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FORECAST: Fair and continued unseasonably cool tonight with light to heavy frost. Tomorrow fair with rising trend,
Trucks Move As Strike Ends Here
Wage Hike Fixed At 18¢c an Hour
| Indianapolis « truck fleets rolled in full force today as the eight-day strike of drivhandlers ended. Agreement between mam-
knd the Indiana Motor Truck association was reached shortly before $ p. m. yesterday. Several operators’ business agents went directly from the four-hour Anal negotiation session to thelr bffices and began recruiting drivers from the picket lines. More than 100 drivers of the 1400 striking unjon
members went to work immediately. 114 Back In Business Pirst freight to move as the |
wheels began to turn again was’ a|
shipment of three loads of die cast-| Ings to the Chevrolet Body division | pf General Motors, As the freight tie-up ended union Spokesman: Lester Hunt pointed out
Frost Blight re Of Strawberries, Peaches Feared
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HEAVY FROST was predicted again tonight as agriculture experts examined possible fruit and vegetable damage resulting from last night's freezing temperatures. Horace Abbott, Marion county agriculture agent, sald today that probably peach and strawberry blossoms would suffer most, He sald he would be unable to determine the damage until a careful examination had been made. Last night's frost appeared heaviest in the north portion where temperatures of 25 to 32 degrees were recorded. South Bend, Ft. Wayne, Marion,’ Columbus, Cambridge City and Lafayette recorded 27 degrees, while Logansport and Wheatfield recorded 25, » ” » HUNTINGTON county: agricultural agent, Walter 'U. Rusk inspected the county from an airplane yesterday and said there appeared to be little damage. Elkhart county agent, Roscoe C. Strangland also sald the frost had |
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Spelling Champ To Be Crowned Here Tonight
The Times to Send Winner to Capital
By ART WRIGHT Grammar school pupils of Indianapolis and Marion county will compete tonight for the title of Indianapolis champion in the annual Times Spelling Bee. The lineup of contestants was reduced to 20 last night in the second semi-finals held in the Indiana World War Memorial auditorium, The grand finals tonight also will be held in the same place. The contest will start at 8 p, m. and the public will be admitted free of charge. Catholic Schools Lead Catholic school pupils held the edge at the end of last night's round. There were nine Catholic school
contestants in. tonight's 20 finalists.}:
The county schools still had seven in the lineup and the Indianapolis public schools had four finalists, Words: which: stumped the 20 pupils spelled down last night were:
hat essential foodstuffs, medicine not damaged early oats, strawberries, And perishables had continued to be and fruit trees theve. hayled throughout the strike. End| In spite of tonight's expected bf the work stoppage put 114 truck heavy frost, 300,000 tomate plants pperators In the city back into busi-| {were being set out in Knox county
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both the operators and the union in| which both, at first, stood pat on| wage stands. ® The negotiations had snagged | Nuesday on a difference of two and a half cents an: hour between the wages offered by ‘the operators and those demanded by the striking teamsters. Union leaders said:the final wage! boosts averaged 18 cents an hour. | he final figure was $1.10 an hour for | the men who handle’ freight on truck docks over the city and $1 20! an hour for drivers, i
Union Rejects Bell Offer Here
The Indiana Bell Telephone Co. | Joday - announced its first counter roposal to three telephone unions ere, The offer, which officials said increases ranging! from $2 to $4, was rejected imme-' diately by the traffic and acooyntIng unions, |
James Orr, vice president of the | Indiana Telephone Workers union | said the offer was made during negotiations on other points. “As far as we are concerned,” he paid. ‘no offer was made.” Miss Mae Mann, president of the Indiana Telephone Traffic union, said she rejected the offer because | » very, very few people get a $4 a Week raise.’ Miss Mann said the offer was a blow to the union expectations Operators in Illinois got a flat $4 a week increase, she said. le Miss Rosemary Eller, accounting anion president, said the offer was | rejected by her union because it! Was toa small, Meanwhile, negotiations’ were deadlocked between the company end the union over “fringes,” such gs additional holidays and time off pn election days.
BULLETINS
HOLLYWOOD, May 9 (U. P.).—~ The interlocutory California divorce which actress Laraine Day received the day before she married Brooklyn Baseballer Leo
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cool tomorrow, remaining 2 to 4 degrees below normal. was predicted through Monday, with cooler weather again by Wednesday. Showers were expected Sun-} day and again on Wednesday.
