Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 March 1944 — Page 2
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+ State Auditor Richard T. James is expected to toss his hat formally ‘“4nto the G. O. P. lieutenant governorship contest within the next
“few days.
* Mr, James was unanimously indorsed by his “for anything he wants” at a caucus here
fren,
District Chairman Early Merry ma
the lieutenant governorship nomipation. An indorsement by the home district is the usual prelude 40'a formal announcement, While there are a number of . prospective candidates for the : nomination for the No. 2 state job, there have as yet been no formal announcements. Consid-
erable campaigning has been {
done, however, by State Senator . Clyde Black, Logansport; Rep. . Glen Slenker, Monticello, and Mayor John Hampton of Muncie. Lt. Gov, Charles Dawson, who is . considered a possible candidate for renomination, says he expects to make up his mind shortly on what he will do. He is being urged to seek the Republican congressional nomination from this
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Opposition Fading Mr. James, observers agree, Is the man to beat in this race and there are many who believe that, unless Lt. Gov. Dawson gets in, he will have no opposition at con--vention time. Senator Black and Rep. Slenker hurt the chances of the other since they come from the same district, the second, and Mayor . Hampton is not well known throughout the state. Mr, James, who at 34 is com- ~ pleting his second term as state auditor, is organizationally very + strong. His district will have the : second largest block of delegates ;. in. the state convention and he has more than a dozen county “ chairmen throughout the state ** working for him now in the gaso#z line inspection and store license . + divisons, . ” » 2
i G. 0. P. Meet Overflows To use the vernacular, the Re2: publican editorial = association =’ meeting here Saturday was some “shindig. It wasn't so long ago that one couldn't have imagined ~' there were so many Republicans in the state. But with the smell £” of victory in the air, every man ‘and his brother who has a dream “of getting to be a postmaster, deputy collector of internal reve- - nue, state welfare worker or member of the state parole board turned out to show his interest in the party's welfare. The editorial association had to have two extra batches of tickets printed for the banquet and finally had to send 25 would-be diners down to the main dining room at the Claypool to eat— couldn't even seat them in the lobby outside the banquet room. 2 ” » 4
Resolution Blocked The major fireworks of the week-end came Friday night when Henry Marshall, Lafayette publisher and Willkie-hater, launched a move to get the G. O. P. state committee to adopt a pro-Dewey résolution the next day. State Chairman Ralph Gates, who so far has successfully kept the fuse from being lighted on the presidential keg-of dynamite in this state, immediately swung into action, called the committee into session informally and there convinced his colleagues that they couldn't afford to permit such a resolution to even be introduced because they would either have to vote for or against. The district chairmen agreed and the resolution never got far out of Mr. Marshall's hands. But Mr. Gates, who is a candidate for the gubernatorial nomination and is anxious to keep from antagon- . izing any element, did plenty of sweating before the matter was shelved.
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More Entries Indicated ODDS AND ENDS: Concern-
ing reports that he will be a can- |
didate for state auditor, Deputy State Auditor Ross Teckemeyer says, “I am not a candidate as of today.” Emmett LaRue, former Jasper county G. O. P. chairman, likely will be a candidate for a supreme court judge-
home district, the Saturday. Acting de it plain that the “anything” was
ship nomination. . . . Beh Gallion, Grant county treasurer-and president of the county treasurer's association, is thinking of becoming a candidate for the G. O. P. state treasureship nomination. There are two announced candidates already, Wallace Weatherholt and Oscar G. Couch. Ruel Steele,
enter the treasureship race because he is going into the armed
press of business, spend more than one week here for the special session. The Republican
_ what is to be passed at the ses sion at a caucus here shortly before the session opens. . . . Ross Castle, mayor of Connersville and past president of the Indiana Municipal league, is another mayor who is toying with the idea of getting into the G. O. P. gubernatorial contest. s = 8 Senator Taft's speech before the G. O. P. editorial association in one sentence: Roosevelt is a stinker, s 2 » G. O. P. Saturday night scene: Horace Coats, Capehart publicity man, standing in ninth district headquarters (Lt. Tucker's) and expounding expansively on why the state needs a man “like Capehart” in the senate. o = » Chief" reason for “Chairman Gates wanting the public to know that party opposition to the federal ballot plan does not mean that the Republican party is opposed to letting the soldiers vote: He got a letter from his son in the Southwest Pacific asking why the Republicans were against it.
