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' SHANGHAI, May 3 (UP)—A U. 8. Navy spokesman announced today that all American Marines and heavy Naval units had left Shanghai waters for Tsingtao to avoid any chance of becoming embroiled in the Chinese civil War. The Navy spokesman also revealed that U. 8. warships departed precipitately from Shanghai itself last Tuesday after being tipped that “unfriendly forces” (presumably Communists) planged to scuttle ships in the narrow Whangpoo channel and bottle up all western shipping. Nipped in Bud The plot was nipped in the bud, but “nevertheless it would seem that this danger still exists,” thus imperiling American and other foreign ships and freighters which daily enter Shanghai harbor to evacuate foreigners, the spokesman reported. The spokesman for Vice Adm. Oscar C. Badger, U. 8: commander in the western Pacific, said that with the departure of the big ships for the port 400 miles to the north, only three destroyers and a few small landing craft were left in the Shanghai area.” They were anchored at the mouth of the Whangpoo, out of range of the guns at the Wobsung forts where the Whangpoo flows into the Yangtze estauary some 15 miles from Shanghai. Says Units Adequate However, the spokesman insisted that the remaining naval units were adequate to evacuate some 1600 Americans still in Shanghai ‘should that be necessary. “But we cannot take any chances of being émbroiled in China's civil war, ‘sud that's defis nite,”~he said. Adm. Badger intends to maintain some vessels here as long as he feels: there might be a need for further evacuation, his spokesman said. But he pointed out that if the Woosung forts were taken by the Communists, or should shift their allegiance to them, it would be difficult to send craft up the Whangpoo. The U. 8S. naval maneuvering was disclosed amid a relative lull along the front west of Shanghai. The day's formal communique from garrison headquarters was barren. Phone Lines Cut Off Tonight, however, telephone communications were cut off suddenly to Hangchow, the “back door” to Shanghai on the railway to the south. The interruption touched off speculation as to the
fate of the rail city 130 miles]
southwest of Shanghai. The Communists had been only 8 few miles from the city for some days, and it was reported wide open to their entry. For the moment the Communist armies appeared to have swung their attention sotuhward. They had thrust 175 miles into the central and southern plains.
Expect Mercury To Hit New High
Record heat of the year to date,
with maximum temperatures of
84 this afternoon and 85 tomorrow, was predicted by Weather- . man Paul Miller. Showers tomorrow night will bring some relief, he ‘said.
Blazing sun pushed the mer-
cury to 78 in downtown Indianapolis at 3 p. m, yesterday for the highest temperature so far recorded this year. Sunshine and warm southerly breezes today will be followed by fair skies and a low of 62 tonight, . Mr. Miller said. Skies were expected to become increasingly cloudy tomorrow as the humidity rises. Temperature Range Temperatures are expected to range from 52 north and 59 south to 76 north and 81 in the southern portion of Indiana in the period ending Friday. Unusually warm temperatures throughout the state tomorrow are expected to be followed by slightly cooler weather Thursday and warmer again on the week-end. Rainfall is expected to average one-half to one inch in the state during the period, occurring as showers tomarrow night, Thurs-
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60th YEAR—NUMBER 52
> Plot to Scuttle hips at Shangha
Gen. Chenn
WASHINGTON, L. Chennault told Congress
in China.
Bering Straights to Indonesia if America fails’ to help the tottering Chinese Nationalist regime. The ‘retired general, who commanded the U, 8. Air Forces in China during World War II, made his pleas for China at separate hearings of the joint congressional committee on foreign aid and the Senate Armed Serv-
Testifies at Hearing
His testimony before the joint committee was given in closed session and Chairman Pat MecCarran (D. Nev.) gave excerpts from it to reporters.
