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QUESTIONED IN NURSE MURDER
Jailed Under High Bond; Police Chase Prowler From City Hospital.
Three more suspects were held under high bonds today for questioning in the clubbing murder of Miss Alberta Green, student nurse at Riley hospital, last Wednesday. While detectives were running
down these suspects, a police call on another prowler sent five squad cars racing to City hospital where nurses heard a man trying to enter
Investigation revealed a grating had been removed from the pit of a half basement window and putty had been chipped off around the glass.
Squad cars raced through every street and alley in that neighborhood for more than an hour but no likely suspect was sighted. ‘Hot’ Development The incident was regarded as a hot development in the manhunt since the slayer of Miss Green apparently was suffering from some maniacal mental quirk for entering hospitals. The newest murder suspect was atrested at 6:40 a. m. today at 28th st. and Capitol ave. He was arrested on information that he had been seen loitering at 27th st. and Northwestern ave. at 2:30 a. m, on the morning of the murder. About an hour after the murder he was reported again on the streets in a complete change of clothing. Another suspect, age 41, was arrested at his home last night. He was identified as the man who had been found asleep on the Indiana university medical center grounds near Riley hospital at midnight on the night of the murder.
Description Partly Tallies
A third suspect, 23 years old, was.
being held under $10,000 bond for questioning. = His appearance answers part of the description given on the slayer. A fourth suspect who had been arrested while asleep in a railroad
coal yard near Sumner ave, was|#
H1estion
ed but his connection. with. slaying was immediately disBunted.
Two other suspects arrested and |: questioned yesterday were released |;
after their fingerprints failed to check with those found on the win-
dow where the killer entered the!
Riley hospital building.
Meanwhile, police squads contin- |; ued to answer a flood of prowler |;
alarms all over the city. Fires at Prowler
Mrs. Lillian Lasley, 929 Locke st., near City hospital, .said a prowler appeared at her window last night for the third time in a week. Lawrence Ford, 534 Vinton st. said he fired his shotgun into a clump of weeds in his backyard after hearing a noise that sounded like a prowler. John Wilson, 5627 Julian st., said he was visiting relatives at 5338 Brookville rd. last night when they heard some one outside the house. He said he got a shotgun and fired in the direction of the noise. He said he didn’t think he hit anyone. Services were to be held for Miss Green at her home near Mt. Carmel, Ill, today. Miss Betty Overdeer, 20, of 819 N. Riley ave., who was slugged on the head when she went to aid Miss Green, continued to recover at Long eneral hospital.
X-CORN KING DIES NEAR SHELBYVILLE
Times State Service SHELBYVILLE, Ind. Sept. 14.— Thomas M. Lux, international junfor corn king in 1926, died last night at his home on the Knightstown road, He was 33, ¥ His wife, Mary Ann. Smith Lux; two children, Angela and Terry Lynn; his parents, Mr, and Mrs. Peter J, Lux; four brothers and two sisters, survive him, Peter bux had been international corn king séveral times. Young Mr, Lux was graduated from the high school here and studied agriculture at Purdue university, He was a member of the National Dairy Herd and Corn Growers association, Services will be held at 9 a. m. Monday at St, Joseph's church,
6 KILLED IN BOMBAY
BOMBAY, Sept. 14 (U. P).—8ix persons were killed and 37 injured today in a sudden renewal of the Hindu-Moslem rioting that has wracked the city for the past week.
TIMES INDEX
Amusements , 12 Aviation 1 Book News ., 14 Carnival ,.... 8 Churches ,... 4 assified , 10-11 jomics ...... 13 Crossword ... 14 8
Labor Ruth Millett. Movies Obituaries ... Radio Mrs. Roosevelt 7 Serial Sports Stranahan ... World “Affairs. In Washingt'n Miss Tillie ..
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Medical Center Nurses to Get Added Protection
The killer walked to this outdoor oven, stopped and picked up from a pile of logs the club with which
Miss Green was slain, police theorize.
Special Policeman Charles West, 903 Eastern ave . . . Durinf the last 15 years he has kept a weather eye for “suspicious persons” loitering along the tree-lined walks of the medical center campus.
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More Special Policemen to Report for Duty on Monday
By KENNETH HUFFORD A group of sternly-disciplined young women, trained to face trag-
edy, medical center.
regained a degree of composure today at the Indiana university
They heard that the first contingent of additional special police-
men will report for duty Monday,
The serene, beautiful 37-acre campus—with its autumn foliage of
MARINES QUITTING NORTH GHINA AREA
Complete ~ Withdrawal Scheduled Soon.
