Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 January 1946 — Page 8

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|The actual date is Feb, 18. |

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{for the passage of legislation, if

dance and auditorium program at the school Saturday, Feb. 16. Students and faculty will mark the birthday on Feb. 15 and 18, according to Principal E. H. McComb.

Alumni committees appointed by Clayton Mogg, alumni association

Johnson, chair man; Joe Waite, Don Menke, Vir-

Croy and Elwood Rogers.

charge of -the class reunions and Carl Specker is supper committee chairman. Ray Fatout and Ray Siebert head the Key Men committee, and the dance committee consists of Elbert Glass, Ray Fatout and Charles Henzie. Other members of the executive committee are George Joslin, vice president; Anna J. Schaefer, sec-

Tickets and admission -~ Charles Menges, chairman; Norman Wilson, Raymond Cassady, Charles Stuart,

retary; Mrs. Mary J. Spiegel; treasurer; Herbert Schwomeyer and Joe Van Briggle.

| ply for discharge regardless of ts.

The subcommittee's report asked

necessary, to carry out its aims. It was issued by Chairman Edwin OC. Johnson, (D.Colo.), Prank P. Briggs (D. Mo.) and Chapman Revercomb (R. W. Va), If the subcommittee’s demand that the army maintain the present

to about 500,000 a month. The subcommittee also urged the army to start enlisting WACs again to get manpower for. separation centers and to employ civilian help for the army's housekeeping jobs. It also recommended that the army: 1. Either assign idle men to essential work or discharge them. 2. Speed up the enlistment of 50,-

discharge rate were met, it would mean that men would be discharged at the rate of 1000000 a month.

The army had planned to cut that

000 Philippine scouts to ‘permit release of American troops. 3. Pay special attention to “hardship’ cases,

Arthur Strauss, Will Bridges is in

Confessed

NORWOOD, 0. Jan. 24 (U. P). ~Edward Lee Dunn Jr. who confessed to strangling his wife with a yellow stocking, carried his Bible into municipal court here today. He waived preliminary hearing on a murder charge. No plea was entered and Dunn was bound to the grand jury without bond. ! The ex-marine was disheveled as he faced the court after an almost sleepless ngiht spent in praying and reading his Bible. He had summoned the Rev. Elmer Smith

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to his cell during the night. The Rev. Mr. Smith said Dunn did not discuss the slaying. He related how Hunn, while in the marines, had written him saying he wanted to enter the ministry. After he was discharged, Dunn sought the minister for advice.

|describe the youth as “not trouble-

Edward Lee Dunn Jr.

Jealous Ex-Marine Held as

Slayer of Wife

“He was extremely nervous and seemed on the verge of a breakdown at’ that time. He told me he was having domestic troubles,” the minister said, -- : Dunn confessed to Norwood police that he strangled his wife in bed in their Norwood home because he was afraid she was going to leave him for another man. He named Jack H, Wilhite, 30, of Monticello, Ky. as the other man, Wilhite was arraigned in the same cowt on a drunkenness charge a few minutes after Dunn returned to his cell. He was arrested Tuesday night. . The body of Mrs. Dunn will be removed to a funeral home in Manchester, Ky., tonight. The parents and two children by a former marriage of the pretty 27-year-old brunette live there.

FIRM CLEARED IN FRAUD TRIAL

2-Month Hearing Ended on Durham Corp.

FT. WAYNE, Ind, Jan. 24 (U. P)~The Durham Manufacturing Corp. and nipe of its employees were absolved today on charges of {tonspiring to defraud the government by concealing defects in war | materials. | A jury of six men and six women | returned the “not guilty” verdict last night after more than 14 hours of deliberation. The acquittal brought to an end two months of formal testimony in one of the most important criminal cases to emerge from world war II.

Local Briefs

NJ OuaTiON for the toughest { break of the week: Mrs. Ma{rie Meyers, 1235 8, Nelson st., re-

{ported to police this morning that|

{a seven-pound roast she had placed in a broiler on her back porch last night was missing, Police were

-| checking for paw prints.

