Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 March 1944 — Page 2

TRAFFIC DEATHS

Pedestrian, Streetcar, Dies; Train Kills Woman.

raised Marion county's traffic toll . to 20 today, two mbre than during |. the same period last year.

Roy A. Taylor, of 1302 Bridge st. ys

- an employee of the Beveridge Paper

Co., died late yesterday of injuries .

received when struck by a streetcgr at Washington and Illinois sts. An unidentified woman, about 42 years old, was instantly killed yesterday afternoon when she was struck by an eastbound Pennsylvania train rear Southeastern and

Arsenal aves. Witnesses said she was walking

across the tracks where there was

no crossing. She was wearing a green dress with red figures in it and a pink knitted shawl over her head. Mr. Taylor, who was 60 and had Jived in Indianapolis 20 years, was struck by a street car as he -was hurrying across Washington st., east of the pedestrians’ crosswalk area. Charles ‘Murphy, 982 West Drive, Woodruff pl, operator of the street car, told police -Mr, Taylor ran in front of his car and that the vehicle dragged him several feet. Survivors are “his mother, Mrs. Kizzie Taylor, Indianapolis; ‘brothers, Paul and Grim Taylor, and two sisters, Miss India-Taylor and Mrs, Martha Swartz .of Indianapolis.

WIFE DESCRIBES MATE

WASHINGTON, March 3 (U, P.). . =A woman stormed into the dis"trict attorney's office and demanded that her husband be arrested for | hitting her “on the head with a - kettle.” Asked for a description of the culprit, she replied: “Bald, con-

INCREASED TO 20

Tred by. &

- The death of another pedestrian

‘Suspected Arsonist Still

Ott confessed to collecting a $1000

James Ott’'s confession, implicating his wife, reportedly has cleared up the mystery over origin of the $2,000,000 fire at the Evansville state hospital last February.

Coma After Taking Sleeping Pills.

LOGANSPORT, Ind., March 3 (U. P.). ~The condition of Mrs. Aleen Ott, named by her husband as the instigator of three institutional fires including the $2,000,000 Evansville fire last spring, was to reach a crisis today from the effects of an overdose of sleeping pow der taken Tuesday night, Mrs, Ott has been in a coma since she took between 12 and 15 grains| of a powerful sleeping potion, Dr.| L. J. Hillis said she would reach a crisis sometime today and added that he was hopeful she would resist the effect of the drug. Deputy State Fire Marshal Hugh McGowan was to file charges against James Ott, 46, her husband, today in Dubois county. He said

insurance policy on his Birdseye, Ind, home. Ott said his wife set fire to the home where his mother was on her deathbed. The elder Mrs. Ott was moved from the house

T6-MAN'S TASK | T0 FIND HOME!

NN then Indianapolis.

Percy Wyly, 222-Pounder, ‘Quit Law to War on U.S. Crime. he

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and took over his first assignment in his New York bureau. In 1936 he returned to Washington as assistant to J. Edgar Hoover. His bulls-eye marksmanship won for him the job of instructor in firearms training in 1937 when he became assistant agent in charge of the Washington field office. Later he was placed in charge of the following bureaus: Richmond, Va. Memphis, San Diego, Miami, Jackson, Miss, Memphis again and

He shyly acknowledges the fact that he's participated in a few sensational man-hunts, but minimizes his experience with the observation that, “ang PF. B. I. man who's been on the force for more than a year works on cases receiving national publicity.”

Gangs Fading .

A considerable portion of his time in Indianapolis, he says, will be devoted to internal security problems, many of them relating to the state's sizable alien population. All known aliens are on the FBI suspect list, he assures. Their best chance of getting their names off this file, he declares, is to become naturalized. The criminal “gang” phenomena has faded considerably since the war, the’new chief remarked. This has its disadvantages too, though, because, according to the newcomer, “single operators are more difficult to catch.” He discretly declined to comment on the local enforcement war in which the police department, the prosecutor and the courts are often at odds with each other, saying only that “enforcement co-operation is

temptible and ugly.”

prior to the fire.

essential to good police work.”

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CHICAGO GAMING KING

CHICAGO, March 3 (UP)— John Joseph Williams, South Side gaming king, 'was wounded critically today in the latest phase of the underworld’s battle for control of the city's lush gaming empire, left leaderless hy the suicide of Frank (The Enforcer) Nitti, — Williams was ‘Shot “while driving his ear in the heart of his gambling district. Seven shotgun slugs entered his arms and back. Both sides of his automobile were ripped ‘by slugs, leading :police to believe his. assailants had been sta-

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

Actress in First Role Wins ‘Oscar’ Award; Paul Lukas Shares With Jennifer Jones|

CRITICALLY WOUNDED

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actor. for his role in the comedy of life in Washington, “The More the Merrier.”

The strikingly handsome Katina Paxinou, , with her hair glistening | in the blue-white lights and her deep purple dress making shadows across the ‘stage, made the one] poignant speech of the’ evening as she accepted her prize as best supporting actress in “For Whom the Bell Tolls.”

tioned on both sides of the street.

News in the neckline 4.00

“I accept the award on behalf of

my colleagues in Athens—alive or dead,” she began. While thousands outside the theater on Hollywood blvd. tried in vain to find seats in bleachers on both sides of the street, and a ba tery of searchlights cast their beams ‘In the skies, the great and the nears great of Hollywood sat inside, at $11 per seat, watching the three-hour program unreel. There were dozens of technical awards, climaxed by the directorial prize going to one of Hollywood's

tiz, who made “Casablanca.” Miss Jones, mother of two children and separated -from her husband, Robert Walker, strode through the glare of the spotlights, ooking almost as though she were a high school girl in her first party dress; ~ ip The audience, consisting of everybody of note in Hollywood from Frank Sinatra to Capt. Clark Gable, cheered some more, and the movie makers’ biggest evening of the year fame to an end si & sedais 11

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