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"FORECAST: Cloudy tonight and tomorrow with little Smgiror change. “Lowest tonight, 52. y . ; ;

) Ostron to Resign Following Election

- GOP Chairman | Reveals Plan

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SATURDAY, NOVEMBE

One Dead, 28 Hurt in 2%

John Hart, 65, Victim of Car

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car last night.

To Quit Po ost Tuesday’s Elections * Announcement Comes =

As Climax Nears | By NOBLE REED Henry E. Ostrom, Marion County Republican chairman, announced this afternoon that he will resign as party head immediately municipal election next Tues-| day,

The-announcement. of his inten-| #on to resign as chairman came, the Republican Party's campaign to. elect William | H. Wemmer as Mayor of Indian- | apolis. Mr, Ostrom, who has been head) ‘of the party here since 1942, said | the “rapidly expanding post-w construction business makes it ne essary for me to devote most of | my energies to the building of | homes for citizens, particularly | veterans.” «He expressed confidence that Mr. Wemmer will be elected at the polls Tuesday. ‘Underground’ Whispering His announcement was one of ny developments in the mayory campaign. It was winding up with a flurry of “underground” whispering, innuendoes and interpretations in a last-minute drive to influence voters. A flood of printed statements suddenly appeared in automobiles and front porches during -the last few days, telling the voters anonymously what the party leaders

hadn't courage to say on the public ms. . Every * i trick in the old

campai k with some new ones added measure were being used Republican and Dem- " ocratic* parties in a bitter windup

of -what started out to be a. A

election. Charge Questionnaire ‘Distorted’ The onymous literature attempted to play heavily on the racial and religious prejudices of the voters, class hatreds and the division of opinions over national issues. Democratic leaders charged that Republicans “shamefully distorted” the results of an election questionnaire sent out by the Church Fed; eration of - Indianapolis. “The results of the Federation Survey were distorted to indicate that the group had indorsed my op-j ponent,” Al Feeney, Democratic mayoralty. candidate, charged. No Indorsements Made

Officials of the Federation assert. |"

ed that the group as an organization made .no indorsements. The Republican leaders featured the speeches of Rep. Charles HalJeck and U. S. Senator Homer Capehart on international issues in their major blast this week for William. H, Wemmer, the GOP mayoralty candidate. Both gengressional leaders stressed the ce of electing a Republican mayor “to help the party in Washington to beat communism.” GOP leaders took the mayoralty |. \, campaign out of local issues and “put it into the "national political arena for the 1948 presidential contest, Stick to Local Issues The Democratic leaders have been sticking to local issues, depending upon a “vote .of protest against]

after the

96 Municipal . Voting Contests

WASHINGTON, Nov. win many of next Tuesday's

Ifidiana’s been Republican for years,

now Democrats will municipal elections.

gain

Mayor of Evansville, Indiana District. Cleveland's sure to re-elect {i

though 4th Ohio Congressional District,

wifl continue that way, electing W

In Kentucky governorship” race,

elections. but it sefms

strength in Tuesday's! 96

ts Demgcratic Mayor, Tom Burke, long Republican, probably illiam McCQulloch, Democratic Congressman Earle

C. Clements is favored over Republican Attorney General Eldon .S.

Dummit. .

[10th District Race °

In Windup Stage

Drive te Continue ‘Through Monday ? By BOYD GILL United Press Staff Correspondent Indiana’s 10th District special congressional election campaign moved into"the windup stage today as Democrats and Republicans drove for votes in the 10-county east central area. Mayoralty races in 96 cities, and contests for municipal posts in these as well as some 432 towns scattered over the state, were expected to remain hot throughout the week-end and Monday. Secretary of Agriculture Clinton P. Anderson arrived today to give Democrat Prank Hanley of Muncie a boost in his campaign to take over the House seat vacated by the death of Rep. Raymond 8. Springer (R.), Canners ;

