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FORECAST: Fair and somewhat warmer tonight and tomorrow.

“NEW — Many Indianapolis citizens today got their first look at the city's new streef flusher ‘as it participated in the downtown ''Cleanup-Fixup" parade. Shining up the truck before the parade are (left to right). John Deal, Bill Hays and Harry

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SATURDAY, APRIL 26, 1947

Grand Jury In In 1946 Primary Pro

Entered as Second.Class Matter at Postoffice

napolis, Ind. Issued daily except Sunday .

‘Well Pleased,’ President | Tells Marshall

Secretary of State Back From Moscow |

WASHINGTON, April 26 (U. P.). | —President Truman - today greeted | Secretary of State George C. Marshall on his return from Moscow { The President told him he was “well | pleased” with Mr. Marshall's work a {at the Big Four foreign ministers | conterence. FORMER |. U. DEAN DIES— | “I know that when you make your! Prof. Charles J. Sembower, rereport to the people,” the Presi- tired dean of men and English |dent said, “they will be well pleased! professor at Indiana university, |also.”

The President cut short a cruise

who died today.

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OLD —"Old-Swayback," Indianapolis’ 19-year-old street sweeper, also rumbled

Billy Hamilton {left).. campaign super

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Man the Brooms, Cleanup Is On

Winter Dirt Target In Campaign Here

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Industrious Indianapolis today picked up its brooms and began a week-long attack on winter filth. A

downtown parade started the drive. |

Today marks “Cleanup-Fixup” week. May 3, the public has been asked to make spring cleaning the order of the day. Six days of special effort to dig Indianapolis out from under its) Reavy layer of dirt have been designated. Monday—Civic inspection day. Tuesday—Plant and factory glean-up day. Wednesday—Rubbish and trash! collection day. Thursday—Store and office building clean-up day. ‘ Friday—Apartment clean-up day.

Saturday—Home clean-up ‘day.

Jap Conservatives Win TOKYO, April 26 (U. P.).—Conservative parties won a landslide victory in the Japanese national election today, MOLOTOV? WHO'S HE? DUBLIN, April»26 (U. P.).—The $80 question in the Theater Royal

the opening of] Through hands forward one hour upon re- | tiring tonight.

Hunt ‘Wisp of Fog’

quiz show went unanswered last

night. It was: “Name the big four escaped.

foreign ministers who took part in| the Moscow conference.”

a TE ren ns DePauw University Coed Wins Times Letter Contest

+» yin the downtown parade which. marked the kickoff of the cleanup campaign. isor, chats with. JamesWinn about the sweeper’s

It's Here Again— Set Clock Ahead | For Daylight Time

Tonight will be one hour shorter than usual. Daylight saving time goes into]

| effect at 2 a. m. tomorrow in many cities throughout the state, includ- | where vice and gambling once ran

ing Indianapolis. | Wise citizens will push the clock

For example, if you!

go to bed at 11 p. m., set the clock! ahead to midnight. The “lost hour” will be regained] when daylight time ends Sept. 28. |

In Arson Attempt

Quiet to Reign = In Muncie Tonight

Vice Inquiry Closes Wide Open Town

Times State Service MUNCIE, April 26.—This city wide open on Saturday night will be quiet tonight. The lid is on. The prosperous, Indiana town

friendly central enjoyed a busy spring Saturday. But gamblers and tip-book operators had folded their tents and taken off. The Delaware county grand jury,

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and gambling, held a half-day session this morning, A steady parade of witnesses marched in and out of the jury. room. Lengthy Probe Indicated

Prosecutor Ralph Rector, who said he expected to’ get a number

“DURHAM, N. C, April 26 (U. of indictments out of the probe) indicated that the jury will be busy] MALARTIC, Quebec, April 26 for one year in 1919 to try his hand

