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WEATHER TODAY Partly Cloudy Temperature Yesterday High, 71; Low, 51 Tie Indianapolis tak Section 1 FAIR AND FIRST VOL. 45. NO. 346 SUNDAY MORNING, MAY 16, 1948 1948 TRAFFIC TOLL 85 FIFTEEN CENTS UUVJ mm The Day In Indiana By Maurice Early Schricker Nominated? Pressure By Business Beer-Politics Issue Jobs Boom In Radio More Hon Building Arab Fury Loosed On Jewish State Four Armies Invade No Faking In These Smiles, Eh Rex Fastesf Time 3 Sides; First Day; Israel On Tel Aviv For Any 8 Others By HAROLD HARRISON, Sports Editor Rex Mays, the hurrying Californian, who is one of midget racings most prosperous car owners, will be "sitting on the pole" when the field roars away for the start of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway race on May 31. Mays, driving his familiar Bowes Seal Fast special, ripped off the fastest pole position speed in history yesterday as nine drivers qualified their cars for the 500-mile Tel Aviv, Israel, May 15 (AP) The army of Israel said its newborn state was invaded today from the north and south, shelled from the east and bombed and machine-gunned from the air.

Haganah, now the army of a new nation already recognized by the United States, said the Lebanese army attacked across the border from the north, the -Egyptian army speared into the Negeb Desert, and Trans-Jordan's Arab legion shelled four settlements on the Jordan valley classic before a crowd estimated at 40,000. frontier. US. May Lift Arms Embargo To Middle East President Studying Whole Question Of War Goods Exports Washington, May 15 President Truman may lift or modify his embargo on shipment of American guns, bullets, planes and other weapons to warring Jewish and Arab countries in tm? Middle East, it was leaned today. A White House official disclosed that Mr.

Truman is studying the whole question of arms exports in connection with the Palestine issues. He thus was following up his surprise announcement last night of American recognition of the new Jewish state of Israel. Some support for lifting the embargo came from members of Congress, where comment generally has upheld recognition of the new Jewish state. However, Representative Vorys warned against furnishing arms in a manner which would cause the United States to take sides in a "holy SENATOR CHAVEZ said he favors removing the embargo "for the Jews only." He adder: "Let the others get arms from England." Senator Edwin C. Johnson expressed himself as "sure for it" and described the embargo on arms for Jews as a "damn disgrace the most unfair thing that has ever happened." He declared Arabs were already Turn to Page 13, Column 8 Divorcee Slain By Bartender Painter Held As Material Witness It was one of the biggest open- ing-day outpourings of race fans in history.

Mays had a grin spread from ear to ear as he rolled into the pits after averaging 130.577 miles an hour for his 10-mile qualifying jaunt. The fastest speed ever registered before by a pole position winner was 130.138 miles an hour by the late Jimmy Syn-der in 1939. RALPH HEPBURN of Los Angeles, of course, owns the all-time qualifying speed record. That is 133.944 miles an hour set in 1946, but he did his run after the opening day, and thus did not win the pole spot in the front row. Riding alongside of Mays in the front row for the start of the race will be last year's one-two finishers Mauri Rose of South Bend, and Bill Holland of Bridgeport, Conn.

Qualifying trials at the Speedway again will be run from noon (Central Daylight Time) until 6 p.m. Speedway gates will be opened at 10 a.m. and officials at the track last night urged fans to come early nnd get 'in their seats to avoid a noontime rush at the entrances. Holland, who loafed around while Rose passed him to win the 1947 race, won the middle po sition in the front row by squeez ing in ahead of Rose after the latter had qualified at 129.129 miles an hour. Kicking his blue Crown Special up at a consistent rate which varied only thirteen one-hundredths of a second between the slowest and fastest lap, Holland breezed through his 10 miles at 129.515 miles an hour.

BUT THE ROAR of the huge crowd that greeted both Holland and Mays left no doubt as to the two fan favorites. There was a tremendous out- Blondie-e! Brazil Bumstead In Jam Brazil, May 15 (Spl.) An effort to haul a six-room house by truck cost Harrison F. Bum-stead a $200 fine in Clay Circuit Court today for overloading. State Police, who arrested the trucker, said the weight checked 26,000 pounds at one axle. A six-room prefabricated house was on the truck.

