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NO. 349 MONDAY MORNING, MAY 20, 1946 FIVE CENTS C3 JL The Indianapoli if AW MM The Day In Indiana By Maurice Early Vet Bonus Asked Complain About OP A Physicians Loyal Service Record High New Drugs Forecast War Is Declared In Iran Succumbs In Home Here At 7 6 After Two-Month Illness Booth Tarkington, world-famous Hoosier author and playwright, died last night in his home, 4270 North Meridian Street. He was 76 years old. Charm, Courtesy And Kindliness Helped Make Tarkington Much Loved Figure afternoon in the Tarkington home. The services will be private.

Burial will be in Crown, Hill Cemetery. Survivors besides the widow, are three nephews, John T. Jame son, Donald Jameson and Booth T. Jameson, all of Indianapolis. Mr.

Tarkington, two-time win ner of the Pulitzer prize for lit p7 cm v- i 4 Gayety And Wit Marked His Talk for more than a year, I know that the present dreadful confusion and world-wide distress must have caused him great distress, too. He also must have grieved over many of the things that have disappeared from the world as he knew it when he was a young man-things that, may be regarded, per haps, as old-fashioned things like gentle living, and a feeling of security, and honor in dealing with each other. Little things amused Mr. Tarkington enormously and he was one of the gayest, wlttiost persons I have ever talked to. When a Maine physician diagnosed an ailment from which he was suffering as "miner's elbow," Mr.

Tarkington was enchanted. He had a theory that babies, even the newest babies, had memories, but that they lacked the words to tell all they knew. At Kennebunkport, he was much intrigued by the whales that appeared now and then off the Maine coast. When friends came to see him at his Kennebunkport home and demanded to see the whales, and the whales failed to materialize, Mr. Tarkington said he felt as embarrassed as If they were personal friends who had behaved ungraciously.

HE LOVED INDIANA dearly. He loved his summer home In Maine, but he was always glad to got home again. He felt he belonged here, and he did. Even when he could no longer see the beauty of the Indiana spring, or the glory of the Indiana autumn, he enjoyed it, How many of us remember seeing him taking his careful walks near his home on warm bright days, being greeted by friends and by strangers, too, for everyone knew him by sight, and felt a deep pride in the fact that he was a fellow citizen and that he represented something Turn to Page 4, Column Infant's Body Found In Case Children Discover Baby In Luggage Slutfed In a cheap suitcase, the body of a seven-pound girl baby Government Attacking Azerbaijan Fighting Reported At 5 Points Tabriz Under Martial Law London, May 19 (UP) Radio t-u: -oM irrht that Iranian lauLit aalu government forces have attacked Azerbaijan and that fighting is going on at five points along a 150-mile civil war front between Zenjan and the Kurdistan frontier. Azerbaijan as a result has declared a state of war against Irarl and has established martial law in Tabriz with an 11 p.m.

curfew, the Tabriz broadcast said. There was no immediate confirmation from central government sources at Teheran. Radio Tabriz accounts of the fighting were reported by the London press and the Swiss and Belgian radios. THE REPORTS of civil war followed a breakdown In negotiations between Azerbaijan and the central government over the extent of autonomy tofbe granted the northern province, which seceded from Iran last December. Premier Ahmad Ghavam Es-Sultanh told the United Press during the negotiations that he would use force against the Azer-baijanis if they refused to accept his seven-point peace proposal.

The Azerbaijanis were expecting the central government's attack, according to a- delayed dispatch filed from Tabriz yesterday. This dispatch sftid the Azerbaijanis had deployed 15,000 men practically their entire army along the southern border. OTHER REPORTS from Teheran for the past two weeks have described steady government troop movements to the north in the wake of the Red Army's withdrawal from Azerbaijan. Observers did not expect that the Russians would return to aid the Azerbaijanis. The Soviet-Iranian agreement calling for the Red Army's withdrawal said that Russia recognized Azerbaijan as an internal Iranian question.

