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Atterbury as
| Draft Center
Congressmen Win Battle, Camp To Be Reactivated Early in 1949
By DANIEL M. KIDNEY, Times Staff Writer
Hoosier ‘Congressmen today won their battle to have Indiana's Camp Atterbury reactivated as a draftee train-
ing site.
The Franklin camp will be activated with a division of
12,000 to 15,000 men during the first quarter of 1949.
Announcement of activation was mad the four Congressmen who have been voicing loud protests against the previous
War Department decision to exclude Atterbury from the list of camps selected for draftee train-
ing. They are
Sens.
Homer E.
Capehart and William Jenner and
reactivation of Atterbury and protested to Army Secretary Kenneth Roy4ll when Camp Breckinridge, Ky., across from Evansville, was activated instead, making the fourth Army camp award-
ed to Kentucky.
All Indiana congressmen, cept Majority Leader Halleck (R. voted against the draft,
Ind.)
ex-
or wn S : 3 eS]
which forms the basis of such reactivation. Last week Ira Haymaker, Democratic state chairman, conferred with Undersecretary of Army Gray regarding the possibility of Atterbury’s reactivation. He was told, as was the Army public relations office that there were no present plans for this purpose. Held as Standby The Army had repeatedly told delegations from Franklin and
A
y
area, that Camp Atterbury was
being held in a standby condition
e immediately to
| |
answer,
Truman to Get State's 26 Votes
lke’s Refusal No
Surprise to Hoosiers
By ROBERT BLOEM President Truman Will get In- Candidate.
diana’s 26 votes for the Demo-| cratic presidential nomination. |
The bursting of the Eisenhowident bubble today 0 surprise to Hoosier FS party leaders. They were stand- °riginal ing pat for the President and] were confident the Hoosier dele-| gation could not be by propaganda.” Commenting on reports that . pro-Eisenhower delegates might|Crats” to unite now that Gen. be “switched” to Supreme Court Eisenhower has stated his posi-| William ©. Douglas, | tion. State Democratic Chairman Ira
er - for - Pr: came al
Justice
Haymaker said:
“Our pledge to Mr,
still stands.” Declares for Truman
The Indiana party declared
"panicked
presidential And son of the
national du
[the race.
“finality”
week.
of Gen. statement. Grath predicted that President Truman will be nominated on the] first ballot at Philadelphia next
Three States Turn Deaf Ea To Ike's ‘No’
By JOSEPH NOLAN United Press Staff Correspondent Democratic leaders of the Eis-enhower-for-President boom in at least three states refused today to take Gen. Ike's “no” for an
nomination.
James -Roosevelt,
late President,
ty.”
Party spokesmen in New Jer-! sey, Georgia and Alabama said they expected their delegates to next week’s Democratic convention to vote for Gen. Eisenhower {despite the general's statement “he could not accept” the party's
eldest said
he still was convinced that Gen. Eisenhower “will answer a call to
But most other anti-Truman leaders conceded that Gen. Eisenhower has taken himself out of
They began casting {around desperately for another
Calls for Unity Democratic National Chairman J. Howard McGrath said he never had the “slightest doubt” of the Eisenhower's
Mr.
Mc-
| He called on all “loyal Demo-|
‘Allies
| - i
Hand Russia Note
Protesting Berlin ‘Siege’
Truman of it.
But Frank Hague, New Jersey
BISHOPS HOLD A
| political boss, would have none, Jurisdictional Conference
He
Eisenhower to accept the nomi-! ® =»
flatly for President Truman in|eral.
its state platform adopted June
rt or
ments, a division, with the drat-|De said.
tee components, will
be estab-
lished as part of .the -Re
Army at: February or
the
when he was informed of the inclusion of Atterbury in the train-
He canceled the Breckinridge visit.
Once before when Camp Atter-| bury was marked for extinction | viewed a protest from Franklin citizens Truman.
ing program.
arch, 1049, The politics in the situation grew hot with Mr. Haymaker's visit. And today it looked like Republicans their anti-Army votes. Breckinridge Trip Out Rep. Landis was on his way to Inspect Breckinridge for compari-| son of its assets with those of!
won, despite
and Hoosier officials won it a re-
prieve.
ened.
Cheered by News
Announcement of plans to use’ Atterbury again aftér months of inactivity cheered civic leaders in half a dozen or more cities and towns around the big ecantonment—Franklin, Columbus, MarSeymour, Greensburg, Edinburg. Businessmen, who profited from soldier spending during tr» boom days of 1942 to 1946 when Atterbury was a beehive of activity, Saw the prospect of more money coming into their cash registers. Others rejoiced in the news beCause they hated to see the $70 ‘investment decay from lack of use.
