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50th YEAR—NUMBER 81 MONDAY, JUNE 14,

Debate on Draft Bill 12 Diein State Gets House Group OK 0ver Weekind

‘Star’ License Harness Acts to Break In Accide nis |

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river Sought (Committee Roadblock; Xb, toc, resent

{ : : res, Sutomobile ccidents and, _ : iother violence took the lives of | n Slaying Passage Held Assured ir ori wl il y g Lower Chamber by Standing Vote of 237 10 2 | {on iio Que = oo) . _ Agrees to Add 3.5 Million to Old-Age Rolls ) ]

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a - C k WASHINGTON, June 14 (UP)—The House Rules Committee! Body in ree {today approved the 19-through-25 draft bill, clearing the way for! |almost certain passage at this session of Congress.

(Photo on Page 3) | The Rules Committee, last big roadblock in the way of peaceBy NOBLE REED [time selective service, abandoned its opposition and voted 6 to 4 to A man driving an expensive clear the draft for House action. House Republican. leaders had of with a “star” license plate a : insisted that it be cleared. vas sought by! police for ques- an { Broken by Harness tioning today in connection with a | Some of the. members who voted the mysterious death of an Indi-| [“yes” did so reluctantly. A ma-| anapolis telephone operator. | |jority of the committee's mem-| Investigation followed the dis-| |bership opposes the peacetime! covery of the body of Mrs. Mary |draft. But they voted “yes” at R. DeHaven Pedigo, 51-year-old! {the insistence of the GOP leader-|

Miss Mary Jean Alpers, 21, Jasiy,

Michael Ellis Hays, 2's, Monroe City. Charles Jacob Kauser, Logansport, | Elmer Brickmiller, R. R. 10, Ft. Wayne. |

Mrs. Dorothy C. Lewis, 27, West!

Palm Beach, Fla. John L. Baichley, 60, Elkhart. Arthur Taylor, 45, Evansville.

Mrs. June Coghill, 62, Logans-|

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Mrs. Nancy Lee Wiley, 18,

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OK on Bonus

1 Expect Plank fl On Repeal of Cigaret Tax

| Reapportionment Stand Forecast

By ROBERT BLOEM Hoosier Democrats prob-

jably will go all out for a vet- & | eran’s bonus in the state platform to be adopted at

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Indianapolis divorcee, in shallow

| water under a creek bridge on W,

sith St. road near Brownsburg in Hendricks County about 8:20! a m. yesterday. | The exact cause of her death; had not been détérmined at noon today by Dr. F. N. Wright, Hendricks County. coroner. + Water in Her Lungs He said examination disclosed severe bruises about her head and body and that there was some water in her lungs. A report of an autopsy made on the body at Long Hospital by Dr. J. L. Arbogast disclosed | he cause of death might have been drowning. “It appears that she was alive when she was thrown into the water and apparently drowned,” the report stated. . Seek Driving Companion | Dr. Wright sald Hendricks, County authorities learned this morning that Mrs. Pedigo had been riving recently with a man in a large black car with star license plates. | Authorities also said they had; reports that the victim had been! seen recently with one of her three divorced husbands, believed to be a “Mr, DeHaven.” . “Her body, clothed in a yellow

before her death. Abrasions on Head

caused by a blow on the head.

Capt. John Barton, of the State 4 Black, Police detectives, sald the last , .otvoller: Fact of the victim before heriy., panel Ft. Wayne, state chapeath was about 5 p. m. Satur-,..,. Tom Warrilow, Gary, state song leader, and Al Green, Gary, ., {state pianist. New trustees of the Indiana The existing tax rates would be| “She. didn’t report for work [ons Cancer Fund for three-year continued. At present. employer terms were Verne Miller, Dyer, and employee each pay one per Coghill died instantly of a fracdistrict 25A; Arthur Stump, Indi- cent on the first $3000 of wages. tured skull and crushed chest anapolis, district 258; Otis Kirt-| Mr. Truman also had asked for ggturday evening when her hus-| Jey, Plainfield, district 25C; A. C. broader Call, Anderson, district 25D; Ray-|such as self-employed and agri-

mond Tash, Salem, district E, and cultural and domestic employees.|, truck on U. 8. 15 near Silver TR ah rg y oe A po er PLOY 8 tru "Chewing Choppers Nayy K's $230,000

day when she left her rooming house at 1040 N. Pennsylvania 8t. to report’ for work at t Bell Telephone Co.

and did not sleep in her bed Saturday night and that's all we can find out about her activities After she left home,” Capt. Bar. ton said. Divorced'3 Times . Mrs. Amelia Harding, landlady ‘Where the victim lived most of the past five years, said Mrs. P 80 didn’t go out on “dates” lived a conservative life. Ta Her first husband was reported ¥ have been a “Mr. Carruthers” | and her ‘second Husband was satd! by relatives and friends to have| been a “Mr, DeHaven.” Relatives Said they didn’t know the first hames or present whereabouts of | tither man. | Records at the courthouse here! disclosed that the victim was

Yorced hint in superior court here! November, 1943, on the,

desertion.”