Prosecutor Eugene Weaver filed the case in circuit court and urged the $200 fine as an example to shippers who believe they can deliberately overload and then escape with a $25 fine. Indiana currently has a weight check drive in operation and the state is spending several millions of dollars patching damaged highways. REGARDLESS of his unwill-ingness to re-enter politics, former Governor Henry F. Schricker will be nominated for Governor in the Democratic state convention June 15, possibly without opposition, his backers declare. And they are now in virtually complete control of the machinery of the convention.

FOB WEEKS the draft-Schricker movement, which resulted in the ousting of Fleas E. lee as Democ a i state chairman, has been working derground. Prior io that a group of Democratic editors were publicly for Schricker and forced him to say "no" twice when they asked him to be a candidate. NOW IT DEVELOPS that the Schricker movement is much more widespread. Pressure has been brought to bear on him by business leaders, including Republicans.

They admit it would be a personal sacrifice for him to try for the governorship; that if elected he could not enhance his reputation in the state. But they insist it is his duty to respect the wishes of so many persons in the state. SCHRICKER backers are so certain that he will be compelled to accept the nomination that they are already speculating on the makeup of the rest of the Democratic state ticket. Since Schricker' home is In northern Indiana, the lieutenant governor nominee is likely to be from the southern part of the state. MORE THAN a year ago the new Democratic state chairman, Ira Haymaker Jr.

of Franklin, proposed a ticket headed by Schricker with John A. Watkins, Bloomfield editor, as the candidate for the second place. WATKINS is a veteran of both world wars, former state commander of the American Legion and past president of the Indiana Democratic Editorial Association. WALTER R. MYBECK, former Lake County clerk, who has been considering being a candidate for the nomination for Governor, probably will be slated for a place on the ticket possibly for secretary of state.

William Storen, former state treasurer, is men tioned for the state treasurer nomination. BUT as it appears more certain that the draft Schricker movement is rolling along, there may be a scramble for places on the ticket. ELIMINATION of Greenlee makes it possible for the Democrats to make an issue of political control of beer and liquor distribution. With Greenlee at the helm that would have been difficult because he headed the iron clad political control of beer and liquor distributors while patronage secretary to Governor Paul V. McNutt.

THERE IS a new shortage. This time it is a scarcity of persons to operate radio stations, especially in the smaller cities new stations are mushrooming. Dr. H. J.

Skornia, head of the radio department of Indiana University, reports he is swamped with demands for grad- uates trained in this field. Most of the requests are from the smaller towns in Indiana, Ohio and Illinois. THREE NEW radio stations, Dr. Skornia reports, have asked the university to provide them entire staffs. Jobs to be filled Include announcers, continuity writers, program salesmen, music librarians and persons familiar with transcriptions, music clearance and program building.

ENOUGH new houses were started last month in Indianapolis and Marion County to provide for the population of a good siied town. In spite of the handicaps of weather and the delay of Congress to extend the liberal provisions for veterans' loans 873 new housing units were started in the county last month, Fred L. Palmer of the Indiana Construction Industry reports. In April, 1947, there were only S27 new house, started. Bombed In Jerusalem Itself the British army announced it had completed evacuation of all its forces.

Haganah said its troops were taking over British installations as soon as the British stepped out. The United Nations Consular Commission continued to negotiate for a truce in the Holy City. (THE EGYPTIAN army said two columns of coops invaded southern Palestine and one destroyed the Jewish settlement of Al Dangor, 13 miles southeast of Gaza. This would be in the territory of Israel, as defined in the United Nations decision on partition. (The Cairo newspaper Al Assas said Gaza, Arab city 20 miles inside Palestine on the coast, had fallen to the Egyptians.

