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By YICTOR PETERSON MADISON, Ind. April 10. ~While the jury today debated the fate of Mrs. Lottie (Tot) Lockman, charged with attempted murder by poison, her alleged victim is reported failing rapidly ut King's Daughter hospital here. The 12-man jury retired to consider the evidence in the case shortly after 11 a. m. The state is asking conviction which carries a prison sentence of 2 to 14 years. The defense demanded ‘an out and out acquittal, alleging that the “Good Samaritan” was not the only person in position to poison Mrs. Mayme McConnell Returned to Hospital Mrs. McConnell, the alleged victim sand wife of wealthy Forrest McConnell, Dupont, was re-hospit-alized after she testified in the case last week. Silas’ Kivett, ‘Indianapolis, chief of the prosecution staff, closed the state's case this morning.
county circuit instructions to retired, Prepared to Sears Cooper, defense staff head, said: “My client and I are convinced she will be acquitted. However, if the verdict should go against is we are prépared to appeal the case and fight it to a successful conclusion: The 63-year-old former McConnell housekeeper did not raise her eyes to ‘the jury as it filed out today. Although under heavy emotional strain for the past three weeks, she has changed expression and attitude but little, v Today, however, as the trial heared its close, she appeared more nervous than at any previous time, Possession Not Proved The state admittedly has not shown the former McConnell housekeeper ever had mercury poison in her possession. The prosecutions attack on Tot centers principally on charges that she lied on the witness stand. On cross-examination by the state. The “Good Samaritan” emphatically denied statements made
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Hotel Guests Feared.
Smallpox Carriers NEW YORK, April 10 (UT, P.).— A nationwide search began. today for hundreds of persons who were ali ep i rs the first four days ‘of March. They may be smallpox carriers. ” The smallpox danger “Was anJhounced by Health Commissioner Israel Weinstein, who said a man who died of the disease here March 10 stayed in the unnamed hotel from March 1 until March 5. Mr. Weinstein and the U. 8. public health service joined forces
guest during the period and check
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San Diego Area Rocked by Quake,
No Serious Damage
SAN DIEGO, Cal, April 10 (U. P.). — A minute-long earthquake rocked southern California south to
San Diego and east to Las Vegas, Nev,, today, but did no serious damage. The shock was felt in San o 0 and Los Angeles at 9:50 a, m. (Indianapolis time). Las Vegas reported it at 8:06. Seismologist Fred Robinson of San Diego said the shock was recorded there as of No. 4 intensity on a scale of 10 and that tremors lasted 10 minutes. He said it had a strong east-west motion. It was not felt, however, in Imperial valley, scene of ofie of the nation's major quakes in 1940. Arizona points also reported feeling a slight shock at 10 a m, Indianapolis time, but Phoenix police said no damage was reported: It was one of the few quakes ever felt in Phoenix. A stehographer in the city’s tallest building said her first reaction was that “something had happened to the elevator.” : California Institute of Technology,
Partial Phone Accord Reached
~ Long-line Workers Accept Tentatively
—~Representatives of the American Telephone & Telegraph Co. and the American Union of ‘Telegraph Workers (N..F, T. W.) today com-~ pleted a tentative “understanding” for settlement of the long lines dispute in the four-day telephone strike. Union President John J. Moran emphasized, however, that the agreement must be approved by the top policy committee of the National Federation of Telephone Workers (independent) before it can be signed in contract form. Mr. Moran took the ‘“understanding” before the 49-member union policy committee. A vote was expected within a few hours. Government conciliators "hoped a long line agreement might set the pattern fof a national settlement. The long lines union has said it will not return to work until the rest of the strike is settled. The long lines employees, who maintain long distance telephone circuits, are employed - directly by the A. T. & 'T. Workers in the other N. F, T. W. affiliate unions are employed by subsidiary companies. It was understood that the company -.proposal includes . national arbitration of the long distance workers’ four money demands and a Settlement of the ‘union's six other demands.
Police. Seek 2 Youths Armed With Loaded Gun
Police today sought two youths who waved a loaded gun at several children on White river blvd. yesterday. Several children were playing at White river blvd. and Greeley st, when a car pulled up. Two youths in the car playfully waved a revolver at the group. Then one pointed the gun: out the opposite window and fired into the river.
