Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 December 1941 — Page 3

LIFE TERM CUT AS A YULE GIFT

Joe Burns, Holdup Slayer, Made Eligible for Parole in 1942.

Joe R. Burns, one of Indiana's most notorious criminals who the past few years has become a tkilled radio technician at the State Prison, today received a Christmas present from the State Clemency Commission. The Commission reduced the straight life sentence he was serving for a slaying which occurred during the holdup of a Culver bank in 1920 to an indeterminate sentene of 21 years to life. By this action, the State Commission makes Burns eligible for reJease by the Prison Trustees in May, 1942, if they deem it advisable. Escaped in 1933

Bums was one of 10 desperate criminals, including members of the Dillinger gang, who gained. their freedom from prison in September, 1933, through one of the most daring prison breaks in State penal history. He hid out in Chicago and was Dot captured until December, 1934. Burns and three companions received life sentences in 1921 for the slaying of Jacob Russell Saine, Culver merchant and fire chief, in a trial in the Kosciusko Circuit Court that gained nation-wide attention. Clarence Darrow, the late Chicago criminal lawyer, was one of their attorneys. Mr. Saine died from bullet wounds received in a gun battle with the bandits which followed their holdup of a Culver bank. The quartet obtained $5000 in cash in the robbery. The other three bandits Joseph Byers, Arthur Silbert and Peter Fox, were paroied several years ago. Burns has maintained a prison record in the seven years since his escape, according to prison officials. He took a correspondence course in radio and helped install the present radio system in the prison. Learns Folly of Crime

In a letter to the Clemency Commission, Burns listed “inhuman treatment” by prison guards as his reason for fleeing from the prison in 1933. “I have learned the folly of crime| during the long years that I have lived in regrets, apart from those I love in this world of the living dead,” he wrote the Commission, “I ask you for a chance—one thance—my first chance.” Sixteen other inmates of penal institutions received clemency from the Commission as Christmas presents, 14 of them getting paroles and two getting commutations. Among those paroled were David Bocock and Robert Mosley, each serving 10 years from Marion County in the State Reformatory for robbery. The Commission denied the parole requests of 24 other inmates, including Forrest Jacoby, 8 notorious Marion County bandit gang who is serving a 25-year term for robbery.

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INJURIES | FATAL

Car Struck by Tre by Train as oe Debates Turning Back For Ice Cream.

Late Saturday night. Miss Bertha Pulliam was returning to her home, | 2114 Shelby St, from the Fountain Square postal station where she had |

mailed a portrait photograph of her mother to an | [aunt in Browns {burg for Christmas. | As she reached \ id | the Belt Railroad i tracks, she wondered whether she ought to

stant her car was struck by a freight train, In Methodist Hospital last night, Miss Pulliam died of injuries received in the accident. She was 51. Her ‘closest relatives are the aunt, Mrs. Molly Camey; three uncles, {Charles Fike, William Fike and Gilliman Fike and a cousin, R. R. Sioane, all of Indianapolis.

Miss Pulliam

| (Buddy) Droliinger, 27,

ger (she was § Butvtny Phillips.)

Plant on Way

Left to right: Mr, and Mrs. Dorman McShan (she was Juanita Sheffer) and Mr, and Mrs. C. O. Drollin-

MISS PULLIAM'S Romantic Couples of Packard

to Sunny Texas

By LESTER POSVAR

In Jove and war. all is fair. Dorman MeShan, 21, who goes

to the Army next week, and C. O.

who might be called in the draft any time,

figured that since Juanita Sheffer and Dorothy Phillips, both fair and

19, are willing to take a chance on the fortunes of war,

then there is

no reason why the future shouldn't be as fair as the skies of Texas

and New Mexico. Dorman, who comes from New |« Mexico, and Buddy, a Texan, each took a bride, fair and 19, at a double ceremony which eclimaxed a | Christmas party of employees of the Packard Manufacturing Corp. last night. Juanita Sheffer became Mrs. Dorman MeShan and Dorothy Phillips | became Mrs. C. O. Drollinger. If you must know, his first name is Clarence, but Mrs. Drollinger prefers to call him Buddy.) All four aré employees of the Packard Company and the big boss, Homer E. Capehart, president, helped the ceremony along in the role of best man,

