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By ROBERT BLOEM : Former U. S. Sen. Raymond E. Willis said today he! would be glad to “pinch-hit” in the senate while “the boys

58th YEAR—NUMBER 208 = *

for Senatorial

fight it out over this governorship here at home.” Mr, Willis made his statement as Hoosier Republican editors gathered here for their annual mid-winter meeting’ at which they are almost certain to become involved in the

governorship feuding. The GOP has been in an

upsoar internally for several weeks over prospects that

his seat in Wi the guberna Several newspapers already have, expressed opposition to Mr. Jenner's return and at least one has

sided with him. | Defeated Two Years Ago |

Meanwhilé, Mr. Willis, who ‘was

State AFL Plans | me sie ose onc Political Strategy

nomination.

500 Representatives in Conference Here

| Mgre than 500 representatives’ (of AFL unions in Indiana met in| {the Claypool Hotel today 8 de-

knocked off by a steam-rolleriyu-ynair political strategy for!

GOP convention which gave Mr. Jenner his seat two s ago, has been discussed both as a governor possibility and as a successor to Mr, Jenner. The aging former senator took a light-hearted view at the session today of his role in the newest political scramble, x “What do they mean talking about me for governor?” he said. ‘Why, I think I would

the coming election campaigns.

|those Congressmen who voted for| the Taft-Hartley labor-manage-!| ment relations act. The meeting ie| sponsored by the Indiana Fed-| eration of Labor, the legislative] {and political branch of the AFL lin the e

make a geljver an address of “national

bitter President. However, if Mr. |. ionificance.” was unable lo come

Jenner should want to resign, 1 would be glad to pinch-hit for

to Indianapolis because of illness

Ir his place, the labor represen-| .

him in the Senate while the rest|istive will hear Walter Mason, of the boys fight it out here at|,py, jegislative authority, during|

editorial association ap-: . certain to be given an!

{the afternoon session. tatives Named Indiana AFL committees al-

opportunity to speak officially on ;eaqy have been appointed to rep-|

the Jenner controversy in meetings later today. : : * Draft Resolution After a stormy session of the -resolutions committee last night, it was the committee began a resolution urging Sen. Jenner in effect “to stay where he is.” The resolution still

must be acted upon by the association in its business session. At a luncheon of the editors, Thomas E.

U. 8 Sen comb (W. Va.) will give the address at the main banquet tonight, 7 : 5 U. 8. Sen. Homer K. Capehart, on President Truman's talk ‘Thursday night, declared: “No dictator in th history of the world has ever asked for more.” He referred to reported versions of the President's comment that “conditions are too grave in the world . . . to put Congress in control of the purse-strings.”

Light Snow Here Forecast Tonight

LOCAL TEMPERATURES

‘Sam.. 17 10a m.. 19 Tam..17 1a m.. 19 8am... 17 12 (Noom) 20 PE mI Ep mi 28

Light snows are expected to-

resent each congressional district within the political and educa-| tional league of the federation. {Part of the program to elect a {Congress which will repeal the

Taft-Harley act is expected to in-| _

cl organization of a purely state branch of the political and, educational league. i State federation spokesmen said today's session probably

supporter who is slated to become chairman of the House Labor Committee, if he is re-elected to| Congress. 3 f

Tht Tox Mon Will Come Around Starting March 1

RT ,., I... . | TAX assessment time is just Shun‘ Subtle Stuff—

f the {deputy assessors for - Center Township will meet in Tomlinson Hall to get their instructions. Then, on Mar. 1 they will be® gin a 20-day trek through In|dianapolis to assess all personal] iproperty. !

» " . : | - ARMED WITH tax ‘schedules, {dog tags and receipt books, they! will call on every resident of the township. eT imp And to make sure there is no

night and tomorrow for Indian- Juestion as to who they are or

apolis and vicinity with continued cloudy weather. With a two-day chill wave, no

‘return of balmy temperatures - was likely as I Weta bureau (See to it that all business estab-

promised - little “or no change in temperatures. The high yesterday was 27 at 1p.m. At 6 p. m. the temperature stood at 17 with an expected climb to about 24 to 28. The mercury was predicted to fall as low as 20 tonight.

Stoneworkers’ Strike ‘Nearing Settlement

BEDFORD, Ind. Feb. 21 (UP)

|what they want they will have {identification cards bearing their! {signatures and phot phs.

An additional 17 deputies will

{lishments file their returns.