DICE GIRL HELD IN TRUNK DEATH
Body of Gambler Found Stuffed in Compartment - Of His Auto.
CHICAGO, March 13 (U. P)~— A former dice girl, Mrs. Ethel Davis Moran, 26, was held today for questioning in connection with the death of James de Angelo, 40, as police sought to establish a motive for the slaying of the gambler. De Angelo, whose battered body was found trussed up in the trunk of his car Saturday, formerly was part-owner of a night club where Mrs. Moran worked. Police emphasized, however, that she was not a suspect but was held because they
mation about the victim's associates. . At the same time, police pressed their search for Onofrio Vitale, 42, a close friend of the victim who disappeared Feb. 24, the day De Angelo was last seen. Officers expressed the belief that Vitale may have been killed at the same time.
Link to Another Slaying
Police also sought to establish some connection between De Angelo’s death and Vitale's disappearance and the gangland murder of
death as he sat half-shaved in a barber chair last Dec. 6. Vitale was
an émployee of a cheese company which O’Neglia headed. .
what appeared to &% the body of a
{man into the physiaiens
Coroner's said De Angelo had been dead for 10 or 12 {days and he probably was alive when his body was bound and jammed into the trunk. Neither Mrs. Sara de Angelo, the victim's {widew, nor her two children could | throw any light on the slaying.
War Changes
Gunner as His Buddies Die
SGT. JOHN 8S. CHIDDER, 2, a gunner, rode the Flying Fortress,
“Heaven's Angels,” over Germany
dies the war among the clouds was an impersqnal thing. They never saw the enemy: Once, returning to England, they flew so high John's eardrum burst. On the next mission; the Fortress went over Germany without him. It didn't come back. This changed the war for John Chidder. He wrote to his father, John Chidder, of Columbus, O., telling . What the war means to him now. _ % :
This is his letter: Dear Dad:
Here is the letter that you've been wailing for so long. Dad,
my crew got knocked down. They went out on a rald, but never came back. I didn’t go because I'm grounded, and I guess I should be thankful for my bum ear, but I'm not! I couldn't write to you about it before because we are not allowed to. The government has to notify their parents first. I knew I couldn't write" to you without mentioning ‘it, so I didn't write, I feel pretty damned bad about it, Dad, as I figure I should have been along. My best buddies went “down with that ship, Pop, and Tm not forgetting it. This is 8 personal war for me now, Dad,
for one thing, to come home. I'm out for blood. I'm fight 20 kill. The more Germans I
pd I mean it. Before I was fight-.
for Fortress
many times. For, John and his bud-
a so
to rest until I do. I only hope that they don't get me before my mission is completed." That's how 1 feel, Dad. I can't help it. I just learned what war really is, That's the story, Pop, and please try and understand why I couldn't write before. Am still in the hospital, but I hope to be out soon. In your last letter you told me you were promoted in the shop. Thought you were up one on your boy, eh Pop? I think I'm one up on you, because, as you will notice by my return address, I have been promoted to a sergeant. What do you think of your boy now? .Dad, if this race between father and son continues, you'll be president of Bonney's, and I'll be a general before this war ends. I had to mix a little good news with the bad, J and all I've got to say is that now is my chance to prove that I'm worthy of my promotion, That's all for now, Dad. Please explain to Mom and my beloved sisters. Be take care of yourselves, and God bless you all.
paign to get the soldier vote for
Lawrence .county clerk, will not® of the National Federation of Woms=
forces. . . . Most G. O. P. legisla- |propaganda medium” to get the soltors who were here Saturday sald {dier vote. The proper antidote, he that they could not, because of |said, would be for Republicans to
about the manner in which the ad-
legislators will decide finally on |ers.”
National Politios—
[ASK MOTHERS TO)
URGE WAR VOTE Republicans Oben ‘Letters-
To-Servicemen’ Drive to Block F. D. R.
WASHINGTON, March 13 (U.P). —Rep. Charles E. Halleck (R. Ind) last night urged Republican women to join a letters-to-servicemen cam-
the G. O. P. and to block a fourth term for President Roosevelt. He told the closing session of a three-day advisory board meeting
en's Republicans «clubs that the new deal was using “every possible
write and “tell the boys the truth ministration has misused its pow-
Chairman Harrison Spangler of the Republican National committee warned that the “American way of life” faced its greatest threat in a hundred years through administration attempts to regiment the people, “tamper with the constitution” and undermine the faith of the people in congress. Mrs. Clyde Corbin, national chairman of the Young Republican National Federation, said the party in the next few weeks will start a drive to get the vote of first-time voters in colleges, offices and on the farms. ) Advisory board resolutions commended the 78th’ congress for its “reassertion of independence and initiative” and denounced the administration for making a “political football of the soldier vote.”
