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Big City Bloc Fails In. Talkathon After - ‘Night of Disorder”
By ROBERT BLOEM In the wake of Indiana's
first full dress legislative fili-|
buster, the possibility! emerged today that the Gen-| eral Assembly may find itself | the first to. violate one of its
er should sign a bill to outlaw] any other time than Central, It was likely the
for a “waste basket” veto since
the Governor need not accept any »
measure reaching him after midnight tonight. But his signature would make it effective imme- | diately. " The bill would forbid any department of state or local government from using any other time. Presumably it would outlaw the traditional stopping of the clock at midnight on’ the closing day, Monday. - Use Old Ruse Almost every Legislature has) found itself unable to complete | its business by the end of the 61day constitutional limit on a General Assembly. The .invariable method of avoiding constitutional difficulties has been to stop the clock, keeping the Legislature within the time limit while the world outside goes on to the next day in the usual way, By an odd quirk, rural advocates of the bill—which was aimed mainly at outlawing Daylight Saving Time used by cities—were forced to use the clock: ruse last night to get it
In the wildest and most atsordered legislative many years big-city EE
tives tried to talk the bill to death. Their objective was to stall,
past a midnight deadline after which it would require a twothirds majority and suspension of
‘Set Clock Back But rural forces junked thei own ideal of standard time for everybody and set the clock back. While filibusterers wore out their voices in the tumult, it just never quite got to be midnight by the House clock. When one ofthe filibustering| legislators at last made a pariia- | °
_ SATURDAY, MARCH 5, 1049
Soviet Shifts Called Boost _ For Molotov
making chain-filibuster are right, the’ Marion County stafe Dennis and David Deets, : J » . . » - Proceedings Reminiscent of Movie Script, As Legislators Eat, Drink, Make Merry Calendar, Other Legisiative News, Page 11
. By LEON W. RUSSELL All that was missing was a movie camera. The House of Representatives provided the lights and the action for one of the biggest shows in Indiana's legislative history as the fillbuster on the time question dragged its way through od weary hours last night. .
ors stand in ‘the popular film of several years back—“Mr, |8mith Goes to Washington” —as [hey watched Rep. Judson Hag-| y (D. Indianapolis) read dog-! ey through page after page of | a small red-bound book. : ‘ The name of the. book didn't)
Consult Schricker
h Hee Nines matter to the spectators—or to! Commi the legislators. Neither did its “With -Governor- -teontents. -Rep.- Haggerty -wasn’t Members of a House and alking loudly enough to be heard
Senate conference-committee met Ore than five feet from his desk. with Gov. Schricker at noon to-| So while he talked, the House| day in an effort to break the chamber took on the look that {deadlock on: the Soldiers’ Bonus, [it Yaually Jaa during a Ficgse—| ; Kk i 1 except that many care-worn lawGov Schticker said only: {makers had loosened their collars We are going over every pos-| ibility t hat | and dropped the knots of their 5 ¥ to see What We cam WOTX neckties halfway down their!
ut.” chests. It was a warm night and
mentary error and lost the floor it was 3:30 a. m., three and a half hours past the rule deadiine for passage of bills this session. The legislative clock, howeyer, | said it was only 9
light Saving Time was passed 60) to 20 with 19 representatives not | voting. The filibuster started at 9:30 p. m. when Rep. James Hunter
'-(D. Gary) had the bill read in
full. Then Rep. James Griggs (D. Franklin), who represents both Marion and Johnson Counties, took up the fight and talked for 15 minutes. Shortly after Mr. Griggs began his oration, warning that the bill would make a ‘backwoods state” of-.Indfana, shouts of “filibuster”
came from the floor, Somebody yelled: “Let's stop this«stuff and get going.” =
Cries Point of Order Rep. John Ryan (D.. Terre Haute) . sided with the rural forces and whooped it up for point of order. Despite his: belligerent charges that he had] “moved the previous question”
before the debate started, Speak-|
er Robert Heller (D. Decatur) ruled it was Mr. Ryan and pot,
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LAER
- Pp. m. yesterday, and the bill to outlaw Day- 3
The conference group, made up legislative dignity had ta give, of a Republican and a Democrat way to comfort. from each house, failed to reach One Had Beer (an agreement on how to pay the “bonus in three meetings yes In‘ this: disarray; the: legisla-: ‘terday and the day before. a Jnsosma) at thers dasha | LL i ven slept—at their desks " So Agreoment tom strolied into corridors, or heckled appeared, however, that other ponresentative Haggerty, who |peavisions of the soldiers’ bonus valiantly at hi t. bill had been agreed upon. This’ antly at his post {agreement would -eall for pay- Some ate sandwiches, others! ment of $10 a month for each| drank cokes. One representative| month served by the veteran in| set a can of beer on his desk and the United States and $15 a|quenched his thirst with dainty! month for overseas service with draughts. Representative Hagspecial consideration for disabled gerty droned on.
