Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 August 1946 — Page 1
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VOLUME 57—NUMBER 125
Auto In Quarry Remains Mystery: Murder? Suicide? Bedford Wonders
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FORECAST: Partly cloudy tonight and tomorrow with local thundersho wers; not much
SATURDAY, AUGUST 3, 1946
12 PICKETERS ARRESTED AT CONNERSVILLE
Quiet Restored at Rex Mfg. * Plant After State Police Arrive.
Times Special CONNERSVILLE, Aug. 3 Twelve| men were arrested today following disturbances growing out of a C, IL O.-A. F. of L. jurisdictional dispute. at the strike-bound Rex Manu-| facturing plant, manufacturers of! Philco refirgerators. | Those arrested were charged with violating a restraining order to) enforce peaceful picketing at the | plant. ' The C. I. A. United Electrical} | Workers is disputing representation | {of the plant's employees with the| A. F. of L. electricians’ union. ! State and local police charged! that the 12 picketers were restrain- | ing maintenance employees from| entering the plant. Restore Quiet State police were ordered out by | Governor Gates who instructed | tate Police Sup. Col. Austin R.| | Killian to send men fo aid Con- | {nersville authorities if the local | | police: requested it. (The request | was received in Indianapolis this | (morning. ) Fifteen troopers from the Con- | | nersville post and 15 more trom | nearby barracks joined local police | lin restoring comparative quiet to the strike-bound plant. "| Mrs, Isabel Russell of Cleveland, Vacel Harrington, state labor | 0., is a “grunt”—possibly the. only conciliator, said the strike was the| one in the business. A “grunt” is a steeplejack’s helper. Mrs. Russell started by handing tools to her painter boss, George W. Link, and helping with the rigging. Then she decided to try climbing. Mr. Judge Issues Order | Link says, “She’s better than any “The A. F. of L. is authorized by | man.” the national labor relations board | ___ .___
EEE DANILLE MAN KILLED IN FIRE
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Acme Telephoto,
out for three weeks in three-way
OQ. officials in their efforts to Oe the bargaining rights, tried to merge the two unions.” In Indianapolis, Gordon re, international field organizer for the C. 1. O, said several C. 1. O. lead- | ers had been discharged by the company for union activities.
change in temperature.
‘Entered as Second-Class Matter at Postofice
Gasoline “Stove Explosion American Legion post.
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MIDGET DRIVER 1S KLLED HERE IN2-CAR CRASH
Injured at Speedrome; | . Hit Spinning Car.
{died at St. Francis hospital early today following a spectacular two|car crash’ which horrified thou{sands of spectators gt the. Jndlan- | apolis Speedrome last nig | His death was believed to be the { first in midget racing here. Dirt-track racing, h8wever provide dwellings for veterans. {claimed the life of Don Turner, | Lexington, Ky, driver, at Franklin | last Wednesday. The dead driver was Otto Webber | Butler of the Kirkwood hotel He! apparently never recovered con-| | sciousness after his racer smashed | into the rear of a Shining car| ahead driven by Ed Yeage The dead driver's car A ooped, {and crashed through a TetRining | | wall.
WOMAN SHOT, HUNT HUSBAND
| Injured Internally { Hospital attaches sald Mr. Butler | ated of internal injuries, So great was the momentum of his bullet- | | nosed racer that it was barely] (stopped. by a second barrier, be- | hind which some spectators were’ standing. The track is located at Road 52 and Kitley ave.
For Farmer.
Times Special AKRON, Ind, Aug. 3.—BState po-| lice and a Fulton county posse to|day were searching for Lester Nich-|
track's east turn, in the second lap o = Second i shimnation, Pg | townspeople here—including* the, ater on e track was sald b Mr. Yaeger to have been a Bad town _marshal-and: escaped In" a | tributing cause. | black sedan. A native of Indianapolis, Mr.| {Butler attended ‘school 10 and | Technical high - school. He had been racing since 1931 and was injured about 10 years ago at Jungle ~ |park race track, his only previous | accident,
swamp a mile north of Disko five {hours after the shooting. The car {was concealed 150. yurds from the
Navy Veteran i Nichols’ wife, Nora, was in serRecently, Me Butler bought g ous condition today in: Woodlawn Safage aa oo a din hospital at Rochester. She was shot | t ber, 1044, ‘he previously had been {once in the right breast and twice! a mechanic at Jones-Maley, Inc. yh t 1, | He was a member of Memorial | piste
Survivors include his wife, Vic-
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Campaign t to House G.l's
A 38-year-old midget race driver Group Charges Mayor and and Cominitian Haven't Completed a Single Veteran's Dwelling Unit.
