Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 October 1946 — Page 1
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[Sxers_nows=s] VOLUME 57—NUMBER 185
U. §. PROMISES 10 GIVE ARMED AID TO GREECE
Joins Britain in Pledge of ‘Help # Satellites of Soviet Attack.
By LUDWELL DENNY Seripps-Howtard Staff Writer PARIS, Oct. 12—The United Btates and Britain will go to war In defense of Greece if she is attacked by Soviet satellites now ~threatening her. This is the meaning of an Amerfcan statement to the Paris peace conference yesterday in reply to Blav demands for withdrawal of the U. 8. fleet from the Aegean | and of British troops from Greece. Ambassador Jefferson Caflery. fter challenging Bulgaria's right frontier militia" beyond treaty limitations and demanding -prohibition of Bulgarian fortifications within range of Greek soil, stressed the “paramount importance of the
future security of Greece.” Then he added: “The United States delegation can give full assurance that the United States can be counted on to act in
takings under the United Nations, are visitors in Indianapolis today. if Greece's security should be en- | dangered by acts of an aggressor Ration.” Greek Troops Fall Back While these challenges and coun-ter-challenges were being exchanged here, the following had occurred elsewhere:
3 DIE AS FIRE
Siam War Heroes Visit Indianapolis
Lt. Col. C. D. Dawee (left) and Pises Pattabongse. in Siam underground during war, at air conference here.
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they are representing their country
Key Members ob OSS in Orient Attending Air Meeting Here,
Two Oriental heroes from far-off, mysterious Siam, who helped wifi accordance with its solemn under- | the war as members of O. S. 8. and a powerful underground movement
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Supple and militaristic, vet pleasant and easy-going, Lt. Col. Chulla was crashin | Drabya Dawee and his studious, smiling friend, Pises Pattabongse, the uneven
| are_guests at Municipal airport. Both have come to Indianapolis from Bangkok, teeming Eastern | capital of Siam, and the land of Buddhas.
Understanding of the ways of
+ « + Key men |
SATURDAY, OCTOBE
HEROIC ACTION SAVES 26 AS PLANE BURNS
Purser, Druggist Dare Fire In Rescues; Army Crash Kills Five.
By JAMES F. DONOVAN United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Oct. 12.—A lowhanging mist that blotted out the
| |lights of Washington's National air-
port was blamed today for the crash last night of a fully-loaded Fastern Airlines luxury liner eight miles south of here. A purser and a Georgia druggist shared the hero's role in rescuing passengers from the flaming plane. The pilot and co-pilot of the DC-4
R 12, 1946
| "Saves Honor
Labor Secretary Schwellenbach.
Jlay critically injured in an Alex-
andria, Va. hospital. But the other two crew members and the 22 passengers—including | (one-year-old Marvin Edwards Jr, of Sweetboro, N. J. — miraculously escaped injury. The plane, crowded with vacationists, “was en route Miami to New York. Burst Into Flame Although six hours behind schedjule, the pilot messaged that “all| |was well” as he began to descend (for his landing. Three minutes
late from
later) the liner] g and bumping along terrain of an estate, {near Groveton, Va. 3 | It rolled over on its back and | burst into flames. Passengers said | the screams of the seven women | aboard were deafening. { Eastern. Airlines and the civil!
« + «+ No picket line to cross,
PICKETS MOVE FOR LABOR HEAD
Schwellenbach Enters Hotel
After ‘Deal.’
WASHINGTON, Oct. 12 (U, P) —~—A large, black, official-looking
limousine pulled up to the curb, A/
tall young man got out, walked over
to the picket line, held a hurried!
