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tate Guard Leaves Connersville Plant
BYRNES DARES MOLOTOV AMID
GATES OR ORDERS WITHDRAWAL; TENSION | EASES
Employees Begin Return to Plant With Almost 900 Reporting.
(Photay, Page 3) Times | Special CONNERSVILLE, Ind, Aug. 6.— Governor Gates tpbday ordered the immediate withdmawal of state guard units from this city where they have been assisting in maintaining order at the strike-bound! Rex Manufacturing Co. The order was issued this morning by telephone from South Bend. | where the governor is conferring on state hospital probems. —Deci- | sion to withdraw the guard was] made on reports from Adjutant | General Ben H. Watt and Charles Kern, state labor commissioner. | The governor emphasized that employment of the guand was not to interfere in a labor dispute but to assist in keeping law and order on an appeal from local officials. Meanwhile, Lair Hull, secretarytreasurer of the Rex plant, said that refrigerator cabinets are flowing off the assembly line at better than 70 per cent of normal despite the two-week-old union jurisdictional dispute between the C. I. O. and the A. F. of L. Match Legal Wits Today company and C. I. O. attorneys continued to match legal wits in the Fayette county courthouse as the firm seeks a temporary injunction against picketing to replace a restraining order which ex-| pires today. A decision is expected this afternoon. The air remains tensé, however, following yesterday's activity wherein more than a thousand C. I. O. members, from plantd over the city, put on & mass demonstration before the Rex plant and then par-
{spread throughout the Middle West | gent. 1
2.3 VOTE ROW
Heated Words Exchanged . As Critical Decision | | Is Debated. |
Child Swinging on Truck ls Hurt
By R. H. SHACKFORD United Press Siaff Correspondent PARIS, Aug. 7.—Peace conferees {today headed into a stormy show{down on the two-thirds voting rule, {marked by a bitter exchange in | which Secretaxy of State James F. Byrnes charged Soviet Foreign Min« ister V. M. Molotov with misrepre- | sentation and dictatorial tactics and | Soviet supporters hinted the fate !of the conference might hinge on | the issue, [ Mr, Byrnes challenged M. Molo~ {tov to print his attack on the Soviet foreign minister's tactics in the Russian press—a challenge which M. Molotov immediately took up, coupling it with a denunciation of British and American newspapers and a general denial of Mr, Byrnes' accusations. Procedure Sharled M. Molotov then commission of the peace conference
That look on her face conveys, better than a thousand words, just | how Brenda Short, 3, feels about her fractured foot received in an | accident before her home, 1013 S. Illinois st. last night. Swinging on a truck when the driver pulled away, she slipped between a wheel and
the curb. |ing that a two-thirds commission
vate required in recommending two-thirds rule to the peace De
to the commission vote would give
Crops Saved DRAFT OF 25, 000 By Rain; More | MEN ‘FORECAST =E5 Amr Sd Sut
Is Predicte a | decisions be sent forward to the
council of ministers in two cateLOCAL TEMPERATURES
Voluntary Enlistment Drop sories, those receiving two-thirds | votes and those receiving .a simple
§am..68 10am... 8& | Wil Force Action Sept. 1. majority 4 PU lo . . =: | Dmitri Manuilsky of the Ukraine Sam ... 69 12 (noon) .. 69 WASHINGTON, A 6 (U. y. | ’ Sam ...08 1pm ..W " P.). speaking in behalf of M. Molotov's
—Army and selective service offi- | demand, said solemnly that this was “one of the most important decisions in the world.” Backs San Francisce Policy M. Molotoy; insisting that the two-thirds procedure of San Franduring the last few days. {cisco be followed here, accused the
More rain, forecast for today and | cials said today that the recent again later in the week, will save drop in voluntary enlistments will! late crops from crippling drought |force the drafting of 25,000 men damage whcih had become wide- | when conscription is resumed|
led the rules
| into a first class crisis by demand-|
Application of the two-thirds rule
Heirens Confesses, ares Grim Details
Freshly-Cut
Patrolman Jack Arthur and Sgt.
