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Navy Studies Bunker Hill

Peru -Air Station Eyed for Training The wartime naval air station at Bunker Hill near Peru is under consideration for . possible reactivation as a naval shore training establishment, it was ed today. } Teo Washington the Navy confirmed reports that the sprawling layout where naval flying cadets were trained both for the U. 8. and the British navies during the war had been inspected recently to determine its “condition and availability.” ' Navy spokesmen said reactivation of certain new shore establishments would be. announced soon, probably before July 20, and indicated that one of those under consideration was Bunker Hill There was no definite indication, however, as to how seriously the

Bunker Hill proposition was being|&

considered. . Never Lost Ownership Although still owned by the Navy, the huge Bunker Hill establishment was leased more than a year ago to the town of Bunker Hill which in turn leased it to the Bunker Hill Corp. a private enterprise, The air station has been con®rted into virtually a small city in its own right. The Show large entertainment place, a branch of the Delco! plant, a soybean factory, and a private flight school are in oper-

50th YEAR—NUMBER 103

SUMMER OPERETTA—Mrs

Delaware St., fits a skirt for Miss the chorus of "The Desert Song, ler Bowl.

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FORECAST; Fair tonight and tomorrow. Warmer tomorrow.

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FRIDAY, JULY 9, 1948

Backstage With Cast of ‘The Desert Song’

HI, TOOTS—Miss Jane Wymond, 1928 Ruckle St. makes with a bit of French-Moroccan coquetry. for another chorus. member, Joseph Hoffman of Greenville, Tenn., and 2004 N. Delaware

St. Costume-fitting inspires impromptu comedy.

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ICC Approves | 11% Fare Hike For Railroads

60 Eastern Lines Covered by Order

WASHINGTON, July 9 (UP)—| The Interstate Commerce Com-| mission today granted 60 eastern | railroads an average increase of | 17 per cent in passenger fares. |: The railroad estimated that the increases would yield about $61; million annually. ! Under thé order, coach fares on a one-way basis can be in-| creased by 20 per cent and basic/ sleeping and parlor car fares by| 14.3 per cent. The New Haven| Railroad, however, will be per-| mitted to increase its coach had

3 Acme Telephoto. DO YOU KNOW HMER?— A screen test awaits this child. Her snapshot and 10,000 others were sent from 4-H clubs all

by 4.3 per cent, the amount it had asked.

The order permits the railroads|

Entire Force In

ive

Mayor Orders

Officers to Cut Accident Rate

Steps Up Tempo Of War on Speeders

By LOUIS ARMSTRONG Mayor Al Feeney today hurled the entire police force into a battle against speeders and reckless drivers as the accident rate in Indianapolis mounted to the highest in the year. A total of 761 accidents and 353 injuries were recorded during June, making it the second highest month in the past two and one-half years. In general,

