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[sceiprs “wowarpY 63d YEAR—NUMBER 44

Play Days Are

swing. Arriving early for choice seats are Diane water and Steve Unversaw. .

MAKING READY FOR THE KIDS—Eugene Brown, foreman, holds up his end while workmen put together the slide at Rhodius Park.

Nationwide TV Repair Racket Investigated

By United Press « CHICAGO, Apr. 25—A gyp television repair racket that bilked Chicago families of $1000 a day for three months is part of a nationwide pattern, the head of a national as-| sociation of reputable repairmen, said today.

Frank J. Moch, president of the . National Alliance of Electronic honest servicemen : would then Servicemen’s Associations, said work their racket simply by re-

FRIDAY, APRIL 25,

Grocers Toss

71Hot ‘Potato’

Reply to OPS

Ask What Is Ceiling Price on Spuds

By ANDY OLOFSON A “clean up or| shut up" boomerang today was tossed at OPS officials by irked grocers who contend they

have been trying for weeks to find out cefling prices on potatoes, ‘ The blunt retort came after

| OPS agents said a week-long in-| 7

vestigation showed widespread

€ [violation® of potato price ceilings

here. “They've got us over a barrel,” grunted H C. Hagelsk executive secretary of the dependent Retail Grocers and

Meat Dealers Association.

“For two weeks I've been try-

“After The Times. story ap peared yesterday,

ing price of 5 pounds for 41 cents

‘lon Maine potatoes. But we still

don’t have the foggiest idea of what the ceiling should be Yor

. |new or Idaho potatoes:

‘ ) + Times photos by William A, Jr. : PLAY DAYS IN PARK——Children in Rhodius Park neighborhood rush workmen seo they! can and Pamela Sutherfield, Gary and David Bridge. [the price limits are, I don’t see

‘Tired of Gobbledegook’ “If we don't even know what

how we can be charged with violations.

Uphold HST's Seizure Power

Aids Say Courts Can't Block Him

By United Press

with his exercise of them.

Assistant Holmes

Attorney Baldridge

mills to their owners.

Mr. Baldridge said

answer:

ary, but does not executive?”

Constitution.” Hadn't Heard It Before Judge Pine commented that he “never heard that expressed in

{any authoritative case” before.

Grant an injunction invalidating the seizure or, if that calls for further study issue an immediate order forbidding a governmentimposed wage boost, Mr, Truman seized the steel mills Apr. 8 to prevent a production stopping strike by the CIO United Steelworkers Union. Mr, Baldridge argued that the steel companies can file damage actions against the government under the Federal Tort Claims Act, but cannot get injunctive relief. He added that if the govern-

the racket spread throughout the placing an average of five tubes country from the East where it on the spot. is widespread. “Although a television set con-| der grand tains from 20 to 32 tubes, our, PE or ne {association has found that the Mr. Moch said it was likely that Usual repair job requires only an 200 families a day have been average of 13 new tubes,” he d b uick-profit repair |®= CT Se iri in rai | “We believe that one company

» |alone made $100,000 since it be-| The shops’ most vicious tech-2 y | nique, he said, is to get a set out|S2n operations about the first of a victim's home and into the|° oN 8 Jean Mr. Moch said. repair shop, where it could be r. Moch said he gave the “held for ransom.” same explanation of the fraud Mr. Moch, who also is head of © the grand jury yesterday. the Chicago Television Installa- | tion Service Association, said.the association uncovered the fraud The Boys Hope | and turned it over to law enforcement officials. He said his investi- To Bang Out a gation began when the association : received an “abnormal number” Pair of Homers of complaints from angry set By JOHN V. WILSON. es i The Indiana Reformatory baseOften No Work Done ball team gets two new candiMr. Moch gave this explanation dates today. of how the racket operated: But Judge Harry O. Chamber-/| The firms gain entrance to Chi-|lin, an ardent baseball fan, cago horhes by offering a $3 serv- Promised to do what he could to| ice call, an “appealing bargain.” Win them early probation if they, Once the repairman arrived he Made the “fine team” at Pendleinvariably attempted to take the ton. : set out of the home for service in| The two, who pleaded guilty in the repair shop. Mr. Moch said Criminal Court 1 of a $212 reputable servicemen prefer, when STOCery holdup here last Aug. 25, possible, to repair sets in the/are John Mitz Jr, 27, R. R. 1,| home. Indianapolis, and Avery Leroy] When the custower surrendered Dillinger, 19, Fountain Run, Ky. the set he was forced to pay a| Louwana Smith, cashler in “ransom” fee of from $35 to $50 Dady’s Market, 1802 W. Morris to get it back and did not receive| Ot. fold the, Judge . 2 hi oo an itemized receipt. “We found from tests on the held up. sets that a single tube would “I'm giving you poth a break,” | have corrected the trouble in! Judge Chamberlin told the bandits most cases,” Mr. Moch said. He as he sentenced both to the min-| sald that the tests also showed imum 10 years in the reform-| that often no work was done or atory. Neither carried a gun in| that “large numbers of tubes the holdup. Both are married replaced unnecessarily — and Mitz has a 3-year-old daugh-

