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FORECAST: Occasional light snow tonight. Little Amiperatare change tonight and tomorrow. Low tonight, 25; high tomorrow, 32.

Counting the collection . . by Russell Newgent-{second from left) stage a court ba the Rev. Clarence Hoekstra fsesond from right), he Yourh s manager, and Louis Resenbyrg, attorney.

Feeney Lashes Critics of Police

Puts Full Power Behind Cleanups

Mayor Feeney, today lashed out at “persons and individuals” inside the Democratic Party for attacking the Indianapolis police department. He served notice no one would Influence the department's efforts to fight gambling or enforce the law.

This was another gun fired in

. James Dawson (left), guardian of "Little David” Walker, assisted | le for an accounting of the boy's funds from

Accountant Can't Trace $8000 of 'Little David's’

Accurate Audit Called Impossible

Because of Lack of Exact Records Testimony that more than $8000 of “Little David's” money has not been accounted for was given t

disputing the management of the boy evangelist's ‘funds opened inty jail on a federal charge of| {bank robbery. Earlier he admit-|

Absent was the principal, “Little David” Walker, 14-year-old ted taking part in the holdup.

Marion Probate Court. .

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evangelist, whose earnings are the center of a court fight between |

nis guardian, Attorney James

Dawson, and his manager, the

Rev. Raymond G. Hoekstra. Mr.

Dawson had demanded an ac-

‘counting of “Little David's” in-

that ac-, the battle between Prosecutor come and a hearing on Dailey" office and the City Hall counting started today.

over the operations of the police force in cracking down on vice in the city. Aiming a broadside at critics of the police department, Mayor Feeney declared:

“Unfortunately some citizens,

for reasons best known to them,! would have the people of Indianapolis feel men of the police department are accepting bribes, shaking down the poor downtrodden gambler and cheat working in collusion with shyster lawyers |

| - to fix cases,’

‘Free From Vice’

“The Safety Board and I are recor

determined. to keep this city as free from vice and crime as can

at the chief's disposal, No individual or gyoup will be permitted to deter or hamstring you in your, work. “I am in favor of surrounding

law abiding citizens with safe-|

guards, not criminals and cheaters. I can’t confess to being very |

sentimental when it comes to the | lo

feelings of gamblers and racke-| teers. I urge the police to accept any challenge made by the law- | less element of Indianapolis by |, redoubling their efforts. “No syndicate or organize gambling will ever gain -a foothold here during this administration,” the Mayor said. .Occasion for the Mayor's talk | was the presentation of 10 City awards for bravery to six policemen and four firemen. Similar

awards were previpusly presented He

to the men by the Robison-Rags-dale Post, American Legion.

Officers Cited

Policemen who received the award for “outstanding alertness |

Whobrey, Harold Jefferson.

Michael Garvey, Harold Barnes

and Michael Sheehan.

Firemen given awards were Mr.

Ralph A. Monroe, certied public accountant, employed by Mr. iDawson to make the audit, testified it was “impossible” to give an|

exact Jsegupting of the boy's fi-| nance

" Ne Exact Records

Seek to Quash Lottery Charges

{St. bondsman, and William Mil-

aT ~~ White Gore, 41, and Thomas! (Edward Stegall, 28, both of Louisville. Federal warrants |charge them with participating in| {the Kevil bank robbery last Au-| fet. Police in adjoining states|wepe given descriptions of the

Hitch, Miller File Motions

vestigation today searched for! {two more men in connection with| .. a $9000 robbery of a Kevil, Ky.,| ® bank, following the arrest of elu; |sive ex-convict William D. Messa-| more,

Jail at Corydon, Ind., Monday by, |locking up the sheriff and his {aeputy, was eaptiired yesterday in| ia restaurant at Brandenburg, Ky.|

Eorope Speeds Arming; Diplomatic Crisis Feared

Entered as Second-Class Matter at Postoffice

Indianapolis, Ind. Issued Daily

PRICE FIVE CENTS

FB! Hunts 7 Hurt in Traffic He Patroled Master Defense Plan

As Bandit Pals § Of Nessanored

Jaitbreaker Put in Cell With 3 Locks

LOUISVILLE, Ky. Mar, 18} (UP) —The Federal Bureau of In-|

Messamore, who escaped rom

He was returned here by U, 8.

collection Marshals, and placed under spe-| & = y as a case cial guard in the Jefferson Coun-|

The FBI searched for Thomas

Bond Set at $25,000 Messamore’s bond was set at|

$25,000, and his case will be pre-|

Ralph Hitch, portly S. Alabama sented to the U. 8. Grand Jury

|during the federal ‘which opens at Paducah on!

