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Set 10 MPH. 'Leeway in 20-Mile Zones

No Arrests Under 31 M. P. H., Says Denny As Safety Groups Plan fo Revise Speed Limits | Mayor Denny announced today no arrests would be made under 81 miles an hour in 20-mile zones as city safety groups planned a revision of Indianapolis speed zones. The mayor's announcement virtually removes the 20-| mile-an-hour speed limit within the city excepting in the] case of accidents. son T At the same time Inspector Audry Jacobs .of the police traffic department said he had obtained a ruling today from Henry Krug, city attorney, that Indianapolis could set its own speed limits on streets other than state highways, ! Inspector Jacobs said prior to the ruling the city had believed the speed limits were set by state law at 20-miles-an-hour in .congested areas—and 30-miles-an-hour in residential areas.

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Republicans Face Split in 10th District

Willkie’'s Son Out of Race

Set 10-Mile Tolerance By NOBLE REED He indicated he was in favor of Republican leaders today had Falsilig the limits in the 20-mile only 24 hours to beat down threats zone to 25 and giving motorists only eo “o major’ factional breach and 5 miles tolerance in place of the nominate a -candidate for 10th dis-| present 10 miles. : .. [trict congressman in -a crucial test| & The inspector sald municipal of voting trends on Nov, 4. judges had visited the 20 and 30- In a whirlwind caucus here last

mile zones and had set the 10-mile . | a! ; night. party leaders called a 10th] rien Wage) oo American district convention for 10 a. m. to-| > ) | ‘ : safety : council traffic committees, [TOTOW atthe NE Pape which act as advisers in city trafic ihe te matters would meet in the next few

inee will be selected. | days to study a raise of the 20-mile The candidate will, run for the| zones to 25,

congressional seat vacated by the] Meanwhile; Al Feeney, Democratic

death of Rep. ‘Raymond S. Springer. | mayoralty candidate, ridiculed the An attempt to flavor the district) | off -again-on-again confusion

of convention with the national poli-| 2 trafic edicts issued at city hall this

tical prestige of the late Wendell week in a speech before the Cleaner=] lke, 1310. presidential nominee, safer IndidRpolis club today at

: 3 F | by entering his son, Philip, 28, in) noon, “We now have the spectacle o

the campaign, appeared to have! the mayor calmly stating that the

f been short-lived. Never Considered Seriously 20-mile. limit, entrapment. zones will In fact young ‘Willkie was pracbe abolished but that thousands of motorists could be arrested if the

tically “washed out” as a candidate | before he even got a good start. police wanted to enfqrce the law,” Mr. Feeney said.

The reaction among most of the 10! “A few hours later

county chairmen in the district to someone evi- Philip's announced candidacy only dently overruled the mayor and th announcement was made that the|

e 24 hours earlier was that he never was considered seriously as a can{didate in the first place. 20-mile signs will remain but they, bd “80 not mean what they ssy and Ip New York Mr. Willkie said he appreciated the action of

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really mean 30 miles an hour,” he said. “When citizens who obey the let nittee in suggesting him to succeed " | ter of the law and out-of-town driv- Rep. Springer, but that he had| Ruling Settles |

efs who don't know any better NO “political plans and ambitions.” | . | { “I have no plans except to finish | Week-Long Dispute The Marion county election board |

creep along at 20 miles an hour, while those who are in the know my legal education and engage in| ; | drive 30, the results should pe/the active practice of law,” he [ruled today residents living in areas

worth seeing during the morning said. He is a third-year student recently annexed into the city limits and evening traffic jams. {at the Columbia university law (will be eligible to cast votes in the Denny Renews Statement jschool. Nov. 4“municipal election. “Let's wake up,” he said, “and get| “Ab this point I want to publicly ‘The ruling settled a week-long, rid of our reputation as being the deny stories which have been dispute over the eligibility of newly horse-and-buggy capital of Indi- printed invsome of the papers and annexed residents to vote this year. ana.” gossip columns to the effect that The county board's decision Was Mayor Denny renewed his state-|I have political plans and ambi- based upon an opinion issued by ment that “we must have safety tions. I have no plans except to the state election board. The opinat any cost and at the same time ion interpreted the law to mean do everything to expedite traffic.” that any resident within the city He said he had conferred with limits would be eligible to cast Arch N. Bobbitt, corporation coun- ballots if -his—area became part of gel, and Inspector Jacobs before the city 60 days before the election.

announcing the tolerance in speed Adds New Voters gones. The. ruling will add several thou-

