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58th YEAR—NUMBER 168
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PRICE FIVE CENTS
DREAM MEAT PRICES — Emil Luca, who operates’ one-man store at 3423. W. 10th st., shook his head in disbelief today at a P
steak at 39 cents a pound.
Local Dealer Says ‘Steaks |Dutlook Bleak For Housing Here
Can't Be Sold
One-Man Shop Owner’. Asserts Low Prices Possible by Selling Cutters and Canners
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for 39¢ Lb.
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ennsylvania butcher who offers sirloin |
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1947
Police St
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In
For Farm Mystery
Refute Tragic Rumor on War Dead's Return
No Basis for Story | Can Be Found |
By DONNA MIKELS Did you gasp in pity today when you read of a bereaved war m T who had been committed to a men-| tal institution after seeing the body| of her son which had been returned | from an overseas grave? | { {
| If so you were the victim of 8 {rumor which has spread like wild-| {fire over Indianapolis for the past| few days. | A careful investigation .by The an American Legion service officer {who refused to confirm or deny that he had actual knowledge of sush an | instance. | Trace Origin of Story Two state officials and a local funeral director-who had advocated legislation banning opening of caskets of returned war dead, said “|they heard the story from ‘Oscar Brown, chief service officer of Indiana department, American Legion.
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Evidence that the incident could | not have happened was the official statement from the war dead depot| «!in Columbus, O., that no bodies of | {overseas dead have arrived in In- { diana. : id “No repatriation cases have been returned anywhere in the United] States,” a spokesman from the 5th |service command headquarters in Columbus, O., said today. ‘Without Basis,’ He Says “This is «the first time I have heard this story but I am sure it is entirely without basis,” the spokesman continued. . “Although some current dead were returned immediately to next of kin, the first bodies taken from oyerseas graves are now on the high seas and
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RR AN etfiiney Shortage to Continue, . il Tracing the rumor, The Times) Says Economic Council learned the story was told to At-|
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today in a railroad-crossing ignored a warning. flasher
empty auto trailer onto the track after a switch engine passed. Lejeune told police
he didn't see a New York
Stuck on the front of the locomotive, the trailer the right-of-way for more than 50 yards.
Frost Hits State, Damage Light
Warmer Weather Due ow of 39, LOCAL TEMPERATURES
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LUCKY DRIVER—Orelus Lejeune of Beaumont Tex. (inset) escaped unscratched
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+ Death Grows - More Baffling
Murder, Suicide Or Freak Accident?
Was Christ Valoff murdered? Did someone kill him, and try to
{make it look like suicide? Or did {he die from a freak accident?
Authorities were still seeking the
answers to these questions today— 24 hours after the body of the 36-
year-old West side bartender, a Macedonian national, was found
{shot once through the head.
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Sunday night, Mr. Valoff took his flancee, Miss Leona Vudis, 27,
[to a downtown movie. She is the
accident. Crossing Watchman Tony LaGotta said Lejeune at Kentucky ave. and the Belt railroad and ‘drove his Central freight train coming from the other direction. truck was dragged bumping down
I¥'s Christmas
Time for Girl, 4 Russ Accuse U ) Dying of Cancer Of Breaking Word
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| DECATUR, Ill, Sept. 23 (U, PJ. ~It was just like Christmas. A Christroag tree was trimmed ns and standing in 4-year-old Carolyn By R. H. SHACKFORD {Robb's bedroom. Dozens of gally- United Press Staff Corzespondent
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Vudis, of 3531 N. Illinois st. Gay Party in Afternoon There had been a social gathering in the afternoon at Miss Vudis’ home to celebrate the couple's approaching marriage Oct. 19, Mr, Valoff was in high spirits. The bride-to-be had just bought her wedding dress. A He took Miss Vudis home at 1 a. m. Monday after they stopped for a sandwich. At 4 a. m, according to the cor
oner's report, Mr, Valoff was dead.
His body was found lying beside his automobile in the driveway of the
|Roselawn *- Farms, 6104 Kentucky
ave, where he roomed... The. discovery was made at 6:10 8. m. by James Inman, who arrived to start milking the cows. . Bruise Above Eye There was & bullet wound behind his right ear. There was a bruise above his left eye. In his right hand, the dead man clutched a money bag containing $2000 in cash and checks. ere a week's receipts
DIE 88 on ian i Beside the body was s 32 Savage automatic.
