Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 March 1947 — Page 1
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THUMBS DOWN—If 10-year-old Carole Hayes, of Eneryeile Cal., tries to suck her thumb as usual, she'll have to stop to say.' "Ouch!" is shown being fitted with a "hayfork” with sharp fangs. The anti-sucking device was _|*" dreamed up by Dr. Charles A. Sweet, associate professor of operative dentistry at_ the San Francisco College of Physicians and Surgeons. He says thumbsucking causes
FORECAST: Cloudy and probably snow tonight and tomorrow, “Continued cold; lowest-tonight about 25 degrees.
a quarter of all dental deformities in children.
Carole, a chronic thumbsucker,
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Truman Flies Over Volcano Just After Eruption
Passes Over Crater While Lava PoursOut, Picnics at Pre-Aztec Pyramids
By MERRIMAN SMITH United Press Staff Correspondent MEXICO CITY, March: §~—President Truman made an aerial visit today to the volcano of Paricutin which was in actual eruption.
The President's
private plane flew at 2500 feet directly over the
erater of the volcano, which had erupted violently just a few hours before. 6 ll ys sending sireains of Live S0UD Khe moubumutes aid with angry clouds of 3
ih e close of his Méxican | visit, the President; made a 400-zila |
two-hour-and-26-minute tour
the area around the volcano, which has covered a once-thriving valley |
with an ugly mantle of gray lava, ash. One Killed in Crush
in Mexico City resulted in such crowds yesterday that one person was killed and 76 injured as they jammed the stadium in an attempt to see him, was accompanied by his own party and by high Mexican officials. Upon his return from the flight, Mr. Truman and his party motored to the pyramids of Teotihuacan. At this spot, which antedates the Aztec period of Mexican history, the President was to be guest at a picnic lunch given him by Foreign Minister Jaime Tores Bodet Speech Called Important Tomorrow the President will fly to Waco, Tex, where he will reeeive an honorary degree from Baylor university. In accepting the degree, Mr. Truman will make what his staff regards as one of his most fmportant recent speeches. Mr. ‘Truman will hold his last reception in Mexico tonight. He will meet members of the American colony at the Casino Militar, the large and luxurious .elub for the Mexican army officers. Tonight, President Miguel Aleman will offer “afi Intimate dinner” at his home for President Truman,
Lilly Firm. Announces Subsidiary in India
Formation of Eli Lilly & Co. of India, Inc, an export subsidiary, was announced today by «J. K. Lilly Jr., executive vice president of Eli Lilly & Co. and president of El Lilly International Corp. The new company will have headquarters here and will occupy space in a building now being const in Bombay, India.
Riot Over Cigarets NANKING, March 5. (U. P.)= Rebellion in Taiwan, resulting from
government enforcement of a ban
on bootleg cigarets, has now subsided, the Nationalist ‘government announced today. Private sources ‘reported the casualties” were .well over 500,
Times Index
Amusements , 17 Ruth Millett. ‘13 Eddie Ash.... 8 Movies 1] +... 22 Obituaries + 11 22 Dr. O’Brien.. 20 6 F..C. Othman 13 13 Radio
Crossword .,. “ Business ;.... Carnival ..... : « 14 Comics *,..... 23|Mps. Roosevelt 18 Denny ....... 3 Scherrer ..... Id Fashions * , 18-19 Serial’ . Editorials .... 14 Side Glances. 14 sease 14 Spelling Bee. . 2 +15! Sports creneeiBe
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‘ Society Woman
Seeks Tomatoes
To Pelt Iturbi
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MIAMI BEACH, Fla, March 5 (U. P.).—A New York society figure went shopping for tomatoes today, to pelt Pianist Jose Iturbi and his sister ‘if they attempt to play scheduled concert tonight. Mrs. Harmon Spencer Augste accused the Iturbis of “bad manners,” “arrogance,” and being “unforgivably rude to some very fine people’ in cancelling a dinner engagement last night. Mrs. Auguste declared she would attend the concert armed with tomatoes for use as weapons, and would do her best to break up the event, “If I could whistle I'd do that too,” she said. . » » » ‘THE Roney Plaza hotel said that |{Mr. Iturbi, whose suite is directly above Mrs. Auguste’'s, had asked that no calls go through to him this morning. Her decision was reached last | night when Mrs. Auguste went from
NeW" U5 the Ttuttis* suite to
take them to dinner-at another hotel—where the pianist and conductor 'was to be the guest of honor.
» » ” v . “THE secretary came out and told me they had .decidéd not to go,” she said. “There were reasons which I won't go into here. Then Mr.
Iturbi’s sister came out like a wild | woman and we had some argument |
~I'm an extremist and I go the whole way. “I took the ‘do not disturb’ sign off the door and told the secretary, she ought to put it on Mr. Iturbi.”
