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POLICE READY FOR CHECK ON DEGNAN STORY

Kidnap Notes.

PHOENIX, Ariz, June 27 (U. P.). —Three Chicago’ investigators arrived today to check Richard D. Thomas’ confession that he kidnaped and butchered 68-year-old Suzanne Degnan., : Officers contended Thomas’ handwriting specimens resembled the ransom note, At Chicago, chief of detectives Walter Storms said that Thomas’ fingerprints did not match any of those found on the crudely-printed ransom note left by the girl's slayer, He added, however, that police here were making no definite announcement on the result of all teéts until a clear comparison is available between Thomas’ handwriting and that on the note. The investigators came from Chicago by air. They will question Thomas as soon as possible to check his statement against known facts of the Degnan case. Studies Handwriting Deputy Sheriff Forest Castle, one of the local officers who arrested Thomas and active in the investigation of the confession to the Degnan crime, took 10 specimens of Thomas’ handwriting after midnight. “When he writes with his left hand in copying the ransom note in the Degnan case, there is a remarkable resemblance to the original note,” Castle declared. “Thomas can write equally well with his right or left hand, and he recalled that he held a fountain pen flashlight with his right hand as he wrote the ransom note for $20,000 in the Degnan home the night the little girl was kidnaped,” Castle added. Child Killed Jan. 6 The Degnan girl was abducted from her Chicago home Jan. 6. Her body was dissected and dumped into sewers in the neighborhood of her home. Authorities. here, doubtful of Thomas’ story because of discrepancies and inconsistencies, said they were beginning to believe he was telling the truth. Two gheriff’s deputies who took

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SEIZURE OF FACTORY!

WASHINGTON, June 27 (U. P.). —President Truman expressed hope at a news conference today it would not be necessary for the government to seize the strike-bound AllisChalmers plant. Meanwhile, more than 5800 workers were idled today in Detroit when 86 men walked off their jobs in the main plant of Chrysler Corp.'s Dodge division in what the company claimed was an unauthorized strike.

ORR, MARSEE PLAY IN | JUNIOR GOLF FINALS

SOUTH BEND, Ind. June.27 (U. P).—Don Orr of Crawfordsville and Bud Marsee of Mishawaka will meet tomorrow in the 36-hole finals for .the Indiaria junior golf champlonship on the Erskine Park course, Orr won his way to the finals today with a 5 and «4 victory over Jack Hesler, also of Crawfordsville, while ‘Marsee defeated Norm Dunlap Jr, of Terre Haute, 3 and }. in the other semifinal match.

TRUMAN NOT GOING ANYWHERE VERY SOON

WASHINGTON, June 27 (U. P.). —President Truman told reporters today he would be unable to attend the Shrine conclave at San Francisco in late July. “Are you going anywhere any time soon?” he was asked The President chuckled and said not a chance; he was not going anywhere any time soon.

TIMES INDEX

Banker Scbs

As Sentence Is Announced

Sterling Perry, Evansville banker, today was sentenced to 15 years and fined $5000 in federal court here for admittedly embezzling $143,000.

Perry, 54-year-old former vice president of the National City bank of Evansville, sobbed as Judge Walter L. Lindley. pronounced sentence. Socialite, church member and devoted husband, Perry was given five years on each of three counts, Sentence was suspended on eight other counts. After he serves 15 years, Perry will be placed on probation for three years. Money Goes Rapidly When Perry started testifying in his own behalf, his voice broke. Frequently, he mopped his eyes with a handkerchief as he told Judge Lindley: “I got rid of the money so fast, I can’t remember very well where it all went . , . I helped a lot of people and that’s when my troubles began. Before I realized it I was in an awful mess.” U. 8. District Attorney B. Howard Caughran said ‘much of the money had gone into oil ventures, but details of this phase of the case

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SAYS BOWLES IS TRYING TO QUIT

President Reveals Resigna- _ tion Already on Desk.