Four men were to explain to Municipal Judge John Niblack tomorrow how they happened to have a bundle of fresh marijuana
in the rear of their automobile. The suspects were nabbed last
Horace E. Abbott, Marion cout] They said July enlistments aver- Americans of trying to split the agricultural agent, said the .57 of aged only 9500 a week—well below | {conference and set faction against
an inch of rain here last night and | the goal of 25,000 a week. | faction. early today will revive corn ua) Sec of War Robert P. Pat- Is it the intention of the Amer-
tomatees that had been parched b ican delegation to set ; % oma. agin) weeks of hot and dry weather. terson recently announced that the'others?” he a
The wind storm which broke over | Army had hoped to obtain all need- | sign to split the conference, and Indiana about 6 p. m. yesterday, ed men through voluntary enlist-|Set off 11 against 10? Why are we
saded downtown. Liquor stores and taverns remained closed as a precautionary! measure, said Police Chief William | Taylor. He said that ne trouble | had been caused because of intox-| icants, State police reported that 10 to! 12 pickets walked before the plant| this morning, but that a slight rain| dispersed them. Their actions were | described as peaceful and they were | not interfered with by state -police. er state guardsmen. Flow Back to Plant Employees began to flow back to the plant after the demonstration! yesterday. Today more than 70 per cent of the day shift geported, Mr. Hull said.
area “We have almost 900 employees |
at work,” he said. “While we are ‘not back to normal, we do have men in all departments and the distribution is fairly well balanced.” Meanwhile, all but 35 state police have returhed to their home posts. The same number will be on hand for any actiyity tomorrow.
CHINA CITY FLOODED |
BY BESIEGING REDS
NANKING, Aug, 6 (U.P) —Com- | munist forces besieging Liaucheng in western Shantung province have flooded the city and endangered “tens of thousands of lives” by breaking the dykes of the Grand canal, the official Chinese Central news agency reported today. Heavy fighting between Nationalfst and Communist troops was re-| ported in the vicinity of Tatung where 300,000 Reds were trying to capture the railway terminal, according to the agency. Field dispatches from *Hsuchow, another railway center, said reinforced Communists were attacking three cities in the area, but that the
advance had been checked after |
“bitter fighting.” Reliable reports from Kuling, | China’s summer capital, said that U. 8. Ambassador J. Leighton Stuart had cleared the way for continued | peace negotiations by eliminating the “Anping incient” from talks concerning China's Civil war. It was understood Mr. Stuart established the broad principle that such individual incidents as the ambushing of the marine convoy be pettled apart from CommunistNationalist differences. -
TIMES INDEX
Amusements. 6|In Indpls. ... 2 Aviation .... 11|Inside Indpls. 11 Eddie. Ash .. 8|Labor
Bact: ....... 20 | Ruth Millett . -11 Business 14 |Movies ...... 6 Classified. 18-20 |Obituaries .. 10 Comies ...... 21|{Dr. O'Brien.. "13
Crossword ... 18| Politics ..... 12 Editoridls 13 Radio. 21 Forum .. ... 12 Boh Roark 11 a 1 Rights . Serial ......: 11 " Meta Given 16 Sports tai »8 Prnie Hill... 9 [Teen Talk .. 16 Homemaking. 16 | Weather Map 3 Don Hoover . 12 | Women's .... 16
Indiana Saga 12 World Affairs 12
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| Temperatures were expected to quirement inducements July 1.