so ation there to put the increases into effect on, Over the country fo a Hal» accident rates have increased At one time the hundreds of five days notice. wood studio which was search- steadily since the end of the war, acres of ground were reported The same raliroads werel.ing for a child to play a role | The Mayor today ordered every offered to the state, but state ef- ‘| granted a 10 per cent increase a/ in "The Green Promise,” forth- |police vehicle and every officer, ; ficials found they had no use for year ago. coming movie about 4-H clubs, [If necessary, into the fight ; it that would warrant develop- Round-trip fares also will bel 1. hild was chosen for a |28ainst moving traffic violations ment and the tremendous upkeep. increased a proportionate amount| : b ' 3 I 38h in an effort to reduce the rate. ritme Treat It also was considered for sale to under the commission decision. | fest but her application was |He especially callel for a cracki private owners for a time to be It is expected that the states lost and the studio does not [down en youthful sportsmen who Refreshi served by the railroads will in-| know her name. travel W. 16th St. to ind from ejreshing returned to agricultural use, but meer iu i the Navy has never relinquished crease intrastate fares in line| TT the baseball park and midget ; ownership. . with the order which generally] . track in “souped-up” jaloppies.. 4 ' : Take Report Lightly affects fares between states. mits d Se Cool Down Hot-Rods - o. : Meanwhile, the three big rail-| “ye dq In Peru, spokesmen for the I've personally ordered i C Bunker Hill Co took the report road unions whose 18-month-old | Audry Jacobs, head of the trafic | lightly. They said such Navy in- wage dispute was settled only |enforcement department, to eool f i ; spections had been made fairly yesterday announced they are! down some of those ‘hot-rods’ of soe lTe frequently and pointed out that starting An Jrumediate rive for, even if we have to do it in whole- Ji ; > . le lots. Wi iS crurichly soft % Tang of the vaciliies whith The agreement reached at the Order Arrest of [tle lots. We are going to put bh! vored with de- bon : White House yesterday gave the 1 i 1 "- Ta een tel DnySrid unions a wage hiks of $124 a 2/ Year-Old Woman other Ima I I tehes 0 apps | arpa Jyniaved Hal the @ay—15% cents an hour—and| “Persons who make {aise crime lwholé don Lr 4 i b “ifi good co i and available {rule changes” which Also mean reports dnd waste police time and | The | Ramus out, hows | ou svdgih, 39 oa ! / - | more money. manpower will be pro. ted ever, that one for the 5 § ; e col tion spokesman Th i pow prosecuted as Fy ams ib. 39¢ who preferred not to_be quoted be retrokttive 16 Nov. 1. 1047, fof| CFIIAKIA" Tapector JACK O'Neal, CTéA¢ In trafic ascidents was UR a 3 3 | NOV. 1, ’ y ‘(record number © utomo 7 3 or Ide sail he Nad heen ih Washington the 125000 workers - involved. chief of detectives, sald t0day. |now on City strests. The State 4 “erent . Wavy siicials a the sorecs Increases growing out of rules| wis warning came as he or- Police report a 10 per cent ihe

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4 Slain on Farm, 5th Ends Life

OREGON, 1il., July 9 (8P)— Ogle County authorities said today that four persons were reported ‘slain last night and a fifth commited suicide on a farm near Byron, Ill. Byron is about 10 miles southwest of Rockford, Ill. Deputy Sheriff Willard Burright ‘said the report was received fro mthe Martin Nally farm near Byron. Hg sald authorities had no particulars, The report came while the sheriff's “office of Ogle County, normally a quiet agricultural area, were investigating the “lover's lane™ killings late last month of 18-year-old “Mary Jane Reed, a telephone operator, and Stanley Skridla, a young maintenance

worker, Their killer has not been ound.

Tip for Weary— Cool Sleep Tonight

Indianapolis residents could look forward to another day of slightly cooler temperatures, the Weather bureau promised, as the mercury was expected; to hover Just short of the 90 mark. Tonight will again be cool for sleeping as temperatures as low 68 were forecast by the Weatherman, od Tomorrow. will continue fair, the weather bureau forecast although somewhat warmer with temperatures going as high as 92.

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E—Earl Albertson, 119 N. Cenle of Ali ‘Ben Ali in "The Desert "Song," wonders whether he's going to have to grow into the mammoth ‘plus-fours of his costume.

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3d Bishop Elected By Methodists:

On 15th Ballot

By EMMA RIVERS MILNER Times Church Editor Methodists, of the North Central Jurisdictional Conference today ‘elected Dr. H. Clifford Northcott of Champaign, Ill, a bishop on the 15th ballot in the Roberts Park Methodist Church. Dr. Northcott who polled 245 votes of the 235 necessary for election is the third man named to the rank of bishop since the conference. opened. Bishop Oxnam Speaker Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam of New York was to address the North Central Jurisdictional Conference today at 2:30 p. m. The conference opened Wednesday “morning in Roberts Park Church with the expressed goal of electing four new bishops. It has succeeded in naming three. However, the third, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth, 10th, 11th 12th, 13th and 14th ballots resulted in no election. y The other two elected bishops are Dr. Richard C. Raines of Minneapolis, elected on the second ballot, and Dr. Marshall R. Reed of Detroit, on the fourth. The conference scheduled a message at 8 p. m. tonight from the denomination’s Council of

Dr. Northcott Named

Ike's Wire: 'l Won't Accept’

Requests Pepper Not to Nominate Him;

Calls Stand ‘Final and Complete’ By LYLE C. WILSON, United Press Staff Correspondent

hower-for-the stop-Truman movement within the Democratic Party. In a telegram to Sen. Claude Pepper of Florida, Ike said: “I would refuse to accept the nomination.”

