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In 4th Game |

Defeat Today Leaves Faint Series Hope

By"LEO H. PETERSEN United Press Sports Editor CLEVELAND, Oct. 9—Manager Billy Southworth sent his} ace right hander, Johnny Sain, to the mound today in an attempt to put the Boston Braves even| with the Cleveland Indians in the] 1048 World Series. { Trailing two games to one, the| Braves’ pilot called on his clutch] specialist, knowing that a defeat today would leave only the faintest hope for a Boston Series triumph. } Sain, who won the first game, over Bobby Feller in a spectacu- | lar pitching .battle, was opposed by Steve Gromek, also a right hander. He won nine games while losing three for the In-| dians this season. ! A topcoated crowd of more than | 70,000 saw the game in Cleve-| land's Lakefront Municipal Sta-| dium. The playing field was in| good shape despite a heavy rain | last night. + Southworth revealed that Catcher Bill Salkefd had a groin| injury and would not be able to] play either today or tomorrow.| Phil Masi, who did most of the Boston receiving this season,| started back of the plate.

Full Course Menu

The football - schedule-makers

the Big Three playing at home. | It was homecoming at West | Lafayette as Purdue took on|

ence game the experts had rated even. At Indiana, the Hurrying Hoosiers were out to maintain their two game winning streak against Texas Christian University in an intersectional tilt.|

Michigan State was the under- |

dog ‘In: its invasion of Notre) Dame. : : i { In the big “little” game in the state Wabash celebrates homecoming against a Case “eleyen from Cleveland. Butler seeks its third straight victory meeting

Con WY ESLER. RESSIVE IN, Cleveland. cw

Intra-state games matche Huntington and Ball State, Anderson at Manchester, Hanover at Canterbury, Franklin at Rose Poly and St. Joe at Valpo.

Iowa Meets Ohio State Other important contests which

the Big Nine standings were Iowa at Ohio State and Minnesota at Northwestern... In the East football attention was centered on Yale and Columbia, Cornell and Harvard, Duke

and Navy, Penn and Princeton.;

Boston Sends Dreams of $5 Million Inheritance [Hoosiers Plan "een nao sans : Sain to Mound Fading Fast for Brother; Sister |For Truman, Tru man M

wy Vs: Marshall on Russ ‘Mission’

Rivals to Speak In State Next Week

“(Other political news, Page 11) By ROBERT BLOEM Hoosier voters will have their, chance for a personal look at the two major party candidates for| president next week. In the case of GOP nominee Thomas E. Dewey, it probably| will be the first and last chance. President Truman, however, will zig westward across Indiana lon Tuesday. Then he will zag |southeastward Friday; stopping! {for a full-dress appearance in In-

dianapolis. | Indicating that desperate ef-

cans today announced plans to

{appearance at Rensselaer next Saturday, Oct. 16, into a statewide affair. Halleck’'s Home Tawn There's not much argument in {GOP ‘circles about why Mr. - Dewey picked the obscure “little

his first and possibly only appearance in the state. Rensselaer is the home town of Charles Halleck (R. 8d Dist.), dean of Indiana Republican |congressional delegation and majority floor leader of the House of Representatives. Last June

Déwey's running mate for Vice President on the national ticket. But the Dewey forces byPASSE MT PHATE IY REIS Gov. Edrl Warren of California. Rumors “spread that Mr. Dewey did not fully approve of thé political views of Mr. Halleck and

state and that Mr. Halleck, as

{a symbol of the leadership‘of the {80th Congress, would not help

END OF THE RAINBOW—John O'Banion, Anderson (right), who has received (the GOP win the election.

“Just Like That”

word he is co-heir-to five million dollars, here seeks information on the fortune from | Mr. Dewey, according to the

Cousin Ira O'Banion, Tipton, family histo rian. x 8 = ° # & = Big Question Is Existence of Legendary Fortune; Check in New York Fails ° By VICTOR PETERSON, Times Staff Writer ANDERSON, Ind., Oct. 9—The five million dollar O’Banion family fortune became a will-o-the-wisp today.

It is now the giant jackpot question. Does the fabulous inheritance exist? :

The millions have begin to melt as the tale of buried gold — buried in legal red tape—began to unfold. It seems to be a twice-|. will have some importance in ————————— werent

~"77 told tale, told once a half century

{his sister, Mrs. “Roxie "Angell,

CTAlexandrid, Have Joined “the “cast:

Suspect QUizzed sins on

ednesday morning a New

Swinging down South the spot-| Police Hold Fortville | York City lawyer telephoned Mr.

light was on Kentucky and Georgia, Texas A & M at Louisiana State, North Carolina at Wake Forest and Vanderbilt at Alabama.

