Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 February 1948 — Page 1

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FORECAST: Clear and very cold tonight; lowest temperatures 0 to 5 above. Light snow beginning’ tomorrow night.

58th YEAR—NUMBER 285 oo

«Class Matter at Pompoffice en

PRICE FIVE CENTS

Entered as Second. Indianapolis, Ind. Issued daily sxcept Sunday

apo

opening Chi

25 cents lower, but early bids at Omaha were down $1 to,

$1.50.

out

market valuations. Cotton was 3| points higher to 11 points lower. Bonds steadied. Over -in London, millions in

pound sterling values were wiped out as the stock market aose-

dived, clearly

American downward trends. types of securities. were affected. In Paris. the Bourse was slumped only slightly. tl he Other major developments of

the day:

ONE: At

prices were cut by three large milling companies,

It was the

that the commodity price break

may work its the wholesale grocery store.

TWO: In Indianapolis, AcmeEvans Co. reported a 25 to 35cent drop in wholesale prices of flour but called it “not unusual.”

Indianapolis Cattle’ Steady

The Indianapolis slump in hog prices came without an abnormal

cago price was]

in sympathy witn All

Minneapolis flour

first visible sign

way down through level to the corner

gong.

Corn Sales Close in Three Minutes

CHICAGO, Feb. 8 (UP)—Corn traders on the Chicago Board of Trade were so jittery today that they started screaming their offers to sell before the market ‘opened. With the market on the skids, the brokers gathered groups around the -corn; wheéat| and oats trading pits in the world’s largest grain market. Here the buyers and sellers set the market quotations which eventually will determine, to a a how much the bread or a pork roast. + %| 120-Pound Trapper Promises to Bag The traders were nervous today as they awaited the opening Many chomped wads of gum. That helps. to keep their throats moist when they start yelling orders.

large extent,

One trade g watched ep at ie ot De covered slopes of Brown County today stalking the “mys- set atop-the wood stove for light. Mother:

ward (9:30 a. m.—the opening tery monster” which has terrorized the community for

supply of animals at the market.| hour

Cattle prices here held steady after taking a drop of $1 yester-

day.

not yet found

tail price of butter

its way to

which

from 95 to 97 cents, depending!

on the grade

the prices could change

hour, THREE: A

within an' t Washington,

ernment economists hoped tha the commodity market break may |

in the cost of living, but they were

ket followed

FOUR: On the Chicago grain| exchange, the flurry of opening

trade lasted

Sellers opened the bidding on

ard turning point |

suit.

only three minutes.

at the

at in 3 Minutes

until the precise moment ‘before puzzled why- the stock mar- he rang the gong that set the more than one of them” within

signify excitement a ment spread to the u Gesturing frantically the monster, offered Hunter Mc- raised at least one family. |

pit.

starter, the wheat traders Clain their home as a base of

ln mm Grains Rally : : - oe | After 3d Dip, | But Hogs Drop . Chisago Wheat, Corn Come Back; Indianapolis Porkers Off $1 to $1.75 Corn and wheat prices rallied at Chicago by mid-morn-ing today after declining for the third day in a row. 2 Earlier, corn, wheat and oats prices at Chicago, Minnelis and Kansas City dropped the limit or close to it.

Hog prices here in Indianapolis were down §1 to $1.75. Hogs also opened lower at Chicago and Omaha. The

Chicago Traders see vee xo eck JUD the Clock |

wing a two-day break tnat following nd $1.5 inl

Couldn’t Wait

Another trader ‘just couldn't wait. Thirty seconds before 9:30 he bellowed an offef to sell. Other Grocers 1 corn brokers, ing. they had repartell the slump hat missed the opening

the ranged:

hat called, “Ring the bell. Ring the

trading off in earnest.

Just when the noise hit a cres-| a =» cendo, it suddenly died altogether | in the corn pit. Three minutes; after the market opened, the corn : corn at prices eight cents below|traders were through. The vice yesterday's close. This is the limit of corn futures had slumped the me on ‘the right trail,” he said. loss on corn for a single day's full S-cent limit for the third

trading, but even so there were straight day.

few buyers.

