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PRICE FIVE CENTS

County Snubs Low Bids on Food, Supplies

Commissioners Give No Official Reason

By JOHN V. WILSON One-fourth of the low bids on food and supplies were bypassed by County Commis-

sioners today without official explanation, |

A survey of 23 contracts awarded yesterday for the April-May-June period showed rejection] of six low bids which would have| saved Marion County several hundred . dollars. Commissioners passed up sav-| ings on such quantity items as: Bacon — 37 Cents a pound, 5 cents below the accepted bid. Loin Steak—45 Cents a pound, 3 cents less than approved bid. Butter — 69 Cents a pound, 6 cents under awarded contract. | Eggs, Grade A Large—42 Cents, a dozen, 3 cents under winning bid. ‘State laws require the filing of a statement of reasons for select-| ing a bid other than the low one.| But no statement could be found in Commissioners’ records today.|

+ ‘Ridiculously Low’

. Reminded of the regulation, Commissioners Jesse A. Hutsell; and Dr. Golden P. Silver said] they would prepare the required) statement in a few days. Asked why the low bids were rejected, Mr. Hutsell replied: “W didn’t think those firms could furnish the supplies at those low prices. We tried to give everybody that was bidding a little break.” Dr. Silver termed the rejected bids “ridiculously low.” But he admitted, “I'm not very happy myself with all these contracts.” The hodge-podge bidding system under which commissioners wield only .a loose check-rein over Marion County's multi-million dollar spending was reported in The Times two months ago. Some Reasons

The low bids rejected yesterday|.

pital supplies, paper goods and janitor supplies. One low bid of $62.07 was rejected in favor of bids of $67 and $99.18 for janitor supplies. For fruits and vegetables, the commissioners had a choice of six, wholesalers. None quoted actual] prices, stating instead, they would] supply the items at prevailing! day-to-day prices. .

Merchants Listed

The system has been criticized | frequently because low bids are snubbed without giving the re-| quired explanation. It has been; estimated the county lost thou-| sands of dollars in recent years! because commissioners accepted higher bidders. ' Merchants who won the new quarterly contracts over lower bidders were: Meat, Vogel's Market; butter and eggs, J. D. Cronin Co.; hos-| pital supplies, Akron Surgical Co.; paper goods, Paper Service and Office Supply Co., and janitor supplies, Elkins Supply Co. and H. P. Chemical Co.

Cah Strike Front Quiet

A lull in the storm, at least, ap-| peared to have resulted today from stepped-up police efforts to curb violence in the Red Cab Co.! strike. No new incidents were reported in 30 hours—contrasting sharply with night before last’s reign of terror, when dynamite and shotgun blasts and other violence

marked the nearly-5-week-old la-| ~

bor dispute.

We Like the Model, Not the Convertible

WIDE OPEN SPACES—In 1913, as today, a young man's fancy turned to thoughts of convertibles. "Let's put the top down" was a magic phrase, if not in fact, in fancy. Wm, H. Block Co. Model Jean Schneider watches patiently as Times Columnist Ed Sovola begins to blow his . . . begins to put his top down.

Dispute Over

Warrant Marks Morals Case

‘Missing’ Paper Found, But Maybe Too Late

By CARL HENN

the trial of TV Magician Duke Stern was solved today

—but perhaps too late. The search warrant, subject of an extended legal hassle in Municipal Court 3 yesterday, was not missing but actually where it was supposed to be—locked in the safe in the clerk’s office. Shortly after the state completed its evidence against Stern, charged with possessing obscene literature, Defense Attorney Max Farb made a technical motion to throw the whole case out court. The attorney asked Special Judge Wilson Daily to strike out all the state's evidence and discharge the defendant on the grounds the state had failed to introduce the warrant as evidence.

Recessed Until Monday

court decisions to back up his motion. Deputy Prosecutor Harry Riddell argued it was too late for the defense to challenge the warrant since the issue was not raised when arresting officers testified. Judge Daily recessed the case until 3 p. m. Monday to give the state more time to prepare a, complete answer to the defense motion. After the courtroom debate, Mr. Riddell said the state failed to introduce the seArch warrant for a good and simple reason— it had disappeared. But today, the deputy said the warrant was where it should have been all the time-—locked in the clerk's safe,

‘We Don’t Need eo ’ “We don’t need the warrant anyhow,” he declared. “We'll win

our case. And if not, we'll appeal it”

THE GOOD OL' DAYS?—Where there is a will there is a way with a 1913 Buick convertible, but Jean is wondering why "Mr. Inside" takes so long. Four cotter pins, three skinned knuckles, a sprained back and one frapped arm later, our hero is ready for the open road. So is Jean, enough is enough . . .

