Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 February 1946 — Page 3

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L. V. Ammerplanned addive high school les M. Sharp sed new wing, luncheon at with Principal nb and School F. Brandt on ding. scheduled to board office at public school ly and Superinebaugh and

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| CHIRCH PIANIST

DIES IN BLAST,

35 at Dinner Hurt When Boiler Explodes.

WASHINGTON, Pa., Feb, 23 ‘(U. P).—A church pianist was dead and two persons were in critical

« conditien at a hospital today as]:

result of a “boiler explosion that shattered the interior of the First Christian church here last night during a father and son banquet. Thirty-five of the 240 persons in attendance were reported to have suffered minor injuries. The pianist, Mrs. Martha Molle~ hauer, 35, was killed when a basement boiler burst in a room adjoining the banquet hall. The seriously injured were Mrs. John W. Love, wife of the pastor of the church, and Daniel Rowell, 43, also of Washington, Pa. Mrs. Mollenauer, pianist at another congregation here, had been invited as a guest to the gathering. Most of the injured were treated at the local hospital and sent to their homes,

» » 4 NEW YORK, Feb. 23 (U. P.).— Luis Webber, 47, strangled his wife in her bed while their 10-year-old daughter, Sandra, pleaded with him to “stop hurt: ing mother Police 4 today.

Seek Overseas List

WASHINGTON, Feb. 23 (U. P.. —Officers and G. I.’s who want their families to join them overseas were urged by the war department today .to get their applications in by the end of this month. The war department said its request was based on the need to know for how many dependents it will have to arrange transportation and overseas accommodations. Some dependents will be sent to Europe beginning in April.

= = F J Rescued on Mountain

MT. WASHINGTON, N. H., Feb. 23—(U. P.).—Two weather observers recuperated today from the effects of being trapped two days withou: food in a small shed about two miles from the peak of gale-whipped Mt. Washington. Vernon Humphrey, 25, of McFarland, Cal, one of the ' observers started the climb to the U. 8S. weather observatory atop the mountain on Wednesday. He took refuge in the hut when snow mad= further progress impossible. ~ He telephoned from the hut to the Appalachian Mountain club at the peak’s base. Three rescue parties attempted to reach the trapped man, but were forced back by the blizzard. Later on the same day, Marshall 8mith, 28, of Turners Falls, Mass. left the observatory to aid Humpnrey. They met on an icy trail, but the , storm drove them back to the hut.

ss = = BIRMINGHAM, Ala, Feb. 23 (U. P.). — George Washington spent George Washington's birthday in jail here, charged with burglarizing the Washington home. The jailed George Washington was accused of removing $337 and a watch from the home of Dave Washington,

UNO House- Hunting NEW YORK, Feb. 23 (U. P).— The United Nations organization took up the job of house hunting today in the nation’s largest city where “for rent” signs have been non-existent for years. ' However, Arthur D. K. Owen, assistant to Trygve Lie, secretary general of the UNO, was looking for slightly more than the average home seeker, He hoped to find a temporary headquarters with several hundred offices and an auditorium immediately capable of taking care of 1000 persons who will attend the UNO security council = meeting March 21.

Pack of 25 Dogs

Threatens Police

PATROLMEN Tom Ourter and Willard Hawkins told headquarters this morning that they encountered a pack of 25 big and vicious dogs while going through the, fog of Washington park early today. The dogs swirled aroufid their patrol car, growling and snarling, the patrolmen said, just one block north of 30th st. pn Dearborn. st. Four shots scattered the pack almast immediately, they said.

TOWNSEND PLANNERS“

TO OPEN CONVENTION

Orland A. Scott, executive vice president of the Townsend National Recovery Plan, will open a two-day convention of Townsend representatives ‘from Indiana, Illinois, Ohio and Michigan at 1:30 p.m. today. Reps. Gerald Landis (R.,, 7th Dist) and Louis Ludlow (D., 11th Dist.) are scheduled to speak at meetings beginning at 9 a. m. tomorrow at 241 W. Maryland st.

, Jess Gray, president of the 1lth

district council, will preside at all meetings.