Initial reports of the fighting broadcast by Tabriz said government forces attacked the four outposts of Zenjan, Bagcheh, Mis-pah and Sourat along the Azerbaijan border in Zenjan (Kham-seh) Province. LATER BROADCASTS said another central government attack had been launched from Kurdistan Province, in northwest- Turn to Page 4, Column 4 Byrnes Report On Air Tonight Washington, May 19 (JP) The State Department announced today that Secretary Byrnes's broadcast report to the nation on the Paris Conference of Foreign Ministers will be made at 9 p.m. (CDT) Monday night, May 20. The address will be carried by the NBC and ABC networks. Byrnes will speak from the State Department.

The author of "Penrod" and many other best-sellers had been III about two months. Death came quietly as Mr. Tarkington was in bed. His" wife, Mrs. Susannah Tarkington, was at the bedside.

Despite poor health and near blindness, the famous "gentleman from Indiana" had engaged during recent months In the writing of a new novel. The book was about three-fourths completed when death occurred. FUNERAL SERVICES will be hold at 2:30 o'clock tomorrow Tributes Are Paid Tarkington Governor Ralph F. Gales The death of Booth Tarkington is a distinct loss to the world and particularly to Indiana. His two Pulitzer prize-winning novels, "The Mngnltlcent Ambersons" and "Alice Adams," will always rank high and "The Gentleman From Indiana" and his Penrod stories contain a human appeal which will never be lost.

Indiana mourns th loss of its most renowned man of letters. He was always proud of his Indiana background and his Hoosier friends. Mayor Robert II. Tyndall His death is a shocking lo.ss to all Hooslerdom. Ills great personality as a national literary figure will be missed, but the friends and neighbors of this, his home city, with me must feel a greater sense of personal loss.

D. Laurence Chambers, president, Bobbs-Merrlll Publishing Co. Mr. Tarkington was a loading literary man of the United Slates as well as Indianapolis. He was justifiably known as the doan of American literature and I have always counted him a true friend.

It was wonderful that he could continue writing until the last few weeks of his life despite the trouble which he was having with his eyes. He was very much Interested in the Art Institute and also In the Symphony, lie was a leading figure in everything that had to do with the public concern and public welfare. He was a wonderful story teller, a grand speaker, but above all a great writer. Herman Wells, President, Indiana University The stale of Indiana has lost through the float of Booth Tarkington one of the foremost of those who have given It national renown In the field of letters. Ills passing should accentuate all efforts to maintain the Hoosier literary tradition through succeeding generations of great writers.

Indiana University, which bestowed on Mr. Tarkington its highest honor, the honorary doctor of laws degree, mourns with the state and the nation. Frederick L. Hovde, President of Purdue University In the float of Booth Tarkington the stale and the nation lose one of I he truly groat, in the American Hold of letters. No one could have read his stories and books without having been the better for It.

His name and writings have already taken their place In history. Our alumni everywhere regarded him as one of the most distinguished members of the Purdue family. The university was happy several years ago to confer an honorary Turn to Taga 2, Column 1 Booth Tarkmgtonf'D latest pictures, with his French ton said then that Mrs. Tarkington had just been reading to him Gibbon's "Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire," and that he had been trying to think of World War II as just a part of history, Versatility Career Of By CHARLES O. GRIITO Booth Tarkington spent the final years of his life working and hop- ing that from the ashes of world wide conflict would arise a peace- ful and better world.

But several months before his death he admitted "fear for the I world as it enters the atomic I i TNDIANA'S Legislature meeting in January will have to deal with veterans' bonus bills and similar legislation calling lor appropriations. One of the first of these demands for veteran consideration is made by the Indiana division of the American Veterans Committee. IT WANTS the state to provide from $2,500,000 to $5,000,000 annually for five years to supple- men Federal funds provided under the GI bill of rights. Under this plan -the GI attending school would get 15 cents from the state for each $1 provided by Uncle Sam. Among other benefits the committee thinks the Legislature should add $3 week to the $20 of Federal benefits given unemployed veterans.

