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“Mr. Shaw changes his mind and

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THURSDAY, APRIL 13, 1950

FORECAST: Partly cloudy, cold tonight, tomorrow. Low tonight, 22. High tomorrow, 40.

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Nalon, Miller To Drive; Prize Issue Hanging

Owner Stands Pat - On Demands; Duke's Car Fully Rebuilt

By ART WRIGHT The powerful Novi Specials, which have been a question mark in the entry list for this year's 500-Mile Speedway classic, will be, brought to Indianapolis for the race.

the late Rex Mays, Miller was,

Entries for the cars will

"mailed from California to the

Speedway office Saturday, the) deadline date for entries. | Welch Reveals Plans | These plans for the Novi team|

were revealed today. by Lou] Welch; owner of the cars, in an! . exclusive interview with The) Times.

One “hitch” in any promise of

whether the Novis will compete;

in the 500-Mile Race rested on Mr.! Welch's demand for an increase:

‘of the prize purse.

Mr. Welch, who talked with The Times while on business in the East, said that before he left] California he reiterated his prize, demands in a letter | Shaw, Speedway dent. “I told Shaw we were entering the cars with the understanding they might run only if the prize purse is increased.” Last winter the Novi owner declared in an exclusive Times’ interview that he wouldn't run the Novis in the 1950 classic unless the Speedway increased its own contribution to the prize purse to $150,000. - The amount is a boost of $35,000 over the Speedway’s end of the purse exclusive of lap prizes, accessory monies and other

Other Prizes Donated Last year the Speedway put up $115,000 of the purse. The total of $179,150 awarded the 33-car field included lap prizes donated by business firms and citizens, awards made by various accessory companies to drivers using their. products and merchandise gifts to winners. Mr. Welch i6ld The Times today He might be satisfied to run the Novis in the 500 if the Speedway “at least adds $25,000 for the boys who finish from third to 10th places.” ) “I don't care about us,” Mr. ‘Welch said, indicating that he was confident of victory this year, “but I do think the boys who finish from third to 10th should get enough money to get back home.” Mr. Welch said he instructed his secretary in California to “mail in the entry blanks to the Speed-

way next Saturday so. we're sure|

(Truman Takes “Bow as Ul. 3. Rings the Bell

Credits Himself For ‘Fine Shape’ The Country Is In

By MERRIMAN SMITH United Press White House Reporter ~ WASHINGTON, Apr. 13— Harry S. Truman in a review of his first five years as Preslident said today that the country is in fine shape and that he deserves the credit. The President told reporters that employment, business and agricultural conditions are better {than they have been in ‘a long | time. | And looking to the future. he said he is hopeful for continued limprovement in international relations. —| As of now, Mr. Truman said, he can see nothing seriously the matter with this country. . Yesterday marked the start of {Mr. Truman's sixth. year as Chief | Executive.

Duke Nalon ’ Chet Miller pl

Realtors Urged to Promote

Fear Missing

; Plane

Fired On by Reds

U. S. Withdraws Price Supports From Poultry

WASHIN = Apr. 13 (UP) —The gevComent today unexpectedly” withdrew price supports from all poultry. Agriculture officials said this could mean cheaper prices for turkey during the holiday season next fall. The Agriculture Department announced that for the first time in nine years there will be no support for 1950 crops.of turkeys and chickens, This is the first year|

Control Fight

Good Government Bloc Sets Up. Quarters;

Indorses Slate

By IRVING LEIBOWITZ Mayor Feeney's new City]

Sank Without Trace

That ‘Insole

Feeney Group Kremlin Paper States Opens County

nt Flier

Got a Proper Lesson’

|. Reds Fail to Offer to Help Search;

New Report of Debris

Fails as Clue

By United Press

Searchers feared today

that a missing U. S. Navy

Privateer plane carrying 10 men crashed and sank in the Baltic Sea without a trace Saturday after being fired on by

Soviet fighters.

Jn Cguto racing” competition, will] pilot the Novi driven last year by,

Unified City Government

Time to Co-ordinate Agencies fo Perform

Over-all Services, Real

EF EARRY. STIL RERMW AN, "Times ‘Real ‘Estate Editor Indianapolis realtors today were urged to promote a metropolitan government to eliminate duplicating public services and trim prohibitive downtown. real estate taxes. — - “It’s time to co-ordinate independent functions of government be; agencies to- perform over-all services,” the Indianapolis Real Es-

Estate Board Told

tate Board was told.

centralization to suburban shopping and community centers.