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Left to right, Bruce Pearson, the Scott, the king, and Dick Buell, the ~ » n

The Junior Civic theater yesterday afternoon played host to a large group of children, many of them underprivileged, at a pre-view of “Rumpelstiitskin.” This latest venture of the Junior Civic is a pleasing fantasy by Charles and Kacy Suggs, with |P music by Mrs. Wayne Ritter. Designed to appeal to a lower age group than the Junior Civic's last production, it is an amiable treatment of the Rumpelstiltskin legend. Yesterday's audience liked it. The youngsters got a particular kick out of Bud Scott. as King Mergatroid and Bruce Pearson and Dick Buell as the king's two stooges. Nancy Lewis as Mary Miller and Don Millholland as the prince also

Morton Dock, as a pint-sized page wearing a plumed hat that probably gave him visibility zero, scored a hit. Although the singing was not overwhelming in volume, the

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VESTENT HERE 34. YEARS DIES

Mrs. Adrienne Garris Will Be Buried Tuesday.

Mrs. Adrienne Garris, wife of H. N. Garris, 723 Northview ave., and| resident here 34 years, died today in Methodist hospital after a four ‘months’ illness. She was 73.

+ Services in charge of the Rev, Lewis W. Gishler, pastor of the! Pirst Presbyterian = church of Muncie, will be held in Flanner & Buchanan mortuary at 10 a. m, Tuesday. Burial will be in Union City. Mrs, Garris, daughter of the late Isaac G. and Lavina Stall of Union City, was secretary of Meridian Union W. CT. U. for 15 years, She belonged to the Anderson Presbyterian church. Survivors besides her husband are two daughters, Mrs, Harold M. Bemis, Seattle, Wash., and Mrs. 8. H. Bemenderfer, Muncie,

HERMAN F. KEHLBECK

Three of the actors In the Junior Civic theater's current musical production, “Rumpelstiltskin,” which closes with a matinee tomorrow.

king's “left-hand man”; king's “right-hand man.” » . »

Charles

Junior Civic Players Score Hit With Pleasing Fantasy

THE CAST Miller: ......;oi000ves ..George Vonnegut Mrs. Milley HIF EIU Alice Gerlach Mary M Nancy Lewis

Alfred, Rr: Left Hand Man anh Bruce Pearson Fredrow, ‘King's Right, Hand ) Man

PR Dick Buell Bing Mergatroid aa Bud Scott Pr xx ew VaR Don Millholland AAS ENS Ee Morton Dock Rumpelstiltakin cesnasaveny Ann Wolfenstein Jack Forbes BOROIAES .'i.....nesvrisizaes Prank Morton Bud Pollack

Citizens ..Barbara Kershaw, Marilyn Heuslein, Jim Vandivier, Richard Dietsch, Nancy Ray Pearson, Edward

Hilgemeir Jr., Ann Coy, Kathleen Clark, Doris Lytle, Harriett Tresslar, Alice King, Kathleen Kett, Barbara Lemons, Sharon Holwerda, Marilyn Ehaw, Richie Kinghan. KIUARAR. + «cnc nurnsn James Harris, Pat Locke Dancers.... Joann Guidone, Susie Smith, Mary Biebe, Susie Miller, Cynthia Hanson, Consie Evans, Celia Turner, Sueann Shirley, Vada Belshaw.

youngsters put a lot of energy into the show and made it pleasant entertainment for their guests yesterday. “Rumpelstiltskin”- was scheduled to be repeated today and tomorrow. —H. B.

GOVERNOR AND MRS. GATES | have regained their normal composure today following a deluge of | 1000 ‘future fried chickens which were delivered to the mansion | i |

yesterday. ; William Lathrop, irate Richmond hatcheryman, dispatched C. O. D., 1000 downy chicks ach | to the governor, President Truman | and Agriculture Secretary Clinton | P. Anderson in protest to ‘he fed- | eral order to cut production. There was $70 due on each ship- | ment. The governor solved the | problem by turhing his over ¢o the Indiana state penal farm. He thought they were a bargain.

Truman Gets 1000 Hoosier Chicks but Doesn't Know I+

Mr. Anderson refused to pay the charges. President Truman, however, ls blissfully unaware that bouncing’ back and forth between the White House and the Railway Express company offices are the 1000 chicks assigned to him. The President currently Is cruising the Potomac river on the Presidential Yacht Williamsburg. The left-behinds at the White

| House, however, are up to ‘their

ears in chick down. Twice the chicks have been delivered. Each time they were returned. Acceptance or rejection awaits weighty presidential action.

