Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 November 1941 — Page 13

" MURDER PROBE

Officials Scout Theory in Slaying of Tax Attorney.

LEESBURG, Va., Nov. 26 (U.P). —This sleepy little Blue Ridge Mountain town in Virginia’s fashionable horse country today had a

murder mystery with clues enough for a dozen of fe. current paper bound “thrillers.”

-Everyone for ‘miles around has a|

theory about how and why Ward Loveless, 51-year-old weal ashingtoni tax attorney, met his death Monday in the pre-Revolutionary War manor house on his 3000-acre estate. Police have all. but abandoned the robbery motive and are looking for-a woman on the theory that the

slayer or slayers were motivated|

32 caliber revolver— gun size with which the victim

by. revenge or jealousy. “ missing e (= shot—indicated that Loveless

"£ may have been killed with his own

gun, possibly wrested from him in "a death struggle.

Dined With Guests

One of the last persons known to have seen Loveless alive was Lawrence Richey, -former secretary of Herbert Hoover; Miss Nora Macon, a Government clerk, and Miss Mary Heath of Baltimore. ~ Mr. Richey told authorities he had not met Loveless until Sunday. The attorney and the two women, one of whom Richey had known previously, drove to Richey’s Washington apartment early in the evening. After having a drink there the four went to the Columbia Country Club. | Loveless drove | his country club guests home Sunday night and returned to his home. Monday, Will .Davis, Negro caretaker .on the estate, found Loveless’ bulletpierced body stuffed in a china closet. Mrs. Loveless, (who was visiting . relatives in Alabama, returned last night. She will be questioned in an effort to learn whether Loveless had acquaintances who might have had reasons to kill him.

Find Potent Drink

Here are some, of the important clues: A felt hat bearing the initials i. A. T. found in the breakfast room. E Washington officials said it seemed fo link a “known criminal” with the crime. Bloody fingerprints on silverware and over-turned furniture. A half-filled bottle of Tequilla— potent Mexican liquor—and cordial glasses. Cigaret butts with heavy lipstick stains. Miss Macom and Miss Heath said they didn’t smoke during their visit. A spot outside the house with “a lot” of cigaret butts where it was theorized someone had stood for a long time, possibly waiting for Loveless. Six hullets of two different otis - bers, four of which were in Loveless’ body.

* AYRES

Fun Shop’

Jealousy |

| ents’ wrath.

Il - The greetings were last night Merlin and were taken to jail to await arrival | of the Schils and the Howells, La-

GETS KLANSMEN

Talmadge Recalls Flogging Negro as He Studies 1938 Beating Case.

ATLANTA, Ga., Nov. 26 (UP) — Governor Eugene Talmadge decides today whether to grant clemency to six members of the Ku Klux Klan who are in prison for having flogged union mill workers in 1938.

At a hearing on their applications yesterday, Governor Talmadge recalled that he had once flogged. a Negro himself and asserted that the Apostle Paul had once flogged men. He expressed sympathy for the Klansmen and said their motives in flogging the mill workers were good. Defended By Jew

Ike Wingrow, attorney for the Klansmen who are serving sentences of one to three years, said: “It may seem strange for a Jew to say this, but I honor the Ku Klux Klan. I honored them in the old reconstruction days and I honor the Klan today. These Klansmen were trying to do the right thing even if they used the wrong methods.” The Rev. Edward G. Mackay, superintendent of the Atlanta district of the Methodist Church, who, with other Protestant clergy was present to oppose the applications, replied: “I am amazed to hear a brother of the Hebrew faith praise so warmly the Ku Klux Klan. I have despised the Klan for years because of its injustice to the Jewish race.

