Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 October 1942 — Page 2
NITIONS UNIT of Workers Coerced,| pany Charges; Union Issues Denial.
ST ALTON, Ill, Oct. 12 (U8
- second time within six weeks, rged today that 90 per cent of its ers were being prevented from “by coercion, intimidation, |} hfeats of violence.” complaint was made to the war board and alleged that the can Federation of Labor's al workers union had called Aaron FF. g it in advance of a labor decision. The dispute was i over to the board for settlet after the first strike was called “A'union spokesman denied the
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Moses, 19-year-old engineer gunner of Monroe, Ind. plugged a hole in a fuel line with his fingers, and enabled a four-motored American Liberator, to return to England from Fri-
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‘their highway blockade in northern
Illinois, via radio. Touhy, 44, once leader of Chicago's “Terrible Touhy" gang, and
convicts over the wall of the Stateville penitentiary near Joliet, Ill. Friday afternoon. Their five companions were no
and Banghart were serving 99-year terms for kidnaping John (Jake the Barber) Factor, an international promoter, in 1933. : Assistant State's Attorney Wilbert PF. Crowley linked the call to the Ft. Wayne clergyman to, the testimony of an Indianapolis priest, who appeared as a defense witness in Touhy's first trial. A second trial was necessary because the jury failed to agree in the first. “As I recall it,” Mr, Crowley said, “Factor's wife, Rella, learned in some way that Father Weber, a priest at Indianapolis, knew the Touhy family. She appealed to him to reach Touhy and try to effect Factors release. This the priest did but Touhy denied he held Factor, being unwilling to bring & priest into kidnaping negotiations. “Father Weber testified as a defense witness at the first trial, telling that Touhy had denied the kidnaping to him. At the second trial, however, Msgr, Conroy intervened and prevented the priest from appearing.
Escape Car Found
“That explains the threat against his life, unless of course, the call he received was the work of a crank or prankster.” From Knoxville, Tenn,, police received a report that Touhy, Banghart and a third man, believed to be James O'Connor, another of the escapees, had stopped at a tourist camp and had ordered sandwiches
. | while one stood guard with a pistol.
It was suggested that the trio might be seeking unrecovered loot from the $105,000 Charlotte, N. C., mail robbery which Banghart led shortly
\ | after the Factor kidnaping.
The car which the desperados
\ | stole outside the prison wall Friday
was found abandoned Saturday
% | night at Villa Park, a suburb west | of . Chicago.
Police believed the convicts had separated, perhaps to seek hideouts in Chicago or to fiee to scattered points. Those who escaped in addition to Touhy, Banghart and
{ { O'Connor were William Stewart, 43;
) | St. Clair McInerny, 31; Matthew
Nelson, 40, and Edward Darlak, 32.
PAW PAW, Mich., Oct. 12 (U. P.). —State police and sheriff's depu-
yi ties blockaded main highways in southwestern Michigan today after la motorist reported he had been
threatened by the fleeing gangster,
i | Roger Touhy, and four or five com- § |panions, near here.
| ORDERS BLACKOUT
FOR JAIL TONIGHT
Prisoners in the county jail will practice their part tonight in ecivil-
¢ |ian defense.
Sheriff Al Feeney said that some-
J | time after 8 o'clock both the men’s
and women’s sections of the jail and the county garage would be ' totally blacked out. It's in preparation for the countywide dimout Friday night.
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Wilbur Glenn Voliva
VOLIVA ERRS IN DATE OF DEATH
Stricken 48 Years Before He Expected; Contended World Was Flat.
CHICAGO, Oct. 12 (U. P.).— Wilbur Glenn Voliva, 72, religious colony leader, who insisted the world was flat and often predicted it soon would be destroyed, died last night 48 years before he expected to meet death. Voliva died at a hospital of a heart ailment complicated by kidney disease. He had predicted that he would live to be 120 because of his “abstinence from meat and a diet of brazil nuts.” Although 'Voliva ‘had traveled around the world several times, he never yielded his belief that the earth was as “flat as a flapjack or a stove-lid.” “At the center of the lid is the necrth pole,” Volvia said. “Modern science is bosh. The firmament is solid and the sky is a great tent with a solid dome. The sun is about 27 miles from thie earth and has a diameter of about 32 miles.”