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Yeleraps, soning on the bonus He was heckled . frequently. wou There were numerous complaints} Members of the conference committee are Sens. William that-he was not speaking loudly
enough to Be heard. Speaker)
Bates (R. New Albany) and Her-| man Evans (D. Bloomington), and Reps. Joseph Klein (D, Gary) |" 0Fder to Representative Hag-
|gerty to raise his voice: ne Fon Somers. (R... Ft. Z5r" ihe other Representatives
had been able to hear him, the So far the method of raising | would have been pretty well in.
money which met the most favor| go, ) was a combination of two taxes. ry od on the timp question ao One, would be a comprehensive] course, as they became audible to tobacco tax, including a total of spectators, it appeared that the {six cents on a packet of cigarets. book was. a histor of clock |The other would be a gross in- — y 8 | come tax ranging from oneeighth to one-quarter of one per | cent.
GOP Still Opposed Many Republicans still opposed {any increase in the gross intome| tax, however, and it appeared that | only the tobacco tax had a chance of agreement.
Outcome of the meeting soday] might have to wait until Monday, {final day of the 61-day legislative 9 session. Both parties in both! ita would have to caucus on| any proposal by the conference the [committee to insure that it would be accepted and passed.
and the first picnic. of the year (Weatherman Paul Miller. But {As occasional rains and chilling |best planned outing.
day. Today's balmy weather will give way to clouds tonight, the Weather Bureau said. Gov, 8chricker repeatedly has Rain Due Tomorrow | reminded Democrats and Repub-| Occasional rain and tempera- | licans of the “mandate” for atures below 52 were expected to-
bonus in last November's refer- morrow. Tonight's low was ex-!
endum. But although both parties pected to be 48. are committed to payment of. a, Most of the nation was prombonus, the method of raising/ised a springlike- week-end but money has been a stumbling the mild temperatures greatly inblock throughout the current ses-| creased the danger of floods tosion. . |day over the Midwest.
Possible Solution More than a thousand persons
FILIBUSTER LEADERS MAP FUTILE STRATEGY... Top big ity-eaders in. Vidians’s Kishorys
shown last night mapping plans to beat Central Standard Time. Left to Reprasentafives are: Judson Haggerty, Obed T. Kilgore, Carrol
“ Diling Property
Gallery spectators were reminded of of actor Jimmy Stewart's the real property, 15 acres and
Heller met these complaints with)
Balmy Weather Here Holds =»
Lure foi Picnic Crowds
Expect Temperature to Reach 65 Today;
Rain and Colder Due Tomorrow - Hundreds of Indianapolis residents headed for the country s12 500
Still No. 2 Man ‘After Stalin, een ‘Observers Believe
: Photos, Photos, interpretive story, story, Page 2 2
"By R. H. SHACKFORD United Press Staff Correspondent
N, Mar. 5— ‘The [British Foreign Office received today an “urgent report” from its ambassador in| Moscow describing the “release” of V. M. Molotov as
Soviet foreign pinister as a pro-| motion rather than a demotion. | The report, it was learned, was, received . from Ambassador Sir Maurice Peterson, and confirmed] the cautious approach taken by|
: ling the replacement of Mr. Molo-| Lt tov by Andrei Y. Vishinsky.. | Western Europe had hoped | that the shift might presage a
but Mr. Peterson's report appar-| ently did not give any hope of this, indicating instead a pos- | sible intensification of antiwestern policy on Russia's part. French Apprehensive The British report from Moscow coincided with expressions of “great apprehension” from quarters close to the French foreign office in Paris. ; French sources considered A. I. Mikoyan’s replacement as minister of foreign trade as even more significant and ominous, since Mr. Mikoyan was regarded as the most western-minded of the Kremlin's inner circle. was replaced by one of his deputies, M. A. Menshikov: Mr. Peterson’s report was said to have taken this line—that release of Mr. Molotov from his duties as top man: in the Russian foreign office will give him more time and opportunity to carry on in his role of the second most important in the Soviet Union.
