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I... VOLUME 57—NUMBER 154
W. Dudley Jewell , . . slashed by politician at New °
Albany.
MEAT SUPPLIES
DWINDLE AGAIN
Layoffs Start as Receipts
Sink to All-Time Low.
By DONNA MIKELS
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Mayer Raymond L. Jaegers . gambling warfare?
Entered as Second-Olass Matter at Postoffice * Indianapolis, Ind. Issued daily except Bunday
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1946
New ALBANY WONDERS: WHAT NEXT? TWO BROTHERS
ates Orders
BANK ROBBERY
Fingerprint Links Pair to, $11 ,500 Holdup at New Palesting rs
ret of two brothers on 4a
WIRIOP A Reveals Ne F Retail Mea
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Last Fling at Play Before the Bell |
| charge of armed robbery of |
! after police had noticed him and his
. victim of
( Steps In After New Albany Mayor
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| NEW ALBANY, Ind. Se
nd Crusader Is
- Stabbed by Gambler.
By SHERLEY UHL Times Staff Writer
pt. 6.—Governor Gates today
ordered State Police Chief Austin Killian to “make a complete investigation” of the gambling crusade that resulted Indianapolis and Marion county lin the suicide of the town’s mayor and the attempted killfaced widespread packing house lay- ing of a Chamber of Commerce crusader. «
s | police and FBI and FBI agents.
|the New Palestine bank 151 5 wel (miles southeast of Indian- | |apolis last July 18, was \ | nounced by the federal ra ( lof investigation here today.
| They are Robert D, Atteberry, 22,| = | and Charles Atteberry, 20, both | ' natives of Bangor, Mich, i Robert was captured on a farm | near Paw Paw, Mich, yesterday and the younger brother was ar-! | rested at the home of his grand-! father in Arbyrd, Mo. today. ‘ H. G. Foster, special agent in| = charge of the Indianapolis F. B, I. | (office, said the two were charged | with robbing the bank of $11,500. Tripped by Spending | Robert was arrested by FBI] agents and Michigan state troopers |
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brother recently had been spending] ° ; 3 : 1 large amounts of money on new! J x automobiles in Michigan ‘cities. The clue that actually linked the| | brothers with the New Palestine; holdup was a fingerprint taken from | a glass jar in a Cambridge city. | | Ind,, garage where the get-away | | car was stolen, FBI agents said. | The arrests climaxed a seven] i :
| weeks’ manhunt by Indiana
GMC SEEKS WAR FACTORIES HERE
Bid at Spoiiwey Favored; | Fall Creek Plant-Up._<| of 3
teacKers attend a host of meetings and conferences to for the opening of school Monday, youngsters make the most gir fleeting vacation. ‘Taking advantage of a slide at Fall Creek playground are Carl Johnson (left), 2914 Guilford ave.; Nane Two Speedway aircraft engine | (right), 1328 E. LeGrande ave, and Jerry Carter | plants owned by the government! gag Guiltord ave. wy : and occupied by the Allison division probably will be bought by General we
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About 54 Cents
And ot Chops 71.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 6 (U. P.).—The OPA today an« nounced new retail meat ceilings averaging 33, cents & pound higher than those of June 30. . 2 The new ceilings will go into effect Tuesday, instead of Monday as previously planned. This will give OPA another day to distribute new meat price posters to butchers. There
has not been any price control on meat since June 30.
The new prices will be substantially lower than those in ef-| fect since June 30. The average increase on those cuts of beef for which prices were raised is 8 cents a pound above the June 30 ceiling. Not all cuts of beef and pork were increased in price. Increases made on pork average 7 to 8 cents a pound. The new lamb prices are
in June and mutton is about 4 cents
The new ceiling on lard is 5% | cents above the June 30 ceiling | Veal cuts and sausages are returned to the June 30 figures. In general, the meat price increases are higher on the cholcer cuts. Most of the increases in beef | prices were for the two top grades, AA and A. | The higher retail price ceilings |
| result from an Aug. 28 directive by |
Anderson pegging Chicago lMvestock y
ceilings at $20.25 a hundred pounds on cattle, $16.25 per hundredweight
lon hogs, and $19 on dressed lambs,
Using Chicago ceilings as an eX« °
ample, OPA listed the Nllowing
new retail prices: Beef “ Porferhouse steak, 63 cenis 8
pound.
