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58th YEAR—NUMBER 81

WHO'S UNLUCKY ?—Beverly Selzer is 13 on Frida

; Photos by Tim Timmerman. {3th

but she can't see ‘anything unlucky about getting a new blus bi-

cycle.

MY LUCK

Here she shines it up for a birthday ride.

"DAY—Marilyn_Normen feels pretty.

cky, even

though she's also a 13 én the I3th-er. The day brought birthday presents and an end fo practicing for piano recitals. ”

Five Youngsters Here Scoff At Friday 13th ‘Hoodoo’

Four Girls and Boy Celebrating Their Entry Into Ranks of Teen-Agers Today By DONNA MIKELS There may be people in Indianapolis who put a four-leaf clover

under their pillow and stayed im bed all day today but at least five Indianapolis youngsters viewed the coming of Friday the 13th with

anticipation.

Foday. is the day these youngsters will become “teen-agers.” Their 13th birthday falls on the ill-omened day.

Its a lucky day for Beverly Selzer, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Byran Selzer, 1108 Tibbs ave, It brought her ‘a shiny bright-blue bicycle which she's wanted “ever since I was a little girl” , * . Jacek Rolfsen, son of Mr. and Mrs. George Rolfsen Sr., 202 E. Sumner ave, can see nothing unlucky about the day except that it adds one more stroke to his annual “paddling” . - 4 Charlotte Hutzel looked forward to the day with anything but fear, Bits of whispered telephone conversations which she'd heard her mother, - Mrs. Car] Hutzel, .1123 Dudley st., carrying on® the na week convinced her some, kind of 8 surprise party is planned for her today. t

Marilyn Norman, daughter of

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jedns and bright new red moccasins to relax after weeks of prepardtioh for two. piano recitals .this week. Totlay was welcome not only as a birthday but as the end of recital time .for another season. She only laughed at a letter from | her aunt, Mrs. Frances Bardley, now in Japan, warning her mother to keep her in bed all day today. “I don’t believe in that stuff,” she said. Beverly Baldwin, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Elmer A, Baldwin, 4848 Guilford ave., is too busy getting ready for her swimming party at Riviera club itaday to worry about Superstitions. However, she took a few steps

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7 or FRIDAY, JUNE 13, 1947

English Hotel Brings $2,10C

NOW A TEEN-AGER—Beverly Baldwin is so happy about

becoming a teen-ager she doesn't give a thought to the ill-omened nature ot her birthday. Unworried, she plans a birthday swimming

pa rty.

“NO GLOOM HERE—Chalotte Hutze! perched on the of ‘her home at 1123 Dudley ave, as she waited to be "surprised" by a surprise party she's.overheard her mother planning for her.

steps

Three Weddings Link 2 Families

HIGHLAND, Wis, June 13 (U.| P.).—Adlro Kosharek becomes three times a father-in-law to the childrén of William Grimm on June 25, or vice versa. On that date three Kosharek offspring - will marry three young Grimms. Melvin Kosharek will be wed to Mary Grimm, Lavern Kosharek to Evelyn Grimm, and Ann Kosharek to Bernard Grimm. The Kosharek and Grimm farms are adjoining. Al the "children were raised there. The three couples will live on farms in the immediate neighborhood.

Army Moves to’ Trap 3000 Greek Guerrillas

ATHENS, June 13 (U.:P.),~The Greek army began a new effort today tq surround and wipe out a force of 3000 guerillas: near Mdunt Olympus. Government troops advanced northward from Larissa and southward from the Aliakmon river before dawn in an encircling operation.

out of the way to avoid walking under the ladder on which her mother was doing spring house

Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Norman, . 829 | cleaning.

N. Drexel ave. climbed into blue

“Just playing safe,” she said.

