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CHETNIK HEAD CONVICTED AS WAR CRIMINAL

General. Is Held Guilty of Collaboration With Axis Occupation Forces. By EDGAR CLARK

United Press Staff Corresnondent BELGRADE, July 15.—A military court today held Gen. Draja Mikhailovitch guilty of treason and war crimes and sentenced him and 10 other defendants to death before firing squads. The sentence was expected to be earried out within 48 hours. . The bearded Mikhailovitch and his companions had the right to appeal their conviction to the presidium of the national assembly. But it was expected that the appeal would be rejected. The appeal to the presidium must take the form of a request for a pardon, The execution of the. convicted men will be conducted in private in the military prison where they are held. : The remaindef of the 24 defendants at the trial were also convicted and were given long prison sentences. Among those condemned to death were two members of former Yugoslav governments and the former prefect of Belgrade,

Three Formal Counts

high treason, collaboration with the Germans and Italians and war erimes. . The S53-year-old Mikhailovitch took the decision of the threé man military eourt without flinching. He stood firmly before the tribunal wearing the same wrinkled brown uniform without insignia which had been his costume throughout < frial. be MOP RP - » Thirteen of Wis co-defendants were also present—the others were tried in absentia. The court pronounced sentence under the glare of floodlights. The courtroom was packed and spectators greeted the verdict with wild applause. Ambassador Sentenced Constantine Fotich, Yugoslavia's

thelother firms in the 16-company

' Mikhailovitch Is Sentenced To Die

Adianapolis, Ind

SLIGHT JUMP | IN FOOD PRICES

Advisers

Mr. Truman was told the house

Senate Majority Leader Alben W. Barkley (D." Ky.), said after the President’s usyal Monday. morning conference with the “Big Four” Democratic legislative leaders that | House Speaker Sam Rayburn had! predicted house passage of the reso- | lution. Mr. Barkley said he expected congress to adjourn between July 20 and July 27. This would give the senate and house two weeks at best to - resolve differences and give President Truman a law he considers acceptable. A Republican-led bloc was prepared to buck the conference resolution when the house takes up the

House Defeat of OPA Bill Passed by Senate Is Sure,

| WASHINGTON, July 15 (U. P,) —Congressional leaders told President Truman today the house would defeat a move to send the senate's | OPA revival bill to the White House in its present form.

the controversial measure to a senate-house conference committee for compromises on some provisions voted by the senate,

1S NOTED HERE

Times ‘Survey Shows Meat,

Issued daily except Sunday

FORECAST: Fair and cooler tonight. Tomorrow fasffly cloiidy and warmer. : TVOLUME 57—NUMBER 108 enanee

PRICE FIVE CENTS:

Degnan Confession” Offer Is Reported

Dairy Products Are Affected Most.

Info rm Truman (Nation-wide Price Story, Page 14. :

Prices on 14 food items available today on independent and chain food ‘market counters have jumped of OPA

| slightly -since the death send | two weeks ago. A Times survey on these items chosen at random indicate that | markups are most prevalent on

legislation was “in terrible shape.” | toms formerly subsidized by the Mr. Barkley expressed belief re- government. : porters did not hear all of Mr.| . mys ig ‘especially true on meat Truman's remarks when they over-i and dairy products where federal heard his informal conversation at| subsidies two weeks ago enabled a National airport yesterday with np lesser purchasing price. Senators Tom Connally (D. Tex.) | However, most independent grocand Arthur Vandenberg (R. Mich.). ers were reluctant to give a stable See Veto Hint in Remark | price on meat items today because Mr. Vandenberg asked MI Tru-| of the fluctuating prices offered by | man, “what shape is the OPA bill 1arge meat packing firms here. {

in?" Some Meat Items Missing

“It's in terrible shape,” replied, . Mr. Truman. “It couldn't be worse,”| 1weD again several meat items, refrigerators. |

This was taken as a broad hint! vere missing from that the President again would veto) Bvih chain and independent oper-| OPA extension unless the house and | Alors pointed to the general lack the conference commitiee effect ©! the meat and.the prices being

would approve a resolution to

OPA measure tomorrow. : Mr. Barkley also raised a question; about Mr. ‘Truman's informal re-!

| marks yesterday in which the Presi- |

dent was quoted that the OPA

changes in the senate’s bill. charged by meat packers.

