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Axis Aids Must Pay,

FORECAST:

Molotov Tells Parley

RUSSIAN JOINS IN CONFERENCE EQUALITY PLEA

Rules ‘Group Battles Over Small Power Demand For Vote Change.

By R. H. SHACKFORD United Press Staff Correspondent PARIS, July 31.—Soviet Fdreign Minister V. M. Molotov todey called for unanimity of all 21 allied nations in their peace conference deHiberations and said. that the big powers must not impose their will on the small ones. At the same time Mr. Molotov warned the conference that axis

acting as vassals of Nazi Germany| in the second world war.

(Summary of proposed peace treaties, Page 12.)

Mr. Molotov's address was similar | on the surface, at least, to the fight|

being made by Australian Foreign March 12, outgoing Mayor Harry P.| Andersen to recoup campaign ex- | a Cain issued a statement on the penditures in the 1938 campaign. | All employees of the factory were |

Minister Herbert Evatt for

Rep. Coffee's Former Aid

Charges Contractor With

Attempt to

WASHINGTON, July 31

to Rep. John M. Coffee. (D. Wash.)

son, Tacoma war contractor,

he had given Mr. Olson in 1841. Mr. Anderson had told the committee that the check was for services of Mr. Coffee and Mr. Olson in ,aiding him' to get a $1,000,000 contract for a Ft. Lewis, Wash, hospital Mr. Coffee and Mr. Olson maintain the check was a campaign con-| tribution and had no connection with their ald to Anderson on the contract.

Charges Smear Attempt Mr. Olson told the senate war investigating committee that Mr. An-

{the mayoralty campaign in order

— {to ruin. Mr. Olson's chances.

Mr. Olson and Mr. Anderson both

ran for mayor in the primary on There's nothing wrong with that | flying fragments.

Feb. 26. 1946. - Mr. Olson led and { Mr. Anderson trailed in a field of four. |

(U. P.).—Paul A. Olson,

Blackmail Him

were salvage yard blaze that shot flaming charged today that Eivind Ander- metal parts the air like Roman ‘attempted to blackmail him inte with- ¢ drawing from the Tacoma mayoralty campaign last spring. Mr. Olson said Mr. Anderson threatened to publicize a $2500 check c¢ burning magnesium scrap in the J rr sis lon — Solotken & Co. yards,

former secretary

his home last January to ask him 1 for help from Mr. Coffee in get- | ting a general

accounting

payment on a $1,000,000 hospital sparked by an contract | the hands of an employee.

Charges Blackmail

“At this meeting at Olson related, “he asked me to! withdraw. He said if I would not withdraw, leaving him the only man |

his home,” |

with a Scandinavian name running

in this preponderantly Scandinavian community, then he would use the check in some fashion to injure me in the March election, He attempt'ed to blackmail me into withdraw- | ing from the race.’ “I said, ‘nothing doing. Eivind

check and you know it. want to use it, go ahead’’ Mr. Coffee testified yesterday that |

If you

office | yards seconds after the metal was

st., employee of a war assets plant adjoining was hurt

treated on the scene for injuries suffered when they were struck by

4 a

WEDNESDAY, JULY

SALVAGE YARD

BLAZE INJURES FOUR FIREMEN

Bystarider Hurt as Flames,

Sweep J. Solotken & Co. Property Here.

Four city firemen and a bystander | injured today in a swirling |

andles “The parts, war surplus airplane astings, were exploded skyward by

61 S. Hardng st. Blue flames swished through the

acetelyne torch in

Injured firemen are Battalion Chief Charles Gregory. Lt. Ray Howard, Station 1. Ed Smith, Station 1 Walter Brown, Station 6. One Fireman in Hospital James Jameson, 24, 423 E. Merrill

the salvage yards, also All except Fireman Smith were

Fireman Smith was treated at City hospital for {

| magnesium burns.