Butter Also Falls In..the. mid-morning rally at

Chicago wheat futures rose 25; | tit pian to 7i. September corn went up| 1}, ‘cents and December “= Group on Budget

Similar rallies developed at!

three cents.

Kansas City

Butter on the

sale market

and Minneapolis. Chicago—wholefor immediate deliv-

ery dropped three to four cents a

pound today, ranging in price | - from 83 to 86 cents. At Chicago! The Republican-dominated Joint Committee

Traders agreed that it had been them. Lots of folks around here seen or heard the “monster.” a long time since they had seen have seen it. ARYSing like it in the grain mar- sav I'm sure it's a big-ecat. t. -

i . |current expedition. . ) aX - 1 “Last August 1 tracked prints Store-to-pick-up-last minute dope No-other person saw the kill, ! Z {of & mountain lion right up to a from the members of the “hot- and Mr. McClain sald he was ua-

WASHINGTON, Feb. 6 (UP)—

grocery stores, however, butter

Ww, as selling in some cases at $1.07 today adopted a declaration that -&-pound, the highest it ever "has| taxpayers Y

reached.

Most branches of the food in-|time taxation.”

dustry agreed that

could expect

pricés for two weeks, Spokesmen -for the meat in-

dustry. were

Although wholesale meat

in the New

dropped substantial y since 15, George Dressler; the National Association of Petail Meat Dealers, said the mar-

Business Her At Overp

wa The

Food has

dollars..aze

if then. selon York market.

secretary of

ryear beginning July 1.

ook |

e Takes L roduction Rumble

y HAROLD HARTLEY yw 4 Overproduction begun to put the brakes on Indiana's post-,

the cash registers but grocery|ing up.

bags which are smaller, the prices,

Eddie Ash.

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Inside Indpis

Workers can't pay They substitute.»

margarine for butter, starches Such as macaroni and ‘spaghetti or noodles for meats. Housewives shop longer, comPare prices and buy slowly. - Food processors are feeling the Pinch of the price-selective houseWife. Coupons—good for 25 cents Are appearing, - notably for

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housewives! The report did not make any RA no_lower. retail icod!specific. recommendations: on how il ' | much taxes should be cut. ; ~The -group decided, also-on-a-eplit--vote, that “President ~Truprices man’s ‘ spending budget for the bave next fiscal year should be cut by. Jan.[at least $2.5 billion. The vote was on adoption. of; {the joint committee's recommend{ation for a $37.2 billion ceiling on | federal spending for the fiscal

tion Geep and threatening rumblings coming from the producbe “8orged throat of the economic, volcano in the last few days may | ’¢ 2 warning that the Hoosier inflation spiral has run its course, A been the biggest strain on the average wage earner. A big chain.store oficial said] : m——————————— | till pouring through | coffee. Consumer deals are slow-| You buy two and get] 80 out the front door another one free. | What makes food cost more? | Farm prices are high. the farmer who used to wear more patches than anyone else, admits prices are too high, up about 20 per cent. =~ He's apprerhensive. The goveynment begged him for higher production. will lend him money on his crops {and support his prices. But he's [still afraid those patches will come back. Take wheat.

should be relieved] + he { The latest Brown County ex- what they had heard recently.) somewhat of the burden of War- |... ation for the strange appear- They wished him luck.