conversation and returned to the ca 7
tucked their signs under their coats
i a. Entered as Second-Class Matter at Postoffice Indianapolis, Ind. Issued daily except Sunday
Predict End of Meat Controls lection
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Y. The pickets, about 30 strong,|
_forced transfer of populations,
Greek frontier guards under pressure of Slav armed bands withdrew from isloated mountain posts to stronger defenses. Gen. Miles C. Dempsey, British commander-in-chief in the Middle East, who flew to Greece to inspect British forces, hfftriedly took a plane for London to a war office . meeting, He was accompanied by Lt. Gen. Crawford, British commander in Greece. Gen, Eisenhower is in London as
8 Are Taken Off Crippled Vessel During Storm.
STOCKHOLM, Oct. 12 (U. P.).— Lifeboats of a rescue ship today removed eight injured persons from the fire-ravaged Swedish freighter Kristina Thorden, which wallowed helplessly in the stormy North At-
the guest of Field Marshal Montgomery and the British general staff, {
At the same time Gen. Bedell # Bmith, U. 8. ambassador to Russia,
8 flying from Moscow to Paris for a Janeeting with Secretary Byrnes, Delivers Strong Note Gen. Smith had. just delivered to
lantic with three of her 14 passengers dead. The Norwegian-American, liner Stavangerfjord broke a radio silence this morning to report the transfer +of eight wounded from the 500-ton’ Kristina, aboard which Walter Heiberg, former U. S. naval attache at Stockholm, and twd Finnish students died.
and walked around the corner,
DISABLES SHIP
from unfathomable. They are eager the exact cause in their talk of their home in the |
Orient, of their reasons for being here, of their experiences during the war. 14 Years Service With 14 years of service in the| Siam air forces chalked up to his | credit, Lt. Col. Dawee, 33, was in| charge of flying operations for the Siam underground during the war.
Occidentals, Lt. Col. Dawee and Mr. aeronautics administration have orPattabongse, themselves, are far
| \ dered an investigation to determine | { of the crash. . Just a scant half-hour before the icrash, and less than three miles away, an army B-25 bomber had crashed and exploded in Franconia, Va. All five soldier-occupants were killed. + The army withheld their identities pending notification of next of kin. * Scramble for Safety Inside the Eastern liner, flames
The limousine moved slowly into| he hotel driveway and Secretary of
PRICE FIVE CENTS
Before E
WASHINGTON CALLING— Cabinet, Facing a Choice Of 'Slaughtering Cattle or Democrats,’ Chooses Beef
WASHINGTON, Oct. 12.—Meat controls are coming
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off. Question President Truman's cabinet had to face vesterday was whether to slaughter cattle or slaughter Democrats—and with rapidly diminishing herds of Democrats it was decided there were more cattle to spare. (Estimate: More than 80 million cattle on the range; less than 20 million Democrats in the corral.) Two weeks ago, just after President announced he was standing
| fast on control of meat prices, this column said: “Despite Truman statement, despite Anderson speech, despite
| on meat controls ” { It's coming sooner than we thought.
» » ~ Will It Be Soon Enough? BUT IT'S still a question whether soon enough to save Democrats from the November poll-ax. Though controls may be lifted promptly; it will be about election | time before meat gets onto counters in the big cities, In small towns, | where distance from slaughterhouse to consumer is short, relief will
Hannegan backdown, look for administration to surrender eventually |
Labor Lewis B. Schwellenbach halt- |
| ingly climbed out. C. L O. Officials Check Out
The secretary, suffering from a recently broken back, had asked + Washington's striking hotel service ‘employees to remove their pickets so he could enter his hotel apartiment without violating the picket!
lines.
Most other hotel-dwelling govern- |
Meat Prices to Be Increased Monday for Smaller Stores
New higher retail ceiling prices on from 41 to 489; shoulder chops up most meat cuts—as much as 10 from 30 to 36; round steak cutlets cents a pound on some—will become up from 48 to 57; sirloin steaks effective Monday in all of Indiana's up from 38 to 45; rump and sirloin
As a member of this mighty se-| licked their way along the fusi-!ment officials unhesitatingly ctossed
cret organization, he served the! lage as the passengers scrambled the picket lines thrown around 18] capital hotels today by 5000 A. F, of | 00 and Newton.
