Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 August 1944 — Page 2

FT, WAYNE GRL|_ BRUTALLY SLAI

City in Furor Over 3d Murder of Woman in Six Months.

Times Special

FT. WAYNE, Aug. 7.—This city |

seethed with anger today over the third brutal murder of a woman here within the past six months. Latest victim was Phyllis Conine, 17-year-old South Side high school senior, whose battered, nude body was found in a weed patch southwest of the city yesterday. In many respects this case was parallel to the unsolved slayings of Anna Kuzeff, 19-year-old defense worker, who was found strangled on a lonely path May 23, and Billie Haaga, 38, who was bludgeoned to death Feb, 2.

Benninghoff to Report Miss Conine had been missing

since Friday afternoon when- she | left home to attend a movie. Dep- | i uty Coroner Dr. D. R. Benninghoft | said she had been dead sinte Fri-| day. Her skull had been crushed

instrument, believed by the coroner | to’ have been a hammer. Dr. Benninghoff said he would re. | port today whether the South Side high school senior had been crim- | inally assaulted. ‘Her body was discovered by Glen | Foulks, 39, defense worker, and his| brother, Wybourn Folks, 37, as they drove along the, ditch road, a sel_“dom_ traveled lane, about six miies cut of Ft. Wayne. Definife 'iden-

- tification ‘was £31209 Ny. the 3

girls uncle, E: A. Behnke. ‘Foulks said their attention firs was dttracted by ‘a pair of shoes and an umbrella lying on the road shoulder. They said they investigated further, finding more clothing draped on a fence."

Object of a Search

She had been the object of a search since her disappearance. Mayor Harry W. Baals had obtained . the aid of the civilian defense committee organization in the hunt and descriptions of the girl were broadcast from. a Ft. Wayne radio s.ation. Her parents had offered a reward, The girl's death came shortly after police had ceased full-time investigation of the Kuzeff and Haaga cases. A state police detective who had been working on both deaths was returfied to regular duties and Jules Stumpf, Ft. Wayne chief of

police, said that he saw no’ indi-

cation that either murder would be solved in the near future. Anna Kuzef! was attacked as she walked a lonely path to catch a streetcar to go to work on a midnight shift at a war plant. Billie Haaga, horribly beaten, lurched into a farmhouse on Feb. 2. She lived three days in a hospital but never regained conciousness,

Veteran of Four

Fronts Returns

COXSWAIN LEOTIS A. SHIRCLIFF, who had complete charge of troop landing barges on Saipan, Salerno, Sicily and in North Africa, is home today, wearing four bronze battle stars and ready for a much-needed rest. He is spending his 30-day leave in Indianapolis with his wife, Hazel, 5854 Dewey ave.. his brother-in-law and sister, Mr. and Mrs. Venard (Verne) Tres- | ter, 1173 Eugene st., and his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Shircliff, 813 Udell st, On his last trips to sea he took | off Japanese .prisoners on Saipan to be dropped by the transport in concentration pens. In action on Saipan he spent nine days and nights at the helm of his barge, almost continuously under enemy fire, shuttling marine invaders and supplies from transport to shore. He won the bronze star for this work.

| aircraft, {mans in a major battle at Vercelli | .n northern Italy, the London radio

ground lies prone to fire

a rifle grenade.

by. a series of blows with a blunt| Yank infantrymen dash across an open field in the face of heavy machine gun fire to engage S. S. troopers in close battle. The soldier in foreAt the right a bazooka gunner races along with his comrades to Join the attack.

Jeep-Riding Yank Enters Nazi-Held City, Dines, Dates Girl, Rides Away Next Day

GRANVILLE, Aug. 4 A 80... sergeant? Everyone in 7) know. S

Sodol .

lighted.

him. He finally understood.” - -

. BY. HELEN KIRKPATRICK “Ftmes Foreign Correspondent (Delayed) —~Who is the

7" He arrived in Granville on Saturday afternoon, July 297 The. Germans were still there. up in a jeep as though it were his own town. People gathered around—pleased, frightened, de-

“The Germans are still here,” they tried to tell

-“Where?” he asked. They pointed to an old

fortress high on ~PBRg-Ott:

Granville wants FEN HR NETL

He drove

a hill, He. drove off. Two shots

vag sre The sergeant returned to the Hotel Normandy. , “Can I, get something to eat?” he asked. ws NE = STL People by the hundreds gathered. around. ‘He_picked out a girl, made a ‘date, spent the evening with her, stayed the night in the hotel and at dawn he drove away. * “Goodbye,” he waved.