{the southwestern section of Indiana.
accompanied by general rains, sent ments. But despite the 50 per cent | afraid that the recommendations the temperature down 18 degrees Pay increase recently granted |of the conference should be adopt{within an hour to a low of 66. |servicemen, the recruitment drive ed by a qualified majority? Do we The weather bureau forecast fell far short of expectations. wish to give 11 the power of 21?" of
light showers later today with Cite Reasons for Failure Easy Paul Henri Spaak Army officials attributed this glum pleaded with the dele-
4 : ? ates to mak “ failure to increased business oppor- 52 Oe alaake ime son about one-fourth of an inch more |tunfties in civilan industry, the|g, result of this dispute the public precipitation later in the week,|Stoppage of Negro enlistments and
was questioning validity of the conpossibly on Friday. abandonment of a number of re-| ference before it A got
rise into the 80s again tomorrow| The army said the extent of the A atk proposed a one-hour and drop again Thursday or Friday (draft calls will depend upon the| e.ess while he and Edward Karwith cloudy weather and showers. future success of its recruitment | del) of Yugoslavia, his opponent High winds in the western and |drive. in the contest for the chairmanship southern parts of Indiana caused | Under the present draft regula- grafted a new proposal. Mr. B nes considerable damage to some crops | tions, only fathers, ministers, major | insisted, however. that the YEnes and knocked out telephones and | public officials, workers “essential | efor the committee be put to al utility lines in the Terre Haute|to' the national existence” and | ye, b workers in essential agriculture are exempt from military service. The {draft ages are 19 through 29.
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Soviet Dictation Alleged
Mr. Byrnes had charged flatly that M. Molotov was attempting to force Big Four dictation upon the
IT'S PAC OR GOP, | RULE, REECE: SAYS {the Sovier foreign minister wes mi
WASHINGTON, Aug. 6 (U. P.).|representing the American atti|—Rep. B. Carroll Reece (R. Tenn.),|tude and “impugning the motives of chairman of “the Republican Na- [thes United States” {tional Committee, said today. the| Secretary Byrnes said that Molofiight in the fall “congressional |tov’s charges against the United campaign will be between Repub-|States had been published by the American press today. “I challenge him to secure or permit publication in the Soviet Union of the statement I now make,” said Secretary Byrnes, looking straight at M. Molotov, Molotov Consults Colleagues As soon as Mr. Byrnes finished, M. Molotov, after hasty consultation with his aids, rose and accepted Byrnes’ challenge. “We: accept Byrnes’ suggestion that his speech be published in the
Hail Does Damage Hail caused some crop damage in |
Although the growth of corn and {some other late crops had been stunted by drouth, Mr, Abbott said the yield may be near previous estimates if sufficient rain falls in| [the next two or three weeks. Dried-up pastures had threatened {to reduce the milk supply for Indianapolis. But revival of pastures by | { rajn is expected 16 - eliminate any licans and .the C. I. O. Political
prospects of a milk shortage, pro-|Action Committee. ducers said. In an editorial in the Republican
News, party organ, Mr. Reece said SLUMP AVOIDAB President Truman himself had
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‘Police Bullets Fatal to Man.
MADISON, Ind., Aug. 6 (U. P). —A former inmate of a state mental institution died today from wounds received during a gun battle with state troopers who sought to question him in connection with a shotgun shooting of a neighbor, Troopers and sheriff deputies threw tear gas bombs into the lonely farm home of . 43-year-old Argus Henney late last night. Henney emerged from the house Bring his shotgun. He fell when troopers returned the fire and died shortly before 9:30 a. m. today,
Sister Reported Shooting
Police rushed to the farm after Henney's sister, Miss Elnora Henney, reported her brother had shot | Moss Smith, 50, a farmer. Mr. | Smith was in a critical condition at | a Madison hospital today. He was wounded in the face and one was nearly shot away. Deputy Sheriff Walter Sauley | said Henney had twice been a pa-| tient at the state mental hospital at Madison. Late yesterday, Henney began firing the shotgun wildly. Mr. Smith and his wife, who live nearby, and Miss Henney fled but Smith was wounded. State troopers went to the Henney home, When Henney refused to come out, they tossed in tear gas bombs. Henney staggered onto the froft porch. When he ignored an order to drop the gun the troopers fired." Troopers Harry Crandall and Ralph Hurtting were injured slightly by peliets from: Mn from the shotgun.
