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: ii : " . Acame Vaieiote TIME OUT—Maj. Gen. Bennett E. Meyers lights a cigaret for his wife after a long day of questioning at the Senate War Investigating Subcommittee probe into wartime contracts of Howard Hughes.. Mrs. Meyers also was on the stand
Killing Frost,
Youth, 18,
26° Predicted Here Tonight
4 Dead as Result Of Midwest Storm
LOCAL TEMPERATURES m.... 328 am... 4H m..,. 37 lam ... 4 m.... 38 12 (noon)... 43 m.... 38 1pm .., 43
6 a. 7a 8 a 9 a
The mercury here moved up from
promised it would plunge right back: tonight. At 6 a. m. it was 29 at Weir Cook | Municipal Airport, while in downtown Indianapolis the reading was 32. Lowest tonight will be 26, six degrees below freezing, the weather bureau reported. High winds last night prevented
Girl Killed, 9 ‘Hurt in Blast
briefly to confirm some of her husband's testimony. Hughes Charges Soviets ‘Capture’
nine persons were injured in an
Accuses Ferguson |explosion, believed caused by leakOf Barring Key Data in8 gas, which wrecked three apart- * |ment dwellings last night. WASHINGTON, Nov. 8 (UP)—| pegq was Mary Hertig, 6, daughHoward Hughes today Chairman Homer Ferguson of the yop jneant sister Judy was not loSenate War Investigating Subcom-|.ateq phy authorities immediately mittee with “throwing every ob-| eter the explosion and firemen
Entered Austria as
Political Refugees VIENNA, Nov. 8
Hungarian soldiers entered Austri as political refugees last night.
- DAVENPORT, Iowa, Nov. 8 (UP) | Armed Hun arians morrow. —A 6-year-old girl was killed and ; : Football Weather
(UP)—Official | Minneapolis, 200 students last night charged Austrian Sources reported . today|cleared the field of a heavy snow in 2€d ter of Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Hertig. that a fully armed company of 83 preparation for today's MinnesotaAt Ann Arbor, the|
a heavy frost,” but a killing frost was expected to blanket a large portion of the state. It is expected to warm up a little sometime to-
A few snowflakes drifted down at South Bend, scene of the Notre Dame-Army clash, but the field was dry and clear for the game. At
a | Purdue tilt. field was dry and there was a brisk
All but one appeared to have been wind for the Indiana-Minchigan
stacle” In the way of presenting ang police searched through theligken into custody by the Russians. |8ridiron battle.
testimony favorable to himself. rung for hours before finding that
A government source reported
Icy winds whistled all the way,
The Hollywood millionaire madeise had been takenyto a hospital|inat as far as could be determined|doWwn the Mississippi Valley. and |
the statement to reporters after with her pdrents and anothe Sen. Michigan - Repub- |sister Carrie, 7. lican, denied him permission to ap+| Mrs, Hertig and William W Mrs, ymer, occu pear on the witness stand immedi-\ yh, Jived in an adjoining apart- the Beltish gn
ately to answer personally charges ment, were in critical condition. [ine goal of the entire company. -
The British zone apparently was
from confused and indefinite ad-|even Texas shivered . with a’2vices, one Hungarian soldier reached |
degree drop in temperature. - A snowstorm moved up past Port Arthur, Ontario, after blanketing the Dakotas and northern Minne-
" [freezing today but the weatherman,
$34,500 CAST — Ernest Miller, 4, of Chicago, scribbles on cast he
Acme Telephoto has worn
on his leg since he was struck by a truck last April. Under a pre-trial settlement in
of the truck.
