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wes 60th YEAR—NUMBER 75
THURSDAY, MAY 26, 1049
Lo Second-Class Matter at Postofice Indianapolis, Ind. Issued Daily
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PRICE FIVE CENTS
Mrs. Marjorie Weyland
Photo by
Bob Wallace, Times Staff Photographer,
Trooper Walter Weyland
Is State Trooper Walter Weyland doing a little more tie-straightening and hair-brushing th#n usual before reporting for work? That's what his wife, Mrs. Marjorie Weyland, 4822 Farrington Ave., wonders as she looks on after she learned her husband has been given four days of special duty—acting as security escort for screen actress Linda Darnell while the star is in Indianapolis for the 500-Mile Race. Trooper Weyland, who groaned when superiors called to cancel his day off on Saturday, perked up when he learned his “work” would be escorting Miss
“Forever Amber’ Darnell.
Face Retirement
Board Studies Plan To Fill Vacanties
will not be re-assigned to public schools in the fall. Instructors who will reach their 70th birthday before the close of the 1949-50 school year will be retired by the School Board. Commissioners ‘said the action is in line with the board policy of retiring teachers at the age of 66. In recent years, commissioners stated, the policy had not been enforced because of the teacher shortage. The Indiana Legislature had also postponed mandatory retirements to ease the shortage. Plap Outlined However, action by the last leg{slature requires that the policy be made effective and retirement of teachers be completed by the end of the 1949-50 school year, school officials said. By retiring instructors approaching their 70th birthday at the end of the current year, commissioners plan to meet the requirements without taking too
many teachers from the build-|, , , ings at the same time, they said.
Some of the teachers who will be immediately affected by the action had already started plans for retirement before the board moved, but others were resisting! the move. Commissioners stated that the retirement age is cited in| the retirement plans made available to teachers. Seek Fair Play Virgil Stinebaugh, superintendent of public schools, said board! members felt the 'retirement| move was made also in fairness; to younger teachers who would) not be able to stay on the job, for the same number of years) accumulated by some teachers)
now on duty. The longer service| midnight, central standard time, retaliation for the strike of 16,-| was made possible by the teacher) gaturday until 7 a. m., CST, Tues- 000 west sector German railway open in the central office from iday morning,” said Glen Mark- workers who walked off theiri8 a. m.
shortage. Superintendent Stinebaugh said he would not reveal the names of teachers affected by tae policy. “Some of them would rather Jose their right arm than have their ages revealed publicly,” he stated.
Thief Steals Auto Also Vicious Bulldog
“I didn't take my keys, because there was a vicious bulldog in the car and I didn’t think anybody would bother it” Florence Abraham, 2035 8. Pennsylvania 8t., explained to police in reporting the theft of her car last night. She was gone only about a half
ing the car in the 2300 block of 8. Meridian St. returned the vehicle and bulldog both were missing.
Hair-Raising Quiz
jon f h Session for John BLUEFIELD, W. Va, May 26 (UP) — John L. Lewis to answer questions after he had addressed § group of career women at a luncheon meeting here. There was only one question. “What kind of hair tonic do you use?” one woman asked.
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‘weight.
week's menus this coming Sun-
Too Fat? Too
Sunday Times'
Thin? Watch Diet Menus
Two Girls Will Eat Recommended Foods; Check Yourself Against Their Progress
Whether you are “too fat” ,. . or “too thin” ., . you will find
: WATSON the answer to yous diet problem in The Sunday Times, : sont aYID. I now N duty This new diet series is entirely different from ‘anything offered
in Indianapolis before.
Not only will The Times provide a full week's day-by-day diet menu next Sunday—and every Sunday—but two girls will actually
follow the diets to show their effectiveness. | One of the‘girls wants to lose She will eat the foods recommended on the reducing diet. The other girl wants to gain weight. She will eat the foods recommended on the build-up diet. Check Their Progress Then you will read periodic reports of their weight changes to check yourself against their progress. Starting Monday, the “test” girls will begin their diets . . the menus which will appear in the Sunday Times. So be sure to get the first
day in The Times. Then keep your eyes on your home scales and on the weights of the “test” girls which will be reportéd only in The Times. You will find the new Times diets not only healthful . .. they'll be fun, too.