But Gen. Chennault told the Armed Services group in open session that Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek’s - Nationalist government needs arms and economic Help “at orice” to halt the Communist armies. “A great deal of China and some 150 million: people still remain outside the iron curtain,” Gen. Chennault said. “This is substantially what was free China during the war against the Japanese.” Ei
Anxious to Fight
He said this area is an adequate base for the eventual liber-
lcould "Be" supplied: from “vast stockpiles of arms and material lying in the Philippines and Pacific bases.” hts | “These people are willing, indeed anxious, to fight if provided with the minimum aid,” Gen. Chennault said. He said that if all China fell into Communist hands, it might take 200 years to liberate it. He said adequate supervision of American aid would be needed. Gen. Chennault said the Communists could be “contained” before they overran all China. “Competent men in the defense department with Asiatic and air experience could work out adequate defense plans for the next couple of years at a cost per year not exceeding that of the Berlin airlift,” Gen. Chennault said. He estimated that at $350 million. He said such a program is “well
$350 Million China Aid Can Halt Red March,
Communism Will Engulf Huge Area in Asia If America Fails, General Tells Congress May 3
immediate American military and economic aid to the Chinese Nationalists could halt the ‘Communist march
_He said that communism would engulf ali of Asia from
ault Asserts
(UP) — Maj. Gen. Clare today that $350 million of
Probe ‘Nepotism’ In Railways Deal
Equipment Bought From Harry Reid Jr. By ROBERT BLOEM Public Service Commission today heard testimony on $34,000 worth of equipment bought by Indianapolis Railways, Inc, from a company headed by the son of Railways’ President Harry Reid. Under cross examination by
Public Counsellor William E. Steckler, W. Marshall Dale outlined the dealing between the two firms over the period of a year. Mr. Dale is executive vice president of Indianapolis Railways. The questioning came as Mr. Steckler continued to probe the efficiency with which the transit
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FORECAST: Fair, warmer tonight. Partly cloudy, warmer and humid t omorrow. Low tonight, 62; high tomorrow, 85.
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PRICE FIVE CENTS
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Casinos Close Dogs Outside City
As Gamblers Feel ‘Heat
Sheriff Cunningham |
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Out of Contact | With His Office - Big-time crap games, poker, and slot machines folded in| Marion County today along with bingo. Meanwhile, Sheriff James F. Cunningham could not be located for comment. =
His whereabouts became a sub-| ject of some concern downtown! after his office falled to locate! him by police radio and members, of his family said they hadn't] seen him. |
sheriff said he was going to| “clamp the lid on organized gam-| bling.” | Sheriff Cunningham issued the
Times pointed out a swanky dice shooting joint and bingo casino
county. | Talks With Dailey
Concerted action against all organized gambling elements was,
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agreed upon at a special meeting | of the sheriff and Prosecutor George Dailey yesterday. “We'll padlock every gambling establishment found guilty of vio-| lating the law,” the prosecutor] said. - { Special county investigators| were compiling lists of known : gambling haunts. 8 The plush dice joint uncovered | ks by The Times at 4444 W. Wash-| ington St. was closed last night. | The lights were out and no cars| were parked around the building. | No one was observed going in or out. 5 { Casino Also Dark :
company is run by its management. The utility is before the PSC seeking a rate increase to end the net losses, which it estimates will run to more than half a million dollars this year unless the fare hike is granted. Mr. Dale testified that purchases from Transportation Services & Supply Corp., headed by Harry Reid Jr. included more than $500,000 worth “of “wigwags” to signal bus operators when air pressure was low, He admitted the company could have gotten along without the gadgets but contended it was a safety experiment which was “well worth trying.” Most of the equipment purchased from the supply company was entirely satisfactory, Mr. Dale testified. The one exception, he said, was $6625 worth of
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Building Unions File Strike Intent
The AFL’s 22 building trades unions began today to file strike notices with the U. 8. Mediation Board in the Post Office building, Vern Miller, president of the
within the national purse, considering the stakes involved.” Gen. Chennault compared America’s present “inaction” to the days when Hitler marched into the Rhineland. “The best part of China has been lost already by our passivity,” he said. “If we do not act soon, all China will be lost.”
