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FORECAST: Partly cloudy, humid and warm today and tonight; tomorrow, partly cloudy.

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: SOMETHING'S AFOOT — Twelve-year-old Dave Porter, son of Mr. and’ Mrs. Roy Porter, Columbus, Ind., has had a‘ good start on everything that typifies vacation time to Hoosier youngsters. ‘Here he pulls a thorn out of his toe. | Already, however, he has cut a finger, skinned a knee, blistered from the sun and - been covered with insect bites. But the old swimming hole feels good, just as does “the dust curling around toes while fe along ¢ a country oa

58th YEAR—NUMBER 94

SATURDAY, JUNE 2,

Report Lewis Demands OK'd By 2 Operators

U, S. Steel, Hanna ‘Group Hold Meeting

WASHINGTON, June 28 (U.P). —Industry sources said today that two big segments of the soft coal industry have secretly offered to meet John L. Lewis’ basic demands

{on wages and hours. They said the action, however, had split the operators sharply. A full-dress meeting of industry officials will be held here Monday on whether to gp along with the spokesmen for U. 8. Steel Corp. and the M. A. Hanna interests in their efforts to avert a full-fledged | strike when the miners’ present va-| cation ends ‘July 8. Industry sources said that Ben1 jamin Fairless, U. S. Steel president, and George M. Humphrey, chairman of the board of Pitts burgh Consolidation Coal Co., had decided at secret meetings with Mr. Lewis to grant. his demands for a wage increase equal to 35 cents an hour and an eight-hour day—includigg one-half hour paid lunch period and one hour of underground travel time. Amounts to $13.05 This would amount to a daily rate of $13.05. The present daily rate is $11.85 for nine hours. The two men represent almost 90 million tons of annual coal production or about one-sixth of the total. They constitute two of the largest groups in the northern and western wage negotiating conference, and have usually exercised sufficient influence to bring other members in that group along with them on a contract deal with Mr. Lewis. As the mines closed down for a

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REVOLUTIONARY IDEA?—Declaring he believes i» has stumbled onto the most remarkable engine principle since James Watt developed the steam engine, this Houston, Tex. inventor, Howard Farrar Kelso, exhibits his water-driven rotary power unit that uses a circular-piston method of power development.

‘CASE OF ROTARY POWER UNIT CAP

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U. S. a ‘Poor Second,’ Chief of Staff Says

WASHINGTON, June 28 .(U. p).S —Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, army chief of staff, told a senate group today that this nation’s army is “a poor second” to Russia’s and| that he cannot “entirely exclude” | the possibility of a war in the next 12 months, Gen. Eisenhower emphasized that the war department does

But army planners, having to plan for all contingencies, do not “entirely exclude such a possibility.” The chief of staff appeared before tee in support of army budget re-

Regarding this nation’s armed

Chief Sanders Jet A re Shots Fired at Swimmers

out why armed auxiliary policemen fired shots at three tee a age boys who apparently were taking an unauthorized ss in the Ellenberger park pool at 2 a. m. teday, . * "The shots were fired by two of three auxilia men who were returning home three hours after Yi.

‘Russia's Army Best'-Eisenhower |e

Photo by Victor Peterson, Times Staff Photographer.

‘Watson Named

Dry Candidate ‘Flying Pastor’ to Run

| For President

WINONA LAKE, Ind, June 28

(U. P.).—Dr. Claude A. Watson, | the “Flying Pastor” of Los Angeles, | Cal,

today was nominated for president of the United States by | the Prohibition | party. - Mr. Watson won over a surprise candidate, | Dr. Enoch A. Holtwick, Green- | ville, Ill, college | professor, after three other men | Mr. Watson mentioned as prospective noms inees withdrew fro mthe race. Mr. Watson. minister of a Free Methodist church and 1944 party | presidential nominee, received 150 | of 269 votes cast to get a majority | on the first ballot. Mr. ‘Holtwick had 117 votes and | two stray votes were cast for *favorite sons” who were not even) formally nominated. Pilots Own Plane i Mr. Watson, who pilots his own plane around the country in behalf of the party and other crusading organizations, lost most of the support of his home state. California cast 12 votes for Mr. Holtwick ‘and two for Mr, Watson.