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Otherwise, He Calls Wage Hike Justified
WASHINGTON, April 10 (U. P.).—President Truman said today that if prices are not brought down, the economic situation would "justify wage increases for the na-
tion’s workers. He said the government is surveying economic conditions and government powers to see if any action 1a possible to bring about price reductions. For the time being, he said, his only weapon is moral persuasion, The President thus placed the responsibility for reducing pricas squarely on business. Wanted Free Enterprise Businessmen wanted free enterprise, the President said at a news Now he wants to see
One of the possible approaches to the price reduction problem .nder study, according to the President, is a means whereby groups of competing companies can make unanimous . price reductions without violating anti-trust laws. Mr. Truman said he thought and hoped a way could be found to permit this, Attorney General Tom Clark is studying the matter. The President said he did not ve any idés of atiempting to reany such action would be imprace Hicad. Be Mr. Truman said he favored material price reductions in foods as well as in manufactured articles. But he spoke out against buyers’ strikes. He said any type of strike stopped the national economy and caused damage. But he admitted there were instances when large groups of consumers simply did not have the money to pay, inflated { prices.
Mayor Indictment Partly Quashed
Evansville Judge Rules Out 6 Counts
‘EVANSVILLE, Ind., April 10 (U. P.).—A circuit judge today quashed part of a grand jury’s indictments of Mayor Manson S. Reichert on grounds that the statute of limitations made them void. Judge Nat Youngblood ruled out six of nine counts in indictments charging Mayor Reichert with corrupt practices and an indictment charging him with false. pretenses. The mayor, three other city and Vanderburgh county officials and two other persons were named last week in six indictments accusing
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political _contributions during the 1944 and 1946 ‘elections. The indictments charged that he failed to properly account for funds, Three other counts accusing Mayor Reichert, 8 Repubdcan, with corrupt practices, and another indictment charging him with malconduct, misfeasance and oppresslon, were not affected by the ruling. But Mayor Reichert’s attorneys filed a new motion to quash the remaining charges. Judge Youngblood set next Monday for an oral hearing on the motion: The judge's ruling also freed City Controller Julius Ritter, brother-in-law of the mayor, from an indictment charging him with three counts of corrupt practices.
Wayne Coy to Give
Full Time to Radio WASHINGTON, April 10 (U. P.. —The Washington Post announced today that Wayne Coy, its Indianaborn assistant to the publisher, will henceforth give his full time to the Post ‘radio station WINX. Mr, Coy is executive vice president and general manager of WINX, The newspaper said the transfer was necessary because of the expansion of WINX operations in connection with an FM station now on the air 14 hours a day. Alexander F. Jones, who has been managing editor of the Post since 1935, will succeed Mr. Coy as assistant to the publisher. -
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CAMPUS CAPERS—Carolyn Johnson and Bil Pittman, Butler university students, illustrate what happens when a girl who advocates a course in dating is out with a quy who: wants to let dating take its natural course. She eyes the textbook and he
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WASHINGTON, ‘April 10 (U. PJ. —Federal Judge T. Alan Goldsbor-
failed to comply in good faith with the no-strike mandate of the Supreme court. Judge Goldsborough granted a govérnment request for a two-week delay in returning $2,800,000 to the union. Thé Supreme court had ordered this money refunded if the U. M. W. complied fully with its mandate against a coal strike. The judge said there is
planned. Delay Decision. Until July 1 Although he granfed the government motion for a two-week delay,
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a decision on whether the miners had complied with the supreme
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and the union to show between now and June 30, when the mines must be returned to private operation,
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Shortwave to Fade
ough said today that John L. Lewis and the United Mine Workers have is
evidence that Mr. Lewis and the U. M. W. have “taken advantage of the situation”. created by the Centralia, Ill, mine disaster so as to call a soft coal strike as they had originally
court mandate be delayed until
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defendants have complied,” Judge
Meanwhile Secretary of Interior
WASHINGTON, April 10.—~Weak signals and fading will continue to mar shortwave broadcasts from Europe today and tomorrow, the national bureau of standards predicts.
with a course in dating and unive ity, in. Ohio.
be on the brink of standardization. Parlor technique is one of the things which should operate on the hit - and - miss, catch-as-catch-can basis. You, Mr, Robert Ruark, are (and I take the words from the mouths of college students) a gleep, a back issue, a dead letter. One sociology student even offered odds that Mrs. R. read your column with a silent wish there had been such a course when you put on shoes and went away to school.
Your ears must have burned as I sat over a coke with a covey of co-eds in Butler university Campus club, - Obviously, the girls decided, you have never : dated the boys at Butler. What's wrong with the boys at Butler? Well, read on: “One word—eager,” Nancy Forbes, 4409 N. Pennsylvania, & brunette freshman, snapped. ) a
Girls List Complaints
that they “intend. to ¢ out the A think a lot of our fellows need Spree: dour mete “ir 1etvet fEotn® odurbes HY venus wis” and iA spirit” e on ify to ask Tor dates “I could_not todsy seywehat the |Oardiyn Jonmon, 5128 E. Walnut
st., added. . “Yeah, and on how to- behave after they get them,” chimed in Marjorie Cooper, Franklin, a junior majoring in sociology. The girls object to the fellows waiting until the last minute to make dates, making indefinite ar rangements for dates and their manner of asking for dates. “They say “What are you doing
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Gas Blast Kill
here today.
work this morning.
in the area this year. 300 Feet Below
Plymouth, just eight miles Exeter :
It was the second major disaster
‘In January, 15 miners were killed in a gas blast at the Glen Alden Coal Co.'s Nottingham colliery at from reported in critical condition.
