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HE 59th YEAR NUMBER 199

When Misfortune Strikes, Motto Is Try Again’

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Indianapolis Times

FORECAST: Clear and cool tonight, low near reening: Party Slondy to morrow with a mild high of 72.

Second Blass Mattar al postofics

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1048 BtuRaroan Ind. Issued daily and Sunday

“War Is Not Inevitable, Leahy Says

Admiral Doubts Russia Wants Conflict

Seventy-three-year- old Fleet Admiral William D.. Leahy told, { Indianapolis today he does not, [think war between the Western! is

| Democraciés and Soviet Union either imminent or inevitable, N aa The venerable American sea

ures in U, 8. naval history, came

“There is no such thing as an inevitable war,” the admiral

think a war is coming quickly.”

sweat and tears so-soon after the , last one, he said. months away.

Plane Move “Not Significant”

dn the air. supply of Bérlin had

miral said bluntly: “No.” - | Richard- slowly dying of a "During the last few weeks,’ | dream. he sald. ‘meeting. of.

have ..He has no. eyes.

equipment in Europe.

HOMELESS AGAIN—Mr. and Mrs. Robert Allen and their children, Billy, 5 (left); Marilyn Lou, 3, and Bobby, | 6. ware laft destitute yesterday when their new home at R.R. 20, Box 686P, was destroyed by fire. The flames were

discovered about 3:30 p. m. by a neighbor, just after the family had driven away to visit friends. This makes the

second time within a year that they have been burned out.

Second New Home Leveled by Fire

Twice-Hit Family Plans to Build Again |

By CARL HENN Last January, fire destroyed) the new home of the Allen family| in Berwick St, Undaunted, Robert Allen, 26, a carpenter, built an-| other new one” in=fhe southwest! suburbs on Banta Road. | Last night, the Allens father, mother and three tots returned from visiting friends te find their second new home in ashes, still smoldering from a fire of undetermined origin. Stunned, Robert Alien and his wife, Mary, searched for salvage through the ruins and resolved to, build a third house. Mrs. Allen Sobs

The fire began about 3 p. m, just after the Allens had driven | away to visit friends. When they | returned two hours later ‘the! house they had begun building in August was gone. Mrs. Allen sobbed desolately as a neighbor woman tried to com- : fort her. “It was bad enough the first time,” she cried. “This makes the second time, and we don't have insurance. We owe thousands of dollars for our lot and the building materials.”

Mr. Allen was dazed, unable to realize fully what had happened. “Oh, no, no,” he said, repeating it over and over as he gazed, at the blackened ruins. “We were coming back this evening to eat supper and then go to church . he stopped, unable to continue speaking. Turns in Alarm Mrs. Paul Cloyd, the neighbor who had seen the fire from her kitchen window and turned in an alarm, led Mr. and Mrs. Allen; and the children, Bobby, 6. Billy, 5. and Marilyn Lou. 3. to her home about 100 yards away on Banta Road.

“The per truck got here the late Wendell I. pretty quigk,” she said. “The fire- race.

men had the fire almost out when

they ran out of water and had to sounders for both the Republican go to Buck Creek for more. When and Democrat parties, the Hoosier |farmers just aren't As darkness began to fall, Mr,|they intend to vote. Allen left his family in Mrs. {many a furrowed forehead around Cloyd’s home and wandered back the Claypool Hotel headquarters. A salesman, who makes calls flames were still flaring and dy- lon the grain elévators, reports he 'overhears farmers talking among “No__matter how much you themselves. work, it all goes up in smoke,” | Truman has made an impression he said. “What can we do? What lon them by his charges that Re{publican rule caused the farm de- | pression after World War I and ~|enly the Democratic national ad-/

Women will Relis |similar plight after World War IT.

Checkers Draw Blank An old professional hand made a personal trip around more favored northern the country stores and filling sta- the Democrats have capitalized] farmers state GOP vice chairman. charged |

they got back it was too late.”

to the burned house where feeble

ing among the ashes.

are we going to do?”

