Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 May 1942 — Page 5

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‘I Love You, Too, She Said

OWE LIVES TO SOLDIERS, PILOT

Passengers Laud Dead Aviator and Army Men

In Montana Crash.

MILES CITY, Mont, May 13 (U. P.) —Passengers credited the quick-

: thinking of two army men and a

pilot today for saving their lives when a Northwest airlines plane erashed near the municipal airport,

killing three crew members. “If it hadn’t been for the fact that Pilot (Eugene L.) Shank was able to spill the gasoline from the tanks before the crash,” said L. L. Sumner, St. Paul, one of the 10 passengers, “we'd all have been killed or burned to death.” ; The plane, en route from Chicago to Seattle, fell in a 50-foot ravine a quarter of a mile from the municipal airport yesterday. “We couldn't see much,” said James Thompson, Minneapolis, another passenger. “The curtains were drawn as we landed. I felt a series of bumps as we foundered around. Then we seemed to plunge downward to a jarring stop.

Kick Out Window

* “A lieutenant and an enlisted man (Lieut. A. A. Allen, Davis, N. C,, and Sergt. C. Dinius, Hunters Field, Savannah, Ga.), kicked out a windbw of the plane, crawled out and ripped open the door from the outside to rescue us. When I got out the plane was burning fiercely. Some of the passengers were badly shaken up. Our lifebelts saved us.” “ Mr. Shank and Donald Nygren, 21, Minneapolis, co-pilot, were thrown clear of the plane. Mr. Shank was killed instantly and Mr. Nygren died shortly afterward. Capt. K. R. Martin, Seattle, who piloted the plane as far ‘as Miles City before turning it over to Mr. Shank, died of burns.

EVERETT, Wash., May 13 (U. P.). ~—An army board was named today to investigate a bombing plane crash in which five men were killed Zgt Paine field. On a routine training flight, the plane fell in a woods 2000 feet northwest of the Paine ‘field control tower late yesterday. The crash brought to 25 the number of men killed in five army plane crashes in the Northwest since May 3.

NATIONAL PLANNERS MEET HERE MAY 27

The national conference on planfing will hold its “Indiana day” at the Claypool Hotel May 27. + Lee J. Ninde, Ft. Wayne, in charge of the program, said that repregentatives from all over the state

would’ attend to study municipal problems created by the war. Speakers on “Indiana day” will

.. Include Dr. Frank Hugh Sparks;

, president of Wabash college; Dr.

Edward C. Elliott, Purdue university president; Herman B. Wells, Indiana university président; Louis Ruthenburg, Indiana State Chamber of Commerce president, and Capt. Richard L. Reiss, director of Welwyn Garden City, England.

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Shonbrun, her alleged lover.

with her capture in a Bronx boarding house, heard Assistant District Attorney. Jacob Grumet tell a blueribbon jury that the state would prcve “the defendant, Madeline Webb, acted as the decoy” in the first degree murder of Mrs. Susie F. Reich, wealthy refugee. The 28-year-old Miss Webb, whose eyes were red and swollen when she

‘|walked past the jurors to the de-

fense table, sat between the two male defendants, Eli Shonbrun, small time thief, and John D. Cullen, who was even more small time. Called ‘Cold Blooded’

Mr. Grumet said that Miss Webb on the day of the slaying, March 4, telephoned an aunt of Mrs. Reich and said that she wanted to invite the Polish refugee to lunch at her hotel suite in order to meet her new husband, Ted Leopold. Leopold was an alias used by Shanbrun. At one point Mr. Grumet referred to the three defendants as “cold blooded murderers.” Judge James M. Springer, Oklahoma lawyer who came here to defend Miss Webb, objected and Judge Jonah J. Goldstein instructed the jurors that an opening statement was not to be considered evidence. The prosecutor said he would show that Mrs, Reich “fought for her life,” but her screams were drowned out by a radio.

Denies She Was Implicated

Judge Springer, in a three-minute statement, revealed that the defense will contend that Miss Webb had no part in either the robbery or the murder. There had been a love scene in an ante room of the courtroom yesterday. Madeline met her lover there and kissed him. - He said, “I love you,” and she had replied: “I love you, too.” Shonbrun’s defense was not indicated. His uncle tried to sell jewelry stolen from Mrs. Reich. He will testify, as a state witness that the jewelry had been turned over to him by Shonbrun. He is charged with murder, too, but he will be

tried later.

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BUSINESS MAN AGAIN THANKS NOTED RETONGA

Was Hardly Able To Eat For Indigestion And Was Almost Crippled With Pain, States Mr. Warren. Tells About - His Case.

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MR. JOHN. B. WARREN

“Retonga relieved all this distress after everything else I tried failed. The indigestion and sluggish elimination let up, and I began to sleep fine. My appetite and strength returned, and I soon began to feel like a different man. I am going to take a bottle or two of Retonga again just as a spring tonic. I will be glad to tell anybody about my experience with Retonga if they ook we. It's a wonders ful medicine.”