Despite talk of another veto, the| Prices on._produce items . have

house anti-OPA bloc promised to] cOMe down slightly because of the| items on the;

3 ‘availability of the (Continued on Page 4—Column 2) market today. the survey shows.

WASHINGTON, July committee was told today

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firm accused of war profiteering

The formal counts on which Metal Products, Inc, testified that he had asked Rep. May to do some | Mikhailovitch was convicted were, oo a

trouble-shooting for him “probably six or eight times—maybe more.” | “Whenever we reached a point] he said, “I would call and ask him! could I see him.” Previous witnesses have testified that Mr. May subjected the war department to “pressure” to get things done for Erie Basin and

j“paper empire” now being, invesMr. Freeman took the stand after the committee announced that it was seeking to determine the “legal process” by which Mr. May could

May Used as Trouble-Shooter, au ron inien woee ‘Paper Empire" Official Asserts!

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ceded at least six or eight times in behalf of a ‘paper empire” munitions

|47': cents two weeks ago to 49": | Joseph F. Freeman, Washington representative of the Erie Basin cents today; quart milk, 14': to! 16'2; half-pint cream, 15 to 17;

| ! SURPLUS SHIPS { PRODUCE—Two pounds onions where we were having difficulty,” |17 cents two weeks ago to 13 Setils

“Competition minus OPA ceilings|

| ventured. Chain Store Prices The following is a comparison beween average prices in chain stores being charged today and two weeks ago when OPA was functioning:

DAIRY PRODUCTS—Dozen eggs,

The p. Andrew J.

senate war investigating May (D. Ky.) inter-

one-pound butter, 62 to 77. |

{today; 10-pounds potatoes,

481; three-pounds peas, 56 to 54: two pounds tomatoes, 55': to 47. MEAT—Rump beef, 39 cents a i . pound two weeks ago to 63 cents a pound today on boneless; rump

Emergency Plan to Get veer, 34 to 41 with bone; one-pound Needed Metal Bared, {S7°Und Peel. 27 to 39; one-pound

rib pork chops, 33 to 40%. WASHINGTON, July 15 (U. p).| CITRUS FRUITS — Dozen large —Reconversion Director John R.

oranges, 48's; cents two weeks ago Steelman today ordered that sal-!7 t, g

be required to testify at a public session. on his dealings with the] combine. The committee has turned | down his request to testify condi-| tionally. |

war-time ambassador in Washing- | ton and absentee defendant, was sentenced to 20 years at hard labor, | loss of citizenship, confiscation of property and loss of certain civil] rights for 10 years. After pronouncing sentence the court read into the record its grounds for determining the various sentefices imposed and adjourned after a round of applause by the spectators. The convicted men then filed] from the courtroom, each with a guard at his side, while a few spectators climbed to their chairs for a| last glimpse of them. Tried by Tito Court - Mikhailovitch and 23 joint defendants were tried before a military court composed of three officers of Marshal Tito, war-time leader of the Yugoslav Partisans, the pro-Communist guerrillas, Testimony was brought out that]

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ARMY CRACKS DOWN ON UNRRA PUBLICITY

FRANKFURT, Germany, July 15 (U. P.).—Reliable sources said to-|

taken over control of press rela- | tions of UNRRA in the American |

sone,

The action was said to have bean)

taken because recent statements on incidents in displaced persons’| eamps were “not completely in ac-| cord with the facts.” { J. H. Whiting, U. 8. zone director, gaid the new system was plukiney to “avoid this in the “uture.” His order said the 3d army had “requested” that all dealings between UNRRA field personnel and correspondents be channelled through military public relations officers. “No exceptions will be permitted to this regulation,” the order said.