Operators of visual educations equipment at Thomas. Carr Howe high school are Dorothy Cupps, Robert Steckley, Harry Rider, Hubert Powell, Don Meyers, Don Williams, Ocal Harshman, Jim Askren, Robert Oldham, Don Coffey, Virginia Stamm, Don Horner, Bill Pierpont, Bill Galbreath, Karl Stoneking, Eloy Stevens, and L. H.| Barnes. Merle Wimmer is in charge of the group.

Fleming Gardens volunteer fire: department 3 will sponsor a euchre |

Wide smiles appeared on the defendants’ faces the clerk of the court read the ct. Government attorneys, headed by

1U. 8. District Attorney Alex M.

Campbell, charged the defendants with manufacturing defective proJectiles, rotket bombs and propeller shafts for the navy and with conspiring to commit offenses against

[the government “by concealing and |

covering up by tricks, schemes and devices material facts in connection with matters within the jurisdiction of the navy départment.” The government introduced testimony from 72 witnesses, including federal bureau of investigation agents and naval officials from Detroit, Cleveland and Washington, D. C. Navy officers also were gmong the 52 witnesses for the defense. ‘Regular Procedures

At noon yesterday, the jurors re- | quested Federal Judge Luther M ' Swygert for further Instructions. after their opinions became “divided.” Ome of the questions they wished clarified was a definition of ‘conspiracy and what leads up to it." Each of the defendants testified

They "admitted committing acts which the government . alleged

claimed that such practices were “regular procedures.” In addition to the company, defendants were Herman L. Gillespie, chief inspector; Carrol R. Howell. plant superintendent; Ross E. Cross, night superintendent: Max C. Hitt, company inspector, and Herman George Hinds, Raymond C. (Swain, Walter L. Bates, Arthur Joseph Hentzler and Richard E. Manning, foremen. Company Inspectors Paul ° E. Johnson and Almond Potts, also named in the grand jury indictment last May 23, were acquitted during the trial on a directed verdict by Judge Swygert. Another defendant, DeWitte C. Brown, plant manager, was killed in an automobile accident last September.

NOMINATED FOR MARSHAL WASHINGTON, Jan. 24 (U. P.) — Al W. Hosinski was nominated by President Truman today for reappointment as marshal for the northern Indiana district.

Mi ami rybody 1s thinking of Miami Ne ae come of olready - the way. Its the same ww and a worm welcome ok uv. But . . . be sure you hove Yome place in which to wey when you arrive. For informa

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caused defective war materials, but | -

party at 8 p. m. tomorrow at 4325 W. Washington st.

Ye Olde Tyme Cinch club will meet at 12:30 p. m. tomorrow in| Pt. Friendly. Mrs. Leo Mitchel] will | be hostess.

A discharged soldier, Arvold Mill-

“ganged” by five civilians whom he tried to prevent from beating up a! serviceman in a downtown tavern. Miller, found at 13th and Meridian! sts, was treated at City hospital, | Miss Carolyn E. Gowen will re-| view “The Human Life of Jesus" by John Erskine tomorrow at 7:30 p. m. in the Unity Truth Center| rooms on the main floor of the Claypool hotel/ This is the 10th | in a series of book reviews spon-! sored by the cepter on Friday | nights, There is no admission charge and the public is invited.

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LF A 18-year-old high ® school boy {who ‘testified he had a “strange [cme just before robbing and

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She said she was walking along a road near Maywood recently when the youth jumped from a clump of bushes and knocked her to the ground, she asserted. As he left, he threatened to “slit your throat , . , I may kill you anyway.” : “It's all a lie,” the boy interject-| ed. He was taken from the courtroom by Bailiff Charles Mann. “We just can’t believe it” the parents repeated to Judge Rhoads. Oli They described the boy's regular church attendance. Ay ; i The youth sald hs had attended more nalural-like movements,

criminally - attacking an elderly

Juvenile Court Judge Mark W. Rhoads heard probation workers

some at school, apparently normal until this incident.” The mother wept softly and shook her head in disbelief as the 73-year-old victim, a downtown office building employee, related the de-|a movie about an hour before the| No grini . Just com: isfacts tails, attack. Cau on: ae as direetod. 154. Si Sop.

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