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39-year-old murder victim, today

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‘ of the tip, the sheriff's office said

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«that she had been replaced.

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U. S. Housing Chief To Inspect

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Hunt Men Seen With Mrs. Gri

Trio in Tavern Few Hours Before Slaying

Husband's lie Tests ‘Not Satisfactory’

Mrs. Mary Jeannette Griffin sat quietly in a Ft. Wayne ave. tavern with two men an hour before her murder, Deputy Sheriff Virgil Quinn said late today. A waitress at the Stardust tavern, 921 Ft. Wayne ave. and another woman, a longtime friend of the

reported seeing her at 9 .p. m.

Wednesday. e coroner estimates that a little more than an hour later the

blond stenographer was thrown from a car near a bridle path at Silver Hills Riding . Stable, 5400 Southeastern ave., shot through the Footprints of two men were found around her body. Dark Straight Hair

The woman friend could describe only one of the men with the murder victim. He was about 25 years old, had dark straight hair combed back, weighed approximately 150 pounds and wore dark clothes. As yet no description has been obtained of the second man. The witnesses said Mrs. Grima,

“sat across the table. One witness said the trio was quiet. Deputy Quinn said there was a rumor, however, that a waitress refused to

serve the party any more liquor. |

As they began an investigation

they were “not satisfied” with results of a lie detector test of Stanley Griffin, her estranged husband. |

tion with the slaying. ! Griffin, exhausted after a grilling ‘since late yesterday, was isolated in a hospital cell to await more tests tomorrow. The husband, who said he knew nothing

58th YEAR—NUMBER 21

of his wife's death, is hel” under | $10,000 bond on a vagrancy charge. | The tip from the waitress threw a new light on the song Yictim, previously pictured as a ambitious stenographer ao main interest was in her sorority. Was Dependable Worker Today her employers at Seavey & Flarsheim, brokers, described her as an industrious, dependable worker until about 10 weeks ago, when she appeared agitated and laid off

work frequently without explana-|

tion, She began acting strangely Mon- | av, March 24. She didn't show |

up for work Monday or. Tuesday or

call her office. She then called; but did not wok Wednesday, Thursday | or Friday, promising to report the following Monday, She failed. to report Monday, March 31, as she had promised. She came in Tuesday and was told

"Asked for Advice Her employer said she told him she “realized” she had not been satisfactory but that he didn’t know “all T have on my mind.” Her employer said he heard from her again Tuesday, the day before she was murdered. She called and asked if she could come in to get advice on a “private” matter which had her worried. Her employer said he told her he would be glad to

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: in the primary.

‘| Prosecutor Millord M. Miler said |

'I'Love Him," Murder Victim

Said in Droppi

“STATE OF INDIANA: COUNTY

OF MARION, “Mary Jeannette Griffin vs. Stanley Griffin: . Separation from Bed and Board.”

This legal complaint filed Jan. 14, |

1944, was found today in the files|

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land question her husband.

| tion and later withdrew ‘the action

adultery, éruel and inhuman treat-

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FORECAST: Cloudy and mild tonight and tomorrow. Rain tonight : colder tomorrow and tomorrow night:

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GOOD FRIDAY — Symbolic of today, marked throughout the Christian world as the anniversary of the death of Jesus on the Cross, a blind man, accompanied by his seeing- -eye dog goes. into St. Joan of Arc Catholic church fo worship.

Reichert Charges ‘Political Smear’

Evansville Mayor Wants. Early Trial

Times State Service EVANSVILLE, Ind., April 4 —Five city and’ county officials indicted {for “corrupt practices in office” to- | day charged the diciments are a “political smear.’ Attorney “for Mayor Manson Reichert, Republican county chair- | man, said he Will demand trial be-|

fore the primary election May 6

Mr. Reichert is seeking renomization}

_ Meanwhile, Vanderburgh county

the grand jury. will go back tnto|

session Wednesday “to continue its} investigation along the lines of the] indictments.” “The grand jury has more work to do,” said Mr. Miller, “My conscience is clear,” said Mr. Reichert. “I am not .guilt; of a single charge.in any indictment.”

