Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 September 1947 — Page 5

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THURSDAY, SEPT. 25, 1001 _

Valoff's. Death

The automatic pistol slips from

the left edge of the front seat— the lever one lifts to push the seat back. It strikes the metal lever at a “!point on the receiver just behind the rudimentary sigift.

Scene Re-enacted v= soni x Feel About Helping

Troopers Demonstrate

Accident Possible

(Continued From Page One) are shining in the silent sky, The The gun fires. wind is ‘chilly: The bullet’ cores 2 pwahd This is the world of probability, through the right lapel of Mr. Valthen, the world which is created off's coat. It enters the skull behind by reason and science. - Only once the right ear and follows the curvain 10,000 times could it happén. This ture of the skull around to lodge is the 10,000th time. : in the left side of the skull. "Into the driveway of the dark Christ Valoft is dead before he farmhouse swings a car, its hedd- hits the ground. lights blazing. It comes to a halt’ As his body crumples away from under the portico which extends the sedan, his right eye grazes the, over the driveway. “sharp edge of the top of the front A man starts to get out. In his 900r. Under the pull, of gravity, the

right hand, he holds a canvas bag front door of the sedan swings containing $2000 and the keys which heavily shut. he has just taken out of the igni-| The body bleeds upon the ground, tion. the keys and moneybag still] clutched in the right hand, the pls Jeit Hand, Te elds » iy nightstick between the legs, where Tucked Under Bis afm: is. the 32 he ‘placed it to free the left hand.| Savage automatic pistol the man The left hand is still free—to ac-| carries with the nightstick to pro- Sm Something which new tect his tavern receipts. | : | As he climbs out of the black] Lights Left On sedan, he reaches back in for some-| The echo of the single shot has

'died away. The stars shine down, | thing. Perhaps the light switch, for V ' 8 x aaps 8 silent witnesses. Still burning

brightly are the headlights Christ Valoff never switched off. -. The probability has happened— lone time in 10,000 times. The sun was shining now in the lreal world. Detective Hester rose from the |ground and picked up the news-| {paper which he placed over the bloodstains in the grass, stains still] visible yesterday. They showed! where the head of the dead man rested as he lay on his left side. Lt. Robert Borkenstein of the state police crime laboratory explained: Nicks on the pistol’s receiver cor-| {responded to nicks on the chromium seat handle, showing the pistol struck that handle.

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weapon showed it would fire if | dropped sharply on the receiver. The automatic was of a type which would fire in such a manner “ ‘whether it was cocked or not. It probably had not been cocked. Paper sensitized with an organic! dye had been placed over the dead man's clothing in the laboratory. A hot electric iron had been run over the paper. © Where nitrate. grains from the powder of the- bullet fell upon the, clothing, the treated paper would turn. Sot, Balam tla rdsbb Avr aig the dead man's trousers, the nitrate grains were found. 2 This proved one point—that when the gun was fired, it was no more than 12 to 14 inches {rom the right knee. This height would match that of the front seat lever. No powder residue was found near

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lapel. The threads rad heen clipped not torn.

and failed to eject the cartridge

slide from snapping back cleanly.

and

probability in which Mr. Valoff died and none of suicide.

on an accidental shooting,” State Police Major Robert O'Nea

close the investigation. the best bet for us at the moment.

really know how this man died.”

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call for both dollars (an estimated $15,800 million from this country’s | coffers—or about $100 per person) and diplomacy. The call to the nations of Burope to get together and agree on needs, together with the report just submitted, combine to give our government its first major diplomatic victory in many years. On its success or failure may hang the issue of whether we are at war within the next five years—with Russix, of course, since that nation is the real stumbling block to world peace and recovery. | Success for the plan can come only if congress meets in the near future and makes an initial appropriation for aid to Europe, |

| which is fast moving to a crisis that may come to a head in & |

matter of weeks. Ji The loan to Britain is almost exhausted—it has shrunk tremendously just like your income because of the decreased purchasing power of the dollar, France faces crises . . . and crop failures and economic - disaster | are reported from all of western Europe. » " - » ~ » a

Midwest Opinion Will Play Important Role THERE IS no assurance that isolationist sentiment in congress will not block an emergency appropriation on the plea that it is necessary to hold prolonged hearings to get all the facts before make« ing a decision, : 3 If that is done, ‘we are tossing western Europe into the lap of Russia and communism, an implication which John Public recog-

Public opinion in this section of the United States will play an important roll in any decision which congress makes, The realization of this factor in high places is revealed by the statement of Gen. Lucius D. Clay, military governor of the U. 8, gone in Germany, to Dr. Herman B Wells, president of Indiana |

university, Dr. Wells was: in Germany recently, in connection with

his assignment ‘as an observer of the Greek election,

. Gen. Clay told him that “as .epinion in the Middle West goes, : 1 , hie so will. American foreign policy.” p er 0 [op | 0 ey im

Paul V. McNutt, former Governor of Indiana, sald much the same thing on his recent visit to Indianapolis when he returned from a trip through most of the countries torn by the war. He, too, felt | that the “Marshall plan” offered hope to the world and should be | approved immediately. That is the opinion of most of the “leaders of thought” in this

Hig APTANATOLR TIMES __ e Marshall Plan-How Europe to Help Herself

| making a mistake in creating a sharp division between eastern and | western Europe, as the Marshal proposal undoubtedly has done. |

| hensive view is taken of their operation throughout the society of

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properly, thaf it should have been chanvieled” through the United |

Nations.

