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VOLUME 57—NUMBER 15
- THURSDAY, MARCH 28, 1946
Entered as Second-Class Matter at Postoffice Indianapolis 9, Ind. Issued aatly except Sunday
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PRICE FIVE CENTS
UNO Walkout’
Limited
to Iran
Issue, Russ Say
Soviet Representatives to Attend All
Sessions at W
hich Explosive
Question Is Avoided.
NEW YORK, March 28
(U. P.).—Ambassador Andrei
A. Gromyko or a Russian representative will attend all
United Nations meetings not nounced today. But ‘the chasm dividing
dealing with Iran, it was an-
the United States and Soviet
Russia was as wide as ever with neither side making a con-
ciliatory move. The press secretary of tl Russia ‘‘did not walk out on United Nations,” and will send representatives to all
.meetings except those dealing with
the Iranian question. In advance of today's secret security council session, American officials said there was no- change
in Secretary of State James F.|
Byrnes’ position. He has been conférring by telephone with President Truman. Mr. Gromyko worked quietly with his staff at the Soviet consulate— making no move to see any of the men he opposed so fiercely in the council. .. Three Sessions Today Mr. Ulanchev supported his statement ¢that Mr. Gromyko's walk ~as|
~ only temporary and only on one
issue by pointing out that the Sov-
fet Union would have representa-|
tives at three United Nations meetings today:
ONE. The executive session of the | eouncil, if it doesn’t consider Iran's
charges against the Russians. TWO: The expert committee on| rules and procedure, attended this | morning by Soviet United Nations Advisor Dr. Boris Stein. THREE. The military staff committee meeting which was attended | by the regular Soviet army, navy] and air force representatives.
Meeting at 3 P. M. The security council, from which} Mr. Gromkyo and his delegation stalked late yesterday because the, Russian request for a postponement of the Iranian .case. was .denied, meets late today (3 p. m, Indianapolis time) In secret session for a bitter, free-for-all battle over ways to get the Soviet Union back to the council. Meeting in private, and without “benefit”. of publicity, several members were understood to be ready to do some blunt, straight from the shoulder talking. The council menibers abandoned their rose and beige, Hollywood-like chamber at Hunter college for discussion of their crisis. Instead, they elected to hold their first executive session in the new world in the business-like atmosphere of the United Nations’ headquarters in Radio City—in the unpretentious office of the secretary-general. Before the secret .council session, there will be several informal conferences in midtown hotels. British delegate Sir Alexander Cadogan “expected” to see Secretary Byrnes. Mr. Byrnes himself was up early conferring with his advisers. Mr. Gromyko, who worked at his consulate until 2a. m., was also back at his desk early. He told reporters when he left his hotel “I do not know whether I will attend” the afternoon meeting. Mr. Gromyko had to push his way through a “nylon stocking”
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RED LEGISLATOR TO BE TRIED IN CANADA
MONTREAL, March 28 (U. P.). — Fred Rose, Communist member of parliament, today was ordered held for trial on charges of giving secret Canadian information to Russian agents, * Rose's $10,000 bail, “under which he had been at liberty, was ordered cancelled and he was taken from the courtroom in custody of a constable.
BEGGAR'S ‘TREASURE WEIGHS HIM DOWN
_ONTARIO, Cal, March 28 (U. P.).—George Stein, 49, arrested as a vagrant for begging, was staggering under $214.47 in small change police said today. Pouches suspended from Stein's neck and clothing held $106.25 in quarters, $72.90 inedimes, $16.45 in nickels and 802 pennies.
