Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 August 1947 — Page 2
enditure : Of $15 Million Provided
Total to Exceed Current Year Outlay
A civil city tax rate of $1.80 for 1048 was fixed in the office of City Controller Ceril 8. Ober yesterday The rate is 235 cents lower than the current civil city rate of $2.035 but projects an experiditure of $15.500,000. The expenditure for the current year was $13,750,000 Tax experts explained the phenomenon of a lower rate for next year with a higher expenditure as follows: yo. ONE--Increased property valuation which vields more tax revenue than last year's valuation on which the current rate 15 based, £1 Million Accumulated
TWO--The” accumulation of $I million by the Indianapolis redevelopment commission in its shun
clearance program. This sum cannot be spent this year because of legal obstructions, THREE ~ Boosting of anticipated revenues troller's estimate. Tax experts said the actual increase in expenditures next Year over Lhe current year is about $134,000 for usual municipal operations Confirmed at Meeting The establishment of the $1.80 rate had been predicted. It was confirmed at a meeting in the eontroller's office between Mr. Ober, Council President John A. Schumacher and tax representatives Carl Dortch of the Indianapolis chamber of commerce and Walter Horn of the Indiana Taxpayers’ association, Councilmen will convene Monday night to vote formal approval of the budget and the new rate. The budget will then be sent to the!
Russians to Free 361s Sunday | -
SEOUL, Korea, 28 U.P)" ~The U., 8 army announced to-
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to free tomorrow the three American soldiers they seized on Aug. 12. The G.1.'s will be released at yon. yon-Ni, the town on the border he tween the Soviet and American occupation zones where they were picked up, the announcement said. The Soviet promise to turn the| soldiers over Lo the Americans was! made by a representative of the Boviet command at Pyongyang to the U. 8. Uaison officer there, Lt Cal. Ernest McLish, An American officer and interpreter from the seventh infantry division will accept the release of | the men, as requested by the Rus-! slans, The soldiers were picked up while
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Time' “Question Ruled
Out for Kokomo Voters "KOKOMO, Ind., Aug. 23 (U. P.) —~ ¢ Referendums in regular elections on the daylight vs. stapdard time question were ruled .out today by Attorney General Cleon Foust of a Indiana in an unofcial opinion to Kokomo city officials. Mr. Poust said that under Indiana law such a referendum could invalidate the entire election in a
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home day that the Russians had promised Stampeded.
Petkov Protest Sent to Moscow
structed U B. Smith in Moscow to protest di- qrome, Cheshire, Three others were midnight, the sheriff said. rectly to the Soviet foreign office ‘reported killed. aginst the dealh sentence fmposed | on a Bulgarian anti - Communist caster bomber, one of the wartime then shot and decapitatéd.his sis- gay}
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Cries of a Mystery ‘Critter’ Again Rouse Farmers
Cattle Barns Are Guarded in Nashville Section;
Woman Tells of Screams Near Henhouse
Times Stale Service NASHVILLE, Ind, Aug. 23 that “wild critter” again! * Another flareup of a TOoAMINg wild animal in the vicinity of Belmont, Ind. southwest of Nashville,
It's
as put the nerves of farmers and)
housewives. on edge. This time reports of blood cur{ling screams and howls of the critter have been added, and several nights of watching of cattle Varia has robbed farmers of their
Hunting Dogs Hurt Reports have also been given of favorite hunting ountered the critter injured. Cattle
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WASHINGTON, Aug. 23 (U. PO The 8. Ambassador Walter
eader,
Previous U, 8 protests over the its use in the British night raids on tried to boss him and he “got mad.” trial of the anti-Communist leader, Germany,
Nikola Petkov, t member of the allied control] {United Kingdom's greatest design- ‘a nervous breakdown.
were made to the|
nd British protests on the grounds hat the trial and sentencing of
Petkov were purely internal Bulga-
rian matter He said there were 10 aE for the allied control
ommission Lo act
'ONGRESSMAN IS DEAD COTUIT, Mass, Aug. 23 (U Rep. Charles L. Gifford, 76, t his home today
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commander Jeths, the auxiliary.