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drawn the issue by his attempted |‘ ‘purge” of Rep. Roger C. Slaughter | | Mo.) in today’s primary. Mr. Reece noted that the P. A.C. fo switched its support from Je- | rome Walsh, one of the candidates for Slaughter’s post, t@ Enos Axtell ‘Small Pretiots ext Few, |after Kansas City Democratic leader James Pendergast had come out Months will Decide. for Axtell to supplant Slaughter. WASHINGTON, Ag 6 (U. P)~— Civilian Production = Administrator P . iL 4 Vii C ; John D. Small predicted today that | olin S Oo ew ontra st if industry gets through the next few months without disruption “we BH M t D by t can avoid a boom-and-bust.” n yrnes- Oo Oo ov e a e | Once the present period of deli- | cate balance is past, Mr. Small said | PARIS, Aug. 6 (U. P.).—|was seeking to do was to have the] [in an interview, “we can anticipate | Big Four council meet to dictate] a period of prosperity such as we Highlights of the Byrnes- | who should be elected chairmen of| have never known.” Molotov debate at the peace !the various commissions.” Mr. Small said production is the .onference today: MOLOTOV: “It was good to] only cure for inflation. Once mass : i dratt d in adoutput is attained, he said, prices| prepare a drall procedure mn must inevitably fall. vance, It was’ not an attempt to dictate to the conference but only
On the press challenge: BYRNES: “In the United States
rising prices in the meantime could set off new labor demands and repetition of last winter's disasterous strikes.
JUDGE SETS TRIAL IN ‘SISTER SHOOTING’
MARTINSVILLE, Ind., Aug. 6 (U. P.).~Gilbert Butler, special judge of the Morgan county circuit court, said today the trial of Mrs. Gladys Lattimore, 22, who pleaded innocent to charges of assault and battery with the intent to kill, will be held some time next month, Mrs. Lattimore was charged with the shooting of her sister-in-law, Mrs. Evelyn Wheeler, 23. Mrs Wheeler remained in an Indianapo- | lic hospital partly. paralyzed by a bullet wound inflicted during an argument with Mrs. Lattimore . »
He warned, however, that rapidly]
we have a free press. Therefore the Soviet representative can be sure his charges impugning the motives of the United States have been published today in the United States press. I challenge him to secure or permit publication in the Soviet Union of the statement I now make.” MOLOTOV: “We accept Byrnes’ suggestion that his speech be published in the Soviet press and let the Soviet people read it as we heard it. . . . Byrnes . . . said that my speech already had been published in the American press. I have before me today's copy of the New York Herald-Tribune (Paris edition) and I°see no trace of my '| speech in this paper but I do see “{that" it contains ‘eriticism of my speech.” On dictation to the little powers:
“BYRNES: “What he (Molotov)
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an attempt to advise the ‘conference. ~We are .far from dictating anything. The Soviet Union is just trying to persuade others to her views.”
On consistency: BYRNES: “Yesterday Mr. Molotov lectured the representatives of the «+ United Kingdom and the United States for what her termed their inconsistency in supporting an amendment to the rules as to voting procedure. . . . Mr, Molotov concluded his statement by offering an amendment to the same section of the rules. . . . Only Mr: Molotov could have done that.
MOLOTOV: “Not for ‘the first time ‘does the Soviet: delegation find itself in a position where the decision adopted unanimously yester[day ig being opposed today and ‘we |are left quite alone Sefeiting it”
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SOUTH BEND FIRE
NEIGHBOR SLAIN
Who Wounded Friend. |
arm | Ls “Daddy,”
Loco-Weed' Found Here Brings 4 Arrests
Ed. Higgins, . . . Their evidence:
foursome had harvested a crop of “weeds” between the Nickel Plate and Monon railroad tracks near Sutherland ave, yesterday. Their car, with the marijuana, was curbed by police at 25th st. and Martindale ave, Held on vagrancy charges under ow bond
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A bumper crop of loco weed. | { each were Norrel Level, 27, of 2362 Sangster ave.: Lee L. Huggins, 24, of 2417 Hovey st.; Matthew Allison, 24, of 2616 E. 25th st. and James Holloway, 26, of 3251 Martindale ave. Federal narcolics agents were (0 as8ist in Rhecuiion on the case,
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FARMER 1S SHOT, Truman Votes, Then Helps Daughter With First Ballots wm. = 1. ec toes
MERRIMAN SMITH
United Press Staff ‘Correspondent INDEPENDENCE, Mo., Aug. 6.—President Truman and his daughter oted today in Missouri's Democratic primary election.
