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At the Hamilton county jail at Noblesville, ex-K. K. K. grand dragon D. C. Stephenson enjoys himself and hopes he'll never have to go back to the Michigan City prison,

NEW BAN PLACED ON RAGE HORSES

Hauling Animals by Rail or Truck Lines Stopped.

WASHINGTON, July 11 (U, P). ~The government today banned the transportation of race horses or show animals by rallroads” It also prohibited their transportation by truck operators doing business either as common carriers or on a contract basis, The order was anngunced. by Director J. Monroe Johnson of the office of defense transportation. It was issued at his request by the interstate commerce commission in order to ‘prevent unnecessary burdens on the transportation system during army redeployment. The order is effective at once and applies to shipment of race horses or show animals in intra-state, in« terstate and foreign commerce. Effective for Year The ODT said the order applied to race dogs, as well as race horses and show animals of all kinds. The order is effective unti] July 1, 1946, unless countermanded or modified, Johnson said the action was necessary “in order to expedite the movement of troops, material of war and civilian supplies needed for the successful prosecution. of the war.” He said that most race horses and show animals are carried in express cars or in specially constructed livestock cars on express and passenger train runs. He believed that the new direétive wolud release a considerable volume of equipment for other types of transportation - purposes, as well as lightening the loads that passenger trains might otherwise be hauling. The-1CC defined race horses and ghow animals a8 those crifeny vaius" able for racing, show or breeding purposes. It excluded ordinary livestock. It would not apply to stables that used their own trucks ~{if they could get the gasoline for the trucks.

MOTHER SOBS AS BABY IS RETURNED

MARION, O, July 11 (U, P).—~ Mrs. Helen Elizabeth Oreviston, estranged wife of an army sergeant, cuddled her nine-day-old daughter in her arms today and sobbingly thanked police for finding the kidnaped infant before anything happened to her. Tiny Jean Eileen Creviston apparently had no ill effects from her

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SPAATZ SERVES G.1.’S

AT ERNIE PYLE CLUB|

MIAMI BEACH, Fla., July 11 (U. P)~G. L's had a two-ply treat last night—hamburgers dished out to them by a general at the opening of the new Ernie Pyle club here. Gen, Tooey Spaatz; head of the strategic air forces in the Pacific put on an apron and handed out the eats to hundreds of soldiers, mostly air force veterans from Europe and the Far East. The club is strictly G. I.-—for the soldiers. about whom the late correspondent wrote. It is out of bounds for officers unless they are accompanied by an enlisted man.

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13| Inside Indpls. 9 Business ..... 7|Jane Jordan., 15 Ciano Diary,. 9 Mauldin ...,, 9 Comics ...... 15|Ruth Millett. . 9 Crossword ... 15 Movies ..:... 13 David Dietz. . 9 Obituaries ... 4 Editorials .... 10| Fred Perkins. 10 Peter Edson. , 10, Radio 'E. A. Evans... 9, Ration Dates. 6 «+++ 12{ Mrs. Roosevelt 9 Forum ....... 10 Scherrer .... 10 Meta Given... I Sp vavenan-ib JH... 9 Sop. 1, Wemen 3 New. 3

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D. C. Stephenson, ex-Ku Klux

is mapping, step by step, the course he thinks will win his liberty. Since his transfer from the Michigan City state prison to the Noblesville jail, Stephenson has personally consulted numerous lawyers, sympathizers and friends, some of them ‘well-known Indianapolis people, Uses Sheriff's Home

He prefers to see his conferees in the sheriff's home, preferably in the parlor or kitchen. Sometimes Sheriff George Michelfelder is present, sometimes not. Stephenson often uses the sheriff's telephone. The sheriff, a personable, agreeable young man, appears sympa thetic toward his prisoner, as do many other Noblesville officials and citizens. > He calls Stephenson “Stevie” and Stephenson addresses him as “George.” Stephenson eats and sleeps in the jail where he also types reams of legal documents, according .to himself and the sheriff. The sheriff said Stephenson has never tried to “impose” on courtesies extended him. Strolls Around Jail

