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SURVEY HINTS MEAT SUPPLY T0 STAY LEAN

Packers, Farmers, Retailers See Year’s Shortage If OPA Retained. (Read “OPA Bill Faces Hostile

Senate,” Page 2; Analysis of OPA Bill, Page 7).

By DONNA MIKELS

A poll of Indianapolis packers, | §&

farmers, retailers consumers today revealed almost unanimous agreement on one point—that the house-approved OPA extension bill

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will not solve the nation’s meat | &

shortage problem. Packers saw in continuation of meat control one more year of being thrown into competition with black

terers having all advantages. Spokesmen for farmers were equally at odds with the bill. In it they saw another reason for farme ers to cut livestock production. Even a meat price boost, which is

considered likely, isn't apt to pro=|;

vide enough incentive to increase cattle and hog output, they said. Temporary Relief Seen Retailers added up slashed livestock growing to continued small packing house outputs and got a total of another year of meatless And as the retailers’ gloom grew, so did that of customers to whom the situation means 12 more months of fighting for meat cuts. Passage of the bill is expected to bring a temporary meat famine letup. Farmeis and packers who have

been holding up meat in a gamble | §

for higher prices after July 1 are’ expected to market enough backlog to get steaks back on counters. The relief, however, will be temporary, say packers. They charge that black market operators will continue to buy up cattle and hogs, while legitimate packers, forced to hew to compliance prices, will get

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George M. Madole Jr., Warren, Ohio, proudly displays the pie he made while waiting for his wife to return from her office job in Berlin, as the couple’s dog begs for a bite. Mr. Madole, a former soldier, admits he is enjoying the luxury of doing nothing but housework and playing golf while Mrs. Madole, the former Sadie Joe Carroll, Houston, Tex., “slaves” at state department offices. She was allowed to bring her dependent husband te Berlin.

olny left-over livestock. Production Cut Likely Another factor which points to a| continuation of the meat famine is the off balance grain-livestock | ratio. Farmers are expected to find grain too expensive to put into livestock with the result livestock pro- | duction will be cut to increase grain sales. we “Farmers won't féed $1.60 corn to $14.75 hogs and the result will be a cut in breeding stock and subsequent reduction in livestock output,” said one packing house spokesman. The virtual shutdown of many large packing houses also was beginning to be felt in other quarters today, as the loss of by-products because of the influx of cattle and hogs into black market channels became more acute. Shutdown Threatened Pharmaceutical houses, which depend on packers for meat by-prod-ucts for medicinal use, are getting a decreased supply. Packers explained black market slaughterers are unable to utilize the by-prod-ucts. and that ‘the black market operators now are slaughtering a majority of the nation’s livestock. The situation will grow worse if packing houses have to carry out threatened close-downs, Many large packers in the nation already are closed and one local firm, Kingan & Co. today said it might close some plants if buyers cannot compete with illegal operators for livestock. 5.9 “The only place you will find compliance to this bill is on the empty floors of the nation’s legitimate packers,’ said one packer today. “The black market will expand and the government won't be able to stop it.” CLOUDY WEATHER DUE TO CONTINUE “Partly cloudy” skies will keep the mercury down in Indianapolis tos day, according to the U. S. weather man, Overcast skies and a coo] breeze caused many workérs to close their windows before leaving for work this morning, but U. S. weather bureau forecasts indicated that a fairly constant mercury would be the only result of the sunless morning with no showers scheduled, Early temperatures hovered around the 72 mark. Continued cloudiness and warmer weather was forecast for tomorTOW.

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thing—or anything—to draw a few

Democratic state chairman Pleas; Greenlee: remarked the G. O. P.| chief was “whistling in the dark.

ship distract the woters’ attentiors

already shot senatorial nomination and repeated

Springer Opens GOP Drive

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 26, 1946

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RULING BLOCKS PLANS 70 TAP UTLITY'S TLL

City Needs Gas Board OK to Get Funds, Bobbitt Holds; Can Start Probe.