Train Inspector

Loses Hand Here Bassal Ray, 50, of 2417 W. 60th {St., lost his left hand today at the |Union Station when He slipped on an oil spot and fell in the path ‘of the James Whitcomb Riley. A-car-inspector-for the Indianapolis Union Railroad, Mr. Ray

~A wage dispute involving 3000 Was inspecting cars when the ‘ac-

AFL workers in the Indiana lime- cident occurred.

He fell back-

stone industry appeared near set- Ward, his left hand passing under

tiement today.

A blacksmith’'s union, one of Keven stone crafts. in the limestone belt, accepted a 121;-cent to back the train. hourly ‘pay increase late yesterfay. The craftsmen had demand: *d a scale of increases ranging o from 25 cents to 67; cents an hour. The management had ofa flat 10-cent increase to

fered all crafts,. -

About 500 members of

the Two Quarry workers union have been Aloysios Makowski, president of!

the wheels of the halting train. Frank Morris, 60, of 807 E. 11th St., frantically. told the engineer Mr. Ray was taken to the Methodist Hospital After a tourniquet was applied at the train station. He was described as doing “fairly well.” 2 Gunmen Take $3500 SOUTH BEND, Feb. 21 (UP) gunmen today held up

To Pinch-Hit’ : || For Jenner

{business has outgrown two stores.

Our Fair City—

Sunday Liquor Sales Under Probe; cone dien, ann Druggists’ Licenses Threatened

~ ABC Pledges Co-operation in Drive to Curb | Illegal Traffic; North Side Case Cited | CERTAIN LOCAL druggists are steamed up about |

FULL HOUSE — The two Harry Walker, pose for the cameraman after the younger set arrived home from a Syracuse hospital. The older children are 4!/, years old and the babies are 13 days old.” Left to right: Patricia holding Margaret Ann, Paul holding Martin Stewart, Target for the year win be| 2nd Peter holding Mary Cecelia. The Walkers have three older sons.

sets of Triplets, sons and

the practice of turning drug stores into Sunday speak- ! easies by slipping whisky bottles under the counter to

“friends” on Sunday.

High ethical standards of the profession do a nosedive, they say, when a druggist yields to the blandish-

ishments of some unfortunate who forgot to lay in a week-end supply. Sunday sales may not be widespread, they say, but a lit-

tle is too much.

One North Side druggist recently learned all this the hard | way. He lost his liquor license for 15 days. Then, somehow, the | State Board of Pharmacy got wind of it, called the gent in, spoke

sternly of law and ethics, and warned that any more such monkey business. and—pht-t-t, no pharmacy license. 2

i ‘The Alcoholic Beverage Com- |

Pharmacy and let the chips fall where they may. :

Old Man Talks

. ALL IS not well with the “new look.” Everybody knows that papa isn’t too happy about’

mamma's hiding her light under a bushel of grandma's petti- | ‘coats, but one Indianapolis

store decided to

new driver's license crackdown

terested to know that about 700 (Continued on Page 2—Col. 1)

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Giggle-Pulse Taker Says Hopes ERP Rebuilds German Stench Bomb Plants; People Want Em for Laughs

BOSTON, Feb. 21 (UP)—Louis Kabatchnick, who earned a Police she was a “slave” during bY Secretary of Interior J. A. lofty Dun & Bradstreet rating with exploding cigarets and itching |the seven months she lived with powder, said today that the nation is on a giggle-spree. . “Everyone wants to cut-up; everybody wants to be the life from the county infirmary to help

The hot-fpot is enjoying a booming renaissance, he opined. Mr. Kabatchnick, a gray-haired gent with the profile of a jutjawed Shakespearean actor, has a constant thumb on the nation’s funny-pulse, He started peddling tricks on the sidewalks of New York 30 years ago. Since then his

Want Horn-Honkers

“People don't want the subtle stuff.” he said. “They're going in for the old horn-honkers. Things with a loud whistle- and bang. Perfume that smells like night under a bombay Wharf. That sort of stu.” Americans, he said, are stocking up on water glasses that leak and packages of chewing gum

with built-in * mousetraps. Arti-

{ficial big feet are red-hot sellers, {he said. | “The best customers are salos-

men politicians and ousiness men,” he said. “I've supplied a lot of stuff to actor Raymond

Massey and io John. Roosevelt son of the late President.

i Guffaws Still the Same “Right now,” he said morosely,

on strike for a week but the 2500/the M&N Store Fixtures Co.; Inc.| “there's an acute stench bomb members of the other six crafts and fled with $3500 after locking shortage. They used to be manu-

have stayed on the job awaiting Mr. Makowski in a display refrig-

the outcome of negotiations.

