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- TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1948
In Need . . . A Boy's Best Friend
$2 Million In Cou
Truman Bars Big 4 Talks At This Time
Insists That Russ First Lift Blockade
KEY WEST, Fla., Nov. 16 (UP) —President Truman said today this country is.standing pat on its policy of no four-power negotiations on the Berlin situation until Russia lifts its blockade. ] The President also told a press {conference at his Key West vaca- | tion headquarters: ONE: He is not planning any meeting with Soviet Premier
Josef Stalin nor sending any special emissary to Moscow. TWO: He will review the inter-
And City Squires Just Sighed
In court today their families stood behind Mitchell Bryant and Wiley Senteney as the two boys were charged with murder. Left to right are Dewey Bryant, Mitchell Bryant, Mrs. Anna Senteney, Wiley Senteney and his father, Wiley Senteney Sr. In the background is Court Bailiff Dan Scanlon.
Don Corm, Terry Moore and Phyllis Brinson . , . Subdebs and squires sighed.
—ltralia’s H. V. Evatt, president of
. A aa 2 ra national picture in a conference Americans Told Bo 's Murder Quer Turns with Secretary of State George Y Y C. Marshall and roving Am- ¥ ° bassador W. Averell Harriman To L ina Mother's Joke to Bitterness :. ui oy. 5. toe 0 gave la ! after his return from the Florida . vacation. Mr. Harriman arrived J ‘You Haven't Killed Anyone, Have You?’ in Washington today. Mr. MarU. 5. Embassy Gives Unwittingly Asked Parent df Slayer, 14 Sasll Je sm 8 he Duin Ne Warning to 4000 Another Photo. Page 3 Mr. Truman took occasion to = . play pay tribute to Mr. Marshall, and (Another Story, Page 3) By DONNA MIKELS to assert again that he and the NANKING, Nov. 16 (UP)—The To his mother the question was just one of a hundred and Secretary of State are in comU. 8S. Embassy urgently advised one queries that pop from the inquisitive mind of a growing boy.|plete agreement on everything. | all Americans in China to get out| “Mother,” 14-year-old Wiley Senteney Jr. asked yesterday morn-| A Big Four conference on the! at once because of the crisis posed! ing, “what would they do with a boy who killed a man?” {Berlin dispute was recommended by a Communist sweep toward “Why I guess they'd send him to prison for life or the electric/last week by Trygve Lie, Secretary Nanking from a by-passed and/chair,” his mother answered, going on about fixing breakfast. She of the United Nations, and Austottering- Suchow. added jokingly: “You haven't The embassy was reported to have drawn up-a plan for :the emergency evacuation by air of its own dependents, if necessary. Many officers of the Joint United States Military Advisory Group left today for Shanghai.
killed anyone have you, Junior?” She was to remember those words with tears a few hours later when she learned her son went directly from home to the police station to confess the fatal ishooting of James Kelly Brooks,
An embassy spokesman said/27-year-old packing house worker,
U. 8. authorities were planning water transportation for the evacuees. One official commented that whereas previously officials had “suggested” that Americans leave, they now “recommend” that they get out. However, a general evacuation of the dependents had not been ordered yet.
‘Nov. 3. . {If I had only known what was ‘on my boy's conscience,” she isobbed. “My words must have Ibeen. like a slap in the face to him.” Continuance Granted Today her son and his 14-year-‘old chum, Mitchell Bryant, whom he implicated in the hold-up at-
Jury Convicts Le 0f Tax Evasion
taxes from 1943 to 1945.
Atterbury Theft Trial also said: ONE:
A federal court jury found g,enia] sdssion of what he calls Abrah#m Levi, president of Bl-the “do-nothing” 80th Congress.
wood Iron and Metal Co. guilty Sen. Styles Bridges. (R. N. H.), of evading $48,420 in corporation has asked for a special session to
2 the United Nations General Assembly. The President said Mr. Marshall has prepared an answer to that suggestion, and he (Mr. Truman) has approved it. But he {wouldn't release it at this time. In the first press conference
Firm Head still Faces |... his election the President
There will, net be a
[consider further aid to China. The
At the same time, the jury NeW Congress will meet in regu-!