The blaze also burned power |

A week before the election on he used the $2500 check from Mr. ! lines to the huge Marmon-Herring- |

1511 W. Washington st. |

ton plant,

voice for the small powers | check episode based on an affida- He did not list it on his income | 0 home for the day because of

the peace deliberations. Mr, Evatt followed Mr. Molotov in speaking before the third plenary |

{ vit furnished him by Mr. Anderson. | tax

Mr. Olson lost the final election,

jit as a gift

session of the conference with a| that Mr. Anderson called him to it came in a non- election vear

demand that the Big Four agree to|

Boy, 13, Stole

the eonference recommenda- | and that all nations have an! voice in the treaty-making. Ces Nazi Acts My. Molotov cited Germany's oppression of the small nations as proof of the dangers of big power rule. “The 21 nations will have equal rights to express themselves freely and openly on any treaty,” he said. “Any view expressed here will be heard with respect and eventually will be weighed with due considerasion.” Mr, Molotov said the Big Four foreign ministers had not satisfied

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From Family,

Official Says

Times Special MONTICELLO, Ind, July 31-— Robert Houchin, 13-year-old farm | boy who admitted he killed his | foster-mother in a fit of anger, has | a past record of petty thefts which the family never reported, authori- | ties disclosed today.

the aspirations of all the allied

peoples, but that. attacks made on its decisions were “by reactionaries and anti-Soviets who

ty prosecutor, said the boy gy had taken money and valuables from the family. He said the family had |

TRAFFIC CIRCLE | the sizzling flames as they rapidly metallic stock. Smoke plumed over FIED: near West side, attracting hundreds of onlookers.

returns because he regarded | He did not list it as Mr. Olson told the committee a campaign contribution because

inability to operate machinery

torch operated by A. D: Bailey ignited the fire. He was searing alum- | inum from airplane crankcases. 60 Explosions Heard Some 60 explosions crackled in

{spread over the highly inflammable

None of the J. Solotken & Co.'s 11s employees was hurt. Leo Selig,

16th St. al U.S U. S. 52 June- superintendent, estimated damage t $10,000.

tion Area Is Surveyed. By ROBERT BLOEM

at Many windows in the vicinity Jeers shattered by the blasts. Jagged pieces of crankcases, tossed | -

Plans are in progress for a new in the air, severed four fire hoses, traffic circle to alleviate one of Assistant Fire Chief Otto Petty said. te] State Police Detective George Indianapolis’ tightest traffic conCharles D. Boomershine, White | gestion problems, the intersection

One adjoining war assets corporation warehouse which, firemen said,

it was learned today.

Although official details have not | damaged.

was scorched § WAA

of material,

{None of the material

hoped that co-operation among the tried to “work out the problem with | been released by the state highway|

big powers would not continue.”

He said the peace conference ment, rather than report him to already were under way. — eye (fic circle plan will be closely tied |

would be able to discuss at length all questions in the draft treaties, |

| him” through the welfare depart-|

police.

department, it was learned

CHINESE REDS DENY

The boy's theft included a watch in with the scheduled re-location | and the 21 nations “will have equal which he took from Mrs. Imogene |of the Memorial bridge across =! KILLING 3 MARINES rights to express themselves freely Louderback, his attractive 29-year-| White river at 16th. |

and openly on any treaty.” Will Respect Views

“Any view expressed here will be

heard with respect and eventually will be weighed with due consideration,” he said Mr. Molotov noted the heavy burden carried by Russia during the war, pointing out that the satellites as well as Germany itself participated in the attack on Russia. He said Russia wished to express its greetings to other invaded United Nations and to pledge her support to them in getting their Just demands.

He also pledged Russian support |

to all other nations in just demands for indemnification. He expressed pleasure that the democratic nations soon should be able to aid the Spanish people in expelling Gen. Francisco Franco whom he termed a “danger to peace.” Will Hear Satellites

Mr, Molotov promised the views of the former German satellites would be heard, “and I for the Soviet union say we will listen with due attention.” “It must be clear that the attacking countries must be held responsible for the crimes of their fascist rulers,” he said. “Impunity for these crimes and refusal to defend the states suffering from them has nothing in common with a just peace. “The soviet union recognizes the | considerable assistance from some of the satellites in the war against Germany. Therefore these states

should compensate only in part for the damage they inflicted on the

invaded states.” Wants Equal Voice Mr. Evatt, following Mr. Molotov

in the state by state speeches of

the chiefs of the delegations, made

it plain that he would demand that

_the Big Four accept recommenda~ tions of the peace conference, with all nations present having an equal

voice, “Each of

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the 21 nations must

{old foster-mother whom he shot

im | (Continued on Page 7—Column 7)!

