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“We pay him greatest honor as we catch a vision of his spirit.” These words marked the cliw of a simple tribute by ths: Rev. Russell W. Galloway, as some 150 relatives and close friends gathered near the flower-draped casket of! America’s dean of letters, Booth Tarkington, at final services at the Tarkington home today. Simplicity which had marked the shy, thor’s life also marked his funeral service, The oration by the ass0- |
ciate pastor of First Presbyterian:
church, to which Mr. Tarkington bélonged, was brief and dwelled more on the “greatness of his human heart,” than the fame the world had heaped on Mr. Tarking-| ton. | Lone Floral Piece The plain walnut casket, closed | throughout the service, was covered by only one floral piece. The pall, the floral offering: of his -family, was made up of white flowers cen-
tered with a cluster of white 3 orchids. “America—indeed, the world—
has lost its dean of letters, In
diana has lost its greatest and best-loved citizen. But those who knew and loved him, from his
faithful servants here at ‘home to the greatest figures of arts and letters, have lost-a dear and faithful friend,” the Rev. Mr. Galloway said. There was no music at the service.
The quiet, tree-shaded Meridian st. home which the novelist had once called “a part of me” was
filled, although only the closest of his many friends attended. Buried at Crown Hill
The Indiana mid-spring sun which had shone on the Hoosier| writer almost every spring of his| 78 years, darted in and out behind | clouds as the funeral procession | started to Crown Hill | There, the body ¢Y one of the last | figures of Indiana's “golden era of | literature” was interred in the} Tarkington - Jameson mausoleum. His parents and a daughter who died ih her youth already rested there. Not far away is the tomb of another Hoosier great and one of Mr. Tarkington's closest friends of earlier years, that of James Whitcomb Riley,
| testin, a dapper citizen of Beverly Hills, Cal, takes off in his rocket car.
Honorary Pallbearers Honorary pallbearers were John|
T. Jameson,- Francis T. Mayberry, t, racing cars in the United States. Cornell W. Acheson, Harry Kylie,| )inned to each side of his regulation Miller-Offenhauser, four-cylinder
LeRoy Miller, Dr. Joseph Tarking-| ton, Arthur Tarkington, Warrack| Wallace, Dr. Carleton B. McCulloch, Reilly G. Adams, Jone C. pare, Alan C. Appel, h Thomas D. Sheerin, x btn Moxley and Burford Danner. Literally hundreds of telegrams, | letters and calls of sympathy have flooded the Tarkington home sin word of the Hoosier author's boy spread through the nation and the world. : Relatives requested no floral tributes be sent, but offerings have poured in from persons in other towns and states who had not heard of the request. FORECASTS MORE RAIN FOR WEEK-END The Indlanapolis weather bureau | today tossed a wet blanket on the week-end plans of local picnickers with a forecast of rain and cool weather. Warm weather predicted for tomorrow and Thursday will give way Friday to another round of chilling temperatures which will last through Sunday. Outings in the southern part of the state will fare well if their participants take along a boat. Prognosticators here say two inches of rain will fall in that district. About one inch of rain is forecast for northern Indiana,
LOCAL TEMPERATURES
6am... 50 10am .. . 58 785 m ...532 . Ham... 58 $a.m...5 12 (noom)., 58 | Sam .. 5 1p. m. 58 1
IRAN WAR ‘EASING OFF
TEHRAN, May 21 (U. P) signs | of conciliation in Iran's “civil war” appeared today when Tabriz re- | ported the situation there had] eased and Tehran officials played| down reports of Azerbaijan border skirmishes,
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VOLUME 57—NUMBER 61 i :
TARKINGTON'S
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Through Concrete, Steel to Death
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Acme Telephotos
Top arrow shows where a two-motored army plane crashed and exploded against the stone side of the 70-story Bank of Manhattan building in the heart of New York's financial district yesterday, kill-
ing five persons. The fusilage struck the 58th floor and part of the wreckage fell to the 12th floor parapet (lower arrow).
