Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 November 1938 — Page 6

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CAMPUS POLICE PUSH PROBE OF COED MYSTERY

Officer to Talk Today With Local Girl Who Claims She Was Abducted.

BLOOMINGTON, Nov. 8 (U. P.). —Walter Peterson, head of the Inliana University campus police, tocay said he would investigate “to the very end” the story of the “kidnaping” of Mary Mellinger, brilliant 21-year-old university art student. “There are several points in her story I want to clear up,” Mr. Peterson said. “She was so hysterical yesterday I promised only to listen and not ask questions.” He will talk with her today in a Bloomington hospital, he said, if doctors give their permission. The girl, known as a writer of weird essays, said she had been kidnaped by two men who had asked her to guide them in their auto-

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campus. Tells of Being Drugged They took her to a stone quarry near here, bound and gagged her and administered a drug, she said, before a searching party discovered her in a cave a short distance from the quarry Sunday night. Although her father, Arthur Mellinger, Indianapolis carpenter, said he believed her story, he doubted whether she was kidnaped for ransom. He told Mr. Peterson he had little money and that his daughter probably was mistaken for some other girl. : Physicians said she had not been assaulted, and that she now is in “normal” condition, ready to return to school. Bloomington police were skeptical of the kidnap story. “We have found nothing to indicate a kidnaping,” Police Chief Claude Myers said. Miss Mellinger said the effects of the drug left her speechless and that all she could do was moan, which attracted one of the searching party to the cave. Physicians said they did not find evidence of any drug in her body. Miss Jean Hanna, Hagerstown, Mary’s roommate at the university, said Mary often went to the Mt. Salem cemetery near the quarry seeking inspirations for paintings. Miss Mellinger, however, denied she ever had been in the vicinity before. Students in her class said she occasionally wrote fantastic essays about cemeteries and mortuaries,

RULING DELAYED IN AUTO FINANCE CASE

G. M. Ready to Fight to Avoid Trial.

SOUTH BEND, Nov. 8 (U. P.) — A decision whether to approve consent decrees designed to end Federal antitrust action against Ford Motor Co., Chrysler Corp. and their affiliated finance companies will be made “some time before Nov. 18,” Federal Judge Thomas W. Slick said today. Arguments on a demurrer filed by General Motors Corp. in an attempt to. avoid trial for alleged “illegal practices” will be heard Nov. 18. The court delayed approval of the decrees, which were signed by Ford, Chrysler, Universal Credit and Commercial Investment Companies in U. S. District Court yesterday, because a petition filed by George Omacht, South Bend attorney, representing the American Finance Conference, asked the appointment of Mr. Omacht as adviser to the court. Mr. Omacht asked for a writ of amicus curiae, with permission to file a brief stating how the provisions of the decrees would affect the business interests of 400 independent finance companies, 12,000 employees and 18,000 stockholders. Judge Slick indicated he would not grant the writ, but said he would study the agreements before he approved them.

"REPORTS PERSONAL TAX DELINQUENCIES

Albert L. Koesters, chief deputy treasurer, today had reported a 50 per cent delinquency in payment of personal property taxes. The deadline for payment of the fall installment of taxes was yesterday at the County Treasurer’s office. Approximately 93 per cent of the -taxes on real estate have been paid, Mr. Koesters said. Delinquent notices from the personal property “duplicates will carry statements of a 6 per cent penalty, plus interest, and a 50-cent fee,

2 TAXI HOLDUPS ARE REPORTED

Pair Robbed by Passengers; One Forced to Drive to _ Anderson, He Says.

Police today were investigating reports from two taxi drivers that they were robbed by passengers last night. One driver reported he was forced to drive almost to Anderson. He is William Hagan, 23, of 1135 Kentucky Ave. who said he picked up a man about 27 years old at New York and New Jersey Sts. and was directed to drive to St. Peter and Prospect Sts. - - There the passenger displayed a gun and directed him to continue driving, Mr. Hagan said. He reported they went out Southeastern Ave. to Emerson Ave., south on Emerson Ave to Raymond St. where the passenger took $4. Then they drove north to Greenfield and continued to near Anderson, where Hagan said he was forced from the car. He then hitch-hiked into Anderson and called the Anderson police, he said. Driver Loses 40 Cents

Walter Owens, 21, of 1453 S. Talbott St., a taxi driver, told police he picked up a passenger at a downtown hotel and took him to Arlington Ave. and 30th St., where he was robbed of 40 cents and forced out of his car. The taxi later was found abandoned on 32d St. between Station St. and Sherman Drive. Audrey Foley, 25, who gave her address as 1202 N. Capitol Ave., told police she was thrown to the ground on the north side of W. 12th St. between Illinois St. and Capitol Ave. shortly before 10 o'clock last night. She fought him off, she said.