He said he wanted to “get the] whole thing out in the open” and | (Continued on Page $C olumn 3)

ng Court Suit

of superior court 2 as police in. vestigate the murder of the plaintiff

Mrs. Griffin, who sued for separa-

| because she “loved him,” was found dead on a bridle path Wednesday. Charged Non-Support In her complaint,. Mrs. charged non-support,

Griffin drunkenness,

Amusernenis ) 30, Obituaries ... 15 ment, ‘and threats to kill her or do Eddie Ash ... 26 Df, O'Brien ., 17/her bodily injury. : Books: ...... 33 F, ‘Cc. Othman 19] Since their marriage in October, ‘Carnival ..... 19! Outdoors 99 1033, she charged: her husband had | Classified ..32- 2-34. =F. A. Wows 94 “totally failed” to support her “al- & though he was able-bodied and fit Comics . 35 Radio ...... 38 % d 8h R | Crossword ,., 33 Reflections ., 20 '0 do so. e worked as a Editorials . 31 Ref Roosevelt 25 | waitress and took a night busjness| Forum vor 20 Scherrer > o| course, later getting a job As al nn ia TUT ool Secretary. Mets Sivan Beer, rh Her attorney, who described her

As an “intelligent, ambitious. girl,"

"Shoppers Jam Streets, May Set New Mark

Stores Here Report «Record Sales

| Hordes of Easter shoppers thronged downtown stores today and promised to send this year's Easter shopping soaring over the 1946 record. Downtown stores reported a higher volume of both dollar and unit sales. Crowds today promised to exceed yesterday's peak number which jammed store aisles and sidewalks.

Shopping will level off tomorrow, but sales will remain heavy, local stores predicted.

Get Easter Outfits.

school vacation brought out thousands of mother-children combinations getting Easter outfits. Men took time on their unc hour to purchase gay ties and hat. Almost body in the family is purchasing new shoes. One store said shoe sales are phenomenal. Shoppers are picking counters clean of Easter baskets and candy supplies are at a low today. A manager of one large 10-cent store said he would not have enough baskets to last the rest of the day uniess he cowld purchasé more supplies immediatély. Sales Unusually High Sales of children's clothing {is unusually high, stores agreed. Over the nation the increased number of children following the war was believed a stimulant to increased Easter buying. Men's clothing is accounting for a large percentage of sales. Sale of meén's clothing is far above last year’s while women are purchasing at about the same rate. Store managers agreed that prices are higher this vear. They said,

A News On Inside Pages

Frank Huse Expected to x

Mayor Race ................. 3 U. 8. to Propose United Nations Rule in Ruhr and Silesia..... 5 Molotov Says Truman Policy Won't Aid Democracy in | Ireeee ....... diaries 5

Mrs. Lockman Welcomes CrossExamination in Trial on Attempted Murder. . Charge Senate Y. M.-C. A. Branch Here One of Largest in World Lilienthal Wins Test; O. K. Now Seems Certain | Inside Indianapolis “Creates” an Easter Bonnet .\ Good Friday arid the War in 1917, (Scherrer) :......,.e..- . 20 Right- Lett, Split Deepéns n co 5. 0. (Marquis Childs). {Serving as King of Greece Is no Fun (Simms) 20 Streamlirter Wrecked in Illinois. . ;21 Welfare Expert Outlines Aims of ny, Indianapolis Survey .....,... Two Children Die in Goluinbus, 0, Boarding Home Pire.......

High Prices Ik Mrs. Truman

Read an editorial, “How Will Prices Be Cut?"—Page : 20.

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WASHINGTON, April 4 (U, P).| —Mrs, Harry Truman, like thousands of ‘other American house- | wives, has been complaining to her

husband about high grocery prices.

Mr. Truman last week urged busi: ness to see the handwriting on the wall and cut prices Wherever pos-

sible to stave off the danger of| further inflation. He said at a news conference

yesterday that he had received no direct reaction to his plea for. price | cuts, nor did he know when his council of economic advisers would

complete & €pecial study on the piice situation. 7 » Asked if he had given. any thought to grocery : prices, the:

President said only when he went

* 26/4aid she told him several times she|!0 Pay his bills.

20, {was afraid of her husba ny said tin, Kishi, wouldn't |About current grocery prices, he stick and pencil scribbling. The new,

“Asked what Mrs. Truman thought

said that she has complained about

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Leak’ Halts Secret! re ar sore = Gambling Raid

early date of Easter slowed din of light “spring” bonnets. Sales ‘of accessories, hats. gloves,

and

however, quality is better and that - | clothes §

‘ purses, jewelry is booming inLottery Evidence’ |dicating that some women will dress | . bil {up last year’s outfit, rather than | Found in Automo 11@ take a chance on exaggerated styles " ' : lof 1047 fashions. A “top secret” raid planned Jas Florists said Easter falling in night by Prosecutor Judson L.ippri) rather than March resulted

| Stark on suspected gambling estab- | {in lower flower prices, since plants |lishments was called off at the 11th] have had time to blossom. Orchids

hour {which ‘sold $10 to $15 last year are | ai $6 to $12 now, while ether flowers The county official said he are generally lower.

