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Indianapolis, Ind. Issued Daily

50th YEAR—NUMBER 317

| City To *Clean Up Or Else

Mayor Denies Music's Charms Soothe Legislative Breasts

Slots Operate On Wide Scale

Pastors Place Administration ‘On Probation’

By 51-49 Vote

Disputed Measure | Squeaks Through; | Pressure Terrific

Other Legislature News, ‘Onlendar, Page 3. By PHILIP F. CLIFFORD JR. The administration's privilege tax on Hoosier manufacturers who do not pay gross income tax on products shipped outside of Indiana passed the House of Representatives today 51 to 49. House Speaker Robert Heller was required to cast the deciding vote so bitterly was measure op-

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MUNCIE, Feb. 22—The city of-| posed, Bills require 51 votes to 5 ficials here are still winking at a! pass the 100-member house. ¢ RLS ! “wide open” town and are on pro- ' The measure now goes to the = REE bation insofar as the Muncie Min- Senate for approval. » sha | CON isterial Association is concerned. The bill brought heated debate . The charge was made last night} by members of the House just & U. S. Agriculture wos token it at a meeting of the association's prior to its passage. T Undersecretary w it's price- committee on civic morals in the Rep. Harry Latham (D. Indian- ! i essful . . . parish house of “the Madison \apolis) said the measure “makes | Meets Growers Here ency. Money Street Methodist Church. Minis- the principle of gross income tax =| By HAROLD HARTLEY ~~ to ters had * hundréds of names; |apply uniformly to all.” Rep La- § : Times Business Editor = ood picture. signed to petitions in the churches {tham is co-author of the bill | America's corn crop will : last Sunday, telling the officials, along with Rep. Carrol M. DenCHILD to clean up the town or to expect nis. (D. Beech Grove). be ou to. control production the same kind of housecleaning oo | a ‘Slips a Noose’ - |by 1050 if the current high 1 y 1 . . 1 ’ ’ aw 1947 atter a Times survey of gam Photo by Lioyd B. Waltn, Times Sif Pouosraoer. |cadia) demanded defeat of (he [Yield contiuues, Albert 1. bling and vice there. Debate yielded to an interlude of music for Washington's birthday in the Indiana House of measure. He charged it “would | Loveland, undersecretary of Week! ‘A Few Slots’ Representatives today. The lawmakers were serenaded by the Arsenal Technical High School Choir, [slip 4 noose around the neck of: lagriculture, predicted here to. Mayor Lester Holloway said to-| directed by Russell Paxton (foreground). Gaylord Allen of the Tech speech department (center of [business.” 4 day. J ; ; s of the Min-| GTOUP} was narrator. ~~ He warned passage of the bill} i RG op : 4 I ciation Se a oe ed Fw =r . SEE oo {atate PN Koop. mow Oe tnt] ™ Laiiion” Eahels — — xaggeration.” “Of course there) v industries we | Last 6.95 Sass few slot machines, in «Sonate Calls Time Blame Lightning F lash from establishing in Indiana. oN dy a to 700 as Moose and Elks lodges and the ; ® lected Drivilege tax sould be ol. lon bushels, and something obvie. rivate clubs, but the le want F 100 000 L FE ie rate undersecs needed. D Quivan vib peop On Long Speeches or 9 ’ awrence rire one-fourth of 1 per cent of] B (Petary sald. Gone, the wn, i" He denied the charge of the , . Bi ot i evo ka |Sross sales. Authors of the bill | “We hope to establish an ever : . Rev. Forrest Reed; chairman of| Indianapolis Firemen Aid in Fighting [estimate 2 Wil Ling in approxi- [normal granary with as much as hy . see { on annually. : a - : § fhe ministers committee, that Adopt 5-Minute Limit. Spectacular Blaze af Grapho Products Co. | “Rep. Donald L. Brunner (D. pm ge J prostitution running ‘wide open’! To Speed Legislation —— ieee | BNeIbY Ville) “pointed out that years " Mr. Loveland stated. 5 in the Mulberry, S. Jefferson and! Indiana's State Senate voted £0. ——r oo eee Photos on Page 11 ~~ | many farmers evade paying gross ' bg s First St. areas.” | Fire believed caused by a flash of lightning swept through one "COME tax by selling their prod- | The principal trouble is storage, STORE 5 The ministers. led by th day to limit each speaker to five . ucts outside the state. The privi- 1 it ’ y ins * ¢ Rev n . 5, el by the young isutes over the protests of Sen building of the Grapho Products Co. in Lawrence early this morn- lege tax would be levied on out- (and that is a problem the farmer ev. Robert Jones are demanding ing, causing destruction in excess of $100,000. |of-state sales. [ant Worle Sw for/ntmasit, Mn,

