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SPELLING WINNER BACK—Tom Cowan, an 8-A student at | Wo¢ 415Po% School 58, is the first entrant among the 1946 district winners to

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FIRST ENTRANT June Sool: 8-A pupil at School 10, Ihe

first grammar school student to enter The Times Spelling Bee. Yu g [ihe war «3.0 . " } their ashes, h said she missed "succeed," her first word in last year's spell- i | AStpiedt Yor 3 ualh bec ause she was sc ared. [SH or y. Page 13 J Suards. urte

This Is Last Da * Charges Truman To File nk

Won't Co-operate |

March 17 Nationa) Chair- |Dight -is the absolute .deadline for ent.

Sap moet; Ang 1948 income. tax ketyeps with- | trying to! lout penalty. i Woo legis- | The bureau granted a two- day |

| grounds.

l carried - down basement.

WASHINGTON, March 17

WASHINGTON, P.).— Republican

Truman of the Republican

President

bodies | there last Oct. 16. to be the only crematorium now! operating in Bavaria, times accumulate in backlogs of as

(many as 40 or 50 -in the basement, ‘Schumacher today announced his

Burial Secret Of Goering Is Revealed

Ashes Are Strewn In Munich Stream

By CLINTON B. CONGER 1947, by United Press

"URT, The bodies of Hermann Goering and his 10 fellow Nazi leaders were cremated on the \day of the mass execution last Oct. 16. The ashes were sifted | into a stream at Munich—birth- | place of the Nazi party. Thus, for these 11 topflight Nazis | |

March

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shrine” for any.

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No Longer Secret | Now ‘the word has come {photographs of the dispersal of the! | Nazi ashes are being offered for | And sol | the secret, unveiled by United Press fcorrespondents | cities after weeks of checking, no’ longer is a secret. In the Ostfriedhof area of east Munich is a German civilian ceme- | {tery and a gray stone building’ 40 feet wide and 80 feet long. las high as a three-story house, and lis surrounded by a six-foot stone ntains the chapel. the basement .is a gas oven for

nited States.

in four

were

S say.

Asked for Ashes

{ An American officer arrived at §| of the day the Nazis were Plete program for the city’s developmidnight He told the attendants the primary election, May 8.

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the road ended where it | began after a cataclysmic cycle of destruction. Five months and a day - lafter the Nuernberg executions and | suicide of Goering, the United Press was able to reveal how the bodies

The U. S. army had dropped a curtain over the events following

had

sought to preclude any possibility of

Nazi!

fanatics who now or in the future | might worship at the place where,

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German |

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cremated | This is reported |

Bodies some- |

| that trucks would arrive at 7 a. m.

rican

iscldiers killed -and buried during Their kin.had asked for

efore

e said. was-9 -a-m-—b unded the erematory

to the oven in

The caskets. were, nebeagened

Is' Heavier

The wood

to separate it from the cemetery Two trucks arrived with Hr wooden army caskets which were

the

The fires already were going. Ex(U. cept for two German firemen and| P.).—The interna] revenue bureau a German technician, only a han-|jear-old Republican has been (17. announced today that midnight to- ful of American officers were pres- {construction industry for year

The oven could handl 1 - lative program-&instead of carry- extension. over the week-end be-| coffin at a time. 3 §/0n Yoene

was |

ing out his: pledge of co- -operation. cause the legal deadline, March 15,! heavier than that of the normal

O. P. office | fell on a Saturday. holders and ‘officials, Mr. Reece | - A bureau spokesman said that blamed administration “propagand- reports of a five-day extension were | ists” for most of the reports of a not true. split “in. .G... O. P. congressional ranks. He said there were no more than | 40,000 “propagandists of one kind | or another” on government payrolls at a cost of $75 million a year. “Républicans everywhere,” gaid, “should keep dn mind et existence . , . of this publicly fin-| anced propaganda mill when they | read articles or listen to broadcasts | emphasizing differences or dis- | agreements among Republicads.” | Mr. Reece said the President personally had “sabotaged” the Republican program by working: against| fulfillment of the eampaign pledges | which carried the- Republicans into man's radio debut last night. office. He mentioned,- among other things, the administration’ Ss Opposi- judgments are qualified. tion to i cut in income. taxes. Fabien Sevitzky, ie | this ‘morning:: “I would personally ——————

In a letter to 7500 G.