Office of Strategic Services. Lt, Col. Dawee made many hatrowing flights from Siam. to Tndia in planes carrying precious cargoes of American soldiers, rescued from
the Japanese by the underground, |Johnston,
Premier Stalin a strong American note opposing Soviet demands for! Dardanelles bases and joint Rus- | sian-Turkish control of the straits. |
j jvessel, had hopes of saving the underground, | : Moscow, Turkey was expected io do lives of most of the seriously in- Both he and his uncle appear in|MoITis and Co-Pilot P. K. Zeper-|U. P, W. press man,
[the pages of a book entitled, “Into | Rich, both of Miami—to safety.
80 today or tomorrow, Meanwhile large-scale Soviet and | satellite troop movements are taking place throughout southeastern Europe. At least that is the interpreta- |
tion of western military authorities, [/aPd said the Stavangerfjord's life- a student and an engineer, slender,
American and British authorities, | however, do not share the case of| Jitters afflicting Greece, Turkey and | others. Anglo-American policy is to avoid provocation but to be prepared | where aggression threatens—and to
The probability of a greater death toll was indicated. The Stavaugerfjord radio said |
for safety. There were conflicting reports among the eye-witnesses as to who was Hero of the incident.
Some .said it was Purser John nantly checked out of a luxurious h'ghest markup by OPA.
who threw. open the
L. service employees in their fight for higher wages. : . But three C. I. 0. officidls Tndig-
‘hotel whose employees are on
be quick—there hasn't been so much scarcity in such places anyway. (Continued on Page 2—Column 3)
counties except Lake, Warren, Ben- boneless roastsup from 51 to 60; round roasts up from 48 to 57. The new prices announced today, Beef—10-inch rib cut’ up from are for small independent and small [41 to 42 cents a pound; sirloin {chain stores which are allowed the up from 54 to 54; round, bone in,
The markup, according to OPA roast, up from 41 to 42; rump bone
Several times he néarly lost his|Datchways just hefore the crash/strike and moved into a “second Officials, will affect meat cuts which roasts down from 36 to 35; bone-
life while evacuating escapees and |2Nd personally assisted the women rate” house where labor troubles | Were not marked up when OPA re- less round roast heel down from | |once was forced to land on a Jap. 100% of the plane.
anese occupied air field.
With the passengers safe, Pur-
her staff doctor and a nurse, who| [It Col. Dawee is the nephew of | Ser Johnston dashed through the | London has sent a similar note to | had beert put aboard the stricken (the man who was chief of the Siam | lames and dragged the injured! [ 0.), Lewis Clark, union secretary-
jured passengers. Try to Send Medicine Early details of the dramaie)
rescue some 800 miles wést of Scot- |
boats were trying to carry food and clothing to the Kristina. The seas still were heavy, but the
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radio reported. In addition to the passengers, | among them five Americans, the |
Predi Panompyong.|
Siam Underground Kingdom.” Mr, Pattabongse is much the op- | posite of Lt, Col. Dawee. He is!
with slightly rounded shoulders. | Mr. Pattabongse installed radio! stations for the allies in China |
{storm ‘showed signs of abating, the land Siam while in the service of 0. 8.8. i
He said airplanes would flv over during the night and drop supplies
let the whole world know we are freighter carried a crew of 33. She land parts to his small lonely con-
prepared.
U. S. Asks Reduction Of Claim on Hungary
PARIS, Oct, 12 (U. P).—A U. 8.
was bound for Baltimore from Norway with a cargo of steel and cellulose. Fire which broke out aboard the {Kristina Friday was under control, [the Stavangerfjord messaged, The Selma Thorden, a sister ship
struction team in some desolate site deep in enemy territory.
Cornell Graduate
Mr. Pattabongse came to this] country to study mechanical engi- | neering. He has been graduated |
spokesman appealed to the western of the Kristina, was getting into!from Cornell university and now! bloc at the peace conference today |position for an attempt to tow the [is working on his master’s degree |
from to $200
to cut Russia's reparations Hungary by one-third million. Williard Thorp, U. 8. delegate, appealed during debate on the
vious reparations decision. The vote:
was due tonight, and the possibility
Hungarian treaty to reverse a pre-|
{ Kristina,
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of a major upset in conference pro-!
cedure was seen. The plan Mr. Thorp was trying to eliminate was fixed. in armistice terms with Hungary, providing that she pay Russia $300 million in goods.