P.).—Police disclosed, today that an! elusive pyromaniac—described as a! “wisp of fog"—was thwarted last] night in his latest attempt to burn | down the sprawling Duke university | hospital building which houses | some 500 patients. [ The man attacked Virginia Leon- | ard, night supervisor, who surprised | him in the act of setting fire to one of the hospital rooms. He fled into the maze of corridors and

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{With the investigation all of next | (u,

week. Members of the Muncie Citizens League and the Delaware Ministerial association, who demanded the investigation, have been the principal witnesses so far. Mr. Rector said he did not believe he would call any city officials to testify next week. Plan Day of Prayer

Meanwhile, a large section of the churchgoing population prepared for

a day of prayer for good govern- |

ment tomorrow in Muncie churches. The special prayer will be led in the churches by pastors who have been leaders in the fight to eradicate underworld activities. A big public rally will follow this special observance on Monday night

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on the Potomac to go out to National airport to greet the returning secretary when his four-engined (plane landed here, Marshall Is Impressed Mr. Marshall told the President he was “profoundly impressed” by the President's greeting and by the 'tremendous crowd at the air trans-

Dean Sembower Is Dead at 76

I. U. Faculty Member

{port command terminal which wel- : : [USTY SOMAT x Retired in 1941 .Mr. Marshall said he took it as Times State Service

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{recognition of the efforts he and BLOOMINGTON, Ind. April 26.

his associa‘es have been making to | —Prof. Charles ‘J. Sembower, facarry out rhe naiion's policies. mous among Indiana university Mr. Marshall will make his report alumni for his discourses on phil« {to the people in a radio brocdcast osophy and baseball, , died today | Monday night at 8:30 p.m. (Indian- in the Bloomington hospital. He {apolis time). The broadcast will be was 76. carried over ail major radio networks except Columbia Broadcast- and professor of English. He reing system, - tired in 1941 and had been in ill . ¥mpressed With America health for several years.

i | Through the years Dean Sem- { As Mr. Marshall stepped out of yp. 104 pecome a symbol at I. U.

, : (Men who became famous, like rowg. he said: |Edwin Hill, Ernie Pyle and Don 1 become more favorably im- ‘Herold, often returned to the cam-

‘preesed with America all the time. | ovo visit their old English teach- | “I and my associates had an er

{important mission. We attempted = {to do our best in the.interests of |the United. States and Abe Jugrid $s vn ore - | people can have the peace of mind yet Virginia, the son and comforts of life to which they engineer, he was graduated from are entitled as soon as possible.” |the university in 1893. He joined | At the airport with Mr. Truman the faculty in 1897. 3 (to greet Mr. Marshall were Un-| As dean of men, he served with |dersecretary of State Dean Ache- ine late Dr. C. E. Edmonson, who son, Senator Tom Connally (D.'gi50 held the title. Tex.) and Secretary of Commerce prof Sembower loved baseball W. Averell Harriman. ‘and often his lectures on the modMy. Marshall conferred briefly ern novel and other English subwith Mr. Acheson at the state de- | jects became discourses on the partment and then left by A.T.C.!game as applied to life. plane for Pinehurst, N. C., where| He played on the varsity basehis wife is staying at their lodge. ball team as a student and when John Foster Dulles, Mr. Mar- he became a faculty member, shall's Republican adviser on for- served as manager and unofficial eign . policy, returned with Mr. coach for the team. Marshall. He planned to make a On Athletic Committee

radio broadcast Tuesday night,! pe was a member of the athletic probably from New York.: {committee as a student and beThere will be no breathing spell came faculty representative on the {for Mr. Marshall in his guidance of | committee and represented I. U.

