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[ScRippS ~ HowARD | VOLUME 56—NUMBER 285 BLACK MAGIC' IN INDIANAPOLIS—No, 3

Hexed to Hospital,’ Says Victim

PASTOR GIVEN

LIFE SENTENCE

Convicted of Poisoning His Daughter in 1939.

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich, Feb. 6 (U. P.).—The Rev. Frank E. Siple, | 53, confessed poisoner of his 17-year-old daughter in

found guilty’ today of first degree’ murder charges.

‘Judge Leonard D. Verdier ruled that Siple, the unfrocked pastor

Church of God, | had committed |

der. i Siple previously Siple had pleaded guilty tos témporary murder warrant in the poison-slaying of his daughVerdier told. the pastor he wo be sent to southern Michigan prison. Siple took the sentence with the same lack of emotion he has displayed throughout the lengthy in-

vestigation into the turbulent back- |

ground of his church relations. “You have violated the laws of both man and God and the Ten| Commandments which you told] other people from your pulpit to! obey,” the circuit judge said. Siple had planned to throw himself on the mercy of the court, but

he did not speak at the.sentencing.

The 53-year-old minister said in confessing the slaying last week that he had done it as an “act of mercy” because his daughter, Dorothy Anne, was " mentally ncompetent.” He said he wanted to save his daughter from being sent to an asylum. Pointing his finger at Siple and shaking it vigorously, Judge Verdier demanded “Who are you to judge that your daughter would spend the |

1939, was

He was sen-, tenced to life imprisonment.

of the Southlawn |

* first degree mur- |

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+ « “There was a flash as that black candle ello, then everything went dark.”

Woman Thinks

Her llIness

Brought by Black Candles!

By DONNA MIKELS

“IT'S THEM BLACK CANDLES. .

that put me here.”

. It’s them death candles

The elderly woman in a white hospital bed kept repeating those | words, half to herself, half as if she were trying to tell some higher

| power.

On the" hospital chart her illness was diagnosed as asthma-pneu-monia. The doctors said it was a

cold which she was too weak to overcome—she was 71 years old. But even medical science couldn't deny that a terrifying experience in “hex” which had tor- | mented the elderly woman's mind ! was a contributing factor to the -illness. { » " ”

| AND EQUALLY inexplicable

| was the strange turn of events |

which sent the infant child of the woman's alleged tormentor to the same hospital with the same _illness.

{ Only after she had been in the hospital several days did the woman tell her pastor of - the chain of events prior to her illness, After she found she wasn't going to be laughed at for mentioning “hex,” the Stary Same tumbling out. i The woman had had some trouble with a granddaughter-in-law living in her home. Strained relations, the woman told the pastor, led to her granddaughter-in-i law resorting to “black magic” to put her “out of the way.” 5 » » ONE DAY the woman noticed two black candles, one ‘on "the table and another on a chest near the bathroom. After that she developed a “weakness in her chest” which grew worse as the candles burned lower and lower.

She was afraid of the candles and she became increasingly

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CIO HERE PLANS ~~ POLITICAL AGTIO

rest of her life in an institution?” |

A crowd of 400 persons jammed the small courtroom and almost; that many were were turned away.

SHUTDOWN OF RAL SHOP THREATENE

400 Workers May Have to Be Laid Off.

A partial shutdown of the sprawling Beech Grove shops of the New York Central railroad threatened today as steel supplies dwindled to a new low, General Superintendent D. Fawcett said that unless there is an improvement by the week-end some 400 to 500 employees will have | to be laid off temporarily.

More than 1000 persons are em-

ployed in the shop, one of the largest of its kind in the country. Meanwhile work continued as steel supplies were alloted to the most’ urgent repair jobs. When the! supply is exhausted a number of locomotives will have to stand idle. “The inability to continue repairs will not, however, interfere with the’ operation of ‘the railroad proper,” Mr, Fawcett said.

