Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 September 1940 — Page 14
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ANXIOUS WOMEN They're Among the Injured
ROAM STREETS HUNTING MATES
Door Blew Open—Dishes Fell—Mrs. Slako Knew ‘My Johnny's Gone.’
DOVER There was
N. J no sleep for this stunned town. streets through the night or lingered in front of the hospital, or gathered in small groups before the barn-iike building of the athletic club in which the wounded were on cots. row on row One woman awakened her husband and persuaded him to take her to the gate of the Hercules plant There she told her worries to th marines on guard. She had a nightmare, she said. Was there any news vet of her son? Her husband was safe; but she could never sleep again until she knew what had
happened to her son
Sept. 13 (U. P.=— the anxious women of
They roamed the
Wait at Hospital
All night women stood in front of the Dover Hospital. The shining lights from the surgery ward, and the screams of the sufferers told the watchers that there were life and death struggles within those walls. In her home sat Mrs. John Slako 1 refusing to eat, to go D-vear-old son, the was dead. From
the explosion
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the explosions. They are (left tor
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viving powder workers and their
Sept lies did not need to be told tothat Federal agents were combing the that had of the nation’s defense plants. The}
been one
rubble
t flatly with the only exseemed
came ou red limbs and torn pia credible to
nation that in dry
Spontaneous combustion qer? other
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Girl Breaks Lines
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ody's shoe,” neers among spoke of ievices which could be a can of powder. One 1 acid, they said, the r, combustible material. When acid eats thro rub-
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BURGLARS MAKE OFF | WITH AUTRY'S GUN
HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 13 (U. P.).—| The greatest humility a red-blooded cowboy Ve 1e 1 of one of his Gene Westen toda th his 33-
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These residents of the area near the powder plant were injured by
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Levens, Art Levens and child and Mrs. Russell White.
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A Nail in Someone's Shoe—
v2 A Spark—Maybe That's Why
hour and reaches the other substance, fire results. “We should be searched every day when we enter the plant,” one said “Up to now they searched us ever few days, but that wasn't enough Carl Stull, Cambridge, Mass, an engineer for C. B. Badger and Sons Boston. was in charge of constructing the new $100.000 solvent recovery plant. Louis Bukta. 24. went to work on the newly opened "B” assembly line vesterday. Five min S ore the blast. his foreman took him outside to talk to him. It saved his life. Another worker was buried neath the rubble of the “A” He was dug out unharmed, an hour later. A man who had been standing two feet away was dead and his body unrecognizable as of a
man
be-
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that that
LINK DYING CULT HEAD TO DEATHS
Suspect on Slaying of Two Sisters.
DEL RIO, Tex. Sept. 13 (U. P) —Eleuterio Gonzalez, 28-year-old leader of a religious cult. was found in a field near here today with his stomach ripped open as though he had attempted suicide by hari-kari Gonzalez was in critical condition but Sheriff A. E. Steinmetz said he would attempt to question him about the double murder of two sisters, one a school teacher, the other a nurse, Fingerprints Compared The sisters, Antonia Gomez, 34-vear-old graduate nurse, and Margarita Gomez, 23-year-old teacher, were killed Wednesday after they had attended a parentteachers meeting. Their bodies were found in an automobile that Sheriff Steinmetz said belonged to Gonzalez They had been shot to death and the sheriff was comparing Gonzalez’ fingerprints with those found on the murder gun. The sheriff said he was convinced that Gonzalez had attempted suicide.
sometime
Convicted of Rape
Gonzalez, who is head of a religious group in this area and who reportedly has a large following elsewhere in Texas and in New Mexico and Colorado, was tried 18 months ago on a charge of raping an 1ll-vear-old girl in his chapel room. The testified in
Gomez sisters
. Gonzalez’ defense and were report-
ed to have contributed their earnings to help pav costs of appeal of a 90-vear sentence. He was convicted again in a second trial, given a 50-vear term and had been free on bond pending another appeal.
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Mr. Klawitter Learns of Mr. Klawitter Lightning Bolt Keeps Farmer Busy;
By LEO DAUGHERTY
EVERYTHING WAS GOING along nicely at milking time on the | Frank Sandefur farm south of Bengal. Mr. Sandefur was seated comfortably on a stool, the cow standing peacefully still and there was a grand flow of milk Then out of only a slightly darkened skv there was a sudden flash of lightning. In one operation it (1) slapped Mr. Sandefur off his stool. upset the pail of milk RE : — and (3) knocked the cow down. wedding celebration auto parades. After righting himself, the pail The complaints of residents in and the cow, Mr, Sandefur dis- both cities were the same. If the covered the bolt had struck =a autos didn’t garble up traffic durnearby barbed wire fence and jhe the daytime, the tooting of melted away 40 feet of it. horns and clatter of dragging tin | cans kept them awake at night,
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