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Home Jobs it fined Eo. Order Nation-Wide Probe Shame Him ID $3000 South To Big Wedding rf ey - 8 —Boy Slays Site Robberies == Of High Food Prices
terity crimp was put in the wedStrangles Lad, 1, 4 Safes, Register ding of Princess Elizabeth and Lt, To P rove He $ Man | Looted on Week-End Philip Mountbatten. HARRISON, N. J, 560%. 15 (U| Ory and state police today soughtie er}. SHAmperialn approved P.)Fred Walter Smigelski, 14, the wearing of ordinary lounge! . a gang of safecrackers who they i told police today he killed a school-|pg)ieve gre responsible for five Satis $6.hs‘earemony In Westin mate—11-year-old Jackie Preston—|g uth side burglaries netting nearly ster Abbey. . to prove he was a man after his Such a thing was unprecedented ¥ $3000 over the week-end. in royal marriages. It is parents made him wash dishes, 4 ! even unThe th 0 bo af Similarity in the way the safes|neard of for big society: weddings Foulh. was arraigned yore looted led officers to conclude (such as those of Patricia Mount a murder charge today before larie taged oun! Magistrate Joseph Gallagher. all the burg: S were 5 by batten, Lord Bradbourne, and the He said he decided on the Preston the gang. 4 Duke of Rutland last year. fad beca be Bad a wesk heart At the Southern Circle drive-in FA i owuse vs . My : Bool [TESA , Hanna st. and Ind. 431,| THE lord chamberlain, whose anELy ; edth In a school~|y, eats ripped open the safe early duty it is to arrange royal func-|. Yoom. today and stole cash estimated at|tions, decreed that lounge suits He Sratied 3 Tansom, Hote to his would be proper attire. Uniforms pare A en Jured : od Ee and morning dress for men and 3 oped ware an gled| ouners of the restaurant which morning dress with hats for women . \ on» has been in opération only a few (also will be permitted. . months, said the burglars broke About 2000 persons will attend the ex AS Yursied a bo, Jolie open the front door to gain access wedding ceremony Nov. 20. ¥y wid uw es - churen [10 the establishment. The grim fact was that, with Swigels} h hon ne pan Saturday night, burglars broke clothing rationing, not many ib yu. Be Sather inte P, & M. Market, 1933 Lexing- Britons would be in a position to’ after Ad the oe inal phe boy ton ave. and carted off the small{buy new garb for the. occasion. the ransom note in his pocket. ste containing about, Sw, Jas THE influential London trades “IL killed him because I hated| aay earne ro gin. council last week urged the most! bim,” police quoted him as saying.| oo 0 "Cr tral dollars a rigid austerity for the wedding. After describing in detail how| © rs Anything else, the council said, _he planned and carried out the shane. gin cha aoa iWOUID Be out of lune with the has) ‘nitirder, Fred led police to an aban- the arkete ar abandoned tions struggie” oy economies sur doned warehouse on the outskirts vival. of Harrison, There the nude and(C® At National ave. and Ind. 43L,| ye wedding breakfast will be a
58th YEAR—NUMBER 161 . MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1947
Americans Must Eat
Less If Europe Eats At All, U. S. Is Told
More Unions to Open Own Grocery Stores; Commodity Increase Outstrips Wages in Spiral
By UNITED PRESS The government opened a nation-wide attack on high prices today. a At the same time the agriculture department announced that Americans will have to eat less if the world is to be fed this winter. Acting Secretary of Agriculture Norris E. Dodd said
there will have to be less| “i Giark disclosed the drive at meat, poultry ‘and dairy|the opening of the annual two-day products on U. S. dinner | conference of 'U.- 8, district at-
tables if other peoples are to have Te attted that they invite the
enough to eat during the comingi,unijc in their districts to come months. to them whenever they have eviMr. Dodd, who returned from A dence indicating that high prices meeting of the United Nations food result trom {llegal conspiracy among
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frais producing of Hamu
power to change America's eating habits, ! Unless they get. foor from Ameri}
In another development at Washington, Attorney General Tom C. Clark disclosed that he had directed U, 8. district attorneys to campaign in their own districts|c against possible collusive pricing agreements which hoost living costs.