Mr. Watson's chief support came]

from Indiana, which gave him 52 votes; Michigan, 35, and Ohio, 15. Thése three states accounted for more than two-thirds of his total. The Californian was nominated by Dr. D. D. Gibbons, Kalamazoo, Mich.,, who described Mr. Watson as “a practical man for a practical campaign.” Mr. Watson was expected to begin immediately an 18-month campaign between now and the 1948 presidential election.

Meet at Tabernacle

{and scores more will ‘many of them seriously.

"| today and U. S. Steel Corp.

1)-day vacation, Secretary of Interior J. A. Krug said he feared the government would be helpless to get the 400.000 members of John L. Lewis’ United Mine Workers (A. F. of L.) back on the job.

Steel Layoffs Begin As Mines Close

PITTSBURGH. June 28 (U. PJ. The nation’s 400,000 soft coal miners started a 10-day vacation anwi nounced immediate layoffs for 10,- “| 009 workers. because of reduced ops erations in fuel-starved steel mills. Big Steel said 80 of its 130 opén hearth steel furnaces in the Pitts-burgh-Youngstown area were forced to close because of depleted coal supplies. Ten additional iron-making blast furnaces in the district were banked. The corporation previously had banked 4! because of the wildcat pre-vacation strikes which hit the. coal fields this week. Coke production at the’ big Clairton byproducts plant was cut to 38 per cent of capacity. : ' Railroads Feel Pinch Operations of U. S. Steel's largest operating subsidiary, Carnegie-Il-linois Steel, were slashed to 45 per cent of normal in the area. Carnegie said it planned no cut in production of its Lake county, Indiana, mills “at least until next week.”

|was second only to that of Russia.

strength, Gen. Eisenhower said it

“However, it is a poor second,” he added. Eisenhower's views were expressed in a formal statement which was made public atfer his appearance. ‘Reduction Risky’ He gave the committee a somberly worded review of U. S. armed strength. The army, as pictured by the general, is thinly spread around the world and is composed largely of young and inexperienced wolun-

SRR IR ROTARY POWER UNIT CREATES CHAMBERS Y /N ONE DIRECTION

LIMITED To CHINOER LENGTH FoRemne RECIPROCATING ACTION

THE WAY iT WORKS—The rotary power unit operates on the development of pressure within chambers that revolve continuously in one direction. As the chamber opens, the fluid or vapor enters, the chamber is expanded, the power develops always at maximum circumference, and the shaft revolves. The sketch at « top shows the method of injection and the way the motor turns. In the bottem panels, the circular piston operation, at right, is contrasted with he customary cylinder piston.

Designer Calls New Engine

|ward deterring aggression,” he said.

“AS 8 Tenult of this ‘weakness andi sparseness of our fdrces, the U. S. army has a lessened influence to-

ished their work Supervising: a teen canteen at Brookside park and arresting six youths for drinking beer in a Jasied

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dent. Involved in’ the inquiry ¥ the powers of. auxiliary police.

City Recreation Director Paul v. Brown said auxiliary police are not authorized to exercise police powers in the city parks, playgrounds or swimming pools as far as he, concerned. 2 “They have no authority whatsoever,” Mr, Brown said, “We have used them for traffic control at special events and plan have them at the centennial Jot but we don't authorize them | patrol the parks.” Carson Jordan, saf ber, said he didn't

Then the general pointed out that world affairs still develop “in the shadow of military power.” Gen. Eisenhower asked restoration of some of the funds ‘cut in the war department's 1948 appropriation by the house. The house granted the army $5,280982423, as compared with President Truman's budget estimate of $5,716,719,500. He said that house reductions were “excessively risky” and amounted to’ “gambling” with the nation’s security.

