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$2500 WAS NOT ELECTION GIFT BUILDER SAYS
Lire Check Given for ‘Representation’ in Washington.
WASHINGTON, July ‘30 (U. P.).~A Tacoma, Wash, contractor testified today that the $2600 check he sent to the secretary of Rep. John M. Coffee (D. Wash.) was payment for help in getting him & government contract and not—as “campaign
The contractor, Eivind Anderson, told the senate war investigating committee that Mr, Coffee told him in April of 1941 that he would “take care of your interests here in Washington” if Mr. Anderson’ gave Mr. Coffee's secretary the $2500 check. Mr. Anderson was asked if there had been and mention of “campaign expenses” during discussion of the check, “There was no conversation about campaign expenses,” Mr. Anderson replied, “It was never mentioned.” Mr. Anderson, who finally won a government contract for a $1,000,000 hospital, sald he later listed the
ington.” He sald, however, that it was not permitted on grounds it was “not a proper deductable item.” Senator Homer Ferguson (R. Mich.), asked Mr. Anderson “if Mr. Coffee got the money.” (The check was made out to Paul Olson, Mr. Coffee’s secretary in 1841) Whe Get the Money? “He (Coffee) was gratified,” Mr. Anderson replied, “but who got the money I dop't know still.” Mr. Anderson said he sent the oe to Mr. Olson following a c wersation in a “long narrow eokyider” on the house side of the
check as a “campaign contribution,” has said that he interceded with the war dé to get Mr. Ander-
by certain army quartermaster officers but that Gen. Brehon B. Somervell, former chief of the army service forces, agretd that Mr. Andersom- should get the construction job on the basis of his low bid. ‘Representative’ Mentioned On the way back to the capitol from their last trip to the war department, , Mr. Anderson said, Mr. Olson mentioned that he ought to have a “representative” in Washington to handle his contacts with the war department. Mr. Anderson said he told Mr. Olson that he had added $2500 to bis bid “and thought that should do it.” At the capitol, Mr. Anderson sald,
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to lunch in the house restaurant, After it was over they drew him aside into “a long, narrow corridor,” he said, and the following conver. sation took place: “Mr. Coffee: I undersiund from Paul (Olson) that you will pay $2500 to have Olson represent you herp in Washington. “Mr. Anderson: Yes, I'll be willing to pay $2500 for having a rep-
(Continued on Page 7—Column 3) FIND 2 MORE BODIES IN FERRY COLLISION CARUTHERSVILLE, Mo., July 30 (U. P.).—~Rivermen grappled in the murky waters of the Mississippi today for the bodies of eight persons still missing after the collision of a tug-propelled ferry and & barge train Sunday night. Two more bodies were recovered today. They were identified as IL. L. Green, 46, and James Edward Kelly, 13, both of Caruthersville. The body of b5-year-old Jerry Vickers of Caruthersville was recovered - yesterday. There was + litle doubt but that the others had perished when five vehicles and- their occupants were pitched from the ferry's deck by the impact. Twelve passengers and the ferry pilot, Ed Hendricks, were saved.
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revision of City hospital procedure.
This was announced by Dr. Charles W. Myers, City hospital superintendent, following a staff conference. The conference was called to clarify the hospital's admitting procedure in: emergency cases to members of the admitting stafl,
The revision of policy grew out of the refusal of Mrs. Ruth Small of Clermont, hospital admitting clerk, to send an ambulance for a mother in childbirth because the woman was not a city resident and could not pay the $65 fee required of out-of-town residents. The expectant mother, Mrs. Ann Berry, 19, of Louisville, was unable to summon her own physician early yesterday morning when she felt she was going to have the child. Relatives called police, who in turn called the hospital. Police said they called the hospital three times. Desk Lt. Jack Hart at police headquarters said
City Hospital Revises Rules On Emergency Cases After Woman Is Denied Admission
The refusal of a city hospital clerk to admit a woman in childbirth early yesterday morning because of & technicality today resulted in a
Henceforth, not only will emergency cases be admitted immediately, but resident doctors at the hospital will respond to sick calls which formerly were answered only by police.
each time the hospital admitting clerk, Mrs. Small, told him no
By ELIAV SIMON, United
to shoot on
The city was divided ‘into approximately 20 zones for the opération. In one zone alone 300 Jews were detained by early afternoon. Palestine police joined in the operation. They helped screen suspects. If they were not satisfied with answers to questions, they took residents. to reception centers for interrogation.