The American Veterans Committee of Indianapolis today opened a drive for a municipal housing authority to
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The committee charged that the city administration. ‘has failed to cope with the problem. To date—nearly one year after V.J day~Mayor or Tyndall
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a single completed dwelling |unit for a -veteran, although 600
anits are in various stages of cons struction and planning, the come mittee said. The A. V. C. announced. it would
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Indiana Posse e Searching ThA V.C. committee to study
the feasibility of introducing an ordinance into city council for the creation of a housing authority. This would formalize ‘the city's role in attempting to meet the,
housing shortage.
Chairman of the committee is
The accident hapfiened on the! ols, Wabash county farmer, who last | Weymouth Fogelberg, chairman of night shot his wife in full view of|A. V. C. Chapter No. 1.
“The formation of the committee was found necessary after reports of our housing committees i 2 "that a city housing authority is ime
Frank Summers, Fulton county perative to dope with the tragio sheriff, said today that Nichols’ car lack of housing in Indianapolis* was found at midnight in a lonely | Mr. Fogelberg said.
Fails to Meet Challenge “Private realty has failed to meet
{main road in a mass of underbrush. | the challenge. Federal laws are in-
‘adequate. This is & local problem which people of our city must solve | through our own gov agencies, . “After exploring every method used throughout the cities of the Inatidn, we are completely dissatis~
Sheriff Summers said the shoot- fled with the failure of our muing followed a street argument be-| nicipal government to act.
The restraining order was issued | |b Judge- Allen Wiles of Fayetté Destroys House. |toria, two children by a former irquit court, barring pickets from | Rakziage, Joyce and Don, Indian-
ering With plant. operations. Times Speci] .- apolis; his parents, Mr. and Mus. Col. SEA who left the plant TANTEI re ano Bxplo- lo-toscar Butler, Tnatanapolis: « “sis
Jn at 9 a7 m. today, said order had i of a gasoline stove early today (ter, Mrs. Gladys' Lane, and a broth- | Catches Wounded Woman streets in ani, they are live been restored and the local officials | caused the death of a 72-year-old er, Lavelle, Seymour. Marshal Judd leaped forward to ing comfortably in Houses provided
tween the couple. Several passersby, “We propose to demonstrate to 'ineluding Town Marshal John Judd. |the people of our Sy that. ction
Pow Tillett, mechani¢ for Finney Motor Sales, Bedford, is but a speck at the bottom of the quarry witnessed the shooting, the Sherif! has been effective where veerans ih wilkiog dhe
owned by the Indjana Limestone Co. as workmen attempt to rai a mystery car from the depths of thes) intact water, Wher 7) fae has sisted the efforts of one cable and hain Junitat
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ling at a home near Silver Lake. its will be needed. About 1600, Nichols went fo the Silver Lake!units are now under construction home early yesterday, ordered® his) |by private individuals and firms, wife into his car at the point of a |8ccording to the survey.
would prefer charges against the man, injuries to the fire chief and| Services will be held at 10 a. m. oaten the wounded woman as she OF intelligent planning in other pickets who were arrested. | destruction of a two-story rooming Tuesday in Moore Mortuaries North fe) and carried her into a drug-| ties.” : ; Kk. veys of housing authorities J ] The victim was John Flynn, a ‘ton pay Sheriff rank Lucas of adjacent |rndians gt on 18 acer |roomer who was suffocated. | Kosciusko county said the couple Midwest, Mr, Iber: ne { was unable to get out of the Won kL {nad been arguin z Fogelberg said, g yesterday after BACK 10.1 10. NORMAL ing house. Jack Downey, who occu- 9200 Units Needed e:’ Five other. oscupants alsol {north of Disko. He had been called scap! : Ao e P i by neighbors to investigate, he said Belleinger, housing chairman of Balk Solution. are Chief Fred Creech was taken | Calm Settles Ove Over Tennes- | FE oe ine oe reached ,the Nichols home. showed that 9200 units were needed. By VICTOR PETERSON : : | State police sald Nichols and his| here to’‘meet the sho o Times Staff Writer see City After Shooting. is Witty severai broken ihe gad) po | rtage as { last BEDFORD, Ind, Aug. 3—A ‘ p ; i N 0; ] . a e. € ED g i ll 4 en ing By LARRY DALE | while battling the fire when a 1ad- | Bury: Hatchet. weeks and that she had been stay-| Before the end of the year, 13.100 possible solution to the mystery of | 1 : “ a submerged - automobile in the JiR ATHENS, Tenn., Aug. 3.—A min-| Building Fire Republican war veterans, whose ister, a merchant and an oil dealer | The rooming house is owned by Co. Late yesterday more
