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2221 WEATHER TODAY Fair And Warmer FAIR AND I ST VOL 43. NO. 338 THURSDAY MORNING, MAY 9, 1946 FIVE CENTS rr i uvi IAS WD The Day In Indiana By Maurice Early New Demo Chairman Four Enter Race GOP Representatives Study Primary Vote Watch 3d District Clark Leads By 700 As Count Drags Counters Are CountingOr Are They? 22-State Dimout Ordered; Railroads: Curtail Runs Here More than half the 2,000 employes of the Beech Grove shops of the New York Central Railroad will be laid off Only 34 Precincts In County Tallied; Gstrom Under Fire With 47 precincts of Republican primary votes tabulated this morning, ma jor races stood as follow: Prosecuting Attorney Clark, Stark, 1,696. Juvenile Court Rhoads, Fields, Sheriff Russell, Magenheimer, 1,347. Treasurer Fletcher, Tetit, 1,324.

Superior Court, Room 1 Niblack, Hinds, 1,674. Superior Court, Room 2 Mannon, Pike, 1,854. Recorder Alford, Brewer, 1,262. Saturday as a result of the crippling soft coal strike. A' company spokesman said last night the layoff will cost Indianapolis approximately $65,000 in weekly pay rolls and, have an additional unemployment effect in Anderson, Muncie, Terre Haute and other terminals of the system; The Beech Grove shops will keep boilers fired but will operate with a reduced force.

vlV By RALPH L. BROOKS Washington, May 8 (UP) The government moved swiftly tonight to stretch out the nation's vanish Ing coal reserves by country-wide rationing of manufactured gas, dlmouts In 22 Eastern and Midwestern states, and use of truck fleets for emergency freight transportation. A Federal directive authorizing manufactured gas companies to start rationing or curtailing service to all consumers was drafted by the Civilian Production Administration. Its formal issuance was withheld until tomorrow, however, because of a last-minute hitch arising from differences in various state regulations. CPA also ordered electric utilities east of the Mississippi River and In Minnesota, Iowa and Missouri to use non-coal fuels and water power wherever possible and to pool operations so as to get the maximum use of their if I 1 Hill, II Kj ii Hi 1 I Hfi I I 11 I.ITIWI I I'll II I- "THIS IS THE WAY WE COUNT THE VOTE-eount the vote!" Counting Bureau in Tomlinson Hall with "wash our clothes" instead of might sing to the tune of the famout old nursery rhyme which dealt counting ballots.

And the counters would have plenty of time to sing, too. Because they don't spend very much time actually counting as can be seen by a glance at this picture snapped from the Tomlinson Hall balcony. U.S. Boosts Ceilings On Feed And Grain "DEER AND LIQUOR as a polit-ical issue will be weighed by the Democratic state committee when it meets next week in Indianapolis to elect a state chairman to succeed Fred F. Bays, who has announced he will retire.

It is flertain a contest for the chairmanship will develop when the new district chairmen and vice-chairmen are elected next week. ALTHOUGH Pleas E. Greenlee, who was patronage secretary during 'the McNutt administration, is supposed to have the blessing of Bays for the chairmanship, other possible candidates are mentioned. They are John K. Jennings ot Evansville, state director of the United States Employment Service, Ben Kerr of Gary and Joseph Wood, Indianapolis attorney.

AN ARGUMENT for Greenlee is that he is a good organier. His opposition will raise the question of whether it is advisable for the Democrats to make him chairman in a campaign year, when the G.O.P. will be attacked for its political control of the beer and liquor wholesale business. Greenlee, as Democratic patronage secretary, set up the political beer and liquor wholesale system and also the beer ports of entry. Until the Republicans took over the beer wholesale business Greenlee served as the secretary of the state organization of beer wholesalers.

LN SETTING UP the political strategy in Indiana, the State-house Republican organization has virtually ignored the G.O.P. members of Congress. So, in Tuesday's primary the incumbents ran on their records. It is probably significant that they ran away from their opponents in the six G.O.P. contests.

In ail contests the sitting congressmen won by votes ranging from four to one to seven to one over the combined vote of opponents. POLITICIANS are studying the results of the primary where dry legislative 'candidates were defeated and in other instances where the drys won. In Cass and Carroll Counties Representative Robert F. Justice, Logansport attorney, and rated as a dry, defeated Fred B. Kanna, former Cass County prosecutor, who resigned to enter the service.