Chicago yesterday, Ernest received $34,500 from Pioneer Motor Service, Inc., owners
Daylight Thugs Beat, Rob
Hoodlums Slug Seven Others Overnight
3 Teen-Agers Held For 19 Burglaries
A state-wide search was launched {at noon today for two gunmen who | staged a daring $250 daylight hold up of an Indianapolis visitor on a lonely road in ‘the. northwestern part of the county: They escaped in an old model green car after heating and robbing Arlin B. Stephen, 18, Weldon, Ill, about two miles west of Ind. 52 on the DeLong Rd. The bandits offered young Stephen a ride from the bus terminal to the home of his sister, Mrs, Elmer Hutson, 2026 S. East St. .- The Stephen youth told deputy | sheriffs that the men, one about 21 and the other 19, drove through Garfield Park and then circled back toward the city, finally driving to the vicinity of 62d St. and DeLong Road. There, they brutally beat him on the head with gun butts and a beer
" |bottle and dragged him from the
car. The money was taken from him and ‘he was kicked into a ditch. They continued to maul him, he added, until an Omar Bakery Co, truck driver saw the melee and has« tened to the rescue. Receives Broken Nose The driver, whose name deputies
Kokomo Pilot Hurt In Crash Here
Plane Catches Fire
Kidnaped Mother Escapes From Illinois Killer of Two
Tells of Previous Romance With Neighbor _* Who Killed Her Husband and Father
did not learn, drove his truck up to the ditch and yanked young Stephen into the bakery truck without stopping. The bandits fled in their car. The Stephen youth suffered a broken nose and a number of cuts and bruises. The hoodlums got a head start on sheriff officials who investigated because authorities said that all sher-
that he used “high-level pressure”
tee to call in his defense.
Sen, Ferguson appeared determined to suppress all testimony which “might be contrary to the wishes of the majority of the subcommittee.” 2 . Hughes to Testify
Mr. Hughes, who is scheduled to|2Rnounced again today he will have
testify Monday, insists he got his | ROthing further to do with organi- ’ |zation politics.
government - war contracts strictly on the up-and-up and without “high level pressure.”
Mr. Ferguson first ruled that the Who has announced he will resign as they were leaving their homeland inches of snow that snarled traffic port. - only witnesses who would be heard Republican county chairman .and| for political reasons. today were the nine requested by 11th district chairman, both once held by Mr. Bradford.
Mr. Hughes. 8 Mr. Ferguson later overrode a recommendation of ’
eommittee to ask.
hitting Politics, a Sarr wis rcs oo BF0fOA SYS
a similar one by Henry E. Ostrom,| telling Austrian border guards that|digging itself out -from under *10 planes that were parked at the air- tion at General Hospital today from | Anderson sald. |
Claude Bradford scoff at the™idea he can Pepper (D. Fla.) that Mr. Hughesiavoid continuing a forceful inflube permitted to cross-examine the ence in Republican Party affairs.| witngsses instead of having to sub- They recall him as a disciple of]
mit his questions in writing for the the late Boss Coffin, who carefully| taught Mr. Bradford politics sey Official sources sald reports from the day with slowly rising tempera- the United States to live.
British officials said they had no sota with wet, wind-driven snow. At Sky Harbor s eee rep A ————————— if “busy” hen the Hake lword. of . the appearance of the!.. Winds Sweep Lake A freak gust of wind caused a ROCKFORD, Ill, Nov. 8 (UP)—Mrs, Vernon Anderson admitted to-| A y W hel robbery Hungerians.. Their evidet ‘disap~| Storm Wirnings were up on the/ light plane to’ fall shortly before day. that she once was in love with Glenn Marsh; 28, who Killed: ter 1. TC and a "okt was. Yeu" pearance led to the tentative con-|Great Lakes today ag’ winds well noon today at Sky Harbor Air- husband and her father and then kidnaped her and took her on a har-| =. © oo 0. police clusion that the Russians had de-|over 60 miles per hour swept across port, seriously injuring a Kokomo rowing 100-mile ride before she escaped, TR Police said rio call for aid tained them. hy the open water. The storm, which Pilot. The plane caught fire after The affair, she told State's Attorney Max Weston, “Is all over now.” waz Tecsived from the sheriff's of= The Hungarians crossed . the|struck on a 400-mlie front, was | crashing. | Mrs. Anderson, 26, mother of three children, was returned to- Rock- fic ’ frontier near the southwesternmost moving northeastward at 20 to 25 Witnesses said Harry Masque- - a—p— ford after. she fled from the killer ce.
