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Halleck Tells GOP To ‘Radical New Deal Three-Quizzed |

After Woman ‘Drowns Here

Tragedy Follows

FRIDAY, JUNE 11, 1048

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Keynoter Hails Tax Cot And Taft-Hartley Act Passed by Congress

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Pledges Laws to Stamp Out Communism

Sat BULLETIN Tour of Taverns Five candidates for state offices were nominated by scclama- - | tion by delegates at the Republican state convention this after. n Cream, iH U L L ET | N | moon. The unopposed candidates nominated were Rue J. Alexander g Size _ : : for lieutenant governor, Mart J. O'Malley for judge of the Supreme

, participant - at the GOP state convention. Ha attended -his first’

An Indianapolis housewife, Mrs. Mary Frances Senters, 18,

instruction. of 1518 Deloss St, |

and her CEM cousin, Joanell Montgomery, 17, |- "Acton, drowned in a gravel pit | 2 near Fairland today during a» | family outing, Mrs. Senters’ husband raced to the scene to

try to save the girls, but failed, |

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DELEGATE 40 YEARS AGO—J, E: Henderson, a GOP con- _ vention delegate from Atlanta in the sixth district, was the oldest

(Congress. He said it had

cuing America from the New| Deal. ; |

“We are met here,” shouted Rep. Halleck, -“to carry forward the Republican battle against the New Deal radicalism that has

“OPENS CONVENTION —H: Clark Springer. temporary GOP convention chaiman (left), confers with Rep. Charles Halleck (center), convention keynoter, and Ruel

W. Steele, Gov, Gates' executive secretary and convention. sergeant-at-arms, as

. . . x . bbi f freedom. they opened the Republican nominating assembly this ‘morning. Oe has dt

“We have driven these spenders, the ‘wasters andthe ters | from state government. We shall (complete the. job of driving them from the Federal government in

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On state matters, the flery Hoosier Congressman said the Republican administration had placed the state in its best financial position in history.

‘Padded Payrolls’ “The padded payrolls of the

been dissipating our resources and|

Court, Frank Hamilton for Appellate Court, Mrs. Fern Norris for court reporter and Ben H. Watts for superintendent of publie

A presidential platform was placed on exhibition at |the Republican State Convention here today in the keynote 'speech of Rep. Charles A. Halleck of Rensselaer, Indiana's favorite son for the GOP presidential nomination, . Dwelling only briefly on state government, the House imajority leader also hammered out a defense of the 80th

® n » performed its function of res- On the Inside—

Anti-Jenner forces score first” VIORORY .o cs ine svansrssansr Bal Predicts’ National GOP Convention to end in five days P. 10 Politics and more polities , , . In pletures «o.voieves.cee P31 Highlights of GOP platform ‘ow blicans complete ‘slate of national delegates « + « pictures of candidates winding up thelr cam. PAlEnS civiiiiiiennenn P28