Andefson to Speak Mr. Anderson speaks tonight in the final district rally at Richmond. Delegations from all counties in the district were expected to attend. Other speakers were Rep. Ray Madden (D. Gary), and Miss Catherine E. Falvey, Washington, representing the national committee. Ralph Harvey, Mt. Summit, the GOP nominee for Congress, ended his vote drive last night after a| cornfield rally..that drew an estimated 3000 persons to his own farm, Governor Gates was the chief|

rspeaker. He praised the farmer for

his part in the governmental and economic life of the nation. Lauds Farmers “I- have no fear for this nation’s | destiny if the men who till ‘the soil and the women who manage our farm homes give expression to their convictions and beliefs at the ballot box,” Governor Gates said. “Farmers have always-been the! bulwark of representative government.” Carl W. Thompson, who opposed

Mr. Springer and his Democratic!

rival at the 1946 regular congressional elections, also is in the special election race with Mr, Hanley and Mr. Harvey. But observers conceded him only a handful of protest votes.|

{Lewis to Leave Hospital

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 1 (UP)| —John L. Lewis, president of the] AFL United Mine Workers, will be| discharged” from St, Luke's Hos-

It's

Democratic. district, 14th in

Brooklyn. Ne Philadelphia's seeing \ hottest mayoralty race in years. Repub -

| lican organization is so strong | there (no Democratic mayor since |

1884) that it probably will win\ again, but will know it's been in fight. Richardson Dilworth, Democrat, is trying to unseat Mayor S muels, n.Zan Francisco, Democrats - By to break Republican tradition almost as old and elect Rep. Franck R. Havenner, There'll be heavy votes in New York and Ohio elections. = Both states ‘are voting on soldier bonus.

one thing seems sure: Mississippi's’

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Speedway Tickets

Being Sold Fast’

Ordels Pouring in For 1948 Classic |

Although over-the-counter salé doesn’t open until next month, the Indianapolis Motor Speedway already is approximately 50 per cent sold out for the renewal of the 500mile race next May 31. Don Burge, director of ticket sales, said that orders pouring.i#f since the last race have accounted for the sale boom.

Some 20,000 blanks were in the mails today to race fans who made purchases in the past.

In only senatorial race Tuesday |

| Mr, Hart, was one of 20 persons {injured yesterday and last night in (a spurt of traffic accidents involving 25 crashes: Mr. Hart was taken to General ‘Hospital with a fractured right o and internal injuries after he

1--Looks as if Democrats will /was struck yesterday evening by a

taxicab as he crossed Michigan St, at Beville Ave.

og Driver Hurt, Arrested

| Jack Durant; 61, of 1221 Lafayette

Odds favor Pemocrat Al Feeney for | St. was badly hurt at 14th St: and

| Senate Ave. where he was struck

Mayor of Indianapolis, Democrat William. E. Dress for |aown by a car driven by Francis Democrats even pr edict a close race in the 10th | Alpertson,

Ave. Three persons were seriously in-

{jured and one driver was arrested lin a two-car crash at 22d and Deli

ware Sts. last night. George Parsons, 46, of 8502 E. 46th St; driver of one caf

|rest’on &’ charge of reckless driving. [Driver of the other car, James W, |Glenn, 25, of 3145 N, Gale St., {was seriously hurt, Mrs. Alice Beade, 15425 College Ave. riding Glenn Car, also was injured.

down by a car driven by Bee Adeff, {poof 1802 Howard St.

tims were taken to’ hospitals last night but their injuries were not serious enough for extensive treat-

police emergency squads and taken home. .