(OBER TO BE NAMED :: TREASURER OF 60P

Ostrom Announces Choice To Succeed Savage.

County G. O. P. Chairman Henry | E. Ostrom today said he will ap- | point Ceril 8, Ober, member of the] {safety board, as treasurer of the Marion county republican committee. The appointment of Mr. who is president of the Business Furniture Co,. will fill a vacancy on| the Republican committee created | by the recent resignation of Bruce! Savage from the treasurer's job. Mr. Ober said he had not ac-

cogumittee may have to be filled by |

a vote of the precinct committeemen, trim on the procedure when he an-

Ober to the post.

Five Intersections Included

Chief cause of the present prob- Say lem at the intersection is the junction of two major inter-regional | highways, U, 8S. 52 and state road PEIPING, July 31 (U.

vestigation Be Welcomed. P.).—-U. 8.

a two highways pour trafic marine headquarters announced offi-

from Speedway as well as from In- | |cially today that three marines na ‘and Illinois points to the ere killed and 12 others wounded,

| Jaan into the city at the same point |

four critically, when a marine truck

where Chicago and Lafayette traf- | convoy was ambushed Monday befic enter and leave. Also coming (tween Tientsin and Peiping.

{river blvd. and Pershing rd. According to tentative plans, the Dades similar

traffic circle will be

linto the intersection are White| The convoy was attacked by 300 in Mrs. Wheeler's condition.

armed Chinese who used hand greand automatic

to against the 100 marines. A four-

Monument Circle in downtown In- hour battle ensued during which]

dianapolis. around

Istreets without ow.

interrupting

U. 8. Aid Likely

the circle one way and drivers will be able to leave or en- |tackers as Chinese Communists, but Ober, | ter from any of the five intersecting | Communist headquarters at Peiping| \;,;ng conditions, the two families the issued an official denial and said an | pad been on

Trafic will be routed |both sides suffered casualties.

First reports identified the at-|

ovesu gation would be welcomed,

Since the two principal roads in- DON TURNER. RACE

{volved are parts of the federal in-| highway network, cepted the post, explaining he first was understood the federal governwanted settled the legal question 'ment will share in the financing track driver, died last night in City | plained the Wheeler children were, raised concerning Chairman Os-|of the project. One highway expert hospital of injuries suffered July| preventing her trom’s authority to appoint a com-|described the plan as sufficiently |26 in a race track accident at the {mittee official. He said that under long range to assure adequate traf-| Franklin, Ind. fairgrounds. the law a vacancy on the political! fic control for 25 years or more.

ter-regional

Don Turner, Lexington, Ky., dirt]

| Turner's car rolled through the

Plans have been announced pre-| fence at the south turn of the

| | « Sparks flying from an acetylene

con] HELD. AFTER SHOOTING

Would

weapons |

«DRIVER, DIES HERE

viously for the straightening of 16th |

Ist. which now makes a dog-leg cut. |

old Memorial bridge. No estimate!

I been made

track when he attempted to pass Al Ardian of Louisville in one of

No question was raised by Mr, Os- | back across the White river over the|the preliminary events at the fair

ground oval.

{nounced that he will appoint Mr. of the total cost of the project has| Funeral arrangements have not| (Continued on Page 1—Column 1 im

{ been completed.

TIMES INDEX

Amusements . 18 Ruth Millett. 13| Eddie Ash... 19 Movies ..... 18] Book News .. 10 Obituaries ... 8) Classified . 20-22 Our Town ... 14 Comics ...... 23 Radio 0 2E Orossword ... 20 Reflections .. 14| Editorials .... 14 Roark een 188 Fashions . 16| Mrs. Roosevelt 13 Mrs. Ferguson 16 Science ...... 13 Forum ....... 14 | Side Glances.. 14 Gardening ... 13 (Sports Ler -19-20 Meta Given . 16 | Stocks ...... 9 Home Canning 16/In Wash, .... 14 In Indpls... . 5| Weather Map 5 Inside Indpls. 13 Women's ..16-17 Labor ....... 13| World Affairs 14 » series of explosions.

Smoke From Salvage Yard Fire Forms Blanket

Smoke blanketed the near West side today when the J. Solotken & Co. salvage yards burned midst

“

31, 1946

The Indianapolis Times

Fair with moderate’ temperature tonight ; tomorrow fair and warmer.