The warning for a federalized city administration similar to Montreal, Canada, was issued by

| |

~Whole State Shares

Today, at his 222d hews con-! the President said his

‘first five years had been rather] io. r m 1 rari, j |difficult.. but. that the country: tein DECISION. was, made nitro Qf the Marion—Count

{ ference,

still on its feet.

More at Work

The President spoke slowly an

There is “some unemployment, the President said, but more people are at work in this country|gi,o"pelow the 31 cents a po than in any other country at any g,pnort level.

Downtown property values will Oo suffer.” . ecor ow june in history.

‘ness

-said that if reports

conditions are also th

“|farmers “are planning to boost Democratic Party. [production of poultry meat this] Under the leadership of City , : . Wi . La > diyear.. .. > © Clerk. Richard. Stewart, the-City. deputy commander of search operations, said at Wiesbaden, |deriberately as he thought back” Tne department never had to|Hall's Democratic Good Govern- Germany, that the searchers decided the area was a dumpover the tumultuous years since y,u chickens to hold prices at ment Committee established head-! z neh)

[the death of the late President support levels in the.past. How- quarters in the Washigton Hotel. {Franklin D. Roosevelt on Apr. 12,

“Otherwise a- city the size of “ih: 11945. Indianapolis will face a costly de-| emper ure | S {

from {Wal Street may be believed, busi-

since 1941 that supports are not required by law. : "_.n ~

Hall political party took its

A German ship's report today that it sighted airplane first, steps today to gain con- i

wreckage 90 miles northeast of Bornholm Island proved to ¥ be just another false alarm, search officials reported. Air Force Capt. Michael F. Ognisty of New York,

face of reports indicating that

ing ground for surface ves-| should have sighted them by

lever, because of record - high At the same time, the new sels and contained no debris, B | peacetime marketings, only gov- group sought support from po- identifiable as remains of an| The Russians have made no {ernment buying kept prices of litical workers all over the city aircraft. offer to help look for the missing [last year’s turkey crop from sag-|and indorsed a slate of candi-! plane 3 ind! dates. : | The search planes assigned to .

| “We've had wonderful co-opera= [tion from the Danes, who have

Hall Democrats said the cover the area have been recalled

EB —— a —— olitical party was in a to Copenhagen, “Capt. Ognisty| to undeat the said. But the general search Practically handed over Kastrup went on. > | Airfield to us,” one officer said.

Wh ir force is hel Russia today satd> that the} The guetish EL

iby Xe bo: No Assault Ruling ~ Wh , { ~FeeneWglbamains Silent 4

Wilbur recognize the metropolitan. dis- .. 0s 1ow for Apr. 13 today.

e best [In history. And, he added, the position of the farmer is excel-

% 2 . 4 lent, surpassed only by the all- Post oned A an { {time peak year of 1948. n

In ‘Hard Freeze’ LOCAL TEMPERATURES 3

Kenneth P.-Vinsel;-executive-vice: president of the Louisville Chamber of Commerce. . :

‘The IREB luncheon speaker 6a m.. 2 10am. 2 . 2 Mees BT s told realtors in the Washington : 3. Mas 3 i pen 21 Mr. Truman's anniversary dis- < Hotel that besides the overlap- 9 * ms 24 1 > hee 37 sertation was touched off by a Drive-In Fracas

ping wastes in present govern-| mental services, realtors must

question: “Are the first five years, the hardest?” : | He said this country came out - who , |of World War II easier than from et Cs ve. b R It slid to 20 degrees at 5 a. m.|any other war in U. S. history, ED. ave as Indiana remained in the grip of Easy to Criticize In speaking on “Urban Trends.” winter. He said it is easy for some to in fracas. was. postponed for the Me Vinsel poinieg out tial move) Temperatures dipped two de- give no credit to the President for thirq time in Municipal Court 3 Ad re ome ers and oi; grees lower at Weir’ Cooke Al the currently good positon of tle og, port near dawn. The downtown|country. It would have happene Je : : escape high taxes, smoke, noise Fo, Judge Joseph M. Howard ~conpe high ! reading was three degrees below|if a moron had been on the job, | Une Cards agains. Fromwis

and the lack of convenient down- 41 previous cold for the’ date|if some of the press is to be lieved, the President added.