[Instrument Landing System Witnessed Here.
Aviation authorities from 37 coun-
The United States main-|{ries went to the Notre Dame-Pur-
tains that is more than Hungary|q.e football game today. They trav-
can pay. Fedor Gusev of Russia sharply accused the U, 8. of trying to ham- | per economic reconstruction of the | Soviets. Lt. Gen, Walter Bedell Smith, re-| iterated American opposition to the
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Yugoslavia rejected all decisions at the conference affecting. that]
"Country, and denounced the west-|
ern system of outvoting the east as
the “extreme limits of ruthlessness.” | Were landed at the Weir Cook air- Fla, “to face the music.”
BLOWN 100 -YARDS | BIRMINGHAM, Ala, Oct, 12 (U,| P.).—One man was hurled 100 yards| today and seven others were injured when gas used to ripen bananas exploded at a produce shed here.
TIMES INDEX
Amusements . 5|Dan Kidney.. 8 Eddie Ash.... 6|Ruth Millett... 7 Aviation ..... T[Movies ...... 5 Books ...... . 14 | Obituaries ... 10 BOOS +...0... 12(J. E. O'Brien.. 6. Carnival ,,... 8 F. C. Othman 7
Churches-.... 4|Barton Pogue 17
eled by train. The 125 delegates to a two-week seminar here on international air navigation aids attended the football game as part of a week-end entertainment program which included a dinner last night and an- | other dinner Sunday. | Before adjourning for the round! of [festivities the delegates flew through rainy skies yesterday and |
port without the aid of a pilot. The flights were staged by the civil aeronautics authority to demonstrate its recently developed instrument landing system, The CAA and the state department, co-sponsors of the meeting of the provisional international civil aviation organization, hoped that the 37 member nations would adopt the instrument landing system as part of a planned program of standardizing air navigation throughout the world. The “Truculent Turtle,” which set a non-stop flight record of 11,228 miles, will fly here from Washington Oct. 21 and will be on display during the last three
ATTEND N. D. GAME
lat Johns Hopkins university. { Lt. Col. Dawee was sent here to | |study at army air corps schools. | | Before the war he was here to! |visit a number of airplane fac-| tories. Just recently both men, who have | known each other since 1939, were | chosen by . their government as delegates to PICAO air show at | Municipal airport, which is now in {its third day.
crew members—Pilot Capt. Joe
Other passengers told a story of how a middle-aged Rome, Ga., druggist, C. H. Elliott, slashed at a cloth covering a hatchway with his pen
knife until he had opened a hole!
{are nil. i Ralph Helstein, president of the { United Packing House Workers (C. treasurer, and Norman Dolnack, | crossed the {A. P. of L. picket lines— {to pick up their baggage | their bill. | Mrs. Wallace Crosses Line | Secretary of the Treasury John
and pay |
large enough for a single passenger | SPyder defended his right to enter|
to scramble through.
Hero Lost $25,000 Mr. Elliott, it was said, was the last passenger to leave the plane. He told police, moreover, that he lost $25,000 in cash and a $27.995 check in the flames, but gave no details. { In the case of the military plane, | army officials said it was on its way| from Richmond, Va. to Andrews Field, Md., its home base. The pilot tried to land at Bolling] Field near here, but traffic condi-| tions made such a landing impos- | sible. The plane, obviously in trouble. flew low around the Washington area for about 10 minutes. It finally crashed and burned on a lonely| farm, {
LOCAL TEMPERATURES
6am. 3 am....48 Tam... 43 -11 a. m...,, 49 Sam. ... 45 12 (noon) 491 9am. 47 Fpom ... 49 |
'| LOVED HER THAT MUCH'— Tearful Sweetheart Traps
Youth in Theft of $725,880
CHICAGO, Oct.