nn Fall Creek Flood

Control Fund Cut

Senate, House Agree On Slash of $624,000

Schricker administration,” he sald,

Republican convention as a delegate here in 1889 when the party | PN TE) SG k | nominated Alvin P. Hovey for governor. i Two young men and a young “5 Big 4a.» . oo. | woman were being held for furth-| fu ® . er questioning after the fourth eeri ng an 3 Ingli ng member of what the survivors de-| ey - scribed as a drinking party was] . * {drowned early today in White Mar p Co nvention River, at the Southport Rd. : | The victim was Martha Ellen . | Lytle, about 28, 122 ‘E. 9th St. | ~_Helmke Supporters Make the Most Noise whose prolonged screams of As Chairman Clark Springer Calls for Order |!STor were heard by a neighbor Feige BY- RICHARD -LEWIS . He called deputy sheriffs, who! The state GOP convention opened this morning amid a burst found three persons standing on| of cheering, singing and the buzz of conversation after a brief/a nearby bridge. In the group. flurry of confusion in seating of some delegates. were Eugene Shriber, 27, of 423 8.! The start which was scheduled at 10 a. m. was delayed 45| Alabama St.; Arven Cox, Combs minutes mostly because most of the delegates failed to arrive Park, near Beech Grove, and Geron time. vol |aldine Cotton, 28, of 1729 Roose- | Temporary Convention Chair-| = | velt Ave. CHA ! man Clark Springer rapped re- lady,” said another be-ribboned| Girl Starts to So peatedly for. order but the spec-idelegate. "| When asked what" the trouble tators Wii right on cheering and: They took her into a bathroom, was, the trio replied, “Nothing singing. He managed to get the finally, and asked four gents who thing at all.” ” have 1 streamlined 10 the vast coliseum _assernbl nade Jere using De Blase 10 Sraw up Then, the girl started to sob {point that there -are less -emcontrol difring & e. | i er Te | Son 8 rn ~{Glared. but left. jad adimitied to Deputy Sheriffs; Nn Wloyies on adhe. state payroll today * x = y went into one of the! “ RX i : ‘ | or The most vociferous support voting machines Which were bencd a terrible thing has hap-| 4 g : ” He ag the a uklican for any candidate as the conven- placed around the floors at n=" tale ‘of four persons having Fania & and er ATS, tion opened came from a cheer- ervals. soned the Suan and ootten off work about 11 p.m. | ing section for Waiter Helmke, a - and starting in sere 2 a good GE: ] me - was piec ogether. FL Wayne governor candidate, At one time, there appeared 10 were employed at a food distrib-| which erected a huge banner say-/be more than 1000 men and wom-|ytor at Lewis St. and Roosevelt|

The state's mental health pro-

=. Times Wa on Buress | WASHINGTON, June 11 Sen ate and House conferees agreed today to cut $624,000 from -the Fall Creek flood control appropris {ation in Indianapolis and let other (appropriations for the state stand unchanged. This puts the amount in thé bil}

jgram, he said, is & “model fOr a0) 15 $1 million for Fall Creek,

ithe nation.” Citing - the blessings of free

which is the sum originally voted by the House. The Senate added

suri ing, “Let's put Helmke at theen jamming the eighth floor, in| Ave. : : pasted the ory. a nas. hat Sematots 5 the 3 OL. im." : addition “to those packed In| They began a round of East) a Thirgire Commies reed with ot...-13¢ k Helmke . suppoiters rooms, Ts | Side taverns. + tentions. The 80th Congress, he Other. flood control. construction ofion: 4% <chastted football yells—for their vy pus *s typical smoke-| When the taverns closed; the] a id, interposed. itself as. a Dar-| items agree t-to-for Indians are ed

} vee..3be ciensen de 0Z..+ ++. 49¢ yz. Less dle . ale. i... 43¢

undidate and raised: - printed ipieg room scene ineclided a cast|TOUr young persons hired a cab to wards in unison to spell “Helmke or ahout 25 men and women .in/take them to the river bank. The! for Governor.” {a single room, with a woman on|driver stopped en route and ob-; A number of Democrats filtered tne telephone bawling somebody tained whisky; the survivors told, into the convention hall. Among out and everybody else sitting deputy sheriffs. them was Andrew Jacobs, Demo- around on the bed, the chair and] Miss Lytle removed part of her| tratic nominee for 11th istrict the floor fanning, themselves, ~ iclothing and declared she was wngressman, who took up a posi-| The men took off their coats 8°ing to take a swim, the others on close to the speakers plat-| ..™ /. xtiés as the evening Said. She waded into deep water form, |warmed up, then couldn't remem-|and sank, amid screams of terror. ber where they left them. The! Man Dives in River } ladies kept hunting around for| However, the neighbor who re-| 1their purses and- husbands. ‘{ported-- hearing the cries; John: One delegate from Grant Coun-| Wiltermood, R. R. 7, Box 573, de-

» ¥ n Observers noted that while the toavention hall was by no means full, today’s .convention brought out the largest crowd of gallery|

Spectators in recent years. {ty | po » Promises that he convention [Water on his head and sighed a lasting several minutes. |

i | e sald he went to the bank] Yould be speeded up and con- (With Felief. ' and saw one man swimming and fucted withotit any delays were| The candidates, on the whole, | ther hanging on a log at the Made repeatedly from the speak- held up better than the delegates. bank. Cox acknowledged later nel er platform by Mr. Springer... | They stayed in one place, [had' gone into the water fn ani Most of the delegates appeared)... ... ...#& # ® ~~ | attempt te rescue the girk: wos fresh and ready to go. this morn-| Sen. and Mrs. Jenner had &| The body was recovered .about Ing after hours of milling around |dance going #n the Riley 'Room 1000 feet downstream from the i the Claypool Hotel in pre-con- with a. hired band and a itl bridge. Deputy Sheriff - Virgil Venton sessions last night.