Southern Cal and Rice and California and Wisconsin in the top intersectional battles.

Today's State | College Grid Card

TCU at Indiana. oo Michigan at Purdue (Homecoming). vo | Michigan State at Notre Dame. Butler at Western Reserve (Cleveland). : Case at Wabash (Homecoming). ©

{ O’Banion to tell him he and his

Father in Probe {sister soon would split the five illion. Police today are holding a , _.. . happy and long-

Fortville father of two children guuaited day for the St. John's

two weesk ago of four small Mrs. Angell, a canning factory girls in a- ward of an Indianap- employee. olis hospital The O’Banion fortune is : {family legend. Mr. O’'Banion beHis arrest yesterday, as he re-|jjoved it to have,been amassed turned again to. the hospital,/by a great-grandfather who

[brought to light one of most sor-/dealt in real estate during the Is

did of all the recent cases of mo-| fvil War era. | Thinking millions were within lestations and attacks against, grasp, Mr. O’'Banion let himwomen and children. i [self to do a little day dreaming. Detective Chief John O'Neal, Now he isn't counting too Who recently condticted the two- heavily on the inheritance. First weeks’ search for the 31-year-old of all" he wasn't too sure about

{accepted political version here, is stopping at Mr. Halleck’s home

. [town to prove to the country (and particularly to Hoosier Re{publicans that he and Congress- | : : {man Hal

leck are “Just like that.”

¥ HI i EE CER ATeATT RE oy EE Concession. to. drop. in on. $5708 {congressional leader also iS ex{pected to- help séotch rumors i th

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Hike Put at 482,000 if Mr. Dewey wins the election.

In the Rensselaer appearance,

|regular census figure of 1940 may counties,

. 6 |in a statement by Chairman Ed-|'%:0 a m. 7a m..5 11a m.. 65 (ward H. Rees (R. Kas.) of the Opens at Richmond '! 8a m.. 58 12 (Noon) 66 By R. H. SHACKFORD 'Post Office and Civil Service| President Truman opens his! go m... 58 1 p. m... 68 United Preis Staff Correspondent

Committee. He predicted one-| Week's Hoosier schedule at Rich-|

huge ‘rally had failed: Republi-|

IM. Hatjeck ‘for a-time appeased censorship, confiscation. of propthe- ao BE LIES a He: sus hgara

By DANIEL KIDNEY Mr. Dewey will speak in -the St.

Times Staff Writer Joseph's College fieldhouse which! | WASHINGTON, Oct. 9 — An Soy about 8000 persons. hich!

the rally fronr-ait of Indiana‘s-92|

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Washington. Calling—

Tough Controls Drafted VINSON Urged

For War Emergen

Measure May Be Sent to Next Congress for

OK on Standby Basis; Covers

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|Mr. Dewey to Indianapolis for &|iwritten. !

National Security Resources Boa

[convert his hour and a quarter covers 20 points, has much tougher controls than were in| By DONALD GONZALES

effect last time.

It may be sent to Congress for enactment on standby basis| pb .ocident Truman and Secree

|when session convenes. That is, pass it, le to put it into effect.

Or—or more likely——it may be held for instant introduction if

emergency comes. Congress probably would balk at giving such upstate town of Rensselaer for broad powers—and so many of them—except in grip of crisis. ence today to settle definitely

WASHINGTON, Oct. 9—While you watch World Series, To Moscow

torts by GOP brass here to bring talk politics, a war-powers bill to regulate your lives is being

cy Use For Peace Trip

20 Points

President Cuts Vote | rd is doing it. Bill Tour Short for Talk

WASHINGTON, Oct. 8— t President decide when

tary of State George C. Mars shall met in urgent confer

| Bill covers everything from dol-|

lon allocating materials, foreing| manufacturers into war produc-|

|control, rationing, wage ceilings.

wan't be.

laws, renegotiation of contracts, we “put |

|co-ordination ~ of existing governmillion. That's mill ore than ment agencies, éxpenditures fOr|in. Roosevelt Willie contact: two|Conferred for 45 minutes-at thetr

BIEERESION AST HR IASI Sree ware. then weted. tony In. Acting So espionage,’ treason. |Roosevelt or Dewey in 1944 Ld x | Section covering wartime labor, gut 93 milllon Americans 3 disputes; possible labor draft; gov. yrs 51a enough to vote: And

|ernment-fixed “pay rates and oven on

other GOP Congressmen in. the working hours is still being de-| srense of three to six million

bated.