He also testified that there was ler, attorney, today filed motions’ "Apr. 18. no accounting for a sum of to quash gambling and lottery! $8832.20 from the records kept of, . coc niaced against them re. in lieu of bond, a deputy re-

Little David's ‘business transac-, tions,

cently in a crackdown on city,™

He said on the witness stand lottery operations.

that the “Little David Campaign”

The other three defendants

8 ore wee axe 0 20 WW ADASh Railroad Strike Expected to End Today

Peace Moves Speeded as Truman

marked. “He's ‘been here before nd. wel {know all about him. He'll be in a cell by himself and it will be

ook in $67,813.90 from Sept. 16, charged with Hitch and Miller lighted all the time. You will

1947, to Dec. 31, 1948.

already had filed similar motions. have to open three locks to get .

He added there were no exact They are Tom and Ed MeNulfy | to him. He won't get away!

ds from September, 1947, to and Hugh Flynn KPrL, 1948. “He sald his-audit was,

Oral Sfguments on the motions!

lagain,” the deputy said,

based partly from what he Wass the five defendants are sched- Corydon for questioning about be done with the limited resources told and not what the DOOKS leq for sometime next month in the. disappearance of Thomas

showed.

He further testified his audit] showed “Little David’ had been

paid $1479.62 from this sum during the period.

He said the child evangelists bank account totaled $166.11 as lof December 31, 1948. ther cash which the boy showed lon that date was $610.72 which| was being held for him by his

guardian, Mr. Dawson.

The accountant testified that (“Little David” also holds interest d lin various properties including a house in Orlando, Fla., a car, and

equipment with which he carries on his evangelistic tours.

and that the indictment did not The only

{Criminal Court 1.

Hitch and Miller based their motion on the contention that the facts stated in the indictment do| not constitute a public offense

state the offenses ‘with sufficient!

Rob Loan Firm

At South Bend

SOUTH BEND, Mar. 16 (UP)—

Mr. Dawson secks through the Two armed bandits held, up the

accounting to show that the boy

evangelist's earnings are not being properly handied for him. Two Lawyers Split

Domestic Finance Corp. at noon

today and escaped with several hundred dollars after forcing launched the court fight nmanager O..E. Ball to open the {after he said he was refused perraission to “count David's collecition plate earnings” and that as

cash drawer,

Ball and a woman cashier were

!guardian he had no record of in the establishment when the

what the -boy made or spent.

two medium-built bandits stepped

“Little David" has been the cen- in. One of them stood watch at| in performance of and devotion to ter of a tug of war between his the doorway while his companion

eral months.

duty” were Martin Fahey, Ray|guardian and manager for sev- Walked into Ball's office.

“Don't give us any trouble or

Mr. Dawson became “Little Da- you'll get hurt,” the bandit orvid's” guardian at the request of dered. “Now show us where the

Battalion Chief Bert A: Unver- ier, Louis Rosenberg. saw, Battalion Chief Arnold W. When Mr. Dawson objected 10 drawer as his woman assistant the manner in which “Little stood by. He opened the drawer ner and Pvt. Charles J. Schenk. David’s” funds were being handled and the bandit stuffed most of the

Phillips, Capt. Michael J. Gardi-

Earlier today Mayor Feeney the two law partners split, with|money in his pocket. Then he orwrote Dr. Howard J. Baumgartel,|Mr. Rosenberg representing the dered Mr. Bali back in his office

Dawson's former law part- money is.”

Mr. Ball walked to the cash

Vandiver, his wife and step-i' daughter from Messamore’s home near English, Ind. last January.

Crosses the Ohio

{the family. Messamore escaped from the {Harrison County Jail Monday | when Sheriff Walter Baxley and| Deputy Clarence Klee entered his|

cell to give him fresh clothing. Cc

He slammed’ the cell door shut on the two officers, ran to a washroom, and plunged through a

broken leg, victim of a traffic accident near 124 W, McCarty St. Archie had safely directed other pupils to school as traffic boy | and had started to go to class himself when he was struck down by an automobile. |

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Nurse Joan Chatham Nine-year-old Archie Wilson lies in General Hospital with a

Low's Expected | He has implicated Vandiver in /the bank robbery, but says he : does not know what became of

| certainty. |

Operators Fight ‘Memorial Periods’

Appoints Emergency Fact-Finding Board

preparing to resume operations immediately.