Times Offers Cash Prizes For Best ‘Freak Squeak'

Today being Friday the Thirteenith, it's a good day to watch out for those Freak Squeaks. A Freak Squemsk is a freak accident which could cause serious inJury or death, but doesn’t. The Times today is beginning a search for the narrowest Freak 8Squeak that has ever happened to any of its readers, There's good, United States cash waiting for the

Times Index

Amusements «34

Inside Indpls. 21 Busihess ...... 17 |Ruth Millett. .21 Carnival ..... 21 Movies .. «+14 Classified ..36-38 Obituaries i Comics .......30|F. C. Othman 21 Crossword .... 35/Radio ........39 Editorials ,. 22 Reflections 22 Fashions.. 26-27 Scherrer ...... 2 Furniture .... 26 Sports .....34-35 Forum. . «ivi. 22 | Washington 22 Meta Given .. 26 | Weather Map- 4 Hollywood . ...21 |Wom. News 25-27 - Homemaking ..26 World Affairs 22

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persons reporting the “best” Freak Squeaks in the next four weeks. The Times will pay $45 for the incidents judged the most interesting. Five dollars ‘will be paid for the best Freak Squeak of the week for each of the four weeks plus $25 for the outstanding Freak Squeak of the series. The search for Freak Squeaks is another one of the .Times' pyblic services. For the search, conducted in co-operation with the Indian-

increase interest in preventing home, industrial and trafic accidents which cause so many’ heart-break-ing tragedies in the family,

Squeaks. These accounts that have

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LOCAL TEMPERATURES

Sam. ...68 0am. .80 T7am.....60 lam... 8 Sa m..... 71 12 (Noon). 87

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apolis Safety council, is intended to

Here's what we mean by Preak|

The - attack followed by a few hours the- publication of a Greek Communist -party manifesto denouncing the government's policy of trying to crush the guerrillas by

In Ford Strike

3 Foremen Beaten

DETROIT, June 13 (U. P.)— Three foremen who refused to join a strike against the Ford Motor Co. were beaten. severely by three carloads of unidentified men today, police reported. A fourth man escaped injury. Police Chief Irving Nielson of suburban Dearborn said the four were ambushed as they stopped to pick up one of- their number en route to work at Ford's River Rouge plant, four miles away. River Rouge and the Lincoln and Highland Park plants in Detroit are scenes of a 24-day strike of 3800 members of the Foremen’s Association of America. ‘Several hundred foremen have remained at their jobs. "Chief Nielson said the injured, all of whom were in hospitals, were Yalmer Palosaari, 45; Emil Rose, 38, amd Charles Kaufman, 58.

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Auction Paintings BEVERLY HILLS, Cal, June 13 (U. P.) —Paintings by Ed Gardner, Fanny Brice, Xavier- Cugat, Anthony Quinn and John Garfield are among those which will be auectioned Sunday at a vetérans welfare benefit, actor Keenan Wynn, direc-

St. Louis Bus Driver Strike Ties Up City

PF walked off their jobs today, protest-| ing what they called a “phony” ar- that she did not get to sleep until

bitration award. after midnight last night.

left without public transportation.

Jwalkout was the award of an ar|cents an hour pay increase above | |present scales. The union claimed | {the award was illegal and “without {tive on the panel was absent at tt

“|the issues to rearbitration by a

| reduce its wage demand to 23 cents

|gamated Association of Street Elec-

Protest Arbiters’ Wage Decision

About one mililon persons were

pany representatives. He and his| eabinet met with them at city hall to “determine a common ground in|t solving this problem.” Vote Is Overwhelming

entered the picture in an effors persuade the 3500 strikers to reach | some . agreement with the company that would end the walkout, The operators began their work! stoppage at 3:35 a. m. They voted 2072 to 147 to go out, despite the pleas of union. leaders to. stay..on! the job. Taxicabs did e rushing business. Motorists freely picked up passengers on their way to work. Pedestrians took advantage of all sorts - of conveyances, frequently piling onto trucks, One horse-drawn milk wagon was seen picking up hitch-hikers on its way. Award Called Illegal The ' immediate cause of the

bitration panel amounting to a 14%

was voted. aro ag

new panel, however, the union will

an hour, Mr. East said. 5 "The company said it would stand by the award. Union Member Withdrew The disputed award was voted early this week. Earlier the union member of the panel, O. David Zimring, Chicago ®conomist, had declared the board unable to reach an accord and therefore, dissolved. Two other mémbers of the ‘panel, one a substitute for the company’s representative, made the decision. It was branded as illegal and “phony” by the union at once. The union, the A. F. of L. Amal-

tric Railway and Motor Coach Employees, demarided that the company agree to rearbitrate the wage question, This the company rejected late yesterday.

