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Aiding Cancer Lilienthal ‘Reveals New Use for Cobalt WASHINGTON, Apr. 21 (UP) rman David E. Lilienthal of the Atomic Energy Commission dislosed today the disovery of & new, virtually costless and plen-
tiful radioactive substitute for radium in the treatment of can-
cer. . Mr. Lilienthal reported on the new atomic process to President Truman. ¢ The chairman made plain that the new substitute has not been tested medically. But he sald that commission scientists and medical advisers are’ confident that it will work as well as radium, Mr. Lilienthal said the new use of atomic energy in treating cancer is simple. Inserted Into Furnace Cobait, an inexpensive metal, can be fashioned into rods, tubes, needles or any form desired for the cdncer treatment. These cobalt instruments are then inserted in the atomic furnace at Oak Ridge, Tenn., for a short period. Mr. Lilienthal - told reporters that “in a relatively short time,”
the cobalt becomes radioactive so| that it is as effective as radium.|
He emphasized that radioactive “do as much as radium” in the treatment of cancer, “but po more.” . Radium is not a cure for cancer but in some cases will arrest the development of cancerous tissue. i Mr. Lilienthal also reported to Mr. Truman on the recent test of a new atomic weapon on Eniwetok atoll in the Marshall Islands, 5 iis
“preliminary.” : Asked why he made the report to the President instead ‘of _a military man, Mr. Lilienthal
said, “this was a scientific and engineering test.” : He said Mr. ‘was “in-
tensely interested” in the peacetime = tion -of atomic energy, particularly in the field of relieving human suffering,
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He said the print ue of the discovery of the potential
be prod in volume at virtualjy no cost, 4 ' Radfum™ is" expensive and ex-! remely scarce. He said there are only 26 ounces of radium in the entire United States,
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6am ..42 1am ..46 Tam. ,. 438 11am, .. 47 8a.m ..44 12 (Noon) 18 Sam... 45 1pm .. 49
Another day of “backward” spring * weather is forecast for Indianapolis and vicinity highlighted by cool temperatures and cloudy skies.
predicts better things to come tomorrow with warmer weather moving back into the state. Temperatures are expected to reach a high in the low 60s this afternoon ‘and drop to the low 40s again tonight. Last night the Mercury reached a mipimum of 42, :
OK 1-Way Traffic On 2 Key Streets
Plans for one-way traffic on two more major streets in the mile square were approved by the Safety Board today. \ At the request of the traffic engineering = department, the board asked passage of an ordinance to designate New Jersey St., from Washington St. to Massachusetts Ave. for south-bound traffic only and north-hound trafa on East St. from Ohio to 10th
At the same time the State Highway Commission approved the board's recent designation of Michigan and Vermont Sts. for| One-way traffic between East and West Sts. Michigan St. would be all west-bound and Vermont would be east-bound. The City Council must approve the plan in an ordinance before
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- DISPLACED PERSONS— Indianapolis ‘had its own "displaced persons” problem when police found Earl Solly and sons, Richard, 5, and Philip, eight months, "locking for a«lothes line to: dry the
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A father who wandered Indianapolis ‘streets looking for a clothesline to dry his baby's diapers was back home in Toledo today, thanks to the generosity of city police. Police noticed 39-year-old . Ear! Solly' wandering aimlessly along the: 400 block Toledo St. about 6 p. m. yesterday, carrying an infant in his arms and leading a small boy. x : uestioning Mr. Solly said: Ons looking or a vary with | til his wife could be located. Mr.
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line to dry the baby's|Solly added}hé believed his wife iy Eto
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that he and! Sgt. Chéster Timmerman and
his two sons, Richard, 5, and | Patrolmen Vernon Britton and Philip, eight months, had arrived |
from Toledo at 6:45 a. m. He| said he planned to settle here ang, Officers scurried up a lunch
get a job. He had only a few
Earl Alspaugh took the. trio to the Juvenile Add Division.
for the father and: children and
cents and’ two bottles of milk{dug deep in their pockets.
for the baby.
The collection netted enough to
He came to Indianapolis, he {buy bus tickets to Toledo. where Lak Solly said he had a brother
who would help him.
Proceeds From Horse Show To Aid Youth Center Project : Legion-Times Charity Event Receipts Will Be Placed in Trust for Future Construction
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With an eye to the future needs of downtown Indianapolis, officials of the Legion-Times Charity Horse Show announced today that all proceeds from the three-day event will be placed in a trust fund to be used for the future construction and maintenance of a
Community Youth Center.