American foreign policy. His re-|in the Western conference. (turn coincides with the opening of A member of the first graduating (what may prove to be the most] lacs of the Garrett public high {school, Prof. Sembower taught in country school several years before | enrolling in I. U. | After graduation from I. U. he took graduate work at Cornell uni- | versity. in 1895. In 1908-10 he | was a Harrison fellow at the Uni- | versity of Pennsylvania where he | received the Ph. D. degree. | He quit the teaching profession

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Fight to Save 11 In Gold Mine

P.).—Weary families and! in another field with the Homer |friends clustered around the gate-| McKee advertising agency in In(house of the Malartic gold mine di8napolis. In 1920 he taught at | today, awaiting word of the 11 | Ohio State university in the deminers trapped by fire and smoke | Partment of commerce and finance, for more than 24 hours 2000 feet returning to I. U. in 1921. | below" the surface. Dean Sembower is survived by | Rescue workers confined the fire | 11S Vite, Mes Alia Soren Sens to a small area on the eighth level | CV cr» 8nd two sons, John I. Sem-

tof the i..ne, but the smoke was bower, Chicago, and Charles W.

| thick, and they could stay down Sembower, Bloomington. ; Services will be held at 2 p. m. only an hour-even with gas masks. ; " . . : {Monday at the! First Methodist The trapped men were believed t0| church in Bloomington (be below the smoke filled area, | a (however, in the freezing-cold in- | 5,265,000 VACCINATED | terior of the mine where there] NEW YORK, April 26 (U. P.).— | might be fresh air. Rescue work- | Some 5,265,000 persons have been ers were optimistic about their immunized against smallpox here | chances of being found-alive. Com- since the vaccination campaign be- | pany officials would not comment, gan April 5, health commissioner { however.

His service to the school spanned we Bok ~n . a

Miss Alice Harrison Advocates ‘Dating Course,’ Says Divorces Prove Lessons Necessary

when all candidates for mayor and |

| Israel Weinstein said today.

councilman-at-large will have op- | portunity to outline their programs]

Washington Calling—

By ART WRIGHT

A DePAUW university coed is winner of the $25 prize in The Times letter contest on dating and courtship courses in schools.

Miss Alice. Harrison, of Lucy Rowland hall, Greencastle, wrote the| . letter unanimously voted best by the judges. The judges were Professor | BY Hotel Room Fire L. E. Maechtle, head of Indiana Central's sociology department: Miss Margaret Bond, director of the Sub-Deb department of L. S. Ayres & Co.,

and Mrs. Wynne Arnholter, director

of Teen activities for the; city park,

before the electorate at the Central high school auditorium.

Rudy York Periled

BOSTON, April 26 (U. P.).—Rudy York, the Boston Red Sox's slugging: first baseman, nearly was overcome by smoke and 450 guests were routed from their beds at the Myles Standish hotel early today when fire swept the player's room. Dazed by the smoke, York staggered toward the door of his room and was led to safety by Benjamni Petruzzi, night. engineer of the apartment hotel. " A doctor was summoned and said that York had suffered only slight smoke inhalation and was not burned. A cigaret was believed to

have started the blaze. Meanwhile

three. clerks roused other guests (who made their way into the lobby

while firemen | out the fire in

6 Problems Face Marshall On His Return From Moscow

German-Jap Occupation Job Tops List; Bedell Smith May Replace Acheson

WASHINGTON, April 26.—Secretary Marshall finds problems here, also. He must decide: © ONE: What department will do main German-Jap occupation job from here on, state or war. Neither is: fitted, neither really wants it. Dividing responsibilities between them has not worked out. TWO: Whether hemisphere-defense program, involving standardization of arms and military missions to Latin-America, should be recommended to President. Truman. Army is pushing plan. State has withdrawn support. Mr. Marshall was plan's original sponsor; is expected to back army, But. that would mean reyersing Under