Ralph Roberts
Times Special
WASHINGTON, March 13—Ralph Roberts, Rockport, chief doorkeeper of the house of representatives, does not intend to seek the Democratic nomination for congress in the 8th Indiana district he declared today. It had been reported that he might do so and he admitted talking with several district leaders regarding the matter. “I. certainly would not go through a primary contest to get it,” Mr. Roberts said. “Should the Democratic organization decide I should run and no opposition arise, I could be drafted to take it, of course. Otherwise, I am not interested.” A world war I veteran and A. E. F. marine, Mr. Roberts has been a house employee for 20 years. His present job is rated as one of the highest in the house and he has an expansive office and is in charge of a staff of 40. # : He succeeded the late Joseph Sinnott. One of ‘Mr. Roberts’ assignments is to announce the arrival of messages from the President, the President himself or the senate and supreme court members, when extraordinary sessions are held in the house.
Alben Barkley PITTSBURGH, March 13 (U. P).
tion and understanding among mankifid was stressed by Senator Alben W. Barkley in an address here before 1200 at the annual banquet of the Dapper Dan club. The Kentucky senator, who recently caused a political stir by his revolt against the President's veto of the tax bill, spoke here last night. He made only casual references to politics. 4 “The recent tax bill was not satisfactory to anyone—we hope to do better next time’ was his only al-
President's veto, which was overridden. The senator would not make any predictions as to the length of the
said, . The audience was urged to strive for an era in which men shall be guaratneed the right to labor, the right to share in profits and the right to. enjoy the four freedoms. The senate majority leader warned that unless we advance in the enjoyment of democracy, our soldiers will have fought in vain.
Burton K. Wheeler
CINCINNATI, O, March 13 (U. P.) —~Two definite steps are necessary if a United States of Europe is formed as the basis for a lasting peace, Senator Burton.K. Wheeler (D. Mont.) said yesterday in a radio address. * ~ “First,” Wheeler said in udvocating such -a plan, “is the mainten-
ern Europe and the integration of Germany into this new order— such - federation to be based <n human liberty and national equality after the pattern of Switzerland.”
IRVIN S..COBB RITES
held this afternoon.
son, both requested by Cobb.
Chariot” and - “Deep River,”
was a neighbor of the Cobbs ducah, Ky.
ance of the countries of eastern Europe between the Baltic and Aegean seas as independent communities and their integration. as. an organic | whole.” : Second, he said, is further restriction of German influence in Europe “by a federal organization of west-
up ‘against Germany, but assured the people that no “decisive penetra-| tion” had been made. ¥
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12 Firemen Hurt in Blaze
destroyed three’ buildings of a wholesale butcher shop in the rear of 3025 8. Rural st, Damage was estimated at $10,000 and two firemen were injured as
passed they fought the flames which
started in a smokehouse Saturday night and broke out anew early yesterday. ’
|" 'Butchering equipment, including
meat slicers, scales, electric motors and & refrigerating unit were ruined, and Eugene Lutz, proprietor, said neither the equipment nor buildings were insured. The second fire was believed to have started from the contact of burning embers with sawdust insu-
“County $4,000. ) Final War Loan
| "inal tabulations of fourth war|s
TS navy, told Se that Marion county's “total. was be Gétman beopie yesterday in | That Causes 0s Set [HRmS4330, mors than W400A00 Heroes Day” that Germany was At $10,000. The state's final sales otal was fighting for her very existence $10,000. $292,581,000, or 125% -per cent of Th praised tnt the struggle | pive. thousand pounds of meat|the goal. nr cont ie yout to a "victorlous | went up tn smoke yesterday as fire| County purchases of “E* bonds,
was 50 per cent higher than last
_ State “E” bond sales totaled $81, 011,000, or 108 per cent of the goal.
‘conducted a $10,000,000 drive. Sales
lation packed in the walls of the refrigeration building, | = Lt. John Ward, 1014 LeGrande ave, a member of the crew of Pumper 26, was in a fair condition at City hospital. He was injured when he was knocked off a table in the refrigeration building by the stream from high pressure hose. Battalion Chief Frank A. Braun was cut on the face by flying bits of glass. @ fy Water was hauled from Beech
IN POLICE RAIDS
Gambling and Liquor Law Violations- Head List 0f Charges.
