Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 February 1951 — Page 2
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that Take 16 Lives n Texas and Georgia Kerosene Poured | Stove Falls Over
On Live Coals In Mountain Home LAMESA, Tex, Feb. 3| DILLARD, Ga.,, Feb. 3
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ng kerosene in a stove filled children, perished,
il I a at e the t d children fhe’ victims were identified as|'C Save the trapped c en, Albert Lemons, 34, his wife Nar-! cariza, 31, and their children, Lucille 9, Mary 8, Janie 4, Lorenzo
months, Ballew, 17.
small house on the Bill Plerce majley children and aunt of the
to tear down the walls to rfscue'out in near-zero weather, the trapped family but the
the small house ablaze to gfe the Talleys when the fire broke driven back by “the heat. farmhouse at the base of Rabun
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Mother Saved in Flash Fire Unaware of 3 Lost Children
. News Kept From Her Until She Mends; = ‘Mishawaka Father ‘Weak With Grief’
3 Times Stgde Service = o¢ MIBHAWAKA, Feb. 3-~Mr§, Robert Durbin lay in a hospital bed here tonight and kept askihig about her children, not knowing that three of them died in a fire at their home. ; c= The 27-year-old Mishawaka housewife was critically burned
‘Robert Jr., 8, and Jerry, 4. Also critically burned was another pghter, Sandra, 2.
“Her husband and St. Joseph Depital officials haven't toa kept a vigil at the hospital and
08 started arranging for triple fuMFs. Durbin about the death of eral EE P BF. three children for fear the ",..,rqine to Mr. Durbin, the itk may cause a relapse. Herg.o ctarted when gas seeping dition Improved somewhat to- prom the refrigerator was ignited. ight, and her husband sald she “It didn’t explode, but the fire ippears to be out of danger.” |qagned through the “whole house . 2 . Falled at Rescue lin seconds,” he declared. dhe three children who died] mye interior of the house was sleeping in a bedroom which jagtroyed. The Durbins, who wefe 8 engulfed In flames within am arried in 1941, bought the house te after the fire started inijn December and hdd just started kitchen early today. Their mortgage payments. er tried to rescue them but! mr’ Durbin, 29, works in the
as forced back by flames. His | gtud baker plant i th Bend. hair was singed, but he was not . plant in South Ben
seriously burned. FIRE DAMAGES HOME
in another bedroom, were rescued floor rooms yesterday of the by firemen. Mr, Durbin, who was frame home of James Tinsley,
awakened by his wife's screams. was estimated in excess of several Mr. Durbin sald he was “weak hundred dollars. . =
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Clark an Pac Due at Atterbury
CAMP ATTERBURY, Ind., Feh. 3 (1IP)—8ecretary of the Army! Frank Pace, Jr. and Gen. Mark Clark, chief of the Army field) forees, will visit the 28th Infantry Division next Wednesday, it was announced today. Division Commander Gen. Daniel B. Strickler also said that 5th Army Commander Gen. Stephen J, Chamberlin will be pres-| ent. 4 They “will witness the field training of. Pennsylvania's “Key-! stane” division. | Gen. Strickler said Battery “C"| af the 107th Field Artillery Battalion of Pittsburgh, the Second Battalion of the 109th Infantry| Regiment of Carbondale, and the Division Band of Altoona will par-| ticipate in a reception. {
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Bar Association Plans
To "Discuss Legislation Bills pending in the state legislature will be discussed at a special session of the Indianapolis Bar Association at 4 p. m. Wednesday in the Marott Hotel, ER Recommendations will be made to the association's legislative KE committee, iq
hi EO mong OES Session Planned
the North Park Masonic Temple, ! 1058 ‘W. 30th St. Mrs. Doral Rothenberger 1s worthy matron 3 ! and Wasson, worthy, Ojibwa Indian from Canada, tal
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Children Die in Fires Looking for a Paci
(UP) Eight members of one (UP)—A toppling stove sent ; family, including six children, fire flashing through a threebyrned to death today in aroont mountain shack occu home fire when the father at-|pied by 14 persons today and npted to start a fire byleight of them, including six
th live coals. . { Edgar Teague, father of four nly two members of the fam- of the victims, died with them
escaped and they were slight- When he rushed into the flame-| Ly ‘ oy y 8 [shot structure in a futile attempt
Burned to death, survivors said, were Mr. Teague; his four children, Billy, 11; Carl, 9; Bobby, 5,
4) and Lucille," 3; Bessie Talley, 11; 3. iAlicla, 2, and Albert ary 10 Ruth Talley, 9, and Mrs. Jessie
e Lemons family lived in a * vpg Ballew was a sister of the
farm, 13 miles west of here. other four. The Teague family, Other farm workers who saw from Canton, N.C. was visiting
were John Talley, owner of the small ©
Funeral attendants said bodies Bald Mountain, 14 miles from the of the family were found strewn nearest telephone, was in Florida throughout the house's three when the fire destroyed his home ;
0-the flash fire which fatally burned three of her children Nancy, |
with grief” about the tragedy. Hé person died after being bitten by {rabid dogs, but death was not at- home after drinking and ripped the house apart as follows:
3 {smashed furniture, broke winloose,” Sgt. Payne said, “there will dows, threw vases and flower
{be more rabies cases.” |pots, smashed mijrrors, tore down | More ‘Picked Up {kitchen cabinets and dumped
inext summer, when every one
|disease to show up. Bo dogs tha
Chief Thrills Patient
North Park Chapter 404, OES, Hopalong Cassidy may be No. | he | , NI meet at 7:43 p.m, Tuesday in| 4 , kid is Hil thrilled with stories about the woods, animals and ried that a diaper company had Indian trails. That accounts for the pleased expression on the face |
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A lone mail handler ponders hundreds of sacks of mail stranded n the S. Illinois St. Postal Station because of the switchmen's
strike. Available space in the cavernous station was at a premium
last night following the embargo clamped on heavy mail and pack-
ages. It was the second time in six weeks the embargo was imposed
due to rail strikes. >
Rabies Epidemic Father Forces
Family Into Cold :
1 : | - Po#ce last night held" a human Ie IC e ere : | “tornado” who turned home into
{a shambles and forced his wife
: ¥ {and three babies to. flee into th . Head of Pound Warns coud. Clie
| William Virgil Hansford, 27, of About Stray Dogs x | 043 Blainé Ave, was arrested on
charges of disorderly conduct and
{Continued From Page One) | sons died of rabies, and BHotner resisting arrest, !
