Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 July 1945 — Page 2

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LONNIE B. RUTLEDGE, state police employee at om nan post, did not thrive on the German prison camp diet of boiled potatoes and watered soup, he told his old

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. The ‘slugging wave continued in Indianapolis as four’ new victims De were attacked and two of them] -

at state police robbed last night. | Beadquarten “Following a minor automobile ac-| here yesterday. cident, Carl R. Weber, 53, of R. R.| ~ In fact he 4, Box 668, was attacked by five men| lost 30 pounds at Senate ave. and 9th st. He had a Yost nd N jeg Jron 3 oot nee oeksd Sut a but is making Sgt Rutledge Mr. Weber, an employee of the| up the differerice in good Hoosier “Indiana Bell Telephone Co, told| cooking while on extended furpolice that another car ran into the| l0ugh until Aug. 15. rear of the one he was driving. The former state policeman reWhen he got out of the car to| lated that the American prisoners check the damage, he said, the five were permitted to cook their own men leaped on him and tried to oe, Except. for occasional bits Y Tob him. f horse meat, which tasted pretty

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“pretty lean,” he said. Later Radio Patrolmen John T | Sgt. Rutledge entered “service Balley and Roy S. Kenriedy ques-| here Oct. 10, 1941. He -was a tioned Leroy Gibson, 26, of 622 N.| flight engineer in a Flying

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been the driver of the car Wiel ol over France, July 4, 1943. He was struck Mr, Weber's car. .Gibso taken prisoner by the Germans wife, Ruth, hit Patrolman Kennedy| and held until liberated may 3, with a plank, police reported. 1945, by the 3d army. Gibson was arrested on charges of assault and battery with intent) “to rob and resisting arrest. Mrs. Gibson was charged with interfer- LAWYERS ASK ing with an officer. Charles T. McEwan, 28, of 940 N.! - Chester ave., reported wo police that | FUNK IK STATUS he was slugged and robbed of $150! in the 300 block-6f N. Hiinois st. at about 12:35 A. m. today. In Serfous Condition | Committee Invite: Invites Sherif, McEwan, who was arrested on a| chargé of drunkenness, said tne] Adviser to Session, man ts Slugsed nim Was dressed Sheriff Otto Petit and his new| na gies attacked John Roscoe|legal adviser, Glenn . Funk, have Holdcraft, 24, of 2519 Guilford ave, been asked to attend .a meeting about 10 P m. Yesterday In helo the civil rights committee of 600 block of E. 17th st. e n $3 ie Ww a seriots. condition sk City hospital. the lawyers Association of Indi- | John Young, 39, of 1864 Brook- anapolis next Tuesday. ; ! side ave, was slugged and robbed Walter Myers Jr., committee of 19 cents while he was sitting be- chairman, said today his group side a drugstore at Brookside ave.| “wants to know what Mr. Funk's | and E. 10th st. last night. position is going to be. . Affairs of the sheriff’s office have {been under scrutiny of the com-| {mittee since Louis. Rosenberg, | VETERAN PATROLMA joer Jesal adviser, was dismissed arge of being “disloyal.” | HIT BY STRE TOAR = ™ _ charged later by George’ Henry, criminal court judge pro tem, that Mr. Rosenberg ‘had used, ona 3 sun, PE in an unethical manner, informa- | t 1s in a serious con dition tion he had obtained while serving at City hospital _. |88 Sheriff Petit's adviser. | today after he X However, the lawyers’ committee was struck by a does not plan to expand its investi- | streetcar last gation to include bondsmen’s activi- | night at Wash- F- ties at the county jail. . | “There is a good deal of misun{derstanding concerning - the position of legal adviser to the sheriff,” | Mr. Myers - asserted. Mr. Funk is| assistant city attorrfey, as Sheriff Petit's adviser. Other members of Mr. Myers’ {committee are George W. Eggleston, Cecil A. Taylor, Herbert J. streetcar was operated by Haver Backer r and John mM Miller. Johnson, 43, of 320 E. Vermont st. JOINS COLLEGE STAFF ASSASSIN TO DIE | EVANSVILLE, Ind, July 24. (U.| CAIRO, July 24 (U. P.).—A 5u- |P.).—Ruth Eleancr Heppel of Ro-| preme military court passed the chester, Pa. has been appointed in-

Issawy, who assassinated Premier | college, Dr. Lincoln B. Hale, presiMaher Pasha. 'dent, announced today.

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KLEINSCHMIDT IS VISITING. PRBS |

Twice wounded veteran of 16 {months service on the Western front, Technician 4th-gr. Edward R. Kleinschmidt is spending a 30-day furlough with his parents, Mr. and | Mrs, Edward Kleinschmidt, 619] { Terrace ave. | Fighting with the fourth division, | {which liberated Paris, Technician | Kleinschmidt was first wounded as| his platoon was ridding a field of | § { booby-traps. Enemy fire was drawn | killing three of his buddies and

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| He was wounded the second me (In the leg during “fighting the | |Hurtgen forest and then received (the bronze star for.evacuating other |wounded men. He also holds the | . {presidential unit citation with a cluster, the. purple heart with i the good ‘conduct medal and five battle stars. > | A graduate of Manual high school, ‘Technician was employed at the Anchor Serum Co. until entering the army in

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Thirteen more local men were inKleinschmidt | ducted into the army and navy reNavy inductees include:

Hillingsworth, Franklin O. Colvin,

| Lee Francis Cox, Massachusetts ave; Lester W. Caudell, 225% N.. Gray st.; Harold Blake, 615 E. 10th st, and Jackie | L. Sordinel 938 N. Alabama st. orn in the army were: aN D. Lundy, Speedway City: Harry H. Martin, 1426 Cruft Clar! CGimbel, , 309 N. er “st Pfenning. 1618 N. Meridan st.; i Poster, 518'¢ E. 10th st.; 646 Pt. Wayne 966 N. Meridan st. and Herman B. Wal329 Fulton Jlters, 117 W. Walnut st.

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Churchill fo Know if He' s . Re-Elected by 11 Thursday |

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NEWCASTLE, July 24 (U. P) were completed today for] Speight, 64, a Luton widow. {holding the 26th annual state twin|was killed when a U. 8. army truck rence H.! reunion here on Aug. 5. Prizes will] crashed into a line of persons waitbe awarded the oldest set of twins, ing for a bus at Luton last WednesBilly Pearson, the youngest, and the most nearly day. Two other Luton ‘Women were , {injured.

Minister Churchill should know by | date, since July 12 and 19. Le

5 p. m. (11 a. m,, Indianapolis time) Thursday whether he has been returned to office by the British elec~ torate. Ballots in the 640 constituencies of, the United Kingdom have been: sealed in the boxes where they were cast since July 6 ar, in the case of a few districts where local holidays

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MAN IN ACCIDENT

LONDON; July 24 (U. P.).—Pvt. Walter Edward Matthews of Vevay, Ind, was held today at the U, 8. army. air force camp at Bedford on manslaughter charges in connection with the death of a British civilian. An inquest was' held at Luton, Bedfordshire, yesterday. The - victim was Mrs. Alice J. She

In addition the ballots of services men overseas have been acculating and have been impounded as they are received, The official count will begin between 9-a. m. and, 10 a.-nr. Thurse day. in. each constituency under supervision of the local.town clerk, Watchers of the parties are allowed | to observe the counting. The results | are announced officially by the local clerks. . The count requires from two to seven hours, depending on. the size of the constituency. By 5 p.m, it is expected, virtually all the returns counted. The results in each district, are flashed to the headquarters of

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parties, just as in an American election, and are tabulated there,

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