WASHINGTON, June 27 (U. P). —President Truman said today Economic Stabilizer Chester Bowles has been attempting to resign. But Mr. Truman said he hoped he could prevail on Mr. Bowles to remain in the government. The President was asked at a news conference whether he expected Mr, Bowles to quit following final action on the OPA extension bill. Mr. Bowles has opposed the measure as ineffective. Mr. Truman said he hoped Mr. Bowles would not leave, but that the economic stabilizer had been trying to quit for some time to re- | turn to his home state of Connecticut. | The President said that Mr. | Bowles had submitted a resignation to him shortly after the chief executive entered the White House, but that so far he had been suc-

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BABY’S BIRTH DELAYS POLITICAL CAMPAIGN

MEMPHIS, Tenn. June 27 (U. P.).—Mrs. Lee Richardson, 30, went down in political history today as the first gubernatorial candidate in Tennessee to take time out from campaigning to have a baby. The baby, a girl which Mrs. Richardson named Lorraine, was born yesterday. Mrs. Richardson, who has four sons, said she would resume her campaign as soon as she gets out of the hospital. She is a candidate for nomination in the Democratic primary election Aug. 1.

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KIDNAPING OF LOCAL WOMEN INVESTIGATED

Police Unable to Verify Indianapolis Address Given by Victims.

A story told by two Indianapolis women that they were victims of a wild kidnaping and assault episode that ended at Marion, Ind, at ‘3 a. m. today, was being investigated by state and city police here today. The two women, who gave their names as June Wilson, 46, and Virginia Newell, 22, and their address as 3413 W. Washington st, staggered into Marion police headquarters badly bruised ar disheveled early today. 0 . Fictitious Names Hinted They tpld Marion police officers they had been kidnaped about 10 o'clck last night by two men in a car in front of their home and driven to Marion where they said they were beaten and thrown out of the car. The women, however, were believed to have given fictitious names to Marion police as investigation here revealed the W. Washington st. address they gave as their home is a business building occupied by the Mt. Jackson Tire & Battery shop. Behind the shop are several small bungalows but a check of these and other residences in the neighborhood revealed no one had ever heard of the women. The women told Marion police the men stopped them on the street here and forced them into their car, which tHey said, bore ~“either a {Mississippi or Missouri license plate.” = Women Return by Bus | They said when they arrived in | Marion the men drove into an alley {and beat them, attempted to take the rings off their fingers and then dumped them out of the car and sped away. They said one of the men, who called himself “Bill,” was about six feet tall with brown wavy hair and blue eyes, wearing a tan sport shirt and blue trousers. The other man, the women said, was short and stocky with dark brown hair, blue eyes and was wearing dark trousers. Marion police said the women boarded a bus there for Indianapolis at 4 a. m. today. Nothing further was heard from them by police here or anywhere else,

HOT. STICKY' IS FORECAST HERE

No Relief Predicted for «Next Two Days. ]

THURSDAY, JUNE

27, 1946

Entered as Second-Class Matter at Postoffice Indianapolis, Ind. Issued daily except Sunday

City Railways Refused ~ Boost In Trolley Fare

PRICE FIVE CENTS

ORDER PARKING BAN IN EFFORT T0 AID TRAFFIC

Two Streets to Be Used in Test to Alleviate Bottlenecks.

Emergency orders to ban parking on Delaware and Alabama sts. between 4:30 p. m, and 6 p. m. were voted today by the safety board to become effective Monday. The orders, effective until Sept. 1, precede an ordinance ag the first step in a sweeping traffic program initiated by police and city traffic leaders to alleviate the clogged downtown situation. The recommendations are based on suggestions by the traffic engineering advisory committee of the Indianapolis safety council and surveys conducted by City Traffic Pugineer Frank Y. Hardy and Police Inspector Audrey Jacobs. Designed to eliminate a rush hour bottleneck on Massachusetts ave, the traffic plan would ban parking on the east side from Ohio to New York sts. on Delaware st. and from New York to Vermont sts. on Alabama st.

Points to Bottlenecks

“This plan will give us an indication of additional needs for freeing the flow of traffic,” Mr. Hardy asserted. He pointed out that “the worst congestion occurs” during rush hours in the evening when vehicles and pedestrians converge within the mile square. “Especially so, bottlenecks are created on approaches to threeway intersections,” he went on to say. . At present a patrolman regulates traffic at New York, Delaware and Massachusetts by manual operation of signals in the evening. Parking bans on downtown approaches to multi-street intersections are anticipated to free policemen assigned to these spots.

experiment are Pennsylvania and Illinois sts.

Plans Other Surveys

and Fall Creek blvd. will also be

Failure of Plot Here. “X marks the spot.”

