Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 February 1943 — Page 8

U. S. JURY FREES

MISS PARROTT

Novelist Rushes Tearfully From Courtroom After Hearing Verdict.

MIAMI, Fla. Feb. 27 (U. P)—A federal court jury, consisting of 12 middle.. aged married men, today deliberated only 10 minutes before returning a verdict of not guilty in the case of Ursula Parrott, novelist on trial here for allegedly aiding’ ‘a soldier to escape from a Miami Beach military stockade. The writer was freed of all three counts. Judge John W. Holland completed his directions to the jury at 11:15 p. m. -(Indianapolis time) and the verdict was returned 10 minutes later. The end of the trial came after a morning session during which Defense Attorney Bart Riley waived his right to a final appeal to the jury. : Novelist Tearful After Judge Holland read the jury's decision Miss Parrott rushed from the court room with tears streaming down her face. She was greeted in the corridor of the Federal building by several women who clasped her hand and congratulated her on the verdict. She said she was “wonderfully happy.” Prosecution and defense late yesterday. Miss Parrott, who is 40 and in the process of divorcing her fourth husband, was tried on three counts: Helping Bryan to escape from a Miami Beach military stockade on Dec. 28 by hiding him in the back seat of her automobile; harboring him, and undermining the loyalty, discipline and morale of a member of the armed forces. :

Grabs Bryan's Hand

When the case rested, she ran up, grabbed Bryan's hand and led him from the courtroom, with a military policeman close behind. Neither she nor Bryan, 26, a former guitar player in Benny Goodman’s band, testified. Bryan said to testify might ineriminate him. Bryan and four other persons face a charge in New York of conspiring to operate a “reefer parlor” for service men. He aleady has been court-martialed and sentenced to military prison for one year for his night out with Miss Parrott. . Assistant United States Attorney Ernest L. Duhaime read a confession Miss Parrott made after she and Bryan surrendered on Dec. 29. She assumed full responsibility for his escape, and said she and Bryan had “dinner at the Columbus hotel and then went to the airport and other places and walked around all night.”

Registers as “Baker”

The government called two witnesses who said Bryan took a room at a hotel the night of Dec. 28 as “Artie Baker.” R. A. Duke, room steward, said the next morning he served:breakfast to a man and woman in “Baker's” room, but-couldn’t identify

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MIDWEST PARLEY ON MANPOWER CALLED

DES MOINES, Feb. 27 (U. P.).— Governor B. B. Hickenlooper of

Iowa yesterday requested the gov_ernors of 11 corn belt states and several high-ranking government officials to attend a manpower and production conference in Des . Moines March 15. Among those invited were Claude R. Wickard, secretary of agricul‘ture; Paul V. McNutt, chairman of the war manpower commission, and Donald M. Nelson, chairman of the war production board. Hickenlooper told the corn belt governors that “a program must be found at once if ‘the consequences of serious food shortages are to be avoided and if we are to be able to produce the all. important supplies for our armies and our people as well as those of our allies.” The invitation went to governors of Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin, Illinois, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Kansas and North and South Dakota.

WAVE, SPAR ENSIGNS TO ADDRESS MEETING

The Delta Upsilon alumni association will hold its monthly dinner meeting at 6:15 p. m. Monday in ‘the Canary Cottage. Guests will include Ensign Mary Richmond of the WAVES and Ensign Jane Binck‘ley of the SPARS. Engaged in recruiting activities, the two ensigns will speak on the qualifications for enlistment and how their organizations are aiding the war effort. Officers of the association are Howard M. Humphreys, president; Everett E. Lett, vice president; Harold 8S. Brown, secretary-treasurer, and BE. Carl Watson and E. R. Grisell, directors.

MACGILL IS NAMED EDITOR OF STUDENT

Times Special

: BLOOMINGTON, Ind., Feb. 27.— Robert MacGill of Indianapolis has been named “editor-in-chief of the Indiana Daily Student for the bal- . ance of the present semester. Eugene J. Cadou Jr., also of Indianapolis, will be managing editor, Marilyn V. Vice was named an associate editor and Jimmie Angelopolous was named a night editor. Both are from Indianapolis.