Working feverishly on his case and strolling around the jail and the sheriff's home are about the extent of the ex-Klansman'’s exercises. He never goes outside, although he does stand wistfully at the sheriff's screen door and converse with acquaintances on the courthouse lawn. Stephenson refuses to . talk for publication to newsmen. All such

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Hoosier Given

Science Award

NEW YORK, July 11 (U, P.).— Frederick Menenko, 17, La Porte, Ind, high school student who discovered a heretofore unknown

form of allotropic oxygen, was awarded a $500 war bond last night for his achievement. Menenko was the guest.of the Gilbert Hall of Science, a branch of the A. C, Gilbert Co. of New Haven, Cinn,, at a banquet in the Hotel Astor. Other guests included previous winners of the award which is made annually to a high school student for original research in chemistry. Menenko, in company of H. W. Schulze, director of vocational training at the La Porte high school, was a guest of the Gilbert Co, for three days and was taken on a tour of the city.

heard noises on the first floor of ave. and Maryland st. of the chief's car. Lt. Wills and Battalion Chief Charles. Gregory, who also was awakened, began the chase. Sliding down the brass pole to the first floor, they caught one of the soldiers in the driver's seat. Two others ran out the front door. “Where are you going with that car?” the lieutenant asked. “What's it to you?” the. soldier replied. By that time the soldier driver started the car and drove toward the firehouse door. Lt. Wills was forced to jump off the running board so that he would-"not be crushed between the car and the

Losing control of the car for minute, the soldier hit the side

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Stephenson C amforfable os : He Plots Fight for Liberty

By SHERLEY UHL

Klan grand dragon serving a life

term for murder, is now plotting his fight for freedom from the comfortable confines of the sheriff's home in Noblesville. Nearer liberation legally than he has been for 20 years, Stephenson also has more freedom of action than he has enjoyed in the same period. In daily conferences with frequent visitors, the former Klan chief

ADMITS KILLING ‘WIFE AND BABY

Deaf-Mute Calmly Writes Details of Crime.

PEABODY, Mass, July 11 (U. P.).—A deaf-mute prizefighter beat his deaf-mute wife and infant daughter to death with a clawhammer as they slept early today and in sign language confessed he did it because “she didn't love me any more ” Arraigned on two murder charges, 26-year-old Dave Horblit was handed a note by District Court Clerk Charles J. Powell. It told: him pleas of innocent had beén entered—that he had been held without bail for the September session of the Essex county grand

- jury.

Eight hours earlier Horblit had walked into the police station where Patrolman William Callahan was on duty, He gesticulated, then realizing Callahan couldn't under stand him, took a piece of paper and wrote: “I killed my wife and baby.”

Writes Confession Horblit’s hands and face were well washed, his trousers were well creased and he wore a white shirt. Callahan shook his head in disbelief but Horblit nodded a violent affirmation. Asked how he had committed the. arime, Horhlit nicked li. up the pencil and wrote: “A hammer.” Police accompanied the lightheavyweight fighter to his home where the bodies of Mrs. Catherine Horblit, 22, and her 20-month-old daughter, Caroline, lay.

HIT THRICE IN-FINGER;

IT’S MONOTONOUS

MANILA, July 11 (U. P.) —Being shot at—and hit—by the Japanese on northern Luzon was getting pretty monotonous for Pfc. William Dyer, Tiptonville, Tenn., a rifleman with the 32d division's 126th regiment. Three times Dyer has been nicked on the right hand, and each time the Japanese bullet smashed his rifle stock. Each shot resulted in a superficial finger wound. Now he's going home to be discharged on points and, he says; “I'm lucky that magnetic hand is still ‘with me. y

the firehouse, located at Kentucky

He saw three soldiers sitting in the front seat

He jerked away and ran southwest on Kentucky ave. with Lt. Wills after him in the car and Chief Gregory on foot.

heavy rubber boots, said the soldier ran almost as “fast as a deer.”

to ~ Capitol ‘ave, Louisiana st., the got hold of the soldier and pushed him against the elevation wall, “There's no one around here. I'll

Jerking away and running north, ~ e - \ John’s Catholic school yard at Geor-

dier was found hi in the bushes. When the chief grabbed him, the khaki-dressed soldier said, To

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CHARTER GET DAY IN COURT

Witness Sees No Peace Until Axis Nations Are Back in Fold.