By RICHARD LEWIS City council can't collect a nickel of Citizens Gas & Coke Utility profits without the consent of the utility's board of directors, Corporation Counsel Arch N. Bobbitt ruled today. The council does have authority, however, to make an investigation of the utility's operation, in order to determine whether its revenues are being used in the public interest, the corporation counsel ruled. The rulings were contained in an opinion which Mr, Bobbitt handed to councilmen today. They had requested it to clarify the city's legal position in its effort to collect $1,300,000 from the utility. " The council contends that the utility owes this amount to the city under an agreement to pay the general fund a sum equivalent to what it would pay in taxes were it privately owned, Ruling Slams Door The utility, according to public records, has accumulated $8,500,000 in net operating revenues since it became a charitable trust in 1935. Mr. Bobbitt's ruling appeared to slam the door of the likelihood of a councilmanic raid on the utility's cash drawer. But it did not settle the question of whether the utility was liable for the $1,300,000 which council contends the gas trust owes

With Blast at Democrats

E By ROBERT BEOEM Republican state Chairman Clark Springer teed off the 1946 election campaign today with a charge {hat Tuesday's Democratic convention was a “spectacle of New Dealers running away from the New Deal.” Nontination' of M. Clifford Townsend, former governor, as Democratic candidate for the U. S: senate to oppose Republican William E. Jenner was described as a concession -to the Indiana P, A. C. Playing down of President Truman's national ad-| mn ministration in the platform was termed by Mr. Springer an act of REVEAL SOVIET “desperation.” |

“Por the first time in history,” Mr. Springer said, “a convention | FACTORY PURGE failed to make more than a passing | reference to the President of its, own political faith.” 1 ‘mobil “1t was but one of several public * ad raked - Production, Indiana New Dealers who are now Bonuses Are Bared. in the care and custody of the Political Action Committee as they| MOSCOW, June 26 (U. P.) —The cast about desperately for some-| Soviet press announced today a purge of factory directors, engineers {and accountants throughout the | country who have been faking production figures, receiving illegal bonuses, misappropriating factory funds and converting state property | to personal use. The announcement was carried in all of the central Moscow newspapers and reported that the ministry of state control was carrying out the purge and committing the directors, engineers and accountants to trial. The report said managers and accountants are being purged in

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votes.” Greenlee Answers Blast Informed of the. Springer .blast,

“This is primarily a state election,” Mr. Greenlee said. “We're not going to let the Republican leader-

from the béer-politics and steamroller tactics of the Republican palace guard. : “Weare not going to let these state isstles be forced into the back-

ground By attacks on the na- | enterprises situated as far east as vonab vagus and by Ré- Tomsk, Siberia. ' pu 1 he n ghess to meet In- The press reportéd that the

“ministery of state control has examined the financial and economic activities of a number of enterprises, institutions and organizations.” . The examination was said to have disclosed the illegal * receipt. of bonuses by some individuals and the misappropriation of factory {funds and objects of value. . | The report cited a seri=s of cases BAD WEATHER MAY | where factory directors, production con-

managers and accountants

digna questions squarely.” | The two statements appeared to up the two parties’ approach to ming campaign. Republicans, badly from within by a bitter three-way contest for

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spired to fake production figures in DELAY A-BOMB TEST Srcer to gain illegal bonuses.

Officer Fears Island Target May Be Obscured.

BIKINI, June 26 (U. P.).—Vice Adm. W. H. Blandy is not betting but he revealed today that his staff

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the city in lieu of taxes, ink Mr. Bobbitt's corellary opinion that the council has “ewer to in- | vestigate the utility will enable city hall to determine not only how profits were utilized, but make a closer estimate of its tax claim. Armed with the opinion, council was expected to start an inquiry into the utility's operation for the first time in the 11-year history of the public gas plant. ® Subject to Probe The utility district, Mr. Bobbift's ruling said, is an executive department of the city of Indianapolis by special statutory provision. As such, it is subject to investigation by the council which has power to probe any municipal department, he said. The corporation counsel found that this was confirmed by provisions of the statute which require [the board of directors to make quarterly accountings to the controller at city hall and also furnish

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HOUSE GROUP VOTES MORE UNRRA FUNDS

WASHINGTON, June 26 (U. P.). —The house appropriations committee today voted another $465,000,000 for UNRRA to complete this government's $2,700,000,000 pledge to the world relief agency. The UNRRA funds were included in a bill providing $726,571909 to meet deficiencies in the expenditures of various federal agencies. The committee praised UNRRA as a ‘noble work” which would serve as a “lasting tribute to the readiness and willingness and determination of America to give succor to the distressed peoples of other lands.”