TIMES INDEX Amusements. 26 Edw. Morgan. 19 Norval Ayres. 9|/Movies ...... 26 Business ..... 16 |Obituaries .., 8 Classified ..32-34|H. V. O’Brien. 19 Comics ...,.. 35{Dr. O'Brien ,. 19 Crossword ,.. 31| Othman ..... 4 Editorials ..... 20|Politics ...... 20 Fashions « 25 Radio’ ....... 35 Forum '...... 20 | Reflections ..°20 Paul Ghali .. 13] Earl Richert.. 27 G. I. Rights « 11 [Mfs. Roosevelt 1 Meta Given .. 25|Science ...... f Homemaking . 25 |Serial I » Don Hoover .. 20 Sports .. 30-31 In Indpls. ... 2|State Deaths. 8 Inside Indpls.: 19 | Bob Stranahan 30 ' . Jane Jordan . 35| Thrasher .... 10 Labor ....... 19|Troop Arrivals 11 LaMoore .... 15| Whipple ..... 7 ein 14| Women's... 24-25 __ICULE liett , 10 | world ‘Afllalr
16 Soviet delegation said that
LISTS CITY AS LOW IN CRIMES
Good in Comparison.
You are less likely to be robbed or murdered in Indianapolis than in 12 other cities of the same population category, "according to figures released by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. In a report to Mayor Tyndall this morning, William H. Remy, presi{dent of the safety board, praised | | the city police in their crime campaign. { Only one city, Atlanta, Ga., had a {smaller number of crimes of violence—murder, robbery and burglary—last year. While crime reports from over 2000 cities in the country rose 12.4 per cent in 1945, robberies, murders, | aggravated assaults and burglaries | have decreased in the city, Mr. | Remy pointed out.
7 Had More Homicides | Seven of the 12 cities in the same | category had more homicides than Indianapolis; 10, more holdups; six, {more aggravated assaults; nine, {more bufglaries; eight, more thefts lover $50; five, more larcenies of less than $50, and four, more vehicle thefts. Mr. Remy stated that the poor showing Indianapolis made in the vehicle taking category was partly because courts have been extremely lax in the enforcement of the law against vehicle taking. “A great majority of auto thieves were juveniles, who repeated on these offenses while released on probation,” he said in his report. Ranking 20th in population, Indianapolis placed 30th among the nation in cities having ‘the most homicides in 1945; 24th among robberies; 28th among aggravated assault cases, and 23d among reported burglaries. Atlanta Ranked as Safest Although Atlanta ranked as safest with only 2377 combined violent crimes, the southern city was high with 91 homicides; one step above Indianapolis in robberies and aggravated assaults. Police here last year reported 30 homicides, 269 robberies, 309 aggravated assaults and one step below for a 2442 combined violent crime total, Combined violent crime totals of cities compared by Mr. Remy include Houston, Tex., 3858; Portland, Ore., 3738; Louisville, Ky., 3644; Seattle, Wash. 3627; Oakland, Cal, 3551; Dallas, Tex., 3272; Cincinnati, O., 3026; Denver, Colo., 2921; Kansas City, Mo., 2792; Columbus, O,, 2,778; Indianapolis, 2442, and Atlanta, 2377.
500,000 DISCHARGED AT CAMP ATTERBURY
CAMP ATTERBURY, “nd., March 28 (U. P.).—Special ceremonies tonight will mark the discharge of the 500,000th man to be released from the army by the Canip Atterbury separation center. Col. Ernest A. Bixby, post commander, will present the discharge certificate to the yet finnamed soldier. A radio broadcast and an address by Governor Gates will be other features of the program. Col. Bixby said approximately 440,000 enlisted men and officers were discharged during the past seven months.
Job to Be Finished
tonight.
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Remy Reports Local Record,
DETROIT GIRL, 4, FOUND DEAD FROM BEATING
Police Report Conflicting Stories Told by Child's Aunt.