Hanna supported by the beer wholesaler organization carried Cass County, but the vote In Carroll County renominated Justice. DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL headquarters rates the Third district (South Bend-Elkhart-Michi-gan City) as one of the marginal dist rifts which might be captured next fall. Therefore the primary vote there Is of Importance because the party polling the largest vote usually Is the' winner in the fall election. Republican congressional candidates In that district polled 29,115 votes Tuesday and the Democratic candidates got 20,148 votes. But in both parties there was more primary Interest than in the presidential election year primary of 1944.

The G.O.P. got more primary votes than it did in 1944 and the Democratic vote increased 2,641. DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL Vice-Chairman Oscar Ewing urged nominations ofgood candidates, preferably veterans, in the marginal districts, but would not help finance their nomination. In the Third District the organization was upset when State Senator Gonas won the congressional nomination, defeating the organization choice, E. Spencer Walton, World War II veteran, former Mishawaka city attorney and Notre Dame graduate.

FORMER GOVERNOR Paul V. McNutt probably intends to bid good-bye to Indiana politics, tie ha made an application to practice law in the state of New York. Thut tht counten Central Capital Waits McNutt Move Humor Says Hoosicr Eyes Vice-Presidency INDIA NAI'01 IS STAR 131)7 Nllonl I'm Flullillnf. By JACK REED Washington, May 8 A rumor that Hoosicr Paul V. McNutt, Philippine high commissioner, will hand in his resignation upon arriving In Washington Thursday was Interpreted here tonight as a possible McNutt move toward his known ambition to be elected Vice-President in 1918.

The ex-Indiana Governor may be planning a surprise visit, lo the state Democratic convention in June and a bid for the seat of United Slates Senator as a move bark Into the political limelight. McNutt will arrive at. Washington's Boiling Field aboard the C-54 "Carabao" with Presidentelect Manuel Roxas of the Philippines. THOSE COMMENTING suggest McNutt may make one of three moves: He may enter law practice In Washington with a prominent diplomat. He may be a candidate for the United States Senate Ihis fall.

He may be receptive to a possible appointment as United States commissioner over Pacific islands which have been occupied by American troops and soon must be given some type of civil government. Court Debates Washington, May 8 (JD The government announced jumps in the ceiling prices of wheat, corn and other grain and livestock feeds tonight in a new pffort to remedy the food situation at home and abroad. The increases of 25 rents a bushel for corn, 15 cents for wheat, 5 cents for oats, 9 cents for barley and 10 cents for rye, will become effective May 13. The action was announced In a joint statement by the Office of Economic Stabilization, the Agriculture Department and the Office of Price Administration at the close of a day that saw these other developments bearing on the world food picture: 1. THE WHITE House announced that Herbert Morrison, lord president of the council in the British Cabinet, is coming here this week end to take up with President Truman new proposal for meeting the hunger 1.1 nuiuti'i.

2. Sir John Orr, director general of the United Nations food and agriculture organization, called for an international four or five-year plan for the long pull against famine. 3. President Truman and the British and Canadian prime min Hooslers yesterday were feeling more effects of the national ticup of soft coal mines. Latest developments Included: Railroads announced curtailed schedules to save fuel.

Manufactured gas plants eyed dwindling coal piles with concern, hut last night had not been notified officially of the Federal government order instituting rationing of manufactured gas. The PSC amended a previous order authorizing Northern Indiana Public Service Company to ration electric power. The Indiana Employment Security Division reported 20,000 Hooslers jobless as direct or Indirect result of the coal famine. The Indiana Dairy Products Association reported a majority of Hoosier dairies down to a single week's supply of fuel. LAUNDRIES, dry cleaning establishments, food processing plants.

Institutions and nearly all business and Industrial concerns were faced with crippling stoppages unless adequate coal can be obtained Immediately. James 'S. Symes, Pennsylvania Railroad vice president, announced his line will eliminate double-heading of remaining passenger trains after discontinuing 16 lightly patronized trains May 10. A. F.