{day in Indianapolis.
| executed today { portable eleetric chair.
[three years ago, was calm and eom- Preachers’ Aid society.
inable, sacrilege, debris, question: | naire, marauder and rehabilitation. The Indianapolis champion, determined in “tonight's final round, MEANWHILE, temperatures were will go to Washington May 26 .to expected to continue unseasonably compete in the national spelling . All expenses for the six-day A ying trend | gu. filled trip -will be paid by The Times, :
The plants were flown to,
List of Finalists |" Here are the finalists who will
Yesterday's high of 52 degrees! to .freezing at 7a. m, to-
{pid for the title tonight, survivors Cecil Clements, St. Anthony's CathKatherine Harrieder, St. Roch's » Southport grade school; rte Death Machine Works Ann Hessler, Little Flower Catholic Cathelic school; Janice Lair, School 0 (U. P)—Willle Franch was [0 v0 cohol: Patty Prestel, St. ST. MARTINVILLE, La, May 9 4.5 school No. 2; Caroline Valenfailed to work—was brought here | began ‘gathering under the gian
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FRIDAY, MAY 9, 1947
Entered as Second-Olass Matter at PostoMcs eons Indianapolis, Ind, Issued daily except Sunday ‘ {
Insists Rep. Acrobat’'s Draft
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‘MAIN ST., SPEEDWAY CITY — At shift time, plants along the way pour thousands of worke:s..into: the
streets of Hoosierland's "Little Detroit." Eenployment
6. 0. P. Chairmen Here for Parley
Activities Start Tomorrow Morning
.By ROBERT BLOEM Hooster political emphasis shifted to the national scene today as 16 Midwest and mountain states Republican chairmen gathered here to plot strategy for the 1948 presidential campaigns. Although public utterances of the convening chairmen were expected fo be Iimited to stereotyped pats on the back for the G. O. P., the theme of the tlosed sessions was believed | almost sertalt to be: witst is the backbone of < aE a vogon retin 30. how: flr about giving it 8 greater voice Bs Vil the naming of a candidate?” 3
No Agreement Yet With several states already push- | Io | nce | ch 1 ing out presidential candidates, it! appeared up to Governor Gates and | Ickes Changes Mind On Oklahoman gaining position.
Hoosier G. ©. P. Chairman Clark} Actually there has been no n- | WASHINGTON, May 9 (U. P.).— dication that Indiana Republicans yarold I. Ickes said today he tried have agreed on a favorite son of get formér Congressman Jed their own to enter in the presiden-| P | Johnson of * Oklahoma a federal
tial handicap. They want to battle, that out .among themselves, ob- | judgeship in 1945 so he'd be “where
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enterprises are" also
of last night's round: Frances Bubenzér, School 80; Carol Capel, John Strange school; . . olic school; Janet Cox, Pike townWillie Dies Y m ship school; Joan Emhardt, Center do! township school No. 2; Emelie Gray, St. Patrick’s Catholic school; Mary In Electric Chair Catholic school; Beverly Hendrickson, School 85; Allegra Henry, Shirley Sec : school; Paul Jump, School 46; On ond Trial Johnny Klemm, Fleming Garden A BULLETIN school; Deloris Kramer, Holy Cross | §T. MARTINVILLE, La, May | 0 000 wr oniahon, St. Joan of Are in _ louisiana's | Patrick's Catholic school; Shirley | Steinkamp, St. Catherine’s Catholic school; Bill Tegler, Center town(U. P.) —Willie Francis—who beat! [tine, Flackville school: Theresa | a murder rap a year ago. when Zoellner, St. Joan of Arc: Catholic | Lousiana's. portable electric chair! school. and .lodged in a tiny, red brick fail’ ay to await his second eXecution} (his afternoon. Rev. Free Freelan A crowd of several score curious oaks in the jailhouse yard £2 Dis | n Ho ital noon, The 60-pound portable death] chair was installed just a few feet |
The Rev. L. T. Freeland, former |
from. Willie's cell and the switch- | executive secretary of the ministers’ |
'board tested. The ‘state took no {pension fund of the Indiana con-
hanc ; : chances that this time the current; "i Methodist hospital today.
