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Race Crowd Traffic

For the first time in some 80

years, the ahnuai Indianapolis! Memorial Day. parade honoring heroes of past wars will not be| held.”

The General Memorial Assogia-| =

tion, a group of patriotic digant-{ zation which sponsors the annual paradé, has been denied the parade permit for’ Sunday May 30. . | The safety board told the group| that because of the 150,000 Speed- | way visitors who will throng the downtown area Sunday and extra

crowd, that it would be impossible to hold the parade.

police required “to handle the .

M ~Day...morning when! Speedway visitors are already at|

the track. This year, however, & the race is to be held on the Mon-|

day following Memorial Day an the Sunday crowd ~will ‘be con-! centrated in downtown Indianap-!

Normally the parade is held on \ removal

olis, the board said. | &

Members Indignant Indignation rose among many members when the safety board's decisions was: announced at a meeting last night. Mrs. Edna Pauley, secretary of the associa-| tion, said: “Our people are not taking it| very kindly. It's quite an item to our soldiers that they cannot meet once a year to honor their! dead. t “It's a great disappointment] to us not to he able to have this! parade when you think that it was established by the Grand Army of the Republic just after the Civil" time in some 80 years that we've ever been denied the privilege.” However, James Ahern, presi-

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dent of the group, said that he Feeney and that “after the talk

I can see the point of not having _ the parade this year.” : He pointed out that the postponement of the race until the

problem creates a situation which has not existed in former years, “I agreed that we ‘should dispense with the parade this year and just have services at the War emorial,” Mr. Ahern concluded. is definitely a policing problem existing because of race crowd and I believe we should work with the city in any way we can.” ’ Mayor Feeney said that the safety board liad to deny eight parade permits because of Memorial Day crowds. wees EX UORa POcE Ditty He said he already had to iss a proclamation declaring an emergency to put police on 12 and 18 hour duty because of state laws restricting police to eight hours. “We'd be glad to arrange a place for the parade at the Fairgrounds or out of the center of

the city, but our police can't pos-| sibly handle a parade in 2ne 4

Cerowded “downtown area that ada” the Mayor declared.

‘War: “This 1s “the first"

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make awards to class winners in the Legion-Times Charity hotse show opening tonight at the Coliseum are (left to right) Phyllis Miller, Sarah Asher, Dorothy Maxwell and Dorothy Eikenberry. Four other girls selected are Jeanette Sage, Anne Jones, Valeri Philpott and Janie Gentry.

Believe Al Nive In ine Tomb

‘3 More ‘Tappings’

... BULLETIN o'clock. Doors wil open at (UP)—Muffled shouts were [o'clock Sunday afternoon.

heard today from a chamber in a. flooded mine where three miners have been entombed for two days. .

SHAMOKIN, Pa., May 14 (UP) ~—Three distinct and “different” tappings were heard in a flooded mine today and a veteran rescue worker said he believed &ll three miners entombed for more than 44 hours were still alive. - The raps, fourth of a series of responses to signals from rescue crews, were heard by miner Benjamin Kopolski. He said that although the taps came from the same point he was convinced they were made by the three victims. , The rush of rain water which “poured in like Niagara” during

workers reported there was no|

more seepage into the maze of

tunnels at the independent mine. |

Hot Car Tactics

Astound Judge

tomobile dealer today astounded

seum.

o'clock. A special Sunday after-|

ly at the scheduled time and those | planning to attend were advised to come early.

at the entrances tonight and for the other sessions. : Plenty of box seats and reserved mezzanine seats as well as general

. Owners and Admirers From Entire Midwest Await First Performance of Charity Event

Owners and horse admirers from throughout the Midwest were visitors in Indianapolis today eagerly awaiting the opening of the Legion-Times Charity Horse Show tonight in the Fairgrounds ColiMore than $6000 prize money is at stake. “FIFst of ‘the Tour performances will start at 7:45 o'clock other nightly sessions slated for tomorrow and Sunday, also at 7:45]

with

noon show will start at 1:45 admission tickets will be on sale! machinery, beat and kicked the 6:30 tonight at the Coliseum. Prices, men on the job, threw power Each seats, 85 cents for reserved side of the sessions will start prompt- mezzanine section and 50 cents for unreserved end mezzanine

section:

Horse show officials

the nation’s finest show horses.

