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3 INDIANA BOYS ASLEEP ONR.R. TRACKS KILLED

4th Youth Rolls Into Ditch Near Hammond, Saves Life. HAMMOND, Ind, Sept.28 (U. P.).

VOLUME 57—NUMBER 173 .

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What Lena (Ugh) Judges Needed Was a Padded Cell

mond, escaped by rolling off the’ right-of-way ' into a ditch. He watched the train crush his school- | mates. “It was awful,” he said. the train pass over them.” The dead were. Melvin Altgilbers, | Gary, Ind.; Joseph Walker, 15, and | Charles Schick, 16, both of Sigh ond. Altgilbers was a senior at Hammond Technical high school, and the other three were sopho- | mores, i Young Blair said he and the! others went to a birthday party! last night for a friend named | “Mike,” and each had one bottle of beer. We weren't drunk,” he said. Rolled Into Ditch When they left the party, he! said. young Schick did not want to go home because he said his | mother was not home. The. Walker | youth complained of an upset | stomach, Blair said, so they decided | to stretch out on the railroad tracks at a crossing near Hammond. “Melvin said there wouldn't be any trains coming and we were all

“I saw | |

| BRAZIL, Ind. Sept. 28 (U. P.). |

—The body of a man killed by a | Pennsylyania railroad train to- | day was identified as that of James R. McAllister, about 35 years old, of Reelsville. A brother-in-law, Don French, identified the mangled body, hours |

after it was discovered on the | rails. 3 . McAllister had a card in his | pocket on which was written the |

name of C. E. McAllistér and the | address 1307 College ave. .In- | dianapolis. | French said that was McAllist- | er's brother, who roomed at the Indianapolis address while work- | ing as a carpenter for a bettling company. pretty tired so I guess we just | dropped off to sleep,” young Blair said. “I was awakened ,when I heard Melvin scream there was a train]

coming, He couldn't get out of the!

way in time. I rolled over and the train brushed past me. Then I fell] in a ditch” He said he went home and told |

his mother, who notified police. The train—a freight headed toward Chicago from Pt. Wayne, Ind. —did not stop. The bodies of two of the youths were found on the tracks. | A third was at the side of the rails. “I don’t know why we went to sleep on the tracks,” young Blair | sobbed. “It was kind of a crazy thing to do.”

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Back Tomorrow!

{ Indianapolis residents will turn|

their clocks back an hour tomorrow is daylight saving time comes to an| end for this year, A city ordinance provides that this time shall end at 2 a, m. the last Sunday of September.

CALL FOR PARLEY | "OF BIG 3 HEADS

ATOM CONTROL 5000 Pictures

The three brave men who will select the winning conception of Lena the Hyena are shown here judging the some 5000 entries at the city jail. Herron Art Institute Director Donald Mattison, left, and Police Inspector Donald Tooley, center, are trying to be brave about it .,, but Butler publicity man John Barnett’s expression reveals the strain. : a

STATE JOBLESS |

POLITICAL TASK Keep 3 (Sob) ROLL INCREASES "| Tired, Weary!

Scientists Suggest Mines | By ART WRIGHT i

Be Watched. | The three weary (sob) and per- | os atred plexed judges in the Lena the ; “ By ROBERT J. MANNING {Hvena es promised today they | More Hoosiers look to the Indiana LAKE SUCCESS, ot 28 | would announce the winner in Mon- (employment security division for ; fo Gv Sed = : pe re. day's Times as originally scheduled. | their weekly pay check than to any Se ations re- ; : . Scientists of ni ions re-| Ty, complete the job of finding | other single emplever in the state, leased an unprecedented document the most horrible conception of the, today which said in effect that the Lil Annes comic strip character in Commerce » o . 8 record time is as astounding as | . tomic warfare : task of Quilawing = ._ some of the drawings (the judges| These facts were learned today was strictly a job for the world’s ,qmit it themselves). For they dug from a recent analysis of jobless politicians. linto a huge pile of more than 5000 benefit claims made by the state The document for the most part! 4ra wings and photographs. | chamber, erased all doubts that world control| Tne hoard is comprised of Donald| The reports revealed 37 Indiana } of atomic energy is technologically nattison, director of the Herron art cities where the largest industry in| possible. ~~ |school; Inspector Donald Tooley, town had fewer people on its pay- | In.a blueprint for the guardians second in command of the city po-|roll than the number signing up| of world peace, the scientists warned lice department, and John Barnett, leach week for unemployment bene- | that ‘diversion -of atomie products, Butler-untversty's ai ov of pis fits: 2 Whe for military purposes became easier | Jicity, Despite high wages possible dur-| {ing the harvest season, unemploy- |

