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J Jers ‘Boycott’ Race; 28 Cars Are In

Hepburn Group Firm

On Hike in Prizes

By J. E. O'BRIEN The Speedway, holding 28 official entries for the 500mile Memorial day «race, apparently had drawn its strategy today to combat a reported boycott of 31 topflight

race drivers and owners of 29 race ing cars. Nine more entries mailed before the deadline last midnight arrived today at the Speedway office. Additional nominations postmarked before the deadline will be accepted. While the list still was far short Bf total entries in previous years, nevertheless it contained several well-regarded automobiles and at least two new foreign creations. “Inadequate” Prizes The Speedway obviously was aiming at getting a respectable field | nominated with the hope of inducing drivers to come in later. Automobiles—not drivers—are fmominated for the race on the entry blank, Drivers may be named as late as May 15. The boycott began simultaneously with the deadline on entries. In Chicago, Ralph Hepburn, president and spokesman for the American Society of Professional Automobile Racers, told the United Press that drivers and owners had canceled plans to enter the race because of “inadequate” cash prizes. : . réw fusal to adjust purses upward in view of “the enormously increased costs” of racing for the boycott. Confers With Shaw

Earlier this week Hepburn had conferred unsuccessfully with Speedway President Wilbur Shaw for an increase in purses from the original $75,000. At that ‘time Hepburn sought total prizes of $150,000 or a percentage of the Speedway's receipts, Among today's entries were the

Novi Governor Special which Hep- | burn drove to lap and qualifying

records last year and a twin car nearing completion in California.

Also entered were the 12-cylinder |

Mercedes-Benz recently brought to this country from Czechoslovakia and two new automobiles being constructed by Lou Moore for the Blue Crown Spark Plug Co. Driven by Horn Among the 19 cars’ already nominated was the Bennett Bros. Maserati, owned by Cotton Henning, and originally driven twice to victory by Shaw in the 500mile race. It will be driven this year by Ted Horn, natichal A. A. A. driving -ehampien. The entry list also included an . English Racing Car Association Special, owned and dgiven by H. L. Brooks, Coventry, England. Hepburn said it was “with deepest regret] that the drivers and owners had withdrawn. from "the international sweepstakes which

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British Seize Assets Of Top Ranking Nazis

LONDON, April 16 (U. P.).—British authorities in Germany have

" seized ‘assets of the late Hermann

Goering: valued at 4 million marks, the ‘government disclosed today. (The German mark is not quoted in international exchange. The mili-

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was responsible. struction work will be delayed if

. contractors said.

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Talking’ Dog Lost, They Sue For $110,375

I HTH IIR OAKLAND, Cal, April 16 (U. P.). -—Mr. and Mrs, Peter Geldner want $110,375 damages from a pet hospital because they said it lost their dog, Mosquito—and just when she {was learning to talk Spanish, too. The Geldners filed suit yesterday against the E. 8S. Freitas Pet hospital. They alleged they took Mosquito to the -establishment to have her teeth cleaned last June and never saw her after that, “Mosquito was a great talker,” Mrs. Geldner said. “Pete taught her to say lots of words.” Mosquito, a 6-year-old half-ter-rier, half<English hunter, spotted black, and white, brought in the morngpg paper from the front porch and let the cats in and out at night. Her English vocabulary included the words “papa,” “mama,” “auto,” “fast,” “meat” and “out,” Mrs. Geldner said. Besides these accomplishments,

learning to speak Spanish when | gishe Sisappeared.

2000 Builders On Strike Here

Millwrights and Carpenters Walkout

Carpenter and millwright members of Carpenters Local Union No. 60 went on strike today for higher wages. More than 2000 carpenters and millwrights were reported off the job tpday, pending contract negotiation. Their contract expired yes<

terday. More than $15 million dollars con-

the work stoppage continues, loeal

Other Trades Not Affected

Other trades have not been affected by the walkout and some construction not involving carpenters is being carried on pending settlement. Contractors sald, however, all work will be halted if the strike is prolonged. *Officials of the carpenters local refused to comment on the walkout and refused to define it as a strike. | Contractors who called the local, {however, were told “the men are out on strike,” and that no members were working. The Building Contractors association, with whom the carpenters union negotiates contracts, said it had not been informed officially of the strike and that the union has