California Transit Strike May End

OAKLAND, Cal, June 13 (U. P.). —Hope for early settlement of the Key system transit strike, which has stalled street car and bus service for 500,000 east bay passengers, was seen today. A reported arbitration proposal] might put A. F. of L. drivers and | trailnmen back on the job Monday. | The - Unions ' scheduled a mass meeting for tomorrow morning in the Oakland - auditorium. , Union| leaders said that “should an agree-| ment be reached” the terms Saul | be submitted for ratification at the) meeting, and service restored . “at the beginning of the week.”

Locke, Metz in Lead ST. LOUIS, June 13 (U, P.).— Bobby Locke, the sharpshooting South African, and Dick Metz, long | a top American pro, tied for the early 27-hole lead in the 47th Na-

force of arms.

The late Booth Tarkington's sums mer home at Kennebunkport, Me, is for sale. Disposal of the property that: cost the great Hoosier novelist probably about $300,000 has been placed in the hands of eastern real estate interests by Mrs. Tarkington. Mrs. Tarkington is. spending the summer at Kennebunkport, It was learned ' that tentative plans are being discussed in Indi-

Meridian st. into a shrine for the author who died May 17, 1946. The shrine plans however are merely in the “suggestion” stage among friends. The featured attraction at the Tarkington Kennebunkport home

deckhouse near the main house. The : deckhouse is’ located on the Kennebec river. built 70 years ago, was bought by Mr. Tarkington and placed hear

the deckhouse to make the scene picturesque,

anapolis to convert the Tarkington, Indianapolis residence at 4270 N.,

is the ship “Regina” alongside his

The ship

tor of the sale, said.

Booth Tarkington's

Tarkington,

ORT—Near the summer home of sale, lies the 70-year-old ship Regina,

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[had seen her home since Sept. 6, Mayor Aloys P. Kaufmann called |1946, when she was brought to Long

in leaders of the union and com-| hospital with polio. She had been S in a respirator since.

leave the respirator for 10 or 15 minutes. Now she can remain out

g tion service also! of the apparatus for as long as one The U. 8, conciliauion to| and one-half hours, once a day. -

Hoosier mother was the culmination

Fruster Jones Gets 2-21 Years

state supreme -court, Fruster Jones, dapper Indiana ave.. police character, term despite a.

tional Open today with totals of 1

ome of the late Booth. i)

Iron Lung Patient

Alexandria Mother Leaves in. Respirator

First Time Since She Was Stricken By LOUIS ARMSTRONG

Mrs. Frances M. Robinson of Al

few mobile iron lung patients went home today in her respirator from | Robert Long hospital. , A : As they settled her within the apparatus in the back of a large mov. . ST. LOUIS, June 13 (U. P).—A. ing van a smile broke over her face. Her husband, Jack Robinson, was qf L. bus and streetcar operators | at her side. At home would be her 3-year-old son.. ‘