‘Built in 1942 ~J-_»Camp Atterbury was built in
tinsville,
million
It since has been onl standby status, used for Nationa Guard maneuvers with the under-, standing it would be activat the defense program were broad-
Shelbyville,
fall’ into|
1942, a few months after Pearl Harbor, as the selective service) system shifted into high gear for| the nation's greatest manpower!
draft in history.
» |Star Carole Landis, It trained many thousands of ritteq suicide in her luxurious
Men in the 83d, 106th and 90th|
Divisions.
An Austrian battalion was trained there.
In 1943 it was
revealed that 1262 Italian pris-|
oners of war were there in a!
POW camp, Later,
Atterbury became a
&cparation center and thousands! of soldiers returning from long|
gates.
of duty overseas threw away their uniforms and put on civilian clothing at Atterbury’s
Cook Struck by Car; Critically Hurt
12th ‘St., and Central Ave.
Frank McKinney, treasurer of gular the state organization and anoth-! Athan! he had found no anti~“Truman sentiment among In
diana.
{attend the Philadelphia conven-| tion and cast his half vote in perto be one of the key centers for son, but said if he could it would Universal Military Training. But the Hoosiers in Congress were all against UMT.
|be for Mr. Truman. “All this talk about dumping! |the President is just propaganda
Now, according to announce- 25 far as I can find in Indiana,”
Not ‘Anti-Truman’
“If Gen. Eisenhower became an avowed candidate for presidential|gaiq
have some delegate support from! Indiana. But as things stand I er:
(think it's safe to say the delega- ill Camp Atterbury this morning] = ower
tion is for Mr. Truman.”
Both Mr. McKinney and Mr. said any v general might have received from! Hoosiers would be “genuine pro-| and’ could. not be as being merely anti-
Haymaker
Eisenhower”
nomination,
schedule.
Sam Jackson of Ft. Wayne, ndiana’s “favorite son” candi- pemocrats lidate for the vice presi D
cast its 36 votes for an “out and Mayor Feeney said he was “too out Eisenhower draft.”
Columbus, cities nearest the camp|Snowed under” by city business to
was still stringing] along with Gen. Eisenhower. He| Eisen on Mr. Truman to ask Gen.|
{nation if it is offered to the “M th di t *. | | Mr. Hague said his state would e 0 IS
Georgia for Ike
|
Wade and Smith will ret
Parley
Detroit; Bishop Lester Smith of Cincinnati, and Bishop Edwin Holt Hughes, Madison, Wis. (retired). Bishops irdk during the meeting.
delegates from|
| otes the mn
Democratic
general's nomination.
Mr.
“Gen.
dential] Douglas.
said his half vote as| Mr Dot
ed if|a delegate-at-large would be for Mr. Truman,
cast ‘ore according to]
James 8S.
name
Truman,
Peters, chairman,
on Gen.
Georgia said his state's 28 convention votes still] will go for Eisenhower if the is placed in
Chairman-designate I. Handy {Ellis of the Alabama delegation
‘still -believed- that: {would accept if he is drafted. returning fo
Eigen- | A gala banquet tonight for .: some dry forces intended to But an aid 1200 guests in the Scottish Rite back Kepublican Nominee Hobart JBIIECLS DUNE Cathedral will precede the actual Creighton had been ‘greatly ex-|
~ Eisenhower is an nomination,” he said, “he might honorable man.”
be available.
Douglas Steps Down New Deal members of the anti-
were cool _ to
Truman sentiment he had heard running for anything.”
about within the party was “what |
I read about in the newspapers.” |ment came at a time when the and thought, to become some-|ina Prohibition Party this year, | Other delegates, candidates for
ocrats
went
along with
“stand pat” attitude toward the part:
President.
that Mr. Truman's nomination and could not accept nomination] their was “in the bag,” possibly with-/for any public office or partici- and the love of God and man|the Rev. Lester N. Abel. minister! out opposition and in any event pate in partisan political con-| possessed by the followers of the or Trinity Methodist Church, In.
on the first
ballot.
s, abandoning hope that Eisen-!|
Mr.
Gen. Eisenhower's new state-
To Banquet. Planned Tonight for 1200
By EMMA RIVERS MILNER Times Church Editor
{
Indianapolis today is welcomsaid he is “still in favor of nomi-|ing representatives of 2 million inating” Gen. Eisenhower. He sald | Methodists as they arrive in the us . the g
7 : Tt Leda gd | : |dictional Conference in the Rob-| Queried latér, Mr, hanmor NONY Changer Washington from Missouri, had erts Park Methodist Church. sald he was referring to no par-| : “no comment” ihower’'s statement.
