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57th YEAR—NUMBER 241

° TUESDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1946

e Indianapolis Times

FORECAST: Cold wave tonight with lowest temperatures about 10. “Continued fair and cold tomorrow.

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[Vandals Afte

Emerson Ave. Auto Collision Injures Four

Road Left Unguarded; |

Quick Arrests Ordered

An offensive against vandals who have been tearing down stop signs throughout the county in recent weeks was launched today by Sheriff Al Magenheimer following the injury of four persons, two of them seriously, today. Orders to arrest and jmmediately bring to county jail were issued by the sheriff after this morning's crash at Emerson ave. and old Shelbyville rd., an extension of Carson ave. Injured in the crash were:

Eight-year-old Sue Ann Mitchell,| Mr. and Mrs. R. E.| &

daughter of Mitchell, 810 N. Bolton ave, critical, at City hospital. Mrs. Tennie Hughes Benham, 41, of 3340 N. Meridian st, seriously injured, at- St. Vincent's hospital, internal and head injuries.

Mrs. Paul Gentry, 28, of R. R. 6, .

Box 59, shocked and cut, City hospital. Mrs. Rosa M. Schussier, R. R. 6, Box 59. The accident occurred when a ear driven by Mrs. Schussler, being driven north on Emerson, collided with the car driven by Mrs. Benham, being driven southeast on the old Shelbyville rd. Sue Ann Mitchell and Mrs. Gentry were passengers in Mrs. Schussler’s car. Vandals had torn down the signs on Emerson ave. leaving the approach in old Shelbyville rd. unguarded. Half a dozen similar acts of vandalism have been reported. The cars were demolished. Fragments of both machines were scat tered 100 feet Irom the wreck in each direction, Boy of 15 Given Life Term for Slaying WAYNESBURG, Pa., Dec. 17 (U. P.).—Donald Mullenax, a 15-year-

old orphan, sobbed himself to sleep last night after he was sentenced to life imprisonment for the thrillslaying of Mrs, Kathryn Fletcher, 63, a farmer's wife, The boy pleaded guilty to stabbing the woman in the back with a butcher knife last July 10 because he wanted the thrill of seeing someone die. The boy was crying as Judge J. I. Hook passed sentence and said, “were it not for his extreme youth, the sentence would have been the most‘ severe possible to pass on a human being.” Report Denied India Would Quit Empire NEW DELHI, Dec. 17 (U, P.).— Pandit Jawaharlal, Nehru, vice president of the Indian interim government, today denied a report which quoted him as saying India would vote herself out of the British empire within three days. “1 sald nothing of the kind” Nehru said in a statement issued

at Allahabad. “This report is completely without foundation.”

Egypt's New Premier

Wins Confidence Vote

CAIRO, Egypt, Dec. 17 (U.P.).— Premier Mahmout Fahmy Nokiashy Pasha won = vote of confidence in the chamber of deputies yesterday after he promised his government would use “every legitimate method” to force British evacuation of troops from Egypt and to cement Egyptian unity with the Sudan. The vote was 155 votes for the government, 21 ‘for. the opposition and seven abstaining.

Korean Democrats Call Of Boycott:

SEOUL, Korea, Dec. 17 (U, P.).— Democratic party leaders today told Lt. Gen. John R. Hodge, American commander in Korea, that they would attend the next session of the interim legislative assembly. ? 7 Previously they had decided to boycott the session because of dissatisfaction with elections.

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TIMES INDEX

Inside Indpls. 15

Amusements. ‘20

Aviation ..... 15\1abor ....... 13 Boois ...... . 26 Ruth Millett... 15 Ned Brooks .. 12| Movies ,..... 20 Business .... 12| Obituaries .., 17 Carnival .,... 16| Dr. O'Brien.. 17 Classified... 24-26 F. C. Othman 15 Comics ..... H:Raglo ...... 27 Crossword ... 27|Serial ....... 28 Denny ...... . 5/Sports .... 32-23 Editorials .., 16|Stranahan ,. 22 Fashions ..., 19| Teen Talk ... 19 Forum ..... . 16{ John Thale ., 8 Meta Given., 19| Washington.. 16 Don. Hoover.. 16| Weather Map 10 Indiana Sige. 16) Women's... 18-19 In Indpls. ... 7 World Affairs 16

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| How Criminals'Grow—

Vera Jean Loved Life— And Now She Prays in Jail

Just a Pert Anderson High School Kid | 3 Months Ago, Drifts Into Murder Case

(Fourth of a Series)