ere ie with second hand ter. tubes.” Then Judge Chamberlin asked

In some cases the victims re- if .they played baseball, When] + fused to let their sets leave their they lied that they did, he ( Bomes. Mr, Moch said the dis-|made § promise. a - o - . ors

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ment imposes a wage increase on

on “a one-way street” because it is ready to grant price adjustments under the economic controls act. Plans Quick Action

When Mr, Baldridge said he did a, 47-year-old neighbor merchant south through an alley

not know whey, the price adjustment move would be made, Judge Pine retorted: “Then I shall have to act on

understanding of the case. “I can not assure you that I will take a week (Mr. Baldridge had asked for a week in which to dig up .cases bearing on the issue), It will probably be much less. The exigencies of the case require a prompt decision.”

Oh, Cold, Goodby Be High and Dry

Nasty weather, toodle—oo. Week - end forecast calls for fair and blue. .* *The weatherm tures over the from 6 to 10 dggrees above normal. And skiesfwill be clear for baseball, golf and Sunday driv-

ing. A high of 70 will be reached tomorrow, and the mercury will rise to 74 Sunday. 8

Times Index

Amusements ...ceveesees 20 Henry Butler .s.osvvseees 7

said tempera-

Bridge ...icvsvseveevaes 31 Comics ...vvvsiiessas 30, 31 Crossword +«..c.sssesass. 31 Editorials .....co0veeeaes 24 Harold Hartley +..0000000 34 In Hollywood ....oeovvees 20 Radio, Television ....... 26 Robert RUATK ....e0004s 23 Ed Sovola .e.cessnenee.s 23

SPORE ..vaseeveersses 27-29 Earl Wilson «...ce044s..-23 Women's ...,.. 0000 11-13 What Goes On rs ..... 19

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| WASHINGTON, Apr. 25— The i {government asserted the doctrine today that President Truman has ergency powers and i (that the courts may not interfere

The doctrine was voiced before Federal Judge David A. Pine by General in arguing f lagainst an industry request for | [return of government.seized steel

;| Mr, Baldridge’s sweeping declart lation appeared to surprise the ® judge. ! “Is that your concept of our government?” Judge Pine asked. it was. There followed this question and

“Then the Constitution limits Congress and it limits the judicilimit the

“That's the way we read the

“We're getting tired of all this gobbledegook. They are 8 to be working in the interests of the public and they ought to get busy and really control prices or else shut up. : Mr. Hagelskamp further said the independent grocers are not charging the full mark-up al-

lowed by OPS ns. All of them are ng smaller margins,

He explained a grade one store is permitted to add 32 per cent to its. wholesale cost for toes, “but our mark-ups are © ersuly fess than that” : chain store official here agreed it would be pri

were under ceilings.

Diffeult to Bua Irwin, | ri BE A & P stores here, salds

apply to everyone. “The base price changes every month, factors to be considered in figuring out the ceiling price, the poor grocer would have to have a special department just to keep him up to date.” OPS agents deny their regula-

they admitted the éventual ceiling prices could vary from store to store and from day to day. Meanwhile, OPS enforcement officials said the week-old investi-

next week. “There is evidence of violations! here and appropriate action will] be taken when the survey is com-

pleted,” a spokesman for OPS said.