(quoted the President as having
working conference in. the church, 288erated” and blamed them on Stops Slug Fired Many of. the anti-Truman lead- Bishop Titus Lowe of the Indi-| gists to “divide and rule.” anapolis Area, who will retire] |during the conference, will set Prohibition Party delegates met! |the spiritual stamp of the meet ruman coalition, led by Former ing by administering the Holy| ga o OPA Chief Leon Henderson, be-iCommunion tomorrow morning. gan beating the. drums for Su-| preme Court Justice William O. Douglas as soon as Gen. Eisen-|
To Elect Bishops
| strategy for the next four years, |" |
glas, vacationing in| hearing addresses and attending | mittee was still drafting a party Sunman
gon, ‘said only that he wasn't! to many necessary and important slate. Mr. Thompson, a Richmond money from his pocket, {going to attend the Democratic
He said the only anti-| convention and that he was “not
i matters.
|Ditch-Truman-for-Ike boom was| what heated as the meeting Pro-/ he asserted, will be to crusade for tified Long as his assailant. state offices and prominent Dem-|snowballing among Democrats gresses. the from coast to coast. He said in| working sessions will come the, | daily evangelistic hour and the
“! heeuandering of Voles® : Open Sessions > Suandering of Votes' = pioced hy Strike
it Afterward, the delegates will pang
i |hower said he was not available. gat away to the business of elect- swished slowly back and forth ™ Its force spent, the slug lodged!
{ But anti-Truman Southern, . four new bishops, mapping the humid, hushed. convention Pétween the belt and trousers of
| The balloting for the bishops vention to remain is expected to occupy much time]
However, between the g
ll Big 3 Reported Urging Soviet To Act at Once
‘Reasonable Time’ Allowed Kremlin WASHINGTON, J uly 6 (UP) — Soviet Ambassador {Alexander S. Panyushkin today was handed a U. 8. note protesting the Russian blockade of western Berlin. The note was believed to have called on Moscow to lift the {blockade at once. It also was {understood to have made it plain that the Soviets would be con. sidered responsible for any future lack of food by the Germans. Secretary of State George C. Marshall personally called Mr, Panyushkin to his office and handed him the note. Mr. Panyushkin told reporters as he left Mr. Marshall's office that he had received a note, but did not know what was in it, He said there was no discussion during his call,
London, Paris Act
It was learned elsewhere, however, that the note contained a protest against the Berlin block-
Steels i Coal Pits "0% presumably identical note of
protest was handed to the Soviet Ambassador in London at the same time by Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin. Mr. Bevin ‘sum« moned Ambassador George Zarubin to his office ne handed him the note for transmission In Pitigburgh Area |nis government. Similar action PITSBURGH, July 6 (UP)— Was taken in Paris by French government, Mr. Panyushkin was in Mr.
TALKFEST — Among the 360 officials coming into the city today for the Methodist are, left to right: Bishop Charles Brashares of Des Moines; Bishop:Raymond Wade,
Photo by Henry EB. Giesing Jr, Times Staff Photographer,
Indiana Drys Warn Against Sel
150 Delegates Meet to Choose Candidates
By SHERLEY UHL Indiana prohibitionists were warned against their votes on either Republican or Democrats today. Delegates to the Prohibition Party's state convention mur- The nation’s “captive” coal mines |
mured approval and interjected a few “amens” when State Chair-| kK ti b - y 3 {man Carl W. Thompson declared: were struck tod y an estl-| Marshall's office for 14 minutes.