By HENRY BUTLER “She needs a lot more training.”

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Dan Kidney...14, World Affairs. 14 Jane Johnson ‘Burroughs, Indi- she needs a

{German cremation casket. So it took all day to do the job.

Local Opinion: Margaret ‘Needs Lot More Training’

Even Favorable Judgments Are Qualified; One Hearer Downright Disappointed

Another story about Margaret Truman and photos, Fare 6.

Indianapolis Symphony orchestra director,

but

lot of polish.”

(Continued on Page 3—Column 2) John Hennessy,

That's the gist of local musical opinion concerning Margaret Tru-

+ While there are few downright hostile criticisms, even favorable

said

stggest that Miss Truman .study anapolis“soprano—"She has a nice,

{very ‘hard. She has ‘a nice voice,|natural voice, she certainly

Amusements ..18| Ruth Millett 13!and I think she’ may have a fu-|needs a lot more training, particEddie Ash..... 8 Movies ..,.. _ 18! ture, but she still has a lot to ularly in phrasing. Nervousness Aviation - 3 Obituaries. 10{learn.” ’ may. ,have caused some of her diffi Boots age 21! Dr. O'Brien...11| Other comments: culties in breathing and pitch.” Business”. ....22| F. C. Othman 13| Charles ‘Hedley, head.yof. Jordars) Hermann H. Rinne, conductor of Larnival-..... 13|Rfdio. ....... 22|conservatory's voice department-—“I|the Indianapolis Philharmonic orClassified .. 19-21! Mrs, Rbvosevelt. 16| don't think I have any comment to|chestra— “Frankly, 1*didn’t like it. Comics 3 ‘Scherrer dese 14 make. About the most I could say | {IT was terribly let ‘down, for I was | Crossword ... 21 School News. 24'is that it's a promising voice.’ hoping she would go over, big. Her | “ Editorials 14 ' Serial . .-12!. Philip! Duey, artist teacher of [tones seemed flat, not round as they | - Fashions 10. 17 Side Glances. .14 voice at Jordan and director of the ‘should be. Forum 14 ‘Spelling Bee. .23, | Jordan - Butl chorale = “1 . was I think she has a lot to overcome.’ | Meta Given. , [17] Sports... 8-0 pleasantly surprised. Miss Truman Clarence Elbert, * director of the | _ Hollywood .,, 13 Stranahan . Blhas a rather warm. nice quality in’ India papolis Magnnerchor. —

“She’ the Glenn Sample post of the Vet- streets seemed “truly dull, because you were not Loo chille

shows promise . all ‘right wnough. [eran of Foreign Wars as new! there just. aren't enough Irish sol-, ithe journey.

But

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BULLETIN

"A North side woman was dead | and_her husband in critical con- | dition today in a double shooting which followed a family quarrel. The dead woman . was Mrs, Bertha Mae Petty, 28. Police said | the fatal bullet wound was inflicted by her husband, Norven | Petty, 44, who turned the gun on | himself a few moments later. | Mrs. Petty died in an ambulance en route to City hospital. Police said the been separated for

couple had |

about two

weeks and apparently were in the act of patching their differences when the shooting occurred.

Boy, 12, Foils | Man's Attempt To Kidnap Him

appearance { Hubbell | Indianapolis detectives today. |

old grade school boy that a big, powerful middle-aged man attempted to (kidnap him Saturday night in an { automobile.

1321 W. 27th st. |forced him into a 1942 Plymouth coach about 9 p. m. front of the Tharp residence, escaped from the car at the 30th st. bridge.

from a drug store on Harding st. when the man pulled up at the. curb and called to him. i

east on 27th st. st. to 28th st. and turned west .on 28th -st.