Against Reds Adopted;

Britain to Double Jets

Commons Member Says Hour of Decision May Come in July; Russ Satellites Accused

By JAMES E. ROPER, United Press’ Staff Correspondent LONDON, Mar, 16—Europe got a bad case of the war

jitters today.

There was a feeling here and across the continent that a diplomatic crisis with Russia was in the making.

Western nations rushed

Snow, Freezing Due-on Cold Wave =

No Relief in Sight Before Saturday

LOCAL TEMPERATURES 6a m.. 24 10a m.. 30 Ta.m.. 24 11a m.. 32 8a m.. 25 12 (Noen) 34 9a m.. 27 1 pom.. 34

A new cold wave will spread over Indiana from the North and

" |bring occasional light snow to-

night and freezing temperatures tomorrow. The eastward movement of the {cold air mass which had Indi{anapolis shivering for "the past six days led the Weather Bureau earlier today to forecast a few

days of warmer weather,

25° Tonight No break in the latest cold

wave was in sight before Satur-!| day, Weatherman Paul Miller said. Temperatures were ex‘pected to hover near 25 tonight

|and rise to freezing tomorrow.

| Grass and clover seeding con-|ing ‘tinued in Indiana during the the limits imposed in their ST. LOUIS, Mar. 16 (UP)—Leaders of four striking railroad week ending yesterday. Weather treaties. A high source in {brotherhoods were expected to send their members back to work on permitted some plowing and oat don don said Romania had ex “Messamore had been held at’ |the Wabash Railread todey and officials of the line said they were: ‘planting. Wheat was in fair to! its land force quota of 1 | good condition and starting to! {men, that Bulgaria had passed Action toward ending the strike, which tied up traffic over the grow and some pastures were {army total of 53 ; Wabash’ s 2500 ‘miles of right of way, came swiftly after President greening. Trimming and spraying that Hungary is planning to ex- ~ Truman appointed a three-man of fruit trees was under way and pand beyond treaty limits.

their defense plans 50 they

would have some cards in their hand if and when they have to sit down at the table with the men from the Kremlin jor a showdown.

No Phat osiie statesman was that-armies- would be. on the march in the immediate |future, but there was an air of | rimness in official statements and actions.

The developments: ONE: The five Western Union countries — Britain, France, Belglum, Holland and Luxembourg-— set up a master defense plan. It called for all of them to rearm as fast as possible and to ask the United States to provide addition al weapons. Britain will double her jet fighter strength. . The plans of the Western Union nations even have gone so far that they have chosen a defense line—from Switzerland north along the Rhine to the sea. Afr Commodore Arthur Harvey, Conservative member of Parliament, . told Commons the hour of de-

cision might come in July. If the world gets by that deadline, he added, there may be peace for six or seven years,

TWO: Three Russian satellites

{were accused by Britain of buildtheir armed forces beyond

000 troops, and

emergency fact-finding board to some tobacco beds were being THREE: Iran snapped back

investigate the dispute,

A. F. Whitney, president of the

| Brotherhood of Railroad Train-

(men, said orders wouid be issued)

“immediately” sending enibeta of his union back to their jo

George Hooper, chief iy -.

the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, said he expected his)

{union and the firemen’s and con-| PITTSBURGH, Mar. 16 (UP)— gqyctors' unions to follow suit.

oal mine operators and miners were convinced today. that John L. Lewis would extend his two-|

Ready to Lift Embargo Wabash President Arthur K.|

‘seeded | during. the pe the period.

Rail Layoffs Rise In Coal Walkout

Workers in Area Feel Strike Pinch

Furnace-firing Hoosiers were

window to a concrete alley about Rook mine: holiday beyond Mar. Atkinson said “we hope that the not worrying about the two-weeks

20 feet below.

crossed the Ohio River to Meade County, Kentucky, where he was captured.

He stole a 12-foot skiff and oh Mewibels of OX began lining up for a fight to deprive the United Mine ‘Workers (ne 3500 workers struck. at | Chief of his power to ca his men a m, yesterday. lout of the pits for

Shaw Rides Again periods.

