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The three little Fields—Barbara Home attendants cleaned them up this morning. They spent their week-end with the chickens and the flies and the bedbugs after the folks left for parts unknown. ,

FATHER FAILS IN PLEDGE T0 TOTS

3 Returned to Children’s Home, ¢One Hospitalized. Billy and Barbara Fields

LeRoy,

are in the Children’s home again, Their little sister Joan fs in the hospital, like gheriffs charged today, because their daddy, Grover Fields, 31, of Route 20, forgot the promise he made to the juvenile court a year ago. promised he'd take care of his

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family.

Deputies Harry Foxworthy and Tar] Laswell went out to the Fields “home” in answer to an urgent call “from neighbors westerda; found the youngsters alone und the apparent supervision of 10-year-}

old LeRoy.

The deputies found dishes stacked high, beds unmade and they said, apparently unchanged in weeks. Chickens Roost on Beds “It didn't look to me as though the place had been cleaned up since I was out there to get the Kids a Deputy Foxworthy re-

year ago,” marked.

Chickens had been roosting in | the beds. on the: floor, even on the table off which the youngsters had | to eat—when there was anything |

to eat. Little Joan, ‘who is the | all away, although whoever it was apparently made no effort to trace yourigest, 4, Jay on an open couch | the whereabouts of the children. a WA with a high fever while flies] : as | made by a woman.

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Two weeks ago, fleighbors told this Fields left the home with a fifth child, about a year and a half ‘old. At, the home, LeRoy vouchsafed he hadn't seen his dad “for a couple of days, I guess.” The neighbors provided enough to eat over the week-end until they! decided the thing had gone enough and called the sheriff.

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LOCAL TEMPERATURES

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Billy, 8, is limping even yet from | a cut in his foot where he’stepped | on a broken milk bottle. Judge pro ‘tem. Scott McDonald of juvenile court: took charge of the youngsters this morning and ordered them held at the county home until their parents can be Affidavits are being prepared against the parents charging | child neglect, and { ready is under a suspended sentence on the same charge. Neighbors Provide Food This story started about July 6| last year when deputy sheriffs first answered the pléa of neighbors and picked up the four children. parents, Mr. Fields and his wife, Abbie Louise, fought a bitter fourday court battle to retain custody | of their chil@ren. Judge pro tem. McDonald, who! heard the case at that time, too, | found. that the evidence didn't support a- child -neglect case against Mrs. Fields. He found her husband guilty of the neglect charge but judgment Fields would “properly provide” for |

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Here, with chickens roosting on the floors, beds and tables, deputy

sheriffs found four youngsters fending for themselves. The oldest was 10, the others 8, 6 and 4. Their father, Grover Fields, 31, is |investigation, under a suspended judgment on charges of child neglect of which he [older residents. was found guilty a year ago.

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ployees from the state house, city the fam "10 | hall and court house, also are. con-'a¢ the Indiana penal farm, Putsidering permanent organization of a yijle, where he was. superin- | their luncheon Club. They met a |tendent prior to 1945. noon today in the Hotel Lincoln. A special state examiners’ report In the resolution they pointed ,)jeges Mr. Hemmer personally sold

out that “disunity in the party is ’ , farm produce to various buyers, injeopardizing the chance of the Re-! ! y

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Thomas Mellon II, grandson of ~rJUANA Baja CFA, Aug, 19 Judge Thomas Mellon and a nephew | (U. P.).—A $100,000 fire: which deof Andrew Mellon, former secre-| Stroyed three one-story buildings

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“We always wondered what became . we never knew,” said Mrs. Alec Erickson, widow -of Walter Calhoun, nephew and last known relative of Mrs. Hattie Cal-

Mrs. Calhoun's body will be exhumed here in connection with the poison investigation centered around | Mrs. Lottie Lockman in Madison,

Mrs. Calhoun left Burlington more than 30 years ago, Mss. Erick-

Robert ‘Giles, ~Burling= ton, said he will require a court or-: -der here for the exhumation of Mrs. Calhoun to determine if she

Disinterment of the body was asked by Indiana authorities. Mystery surrounds the burial of | Mrs. Calhoun here on Dec. 22, 1937. | Neither Mrs. Erickson nor her first J husband, who died in {that the 76-year-old woman was { dead. Local funeral] homes have no record of receiving her body from | Dupont, Ind., where she died. | No Burial Record | No récord of the burial has been | | fourid in county files pr at the Iowa tics.