On the Inside

erator.

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Secret moves to ease crisis in Palestine reported. . . . Page 2

vull » » ~ . ” said. Young bride-to-be learns the “Way to a Man's Heart Page 8 ““.5,,

factured in Germany andl guess the factories got blitzed. Maybe the Marshall plan will get them in production again. I hope so. +They're very much in demand.” | What seemed funny to grand-small-fry of the atom - age, he id tw " don't change women's hats,” he said.

. 8 =» . » =» X Otterbein Church men build collection banks . . . and other [new ones. come along, ‘but don't

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f ‘ . =» “I Remember Mama” due Monday at the English . . . a full page of theatrical pictures and features . . . in

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Amusements. 6:9 Comics .... 1 Eddie Ash .. 7i|Crossword . Books ...... 8 | Editorials .. 1 ,M. Childs... 10 Forum ..... 1 Churches ..., 4/Hollywood .. ' . Classified. . 11-14 / In Indpls.

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5 Kidney ..... 10 8ide “Glances 1 8 Movies .....6-9 Society 0 Music ......6-9 Sports 0 Obituaries .. 11 Stranahan .. Profile

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0 ' FLORENCE, 3 (UP)--Five persons were killed 7 yesterday when a passenger plane 7/on the Florence-Rome civil air quit ta job and are proclaimifig josted

(last. The most popular are the same old numbers that had ‘em falling out of their and chuckling into. their mustache (cups 75 years ago.”

[Plane Hits Peak; 5 Die

Italy, Feb: 21

9 8! Weather Map 12 line crashed into a mountain near ties vs 16/Radi0 +uv0eq 15/World Affairs. 10, Florence in bad. weather, :

| + House Asks VA Probe of Nevada Report;

{dad gets a guffaw from the)

“A few

LSU Humor Magazine | Banned on Campus | BATON ROUGE, La. Feb. 21 (UP)—A Louisiana State University student magazine was banned today because the edftors imported “Stormy,” a wu brunet strip teaser from the New

Orleans French Quarter, to hoost! teased her and because she “ate!

circulation.

{charges this morning in Munici-|

{held a. prisoner. -

FORECAST: Cloudy, light snows today and tomorrow, not so cold. Low tonight, 20 to 22; high tomorrow, 2 to 82

_ SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 148

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Couple Arraigned In Brutality Case

‘Hearing Continued Until Wednesday

A young couple who admitted the mistreatment of a 65-year-old! woman living with them was ar-| raigned on assault and battery

pal Court 4.

The case of Mr. and Mrs. Vin-/|

Nettie pom,

26, $1000 bond, but his wife, Mary Agnes, 30, was released on her own ce to. take care of

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marriage.

trition, was given shelter in the|

Theodora Home after treatment! yesterday in General Hospital.

police intervention last Monday! on information from neighbors of | the Harrises, who live at 1015 8.

_|{ Belle. Vieu Place. that the elderly:

[Next Thursday and Friday = Big Haw-Haw Tricks Back,

woman was being beaten and

Mrs. Luck was found terrorstricken and speechless, her body | covered with bruises. | |

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‘You, Too, Can Be Successful'—

Outside the home, she told

the Harrises. She moved there!

of the party,” he said. “All the old tricks and practical jokes are|Mrs. Harris take care of the chil-/

getting back in circulation, . People are doing anything for a laugh.” |

dren while ‘her husband was in service. She was to receive her clothes, room and board, - and spending money. . Police said the Harrises signéd: statements, admitting they beat Mrs. Luck and tied her to a chair several times, once for eight hours overnight. ? They said the punishment was because Mrs. Luck

Entsred as Second-Class Matter at daily

| before turning back toward Cuba

cent E. Harris, accused of bru-| wo tality toward the elderly Mrs. President to the radio and loud! Luck, was continued 10 2 speaker

recognizan her” three children by a former right

Weight Down to 75 Lbs. !

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Mrs. Luck, her weight reduced president said this “democratic to about 75 pounds from malnu-|. . . collaboration” represented | “what the American people are

trying to encourage in the world » i irae 133 Pet. in Month The charges arose following! Cements Friendship |

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PRICE FIVE CENTS

Truman Asks World Follow U. S. Example

Reaches San Juan On Island Tour

SAN JUAN, P. R, Feb 21! (UP)—President Truman began

'his tour of the Caribbean today. | with a plea to the world to follow, {the example of the United States and Puerto Rico in “the demo.) cratic way of collaboration be-|

tween friendly peoples.” He spoke briefly upon arriving at fhe Isle Grande airport outside San Juan where he was

greeted by Gov. Jesus T. Pinero!

and a large group of Puerto

Rican officials and commanders =

of American armed force units in this area. The President flew here from Key West, Fla, and planned to spend the day. To Visit Virgin Islands He will visit St. Thomas in the

Virgin Islands tomorrow, and|

sail Monday to the nearby island of St. Croix for a brief stop

and the U. 8S. naval base at Quantanamo Bay.

