Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 June 1947 — Page 2

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P.)~Roy Johnson, 42, today was free of second-degree murder charges in the shotgun death of his rein-law, Conrad Smith, 39. A circuit court jury after deliberating only 40 minutes late yesterday acquitted Johnson of the slaying. Johnson testified that he fired his gun only after he was sure Smith - was reaching for a weapon to carry out reiterated threats against John. son's family,

Burglars Get $94 Kinley Thompson, owner of Thompson's Poultry market, 320 E.

entry by a second-story window.

second cash $100, he said.

I —————————— INDIANAPOLIS CLEARING HOUSE For the Day

For the Week

PLATFORM . ROOKERS:

South st, said $94 was taken from & cash register in the market overnight by burglars who gained| With just two passengers; DC-4

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WEDDING BELLS—One of 1947's most elaborate weddings

late today will link two noted families. Miss Martha Parke Firestone, 21, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harvey S. Firestone, will be married to William Clay Ford, son of the late Edsel Ford and Mrs.

Ford. Here the couple look at their marriage ceremony at St, Peter's Episcopal church in Ak

license before the ron,

two “doubtful” senators--George D. Aiken (R. Vt.) and Herbert O'Conor (D, Md.)~—would vote to sustain Mr.

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Washington Calling—

That Noise in Washington Is 1948 Campaign Starting

(Continued From Page One) and vetoes will stick. The latter frees railroads from liability in

anti-trust suits,

‘No New Tax Bill This Year

NEITHER HOUSE will pass health bill or education bill. (Repub-

licans want to save them for campdign year.)

There'll be no new fax

bill this year: Yoiveral miiay waising has ssall chance, With adjournment little more than month away. There'll be talk about fair employment practices, anti-lynching

may pass house, but theyll senate as usual. Youll hear little more about housing . or House

not on senate G. O. P. program. They're being saved, too, for next year, »

» » CONGRESS probably will authorize U. §. membership

portal-pay bill. But Mr. Truman has halted m Republican legislation, and ublicans have ignored many of his messages, have cut appropriations enough to curtail many federal activities, . » . ” Air Deaths Up FIGURES TO BE released next week will show impressive increase in air deaths per. miles flown.

PFT. WAYNE, Ind, June 21 (U.| Rate in 1946 for U. S. commercial

aviation was 132 deaths per 100 million passenger miles. There were niné crashes, 75 passengers and 22 crew members killed. In 1947, with less than half of year gone, 146 persons have been killed. Neither set of figures included deaths in crashes of U. 8. commercial liners operating overseas,

Airline business, which held up !

fairly well after crashes three weeks ago, has slipped downward since last week's West Virgiina

| accident. One DC-4 plane, with

45-50 passenger capacity, landed at Washington from New York

from Chicago earried only seven.

The burglars who left untouchd a| One moderate-sized airline re-

ported $5000-per-day drop in passenger business.

" » ” PRESIDENT TRUMAN will ask congress at next session to

Beeman as den uions yay « 8.1181, : .“ vw S800! fold up war sssets administra

tion and transfer its remaining

MANE ane eas 8 41805,000| functions to federal works agency. ALA ELAN AAA 159,003,0%| By that time, WAA will have

little but real estate to dispose of. Since some war plants are being leased, real estate liquidation may last years

Standard Arms

HEARINGS on bill to strengthen U. 8. position at inter-Amer-jcan conference at Rio, in August, will start Monday before house foreign affairs committee. It comes from war department. Secretary of State Marshall will support it strongly. Measure provides Yor standardi-

zation of arms throughout North

‘and South American countries, which means U. 8, will supply them,

Argument for:

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poll-tax bills and some of |

scientists, navy 15, at’ salaries ranging up to $15,000. This may be step toward higher salary scale in executive branch.