Compared to Gestapo “I am ashamed of any Jew who

founded on the same principles and pursues the same tactics as the secret societies and groups in Europe that have sent so many of his relatives to the Ghetto. The Klan and its methods are only comparable to the despicable Gestapo.” Dr. Louie Newton, prominent Baptist clergyman and author, also criticized Mr. Wingrow’s statement. Governor Talmadge interposed that “The Apostle Paul was a flogger in his life, then confessed, reformed and became one of the greatest powers of the Christian church. That proves to me that good people can be misguided and do bad things.”

HERE'S NEW ANGLE ON DEFENSE WOES

INDEPENDENCE, Mo., Nov. 26 (U. P.).—The defense program is giving Independence some trouble. In the first place the Government built an ordnance plant on the outskirts of Independence and the resulting increase in traffic was so tremendous that the city council put in a rush order for 20 traffic

lights. But they got word today that they couldn’t get OL WR oun aluminum is used in their manufacture and aluminum is needed in the defense

program.

} DIRECTOR HAWKS TO WED

HOLLYWOOD, Nov. 26 (UP. .— Film Director Howard Hawks announced today that he will marry Nancy Raye Gross, Beverly Hills socialite writer, as soon as his final divorce decree is granted. He will get his permanent freedom . from Mrs. Athole Hawks, sister of Norma

CLEMENCY PLEA

will defend an organization that is|

Shearer, in 10, days.

HINTS ACCIDENT IN GIRL'S DEATH

Brother Tells of Hair Trigger on Death Gun at Trial of Rich Suitor.

FARMINGTON, Me.. Nov. 26 (U. P.).—-Bernard Buzzell’s testimony

against the man accused of murderirig his pretty sister in a jealous rage suggested today that she might

t |accidentally have killed herself.

Identifying the 22-caliber target pistol which killed blond - Florence Buzzell, 20, in a hayfield last June 27, he said yesterday: “Ii has a hair trigger—something that just has to be touched to go

® |off. Sometimes, it did: go off acci-

1. Approximately 1200 WPA workers are landscaping the structure at the new depot at Burns City

in Martin County where Uncle Sam will house his munitions for the Navy.

The structures where the

explosives will be kept are being covered with myrtle, a plant that stays green the year round, doesn’t

burn and provides a good ¢amouflage,

Much of it has been obtained from cemeteries. -

The doorway to

the depot is to the right and back of the WPA sign. The concrete-faced wall directly opposite the doorway is called a “baffle” wall, so named because in case of explosion it would receive the impact, lessen damage and confine it to the one structure. 2. This is the inspector's quarters at the Naval Ammunition Depot will be in charge of the Burns City project, will live. WPA workmen landscaped and terraced the * grounds and installed the stone work around the house. 3. Here is the administration building where the Reagguartors for the munition depot will be located.

WPA workers are landscaping the ground,

ACT TO SELECT ORDNANCE SITE

War Office Officials to Set Up Office Soon at Newport.

NEWPORT, Ind., Nov. 26 (U..P.). —Offices to acquire land for the new $53,500,000 Wabash river ordnance plant will be opened here within the next day or two, attorneys for the U.S. Army Quartermaster Corps said yesterday. Supplies for the land-acquisition office, which will be headed by J. C. Burdett and James F., Miller, already have arrived at Newport, it was announced. Mr. Burdett will be in charge of the title clearing. He / formerly worked in connectipn with construction of the smokeless powder plant at Charlestown, Ind. Mr. Miller has been associated with the expansion of Ft. Knox, Ky. Exact. location of the Wabash river plant, it was learned, will not be determined until Government authorities have had further conferences. with E. I. Du Pont De Nemours officials, who will operate the works.

ti GETS METHODIST POST RICHMOND, Ind., Nov. 26 (U. P.)—The Rev. V. L. Clear, Methodist pastor at Peru, will succeed the Rev. Philip B. Smith as superintendent of the Richmond district of the Indiana conference of the Methodist church. The Rev. Mr. Smith: has been assigned to the First Methodist church at Hammond. :

