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. FORECAST: Partly cloudy; warm and ‘humid tonight. Tomorrow considerable cloudiness with scattered showers or thundershoweis.

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Entered as Second-Class Matter at Postofee,

Drag Stream for Body of Indianapolis Lad

A searching party armed with grappling hooks launches its beat into the darkened waters of Fall creek near the Millersville bridge in an effort to recover the body of 6-year-old Richard Blinn, who is believeg

HEAT, HUMIDITY WILL CONTINUE

Weatherman Expects No Relief for 48 Hours.

LOCAL TEMPERATURES

at 10a m..... weld 12a.m ... 71 12 (Noon) .. 1

Both heat and humidity will keep Indianapolis residents sweltering today and tomorrow, with no relief in sight for at least 48 hours. The local weather bureau, which tagged yesterday as the hottest day | of 1946, today forecast little change in temperatures. I The weather will remain cloudy, | warm and humid today and tonight. | Thundershowers tomorrow may| provide brief relief from oppressive | heat, but only if they occur frequently, the weatherman said. Yesterday's humidity and heat] wave, which sent thousands to Jakes, rivers and swimming pools | for relief, sent the mercury up af 92. the highest mark’ for "1946. Previously, a temperature of 91 on| June 11 was the season's record. | Heat Causes Death Yesterday's high fell just four points short of the all-time record | for June 16. The highest temperature ever reported in Indiana for| the 16th was 96, according to the weather bureau. { At least one death was caused by | the oppressive heat and humidity | combination At iting, a 50-year-old watchman was found dead in the office of a coal company where he was employed. His death was] attributed to heat prostration. The same heat wave prevailed over most of the Middle West yesterday, but most sections, except Indiana and Illinois, were prom- | {sed cooler temperatures today. Thousands of Michigan motorists, who sought heat relief on the highways, were tied up when heavy rain, accompanied by high winds and hail, struck . southeastern | Michigan last night. The storm, | which centered ngrtheast of De-| troit, caused thousands of dollars damages and marooned many homeward bound week-end vacationists.

QUIZ "CO-DEFENDANTS | OF MIKHAILOVITCH|

INDUSTRIALIST’S SON FACES JURY TODAY

JOLIET, Ill, June 17 (U. P.).— James PF. Lincoln Jr, 30, son of a wealthy Cleveland, O., industrialist, went on trial today on a charge of assault with intent to kill a nine-| year-old farm girl. Lincoln is charged with shooting Carol Williams, Joliet, last’ March 20 after inducing her to take a ride in his automobile.

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{in a B-25, returning from Ft. Ben4 | ning, Ga., where they had attended

MONDAY, JUNE 17, 1946

SEVEN DROWN 11. ~ ‘IN STATE: BOY Mc a

VANISHES HERE

Toll Climbs as Thousands Flock to Streams to Picnic and Fish. Police were dragging Fall creek near the Millersville bridge this afternoon for the body of a 6-year-

old boy. The lad was one of seven persons

Indianapolis, Ind. Issued daily except Bunday

Girl Rescue ‘Shopper.’ 3

Hundreds of downtown shoppers watched breathlessly as a J. C.

drowned in Indiana Penney Co. stockgirl rescued a ——— streams during the week-end. three-year-old child from the fourth

Richard Sherman Blinn, 6, flight of the store's fire escape to- Points Out Possession, Sale drowned yesterday near the Millers- day. 7 ville bridge while he and his 3- The child, Joan DuBois, daughter year-old brother, Stephen, waded of Mrs. Raymond DuBois, 113 8. in Fall creek with their mother | Eighth st, Beech Grove, wandered X

Mrs. Rosemary Blinn of 2204 E. New away from her mother while they | York st. were shopping on the store's secA police emergency squad dragged ond floor.