| singer, . They greeted. people. for Quinn said he found arks of “There were two_thousand peo- three hoiirs without any sign of | STA ARI: hey Sound nom

ble milling around in corridors, wear and tear. ms, sultes, on the roof and wrpey got“ used ‘to ‘that in

phone booths. One thousand go hington” commented a Jenwemed to be continually 00KINg perfor Governor fan.

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WHERE'S YOUR PASS?—C. M. Knau

arms, is following strict orders from convention officials to refuse admission to the |

poured part of a pitcher of|scribed the girl's screams for aid] convention floor.any person who does not have credentials Opposing GOP Factions > By-Pass First Showdown .

Anticipated Floor Fight Fails to Develop

As-Anti-Jenner Forces Hold Qf

By ROBERT

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First opportunity for a showdown between battling factions in the Republican state convention here passed without a show of

11ight today.

The anticipated floor fight

Photos by John Spickiemtre, Times Staff Photographer, ’ er of Avilla, an assistant sergeant-at- |

as an official delegate.

125 Feared Lost.

‘Excursion. Boat “Sinks in Jutland

COPENHAGEN, June 11 (UP) ~The Danish passenger ship Kjobenhavn ~ struck a ‘drifting

over the question of how many |magmetic mine in the Kattegat

“that the President reflected the

irfer to protect the citizenry |against the “encroachment” of {the administration. { “Only by having in the White {House a Republican President {who will work hand in hand with a Republican Congress . . . cah iwe complete the task before us,” he said.

‘Nurtured Communism’

He charged that the New Deal had nurtured communism and promised that a GOP adminis-| tration would pass laws to stamp {it out. He asSerted a Republican administration would rescue the wage earfer from confiscatory taxes and the businessman from governmental controls, Rep. “Halleck “hailed “the GOP income Lax oul as a restoration of economic freedom. He assailed President Truman's remarks on his. western. .tour.on. the “stingi-

Cagles Mill Reservoir $1,500,000, Cannelton $640,000, Jeffersonville Clarksville $235,000, Levee Unit Eight $243,000, Muncie $78,000, McGinnis Levee $420,000, New Als bany $1,050,000, and Shuffiebarge Levee $420,000, ‘ These are the original amounts voted by the House and left’ un. changed - in the Senate and so were non-controversial. 3

Cycle Racer, 3, ‘Bumps’ a Turn

‘Robert Dale Gillum, 3-year-old son of Mrs, Alpha Gillum, 1999

IN. New Jersey St, was raclog

Aruna his Jat porch this morne ng on a high-powered tricycle, = ise 5 Fon on Sie ay and plunged -down an embanks ment consisting of six steps. His.

ness” of -€b and charged

New Deal's “extravagance.” | | He praised the Tart-Hartley! {Act as another restorer of popu: [IAF Tiberty and asserted that la-

head hit the concrete, causing a bump to rise. on wo The. intrepid racer was put to bed by his mother, apparently not otherwise injured. :

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delegates should be required to nominate candidates for state of4 eo tne Jutland coast early today bor unioms have thrived under it. Missing Man's Body | fices failed to materialize. when the three candidates opposing Sen./and sank In 10 minutes with an! “This law is- not a slave labor > — » . [William E. Jenner for. the gov- + lestimated 400 to 450 persons act,” he sald, “nor has it retarded Found in Morey $ Lake ernor nomination called off their Car Crash Breaks |aboard. the growth of the labor move: BRAZIL, June 11 (UP) — Au forces. . | Unofficial reports four hours ment.” “|thorities today recovered the body orn Jenner won the first round Theater Windows [ister said that 125 1 175 pas-| ‘Licking Housing" of Ora. C. Davis, 23, Terre Haute, by g ) Isengers and crew members were : Who was believed to have drowned Rules Committee voted 6 to 5! Two windows were broken out) authorities Tor — Keynoter dlinrged the Tru {with two companions on a fishing

for the. other thousand. | . Hou Prep ares A tr rer! Candidate A. V. Burch had an-, aveling Man from Denver other dance going in the assembly | : room on the eighth floor. He was l Id or 10A

a looked in for a rbom said be’ kK. h ‘ d Mrs, ints wih. Sep. and greeting people in his shirtsleeves Gndidates for judge before he and serving fruit punch. . 1 . found out what was going on. Overshadowed by the .noise and | Martin Asks Vote The main floor of the Claypool music emanating from Mr. Early Next Week