Six Bills Seek Penal Revision
Legislation Planned
To. Overhaul System
By NOBLE REED At least six bills already velat the “coke tall” party for Hollywood starlet Terry Moore.
been prepared for presentation to overhaul Indiana's “horse and! buggy’ penal system. e proposed legislation was]
19-Year-Old Actress Too Dressed dp,
Too Glamorous, but Local Sub-Debs Envious Ld By JEAN MANEY abl
ons Swamp Food Shoppers
Grocers Wage Fight to Draw Housewives
17,650,000 Sent Out in One Week
By HAROLD HARTLEY
Times Business Editor Grocer{’ cash registers are running over with a new type of currency in the “coupon \war” between big chains, in. {dependents and big manufacturers. Nearly $2 million worth of cash discount coupons are swirling through the grocery trade in Marion County. The hard-pressed housewife ree ceived in one week, Nov. 1, through the mail and newspapers, 17,650,000 coupons in the Indian apolis area. These were worth approximately 10 cents each. The most explosive of the couse pons was the book worth $5.20 in cash mailed to every home in metropolitan Indianapolis during the big coupon week. These coupons alone cut the city’s grocery bill a half million dollars, officials of the Standard Grocery Co., who did the mailing, reported. Independent grocers rose in indignation and started to take all coupons from “any store” which included the Standard Grocery Co. $5.20 booklet. Fortune Tied Up Harry Adler, owner of the Ate
: » ” s = s 1 u las 8 -Market, 54th Col« Really,’ Says Teen-Age Star; ii. ii vials ves io
the market and purchased cou~
"T-w-ee-t," Whistle the Boys imme i Mreirely hate
“We now have 36 of them on our shelves,” he said. “We've got a fortune tied yp on coupons,” Mr, Adler said, Pm and; bg “of them. But there
The subdebs ' sighed with envy and the squires just. sighéd|are some dtems produced by thé
The city teen canteens sponsored the party yesterday afternoon/buy. These include angel the 1949 General Assembly to/in Wilking’s Music Auditorium.
Standard Grocery Co, we cannot cake (their own make), Glendale Club
The teen-age movie actress will return to Indianapolis Thurs- Cheese Food, Salerno School Time
She was here yes-
[lar session Jan. 3. [the practical answer of the State|{erday to tell canteen members| 1000. Aftected tempt which preceded the shoot-|found Levi not guilty of charges : al ans, | : | 0 dll 0 The official oo mendation ing, stood charged with murder|of evading payment of $18,397 in| TWO: He has been working, Penal and Correctional Sprveyjiow 7 felt 10 A ue that Americans leave at once un-\n Municipal Court 3. Judge personal income taxes during the during "his Florida vacation, on; Commission which filed a report| YINg Opp: Yi
less they were prepared to stay|Joseph Howard granted defense|same period. {the state of the Union, budget yesterday revealing that while SOT a Glenn Ford. in China, come what may, or a Frank Sisson’s request e girs
The defendant's case of cor- and economic messages he will most other states had progressed, | fected some 4000 civilians, apart/for a continuance until Nov. 23|poration tax evasion was referred Send to the new Congress. Indiana had been standing still|Glendale from Army dependents. to allow time to decide on theito the Federal probation office for \W tt R . 4 in its penal and correctional ad-/Glenn their ‘dream boy.’ He was Already some 900 men of the boys defense: the youths will pel IEnIERCE investigation. (YVesT io Rejec ministration, imine too and when I learned I| military advisory dependents and , 11 bel Tomorrow, Levi will face trial' py. . more than 1000 civilians had left, held in the City Jail without bond.|on charges qf conspiring to steal Berlin Talks Plan
The commission's report was| ith hi 1 { 5) {based largely on professional sur-{vas to Sok win 3m tau o} t a sleepless night in al | : were leaving, or were trying to| 1tY Spen 1 {$20,000 worth of linen from Camp! PARIS. Nov. 16 get out. special cell in the matron’s S€C-| Atterbury. ' ’
State Tribunal Hands Down Ruling
Ralph Lobaugh, sentenced to “coke tail? die in the electric chair, will be|Co., for the discount.