would fail. He was 75. Calm and Composed He had been a resident of IndiWillie, a forlorn 18-year-old |anapolis since 1935, when he came
Negro who killed: a druggist here here to take the position with the He retired posed as he walked into the jail. in 194), He lived at 2051 N. AlaHe was brought here from New| bama st. Iberia, where he had been held for| Earlier he served as Methodist a year. ' superintendent of the Seymour dis- | During those months his at- |trict, and was the first dean of the torneys had carried his case to Epworth League institute at Riverstate courts and twice to tHe U. S.|vale. supreme court. They contended he should not be “executed” twice. All appedls failed.
- Honored by DePauw
He was graduated from DePauw university in 1906 and did post
(Lippy) . Durocher was declared valid today by Superior Judge Ingall W. Bull,
McCHORD FIELD, Wash., May fp (U, P.).~A B-29 weather recon-
naissance plane is missing on a | flight between Fairfield army air |
base, Cal, and Anchorage, Alaska, flight service here reported today.
LAKE SUCCESS, N. Y,, May 9 (U. P.).—~Russia proposed the early end of Britain's rule of Palestine today and served notice it would fight to make independence for Palestine a principal goal of the forthcoming United Nations holy land inquiry.
WASHINGTON, May 9 (U. P.).. ~—By a vote of 122 to 70, the house today rejected an amendment to the $400 million Greek-Turkish aid bill that would have specifically barred the use of American military units as occupational and combat troops in those countries,
WASHINGTON, May 9 (U: P.). ~The Republican majority on the senate finance comniittee today beat down two Democratio attempts to postpone action on G. 0. P,-sponsored legislation to cut personal income taxes this year.
WASHINGTON, May 9 (U. P.), ~The state department said today that satisfactory political and economic relations between the United States and Spain are impossible “as long as the Franco regime remains in power.”
MUSSOLINI SON ACQUITTED BUENOS AIRES, May 9 (U, P). «Vittorfo Mussolini, son. of the former Italian dictator, was - acquitted in federal court today of im-
migration’ law violation charges
growing out of his entry into Argentine, Cl
{bread and coffee. | noon he asked for a big fish
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‘4the businesses in the area.
Willie had a breakfast of mostly
For his last meal graduate work at Boston university,
In 1926 he was awarded an honorary doctor of Afvintyy degree from
‘dinner. Ome of his favorite foods DePauw.
ference of the Methodist church, |
{to continue as the Hoosier theme, |
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servers believe, and then come out D€'d do the least harm.”
But, Mr. Ickes said, he doesn’t {strongly behind a single choice! I time is ripe. 8 want Mr. Johnson to get that
The Hoosier G. O. P. bills the Judgeship. onthe U. S eeustoms state currently as the “banner Re- |Our. now. publican state in the nation.” That| He lacks the qualities a federal reputation suffered mildly as a re-| Ickes sult of an unexpected amount of 5 Democratic interest in-the recent! municipal primaries, but is expected |
judge should possess,” Mr, aid. The former secretary of interior
Little acHivity was on deck for
" — House are section alone, Schloss Bros. constuction’ firm are grecting 17 under way. gig a
(was crayfish, which are fat this time of year.
F. at Princeton, 'Osmena Jr. Sentenced I" A native ‘of ‘Knox county, the |Rev. Mr. Freeland had served as
MANILA, May 9 (U. P.) —Sergio pastor of churches in Evansville, | Osmena Jr, son of the former pres- | | Princeton and Shelbyville.
ident of the Philippines, was found | {guilty - of treason today, sentenced | | Leona Tryon Freeland; a son, Paul | to life imprisonment and fined 20,- |F. Freeland, Washington, D. C.; | 000 pesos. He was accused of sup- a daughter, Mrs, L. L. Smith, La- | plying the enemy with warWmateri- | ramie, Wyo. and three grandals during the Japanese occupation. | children.
