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58th YEAR—NUMBER 188
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1947
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U.S. Probing ‘Gambling’ in Grain Market
Speculators Blamed by Truman For Food Cost; Wheat Soars to $3
WASHINGTON, Oct. 16 day blamed market gamblers
announced that Atty.-Gen. Tom Clark is investigating speculation on the grain and fiber exchanges. As the President made this disclosure at a White House news conference, wheat sold for more than $8 a bushel on
the Chicago Board of Trade. A board spokesman promptly denied the President's charge that speculators were to blame for rising prices. In announcing the Justice Department probe, the President rejected price control and rationing ~<at least for now—as weapons in the grain-for-Europe food conservation campaign. Mr, Truman said price controls— including rent ceilings—and food
(UP)—President Truman tofor soaring food pricgs. He
Four llinois Jail Breakers Hunted Here
Flee After Capture In Stolen Car Indianapolis police and the FBI today were asked to join in the hunt for three men and a woman who broke out
night. 2 The quartet, all of whom gave Indianapolis addresses, were apprehended near Casey yesterday in a
Hunt Alcoholic in Nude Slaying
Woman Found Beaten, Stabbed in Car Trunk
By ROBERT T. LOUGHRAN United Press Staff Correspondent CHICAGO, Oct. i8—Police hunted
rationing are tools of the police state. He said they should not be |® employed in a free country unless absolutely necessary. Off to Good Start As to whether they eventually will become necessary in order to feed Europe and stop price rises here is a bridge he will cross when he comes to it, the President sald. Mr. Truman declared that the American people, in a free enterprise society, are trying to do voluntarily what other peoples have to do by police state methods. He add-, ed that the voluntary food-saving campaign is off to g good start. The President sharply denied
administration’s export program. They are caused principally, he asserted, by gambling on the future markets. Doesn’t Divulge Details Mr. Truman did not give any details about the investization he said Mr. Clark is making. At the Justice Department it was learned that the anti-trust, rather than the criminal, division is conducting the study. It is not to be with the general food now Beseg made by a federal grand jury in Chicago. What the government wants to find out, it was said, is whether out-and-out gamblers, as distinguished from professional speculators, have
today for a chronic alcoholic with a “violent” temper for questioning labout the slaying of a housewife,
car stolen from K. W. Carr Motor Co., 501 Virginia Ave. Tuesday. Aided by unidentified “outside” accomplices, they broke out of the unattended Casey jail around midnight and fled in another stolen car, Names Believed Ficticious.
The four gave their names as R.
gofhery, 22; Otis Bryant, 23, and James Field, 22. The Montgomerys gave their address as “Second St. Indianapolis.” Bryant gave his address as 318 Leader Ave. Field gave his as 340 St. Clair St.
whose almo§t®™hude beaten and stabbed body was found in an] automobile trunk while her baby cried on the front seat. Detectives” started the search for Wallace Bearden, 49, a roofing contractor, after the dead woman's husband told police that his wife and Bearden were close friends.
erine M, Wasil, 35, wife of Stephen J. Wasil, 41, a suburban Cicero, Ill, bricklayer. The baby was their son, William, 16 months, the youngest of three children. Wasil told authorities his wife often left home for long periods and that she had been friendly with Bearden for a long time. County hospital records that Bearden has been treated as “a chronic alcoholic with a mild form of manic excitement.” Left There Months Age His wife said he disappeared three months ago, returning for his clothes last week and left again. Police records also revealed that Bearden was arrested several weeks
was dr . Police picked up Mr. Wasil sev-
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been frying to rig food markets in! Chicago, New York and elsewhere.| Such gamblers by concerted aetion, it was explained, could drivel prices up with large-scale buying] and then when the time was ripe reap heavy profits by selling.
was recalled at the justice depart- |
Bystander Wan Warns
Of Beating, Fes
When police arrested a motorist
The dead woman was Mrs. Cath- as
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ago on a complaint signed by Wiastl, Cc he attempted be Xo 4 nia he Wasi home. The shes later
eral hours after his wife's body was 11:30 p. m.