DENVER, Nov. 26. (U. P.).—The 10-cent, honeymoon of Merlin and

LaDonne Schil, both 16, ended to-

|| day in city jail but they announced

a common determinstion to preserve their marriage agaihst their jar:

They ran away together | two weeks before: their scheduled ation from an Omaha High last spring. Since then they had succeeded .in hiding their di!

s parents, from erlin and I fell Omaha, hen ‘wé were juniors in high school,” the lond, blue-eyed LaDonne said. “We were going to graduate last June, fe Shins mere % beautill in Mia was no sense in

10-Cent H oneymoon Ends; 16-Year-Olds Still ‘Happy’

or | still hitchhiking,” the - bride said.

went out on the highway and hitched a ride to New Mexico. . We still had 40 cents left when we got to Raton.” -Schil got a job for the day. pitching hay.,, With the $5 he earned they bought a marriage license and

ceremony. “Then we went to Pueblo, Colo.,

“We still had our .40 cents but it t| wasn’t much fo get started on so

‘concerned.

waited on tables. We made ends meet and were very happy. : “Sometimes it was kind of disthe |couraging but we both agreed to do our share. We didn’t tell anybody our problems. I guess we should have, and maybe it’s just®as

‘elope and be}

pald a justice of the peace for the|

and “We both got jobs. Merlin worked} as a milk truck driver and a dish-| washer at different restaurants. I|will

BY GEORGE WELLER

NORTHWEST ETHIOPIA, VIA NAIR(B1, Nov. 26.—The luck of the South ° African fighter "pilot whom a fortune teller told he was invincible still holds. As a result he is sitting up in bed somewhere in an Italian hospital, in besieged Gondar. “Fellow pilots who take off from this chilly, 8500-foot high airdrome upon the Ethiopian plateau chuckle as they fly over Gondar, for upon their mess table at home lies a letter just received from him. On Oct. 31 he took off upon a lone, moonlight gur-raid. All his movements this pilot attempts to corelate with horoscopy as well as operational objectives and whenever the stars and the positions of the planets seem unfavorable he remains grounded. . Fortune has favored him . ever since the South Africans moved up onto this plateau. When establishing the first tents of the base, they were attacked by an .Italian Fiat fighter who machine-gunned them until driven off by hastily assembled ack-ack. Wheh the Fiat reappeared the superstitious pilot consulted his private oracles, strapped on his parachute harness and arose in his Gladiator fighter —which has a considerably slower speed. than the Fiat—and brought the “Itey” down in flames. ° The pilot, who is an Orange Free Stater, 24 years old and married, then figured out a plan to attack the Italians at the time when they listen to the evening news from home. They listen just before geing out to visit three still unbombed cinemas inside the city limits.

Tribesmen Bring Message All the heavenly and earthly signs seemingly favorable -about moonrise, . the pilot soared away from the airdrome and down into

‘the dizzy-sided gulf-<which is as

deep and forbidding as any canyon in the westerni United. States—toward the city . whose ickeripe cinemas were faintly visible. never returned. Ten days later one of the mes--sengers of the same Habash tribe

who were also responsible for the underground mall route connecting

be both ‘realized that ‘honeymoon’|ter : was just a word as far as we. were}.

right side up.

well we sent those Thanksgiving) ‘The

tever happens, though, Tin] se 10 stick by Merlin

where Capt. E. G. Oberlin, who

South African Flier Keeps Faith in Stars After Crash

head by an excited Askari, whacked with a rifle butt and rescued by two Italian officers. The ‘doctor fixed me up and that night I went blind. -For two days and nights it was awful. I can see now but'l

will ‘be in the hospital for at least 15 days with burns, wounds, etc. Please tell the facts to our O. C. “Ask Ceezer to drop the following things at Azozo: In my suitcase. 1000 cigarets, my shaving Kit, tooth -brushes, etc. Literature very badly needed. My English-Italian dictionary. Thanks Skipper. “P.S.: The medical people are very decent to me. I look revolting but the medical officer reckons I will be okay in 15 days.” The letter took 10 days to reach a point only 15 minutes from Gondar by airplane. A fellow pilot then rigged a small parachute and dropped the articles requested upon

The only thing not included was a rabbit’s: foot. Nobody could find a rabbit.”