action against the gambling and Samuel E, Johnson (R. Anderson) vice of aga town. = 8 'who labeled it “gag rule.” Flames from the spectacular blaze lighted the skies for miles!

They pointed out that the gam-| The speaking limit was ‘intro-|around and clouds of heavy gray smoke blanketed Lawrence and

| Muncie Ministers Warn hu bos 1950 Foreseen \ Heavy Yields

W. H.W

= For Mayor in 1947 Race

Crop Cut | With

ammet Dead Here ot 4 3 Gr ain Storage ~ Chief Problem

In Indiana, for instance, there are now some 25 million bushels of corn which does not qualify for government loans because it has not been properly stored (some has sold for as little as 30 cents a bushel), ; “We hope to stabilize corn, and other grains, at 90 per cent of parity, and that is about

to go into a ‘resealing’ program in whith a farmer may hold his own grain over for another year in -qualified storage to prevent flooding the market and driving the price down.”

Willism H. Wemmer . , ; died this morning.

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Native of Ohio lll Several Months; 2 Former Bar Association President

bling manufacturing industry duced jointly by Republican lead- surrounding vicinity, Err a Tee Condemned Man alone (punchboards, etc.) em-/er John VanNess and Democratic The blaze and a series. of .ac- unteer unit answered his call a : ‘ | “-ploys about 800 to 900 people and leader Walt Vermillion in an f-| companying explosions attracted few minutes later, the flames had| ; ; . } Brite tn, mre Lh, S50 [or 1o "expe ogi” 1nd Coma nt wat sa aay vas roe ne oot RotiSts Baptism customers nationally. “conserve time.” in" the cold, drizzling rain to{ 30d were ‘shooting high into the| The Mayor said “Why shouldn't] This rule stops freedom ofl. ¢on fire ynits from Indianap-| > there be a few card games in the SPeech on the sacred floor of theious ang Lawrence and Warren) ot Duilding, which was used Brown, y back ,of pool rooms or. cigar Senate.” the Anderson Senator de- mourning battle the giant blaze. [TAin1Y. 8F & Warehouse. was sep- : : stores?” {clared. | y ‘lara from the manufacturing. Must Die Tonight He also pointed out that the| He admonished his colleagues! Flames Burst Out (plarit by some 70 feet. The fire MICHIGAN ~ CITY, Feb private clubs owned their own With a five-minute oration, de-| The fire was discovered in the did not réech the second building. : : ’ slot machines (the Country Club caring: “we're acting like a north building of the two unit] The fire apparently was started (UP)—Robert 0, Brown, 37, . has eight) and caused no trouble. Punch of kids.” plant, on Franklin Rd. one- by a flash of lightning in the pre-|turned to religion today as he, ‘Wait and See’ | Sen. Johnson closed his fiery fourth mile north of Rd. 67, at/dawa rain storm, officials sald. gave up hope for a fifth stay of| ) {protest with. saying that “itabout 5:30 a. m. today. Ben S./Two residents, one living north . i The’ ministers, however, saidwould be better for the taxpayers Sprinkle, who unlocks the offices, /and “another living south of the ®*cution that would save him there: were slot machines to beif we didn't act on all the trivial [discovered the blaze when he|/Grapho plant, reporting hearing| 2nd hiz pal from the Indiana! found in the vicinity of the wage- bills.” opened the main door of the/@ “clap of thunder and something State Prison electric chair tospawning Warner Gear Works| “If it takes a whole day to talk main door of the north building. |like an explosion.” | night. and that many cigar stores were on important legislation,” he said,| By the time the Lawrence vol- Rocked by Blasts Brown and Frank Badgley, 50, in the prostitution business “up-!“what’s the difference. That's! stairs.” |what we are here for, to protect . é During the height of the fire the) The Rev. Mr. Reed said Muncie/the people of Indiana.” i atient Saw’ building was rocked by recurrent seemed to be on a circuit with! explosions which bulged the sides!

double execution in Indiana since!