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Forum ..12/Bob Stranahan 18 Gardening .. 11|Thos. Stokes 12 G. I Rights. 8 Women's 14-15 Meta Given .. 15| World Affairs, 12

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Resolution Ask Asks Special Legislative Session. (Photo, Page 22)

The state C.I.O. council today

announced plans to convert picket | vote registra-'|

lines into “P. A.C. tion lines” and adopted a resolution asking Governpr Gates to call a special legislative session. Top-ranking C.I.0. spokesmen | said they would begin immediately {to rally strikers behind the P. A.C. {pre-primary campaign. Special emphasis will be ‘placed, they added, on registering strikers at the courthouse. | The C. I. O. leaders also resolve to mobilize support behind thy ‘is | Bute bill, designed to repeal the

"act. Other resolutions called for: Vigorous: opposition to anti-labor

legislation pending in. tongress, particularly the Case anti-strike | bill,

A concerted drive llabor's wage” fight to the “general public” instead of limiting in{formation on the issues to union members. Walter Prisbie, state C. 1. O. secretary, said the governor would be|

|intormed of an “urgent need for |

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Post-War Features |

REPORT BRITAIN REJECTS PLAN

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1946

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ALL SURVIVORS

§ RESCUED FROM

vet LINER

10 Persons Still Missing After Storm Breaks Ship in Two. SEWARD, Alaska, Feb. 6 (U. P.).— Rescue crews re‘moved the last survivors to|day from the wrecked liner

Yukon which was broken in

two when hurled against the jagged Alaskan coast by an Arctic | storm. The rescue ships, bobbing on the heaving seas, continued the search | for 10 persons still missing. The Yukon was bound for Seattle from Seward when the fury of a blizzard drove it against the rocks in a bay 48 miles east of here Monday. There were 371 passengers and 124 members of the crew aboard {when the ship cracked up on a | reef. Survivors of the disaster were rushed to Seward for medical | treatment. Many of them were sufering from the cold and ex-

Planes Aid Vietims

Sources Say Cabi Cabinet Turns Army rescue planes roared low

Down UNO Compromise.

LONDON, Feb. 6 (U. P).—British sources said the cabinet today rejected an American proposal for a noncommital compromise in the Anglo-Soviet dispute over Greece. The cabinet, it is reported, insisted that Britain hawe a clean bill of health from the UNO sereurity council. quarters said the ecom-

night by Edward R. Stettinius Jr. was “out of date.”

cussed, but refused to indicate its] | nature. | The cabinet, meeting to discuss the UNO crisis precipitated by the|

was reported to have reaffirmed the position taken by Foreign Secretary | Ernest Bevin.

firm stand of Britain and Russia, |

along the face of a 300-foot cliff {rimming the bay to parachute supplies to 188 half-frozen passengers and crewmen, huddled in two groups ashore, Fifteen of those on the exposed narrow beach were swept onto the rocks by rip-tides, the rest were yanked to safety on breech buoy gear strung by landing parties. Small craft — including whaleboats, army barges and rafts—rode the’ waters to take 296 others from ice-coated ‘wreck. The survivors were shuttled to nine {rescue ships where they were fed

Land Rescue Abandoned

Working against time and bitter |

cold, the rescue crews readied a

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Legion Head Regarded as 'On the Spot"

By JIM G. LUCAS Scripps-Howard Staff i WASHINGTON, Feb, 6 — (lean Legion” Commander John me

will be “on the’ spot” at a special meeting of ‘the Legion's executive committee He has called for Feb. 17 at Indianapolis He will be called on to justify his

erans administrator. A cross-section of Legion executive committeemen, polled by longdistance telephone, indicated they

then determine what action shall be taken.” ' Although several were openly critical of-his charges, including ne /iwho has publicly defended Gen.

GIRL IS FOUND SLAIN IN HOME

College Graduate Believed Victim of Prowler.

COLUMBIA; Mo, Feb. 6 (U. P.). —Mary Lou Jenkins, 20-year-old graduate of fashionable Stephens college, was found strangled to death today in her modest home at the edge of Columbia. Sgt. Glenn Murray of the local police department said. it was his “understanding” that the girl, who had few men friends, had been raped. Her attacker ripped a plece of lamp cord from a wall socket and wrapped it five times about her throat. Miss Jenkins had donned & bath-

from sleep. This indicated she posfsibly was awakened by a prowler.

