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4800 ‘War Babies’ Answer School Bell
61,000 Children March Back to Classrooms; 6-Year-Olds Threaten to Overcrowd Schools
School bells tolled today
apolis youngsters, including a bumper crop of 4800 “war babies” who entered the first grade. Indianapolis public schools were to receive a record enrollment of 53,000 pupils today of which 3500 were start-
ing. More than 8000 were parochial schools. Lutheran schools of the Missouri Synod opened to approxiniately 600 pupils today. , A number of Negro parents attempted to register their children at School 43, 150 W. 40th St., this morning, buf were refused, and referred to the school board office downtown. r ‘Not Authorized’ Virgil Stinebaugh, superinten- | dent, said he was not authorized! by the board to allow them to register at the school. the children would be accommo-| dated at School 87, 2411 Indian-| apolis Ave. A school bus would transport them from their homes north of 38th St. and west of Boulevard Pl, he said. The move by the parents was termed as action to obtain legal evidence for a court fight against e school board's policy of segregation. Born in 1942, the 6-year-olds entering the public schools totaled 300 more than the 3200 new enrollees who entered the city system a year ago. The largest influx of children in a generation, the 6-year-olds threatened to overcrowd primary grade facilities in the public schools. But school authorities said provision had been made for them. There were 2175 public school teachers waiting Lo greet pupils in 82 elementary schools and students in the seven high schools. A staff of 250 teachers will conduct the parochial schools. All pupils in the public elementary schools will attend only
He said,
for more than 61,000 Indian-
expected to enter Catholic
‘except for the beginners, they will start full-day schedules. Beginners “will attend but half a day all this week and will start full-day schedules Sept. 13. The City's first complete schopl built since World War II, No. 63, at 1115 N. Traub Ave., opened its doors today for the first time. Old School 63 burned two years ago. School officials reported = all buildings were in top condition {for the first day and all supplies were on hand. time since before the war that {the schools were not short of some supplies, Register at Kindergartens Registration for 24 kindergartens operated by the Indianapolis Free Kindergarten Society was under way. today, with regular sessions scheduled to begin tomorrow. ‘Daily hours will be from 9 to 11:30 a. m. with children 5 to 6 years old eligible to participate. Registration at one garten, Emerson Heights, 4307 E. Michigan St., was scheduled for Thursday from 1 to 3 p. m.
$75 Million Ready For School Lunches
—At least 6 million of the 27,500, 000 children starting back to school this week are sure of vita-min-packéd noon ‘lunches. The f Department has $75 million to spend this year on its school lunch program. The appropriation is up $5 million
half a day today.
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R - FIRST PEEK—Four beginners, among the 3500 "war babies’ who began public school here today, get their first look into their classroom at School 70, 46th St. and Central Ave. The three firstgraders at the left (top to bottom) are Tommy McGee, 1012 E. 46th St.; Nancy Nail, 614 E. 52d St., and Terry Weaver, 4455 Central Ave. The little girl at right is Judy Anne Smith, 4561
WHAT S YOUR NAME?—That was the first question these beginners were asked by: their teacher, Miss Rebecca Nicoson, 2629 N. New Jersey St., as they registered at School 70; Over the city more than 61,000 young-
sters went back to school today. A record number of these are the first 'war'babies'" to begin school.
