Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 November 1944 — Page 10

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"Noon Makes Plea Tomorrow INDIANA MILLS WAIT

For New Trial in Son's Death! WASTE PAPER PICKUP

4 None df the waste paper to be Doctors told him he coull nOt|.;yecteq in Indianapolis next week

{accept help or sympathy, that he, with brains would go to all that!w,iid have to lick the thing on his| will lie idle in warehouses, officials

trouble, rigging wires and all that|own He was to reject proffered aid in charge of the four-day pick-up when he could have just smothered | when he fell down or stumbled, and! | sald today. the baby and nobody the WISeL.|pa often did reject it whenyhe Was| oqo. trom Indiana paper” mills, More than a year in jail is enough, jearning to manage his crippled , though, whether he did or whether | legs. busy with the manufacture of. car[tons and paper parts for more than

he didn’t.” | To get any kind of clear picture, [700,000 war items, will take the enof the incredible things that hap-| Mr, Noxon is a big man, well over tire amount collected, { B pened in this town since the death| oo root ta When he stumbled) Residents were urged-aghin to tie the early fall : of the Nowon baby ia the ¢ and fell to the pavement in, those | days the humiliation was

of 1043 you have to go back some| He often was brusque in his|

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years, | early Barely embarked on a law career| great. Noxon was struck down by in-| ejections of help from passersby. fate paralysis, Tne ing ne oe | The townfolk misunderstood, putting hi a of -his|it down to arrogance and a domiright. He walks with two. ¢ canes.

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neering nature, Noxon Margaret Swift, daughter of a distinguished] | Pittsfield physician. Sixteen years] | ago a normal son was born to them In April of 1943 another son was | born—a month earlier. than ex- | pected. Noxon: rushed shome from | | Boston where he had been on | business. But already the cab driver | who had taken Mrs, Noxon to the hospital had spread the word that her husband was not with her. It was not generally known until 10]

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Persons who saw the baby during | the five months and 25-days before its death agreed that it seemed al { normal child. A few noted that its [eyes oscillated, but they thought | that would straighten out in time | Dr. George P. Hunt, the baby’s pediatrician, later testified that the mally caused pimples, simple rashes | child was a normal, rugged -baby ~helps soften blackhead tips for easy { physically. removal, By at druggists today! { But in August, 1943, Dr. Hunt

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Are You Paying { plans for placing the youngster in a private institution, as near Pitts- | field as possible so they might visit {1t often, But the parents decided to put | off action until some time after {young John, due to arrive home | from school Sept, 23, had returned | to Kent.

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(wear off the parents started to lay Sticks to His Story tend to all the details,

The day before young John was to | arrive tragedy struck. | According to Mr. Noxon's story, | told repeatedly and consistently in |unvarymg detail to police and on {the witness stand, this is what hap- | pened: He arrived home from the office at about 4 Wednesday afternoon, [Sept. 22. Noxon had decided to {tinker with the radio in the book room, which he said needed new | tubes

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with bulb enclosed in a wire cage to give light behind the radio | cabinet.

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Previously he had brought extra tubes into the room on a metal tray, the only way he could’ carry a number of such articles and still manipulate his canes. He had also detached the aerial-ground WwHe from the set, Then, he sald, he reached a point in his repairs where he needed tools | from the garage. Fearing the baby | {might fall from the chair in his absence, he placed it on the metal tray instead of the rug because its diaper was wet, The electric cord, said Noxon, lay about a foot to one side of the baby when he left the room. The aerial-ground wire, detached from the set but still attached to a plug in the baseboard, lay near the baby's opposite side. Noxon said he was in the garage

OL Yr 1rd four of five minutes. On his re{turn he smelled something burn-

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ra . ling, A050] it tangled in the cord and the 3 An iB |acrial-ground wire. He lifted the oY | baby's arm, disentangled the cord {and called to Mrs Then he called Dr (rived in a few minutes

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their bundles securely and to place] them on the curb early on_the| morning of collection, In a special war service bulletin issued to all Parent-Teacher organizations in the city by Mrs, Walter L. Thoms, P.-T, A. president, the urgent need for a -huge collection of paper wag stressed. To speed the pick-up, the city has | been split into four zones, with | Meridian and 16th sts, as the dividers, with collection as follows: Southwest—Monday, . Northwest—Tuesday. Northeast—Wednesday,

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HOLLYWOOD, Nov. 30 (U. P).~ Col. Elliott Roosevelt and Film Actress Faye Emerson today were busy with plans for a quick wedding and honeymoon before the President's second son. leaves for another over-

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Both said the ceremony would be “some time this week,”

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Warner Brothers player. Her first ‘husband was William Wallace Crawford Jr., a naval fliet whom she divorced in 1942. ‘She has custody of their 5-year-old son, ; Col. Roosevelt has been visiting with his three children here, although they are in legal cugtody of their mother, Ruth Goggins Roosevelt, from whom he was divorced in April, He was first married to Elizabeth Donner Roosevelt but they were divorced in 1933.

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Roosevelt added -that it would be|Goggins Roosevelt, was married last “before I go overseas again.”

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i THURSDAY, NOV. 30,1944

STATE NICHES SEEN IN WASTE PRODUCTS

LAFAYETTE, Ind, Nov. 30 (U. P.).—Indiana industries could recover and jptilize billions of dollars worth of waste products to produce new materials or goods, engineers agreed today. at the closing session of the first state industrial waste utilization conference, held at Purdue universiy. A state-wide, scientific program of waste utilization and pollution

gineers under the direction of ex< perts from 12 states. Dr. Edward C. Elliott, Purdue uni versity president, told the visitors

that “waste is the foundation of *

scarcity.” “We and our kind will knowethe meaning of scarcity in the years to come. We must meet the problem of scarcity of food, metals .ahd health,” Elliott said.

A river valley basis is the most.

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