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|gates voting would be sufficient|this morning when a passenger problem. This, he sald, was a

| |~—House leaders, jolted to action llided with a milk truck [0Und. one badly mutilated, in “see” | o nominate. Backers of Walter|car co Cpamer ve” te canary war emcee th: Some orb Backs of Waar, Set, Th, $k rh ri bt (nd rbd he la; tt oni’ %n of the lot and his scouts Here” with a big arrow to .show passage of the Po draft. [Evansville and Hobart Creightan,| Oerator of the Pe IToN. or'| One of the first survivors to| Under Apuiioas \éadership, Managed to get it placed dead{where Mr. Helmke was, He was| Speaker Joseph W:- Martin Jy; | Warsaw; had proposed that a Karl 7. Green. 53, of 17 N. Ar reach land was Johannes Peter aii, we are: Neking he ter of the mezzanine balcony. serving some punch i pretzels, | (R P Mass.) called for a vote on Minimum of 919 votes or half thal Meunl Avi. Wad taken. 40 Gane on 50, an Aalborg businessmen ROUNg ARORA. . + WE NAYS Creighton, not to be out-|potato chips and passing out but-|the 19-thro h-25 selective serv- total. delegation be required to eral Hospital! for treatment. Hel ho wah picked up by the Dash eliminated the unnecessary re- , hung his picture in a frame. tons saying. “Vote for Helmke.” ice bill Any or Wednes-| nominate. [yas chatged ‘willh vagraney and, anker Danguls Globe and taken, Hetions and. controls. on 2 Size of a bank vafilt. | It was Mr. Helmke's men who|day. He said four hours of de- Bound to Hallsok |aruskeuntin was driven hy to Aalborg. [eials. are alae Leking the: Grid fv = (devised a means of infiltrating bate should be enough. A short time before the first . _ ‘wc io. 38 of AT Mr. Peterson said the lights In jem of oa who 'S , ro It was one of the most athletic/campaign material into the| «we can probably pass it in one crisis came and passed the dele-| uninjured ' TE © the ship went out when the mine giances pe been t n JOS he Sgations of delegates ever.enemy's camp. They passed out day.” he added. i gates unnniotsly adopted ¢ a. m— — — exploded and the passengers "a oe ha . i 00) gh We in one hotel with seven cardboard fans which also said.| opponents of peacetirne as R . rushe. roug ® corridors 10! resort to rationing and bureaufor " | {tional -convention delegates to ¢ kK. ol seh Sh Sup dle ep Ty Everybody | .onseription, previously confident support “favorite son” ree Waited Months reach. the deck cratic price control, - the twin