Dean Acheson. Mr. |

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Held on Murder Indictment

Grand Jurors Act In Slaying Case

The Marion county grand jury today returned a first-degree murder indictment against 14-year-old | Richard Dale Imel, confessed shot- | igun slayer of his stepmother, ! The indictment ended a series of {legal maneuvers that !ed to a state! supreme court decision holding young Imel to be subject to trial] as an adult. { Sherwood Blu, the bovs lawyer! had argued that juvenile court was authorized to hear the case, rather than crimina] court. : A preliminary hearing before Judge Joseph M. Howard of municipal court 3 was delayed while the question was being decided. | Later, the judge held young Imel| without bond for grand jury action. | He ordered him confined to ‘the county jail, in ‘quarters apart from adult prisoners. The boy served as a trusty, carrying keys to the outer door, until attention was directed tc this. arrangement in newspaper publicity. Then, the young prisoner| was placed in an isolated ‘hospital! ward. In a statement to police the boy 'said he shot his stepmother, Mrs.! | Lillian Imel, 38, last March 18 as

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Expect Chrysler,

Contract Expires

«At Midnight.

duction workers today. The company and union called al press conference to make “an important announcement.” Negotiators for both sides were in! almost continuous session as they |

deadline at midnight tonight. Chrysler, smallest of the “big three” auto makers, is the only one| facing a 30-day strike notice. They | began to negotiate ii earnest when | giant General Motors and the U. A. W. reached the first 1947 wage, agreement in the auto industry Thursday night. | The U. A. W. also awaited a reply! from Ford Motor Co. to its bid | for “an immediate upward adjust-| ment of wages,” though the Ford- |

U. A. W. contract runs until May 31.

New Telephone Parley Called - |

WASHINGTON, April 26 (U, P.). —Secretary of Labor Lewis B. Schwellenbach today again personally stepped into the nation's tele{phone strike deadlock and called! | company and union officials to a] conference, . | The conference was called as the union ‘revised their wage demands. |

They offered to go back for a 1-|

tion of the rest of the wage de-| | mands. | The conference with Mr. Schwel- | lenbach followed a recess until later | today in three separate meetings at| the labor department. In these meetings, conciliators were trying to |obtain pattern-setting settlements ‘between the union and three units {of American Telephone & Telegraph .Co. Chicago strikers had offered to | settle their differences with the! Illinois Bell Telephone Co. for a 1-cent-an-hour increase now and the rest to be arbitrated. The company rejected the offer. The conciliators reportedly were trying ‘to persuade the A. T. & T. to offer the strikers a wage increase of $3 a week—25 per cent of what the strikers originally demanded and half of what they now demand. The $6 demand was rejected last night by the company. |

Nose Sewed Back On Girl's Face

LOS ANGELES, April 26 (U.P). —A - 15-year-old girl who lost her nose and the deputy sheriffs who found it e t to learn today whether it will grow back on again. The girl is Esther Vyonne Brooks, Inglewood, Cal, whose entire nose was sheared off in an automobile accident last Monday.

cent-an-hour increase and arbitra-|

11 Republicans, Seven Democrats Are rye Ho : Accused of Violating Election Laws . | By NOBLE REED gid

Seven indictments publicans and seven Democra

\with vielating election laws in the 1946 prim all ; were returned in criminal court today by the Marion county ,

grand jury.

In connection with the indictments, the ‘six

Candidates Back Ballot Inquiry

‘Timed’ for G. O. P. Fight, Says One

Candidates’ speeches, "Page 3; profile of John Schumacher, Page 1.

Indorsement of the grand jury's vote inquiry was voiced today by several political candidates. At least one, however, said he thought that the report was “timed”

For 21 years he was dean of men She sat sewing in the Ime) home, to have a bearing on the hard.

fought Republican mayoralty race. Henry Ostrom, G. O. P. county chairman and Walter Boetcher, Democratic county.head, both declined comment.

For ‘Speedy’ Prosecution

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{the G. O. P. nomination" for mayor, declared: ) ¥

“Any persons found guilty of

should be speed«

lly and vigorously prosecuted.

