Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 April 1948 — Page 2

ir a . of ¢ ! ly today. £ * FLOWER PICKERS—Thess little girls, Candace Lynn OF, 2/, {100658088 manpower program here ear : fleft]. and Donna Carroll Savage, 3 slipped around to the side Bhs year | Fire broke out almost imme.

of thé Minimum: Cost House: at the Indianapolis Home Show and picked flowers to their hearts’ content. Candace is the daughtor of Mr. and Mrs. Paul OF. 1031 W. 37th St., and Denna is the ‘ daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Noble Savage, 5136 Crittenden Ave. The show, which’ closes tomorrow night at 10:30 p. m, (DST), has been the most successful exhibition since 1922, with attendance expécted to reach 110,000,

Ask Mrs. Manners— ‘They Are the Cattiest Bunch That Ever Was’

1 BELONG to a girls’ club and like all its members but I think they are the cattiest bunch that ever was. I don't know why but they must be jealous of me because they - have all the symptoms. At dances and parties they try to Suppress me and won't ask me to dance. ask

spread waste” in Federal govern[publican candidate for Congress from the 11th district, at an Eng-

t|declared, “to illustrate the colosWright propeller plant or Kentucky

a in appal quantities was bat- n, pres e into with sledgeham- striking CIO Packinghouse Workmers.” ~ |ers, today asked Attorney Gen-

Mr. Moore

Forrestal Approves Plan for Training Teen-Agers in Army

Secretary Still Urges ‘Universal’ Measure;

Administration Backs Senate Proposal WASHINGTON, Apr. 24 (UP)—The administration today endorsed a Senate compromise plan to merge the draft and universal milf training. ; Onder the proposal, 18 and 19-year-olds would be trained in the regular Army instead of in a separate UMT program. Defense James Forrestal said the compromise is acceptable to him. But ne urged ia TT TE — in a letter to the Senate Armed Services Committee that it be

' . ee FIT soon seen O1l Plant Rocked by a program of Universal Mle ” we mes BY EXplOSION

The merger plan was worked) -.,. po Fighters

out by Sens. Raymond E. Bgldwin (R. Conn.), Millard E. Tyd-| Suffer Minor Burns EL SEGUNDO, Cal. Apr. 24

ings (D. Md.) and other members| of the Senate Committee. They have expressed the belief that (UP)—A tremendous explosion it is the only way of getting a rocked the Standard Oil plant

The administration’s universal diately and lighted the sky for training plan has run into stiff miles around. All streets in the opposition in both the House and area were blocked off and police Senate. {warned residents of the area to Advocates of the Merger plan stay indoors. pointed out that it would save! Witnesses said the blast centhe cost of a separate UMT ar- tered in the cracking plant ‘or rangement with its own camps high-test gasoline. They said the and other installations. terrific shock came -about five The plan calls for six months minutes after a warning siren of training in regular Army, sounded. ’ camps and another six months of 12 Treated for Burns alternate military training, either) : Twelve fire fighters were treated in school, in the National Guard, for minor burns at the refinery or elsewhere. . hospital.

Blames Inflation |Ehe a On Federal Waste

plosion. The telephore company said it could not get calls The current inflation cycle was blamed, in part on the “wide-

through to the city. Firemen were fighting to keep the flames from reaching nearby butane gas tanks. Few persons were in the, plant ‘when the explosion occurred and there were no reported dead al-

though ambulances streamed to

the scene. . lish Ave. GOP rally last night.

uk BEES Ags U.S. Probe boundaries of Indianapolis, -0f Kansas Strike

ment departments and bureaus in an address by Hoyt Moore, Re-

sal waste. At the former Curtiss-

“Almost all ‘this machinery” “could have

eral Tom Clark to investigate and wanton police terror-

- up. I'm supposed to marry a man, 27, I want except let me keep my girl-friends loved him but we'rc so different. He is quiet I love a gay time. He still wants to. go with me, thinking I'll mind. ‘Can you help? ! i JUST TROUBLED. This retiring man probably hores you a little and he'd bore +. Jou more if he buried you at home every day. You caught yourself time. I see little reason to continue dating him,

asserted, . been earmarked for and sold fo private industry to help with the battle of production and bea ex- down Inflation.”