with each progressive step -in their| : * Nn manufacture. THEY BEGAN their judging yes- | ment was widely prevalent in south- | Control Easiest at Mines {terday behind barred doors at the|ern Indiana rural areas during this | Therefore, the scientists said, | City jail. At first the process of period. “adequate safeguards” at the mines elimination was slow, for the judges] Indianapolis Ranks High probably could prevent any diver Dad not yet seen any of the draw-| chamber claims that “cash | sion of atomic raw materials to | NBS {ugh) that had disrupted the for idleness” is a large factor in warlike uses, {life of The Times contest editor the industrial areas where labor shortages exist. |

37 Indiana Cities Included In Analysis.

The later the st : _|since last Monday. | : r Stage of develop- | The first part of the judging found |

ment at which the process ofl h td . clandestine , operations begin, the|'¢_ three brave men working at a

report explained, the “less time and |$I°% Pace because of their horror

. » ns iat viewing creations that challenged | i fewer plants” are necessary to pro- 3 . 8€d | ta] of nearly 5000 v y p > P the wildest stretch of their imagi- y 5 ysversns craig

duce atomic weapons. {allowances under the G.I. bill of} The document was a 22-page re- tions i the fist “trizht" | rights and more than 2000 nonport of the United Nations atomic |, vii ng. the, Jy fright” they | eterans drawing regular benefits energy commission's scientific and | a stoma (as nearly as|ranks high among the capital's list technical committee, It represented |b eh 0; e atrocities . . . some the first small vestige of unanimous 9 MH xX he NR horrible to be agreement yet- achieved by the [PFD ed in 8 -Timeg, Uni p ssi i : { : " » Ld led States, Russia, Britain and | IT. WASN'T long, however, until the nine other nations on the com- RT ———— x 4 dios fone of the judges (no names, please) | mission on the subject of .interna- | y,jiowed two aspirin tablets which ional r : - { Honal control of atomie: power. a contestant had attached to i TROLLEYS HALTED

Importance Is psychological loutside flap of his drawing with |

Publision of the report signaled AGAIN BY WALKOUT

{the notation: “In case of emergency,

The state chamber charges that out of the state's 45,000 benefit claimants 30,000 are veterans.

a resumption of the long-delayed - political discussions of the atomie take these: control problem, The paper was to d be handed formally to the atomic commission's committee No. 2 (po-

After the judges announce their ecision, the winning drawing—or . photograph—will be sent to New | HOE to End Pittsburgh | York for judging in the national

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litical) on ‘Wednesday morning, contest for which there is a $500 Power Strike Dim. when the committee's next step Will| 5rize, The Times will pay the local | be decided. |winner $25. The next ‘four “best” | PITTSBURGH, Sept. 28 (U.P. — |

the Musuem of Modern Art,

- SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1946

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3 Oct, 8. Under the Meanwhile there was no prospect | Mr, Thompson said, it takes about we have just been.” York expect to announce their de- |°f ending the crippling strike of ({wo months for an industry petition | .

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"PRICE FIVE CENTS

Turkey Will Resist

ASSERTS MEAT CRISIS TO EASE WITHIN MONTH

‘OPA Official Says Bumper

Crops Will Provide Livestock Feed.

18 Stores Here Face Suits, Page 3: Vegetarians Aren't Worried, Page 7; Can't Eat Ceilings, an editorial, Page 8.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 28 (U, P),

| —Deputy OPA Chief Geoffrey Baker

predicted today the meat shortage will start to ease up in the latter part of October, but warned there maw be some recurring shortages next spring. Mr. Baker said in a radio address that the bumper corn and wheat crops was ‘making it easier for farmers. to feed livestock and “there is good reason to expect improved supplies in both beef and pork, beginning with the latter part of October.” “Supplies should continue to be fairly good from then on through the year,” he said. “Through the spring of 1947, there will probably be little variations up and down, mainly seasonal in character.”

OPA Denies Blame

meat controls should increase the

WASHINGTON, Sept. 28 (U. P.).—The eight-column headline on page one of the Washington .Times-Herald | gnarning edition y was: - “Only 87 meatless days until Christmas.”

supply since producers will ‘predictable prices” in herds. Furthermore, he said, when the livestock does reach the market there will be more meat per animal

have

because of the improved feed situa-| Indianapolis is not listed among |tion and it will be available under | 8) : {told the the 37 cities where unemployment |the lower prices established by OPA has the longest payroll, but its to- | ceilings.

