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« __ THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

~ Pay Hike Eases Teacher Shortag

New Term to Begin Next Tuesday i in Most |

Of Indiana’

First Class of ‘War Babies’ Expected To Cause Sharp Rise in Enrollment

By UNITED PRESS Indiana's teacher problem has eased considerably in the past year,

the state department of public instruction sald today. state superintendent, this year to meet the ever-increasing school enrollments, the shortage of qualified teachers during the war years as “critical.” The easing of the teacher problem, Mr. Watt said, was mostly due schedule, ~~

Ben Walt,

increased pay passed bv the 1947 general assembly, There was no lowering of qualification standards for Hoosler teachers, he added. Most of Indiana's public schools are scheduled to open for. the fall semester Sept. 2-the “day after Labor day. Mr. Watt said preparations have been made for receiving approximately 156,00 high school students and some 475000 grade school pupils in the state's public schools.

to the

Enrollment Jump Seen He attributed a sharp rise in the anticipated grade school enrollment to coming-of-school-age of Hoosier “war bables.” “Every war brings an increase in the number of births," Mr. Watt explained. “It's time for those born at the beginning of world war II to start to school.” In the nation at large, salaries and in some cases, qualifications for Instructors will save most communities from the severe teacher shortages which educators expected this fall, a survey showed today, A ‘United Press survey

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sald more teachers are available He described

that the scarcity of teaching personnel which plagued the nation’s schools during the war and immediately after has eased “materially, despite the fact that school enrollment is ‘booming. The greatest Improvement has! been in high schdols. Grade school teachers still are scarce in many, areas. Many of the shortages are in rural’ areas, where salaries are low and working conditions inferior,

Deadlock Persists

In Greek Crisis ATHENS, Aug. 27 (U. P) ~The Greek cabinet crisis today appeared no nearer. solution

CARLOADS OF FUN— Catlin and Wikon fetes

fair opening Friday.

Trectly under a bridge which carries

x rs have oulled i into the fair

grounds preparatory to unloading and setting up the Midway in time for the state

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King Paul was reported strongly considering calling a council of the crown in an effort to break the deadlock, Premier Designate Constantin Tsaldaris, ‘apparently giving up his efforts to form the kind of coalition

government acceptable to the United States, was attempting to make up policemen a merry chase through|year-old- girl,

a cabinet exclusively of Populist the wooded countryside for six hours soon, led the mass “break.” It was (Royalist) party members vesterday after bolting from the the first time in 18 months that the It was doubted that such a Oklahom state training school. honor system at the school had been cabinet could win parliamentary Tt el a day for winded, violated, Mrs, Fuller said. approval ~ MRhway _patrolmen

and sheriff's officers to run them down

Girls Escape, Lead Police Merry Chase.) v5 he saorehension of the

TECUMSEH, Okla., Aug. 7 (U, P.). seventh was believed near, Seven barefoot teen-age girls clad

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The seven girls had been placed]

in what Mrs, Fuller called the

“mediation ward” after they staged ia riot and threatened to kill a ma-

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BLOOMINGTON MAN HURT Times State Service

BLOOMINGTON, Ind, Aug. 27. —James Tabor, 57, is under treatment at the Bloomington hospital

for leg Injuries received when a | slab of stone fell on him at the

Mrs. M. E. Fuller, superintendent | only in nightgowns or panties, led at the school, said a’tall, blond 18-| eligible for release!

Walker Brothers Stone Co.

,ia utility man for a soap works,

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, Chicago Hurts Madman-Slayer Parts of Body Found In Slums Along River

killer, believed to be a madman, | was hunted by police today after portions of a man's body were found along the Chicago river in the slum and industrial Goose island area,” | The victim, whose body apparently was cut up with a power saw, was ‘not identified. Police «aid he apparently was a laborer about 45 or 50 asithe hands were rough and calloused. The body segments were found] yesterday. Clifford Mankiewicz, 21,

found a newspaper-wrapped packlage lying on a wharf adjoining the factory. The wharf is almost di-

North ave., a main-traveled thorloughfare, across a branch of the river, > | The package contained two feet, {severed at the ankles, a lower left larm and hand, and a section of 'left thigh. On the opposite side |of the river police found a brown paper bag containing the calves of two legs and the lower right arm and hand. Authorities dragged the river branch today for the torso, head land remainder of the body. The |fingerprints were sent to the FBI at Washington.

French Accept Plans

| LONDON, Aug. 27 (U. P.).— |Prance was understood = today to ‘have agreed at the London conference on the German industrial level not to oppose Anglo-American olans to raise production in their occupation zones so long as materials needed by French industry were not diverted to German fac-

WEDNESDAY, AUG. 27, 147

2-Nation Romance Ends In Violent Death at Muncie

English Woman, Who Loved Father, Of 3 Children, Dies Under Train

Ts State Service A triangular

MUNCIE, Irfd., Aug. 27.— romance of two nations was

CHICAGO, Aug. 27 (U. P).~A| shattered today with self- imposed death of an attractive 27-year-old sweetheart.

English woman who could not marry her Mrs. Catherine Smith Carroll, London, England, was found yesterday along the New York Central tracks here, Her mangled body ay fiear. the Country club crossing, a lover's lane. Questioned, but not held in her] death, was David Kreig, 30, Macy, Work and came to Muncie. Ind. He admitted being with her)

Shoruy before she died, |manded he return to Mexico or she Kreig, the father of three yoy) take her life. Shortly afterchildren, told police that his wife ward she arrived here, would not grant him a divorce after Mrs, Carroll registered at a local be became interested in Mrs, Car - [hotel under the name of Miss Craw=ford. Letters found in the dead The romance ended abruptly woman's purse exonerated Kreig in| with the death of Mrs. Carroll, her death. 'One was addressed to/Monday night the couple had dine him, a second to her parents and a ner together and took a stroll. third to the police. Kreig told police that Mrs. Care “I, Kay Carroll, am taking my roll said she “was going to walk own life,” the note from the brown. on further.” He returned to his haired victim to police read. “No home. one knows of my intentions or they Er eT would try to stop me.” ‘South Bend Plane

Deputy Coroner ‘Richard, Me- \/j Donald said he would return an| ictims Recuperate | NILES, Mich,, Aug. 27 (U. P.).~

official verdict of suicide, {Two South Bend residents were ree

Meanwhile, police are avaiuing| reply to a cable to her parents, cuperating from injuries in a hose Mr. and Mrs. James Smith, London. pital here today sustained when Disposition of the body will depend when their plane crashed in a field on their answer. [near here yesterday. Nothing is known by local] State police said Harold Baker, authorities of Mrs. Carroll's hys- the pilot, suffered. serious injuries band. (when his plane plunged into the The romance with Krieg began ground. Clifford Scamehorn, 33, in* Belfast, Ireland, when the two Was treated for shock. Cause of met at & Red Cross show during the accident was unknown. the war. He was a tool and die Tm maker civilian employee of tne Harness Demands Probe Lockheed Overseas corporation at] WASHINGTON. Aug. 27 (U. P.), the Lockheed airbase. |—Rep. Forest A. Harness (R. Ind.), Returning to this country in 1945, said today a federal health mission Krieg later went back to Ireland on lis being sent to Japan to foster business and renewed his friend- “socialized medicine” there. He ship with Mrs. Carroll, urged the mission be held up until In January, they left England his sub-committee on executive for Mexico where she obtained em-| propaganda’ can complete an 1. ployment. Kreig was unable to find vestigation.

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Apparently despondent over his |leaving, Kreig told police she de-

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