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58th YEAR—NUMBER 170 THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1947

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PRICE FIVE CENTS

What About the Marshall Plan?

Average Hoosier Feels Two Detectives

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To Help Herself

Opinion Survey Reveals Most Citizens Believe | Truman Should Call Congress, Act at Once

EDITOR'S NOTE: Mr. Hoover, who is associate editor of The Times, was a colonel in military intelligence during the war. His duties took him, among other places, to North Africa, Italy, England, France, the Middle East and Near East, the Philippines and Japan. A part |S. Tiinots st. hotel of his assignment was gathering and evaluating political and economic | : : By as well as strictly military intelligence. He also is secretary of the | The slaying of W. C. Nichols Aug. Indianapolis Committee on Foreign Relations. {31 in the Colonial hotel was solved

{today, police said, with the arrest ce BY DONALD D, HOOVER of William H. Hatfleld, 23, of HE. average citizen of this grass roots part of tne SL hiv ST country—once dubbed heart of the isolationist area |, A £008 Lb, Well dong ahd Bw —believes in the so-called Marshall plan, even though he |Chiet Howard Sanders said as he isn’t quite sure what it is or how much it would cost. He accepts the premise that the United States must

praised Detectives Robert Reilly and Fae Davis for their work on the case. help the rest of the world get back on its feet, with dollars | The two men were assigned to the as well as idealistic statements. But he adds that when we spend |“clueless” case after- Mr. Nichols. all those dollars—he is conditioned to speaking in terms of billions— |died en route to the hospital after we should retain supervision of their use. |being slugged by. an unidentified And he believes that President Truman should sailor in the lobby of the hotel. Witcall an emergency session of congress at once to nesses said the sailor rushed in from appropriate money to get reconstruction and pro- |the street, grappled with Mr. Nichols duction really started in Europe, has little interest briefly, then ran out the door and} in other parts of the world. 1 } |disappeared. .Mr. Nichols’ died 20 He expressed scepticism efit congressional lead- -|minutes later without identifying ers will take that initiative, lays résponsibility for his assailant. ls action, squarely at the door of the White House, 1 Check First Clue keeps talking about “getting Europe to producing f “We couldn't find anybody wha so that it can take over its share of the load.” had ever seen the sailor before” He dislikes the idea of too much emphasis on the detectives said, “so we just helping Germany and -Japan, resents a coddling started walking up and down 8, approach to those defeated enemies . . . and many Illinois, seeing if any of the joints{ include Italy in that classification, not forgetting could furnish a lead.” that she was an enemy before she became a “co-belligerent.” The only thing they were able to Particularly is this so if he is a war veteran who has seen either |pjck up was a check, signed by @ London or Coventry, Medjez-el-bab or Bizerte, Cassino or Naples, | sailor, which had been cashed in &{ Rotterdam or Oradgur-sur-Glace, Ormoc or Manila. : tavern a few hours prior to thel’ The ruins of Berlin and Tokyo, extensive as they are, are balanced in his mind's eye with the ruins he has seen in the countries of our allies . . . and to our allies he would grant first relief.

Slaying Here | Ex-Sailor Arrested In Hotel Murder

A detective team that wouldn't give up today was credited with {breaking the month-old “clueless” |slaying of a 55-year-old man in a

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However, the indorsement on the check gave no indication of the : : base or home address of the sailor. ‘America Has a Definite Stake in Europe “It was our only possibility,” the THESE ARE the highlights of Hoosier opinion revealed in con- (two detectives said. “We knew it versations with folks in. all walks of life since Secretary of State [708 i Se > me JSried . ] Harvard commencement address last tary pi O. Marshall wade is | Re |and found that sailor had been That was the address in which he told the world that before the U. 8. could go ahead much further in its efforts to help start Europe on the road to recovery, “there must-be some agreement among the

b. lt DEATH SCENE—Detective Jack Hester, clad i on the ground in the position in which the dead man was Broderick (left) and Detective Sgt. James Osborne arra

{mustered out at Norfolk, Va. Aug. {28 and was a resident of Independjence, Mo. We thought there was a

| 3 . - r countries of Europe as to the requirements of the situation and the | chance he fight have Passed with police photographs taken Monday when the strange death was discovered. part those countries themselves will take in order to give proper effect arcu napo en rou : Su dy ar - to whatever action might be undertaken by this government.” . ¢ y . . Here, then, is what might be called a summary of local opinion on" | Wi paying oe Tonk ot oe er 0 reet Re-Enact 10,000-t0-One ?