In a corridor of General Sessions Court, Madeline Webb meets Eli They were permitted to embrace.

Death Penalty Asked for Madeline as Trial Opens

NEW YORK, May 13 (U. P.).—Madeline Webb, sulky Oklahoma brunet, slouched between two co-defendants—one of them gher sweet~ heart—today and heard a prosecutor brand her as a murder decoy and demand her life for the slaying of an elderly woman. With an expression of amazement on her thickly powdered face, Miss Webb, who hoped for Broadway fame but gained notoriety instead

EMBALMER ADS ARE HELD LEGAL

State High Court Returns License to Company at Crawfordsvlile.

Funeral home directors may advertise the price of their services, the Indiana supreme court ruled yesterday. The court upheld a Montgomery circuit court ruling ordering the state board of embalmers and funeral directors to reinstate the licenses held by Ashler L. Proffitt, operator of Proffitt & Sons, funeral home at Crawfordsville. License Was Revoked The embalmers’ board had revoked Mr. Proffitt's licenses for advertising in a Crawfordsville newspaper in August, 1940, “a solid oak casket, cement vault, ‘suit or dress, embalming services, hearse, music and use of funeral home as requested—$285.” Revocation was made under a section of the 1939 embalmers’ law which prohibited the advertising of price of services by funeral directors. Mr. Proffitt contended that the section of the law was a violation of = constitutional rights and the supreme court agreed with him,

Court Allows Advertising

“We are unable to conceive,” the = " high court said in. its opinion, “of any possible reason for prohibiting licensed funeral directors and embalmers from advertising their prices in newspapers or by handbills and at the same time permitting them to broadcast the same facts to the public by radio.” The embalmers’ board .eontended that the embalming profession was of a public or quasi-public nature and as such was subject to regulation and control and that the prohibiting of price advertising was not unreasonable,

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

oil Inspector

Gets Commission

Harrison Miller, chief of the state oil inspection division, has been commissioned a lieutenant, junior grade, -in the navy and will leave next week for Chicago. State Auditor Richard T. James

has appointed Luther M. Gross, former Elwood banker and now a clerk in the branch invoice auditing division of the state motor vehicle bureau, to ‘succeed him. Mr. Gross is the father of William Gross, editorial editor of the Ft. Wayne News Sentinel. Mr. Miller is a former Indianapolis and Pt. Wayne Rev man.

BLACKWELL TO HEAD FUNERAL DIRECTORS

John H. Blackwell of Indianapolis today was elected president of the Indiana funeral directors’ association, holding its 62d annual convention at the Hotel Lincoln. The two-day meeting closed at noon. Others elected were Myron C. Hutchins of Kendallville, vice president; Emil S. Norris of Loogootee, re-elected second vice president; Herbert R. Wald of Indianapolis, re-elected secretary-treasurer, and Russell J, Shannon of Greencastle, sergeant-at-arms. Nine association directors elected at district meetings this spring were installed and the: association voted to buy its second $1000 war bond. Harry J. Gilligan, Cincinnati, secretary-treasurer of the national funeral directors’ association, spoke.

BATTS JOB LIGHTENED WASHINGTON, May 13 (U. P). —A. I. Henderson, New York lawyer, toddy succeeded William L. Batt as director of the war production board materials division, one of the most important WPB branches. Mr. Batt will continue with the WPB in connection with several other jobs he now holds.

“gas” of Goebbels’ propaganda ma-

Stockholm story.

EXPERTS SCOFF AT USE OF BAS

They Liken Reported Nazi ‘Nerve’ Weapon to ‘Propaganda.

WASHINGTON, May 13 (U. P.)—

indicated that there was a remarkable similarity between the “nerve gas” the Germans are reportedly using against the Russians and the

chine. “As far as I'm concerned.” said one military authority, expressing the war department's attitude, “the only nerve gas that I'm sure about is the nerve the Nazis have in spreading such stories.” Renewed speculation about nerve gas arose from a Swedish report that the Germans were using it against the Russians in the fighting on the Kerch peninsula in the Crimea. : The Berlin correspondent of the Stockholm Aftonbladet said the new gas paralyzed the nerve centers, robbing its victims of the power to make quick decisions, but was not poisonous. Can’t Conceive It

The gas was described as one of

reported it was using in the Kerch offensive. Two nerve specialists at Johns Hopkins hospital, Baltimore supported the war department's attitude by expressing disbelief in the

Dr. Frank Ford, associate professor in neurology, said he could not conceive of any gas that would affect the nerve centers or stupify

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SHIPYARD SETS RECORD WASHINGTON, May 18 (U. P). Johns Hopkins’ neurologist, also —A West coast shipyard has set & disclaimed its plausibility. new record by building a merchant “If there has been such e gas|ship in 83 days and the whole ship-

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