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38th St.’ in Full Bloom

| Spreading in With 5 Goodbyes Phone System

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es To Talk

Job Stoppages Sherman Peter

took five farewells from blond Sharman Douglas at London airport last night before Hollywood actor Peter Lawford could catch a plane for New York. 1 “There ‘is no romance,” the daughter of the American ambassador to Britain said after

Train Firemen Set For Strike Against 7 Mr. Lawford's departure.

As Finest Yet

, At the same time, Mr. Burns eg edT Toran THaustry-wide sélf- . preservation

“we're _housing

architects at the

A silver key opened the Silver Anniversary Home Show. yesterda "House" are [left fo right) M. L. Hall, builder of the model dwelling; VE vice president of the National Association of Home Builders; Charles Wagner,

Photos by John iy Times State Pho pher ._Unlocking~ the "Midwest Albert E. Thompson, regional

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president of the

exposition, and Fritz Burns, opening ceremony speaker.

Hail Home Show

. Fritz Burns Principal Speaker at Opening

By LARRY STILLERMAN Times Real Estate Editor : As the “miracle of 38th St.” began its first fuil exposition day

today, Hoosier home builders were urged to rededicate their efforts as “champions of the

American homeowner.” The “miracle,” the Silver Anniversary Home Show at the 38th St. Fairgrounds, was hailed ‘finest exposi-.

opening ceremonies headliner.

TODAY AT HOME SHOW Where—Manufacturers Building, State Fairgrounds. Time—11 a. m. to 10:30 p. m. Daily, through April 30. Producers Council - and diana Architects luncheon. Montpelier and Kendallville high schools will tour show.

In-

step to defeat the “harpooning and lampooning™ cast at home builders. “We must show the. public just what we're accomplishing, how them,” he said. “We must defeat the propaganda for government ‘rainy day’ steps Jfor public housing.” ' Spegks at Banquet

Mr. Burns addressed more than

350 hLuilders, realtors, material dealers, home. and landscape 25th anniversary opening banquet in the Claypool Hotel." * cee Before his talk, J. Frank Cantwell was cited by the Home Show Corp. for “his distinguished” com"munity service” as director of the biggest shelter show in Indiana. He was awarded a plaque by Charles Wagner, president of thie exposition, who further cited’ Mr. Cantwell for “giving builders inspiration and improving the lot of home residents in.Indiana.” . Hits Subsidizing Plan

Mr. Burns, developer of lowcost housing - projects in Los Angeles, flayed the paradox of

home owning taxpayers. subsidiz:. Ing federal public housing.

“We are developing raw land with low taxes into communities who. contribute more to. the gov- . ernment. And then the government uses the money to compete with the home builders,” he said. “We must break down this pattern,” Mr. Burns said. “We must show very definitely how the private hqusing” industry is_erects ing more than one million dwellings to shelter all groups-—low, middle and upper.” : The former head of the National Association of Home Builders warned that home builders must refute the “opportunist charges” and become good “public relations men as well as champions of the American homeowner.” Heads Campaign Currently heading a non-lobby-ing educational campaign, Mr. Burns told the Home Show audience how he revamped his merchandizing program to sell and house 1100 families in Panorama City, giant residential development outside Los Angeles. He fllustpated his talk with slides depicting..sales promotion tactics and showing views of model homes In his project. Mr. Wagner, banquet toastmas‘ter, cited 10 Hoosier businesses also celebrating their 25th anniversary a8 exhibitors.at the Home Show, ’ : The businesses are the Central Wall Paper & Paint Corp, Wege Marble & Tile Co., L. S.. Ayres & Co., the Baldwin mow Riddick)

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Gee whiz . . . just two hours after the Home Show opened, 5.year-old Norman Roller became the first "lost child" at fhe ex-

position. Here he tearfully clutches his fathér's hand after being.

*Igst'" for half an hour. Norman's from Pendléton, Ind.