AWAITS TRIAL

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Presiding over sessions of the State Federation of Women's Republican clubs are (left to right) Mrs. Mabel Frazer of Delphi, president; Mrs. Cecil Harden of Covington, Republican national committeewoman, and Mrs. Minnie Quinley of Lebanon, first vice president,

‘Women's State Republican Clubs Meet Here

EXTORTIONIST Jenner Lashes New Deal's Control of U. S. Economy

he time has come to end the super-myth of emergency fostered

| by the New Deal, William E. Jenner told Republican women at a lunch«

Meanwhile, still ‘under consider-| West, prominent civic leader and ation for the prohibited - parking president of the West Baking Co.

Today, Coe himself was on the

hot spot “X" usually marks as he| {sat in the county jail, brooding over | Surveys to check movement of the way he botched his $15,000 exvehicles as far north as 16th st.|tortion plot against Mr. West and

family.

FBI agents last night,

. conducted, Mr. Hardy indicated. 6 Loca) TEMPERATURES "8 Parking on Meridian st. ap-| Tam. "Na - "go |Pproaches to Monument Circle and 3m ....H 13 (Noon). gs |on the east of Meridian st. from Sam... lpm... S85 Maryland to Miami sts. is forbid-

den during rush hours now. Mr. Hardy is also contacting Indianapolis Railways, Inc. officials for suggestions concerning new downtown bus and trolley stops. He stated that cars parked near Increased rainfall in the past|bus stops clog downtown traffic. month has greatly improved the| City council is expected to apcrop situation throughout the state prove an ordinance Monday banand brought rainfall for the year ning parking on the southern arc almost up to normal. lof the circle during rush hours. Indiana’s water supply, accord-|Scheduled for introduction is an ing to Charles Bechert, head of the | ordinance to forbid parking on water resources division of the state|the east side of Missouri st. from department of conservation, is much|South to Merrill sts. and on 8. greater, | Dover st. from the southwest curb Rain was =o evenly distributed line of York st. south 140 feet. that flood stages were exceeded only slightly at points on the lower carry a $300 fine and a maximum Wabash and White rivers. | jail sentence of 180 days.

Hot, sticky and cloudy weather the next two days was the forecast of the weather bureau today. Temperatures will remain from 3 to 5. degrees above normal.

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By ART WRIGHT Mother, do you have a little beauty queen in your family?

City-wide recognition—and awards —are awaiting her in the Tiny Tot Beauty Parade which The Times and the City Recreation division will stage at the 20 community wading pools. The event is open to girls not yet 6 years old, "A beauty queen for each pool, to take part in the city finals, will be selected simultanously at the respective wading pools Tuesday, July 9 at 7 p. m. Pools that close earlier than 7 p. m. will remain open thd evening for the beauty parade. The 20 community queens will be presented Friday, July 12 at 7 p. m. at the fountain in University park, across New York street from the postoffice. From the group the judges will select the little girl who will be crowned Wading Pool Queen. The entrants need not possess any particular talent . . , for the

event is not a talent hunt. She dqgesn’t even have to know how to swim , . . and won't be required

to get into the water the evenings of the judging. Selections will be based on charm #4nd general appearance. Each entrant must wear a bathing suit. There are no other requirethents and any girl under 6 may enter.

|The tots will participate at the wad-

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Have You a Little Beauty Hidden in Your re's How She Can Be a Queen

Tiny Tot Beauty Parade

Sponsored by The Indianapolis Times and City Recreation Division

Please enter my daughter in the Tiny Tot Beauty Parade. I understand there are no fees or charges of any kind, and I agree to accept the decision of the judges as final.

Child's Name « Date Born... ...-s:

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Mail to: Tiny Tot Beauty Parade, Maryland st.,, Indianapolis 9.

The Indianapolis Times, 214 W.

Here are the wading pools where a queen will be selected July 9: Arnolda, Bethel, 61st and Broadway, Brookside, Camp Sullivan, Christian, Coleman, Fall Creek, Finch, 46th and Indianola, George Washington, Greer st, Hawthorne, Kansas and Meridian, Merkel, Northwestern, Rader, Riley, Spring, Yandes, ; & y Mothers—or fathers, or guardians

—must fill in the entry form ap-| pearing in The Times and designate the pool at which the entrant will | compete. Mail the entry to Tiny Tot Beauty Parade, The Indianap-| olis Times, 214 W. Maryland st. Indianapolis 9. File that entry today . . . for the judges want to select early enfrants to place their pictures in The Times pyor to the official selection, 4

“Dreamed Up Idea” “I dreamed up the idea,” he ad- | mitted. “I just wanted to see how | West would act.” A West Baking Co. employée, Coe was nabbed in the firm's parking lot, 1331 E. Washington st., by federal {agents who simply waited for him to pick up what he thought was the payoff package. He was intercepted | as he strode briskly away, trying to | stuff the package in his coveralls.” | The bundle, incidently, contained | not $15,000 in bank notes, as Coe |

| paper.