Mr. Baker's prediction of better supplies by late October was good

news to Democratic strategists, who are hoping fervently for an early enough slaughter to ease the shortof major employers age before ‘the Nov. 5 elections.

President Truman himself closad the door on two suggested remedies he turned thumbs down on jacking up or abolishing price controls on meat. Chairman Roy L. Thompson, of

the price decontrol board, dampened

any hopes for immediate board ac-|

. " [views were voiced by Marshal JoseL| trol petition. Mr. Thompson, who |

fears the shortage is destined to| last for. “some time,” said it would

tion on the beef industry's decon-

be late November at the soonest before the. board could act in the meat situation.

Decontrol Petition Due

on The beef industry advisory com-| privately that the scientific report's {gent to New York to become a part | Service again today as streetcar ‘mittee is expected to petition Secre-| added. “We are going ‘to need lead-!damage estimated at $5 million,

PERSONAL STORY OF A

DRUG ADDICT— .

‘When You Go On the Stuff You Are Headed Downhill’

(Second of a Series of Articles)

just naturally goes downhill when

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[ “medicine” from a “legitimate phy|siclan.” Then he says,

{no more morphine would be forthcoming. eH 8 wi ih COX now is in the county jail, awaiting trial on an armell robbery charge. He is accused of several | drug store holdups in which mor- { phine was the loot. When arrested Sept. 18 at 421 | Massachusetts ave. Cox, according [to detectives, was “hopped up.” He carried a toy pistol, opium, a glass syringe and 28 morphine tablets. | Cox has a big-boned frame that is hunched and gnarled now. His | wan face is furrowed with wrinkles. {When he talks, he winces as if in | constant pain, He is a tall blond with once-handsome features, ” » » | IN ADDITION to his last arrest, |he had faced 18 other charges in (five different cities. But he was con- | victed on only two charges, serving 110 days for drunken driving and a |year and a day for possession of narcotics. | ; Here's his personal, fragmentary

\according to the State Chamber of | Mr. Baker denounced charges account of his descent down the (tHat price controls were responsible primrose path: {for the current shortage, saying the| cause was heavy marketings while We played baseball at Garfield park. | controls were off. Actually, he said, I was the pitcher. ,., When I was |

“lI was born on the South side.

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PEACE CONFIDENCE

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‘Reaffirms Belief in Talk at

West Point.

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WEST POINT, N. Y., Sept. 28 (U. P.). — President Truman, nostalgic over his own failure to make “the S. military academy years ago, nation's future army |officers today that he was confident of “permanent peace” in the future world. | But he urged the West Point cadets to prepare themselves for national leadership which he [thought would prove as necessary lin peace as in war. The President, here for the ArmyOklahoma footbail- game this afternoon and a general inspection of academy activities, spoke informally to ‘the 2100 cadets at their noon meal, This was his first reaffirmation his peace belief since similar

V. Stalin from Moscow. The Presidént was frank to say

He blames his plight on a twoInjuries. sustained in the crash, says Cox, led to his narcotics habit, his decline into “bad company,” his police record, Until the recent crackdown on dope, Cox says he obtained his

his phy-| |sician telephoned him and told him |

VOICED BY TRUMAN ave, an associate of the former fed-

By SHERLEY UHL WALTER RAY COX, 37, Indianapolis narcotics addict, says “a man

he starts using the stuff.” car auto crash near South Bend in

EX-DOPE AGENT FACES ARREST

Man Sought in Probe Here Believed in Kentucky. .

U. 8. deputy marshals of the Kentucky district today were expected to arrest Bernard D. Peterson, former narcotics agent here, who is thought to be living near Junction City, Ky. Peterson, according to R. A, Gayle, chief deputy marghal at Lexington, Ky, was indicted by a» federal grand jury here last week on charges of conspiring to violate the narcotic laws. Peterson's wife, reached at Danville, Ky., said her husband had been there this morning, had left, but was expected later today. She refused to verify whether deputy marshals from Lexington had arrived- to serve a capias on the forer narcotics agent, U. 8. District Attorney B. Howard |Caughran has not revealed whether | Peterson was among those indicted. Charles R. Kehler, dope addict indicted jointly with Peterson, surrendered here yesterday. Associate Indicted 315 N.