By EDWIN C. HEINKE ! Times City Editor » . The juke box blared at the Corner Lunch near Anderson high school. High school kids babbled teen-age talk amid the hot strains of ‘‘Buttermilk Skies” and “Rickety Rick-Shaw.” They sipped: cokes and ate sandwiches. One of the liveliest was a pert little girl by the pame of Vera Jean Hornbeck. SET lay i . into the Corner Lunch. Somebody Vera loved life. She was 8 | new him. Somebody introduced good girl. She came from 2 him to Vera Jean. They liked each Christian, family where the piano!gther right from the start.

had hymn books on the rack instead She Cries and Prays

§ . OF popular muse] Vera Jean Hornbeck's life

vp lashen Vera) changed abruptly. Jean's world was| 3 . the high school,! Today she sits and cries and prays ’| in the Shelby county jail at Shelby-

Se Corner Lunch: ville. She and Billy Price, her © Methodist church, | S¥eetheart, Bill Johnson and Mary : She went to Sun-| Ruth Ward face 1irst degtee muster slaying of State

: | charges for the © «lay school in the... oper Herbert Wade Smith.

MOming, shurch) At her home at 1203 W. Second in the evening, prayer mee ting] t Anderson, her hard-working Wednesday. { father, Everett Hornbeck, is heart7 of broken. Vera's mother is in Ander-

One fateful ! . son hospital, critical : yer | noon three months ago, a young fel- p erilically Ml, covering

low named Billy Price sauntered (Continued on Page 11—Column 1) |

Mr. Heinke

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Unpaid Bilbo Alimony Debt ‘ Life Threatened

Is Revealed =

WASHINGTON, Dec. 17 (U. P| ~—A senate war investigating sub- | committee received evidence today

Phone Call Made | To Police Officer

pay alimony to his former wife. Mr. Bilbo’s attorney, Jackson, testified that he and Mis- threat had been made to kill Alvin

together put up $2250 to buy up | bribe two New York Giani players Bilbo'’s note to A. L. Shushan, from| Because of the threat made in a whom the money was borrowed. He [telephone call ‘to the unidentified said the senator never has repaid |police officer, assistant district atthem. |torney George Monaghan asked Mr. Jackson testified that the!that Paris be held without bail for note was bougit after Edward Ter- his own protection. ry, then Senator Bilho's secretary, | The report that the telephone {said Shushan was “threatening” to call had been made backed up { - {belief of the district attorney's office | | (Continued on Page 6—Column 5) that the 28-year-old Paris was ess T EE merely a ‘front-man” for.a big-time

|New U. S. Station {New Jersey gambling {which operated on a nation-wide

To Beam to Russia basis.

—A state department spokesman] revealed today that a powerful ra-! dig transmitter in Munich will soon!

begin relaying U. 8. information| Naples General Strike

service programs beamed to the . . {near east, Russia and the Balkans, | Called in Food Crisis NAPLES, Dec. 17

| The station will broadcast half| hour programs in 15 languages, the dreds of thousands of workers in

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spokesman said. He denied its pri-' Naples and Naples province began flaming oil-covered water around at prescribed ages.

mary objective was to beam broad- a general strike today to protest] casts to Soviet Russia and said it food conditions. would cover “certain points” which| ‘The confederation of labor, which! cannot be reached by the Algiers called the strike, said it was in pro-! transmitter used by USIS since fest against high food prices and] 11942, | poor distribution of food in Naples. |

National Coach-of-Year PI

Gets $1000 Award |i yi By Scripps-Howard .

By ART WRIGHT The Indianapolis Times’ entry in the Scripps-Howard Coach-of-the-Year design contest today won the national grand prize. Grant W. Christian, 7033 College ave, created the design. He will receive the $1000 award offered by The Times and other Scripps-How-ard newspapers, Mr. Christian's drawing was forwarded to New York City for the final judging after it won the contest recently staged here by The Times. Announcement of the national award was made in New York, The local artist's creation will be the permanent design for plaques awarded annually to the nation's outstanding football coach. The Coach-of-the-Year award, made each year since 1935 by The Times and other Scripps- Howard newspapers, is determined on the basis of a poll of some 500 leading coaches, Bo- McMillin, Indiana's mentor, won the award last year. All coaches who have been designated since 1935 also will receive a plague bearing Mr, Christian's design. E It was selected by the three judges, Doan Corwell, nationally famed illustrator; Adolph A. Weinman, distinguished sculptor, and Lou Little, coach of Columbia upiversity. It was chosen because of its pictorial merit, its sculptural possibilities, its timelessness, and because it epitomizes the spirit of the

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$1000 WINNER—Grant W.