“ ’ mated 40,000 miners and the| It was believed that Mr, Marpene PL SISSURS & GIy Jan 8 WEL PATLY WON'L B81, oalkout apreadte. thecommer.|2hall delivered the mols Person. ale : ment’s concern All steel company-owned mines . were closed as the miners re-| Text of the note was ot dipfused to work without a contract. closed Fmmediatel¥ oy bt i The walkout at the commercial believed the § melt (mines was termed a “sympathy”|Would make it public only A ‘demonstration by some union|the Soviet government has time | sources. to study it. 49 Coal Mines Idle No ‘Ultimatum’
At Gas Attendant The Western Pennsylvania Coal t the Operators Association reported! It was understood tha
A filling station operator here pot 10,000 miners in 30 co: er. nOte was in no sense an “ultis jin Hollenbeck Hall at the YWCA today owes his life to his money-| i. pits did not show up Sommer! matum, ant’ the wesks !to choose candidates for all state changer, police reported. after thelr annual 10-day Vach-) This is the first time the 3 | The metal change-keeper de-\i,n Tne spread of the strike ®'™ POWers have approac ed MosA few strips of bunting dec- flected a bullet fired from the BUniis the commercial pits cut coal OV directly on the Berlin crisis. orated the speaker's platform, but of a holdup man at the Gaseteria nroquction to one-third of normal CP, to now the western Love here was no fanfare, no brass Service Station, 320 W. Michigan, {; tne Pittsburgh district. military representatives have and few cheers. Fans at6a m. The operators reported that all/SarHied He Sin D nielences of the major commercial mines in| ith oni pooTiuni in Berlin, the Pittsburgh area were closed in| ho refused this week-end to give
addition to the 19 “captive” mines owned by steel companies. The SUIATICH the blockade would be
Wwresting 49 mines employ approximately, State Department Press Officer
137,500 - men. |attorney, said he wanted the con-| Later, Patrolman Martin Fahey Spread ‘Alarms’ Lincoln Wala S514 the i=} of
“free and.2nd Mike Sheehan arrested Kdopen.” {ward Long, 22, in a cab at 16th! An industry spokesman said after the Soviet government has One of the main objectives of St. and Senate Ave. [the situation in the commercial had “a reasonabie period of time Police said Mr. Thompson iden-| “" " {to study the note and make its They pits was “alarming. | reply.” “dry legislature.” also reported Long was named by| Republic Steel, Cleveland, re! He would not say what the Need 100,000 Votes | Douglas Marker, night manager ported 5700 workers in its 15 State Department considers a “And if we can poll 100,000 8t another Gaseteria Service Sta-i mines are idle and the company ‘reasonable period of time” But
49 Mines Idle
“squandering”
ticular candidate. He said rumors!
jefforts, of other political sirate
Some 150 freely perspiring
m. {Night Manager M. J. ThompBy noon the nominating com- son, 507 E. 23d St, who said the fired while
“I will not, at this time identify early morning watch reminding votes we'll exert enough influ-{tion at 21st and Capitol, as the! is losing 25,000 tons per day. The his statement left the clear imMost Hoosier Democrats felt myself with any political party|the lay and clerical delegates of ‘ance to pass a dry law,” he added, Pandit who robbed him of $30 at loss, however, will not interfere pression that for its part the
[tests.”
By ALINE MOSBY
United Press Staff ‘Correspondent HOLLYWOOD,
Brentwood home, left no clues to |indicate why she had taken her life, authorities said today. Friends said the star, in the {middle of her fourth divorce, had {seemed restless and dissatisfied. Miss Landis killed herself yesterday by taking an overdose of sleeping tablets. She was 29. | Chief County Autopsy Surgeon | Dr. Frederick D. Newbarr was to perform an autopsy, but an official report probaoly wii not be available for several days because of a need for chemical analysis. Searching for a motive, police planned to question the actress’ A cook at the Virginia Avenue mother, Mrs, Clara Landis, SemiGrill was in critical condition at/nole Hot Springs, Cal.; her sister, General Hospital today after be- Mrs. Dorothy Koss, Long Beach, ing struck by an automobile at|Cal.; her brother Lawrence, San | Bernardino, Cal.; and her. father,
The victim, John Beery, 109 W. Alfred, Richmond, Cal
St. Clair St., last night walked into the side of an automobile! ; driven by Stack Wagoner, 1002{daughter’s death note was writN. Beville Ave., according to po- ten, collapsed in tears when she He was still unconscious to- saw the blond star sprawled on a She said that she first §
lice.
day, hospital attendants said, LANDS IN LAND OF FREE
NEW YORK, July 6 (UP)—| Miss Eleanor Weile, 26, who was 'm
Mrs.
| rug. learned of her death over the i radio. “Why didn't somebody call e?” she cried. “Oh, my baby,
held in nine concentration camps my baby.” by the Nazis in two and one-half
Years,
Holland-America liner Veendam en route to a new home in
Atlanta, Ga.
~ '
X
Landis,
Mother Collapses to whom her
Her body was found by actor arrived today aboard the Rex Harrison. Mr. Harrison,
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July 6—Film who ~com-
married to ac-
great religious
| great John Wesley.
