Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 October 1939 — Page 10

MISSOURI SEEKS “PLETCH'S DEATH

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‘Lochinvar’ of Air Recants 1 Story of Self-Defense, : Prosecutor Says.

MACON, Mo., Oct. 31 (U. P)— County authorities forecast a swift and “equitable” justice for Ernest Pletch, 28, who, they said today, had slain flying instructor Carl _ Bivens solely to satisfy an undeniable urge to fly. Prosecutor Vincent Moody said the justice he would demand for the one-time “Flying Lochinvar” would be execution in the state gas chamber at Jefferson City prison. He said the state’s case had been materially strengthened by a “new confession” in which, he asserted, Pletch had recanted his original story of murder in self-defense, The “new confession,” Mr. Moody said, contained a statement by Pletch ‘that there was no argument either by word or fist while the plane he comandéered from Bivens soared over Macon County late Saturday afternoon.

, Prosecuted by Youth Pletch, who was captured Saturday night near Indianapélis and _ returned here Sunday night to stand trial, probably will be arraigned to-

day or tomorrow on a first-degree|

murder charge, the prosecutor said.

A coroner's jury at Cherry Box, near where Mr. Bivens’ y was dumped from the plane, returned an open verdict yesterday, holding that Mr. Bivens was killed by “some person to the jurors unknown.” Mr. Moody is only 23, one of the youngest prosecutors in state history. A year ouf of the University of Missouri law choo Pletch is a stocky youth with black curly hair.

Jumped Bond at Frankfort

He first gained national notoriety last July when he allegedly stole a plane from an airfield in Frankfort,

New officers of the Student - Activity Council of Marian College are (left to, right) Ev ‘1109 King Ave. secretary Rosemary Glaser, Cincinnati, vice president; Rose Marie Gueutal, 1508 N

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War-Time Ohio F lood

Is Visioned as Calamity

(EDITOR’S NOTE:—Dr. Charles E. Holzer, president of the Ohio Valley Conservation and Flood Control Congress, considers the prob-

lems that would result from floods in the upper Ohio Valley in event.

the United States should become involved in war. “article he points out what is being done to protect this rich valley).

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Brown Says Sales Reports Were Used for Planning Plant Production.

SOUTH BEND, Ind. Oct. 31 (U. Island, N. Y., vice president of the tors Corp., disputed yesterday in

that dealers’ reports weré used to show how much time sales paper dealers had given to the General Motors - Acceptance Corp. compared

Mr. Brown, a defense witness at the trial of General Motors, G.”M. A. C., two affiliated concerns and 17

officials on charges of violating the Sherman Anti-Trust Act by forcing said the reports, required every 10 days

He said that under recourse paper required by G. M. A. C., dealers protected from the glutting of the used car market by finance companies who repossess cars and then are forced to sell them. He claimed if a dealer has to sign the paper he is more particular -about credit risks. - Mr. Brown followed John J. Raskob, national Democratic chairman in 1928 and the “father” of G. M. A. C., who related the history of G. M. A. C. and auto financing.

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BOSTON, Oct. 31 (U. P.).—Postmaster Peter F. Tague received the following note from an- employee of whom he had demanded a written explanation. for being late to work three times:

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you for these three slips:is that I

was married around the middle of . last month and my bride gets lost ‘in the middle of a lot of pots and pans every afternoon while she is attempting to prepare my dinner, “The situation is improving— and I have been able to be on time -lately. It certainly seems rank injustice that I have to eat the cooking and then be reprimanded for being late. Please bear with

40,000 BUSHELS OF WHEAT STORED HERE

Times Special WASHINGTON, Oct. 31.—Forty thousand bushels of Federal Crop Insurance Corp. wheat is stored in Indianapolis, corporation officials reported today. Indianapolis is one of 68 cities.in 16 states where a total of 10,458,501 bushels of wheat is in storage to cover premiums paid by wheat growers who have insured their 1940 crops against all avoidable hazards.

ENGLISH FLY OVER GERMANY

LONDON, Oct. 31 (U. P.).—Royal Air Force planes made successful reconnaissance flights over airdromes of northern Germany Monday but the Germans attacked and one British plane still was missing at midnight, the Air Ministry announced today. ‘Despite the attack, the British obtained much valuable information and took many photographs, the announcement said.

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DEMOCRATIC POSTS

The resignation of two wird chairmen and one precinct committeeman. was announced today at Democratic County headquarters. - Walter Neukom, 5608 Beechwood Ave., has been named 18th Ward chairman to succeed Mark Gray, who resigned to become U. 8. Census Supervisor for Southern Indiana.