The President emerged from his plane into glaring sunlight and

slowly descended the steps to party. Gov.

meet the welcoming | Pinero and Vice Admiral Daniel E. Barbey accompanied Mr. Tru-|

Gov. Pinero introduced

Mr, Truman ‘velterated his Puerto Rico and halled the pointment of Pinero, the first tive governor, as 4 step in the

direction. Praising the relations between the island people and the gov-

{ernment in Washington, the

Mr. Truman was the first U. 8. President in more than a decade to visit Puerto Rico. His trip was another step to-

{ward fulfillment of a long-stand-| {ing desire to visit all territories special Labor Department survey Yet realize that it is so big

flying the American flag. Tonight, the President will entertain at a stag buffet aboard the White House yacht. He will be joined at San Juan

Krug and Maj Gen. Harry H.| Vaughan, White House military aid who has been in Venezuela recently. Elke al

You May Register After March 3d {graphic survey of prices on 20 *8°*

Branch registration offices for

(the May 4th primary election { will open March 3 for one month.

Persons °‘vho have registered since the 1946 primary and still

allegedly | ve in the same precinct are

cursed the children when they .., registered. .

at all times.”

Hears Gl Training Includes

Turner Protests Cut

WASHINGTON. Feb. 21--(UP)—As if it weren't enough that (UP) veterans are learnirig how to rhumba and

in Flight Training

ride horseback at the

government's expense, House investigators turned up reports today

that they soon may be learning

to gamble,

{who voted in either the primary or the fall election in 1946. Anyone wishing to learn if he is still registered is requested to call the Marion County Board of Registration at MA-4501.

Hoosier Burned

In Atom Lab Fire

| LOS ALAMOS, N. M., Feb. 21

—Amson L. Frohmag, Columbus, Ind., was treated today Sor first and second degree burns

A House Veterans Subcommittee has asked H. V. Stirling, Suffered when he single-handedly Veterans Administration education director, to find out whether

it's true, . Rep. Robert Tripp Ross (R. IN. Y.), a member of the subcomfnittee, said the way he heard it a course in dealing blackjack has been okayed for veterans training in Nevada. Tm E ‘The subcommittee is studying a White House that

dancing, but flight training as {well, except where the course is | directly related to some prospect of a job. ’ ; The ‘budget bureau reported that yeterans’ “leisure time" courses, with nothing in view but fun, are costing the taxpayers in the neighborhood. of $200 million

KE. Webb said he doesn’t believe

that is what congress had in

mind when it agreed to foot the

a year. Budget. director James)

Several thousand veterans, he said, are learning to dance. One staté has approved a Gl course in “applied horsemanship.” What is more, Mr. Webb reported, it comes by mail. He said that of the 118,000 GI's learning to fly, less than 10 per cent have pilot jobs in mind. The administration's proposal dropped like a bomb in a hearing room full of flight school operators who had come from as lar (as. Texas and California to vuice their complaints against the Vey. jerans Administration. The operators, including speed flier Col. Roscoe Tummer, who runs a school in Indianapolis, were protesting an order curtail-

tuition adjunct to regular school-

Kit Clardy, special assistant at-

torney general of Michigan, said plane to attend the Republican made

Republican congressman |Marapolis this afternodi.

put out a laboratory fire in the Los Alamos atomic project. . Mr. Frohman, 38, a chemjst at the project, was working (alone when a flask in which he was {heating chemicals broke\ and splashed the flaming liquid ‘ever his clothes.. He ran oniaids and rolled in a snowbank extinguish the fire

to the building to put out the fire {there before seeking treatment {for his burns.

Mitchell to Mdke GOP Renomination Bid Here

WASHINGTON, Feb, 21-—Rep. Edward A. Mitchell of Evansville will announce his candidacy for

ing flight. training as an extra- renomination as the Sth district!

