Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 March 1948 — Page 1

| MONDAY, MARCH 1, 1048

urope, Prevent Ps fie On Tire Award]

{ Firm Charges Its Low ’ | Bid Ignored Led + By RICHARD LEWIS | A formal protest of the award lof a $2850.62 tire contract last week to a high bidder by the! = |Sanitation Board was given to f IMayor Feeney today by the Associated Service Co. of In-

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Senator Hits at Move To Slash $5.3 Billion

Recovery Program

U.S. Faces Decision Which Might. Tip Scales. Toward Ruin, He Says in Blunt Speech By JOHN L: STEELE, United Press Staff Corrdupondent WASHINGTON, Mar. 1—Senate President Arthur H.' _§ Vandenberg (R. Mich.) urged the Senate today to approve. sr ‘the Europes Recovery and mass America's re- ] sources in a mighty effort to “halt World War III before | it starts.” oy “It can be the turning point in history for one hundred years to come,” the Repub- : I | lican foreign policy Header lederhip x al told the Senate in opening re are no blueprints to' a Fx Date on the $5.3 billion ERP bill, |Suarantee results.” iy Sn Hip . “This legislation seeks peace| i. Vandenberg made these ELOQUENT PLEA—In hard. [of the “major” tire companies and stability for free men in a % Rejection of ERP ny hitting language, Senate Presis | “oy nave advised the Associated {hem "vy sconomie ther than] CONTess Involves 8 Bight o “tar| dent Arthur H, Vandenberg [R. [Service Co. that we. are. wiling}

ling greater risks”. and immediate ap-F , ,. to give the tires they sell a trial BE ra erve the victory ProPriation of more billions tor, Mich). urged the Senate today |ip' they want to give us a set”

defense, | to approve the Europesn re- [the Mayor said. we thought we won in World War : | ‘ s 11. It strives to help stop World ERP ex ndit | covery program. . | “The Sanitation Board is comWar III before it starts.” , Xpe ures are guilty of) _ : posed of businessmen who exercised their judgment in select: ing a tire they know instead of one they don"t know.”

The company said its bid of $2129.94 on the tires was $720.68 ill [lower than the $2850.62 bid of| | ithe General Tire. Co. which got $ {the contract. Rs Tabulation of 14 bids received! on the tires for Sanitation Department equipment showed tit’ the General Tire Co. was the fifth highest bidder. ~ Lowest of ‘Major’ Firms Mayor Feeney said he had been

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Mental Patient Admits Slaying; ‘1 Loved Her Too Much,’ He Says

‘Don’t Know Why I Did It,’ Police Told; irr “Three Children in School During Tragedy =~ A ‘28-year-old divorcee was hacked to death with a (hatchet in her home, 517 W. Court St., this morning. ” | © The badly mutilated body of Mrs. Evelyn Ellis was {found decapitated on the bed where she slept. | Her former husband, Fred Ellis, 44, recent mental pa-

1 was Editors Call. Meeting vos, “wirmounded: by a poo! of On Governor Race blood. iS By ROBERT BLOEM I loved her so’ much, T

ha Hoosier Democratic editors will said. “I didn't want to see her hold a special meeting here Sat-!leave.” !

the AY (oF the. Tine Bs pris evard ! or win the Sanitation Board award. (Jf) North Side Two men who were bitten

: : _#ort of co0-| Premier Paasikivi was un- Tire was not the low bidder been gutted sequence which she does not her- go. i000 recommended Among the so-called conquest, under-iself choose voluntarily to invite. 1a Tavs ms

afternoon to search for a maniployee of Foxworthy Ford. Mr survival of free WT ot He refused after the conference| 1c, & Rubber Co. he of Peoy OR *®ito give the press a hint as to his|, I" A letter protesting the award attempted to gain entrance to one residence. :

A woman living in. the 2500 block, N. Alabama St. reported didithat the man knocked on ber

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{re made by the Mansfield Tire Russia’ but favored the negotia- & Rubber Co.. Mansfield. 0.” Mr. my house because 'somie one Is! as Stempfel's Jetter said, “The brand chasing me’. I knew he was a f

“under, trarily the difference between many other flags. If it fails, we, “success and still-borm failure.” have done our final best. If 4t tion of a ‘friendship treaty, He appealed for an appropriation succeeds, our children, and our Mr. Stalin had suggested.

doctpr immediately.