DETROIT, April 26 (U. P.).—|What is more important, the stig- contained a second count. Chrysler Corp. and the C. IL O.|ma against sincere, honest and dition to illegal entry, United Auto Workers were expected | hard-working polls workers and [charged with illegal possession to announce agreement on a 15-cent| election officials, who are in the ballots and with “stuffing a ballot hourly wage boost for 70,000 pro-| majority, should be immediately box.”

removed.” He said he supports a “searching and complete” investigation. Roy Hickman, another Republican candidate, could not be reached for comment.

raced to beat a contract expiraiion| Republican John A. Schumacher |

asserted: “I have always fought for clean elections. If the people (named in the indictments) are guilty, the§ should pay the penalty. I'm hoping this vear’s primary election will be clean.” “Delayed,” Says Feeney Al Feeney, a Democratic mayoralty candidate, said he believed the indictments were “somewhat delayed, but this should be a warning that cheating in elections will not be tolerated.” “There was no )casion for the delay,” is the way Democrat George S. Dailey, also a mayoralty candidate, looked at the situation. “The indictments seem to have been timed for effect, leading one to the opinion that this entire grand jury affair is part of the Republican

fight,” Mr. Dailey added.

Sunshine Cuts Threat of Floods

River conditions and Hoosier

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Clearing skies reduced the threat of a small flood in southern Indiana today. The weatherman said it would be sunshiny and somewhat warmer tomorrow, too. Heavy rains stopped and there was no immediate indication they would start again, "Farmers were cheered by weather bureau forecasts of fair weather. The downpours thus far in April have delayed spring work. v) Rainy nd) Siokey weather gave way to clearing skies last night, and the result was a heavy frost in central Indiana. Downstate, the Wabash and White rivers were at flood stage and overflowing their banks. Several highways were covered with water in the Bedford area. But there was no major damage and the water was _ expected to recede today barring further rainfall.

LOCAL TEMPERATURES Sa.m..... 38 10a maid 56 Tam. 4 llam... 60 8a m.... 48 12 (Noon).. 62 Sam.... 53 1p.m.....68

4 Dead, 21 Missing In Chile Ship Blast

COQUIMBO, Chil, April 26 (U.| PAL least four men. were|

burned to death

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staff compiled the evidence sulted in the indictments would continue the indefinitely and seek additions dictments. : Of the 18. indicted, precinct committeemen. charged with illegally en : polling place inst May 7. ~~ They were: Delbert Ford of 601 W. 17th st, Republican, cinet, 7th ward; Slathan Coléman of 723 W. 11th st, precinct, 7th ‘ward, of 1014 N, West st. inc. Teh a

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Fifteen members of the official |election boards in the 1st, 5th, 6th |and 7th precincts of the 7th ward ‘were indicted on charges that they “unlawfully, feloniously, knowingly jentered and permitted to be en= tered upon the poll books the ° names of.persons who had not le- | gally voted at such election™ = They are: 1st Precinct, 7th Ward—Jace Patton, Republican, 601 W. 17th st; * Charles Bates, Democrat, 744 W. i 12th st; Bailey League, Repub- * lican, 514 W. 13th st. 4 ¥ 5th Precinct, 7th Ward—William Smiley, Republican, 856 Torbett st.; Benjamin Z. Eakin, 1020 N. West st.; Ernest Lloyd, Re= publican, 809 Darnell st.; James Payne, Republican, 816 W. 10th st, = and Pearlie M. White, Democrat, ~ 1022 Fayette st. : ‘ 6th Precinct, 7th Ward—Roy Pope Sr. and Roy Pope Jr., both Repub. licans, 1020 N. Missouri st.; Bessie Saunders, Democrat, 335 W. 1ith st, and Anna May Lesser, Demo~ crat, 365 W. 11th st. ’ § 7th Precinct, 7th Ward--Elizabeth Davis, Republican, 1526° N. Senate ave.; John Bailey, Democrat, 1500 N. Senate, and Mattie Wilson, Re~ publican, 339 W| 13th st. These Seventh ward precincts are located in the area north of W. 9th to W. 16th sts. and west of N, Capitol ave, to Fall creek. “Hardly Scratch Surface” ¥ The grand jury's statement which accompanied the indictments read as follows: wid “These indictments hardly

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