Battle With

By CARL HENN

\years, a spunky Indianapolis

the industry, it is not traveling woman kept her dress shop from|Woman patient in Methodist Hos-

{being robbed today by putting up |a lively scrap against four young! | thugs. And—just like two years ago—

|came ' charging to her rescue, {scaring off the holdup men.

of the dress shop at 1605 N, Capitol Ave., and Russell E. Peterson, | {owner of the nearby furniture store at 1611 N. Capitol.

Mrs. Smith was standing near the door of her dress shop when the four juveniles entered. One drew a gun and said: “This iz a stickup.” {| “When I started to scream, they {grabbed me and tried to cover my mouth,” Mrs, Smith said.

‘Just Kept Screaming’

“But I just kept on screaming and pushing. “They turned and ran when

eek end will be Mr, Peterson came rushing in tol her experience.

{help me. In their haste- to get away, they pushed or shoved me fout the dodr and knocked me down to the sidewalk.” | Mr. Peterson said modestly: “I guess I was foolish rushing in like that, but when I heard |Mrs. Smith scréaming I thought {they were hurting her. So I just (ran. { “If IT had been in the back of my store, I would have grabbed imy gun and just waited for them {to come out.” | Startled witness to the dress shop fracas was a customer, Mrs. {Jane Wise, 50, of 1621 N. Capitol. | Mrs.” Wise, a receptionist at {Methodist Hospital, said: “I had just cashed my twoweek paycheck this morning, {When 1 saw them come in with {a gun, I tosed my purse behind {a rack of dresses. :

“But they didn't pay ampeat-|

5 * nancy

ing to get the OPS to tell us what} * | the price ceiling is on potatoes.

they finally| ‘ |broke down and gave me a ceils

practically impossible for a small independ-

“OPS regulations are so complicated—so many adds and deducts—there is no way of figuring a ceiling price that would

There are so many

tions are that complicated. But

gation of price ceiling violations The industry asked Judge Pine here would be continued until H

(yesterday to do one of two things:

Woman Wins Second

(tention to me. They had their] For the second time in two hands full with Mrs, Smith.”

lof Pandell’s Cast in leading roles in the re- Capitol

|this motion as expeditiously a8 peat drama were Mrs. Mary New- phoned Mrs, possible with calm, deliberate ton, gmith, 58-year-old proprietor of a deputy sheriff

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Entered as Second-Class Matter at Postofics

Indianapolis, Indians: Issued Daily.

30 Sailors Are Killed As xplosion Ri s . S. Cruiser St. Paul

Blast Off Korea Coast | Not Caused by Enemy;

Times oh

POP—John B. Seite has

‘|ward turret of the United States heavy cruiser St. }

{Navy said, :

, (sent by special delivery air mail i telegram. :

PRICE FIVE CENTS

No Wounded Reportec

; : Br United Press Fa TOKYO, (Saturday) Apr. 26—An explosion in the fe

killed 30 men Monday while the ship was firing on’ nist targets in Korea, the Navy announced today. The explosion was not caused by enemy ac

. It was the heaviest casualty sufféred by any U, in the Korea War, The previous high casualty list was: suffered when the destroyer Walke hit a mine near Wons June 12, 1051. in Details were lacking. A Navy spokesman in Tokyo said : a powder bag may have caught fire, leading to a heavy ex~ |plosion inside the turret. The explosion may have flashed down inside the turret's armor to kill the men in the upper ammunition handling room. Saar Every man within the vicinity of the explosion’ killed, the Navy said. There were no ‘wounded.

Delay Word to Next of Kin In Washington, the Navy said notifies

kin would be delayed slightly because of the strike. A Navy spo sid the notifica

By MERRIMAN SMITH United Press White House Reporter WASHINGTON, Apr. 25-—The worst word a person could use around the White House today was “ultimatum.” Members of President Truman's staff flinched at the mere thought of the word and hoped that their boss would not use it again in discussing international affairs. Mr. Truman himself was responsible for the allergy. Yesterday he told his news conference that in 1946 he personally sent a stinging ultimatum to Soviet Marshal Joseph Stalin that ran the {Russians out of Iran. Two hours« later, the White! ouse ruefully admitted that no

{such an ultimatum even was sent. |

White House aids said Mr. Truman was speaking in nontechnical terms and did not. mean the word ultimatum in the usual diplomatic sense, They argued that

Robbers

Meanwhile, an unidentified

pital added an extra role to the drama by informing police which way the four young thugs fled. From her high hospital window, the patient saw the boys run and to!