Our. Fair City=— ko

Gates. Is "Hatchet Man' emis io duinly For Worried GOP Cohorts i iti wun there was »

Ind

“", . there will be little chance for| Whether a special “peace mis. [lar-a-year men to disposal of sur- groups to stop sections distaste-|sion” should be dispatched to plus after war.. It has sections ful to them. f Moscow.

. ” »” rop in Voting Seen |ern campaign swing and Mr. Mar[tion, government financing nPop, VOTE g.2 weeks Shall flew home from the United |plants and new enterprises, price prom. Tuesday won't be as low Nations meeting in Paris. Mr.

as some predictions you've heard;

: —— A or It it's passed as one package (Continued on Page 2—Col. 4) Whether the White House would .

Recent Blast at Schricker Record [i210 BURRS! Indicates ‘The Haf" Is a Real Thisal ~~" -

: at Mr. Halleek is jot Th line | There's more to Gov. Gates’ jumping all over Democratic gov- . 0 continue his presen Bh po- ernor candidate Henry Schricker this week than hurt feelings over Estimated Population sition of leadership in Congress Mr, Schricker’s remarks about the Gates administration.

The President cut short an easte

Truman met Mr. |alrport and

.a8.0igh a8

at just over -

the meeting. ; a] he a rg - : _ ihe no \ basis of histo in ‘Marshall planned to return later” today to resume °‘"i1¢ talks, i

a make a statement today. a President Truman had ; that Chief Justice Fred M. Vinson

deadlock over selection a place Nations organs

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The Republicans have been, and many of them still are, suffer-'to produce a final showdown

Brings Warning

seat gains for Indifna, Florida, Mond Tuesday morning, stops at The “sunny skies, ideal weath- gate Sir Along the West Coast it Was jn connection with the molesting Hospital furnace fireman and Michigan, Oregon, Texas and; ccnfeld and Crawfordsville on

Washington and a 7-seat gain for

Weather Bureau for the week- proposal end was tempered this morning told the by the sober warning of state

'making the prediction came trom|lorth Judson, Logansport, Ko- | olice that roads made slippery Committe

|the Census Bureau and placed the |X

excluding the armed forces over-|2TTive here at 3:15 p. m. eas.

1950 Census to Tell The 1940 regular census for In-| |diana was 3,427,796. The next| census will be 1950 and it is on|

[those figures that final action by| the House will be taken.

Huntington at Ball State. |man, said the prisoner has made the lawyer's name. Was it Phin-| Mr." Rees’ estimate of seat|(Continued on Page 2-—Col. 6)

Anderson at Manchester. Indiana Central at Otterbein. | Hanover at Canterbury. | DePauw at Rochester (N. Y.). | Earlhar: at Wilmington ‘night).| Franklin at Rose Poly. Indiana State at Southern INnots. St. Joe at Valparaiso’ Ohio Northern vs. Taylor at Marion.

Hoosier Police Heads In N. Y. for Parley

Col. Robert Rossow, state police superintendent, and ‘his executive. officer, Maj. Rabert O'Neal, are in New York today attending the 55th annual conference of the International Association of Chiefs of Police. Col. Rossow was scheduled to

and provincial “sé¢tion meeting today. The general conference begins tomorrow and ends Thursday.

TATBert CU Buniten, "23, bY ST Collier Ave., told police that five companions beat him and took $250 after they went for a ride

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a statement admitting molest- ford or Swinford? A Times’ check ing three of the four little girls in New York discloséd no lawyers in the hospital room. |with a similar name. The girls’ ages ranged’ from| It might have been Winford, 5 to 15 years. One was seriously W. L. Winford, Mr. O’Banion ill and another was recovering mused. ’ from an arm injury. | Anyway, he thought it best to Notified by Nurse investigate the million-dollar Police were notified the man Story.

terday by a nurse who saw him! re enter the building and noticed his (Continued on Page 2—Col. 3) appearance tallied with the de- . Te scription given by the four little Grocer Forces Man girls. Police arrested the man in : the hospital waiting room. To Drop Cigarets, $15 He is being held on charges of 1lra Wilhelm, 44, of 2454 N. Lavagrancy with bond set at $5000 Salle St., this morning heard and police are continuing to ques- someone breaking into his grotion him in connection with other cery next door. He called police, molesting cases. {dressed and grabbed up his reThey said a custodian of School |volver. : 66 nas identified the prisoner from| He saw a man run out of the A picture as the man who was store, dropping a box contai bothering children at the school(35 ron (Ta and $1518