Now They're Texas Bound

Today the two young engineers from the land of sagebrush and cowboys and mesquite, who won the hearts of two Hoosier lassies, both fair and 19, were taking turns as the chauffeurs of a “honeymoon limousine” Texas-bound. They hoped to eat Christmas dinner® at the ranch house of Buddy's father, Harry Drollinger, near Cushing, Tex. Next week, all four will start

IN INDIANAPOLIS

Here Is the Traffic Record : County City Total

83 182] 64

Accidents Injured

TUESDAY TRAFFIC COURT

Cases Convic- Fines |

Violations

Speeding ..... Reckless driving. Failure to stop at through street Disobeying traffic signals Drunken driving All others

Tried tions

20 17 6 5

Paid $82

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MEETINGS TODAY

Indiana Section, American Chemical Bociety, luncheon, Hotel Severin, noon. Lyre Chub, luncheon, Spink-Arms Hotel

on. ey Mercator Clad, luncheon, Hotel Lincoln,

MEETINGS TOMORROW

sons Club, luncheon, Claypool Hotel

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[roo he Club, luncheon, Columbia Club,

Co’gperative Club of Indianapolis, lunch(eon, Columbia Club, noon | Indianapolis Power and ty,

Light Co. Meter luncheon, Hotel Washing- |

Indianapolis Junior Chamber of Com. merce, Tuncheon, Canary Cott noon. | Indians Motor Truck Association, lunch. eon, Hotel Antlers, noon, vs M Men's Discussion Clad, meeting,

7:30 p. m. Sigma Alpha Epsilon, Board | of Trade, noon, Pardwe Alumni Hotel Severin, noo

luncheon,

MARRIAGE LICENSES

These lists are from official records in the County Court House. The Times, therefore, is mot responsible for errors in names and addresses,

Hugh E Rigle, 20, R. R. 18 Box 12. | Edna M. Cox, 26, of 875 W. 29th. Robert J. Miller, 2), of 1048 N. FN Ion; Ruth E. Gasaway, 23. of 1326 Baco William_C. Beacham, 31, of 611 othe: | ary K. Puryear, 25, of 2058 Indian Alfred T, ompson, 19, of 1117 O iver: Christine M. Head, 19, of 1279'% on Harry B. Emerson, 23. Evanston, Il.; Marion L._ Wilson, 21, of 5837 Broadway. James D. Murray 35, of S11 N. Del B. Oble, $9, of $81 N. Del

You h of €15 Buchanan; Mr Beckman. omington, Ind. Ralph fnin, 32. hi) of rkview,; fia R. “Rebene 16, of 1708 ingten

hn M. Redington, $4, of 1218 Linden:

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n, 23, eof 1048 Union; Dorothy J. Stewart, 29, Towa City, Ia. John J. Reynolds, 18, of 1 Park; Doe: Starnes 18, of i oa k. J. Hellmer, 21, of 1 Kathleen C. Baggerly, 18, of EY bs ny

ss: ard. Stan Baugh, a ts $121 W. 16th: Elizabeth Thomas 19, of 328 N. Suki and, Eules Garrett, 58, of Place; Brtie M. Hunt, 26 of ot 3018 Fane Herbet W. Fleehearty, , of N. Dearborn; Betty J. Byers, 18, of 1911 | Nowland, John H. Baker, 19 of 3328 Schofield: Anna N. Lively, 18, of $345 Schofield. Dorman Benjamin MeShan, 21, Linden Hotel, Juanita I, Sheffer, 19. of 2013 8. eriidan Clarence O. Droll gen 2, Rindeh grovel; Dorothy D. Phillips, 19, of 5850 Mad aries H, Miner, 23, of 440 Catherine Stanley, 22 Rober Hubba

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‘honeymoon housekeeping” in a double apartment—with one kitchen —at 2452 Broadway. There the four

‘of them will await the fortunes of

war, and their parts in it. Dorothy, who describes her job at the factory as “beating drums on the assembly line,” will take to beating the pots and pans in the kitchen.