What She Tells

® Kay Bummersbhy

worked . . . and ate , , and laughed . . and drank . . . and suffered

throughout the world with Gen. Dwight Dn,

® Her factual story - EISENHOWER WAS MY BOSS—in a way is

tells all she knows about her boss in the only story of Ms kind that can ever come out of World War

exciting story by the first

U. 8. history. ocrats declare, 7 One theory being advanced is ® EISENHOWER WAS [that if next Tuesday is a nicelons trend, MY BOSS . . . starting |day many farmers, SUNDAY . . . EXCLU- [have voted Republican, will 8 SIVELY in THE TIMES. |home and work rather than go . an apathetic man.

¢

NOTHING LEFT-

How the Hoosier is likely to decide who will be the next Governor of Indiana prosperous farmers began By 1940 the farm vote caused! Indiana in his presidential Mr. Fleming. “that certain in-

getting back on the GOF bandwagon Willkie to carry In 1944 they.were for Got

Right now the professional | just/lows (R. Me.), urged” Hoosier

plainly do not know exactly what| Women to vote their convictions brou

{the farmer is going to do. Prices for farm products have Covington, sixth district congresreached all-time highs, but the! sional nominee and the only| farmers themselves fear the lack permanency of a fair price

about milk drops in the offing|

They want price supports continued. ‘Want Support Continued

tions to find out if this was so, He reported that | when he asked the farmers how they were going Eisenhower . .. as his aid, [closed some skilled checkers out to learn| and they also drew a blank.

He didn’t learn,

|dodgers carries a headline ether These Days???” uced is a’ facsimile of a 58-ce Democratic leaders declare this uced from the Louisville stocka report to women. She silence is a good sign for them. ‘yards which a farmer received |

They for a 125-pound hog on Apr, 20,

say four years ago the! farmers were very vocal about their Republican affiliation. They| point to farm publications’in the 11 state which formerly attacked the keep » Democrats but now appear quife| your

® Be sure to read this |Mild and: neutral.

'(Indianapolis for the last three

There follpws this advice: | “A sound farm program willl this from happening again!| last GOP Congress started| Farm Bureau farm prices. downhill. leaders are no longer in there stop it this election year—vo ote! skirted five-star aid in |Pitching for the GOP, the Dem-|for yourselves--vote Democratic!” PATtly cloudy, although no -rain Whether or not. they will do |is expected. The high tempera-| {s0, and thus reverse their previ. ture will be 72 degrees. is the $64 question ght the politicians are asking. So far {they haven't got the answer. They may hake to wait until

{ture near freezing.

to tdponis }

Country -Saved,

But They Differ on Which Party Did It

By ROBERT BL OEM Hoosier politicians came up last night with the good news that the country has been saved —now all the voters have to do is decide from what and which party did it, “Our Democratic administra-| tion has not only saved us from international disaster and is not only leading us on the only pos-

“There is absolutely no mili listen to its whistle,

jtary significance to this move. | “He wants a train, with a

was decided that these ships| track,” his mother, Mrs. George

{were needed to augment the air Sanquist, said.

transport in the Berlin lift, “He has told me several “Winter is rapidly closing In! times the last day or so that's

fon Germany. The additional, what he wants from Santa (planes will be used for trans-| Claus. ~~|portation of food, fuel and med-| “He says he has been a good

lical equipment to areas where, boy.”

they are most needed.” « wo» ‘War Depends on People’ | MRS SANQUIST said she has Considering the airlift as a| been trying to make every day

S gakers - [ee part of the grave DAL a Christmas for her brown[situation, Adm. Leahy sald after| paired son, without letting him

a long pause, as though measur-| ing each word: “Whether a war is 10 be waged “I think we will go on that between nations depends entirely | way-—as long as he is alive,” |on the interests of“ the people.| she said. “I am afraid to set a War will be brought on if these date and tell him it will be {people are willing to makeé bleody| Christmas, He might not live sacrifices of men and materiel. "| until then.” Would Western patience snap if! However, she will put up a the German deadlock were pro-| Christmas tree this week end longed? he was asked. when Richard's 12-year-old sis“That's a question to he an-| ter, Helen, who also is blind, |swered by the political Sftncies of! comes home for the 'waek: “end government,” the admiral re-|-

| know why.