Joins Henry, Ostrom |tip of Hungary. In that area themiles an hour. lette, the pilot, had flown from 1 at Morris, Ill. Police said rejected| hile the Josten HD, Bleeding In Refi . Rusisan occupation zone tapers off, The 5000-ton tramp lakes steam- Kokomo to the local airport and Id IC [as es love caused Marsh, the father of {Tom his wounds, Waited “or autor n Retirement to a width of only a few miles. West er ‘Jupiter reported today that it then took off for the return rip.
two, to kill Mr. Anderson, 28, and |1ties, an unidentified man drove up James L. Bradford, GOP leader, of it lies the British zone. was temporarily out of danger after When he saw that Hie was In Grant “Muhrlein, 52, Northpoint, [And got out of his car. When he
‘. - Have No Explanation drifting through dangerous rocks trouble, he tried to circle back for italize Two Mich., who had come here to help heard what had happened, Be dug The Hungarians were reported to|off the Michigan shore of Lake # landing. He was alone at the his son-in-law sell a farm. | hand into one pockst, pulled od have been allowed to cross the Michigan. | time, : " " “Glenn told me he would kill me Tor o hells ue gave them: 1p , 0 persons.were ‘in fair condi- ' youn, ephen and left. i The oft-repeated pledge followed frontier with all their arms after| International Falls, Minn. began Two persons ,and himself both, if necessary, ' Mrs. Assigned 402 i 3 | “I was frightened to death and The Omar Bakery Co. said thas fnjuries received in traffic accidents! od with evervihing he said to[® driver named. Frank Gossett was last night. pacify him. It was & horrible ex- (assigned to the area where the fight Orie was Charles Wilson, 17, of| perience. I thought I was in loye|l0ok place and they believed he was pany could be allowed to cross the teletype wires. Return fo U. S. fo Live 847 8 Tremont St, driver of with Glenn once, but that is ail ihe Man who had come to the ald of WASHINGTON, Nov. 8 (UP)— motor scooter that collided in the! over now. ; Stephen.
frontier fully armed. They said the Warmer Sunday . . with , Toda - normal procedure would have been| The weather bureau said today Mrs. Iva D’Aquina of Los Angeles, {199° block of 8. Belmont Ave. Wi | - Warned by Killer's Wife y's daylight robbery eli : : a car being driven “by Richafd| “Mrs. Anderson said that she man-|{maxed one of the worst outbreaks to disarm the. men and notify both that skies over most of the country Who broadcast anti-American propa- | Hap . . the Interior Ministry and Soviet, ES LTRs aia LIore | Shale; 17, of “2834 W. Morris St.|aged to take the killers gun siom of slugging, beaimgs, $5ierice ung authotisés [er ng, u ti B Se £0 Sch Wi 1 yo er ¢ Uring (anake, who was uninjured, was the glove compartment of his 1936 burglaries: of the year last night, . [Weather would continue ough By vans 4 Yelm W/ charged with havihig no operator's car when he stopped at Morris to| At the same time, police coun=
license. inquire about renting a tourist cabin'tered by clearing up 19 burglaries.
The wind also turned’ over two
last night, while linemen wgnt out ER ——————— Interior Ministry officials had nolin freezing weather at Duluth and ‘Tokyo Rose’ May explanation how a Hungarian com- {Minneapolis to repair telephone and
Associates of the colorful Mr.
Sen. Pepper, a member of the full the ground up. Soon after “bold,| committee, contended Mr, ght lain-siaking Jimmy was 21, hel
really was in the position of being
began his tutelage in this phase of
an accused on trial before the|government.
committee and the “bar of public
opinion.”
Nevertheless, Mid-State Liquor Co., in which Mr. Bradford is a
“No one Is on trial here,” Sen. | partner, will receive his full atten-
Ferguson declared. frying to get the facts.”
“We are only tion from now on, he asserts.
The fourth day of hearings got| . off to a fumbling start this oS Evansville Veterans
ing. When Sen. Ferguson open=d Buy Plant for Cannery (Continued on Page 2—Column 4)| WASHINGTON, Nov. 8 (UP)—|
Romanian National Bank Governor Quits
sident National Liberal Party mem-
| Pive Evansville, Ind., residents who| reportedly plan to operate a food cannery, have purchased the three
the frontier were incomplete, and| tyres on Sunday and Monday. |
what happened there was obscure.
