Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 July 1945 — Page 13
TUESDAY, JULY 24, 1945
STATE DEFIED | _
BY SNAKE CULT
Parson Parsons R Refuses Aid For Copperhead Bite. |
8T. CHARLES, Va, July 24 w. |! P.) ~The Rev. Bill Parsons, Holiness Faith healer, waited today for. heavenly intervention to reduce the _ pain of copperhead poisoning which was turning his swollen face blue.
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He defied state authorities to stop | |
t snake-charming jamboree planned for Sunday by his followers.
Parsons, his face puffed “as the poison took effect, gingerly pointed | out the place on top his head where | an angry copperhead bit him Sun- |
day night after docilely taking a! the photographer behind piles of surgical dressings they’ Tisdale, Mrs. Charles Huff, Leighton Smith, Standing are Mrs. 0. C. Schwalm, Mrs. Rufus Holt, chairman of the unit; Mrs, 8S, E, A. McKinzie,
kicking around from one of the] sect’s “good sisters.” The sister was treading = the snake in compliance with biblica passages, Parsons said. a the reptile got angry as he held “it| above my head as usual.” Calls 'em: Deadly Weapons “I'll be all right because the Lord will take care of me,” Parsons said. In Richmond, Governor Colgate | Darden planned to confer with the | state attorney general today to find | some way to ban the jamboree for | the homecoming of the Rev. George | Hensley, founder of the healers. | Commonwealth "Attorney Robert B. Ely suggested that the “faithful” could be barred from handling | snakes at their celebration by invocation of statute which prohibits the passing or transferring of deadly weapons to irresponsible | persons. Ely said copperheads and rattle-| snakes could be considered deadly weapons. Five years ago he prose-| ected snake handlers for “the| malicious wounding” of Eliza Delp. | Darden said the sect had gone] a little too far under “the guise of religious freedom.” . May Wire Truman Parsons said if the state made any move to halt their romp with the snakes he would appeal directly to President Truman in Germany Under the Constitution he said his | followers could play with snakes, | poisonous or not. In fact, the Rev. Bradley Shelves| of Pine Mountain, Ky. another leader, said. he would even take a. dose of strychnine at next Sunday’s| service “if the good Lord moves me to do so.” | Parsons said he had no fear of . death from the bite he suffered Sunday night. He said it was sort] of an accident. Usually when he held the-snakes aloft they took it and liked it, he said. The copperhead didn’t seem to mind the “good sister” treading on its tail in her bare feet. It seemed to get angry when Parsons took it away, he said. By. Sunday, Parsons promised, the snakes would be blind, shedding. and | “at their meanest” in good shape, for testing the faith of the healers.
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” or A day's work well done, officers of the Ft, Harrison unit of the American Red Cross are caught by ve just made.
Mrs. Henry E.
Lauther and Mrs. Ww.
SISTERS OF ORDER WILL BE HONORED
The Most Rev. Joseph E. Ritter, archbishop of Indianapolis, will pontificate . Thursday at a mass of thanksgiving marking the anniversaries of 26 Sisters of the Third Order of St. Francis. The services honoring the jubilarians will be at 9 a, m. in the con{vent chapel at Oldenburg, Ind. Among the nuns, is Sister Mary Edward, a teacher in Our Lady of} Lourdes Parochial school here and! a native of Cincinnati, who is cele- | brating the silver anniversary of her| membership in the order. Mother Leonida, mother general of | the order at Oldenburg; is a onetime teacher in the same parochial | | school and a golden jubilarian hav-| ing been an order member for 20) | years. In addition to these two, nine | others also have served for 50 years,| four for €0 years and 11 for 25 years. | They are stationed in various parts of Indiana and Ohio,
TEACHERS COLLEGE | ‘TO RESUME SCHEDULE
TERRE HAUTE, July 24.—Indi-| ana State Teachers college will re-| {sume its former calendar of three 12-week quarters and two short sum- | mer sessions, with the opening of | the college inthe fall, President Ralph N. Tirey announced today. The change from the naval station | back to the regular quarter system is possible because the Navy V-12| unit, which has been on the cam-| pus since July: 1, 1943, will be term- | inated Nov. 1. Registration for freshmen will begin Sept. 10.
