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* Weather Slows Airmen At Legion Conference
By JACK THOMPSON The American Legion's first na-
"tional air conference, aimed to cite
the need for air supremacy, was “weathered-in" as it opened today. Approximately 85 Legion dele~ gates from various seats heard Mar-
tin Buckner, national vice com-
mander, give the welcoming address while snow fell on the city. Senator Owen W, Brewster (R. canceled his appearance at the air meeting because of weather eonditions. "His speech of warning that both Russia and Great Britain are pulling ahead of the United States in air power was to be read at the afternoon session. Airlines Are Grounded
Arrival of a number of leading #frmen, who planned to fly here for the conference, has been de-) layed because Indianapolis airports
. are closed to air traffic. Even com-
mercial lines are grounded. A ship carrying Maj. Gen, Wilformer deputy commander of the atomic bomb tests at Bikini atoll, flew over the city ‘this morning but could not
"land because of the bad weather,
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deputy chief of naval operations
_for air, and John N. Brown, assist-
ant secretary of navy for air were grounded at Columbus, O. Legion officials said they were attempting to have a telephone setup arranged 80 Mr. Brown could address the session this afternoon by long-dist-ance. Speaking before the conference this morning, Gen. George C. Kenny, commander of the U, 8. stras tegic air forces, told delegates an atom bomb falling on midtown New York would kill 100,000 persons instantly. He said it then would blanket Manhattan island with deadly radio-active rays. He said he wondered whether people wanted the truth about the. possibilities of a future war, “Do they want the truth , ,, or would they prefer to close their eyes and go back to sleep until another Pearl Harbor wakes them up,” he said, Use Same Weapons “Pushbutton warfare,” he said, Is pot just around the corner. He said that should war come within the next 20 years it would be fought with the conventional weapons now 8¢ hand. Gen. Kenny said the nation must guard against obsolescence in both thinking and ‘weapons. He said # would be criminal negligence’ to peglect this task and called for a strong air forcé. He said the cost of producing guided missiles still Is anormal oe . AUCIANO DEPORTED WAVANA, March 20 (OU, P.).~ Deported from Cuba, . Charles @uckyy Luciano sailed today for his native Italy aboard the Turkish freighter Bakir,
Margaret Truman to Take
More Singing
By EULALIE McDOWELL United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, March 20.—Miss Margaret Truman said today she will resume voice studies in New York next week, She has no immediate plans for future public appearances, The President's daughter, smiling and fit, made n surprise visft to
the press conference held by Mrs, first time she had attended a press been so nice to me,” Miss Truman said. She said she was “not going to say a word” about her debut last Sunday night as a singer over a nation-wide radio broadcast. But
her smiles seemed to indicate she.
was happy abont it.
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CANDIDATE FOR MAYOR —Joseph G. Wood, attorney,
enters race for Democratic meyaralty nomination against George Dailey,
Wood Announces For Mayoral Race
Factional ‘Lines Drawn for Battle
By NOBLE REED Pactional lines in the primary], election battle for the Democratic mayoralty nomination were drawn today with an announcement by Joseph G. Wood, attorney, that he will be a candidate,
A former oan of the Indien
alty nomination against George B. Dailey, also an attorney and former deputy prosecutor, Mr. Wood, who is secretary of the Indianapolis Aviation commission, is regarded as a “regular organization” Democrat. His associates said a majority of the Democratic ward chairmen“ have indicated they will support him for the nomination. Mr. Dailey, who announced his candidacy last week, was originally sponsored by the so-called antiorganization faction headed by William E. Clauer, former county chairman; James Cunningham, former Center township assessor; Robert Allison, member of the county
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Girl Scouts Add To Hubbell Fund
No new clues had been unearthed Hoday in the disappearance of Peter Hubbell, 8, missing since March 8. Meanwhile, girl scouts of Troop
178 at School 15 contributed $5 to the reward offéred for information leading to his whereabouts, Five little girls from the troop went to the county jail yesterday and were ushered into’ the: office of Deputy Sheriff Jake Greene, chief Jailer, The spokesman saidt “In our way we wish t0 help towards the reward fund offered for is Peter Hubbell.” They were taken to 'Snerifr Magenheimer and the $5 was entered in the fund, bringing the total to
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Truman's secretaries, conference in Washington,
, - Bhe said she had no plans for a visit to Paris, There had been reports from Paris quoting Madame Henri Bonnet, wife of the French ambassador, a8 saying Miss Truman was planning to visit the French capital this summer, 3 White House spokesmen at the press conference said that Miss
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Truman ° received “a number of bids” for professional appearances.