No Casualties Reported
All government buildings were occupied by the army. No newspapers published in Tel Aviv were permitted to circulate outside the city. W. N. Gray, inspector general of police, was present when the mayor of Tel Aviv, Israel Rokah, was taken under escort, presumably to aid the operations, There had been no reports of casualties by mid-afternoon. The 6th-airborne division occupied Tel Aviv at dawn, cutting it off from the world. They began a séarch expected to last four days. The curfew was so severe that even Jewish policemen were ordered to obey it, It "was indicated that Hagana, largest, of the Jewish resistance movements, had refused to co-op-erate with the British in searching out the 'bomb plotters.
3 CHILDREN KILLED BY RUBBISH CAVEIN
2 Others Trapped in Dump + Are Found in Time.
NORWALK, Cal, July 30 (U. P.). ==Three children, who used a dump for a playground, were dead today after the huge rubbish pit collapsed on top of them-—burying them alive. Two cousins were injured. The Weia were Dorothy Lee Shelby, her brother, Gary Lee, 10, and » costa, Joy Anne Carlton, nv: Ther bodies were recovered by their grandparents, Mr, and Mrs. W. J. Shelby, who saw thelr feet sticking out of the loose dirt. Suffering from shock were John Ray Shelby and Don W. Hamiing, both 4—who had been buried under the rubbish, but were revived. According to the grandparents, the children climbed into a six-foot hole dug-in the dump for the dis posal of rubbish. The rubbish then collapsed upon them.
PLAN NEW COIN WASHINGTON, July 30 (U, PJ. ~A bill authorizing coinage of special 50-cent pieces in commemoration of the 100th anniversary of
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British Troops Occupy Tel Aviv In Hunt for Bomb Terrorists
JERUSALEM, July 30.—Pifteen thousand British troops under orders any violators of an ironclad curfew seized thousands of Jews today in 8 house-to-house search of Te] Aviv for the gang which] bombed the King David hotel a week ago, The British army took over Tel Aviv, Jewish city of 200,000, in a military operation described officially as the biggest ever earried
ambulance could be sent unless the mother could pay $65. This is the charge assessed nonresidents of Indianapolis for hospital care at city. It was never meant to apply $0 emergency cases or to restrict any admission on an i i basis, Dr, Myers said.
given first, are attended to later. The clerk at fault has been reprimanded,” he said, To prevent any more confusion in cases of this kind, he said, resident doctors will answer calls to which ' police ‘have ‘been Tesponding where an emergen¢y does not appear to be involved. Police cus! make an investigation in cases where a person is reported simply as “sick” and cannot get the services of a private physitian. Then they report to the hospital. Police dé the best they can; Dr.
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4 FIREMEN DIE JN HOTEL BLAZE
Flee Into Street.
SAN FRANCISCO, July 30 (U. P.)~Four firemen were killed and 30 injured or overcome by smoke while battling a stubborn five-alarm fire that raged more than four hours in downtown Hotel Herbert early today. Two hundred: hotel guests fled to the street. They were roused by frantic phone calls from Mrs. Mary E. Perry, 39, night clerk who turned in the first alarm.
Damage was estimated at $150,000 by Assistant Fire Chief Martin J. Kearns. He described the blaze as “the worst in fire department history, in fatalities, since 1908." The dead, all firemen, were Albert Hudson, Lt. John Borman, Charles Lynch and Walter Elvitsky. Fireman E. J. Russell told how he watched, helpless to do anything, while Mr. Borman and Mr. Hudson died. “They were right ahead of me, in the back kitchen,” Mr. Russell sald. “There was a sudden flash of fire that reached out and enveloped them just for a moment. “Johnny fell. He was still alive, but I couldn't reach him. He drowned in water from our own hoses. Al was burned badly. I couldn't see what happened to him.”
Origin of the fire was undetermined.
ORGANIZED RESERVE HAS 21,435 HOOSIERS
A total of 21435 Hoosiers today held membership in ‘the organized reserve corps, as the national figure rose to 890,000. Col. C. A. Beaucond, commanding officer, Indiana military district, ‘sald 11,925 enlisted men and 9510 officers had joined the corps up to July 1. The nationwide membership rolls listed 490,000 enlisted men
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Pledge to Little Nation Renewed; Wins Fight To Aid Press.