° | poe . lof the concrete block structure, |1935- They were convicted of te Sorte in the Bouess of Prost! Fined $150 for Selling » ‘ . | Firemen said pie Iajok explo. HIling two Hammond, Ind, m three weeks. Coal Without Licen i : Beati |sion was apparently caused policemen. . The mayor was seething under } 5e gas. The intense heat probably Having lost his last chance for the charges of the ministers. He Raymond W. Rouse, 33, of 743 “blew up” the gas pipes and | postponement of the date with 4 “ . N. New Jersey St., was fined $150 S h i k R 1 g pe the chair when Gov. Henry F. said “Every time somebody spits ey as fine chricker Keceives meters, one fireman said. This

on the sidewalk, they (the min- 2nd costs on two counts of selling ar Le blast caved in the roof on tire east’ >. isters) want to start a crusade.” ©°&! Without a license today by, Report of Institution side of the building and caused MIEN. , The ministers hinted that Judge Clark in Municipal Court 4.| Gov. Schricker received a re- the west roof to bulge outwards. something big” is about to |port today that a patient at, A series of smaller explosions

be . . | done to clean up the town, but 1500 Tickets Left |Richmond State Hospital had 2PParently were caused by bar-

they refused to say what, o rels of cleaning oil in the heat tized in the Protestant “Wait and see,” they said with F 1 Oo R seen an attendant “give a beat- treating department {Howard granted the request and or ice-VU-Kkama ing” to an aged inmate whose ! East End Mezzinine

confidence, | death has spurred a probe of the $0 by 100 foot building. Almost Visit Brown in condemned row, tickets . , . 1500 of them | institution {five hours later firemen still] . . still are available for | ‘

) [trained lines on hidden The Times Ice-O-Rama | Meanwhile, grand jury action|ynder piles of stock inside the'line to pay the penalty. Thursday night in the Fair- |in the death of the 75-year-old warehouse. Officials grounds Coliseum. inmate, William Stewart of Alex-|Mmen would remain at the scene prisoner with the lowest : {throughout the day, - pouring number. In that case, Brown andria, appeared likely. Wayne ater on the smouldering wreck- would be first. His number is ni {County Coroner Henry FP. Unserigge. 0 ; ©124276 and Badgley's 24277 ! Robert Smith, secretary- Gov. Henry F. Schricker de- bl {port to Prosecutor Will Reller treasurer of the Grapho Co., sald nied a stay of execution for the m iJr. before nightfall. _ the building was a total loss of two men last night. The U. 8. | Relatives of the dead man, about $40,000 and that the stock|Circuit Court of Appeals at Chi- a

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Guest Reported Beaten, Robbed in Hotel Room

A 43-year-old Washington, Mass., railroader was beaten se-

I — — | verely and robbed of $125 by an

4 i D0known assailant early today).

“ii his downtown ‘hotel room.” The victim, Albert Mills, told police the man forced his way “into the ‘room demanding mioney.| When Mr. Mills refused, the man slugged him, he reported, inflicting- a deep scalp lacération. He was taken to General Hospital.

They're on sale at a special ‘Booth in Ti Strauss & | Co. store. There will be a [said he would turn over his reseat for every ticket sold.

Don't be disappointed «+ get your tickets: NOW. For when all seats in the Coliseum have been sold, there'll be no more.

[Rep. Joseph Klein (D. Gary) as more than $60,000. [“obvious murder,” have expressed’ inanufactured water pumps for after an impassioned appeal by _ | determination to prosecute the at- automobiles, : Robert Buhler, their attorney.

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Lilly Clinic, General Hospital, early today. He was 45.

are under sentence to die short- at 2:30 a. m. He had been ill several months of hypertension and a ly after midnight in the first heart aliment, and entered

Services will be held at 3 p. m. Thursday in Fianner & Buchanan

in Crown Hill

until the funeral. Schricker denied an appeal last .,.q00ted by Dr. Roy Ewing as he often operated

ale, | Ralph Howard to call the prison preshyterian Church.