changed his plans after he found

5 there had been a “leak” of nor The florists reported the. usual ’ | mation, “ |Easter boom, but -said return of By this time, police already had | soldiers. had vir tually halted overraided the Avenue Cigar store, 404 seas afd cross-country flower ship{Indiana ave, and the Perkins Ex- ments: Gift buying also 4s: slow. change, 717 Indiana ave. "7s | Easter sales were reported higher bl One motorist didn't wait to be | throughout” the. nation, with only raided. When ‘his automobile was scattered resistance. tp Hi} f prices. involved in a minor accident last |- Unit saleg of Easter finery, candy night, he and two companions fled, | ang flowers is: setting records in {leaving a list of 100 agents ofthe .yme cities and almost all cities |H. and 8. club weekly pool and a|,re reporting high dollar volume | number of membership’ cards. | sales with increased prices.

| kind Wid s tal am 2 agen e Showers to End Before Easter

|to a “Josephine Turner” was found, ! LOCAL TEMPERATURES

Gift Buying Slow

{apparently representing a prize | winner in the lottery, police said. [Six rounds of pistol ammunition, .a| list of other prize winners and oulers lottery evidence were found in t vehicle.

Walter R. Shoke, 27, of 603% N.| 6am...4 10am... 5 {West st., told police three men fled | Tam ... 8 Ilam..... 50 latter their car struck his at 16th! 8 a. m..... 47 12 (Noon).. 54 BC and Stadium dr. 9am 48 1pm... 54

| Arrested in the two raids were | |Archie (Joker) Young, 67, operator |of the cigar store, and Clarence Me-| Clain, 33, of 2117 Shriver: ave., the| a rp eraver Both were| oo showers for today, tomorrow pool selling. In addition, the latter and again Tuesday. Sunday and was charged. with operating a lot. | Monday are scheduled to be fair, tery and gift enterprise, Temperatures today and tomorBaseball pool tickets and. policy|row Will be mild, the bureau said, | books were seized at okit ‘Places, but will drop tomorrow night and Sunday. It will turn warm again Monday and Tuesday.

Heir to. $800,000 Still. Drives Bus

BRISTOL, Tenn, April 4 (u, P.). —Joseph (Bill) Foust may- get $800,000 “in four months,” his lawyers say, but today he's playing safe and stil driving that city bus, Mr, Foust is listed as one of 30 heirs to the $250 million Humphrey ‘oil fortune which has been in litigation in Texas for the past 18

The April shower season has hegun, according to the weatherman. The weather bureau today pre-

| Lipstick-Proof Liberty ‘Reopened to Public

NEW YORK, April 4 (U, P).— The Statue of. Liberty, its interior | decorated with a $24,000 coat of (plastic, lipstick-proof paint, was reopened to the public today. Miss Liberty’ has been closed {since Jan. 6 while workmen cleaned the interior of lipstick smears. They covered it with 700 gallons of the special paint which will defy lip-

job is a glossy, thymel Briish. n

injunction at the request of the

Years, but ‘which may be settled :

The break in bad weather and | Zs

Raymond Foley ferred in Wethi

PLAN FT. HARRISON TRIP—National Housing Administrator {left} and Senator Homer E. Capehart today conington on disposal of Ft, Harrison and announced | they” would inspect installation with view ‘ta securing facilities for veteran housing. (Ft. Harrison pictures, page 19).

"Acme Telephote

WASHINGTON, April 4 (U. P.) after a cabinet meeting today that h

chinery in ‘motion.

of Labor Lewis B. Schwellenbach about the presidential seizure powers in the telephone case.

Formal Opinion Unasked

The attorney general said he gave Mr. Schwellenbach only an informal, verbal opinion. Mr. Clark said he had not been] asked by Mr. Truman for an opinion on his powers. But he said he thought that under. the federal communications commission act of 1940, Mr. Truman's power to seize communications’ facilities was good for six months after the termina- | tion of the war. Mr. Truman proclaimed the po

sation of hostilities effective last Dec. 31. The end of the war will] not be proclaimed until "all -the| peace treaties have been signed. Schwellenbach Hopeful

Mr. Truman told’ his news con- | ference yesterday that he did not | think ‘He hall the power of seizure in the telephone case, but that the question was being investigated. However; a -high dministration | ofttelal FAIA THEFE WAY Mvvde chance the government would seize the] telephone windustry, Mr, Clark told reporters as he left | the White House that Secretary Schwellenbach still hoped to work out the telephone dispute without] a strike, which is now set for 6 a. m, Monday.