Second Only to Stalin
Lilly Takes Over
Mr. Molotov long has been conSecond Phase of sidered second only té ‘Premier $200,000 Deal: ./8talin in the Soviet hierarchy,
and Mr. Peterson's report apparently gave no reason to believe butldings, of the Dilling Ca Re {that Dis status as Mr. Stalin's ngs, o ° ndy | e successor had changed. | \Co. by EN Lilly & Co. was aa: proba g°
Completion of the purchase of
- Sources close to. gov {nounced today The figure foriernment said the most it antici-| {the entire paral was In excess Of pated was a change of Russian $200,000. tactics and emphasis in the coid|
| The property transfer was ne-|war_ that there is not the slight-| | gotiatea by W. A. Brennan, Inc. lost reason to expect any change! who represented both the Lilly] in basic Soviet policy. |company and the Dilling Realty, ,, quarters pointed out, ful |Co., liquidator of the. property of speculation - regarding the sur-| fie sandy. firm which. closed last. up shires ~ announced Tast| night by M y |” The Dilling property was sold in| Fring ry Hide 1a t Ms |two parcels—the first about. 18... vo mbers of the Politburo. |
onthe deo I 000! Their successors are not members |
| square feet of building spac second parcel deal completed la [yesterday included the remaining 91 acres and 168,000 square feet| Foreign Office Degraded {of floor space. British officials said the shift The property has approximately from Mr. Molotov, who is the]
te | lin the end determines all Soviet | |poliey, both foreign and internal. |
5 feet frontage on W. Morris recognized No. 2 man in Russia,
St. and is bounded on the west by to -Mr. Vinshinsky, the fiery {White River Pkwy. and on the prosecutor of the famed Moscow feast’ by “Dakota” St: Chocolate pirge “trials tn effect “dégrades™’ |Ave. runs down the center. It{the importance of the foreign of-! [ras excellent railroad facilities. [fice in the Boviet scheme of Hedge Against Expansion |things. | The Dilling property will be It also was poihted out that it| [used by the Laiy Co., at present, (has 1 Been normal procedure in the for. using purposes, It |complicated Soviet setup to keep [lies ‘conveniently located be- some key men in the Politburo, tween the two major Lilly plants, Mr, Stalin's inner cabinet of 13 one at Alabama and McCarty Sts., men, free of departmental duties. {amd the other at Kentucky Ave.,! Radio Moscow made ‘the an: tafid Morris St. . |nouncement Just. before midnight { It js undersiobt tha Let last night. It was told to the |property was boug y Y Russian le in Mos 1 — a {Co. as a hedge against future in 58 Nn the bac e " ay {expansion ~and “will be availabléal Moscow papers. for new construction. Ed Dowling, former president! {and general manager of the DIling Co. said the sale marks| the completion of the real property! liquidation of the 61-year-old, candy company, once © know n widely for its “cherry cocktails.” sideration of ‘the state's giant The Dilling property probably? million budget today and! represents the-last acreage of any Sranted minor increases to the size.available to industry reason-| Judiciary branch, {ably near to the downtown area.| THe “Supreme Court's personal |service fund which pays salaries increased from $80,000 al
Senate Takes Up Budget Issue
| The Appellate Court's personal |service fund was increased from] $82,000 a year to $87,000. These increases would cover| raises in pay to the 11 judges of |the two courts. Senators also added an item of!