Mclntyre, Pennsylvania superintendent here, said three trains serving Indianapolis will be discontinued two In Indianapolis and Louisville service and one between Indianapolis and Columbus, The service reduction will be In compliance with an ODT order calling for 25 per cent reduction of gleam passenger locomotive mileage. THE NEW VORK Central System announced In Chicago cancellation of three "trains serving Indianapolis one between St. Louis and Indianapolis and two between Peoria, and Indianapolis. Another train between New York and St. Louis will be operated In one instead of two sections, the NYC announced.

The Public Service Commission announced it had amended Its previous order affecting 22 northern Indiana counties served by the Northern Indiana Public Service Company. Following an emergency hearing yesterday, the PSC Turn to rage 12, Column 1 Counters Sag; Totals Drag Far into 2d Night Plod Tired Talliers By ROBERT E. JOHNSON The counting of ballots in Marlon County's primary election settled down lat night to a routine as monotonous as a snore. The four hundred tally clerks, ballot readers and inspectors working at 100 tables in grimy Tomlinson Hall sagged deeper into their folding chairs as the pile of counted votes grew barely. Ink-stained) lingers) inched up and down ruled tally sheets making one vertical mark for each vote and crossing four marks to tally five a system or scoring found reliable In the stone age to! record the passage of birds.

OCCASIONALLY the voice of Michael J. Hanrahan, election board president, crackled through the address system with instructions on how to hand in time cards, what to do with badges, how to clear the room for the next shift. Some counters would g0 on counting and possibly never hand in their time cards. Others relaxed until Hanrahan stopped speaking. Workers coining on the 10 o'clock shift last night.

went to their tables and began counting without a repeat performance of the Tomlinson Hall version of mu- gjcai chairs, which had some of the counters In titters and some of them in a tizzy Tuesday night. The game had counters standing up, sitting down, standing up again and trading places at the tables, on Instructions from Hanrahan over the microphone, until the four at each table were prop' erly arranged. Organization choice Alex M. Clark maintained a lead of 700 votes over anti-bossism candidate Judson L. Stark early today in the hotly contested Marion County prosecutor's race as the count dragged slowly into its third day in Tomlinson Hall.

Official complete Republican primary returns were available from only 34 of the county's 380 precincts as the snarl, tie-ups and confusion continued at the Cen- Tabular Vote On Page 10 tral County Bureau which is handling the tabulation. Clark had 1,823 votes; Stark, 1,113. Anti organization candidates with one exception were trailing on basis of the incomplete, unofficial returns. THE EXCEPTION was Judge John L. Niblack in his race for judgeship of Superior Court, Room 1.

The count was Niblack, 1.405; Lawrence H. Hinds, 1.188; Charles Mendenhall, 218; Herb Harlman, 114, and Oscar F. Smith, 82. Observers watching the "slow count" agreed that no definite picture could be painted from the early returns, agreeing that the majority of the early precincts counted were those which normally have been regarded as organization strongholds and were marched out as a "show of strength" gesture on part of organization forces. Charles J.

Russell, organization-backed, was leading Albert C. Magenheimer, the "anti" group choice for the other vital county office, that of sheriff, which is necessary to keep the present Marion County Republican organization in office. THE VOTE WAS Russell, Magenheimer, 926. Other candidates in the race were Frank Owen, 215; Charles L. Roush, 95; Robert B.

Edwards, 56, and Liston C. Nine, 50 votes. Incumbent Judge Mark W. Rhnads (organization) held a 2- to-1 lead over his nearest rival in ihp race for Juvenile Court juoge Rhoads had 1,677 votes. Trailing was Harold N.

Fields, the Juvenile Court Committee choice, with 873 votes. Others in the race were Edwin C. Boswell, 226 votes; Richard Smith, 207. A. Jack Tilson, the organization choice, held 1,760 votes for the Circuit Court, clerk position to Walter E.

Hemphill 1,029. LOUS W. FLETCHER held nparlv a three-to-one lead over ihi anti-administration choice, Otto W. Petit in the race for rnuntv treasurer. The count was Fletcher, rent, oi.

In the race lor county recorder Harry B. Alford held 1,171 votes to Paul B. Brewer's 871. Others in the race were Maurice H. Thompson, 232; Murle G.