ment that prices fluctuated con-|on a reckless driving charge a bystantly a few weeks ago. The ques- stander warned the prisoner to *“be tion is whether that was caused by careful or they'll beat you up at
gamblers’ profit-taking. Pint-Sized Bread Meanwhile, President Truman Food Committee was reported ans to be cooling to the idea of pintsized bread loaves to save grain for Europe. It stepped up its efforts, however, | fo find some means of lining up the nation’s brewers and bakers be- 1 sop hind the drive to save an extra 100 mitlion bushels of grain by - July. Because of technical difficulties] there seemed little possibility that) bakers would be asked to make half-sized bread loaves except in areas where such loaves already are| being marketed to some extent, | A baking industry spokesman | said that by the time the bakers| could switch to smaller baking | pans, the European food Sais) would be only a matter of record. |
+ In addition, he said, there would
be the problem of packaging and! wrapping the smaller loaves. Brewers were split over the degree of sacrifice they can make. The food committee was seeking a formula which will be fair to both large and small brewers. The brewers’ unions also will attend ‘he eonferences. They oppose anytning that would mean unemployment,
No Price Increase |= Predicted for Sugar
WASINGTON, Oct. 16 (UP)— Agriculture officials predicted today there would be mo change in te retail prices of sugar when price controls end Oct. 31,
Ask Bluff Road Bids
The Works Board today approved plans and called for bids for the resurfacing of nearly a mile of Bluff Rd, between Meridian St. and Indiana 37. The work is estimated to cost about $8000.
headquarters,” then ran.
Casey Police Chief R. B. Endres said it was thought all the names and addresses given were ficticlous, FBI spokesmen also sald the | quartet gave conflicting information on their names and addresses. The woman gave her name as Eife Alta, 1411 Second 8t., Indianapolis. Montgomery also gave his address 1422 Second St., Clement, Okla. All addresses checked proved to be fictitious, spokesmen said, mciuding several other addresses in Indianapolis.
Working on Car in Field The four aWere arrested when Illinois state police investigated a {report of a new car parked mn a (field. They found the 1047 car, valued at $2000, in a field near Casey. The ‘eg men were working on the engine. The woman was waiting in the car. In the car police found seat covers, valve grinder and a typewriter, These articles were reported taken when burglars ransacked the Carr Co. here Tuesday. Chief Endres said the four were locked up in the small Casey jail,
of jail at Casey, Ill, last}
J. Montgomery, 28, and Elta Mont- |:
~ WANTS TO HANG JAPS—Miss Mary Magruder
holding a portrait of her half-brother, Maj. Gerald H.
Acme , Telephots. Mingis, soft- spoken librarian of the U. S. Army District Engineers’ office in St. Louis, is awaiting answer to her request to act as hangman for Japanese war criminals condemned in the Philippines and thus avenge her soldier half-brother's death at their hands. * She is shown here
Hoffman.
Pastor Digs His Spuds Which Prove to Be Duds
New Hoosier Parable of Church-Building Plan Has Old Theme: ‘A Child Shall Lead’
ELKHART, Oct. 16 (UP)—A red-faced Methodist pastor dug Joaides the size of ping-pong balls out of his garden today and wondered how he could explain the crop failure tp his congregation, 8ix months ago, the Rev. Orrin Manifold of the
word from Indianapolis poThey were in their cells, he| said, when an officer made the regular inspection of the jail at
However, on the 1:30 a. m. check, [the officer found the lock knocked {off the cell and the four person |gone. Shortly after the escape was |discovered, a Caséy resident reported that his car had been stolen. Another Car Stolen The jail break apparently was engineered by someone outside the jail, the Casey police chief said. He said that a car with two men in it was reported seen with the fugitives several hours before their arrest. Illinois police warned that the trio might be armed. Shells were|
‘Il Like lke’ Slogan
Police officers chased him down found on one of the men and a and after a scuffie arrested him on a knife on the other. Officers said ® charge of disorderly conduct andi they believed the men may resisting arrest. hidden guns when they saw police The bystander gave his name as| approaching. James Wyrick, 26, of 1446 Central
| Ave =” Ho made the remark ater tne ot- 10M Skies ficers had ‘arrested Robert Dale
, 33, of Troy, O., on a charge .’ of oe kn SEiving 8 the 0 Wiesk ve On Tap Again
Woron Spends LOCAL TEMPERATURES
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|Former Sen. James E. Watson (R. ——— Ind.) spent a “fair” night but at-| Sunny skies and warm temperatendants at Garfield Hospital said tures were the order for Indianaptoday his condition still was very|olis and vicinity again today.
critical. The high pressure area which has The nature of his ailment was/been moving slowly © the east not disclosed. Mr, Watson is 83. |across the central states still]
Of Eisenhower Boom
WASHINGTON, Oct.- 16 — Na-|least through tomorrow.