, house here. jchapel. Burial will be at Washing-/¢iore. Nichols fled in his car. The sommittee is conducting sur« RIOT-TORN TOWN {noon near their home two miles pied the same room, made his | H Broken Cable a and Chain, e cited a survey made by John jos had found no one when he A V. C. chapter No. 2. The survey japolts with several broken ribs and | ‘Deplore Feud, - Agree to wife had been separated three, | January. broken cable is all that blocks a} | United Press Staff Correspondent {der on which he was standing broke. quarry of the Indiana Limestone political ambitions were thwarted “quarry ledge foremen’
than 200] lent their
vocal aid to employees of the Finney | =
Motor Sales who were attempting! to raise the stubborn car. One cable snapped and a chain | broke before the car was torn loose | from the muddy bottom of the green waters. Just as the rear end | of the auto broke the water's =f face, the second cable snapped oN quits for the day. Meanwhile “old wives’ tales” flying so fast that they are going 24 for a dime rather than the traditional dozen. Although Lawrence County Sheriff Lester Hayes today discounted the possibility of a body being found in a “watery coffin,” local residents are letting. their imaginations run rampant. Most of them, however, swear by their statements. “Lots of Folks Missing” Old-timers spend the evenings recalling friends who have disappeared in this heavily quarried | area, | One elderly storiecutter said: “There are lots of people missing | from around these parts. We never have been able to figure exactly what happened. But it sure wouldn't take much to wrap a body in cable and roll it into any one of these quarries. Chances are the person never would be found” Many dwell on the possibility of murder and remember that ‘years
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Workers and “quarry ledge foremen” stand around a wrecker of the Finney Co. and discuss the mystery after the cable and chain had snapped yesterday.
Mr. Tillett climb§ up quarried rocks from the murky depths after
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coyncil na in riots
meeting to keep order scarred Athens. . ‘The three, the Rév, Bernie | Hampton, Methodist minister; J. P.| Cartwright, oil distributor, and C.
| Mrs. Pearl Combs,
Two of the roomers were prepar{ing a fire in their first- floor apart-| iment when their gasoline stove ex-| | ploded. The éntire house was ablaze
in a few minutes.
The body of Mr. Flynn was sent
A. Anderson, a grocery wholesaler, |, Baker & Sons. Funeral Home will govern McMinn county until | here. the G. I. Non-Partisan league €an-| gyuryjyors include a sister, Mrs. | didates — declared victorious in| neva Harris, Danville, ane a daughThursday's bloody election — take | ter, Mrs. James Atkinsow, Zionsoffice on Sept. 1. ville.
An atmosphere of complete calm settled over the town today as 100-Mile Race Title Event
both businessmen and veterans who unseated the Democratic machine with a barrage of ballots and bullets, threw their support behind The American Automobile association has designated the 100-mile race here Sept. 15 as a championship event
the emergency council. City officials made no attempt to . story by Bob Stranahan on Page 6.
return to their jobs. Police Chief Herbert Walker and former Police Commissioner Hugh Riggs were working with volunteer law enforcement officers. Businessmen worked in shifts as policemen to keep order in the town of 10,000, tucked in the mountains 125 miles southeast of Nashville, the state capital. Their work was routine. Only two or three arrests had been made, and those were for drunkenness. Mr. Anderson is commander of
The Indians are hooked up in a three-club duel for the A. A. lead . , . Sports Editor Eddie Ash writes authoritatively on the race,
Successful long game again brings women's city golf title to Alice’ ©'Neal J. E. O'Brien followed the play in the finals.
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ALL ABOARD KILLED AS B-25 CRASHES
Explodes in California After Attempt to Land.
LONG BEACH, Cal, Aug. 3 (U. P.).—~A B-25 bomber crashed while circling to land early today two and one-half miles southwest of Los Alamitos naval air station and exploded’ ’ All aboard were killed. Number of men aboard the plane was not known, bof the normal crew of a B-25 is five. Cause of ‘the crash was not known, but a spokesman at Los Alamitos said he believed the plane hit high-tension wires in a low overcast, “The plane was smashed to bits," a sheriff's officer said. “Hands and legs were scattered all over.” Two small fires were in the
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FOR SPORTS NEWS . IT'S THE TIMES
‘ By HEZE CLARK The police report was entitled “Open Windows and Doors at 4906 N. Meridian St.” - It concerned the discoveries of Car 13. The authors are Patrolmen John Horne and J. R. Yates, who described what they found at 6 p. m.