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Police See Clue to Hubbell Case

A possible clue in the dis-88-year-old Peter

being checked by

of was

It was the report of a 12-year-

The boy is Donald Tharp of

He said the man

Saturday in He

The boy said he was returning|

Asked Directions

“Where is Udell st.2" Donald

quoted the man as asking.

Donald said he gave the heavy- set

man directions. Then the driver reached out of the car and dragged Donald point out the way.

into it, ordering him to

Donald said the big man drove north on Burton

He asked the man where he was

{being taken.

MAYOR POSSIBILITY —John |

council

“I'm taking you ‘out inte the

Ww. Schumacher, city country where I hate, another president, came out for mayor |patient,” Donald said the man reon the G. O. P. ticket today. |plied.

John Schumacher Mayor Candidate

Council President Seek GOP Nomination

City

white river bridge, Donald said he! guns any more attractive than they already are.

opened the door of the car and! weren't overly apprehensive about the situation. -—— Shots rang through the city room |

lof The Times this morning when (the city editor spent $1.80 for one; lof the first cap guns to be sold | legally since 1939. Governor Gates March 20, the court apparently signed the bill Saturday to make | gave some consideration to the TU. |the pistols and the paper cap “am-|M. W.s request for: time to consid:

Council President John W.|

| candidacy for Republican nomination. for mayor of Indianapolis. He said he would outline a com-

ment in_a series of speeches before,

Long active in city politics, Mr. rSchumacher has served nine years on the city council. He is now in his fifth térm as council president.!

|He is a member of the mayor's In Rubber Strike

| post- war planning committee, Lifelong Resident Here First elected as a minority member of the council in John W. Kern's administration, Mr, Schumacher returned to the council on top of the city ticket during the last mayora election in 1942. 3 .

A lifelong resident here, the 45-

is now sdles executive with*Mi

Mr. Schumacher attended public | school 45, Shortridge high school and Indiana university: During his | high schgol days he was a star bas- | ketball player on the Shortridge team which produced a number of outstanding athletes, including Davis Cup tennis team member, and H. Walden | (Wally) Middlesworth, assistant et at .Butler university. Accomplished Musician One of the original members of {the Indianapolis Symphony orches{tra, Mr. Schumacher is an accomplished musician -and has been a | member of the musician's union for [more than 20 years. | “He is married to the former Rachel Stuart and has one -dauglhter, [Ann. The family resides at 5657 N. | Pennsylvania st. Mr. Schumacher (is a member of the Carrollton Avenue Evangelical church, Phi Delta Theta fraternity, the Shrine, Scot(tish Rite, Oriental Masonic lodge,

tthe Athenaeum Columbia club and :

the Elks.

BULLETIN

NEW YORK, March 17 (U, P.). —=Joe Louis, world heavyweight | champion will make his 24th title defensé on June 26 at Yankee Stadium, Marshall , Miles, manager of the titlgholdeF, announced today. It was not certain whom | he would fight. of

It. may have been fright. 'VFW NAMES COMMANDER

| CONNERSVILLE, March 17 (U.P.).—Howard Rusk today fieaded |

elected commander. James George

| jumped out. |stop, he said. Donald ran home.

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tures tubes, be contacted immediately.

health.

Jumps Out of Car When Donald protested, he said.

the man offered him some money.

As the automobile headed across

The driver did not

He described the man as being|

|about 45 years old, six feet tall and| heavy, wearing a gray overcoat and a gray hat,

Detectives Myron Partlow and

Mike Smiley said they attempted. to yesterday morning, mother, fused them permission to see him.

interview Donald at his home| but the boy's,

Mrs. Margaret Tharp re-|

They said she told them Donald

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Approximately 1600 employees of

the U. S. Rubber Co. manufacturing plant at 549 E. Georgia st. will pia] be affected if the United Rubber Charged lty| Workers of America (C: I. O.) strike are “their bobby-sox Sunday midnight. fol- | son, mn’ ihe lowed weeks of negotiations.between Evansville. s and the union and the big four of the jseparate trial. : | dland rubber industry—Goodyear, Good- Friday.and Saturday, Price testi- | |rich,