{

sible road to peace,” said formerjturné® grufy. “It isn't for us "it 8. Ti k ks. “1Gov., Paul McNutt at Princeton, any. an er

| “but it has been responsible for] “If we are pushed out of

war. 1 am certain the deface! ly Beating by Alaskan PS ure rivARIS. Oct. 21 (UP)—Thg Big

oe present ' prosperity and eeonomic progress that America en[fovs today.” | ‘At Greenfield, Republican Sen. {Homer E. Capehart. said: “The 80th Republican Congress; | deserves the everlasting thanks of {the American people for halting | the New Deal plot to further regi-| {ment them.” Jenner Hits Traman Policy Junior GOP Sen. William E. | Tenner dipped his oar into the |campaign for the second straight {night with an attack at Gary on {the Truman administration’s “va[cillating policy regarding comImunism.” The Democratic lieutenant gov-

I lernor candidate. John Watkins

told a Poseyville audience that,

which burned yesterday afternoon. He did not know, as he stood | Republicans like to say the words there, wheré he and his family were to stay last night,

Vote of Hoosier Farmers May Decide Governorship |

Sentiment-Sounders Report Crop Owners Refuse to Answer Electioneering Queries

[“New Deal” with a sneer. “What is so disgraceful about {rescuing a nation from despair?” {he asked. “That is the record of ~ New Deal” While Hobart Creighton, GOP| {candidate for governor, plumped| (at Jasper for employment of tech{nical help in the Conservation De-|

"partment “solely on the basis of

ability and qualifications, the Democratic secretary ‘of state ‘candidate, Charles Fleming, was

farmers vote and how many of them do so demanding to know “what goes

on in the state's penal institutions?" { ‘What's Going On?” { “Just what is going on.” asked

At Plainfield. Rep. Frank Fel-

Nov. 2. He spoke there in support of Mrs. Cecil Harden of

woman seeking a congressional, seat in Indiana. Democratic State Chairman Ira |Haymaker used a Greenwood! speech as a chance to take a| {verbal slap at Maj. Gen. Ben H.| Watt, superintendent of public in|struction. He called the general, {who commands the state's na-|

1a, | tional ard division, a er where in most instances the hilly] generals, “pap

tough going for

and charged the guard {in Indiana is racked with “dis-| |unity,, bickering and conflicting|

sections, slaims of authority.”

At Jasper, Mrs. Mabel Fraser,

the Truman administration with!

In the Eighth District they have «crayen _catering to noisy miput their vote luring literature in|porities.’ : 1

Three-Day Fog «Coming to End

The fog which has shrouded

nights will not return tomorrow, the Weather Bureau said today. Clear, cool weather is expected for tonight, with a low tempera-

Tomorrow will be mild and

LOCAL TEMPERATURES 6a m.. 38 108 m., 5M Ta m.. 3 11 a m.. 8 Sn m,., 42 12 (Népn) 68 a m ..48 1p. m.. 68

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| Europe, that would be de facto!