DISCONTINUE 2 TRAINS

_ SOUTH BEND, Feb. 27.(U. P).— Pennsylvania railroad officials were advised today that the public service commission had granted a petition to discontinue two passenger trains Between South Bend and

A man of Malta eats bread in big hunks as more food arrives,

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|REALTORS FIND GARDEN PLOTS:

Real Estate Board Enlists ~ 685 Victory Planting Sites.

In less than a week letters sent out by Robert L. Mason of the Indianapolis Real Estate board to members have brought more than 685 lots to be used by Indianapolis victory gardeners.

Members were asked to assemble all possible vacant lots. They also were requested to ask owners for permission to use the available lots for victory gardens. The response was immediate and lists of lots and owners are still pouring in at the board office. The actual distribution of the lots contributed through the efforts of the board will be handled through the office of civilian defense in the

i {world war memorial building.

A barefoot birl carries a sack of seed to her Malta farm.

The Maltese cats and dogs are get~ ting back to regular rations now that more convoys come through,

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Farmers carry on and convoys bring in supplies in increasing volvme for the sturdy people of Malta, the world’s most-bombed spot. Here are some of the faces of Malta’s rural population, the folk who farm the rocky soil to feed the fighters who have held this Mediterranean island through three years of air raids.

Rutledge Comes A ° To Lawyers’ Aid WASHINGTON, Feb. 27 (U. P.). —Wiley Rutledge, new supreme court justice, said today that the continued drafting of lawyers for the armed services soon may become dangerous to internal security. : Speaking at a judicial circuit corference here, he said “There

can be no law in the sense of ordered liberty without lawyers.” “May God speed the day when lawyers shall return to their accustomed place,” he said. “Let no man call us ‘non-essen-tial’ That word ‘has been whis-* pered about us and our work of late. And too often, also, without challenge. We are prepared to give whatever may be needed of us. We are not prepared to accept that appellation as we do so.”

SEEKS ARM CLASS LAFAYETTE, Ind. Feb. 27 (U. P.) —Purdue officials were to confer today with fifth service com-

bus, O., to complete negotiations of a contract for specialized technical training of a contingent of 500 army men,

mand representatives from Colum-j.

5000-TON JAP SHIP BOMBED AT WEWAK

MacARTHUR'S HEADQUARTERS, Australia, Feb, 27 (U. P.).—Flying fortresses struck heavily before dawn Friday at Wewak on the north coast of New Guinea, scoring a direct hit and two damaging near misses on g 5000-ton Japanese cargo ship and blasting the nearby airdrome, a gcommunigue announced today. Damaging near misses also were reported on three small)\Japanese ships bombed by a single fortress off the north coast of New Britain Friday morning. Still other fortresses and Liberators dumped 10 tons of bombs on the runway and dispersal bays at Gasmata airdrome on the south coast of New Britain. The attack on Wewak, nearly 500 miles northwest of Buna, lasted more than three hours and explosions on the airdrome runway and dispersal bays were believed to have caused heavy damage to enemy planes on the ground.

BAND SPONSORS PARTY The kitchen band of the Women of the Moose will sponsor a public card party at 8 p. m. tomorrow in the Moose temple, 135 N. Delaware

THIS CURIOUS WORLD

OF RAIN AND SNOW FALL ON THE EARTH

By William : Ferguson

== | Wartime.”

The gardening committee of the OCD is seeking to provide the lots for potential gardeners, so that Indianapolis may reach its quota of 20,000 victory gardens this year. Mr. Mason was appointed to supervise the board’s project by Walter M. Evans, president. Working with Mr. Mason is J. W. Van Briggle, an associate board member and member of the OCD committee in charge of obtaining vacant lots.

REPORTER SEES

Vienna Press Chief Tells Hoosier Editors Nazis to Survive 43.

Don’t count on the war in Europe being over before 1944, Alvin J. Steinkopf, Associated Press writer who headed the Vienna bureau from 1934 to 1939, told the Hoosier State Press association here last night. The two-day convention — the largest yet with 93 representatives attending —was to end with a morning session today at the Lincoln hotel. : “The Nazis will not crack in this vear unless one or more of three things force them to fall apart,” Mr. Steinkopf said. “If our air attack is terrifically successful, if there are some assassinations, or if German morale snaps completely, then the war in Europe might end this year.” He said he did not expect those things to happen.