The “memorial holiday” called 1a would meet with the chiefs 2"

riten will return to work today.” National Iie said the road was prepared

lo lift immediately an embargo peoinning to pile up in th - placed on freight shipments when & 8 Plle up in the Ine

Alvanley Johnston, president of Ithe Engineers hrotherhood, said

To Test New Tire by Mr. Lewis last Monday al-|of the other three unions at

tor Speedway president and three 70,000 railroad employees. Indus- m {try in general has not felt ibe finding board. work stoppage, but it generally) conceded drastic

lime winner of the “500, was.

ariving at 68 miles an hour down yas

Truman has appointed the fact-|

coal strike this morning but rail-

rdao workers were, Layoffs were!

dianapolis area.

The New York Central ean-|

{at the Russians with a statement that the Soviet-Iranian treaty of 1921 should be scrapped. A fore eign office official said Iran should cast its lot with the West by making a military alliance |with the United States. For seve |eral days the Russians have been {putting the diplomatic * squeeze on Iran and today the Iranianspokesman said the Soviet press and radio attacks had exceeded “civilized standards.” FOUR: Russia made noises like she already had developed ithe: atomic bomb and had gone jon to bigger things. A Soviet | scientist, writing in the Literary Gazette, said Russian atomic energy experts now are able to

celled its call-back of 1488 em- solve probiems beyond the grasp

ployees at the Beech Grove Shops,

{of anyone abroad.

d the Pennsylvania prepared to] FIVE: The Italian press care

cut from 400 to 500.from its pay-iried reports that mysterious [ready has idled more than 500,000 Cleveland as soon as word is Tolls on the Indianapolis Division/planes have been parachuting Wilbur Shaw, Indianapolis Mo- men, including 463,000 miners and received officially today that Mr. south and west of Columbus, O. what seemed to be war material The B. & 0. was trimming 130|/in north Italy, The reports were

from its payrolls on the line be-

printed. just as the Communists

Robert F. Coles, secretary of tween Hamilton, O. and Spring- (called for a nation-wide protest

the home stretch of the big rac-| would result in steel and allied in- poard which urged President Tru-

ing oval today when a front dustries if the holiday is extended. man to appoint the fact-finding Railroads were expecting a ‘Abuse’ Charged John D. Battle, ekecutive vice '¢ end president of the National Coal: Shaw had the fire re- Association,

tire struck a metal biade and was ripped open. : | Nothing, happened. Mr.

layoffs the National Railway Mediation field, III.

Expect ‘Extension’

shutdown with another holiday

|against Italy's plan to join the | North Atlantic pact, The Western powers were sete

board, said he expected the strike “probable extension” of the mineiting a fast pace in rearming. shes, b y t p y| Britain, as if trying to set the

{following the two weeks memorial pace, announced that it was

‘Wholesale Food

executive secretary of the Indi- Rev. Mr. Hoekstra, and Mr. Daw- and told him to stay there 10 min- riothing happend.

anapolis Church Federation, ex-Son staging a one-man battle utes.

plaining he would be glad to dis- against them.

cuss crime preventign in Indian-|

posed crime study group.

The Mayor asked, however, for a clarification of the Federation's aims in order to better define the)

city’s crimé problems

The Federation rédcently proposed that a non-partisan crime study commission, composed of| citizens, conduct a survey of the | city’s crime. The commission would then make recommenda- | tions to law enforcement officials |

on how ‘to better prevent crime.

Buy Tickets Now

For Amateur Hour

For the best seats to see Old Gold's Original Amateur Hour and show Apr. 6 at the Coliseum get your tickets now, They are on sale &t a special booth near the center elevators at Wm, H. Block Co. store.

Prices are: Arena floor

‘chairs, $240; box and parquet chairs, $2.40 and $1.20; side mezzanine, $180 and $1.20. East ‘end mezzanine, 80 cents, Prices include tax. - All ‘seats ‘are ! The Times and Radio Station WISH are bring- _ ing the Ofiginal Amateur - Hour broadcast and 1'3hour show Fire to raise funds .. Margaret's Hospital Guild, /

row.

City and state police threw a The accounting hearing will| Inet around the downtown area. apolis with the Federation's pro- probably continue through tomor-| Police did not have a detailed description of the robbers.

Youngest or Record—

"Delaware Girl, 10, Bears 7-Pound, 5-Ounce Baby

Doctors Call Daughter Healthy;

Upsets Mark of 11-Year-Old Mother -

WILMINGTON, Del.,

Mar. 16 (UP}—The

| youngest Ametican mother on record—a 10-year-

five-ounce daughter.

old girl—was reported in good condition today at Memorial Hospital with her healthy seven-pound

- Authorities, who withheld the girl's name,

and her baby.”

boy. »”

said the birth took place Sunday night. They said any further details would jeopardize ‘“‘the future plans of her

’ Judge Ernest Keith, of Dover, Del, arranged for the "girl to enter the Kruse Industrial School for Girls last September so ‘she could obtain medical care. Judge Keith said the girl would return to the home of her parema when she is released from the hospital.

