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Friday to midnight, Monday. . Auto Crash Fatal
purried home from their short vacation. Harold Lee Davis, 17, gouth Bend, died of Injuries rewived when a car smashed into tree. Police held ‘the driver of tie car for reckless driving. farlier in the week-end two wuplés ‘10st their lives in-high-|. way ‘disasters and two drivers were killed when ' their cars
crashed. Two Indiana University students, John Nikirk, 26, and Duane , 24, were killed late swday when their plane, an Amy surplus trainer, crashed
P \ northwest of Bloomington. The youthtul pilots were , practs g ce landings in the plane ‘which Mr.
Wiggins had purchased Friday. Boy Drowns in Pit Near Brazil, 14-year-old Carl drowned in a strip mine pit. Police said the youth wore an inner tube because he could ‘not swim but that he got in deep water and the tube slipped away. Another drowning victim was fires - year -old Janet Dorand, _Rachester, who fell into Lake
Harry Stewart,” 58," Connersville, was found dead at ‘the bottom .of a basement stairway in his home. He died of a head injury. Earlier in the week-end two others died in falls. v
Motorcyclists Injured
Two persons also were injured in motorcycle accidents here yes-
ipts Here Reach 18,500
“Drop Only 25¢-50¢ Despite Heavy Run A record 18,500 hogs poured into .the Indianapolis Stockyards today after the three-day Memorial holiday. It was the highest! receipt of the year. = 1 Despite heavy receipts hogs: dropped mostly 25 to 50 cents under last Friday's price average. - Extreme top for hogs was set at $25 sparingly. A week ago, stock experts say, similar heavy hog runs would have caused a $2 drop. Continued Demand Seen Today's market strength was partly due to light receipts Friday when the market closed and also to the three-day holiday when no hogs were received. ie In addition, farmers were fairly | sure of an active market demand | ) Smith, 23, Cayuga, is in Since the recent packers’ strike! ih Hospital with gars in-/caused a meat shortage which juries; He was riding a motor-|Packinghouses have not yet been | cycle near Tist St. west of Pike able to meet. | Township Road when he fell off.; Hogs opened here moderately * . active on light and medium weight | 443 Killed n u. S. hogs although very unevenly at By Holiday Accidents
| 25°to 75 cents lower. | Early sales on good and choice, v Press At least 443 persons died vio-|MOSLIY 180 to 240 pounds, were lently during the Memorial Day
about $23.75 to $24.50. An early week-end, a survey showed today. top was set at $25 sparingly. i Deaths from injuries may boost
951 8. New Jersey St., was riding a motorcycle near Prospect and East Sts. when the gasoline tank cap came off and gasoline splashed onto the motor and caught fire, He was burned slightly.
. Little business was done in| heavier weights. There were a few| bids on 250 to pounds - with | most going at about $21 to $23.50. The sow market was not fully established, but indications were around 50 cents lower with most | sales at $1650 to $18. | Receipts were hogs, 18,500; cattle, 2475; calves, 950; sheep, 225.
Judge O'Malley
Traffic accidents took 208 lives. Ninety-one persons drowned and 144 died in miscellaneous acci-
- The total number of deaths from all causes” was still below the 1947 fatality list of 482, one of the worst Memorial week-ends in the nation’s history. -
They Mean She's
London Times admitted today it doesn’t quite know what a “red-| Judge Mart J. O'Malley of the vast. much doibt that Sophie Indiana Supreme Court today an- |} is one. inounced his candidacy for re-
g Miss Tucker's return to nomination in the coming Repub-| the London vaudeville stage after lican state convention. t L2year absence, the Times com-| Judge O'Malley, a resident of
| Huntington, is serving his first]
“She is a red-hot momma, and . Xl. ten If we do not quite know] term on the five-member court.
Pretty sure in whatever she| His announcement brought to |- 28 or sings on the stage, she is| eight the number of GOP candi"ever really anything else . .. . dates who have filed official decla40 years in show business, rations of candidacy with the ReShe does not-know does not! publican state committee and paid rT.” | party assessment fees. R - Others officially .in races are oprese n. Sen. William E. Jenner, A. V.| Forest nts Paper Co. 'Burch and Walter Helmke for polnteq Withrow has been ap- governor; Judge Frank Hamilton the Ing, ies representative: In|of - Terre Haute for Appellate | Indianapolis division of the Court renomination; John Peters Ohio Paper Co., officials|of New Albany for auditor of ced today. Mr. Withrow state; incutibent Ben Watt for from' Columbus, after sev-| superintendent of public instruc-
s said. | dianapolis for treasurer of state.