In | He left here this morning by

In-

Others eligible to vote are those |

| - in his clothing and then returned - Fabricators and manufacturers say increases mean

Acme Telephoto GREEK GUERRILLA GIRL—

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2 GOP Chiefs Ask Justice Dept. Inquiry WASHINGTON, Feb, 21 (UP)—The Joint. Congressional Committee on the economic report voted unanimously today to summon “two or three” steel industry

leaders to explain the increase in steel prices. .

0.) sald the steel men would be

"| called to appear at an open hear-

ing néxt Thursday. The committee will decide from their testimony whether to start a full dress investigation, he said. At the same time, two Republican Senators—Ji H. Ball, Minn, ‘and Arthur V. Watkins, Utah—called for a Justice De-

Wearing the odd uniform in.

man on an Inspection of the which she was captured, 19: honor ‘guard. nel

year-old Khrisseula Pantsou was brought to Salonika with other querrillas who -had been round-

a 03 up following th sheling of

| become a nurse in a field sta. | tion before she surrendered to

{ government officers.

Food Prices Drop

Find" Housewives

|. Keeping Close Watch

CHICAGO, Feb. 21 (UP)—A showed today that food prices reduced 3's per cent in the last month, but grocers sald housewives had clamped onto their pocketbooks tighter than ever. Food dealers said housewives apparently were cutting their purchases until prices drop even lower than since: the big break

to go into

it further or not,” Sen. Taft said.

for, Greek- seaport, She con 1: Bom, “Tatt sald Vice-Chairman ap tended she had been for | Jesse . into service by the rebels to

{is chairman o ling Committee, [to “invite” the to explain its price | “I.think it's {when all the |about the same {same time,” Sen, Ball | . Sen, Watkins said

ithe Justice investigate “all ‘kind, although {find collusion 1100," X | ‘Don’t Need Sen. Ralph E. Vi), said-the price: that the steel

'so important that its decisions prices have to be as a mate iter ‘of public interest as well as private interest.” . Government economists said the new increase will encourage inflation and a third round of wage increase demands by labor. Dr. EdwinG. Nourse, i.

inthe ..commodity. markets gn of the President's Council of Koo-

Feb. 4. — Ewan Clague, commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, announced the results of a tele

foods in 12 large cities. The largest price slashes, he (said, were on pork chops, lard, |bacon, eggs and lettuce. Prices {of onions, potatoes, canned {matoes, coffee and milk were {higher .last Tuesday than on Jan. 13. : | He sald the retail food drop | would reduce the overall cast of living index 1; per cent but rises in other living costs, such as rent and clothing, might offset the (reduction.

Washington Calling—- Se ee : Steel Price Increase Stuns

‘nomic Advisers, said the increase Would have ‘widespread _reper-

, "It seems to me that it discour-

prices down and ition. “I think,

nd a increases, : oseph Dodge, president of |the American Bankers Association, said the steel price increase indicates that “the dangers. of {inflation are not over.” ; | Benjamin F, Fairless, president of ‘the U, 8. Steel Corp., said the

price changes were confined pri- -

marily to semi-finished steel. ¥ a.

U. S. Drive on Inflation

‘It's Very Confusing—Why Are They Doing It?’ Fabricators Ask; Government Is Silent WASHINGTON, Feb. 21-—Steel price rise is stunning blow to administration drive on inflationary price spiral. But so far government is silent. : d Justice Department anti-trust division is investigat-

i » » for evidence of collusion. Bu Meanwhile: :

| ing reason for rise in most cost-of-living items, looking

t about steel? “No comment.”

general | upswing in entire price structure.. Increases in Jast few days

i Affect 20 per cent of steel output.

in January. | Fabricators say they won't | suppliers till | monthly bills from steel com- | panies. “Then they'll have to follow. Says one fabricator: “It all very confusing. Why are they dojng it?"

| Steel Profits Cited

STEEL PROFITS for 1947

point up his query. U. 8. Steel |

$126. 704.000 net after

bill for the education. that vet. p, resented having flight schools Editorial Association midwinter taxes last year, up 43 per cent

erans missed while in service, Mr. Webb. sald more

‘more “specialized” schools have,

compared with “pirouetting, danc-

-and ing, and 1-2-3." Sry | Col. Turner sald it is important with Sth . district : Iking about job opportuni- to’ the national security hat as county chairman and vice chair- Bethiéhem made $51,088,000 {many people as possible “get close man to make, to” flying. '-." Inomncement he

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4 net was up 106 per: cent.

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Re- I, Republican public's net was up 118 per cent. |

Rise ends all doubt about yes newed demands for higher wages.

Chairman Robert A, Taft (R.

To Face Probe

On Price Hikes |

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