He was a ether of the Masonic! ; lodge at Evansville and the I. 0. O,| Dotting the | “Scenic Trail,”
testified at a senate judiciary subcommittee nearing on the Oklahoma | ship Mr, Johnson turned down, after (Continued on Page $—Column 9, ng confirmed by the senate in | he was defeated in the 1948 election. Brown County Bids| = made Pisin Threat Dogwood Lovers chairman of the house appropria- | | tions subcommittee that handled in-| pected in Brown county this week-| Mr, Ickes said that Mr. Johnson end to see the redbuds, dogwood and used to make “plain threats—just | Weather for the trip will be good, in the English language’ —that if according to the U. 8, weather bu-' Mr. Ickes didn't do what he wanted, | countryside along, .“And he wanted to remain on| route 135 between and tantalize you, is that Hight?
Democrat's nomination to a judge- ——— 1945. He changed his mind after | In 1945 Mr. Johnson then was] Thousands of tourists were ex- terior department bills. apple blossoms, all in full bloom. [8s plain as a man can put down reau. | interior funds would be cut. Beanblossom and Nashville, patches, Senator EB. R. Moore (R. Okla.)
lof the blossoming trees add to the 'asked Mr. Ickes. . | color. The alternate route—Road 37! through Bloomington—is'equally he got some joy out of life.” | He is survived by his wife, Mrs.!luxuriant with flowering trees. | 1 In Brown county state park, the Mr, Johnson was qualified to be. a
Mr. Ickes said he didn’t think
hills are decked with the pink-and judge in 1945, either. ivory blossoms. The art gallery in| Do Least Harm ’ Nashville will be open Sunday wn
tourists. (to be a congressman,’
Newly Organized Company Asks Authority To Furnish Service long Denied to Area
Second of : a y Series
By RICHARD LEWIS The yellow sheet of papér posted on the bulletin boards of the weet suburban schools and the Ben Davis fire house said: “Notice! The residents in the area referred to as Fleming Garden, Town of Lynhurst, Mickleyville, Ben Davis, Old Ben Davis and Sterling | Heights at last will have the opportunity to have a public water supply for domestic use as well as fire protection. " i Residents were surprised and, — hopeful. They passed the word | A company spulesmag told the around. There was a good deal of businessmen they could have water dis®ssion at We Ben Davis - drug | if they would put up $250,000 to pay
(far a pumping station and pay $2.50
0 would put in the water?
Co. had refused service. Then, not' yond the city limits. long ago, it made a verbal proposi- | The businessmen ‘looked at each tion to the West 40 Businessmen's other in amazement. "They knew club, which represent; a number of | the pumping station would be neces-
Southwest Suburbanites Wait Oulcome Of Hearing for Sorely-Needed Water
r years, the Indianapolis Water & lineal foot for pipe running’ be-
(sary Depause the area is as high as
“But, he was already in the government—and I felt we should use him where he would doithe least harm. “I was perfectly willing to sacri-| fice the chairman of the interior | subcommittee to the court.” “But,” asked Senator Chapman Revercomb (R., 'W. Va.),
jie top cf the Merchants bank] {building downtown. But , . .
customers to dig down’and finance as you-do now?" |the remodeling of my pharmacy so| “Yes,” Mr. Ickes replied. |that I could serve them,” com-| Senator Revercomb commented | ‘mented Lee Merz, druggist at 5750 that “this is the most unusual quali- | |W. Washingtor. st. indicating his ‘fication I've ever heard advanced ‘newly remodeled store. were indignant. They never had| “I suppose I'm at fauit,” Mr. heard of ratepayers being asked to Ickes told him. finance a capital improvement for have done it.” a Gtility in order to get service. |
Last winter, when they read the Hatfield shools McCoy |
yellow notice on the bulletin boards in ‘West Virginia
they were definitely interested. Who would bring water? | WILLIAMSON, W. VA. May 9 (U, Last Feb. 25, the question was P.).—Allen Hatfield, 51, former po- | {answered by Flmon Williams of lice chief at nearby Matewam, was Greenwood, an Indianapolis at-| | under indictment, today for shooting torney. He petitioned the Indiana public m attempts to arrest McCoy's friend | service commission for a certificate [for drunkenness. Both men are de- | scendants of the famous feudin (Continued on Page 8—Column 5) families.
“Oh,” Mr. Ickes replied, “I in] Speedway City . .
