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False Fire Alarm Proves Work of Bored Baby Sitter

Police Trace Telephone Call to Girl, 16;

Alert Market Owner Trips Paper Bag Bandit By RICHARD LEWIS

THE CASE of the bored

baby sitter was in the hands

of juvenile aid authorities today after the police department finally outwitted a juvenile last night.

The Indiana Belle Telephone Co. helped, but police thought up the idea which led them to.a tormenting teen-ager through the maze

of a four-party line. The baby-sitter, a 16-year-old girl, telephoned police headquarters last night to’ report a fire in the 200 block of N. Tremont ave. Poljce and firemen have been receiving a number of false alarms there, particularly when the teenagers in the neighborhood get together for a party or something. While the police operator held the girl on the line by asking a lot of foolish questions, a de-

tective had the telephone

company trace the call, from a four-party ‘line. Having whittled down their suspects from the 200,000 local subscribers of the company to four, ‘detectives jumped into a cruiser and went to the homes where the phones were listed. One phone had been - discennected. At another of the three addresses they found the girl. She had become bored sitting up with the baby, they said.

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Market Owner's Son Catches Paper Bag Bandit

POLICE ALSO WERE successful last night @. the case of the Paper Bag Bandit, but not without the aid of James R, White, 24, of 402 8. Warman ave, who caught the fellow in the act of lootipg the till of White's Market next door. Mr, White's father operates the market, which stays open all night. Having missed some merchandise earlier this week, Mr, White was

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POLICE WERE probing the mysterious Incident of the Impatient . Accomplice, which obviously resolved itself into a case of Cherchez la Femme, Last night, Mrs. Helen Potts was awakenet! in her bedroom by a burglar flashing a light, Before she could scream, she heard a woman's voice outside in the yard call out in a stage whisper, “Hurry

Mrs. Potts screamed. ‘The burglar fled. Looking out of the window, she saw his woman accomplice fleeing after him.

Double Trouble JAMES H. CURRY of 621 Eddy st., however, Jed the list of last «night's crime victims, His home

himself was hel Mr. Curry told police someone entered his home and took his $56 watch early in the evening. He went out for a walk to get over his loss and was promptly stuck up by a bandit at McCarty and 8. Meridian sts. at 9:30 p. m. The bandit took $79 from

y pe up and robbed.

his victim's wallet,

on the alert early this morning when he spotted a former employee lurking near the market. He saw the man put a paper bag with peepholes over his head, and masquerade into the place, disguised, no doubt, as one of those medium-sized turnips they raise down in southern Indiana. Mr. White captured the paper bag bandit as he was taking $30 from the cash register. Police held the man on a vagrancy charge.’

Femme . Mr. Curry went home and called police again. Then it occurred to him to look under the chair cushion. The $135 in cash he kept hidden under there was gone, :

Reception Committee

WHEN Mr. and Mrs. Oliver H. Hockemeyer drove their car into their garage at 3403 Ralston ave. after midnight, they were held up by two young men who had apparently been lying in wait for them. One of the bandits held Mrs. Hockemeyer while the other at gunpoint took $7 from Mr. Hockemeyer and $10 from his wife's purse.

HUGH QUILL, 31, well-known young Deinocrat, came home at 2 a. m. just in time to meet a burglar leaving via the front door of Mr. Quill's home at 913 N. Audubon rd. Mr. Quill lunged at the burglar, but the fugitivi ped by leaping over the porch railing. Nothing in the house had been taken.

Reporters Make Monkeys Of Quiz Kids—Or Almost

Newspapermen Go fo Town on Slot Machine

That Lets You Torture Yourself for 5¢

By HARMON W. NICHOLS, United Press Staff Correspondent CHICAGO, July 19.—Reporters are smarter than the radio kids—

In some respects.

All right. So the cute little ones Kow | that bastinado is a form of Oriental punishment and not a French general who" passed - -out from

the gout.