New Cardinals | Are Entertained

ROME, Feb. 23 (U. P.).—A weekend of congratulatory social functions and religious services began! today for the new cardinals after five days of consistory ceremonies. Crown Prince Umberto, liieutenant general of the Italian realm 6 will entertain all the cardinals on Mon- | day. Ambassadors to the Holy See! were scheduling other dinners and! luncheons. Twenty-seven of ‘the new cardinals were guests of 1500 faculty | members and students of the Pontifical Gregorian university last night. Robert Finley, a student from Washington, D. C., paid a tribute to the four new American cardinals as “guiding lights of the generous people of the United States.”

ACTION NEAR ON BILL TO DISCHARGE DADS

WASHINGTON, Feb. 23 (U. P.. —Congressional sources said today that the senate military affairs committee has agreed to reconsider a bill which would release all draftee dads immediately. The committee, it was learned, plans to debate the bill and perhaps vote on it Tuesday despite the frantic opposition of the war department. The measure was sponsored by Senator Chapman Revercomb (R. W, Va), It was believed that the bill would have a good chance of winning committee approval and slipping through the senate despite the! army's official frown.

MAN, 102, AUTO VICTIM ASTORIA, Ore. Feb. 23 (U. P.). --Modern living proved the downfall today of Clarence O'Hoyt, Warrenton, Ore., who died in the Warrenton hospital from automobile injuries at the age of 102 years. The elderly man, whose twin brother lived to be 99, grimly fought “for life 10 days after being

| mander of Soviet forces in the Muk-

HINTS RUSS WAIT ON

Services for Herman F., Kehlbeck, former grocery store owner, will be conducted at 2 p. m. Monday in the Robert W. Stirling funeral home by the Rev. H. M. Zorn, pastor of 8t. Paul's Lutheran church. Burial will be in Concordia cemetery. Mr. Kehlbeck, who was 85, died Thursday in the home of his son, Alfred T. Kehlbeck, Lindburg Highlands. A native of Germany, Mr, Kehlbeck came here in 1879. He retired from business in, 1916. He was a member of St. Paul's church. Survivors besides his son are two grandsons, Howard H. Kehlbeck and

Kenneth A. Kehlbeck, both of In-|.

dianapolis.

BERT WRIGHT

Services for Bert Wright, retired carpenter and contractor, will be conducted at 2 p. m. Monday in the George W. Usher Mortuary by the Rev. Almon J. Coble, pastor of Washington 8 treet Methodist church. Burial will be in Floral Park. Mr. Wright died yesterday in the home of his daughter, Mrs. Dorothy Green, 312 S. Holmes ave. -He was 73. He was born in Jennings county and had lived in Indianapolis 45 years. He retired 10 years ago. Survivors are four daughters, Mrs. Lula Ayers, Mrs. Florence Hoagland and Mrs. Green, all of Indianapolis, and Mrs. Allien Kissinger of Kokomo; two sons, M. E. (Bud) Wright of Indianapolis and Harold Wright” of Frankfort, 13 grandchildren and eight great-grana-children.

MRS. ELIZA SCHULER Mrs. Eliza Schuler, 2840 N. Illinois st., died last night in her home after a brief iliness. She was 83. A native of Jackson county, she lived " in Crothersville until she moved to Indianapolis 24 years ago. She was a member of the Tabernacle Presbyterian church. Services have not been arranged. Survivors are three daughters, Miss Mary E. Schuler and Mrs. Robert S. Graham, both of Indianapolis, and Mrs. Charles 8. Humphreys of Passaic, N. J, and a granddaughter,. Mrs. Robert A. Voight, Indianapolis.