The police department stepped up its raiding forays during the weekend, arresting 67 persons on charges ranging from gambling and liquor law violations to vagrancy. Heading the list’ was the wellknown Lucky 13 club, 46 N. Pennsylvania st, which for several months had been..operating under a temporary fTrestraining-—order against police until dissolved recent
y. Arrested there were Herman Higgs, 4809 E. 21st st., alleged club president, on. charges of liquor law violation and failure to have ‘a dance permit, and George Cogan, 119 Cecil ave., also charged with liquor law violation, and an unidentified woman charged with drunkenness, disorderly conduct and vagrancy.
50 Ordered to Leave
Fifty other persons in the club rooms were ordered to leave the place. Gambling charges were filed today against 31 persons arrested in a raid yesterday on the Hotel Waiters, Cooks and Employees’ association quarters at 424 N. California st. George Hibbitt was charged with keeping a gaming house and the others were charged with visiting a gaming place.
In 10 other raids, police squads arrested 33 persons, charging them with gambling and violating the liquor laws. State excise - police added two more to the week-end grist when they raided a place at 428 W. Pearl st., arresting Mrs. Kate Murphy and William Sterling on liqudr law violation charges.
BADGE AWARDS SET FOR JUNIOR POLICE
Brightwood junior police will be
believed she could give some infor-|_ rye necessity of unity, co-opera- [the first of the city's ci de.
fense youth organizations to be officially inducted and given their badges. Ceremonies will be held at 3:15 p. m. tomorrow at school 51 and at the same time Thursday at school 73. Police Chief Clifford Beeker will present the badges; Fire Chief H. H. Fulmer will deputize the boys as fire inspectors and Harry E. Yockey, city OCD director, will welcome them into the organization. Other guests will be Paul V. Brown,
Thomas O'Neglia, Who was shot 0,00 to his recent protest to the Park head; Emmett! Rice, youth ac-
tivities director of city schools, and the two school principals. The boys have completed six week’s training in first aid, police
De Angelos body was found in|... "wwe know victory is certain, technique, safety, fire defense, milihis car after an anonymous caller|y, "wor will last until we have tary courtesy, flag ethics and cititold police he saW four men stuff}, yieyed victory on every front,” he|zenship under the Planning With
Youth program.
DOG BACK FROM WAR IS HOME FRONT HERO
Patty, an honorable discharged member of the K-98 corps, was a hero today. The 2-year-old police dog and her puppy, Kippy, raced back and forth in their yard this morning, barking furiously. When their mistress, Mrs. Henry Hoereth, 1137 8. Kenwood ave. came out to see what was. wrong, she saw flames in the house next door, 1141 8S. Kenwood ave. called the fire department.
not serious,
exploded.
She |
Charles Deaton, 18, was awakened by the fire in his home and jumped through a window. He was taken to City hospital and treated for cuts... His condition was reported
Firemen said the fire started in the kitchen when a kerosene stove
TWO FAMILIES ILL’ FROM FOOD POISON
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BEING HELD TODAY
NEW YORK, March 13 (VU. P.).— Private funeral services for Irvin 8. Cobb, humorist and author, will be
Dr, John Siatherland Bonnell, pastor of Fifth Avenue Presbyterian church, will read the 23d psalm and a verse from Robert Louis Steven-
Two spirituals, “Swing Low, Sweet his favorites, will be played by Harry Gilbert, organist at the church, who in Pa-
Four adults and three children were suffering from food poisoning today after they ate a late lunch of sardines, beef and.noodles at their home last night.
at 145 8. Arsenal ave., were Mr. and Mrs. Desco Welman and their 4-year-old daughter, Carol and Mrs. and Mrs. Clayton May: and their two children, Bonnie May, 9, and Stanley, 6. The three Wellmans and the two May: children were in a fair condition at the City hospital. Mr. and Mrs. May .were treated at the hospital and returned home.
RIPPLE CLUB TO MEET The. Broad Ripple Business and
The #1 persons, all of whom live ||
Professional Women’s association “| will meet at 8 p. m. tomorrow at the home of Dr. Gertrude Hinshaw,
to all, 3
6325 Guilford ave, Mrs. Paul Pratt|
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Grove and pumped from a nearby pit to help put out the fire.
TROOPSHIP LAUNCHED
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