Loves Gems, Even On Zipper Pants
NEW ORLEANS, June 1 (UP) —Big Jim Moran, New Orleans| restaurant proprietor who was |once a bodyguard of the late Sen.| loves
In In : * | dianapolis
WENTS TODA Y . | Mati Training Wigh Sehoo! Commence.| Huey P. (Kingfish) ‘Long,
diamonds—all kinds.
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Mad Rion” gl Cadle Tabernacle. n- 5 pm altel: Sommence-| fe wears them, everywhere—on | Club—Claypool Hotel. rings, stick pins, belt buckles and even on his glasses. | Tote! nag MORRO I Today he came up with the| Indigg, “00010, latest—trousers equipped with a| f
Py mies Tita Hk (Assets) diamond zipper | Lions. Crap, iotel Antlers i | Robeson. Given Chance
ypool Hotel. To Escape Citation
‘WASHINGTON, June 1 (UP) | » Singer ‘Paul Robeson appeared Rar B27’ Vig, Beutah' Wilson. to have an even chance to escape Fierce © Charlotte Helm; Jack, June & contempt citation for refusing] Si obert, Mary Ellen Bans. (to tell the Senate Judiciary Com-| up Kermin Coney: Poesy Hodge, Mor- rmittee yesterday whether he was . Vineet Warne, Gladys O'Hara./a Communist, Coleman prankiin ..| “Sen. - Homer Ferguson, . (R.[ Rivdou; garcia: Yosier:” Raiph, 'Myrits| Mich.) who asked him the $64 Poles: Hairy. arti hr Jake, question, said there was a “legal idene Sanborn: John, Coverdale; + Anselma | problem” in that a quorum of the tal — Keith, Masinah Wright;| committee was not present when
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Watts: “Gp currasch: Richard.| Mr. Robeson was administered the eye Brummets; Wiliam, Mar: |ORLH.
’ ie Mr. Robeson appeared before Co Janine Green; John, ype ‘committee to oppose the heliba agedealt; Houses pproved Communist-con- . Hardman. trol bill.’ Xie :
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30 minutes by a Columbia River
') WATERLOGGED—Houses and debris are shown floating in 15 to 20 feet of | water in this low aerial view of Vanport City, Ore., a city of 19,000 wiped out within | ood. Down center can be seen a pile of dirt | where the river broke through. Work crews, however, plugged it’ up. >A
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Planning Guide War Comes
On Quick Mobilization
WASHINGTON, June 1 (UP)--The National! Munitions Board toda) gave U. 8. industries a olueprint on how to prepare for swift mobilization in event of war.
before an enemy strikes. Board Thomas J Hargrave issued a 16-page mobilization
‘planning guide to Lelp all their pro-
Six Key Points Cited The 46-page guide sald industry must be prepared for a production pace equal to that in January, 1944, or if that is not appropriate, at a rate equal to the peak output of World War II. Advance planning also sh take into account: ONE: Specially-trained man-
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|prepare an exhibition for loan .to museum of works of Georges contemprorary French
Hope will also prepare a
‘catalog on Braque and his work
STRAUSS -
SAYS — = FR-AD-T
power will b& deferred from the
TWO: Industry may have to resort to substitutes to make up shortages of scarce materials such as steel, copper, aluminum. rubber, petroleum. ~ ‘New Plants Needed THREE: New plants will. be
. . needed and existing ones exIU Professor Set For Paris Trip : Times State Service BLOOMINGTON, June 1—Prof. the (Henry Hope, Indiana University Braque, arts department chairman, will| painter and one of the origina(go to Paris, France,. next month tors of cubism. ton.an art commission for the New| . Prof. {York Museum of Modern Art. ‘He has been commissioned to! for the museum.
panded. FOUR:..Rationing will. be. re vived as well as other government jcontrols to forestall inflation. | FIVE: Industry should be prepared for a long and costly war
{demanding total national effort. SIX: A war in the next few
[years would result in shortages of
manpower and plant capacity.