PEIPING, Sept. 14 (U. P).— United States marines will be completely withdrawn from North China rail guard duty “before the snow flies” if their withdrawal continues at the present rate, United Press was informed today. Marines duties already are being | taken over in some places by the] Nationalist 62d army. First landed in October, 1945, with a force of 64,000, the North China marines mow have been “drastically reduced.” Authoritative informants emphasized the movement of marines was no mass withdrawal, as frequently demandéd by Chinese Communists, but was part of the U, 8. original program, The marines recently have been taken off the coal trains and now are guarding only passenger trains
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guarding a few of the most important bridges between Tientsin and the Chin-Wang-Tao coal mines, airflelds in Tsing-Tao and motor convoys between _Tientsin and Peiping. The marines maintain two fighter groups based in Peiping and Tsing-Tao, furnishing air cover for the convoys. : Observers believed Communist set7| backs elsewhere might cause a re7| surgence of Red activities along the rail lines, but the marines’ withdrawal will lessen the: chance of Americans being directly involved.
LANDING SITE CHANGED LONDON, Sept. 14 (U. P.).—The Cunard White Star line announced today that the Queen Mary, which sails from Southampton today, will unload all her passengers at Halifax, N. 8, instead of New York
because of the American ppg stitke,) :
variegated hue, belied the memory of a brutal murder last Wednesday. {Then a marauder entered the | Rotary convalescent home and clubbed to death 21-year-old Al= 'berta Green, a senior student nurse.
It was not a matter of “locking 3 barn after the horse was stolen” with Dr, Herman B Wells, I. U. president, who immediately authorized next week’s increase in campus patrolmen from 7 to 13.
To Relieve Fears
He and medical school faculty members considered carefully the number of special police needed, when the subject was. before them several years ago. They decided. on the present number. And, they still believe the number is sufficient. W
But to relieve the minds of anxious relatives of student nurses and combat a temporary wave of fear that has swept the Ball residence for nurses, the university head's order was issued. In addition, state police have agreed to patrol the grounds of the state institution nightly. And
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TOWNSEND HITS
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MEAT POLITICS’
a Editors ors GOP Tactic’
Will Fail With Plenty.
By ROBERT BLOEM Times Staff Writer FRENCH LICK, Ind. Sept. 14.—
Hoosiers will be eating meat again by election time, former Governor M. Clifford Townsend, Democratic candidate for U. 8. Senator, forecast
“today.
Republican plans to “fight the election. campaign over the meat counter” are doomed to melt with increasing supplies by that time, he said, charging that such a campaign issue was “an insult to the voters’ intelligence.” With a confidence not. entirely shared -by many leading
answer to every “negativistic” argu-
iment being used in the G. O. P.
campaign. In an interview at the Democratic Editorial Association meeting here, candidate Townsend said: “Republican Governor Gates has told his party all they have to do is point to empty counters to win the election. “He knows the present meat
marily by the fact that August hogs were sold in July and September hogs in August to take advantage of uncontrolled prices.”
Public Won‘t Be Fooled
“Not only will the public refuse to be fooled by this type of campaign, but even if they were, the October hogs will begin going to market in October and by November we'll be nearing normal supply.” Mr. Townsend, himself a farmer and a former official of the department of agriculture in Washington, pointed. out that “hogs won't keep” forever and have to be shipped when they are reddy. And while other party leaders appeared to be puzzling over ways to answer Republican charges of PAC-Communistic domination in the Democratic party, Mr, Town-,
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CENTER OF STORM LIKELY TO MISS U. S.
MIAMI, Fla. Sept. 14 (U, P.).— Strong winds from the Atlantic hurricane will be felt on the -east coast north of Cape Hatteras, N. C., but the storm center should remain at sea, the Miami weather bureau reported today. ‘The storm, with full hurricane winds near the center, was located 320 miles east of Cape Hatteras at mid-morning, moving north-north-eastward at 21 miles per hour. Gales extend 150 miles from the center in a northern semi-circle.
LOCAL TEMPERATURES
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Mother Admits She Sttangled ‘Unhappy.’ Crippled Daughter
By PATRICIA CLARY United ess Staff Correspondent HOLL D, Sept. 14.—A night club dancer today told how she strangled her 4-year-old daughter to death with her bare hands as the paralyzed .child longingly watched other children at play, Mrs. Jeanette Sands, 21, wept as she confessed to police that she killed her spastic child on a Stock-
ton, Cal, street, then buried her shriveled body in an asparagus patch.