to pay expenses of a today with the full blessing of commission which will HJ al stay home tomorrow, he warns, one-year survey of
temperatures wil wreck even the! {eompanies. The budget calls for total ex-
The early morning low temperature of. 47 climbed to 68 during penditures over the next two- -year
LOCAL TEMPERATURES |
period of more than $300 million, |
Sam... 47 . . Sedo il dey La Ice Cream Soda | 8am..48 12 {¥oom), 40 le | sam..4 1pm. ee ‘Inventor’ Dies
The Missouri River was " JOLIET, Ii, Mar. 5 (UP) pected to rise two feet by tomor- | Joliet residents mourned - today row morning ‘at.Nebraskd City, | {for Miss Annie Kelly, 87, whom
{Neb., where the waters were be-|they say invented the ice cream ing dammed by a big ice gorge. 80da more-than 40 years ago.
Another fl 004 threat arose in first mixed soda water with ice |
. Entered as Second-Class Matter at Postofios | Indianapolis, Ind. Issued Dally
High h d For Girl, Red i
“British OITICIATS here in—-assess- |
Russian bid to ease the cold war,
Hei-
| " The of that "all-powerful ‘body which la
insurance a
8 come possible
One possible solution advanced |by Republicans has been to levy only the tobatco taxes with the idea that only certain classes of veterans would be paid at the end of three or four Proponents of_this plan believe that! during that period it might to state
bonus from
southern Wisconsin and northern Illinois as the Pecatonica River rose above the 12-foot state. The weather was chilliest In the Hast where \emparsiures never rose above 40 yesterday New York. ut the West, which suffered
fled their homes as the Boyer River flooded near Missouri Valley, Ia. Ten motorboats and rowboats were used to reach families cut off by the high water, Glant ice floes crushed a dou-ble-span &teel bridge over the Raccoon River near Boonesville,
It reached 70 yesterday at Chi
i land Omana. It was Tt Mam. § hate: Gh
.|enjoyed almost balmy weather. C
cream in her little candy store] bere in 1907,
Texas Strike Ended
CITY, Tex, Mar. 5 (UP)-—Agreement was reached
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Judith Caplon s
Judy Chatty
Known as Hard Worker
Sometimes Remained at Justice Department Desk After Other Employees Had Left
-By JAMES F. DONOVAN, United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Mar. 5—Judith Coplon is a gossipy little thing. Around the Justice Department which I covered, she was chatty
and vivacious. She seemed and small talk with other i in section.
But she was known as a4 hard worker, too. Sometimes, she was
Horseburger
Charges Fought 13 In Court, Judge: Sets Hearing Dates
Harvey L. Bottoms, 33, of 1213
LIN. Concord St. filed a plea of teeth which flashed often as she |PTEY
abatement when he and 12 other persons accused 8f operating i {three-county wholesale horse{burger syndicate appeared before
{Judge Raab in Criminal Court 2!
{today. His ‘hearing was set for
Bottoms! attorney. - based. his! nc of the internal security” see:
abatement n'sa on what he! {termed the sgality of - the in-| |vestigation bc.ore the state health) department gave his client a Hearing in accordance with state
Attorneys for two defendants moved for a delay of arraign-| ment. Judge Raab set Mar. for the new hearing. File Motions to Quash Attorneys for 10 of the men filed motions to quash’ and requested ...oral.. argument. Judge Raab set for Mar, 1 are charged with violation of the ‘Indiana Pure Food and Drug -Aet The men were arrested Feb. 18 in three raids by State Health| Department officials and deputy. prosecutors fm conn the sale of ground horsemeat as | Eruger to restaurants, stores and other retail outlets.
