Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 April 1947 — Page 1
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One of Victims| In Poisonings; Plan Autopsy
“Tot' Lockman Freed In Recent Trial
Times Slate Set fies MADISON, Ind.’ April 14. ~Mrs. Mayme McConnell; one of the victims in the mysterious unsolved ‘mercury and old lace” poisonings, died today in Kings Daughters hospital. She was 58. Mrs. Lottie (Tot) Lockman, Jefferfon county “Good Samaritan,” was acquitted Friday in circuit court of a charge of attempted murder, by poison of Mrs: McConnell. | Two weeks ago Mrs. McConnell | testified against her former housekeeper from an ‘ambulance cot. Three days later she took a decided turn for the worse and was returned to the hospital, | Autopsy Ordered | . Meanwhile, Dr. E. C. Cook, her physician, said today that an autop-
a would be performed, probably at the Dupont’ funeral home of Orville Bear,
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Electric Union Accepts G.M.'s
Auto and Rubber Workers Still Negotiate
DETROIT, April 14 (U.P.). —General Motors Corp. today granted an’ immediate pay raise of 15 cents an hour to 130,000 employees, indicating ‘willingness to settle at that figure with all its 265,000 workers. | @ M. and the C. I.O. United | Electrical Workers - announced the inew wage settlement after a week ‘of almost constant negotiation. The ‘company also is negotiating with the C. I. O. United Auto and United Rubber Workers union. ! The G. M.-U. E. W. pact indicated, as it did in 1946, that the | company would raise its current of - | fer of 10 cents an hour to 15 cents for 235,000 employees, represented oy the U. A. W. and U. R. W. H. W. Anderson, G. M. vice presi- _ dent, and James J. Matles, U. E. W. ~ organization director, said today’s agreement was subject to ratification by U. E. W. locals, with a dead- | line of April 21.
6. I. Job Rights ‘Held Subject to
Bargaining Pacts
1 h.Cent Raise —The supreme court ruled today | that a veterans job seniority rights may be reduced by a collective bar-
gaining contract after he has been back at work for a year.
broader question of whether under a veteran's seniority rights expire automatically at.the end of a year, if not amended by a new bargaining agreement. > :
the court's T-to-2 ruling.
Felix Frankfurter dissented.
case of Lawrence Whirls, a veteran man's second federal indictment from Cincinnati, O.,
from nine years to six months under a collective bargaining agreement signed by his employer, the Trailmobile Co. This was done ‘in July, 1944, a year and two months after he was re-employed.
the appeal of the company after the sixth circuit court of appeals ruled that the draft act prohibited ‘a collective bargaining agreement
seniority, even at the end of a
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Eisler Indicted R For Lying To Get Passports
U. S. Grand Jury Accuses German Red
WASHINGTON, April 14 (U. P.).—Gerhart Eisler, 50-year-old German accused of being a top. agent of Russian communism, was indicted by a federal grand jury today on charges of lying under oath to get
passports. It was the pugnacious little Ger-
WASHINGTON, April 14 (U, P).|
The court did not rule on the
Justice ‘Wiley B. Rutledge read Justices Robert H. Jackson and
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i here. On Feb, 27 a grand jury inMr. Whirl's seniority was reduced [dicted him on contempt charges
ican ‘activities committee. The February indictment followed action by the house on Feb. 18. The| house cited him for contempt by al vote of 370 to 1. Rep. Vito Maricantonio (ALP. N.Y.) was the only! imember to oppose the citation. The un-American activities com- | mittee asked the justice department to charge Eisler with perjury, in-
The high court took the case on
from “whittling down” a vetéran's
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+ Ex-Vice President Defies Critics, Says | Will Continue as Long as Anyone Will fle We
Henry A. Wallace's European crusade against it debate on two continents today. : 3 Chairman J. Parnell Thomas of the house un-Am {committee called for the immediate prosecution of Mr, lace under the 148-year-old Logan act. That law j
Read an Editorial, “Attention, Henry,”
By HARRISON SALISBURY United Press Foreign News Editor
President Truman’s new
TL . : \for refusing to give sworn wsi-| RIISSIA to Discuss mony before the house, un-Amer-
come tax evasion, and conspiracy 0 goijgtions for settlement of its - 1$11,100,000,000 wartime lend-lease
After returning the false state- {nounced today.