DETROIT, March 28 (U. P.).— Mrs. Jeanette Grosso, 36, told conflicting stories today about the brutal slaying of her 4-yeéar-old niece, Anna Lee Townsend, who was beaten and kicked to death.” Mrs. Grosso accused the child's stepfather, Albert L. Radcliff, 46, of the beating. But police Detective Lawrence Sheehy said there were several wide discrepancies in her story, particularly as to the time of the slaying last night. She said the pretty, blonde, blueeyed baby died about 10 p. m., after whispering: = “He wanted to take me away but I . didn't want to go.” Mr. Sheehy said Anna Lee's little body was a mass of blue welts and bruises from her waist down to her knees. Condition of ‘the body, he said, indicated she had been dead several hours before police were called. - An autopsy was ordered to determine the time of death. Radcliff Is Sought Police searched for Radcliff, but said they had found no evidence, beyond Mrs. Grosso's statement, that he had been in Detroit. Radcliff lives in West Virginia, but the town was not disclosed. Anna Lee, whose father and mothler are dead, had been living with her aunt. Mrs. Grosso said Radcliff came to her home last night and demanded that she turn Anna Lee over to him so that he could return her to West Virginia, where two of his other stepchildren live with their grandmother, The fourth child, James, 18 months old, lives here with Mrs. Grosso. Heard Screams The aunt told police Radcliff left when she refused to turn the child over to him, but returned several hours later. Radecidff went upstairs to Anna Lee's bedroom while she was feeding James on a couch in the living room, Mrs. Grosso said. She said she heard blows and screams, and then Anna Lee came tumbling down the stairs with her stepfather after her. Radcliff chased the girl into the kitchen, Mrs. Grosso said, where he continued to beat and kick her. She said he then picked the child up under his arm and started out the kitchen door, but saw a light in the garage window and threw Anna Lee back onto the kitchen floor. He fled. Mrs. Grosso said the child still was alive after Radcliff left. She called police, who reported the child was dead when they arrived. Mrs. Grosso said Radcliff threatened to kill her'if she interfered with the beating.
PROBE DEATH THREAT | IN DUNKIRK SLAYING
DUNKIRK, Ind. March 28 (U. P.)—Reports that Cyrus Frazier previously had been “threatened with death” were under investigation by state police today as new clues were uncovered in the slaying of the 38-year-old Yorktown farmer. State police detective Truman Bierie refused to- elaborate on his statement that he had learned that the victim was threatened in Yorktown. Mr. Bierie also said rumors that Frazier “frequently saw a woman in Dunkirk” were being probed. The possibility of a love triangle was not discounted by police although they refused to comment further. Mr. Bierie did not say whether the “Dunkirk woman” was Frazier's former wife who. lived near the lonely cemetery road where he was shot to death early Tuesday morning.
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SUPPORTS WOMEN'S RESERVE WASHINGTON, March 28 (U. P.). —Chairman Carl Vinson (D. Ga.) of the house naval affairs committee has introduced legislation to make permanent the women's reserve of the navy and marine corps.
. An Editorial
THE Red Cross drive for funds in’ Indianapolis ends
1t,is still more than $200,000 short of its goal today.
ly all of it—will be accounted
" for in final reports still to come in during the day—and campaign workers are urged to get those reports in for the tally this evening. The rest of it: must come from givers who have not given yet . . . or the campaign will
The war may be over, for most of us, but it is far from ended for the Red Cross.. From here on its job may
is no less important. The the Red Cross with a task as
vital, and as big, as any it performed while the guns
t has to be piled on top of the
huge, normal, peacetime job the Red Cross does always, year in and year ofit, wars or no wars. f Indianapolis hasn't shirked on any of its war time Let
fail Boy. 4 Give to the
FBI—It's the
WAbash 5788.”
BOARD MEMBERS : RETURN TO JOB
Petition to Oust Vote Group ® Is Withdrawn.