I can’t be done. cies 38 {wrapped presents lay under the! FLUSHING, N.Y, Sept. 23 —Rus-| fired once, but
That's what Emil‘Luca, owner of Luca's market, 3422 W. 10th st.,
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The Indiana Economic Coiincil|torney General Cleon Foust early
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Long Fight Seen
89 cents a pound,
_ says of the butcher in Shamokin, Pa. who is selling sirloin steaks at
The miraele-price butcher, Dick Rickert, came to light yesterday through the efforts of United Press Writer Frederick C. Othman.
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Over Lottery Act
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* By LOUIS ARMSTRONG Lengthy court action was fore-| seen today as attorneys began the preparation of legal briefs in ‘the temporary injungtion suit against Indianapolis’ anti-lottery ordinance. | A hearing on the case in Hend-/ yicks circuit court at Danville] yesterday resulted in an extension, indefinitely, of the temporary restraining order blocking police] enforcement of the new city law. The lew became effective at wilds) night last night but Judge Horace Hanna, Hendricks circuit judge, or-| dered the police to keep “hands off”| until the legality of the ordinance is finally decided. Protects Printing Firms The restrainer gives blanket protection to all lottery ticket printers) and possessors and is not confined to the five printing establishments which filed the injunction suit re-|
eently in Marion circuit court. { Judge. Hanna gave attorneys in| the case until Oct. 13 to file their| written arguments. He said he) would then spend an indefinite period studying the documents before calling another hearing.
Like Mr. Rickert, Mr. Luca op-| erates a one-man store with the exception of a youth to wrap packages on a part-time basis. ‘Can’t Be Done Here’ “I saw the story about the prices,” Mr. Luca said, “and it can't be done. At least it can't be done here.” Mr. Luca, who sells grade A and top commercial cuts of meat, checked his current prices against yesterday's reproduction of Mr. Rickert’s advertisement. | They didn't check out. “I can’t even buy from the packer at the prices he quotes in his ad. - Two Possible Explanations
“There are only a couple of answers, as I see it. He admits he
reported to Governor Gates todayl this week when Mr. Brown came in| that unless housing can be rationed to learn if there was any state in some’ way, Hoosiers will have to| regulation prohibiting . opening of reconcile themselves to the housing| caskets. shortage. [“Mr. Foust said he believed the This conclusion was drawn in an story came out during his conversa-eight-page report prepared by the|tion with Mr. Brown. He said that
The council reported there were|offered no date or place to subtoo many “psychological impedi-|stantiate the story. ments” to attempt any rationing Talks of Air Crash scheme for housing Indiana. It} ge said he got the impression suggested an increase in rents to\the incident must have occurred in force families to “use space morelworld war II because “Mr. Brown efficiently,” but concluded this stepisaiq something about an airplane would be also unpopular. lerash.” Mr. Foust said that was “If it appears that the above ine first and only time he had heard methods cannot be undertaken,” the the rumor. report concluded, “it should be Ob-| py [eroy Burney, state health vious that we must reconcile cur-|,,mmissioner who was quoted as selves to the fact that the housing «ghocked” by the story, said hel
can provide enough units throughi,eaq the quotes about himself. He normal operations.” said, however, Mr. Brown had talked |
selis economy grade meats. He must
Bold Approach Needed to him of legislation. Normal operations, the report| Herbert Wald, secretary of the
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The first frost of the coming cold season hit Indianapolis and vicinity last night on the eve of autumn. Residents in the outer areas of
#" council at the governor's request. [as he recalled the Legionnaire had t1¢7¢ity awoke this morning to find 11 WAS from 6-year-old Linda {the white frost crystals on roof {and car tops. It was not believed {to have caused serious damage,
The weather bureau predicted some relief from the premature cool snap today and tomorrow but expected a low tonight of 43 degrees. The low last night was 39. Arriving a little late to coincide with the temperature, fall will be ushered in at 4:29 o'clock this afternoon. Throughout the Midwest the cool
shortage will be with us until we|giqn't recall hearing it until he weather was ahead of the season. |
Frost was reported in most of the area. It did very little damage to crops, the weather bureau said. While snow fell yesterday in
include what we call cutters and 58id, can be speeded up by increas-|Inidana State Funeral Directors|Maine and parts of New Hamp-
canners, That's the meat that cus-! tomers didn't even have to have ration coupons for during the war,” Mr, Luca said. “The other way he might do it is by buying sows and crippled stock, having it butchered or by butchering it himself. “In -his ad he doesn’t tell what cut of meat -he has for sale. A butcher can make a beef roast from
{the neck or the heel of the round
with the bone in it. A veal roast could be made from the breast. That is meat a butcher is glad to get rid of. . Fears Customers Would Vanish “If he. is selling the grade of
ing the labor and materials supply! available to the building industry.! The industry can also be motited to build more dwelling units, according to the report, if it is given tax concessions. This would also serve to reduce the cost of homes in all probability, the report | said.