TIMES INDEX

Amusements . 16 LaMoore ..... 11 Aviation ..... 11| Jim Lucas ... 13 * Fddie Ash.... 9 Ruth Millett. 11 Boots ..:..... 20 Movies . 16 Business ..... 18| Obituaries .. 6-7 Classified . 18-20 Dr. O'Brien .. 11 Comics ...... 21/Radio ..,.... Crossword ... 16 Reflections Denny ....... 14 Mrs. Roosevelt 11 Editorials ... 12| Eldon Roark.. Fashions cli 8erial ...... 15 Forum ....... 12! Side Glances. 12? G.I. Rights .. 21(Sports ...... 8-9 Meta Given .. 17 Bob Stranahan 8 Paul Ghali .. 13 Travelog 11 Indiana Saga.- 12, Washington 12 -In Indpls. 2 Women's .. . 17]

Inside Indpls. 11! World Affairs 12 WAT IN PLEA Charley's Restaurant,

ANT SURROUNDINGS. 14 E, Ohio,—Adv.

Mr. Freeman said his first con-| tact with Rep. May came when he called the congressman and “asked him if he knew of anybody in Ken-/ tucky with lumber for sale.” Mr. May, he said, replied that he knew of a company and also had a “constituent friend” who had a tract of land. Freeman testified that he personally “had nothing to do” with obtaining war contracts, E-awards or advance payments from the

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RUSS TO RELEASE ‘HOSTAGES’ TONIGHT BERLIN, July 15 (U, P).—Maj. Gen. Frank A. Keating, American military governor, said tonight that he was going to Russian headquarters later in the evening to receive two Americans who have been prisoners of the Soviet for 15 days. Gen. Keating said he had been notified by the Russians that they would turn over Warrant Officer | Samuel L. Harrison and his wife, Ruth, of Harrah, Okla., and San Antonio, Tex. at Soviet headquarters tonight, { Two other Americans are still missing after venturing into the

day the United States 3d army has’ Soviet zone.

(Earlier Story, Page 2)

| priorities for military construction, |

to 48'; cents today; three lemons, vaging of government surplus ships| BREAD—24-ounce loaf, 12 scents | and war materials be speeded to two weeks ago to 12 cents today. help relieve a shortage in scrap]

metals used by steel mills. The following prices are average! He said surplus ships, guns. icharges peing made today as com

tanks and other war materials of pared to prices charged two weeks metal would be broken up and'ago in independent stores through- | made available K to steel mills as gut the city: rapidly as possible. BILL IS SIGNED

DAIRY PRODUCTS—Do Mr. Steelman also obpucCT Zen eggs,

Independent Store Prices {

advised John | y 46 cents two weeks ago to 49 cents D. Small, civilian production ad- 9 : ene]

. today; quart milk, 14 to 16; halfministrator, that it would be un- ¥. 4

int cream, 15 to 17; one pound wise for the CPA to grant further |p tor 67 to 78. >

(One independent grocer stressed Truman Lauds Measure as the fact that profit being made to-' . A Force for Peace.

day is only 3 cents on a pound of | butter. When OPA was operating, ! | butter profits soared to 6 cents ‘WASHINGTON, July 15 (U. P.. per pound. : {—President Truman today signed Pre-war markups enabled a 10 the $3,750,000,000 British loan bill ad per cent profit, but business compe-|3nd predicted it would go far tition reduced this margin consid-|towatd removing the danger of

GIRL TO WED BUDDY | erably, he said.) “rival and antagonistic” economic] OF HER DEAD FIANCE! PRODUCE —Two pounds onions |0¢s in the world,

Cabinet officers, other high govBERWICK Pa. July 15 (U. P,).| 18 cents two weeks ago to 15 cents

today; 10 pounds potatoes, 49 to 40; ernment officials and the British —Gunner’'s Mate Ben H. Ray, Clif- ty as hg to unavailable ambassador gathered in the Presi-

ton, Tenn. came here recently to|today; ‘two pounds tomatoes, ‘38 Sents office W yaush him place ds tell Gloria Brown how her fiance|to 29. signa on asure to. pro

except “under the most compelling’ considerations.” Mr. Steelman reaported less than two weeks’ supply of scrap metal on hand. He said steel production

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| Vacation Daze—

® Times Writers Eldon Roark and Frederick Othman report that inflation and shortage of living quarters are highlights of vacation travel this year.