Mother Rescues "Family From Fire |.
ANDERSON, Mar: SH UPY Es {Mrs. Mildred Biddle, 24- year-old
Indiana's Senate took up con- mother of six children, carried Tomorrow for
all her youngsters out: of their burning home early today just before the flaming roof collapsed. | An oil stove exploded in the Biddie home while the father and husband, Paul, was at work at a local packing plant. | ‘Mrs. Biddle snatched, each child from. its bed and ran outside.
| After her last tfip, the roof fell
The children, ranging in age] from 2 to 10, were taken to neighbors. Mrs. Biddle suffered burgs {around her. shoulders and arms. Physicians at a hospital here {were unable to determine immeiately how seriously she was in-| |jured. She was Hated as “fair.”
Slayer of Clergyman
Executed in Ohio
COLUMBUS, O., Mar. 5 (UP)|
| —Léster Nicholas, 44, was exe-
{cuted in the electric chair last |
— night for the fatal shooting of,
{hia father-in-law, the Rev. Lewis {Whitaker, 76, at West Rewisn, mo. May 6, 1947. - Nicholas was convicted of ill {ing Rev. Whitaker when he. at-|
Miss Kelly died yesterday. She tempted to keep- Nicholas from |
{shooting his estranged wife, |Nora, 44.. Rev. Whitaker was [pastot _of the Pentecostal Church)
Plane Sets. New Mark
ALAMEDA, Cal, Mar, 5 (UP)
heavily from énowfall this winter,(today in the 42-day-old strike at —The Navy's giant Caroline Mars arbide & Carbon Chemicals flying boat beat its own world ner of the 2:15 p. m. game be- pa tween Tech and Summitville to-
Corp. here, and only formal rati- passenger-carrying record in a tween
fication by the 1400 striking|flight from San Diego to -the night at 8:15 to decide Eo = LT ST | in the ide wna il
the plast. Sh
mre tmmereea 1 PRICE FIVE Cents.
Bail
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Cm Picks ho Pair at N.Y. Rendezvous
Justice Department Employee Had Secret
Data, Agents Say
sian: employee of the United
3H a Justice Department worker at Washington, were arraigned today on charges of
Yelonsing A Gubitchev
and Vivacious, stealing U. &. government Haters
mation, Federal Judge Simon Rifkind
" teral cases. He: set bail of $20,000 for Miss Coplon. : The two were arrested here last
tigation agents who had trailed Miss Coplon here from Washing-
ton. - Requests ‘High Bail’
still on the Job when other work- Special Assistant U. 8. Attorney ers on the first floor of the Jus- Raymond P. Whearty
requested the high bail. Referring to Gunds day. 8% bulkiing Nag quit he hig he said “this man has no
[ties in America at all, and I need Miss Coplon is an analyst in ’ the internal security division. 2. She mot point out the gravity of these has been in government service charges.” for five years. Mr. Whearty asked bail of $50,«. Dark Laughing Eyes 000 in the case of Miss Coplon, Scarcely five feet tall, Miss Coplon had dark laughing eyes, long dark hair and white even I. A Adams,
every-ready to exchange pleasantries the départment’s internal security
imade by her attorney, Bertram who who 344 that
smiled. ’ ew et whe wt spate be difficult for my client by he in New York last pL have a bonding agency night on charges of conspiring to|Der bail. give secret U, 8. government in- “I certainly don’t find nytt formation to a staff tember of|ivolved in any hysteria,” the 'the Soviet delegation to the Judge said. “However, the charge {United Nations. {is of maximum gravity because Miss Coplon worked in that ot- | 2% the nature of the possible
{tion where the registrations of Conspiracy with an agent of a |foreign ‘agents are kept. In her work, she was in contact fre. [®NSe materials” quently with the State . Depart- Known as ‘Santa’ ent. Judge Rifkind said that "The Justice Department says attorney's argument that 2 she was only a minor employee, {Coplon was of a Bood family and {But she was important enough to (reputation, “is not a logical {have her own office, with her |yardstick in this instance bes {name on the door.