"1 Army Man Survives Aberdeen Tragedy
ABERDEEN, Md., Sept. 15 (U. P.). —A Flying Fortress crashed into the {Bush river today at the Aberdeen proving grounds, killing seven army Ju
ik HO en § : Acme Telephoto, + A BIG WHEEL — Alexine Westhoff, a San Francisco stenayrepher, wait For the go-ahead from Chicago Policeman Robert Sammdn as she pedals throtigh the [merce W. Averell Harriman 81s0\joy last Thursday's all-time highs. city on her way to New York. She started cycling eastward from her home town EE From coast to coast housewives fliers and two civilians, the army
y 13 and expects to travel 10,000 miles before returning. announced. One army man sur- Missing
¥ A Coed's Letter The plane was on =a practice er : ; bombirig mission, the army said. 1 TL g Wi NS
lieve:
A entities of the dead and the "
fone survivor were withheld pending ‘Where Franklin Student Has Gone
Stark Opens Parleys
battered body of the Preston boy ROU far from the Southern Circle. |g nje affair of two or three courses up by police, the youth re-enacted Mitchell, 55 S. Linwood ave. moon. the crime, In ‘both robberies at the market! pngications now were that they widespread search by police and Two other safe crackings attrib-|ceay. , federal bureau of investigation |uted to the gang in week-end opera- . . iy er sa pi Bes mnie» ent scx EVO FOIATRSS day after -the victim's parents, Mr. |ture Co. Inc, 932-8. Meridian st. demanded $1000 for the safe return combination knocked off a safe at of the boy. Turner's Grocery, 1702 Prospect st., chae] Bergen, Harrison, and In-| spector James Hann, Kearny, said! He decided to kill someone to prove ; , Through Tomorrow Friday morning while in class. He wrote the ransom noté-then, ; notification of next of kin of the : Times State Sery . Tam..5 Uam...>58 yp; FRANKLIN, Ind, Sept: 0A Search of personal effects of 21: With Other Agencies Sam... 5 12 (Noom).. 8 | my pig four-engine plane crashed | year-old Doris Louise Davis, Franklin college student who dissppeared| Prosecutor Judson L. Stark wil this draft which was found Sunday morning while he was at mass. : ‘ first taste of approaching fall|The scene is about 20 miles north that friends and relatives have received no word from her, effort to step up co-operation be-|the Chicago board of trade after|stripped any increases in eonsums He added, however, that he was satisfied she had gone away volun- tween various enforcement agencies dropping sharply at the end of last! ers’ paychecks.
was found, . The car had been reported stolen. , small number of guests. Then the front door was broken open. - |nohably would not leave Britain. agents for the boy who disappeared |tions and Mrs. John Preston, Kearny,|®8rly today. Approximately $250 . i N. J. received by mail the crudely|Was taken from the safe. a es, | A statement by Police Chief Mi- last night. Police said $115 was the murder was due to the frustra-| 1 tion of the Smigelski boy. d S » » » According to his confession, the LOCAL TEMPERATURES but revised it later, putting the 9am... 55 12:30pm. 8 | bo nouth of the Bush river| Sept. 2, today falled to produce any clue to the girl's whereabouts. open a series of law enforcement ~ » » The plane sank below the water|tarily. in the county. . checking to determine if Miss Davis No Disagreement
In the glare of searchlights set|Saturday, by its owner, Glenneth K. ine couple will start the honeysry FINDING of the body ended a Other Robberies Listed Elizabeth will not have a trous-| Sortly alter choo) Friday. Burglars jimmied a front door to | 8 1 written ransom note. The note| A side door was forced and the {taken from the safe, HE WAS an only child and his am' . parents made him do the dishes Taste of Fall and other “sissy” household chores. youth said he plotted Jackie's death 6am... 5 10am....5 original draft in his pocket. It was Indianapolis “and | vicinity got its where it joins the Chesapeake bay. Police Chief Ralph Steinbarger reported the girl “still missing,” and conferences tomorrow night in an Grain prices were rising again on| pear that food costs have outs WRITTEN in ink on a sheet of} Loaner today. A cool snap moved of Baltimore. ’ said: morning accompanied by rains. almost immediately and has not yet| “I don't think any harm has Tomorrow's session, first of 10 Who $ to Blame?