Repaying U. S.
Lend-Lease Bill To Be Negotiated WASHINGTON, April 14 (U. P). ~—Russia has agreed to begin ne-
account, the state department an-
Mrs, McConnell was the wife of
+ Forrest McConnell, wealthy repre-
sentative: of a Chicago dairy firm. In prosecuting the case against his
"MERCURY AND OLD LACE"—Mrs. Mayme McConnell died today in King's Daughter's hospital. Mrs. Lottie (Tot) Lockman, the "Good Samaritan,’ was sciiies Friday of attempting
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to poison her with mercury.
63-year-old former employee, he
month later reached an agreement at the same figure with the U. A.
hired two attorneys to assist the state, With the close of the three-week
"ht oor eee ‘BomSHEN To0ms to rest. She is staying with her { daughter, Mrs. O. V. Oliver, who Shan hai was with her each day in court. g dl
Authorities today said that medfcal experts probably would be : ealled in to assist Dr. Cook in the Tokyo Is Next Scheduled Stop SHANGHAI April 14 (U. B).—|
autopsy. i The
Mercury Trace Found Mrs. Lockman was charged with . attempted murder of Mrs. McCon-| “Reynolds Bombshell,” a con- | nell when Dr. R. N. Harger, staté verted bomber rocketing around the Sosicalopist, Joaysnapess Tad ‘world in quest of a new speed recmercury in her y fluids. He testified on the stand that a|°'% took off for Tokyo at 12:20 slight amount more of the poison P. M. (Indianapolis time) today. would Mave killed her last August. Less than two hours were spent ing Ivan i He oy 13 years, in refueling and servicing the plane rs cConnell suffered an acu heart condition, a crippled foot and |! Shanghal, h i a kidney ailment. Dr. Cook said| The A- 36 ‘rea¢hed Shanghai a that he was positive she still suf-;10:58 a. m., 42 hours and 47 minutes | fered the effects of mercury poison- [out of New York. Ing. : With their arrival here, the fliers County officials and state police |had completed perhaps the most | still are investigating the “mer-|dangerous leg of their round-the- | cury and old lace” case which |world flight. It carried them “over! broke sensationally last August. the hump,” the treacherous skyway 3 Bodies Exhumed above the Himalayas which was one t 1 At that time “Tot” was aryested of the gravest threats to globa
on a murder charge in ‘the death aviation during the, war, of Mrs. Minnie McConnell, mother Tokyo, Then Alaska ~ of Forrest. Her body, along with two others, was exhumed. Dr. Harger found mercury in her internal organs. He - described the deposit as so
Only two more stops were scheduled befdre the Bombshell reaches New York, where it started Saturday evening. They were at Tokyo and : Anchorage, Alaska.
: « Milton Reynolds, Scag) “pen Raked. - saanufactures,. who’ ~ Othefs oe chuméd na wavs] and navigating. the AE and” his
grave. digging were “Uncle. Fred” Giddings, 90, and Mrs. Hattie Calhoun, 78. Mercury was found in both. ; The murder charge was dropped when scientists would hot say death of any of the three was due positively to mercury.
crew were running far ahead of the pace set by Howard Hughes in his- 1938 record flight. Exact comparison was impossible because the planes took different routes. If Mr. Reynolds continues his
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Interesting News— On Inside Pages.