He said the tolerance policy had sand voters to the registration list actually been in operation all dur- for the municipal election. ing the recent drive on speeders, The only exception to the ruling but that it was thought best to was in any case where annexation announce ‘it. in answer to com- procedure is still pending appeal in

plaints of many motorists. the courts, ; - force “Voters in these areas where an-

nexations are still in dispute will

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Urges Strong Air Force Now

CLEVELAND, Sept. 5 (U. P.).—! Lt. Gen. George E, Stratemeyer said today “we must have, as soon

TT TTR. as possible, a regular air Truman to Deliver Talk

to admit 13-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert. Reeves, st., today is back in his old seat at county school and Raymond st.

sixth grade. snatched from Donald's life since

Left as Helpless as a 2-Months-Old Baby

lay in bed, a lump of flesh and Classmates. bones, would not focus, he couldn't talk,

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1947

ATTENTION, CARELESS DRIVERS— For the first: time in two years Donald Reeves. 5227 W. Beecher st., raises his hand in class to answer a question. A hit-run driver left him to die along a roadside July 21, 1945. Ten-year-old classmates with 13-year-old Donald in the 4th.grade are (left to right] Max Massie, Charles McKamey | and Alan Fork, They want to help Donald, but they waste no pity on him,

Amexed Residents Hit-Run Victim, 13, wnat vies ae Eligible to Vote Back in 4th Grade

Driver Who Struck Him Never Has Been Found; Recovers by Courage When Doctors Give Up

By VICTOR PETERSON

IT HAS TAKEN DONALD REEVES a long time to walk the four blocks to his school once again, It took two years . ,, two years on a long road for a short walk. It has taken these many months to even partially mend the damage done Donald's frail body by a hit-run driver, .. He never has had the courage

The driver never has been found his guilt. Donald, the: : he was hit the 1945. Doctors gave

5227 W. Beecher 13, Lyndhurst Dr. His regular schoolmates are in the, But he didn’t

Two years Have been ‘refused to yield.

1 SAW Donald two years ago. He He

up with them,

He couldn't walk, his eyes

baseball games to the best of his

ability.

The only sounds he made were, An

Jive after the accident, was sent home to die,

part and a mother’s faith in God

Donald asks no quarter from-his

average student before like those of a two-month-old baby.|accident, Donald

TPor-Pound J Butter Forecast In Price Spiral

Expect 65,000 P= Com Shortage

As Fair Opens § Its Final Day || Meats Costly

Total Attendance Grocers Complain Of 500,000 Forecast | | At Situation, Too wu 2 survey of Indinnspelis eR tr ‘and the nation today showed 4 food prices again spiraling,

| green light {rom the weatherman. Po {A throng of=65000 persons Was ex- twith most of the blame laid on the weather,

| pected to push through the turna, 1 d thaf No end was in sight, with p als sal ha ge ho I was [CAparS In pr Ginhapolis and other short of a record they pointed out ter Tp eay ng Na mond bute that the official pald admissions In Washington th Sse hic would go well over 500,000. Many ment's burs + the r departe half-price tickets were still out, to on yo shoe tialistice told i | s. Food J ey were A according to officials and they PrCEs have Reaipie og ees. Jou August, 1046. Last month alone

CAUSES SQUABBLE — This 990-pound steer was disqualis {ied as grand champion by fair

officials because it had been previously sold. A protest was 3 filed today. expected to be used for Indianap- rH olis Manufacturers’ and Flying prices increase 2.4 per cent i rmers day today. ent. Jam arrival of nearly 100 farmers Appeal Planned Min housswite, more concerned {n their own planes brought out the : ie an ng three meals a day on importance of aviation to agli-| .y he Uitics, al pn worrying about staloulture “today. “The group landed i » air S U ing = Like rgady knew the story, She their ships at Hoosler-Parks Alr-| ; ge *W that each day she had to dig port, Special busses transported ' = : - jQeper into her purse to keep the the flying-farmers to the falr-{ Disqualifying of 4-H aly si. es rounds. . ! ‘orm-Shortage is Basis | To Auction Winners | Steer Brings Protest | Dry summer weather which left A special attraction on tap was. An appeal against the fair {he Natuon short a million bushels the auction of many of the ribbon board's decision disqualifying 10-| eT Is essenttally held, respone {winners in the 4-H club fat steer year-old Jackie Berlet of Walton ®P'e for soaring prices of meat, classes at 1 p, m, in the Coliseum. jand his 900-pound white-faced butter and milk, i The grand champion, an Angus Hereford steer as grand champion) Corn prices have shot up and the Dale Pentecost of Wayne was lodged with Lt. Gov. Richard Price of meat must go up accord county will be sold at 2 p. m. | James, today by John W. Connelly, N&1Y, one local market analysiy Wayne King and his orchestrd Oass county agent, (expert sald, He added that milk will close activities in the Coliseum| Mr, Connelly charged the. board's And butter must rise along with ght with sn hour's concert _at/ decision. as “the most unfair act I cattle prices fo keep dairy vattle ou 7 o'clock. He will also play during/have ever seen.” : o ne stockyards, : I'the horse show at 8 p. m, | “If the appeal doesn’t bring re-| hb Chicago today, September Paid attendance yesterday was sults we will have to take further ¥ og sold for $2.66% & bushel, 82.563—14,260 less than the same steps” he said. siricken hy spring floods, July co |day last year. Overcast skies and| Fair officials said today, however, "IP, and an August drought, [thundershowers were = blamed by| that as “far as they were concerned ught $2.55 on the cash market. fair officials for keeping the count|the show is over and their decision, Meat Shortage Possible down. : {will stand.” | The old bugaboo—meat shortage