Urges: UMT Legislation

“brujal ism” in ‘breaking up massed picket lines at Kansas City, Kas. ‘He usked ' Attorney General irk to’ “demonstrate that eivil liberties in this country have more substance than simply highIng phrases.” a

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_ THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

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Washington Calling— Europe Relief

y From Page One) Force says slowest is turning out one jet a day; some make 10, Secretary Symington said Russian lead over us might be 12 to 1; some officers under him think it's even greater. Senate GOP policy-makers may decide this week whether to play politics with Atomic Energy Commission. They’d like to drag their feet on Tru. man re-nomiiation of present commissioners, hoping they'll control all jobs after January, ‘But in these times they're not sure they dare put AEC ‘on postoffice patronage level. Senate Atomic Energy. Committee will meet next week to talk it over. Meariwhile, there's talk of compromise—extending. terms of nt commissioners until July 1, 1949. :

This might avoid’ bitter “floor at oat ag. 3 awkwar + —when Congress normally isn’t in session, : ! Flag igre 4 Map Home-Front Plan TRUMAN WILL get home-

! for San do, union ‘picke crushed to death tempted to stop a truck from entering an Armour plant here, Chicago members of the PackWorkers Union attended a mass meeting last night where union officials urged them to “hold firm” in their strike demands and to turn out for on the organization to intensify Cicardo’s funeral today. = The its efforts in support of UMT procession was scheduled to wind and selective service to fill the past the struck plants. manpower needs of the Armed F

ho of trained SUES for $150,000

“The large reserve manpower which the United] Walter M. Hess, 31. of 2161 States must have for its Secur-| Union St, yesterday filed a $150,ity can only be supplied by uni- 000 damage puit in Federal Court against the Indianapolis Union

"The American Legion Auxiliary today urged the enactment of universal military training and temporary selective service legislation, En Mrs. Lee W. Hutton, national president of the Suxtiiary. called n'

" . ‘I "ad an ARair With a Married Man’ I HAD AN AFFAIR with a married man I work with, His wife hag been told it is over, I think fellow workers suspect us so 1 wonder whether I should continue working for him. I think h cares more for me than his wife. WONDERING. I'll bet that you think he's misunderstood, ton. The affair is over, no matter whom the man loves, Make a clean break and Shangs jobs, : o

may prefer you to his wife but he’s still with his wife. ‘She Says She Doesn't Want Dates’ I A NICE GIRL and later took her a corsage which

pleased her. I've tried to make more dates with her but she says she doesn’t want dates and just wants to be friends with all fellows, I took your advice and went to dances, etc. * This girl and I have things in common—~we don’t mix like we should, How can 1 win her? I'd like to have the dates even if she

does just want to be friends. I belleve she'll come around if I play

like she wants me to and be friends, I still can send flowers or call her when I wish, I think I'll win her, don't you? : READKR. I think you'll win a girl, but not this one. When a girl wants to be just friends you'd better surprise her and agree—and start looking for another girl. Don't tell the next one that you don't mix well. Try to keep her from knowing it. Flowers won't carry you through and I wouldn't spend too much money on them without accompanying dates.

Let Mrs. Manners and readers of the column share your problems and answer your questions. Write in care of The Times, 214 W. Maryland St.

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EVENINGS and SUNDAYS

Fred Williams, Jr.

850 N. MERIDIAN

‘§/Mr, Shea has been an employee,

versal military training, Mrs. Hutton said. Railway Co. (Belt Railroad). He asked the award as compensation ‘for the loss of a leg in a Union Station elevator accident in June, 194

Our Fair City—

Legion Leadership Class To Graduate Tonight

Graduation exercises will be held tonight for 56 students attending a one-week post-graduate course in American Legion leadership. The course, given as the fourth annual American Legion college, attracted 51 men and five women from nearly all the states and ! {Puerto Rico. ition, and Louis Wahl, seeking the Harry Gallimore Jr, Hickory. county assessor nomination. N. C., was elected president of{' The offices are not normally up the class; Miss Betty Skaja, Min- for ' election this year but the neapoiis, Minn, secretary, and Democrats contended in Robert E. Gray, St. Louis, Mo, chaplain.

Oakland Ave. Couple To Hold Open House

An open house will be held tomorrow dfternoon by Mr. and Mrs. P. J. Shea, 405 N. Oakland Ave, in celebration of their 25th wedding anniversary. They were married Apr. 24, 1923, in Wabash and moved to Indianapolis shortly afterward.

{death and resignation. | » ” ¥ Strategic Lull

THE PRESENT lull

until after the May 4 primary. This is deliberate strategy.

iof the New York Central Ralilroad for 35 years. They have four children, Joan, iPatty, John and Tom. INDIANAPOLIS CLEARING HOUSE Clearings tor the day .!. Debits for the day .