® Hamburgers at 40 cents . room at $20 per night +s 311.%ires fOr $209 . . . are only a few of the complaints,

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TRUMAN TO HONOR

vide American financial assistance and his buddy had died when the; MEAT—Rump beef, 43 cents a; ,.ctoring Britain's war-shattered destroyer Drexler sank at Okinawa. pound two weeks ago to 59 cents) vonomy and expand world trade. ! The engagement of Miss Brown a pound today on boneless; one and Ray was announced today. {pound ground beef, 29 to 39; one {pound pork chops, 87 to 45. think that this agreement between SIGNS RENT HIKE BAN CITRUS FRUITS — One dozen the United Statesand Great Britain | MACKINAC ISLAND, Mich., July|large oranges, 46 cents two weeks ic directed against any other; 15 (U. P..—Governor Harry F.|ago to 46 cents today; three lemons, country—it is not.” Kelly today signed into law a bill} 10 to 11%. | “The system of trade we seek is restricting rent boosts to 15 per cent BREAD—24-ounce loaf, 13 cents open on the same fair terms to all above the June 30 level. | two weeks ago to 13 cents today. the United Nations.” the President

Truman said that “no one should

Unpedigreed Pooches Have Week to Prepare rail To Finn cause ome

For 'Blue Ribbon' Honors in Mutt Dog Show

By ART WRIGHT This is registration week for dogs that will compete for the city “blue ribbon” title in the Mutt Dog Show The Times and the City Park and Recreation division will stage at playgrounds. Your unpedigreed pooch will take the spotlight next Monday to bid for the right to compete in the district eliminations July 24 and the city-wide finals downtown on July 26. Fill out the registration form in The Times and mail it right away . for we want to publish the names of all pets and owners. Then go to work teaching your dog tricks, training him to obey commands and [otherwise groom him (or her) for | one of the many prizes that will be

21 | awarded. You have only one "week | , 12|in which to get your puppy ready.!(,.., he sure to write in the name playgrounds are in your neighbor-

There is only one rule: Any kind

11 |of dog may compete, just so it isn't |

a ‘pedigreed dog. Here ate the six classifications in which the best dog will be awarded a prize at each playground: The best trick dog . . . the biggest dog | _.. the smallest. dog . . . the most | comically dressed dog . . . the dog with the most unique--or the best descriptive—name , , , the best behaved dog. .

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said. (Earlier Story, Page 3.)

FAMED COMBAT TEAM

Get Presidential Citation.

WASHINGTON, July 15 (U, P). —The famous 442d infantry regi-! mental combat team-—composed of Japanese - Americans who battled | heroically through Italy, southern France and the Rhineland-—march-|

whipped ont a 1910 camera to look for his own birdie. With him were (from

Colonna Brings Own 'Birdie' Here for PAL Show

en I ¢

Cotonna Singer Tony Romane; Police Officers Cecil Maddelana and Ed Griffin; Bonnie Lou Williams and Fay McKinzie, | members of the Colonna troupe; Officer Robert C. Wade and Col. Roscoe Turner, whe flew Jerry in from

left, standing)

St, Louis. Of all the mustaches, only Colonna’'s and Col. Turner's are real. Police nabbed Colonna, took him for a wild ride around Monument Circle, but he outscreeched their sirens. are featured in a show at the Coliseum at 8:30 p. m. tomorrow under sponsorship of the Indianapolis Police Department's Pal club. (Read*' Pal Clubs Build Character, Page 11.)

«+ . Colonna and company

POLITICS OVER, BROWDER SAYS

Ex-Leader Reports on Deal With Red Publishers.