Veteran Phone Worker ! Court records show that before ber third marriage she lived at 8 W. 24th St, 1903 Talbott St. ind at 2244 N. Pearson St. She

years and had worked at the Telephone Co. office for, 10Ut 20 years except for a short me she worked at Real Silk Oslery Co, 1 dentification finally was made I last night through her finger-| They tallied with those 1943 when she applied’ at the Real Silk Hoslery {

ts, taken In for a job Ca, Mrs. | that Mra ORE said she recalled Many telephone calls. She said

long-distance telephone calls! to the home yesterday, a

hn asking for Mrs. Pedigo nal

later there was a local call! the same man. i 1 —. Pedigo is survived by six hers and three sisters. One I and two sisters live In Be Nt. They are Charles = Mrs, Irene Hennesse god - Ray Tansel. Another %isIn Mrs. Charles Bierbaum li¢es Marshaji, 1m. Mp, other surviving brothers Bothy rman and George Beltz, living in Maryland; John "™ Cloude Belts, living in Iigis 20d Eugene Belts fn Vir-

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LIONS OFFICER — Harold O. Burnett, local broker and member of the Southport. Lions Club, was among the district governors élected here today during the 27th annual state convention of

the Lions Club.

Harold 0. Bumett Elected by Lions

Named Governor Of District F

Harold O. Burnett, Indianapolis insurance broker, was among the Federal Social Security System, vehicles spilled new district governors elected [provided the states and the fed-/ here today in the closing sessions of the 27th annual state conven- ! tion of the Lions Claypool Hotel, District governors elected were Fred A. Baumer, Hobart, district First reports that the victim A; Bridge Waite, Wabash, district d been shot were refuted by|B; Clyde Gentry, Crawfordsville, district C; Clif Cardwell, Windifall, district D; Perry Wesley, number of enterprises not now|U. 8. 41, eight miles south of! Bicknell, district E, and Mr. Bur- included. Among these would be Sterling. - nett, district F.

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Club in the

{ship in order to give the full Owensboro, Ky. | House an opportunity to vote on' Finley Thomas, 27, Lawrence{the measure, {burg. " The road block was broken, Theodore Fellerhof, 13, Muncie. when Rep. Forest A. Harness ( R} In A flunap ats: Mr. Gregory Ind.) s behind the ft bill. | n “in ‘General HosBa a : ra “Tripital of injuries received “when ihe was struck on the head by a | Up to two days ago Mr. Har- tech d hurled bull Ines, as the only member of the hatch door hurled from a buildt oT ing at 345 Virginia Ave. Saturday | Rules Committee still not com- ght bY ‘the high wind ' which | mitted, held the deciding vote on “through the cit whether to grant the draft bil pped through the.city. we a “rule” for House consideration. Partly Blind 1 | The Rules Committee, last big] The body of a partly blind Jasroad block in the way of draft Per girl. Miss Alpers, was sent {passage at this session of Con-| from here to her home in Jasper; |gress, meantime delayed once fOr funeral ts today again its crucial vote on the after she died in Methodist Hos{m ; 1pital as the result of a traffic ac-| If the bill goes to the floor. it ident at Shelby St. and Cottage. |will be debated tomorrow with Ave. Saturday. al {leaders of both parties certain it; Witnesses said the girl wasj

|committee then must adjust dir- emerged from between two cars ferences between the House bill '0 Cross the street. The cab was land the one already approve, driven by Rol Salyards, 533 N. by the Senate. - East St. A companion. Mrs.