Mrs. Pearl Powell of Road 46, reported that she was terrified by screams near her henhouse. The critter was described as being “three feet high, long bodied, long legged and had a big bushy tail” Huge Losses Cited Several township’ trustees, who have paid out large sums for animals and stock, previously supposed to have been killed by dogs of the township, now believe the critter may have been responsible for the loss of the farm animals, Grover G. Brown, Brown county superintendent of schools, has reported the bones of deer have been
seen in various parts of the county, and believes the roaming critter i may have been responsible.
Repaid Dead in Crash JAONDON, Aug. 23 (U. P.).—Roy Pion chief designer and di{rector of Avro & Co., was reported ‘killed today in a test flight crash
state department today in- of a new‘ Tudor II, a British com- ‘He was rushed to Good Samaritan |
mercial plane, at Woodford air-
Mr, Chadwick designed the Lan-
'workhorses noted particularly for
He was regarded as one of the
of a telephone line. commission in Bulgaria. Petkov ers of multi-motored planes, ling occurred- at the home of Mr. been operating 50 years. The captured troops were Thomas WAS convicted of treason. The. piane oa reported Yeicre and Mrs. Charles Bateman, the, Included among its larger cusF. Pugsley of Washington, Pfe.| The Russian authority in Bul: off when it suddenly lost Reig victims, near Princeton, Ind. tomers are L. 8. Ayres & Co., Real John D. Nopfe of Washington and garia, Li. Cen. Alexander Chere- according to withesses, an © Turpin readily admitted the| Silk Hosiery Mills, Sears Roebuck
had rejected the American PIOt tried to ease It down to & ¢hootings. He was being held for, & Co, American Brakeblok Co., P.
landing.
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convention after electing Golob, Hibbing, Minn, as and Mrs. Josephine Chicago, as commander of
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Dexter Chats £3 bh 2 No Fh; JFrranchs § " i ’ n eh, 20) ! p . k dume on other topics.” " ‘ Kaihr iam poorer Riley Ho Jesse Hobson, French Lick, Frances E 4 John Bradley Miller, 48 N Aud boy Kath Roberts, French Lick n Melville Weeiner, 53 Downe Pa wy M Hubble, In Indianapolis; Belly Jane Herb D Ba 15¢ Li HA apolis oa 1 Suspects Held in Death Anne A Camphel i" 1108 Mu akhingum, Edward Kassig Woodside, NY. Elizof 2 RB h mer Pa 10 Kinnear) Josephine B 0 beth M phy. 140 Holt rd v or. 506 N. Jeffersor arry reugman ew York ritis Sergeants Habe 1 nde] Brearce, og clos M, Sippel oe Beil ou 5 t Ada Eileen Moore, 4642 Evans? to Lee, ooresville, olse lott, 233 JERUSALEM, Aug. 23 (U. P) Gerald VanScovee, 902 8. Maine ®Craw- 8. Audubon rd The Palestine government an- _fordsville, M Bender, Ft, Wayn Eh Muare Spriggville; Myrtle Cain Kenn 46 8. Webster, Helen nounced today’the arrest of a num-, Dewe) Clatibe. yoshi, Westport! Alta J. OMber of Jews believed implicated in Wile 1843 Bresdway, Wael pam 3 Rati New Augusta; Wand Pie si, Mooresville anda the hanging of two British Ser- Jesse Howard Allard 148 W. Migh, Lim, Long, 1415 N. Delawa geants O Mary Blirabeil Yates, 915 Francisco, Jopebhh H, aes” pS Tn; Rnhiye. 4.4 los Angele Ca od ama : . j oe \ Fred Scheurer. 124 Troy, Minnie VonderInspector general of police and Maity Ernest Gerba nr Piaios 198 pheide. 1238 Con ress. prisons W.- N. Gray told a press Henry Lewis Benson, 8323 W. New York YoPAIn, 508 Knox: Mary Marshall } b "al NP 1837, Central conference the arrests had resulted ron idmy, i ale is Wirey Leonard Suess, 1027 N. Kealing: Constance Yr h hi dk ess, 814 N. Jefferson rom Savenatve police investigation, nol dlsuapolls, Britton. 