Round steak, 54 cents, Rib roast, 48 cents. Chuck roast, 38 cents. Stew beef, 40 cents, Lamb
Loin chops, 77 cents. - Shoulder chops, 53 ¢ents. Leg of lamb, 53 cents. Pork
Loin chops, 45 vents, Canadian bacon, 81 cents. Sliced bacon, 46 cents. Spare ribs, 28 cents. Fatback, 20 cents, Prices at Indianapolis generally
Secretary of Agriculture Clinton P.|are the same as ‘those at Chicago,
Byrnes Asks Reich Self-Rule Under Supervision of Allies
By R. H. SHACKFORD United Press Staff
Correspondent STUTTGART, Sept. 6.—Secretary of State James F. ‘Byrnes warned today that Germany must not become the
__ pawn of an east-west military struggle and called for im-
offs and empty meat counters today | From South Bend the state's chief executive called in an mediate establishment of a provisional, central German
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| as the shipment of cajtle and hogs order for Col. Killian to get to the bottom of the tug-of-war ) market dwindled to the lowest hetween New - Albany's gambling element and it's. antipoint in history. lvice faction,
‘Armour and | : Spokesmen for both e. “Trapped i in a Deadly Sanvens
" Kingin & Oo. ala the Yocal plants’ would be “compelled” to lay off ' workers within the next few days. Meanwhile, thousands of workers have been laid off in packing plants
over the country, as re-establish-' Commerce crusader seriously inju
ment of OPA ceilings ended a) market-ward flow of livestock.
No Backlog Possible
Spokesmen for both local packing | houses said fhey had been luctant” to lay off employees, They pointed out, hawever, that operations are virtually at a standstill now because no livestock is available. Howard Greer, general manager here for Kingan, said hog receipts in all of the 12 major markets over the country today could have been processed in a half day in the local plant. He said there was “scarcely anything doing” at the plant today. There was no possibility that packing houses could provide a backlog “of fresh meat, to forestall the meat pinch. Pinch Due Within Week
"There wasn't a pound of fresh meat in Storage when we quit work last Saturday,” a spokesman for Armour’s said. Meat industry spokesmen and retailers agreed the public would feel the meat pinch “within a week.” Already some stores were selling out, and others which had stored up a backlog expected to be * ‘sold out” within a few days. Retailers predicted that housewives would be standing in line again before another week-end. Many retailers declined to store up stocks because ceiling prices will be. restored Tuesday. Thus stocks purchased ’ at high prices that sprang from open trading might have to be sold at a 108s under new ceilings.
MARKET STEADIES AFTER EARLY DROP
NEW YORK, Sept. 6 (U. P).~— Stocks declined 1 to more than 3 points this morning but steadied later and were holding above the lows at mid-sesson.- Trading lightened, Market operators were cautious because of the week-end holiday approach and the nation-wide maritime strike.
TIMES INDEX
Dr. O'Brien .. J. E. O'Brien. Politics ...... 19 Radio ... eons 34 Eldon Roark. 19 Mrs. Roosevelt . 19 Scherrer ..... 20 Science ...... Serial Side Glances. 20 Billy Notions . 19 Sports i|Washington . 20 Weather "Map 2 Joe Williams. 28 Women's. 24-25 World Affairs, 20
Amusements . 30 19
Fddie Ash .., 28
Business . Classified . Comics Crossword . Editorials .... Forum Homemaking Meta Given. . Indiana Saga. In Indpls. _ dinside Inks. 19 pth Millett . 19 30 Obituaries, 22-23
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| Meanwhile, bewildered eitizens of this tumultuous
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‘community think Mayor Raymond Jaegers was trapped in
'a deadly squeeze between virtue and vice.
With the mayor dead by
his own hand, a Chamber of and a nomineé for city
{constable under:arrest for the assault, the average New | Albanian wondered where the next stroke would fall He still wasn’t sure whether his city would ultimately
“re- be. ruled by its duly elected officials or the underworld.