(A dispatch from Beirut said Lebanese troops had captured Malikya, a town a mile inside Isreal on the northern frontier. (Advance patrols of the Syrian Army grabbed a small bridge over the Jordan River and knifed into the area south of the Sea of Galilee, also inside Israel territory on the east, a dispatch from Damascus said. (FARTHER SOUTH King Abdullah's Trans-Jordan Arab Legion crossed the Allenby Bridge, occupied Jericho, and took military control of a large area in the Judean hills 20 miles northeast of Jerusalem, advices from Jericho said.) Tel Aviv, temporary capital 'of Israel, underwent its fourth air attack late today and Haganah ordered the entire city blacked out tonight. Planes were over the city most of the day and it was difficult to differentiate one attack from the other. All attacks, including the first by three to six light planes, were on the outskirts.

They did not interfere much with Jews celebrating the first sabbath in almost Turn to Page 12, Column 4 world by international action," Dr. Aydelotte declared. PROPOSED PARTITION of Palestine into Jewish and Arab states was attacked by Dr. Aydelotte as "extremely impractical." Complexity of the culture and customs of the people of Palestine, the birthplace of three major religions, would make partition an impossibility, he added. Aydelotte, a native of Sullivan, graduate of Indiana University and former president of Swarthmore College, lashed at proponents of a plan to make Palestine a democracy.

"A well meaning conference was called recently in Washington with the idea that what is needed in the Holy Land is old fashioned American democracy. That, unfortunately, is just what you -can not have in Palestine," he concluded. OF TODAY'S STAR Main News Sections (48 Pages) Page Adams .....23 Building 46, 47 Dr. Barton 23 Editorial 22 Financial 44, 45 Indiana News 8, 7 Nussbaum 23 Sports 41-44, 48 Want Ads 25-40 Winchell 23 Society Sections (48 Pages) Page Art 21 Books 42 Bridge 35 Camera Angle 44 Club Calendar 12 Club Federation 22 Congratulations 16 Hobbies 44 Indiana' Features 44 Legion Auxiliary 20 Movies 45-47 Parliamentary Law 31 Radio Programs 43 Recreation Rambling .......15 Subdebs and Squires 15 Weddings ajid Engagements .13 Qualify Time Chart M.P.H. Time 1:30.0 1:29.1 1:28.2 100 101 102 103 1:27.4 104 1:26.5 105 1:25.7 106 1:21.9 107 1:24.1 108 1:23.4 109 1:22.6 110 1:21.8 111 1:21.1 112 1:20.3 113 1:19.6 114 1:18.9 115 1:18.3 116 1:17.6 117 1:16.9 118 1:16.3 119 120 121 122 1:15.6 1:15.0 1:14.4 1:13.8 123 1:13.2 124 125 126.

1:12.6 1:12.0 1:11.4 127 1:10.9 128 1:10.3 129 1:09.8 130 1:09.2 131 1 108.7 132 1:08.2 133 1 077 134 1:07.2 135 1:06.7 burst of cheering when Holland's time exceeding that of Rose-was announced and it was even greater twhen Mays' speed was announced. Others who qualified yesterday were: Bill Cantrell of Louisville, Les Anderson of Portland, Doc Williams, now of Detroit, and formerly from Franklin, Jimmy Jackson of Indianapolis. Ted Horn of Paterson, N.J., and Johnny Mantz of Long Beach, Cal. Cantrell and Mantz have never driven in an Indianapolis race. Although the big crowd saw one of the finest opening day shows in many years, there were s6me disappointments.

One was the failure of Horn, the A.A.A. driving champion for 1947, to hit it up faster than 126.365 miles an hour. TED, HOWEVER, did his qualifying run when the strong wind was at its worst and he reported the gale bothered him considerably. "I would liked to have gone faster," he said, "but I'm satisfied to be in the race." The other major disappointments involved the failure of Bud Winfield to get either of the Novi Grooved Piston specials out for qualifying rounds. Ralph Hepburn of Los Angeles has moved into the car Cliff Ber-gere drove in practice and he was Turn to Page 41, Column 7 TED HORN-Bennet Bros.