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“I'll be seeing you again.” |

Two days later the first American tanks came through the town. |

Hoosier dinner tables will have less butter on the menu within the next 30 days and perhaps for the rest of the year if the drought continues to burn up Indiana pastures. F, E. Tyrie, manager of the Indianapolis branch office of Schlosser Bros., Inc., said today that production has been reduced to a point where creameries are running from

GERMANS STILL HOLD FLORENCE OUTSKIRTS

ROME, Aug. 7 (U. P.).—Eighth army patrols on scouting missions in German-held sections of Florence reported today.that the enemy had withdrawn from the city except for machinegun nests along the north bank of the Arno river. It appeared that the battle for mastery of the ancient center of the Ttalian renaissance city will be decided in its east and west suburbs, where bitter fighting was in progress. (Italian partisans are operating in northern Italy on such a large scale that the province of Piedmont is in imminent danger of falling completely under their control, a Zuries dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph in London said today. The dispatch said some 6000 partisans were operating in Liguria, and added that

lat a meeting of Fascist leaders and

You'll Get Less Butter Soon If the Dry Spell Continues| »

15 to 20 per cent behind the 1943 rate, ' Predicting a “continuing shortage,” he said that the government took 50 per cent of the butter supply in June and 45 per cent in July and that the dry spell has caused a feed shortage and burned up pastures. Deliveries were cut 10 per cent last week by the Schlosser company and a similar cut is expected for next week. The only hope for improvement, Mr, Tyrie said, is an early end to the drought. The shortage already is being felt in other cities, with residents of Muncie reported to have been particularly hard hit and the supply of butter at a serious low. War food administration sources in Chicago said that government holdings were running far behind early estimates and that the supply in storage is well below the 1843

figure. All state producers are |him, was beaten on the head with

obligated to meet government re-

GEN. DEWITT FILLS | GEN. M’NAIR'S POST

American bomb on the Normandy front,

‘SEEK SLAYING CLUES

. Detectives today were still without clues to the solving of the murder of Lora V. Dale, Bible salesman, who was found beaten to death Sate urday morning at Pettijohn st. and the canal. i George Sneed and Plez Jones, assigned to the case, said that footpads probably. were responsible for the’ murder. = Mr. Dale, who was found lying in the rear of the Anderson Foundation, 403 W. Michigan st., with a new Bible next to

a blunt instrument.

quirements first,

He lived at 511 N. Illinois st. .

- traditional * church ceremony

| MARTHA "O'DRISCOLL PLANNING DIVORCE

HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 7 (U, P.)~ Martha O'Driscoll, blond- movie actress, said today that she planned to divorce Lt. Cmdr, Richard Donald Adams, whom she met when she

| was 13 and married at 21.

Miss. Driscoll, now 22 and still a Som nee Sighs of ber sagas)

and her 35-year-old h husband's navy | duties. They married Sept. 18, 1943, In a

in | Hollywood upon Adams’ return from

A young -| to death, another Hoosier was fatal-

WEEK Bl

Six Drownings | Head the List, With-3 Killed in Traffic, 2 Slain.

“By UNITED PRESS Violent death ‘claimed at least 12 lives in Indiana during the week-

Beeousien for three other deaths. woman was found beaten

ly stabbed and one was struck by lightning. . “The drownings occurred as thou‘sands thronged to lakes, streams and resorts to seek relief from a heat wave. State police recovered the body of Walter Kellermeler, 40, Ft. Wayne, from Lake Gage near Angola last night. Kellermeier fell from a canoe and was drowned.

Fatal Fishing Trip

Jasper Dishman, 39, and Grousure South, 11, New Castle, lost their lives when the boy floundered in a gravel pit and Dishman vainly went to his rescue. A fishing trip in White river near Washington cost the. life of a 36-year-old farmer, Herbert C. Lottes, who fell from a boat. His compahion, Orvall Catt, 30, tried to pull him to their capsized boat but

line, Another victim, was 10-year-old John = Campbell, Liberty, - who

“drowned Saturday night at Cedar Lake ‘where he was shehding a summer - camp. yo The beds ~4 Syn woe i ashore near Michigan City yesterday .and - Indiana state police attempted . to ° established identity through fingerprints today. -. At Greenfield, neighbors who dis-

Lottes’ legs were tangled in a trot-|

Michigan City police questioned Sephus Perry, 49, in the fatal stabbing early yesterday of Mrs, Clara Cole, 34. Ft. Wayne authorities] investigated the death of ~17-year-old Phyllis Conine, who was found beaten to death in a weed patch along a lonely road, Eugene Goodnight, 26, died when a tire on his automobile blew out

turned. His wife and two other passengers were. injured. : ~Oral King, 29, was killed near Muncie when his nwiereyels: over-

when struck by > hit-run car. At Logansport, Sheriff Harold Smith said he had arrested William Hill man, 47, Denver, in connection ly

extended sea duty.

covered Ferris Wood missing from

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CITY FATHERS PLAN HIKE IN 1945 LEVY

A $10645000 city corporation budget for 1945, requiring a tax rate of $1.53% cents, an increase of 18 cents over the current levy, will be submitted to the city council tos night by Mayor Robert Tyndall, The budget, prepared by city dee partment heads during the last twe

additional funds for new jobs that

turned. ou be created by the realignment. - he PAA 2, Was Dalelly poaikions mass: plan, gt EE I ely Other major increases in the

budget over current expenditures in clude $30,000 extra for the city health department for malaria cone trol, $100,000 additional for the park

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