Times Phofos by Dean Timmerman

OFF IN A PUFF AND HUFF—A young lady can't and won't wait all day for a ride. There are other and more simple ways of touring the country, good-by. Cheer up, lad, maybe it will rain and she'll be happy to listen to reason and wait until you put the top up. Turn to Page 23 for the real "good ol' days."

mes mice muses somes Tins Customers Fail

ONE — Police Chief added two men to Capt. Richard|

Ambuhl;

Jacob's internal security division, | assigned to watch the strike.! That will give internal security| a middle (afternoon and evening)! shift. ' | TWO—Additional cars were as-| signed exclusively to taxi strike patrol. All squads, however, were alerted by special orders for strike violence. :

Safety Board Acted

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To Detect $60 Holdup

Ray Jobe, 20 years old and new bought cigarets from the maon the job, nervously rang up chine and left, “No Sale” in the Wake Up filling] A few minutes earlier, another

Mrs, Eva Brunner, veteran employee in the clerk’s office, confirmed the disputed warrant was in the safe all the time. She said

cers to pick up the warrant and take it to the trial. After the courtroom squabble over the warrant yesterday, Mr. Farb said, “I heard they lost it.” Chief prosecuting. witness against the 39-year-old magician was Officer Lawrence Gaston, member of the vice squad led by Lt. Russell Carmichael. Officer Gaston testified he entered the Acme Novelty Shop, 10 E. Market St., before noon Feb. 26, and asked Stern who heads the shop's magic department to see some playing cards.

‘A Good Deck’ .

The officer said Stern first showed him a trick deck of |cards. “Then I asked him to see a 'good deck,” the officer testified. He said Stern went into the {back of ‘the shop and came back |with a deck of cards in a plain, junprinted container. The cards, several decks of which were introduced as evi|dence, carried photographs of both men and women in unnatural poses. | “I told him the price—$3.50— ‘was too high and left,” the officer said. He testified he then obtained a search warrant signed by Judge Scott McDonald and returned with Lt. Carmichael that afternoon

A Defense Challenge After reading the warrant to {Stern, the officer said he asked: “Do you want to show us where it is or do we have to look for it | He said Stern protested he was Inot the owner of the shop and

{then opened the drawer contain-|

{ing the cards and some booklets also confiscated by the police. In ecross-questioning state witnesses, the defense indicated it

Lives of 4

Mr. Farb cited several higher|

Bone Meal Found Anthrax Infected

“The mystery of the missing warrant” that interrupted, |

Feud Takes

Hoosier Hills

Farmer Kills Three Neighbors, Then Self

| Times State Service

| BIRDSEYE, Mar. 28—A| (vengeful farmer wiped out, |a neighbor family of three to ‘end an old southern Indiana

{hill country feud, authorities said | today. © Then the 46-year-old slayer, Russell Heollowel, killed himself by eating rat poison, officers said. Crawford County Sheriff James E. Sturgeon and state police officers Walter Weyland and Allan Groves last night found the body of Frank Crockett, 37, lying on a sideroad in this hilly coun, try not far from the Ohio River. Then went to the small Crockett home alongside Mitchell Creek and found the bodies of Frank's

brother, Nolan, 35, and their mother, Mrs. Pearl Crockett, about 70.

Nolan had been shot three times and Mrs. Crockett twice. The officers went to the nearby farm home of Frank Williamson, Hollowell's brother-in-law, and in the barn they found Hollowell, stretched out semiconscious in a haystack. \ .

Rifle Alongside

Alongside him lay a 22-caliber rifle, a half-full pint of whisky, and a package of sodium fluoride, | which is used for rat poison.