pens

reported Tickets were on sale today in|late last night that advanced the lobby of the Indianapolis/ticket sales were the heaviest ever Power and Light Co. Building on! seen for the spring event here and| Then, the Circle. Only reserved seat/Wwere far more than in 1946 when tickets are available downtown, more than 18,000 veople attended. unreserved seats in the ehd They attributed this to the low, mezzanine section of the 10,000-| popular ticket prices and the reccapacity coliseum will be on sale ord entry list of more than 300 of

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Minnesota

Calls Troops

Band of 200 Raids | Plant, Abduct 30

“I SOUTH 87. - PAUL, Minn. May

14 (UP)—-Gov, Luther W. Young-| dahl ordered out the National] Guard today to halt three days of |

1200 men the

| invaded

clubs, knives and hammers broke | into .the Cudahy meat plant at nearby Newport, Minn., smashed | thousands of dollars worth of] machinery “then abducted the 30 non-strikers. It was the third outbreak of | violence in the meat strike in| three days. , Hours after the attack, seven of the abducted workers still were missing. The others had been released along country roads. Some! of them were badly beaten. | The Cudahy invaders, many of ‘them “identified by company of-| ficials as striking —empioyees,! moved into the plant in a well-| organized attack that.caught the 65 non-strikers inside unawares.

ie pa MACIOPY Storming the plant from front {and rear, the attackers smashed

from their connections. They ransacked the building, breaking into all rooms but the

strikers. They broke into livestock pens and freed more than 100 hogs. ! the plant interior 4 shambles, they left in cars they had parked near the plant, forcing "30 ‘Workers .to actompany

Most of the non-strikers were

MATn office in search of non}

Death Chamber At Michigan City | Idle for 2 Years |

MICHIGAN CITY, Ind. May 14

(UP)=The execution chamber in}

{ H | In Meat Strike |gathering dust for more than two! lyears. ‘ 1

Indiana State Prison has Been

Warden Ralph Howard and his staff thought the electric chair

would get a. workout this spring!

‘with execution dates of Mar, 19 sel fortwo -men, Apr. -23..for third, May 10 for a fourth and May 14 for a fifth. But the fourth and last execu-

~pmeat. strike violence, after about tion date passed. by today.and. the. Cudahy records still showed that Frank! {meat plant, smashed machinery Quarles, an Evansville man who | troops into Palestine. - land abducted 30 non-strikers. Some 200 men, armed with the last person to pay with his

died in the chair Apr. 2, 1946, was

life for. an Indiana crime.

slayers—Robert Brown, Frank Badgely, Ralph Lobaugh, Robert Watts and Thomas Kallas—are living on borrowed time. All have received stays of execution from the March, April and May dates originally set by the judges in Hoosier courts where their cases were tried. Watts, who was convicted of the sex slaying of Mrs. Lois Burney in Indianapolis last November, would have died four days ago, on May 10. But he was ZJiven a delay until"Nov: 9:

Truman Advocates

Point Farm Bil

Permanent System WASHINGTON, May 14 (UP) —President Truman proposed to Congress today a four-point farm programi which he said is “essential” to maintain a productive, prosperous

In a message to the House and Senate he urged prompt action on this program: '

driven a short distance and then

Large entry lists and a corre-/put out of the cars along the

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|everybody’s been for meters for the last 15 years.

parking If

“A 38-year-old Yndlanapolis ay: the manufacturers will -take- the:

corruption money out of the

bo said that he was sorry that Federal Judge Robert C. Baltzell prices and sell them for what

Beeedent had to be broken but A

of 450,000, not a village.”

Board Studies = New Park Plan

“emidering extanEHeNt or 40-acre public park on the Southeast Side. ™

sid ) | » “We've got fo consider some automobile dealers.

that Indianapolis is now a city| The judge was hearing a $36.-|

The city park board today eo

with revelations of practices by

000 “hot car” case involving six

The dealer, Carl McWilliams,

38," former operator of McWilliams Motors, Inc. testifying in his own behalf, was relating the

