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Phone Lines Clocks Gain an Hour |
Face Pickets In 43 States
U.-S. Acts Fast To Prevent Halt Monday Morning . NEW YORK, Apr. 29 (UP) «— Western Electric installers. ordered picket lines to be set up Monday morning in their week old strike to threaten a nationwide telephone tieup. Thomas R. Steutel, Federal mediator who has been meeting with Western Electric and union] officials, said he would ask for immediate government interven-
tion to prevent the union from setting up its picket lines.
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Merton County to Have Health Inspector Tomorrow
Post to Be Filled for 1st Time in 4 Months; ~_ Grover C. Parr Appointed to Office
By CARL HENN Tomorrow, Marion County will ‘have a health inspector for the first time in four months. He is Grover C. Parr, 6001 N. Keystone Ave., who was assistant superintendent of the Indianapolis sanitation plant from 1936 to 1941. The Marion County Board of Health. only safeguard except for
Batered as Second-Class Matter at Postollice
~The break-up in New York ne-
gotiations came only a few minutes. after the giant Bell Telephone system announced in Washington that it had settled its wage dispute with the Northwestern Bell Telephone Co. employees. - Government officials had hoped that this settlement, which granted no wage increases, would provide a basis for settlement of all! disputes in the industry acrossi the nation. : i Asked to Stand By The installers, members of Division 6 of the Communications Workers of America, (CIO), announced their intention to estab-! lish picket lines in 43 states after negotiations with the company, broke down over wage issugs. Joseph Beirne, international president of the CWA, has said: “It is our irrevocable policy to observe picket lines.” Henry Mayer, attorney for Division 6, said he had been in contact with international head-| quarters today and expected the 820,000 CWA members to respect the picket lines. Clyde ‘Mills, chief assistant to Federal Mediation Chief Cyrus
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retiring. Clocks and wat
Saving Time.
Photo by John Spicklemire, Times statt Photographer. Katherine Kercher, 5104 Evanston Ave., set the style for'most | C70
ithe. state health agency. has had ino inspector during that time to see that homes, restaurants and groceries were kept clean, that filth was disposed of and refuse buried, that wells remained uncontaminated.
There was no health inspector because the County Council refused to appropriate the money for his salary when the 1950 budget was made up last summer.
lis Times and other civic betterment agencies clamored for restoration of the eliminated man that the Council, in February session, approved fan inspector for the last eight months of the year. » Takes Refresher Course Mr. Parr and Dr. Oscar D. Ludwig, Marion County health ofificer, will meet with Indiana {Board of Health official tomordetermine the inspector's
It was not until The Indianapo-+
places. such a nice home in which to raise the kiddies (mosquito kiddies, that is.)
Mrs. Valera Draper, office manager at the Board of Health, keeps a record of the complaints in what she calls her ‘notorious” book. In four months she has recorded more than 125. They form a pattern of filth and corruption and human negligence in allowing them to happen. Many calls have had to go
‘unanswered so far.