Verdict Delayed

~The mercury drofped 10 a The case of an 18-year-old

"Wilhelm, 18, of 5255 Pleasant Run |

They say th) cinct committeey jobs. on th

RS of 390 prehb have Also, that 2300 % e city payroll, ex®lusive of |police and firemen, compared to Pravda, one of the government's national

sons are

missing plane was the same one which a Soviet fighter fired upon last Saturday.

The revelation came through

{the 380 jobs controlled by the two official newspapers.

jcounty Democratic machine.

machine ward

| work under Mayor Feeney, They

|are:

15th Ward—Joe

town shopping’ facilities, established here in 1920. It was As realtors, you must plan for ,,;y 5 degree above the record| But he said he thinks the chief. better centralized development” qjijy temperature for the month.| executive can take the credit and he said. “But, at the same time. * 1n4i3napolis housetops Were he certainly intends to do that. you must realize that cities will..." with snow this morning] In his first news conference in

Qecentialise Maps Fi ans pe following flurries yesterday andthe Capital in more than a month, | to - shopy A Dosa » “early ldst gy YD : af i : ontinue at intervals today, the on immediate matters: Rapid decentralization is costly, On ONE: He didn’t think it pos-

he said, in that a ed distriets Weatherman said. 't th tax present VE fo a Whole State Is Cold sible for him to libel Sen. Joseph|

more than they contribute to| The whole state shared in the R. Meparthy ied, 85 Sen. | these services. “hard freeze” and heavy frost Ro * . Corth 4 sti ‘ted the | Po Lost’ - |last night. Other cold commu- charged. McCarthy instigated the pulation ‘Lost ities were South Bend, with a investigation of Communists in The former University of Louis | UE® MF dawn of 18: Ft. Wayne the State Department. | ville political science dean pointed | A gochev ’

The President dismissed Sen.| out one-third of 40 large cities | 21} Terre Haute, 19, and Evans-ima¢t's defense of Sen. McCarthy| lost population during the '30's, ville, 29. and criticism of the administra-/ while only two of 40 metropolitan

Weather observers said early tion as part of Sen. Taft's areas lost population.

Mr. Truman made these points]

crops © probably would not beito win re-election in Ohio. “This should be warning enough affected by the freeze and tree) : to curb government waste and|/buds were not far enough ad-|dered the federal grand jury in-| plan for greater downtown con- vanced to have been killed. But vestigation of crime in Kansas veniences to protect real estate the full effect of the cold blast|City. Two of the witnesses be-| values and. the. growth of. an Will not be observed by. farmersifore. the. grand jury, Democratic expanding city,” he said. [for several days. {Boss Charles Binaggio and his, Mr. Vinsel was introduced by| The weatherman said a highlieutenant, George Gargotta, were F. C. Tucker Jr. IREB program pressure ridge extending from slash by gunmen last week. chairman, Bruce Savage, board Hudson Bay to Arkansas pumped Mr. Truman said it was up to| president, presided at the lunch-|the frigid air into the state. It{the Justice Department to decide | eon-meeting. ’ [was -xpected to drift slowly east-|Whether the FBI should in-| ward tomorrow, permitting a| vestigate the slayings. . {gradual warming. THREE: The fair employment After hovering near freezingpractices bill—which Southerners

KEROSENE BURNS FATAL ROCHESTER, Apr. 13 (UP)—!

to have the cars in the race if.Curtis Croussmore, 62. died last MO5t of the day yesterday. Indi-don:t want—will -be. taken. up in

increases the prize purse.” Entries postmarked by Saturday are eligible. “te 3 : Duke's car has been completely rebuilt since his near-fatal crash on the northeast curve last year. A new chassis was required, Mr. Welch said. He said the cars are the same as they were last year except that carburetion has been improved. Co Mr. Welch said the Novis will

in May” . . . but insisted that whether they actually compete in the race depends upon whether

the Speedway increases the prizes.

‘Race Driver’ Uses Wrong Speedway.