Await Action
By Prosecutor
In Imel Case
Stark Says He Plans Murder Charge
The question of whether 14-year-old Richard Dale Imel will be prosecuted on a murder charge in criminal court or handled as a deLlinquent in juvenile court today hinged on action of Prosecutor Judson L, Stark. The prosecutor announced that he plans to file a first degree murder charge against the boy in conneetion with the confessed slaying of hig stepmother, Mrs. Joseph A. Imel, 1501 N. Drexel ave., Tuesday night, “I don’t see how I can take any other action but that of procedure on murder,” Mr. Stark said. “A murder has been committed— considered the worst of all crimes —and it is my duty to act.”
No Action at Noon
However, up to noon today no action had been taken by the prosecutor’s office. Under the 1945 Juvenile court law, Judge Joseph O. Hoffmann has
over all juveniles” except when one is charged with a crime “punishable by death or life imprisonment.” Up to now, the boy is charged
yesterday. Judge Hoftmann re-
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tence, the boy automatically would be back under the jurisdiction of Juvenile ‘court, according to the law, Judge Sees No Conflict
Judge Hoffmann issued a statement declaring that there is no conflict between juvenile court and criminal court. “At present juvenile court is the only court which has assumed jurisdiction in this case due to the fact that a petition charging delinquency has been filed in this court,” he said. “The matter will be treated and handled in this court the same as all delinquency cases and this court will make such provisions as will make him "avdilable at all times for whatever purpose may be necessary. ‘Children Not Criminals’
“Operating on the theory that children under 16 are not to be classed or treated as criminals, which was the primary purpose of enacting a juvenile court law, this court in all of its handling of this case will proceed upon that theory and carry it out to the fullest extent posible. “At the same time should it develop that it be a case in which criminal court. of Marion county
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Three Slayings Here in 48 Hours
Los Angeles, currently the crime
center of the nation, reported 17
homicidal slayings in the first 17 days of March, In two days this week, Indianapolis exceeded the record of Los Angeles, with three homicides in less than 48 hours. Monday afternoon a man killed his wife, attempted to kill himself. Monday night a pool ticket jobber slew a hoodlum who. was after his gambling cash, #: Tuesday night a 14-year-old boy killed his stepmother because he got “mad.”
Plane Up, Truman Wore Oxygen Mask
WASHINGTON, March 20 (U. P.) —~President Truman and members of his party had to don oxygen imasks in their flight from Florida yesterday “when the presidential
* plane climbed to 11,500 feet to get
above a storm, This was disclosed today by White House Press Secretary Charles G. Ross, who returned with Mr, Truman from a week's vacation. Mr. Truman's plane is not
President n ¢ i 31|that his 94-year-old - A160 | Martha Truman, - is “doing quite for use at high altitudes.
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THURSDAY, MARCH 2, 1947
WINTER'S LAST FLING—One of the season's heaviest snowstorms swirled over
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Capehart Asks UN Get Greek Plan
Proposes World Bank Finance Program "By RICHARD BERRY
} | Benator Homer E. Capehart today|duce {proposed : that the entire plan for}. {aid to Greece and Turkey be placed {before the United Nations, with 8 | [proposal $hat' be: inanced by the
Denies U.S. Tr | win Be C Order
WASHINGTON, March 20 (U. Py of State Dean Acheson said today that 3 possibility” that President ‘Truman's Gree program would lead to war with Russia. In testimony before the house a
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Sun Yields to Wet Snowfall As 'Old Man Winter" Exits
Dim Weather Slated to Usher in First Day Of Spring Tomorrow; Near Freezing
The last day of winter brought
snow to Indianapolis and the fare
was predicted to continue ‘through the first day of Spring. tomorrow.
Pedestrians in the city today
gingerly made their way through
slush as the snow turned to liquid on the streets. Temperatures hoveréd near the freezing mark and overcast skies
were forecast for tonight.
State police reported the roads clear in northern Indiana and rain or snow covered in the central and southern portions,
The roads are wet, with snow packing in spots, in Marion county and adjoining counties: Farther south rain -is reported, with the roads wet but negotiable. Light snow was moving into the Dakotas. and western Minnesota. Rain and light snow fell on eastern Missourj, central and southern Illinois and Indiana and the Ohio valley, including most of Kentucky. ‘Scattered rains - were subsiding
on the Carolina-Virginia coast. Miami with 84 above was the nation’s warmest city yesterday. Los Angeles reported 65, New Orleans 55 and New York City 41. It was coldest this morning at International Falls, Minn., where the mercury fell to seven below. Spring arrives in the United States tomorrow at 5:13 a. m. C. 8. T
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Income Chiselers To Pay Billions
WASHINGTON, March 20 (U. P.) —Secretary of Treasury John W. Snyder sald today that the treasury expects to net at least $2,500,000,000 in a drive against income tax chiselers during the fiscal year starting July 1. Snyder added that additional assessments against income tax evad-
ers this year will total about-$2-bil-
lion -by July 1. In the first seven months of this fiscal year, he said, the additional income payments amounted to more than $I billion, This was a 447 per cent increase over last year, “Approximately 50,000,000 Americans have just filed their annual tax returns,” Mr, Snyder said, “The vast majority of these returns are honest accounts rendered by patriotic Americans, We owe it to these people wo see to it that the chiseler is forced to pay his share too.” os Mr. Snyder sald agents have observed activities of winter vacationers at Miami, Palm Springs, Cal, Sun Valley, Ida, and numerous other resorts known to be gathering points for big spenders.