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Carole Landis’ Suicide Baffles Hollywood Note to Mother Me
Police to Question Family on Motive
HOOSIER FOR A DAY—Carole Landis, film star who ended her life yesterday in California, is shown sipping a cup of coffee while attending the 1947 "S00" at the Speedway where she presented the Borg-Warner trophy to Mauri Rose, the winner,
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heritage {
Delivering the keynote address, 8unpoint at 3 a. m, | with steel production in the “near | United States wants swift action Faces Robbery Charge | future,” a company spokesman from Moscow. ‘ Detectives said Long, a Pendle- sald. { . |dianapolis, advised the Prohibi- ton Reformatory parolee, also, The “captive” mine workers Berlin Reds Demand " |tionists to “use a little more tact 2dmitted breaking into the Cen- refused to enter the pits without ® and judgment” in their cam- tral Bowling Alley, 38 W. Ohio a contract. The steel companies That Allies Get Out §! paigning. |8 offered all the new money bene-| _ BERLIN, July 6 (UP)—The “We're Elsewhere in the City, holiday! fits of the 1948 contract but crisis over the blockade of Ber.
t., and five automobiles. not only concerned! plained, “but with everything 20d 8rocery store, but did manage without an election. that helps mhnkind, What thes tO Obtain$25 from North Method- \demand of the Berlin Communist 1100 Indiana Diggefs |party that the whole city be an~ inexed to the Russian occupation
Fail to Go to Pits ly d the Western allies get TERRE HAUTE, July 6 (UP) gut of their he I
ne v sewhe rely Says, | m Sorry {with the liquor problem,” he ex- thieves drew blanks at a tavern balked at the union shop clause in was pointed up today by a
world needs is more people who 18t Church, 3808 N. Meridian St. love humanity.” | The Rev. D. L. Browning, Robert Gemmer, Indianapolis, pastor, said looters entered national chairman of American 'DOrugh a basement window, pried
Youth for Political Action, said Pen an office door, took $10 in __gome 1100 Indiana coal miners] Ww the Prohibition Party platform ¢3sh and a $15 check and also Tals requried the
will. include several “progressive, ® Umber of envelopes contain. Were idle today as workers in demand for Somexation as a Ruspublic ownership” planks. {ing an Fuderarined Sgpf the nation’s “captive” coal mines, ag : Party Misinterpreted {church choir contributions. = struck for a new contract, . He said that i, and eco-|. Safecrackers raked $600 and However, Indiana officials of Typhoon Predicted nomically, the party had long five cases of whisky from a vault the United Mine Workers Union| SHANGHAI, July 6 (UP)—A been “progressive” but had been In the Jockey Club, 3215 E. Michi- geclared here that they had “not typhoon with winds of more than misinterpreted because of {ts 8an St. Then, apparently fright- heard a thing” about the refusal 60 miles an hour may strike this
rigid anti-liquor stand. ened in their getaway, they left it of some Hoosier sof leit gt or Clals Watson [Ri BONING Ooo avers Bom some soft coal miners city of 4.3 million persons to-
to return to the pits after the night, the weather Los Angeles, Prohibition Party! Equally profitiess was the in- znnual 10-day i Jd today. resp candidate for president, will Vasion of an A. & P. grocery . address a meeting in Cadle Store at 1021 E. 53d.
Tabernacle sponsored by the Free! Manager Robert C. Adams said 1 Methodist Churches. {somebody forced open a rear door n e nsi e Clayton M. Wallace, superin- and battered down an office wall tendent of the Temperance Partition, found no money, and! League of America, was to speak departed, leaving a sledge hamfo a youth banquet at 580 p. m. mer and ax on the scene.
today. ett mt atth Rar Gen. Hershey's Brother ¢ i Well, Mop My Dies at Angola “ aa i Brow'—92° Today | ANGOLA. Ind. Juiv 6 (UP) Off the Record . .. a weekly report on theiisc field. .Page 4
N fot 1 th uss Hershey, 66, former sheriff! AR w = =» : O relief from the heat was in of Steuben County and brother of Women open first round tenni ood sight as the Weather Bureau Gen. Lewis B. Hershey, will be pe : nis play at Woodstock promised Indianapolis cloudy, buried Thursday atternaon . + . chastened Indians rest to take on Toledo warm weather today, tonight and| Gen, Hershey came here for the! LOMOITOW +......ecivasssesesnen.es...Pages 6 and 7 The former . gheriff is! »
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The mercury was expected to {reach about 92 degrees today, Riso survived by his wife, | but tonight's forecast was cooler e died late Sunday night at| with the temperature around 70. the Cameron Hospital after an Tomorrow's temperatures will //Iness of several weeks. again reach the low 90's, the {Weather Bureau forecast.
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