here were signs urging the was the welcome center operated

| | ‘ “There was no real panle,” he| destroyers of roduction.” Smmandi . {that congressional draft sentiment onaries Halleck, second district, : : : Is “Everything happened so y p n. Bates and candidates tod up “Hobart Creighton was passing Was waning, were rocked from congressman, for the GOP presi- To Ride His Bike fast we didn't 0 Psd think. | ., The Congressman charged that (the impact of the Senate's over- ination. tay “" {the Administration has refused Md down from the main to the/out soft drinks and until the nk " |dential nomin Now It s Go Ten minutes after the explo-!.o® coroverate with Co . floor, |supply gave out, did the biggest! Whelming indorsement. | The resolution was offered by ™==1 N@ [yon the ship sank; leaving only| te. 5° pridie With © ngress In They minded it. It was hot business of anybody. Later, his Chairman Leo E. Allen (R. IIL) [Leland L. Smith, - Logansport, TREES \the mast and pilot house above a deal with orough trade was absorbed by H. Dale/of the House Rules Committee) Cass County GOP chairmai, and] THE SUN was shining over|the surface. Before it sank it * Ob" 0 deal w } communism. Brown, who mysteriously pro- backed-off his previous prediction seconded by State Sen. John Van- most of Indiangpolis today but|/leaned over on one side so the ‘Poor President’ duced a cache of iced beer. that the rules group might defy Ness of Valparaiso. there was nothing but gloom: out|boats could be put out. [« “We say that alien-controlled —————————— Republican leaders and pigeon-| Thanking the delegation for its|at’ 2158 Ransdall St. home of| ' “On my way to the deck I saw communism at home shall hole the draft. : . support, Mr. eck commented: eight-year-old David Herkamp. [several passengers killed by the searched for and expunged by deHoffman Asks Senate He said his committee—which| ‘Reward Beyond Measure’ | David got a bicycle for his explosion.” y (cent, Republican, I hott, To Restore ERP Cut {has stalled for a’ month—willl “This is a reward beyond birthday last October. But al The vessel was on a popular, and that jts march abroad will be WASHINGTON, June 11 (UP) vote Monday. He put the odds measure for miy efforts toward broken arm and the coming of 10-hour vacation run from Copen- 0 » ~Foreign Ald Administrator Paul at a little better than even that good government but I like it G. Hoffman told the Senate to-'the draft bill will be cleared forishe same.” : a day that unless the House cut in House action. | Reason for failure 6f the Rules out.” ald funds fs restored Europe willl The Sénate wound up.a week of Committee fight to .materislize basément all winter “so it would weather, The a not get the tools and machinery debate on the draft late yester-iywag the decision by . the “threw still be new” when summer came shallow water, leaving parts of rights’ =. Brnegt pn. 0 32| Mrs. Manners 31 needed for recoyery. |day and shoved to easy passage gnti-Jenner candidates that there, _ __— THOOL “let out June ''G fuberstructure showing. . | Before opening his keynote adBriggs Blau, 27| Ruth Millett. 26| Mr. Hoffman appeared before a bill under which the Army. ex-lway jittle danger that their dae] - WHEN Sp oft a out June, Reports sald the ship sank so|dress, Mr. Halleck’ made an exBusines; |! 25| Movies ..... 32/the Senate Appropriations Com- pects to call ip more than 200, giles would leave the convention 4 he got it out of the basementiquickly that only two lifeboats temperapeous reply to President +++ 28/ Needlework, 26!mittee to plead for restoration of 000 men in the 12 months start- before the end of the con-|and shined it up. Yesterday helcould be launched and that pas- Trumme's at, Spokane, « 30 F. C.'Othman 21/the $2,160,000,000 cut made by|ing July 1. Sa eR of : . |went for his first long ride, over). ! spending of men 18-through-

L™ Boing to faint.” sald thé mal) County woman delegate fogs. O0 the stairs to the eighth

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He. locked it wp in the indianapolis time, in clear, sunny prevent any future New Deal ship went down in| “meddling” with “inalienable

harge Garfield Park. tio He left it to pliy and when he his “new”

just {winter combined to deny him the hagen to Aalborg in Jutland when| He pledged that dhce in power, "pleasure of giving it “a good try- it hit the mine at 12 midnight, ‘Republicans would enact laws to

trip ‘at Morey's lake last Monday. | However, State Police ¢ontinued efforts to find the body of Davis’ {brother-in-law, Maurice Sherer, 40, also of Terre Haute. They [sald the lake was. being drained {in an effort to discover the miss{ing man. . Authorities sald an unidentified woman companion of the two was {also believed to have drowned,

‘Woman Begins 2-Year Term in Fatal Stabbing

| Bernice Burton Porter, 20, to« {day began a two-to-21-year term {in- the Woman's Prison for the fatal stabbing of Robert C. Tay{lor last year... 1 She was convicted yesterday by ia Criminal Court 2 jury of manslaughter at. the close of a trial * {which started Monday. ‘She was charged with first degree murder in. the slaying which Tesulted {from a drinking party and argu|ment,

GOP Delegate Dies Of Heart Attack Here

Albert: Johnson, chairman of [the Warren. Coypty delegation to [the Republicar State her, died this

dlanapolis tal following &

oriing in an Ine

80th Congress heart attack. He stricken A s last night aL a meeting of Te

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