N. Meridian St. w

Florist 8hop, 1601 N.| Ave, Mazie Gillespie, wife Who is a designer in the florist shop. Mrs. Gillespie quickly called the officers from the squad car| and the patient described escape route, Minutes later, police had one! juvenile in custody and said they expected to capture the others shortly, Two years ago, Mrs. Smith (foiled two gunmen in a similar {holdup attempt by screaming and {battling the would-be robbers until Mr. Peterson came charging to her rescue. : “He's a wonderful neighbor,” sald Mrs. 8mith, still shaky from

the

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Writers, in panning Mr. Truman, said his ambition to bes come a history teacher when he retires suffered a severe jolt after his “yes-I-did,” then “no-I-didn’t” statement yesterday about his “ultimatum” to Joseph Stalin, The President not only irked the nation's worst énemies—but its best friends, too. See Page 9. Editorial, Page 24,

A similar explosion in a turret of the battleship Mises issippi in the 1920's led the Navy to redesign ite turrets'te prevent any recurrence, eR a

Ship War ll Veteran

Rear Adm. Earl E. Stone, commander of Division 1, who uses the St. Paul as his flagship, ord an immediate investigation of the accident. ' = The St. Paul's commander, Capt, Roy A. Gano, Falls Church, Va., kept his ship in position and continued action

he was speaking generally of his

country’s opposition to Russian post-war occupation of Iran.

They pointed out, tod, that this

government did send the Soviet government a note on Mar. 6, 1946, outlining the American position, Mr. Truman said his ultimatum was disclosed yesterday for the first time. A White House spokesman said later that the only note he knew anything about was the March ‘which was re leased to the entire world at the time, Mr. Truman's off-hand description of the way he told Stalin to clear out of Iran gave the State Department its worst start since the fall of 1950, when the President told reporters that use of the atom bomb in Korea was under active consideration, This brought a quick “clarification” from the White House just as his statement yesterday did. But the bomb statement also brought Clement R. Attlee, then

h | British Prime Minister, flying in| en police pulled up in front from London within a few days. Ina, Hudgens navel ict The State Department officially! es- | the patient tele- had “no pon on ‘the Iatest sional baseball as a center field-| Speedometer might

incident. But some diplomatic experts sald privately that the error was caught and corrected so rapidly that it probably would have “little,

if any” adverse effect abroad.

Latest humidity exsvve 419%

‘against the Communists. Sd The St. Paul is a 17,400-ton ship of the Baltimore

class and is a veteran of World War II. Instead of bein

put into mothballs as were most of the United States’ 1 heavier ships, she continued in active duty on the China station. ho

City Man's Brother Victim of Blast

Word was received here today months, married to a girl he met by an Indianapolis salesman that|While playing ball for the.

his brother was ons of 30 men |v 16 Cal, nine during 1048. killed in an explosion aboard the Dazenits and wite/live: at Tucson,

United States heavy cruiser St. :

Ba R. Hudgens, 23, had 350 Speedometers Get Radar Check

been assigned as signalman aboard the cruiser since finishing Half of the 350 speedometers | checked by radar in vali 3 mph, -

boot camp 3%; years ago. He was the | Yesterday were off 1 to

|due to leave the Navy next NoMost of the inaccurate were fast, Capt. Audry Jae

vember, Signalman Hudgens is brother of Willlam C. Hudgens, local refrigerator appliance sales- ; man with the D. R. Smith Co. five Police traffic chief, reported. years, bese ariptae he explained, _| “have unkno y been Born In Little Rock, Ark, Sig-| ove Wknowingly b exteeder in the Boston Red Sox farm 20 hour, the actual speed might chain before entering the service. be as high as 33 mph.” : |He was optioned to the Marion,| The check was conducfed for |0., club in the Ohio-Indiana 30Uthbound traffic on Wi . |League for the 1949 season, but! ton Blvd. between 34th and never played there. Sts. and will continue there until He was a bridegroom of six further notice, Capt. Jacobs said.

After Divorce —What? Victoria regretted her divorés, “I gave up what I wanted,” was her awakening. Her ‘Story .and the problems of others. after divorce—is revealed in a

series which starts Monday The Times: CE

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