association, said: “The story came
tioned names or dates. He cited the story and said he was going to see the attorney general to learn
ruling on it.” ask the Legion official if it was an The report found “almost a total actual incident or hearsay. absence of any new construction”| Mr Brown did not say whether in the field of rental housing. Cap-!¢nhe story actually had happened or ital is-not attracted to this fleld as! it it had come to him as a rumor. a result of ‘rent contrél and high Might Have Occurred materials prices, said the report. “I won't say yes or no,” he an- | “A bold approach will be required| swered. He added that: “It might a have happened.” (Continued on Page 3—Column 3) Both Mr. Burney and Mr. Wald are supporting a regulation that
to me from Mr. Brown,” Mr. Wald} said today, “I don’t think he men-|
At the conclusion of the hearing, Meat I am sure he is offering from Arch N. Bobbitt, Indianapolis cor-|the prices, I know what would happoration counsel representing the Pen to my trade. One day of those defendants, argued to have the re-/8rades and I wouldn't have any straining order apply to only the meat trade,” Mr. Luca said. plaintiffs in the case. Judge Hanna,| “There are some people of foreign ' however, ruled the order should birth who never have had a good give overall protection. | grade of meat. They will buy cutThe five plaintiffs are Masten | ter and canner stock. To get it Printing Co., 170 W. 9th st.: Novel tender, however, it practically has Printing Co. Jackson bldg.; Schanke 0 be fixed in a pressure cooker.” Printing Co. 103 Transportation, Mr. Luca purposely doesn't buy bldg; L. & W. Mfg. Co. 237 Vir- 8rade AA or choice meat. His trade wouldn't pay for it, and he maintains his cuts are just as tasty. “I can keep prices down a bit
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Plans Mail Purge LONDON, Sept. 23 (U. P.).—The treasury announced today that be-| ginning Oct. 1, mails into and out/ of Great Britain will be liable to! opening and search for illicit money or valuables sent by post to coh-
dersell chain stores and large independents all the time with the same grade of meat. Overhead Is Low “The only reason I can do this
with the grades I carry. I will un-|
travene the rigorous currency regulations.
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is that my overhead is low. This is a one-man operation. At the end of the week, what I have left over is mine. “But I can't work miracles with a boning knife, a cleaver and a
caskets returned from overseas not be opened. The contagious disease factor, plus the fact that the bodies of many men killed in battle were not embalmed and should not be {viewed, makes such legislation nec-
Stars Escape Death as Horses Bolt to Cliff
———————————————— FT. BRAGG, Cal, Sept. 23 . Several other states already {P.) ~Movie stars Jane Wyman and passed similar laws, (Lew Ayres said today ‘that - their| {runaway ride to the edge of steep! ocean cliff in a horse and buggy re-| minded them of an old-fashioned| silent melodrama—except for ! imodern touch provided by a heli-| | copter.
have
Center of Street ce en ries w+ vi Daring Favored
| man in a fringe-topped buggy down, Mayor Denny and the safety board
la eountry road yesterday while al today approved a plan to permit | parking of two lanes of cars in the
center of the first blocks of Kentucky and Virginia aves.
| helicopter hovered overhead with a {camera shooting them for .a new | picture. The churn rs. frigh the Ey ne vu them ee mend that the city council pass an and charge toward a high blug|otdinance to put the plan into | effect, | overlooking the Scan. The proposal would permit park-
MR. AYRES was unable to con-|!N8 at the curb in addition to the
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saw, Nobody around here can even buy a good-eating piece of meat from the packers for what Mr. Rickert says he can sell it for,” Mr. Luca said.