They know that David was not the first king of Israel. That the

camelopard is noted for its long feck and not for humps. And that Beethoven never finished the unfinished symphony because he didn’t write it in the first place, Franz Schubert did. But did the kids know that the only walled city in North America is located in Quebec, Canada, instead of Tampico, Mexico? No. Did they know that ‘the cheek pouches of thé pocket gopher are lined on the inside with fur and not nylon? No, That mohair is the fleece of the Angora goat and not the Llama? No. + Or that a dingo is a wild dog native of Australia and not Ontario? No. The reporters had ’em in that last set,

Good Weather For Week-End, Bureau Predicts

6am... 10am... 6 7am.....60 11a m...., 63 8a m.... 61 12 (Noon)., 64 fam... 61 lpm..... 65

Hoosier motorists will find good driving conditions for the week~ end, the weatherman reports. Overcast ® skies scheduled for today will clear by tonight, To-

night's cool weather is expected to

turn somewhat warmer by tomorrow afternoon.

It all came out in an impromptu test of wits before a slot machine gadget called the “telecoin quizzer.” You put in a nickel and select a subject. You have 15 seconds to read each question and poke a button on what you think is the right answer. Good, but Limited Range Naomi Cooks, aged 9; Pat Conlon, 10, and Joel Kupperman, 11, were sharp enough in their own specialties. For instance, Naomi, in pigtails, ribbons and a new straw skimmer, was hot stuff on the comics and celebrities. You couldn’t stump Pat on baseball and Joel was the expert on worldly things. They reeled off the answers with few misses. But In fairness, it should be mentioned they were somewhat handicapped by the fact they ‘had to read the questions— big words and. all—whereas on the air the questions are read to them. After the tests, soft drinks were served. That really stumped the young experts. Joel said he understood newspapermen had to have a little something stronger on the side

The Quiz Kids have been seeing ton many movies.

Denfeld to Rule Pacific Islands

WASHINGTON, July 19 (U, P).

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Call on State To Close Club, Gambling Spot

City Officials Seek

Revocation of Charter City officials have asked the sec-

torious Udell Social club as a gambling center, it was disclosed today.

The request was made by Police Chief Howard Sanders and Safety Board President William H. Remy. They asked the secretary of state to revoke the club's charter two months ago, it was revealed. Thus far, the state office has not acted against the north side spot. . Check on Another ‘Club This move came to light today 4s police said they were watching for gambling activities at another private club, the Marketmen's Social club:at 325 8. New Jersey st. Investigators were admitted to the club several days ago, but were not allowed to see certain rooms.

Having no warrants, they bowed out. Meanwhile, investigation showed

that the Marketmen’'s club president, Lawrence N. Smith, is also listed as secretary of the Udell club. Police have learned, however, that Mr. Smith is now confining attention to the South Side establishment since police raids had discouraged attendance at the Udell club at 2856'2 Clifton st.

Blocked by Court Move

Efforts to close the Udell club, meanwhile, have been blocked by a series of legal maneuvers. The club obtained an injunctiorr| in superior court 5 last week re-| straining police raids while Special Judge George Ober was on the bench. [ Hearing on the restrainer is set for Monday. Meanwhile, the club’s attorney, Lewis Marine, has moved for a change of judge. The motion also will be heard Monday.

against the south side spot. While it was under surveillance, the alcoholic beverages commission issued the place a liquor license three weeks ago.

Whatever Ails Him

1 » It's Not Insomnia Three times was onge too many 8 sleepy cab driver todayy Patfolman James Payne found Travis Ball, 1835 N. Meridian st, asleep in his cab in front of thé Terminal building last night. He shook Ball awake and ordered him to “go home and get some sleep.” At 6 a. m. the patrolman found Ball again asleep in the same spot. It took longer to awaken him this fme and Officer Payne again told im to go home and get some sleep. In the next two hours the officer had several reports of a man asleep in a cab in the 100 block on N. Capitol ave, The officer awoke the cabby for the third“time and took him to police quarters. Ball was charged with vagrancy, parking out of a cab zone and improper parking. _

Senate to Approve Leave Pay Today

WASHINGTON, July 19’ (U, P.). ~The senate was expected to give final congressional approval today to a bill permitting veterans to cash some $2 billion in terminal leave bonds after Sept. 1. The house-approved legislation would authorize 8,500,000 world war II veterans to cash in bonds this year instead of waiting out the five-year maturity period. Senator Raymond E. Baldwin (R. Conn.), senate sponsor of the bill, said it would help veterans financially and reduce heavy government obligations in interest charges.