3313 Boulevard omen aS 1138 N, Hlinois; Clara e sergeants we : on, 1 eleh, 11 y 3 L : re found Mi garel Ade line Wilson, 76 8. Jefferson, yy th SHAE. 22 N. Delaware ANgINg to trees recently. ‘They Toe Wiliam pid wx 210% 8 Tinos. Lola Norma Jewell, 3012 Alice. had been seized and killed as host- ‘Mae Li Washinglon "| BIRTHS pm . Walter M En och, 63 4 N . Qladsione; ar ages by Irgun Zval Leumi, tha K Gentry, 1536 Woodlawn Girls —— p— [Dot { N wits, 3308 Graceland, Madge ALM Francis Richard, Mary Pulk; Floyd, | cGaughey abel Thom: n ROMANIA RATIFIES 1 PEACE Charles Jonahipeh, 1709 8 Tover; Betly drews mpron; John, ‘Anna MednEBawards, 17 E. Raymon . At Coleman -Mank BUCHAREST, Aug. 28 (U. P)- y, filam Jones. 1139 8. West; Laura Dunn, | and Henry Ileene AlaSnuth, feud Parliament unanimously ratified “a l. Monrovia, N.. alisaouis: Mars At Methodist William, Tda Smith: Howmnnks elley i » Ar Ary Jack the Romanian peace treaty today, | © Elisabeth Gifford, 1330 Lafayette Rev, Vannes, rn Denial, Lovise A the third anniversary of the coun W!lAm Moran, 421 N Béville, Mary Lou- Ion, Beatrice Currie; William, Phuine u se Norton, 944 N. 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| Resolution Down | be ready for four months. ! A resolution indorsing Henry Wallace as the 1948 presidential! ¢andidate and calling on the C, 1.! 0. to form a third party, if necessary, to elect him, was defeated to- thinks radar is not ihe answer, day in a stormy session of the C. doesn't know what is. I. O. state convention here. ° #8 a The resolution, specifically urging ry yz Truman and Forrestal Democratic standard bearer, stipu- QUIET BOOM may be launched lated that in the event he was soon for James Forrestal for secignored by the party, that the C"I.| ond place on Democratic ticket. O. “take the initiative” in forming New secretary of national dea “coalition of labor, small business fe; is President Truman's permen, farmers and liberals in general” to form a third party. After a lengthy debate, the resolution was sent back to the resoluSion mh commities bY » sanding vole Yt the decision has been made C. 1. O. President James McEwan, to put easterner on ticket, this said “it might be re-written and would explain Democratic plans presénted again,” although union for a western convention, also leaders said it had “in effect, been the anxiety for western committee killed.” chairman—Clint Anderson, Charges «Unholy Alliance’ 4 un # The resolution charged that an MR ANDERSON'S decision on “unholy alliance of reactionary Re- leaving his cabinet post for the publicans and reactionary Demo- '0p political job will be made by crats” had “disregarded the wel- his doctor. If he's given the go sigfare of the common man.” nal, agriculture post may be taken It cited passage of the Taft. Over by Roy Thompson, president | Hartley act and the “lack” of bene- of the federal farm bank In ficial legislation by congress and, New Orleans, former head of “indorsement by President man” of policies of the G. legislators. It said Mr. Wallace would bring - Special Elections a “return to the policies of Franklin® ,.. [ore ike vice tory for
D. Roosevelt.” » CANS two congressional “Mr. Taft will be the next presi- Republicans in wo cong 1
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sive anti- arine program, trying to prove what we have, trying to find something new. It
| sonal choice, insiders say. Mr. Forrestal is a New Yorker, might carry considerable weight in Tom Dewey's home state.