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For nine years before
| trol the wild-eyed team. A crew of | tWO lanes down the center and |shouting directors followed in y| Would leave a 15-foot roadway on { pursuit. Yoush side for through traffic. ———— a et | Just in the nick of time, Mel
Deller and Lee White, first and Truman Orders Survey
{and forced them to halt. ', (Maj. Gen. Phillip Fleming, federal Miss Wyman and Mr. Ayres were works administrator, to- make an | Jostled and frightened, but other-/immediate survey of the hurricane wise unharmed. ~ 4 damage in the South.
{shire some sections of California were sweltering under 100-degree temperatures, | In Florida, winds blew up to 60 miles an hour snapped trees, clipped {telephone poles and caused other
if he couldn't get some sort of a damage. The state, not yet recov-| He said he did notiered from the recent destructive
thurricane, was warned the storm was ineredsing and might. become jeven more serious. ‘ SH — I y . “l-ran’ Off Prince
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{ . Is Off Again WEST LOS ANGELES, Cal, Sept. 23 (U. P.)~Iran’s hookey~ playing prince, Hamid Riza Pahlavi, was missing again today. The 16-year-old prince was reported on the missing list by his brother, Prince Mahmud, an exchange student at the University of California, Los Angeles. Mahmud also reported that his Cadillac was gone. Hamid was picked up here last
Washington school.
only come to«visit his brother.
in the United Nations general as-| ‘sembly of willfully seeking to break| its post-war international agree-! ments, : | Soviet Delegate Andrei Y. Vishin- | sky made the charge a few minutes! {after United Nations Secretary |General Trygve Lie solemnly {warned the U. 8. and the U. 8. 8. R. that unless they compromise their differences, will wreck the United Nations and {lead to an “intolerable” war. Mr. Vishinsky's attack on the, United States was made in a fight to remove two Jtems from the agenda. One was the American proposal to consider the Korean stalemate. The other was the Argentine proposal—supported by the United States—to soften the week-old Italian peace treaty, | Charges Violations Mr, Vishinsgky charged that United | Nations consideration of the Korean {deadlock would be a violation of the
31. S. Soldiers Seized by Slavs
| Every time the door bell rang more presents arrived. They came from all parts of the country. One of the presents didn't have a “Don't open till Christmas” tag! on it. So Carolyn opened it. .
McMichael of Macon, Ga. Linda had made a recording of the song, “Jesus Loves Me.” The song helped put her in the Christmas mood. After all, Christ mas. was almost here. It comes Saturday for her. Four friends are {coming to help her celebrate. ” ” ” EVEN Santa Claus will be there— if one can be found this early in the season. But Santa or no Santa, Christmas won't walt. : | Carolyn is suffering from a brain| lcancer. Doctors say she will not| llive until Dec. 25. |
tle that problem jointly. f But his most bitter accusations concerned the U. S.-Argentina at-| tempt to revise the Italian treaty.) “The United States does not have a full understanding of the obli-| TRIESTE, Sept. 23 (U. P.) ~The gations involved in U. 8. and British military govern- agreements,” he said. “This ment of Trieste today demanded tempt shows a lack of desire or |the release of three American sol|diers whom Yugoslav troops seized | yesterday at gunpoint ‘on the provisional border. of Trieste. Bo far, the Yugoslav army had not answered. The Americans were part of a five-man patrol led by 14. Willlam Van Atten of East Orange, N. J. They met a Yugoslav detachment along the border near
international agreements.”
eral debate at the United Nations assembly, Mr, Lie appealed to the great powers—especially the United States and the Soviet Union—to ‘abandon their diplomatic war and “show a willingness to compromise.”