3.5 Million Added ca and Mise Alpers. who died To Old-Age Benefits

{early Bunday, were here on a | The House today

‘shopping trip. | and The Hays boy died in Daviess isent to the Senate a bill to make County Hospital, Washington, of | {federal old-age insurance avail- a fractured skull suffered when! {able to 3% million additional he was kicked by a horse Satur-| | workers. day. He was the son of Mr. and! | Tt passed by a standing vote of Mrs, Herschel Hays, Monroe City.| {237 to 2. | As he watched the motorcycle The measure would: races yesterday at Cass County! ONE: Allow state and munici-| Fair Grounds, Mr. Kauser was pal employees to come under the! killed instantly when one of the| : its rider and i fcrahed through a fence behind: FL be SEAR eral government enter into agree- which he was standing. wf Fe . % ment for such coverage. Mr. Brickmiller was fatally inTWO: Allow employees of non-/ jured when the plane in which profit organizations and institu- he was a passenger crashed in. tions to participate in the system a corn field near Wayne Trace) under agreements with the fed- and Paulding Rd. in the vicinity] eral government. of Ft. Wayne last night. | THREE: Require participation ¢ Mrs. Lewis was killed instantly in the old-age assistance program early today when the car she was of employees of a relatively small driving ‘crashed into a bridge on|

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construction Her husband, 25, and another

and maintenance!

Other officers elected were Roh. Workers of the Tennessee Valley passenger, Herman Chavons, 23,

Veedersburg,

Howard K. Lewis, district F.

“24 Old Glory ‘Flops’ [Showers on Way

On Flag Day

It’ would have to happen on

Flag Day

The American flag on the flag-| ‘ : pole at the Columbia Club is flown, Today's cloudy skies and 83-85

almost daily, without incident. Today, however, when

upside down.

It was noticed almost immedifounds of “mental cruelty and ately by persons around the Cirand the mistake was cor-

cle, rected.

City Editor ‘Shelves’ Al Feeney, et al.,” heat inane owt FOr @ Fling at Deep Sea Fishing

‘I Don’t Know Anymore About It Than You,’

Heinke Concedes on Gulf of Mexico Jaunt County. By EDWIN C. HEINKE, Times City Editor

HOUSTON, Tex.. June 14—This little series of stories will be fish fishing. I will show you the especially for that great Indiana fraternity-—the thousands pest fishing spots in the world women and children who comprise the membership of the and I'll guarantee that you'll

written of men,

Brotherhood of Hoosier Bank Fishermen. . I'm down here to go tarpon and sailfish fishing in the Gulf greamed of.” ‘ of Mexico and I don’t know any more about it than you do.!

Pedigo had teceived Muybe we'll both learn in a week) 00." ry, gia napolis fishermen

or two.

A couple of years ago, my oldig co ve and Sundays.

friend, Andy Anderson, the South’s foremost fishing expert, came to Indianapolis to make some talks and give some exhibitions of his fishing wizardry. Andy Is on the Houston Press, a Scripps - Howard newspaper, and I took him around. ; Heavy Fishing Talk

Mr. Heinke

state Alithority; off-the-farm processors Sarasota, Fla., are in serious con-

the Rev. Robert J

Old ers or thunderstorms this eve-.trieve a ball that fell from a Glory was hoisted aloft it at- ning with moderate temperatures boat in which he was riding at married the |, tracted more attention than usual. prevailing, the Weather Bureau Edgewater Park. Cincinnati. 143, to A ire, Ue Tn Aplin had been accidentally raised said.

2 | I told Andy how these Hoosier

of fruits and vegetables and em- dition in Culver {ployees of college fraternal or- Crawfordsville. ganizations. Elkhart firemen said today The measure does not increase they had not determined the cial security benefits-—as re- cause of a house fire . which took quested by President Truman. the life of Mr. Baickley Saturday. Chest Crushed State police reported that Mrs. =~

Hospital at

LATE ADJUSTMENT—Two well-known Democrats prepared some last-minute suggestions on the Democratic” platform as party “leaders huddled -in advance of tomorrow's state convention. Sam Jackson. Wayne; left, Democratic governor candidate four years

coverage of workers, pand Sennett Coghill, 62. lost, ago, and Fred F, Bays, Sullivan, former state chairman.

control of his car while passing =e o

Mrs. Wiley was struck by a hit! and run car in Evansville while she and her husband, Douglas, sat on their parked motor scooter ‘at the side of the road. | A car-truck crash near Cin-

— Ke0, Me Tho who was dificult to” chew pork chops. .";/ Word from the Navy Department