The threatened strike call

PireStone and U. 8. C. G. Brown, industrial relations

He said the union's demands in-

clude an increase of 26 cents an hour, hours a day and _.after 30 hours in any one week, six paid holidays a year and double time for holidays worked and Sdjusiment of plant inequities.

time and one-half after six

local | I'he Indianapolis plans manufac-

principally bicycle tires and The union here could not

Sure "fis St. P

nesses today testified that William |

Deadline Near |

| FRANKFURT, March 17 (U. P.).

Charles "Kid" McGuiness, 6. of 434 W. Merrill st, looking over the business end of a cap pistol. They're legal now. If "One-Gun' gets his face too close he might catch a spark in the eye, but if he's careful things

look black for ire oc marauding Indians. n » 2 2

HANDS UP, YOU—That's "One-Gun"

Spring Will Be Noisy— Cap Pistols Are Back

Gates Signs Bill Making Them Legal, "Mothers Are Not Overly. Apprehensive

Mothers of the city's cops-and-robbers set braced themselves today T

spring—toy cap pistols are back. though, were resigned to the idea.

for a noisy Most of the mothers, don't like the noise prospects,

Witnesses Tel 0f Price Beating

Farmer Says He Saw Police Strike Blows

By VICTOR PETERSON - Times Staff Writer

COLUMBUS, March 16.

munition” legal. Take News Calmly

— Wit- | news calmly.

Price and William. Johnson, both 17, were beaten severely by state {police . following the slaying of State Trooper.Herbert Wade Smith ture. ec. 5. . | surances” The two Evansville youths are on | case. for first degree murder.| in the same Vera Jean Hornback, 16, of Ander- | member of the toy trade, “and ‘mos and Mary Ruth Ward,

| fied that all four had been beaten by state policemen after they were, Cloy Nominated fo Be

Four-Star General

; WASHINGTON, March 17 Seek to Oust Evidence

He also” said that ‘he had been jhated Lt. Gen, threatened and struck at state po-

Lucius D.

when, he asserted, he signed a

Toa eral. (Continued on Page 3—Column 3)

EXTRA LONG MONTH tenant general, —U. 8. army calendars which ap-'be temporary. peared in Frankfurt today show od |

al. days in April i. general.

Strike Threat

Must Cancel

By March 25

Mandate Published Ahead of Schedule

WASHINGTON, March 17 (U. P.).—The supreme court today ordered into effect: on March 20 its mandate direct- °* ing John L. Lewis to cancel

his threat of another nationwide coal strike on April 1. Mr. Lewis will have until March 25 to carry out the court's order. If he does not do so, the United Mine Workers will be fined $3,500,~ 000 instead of the $700,000 to which the supreme court reduced the original fine. The supreme court ruled against Mr. Lewis and thé unio: on March 6. Normally the court's formal man« Ldates are not handed down until 25 days after decisions are an= nounced. That would have been March 31 in the Lewis case. : 11 Days Earlier By today’s action the high court put its decision into effect 11 days earlier than if ordinary procedure had been followed. i The government had asked the court to expedite. the mandate and the union had opposed this action. Mr. Lewis must’ now recall by

They | April 1.

they wish the legislature hadn't made But they said they and asked the court to take the

Although the local] Chamber of | Commerce and various parents’ or-| On last Dec. 7—after the supreme

|ganizations opposed the new law | | vigorously and asked the gOVernor |

{to veto it, safety experts took We) leader called off the soft coal stri)

Chief ‘objection to legalizing the b wor ¢ nig March toys was fear by parents and safety ack.10. work -gniil-m} os

groups that the act might be an)

opening wedge to legalize other, court could consider the ease free

more deadly fireworks in the Mu} from the pressure of a nationwide Toy manufacturers gave “as-

this would not be the’ jing.