Gl on Leave—and Broke

Waiting Lift to Camp He Joins Theater Line; Widowed Mother ‘to Get Most of Prize’ NEW YORK, Oct. § (UP)-Early iast night 8gt. Joe Rogalski, 34, was broke. He had arrived from Germany Sept. 24, spent all

(his money on a visit to Detroit to see his mother, and hitch-hiked

back here, He stood idly in the Times Square district waiting a chance to

noticed a line forming in front| of a theater, joined it, and found “Jean Harlow,” 8gt. Rogal{himself in.the audience of a radio gi said, ; quiz program. rs = He was chosen to go on the You're right, sergeant,” said stage. He answered several the M.C. “You have won $5520." questions, and then the master, 8gt. Rogalski changed his of ceremonies said: {mind "about Camp -Kiimer, He

“If you answer this question! correctly, you'll break the bank.” put the money in a hotel safe

The question was: “Who was and decided to stay here and see the new starlet brought In the New York. He said most of the play opposite Clark Gable in money would go to his mother,

‘China Seas’ in 1931?" 'a widow, ! . : 3

on opening day this fail. ~~ “‘eHunge taken from the store

Hits $5520 Radio. Jackpot. |

.twith intent to kill; in connection

hitch-hike to Camp Kilmer for the rest of his 30-day leave. He dren witnessed the shooting which

ship of 435. This ‘could . [changed by the Congress. But At La Guardia Field

koma, Tipton, Noblesville and Indiana population at 3.909.000 | ndianapolis. The President will

Upon arrival, Mr. Truma il toll. Ce be driven on a circle tour n bid if Motorists en route to football Mr, Shawcross insisted that! White House. 3

games and week-end outings were Russia must 1ift its fron -curtain|- Upon. the President's arrival at. warned to be extremely careful of secrecy before any agreement Union Station, he had been 8

asked at the famed Rile as - fog ‘and shorter daylight on- disarmament or atomic con-|if he had i | Hospital for Children, Sycmortal hours were listed as other haz- trol can anything Lany batt

tually back to the Indianapolis 2748 to” be kept in mind. | Britain |

city via Fountain Square, Rho-! dius Park, a 10-minute stopover

{tribute to the week-end . traffic fourth |strength.

Sunshine and pleasant weather boozled,”

hifti based on retenti fl {will prevail through Somorrow “The Soviet government will said. 8 ng is based on retention o with temperatures just a little have to put a great many cards! However, this was . \the present total House member- Jittery hief Gets $3000 lower tonight and tomorrow, To-on the table before we or any one White House Pier oopey

day's expected high of 70, willlgise who

be followed by tomorrow's 62./of this subject can be satisfied Tuesday night in which Mr.

if retained there would be one; NEW YORK, Oct. 9 (UP)—An The mercury should hover around that this

|Congressman for each 332,000 armed robber, so nervous his 40 tonight, according to the a somewhat th of een: Rande sooner eens vous De Weather iy at readbare propa- he was sending Mr. Vinson pio | The state Legislature does the @ Pan American World Airways PR |re-districting and would de- cashier today and looted a safe Killed in Crash had returned to the hospital yes-| The O'Banions have multiplied termine where the extra man Of about $3000 in La Guardia

would come from. . Congress is Field's first robbery. charged with doing the reap-| The cashier, Carl F. Nelson

es State Servi

,|I. Bridgewater, 73, of Scottsburg,

ing from an acute jag of overoptimism about ‘the coming election. whether Mr. Vinson should They're so sure Tom Dewey will carry the state for President by himself from the Supreme

(Continued on Page 2—Col. 7) briefly and go to Russia.

. gt ago: of Hospital Molester | John O’Banion of Anderson and estimated population ‘increase of the high GOP brass will be there a : Mr. Truman's train pi inte’ ners Bo oss soe 482.000,.0r.14.1 per. cent. from the 8nd delegations will be driven to Ideal Weather Won't Be Bluffed, the capital a little before Mr, :

PARIS, Oct. 9—British dele-

er” forecast of the Indianapolis missed the Soviet disarmament Speed to White House : eng

by falling wet leaves can con- forces now are two. and one- and Acting Secretary of State

‘ganda device,” he said. Moscow as his personal | The Russian disarmament pro-ito discuss the Berlin blockade. posal called for each of the Big Mr. Marshall is reported to have - Tim os |Five powers to reduce armaments|/brought about that change in |. SCOTTSBURG, Oct. 9—Charles by one-third within the next year.|plans. s

at atio nal 3

Mr. Marshall told the President. Hartley Shawcross dis- “I appreciate it very much.”