not asked for any negotiation meeting. Ask $2 Per Hour

The carpenters are reported asking for a new contract with $2-Per hour. wages. Their wage under ‘the rmer contract was $1.67, neluded in coristruction which may be halted by the stoppage are four major housing projects, at Stout Field, Bélmont Park, Kentucky ave. and Pleasant Run blvd. Major “industrial construction re-| port. affected includes c¢ostruction of three new plants by Eli Lilly -&.Co., [Fesonversion of the Curtiss-Wright

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| Over-Production Idles 200 Workers .in Plant

BEDFORD, Ind. April 16 (U. P) —Néearly 200 workers were idle today at the Keith Radio Products plant, a branch of the Trav- Ler Radio Corp. » Plant Manager Ellis

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the Geldners claimed, Mosquito was | were out of service.

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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 16, 1947

Clearing and colder tonight; lowest temperature about freezing; fair and continued cool ‘tomorrow,

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Basement Fire Hits Merchants Bank Building

“All Power Cut Off, Traffic Tied Up.

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The Merchants National bank was doing. business as usual today despite a spectacular fire which broke out in its basement early this morning and cut off all electric current in the building. Many workers In the 16-story building went back home, however,

to walk up ‘the stairs. All elevators The Indianapolis Power & Light | Co. hastily began to set up two gas-oline-driven motor generators in Pearl st. to replace two transformers which were burned out by the fire. Other temporary lines were being cent of the building which operates on.direct current. ! < Shut Off Current Firemen who arrived shortly before 7 a. m. were unable to throw water on the blaze until! the power company could shut off the current several minutes later. A bank spokesman said the blaze began in a transformer vault in the southwest corner of the basement. He said the transformers were burned out. Huge . clouds of smoke billowed through the sidewalk gratings and rose above downtown buildings as re-routed pedestrians and automobile traffic. Flanles leaped throughout the boiler room. Hundreds Watch Firemen Hundreds of passersby gathered to watch the firemen play streams

The fire was put out an hour and a half after it began. Officials said 75 per cent of the equipment in the building is made for direct current and 25 per cent for alternating current. Two of the building's four gle- | vators operate on each type current. {Officials said two of them would

company finished its installation of the temporary generators. Power compayy officials said they would not be able to determine the origin of the fire until they had pumped all the water out of the transformer vault. They were unable to make an estimate of the damage. Block Off Area Police blocked off the entire area during ‘the fire because of the danger of an explosion. Power company crews said gases in the transformer vault could have caused serious damage to buildings across the street had they J exploded. Firemen responded twice to the blaze. Some of them returned to their stations: after a thrée-alarm call at 6:50 a. m. A flareup of the blaze at 7:15 caused a four-alarm call which brought engines from every station in the downtown district. The bank basement was not endangered, according to Otto Frenzel,

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Truman to Congratulate ate “Bombshell Orew ,..i.ouvies

Two Die Here in Traffic Accidents. ..:......... Phone Union Appeals to Public. 2,

Propose to Relax Local Parking * Ban Four Are Hanged in Jerusalem., 2 Grand Jury Here Indicts 5 for Murder \....:..........::. ies Charge “Russ-Hating” U. 8. Ene’ voys Block Accord at Moscow. . 3

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Amusements: 1}; Local Briefs. 8- 9 “people in every field of life” who Eddie Ash.... 18] Movies Velvia 11|might have. information ‘or advice Business ..... 15 Obituaries ... 6|on the present price situation. :