{the creek until 2:30 a. m. today in Clutching a bag which contained to search of Richard. : her new pair of shoes, the girl

. : climbed through a rear window onto { : Thousands on Outings the fire escape. She then ascended on lotteries was declared today by | Six other persons were listed as| two flights, as spectators gathered Judge W. D. Bain of eriminal court drowning victims in Indiana asibelow and employees of the State thousands rushed to Life Building nearby craned their

send. bool sebrat necks to watch. en. creeks and pools to celebrate ope€n-| hen she reached the fourth gambling laws here

ing of the fishing season and par- landing, the child became frightened Under present laws, Judge Bain ticipate in week-end outings. and began crying. Word of her said, most defendants in cases Those drowned were: danger had meanwhile reached her|charging violation of lottery laws

Lewis O. Jamison, 30, and his ; ) have to be acquitted because the - - am- (Centinued on P —Col 6-year-old son, Lawrence, at Ham- | 0 age 5—Column 35) evidence presented is not covered

mond. | specifically in the laws.

Sam Highland, 15, at Lebanon. : George J. Kelley, 50, at Henry- NO SPOT SAFE “For instance, there is no law ville. |

| prohibiting the sale or possession Arnel Durham, 12, at Belle Union. of a

piece of paper purporting to Ralph Jordan, 21, of Indianap-

be a chancé on olis, drowned Friday in Fall - Judge Bain said. “Under

creek near Keystone ave. and state present evidence rd. 67. must be presented to show a draw-

Mrs. nd her sons were ing was-held and money won or lost ar. picnic Can Carry A-Bomb 10,000 as result of the drawing. yesterday when they stopped to : No Ban on Printing wade in Fall creek near the Millers- Miles, Says Speaker. “In most cases there is no eviville bridge. : DETROIT, June 17 (U. P.).—The dence presented that the drawing Leaves Boys Near Bank United States has developed al was held. Usually the only evidence | Richard and Stephen played in bomber capable of flying from this is the possession of what is pl {the shallow water near the bank | country “to drop an atomic bomb! ported to be a lottery ticket.” | while the mother waded out into|on any industrial center in the, Furthermore, he pointed out, the | the stream. {world,” W. Stuart Symington, as-|Indiana Supreme court has Tuled/ Upon reaching the center of the | sistant secretary of war for air, said | the manufacture of lottery tickets

stream, Mrs. Blinn turned in the |today. \ |is not a violation of any state law.|

all right. She saw only Stephen can do it to us.” | gambling tases by the lack of spestanding in the water. She screamed | In an address prepared for de-| cific laws.” Judge Bain said. and the party swam toward the | 1ivery to the Economie club of Delone child. \ “ an ; Chere 3% Richay * Mrs. BlnD the first time the full capabilities court, new laws be enacted by the “He' Mommie.” the child CLC, Army air force's new B-38}jegislature, specifically defining lot: es gone, Mommie, the Chlid bomber and the recently unveiled tery tickets and prohibiting their S t Conf stuttered. [B-35. Both, he said. can fly 10,000 | manufacture. possession and sale. enaie onierees : : 200 Flock to Scene miles with an atomic bomb. | Lack Public Support i He predicted that other nations : Prolong Law. : | " _ Mrs. Blinn grabbed the child| HC po Sowa da | national" caih miso pointed out that ? into her arms and staggered onto “ou " eyelop. “simliar of beter the enforcement of gambling laws the bank. Nearby picknickers and | types. s | was handicapped by the lack of] swimmers noticed the confusion and | With such new planes in the air, | public support 4 J offered their help. Soon nearly 200| he pointed out, “the polar air paths |. , "pq jority of the people either | 1 re milli d th of air routes will be more im-! 4 people were milling around the area. | " ilike to gamble themselves or are not | While some searched the under-|Portant than any others. . "| i un : .__|opposed to anyone else gambling,” | tend the selective service law until growth in hopes that Richard| In addition to atomic bombing), ... pain said. “Lack of public