Clearings for the week .. Debits or the week

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Sewing Contest Winners Go On Display Monday

Cixteen Prize Garments to Be Shown;

Victors to Be Listed in The Times Monday

By ART WRIGHT The 16 winning garments and several hundred other entries in The Times National Sewing Contest will go on display for the public at 9 a. m, Monday in the Central Library Auditorium, N. | Pennsylvania and E. St. Clair Sts. The public display will be open Monday, Tuesday and Wednes day from 9 a. m, unt) 9 P. m. There will be no admission charges. The showing is presented by The =“ i fat Times as a public service feature In the National Sewing Contest.

to point out the handiwork of! Prizes in the Indianapolis judg-

Hoosier home seamstresses.

their|ing a GOP fasion in the suits that new officers should be Primary and at the same elected because they were filled|Wooing support for Senator since the last election by GOP ap-|ner. If the pointees to vacancies caused by!

Party leaders are withholding their trump cards on candidates until they see what party organi-| zations win control in the larger

supporters of U. S. Senator Wil-| liam E. Jenner for the GOP |ing his second new Cadillac since Court 2 today ruled that the will he took office Jan. 1. He had no/state anti-scalping law is consti-|

tion plan soon y 1 es

High-Tariff Backers

any more. They laugh at him in newsreels. Hyon

for trying to enforce Taft-Hart! some for helping

biggest test in lower courts.

Today's Weather Fotocast

WAGNER’ ALL RIGHTS

ND TOMORROW —The Weather Bureau's foreeasters are expect spread area of shower activity through the center of the: country tonight. This forecast tion is outlined on the fotocast map by the signals explained “in the legen throughout the nation are expected to continue mi east which will be affected by a cold mass moving out of Canada.

Seen Periled

Truman stock is®somewhat up

ley Act; Joe Martin stock is down

Lewis d it. Taft-Hartley Has weathered

Big John’s style will be cramped if he tries fo pull another “wink” strike in July. = ”

® » » May Win Oregon WORD HERE is that Harold Stassen will defeat Dewey in Oregon primary May 21. Stassen has organization of young people fervidly campaighing for him. Oregon has only 12 delegates, but another licking would be serious for Dewey. go 2 = » 3 Sponsors of bill to repeal federal taxes on margarine say they'll make no compromises when bill comes up Monday for House vote. They think they have the strength for outright repeal. Number of states prohibiting manufacture and sale of colored margarine dropped to 22 this week when New Jersey repealed its 62-year-old law, Mas-~ sachusetts may be the next to act. Repealer is now before legislature, :

tks op

It will call’ legislation to authorize price controls, rationing, wage freeze, allocation of industrial materials, heavier taxes, work-or-fight draft, decentralized industry. Organization would look much like World 1 plan, with War Production Board, War Manpower Commission, etc. But it would simplify procedure, cut out overlapping. 's likely to ask Congress to pass this as stand-by program, authorize him to put it into effect when necessary. Congress is more likely—if it acts at all—to pass necessary laws, reserve right for itself to say whén they become effective.

. ” ” Apparent results of this year's annual spring blossoming of John L. Lewis: People aren't afraid of him

Probe of County Politicians By Treasury Agents Hinted

map their whole campaign on the outcome of the primary in Marion | County. James L. Bradford, {county GOP chairman, is

former leadlocal

Bradford group loses out here, the Jenner campaign lis frankly due to bog down in other parts of the state.

in the/Gates in the top spot to put scramble for the governor nomi- over Walter Helmke, Ft. Wayne, nations in both Republican and (for the governor nomination, Democratic parties will continue

It is being predicted that Rue

appointed will. come up the favorite for GOP nomination for the

tion June 11.

conceded that N@W Car for Mayor MAYOR AL FEENEY is driv-|

car when he took office but for several months had one ordered, a 1948 Cadillac.

He refused to accept the city< of Muncie, who was fined $100 . |owned Packard for the Mayors and costs after his arrest during ithe recent state baskeaball tou.-! 3 1

{office and turned it back to the icity garage. The new 1948 Cad{illac didn’t show up so he took a 1947 model, Recently the new 1848 job arrived and he traded ithe old one for the new model— paid for out of his own pocket,

MARILYN

ITU Conference Opens at Lincoln

First sessions of the semi-an-nual Indiana Typographical Unions’ Conference began today in Hotel Lincoln. Union members expected 150 delegates and guests to attend as well ag fraternal delegates from Dayton, 0, : ) Union officials attending ate Lester Stevens, Ft. Wayne, president; Howard Brown, South Bend, executive secretary, and vice presidents Paul White, Lafayette; William Burrows, Evansville, and James Gaddis, Terre Haute, Printers’ problems covering industry and union benefits and the state of the trade will be discussed in final sessions tomorrow, ‘ The conference banquet will be held at 7 p. m, today in the Hotel Lincoln, followed by dancing.