There was a small number, too, which felt that the U. 8. was

Then there were the British-haters and an exceptionafly small | number of persons who, their patience worn, said, “to hell with Europe—let's paddle our own canoe.” . . =»

» . » Seen as Most Vital Question of the Day THERE WERE a few flippancies, as well, such as “What Europe

needs is a Morris Plan.” Or—"Which Marshall plan, George Marshall | ding She indie s ordered

or Marshal Stalin” cigar plan?” Most of those with whom the question was discussed, however, took the subject in deadly seriousness. y Many of us Hoosiers may not be familiar with Historian Arnold J. Toynbee's premise that the forces of history are not national, but proceed from wider causes which operate upon each of ‘tho parts and are not intelligible in_ their partial operation unless a compre-

nations, But, to put it in simpler language, the people of this Hoosier state which produced Wendell Willkie and his dream of one world realize that the United States cannot ignore the problems of the rest of the world without serious disruptions. at home-—disruptions that may lead to war and depression. ee Yes, the average citizen of this grass roots part of the country believes in the Marshall method, He believes congress should be called into session at once to provide the cash with which to make it a success. Announcement of the plan was a heacon-of hope to Europe. And {ts fruitation is recognised by most of those with whom we talked as the most vital question facing America today.

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nearly four days of inquiry in the case, .

Johnson, who has-been held since the shooting in th& Knox county jail at Vincennes at his own request because he feared mob vio-

community and of those who have seen the European countries in

War or peace.

Expert Observers, Average Folks Questioned THE OBJECT of this Times survey was not to determine the

space to use fire fighting equipment and Albert M. Campbell, representeffectively. . |ing the company. The increase As an example, he said a re at was granted on a two to one dethe Hotel Lincoln while four lanes cision, Mr. Campbell dissenting. of trafic were parked in Kentucky| The company is expected to pre: ave. would cut off one avenue of ap- sent a petition to the state public

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the lapel. The microscope showed that a high velocity missile the size of a .32 bullet had pierced the coat

After it fired, the pistol jammed

The barrel was rusty and the rust set up friction which prevented the,

every time the weapon was dropped. | But the first time state police! dropped it with a blank cartridge)

Such was the logic of one in - | 10,000, the evidence of the world of

| There was no evidence of murder

\ “We're not trying to sell anybody : said

“This theory does not mean we But this is

“It may be that only God may

BRAND VATICAN AS WAR-LIKE NEW YORK, Sept. 25 (U, P.).— an~ | nounced today that 1275 clergymen have joined in petitioning President | Truman to sever connections with

thinking of those .people alone, but to include the ordinary people who go on day by day, not: thinking particularly about world affairs, but, nevertheless surprisingly well-informed of the intent "behind

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| average folks, all of whom would share in the financial load of any | aid to Europe. We talked to politicians , Governor Ralph F. Gates played at the summer conference of gov-

. and heard of the. important role ;

| ernors in obtaining indorsement of the Marshall proposal by that | la:

|g ey only declare what this ad- for a quarter.

group, of the power House Majority Leader Charles A. Halleck, of the 2d Indiana district, could wield in obtaining fast congressional action, We talked to businessmen and professional men, to barbers and janitors, to fellow-passengers on the bus, to ministers who pray for peace and to soldiers ‘who believe we won't gain peace unless we have an armed force to. back up our global commitments. Since most of the discussions which form this basis of this analysis, there have been several major developments which might well -have ‘made public opinion even stronger in ‘favor of helping Efirope help herself. : Earlier this month, the world bank and the world monetary fund —representing 45 nations—issued reports which buttress the Marshall struction” efforts must come from the nations involved themselves, that outside aid is necessary, and that tHe final solution lies in more

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Some Voiced Objections to Marshall Plan

OF GREATER significance to those who don't pay much atten- | tion to news about world finances was presidential appointment of three American committees to receive the report from the Paris conference at which the 16 nations drafted their blueprint for recovery. These committees will advise the nation “on the limits within which the United States may safely and wisely plan to extend such | assistance and the relation between this assistance and our domestic

study “the impact upon our national economy of aid to other coun- | tries.” These committees naturally have not had time to go into the Paris specifications as yet, Principal objection to the Marshall “plan” comes from a few students of international affairs who believe that the proposal-—like the Truman doctrine aid to Greece and Turkey—was not handled

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