»y 8 TAXPAYERS

inoperative during war, becomes effective soon uniess repealed. Vice Admiral Earl Mills says it would be extravagant, cosily, Rear Admiral Pride of bureau of aeronautics says mavy’s two producing plants — at Philadelphia and Johnsville—have all they can do modifying existing models and turning out parts for obsolete planes still in use. The Philadelphia plant is trying to reeonvert B-20's for anti-submarine patrol jobs. Law doesn’t say whether 10 per cent shall be figured on total planes, total tonnage, or total expenditures. In past, army and navy turned out their own trainers, gave bigger models to private industry. House armed services committee will recommend repeal. ~ # »

Enlistments Down

ARMY enlistment picture Is getting worse. In past three months, recruiters got only 60 per cent of needs. Today we're 40,000 below 1,070,000 army we claim to have. Army counted on high school graduate enlistments in June to balance books, but se far they're not coming in. Army sa if this keeps up we may have to send every man in uniform overseas,

23 Adjectives In Veto Message

WASHINGTON, June 21 (U. P.).| ~—President Truman, “in his veto

message to congress, used these 24 adjectives in describing the TaftHartley - labor control bill: Arbitrary, backward, burdensome, clumsy, complex, cumbersome, dangerous, discriminatory, drastic, elaborate," far-reaching, impossible, in effective, inequitable, serious, startling, troublesome, unfair, unique, unnecessary, unprecedented, unwarranted, unworkable, By the time he got around to delivering his nationwide radio ad-

thought up six more: restrictive, shocking.

This 1s best way to implément | Act of ' Chapultepec providing if any American nation is tked -others will join in putdown ye

COOKS WHILE THE COOK'S AWAY ° Bold Exclusively in Marion

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However, he made an exception when Senator Lister Hill (D. Ala), came in. He said he was “v

happy” that Mr, Hill had returned’ to the chamber. - “I like’ his independence of judgment about which I have been] speaking so much for the last few hours,” Mr. Morse said.

bill and was counted on to support the veto. While the filibuster was the center of immediate attention, the longrange in was in the test of political strength between Mr. Truman and his No. 1 foe in congress —Senator Robert A. Taft (R. 0), co-author of the laboe bill and Mr. Truman's possible op 1048 presidential elec Senate Republicans are confident of enough votes to override, which would maké the bill the law of the | land. Butethey couldn't get to a vote.

3-Story House ‘Moved,

GRAND FORKS, N. D., June 21 (U. P.).—Seven tenants live in a three-story apartment house. The landlord was forced to move it to a new location. The 120-ton house was jacked up, placed on rubber wheels, and put on its new site. The seven tenants rode along. One sald: “I'm not going to run the risk of

BREAKFAST PLANNERS + Robert M. Baer and Dorothy Ready (above) are in charge of arrangements for the city-wide communion breakfast tomorrow. Mass will be at 9 a. m, at St. John's Catholic church and the breakfast will follow at 10:30 a. m. at Severin Roof. Speakers will include the Most Rev, Paul C. Schulte, archbishop of Indianapolis, John . Riddle and Al Feeney. The communion-breakfast is sponsored by the Catholic Youth

organization,

43 Dismissed

On Gaming Charge

Policemen’s Entry Called Illegal Dismissing 43 persons

Clark today assailed an Indiana law that permits granting private social club licenses without an investiga“tion. All the defendants were alleged to have been playing dice last May 31 at the Indianapolis Ideal Social

and Thomas Williams, told Judge Clark they played dice for a while and

legl others,” the prosecutor said. “If are to raid one type, then we woul have to raid long-established legitimaté clubs.” A total of $9.65 confiscated at the

to a newspaper relief fund.

$490,230 Tax Lien Filed

Against Brewer Here

Income taxes for 1946 and penalty totaling $400,230.30 were claimed to-

for this amount in the county recorder’s office against Mr. Bardin's

"=| Meanwhile, agehts of the internal he would Introduce new, less! .ovenue bureau's intelligence unit stringent labor legislation were investigating other aspects of Mr. Morse paid little attention to the case. the other senators in the chamber. A burglary in which $250,000 beOnly a handful of his colleagues |jonging to Mr. Bardin was taken were on the floor during most of from a brother's home

Murder Jury Told Wife Cut Up Hubby's Pants

\ PLYMOUTH, Mass, June 21 (U.

P.) —~Mrs. Bertha Surprise Cote, on trial for the Christmas eve murder {of her husband, once became so

T| angry with him because he went out

{with another woman that she cut the legs off all his trousers, it was testified today. The 28-year-old defendant's former landlady, Mrs. Melvin Winberg of Brockton, described the clipping of the trousers, Mrs. Winberg testified that Mrs. Cote had livéd in fear that her hus-

ent in the |, 4 was about to commit her to an . ' institution.

