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Hint by Bath Jars 4 Rivals in Governor Race
Secretary . of State
Contest Seen Likely —-By-ROBERT BLOEM _ Word that Secretary of State Thomas E. Bath might pass up a “cinch” second term to enter the Republican governor race came as a bombshell to headquarters of the four other GOP candidates today.
Although Mr. Bath remained)
silent on the feelers put out by a supporter, Mayor Russell Hileman of Michigan-City;all- four governor candidates’ camps were seething with speculation. Main question of the day, of course, was “Will Mr, Bath actually entér the race?” :
Contest Seen Likely
It immediately became apparent that if he should decide to enter the already confused picture, contest for the secretary of state nomination was In pros-
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President
Jackson, McHale Visits Explained BULLETIN FT. WAYNE, Ind, June 4 (UP) — President Truman arrived here today aboard his | special train at 1:13 p. m. (Indianapolis Time).
By DANIEL M. KIDNEY Times Stal Writer
President Truman stops at Ft. Wayne and .Gary on his “nonpolitical” tour today he will be greeted by two promient Hoosiers who slipped through a sidedoor of the White House last week and told him, so reports say, that Henry F. Schricker is to be the Democratic nominee for governor in Indiana. They are former U. 8. Sen. Sam Jackson, who will introduce the President in his home town of Ft. Wayne, and Frank M. MecHale, “Democratic national coms mitteeman, who will meet the President “at” Gary with Mr.
|Schricker.
The President is scheduled to
“jarrive-at Ft. Wayne at 1:20 p:'m:
(Indianapolis Time), and at Gary at 2:45,
Names Not Listed
And the Lake County gubernatorial candidate, Walter R. My-
t. » Pe veil potential candidates for the office have held back simply becaues it was assumed that as the incumbent, Mr. Bath would
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beck, who withdrew in Mr. Schricker’'s favor, also will be on hand. According to Mr. McHale his secret visit to the White House
be automatically in line for re- with Mr. Jackson had “no politi
nomination.
Greatest source of concern -ini
the four governor camps at pres-| - ent appeared {0 be-the PORSIBIILY [y "iaciic. which. the President
that delegates may be tired of]
the four-way fight for the nom:
ination and might flock to a dark horse candidate.
Hileman Suggests Idea Mayor Hileman started openly
entry into the governor race two days ago. Since then ‘the word has been passed around among party sounding boards to deter- | mine whether it had any real possibilities. Results of this feeling out proces still were not apparent. But it did seem certain that the entry of any reasonably strong fifth candidate would prolong the convention floor battle for the nomination and make the outcome more difficult than ever to foresee, Officially hone of the governor candidates had any comment on 0¢ prospect of Mr, Bath's joining them in the scramble. But telephone wires were kept hot during the night by efforts to check the chances of such a de-
Leaders Confer County and district
cal significance.” ‘But their names were not listed on that of the official callers, nas resorted to more and more as
the time nears for his renomina-|" (tion.
And these side-door vis: tors usually are politicians. The Jackson-McHale visit followed closely on the heels of the Indianapolis meeting where Pleas
Haymaker Jr. will meet the President at Ft. Wayne as one of the leaders in the Elect-Schricker Movement.
_ According to some’ Greenlee
for Mr. Schricker’s nomination.
Put President Straight Only a few weeks previously,
Clain would be nominated for the FOVEFROTBRIp, - So observers here concluded
from several sections of the state) conferred here and
morning in an effort to Appraise
tour.
WASHINGTON, June 4—When|
Rep. Ray- Madden of Gary will| {handle the introductions there.
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PRICE FIVE CENTS
Scattered Showers Forecast;
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A Gremlin Cracks of
THE MAN—Mayor Feeney. Can he evict the financial Gremlin who has been living off the waste in the municipal government
for years?
ter it looks.”