SGT. ROY F. CONAWAY

Detective Sgt. Roy F. Conaway, 321 N. Kenyon ave., died this morn-

U.S. TO LEAVE GHINA

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MUKDEN, Manchuria, Feb. 20 (Delayed) (U. P.).—Maj. Gen, An-| drei Notoun-Stankevitch, com-

den area, hinted today that delays; lin evacuation of Russian coldiers | from ‘Manchuria were related to) continued presence of American | troops in China. Stapkevitch's implication about { the American troops came curing a press conference he gave for one British and eight American correspondents who are visiting “fukden. The correspondents were interned in Mukden’s best hotel by the ®ussians for 54 hours, but now are ~eed to inspect the city. A correspondent asked Stankevitch when his troops would leave Mukden. “If I am ordered by the Soviet high command to evacuate them I'll do it, but not before,” he replied. “If I receive the order today then I could pull out tomorrow. But no such orders have been forthcoming to date.” ~ Pressed further, Stankevitch snapped back, “Let me ask you when are the Americans going home from China?” Correspondents found Mukden, once a great ‘Japanese industrial center, looking as though an earthquake had devastated it. The city had been slapped about mercilessly. The Russians blame the Chinese, The' Chinese blame the Russians,

BURGLARS BREAK INTO BOYS™ CLUB

Carl Brown, 2338 Prospect st., 14-year-old president of Prospect-Key~ stone Boys’ club, informed nolice today that burglars broke ‘nto the club hut on a vacant lot in the 2300 block on Prospect st. last night. He reported the culprits carried away wood stored by the members for use in their stove and destroyed

struck down,

the club alarm clock.

By UNITED PRESS Fifteen ships” were scheduled to arrive at U. 8, ports today with more than 10,100 servicemen.

DUE AT NEW YORK: Wilson Victory, from Antwerp—062 undesignated troops. Costa Rica Victory, from 1147 troops, including. 716th eid: Ati oy pase fon and 390th truck company. OO TARE DUE AT SAN FRANCISCO: . Meniper, from Pearl Harbor—1393 undesignated naval personn

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I5 Ships Bring 10,100 Servicemen

Jyom Bremerhaven—008 or

peta from Pearl De fiotetts un-

Beltram, froth Shanghai—1T undesienated naval personnel. DUE AT LOS ANGELES Sitka, ab Saipan—)888 undesignated personne Marshall Victory, from Yokohama-1405

ndesiginsad pusotine Lue rom Shanghal-—-22 untaenated Dna Ringness, om Pearl Harbor--166 uno | design nated perso: ah from ph "Harbor —One seryice-

DUE AT SEATTLE: Baranof, from Alaska—8ix undesignated

00ps. Altoona Victory, from Nagoya—1488 undesi Jenignated ur SAN DI

ARS-3 is jowing a ATR-72 and the

ing at Veterans’ hospital. He was i 58. Mr. Conaway was born near Arlington. He worked as -a fire- , man for Pennsylvania railroad until the start of world war I when he enlisted in the army. In 1923 Mr, Conaway Was appointed fo the police force. He was promoted to police sergeant in 1930 and then fo detective sergeant in 1943. He was a past commander of police post 56 of the American Legion and belonged to the 40 & 8 club, the Fraternal Order of Police and the Knightstown Methodist church. Survivors include his wife, Lena, and three brothers, Lowell of Cando, N. D., Charles of Fargo, N. D., and Floyd of Arlington. ni

LEE CURTIS CLOE

Services for Lee Curtis Cloe, Route 1, Rockville, will be conducted at 1:30 p. m. Monday in the Conkle funeral home. Burial will be in Floral Park. Mr. Cloe, a former resident of Indianapolis, died yesterday in Long hospital. He was 63. Survivors are his wife, Roena; a daughter, Mrs. Daisy Ruth of Rockville; three stepdaughters, Mrs. Mabel Cook of Mooresville, and Mrs. Leonafd Overman and Mrs. Dorothy Ramage, both of Indianapolis; four stepsons, John and Arthur Burgess, both of Indianapolis, and Howard and Albert Burgess, both of New Brunswick, N. J.; two sisters, Mrs, Rosa Todd, Greencastle, and Mrs. Daisy Posey, Cincinnati; a brother, George Cloe, Indianapolis, and 13 grandchildren,

ROBERT L. WOOD

Services for Robert L. Wood, an employee of Swift & Co. will be conducted at 10 a. m. Monday in the George 'W, Usher mortuary. Burial will be in Floral Park. Mr. Wood, a native of Dubois county, had lived in Indianapolis several years at 2143 N, Meridian st, He died Thursday in City hospital,

daughter, Sherry Wood; his mother, Mrs. Anna Wood; a sister, Mrs. Verga Byers; and a brother, Hershel Wood.