“And I hope so, too,” Mr. Clark said. Mr. Clark said Secretary Schwel-

lenbach was planning to meet with company and union representatives in the telephone case tomorrow’ or the next day and from these meetings hoped to avert a strike. There were these other develop-

ONE: Joseph Beirne, president of the National Federation of Tele-

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Pickéting ‘was resumed at the Citizens Gas & Coke utility at noon today after a mass. meeting of striking utility workers. The pockets were withdrawn last night after Circuit Judge Lioyd D. Claycombe issued an anti-picketing

utility. Leaders of: 'the striking United Gas, Coke . & Chemical Workers, (C. I. 0. sald they would station pickets across the street from’ the gates of the utility's . Prospect. st. and Langsdale ave. plants, «=

Joram” gray.

soon,

Truman Could Seize P Industry, Clark Believes

No Action Yet Started by Adminisiration Officials; Schwellenbach to Meet Both Sides

—Attorney’ General Tom Clark said

power to seize the telephone industry in event of a strike. Mr. Clark said, however, that he was not putting any seizure ma-

At the cabinet meeting Mr. Clark said, he was asked by Secretary

| strike deadline. | tracts

ments in the deadlocked telephone |ndiana Traffic Union,

‘wage dispute:

Gas Strikers Move Pickets Across Street From Plant

This would not violate the n-| “forbids

e thought President Truman has the

What Bell Strike Would Mean Here

Here's the effect a national strike would have on telephone service in (Indiana: LONG DISTANCE: Calls will be handled only in cases of extreme emergency. DIAL SERVICE: Service will be affected only slightly, except in case of a breakdown. MANUAL SERVICE: Service will be Practically « cut ot.

Company Hopes New Law Applies

An Indians Bell ‘Telephone Co. spokesman today expressed hope that Indiana's: new utility ~ strike! bill will prevent. a walkout.ef Seles

| phone workers here in conjuction

Foley Agrees

‘|morning at a conference of the

using Pt. Harrison housing he said... He agreed to set his staff to work |at once to study the various ways in which the housing agencies might act. ! . a Foley's Report f Senator Capehart

To Visit Site With Capel

Federal Purchase, Senator's Plan

By DANIEL M. JUDNEY Times Staff

WASHINGTON, April d= Administrator Raymond M, Foley of the national housing agency and Senator Homer E. Capehart (R. Ind) will personally inspect Ft. Hare rison to determine its possibilities '

for veterans housing. This decision was reached this

two officials in Senator Capehart's office. The trip to Indianapolis will be made “within 10 days or two weeks”. it was agreed, Tentative . date set was April 15. Mr. Foley, now head of all gove ernment housing activities, was impressed with the possibilities of

ernment has first “priority on such, surplus property. § g Foley's first-hand Harrison's disposition essary first step.” ° Because the federal public ing authority might consider ing over at first, it was

Commissioner Dillon 8. join them in the inspection His agency is under Mr. general setup and handles federally owned housing properties. Mr, Foley is commissioner of the fed= | eral housing administration, whieh handles home

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Peters and Indiana FPHA officials to take part in the fort inspection. “I certainly want to go and see Ft. Harrison for I believe that i$ contains a wide range of possibille ties,” Mr. Foley told Senator Cape« hart after the project was explained to him. May Split Ownership “It may be that ‘its future use will work out as a combination of public, private and gon-profit, or mutual, ownership. I shall have technicians begin at once to study the matter, including the scope of the laws under which we may act. “It certainly looks like something we should get into before it be comes frozen so that quick action $ will be impossible. Housing is so ig important that no time lag should be allowed to develop in adequate use of whatever is available when the army abandons it. “This sounds like the sort of ideal setup for us to take some action, We: will start. our preliminary sure. vey at once and then Senafor Cape hart and I-wi) make the trip to examine the matter first hand.” Senator Capehart said that he

with the national strike set for 6 a. m. Monday. The official said he believed the!

| company could reach an agreement | [nessmen were ready to teke over

| with its three unions before the | Indiana Bell conthe unions expired

but were extended to

with March 31, Monday. Presidents of the three local unions are members of the 49-member policy committee of the National Federation of Telephone Workers now meeting in Washington. Unions negotiating here are the Local 56; Indiana Clerical Union and Indiana Telephone Workers Union, local 1, all ‘affiliated with the N. P. T. W. Some 6450 workers will be affected: here ff “the strike §oes on.

that would interfere with utility operations, they said. Utility officials, meanwhile, said

gas was being produced today. Non- tural

striking . workers and supervisory personnel were able to “push” ovens at Prospect st. and keep gas holders nearly filled. A spokesman for the utility man-

.|plants on Washington

received a call yesterdav from an interested privale operator in Indie {anapolis. He was told that 25 busis

whenever they could get the ope i! portunity. ba First priority is federal, then state : and local governments, non-profit corporations and veterans. When the war assets administration ree ceives the property from the war department it is advertised for sale and private interests have the last call in the bidding. WAA is res quired by law to consider all othes priorities first. Senator Capehart said he does

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200 on Strike At Milling Plant

White river { down of The strike 84 of the

agement would not predict how long {ing ¢

gas production would continue. The

union asserted that operations ot looationss

the Langsdale Plans were, - al standstill.