Biggest Advance Since 1763

By JIM CARROLL, Scripps-Howard Staff Writer HOUSTON, Tex., June 28.—A Houston inventor believes he has hit,

upon the most radical development of an engine principle since James Watt came up with his steam engine in 1763

Other steel "companies, including |

production drastically. Railroads were beginning to feel the pinch of the coal shutdown. Crewmen faced reduced working schedules.

That has been the death toll in| Indiana on holiday week-ends for the last two years. The hazards will be increased this year. Fifty-one have been killed” in Marion county traffic so far this year—32 inside the city and 19 in the suburbs. The 52d death would never occur if every motorist would follow the simple rules of safety and caution at all times behind the wheel of his CAr. ’

‘Be Alive on the Fifth’ Is Keynote Of 4th of July Educational Drive By NOBLE REED The biggest safety campaign in six years will be launched next week | by the National Safety Council and 130 of its affiliated organizdtions. The reason for the big push next week is that the nation faces the worst traffic jam in its history over the three-day Fourth of July weekend. The council is sending out warnings that it will be more hazardous than the last heavy traffic year in 1941. “Be alive on the fifth.” This ap-| peal will go out over the wires to every corner of the country in the Woman Cit 's dist next five days as a grim reminder that 8300 persons were killed in July | traffic in the nation last year. “This year we have more danger 1 A 0 ear { ous factors . .. a three-day holid increased mileage and Tn, Two more traffic deaths of Inmore cars on the highways,” ‘the | dianapolis residents were recorded national council's bulletin stated. | today. “It adds up to a big celebration| The city's 51st fatality was Mrs. . a big pile-up of dead and iu. | Augusta Pyles, 37, of 5121; E. | jured unless we make it our busi-| Washington st, who died at City ness to do something about it. We | | hsopital this morning after she was can do something about it because | Struck Tuesday by a truck at East [the tragedies result from things we|and Washington sts. can control , . , haste, selfishness| Fatally injured last night in a and the desire to show off. Take it tWo-car-and-truck crash on U. 8. | easy on the Fourth.” 3 near Columbus, Ind, Odes A. Unless Hoosier drivers “do some- | Spears, 28, of 2318 Brookside ave. thing about it,” 15 to 20 persons will | |died in: the Bartholomew county be killed in Indiana next week-end |Dospital. be injured,| The automobile which Mr. Spears was driving struck a tractor trailer |and skidded into another car. Oc|cupants of the other vehicles were uninjured. Inquest Under Way Meanwhile, a coroner's inquest | was being made to determine the exact cause of Mrs. Pyle's death, since she was reported only slightly injured when taken to City hospital Tued lay night. At the time, hospital physicians found only a broken- ankle. There were no other apparent injuries,

hospital attaches said, and the | ENGINES PIPE DOWN victim's condition was reported fair.

CHICAGO, June 28 (U, P).— The Northwestern railroad . agreed today to quiet its locomotives so that music lovers can enjoy summer concerts of the Ravinia Festival association on Chicago's

Hospital attaches were unable to explain the cause of death, but said apparently there were intérnal injuries which physicians did not { discover.

After the presidential nomination | was made, the delegates began i) sidering candidates for vice president to complete the national ticket more than a year ahead of the two major political parties, The party, only minor party rep-

resented on every presidential ballot |

since 1920, met in Billy Sunday religious tabernacle on the third and final day of its national convention. The Prohibitionists hoped to start a campaign for the greatest popular

~ vote they have received in 27 years.

Times Index

Amusements .. 5 ; Indiana Saga. 8 Eddei Ash, ww 6, In Indpls.... . 3 Books ........ 14 | Inside Indpls. 7

Carnival .... “7|Ruth Mitlett.. 7

Hollywood"... 3 Women's News 9

poy Hooter... 8 World Again, 8

The accident happened in rush {hour traffic. Tuesday. Mrs. Pyles | = Was crossing East st. at the inter-

2d Man Decides fo i,m, "pies Wear Something Jemes ager, 3 of 914 English 'Cool—Nothing

north shore,

Mr, Yoder was not arrested nor charged with any traffic ‘violation in the accident.