as “rubbish” today and Mr. Marshall then asked, “How : United Nations political are you doing?"

f “Fine,” the President replied. e that Russia's Wien) The President, Mr. Marshall

times their prewar Robert C. Lovett then entered & car and drove swiftly to the

be reached. his proposal to send will not be “bam-|/to see Mr. Stalin. : he said. “Not a word,” the President

has studied the history plans for a radio

proposal is anything but/man was to have announced that

portionment job after each cen-|50, told police he was alone in|was fatally injured in a train-|

were seated after the census of|'® the cashier's window. 1810. By 1870 Indiana had 13 Tam

‘House seats. They were reduced R i ‘ MH N to 12 by the 1930 census and to ®%® . ayes

the present 11 by the 1940!

eure Business Advertising Post

Whatever action is taken fit will be at least four years from How. ~v . wi - “ ii PE ~ TUE Nei Baba oo, Gadaiia

Expect Ohioan's Plea | Monday in Shooting’

John Howard, 33, Dayton, O., is scheduled to enter a plea in (Criminal Court +2 -Monday to charges of assault and battery

|with the shooting of his wife, ; Mary, 28 during. an, argument... {Wednesday. to. | Mrs. Howard was treated at |General Hospital for a bullet | wound. ‘ ' | Three of the couple's five chil-

[Secured in the home of Mrs. {Howard's brother, Edward Ash|more, 3312 8. Tacoma Ave.

+ rr ——— (Child Breaks Leg | Lucille Bryson, 4 years old, was ‘ in fair condition in General Hos-| JOINS TIMES—Robert E. pital today, after she sulfersd a| Hayes, local advertising. man, roken” leg when # ell from| has isi th dvertisi taff |the back of an automobile on Dinad the ave Tons “Mr | which she was playing yesterday |" ' IPOS dimes. Tie. | behind 608 Lexington Ave. where Hayes will be in charge of adshe lives. Giie is tae daughter of| vertising for business and in\Mr, and Mrs. Alonzo Bryson, | dustrial pages,

Indiana's first Congressmen terminal when the thug walked

sus, which Is taken every. 10 his office about 50 feet from the automobile collision here today.! vears. |entrance to the busy international n

State police sald he drove his| automobile in front of a train on,

the Inside

Sem ERS | Admit deficiences at State School for Feeble-Minded | * ... officials explain conditions found there by Times : amed fo Times oc or oe ere by age 3

Field Joins Staff

obert 'E. Hayes has joined the’ advertising staff of The Indian-

today by Louis D. Young, id nig D advertising director.” He wily pe 8

Times’ business and industrial title

DA ruins nam ig igen aloinil oll sss oismeo isan . Sr. Hayes has ‘been identited ioe Book Page . eviews of the TAESAE Works “=e

for many years with the advertising business in Indianapolis. by yo For nine years he:served in several capacities in the advertising| What's department of “the Indianapolis Star. . A veteran of World War I,

Division, he was graduated from

tended the University of Penn-| Rodeo Sredaeeeiaapassraiisinnagatants

sylvania. With ‘his wife, the former Vir-

r o » gill DrORY I: Pre res at Other Features on Inside Pages 5334 N. Delaware St. They have Amusements 5, 8 Classified 12, 13| Hollywood... 9 two daughters, Mrs. K. W. Shearer Eddie Ash... 6 Comics ..... 14 Inside Indpls. 8 and Mrs. Willlam H. McHenry, Books .....« 8 Crossword .. 11

and a son, Robert, who attends M. Childs Wabash College, Churches

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~ n ” : Margaret Truman hates to get up in the morning cen: : the breezy column by Elise Morrow, “Capital Cap- ... Veteran in Local BE rissa asada tbat Asana ata PIR

WE. Madame President se. the Needlework Guild a . a | Times Women's fOALUI «. eves avs sssranceasins

apolis Times, it was announced [ngide Indianapolis . . . Hoosier Profile . . . introdue-

in charge of advertising for The Broad Ripple's Rockets well on way to al grid

digest of the amusement world.......v.vvsss.nPage ? ch WET ee , when he served with the Rainbow Earl Wilson's “It Happened Last Night”. .......« Page 1% Shortridge High School and at. Anglers crowd lake banks at The Times

r. Michael Ginsburg, professor at IU.......Page §

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