the Marshall plan: | ONE: As Pan as the European nations which want our help can \Where they questioned the sailor. : . {He readily admitted having been in get together and define their needg/ we should analyze these state- India i and sald Be Lad wi ments of need and find out how much it takes to do the job—how RABNADO iS anc salg he wit- . nessed the slaying. much our share will be. TWO: That share will be great, and meeting it will entail a re- | Tells of Meeting Hatfield casting of American thinking, perhaps with new economies. | He told detectives another sailor THREE: Congress should meet immediately and provide the named Hatfleld had been with him money to get Europe rolling toward production, toward a basis of self- |as they passed by the Colonial sustenance, hotel. He said they saw a man FOUR: The U. 8. .should supervise expenditures, so that there weaving around in the lobby, wavwon't be a repetition of UNRRA and other instances where our money nd a smoking stand menacingly. was used against us. |Hatfield ran into the hotel, he told FIVE: America has a definite stake in Europe, a selfish interest |detectives. Then he saw the elderly which must be protected by helping Europe help herself. man fall to the floor and Hatfleld SIX: Russia has, to quote an Indianapolis banker, “maneuvered [ran out. He said he parted com- . us into a put-up-or-shut-up position by her boycott of the conference [pany with him a few minutes later. to implement the Marshall proposal.” Another check through military SEVEN: Putting western Europe on her feet would be a victory [channels established that a William for world democracy, would be cheaper than fighting Russia to pre- Hatfleld, Winona, Minn., also was vent the spread of communism, mustered out at Norfolk, Aug. 28. “a 8 . 0» Arrested by Winona police for

‘Greatest Co-operative Effort in History’ questing. Hatfield is said 0 NYS

SECRETARY MARSHALL didn't really advance any plan—he said jadiaiticd bis part in 16 Slaying Ga that Buropean initiative was essential to economic recovery and asked “This y 4d h = : for a blueprint of Europe's requirements. soived a L 2ye Sone un That blueprint was provided Monday in a report signed by 16 y d ! Ho RRL a traffic lanes, each 15 feet wide. Otto and lay down on the ground in the nations—greatest co-operative effort of its kind in history—whith dogged etermine s y 8nGiy petty, assistant fire chief, who position Mr. Valoff was found. proposed a four-year plan calling for expenditure of $23,440 million | Davis, Capt. Elbert Romeril carried the department’s objections to help Europe help itself. |today. “They had a one In a mil-ly, tye mavor this morning, stated terday, the coroner, the prosecutor's) Russia and her satellites did not participate in preparation of the [1OB chance of picking up & sailor) plan, attacking it as U. 8. Dollar Diplomacy . . . and it certainly wotild WalmOws 0 Indianapolis. a Maw | (Tucks are more than 15 feet wide entered a half-world of probability (Continued on: Page 5«Colomn 3) whose stay here numbered & feW|,.4 would not be able to enter the state police technicians had cre-|

hours and one of thousands of, th a Light Frost Predi ors Tn ruth, 4nd 0 Cen ee ie nh on ight Frost Predicted Here » In Low Spots Tonight

{nona to bring Hatfield here. The possibility of light frost in low spots was forecast for Indian-

| a : Trolley Company . pol of vos Asks Dime Fare The weather bureau said indications were for a heavier frost in the

sections of northern Indiana. But it was not expected to be as| Another rate increase fight for vere as that which struck the state Monday night. : la 10-cent straight fare has been Some etiet was in sight for tomorrow when the mercury was ex- wared w 1dianapelis Rallvays, To U.S. Marshal After Jury Action pec . |Inc. only five months after it won b ul Temperatures were expected ironing ceremonies he forecasts that a court ruling for a previous boost. de ys, lores pRarion couniy. charged Nig ate ion Is drop to 39 degrees here to-|it will be mild from Dec. 21 through The new rate increase proposal § more night. The high for today -will jbejJan. 12. Then will follow a five- was made by company officials after} 298 NOD incofse tases. Weiss. who liv t 3015 N. Meridian about 60, the weatherman said. \week cold period with possible snow. a labor arbitration board yesterday|. ...S :.red to Ro 8 Sores: pai rd ee ods He ®. . Meanwhile,” Hoosierdom’s No. 1; From Feb. 20 to March 6 it willigranted an increase of 10“vents an hond and was Yeleased ndi akan bef ¥, posted $5009 long-range weather prophet, Mark/be mild, he says, and winter will hour for the firm's 1576 employees, po 1izel) in Federa) court pen ne ore Judge Robert Purcell, Rushville, predicted a nor- end with another cold spell not 80 retroactive to last May 1. Coupled ‘with Wels, a : in [states that the three set up mal winter with one particular cold severe as the five-week period. Harry Reid, company _president, p! eiss, under Iin- : m. y pany dividual and conspiracy indictment | °F interlocking corporations

Parking Blocked Christ Valoff

-- Firemen Cite Hazard

Of Downtown Blazes

By LOUIS ARMSTRONG | The death of Chris Valoff, 36, w

a monkey wrench into the city’s/in 10,000. “center of the street” parking plan

the proposal. Mayor Denny was to present the Where Mr. Valoff'’s body was found plan for parking cars in the center early Monday. of the first block of Kentucky and| The scene was acted out against Virginia aves. to the works board the background of the big white this morning. farmhouse and rolling fields, bright However, the fire department green in the autumn sunshine. Mr. stoppéd the action by declaring that Valoff had roomed at the farm. such parking would create an| State Detective Jack Hester| obstacle in fighting fires in the|slipped into the role of the victim.)