loose-leaf notebook paper, the note|i, from the’ Northwest early this
a Je might have gone there for a visit. : come fo her,” he said. “After all] Meanwhile, the girl's foster moth- p be had hi oH Sod oo ive A flurry of charges and countershe's 31 and might go away with-|er, Mrs, Floy Cragoo, Davison, Mich. Weeks, w ates un charges meanwhile attempted to ' » ' “World War Memorial auditorium. fo rth " fears for: her daughter's place the blame fo rthe high cost out telling anyone. safety in s letter to Mrs. A. D Un. | Succeeding conferences will belo food. Contents of letters “state police” ow =o.” oil's landlady. The Tuesday, and . Thusslay high 3 Rep. Adolph J. Sabath (D. IIL)|large quantities of raw materials took from the stage-struck irVs'prankiin college junior drama stu-| «oy at the courl=|e nt a letter to Attorney General and foodstuffs on a gift loan basis room were withheld, Also with- dent disappeared from. Mrs. Unver-| ose, : {Tom C. Clark today, demanding in- will continue to contribute to high y | During the sessions, deputy prose- | "» held was the name of & close friend saw’s rooming house three weeks aod municipal vestigation of the dairy, produce,iprices in this country. in 'Wisconsin whom police areiago tomorrow. PAlitertilizer and grain industries and] U, 8, Senator Irving M. Ives
___jeourt judges and representatives off... vo called “the most vicious! (R. N. ¥.) and Paul Porter. last . : Temperatures were expected u * You see a boy stand on First st. . a/the $1880 holdup of the Lyric Goes on fron Diet
Old, Young Pack and Susses st. There will be a boy | reach a high of 72 today and
| theater Saturday night, | here. Hell k low of 50 tonight, , LINCOLN, Neb., Sept. 15 (U. P.. Shere, Foi ogg Joining = As the autumn forerunner blew . Fuse Ma ie oe job to —Timothy Irom Bear, 23-year-old ! : . {across the nation’s “storm track” o e-ag cago. gun» victed of murder, Yona Save 1t lo pum. Dont : £0 | Y the U.S. weather bureau at/men Who have been reported Sous Indian con bod pT A ANA. Cdl. Sept. 15 (u.| Punk will lead roundtable discus- | #150 Jassey + Yeslution demanding industiy lo? failing to expand te we sa : *| Chicago said the cool weather would (OPerating around this section. There|,,; for doctors to take some of the|{P.). — Gum-chewing bobby soxers sions on each subject, jan’ mvestigation of prices, and:mie dsmand, % | stretch from the Rockies to the At-{Were mo leads, detectives said. iron. out’ of him. and whitehaired old ladies crowded| Deputy Prosecutor Addison M. profits. Harold E. Stassen, Republican
“Dear Mrs. Preston: The storm which was general|been recovered, the army said. “If you want your son back alive|throughout the Midwest plunged| The B-17 was attached to the you get 1000 one thous. Bring a|temperatures into the 50s. Cool |Aberdeen-base. : clean shirt, paints, shoes, under-|weather was predicted to continue TT ware and a good supporter a small|through tomorrow. : . one that will fight him tight he! Skies which brought rain #nd p limpe has a slight case of rupture. We|stattered showers this morning were did it. {expected - to
open partially this " “He'll have worst if you don't do|afternoon and. to clear completely In | | Theft as we say. Don't trust anyone.| tonight, Tomorrow, the weather-
Wrap everything nice in a bag paper | man said, would be sunny and “cool. : i the 1000 and clothes. pee Low of 50 Tonight City detectives said today they Doomed Indian to{Were stumped in the investigation of
cutors, © criminal