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OTHERS UP 70 $100
* (Continued from Page One) index, the VA has kept track of Indianapolis building cost in order to adjust appraisals to a changing market, “Using 1939-40 costs as 100, the index shows costs rose to 158.6 in
June, 1946; to 177 to January,
1047; to 2139 "In January, 1948, and 214.7 in March, 1948. There are exceptions to the index because of fluctuations of building materials prices, labor costs and weather, but in general Federal agencies find that costs have increased 114 points since 1940 and 56.1 points since 1948, Mortgagemen say the index
Today's buyer 1§ caught be:
' {tween record costs on the one
hand and a retrenching mortgage market on the other. Veterans can't get 100 per cent financing today, except in rare cases. Government is still underwritIng extra-risk mortgages, but these are becoming less attractive than other securities to financial houses because the interest rate is pegged to four per cent. + Changes in the money market have increased net ylelds of gov-
surance conservation has been awarded to Norman R. Miller, local agency manager for the New England Mutual Life Insurance Co. of Boston. The annual award is sponsored
KILLED IN CAR CRASH MICHIGAN CITY, Ind., June 1 {UP)—Heénty "Hardy of “Three Rivers, Mich., died in Clinic Hos-
a traffic accident near here Saturday night. Police said the vie-
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T day's Buyer Is Caught in Middle §
"by Jerome E. Sax of Chicago. He
fails to- take into account the black market in 1046 when ft listed costs then at 158.6. Costs actually were higher then, they say, so that the cost rise of 56.1
than the industry experienced as a whole. The FHA's index shows that building cost is lower in this area than in other Midwest centers
builders have maintained the open shop in residential construc tion, -except in large. projects. Open shop wages, however, tend to follow union scale.
ernment bonds and some -securities. These have been crowding [government insured ‘mortgages out of the market. - Mortgagemen, builders and bankers here share the notion that housing is pricing itself out of the mortgage market. | With demand for housing still] (acute, they believe something has {got to give.
| TOMORROW: It may be Con- | gress.
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|the Life Insurance Agency Man-| {agement Association. | | Mr. Miller, who lives at 3951! [N. Illinois St. attended Wabash
-{College and has heey associated |
with New England Mutual for
nearly 18 years. [ley law by refusing to bargain | with thé southern association.
Animals Keep Him Busy
Gets New Homes Springing Up But They're Harder to Buy
Of U.-S. Petition
WASHINGTON, June 1 (UP)—
points In two years is greater|John L. Lewis today asked Feds
eral’ District Court-to toss out & government request fof a court order directing. him to bargain with the Southern Coal Producers
like Chicago or St. Louis because] Association
In a brief filled with the court, the United Mine Workers: president charged that the government's petition for an injunction is illegal and was filed illegally. + The request for a court order directing Mr. ‘Lewis to bargain with the association was filed last week by attorneys for Rotart N, Denham, General Counsel of the National - Labor Relations
Board. Eis Lewis Walked Out Mr. Denham acted at request of the association after Mr, Lewis walked out on negotiations for
[a new soft coal contract two
weeks ago. Mr. Lewis balked when the mine owners voted to seat a representative of the
— w—— southern association. , Life Insurance Man Wins Award
A National Quality Award for jointly by the National Associa-/for 9 =. m.
; ; Jl rit {tomorrow before Federal Judge a&n-outstanding record in life in-'tion of Life Underwriters and Alan-G twice. has fined ‘Mr, Lewis and the ~
Hearings on Mr. Denham's injunction request are scheduled (Indianapolis TI -*,
UMW for contempt for failing to obey previous court orders to call off strikes. © Mr: Denham: -has -aeccused . Mr, Lewis of violating the Taft-Hart-
| YAKIMA, Wash. (UP)—C. J [BRAZIL PLANT-TO- REOPEN.
society officer, |month of his career.
[oravoled 1483. Juiles..in.. CAT
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BRAZIL, Ind, June 1 (UP)-
pital today of injuries suffered in| Eley, Yakima County humane one of two plants of the Bram! had the busiest cyay Co.
Mr. Eley! tim was struck by a .car driven|impounded 300 dogs, 94 cats and hands of receivers will resume
} operations this week, cor out his duties during that month. officials said today. EE
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