Gremlin complacently. “Since t
pal government.” - ~ ~ THE GREMLIN nodded tho
to scare me.. But excess spending is so deeply ingrained in | municipal affairs, you know, I | keep getting fatter every year.” “I see,” said the Mayor. The phone rang-and-he answered it, keeping one eye on the Gremlin, who sighed . slowly and fapned himself with a page * from General Ordinance No. 21, 1945. » ~ ” “I DON'T understand,” said the Gremlin irrelevantly when the Mayor had hung up, “why you wear green sun glasses indoors. Do they improve th outlook?” ¢ “No,” said the Mayor, “When people come in, T have to face the. windows and the sun is tough on the eyes.’ “Why then” replied the Gremlin; “don’t you do what we did in a similar situation in “Xanthu-one time? The Mayor, as I recall it, turned his desk so that the morning sun was behind him.” “That,” said the Mayor, “would be embarrassing. ' You
followers, who are frying to get the nomination for Harry MecClain in the state Democratic convention in Indianapolis June 15, Mr. Jackson and Mr. Me
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hogs, compared with the cattle {amb chops here were priced at —+market-which-is-running light. | A United Press survey of 10 [that the secret visit of Mr. Jaek- cities showed a 3 to 4-cent aver- Retail Meat Dealers said while Jesdere son re Mr. McHale was to put age increase in three weeks on they didn't believe the iIncreasé meet $425.000 of the deficit you ) A in prices - was nationwide, was dicted it would be goon.
the secretary of state’s potential Mr. McHale maintains that they
strength,
If Mr. Bath should enter the ever, and that they went to the U race, he would have to abandon White House merely to insure the to 99
hope of renomination to his present office because the secretary of state candidate will be nominated! In the convention before the gov-| ernor issue comes up.
On the other hand, as commis-}. |
sioner of the Bureau of Motor Vehicles, Mr. Bath has a power-
~fat-patronuge organisation whiehiAs Train Pulls Out..........
might be used to swing delegates his way in the convention which! ROW is only a week off. | ———
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{dent . Truman today. began
were ‘here on business,”
will be nominated and win and that gives the President a fighting chance in the state.
No Sign of Pickets SPECIAL, June 4 (UP)—Presiseries of ‘non-political’
about 12 minutes at Pittaburgh
In Crash Near Knox ror an early morning chat with
{Democratic leaders.
KNOX, Ind., June 4 (UP)—Two
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Meat Costs Continue to Rise) Since End of Packing Tieup
Increase 3 to 4c on Beef, Pork Here and 10 Other Cities; Lamb Hits Peak in Midwest
Meat prices have continued rising since the CIO Packinghouse! P | Workers ended their strike May 24. { said. | In Indianapolis and 10 other cities chain store prices increased) new rug?” Hale did the work which put Mr./3 {5 4 cents on beef and pork, This level is expected to continue Greenlee out and paved the od the summer until fall shipthents of cattle and hogs bring it down.
in South/the President straight before he popular beef and pork cuts. Bend, Mr. Bath's home tow, this|hit Indiana on his pre-convention slightly higher increase \ ) found here. - In Indianapolis, chain store outhow- lets reported they were selling . 8. ‘good round steak at 95 V cents per pound. Ft. Wayne stop. He added that cities the price aver he feels sure that Mr. Schricker cents a pound.
Bacon which averaged 77.4 cents a pound in 10 cities was | selling for 49 to 79 cents here, . i Sirloin steak averaged 92 cents IN Cigaret Tax Money in the 10 cities and from 95 to 99: cents here. today received a check for $72,000 LL ———— n the. average in the 10 cities, cigaret tax fund recently alloted} creased his collections of fees was selling at 55 cents here. T-bone, selling at 97 cents in/and street repair, StODS the 10 cities, was selling at 97 across the nation by pausing cents a pound here. The 10 cities were” 8t. Louis [Auditor Ralph: Moore. -County/ Detroit, Milwaukee, Pittsburgh, Commissioners said they would | Chicago, Los Angeles, Atlanta, ask the county council to approHe will make his ‘first of five, Minneapolis, Cleveland and Salt priate the money to them im-|
Persons were killed and three oth- major speeches in Chicago sta- Lake City.
ers slightly injured in an auto accident on Ind. 35 six miles south of here early today. Billy Wiles, 20, of Knox, a midget race driver, was killed when his body was thrown nearly 60
{dium tonight when hé addresses
Packers ‘here predicted cattie program. | short.”
la Swedish-American audience om ——— his plans for admission of sub-|
[stantially larger numbers of displaced Europeans to this country. { Mr. Truman was in high spirits ac his train left,
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feet from the car as it rounded however, no sign of the picket-| % curve, went out of control and ing threatened by the three rail-| turned over.” Authorities said that road unions whose scheduled na-| Mr. Wiles, driver of the car, had tionwide strike was blocked when| the President seized the railroads!
tried to take the curve too fast. Mr. Wiles’ wife, Joan, about 20, died at tre Holy Family Hospital. Others who were slightly inJured were Junior Vandeman,
about 20, andhis wité, Mary Lou. | tect the President during the six
and Harold - Wentz, 24, all of Knox,
On the Inside
“Police push gaming drive . .