Load of Watermelons

Stolen From Truck . An entire load of that summertime favorite — watermelon — was stolen from a truck parked in the

Tenants Go Piggy-Back ‘0 block, B. Washington st. last

night, 3 Earl Stewart, 22, Columbus, Ind. told police he parked his truck overnight while he stayed in the Huron hotel. There wére 75 melons valued at $1 each,

HOOSIER LIONS: MEET ROAR PT. WAYNE, Ind, June 21 (U, P.)~~More than 1000 Lions and Lions wives converged on Ft. Wayne today for the 26th annual con-

losing a place to live.”

dress some 10 hours later, he had \ Bad, complicated, harsh, loaded,

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has passed, it 's fitting that the last tribute should ° be one of reverent beauty. All

our services, regardless of cost, strive toward that end.

charged with gaming, Municipal Judge Alex

club, 308 Indiana ave, when two

time of the raid was turned over

A. Halleck today denounced Presi dent Truman as “High Tax Harry,”

overstuffed bureaucracy” ating an economical administration.

Republican state convens« tion that Mr Truman had “thwart ed” the peoples demands and

Predicts Victory Confidently predicting a Republican victory -in 1048, Mr. sald: ONE: The country “has had enough of High Tax Harry.“

President's “spend and spend program for his overstuffed bureau-

cracy THREE: The administration does not believe in economy, but only in “shoveling out” the taxpayers’ money. © *In reducing government costs,” Mr. Halleck said, “the Republican congress has received absolutley no co-operation from President True man. He and his spendthrift bureaucrats and his New Deal satellites in congress have fought tooth

step of the way.”

U. 8. BARS RED LEADERS LONDON, June 321 (U. P).— Harry Pollitt, secretary of the British Communist party, said today he had been refused a visa to enter the United States for the July 4 convention of the American Communist party.

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MADISON, Wis., June 31 (U. B..' ~House Majority Leader Oharles'

bent more on spending “for his than cre-.

abused his executive powers with' vetoes of the tax and labor. bills, Halleck ||

TWO: The nation is tired of the!

and nail against economy every,

{ Acme Telephoto GANGLAND VICTIM—Ben. jamin (Bugsy) Siegel, 42, a pal of movie stars and erstwhile Public Enemy No. |, was shot and killed in gangster style with a machine gun last night in a friend's home in Beverly Hills. He was accused of being the West Coast brain of Murder, ne.

Girl Admits Killing Married ‘Boy Friend’

DECATUR, Ill, June 21 (U, P). ~—Virginia Slayton, 21, shot and killed her married “boy friend” last night when he tried to end their friendship, Decatur authorities said today.

Assistant States Attormey Curly Upton said that Miss Slayton admitted shooting Norman Kennedy, 25, when the couple was parked in

Congratulations!

To MISS JODIE ALLEN, 322 Evanston Avenue, Indianapolis . . . Who Won First Place in the National Contest to Find the Typical American Girl!

Ayres’ Downstairs Store is proud to announce that Miss Jodie Allen has been chosen the Typical American Girl in the national contest sponsored | by the American Girl Shoe Company and Ayres’ Downstairs Store. Miss Allen, who also won first place in the state contest, was selected national winner’ay Mr, Harry Conover, famous modeling agent of - York City.

Ayres’ Downstairs Store Is the Exclusive

Representative of American Girl Shoes in Indianapolis.

members of a counterfeiting ring ;

which planned to flood .the Ruse sian occupation zone with fake al lied military marks, The army sald the gang had counterfeit marks with a face value of $200,000 p rinted and ready to circulate. The prisoners were described by army officials as: » Baron Carl von Krastenn, who investigators said was “the brains® of the ring. ‘Al Capone’ Taken Richard Abraham, a talented photo engraver who ‘turned out perfect bills, even to the paper.” Willi Berger, called “the Al Capone of Berlin” by German and Amers ican police. He had been hunted by military police for more than a year for his black marketing and

repeated posing as a tary poe liceman in conducting looting operations.

Heinz Thiele and Peter Weller,

{who Invested more than 500,000

marks ($50,000) in black market profits to buy equipment and supe port Karstenn and Abraham until the profits started coming in.

CURLEY TO LEAVE TUESDAY

COHASSET, Mass, June 31 (U,

P)~James M. Curley, 72-year-old

mayor of Boston, will leave Tues day for Washington to begin serve ing a sentence for fraud if his health continues to improve, his daughter announced today.

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