Entered as Second-Class Matter at Postoffice Indianapolis, Ind

Issued daily exept Bunday

Narcotics Is Uncovered Here

Viti of Family Shooting in Crifical Condition

Morgan Lattimore comforts his wife, Gladys, a as she tells the events leading up to her shooting of her alr in-law, Mrs. Edwin Wheeler, yesterday in Five Points.

Victim of Family Quarrel in Critical Condition. |

“Something snapped in my brain | .. I tried to get her.” Thus did Mrs. Gladys Lattimore

sister-in-law in a family squabbl at their mutual ‘home in Five Poly

{23, mother of four, lay paralyzed

'from the waist down at City hos- | |pital here, where she was brought | i Bre Points, 18 miles south- | he was placed on the hoswest Ee — list and given only} slight chance to survive, Her hus-

!band, Edwin, 27, supplied blood for |

a transfusion. Housing Problem Blamed Overcrowded housing conditions | were partially blamed for the | | shooting. It occurred during an | reument in a seven-room house, inhabited by eight persons. Sheriff Omar St. John held Mrs. Lattimore and her husband, Mor= 'gan, 27, for investigation at Mar- { tinsville, pending a definite trend

Authorities said the shooting climaxed a wrangle over the crying of Mrs. Wheeler's chilrden, ranging in age from eight months to seven | ears: Fight Starts in Kitchen Their tempers frayed by cramped

frictional terms, neighbors told police. Mrs. Wheel- | er's husband and her brother, Mor- | {gan Lattimore, had a fist fight | several weeks ago, it was learned. | Yesterday's spat started in the kitchen, Mrs. Lattimore com-|

husband - from sleeping. The Lattimores, childless, 'had moved in with the Wheelers because of the housing shortage. | Mrs. Lattimore told Detective! Granholt her sister-in-law charged at her with a hammer, ice pick an jug of syrup.” Mr. Lattimore tried |

WARMER WEATHER 15 DUE TOMORROW

‘Mercury Expected to Stay Near Normal Today.

The mercury won't climb quite as high today as it did yesterday. An average of 79, three degrees above the normal temperature for July 30, was set yesterday.” The mercury was expected to remain not more than one degree above normal today. The weatherman forecast fair weather for today and tomorrow, with an upward trend Thursday. Heavy rains were recorded late yesterday at several Hoosier cities They included Berne, fordsville, 1.20: Logansport, 1.19; Kokomo, .79; Monticello, .68; Wheatfield, .54; Evansville, 93;

Marion, .40; Ft. Wayne, .09. Terre Haute, .17. No rain _fell in Indianapolis. w— LOCAL TEMPERATURES 6am. .... 68 10am .. "78 Tam... 68 11am ... 81 Sa m. . 72 12 (Noon) .. 83 9am ““ 1pm... 08%

(Fotocast, Page 5.)

1.00; Craw- |.

When these Wheeler children cried. raw tempers exploded .

PRICE FIVE- CENTS

Colony

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AGENTS HOLD 5 PERSONS ON

DRUG CHARGE

Judge Refuses to Delay

Hearings, Summons 3 Physicians.

BULLETIN A West Ohio st. apartment

addicts, who, fortified

of members of

ems

/ By KENNETH HUFFORD The existence in Indianap-

olis of a colony of drug ad-

+ «left to

diets which has been growing ¥ | during and since the war was | charged here today by city police and federal narcotics

agents, 2 | The charge was made with the

| |arraignment in municipal court this

{morning of five persons accused of | state narcotic law violations, Federal narcotics agepts from {Chicago informed The Times that Indianapolis has been “running wild” with trafic in morphine, With city detectives, the federal agents have been investigating the trafic here for three weeks. The five persons including two women and three men arraigned in court today represented the largest batch {of arrests made so far in what ap- | peared to be a determined effort to crush the colony and halt {illegal drug traffic.

Physicians Summoned de so far in “Tadiapapolis weird and

Aoi ee seen ph a rus cass we Tndiapapolte were’ fx Most of the dope traffic has | been moving through legal chan'nels. Morphine is purchased from

right they are Rose, 7; Bobbie, 4; Robbie Jean, 2, and Christina, 8 months. | druggists by prescription.