En -Route to Riviera
STOCKHOLM, March’ 20 (U. P).|
California Wildcat Injures Girl, 14
PALM SPRINGS, Cal, March 20 (U. P.).—~Robbette Bueller, 14, was recovering today from severe back and shoulder cuts sustained when a wildcat leaped upon her, The wildcat, the second in two days to attack persons here, was choked to death yesterday by hotel gardener, Bobbette, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Buehler, Pocatello, Idaho, was ..playing with other children near a hotel swimming pool when the 25-pound animal jumped on her back. She ran screaming toward other guests, and the cat sprafig to the ground. The day before, a Palm Springs man, John Warner, shot and killed another wildcat which had chased him into his home,
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Detective Denies Teens Threatened
Asserts No Handcuffs Used at Confession
By VICTOR PETERSON Times Staff Writer COLUMBUS, Ind., March 20.—
Price Cox, state police detective,
[today denied that William Price
was handcuffed when he signed a confession to the slaying of State
Trooper Herbert W. Smith, Dec." 5. Mr. Cox, chief prosecution witness, asserted that none of the four teen-agers charged with first degree murder was threatened - or struck at state police headquarters the night of the slaying. He sald that both Price and William Johnson, the 17-year --old Evansville defendants, answered ‘questions voluntarily. “I heard only one statement. by a state police officer which could even be construed to be a threat, I ordered him from the room when he said ‘Now this is a hell of a good time to tell the man all the truth about this,’” Mr. Cox said. . Statements made by the two boys and their sweethearts, Vera Hornback, 16, of Anderson, and Mary Ward: 15; of Evansville, were read to them for correction and signing, Mr. Cox said. He then detailed the coroner's inquest and a re-enactment of the crime ‘held at later date. “The girls were laughing at the re-enactment and a state police of-
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Baby Burns fo Death
In Home Near Bristol
BRISTOL, Ind., March 20 (U, P.). —A baby was burned to death and his father and sister critically burned today when an explosion sent flames racing through their three-room house near here, Edward Mahan, 27, attempted to start a fire in a stove with kerosene; police said, It exploded. Flames blocked the only entrance, A neighbor, Howard Green, heiped Mahan, his wife, Alma, 30, and the daughter, Patty, through a kitchen But Everette Lee, )4 months, perished,
Hannegan Recovers. After Neive Removal
BOSTON, March 20 (U. PJ). [t
veto power, should defeat the proposal,” he asserted, “the blame for the scuttling of the United Nations would be on them. “If we go in direct as proposed by President Truman, and the United Nations is scuttled, the blame might rest on us,” Senator Capehart said. Predicts Senate Debates Successful negotiation of the aid program through United Nations and the world bank would give the whole world an agency in which it could have confidence, he added. The senator predicted debates in the senate will follow the above lines. He said he believed the entire opposition to the Truman proposal will come’ from those who want it handled through United Nations and the world bank. He pointed out that while he is for the principles of the plan, he thinks it should go to the international agencies. “I have always been opposed to communism,” he declared. “If the Russians want to have it at home, that's alright with me, but I'm opposed to having them push it throughout the world.” Thinks Plan Helpful
Sehator Capehart. said he does
situation will.interfere with progress of the Big Four foreign ministers® conference at Moscow. “I think President Truman’s plan will be helpful,” he said. “I think it will strengthen Secretary Marshall's position.” “Once we stand up against the demands of Russia, she will give in,” he concluded. Senator Capehart will speak tonight at the Columbia club's 58th anniversary beefsteak dinner.
285 Freeze to Death
in Berlin's Winter
BERLIN, March 20 The -American-sponsored newspaper ‘| Tagesspiegel reported today that 285 persons had frozen to death in Berlin during the city’s coldest winter in 150 years. More than 53,000 cases of minor |frostbites were reported, the news-
paper said.
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