Co. local advertising agency. Mr.

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" [to take $39 million worth of ship-

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¥ntered .as Sccond-Class Matter at Postoffice Indianapolis, Ind

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House Committee i Probes Disposals

| WASHINGTON, Dec. 17 (U. P.).—Counsel for a con- | gressional committee charged today the U. S. maritime commission paid $2,500,000 to the California Shipbuilding Corp.

vard facilities and materials off its | hands. | Marvin Coles, counsel of the Louse {merchant marine committee, made the charge. The committee today opened its {public investigation of the maritime commission's disposal of gov-|ernment-built shipyards. Mr. Coles said the commission entered into a similar type of dis- | posal transaction with Bethlehem{Fairfield shipyard at Baltimore. He did not give any figures about that

case.

No Bidding Requested | “Information developed by the | committee's staff,” Mr, Coles said. | “indicates . that these transactions! 'were consummated without amy | 'public advertising and without com | petitive bids being requested. i “The justification given for these! transactions was that under the! terms of the lease (for the ship-| vard sites), the commission was|

by oI. | chbligated to remove the suovres {01 @S Recounted and restore the land on which the] { yards were built to its original | 10 P .

dition and the purchasers assumed! the obligation.” Tally Leaves Court | Election Unchanged |

today. Left to right: Char an official watcher; George Mazelin, commissioner, and @

Mr. Coles said the commission spent $600 million for shipyards during the war, and disposal of | A recount of votes cast in the

the yards is one of the government's major surplus problems. { Surplus Material Included } Lone of Jas, Stapceed t 5 te first 10 precincts of the Nov. 5th | £ . yardsi in | Mr. Coles said. “The government election today showed ro net gain | |invesied over $25 million .in facili- for either candidate in the con-|

RECOUNT UNDER ‘WAY—A recount of votes asked by Judge Mark Rhaads

in the juvenile court election won by Judge-elect Joseph Hoffmann got under way | the commission had “debated long

les Stockinger, election commissioner; Joseph Newberg, K. Johnson, commissioner; Judge-elect Hoffmann; Joseph Joseph C. Wallace, watcher. .

mans %. U.S. Asks Showdown On Atomic Control

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Make Up Mind, Baruch Tells UN Committee

Russia Balks at American Plan

LAKE SUCCESS; N..Y, Dec. 17 (U. P.).—The United States today demanded the first showdown vote on its world atomic control plan. Russia immediately balked at the American request, Bernard M. Baruch, chief American delegate to the United Nations atomic energy commission declared

| enough” the question of how to develop and control atomic energy. Mr, Baruch said the 12-nation {body was “under compulsions” placed upon it by the United Na-

10 Above Zero Forecast Here

Cold to Continue Remainder of Week OCAL TEMPERATURES

Pictures Indiana

In Good Old Days

A Hoosier town in 1810. That's the background of Jeannette Covert Nolan's new novel, “Gather Ye Rosebuds.” beginning

— i New Times Serial |

as a serial in The Times tomor- L row, i Bam, ... 20 10am . .2 Indiana small-town life in.those ' 7 a.m. ... 25 11 am ... 27 good old days could be amusing, | 8 a. m. . 24 12 (noom) .. 28 even exciting, what with local | 9 a. m. 24 29

1pm... scandals, oil swindles and other | .

. | ties and had on hand an estimated test for judge of juvenile court. | Recounting of tabulations on 400 |

$14 million in surplus materials. |

activities mmvolving a group of

| Plunging teraperatures will hit a |

tions general assembly's sweeping | proposal for the ultimate abolition {of atomic weapons and world-wide | reduction of all other armaments. “The time has come to match our | words with action,” Mr, Baruch | said. Veto Is Issue {| The American delegate called for action on the so-called Baruch plan, Russian delegate Andre A, Gromyko said the plan was “not in conformity” with the new disarmament resolution approved unanimously by the United Nations genral assembly,

es 7 HOME |

“This yard was disposed of by

| interesting characters.

low of 10 degrees by tomorrow |

that ' Senator Theodore (3. Bilbo| NEW YORK, Dec. 17 (U. P)—| (D. Miss.) still owes $2250 of $3000/A sensational new development in| faced “not only with determining! he horrowed in 1938 in order to 'he professional football “fix” scan- the reasonableness of the so-called dal was revealed today. A member ‘sale’ cf these yards, but also with W2¢ defeated for Je-election by Jo-

(U. P).—Hun- -

Grant Christian, Local Arti aque Prize

grand prize in te Scripps-Howard Coach-of-the-Yeas Plagy sign contest, is shown at work at his drawing board at Keeling and

paying the contractor $2500,000 to take the facilities and the surplus equipment.” Mr. Coles said the committee was

Forrest (of the police ‘department said a deciding whether tHE commission ~°

had acted in the best interests of

sissippi Banker Robert M. Newton J. Paris, the gambler who tried to the taxpayer in leasing rather than!

condemning these sites and in erecting facilities costing hundreds of millions of dollars on leased property, knowing that the property owners could require its removal.”