Boy, Set 'Em Up In the Next Alley

NEW YORK, July 19 (U. P.)~—~ Guiseppe Lo Piccolo, 25, an Italian prisoner of war, walked out of Camp Shanks in February, 1946, clad only in a suit of long underwear. When the FBI arrested him yesterday, Lo Piccolo had: A wife, a child, an apartment, a union card, a social security card and a job as a plasterer's helper which paid an average of $60 a week. He was turned over to the army:

Drunks Must Walk

SHANGHAI, July 19 (U. P)~— Shanghal rickshaw pullers were

nance’ from carrying insane or drunken passengers, those stricken with infectious diseases and any “dangerous or odorous beasts.”

ANCIENT RITE ‘FREES’ INDIA LONDON, July 19 (U, P.) A for« mal ceremony, conducted’ in the ancient Norman French, today signified King George's consent to In. dian independence—the last legislative act needed to end British rule

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YOUNG FARMER — Larry Allen Koopman, 16- ari. old son of John Reopen. a herdsman for Conner Prairie Farms, gets chummy with one of his dad's cows at the State Field Day yesterday sponsored by HolsteinFreisian Freisian breeders of Indiana at the Conner Prairie Farms near Noblesville.

Unrest Abroad Kills Tax Cut

Bid to Chop Levies

Lost in Senate By Scripps-Howard Staff Writer WASHINGTON, July darkening foreign scene, empha- | sized by recent fighting in Greece, | stood as a major factor today in| Republican failure to override

President Truman on his tax-bill veto. A warning by Senator Alben W. Barkley (D. Ky.), minority leader, that “conditions are tense and an explosion might take place at any time,” plus support of this theory by other senators, helped keep in line Democratic forces. They turned back the G, O. P. bid for tax reduction in a 57-t0-36 roll call. The Republicans thus were five votes shy of the 62 needed to. override, as the house had done earlier by 299 to 108. Bill Back on Shelf Republicans reluctantly put the bill back on the shelf But they promised to bring it eut| again—possibly at the next session of congress and certainly in the election campaign. Chairman Eugene D. Millikin (R. Colo.) of the senate finance ¢om-| mittee said he was “very happy” | over the G. O. P, record of twice| getting the tax reduction bill through congress, even though it was kayoed by a presidential veto. House Speaker Joseph W. Martin Jr, termed President Truman's action a “political veto.” He said it would make the American people “realize that while the spending] policies of the present administra-| tion continue there will be no| chance for relief from the strangling war taxes.” Laud President Senator Barkley and Senate Demo~ cratic Whip Scott W. Lucas lauded the President for his “political courage.” They said they believed a majority of voters would agree with him that the Republican bill represented the “wrong kind of tax reduction at the wrong time.” The bill was the same in each case except that the effective date” was changed from July 1, 1047, to Jan, 1, 1948, for its second swing through congress, : Presiderit Truman sent his second tax-cut veto to Capitol Hill shortly after noon. yesterday. And six hours later, it was all over, Senators William Jenner and Homer Capehart of Indiana both voted, to override the veto,

9 Burma Ministers Reported Killed

. LONDON, July 19 (U, P.).~The Burma office announced today that five Burmese ministers had been reported killed in a “murderous” attack on members of the Burma government at a meeting of the executive council in Rangoon, The Burma office said it had no

CHARLES T. LUCEY |

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details. of the reported killings, but was fnwestigating.