Lauds Home Front

Concerning the war effort here, he said he was “amazed” upon his

|return after being interned by the

Germans at Bad Neuheim with other American correspondents and diplomats. “German propaganda had led me to believe that this country was being torn apart by internal dissension,” he said. “I believe we're doing amazingly well.” The convention opened yesterday with a luncheon at the Hotel Lincoln at which J. Frank McDermond Jr., president, said that “our destinies are safe under the protection given by a free press.” He complimented Indiana editors for the part they are playing in the voluntary censorship now imposed. He asserted that it should be brought to the attention of the people continuously, to demonstrate a free press can work, even in wartime. Newspapers Have Duty

In a speech at the afternoon session, Edwin F. Abels, publisher of the Lawrence (Kas.) Outlook and president of the National Editorial association, urged publishers to conserve printing paper. He said a national advertising agency is being organized to help the small publisher obtain his share of countrywide advertising, R. J. Cupler, sales manager of the Meyer Both Co. of Chicago told delegates that it is their duty to help their subscribers keep up-to-date in “all the new things replacing those knocked out by priorities.” He said advertising can carry many messages to the people that editorial columns do not. At a breakfast session today, Leo A. Learner of Bocster publications, Chicago, spoke on “The Editor in Wray E. Fleming, general counsel of the association, discussed “Analysis of Publishers’

\ J. | Wartime Problems” and Maj. E. L.

Nelson, chief of the public rela- : tions branch ot the army for the fifth service command at Ft. Hayes,

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COPR, 1943 BY NEA SERVICE, T. M. RETC UC 8, PAT, OFF ad

BUENOS AIRES, LARGEST CITY SOUTH OF THE EQUATOR, TOGETHER WITH ITS SUBURBS, HOUSES

ABOUT FOUR MILLION PEOPLE, OR. NEARLY ONE -7/7//RL OF THE

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Other speakers today included

| ; Herschel J. Blazer of the Aledo (Ill) Times-Record and Lieut. Col. ‘| George A. Irvin, regional field offi-

cer for the selective service system.

ADVICE ON RATIONING IS FREE, SAYS OPA

A number of Marion county grocers have reported to the state OPA that they have been contacted in the past few days by persons representing themselves as “point rationing consultants” and offering their assistance for a fee, James D. Strickland, OPA director, said today. “These men have no authoriza-< tion from the OPA,” Mr. Strickland said. “All educationsl work done in co-operation with the state office and local boards has been strictly on a volunteer basis through volunteer workers such as civilian de-

and civic-minded groups.”

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Shown above is one of the attractive homes built in the North Kessler Manor addition which has been developed by the Albert. E. Thompson Co. It is located at 2425 Kessler blvd. E., and was recently purchased by Dr. Lawson J. Clark. It has three bedrooms, two baths and a large social room in the basement.

(This is the eighth In a series of biographical sketches of Indianapolis realtors.)

An experience altogether novel to realtors came to Louis S. Hensley during the week when he was compelled to notify his Sigma Chi fraternity brothers to move posthaste ol of the home which he x had secured for them and in which he had installed them three years ago. The home, at 442 W. 46th st, was needed by the navy aviation cadets now in training at Butler university, The 15 young Mr. Hensley men who lived there will stay with their brothers who live in Indianapolis until next June. But during the 20 years he has been a mortgage loan banker, appraiser and realtor, Mr. Hensley has been the negotiator of other deals which gave him pleasure. One of them was the purchasing

Louis S. Hensley 20 Years

In Mortgage Loan Business

and subdividing of 21%; acres at Belmont ave., south, and W. Washington st. Part of this subdivision became the site of the Washington high school. Mr. Hensley was born in Indianapolis in i901. He is a graduate of Manual Training high school and Butler university.

As vice president of the Indianapolis Real Estate board in 1939, he was in charge of all the luncheons. He became a director of the board in 1940 for a three-year term.