Healthful Sun Tan

e Have you been getting | “boiled” like a lobster during the hot summer days in

Chicago Police

By JOE BANKS United Press Staff Correspondent . PHOENIX, Ariz, June 26.—Chicago detectives were en route here today to confirm or disprove the story of Richard Russell Thomas, frustrated radio singer who said | he kidnaped and killed six-year-old Suzanne Degnan. Before they left Chicago by plane, investigators said they would try to straighten out discrepancies between known facts of the kidnap ing Jan. 7 and the account given yesterday by Thomas, 42, tall, thin and sickly father of three children, Thomas, who has a record of morals and extortion offenses, ad mitted the Degnan crime to deputy sheriffs as he awaited sentence on conviction of raping his own 13-year-old daughter, Patricia. Willing to Return

He said he entered the Degnan home to rob it, found little Suzanne sleeping in her bed, snatched her up, escaped through her father’s bedroom as he slept, and dismembered her body after she suffocate ed in a gunny sack because she was too heavy to carry, \ Confronted with discrepancies in his account of the crime and the facts wired here by Chicago police, Thomas told Deputy Sheriffs Stanley Kimbell and Forest Castle, to whom he confessed: . “I told you what I remember.” Thomas said he was willing to waive extradition and £0 back to Chicago. Sentence Dodge Hinted Thomas said he frequently had “spells” accompanied by unnatural sex urges. He sald he confessed because of a “guilty conscience” and “nightmares” he had been having about the Degnan case. At Chicago, Walter Storms, chief of detectives, said there was enough in Thomas’ story to warrant a thor. ough investigation. He added, how-

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be forced to serve thé sentence if until T o'clock the morning of the Arizona authorities felinquished | 8th. and was sick when I got home," tod 3 police quo Thomas. “I made an : vi 5 excuse for going to work that . Menied the x, rt 3

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FILM FANS WAIT BILL HART RITES

Expect Biggest Crowd Since Will Rogers’ Funeral. By VIRGINIA MacPHERSON

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[Woodlawn hospital in Chicago, that, “I pitked the Degnan hom. to he was working as a male nurse {rob because it Jooked like I would the night of Jan. 6.

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Flagpole Sitter Quits in Huff, But Fiancee Will Carry On

COSHOCTON, O., June 26 (U, P.).—~Mad Marshall Jacobs was down and out today, but his sweetheart-—or possibly ‘ex-sweetheart—had taken over his sitting duties atop the 176-foot flagpole. The flagpole-sitter’s 19-year-old flancee, Lonnie Cosmar, took his place on the 16-inch wide perch where he had roosted since Decoration day after he left in a huff last night,

United Press Staff Correspondent HOLLYWOOD, June 26—Last rites for William S. Hart will be] ready today amid more fanfare than | the 81-year-old gun-totin’ cowboy! ever used in rounding up a gang of badmen in his silent movie days. It will be in the best Hollywood premiere fasHion—the kind of a party “Old Bill” would have none of when he could do anything about it. Funeral services will begin at 2:30 p. m. at Forest Lawn Memorial Park. Cemetery officials said they were getting ready for the biggest crowd since Will Rogers was buried there in 1935. At the request of William 8. Hart Jr. no invitations were sent out. Cemetery gates will be open to all the veteran actor's friends and fans. The first 400 to arrive will be seated in the little Church of the Recessional, high on a hilltop overlooking the canyon where the gauntfaced cowboy tracked down many a movie villain back in 1914. The rest will sit in special bleachers thrown up outside the church to accommodate the overflow, a Forest

Lawn executive said. A microphone at the altar will broadcast the] services. “We'll have extra police on hand, |