‘Radiant Jade’ Loses Lure; Spy Queen Trial Delayed
PY Chinese ‘Crash Gates’ fo See Daughter Of Manchu Prince Accused of Aiding Japs
PEIPING, Oct. 16 (UP)—The Hopel court today postponed a second attempt to held a Se trial for Ching Pih-hwel, known as “Radiant Jade, Queen of The delay ‘was rand afte 1000 persons broke down heavy wooden
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RADIANT JADE was anything
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but alluring today. She wore a turhe Judges from. their| i sweater and trousers.
s = » THE DAUGHTER of sa Manchu have reminded her of the time she prince, Radiant Jade was famed|°POriéd 8 Japanese general's uni-
for her beauty as well as for her| he disguised herself as a Chinese brains. She was accused of work-
WHILE the unruly crowd pressed
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Church advanced $10 each to 40 members of thie TE srouame. misma area To
Local Flier Hurt In Ohio Crash
Aged South Side Couple Killed By Escaping Gas
Blame Unlighted Oven For Death of Retired Farmer, 84, Wife,
Police Force Way Info Home After Former Tenant Fails to Arouse Pair An aged retired farmer and his wife were found dead shortly before noon today in their home at 1028 Garfield Drive. They apparently had been overcome by gas escaping from an unlighted oven. The victims were John R. Marshall, 84, and Mrs. Florida Marshall, 86. ; The deaths were discovered when J. Daniel Keppel of near Waldron, former tenant on the Marshall farm there and a close friend of the aged couple, called at their home this morning,and was unable to raise an answer to his knocking. Squad Forces Way Into Home Mr. Keppel inquired of a nextdoor neighbor, Mrs. Ray Leachman, and together they tried again to arouse the couple. Mrs. Leachman detegted the odor of gas and called police. Police Sgt. Will Reed and an emergency squad forced their way into the seven-room home and found Mr. Marshall dead in the bathroom. On a davenport in an adjoining room lay the body of Mrs. Marshall, who was an invalid. Deputy Coroner Dr. John Farris said preliminary investigation indicated the deaths were accidental. Only the oven of the stove in the kitchen was turned on. Police believed it may have been lighted to take the morning chill off the kitchen and been blown out by a breeze coming down a nearby stairway. ‘I Spy’ Moulton A niece of the dead couple,
Report James Parker In Critical Condition |
Civil Aeronautics ® authorities
ethodist VoT® today y ptestigsiing a crash at
oor late yesterday.
Mr. Manifold also took $10 from
/the church fund to invest, hoping boy showed him up as & business(to set a good example.
man.
Sunday is the payoff day. Each
The injured ma Parker, 30, of #706
“I invested my $10 in potato|Ves In Cleveland's Deadoness Hos~
of the 50 church members must|seed,” the minister said. “Like the Pital With a possible fractured
account for the investment and | parable of the 10 talents, I planted
[turn the profits over to the church mine in the ground. The potatoes
building fund. [range from about the size of a The Rev. Mr. Manifold bowed his {marble to slightly smaller than a head today and said he was abashed by the whole thing. An 8-year-old | (Continued on “Page 8-—Column 5)
Red Attempt to Unite Southeast Asia Similar
«To Old Jap Strategy
This is the second of a series on the spread of communism in Asia. By WILLIAM H. NEWTON, Scripps-Howard Staff Writer BANGKOK, Siam, Oct. 16—An attempt is being made to unite all Southeast Asia into a pro-Communist union, The program is being pushed in at least a half dozen countries by left-wing groups who are endeavoring to swing Asia’s resources and millions of people into the Soviet sphere of influence. The plan actually is a left-wing version of the
lold Japanese “Asia for Asiat- but not pro-Communist, countered {ics” line. a
the Indian proposal by setting up|
Failure of the democracies; ... en here in Bangkok.