Forecast World’s End’
He forecast at various times that the world would end in 1923, 1927, 1930, 1935 and 1943. His most recent prophecy was that a new “battle’ of Armageddon” would be followed by a ‘second coming of Christ.” In his 32 years as both political and religious leader of the colony at Zion, Ill, north of Chicago, Voliva also presented many unorthodox religious ideas. His booklet, “Handbook and Guide to Hell,” attracted wide attention. In Zion, Voliva enforced stringent rules against smoking, drinking, profanity, low-neck dresses, rouge, medicines, and such items of diet as pork and oysters. Later he relaxed some of the regulations. pia “This city houses more nuts and long-haired fools than any other town its size,” he said. “I'm not going to damn a man for taking a pill or smoking a cigaret.”
ICKES’ FOSTER SON AND WIFE SEPARATE
PITTSBURGH, Oct. 12 (U. PJ). —Robert Harold Ickes, foster son of Interior Secretary Harold Ickes, announced last night that he and his wife, Marcelle Levine, Chicago dancer, have parted “amicably.” He said Mrs. Ickes has taken residence at Reno, Nev., and expected a divorce decree Nov. 3. ‘A predivorce settlement was made, he said, and Mrs. Ickes will seek no alimony. They have been married three and one-half years.
HUSBAND HELD AFTER MOTHER OF 2 SLAIN
ROCHESTER, N. Y,, Oct. 12 (U. P.).—~A 80-year-old mother of two small boys was slain yesterday when her husband attacked her with a knife, then clubbed her with. a hammer, police said. Stanley Sproba, 29, was lodged in Monroe county jail on a technical charge of first ‘d ~ murder for the killing of his wife, Ella. District Attorney Daniel J. O'Mara announced he would ask the county court tomorrow to appoint a sanity commission in the case.
ROAD STUDY GROUP TO MEET THURSDAY
The state highway study commission will meet here Thursday to decide upon the recommendations the commissicn is to make in its report to the governor and the 1943 session of the general assembly. The commission was created by the '41 legislature for the purpose of studying the state highway system and making recommendations to the next session. The commission
$262,807.12 or 17.5%
Is Subscribed During The First Week.
Per cent of goal ......
United War Fund workers expected to reach the quarter-mark in their $1,500,000 campaign today. Auditors, after a recapitulation of the two reports made last week, announced a total of $262,807.12 subscribed to date. This represented 17.5 per cent of the goal. Little change was made in the figures during the re-chéck which is made each week-end. The earlier percentage reported subscribed was 17.6. The third report luncheon at noon today in the Claypool hotel was designated as “U. 8. O. Day.” Mrs, Maurice T. Moore chairman of the women's committee of the national U. 8. O., came here from New York
. |City to address the luncheon.
Employed groups in war plants, industry, stores ‘and offices were praised today by campaign leaders for their support of the “one hour’s pay per month” yardstick for contributions.
Praised by Shipnes
“The willingness of these workers to subscribe on the suggested basis has been one of the features of the drive,” said Stanley W. Shipnes, general chairman. He said “this co-operative spirit” has spurred the solicitors to “go over the top.” The drive closes Oct. 23. : Sh The special gifts division continued its pace-setting record of pledges today. Prior to the luncheon Joe Rand Beckett and William MH. Trimble, captains, had reported 115 per cent of their quota. Others in the division and their percentages were: Henry C. Atkins Sr. and H. Foster Clippinger, 1134 per cent; C. Otto Janus and J. J. Kiser, 101 [per cent; J. Duane Dugan and Richard Graham, 102.6 per cent; Henry Holt and Donald A. Morrison, 109.4 per cent; Mrs. James F. Carroll and Mrs. Sylvester Johnson, 107 per cent.