This unpainted, two-story frame farmhouse near Five Points was

the scene of the tragic shooting yesterday of Mrs.

Hyer mother of four children.

Old Disp hae Are Rolled

By VICTOR PETERSON . Times Staff Writer MARTINSVILLE, Ind, July 31.—

} | | | |

Gladys, fought back emotional tears |

Evelyn Wheeler,

‘Soldier Dies of Diphtheria;

2. Prescriptions are written by | physicians for the alleged addicts | who plead that they need relief

{from cancer and other chronic dis-

eases. Three physicians were summoned to appear in Municipal court this afternoon as witnesses by Municipal Judge Joseph Howard. Judge Howard issued bench warrants for them after overruling a motion by De~ fense Attorney Lawrence Shaw for postponement of the hearing until October. Violate State Law

“I'm not going to let these people loose an the streets,” ard said. “They appear to need treatment badly.” The five who are charged specif ically of violating state law by giving false addresses on prescriptions are: Ruby Gilliland, 26, an attractive dark-eyed brunette of the York hotel; Charles Kehler, 54, of 138 W. New York st.; Florence Taylor, 147, and Willard McKinney, 37, both (of 1147 > Illinois st, and James Wooden, 54, of 315 N. Senate ave.

EPIDEMIC 1S FEARED ri ae RS

| court this morning, the state pro-

ON U.S: TROOPSHIP cucet ss a “wines spine mune

was to testify that Wooden started her on the “stuff.”

Unable to Eat

Judge How"

Antitoxin Rushed.

July 1 (U,

d Morgan Lattimore and his wife, |

NEW YORK, PP) —

She limped into court supported by a man and woman who said they | were taking care of her. She proved

|today as the slender 22-year-old One soldier has died of laryngeal | to be too weak to testify. Police diphtheria aboard the troop trans- | said she had suffered the addict's

bride divulged details of the shootling yesterday afternoon of Mrs. Ed[win Wiiejop in Five Points. times she dropped her | ey eral her voice broke as she revealed events leading up to the

|aftray to County Prosecutor George newfoundland.

. Allen, | “I'm sorry,” she sobbed. “Is she | |going to be all right? Oh, how I}

| hope 80.1 -never.once. thought. of | xilling her until I saw the gun on the bed. She has to be all right.

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HOG PRICES REACH ALL-TIME HIGH HERE

Top Figure els $23.75, Gain Of $1.25.

Hog prices soared to a new all- | time high at the market here to-| day as quotations showed a $1.25

gain. Top price was $23.75. This was still below the high of $24 at Ft, Wayne, Cattle prices at the stockyards declined with many bids in medium lower grade’ steers 50 cents to $1 lower. A few choice offerings went "at higher prices. 5

| port Colby Victory en route to England, Other troops are ill and show | the same symptoms. Diphtheria antitoxin and toxoid | are being rushed by air to the ship | 500 to 500 miles off the coast of

The coast guard is flying a relay of mercy planes to the vessel, The army described the type of {diphtheria as “especially malignant” and sald the ship had turned back toward Newfoundland to meet plane loads of medicinés designed to pre-| | vent an epidemic among the 1009 { oMicers and troops aboard. The troops had all received { diphtheria immunization, the army | said. The soldier who died at 9:30 p. m. | last night had received his last {shot July 24, 1946. The-army noted immunization does not usually become effective until some time after jin last injection.

GRAIN LOST IN FIRE Times Special CRAWFORDSVILLE, Ind, July 31.—~Fire of undetermined origin razed the barn on the farm of Everett Virgin northeast of here Tuesday, destroying 1000 bushels of oats, 200 bushels of wheat and

several hundred. bales of hay. Nof.

livestock perished althotigh a farm wagon and other small implements | "were destroyed.

tortures since her morphine supply was shut off after the arrests and that she had been unable to eat for days. Mr. Shaw, the defense attorney, made it clear that the defendants would try to prove that they were entitled to use the morphine because chronic diseases, from which each said he was suffering.

told Judge “Howard

McKinney that he could prove his purchases were legitimate by a west side physician who, he said, had been

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1802 Lawton—Grand modern down wth c bath, ocoupied by own