» » » MRS. “AUGUSTE, one of the country’s best-dressed women and wife of a banker and department store executive, went to the other hotel and announced her decision to toss tomatoes at the concert. “The other guests included Miami Beach Mayor Herb Frink, who: was to have given Mr. Iturbi a key to the city, Mrs. Walter Jacobs, the hostessy Mickéy Rooney, Comedian Jackie Miles and _others.
Income Tax Offices To Be Open Saturdays
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Internal revenue offices throughjout the state will remain open all day «thé.fnext two Saturdays— March 8 and March 15—to assist taxpayers in filing income tax returns, officials Announced today. 'F, Shirley Wilcox, internal revenue collector, Indiana, explained that ‘a’ return must be filed by March 15 for every citizen or resident of United’ States, including minors, who had $500 or more gross income ir 1946. wi
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Flu Wave Sweeps Indiana Schools
Pupils, Teachers
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 5, 1947
Marshal Of To Moscow Big 4 Parley
Doubts Completion Of German Treaty
WASHINGTON, March 5 (U. P.). —S8ecretary of State George C. Marshall said today as he departed
. [for Moscow that it now appeared
“extremely doubtful” whether the Big Four foreign ministers will be able to complete action on a German peace treaty at the conference. As he boarded his plane, Mr. Marshall said he fully recognized that the negotiations on the German and Austrian peace treaties at the Moscow conference would be *“extremely difficult—and their conse: quences momentous.” Mr. Marshall said it should be
tion at Moscow on the Austrian treaty because of the progress made by the deputy foreign - ministers when they met at London. Situation Different
“The situation regarding the German issue is different as the deputies so far only have been engaged in listening to the statements of allied countries concerned, other than the Big Four, » Mr. Marshall said. “So,” he said, “we have yet to discuss and reach agreement on the great fundamentals which will be a basis for ‘the treaty regarding Germany. “If we are successful in reaching agreement on major fundamental
Stricken by Disease
A wave of seasonal influenza swept
sands of pupils to be absent from classes. In addition, two township schools in Cass county were tlosed in-
A two-year-old Crawfordsville child was dead and the Waynetown school closed in an outbreak of influenza in Montgomery county. The child was Goldie Jane Surber, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Hobart Surber. Hers was the first death in the week-old epidemic there. School Closed The Waynetown school, 10 miles west of Crawfordsville, was closed after a number of pupils and teachers were stricken. County School Superintendent John W. Ward was one of the victims, An influenza described as similar to the virus ailment that attacked Vanderburgh county infants in January and February kept 3500
school pupils away from school.
Dr. E. A. King, Evansville, citycounty health officer, said the -mild infection appeaerd to be caused by the same type of virus responsible for several recent infant mortalities. Schools there were . still open although 3500 were absent. In Anderson,thowever, five schools were reopened as the number of influenza cases waned. Closed since Feb. 25 the Anderson township schools reported only a normal {number of absences. Dry Harry Schultz, Logansport, Cass county . health officer, closed the: Galyeston and. Lincoln. schools, both" in—~Jackson township, after. 15 persons = were quarantined with scarlet fever. School absentees totaled 64. : Three adults are among those stricken with the disease, in mild form, the- remainder being school children.
Mairice Chevalier Returns to U. S.
NEW YORK, March 5 (U. P.). — Maurice Chevalier, the Parisian ballad singer, strutted down the gangplank of the Queen Elizabeth today. He announced he was returning to the United States after a 13-year absence to renew an “old romance with Broadway.” The 57-year-old comedian waved a gray hat at the Statue of Liberty for: ship photogaphers.. He smiled about
wartime rumors that he “collabo-|p rated” with the-Nazis. : “That's stupid,” he sald, “I'm a bigger hit in Paris since the war than I ever was. You can't be a Nazi star in Paris these days.” Mr. Chevalier will open-a fourweek engagement in New York March 9, under the sponsorship of the French ambassador, Henri Bonnet. .He then intends to - tour the United Stetes—to discover whether
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‘principles, I'll be very much pleased. “It would appear now extremely ubtful as to whether an actual treaty draft can be completed for action at this conference.” Mr. Marshall’s plane took off from from Nations] Strpiort 3} 3:1) a. m
Among those on hand to wish
him good luck at Moscow were Secretary of the Treasury John W. Snyder, British Ambassador Lord Inverchapel, John Foster Dulles, his Republican adviser who will join him later in Berlin, Undersecretary of State Dean Acheson and Lewis W. Douglas, ambassador-designate to Great Britain. A biting wind swept the airport, | but the weather was clear. His schedule called for a stop this afternoon at Bermuda. From there he will fly to the Azores for refueling and then to Paris. The stop at Paris was arranged yesterday to permit Mr. Marshall to confer with French President Vincent Auriol and Foreign Minister Georges Bidault. From Paris he will fly to Berlin for conferences this week-end with Lt. Gen. Lucius D. Clay, deputy military governor of .the American zone in Germany. Monday in Moscow Mr. Marshall's plane was followed "30 minutes later by the plane with Mr. Dulles and’ other members of the official delegation aboard. They will-fly—the northern route to Berlin. Mr. Marshall's debut in Big Four councils begins next Monday—less than. s2yon weeks. after he returned from €hina and took over the No.1 post in the American cabinet. During his brief tenure in office, Mr, Marshall has spent many hours reviewing previous Big Four meetings’ at Paris, London and New York, where the satellite peace treaties were drafted.