U.S. Moves to Prevent

Expected ‘Smear’ of Royall ack Bdsed on Fact He Is Refted

, Prominent Supporter of Communists

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or Another Story, and Picture, Page 2 By LYLE C, WILSON, United Press Staff Correspondent

WASHINGTON, July 19.--The war department moved quickly today | 19.—~The| jn an attempt to head off a blast of unfavorable ‘ptblicity ugaihst | He has been nominated to succeed |

Preliminary hearings on murder charges which police placed against Herbert Brunner, 26, and Robert

Undersecretary Kenneth C. Royall. Secretary Robert P. Patterson as a member of the cabinet. The department expects a combined newspaper and radio attack on Mr. Royall. It would be based on the fact that he is the brother. in-law of Johannes Steel, one of} the most flamboyant supporters of the Communist party line in the on inue earing United States. Mr. Steel married Mr, Royall's half-sister some years ago, Mr. Steel is a naturalized cit- On Slavi MN Char p izen of German birth, i Mr. Royall's nomination to! succeed Mr, Patterson was sent to the senate yesterday coincident with announcement. that the secretary of war was resigning. effective July 24. C. Linn, 28, in. the drowning of The senate armed forces commit-| Theodore Wolfe were continued: in tee unanimously approved the municipal court today until Tuesnomination today, It now goes to|d8ythe senate floor, i Tre a ea og to by ou omicide detectives, were place Full Cabinet Rank against the pair last night after Unless’ Mr, Royall is confirmed | Brunner's attorney, Lawrence Shaw, prior to adjournment, which is eX- moved to free the suspect with a! pected one week from today, the habeas corpus writ. nomination will lapse and Presi-| The murder wariants nullified dent Truman will have to appoint| {he habeas corpus proceeding which another man or leave the position|was to have been heard in suunfilled. Mr. Royall could, however, | perior court Monday Police charge that Linn, barnFailure of ‘the senate to con-| gtorming boxer and reputed lot-| firm him as secretary would not| tery ticket agent, and Brunner disturb Mr. Royall's position as) killed Mr. Wolfe. The victim's body under-secretary of war. But it would | was found in a gravel pit Tuesday prevent Mr, Truman making a re-| night. He had been missing since cess appointment which would pro-|an altercation. ‘with - the suspects early Sunday.

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in - 1400 Leave Jobs Adm. Standley Gloomy At 0: Sosve Plant

On Outlook for UN EVANSVILLE, Ind, July 19 (U,

SAN DIEGO, Cal, July 19 (U, P,).|P.) —~A breakdown of contract ne—Adm, Willlam H. Standley, former |gotiations was blamed today for a U, 8. ambassador to Russia, be- walkout of 1400 employees of the lieves the proposed United Nations International Harvester Co. plant home in New York may become the! here. “tombstone” of another effort at] The workers, members of the C. world co-operation, I. O. United Auto Workers, struck There is yet “no evidence of the in support of a proposed change in effectiveness of the United Nations,”|a *“no-strike” clause which would he told Naval Academy alumni here hold them responsible for wildcat yesterday. strikes,

Washington Calling—

Looks Like U.S. May Remedy

Twain's Weather Complaint -

Day Not Far Off When Rain Can Be Brought To Drought Areas, Bureau Believes » WASHINGTON, July 19. —Government may “control raimfall.” © 7 ~ . It’s long time since Mark Twain complained about failure to do so, U, S, weather bureau now thinks it can. It recently produced rain in Oregon, and one of ifs men, Delbert M. Little, went to Australia to see experiments there, Mr, Little reports that by using 300 pounds

of carbon dioxide (dry ice), Aussies were able to produce “one inch of rain over a 10-mile area.

soon

Weather bureau thinks it can do better with silver lodide. It says le

(unlicensed tors” with conviction in municipal court of a Beech Grove

(Coal Is Going Up $135 10 5205...

Increase Scheduled To Start Monday

A retail coal price hike ranging from $1.35 to $2.05 per ton will be in effect Monday, a market survey of dealers showed today. The survey was made by Harry A. Rogers, Indiana Coal Merchants executive sécretary. Mr. Rogers predicted that these price increases, actuated by a new cost schedule under the United Mine Workers’ contract with operators, would be followed by a 15-cent per ton increase in the fall, Freight Rate to Jump The second increase, he said, is

{expected by dealers to result from |a new schedule of freight rates.