140 M.P.H. Run Is Expected In Rocket Car Tryout Here
By RICHARD LEWIS The Indianapolis Motor Speedway will revert to its one-time role as
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Here is part of the wreckage of the plane as it hangs over the 12th floor parapet of the building. g ground fer automotive transportation today when Duke Nalon,| which sent wreckage flying over downtown streets. | the five persons aboard the plane were unaware they were in the sky-
Fog was blamed for the erash It was believed
This is the first demonstration of the rocket-assist principle applied| scraper district until a few seconds before the plane crashed.
tered as Becond-Olass Matter at Postofice
Indianapolis, Ind. Issued daily except Sunday
“Blame Fog For 5 Deaths
PRICE FIVE CENTS
As Plane Hits Skyscraper
PILOT FLYING BLIND CRASHES AT 58TH FLOOR
WAC, 4 Army Officers Are Victims. in =~ Wall Street Crash.
NEW YORK, May 21 (U. P.).—Fog was blamed today for the death of five persons in an army transport plane that roared through the con-
crete and steel wall of the 58th floor of a Wall Street skye scraper last night. ts pilot groped by instrument
Sor the Newark, N. J, airport when
the crash occurred, Apparently the five persons aboard the plane did not realize they were among New York's skye scrapers until a few seconds before the plane crashed. It was estimated to have been traveling at 150 miles an hour when it crashed into the 70-story Bank of Manhattan build. ing. W@C 1st Lt. Mary E. Bond, a passenger, crossed her fingers as the building suddenly appeared out of the swirling fog. Her fingers
This is the chopped up body of the plane scatlered throughout the
pine-paneled 58th-floor office of A Odlum, husband of Jacqueline Coc the 5000 persons who work in the no one in the building was hurt.
tlas Corp., whose president is Floyd
hran, famous woman flyer. Most of |
building were gone for the day and
The Duke plans to use one rocket | —
| racer, The demonstration will run at {2 p. m. today. It is a demonstia-| tion only. There will be no rockets| in the 1946 race which, except for | the Duke's experiment today, will |
HARNESS SEEN | IN SENATE RACE: e the traditional gasoline grind it SOMe
Congressman ay Die to Toss As he patieis around the turn, the
|veteran racer intends to press the
ON CAPITOL AVE,
Businessmen Fear Road Won’t Stand Up.
At Malmedy Mass Murder BONDS GETS OK
By E. G.
VALENS
United Press Staff Correspondent
DACHAU, May 21.—-A G. I
survivor of the Malmedy massacre
told today how Nazi gunners mowed down the massed ranks of helpless
American war prisoners.
Hat in Ring TOMOrrow. [release button on his number one rocket. Then, zoom! He boosts his 125 mile-per-hour speed up to
Rep. Forest Harness, Kokomo,
will announce his candidacy for Heian average of 140 or better on the
States senatorial |Straightaway, trailing a 30- foot
Q.0.P. United [cloud of black smoke behind him. it was re-
nofiination tomorrow,
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By SHERLEY UHL While contractors race against time to finish the Capitol ave. re{paving job, some observers are afraid the project can't get a grip on itself.
gressman Charles La Follette are
Rep. | It's the smoke which makes it ‘|impossible for the rocket car to | Harness had no comment. compete in the 1946 race. It would Three names have been tossed blind other drivers in competition, | from certain business establishinto the hopper for the nomination | presuming, of course, that the other| ments along Capitol ave. Comat the Republican state convention drivers would be behind the Duke plainants assert persons familiar in June. In addition to incumbent when the rockets let go. [with the project have informed] Senator Willis, former short term]; A good deal of secrecy surrounds them the macadam base over which | Senator William Jenner and Con-{the type of rocket the Duke uses, |the asphalt is poured isn't firm, |1t is produced by the Aero-Jet divi-| enough to anchor the new surface. campaigning for delegate strength. | sion of the General Tire & Rubber| 1° this, City Engineer Thomas | Harness supporters feel that Mr.|co. {Jacobi and Middle Western Con-|
| tractin Co. officials sa hooe Jenner, SHll # favorite, has lost| Despite the name, “Aero-Jet," gych oS tiebam from SNe Sey ground in recent weeks due tothe booster principle is not a jet, sidewalk superintendents occupies al
“heat” leveled against the G.O.P. state administration.