MRS, JEAN COHEN

Services in charge of the AaronRuben funeral home will be conducted for Mrs. Jean Cohen at 10:30 a. m, tomorrow in the Indianapolis Hebrew cemetery by Rabbi ‘Morris Feuerlicht. ' Mrs. Cohen, a former resident of Indianapolis, died yesterday at Miami, Fla. She is survived by two brothers, Saul Solomon of Indiapapolis and

‘| yesterday as having been arrested

‘Survivor§ are his wife, June; a

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES _

Youth Erroneously | Reported Arrested

Paul L. Raikes, 18, of 4287 E 34th st, was erroneously reported

following a two-car crash Thursday night at 21st and Boulevard pl. Mr. Raikes was NOT arrested. The other driver, Ernest E. Dison, 25, of 811 Westbrook st. was held on reckless driving and drunken operating charges. Five persons, including Dison, were injured in the collision, One of them, Miss Martha Foernzler, 18, of 317 W. Bernard st., was hurt critically. The Times regrets this error,

PEARL HARBOR VETERAN DIES

Charles Nelson Craven Left Army Last June.

Charles Nelson Craven, ex-serv- | iceman who was at Pearl Harbor | during the Japanese attack, died yesterday at St. Vincent's hospital. He was 24. : Mr. Craven, a native of Carmel, had lived here most of his life. He

was discharged last June and was working for Indiana Bell Telephone Co. at the time of his death. During the war he served throughout the Pacific theater. He was a member of Carmel Methodist church and the American Legion. Services will be conducted at 2 Pp. m. Monday in the Wallace Street | Presbyterian church by the Rev. | Roy E. Mueller. Burial will be in| Memorial Park at Anderson, Survivors are his father, Harry | Craven, 916 E. 54th st; two sis-| ters, Mrs. Jack Montgomery, 5123 E. North st. where he lived, and Mrs. Herbert Brown, Anderson: a, brother, Harry Craven, Noblesville, | and a grandmother, Mrs. Martha Craven, Indianapolis,

MRS. ELIZABETH FULLER

Services for Mrs. Elizabeth Fuller, former resident of Indianapolis, will be conducted at 3 p. m. Mon-| day in Moore mortuaries Peace chapel by the Rev. G. L. Fisher! pastor of the Centenary Christian church. Burial will be in Memorial Park, Mrs, Fuller died yesterday in a Cleveland (O.) hospital after a short illness. She was 30.

Fuller had lived here until 18, months ago when she moved to] Cleveland. She was an employee | of the Fidelity Trust Co. five years and had been employed by the NaSong) City bank in Cleveland for a year. 8he was a graduate of Technical | high school and a member of the, Centenary Christian church. Survivors include her athena, Don E. Fuller, Cleveland; her par-| ents, Mr. and Mrs. Bertram E. Miller; a sister, Mrs. G. E. Johnson, and a brother, E. H. Miller, all of | Indianapolis. !

MRS. MARY S§. M. ARMSTRONG | Services for Mrs. Mary Scott Moxley Armstrong, sister of G. Bar- | ret’ Moxley of Indianapolis, are! tentatively scheduled for Sunday afternoon at Shelbyville, Ky. Burial | will be at Shelbyville. Mrs. Armstrong died Thursday in her home there. She was a lifelong resident of Shelbyville, but had visited many times in Indianapolis. Survivors besides Mr. Moxley are! two daughters, Mrs. Russell Robb, | Boston, and Mrs. Eric A. McCouch | of Philadelphia; another brother, Henry Moxley of Shelbyville, and, a sister, Mrs. Sam D. Jones, Louis- | hug Ky.

RED CROSS DRIVE T0 BE LAUNCHED

The “kick-off” luncheon-meeting for the Indianapolis 1946 Red Cross | campaign will be held at noon] Monday in the Claypool hotel. Frank J. Hoke, general chairman of the drive, said general solicitations would begin March 1, but unit divisions would start earlier, Miss Helen O. Briggs, Red Cross club director who served in England and France, will speak at the