The weather's not been Tealy)

summery, but-— For the second consecutive day 'Mass Escape Thwarted police have had to seek the owner! At Kansas Prison

of clothing left in public spots. Last night police found a 45- LANSING, Kas., June 28 (U. P).

derwear wandering at Pine and disclosed that plans for a mass es-

The man said they were his but|night of July 4—had been thwarted couldn't explain how they got| A 60-foot-long tunnel leadin there, He sald his wallet contain-|from the power house was discoving $66 still was missing. ered last night. The night before police found| Two men were caught in the tunmen’s clothing on the balcony of | nel. Monument Circle. They traced the. and an investigation launched imowner to his home where they

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year-old man clad only in his un-|—Warden Robert Hudspeth today|

Michigan sts. Other officers had|cape of prisoners at the Kansas found outer garments a mile away. | state penientiary here—set for the

They were placed in solitary Dr. John Lewis, 73-year-old Welsh-

The steel cutbacks will force {early curtailment in operations of

| fabricating and finishing plants. |

That Man Casts

Cloud on Picnics LOCAL TEMPERATURES

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apolis and vicinity. pected tomorrow.

torists reported visibility at than 50 yards. ‘Bandits Get $126,500; ‘Bind, Gag Victims ALLENTOWN, Pa. P.).—Four couples were robbed of $25,000 in jewels, $1500 in cash and | negotiable bonds’ whose value was | estimated unofficially at more than $100,000 in an armed holdup by four bandits reported to the police last night, Victims were Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Weiner, their daughter, Claire, and her escort, Harry Pfingstel; Mr. and Mrs. Harry Neff and Mr, and Mrs. Irvin Salitsky, all of Allentown. “The theft took place at Mr. Weiner's home after he and his wife, the s and the Salitskys were forced the duplex residence at gunt, bound with bed sheets and then gagged with neckties.

or Gets Arson Term MILWAUKEE, June 28 (U. P.).—

born Presbyterian minister convict-

mediately to determine the identity ed of burning his church, today found him in bed. He, «also, could | of other prisoners who had worked | was Pininced to serve one to five give no reason for his separation on the tunnel, described as a ge years at al :

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Republic, also were cutting down!

If you're hoping for a bright sun tioning,” for a week-end picnic you'll be dis-|confident Mr. Kelso. the weatherman said

Overcast skies, humid and warmer, was the official forecast for Indian-

In other parts of the state, widely scattered thundershowers wcre ex-

A heavy fog blanketed most of|

the state early today and some moless

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When world war II ended, 57-year-old Howard Farrar Kelso wanted {to re-establish the air-conditioning business he had junked to go into | war work. But electric motors to drive his attic fans were not available. Calling upon his 30 years’ experi- | noo" water flows into rotating ence in the plumbing-supply busi- | ompers separated by retractible ness during which he had secured | |dams working against springs. The patents on a number of water-con- | water goes in, the motor begins to trol devices, Mr. Kelso decided to| click as the pressure builds up in build a motor to rotate the fabs!egey chamber, the power wheel rethat would operate noiselessly ON y,ives and the used water jets out water from an ordinary faucets of an exhaust. He knew that pressures of water vary over the city and that they change greatly at different times of | the day. Thereforé, he had to stay away from the ordinary method of an injection-type engine, commonly known as the turbine principle, because that principle depends on velocity of injection. “What I hit on is so big, that I have forgotten all about air-condi-said sandy-haired,

|which I call a rotary power unit, {can double the power resources of | |this nation by the increase it prom(coal, oil, gasoline, etc.” Kelso. The theory of the circular piston

self- an engineering at Rice in-

Mr. Kelso's engine operates on a |power unit. Mr. Cameron believes circular piston arrangement rather it still has plenty of “bugs.” than the conventional up-down pis-| “However, as far as I know, the ton. It can be, the inventor cldims, method Mr, Kelso has devised of | applied either to the use of wales, injecting fuel into the engine is steam, compressed air or gasoline, new, and it is impossible to tell Just | through common internal combus- | how important his idea is until it | tion methods. | has been thoroughly tested,” said The motor is simple in _appear- | | Mr. Cameron.