LOCAL TEMPERATURES
6a m.. 6 10a m.. 75 7a. m.. 61 11a m.. 77 8 a. m... 68 12 (Noon) 80 9a m.. 7 1p m.. 82
{Building Trades Council, said this {morning. | Contracts expired Saturday at !midnight. Some contractors are negotiating individually with their unions. Thomas A. Berling, chairman {of the Building Contractors Asso{ciation's wage negotiating committee, said the builders were making every effort to get to-
A huge bingo casino at the! {Moose Lodge Country Home also! was dark last night. A poker game operating in the; vicinity of the Hoosier Airport, ! was also shut down. | Fraternal, social and veterans organizations yanked their slot machines out of sight while the “heat” was on. Many “members only” clubs had abandoned their aftefnoon poker | sessions,
Horne Given 50-50 Chance
BULLET! NS ~ Loses Control of Car at 120 MPH;
: i n | CINCINNATL 0., May 3 | ___ Spends Night Under Oxygen Tent (UP)—Manager Leo Duro- Photos on Page 3 By BILL EGGERT cher of the New York Doctors gave race driver Byron Horne a 50-50 chance to live Giants was exonerated bY |(oday after the 34-year-old newcomer crashed into the southwest Commissioner A. B. Chan- [wall at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway yesterday afternoon. Horne, of Scenery Hill, Pa., had completed 37 of the 40 test laps dler today of charges that required for new drivers, when he lost control of the Grancorhe assaulted a baseball fan. | Werner Special going into the southwest turn. : i He had been clocked at 116] ————————————————————_—; SAN FRANCISCO, May 3 miles per hour for the previous| speeds of 95, 105, 110 and 115 (UP)—Joseph Peter (Pop) Di- |lap and probably was doing 120 miles per hour, 10 laps at each Maggio, father of the famous major league baseball player, | died today. He was 76.
mph when he lost control. { speed, to pass the test, After riding high into the turn, Other cars warmed up yesterthe race cay darted gown ont the day included Tou Moore's baby APs - safety apron swerve rough Biue Crown Special with George j= DETROIIY May 3 (UP)==THa |i and Pgravel into the grass. Connor at the wheel; the Ai executive board of local 600 of {Then it headed back across the Federal Engineering Specials | the United Automobile Workers |i... and struck ' the outside driven by Sam Hanks and Henry | Voted unanimously today 10 {,.isining wall almost headon. {Banks, Jimmy Jackson in the strike May 4 at the Ford Motor | The crash scene was only a Howard Keck Special and Doc | Company's sprawling River... distance from the spot! (Blue Shirt) Williams in the Tom | Rouge plant. where Shorty Cantlon crashed|garafoff Special. { livia Declan a - d and was killed during the 1947 Banks was clocked at 118 mph race, {unofficially on one lap and apoO via eciare The impact tore loose the two peared satisfied with, the Pot Out of Dan er front wheels, The car hit the/formance of the car, the same | u - {wall a second time and skidded one that Russ Snowberger has | HOLLYWOOD, May 3 (UP)— 150 feet. | | Film star Olivia De Havilland]
Horne, who suffered two broken has a Maserati chassis and an
|gether on the basis of the cost| Was reported out of danger today legs, chest injuries, face and head | Offénhauser engine.
lof living index which is considerably less than the average 25 cents an hour the craftsmen are asking.
Watch Police Grapple for ‘a Body’
; | ' were remote. t | bed ill for two months,
from an illness that almost led cuts and loss of blood, was found| The arrival of the two Novi to her losing her expected child. “in the cellar of the car” nearicars from the West Coast boosted Miss De Havilland's doctors |the fire wall that separates theito 19 the number of cars ‘housed said the actress may have to stay driver's compartment from the |in Gasoline Alley. {in bed until August, when her|engine. baby is due. They said her! Horne spent last night in an; chances of losing the child now oxygen tent at the Methodist Hos-
i -Penalties Rise She has been in|pital and was given four blood! | transfusjons. In Rent Cases
The "Academy Award-winning, He was the first of 22 rookle, =~ ~~~ star is the wife of writer Marcus drivers scheduled for tests for «Fajr rent hike formula issued Goodrich, and the child they are this year's race, The American ... Page 10
ho ates x Photos by Bill Oates. Times Staff Photographer. Bonnie, Rita and Joe . .. They played with toys at the Guardians Home today while police investigated their problem. :
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day and Thursday night and in
the northeast portion of the state
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Times Index
Amusements . 9 Mrs. Manners 5 vesese B'Marriage .... 3 evese13 esses 8 Comics +.....21 Radio .......11 Crossword ...12 Side Glances.14 Creek watching police drag the Counter Spy . 8 Society ...... 8 Rditorials.....14 Sports ...15. 17 Forum ......14 Weather Map 10 Hollywood +.. 9 Earl Wilson . 4 ©
Bridge Business ....10 Movies Childs .......14 Othman Classified .18-20 Pattern
Photo by Henry E. Glesing Jr, Times Staff Photographer Mr. and Mrs. Robert McDaniel (left) sit on the bank of Fall |a member of the Quill and Scroll, puptls seeking the same cham- takes orders for husiery and ob-
Dr. Jordan ... 6 Women's .... 8 Dagjel Buchanan, 2701 N. Chester St. (Story, Pige 3).
stream in the 3200 block where | the couple yesterday fished out blond hair believed to be a | woman's. Others on tha bank, atthe right are Mre, William Bu... hanan and Mrs. Louis Buchanan, 1249 Roosevelt Ave., and Mrs. goes to college.