FORECAST: Cloudy with occasional showers tonight and tomorrow. on Ret he TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1048
Protest Disorders |
By: Reds in Berlin
"Allies Ask Russ
For Explanation
BERLIN, Sept. 7 (UP)—The Berlin commandants of the three western powers are drafting a letter to Maj. Gen. Alexander Kotikov, Russian chief here, demanding an explanation of Soviet “inability to preserve order” in the Russian sector, it was reported today. Well-informed American sources said the letter registering the for-| mal protest of the Western Pow-
+ «» ers against the rioting yesterday
at’ the Berlin city hall in the So-| _ viet sector ‘will point out that the| #first duty of an occupying pow-| er” is to keep order. News of ‘the protest came as| German Communist leaders here! announced they had broken com-| pletely with the Western sector | Gérman administration, thus for-| mally cutting Berlin in two. The Socialist Unity (Commu-| nist) Party will have no part of] the legal city - administration] which moved to the British sec-| tor last night after Communist) mobs stormed the city hall, the! party leadership announced. Karl Litke, leader of the Com-! munist minority in the City As-| sembly, charged that there could] be no effective administration of| Bérlin with the government situated outside the’ city hall and outside the Soviet sector. The assembly was in effect! chased from the eity hall in the Russian sector yesterday. Com-| maunist rioters stormed the hall, | smashed down doors, blocked a scheduled meeting of the assem-| bly, and carted off in chains a group of west sector German po-| lice detailed to guard the meeting. | Western commanders conferred | on ways of freeing 26 German po-| lice still virtual captives. in the! ety hall. }
DEAR BOSS:
Letter to Editor of The Times—
Gosh, Boss—Are Things That Bad in America?
FRANKFORT, GERMANY.
AS YOU KNOW I've spent the last few weeks in the
“independent people’s democracies of Yugoslavia and
Czechoslovakia. Just as I was packing to leave Belgrade something pretty serious came up. I'ran across an article entitled, “How Workers Live In Amer-
fea,” i. by the newspaper “Trud”
in the current issue of the “New Times” which is published in Moscow. Boss, at last I've found you out. we ordinary workers got the 40-hour’ week in America.
This article explains why It says
there's so much unemployment that the only way you employers could spread jobs around was by cutting the work week to 40
hours.
* = = s 8 = IT SAYS that the 40.flour-week law “would appear at first sight to be a gain for the working class, but actually it merely legitimized the partial unemployment that is the scourge of the
great mass of workers.” Here I've been partially unemployed for years and didn’t know it. I admit I used to enjoy my five-day week, but that was before I found out today it was only a dirty capitalistic trick against us workers. And not only. that. The article says the average American worker's earnings these days are only enough to buy a coat
| once in six years, a half-pound
of butter a week and a visit to the movies twice a month. » o »
IF YOU ask me this is a hell of a note. Here ii the Independent People’s Republic of Yugo--slavia I know a person can buy a coat oftener than once in six a soon as he saves up a couple of hundred ration coupons. take quite a time. And I know he can have more than a half pound of butter a week, too, as long &s he
| later on the government
Of course that will
doesn't waste any of his food | |, age?
goupons on such luxuries as meat and bread. ‘It says here.an average work-
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Laughing Killers Beg to Give Up
Pair Surrenders To Storekeeper
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er's wife can afford only one lipstick and one box of face powder a year. Now look, boss! ” » - THE “NEW TIMES” says there are more than nine mil lion unemployed in America. Here in Yugoslavia nobody is unemployed. A man can join the volunteer brigades ard work all day on the railroads and
highways. Of course, he doesn't |
get paid’ for it just now, but is going to work this out. I hardly knew what to do after reading that article. One thing in the story worried me. It says, ‘The horrible spectre of mass unemployment, of ‘growing poverty and hunger looms before all the workers of the United States.” Gosh, boss, 1 didn’t know it was as bad as that. me to send you a CARE pack-
As eves, i NEWTOM,