The appeal ‘was filed with Lt.|—PoPped up again in market anaJames as the commissioner of V5! men's crystal balls, Farmers se competition were exhibited by agriculture, imay rush cattle to market rather forse SD Russellville, 0. C. O. Barred by Sale than pay the all-time high. prices House of Arcadia won reserve hon- Young Berlet's steer was disqual- (for grain feed. The rush will mean Bothy ‘events. \ifledw._by fair board officials on the temporarily lower prices, But i DE rwen oktawn. displayed Brounds that it had been sold will also mean high prices and a the grind chismplon Aberdeen An- previously at. the Cass county fair. meat shortage after the bulk of cus bull, with Robert Cresap of/A Tule of the board forbids ac- [the cattle is marketed, NS showing ihe reserve. win. ceptance of the entry of any 4-H | Indianapolis stores were quoting oy sleet 4oid privately or at Public bauer at 5 gents pound, milk Es Eh _|auction, ! cents a tle and bread ean hp Jor ow WHR young Jackies patent shoul 13 cents out tad. Men learned of the rule, the sale was Prices varied sharply, with steaks y cancelled and no money exchanged in the 75-85-cent range, hands. They said they were not| Dealers were quick to point out, anxious to participate in the sale however, that some of the differ but did so when the Kroger Co. ence in price was due to subsidies made a bid for the animal. during OPA. They said housewives As the auction ended the Berlets were paying part of the food bill decided to ask for a release and in taxes and that now the whole [received it from the Kroger Co cost shows on the food hill _| After he was disqualified as the $1 Steaks Refused '

The grand champion stallion and the senior champion in the Belgian Gov.

night of July 21,

him no chance to He literally

Sheer grit on his

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is trying to keep even sharing in

Soviet Serum Now Made in U, S. To Treat Cancer

the has had to re-

It was eight months after the ac«ilearn all he had been taught. By Science Service grand champion, Jackie returned

An ironic note in Indianapolis is

ready for battle, comprised of 10,000 {up = to - the - minute * aircraft and

400,000 trained men to man-a-10- SS gioup program.” The commanding general of the

‘Up to Truman, air defense command told the 48th p y state, His left arm and hand shake It. would be interesting to khow

national convention of the Veterans - |He drags his left leg and there is'how the. hit-rin driver has fared

of Foreign Wars that without such Says Vandenberg {little sight in the left eye. these past two years.

air power the atom bomb was WASHINGTON, Sept. 5 (U. P.). 000

not get to vote.” Michael J. Hanra=icident that he took™ his first step! It is with a motherly smile of han, board member said. | alone, pride that his teacher, Mrs, Allza He"is fighting hard today Waggoner said the damage done him. “Donald made 100 His left side still is in a paralyzed metic yesterday.”

8T. LOUIS, Sept. 5—Three can- 9 competition and won grandi,,, grocers are as unhappy as cer patients in the United states champion gold medal steer honors i, nusewives over climbing meat will be treated about the end of With the same Hereford, ; October with an American made anti-cancer extract like that made| in Russia and popularly known as! the KR anti-cancer serum. This was announced at the International Cancer congress here. The material used will be made [from germs of the deadly South

To Brazilian Congress RIO DE JANEIRO, Sept. 5 (U. P.). «President Truman will speak to] the Brazilian congress in joint ses-| gion late today. Charles Ross, White House secretary, said the speech would be “significant and rather important.” It was expected to require about 20 minutes for delivery.

to whip

Cooler Tonight After Warm Day

|prices. | The ordinary rule-of-thumb is te double the wholesale price of a side of beef to ascertain the price of {choice cuts. Lesser cuts from the side are graded downward from that level, “It was all right when we paid 28 cents for a side of beef—we could

in his arith-

Drowning Victims Fear 10, Recovered From Lake

worthless. —Senate President Arthur H. Van-

“We can stack atom bombs until Mr. Truman stayed indoors at the denberg today put it up directly to

U. 8. bassy residence until midafternoon yesterday, his plans “for mountain climbing and orchid hunting thwarted by a dismal rain. He, Mrs. -Truman and their daughter drove to their new quarters at Laranjeiras palace, the Bragilian residence for distinguished visitors.