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Officially, the mayor's sui
police force, with whom the series of whirlwind raids tha
time in months. Chamber of Commerce would stay that way.
retary of the local Chamber
Only a few hours after Mr. Jewell was stabbed during a row, James Stockdale, 40, Democratic nominee for city constable, was arrested. He was charged with assault and
battery with intent to commit murder and held on a $3500 bond. He pleaded innocent when ar-
There were ominous rumors that “big shot” Chicago interests were shoulder-deep in the local Louis-ville-spurred gaming trade—interests that might have the faculty of “boring from within” following a brief layoff. This rudderless city was floundering in rumors. Here are some of them: THAT the mayor was murdered, (This. was disproven by the fact that all openings to his office were barred from within.) THAT federal agents had quietly infiltrated into New Albany Wednesday to conduct a probe of gaming revenue and its possible diversion, THAT one or more officials might
jitters in a sizable segment of the population. one outspoken exponent of good government was glancing behind him as he trod New Albany’s smoky, dim lit streets.
icide yesterday was attributed
to “failing health.” He suffered from diabetes. But almost everybody from clergyman to cab driver, was of the opinion the mayor was a victim of a bitter gaming war said to involve lush profits. Whirlwind Raids Launched
Following yesterday's violence, New Albany's “rebel”
mayor had split, launched a t closed the town's handbook
business. New Albany was as tight as a clam, for the first
spokesmen hoped the town]
But nobody was sure whether the gamblérs would succumb without a showdown battle. Yesterday's attack on W.
Dudley Jewell, executive secof Commerce, implanted the More than
BUTLER TO ACCEPT LOCAL APPLICANTS
Registration.
(Another Butler Story, Page 19)
Despite a record enrollment, Butler university will accept applica tions for admission from all qualifled Indianapolis and Marion county veterans and high school graduates, university officials announced to-
Announcement of .the university’s decision to accept local students came this morning, after a conference of officials. Registration will be held Sept. 13 for those applying for admission after yesterday. New students who previously applied, some 1800 in number, will participate in freshman week Sept. 9-14,
resign. THAT the real motive behind | Mayor Jaegers’ suicide had not yet | appeared on the surface. Everybody admitted it was all | gossip. Nobody offered any tangible
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SOVIET PROSECUTOR DIES MOBCOW, Sept. 6 (U. P.). ~The newspaper Izvestia reported today that Vassili- 8, Sinirnov, ‘chief of the criminal court section of the 08 r's-office; died accldentally Sept. 3,
“Butler ‘university = has .served Indianapolis for 96 years, and de- | spite the exceptionally heavy enrollment ‘this fall we shall make every -effort to see that no qualified Marion county. veteran or a high school graduate is denied the right
to, Jaroll, ” President M. C. Ross|
dents who intend to register as beginners should have applications in the registrar's office prior to Sept. 13. They also should request their high school to send a copy of their transcripts to the university before that date. "tp ad 2 whe
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tration official at Chicago told The; Times foday. Bids on these two buildings, one a $3.000,000 aircraft engine plant and the other
Sept. 13, by government officials. At the same time, WAA officials will open bids on the $2,000,000: Fall creek ordnance plant here, also a ent property, operated
plate plant. Substantial Offer Made “General Motors has made a substantial offer for the Speedway
-| property and they probably will get
it,” James Heyn, chief negotiator, industrial property division of the WAA, disclosed. “The company intends to use the test plant to continue experimental work for the army air forces. I understand shock" absorbers will be manufactured in the larger plant.” More than six large industrial | firms have bid on the Fall Creek
ing to identify them individually. More Than $1,000,000 He said, however, that he did not recall any bid being made by Terra Tempe, Inc, a new firm organized |
conditioning houses with heat an
tronics,
sible bidder. Reports that the government | would accept less than $1,000,000 for
spiked by the WAA official. He said it would “take more than this to buy the plant.”
Fugitive Loses Race by Whisker
PT. WAYNE, Ind. Sept. 6 (U.P) —Carl R. Furrell tried to. hide in a barber's chair but police saw through the lather and today he was in jail under $1000 bond. Furrell, 24, of Van Wert, O, walked into a warehouse and tore a phone off the wall, police said. When police arrived he was throwing merchandise at passersby. Seeing the officers he sprinted down an alley and into a barber shop. In jail Furrell set fire to his mattress.