Today

It's Fix 'Em Time Here—

500 Youths Parade

In Opening Clean-Up Drive

‘Hardwood Gang'.to Be Accompanied By Jaycee Sponsors in Colorful Event

More than 500 boys and girls equipped with mops, brooms and buckets were to-take part in-a downtown parade this afternoon

inaugurating Indianapolis’ annual Clean-Up, Fix-Up, Paint-Up Cam paign. : The boys and girls—are members of the “Hardwood Gang,’ and will be accompanied, by. their Jaycee sponsors,

The giant parade, which was to begin at 1:30 p. m. was to include

the Butler Band, Shortridge Band Cathedral. Band, Boy Scout color guard, as well as a color guard

from the Fire Department Ameri- mal spring housécleaning activi can Legion post. Included in the es: parade were to be various pieces Theme of the campaign fis:

of Fire Department apparatus, ‘Clean Up Indianapolis—It's Ev

ity sanitation trucks, and park erybody’s Job.” Citizens are urged : : and paint up their clean up debris and George

board equipment and floats of to renovate various kinds. properties, , plant flowers and shrubs. Routh of March Gable and City Street Commis

The parade was to form at sjoner Tony Maio are co-chairmen Pennsylvania and North Sts, of the committee directing the

move south on’ Pennsylvania to campaign. Market St. west on Market. St. around the Circle and north on Meridian St. . The Mercury Pacemaker car for this year’s 500-mile race was to be included in the parade lineup as well as. the Oldsmobile al Spri which paced the 1949 classic. | Be — ol Ds Other entries included: Manual| . p Training High. School garden Paign’ to last through May 6. project, Goodwill Industries, Sal-| ~ Citing the 11,000 persons vation Army, Civic Pride Com-| killed and the $667,536,000 dammittee, Camp Fire Gitls, Girl

; urged active participation by Soome >» a ention Paint 3 Sox residents against common fire

| hazards such as dirty and deGerke Co., Standard Enamel and fective heating plants, and dirty

Paint Co., Advance Paint Prod: ucts Co. and Hillsdale Landscape stoves, and lamps.

and Nurseries Co. | of a national campaign spon-

The Indianapolis Saddle Club: sored by the National Fire Proand the Silver Hills Saddle Club | e.tion THe auon } were to provide mounted riders to

War on Fires Fire Chief McKinney today declared open war on fire hazards by announcing the begin-

Isler strike as regional

~ {become more serious if other tele- yj

. |plan to set up Monday.

.anapolis. Chamber. of Commerce. It ‘is timed to coincide with nor-

age caused by fire last year, he |

{ The Spring Clean-Up is part |

Roads Wednesday LNs . 0 engagement—no romance, | CHICAGO, Apr. 22 (UP)— Mr. Lawford said.

‘The. nation’s labor picture But:

Sharman sat in. her automo=

‘Fog, Rain Halt Hunt for C-54

Down in Japan

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Reports Mixed

UN Secretary Exp

‘May Take a Long Time To Liquidate Cold War,’

» lains Praised by Einstein on Eve of Departure; Conferences Slated in London and France

On Sighting of Wreckage; 35 Aboard

By PETER KALISCHER

United Press Staff Correspondent

WITH AMERICAN

|darkened today as work stop- nie for half an hour while the SCARCH PARTIES AT TO-

| pages spread in the telephone actor checked his ticket. Peter industry and train firemen fame to the car and said good|prepared for strikes against back. | seven railroads next Wednesday. #5 =®8 = | Hope also vanished for a quick PETER SAID goodbye again. | settlement of the 89-day-old Chry- Sharman asked him batk, this federal time to sit beside her. Peter left | mediator Arthur C. Viat an- again, Sharman calling after him. | nounced that negotiators for the Peter cleared customs. and | auto film and the CIO Auto Work- found Sharman waiting for him lers were “hopelessly deadlocked.” in ‘the departure lounge" from 1 "Phe WAIKOULS: In the telephone Which.visitors. usually. are barred. {industry. came four days before! Peter bought her a drink. They |the end of a 60-day truce arranged held hands. . |by President Truman in a dispute, 1 can’t kiss you here,” Peter {between the Bell System and the Said. Then he went aboard the

CIO Communications Workers of Plane. . Then he changed his | America. | : ; mind, left the plane, and called |

Leave Their Jobs {Sharman to him-—for the fifth | and final farewell®

|“~Members-of the CWA’S division na | 6, representing 11,000 Western li . D t Editors to Meet

| Electric equipment installers, were leaving their jobs because of. an Party Leaders To Attend Conclave

Then Sharman called him

“lockout and firing” of about 100 workers at South Bend, { Ind. : Divisior President Ernest {Weaver said “we expect the walkout to spread” and ‘by Monday, I seriously doubt that any of our members will be working any{where in the United States.” { The installers’ walkout started pemocrats for the 1950 election jin Oregon, Washington, Idaho, campaign gets under way today {New York and spread rapidly to at the spring meeting of-the In{other states. It did not interrupt qjana Democratic Editorial {telephone service but stopped the sociation. {iastaliation of new equipment in| areas. = ‘chairman Ira Haymaker are . The effect of the walkouts could scheduled to give their ews on the campaign at a closed uncheon which will be followed by election of officers. The Democratic platform com- | ‘Lockout’ Denied | mittee, drawing up a program for | At Indianapolis, Ind., telephone the June 27 nominating convencompany spokesmen denied there tion to indorse, will meet during had been a lockout at South Bend. the morning and the state central {They said the only dispute there committee in the afternoon. involved a 25-day work stoppage, Pittsburgh Mayor Ddvid