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and obtained a no-strike court lorder. } | More fhan 1000 secret service, |FBI agents and police will pro-
{hours and 15 minutes he will be lin Chicago.
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” A picture story by Emma Rivers Milner and. Victor Peterson , , , Dr. U. 8. Clutton, for 40 years a
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Indianapolis packers and ‘retailers said the strike had little] some of to. do with the current ificrease.| ~~~ ~~ —————— They explained it resulted from Mr. Greenlee had called at the the short supply and continuing White House and presumably told demand on beef. the President that Mr. Schricker| Pork prices have dipped slight- oom naunoone Sumy oct ies in! wasn't going to run and Mr. Mc-|ly here because of an influx of
An the 10 gocide to pass some of the buraged 90.8 gen on to consumers, the @sso-|
iy " ~ HOOSIER GREETING — Mr. and Mrs, G. W. Bradford; 2306 S. Pennsylvania St.. extend a hospitable welcome to the "ghost who drove this huge tractor-trailer into their front porch.” The vehicle is normally driven. by who parked it on a nearb the" Biadierd, house, -
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can see for yourself. The desk covers a hole in the rug.”
» . . THE GREMLIN inclined his favendar head sympathetically. “That moth-eaten, worn out, threadbare rug of yours would ‘not fetch 10 slugs from the most
“I've been living off the fat of the land,” he said. was when all this talk of paring budgets to the bone used
Fiscal Facts and Carpet Tax— #0 Fat He Is.and Very Greedy and Fears ; He'll Starve Under Mayor Feeney
By RICHARD LEWIS “XANTHU,” said the fat Gremlin, “is really anybody’s home town. The farther from it you get, the bet-
-*Is.that so?" said the Mayor. He regarded the Gremlin with some amusement through his green sun glasses. CM left Xanthu some years ago,’
continued the fat hen, I've taken up residence in
the rear passages of your City Hall, living off the waste in munici-
v > ughtrully. “Time
” ~ rn ,e THE GREMLIN, stroked his green beard. : “You'll get-it “eventually,” he said. “Of course, the one, inescapable fact you face is an increase in the Civil City (ax rate, - “You might as well tell the public about it now, Costs have continued to rise. Your police and firemen ought to have more money to meet the cost of living. “My . nocturnal inspections have convinced me that the last administration left you short on automotive parts and equipment, All of your major operating departments will ask for more money.
® » > “YOU'RE GOING to get a whopping increase from City Hospital. The Park Board is
for administrative personnel. You've got to reconcile yourself to a bigger budget.” “And make you fatter” queried the Mayor with & smile. “Precisely,” said the Gremlin. “I feed on tax rates” “Well,” said the Mayor, “you may be right. The rate may have to go up In 1949." The Gremlin nodded. His chartreuse eyes sparkled triumphantly for a split second. Then his expression changed and he
desperate second-hand furniture dealer in Greater Xanthu,” he “Why don’t you buy a
“We haven't got the funds” said the Mayor. “I'm tossing these departmental budgets back for revision now.” “Tut,” said the Gremlin. | “With an nding increase in the School City rate, you can jump your Civil City rate a the
{receipts would continue “light| through July and August which is normal, they said,
| In the Midwest, lamb was
they said. | trifle without arousing
history citizenry
temporarily, rn » . “LET ME §how vou something. You're preparing to
from-$1.10-to0 $1.15. a pound. = | The National Association of:
pre-| inherited in this office with 20- ~ | year judgment funding bonds. Retailers, they sald] absorbed “All right. You can pay your a wholesale price rise during the, past due bills with that, includpacking strike in the hope that! ing $241,000 in 1948 utility bills prices would break. Since prices| you haven't been able to pay haven't broken, the retailers may| a5 well as the $140,000 in last year's past-due utility bills. “Now that ought to take the deficit, or most of it, off your neck. -
{clation said. a
County Gets $72,000
~ » » “ON THE credit side, you've got a $68,000 increase in payments in lieu of taxes from the Citizens Gas & Coke Utility
The Marion County government
to counties anud cities for road | and such by $50,000 compared
{ with last year. . “That puts you $118,000 to the good.”