‘Outlaw’ Banned By Irish Censor
DUBLIN, March 5 (U. P.).—Howard Hughes’ film “The Outlaw,” was banned in Eire today because of scenes described by the censors as “promiscuous and brutal.” Eire censors demurred at defense contentions that such scenes occurred in the Bible. They said if Hollywood dramatized the Bible “in such: a manner it, too, would be banned in Eire. ~
Quiz Svitor in Death Of Virginia Divorcee ALEXANDRIA; Va,, March 5 (U. .).~A suitor "16 years her senior held today for questioning in ‘murder of Mrs. Raba McCoy, attractive 37-year-old divorcee. Mrs. McCoy was stabbed to death yesterday in a bungalow bedroom. The suitor, Boykin-Branham of Alexandria, was found sprawled across her body. The woman's throat had been slashed.
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Acme Telcpnoto PERILS OF FAME—Screen Actréss ‘Jacqueline Dalya was under observation in" a New York hospital today for a possible skull fracture, tackled by an autograph seeker at the premiere of -"Blaze of Noon" last night and was taken semi-conscious to- the hospital by her escort, Richard Ney. Mr. Ney, estranged husband of Greer Garson, said the actress was signing an autograph book when ‘a. bobby ‘soxer grabbed. her ankles and tripped her.
-- Stipe of Title
EVANSTON, Ill, March 5 (U.P.). —Northwestern university's “best dressed man” was shorn today of his title, not to mention his newly-won prestige among the university’s susceptible coeds. Last week an imposing advertisement in the Daily Northwestern, the student newspaper, announced [that the “American TRilors asso- | ciation” had chosen Frank Williams | Durkee Jr.—a junior from Butlalo, N. Y.—as one of America’s 10 best dressed college men. Other winners, the ad said, included Dion Michael O'Bannon of Notre Dame. Social Standing Skyrockets .The half-page ad featured a full face photograph of Mr. Durkee, his rugged features set off with a handsome glen plaid coat. Mr. Durkee’s social standing skyrocketed. He was invited to imporfant - sorority functions. Students told their barbers: it like Durkee’s.” Then editors of the student newspaper became suspicious. A telephone , call to South Bend, Ind. disclosed that there was no Dion Michael O'Bannon enrolled at Notre Dame. The Better Business bureau said 1 2c ever heard or tie America Tailors - association: Tracing the matter to their own advertising office, investigators discovered that Mr. Durkee himself had inserted the-ad. It cost him $40. The Daily Northwestern printed a story; acknowlidging that it had Re duped. «Mr, Durkee and two friends had
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been cdfrying on a contest to see who could get the most publicity,
it reported.
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516.1 Bonus Appears Dead, In Legislature
$1000 Tax Exemption, Is Ruled Out
appeared doomed for the current session of the General assembly. A motion to have a bill providing additional $1000 tax exemption for veterans put on third reading was ruled out of order this morning by House Speaker Hobart Creighton. Mr. Creighton previously had removed two other house measures from the calendar today on the grounds that “they probably
{couldn't pass through the senate
anyway, so we’ll devote our time to senate bills.” Passed Second Reading A measure to provide a referendum on the bonus question has passed second reading but also failed to appear on the house calendar for passage as legislative leaders cleared the decks for ad- | journment Monday. The additional gross income tax exemption bill virtually amounted to a $10 a year lifetime bonus for veterans. It provided by virtue of the extra exemption, a tax saving of $10 a year on gross income. If a soldier did not receive enough income to pay $10 tax, he would have received the difference between what he saved on the tax and $10 in cash. Strike Bill Delayed Only - yesterday the Republican
stand in faver-of the $10 a year
‘Best ed M ¥ policy committee had reversed its ? [6SS lf fiona. s sever ar ho 30s your
erendum on the bonus.
both the senate and the house.