Bill Frazer Takes State Honor in Math
Bill Frazer, who has been "going places” since he won the Times Spelling Bee Championship in 1946, has added a first place in the Indiana University Achievement tests to his record. His state-wide top honor came in the mathematics division. Bill was first in the Indianapolis preliminaries and third in the reglonals.
Bill—who doesn’t like to be
g (called William J.—came into na-
tional prominence after he won The Times Spelling Bee when ‘in 1947 he became a page boy In the U. 8. Senate in Washington. A junior at Broad Ripple High School, Bill is photo editor of the school’s yearbook, The Riparian.
% |He has consistently been an hon-
lor student in there. | The 1946 spelling champion is
plastic grades
a member of the National Honor
Society, an organization for high school honor students. He also is
nationalistic honor society. ‘Wants Engineer Course Bill says he wants to study
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Times Spelling Bee Winner Of 1946 Keeps Going Place
Bill Frazer . , . he's "going ‘places.”
Frazer, Bill resides at 1245 Kess-
elr Blvd., East dr. Forty-six grammer
schoo! [Cincinnati
| The cost of doing business as a {rent law violator is going up, Pat-| irick J. Barton, area rent director, said today.
Under the new rental laws, he Mollie, works as a waitress for| {said, the Office of the Housing $22.50 a week to support the
{Expediter mow has the right to {sue landlords for three times the
{month of the violation, and the {government agency may come |into the case if the tenant does) {not take action, Mr. Barton explained. ! In cases where the government {brings suit, the tenant will re-| {cover only the amount of over-| {charge and the balance will go {into the U. B. Treasury. 2: iH
‘Housewives Warned Of Hosiery Fraud
Better Business Bureau today warned housewives against a |door-to-door nosiery salesman re-| ‘ported operating in Indianapolis. | The same operator has been
reported in Detroit, 8t. Louis, and Chicago. He
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| plonship title which brought Bill tains a $1 deposit on a $2.95 or-| | Frazer into prominence will com- der placed against a New York wealthy daughter of the late har-
pete In their first
semi-finals firm. | rehemicat engineering wien he rounds of The Times Spelling Bee Offictais of the bureaii here skid yesterday she 18 ducing wu Woodfill- 102. who disd ina sure ~~ ou [tonight at the World War Memo- said none of the nosiery was de- new morning tabloid newspaper!ing home. rial Auditorium at 7:30 p. m.
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Put in Quarantine
County Orders Pets Kept in For 120 Days
Violators Risk Having Sheriff Seize Animals A quarantine on all dogs in Marion County outside Ine dianapolis city limits will bee
* [come effective tomorrow for
120 days by an order of the county health commissioner. Dr.+A. M, Hetherington, come missioner, said all dogs would be. kep' up during the period of the quarantine or be subject to seizure by the sheriff. He said the guarantine would be renewed at the end of the period for another 120 days. Dr. Hetheririgton said the order covered only that portion of the county outside the city, He said it had become necessary to issue the quarantine order after the recent increase in the number of rabid .dogs reported. . Sheriff's Job It will be the responsibility of the sheriff's office, Dr. Hether~ ington sald, to pick up all dogs found running at large af‘gr to day. 4% 2 > wo Sem Dog owners who permit thelr animals to run at large stand the chance of having thelr pets picked up: : Indianapolis has what in effect is a permanent quarantine in its recently passed dog leash ordine ance. Within the city dogs are not permitted off their owners property unless they are on & jeash.. Ro
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2 Mothers Face Vagrancy Charges
Neither ' Knows Where Husband Is
“Go to Apartment 6 at 341 Park Ave. and you'll find some kids alone while their mothers are in taverns.” That's all the voice on the telephone said to police last night. Officers dispatched to the address found on what they described as a “filthy” alone in the “cluttered” apart‘ment. | Neighbors Identified the children as Joe Fauris, 3, and his sister Bonnie, 2, children of Mrs. Mollie Fauris and Rita Keith, 6-{month-old daughter of Mrs. Demia Keith, sister of Mrs. Fau8
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No Food for Babies Police said the apartment and bedding were dirty and that there iwas no food for the babies. Po- | licewomen took the children to the Marion County Guardians Home and put out an alert for the two mothers. | Officers later pick up Mrs. Fauris, 20, at a tavern in the 200 block Park Ave, and arrested Mrs. Keith, 22, In the BOO block E. Washington 8t. The women were charged with vagrarcy. ‘Out of Spite’ After their arrest the two sis{ters denied that they had left their children unattended. They sald they left a 14-year-old cousin attending the tots and that an{other relative ordered the cousin {back to her own home and then
{called police. The mothers told
{police the relative “did it out of spite.” Neither - mother knows whereabouts of her husband, police said. The younger sister,
family, The children were kept in the
{amount of rent overcharges in-|Gvardian Home while police in-!