The check was sent by the state auditor's office to County,
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brooded. “I intercepted a message of warning department heads about spending,” he said. “In fact, I understand you have given them an extra week to trim their budgets to the bone. Is this your intention?” The Mayor nodded. . . . THE GREMLIN paced worriedly up and down the sloping arm of the tattered leather chafr, It seems to me.” he said, “I had better start thinking about returning to Xanthu. The pickings have been mighty slim up to date—around here. “Of course, I could create a budget error or something like that, but ‘these economy drives worry me. Someday, somebody might actually make one work. “Of -vourse, I could always live at the Courthouse, but I don’t care vironment. We financial Gremlins don’t like too much roughage in our diets.” “Don’t let me keep you,” sald the Mayor. ~ » » WELL, said the Gremlin, a little deflantly, “maybe I'll hang around a little longer just to see how the pickings will turn out. “Who knows? Maybe some of your department heads will
“That's fine as far as ft goes,” sald the Mayor. “But we understand the spring tax
mediately to’ begin a road repair, collection will be $400,000
“James Jay, a neighbor, y hill The-air. brakes failed ‘and the vehicle rolled into
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bamboozle you. .You-know. how they used to pad their budgets.” “I know,” sald the Mayor, “Before I return to Xanthu” said the Gremlin decisively, “1
think . I'll wateh the Couneil make up the budget. If they know as little about, it as I sus-
pect. I ought to he able to live on for another year.”
“You might be disappointed,” |
said the Mayor,
“We'll see,” sald the Gremlin. “We'll see.” » . ”
THE LITTLE fellow skipped away and vanished into a crack in the plaster, leaving the Mayor alone with his tattered rug and frayed leather chairs. The mayor stared at the erack in the wall and a faint, “Gremlin voice echoed with shrill glee: . “Oh, you'll ‘never get rid of me by sealing up the plaster. You've got to fumigate the place—financially, I mean. It has never been done, you know.” ” ” ” MAYBE City Hall can get the Gremlin out of the budget. Maybe.
Russ Flier Tried to Rom Plane, U. S. Charges
BERLIN, June 4 (UP)--Amer-fcan authorities charged tonight that a Boviet transport plane tried to ram-a U..8, fighter plane over the American zone Apr. 28.
They said in an official statement that the Russian pilot “obviously with premeditation made!
“asking ~ $300 annual increases
much for the en- |
Cool Front Moving Into State Tonight
Warmer, Fair
LOCAL TEMPERATURES
6am... 10a. m, .. 84 Tam... -1lam..8 Sam ..% 12 (Noon) 87 Sam .. 80 1pm... 87
Scattered thundershowers were forecast for Indiana tonight or tomorrow but the Weather Bureau warhed they may not be heavy enough to relfeve drought condttions.
Along with the scheduled showers will come a cool air front
lef from high temperatures. Paul Miller, local meteorologist, said showers were coming on a high pressure front move
THE GREMLIN — Gregory,
the Gremlin, Budget errors, |ing toward Indiana from the west deficits and defaults are his [and north. : h veat, He hat lived well at Cit “However, there's not mu Hall o-hai- [veg wall-a!.City moisturé in the pressure front
and some parts of the state may get little or no rain at all,” he
Judge Tells LEWIS “.. v. ce seve
the official forecast sald the weather will turn warm and fair again Sunday and Monday.
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To Bargain Now
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~Scores Av 3? 1 * ported crops had begun to wither Of Miners Chief from lack of any rainfall for 14 WASHINGTON, June 4 (UP)
Federal Judge T. Alan Golds-|consecutive days. borough, denouncing the “bound-| From the crop standpoint, how-
less audacity” of John L. Lewis |ever, the drought has heen going
today directed the mine chief and|on for 20 days, actually, because his union to bargain at once with|the only rainfall in 20 days was the Southern Boft Coal {just a trace on May 15.