March 31, 1947. | might have wandered out of the a | ; . The expiration date was a com- | water intd the woods, others formed) ‘CoNUuel on Page SueColvumn 5 por 4 Sf onile 0 a promise between a house sroposel| STATE CASH BALANCE a line in the water and combed | law enforcement during prohibito end the draft next Feb. 15 and {the stream from one bank to we INDIANA U ATHLETIC ten a senate bill which would have ex- | IS $109 912 414 ! 1 | The judge gave his opinions in J y

tended it to May 15. : Mrs. Blinn drove home to tell her | | connection with the disclosure in Conferees scheduled for this af- husband, Richard Blinn, electrician: DIRECTOR T0 RETIR at the American Foundry, of the out an. agreement on whether teen- Funds Are Largest Indiana | accident. Mr. Blinn fainted when dio

ternoon another attempt to work agers should be.subject to the draft {he heard the news. = re , OFFICERS ARE NAMED s sti Clevenger Will Qui They also faced the question of Has Ever Had. | Leaving Stephen at home, the e g Q t at End, AT AVC CONVENTION

raising military pay to inducé vol- |parents summoned the sheriff and! Of Summer Term unteering and reduce the need for, State Treasurer Frank Mellis to- police and returned to the creek. . DES MOINES, Ia. June 17 (U, Times Special | P.).—The youthful American Vet-

exercising draft authority, day reported a cash balance of Search Resumed BLOOMINGTON, Ind. June 17.—/erans Committee, under .the guidto

rivers and

Prohibited Now.

(Read an editorial, “Is Gambling Law Enforced?” Page 12.)

By NOBLE REED | Enactment of more specific laws |

to be the only solution to the presrivers and

haphazard enforcement of

a lottery prize,”

laws

Two volunteer citizens take time out to smoke after hunting for hours for the body of Richard Blinn. They are (left to right) Alva Hopper, 51, of 1172 Kentucky ave, a mechanical repairman, and Charles A. McCloskey, 41, of 1749 E. 52d st., part owner of Withers drugstore, 1243 Oliver ave.

OK EXTENSION "OF DRAFT BILL

House,

WASHINGTON, June 17 (U. P.). —Senate and house conferees failed again today to agree on the drafting of teen agers, but voted to ex-

Richard Blinn (left), believed drowned yesterday in Fall Creek, and his brother Stephen.

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hai he s (D. : pease a Elbert D. [Tomas 40. $100912.414 in the state treasury, Early this morning state police, ib 1 is elected committee said the conferees were | 1Argest amount of cash the state Cit¥ police, deputy sheriffs and a Zora G. Clevenger, Indians univers) ence of liberal elements ¢ eco trying to. soive the t ee Yas had large group of volunteers were still |sity director of athletics since 1923, national office, began a drive today oy ne 9-8 278 he REN=2ge Ques ever has tag. : ems lis to retire at the end of the uni. for 1,000,000 members. Y ' ng i Series of | Approximately $99,000000 is in (Continued on Page 5—Column 7) |versity’s summer term in August, Charles Bolte, 26, Greenwich, a ho, a ou Phe | various regular funds, Mr. Mellis | - (it. was announced today. | Conn., was elected national chairselective service: barrel said, and the remainder represents, NEW CASTLE FIRM Mr. Clevenger, a native of Mum. man 2 the Sisal Sisson of the : i AV.C’s constitutional convention | money- not yet credited to regular | | cie, graduated from Indiana in 1903 Four Categories Listed } fond balances. State cash is on STRIKE IS SETTLED and Is widely known in college ath- yesterday. Mr. Bolte, who lost a The latest suggestion, put forth | Tins spuciy) | letic circles throughout the country, [leg While serving with the British {deposit in 400 Indiana banks and| wnpw CASTLE, Ind. June 17.—| g Vv. | : by Rep. John Sparkman (D. Ala), | working balances are carried in in- |fpiceo a " oT | He played football and baseball at|8t El Alamein, had served as temwould provide four categories: stituti in Evansville. Pt. Wayne. | os rty-five employees of Western |, .0n0 and in 1903 captained both | POrary chairman since the group's utions S e, . ayne, Prod I ‘h i h ONE. Volunteers. Indianapolis and South Bend ucts, Inc., who quit work Marc | teams. formation three years ago. TWO. Draftees 20 or older, 26 in support of demands for in-)"__"___ football ‘and| Clibert Harrison, 31, AVC found.