WASHINGTON, July 15 (U, P). —Earl Browder, former head of the American Communist party, said today he was “out of partisan politics” and does not intend to “participate in them in the future.” “But I hope I am not entirely out of public life,” he told reporters at the state department.

Mr. Browder called on Llewelyn E. Thompson, chief of the division of eastern European affairs, to discuss recent contracts he signed in

Possibly with Russia in mnind, Mr. Jap-American Regiment Will. Russia to represent Soviet book | publishers here. Mr. Browder's recent trip to

Moscow and the signing of his initial contracts were a surprise In view of his recent ouster from the American Communist party, Will Aid Publicity

Mr. Browder said he called on

les before President Truman today | Mr. Thompson on his own mitiative

[to receive the thanks of a grate- '0 report the contracts and to give

FOR BOMBER CRASH

an-hour experimental super bomber.

MUTT DOG SHOW

Sponsored by The Indianapolis Times and City Recreation Division

1 want to enter my dog in The Indianapolis Times Mutt Show.

today. | The board's fina] report stated it

| ting factor.

: { Structural failure or Dog's Name ..... sessaanann Entrant's Name....... “esate sse in er | naws in design were ruled out, the! | command said. AdAress i ieeiciesvsiosa aa ienies sssee PHONE NUMDEP..:.. 0000044 | The plane crashed near Washing-

ton, D. C., a week-after setting a | trans-continental record of 5 hours 117 may es. All members of the crew parachuted safely.

My dog will compete ate — (fill in name of city playground nearest your home). Mail . to: Mutt Dog Show, The Indianapolis Times, 214 W.

Maryland st.,, Indianapolis 9.

DECLARE MARTIAL | | LAW IN PERSIAN CITY

When you. mail your registration|that if Oak Hill and Morris ware H ly 15 0p » TEHRAN, July 15 (U, P.).—Mar-

| tial law was declared in Ahwaz, |of the playground where your pet hood you'll take your pet to thei o capital of Khuzistan, today.

| y will compete. And be sure to keep Show at Brookside’ next Monday} Rersian militery forces occupied

| In an unusual. ceremony on! grounds adjoining the White House, Mr. Truman will pin the presiden-| tial distinguished unit citation ban-| ner to the colors of the regiment. A full dress parade and .review| will precede the presentation. strong—will form ranks- at the capitol and march along famed

by the President, Secretary of War

egate Joseph R. Farrington, and Gen. Jacob L. Devers, ground forces chief. Four wounded veterans of the 442d will have seats of honor di-| rectly behind the President.

Boy Pounds 20 Finds Out It

A 20 millimeter shell exploded today in the face of a seven-year- |

night. i . w s i «Ir 0. opert [reading your Times every day for | Bethel—Norwood, Ross Chivpool, Meikel | the Anglo Irgnian Oil Co. proper y |information on prizes, location of| Brookside—Oak Hill. Morris Square. | following a strike yesterday of more ‘the distriot and finals events, and| gajn Suliian=Lockenield, FIARNST (han 100,000 laborers. y 111 { |other important Mutt show news, Ek aciiool 33, School 10. #ist]

Douglass— | : a | Here is the list of playgrounds and Brradway. Tarkingion | Garfield—Kansas and Merid}

LOCAL TEMPERATURES

‘and parks where the Mutt shows Golden Will—Rader, Riverside. School 3s, 6A. Mm... 72 10 a. m 2 | will be held next Monday, Opposite 6 'Highland—Spring, Ellenberger. PF Ta.m..... 172 >Ham +N X : uf. 10 Brookside you'll see Oak Hill And Nerihwestorn Belmont Cornelius. dam 7 12 (Noon). 7 Morris square listed. That means) WJnfsold- Southside, Greer. fam... nn: ipm... 2 ~ 7 “ vv

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| immediately whether shell frag-| where it was found today by ‘Son. .

ments had damaged’ his eyes.

the department copies of them. His new job will be to assist American publishers in getting ks and satisfactory translation of Soviet publications and vice versa. He pointed out that Russia has embarked on a greatly expanded publishing American books.

the air materiel command reported) The Japanese-Americans — 500| Asked if his job would require

him to register with the justice department as an agent of a foreign

My pet is NOT a thoroughbred and I understand he (or she) will |lcould not eliminate the possibility| Constitution ave, to the White| government, Mr. Browder said he be disqualified if not a mutt dog. lof “fuel starvation” as a contribu-| House where they will be reviewed| didn’t think the law requiring such

registration included such purely

inherent | Robert P. Patterson, Hawaiian del-| commercial contracts.