into Hetier=srputa i the senate
today and action was postponed until the afternoon session. Hundreds of labor union members jammed the galleries in protest against passage of the measure. At one time the confusion in the gallery became so great that Lt. Gov. Richard &James, senaie president, had to halt proceedings to restore order. . Senator Charles Fleming (D. Hammond) led the attack on the bil from the floor. When a standing vote was called on a Republican motion to table” one of Senator Fleming’s “corrective” amendments, the gallery rose to its feet with the minority senate members. Calls Bill ‘Rotten’ The amendment would have incorporated into the bill the present legal procedure for arbitration in strikes. Senator Fleming said he was try-|
ten bill.” The procedure: outlined for arbitration in his amendment would permit the governor to appoint one member: of the arbitration board, the striking utility would appoint the second and the two members would appoint a third. Senator Fleming charged sections
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| Buick Costs $4000
| In Bucharest
BUCHAREST, Romania, March 5 (U. P.)—The first new Americanmade automobile to arrive here since
the war: was on display today in a
downtown shop window. The Buick had a pricé tag for 1,200,000,000 lei, roughly $4000 at the current black market rate.
Co-operation of Vo
By ART Ige=O-Rama.
ernment collected $775.40. Despite the fact that the Ice-O-Rama was the largest and most colorful amateur show éver staged in the Coliseum, expenses were held to a bare minimum. The entire cost of “producing .the extravaganza was only $1012.34. Gross receipts amounted to $4721. 40 before government tax and
- |expenses were deducted.
A’ capacity crowd paid low, popular admission prices of $1 for box and parquet seats and 50 cents for mezzanine seats. The price included tax. Much of the money saved on ex.
Polio Fund Gets $2933.66 From Times Ice-O-Rama
lunteers Who Worked
On. Production Kept Expenses at Minimum
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'.. The Indianapolis-Times today added $2933.66 to the Infantile Paralysis fund here with a sherk representing the proceeds of the recent Times
The amgatéur ice ow staged ir the Fairgrounds- -Coliseum Feb. 20, netted $3709.06 before federal admission taxes were deducted. The gov-
Dick Miller, manager of the Toliseum, added to the proceeds consid~ erably by" contributing free . of charge the use of the Coliseuni and the services of many on his staff. Local business firms and individ-) uals also contributed their - and facilities to keep expenses. at minimum, The Ice-O-Rama, in which nearly 500 local amateur skaters participated, was staged by the Times’ in
A Hoosier soldier bonus . today
Either bill could still be revived, but only with unanimous consent of
ing to “make the best out of a rot-
MANSLAUGHTER — Mrs. Marian Eidson, 20, appears in municipal court on a manslaughter. charge in the hatchet slaying of her husband.
Hatchet Slayer Held for Jury
Mrs. Eidson Signs Own Bond, Released
They buried James Eidson in New Crown cemetery this morning while his blond wife; Marian, stood in municipal court charged with hacking him to death with a hatchet. Judge Joseph M. Howard ordered Mrs. Eidson held to the grand jury on a manslaughter charge, alter her statement admitting that. tuck him in the hatchet yas
held since the killing Saturday, and released her’ on her own recognizance. Climax of Family Brawl The killing climaxed a family brawl early Saturday morning at the Eidson home on the second floor of 341 N. Park ave. The frail, 20-year-old wife admitted in her statement that she hacked her husband with the
attack. Her attorneys, Leo O'Connor and Max Farb, admitted the statement into evidence. The 37-year-old husband, whose body was found by police on’ the bedroom floor of the Eidson apartment .« with an eight-inch gash ACross the throat, was buried after
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Food Prices Hit New High
NEW YORK, March 5 (U, P.).— Wholesale food : -prices - registered further wide increases in the past week, They soared to an all-time
street, "Ific., index ported today. The index of 31 foods in general use reached $6.77, the company reported. This was an increase of
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mark of $6.62, itself a record high.
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Forecast Snow, Little Change In Temperature .
LOCAL TEMPERATURES 6am..,.2 10am... MH 7am. ...27 lam. .. 4 "8a. m..... 30 12 (tama) oo 35 9am... 31 - 1 1pm
Snow was forecast for Indianapolis today as the mercury hovered around the 30 degree mark,
dicted cloudy skies today and tomorrow, with snow to fall tonight and possi= ‘bly tomorrow. Little change in temperature is expected. The lowest temperature for the next 24 hours will be about 25 degrees. Meanwhile, nd sew weatlioP ends
B00 oy Ey toe
hatchet to protect her 15-year-old! sister against Eidson's attempted a
15 cents above the previous week’s|y
"Develops Bad cold in Columbus Jail
5—Trial of two teen agers
{for the slaying of a state
trooper was adjourned until Monday when one became’ suddenly ill in court today. With a temperature of 103, Wile lam Francis Price, 17, Evansville,
when the case opened Monday. _. Two Challenges
Attorneys for ' Price and said they challenged Mr.- Thurston on the presumption he was friendly,
giver $8.97 om the-Dun.-&- ‘Brad-the. Selendont.. or rT r Sentence :
The U. S. weather bureau pre-|.
were developing in the Midwest.|¢ " falling i co-operation with She. Deparimieny i » Dr