James Wooden, Senate {eral agent and Kehler, also was in!dicted on similar charges. A detainer was placed on Wooden at the Indiana state farm, where he is serving a 90-day senterice following {conviction on narcotics charges in | Municipal. court several weeks ago. The W. New York st. apartment of Kehler served as a center of operations for widespread traffic in | narcotics, city police learned sev{eral months ago. They immediately began an investigation of dope ac{tivities here, Federal agents were

{notified and Peterson's resignation

{ followed. | “Narcotics

were being obtained

| cal physicians, the investigation dis-

closed. Three physicians testified |

| before “the grand jury. |

before Federal Judge Robert H.|

| Baltasll,

'8 DEAD, 14 MISSING

SAN ANTONIO, Tex., Sept. 28 (U,

‘Extraordinary

‘Demand by Russia

ARMY ALERTED IN DEFENSE OF VITAL STRAITS

Measures” Taken to Prepare for ‘Any Eventuality.’

Read an editorial, “Waiting for the Follow-Through,” Page 8; ° also “Yugoslav-Italian Boundary Decided,” Page 2.

ISTANBUL, Turkey, Sept. 28 (U, P.). — Responsible Turkish quarters

[said today that the government af

Turkey has taken “extraordinary military measures and is réady for any eventuality” as a result of the Soviet note urging joint defense of the Dardanelles, j Political commentators and the Turkish press insisted that Turkey cannot accept Russian demands for Joint defense of the strategic: Dare danelles and Bosporus straits bee tween the Aegean and the Black seas, oa They said the Turkish governe ment's position is that defense of the vital straits should be intere nationalized as specified in the expired Montreaux convention, Officials ‘Depressed’ Official quarters here were visibly depressed by the Soviet note, ace cording to these sources. They claimed that the note pore tends an “abnormal occurrence,” but they expressed doubt thas Russia would attack Turkey. Responsible sources quoted Turke ish military commanders as saying that the general staff was on the alert and “would be ready to fight in five minutes to defend the nae tion's rights.”

USSR Asks Right

To Arm Dardanelles

By M. S. HANDLER United Press Staff Correspondent MOSCOW, Sept. 28.—The Soviet press revealed today that Russia has proposed joint defense of the

through prescriptions issued by -~

Dardanelles by Russo - Turkish forces. A Soviet note warned Turkey

against taking military measures with non-Black sea powers. The note, dispatched Sept. 24, charged that Turkey's reply to Russia's request for revision of the Montreaux convention governing access to the straits was in some points “incompatible with the dignity of the Soviet Union.” The Russian note asserted thas the Turks. had turned down “in

| Wholesale manner” every possibility

{ Kehler will be arraigned Friday | of Joint examination of the Dare

danelles question with Russia. This, said the Soviet note, was in direct contradiction to Turkey's

| expressed desires to restore friendly

AFTER TEXAS FLOOD|

relations with Russia. Wants 2-Way Talks First The Soviet note took the position

that in the pacifist period follow-|P.).—Eight were known dead to-|that Russia must share in the

ing any war the people reach the day in a flood that turned the sleepy | Dardanelles defense in order to in=

{point where they are “sorry they ever saw a soldier, a sailor or a

| mal ine,

{of the exhibit to be presented in] “Orkers called a union meeting to tary of Agriculture Clinton P. An-| ership now and from now on just| Eight bodies had been- recovered, {discuss support. of striking power derson. for decontrol shortly after gg badly as we have needed it in/and Sheriff Owen Kilday said 14 price -control fact, | this great emergency through whigh persons had been reported missing

LOSES DIAMOND RING

|San Antonio river into a swirling

| torrent |

that left hundreds homie- |

“Don’t ‘let that Worry vou” ‘He less, many injured and. property that only Black sea powers

| Rostatia, Bulgaria and Turkey.

sure the security of the Black Sea powers, It restated the Soviet contention ould participate in Dardanelles control, The Black sea powers are Russia,

The Russians rejected Turkish

{Of these, he said, four “were mili- | Suggestions for a conference of pow= [tary police who- “almost certainly” |€rs who signed the Montreux cone