Members of the Marion county voters’ registration board, ousted two weeks ago by a Circuit court order, were back on the job today. They were restored to their posts following dismissal of -all litigation pending in Circuit court and the Indiana Supreme court. Proceedings were withdrawn in both courts following a compromise agreement reached. between Republican County Chairman Henry Ostrom, who filled the ouster petition in Circuit court, and attorneys for the board members, George K. Johnson, Republican, and David Klapper, Democrat. . A statement issued on the compromise said Mr. Ostrom’s ouster petition was dismissed in order to avoid throwing any legal cloud over the right of all voters to cast ballots in the May 7 primary elections. Resigns May 15 A part of the compromise was an agreement on the part of Mr. Johnson to resign from the registration post, effective May 15 when he is expected to be named to a job in the statehouse. Mr. Ostrom’s petition had asked permanent removal of both Mr, Johnson and Mr, Klapper, accusing them of failing to conduct registration duties “fairly and impartially.” Mr, Klapper is expected to remain on the board for the remainder of 1946. Negotiations to dismiss all litigation followed filing of a petition for writ of prohibition in the Supreme court to prevent further ouster proceedings in Circuit court. Supreme court jurists fhformally raised a question that parts of the state election code might be unconstitutional and arguments on it had been scheduled today. . Rather than risk a test on the constitutionality of the law, attorneys said the compromise was reached to avoid further litigation.
Hoosier ‘Gold’
e Indiana farmers will harvest a $5,000,000 soybean crop this year . . . Times _ Staff Writer Victor Peterson tells all about the new farm “boom” in this edition. :
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“No, this isn't the FBI, you have the wrong number, Please call
If that has been uttered once it has been spoken af least 300 times during early morning hours between yawns by Mr. and Mrs. Bernard L.
Tuley, 2459 N. New Jersey st., Apt. 3. They have had few good night's rest since last November when
(Yawn) Tuleys'
|page 267 of the Indianapolis telephone directory listed the FBI's night number as WAbash 0788 when Ie, Should have read WAbash 5788. Tuleys’ French-type phone dejae overnight into a buzzing | switchboard. Frequently the calls develop into ein arguments, Mr. Tuley today. og & a bother when a drunk calls at 1 or 2 o'clock in the morning and insists this is the FBL” Buzzed Last Night At the local FBI office, one of the agents said that the office knew nothing of the error because there had been no complaints. The Tuleys’ phone buzzed again last night in connection with the arrest of John B, Frost on charges of attempted extortion. Mrs, Tuley said that in January she notified the telephone company of the error but decided against their offer to change the number for fear her son, Eugene, a Marine, might return home and not be able to reach her. The son is home now and the Tuleys are all set to have the phone number changed and get some sleep.
ENTRIES REGEIVED IN SPELLING BEE
Confessed Extortionist Is Held To Grand Jur
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Now Is the Time to Send Names for Times Contest.
The first entries for The Timés Spelling Bee are in . . . but there's still time for you to mail or bring your entry form to the spelling bee director. Get it in now, for the first preliminary match ‘will be held next Monday night. There will be matches in 21 community centers, churches and public buildings to determine the best spellers to take part in the semi-finals and finals in Caleb Mills hall of Shortridge
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SAFETY BOARD SEEKS POLICE BOND ISSUE
The safety board today launched preparations to ask the city council for ‘a $116,027.47 bond issue for police equipment. The appropriation will cover expenditure of $76,316.85 for. new police cars, trucks .and wagons, and $39,71062 for ‘additional radio equipment. :
FBI HOLDS 3 G. I'S IN CAMP SAFE THEFT
A soldier's pencil ch today led to the arrest of a third serviceman in the theft of a safe containing
exchange yesterday. J. L. Dalton, chief of the F.B. 1.
here, said two of the soldiers were arrested last night when they attempted to remove a portion of their loot from the safe. He sald they had hidden it in an abandoned house on the military reservation. The men were Archie Elmo Davis, 21, St. Louis, and Leonard V. Danna, 19, New York City. They said they knew a third soldier who helped Danna remove the safe only as “Frank.” But a pencil sketch of Frank W. Polise, 20, New York City, enabled” PF. B, I. and military authorities, to” arrest the third soldier. Authorities said Danna and Polise broke into a post exchange early Wednesday morning and removed a 250-pound’ safe. They took it to an abandoned building and removed
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Donald Chester Wilson . . . arrested here as extortionist.