AFTER WORLD War I the Indiana Legislature was asked to pass a bonus bill. Instead it compromised by providing for the construction of the Indiana World War Memorial in Indianapolis, a project that cost about 510,000,000. The last Legislature nrnuiripH an annronriation of unn nnn in aAA structures on the WW, WW MM. V- World War Memorial plaza. MEMBERS OF the staff of President-elect Manuel Roxas of the Philippines, visiting Indianapolis with High Commissioner T.i.l V.

RfcNutf. also complain about the OPA. They explain that the islands have supplies of vegetable oils, needed for American soap production, and other uses, but cannot ship It because the ceiling price is too low. INFLATION IN the Philippines boosts the cost of production of these oils above the ceiling price, they say. 'But the Filipinos see a way of moving the needed fats.

They suggest that the United States ship needed clothing and building material "at ceiling prices" and trade this merchandise for the oils at ceiling price. COMMISSIONER McNutt explained that the ceiling price tor the oils has been increased and it would not be advisable to boost it higher. It would result in such excessive production in the Orient that the bottom ultimately would drop out of prices and cause ruin, McNutt said. WHEN THE history of the participation of Indiana physicians in World War II is written, it will show that only an insignificant number of draft age declined to make application for a commission in the armed services. Of the 2,400 physicians under 55 years old, the record shows that only five declined to ask for a commission.

THERE WERE few appeals from the decision of the doctors on the procurement, committee which decided who should enter the services and who were essential to civilian practice. One of the appeals came from a doctor who was deemed essential in his community. He appealed that decision so he could serve. Of the 1,275 Hoosier doctors commis-soned during the war, three were women. CONSTRUCTION News estimates that the cost of brick laying will be cut by from 10 to 20 per cent by the new brick sizes which largely will eliminate hand cutting on the job by masons.

EQUIPMENT of the Urge new plant in Indianapolis by Eli Lilly and Co. for the production of the new drag, streptomycin, may be only the beginning of expansion in that field. The discoverer of that drag predicts that other similar drags loom on the horizon which may prove to be useful In combatting the common cold, polio, rheumatio fever and other scourge. Visit With Him Was Memorable Event By MARY E. BOSTWICK One of the pleasantest assignments that any newspaper reporter could possibly have was to interview Booth Tarkington.

Whether the interview was in the beautiful living room of his beloved home at 4270 North Me ridian' Street, or whether it was ccl by long distance telephone to his surnmer home at Kennebunkport, it was all the same. Mr. Tarkington's charm and kindliness and courtesy made it a pleasure and a privilege to talk to him. It is impossible to imagine Mr. Tarkington ever being unkind, discourteous or even impatient with anyone.

When you went in the room where he was, and he rose to meet you, he made you feel that you were the one person he wanted most to see, that your coming had made the day a success for him. With his death, something' is gone from Indianapolis and from Indiana, and from the nation, and from the world. He wasn't just a celebrity. The world is full of celebrities. Unfortunately, few of them seem to have the qualitiesthat made Mr.

Tarkington so much beloved. I CAN REMEMBER so well the time I went to interview him on the autobiography he was writing. We sat and talked for a long time before the great stone fireplace in the living room, with Mr. Tarkington's famous French poodle, Figaro, helping do the honors. A maid brought a tray with a silver coffee service, and because Mr.

Tarkington, even then, could not see well, he asked me to pour the coffee. We sat and drank coffee and Mr. Tarkington smoked his specially made three-and-a-half-inch long Turkish cigarettes. The war was going on then, and we talked of that, and of the state of the world. Mr.

Tarking- Railway Peace Hopes Mount Truman Optimistic About Settlement Washington, May 19 (UP) Reconversion Director John W. Snyder and Presidential Assistant John R. Steelman conferred with railway union and management representatives today, seeking a basis for a wage agreement 1o avert a threatened nation-wide strike next Thursday at the end of the present flve-day truce. A White House spokesman said Snyder end Steelman were contacting representatives of both sides in preparation for a renewal of negotiations. The administration leaders were driving for an agreement before expiration of the postponement ordered yesterday a few minutes before the scheduled walkout of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen and the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers.