Dr. Ludwig makes an effort to correct the more serious complaints. He has the power to enforce any order necessary to insure the health of Marion County residents. a But his is a part-time appointment. In the mornings he spends several hours at the office or out inspecting the worst of the un-
Stagnant water makes
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‘ndianapolis. Indians. Issued Dally
Primary Officials Look For Record Vote Tuesday
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4 Deny Sway 58 Aspire to Congress; 0f Lattimore 600 Seek Nominations’ On U. S. Polic To 126 Assembly Seats
Marion County Sheriff Race a Scramble;
| Registration Sets an All-Time Mark / By ROBERT BLOEM ; By Hull, Byrnes, Hundreds of thousands of Hoosiers will go to the polls
Marshall, Acheson | Tuesday in what may become one of the biggest demons WASHINGTON, Apr.-29 strations of voter interest in primary election history. (UP)—Three former Secre- From a total of 58 candidates will be selectéd 11 Demos taries of State and the pres. crats and 11 Republicans who will fight it our for the state's ent secretary, Dean Acheson, Seats in Congress next fall. Nearly 600 candidates are seek. said toddy. that Owen Latti- ing the 126 nominations each = A sample ballot, showing more was not the architect/party will have to offer for| exactly how the voting ma{of U. 8. policy for China and thel the Geperal Assembly. wr chines will look at Tuesday's
McCarthy Disputed
a | primary, today on Far East. !" Other hundreds are on ballots| JF Sry 29 appears Fe The former secretaries, above the ballot are directions
i who to choose from in nominating took issue with the charges made| party candidates for judicial, by Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy, are! county and township offices. i Gen. George C. Marshall, Cor-| Wild Sheriff Scramble
dell Hull, and James F. Byrnes.| H i Gen, Marshall said Sen, Mc- Reiss in Marion County 3 Yezen| C ’s $ ‘ i arthy’s charges against the are battling for their parties’
State Department. “lend assist-| ) oriff nominations in the wildest! ance to the powers that would scramble: ever. | townships will be published in
destroy us.” | tomorrow's Times along with Two days before the General's As in most of the rest of the| the MONS of voting poths letter was written Sen. McCarthy state, registration for the primary, 1 i f Marion TE ns WTI SR et ylelettion Is at an. all4ime hight! it a precincts © : J County. For other political
. | Many political observers and poli-| New E Gen. : I paper Gaiters here ma Sec. ticlans are looking for Tuesday's News, see Page 2, “For the
retary of State had been “a crime Primary to. give the first impor-| State Legisinture™ . ,:an. od
on how to use the voting ma- | ‘chines. The sample ballot is | for Center Township. It is the same in other townships for candidates for township offices. The complete list of candidates for offices in all
of Indiana last night as she advanced her clock one hour before 'gyties. s in more than 80 Hoosier cities "gained an hour" during the night to conform with Daylight take a three-weeks refresher at 5433 Madison Ave.
course of instruction from state ‘health officials. He will be told ihow to check the sanitary measlures in commercial and private
a pathetic thing.” tant cide to the reasons for the terial. Page 26. heavy voter registration. | Exclusive of township offices, candidates for state convention |delegate and precinct committeeiman, Marion County Republicans {will face an array of 148 candi-
healthy conditions. In the after-|- - noons he is available.in his office
The new inspector then will Take Direct Issue
All four took direct issue with i Remainder of Staff Sen. McCarthy's statement that
Lattimore, a Far Eastern The remainder of the Board of oynort “and professor at Johns
Health staff at present includes py ,yine University, Baltimore, is
{the General Assembly. Four cane !didates, two In each party, are |after nomination to represent Marion and Johnson Counties {jointly in the House. Five Re{publicans and three Democrats
Ching, asked Division 6 union officials to “stand-by -in -hopesthe government people would find 8 solution to this particular prob-'
Winner of Spelling Bee
establishments. Fe will be shown MrS. Draper, Mrs. Lillian Phillips
and other potential disease-elimi-
+tanother-clerk),-three-nurses. and. pa. Eastern:
Likes Arithmetic Better [sewage disposal. maiaria. contrey|Ule COUNLY dentist, Dr. Cyril 8
“the principal architect of our dates from which to choose nom-|are after the lone state senate
Policy stmrsmenrs ~inees. tor the 38 Sounty-wide posts nomination. | The Wisconsin Republican also|2t stake. On the Democrat side| Inas charged. that ep Lattimore it Won't be much easier with 122|judgeships in circuit court, two
courts, five
lem.” Picket Lines Planned In 14 Hoosier Cities
Western Electric installers will set up picket lines in 14 Tndiana cities Monday, Kenneth Silvers, |