Last year's yield] Hardware store, Nashville, supply Hunter McClain with recent tales of the howling | was the biggest in history, close Lo.ct Givi inf hot as the lef co) 9 WAR AD EET ein TBetore the 8851, Giving out intormation as hot as the stove are (left to right) war anything close to the billion-| . bushel mark was regarded a ” . Rh : . = BN peak. The export quota o S by | f C I K 1] C D 4 Suet » | million bushels this year still ec 00 us ras i Ss ar river \wave leaves over x billion bushels on which to spread our butter, if we! could afford it. Price-minded western farmers joaded school bus on a slippery Ten of the children were taken piled up mountains of wheat.|

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1048

Killing

Guitar Player | Eh Gives Self Up In Cincinnati

| ‘Don’t Know Why | Did _ It He Tells Police | A 24-year-old local guitar player surrendered to police in Cincinnati early today and confessed that he had killed his mother in Indianapolis

with a hammer,

Lloyd David Siefker, 3445 Hovey St. surrendered by telephoning Cincinnati police from. a hotel room: in that city at 7 a. m. today. Without preliminaries he said over the telephone: “I'm wanted in Indianapolis for killing my mother.” ; He gave his hotel room number and a police squad arrested him promptly. He had registerad under the name of “Robert Tyme.” Don't Know Why “I can’t tell you why I did it. + « I just don’t know why,” he told Cincinnati police. | He surrendered and confessed 12 hours after the body of his Mrs. Cora Lee .Sielker, 55, was found here on her bloodWe soaked bed at the family home, a dears Mrength 103,65 Hovey St. her head brutaily a {crushed with a hammer. “FILL yourself up,” Mrs. Artist! , 2 {medical discharge from the Army in a phone call today.

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: . bois F 4 (Official Expedition Photographs by Victor Peterson) ALL ALONE — Indianapolis big game hunter Harry McClain cautiously steps through Brown County snow near Gnaw Bone as he stalks a mystery monster which has the area terrified. With rifle ready, he is in position to drop to one knee and fire. He believes the beast is a mountain lion.

‘One Slug fs Al Will Take'— n = or Grizzled Game Hunter Stalks ‘Monster’ Over Snowy Slopes of Brown County

the said, patting his 30-30 Win{chester rifle. “One slug from this Hs all it'll take.” | Mrs. Arthur Artist, daughter-in-law of the Moores, was getting| supper when Mr. McClain arrived to take up headquarters. ' The smell of frying country ham and apple cobler mixed with the odor of the kerosene lamp

in tight

The Beast, or More Than One, in 3 Days

By VICTOR PETERSON : (On Safari With Big Game Hunter Harry McClain.)

[HAPPY HOLLER, Ind., Feb. 6—Harry McClain, big game | hunter of 20 years’ experience, is traipsing the snow-

‘Smells mighty good,” Mr. Mc-

‘months. The 66-year-old Indianapolis hunter hit the trail at Ti a. m. from his expedition 3

keep my weight down. 1 could ago, told Cincinnati police he beat - put on 20 pounds in mo time. his mother to death ahout 4 a. m. Can't afford to take the chance Wednesday. ¥ t ne : have heard the territying howl of hen they are believed {0 have Of Jerking all that out of the wayl “Thought About Killing’ Y of a cat. Have to twist Jn a! “1 thought about killing her As ‘soon as Hunter McClain: DUEEY Ae, ald. ie once. before,” he. told police. “I operations in hopes he will be able crosses the first set of prints in| Ll ah _. , body awakened about 4 o'clock and jto slay the creature. ¢ ithe new fallen snow, he will At- Sidsutap imaginary Junging g.cided to do it then. I want Fresh snow. which fell over. te to iit jinto her. room and started h.tnight “spurred Hunter ‘McClain B fang to el" carefully’ con. He MRSA Ins es AE her on the head with & hamhopes he will bag the “beast or cealéd traps along the way. bm dition: earl — ® ex-rmer ; 1 don't know how many Word spread rapidly UArOUER pietely equipped for Any eMer-| | pit her watil I was sure she was this backwoods country that the gency, a hit her until I was sure she was big game hunter was stalking = Incl inh ia, dead. “MIGHTY GLAD to see this the woods and hills around GRaw o ‘might hunting light. for his| Police here said it was impos-

’ Bone, Ha Holler and Pikes sible to determine how many IVIL cover all the old eak Pry rifle, a telescope, mountain lion blows were struck.’ The ceiling Any I find now will set