BULLETIN i PARIS, July 30 (U. P.) ~Secretary of State James F. Byrnes plefiged the United States today never again to retire into a shell of isolationism, and with British support, promised full considera tion of the views of the little countries,
BYRNES VOWS
By R. H. SHACKFORD United Press Staff Correspondent PARIS, July 30.—Secretary of State James PF. Byrnes today pledged that the United States would work to obtain Big Four approval of any peace conference recommendations which win approval by a two-thirds vote of the 21 participating nations. Addressing the second section of the Paris peace conference, Mr. Byrnes reiterated earlier promises that the little nations would have full opportunity of presenting their views ahd promised the Big Four would not arbitrarily refect any conference recommendations. Mr. Byrnes’ pledge was given after he had won a surprise victory for full publicity on the proceedings of the conference procedure committee. Gets Soviet Support He was unexpectedly - joined in this fight by Soviet Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov, who strongly
urged fullest possible press coverage of all peace conference pro-
their heads we must give democracy a chance to grow where tyranny stamped it out. Democracy cannot be imposed or taught at the point of a bayonet.” Mr. Byrnes noted that it had been American policy to work for restoration of peace as rapidly as possible and said that since last September he had fought to bring about the conference which now has opened. He said that if thé Big Four had not worked to reach a hare mony of views before the Paris conference it would have been many months before the conference could have come to any agreement. Mr. Byrnes agreed the treaty drafts did not represent an ideal solution from the American viewpoint but “neither are they proposals which any other state which has collaborated in drafting would
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'Fair and Hot" Forecast Here
LOCAL TEMPERATURES
6am ...60 10am .. 8 7am ...70 11am ... 83 Sam ...71 12 (meon)..B 85 Sam... 1pm . 86
“Fair and hot” is what Hoosiers may expect of the weather the next few days. . The U. 8. weather bureau said today the temperature. over Indiana would average “over 3 degrees above normal in the north to 6 degrees above normal in the south.” Cooler weather is forecast for Friday; warmer Saturday and Sunday. Showers are predicted for the south portion of the state and over most of the state Saturday and Sunday.
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A 22-year-old near-North side man was charged by police today with the murder of Allen Ventress, 30, of 825 N. East st., who died in City hospital yesterday of injuries received Sunday. Police charged Jesse Garrison, 1113% Bellefontaine st, with first degree murder after considering conflicting stories of an altercation that, they sald, resulted in the vietim’s death 24 hours later. Robert Ventress, 1123 Bellefontaine st, the dead man's father, told police his son had been attacked by three men and robbed of $3. Garrison, nowever, told detectives
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sitting in the Garrison home Sunday afternoon when Ventress entered. Linville and Jesse Garrison were drinking wine, the statement continued. : A stranger to them, Ventress went to the kitchen and sald, “Hello, Mom,” to the mother of the Garrison boys, Garrison told detectives. An argument ensued and Jesse sald he ordered Ventress from the house, following him downstairs.
‘Thinking Ventress intended to hit him with what appeared to be a battery cable, Garrison knocked the older man down with his fist, he sald. Ventress later
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Ambulance Waits While Coal Cars Are Switched
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Here is the result of 20 years of “planning” for track elevation in Indignapolis whith never came to pass. A city hospital ambulance waits while coal cars are switched back and forth on the Big Four
HOTEL TENANTS FEAR EVICTION
Roosevelt Lease Negotiations Threaten Occupants.
Occupants of the Roosevelt hotel today circulated a petition seeking
were under way between Horace O,
three prospective lessees, he said, at least two of whom would continue the hotel under its present plan and tenants. If the hotel is not leased, Mr. Wright said, his real estate firm will
The hotel was purchased recently from John Royce, Indianapolis attorney, Mr. Wright said. Mr. La Rue said the hotel] management was not accepting any further rent payments and that the present paid rent continues in force only until tomorrow night. Tenants Hire Attorney If contract negotiations are nol completed by tomorrow night, Mr. Wright said, rent will be accepted for the next week. “We cannot accept rent until we know definitely under whose management the hotel will be for the next rent period,” he said. Mr, La Rue sald an attorney hired by the tenants was probing the hotel abstracts to find some clause which would circumvent their eviction in the event the lease was awarded to the man who told tenants he would evict them.
MRS. ROTHBARD IS VICTOR IN 19 HOLES
(Results of early matches, Page 10.)
Mrs. Joseph Rothbard, Broadmoor, defeated Mrs. V. R. Rupp, North Side, 1 up in 19 holes, in today’s longest match in the women's city golf tourney in progress at the Country Club of ‘Indianapolis. -Results of - other championship flight ‘matches late on the docket were: Carolyn Varin, North Side, de feated Mrs. Charles Ray, Hillcrest, 5 and 4. Mrs. Fritz Morris, Hillcrest, defeated Mrs. N. W. Hatfleld, Hill crest, 6 and 5.
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Summer Cabin Shooting Called Accident.