(Continued on Page 5—Column 4) | Mellis pointed out. The unincum- | oontract between the management | 310er which he served at Nebraska | QUISLING'S WIDOW IN COURT mre —— |bered balance, after figuring de-|an4 10cal 2614, United Steel Work- | Wesleyan, University of Tennessee,| OSLO, June 17 (U. P.).—Marie | | Kansas State and the University of | Quisling, widow of the executed Exact amount of the pay increase | Missouri before returning to his Vidkun Quisling, Nazi leader in | was not announced. The union hag |8lma mater in 1923. Norway, pleaded innocent today {originally asked for an 18%-cent| The I U. board of trustees has|when she appeared in court for

ductions for salaries and other |q.c of America, C. I. O.

GEN, HUGH J, BAFFEY, 35 i” = ‘BULGE’ HERD, KILLED ED SPY WILL HEAR

Icollaborating with the Germans.

business was

injury.

| » Fred Rose, Canada's only Com- | an » + on Sold Eskimo Die in Plane Crash. —Maj. Gen. Hugh J. Gaftey, 51, |imprisonment today for his part | United Press Staff Correspondent | day morning and offered to buy| With a foot-high' ostrich plume, so killed late last night when their |mlitary secrets, bap y : this stranger in their midst. A revealed today. Saturday. A jury deliberated only |&ntcs delighted the nation in Pre=/ .giqng ostriches. | nost-war project, sitting on an 08- pineal immediately, left but re- “It's a little. uncomfortable,” he ert A. Peter and Allan J. Hoenig, post-was } hinsse : were not available immediately. a re — nn | needle in a haystack. Mr. Sweet, slightly pop-eyed by|to bed with him, so that it will not Capt. Wrigley said the men were | Starts Today— Eve. the mother ostrich at Los|bring his enterprise and assented quarters of an hour at a time to

. SENTENCE THURSDAY | 12-cent-per-hour increase. Clevenger, ° ge. pl Former Patton Aid, 2 Others; MONTREAL. June 17 (U. P| lceb Led a Bull Th h cebox, a Bull Throug |munist member of parliament, faced | . * | i * FT. KNOX, Ky. June 17 (U. P).|* possible sentence of seven years | China Shop, Now Hatching an Ostrich Egg | commanding officer of Ft. Knox, his in a Soviet espionage ring that | By ALEXANDER KAHN | Mr. Moran rang his dogrbell Satur-| He is wearing a feather head piece, pilot, and a post signal officer were | sought Canadian and American | HOLLYWOOD, June 17. — Senti- ’ Mr. Sweet said it wasn't the 60 ostriches at the farm won't plane overshot the field and| The 38-year-old Rose, a native | | Jim Moran, whose daffy Eve's #58 3, be too fascinated by the sight of crashed, public relations officers|of Poland, was found guilty late|™e"" . for sale: that his fence also separates him from the Capt. Winship G. Wrigley iden<|35 minutes before returning the |war days, was off today on his first’ a Moran, who' didn't identify! ostriches. tified the other officers as Lts. Rob~ [ynanimous verdict. Justice Wilfred Lazure said he d a few hours later. admitted after the first day of site 'h egg to hatch it. turned a fe a ) Whose ages and home addresses would sentence Rose Thursday. hy - Mr. Moran who sold an “If you won't sell me the egg. tng with the egg between his legs. d " ee | ebOX to an eskimo, led a live bull will you let me sit on it until the “But I think I'll get used to it.” He. Spied "One nlite man. was| | through & china shop and found a little one is hatched?” he proposed.| At night Mr. Moran takes the egg | yesterday Mr. Moran replaced the | this time, thought for a moment! c00l off. He can leave the egg for | heating pad which had replaced; saw the fame such a stunt would | periods as long as a half to three- ® The Times presents an- | Go "ostrich farm. She became|He thought the human body tem-| eat. jealous because her hubby Joe was perature was sufficient to hatch| Mr. Moran most recently has been

other outstanding serial story . . . “General Duty

an infantry conference. The plane apparently had motor trouble near

Pound Boost | In Butter Ordered

Crowd Sees (J|JDGE SCORES OPA Raise Goes Into Effect

of Lottery Tickets Not Ipound.