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,,| elections just ahead — in 11th dent unless we get behind this") Michigan district of late Fred said Al Smith, a delegate ‘from Bradley, next Tuesday, and eighth Evansville. : Pennsylvania district of late James Robb, Indianapolis, a steel Charles Gerlach, where election unjon official, said adoption of the will be held Sept. 9.
pro-Wallace resolution would be a “grave mistake” and termed it “premature.” He said it should be referred 10 the the national C, 1. O,
Clavor W. M. Wheeler Triple . Slayer Heads Paper Firm
. 1 Kills Self i n Jail | Directors of the Paper Package
Co., 802.8. Delaware st., a subsidiary : of Eli Lilly Co., have named W. M. Butts Head Against Cell Bars
Both districté went Democratic in New Deal days, but were won | back by G. O. P, Labor 1s main’ is issue in , both
Wheeler Jr. as board president. Raymond PF.
Stilz will conVINCENNES, Ind, .Aug. 23 (U.! tinue as general www P,). =~ ROy Turpin, 46, confessed’ manager. triple slayer, died early today of Other directors : . : | thesides Mr.
injuries received when he battered his head against the bars of his jail cell, Sheriff Francis Thomas said.
Mr. Thomas said a turnkey found Turpin unconscious late last night.
¥ Wheeler and Mr.
Wheeler hospital and died sometime after gi, incluge Eli Lilly, E. Beck, N. Turpin went beserk Aug. 4, shot gy Noyes, Mart the farm couple he lived with and |, McManus an Eveleigh, § vice presi-
Mr.
ter, Nora. He told police his sister g)5o
dent.
Mr. Stils The firm employs 450 persons to
A burly 200-pound mechanic,
Turpin had recently recovered from manufacture
set-up paper boxes The shoot- and folding cartons. The firm has
grand jury action and was brought | R. Mallory -& Co., Inc., United Airhere from the Princeton jail for lines and Owens-Illinois Glass Co. ‘safekeeping.” A Sheriff Thomas said that during Real Estate Brokerage his confinement here, Turpin went
on several hunger strikes, slit his Fees Investigated throat and wrists with the Yagged| WASHINGTON, Aug. 23 (U. P.). edge of a tin cup, flung himself off | —A federal grand jury investigation his cot, and batted his head against of real estate brokerage fees. now the cell bars in suicide attempts. taking on natjonwide proportions, “He's been a problem prisoner,” was described today by a justice desaid Mr. Thomas, . partment official as “exploratory.” Last night when guards thought He said it was not known- vet {he was asleep, Turpin succeeded in whether evidence - would be de-
{knocking himself unconscious. Doc- veloped showing violation of the tors sald he died of a blood clot. anti-trust laws. nr ge —— The inquiry was ordered by At-
torney General Tom C. Clark, it was learned, after real estate agencies and associations gave but little help to attorneys studying the methods |by which brokerage fees in the [realty field are eftablished.