| Association. Lowest temperature tonight is He sald Mr. Lewis’ refusal to|expectsd to ‘be 62 fan
{deal with the association is in-|the highest tomorrow about 88,
(consistent, unreasonable, and un-| The mercury started off high {lawful under the Taft-Hartley|today with 75 at 8 a. m. and is At" * expected to reach 92 by late Mr. Lewis walked out of soft/afternoon. So far this year 89 |coal contract talks two weeks ago|has been the highest temperature {because he wouldn't negotiate recorded in the city. {with’ the Southern Association,! The heat will continue to although he was willing to deal{ovér the city tonight and will {with the 14 member organizations shoot back into the 90's again to(individually, morrow, Soft coal operators hoped Judge| Hoosier farmers, usually Goldsborough’s action wo uld|plagued by too much spring rain,
break the deadlock and bring expressed fear of serious crop -
{quick resumption of talks on a damages if heavy rains do mbt new contract to replace the one come within the next week. expiring June 30. A new contract Tomato Plants Damaged
would wipe out the threat of an-| jother coal strike in July. |, Growers are reported as delays
! Judge Goldsborough, who twice] TOF. rain. There have been re-
ports of extensive damage to thas slapped huge contempt fines niente : : lon Mr. Lewis and the UMW, said Ant Already 10:80 beans ale
showin |the mine leader is simply trying § uneven growth dus to
lack of moisture. ‘ {to destroy the Southern Assocla-| Growth also is stunted in oats, hon because it is a tough bargain- clover and alfalfa. ng adversary. . Pasture lands also are beg It is perfectly all right, he said. |ning to show A - {for a union to. consolidate Ms| Rains also are needed In {strength to further its own yy Rl forests where on, he ests. But: _ |forest fires are increasing. Theres {-- “When the. time comes when were six small fires Monday and Habor or any organization under-| conservation officidls say. rain [takes to carry out fits interests to the point that it will disinte-| margin. a” grate society, then at that point| Conservation department omfit. must: stop.” jetails also injected the only optie | . Judge Goldsborough issued- his mistic note in ‘the drought pictures. ioastigation of Mr. Lewis in a 28-minute Tnformal opinion. an-| nouncing that he would sign alin some streams |government-requested order di-| Te _sTvams Sfovped.. recting Mr, Lewis to bargain with! gy s . the southern group. 1/4 S Official Now— Robert H, Denham, general
| counsel of the National raver Lilibet’s Expecting th
Relations Board, asked for e| order on complaint. of the South-| ONDON, June 4 (UP)—Prinern Association, which accused | °°88 Elizabeth is going to have Mr. Lewis of unfair labor prae-|& baby this autumn, tices under the Taft-Hartley law,| Confirmation of ‘long standing { itat—— {reports that Elizabeth will be{WENNONITES TO MEET come a mother came in a formal | GOSHEN, June 4 (UP) Men-| announcement from Buckingham {nonite Church leaders today said Palace tonight. that they expect from 2000 to! “Her royal highness the Prine 3000 delegates to the fourth Men-| cess Elizabeth, Duchess of Edin |nonite . World Conference to be|burgh, will undertake no publie {held here and in Newton, Kas. |engagements after the end of Aug. 3 to Aug. 10. June,” the palace statement said,
Meridian Street Methodist
Plans $600,000 Church Here
37 Teams of Solicitors Open Campaign Monday; To Call on 500 Local Families
Thirty-seven teams of solicitors will call on 500 families to raise $600,000 for a new Meridian Street Methodist Church. The campaign, which is one of the most ambitious ever undere taken by a local church group, will open Monday. It will continue [through June 19. Paul H, Buchanan is general chairman of the [fund raising. Every night this week, the volunteer teams have met to map the effort. ERENT LE UG The committee reports assets] The Meridian Street Church, amounting to $200,000 in actual/which farmerly worshiped in the
cash and alvailable. from the § Clair sale of old church properties. On stone: Gothic ‘edifice at St,
the credit side goes the old organ and Meridian Sts, now has owned by the church which is merged with the Fifty-First Street valued at $40,000 and will be used Church. The merged eongrega{in the new building. tions hold joint services now in { The mew church will stand on the Fifty-First Street building at (the land at 55th and Meridian 51st St. and Central Ave, ie | whith the congregation owns. The, The Meridian Street { {lot has a 425 ft, frontage on was founded in 1821 in a {Meridian 8t. and part of it runs cabhi on the site now
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several violent maneuvers-in an Campbell and W. Stewart La Rue has numbered. amopg its mem-
apparent effort to ram” the Are co-captains of the campaign. bers fighter plane which ap-| Dr. Logan Hall is pastor. Russ proached ‘as the Russian plane/and Harrison are the building over the|architscts and A. W. Brayton
American
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is needed to maintain a safety :
Mer iaid that Ashing prospects.
thro to Illinois St. Albert M. by the State House, The church of the United