. callers, a bottle~of trail scent p Party lines of country tele- t 7" and walls of the room ‘were splaty Which he vase on his ts, traps red with blood from the swing-

X {phones buzzed with the news. and an all-purpose lure for fiesh- | “I figure what I'm after is a Many offered the latest informa- eating hip ing hammer. gp {mountain lion. .or a family of tion on when and where they had, when not hunting big game The son said he never had an Trapper McClain pads out ‘argument with his mother about Mr. .MeClain was following all| p anything. ) 8 pocketbook with odd Jobs In 5 tell you why .. ..1 Just

these leads today. | restaur . | “That fits with what I saw ‘The grizzled 5 foot 7 {nah Tes ant... Kitchens. g hut ween WO about-it; that's: & Said.

. » » A ‘down here last fall.” 120-pound hunter arrived here! LAST YEAR he took credit for all’ 1 : This is Mr. McClain’s fourth last night aftér a brief stop at ending the mysterious prowhngs “Do you have a girl friend or {trip -into the county. The first- Nashville, the county seat. of an unidentified beast around is there any kind of love affair {three merely were ground-laying s x =» lebanon, Ind. He says he involved in this?” police asked {junkets in preparation for the THE RUGGED little trapper dropped a panther there with his him. + stopped at the Galvin Hardware 30-30 rifle. f + “No. I haven't gone around. with girls for several years,” he sald. “Were vou dreaming?” police

three days.

tracks.

From what they

|lair. Got a glimpse of what looked stove league.” able to retrieve the quarry be-| like a mountain lion but didn’t, He warmed himself by the coal cause the critter. on a tree limb asked him. dare follow up because I wasn't stove as Proprietor Ralph Burk- when it was shot, dropped Into ‘I Was Awake’ armed. From the sounds, IT fig- holder, Eugene Willoughby, Virgil the stream below, was swepti «N, T wasn't dreaming. T was ured it was a family of cats.” Floyd and Marion Kent told him away. awake and thinking. . . . I was | Lebanonites haven't reported thinking about killing her,” he any strange animals since, how-/ . iq } : ance of mountain lions is Jogical.’ “Nobody’ll have to worry soon,” ever. { The youth said after he was " " » » : on. ‘|sure she was dead he lay down sd a 4 ton--his couch in the next. room. and “probably went to sleep.” ot {washed and dressed and went

wet SEAING BY SON The body 3 ; year-oid deparimant store seamsir up _sbotit 7 o'clock, T= my

. ¥ | —— . ture was made for her cf —1-¢Continned—on— Page 3—Cob—2)Page-3-} : ;

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‘Forecast Tonig

| | LOCAL TEMPERATURES

it Another Trial

“A drive to finance a re-trial

| @

Sam... 10a m., 2% Tam... 12 11 a m.. 2% ; Sam... 14 12 (Noon 78 [retained privately, said he plans Pam... 19 1 p.m... 2% today or tomorrow, Another zero cold wave is Burney Nov, 12,

| headed for Indianapolis. Temper- Spokesmen for the - Southern

by rising temperatures tomorrow, ttof 290 1. but’ no definite relief from the as Attofney Henry. 229% cold weather is in sight. \ ’ ; funds will be started immediately. Meanwhile, sunny skies today Southern Association for

will bring a rise in the mercury ‘ a 10 24 to 28 degrees this after- the dmprovement of Colored.Citl

Boon zens wil make an initial contri-|

However, the temperature will putin of $506 and wil match not climb high enough, the ollar for dollar” with all indi Weather Bureau said. 10 melt the vidual contributions given, P, L. ‘lice which still clings to Indiana Harden, supreme counsel for the, J | highways. Indiana organization, sald. / iy ia : | | Mr, Harden sald the Bouthern he "hot-stove league’ in Galvin Bros, oot 0844 1010s state wets bx | Association is incorporated in five The _gas shortage had eased states including Indiana to “or(slightly in industrial centers over SAnize colored people and foster [the state yesterday, but there was racial love and good will,” The no prediction as to how long the STOUP'S, committee. on justice at

fuel would last under a new cold court and hoard of curators on juvenile delinquency and the curb-