Here's a Man

Barred From Jail ST. CLAIRSVILLE, O. Dec. 17 {(U., P..--Belmont County Sheriff S. C. Barricklow today barred John

syndicate Brehm “forever” from the county!

jail because .of too frequent arrests The sheriff said that the ariesis

FRANKFURT, Dec. 17 (U. P.).| The betting scandal which broke ©f Brehm, who usually was to be way

found in either the county home or district - jails, were “becoming a burden” on the county

Hawaii Fire Quenched PEARL HARBOR, Dec. 17 (U.P)

Quick-thinking navy fire-fighters —who poured tons of foamite on

two burning drydocks --were cred-

|ited today with preventing the fire! from destroying the Pearl Harbor |

yard dock and other installations. All the flames were put out within an hour and a half yesterday.

st, Wins

Christian, winner of the national deChristian draws left handed.

‘voting machines was stared this| here's romance. too, but the morning by three recount commis- | story is mostly about the town, sioners appointed by circuit court. | the people, what they did and Re-tabulation of the votes was| thought in thise days. asked by Judge Mark W. Rhoads | Slated for Hollywood production of juvenile court, Republican, who | next year, “Gather Ye Rosebuds”

! is a delightful novel. The whole Hoffmann, -Demoeral, by’ family will like it. a majority of 1886 votes. Read The Times tomorrow,

Don't miss the first installment of “Gather Ye Rosebuds.”

Discrepancies were found in only two of the 10 precincts recounted | up to noon today. In the 12th pre-

cinct, Wayne . township, Judge — — Rhoads gained one vote and in. the ‘third precinct, 11th ward, ae Wounded Suspect {Elect Hoffmann gained one vote, | All the other eight ‘precincts were [the same as the official tabulation, |

Fights to Live

Hollywood Held Peril to Family |

BOSTON, Dec. 17 (U. P).—The! to preserve family life in America is to “clean out that dis- | integrated group of people in Holly- | wood,” according to Prof. Carle C.| Zimmerman, noted Harvard soci- | {ologist. { Prof. Zimmerman recently recom- | mended abridgment of citizenship |

{rights for those who failed to marry |

Hendren

Betty

| He said last night at the Old! William S. Hendren fought for South church that Hollywood's life at City hospital today after highly-publicized love affairs are a Operations which removed the police

{detriment to normal family life. bullets from his head and stomach

| (has a purely synthetic, childless [arrest yesterday on suspicion of population,” he said. “The people |Selling stolen goods.

|are uneasy, don't have any chil- Meanwhile today, Hendren's girl

dren and are completely lost.’ companion, blond, tight - lipped | Prof. Zimmerman told the Boston | Betty GerMainer, 20, was ar- | Congregational club that Emperor | raigned before Municipal Judge

Augustus of Rome dealt with a John Niblack on a vagrancy charge. similar class of society by forbidding | She is being held pending investigaits members to participate in “dig- tion of the marketing of stolen nified marriage” and denying them table model radios. : redress in the courts for un-| Hendren and the girl were ar-

faithfulness. | (Continued on “Page 6—Column 6)

| Pride, Determination—

Stark Names 5 Trial Deputies Request to H

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(Read an Editorial, “Prosecutor | Appoidtments,” Page 16.)

Five more attorneys were appoint- | ed today by Prosecutor-elect Jud-| son, L, Stark as trial deputies for | at

the police

by collecting junk.

station. This is one of those “little” stor The new ap- Child serves pointees who will Let's call the mother Mrs. Smith take office with

is to keep off social records. Deserted by her husband, Mrs Smith makes a living by collecting boxes from a chain grocery ware-

Mr. Stark Jan, 1, § include George S. Wilson Jr., honorably discharged

house near her home. She sells from. - ine usu the boxes to neighbors for kindling recently with ihe Her returns, an investigator reports rank of colonel

is “negligible income.” after three years’ ® glig

”n n ” service in the THE SAME investigator, a woman European war theater. . = {seasoned by many years of charity Prosecutor-elect Stark said Mr. work, found herself touched by the Wilson is one of the staff members plight of this mother, who feels her

George Wilson |

deputyship. Temporarily, Mr. Wil- ‘more to her children. The invesson, son of George 8S. Wilson Sr. |[tigator wrote on Mrs, Smith's apformer. superintendent of the state |plicatioh: , blind school, will be assigned to, “Living conditions in this home criminal court trials. |are pathetic. Family lives in a conOther attorneys appointed to the |demned house, unable to find anystaff by Mr. Stark include Robert thipg else the mother Go -atord,

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“The whole of Southern California | —bullets fired when he tried to flee|

who may be elevated to the chief husband's failure obligates her even |

{ morning, the weather bureau fore- | cast today.