Our “War” With Bread as Weapon; What It Means’ to You ,....... i a Spring Coie o ) erica: Hope Flows in Heart of People (First of a Series) Local Teen Agers Surprised Frank Sinatra Had Strength Enough to Bop Anybody (Inside 1ndianazolisy,; ie Shoes With Souls (Johnson) We dev ehe deine wit 13
Dancer Accused in Yacht Slay- | 4 INE ie vioniinsnnrvass inne 2 y.8. 8, Feeney Backers Plan Strategy . Oth er F eatures
(City Politics) Housing Officials to Inspect FY.
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Harrison Tomorrow 3 Eddie Ash ....18/Movies .......16 $100 Prize Offered in Home Show Business: .....10!Obituaries .....8 Photo Contest ..... PEI 3 (Carnival .... 13 PF. C.' Othman 13 G..O. P. Uses Paper Ax in Con- Classified ..19-22|Radio .... ....23|. gress—S8o Far ........ 4s evives 3 Editorials .. .,14|Scherrer ..... ..14 Local Woman Is Chididate for pechins sear Retietons 1 f Americali Mother ? 3s Tile OF Americalt Mower. "al Afairs ..... Wiggs 1.10.19 a EER Prom 1.014 Washin "14 Russia to Kéep Pensorship, Stalin Local Briefs ..19 'Weath Map 9
| Shaw and Ralph Hepburn.
{Chicago this morning and immedi-
‘officials publicly admitted having!
_ sponsoring, to_ toss into the
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Shaw. Hepburn Tey a gurafteed 4 week and an ntl fianncee pension
and insuran rogram. The rubber workers have asked only for “substantial increases” in pay. Mr. Anderson and Mr. Matles said the 15-cent increase would be in the form of an 112 cent boost in hour-ly-rated pay and 3% cents in the] form of holiday pay and “to cover | other economic items” yet to be negotiated. The announcement followed on the heels of a rapid series of weekend developments in the battle be{tween the automotive industry's “big three” — G. M, Ford and Chrysler—and two" other unions. Rejection Is Indicated
Indications were that the C.I.0. United Auto Workers would reject G. Ms offer of a blanket 10-cent hourly wage increase and call for a showdown in the face of rising prices. Other developments included:
Talk Race Money
Deadline Is Near On ‘500" Entries
By J. E.- O'BRIEN Drivers’ demands for more Speed(way prize money were being | threshed out today in a conference | between Speedway President Wilbur
as president of the American Society of Professional Automobile Racers, is spokesman for, a large group of drivers and owners holding out for more prize {money in the 500-mile race. Hepburn arrived by airplane from
Hepburn,
ately went into the conference with Shaw at the Speedway office, 444 N.| Piling by the U. A. W. of a 30Capitol ave. Accompanying Hep-!day strike notice against Chrysler burn was Joe Lencki, owner of, Cotp. several race cars. Approyal ‘by the national execuAdmit Nine Entries {tive board of the Foremen's AssoAs the clock began its last three Giation of America of a 30-day laps toward the deadline on entries Strike notice against the Ford Moat “midnight tomorrow, Speedway Yor Co. Mr. Anderson: said that under terms of the G. M.-U, A. W. agreement “the union's demands for” a "health, welfare and retirement. program will continue as a subject for {discussion and negotiations.”
nine entries for the usual 33-car lineup. Although $hav has indicated he has, quite a’ few more nominations Sneedw Bi wag 1 reported ¢ flue Li entries of 38 cars. ‘three and a half cents for .holid These entries represent the stéeds PAY and other economic purposes of drivers whe “have announced | among the union's original dethey will not compete on Memorial { M2nds. day unless -the Speedway boosts Locals which must ratify the its $75,000 prize to $150,000 or pays 28reement represent. employees of the drivers a percentage of the | the Frigidaire division, . and. Delco gross take. products division, Dayton, O., the Two Possibilities Pasian) Slate division, Warren, Should the two fail to agree, ob- ee appliance dive servers have: pointed out that two Mr. Anderson said the agreement courses of action would remain open | would conti indefi “ to the Speedway. One would be to] nye .Ipdefinitely. *unless either or both parties choose
make the 500-mile race an invita-| [to te t J tional affair in which selected driv- |g - las he son fast oF Feopen
ers possibly would be offered bonuses can be reopened, .however, is April
{will pass the house by at least a
Mass.) estimated that “about 80 or
(with federal court injunctions 75-
Berd ol oy Union Control
Hold Conference
WASHINGTON, April 14 (U. P)). —House Republican leaders predicted after a party conference today that the G. O. P. union council bill
two to one vote. Speaker Joseph W. Martin Jr. (R.