The name of the tires that we Bid/'man beea cnh Dennsrat that would leave “no alibi for children’s children will call us|Conservatives hold 28 of the 200 was the United Commercial way he op ih ¥iice and he; “= fairer bi blessed, May Sod nt his| seats in Parliament. [Trek Tires.” Flips Lock ] o Guarantee of Success benediction upon timate! Predictions were made freely Says Tires Approved The woman said she became , : : Somberly Mr. Vandenberg told event. lin responsible quarters that Fin-/ Mr. Stempfel told the Mayor (rightened and flipped the lock on 17 1 the Senate that the vast spending Supporters of ERP were conf- land would send a delegation t0ithat he had sent tires for exam. |the Screen door and refused tol d plan was only a “calculated ~isk”|dent it would pass with votes to Moscow in response to Stalin's in-|ination to the, Sanitation Plant.|let him in. She said the caller LL. 8 “great sabotage be hectic Xn regular party lines a proved the tire. the house and that he kept look-| Bank Your Furnaces, of our own chtmennt | Ben andonon : “{vieq umianaleld tire. be anid. car.(ing back for his pursuers. “Get Out Raincoats uy dwn slid fe Sdsbiaty. was aligned g ried the same guarantee as any| When I refused his second de-| : retary George CG. ally recommended for purchase Walked rapidly like a man around | e281 ee The greatest nation on earth shall in urging approval of =*R » l ay Sontuends od WShASt tht aide Sard’ and Into AMhame $a es " " ills 3 . Th a «= = & LISSian 0 ICY ecutives of the department. 8st.” he ys ¥all Cronk 4 8am... 31 12 (Noon) 35 | : | i : : J Mr. Stemptel said that. during... ‘Goes to Fall Creek’. 1 oo on "as 0 20000) oo. . foi Simms: Reds Appear. Bent. 1 "LONDON, "Mar." 1 (UP) -De- the war, Ln Tire war, I watched him and he went’ » i 2 " ™ . 0 g ® Cc eo ® § N° Ifense Minister A. V. Alexander as. APPrOved by iid feasea) govesn- tanard Fa Creek and 1 1omt sgn, Backyard forecasters who den Forcing risis in UropRe «-« Russia today of advocating specifications. ~~ | Shessid the man had on a dark, Ped On March coming in like a

By WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS are in actual contact, are par-| FRECHE OF freedom-loving] “As taxpayers.” Mr. SumplellIOAR SKIFt SILK hose, Oxfords, 3 tay Serippe-Howard Foreign Editor i | 3 . e keeping her own told the major, “we are heartily a A WASHINGTON, Mar. 1—Amer. ticularly disturbing. One intelli Ibig army “to work its will in favor of your economy drive White scarf around his head. Tis day will not ‘exactly fit 3 yy {gence officer likened the atmos-| . " | arious depart- pitti pecoprgin either case. lean and foreign intelligence | 1 0°0 there to the situation tn] aor haut. ho Word” debate in| ments, bu “we do feel that the, | Ine Weather Buleat forecasts Agencies are receiving alarmingic, hington just before Pearlthe House of Commons on the Sanitation Board has completely | 0 en Fr gs a a feports concerning Russia., , . | Harbor. {government's . defense policy as| by-passed your efforts.” | : - vr: Beckie pir throug She seems bent on forcing the! Bock in 1941. when the Far SSnsoA Niniaount of I aT , : |tomorrow forenoon 1 t t an early |g {months o p tain, - | 4 S | : Jue of peace or war at an Eastern erate was building up. Ir aa. Champs of Paoli Above Freezing Tonight apan hassadors of impending war and the Labor-' » 1 4 he Indications are that unless| ard "Kurusi met daily with See-i,, "ry, "so 14 catiea upon then Hif the Hoop Western Europe and the United gl of State ¢ effort to bring| enter democracies to try to With ut H I tates act quickly to achieve the/in an apparent e ring |, void one b to Russia' ¥¥ | 00 | Btces and unity 30) peace ta China and the Western Ct ars Jroposing | state. |e o P a last night was caught here today: Weather in sight. /'It may even, Soviet aggression, it may Pacific. "en llc ; Indianapolis police apprehended | be too late. © | At first, the Japanese stalled ST. FRANCIS in Harrison

