Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 January 1945 — Page 2
. Regent Archbishep Damaskinos and
early trial of Greeks accused of
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| By GEORGIA CLARK @. I. lunch stands on the way to the fronts of the European theater have been established through the afforts of Brig. Gen, Charles O.| Thrasher, whose mother, - Mrs.| Charlotte . Thrasher,” lives at 2320 N. Delaware st. : : ee Instead of having to line up at mess kitchens drivers can pull up to one of the lunch counters, grab a sandwich and a cup of coffee and continue on their way. Gen. Thrasher’s idea was to pro~ vide a time-saver and comfort for the soldiers. Located for the most part in tents, the stands appear at)
various crossroads oh routes to the front where traffic is heavy: MICH 16 AN Serve Sandwiches, Fruit ’ :
Brig. Gen. Charles O. Thrasher
The men are served sandwiches, coffee, fruit, fruit juices—and even) sometimes receive a chocolate bar.) "The stands are available to Amer=] 7 : ’ ican messengers and officers and Legislator Once Attended
troops who have to serve between, Lwith- a set of improvements. within] of the -American— State bank —In
widely separated battle sectors. Al-| DePauw; Was Racing lied soldiers also are welcomed. . Gen. Thrasher is serving in the Probe Witness. JACKSON, Mich., Jan. 12 (U. P.)
"European theater on the staff of Lt. Gen. John C. H. Lee, deputy commander of the theater. Gen.|—The slayer of State Senator WarLee also serves as commanding gen- yen G. Hooper, 41, shot three times eral of the communications zone of | through ihe head ‘and left in a was sought
the service supply in the European | automo- ; theater and Gen. Thrasher is serv-| Sanne V y today by police. > Officers -theo-
ing as commander of the Oise base section. The two generals were pic-| tured together in the Sept. 2 Issue| ope maw have bw of the Saturday Evening Post with |, een killed to 1 e a story of Gen. Lee's part in the keep him - from | war, | testifying against Before the attack of Pearl Har-| a former state . bor, Gen. Thrasher was in charge Republican party of planning the structure for the. reader SHA TWO West coast to supply Alaska, Pana- | .o_defendants aC
ma and the Philippines. For this. sq of a horsework he recently was awarded the racing bill brib-
bronze star. |ery plot. Hooper's body was found Has Legion of Merit | last night in the burfling car which . {apparently had skidded to a ‘halt The award came only a few... Springport, on the road from
months after the general received 4p state’ capitol at Lansing to his the legion of merit for outstanding|, ... ot Albion. service in preparation for the North Hooper once attended DePauw African campaign and the invasion university and later became a west of Normandy. | coast and Chicago newspaperman, Although Mrs. Thrasher is proud| pooner was to have been prinof all of her son's achievements, | ing) witness in a case brought by probably the one which gives her | pichigan's one-man grand jury the most pride is his Thanksgiving | against: : presentation of the American Shag Frank D. McKay, Grand Rapids to the cathedral of Reims, France.|mytimillionaire and former state
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» More than 1000 U. S. soldiers and | Republican leader. the entire city of Reims gathered Floyd Pitzsimmoms, Benton Harin the cathedral for the American | por sportsman, observance of Thanksgiving day. Former Rep. William Green, | Gen. Thrasher presented the flag gillman, Mich. Republican, 8s a symbol “of mutual admiration | ‘Hooper had been granted im-| existing between the two great Coun- munity from prosecution in extries.” st : .. |change for testimony before the Sharing Mrs. Thrasher’s pride in| grand jury. her son is his wife, Mrs. Ethel W.| Jackson County Prosecutor Mur- | Thrasher. Gilman, Ill, and two row K. Aten moved quickly to solve! daughters-and a son. {the mystery as he summoned three: The general was born in Paxton, men for statements on what they! 11, but lived in Indiana several|saw last night when they halted years. He attended school at Wal-| their car behind Hooper's on a highcott and later went to the Univer- | way leading out of Lansing. sity of Illinois. He has been in the! Three bullets had been: fired at army about 27 years and served as| point blank range into the left side a captain in world war I. of Hooper's head. |
Mr. Hooper
Police examinations revealed the :
{murder weapon had left powder WOMAN DIES AFTE | marks, and ballistics experts said : . ithe fatal slugs were .38 caliber. | An autopsy performed by Drs. NINE DAYS IN COLD saris Black, assistant courity coroner, and Charles Muehlberger, of ROCKLAND, Me, Jan. 12
(0. the state crime detection laboraP.) —Exposuge- to sub-zero weather [tory revealed that any one of the
during the nine days that she Was | three - shots could have caused missing from the Rockland City Hooper's death . farm, resulted in the death of Miss Aten planned J§ question Floyd Edna King, 58, at a hospital here | Modjeska, Springport, Mich., grain early today. {elevator operator; Kyle Van Auker, Half-starved and with her legs|clerk. of Efton Rapids, Mich., and and arms frozen, Miss King was|M. D Howard, Lansing, a bus line
found beneath a henhouse in 22- | employee Who found the body.