{ ann | Ing of the commission of crime is . { ! . active in the fund drive, he said. ALEXANDRIA, Feb. § (UP)— into a’ school bus carrying. 15 The driver of the bus, Joe Kirk- Bears Triplets Twice | The civil rights committee of patrick of , | SYRACUSE, N.Y, Feb. 6 (UP) Bi By ; : . | Big Brothers, Inc., Is planning a| minop Injuries: Mr. Kirkpatrick ry, Michael Walker, 40. gave subscription drive to raise at least| sald as taking the children to| birth to her second set of trip- $500 through group and individual|

ana Ave, sald a drive for defense

Even |

It)

THE LATEST DOPE—Members of +

Eugene Willoughby, Mr. McClain, Virgil Floyd and Marion Kent. . : ;

|An automobile collided with a Brade school children,

to 8t. John's Hospital in Ander-

county road today killing one _ fitters. 77 , y 8 (An Where their condition was do- classes at_the 4 lata hers today. and local phy. donations, V. 1. Brents, president : : | | . Two school in Summitville when Mr. sicians sald they believed it was said. Brothers also is inmen ine Wayne ‘Couch, 2§, Summitville, others were taken to Fairmount Couch apparently lost control ofthe first time in history that a ay in Indiana as a nondied shortly after the automobile (Grart County) for treatment by his ear on the narrow road and ,

woman ever had borne triplets'profit organization. | twice, Xe epokestmen Somheti-orgMl

was driving skidded headon private physicians, % . iskidded into the bus,

a aay

KILLER SURRENDERS—"1'm wang in Toefighapoli for king © Th , who had bee “mother,” 24.vear-old Lloyd David Siefker to incinnati police edical discharge AY WE ; In fore De he said he "didn't know" why he

. 8M sald. | gong, started headquarters at the farm Pos wesied 3 fens “Can't eal too much, Got to as a psycho-neurotic two years |iiad her and that he surrendered because he

cries and gestures they use home of Mr. and Mrs. L. J. Moore. a western trip. When they grew their wishes to thelr) The Moores, who frequently !00 large for pets, they were

Son, 24, Admits other : With Hammer

“couldn't sleep.”

oh: Mes. Cora- Loe Siefker; BS

ess, was found in a blood-splate

tared- bedroom al-_her-home. by. another son early today. This pics ildren on her 52d birthday. (Other phates

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Tero to 5 Above Launch Drive to Finance

for Watts

MIKELS for Robert Austin Watts was

launched by two Indiana Ave. organizations today as an appeal for the new Irial was being prepared. William 8. Henry, the only one of Watts’ five lawyers who was

to file the appeal in Shelbyville

Watts is sentenced to die May 10 for the shot

gun slaying of Mrs. Mary Lois jou¢iong also are attorneys in Mr, Henry's office.

They. were sent to Shelbyville

atures will drop to 0 to 5 degrees’ A gsociation, for the Improvement yesterday to confer with Watts

above zero tonight. ‘ to learn if he desired to appeal es ——— f . Colored Citizens R by Weatherman Paul A: Miller other Inc prety and 2 his case, Mr. Henry said that sald the wave would be followed ,. . oos i"the same building Watts had signified that he

Indi VAanted to appeal the death sen«

tence,

Glovers to See Action Tonight Tonight is Times-Legion Golden Gloves night . .. the fifth fast-moving session at the N. Pennsylvania Bt Armory. The fights. start at 8:18 p. m. The Armory boxoffice opens at 645 p. m, Ticket booths at Bush-Calla~ han's and The Sparisman’s Store close at 4:30-p. m, Prices: Ringside and first row balcony, $2; downstairs reserved, $1.50; general admission, nl, :

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