“But, judge, I'm a race driver.” Professional immunity didn’t .work in Municipal Court 3 today. Judge Joseph Howard fined semipro speedster Harry Brooks, 25, of 1975 Hosbrook St., $5 and costs for “doing” 56 mph on Englisif Ave. When the judge asked him his occupation, Brooks said his avocation was race driving. He said he won several sprint races last year on the Salem dirt track, and “if everything goes well’ plans to enter the 500-Mile classic May 30. “Well, don’t do your racing on our streets,” Judge Howard admonished Brooks as he passed sentence.

Driver. Leaps Out as

Train Smashes Truck A driver leaped to safety when his truck was struck by a Pennsylvania passenger train today at the 8, Emerson Ave. crossing. Residents who witnessed the crash sald the driver jumped out

just before the diesel-powered engine struck the front of thé fruit. and vegetable truck. He

|anapolis- temperatures were ex- the Senate after it int In Woodlawn Hospital of pected to rise slowly to a high another year of Marshall Plan y yesterday when a tnis afternoon of 37. But more aid. He said there is no point in can ‘of kerosene exploded in his spine-tingling blasts out of the bringing up FEPC now and dehands as he built a kitchen stove | north will send the mercury shud- laying the foreign recovery profire. The fire caused $2000 dam-| dering to 22 tonight. A high of|gram by a filibuster. . age to Mr. Croussmore’s home. [45 was forecast for tomorrow. - | FOUR: He had no comment on

Russian reports of a clash be-

aircraft. i”

approves thé member of the crowd who

Pkwy., to June 16. The case was market master.

first continued to Tuesday, and at|

the conclusion of evidence that|Sanitation Board attorney. 13th Ward—Jack Debolt, engi-

day Judge Howard took it under]

on the Democratic ticket.”

| Pravda denounced a statement

{ Mayor Feeney declined to com- by U. 8. Air Force officers in {ment on the political organiza- Wiesbaden (youth charged with double assault|tion, saying he was interested plane flew a normal route be{and battery in a North Side drive- only in getting public support to tween North Germany and Denn “put the best qualified candidates mark, “ignoring the fact that this {plane violated the Soviet border Democrats counted six county and engaged in so-called ‘train-

that the American

chairmen who!|ing’ over Soviet territory.”

“The American adventurers think they are permitted to do

Bisest, city anything openly, declaring; as did

an Air Force representative in

1st Ward—Walter Myers Jr.,| Wiesbaden: ‘We can fly over the

advisement until today. Today he|neer’'s department,

June 16. . . The 18-year-old youth is

harged on two assault and bat-|street department.

tery affidavits. One was signed by

Ave,, whom he is alleged to have] assaulted as she restroom. Injured in Fight A fight between the woman's, husband and a gang of loiterers

woman's behalf.

ond. affidavit against. Wilhelm.| Li In court Tuesday ~Withelm;—ar six-foot-three, 200-pounder, ad-| mitted knocking the five feet inch, 160-pound Bohannon and o continuing to beat him after he| was down. .

: cal “ 5 ” the “I b h Tl do it in,”|Chairmen have “obligations or| eat him up Jo t again |“entanglements” that could have Kastrup Airport.

he said. “I'm not afraid of anyone.” : : “Denies Molesting i ~...However:-he-denied that-he was:

molested the woman. He named another youth, alr ady on probation on a traffic charge, as the guilty party. . "

Mr. Bohannon signed the sec-|pamie

g on

i 16th Ward—John Lund, asphalt has|Mrs. Adela Funston, 2328 Central] plant. ) . Nine other ward chairmen have left the drive-in openly opposed the county organ-| |ization’s support of Sheriff Cun'ningham for renomination. To Take Ward Vote Floyd (Bobo) Leslie, investigaeffort ensued in which Paul Bohannon, i . (or Prosecutor Dailev and

322, of 1501 E. 26th St., was injured 14tp Ward Democratic chairman, TWO: He said he personally or-'when he entered the fracas in the said he has heard strong sentiagainst Sheriff Cunning-| candidacy in his ward. Mr. Leslie. said he. was. going DY. Moscow. dispatches. saying. the to take a ward organization vote Privateer was Saturday ¢ Paying particular attention to the sheriff's race.