Jilted Socialite To Marry Widow

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 26 (U. P.)~Dr. Arthur Torrance, famed international explorer, jilted statuesque : Barbara Bowen of Honolulu to marry wealthy Mrs. Ada Loveland, 65, Michigan widow, it was learned today. Miss Bowen landed in San Francisco Nov. 12, expecting to be met by Mr. Torrance, only to find that her husband-to-be was held in Monterrey, Mexico, on suspi--cion . of having murdered ‘his. wealthy bride. The 28-year-old Honolulu socialife is in seclusion at the home of relatives. On the advice of her uncle, Col. Manuel Garrett, Lafayette, Cal, jus of the peace and a retired Army officer, she has declined to comment on . ‘her romance with the doctor.

Azozo, which is Gondar’s airport.|

. | bridge shimmied itself out of useful ex-

dentally. It has a long firing pin, and if that isn’t pushed back when the breech is closed, sometimes it woud go off. - It did, onee, with

me.” Listed 112 Boy Friends

Fred G. Wheeler, 50, a cattle dealer, wealthy, married and the father of five children, is being tried on a charge of having killed her. The State charges that he paid $3000 for her education in a business college and had been living with her, and, when she turned to younger men friends, shot her. Miss Buzzell left a diary listing 112 boy friends, but it has not been used as evidence. Defense attorneys made capital of another State witness’. testimony. He was W. Raymond Davis, 45, an undertaker. He said tha at every garment she was wearing” when she was killed, excepting her shoes, had disap-

peared. Query Ruled. Out

County Attorney Ben Butler -demanded. Judge Alber J. Beliveau ruled that Mr. Davis need not answer. Ee testified that he had started to wipe one of her cheeks of blood anc. powder from the wound in her right temple, “But I stopped quicker than a wink when I realized what I was doing.” Ee admitted to defense ‘attorney Ben Berman that a rubber zipper cloth in which he had enclosed the body when he put it in his ambulance “might” have rubbed off some blood and powder. Apparently the defense intends to claim that burned powder on her face—an indication of suicide—were rubbed off before the body was carefully. examined.

TANKS TO BE : MADE OF WRECKED: BRIDGE

WASHINGTON, Noy. 26 (U. P.). —Steel from -the Tacoma Narrows (Galloping Gerty) that

istence a year ago soon will be turned into tanks, guns and other defense weapons. The OPM and the state of Washington Toll Bridge Authority have “rescued” the bridge’s 3400 tons of scrap steel and estimate that with an equal amount of pig iron it can be turned into 100 light or medium tanks, 200 four-ton trucks or 600 16-inch naval shells. Meanwhile, Gevernment officials are looking in the basements of their buildings and dark corners for scrap metals. - President Roosevelt set. the example a few weeks ago when he sent half a ton of brass and copper fittings from the White Hcuse tothe Navy Yard.

LAHR’S NAME 0. KD HOLLYWOOD, Nov. 26 (UP.).— Bert Lahr, the comedian, was legally Bert Lahr, today. He secured court approval drop his real name of Irving Lahrheim. His wife, Mildred, appeared with him. to make the change. . :

bounced up, slow-rolled and crashed

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The PERFECT GIFT for ANY Woman!