The explosion today occurred 300 {feet below the surface and.about : Toddast, frou the Toot of the mine
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Injures 9 in Pennsylvania
Explosion Rips Through Anthracite Shaft Shortly After Men Report for Work
EXETER, Pa., April 10 (U. P.).—A gas explosion killed nine of 18 miners working in the Schooley shaft of the Knox Coal Co. mine near
Nine others were injured, at least two critically, in the blast which ripped through the anthracite shaft shortly after the men reported for
as Michael Fanzetta, Browntown; Richard Trotta and Michael Zambria, both Pittston; Stephen Alexandria, Yatesville; John Castellani, Taylor, and John Gowles, Wyoming. Three of the mnihe injured were
Rescue operations were Rock {falls slowed progress of the
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Damage More Than Million ds Wind Cuts 150-Mile Path in Southwest
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By CARTER BRADLEY United Press Stat Correspondent HE
Unconfirmed reports of fatalities ranged as More than 500 persons were injured and made homeless. Some 800 were hospitalized in and nearby communities. Property damage was expected to total ¢ more than $1 million. Unofficial estimates placed Woodward at that figure. ~~ ~The known dead included :
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.- WOODWARD—83 bodies counted by Undertaker §
Armtrong; 36 of them identified. : HIGGINS, TEX.—17 bodies identified; eigh ing and feared dead. : CANADIAN, TEX.—Nine bodies dentifed five from Glazier, Tex. Oklahoma Highway Patrol Chief H. B: Cross disaster relief officials predicted the would pass the 100 mark. : The Woodward undertaker placed an em
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“Roark Called Throwback fo the Dark A ges— oirs Brand Columnist ‘Just a Gleep'
By DONNA MIKELS How dead can you drop, Mr. Ruark? That's. what the students at Butler university and Indiana Central college want me to ask you after they read your column yesterday taking
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Gates Predicts Special Session
Amendment His Aim
By DANIEL M. KIDNEY Times Staff Writer
WASHINGTON, April 10.—Governor Ralph M. Gates contemplates calling a special session of the Indiana legislature to act on the antithird term amendment, he declared here today. -
He would have to do so before his own term expires in January, 1949. But he will call no special sessioh
{right now, because he is busy .re-
covering from the regular 1947 legislature, he indicated.
pea Lig
Gates. “But. I will not call a special “session until things settle down a bit after the regular 61 days which ‘so recently expired.” Needs 30 More States Six Republican legislatures already have approved the constitutional amendment, which limits the presidency to two elected terms. They are Maine, New Hampshire, Michigan, Towa, Oregon and Kansas. The amendment must be ap-
becomes a law.
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LOCAL TEMPERATURES 6a m..... 5 10 a/c, 81 ] Tam..... 52 Itam..... 68 gam . 52 12 (Neem). 75 Sam. ee 34 p.m... 7”
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Over 400 Injured: * Meanwhile, the Texas highway p patr oMcials reported to Governdr: latest estimates placed the two-state death tot These reports could not be confirmed elsewhere, was a possibility of duplication.” ; Hardest hit was Woodward, Here the terror plains tore a 100-square block hole in the northwest 1 tial distriet of this town of 7000 ‘Population in the Oklahoma's wheat belt. The number of injured here was placed at 400. Some 350 houses and business buildings tened and littered like so much kindling wood. : The twister slashed through rural areas near Sha and Gage, Okla., with uncon- beiet firmed reports of fatalities. Rities or liad givel bh All communications lines to those towns still were out, and the destruction there had not been determined. Rescue workers by the hundreds: dug through piles of debris and} scattered wreckage in the stricken Oklahoma and Texas communities,
in search’ for many still’ unaccounted for, Death-Dealing Wind Flood waters hampered rescue activities at Higgins where torrential rains followed the death-dealing wind. Bill Lane, a radio announcer for KFDA at Amarillo, reported from the scene that there had been |storm some looting in Higgins. Hail as large as gol B balls dam-
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Scores 7 3 peace officers om northwestern Oklahoma and Kansas patrolied the disaster area in Woodward to prevent looting. Hundreds of Woodward residents were unaccounted for in the general confusion, But they were not officially listed as missing, series of Most of them were believed to be Bite a 0, in hospitals in surrounding commu-' (Continued
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