Wright, 190. IN THE DEMOCRATIC races, 46 of the county's 380 precincts had been tabulated. Arthur J. Sullivan held 2,405 Turn to Page Column 3 "Amateurs" Get 8760 In Holdup Two men described as elderly "amateurs" look $760 from Frank W. Bannister, 56 years old, 444 Massachusetts Avenue, last night, he reported to police.

Bannister, owner of Bannister Distributing Company, said two men entered his office at 444 Massachusetts Avenue, pushed "what like a gun in my back" and forced him to lie on the floor, throwing him a pillow. The Weather Jim Crow Says: John Lewis is even managing to put the sqoeeie on the bottle necks. Indianapolis: Fair and warmer. Indiana: Fair and warmer. RALPH R.

REEDER 4 SOVS ROOroO-SlDiyOIXSULATlOir WA. U2X tor KatuoaU. AAt. Henry E. Ostrom, Republican county chairman, was out, politicians said last night, victim of public disgust with the beer-politics setup and the mishandling of primary election vote tabulating by the Central Count ing Bureau.

Party workers said they were looking for a new chairman and had several prospects under con sideration. But Ostrom's friends said he wouldn't give up without a strug gle. He has said recently that he is definitely candidate lor reelection. BUT THE UNPLEASANT aroma which was more bluntly termed "stench" by some politiciansof the Central Counting Bureau debacle has dropped smack Into Ostrom's lap, these observers said. That's because Michael J.

Hanrahan was Ostrom's own selection Hanrahan who as president of the County Board of Election Commissioners is in charge of the Central Count. Ostrom's friends declared last night he couldn't be beaten for re-election as county chairman. Meanwhile the count of Tuesday's primary election ballots limped along at a snail's pace at the Central Counting Bureau and old-time observers said the delays and stalls were for a purpose to "save the political hide" of Ostrom. Or maybe of the whole organization, itself. BUT JUDSON L.

STARK, anti-organization candidate for the G.O.P. prosecuting attorney nomination, said he saw a more sinister motive in the delays. He charged that the organization was trying to "steal the election, if they haven't already done it." Politically wise observers said that the 38 precincts counted last night were mostly "organization spots." These gave the machine candidates overwhelming odds against their anti-organization opponents in the main races. "They're counting these spots first to make an impression on the precinct committeemen," one long-time political observer said. A big lead for the organization candidates shows strength the precinct committeemen want to "ride a winner," and if Ostrom's candidates can appear to be wiiv ning he is in a better spot for reelection Saturday as county chairman.

That was the way they sized up the situation. AND SO, CLAIMED the politicians, the delay and stalling at Central Counting Bureau can be Turn to Page II, Column 4 World Air The driver who gets the check- ered flag at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway's 500-mile race this year will step out of his car into a free round-the-world airplane flight. Wilbur Shaw, president and general manager of the Speedway, yesterday announced that the globe-circling trip will be the "trophy" offered to the winning driver this year by L. Strauss Co. "IT'S THE MOST unusual and possibly the most acceptable-trophy in Speedway history," Shaw said.

And then the three-time winner of the race added dryly: "I'm sorry someone didn't have the idea a few years earlier that's a trophy I'd like to have a chance to win myself." L. Strauss Indianapolis men's clothiers, has awarded a winner's trophy at the race since the first 500-mile event was won by P.ay Harroun in 1911. This year, the prize will be among $100,000 in cash and other awards given by the Speedway and other companies or individuals. i THE STRAUSS announcement to drivers, posted on the drivers' bulletin board yesterday afternoon at the track, set out: "As a tribute to speed and as a compliment to the international character of the event, L. Strauss of Indianapolis presents, as a trory, an air tour 'round the world' -via TWA to the win- dwindling coal reserves.

Simultaneously, utility commissions In the 22 stales dependent on soft coal for their electric power were asked to adopt stringent fuel conservation measures at once. Government experts said restoration of the wartime dim-outs was the only effective means of compliance with that request THE GAS and electricity conservation moves were Initiated by the Civilian Production Administration, which already had set up. a sub-agency charged with keeping the nation's utility service! operating. The Otfice of Defense Transportation followed through with a formal request to all motor truck; operators to give the same emergency priorities to food and other essential commodities that the railroads are observing. This will prevent diversion of non-essential freight from the railroads to motor carriers, ODT Director J.