No receipts were obtained nor titles signed in the transactions,

purchase and sale of several

they're, worth, we'd like to try [the ;

| “I'm against putting out thoujsands of them,” the Mayor said. |

{“T'd like to try three or four kinds «knuckle. down” in The Times

land see which we like best—just a few in the beginnipg. work well, we'll get more.” | "Has Legal Opinion The Mayor revealed he had just (received ..a.. legal. opinion. which, would permit the Works Board

to buy parking meters subject to

In addition, preparations were, he said. McWilliams acknowledged the approval of the Council, being made. for a broader recrea- he misrepresented the vehicles for

tion program for the city’s school children this summer. Sponsoring the new park were! the Keystone Community Center| Mothers’ Club, which has 1200 signatures on a petition; WoodBide Civic League, and PTA] Sroups of Schools 3, 20, 21 and

The proposed park would. be bounded by Rural St. Keystone and Southeastern Aves, and Pleasant Run Pkwy., N. Dr. Owners réportedly are asking $1,000 an acre for the. tract. |

Set Meat Strike Talk EVANSVILLE, May 14 (UP) ~—A district director. of - the

CIO United Packinghouse Workers union said today that the union's international = executive board would meet in Chicago tomorrow to discuss a federal proPosal to settle the meat strike.

30 stormy years in

On the Inside

the Holy Land . . , background

sale. . Admits Conviction “When we're dealing we tell anything” - he declared non-

chalently, “Everybody does it.” Judge Baltzell castigated the witness for having “no regard for the truth.” ; “Everybody knows we do these things,” McWilliams persisted. He admitted selling two cars with the aid of another defendant, Lawrence H. (Pinky) Smith. The government charges the vehicles were unlawfully possessed. The witness acknowledged he was convicted in 1929 on an auto banditry charge and received a: prison sentence of 1 to 10 years. He also was convicted of robbery three years later, he added. "" The case, involving purchase of automobiles with bogus cashier's checks, was expected to be handed to a federal jury later today.

for today's breaking developments.............Page 2 “ww yo» Wilson, head of AT&T, welcomed home at Terre

Haute . . . a picture story..

' » . . » "Mr. Molotov has outsmarted himself” .

" “anlysis of the latest Soviet

tions start tomorrow .

Y = ” Things are humming at the Speedway . .

A Key to Other Features on Inside : Amusements. 14 (Editorials .. 20) Mrs. Manners 13 Side Glan

eeies. Page 19

. » . . an propaganda. .......Page ~ - . qualificaother sports........Page 29

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|The chamber's four-way pro-: gram also called for a redistribu-

'by the state on a per capita basis. | Other points in the proposals

to get a more equal distribution of state-collected and locally-|

It they

Parking Meters Proposed

For City Finance Program Feeney Says He'd Like to Try Them If Firms ~~ Would Take Out Corruption Money in Price Parking meters were suggested to Mayor Al Feeney as a part|cots inside the plant. of a four-way program to relieve City finances laid on the Mayor's desk today by the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce. The proposals were made in response to the Mayor's appeal|injured in the fierce fighting. Two

for citizen help in fattening the City pocketbook. “I was the last to get the proposals,” said the Mayor, “but

Mibs Shooters... Ready for Finals

FORTY-FOUR school boys wil

Marbles Tournament at 9 a. m.

tomorrow to bid for the title of didn't get many takers.”

Indianapolis Champion. »

The one winner from the group:

which represents 11 city park dis-| tricts with goto Wildwoed; DN On a next month to represent the city

in the National Marbles tourna-

ment.

Tomorrew's finals will be- held!

{ aret funds held at Willard Park, E. Washington | tion of the cig tax fur Play “will be centered simultaneously in eight

included state legislative actfon Tings

and State Sts’

MRS. NORMA KOSTER. supér-

“Ibeen employed for several weeks

In Times Tourney

road: | Cudahy" officials (identify the kidnaped non-stiik-ers; asserting that they feared reprisals. Escorted to Jobs Strike leaders denied that the raid was planned by°the union. The non-striking workers have

smoking and shipping meat. Some of them have been sleeping on

R. J. Swenon, plant manager, |said six men inside the plant were

[required hospitalization. On the picket lines at Swift and Armour plants here, meanwhile, strikers continued to ignore court injunctions. limiting. .thelr. num: bers. Non-strikers made no attempts to cross the lines. Sheriff Norman Dieter and 20) {deputies ‘and city policemen tried] [to pierce the lines yesterday and’ |were repulsed forcibly. Mr. Dieter | 200 today he had advertised for