A native of Indianapolis, Mrs. }-

meeting which will be attended by! more than four hundred workers. The national goal for the 1946 campaign, which is based on the work the Red Cross plans to carry| on for the armed forces and dis-'

charged veterans, is $100,000,000, {

PROBE MARITAL MAZE IN TEXAS SHOOTING

DALLAS, Tex., Feb. 23 (U. P.).— Police today delved into a maze of marital difficulties in attempt to| find a motive for the fatal s sling! of L. B. Bruton. Bruton; 50, a prominent Dallas businessman, was shot to death in| his private office in a downtovn| office building yesterday afternoon. Two hours later, O. A. Burnet, 39, husband of Bruton’s former wife, surrendered to police and identified himself as the killer. W Authorities planned to ruestion| Mrs, Aeron Burnet who was married twice to Burnet and once to Bruton, The kiffing occurred in “ruton’s private office, on the seventh floor of the Texas Bank building. Bruton fell to the floor under a wall sign reading, “Keep Smiling.”

IN INDIANAPOLIS

BIRTHS

Girls At St. Francis—James, Mary Alexander, and Willroe, Marysiia Coffee. At_City—Ross, Rosa Irvin At The Yon Martha Knuckles; Haro, Mary Wadman: Robert Moline Fox; Arthur, Alice Sutton: John, Norma Ballard, and William, Irene Smith. . | At St. Vincent's—Ernest, Anna Leonard: Jolin, Margaret Rae, and John, Eliza. | beth Norris. . | Boys

| At St, Francis—Fred, Gladys Stewart, and John, Bernice Shakel At City—Fred, Helen Ritsmboljer, William, Charlofte Barn ) Mary ‘Stanley, James, Petty Hester At Methodist Charles. Bertha Babbitt.

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At a Vincent's—Joseph, Rosemary Kennelly. , ‘

‘Feb. 23, 1946

Saturday,

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Dear Folks—

Hooslerdom's state pastime, basketball, stole the spotlight this week. . . . With fans and players keyed up, 776 teams, battling in 64 sectional centers, launched Indiana's most popular + annual sports event, the state d , tournament. . . . Sec7) tional winners deter- “ mined tonight will com= pete in 16 regional playoffs March 2; semi= : finals are scheduled for A March 9.and on March 16 the four top-teams fight it out for the champlonship at the Butler fieldhouse. In the college hardwood bracket, Purdue clbsed its season by absorbing a 57 to 47 drubbing from its traditional rival, Indiana, tabbing a season's record of 10 victories and 11 setbacks. . . . Butler's Bulldogs, winding up its schedule with a 61 to 48 romp over Franklin, counted 12 wins against eight losses. . Notre Dame edged Michigan State 56 to 54 and I U. swamped Ball State 84 to 41. . . . In dropping a 4 to 2 decision to Hershey, the Caps broke their string of 16 games on the home ice without a defeat. . . . But they're still pacing the western division of the American hockey league as the teams pound down the home stretch.

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BASKETBALL-The High School Tournament is en! And In Indiana—Basketball is more than & pastime—it's something of sweeping intennity and interest! SoSo—Sirauss comes on the air each Saturday afternoon and night—and gives the play by play—and the color—and the works.. 1070 on your dial, L. SPRAUSS & C0. INC. .

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G. 1's March to College—

When 35 men joined the army at the Federal building in one day, it sef a record -for regular army enlistments there. . . . A state veterans affairs department survey disclosed 11,160 veterans are planning to enroll in Hoosier cole leges and universities

advocated estab lishe TO) LR) ment of a veterans cdl = 5S J lege: at Camp Atterbury. . . . A father, mother and son, school teacher members of the McKinley family of Peru, are all attending classes at Butler university. . . . Because their photographs were selected by Movie Actor Sonny Tufts, five Butler goeds were named beauty queens for Drift, class yearbook. . . . For a prank, a Notre Dame student veteran told a phony story of inheriting a million dollars from

# rich uncle. . . . After the entire nation “bit” both the student and his “million” disappeared. . . . As the army prepared to

reduce Billings general hospital to a small post hospital, some 600 wounded patients were moved from the Institution.