By JOHN L. CUTTER United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, July 11.—A witness opposed to the United Nations charter told the senate foreign relations committee today that there can be no peace until Germany and Japan “are brought back as equal members in the family of nations.” Frederick J. Libby of the National

posed, as a substitute for the charter, universal abolition of conscription, progressive world disarmament, and an international organization modeled after the Pan-American Union. ! Libby was one of a succession of opposition witnesses who, limited to 15 minutes each, variously assailed the charter as a “Communist plot” and a plan for “empire rule.” One witness was cut short at 10 minutes and was escorted from the witness chair by two policemen. Libby proposed that the Atlantic charter be followed in the post-war treatment of Germany and Japan because, he said, “there can be no peace for any of us until Germany and Japan are brought back as equal members of the family of nations.”

Woman First Witness

He asserted that the charter was being “seriously oversold” unless it really would maintain “international security,” or “international peace,” or both. He denied that it would achieve either of these principles. “The present. charter,” Libby said, “is an attempt to combine a military alliance of three rival imperialist powers and an international org#nization that claims to be on the basis of ‘the sovereign equality of the member states.’ These fwo ideas can no more mix than oil and water.” Mrs. Agnes Waters, Washington, D. C., describing herself as representing the National Blue Star Mothers, was the first witness, She called the charter “e fraud, deceit|a and an international conspiracy that will knock down this nation and overthrow this government.” She charged it is part of a general Communist plot to control the world. Committee Chairman Tom Con-

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REPORT FLIER, LONG “NiISSING, "IS DEAD

Freed

Local Paratrooper

From Prison.

A local pilot, missing for more {than a year, is reported killed and a paratrooper has been liberated from a German prison camp. KILLED Capt. Robert E. Ensminger, 1321 N. Meridian st., over France, SAFE Pvt. John Farrar, 648 S. Taft st., from a German prison camp.

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CONVICTED OF KILLING LOS ANGELES, July 11 (U. P). —Charles E. .Endner, husky 41-year-old truck driver, today faced a possible life sentence on conviction of beating his 84-year-old | mother to death,

The two pursuers, dressed in their . 3

Chasing him to Georgia st. egst Er ; and south to : fire lieutenant

fix you,” the soldier said, again ‘pursuit. continued to St. gia and Capitol ave. where the sol- [i

Council for Prevention of War pro-|-

The unlucky motorist looks on,

Motorists Stopped in Auto Use Tax Drive Here

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Hoosier motorists driving without the 1945 Tederal use stamp are finding it costly. Illinois and Maryland sts. were Patrolman John Stonehouse and Lowell Myers, internal revenue men.

FATALLY HURT

May Have Been Slugging Or Hit-Run Victim,

A man Maxey Spinks, 53, alias Willie Miller, died in City hospital today after he was found bleeding and critically injured in a narrow passageway be-

New Jersey sts. Spinks’ -address was given as the 400 block of E. Washington st. He

market and had a minor police record. Circumstances surrounding - the death are tangled. The victim's pockets had been turned inside out. At first sight, it appeared .to investigating police as a cut-and-dried slugging. Hit-Run Vietim? Detectives theorized, that the slain man, who died of severe head cuts, but also received a broken shoulder and blackened eyes, might have been struck by a hit-and-run driver. Unconscious and breathing heavily, Spinks was discovered at 5:28 a. m. He died at 11:05 a. m.© He had a son, Ray, living at 118 W. Walnut st. A billfold found nearby bore the name of another Indianapolis resident. Relatives of the man whose name was imprinted on the wallet said he had lost it about a month ago.