City Champion Goes For National Contest
tate representative of the CIO champion. : ommunications Workers of Carol Grosdidier, 13, daughter of Mrs. Loretta rondidter. 1302) -
America Division 6, sald last Draper St. won over 14 other finalists . night. Vion st yesterday at the Indiana World War Memorial. Ir
“We will meet today at 2 p. m.| She correctly spelled “bilinto make picket signs and look | gual” after it ‘was missed by into .the legality of the situa-| Carol Boss, 13, a Sacred Heart, tion,” he said. e grader and former St. Indiana exchanges to be! Patrick's student, who won secpicketed included Indianapolis, fond place. To cinch the chamFt. Wayne, South Bend, Ko-|pionship Carol Grosdidier was rekomo, Evansville, Terre Haute, quired to spell the next word on Bedford, Angola, Lagrange, the list... “braggadocio.” Mishawaka, La Porte, Martins-' Third place winner was Mary ville and Bloomington, Mr. 8il- Lucille Weddle, 13, seventh grader vers sald. {from University Heights school
17 Standard Oil Chiefs tte siemuret. Meougals Io
fourth, Margaret MeDovgail, 1% | eighth grader of Cathedral schoo Draw Down $1,420,637 x) LB inalist last year; WASHINGTON, Apr. 20 (UP) fifth, Wilma Warren, 13, eighth —The Standard Oil Co. (N. J.) grader of Flackville school who last year paid its 17 officers and] represented Wayne township. directors salaries and bonuses of Gets Gold Watch
$1,420,637. t The champion received a gold Mote. thay Half of that went to! nist watch and gold champion’s
East May 21 at Capital
By ART WRIG A St. Patrick's Catholic School eight metic better than spelling today reigns as Indianapolis’ spelling fice, mon
grader who likes arith-
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fnators. | While Mr. Parr brushes up on { his duties, telephone calls help will continue to pour into! jthe County Board of Health ofas
my neighbor from building his septic tank near our well,” a woman says. | ‘Carry Off Store’ | Bacteria from the intestines, swarming by the millions in a septic ‘tank, can contaminate al nearby well almost immediately. | “Make this man stop allowing) dumping on his land just in back | of my place,” a grocery proprie-| tor pléads. The rats are about
"to carry off the store.”
Dumving regulations ‘say that no garbage may be included in dumped materiai, that the refuse must be kept level and that it must be kept covered with dirt
. or cinders.
Drive along almost any of the county roads surrounding Indianapolis and look at- dump heaps marring the countryside. “The filthy people next door are; their. wash and bath
they have for four ths. : When Mrs: “Please come out here and stop J ceived only the most hurried in- that Dr. La
|struction* concerning their duties. y In addition to keeping correct, up-| Ing almost two decades of Ameri-/ular
Patronage controls all appoint-{is a Communist and a Russian ments to the Board of Health. | spy. Because of this system, the entire]
for,
/instead of a Republican office.
Draper and Mrs.
Phillips began work Jan. 2 they| Relations
[fluence in pe
gi d death records; ¢an foreign affairs, jodale birth and de | Sen. Tydings released the let-
they must supervise placement of| contagious signs on disease-ridden| ters, which did not refer to the houses. Other tasks are equally Communist or spy charges against important. | Dr. Lattimore. The two women eventually dis-| Don't Know Him covered what they were supposed All four foreign policy chiefs to do and began doing it. Mrs, | Stated that they did not know Dr. Draper found out by accident that 1 she was supposed to send the|Sulted him. names of deceased voters to the! county legislation office. None had
nce 1947. been sent there sine 1 He said he couldn't remengber Dr. Carr, the dentist, currently oon iting him on any subject. is examining the teeth of children jy. Byrnes wrote that he not
in Perry Township schools He ni 3 > ; , only had not conferred with Mr. finds schools in which the County! Lattimore; but he said he ha dentist has not been seen since ,.... corresponded with him.
1946. Ee Mr, Acheson, who has been unREPORT RUSS SEIZE SHIPS joer hot Republican fire, said that
: ince he became Secretary in FRANKFURT, Germany, Apr. % y 29 (UP)—Russian yw the|January, 1949, responsibility for
\ In an almost unprecedented ex-| personnel was changed on Jan. change of -correspondence, the|as 1 when it bgcame a Democratic/four men in separate letters to/publicans are split several way [Chairman Millard E. Tydings.|and even some of the splinter (D. Md.) of the Senate Foreign|factions are split. 9 Subcommittee denied fore had any in-igion of slat I decisions cover-
Lattimore and had never con-|
{seeking the 38 nominations. | Confusion of Slates
es with two
organiza a city hall organisation. At least one minor faction will be passing out slates for some offices. | To these factional tickets will be added recommendations of {special groups, such as labor {unions, many of which will jam |the mails tomorrow.