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Mrs. Granny Scpagg (haint no migter in this here strip)

O her daghter Daisy Mae Scragg (drool, drool, smack, smack)

L'il Abner Yokum ($$$ fo me) Sat'dy, Mar. 29, pineteen hunert an figy to In Dogpatch Yunited Sgates of Hegmerica, And The Times Comic Pages

I.S. Spank Yo chullins an leave um home but bring yo (slurp) pigs

g' the hitchin’

Li'l Abner Weds

And It's a Daisy

If you've been following the daily doin’s of Li'l Abner in Dogpatch (and who hasn't been?) .and wondering if this charming chunk of red-blooded American manhood might ever be married to Beautiful Daisy Mae (again, who hasn't been?), you might be surprised, perplexed, startled, confounded (to

Today's News In The Times

Local

Page Five GOP contests develop as

Officers forced hot water down | filings close ............... 8

to administer an antidote. Hollowell was rushed to Stork Hospital in Huntingburg. {| The slayer's . stomach was pumped. He regdined conscious{ness briefly and looked up at the doctors and policemen areund him. | | “I got nothing against you, fellas,” he said, “but I sure got| them other critters.” | | Then he closed his eyes and| died. | Sheriff Sturgeon said the slay-| ings apparently were the climax | [of an old feud between the {Crocketts and the Hollowells who | {lived on adjoining farms.

Died in the Road

It came to a head about a month ago when Hollowell lost this billfold - while attending a night school class in farming at jnearby English. | He suspected one of the Crocketts of taking the bilifold, and although it later was found intact, he harhored the grudge, Sheriff | Sturgeon said. | Last night about 6:30, the sher|iff said, Hollowell met Frank {Crockett on the Riceville and An-| {derson City road. Frank was on his way to classes at English Hollowell had the rifle and he had| |begn drinking, Sheriff Sturgeon! |said. { | He apparently shot Frank on

|sight. The victim died in the icenter of the road. | Then Hollowell went to the

{Crockett farm about a mile away. | Mrs. Crockett and Nolan heard him coming, {it appeared, and when he set foot on the front porch, they tried to flee into the ! kitchen at the rear of the house

Told Mother and Sister

Hollowpll leveled his rifle and fired through the front door window. Both the Crocketts died in

station at Madison Ave. and Mc- man had walked in while Ray Would challenge the arrest of their tracks,

three strangers left. One was a bandit who relieved Ray of $60. The other two men came into the station during the

the safe. The bandit jahbed harder with

in Ray's back. “The more I think

whatever it was he was sticking

Carty St. last night after the fumbled at the combination of Stern on the “possession” charge

on the grounds that as an employee Stern was not technically in possession. The vice squad officers also tes-

The steps were taken after the holdup and left without an ink- 44,6,¢"it the more I think it was [fied the arrest followed an in-

Board of Safety instructed Chief Ambuhl to throw all the resources

of his department into an effort Ray “kept winking at one of to halt the violence against per- them and thumping on his toe

sons and property. However, Judge Philip ‘L. Bayt, former Mayor, delivered a blast against the administration which succeeded his for “not taking steps to bring about a settlement” of the strike. — ine Judge Bayt was sitting in Municipal Court 3 hearing cases of four men charged with violent acts committed during the strike.| - “If this court had jurisdiction, I'd do something,” Judge Bayt said. . : “The Board of Safety, which has jurisdiction over cab licenses, is not taking any action to halt the violence. Some of them are down in Florida afraid to come back as long as it (the strike) is going on.” + sian "’ (Mayor Clark is vacationihg in Florida, and some observers in-| terpreted Judge Bayt's remarks as a crack at him.) i

tinued or a change of venue

ling the robbery was going on. 5 gyn: They didn’t know even though Sycamore St.

“Get up and act like nothing's

find Ind. 67. | Ray, wh . Balmy Week-End teh hid Hr een Th

* week, didn't know. But the stickComing Our Way up ‘man obligingly supplied diMarch, which entered like a

rections. lion, will uphold tradition by leav- However, ing like a lamb. That's what the weatherman said today as he predicted a balmy week-end extending a through Monday, the end of the month. March had leaped in with

two inches of snow and freezing Priest Tried for Aiding

temperatures its first day. . . . There'll be a touch of frost to- U. S. Flier in China

night, but tomorrow will find temperatures pulling up to 54. Same. good news for Sunday.

interruptions.

nd the $83 it contained intact.

It is now a crime to help American flyers shot down in China,

TEMPERATURES . ' [the Catholic Weekly Examiner Sum: Y. tha.m.,.. 40 {0 100a). 7g. m... 85 11 a.m... 47 8a.m... 36 12 (noon) 47 9a.m.... 38 1p m.. 49

Latest humidity seeesse 41% airmen.