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STRAUSS SAYS: A CONVERSATION ON THE CORNER—A couple of fellows Fa were peeping through the “orifices” in the barricade that surrounds the building next door to us. One ssid—"It looks awful messy”-ithe reply come, “yes, but they say they will be in in March.” “But”—the first man rejoined—“they don't » say which yoar"—Honest—it will be March, 1946. L. STRAUSS & CO. INC.

eo 0 Civic ‘“‘Housecleaning”—

The dishwasher is the key employee in any eating establishment, the state health

department informed 150 Indiaaapolis restaurateurs at a special “cleanup clinic.” ..At an “enforcement breakfast” sponsored .by the

Republican party, a six-point program designed to eliminate tavern evils was outlined. . . A state-wide association ' for:

damages for injuries she claims to have suffered when a beer bottle exploded in the store where she was shopping. . Neighborhood opposition blocked plans of a legless veteran to open a tavern on Massachusetts ave. . . . Mars Hill faced a health menace as a waste sewer clogged and threatened to send refuse over the streets. =. . City council wants Woodruff Place, the city within a city, to pay $4000 a* year more for fire and police protection provided by Indianapolis, The Tlst st. bridge over Fall creek was closed while county commissioners and Ft. Harrison officials argued over who should repair it. . « » Bhots fired by youthful hunters from a railroad overhead near Kitley ave. seriously wounded a train conductor. , .. . City cofincilmen learned they owed a $6360 light bill, incurred by a previbus administration. . . . Warren township has a new volunteer fire house and a remodeled pumper, lccated on the high school grounds.

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venereal’ disease control was formed here. . . . An Indianapolis woman . asked $18,250

ny teen-agers thefted 4a from a safe, went on

spree, burned many bills because they the large

their activities, . Juvenile delinquency in Indianapolis is 20 per cent, juvenile ald authorities . . « A spectator booed a traffic, cop as he: affixed a sticker on an automobile, was himself arrested for disorderly canduct and fined, $8. . a Al meted a prison sentence for biting off the® ear of an army corporal in a tavern figh PA ct i brs mm 04 tw canary birds, tres taxi maten auf) traffic light bulb,

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STRAUSS SAYS: Spring is in the Air—and in ~~ the Heir—The Boys’ Shop—is ¥ - ~ giving evidence of Spring

Post-War Pains— At a meeting of the American Legions! national executive committee here, Cmdr: John Stelle was supported unanimously in’ his critical stand against the Veterans ag-' ; + + The state leased the

shortage echoed from the Calumet to the, “Pocket.” . . . In Pt. Wayne, a mother kept her baby in a dresser drawer $0: hide it from a “no children allowed” landlord, . In Bedford, a desperate mother of four threatened suicide if she didnt find a home. « «+ In Indianapolis the mayor's housing committee sought to place 200 quonset huts somewhere in city parks. . Harassed by a help shortage and lack of : sme, the War Asets.Qurp. 6 sling Hale able war production Hjachisiesy “died close-down of Curtiss-Wright here, at $18.75 a ton. I *

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iinetuding » oértain transparent b i, play)=Men's Raincests are on

Visiting Firemen— Returning to his alma mater, high school, Adm. Raymond A. Spruance gave student assemblies a first-hand agcount of the battle of Midway and other famous i natal duels. . . . We 2 a ragged cap, a field 2 and a pair of G. L Willle) Mauldin, dropped in for a week-end stopover: . + .» Lt. Gen. Walter ‘Be~ dell Smith, Indianapolis native and alumnus of Manual high, became U. 8. ambassador tq Russia. . . . Philippines High Commissioner Paul V. McNutt, former Hoosier governor, flew here for a visit with his parents fv | Martinsville. . . . Harold Stassen, formes Minnesota governor now touted as & potential presidential candidate, passed through on his way to Indiana university, where he addressed a convocation... .. . Minneapolis Symphony Conductor Dmitri Metropoulos talked shop with Indianapolis Maestro Fabien Sevitzky before taking his orchestra to the Bloomington campus for a guest appearance,

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A “Town-Builder” Dies— : re ot Indianapalis' mest Prominent eli 3 ns, George J. Marott, pioneer businessman oo philanthropist, died only a few weeki after bequeathing his large shoe store to his employees, . . . Robert E. Neff was, inaugus rated as superintendent of Methodist hos: pital. . . *Memorial Presbyterian h will build a $40,000 neighborhood house af Carrollton ave, and 11th st, as a delinquency antidote. , . . Mr, and Bert Dingley donated their 280-aere rach fn Brown county to the Catholic of Indianapolis for use ss stmet EE

Park Christian church by 1

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