in the Memorial building Mrs. Bess Truman didn't go to
The President drew ballot No. 58 at the old familiar voting booth
vote until later. Margaret walked |
fhe block to the Memorial building with her father to to cast her first vote.
The President didn't get a chance |= to vote in the hot “purge” election in the fifth congressional district. The congressman from the President's own district, Rep. C. Jasper Bell (DJ), an old friend, was. expected to win renomination easily. Instructs Daughter When Jess Flowers handed Margaret her ballot, the President proceeded to give her detailed instructions. “Now take your ballot over to that box and mark it,” he said. “When you get through, put it in that box over there. And don't let anyone see what you're doing. The President marked his own atlot. No. 58, rapidly in an ad joing booth. wir. however, was not as {quick and seemed to study each | choice intently, she called from her booth, “what do I do with it when I get through?”
Visits With Family
“Put it in the box,” he said. walk over with you." Mrs. Truman and her mother, Mys. David K. Wallace, planned to go to the polls shortly after the | President. The President returned to’ his home two blocks away immediately after the ceremony for a good-by chat with his family preparatory to his return to Washington this afternoon. Democrats throughout the state voted today in a primary which had its principal point of interest in the effort of Mr. Truman and
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lon illegitimacy.”
CHARGES BARS GET AID FUNDS
‘Says Unwed ed Mothers Spend
Relief Cash in Taverns. |
DETROIT, Aug. 6 (U, P.)—Re-<| corder's Judge Arthur E. Gordon reported today that welfare agencies are supplying unwed mothers] with money to frequent taverns and engage in “free love” while their children roam the streets, Judge Gordon said such cases were increasing and that “there is a| definite tendency to put a premium
He said he was reporting a con- { dition and not criticizing any par-| ticular agency. “I am amazed at the number of children who are the innocent victims of a condition which permits their mothers to consort in beer gardens and lets the fathers off scot free,” the judge said.
Refused to Work Judge Gordon said a study of cases showed mothers Were going to welfarevagencies to collect money for the support of fatherless children “becatise they are too irresponsible to work.” , One mother had four children by four different fathers and collected $174 a month for. their support from government welfare agencies, He said another got $100
Democratic machine boss,
DAMAGE $30,00
Shed, 10 Carloads of Lumber Go Up in Flames.
SOUTH BEND, Ind, Aug. 6 (U.| P.).—Damage estimated at $30,000 was counted at the Jontz-Voorhees lumber company today following a fire which destroyed a 300- foot | lumber shed, 10 carloads of lumber | and an automobile.
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by radio asking that families and private business concerns cut down | on water usage until the fires were J.” R. Freeman of the lumber company said the blaze was set off by a near-hy grass fire. A fireman, Edward Nizgodzski,
quickly revived after his rescue.
feat the incumbent Rep, Roger C.| Slaughter, One Slaughter opponent, Axtell, had the support of President, Pendergast and the I. O-P. A. C. Third candidate in| the fifth district primary race was Jerome Walsh, who was given little chance of vjclory.
Other States Vote
Other states holding primary contests today were Virginia, West Vir- | ginia, Kansas, Arkansas and New| Hampshire.
In the Virginia primary the op-|
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Firemen faced a problem of low| nent of veteran Senator Harry |vestigating committee today looked water pressure when. a smaller|p gyrg is Martin A. Hutchinson, [to the justice department to carry blaze broke out in another section pjynt, outspoken Richmond attor-Tforward the inquiry into the $78,of the city. Police spread an alarm| Mr Hutchinson has the back- 000,000 Garssoh munitions empire.
ing of the C. 1. O.-P. A. C.