FBI "agents caught Coe redhanded in more ways than one. His

| arrest were recorded on movie film, | focused® by agents hiding nearby.

Denies It at First

(had demanded, but rolls of blank |ens of Brazil.

A NEW SHORTAGE— Violation of the ordinance will actions preceding and during the, BUYERS FOR BUTTER

Hollis Coe, 17, Broods: on eon at the Claypool hotel today.

At a luncheon of the State Federation of Women’s Republican clubs,

the Republican senatorial candidate lashed “this land of plenty into one of dismal scarcity.” 1 So intoned 17~.year-old Hollis Coe | jacket of control, and the law of]

lin deep-voiced telephone calls Tues- | Supply and demand has been ao SIGNS ORDER 10

, tled by bureaucrats.” day night to the office of Harold B.| “In alts. en. and. Women

Will there ever be an end to the great Amer-

he said, has been “laced in a strait

| everywhece are asking:

{ ican emergency?” Officers Elected

Paul C. Miller of Griffith.

SALT LAKE CITY, June 27 (U.|

|P.).—Butter is going begging here. |

A Salt Lake creamery is offering

At first, Coe insisted he was in/butter at 67 cents per pound, “Limit | the parking lot to “check Mr, West's |four pounds per customer—honest!”

[car and see if it needed anything.” | He was just trying to be of assist- |’ ance to his boss, he explained 't | Later, when pressed by the FBI, he

Said the creamery ‘There are few takers . . nad expected a stampede.”

operator: . and I

{ modified this version. Coe, held under $5000 bond following his arraignment yesterday, | had threatened the lives of Mr. West_ and his family unless $15,000 | were placed in the rear of the| baking executive's car yesterday | morning. ' | J. L. Dalton, special FBI agent | here, said the youth sent Mr. West |a letter last Friday. He followed |this up with ominous telephone | calls, most of them based on the warning: “X marks the spot.”

In grabbing the dummy package |

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Confessed Exto

By DONNA MIKELS Hollis Coe, who hatched a mystery plot and landed in jail, today sald he planned to confine his writing to books and poetry “when I get out of this.” In an interview with The Times today the 17-year-old youth said he wrote an extortion note to his boss “because 1 was thinking about writing a mystery beek, and I wanted to see what his reaction would be.” © “I'm interested in what men are like, what they do and think, I wouldn't have harmed. a hair on Mr. West's head.” .

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He described his employer as a “swell fellow who was very common.” “He used to drive me home at night on his way home, and he never acted any better than anyone else just because he had a better position.” Coe, who claims he neither drinks, smokes or swears, said last night was his first—"and ‘I hope last”— night in jail “They're not my kind of fellows,” he said, referring to five other men in his cell. “In a way, though, it's

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Since the presidency of the federation automatically is filled by port ex-S. Sgt. Frederick Bauer,

| Bauer {when he joined a German army

the transformation of American economy,

DEPORT BAUER

In early morning sessions, the Appeal to Higher Court Now|

Republican women's group named Mrs. Minnie Quinley of Lebanon, . | first vice president to succeed Mrs. Coe, who at first denied the ex-| tortion scheme, confessed all to!

Is Last Chance.

{ U. 8. Attorney General Tom C. Clark today signed an order to de-

the state vice chairman, Mrs. Mabel Fraser of Delphi, that office was not | up for election. In other elections, | Mrs. E. E. Watts of Gary succeeded | Mrs. Harold Achor of Anderson ds second vice president, and Mrs, Verl | Cooper of Frankton succeeded Mrs. | Lucy Boone of Connersville as fed- | eration treasurer, Mrs, Oscar Thornburg of Hagers- | town and Mrs. Dorothy Cox of] Madison were named recording and | corresponding secretary, respective. | ly, to succeed Mrs. Audrey Hess of | Kentland and Mrs. Frances Stev- |

former Ft. Harrison photographer, to his native Germany. The action left. Bauer, now at Ellis island, clutching a single legal straw in his stubborn efforts resisting return to Europe. Recently he filed in the U, 8. circuit court of appeals in Chicago, an appeal from a federal court decision here stripping him of his naturalized American citizenship.