Juanita Returning to Job

Juanita will go back to her job in the shipping department where she has been working as a packer. Her husband, Dorman, will carry on with his duties as mechanical and electrical engineer for a few days. On Dec. 31, he dons a khaki uniform at Ft. Harrison.

Buddy, who at 27 has risen to the post of general service manager of the Packard Manufacturing Corp, is ready to join the colors whenever Uncle Sam gives the command “fall in!” His wife, the daughter of Mr. and

Mrs. H. D. Phillips, 5350 Madison Ave, is a graduate of Southport High School. She studied Indiana Central College.

Buddy Mussed Up Plans

“I intended to become an oldmaid schoolteacher,” she said, “but Buddy mussed up my plans.” Juanita, who lived at 2013 S. Meridian St, is the daughter of Charles Sheffer and a graduate of Manual High School. She has been

W!e commercial photographer’s model.

A bit more about the double wed- '| ding ceremony: It was performed in front of a | Christmas tree by the Rev. R. G. Skidmore, pastor of the Edgewood ‘| Methodist Church. Juanita and Dorman were attended by Mr. Capehart as best man and Mrs. Hilda Hinton, Juanita’s sister, as matron of honor. Dorothy and Bud were attended by Ed Collison as best man and Mrs. Fred Smith Jr. as matron of honor. Dorothy wore purple velvet, and an orchid Juanita wore green velvet, and an orchid.

STATE'S HIGH COURT SUSPENDS OLD RULE

The 10-year-old rule that only those persons passing the written state bar examinations could be admitted to the practice of law in In-

d./diana was suspended by the Su-

tol. | Preme Court today for the duration

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DEATHS Margaret Teachout, 60, a ethodist, Myoearaiti, w & Mathel Ethel Washburn, 37, at Methodist, na inger, 61, at 5969 k, cerebral hem os tehman, 7, at 3106 Eng. an an Robe 50, at Lo a a rtson, at ng, ronchopneumon . Blanche Ann Lazendy, 86 , at City, carTon is C. Sa. 68, at 2022 Brookside, cere

bral hemor Lizzie er, 78, at I, cereoral a) thera

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SILENT ON SUB RUMOR

ijof the present war.

The high court promulgated an order stating that law students called into the armed services before getting to take the bar examinations would be admitted to the practice of law by the court upon a certificate issued by the dean of

to, their law school.

This certificate, the Supreme Court specified, must state that the student has met the pa uirehents for graduation from his school.

OFFICIAL WEATHER

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noon; cloudy with light drizzle and cooler tonight. Lowest temperature 35 to 40.

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FIRE DEFENSE

Volunteer Auxiliary Unites To Organize; Training Schedule Fixed.

The Indiana plan for civilian defense against fire was drawn today. Auxiliary forces of volunteer firemen will be ented In ote owas and to to aid local oIt first the auxiliaries

ing program was set up at a meeting of Hoosier fire fighters at the Fair Grounds yesterday. The session was called by the State Defense Council. Here is the plan: Through January, regional fire schools will be conducted in Indiana. Firemen from every city, town and township will attend. Each school will last three days. Experts from Purdue University and the State Fire Marshal's office will be teachers.

Use British Experience

The firemen will learn the most advanced methods of dealing with incendiary attacks. The experience of British cities will be drawn from copiously. At the end of the three-day schools, the firemen will ,return to their home towns and train the folks who volunteer. The number of volunteers is to be regulated by a formula worked out by the U. 8S. Office of Civilian Defense which is supplying much of the instruction material. The fore mula desighates the number of fire fighters by the population of the community. In Indianapolis, for instance, approximately 2500 volunteers will be needed, according to Fred Morley, civil protection director of the State Defense Council. ‘These will be chosen from lists of volunteers submitted to Mayor Sullivan by American Legion posts and other

groups Study All Phases

Subjects in the fire schools include group psychology, forcible entry, minor extinguishments, the handling of incendiary bombs, war gas protection, ladder practice and ladder evolutions. Instructors will be Russell Johahn, education director of the State Fire Marshal's office; Emmett T. Cox; Purdue University fire service school assistant director, and Robert F. Hamm, training teacher in the Fire Marshal's office. Approximately 800 men attended

hear the program described. Speak ers included Clarence A. Jackson, State Defense director; Clem Smith, State Fire Marshal; Fire Chief Harry H. Fulmer; Prof. W. A. Knapp, Purdue University fire service school director; Mr. Cox and Mayor Sullivan, The regional training schools will begin Jah. 12 at Indianapolis and Greensburg. The training schedule: Jan, 12 te 15 Lanene adr RS nd Oakiandon. At ensburg —— Decatur, Brown, Rush, Shot