Particularly in the Congressional race, Republicans have
{party's {Democrats oppose the renomina[tion of incumbent Democrat An- | drew- Jacobs; | Thirty-seven candidates, 19 Re- | publicans and 18 Democrats, are {seeking trustee nomination in the {county's nine townships.
One’ of the few races in which
nomination and two
Slates will be a dime a dozen voters approach the polls, Re-| nominees for County auditor,
«| treasurer,
Democrats, too, face a confumajor
tion members wn Jerry Dunaway
jeriminal {courts and probate court, In ade {dition the partisans will select
recorder, coroner, sure | veyor, assessor, second and third district commissioner, second dis trict councilman and three coune cilmen at large.
‘Frisky as Colt’ In St. Vincent's
JERRY DUNAWAY, 7-year. old leukemia sufferer, was “as | frisky as a colt” last night in {St. Vincent's Hospital. . { His bedside companion, Tony
Mr. Hull wrote Dr. Lattimore pandjed charges of “bossism” as Diggin, 11, also suffering from the in 20 sense” was the “principal an issue in the primary. Five dreaded cancer of the blood, was architect” of Far Eastern policy. Republicans are seeking their|released from the hospital yester-
day afternoon. Listed as critical Iby hospital authorities earlier in {the week, his condition was | “greatly improved” last night, his {parents said. Jerry remained in good spirits and was scheduled tq begin receiving injections of the wonder drug ACTH last night. A shipe ment of the rare drug arrived
-the six highest paid officials, ac- pin, Winners of the next four : cording to the firm's latest finan- | t spelling bee pins and : cial statement filed with the Se-|Places got spelling P : Carol Grosdidi ange-Commission, (Pen and pencil sets. Fol ‘arosdidier “21 Carol will go to ‘Washingto SR ——
| . |D. C., May 21 for a week of sight-| é : y {seeing and fun and competition] 0C § lin_the National Spelling Bee.
Insid nsi e : |" Never having been up in a : : ; ® iplane or on a railroad train, Carol} : ; The Times a jsaid she wanted to go to wie BY Law Violations
Hngton by -plane--and-return -py= : : . .. train. She consistently carries af . i First Section Slain Hoodlum Aided Page St: Patrick’s.
{99 per cent average in grades at The issues as the congres- | Her favorite school study Is Federal Probers & sional candidates see them 2 arithmetic and she says she isn'ty KANSAS CITY, Mo; Apr. 2 Murat Temple's Spring Cere- |particularly interested in spelling. (UP) —The Federal Grand Jury monial .. 3 She says she “studied hard” the which has been ' Interview - with Teamsters’ Boss Dan Tobin ........ America’s No. 1 Killer . .
Heart Disease . . . First in 8 series ....oiiiinnen :
sesssene tessa ane
4 the spelldown. Last year Caroll \was spelled down in the second | Instigation of President Truman
| semifinals. declared today it had found Doesn't Miss ‘Jugular’ | “shocking” evidence of many The word she missed last year State law violations and corrup-
Second Section |came up for her again yesterday. tion in public office. Baseball News . . . Speedway | But she spelled it correctly this' The grand jury reported that
4 ‘time. It was “jugular”. Flashes ; . . Eddie Ash .. 15-19, ¢ How to vote on a voting ma-. | Sobbing and shaking nervously, its inquiry by one of the sochine , .. Sample ballot ., 22 50m her haphinese at having called “tough men” of the local > Treas won the covete e, : |underworld, slain Charles GarSeeds of Treason ........... not speak to the crowd for seve . ; . eral minutes. {long known as an underworl Third Section It was Sniy after a | Sniforest., was shot to dea Katy Atkins . . . Louise assured by Xkmilie » “lalong with Charles. Binaggio, Fletcher's Counter-Spy ... $1/Pion in 1948 and 1949, who was a|North End Democratic boss and : spectator, that she accepted the gampler, Apr. 5. Sih . - Fourth Section Exclusive Real Estate advertising . . . Harold Hartley’s
: well wishers. congratulations of Gargotta ‘Sang’ Business . . . Larry Stiller-
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Emilie pinned on her champion’s| : Gargotta feared the Federal
medal. Words missed by the last five, Government. He “sang” when runnersup: included “anomalous,” questioned.