Washingfon Calling— Confusion Reigns at Paris Over Marshall Aid Plan

WASHINGTON, June 28.—Paris conference gropes in cloud of confusion generated here, No one is sure what the Marshall aid-to-Europe plan means. Truman cabinet

members themselves seem to disagree. ‘Europe thinks “support,” as Mr. Marshall used it, means financial aid. British, French, Russians are draws ing up budget of their needs to submit to us. And while Mr. Marshall talked of reviving world economy and of our friendly aid and support, unofficial state department estimate put cost of European Teconstruetion at $15 to $20 billion. But this week, as conference was convening, Treasury Secretary Snyderissued statement seeming to say there'd be no American money forthcoming. Mr. Marshall had told Europe to, plan own aid, he said, not tell us what it needed, A few hours later, Mr. Snyder issued new statement denying there 1 was any disagreement between him and Secretary Marshall, : Still later in day, President Truman said he was in agreement with both Jsrearies

IN PARIS, consternation and alarm WAS quieted when “a care (Continued o on fut in n

“The principle of my ; motor, |

isn’t new. So far though, it hasn't | been applied altogether successfully. | Hugh S. Cameron, a professor in|

stitute, examined Mr. Kelso's rotary |

| They were Hound intact

At Son's Wedding

ST. JOSEPH, Mich., June 28 (U. P.).—A C. I. O. union planned to picket Senator Robert Taft (R. O.), when he attends his son's wedding today at a local church, despite | police threats that they would ar{rest every picket who appeared. The co-author of the Taft-Hartley labor law was scheduled to attend | the wedding of his son, Lloyd B., to Virginia Stone of St. Joseph at |the First Congregational church at

ises in efficiency im use of fuels 4 p. m. said Mr. |

Gordon Colwell, chairman of the | executive board of the United Elec{trical Workers Local 931, said the union would call on United Auto Workers locals for help if it were | needed. { Sheriff to Help Police Chief Thomas Gillespie threatened to arrest pickets under a | Michigan law which forbids disturb|ing the peace near a place of worship. Berrien County Sheriff Edwin Kubath said he would assign deputies to support local officers. Despite police warnings, members of the local spent the night painting signs reading: “Taft-Hartley Slave Bill.” “Public Enemy Number One.” “Repeal Taft-Hartley Bill.” The marriage of young Taft to Miss Stone culminates a college romance at the University of Michigan, where the groom did graduate work after being graguated from Yale in 1043.

Honesty Is s Policy, And Practice,

Of Prohibitionists

CI to Picket Taft... duty until 11 p. m.

The auxiliary police group is m-~ posed of volunteers who have some police powers when on duty. They work under the direction of the In. dianapolis police department. The group was formed during the war as part of the civilian defense program, but never has been disbanded. The auxiliary policemen were. identified as Lawrence Connolly of 306 N. Randolph st. an auxiliary captain; Wilbur. Anderson of 422 N. Chester st. a leutenant, and John F. Sims of 31 N. Jefferson ave., a corporal «in the organization. Police records showed they were at the Melody Manor Teen Canteen Ww Brookside park. At 11:40 p. m. the three men arrested six teen-age youths whom they said were drinking beer in . an automobile at 16th and Mont

calm sts. Mr: Connolly, the auxiliary captain, said he and the other two men were driving through Ellenberger park on their way home from an Irvington restaurant when they heard splashing in the. pool.

car, one of the youths nude. . When the youths attempted to. escape, after a. shouted comms] to halt, Mr. Connolly said, and Mr. Anderson fired each Into the air, The halted their car. Questioned by policemen, the boys trying tar take alate pool.

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port ‘which said ered \ two men had taken six other youths into “custody” at. and calm sts. on the t side. He {they picked up the youths at 16th ‘st. and Dearborn ve: .

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WINONA LAKE, Ind, June 28 (U.P) ~Officers of the Prohibition party were convinced today that all the delegates to the national presidential nominating Sogvention are honest.

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