Re Clty Doce ee scusions| 1 them all — the meat-packing|administrator of the OPA, warned |by-~specialists in various aspects of Vrusts, .jof an imminent depression due te leriminal law. | He said jail sentences should be Inflationary prices. : Roundtables Scheduled ‘handed to anyone found guilty of{ Mr, Ives suggested stronger After tip principal address each |Price manipulations. ‘market controls against speculanight, Deputy Prosecutor Glenn W.| The Ohio State C. I. O. councilition. Mr. Porter blamed American
“Don’t ask the boy any questions. |
coas ITOW, Just give it to him at 4 o'clock Mon~ Ingle bby ome th day afternoon 4 bells p. m. and you Meanwhile, on ihe past vast, . have Jackie back at 6 p. m, No|nrst big blow of the hurricane sea-
Two middle-age men forced the Lyric’s manager, Frank M. Paul, to turn over receipts, as Mr. Paul was Sheridan county jail after he beleaving the theater for a night/came acutely ill
funny stuff.” on menaced Georgia and the Caro-| 0. ery
|linas. The hurricane missed south
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HE MET Jackie after school, he Florida yesterday and was expected 80 Slovaks Arrested
sald, and told him he knew of “a|l0. DOW lisclf out in'the open: Al.
new hideout.” He led the boy to
the abandoned warehouse and told However; the southeastern coast
down for the storm.
make some secret panels.” AAF Evacuates Planes
When Jackie stooped over, he pounced on him and ripped off his
shirt. Then he said he tried to|8an mass evacuation of its planes President Eduard Benes of Czecho-
Jantic ocean. In Plot on Benes’ Life
Tron Bear was flown here from
yesterday. AD X-ray showed that his stomach contained several pieces of wire, a straight pin, a large nail, and metal parts of a bed. Dr. Beverly Finkle, penitentiary
PRAGUE, Sept. 15 (U. P.).—The (physician, said Iron Bear swallowed him to “look for a nail and we will] ine took no chances and battened Slovak department of interior to-|them last month while awaiting
strangle him with a piece of‘ the|to inland bases against the chance slovakia.
day announced the arrest of §0|trial for the July 24 slayings of Slovaks accused of plotting a revo-|John Stollar, a rancher, and Mrs. In Florida, the army air force be-|lution and scheming. to assassinate Stollar,
Friday, Iron Bear was convicted bf their murder and the jury rec-
into the courtroom today, They wanted to make sure they'd be present if Beulah Louise Overell and George “Bud” Gollum testified ahead of time, The young couple's attorneys have promised that they will tell their stories this week. Gollum’s attorneys said he would “tell a straight-forward story” to refute charges that he and Miss Overell beat her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Walter E. Overell, to death before the yacht Mary exploded and sank March 15. During the 16-week trial the
Dowling, former dean of the In\diana university law school and [to the joint congressional economic former enforcement attorney for committee during its forthcoming OPA, will discuss the law as applied [Investigation of prices blamed the to specailized topics taken up by situation on higher incomes rather main speakers. than on food expores to relieve sufTomorrow's meeting will open fering abroad. with an outline by Mr. Stark of! The Illinois Manufacturers’ asthe objectives of the conference. | sociation disagreed sharply, how{William H. Remy, head of the safety ever.
A report which will be presented presidential candidate, disagreed
with Senator Robert A. Taft (R. 0), who proclaimed last week that the United States “eat less” to bring prices down, Mr, Stassen said he thought the nation’s housewives were right: They - could knock down the high (cost of living by “buyer resistance and careful purchases.”
{board, will speak on “Law Enforce- |
ment in Marion county,” and Dr. R. N. Harger will discuss the ques~ Nspec or ac tion “Will Increasing Traffic Law| ~ Make Our
Enforcement Safer?”