CHILDREN AWARE OF KIDNAP THREAT
$2000 from a Camp Atterbury, post Father Couldn't Hide Con-
cern From Ohrn Boys.
year-old.
ing judge for the state alcoholic beverage commission, received the first of a series of extortion notes threatening the lives of his two sons unless $5000 was paid. Mr. Ohrn immediately turned the case over to the FBI and two G-men called on the worried father. The boys, David, 6, and Richard, 8, were hustled off to a bedroom while their father unfolded the case to federal authorities, There was a strained air about the house, but, neither boy was told who the visitors were, When the F, B, I. men left, Richard came from the bedroom and asked:
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“Daddy, are we going to be kidnaped?” : / ow haven't the he slightest idea how
Copyright, 1946, by Indianapolis Times Safe today . . Gerald W. Ober Tearing Jule Jur the aie AEs holioAVETAE Comair: Bt Fg Tre nS re ens Tree ened by an extortionist unless $5000 was paid. Free of danger are (left) David, §, and Richard, 3, wha. shuielies their pei, Skipper Posoh.
Wrong Number—This Isn't the
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| On Feb. 6 Gerald W. Ohrn, hear-
FALSE NAMES. GIVEN TO FBI AFTER ARR
Judge’s Sons and Demanding $5000.
The unemployed farm and dairy worker who has admits ted he attempted to extort $5000 from an Indianapolis judge by threatening the lives of his two sons, falsely identified himself to the FBI, agents revealed this afternoon. After his arraignment before the U. 8. commissioner who placed him under $10,000 bail and bound him. over to the federal grand jury, the F. B. 1. identified him as ald Chester Wilson, 46, of Irontoh, O, and El Centro, Cal, Yad He originally gave his name ag John R. Prost, 63, formerly of Rushville, F.Brl. agents said records gave his birthplace as Ironton and that he lived from 1919 to 1933 in KI Centro, where he was senténced ti 90 days in 1931 for petit larceny.” Record Is Traced : His record, F. B. 1. agents said, shows he lived in Indianapolis in 1940 and later returned to Cali« fornia. He returned to Indianapolis last November and began collecting unemployment compensation here on a transfer from California. A birth certificate the had showing his Dla Rushville was spurious, F. B. IL agents said.
with major crimes over the coun try recently. But F. B. I. agents said they had been unable to link him with any of them. He is charged with using the U. 8.
carries a maximum of 20 years imprisonment and $5000 fine. He is being Jed in the Marion county jail. dream of extorting $5000 wis nipped by a dramatic South arrest late yesterday by the
haired man in a Pt. Wayne ave, drugstore telephone booth while ane: other agent, posing as the intended victim, engaged him in conversation. The arrest climaxed the sevenweek stalking of the man who on Feb. 6 first warned Gerald W. Ohrn, alcoholic beverage commission hearing judge and recently discharged from the navy, that his sons, David, 6, and Richard, 8, would be killed unless he paid $5000. Confesses Guilt |
Frost, who readily confessed his guilt when he was arrested, ap=parently had been inspired by the kidnaping death of" Suzanne Degnan early this year in Chicago. The first note threatened, “It happened in ‘Chicago and it happen here.” Appearing before U. 8. Commissloner Francis Hughes, Wilson said, “I don’t want any attorney, I vat to plead guilty. I told the FBI wi I did it and I want to get It, with.” He was wearing a neatly pressed pair of gray slacks and an army shirt. Clutched in one hand was two cartons of cigarets he had bought in the drugstore yesterday where he was arrested. J. L. Dalton, special agent in charge of the FBI office here, said that Wilson, who has been drawing unemployment compensation sines last November, asserted he engineered the plot because of fesr he would run out of funds and might be evicted from a ‘ house in E. 8t. Clair st., 300 b Wilson apparently had p victim from accounts of Mr, return from duty in the F c. resume duties as assistant county prosecutor. The lawyer, who lives fn
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