_76, of Fergus Falls, Minn., col-
iveys by Austin MacCormick of » (UP)—The the Osborne Association and the screen test,” Terry sald. @ommunist forces swarming south of Suchow seized a stretch
of the Tientsin-Pukow trunk rail-| way, stormed into Suhsien and] thrust a spearhead down toward| Pengpu, 100 miles northwest of| Nanking and the last citadel for| anchoring a new Nationalist line along the Hwei River. Nationalist armies south f Suchow were reported fighting to open an escape corridor.
China Reds Seize U. S.-Made Arms
WASHINGTON, Nov. 16 (UP)| Official reports from China revealed today that vast stores of undamaged munitions have fallen into Communists hands. | Informed quarters said the arms and ammunition, somes of American make, are being used now in the Communists’ north China offensive.
ing Reds in Manchuria. But au-| thoritative quarters said it was] tremendous. |
Held as Key Witness |
In Slaying of Canadian NEW YORK, Nov. 16 (UP)—A| blond youth who had been drinking with Colin Cameren Mackellar and his accused slayer just before the Canadian textile executive was slain in his Waldorf Astoria suite was held today as a material witness. Robert Milton Hewes, 19, an unemployed . Philadelphia sales-| man, was held in $15,000 bail because he was about to leave town, assording to police. They said Hewes, Mackellar; and Ralph Edward Barrows, now held for the killing, made a round of Broadway bars together the night of Nov. 5, a few hours before Mr. Mackellar’s body was found.
Minnesota Motorist State Traffic Victim
Times State Service PRINCETON, Nov. 16—A Minnesota motorist died last night in Gibson County Hospital of injuries received in a head-on, crash with another car nine miles south of here on Ind. 4i. The motorist, Iver J. Boyum,
lided with a car driven by George R. Stocker, Evansville, on a hill shortly after 5 p. m. Mr. Boyum died an hour later in the hospital.
tion last night. It was a sleepless night, too, in _ the South Side homes of the two
boys as stunned parents recovered from the first shock and be-
gan to ponder events that led
‘
‘our boys” on the petty crime
spree which culminated in ne On His First Day |
shooting. !
Blame Shouldered 1
inkling that their sons were responsible for: Mr. Brooks’ death
when police came to their homes, ingham Palace said today.
after the boys had confessed yesterday.
Skirl of Bagpipes Greets New Prince
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LONDON, . Nov. 16
born to her Sunday night are do-
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The bulletin was issued after|
—m Western Powers prepared today National Probation and Parole. ito reject an appeal by United Na- Association. tions officials for imediate direct negotiations with Russia to settle the Berlin crisis.
Reveals Evils
ing from divided authority in the
} handling of penal administration t00 dr The Soviet Union meanwhile re- 4 shocking instances of medieval Stated. pligd to the appeal in carefully pytality in discipline of inmates. | |chosen words which indicated no The basic reports cited instances (UP)— essential change in the Russian where, deviating far from the Both ‘families had their first princess Elizabeth ;and the son|POsition. The s ing well, a bulletin from Buck-|Prevented any previous agree: stored blackjack ~ beatings ment in the Berlin dispute—con- pair own authority. tinuing Soviet blockade by rail,
modern .théory ' of correction,
tumbling block which has state -peformatory had admin-|¢ashmere sweater to the party—| on and very high-heeled brown suede | shoes.