She will be returned to Stockton today to face a murder charge for the “mercy slaying. Stockton police doubted Mrs. Sands’ story. They believed she beat the child to death. Neighbors quoted her as i she wanted to “get rid of Ju
_|curtain rod were found
A bloody pillowcase and heavy in Mrs. Sands’ blood-spattered hotel room. A coroner's report showed the girl died of shock following a hemorrhage ¢Kused by a blow on the head. \ “Judy wanted to. walk -so badly,” she ‘sobbed, “She was unhappy. I know, because she couldn't play like the other children. “So I just decided to end the cruelty of it all. Then she said she picked up the child’s 35-pound body and .carried it to its shallow grave, seven miles out in the farm country, found the next. day. . She was arrested here yesterday when she tried to cash a $500 telegraphic money. order from her-hus~ band, an -entertainer now, in Chi--leago. 1
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Democrats, Mr. Townsend insisted he had the
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DESSERTS DUE 10 COST MORE
WITH SUGAR UP
Dairy Products to Be ‘Scarcer and More Expensive.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 14 (U. P). ~OPA glumly acknowledged today that prices of canned and frozen fruit, ice cream and cake may go up because of the new 2-cents-a-
pound boost in sugar prices. As if that weren't bad news enough, the agriculture department told housewives dairy products will be scarcer and prices higher throughout 1946 and early 1947. The department said the prospec{tive drop’ stemmed jointly from a normal seasonal slump plus an accelerated decline in dairy herds. The price decontrol board will | decide Wednesday if ceilings ‘on |dairy products should be restored in view of recent increase. Reviewing the dairy products sit- | uation, the agriculture department said the supply in late August was “hardly more than enough to meet the demand at prevailing prices, in most instances well above June price levels.”
Soft Drinks Won't Go Up
An OPA spokesman said it was very probable the price of canned and frozem fruit. cake and ice cream would be “affected” by yesterday’ 5) boost in sugar prices. But he said it probably wouldn't force up prices of soft drinks or can The two-cents a pound sugar in-! crease will cost consumers an esti-| mated $200 million a year. The | increase will go into effect as soon as dealers have sold their present
! - # ria Br i The boost was necessary under this country’s sugar agreement with Cuba, but the OPA price increases apply“to all sugar, not only Cuban. Ford Gets Increase Prices of “Ford, Mercury and Lincoln cars also are going up again, this time by an average of six per cent, according ‘to an OPA official. The increase, expected next week, will be the third for the Ford Motor Co. this year.
tion by General Motors Corp. for
OPA also is considering a peti- |"
Clarence Alvene Newport, Pioneer Worker 60 Years At E. C. Atkins Co., Is Dead
Clarence Alvene Newport, who all the rich tradiE, C. Atkins
represented
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pany, died today. Death came to the man who had been with Atkins for 60 years at his home at 826 Jefferson ave. where he had lived for 43 years, was 80 For 39 years, Mr. Newport had been secretary of the famous Atkins Pioneers, group of long-time employees of the company, w.ose sons and their sons work for We, 8. Illinois st. firm.
Active “Y” Worker
Mr, Newport had been ill only a} short time. Until then he had beé¢n | active in company employee ac-!
tivities and another early love, the Y. M. C. A. At the Y, Mr. Newport became a 50-year member in 1930.
For years he was instrumental in|
sending young Atkins employees to enroll in the “Y", The veteran started out in “my other home,” kins plant, in 1886 as a cross cut circular saw helper. He held varlous jobs around the plant, including time keeper and foreman of the hand saw department. In later “years however,
Pioneers. A daughter, Mrs. Ida N. Williams, a grandson, John Robert Williams and two great-grand- | children, survive Bim. His wife,
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One of the earliest of Atkins’ pioneers. Mrs. Emma Jane Newport, died
Sept. 14, 1944. Members of the Pioneers, the colored men’s 20-year-club and the [ladies 10-year service club will be honorary pallbearers at the services to be held at 4 p. m. Monday at | Flanner & Buchanan mortuary. The Rev. L. C. Trent, pastor of Woodruff Place Baptist church will officiate. Burial will be Tuesday at Paris, Ill.
BYRNES FEUDING, WITH MOLOTOV?