to deal realistically with the chal-| Observers here believe countries | lenge of communism in this part py, jikely to participate in a proof the world will result in a Pro- communist pan-Asiatic union) Communist Pan- would be Indo-China, Malays, Bur-| 3 Asiatic union'ma Indonesia and India. many observers giam, which has the highest . here believe, 1standard of living in all Asia is
' Boutheas! they believe... However, Chinese) ig Bo i Asia mmunists who have infiltrated 5 union was open- gq. by the tens of thousands are ¢ ly advocated bY making a determined effort here. left-wing Indian Last May Day, a Communist rally * recently. drew 175000 here in Bangkok. Government offi-| Speakers attacked the United cials and political States, and the backdrop on the ‘leaders of Siam, stage was the Soviet hammer and Mr, Newion who are Socialist|sickle emblem.
| Chinese Agents Spread Communist Doctrine
Chinese agents are being used real interest in communism by the throughout Southeast Asis to[natives. Of a total population of 17
spread the Communist doctrine million, three million are Chinese.
while the Soviets generally are re-|sonduct a constant propagands atmaining i» the background. Rus-itack against slan trade missions are active/ism” and endeavor to infiltrate and throughout this part of the world, (gain control of the labor unions and however, * The Soviets are opening an em~ bassy in Bangkok soon. Indications|the steady infl ux of are that this key communications tightening eo i center will be used as headquarters] For many years Siam for a campaign to bring Southeast anti-Communist law, but after the Asia into the Russian orbit. war this was repealed—probably so Siam produces a surplus of food,/that Russia would not blackball adhas a pleasant tropical climate the mission of Siam into the United year around. Hence there is little| Nations.
‘Communist Movement Vigorous, Determined The government is a constitu- But he was exonerated of the| tional monarchy with the king charge. largely a figurehead. The dominant| pespite efforts of the Chinese party is socialist and the dominant Communist minorities, the situation political leaders are “leftists but lin Slam itself is relatively calm. not Marxists,” according to Amer- But throughout the less fortunate ican observers here, Fortnet statesman” is Pridi Phanamyong, and determined.
is going to take considerably more
being a Communist on the grounds effort by the democracies than mere tide,
contro had an|!
skull and other injuries after his! plane crashed while attempting a landing at Brooklyn Feld.
With Mr. Parker was his aunt, Mrs. Helen Osborn, 54, of Toledo, making her first flight in an air-! plane, Mr, Parker, making a cross-country flight as part of his training under the GI bill, had
day. He was intending to visit a wartime buddy, Vincent Cicerchi in| Cleveland.
the field. Gunning the engine he gained a little altitude before the,
as an engineer aboard B-29's, Mr. Parker was employed in Plant 1, Allison Division of General Motors Corp, Mrs, Osborne said she planned to visit her daughter, br Andrew Homzy in Cleveland. They! had left Toledo at 4 p. m., she sald. Unable to recall anything al
thorities her nephew said “keep your fingers crossed” after the first
{she was not seriously hurt.
Dinner to Honor
State Bar Group Head | GOSHEN, Oct. 16 (UP)—State Supreme and Appellate Court |Judges and the ears of Notre
[testimonial banquet for Verne G.
Cawley, Elkhart. The banquet is scheduled for
Indiana State Bar Association.
PAC to Seek
Named Defendant Miss Eva Waggoner of 1018
Madison Ave, told police she In Divorce Suit had come to the home earlier
in the morning to bring food tamous|t0 the Marshalls. Unable to d arouse them, she said, she had left.
Mrs. Eunice Moulton charged] mun Niriss retamad to James T. husband whom she had Batped {IY ARID, the Fragedy Bad been dis-
Ly Svidinze in ‘tfier ‘people’ Both Mr. and Mrs. Marshall were She asked $100 a month”for her Dv haley SRY. as ‘children, $500 a month for herself tomobile business in Shelbyville and worth of Som" PFOPEFY. | hors while after coming to Sndian~ " yr |apolis 35 years ago. | FRIENDS said the blond Mrs.| No funeral arrangements had been
Moulton was “fed up with the 7 Tl by relatives summoned to the vate eye business.” She had assisted nome py police,
Moulton in setting up his telephone |
versations overheard on the earphones. Into Gas Blast Mrs. Moulton's suit said their [14-year-old son, Graham Jr. had! An investigation was underway
taps and had taken notes on «- Open Investigation
picked up his aunt earlier in the,
the crash, Mrs. Osborne tid how
Doorbell Ringers for '48
CIO Group Issues Call for Volunteers; FDR Jr. Raps NAM and Realty Lobby
BOSTON, Oct. 16 (UP)—The CIO Political Action Committee issued! & call today for one million volunteer block workers to undertake the | PAC’s grass roots campaigning before the 1948 primaries and election. The call was read to the ninth CIO national convention by PAC| Director Jack Kroll after Franklin D. Roosevett”
about his father’s profession.” The couple was depicted recently
in sensational Monal divores cases, cases, |
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“Lewis ‘Boycott’s’ Green Re-election
BAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 18 ( UP)—| John L. Lewis, still angry and sulky, | boycotted the re-election of AFL!