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{phone workers refuse to ‘cross | picket lines which the installers

ross muddy fields to work on a national committeeman string of television towers being Pennsylvania, will deliver the erected across northern Indiana. principal speech at the IDEA | ‘At Washington, meanwhile, banquet tonight. CWA President Joseph Beirne offered to settle all 25 of'the 'na- business of the editors’ tion's contract disputes by arbi- appeared to be the launching .of tration to avoid the big nation- trial balloons bv wide strike which. may come next offices to be_chosén in the week. But officials for the com- convention. A ’ pany'ss long lines, department re- Obesrvers said there was

) r a - jected the suggestion. } chance that one er more

prosjpective candidates forthe U., § | Senate seat ‘now held by Republican Homer" E. Capehart might (declare themselves officially in |the pre-convention ‘race.

Police: Gambling Raids Net Seven

Patrolman Shoots At Fleeing Auto

| Police last night charged sev-, eral men for gaming, arrested one man on a charge of advertising a

Experiment to Check

- fleeing automobile. Capt. Harry Yarbrough and his linked with high-speed, high-altit . PD « Q i a a Q squad raided 32 Brush St. and Patterson Air Force Base. :

: > The newspaper said Maj. Ric arrested Dan Vledolu, 50, of 1441 test pilot and holder of the world’s

Concord St. He was charged with speed record of 670. miles. ner.nowr. “keeping “a-gambling “house “and plus, confirmed he had been test gaming. diving an F-86 jet fighter plane Five other men -in.the house Thursday and yesterday at the wefFe chargad with visiting a times the “explosions’ were heard gambling house and gaming. and felt in the Dayton area. Lt. John Foran visited a “Those working close to the smoker at 104 N. Illinois St. and project feel they have a logical charged Tony Jordan, 38, with explanation for linking the dives keeping a room for pool selling with the explosions,” Maj. Johnand advertising a lottery and gift son told the Journal Herald. He enterprise. Police confiscated 21 did not elaborate and said he books of baseball tickets could make no further comment Police also raided an ice cream yntil Wright Field officials had store at 1217 N. Senate Ave., and discussed the ‘situation. found seven books of baseball “Right now it is a lot of contickets. NO arrests were made. jecture, but there is a possibili Patrolman Daniel Williams in- that some of the dives may vestigated a light green Ford in jinked to the series of explosions;”

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Sheed ignoring Patiolnan i He said the flight test division ams’ order to stop. Patrolman ;; i series ‘of Williams fired four shots. fs planning, a ser!

|we can prove anything.” Maj. Johnson saidnthat during the dives he heard no explosions.

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OK Rent Decontrol Gov. Schricker today approved irent decontrol in West Lafayette as recently enacted by the Com{mon ‘Council there. The approval is subject to approval of the Federal Rent Director.

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add a circus touch to ii parade. Sues AA for $25 000 Mrs. Manners .......ves.e 7 MESA, Ariz, Apr. 22 (UP)— Last, but not least, three photo- y MOVIES ..v.0uvuussnssaaees 5 | Aviation Cadet Daniel G. Hollengenic Butler coeds—Miss Clean, SAN FRANCISCO, APr. 22 Needlework ,............. 3 bach was killed when his F-80 jet Up, Miss Paint Up and Miss Fix' (UP)—Dennis R. McGuire, 58, . plane crashed into a

Up—were to ride in convertibles sued the local chapter of AlcoholMon- ics Anonymous for $25,000 today, arch Buick was to provide the claiming that he was injured when|

as queens for the affair.

convertibles. ‘he protested the ejection of

The annual city housecleaning drunk from a meeting. He said Women's drive, which will continue through he and the drunk both were!