“I never thought he was qualified | he added. !
|in and out of their gates. About Plowin Accident 35 per cent of _ Speedway City's
“you had | | “It's as though I weve to ask my the same reason to.oppose him then |
|for appointing a man to the federal | 00: Is the secon A number of the businessmen bench—because he irked someone.’ |
sorbed in the PBrest-O-Lite Battery
| Hubert McCoy, 28, during a scuffle |
th per IL Messagero reported ) ate, of security to the homemakers, t “a rec 1
figures are up and so are monthly payrol.
sating. Wb all over ¢ haodvay City. In this
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{P.).—~The defense in May-Garsson bribery |tried unsuccessful today te
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break down an army
gressman Andrew J. May asked him to get a draft ment for an acrobat. " The defense sought to prove the incident involved a group % singers in the army who did no$ want to be separated when senf overseas. But the witness, Col. Olarence J; Hauck Jr, former war depa n liaison officer to the house affairs committee, said that remembered it, it was an ac
“I remember the incident
criticized me in the presence others,” Col. Hauck said.
‘Bawled Me Out’
Col. Hauck testified that when he declined to take
LUNCH HOUR—Speedway City factory employees swarm local restaurants and drug stores for a bit to eat. Here Edward DeVatz, .Beck's drug store, prepares sandwiches. Plant cafeteries do a ‘rushing business. '
Speedway City Expanding
As Business There Booms Indiana's ‘Little Detroit’ Whirl of Acfivity; Pre-War Figures Topped in Upsurge
By VICTOR PETERSON . Indiana's ‘Little Detroit.” Adjoining the west boundary line of Indianapolis live some 4500 { people who take an intense but quiet pride in their town,
This quiet pride, however, does not reflect an easy going, sleepy | attitude.
Anything but . Main st. which really is ‘the.main Street, Is a whirl o of Activity. | Around the clock five major” in-| dustries funnel some 9000 workers
working group are employed In’
these plants. ‘ | The streets and parking lots are, S armer
packed with worker's cars which at shift time, turn the main sm. into a maze of iraffic. : |
Employs 4000 Workers | Allison's alone employs 4000 peo- found today in a field at his farm!
Times Stale Service
“The badly “mangled body of]
ple and pours a ménthly payroll of north of Ladoga where he had been |
'about a million dollars into their Plowing.
ockets. The Linde Air Products| Mr. Markey had started to work | po d largest plant with at 3:30 a. m. and when he failed to for breakfast a farihand
appear !found the body entangled in
n Both concerns, which turned out! plow. It had been dragged 150 She, Mdybe I shouldn't | tremendous quantities of war goods, | before the tractor Hit a fence and
are increasing their manpower. Bm- | giaijad. d¢ The motor soparenliy ‘ran for ak ward trend with no stopping point long time, as the wheels dug holes
ployee rosters show a steady up- |
n sight. A mass of other workers As 2b-1
18 inches deep in ground. His wife and 20n /Suryive.
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! Co., Esterline-Angus Co., Inc., Elec- | M. P. H oN SKIS trical Steel Castings Co. and. the | American Art Clay Co. Speedway City is a town of diversified industry which lends an
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Young Garsson was
Col. Hauck testified. yesterday that. the war department had refused Mr. May's request that it should intere. cede in the trial. :
‘Patriotism’ Not at Issue
Charles J. Margiotti, one of the defense lawyers, questioned Hauck on the acrobat incident cone cerned a singing. trid’ known as the “Lind Brothers” who were the army and about: to be sent > Bue rope. When Mr. Margiotti asked whethe er any of the four defendants had asked him to do anything “unpas triotic,” Col Hauck said no. Both Federal Judge Henry A Schweinhaut and Chief Prosecutor William A. Paisley "at this poink said that the government's purpose,
.|in the case was not to show thas [Pu defendants were unpatriotie,
Further questioning of such wpe | was ruled out. i
Brigadier General Testifies ;
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The government then called. Brig, Gen. Miles Reber, who said, Reps - May had called him early in August, 1944, concerning Mr. Freeman's son, Albert, a staff sergeant then tioned overseas. Gen. Reber said Mr. May if it was possible to furlough
riage to a Japanese. y
The general looked inlo the case and later told Mr. May that young
CRAWFORDSVILLE, Ind, May 9.
In testimony yesterday hs George ‘W. Markey, 64, farmer, was! n it was dine
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