Ban Liquor Sale
‘500’ Drivers Get Chanc
Ford Striker Fogay About Reuther Case
Can't Remember Who Told Him About Shooting +
DETROIT, May 26 (UP)—Police grilled a striking Ford Motor Co. ‘worker today who babbled drunkenly about the ‘“Reuther shooting” hours before the attempted assassination of Vietor Reuther, brother of the auto union president.
rested at a tavern after a tipster told police he heard him talking wildly about “Reuther being shot” before twin shotgun blasts ripped into the face and shoulder of the UAW official.
Held overnight, police said Barabash still was “in a drunken fog,” which hindered their. questioning.
When asked why he talked about a shooting, the long-time Ford employee replied: “I heard it somewhere from someone, but I don’t know who.”
Owned No Car
Although questioned at length, Barabash’'s shoe heel did not match the print found outside Reuther’s home. He also does not own a car. A getaway car raced away from the shooting.
While police squads tried to lift the drunken fog from Mr. Barabash’s past 48 hours, other investigators said they would look into charges of “international implications” in the shooting. . Other teams of the 40 detectives assigned solely to the case worked on possibilities that a “crackpot” or a person having a personal against the Reuther family fired the near-
fatal shots.
Mr. Reuther, educational director of the union and brother of UAW President Walter Reauther, was reported “resting comfort-
4 Stranded Trains
Move Into Berlin
" Appeal to Soviet Brings Action
World Report, Page § BERLIN, May 26 (UP)—The Russians yielded to urgent Allied representations today and hauled
.i four American and British pass-
enger and mail trains into Berlin - after they had been stalled in the Soviet zone for 43 hours. The Russians at first had refused to give any aid to the 140 American and British passengers, or to remove them by bus. Thirty-five passengers on one train had run out of drinking water and were low on food. The Soviet authorities relented and ordered Soviet locomotives to hapl the trains into Berlin after the Allies appealed urgently to Russian military headquarters
On Memorial Day {at Karishorst.
Indiana drinkers face a holiday
Abandon Switches
dry spell of 55 hours this week-| end when no alcoholic beverages Just outside Berlin when East go on a holiday schedule May 30 off in observance of Memorial Day. {switch terminals in the American Neither rural nor city carrier de{liveries will be made. Only four {| The East German workers ap- departments will carry out regu-
can be bought at retail, the Alcoholic Beverage Commission said today.
The four trains from Western Germany had become stranded
{German
workers walked
{sector controlling the line.
ably” at Henry Ford Hospital. Remove Right Eye
‘Doctors removed his right eye in a three-hour operation yesterday as a result of the blast which felled him in the living room of his home as he was reading a newspaper near midnight Tuesday. : Labor and civic leaders put the blame squarely in the. laps of Communists, but the Michigan Communist Party denounced the shooting as a “despicable and depraved act” by “cowardly enemies of organized labor.” The shooting was similar to the one in which Walter Reuther was almost killed a little more than a year ago. Although the Federal Bureau of Investigation was under pressure fo enter the case, FBI officers said their hands were tied. It would first be necessary to show that a federal law had been violated, they said.
No Mail Delivery On Memorial Day | No, carrier mail will be deliv-
ered Monday. Postmaster George J. Ress said
“Everything will be closed from parently had been pulled out in lar routines.
land, director of the ABC. Mr. Markland explained that a 1943 law prohibited retail sales on Sundays and Memorial Day.
Charles Barabash, 47, was ar- ot
Parcel post windows will be to 8 p. m. Registered out all
On U. S. 52;
Mother Gets Tragic
News on Anniversary A 62 - year - old Indianapolis mother “was awakened on her
by policemen bringing news that her 18-year-old sop. had been killed mobile crash.
Smith, of 729 N.
3 traffic today. The second Mr. Goodlet was 66-year-old William K. Goodlet, 804 Arbor Ave. fatally injured as he darted in front of a trolley into the side of a concrete truck at E. 10th Bt. and West Drive, Woodruff Place, this morning. He was en route to work at Norways Sanatorium.