Escape . With $40,000 In Windsor Bank Holdup
~. New British Mine = Blast Kills 19
ANNFIELD PLAIN, England, Aug 23 (U. P).—A midnight explosion deep underground in the Morrison ot | Ives - : north mine killed 18 coal miners to- WINDSOR, Onno, Aug. 23 (U day and raised to 123 thé one-week P.).—~Police made 3 Ogg oe Hose death’ toll in the north ‘England Search. today for two bandits who coal fields. threatened customers and employees Five men were hospitalized with ©f & Royal Bank of Canada with severe burns. Only 24 men were in ® pistol and submachine gun and the ‘mine when the blast occurred. ®Scaped with $40,000. The last of the 19 bodies was re-| The robbers were believed to be moved from the mine about noon. Di A Yat up Just 104 mi » avin isi a weeg 4go miners pes sor, who escaped recently from the
ished in an explosion at White- Thei haven, about 85 miles southwest of Kingston penitentiary. elr gethere. away car was found abandoned an {hour after the holdup on Windsor's
Near 21-Year-Old Blaze | The explosion occurred 600 feet 8st side, : from the main shaft in a tunnel paralleling sealed-off workings in Helen Hayes Slips which an underground fire has been ND Ut eryre In Shower, Hurt Youthful couples in evening dress| NEW YORK, Aug. 23 (U. P).— who had been attending a dance Actress Helen Hayes expected to reniingled around the pithead with turn to her show, “Happy Birthday” the poorly garbed miners’ fanfilies today and her husband, Charles while search parties brought the MacArthur, expected to do some(bodies to the surface on stretchers, thing about that darn shower. The Morrison north mine is one of | Miss Hayes slipped and fell ig the the videst and largest workings in shower yesterday, Her doctor took the Durham coal fleld. {10 stitches in her right palm and arm and ordered her to bed, Last night's performance of her, show Was cancelled,
Hopes Buyers | Strike
Follows Price Probe Last year, her playwright husband WASHINGTON, Aug. 23 (U. P). {fell in the same shower. He suffered
Navy says we're pushing inten- '
Tru-| decontrol board here, It's a good |
| battles. In Pennsylvania district all labor groups are fighting for the Democratic candidate, Philip Storch, a newspaperman. But this is the home territory of high-tariff Joe Grundy. A legless world war II veteran probably will win Michigan seat for G.-O'P : Two other special elebtions may be held—one for Ohio seat
' of Robert FP. Jones, named to
the federal communicatio mission, and the other for
cominois
| seat vacated by Evan Howell
when he moved to the U. 8. claims court. Battles are on for former
| Mansfleld and Thomason con-
gressional seats they're strictly intra-Democratic,
Senator Bilbo's senate seat will | | 500. Rep. William M. |
be filled in the November Mississippl election. Colmer is sure to run. Paul
Spearman, who has been prac- | | ticing
law likely to. + REAR ADM. Ross T. Mcintyre, retired, President Roosevelt's personal physician, is in line to head American Red Cross, insiders say,
in Washington, is
~ ” Speed Too Early INSIDE STORY on the navy's breaking air-speed record. It wasn't scheduled until next | week, Wednesday's show was to be a dress rehearsal. But Cmdr. | Turner Caldwell, pilot of new Skystreak, outfoxed everyone by grabbing record ahead of time. Navy in Washington was caught flat-footed, didn't have, appropriate fanfare reagy. u - »
Lawsuits Feared WEATHER MEN are backing off—fast—from artificial rain experiments. Lawyers tell them | they'll probably be liable for civil | damages if they start interfering with weather, hitherto clas- | sified as “act of God.” | For instance: New York Yankees might be able to collect $100,000 or more if team could prove scientists produced rain on a Sunday nature had scheduled | for clear, and thus spoiled & | double-header. Likewise a farmer might collect for loss of crops if weather man gave him foo much rain or not enough. General Electric, government the experiments, is even more worried than army. G. E. attorneys take ‘grave view"'-report already they've been threatened with damage suits where citizens suspect they had hand in adverse weather, Army’s solution: To classify weather experiment
which has
all
information as “confidential” and |
“secret.” '
| » » » ‘Political Warchests LOOK FOR spending by Dem- | ocratic and RepublicAn national | committees to start up soon. In March, April, and May, Democrats collected $354,713 and