dl t—— & MT. 48-year-old James Lahr in the 500 The flooded Wabash River : » i as ¥ { Three things, according to high-|for time. Then Secretary Hu (6 Masked Bandits | County was the only sectionaliyie or N. Pine St. about noon. reached its crest at 16.9 feet at! ranking sources in Washington, noticed a change of tactics. They! {high school basketball champion was serving a one to|Lafayette and weather bureau of-| London, Paris and the occupied

The youth | suddenly appeared to be in 2 Flee With $20 ,000 in the state today without a ticket (10. year term for burglary. \Acials said the river would begin Areas of Western Germany and hurry. As the first of December | - (problem for the regional. | Earlier one fugitive surrendered to drop this afternoon without Austria, are immediately and neared, they fussed over the SEV BLAND, Mar. 1 (UP)—! The team representing the

at McCordsville. Marvin Arnold, [causing any serious damage, i imperatively needed to bring this slightest delay. On Dec. 7 came. hooded men in autos forced Catholic seminary was the sur-|g) "se po Co gave himself, The Wabash was two feet above about, These are: the sneak ch t Pearl Har-|® bank official's car to the curb prise winner at Paoli last Satur-|y, at the McCordsville telephone flood stage at Peru this morning FIRST: Prompt passage by bor ‘whi Jn H 8 and Mr {today in ‘a daring daylight rob- day, but the students aren’t Per exchange a short time after the'and White River was about six Congress of the Euorpean Re- r, while Jip, uA De. bery and escaped with $20,000 in' mitted to leave the campus 0p... as the trio eluded a patrol feet out of its banks at Martinscovery am. Kurusu were a e tho} h. they cant accompany the champs oo. which had spotted them. ils. "i SECOND: Western European |Partment. The, secret of their! john Biris, vice president of the to regional play. at ‘Jefferson- gu a¢ large is Lioyd 8. Throop, e Wabash stood at 14 feet at co-operation to make American haste was out. + |Roumanian Savings and Loan ville. {18, Connersville, sentenced to one Terre Haute and the weather bis! ald effective. | Today, according to informa- Co, and Louis Fillip Jr., 34, were The winners had no fans at vo 10 years on a larceny charge. reau said it probably would crest THIRD: Some kind of regional/tion from Berlin, the Russiansithe victims. Paoli either—just the team and) Tne trio fled from Pendleton at about 16 feet—even with flood, [ defense pact under the United|also are beginning to be in & The two men were taking the coaching staff. about 7 p. m. last night. 'stage- Wednesday or Thursday. Nations, 2 { hurry. {money, wrapped in brown paper, The complement of tickets - - m— Reports from Germany and This may or may not be sig: Austria, where Hast and West nificant, 3

The second of a trio of youth-|De slightly above freezing.

at Pendleton nag neve soda woat be sees no extremely cold

from a branch of the Cleveland ‘which normally would go to Mt.