They hinted that a new formula hot meals before being brought [She probably went into the living —possibly a- variation of the Stet- phere. tinius proposal—was being dis- |

{room of the house—where the body | was found—to investigate, All Doors Locked Her mother, Mrs. Jack Jenkins, a

{second breeches buoy to transfer trained nurse, found the body when

those clinging to the face of the |she returned home after working |jagged cliffs back to rescue ships. |guring the night.

She told police

Sourdoughs, who battled through she found all doors locked and

|snow-choked mountain passes by |

{entered the house through a win-

Mr. Stettinius had proposed that |dog- -team last night to reach the | gow in the rear.

the council dispose of the Greek Cliff. abandoned plans to lead shore There was evidence of a violent |case with a statement by Chairman |SUrvivors out on foot. Instead they struggle. Police said the girl's finger-

|N. J. O. Makin, with no resolution and no vote. The statement was understood to | contemplate no mention of the | withdrawal of British troops from ! | Greece and to omit any general | texoneration of Britain. British sources insisted {British officials saw “no moral jus-| tification” for failing to clear Brit-

that

‘organized fires and shelters for! shivering passengers. Shore parties and. small boats |

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NEMESIS OF DALTON OUTLAW GANG DIES

RIVERSIDE, Cal, Feb. 6 (U, P.).|

nails had been ripped, as if she had {fought hard for her life. The blond, bespectacled girl was {known at the college where che! graduated last May as a “very ‘quiet, unassuming girl,” according to Mrs. Peggy Phillips, assistant director of public relations. Since her graduafion, Miss Jenklins had been working to prepare

world peace.

{Oklahoma's Dalton gang, died last|pleted her apprenticeship at the |

SALE OPENS FEB. 12

They pointed out that a majerity | night at the age of 84. |

{0 of the members of the security|

Nix, who™®1s6 was reputed to have

{council had expressed belief that | fired the shot that opened the Okla-

/threaten the peace.

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REPORT PICKETS KILLED

SPRINGFIELD, Ill, Feb. 6 |P.).—Two pickets were

in a gun battle with armed guards |

.'| Britain's policy in Greece did not homa land rush, died here in the|

| county hospital, where he had been | (a patient since Dec. 17.

A native of Paducah, Ky.

His appointment as marsha] came

riding an eastbound Toledo, Peoria |from President Grover Cleveland

& Western freight train shortly before noon today, State Director of Public Safety T. P. Sullivan ‘said.

after residents appealed for a strong peace officer to clean up the Oklahoma territory.

nursery school.

SUGAR PRICE BOOST EFFECTIVE FEB. 10

WASHINGTON, Feb. 6 (U. P.).—

| crease goes into effect Feb. 10. OPA said the increase will total

| six-tenths- of a cent a pound or 3

cents on a five-pound box, The price boost results from the increased cost of the 1946 Cuban sugar crop which now is beginning!

| to arrive in this country.

By VICTOR PETERSON Fully aware that Billings General hospital is schedulea to close about March 1, the government today continues to spend an estimated $20,000 to $30,000 in construction. One project was the enlarge ment of the administration build|ing which recently was completed. The other is an expansion of the {recreation hall which probably will {be completed Friday. If everything lis finished by that time, the pa[tients still’ will have only three | weeks use of it. The two projects were- but part |of an over-all improvement plan drawn up and put into effect late in 1944 when the war's duration could not be estimated.

| ‘Halted After V-J Day

Included in the plans were paint|ing, weatherproofing, enlargement jof the recreation hall and administration building, and the construction of permanent buildings

All construction continued uniil the fall ot Japan when contracts were terminated, The surgery unit was near completion and was finished without additional cost by post personnel. Meanwhile the administration building and recreation hall lay idle. Patients thus were deprived of their recreation room and had

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for a library and operating facilities. -

At an estimated cost of $20,000 to $30,000, a recreation hall and an administration building have been rushed to completion: at Billings General hospital three weeks before the unit is scheduled to close. Work on the recreation hall, shown here, was halted for four and a half months aller Vd aay.