Captains Top Quotas
Captains in the individual gifts division who have exceeded their quota are: Eph Levin, Lee Hillman and Robert I. Boyer, 213 per cent; Robert J. Schwab, 125 per cent; Ralph Story, 105 per cent; Paul Gray, 100 per cent. Residential division captains “over the top and still going strong” are Mrs. Norman E. Patrick, 135.2 per cent; Mrs. Luther 8. Lytle and Miss Mattie Surgeon, 130 per cent, and George Témplin, 121.1 per cent, The fourth report luncheon will be held Wednesday at noon in the Claypool hotel
8TH RATION DISTRICT DESIGNATED IN GITY
Residents of the northeastern section of the city will receive permits to buy rationed goods from headquarters at 1030 College ave. The establishment of the northeastern district was announced today by Alex L. Taggart, county rati administrator and brings the tof in the county. Only one more district remains to be opened—North
north of Fall creek to 38th st. The northeastern district will service the territory east from College ‘ave. along 38th st. to the Big Four railroad tracks, southwest to 10th st., west to College and north to 38th st. The district is under the supervision of rationing board 49-9 and headquarters will be open from 9 a. m. to noon and 1 p. m. to 4 p. m. during week-days and on Saturday from 9 a. m. to noon. The board is headed by Henry Stelck, 3750 Watson rd. a retired oil marketer. Other members include James H. Drill, 1404 N. Dearborn st, a retired conductor; the Rev. William Kendall, 2802 Carrollton ave., Presbyterian minister; Edgar Brown, 2440 Adams st., a retired post office clerk, and E. E. Keller, 3525 Gladstone ave., executive secretary of the Indianapolis Restaurant association. -
23 INDIAN GIRLS HELD
NEW DELHI, Oct. 12 (U. P.)~ Police arrested 23 school girls, some only nine or 10 years old, marching through the streets of Old Delhi yesterday in a memorial procession for natives killed during recent independence riofs. :
number to eight districts|
central No. 2 which covers territory |
The two Civil War siege guns, on which thousands of children have teetered in the last 30 or more years, were to be parted from their cement moorings in the basement of the Soldiers & Sailors monument and
metal heap today. The guns have been in the monu-
| ment longer than the present monu-
ment staff can remember: Col. John D. Friday, member: of the Indiana Battle Flags commission, said they
23| probably were used for coast defense.
They have rifled barrels and were fired by fuses. Placed in the picture gallery of the monument, the guns have entertained the children while their parents viewed the hundreds
use the youngsters gave them. In their place will be installed a partition to hang pictures of Indiana men who are serving in World War 11, officials said. Each gun weighs several tons. = ” os
The scrap metal campaign in the schools last week was so successful that the scores of trucks assigned to pick up the piles of scrap from the school yards Saturday afternoon were unable to complete their task. It was estimated that the youngsters contributed more than 3,000,000 pounds. The City Park Board today assigned 12 trucks to complete the gathering of the school scrap. ” ” » The American newspapérs’ scrap metal campaign went into its third and final week today. Blodgett Brennan, Marion county salvage director, urged residents to continue to bring their scrap metal to the 700 depots throughout the county if possible. If the scrap metal is too bulky, they are urged to call MArket 3321 and arrangements will be made to pick it up. »
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Monument Put in Scrap Pile
the state, Hammond claimed a per capita salvage that topped all other cities in the country with each of the city’s more than 70,000 per-
sons being represented in the harvest by more than 200 pounds of
added to Uncle Sam’s growing scrap | SCTaP.
Also well up in the records, probthe state, was Gary with collections of more than 100 pounds per capita so far. In St. Joseph county, it was estimated the drive would yield apSaturday,
pound per person average.
total of 676 tons. .
ably in the nation as well as in,
proximately 4,270,000 pounds of metal by the end of the campaign a figure which would represent for the county a 26%-
At the southern end of the state, scrap drive officials said final sorting and weighing revealed a net
‘ PRP 4 | WASHINGTON, Oct. 12 (U, P.). —Author Bertrand Russell suggested last night that a four-man States, Great Britain, the Soviet Union and China, be appointed to negotiate with leaders of India for a settlement of the British-Indian dispute. # : Russell was one of four wellknown writers who discussed the question, “What About India?” on the American forum of the air broaticast. Others were Pearl Buck, T. A. Raman, former London editor for the United Press of India, and Louis Fischer, noted writer and lecturer.
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