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sald Ray, who lives at 36

appening,” the holdup man said. he told The Times. That stranger mn, first visitor asked how to

the bandit—who earlier had taken $60 from Ray— was getting discouraged by the

He gave up, leaving the safe

HONG KONG, Mar, 28 (UP)—

vestigation of complaints from school duthorities that obscene photographs and booklets were being sold here to juveniles, ¥

Easter as Seen By a Small Boy

Easter . . . As seen through the eyes of a small boy . . “A Boy at Calvary,” a picture story of Easter, starts Monday in The Times. You . will get a new understanding | of Easter, as did the little boy, when you read “A Boy at Calvary.” Starting Monday exclusively in The Times.

Enemy's Cost in Men Put at 1,670,000

WASHINGTON, Mar. 28 (UP)

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Hollowell went to his own farm home, where he told his mother and sister what he had done. A short time later’ he got in touch with Willard St. Clair, another student at the night school, and told him of the slayings. Mr. St. Clair notified Sturgeon and state police. |found the bodies. { Sheriff Sturgeon said Mrs. |Crockett’s husband had not lived {with her and his sons for years. The Crocketts’' bodies were removed to a funeral home in English.

Blast Rocks U. S. | Office in Syria DAMASCUS; Syria, Mar. 28

(UP) — A bomb explosion deistroyed the offices of the United

Sheriff They

States Information Service here’

early today and killed a native radio operator.

{ The bomb was ‘placed in the {U.8.1.8. garden and the explosion (was described as ‘most severe.” | { |

WASHINGTON, Mar. 28 (UP),

The paper said that an uniden-| ~The Defense Department today —The United States will protest [tified German priest was recently estimated that enemy casualties formally to Syria against the [tried publicly by West China in Korea from the beginning of bombing of the U. 8. Information Communists for i American the war through Mar, 19 now to- Office in Damascus, the State De-|

partment said today. |

it was normal procedure for offi-/Hollowell's throat in an attempt| Indiana leaders adopt new pol-

icy on politics. , . , Labor in Indiana today Army bandsmen at Atterbury lead a rough life...

National FBI looking for sabotage in anthrax outbreak ........ 8 “Big Earl” Shelton longing for a home ...... Fhestneey aves Will Willie Sutton say he was curled up with a book during big robbery?....00044.4 21

Foreign 12 Iranians die in rioting against U. 8. «..c00000000. 20

Sports

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Six players to help bolster Indians Jimmie Angelopolous to coach

mat squad ........ tveeres IB Putnam puts Fi-Blak league on howling map ..vsvveese 26

Puddinhead using bat to get

out of dog house ......... 1% Davey fight agreement only verbal .....civuvs cevssnses 1

Other Features:

Amusements siseeeveesae 38 Comics ...iviesee ess 28, 29 Crossword tessssanns . 29 Editorials +s.eecense esses 24 FOPUM .i.iinnvie esesnse 24 Harold Hartley ceessvsee 20 In Hollywood .eiveses se 18 Radio, Television ...e040 18 Robert Ruark ..... sseee 23 Ed S0v0la seeseses sesees 23 Bports ....ceee0000 ves 25-27 Earl Wilson +... senses 23 Women's ,...seevinine « 9-11 What Goes on Here .

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'Tain’t Funny, Chief—

260-Pound

‘Stuck’ With Tiny

By United Press

NEW BALTIMORE, Mich, Mar. 28 -- Bulky Charles Ackley said today he's going to quit the police force because an undersize scout car has changed him from a policeman to a Pied Piper,

“I have to grunt to squeeze into it,” the 260-pound Ackley sald, “and wherever I go the kids follow me around, laughing and velling ‘Hen-reeee'"”’ Also following Mr. Ackley vesterday was a mock -scout car driven by a disgruntled auto dealef, Ted Brousseau whose bid to furnish the new car for the force wasn't accepted. On Mr. Brousseau’'s car, a bamboo fishing pole served for a radio antenna and a battered telephone for a radio. A sign on the side said “Please” instead of “Police.” Bringing up the rear of the parade was Councilman Fred Blay, who sold the midget auto to the police force. Pointing at the snickering Brousseau rolling by in his “Please” car Mr. Blay shouted, “arrest that man for impersonating a policeman.” Lloyd Rivard, chief of the village's three-man force, declined to arrest Mr. Brousseau. Chief Rivard said he §ym- >

