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Brisk weather kept many of the first post-war state fair

were expected to be clicking merrily by nightfall.

+ The weather, however, di eration,

Headed by 500 teen-agers

their bunks in the boys’ and girls’ dormitories on the

grounds, farm and city youth aires adding the last touches

8-day fair.

Exhibitors and workmen on the midway sideshows were

busy. Youngsters strolled th As the temperature rose, the fair grounds began to fill up as officials set their eyes on an attendance mark of 700,000 for the annual Hoosier affair. They expected 20,000 today. Today was dedicated to the rural youth of Indiana. Judging of 4-H club animals be- | gan this morning with free admis- | sion to all children under 12, Members of boys’ and girls’ clubs, Boy

FORECAST: Fair tonight and tomorrow; continued cool tonight; a little warmer- tomorrow,

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Fair Officials Set Sights on ‘New Record Brisk Weather | Keeps Older Folks Away

On Opening Day, but State Youth Helps Swell Crowd.

older folks from the opening early today but the turnstiles

d not deter the younger genwho arose at 5:30 a. m. from

mingled to watch concessionto their enterprises for the

rough the grounds.

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. . Fair Program TODAY Youth activities day: Members of boys’ and girls’ clubs, Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts and Campfire Girls, and all children 12 and under admitted free. Judging of sheep, swine, poultry | and cattle, Fireworks and youth jamboree in| front of grandstand at 7:30 p. m. |~

Scouts, Girl Scouts and Campfire Girls also were included in this | group.

Fireworks Tonight |

Fireworks will highlight a youth! Jamboree in front of the grand- | stand at 7:30 p. m. A band from the Sons of America, Crawfordsville patriotic order, also will participate in the day's activities. Youthful stock-raisers wefe showing various breeds of cattle, sheep and swine to the judges today. The poultry exhibits also were expected to draw attention. Among exhibits open today and tonight are those of Purdue university; crop, plant and flower displays in the agriculture building; fine and domestic arts works in the women's buildings; post-war models

of _ industrial development in the"

manufacturers’ building, and conservation and educational exhibits in various other buildings.

500 4-H Boys on Hand Suitcases ‘were being unpacked

TOMORROW | Youth activities day: Free admis- | sion to club youths and others | 12 and under. { Judging of 4-H club horses, cattle | and swine. Sheep shearing contest at 1 p. m. | Grandstand ac¢tivities: Racing, | vaudeville acts and Indianapolis | Concert band at 1 p. m. | Hoosier Radio Roundup, with Olsen and Johnson, Hoagy Carmichael.

i Ten-year-old Phillip (Sonny)

and order restored in the boys’ wing of the youth building as 500 4:71; club members organized and pre-| pared to show their livestock, | In the building's other wing, 240! teen-age girls from all but four of| Indiana's 92 counties made themselves at home while attending the 24th annual home economics school. The 10-day affair began last Wednesday under supervision of Mrs. Clyde D. Williams, R. R. 2, Indianapolis. : The Jargest purse in. state fair| history, totaling $217,195, is expected | to bring the exhibtors of 12,000 head of] livestock and poultry. Grand circuit racing, beginning! Monday, will account for $95,000 | of the purse. | Parking Fees Set

OPA officials stepped into state fair operations to set price ceilings | on parking fees.

Motorists may not be charged | | more than 60 cents to park in|

private lots from 6 a. m. untill midnight, with a 25-cent charge extra permitted from midnight until! 6a m, The parking fee for trucks wast set at 85 cents for the same day and evening period, with an additional 25 cents from midnight to! 6 a m, The OPA order covers all territory within a quarter-mile of the fairgrounds,

CYCLE MISHAP FATAL TO FORMER RESIDENT.

Lloyd James. LeHew, formerly of Indianapolis, was killed in a motor | cycle accident Aug. 24 near Peoria, | Il, according to word received by local relatives. He is survived here by his parents, Mr. ahd Mrs. Orley LeHew; two brothers, Sidney and Ralph LeHew, and a sister, Miss Ethel Ellen LeHew, Lloyd LeHew was 32 and a veteran | of world war II discharged with the | rank of sergeant.

TIMES INDEX

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Arriving in tine for opening of the State Fair today, two Greenwood one and one-half hours in a 1902 Reo. nurses a few bruises of the uncertain trip. (Another

MAYOR ORDERS ALL 'Beast' Bait GAMBLING CRUSHED Gets Tired, |

May Lay Egg

+ Times Special Writer | LEBANON, Aug. 30.-~The Lebanon

Edict Issued in Personal Talk With Rolice.