ent

candidates

tsaid he would give “his “ruling|” Washington Township — Harry| Latham, Health Board attorney. 6th- Ward — Roy Henershott,

night, |

Baltic if we wish.’ ‘Stupid Boast’ --*The-facts-contradict this stupid boast as evidenced by the incident lof Apr. 8 south of Libau (Lepaya). “The impudent behavior of American spies encountered an #ppropriate rebuff from Soviet {planes guarding the border of the | USSR. The insolent flier got a {proper lesson and was compelled {to beat a retreat.” | The account referred throughout to both the American plane from Wiesbaden -and the American plane which appeared over the Baltic border as being a B-29 and the same craft. Fears that the plane had sunk

{without trace were strengthened] 8 eC It said the American press off

the same plane hat the Russians had shot at. “Our hopes aren't too high,” {said Capt. Jack Klingler, of

Six other county machine ward Franklin, Pa.. who is directing

{them opposing the regular Dem-, |ocratic party slate. | : However, Paul-McDuff, county five days now and this isthe third that “Kastrup had changed into Democratic boss, said: \ [ “When the chips are down, I area.” : know the county organization will be able to control 30 out of the renew 33 ward chairmen when they vote awn t

In court today Judge Howard on the official slate.” ‘A Great Guy’ Commenting on the candidacy into 30 box-shaped areas assigned | 3tons gave American planes an

told Wilhelm to “stay in the house” after 10 p.-m. and gave]

tween an American and a Soviet the same warning to the father of Sheriff Cunningham, Mr Mc- to individual planes. lof the second youth named. He Duff said the county machine

search from Copenhagen's

17 Plans in Hunt | “This search has heen on for

even offered to send one of their rescue planes from the Azores." | “But we have not heard a word {from the Russians. Under intercourtesy they should |have offered their help—it's not lour place to ask for it. “I am sure we would have of fered our assistance if a big Rus. sian plane were lost in any area in which we operate.”

London Reds Charge

Planes Carry Arms LONDON, Apr. 18 (UP) — The Communist newspaper Daily Worker charged today in a Copen« hagen dispatch that three U. 8, Navy Privateer planes now at Kastrup Airport, Copenhagen, care

The newspaper said the planes landed there to join the search for a similar Privateer missing in the Baltic since Saturday and believed to have been shot down by Russian fighters. (It has been announced official ly in Copenhagen, headquarters for the Baltic search, that none of the search planes are armed). The Daily Worker said the Copenhagen Communist Newspaper Land Og Folk had published a picture of one of the Privateers “on which the barrels of the machine guns are clearly visible.” Ruse Charged

icer in Copenhagen, Capt. Louis Curdes, had “tied himself in knots trying to maintain that the search planes - were not. armed” but finally “admitted that some American Navy planes in Dene mark must be armed.” Meantime, reports from. Oslo, Norway, quoted the Communist |Party newspaper Friheten here

time we have scoured the samel/an American base” and that the

Seventeen planes roared out to the search shortly after oday. Capt. Klingler said they. were covering 60,000 square

miles” of Baltic waters divided

However, the weather was much

lin an area

-'Isearch for the missing plane acte

ually was, “a great military mae. neuver.” . | Friheten expressed doubt that

{there actually was a missing -

plane ‘and said the current oper

{opportunity to stage war games where American

ried 12 machine. guns-eache

Ce ‘-—e — Inside The Times— Times Spelling Bee to be held at. Central YWCA tonigh Disciples of Christ set meeting of educators here......

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limproved since 1946. His reason Outs and would give his complete is that he considers 1946 the low,

In the international field, the President” said conditions have 8angs

said he intended t§ “clean out”’/would continue to support the improved over yesterday when the | Pombers ‘might be based in the

loitering in drive-in hang-|sheriff. for renomination. [same planes covered 55,000 square] } of war, “Cunningham’s the greatest

= “ipo the-world he “sad:

a Mg and visib ; - join OTHara, Toy ond CHE. g ‘ visibility extended be

Another Democratic tween 10° and 12 miles.

On Patrol Planes

guy miles. There was.a. 3000-toot ceil-/U.-S., Won't Put Arms pa

point since the end of World War

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. 2 Gas Truck Drivers |

18, of 5140 Col':ge Ave. Who was Party indorsed the following slate charged with disorderly” conduct of candidates today. The list was same area today.’ improper remarks to| first Ji could remember and the worst the woman’ was promised a jail Sunday Times..

for makin

sentence by Judge Howard Tues-| day. Today, however, he said he had talked to the vouth and his.