{tributed to rabies. “When dogs are allowed to run
| Records of the dog pound show drawers,
more “stray dogs were picked up| His wife and three children, 6 ‘during January. than in any months to 3 years, had to run, /month\ since the department be-| outside. Police also said they had
11148 were handled. | —
{ In addition, an average of 15 dogs were found dead on Indian- Purse Snatchers Rob
japolis streets every day. The all-time high for dead dogs + Women Shoppers
was Jan. 6. Forty-eight dogs! Three women shoppers laid
: ; | were found dead on the city's their purses on chairs in Indian- £ Mrs. Durbin and Sandra, asleep Flames burned out the first ea y 'apolis department stores yester-
“When dogs run loose the day and threw- their coats over sleeping on a davenport, was 1511 Martindale Ave. Damage Chance of them becoming infect- them. They lost them to purse
ed with rabies is just that much Snatchers.
greater,” Sgt. Payne said. Mrs. Elizabeth Brooks was try-| ‘ Nii ing on a dress In L .8. Ayres & Pen Them Tp Now Co. when a thief made off with| her pocketbook containing a signed blank check and $12 in
“ “Now is tHe time to keep the dogd penned up,” he said, “not
starts getting scared of rables. | ash”
“When a dog is infected. it Mrs. Roy E. Hall, 3934 Guilford
h {Ave.,, took her hands off her takes about six months- for the purse for a few Minutes tn the
H. P. Wasson & Co. and lost $75 8 | we and personal papers. ! i will show up with the disease Car keys, office keys and $28 Jere f Mrs. Grace In the city, the number of Were in the purse o rabid animals has dropped per- Painter, 665 E. Maple Rd. They ceptibly in the last year, but ijndisappeared while she was the county the number of dis- Shopping at Morrison's Washingeased animals is climbing rapidly. ton Street Corp.
are infected during this season,
next summer.” =
. During December, 1949, in the
city, 115 rabid animals were re- DeMolay to Select
ported contrasted with 71 in « ’ December 1950. Sweetheart’ at Dance
month, 1950. Rite Cathedral.
reted out and destroyed. Janét Swoverland.
| Prayers and Cash— : Archbishop and Police
Reassure Quads’ Father
Prelate Offers to Pay All Bills But Fellow Officers Start Fund
who are ‘doing fine” in their incubators in"Children’s Hosptal.
Archbshop "Richard J. Cushing began his day with a special ? jyour chances of being a winner-\Mass for the two boys and two girls who were born yesterday to d Pace : ” 31-year-old Mrs. Allen, wife of a
policeman.
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me.”
{aid a fellow cop.
| the babies are under 41% pounds,
| Doctor's at Children's Hospital
Isaid the babies’ chances for sur[vival are increasing with every thour, 1 | While the mother rested at the % ‘hospital, her husband had to dis-
Chances Improve
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: Te 3 ‘home to get a few hours sleep. ro among boys these days, [He said through’ an attorney
{promised to provide free service [for the quads, but that despite
of a young polio patient at Riley Children's Hospital as Joe Friday, rumors there had been no other
ks to him. ''Chief" Friday was commercial offers to help finance
. Patron, t ~~ here on a YMCA Indian Guide tour, * : ' . Ithe raising of the babies,
Police said Hansford came
{gan keeping records. A total of to use force to subdue Hansford.
But in Marion County, outside “Sweetheart for 1951” will be Indianapolis, 56 rabid dogs were Selected by the Indianapolis Chapreported in December, 1949, com- ter, Order of DeMolay, at a dance pared with 103 in the same Saturday night in the Scottish
“During March, April and May, The candidates, all members of | the number of cases will climb, Job's Daughters bethels, are Dias is normal, but this year the ane Baily, Joan Barns, Judith Ann rate of climb will be very high,” Marrow, Janet Graves, Joan EberSgt. Payne said. hart, Irma Jane Rusner, Caroline The latest outbreak of cases Carter, Jean Toon, Donna Smith, was during November and Charline Huffine, Joyce McVey, December.in the Mars Hill area. Sue Chumley, Norma Doak, Lu- | Nineteen rabid dogs were fer- cille Wilson, Virginia Scalf and
be in Indianapolis for the world|, ==. 0, 4. “Bonzo Says 5 BOSTON, Feb..3 (UP)—The Archbishop of Boston and the . | city's police force promised today that Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Allen would have no financial trouble in caring for their new quadruplets
He-had devoted his entire FriTm ——_ Nt: 4% | day evening radio program to . : : prayers for the quadruplets and the Allen family and told the couple that “ifthe police commisstoner and Boston's finest don’t
pay your entire medical and hospital expenses, send the bill to
| The Archbishop apparently , {won't be called on to help the Allens for Police Commissioner Thomas F, Sullivan was ready to
Mr. Sullivan called a meeting of |all police captains to make arjrangements for starting a fund (for their newly distinguished { member. The Police Relief Association also was making plans to {help Mr, Allen, whose take-home {pay as-an officer is just $58 a week. However, under state law the city will pay the bills, while
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