$30-a-week clerk, led in
police trap by the girl he loved, | thorities.
confessed the theft of $725,880 today and agreed to return to Miami,
Hurt, a former pharmacist's mate
2d class, who was awarded the |
nawa, returned to Chicago last week third term. Mr. La Follette sought Elmer S. Hurt, 22, .a corsage .box and mapped a campaign to regain the senate seat in convention, There
tucked under his arm and & brace- his flancee’s love.
let and diamond engagement ring
in his right hand coat pocket, was| suit, coat and hat-and .bought a ator Raymond E. Willis. (seized on a downtown street corner new engagement ring and a bracelet. hag announced his intention to cam-| A battle between police and black when he kept a date with the girl.|He then called the girl and arranged paign for Mr, Jenner, Hurt |for a date.
At the detective bureau, burst into sobs and confessed taking
his fiancee, who had broken her en- | disappearance : | Express Co. “office and notified po-
gagement to him. “I loved her that much,” he|l said simply.
and a drop-a-dime railroad station
locker, where they recovered nearly (no see” he began. ,
$20,000 in cash ‘and $697,000 in
money orders which, he admitted |his shoulder and turned to face two stealing from an American Express|policemen.
{when the youth stepped up briskly Hurt Jed police to his hotel room to the girl on the street corner.
his hotel on grounds he maintains | a year-round apartment. | “Besides,” Mr. Snyder said “there | were no pickets at the front door! wnen I went in.” Mrs. Henry Wallace, wife of the former secretary of commerce, walked right through the picket line. She explained she is busy with preparations for her daughter Jean's wedding and just had to. Mr. Wallace—one of labor's most ardent supporters—would not say whether he had crossed the line. But he was in his hotel suite three hours after the strike began,
LA FOLLETTE SAYS
HE OPPOSES JENNER 3: r=
gained control of prices on Sept. 10. 41 to 40. Veal Prices Up Lamb and Mutton—Loin steaks Veal prices will go up the most. 8nd chops up from 77 to 78 cents; Top grades of veal, including steaks, [Shoulder down from 54 to 53. chops and roasts, will increase from| Pork—Sugar cured loins down 6 to 10 cents.
The price ceiling scheduled, com- on various grades and types; pared with the old, includes: {Canadian bacon, down from 87 to Veal—Loin chops up from 46 to 86; plates and jowls up from 19
{56 cents a pound; rib chops up to 20.
Peru Girl Chosen Ball State Queen
Times State (Service MUNCIE, Ind, Oct. 12.—Reigning as queen for the home-coming dance tonight at Ball State Teachers college will be Evelyn Dixon,
VETERANS TO GET OPA HOUSING HELP
Rent Control Offices Will
{up from 53 to 54; round, bone in,
Choice cuts of beef from 39 to 38; smoked chops down | but only| wil] raise from 1 to 3 cents a pound. from 47 to 46; bacon, up 1 cent industry, labor and the public.
TRUMANTOAR FOOD AND PAY PLANS MONDAY
Aid Hints Decision on Meat Crisis’ Will Be Bared in Broadcast.
WASHINGTON, Oct, 12 (U. P.) .— The White House announced today 'that President Truman will speak to the nation on the stabilization program at 9 p. m. (Indianapolis time) Monday. Press Secretary Charles G. Ross |told reporters that the stabilization program, of course, includes meat. The President's address, about 18 minutes long, will be broadcast by all networks, Mr. Ross said. | Announcement of the broadcast precludes the possibility of any statement on meat between now and Monday night, Mr. Ross added. Due to Include Wages While the meat shortage was undoubtedly the primary factor in ine fluencing thet President in his de cision to make a radio speech, he is expected to discuss price and {wage controls in their broader {aspects as well as the specifie controls on meat. The two industry members of the wage stabilization board have sub-
Either there is meat in Indian. apolis or there are great hopes. Police reported early this morn | ing that in front of every downs town meat market there was a line a block long. There was ne disorder at that early hour,
mitted their resignations, but the | President has not accepted them | as yet! It has been reported Mr. Truman {may establish a board representing jonly the public to replace the present tripartite board representing
The President may have some= thing to say Monday night about the wage board. Mr, Ross was asked if his ane nouncement meant that the Pres ident has reaehed a decision on what steps to take in the meat crisis. Expected to Keep Controls — He replied that he couldn't say about that, but that obviously the President will have made up his mind by Monday night. : Best opinion continued to be that Mr, Truman was determined not to
| Miss | elected in schoolwide balloting. She was 12 contestants named by the sororities and an In- | dependent group. She represented the independents,
Dixon was
one of
Her will
neclude Peggy
court
Delta Sigma Epsi-
Plans to Take Stump for 1
Townsend Nov. 1. Times Washington Bureau WASHINGTON, Oct. Charles M. La Follette, Evansville's| “radical” Republican,
the election of Republican William waka, Pi Zeta; Jeanne Hower, E. Jenner to the United States sen- | ington, Alpha Sigma Alpha; Mari-| {ate in a speech at Indianapolis Nov. |lyn Reynolds, Anderson, Gamma | ; G Rosemary - Plummer, Ft.| Arrangements for the speech were Wayne, Pi Kappa Sigma, and Mari- |
made through, the united labor com- Yn Ann Lopshire, Monroeville, Psi] 12° (U. P.).—A Monday, police said, and..tlsen he “m
to a|Will be turned over to Miami au-
1, he announced today.’