SERVE AS SUPPLY BASE MANILA, July 24 (U. P.) —Lt.| Gen. Wilhelm Styer, commander of | army forces in the Western Pacific, | | said today that the Philippines are, being converted into a supply base | | for the final battles against Japan; on a pattern comparable to Britain's | position in the European war.
Red Cross Officers and the Day's Work
Mrs. William C. Pollock,
Police Hold Trio In Freight Depot Theft; Get Loot |
POLICE TODAY arrested three young men having in their posses-
sion goods stolen recently from |
the Pennsylvania railroad freight depot, 331 E..South st. Police say the men drove trucks 'for the railroad. 3 Joseph Gribben, 1335 Bridge st., and William Copeland, 1128}
Bellefontaine st., are charged with vagrancy.
In the rumble seat of their car and the ‘homes police found 11 boxes of razor blades, candy, radio batteries, cotton underwear, soap, soap flakes, washing powder, chocolate syrup, four automobile tires, silverware and padlocks.
Cpl. Jim, ‘Better, Receives Honor
FT. WORTH, Tex. July 24 (U. P.).—Cpl. Jim Newman, the victim of malnutrition, beri-beri and tuberculosis, from three years spent in a Japanese prison camp,
today -is-the-holder—of -the-Purple 1 { Heart. |
Cpl. Newman received the Purple Heart yesterday by mail along with at least 200 letters, inicluding two from England and one
from South Africa, and one from |
Canada. Jim, who has ‘lived under {an oxygen tent for the past two days, spent a.restful day yesterday, and his condition ' remained “much better,” his sister, Mrs. Billie Fitch, reported. i However, she said, when he was awake, it was necessary to give him injections of morphine at intervals of ‘about..four holirs te ease” his suffering. -
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TWELVE FACE. OPA HEARINGS
Charge Local Fi Firms With Rationing Violations.
A total of 12 Indianapolis firms have been ordered to appeay before an OPA hearing commissioner -today and continuing through Thurs-| day in the Federal building.
To appear today on charges of ‘violating OPA rationing regulations |
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Firm Supplies Bequest to | Butler in Memory of Hero
In one of the first bequests of its {kind an Indianapolis firm today gave $1000 to Butler university in honor of an outstanding former employee who lost his life in the war. The bequest was made by Insurance Research and Review Service of Indianapolis in honor of Lt. Prederick H. Striby, who was killed in ihe, Normandy invasion in July,
at. Striby had been associated with the firm from 1937, when the death of his father interrupted his
{were Samuel J. Hochman, operator | junior year at Butler, until June.
of Sam's Subway, 3 E 28th st.; F.|1942, when he entered the infantry. | A, Jones, operator of Bob's Triangle | He was manager of the New York
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TEXAS PASTOR IS CALLED HERE
River Ave Baptist Church Engages Services.
A brother of the Rev. C. 8. Paschall of Indianapolis will assune
the pulpit of the River Avenue Bape tist church Aug. 5. The Rev. Gordon W. Paschall of
Tyler, Tex., evangelist, radio speak Jer J well
and newspaper columnist, is known . in Indianapolis. He conducted a series of services last fall for his brother's congregation,
The other youth,a teen-ager, is held at juvenile aid. ‘|
- Grille, 205 N. Pennsylvania st.; R.| 'M. Skaggs Market, 536 Indiana ave.; | Thomas A. Theard Packing Co., 710] E. 16th st.; Roll Hoss, operator of | "the Embassy Room, 3512 College | ave., and Jaggers Wholesale Gro-| cery, Inc., 114 S. Alabama St. Others were Lipot Frankovitz, operator of Stop and Shop superi market, 56th and Illinois sts. Prankovitz market. 28th st.’ and Capitol ave.. and Jack Hutton, 150 city market. 0 Appear Later To appear at later hearings are Bert Reichardt, operator of Cities Jervis station, 1435 E. Washington ; Cross and Cross, 105 N. Illinois 2 Jules. Chain Stores. Corp., 131 W. Washington st., and Mose Marmalad, 403 W. Washington st. A total of $15,762 in settlements of alleged over-ceiling price violations has been collected for the week ending July 16 by the Indiana | district OPA. Ten Indianapolis defendants were’ among those who made settlements. |
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Mrs. Franklin A, Rice, and Mrs.