\people would not sit idly by play-|

loint JN ay Senn They will. have {a tall Richard shout the train,

dog, one of the most colorful fig- ‘Ty ve + Botn or Good Boy, Mama"

sane Plaase Hurry, Santa, wmv nin: Says Boy Near Death

Adm. Leahy sald he was in- Blind Lad, 5, Dreams of Electric Train ar, Tre Which He Can Neither See, Nor Play With doubted they would relish blood, VINTON, Iowa, Oct. 27 (UP)—Christmas is two

Like thousands of 35-year-old boys, Richard San- | “Asked if the movement of Navy quist is already dreaming of an electric train, Fey BUC RISRRVES “peyewtsputcinc aspunh order: stedey “lany military significance, {the ad-! make his dream come: true right away.

tumor—hasn't much longer to

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200,000 ot Ams Secret Says General

Robertson Calls | | Purpose a Mystery

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BERLIN, Oct.- 27 (UP)—=

wre | mortars.

from the State School for the Blind here. A cancerous tumor forced removal of one of Richard's eyes when he was five months old. The other was removed when he was almost three years old. - The malignant tumor growth since has spread over the right side of his face and head. Last May Dr. P. J. Leinfelder, professor of ophthalmology at the University of Iowa Medical School, sent him home from the hospital Ute,

“HE SAID there A nothing more they could do, and it was just a matter of waiting-—days or weeks — unt!i the growth eats through his system,” Mrs. Sanquist said. “He's a game Mttle guy,” his mother sald. “He talks about what he'll do when he gets well, He doesn't complain of pain, but wé can just see him dwindling away." "

ling checkers.” | Reports Port Boiler Completely Out;

|Russia’s new submarine develop-! first was believed to be a Navy, ments closely, transport. Coast Guard officials! He said one type of underwater later identified the vessel as a craft known as the “snorkel.” tanker owned by the U. 8. Mari-

presumably copied from an ad- time Commission to carry fuel ofl, |

vanced design the Nazis had at, A report tothe Ketchikan Coast! the end of World War II, has Guard Station said the vessel had terrific speed and range while developed “condenser trouble.” It| submerged. requested a meeting with a tug) Asked if this type of sub- 240 miles west of Cape Spencer.| marine could be considered a The tug Santrina was dispatched formidable weapon, the admiral from Juneau at midnight.

smjled. Port Boiler Out |

“We always have beaten thes# ~ bright ideas — eventually,” he Later the Santa Cruz Teported said. its port boiler had ‘gone out. The admiral arrived this morn-/The starboard boiler was exing for Navy Day observances pected to fail in a few minutes, a ere, l Although the Hoosier capital : |can barely float a speed boat in VI!th both hollers . dead, the|

the dry season, it annually gets Santa Cruz would bé without]

the nod from the Navy high com- lights and would wallow help-|

mand because it has the largest lessly before a gale-force storm, | Navy League Council in the the Coast Guard said. |

Imessage said.

{nation. The Coast Guard cutter Unalga |

Navy League Is Host radioed it was approximately 80 The ‘council is playing host to miles east of the Santa Cruz and

Adm. Leahy, the sixth consecu- Would proceed to the stricken ...q0 +++12,13 Labor .

tive full admiral to observe the vessel's side | Bridge Thomas F. Dewey for President. mates have at their disposal hun- “|occasion here, A | Bridg:

~ dreds of dollars to use as bribes”

John D. Hughes, general chair i i man of the celebration, said the Wins Separation

The Times Straw Vote ‘oe

{ Business IM. Childs... 16 Radio ...... international situation again has ALBANY, Oct, 27 (UP)-—Mv¥s. Classified. .24-26 Ruark .... ght the Navy into the apot- Simone Van Haver Miller won Comics

{ U 8. N in C2 {considerable Y despite three ny Coast Guar d Cutter R ushes fo Side jo peace, and the present reserve SEATTLE, Oct. 27 (UP)—The 525-foot U. 8. tanker Mission United Nations delegate Andre!

could be mobilized quickly if{Santa Cruz is in trouble in heavy seas 230 miles west of Juneau, the Coast In “an unusual communique