He died in a General Hospital ambulance after he was struck down by the Ready Mix concrete truck driven by William Eddleman, 1625 E. Vermont St. The driver told police he was passing the trolley when. the pedestrian darted in front of it into the side of the truck. ; 3
12 Injured Here
In the state one other person was killed in a traffic accident and eight were injured, including three persons involved in the crash in which the Smith youth was killed. Indianapolis police, meanwhile, reported 22 accidents in 24 hours with the one pedestrian fatality |
41st wedding anniversary today |
in auto-
The victim, : Philip Ear}
King Ave, was, _
sons dead in §
Philip Earl Smith and 12 persons injured, one critically. The news of the death of her 18-year-old son came to Moa Maggie May Smith early this morning, the 41st anniversary of her marriage to his father, Ora Smith, who died last Oct. 5. The mother collapsed when police informed her of the tragedy. The. victim was killed instantly when his car, driven by Barbara Jo Ann Cash, 18, Morris town, struck a bridge abutment a half mile' west of Rushville on U. 8. 52 last night. 3 Others Hurt State police said they believed the driver went to sleep. The car struck a small bridge abutment, swerved to the other side of the
Laundry Strike Breaks Out Again
4 Women Held After Disturbance
The laundry workers peace front blew up this morning with ClO picket lines forming anew t: the entrances of leading! laundries, Troublg came early. Pickets who had been in yesterday’s lines said they were told to report to work this morning, When they showed up on the job, they said laundry managers refused to hire them all back,
Barbara Jo Ann Cash
road and overturned several times. The driver and two passengers, Betty Ann Cole, 17, Morristown; and James Bishoff, 17, of 43 N, Addison Bt, ‘were injured. They were taken to Rushville Hospital. Two were released after first ald.
was in fair condition today. The two couples went to the Smith home after work last night, The youth cleaned wallpaper for
drive the two giris to their honie in Morristown. + Families said today they believed they drove on to Rushville to attend a show and were return-
(An Editorial)
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At the Progress Laundry, four women pickets were arrested for|
three of them started to tear the! clothes off a woman plant worker| who left the plant and walked through the picket line. A fourth| was arrested earlier for interfer-| ing with ingress to the plant. i Knocked Down At police headquarters three women gave their names as Evlyn Parish, 27, of 2853 N. Arsenal.; Mattie Corley; 24, of 510 N. Fulton Bt, and Marzell May,
30, of 1116 N. Capitol Ave. (The secret. Workers were not allowed to see the contract, nor to have any voice in its terms, It did not add a penny to their pay envelopes, nor proforted that Agnes Ramset, 43, of vide any clear method of wage adjustment within the next
fourth was identified as Beulah! Anderson, 25, of 311 Spring 8t. Capt. Michael Kavanaugh re-
Massachusetts Ave, was knocked to the pavement, her| dress torn. She was cut on the
{face and right leg. { Joseph Romer, state director of |
today the postal department win|the Indiana Joint Board, Retail, |
Wholesale, Department Store| Union (CIO), braced his union for a finish’ fight with the three!
signed on late in March by the Indianapolis Cleaners and Laun-| derers Club. ‘Calling All Out’ | Mr. Romer said he was “calling | laundry and cleaning
{jobs last Friday midnight in 8, pieces will be accepted there in workers until we get the ballot!
demand for pay marks, which {times the Eastern marks.
in Western are worth four, The special delivery section will
addition to parcels.
remain on regular hours.
box.” proceedings before i apolis Bub-Regional Labor Board |
He already has started!
The ‘Sardine Cannes’—
, France,
May 26 — The
Aly's Hopes for Quiet Wedding Vanish' As Red Mayor Decides to Pack Party
His Honor Rules Out Snobbishness,
So He'll Invite 100 Town ‘Peasants’ By ROBERT MUSEL, United Press Staff Correspondent
painted town hall and at Aly's Chateau de L’'Horizon,
Heaps of Champagne
| Aly wanted to have the wedding Communist mayor of at his chateau so as to confine! Vallauris insisted today that he will squeeze 100 members of the the festivities to his 85 invited proletariat into his office tomorrow to rub elbows with princes guests. hour, the owner said, after park-| and millionaires at the wedding of Aly Khan and Rita Hayworth.