RECOMMENDS FUND TO LIQUIDATE FEPC|

WASHINGTON, July 11 (U, P.) .— The. house appropriations committee today cleared the way for a showdown house vote on the Fair Employment Practice Committee by recommending a fund of $250,000 for its liquidation.

agencies appropriation bill deadlock.

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U. S. Cracks Down on 67,000 Without Car Stamps.

A SURPRISE crackdown on drivers who have failed to buy auto use stamps got underway in Indianapolis and 54 Indiana counties this morning. Despite repeated warnings and a 10-day grace period, an estimated 67,000 motorists still are driving without the stamp, Will H. Smith, collecter of internal revenue, said. Two principal factors for the lag in sales are widespread resentment of the tax and hope that the law would be repealed, Mr. Smith explained. Although the deadline for purchase was July 1, many motor=ists ‘have been holding out, hoping that the general criticism of the use stamp would force congress to abandon the tax.

» A SQUAD of 250 deputy. collec-

tors began a check of cars over the state today. Twelve collec tors were stationed at six principal downtown Indianapolis intersections. Aided by local law agencies, the collectors will tag every vehicle being driven without the use stamp. Drivers who have failed to purchase and display

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TRUMAN'S SHIP NEARS EUROPE

Big Three Parleys Scheduled Near Berlin Next Week.

By MERRIMAN SMITH United Press Staf: Correspondent ABOARD U. 8. S. AUGUSTA ON THE ATLANTIC, July 11.— President Truman held shipboard conferences with his “top international advisers today as this powerful cruiser sped him toward Germany for the Big Three meeting next week. The President, now five days out of Newport News, Va, will disembark from this warship at a northern European port and proceed by plane to Potsdam, the Berlin suburb where he will meet for the first time with his Big Three partners—Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Premier Josef Stalin. White House Press Secretary Charles G. Ross, a member of the presidential party aboard the Augusta, said there would be no advance announcement of Mr. Truman's arrival date for security reasons. Conferences on Ship

The President was keeping in constant touch with Washington by radio and holding continuous conferences aboard ship with Secretary

JAPAN

ENEMY FAILS

T0 FIRE SINGLE

| SHOT AT FLEET

Carrier Blast Wrecks 173 Of Foe’s Planes and 32 Ships.

By FRANK TREMAINE United Press Staff Correspondent

PEARL HARBOR, July 11, —Tokyo said today the U. S. 3d fleet had finally broken off its carrier strike against Japan with a mighty final blast that wrecked at least

173 Japanese aircraft and 32 ships.

It was the 36th straight day of the pre-invasion bombing of Japan, Even as the “fleet withdrew army raiders from Okinawa took up the assault. Tokyo reported a flight of aboud 150 American P-51's and P-47's at= tacked the suicide plane bases on eastern and southern Kyushu for about two hours: today. 80 Airfields Hit Despite the fact that Adm. Wil

most into the mouth of Tokyo bay,

it ‘Was allowed to withdraw without

so much as an answering shot from the stunned enemy.

the 80 airfields surrounding the city testified to the havoc wrought. Speaking from Washington, See~ retary of the Navy James V. Fore restal said last night that the 3d fleet's strike had proved that the U. 8. “now @ntrols the ses right up to Japan.” To do this, he said the sath hae sunk more than 250 major Japanese warships, hundreds of merchant ships, and has destroyed thousands of planes. Jap Air Power Smashed From Kunming, Lt. Gen. Cliirs . Chennault said tbe 14th airforce had achieved its first objective of sweeping Japanese planes from China’s skies. He said in the future the 14th's planes will swing, to supporting Chinese ground forces. The Chinese central news agency declared that Japanese forces are hurriedly abandoning their entire salient in southern Riangal province. It appeared that the Chinese are

of State James FP. Byrnes and] Adm. William D. Leahy, dential chief of staff. : When the chief executive reaches

The committee action will permit a house vote on the FEPC item tomorrow and make possible final action on the $752,000,000 1946 war which has been tied up in a legislative

KIN TO EUROPE

WASHINGTON, July 11 (U. P).— The question of letting members of families join soldiers serving in Europe has been considered by the war department and Gen. Dwight D. commander,