After drizzling rain and relative picture

imildness yesterday, hanged with {clearing skies dur- | ing the night and {by 8 a. m. today | temperatures already had skidded

the

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to a crisp 24 de- 4 : hy i grees. " y | Skies will re- Ra N (main clear in Tn- [Nel Simms: { dianapolis and in go! CO. A

most of Indiana, | the forecast said, { while the mercury | continues its downward way.

I was scheduled to remain

Cold

{of the week, a fitting prelude to the | official beginning of winter at 4:54 a. m, Sunday. Arriving in Indiana during the night, the cold wave fanned out to blanket the entire Great Lakes region and moved swiftly over the lower Mississippi valley in one di-

rection and toward the Atlantic seaboard in the other. Texas

83 in | The mercury dipped to 16 de{grees below zero during the night at Pembina, N. D, and two above at Minneapolis early today, The temperature was expecied to go to !five above at Chicago by tomorrow. In contrast, Laredo, Tex. had a {high of 83 degrees yesterday and [temperatures in the low 60's were {reported as far north as the Ohio and lower Missouri valleys | The cold wave came in the wake {of the most severe storm of the {year on the northern Great Lakes | yesterday, the day afier the close of | the navigation season. The weatherman said the cold | spell would last at least until the {latter part of the week, when tem‘peratures would return to normal,

Clothe-A-Child Answers

elp Mother

Neighbors Seek Aid for Woman Who Collects Junk to Enable Her to Care for Two Children

By DONNA MIKELS A ) ! THIS IS the story of a mother criminal court and municipal courts termination to provide for her children is so great that she makes a living

a mother whose fierce de-

ies about the “big” people Clothe-A-

because one of her strongest desires

| The Times Mile-O-Dimes

a located on W. Washington St. in front of 1. 8. Ayres & Co. and 8. S. Kresge Co. Funds used for Clothe-A-Child.

Each line of dimes is exactly 1/60th of a mile . . , 60 . lines means a full Mile, Today's Measurement | 391/; lines (3476 #1.)

cold | , | throughout most of the remainder

Mr. Gromyko rejected flatly the American proposal that the Big Five powers give up their right to use | the veto in the United Nations security council in cases involving

trol treaty, ‘ : The Soviet delegate said no reierence to the veto was contained fh the recently adopted assembly disarmament proposal, and that if the United States had insisted on

writing it in, “unanimity would have been impossible.” - The resolution, directing the

| security council fo begin negotia{tions for a sweeping program to abolish atomic weapons and reduce other armaments, was passed unanimously in the assembly Saturday. British Delegate Backs U. S. Sir Alexander Cadogan of Britain seconded Mr. Baruch’s proposal that {the substance of the American plan be written into a forthcoming report of the activities and conclusions of the atomic body. But Canada, the third partner jwith the United States and Britain in development of the atomic bomb, injected a quick plea for caution after accepting “the principles” of the American resolution as gener-

Gen, Andrew G. L. McNaughton (of Canada warned in effect that unless the conclusions of the commission dre supported “by peoples everywhere,” they will not work effectively. i ‘Crucial,’ Says Chairman A few minutes earlier Dr, Manuel Sandoval Vallarta of Mexico, incoming chairman of the commission, told representatives of the other 11 nations on the body that the atomic negotiations had reached “a crucial stage.” He said there had been “good cause for encouragement in the last few days,” adding that the goal of workable atomic control was “in sight” and that the commission conceivably could in “this season offer to the people of the world the good news’ they have been waiting for.” The atomic commission is required to make a report to the United Nations security council not later than Dec, 31. Mr, Baruch today asked the commission to adopt as part of its forthcoming report the formal resolution which he submitted at the last meeting of the commission Dec, 5. That resolution outlined in detail the American atomic control plan, :

M¢NUTT MANILA-BOUND

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 17 (U, P).—Paul V, McNutt, U, 8. ambassador to the Philippines, took off by plane en route for Manila voday.

ally in accord with Canada’s views,