LATE THIS afternoon a state-Turn to Page 4, Column 4 ji -ry 7' i lill-IUlIl VlClIITl, 10, Dies; Traffic Toll Reaches 46 Helen Baker, 10-year-old hit-and-run victim, died last night in City Hospital, raising the 1946 Marion County 'and Indianapolis traffic death toll to 46. The girl was struck Saturday night near her home at 653 South Illinois Street by an automobile which police said was driven by Wilbur C. Howard, 30, 1423 Oliver Avenue. Held under $5,000 bond, Howard will be arraigned this afternoon in Municipal Court, Room 3, on charges of reckless driving, driving while under the Influence of liquor, and leaving the scene of an accident. The victim was the daughter of Mrs.

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7318. Adr. was found late yesterday alt-1 emoon by two children In a va- erature, would have been 77 years old next July 29. He had hoping to regain his health so that he could make his yearly visit to his summer home, "Seawood," at Kennebunkport, Me. He returned to Indianapolis from there last December.

MR. TARKINGTON always took great pride In the fact that he was born in, and was a resident of, Indianapolis. "I am a part of Indianapolis," he once said, "and it is a part of me." His last public appearance was March 7 when local citizens paid high tribute to him at the world premiere of a dramatized version of "Alice Adams," a story which had won him the Pulitzer prize 25 years before. The play was presented In the Civic Theater. Mr.

Tarkington was a sparkling figure In the Indiana golden lit- Other rictures on rages 2 and 28 erary era which also produced James Whltcomb Riley, George Ade and Meredith Nicholson. Only Mr. Nicholson survives. Last night Mr. Nicholson expressed great grief at the passing of "my old friend -and distinguished colleague." He first reached the pinnacle of success In 1899 when his novel "The Gentleman From Indiana," was published and Immediately became abest-seller.

The novel launched him on a career that carried him to leadership in the world of letters. In "Penrod" and "Seventeen," as well as other novels dealing with adolescence, he depicted many of his own boyhood experiences In Indianapolis. In hlj childhood, the old Tarkington home on North Pennsylvania Street was the gathering place for the boys of the neighborhood. Mr. Tarkington served one term In the Indiana General Assembly, but with that exception, devoted his life entirely to literary pursuits.

Few American authors touched the imagination of their readers, or tickled their sense of humor more than Mr. Tarkington. "Characters make their own plot, all the plot there should be," he once wrote a struggling writer. His own delineations pictured social history with whimsy, benignity and often Irony over such a versatile scale as the hearts-and-swords romanticism of "Monsieur Beaucaire," the modem realism of "Alice Adams," and the widely successful and amusing boyhood travails of "Penrod." FAME SUDDENLY tapped Mr. Tarkington on the shoulder et the turn of the century when he was 30 years old, and after eight years of stony indifference to his offerings.

He admitted the monetary benefit from his first five years of effort was exactly $22.50. His first published novel, "The Gentleman from Indiana," in 1899, was not his first novel. "Cherry," a story of Princeton life in pre. Revolutionary days, and "Monsieur Beaucaire" preceded it. An editor who took a fancy to "Cherry" accepted it, but the manuscript languished in a desk-drawer until "Monsieur Beaucaire" appeared in 'McClure'i Magazine.

This immediate success won publication for "The Gentleman from Indiana" and delivered "Cherry" from obscurity as well. Running into countlesj Turn to Page 2, Column 4 By W. BLAINE FATTOX, Sports Editor The Star. The official starting field for the May 30 international gasoline derby at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway remains the same six. None qualified at the Sunday matinee.