of several weeks of precise arrange-

She was so excited about the trip

Today would be the first time she

After the first several weeks at he hospital Mrs. Robinson could

The trip home for thé 31-year-old

Found Guilty Of Manslaughter

Unless there is an appeal to the

will serve his first prison

in connection with the death of a young woman during an all-night party last Sept. 4. ‘ _ He was sentenced ediately by Special Judge Albert Ward to a term of two to 21 years in prison. His attorney, Thurl C. Rhodes, said no decision had been made on appealing the case to the higher court. Remanded to Jail . Jones was remanded to jail pending the appeal decision and‘if none is taken he will be taken to the state prison. In 81 arrests, Jones was sen-| tenced to a total of 320 days, but all of them were suspended or reversed on appeals. He was convicted on testimony of witnesses that he caused the death: of Mrs. Vinnell Davis, wife of a war veteran, by administering “six or seven” injections of morphine into her body during an allnight party at 300 W. Vermont st. Dr. R. N. Harger, toxicologist, testified that the overdose of drugs had caused the woman's death. Jones attempted unsuccessfully to establish an alibi. He called witnesses who testified that he was in a dice game the night of the alleged fatal dope orgy. 2100-M. P. H. Plane Contracted by Army WASHINGTON, June 13 (U. P.). —The army air forces announced today the award of a contract to design a new supersonic aircraft which would have a speed of about 2100 miles per hour, The A.A. P. said it wanted the new aircraft, designated the XS-3, to be designed for speeds three times that of sound and an altitude ceiling of 200,000 to 300,000 feet. The speed of sound decreases with altitude from 768 miles per hour at sea level to 660 at 40,000 feet. The contract for the design was

the iron lung upon which Mrs. Robinson must depend for her breath. :

ed from her respirator, in the hospital and wheeled her down to the ment store. : truck. Everything went smoothly. | ‘

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himself in Airel ‘and remained

exandrie, Ind., one of ‘the nation’s

h 0 the #4atMitabi ments. Her husband took, cape of |... .#=F TCH ERT JI Hes most of the details. pre ere surance Society of the Ur county polio foundation supplied | States, for $2,100, "

Shortly after 9:30 a. m. they lift-

Within minutes she: was in her new respirator. ‘ | A physician and trained nurse

Mothen's Prayers Answered, Soldier. Son Found Alive

P.).—Mrs. Hannah Papula received a war department telegram three: years ago saying her son, Marfin, had been killed in action but she wouldn't believe it. She remained confident that’ her, son was alive. She’ even told the! parish priest not te put a gold star, after her son's name on Sue honor |

es and e ber. And

her prayers were answered. TL gat Her 22-year-old son. was found

smith in the little Normandy vil-' lage of Airel in France.

mother said. “I was sure that God would someday answer my prayers.’ “We had gotten a telegram from the war department saying ‘your son, Pvt. Martin J. Papula, has been returned. to military control’ but nobody ‘in the family understood what it really meant until a reporter: called. I'm’so happy.” Her husband, Martin Sr. joined in the rejoicing.” “I hope they let him come home to us soon.” he said. NE er ¥ » ® ARMY authorities . in Paris explained that the soldier told them in . halting «English—a tongue he seemed almost to have forgotten —that he suffered a temporary loss of memory after suffering concussion in heavy fighting at 8t. Lo in the summer of 1044. «+ + * After brief hospitalization, he returned to his unit at Nontaboy, near Villedoux, and his platoon was cut off by Germans. Papula said he did not recall separating from: his unit. When he regained his. memory he found

there for fear he would be tried as § deserter. ! ,

life of the tiny village and the natives forgot he was an American until his employer and another peasant quarreled. The other went to. the police and reported Papula’s presence.

Woman . Historian Killed LINCOLNDALE, N. J. June 13 (U. P.).—Police said today Dr. Emily Hickman, 66, historian and worker for world peace who died whefi her automiobile plunged into Amawalk reservoir, apparently fell asleep atthe wheel. She had been professor of history at New Jersey

awarded to Douglas Aircraft Co, Santa Monica, Cal.

northwest segment of the: construction. of the ‘new expected to be four stori pleted before 1950,

PLYMOUTH, Pa, June 13 (U,|

alive and well; working as a black-

“Thank God he’s, alive” the '.

He submerged himself into the

The insurance fir— #5

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Fk ee dianapolis a 81% dential

College for Women for 20 years.

Maine Summer Home Offered For.

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