War Veterans Rally to Urge Ft. | Carnival ~13|F. C, Othman 13| After answers are received, he Harrison Rentals ...... bie ii T| Classified. 20-22|P.-T. A. News 17|said, representative leaders in variReform Heat Hits Notorious |Comies ...... 23 Radio ....... 23/ous fields will be called in to give Muncie DIVES ............. 0c. 13 | Crossword ..: 10 Reflections .. 14|oral views, House Committee’ Brands Youth Editorials 14 Scherrer ..... 14! Mr. Taft said the committee would Group as Communist . "'., 4/ Fashions .... 16 Serial ....... 7 make a stateihent. Friday on the Th ait of Ameri 3 13 Forum. ....... + 14 Side Glances 14 present price situation. e He BIC, we £4a dad ns Gardening... 12 Sports .* . 18-19| President Truman ‘told a news No. Red Tape Here (Inside In 5! Meta Given... 17 Washington . 14 conference last week that unless +, dianapoli®) ....................13 Home Page. .. 10 Weather . Map # prices are lowered soon labor will | ‘How to" Use an Osear &ohnson). oe In Li hh ... 3 Women 16-17 be Justified tn seeking sory wage pion J vu done ttf. Sung Labogk ....... 15/1 World Affairs 14/increases, §

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U.S. . Seeks Ad Advice On Economy

WASHINGTON, April 18 (U. P.). —The seriate-house economic committee decided today to call in leaders of industry,slabor and agriculture for advice on the current economic situation. Among the industrialists who may be called before the committee are Henry Ford II and Fowler McCor-

vester Co. Both recently lowered

when they learned they would have |

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operate again as soon as the power

It was only an old beer. bottle In it was $150 for an artificial S. West st.

the bottle used to stand. Mr. Holding’s friends had filled it up with contributions’ toward the artificial leg.

‘Two Bits Toward New Leg’

Mr. Holding, a packing worker, lost his left leg two years agg as a result of infection. One day, somebody placed an oversized beer bottle on the counter and said, “Here's two bits toward a new leg for Harry.” “That bottle has been filling up right there beside the cash. register for a whole year,” said Tom Deppe, the bartender.

In the wee hours this morning, somebody broke into the tavern by bashing in the front window with a 4x4 piece of wood.

Nothing Else Touched

Whoever it was stole the beer bottle which contained- the $150 for Harry Holding's-artificial leg, Noth-" ing else was touched, not éven some nickels and other loose change left near ‘the: cash register. : “We can't figure out who would be low enough to do a thing like that,” observed Jim Shea, . the proprietor's brother, s Neighbors heard the crash of glass, Then they heard a cat drive away. Friends Are Taprised

Mr. Holding hobbled into the tavern this morning on his crutch. He didn't say anything when they told him: the beer bottle was gone. It was an especially large bottle, made as .an advertising stunt by a brewery. Harry Holding's friends’ were depressed about its disappearance with all that cash in it.

WHO?2222—<Who took fhe beer bottle containing $150 for Harry .Holding's “artificial leg? Mr; Holding (left) discusses the burglary with a friend, James Shea, this morning after the bottle was stolen from the Shea tavern, 1002 5: West st.

Tavern Thief Gets $1 50 Fond Built Up to Aid Cripple :

Money to Buy an Artificial Leg Was Contributed by Victim's Friends

_ Friends of Mr. Holding held an indignation meeting today after the loss was discovered at Joe Shea’s tavern, 1002 S. West st. They stared glumly at the space beside the cash register where

and this morning it was gone. leg for Harry Holding, 58, of 939

North Indiana Gets Spring Snow

Clearing Skies Forecast Here .

LOCAL TEMPERATURES 6am...4 10am ..48 7am. ...40 11am. ,. 4 8a m.... 40 12 (Noon).. 40 9a m..... 40 lp m..... 40

{46 Primary {In Eight Wards To Be Proheg |

Witness Called - Before Grand Jury

\. By NOBLE REED

Grand jury investigation into alleged irregularities in the 1946 primary election

‘|was extended to include eight

city wards, prosecutor Judson L. Stark disclosed today. Subpenas have been issued by the prosecutor's office for more than 25 witnesses to appear before the grand jury this affernoon. They

|are expected to testify about al-

leged vote frauds which Prosecutor Stark said will number “many thousands.” The investigation was interpreted as a major issue in the Republican factional battle for mayoralty nomination May 6. Denys Any Connection However, Prosecutor Stark denied that the probe was “timed” to have any connection with the mayoralty fight.’ “1 started this investigation as soon as I took office at the first of the year and have been delayed up to now because there was no grand jury to hear evidence until two weeks ‘ago,” he said. The first. balloting district to be investigated, Mr. Stark said, is the seventh ward where he said 1946 election records showed many irregularities.