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He suggested that in order to get that {troit, Mr. Symington revealed for| more gambling convictions in the|planned to close their doors untilithe actual producer.

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'Almost Immediately’; Price

.On Cheddar Cheese Also Up

~ WASHINGTON, June 17 (U. P.).—The OPA today

‘ordered a 11-cent-a-pound increase in the retail price of butter to be put into effect almost immediately, :

The retail price of Cheddar cheese goes up 6 cents a

OPA also announced it is increasing evaporated milk 1’

cent for a 1415 ounce can.

Those increases result from boosts in manufacturers’ "= x eiling prices of 10 cents a TIGHTEN BELTS— ound for butter, 5 cents for

: cheese, and 35 cents a case’ Meat Famine for canned milk. | effective immediately. WwW or S e; May | For consumers, they go into effect

| The manufacturers’ increases are when retailers make their first pur~ Cl Sh chases at the higher prices from ose 0 Pp S distributors.

By DONNA MIKELS Two Other Actions y LS TI ) THERE WERE more rumors than he office of economic, stabiliza=,

meat passing across Indianapolis tion first announced these increases market counters today, as the city on May 20 as part of a dairy prod--started on what promises to be an- ucts program. Milk prices were other meatless week. y Tart the city butchers raised one cent a quart for most: stood idly around, talking about the | “OSUMErs on June 7. worst meat famine in the city’s his-| OPA took two other actions, eftory. Harassed owners, tired of fective today, to carry out the proarguing with packers for meat and! Sram. then repeating packers’ replies to! It established ceiling prices on hungry customers, were threatening milk sold to manufacturers of dairy to close their counters unless the Products and to other commercial situation becomes better. jand industeta! users. These ceilings, a &£ establish BUT WHETHER it would become set at a fig me, Mit better until after July 1 was some- 1945 average price paid to prothing else again. One large packing ducers in a given locality per hun~ house official said he “didn't see” |4reqd pounds of milk with 3.5 how market operators could afford cen butter fat content per to stay open’ and take losses. He . : sald his company saw no relief Prices Are Frozen until after congress settles the OPA! OPA also put under price cone issue. trol, for the first time, bulk sales In addition to countless rumors of commercially-separated cream

about butchers who were going to| close their counters, it was reported | "Pd sales of farm-separated cream

some restaurant owners | DY distributors or others aside from

| they could get meat. |

comparatively plentiful last week, °'® during the period May 1 to threatened to become scarce as In-| MAY 13 per pound of butter fat. dianapolis residents became hungry | These actions were taken by the enough to substitute wieners for Sovernment in an offort to pretheir ordinary Sunday steak dinner. \vent further diversion of butter fat Ordinarily, packers have a surplus from butter manuafcturers to other stock of cold meats. manufacturers. * The prolonged shortage of cattle, i

however, has reduced stocks to the lowest point in the industry's his- I S tory, forcing a reduction in sup- DISCUSSED BY BIG 4

plies to retailers.

" » . ONE PACKER, who said he and his employees are just “sitting

around making faces at each other,” Ministers Shun Chance for

added that “the public's finally find- | ing out wieners weren't made of]

sawdust — they did take a little | Early Showdown.

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t meat, These prices are frozen at the oil | LUNCH MEAT and cold cuts, Nishest price charged by these sell-

{raise and the company offered a [not yet considered a successor to| preliminary hearing on charges of |

| {manded the armored force school |

Nurse,” by Lucy Agnes Hancock. , . . It's a béhind-the-scenes drama of hospital life . . . and Nurse Sally Maynard's problem of love and jealousy.

the field, Capt. Wrigley said, and | crashed soon after. Gen. Gaffey, who assumed com- | mand at the post June 11, had com- |

since Sept. 2, 1945, A native of Hartford, Conn. his war record included service as commander of the 2d armored division | in Africa; commander of the 4th | division in the Battle of .the Bulge,