myself, ean't understand why a bite | Mr. Biris sald that as he left sectionals for the first time this ! man will give up a $15,000 a . brought in to the " 8 gr. lthe r, will be distributed to the : ! jo clinic at about 11 a. m. 25 {the curb in his auto, one of the Year, 0 : n orn a : job in Washington to come back b 1 : ro . robbers’ cars pulled in ahead of other competing schools, Bedford, | y and seek an $8000 a year job od trend Who sald Ellis a n t 2 nsi £ : him and another car left from New Albany and Seymour. | . . . here.” - : : = p commit suicide by jump : the other side of the street to! eB Wrkiicii, Yan the aneung’ : Story in The Times About Mother's Hunt ng off a byidg th 1 (parochial sc - 4 GOP groomi didates in Marion County sheriff Four men leaped from the ars tonal, Washington Cutholl hav FIL Suites Jrousts Sympathy BUENOS ATES, Mar. 41), Alendants tod Nim lo return frooming new can fario car, aj} armed, Mr. Filllp said. [Ing been the first. The plight of a mother who needs to locate her AWOL sailor Pr (lo the clinic Web. 27. At that nomination scramble. .......cocinveesisisssesc Page 3 One. broke the, giiss out of the re [son for blood transfusions for her unborn child has aroused the

GE bars ‘inflationary’ wage hike to 100,000 workers Page 5 right window. Two. other men, Martial Law Hinted [sympathy of scores of Indianapolis residents.

: Also masked, moved on the car . 2 X The mother, Mrs, Mary Kidwell, 423 BE. 224 St. said today that Erksine Johnson names his Oscar winners . . . In ad- trom the left sie leaving their By British in Holy Land she has received phone calls from more than 20 persons who offered vance , serressessersipge 3 auto blocking the path of Mr. (Earlier Details, Page 10) 'theiir blood In case she cannot locate her son, Robert. Kidwell, absent

Mayor Feeney answers complaints that swamp his office] They arciind the bank om ira RUSALEM i, 3 =a (UF), The on te nasded to give bidod| plained tht pre-natal tests show| | gigi Fitish Military command, ins, o child, expected f about three] Mra, Kidwell to ha RH negay City Hall Reporter Louis Armstrong tells the Sials soughly. Stabbed Sie — a possible hint at putting| est" Doctors told the mother ative type blood. while the oS

street. i warned Jewish and Arab factions| "Child Will probably need a ‘Mr. Inside’ hysterieal over Hoosier Hoopla here. ..Page 11 iy qupatun HUNGER STRIKE '0d2Y that further hostiities here! CITES, [hnafusion of blood Key to Other Inside Features

24 hours of birth, because A | WASHINGTON. Mar. 1 (UP)—|ures on both. re of a RH blood factor. Amusements » 6|Fashions «s+ +15 Movies nines 6/Stranahan “. 8 for - Eddie Ash ... 8|Forum :o... 12l0biuaries +. 4iTeen Talk ..14 in New York Harbor for deporta- Corn Prices Bounce Back Bage ......15/Meta Given..15|F. C. Othman 11/Teen Topics. .14|srreatoned to go on a hunger CHICAGO, Mar. 1 (UP)—Corn usiness . aan Indpls. ii Radio sersre JOIAABINGION +12 strike until released, the Justice Commies urs, ogieigs Tndpis. 11 Rus i 2 Ro a, 3 cloned

today. «13 Mrs. Manners 3 Society sass db Tditortaly ,, 13 Ruth Millett...) 8ports wh

Mayor Pome ” Hunt Masquerader Police Seek Men i the

f asa : 8 dof In the 400 bjack of K. Wash- IF bis lstt the door open. for . , the bid in st. were draft. declined comment tabulation showed ‘that General Search for Man i, Yesteriny today June knowledge

RI guts aia Lager for tire Dressed as Woman |'e} showed the dog to Frodiin i ; that agree to negotiate companies. was 12 cents destroyed after “sa : 1 is not a plan against eastern with Russia, higher than that of the Goodrich Police squads were alerted this it bit Marvin Myers, Carmel, em

dressed as a woman after he had! Myers told police the dog had nipped at two other men before