Young+Senteney shouldered the weir, the royal physicians who Western sectors of Berlin—re- at the boys’ school.
blame for the actual shooting, but | named Bryant as his companion in car lootings in which they stole the gun. He said they tried to hold up Mr. Brooks,/\ He said he| “got scared and pulled the trig-| ger” when the ex-marine ‘sort of} lunged at me.” The parents of Bryant put their|
{four other children to bed early Maj.. Officially, there is a “s ecret” last night and sat down to talk. played a selection of lively Scot-|
“He isn’t a bad boy,” his moth-
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Mild Weather,
Rain on Docket |
LOCAL TEMPERATURES
6a m.. 47 10 a. m... 49 | 7a m... 48 11 a. m... 48 «8a. m... 50 12 (Noon) 49 9 a. m... 50
Indianapolis and Marion County| will have rain and mild tempera-| tures today and tonight, accord-| ing to the Weather Bureau. Tomorrow will be clear and colder, with fresh winds. A high of 55 degrees was expected today, falling to 45 tonight. Tomorrow's high will be around 50. . Temperatures will average about 5 degrees above normal for the next five days, Paul Miller, chief weatherman, said in a long-range forecast. No Major Change Normal maximum for this period is 46 degrees north, 55 south. Normal minimum is 30 north, 35 south. After tomorrow's drop in temperature there is no major change indicated Thursday through Saturday. Sunday will be colder. Precipitation will average onequarter inch in western Indiana and one-half inch in the eastern part of the state. > Rain is expected to fall this afternoon and tonight and again on
Mr, Stocker was.slightly injured.
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Satiday or Sunday.
attended her at the birth, had mained. Reduced to essen
examined the princess and child.!
tials. the reply 194 The princess, who slept fitfully|of the United States, Britain and|conditions,
recommended
the night prince was born, appar-|France to the appeal of UN Sec-phe taken for a general overhaul-|
ently got more rest last night. She was on a light diet.
2 # s THE BABY was welcomed offi-|
retary-General Trygve Lie and'ing of the system. General Assembly Herbert V. ; Evatt was expected to be that the, ONE: Creation by the 1949 crv Western Powers’ will refuse to ne- 1egislat f a Department of word in Terry's vocabulary. She . jLesisioiite o oP | ts ana Safety Aid to Talk
| It recommended:
{check weskit suit with a beige
|Courtland who co-starred with
The gals at the
decided that Terry isn't really a given another hearing in Allen typical
The report revealed evils rang- glamorous to look like anyoneigyeq today by the State Supreme I'd ever know and anyway she's
teen-ager. ‘‘She’s
essed up,” one sub deb Court. |
Whistles From the Boys
too Circuit Court under a ruling is-|
defense attorney agreed the case
day for the opening of her first starring picture, “The Return Cookies, noodles, flavoring and of October.” erent ———
photo finishing.” The proprietor of Leon's Mare ket, 111 E. 49th 8t.,, said they were - redeeming coupons for everything they could supply. “We don’t want our customers
- » 2.0.2 New Court Hearin High School voted going elsewhere for merchandise
we have on our shelves,” he exe plained. The independents were miffed at the manufacturers for making what they believed was a special deal with the Standard Grocery
They soon found that fair trade {laws prohibited manufacturers {from favoring one outlet against another, ; Most of the independents load-
{| The ruling was handed down ed with coupons firmly believe |after yesterday's oral arguments they will get their money (11 {in which both the Deputy Attor-icents each fbr 10-cent coupons)
facturers.
Terry wore a red and beige ney General Merl Wall and the| when they are presented to manu« |
three 'Ft. Wayne women. Lobaugh was Sentenced
She's been in movies
| Jan. 15. The man in her life is Jerome, ®Cution, the:latest to.Jan. 15
{for one of the slayings. “Really” is an overworked) « gs
cially by the royal bagpiper, Pipe|gotiate “under duress of the block- Correction to provide centralized was bombarded with facts and
Alex MacDonald,
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The princess expressed happiness at the gesture, palace inti-
should share her sentiments for! Bcotland and its traditions.