order on, the North side: “Found the door to the 49th st. wing open. on second floor found a window open on the south Side of the! house, a west wing window open! and two bathroom windows .up.
attaching the cable, and hooks to the car. He belieyes the machine is a i § Plymouth. . > “
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Open Windows Are Now an Open Secret, And Give the Credit to Men in Car 13
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by the bitter G. O. P. factional fight in .the May 7 primary, have issued a statement condemning the lack! A posse of 20 men, including | 'of unity in the party. state police and Fulton and Kos“We veterans haye some unex- |ciusko county sheriffs and depu- | pressed opinions as to the means ties, searched the brush-covered | used to defeat some of our candi- countryside near here, Sheriff Sum- | dates.” declared the statement is- |mers said, They found no evidence {sued by the Marion County Repub- [of Nichols’ whereabouts except the | |lican Veterans of World War II. car. “But we further recognize that | candidates and the official leader-| iship of the party were chosen in| Nichols’ a manner prescribed by law,” statement said. 1s, stat, lice sald, is an exThe yeterans agreed to “bury that JichoR, He Ra 10 years for| hatchet” and forget the defeat of armed robbery in Ohio. While servsome of their leading candidates ing the term, he killed a fellow inby what they hinted was “unfair mate. He was under $1700 bond at tactics The simu oS not. {the time of the shooting. | comment specifically on what cam- | R. M. Mishler, the drug store
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gun and clubbed her on the head
Watch Brother's Home
brother, who also lives]
the | near Disko.
INDIANA TO RECEIVE |
| FUND FOR HOSPITALS 1 KILLED, 10 HURT Indiana will receive $1,600,000 for IN TRAIN «WRECK
the first year under provisions of | PORT WASHINGTON, N. Y. the Hill-Burton bill awaiting Presi-| Aug. 3 (U. P).—An electric loco-| dent Truman's signature, the funds motive, running by itself, collided to be used for construction of state head-on with a Long Island pas-| {hospitals and health centers. |senger train near here today. At] |" This was indicated today by state| least one person was killed and health board officials, who expect|about 10 injured. | the appropriation to ease a shortage | lof hospital facilities. | the Port Washington station en| Anticipating federal action, the) [route to New York. At least one| last legislature authorized the health | coach was derailed. board to survey existing facilities] The engineer of the 3 and determine where new structures was trapped and killed
are needed, | wreckage.
locomotive | in the
“Lieut. Hammond contacted relatives of the owner, then ordered that the windows be closed and the house locked. He said to take the keys from the automobile and place them on a table in the re-) ception hall.” The report concluded, “Inform all district cars on all shifts that the owner has returned home this date.” ’ The owner is Frank McKinney, Indianapolis banker and part owner of the Indianapolis Indians, who had gone East to negotiate a deal to purchase the Pittsburgh Pirates. The relative contacted was Fire
Chief Roscoe McKinney, his talper.
| ered five windows open on the north side and the basement door unlocked. “In the master bedroom upstairs a pair of diamond cuff links lay on a chest of drawers and in a dressing room off the bedroom were two jewelry boxes chock’ full of valuable items.
“A Cadillac limousine was parked in the driveway alongside of the (house. The keys were in" the ig- { nition. ; | “Called Lt. Harry Hammond at | police: headquarters and ‘reported | findings, including evidenae that | the fireplace in the_ living room yu being painted ig repaired. -
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If all pending and proposed home
with the gun butt, state police said. construction is completed, there still
{will be a deficit of 10,000 homes
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The committee indicated it would present publicly the results of its | investigation of how the: housing | problem has Been handled in other Hoosier cities by contrast to Indie | anapolis,
They are watching the home of A- Bomb Plant
Blast Injures 3
LOS ALAMOS, N. M., Aug. 3 (U. P.).—Three men were injured, one
of them critiyply, in a premature
explosion of pyrotechnic chemicals yesterday at the Los Alamos atom bomb project, security officials ane nounced today, Officials said that the accident was the first of its kind since the Los Alamos project was started. They emphasized that it did nos involve fissionable material. The accident occurred yesterday morne ing.
'PRESIDENT’S PLANE LANDS IN ST. LOUIS
8ST. LOUIS, Mo., Aug. 3 (U. P.),
The passenger train had just left | —The “Sacred Cow," carrying P
ident and Mrs. Truman to their (home in Independence, Mo., where they. will vote In the Missouri pri« mary, landed at Lambert field at 10:36 a. m. today. Secretary of Treasury John W. Snyder and Mrs. Snyder got off the
| plane at 8t: Louis, thelr home,
where they will vote on Tuesday,
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