CLAIM CONFESSIONS IN EXTORTION PLOT

BUFFALO, N. Y,, Nov. 8 (U. P). —Federal agents said today they had confessions from two alleged extortionists as a result of their intricate and perfectly executed plans to trap the men who threatened to kill a young socialite and his! mother if they did not meet a! $20,000 demand. | The intended victims were Alexis C. Barbeau, wealthy, 28-year-old vice president of a manufacturing firm, and his mother, Mrs. Katherine Barbeau. Those arrested were J. Catalano, 33, Buffalo, who at the time of his arrest was at liberty under $14,000 bail on a robbery charge, and Anthony IL. de Pasquale, 36, Silver Creek, who was on parole after serving a prison term for robbery.

QUAKE STOPS VIENNA CLOCKS VIENNA, Nov. 8 QU. P.).—Three strong earth tremors were felt in Vienna starting at 4:10 a. m. today. Each of the three tremors lasted for several seconds. There were light tremors three minutes later. The tremors were not believed to have caused material damage but they were strong enough to stock clocks.

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PROVIDENCE, R. I, (U.P.) —Authorities here and in New York searched today for a Mrs. Loretta Schaeffer, whose baggage was found aboard a Long Island steamer. Providence police wondered if she

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fer had written a prospective landlady in Forest Hills that she would be unable to occupy the apartment on which she had paid a deposit because her husband had been killed in an automobile accident. Mrs. Schaeffer had rented the apartment last Friday when she paid the landlady, described by police as “a Mrs. Luden, a $5 deposit. She told Mrs. Luden her husband was “Dr. William F. Schaeffer”. New York police reported their records showed no automobile accident in which a “Dr. Schaeffer” was the victim. On Saturday, the Comet arrived here from New York and Mrs. Schaeffer's empty stateroom was discovered. In New York, however, it was discovered that a Mrs. Schaeffer had been registered at the Hotel White on Friday and Saturday. The letter to Mrs. Luden had been mailed from there. Hotel employees reported they saw no baby or man with Mrs. Schaeffer while she was there. Capt. George Cobb of the Comet and Colonial Line officials said they

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Almost as jammed as the voting places were the County heaclquarters of the two parties, At the G. O. P. office Jack Harding, publicity director, dispatches orders by telephone two at a time as Herbert Evans (left) of Wayne Township; Robert G. Tilton, assistant publicity director Smith, county vice chairman; Robert Davis of the 15th Ward and \irle Kightlinger of the 18th Ward look on.

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SUSPECT IN BANK HOLDUP WOUNDED

Arrested After Gun Battle in \ Evansville.

EVAWSVILLE, Nov. 8 (U. P.).— John SBohenen, 32, was wounded early today in a gun battle with police who arrested him as a suspect in the $7000 holdup yesterday of the Farmers National Bank of Scottsville, Ky. Police announced they had recovered $5500 of the bank robbery loot. Evansville police and Kentucky officers waited at Bohenen’s room above a fruit|store here. When the suspect saw them he opened fire but failed to hit any of the officers, it was reported. Officer Buck Jones of the Kentucky State Police creased Bohenemn’s head with one bullet and then shot him in the hip. The bank was held up shortly after noon yesterday by two masked bandits. They exichanged shots with Warren County, Ky. officers and then abandoned (their car, escaping in bottomlands near Bowling Green, Ky. . The abandoned \car bore a certificate of title issued to Bohenen. The officers hurried to Evansville

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AUTOMOBILE SHOW TO BE ‘TELECAST’

NEW YORK, Nov. 8 (U, P.).—The National Broadcasting Co. announced today that it has arranged an experimental television broadcast of the automobile show for Thursday. Popular-priced models of the 1939 cars will be driven into Rockefeller Plaza for a demonstration showing which will be “telecast” to auto =xecutives at N. B. C. headquarters in the R. C. A. Building. Broadcasting officials explained that the experimental program has been arranged in co-operation with the auto men to show the practical application of television as well as to demonstrate the possibilities of a “televised” auto show. :

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