ittee to elect former Governor M: | Clifford Townsend, the Democratic |
on; Florence Saunders,
Jane. Lawson,
amma;
heta.
Miss Dixon
Anderson,
Kappa Kappa; Barbara Reidy, sure they are not overcharged, Mr. Hartford City, Alpha Sigma Tau; porter said in a Virginia Bower, Dixon, O. Sigma | with Sigma Sigma; Elizabeth Ruble, Sel- wyatt. 13.—Rep. ma, Alpha. Madison, ..Omega trate on will oppose | Sigma Chi; Jean Strome, Misha-
Hunt-
Robert Linson, 4002 Bowman av
e, senatorial nominee, Mr. La Follette [Ndianapolis, senior and president
said. Declining to enter the G,
the nomination was given to Mr.
He invested in a fall outfit—shoes. | Jenner and taken away from Sen- |
from the
ice. They were waiting yesterday
He took off his hat. “Long time
Thefi, le felt heavy hands on|
Sixteen - persons,
The latter |
however,
FRANKFURT, Oct.
of the student executive ee INDIANA GETS IDEAL
0. P presided as general co-ordinator of
a star for gallantry at Oki- | primary in the 8th district for a the home-colfins, Best SSinee ea FOOTBALL WEATHER FIVE ARE KILLED IN . | BLACK MARKET RIOT Blankets Needed for First
12 (U. P) —|
| marketeers at the uptown black
| Mr. La Follette will contend that | market today left five persons dead, She had been contacted by bond- while Senator Willis was an elderly one of a. heart attack, and another the money in-an effort to win back|ing company agents after Hurt’sland somewhat inactive reactionary,| Wounded. : Two policemen and a bystander
Miami Mr. Jenner will be a young, and virile one and exactly what the country doesn't need at this time, he said.
a
FRENCH PLANE CRASH KILLS 3 AMERICANS *
including
nd a third officer
ttack.
were shot and killed in the gun play was wounded. The black marketeer, said to be a | Pole, shot and killed himself and a | bystander dropped dead of a heart
The dead gunman was found to CASABLANCA, Oct, 12 (U, P.)/— | be carrying three pistols, half a
three | dozen sets of identity papers, 26
Peru.
Enforce Priorities. | bi {remove price controls on livestock WASHINGTON, Oct. 12 (U, P.).— and meat despite the clamor for The OPA will begin a new enforce- | decontrol from the industry—and : dav- designed to/from many Deocratic politicians. ment program Monda) 4 | (“Washington Calling,” Scrippsmake certain that veterans get new p,warq forecast appedring in an housing preferences, Price Adminis- adjoining column, predicted that . sai ay. |meat controls would come off.) ator Pay} A Porter ud at s al If meat is not decontrolled, then OPA will put its 530 regional, assumed the President would rent control offices at the disposal girect the department of ‘agriculof government housing agencies to ture and OPA to take various other see that veterans get first chance Steps to ease the shortage as much buy , houses. and. to make |®S Possible. These could include 0 buy. new va |some imports of meat, readjustment {of slaughtering quotas and perhaps radio broadcast some price increass. Housing Expediter’ Wilson -Secretary of Agriculture Clinton P. Anderson said he did not expect The OPA rent offices will concen- any action before Monday on the enforcing a regulation | OPA beef industry advisory com« {which requires all new houses to be | mittee's petition for decontrol of | posted with signs saying they are|cattle and calves. being held for veterans for a speci-| fied period and also showing their| SIGN, ceiling price. OPA will check the prices against the prices veterans) report they actually are paying. | - .
