Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 December 1941 — Page 4

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LAURA INGALLS PLACED IN CELL

Woman Flier Lacks $7600 Bail or Charge of Being Enemy Agent.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 19 (U.P) Miss

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Laura Ingalls the noted]

aviator, who has had hér share of] brushes with the law, was getting]

“jail experience" today

for her

failuré to yon as an alleged paid agent the German QGov-| ernment, The 38-year-old forimer vaudeville| §

Turnage and was given untibDec. 26 to prepare her plea. Unable to post taken to the District of Columbih jail. “I always wanted some jail experience,” Miss Ingalls said.

Held for 15 Hours

Federal Bureau of tion agents who took Miss : into custody Wednesday night held her incommunricadn for 15 hours. Justice Department officials sald the had made a statement in which she contended she was engaged in counter-espionage work. She was charged with having “acted, engaged to act and agreed to act as agent and representative for, and receive tion from and was under the direction of, the Government of the German Reich.” To that Miss Ingalls replied that

she “didn't take orders from the German Government.”

Free Agent, She Says

“I was carrying out my own investigation,” she said. “I guess I overstepped. I was a free agent” I've been kept in a little room Miss Ingalls said. “I've been awake for 36 hours. I've had no sleep at ell She said that the only attorney she knew was in New York and that FBI agents had refused to let her communicate with him. Miss Ingalls turned from Vaudeville dancing to flying and. gained | her first prominence in 1934 when |

the country, was in Indianapolis early today for an engagement at the Indiana Rogf.

RAF BLASTS AT WARSHIPS AGAIN

Brest Drydock Set Afire, All Planes Return, Says Air Ministry,

LONDON, Dec. 19 (U. P) —Brit-| ish bombing planes attacked “the| German battleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau and the heavy crui-

she completed a 16000-mile flight Ser Prinz Eugen in Brest harbor from Miami, Fla, to South America. |durihg the night for the third time Won Hairston Trophy in. 28 hours, the Air Ministry said On March 10, 1935, she. was Y. All planes returned.

awarded the Harmon trophy. the top| The Air Ministry, describing yeshonor for women fliers. Later that|'erday’s raids, satd a drydock was . same year—Aug. 11—siie became the |Purning and thick, black, oily smoke

first woman to make & noh-stop East-West transcontinental flight, A few days after outbreak of the Europeah war in 1939, Miss Ingalls flew over a restricted area of down- - town Washington and near the White House dropped leaflets of the I “Women's National Committee to Keep U. S. Out of War.” The Civil Aeronautics Authority suspended her license until she could : prove that she was familiar with + air space restrictions. L week she subceeded in getting the » license restored

. Once Made Forced - Landing Here

Laura Ingalls has been in Indianapolis several times, making a forced landing here on one occasion during

an attempted non-stop transconti-|

nental flight Failure of a oil valve in her plane motor forced her to abandon her flight at the Municipal Airport in May, 1935 While here she rode several laps around the Indianapolis Motor Speedway with Lou Meyer, race driver, at 120 miles an hour.

Grocer Smashes Glass on Bandit

DESPITE FLYING bhllets. Albert Campbell, proprietor of grocery store at 248% S. Rural St. picked up a piece of plate glass and smashed it over a bandits head last night

Mr. Campbell told police that

the bandit, wearing a mask, demanded money When I refused he fired and missed and I hit him with a piece of glass,” police quoted him as saying. The gunman fled out the front door and ran down an alley. Po- . lice said he fired again as he ran.

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rolled up from where the Gneisenay lay when & wave of Stirling bombers attacked the docks. "Just before the Stirlings swogped | (down, the wing commander leading the attack had dived his plane 500 feet and released four “very heavy” bombs. He saw one burst short, two [squarely across the docks and one | beyond.

Walch Dog Fights

Stirling bombers,” Halifaxes and (finally Manchesters unloaded their bombs, the Ministry said. As’ they dumped their explosives they wheeled about, and the crews watched battles among more than 50 fighter planes ih the clear air The wing commander stid he (was four miles from the his {when “the whole sky was sudden(ly filled with shell bursts. We flew straight in. I Have never seen such (formation flying under fire.” | One Stifling in the attack was “MacRoberts’ Reply,” the bomber American-born Lady MacRobert presented to the Royal Air Force in memory of her two sons, who were killed fighting in the R. A. F. Tre captain who commanded i in yesterday's attack said he was jumped five times by enemy pursuit planes. One turned over ang dived straight down. :

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2 BURNED IN FIRE

-| IN LOCAL RESIDENGE

Two persons were burned in al fire at ‘the home of Mrs. Mildred Johnston, 1331 Rlaine Ave, last | night. Mrs. Johnston was severely {burned on the hands when she attempted to remove some clothihg [from a burning closét and City | Fireman G. A. Crume, 410 Villa {Ave, was burned pn the arms and | hands while fighting the flames inside the house. The damage to the house was reported to be about $400.

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