below-zero weather here yesterday. | Modjeska told Bion Hoeg, state Though still conscious, she was 100 | police detective, that he saw smoke weak to tell police of her activities. rolling from Hooper's car, which since she disappeared Jan. 2. was halted on the wrong side of Authorities said there were no|the road. apparently after skidding tracks in the snow around the hen- | violently. : house, indicating that the woman | The legislator was seated on the had been hiding there at least since fright side -of the front seat, Mod-
Sunday. | jeska said, and the seat cushion | rR tam in smouldering beneath him suddenly REBEKAHS TO SEAT Purted flames. Smoking’ When Shot MRS. SYLVIA LEACH Hooper - apparently +had been
Mrs. Sylvia Leach will be installed smoking a cigaret ‘when he was as noble grand of the Olive Branch |shot, Hoeg- "said." Earlier reports Rebekah lodge 10 at 8 p. m. toinor- | indicated that the killer y have row in Castle hall. ; |lgnited the gasoline tank of* Hoop"Others to be installed by Miss er's car, but more thorough police Martha Foltz are Mrs. Myrtle Tur- eXamination discounted this, pin, vice grand; Mrs. Carrie John-| At the state capital of Lansing, son, financial secretary; Mrs. Mary Kim. Sigler, special grand. jury Davisson, treasurer; Mrs. Ola Hiatt, Prosecutor, revealed that Hooper warden; Mrs, Mary Gaskill right' “was the principal witness against supporter to the noble grand; Mrs. three defendants named in a recent Edna Murphy, left supporter to the warrant charging bribe conspiracy noble grand. Miss Anna B. Gaynor, | involving Morse racing legislation." right supporter to the vice. grand Sigler said that Judge Leland W Also Mrs. Bertha Weaver, inside Carr, conducting the mqury had guardian; Mrs, Hazel Cook, outside granted immunity to Hooper in this guardian, and Mrs. Fairy Armel, case.after the latter made a lengthy past noble grand. statement.
Greek Leftists and British
Arrange Truce in Civil War ATHENS, Jan. 12 (U. P.).—The Patraj (Patras), 110 miles west of
bloody Greek civil war will end, at! Athens, yesterday. British forces least temporarily, at 12:01 a. m. were searching the town without Monday. Opposition, Salonika, in northern
A truce has been signed by Lt. Greece, also Gen. Ronald Scobie, British commander in Greege, and four rep- 5 Poinks in Tryee resentatives ‘of the rebellious left-| The effective date of the truce wing E. A. M, it was announced! Was put off to Monday to give today. |E. L. A. 8. leaders sufficient tints to The truce] was agreed upon last | notify all units of the “cease fire” night, It will prevail during nego- Order, : tiptions hetween the E. A. M. and the new Greek government under
was reported quiet,
Under the terms of the truce: ONE: E. L. A 8. forces will
Premier Gen. Nicholas*Plastiras. Main Points at Issue Main point at issue between the E. A. M. and the government was believed to be the disarmament of both the Greek national guard and E A M-E L AS forces. The
“|towns and villages before deadlines ranging from 12:01 a. m, Jan. 17 (no 12:01 a. m. Jan TWO: The E. L. A. 8. will relefise all service personnel prisoners of all | nationalities, including the Greek government police and national guard, but not Greek civilians de. tained by E. A. M.r parent body "of the E. L. A. 8. . THREE: British forces will rélease an equal number of ‘E. L. A. §,
collaborating with the Germans ‘was believed to be an issue. was ‘announced that a British
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0 miles northwest-of Athens, and| FOUR: All British civilians cap. | E L A. 8 headq tured will be released irrespective © & «of the identity of their captors, the, i also were re- where they were
General Son of Local Woman Relieves G. |. Hunger at Front)
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UNSANITARY HOMES TARGET OF FIGHT
State health board files today,
disclosed an 1l-month battle to Roy J. Jorg and Ray E. Smith, Reclean up unsanitary conditions in!publican and ‘Democratic board
four Ravenswood homes.
| died of exposure and malnutrition.