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ACCORDING TO American Medical Association records, the previous youngest mother listed in the United States was an 11-year-old Mexican girl who had a son by Caesarean. section at Carson City, Mich, in 1941. " That baby has grown into a “healthy, happy Americau

Thé Mexican mother, a fifth grade student hy the time of the birth, married the father of her child with him and a second child on a tenant f io Nawas of the couple never were

d now lives in Michi-

The occasion was a demonstra-

|to slash the casing.

The demonstration was given district, before approximately 125 Fire- pose of conducting some appro\stone dealers and store man- priate memorial services for a |agers. The demonstration was ar- very short period of time,” ranged by Paul C. Dykstra, In- Battle said. Lewis called the current] {Firestone Tire & Rubber Co., and stoppage in protest against the |John Moore, racing representa- Appointment of James Boyd as director of the U. 8. Bureau of Mines and As a mourning period

|dianapolis district manager “for

tive,

Four Perish in Fire

That Destroys Home

| UTICA, Mich., Mar. 16 (UP)- | Four persons were burned to |death today when their home was |destroyed by fire which police |said started from a Qefective chimney. The victims were .identified as! Arley Price, 37; Mrs. Dorothy |

{ Castor, 30, and her two children, | ’. |LeRoy Castor, 10, and Patsy Cas- 4

Jon, 8

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placed and repeated the perform- work stoppage is an “abuse” of ance, at 70 miles an hour. Again the clause permitting Mr. Lewis to call a memorial holiday.

“It never has been supposed bY, NEW YORK, Mar. 16 (UP)— |Wholesale food prices as measured by the Dun & Bradstreet ing May.

tiori of the anti-blowout proper-| the operators who made the conties of a commercial auto tire|tract that by purposely driving over a knife Would cover anything more than a local situation, or at best a index were 13.6. per cent lower today than at this time last year, themselves well supplied with coallern Union: countries — Britain,

period

then only for the pur-|

the index stood at $6.70.

Index Down Again.

Declines in 14 commodities in the past week lowered the index Mr. 2 cents to $5.79. A year ago

With the exception of the three (weeks from Feb. 15 to Mar. 1, the index has declined steadily sincel Dec. 21, reaching a 27-month low Maharajah of Cooch Behar has

during Mr. Boyd's tenure of of- |

at $5.66 on Feb, 8. The all time

nigh of $7.36 was established where his plane was forced down July 13, 1948, and the record low on a flight from Gaya to Bom-|

lof $1.49 was set, Jan, 31, 1933.

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|walkout for the dead and injured of the mining. industry,

doubling its jet fighter strength, | Britain also agreed to let France

Producers and operators la- start manufacture of the British led the shutdown as an attempt Vampire jet fighter, This plane

to milk existing above-ground has a range of 600 miles and a supplies in preparation for the ne- speéd of 531 miles per hour.

gotiation of a new contract dur-|

An outline of the rearmament |efrort was approved by the fore

Industrialistshin this area found eign ministers of the five Wests

piles built up for 30 to 90 days.

|France, Belgium, Holland and

And consumer coal for home Luxembourg—in the meeting that heating will be plentiful for the ended last night. "

remainder. of the winter season.

Makes Safe Landing

landéd safely at Ambhikapur,

bay, it was announced today.

Future Look of Tarkington Civic Theater

age

PI a WE

i ov of the — Booth Tork on Civie Ther W in this sketch rm of 3 Kelley. The revised cid lo a gle ; plus augmented working space, The Civic's campaign to raise $185,

Many Detalls Secret The plan-will be submitted to

BOMBAY, Mar. 16 JING us other countries that join the Ate

lantie pact so that all members {can co-ordinate their work in the effort to stop the spread of coms |munism. {| Western Union's defense pro|gram was drawn up behind closed ~ |doofs under virtual wartime secrecy and many details were kept |secret. | It was known, however, that [the five-power conference decided to defend a line running from Switzerland aiong. the Rhine River to the North Sea. This would require each of the five powers to keep on instant call specified land forces and, in certain cases, sea and air units. It was understood that the plan asked France to supply 24 di visions, Britain six, Belgium three, Holland two and Luxembontg

one.

Five Hongan Burn GIESSEN (UP). — Fire origin