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attack on Gen. Omar Bradley, vet-|

intend to “hear Mr. Stélle out and

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robe, after having been aroused

Entered as Second-Class Matter at Postoffice ugthnspie 9, Ind. Issued dally except Sunday

an's Decision On ; ~ Wage-Price Policy Du

CONGRESS RIFT Expect Strike Formula to

Provide 'Across-the-Board' Increases of Pay and Costs

By ROBERT TAYLOR

WITH TRUMAN BEING WIDENED

Pauley Issue Brings Out Growing Resentment of -! | ‘Missouri Crowd.’

By CHARLES T, LUCEY Scripps-Howard Staff Writer

WASHINGTON, Feb. 6. — President Truman's nomination of Edwin W. Pauley as undersecretary of navy has created deep and bitter re-

1,550,000 IDLE:

Scripps-Howard Staff Writer WASHINGTON, Feb. 6.—President Truman is expected ‘to decide, today or tomorrow, whether the nation’s economig

(system moves to a higher wage-and-price level,

The policy placed before the President calls for higher

price levels “across the board”

wage demands, instead of handling wage-and-price issues

on a piecemeal basis. Object. of the new policy

sentment among his former senate colleagues. |

Influential senators predict that | if the nomination is not withdrawn! it will be beaten. The breach between the President

and congress has been widening for mon

nths. Some of the President's closest | friends in the senate have cume to believe their advice hasn't been {wanted and they resent the little “Missouri crowd” with which Mr Truman has surrounded himself. The Pauley nomination has served only to heighten the feeling of resentment.

Wearing Thin

The “Harry-is-one-of-us” that prevailed on Capitol Hill in the first months of the Truman administration has worn thin. Much of the President's laison with congress is through Leslie L. Biffle, secretary of the senate and a Truman crony. Mr. Biffle is able, efficient and well liked by Democratic senators. But this has not altered the fact that the President is dealing with a senate officer rather than with

served as senator and vice president haven't even Séén im for tWé: or three months, Position Seen Slipping Many senators are eritical: of what they see as a deterioriation of the administration's whole position in recent weeks. When the President went to the country in a radio address and urged the people to build a fire under congress, the response was extremely mild. The result has been to question the degree to which some of the White House program has real support among the people. White House handling of extend-

attitude (a

UNREST GROWS

Work Stoppage in New York Threatened for Monday.

By UNITED PRESS Bigns of new labor unrest appeared today as the nation looked to the White House for a wage-

price policy in the steel dispute. The steel walkout accounted for nearly half the 1550000 strikeidled U. 8. workers. An estimated 500000 C. I. O. members were scheduled to stage two-hour work stoppage in New York next Monday, tying up radio and cable communication with Europe, Africa and South America in sympathy with Western Union strikers. On another communications front, however, a National Federation of Telephone Workers representative said at Washington that a strike probably would not be necessary to support the union's demand for a $2-a-day wage boost. Also in the capital, C. I. O. Ship-

.{bullders Union President John

Green said that unless a wage dead» lock were dissolved he would recommend a strike vote by more than 500,000 shipyard workers, Bus Strike in St. Louis

And at Philadelphia, C. I. O. leaders prepared for a city-wide transit strike, set for next Monday, after they rejected the Philadelphia Transportation Co.'s offer of 11 cents more an heur. Thousands of St. Louis and East St. Louis, Ill, workers were unable to reach their jobs today because 110 A. F. of L. bus drivers struck against the East St. Louis service lines in a wage controversy. Meantime, Shoreline Coach Sys-

{ed labor trouble has been criticized. Most Truman legistative proposals | have been bottled up in commit- | tees. 1 Nomination of Mr, Pauley, former | Democratic national treasurer, Ands|

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'46 WORLD ALMANAC

.The 1946 World Almanac will go/

lon sale "at local newsstands Tues- |

day, Feb. 12. The supply is limited | because of the paper shortage. The 1946 edition, the 61st issue,

NiX | That long-heralded sugar price in-|is published by the New York | (U. [used the honorary title of colonel. |

reported | He had been a resident of this area! [killed and three others wounded | for several years.

World-Telegram, a Scripps- Howard newspaper.