Cabbie on Trial
garment,
the hurricane might reverse itself
An official statement said alllommended death.
state has contended that the young
“From Lee Probe [In Reyman Death
“What are you doing to me?” hejand strike there, those arrested belonged to: mn said Jackie screamed, | “Already the weather had sent anti-state. organization.” Although he had selected Jackie temperatures skidding to 22 degrees| They planned an armed uprising as his victim because he was sickly |in western Wyoming and light frost{id Co-operation with “former 88| Casualties Unknown and weak, the boy put up a terrific| was predicted for northern Wiscon- [Me™ Fascists, and other enemies of battle for his life, he said. sin and Minnesota. However; the|'h® Czechoslovak republic,” the
lovers killed the Overells for “greed,| Trans-Ocean Sleeper
Army Bomber Crashes; [lust and frustration” "to get the . Y y $500,000 Overell estate and over-| Plane Service Opens
lcome the parents’ objections to| ABERDEEN, Md, Sept. 16 (U.| thelr planned marriage. |
WASHINGTON, Sept. 15 (U. P.).| ATLANTA, Ga. Sept. 15 (U. P.). —Maj. Gen. Ira T. Wyche, inspector —A stocky, 20-year-old cab driver general of the army, has returned goes on trial for his life today, NEW YORK, Sept. 15 (U. P)~~lgrom Italy where he investigated'charged with the rape-slaying of \Pan American World alrways Was|jjying conditions among G. 1's. in pretty Mrs, Jeanette Reyman in statement said. P,)~State police reported that an ’ ——— |scheduled to. start its non-stop air-ithe Mediterranean theater. lone of the most lbrid crimes in sr weatherman said no crop damage army Flying Fortress crashed today 53 GREEK REDS TO DIE (sleeper service across the Atlantic Ge Dwight D. Eisenhower police annals here. IN THE struggle, Jackie fell to|was expected from the frost. FORRESTAL INAUGURAL SET (in the Bush river near the Aber- SALONIKA, Greece, Sept. 15 (U, at 6 p. m. today with a flight to; Rn, ilef of staff, ordered the in-| Mrs, Reyman formerly lived in the floor and grabbed a piece ofl The weather north of the Mason- WASHINGTON, Sept. 15 (U, P.). deen proving grounds. | P.) ~Pifty-three Communists, in-|London. a after Robert Ruark, Winchester, Ind. broken glass. Then, Pred said, he|pixon line was expected to be fair| —President Truman is expected to| State police sald they were un- cluding one woman, were sentenced The sleeper plane will accommo-|geripps-Howard columnist, charged! Glenn Robinson was arrested fol«
also picked up a piece of glass and and. cool for the next several days| swear in James Forrestal as the able to determine’ immediately the to death today after their convic-date 18 persons in double - tiered|ihat Lt. Gen. John C. H. Lee, the lowing an inténsive police investi~
said:
{with a low of 34 degrees expected|nai
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on charges of conspiring
“Thyow that away or I'll stab you|in northern Wisconsin and Iowa. |
‘with this piece.”
Jackie complied and Fred ripped
* Then, the confession said, he put Italy Regains
Treaties F iled Giving 4 Other Nations Freedom; wound up with Mr. Bidault shaking | stripped, despite her frantic screams
off his belt and strangled him.
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Italians Pay Highest Price for Defeat
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a8 an independent nation today. . The final .formalities of the Big Four's peace treaties with five for mer Nazi satellite countries were carried out here and in Moscow.
countries—Italy;
's first secretary of defense/number of casualties in the crash
PARIS, Sept. 156 (U..P.)~Ifaly rewon its Fascist-lost sovereignty
Instruments of ratification of the treaties were filed, and the five Bulgaria, Hungary and Pinland—again were| being reported from a region af- festations came during the week- |
of the big four-engine plane. |against the Greek government,
Independence; Strife Flares in Trieste
, signed first. The ceremony in the groin. The woman was
hands around and remarking: | ot “I am British,” American news-
“Here is the result of a8 long and | men were chased by hoodlums. very laborious effort,” he said. “I| Cries for strife also punctuated a .|hope it will permit us to enter into| threatening political situation in a long period of peace.” Italy. But even as he spoke, strife was! The most bellicose of the mani-
fected by the Italian treaty, It was end. Some 100,000 Italian Com-
{berths and 16 others in reclining chairs.