{24th term at the final sessions of {the AFL's 66th annual convention |here today. Mr, Lewis and his big delegation of United Mine workers stayed away from the session during the entire election of 1948 officers. It was the first time since the!
former UMW secrtary-treasurer. The task was performed by Philip Hannan, secretary of the Ohio State
sistant secretary of labor, |
2 a Million |
Jr. had told the
delegates that labor, veterans, housewives and farmers must get to-
géther if they want to change the — political complection of Congress in 948. i
Urging approval of a resolution to support the PAC program, Kroll told the convention frankly that the CIO had been unable “to duplicate our success at economic or-| ganization in the field of politics.” Mr. Kroll said the CIO could win {its objectives in 1048 if its mem-
|bers_corivinced themselves that a
national election was as important, las a national strike. “PAC has set as its objective one million voluntary block workers,”
. |gountries of Southeast Asia the he said. “They will form the citizen- had blocked the passage of the Taftand “senior Communist movement is vigorous Army that will carry the message Ellender-Wagner housing bill.
ot PAC and its program into the!
It is increasingly obvious that it parlors and kitchens and on to the as saying that America could be
front porches of America.” He reported that the PAC al-
of the present state to stem ready had recruited 10 per cent of tioning and price controls were rethe desired number. vived,
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Mr, Roosevelt apepared before the convention for the unveiling of |a plaque which will be placed in a wing of the Georgetown Hospital at Washington, being built by the CIO as a memorial to the late Presi(dent. | He told the convention that the (Republican Congress was “serving {In a most servile manner the groups [that we thought we had licked.” He blamed the National Associa* tion of Manufacturers for the Taft|Hartley labor law and said the real estate: lobby—“the most powerful and ruthless” ever in Washington
Earlier, the CIO went on record
well fed and still give substantial help to Burope if a minimum of ra-
Mr. Parker, in landing, overshot “taken an awful beating at school today to determine the cause of a
gas explosion followed by fire that destfoyed the home of Mr. and Mrs.
engine quit and the plane crashed. In a national picture magazine at Walter E. Leavitt Sr. 3835 ShadeA World War II veteran, trained work obtaining evidence to be used land Ave, last night.
The blast blew out part of one side of the house about one minute {after Walter Leavitt Jr., a son, had (rescued his grandfather, Fred Dehner, 68, from the gas-filled building, The son said he smelled escaping ‘gas about 6 p. m. and immediately ont fi war his grandfather who bee: ally overBirea a had fumes. After helping the grandfather outside the house, he went to a
offices of their own “Southeast Asia attempt to land. Doctors reported President Willlam Green for his window to investigate the source of
the gas leak and about that time 'there was a terrific explosion. Young Leavitt was hurled back seve eral feet into the driveway by the impact. Neither young Leavitt nor the grandfather was badly hurt. The whole interior of the house
Formation of a not fruitful ground for communism, pame, Indiana and Valparaiso law mine chieftain was in the AFL that|Was enveloped in flames immediate [schools today had invitations to a he failed to nominate Mr. Green, a |¢lV after the blast.
Firemen were unable to determine how the escaping gas was ignited. Mr. and Mrs. Leavitt and another
Oct. 26. He is president of the Federation of Labor and Former as- 500: Donald Leavitt, weré not at
home at the time of the explosion. Loss was estimated at about $10,« 000. It was covered by insurance, members of the family said. The Citizens Gas'& Coke Utility said that its service department at 1 p. m. yesterday received a call from a construction company work {ing on Shadeland Ave. informing (them that a grader had accidentally | ruptured 2 gas pipe in the street in front of Leavitt house. The utility said the pipe was ree placed by an emergency crew worke ing in the vicinity, The utility said a complete ine vestigation was planned of the cause of the explosion,
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