Lain [cision on Oct. 4. The national win- | 3400 employees of the Duquesnel!to reach the board, {drowned, J vention, plus the United States, ta CHICAGO, Sept. 28 (U. P.).— e document made only One | ning conception will be presented in | Light Co. independent union before| The industry can appeal to the| Police said today Mrs. Agnes H.| Hundreds of persons still clung | consider revising that pact. Russia Henry Morgenthau Jr. and Harold concrete recommendation: [Li'l Abner comic strip on Oct, 21, |tonight. A meeting between union board only afler its petition is Wetsell, Marott hotel, lost a $2000/to rooftops and trees awaiting. Said there must be extensive direct L. Ickes, former .members of the The maintenance and strength- | eni——————— leaders and company officials was turned down by Mr. Anderson, Mr.| diamond ring in a downtown de- rescue today 36 hours after the flash | Soviet-Turkish negotiations first. Roosevelt cabinet: called. for. & ening of the international commu- |[M'NUTT-DAVIES FIRM HINTED (scheduled this afternoon. Union Truman's opposition to decontrol partment store Thursday when she flood swept this historic city. Count- | A British foreign office spokes=

Truman-Stalin-Attlee today to hasten the end of “terrifying” talk about war, They told a week-end confer-| ence’ of liberals from 31 states they must help elect a “progressive” congress this fall to press for such | a -big three meeting.

EGYPT'S CABINET QUITS ALEXANDRIA, Egypt, Sept. 28 (U. P.).~The Egyptian cabinet resigned today as a result of growing | opposition to Premier Sidky Pasha’s prolongatiori of negotiations over the Anglo-Egyptian treaty. :

LOCAL TEMPERATURES

6a.m.....65 10am... 17 7a3.m..... 65. 11a. m..... 75 8a.m.... 67 12 (Noon).. 80 9am . 68 l1pm..... 83

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Staff of the Scripps-Howard Newspapers

of scientific information and an in- | —Philippines: Ambassador Paul Vv. bership meeting tonight creasing awareness among all sci- | McNutt, who is expected to resigii| ~~ 5 entists of one another's research |his post within a month to enter activities would assist in making |private law practice, may become less likely the application of re- associated with Joseph E. Davies, search talent, to clandestine ac- former ambassador to Moscow, in a | tivities.” [law firm, it was reported here today”

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WASHINGTON

A Weekly, Sizeup by the Washington

Truman statement, despite.the Anderson speech, despite the Hannegan backdown, look for the administration to surrender eventually on meat controls. In big cities it will stake several weeks, perhaps a month, after controls are lifted before much meat reaches

WASHINGTON, Sept. 28.—Despite the

retail stores, There's a political precedent for surrender. During

the 1944 presidentia] campaign | meat rationing was suspended. It | ‘resumed again in December, after | i

trol. Agriculture: Secretary An- | derson jx ‘the key man to watch. | Economics works also in direc- * tion of higher prices, With farm income at the highest level in history, livestock men can afford to wait for administration tq meet their terms. Farm marketings® this year are éxpect-

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election. Democratic politicos are in a panic, will’ keep on saying they can't win without meat. Surrender may take form of increased prices rather than decon-

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| would deny it.

jon a new pair of gloves,

Butler Opens Football Season Against Illinois State

Car NS ae in we i Miss Patty Stoo, is no slouch when it coniek to football form, as witness her stance bedide hefty Bulldog linesmeén’ poised to uncork

the 1946 season against Eastern Illinois Normal, /The two teams clash today in the Butler bowl. Oh yes, the linesmen whose thunder Patty steals in this picture are Knute Dobkins, sophomore end, and Capt. Wally Potter, senior guard (right), All are from Indianapolis. . : ‘ “a ? : l ; F

_|said, ‘because

+ “stove league season” be-

aonlerence nity of scientists, the free exchange| WASHINGTON, Sept. 28 (U. R.). [leaders will report to a mass mem- made it certain that Mr. Anderson|laid it on the counter while trying less others bad fled to higher ground { Man in London interpreted the Ito escape the rising waters,

Russian note as “an attempt” to by-pass” ‘the Montreaux convens tion.

Turkey Alone Not Strong Enough

Turkey, the note said, showed during the war that.she alone was

{unable to defend the straits against

axis ship movements, “The Soviet Union considers it in dispensable that defense of the straits should be carried out by the united forces of Turkey and the U. 8. 8. R.)” the note said. \ Russia pointed out that a Turkish note had rejected the original Soviet Joint-defense proposals as “income patible with Turkish “sovereignty.” This was incorrect, the Soviet reply Russian proposals would not infringe on Turkish sove ereign rights,

Baseball Deal

In a local record -player transaction, the Indianapo- . lis Indians today landed seven pastimers front the Pittsburgh Pirates,

It's the Tribe's opening drive to rebuild the Redgkins for the 1947 campaign

- and gives the club manage-

ment a head start in the

fore the frost is om the pumpkin, i i