Lg Bion, Ohio, Sco B Bariholo ew, Jennin Seierion, On: erland, Franklin and

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At Greencastie—Putnam, Sullivan, Clay, Sate Ke Boone,

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Jan. 19 te 21 ak S La Pots he Porter, Ab BITRE Mar arshall, hart, Fulton

Starke, ph and Hkh fusko.

go RW te 23° At. 7 Wayne Allen, Wells, Noble, DeKalb, Whit! ben, Huntington Kha Delaware, Grant, H Roxa Henry, Hancock, Randolph, Black ord, Hipton and Wayne Jan. 26 to 2 bol Martin, Harrison, rec GIBcn. Rnon FIRt, Washing:

Lawrence, Mis Warrick, ‘Orange, Daviess, San Nu Perry, Spencer, Vanderburg

Adams,

NAZIS CLAIM SEA VICTORIES

BERLIN, Dec. 23 (Official Broadcast) —German bombers damaged a Russian vessel off the Crimean naval base of Sebastopol, sank a medium-sized merchantman east of Fisherman's Peninsula off the northern coast of Finland and damaged another merchant vessel in Kola Bay off northern Finland, the High Command said today.

the Council meeting yesterday to 104

.| erful political figure in Indiana,

Fatal Shot

Bandit’s Bullet Costs Life of Man Who Chased Him.

ROSCOE SIMONS, 53, who was shot ih the abdomen by a fleeing bandit he chased in front of his home at 944 N. Tacoma Ave, Sune day night, died today at St. Vine cent’s Hospital. Mr. Simons bluffed the bandit out of holding up his filling station at Tacoma Ave. and 10th St. by kidding him and slamming the door in his face. Then, Mr. Simons grabbed his unloaded shotgun and chased the bandit across the street in front of his home where the gunman fired. Mrs. Simons, who was listening to the radio, said she heard the whine of the bullet and heard her husband cry out that he had been shot and saw him point to the running bandit.

WOMAN KILLED IN AUTO CRASH

Mrs. Edna Trester’s Death Is 4th Family Tragedy Within Five Years.

The death of Mrs. Edna M, Tres ter, 2515 W. Walnut St, in a traffic accident this morning was the fourth in the Trester family within the last five years. Mrs. Trester, who was 51, was killed when the car she was driving and one driven by Lawrence Killen, 30, of 706 N. Sheffield Ave, collided at King Ave. and Walnut St. She was thrown out of her car onto the sidewalk and died instantly. Five years ago her husband, Glenn Trester, became blind and shortly after that their daughter, Mrs. Elbert McConnell died suddenly. A few months later Mr. McConnell was killed in a traffic accident. Since Mr. Trester had to quit work because of blindness, Mrs. Trester has been making the fame ily’s livelihood by driving women in her neighborhood to work every morning. She was on her way to get the passengers when the pial accident occurred early today. \ Her death was the 120th trafic fatality in Marion County during Surviving besides the husband are three daughters, Wanda, 17, Mrs, Eillen Cozine, Mrs. Gerald Beaver, a son, Charles Trester; mother, Mrs. Codelia Darrah, three grandchildren, one sister and five broths ers.

20 STEPHENSON PLEA IN 2 WEEKS REFUSED

The second petition to be presented to Governor Schricker in two weeks for a parole for D. C. Stephenson, former Indiana KuKlux Klan dragon, was denied today by the chief executive. The plea, filed by the Legion Rank and File, Inc, reached the Governor late yesterday. The Gove ernor a week agd ordered another parole plea for Stephenson, pre ‘sented by Mrs. Blanche Shoecraft of Marion, “filed away.” Stephenson, once the most pow-

has served over 15 years of a life sentence for the murder of Miss Madge Oberholtzer, State House stenographer, In addition to clemency for Stephenson, the Legion Rank and File also asked that a parole be granted John B. Wright, serving a life term for murder in connection with the slaying of two persons during a South Bend ewer come pany holdup.