None tried. Six met the requirements Saturday. An added day was granted for trials between 1 and 5:30 p.m. this afternoon, but none will be held tomorrow. It was a colorful, milling holl-.

day throng of 60,000 spectators which jammed Its way into the spacious inclosure for the second- day prelude to the big race. AH of the covered grandstands were filled to capacity, while thousands' hung over the rails and many others parked in their cars at ad-Turn to Pago 19, Column 1 Rii.pff RirirriRT srw rOFWG SIDIXG IASITLATIOW WA. 3421 tor EsiMoat. Adv. age." And later he assorted his i profession for nearly half a cen-faith in "the good and the from his first success in bv writinc: 11899 to the appearance of his last one of his poodle, Figaro.

but that he hadn't been succeeding very well. He was deeply concerned about what was happening to the world, and to his country. THOUGH I HAD nol soon him I Marked Novelist By CORBLV PATRICK Boolh Tarkington, doan of American novelists, was possessed many literary virtues, but the two that must have impressed even the most casual stunent or contemporary letters were his ver- satility and the fame of his genius He stood with th He stood with the leadors of his novei in is'is, ano ne aieu wii.ii his original fame undiminished. While It is probable that he reached his peak between 1918 and 1921, when two of his novels, "The Magnificent Ambersons and "Alice Adams" were awarded the Pulitzer Prize, his skill retained 1 ArP! to ewyy rnfl- of Mw nis contribution to the best seller lists of the wj, his i-. nesi worn in years oy many 'critics.

THE HOOSIER master, It seemed, could write anything to which he turned his hand. His serious, adult novels of the life he knew are registered among the classics of 20th century literature. His purely "escapist" stories, such as "Monsieur Beaucalre," have had lasting popularity. His Juveniles, including "Penrod," "Pen-rod and Sam" and "Little Oryie," were read and enjoyed by millions of the young, and the young in heart. Many of his 20 plays were highly successful in their seasons, and some of them like "Seventeen" and "Clarence" still are presented occasionally by stock and amateur companies.

A new movie version of "Monsieur Beau-caire," somewhat modified to suit the needs of comedian Bob Hope who succeeds to a role first played on the screen by Rudolph Valentino in the days of the silent Turn to Face 2, Column The Weather Jim Crow nays: Silver lining note: Anyway, the railroad situation caused a lot of potential week-end guests to stay home. Indianapolis Cloudy and cooler. Tuseday, partly cloudy with no important change in temperature. IndianaCloudy and cooler with showers in the southeast and extreme south portions of the state. Tuesday, partly cloudy, with no Important change In temperature.

long-burning I Busy Burglars Pilfer 5 Homes, Liquor Store Burglars were active in various liquor store, 735 East Michigan sections of Indianapolis last Street, loot of $1 in pennies, and night, ransacking at least five the home of Foster Oldshue, 5735 homes and a liquor store, and I North Delaware Street, loot of obtaining considerable loot, in-! Tne home of John Bellinger, eluding two revolvers. i fi05 West 32d Street, was ran- At the home of Arthur Wup- sacked, but nothing of value was per, 545 East Westfield Boule- reported taken, vard, $16 in cash, a wrist watch ennt lot in the 200 block on Lansing Street used by the neighborhood as a playground. Dr. John W. Deever, deputy coroner, said the baby bore no marks of violence and apparently had been dead for at.

least 24 hours. It was one or two day. I old, Dr. Decver said. The suitcase, a cardboard con- tainer bound with a cloth bolt from a woman's drees, was found Bnfl opened by two umall children who were playing In the lot.

The ra'n and toId thclr I)8rents DR. DEEVER, who scheduled an autopsy for today, said the Infant's body had boon stuffed into the suitcase with crumpled newspaper. The only clew to the riddle of who deposited the macabre package in the lot Was given police by Edward Stiebling, 49 years old, 431 Lansing Street. Stiebling said a late model black sedan parked by the vacant, lot, for several minutes earlier yesterrlay afternoon. Arsonist Hunted After 5 Downtown Fires In 3 Hours Police last night were hunting a fast-moving arsonist who is believed to have started five fires in downtown Indianapolis within three hours and turned in alarms for two of them.