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Gov. Gates to Award Cash To Bubble Gum Finalists

we have a pile higher than fhe Empire State building,” he said, “but without air power to deliver them against an enemy, we would be better off without them. Worse vet, they would be a liability. We would have nothing to stop an enemy from filling our skies with hostile bombers to explode them in our own faces.”

sion of congress to deal with emergency economic aid ‘to Europe,

press conference that the decision would have to be made by

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believe a special session was neces sarv “No, just haven't enough information to know.” When ¢ongress adjourned in July, it was agreed that a special session could be called either by Repub-. lican leaders-of both hetses or by

"Photos, Page 15 : By ART WRIGHT of the racetrack grandstand. Fourteen youngsters who blew! Times checks for the cash awards __the biggest bubbles of the week in| were to be presented by Governor The Times “Bub” Bubble gum con-| Gates while movie cameras recordtest. at the state fair sought the ed the event. Indiana championship title today.| Pathe newsreel cameramen went Mr. Truman. . Already having won bicycles and| “on-location” at The Times contest Mr. Vandenberg's statement made | roller skates, the .bubble-makers| yesterday and for several hours it clear thatthe G. O. P. léader- | were scheduled to vie at 3 p. m.| filmed the boys and girls in co -| ship would not take the initiative in for $250 in cash. The finals in the | petition and the hundreds of adults! calling a special session. contest: which attracted several Who jammed around the contest thousand children for seven days| Arena. ‘ were to beg” the stage in front| Yesterday's “King Bub” was Ed-

Judge Fruchte, Decatur,

|gar Lamb, 13, of 320 N, Wallace st, Dies After Heart Attack] who received a new bicycle for blow-| DECATUR, Ind, Sept. 5 (U. P.). ing the biggest bubble, |~-Judge J. Fred PFruchte, 70, died on " Second place honors and a pair today following a heart attack. | . Amusements , 16, Obituaries ,.. 8 of roller skates went to Rosemary He had served as judge of the | Carnival ..... 19/F, C, Othman 19| Beasley, 12, of 1514 Lee st. [Adams circuit. court since Jan, 1, Classified ..31-34 Radio ....... 35] Both youngsters qualified for to- 1939. He was an active Democrat. Comics ...... 35 Mrs. Roosevelt 22day’s state finals, The lineup for! Before taking the bench, Judge Crossword .., 11 RUATK ....... 19/the finals consisted of two winners Fruchte sérved as prosecuting at-| Editorials ,.v. 20 Scherrer 20 from each of the daily contests held torney and Decatur city attorney, Pashions ..¢.. 23 Side Glances. 20 at the Times arena, , i r——— tau Forum ....... 20/Society ...... '22| Thousands of youngsters took part Burglary Nets $90 { Gardening ... 24.8ports ....... 30/in what was described as the big- “Jack Green, manager of A. & J. Given J 19 Washington '. 20!the country. Because of the success police that burglars = last Labor ....... 14) Weather Map 11 of the event “here, plans already entered a transom at the

: store and | Millett . 23| Wom, News, 23-24 were under way today for an sven stole $00 mn sp pis ap unger > x a

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President Truman to decide wheth- P.) —Bodies of er there should be a special ses- yi.¢ jn Lake Shafer were returned Authorities reported today that more than 100,000 Hindus and Sikhs were missing and at least ‘10,000 of them The Michigan Republican told a recovery here yesterday afternoon. pejievedly were massacred in an at-

to Kokomo today following their

Mr. Anderson, 25, and Mary Clark, both Truman after he returns from Bra- of Kokomo,

wie eee 1 2 T€EN=AgGers To During

LOGANSPORT, Ind. Sept. 5

two drowning vic-, NEW DELHI,

The victims, identified as Herman tempt to escape

Many refugees Moslems.

disappeared,

MOUNTAIN HOME, Ida., Sept. 5 (U

“two teen-age boys with mayhem today.

Sheriff Art Stevens-gaid Don Elders,

Smiths Prairie, a small farming community, had confessed torturing Joseph Cannon,

14, for 12 days.