Assured that the marriage will
city-wide laundry and cleaning industry. i
signed with the laundry owners |
hood of “Teamsters, Workers’ International and International Association of {Cleaning and Dye House Workers, knocked to the pavement, her It was learned that AFL lead-
iments, Said one: “This all could thave Been settled long ago if ft been kept out of the news-
i After all, Mayor Paul Derigon told newsmen at a press con- have to take place in the town er
(an occasion, Furthermore,
mony. No Snobbishness
his own invited. that he had just
town hall and let at least 40 newsmen in to witness the cere
Thus, with one fell swoop, the little 100-pound mayor of the Riviera village of Vallauris demolished all Aly’'s hopes for a quiet wedding attended only by
Mayor Derigon said in effect
But when she ference, it is a matter of tradition to let the “peasants” in on such|hall, the inhabitants of Vallauris |
he said, he is go-. Only a few hours earlier, Aly| ing to throw open the doors of the bad made another futile attempt 13-piece dessert service of Picas-| ~—— to get French government per- ss.designed pottery and wedding cere-| specially distilled perfume. mony to be performed In his sumptuous chateau overlooking tendants for the wedding.
mission for the
the Mediterranean.
millionaire Indian
be Vv
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~ 8o tomorrow, probably 5 a. m. (Indianapolis Time), the multi! prince and the! oy thon » y Yor to [Aly bas in n and star- 40 h dom as a song and dance girl will nge married
Today was a day of frantic both in the freshly
|are pr
| Service quarters at the chateau Bridge ......10| Needlewor were in a turmoil. In preparation Business +«++30| Othman .....19 for the reception which will be] held there after the ceremony, Comics... Aly has laid in 600 bottles of Crossword ..24|Ruark ...
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eparing a circus-like holi- | day. They will give the couple a |
| (Continued on Page 3)—Col. 8) Mrs,
papers, | The CIO reported workers al(Continued on Page 3) Col. 6)
Rita a Times Index
Rita will have no formal at- Amusements 12| Marriage ....24
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++5:+ 9 Far from bringing this “contract and the SPrenied to The Tiieh. Tagutys rerrr 2018 “28,20 peace, con Policy | five people responded, Hollywood ..12 Teen-Prob. ..10 of these unions and these employers are a grave threat to ey accepted as es au ja
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are the International Brother-| Laundry est in their protests against what they call the “slave labor” Union
sented by these unions, or by contract. . No srious claim ever was
number of these workers were, or wanted to be, members of
the three contracting unions. They were not consulted
seven years,
At the Laundry?
OX Page 21 of this edition & paid advertisement of the * Indianapolis Cleaners and Launderers Club, the Teamsters Union, the Laundry Workers Union and the Cleaning and Dye House Workers Union, defends the “plan for in. dustrial peace” on which they have jointly embarked. It is their right to state their views. It is also the right of organized labor and the public ianapolis to know the facts about this “plan for industrial peace” imported here from St. Louis, and the causes of the strikes this week in the laundry industry. These employers and these unions some weeks ago disorderly conduct. Police sald gioned what they called a “union contract” binding the 3000 workers in the industry for the next seven years. No one even pretended that these workers were repre-
| (Continued on Page 8)—Col. 4)
anyone, in the making of this
advanced that any substantial
about it. Negotiations were
Miss Cole, who remained in theifo hospital,
his mother, then the four left to].
To Qualify Tomorrow
Youth Killed as Car Hits Bridge ‘Man Dies Under Truck
Six Starting Lineup ‘Places Unfilled = For May 30 Race | By LOUIS ARMSTRONG An extra day of Speedwa qualifications from noon to 6 p. m. tomorrow was granted drivers at the track today by Tommy Milton, AAA chief steward and two-time winner of the 500-Mile Race. The extra day will be in ade dition to’ the regular qualifiocas tion day to be held Saturday from 11 a.m top m
Meanwhile ane race car at te track was seriously damaged fire last night which started from
an electric spark ting a quantity of fuel in racer's carburetors. $
Kept From Spreading)
: Cy Walter (Red) Strasingor, 1355 B, Sheftield Ave, working on car about 3 a. m,,
bt 2d 20 So and felt certain of gaining a * The extra day of qualifications ‘Was granted as a concession to {drivers . and with an eye to the
weather. It practically insures a full field for the 33d running of the Memorial Day classic. - Bix positions remain vacant to day in the starting lineup after five days of. qualifications. If
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Clouds to Mask County's Skies
LOCAL TEMPERATURES
Sam... 47 10a m.. 5 Tam... 8 Ila m.. 84 Ba m.,. 48 12 (Noom) M7 am. 50 1pm. 57
Partly cloudy skies and cool temperatures prevailed in Marion County today. Weathermen expected mercury readings to climb to 64 for the high temperature today. A drop
was predicted. In the southern portions of Ine
It ordered the 3000 workers to join one of the three!diana, local showers were fore.