Firemen Battle - Radio City Fire

NEW YORK, Nov. 1 (UP)—Heavy smoke from an electrical fite in a transformer in the basement of the 70-story RCA building in Rockefeller Center last night drew thousands of spectators to the scene but

little damage was Tepgried fig the fire. wa

roped off the street

: ole alongside the building, an

ex¢ifed man in a 41st floor office began throwing office ‘files and .furniture out of the window, Barowly missing firemen in he street

POLICE FOUND He Henry Emi} the office of the Flint Coat Co. near hysterical condition. He hi slashed his wrists. He was! to Roosevelt Hospital. " Fire Marshal Thomas Broph: the fire began from a short-cire in a weakened ‘cable; There was no interruption caused in National

Ready for Christmas Gifts Because of the heavy demand, box| seats in grandstands 4, B, C, and E}

lin A- and B stands no longer are available. Mr. Burge said that tickets now | are ready for-mailing to those who wish them for Christmas. All requests are being filled i the order received and

Counter sales at the Speedway] offices, 444 N. Capitol Ave., will not| {be started until possibly the middle of December, Mr, cember, Mr, Burge advised.

Pint it Size’ Bread Fails to Rise

By UNITED PRESS Spokesmen fOr the nation’s bak-

designate first, Et Sot vg choices in locations.

Broadcasting Co. programs which emanate from studios in the buildling,

Hughes’ Plane Set For Taxi Tests

and the paddock, and reserved seats!

Water was pumped into three drydocks. cradling Howard Hughes’ {$22" million flying boat today, Work{men scurried about the gigantic (plywood plane reading it for launching ceremonies. Fire hoses - gushed streams of water into the drydocks as fog shrouded the experimental plane Mr. Hughes denied he is trying to get into the air before a Senate war

investigating committee resumes its]

hearings on. Mr.- Hughes’ contracts Wednesday. A tent was set up along the

the GOP City Hall administration” |Pit8l on Sunday morning after a ing industry said today they had/Waterfront for reporters to witness,

Alara cleotion; nest Tuesday. The Wemmer - for - Mayor headquarters has been dodging the City Hall administration troubles, ‘leaving Mayor George L, L. Denny to de-

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14-day rest and physical checkup. |

FREE PARKING FOR WITCHES , FALLS RIVER, Va., Nov. 1 (UP)|

—Town officials took in all of theithe wheat the government - needs night on the boat which Mr, Hughes pageant of the C

town’s 56 parking meters for safekeeping last night.

Accepts "Free

Slugged, Rob

ide' Home; d of $22

Grocery Store on N. Meridian St. Held Up;

. Burglars Raid Dearborn Hotel Barber Shop |

‘Bandits beat up one victim,

slugged two others and raided a

grocery store in crime activities here last night. Anthony Lotz, 25, of 606 8. Meridian St., sald he was standing on a wn street last night, when two men. in a car offered to drive

with a knife-and took $22 out of my Pockets,” he said. . The bandits dumped him: out of]

the car at 30th and Ruckle Sts.|8an St, when some one slipped up

Mr. Lotz said during the scuffle he got one of their knives.and turned

Joe Long, 46, of 731 N. Warman

Ave, said he was sitting on. al

bench in the 2600 block, W. Michi-

| behind him and slugged him on {the head. He had no money.

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{just - about scrapped plans “1% smaller loaves of Bead to Conserve |grain, They warned that it would)’ {be up to housewives to save most of

for_ European’ relief.

They said that farmers, millers, | grain handlers and bakers were sav-| ing as much grain as humanly possible. Harry Zinmaster of Duluth, Minn.,

that “bakers aren't going to waste

X barrel. »

Victims in Snow

flour. that they buy at $13 and wie

[Which Hany haves ‘monstrosity” incapable of ha Mechanics worked throughout the |

said he would make fly “or leave the country.”

"TYPHOON MISSES MANILA MANILA, Nov. 1 (UP)—A ty-

phoon with winds of 80 miles an chairman of the board of the Amer- hour swirled out across the China jcan Bakers Association, commented|Sea today after barely missing a

Manila.