90” Denocrats will vote for the measure despite some heated Democratic objections to it. “We will lose very few Republicans,” Mr. Martin added. “The Republican conference appeared to be very strongly in favor of it,” Speaker Martin said. Debate to Be Limited
Debate on the bill starts tomorrow. The house rules committee has limited general debate to seven hours and debate on amendments to five minutes for each speaker. ' The "bill, drafted by the house labor committee, would autlaw the closed shop, industrywide bargaining, jurisdictional strikes and secondary boycotts. It would enforce
day cooling off periods in labor
| ment indictment, ‘the grand jury {was dismissed subject to recall. [taneously in Moscow, said conver|The justice department said that sations will be held in Washington in the meantime it would continue |as soon as Soviet Ambassador
The announcement, made simul- 5
its investigations of Eisler, possibly Nickolai Movikov returns to this
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American foreign: policy
individuals from
toward America.
In London Mr
with a view to seeking further country.
a lengthy federal grand jury héar-
ing, contains three counts: return.
in that he failed to disclose, as|after four requests by the United
a the Communist party; concealing 95 Ships Provided the fact he used and was known! The: agreement for discussions, by several aliases; and concealing the reached in Moscow April 5, will fact he had been in this country, ‘cover $11,100,000,000 worth of warin the 10 years preceding the date time lend-lease goods shipped to of the affidavit. | Rui This included 95 cargo TWO: Willfully making false ant shige and vast quantities of other fraudulent statements and repre-|Supplies to bolster both the’ Red sentations to the state department army and the Russian home front. concerning the same facts. State department officials estimate THREE: Knowingly making a reverse lend-lease from Russia at!
false statement in applying for a $2, BW.
departure permit. a If convicted on all counts, Eisler, M ar Il to R ‘Say Yes or No'
would be liable to a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison and $10,000 MOSCOW, April 14 (U. P.)— Soviet Foreign Minister V. M.
fine on each of the first two counts and five years’ and $5000 on the Molotov today torpedoed hopes for .a four-power pact on Ger-
third, a total of 20 years and $25,000. many, He demanded that such
representative of the Communist |
disputes imperiling public health and safety. The Republican majority of wel committee called the bill a weapon
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a Ne EM Soh ME RSTn of Warm and- Glas ae
1 ag s Weather Menu-
LOCAL TEMPERATURES
weather were predicted for Indianapolis tonight and tomorrow. Temperatures ranging in thé low 60s were expected to continue most of the day, dropping to 40 tonight. A high of 54 degrees, Te-
to compete. . The other would be to extend thie 28, 1948.
corded here yesterday, ho to 41 ‘early today. ®
deadline on entries—perhaps May 1 or later. Such an es would have to be agreed to by nine | or more owners who have cars en- ; tered before tomorrow night's dead- } ere : In Tow Cases, May 1 was the. original deadline on entries, but it was advanced 15} days . this year. ?
Plans No Criminal Action
: My Office Has a Lot of Irons in the Fire, - Prosecutor Asserts After Seven Are Suspended
Stark Asserts
Picketing Limited In Gas Strike
A temporary injunction was issued by Judge Lloyd D, Claycombe
police trial board of accepting “kick“My office has a lot of irons in
of circuit court today against “mass picketing or illegal interference” in the current strike at the Citizens Gas & Coke utility. . 2
of a~couple of friends as prospec tive Buyers. - “However, if 1 decide to take any
Read an Editorial, “Cleanup—or “Whitewash,” | Page 1".