‘MEAT FOR ALL, IS CAUSE OF RIOT
MEMPHIS, Tenn., Oct, 12 (U, P.). | —Squad cars loaded with police re- | serves raced to a new grocery-meat | market here today to quell a near ‘riot brought .on by advertisements ‘of “unlimited amounts of meat.”
Owner Tony Ciaramitaro advertised “meat for all” and was almost trampled by a surging crowd of 300 {men and women when he opened “he doors of his market today.
Time This Season.
It was ideal football weatie] today in Indiana where two key games on the nation's gridirons attracted capacity crowds’ of blanketed spectators, Indiana met Illinois at Bloomington and Notre Dame was host to Purdue at South Bend, No rain was predicted in the Hoosier state which “today was experiencing its first snappy football Saturday. Frost was promised here tonight. However, umbrellas were standard equipment for grid fans
and bottled goods crashing to the floor as it pushed and shoved for the meat counter.
Boston Holds 3-to-2 Edge ® There's a lull today in the
world series. as the Boston Red Sox and St. Louis
to St. Classified ..10-12 Radio ....... 131days of the meeting. Co. branch in Miami. ‘The money| “I'm sorry” the girl said, her eyes Americans, were killed Thursdey rings, five! watches and other|in Ohio and along the - eastern Padinais ie the sét. omics........ 13 | Mrs. Roosevelt 17 orders, police said, were negqtiable brimming with tears. She turned night when a French “air ocean’ | jewelry. 4 seaboard where the weather bureau Boston holds a 3-2 edge in Crossword ... 14|Serial ....... 3| STILLWELL GROWS WEAKER |anywhere in the world. and was gone. : i |plane hit a mountain near Sefroue A reported rain, Gs games as the result of its Editorials .... 8|8Silly Notions... 7| SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 12 (U.| Police said Hurt talked freely of| = Authorities declined to identify|in the Fez region. of Morocco, it| TWO ARE ELECTROCUTED Butler met Western Michigan at 6-3 victory yesterday. Europe Today &| Sports ....... 6 P.) —Gen Joseph W. Stillwell, 63- (the embezzlement. - He had ex-| the girl. was disclosed today. LANSING, Mich., Oct. 12 (U. P.).|Kalamazoo where temperatures : Forum ......" 8|Stranahan .. 6|year-old hero of the Burma cam- [pressed willingness to sign extradi-| Hurt said he was sorry he had| The dead Americans wore Calin | —Two members of a road construc-|were hovering just above freezing. For full details on that Gardening 2/John Strohm. 7 |paign, was reported growing “pro-|tion papers and return to Miami, stolen the money. |C. Treat, Evanston, Ill, vice consul | tion crew were electrocuted and [Freezing temperatures were re- game as well as the outHossier Profile 7| Weather Map 10|gressively weaker” today in his fight| where he will be charged with em-| “This” he told a policeman “is at Casablanca, and the wife and| seven others seriously burned today ported in Illinois and northern look on tomorrow's, turn te Don Hoover .. 8|Joe Willlams. 6 for life following an abdominal bezzlement, grand larceny and theft. the sad story of one guy who fell jdaughter of Howard Elting, Ameri- when a high ‘tension ‘power line was|Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota Page Six. Indiana Saga. 8 Women's News 9/operation Oct. 3. . - = lA nh § probably will take place in. love.’ ‘can consul at the same city. knocked down on them, had snow flurries last night : ’ inti RT a y ; y Ce] 7 » . : ¥ : file og . - - ok n:
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The surging crowds sent canned -