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pointed a district census taker, has resigned as Eighth Precinct committeeman in the 11th Ward. A successér has not been named. Na Addison Lease, 20th Ward chairman, has resigned because of the Federal Hatch Law. He is an emPloyes of the Home Owners Loan orp. :

CHICAGO PRINTER SLAIN * CHICAGO, Oct. 31 (U. P.). —Paul

by the Loyola University Press, was shot and killed early today in front of his home. Police Captain Herbert Burns said he believed the killing resulted from union troubles. |

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BOSTON, Oct. 31 (U. P.).—A few European leaders are making ‘“determined, persistent efforts to turn

cording to His Eminence William Cardinal O’Connell, dean of the Catholic hierarchy in America. The Archbishop of Boston termed

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GALLIPOLIS, O., Oct. 31.—National ‘defense : demands flood protection for the Ohio Valley. Hitherto, the United States has dealt with wars and floods separately, but now, with war constantly threatening, it is not beyond the range of possibility that the next visitations of

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the plane. He jumped bond while awaiting disposition of this charge, and came to Missouri about two weeks ago. Last Thursday Pletch drove from his carnival job in Bowling Green, in his sister's car, which he had brought from Frankfort to Brook field. He took a flying “lesson” from Mr. Bivens, popular local garageman and instructor, and showed himself a skilled aviator. He returned Friday afternoon for a sece ond turn in the air.

Denied Killing at First

Pletch at first denied he had killed him, but when informed that the body had been found, he allegedly confessed. In this confession, Indianapolis police said, he claimed Mr. Bivens had agreed to be a party in stealing the plane, that he changed his mind and an argument ensued in midair while the plane plunged uncontrolled toward earth. He shot Mr. Bivens, the first confession stated, only when attacked in a hand-to-hand fight in the plane. The ll yellow monoplane, a two-place cabin type owned by Thomas Watson, disappeared. flying { southeast about 4 p. m. and that | was the last ti Mr. Bivens was \seen alive. His} body was found about the same time Pletch came down in a field near Indianapolis after stunting over his family’s farm home. Mr. Bivens had two bullet holes in the back of the head.

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Camp McClellan, Equipment of a battalion of the 19th Field Artillery will leave tomorrow and personnel and field guns of the battalion will leave Friday. Field Artillery units will go first to Fort Knox, Ky. for traning. The Fifth Tank Company will leave for Fort Knox tomorrow. Units of the 11th Infantry are to leave next week. All troops, except a skeleton maintenance force, will have left by the end of next week. The post reservation here will be taken over by Guard units for weekend field training, :

Guards Will Train Over Three Week-Entis

Week-ends will be used to carry out the seven-day additiohal field training ordered for ‘National Guard units in Indiana, Maj. Gen. Robert H. Tyndall, 38th National Guard Division commander, announced today. Some units will go into the field each Sunday for seven weeks. Others will complete training in three week-ends. The 10 regimental commanders in the 38th Division will meet tomorrow at the National Guard Armory here to select dates and sites for the field training.

Gen. Van Voorhis Gets

Panama Command

WASHINGTON, Oct. 31 (U. P.). —The War Department. today ordered Maj. GengDaniel Van Voor-

his, now in command of the Fifth Corps Area at Fort Hayes, O., to sail Dec. 20 from New York to take over command of the Panama Canal Department. Gen. Van Voorhis will relieve Maj. Gen. Lavid L. Stone at Panama. Gen. Stone will assume command of the Fifth Corps Area. oo

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Allen J. Callaway yesterday was elected chairman of the hotel and housing council of the Salvation Army. Frank J. Argast was named vice chairman. Other council: members are William H. Book, Prancis N. Daniel, Harry S. Hanna, R. L. St. Pierre, Edward O. Snethen, Walter Shirley and Harry V. Wade. . At the meeting at the Columbia Club, Col. Bertram. Rodda, state commander, discussed future meetings and described work of the In-

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disaster clearly indicates the national wisdom and economy of prompt and adequate flood control measures. | Maj. Gen. E. M. Markham, former chief of Army Engineers, made that statement very definitely after the 1937 flood. “I can,” the General said, “take once and ga half the losses in the Ohio Valley in these but two short years, and protect the Ohio Valley roughly for all time” A program has been drafted to afford the valley ample protection. This has been done by the U. S. Army Engineers.

Valley Is Steel Center If a repetition of floods should ‘come before flood control is definitely established, the extent of the blow to national defense can hardly be estimated. Our valley holds two of the 15 districts of industrial concentration in the country, and two -of the 10 major -manufacturing regions. It contains the leading steel producing center of the Nation and over 60 per cent of the bituminous coal.

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FATHER OF POLICE CHIEF UNCHANGED

John ‘J. Morrissey, 83-year-old father of Police Chief Michael Morrissey, who 1s critically ill. from uremic poisohing at his home, 1416 E.'Market St., was reported as “about the same,” by his son today. Chief Morrissey, who had been on a leave of -absence to attend a con‘ference of . police chiefs in San Francisco, was called home when his father’s condition became critical.

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