He said he wanted to be bap- pegide the mausoleum -in Crown the country, faith. Hill following the funeral. |

The fire swept throughout the Chaplain Robert Hall planned to years, he was .assoclatéd with the/ture an law firm of Rauch, Wemmer The warden said he hadn't de- Chase here and was Indianapolis wide recognition. ! fires! cided which man will be first in Bar Association president in 1946. fishing were also favorite pas-| But he He headed the Indianapolis Com- times as well as golf. sald fire- said it was customary to take the munity Relations Council, a city-| prison wide "civic body.

“nme was mentioned as a possi

{whose . death was desctibed by in the building was valued at cago turned down their pleas for and anti-organizatioa Republicans: for the group. The firm execution stays earlier yesterday At “City “Hall Feeney was elected, Mr. Wemnmnier | returned to the private practice of

Editorial, Page 12 : William H. Wemmer, GOP mayoralty candidate in 1947, died in

The famer will be paid from 7 to 10 cents a bushel for storage for his trouble, the undersecretary said. Insurance

Package Mr. Loveland is here to talk to a conference of county come mitteemen of the Farm Market ing Administration in the Clay

Death came for the widely known attorney and civic leader

the famous clinic Jan. 19. Mr. Wemmer lapsed into critical condition early Saturday.

| An outdoor life enthusiast, Mr. {Wemmer rode horseback and just pool Hotel. |“tramped the words” yA they A. V. McCormick of the Federal . |Wemmer farm in ne County Crop Insurance Corp. also here » is body will Ho ne tate om before his illness. He wasn't con- for the conference, spoke in favor Services will be sidered a “city-farmer,” however, of a lowering of the levels of crop the plow insurance which would enable Tabernacle and harrow himself, when: the farmers to borrow on their crops press of his law business slack-/almost at the time of planting. He pointed to the new crop ine {surance bill which is in the U. 8, Mr. .Wemmer was considered House of Representatives which 20 an advanced student of litera. would offer “multiple” crop Insure d his collection of rare ance. enabling the farmer to ine & first editions brought him nation- sure to production of all his crops Hunting and in one insurance package. The conference closps today.

ortuary. Entombment will follow

pastor of the

Private services will be held 2ned to permit him a few days In

An Indianapolis attorney

Elected president of the Indi-

: anapolis Bar Asseciation in 1848, Cloudy, Colder : He fi k int ti - Mr. W red term in BC ; * e first too nteres n run- Mr emmer served one term if For ¢ Tonight L

ng for public office when his that. capacity; j resident. Cloudy and -somewhat chilly

“The work Bill did as p of the Indianapolis Bar Associa- weather tonight will give way to tion will long be remembered,” intermittent sunshine tomorrow, Herbert E. Wilson. now president according to, the Weather Bue of the association said, speaking! reau. * |< Cloudy. and somewhat colder Wien Mayo rr Wenrmer hid been-preshrwenther tonight-will give way to dent of the Indianapolis Commu-| intermittent sunshine tomorrow, nity Relations Council since last]

e Republican candidate for ayor in March of 1947. He became the central figure in