.'|'Their five other children are being
cared for in City hospital. The Biehls will be tried tomorrow following funeral services for their baby in Huntington.
Another parent, Mrs. Minnie | White, 26, of 936 N. Pennsylvania !st., has been ordered to take her | children and go back to Kentucky.
STATE = action was taken by Juvenile
| Court Judge Mark V. Rhoads after
| Mrs. White allegedly left her three , | children in her cold apartment.
The: Ravenswood town board, in investigating ~ conditions. of three other homes in question; hds ordered the owner to ‘comply fully
The public spotlight was centered | on conditions Wednesday when 7-/ month-old Homer Glenn Biehl, son of Mr. and Mrs. Homer Glenn Biehl,
tax board was completed by Gover nor Gates today when he appointed
members, respectively. Otto C. Wulfman, strip mine ops erator from Huntingburg, Republican, was named chairman of the tax board yesterday, to ‘© succeed Charles Bedwell, Democrat of Sullivan. . : _Mr, Jorg, ,who is from Ligonier, has been fourth district G.. O. P, chairman since 1942. In ali probability he will follow policy established by the new administration by resigning his political post.
Rationing Board Head
Total reorganization of the state, |
Previously he had been Noble|
county chairman from 1838 to 1942, and Ligonier city chairman since | 1942,
tion, * president of . the Chamber of Commerce and director
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wholesale poultry buyer, Mr. Jorg| He succeeds Howard Atcheso has been chairman of the county |Scottsburg attorney. rationing board since its organiza-{ M
THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES __%_ ssh SS i ~ Gates Reorganizes Tax Board In Naming Jorg and Smith
Otto C, Wulfman
A farmer, hatchery operator and publican national convention.
r...Smith, recently retired as Ligonier | executive secretary to former: Governor Schricker, a position Hie had x held since October, 1941, five days or they will be padlocked. | 1944 he was a delegate to the Re-| A graduate of DePauw university,
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Ray E. Smith
torship of the Hoosier Sentinel of Indianapolis, Democratic party organ. He entered Governor Schricker’s office as under secretary in charge of penal “affairs in 1941, advancing to the executive secretaryship later that same year,
Roy J. Jorg
Mr. Smith later was a reporter on the Franklin Star, managing” editor of the La Porte Herald-Argus and edifor of the Michigan City. Evening Dispatch. He also was advertising manager of the La Porte corporation at La Porte, Ind.
In 1934 he assumed the edi-| Married and the father of two
- |sician, Dr, Blake Watson.
| given several blood transfusions and | Was unconscious at times, but hose
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LETTE GODDARD NOW RESTING WELL
: : Continued HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 12 (U. P).— : ¢ Paulette Goddard, dark-haired film to three cruise “ J” ab other, includin star, was reported “resting well” at Srorats carrier St. John's hospital in Santa Monica tleships, and tv today after an emergency operation The frontal for an’ abdomifial pregpancy. nila still was
tively negligib servers said tl . ably could o strength now sistance were consolidate the Veteran jun eastern flank o ‘ready were batt Japanese force
Miss Goddard, wife of army air force Capt. Burgess Meredith, filme and stage actor, was rushed to the hospital last night where the operas . tion was performed by her phy-
Following the operation she was
pital attemdants said her condition the road to I had improved early today. inland from Sa Miss Goddard retired from the The Japanese
strofig forces ir corridor north fair proportion of reinforcemer American beat diverted to that prs mmhercsiee Jap-Gu Warships: lyin coast pounded a anese fortificat
screen two months ago to await the baby’s arrival, expected late in the spring. She and Meredith were married last May 21.
daughters, Mr. Smith-resides— with his family: at 1111 Pomander pl, Indianapolis,
e sugceeds Peter Beczkiewics of South Bend. ”
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