'‘Busmen Get Raise
| SAN FRANCISCO. Nov. 18 | (UP)—AFL bus drivers and sta-| {tion masters, who called off al
1 p. m... 50 [threatened strike at the last min-|
ute Sunday night, received pay in-| creases ranging from 10 to 14 per|
cent, Federal Conciliator Omar|
(Hoskins said today.
who ade.” And Russia's label on the exact amount of ma- Would their boy, they wohdered,|tish airs in the grounds of thejcou¢hed in soft -words, did not
terial which Nationalist forces be held responsible for the kill- palace 12 hours after the prince!change her previous stand that i i abandoned intact to the advanc-|ing’ was born. ane d ed S
the West must agree to use of Soviet-sponsored currency in all Berlin before the blockade could mates said. She was said to have|be lifted. expressed a desire that her son — -
OSAKA, Japan, Nov. 16 (UP)—A Japanese burglar entered an Osaka home, filled his bag with loot and told the scared occupants that he would return the following night for more. He returned on, schedule last night. The police welcomed him.
reply, while (Continued on Page 2 —Col. 2)
On the Inside
{French debate to air Reds’ role in strike :.. Around
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George M. Cohan’s famous tunes sung with new
warmth by son . . . Off the Record.............Page 5 Williamson drops Notre Dame to fifth place in U. S. | TANKING co. iii ic iiinanrrvessnsvises Page S High-geared tipping for new cars bared...........Page 10|
110,000 Protestants hear woman moderator here’. ..Page 18 ators whose terms expire in 1950/cluding two diamond rings, ’ oa
Other Features on Inside Pages
. Page 2 Taft of Ohio and Alexande
—Seven Republican. and |Democratic U. 8S. Senators who
lvoted for the Taft-Hartley Lavor WA thy Pl R k H [et in the 80th Congress stood | i : ers, ansac om
at the top of a “purge list” re-| |ported today by the AFL Political {League to the AFL's 67th annual | convention here. : High on the list for the 1950 congressional election purge stood Sen. Homer E. Capehart (R. Ind.). Other Republicans were Forres {C. Donnell of Missouri, Bourke,
(to visit all the dances.
the canteens. haven't got any time left,” she Hotel. said.
any dance, any time.
{forced Mrs. Kathleen Cooper, 36,'
figures about the city’s canteen| Paul Jones, director of informa-|yith an system and agreed that she'd love tion for the National Safety Coun-! (cil, will speak at the 1948 annual “Really, I'd love to come to alll Farm Safety luncheon at 12:15 Only, really, I/p. m. next Tuesday in the Severin| Mr. Jones joined the coun0 |eil in 1937 after serving in execuThe stag line nodded sadly— tive capacities on newspapers in
— =| Pur i IS "really they'd love to have her at Kansas City, Toledo and Cleve-| yp. : ] g d y ve her a nsas yy, ‘oleco an €Ve- “Why monkey with coupons, we'll
Warm Welcome CINCINNATI Nov. 16 (UP)!
~ Thieves Pull Victim's Teeth
land.
Search House for Two Hours After Binding And Torturing Ohio Businessman, Wife
GREENVILLE, O., Nov. 16 (UP)--A brutal holdup couple tortured and beat a prominent businessman and his wife early today, {using ordinary pliers to pull four upper teeth out of the man’s mouth jone at a time because they thought more money was hidden in the big free goods war which t: the victims’ house. Taking their time, the armed and masked man and woman first
should be reopened at Ft."Wayne. ~~ the hearing, Lobaugh will be|gan a trade in. coupon redeeming; given a chance to prove he was|
Her mink coat and hat | a d w he admitted killing! Prevalence of “spanking” with brought oh’s and ah's from the |drusee when he a g!cash. He did this for a few"days,
|Sir William Gilliatt and Sir John/road and barge transport to the , heavy leather strap was cited/gals—and whistles from the boys.|
e |Bros.,
Mr. Cooper said he did not lose|ing votes Indianapolis grocers
At least one grocery store bes bought the $5.20 book for $3.60
{then stopped and returned to the
, Soo last|grocery business. Terry's 19, blond, 5'2” and has pg), "gt; dje in the electric chair, The commission, created by the blue eyes. 7 Legislature to study these and on radio since she was 11 steps and she “goes steady.”