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making eyes at Mamie, the ostrich | the egg. : flirt, and refused to sit on the egg. Eve was a little curious when The round-faced, deadpan profes- Mr. Moran draped himself around sional screwball started his 25-day | her egg. But she showed no revigil on Father's day, sistance. Delermingd she would as- “ t me anything on Sert her independence because of oy the 38-year-old | RUDDY Joe's philandering. But she bachelor. “I'm sentimental about|dld swish her tail and spat at the | such things, so I'm going to get! 688 to show Mr. Moran what she | myself an offspring, even if it's an | thought of him as a substitute. | ostrich.” | And to kill time while waiting | Ostrich farm proprietor, “C. J. for the young ostrich to hatch, Mr.

a movie bit player and publicist, having at various times held jobs as an engineer, radio writer and actor. But while he's hatching the egg he will hold down no other job, declaring after the first day that it was. a full-time occupation, Among his earlier stunts were showing Gelett Burgess a genuine purple cow, tanning’ half his face in Florida and ‘the other half in California, and harpooning a whale

Sweet, was slightly startled when Moran is reading “Fhe Egg and L"/ in San Francisco bay.

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REACH ACCORD ON RANDOLPH HOSPITAL

Differences Ironed Out Too

| Late to Stop Closing.

| Differences between hospital and health officials which led to the closing of the Randolph county hospital Sunday have been ironed out, the State Board of Health announced today. The agreement came too late to prevent a “vacation” for the 35-bed institution. The health department expressed confidence that plans had been worked out which would “result in closer working co-operation among hospital administrators, staff, board and county officials. It also indicated

| meat.”

the scheduled

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TWIN' BANDITS GET $300 AT COAL YARD

Gunmen Seize Victim's Auto for Escape.

“Twin” gunmen held up the Muesing-Merrick Coal Co. east yard at noon today, taking an estimated $300 loot as they escaped in the yard manager's car, The men, dressed alike in blue wash suits, entered the yard at 3830 Brookville rd, where C. H. Benson, branch manager, Was alone in the office.

they told Mr. Benson to lie flat on his face on the floor. They rified a cash drawer and. then searched Mr. Benson, taking his car keys. : Warning Mr. Benson to remain where he was, the bandits sped east on Brookville rd. in Mr, Benson's car. The car was later found at Drexel ave. and Brookville rd.. The hold-up victim described the men ‘as 25 to 30 years old. Each was slender, he said, and about 5 feet 7 or 8 inches tall. : ;

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Chi aey's Restaurant, MW EK

Pointing blue-steel guns at him, |

PARIS, June 17 (U. P..—The

big four ministers, apparently

jstunning any chance for a major {showdown at the outset of their

newly resumed meeting, decided to discuss the relatively uncontroversial economic aspects of the (Italian peace treaty today. While reparations were included among the economic angles of the

expected to get that far along this afternoon. Made ultra-cautious by the near breakdown of the conference #& {month ago, the ministers clearly were determined to tread warily in

of state James F. Byrnes described Friday as the “testing of “the temperature of the meeting.” !

TRUMAN GOES ALONE TO CHURCH, CONCERT WASHINGTON, June 17 (U, P.). —President Truman, like millions of

other Americans, walked to church Sunday morning.

Few Washingtonians noticed the chief executive as he strolled from the White House to the Pirst Baptist church, accompanied only by secret service men. He sat in his pew alone to hear a sermon on the need for moral reawakening in the world. List night he attended a National Symphony orchestra concert on the banks of the Potomac. Again, he went alone—except for secret service men—because Mrs. Triman and their daughter, Margaret, are visiting their home in Independence, | Mo,

"Miniature Farm" Just Outside City in University Heights The pride that the residents of this suburban community take in * the appearance of their

homes, lawns and gardens is widely known . . .

University Heights—10 neres fine garden land; 5 room modern bath, home In excellent . chicken and brooder

Agent name refer in today's *

Italian treaty, the council was not

the first few days of what secretary