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Former State Senator, 2 Others Surrender

spell from Jan. 13 to Feb. 19. | LOCAL TEMPERATURES said he was “convinced that a urpose of marketing barrel lots of Following his semi-annual wind ga. m..... 52 10a m..... 53 [straight 10-cent fare will be neces- returned here last week, are tWo L....y ang other liquors. ie esmrsssmt meses ————————— Lake county liquor dealers. . . 735. m..... 52 11am... 52 [sary in order for the company to Maximum penalty that could be Times Index Sam..... 52 12 (Noon)'. 55 |meet this added burden of expense.”| The dealers, Max BStryk, Gary, imposed on each is $7000 in fines or 9am +33 1p.m .... 5 | Company officials estimated that and Louis H, Rosenblum, Ham-|,, yelits imprisonment or both, Amusements. 24; Movies ....... 24 (the wage increase would raise the mond, surrendered also today. { Classified. . 34-38 Obituaries aie i 301 BULLETIN Clan firm's operating costs about $378,-| All are charged with failure Why Wi was & promis po~ Comics ...... 30{Dr. O'Brien. 28 The case of Robert M. M “ 1000 a year and that it would have report more than $347,000 profits al figure here the 20's, was

Crossword ... 31| F.C. Othman. 21 ahan, 38-year-old Sofmes Napo- |, pay back wages amounting to on black market liquor sales. The President pro tem of the state Bdliotisle sees Radio ....... 3, leon State bank cas , Was re- 1$130,000 on earnings to May 1. |evasion was for esas 27| Patterns ..... 27) | 1942. (New York in 1920. The fol

ferred to federal probation officers | lowing Members of the arbitration board The charge against Weiss states year he was elected to the Indiana

Forum ..... . 22|Ruark ....... 21] after the defendant pleaded eui'~ ] i $4,002 which granted the wage increase reported income about! house presen Hollywood he 2 Bo i tu (Jollowing several Jays beatings Jus £25,000 when his income - $140.-| In ra ip in liquor Dn Hoover. . 21 Tesh Topics. . 27, He Meaded guilty on ii of 10 Harvard university, David M. on which taxes due Smagnted iegsiation. Angie epost oe Inpls. ...... 8) Wom, News 21-20 coun charged against | representing the employees Jaws, 13,082. \ he Juice Inpls.. 217 Weather Map 13) Svierument ofioissed the other | d—— B. Howard Csughran, U. 8. dis- was chairman of the Milwaukee Ruth Millett. 27\ World Affairs 22' four. (Continued on Page 5—Column trict attorney, said ‘the indictment|liquor corporation board. :

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Death Scene

Troopers Demonstrate Bartender Could Have

Been Victim of Freakish Accident By RICHARD LEWIS

as a freakish accident—the kind of

The fire department today’ tossed fatal mishap so rare the probability of it happening may be one

That was the conclusion Indiana state police had reached today. causing temporary postponement ot | They demonstrated how they reached it by re-enacting the death scene for county officials yesterday in the driveway of the Roselawn Farms

Town Marshal Indicted in Slaying

PRINCETON, Ind, Sept. 25 (U.

he shot and killed a prisoner he was escorting to jail two weeks ago,

der charge today.

small coal mining community, was accused of slaying Robert Miller, 27, on the sidewalk in front of a tavern. The indictment charged premeditated murder. It was returned by

this type requires large amounts of afternoon. It is night. Round stars|a Gibson county grand jury after)

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Jacob Weiss, Local Aftorney, Indicted On $100,000 income Tax Evasion Charge

CHARGE TAX EVASION— Jacob Weiss, attorney and former state senator, surrendered today on an indictment charging failure to pay more than

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ing as rapidly as possible,

For Europe

Truman Plea: Stop Wasting Food; ~ Asks Public To Save Voluntaril

Plans Stop-Gap Aid

Without

Calling Congress

President May Ask 2 Meatless Days Weekly, Suggests ‘Selective Buying’ by Housewives

WASHINGTON, Sept. 25

(U. P.),—President Truman

today set in motion a “waste less food” campaign and said he

will seek immediate stop-gap a

main reason for summoning co House conference Monday was

prices up higher at home. Mr, Truman emphasized cans to eat less— as Senator

{posed recently—but to waste / : the bread thrown away in this country is equivalent to about 70 million bushels or grain a year,