Humorist-Poet Joins Times—
Barton Rees Pogue, native Hoosier, has joined the allstar writer staff of your Indianapolis Times. His first column appears in tomorrow’s editions . . . and will be carried each Saturday,
Tomorrow Mr. Pogue writes about his mythical Indiana town of “Friendship” « + + & villlage freé from worry and Want. Mr. Pogue's style is from the “human side” of living .-. a “column for the entire
family,
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STRIKE TIES UP
City’ S Pupi ls goverment, ; tary Byrnes delivered the blueprint of American I | Need | 25 a Tr Germany before an audience of 1400 in jhe wi :
temburg state theater building.
an.adjoining $500,000 test plant; ‘will be opened-at 11 a m.,
briefly during the war as an armor |
property, Mr. Heyn revealed, declin- |
.. APPROXIMATELY 126 new teachers were indoctrinated into the | public school system this morning
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Armed Forces
FOOD VESSELS
e May Be Called as Crews.
By UNITED PRESS
at a meeting in school 10. First of its kind, the meeting was quaint new instructors with various consultants an the board. Pre-school conferences with the] new teachers, school officials feel, will make them feel more at home in the “school family” and enable! [them to get started on the right|
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| were oriented i e plans and poli-!
cies of the sch board and told their individual duties. id Another highlight of the pre-
| director for the school board, and
{cal high school. | Yesterday the more than 2100 teachers who will instruct in local
gram in the Technical gymnasium | lin preparation for the start of!
school. n ~
» VIRGIL STINEBAUGH, school] superintendent, offered a “challenge to leadership” to the teachers. “If our schools are to meet the | challenge successfully, the com- { munity must provide for our schools better facilities, better equipment and a larger staff of better trained personnel,” he asserted. Carl F., Brandt, school president, told the teachers their primary responsibility is
board that
to you every day.”
| retroactive to June 16.
“to | care for the children parents send |
Government officials ¢onsidered emergency steps today to resume
planned by the school board to ac- the flow of essential cargoes tied | the|up in every American port by the |
d directors on | WOrst maritime strike in ‘the naI'tion’s history.
Leaders of two A. F. of L. sea-| {men’s unions refused to authorize | operation of . vessels destined for relief areas and U. 8. occupation | troops aboard, and all signs. pointed to indefinite prolongation of the walkout. The thrust
tieup before Presi-|
dent Truman today the possibility |
man thé troop supply and foreign | relief ships. White House Secretary Charles G.
‘Ross told his news conference that
the maritime strike was still in the
to produce a novel device for &ir- ymingries preceding the opening of hands of the labor department and
d | school Monday was a safety meet-|(ya¢ a5 far as the White House was |
cold taken from the ground by elec- |; g between William Evans, safety | concerned.
there has been no change in its status since yester-
Previously, the new firm had been | traffic sponsors or principals from Be Eo pd mentioned - prominently as a POS-|eqch elementary school in Techni-| that he would take a direct hand in
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the former armor-plate plant were |c.hools this year attended a pro- 1100 "GIVEN PAY HIKE |
BY POWER COMPANY
A new contract giving 1100 work-|
|ers of the Indianapolis Power & Light Co. a wage increase of 9% per cent was announced today by| ithe Independent Electric Utility] Workers union. R. C. Benson, chairman, said
committee contract is; ’
union the
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The last day of a state fair outstanding in its magnitude paid | homage to its host city and man- | ufacturers here, Indianapolis and manufacturers’ day brought to a close an eight-day event that drew record crowds and sent fair officials info a huddle this [morning to discuss a proposed [$750,000 building program. | The first fair since 1941 found farmers, and city ‘dwellers with | more money than at “any time | within recent years. They came to | the fair and spent it. Preparations were made for several “flying” farmers” to land their airplanes in the midfield of the race track. The first one arrived about 11 a. m. today,
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Discuss $750,000 Building Plan As '46 Fair Enters Final Day
Two-thirds of the audience was made ap of
4 and civil government personnel.
were Germans, including thé three German minister-presis
|dents of the U. S. zone.