Judge Studies Motion

Id tomorrow with the exception of the North-

{policy advisers. " |tional Airport at 8 a. m. (Indi-

a wide oscipi: d. Prevailing temperatures

Marshall Confers

ta, Calls Top Advisers WASHINGTON, Apr. 2¢ (UP) —~8ecretary of State George C. Marshall returned from Bogota, Colombia, today and plunged immediately into conferences on the world situation with his top

Mr. Marshall landed at Na-

anapolis Time) aboard a fourengineed Air Transport Command plant, g He has been absent from the capital for almost a month, attending the Inter-American Conference at Bogota, He went through that city’s bloody revolt. Immediately after his arrival here he drove to the State Department with Robert A. Lovett, who ‘was acting secretary while Mr. Marshall was away. High policy = advisers were called in, presumably to get a report on the Bogota conference and bring Mr. Marshall up to date on world affairs,

Federal Court Nofified Defendant ‘Bedridden’

A check was being made today by attaches of the Federal Court into the physical condition of Miss Pauline Keller, who failed to appear for trial yesterday on mail fraud charges. ; She is “bedridden” a sister notified the U, 8. district attorney’s office by telegram. Miss Keller is living in Chicago. She is alleged to have fised the mails Lo Awindle $10,000 in a securities idea, }

Water Closes 12 Roads The State Highway Commission reported today that the following roads are closed by high water: Rd. 11 at Mauckport, 62 northwest of Mt. Vernon, 66 at Troy, 66 south of Derby, 39 south of Mt. Vernon, 111 at Bridgeport, 156. south of Rising Sun, 161 north of Richland, 166 north of Tobinsport, 245 north and south of Lamar, 545 north of Troy,

782 west of Mt. Vernon, f closed. -

tints. Organists to ‘Battle’ + “A Battle of Music” will be staged by three well-known or-

On Worl Issues

Local option is only asking for more of the troubles we had during the bone Ary era.” On ‘the question of the statewide direct primary for nomination oe candidates for state office, three again went off in different directions: : Why Not Indiana? Mr. Burch—“My stand is well known. The people have a right to decide for themselves who will be their candidates. More than 99 cent of all candidates for public office the nation over al. ready are nominated by the primary method and 44 states have statewide es. What's the matter with Indiana that we can’t have it?” | ” Mr. Helmke—"'T was opposed to the old convention system, out under the new system I believe the convention offers the best choice of candidates. In a pris mary there is too much chance for the men with money to own candidates, too much chance for pressure groups to take advantage of apathy and confusion and gang up to put over their own candidates for party nomination. Mr. Creighton—"“I want to reserve my decision until I nave seen how the compromise reform reached in the 1947 General As sembly works, If the present con vention system reflects the uncoerced will of the delegates, ! would favor it. If not, I think the direct primary must be the only answer.” ses} On questions of terms of office, reduction of taxes, constitutional reform and federal doling out to the states of tax money the canaldates agreed minor details.

ganists from 8 p, m. to 11 Pm, tomorrow in Rollerland. They are Larry Carpenter, present Roller: land organist, Earl Gordon, who played there from 1941 to 1944, and Ken Kasmire, featured at

In Gravel Pit Slaying | Special Judge

took under advisement

‘torneys for Herbert Brunner, 26, {charged with the gravel-pit slay{ing Theodore Wolfe, |

| Defense attorneys earlier obThis would leave the regular jected to an effort to take the!

rganization around Gov. SiX-man, six-woman Criminal Boste GOP ore {Court 2 jury to the W. Minne-

|sota St. pit where the body was ound,

A second defendant to the sec-

Alexander, of Pine Village, newly 0nd-degree murder charge, Rob-|; lieutenant governor, ert Linn, 28, will be given a sepa-|

rate trial at a later date. {were tried last November.

same job at the party conven- Jury failed to return a verdict, x w re Ee

Anti-Scalping Law

‘Ruled Constitutional Judge S#ul I. Rabb of Criminal

| tutional.

| The law had been challenged |

{by attorneys for Otis F. Kirtley

| nament. His attorneys appealed the jconviction to Judge Rabb, chal{lenging the law first. 4 With the judge's ruling, the appeal case will proceed,

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place winners own garments. When the display closes next Wednesday, the first place garment in each of the eight judg-

modeling

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to New York for consideration

in Monday's Times. Photographs will show the first and second their

ing are: $50 for first place in| each classification and $20 for second place. In the national, the first prize in each classification will be $200. Hoosier women or girls winning first place at. New York will be given’ a free trip to New York and three days in the metropolis with, all expenses paid by The Times.

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