Records Public Property
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lescape or flee or not to do so The alien registration records 4°¢5 not apply in this case.” are public property. It was Miss/
|. NEW YORK, Mar. 5 (UP) | |—Valentine Gubitchev, Rus-
Nations and Judith Coplon,
set bail for Gubitchev at $100,000, an unusually high figure in fed- .
night by Federal Bureau of Inves-
A plea for a smaller ball was
foreign goveriment involving de
|cause the normal témptation to
Miss. Coplon’s father is a ree.
hy ws
penalties. The -charge -is- one-of ~~
[Coplon~ who hétped newsmen in tired toy maker who for: 25 POMPE
{examining the file-of Secretary of Was known as the “Santa Claus
State Dean Acheson's Jaw firm| of ‘the - Adirondacks" because of
(tion with a Polish purchasing, tributing toys to the pdor around nom ission came up after his Troy, N. Y. ation. ‘ 1 As Gubitchey was ‘appearing In
| Affable and” smiling, she “went | court, Trygve Lie, secret -gen« rr ——
ASito great pains to explain to news- eral of the United Nations, sus< men just what each of the compli- pended the Russian from the “Oni i i meant. y {United Nation secretariat. st” women employees | of the security-conscious Justice Appainted. in 1348 Departmenf, she gave her opinions The United Nations disclosed freely of. many ..of.. the Justice that Gubitchev. was appointed to {Department officials. She had a great respect for the first in the maintenance and ene |gineering division of the Depart ent of Conferences and General ices, |
roman Leaves {to the headquarters planning office in which he was a member of the engineering. staff at the |time- of his arrest.
Key West Rest = {in his halting: English, “I don't
WASHINGTON, Mar. 5 (UP)—|y\ uw the law. and I don’t know President Truman leaves tomor-'what these terms mean.” ‘row by plane for his favorite vd-| Judge Rifkind fixed Mar: 16 for
cation retreat, the submarine base 8 preliminary examination and at Key West, Fla. {said that meanwhile Gubitchev
could find an at Accompanied by two of his sec- torney.
retaries, his three military aides BR Draw Secrecy Veil efore the court appearance (and his personal physician, Brig. gpI agents Gen, Wallace Graham, the Presi- crecy about the arrests of the dent will take off for Key West dark-haired, vivacious Brooklyn lat 7:30 a. m. Indianapolis time.girl. who worked in the Justics He is scheduled to land at the Department Internal Security Boca Chica Naval Base at about Section and the square-jawed noon ~ | Russian architect. He will remain there for two, The case formed a new chapter weeks, flying back to the capital!in the continuing tale of Soviet Mar. 19. |intrigue and underground operas The President plans to do little tions in this country. more than rest and sun himself in| Miss Coplon, an analyist, has |Florida. He will interrupt his va- her own office 4n the Justice De[cation briefly-Tuesday, when he partment section where registra. will go to Winter Park, Fla., to|tlons of foreign agents are kept. receive an honorary de at/The Russian, who is . was Rollins College and make a biter; listed with the United Nations address. headquarters planning division as
an architect. Amo, Fortville
Their arrest had the aspects of a spy fiction thriller. They finally were taken -into custody under
[the secretariat. in.1946. He served.
Farly in 1947 he was assigned
| “Your honor,” Gubitchev sald
drew a veil of ses
Open Regional Indiana's own “Biggest Show n Farth” resumed at 1 p. m, jour afternoon as Amo’s Aces met Fortville in Regional basketball play. «The winner will meet the win-
the Third Ave. elevated line after two hours of furtive maneuvers ings designed ‘to shake off poss sible pursuers.
the two had held several clans destine meetings p
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[when “the question of its connec-|hHi8 ‘annlal Christmas visits a —ea
~The Justice Department Jug th