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{ Congressmen Seek Facts :

{ployees were renewed in Congress

‘lurging action on his resolution to

.| businessmen who come here to do

‘| fees in excess of $10,000 paid to for-

“Were ' those clothes burned?”|

On. Methods Used to Get Defense Jobs. By CHARLES T. LUCEY Times Special Writer ‘WASHINGTON, Nov. 26.—De-

ing by former Government em-

with the disclosure that Charles West, former Under Secretary of} the Interior, was bringing suit in New York for® $700,000 allegedly

due him in defense-contract fees. In the House, Rep. Gehrmann (Prog. Wis.) said he was writing members of the Rules Committee

create a committee to investigate defense-contract lobbyists and commission mien. He said that the go-betweens, some of them former congressmen, were “infesting” hotels and government buildings and “hounding”

business with the government. Inside Connecti on Seen

Senator Wiley (R. Wis.), author of a bill to compel publicity for

mer Government jobholders, criticized the exercise of influence in such transactions and demanded: “How can these agents earn these enormous sums being reported paid within just a few months after their leaving Government service? because an inside connection is being capitalized—and perhaps to the detriment of public interest.” In his letter to the House Rules Committee, Rep. Gehrmann urged the “curbing of irresponsible individuals who infest the hotels of Washington and lie in wait for unsuspecting representatives of contracting and manufacturing firms that come here seeking contracts.”

Small Firms Victims

He commented that the larger firms have representatives who “know their way around,” but that small firms are “victims of some of these persons.”

Although the Senate defense investigating committee headed by Senator Truman (D. Mo.) has been given evidence concerning defensecontract lobbying, it has not acted on them. Senator Truman said today he would be glad to turn his evidence over to a House investigating committee if one were set up in accordance with the Gehrmann resolution. Mr. Gehrmann said he believed there should be legislation compelling defense-contract agents to register with some governmental agency.

PORTUGAL ROCKED BY VIOLENT QUAKE

most violent earthquake felt in Portugal in many years struck yesterday evening, but a check-up of the. whole country today revealed

only minor damage and no deaths. The quake also was felt in the

damage was reported there. (The West Bromwich seismograph in London reported that the quake was the most violent ever recorded there and estimated its epicenter must have been in the region of the Cape Verde Islands, prbbably on the sea floor. Madrid reported that the quake was felt in Sevilla where lamps swung in their brackets and buildings swayed. No serious damage was reported.) The earthquake struck Lisbon at 6 p. m. and the shocks lasted for three minutes. It hit at the busiest hour for the capital. Cafes, movie houses and theaters quickly emptied as panicky citizens rushed to the streets where they remained long after the tremors ceased.

PROBE DEMANDS ;

‘mands for legislation: to curb lobby-|

Keystone Boys’ di will hold ie.

rad, Walter ‘Mallory, BE. Blackburn, Oli= ver Nichols, Mrs. Burto William Lewis, ™ Charles Hill and ‘R. K. Buckner. Mrs. Ben Scalf is supervisor of Boys’ Town: of Indianapolis.

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LISBON, Nov. 26 (U. P.). — The|

Madeira Islands but no deaths or] -

2.25 ! One -with squared off, softly tucked bodice, an< other with graceful V, neckline. Both moulded beautifully to the figure, Blue, tea rosé and white

backgrounds included in sizes 32 to 40.

Budget Undies, ~ Second Floor

Common of

Of all the figure problems on the silhouette chart liter common one of ‘all is the one con cerning the roll of ‘excess flesh o

and it is not, factually speaking, a figure problem at all

her corset is off cluding the one when her figure itself has n it; the corset has

amest, can have rset is. on! - The jothing to do with everything. One

but can’t understand why they have it and don’t know what to do about itt On the other hand, larger women, aware that they have defi

figure problems.

give just as much thought to ut u

(and there : are|: dozens of them) the most}:

the “spare tire” at the waistline.|: It is more common than practically|: all - other problems put together :

No woman|:

has a spare tire at the waist when|: any woman, in-|:

of the main Feasing why this problem is so prevalent is that many]: slim women, unused to fighting any|: figure problems, have a “spare tire”|:

nite figure probems, give thought to|;

times out of ten solve the “spare| tire” problem along with their other

The truth is, a slim woman should}

HSpare Tire” At Waistline Is Most

All Figure Problems ;