their diplomatic war|
U. 8.-U. 8. .8. R. agreement to set-|
ability of the U. 8. to respeet its
{staying on the farm with Mr. Valoff. In a solemn address closing gen- |
Across his legs was a policeman’s nightstick. He was said to have
| carried this for protection as well
as the automatic when he handled the tavern’'s receipts. No Nearer Solution That was the picture state police detectives found when they arrived at the scene yesterday morning. In 24 hours, they had unravelled a mass of detail surrounding the life and death of the man who died in the driveway. They have questioned persons connected with the dead man. They have made exhaustive laboratory tests. An autopsy has been performed on the body. Today, they were no nearer a, solution to the case than when they first viewed the body. And Indianapolis had another ° murder mystery—if it was murder, Lived With Fellow Macedonians Scene of the death is the Valley Mills section of Marion county, peaceful, rolling farmland. Mr. Valoff roomed at the Roselawn Parms with fellow natives of Macedonis, Mr. and Mrs. ©. T. Gershanoff. They wsre away from home visiting relatives at Pitts-
its post-war burgh. at-|
A Macedonian carpenter, Paul Stefan, 63, of Detroit, was the only other person known to have been
Although his bedroom is less than 25 feet from the driveway, Mr. Stefan told state police he slept soundly all night, heard nothing. Killed Instantly For a while, Mrs, Fatima Carter, a Turkish war bride, had also
Edison
the town of Monte Coste While Lt. Van Atten was talking to the Yugoslav officers, Yugoslav soldiers suddenly covered him with their guns, and took him, Pfc. can-be effective, he said. Lenhart of Beuthbury,| Conn., and Pfc. George Pett of Ft, Thomas, Ky., away as prisoners.
Wednesday when he tried to get a FOREMEN GET NEW HEAD lhotel room without any cash, He| DETROIT, Sept. 28 (U. P) ~Car] | displayed here during the last week said he was A. W. O. L. from a/Brown has been elected president between the U. §. and the U. 8.| Iranian em- of the Independent Foremans As-|S- R. should be allowed to lead to bassy officials denied he was play- sociation of America. succeeding | Another war. All nations want to ing hookey and said the prince had Robert H. Keys, union chief since Prevent another war, but he added [4 Will Get You a Ride ithe P. A. A. was founded In 1941.
Escaping From Furnace
| seven others made ill when choking {furnace fumes filled a two-family {residence at 1234 8. Harding st. | early today. {
during the night.
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The board said it would recom-| One person was overcome andjand Mrs. Charles O'Donnell and breeds danger.”
“Without such a will, without co-{roomed at the fdrm. She had been operation and agreement, let me separated from her G. I. husband, emphasize that no mechanism for| Glen Carter. But the two had been {the maintenance of international reconciled last week and she had peace and security, however perfect, gone back -to the city to live with her husband. ‘Fear Breeds Hate’ The autopsy performed st GenMr. Lie said that it was “im. eral hospital yesterday showed that possible” and “intolerable” to think fe fatal bullet which pierced the that the differences so flagrantly 'apel on the dead man's onal, en
(Continued on Page 3~Column 4) Take a Wooden Nickel;
{ominously : “The greatest difficulty lies in the CIRCLEVILLE, O., Sept. 3 (0. |fadt that the “great powers suspect P)—The old saying “nevef take a
8 Made |! Here by Fumes |each other or each other's intem- Yooden nickel” was reversed here
ay. | The Junior Chamber of Come | merce ordered a batch of wooden (nickels and will give them to Circleville boys and girls.
tions. “It is fear which is the great danger. Fear breeds hate and hate
their two children. Applause Is Light Calling police, Mr. Wilson then Acknowledging the different civil |went to the basément to see what izations, ideas and interests in the |was wrong with the furnace, which world, Mr. Lie warned that the na{had been fired yesterday to ward tions must strive to live and work
The chamber has arranged for the coins to be accepted on all midway rides at the 41st annual four-day pumpkin show starting Oct. 23.
| -They were the frst victims of off the cold. | nippy pre-fall weather that forced] When police arrived, they found ferences. the temperature down to 39 degrees Mr, Wilson overcome by the fumes.| They took him outside where he S. and the U. 8. 8. R. to compromise
| Awakened by the fumes, George was revived by fresh air.
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children.
Then he groped up the stalrway| An investigation revealed that a contrast to thunderous applause and pounded on the door of the chimney brick had fallen into the/given the fighting statements made
had’ to be hospitalized.
4 ‘upstairs apartment, awakening Mr. flue, blocking it.
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And Mr. Luca should know what second assistant ‘directors in the] WASHINGTON, Sept 23 (U. P,). Wilson, who lives in the downstairs| The other occupants were also Peace—"“the indispensable condition he is talking about. For the past Picture, caught the galloping horses|—President Truman today directed apartment, aroused his wife and two made ill by the fumes but none for peace"—got a cold reception.
together in peace despite such difMr. Lie's direct appeal to the U.
{their differences in the interests of
{Only light applause greeted Lie in
‘by East and West spokesmen.
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