Shortages of transport, food and housing will prevent kin from visiting soldiers in Europe for at least some (time, officials reported Sous:

Three Soldiers 75 fo Steal Chief's Car—But They Can't Anymore

Police are searching today for three soldiers who attempted to steal the battalion chief's car at fire station 13 early this morning and led firemen on a chase through ‘the downtown area, When Lt. Glen Wills, driver of the car, awoke about 12:40 a. m. he

LAFAYETTE, Ind. July 11.—The selection of Fred C. Kelly to prepare a biography of George Ade, famous Indiana author and humorist, was announced today bythe Purdue Research foundation. Mr. Kelly, a resident of Peninsula, O. gidined recognition for his biography on the Wright brothers and of David Ross, for many years president of the Purdue board of trustees. The arrangements for the biography were made by the Purdue foundation and James D. Rathbun executor of the Ade estate. George Ade Davis, who holds all Ade copyrights under Mr. Ade’s will, also 1s co-operating in the project, Mr. Kelly's book on the life of Mr Ross, who with Mr. Ade and other alumni provided the RoOss-Ade stadium at Purdue, is to be published by Knopf in September.

Potsdam he will be joined by other high ranking diplomatic and milipany figures. They include Joseph Ee Davies, former ambassador to some-of the| preparatory “work for -the-coming Big Three meeting, and consultant experts from the state, war and navy departments, including the ! joint chiefs of staff. Great Problems Gen. George C. Marshall, Adm. | Ernest J, King, Gen. H. H. Arnold | and Leahy make up the joint chiefs of staff. Questions of great import face the impending Big Three onto ence. - Among them are problems of German occupation and control and possibly of boundary changes

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POWERS TO FEED OWN BERLIN ZONES

BERLIN, July 11 (U, P).—The inter-alliéd Berlin command agreed at its first meeting today that for the time being each of the occupa-

{tion forces In the capital will be re{sponsible for feeding the German | population of its own sector..

The food for Berlin will be provided for the respective allied occupation zones, and importation for that purpose from the United States or Britain is not planned. A group of experts representing the occupying powers will meet and work out details of the food program which will be announced later. It is not known yet whether the current ration established by the Russians in Berlin of 2000 calories, on paper, will be continued. However, the ration will be standard throughout the city.

WARMER WEATHER IN STORE FOR CITY

Unseasonably cool is the weather outlook for Indianapolis today and tonight but temperatures are ex-

‘| pected to rise tomorrow. The mercury went down to 57 in| .

the city this morning after hitting the 77-mark yesterday afternoon,

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reported Chinese troops have re captured Hain-Ch'’eng - (Sinchang) airfied and Nanking, 80th in Kiangi si province, as well as Chungtu, on the Kweilin-Luichow highway 38 | miles northeast of Liuchow in cen | tral Kwangsi. All-Out Blow It appaered that the Chinese are gradually gathering steain for am all-out blow against the Japanese

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trnscontinental China. In Borneo Australian troops se- { cured completely’ Balikpapan harbor and the great Pandsansarl oil refineries. Now they must sweep the waiting Japs from 200-foot high Mount Batochampar. Hard-pressed Tokyo added another drab touch to her dismal picture with a broadcast saying that blind Japanese war veterans have been organized into a special

of an allied invasion. Domei news agency sald yester-

planes lasted for ‘12 hours, from 5 a m to 5 p m. (Tokyo time) and estimated that as many as

and torpedo bombers took part in the attack.

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Sailor, Father of 14, Claims Title

WINONA, Minn, July 11. (U, P.).—A 50-year-old sailor, Roman L. Springer of Winona, today laid claim to the paternity championship among U. S. servicemen. Springer has 14 children. Springer, who left a $100-a~ month carpenter's job to enlist in the navy in March, 1944, said that

monthly in allotments. | Springer canndt collect, how= ever, on his three oldest children, who also are in service. Marion, 22, is a WAC; Plo. James, 30, is a

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