Married Hoosier At the hearing, last month, Jus-

THREE TOKENS FOR 25 CENTS RATE IS DENIED

Public Service Commission Rules on Utility Plea for Temporary Hike. |

The Public Service Come nlission today denied Indiane apolis Railways a fare ine crease to three tokens for 28 cents, The commission’s action: was based on an emergency petie tion submitted by the utility, in which a temporary rate boost wag asked to forestall operating losses, On the heels of the P. 8. C. dee cision, Indianapolis Railways ane nounced it would “appeal to the courts.” No specific court action was mentioned, however. The firm's statement also warned that “unless relief is received immediately,” Ine dianapolis Railways may be forced to:

ONE: “Defer or abandon” a proe posed” $4'; million post-war mode ernization program. TWO: Cancel orders for 75 new transit vehicles costing approxie mately $1,250,000. THREE: Scuttle plans to cone vert the E. Michigan st. line from streetcar to trackless service. FOUR: “Make adjustments im the amount of provided on all lines throughout the system in order that operating costs can be brought in line with our reduced revenue.” Commissioners found no emere gency exists which would warrang a temporary increase. Another pe tition requesting a permanent fare hike is still pending. In its emergency plea, Indiane apolis Railways, Inc, contended it was threatened with huge operating

deficit under the present token rate of four for 25 cents,

Loss Called Inevitable

Attorneys for the utility charged mounting labor and operating costs make it impossible to avoid loss; until settlement of the main ‘petie tion, which has been pending since Dec. 17, In asking the three-for-a-quarter rate, the utility made it clear still higher rates would be sought later, The transit firm filed 38 exhibits and presented 28 witnesses in its effort to prove the existence of an “emergency” requiring an immee diate rate increase, In denying the petition, the come missioners wrote: “The evidence shows that in the year, 1945, the petitioner declared and paid a 20 per cent dividend on Its common stock. Sixteen days before filing the emergency petition, the petitioner paid a quarterly divie dend of $22,636 on its common stock, “The evidence further shows that Indianapolis railways now is and has been earning sufficient revenue to pay all operating expenses, set aside adequate depreciation and have ample funds to service its outs

tice Department attorneys charged [standing senior securities.”

sacrificed his citizenship Spy unit in 1940. Bauer insisted he did so only in order to get back! to the U. 8. He had gone to Germany in 1939 | to take a job with an electrical ap-| pliance firm. While assigned as post photographer at Ft. Harrison, Bauer married a Hoosier girl, Wilma Bauer. She followed him to New York following the dramatic citizenship hearing henge.

The commission order said a

(Continued on Page 10—Column 4) SATURDAY AFTERNOON CLOSINGS TO RESUME Employees of a large number, of downtown stores will again have their Saturday afternoons off dure ing July and August. The Merchants Association ane nounced today that stores will close

at 1:00 p. m. as they have in the past. The first Saturday closing

BRITISH SENTENCE 31 JEWISH EXTREMSITS

One Youth Gets Life, Others| Receive 15 Years.

JERUSALEM, June 27 (U, P.),~ A British military court which was booed by the defendants today sentenced one youthful member of, Irgun Zvai Leumi to life imprison-| ment and 30 others to 15-year terms for illegal possession of arms. | The court failed to invoke the death sentence against (he extremists, although empowered to do so. All 31 convicted men jumped | from chairs one second after the sentences were pronounced and sang Hativka, the Jewish national) anthem, The trial provoked strong political feelings and was believed closely linked with possible release of| three British officer hostages held by Irgun Zvai Leumi, a militant Jewish underground army. Con- | viction of the 31 men was announced yesterday. . Hopes. for early release of the! British hostages were augmented by avoidance of the death penalty. There was a feeling of

will be Saturday, July 6. No change has been made in the hours of open= for the nine-week summer period, BRITISH RATION BREAD LONDON, June 27 (U. P.).— Bread rationing will start in Britain July 21, John Strachey, food mine

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