John Hart, 65, of. 519 S. Leads

19, of 1332 S_ Sheffield

, , was badly Abraham Multer, Democrat with liberal party indorsement, is injured and later placed under ar_expected to win easily in New Yorkisqonly congressionai contest.

also in the

Ronald Tilford; -4, of 1558 Hiatt St, was badly hurt at Lee and) Howard Sts. where he was struck

Twenty-one other accident vie-

ment, Two others were treated hy

Thoveends Watch |

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should give.

gd{of '46 Red Feather services

SAN PEDRO, Cal, Nov. 1 (UP)—|

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red, as Second-Class Matter

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PRICE FIVE CENTS

en Peddlers In Killing

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was dead today of injuries re-| ceived when he wis stuck by a

West Side community do their mother was taken to untenable, neighbors took Goldie Hunt. -

Fund Campaign

“We Must Not Fail, !

‘Chairman Urges Everyone benefits; everyone The annual

na ns officially Monday

| of $1,279,200 for the support and

agencies. Fermor 8. Cannon, general chairof the campaign, sald today, e cannot afford to fail in this paign. Our goal represents the barest minimum ‘on which the agenciese tan operate in 1948. In fact it is nearly $150,000 less han the estimated need” Canvass Begins Monday Beginning Monday, mare than 7000 volunteer workers will\canvass homes, industries and shops throughout Indianapolis and Marion County to obtain ple to the drive. —Mr.—Cannon— is not relief but community service. He said the services of the Community Fund handle problems which do not usually grow out of financial destitution. :

102,000 Helped Last Year - Last year nearly 102,000 persons in the county, nearly three-fourths children, received direct benefit from Red Feather services. “Everybody benefits,” said Mr. Cannon, “when health 1s guarded and when delinquency, divorce and domestic problems are prevented.” At 3 p, m. Sunday, more than 1500 volunteer works

for/the launching of the silvery . ship| | paign will attend

program will offer {local radio station sonnel, ty Fund, and final instructions for the drive. OP INDORSES L. 8, KIDD MARTINSVILLE, Nov. 1 (UP)— {Linn 8. Kidd, Brazil, today was given the indorsement of 7th Dis-| trict Republican Party leaders as) candidate for Governor in Indi- | |ana in 1948.

THEY FOUND A HAVEN — Only ‘because of the warmheartedness of a

es davenport.

that thik he children are

these children have a temporary shelter today. When General Hos ps and the trailer they occupied became them in. Left fo right are Tommy, Emily, Rosie and

Friends Lend Helping Hon 3 To 4 Children ad Palle

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began two days ago, °°?

Third Woman Sought in Hunt

For Slayer

State, Local Police Enter Investigation A six-man, city -county*s

state detective team investi. lgating -the Merrifield murder

case today sifted through a strange assortment of facts revealed in the questioning of two elderly house-to-house peds« dlers. ”

The two women solicitors were

located by city police this morning

following .an intensive search that shortly after the tragedy

Residents of . the community told investigators of seeing two peddlers about the time the body of 68-year-old Mrs. Mabel Merrifield was found stabbed to death in her home ‘at 25683 Churchman Ave. A third woman, also being sought was seen

‘|“almost “running” from the Merri-

fleld home before the slaying was discovered. Clues-in the death of the socially prominent clubwoman and wife of an Indianapolis attorney point to a black-haired woman as the assail« ant, Husband Now In Jail Charged with vagrancy and operating without a peddler's license, the women peddlers were identified by police as Mrs. Sally Johnson, 62, of -100 N. New Jersey 8t., and Mrs. Sarah Mallett, 60, of 116 N. New Jersey St. : Mrs; Jonson said she Is the wife of Georger Johnson, 60, who 1s being held in the Hendricks County jail on a murder charge. He is alleged to have fatally shot 4 fellow unions

neighbors and friends, things might be a lot tougher, As it is, the youngsters are temporarily living with neighbors. Their mother is in General Hospital convalescing from an emergency appendectomy. They haven't seen their stepfather for three weeks.