Notre Dame. |

Escape Flash Fire Two gasoline escaped unsinged today as they

{a fully loaded tanker,

plosive cargo. ton Ave. said-that he noticed a

Pete truck as he turned off 86th| {St. on to Ind. 29. He pulled the

hand extinguisher. An unidentified driver of an|other gas truck stopped his vehicle land joined Mr. Bennett in fighting |the fire with another extinguisher. |

|Dlgze in the rear of his Hoosier PILOT

publicized i

n _last

Sheriff—Tony Maio.

County Clerk—Albert Losche.

Probate Court Judge. —

ment in foreign affairs, however Widowed mother and decided to Barton.

: p stow, started with the inaugura-|/let the boy go back to school at’ Center Trustee—Henry Mueller the Baltic

Auditor—Toney

Recorder —Mary Shackelford. Party Leader Stewart said the!teer, {newly formed City Hall {would consider other candidates, A truck -drivers|for support. ’ |

Flack.

Patrick reports

group

“We will

cover much. of the]

WASHINGTON, Apr. 15 (UP)

' Capt. Klingler| Def week's said. “We want to be sure every a ey ve a on

‘day that they have no intention

square mile where the plane might! of sending armed patrol planes

be down hag been checked.” Some search crews brought back they had seen Russian {ships and planes maneuvering in but officers refused to |discuss them. They said their-only job was to search for the Priva-

Baltic Littered search officer said the ofl [slick and floating objects sighted

However, Courthouse observers by search planes yesterday “ap

doused a flash fire in the rear of speculated the City Hall group)

S PLANE AT 102

i parently came from fishing boats

while would adopt a hands off policy or other surface ” {flames lapped at the highly ex- in the prosefutor’s race between | craft. . incumbent Geor Albert T. Bennett, 1953 Carroll- John McNelis,

“The Baltic seems to be littered

ge 8. Dailey and with debris of one kind and

ranother,” he said. i Air Force officers said the 10man crew of the Privateer could

REVERE, Mass., Apr. 13 (UP) survive 20 days in the Baltic if

—Mrs. Lydia Stevens, who will they made a good landi vehicle to the berm and attempted 1s 102 Saturday, piloted an air- were able to a their ry to extinguish the blaze with a 5)ane today for the first time. All life rafts out. ; [the pilot of the dual-controlled] B plane told her was, “pull if you have combed the likely crash want to go up, push if you want areas as. many as. five times ito go down.” And that was that.

But they said search planes

without sighting wreckage positively identified as that of the

Using a bucket, the drivers also|,, Ny poLLS NEAR ACTOR Privateer. MANILA Philippines, Apr. 13 “We'll keep looking until we

doused the burning truck with {water from a nearby stream.

78 PILGRIMS TO SAIL

— {{UP)—A Philippine

Air

Force find them or until we are sure , |plane went out of control today beyond the last possibility that|talized at $1000, filed articles of

NEW YORK, Apf 13 (UP)—|and crashed into Subic Bay only/there is no hope,” an Air Force

| Seventy-eight Holy Year pilgrims 50 yards from a barge on which officer said. from the Archdiocese of Chicago| American

movie

star Tyrone:

“However, it looks bad. We've

sail for Rome tonight aboard the Power and other actors Were ised every search technique in

y ey 2 = s - oh

_ Cunard Line's Queen Elizabeth. |standing.

jor

{

(the book. If they are alive we : i &

{over the Baltic Sea or of commit [ting any other act that Russia could call aggressive. :

Department spokesmen declined direct comment on the proposal by Sen. Styles Bridges (R. N. H.)

for Baltic patrols by the best:

8. warplanes armed “to the teeth.” But spokesmen said that dee fense officials do not intend to change their non-aggressive” air policy in Europe even though it is feared that Russian planes shot down an unarmed. U. 8. naval Privateer pa bomber in.the Baltic area po Saturday. ;

1 : |Book Firm: to Print Writings by Pelley NOBLESVILLE, Apr. 13 (UP) —Former Silver Shirt leader Wile filam Dudley Pelley’s nonpolitiea! writings were being collected toe day by a newly formed publishing company which will print them in book form. : The Soulcraft Press Co. capi-

incorporation yesterday with Adelaide Pearson, Mr. Pelley's daughter, Melford Pearson; her husband, and Herma Jeffreys listed as its officers.

W.:

Navy, Air Force and Defense :

fighter