Privately at Paris.
BULLETIN PARIS, Sept. 14 (U, P,).—Soviet Minister V. M. Molotov made
Britain today when he charged that the proposed British statute
for Trieste would in effect make it a colonial territory.
By R. H. SHACKFORD Duited Press Staff Correspondent
increases on its many makes of cars.
CHARGES DROPPED IN
OLD CLERMONT RAID
PARIS, Sept. 14.—Many observ-
today that U. 8: Secretary of State James F, Byrnes and V. M. Molotov, Soviet foreign minister, are cartying on a personal feud. Messrs. Molotov and Byrnes Jdead-
| ers respectively of the Soviet bloc
Recent Case Still Faces
Club Operators.
Times State Service DANVILLE, Ind., Sept. 14.—Gambling charges that have been pending against seven men who were arrested in the raid on the Chesterton Social club at Clermont last | May were dismissed by Prosecutor Lindoll Lawson here today. Dismissal of the charges resulted from a recent circuit court ruling here which declared the elaborate gambling equipment seized in the raid was confiscated illegally, Prosecutor Lawson explained. However, the same operators of the club are out on bond in connection with other gambling charges. based upon a second raid of the Chesterton club a month ago. These charges are pending in a justice of peace court here. Defendants in the case dismissed
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the western powers, clashed repeatedly in public,
the seven-week conference to talk over their differences.
Two Walkouts Yesterday
Conference nerves were on edge because of two particularly sharp clashes in commission meetings yesterday, Conference work today was limited to subcommittees. Kuzma B. Kisselev of Byelo-Rus-sia, Bulgarian political and territorial commission chairman, adjourned its meeting and walked out with other Soviet bloc members, rather than take a vote on a British
proposal to hear Greek territorial
claims against Bulgaria. The remaining eight members continued to sit under leadership of Brig. Ronald 8S. Park of New Zealand, the .vice chairman, and passed a vote of cemsure against Mr. Kisselev., The other wrangle occurred in the Italian military commission. A. V. Alexander, British first lord of
today were John Thornton, Jack Ryan, Edwin L. Hartledge, Clarence E. Stephens, Jack Selby, Wil- | liam H. Phillips and Richard S. Thomas.
CHILDREN WILL HEAR TIMES COLUMNIST
NEW CASTLE, Ind. Sept. 14.— Barton Rees Pogue, Indiana poet, humorist and philosopher, will speak tomorrow at- the annual homecoming at the Indiana Soldiers and Sailors Children’s Home at Knightstown. He will read some special verse for the home-coming and speak on the subject “There Is No Base Like Home.” Mr. Pogue's column appears ip The Times.
TRAFFIC VICTIM" DIES
Mrs. Rosynell Weaver, 37, Noblesville, who was injured critically in a collision between an automobile and semi-trailer truck last Monday at Allisonville, died today in Long hospital. Services and’ burial will be in Noblesville but the time has not been set,
GET $28,000 IN FURS KANSAS CITY, Mo, Sept. 14 (U, P).~Four armed men early ‘today took a truckload of furs, valued at about $28,000, pn U. 8S.
the admiralty, walked out after a heated exchange with Soviet Maj.
Two Leaders Haven't Met
another bitter attack on Great |
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have | They | have not once met privately during|
Cupid Losing Battle With
usic Czar
PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 14 (U, P.) —~Music Czar James C Petrillo and Dan Cupid were feuding today over the wedding of Musician Jules Benner. But the little guy with the arrows was on the losing end. { Mr. Benner, a navy veteran and { member of Mr. Petrillo's American | Federation of Musicians (A. F. of | L.) learned yesterday that he may not be able to attend his own wedding because of a picket line. Mr. Benner's wedding was scheduled Sept. 28 at the Hotel Warwick. But three of the hotel's musicians walked out in compliance {with Mr. -Petrillo’s strike order against the Kirkeby, Hilton and Statler hotel chains in 12 cities,
» » MR. BENNER "was told that if ihe or three musicians hired for his. wedding crossed the picket line, they would be suspended from the union for life. Guy ‘Scola, secretary of Local 77, telephoned an appeal to Mr, Petrillo in behalf of Mr. Benner but said the union head refused to make an exception. Mr. Benner said 350. guests—some from as far as California—were invited to the wedding. Evenif the ceremony were held without music, Mr. Benner couldn't -cross the picket line. Since all other halls and auditoriums were booked, Mr. Benner said, the only solution would be postponing the ceremony until the strike ends.