Florida upon his arrival here for|™ i - the Demoeratic National Conven- Tel Aviv Rombed

Bon. Pepper. one of the sup-| TEL AVIV, July 9 (UP)—Tel

porters of the Eisenhower candi-|Aviv was hit by three bombs to-

gram sent to the Sénator’'s Washington office last night and forwarded here.” ) ‘Final and Complete’ The telegram said in part: ‘The public press reports that you may be considering, in spite

killing three children and wound-

(Earlier story, Page 3.)

Reminds Veterans

presidency. These reports are cor-tionai

Service Life

request and urge you to drop such examinations. intentions. !

II will. not violate my own con-

matter under what terms, conditions or premises a proposal 4 ” might be. couched, I would refuse ; ] {to accept the nomination.

SHADOW AND SUBSTANCE—Robert Shafer,

Brings Boom to Dead Stop

PHILADELPHIA, July 9 (UP)—Gen. Ike smashed the Eisenesident boom for good and all today and demolished

ing others, official reports said.|

New . York

dow role in the operetta, grips Virginia - Card, starring as Margof? in a torrid desert embrace. '‘The Desert Song" will play nightly tomorrow through next Friday.

Falling Apart Charles E. Bacon, building commissioner, said today there is

no danger ,of the city's greenhouses at Garfield Park collaps-

ing.

Mr. Bacon was called on to inspect the five greenhouses by Mayor Feeney after Paul V.

U. 8. Sen. Claude D. Pepper of Brown, park and recreation diAnncunneient was made by Bethel ites geaniomte DP rector, said there was a possi-

bility that the structures might

| collapse.

Mr. Brown was reported to

{have said that steel in the green-| dacy, said the General's emphatic! day in a raid by Egyptian planes | houses had been weakened by the refusal was contained in a tele-| which caused a one-hour alert. erroneous application of whiteOne bomb hit a school building, | Wash containing salt.

At the same time, the park director had asked for $50,000 to be appropriated during the next five

{years for greenhouse repair. The Mayor said he had perjsonally learned from greenhouse] WASHINGTON, July 9 (UP)— | employees that the salty white-| of my recent statement, the pres- veterans Administrator Carl R./wash had not been used on the entation of my name to the Dem-iGray Jr.. reminded veterans to- greenhouse for two years. ocratic National Convention for 4, that July 31 is the last day] nomination to the office of the on which they may reinstate Na- superintendent said: Insurance! rect, I respectfully but earnestly policies without taking physical to get more money in the green- ; | house budget next year.”

Frank Schubert, greenhouse porters by Lee M. Johnson.

“Oh, that was just

Jan. 1, 1948. The settlement paved the way for the government to return the railroads to private ownership as soon as possible. The Army has been running the roads since they were seized by President Truman on May 10 to prevent a strike by the three unions.

Examples of Boosts Out of Indianapolis

Ticket officials at Union Station today had received no orders to increase fares under the new ICC ruling, but they said the formula would be simple—just add approximately 17 per cent to present coach rates and 14.3 per cent to parlor car rates. On one-way fares to Cleveland in coach the old fare was $7.12, the new rate will be $8.33; Cincinnatf, from $2.75 to $3.22; Chicago, from $4.62 to $541; New York, from $20.52 to $24.01; St. Louis, from $6.32 to $7.40; Boston, from $24.19 to $28.30, and Detroit, from $7.14 to $8.35. On nrst-class fares the increases to Cleveland will be from $9.98 to $11.41; Cincinnati, from $3.85 to $4.41; Chicago, from $6.48 to $7.41; New York, from $28.35 to $32.42; St. Louis, from $8.70 to $9.94; Boston, from $33.83 to $38.67, and Detroit, from $9.93 to $11.35.

Truman May Call Congress on Housing WASHINGTON, July 9 (UP)— A spokesman for the national

public housing conference said at the White House today President

a way

Truman is giving “serious consideration” to a special session of Congress to enact housing legislation. The statement was made to reHis

{is one of more than 40 national

groups seeking enactment of the Taft-Ellenger-Wagner long-range housing bill.