; deputies but added {that “I tried that once before and

Warmer, Cloudy

LOCAL TEMPERATURES

Sam. 50 10am. ., 38 Tam ..50 1am, ..5 Sam .. 51 12 (Noon) 58 Sam .:5 lpm. . ST

The weatherman promised In-

cultural commodities.” : “Full support to the

refused to continuance: and - expansion of

our program of soll conservajon.” . THREE: Congress should “continue and strengthen programs to assure adequate consumption of agricultural products.” FOUR: “We need to consider Other means Tor ARSISting Tarmers to meet their special problems. For example, we must support and protect farm co-operatives. We must continue to work toward 4 sound system of crop insurance.” , Mr. Truman made no specific recommendation .as to the level at which farm prices should be supported. Most basic farm crops

are now.supporied.at 90. per cent.

of parity. Before the war the support price was 52 to 75 per cent of parity.

» David's Guardian

Little James: M. Dawson; attorney, acting as guardian for Little David Walker, the boy evangelist, said he has been receiving thréat-

{ening telephone calls from anony-

mous persons in connection with "the child's custody care, A petition filed by the boy's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jack IL. Walker to regain his custody is pending in Juvenile Court. . Mr. Dawson said he had re-

lceived half adozen calls from per-|iée, his re-election is assured.

sons who called me a “baby

({dianapolis somewhat higher tem-| {peratures today and tomorrow,

shared revenues, particularly the visor of the special activities for but it will continue to be partly

{motor vehicle funds. The cham- the City Park and Recreation De- cloudy. - ber also. recommended the elimi- partment, will be in charge of the nation of the state property tax finals. Assisting her will be Miss pected to, reach -close to 70 de-| or the approval of the state leg- Lola Pfeifer, Mrs. Waneda Cline, grees but to drop again tonight {slature of a local taxing au- Jerry York, Mrs. Martha Hampe, to as low as 50 degrees. ’ Mrs. Martha Scheffel, Miss Elsie]

thority. Cure Proposed | A cure for the city's general! fund deficit problem was pro-| posed in a continuance of the| measures now being pursued by | the Mayor .for thrift and in-| creased revenues, plus whatever tax increase is necessary to wipe lout the deficit at the end of the year. , The chamber’s plan also urged the judicious use of the City’s| bonding capacity for needed public improvements. “They Forgot Something’ “But they forgot something.” | the Mayor said after a quick look at the program. “We've already

the School City. The school su-| (perintendent was raised to $12.-| 000, same as the Mayor. I hope {people don't get the idea the| chamber is talking about a slight tax increase.” ‘

The C of C plan made no at- quitoes rise in formation from winged monsters. tempt to modernize the local gov- this stagnant water and make 1808 Kessler Blvd. East Drive. | Child ‘specialists have been un-| de much help to the!

ernment or eliminate overlapping

Clark and Dendel Poindexter.

Temperatures today were ex-

Little change in the temperature is expected tomorrow,

| BOSTON, May 14

‘and feather me.”

Steelworkers Bar Reds

(UP)~The C10 Steelworkers. National Con-

{vention voted almost unanimously Ibe {today to bar Communist PATLY | lection then would be unanimous.

members and supporters from holding office in the union.

Mosquitoes Rise From Bacon's Swamp In Swarms to PlagueHarassed Residents

County Says It Can't Doctors Offer Little A

By KENNETH HUFFORD The stillness of death pervades a body of water almost hidden | by underbrush that lies unnoticed in the vicinity of 59th St. and

Crittenden Ave,

Piles of tin cans on the edges bring civilization to this modern-

day reminder of the pre-historic. This is Bacon's Swamp.

swallowed a tot in the neighborhood about a year ago.

Rise in Formation

But every year, residents in the vicinity say, swarms of mos-

life miserable for them.

It last drew attention when the dank got about a 20 cent increase in coqsnool several blocks in length:

The jurisdiction of County, Township Area is composed of attractive, aple to provi

Help Control Insects; id to Bitten Children

|they are exposed more, their

| mothers explained.