In a personal visit to police head- | quarters, Mayor Tyndall decreed beast business, like other American that all gambling here must be . squashed. industries, .is suffering at the .moThe mayor told Chief McMurtry , ment from plenty of buyer demand yesterday that his men have been and a depleted inventory, doing a good job, but insisted the lid should be clamped even tighter. He reiterated that professional and organized gaming here is taboo, ! Neighborhood can do about it, the “regardless of what anybody else Peast today was still ‘as aloof as he says.” TR was two weeks ago when he first Mayor Tyndall repeated his in- | began to eat cows and cry like a

Despite everything that the best

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structions to the 3p. m. police roll| baby. ' call. As a consequence, local bettors | "im 8 |

FRIDAY, AUGUST

Hotdog... It's State Fair Time Again

Kaiser, 4715 Rosslyn ave, samples a hotdog sandwich at the State Fair,

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men “roared” from their home in | Clayton Cecil (left) steers the vintage craft, while William Cecil

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7 STORES ANNOUNC 5-DAY WEEK HERE

Close Mondays, Extend

Hours on‘ Other Days.

A group of downtown stores an-

nounced today that effective Sept ® they will operate on a five-day week. These stores will be closed Mondays and open Tuesdays through Saturdays from 9 a. m. to 5:25 p. m. "Che stores ate L. 8S. Ayres & Co., Colonial Purniture Co., Ideal Furniture Co., National Furniture Co., Peoples Outfitting Co., Rogers & Co., jewelers, and Raymond Cooper, Inc, ‘The announcement said the step was made to fall in line with other

The Indianapolis Times

30, 1946

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U.S. MEDDLING | Suet: _ IN GREEK ROW, MOLOTOV SAYS

| Charges Warships’ Visit| Gives Support to Present Athens Regime.

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PARIS, Aug. 30 (U. P.).—| Leo Cannon . . . arrested in his room in connection with

Foreign Minister V, M. Molotov of Russia accused the United States before the| "4 * La peace conference today of in-| terfering in the internal: affairs of Greece by sending warships into Greek waters. | The dispatch of the U. 8. air-| craft carrier Franklin D. Roosevelt and its escorting cruisers and de-; stroyers to Greek ports constitutes]

downtown stabbing.

Bares Political Motive Behind Phantom Raids

Evansville Chairman Says He Was Trying to Keep Opposition ‘Poor,’

The “Indiana Society’ for the Suppression of Vice” toe day was exposed as an Evanse vill factional maeuver when Charles J. Eichel, Vanderburg county Democratic chairman, admitted he organized the group, Mr, Eichel's ouster as county" chairman has been demanded by {his intra-party foes in Evansville, | He sald the purpose of his shorts lived “phantom crusade” was te “dry up the revenue from gambling

foreign interference in that country’s affairs, Mr. Molotov charged. Addressing the conference for the second time today, Mr. Molotov denounced American and British sup- | port of the present Greek government, which hé said is “unpopular” with the Greek people. | Britain First, Now U.S, “We know that British troops) have been in Greece for some time, | and now some war vessels are to! be sent from the United States,” he | said.

E. Landis Jr. . . nabbed as he tried te leave town after Plaza hotel affray.

Dennis

SIX ARRESTED

HOLD LANDLORD Wie PTS

OPA Charges Owner With ~~ Four Violations.

Federal authorities toddy arrested

la local landlord charged by OPA throne.

with master-minding “a * sefiés’ of | excess rent plots. { The landlord, C. Conrad Hammond, 3045 Washington blvd. ac-

~1velt, the light cruiser Little Rock,

“This constitutes serious support for the present Greek government,” Mr. Molotov said.

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| Tuesday that the carrier

At Plaza Hotel.

and five escorting destroyers would visit Greek ports for five days next | | week, just after the Sunday Pie: | susgiis in the fatal stabbing of an iscite on whether King George of unid¥ntified man last night at the

{the Hellenes will. return to the Plaza hotel.

All new suspects were charged

In his earlier speech, Mr. Molo- | jy vagrancy and placed under tov had charged the Athens gov- g5000 hond.

ernment with trying to “hush up”| ney were Harry Noey, York its plans for the recall of King note: George Vanderarr and Gus

Police today arrested four new

money. . . . Gamblers’ funds are be« ing used to fight me and my poi litical organization.” | “We wanted to keep the opposie tion poor and honest,” he added, Took Fictitious Name

He said the name of “Carl Miller” was fictitious and assumed by seve eral of his associates “for obvious reasons.” Mr, Eichel asserted he was ase sisted by a group of Evansyillians, {but declined to reveal their names, |He described them as “not practical | politicians.” | The “society” instignted an antie | gaming drive in Evansville Wednes-

The United States announced \nidentified. Man Stabbed seccumsnments. Seven pereons ween

establishments, Seven arrested. More |were filed today, but the “society” ! had nothing to do with it. | A “Carl Miller” had recruited {numerous “special investigators” in | Indianapolis through: & newspaper ad. One of these previously. had identified his employer as Mr. Eichel.