They will have to find some place to live. when their mother is re- Si Hampers

leased from the hosptial Mr. and Mrs, Ernest Bowman, We Supplies Burn At Division St. Plant

who share a modest five-room house at 964 Olin Ave, with their own four youngest children, took the children into their home Monday when they found that rain had soaked through the roof of a small rental -trafler where the youngsters had been staying. In this trailer, where the rent was $10 a week, they had been sleeping | on the floor. The trailer contained only an old. oil ‘cook stove and!

Consolidated Progess Co., Inc.

smoke than flame.

‘Came From Fairfield Plant foreman Joseph Herzbrun, lie Hunt, 14; Goldie Hunt, 11; e Hunt, 9, and Tommy Hunt, ¢. Their mother, Mrs. Alkie Hutchison, and their stepfather, Léonard Hutchison, ‘brought them to Indianapolis five months ago from Fairfield, just outside Kokomo, The only place they could find for a home was the Inadequate trailer. : Three weeks ago the stepfather packed a suitcase and the family said they haven't seen him singe. Two weeks ago the mother fered an attack of -appe ts | while she was working at the HiWa | onl a arvivgon 8. LIMA, Peru, Nov. 1 (UP)—Insaw to it that she was accepted as! habitants of central Peru were | a patient at General Hospital after|thrown info a panic today by a she had been turned down because { STONE ‘and long-lasting” * earth- | she didn’t-live inside the city. Since quake. then he has bought food and taken Wars least one person was known | it to the trailer for the children. to ‘have The members of the Tabernacle| Were believed injured, | Baptist Church have donated $10 for food for the children, The {Wayne Township Trustee has given a food check for $9.

Bowman House Crowded

rubber supplies and chemicals. The smoke from the burning rub-

to.the firemen thah were the flames.

lowing an explosion of undeter= mined origin.

Baby Crushed In Peru Quake

religious. services In Lima's many churches rushed inta the open when the quake began at about 9 a. m. (Indianapolis Time), They

Ghost.of Houdini Fails Hult 14 Air Cr: 1" Air Crash To Keep Halloween Date

Seven Kept in the Dark 50 Minutes; —

All They Get Is Message From Prankster

KETCHIKAN, Alaska, Nov,

{searched in deep snow on a mouns«

“ The greatest magician of them sain slope near here today for the is

y DAVID C. WHITNEY, United Press Staff Correspondent NEW YORK, Nov. 1—Seven men waited in total darkness for 50 (UP)—A" Coast Guard fescue crew Yh past midnight today for the ghost of Harry Houdini to return. Al they received was a telephorie call from a Halloween prankster.

all died 20 years ago on Halloween.

J Church people are looking for a

Things: are crowded in the Bowman House now, but Mrs, Bowman says “charity should begin at home.” | However, some other permanent arrangement will have to be made.

operi spaces. The center of the quake appeared to have been located near the towns of Tarma and Acobamba, The one known fatality occurred Tarma where failing walls

e for the family to move to hed a baby in t's crib,

so the children won't have to go to

A'two alarm fire last night at the 399 Division St. kept firemen busy for more than two hours battling more

ber and chemicals was more hazard

Clouds of poisonous fumes boiled from the rear of the building fol-|

Fate has woven a web of cruel circumstances about four Young Son Held in Death Probe children on the West Side, and if it wasn’t for the warm hearts of

Mrs. Mallett, who first told police she was 46, said she is the mother of Harry Stice, 44, of 1020 E. Washs ington St. who is being held in the Marion County jail on a murder charge. He is alleged to have beaten -to death 46-year-old Olga Schwinn last May at his home. Investigators were’ told that one {of the women made a telephone call Thursday afternoon from ‘the 'home of Dr. J. C. Rhea, 801 Main St., Beech. Grove, to a Ww Washirig- - ton St. grocery that was held up only a few hours later. The two |solicitors admit stopping at the | Rhea home and asking to use the telephone, ; Mrs. Mall made the call, {said she. w to borrow {some money from the grocer, at one {time active as a professional bonds-