Prosecutor Judson Stark indicated today no criminal action was contemplated in the hear future against policemen convicted by the
this tow truck situation is miich fike a vacuum cleaner salesman paying a commission to a satisfied customer who has recommended the names
backs” from tow truckers. .° the fire,” Mr. Stark said, “To me,
gifts. They jalso were charged with
Government attorneys said the federal bureau of investigation had a treaty guarantee. the Soviet Union a voice in control of the
uncovered evidence proving Eisler was a member of the German Communist party and was acting as a Ruhr, ‘ By R. H. SHACKFORD United Press Staff Correspondent
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Russ Citcize
LAKE SUCCESS, NYS Kory 1 (U. P.)—Russia attacked the socalled Vandenberg amendment to,
disarmed.
am... 8 0am. go |the $400 million Greek-Turkish aid|powers in such “take. | Within 10 days. Ta. m..... 46 11am... 62 (Program today. - He charged, the Bn ho You 3 ker Two deaths Sam... 50 12 (Noom).}.65 |amendment displayed “contempt”| prench Foreign Minister Georges| {orm of the disease ‘have 9am... 55 1pm. 66 [forthe United Nations. Bidault said he was “happy to wel. Ported ; i sei The amendment gives the United come and accept” Mr. Marshall s . Clear skies and spring-like| Nations a limited right to “veto” proposal in principle.
the program. This was scored by Soviet. Deputy Foreign Minister An-
drei Gromyko as a belated gesture | (Continued on: Page 9—Column 3)
indictments. No annoyncemen t was made as | The new Indictment, climaxing to when the ambassador--who was & few weeks ago--would
ONE: Willfully making and using] The Soviet agreement to discuss a fraudulent and fictitious affidavit 8 final lend-lease settlement came
required, that he was a member of States, te first on March 18, 1946. |
MOSCOW, April 14.—Secretary of
| State George -C. ‘Marshall today |demanded Russia decide “now” » vie FTES APY Chk
long-term treaty to keep Germany|
. Mr. Marshall made America’s offer’ again to join the other Big Four
He said the pact would not be
members have been invited. ¥ The question of whether ote :
crisade with an almost wu dented appearance over t work of ‘the British
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which “merely underscores the unilateral character” of the Truman program. Mr. Gromyko sald the provisions as offered by Chairman Arthur M. Vandenberg (Mich.) of the senate foreign relations committee, was meaningless until its adoption by congress. Makes Second Blast Thé amendment, approved by the senate, but not yet acted on by the house, would allow a majority of the security council or the assembly to shut off American aid to Greece the best ideas on the subject gave and Turkey when it found the help|' was “unnecessary or undesirable.” Vetoes in the security council would not be recognized. In his second verbal assault on the Truman doctrine in the security couneil, Mr. Gromyko said that “no country has the right to decide how | ¢ the United Nations should come to|' 8, degision or how the United Nations or any of ‘its Sreans should vote.” she says: 0
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she, in part: “I've read and considered both sides of the question, and much consideration have co the conclusion that Mr.
conduct unbecoming an: officer in
However, the court's order per-
mitted “peaceful picketing by mem-
action when the time comes, Til connection with complaints they take $b"
The police trial board suspended ers to kick back ‘half their fees
were requiring certain tow-in drive
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‘Crudé Oil Production Bigger Than ‘During War; but No Over - Supply “aor Calls Truman “Easy to’
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Ten other reine | were cleared 2
parent. Sules against, Ta i
severi patrolmen for eight days for hauling vs wrecked in acei- the one hand, and demanding each early, Saturday after finding dents... : a s/couneil them guilty of violating police de-
He denied charges. by American “To my Knowledges | legate Warren Austin that Russia | blood in him at all was “inconsistent” in opposing ; | permanent Balkans border patrol
Letters in Times C Co
Times: columnist Robert Ruark had . sained | his stand against college courses on dating A poll of the early letters received in
For instance the I8-Seureold Sir} who
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