Special 1:10.57 127.173 1:10.99 126.778 1:10.81 127.101 1:12.32 124.447 Total Time 4:44.89 126.365 DOC ILLIAMS Ford 1:12.70 123.796 Moyer 1:12.64 123.899 Special 1:12.29 124.499 1:12.34 124.412 Total Time 4:49.97 124.151 THIRD ROW BILL CANTRELL Time MPH Fageol 1:13.38 122.649 Twin 1:12.48 124.172 Coach 1:12.62 123.933 Special 1:12.47 124.189 Total Time 4:50.95 123.733 JOHNNY JIANTZ Kurtis- Kraft Special 1:12.96 123.355 1:18.11 123.102 1:13.27 122.833 1:13.84 121.885 Total Time 4:53.18 122.791 LES AN DERSON Kennedy Tank Special 1:13.93 1:13.29 1:13.53 1:13.52 121.537 122.800 122.399 122.416 Total Time 4:54.27 122 Average miles an hour. .337 Rent Control Purdue Puzzle Garbled Law Adds To Housing Problem By Staff Correspondent Lafayette, May 15 The Purdue University student housing situation f6r students living in privately-owned rooms is a hopeless mixup for both students and landlords. Apparently the fault is the garbled rent control law, accentuated by the fact that Purdue, like all large universities, is bursting at the seams with students. The trouble doesn't seem to be the fault of the university. Neither is it the fault of local rent control administrators.

SOME LANDLORDS are under rent control; others aren't. Some are making money. Some aren't. A West Lafayette widow claimed today that a rent control ruling against her has forced her out of business. Adrian VanTress, chief inspector for this rent control area, said that to, explain why some landlords are under rent control and other are not would "take all afternoon." In a quick briefing he explained that the number of students housed by a landlord, the time when he went into the rooming house, business, and 'numerous other factors determine "whether or not he's controlled.

VANTRESS SAHJ the Lafayette rent control office is asking the Cleveland headquarters to conduct a full scale survey of West Lafayette next fall. J. M. Lawrence, in the university student affairs office, said that next fall the school will confer with landlords, explain Turn to Page 12, Column 6 UN Trusteeship Held Palestine Peace Key There wai no faking of the smiles on the faces of these two gentlemen yesterday. Pete Clark (right), chief mechanic, was happy and Rex Mays was even happier after Mays had wheeled around the Indianapolis Motor Speedway track for 10 miles at an average of 130.577 miles an hour to win the pole position for the 500-mile speed classic.

Russ Work Up Spy 'Scare' Try To Prove World Hostile, AP Is Told Evansville, May 15 (JF) The Russian government is isolating all foreigners in that country for internal security reasons, Robert Magidoff, newsman recently expelled from Moscow, told the Indiana Associated Press meeting tonight. "I was not the first expelled and there will be others," Magidoff said. "I know of at least seven cases in which Russian employes of the American embassy were arrested and another case in which a Russian employe of an American news- correspondent was arrested," Magidoff said. INTENTION is to prove that Russia is surrounded by a hostile world," the newsman said. "By doing this they hope to prove that foreign nations are sending in spys, and the Russians should beware of all foreigners.

"The next step then is to convince the Russians that they I Turn to Page 12, Column 6 Shelby ville, was beaten by a 12-to-10 vote. During the wrangling Haymak-er'supporters started to walk out Turn to Page IS, Column 1 The Weather Jim Crow Sayi: City employes will henceforth have to stay on the Job if they don't want to be out of It. Indianapolis Partly cloudy and not much change in temperature. Indiana Partly cloudy with occasional showers near Ohio River in forenoon. Little change, in temperature.

j. Valparaiso, May 15 (Spl.) Police held a 46-year-old house painter, Forrest. Murphy, as a material witness today in a love triangle murder-suicide. Dead were Frank Lind, 57- bartender et the Flkr? Lodge, and Mrs. Marjorie Drake White, 40-year-old divorcee and department store clerk.

Police Chief Vernon Reibly said that Lind became infuriated recently when Mrs. White ended their seven-year courtship and began having dates with Murphy. APPEARING at Mrs. White's home early today after she had a date with Murphy, Lind brandished a revolver and shot her after she refused to promise to "quit seeing that other fellow," Chief Reibly said. Lind then turned the gun on himself.