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say nothing of being staggered) by recent developments. These recent developments, to say the most, are leading to the marriage of Li'l Abner Yokum (swoon) and Daisy Mae Scragg (sigh). It looks as if the society event of the century cannot be avoided. In fact, we're sure it will not be. The wedding will take place tomorrow. But, being of a suspicious nature, we decided to search out Al Capp, who has been closest to Li'l Abner down through the years and who, we thought, could speak for his hillbilly pal. “1 agree with you,” sald Capp in his Boston studio. “It DOES look as though that trembling lout, Yokum, is finally bein married to that juicy norses Daisy Mae. “But, frankly, I won't believe it until I hear his Mammy admit that it is true. She's the only one in the family I trust. “I've been tricked by Li'l Abner too often in the past to take stock in anything HE claims, and as for Daisy Mae, she WANTS to be married so

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Li"l Abner

Daisy Mae #

| fr that any claims | she might make is apt to be fifty percent wishful thinking. I won't even discuss Pappy's

veracity or reliability, since

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| worm life. “Pm just biding my time until I hear from Mammy Yokum, “When she says it's true—finally, fatally true that they're married—I'll know it is. Not a | minute before.”

There you are, readers. That's (disease in animals in the

| the story. Hint A-Blasts Planned LAS VEGAS, Nev,

(UP)—A new series

near here, the

Commission indicated last night.

Policeman Car

of atomic blasts may be set off soon at the!

Frenchman's Flat testing grounds, Atomic Energy | Moore, sald the major problem in

by Kingan |

Swine Food Shipped Here

From Belgium

Tankage Given Steam Treatment

(Earlier Story, Page 5) By ANDY OLOFSON Kingan & Co. today hastily recalled recently-sold Belgian bone meal after its own tests indicated the meal was in. fected with the dreaded anthrax spores, 2 All bonemeal sold to , in the past week is being

and other stocks of the imported’ bonemeal are being decontamie

“Anthrax cannot be commu« nicated to humans in wells cooked meat,” Dr. Roy KE. Morse, director of research for Kingan & Co, ssid today in swer to The the possibility of x mans who [hit eat meat from diseased ;

nated under the direction of U. 8. Department of are *

to 221 degrees for 10. are -satisfied this process will decontaminate the meal.” Imported Meal Cheaper Kingan officials said the Bels glan bone meal was bought bee cause it is more economical than grinding up the ‘animal bones ob«

tained from {ts slaughtering operations. The company makes a

| profit by selling the bones and

buying the imported meal. The firm said only the bone meal sold in the last week is suse pected. :

Details of the Kingan tests

'|were not released, but it was une

derstood a guinea pig died within a short ‘time after being given the suspected meal, ', The recall order and the de-

contamination process followed the tests, 3

Serum Demand Heavy

Meanwhile, another Indianapolis firm, Pitman-Moore Co., ree ported it was flooded with ore ders for the anti-anthrax serum it produces. Orders jumped soon after the recent outbreak of the serious, {quick - developing “black blood”

Pid. State health authorities said

the disease had been detected in nine Indiana counties and that

west,

Mar. 28 the death of a Lagrange County

(farmer might have been caused by the disease. Dr. A. H. Cralg, Pitmane

the current. anthrax situation is the length of time needed to make the animal immune from the dis ease through the serum his firm produces. “It takes many months, for example, to immunize cattle, also subject to the disease,” Dr. Craig exnlained. “But the disease in animals {is [very ranid, the animals often {dying within hours or at least in a few days after first showing ‘symptoms of the disease.”

Difficult to Eradicate The doctor said once anthrax

" '1s established in any area it is

{very difficult to eradicate fit. “The anthrax spores get inte {the soil,” he explained. “And they stay there for years. “There have been established (anthrax areas like Louisiana but {heretofore the Midwest has been quite free of infection.” The most serious outbreak of anthrax was discovered in Ohio a few weeks ago. It since has been detected in Indiana, Illinois land Wisconsin. Public Protected

In each case the outbreak of the disease was linked to bone Imeal bought in Belgium, a factor

pathized with Patrolman Ack- ‘that inspired the special tests.

ley but that the force is stuck with its new car.

“I'm stuck too,” Mr. Ack-

ley said. “I can’t get in and |public had

out of the thing fast enough. It's a nice car, but not for a man of my size. I guess I'll have to quit.” . : 4 “Don't worry about Ackley uitting,” sajd Couneilman lay. “He's going to be fired.”

conducted by the Kingan firm here. # ; | Health authorities sat . the virtually no fear from meat processed by a packer federal or state

En slaughter

might come from small houses were no official

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