A moderate rain fell along the Department officials who said she
This was disclosed today by State
They noted that the strength of the| East Coast from New York to the has appealed for a passport ‘and |
Hungarians would have been supe-| Carolinas during the night and that they have little choice but to rior to that of the Austrian guards, | cloudiness. with continued and intimidation might have been rains was expected in the Pacific/is a bona fide U, 8. citizen.
used
"Recent reports from Hungary in-
Northwest,
light grant it if she can prove that she
The Justice Department would
lgrancy after he was hurt when car he was driving struck a cross|ing signal at Madison Ave. and We)
Alfred H. Woodard, 39, of 1533
Finley Ave. was charged with vaab {the sheriff's office at { sald. “I was almost hysterical with night's crime wave in which seven
Belt Railroad, police said.
| Marsh walked into At least. four deaths were attrib- (say only that it is investigating) Five persons injured In a two-car) up. =, qercon's parents at dusk|
dicated that the Hungarian arm ’ ' lac g y|uted to the Midwestern storm, and Mrs. D’Aquina‘and has no plans accident last night at Olney St. and yesterday and after a scuffle, killed
was preparing. for maneuvers in the three men were injured at Duluth|to block her request for re-entry. Massachusetts Ave. and treated for Mr. Anderson
barea around Lake Balaton, east of when winds toppled a 300-foot coal tthe Austrian border.
Post Office Reminder— Chinese Are Sensitive
dock-loading span. Kansas Is Dry
|plled snow eight inches deep at| .CHICAGO, Nov. 8 (UP)~Amon art St, passengers, Carter, Texas publisher, "and his
[Duluth and four inches at Minne-
NEW YORK, Nov. 8 (UP)—The|apolis. Low visibility hampered auto remaining portions of the Evans-| postoffice agked the public today|traffic and airline flights for several BUCHAREST, Nov. 8 (UP)—The ville ordnance plant, the War Assets|to please remember the Chinese are hours: late yesterday. fesignation of Toberiu Ofgiu, dis- Administration annoynced today.
sensitive
people.
Many persons| The prospect of clear skies in the
The WAA said that buildings sending letters and packages to| winter wheat belt blanked out hopes
Visiting Publisher's Car Winds of 60 to 65 miles per hour Looted on Chicago Street william Hansman, 26, of 2751 Stew-
wife were robbed of colthing and
furs valued at $4735 yesterday when thieves broke into their automobile St. 8 passenger while they were eating breakfast. .
Included in the lgot were a $3500
minor injuries were Donald Cave,
22, of 2046 N.. Colorado St., driver of one car; his wife; Pauline, 22, and
and Howard Harvey, 27, of 3050 N. Gladstone Ave., driver of the second car, and
George Barnes, 18, of 2145 N. Gale l
Threat of New “Hairdo’
|with the arrest of three teen-age
“I ran across a fleld and a couple youths, after one of them was “beicked me up and took me on into|trayed” by his teen-age girl friend, Morris,” she|
Police had no explanation for last
{men were slugged and one home
the kitchen Was burglarized.
One Robbed of $400 One of the slugging victims was .sent to General Hospital. One was
Marsh's wife, Audrey, sald she .ohhed of $400. None of thém
went to the Anderson home- earlier seemed to know who or what hit and warned them her hushand had/ihem.
bought a gun and “is coming down| The to kill you all.” 8he said she had known since ground midnight, at the bus tere
ast July that her husband. and minal and out in the neighborher neighbor's wife were
on like 16 year olds.” Police sald she had learned of of the sluggings. The other three the “affair” when she found an ex- apparently were unprovoked.