Monroe Johnson said. Johnson said motor truck fleets soon may be the only source of supply to many communities affected by cutbacks In railroad service. IN ADDITION to the essential freight Items permitted to move by rail, the truckers were authorized to continue handling tires, tubes and other supplies necessary to maintain motor vehicle operations. CPA officials also wired an urgent request for electric power conservation lo utility commissions In Connecticut, Illinois, In- Turn to Page 12, Column Stolen Wheel Chair Found In Fall Creek Yesterday morning The Star related how the "meanest thief in town" had stolen 17-year-old Richard Sawyer's wheel chair from a garage in the 3500 block nf Ppnncvlvnnin SUrppt Th hnv used the vehicle, in combination with a small racer, to go to and from Shortridge High School. While fishing, yesterday aft-, ernoon in Fall Creek at Pennsylvania Street, Kermit Taggart, 17, 3540 North Meridian Street, and Wayne Morgan, 615 Lockerbie Street, saw a wheel chair pushed partly into the water.

They recalled reading the miss ing wheel chair story in The Star. Then they telephoned Richard's father, Roscoe Sawyer, 3849 Win-throp Avenue, who later Identified the wheel chair as the one stolen. It was Intact except, for a missing seat cushion and rubber tires. In Today's Star Adams 17 Pegler 14 Amusements 21 Pictures .....32 Aunt Het 9 Radio 15 Comics ......20 Ripley 20 Crossword Sports Dorothy 5 Uncle Ray ...20 Dr. Barton ..20 Vets' Guide ,.20 Driscoll 17 Vital day .24 9 Wally's Wag.16 Editorial .14 Want Ads.

26-31 Financial. 24, 25 What's Ans? .15 Gracie Allen.32 Winchell Pearson 14 5-9 Srv utamatie washing kchlat RY-FURDT'S ama ag ntw taan. Xo bleach aatdad. VA Ti.l-4a Trip Is "500" Prize isters announced that the combined food board will be continued until next Dec. 31 and longer if necessary, In view of the critical food situation.

The grain and feed price hikes were aimed to remove uncertainty concern in price ceilings between now and June 30, 1947, encourage movement of grain for foreign and home use and bring the number of livestock into "proper balance" with feed balances. THE GOVERNMENT will end payment of a 30-cent a bushel bonus on corn, offered to get the grain off farms for famine relief purposes, after next Saturday. The 30-cent wheat bonus for the same purpose will continue until Turn to Column Mayor Improved; Needs Week Rest Mayor Robert H. Tyndall, suffering a respiratory ailment and resting after a heart seizure, was reported much Improved yesterday, but still in need of at least a week's rest before returning to his duties in City Hall. He has been ill since Friday night.

In previous years, L. Strauss Co. has imported silver, marble or bronze trophies, symbolic Of speed, for presentation to the winner. Because of the war, however, importation was not possible and It was dtclded to substitute-ythe round-the-world flight Iln ff I f2dTrip'lo I 44m? I Electric Lhair St. Martinville, May 8 (JP A stuttering, 17-year-old condemned Negro slayer was given a new temporary lease on life today while Louisiana's Supreme Court decides whether a man may be made for the second time to walk the last mile to the electric chair.

Saved Friday by the failure of the state's portable elcctricution eauiDment. Willie Francis got an other reprieve less than 24 hours before he again was scheduled to die for ihe 1945 slaying of a St. Martinville druggist. Lieutenant Governor J. Emlle Verret.

the state's acting chief executive while Governor Jimmie IL Davis Is in Washington on business, granted a 29-day stay to be effective while the Supreme Court Is studying the legal aspects of a case unparalleled In Louisiana history. New amazing- will wash discovery. Wlpa on wtoe eft, no ttreaks. -Klnd to your hands. Purdy Product.

T318. Aav. 'T Wilbur Shaw (left), president and general manager of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, tacks the 1946 Strauss trophy announcement on the drivers' bulletin board at the track. Looking on (left to right) are Sam Freeman, vice-president of Strauss 4 and Rex Mays, national AAA driving champion, who will drive the Bowes Seal-Fast Special in this year's race. ner of the world's most renowned motor race the 30th annual 500-mile Memorial Day classic.

"It is a citizen's token of appreciationa mark of recognition to an occasion that puts Indianapolis on the front page throughout the world.".