istead of the exact amount of the Vestigated the two mothers’ | (violation called for under the Stories, 1048 law. 7 = ten eset — Tenants still have the right to 1 {sue for treble damages within a Die as Fire
Destroys Home
HINTON, W. Va., May 3 (UP) — Seven persons, including three small children, died in a fire which destroyed a small frame home here early today. The victims were: Mrs. Anna June Deeds, 24; her two children, Drema Kay and
| Hazel Joyce; Mr. and Mrs. James broke. | Ellison and
their 3-month-old daughter, and Homer Tincher, 30. Hinton Fire Captain John Dively sald the victims were sleeping in"the same room of the 1%-story frame home in the residential section of the city.
New York City to Get Morning Tabloid Paper
CHICAGO, May 3 (UP)-—Mrs. Anita McCormick Blaine,
vester king Cyrus H. McCormick,
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All's Forgiven As Jimmie Stotfs Locates Brownie
JIMMIE BTOTTS, 13-year-old Times cartier, has found Brownie, the dog that nipped him as he de-*-livered his papers Sunday, and . he's willing to forgive everything if Brownie will only remain well. An’ appeal for help in locating the dog was published in The Times yesterday. Mr. and Mrs. Edward Krieger, 30 W, 35th St, Brownie's temporary owners, telephoned Jimmie's mother, Mrs, Harry E. Stotts, 3611 N, Capitol, after reading the story. Brownie will be kept under close observation, and If he ree mains well Jimmy will escape the painful anti-rabies shots, | Fa | JIMMY'S mother received more {than 50 calls from people in all {parts of the city reporting on {dogs named Brownte, Jimmie fidentified the dog at the Krieger {home as the one which nipped ‘him. i “Fella, IT know you didn't aim (to bite hard, did ya'?” sald Jime {mie as he patted the woolly head. {Brownie wagged an agreement tand an apology. -
Landlord Faces
Overcharge Suit
U. 8. rent control officials today filed suit in Federal District Court against Robert L. Martin, Boyn« ton Beach, Fla., landlord of prop= erty at 1101 W, New York St. {in Indianapolis. The petition asks an injunction to stop Mr. Martin from collects ing rental overcharges and seeks recovery of $1395, three times the amount the landlord is alleged to have overcharged. Rent control attorneys said that Mr. Martin charged tenants {a total of $430 from December to January, compared to a maxi mum legal rental of $75. The next month rentals were $130, {compared to the $75 legal figure, the suit charged.
Pastor, 74, Hangs On, Hits Ceiling As Bell Backfires
| BATH, England, May 3 (UP) {The Rev. J. E, Willlams, 74, was {under hospital treatment. for {bruises today after the old Pres {ton Church bell backfired. | He was pulling vigorously on {the bell cord for Sunday night services when the bell brake The' bell whirled around {and around, winding up the bell |cord.
- - ~ » | THE PASTOR kept a firm grip [on the rope until he crashed |agatnat the belfry ceiling 20 feet above. Then he fell to the foor again. Hospital attendants said he also {was suffering from shock.
‘Oldest Resident Dies | GREENSBURG, May 3 (UP)--{Bervices will be held tomorrow {for Mrs. Margaret Ann Cones
She was the oldest
| resident of Decatur Sma. aps i .