PLAY SPOTLIGHT ‘ON R. R: HELP NEED
A 4l-inch railroad spike will be | presented to Mayor Tyndall at 9:30 {tomorrow morning at. Union Sta- | tion, as a part of the nation-wide | “Spike the Jap" railroad recruitment drive. In an effort to focus the attention of Indianapolis citizens on the situation now confronting local rail-! (roads, and its effect on the war | effort, high ranking représentatives {of the army transportation corps, {the railroad brotherhoods and city officials will' co-operate in« the pub{lic ceremony. It will be broadcast over. radio station WIBC, Th Settlements Made aunt of | Five-year-old Mary K. Schuck, Wil are hi J Ee 3723 {daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Gene ere . ” : Schuck, 1809 N. Meridian st., will = ghd | f 30 el B ~ iCo, 201 W. Washington st., $50; {make the presentation fo the mayor. 4 3 tte ; ‘Sacks Camera & Jewelry Co., 318 {Her father, a railroad employee for E. Washington st. $97.05: Joe Kap20 years, has completed recently 535 ashingion st., 05; voe, Sap { . : we AY lan, 3011 Shelby st., $50; Mike |days of continuous work, without a : ei | DeFabis, 2806 Southeastern ave. {single day off. |
Lt. Col. Ira B. Cross, . : (regional director of the railroad | Ashington st. $50; Dan Louck,
{manpower project of the army, and 142) Eroses) Xb 3%, A {J. E. Leiland, general chairman of | nella, r FLUIBI Stu :
; : | Others are James Santucci, 1314 ! ; s hi Coy. Railroad Telegraphers, shelby st., $50. and the Duncan
ss fPouisy Co., 2826 E. Washington
COUNCIL DOUBLES I= DUE FROM UNIONS ELECTROCUTED AS
Chicago,
The Indianapolis Industrial Union council has-voted to ‘increase its - VINCENNES, July 24 (U. P).— monthly .per capita dues from” 35 Arvin Wells, 33, a &$alvage yard |affiiliated local unions from 1 to 2 employee, was electrocuted last cents. | night while repairing a leaking The decision was made at a meet | water pipe under his home. ing held last night in the Amalga; Coroner J. Ross Flummerfelt said mated hall, 168 W. Ninth st. The that Wells came in contact with council. will hold its next session! water from-the pipe and that an Aug..13 in the auto workers’ hall, extension cord he carried grounded 241 W. Maryland st through his body. . The «cord car-1 eter ried only 110 volts. WALKIE- NO- TALKIE DAY Wells went under his house WARREN, O., July 24 (U. P).— through a small opening and it It was another walkie-no-talkie day | was necessary to cut a hole through for Warren residents today, with a the floor to recover his body. bus strike in its fourth day and a, A wife and four small children
| utler, to accept the gift to the new tribute
$74 62: Lincoln Jewelry |
{$50: Krider & Plott, Holt ave. and |
"HE REPAIRS LEAK
[telephone strike in its ninth day, = |survive.