right arm and had bruises on her ynions within 30 days-—and sign a dues checkoff slip—or be
fired.
OUT of this “contract”
tracting unions are to collect some $2000 a week in “dues’— AFL unions which had been paid by the employers—for the next seven years.
cast. Cloudy skies over the state are expected to clear by tonight
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the bosses of the three con-
Out of it the employers say they hope to get seven years of industrial peace-—presumably enforced by the three unions, one of them also a laundry industry employer. Out of it the 3000 workers are to get nothing at all. When they tried to enforce this “contract” of course! Jack Griffin, 25, of the York
the ‘Indian- the workers went on strike.
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What else would you expect ?
for a supervised election in the) a
LARGEST of the three unions involved is the Interna-
provisions of the Taft-Hartley law. The Taft-Hartley law, three women
like the Wagner law which it replaced, clearly guarantees to all workers the right of free choice of the union they will
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form of ‘slave labor.”
That right has been clearly denied these workers.
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Instead of protesting, these same local leaders this week
(used their own union members to help break a strike to get
that right.
| The teamsters, in this and in other cases here in Indian\apolis, appear to have adopted a policy of ruthless disregard | to Mrs. William M. Kontney, 1 of the rights of workers, and of plannéd raiding of other
and legal contracts in force.
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k ,10 unoins, including unions which already have satisfactory philosophy
. PE INDUSTRIAL peace is not built on any such founda-
| lobsters, editorials yr Bide Glances 20, tion, {more than 100 pounds of other 00d ....4...10! Boclety by a Communist gelicate meats and 50 pounds of Forum mayor in the town hall of nearby .qyiar, allauris. Six members of the Khan dy- Inside Indpls. 19 Weather Map 8
the .industrial-labor relations in Indianapolis which have
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Manners 24, Women's ....10 been for years the best in America.
and conditions will be fair and {cooler, State temperatures ranged from 62 to 68 in Indiana today,
jand will range from 40 to 46 de«
{grees tonight. | Tomorrow will
be fair, the
{bureau said. { :
Seven Arrésted By Vice Squad.
| Hotel, was to appear in Municipal {Court 3 today on a charge of {keeping a room for pool selling, Set. Cecil London, leading a poe {lice vice squad yesterday, sald he found 32 books of baseball tickets
The three AFL unions which tional Teamsters, Chauffeurs and Helpers of America, AFL. being displayed by Griffin at the Its national and local leaders have been among the loud- | Roosevelt Pool Room, 1536 Roo-
sevelt Ave. : In two other raids, otficers held on prostitution charges and three men were are rested and charged with associe lating with prostitutes.
join, and the agent who will represent them in bargaining Three of the arrests were made
(at a “massage” parpor, 2351 N,
jers had agreed to issue no state- With employers. It is the one great bulwark against any |yi.rigian St. and the others at
[the Roosevelt Hotel, 220 W, Ohio Bt.
People Wonderful, Blood Plea Shows.
The 15 pints of blood donated
|W. 34th St, did more than {her life. They backed up her that “the world is full of wonderful people.” Mrs. Kontney, a victim of aplastic anemia, needs a weekly blood transfusion--to Hve, Her
| Every donor was thanked pers jdoitaly; though Mrs. Kontpey i
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Milton Grants Extra Day; Fire Damages 1 Gar
The flames were extinguished before they to othar stalls in the row, = = Brubaker sald a
to a low of 42 degrees tonight
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