He declined to expand on his ex-

| pressed hope to remain in public | life, but he pointed ov’ that he

was writing a series of articles for the liberal weekly, New Republic, which “will speak for themselves.”

MM. Shell,

Is a 'Live One’

Playmates said the boy was trying to convert the shell into a part for. his toy racer. Spencer Moss, father of the youth, said children

Tound the shell in the alley and

brought it to his backyard. He

said he mistook it for a “plumb

bob” and placed it in the Jurage

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70 MAKE DEAL TOBEAT CHAR

Say Heirens Also Willing to | Confess Slaying of WAVE, | Another Woman.

By ROBERT T. LAUGHRAN United Press Staff Correspondent Copyright. 1946. by United ress CHICAGO, July 15, — William Heirens, 17-year-old student, 1 trying to make a deal with ) state to confess to the Suzanne Degnan kidnap-murder and other murders in exchange for a Uf sentence instead of the BC chair, the United Press learned to day from absolutely reliable The admissions have been m orally, it was learned. These source said they have not yet been pu into writing, Heirens, it was learned, has be come dismayed at the amount of] evidence piling up against him i the Degnan killing and in the “lipstick murder” of ex-WAVE France Brown, formerly of Richmond, Ini who was knifed and shot on D 10, 1945, and in the slaying of Josephine Ross, 43. attractive brus nette killed June 5, 1945. Willing to Confess

The sullen, black-haired yo is willing to offer full confessio in the three slayings and in th multiple burglaries charged, Nn him in an effort to get life and cheat the electric chair. Details of the admissions are

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ave, ¥ | The youth, a University of Chie 3 with the Deghan ill ng throu h his

fingerprints Fo i tH : note, a printed, irregular piece paper left in the bedroom fi {which Suzanne was taken | Jan. 7. ‘That's Mine,’ He says : { Then fingerprints were discovered | inking him with the Brown ng | When he was confronted with | latter evidence, reliable sources s he muttered: | “That's mine. | 18, too.” { Some progress toward the ex

And the Ross one

change of a confession and a ple {of guilty to the slayings and th | burglaries was understood reliably {to have been made in conferenc yesterday between state's and de fense attorneys. Attend Conference

Attending the conference were) State's Attorney William J. Tuohy; his assistant, Wilbert F. Crowley and Heirens' attorneys, John .P, Coghlan and his brother, Malcah Coghland. Asked after the conference wh progress had been made, the prin cipals replied “no comment.” Chief of Detectives Walter Storm said he had absolutely no knowl edge of any admissions and could! neither affirm or deny the report. Mal Coghlan, one of Heirens’ at torneys, said “I'll merely stand pat) on my patent ‘no comment.” I'll neither add to nor detract from your story. And I'll give you ne ‘needle lead’ for the moment.” The United Press, however, con sidered its source to be unim peachable. Reliable sources pointed out thaf nearly a generation ago, the late Clarence Darrow obtained life sen tences for Richard Loeb and Nath an Leopold by pleading them guilt; to the mutilation murder of young Bobby Franks. They pointed out that trials o Heirens for the three slayings and for the numerous burglaries d| robberies charged against him would be long and expensive. Also involved in any possible inn "Position of. penalties for his erime is his youth. He is 17. It is conceivable, and probah

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——————————————— CALLS RENT SESSION TRENTON, N. J,, July 15 (U. PB.) —Gov. Walter E. Edge issued call today for a special session of the New Jersey legislature July to deal with the problem of rent control. “

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