126 E. 14th Bt, —was—unable—this man. She said morning to estimate the damage to|

the money was to. obtain a bond for the release of her son. Mrs. Mallett had $97 in $1 bills in (Der purse when: police talked to her (at headquarters, they said. Her ate |torney, John ..O. Lewis, said the

arrange the bond. The solicitors told detectives they met lasp July while visiting the cotinty (atl to see their jailed renive Unite fn Search Mealtwhile, state and city police

been killed “and several |

Hundreds of persons attending

sought safety in plazas and other

murdered of Mrs. Merrifield. {| They were called into. the case’ last night by Sheriff Al Mogens heimer, State. police | doors today in the crime hoping to obtain The dramatic union of law forces

{highlighted the drive to solve the

latest Marion County crime, Deputy Sheriffs Virgil Quinn and Robert” Reasner, meanwhile, checked the results of their investi+ gation to date in an attempt to uncover something hitherto’ vers looked. City homicide detectives Bevoted their attention to -checkitg ‘local angles of the case, a ‘ Both women arrested have dark bair, A strand of blagk hair was found clutched in Mrs, Merrifield’s right hand when her blood-soaked

money was borrowed about a month +ago and was part of the money to

today’ entered the search for ihe

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But before he died he had promissy to return on the anniversary of

an institution. And Mr, Shoemaker says that if they can’t find anything else he'll try to have quarters fixed in a garage in the rear of his home for them. " Such consideration is very fine and it is nice to have warm-hearted

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body was found lying on a day bed, an artery-in her throat slashed. In addition, a black - haired woman who was. seen “almost running” from the Merrifield nome

a few hours before discovery of the

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body was a central figure in the |search, Attention also was being paid ia a report of a heavily-rouged, black+ \baired woman who ‘attempted fo - hitch-hike near the Merrifield : home. She carried a black bag and was about “middle-age or past.™.

‘NEW YORK, Nov. 1 (UM-

neighbors, folk in the neighborhoot| Did You Know... agree. But they are “burried up”

that things had to happen this way « + « that there's scarcely “for such nice kids.” a thing said, done or prac-

ticed , today that doesn't - [Fliers Still ot Adak

—.|Bt., said three men jumped on him, men killed in the crash of a Pan| MF. Houdini left a secret list of 10 win a piece of chalk for a wraith knocked him down and took § “Iwords and said those would be the!to write upon. while hie wis walling near Bis hpnie] orion Airway DO-4 airplane. he had unlocked thel “Not a thing happened” Mr. Insidé Indpls.. 5 5 last -night. yesterday, shortly after the plane's Darrier between the spirit world and| Dunninger reported. “Our sensitive. 6 Movies 5 An armed bandit walked into wreckage ‘was discovered. The craft|the living. buzzer didn't buzz, a Si of delicate Obituaries a Supreme Store, 2211 N. Me- had been missing six days. The “Waiting for scales didn't move and “Pin Patter. . 6| cashier, “Miss Fanny Romine, 2201{the big twin-engine airplane less Pogue ....,... 5 Fernway Ave, of $53. than 10 miles from its destination a Most of the valuable equipmentiat Annette Island flying field. The 8|of the Dearborn Hotel barber shop, {Clipper had plowed into Tangas 14 Michigan and Dearborn Sts, was Mountain, the highest point on the FOrum seers 8 6 stolen by burglars who entered the island, and exploded. Wreckage was 5 — Hollywood ... 7 Washington .. 8 place by picking a rear door tock scattered over a wide area 200 leet v Don Hoover ... 4 Weather Map 10 last nig 4 ‘below the mountali’s summit,

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it over to police. : | Cleo Murphy, 42, of 1741 8. iy {bodies of 14 passengers and crew- his death. 2

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