EX-DEFENDANT SAYS ILLINOIS

5000 Transactions at Prices Above OPA Ceilings Are -Alleged. DETROIT, June 26 (U.P.)s

—A former defendant in the government's

multi-millions dollar used car black marke§

j |case today named Ben Fishel,

33-year-old Cairo, Ill, dealer,

as a leader in the largest used auto racket in history, The witness, Thomas C. Doran, 35, Murray, Ky, took the stand after dismissal of charges againsh him by Federal Judge Arthur A, Kocsinski. Fischel and six other defendants are on trial here on charges of cone spiring to sell an estimated 5000 cars at above-ceiling profits totaling almost $3 million. Twenty-two others named in an indictment lash April pleaded guilty yesterday, Cars Bought in Detroit

rence, 22, of Murray, was severad from the present trial, said he ope erated the Doran-Spann automobile agency at Murray with Cross Spans Jr, 40, Murray, one of those whe pleaded guilty. Doran sald he provided the money and Spann arranged purchase, in Detroit, of used Phos He said the cars were bought foe above-ceiling prices, driven

“put in shape,” and then to Fishel at Cairo. i for. every ear on lot,” # testified. Doran said sales girls in Pishel's office, where used car auctions were conducted, gave buyers blank sales receipts and then made out dupli= cate slips bearing OPA ceiling prices of the vehicles, Purchiasers, he said, made out & check for the amount of the ceiling and paid the balance either in cash or by writing out another check, Drivers Pointed Out Doran said he sold 12 cars through Fishel and another 12 cars through John C. Farmer, who admitted in & gullty plea yesterday he operated a black market agency st Murray. “The witness pointed out three

fe ee BRT CONVICT 31 JEWISH IRGUNISTS

thon flagpole-sitting title, came as the result of a quarrel—with his backers, according to one story; with his girl friend, according to another. . i It all started last night. Miss Casmer said she was going to visit Cleveland today to pick out a bridal suite for their marriage scheduled for Sunday, at the top]. of the pole, Marshall, believing publicity can be carried too far, said “I'm coming down if you make the bridal

Fate of Kidnaped Officers May Rest on Case.

JERUSALEM, June 26 (U. P.).— Thirty-one youthful members of the Irgun Zval Leumi, Jewish un-| suite public. derground army, were convicted to“I'm still going.” said Lonnie. day by a British military court of

“Then I'm coming .down,” said illegal possession of arms. Marshall,

“I'm going,” Lonnie said again. ; Jacobs threw down his blankets, | Sarded As a vial case in the ungot off his platform and started rest and violence lately sweeping

Palestine. There were some indica- |

The trial of the Irgunists was re-

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| {depend the fate of three British kidnaped by Jewish ex-

OSTRICH EGG SITTER GETS SHAVE ON JOB!°™"

tremists. HOLLYWOOD, June 26 (U. P.).—| A verdict of the milt 0 Jim Moran sat uncomfortably on his Dlanket y dict id Sok vas nest today, trying to keep his soon- | * ante. indicunent of ‘ihe Jews to-hatch ostrich egg warm while | accused of possessing seven autoBarber J. P. Gregory gave him a matic guns, scores of pistols and

nest-side shave, | rifles machine ( 2S, uns and Fascinated ostrichs stuck their! 8

necks through the slats of rd bn arms.

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other defendants—John L. Lovins, 35, and John C. A. Nelson, 435, Paducah, Ky., and Noble Dick, 37, Murray—as having agreed to drive cars bought in Detroit to Murray. He also pointed out Fishel and Henton Farley, 37, Benton, Ky. who he said came to Detroit with him (Doran) to arrange for pure chase of cars. He said he had seen a sixth defendant, Ed West, Pope lar Bluff, Mo., in Cairo and Mur= ray.

by five Detroiters who testified to selling their cars to representatives of the ring and refeiving above ceiling prices although sales slips were made out to show amounts at or below ceilings.

