Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 October 1947 — Page 1
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58th YEAR—NUMBER 190
SATURDAY, OCTOBER
Photo by Viclor NOTHING DAUNTS A 'FISHERWOMAN — Inveterate anglers will bear virtually any hardship as long as they fill a string. Yesterdays rain failed to dampen the hopes of Mrs. Beryl Oswalt (left) and Mrs. Leah Bee, both of 211 E. Norh St., as they fished near the Keystone Ave. bridge at Fall Creek Pkwy. They hooked only
a rusty old saw.
1. S. May Drop Poultryless Thursdays
Agreement Sought
To Save Lorn, Wheat
By GRANT DILLMAN United Press IStaft Correspondent WASHINGTON, Oct. ‘ident Truman's Food Committee is [“actively considering” junking pouls| | |tryless Thursdays and is expected’ to reach a definite dedision Monday, it was learned today. | Sources to the committee; said the outcome will hinge on; ‘whether the nation's poultry grow ers and feed manufacturers are willing to cut down on the use of} corn and wheat in poultry feed and substitute other. grains. If they are, it was said, the com{mittee might be willing to erase! chickenless and eggless days trom [its program for saving an additionfal 100 miilion bushels of grain for, | Western Europe during the next (three months. ! Welcome to New Ideas
close
Mr. Truman's food managers de-|
lclined to comment, on the report. | But one of them pointed out that! the committee “isn't wedded to the idea of poultryless Thursdays Just {or the sake of having them.” } He recalled that the committee chairman, Charles Luckman, has, said that the food program 1s under | constant review. Mr. Luckman said
Peterson, Times Staff Photographer,
| Washington Calling—
Food Poisons 10
& Stricken in Lima
During Convention LIMA, O, Oct. 18 (UP)—-More than 100 persons suffered tood poisoning here last night after attending a convention banquet at the Barr Hotel. Hospitals, however, reported today that most of the victims had been released or were in fair condition, Twenty-seven of the victims re mained in two hospitals here and a small number were reported hospitalized in neighboring communities. There were no deaths. f 4-State Conyention Emergency first aid facilities in a dining room of the hotel and cots in hospital lobbies were dismantled today. The victims, delegates to a fourstate convention of the National Rural Electric Co-Operative Association, were stricken shortly after they closed their convention with a banquet at the hotel.
a Th About 300 persons attended the Today $ Best Bet
banquet, some from Indiana. Many —‘Bumbershoots’
of the sick, police said, were stricken after they started for their homes LOCAL TEMPERATURES .M...., 54 10a m.
Police reported that Lima hos- . pitals, already overcrowded, could a Me.... 64 “11 2m... not accommodate all the victims .m..... 83 12 (Noon) and some were taken to neighbor- . M.,... 65 1pm ing communities. Several of the ill persons were treated in hotel rooms HoOsier stadiums probably here. mushroom with umbrellas today Samples of food served at the any a pigskin classic might banquet were sent to the statelDe decided by the team with health department at Columbus for best “mudders.” analysis. The weatherman predicted a sod- — den outlook for most of the state
{with occasional rain in the north tali in Ailing and east and scattered thunderTo Co-operate’ Beauty wants
showers in the south. WARSAW, Poland, Oct. 18 (UP) Clothes Seized Premier Joseph Stalin told eight By Borin’ S Wife
visiting members of the British Parlament that Russia would welcome CHICAGO, Oct.’ 18° (UP)~—Miss co-operation with the United States Miami Beach filed a petition in and Britain and would wait until they “regain their reason.’ Mr, Stalin talked with the Britons Wednesday for two hours in his’ “Little Kremlin” near the Black Sea resort of Sochi. En route home, the Britons arrived in Warsaw on a ; special Russian plane and released {was named yesterday in the fifth ast night a transcript of Mr. Sta-| oo. cit "fled b ¢. Born’ lin's remarks about relations with Sufi Bled by Mr. Borns wife, Claire, 37. the U. 8S. and Britain. He did not mention any possibility
Here's beef picture—
short corn crop, high grain
expect real beef scarcity,
market from ranges next fall,
For third straight year, public
will and well ne
Municipal Court today her clothes back. She said she left them in apartment of Nathan ' Borin, wealthy art products dealer. Miss Miami Beach, otherwise Miss epper Donna, 19, and . shapely
She want
the 52,
e suit charged that Mrs. Borin
; sited from California to find of war, but implied that the U. § Miss Donna sharihg” the Borin
and Britain were responsible for the apartment. Mrs. Borin® promptly breach between East and West and locked both her husband and Miss that overtures for an improvement | Donna out of Nelgtions owe ave to come| ghe also locked up $6000 worth of from them e said political and Miss Donna's clothing, luggage and economic differences need not stand personal belongings in the way of an understanding— = gig Miami Beach's real name is an opinion he has expounded before Miss Janet Shore.