“They're as big as horses,” Mrs. gr

Harry Pilz exaggerated. She pulled the screen door tight and) cast a roving eye for any of the! She lives at

land City units. It was designed N¢W houses whose residents like nhargssed children who are virtual

to relieve the temporary problém | {of afr unbalanced budget in sev-| leral of the City's largest funds, waldo St. pointed to her 17-

|and to meet the long-range need month-old daughter, Busan, ; ces 20 for additional income, supplemen- an example of what living in the| Frank Wallace, state entomol-

to. work in their yards.

Mrs; Robert Seal, 5825 Nor-| - “Put alcohol on the bites,”

‘|prisoners in their homes. one.

ilarial,

doctor advised. But, the Kids| as howl, =’

lot. of mosquitoes,” he declared with pessimism. He said the only solution is to spray the numberless pools that comprise. the swamp. Where fish live, mosquitoes don’t. The pools cause the damage. No agency of government, however, has any help to offer, Residents said they called the county health office and were fold the expense of ridding the swamp of mosquitoes was “ eat.” “As long as they aren't mathey .only cause discomfort,” the complainants were told. “But, how do we know whether they're malarial,” one housewife declared angrily. . Most of the residents havé | screened their porches, for sitting in their yards at any time of the day is out of the question, they insist. y ped-

A disgruntled ice cream

‘idler raised the windows of his

old-model truck and began grum-

Ash ......., 30|Forum ..... 26/Obituaries .. 8 Sports ....20-30 tary to the property tax, chamber community means. little jogist, discounted reports that this bling. Business was good in the (the reciprocal trade program. Bridge saves 24 Gardening .“ 23}F. C. Othman 19 Society cata 22 officials said. & 7 ' y - k Y more mos- neighborhood. A lot of kids lived The 15-t0-9 vote was in party et a, 4 X Givi» Batten oon ile Talk. THe Tropa a A eS Racca A Pecpls. who ive" arou a Pripgd yh mp ath : Peli . ye vo. I4|Radio soanus oe of | . ‘ M Willy hg i around quitoes, | a price a ] al and Democrats Comics - sees 30 Inetde Tndpis: 10 Roark 43 19| Weather Map T'of city finances by Cart Dorteh, suffer more than Bacon's Swamp always will get. eke out a livelihoods mi. Ivoling aa th.

snatcher” and threatened fo tl

‘|manship reached a climax,

tows Sof Up State: | ar On |

House-to-House Fight

Starts in Jerusalem As British Rule Ends

BULL BEIRUT, May 14 (U

¢ | empowéred the military to keep order. equivalent of declaring martial law, and the step ap“parently “was faken preparatory to sending Lebanese

Arabs Poised Along Border for Invasion; Martial Law Declared Throughout Egypt

ETIN : P)—President Bechara El

3 Khoiiry of “Lebanon todsy decreed an emergency and -

It- was the

By ELIAV SIMON, United Press Staff - Correspondent

i TEL. AVIV, May 14-—A new Jewish state was born in INDIANA'S five condemned Palestine today, and immediately bitter Arab-Jewish fights

ing for Jerusalem began.

Even as the Jewish dream of almost 2000 years—a

istate of their own-—came tr (Time) with a formal proclama

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Greenlee Foes | To Count Noses

lL... By ROBERT BLOEM Democratic forces. seeking to oust Pleas Greenlee as state) chairman will caucus tonight to count noses of state committee!

showdown. LRT Continued .checks of ..the 22 votes to. be. cast in the state chairmanship fight indicated a

trict Chairman Ira Haymaker Jr, of Franklin,

{committee's 22 votes, Haymaker

[least three votes still In serious doubt, . Afrive for Conferences Already district chatrmien and vice chairmen were arriving here for conferences on the election set for noon tomorrow, * * In the ninth district, Chairman Jack Love of Seymour, an avowed anti-Greenlee member of the state \committee, was tied In a Knot by] a Greenlee sponsored resolution supporting the present state chairman. The district committee adopted the resolution in Mr, Greenlee’'s watchful presence before they voted to re-elect Mr. Love as district head. The survey showed that as in the Republican gubernatorial fight, where total vote claims add actual number of. possible votes, both sides have missed the boat at some. points. '' 2 Could Tie Up Vote . It. appeared mathematically

who still entertain the hope of coaxing former Governor Henry] Schricker into the governor race if they beat Mr. Greenlee, could tie up the vote 11 to 11, If all the doubtful votes — and Mr.

reeniee forces clainr Hof the]

der to attack...