seventh ward 48 H. Dale Brown, state motor vehicles bureau direc tor, who is a leader in the regular G. O. P. organization which is backing the candidacy of. William H. Wemmer for the mayoralty. ‘Hickman Committee Named

Made public at the same time the vote probe was revived was the roster of an advisory committee to direct the primary -eampaign of Roy E. Hickman for the G. O. P. mayoralty nomination as an antiorganization candidate. Listed as members of the committee was Prosecutor Stark and Sheriff Albert C. Magenheimer, who were nominated on the anti-organi-zation G. O. P. slate a year ago. Harry. O. Chamberlin is general chairman of the committee. Other] members are:

Clayton Mogg, Fred W, Jungclaus, O. E. Campbell, Louis Borinstein, Albert E. Uhl, W, E. Suiter, Don Gerking, I, M. Hoagland, Robert D. Johnson, J. V, Stout, Clarence Roberson, Bon O. Aspy, Wm. L.

As Indianapolis and most of the

fell on northern Indiana and surrounding states. No snow was predicted for Indianapolis. The weather man looked for clearing skies late is afternoon. - Snow is falling on the northern portions of Indiana and Illinois, eastern Towh, southern Wisconsin and the southern portion of lower Michigan. : Rockford, Ill. reported an inch of snow at 6:30 a, m. In most cities, however, the fall melfed as fast as it hit the ground. The snow extended eastward through Ft. Wayne, Goshen and Sduth Bend, Ind., westward through Towa City, Iowa, northward into Gladwin, Mich., ‘and southward more than 50 miles beyond Chicago. Temperatures in the snow-struck area ranged from ohe degree below freezing to two above. In Indi-

“Who,” they asked,” ‘would want to do a thing like that to Harry?”

anapolis the U. 8. weather bureau predicted continued “codl” weather.

all, in the opinion of a Butler G. The long-searched-for

prices. Chairman Robert A. Taft (R. O.) told reporters that "questionnaires

Jwould be sent’ out in advance to |

[study on dating and courtship. the $25 Times contest for'the best What has long been accepted as woman's intuition is simply this, the G.I. writes: “It is my opinion that Eve personally whispers all feminine secrets ;and devices to lure and beguile unsuspecting ‘males into .the tiny, pink ear of each new-born

their own; they embellish these sevices in as many /ways as there are

girls”, Other reasons advanced by this |

letter-writer in oppositi to the dating- courtship course : i :

Gl Student Reveals Secret N\A/ . Fo ' Of "Woman's Woman's intuition in matters pertaining to men isn't intuition after

“secret” came out in this male student's letter supporting Columnist Robert Ruark’s opposition to a course of The letter is one of the entries in,

«| leading campus ‘fleeps. As for dat-

girl child. After that they are on.

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letters on the subject.

+“Show me .the girl who would rather hear a text-book compliment than experience with a little sincere neck-nuzzling, ‘and I will prove to you that she is one of the

ing, just try to escape the demure little beauties. “Heaven protect us from a college course on dating and courting. Before the first term was over, the co-eds would be Jeaeking the pro-

“The femme was Ne ‘born whol

state shivered under a cold, driz-|{Jacob Wolf, zling rain today, a heavy wet mid

Schloss, J. W. Mull Jr.,, Wm. Lewis, Charles Hammond, {Paul R. Brewer, George Pierson, Clarence Hill, Henry Roberts, Walter Kemper, Sidney Miller, Glenn Funk, George Longstreth, Robert Kelley, Thomas A. Dally, Frank Atkins, Louis Bola, George Dickson, Arthur T. Cox, Bloomfield Moore, Charles Huff, Walter Queisser, Or-

‘(ville Wise, Martin McDermott, Lee

Emmelman, Charles W, Jewett, Robert Marsh, Art Queisser, Larry Parsons, Dr. Karl Ruddell, "Arthur Fairbanks, 8S. C. Bodner, "Luther Tex, Louis Markun, O. B. Hanger, Dr. John P. Boaz, Dr. Aaronson, Dr. M. E. Clark, Dr. Edgar Haynes,