. or enjoy corn on the cob? , that a bid of $230,000 had been [iti tn Thomas, was seriously ™ oe 100. you're missing the accepted for the construction of Young Fellerhof drowned yes- Pleasure of chomping gum. chum. the Hiroe division Naval ang Ma temperatures will turn to show- terday while attempting to re. If You are, maybe you've mis- rine COrps reserve training cen- ’ placed your set of false teeth. And ter here, if you have, you'd better contact] Work on the center, located just Charlie Tamler, owner of the Gar- south of the present Naval Armfield Theater, 2203 Shelby St. ory, on East Riverside Pkwy. is . =o» expected to begin shortly. AcCHARLIE FOUND a complete cording to the contract, construcpair of ersatz choppers while tion is to be completed within 260 policing his theater after a days. “thrilling” double feature June : 4 and no one has claimed them mandant of the Ninth Naval Disvet trict, announced the construction “ “1 don't want anvone to miss contract.has been awarded to the enjoying his meals,” Charlie says, Gene Hurley Construction Co, “S80-don't be embarrassed,” he West St. Paul. Minn, appeals. “If they're your teeth,

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Miss Joann Brower, 19, of 1512] The showers will extend N, Meridian St, Apartment 2s, throughout the morning tomor- was in General Hospital with row, with the afternoon being head injuries today as the resnit clear and cooler. The mercury of an auto collision last hight at is expected to reach 80. E 524 8t. and Washipgton Bivd

sands of dollars spent on fishing equipment annually in. Marion

rection of Capt. J. C. Gebhard,

p ‘em. in your mouth. tn District Public Works officer,

“We're keeping ‘em fresh...

a glass of water.” “Som¢d day,” said Andy, “I will -

take you tarpon fishing and sail- city.

Truman to Blast Congress Again Today EN ROUTE WITH PRESI-

DENT TRUMAN, June 14 (UP) Anti-Lynch Bill

President Truman will take an-; other cut at Congress today with] WASHINGTON, June 14 (UP) what may be his most explosive —The Senate Judiciary Commitblast at the Republican-con- tee today approved an antitrolled legislature to date. A: member of the President's WP to death for members of staff said the speech would be lynch-mobs. a “box score” on what Mr, Tru. The measure was approved by man regards as the sins of omis- Yote of 10 to 3. Sens. Edward sion of the 80th Congress, which H. Moore (R. Okla.), James O. he already has labeled, the “sec- Pastland (D. Miss.) and J. Wilond worst” in history. liam Fulbright (D. Ark.) veted The chief executive was to 88ainst it, ’ ’

ssador Hotel | Mr. Eastland immediately Spegic at dhe Ambattador Hotel threatened a filibuster should t

leatch bigger fish than you ever

$0 a couple of weeks ago, Andy organized a 10-day trip and he went out during the week and on{invited Ie a Bit Curious | - The boss, who is a fisherman How they lined the banks of himself, concurred with me when {White River, the Brown ty|I suggested that I snap up {lakes, and Fall Creek. How they | Andy's invitation. % think that {jostled each other for sitting pe is a bit curious himself about |space at the water company lake now you go about catching a at Oaklandon and all the gravel tarpon and wanted some firstpits in Marion County. ‘hand accounts. (He fishes Fall Off to Key Spots Creek by the Boy Scout camp.) " llied forth with night Thus it was goodby to stories i s 8 0 itizens u | epaniers., minnows. soft craws abow A} Feeney dud the, Cttinina pices of the Greater Los Angeles Republican leadership call it u (In season) in high hopes, and filled chuckholes in the streets, Press Shh at 3:30 p. m. (Indian Tenate. how they returned more often loan litics, and Police apolis time). : ” {than not with no fish but Plenty |e Rul’ troubles with ils ot ns Report Crane Damaged lof determination to “try that ih. downtown gamblers HOT TIME HAD BY ALL ‘other place 1 heard about the : lother day.”

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BACK ROOM CONFERENCE—Five Democratic district chairmen got together, |; in a Claypool Hotel room this morning fo make last-minute adjustments as the | p.m. filing deadline neared for candidates in tomorrow's convention. Participants in the conference were, left to right, Ura Seeger, West Lebanon, sitxh district; Paul McDuff, Indianapolis, | Ith district; Harold Kelley, Angola, fourth district; Paul Butler, will pass. A joint conferenceStruck by a taxi cab as she. South Bend, third district, and Kenneth Lackey, Gary, first district.

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ARE YOU FINDING it more Mayor Al Feeney today received In 1947 Slaying.