Italy also was plagued by strikes. | About one million farmers were on strike in northern Italy. Michael J. McDermott, special as~ sistant to Secretary of State George C. Marshall, told reporters in Washlington “It is not clear to me bow Mr. Togliatti thinks we can domi-
theater commander, was living in gation, Witnesses said they noticed luxury while enlisted men lived/® heavy-set man with the Bogart, under intolerable conditions. |G houstwie 2 gay haters he Gen, Lee requested the inspection. | as . The war department refused com- found trussed in the rear of a pick ment on Gen. Wyche's findings or|uP truck in southeast Atlanta. when his report would be made.| Mrs. Reyman had left her Bogart Army spokesmen said there would/home in the truck on a Sopp. be no statement released until after [tour June 24, the day before hes Gen. Eisenhower studied the/body was found. Her h - Wyche report. |formey Winchester, Ind, manuface
Cn |turer, had not accompanied her. MISSES WIFE'S FUNERAL .
BOSTON, Sept. 15 (U. Pp) —con- Fewer Dresses—
inate Italyby helping her help her- nn. passos, 51, noted writer, was
fined to a hospital bed here, John @® Eye-appeal isn't the issue in the controversy
Romania, on their own, subject to Whatever WV whether women should Se~. cept ‘the trend toward longen skirts. \ @® Women will have. to along
Fashions igfluences they might be recogniz-| Paris peace conference compromise) the Pree Territory of Trieste, munists cried “Death to Truman” bil. lunable today to attend funeral] ing
lsetting up the ‘Free Territory of y | Of all'the f : satell Italy| fe wh killed in the t-war scheme. set Italian and Slovene factions were when they assembled to hear their e former satellites, Italy services for his wife who was Kkille Fovum ‘ 3 Bide (ianems, 2 The nt of ratification re- Trieste under United Nations rule. fighting at various points there. |leader, Palmiro Togliatti, tell’ them| paid the heaviest price for defeat. at Wareham, Mass, Friday in the Meta Oven. iE rte ig.17/storing Italy to the family of ng.|The Big Pour had precisely one| Three persons were killed. An ex- that the United States was trying It lost 2843 square miles of Venetia automobile accident in which he Hollywood. -.., DO gar tions for the first time since her Year more in which to agree on the pioding grenade thrown in thelto start a new war, and Russia Guilia east of Trieste to Yugoslavia. lost his right eye.
Don Hoover... 12|{Teen Topics.. 14 {fate of the Italian colonies | me —c————— stab-in-the-back attack on Prance v d Piazza del Unita was fa-'was the country that could give It was required to pay $260 millio ! Mrs. Manners 11| Washington ..12 lin reparations to Albanis, Ethiopia, SWISS END MEAT RATIONING a
Reh tt. .14| Weather Map June 10, 1940, becomes effective at/ The Italian ratificatibn was de-|tal to 8 man. Bullets fired from a them the most. Millett. . Wom's' News. 1 ol? p.m. ( ; time). With- posited in a 10-minute ceremony in A week earlier Togliatti had Greece and Yugoslavia within the| ZURICH, Sept. 18 '(U, P.) ~The In Indpls. ... 3 i “a{in 90 days from that moment, the(the office of Foreign Minister threatened to usec “30,000 weil-|[next seven years, France got two government announced today that Inside Indpls..11| World Affairs. powers were to remove Georges Bidault. No official Ital- burst of machinegun fire. [trained partisans” to overthrow towns on the Alpine border and meat rationing and meatless days, NATIONALLY FAMOUS oR FINE SoD their troops. 5 {lan representative was present. Jef-| A British couple was attacked.'the Catholic government of Alcide [Italy lost her colonies—Libya, Erit-in Switzerland would be abolished CANO Roman 14 E Oha—adv, Alig going into effect was theferson Caffery, U. S. ambassador 10 The man was mauled gnd kicked de Gasperh = ° [rea and Somaliland, i ¢ r : | / f ‘ 3 y : oo , 1 r -
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