The freight schedule is now being studied by the interstate commerce commission. Coal assoclation men expect it to be approved, he said. Until taday, Indianapolis dealers had been ‘“‘up in the air” on retail prices, since mine operators had been checking their costs under | the new UMW contract, association | men said. The Increased cost of coal to the |

{consumer in Indianapolis was paced |

{by a $2 hike in coke manufactured | [by the Gitizens Gas & Coke utility. {This increase was announced Thursday and appeared to set the pattern for solid fuels increases here, Coke $2.55 Higher Dealers sald coke will now sell at $15.% retail a’ ton—or $2.55 more than the retail price a week ago The coal merchants association survey showed that starting Monday, retail prices on the’ most popular grades of coal will be as follows: Premium Pocahontas - (highest grade smokeless) will rise from $11.90 a ton on lump to $13.70, an increase of $1.80. Premium- Pocahontas egg, $12.05 to $13.80, or $1.75 increase. Class B' (third and fourth vein) Pocahontas, $11.35 to $1340 on lump, or $2.05 increase. Class B Pocahontas egg, $11.45 to $13.50, or $2.05 increase. West Virginia premium class A, $1080 to $12.55. West. Virginia class A egg, $11 $12, , West Virginia” class B lump, $10.50 to $12.10; class B egg, $10.25 to $11.60. Indiana No. 6 egg, $7.60 to $8.95; No. 5 egg, $7.55 to $8.95. Most stoker coals will go up about

lump

$1.50 a. ton, the association indicated. Mr. Rogers sald Indianapolis

consumers burn mostly eastern coals. Price rises were higher on the eastern coals than on the lower grade coals mined in the state,

Father Killed in Crash

VALPARAISO, Ind, July 19 (U, P.~William V, Finkbone, 70, Mar-

day is not far off when rain can be brought to drought areas, also |{on was killed last night when an

diverted from flood zones to places where it's needed. For instance, if we'd been prepared, we could have used carbon dioxide or silver iodide to attract recent heavy. rains from flood areas of Iowa to dry Colo.

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Beech Grove

Woman Fined

In First Case

Better Sanitation Object of Campaign The state beauty culture board today epened war on “kitchen opera-

waman, Mrs. Irene Prosch, executive sec

[retary of the board, said the drive

iwas aimed at improving sanitation

in hair dressing establishments throughout the state: She charged that unsupgrvised operations were the principal cause for a spread of scalp infections bee ing investigated by medical au« thorities. Mrs. Prosch also sald ihe ‘board would erack down on licensed shops that do not observe sanitary provisions. : Operator Draws Fine

Mrs, Marie Bishop, 76 8. 10th st. Beech Grove, was found guilty in municipal court 3 today of violating the 1035 beauty culture act. Judge Joseph Howard fined her $25 and costs but suspended a 30-day sentence in women's prison, Mrs, Prosch and Mrs. Laura McClure, an Inspector for the state board, testified they found Mrs, Bishop giving a permanent wave to a customer in Mrs, Bishop's home, The inspector had posed as a prospective customer, The beauty culture officials charged that Mrs. Bishop was giving the permanent without proper sterilization, that she was using otily one comb and that the eape she She used 4 on the customer had no

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Mrs, Prosch sald. “We know this is not true in shops where the state laws are followed: But we can't check up on women who use their own homes as beauty shops. “This home beauty shop business has got to stop.” Revenue Violations Charged Mrs, Prosch also charged that many unlicensed. operators who use their own homes for a neighborhood business aiso violate internal revenue laws because they do not pay income tax on their earnings. She said the board also. was ine vestigating the activities of licensed beauty operators who use their own homes as business places. The board will check on sanitary provi« sions, The board is conducting a check through inspectors of beauty shops that are “known offenders” and will crack down on them unless they clean up. Co-operating with the board in the investigation is the Indiana Hair Dressers and Cosmetologists association.

‘Runaway Boxcar ‘Runs Into Truck, Hits Building

A runaway boxcar last night caused damage to three vehicles and ended up against a brick building. It coasted out of a freight yard and rumbled across S. Alabama. st. where it rammed a truck tractor owned by the I. R. C, & D. Corp. The tractor crashed into a parked car owned by James Loman, 22 N, Bolton ave., and another I. R: C. & D. truck. The boxcar then bumped against the I. R. C. & D. building, 301 8. Alabama st, and knocked loose a few bricks. A railroad repair crew returned the boxcar to the New York Central yards on Louisiana st.

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