[needed, he said. {Alaska, and has radioed for “immediate assistance,” | Watch Russia's Subs {Guard reported today. | The admiral said U. 8. naval The Coast Guard estimated 34 were in the crew. intelligence experts are watching The vessel used Navy call letters in distress messages and” at

| “You can guess as well as I

what its purpose is,” Gen. Robert son said in a press conference discussion of the “formidable and unusual” German police force “of distinctly military character.” He sald the Western Powers would make no attempt to match the police force in the Soviet zone, because “that is not the policy we wish to adopt.” “What is the purpose of this formidable force?” he himself asked in reporting its existence, “One hears there is much dis content in the Soviet Union, but one cannot believe it is so great. “It has been suggested that the force may take over the responsibilities of the oceupation forces. It is organized and armed to deal with the Germans.” After a deliberate pause, ne added significantly--“I. suppose. Then he sald thta- anyvodrs guess was as good as his ing the purpose of the f

~ |Big 3 Repeats Bid To Soviet on Berlin

today indirectly invited Russia to accept (outside the United Nations) the formula for settlement of the Berlin crisis which Soviet

Vishinsky vetoed after a conference of more than

an hour at the French Office the Western diplomats ane

Schricker hits low mark

inpol ,...........Page 2

“If War Should Come” second of a series. .Page 7

|Groves suspects Russians

redouble efforts to top U. 8. A-bomb se-

crets ............Page 10

Fix It Yourself . .. The

Times’ Handy Man Page 20 |

Other Inside Features

.. 16 Lewis Wants Truman vees 19 Mrs. Manners a Builders:<,.. 20 Movies ...12 «ss 10/F. C. Oth an 3 C m g/--John L, Lewis suggested today s/that President Truman use the

reve 27/81de Glances 16) reat of ending recovery aid to

light and “that interest particu- a legal separation last night! Editorials .. 16 Society ...

On Inside

d they were willing to “be, -by the principles” emhadi in” the security Smell reso n ich Mr. Vis rejected.

ECA Suspends Loans To 9 Nations in Europe

WASHINGTON, Oct. 27 ( ~The Economic : Oo Oras

{suspended further recovery grants to nine European na including France and Italy, until they conclude loan with the United States. The United Kingdom and Ice. land, which already have cone {cluded loan agreements, are not affected. Countries which will receive no further recovery grants until their lofins are concluded are France, Italy, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Belgium, Ireland, the Netherlands and Turkéy. All have loans under n which total $515 million.

To Halt French Aid

WASHINGTON, Oct. 27 (UP)

{force the French government “to

(larly is being manifested by the from Earl R. Miller, former| Forum ..... 16%Sports . 21 33|cease making war on its own visit of Adm. Leahy because he bodyguard for the late President Meta Given. 19 Weather Map 5/citizens who are coal miners.” ticipant at the Teheran confer- Franklin D. Roosevelt, in a trial Hollywood nce. .'that lasted less than 10 minutes. Inside Indpls. 15 Women's

CLOSE CALL-—For a few moments when this plane struck high-tension wires at the Hoosier Airport, its two doctor occupants would have called their prognosis Loy

(chances for recovery) very bad. But despite the smashed-up condition of t

plane,

Dr. Ira Cole, the pilot, and.Dr. T. H. Smith, both of Lafayette, walked away from the crash under their own power, Both will attendthe medical convention at the M Theater, which is the reason they were flying + inianageliec firey Page 2)

«+ 12' Earl Wilson. 14! ... 19/letter to AFI, President William

He made the suggestion in a

Green.

24 Naval Transports +

To Bolster Airlift

WASHINGTON, Oct. 27 (UP) The Navy moved in today to bolster the Berlin airlift with 24 vy STanapont planes. e ilitary Air Tra Service sald the planes anport vanguard of 66 additional C-54's which President Truman authore ized for the supply run last week, It is the first time Navy planes and pilots have been assigned di« rectly to the af to the alrite,

Gun n Blasts Kill Kill Franklin Couple

FRANKLIN, Oct. 27 (UP) Charles Stillabower, 79, and his

"| wife of one year were found shot

to death in their home here

Coroner Charles A. Jones said: it apparently, was a murder-suls cide. Mr. Stillabower and his Rhodes )