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compromise” full

of amendments and substitutes.

than minor modification appeared more certain.

of proposals to weaken its restrictions on labor unions.

southern Democrats.

| tional labor-management mediation board with unions in major industries to observe 30-day pre-strike cooling-off period,

tem Bus Service between Gary, Ind., {and Chicago, and embracing the populous 1llinois-Indiana metropolitan area, was resumed after A. |P, of L. drivers ended a two-day

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SEE HOUSE OK ON

to enable industry to meet

is to get production started and keep it going full tilt for at least a year. Its framers believe that all-out produetion, in ) can counteract the inflationary ase pects of the price increases,

May Be 10 Per Cent Up

In effect, the administration would permit a wage-price inflation to a predetermined amoynt—and depend on industrial production te “run the gauntlet” of inflation and turn the price curve down again. Consumers may have to pay neare ly 10 per cent more for the things they buy; according to the prospects, Wage intreases, in some will run to nearly 20 per cent. ¢ A major part of the plan is ase surance by labor that it will seek no further wage increases for a year this to enable uninterrupted pro duction, The policy emerged from attempts to find a formula for settlement of the steel strike of 750,000 werkers— and other strikes and threatened stoppages.

> Price Increase

The steel strike is virtually settled now—on a basis Hy which basis steel companies accept Preésidens Truman's proposal of a wage increase of 181; cents an hour and OPA permits a price increase to cover the cost, It will be settled officially it the new wage-price policy is formally announced and the ! SBME on a new “hold-the-line” evel, If President Truman accepts the plan, the wartime “Little Steel” formula, which attempted to hold wages to a 17 per cent increase to cover higher living costs will be supplanted by & “Big Steel” formue la, devised for the reconversion period. ; Basic steel prices may be ine creased by more than $5 a ton or around 10 per cent of the prese ent price—and the big steel pricewage formula may become the pate tern for all industry. Price Administrator Chester A, Bowles had advocated a $2.50 a ton increase for the steel industry, to compensate it for past increases in cost, with nothing aded for wage increases, Policy Unrealistic

He now believes that the present price policy is unrealistic, and thas simultaneous wage-price increases can’t be handled on an individual industry-by-industry basis. He ade

EMPLOYMENT BILL

Combroiriia Meas Measure Likely To Be Passed Today. |

WASHINGTON, Feb. 6 (U. P.).—| The house was expected to pass the

employment bill today with little more than a flicker

{of an eyelash.

One hour of debate was set aside for the measure, Rep. Carter Manasco (D. Ala), chairman of the compromise with senate delegates, | said he hoped members wouldn't even take the whole hour, The bill is a diluted version of| the original full employment measure sought by President Tru-| man but administration leaders in|

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On Tough

WASHINGTON, Feb. 6 (U. P.).—, The house, aroused by current work | stoppages in major industries, rolled | | slong today toward approval of one of the toughest strike-control bills] | before congress in years. House leaders said a fina) vote| was possible by nightfall on the! | sweeping strike-curb bill of Rep. | Francis Case (R. 8. D.)—but that it might be delayed by consideration |

Passage of the bill with no more The house turned thumbs down yesterday on a series The Case bill was backed by a sizable bloc of Republicans and It would set up a six-man na-

authority to compel

vocates a new across-the-board policy. i It can work, Mr. Bowles has con= | tended, if the public, congress ‘and the administration decide they really want a job done and support | the new policy whole-heartedly. Mr, Bowles conferred yesterday with Reconversion Director John |W. Snyder. His scheduled appears ance before the house banking and currency committee was postponed for two days, pending a decision on wages and prices. The new policy has the apparent support of Civilian Production Ade ministrator John D. Small, who ad«

{ house conferees who worked out the|vocates a “flexible and realistio

Billings Closing, but Spending Still Goes On

(tax refund provision of the revenue

pricing policy.” In two recent instances, price ine creases have been ordered by res conversion officials to cover wage

|increases—in each case to get bigs

ger production. of - scarce housing materials. Both increases were recommended by the civilian pros | Susuion administration, . ”

Final Vote Believed Near

’ é / » oll Anti-Strike Bill It would also make labor unions liable in the courts for violation of their contracts and would ban fore« men’s unions, violence in labor

picketing, and union boycotts. The (bill also would give ‘the ‘courts the

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