battle between GOP regulars

Snow Drifts melting In West

: y . tendant or attendants responsi- p Te Te oT —[law. ~ July. He made one of his last! 4 Sa 0g thredts ... Page 2. i . , * * ngs rn Native of Lima, O. blie arances. here bast No ws wr 4 ble. it. was learned, Ed $ p { L Hl E | alive of T4ma, 1). public appe - ’ i On the Inside | This morning's report to Gov. ior rants iItmie gva | Born tn Lima. O., July 20, 1903, vember when he pleded for the The forscas’ calif fOr 8 30 ton : : |8chric b (Mr. Wemmer - attended public cause of racial understanding in onight and a high % 5 rT —— ee a |Schricker was made Ar A ’ een’ ¢ A 4H lschools there and was captain a School Board meeting (morrow. . } i. . : . ) y. Loftin. acting dirécto e - ! ® ; : ana Pesce popes brighten n China in . Red leader . Council for Mental Health, Mr. S u 0 rgen ine } lof his high school football team. , Driving Force \ os Eperatues Is es will : po set to meet government envoy... Aroun Loftin explained to the Gover- * . : He also worked in a factory dur- enry J. Richardson Jr.. attor- 1 iN the World . . . a digest of today’s international nor. however. that the patient Patterson Describes yoo ing his summer vacations there. ney and member of the council San: the Weather Rost i i - i who had said he saw a beating South American Setup He was the son of the late speaking for the organizaticn long range forecast : i ? news Cera e rea Ease eta Page 2 administered to Mr. Stewart had William J. Wemmer, cigar manu- said, " His keen legal mind Pr (Normal maximum "for this peta , y “eloped” from the institution and “Little Eva" Peron is the facturer in Lima, who lived in!practical philosophy was the rma { Herzog asset ts Taft-Hartley act caused NLRB was now at large. ‘queen” of Argentina. receiving Indianapolis several years before driving force behind the outils Hod 1s 39 Sorth, 4 South: Noy 1 i family rows . . . other news from Congress. a . Page 3 ‘Witness Escapes’ the poor daily. doling out charity his death in 1932. The father was far reaching Frogram Our organ Near normal temperatures to. 3 . . oy 'is : oe Bow checks (3.50 pesos), running some the head of the Delsel-Wemmer ization considered his passing a | rw ‘ Mouse racing gives new thrill . . . it's from Holly- The “witness™ escaped from an 5°) oitals and charitable in- Cigar Manufacturing Co. personal loss and the city has lost a . Tiyufse f wood . . . with Erskine Johnson reporting . . . attendant-who had taken several giiiutions. Grove Patterdon. editor Mr. Wemmer was graduated & strong influential leader.” ane ane Oy ny a i ‘natch RN ‘ Page 6 patients to a movie on the in- of the Toledo Blade, said here from Princeton University in 1925. Longressman Aniires Jacobs CC Precipitation. Xe = ted to i sei eee aanaae FR g stitution ounds. The attendant today. |He attended Harvard University Who was in Indianapolis today to XP o 1 a ’ | go © ntiendan “Little Eva,” wife of President and was graduated with a degree SPeak at a Rotary luncheon, sald average % Inch for the next five ‘0 { Four local fighters get Golden Gloves’ chance to- |was unable to prevent the escape. Juan Peron. wears fancy dresses in law from there in 1928. He he was ‘deepl, grieved” at word days occurring as rain Friday nN. i night , . . lighter classes lose in initial bouts . . . Mr. Loftin said. because he would oven in the daytime, pinches the (came to Indianapolis immediately °f Mr. Wemmer's death: or Saturday. . i OLHEE SPOILS +ovvevsienneseessennsenninsr Pages 8-9 Nave had to leave the rest of his cheeks of little boys, pats little following his graduation. |. ] knew him as r good friend LOCAL TEMPERATURE | va tes icharges unattended. girls on the head, kisser the babies ; He married Miss Marie Eisen- 0d a bioflier lawyer” Rep. 8a. mh... 43" 0a m.. 4 | Hume Cronyn raps sensitive Broadway actors . . . | Mr. Loftin also told the Gov-and personalizes all government obs, lifelong - Indianapolis resi. J Cr ld, A ely Aree a mo 43. 13 (Nota) a8 : : : . charitjes,” Mr. Patterson said. dent, in h rs. Wemmer ‘and | hak A Mero 0 : i Earl Wilson covers the Great White Way beat |ernor he had questioned another abies ‘out-New Dealing’ the her three daughters, the Misses', GOV: Schricker said he was 9a m.. 41 1p m.. 3 1 vo, WTeEYlAr FEAtUre ..