The fund will be administered by a board of trustees named by The Times and the Robison-Rags-dale post of the American Legion. The Community Youth Center, as plans are envisioned now, would be located in the mile
square, and would provide a long-
needed center for youths of all
ages
Meanwhile, the latest develop-
ments in the horse show itself,
ischeduled for Friday, Saturday
and Sunday, May 14, 15 and 168 at the Coliseum, saw many orders for reserved seats arriving daily, With only 23 days remaining before the opening performance, horse enthusiasts throughout In-
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were, getting their requests for good seats in early. Horse associations and members of several riding stables were reserving as many as 30 seats in a block for all four performances. Box and side mezzanine seats for the special Sunday afternoon session also were in heavy demand. Attracts Attention The mail order réserved seat ticket office is located in Room 833, Lemcke building. Over the counter ticket sales will start next Monday in a downtown location to be announced. in The Times. - Ticket prices, including tax, are; Box seats, $1.20; Side Mezzanine, 85 cents, and End Mezzanine, 50 cents. All seats are reserved. ex-
, {cept: End Mezzanine.
One of the classes of competition attracting considerable local attention -is the Hunters and Jumpers division. Many of these horses have been in training at nearby Bonham Stables for the past few months, being for the mid-May show. Starts at 4 Feet In addition to five elimination events for the hunters and jumpers, there will be a championship stake for each class. The jump for the Championship Jumper Stake will start at 4 feet, This
Association, today urged ali h I to assist the Entry ‘and
Bus Fare Hike
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WEDNESDAY, APRIL
Legal Experts Scan Proposed
City Hall Moves to
Intervene in Case By RICHARD LEWIS
City Hall moved today to intervene in the petition of Indianapolis Railways, Inc., for the establishment of express servicéd to the suburbs at premium fares. Mayor Feeney said he would instruct the City Legal Department to see that the interests of Indianapolis residents are fully represented in the prop2sed rate increase. The utility formally filed its petition with the Public Service Commission yesterday asking express service on eight suburban lines and cancel transfer privileges on two feeder lines a few hours after this move was predicted by The
Times. In Planning Stage Meanwhile, .a second petition was in the planning stage by Rall ways to institute express service to North Side points also at premium fares. The utility's suburban petition revived for the first time in 15 years the old “zone plan” whereby suburban residents would pay
their homes and downtown. In this case, however, express serv ice offered speed in exchange. Mayor Feeney' said he would not take a, position on the utility’s petition until it had been studied by the legal departmient. He asserted, however, that any change in the rate structure was the city’s business.
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Sts. x Mars Hill — Express from downtown’ to and beyond Rhodius Park. Drexel Gardens--Express from downtown to and beyond the intersection of W. Washington St. and Tibbs Ave. Twenty-cent express service is proposed on these lines: Sunshine Gardens — Express from downtown to Bluff Ave, and 8. Meridian St. Post Road — Express from downtown to and beyond 10th St. and Arlington Ave. Kentucky-Tibbs—Express from downtown to'and beyond Kentucky Ave. and Harding St, Rockville Rd.—Express from downtown to and beyond W. Washington 8t. and Tibbs Ave. The petition asked for the cancellation of tramsfer privilege on the Ravenswood Feeder Bus line from Broad Ripple and on the new Arlington Ave. line from RB. Washington St. and Arlington Ave. Pay Extra Dime Patrons using those lines would pe required to pay an extra dime, or a total of 20 cents, to ride between their homes and downtuwn, , The petition also asked 15 cents for “owl” service on lines operating irom midnight to 5 a. m. throughout the City. Railways officials said existing lines serving the points marked for express service will be continued, except where they cover approximately the same route as in the case of the Mars Hill bus line and. the W. Indianapolis trackless trolley. The Mars Hill bus line giving local service from downtown to Rhodius Park would be merged with the trolley line. The express bus would operate in addition to
Student Fare Unchanged There would not, however, be any 10-cent riding beyond the suburban points where the express bus would make its first stop after leaving downtown. Local service from downtown would be rendered only up to those points—16th and Bell Vieu Sts. in the case of Speedway and 10th and Arlington Ave. in the case of the Post Road lines. The nickel fare for school children will be continued on all lines—expreds and local, utility executives said. Frequency of service on the express lines has not been determined.