“anachronism,” “acrimonious.” The jury remarked that it was
. investigating
last three weeks to get ready fOrl,njerworld activities here at the|
gotta. The 49-year-old hoodlum;
man’s Real Estate news . 45-60,
Other Features
Amusements ..........28,29 The car ran into the lane of onaad Department. Hundreds of gram- Gargotta became the first witness 32d St., in the 700 block of N./will shut at 10:30 p. m. » ZANtom OMIES : 1xenrvess oe 2 mar school pupils competed init “Violate the code of the under- Soming traffs hate 1 struck 3 Belmont St. : In the first nine days of the Editorials .... g¢ |climination contests. world by disclosing the names of|93' of River Rouge, Mich, state| Eddie Roberts. 48, 'of Green- fair, more than 90,000 have et 38 ae, his partners and associates 23 0 i vor : ' is field, a pedestrian, was hit by|thronged through the “miracle of Food .« areas Damp Weather the race horsé wire news and| Police said. : a car driven by Mrs. Marie 38th St,” the biggest eyeful of De a S ; bling enterprises.” Mr. Hinebaugh was in the hos-| jewell, 39, of 2009 Broadway, inihousing ever to sweep through! FOrUM .coseccesssesves 26 . gambling enterp dition, M Gardening :............ 4 | 10 Stay Tonight 5 $34.5 Million Business = |[Pital in serious condition. MT. the 500 block of N. Noble St. Indiana. Hollywood ++e:cocoeasse 28 : | The Federal Grand J Wrodleski and his passenger, ye was taken to General Hos-| It's a must for home-owners, side Indianhpolis .... 21 You might as well stay in bed , et li in Jury seport- Shirley Wrodleski, were not hurt/ pita) where it was believed he current and contemplating. Mrs. Manners ......... today. usly. > {had internal injuries. | frtonen eres © Obituaries 2 ivesse " That was the baleful advice of IY area annually totalled about Girl's Leg Broken | Another . pedestrian, Barchie Notice to | fe | ee hg oy the weatherman who said the $345 million, of which $19 million, Mr, died in Culver Hos-‘Caswell, 39, of Franklin, was YO nspectors | RAMIO, oxersssersr inns 30 same went over the crap tables. pital in Crawfordsville. He Was treated at Methodist Hospital Precinct election inspectors RECOTdS +eesesiesssess28,29 “shocking,” the federaliriding with Carl Witt, 22, of after he was hit by a car driven must report to the Court House RUAIR sors rersntananee’ 2h sald, to see opera-/Roachdale, whose car left the py Charles Randall, 29, of 5060 between 8 a. gm, and 4 p. m. tol Seeds of Treason ...... 30° | and struck a tree. W. Naomi St. He suffered a pos- receive for Tuesday's BOCItY «.ouovseirnune 3 : Mr. Witt was admitted to thelisible skull fracture. * primary election. A. Jack Tilson, TOMS. ...ivversrsnnsinns hospital with a broken leg Mrs. Harriett Rubly, 66, of 5911 secretary of the Marion County
Earl Wilson
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The spelling bee was staged by {The s with the co-operation of the City Park and Recreation
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|the “most striking illustration of ‘salutary awe and respect for the Federal Government” listen as
running
green,” another woman says. Mosquitoes whine their appreci- to have: “knidnapped” three Danation when they come across such ish fishing cutters.
Three persons were killed on Indiana highways yesterday and
"29 gix persons were injured on Indianapolis streets as heavy rains
| intensified driving hazards. -Indianapolis -police-said- they had ithe 24 hours ending at midnight. Forty-six accidents occurred
within the city in.the period between 1 p. m. and midnight.
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water right out the front yard to Baltic area, where Soviet fighters
an open ditch, where it sits andiare thought to have shot down a| 9 |p -| stagnates—until-—it's a scummy U.S. Navy. patrol plane and taltlor of the President. {Two Democrats, one of them the |10-man crew, today were reported
3 Killed on State Highways 25th Home SHOW |e iment ie orice coi bn une sie shomas 3: And & Hurt on City Streetsp oc out Tonight ore oan vies ere
handled 74 accident cases in|
‘making -fogeign policy -has- been choices. are down to two is the his alone, subject “to the direc. | race for prosecutor nomination.