sluggings took place on brightly lighted downtown streets
“carrying: hoods. :
Robbery was the motive in four
i
ber, as governor of the Romanian | used to produce incendiary bombs Manchuria have been addressing for rainfall over the parched area. m ’ «mink collar and a $330 black dinner . tier SW " ) National Bank, was announced to-| 80d Small Arne urine. ne. Tarim to Mancini, the. name Kstsat was experiencing ity driest dress Belonging to Mos, Carter Now Menaces lowa U. change of letters between the two. The $400 victim was Harry Campwer -] : ¢ in ’ oe . SCuss ree ‘ ee bers of +t , 1000 cash 2 YoreIaI tor 12 Coed the Sapaness Nien they tall period since the 1939 drought. | Mr, Carter, who is publisher of| IOWA CITY, Ia, Nov. 8 (UP)—| «yp . discussed a divorce on a Stanuug ave hen 4 ur Jaeub $s 0 ithe party who, Risers were. W. J. Simple! e Provinde rom China. The| The lowest temperature in the the Ft. Worth Star-Telegram, lost Nearly 500 students at the Univer- mhursday of this week,” Mrs. An- was slu oe i a} ® hoy m., he are oe inet Sp Ble 1esiguod ae RS ser aot. ra vi a Stration refuses to nation at midnight was 16 degrees g traveling bag containing clothing sity of Iowa agreed today not to!gderson told Mr, Weston, “and then front ugge a. Je wa e int the ony in in samen NN 2 ‘Walker and Henry B, ey - Se a 3nd Sern It to at Dickinson, N.D., while Ft. Myers, and toilet articles valued at $100. get their hair cut until the new $1| we went to see a lawyer. He ad- {ered the oa PE . Minister chon Ty ax : 5 ment said sion A ee i ouniry. my The Carters were passing through price is lowered. The action Is & vised us to patch things up. Ver- door window oy h gy your Ana Pauker, Romanian Commu- - nesota "vecorded et aing wl ga dh route to South’ Bend, protest against the 25-cent increase non and I drove out to a lovers’ ’
| Burglars “worked” the home of nist leadler, was appointed torengn| Washington Calling— peratures last night.
for the Notre Dame-Army which went into effect this week Injjane In the park and decided tol jg game today. -.|Iowa City barber shops, James H. Makin, 52, of 5108. N.
met |G6785 Million Aid Program [ovisiona Tomadoss London 'Spivs' Mighty Mu
Truman Names Adviser - $ : : ° Wreck 2 Towns, Kill 4 Ready or Congress Action NEW ORLEANS, Nov. 5 we)—| [Ag Flower 'Murder' Fails Truman to Urge Administrator for Handling | Loulsisna. SOMBUNILCE ug out, as Tua tie 0 cE ay from tornadoes that left four City Bookies Take a Lesson in Country be anh Sucre her hk fing 1d yes he Andersons) Colt automatic pistol.
Of Funds; Marshall Plan Faces Delay Pegine deed; vo ujjssing, inked. | Meek Ch h G y a z {at le re - ? t WASHINGTON, Nov. 8—Administration program 2 Jot 12 snd geatioyed or dam-| moma ee rysant emum Grower | had decided to patch things up and| The teen-age burglars were apfor foreign relief § dv for C ’ [98e0, Peat y \ | LONDON, Nov. 8 (UP)—Some of London's sharpest “spivs” had he became infurlated. “They can't prehended by police when a 16- ] gn 18 reaqy . or Ongress. Here's way we » e twisters struck separate glean pockets today. The cause of thelr downfall was Jim Jackson,! do this to me,--his wife quoted year-old girl, sweetheart of the get it: , Oe Ta Bight 3nd Pridasia meek little country man with an infinite love for flowers, Marsh as saying. oldest youth, broke down while in ———————— . ONE: For em : wiz y “ niles south ol} The government recently undertook to ‘put the “spivs’—petty eeping and nearly hysterical, the custody of juvenile court aue WAR ROMANCES LASTING d h. Bri Bergency relief in Italy, France, Austria |New Orleans, and Red Bayou, La, | packeteers—to honest work. Some of them drifted to the country, Mrs. Marsh asked police to’keep her thorities on a Senile charge. WASHINGTON, Nov. 8 (UP)—! and perhaps Britain, Congress will be asked for about $675 [about 300 miles ‘northwest of Gal-|t4 Jie low while the heat was on. |= =i. ee | iN _protective custody at the county| Detectives George Hubbard d The Army said today it has brought| million. : : |1ano. | One of the places they drifted Nad intended to enter in the Show. jail until her husband