(Continued on Page 5—Column 3) : . Doolittle Prai JOOJITUC Fraises CAA Station Here. James H. Doolittle, former A. A. F. lieutenant general, visited Indianapolis yesterday to make an inspection tour of the C.A. A, Experimental station at Weir Cook Municipal airport. He praised the air safety projects now being tested at the station and said, such experiments ‘may help prevent -a third world war. “These experiments, while aimed primarily” at improving the safety and utility of airplanes, are contributing towards the security of our nation,” he asserted. “If we develop and maintain strong air power we never will have to worry about another war. New air safety developments, which are resulting and will result in the future from the work df this station,

will help us build superiority in the air.”

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One Estimate Puts Fatalities af 700; : hk -75 Bodies Reported in Morgue fA

BULLETIN Fan od NEW YORK, April 16 (U. P.).~The const guard | here today received reports from coast guard officials * i at the scene of the Texas City, Tex., disaster which esti» mated the -dead at 200 to 1000, and injured at 2008: yl 8500.

TEXAS CITY, Tex., April 16 (U. P.).—A French lines freighter blew up at a Texas City dock today, + = & The blast set off a.chemieal plant explosion which rocked a 140-mile industrial area along the Gulf coast a left several hundred persons killed or injured. ; i In the confusion, an accurate estimate of the dead vas impossible. Red Cross estimates were that from 200 to 700 irsons lay dead. "A Galveston newsman reported from the scene 200 were dead. Bud Myers of the Houston Press, a Scrippse Howard newspaper, calculated that 400 to 500 were Huge fires, sending smoke spiraling into the air for miles, raged in oil storage areas along the busy waterfront The $19 million Monsanto Chemical Co. plant, ripped by. blasts which followed the ship explosion, was afire. go A police radio report said gas fumes feared to be. poise onous were filtering over the area. The report, picked up by Galveston police 10 miles away and relayed to Houston, said authorities were ordering the evacuation of an estimated 18,000 persons. 3. : Power Is Cut Off Fire equipment-from the entire Gulf coast area was the scene. Telephone lines were down and the power wi clipped off. Governor Beauford H. Jester in Austin alerted two bate talions of the Texas state guard. Some 150 state guards men from La Porte were already on the disaster scene. In Dallas, Magnolia Oil Co. officials quoted direct tele< phone reports from the Pan-American refinery in Texas City as saying that the city morgue held the bodies of 78 victims of the explosion “and more bodies are being brought in.” 2

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The Magnolia officials said they had been informed over the direct line—apparently the only cireuit operating into Texas City—that the explosion of the nitrate-laden Liberty ship Grand Camp, had blown up about half of the Monsanto plant. Police Chief W. F. Laddish said the force of the blast demolished the City hall a full mile from the scene. The vessel was loaded with ammoniun¥mitrate, a fers tilizer ingredient more explosive than TNT, “Thousands Are Injured”

A Texas City telephone operator flashed Houston to “send the Red Cross: Thousands are injured.” One unconfirmed report, based on a Houston fire -dew partment estimate, said as many as 700 persons might ne been killed. There was no immediate official statement or estimate from anyone in the blast area. Cok The explosion was felt as far up the coast as Baeue mont and Port Arthur, 70 airline miles aw Freeport, 4% miles down the coast, was shaken. Residents of the Houston area, 38 miles to the north, thought there had been an earthquake, 5 Flames were visible in Galveston, 10 miles away across Galveston bay. * The French ship was at a sea train dock when it blew up.

Eyewitness—

'Looks Like Town ‘Was Hit By Four-Ton Block-Buster'

Bud Myers, rororiey for the Houston Press, Naw Aang the re te reach the scene of disaster at Texas City etsy His eve-winem account follows.) ; fre d

! Yh we pasted ambien the city with the dead ¥nd injured. They were be There is no doubt that casualties will run People are running in every direction. Many of them show blood| In "through their clothing where they have been cut by fiylng glass, The word we got when reached Texas City was that a trate ship had blown up Houston’ ship channel. broken hunks of the ship found four and five scene. :