He is a member of the board of the Athenaeum Turners, also the organization's secretary and member of the house committee. He is past vice president of the society of residential appraisers and a divisional air raid warden. , Two of his standing ' business connections are those with the John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Co. and the Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Co. He is mortgage correspondent for each. Mr. Hensley is a member of the Seventh Presbyterian church and of the Scottish Rite and the Shrine. Mr. and Mrs. Hensley lived at 5840 Washington bivd. They have two children,

Shrubbery Not

By T. R. MOSS Shrubbery around the home is not only a delight to the eye of the owner, but also a never-failing attraction to the passerby and the possible purchaser. It's the householder’s “front” before the world. More people see it in a day than see the inside of the house in a month. And it’s one im sure to increase i paid for. Beautifying a house and lot is not such a simple thing as planting a juniper here and a blossoming cherry there and a few evergreens along the porch or walk.

Evergreens Need Care -

It is a matter of good planning, correct planting, proper placement and scientific care after placement. An evergreen is a living thing, and like all living things must have correct amounts of shade and sunshine, heat and cold, and proper water and nourishment. There are more than 20 varieties of junipers alone, about 15 kinds of yews and 10 of spruce. Magnolias, flowering crabs, cherries, peaches, apples and plums, hawthornes, most any decorative tree or shrub has many varieties and it is difficult ‘or the amateur to make the proper selection.

The Landscape Architect

Some nurserizs have a landscape architect, who earns his title. by taking a four-year college course. A landscaping nursery with a landscaping architect on its staff will draw a blue print of your house and lawn and, after studying the architecture of the home and contour of the yard, determine what should be planted, and where. Others sell direct to the plants the shrubbery himself. Most nurseries in Marion county grow 90 per cent of their stock. It is best to deal with them in most instances because their trees and shrubs are already acclimated. Tens of thousands of specimens have been growing out in the open fields for six and eight years since they came out of the hothouse and are thoroughly capable of resisting anything which an Indiana winter or summer may offer. Older homes, especially, can be

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As little as $20 spént with the nurseryman will dress up the front of a modest cottage. If extensive improvements are desired, and the expense is too much to be met at once, he will draw up a complete plan now, making it possible to complete the most important part now and the rest later.

LEGISLATORS TO SPEAK

State Senator O. Bruce Lane (R. Bainbridge) and Rep. Leo M. Dennis (R. Pekin) will speak at the regular meeting of the Irvington Republican club at 8 p. m. Monday. Glenn W. Funk, club president, will preside.

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WPB REVISES REPAIR RULING

Work Done Along With New Construction ‘Subject To Board OK.

Under a new ruling of the war production board, where maintenance and repair work is done on buildings along with new construction, the. whole project will be considered new construction and ‘subject to the L-41 conservation order. The new. ruling, received from| Washington by Indiana war production board officials, came in the form of a “revised definition, effective immediately, of what constitutes maintenance and repair of a building.” In addition, the amendment reduces to $200 new construction which may be undertaken, without specific authority, by a number of manufacturing enterprises which are not, essential to the war program. The amendment also applies to private dwellings and commercial structures.

Conserves Materials

Order L-41 is a limitation order which is designed to prevent unnecessary construction in order to conserve materials, facilities and labor for essential war uses. It acts to shut off the flow of materials

from normal peacetime construction and route them to essential war obs. Under the new definition, maintenance and repair means the work that is necessary to keep a structure in sound condition, but does not include any building operation involving a structural alteration or change in design. Principal changes in the regulation under the amendment are:

gency work on any damaged structures for the protection of the structure and the public. 2. In prohibiting construction in violation of L-41, the &mended order forbids not only the beginning of such construction but also forbids the carrying on or participating in the work.

Cost Is Narrowed

3. The cost of construction as defined in the .order has been narrowed to exclude financing and insurance charges as elements of cost. 4. The exemption of certain types of agricultural construction is permitted to reflect the USDA rationing program. The order, as amended, provides that no construction may be begun or carried on unless it is specifically authorized by the WPB or unless the estimated cost of the project is limited to stated amounts. These amounts limit construction to $200 for residential and some specifically mentioned types; $1000 for multiple residential; $1000 for agricultural; $5000 for industrial and $1000 for “other restricted” construction not otherwise classified.

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Kiss and Make Up at75a

ST. LOUIS, Feb. 27 (U, Impressed after his recent riages of six elderly pe average age was 75, W. Rooney, 78, justice of the | Clarkton, Mo., decided cupid another chance. So, this week, Rooney 1 his former wife, Lulu €. 72, from whom he had vorced three years ago years of marriage. : “We realized we weren't | any younger, so we just to kiss and make u Rooney said.

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