | WASHINGTON, March 3 (U-Ph | As their schedules now stand, both President Truman and his heir parent, Secretary of State Geo: lc. Marshall, will be out of 1 country at the ‘same time for’ - eral hoiits this week. of Mr. Marshall leaves by alr Wednesday for the Big Four eign._ministers, wileishes at cow. Mr. ‘Truman is 2 to fly back to the United States; from Mexico City early Thursday. of Should ‘anything happen to { Truman; Mr. Marshall President, wherever he is: line of succession after Mr

W. Snyder. . Meanwhile, the President is Pr ‘dent, in or out of the country.

an acting ¥

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