“I'VE READ ABOUT such things. never seen anything like this,” he said. “Cannon was burned with a hot wire, He had great lumps 5 his body. There weré knife cuts, And he fad burns where they had poured gasoline on him and set him afire” The young boy was improving “nicely” today at his father's home, But his body was covered with severe burns, knife euts and bruises received during his “stay in hell™ Prosecutor Perce Hall said, “Neither of the boys know why-they did. it,” Sheriff Stevens sald, “I asked them why but they just said they don't know. Whatever the reason,

But you've

| it was horrible.”

~ ” ” MR. HALL - SAID ‘the twH hoys had signed a

.. 24 Teen 'Topics.. 23 gest bubble gum blowing eontest in Market, 233 E. 16th st. reported (67 confession telling of the tortures, He said it was night | “brutal.” : :

At one time, they poured gasoline into tha boy's

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The refugees were trying to flee drowned Wednesday. from the Shakirgarh district Witnesses said Miss Clark fell from the Mr. Vandenberg was asked by a a motorboat and Mr reporter if his remarks could be jumped from the boat to save her. construed to mean that he did not Both

Hindu-ruled Anderson when halted by flooded roads,

rture 14-Year-Old Boy 12-Day Siege in idaho Cabin

LOCAL TEMPERATURES m.... 12 m..... 13 m....+ 13 m..... 18

American chdgas’ disease by Dr William. M. Malisoff, New York Patients have already been selected by ‘physician In Moscow, 10 patients have been treated with the original ma-| ne terial, but no cures are yet claimed | The mercury is scheduled to move SoekVards | oll fr Ee The. longest time any patient has into the high. 80s this afternoon ar rr o id ing rom 35 to 80 gone without relapse is two and a“, oo Jftermath of cool ; p I cent higher than last Septem half years on th of cooling bréeze: ber, Choice sold - today Dr, Malisoff has been making the which = Rept fon I= 8 Janaved Pe) cos extract since May and using it on 70s yesterday. Pred to $20 30 a vear ago. The were ambushed by mice. No patient has been treated A drop eSLDpks. 316.35 2 year agu, were iso far dicted weather 1b 3 Veal calves: were es $2750, ' compared $19. Sheep bureat for tonight made the least advance, bus Clear skies will prevail tomorrow ,

lambs sold today a 2 morning with a “risk of thunder- A v. ab $9,

showers” tomorrow aft th compared to $19 a vear ago. showers omorrow ernoon ~ y, In New York, prime ri {weather bureau said. f bs of beet

averaged T7 cents a pound today, . oy ’ A strong wind and electrical compared “with 67 cents last Oct, storm broke over the western part 15 (he dav after price controls of the state yesterday, causing dam- ova removed. Bacon Wiis 5 cents ney “pt x x t " ” age lo crops and bulldings. compared with 72 cents last Octo= Centering around Crawfordsville, po. "tn san Francisco, choice beef a 24 inch rain fell while wind and, oc woe 50 to 58 cents today, come lightning played havoc with crops ....q with 44-53 cents last Octoe

8 buildi . and buildings ber, Bacon was 66-67 cents today,

A building on the farm of Mrs. 4 Doro Todd near Crawfordsville was compared with 44:33 cems Okt. 18,

destroyed along with several barns and sheds. -

sell 60-cent steaks. But now we're paying 48 cents a side and the people just won't buy $1 steaks," one dealer sald Steers $34 Here Livestock at the Indianapolis

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pre- ‘ 1oday however to have

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. P.)—~Elmore county authorities charged

17, and Leroy M. Landers Jr., 16, both from

| also cut his body with a knife while he screamed in terror, and beat him with a chain from a harness, a whip and a wooden clothes hanger. Cannon's father sald he had talked to the two boys who tortured his son but had not been able to get any explanation for their actions. “They just don’t seem to know why they did it,” he said,

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Inmate Leaps to: Death’

At State Prison MICHIGAN CITY, Ind. Sept. 54 (U, P.).~-A coroner's report: of suicide was returned today in the death of a 37-year-old prisoner who {jumped to his death in the state prison here yesterday, Howard R. York, Connersville, who served with: the army in’ the the cabin late [South Papific during the war, died. a few minutes after jumping from [the fourth tier of cells at the sald. ir He. was serving a 3-to<2ls

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. » » » HE SAID his son went to Smiths Prairie July 7 . 0 work on the Landers farm. . Early in August, Lander's father left the three boys while he went to the mammoth Anderson ranch néar here to work on construction of-a dam. y As n as he left, the tortutes’ began in the farm cabin. 5 Th Young Cannon escaped from Monday and made his way to a neighboring farm house, ’

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