Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 March 1938 — Page 2
Tra-la-la-la! with wheelbarrow, rake and all, because spring is here and you'd better knock on wood or it may turn cold again. Something to that cTect is all one can write on the first day WPA
rake,
Majority of Missing Persons
Just ‘Absent
Without Leave’
By SAM TYNDALL Ninety per cent of the persons reported “missing” to the Indianapolis Police Department are not really missing, but just “absent without leave,” according to Sergt. Jack O'Neal, police record superintendent.
That is, he says, most of those - persons .will return home before police can trace them. More than 1000 persons were reported missing from this vicinity last year. Ninety per cent returned « home voluntarily, or were located by * police. The other 10 per cent still are reported miss ing. Children Lead List ~ However, Sergt.. O'Neal said, changes of address -make it .impossible: to keep files accurate, despite ‘constant checks. Children between the ages of 13 and 16 form the largest -single group. of those reported missing. During the first six months of 1237, 204 children in that age group ran away from home. The second largest group in the files is between 1 and 12 years of age. Last month 50 persons were reported missing, of whom 34 returned or were found by the police. Thirtynine were males. Sergt. O'Neal said many of the hildren who strayed from home in . the age group under 12 were only 3 and 4 years old. Found Miles Away “We are always surprised with ‘the records on this group,” he said. “Je often have found tiny tots many miles from their homes.” * Disappearances are affected greatly br the weather, he said. As summer approaches, the missing person records rise considerably. v “It is not surprising to know that . the arrival and departure from the "City of a circus will push the curve up, especially in the younger group.” - He said children run away from ‘home because -they don’t likes school, or because they seek adventure. Domestic troubles or an urge for a “spree” usually are the reasons back of the: disappearance of husbands, he said. Tew wives desert their husbands or children, but some go on “sprees” lice the men, he said.
‘Erroneous Reports
The. missing .. files: carry many names of persons who were never missing, even in’ the most liberal sense, according to Sergt. O'Neal. Most of these-are children who have been. reported missing by overanxious parents. - He ‘told of a mother who a few weeks ago reported her “baby” missing. On the telephone she told * Sergt. O'Neal she felt sure her son had been either. murdered or kidnaped. . “How do you Know your baby is missing?” Sergt. O’Neal asked. “Because he isn’t “home from school yet,” she said. “He is always home by 3:20 and it is after 3:30 new.” “What. school does your baby go] *to?” Sergt. O'Neal asked.
. “He - goes to Butler University,” |
: the woman said. + He recalled once receiving a letter from a woman. in London, England, who was trying to locate her brother, whom she had. never seen.
* Traced by Baby's Photo
A picture of the young man taken when he was 3 years old accompanied the letter. The report was ‘ broadcast over the police radio. A » cobbler on Massachusetts Ave, heard the broadcast and reported that he had known a man that ight be ‘the missing person, but: that he had moved to Chicago. - - A broadcast by the Chicago police
‘WOMAN GETS PWA POST
" WASHINGTON, March 9 (U. P). ‘==Public Works Administrator Har‘old ‘'L. Ickes today appointed Louise “¥. McCarthy as the f woman PWA regional counsel in the United ‘Bates. \
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TO, Pa., March 98 (U. —4william Donner Roosevelt, 5,
- Bn of the President, was con- |£= fred to the home of his mother, |Z with = the
Mrs. Curtin Winsor,
mumps today. The boy's father is |=
‘Elliott Roosevelt, son of the Presi-
dent. The Poy's parents were di- |&
yorced in 1933
- DIVORCE CHANGE PROPOSED OTTAWA, Ont, Maren 9 (0. P.).
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and on was foreseen today for |
Canada. The new provisions, pat-
raed after those in the newer |i&
orce laws, were presented
brought the brother, then 25, into a police station a few days later. He came to Indianapolis, reported he must be the one, but didn't know he had a sister. A letter received by Sergt. O'Neal from the man disclosed he really was the missing man. Sergt. O'Neal said that if his experience qualified him to offer any advice it would be directed at frenzied wives and mothers. He advised them to “wait a couple of hours before reporting absent persons as missing, because in nearly all cases they will return home shortly.”
Angola Veteran Will Celebrate
100th Birthday
ANGOLA, March 9 (U. P).Daniel Wisel, second white child born in Steuben County, will celebrate his 100th birthday tomorrow. Wisel, who looked on while Gen. Ulysses S. Grant and Gen. Robert E. Lee negotiated preliminary terms of Lee’s surrender, said he cast his first vote in 1860 for Abraham Lincoln. He doesn’t smoke any more, but occasionally he chews tobacco. His sight and hearing are failing, but he is still able to get about the home of his daughter, Mrs. Cora Zent, and. he enjoys telling of the Civil War. Once in a while he gets out the sabre and carbine he carried and
tells of the time bullets grazed his
jaw and ear or when two horses were shot out from under
Chalmers Woman ToBe 101 Years Old
Times Special CHALMERS, March 9.—Mrs. Sarah Clagett will observe her 101st birthday tomorrow. She was a dressmaker in Greencastle and for years cperated a rooming house for DePauw University students.
She lives here with her daughter, :
Mrs. Samuel M. Burns.
OUSTED POLICEMEN .. CONSIDER APPEAL
Radio Patrolmen James J. Hayes and Harry M. O'Mara today had
been dismissed from the Police De-|
partment by the Safety Board. They indicated they might appeal to a county court. The officers were dismissed when the board upheld ‘a Police Trial Board decision finding them guilty of conduct unbecoming. officers in connection with the alleged accep-
tance of $10 from a Broad Ripple ||
youth. The patrolmen denied soliciting the money, but said it was tossed into their cruiser car as a gift.
DEATH OF PLAINFELD
EDUCATOR IS PROBED|
PLAINFIELD, Maren March 9 (U. P.).— Authorities today investigated the
death yesterday of Minnard Scales, |. | 51-year-old biology instructor and ||
assistant principal of Charlton high school at Indiana Boys’ School who was found dying in the school chapel.
Coroner C. R. Baker withheld a |
verdict pending an analysis of the stomach contents,
workers get out on the State House lawn to slick it up for the summer. wheelbarrow and Fred Campbell is carrying the
Charles Anderson has the
INSURANGE MEN
SET MEETINGS |
Newbatuer, Speicher, Keltner Principal Speakers At Parley.
The Farm Bureau Mutual Insur- |§
ance Co. and the Hoosier Farm Bu-
reau Life Insurance Co. are to open |=
their annual joint meeting tomorrow at Hotel Lincoln. Principal speakers are George H. Newbauer, State insurance commissioner; Paul Speicher, research expert, and J. E. Keltner,
Ohio Farm Bureau Mutual Insur-.
ance Co. officer.
‘New directors are to be chosen by |E both companies. Officers are to make | =
reports. Hassill E. Schenck is Farm Bureau Life Insurance Co. president. Other officers are Larry Brandon, treasurer, Jeanes, secretary. Indiana Farm Bureau Mutual Insurance Co, officers are C. C. Pal-
mer, Albion, president; Mr. Jeanes, | Paul E. Ed-|E
secretary-treasurer; wards, manager, and Frank Lamb, claims superintendent.
SHIFT OF ENVOYS HINTED
DUBLIN, March 9 (U. P.).—It|ZE was reported today that Michael | E
MacWhite, Irish Minister to Washington, would be appointed the first Irish Minister to the Italian Government. Mr. Mac in Washington 1 Brennan, present Legation secretary.
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