“They've been coming into Indi-| indictment | ‘ana, both guns and .caps, -all the

sweethearts, time they were illegal,” said i Mercury to Rise

15,1 kids know what they are and use The girls are awaiting | them. Most toy makers ‘agree that] 6 a.m...

(Continued on, Page 7—Ceolumn §)

(U. | p.).—President Truman today nomClay,

) ae di li commander, of U, S. army forces] r lice headquarters in Indianapolis in Europe, to be a four-star gen- | day. 5

Mr. Truman also nominated Gen. continue through tomorrow. Yes. (Clay's deputy, Maj. Gen. Clarer.ce |terday’s high’ of 34 degrees dropped 'R. Huebner for the rank of lieu- 10 degrees bye a. m. today. Ck The new ranks will!

Both officers hold’ Shot. Accidentally,

the permanent Tank of brigadier

ea the ne evar Do or for

gh warned that a delay might - find the miners quitting work

| The U. M. W. opposed the move | cus ustomary 25 days to issue the {mandate so that “justice may be | done.” Request Considered By delaying the mandate ‘until

er the decision. But it agreed with | the government that some speed-up. was necessary jn the public interest. court had agreed to review lower court contempt convictions against Mr. Lewis and the union—the mine

land sent the U. M. W. members. He said he acted so the upton

| crisis. That notice is still outstand-

Clear § Skies | Forecast,

LOCAL TEMPERATURES

24 10am ...3N vam... 26 1lam....32 $am.... 21" 12 (Noosl) .. 33 9am ...2 1pm... 34

: Clear skies Were expected’ td setid = the: mercury above Treuting rnd ‘afternoon witha drop to 33 day. . i Spotty road slickness over the week-end disappeared with a bright sun yesterday and early to-

Fair weather was expected to

Condition Is Serious

atrick’s Day i in Ireland,

But Blizzard, Closed Bars Make It Dull

“ Streets’ Are Empty as Coldest Winter Covers Little Hamlets in the Hills

By JAMES McGLINCY - United Press Staff Correspondent’

DUBLIN, March 17.—8ure, ‘tis St. Patrick's day in Ireland. But how |

can a body properly celebrate? Wh closed tight. Officials. decreed there'll: be no

wee town Glocca Morra,

even "worse.

Irish whisky, “it ‘was said, ‘has

frozen stiff everywhere—the weath- | ler is that cold, sir—and people are

havin’ to bite it off in chunks.and, go around sticking it like popsicles.. ‘The parade. was off, and Dublin's |

diers. left to put on a good ‘show, Reeseny Sean T. O'Relly and ye

1200 at Annual Hibernian Party -

More than

at with no parade and all the bars

[the Ancient Order of Hibernians.

of a staté mass. Eamon de Valera, known to his people as “Dev,” was “to broadcast a message] to the” Irish’ of ihe United States tonight. There was ‘cheer wih at Bal | doyle, six miles northeast nf Dublin, [Cates to make A8S THere “were hor

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Four Horsemen."

nt to the

1200, early risers jammed the Murat Temple yesterday for the 77th annual celebration public drinking of the good saint's of St.. Patrick's Day sponsored by No, sir. Irishmen get too excited when they're tight. And from the countryside arouuid, especially” In the region. of that| strange | — ; "| laughed at the humor of the chief reports trickled in that things were | ministers of state led the observance speaker, James (Sleepy Jim) ‘CrowPrime Minister ley, one of Notre Dame's famed

They listened to Irish songs and

| The Most Rev. Paul c. Schulte, Caustic nIchbishop of Indianapolis,

ke. tor was Prank J. Me-| Washington, D. Cs ~ special} ‘president the

Melvin Haas, 31, of 861 Pleasant Run pkwy. South dr, who was accidentally. shot by his brother~ in-law Saturday, was reported in serious condition at City. hospital today. |" “The accident occurred’ in the home of the victim's brother-in-law, William Passwaiter, 33, of 1011 st.,

were examining it

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