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U. S. Court Issues Mine Strike Stay
* Injunction Put ”
By United Press Federal Judge T. Alan Goldsborough today issued a preliminary injunction . againt the
United - Mine Workers staging further work stoppages. The order was handed down after the government argued that a strike still ‘was in progress in the soft coal fields and that it imperils the nation’s health and safety. Bhortly after Judge Goldsborough enjoined the miners, the soft coal operators revealed that they had. sued in a Washington, D. C. federal court for a restraining order against paying pensions to the miners. =. The pension dispute led to the walkout which Judge Goldsborough restrained. Calls Miners Back The operators charged that the pension plan violates the TaftHartley Act by permitting the payment of pensions to miners whose employers did not contribute to the multi-million-dollar miners welfare fund. It was under the same act that Judge Goldsborough issued his injunction today. John L. Lewis last night asked the soft coal miners to return to work after thousands of them staged a new walkout in protest against the conviction and fining of him and the United Mine Workers for criminal contempt. But most of the miners still were out today. It was explained
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come to the Republican Some such town-crier proclam For Mike appointment as chief doorkeeper Although he is an Irish Catholic,» Mike's career at GOP national conventions might be described in the Masonic term of + “coming up through the chairs.” For he long was the Indiana « doork Tr, before hel got promoted in 1 to assistant chief. : Chief doorkeeper at that convention, which also was held in Philadelphia, was William: Livengood of Pennsylvania. This time he will be sergeant-at-arms. And Mike will be the head man with 100 or so helpers to see that all is well with the.seating arrangements. No Stampede “I don’t believe that there will be a Willkie-like stampede for Harold Stassen at this convention.” Mr. Hanrahan said today. “So far as I am concerned the seats will go to the old-line Republicans and not to the New Deal Democrats and semi-So-cialists who voted for Mr. Stassen in the Wisconsin and Nebraska primaries. “This is going to be a Republican convention and I hope they nominate an orthodox Republican, We are sure to win in Indiana and throughout the country this year and we want a Repubiican we can count on being a Republican.” As a “fair sample” of what he means by a Republican, Mr. Hanrahan cited Indiana's favorite son candidate— Majority Leader Charles A. Halleck. He thinks he is a real dark horse in case of a convention deadlock. Outside
* Oleo Repeal Fight : Editorial,’ Page 14 Times Washington Burean WASHINGTON, Apr. 21—Rep. Edward A. Mitchell, Evansville Republican, today held a strategy meeting of the 18 co-authors of margarine tax repeal bills to prepare for the floor fight scheduled Monday. Bottled up in the House Agriiculture Committee by the Re{publicans, plus one margarine tax repea! has been forced for floor action by obtaining the required 218 signatures to a discharge petition. The
the strategy
* |committee which Mr. Mitchell or-
“I am confident that we will
win a oh Jnargariue tax repeal in the House,” Mitchell tie predicted. ’
of castigating Stassen, he made no choice among ‘those siready in the presidential race. He expects Indiana to nominate Mr. Halleck and stick with him until the bandwagon rolls, he said. Political Miracle ! A minor political miracle grew out of Mr. Hanrahan's appoint. ment; For it brought all factions of the Republican Party together ito back him. Gov. Ralph Gates, who doubles as Bepublican ational Commitnan, flew tladelphia to put in a plug for him ‘with the ts. Committee. Mrs.
1 ton, Indiana’s Republican National Committeewoman, J Ww Was a member of the ts Committee. She led every member for Mr. Hanrahan. So
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BEDFAST— Walter P. Reuther, UAW president, is shown in his hed at Grace Hospital, Detroit, after having been wounded by shotgun slugs in an attempt on his fife. His ‘condition is good, doctors say, but.the use of his arm remains in doubt.
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Detroit Police Open Widespread Manhunt DETROIT, Apr. 21 (UP) Rewards totaling $111,500 were posted today for the ar« rest and conviction ‘of the
{would-be assassin of Walter
P. Reuther, president of the CIO United Auto Workers Union. The UAW’s 22-man executive board voted to offer $100,000 at“
(an emergency session called by
secretary-Treasurer Emil Mazey after Mr. Reuther was ambushed in his home last night and seri.
{ously wounded by a . shotgun
charge. Mr, Resuther, meanwhile, was pronounced out of danger by doce tors ‘who said, however, he might lose the ‘ise of his right arm, shattered by a shotgun blast. Dr, Raymond A. Sokalo, directed an operation upon. Mr. Reuther’'s arm and a less 0] chest wound at New Grace Hg pital, said his patient's conditio was good. , i But he declared he had been unabie to determine the extent of damage to the nerves in the arm. He said amputation was not being considered. wh
Communism within his union, stuf a compound fracture punctured his chest, but did not reach his lung cavity. . down while standrere Rpebiiilniy pre .