[~ Mr. Lattimore has describeq incumbent —and-two-Republicans' ACTORS pes Tory a Is “ are up for nominations. : : BWaY. himself as the “least consulted p for Eastern Ave., would receive B50 | Far Eastern expert.” . | Five Republicans and milligrams of the miracle hore { Democrats will tee off for their mone daily until Wednesday, nominations for county
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[appears ‘marriage Diggins, 1064 Oliver Ave. follow= orivense racket which-normmaily nga series-of Xerays and -blood transfusions. He was to return to the hospital for additional trans | - By coincidence voters in both fusions and tests tomorrow. He |parties will have 56 candidates planned to attend mass this mornfrom which to choose their. re-|ing at St. Patrick's Church and in his
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By LARRY STIGLERMAN -
Times Real Estate Editor | The silver-draped curtain will spective parties’ 11 nominees for entertain his schoolmates
|swing down on the 25th anniver- Marion County Representative in'home this afternoon.
{sary Home Show. tonight.
od
Five pedestrians were injured, three critically. Police said 12 drivers were
i neld 2300 block of W. 10th St.
itoxicated. 128, of 1225 N. Livingston St, | Mrs. Marie Aisthorpe, 28, of James Whitaker, 9, of 331 W Winslow, was killed one mile{13th St., was taken to Genera
{was helped along considerably! north of Winslow on State Road Hospital last night with critical ———— on i
61. She was riding with her hus- injuries after he was hit by a car| band, Jack, when their car went/in the 1200 block of N. Senate Home Show Facts
lout of control and struck a bridge. Ave. Mr. Aisthorpe was uninjured. | The boy was running across John Brockman of Germantown died in Reid Memorial Hospital in Richmond of injuries received lin a crash on U. 8. 40 at the {eastern edge of Cambridge City. Herschel Robbins, 30, of Roach-|. {dale, was killed on Ind. 136 three miles west of Roachdale. | Mr. Brockman was riding in a 'car driven by Eddie Hinebaugh, (19, of Germantown. The car skidded and Mr. Hinebaugh lost control.
611 N. California St., police said
Robert Tracy, 78, of 915 N
tion was regarded as critical.
In Indianapolis, 5-year-old Dea-
The child .was struck in the| Hoosiers to mill through the bigby a|gest shelter show in Hoosier his-| What Was « sn i
on charges of driving while in-car driven by James J. Magill,
the| street when he was hit by a car, Building, State Fairgrounds. driven by Mansfield Mason, 34, of|
He suttereas broken, FE 16) (02 nght savings time)
Traub Ave., was taken to General “MEd " ! : {at the “Midwest House” and the Hospital ith r BEOKED Jaw and household displays. possible skull fracture. His con - Ends at 10:30 p. m. {
side of a car driven by Leon-
Police said he walked into or will open at 11 a. m., daylight ard S. Chandler, 43, of 142 W,
Madison Ave. was taken to St. election board, said Tomlinson
Today's the final day for] ; op
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The Amerasia Case?
. sparkling housing exposition and li more than 10,000 are expected to| The map of the world might be different today and the threat of another global © war might not be so ominous if the sensational Amerosia case-had been blasted open instead of being hushed up. Here is a true story full of names, dates and places . . . a story that the American
public needs to know. It is told in 0 clear-cut and comprehensive manner that spells out its international significance . . . 4
-All-Indiana Day. WHERE — Manufacturers |
WHEN — Final showing to- ‘| day, 11 a. m. to 10:30 pgm |
‘|sigh wishful “oh’s” and “ah’s”|
Doors to the Silver Anniversary
savings time. The Manufacturers Building in the State Fairgrounds
By FREDERICK WOLTMAN
Pulitzer-Prize Reporter and Investigator for The Indianapolis Times os
Starts MONDAY i THE INDIANAPOLI
Hospital with head in-'Hall would not be available for|
yesterday by air from New York. » » s ;
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