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office at that time. Lt. Frederick H. Striby
Interested in Subject | Another aunt,
Paul Speicher, managing editor |2243° Broadway, |of the Insurance Research Service, Henry Striby, asked Dr, M. O. Ross, president of ave.,
and uncle,
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which will help other insurance department of the Butler | Butler students ‘was being made college of business administration. in honor of their nephew. “It is our desire to ‘establish a In accepting the gift, Dr. Ross| fitting bequest in honor of the told the Insurance Research Service memory of this fine boy,” Mr. {that the business administration Speicher said. “Because Fred Was |college would use a Butler student and because he acquaint Butler students with the had a keen appreciation of life in-|life insurance industry. surance, we felt that nothing would| The insurance department was be more fitting than to make a|made a part of the college curri-| contribution to the new- Butler de- |culum recently and will open with] partment of insurance.” {the fall semester. Dr. Robert H.| Indianapolis relatives of Lt.|Mehr will head the department. Striby, who had not been informed| Lt. Striby was the son of the
nouncement today, were surprised for many years before moving to and pleased by news ot the tribute. | Benton, Harbor. Mich. Appreciate Tribute In addition to his aunts and ‘He thought so much of Butler uncle, he is survived by his mother, | that he moved back here from Mrs. James Smith, and brother, {Michigan to go to school there,” |James, both of Ann Arbor, Mich.;
(his anut, Mrs. Thomas F. Woods,|his wife, Phyllis Ann and his sis- | Mrs. Lola Marie Nelson, both |
1821 N. Keystone ave., said. “I know ter,
he'd be so pleased about this.” in California,
FINGERPRINTS BY RADIO PROMISED
Short-wave radio transmission of fingerprints, warrants and othe: facsimiles over a nation-wide police system will be a Sevelopment of the | near-future, This was the prediction of police communications experts meeting yesterday in the Lincoln hotel. | Representatives of police departments from throughout the nation attended the session of the Asso. ciated Police Communications Officers. sir Technicians of the Philco Radio Corp. communications division met
with the police representatives to discuss wartime advances in facsimile communication. The arrangement, as proposed, first would be state-wide. State systems later would be affiliated into’ a national system. New broadcast frequencies have been requested of the federal communications com-~ mission for use after the war, omcials said.
Soap Is Assured Without Points
WASHINGTON. July 24 (U.P). —Secretary of Agriculture Clinton P.- Anderson said today there would be no rationing of soap. | He also promised civilians 100,000,000 pound increase in their next year’s supply of heavyduty laundry flakes chips and granulated =oap.
“If we were to have soap ta= tioning,” Anderson said, “it would be necessary for me, as secretary
And I do not plan to issue such authorization.”
BULL KILLS CHILD AT MILROY FARM
BROOKVILLE, Ind. July 24. (U P). — Marilyn Leising, 3-year-old
sing of Milroy, was killed yesterday when a bull tossed her against a!
wood beam in a barn on her grand-| parents’ farm near Brookville.
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Mrs. Mary Kuhler,
N. Hamilton) expressed gratification that a|
the funds tol
of the bequest prior to the an- | late Carl Striby, who resided here
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of agriculture, to authorize it. |
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Lei of
ithe Garfield Park Baptist church, [The Rev, Mr. Paschall. serves as minister for two rural congregations, the New. York and Concord Baptist churches in Texas.
Buying Parsonage
He is 35, the father of three children and a graduate of Oklahoma Baptist university and the Baptist | Seminary of Ft. Worth, Tex. He {writes ‘a weekly column for the | Athens Texas Review, a county- | wide newspaper. Mrs. Paschall is lalso a seminary graduate, having | majored in religious education. She ~ | plays both the piano and the pipe ors rgan. At the same meeting at which the church voted to call the Rev. Mr. Paschall, a committee was authorized to purchase a parsonage for him. Dr. J. E. Sharp was elected moderator of River Ave. and Roy Butcher. choir director. Mrs. Sharp is church ¥ch Siganist.
FINISH SH ROOSEVELT LOAN REPORT SOON
WASHINGTON, July 24. (U. P). |—The treasury is expected to com= plete within a few days its report on. the reported ‘transaction in ‘which a $200,000 loan to Brig. Gen. Elliott Roosevelt was settled for $4.000, it was understood today. One member of the House ways and means committee, which requested the inquiry, predicted that ithe report would “whitewash the whole matter.” Committee sources said that al{though the treasury report probably | will be ready this week-end, it may | riot. be made public before fall. They pointed out that it would be re- | leased only by Committee Chairmin | Robert L. Doughton, D., N. C,, and that Doughton is away from the ‘capital. He may not return ‘until | the house reconvenes Oct. 8.
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‘GAS STATION GETS | OPA SUSPENSION
| EVANSVILLE, Ind. July 24. (U. P.).—Harold Clark, proprietor of the {Clark Oil Co. yesterday ‘was sus- | pended for the duration from opera[ting a gasoline station. ; The OPA charged him with | violating regulations governing cou- | pon acceptance and storage of gaso{line. Four other southern Indiana {gasoline station operators were sus-
|pended for shorter periods,
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ONE —Laden With Fur
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