Mrs. White's 12-year-old son Ronnie stood by horrified as the double shooting occurred. The 'police chief said Ronnie told him his mother shouted, "Help, Save me!" as Lind stalked around the front porch after Mrs. White. The jealousy-crazed suitor had Turn to Page 18, Column 5 Urban Experts Begin Survey Of City's Ills Picture on Page 14 The nation's leading experts on municipal problems started putting the magnifying glass on Indianapolis yesterday.

They -are the 15 members of the Central Business District Council of 'the Urban Land Institute with headquarters at Washington. Their main challenge is to provide recommendations to keep the downtown business area alive and healthy. "The greatest problem before America's cities today is to keep their downtown districts easy of access, healthy and active," Seward H. Mott of Washington, director of the Urban Institute, asserted. "Without that, no city will prosper." Members of the council represent banking, real estate, department store and business interests in all parts of America and their intent is to provide practical, sound proposals for improvements that will assure better living facilities in the city.

BROUGHT HERE under sponsorship of the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce, with cooperation of Mayor Al G. Feeney and other city officials, the council members launched in inten: sive study of maps and munici- Turn to Page 12, Column i How They'll Line Up Demos Oust Greenlee; Schricker Still Mum Creation of a United Nations trusteeship in Palestine to effect peaceful settlement of the Jewish-Arab civil war was urged by Dr. Frank Aydelotte, noted authority on Palestine affairs, in an address here last night. Dr. Aydelotte, member of the 1946 Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry into the Palestine situation, spoke at the annual meeting of Indiana Phi Beta Kappa Fraternity members in the Propy-laeum.

THE UNITED STATES must take the initiative in selling the trusteeship idea to other United Nations members, Aydelotte said. And, he added, the Palestine issue is the UN's first major test of strength. Our success in dealing with Palestine will be an indication as to whether or not we are likely to be successful in the future in preserving the peace of the ON INSIDE PAGES Russia has spent billion dollars on atomic bomb research, U.S. intelligence group reveals Page 2 American Air Force to fly body of Father Flanagan, founder of. Boys Town, home from Germany Monday Page 2.

Voters overwhelmingly favor more work and more pay for U.S. Vice-President, Gallup Poll reports Page 3. Jack Reed, The Star's Washington correspondent, now on at tour of Europe and the Near East the story of a German frau who is paying heavily for the elegance she enjoyed while the Nazis were in power. Read Germany in a Jeep on Page 5. Stock market buying sets 15-year Saturday record Page 11.

Joe Adams is impressed to learn that Purdue University's extension division aids 950,000 a year. Read Rambling 'Round on Page 23. Nine drivers qualified their cars yesterday for the start of the 500-mile Indianapolis Speedway race May 31. This is the order of the first nine: FIRST ROW REX MAYS Bowes Seal Fast Special Total Time Time 1 :08.32 1 :08.92 1:09.27 1:09.19 MPH 131.733 130.586 129.926 130.077 4:35.70 130.577 niTT. HOLLAND Blue 1:09.42 129.646 Crown 1:09.48 129.534 Special 1:09.55 129.403 1:09.51 129.478 Total Time 4:37.96 129.515 MAURI ROSE Blue Crown Special 1:09.94 1:09.84 1 :09.33 1 :09.68 128.682 128.866 129.814 129.162 Total Time 4:38.79 H29.129 SECOND ROW JIMMY JACKSON Time MPH 127.101 127.750 127.678 127.515 Howard Keck Special 1:10.81 1:10.45 1:10.49 1:10.58 Total Time 4:42.43 By RALPH L.

BROOKS One barrier to the movement to draft former Governor Henry F. Schricker as the 1948 Demo-' cratic candidate for Governor was removed yesterday when Pleas E. Greenlee was ousted as Democratic state chairman. The party's state committee replaced Greenlee with Ira Haymaker Franklin at the climax of a two-hour wrangle behind closed doors in a Claypool Hotel room. Some party leaders predicted that Schricker now will become a Governor but at his home town of Knox the former Governor declined to either on the outcome of the state committee fight or on his possible candidacy.

GREENLEE, who opposed the draft-Schricker movement and gave unofficial backing to his tel-low townsman, Harry MjClain of.