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ring iridescent Se pric et the" varied any City Hall bar 2° to 104, politics) am Ouster : of the City hr $treat Floor job,” he

tion regulars with some

maneuvers, wrhat can’t be true,” said the

around here. ‘We have never bee: in any factional dispute . . . there aren't any political maneuvers around here . . . 80, how cduld there be any compromises?” ‘Hands Of’ Policy Mr. Feeney explained that he started the administration with a strict “hands off” policy regarding’ politics and “that still ”

stands. J "Despite the Mayor's statements, y workers were talking freely Boot compromises that wouid cover up a break between City Hall workers ‘and the regular Democratic 0! tion over some appointments on City Jobs.

J Escaped Convict + | Anested Here

Lloyd Hicks, 25, a fugitive who has been sought for two years after his escape from the State Penal Farm, was arrested by state police detectives here last night. A Arrested. at the home of his family, 425 8S. Warman Ave. * MB Hicks was questioned about his possible connection with the ac- . & tivitles of his cousin, James Bough, 25, who was shot to death here by police last December fol-

“We never play politics \ : been’

ing in Cincinnati this morning.

3465 Hovey St. concealed the m

(Continued From Page One) downtown and got on a bus for Cincinnati . . . I don’t know why I came here,” he said. “What do you think will happen to you?” he was asked. | . “I just don’t care,” he replied. %2 Changes Mind Cincinnati police said Sierker at first said the killing occurred Thursday morning but when police reminded him this was Friday he changed his story and said it was Wednesday morning. * He had been at two Cincinnati hotels and had lost his memory of time passing. The Wednesday morning time of the killing fits in with evidence uncovered by Indianapolis police. The last time anyone here saw

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lowing the holdup of a fruit market on Warman Ave. .

Mrs. Siefker was Tuesday night land Wednesday's newspapers

WEAPON — This blood-stained hammer was the bludgeon weapon with which Mrs. Cora Siefker was beaten to death. The murder mystery: ‘Murder Up My. Sleeve was found nearby in the room of her son, Lloyd, who surrendered

VICTIM'S HOME—This tightly locked owe in the rear of

and confessed to the slay-

New here will be Loren J. Houser, CIO field representative in the area.

Southport, will leave March 1 for Washington to begin his new duties.

Houser has been active

plan helped organize the first United Auto Workers union, then under AFL sponsorship. He has been assigned in the Chicago area since 1044.

Sponsor Skating Party | | The youth committee of the ‘National Women of the St. Philip Neri Catholic Church will sponsor a

Council of Catholic

: Business Here Watching Food Stores Report More Careful Buying

Market Trends: [

(Continued From Page One) [running a help-wanted ad. Hebigger volume since the 30-day

freeze order

mold. Another reason: Farmers) How are people about paying fn: millions and should like to get rid of their grain be-|their bills? A banker sald they know what's going on. fore March 1 to escape the state were slowing up. A large depart-| “We believe,” he said, “prices next summer. = : property tax. ment store collector he|will continue to seek lower levels.! He said, however, that lower _ Potatoes asye t have not slipped | couldn’t see much chang but ad-| Dividends are good, but the whole corn prices definitely affect the much oo Soveriment ¥ N y mitted credit was rolling up a'situation is explosive.” price “of ‘meat; but he: said there to put $2.40 a of No. 1 : : meee was no telling how long it would potatoes. That's about what they (Oscar Wilde Rated State Assessors Vote take. are brmging. {New Auto Tax Plan } vasbingion, guvsraitut

economists said lower living costs would take some of the steam out of the drive for a third round of wage increases. At the same for tax purposes at two-thirds of yyme a drop or even a leveling their actual cash value, 50 asses- off in prices will kill the ade sors from nine northern Indiana Winisttation's Just ingest : ‘or . restora 0 ce conferences voted at a meeting rationing controls. = lic opinion test. here, ; . “President Truman only yesterThe paper asked several fa-| The proposal was adopted at a/day warned anew that a demous men what persons in Brit-{meeting sponsored by the State pression is certain if prices don’t Tax Board Association. Earlier come down, and again urged this week, a similar session at|Congress to enact standby rae {Lafayette voted that autos tioning and price controls. Buf should assessed at three- Republican leaders remained cool.