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| ‘On Side of Law’ “When the gamblers attack my

cording to OPA. owns multiple George by demanding a territorial Nordberg, both of Cincinnati, 0. | organization, that puts us on the housing units at 1416-18 and 1512 concession from Albania, and that ,. 4 pick Hughes, Dennison hotel | Side of the law,” explained Mr,

{N. New Jersey st, 217-217% State ave. and 517 E. 12th st. | OPA Rent Enforcement Attorney Norman E. Brennan charges Mr. {Hammond violated regulations in| {the following ways: { ONE: Renting the same upits to! {different lessees at practically the | same time. When one lessee would {clamor for possession, charges OPA, Mr. Hammond would endeavor to evict the current householder. | TWO: Requiring tenants to pay {rents a year in advance and forcing | ue-in” furniture sales on them in ithe transactions, In these cases, {alleges OPA, he renfed his. apart{ments only upon eondition that the {renters purchase the furnishings. {These were “sold” at excessive { prices, OPA charges. i | THREE: Neglecting to pay util{ity bills on his units. This resulted {in a complete utility cufoff at his apartments recently, creating an emergency among the tenants, OPA | asserts. { { UR: Demanding what amount- | ed to “bonuses” from tenants be-|

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ments, Mr. Hammond was taken into custody by the federal marshal on an affidavit signed by Mr. Brennan and an OPA agent, He was! arraigned today before U. 8. Commissioner “Fae Patrick. His bond was set at $2000. s

TRUSTIES ESCAPE FROM FT. HARRISON

Four trusties at the Ft. Harrison | disciplinary barracks walked past a guard and escaped early today, army officials reported to police. The men were identified as John | B. Sheffield, Hattiesburg, Miss. ; | Robert McCoy, Rayland, O.: Eddie Watkins, Detroit, Mich., and J, W. McGee, New Orleans, La.

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Chicken Feod Is Gone

tel Two other suspects arrested last

Greek government in the “plot.” |,ioht and held under $10,000 bond, Greeks Win by 12-7 Vote were to appear in municipal court The Greek motion to put the dis- 4 this afternoon. put on the conference agenda! Leo Cannon, 50, registered at the carried, 12 to 7, with two absten-| hotel, was arrested in his room tions, after one knockdown battle shortly after the incident. of words that threw the session into| Dennis E. Landis Jr., 26, Garretsconfusion. ? France joined Russia and the five ave. and E. Washington st. after he Soviet satellites in the minority. It got off a streetcar at the end of was France's first break with the the line to start hitchhiking east-

other western powers in the five Ward weeks of the conference. He had been trailed by Patrolmen

U. 8. Secretary of State James F. (gine on Page 3—Column 5)

if one of the 21 nations such as AUGUST coLD NEAR RECORD IN INDIANA

Greece which furnished troopi to! aid in victory were denied a chance Mercury Dips to 48, Degree Above Aug. 30, 1893.

British troops were helping

to present its case. The United States has no convietion on the Greek-Albanian territorial dispute, he said, but will defend the right of any delegate to raise “relevant” issues, In the free-for-all turmoil, the British and Russian delegates

8 e 1 . shouted at Ihe same tme, while a, Old man winter tried an early

_ fore allowing them to occupy apart- (Continued on : Page 3—Column 5) homecoming today and almost suc-|

ceeded in setting a new frigid temperature for the heart of Hoosierland. The mercury at the weather bureau dropped to 48 degrees early today, but it still was one counter shy of the all-time record set Aug. 30, 1893, when 47 degrees was re- | corded. The mark tied, however, [with Aug. 29, 1934. | But residents on the fringe of | the city will claim a record was set, | for the thermometer at Weir Cook Municipal airport registered 42. Coldest Spell in Midwest All this is in direct contrast to what old-timers tell of Indianapolis’ | August “dog days.” Back in 1881, on the 30th, everyone was swelter[ing under a blazing sun which sent | the temperature to 95. Meanwhile chilling temperatures | blanketed the Midwest in one of the coldest spells on record for | August. The weather bureau said that a

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ville, O., was nabbed at Sheridan’

| Biche]. i He charged that an “active Dems (ocrat” and former Vanderburgh county office holder now “heads up tne local vice syndicate.” He accused this person of ate tempting to supersede him as coune | ty chairman. He sald the “society” had with= held detailed information as to its purpose from its own investigators because it was afraid some of them “might sell out to the opposition” Denies Shakedown

| “My followers have never tried te get money from gamblers,” said Mr, Eichel. He denied the I. 8. 8. V, had been organized to “shake down” Evansville bookie joints, )

| “Wer not asking for a nickel he declared. ; Mr. Eichel said there are

bookie places in Evansville, “more than any other city in the state.” ° The Democratic county chairman sald the “society” was “purely {local and has no state ramifica« | tions.” 3 | Meanwhile bench warrants were | “investigators, one of them an Ine dianapolis man. The warrants | charged the investigators failed [to appear at a city court hearing {for alleged gamblers whose arrests they had caused. The two names on the warrants were Thomas Michael Gregory of {903 Wright st, Indianapolis, : | Charles Clark, address unknown, |

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