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Low temperatures tonight will] ful trusties who hurdled a fence| Weatherman Paul A. Mitler|Wnk Ite fair fo draft a manippy‘sol

be slightly warmer tomorrow. . [chance If the door is open. At

-. “a av |%on Day crowd, : A patient there at | iu |St. Francis, which entered the Scores Offer Blood to Save™ because too many people, like intervals since 1939. He

30 dors over the state. all of with me last week he ped. i whom were intent on drafting asked the doctors Kaep me former Gov. Henry Schricker as there but they Tos in nominee, had Tequested the meet: mit. surcile ot Wet ey ing. Tai ig day before he went to the hosa iat Faconts| "I tried to Jump off the ington St. River but

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of the special meeting Kilis plans of the editors. {When his wite got & week. He sald Gets Shot-in-the-Arm it and this :{ The “Schricker for Governor” ne

Is | d as. id he . eDrati {its friends—countiess. prayerful tire p as t 1 thougl a pee urged an pi tirnout. It didn't a they threatened to slice off ar%i-|stones of America but {asked If he could walk throu a betagn op

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Only anthem brought more of the 1200 Dem-i 1; om, a ocratic guests to their feet than “I kept thinking for the introduction of ‘the former qove that Evelyn would ka - back tg me,” he id Ne } Top Billing y was out all Saturday Run of the day talk among the Night. I kept coming back yesEanoerity Siaa gave the littie teNdeF WRG 1 Nas Griving mp man in the white hat top billing. B 10 mo if She was Editors and other Bchricker| : pny : ; state Democranic LLosition Of thel,, o, ‘she was here, T put my cah Mr. Schricker, saying he didn"? AC 8 B. m. and I wasn't out when he was nominated before don’t

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[There appeared little doubt the . a organization would fight the ls, m I 1 was talkSchricker draft if it materializes/ine to her. T told her T was sorry. [on the grounds that Mr. Schricker | “What am-1-- supposed “tn do [hax § "had" record of supporting now, I asked her?" : {his party organization while in Preoccupled and somewhat de< (ome, tached, he said he returned to | At Baturday's meeting, Herbert look at her from time to time Hareis, freasures of the editorial while he “talked io her.” assoc n, said friends of Mr. He passed his hapd across his {Schricker hope ‘to determine forehead several times and said definitely whether the former! “I've had such a pressure across {Governor can be drafted. my head for several months” ‘Some Say It's Unfair’ “Will they take me away from “Some of the editors don't] leer Awa) Pr against his will,” Mr. Harris said, | in School we don't want to pass up a He said he wanted to stay at : home and say “Goodby and good the same time we don't want toi pi CECH moved today. Waste a lot of effort if he won't “What's “he moved aut. the 5 : accept the nomination anyway.” kids? IT Tr ’ No details were made available, ' Suess Tve disgraced

on how the editorial group plans them, haven't I?” he said. to determine exactly what Mr, > He shook his head and then Schricker's attitude will be to- Puried his face ds. ward the draft, Ze couple as children, * Meanwhile, Democratic guns o Cotriek, 11; id were officially leveled Saturday| "A Yne. 6 all pupils at School night at the prospect that Sen. Police went to the scheol William E. Jenner will return to 8°. the children, wo Indians. 10 seek - the Republican! Mrs. Ellis was the of nomination for Governor. Mrs, May Keller, 464% W. WashIf he does, National Committes- fom t= 1&5 a man Frank McHale told the Jacks| ora Hospital today revealed that

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--President Manuél Peron under: | time doctors who went an appendectomy today. said he told of er — —— » | tempt } a’ See Page 8 "Thus PACE cont o 5 For ‘Net Pairings 3 ‘ss The Times today pre’ sents a composite schedule |¢

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