wiy kgs are Less (Tops by GBS two reasons: (1) We are enter-| LONDON, Feb. 6 (UP)-—The ing a season of high production and (2) some of the cold storage speculators are’ beginning to unload. Eggs are still bringing about 41 cents at the farm and the goverriiment will take them at 34 cents, Are we running out of jobs? Noble R. Shaw, director of the Security Division, Ady 4h histury would they most like mee Mr. Shaw's answer: “I don’t want to talk to anybody, alive or dead; but if I

SOUTH BEND, Feb. 6 (UP)— Automobiles should be assessed

selected Oscar Wilde as the most entertaining conversationalist in British history in a recent pub-

and

unemployment insurance applications jumped 6186 in January. There will be from 3000 to 5000

more this month. - The claim load Governmen' immediate signs that the market

skating party tonight from 6:45/has reached 43,757. It's tripled craved for entertaining conver-| The Tax Board has scheduled to 9:45 o'clock in the Rollerland since VJ-Day. sation by a first class raconteur|three other similar meetings breaks will deepen into business Rink. . One little businessman tells of I should Wilde.” [throughout the state. recession. ;

be k quarters of their actual value. t economists see no ‘ |

urder almost two days. The dis-

appearance of Mrs. Siefker and the deserted house called neighbors to summon relatives who discovered the crime.

Admits Beating Mother | To Death With Hammer |

| and another yesterday. t “I didn’t sleep very well,” he. said. t Police observed that his eyes| were badly blood-shot and he appeared staring into space. { He said before his discharge from the Army he was confined to an Army mental hospital in Connandaga, N. Y., and the Veterans Hospital at Marion, Ind. Cincinnati police quoted the youth as saying that after his discharge he went to California where he said he lived most of the time with homosexuals, Misses Work Wednesday He came back to Indianapolis more than a year ago and worked at a variety of jobs. Recently he played a guitar with a small orchestra known as “Monty and the Gang.” They played weekly at radio station

When he escaped "from, the were on the front ‘porch une} Tea Station officials said he

Penal Farm, he was serving a _ sentence imposed here on a burglary charge.

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touched. The Siefker youth checked in at one hotel’ Wednesday noo"

was supposed to have worked Vednesday night but didn’t apAar, Discovery of Mrs. Siefker's body followed a telephone call | yesterday by a co-worker at the H. P. Wasson & Co. store where

“she ‘was employed as a seam-

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stress in the alteration depart‘ment, : | The department called a neigh(bor, Mrs. Gerald Hiday, next {door on Hovey St., telling her {Mrs. Siefker hadn't. reported for work Wednesday or yesterday. , Calls Other Son Mr. Hiday went to the Siefker !home, found all the doers locked land then telephoned another son

Glen A. Siefker, 201 N. Tremont st =

The brother opened the kitcher door with a key he carried to his {mother's home. 4 . | He went into the home and came running out herently about his mother, Hiday called police. Police found the hammer, covered with blood, hair and flesh

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Elon the floor beside the hed. Near-

by was a book, entitled: “Murder Up My Sleeve.” : 1

In the next room there was a couch made up as a bed. The sheets. and pillowcases. smeared with blood and out in’ the kitchen there was a pan “of bloody water. On the floor was a-blood-stained shirt, rolled up into a ball. | Mrs. Siefker was divorced from {her husband, Fred Siefker Sr. a {City sanitation plant worker; two |years ago. Mr. Siefker lived with {his son, Glenn and his wife, Najomf, and another son, Fred Jr. tat the Tremonti St. address, | A daughter, Mrs. Merriam Burrell, lives in Princeton. N. J. !

“ Eastbound Freights derailed at Clymers

LOGANSPORT, Ind, Feb. 6 ({UP)~—Nine cars of an eastbound Wabash: freight train were de-! |rafled today by a broken rail on |a sidetrack at Clymers, Ind. | Railroad spokesmen said damage was “heavy.” Trainmaster J.' W. Patterson said at Peru that he had not yet begun an investi-| |gation to determine the cause of [the derailment. The first 20 cars of the train {remained on the track but the| {nine just behind them piled up {and blocked the main track, over {which -a° westbound passenger | [train had passed only a few min-| {utes earlier. Main line traflic was {restored several hours after. the! wreck.

City Health Director “Very Much Improved’ |

| Dr. Gerald F. Kempf, city | health ' director, became 11

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