—and that he understood interna- imi— i—i— tional co- operation was necessary, St te t Cl h
b United Press Football and class rivalry rocked three Indiana college campuses to- | day, causing injuries which sent one [student to a hospital. | Butler University and Wabash College lock horns in a gridiron {struggie at Crawfordsville today, 6 Don Hoover . 10| after a week of paint-smearing and 8/Inside Indpls. 6! pranks. .. 4 Movies 6 At Pranklin College, freshman 11-13 | Radio 16 and sophomore men students bat- . 14|8ide Glances. 10{tled it out in street fights Thursday 8 Society 3 night *and early yesterday. One +r. 10 Sports Tistudent was in Johnson County «. 10 Washington 9 Weather Map 11 leg fracture as a result.
Dies in Highway Crash
COLUMBUS, Ind, Oct. 18 (UP --Harrison Ben Dyer, 28 Berea Ky.. was killed today when his automobile sideswiped two trucks near the junction of U. 8. 31 and Ind. 46. His companion, Walter Vaughn, 19, Indianafolis, was injured.
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WATCH FOR THE FIRST RESULTS OF “THE STRAW VOTE FOR MAYOR
Sharp Appetites Called Key At Ohio Banquet To Trend in Meat Prices
Beef Supply Cut 350° Million Pounds; Democrats in Capital Predict Local Victory WASHINGTON, Oct. 18—You can look for high meat prices for at least two more years—that is, if you keep eating as much as you do now,
Drought in winter-wheat belt means loss of at least 350 million pounds of beef that would have been gained by cattle on winter-wheat pasture. Grain-lot feeding of beef is off sharply because of
lots will be fattened out, but to lighter weights.
practically all cattle going to market in first seven months.ef year | Some out-of feed 10ts or off wheat pastirage. even higher prices, next spring.
Eating More Beef Than Produced THERE'LL BE temporary relief, But it will be only temporary
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[tired temporarily when her husband
10 Memorial Hospital with a possible “
that anytime anyone comes up with | a better idea to save grain, it willl get every consideration, Meeting with Mr. Luckman will be representatives of both the poultry and feed grain industries, The {feed people were called in after a {series of meetings with the poul{trymen broke up without agree‘ment, The poultryless phase of the program has received more criticism than any other. Poultrymen charge that it defeats its own purpose by ‘reducing consumer demand for chickens and forcing farmers to keep and feed them. | New Record Set The criticism reached
its peak
{Department reported that stocks of {frozen chickens in storage on Oct,
1 set a new all-time record. The, committee wound bX ‘portant part of “It Progr an terday when the a jg dams agreed to try saving 3 million’ {bushels of wheat a month ‘by eliminating consignment selling and taking other grain-saving steps. The bakers alse will plug the sale of smaller bread loaves, emphasize two-laver cakes instead of threelayer types, bake open-faced ples and eliminate bakery products for which there is only small demand.
Cattle sent to feed | And |
prices. That's "why 'yod can |
perhaps, when cattle move to
is eating more beef than is being
Reds Flay Byrnes On Atomic Issue
LAKE SUCCESS, N. Y., Oct. 18 UP)—Russia attacked former 3ecretary of State James F. Byrnes in Upited Nations General Assembly today for advocaling the forceful ejection of Russian troops if and “bigger and betby the United
Chemicals Blamed For ‘Nylon Run’
CLEVELAND, Oct. 18 (UP) More theories were advanced today the to explain why some 200 pairs of Nylons worn by office girls in the Federal Reserve building here suddenly and mysteriously “popped” with runners—but the concensus of the gals was that chemicals used to clean a nedrby building were to blame. James McGrath, director, snorted “ridiculous. are acid resistant.” But the gals snorted right back ‘nonsense. Nothing can ruin a pair of stockings quicker. i The “nylon run” began two days ago when the girl workers in the Reconstruction Finance Corp.- office felt their hosiery giving way 0 some unknown force Looking around, they found that it was happening all over the office. with from a0 10 200 pairs affected.