Charges that the project is a “rush job” designed to aceompodate
Speedway visitors are bling
ported today in Washington.
The
Duke Nalon and his Aero-Jet rocket
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«Lo police.
Virgil P. Lary, Lexington, Ky.,
BULLETIN
WASHINGTON, May 21 (U. P.) —President Truman today ordered Secretary of Interior J. A. Krug to seize the bituminous coal mines ‘of the er. tomorrow.
TRUCK RIPS BUILDING, TRAPS FIVE IN FLAT
Two young mothers and three
| children were imprisoned in their
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‘Dapper Duke' Gets Ready for Speed Test
a one-and-a-half-ton truck hurtled | into the building and wedged in the | | exit. Held captive in a second story until timber and debris that blocked the exit John Bryant, 19, and Mrs. Charles Campfield, 21, of 245 S. Noble st. and their children, William David| and Sharon Lee Bryant,. 4 and 3| years old, and Naomi Joyce Campfield, 2. The truck, loaded with tomatoes, was coming down Bates st: police
said, when the driver apparently saw that the street was dead-end Attempting to make a left turn|
south onto Noble, the truck hit a curb and swerved into the two-story brick building, on the southeast corner of Bates and Noble sts. It tore out some 15 feet of wall on the southwest corner of the building, which houses the Artie Hedge Pentecostal assembly on the irst floor and apartments on the econd. The vehicle came to rest in the entrance, wedging’ against stairway, As the car hit two youths leaped ut and fled. A short time later a
17-year-old youth had said he was|
a passenger in a truck surrendered The youth, Eugene Douthitt, of 115 W. Walnut st.: said he
ran from the wreck “because I was
scared.” He said the .driver was a
fellow named George
» Police sald -the truck was tentatively jdentified as the property of
| Arthur Scate, 1339 Wade st,
was removed were Mrs. |
He said the German executioners guffawed raucously as their dying | victims writhed screaming in the mud of Belgium |
former first lieutenant and one of |
(six U. 8. soldiers who survived the|
massacre by playing dead, testi-| fled at the trial of 74 German elite! guardsmen charged with the mass| murder in the Battle of the Bulge.! The Americans were captured in| the first onsurge of the German offensive, launched Dec. 16, 1944.| { That same day they were mustered mn ranks eight deep and 20 abreast at the Malmedy crossroads Mr. Lary | defendants, George Fleps, as the an who fired the first shot at the ericans, The 8.8. man aimed| Ame fou with his revolver and felled a G.I standing with hands | clasped over his head. Gunners Open Up Then two German machine gunners opened up.
Their weapons minutes.
rattled for three The prisoners went down
like waves of grain before the sale of light company stock last ickle,- A deathly silence hung for month : some moments over the bloody , 11® Water company deal has at-
| scene, broken’ by obscene gusts of laughter from the executioners Mr. Lary fell face down in the imud, shot in the left foot. He heard |
| single shots from pistols as the
|coup de grace was administered to!
those who still lived and moved After an hour that was an eternity, somebody yelled, and those {who could do so made a break for
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The price of milk in Indianapolis probably is due for an increase, ac-| cording to Carl L. Hedges, manager of the Indianapolis Dairymen’s Cooperative, Inc.
Replying to, demands from producers in this area for details of
prices, Mr. Hedges said: “In ny conversation over the telephone recently with Mr. Kahler! of OPA in their Cleveland office, he| informed me that their Washifgton office realized milk and cream prices need adjustment now that | grain prices have been fhereased, "
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= Ygnves Protests, Puts Stamp. on Private Sale.