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—-Senator John J. Sparkman D.| a broken rib, Ala), expressed hope today that congress 5000 cromcouney in- [THE WISE BUYER “i prices will in- or crease buyer resistance. SHOPS AT He sald one of the chief alms the forthcoming inquiry should
to instruct housewives to delay
_A Joint senate-house economic committee will launch three si-
| expenditures Melided = several big clerk, into a back room at the point
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spent $204,508, leaving bank balance of $150,205, . “Chip” Robert of Atlanta, Shor and James H. R. Cromwell each contributed $250. Big money came from Jefferson and Jackson day dinners: $25,000 from District of Columbia, $7500 from New Mexico, $25,000 from Louisiana, $20,250 from Boston, $15,248 from North Carolina. January through May, the G. O. P. national committee got contributions of $138,266, made of. $287,420. Contributors state central committees: Wyoming $1000; North Dakota $1700; South Dakota $500; Indiana
| Republjcan Finance Committee for Metropolitan New York, $42,-
No Fear on. Tungsten UNCLE SAM doesn't need to depend on foreign sources for jet propulsion any more. In past, only tungsten steel would withstand high tempertures required for jet engines. We haven't much tungsten. China has most of it, and she's been sending practically all to Russia to pay for munitions bought when Nationalists and Communists were | friendly. The small amounts we have been getting from China end Jan. 31 when a seven-year contract expires. Bat-our stockpilers aren't worried. They've discovered molybdenum steel will serve as well And Colorado produces 90 per cent of world’s molybdenum. | Moreover, we've learned how to recover it as by-product of copper.
” » ” Bankers Face Trial GOVERNMENT will get down to bedrock in fight against monopolistic practices when it files long - expected - anti - trust suit against bankers, particularly New York investment bankers. Complaint was ready about two months ago, was approved on high levels. But it still hasn't been filed. Reason given is appointment of new head of anti-trust division, preparation of brief, Filing is expected Meanwhile, the justice department is considering swift move in another monopoly suit, its antitrust case against western ‘railroads. Recent advertisement by Robert Young, head of Chespeake & Ohio, accused railroads of slow-
ing down freight schedules, mak- | ing freight car shortage worse. |!
Result: Wheat and potatoes rot-
ting in fields while world hungers. ||
Justice department made similar charges in western suit, but if it allows slow court procedure to take its course, final decision won't come for years.
Nebraska court to issue immediate injunction to permit speeding up of freight schedules, save food.
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Women Employes Tied to Chair
JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind, Aug. 23
(U. P)~Two short and slender,
“untidy” men tied a woman clerk to & chair in the back room of a Jewelry store yesterday, scooped up some $10,000 in cash and Jewelry and escaped. Jeffersonville city police sent out a three-state alarm for the two men
‘who. entered the Jewel Box store ‘in the downtown business district
and forced Mrs. Marie Pecar, the
of a gun, They tied her to a chair with a piece of clothesline. ‘Give Us 5 Minutes’ “Just give us five minutes,” Mrs. Pecar said they told her. “You won't be hurt.” The loss was estimatéd at between $2000 and- $3000 in cash and $6000 in diamond rings And watches. Mrs. Pecar told police she had no difficulty in untying her bonds, but by the time she got to the front part of the store, the men had left, Says Clerk Nervous
Police said the clerk was in a “high state of nervousness” and that she gave several contradicting descriptibns of the men. One of the men was wearing his shirt tail on the outside of his belt, Mrs. Pecar said. A police alarm was spread through southern Indiana, Kentucky and Ohio.
Hunt for Missing Ohio Baby Widens
WALDO, O., Aug. 23 (U. P).— Police in midwestern states were |on the lookout today for blond, blueeyed Carolyn Jeanette Peterson, 20-month-old girl believed to have been kidnaped. Sheriff Leroy Retterer said he believed some childless couple, ate tracted by the child's beauty, may
.have kidnaped her. &
Charles Peterson, the girl's father, said he- would not prosecute the kidnapers if they would return Carolyn. A radio appeal was sent out yesterday after deputies, neighbors, and
volunteers had conducted a fruit
less 48-hour search of the area.
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