Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 November 1943 — Page 1

* FORECAST: Fair and warmer tonight; tomorrow partly doudy and continued mild.

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By THOMAS

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1943

L. STOKES

’ Times Special Writer WASHINGTON, Nov. 18, ~—Cordell Hull's appearance, befor re the joint session “of congress, signalizing the |"

tour of duty as secretary of state with his|" :

brilliant achievement at Moscow, puts the venerable figure |

VENILE “ON RAMPA

crime in Indianapolis today and last night. Hoodlums slugged and unmercifully beat victims of their thievery. ‘Pranks ranged from the mischievous to the de-

structive,

. Even a federal goverment war agency, Sound it _neces-

- sary to move in. The OPA will seek to revoke gasoline rationing to parents whose jalopy-driving children are involved in a coupon bootlegging ring. Watchman Beaten

Here's what happened: ‘a ? Frank Cooney, who is 67 and makes his living by working nights as a watchman, was recovering at his home from wounds inflicted by four young hoodlums. Mr. Cooney is the watchman at the 34th Street Garage, 3414 N. "Illinois st. About 1 a. m. today a car drove up and a youth about . 18 inquired: “My car's broke down; | can you fix it?” Mr. Cooney opened the door. | Three other 18-year-olds followed ‘ the car in. Two of the hoodlums i peat Mr. Cooney unmercifully. They took his billfold containing $8 and

The watchman summoned two _ passersby who called police and he was taken to his home, 1708 Ruckl2 st. Ld Hold Two Suspects

Police later caught up with two suspects at 35th st, and Kenwood ave. They had been riding in a taxi a short time after the slugging and _ they couldn't give a account of themselves. Until they can ‘ex. plain—if they can—they are held As vagrants. - One of them has been arrested Wis before, once for burglary, then for questioning. And the other one has been arrested nine times, dat- _ ing back to when he was only 13. He was charged with begging, being |"

3 was still daylight yesterday afternoon when four other hoodlums j 2nd Tala 3. shoe repair shop op-

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Two Elderly "Men Beaton is Young Hoodlums “In Robberies; OPA, Authorities Probe. = A3as Coupes: Recent,

juvenile institutions are loaded to

THIEVES

BLAMES COURTS IN YOUTH CRIMES:

Deputy Attorney General Makes Charge After State Survey.

By SHERLEY UHL . Judicial reluctance to prosecute juvenile criminals is “generally” demoralizing local police departments throughout Indiana, Deputy Attorney General Frank E. Coughlin declared today. Mr, Coughlin, just returned from a state-wide investigation of the juvenile problem with two FBI to co-operate with police officers in “cracking down” on teen age eriminals on three primary factors. They are:

Mention. “Politics”

1. A belief on the part of elected judges that stiff penal sentences handed juveniles in county courts might “prove extremely harmful politically.” g 2. The pervasive influence of city, county and state welfare workers inculcated with” “New Deal philosophies of adolescent reform.” 3. The firm assamption of juvenile and county judges that state

capacity and cannot acept additional inmates. “The tense friction between Indi-

10S HAY DE [IN STOCK PENS,

somewhat in the aspect of the stone that the builders re-|PaY

jected,

For he onto sat here | in 1 the house, 8 a Towly prophet with on and on, and they would slip out to the cloakrooms and lock the-doors to keep them from walking out on him r

Entered as Second-Class Matter at Postoffics Indianapolis, Ind, Issued daily except Swany

ness against the raising of high tariff walls by this country.) Those high tariff walls contributed to the wave of national-|{heights he has reached today, was humorously put, with ism all over the world, by Which) in turn, helped to bring on;

a-world war;

g honor, “who raised a voice then crying in the wilder] ‘tobbies or to their offices.

“T-that dizzy and” reckless” or of “the 20's; they didn't much aftention to the slightly stooped gentleman with

Pst Prophet Who Reached Pinnacle

Cordell Hull's status in those days, contrasted to the

pardonable exaggeration, by

a veteran newspaper corre-

spondent who went to the press gallery to obtain the special

[ticket necessary for a seat in 1 tary today. :

he “gallery to ear. 1

“Imagine,” he said. “having to get a special ticket to |the high-pitched Tennessee twang. They would let him talk ‘hear Cordell Hull speak here, when. they. used .to have to

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Wilson Blames Mess’ in “Washington for Pork ~ *

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Situation Here.

‘P. 0. Wilson, secretary of the National Livestock Producers, today told Indiana farmers that there is a chance of hogs dying in front of

[the packing house, and pork spoils | {ing in stores - because. the. govern» |

ment in Washitigion is ‘one. great

mess.”

nual Indiana Farm bureau convention, Mr. Wilson said that after | the war food administration had set a floor price on hogs to increase hog production, “the bureaucrats had molly-coddled and pussy-foot-ed around, trying to tell the hog

they said.” The WFA yesterday announced that it would support tHe floor price from-now on.

To- Re-elect Schenck

the ‘Indian Farm Bureau for the

~11ast spon. years wes. sldtad. to } re-elected at this afternoons Ses - ’ an SNE me ney dred ve me 1619 E. 18th sty Mrs.