possible that Haymaker forces,

ue at 9 a. m. (Indianapolis tion by Jewish leaders, Haga nah troops were fighting Arabs in the Holy City. The veteran Jewish troops appeared to have the best of the fighting which probably will des cide final control of Jerusalem,

‘laccording to reports reaching { Will Caucus Tonight TH Jewikh fag-—-blue and white ~~ {with a yellow star of David—ale ready “few over many strategie 7

buildings in Jerusalem, radio ree ports said, but strong Arab resist ance was being met by Haganah

Bitter Arab Defense _.There. was hitter Arab defense

in the area of the former pol

strong possibility of an 11 to 1} headquarters and other tie between Mr. Greenlee and his ment buildings in the Jaffa road. opponents’ choice, seventh dis H ‘men advanced houses

by- A “The International b rafsed its colors over {David Hotel and the

ONE: A permanent system of forces claim 12, while a survey puilding in Jerusalem, ft was sald “fiexible price supports for agri- of the 11 districts indicates at and both Jews and Arabs were

[expected to respect them, To the north, Haganah

attacked the historic port of Acre,

where Napoleon's army was des feqted, and by early afternoon h captured it, wireless to Jewish headquarters here

ports that Egyptian troops would invade Palestine the moment the British mandate expires. . Meanwhile, thousands of

regular troops from

in all — were poised on the. bore ders of Palestine awaiting the ore

The British mandate ofcially did not expire until midnight to night (5 p. m. today, Ini polis Time), but British High Gone missioner Sir Alan formally signaled its end nearly Act in 6 Hours ©

14 hours earlier; Mr. Cunningham stepped aboard go to a British cruiser in the rharbor; - sien

Loves. vote. still is classified as

{the 12-to 10 election his-friends |forecast is possible,

doubtful, go for Mr, Haymaker,|

About six hours later, a BUSYERPOTE POTENT Yew, haired David Ben Gurion, pros claimed that the Jewish state of

1f-all the doubtful votes or even |lsrael. was born, and would be

two of the threé go to Mr, Greéen-

- Settlement Possible Political observers agreed that the outeome probably could be settled before the meeting at noon {tomorrow and that if the Haymaker forces fail to get at least [11 commitments, enough to tie {the vote, Mr. Haymaker will not

As the fight over the chair a new candidate for the Democratic governor nomination joined the field, bringing the total to three. The new entry was State Sen. John 8. Gonas of South Bend.

4 Partially Overcome By Escaping Gas

gas fumes today at their home, 636 8. LaClede St, on the West | Side.

sheriffs found Mrs {Myrtle Cook, 32, her two sons, Ernest Cook Jr. and Melvin Cook, and her mother, Mrs. Carl Lake, | 58, fll from the fumes when they answered a.call from neighbors, Gas is believed to have escaped {from a heater which had been turned on early this morning. All four victims were revived after. being taken outside the house,

Votes Trade Extension | WASHINGTON, May 14 (UP) |-~The House Ways and Means Committee today approved a modified one-year extension. of

candidate and Mr. Greenlee’s]

Four members of a family were partially overcome by escaping]

Republicans voting showdown with the

‘defended to the last ish blood, ry a ‘Ben Gurion, 40 years a fighter for a Zionist state in Palestine, will be first president of the ree public. He also is defense mine ister. British troops also evacuated the great Arab port of Jaffa by sea this morning, leaving that area in the hands of Jews, The British also withdrew thei warships from the Palestine coastal blockade. Jewish freighte ers carrying supplies and, pre terial, immediately steamed into the Tel Aviv harbor, :

TT ——— U. S. Files Tax Liens Against Viviem Kellems

SAUGATUCK, Conn., May 14 (UP) — The government took up {the challenge of -Viviem Kellems, manufacturer who refused to cols lect withholding taxes from her employees, and filed Hens today against the Kellems Co. her home, and the home of her brother, The liens totaled $1885.40, The liens were filed with Town 1Clerk Mrs. Lois Clark by Joseph |'T. Healy, chief field deputy of the {U, 8, Internal Revenue Department, in behalf of acting Internal Revenue Collector Thomas F. Griffin, © : -

| Tur [$837.70 in withhe taxes (which it charged Miss Kellems re[fused to. collect; interest of $10, |and a penalty of $837.70, : In filing. the , Girifin

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