CONFERENCE PLANNED ON PROBATION LAWS

Resolutions proposing some changes in the state's probation laws will be adopted at the annual conference of the east-central die vision of the Indiana Probation ase sociation here Friday. The session, to be held on the seventh floor of the Court House annex, 148 E. Market st, is being arranged by Mrs. Eleanor B. 8nod«

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Doran, who with Robert T. Laws

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Doran was preceded on the stand :

Bare Story Of $3 Million Used Auto Black Market

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tco,” the execative said, “to direct | Moran's corral, where he has been traffic from the gates of the cem-|!rying since June 16 to hatch an

RADIO DISTURBANCES pug |S °s% State probation director, and

GATES NAMES PROSECUTOR | Governor Gates today appointed |

search of a healthful suntan? The Indiana State

John H, Metford of Seymour to suc-

ceed Malcom B., Réutt as prosecut- |

|ing attorney of the Jackson circuit (court. Mr. Routt resigned the post effective July 1. The new appointment is effective until next January.

Is Dangerous,

Two Indianapolis children today are wishing that they had never thought of chasing lightning bugs. With summer vacation - well underway T-year-old Judy Liepnitz is looking longingly out of a window at Methodist hospital and 11-year-old Norbert Woods is confined to his front porch. The daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Herman Liepnitz, 110 N. Sherman dr., Judy was clutching a glass jar in her hand and dashing after a lightning bug in front ‘of hér homé last Saturday. As she crossed the walk in the yard she stumbled and fell. The Jar splintered beneath her, cutting her stomach badly. That was the

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Chasing Flashy Lightning

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end of Judy's vacation for quite some time. She is in fair condition at the hospital. While he was attempting to catch lightning bugs Monday in front of his home at 3701 E. Michigan st. Norbert, son of Mrs, Pearl Wood, likewise terminated his vacation activities, He, too, was running after one of the flashing insects and carrying a jar when he slipped. He received a severe cut on his left arm in which nine stitches were taken. Norbert blurted out to his mother after the fall, “I guess I ain't gonna get - to do much swimming this summer.’ A neighbor boy, is assist |ing him with ‘his ra route.

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RUSSIAN STAND ON TRIESTE REAFFIRMED

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Say Yugoslavia’s Interest Must Be Considered.

MOSCOW, June 26 (U. P.).—An official Russian agency dispatch from Paris today said the only possible solution of the Trieste problem would be one that took Yugoslavia's interests into consideration. A Tass report from Paris implicitly reaffirmed the Soviet stand favoring Yugoslavia’s claims to Trieste and the neighboring region of Venezia Giulia in northeast Italy. (Paris dispatches on the foreign ministers conference hinted that V. M. Molotov of Russia and James F. Byrnes of the United States might have made progress toward some kind of a compromise on Trieste in private talks outside the pale of the formal conference agenda.) - |

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WASHINGTON, June 26. —Warn-

Mr. Moran said he was getting so many telephone calls he had to have a telephone installed beside the nest at the Los Angeles ostrict farm so he wouldn't be away from his “youngster” too long at a time.

| ings that shortwave radio broad{casts from London, Berlin and Mos{cow may be disturbed with signals | weak and fading tomorrow and Fri- | day were issued today by the na-! tional bureau of standards.

Local Youth, Unable to Swim, |

Drowns in 10-Foot Creek Hole

Twelve-year-old Richard (Dickie) Thurman, son of Mr. and Mrs, William Richard Thurman, R. R. 16,

box 647, who didn't know how to|

swim, drowned in a 10-foot hole in Crooked creek near 64th and Harding sts. yesterday afternoon. The boy's parents said Dickie left on an errand to the drug store and the next thing they knew several boys ran to the home and said he

'was drowning in the creek.

When the lad slipped into the hole, James Amos, a neighbor on R. R. 16 and one of the swimmers, went to his aid. The Amos youth said the Thurman boy grabbed him around the neck. “I struggled with him a while and

finally had to break the strangle hold and he went down the second time,” the Amos youth said, 4 Then Robert Stewart, 21, who was visiting friends in the neighborhood, dived in and brought the Thurman boy's body to the surface and began artificial respiration. A few minutes later the Police | emergency squad arrived and worked | for nearly an hour in a futile attempt to resuscitate him while the victinks mother, Mrs. Mary Thurman, and a sister, Mary Jane) Thurman, 7, sat helplessly on the bank of the creek, . Survivors besides hig parents and

A. G. Cooley, association president. ‘Judges John L. Niblack and Joseph Howard of Municipal courts, William D. Bain of Criminal court

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