from Germany, necessary, the production of ter atomic bombs” States. Foreign
the
The attack, unleashed by Minister Dmitri Manuilski of Ukraine, was the first Soviet reaction to Mr. Byrnes recipe for breaking the east-west stalemate over the German peace, treaty. Mr. Manuilski delivered an allout denunciation of United States foreign policy and told delegates of the 57 United Nations that Russia had taken note of the proposals made in, Mr. Byrnes newly pubBished memoirs, “Spegking Frankly,
cleaning project Nylons
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Car S Hunt
18—Presi-, ,
Entered Indianapolis Ind
as Second-Olass Matter at PostofMce Issued daily except Sunday
GRAVY ON POTATOES—The Rev. Orrin Manifold of Elk-
hat display
silding fund. The puny spud
emoparrassment.
tan
« ‘a bushel of snsalabl $atos: a bushel of unsalable potatoe now have bacome a thus netting a profit tor the church ana savin
¢ hurch fem
raised for his QHeCTOr
much
9
the pastor
Potatoes
Become Collector's Items
‘Imagineering’ Enables Elkhart Minister fo Show Profit for Church Building Fund
ELKHART, Ind, Oct. 18
businessman after all.
He converted a basket of puny potatoes into collector's items and
(UP) -
~The Rev.
reported today that he tiny spuds were going fo net a profit.
ie New HilFricane Shifts Northward
Oct, 18 (UP)—A new hurricane began a northwatd curve in the Atlantic today apout 600 miles south-southeast of Miami There was no indication, however, that ‘it would miss the Florida peninsula, battered twice by wind and rain in the past month, At 11:30 p. m. (Indianapoins Time) the Miami Weather Bureau said the storm was still increasing in size and intensity, with winds of 100 mph “over a very small area. Danger to the Bahamas Islands was lessened by the slight change in direction The hurricane was centered about 100 miled north-northeast of Turks Island, The course was northwestward at 12 to 14 miles per hour, Weathermen said it was too early to predict what part, if -any, of the Florida peninsula might feel full effects of the storm, They recalled that the hurricane of Sept. 18, which originated in the same area reversed its course to strike between West Palm Beach and Miami
MIAMI, Fla,
‘AL ICE’ ON A RAMPAGE TOKYO, Oct 18 ((UP)~U, Army weather forecasters warned today that a typhoon, “Alice,” wa slowly moving toward Marcus Island, the northern Marianas and Iwo Jima
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Socialite Audience Acclaims Housewife
Who Chucks Chores, Subs
Josephine Tumminia Gets 8 Curtain Calls After Triumphant Role in Difficult ‘Lucia’
SAN FRANCISCO. Oct. 18 (UP)-—-A young housewife came ou retirement last night to substitute for ailing Lily Pons as “Lucia’
ol and
for Lily Pons
win a triumphant ovation from a socialite audience almost inured to
bravura displays. Josephine Tumminia, an attractive honey blond, began her regular day as Mrs. Charles Wiper Jr., yesterday with her usual household chores, She had no idea it would end close to midnight. Then the golden curtain of the S8an Francisco Opera House fell on a wildly enthusiastic audience that rose to its feet to acclaim her vocal gymnastics in the famed ‘mad scene.” Miss Pons had been scheduled to sing the part in her second appearance with the 8S8an Francisco company this season. At the last minute, she came down with a severe case of influenza that confined her tq ber hotel room. Miss Tumminia had to. get up at 5:30 a. m. yesterday at her San Mateo home, to take care of her 14-months-old daughter, Charlene, who also was ill with ‘flu. "Until diminutive soprano ° confessed to {11:10 a. m. the furtherest thing being “very nervous how they will from her mind was opera. take this.” “Then,” continued the one-time “I guess I'll go back into opera MetrSpolitan Opera singer. who re- now,” she said later, When’ my husband (he’s a former Army ‘major’ came back from the Pacific I just had to retire so I could get t to know him and t the baby."
“He said to come right up to San Francisco. He wanted to see if 1 could ‘still sing ‘Lucia’” She had no chance to rehearse with the cast. A two-hour
brush-up for the roles, In her dressing room before the third act's “mad scene.” ending on a high "F" and known as one of the most tortuous bits in the coloratura repertoire, Miss Tumminia got in her first and last rehearsal with the flute, contest with the human voice is the most impgrtant. part of the scene. As she left for the wings, the
only
service, Merola
from overseas (Gaetano)
returned Maestro phoned.” ”
workout with piano accompaniment was her °
whose |
TRIUMPH Josephine
retired
Tumsinger, arose at 5:30 a. m. yesterday to tend . to | 4-months-old daughter, By afternoon she was callad for a tryout to substi. tute for Lily ‘Pons as ia, By midnight ! she: had received eight curtain. calls from an en. thusiastic San Francisco audiance,
minia, opera
her
LUC
“Now 1 won't have to be embar
bh {rassed when 1 face the congrega-
| tion tomorrow,” he said,
The parson had expected to be “fatlure” among 50 memsuburban church along with his unusual months
the only bers of his tiny, who went money-raising scheme ago,
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Invest Wisely The scheme was a modern sion of the Bible's story talents. The Rev. Mr, borrowed $500, to 49 parishioners, kept $10 himself, and told each to invest money and bring back the profits, The preacher bought toes with his plants through the mer, But when harvesting this week, the Rev. Mr, dug up only uny S01ne
came
potatoes hardly as
marbles.” Humiliating Blow The Rev. Mr to be an example for his flock. But they ments and handsome profits ing as much as $1000 perhaps. minister was ol events,
He made one more hopeful search all of which was contained in one basket and a couple some of
of his yleld
noticed that were. double- jointed Ne
pan He
potatoes
of the despite That gave
The Re!