{ Brandon, first vice resident and! secretlary-treasurer, and Mrs, Lillie} D, Scott, second vice president, whose terms expire next year. “Delegates and alternates to the

also were to be named today, and resolutions attacking eral -subsidies’ to farmers were to he presented. M7. Wilson rapped the goveins] ment-proposed subsidy program as providing cheap food and asking the government to pay part of the grocery bill, He said that since consumers have a great surplus of buying power, price rollbacks contribute to inflation and subsidies make “a bad |—— matter worse.” He also condemned OPA for not consulting the livestock industry before a price control program is set up and said “we are called in and told what the program is going to be. » Rural Youth Elect

diana Rural Youth club which met with the farm bureau are president, Herbert Friedrich, Clinton county; 1st vice president, Robert Overpeck, Parke county; 2nd vice president, Carlysle DeLaCroix, Franklin county; secretary, Mary Catherine Dinsmore, Boone county, and treasurer, Margaret Bush, Gibson county. Mr. Friedrich and Mr. Overpeck were re-elected. :

The fight of the nation's farmers

for increased farm prices instead of

federal subsidies is aimed at: securing for the farmers their share of the rising national income, Edward A. O'Neal, national farm leader, in an interview. He spoke to Hoosier farmers last night at the Murat temple, Mr. O'Neal, president of the American Farm Bureau federation, which has the largest farmer membership in the country, stated that the farmers represent 23 per cent of the national population, yet receive

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Hoosier Heroes—

Lt. Walter Richhart, Flying. ‘Tiger Pilot, Missle) in Action

Missing

LT. WALTER R. RICHHART,

Ameena BR [Kidney Kidney esvees 20 3

American Farm Rureau federation |

Newly-elected officers “of the In=

1 Hone to Prevent Storage | - Jam, Stabilize Prices. {2x

|—Ration values of all cuts of pork i [will be temporarily reduced by two

Bl HELEN RUEGAMER |

Speaking at a session of the and]

men that they didn’t mean what

““Hassil E. Schenck, president of

three other children were rescued fire today swept a double house at. Mrs. William Bolton, 27, of the

door, shouting: “Mamma!

FIDELITY BLDG. MOVE OPPOSED

Six

Organizations Fight Proposed Purchase as

Courthouse Annex.

v8ix organizations today were circulating remonstrances against the purchase by the county of the former Pidelity Trust building at 148 E. Market st. for a gourthouse annex. It more slgunties are obtained ‘cn the remonstrances than there are on the petition for the pur chase of the building, the deal will be .off. County Auditor Ralph Moore said there were approxi{mately 400 valid signatures on the petition for the purchase of the building. William Book, vies president of the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce, one of the organizations fighting the purchase, predicted that the signatures on the remonstances “would more than quadruple” the signatures on the petition for purchase, Other organizations circulating remonstrances are the Indiana Tax-

payers Farm Bureau, Indianapolis Estate board, Building Owners

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PORK. RATION VALUES SLASHED ™O POINTS

WASHINGTON, Nov, 1 (U.P).

Baby Crawls to Safety

i Bo 3 Others As Fire Sweeps Residonce

A 14- months-old baby crawled throyigh flames and smoke to safety, and a grandmother was cut when

association, Marion County! Real

Cg BL They are (left). Charles Edwin, 14

safety, and Arthur Lee, wha was rescued

lle

1619-21 E: 18th st. 1619 address, was in a shed in the

rear yard, when her §-year-old daughter Alice appeared at the rear The house is on fire!”

Mrs. Bolton, screaming in fear, ran into the house and carried out another child, Arthur Lee, 3, By that time the flames had gained so mich headway that she

baby, Charles Edwin, 14 months. Mrs. Bolton's screams were heard by her mother, Mrs. Alice Gish, who was in the yard at her home, 1611 E- 18th st.

Suffers Artery Cut

Mrs, Gish ran to the scene and in an attempt to reach the baby, smashed a side window. She suf‘fered an artery cut and was taken to the City hospital. “As the ambulance took her to the

side with her two children, weeping

‘|and frantic over the safety of the

baby, the infant crawled out the ‘back door, black from smoke; — unharmed. He had crawled through two rooms which were afire, Mr. Bolton was summoned from his work at the Kroger Grocery & Baking Co. warehouse; Two other Bolton children, William F., 9, and

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was: utiable to return to rescue the|

hospital and Mrs. Bolton stood out-!

* YANKS RESUME ‘BOMBING RAIDS UPON NORWAY

British Air Fleet Strikes Chemical Center at Ludwigshafen.

By WILLIAM B, DICKINSON United Press Staff Correspondent

WASHING TON, Nov. 18 Cordell Hull told an historic m the Moscow declarations will to create a post-war world power politics of the past. The 72-year-old Hull, n pearance of a cabinet member senate gy house, asserted:

“LONDON, Nov. 18.—Four-motored Liberator bombers of the United

{Stated 8th alr force carried out the

second American attack on Norway in three days today a Téw hours Lafter-a British raiding feet struck in force atthe Rhineland chemical

| Lennter of Ludwigshsfen.....