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were still crossed when her body | was removed from the plane's {crumpled fuselage inside the build.
Name 4 Victims
The army early today announced ithe names of four of the victims |after their next of kin had been | notified. { They were Lt. Bond, Newtown, { Pa., mother, Sarah K. Bond, same |address; 1st Lt, Robert L. Stevens
nN : Ki | same address: Capt. “Tom L. Hall, | Austin, Tex, next of kin, Helen | Hall, Sioux Falls, S. D., and 1st Lt, {Angelo A. Ross, Whitehall, N. Y,, father, Thomas Ross. Police identified the fifth victim as Maj. Mansel R. Campbell of Pon- | tiac, Mich., pilot of the plane. Stevenson served overseas with 386th and 554th bomb squadrons {and had won the air medal with {11 oak leaf clusters. Ross had
RAP ‘RUSH JOB’ [Yank Tells of Nazi Laughter [DEAL ON WATER 5 = =
immediate investigation of the tragedy under the direction of Col. Clarence P. Kane of the Atlantis overseas division of the air technical services command.
Ahead of Schedule
The plane left Lake Charles. La. lat 1:55 p. m. (Indianapolis time),
The public service commission Yesterday. It took off from Smyrna, (today authorized the Indianapolis] FcR at 3:18 p. m. for Newark
after refueling. | Water Co. to issue S$14.725000) wor department statement said
worth of first mortgage bonds at| ihe plane was due at Newark at {private sale, overriding objections g.4g p m. Apparently Maj. “amp of the city and midwestern invest- | ney) was ahead of schedule and did
identified one of the |
his recent petition for higher milk|
ment firms. | The midwestern investment bank- | ing houses of Otis & Co.; Cleveland, {and Halsey-Stuart & Co., Chicago, {had demanded the right to bid on {the bonds on a competitive basis Evidence ' at the PSC hearing last week showed that the water (company had arranged a private | deal with Drexel & Co. of Philadelphia, whereby the bonds were to |be sold to a group of insurance firms and banks, with Drexel takling a $50,000 agent's commission.
Reverses Stand
In authorizing the private sale, the PSC reversed the position it had taken in ordering the public
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tracted the attention of the U. 8. department of justice which has made the private sale a part of its|
investigation into alleged monop- |
olistic investment | banking The city had intervened in the
| case in support of competitive bid
practices In
ding, which it contended would re-| in ‘a more advantageous deal] "herefore |
sult
for the company, and
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Dairymen’ s Head Foresees Increase in Milk Price Here
| However, Mr. Hedges said, he | received no indication of how much [the price increase would be or | when it. would be forthcoming. In a petition to OPA last February, a lacent-a-quart increase was asked in the retail price, Mr. Hedges said. with a 45-cent increase per hundred pounds in the price to producers. In a recent demand, producers in the area sought a boost in their | ceiling price ‘from $3.51 to $4.50 a hundred pounds. This increase, according to local market analysts, | would translate into a probable 3-cent increase in the price to consuimers here,
{not know that he had passed to the north of the airport. At 8:10 p. m. he contacted the Newark control tower and reported that he was flying blind at 600 feet, The plane crashed into the 927« foot building a few seconds later. The hurtling plane ripped a hole eight by 10 feet in the masonry wall. The wings were torn off, The fuselage came to rest in the pine pannelled office of the Atlas Corp., whose president, Floyd Odlum, is the husband of Jacqueline Cochran, famous woman flyer, The plane, a C-45 Beechcraft, ex~ | ploded in a ball of fire as it hit {and sent a cascade of flaming gasoline down the side of the sky- | scraper. | Officials said the pilot
- erhaps (‘mistook the East river for the Hud{son in the low overcast and -early twilight and banked for what he
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SMALLPOX STRIKES
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CHICAGO, May 21 (U. P).— Illness which forced Bing Miller | from the Chicago White Sox coach~ |ing box was diagnosed today as smallpox. Club officials said he would be lost to the team indefinitely. He was stricken during the week-end.
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