\.. eee teierteiinns Page 10 attendant who'saw one of the New Deal,” he said, and getting Gretchen, . Barbara and Hilde. Very much grieved” by the re- — ° ; i ) employes “slap” Mr. Stewart a away with it. “She owns a news- garde Wemmer, live in 5620 N. Port of Mr. Wemmer's death. “I Cab Driver Robbed { Peter Edson reports on U. 8. Defense policy . . . other short time before he was taken paper and her picture appeared Meridian St. His daughters are Nave always considered him a observations locally and nationally ..........Page 12 to the hospital with the Jajuries 16 times in 48 issues. She doesn't lall students in Tudor Hall. good caer he ay “His passing Of Taxi and $16 ] pl ' c ro atal. ' . ” i » loss to s com-| was \ + Hoover Commission urges revision of Agriculture dant ‘bore out the contention of '*t th¢ Argentinians forget her. | Served in World War I munity.” nerd hand Tobbed of $10 and Tie 3 : Cites Chile Grove Patterson | ; | held up | i‘ 4 Department .........i.coivveveeveecsns.... Page 18|the confessed slapper that the | Mr. Wemmer volunteered at the| Besides his wife and daughters, taxi early today by a passenger : : blow was not hard en to. Mr. Patterson interviewed the “Peron is handsome and runsonset of World War II and en- he Is survived by two sisters, dressed in a hunt coat Furnit ; ! ne ure on wheels , . . a photo-story condu by cause serious injury, «~ | president of nearly every coup- the whole country, sets the wages tered the Army as a first lleu- Mrs. Fred Gooding and Mrs. cap. - wba : p : . Jean Tabbert other news of interest tothe Coroner. Unser. said. hospitai try in South America, said Chile and has increased wages to about tenant. He_served in the Pacific Thomas Schoonover, Lima, O. Frederick Coghill, 24, of 1047 " | ladies . Pages 14-15 CmPloyees he had questioned all, was the besi run, ‘Brazil one of three times what they were be: theater and rose through the a EE 8. Pershing Ave., the driver, told Rrrheasaribranrarerrarenrarers I [protessed. +30 knowledge” of any the Dichest, [rentioniog that £3an fore he was elected.” ranks to be discharged as a full Local Man in Hospital ‘police. he picked up the man at | , me {beating beyond the slap. {Paulo was the “Chicago” of Bra-| “There's a bill in the legisla- colonel in 1046. . : Ninth and Illinois Sts. who pes Other Features on Inside Pages {Other reports on the hospital Zi! With a new bullding going Up ture to limit the president to one, During the Jap raid of the With Gunshot Wounds quested he -be driven to 5500 fa | wt Tri : ~ Iwere being received at the State in every block. ~|term, and I wonder what Peron island of Funafuti, Col. Wemmer| Robei't L. Linley, 62, of 6174 Meridian St. : Ga a i Amusements. 6 Forum ......12 Movies ...... 6 Bociety .....14 House today. One was that there] He described “Little Eva” Peron will do about that?" he smiled. was wounded by a bursting bomb, Ralston Ave, was in critical con-| At the destination Mr. C6 ¥ sesses15 Meta Given ,15 National Aff. 12 Sports’ .,...8, 9 has been considerable drinking &% a former poor girl who had! Mr. Patterson, world traveler, when he ran out of a shelter to dition in General Hospital today said the man pointed a smal 8 p yl po! a Business ....13 Hollywood .. 6 Needlework . 15 Teen Prob. ..15 among the employees at the in- been a radio and movie actress jecturer and editor, is in Indian. save the life of a wounded en- with a gunshot wound in the right tomatic at him and ord i Comics .....10 Homes ......15 Pattern. .....15 Try It -es+0+, 10 stitution, |and President Peron's “girl apolis to give the annual Wash- listed man. Fifteen men were, side of the head. : ~ |to drive south to 54th eS eb , Crossword .,20'Inside Indpls 11 Radio ....... 4 Weather Map 13, These reports. will be investi- friend” up to the fime he ran for ington's Birthday address at the killed during the rald and Col. Mr. Linley was found by his he ordered the cab driv Fditoriala ...12 Dr. Jordan ..15 Ruark ......11 Earl Wilson .10 gated also, the Governor's office the ‘presidency. “She's 29 and Calvin W. Prather Lodge 717, Wemmer was uwarded § Purple wife lying on a bed in the homeleast in B4th St. and @ ; ( 4 »easee dB Mrs, Manners 5 Side Slanges12i Women's +++ +15] anndunced. 2g _ looks 24 or 25." y AM, tonight. (Heart, y I with a 38-caliber revolver DOATDY.ithe ob [ a § ! : eke : . . : np * . 2 hain f Ve) Lipo i

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