Harvey Hagelskamp, secretary
at Indiana state prison, but has of the Indiana Retail Grocery and {been granted four stays of ex-/Meat Dealers Assn., said the cou-
|pon tornado started about six
An Allen County grand jury months ago when shortages dise
[indict her men last week | Shirley Temple in *Kiss and Tell |20icted (Wo Other appeared.
| One issue of an Indianapolis |newspaper, he said, carried $110 {worth of coupons on Nov, 4. | Grocers have been swamped types of —eoupons, as manufacturers launched their big fight for the consumer markets, Kroger Cuts Prices The Kroger Co. simply cut its prices on all of the coupon {tems {10 cents for the week of Nov. 1, {The Kroger Co. told customers,
|give you the coupon price right {over the counter.” The soap companies are pushe {ing coupons for all they are worth. Procter & Gamble, Lever Swift Packing Co. and {Kingan & Co. are the leaders in {the free goods trade. Others are Heinz Soups, Royal Gelatine, Chase and Sanborn Cof« {fee, Old Judge Coffee, and Stark and Wetzel's in meats, and the Dromedary’ cake mixes. These are only a few straws in
broke early in. November. And while the politicians were count-
D. Milliken of Colorado, Clyde/to open a small safe. Then when .,nsciousness during the severe|were in the much more serious
BS Hickenlooper of Iowa, Eugene)
IM. Reed of Kansas, Robert A./the loot was not up to their ex-|peatin s ripectations they pulled the gold-
{capped teeth of Robert Cooper,igtepped out of the darkness as
| Wiley. of Wisconsin.
Mr. Cooper said the
g about the head and face. business of counting coupons—in couple the millions.
| The two Democrats were Wal-|40, in an effort to make him telling drove into the.garage of his Drop in Some Food
| The league report called them ants.” To this list will be added
and all House members who voted for the law or who fail to| vote for its repeal next session, {league officials said. |
Amusements 16 Editorials ... 14,F. C. Othman 13|8Sports .....8, 8) The convention’s political ac] Radio
Business +10. Forum +..... 14!
Classified. 20-22|Hollywood... 16 Records .... Comics ..... 23 Inside Indpls. 13 Ruark ...... 13| Earl Wilson. 15 John Crosby 15 Mrs. Manners 12 Scherrer .... 14 Wom Crossword... 6 Movies ..... 16/Society ..... 17/World Aff... 14|Truman
—eeeass 15. Summershy... _Tition session was fixed for to-|years old, brutal looking, and car-|a neighbor’s home to call police 4 Weather map 10 morrow afternoon. |
.. 18, 19 hear a message from President
The 725 delegates today will
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lter’ F. George of Georgia and|Where 'Millard E. Tydings of Maryland.|cached.
additional money Was home
shortly after
midnight, _ | shoved the point of a gun into his Prices Expected Soon
In the two-hour robbery, the back, and forced him to enter the! WASHINGTON, Nov. 16 (UP)
“gxceptionally bad public —serv-ipair ransacked the house and beat house. Amount of cash taken was notidrop soan, according to the Na= eight other Taft-Hartléy Sen-the pliers and cut three rings, in- immediately determined, Policeitional Planning Association, from, Chief Ora McClellan said. Also taken was a fur coat belonging|agriculture committee said they: {to Mrs. Cooper and some of Mr. will become cheaper as soon as
Mr. Cooper about the face with
Mrs. Cooper's fingers. Both Had Guns ; 1 The victims described the hig: Cooper's clothing. up pair as_‘very rbugh” The
—Some food prices are likely to
As for meats, the association's
herds and flocks can be increased -
Mrs. Cooper was ‘able to loosen and this year's big grain crop
woman was said to be about 35!the tape from her feet and run to|converted into livestock products.
ried a 38-caliber - revolver. man, about 10 years older, wore|left.
caliber gun, ; per Phonograph Co. here.
The chief reasons for high meat.
The shortly after the hold-up “pairiprices; the committee said, are
strong consumer demands, and
la trench coat and ggrried a 45-| Mr. Cooper islowner of the RF fr of feed grains during
1947, NJ