| were present although three Soviet newsmen and a handful |ivering
No official Russian representatives it ell osg——
ied States of Germany.” In dethe speech he omitted the
lof other Russians were scat- | (words “United States” and merely
(tered through the audience. | | Mr. Byrnes called for establish{ment of a German national council {to run the Reich under allied con{trol and to prepare a constitution | for what he called in his prepared
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| spoke of a federalizad Germany. Mr. Byrnes told his audience that {the United States does not” “want Germany to become & satellite of any power or powers, or to live under a dictatorship, foreign or do= mestic.” He said the United States
[vet 4 permanent Tequralized Unit- (had no ‘intention of withdrawl
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oot. | OVER BYRNES TALK | IN TODAY'S session the teachers| of calling on the armed. forces to
British, Germans Pleased By Policy Speech.
By UNITED PRESS British and German sources gave {qualified approva® to U. 8S. Secretary of State James F. Byrnes’ speech at Stuttgart today, but | French officials reacted with bitter iness and disappointment. A London foreign office spokesman said the address emphasized that the United States marches in solidarity with Great Britain on German questions, He said that Brit|ain agreed with the United States that the Saar should go to France *land that the Polish-German fron{tier is provisional | The minister presidents of -the |three German states in the U. 8. (zone, who heard the speech deliv|ered, expressed satisfaction with all the speech except for the proposal to give the Saar to*France, At Paris, responsible quarters said that Mr. Byrnes’ statement of policy ran almost in direct’ contravention
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{to prevailing French opinion on the
German question. American officials of - the allied control council in Germany, who have been trying to make a going concern out of the rubble of the Reich, saw Secretary Byrnes’ speech as a ray of light.
EVENTS TODAY [Pndisimpoiis day
Grand circuit races, vaudeville, Purdue university band, 1 »p. grandstand.
Horse show, 7 p. m,, Coliseum. State show, “The Victory Revue of 1946,” 7:45 p. m, grandstand.
a balcony to increase the seating capacity of the Coliseum, now seat-
ling 8000. Additions to the swine,
sheep and light harness horse barn would be built; a $50,000 repair of plumbing facilities and re-roofing
and painting of more than 20 build-|*
The proposed building program,
Starts tomorrow in your | which would get, under way immedi-| [ “lately, provides for. construction of (Continued on Page $=Column- 4) ference with empany-
ings alse would be undertaken. Resurfacing of the race track, after
and manufacturer's |
NEW CASTLE PLANT CLOSED BY STRIKE
Times State Service NEW CASTLE, Ind. Sept. 6.— The Ingersoll Steel and Disc divi‘Isilon of the _Borg- -Warner Corp. plant’ here, which normally em{ploys about 500 persons, was closed today by a strike which a company |spokesman said involved “an as|sortment of minor grievances.” Workers, members of U. A. W.-C. 1, O, walked off the job last night. Early today an estimated 200 pick= ets were on duty, but by mid-morn-ing the number dwindled to 35 or 30. Entrances were barricaded with motor cars and only maintenance workers and suaTds were in the plant. A union committee was in eon-
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from Germany #&nd would remain | there as long as necessary. With the ‘battles of the Paris | peace conference fresh in his mind, Mr. Byrnes stated almost at the opening: “It is Tiot in the interest of the German people or in the interest of world peace that Germany should
* become & pawn in & military strug=
gle for power between the east and west.” Secretary Bima placed the blame for the confused allied policy toward Germany on the failure of the four occupying powers to carry out the Potsdam agreements. He sald recovery in Europe will be badly slowed if the Big Four allow Germany to become “a poor house.” “It is the view of the American government,” he said, German people, throughout Gers many under proper safeguards,
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SUGAR PRICE TO RISE
SOON, OPA REVEALS
WASHINGTON, Sept. 6 (U. PJ. ~The retail price of sugar will be increased soon, an OPA spokesman has announced. The exact amount of the increase has not been decided, he said, but it was expected to be more than one
cent a pound. The increase Is Tes oo quired-by the higher price that the "
Commodity Credit Corp. has prom-' ised Cuban producers.
2 CALIFORNIA CAMPS CLOSED WASHINGTON, Sept. 6 (U, PJ. ~The war department has announced that Camp Roberts and Camp San Luis Obispo, both in California, are being closed as military installations.
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