thei me an idea,’ he said Mr," Manifold toothpicks the potatoes and decided the "animals were good enough novelties to sell at the church bazaar yesterday.
Bountiful
in thal
Harvest
“A lot of people must have heard sald, like
he
went
potato crop,’ the novelties
about my ‘because hot cakes Encouraged fold tried He put some marble spuds in a glas jar and slaged a guessing contest He offered the potatoes as the prize Then he packaged some
Rev
idea
the Mi another
sized
auction. “Sight unseen.”
Good Advertising “I guess it he mused today, to mind. I guess they potatoes.” When the hazaar Mr. Manifold count found he had broken et $10 investment, Then, when he got home, his telephone began to ring Elkhart residents had read
wasn't exactly falr
ended, the Rey
ed his cash
ern on
toes, One offered 85 a peck
Watson Still Critical; Spends ‘Poor’ Night
WASHINGTON,, Oct, 18 (UP)Former Sen. James E.
mained in (critical ‘condition at
Garfield Hospital today after what!
attendants described as a night, The 83-year-old “grand old man”
“poor”
of Indiana Republicans has been ill
since Sunday.
rikes Bridge, Missing Pair
Orrin. Manifold, . the tions.” Actually, he said, only two this week when the Agriculture Methodist minister who put the parable of the 10 talents to practical] bod A use for a church building fund, decided today he was a pretty good! were saved, five les had
verof the 10 Manifold passed out $10 bills
the
seed pota$10 and nurtured the long, hot sum-
Manifold under-developed big as
Manifold had hoped
all reported successful totalThe humiliated by the turn
LUCK
resulted
Manir
Legion May Sue
more potatoes and sold them al a bazaar
* ican Legion was expected today
“hut no one seemed all like small *
and his
news. paper accounts of the pastor's potato plight and wanted to buy pota-
2 Men Vanish in Fog After Speeding Auto Eludes Police in Chase
| Abandon Search of Canal Waters for { One Occupant; Trail of Second Lost 2 i (Photo, Page 2) ye
Police today sought two men who led a wild, 75-mile-an-
oe -and College Ave. for five Report 42 Lost block behind in the chase, 42 of 44 French and Algerian pes-| The chase started at about 4:30 A spokesman for the company the sidewalk. | “uncertain” condition, reened west on 58th St. blamed it on “faulty communica- Wreckage Is Deserted ‘Bristol of British make, crashed PARIS, Oct. 18 (UP)—The Prench ed, The car had crashed inte the
hour chase early today through fog-blanketed Broad Ripple ‘that ended when the stolen car they were driving crashed linto the guard rail of an abandoned bridge over the canal, thrown into the water, police dragged the canal near 63d St. ‘hours this morning before labandoning the search. The other occupant of the car In Plane Crash of a police squad that was about a French Craft Plunges Trail Is Lost . 9 The trail of this man was lost Into Mediterranean after he stagpered from a streetcar {eharter airline reported today chat ing from a cut arm. lsengers and crewmen aboard one 8. m. at 59th St. and College Ave. lof its planes were presumed lost| A police squad cruising south on lwhen it plunged into the Medi‘er-| College Ave, observed a car idling day. car conversing with two women on aid only two of the passengers) The squad, led by Sgt. Ed Higand five crew members on board Bins, started to make a -“U” turn | were rescued by the French patrol 10 go back to investigate. As the {scepe. The two survivors ‘were in ‘car roared into motion and ca | “The victims, he said, were French The fleeing car turned south on or French colonials. Broadway, then turned east on He said his earlier announcement 58th St. back to College Ave. There Spanish steamer was false and Mated T5-mile-per-hour clip. Outdistanced a block and ham. {pered by a heavy pre-dawn recovered and’ divers were trying police sped after The plane, a few twin-engined| | fugitives nearing on "latter one. engine failed: “Tv: was route from Mar e, near Mair- Quatman and Donald Rieger |the car and wreckage were desértPress Agency reported today that heavy plank barriers on the south a French navy plane crashed into end of the old interurban bridge the Bay of Agadir off the Norta which runs parallel with the regu. three men. { A man waiting nearby for a ———————— streetcar told police he had seen one man emerge from the car and I U Pes hurry northeast on Westfield Blvd. "3 n. Leave for Wells | He added, however, that as the