R. A. F. RAIDS SUB BASE LONDON, Dee. 23 (U. P.).~British bombers last night attacked the German naval and submarine base at Wilhelmshaven. All planes returned.

Strauss Says:

STORE ‘OPEN * TONGHT (TUESDAY)

No one is certain that the appointment.will be made. They all recall too clearly the recent exrience of twice thinking they a court vacancy filled only to have the Governor bob up with a surprise selection—-one that surprised even the appointee. But all wih BERL So on possibly this week. .

Leaders Back McNelis

AS A MATTER of fact, recent developments have been pointing toward Judge McNelis’ reappointment. For,one thing, the Governor gave his own Marion County party leaders quite a jolt when he recently named Judge John Niblack to the other bench, completely passing over the choice for whom they had poured on tremendous heat and also their second choice,

Now these same party leaders are all backing Judge McNelis. They aren't using threats, because they know that won't work, but they're pitching just the same. The Governor, of course, owes them little political debt, because they opposed his nomination and Gidn’t get him a majority in last November's election. But he has to live with them for three more years and probably will want their SUpROF: in some future political ties. There's also the possibility that failure to reappoint Judge McNelis might further complicate the Marion County political picture and cause a further split in the ranks. Most Democrats will agree that there are enough bitter feuds and prospective feuds right now.

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Opposition Declines

ON THE OTHER side, the opposition to Judge McNelis has declined since Judge Niblack’s popular appointment. And the Bar Association’s report after its special survey gave the Governor no concrete, official reasons for ousting Judge McNelis. Just the other day, the Governor called in Judge McNelis and they talked for almost two hours. Very likely he told the Judge just

Indiana Politics

By Vern Boxell

IT NOW SEEMS that Santa Claus—who is nice not only to good boys, but also to those who get good shortly before Christmas and promise to stay that way--may have a surprise package for Municipal Judge John McNelis, If so, it will be plainly marked “To the Hon. John McNelis, four more years on Municipal Court 3,

from Governor Schricker,”

what he would expect if he reappointed Him and what he would do if the Judge got off anc track. For the last few weeks, Judge McNelis' record has been pretty good. He has informed {friends that he is a candidate for reappointment not on his previous record but upon his future worth gained in four years of experi ence. But if he is reappointed, he will know that he owes allegiance to po one except the Governor and that Mr. Schricker has some very definite ideas about how he wants these courts conducted.

The Governor has seven more days. in which to announce his decision. Whether he reappoints Judge McNelis or not, it's quite likely he will ask the 1943 Legislature to look over the Bar Association’s recommendations for a special traffic court here and the addition of another judge—a presiding judge for the four courts who also can sit in to end the pro tem abuse. And the question of whether he will suggest rotating the four Judges or the cases from: court to court also is undecided. That may come later.

MRS. MARY GRIFFIS, ILL SIX YEARS, DIES

Mrs. Mary A. Griffis, wife of Wil« liam B. Griffis, assistant superine tendent of the Police and Firemen’s Gamewell System, died last night in her home, 776 N. Riley Ave. She had been in ill health six years. Mrs. Griffis had been a resident of Indianapolis 35 "years, coming here from Cincinnati, where she and Mr. Griffis were married in 1898. She was a member of the Englewood Christian Church and was a former member of the Firemen's Auxiliary, Besides her huspand, she is sure vived by a son, Vernon A. Griffis of Ft, Scott, Kan.; two daughters, Mrs. Martin Andersen of Indianapolis and Mrs. Sylvia Frakes of Yonkers, N. Y.; two sisters, Mrs. Carrie Siss« man of Indianapolis and Mrs. A. D. Sullivan of Butler, Ky.; a brother, A. L. Wood of Memphis, Tenn., one nephew and three grandchildren.

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