Rear Adm. J. Cary Jones, com-~ ~

Work on the training center just come to the box office and Will be performed under the di-

| Bite for the center was given to the Navy Department. by the

Senate Group OK's Principal McComb pre-

lynching bill providing penaities ; ow

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their nominating convention tomorrow. The vital question of legisla tive reapportionments ignored by |the Republicans in their plat.

major Democratic plank. It appeared today the Democratswould commit themselves to give the popullous centers the additional legislative tation . |they have been lacking for many years. Other major planks appeared likely to be a proposal to repeal the cigaret tax and a five-point plan to divorce liquor from polities, Sg : In State of Flux Sideline observers predicted | freely today that the Democratic {platform would be sharp and !positive ‘on health. labor and property tax reassessment, The final piatform was still in a state of flux, however, and it will remain for the official con~ [vention committee on resolutions to whip it into shape in pre-con-i | vention windup sessions tonight. Start inoculating hile the Republican Plattorm A i ple the party to follow t There Tonight. |dictates of the voters in the Target for tonight in the city scheduled bonus referendum, wide free rabies inoculation cam- Democrats predicted their party paign will be the section around) would take firm hold on the issue School 7, at 748 Bates St, i Jand propose a bonus ofi their own The mobile vaccination A, Ryd manned, by. oo Touchy Subject . narians, auxiliary police and Dr. Rg Gerald Kempf, city health ai- touch b 3 {rector, will vaccinate dogs free. ote Siibjtet on poiities for 20 charge at the school 7 site 1o-provides a reapportionment based {night and tomorrow night. OWn- on shifts in population every six {ers may bring pets between 6.30 years but legislature after legis(and 8:0 2 0, Sither oe {lature has persistently ignored hy: L/ {the constitutional mandate, Dr. Kempf again urged owners| Ir the Democratic: reapportion-

Rabies Fight To School 7 Area

{to bring dogs on a leash and With ment plank materializes in tomor-

j& collar, on which to affix the/row's final platform draft, it {vaccination tag. Puppies under would be an open bid for the big six months of age will not be city vote. ‘ The cities have been vaccinated. ; !the ones most neglected in legis- { Other vaccination . sites this 1a tive representation while farm {week willbe School 9. at 740 E. mmunities have been more and

Wednesday night; E ¥ School 16, at 1402 W., Market St. tr ed, aut ot proper,

Thursday night and School 10, at, 1255 Carroliton Ave, Friday night.

- > . All dogs will be vaccinated free, Geography Snarls with no effort e to © f ¥ with no effort made to check If Democratic Races Governor Makes Plea Final deadline for Aling of Today Gov. Gates also issued & candidates for nomination in {proclamation calling for "state-| tomorrow’s Democratic state {wide effort of all citizens, health! convention passed today with lofMicials, yeterinariang and law. three offices. for which Bo can: ‘enforcement agencies to combat! gidate had filed. The three the spread of rabies in Indiana.” planks at 1 p. m., the deadline, | His proclamations encompassed were appellate court judge from ‘the recommendations of veteri-!' (0 northern district, supreme narians made to him at the height’ oourt judge and clerk of the of the. rabies’ epidemic. supreme and appellate courts.

With less than an hour to go before the candidate filing dead- | Democratic ticket-makers p The first degree murder trial of today were busily trying to unPearl Johnson, 18; of 817 W. New tangle geographical snags in to~ York ~ St, opened today In morrow’s convention picture. Criminal Court 2. i" Among the late filers this Miss Johnson was indicted by morning were Dean Walker, Culithe Marion County Grand Jury in|yer, seeking the office of superthe death of Charles Barnes, who! intendent of public instruction, was shot June 8, 1047, land Timothy Sexton, Indianap-

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Albany, both seeking nomination for treasurer: - 3 Awkward in First The first district particularly was in an awkward situation with candidates for both lieutenant governor and secretary of state, 2 One thing that was not likely to change was that the governor race would be the feature of tomorrow’s convention. The party's state convention /starts tomorrow at the Coliseum. 3 Mr. Schricker and his princi pal opponent, Harry McClain of Shelbyville, both had put up their {$1000 candidate assesdments and were in the race for governor. For Second Spot o Walter Mybeck of Crown Point, who withdrew from the gover 9 nor's race in_ favor of Mr. Schricker, had his money on the {line for the lieutenant governor nomination, John Watkins of {Bloomfield also was in the race {for second spot. A three-way fight for secretary

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