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Gov. Schricker and state party

candidates for densely Hine Tanzawa. Mountains, They

RIYA, Japan, Apr. 22—Fog, rain and darkness halted the search. late today for 35 Americans believed killed when their Air Force transport plane crashed and burned in the mountains 60 miles southwest of Tokyo. Despite _gonflicting reports that the wreckage had been sighted, it still..was--not--known -definitey whether any aboard the C-54 airplane had survived. A dozen’ Air. Force, Army. and Japanese teams participated in the search for the ship. "They camped in villages at the foot of the Tanzawa mountain range Saturday night and planned to renew efforts to locate the ship early Sunday, Japan time. The weather drove eight search planes from the skies. T Rams Into Peak Witnesses said the ship hit fogshrouded Mt. Hirugatake, which towers 5000 feet above sea level. An Air Force spokesman said

the plane crashed shortly before midnight while flying in. stormy

Serious plotting among Hoosier weather from Clark Field in the 2WaY

Philippines to Tokyo.

Aboard were 27 military and

civilian passengers, including a members. {

copters, B-17's and light observation planes of .the Third Rescue Squadron will be resumed Sunday morning if the weather clears.

Mission Group Aboard. Manila dispatches said the passengers included four members of a trade mission from Gen. Douglas MacArthur's head-

1. duarters. “ Members of the mis- tion between the war games and in_which_100. workers refused .to. Lawrence, whe-aiso-is-Democratie- Sion including one-woman, “were tension overseas, particularly with from returning to Tokyo after nego- Russia. But there was definite, to call on the Kremlin.

tiating a $50 million barter trade agreement with the Philippines. Japanese workmen at

when it wooded

crashed ranges

plane in the of the said the wreckage minuteg. So Japanese national police said the wreckage had been spotted on Hirugatake mountain of the Tanzawa range about 60 miles _southwest of Tokyo. This-is-about 15 miles east. of famed Mount Fuji.

burned for

Pilot Hints Plane Tests Linked to Day

Wright Field Mum on Theory but Plans

ton Blasts

Possible Causes

: DAYTON, O.. Apr. 22 (UP)—The-Dayton Journal Herald, tn 60.000 pounds and dwarfed the lottery, and fired four shots at a ; copyrighted story, said today there was a possibility that mys- B-17 in performance as well as terious tremors felt in this area Thursday and yesterday were S17€

ude ‘test dives at nearby Wright-

‘hard L. Johnson, a Wright Ficid

He said he was flying 'quite.high. about the altitude associated with these jet planes.” i When the first of the mysterious blasts was heard Thursday

_ afternoon, police, fire, newspaper

and radio station switchboards were jammed. with thousands of calls from residents of the area who heard and felt the tremors. ‘No one, including Wright Field, could explain what it was.

Miss Emma M 1st Woman Di

Miss Emma Messing, 3753 N. Meridian St., the first woman an alley near 16th and Missouri col, F. K. Paul, chief of flight ever appointed by the U. S. State Department to foreign diplomatic | St. The driver backed out at high {ust division at Wright Field, said. -service, died late yesterday in her home. Daughter of Rabbi Mayer Messing, a pioneer of the Indian-| tests apolis Hebrew Congregation, Miss Messing was a native of Indian-| “sometime next week” to see “if apolis and graduate of Shortridge High School. wo ]

Sailing to Berlin in 1921, she

served under five different Amer-

ican ambassadors in Europe. In September, 1939, she was evacuated to Copenhggen. and shortly thereafter was “transferred to «Stockholm to help Americans fleeing from Poland. When Miss Messing returned to America in 1941, she was forced to take four different planes from Stockholm to Lisbon.

~~8he spoke on her European ex-

periences before many club groups throughout the: country. She served as vice president of the Camp Activities Club in Washington during World War I, which was a branch of the War Plans Division. Certificates were awarded her by the National War {Work Council ‘and the National |YMCA for her work, *

Truth Is One Weapon—An Editorial ...ccivievicesessscssaness

An intensive search by heli-|

g- two The principal, though unofficial, mountain villages south of Tokyo

meeting said they saw the explosion of the

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U. S. Believes. . . . World Report....coveeeeevscensesnase 5

"By BRUCE W. MUNN, United Press Staff Correspondent NEW YORK, Apr. 22—United Nations Secretary Gen eral Trygve Lie sailed today on a peace-making European tour expected to be climaxed by a conference with Russian Premier Joseph Stalin on means of ending the East-West cold war. . As he sailed aboard the Queen Mary, the burly Norwegian diplomat warned: “It may take a long time to complete the liquidation of . {the cold war. Many steps cers gps By © |tainly will be required. The most Ir ar dimes {important steps will be to use all ; 1 | the peace-building ‘and conciliat|ing resources available in the {United Nations for this purpose ‘and to give the United Nations

{the strongest possible support in |all its work.”