is found. Francis Crail id tified ade 75,000 war brides to the United TWO: President will not d admin} A to was MacClesfield, ~_Cheshire, "ne" police arrived ‘to investigate ghe feared he might try fo harm of the we as tied. ua Jonze Blates and very few of thém have : : vill no recommen ministration Ration Potatoes where My, Jackson. lives. (The Dt case, the “spivs had vanished ner .or their children, who Were yg Lahr of 217 Dixon St. Lahr was asked for 8 ticket back home. of relief program by new corporation or agency. Instead | 1oNDON Nov. 8 (UP)="Ths Eve. COUNtry quiet Was tgo much “for ie Jat for thé show and thelr staying with relatives, Ineld in the county JAil on & vam y ia . r ’ , —— = “ » ) ‘ - | Ti Index he'll propose an administrator, reporting to him through |ning News said today that potatoes he opie an yey stand making)” what the “spivs” didn’t know vis Tot G Shoobi grancy charge under $3000 bail, mes ex & State Department—but someone not now in the depart. [¥ould be ‘rationed starting next = ie Or uae 5 that no flower grower as long in| ' © oes. shopping, To and his two cohorts, one 18," — | . " | | : . detec: Amusements. ment. State wanted to run show, since relief ties in so Monday bie three poupds Mr. Jackson is the leading Slower Sie busioiens as Mr Jackson raised’ Man Comes Hopping jhe A aie Eddie Ash ... closely with foreign policy. This is compromise. Of grower in MacClestield and usualy dosens - of * chrysanthemums and |Prnar. 0. walkad' thie oun Cracking shies in some of them and Sourse: Republican Congress Tay alter it. PE OF GREECE Sakis the Sem, gotase ln Se Mac. totiitr flowers which they had notgelected a doll, and’ handed Se tos Staining Joos of mere Yan noo. THREE: Consideration of Marshall Plan will wait till |. eh wii tary, Tt i good on his entries. The “SPIVS” "The M Clestierd 1 ; sh hod bills PRAY FOR MENINGITIS CURE | regular session, though President will refer to it In asking interim aid..|were concerned over the condition thought they could fix that. Ee Tr: Jey 3100 Was Republicans are now willing to have program divided. |
| mike up, sell the farm and move Pennsylvania St. Mr. Makin came “| some place else to start all over.” home at 10 p. m, yesterday to find Mr. Weston sald he had signed the. upstairs ransacked by burglars
warrants today, charging Marsh who apparently entered the house { with both murders, as police of four |py a kitchen window.
| states, including Indiana, joined in $900 Ring Missing
‘a search for him. Missing-was-a—woman's-diamond Mrs. Marsh informed her hus- ring value at $900 and a 32-caliber
WASHINGTON, Nov. 8 (UP)— President ' Truman - today named Robert M. Field, associate administrator of the War Assets Adminis-| tration, as counsel to Presidential Assistant John R. Steelman. Mr. Field, a New York attorney and a native of Texas i8 resigning his | war assets post.
6| Hollywood -... 9| 7/Don Hoover., 10 Books 8| Inside Indpls. 6 * Marquis Childs 10| Dan Kidney.. 10 Churches .... 4/Movies '...... 6 Classified. . 12-15 Radio ., 16 Comics ...... 18) Side Glances. 10
ver wlan ad Mr: Tare ot oa | “I've got more,” Jean confided. GREYBULE, Wyo., Nov. 8 (UP) i ) r. Jackson had two| To prove it, she pulled a $1000 bill A 4-year-eld. girl stricken with Crossword ... 8! Society Of TOUS: Whitt Mavahall Pas 1x soomlcos saraiiration Wilt our rs3 Paul. Who has been con.) Seven days, 260. while Mv. Jeck-imore silver cups and 16 other prizes.| from ‘her school Junch. box The spinal meniatit was denied meden SE Lo CEE OM a io Lid miited, aaminisisatis Wil nok to his bed and running a high son was away from his home, they He still had the best chrysanthe- manager called Jean's mother, who ical aid today by her parents who Forum ...... 10| Weather Msp 11 eS Atl a Page Sedalamn 1 fever since he Was inoculated for|snssked into his greenhouse and imums in town and the “spire” had | discovered $1030 missing from a hid-|told county health authorities they { wg : ge tia A nt ) x . cholera a week: ago. ; poisoned six, chrysanthemums he|an expensive lesson in gambling. ing place in their home Y06S Suying an JNJOE tn dune pa, :