THE WINDOW—Policeman stands in ‘the approximate place where the assailant stood to fire at Mr. Reuthsr, who was in the Reuther breakfast nook. The officer
Hoosier 'Hear Ye, Hear Ye' To Greet GOP Delegates
Mike Hanrahan Named Chief Doorkeeper For Republican Parley in Philadelphia
By DANIEL M. KIDNEY, Times Staff Writer WASHINGTON, Apr. 21-- Hear ye, hear ye. Hoosiers who National June ‘21 will be assured of good seats.
Canvention at Philadelphia
ation might he appropriate today. here celebrating his
William E, Jenner and Homer E. Capehart and all nine Republican Congressmen from the state. The state committee and the Republican Editorial Association also OK'd him Mr. Hanrahan said. Outside of serving as an election commissioner in Marion County, this is the first appointment he has received in a lifetime of Republican “politicking.”
Siamese Twins
He and Leo Scharfin of Indianapolis are almost as inseparable as the Siamese twins. They came down here early this spring to ask the place for Mr. Hanrahan at a Republican National Committee meeting. . 80 although Leo will not be his official assistant—that job had to go to another state— Mike expects to have him handy at the convention as one of the two doormen from Indiana. “What does the job pay?” Mr. Hanrahan was asked. “Nothing but a lot of goodwill with the party workers” came the prompt answer. “And Leo and I have no plans to sell the tickets, either.”
Postpone Opener With St. Paul
The Indianapolis Indians’ scheduled “big” series opener with St. Paul tonight has been postponed by Tribe officials because of threatening cold weather. : The two teams will play tomorrow night at 8:30. The postporied contest will be added to a later May or June date here. St. Paul arrived in town today from Columbus where they defeated Columbus last night, 6 to 3, to keep a one-game lead over the Indians, Who beat Minneapolis here last night, 3 to 2. A ————————————
GIRL, 5, DROWNS MONTICELLO, Ind. Apr. 21 (UP)-—Puneral services were planned today for Coralee Conwell, 5-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Cleon Conwell of Monticello, who drowned in the Tippecanoe River yesterday.
TRUMAN TO MEET PRESS WASHINGTON, Apr, 21 ( —President Truman will hold a
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Detroit's City Council added $10,000 to ‘the $100,000 reward posted by UAW and the Michi State Committee of the Communist Party, who counts Mr. Re their one of its bitterest foes, of« fered $500. , ‘Mr, Reuther's home ldots! 174 later announced it had added $1000 to the mounting reward. The union executive board voted to offer the $100,000 re ward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person or persons who attempted to murder Mr. Reuther, When the attack occurred, Mr. Reuther’s two children, Linda, 5, and Elizabeth Ann, 8 months, were sleeping. The gunman fired a single charge through the window and then fled in a maroon four-door Ford sedan. Police took tire and footprint impressions to aid in their search for him.
Becond Attack Dectors said the fact that Mr, Reuther was standing with his right side. toward the window probably saved his life,
Reuther’'s life within a decade. Thugs once invaded his home, Dest him up with a blackjack and
Police Commissioner Harry 8. Toy took personal command of the investigation, one of the biggest man hunts in Detroit's hise tory. Mr. Toy ordered the entire police force to inspect every garage in the city for a trace of the red CAT. Despite his serious wounds, Mr. Reuther hurled defiance at ‘his assallant as hé lay on the floor in a pool of blood. . “Those dirty ---= « veceeee y cried. “They have te shoot a man in, the back. They won't come out in the open and fight.” Mr. Reuther’s assailant parked his car ‘on a’ side street and sneaked up to the rear of the union leader's home. & Mr. Reuther was standing by the breakfast nook and was just turning to pick up a sandwich when the charge hit him. It hurled him to the floor. “They got me, Mae,” he yelled to his wife. Mrs, Reuther said she thought he was joking. “When I turned and saw the blood, I knew he wasn’t kidding,” she said. . Three neighbor boys saw the assailant flee. : Mr. Reuther was rushed to Grace Hospital where attendants administered three pints of blood and one of plasma. He was conscious all the time and made a statement to Wayne County Prosecutor James N. McNally. He sald he had no definite idea who the gunman was, But he suggested three
possibilities -— ¢ CP (Communist Party) or some
|screwball.”
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