Mr: Truman also:

two meatless days a week.

this will enable Americans to

Europe would rule out a

budget message.

years under the Marshall plan

States. Mr. Truman said the

all-out-drive” for food conservation at home is the only way to increase available food supplies for hungry Europe “and relieve inflationary presgures” at home. “The difficulty of attempting to enlarge our grain exports beyond (What is now indicated lies in the domestic problems resulting from

(high prices” it said. “We dre already faced with the need for

{buildings bordering the two avenues. He donned the victim's suit coat— P.) —Lawrence Johnson, Oakland |yigorous action to prevent a further The parking plan calls for two too short for him at the sleeves— City town policeman, who admitted inflationary spiral”

{ Mr. Truman chiefly stressed the {critical food. and fuel situation in

And in that golden sunshine yes-|Wa8 indicted on a first-degree mur- Europe.

He pointed out he was calling on

that two of the city’s fire fighting deputy, the sheriff and reporters| Johnson, assistant marshal in a congressional leaders because of the

emergency facing Europe and the {fact that this country cannot stand |by and allow the people of Europe to starve or freeze. ‘Worse Orisis This Wihter The President said the food shortage in Europe this winter would be even worse than last winter. Hence the need for conservation at home.

wy ‘am confident,” Mr. Truman

realizing the extreme seriousness of the situation, will co-operate fully”...

To get the conservation program rolling, Mr. Truman named Charles Lackman of Cambridge, president of Lever Brothers, chairman of the citizens committee, The President asked Mr. Luckman to get his organization work-

Bloomington Paper Reported for Sale

Times State Service BLOOMINGTON, Ind., Sept. 25.—

way here today for the sale of The Bloomington World-Telephone, only daily newspaper in Monroe county. Stuart Riley, who is co-publisher of the Bedford Times-Mail with

and publisher of the World-Tele- 80 HARD phone, who is out of town on a sailor. business trip, could not be reached Se i ‘i ‘ as w

sald, “that the American people,

Mass, |

Negotiations were reported under

id for hungry Europe without

a special session of congress, if possible. He revealed at a 27-minute news conference that his

ngressional leaders to a White to determine what immediate

steps could be taken to provide prompt aid to Europe, As-a-startsr; he-set-up-a-citizens-food committee to Jee... velop a nation-wide food conservation program so more food will be available to hungry Europe without forcing

that he is not asking Ameri. Robert A. Taft (R. 0.) proless. As an example, he said

§ att up to congress the question whether rationing . Land price-controls should be restored. As to whether he Lend, yocemraand. ov poturn of rationing, Mr. Trumap. said. he would have to wait and see after he gets all te facts. : —Hinted that he may recommend that the nation observe

3 Recomménded more selective food buying by Americas housewives, particularly of meat products whose production requires large quantities of grain, Mr. Truman said

save money and at the same

time help those in desperate need. Ded that he would discuss with the congressional leaders Monday whether legislative action is necessary to attack the current food erisis. : : Refusal to say whether the emergency stop-gap aid for

tax cut next year, Mr. True

man said he would answer that question in his January

—Indorsed a recommendation by his special cabinet food committee that farmers feed less grain to livestock and that further emphasis be placed on foods other than grain to Europe. raised the initial report of the 16 western European nations which estimated their needs during the next four

for European economic recov

ery at .$22,440,000,000—$15,810,000,000 from the United

American people through cone

gress undoubtedly would respond quickly once they are satisfied as to the scope of the necessary program. As for high prices at home, Mr. Truman read his cabinet food committee’s statement pointing out that “an

Truman Statement Sends Grains Up-

| ! | By UNITED PRESS : | Wheat, corn and oats prices rose {on the Chicago board of trade toe day after - President Truman |acknowledged that it would be im {possible to send as much grain te {Europe this year as last without [conservation at home, | Mr. Truman's statement resulted [in gréater buying of grains. Wheat futures rose more than 4 cents a {bushel from the day's lowest price, [Corn was up more than 3 cents. Meanwhile, spokesmen for the National Livestock Producers’ asso ciation took issue with the Pres/ident’s recommendation that less |grain be fed to livestock. | They said there would be a large {amount of soft corn this year bee |cause of the late planting and early |frosts. Soft sorn, they said, is suite able only for livestock feed.

U. S. Will Win Food War, Says Committee Chief

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Sept. 25 (VW. |P.) ~Charles Luckman, 38-year-old soap magnate named by President |Truman as chairman of the citizens food committee, said today thas Americans have won every war in which they have participated and |“they will win this war against

| starvation.”

The Missouri-born president of Lever Bros. Co. told a press confer lence he would leave for Washington |Monday and his committee would |meet at the White House Wednes« | day.