To Visit Top Officials Mr. Lie plans to visit top gove

Truman Watches

Eyes of World on Display of Strength

By MERRIMAN SMITH United Press White House Reporter EGLIN FIELD, Fla, Apr. 22 President Truman, well aware that the world was watching, saw the Air Force demonstrate its striking power with bombs, bullets and rockets that turned a gulf coast firing range into an ugly mass of swirling smoke and flame today.

France, and to conduct an official” United Nations tour that will take him to a meeting of the chiefs of ‘the specialized agencies in Paris, w ~ as well as to the world health Giant jet-assisted B-36 bombers organization at Geneve and the cascaded ton after ton of high International Court at the Hague, explosive bombs less than a mile He carried with him a message AWAY “from .the presidential Teor good luck and encouragement’ viewing stand. * from atomic physicist Albert Eine Darting jet strafed stein. : : simulated tank and| Mr dinstein, fat™-- of the atom

fighters columns

As- tamily of four, and eight crew dumped scores of fire bombs on homb, wished Mr. Lie “luck and

mock ground installations. success with your great initiative” Ardent Peace Exponent to end the cold war and cutlaw The Chief Executive, ardent ex-atomi¢ warfare. ponent of peace “in our time," He saluted Mr. Lie as “one of watched with.satisfaction as the/few who, in the midst of the Air Force peeled off the second bewilderment and confusion of chapter of his current tour of the|our time, has succeeded in keeparmed forces at work. The Presi-|ing his vision clear.” dent spent yesterday with the] May Visit Moscow" infantry at Ft. Benning, Ga. | Up to the moment of sailing, Mr, Members of the President's [jo had made no final decision to staff said there was no cornec- visit Moscow, but he had given

although unofficial, word that Mr.| “I have just seen President Truman. hoped today’s perform- mu. man and Secretar; of State

ance would be well noted abroad. » . "ape Mr. Truman was up at dawn Acheson in Washington,” Mr. Lie 1

for a walk around this sprawling told reporters aboard ship. Air Force proving ground where hape to call on the prime minthe latest bombers and fighters, isters and foreign ministers in some of them still secret, are London and Paris and to see also tested against the eventualities ©ld frie..ds ir the governments df of war. i : some. other countries -in western . Drives to Range - Europe-as well. After breakfast, the President It may be that I shall also drove over a .dusty country road 80 to Moscow.- My decision in this to a’ bombing .range and took his respect will be based on my judgseat in unshaded bleachers to Ment .on. developments in the watch the might of the Air Force meantime. : } pass in review at: altitudes from Urges Renewed Efforts tree-top height to above 10,000 ““I think the world must try feet. ) again to bring the cold war to For contrast, the Air Force & g dropped a full bomb load from the an end. The longer this cold war World War II workhorse, the B- lasts, the greater the harm it is in on a wooded range in front of doing to both sides, and the he President.- en came a gigantic B-36 with’ its string of greater danger to the world, bombs which weighed more than We need to make new and great efforts to reduce the tene sions between now and next Sepe tember when the General Asseme-

bly will begin its fifth session. I am hopeful of progress if the peoples of the United Nations will

Today's show, under the direction of Maj. Gen. William E. Kepner, commanding general of the air proving. center, was the most eX{ensive... ALrR¥xi-0f Ade Foree; ®t = a power. ever seen by the President. newed efforts for “peace. Keenly Interested Sailing with Mr. Lie were Kone } d ’ - stantin Zinchenko, Russian ase In his bleacher seat, he watched sistant secretary - general in

with intense interest through charge of security council affairs; powerful field glasses as flight genpi Laugier, French assistant after flight of fighting planes

secretary-general in charge of soe cial affairs; Wilder Foote, directors of press and publications, and Mrs. Ingrid Berntzen, Mr. Lie's secretary.

Is This the Home You Want to Buy?

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Active in charity and welfare work here, Miss Messing was a| member of the Indianapolis branch, National Council of Jew-| ish Women, the Hadassah, and the Joseph and Anna Borinstein| Home for the Aged. Services will be held at 4:30 p. m. tomorrow in Aaron-Rubén Funeral Home. Burial will be in Indianapolis Hebrew Cemetery. Survivors include four sisters! Mrs. Dora Messing Meyberg, Los] Angeles; Mrs. Essie Messing Rice, | Lafayette; Mrs. Jo Messing Hard-! ing, Leonardtown, Md., and Mrs. * lecti Sara Messing Stern, Indianapolis, lection, be sure Noi and a brother, Abraham Messing, TIMES where OVER 1000 Lafayette. homes for sale will be ad-

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