Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 August 1937 — Page 8

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SIRE RR I SE

Hunt for Her

Anna Kuchta

4 NEW ATTACKS ARE REPORTED

100 Suspected Arrested as Police Chief Takes Personal Charge.

BY United Press

CHICAGO, Aug. 23.—Attacks on |

four more women and a Negros attempt to date a 19-year-old national beauty contest winner today spurred Chicago's 6000 police in

their search for the ape-like Negro |

who murdered and assaulted Anna Kuchta, 19, a student nurse. Miss Florence Swanson, night superintendent. of nurses at Jefferson Park Hospital, was slashed by a man who invaded her room while she slept.

Mrs. Edith Reuter, 22, told police |

she was seized while walking and attacked by two men in an automobile. Mrs. Ruby Stoekel, 23, reported she was attacked by two men who forced her to accompany them in an automobile.

bv a Negro who tried. .to attack her on a lonely street.

100 Suspects Held

Among more than 100 suspects rounded up by police was one who gave his name as Ovell Jones. He was accused of passing a mash note to Michaeline Deleau, 19, proclaimed “Miss America” in a Mardi Gras beauty contest at New Orleans three years ago. Police said he confessed writing the note. Police Chief Prendergast and Detective Chief John L. Sullivan took personal charge. Miss Kuchta was slain in her hospital room. Her body was found by her roommate, Miss Florence Falmowski, who saw a man climbing out a window to the fire escape. Mrs. Willard Cornwell, president of the Chicago Women's Club, led a protest movement with the declaration:

“When a woman cannot register | safely at a reputable hotel, when |

streets, some-

she is not safe to walk the then something 1s wrong

where.” . : A group of businessmen said they

would confer with Mayor Edward J. Kelly on measures ‘to halt the at-

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MEET WEDNESDAY

Banquet and Drills Are Set

For Thursday.

National and state officers of the Daughters of America and Junior Order United American Mechanics are to participate in the 42d annual state convention opening Wednesdav in the Hotel Lincoln. The convention is to start at 8 p. m. with introduction of officers and ceremonies for state councilors. The annual good fellowship ban-

quet is to be held at 6 p. m. Thurs- |

day, followed by memorial services and competitive drills. Business ses-

sions are scheduled for both Thurs-

dav and Friday, with installation of new officers Friday. Mrs. Elizabeth Stickle, Whiting, state councilor, is to preside at a session of both groups

morning. Everett Shuck, state

councilor of the Junior Order Unit- |

ed American Mechanics, will direct activities of his group. Miss Leah Shanks, Muncie, state conductor and incoming vice councilor, is to speak.

WPA IS TO REQUIRE SIGNED AGREEMENTS

Under a new ruling of the Works Progress Administration, sponsors of projects will be required to submit written statements agreeing to finance their share project costs, John K. Jennings, State WPA Administrator, announced today. All type of eity and county projects are affected by the ruling.

Mrs. Anna Hol- | lender, 50, a domestic, was beaten |

Thursday |

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Maner Pledges Clubs’ Support |

| x | ' ~ For Roosevelt §

Pitt Tyson Maner, who said his | » policies would be identical with those of President Roosevelt, today | started his two-year term as Presi- | dent of the Young Democratic Clubs | of America. “In season and out of season, I choose to be at Roosevelt's side,” Mr. Maner, executive secretary to Governor Bibb Graves of Alabama, said following his election. Mr. Maner was elected in a spirited contest as the convention | business session closed Saturday | afternoon. Alvin C. Johnson, Indianapolis, Indiana president, and Lockwood Thompson, Cleveland, O.. | other candidates for the office, with- | drew. Mr. Johnson placed Mr. | Maner's name in nomination, and | Mr. Thompson seconded. Mrs. Ocie Heady, Holdenville, | Okla.,, was elected vice president; | Paul A. Williams, Columbia, Mo, | | secretary, and John Bailey, Con- | | necticut, treasurer. In another contest Pittsburgh won | | the right to be host to the conven- | | tion in 1939. It drew 188 votes to | 169 for Richmond, Va., with Seattle, Wash., coming in a poor third. The convention ball was held Saturday night.

CONTINUE INQUIRY | INTO $50,000 FIRE

Firemen today were to continue | their investigation of the two-alarm fire which caused damage estimated at $50,000 Saturday afterncor to a | warehouse of the Beveridge Paper | Co., at W. 11th St. and White River Blvd. The fire, believed tn have been caused by a bolt of lightning, de- | stroyed the three-story brick struc- | ture. Firemen battled several hours | before the blaze was brought under control.

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SEEKS VETERANS’ POST By United Press 8 COLUMBUS. O.. Aug. 23.—Alfred | § J. Kennedy of New York became! § the first strong candidaiz £1 com- | raander-in-chief of the United | Spanish War Veterans, which to- | day officially opened its 39th annual [national encampment here.

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