LOCATE EARTHQUAKE IN BENGAL PROVINCE
By Science Service WASHINGTON, Sept. 14. — The strong but remote earthquake reported by several seismological observatories on Thursday, Sept. 12, has been located by seismologists of the U, 8. coast and geodetic survey here It occurred in Bengal province, India, over 100 miles northeast of Calcutta.
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A Weekly Sizeup by the
Staff of the Scripps-Howard
and wages. turned into rout.
White House refusal to back
Washington
Newspapers
WASHINGTON, Sept. 14.—Government’s cave-in on seamen's pay will hasten collapse of controls on both prices Administration's orderly retreat is being
If wage stabilization board doesn’t qiltsst demanded by A. F. of L. and its.dog-wagging tail, John L. Lewis— it's effectiveness is ended anyway.
up WSB in rejection of higher A.
F. of L. maritime wages opens way for these sequels.
ONE—Other unions are invited to adopt same tactics—negotiate
carry its fight over WSB’s head.
cases” will become more common.
40 highway, 30 miles east of Kansas
City.
increases through collective bargaining, strike if WSB refuses to ratify,
TWO—Strain will be increased on rules under which WSB is authorized to approve wage ‘boosts,
“Malad justments’” and “special Effect of higher wages on prices
will cease to be No. 1 governing, factor in WSB deaisions. THREE—Meanwhile, OPA will bé under compulsion to grant Sumpessiory price increases, Instead of fixing prices, OPA is reaching
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CAUCUS URGES
REDS BE KEPT OFF BALLOTS
Wage, Price, Construction - Measures Denounced by Union Here.
The Indiana State Council of Carpenters today went on record ‘as opposing governs ment controls. Highlighting the council's meeting at 531 E. Market st.
| was the adopiion of resolutions call. | ing for the abolishment of controls and ‘restrictions on residential and commercial construction and of
| wage and price controls.
Each craft in the Indiana State
| Federation of Labor is holding cause
cuses prior to the general conven tion which gets under way Tues« day in Tomlinson hall. In a-day devoted to the presenting of resolutions and the election of officers, the state carpenters’ council also demanded that the Communist party be kept off elec~ tion ballots. The council will elect officers late this afternoon. It is believed that most of the present officers will be re-elected. Coombes. Heads Council
Heading the council at present are Charles A. Coombes, Hammond, president; Charles F. Howard, Sey= mour, vice president, and H. E. Vincent, - Kokomo, secretary- -treasurer, The housing resolution pointed out that civilian production authore« ity restrictions on Building are “preventing employment of thousands of returned servicemen, thereby rendering them ineligible for finane cial aid in the purchase of homes.” “Controls on construction have proven to be a complete failure and have prevented people of sufficient financial means from building homes and creating vacancies for
rental purposes,” the resolution charged. A second resolution declared
OPA has failed “to establish and enforce prices of commodities pertaining to the necessary living costs of the wage earner.”
Want Controls Ended
It recommended that A. F of L, officials and delegates Use all possi ble means to bring an end to price control. The first session yesterday was called to order by W. L. Spenny, president of the Indianapolis District council. Judge John L. Nib« lack, Sheriff Albert C. Magenheimer and City Attorney Glenn Funk wel. comed the delegates, In the keynote address yesterday Hugh Gormley, A. F, of L. director for Indiana, said the organization's constitution “permits but one ‘ism’ and that was ‘Americanism’ The various crafts will go inte conference at the annual convention of the Indiana State Building and” Construction Trade council to= morrow,
GENERAL REPORTED ON MISSING. BOMBER
WASHINGTON, Sept.-14 (U, P.). —Army planes began an intensive search today for a B-25 bomber missing since yesterday in the mountainous ‘area around Bristol, Tenn, Maj. Gen. Paul Wurtsmith of Des troit was reported one of the oc~ cupants of the Detroit-to-Tampa bound plane. The air rescue squadron at Andrews Field, Md...said the plane last was heard from at 10:57 a. m. (C, D. 8. T. yesterday, when it was about 10 miles from -the tri-city radio station, 16 miles from Bristol
RADIO DISTURBANCE By Science Service WASHINGTON, Sept. 14.—Shortwave radio broadcasts, particularly those following North Atlantie paths, will probably be disturbed with fading and weak signals Tues~ day through Friday of next week, the national bureau of standards warns, able disturbance for two weeks,
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