Principal feature of the Kansas
primary is the battle over prohi- | bition repeal. Wormer Governor Harry H. Wood‘ring, secretary of war under the
late « Pfgsident Roosevelt, is seek-| was overcome hy smoke and heat ing the Democratic gubernatorial ing prosecutions. had. an appointwhen trapped in the blaze, but was nomination on a pledgé to repeal ment with Attorney General Tom Clark | §
‘the state's 65-year-old dry law. : “
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James M. Pendergast, Kansas City | to de- | imate children.
a month for two of her four illegiti- |
Judgé Gordon-‘said that 4000 out of 18,000 social welfare cases in-
assistance, i “Why should we squawk about|
‘| ‘free love’ and babies supported by|Minneapolis.
| the state in totalitarian countries when we do the same thing here —except that our state doesn’t] ain them?” he asked.
COMMITTEE FINISHES INQUIRY ON- GARSSON
WASHINGTON, Aug. 6 (U, P.).— | Counsel for the senate war in-
George Meader, committee counsel, told reporteres that the com{mittee is through with its inquiry into the wartime profits made by the 16-firm Illinois syndicate. . Comimittee Chairman James M. Mead (D. N. Y.), apparently seek-
i versity \more, told in a formal, deconfession today of + strangling 6-year-old Suzanbe Deg+ nan, cutting up her body and drop | ping the parts in sewers and el basins. :
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KILLED CHILD, CUT UP BODY
| Youth Says He Went Back
To School and ‘Studied’ - After Slaying.
By ROBERT T. LOUGHRAN United Press Staff Correspondent
CHICAGO, Aug. iam Heirens, 17-year-old Uni-
of Chicago sopho-
Heirens' long- -awaited eniifonio”
shocked the nation last Jan. T when
the little girl was taken from her home and killed,
He told of climbing inte her room apparently awakening her,
he strangled her. Then, he said, he took her to the
basement of an apartment building nearby, dissected her body with &
knife and disposed of the parts. He said he had not intended to kidnap or kill the child, but had entered the Degnan home bent on burglary. Statement Is Confused
His statement at times was confused. He could remember only disposing of the last part of the body, an arm, which he placed in a sewer, His grisly story apparently was intended indiéate his confused | tate of mind. Many of the details, he Sia) he could not remember. replied, “Yes sir” when
day morning, did you on that date kidnap and murder Suzanne Degnan?” Asked what he did with the body, the youth replied:
“That part is not clear to my .
memory, but it was deposited in sewers.” “Did you cut’ it up before you put it in different sewers?” he was asked. “To my knowledge, yes,” he re plied. He said that after disposing of the body and the knife he board ed an elevated train and returned pto the University of Chicago camFous, arriving there at 6 a. m. He went to his room, he said, and began to study. Answers Vague Heirens said an hour and a half
elapsed between -the- time he dis
posed of the last part of the little girl's body and the time he the knife away. Asked what he did.in the in< terim, his answer was vague. He said that when he dispesed of the last portion of the body— an arm-the “cover fell down on finger and it woke me up a
there practically everything-—vague-ly—but everything.” He apparently referred to a sewer cover, Heirens, before he was summoned to the state’s attorney's office today to make a full confession to authorities, already had admitted orally the Degnan slaying and the murders of Mrs, Josephine Ross, widowed housewife, and ex-WAVE | Frances Brown, formerly of Rich-~ mond, Ind. The confession today was made
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TWIN CITIES REPORT 27 NEW POLIO CASES
MINNEAPOLIS, Mmn., Aug. 6 (U, P.).—The poliomyelitis epidemic |in 8t. Paul and Minneapolis claimed (its 64th victim today and health |authorities said 27 new cases had
Enos A.| volved illegitimacy requiring public | been reported in the past 36 hours.
Twenty-two new cases and 28 {probable cases were reported in St, Paul had five new cases,
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