woman who had detectives seek-

“raped” her. 8he confessed today that her kidnap-rape story was a cover-up for a voluntary drinking party and ride in the country with a cab driver and two other men. Ordered Her Arrested Inspector O'Neal ordered the woman, mother of a 13-year-old girl, arrested for making a false crime report and child neglect after her confession that she voluntarily became intimate with the three men who picked her up in a tavern. In a corresponding crackdown on sex offenses, police today held five men, pending hearings, on alleged offenses. Police yesterday afternoon seized the driver of a rented car after a St. Vincent's Hospital laboratory technician identified him as the man who invited her for a ride as she was walking home, Asked Her to ‘Get In’ She said he asked her to “get in.” She backed away, and noted his license number, and he fled. Police traced the man through the license number and arrested him less than an hour later. Two men were seized at 2:52 ja..m. today after police pursued a car that darted from a dark lane near Victory Field. On investigation the officers foupd the car contained obscene pictures. One of the men, they said, answered the description of a person sought for molesting children in city parks. He was charged with vagrancy and pos-

{companion was slated on va-

(8rancy and disorderly conduct counts,

50-year-old man who |charged attempted to dates”

{Willard Park.

ing three men whom she said

session of obscene literature. His

previous peak year. Meanwhile, Dr. R. N. Harger, chairman of the Traffic Enforce ment Committee of the Indian apolis Safety Council, joined with the Mayor in urging that: more police be given traffic enforeement responsibility. Asks Strict Enforcement

“The 33 motorcycle men now on the ‘force cannot be expected. to halt all the moving violations com= mitted on the streets, especially when they are often assigned to special details,” Dr. Harger declared, “Strict enforcement is the only way to reduce the traffic to’ LL» a He also called for more en forcement by police district cars. He pointed out that during June only 574 of the 3488 arrests for moving violations were made by police in district cars. The 33 motorcycle men accounted for the remainder, The Mayor and Safety Council officials are particularly alarmed about June's accident and injury rate because normal the rate is low during that month of fhe year. Last year there were 627 accidents and 251 injuries during June. Injuries on Increase

Jack Gunnell of the Council's Traffic Enforcemerit Committee, pointed out today that the number of motorists injured during the Tirst six months of this year has increased approximately 15 per cent over the same period last year. During the first half of the 1948, 1744 persons were injured during the same period last year. ! In the first six months of 1948 there were 4062 accidents report ed as against 3781 during the same period last year. The high-

Also arrested yesterday was alest monthly accident toll during police|the past two and one-half years “make was with three small giris at{when 877 accidents and 305 in-

recordec last December

juries were reported.

oinimenent Times Assigns All-Star Staff to Report on Con

vention

Readers to Get Speedy, Expert Coverage

Bishops by Bishop W. Earl Led-| : ; den ST SYIATIIC N. Y. The con-| I will Cimply’ ference will close Sunday with! “I keenly realize that your rethe - consecration of ‘the new ported statements not only do me bishops in the Murat Theater. (high personal honor, but imply ~ Ballot returns seem to indicate the greatest possible confidence that Dr. Hazen Werner of Madi-/in me. I venture to invoke the son, N. J., wil be the additional{aid of that confidence in asking minister honored with the rank’vau to accept my refusal as final of bishop by the conference. Dr. Werner and Dr. Northcutt{phatically is.” have topped the list of candidates) pollowing the announcement, beginning with the fifth ballot.{Mr Pepper said:

c “Of course I will comply with (Continued on Pugs 3 L 6) the request of Gen. Eisenhower |

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On Democrats’ Doings in Philadelphia

By ART WRIGHT When the Democrats open their national convention in Philadelphia next Monday, The Times will be on the scene with its alle star staff of political experts to report the exciting procedings. = The some 25 writers who will serve Times’ readers will ins clude most of the reporters who provided the excellent ge of the recent Republican convention as reportéd exclusively. in The

Times. o For the Democratic conven-|also will rt the convention as he a through an expert's

tion, experts in reporting that party's happenings, will be added eyes. to the ey 3 | ‘There will be humor, behindHeading The Times’ own local] the-scenes sfories and forecasts staff will be Daniel M. Kidney,{by outstanding columnists and who regularly reports the hap-iTeporters such as Robert C. penings on the Washington poli- ‘Ruark, Frederick C. Othman,

tical scene. Peter Edson, Walker Stone, Through Expert's Eyes | George B. Patker, Maruis Earl Richert, Scripps-Howard| Childs, E. A. Evans,

Parker Lawriter, well known to Times'| Moofe, Paul R. Leach, Ludwell

readers for his political writ — as a member of The Times (Continued on Page 3 3)