‘NEW CASTLE, Ind, July 30 (U. P.) ~Sheriff Jesse Leakey today described as “accidental” the fatal shooting of Laverne Razor, 12, yesterday by her 5-year-old playmate, Phyllis Phelps, Sheriff Leakey said the Phelps girl found what she thought was a “toy pistol” behind a radio in the summer resort cabin of her parents at Mount Lawn, near here, . Instead, it was a .32 caliber revolver. Phyllis said she pulled the trigger., The bullet struck Laverne in the head and she died two hours later in a New Castle hospital. There were two bullets in the gun,
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hands were shaky and who showed the marks of a sleepless night— that he had been indicted on July 26 for the murders of Suzanne Degnan, 6, and Frances Brown, former stenographer and WAVE, Plea is Delayed “Are you guilty or not guilty?” he asked. Before Heirens could answer, Mal Coghlan, one of his attorneys said:
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his staff. The court granted the postponement. The judge then left the bench and the courtroom was cleared, Heirens was started from the sixth floor court room down to Mr, Tuohy's office on the second floor, where he will give details of the
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third, that of Mrs. Josephine Ross, a widowed housewife. Taking of the confession is expected to require eight hours. Press Is Barred Every preparation had been made to keep the actual recital of the confession limited to police officers, state's authorities and defense attorneys. The big iron gates before the state's attorney's office, usually swung open at the start of the day's business, were closed. Newspapermen and photographers were ordered off the second floor and sent to a floor above, where copies of the confession will be disjributed. Heirens’ parents were not at the arraignment, The court room was quiet.
LOCAL SCOUTS HUNT FLAT ROCK ‘PYTHON
Indianapolis Boys Beat Bushes for ‘Monster.’ Times Special !
NORRISTOWN, Ind, July 30.— Indianapolis Boy Scouts today had joined the hunt for the “monster of Flat Rock river.” The scouts, pastiming at their new Flat Rock river camp nearby, organized searching parties to beat the bushes for a 20-foot snake which’ two farmers say they saw last week. Their experience revived “python” stories, part of this region’s lore for the past deeade. Scores of curious sightseers have been attracted to the farm of George Gearhart, one of those who sighted -the reptile. Although several Hoosiers hope to conduct systematic explorations in the vicinity, Farmer Gearhart toe day sald he personally would look for the critter “when I get time.”
WARNS OF DEADLINE FOR TAX PAYMENTS
Second - quarterly installments payments of Indiana gross income tax will become delinquent if not paid tomorrow. Walter L, Sturdevant, chief deputy director of the state tax division, today warned Hoosiers obligated to pay gross income taxes on a quarterly basis of the deadline. Approximately 100,000 individuals and business concerns whose tax liability exceeds $10 for each
three-month period must pay quar-
terly, he said,
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Heirens Arraigned, Starts
CHICAGO, July 30 (U. P.) William. Heivens, .17-year-old. student,
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ty welfare authorities. Accused of Being Lazy Sheriff Andy A. Roudebush said Mrs. Louderback saad been shot in the back three times.” In his confession the boy complained: “I was always getting bawled out when I did something or when I didn't do anything™ He sald he hoed the garden last Friday. Then yesterday noon, Mrs. Louderback scolded him for failing to do it properly and in a quarrel at the dinner table accused him of
to hoe the garden again, Grudges Are Fused This apparently fused a series of grudges young Houchens had harbored against his foster-parents and, he admitted, he deliberately plotted to kill her. Thin and wan, the lad. said he worked in the garden all’ morning. He sald he decided to kill Mrs
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One Is Chased Five Blocks At 66-Mile Pace.
Trafic police bagged 41 speedsters’ this morning in their latest roundup of fast drivers. Inspector Audrey, Jacobs said he expected more than 50 arrests by this afternoon since reports were still due from two officers. Stationed at 10 intersections, motorcycle police nabbed motorists whose speeds ranged from 39 to 66 miles per hour, Patrolmah Fred Titus, posted in the 1700 block of 8. West st, had the best “catch,” handing court citations to 11. One of these he chased five blocks at a 66 m. p. h. clip. Five of those booked by noon today were charged with driving at 50 m.p.h. Inspector Jacobs said the crackdown was “just another reminder to keep the boys and girls in line.” Motorcycle officers checked speeds this morning at the following locations: 12th st. and Tibbs ave, 33d
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NEW YORK, July 30 (U. P.).-
Times. Writers At Peace Parley—
® Again The Times has an all-star lineup of writers to bring you the story of the jmportant world peace conference:
OR H SHACKFORD, i United Press Staff Corres spondent,
OLUDWELL DENNY, Seripps-Howard Staff Core respondent. ® HAL O'FLAHERTY, die rector of The Times For eign News Service, ® GEORGE WELLER, Pulitzer prize-winning correspondent. ® PAUL GHALI, for many _ years a European corre spondent. ’