lone occupant emerged he yelled (back: “The car's all yours, major,” imes State Services _'ndana University board of trustees Women Are Arrested today granted. President Hermiun B A streefcar operator ‘reported Wells a six-month leave of absence thal a man boarded his car at 56th to accept the post of director of 8t. and College Ave, about the time many, the man left the streetcar at 16th Dr. wells will serve on the staff 8t. and College Ave. He said the of Gen, Lucius Clay, United States man's shirt was torn, his left arm Military Governor, was cut and that he was bleeding. Last month the trustees deferred 50th St. where they picked up the a decision on the matter after the two women to whom the men in the Army had asked Dr. Wells to car were talking. The women were assume the post, slated on a charge of vagrancy, for him during the leave. Members and College Ave, they said, and are John Hastings, board memoe:, had just let them out of the car Washington, Ind, chairman; Dean when the chase started. HT. Briscoe, dean of the faculty Police who searched the car said hin, treasurer, and Dean W. W. revolver and a loaded 45-caliber Wright, school of education automatic clip-in the trunk. Papers Meanwhile, the trustees today ap- from Orlando, Fla. were in the. car. pointed Dr. Stith Thompson as dean : sume his duties Dec, 1, His three-year appointment will Near Terre Haute carry him to the administrative re- TERRE HAUTE. Oct. 18 (UP) tirement age. He succeeds Dr. Fer- John Gadbury, Sullivan, a maner in Terre Haute, was killed today in a slate fall in the mine. A mine official said that Mr. Gad« bury was a “buggy driver,” and thas the’ wall of the mine, dislodging slate from overhead. No one else was injured or endangered, the Spokesman said.
On the theory that one of the men may have been was seen fleeing before the arrival PARIS. Oct. 18 (UP —A French at 16th St. and College Ave. bleed ranean off Cartagena, Spain; Thurs- at the curb, with two men in the 'boat Sabre, which rushed to the|Ctulser turned. however, the idling that all had been saved by a the driver sped north at an esti= to find the others. {They were still a 'seille, to Oran, eria. [reached the scene seconds Tater but African coast yesterday, killing jar span over the eanal. {He said he did not see a second BLOOM yiiate Oe 15 The apparently to someone in the car. higher education in occupied Ger- of the crash, The operator said Be Away Several Months Another police squad returned to An executive committee will act! The men drove them to 50th Sr. ind vice president; Joseph Prank- they found an unloaded 32-caliber ! of the graduate school, He will as- Sullivan. "Miner Killed nandus Payne who retired in July, "the Blackhawk coal mine south of his buggy evidently brushed against
§ State Colleges
The executive committee of the Indiana Department of the Amerto act on a resolution which might result in law suits against four state educational institutions, It called for a court suit against Indiana and Purdue universities and Ball State Teachers’ and Indiana State Teachers’ colleges on the grounds the schools were alleged to have violated a state law by failing to grant free education to children of disabled veterans, The resolution contended that law provided disabled veterans’ children with four-year courses at state;
Ceremonies to Mark New Bus Line Opening
Mayor Denny and other gity of+ ficials will participate in ribbon cutting ceremoinies tomorrow, spon« sored bv the North Indianapolis Civic League The celebration will mark the opening of the new Meridian-Goild-en Hill bus line at 2 p. m., and will take place in the league's commu-~ [nity house, 82° Congress Ave.
Watson, re-
schools, free of tuition or matricula-| tion fees. It said that all four! schools ruled that the students were exempt only from $30 fees each se-
‘Woman Hit by Car Mrs. Lucille Hd 29, .of 5410 Primrose Ave. was in St. Vincent's Hospital today with a possible frac. at
. |tured leg and lacerations on, her
master, Lp head after a car, driven by Jack FORMER U. S. SENATOR DIES |Merritt, 20, 5136 Kenwood Ave, WASHINGTON, Oct. 18 (UP)— skidded on wet pavement, jumped Former Sen.’ Augustine Lonergan the curb and strick her as she (D. Conn.) died today at his home stood at the intersection. The accls here after an iliness of about a dent happened at 52d St. and Prim~
IN “MONDAY S
week. He was 73. | rose Ave.