- American and British “heavy ‘thombers “teamed in day and night pombardments of ‘Germany proper and outposts of Nazi Europe in occupied Norway to put the western offensive back on A running basis. based. hamhbhers “against

|. Mediterranean-| joined in -the campaign

Europe. with attacks on German alr bases in the Athens area. and other targets scattered across the southern: part of the continent, American army headquarters announced the new nttack on Norway without specifying the targets, It was the first time the Liberator bombers had gone out alone on a major mission without Flying Foriresses since- their reappearance in the European theater after a protracted absence,

Devastated Mines

Fortresses and Liberators struck the heaviest blow of the war at Nazi targets in. Norway Tuesday when they devastated the Knaben molybdenum mines and the Rjukan power station and electrolysis plant. Today's raid was the third by American-bombers-on -Norway. In the second Tuesday only two bombers were lost and six German fighters were destroyed. , Back in action after a five-night rest, a -big force of British-based

dropped hundreds of tons of bombs on the Rhineland chemical center of Ludwigshafen last night, The raid—60th of the war on the

trie’s. huge Radische Anilinwerke plant, largest chemical factory in Germany-—probably wiped out most of the repairs made by the Germans since the last attack Sept. 23. Factories at Ludwigshafen, situated on the west bank of the Rhine river opposite Mannheim, turn out explosives, tanks, armored cars, turbines, electric motors, U-boat pumps and precision tools.

home ¢ity of the I. G. Parbenindus- |

EARLY MEETING OF BIG 3' SEEN

“London Observers Expectit Sooner Than Was Thought

At Moscow.

By EDWARD W. BEATTIE Alnited Press: Stall Correspondent LONDON, Nov, 18.—A Daily Tele- | graph dispatch from Washington sald today that President Roosevelt, Prime Minister Churchill and Pre- | mier Stalin were expected to meet!

ference. The tripartite conference at Moscow Oct, 19-Nov. 1: was presumed to have laid the groundwork for a meeting among the “big three”

“jsome time before the new year,

Reporting in/a similar vein, the Washington correspondent of the! London "News-Chronicle reported today that there was talk in the American. capital. again of “big, events in the offing” “It's vague and carefully phrased, | but urgent,” he said, ~ The need for an early conference of the three heads of states, mill tary circles said, was underlined by the likelihood that the German grip on South Russia will be reduced in the next few weeks to a hard-| pressed: bridgehead across the Pies ster river, which itself probably will be liquidated in the Soviet winter campaign,

MARIGNY CONVICTED ‘OF. GASOLINE THEFT

NASSAU, Bahamas, Nov. 18 (U.| P.)—Alfred de Marigny, acquitted last week of murder in connection with the death of his father=in-jaw. Sir Harry Oakes, today was-convict-ed of illegal possession of 180-gal-lons of gasoline. allegedly from R, A FP. installations here,

By MILDRED REIMER

Col. Oveta Culp Hobby, ‘Boss’ of America's WACs:, Arrives Here fo Aid i in Recruiting

even sooner than was thought Hke- | ly at the time of the Moscow con-|

stolen.

‘POWER POLITICS DOOMED™--HULL;

STALIN PARLEY MAY BE SPEEDED

Victory, Secretary of State Informs Congress.

(, —Secretary of State 1L.F y congress today that hasten allied victory and help free of “the conflict ‘breeding

waking the first: recorded ap-

er before a joint meeting of

| “As the provisions of the four-nation declaration are fearried into effect, there will

no longer be need for spheres of influence, for alliances, for bals ance of power or any .other of the [Special arrangements “through { whieh,” “In thE Unhappy past,’ the

salons~sirove to: safeguard: thelr sequrity and’ to promote their" n= terests This. statement appeared. to ue administration's answer to pros posals which have been voiced in | this country that the United States and Great Britain enter into 8 | millitary alliance as the keystone oa future security; Appearing by invitation “at the - ierowded meeting; Hull outlined the (background, purposes, and problems lof the conference at which the United States, Russia, Great. Britain and China agreed upon the {necessity for a permanent international organization to mama peace,’ Appeared Rested He described the declarations ag a dynamic entity, destined to grow jand flourish until complete inter. national understanding, agreement land co-operation are achieved. | Asserting that the Moscow confer ence and its results were “an impor{tant step in the direction both of shorfening the war and of making { provision for the future,” he added: i “The conference thus launched a {forward movement which, T am {firmly convinced, will steadily extend in scope and effectiveness.” The gray-haired Hull, apparently {rested fromthe 26,000-mile round-

trip to. Moscow which he completed

only last Wednesday, spoke from the | chamber, Gallerjes were packed. Hull asserted that the basic policy

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RUSS WILL OPPOSE CORDON SANITAIRE’

Expect Axis Satellites ‘to Take Medicine.

MOSCOW; Nov, 18 (U. P.).— sia took a firm stand today against

any" post=war federation of small European -states, making it plain

| flood- lighted rostrum’ of the house

Moscow Declarations to Hasten