All of the blazes were extinguished without damage. In each instance trash or crated merchandise was set afire near buildings. Firemen first were called to the Railway Express Company freight house at Louisiana Street and Capitol Avenue. Before returning to their station they also extin- guished fires at the J. E.

Budd Company Building, 501 South Capitol, and E. C. Atkins Co. Building, 124 West South Street. Later they were called to a blaze at the Automotive Hardware Company Building, 111 South Meridian Street, and then moved across the street to squelch another blaze in the rear of the Hibben Hollweg Co.

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Purdy Products, Ira. "At tragic cost we won, and we emerge with this new doctrine that it is a crime for men of any nation to plan a war against any other nation. "A WORLD that accepts this doctrine and it is accepted is a better world than it was a better world than Moreover, though the Ln.teri I tions fumble a while, missing the ffrns't ntsint an4 Hnhfltinff Ivor isms, iney wm noi aiwayu 'u'" nie. Even the dullest ana most tribal of governments will prefer peace to extermination mankind is not utterly a fool and In the atomic bomb race the United Nations can hold, in unity, the all-potent instrument of enforced peace. We lose no actual sovereignty in this united submission to the weapon." The author, who probably best will be remembered for making the world chuckle over the pranks of Penrod and other youthful characters in his numerous literary efforts, really wanted to be known for his more serious works.

AND MORE than anything else he wanted to live to see a world at peace a world without strife, a true United Nations. But the splitting of the atom and its significance failed to make him Jose his homely Hoosier philosophy. 'The principle of atomic energy is no more an American secret than the art of raising tomatoes," he told the writer in an interview last December. And he asserted his belief that "an international organization of nations controlling the atomic bomb actually would become an instrument of peace." AT THE TIME, he called the San Francisco Conference "a disappointment, because it had great plans of resurrecting economically the entire world. "The aims are too broad.

What we need is a world organization geared to the sole and everlast- Xurn to Pace 3, Column 2 Total Avenge Met Paid Circulation APRIL, 194(1 in txcess 150,000 Jam Roads; 60,000 At Speedway aiuea ai ana a movie ca mera valued at $50 were taken valued at joo, and a movie ca- taken from the home of Gail Eaton, 936 North Dearborn Street, and a .32 calibre revolver, $20 in cash and a gold baby ring valued at $25 were taken from the home of Rexford Gordon, 6233 Riverview Drive. Other burglaries included: Hut In Today's Star Amusements 8 Pegler 12 Comics 16 Pictures 26 Crossword ...16 Radio .......13 Dorothy Dix 7 Ripley 16 Dr. Barton ..13 Sports ...18, 19 Driscoll 15 Uncle Ray ...16 Eat-itorially 7 Vets' Guide .13 Editorial ....12 Vital Day ...19 Financial .19 Wally's Wag. 14 Grade Allen .26 Want Ads 20-25 Ickes 12 What's Ans? 13 Nussbaum ...15 Winchell ....15 Pearson 12 Women 5, 6, 7, 9 Personal attention to all mortgage ir-Sudtnr G.I. UcKIBBl3.

FR.4I16, evg-s. BR.4367. Indianapolis streets were clogged yesterday by the greatest outpouring of automobile traffic since the prewar summer days of 1941. An estimated 150,000 citizens, encouraged by perfect spring weather that prevailed during the morning, traveled by automobiles to various recreation and entertainment centers. Greatest concentration of cars was at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, where a crowd estimated at 60,000 persons witnessed tests for the Memorial Day race.

MORE THAN 15,000 persons at-tended the Indianapolis Home Show at the State Fairgrounds; between 7,000 and 9,000 visited Riverside Amusement Park, and an official attendance of 7,780 was reported at the Victory Field baseball game. Municipal golf courses and soft-ball and baseball diamonds were Turn to Fag Column I.