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NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 7 (UP) ~Louisiana’s two laughing kill-| ers, who had sworn they would| “take a few officers to hell with them” before they gave up, walked into a country store today and begged its Keeper to let them surrender. Hunted for the slaying nt a New Orleans detective and he kidnaping of an’ assistant chi of New Orleans detectives, all of their fight was gone when they walked into R. F. {Factor’s store at Galvez, a few {miles southeast of Baton Rouge. | They said the hundreds ‘of of{ficers searching for them had {been ordered to “take no chances” and they knew what that meant. Mr. Factor walked outside and ‘stopfed a police car. State {Trooper L. E. Wright walked in {Alone and slapped handcuffs on the fugitives—Dale Simpson, 26,|and H. E. Miller, 23. They held {out’ their wrists to be. handfeutfed. { Trooper Wright put them in a {patrol car. and started toward the Ascension Parish prison at Donaldsonville. I Just Don’t Know “Who shot that detective |(Nieholas Jacobs) in New Or{leans?” officer Wright asked. “1 did,” Simpson said. “Why” . “1 just don’t know,” Simpson isaid. John Jackson,
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the assistant {chief of detectives whom the two | kidnaped, was later released by! them because he was “too old to Forum
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‘Purple Peril Hits Southeast Side Homes
Gas Utility Fumes Blamed by Owners
By LOUIS ARMSTRONG The “purple peril” has struck again. Houses in the 3600 block of Fletcher Ave. and some in the 500 block of 8. Sherman Dr, were turned a dark purplish color during the night. : Residents are casting angry glances to the west, where across Pleasant Run stands the Prospect St. plant of Citizens Gas & Coke
As in the case of the purple homes of the past months the
The houses on Fletcher Ave. and Sherman Dr. are discolored on the west, south and north
sides. Old Paint Affected Mrs. Norman H, Bartlett, 3615 Fletcher Ave, sail some new paint on her house is not affected but old paint is much darker] than it was yesterday. The residence of Foye McClain, 3611 Fletcher Ave. was painted white this summer. It has turned very dark, neighbors report. The house of Ralph BE. Schmid Jr., 3625 Fletcher Ave. has turned purple’ on the south, west and north sides, according to Mrs. Schmid. Gag company officials said they had received one complaint about discolored homes this morning. They said they could not make a statement until they had investigated the situation. ‘o Survey Conducted The utility, at the insistence of Mayor Al Feeney aid and Robert tober
last night. However, she sai her home was not The Weather Bureau reported the wind blew from She Sortbwest
those previously discolored but he added he had no doubt but that “the cause is the same.” He too has placed blame for the discoloration upon the gas utility, The combustion engineer said he had recelved one complaint this morning from a purple home owner, He said his men would investigate,
Two High Officials Executed in Budapest
BUDAPEST, Sept. 7 (UP) Two nationally distinguished men were executed today for espionage for a “Western power,” the Hungarian Ministry of Justice announced, The Ministry of Justice, in the first public report on the case, announced the execution of Col. Py Hadvany, a former member, of the army general staff, and Elemer ZLovasz, high ranking railroad official. They were sentenced to death for “continuously commiting high treason,” the formal statement said today, and the sentence was {carried out this morning.
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order was issued by Circuit Judge Lloyd Claycombe today; preventing the state election board from pl crats’ ticket of candidates on [the state ballot.
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HOMES PURPLE — OW Schmid, 3625 Fletcher os
away discoloration which marred her house: i oe The Schmid house was one of several which turned
overnight.
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Red the tery man quizzically, shook heads and walked on,
Description Given You may have seen the Man of
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wearing a light tan hat, low on his head to keep off the rain, a windbreaker jacket, grey trousers and ‘brown shoes? That was the much sought after man. Today he will be in the fair grounds at the usual hours.-from 2pm to4p. m and 5p. m to 6 p. m. He will not be the same clothes but he will be there and will have $125 for anyone who identifies him. What You Have to Do All you have to do to win the prize is approach him and say: “You are The Man of The Times.” Use those exact words for he will’ not reveal his identity otherwise
As you make that statement hand him a copy of today's Times. Any of the editions will do so long as it is today's paper. Those are the only require. ments. Everyone but Times em-~ ployees and their families can take part in the search. Remember—it is worth $125 to the finder. In event the Man of The Times
will be increased by $25 tomor. row. He will be worth $150 then to the person who nabs him.
isn’t identified today the bounty
Sunshine returned to the Indiand Hoosiers potired through the gates in such volume that officials forecast a ‘new all-tinve Tuesday record. After a slow start during the ‘threatening early morning hours, admissions spurted sharply before midday. Sun and wind dried the race track and workmen said it ‘was in good condition for a .one-day-
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