1943,

for Decems~|

1937, carty no story of her ;

Calhoun’s grave in | grove cemetery has no marker and | lit: is abandoned and .grown over | Raymond Duerr, su-|’ | perintendent of the cemetery, said i. |that as far as he knows no one has| lever visited the gr Mr. Duerr told reporters he believed the body was not handled by funeral was driven here from Indiana and taken directly ‘to the cemetery. Mr. Duerr said he could not re-! member the details of the burial, but thought the arrangements were

home,

“I remember that there was a { woman here with the body at the time,” Mr, Duerr said. | He was not able to identify al | news picture of Mrs. Lockman, who | glonnaires are looking forward to tle in which no one was injured. Calhoun’s housekeeper. |a In Unmarked Lot Indiana authorities said that Mrs, | tonight. Lockman made arrangements Jor} Beginning at 16th and Pennsyl-| Mrs. Calhoun’s burial three weeks | VAnia sts. gaily dressed units from

vestigation here of her family his-|banding point at North st. {tory revealed that Mrs. Calhoun’s| | maiden name was McClure. | | The last member of the family in| with blaring bugles, rumbling drums | Burlington was Mrs. Mary. McClure, | and smartly clad Legionnaires. {who was probably Mrs. Calhoun's| Mrs. McClure is listed for | |the last time in the 1897 city di- commander, will lead the powerful |

Although Mrs. Calhoun has been 1.and world war II veterans backed |away from Burlington for many py the Camp Atterbury band and | | vears, there is widespread interest g crack outfit of M. P.’s. {in circumstances surrounging her

{burial here in view of the poison |penmark will act as reviewing officer | particularly

Julius (Jules) Calhoun, husband |mMeridian st. {of Mrs. Hatite Calhoun, died here |i; charge of the stand. |

Study Ostrom CHARGE HEMMER [en wen TO Su a a oo as uaa home broken into last Bal)

J considered the adoptions of a reso- PTODE Reveals Personal Sale L Hi ym ’ lution calling for the resignation | Of Penal Farm Produce. | oO Ie, ‘ oO e ga | Nn,

Ones WhoCurse You

By EDWIN C. HEINKE

|cluding former Governor Henry F.\night at home after being in jail for a week and she cele-| . ; . oo) | (Continged on Foxe 3—Column er i % {peuiom on a poison murder charge| QUONSET POINT, R. I, Aug. 19 headed by Rep. Roger C. Slaughter Outside, Newt Jefferies tried to quiet a cow bawling for |air sea rescue boat through a heavy her calf. Inside, Laverne Jefferies, Mrs. Lockman's foster- 14in today to visit the naval war daughter, was preparing a roast beef dinner. The home is .a typical southern yo ckman.

Dusk was falling and the front pont’s mercury poisoning mystery, He units. [door stood open as Lottie sat in sang the words. occurred | che parlor and said: “Mister, I'm so happy I could just! ier, | overturned at the interna-!pick up that old gittar of mine yy go anywhere of the Historical Society of West- tional border, injuring the driver | and sing, ‘UH Jesus Goes With Me, : { I'll Go Anywhere," :

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FOR LEGION PARADE

Big Convention March to Start at 6 Tonight. gomery county.

By JACK THOMPSON Systematic search of the area

CRAWFORDSVILLE, Ind.

gigantic convention parade| The pursugd men are believed , to | through the city streets at 6 o'clock be Charles Gilchrist, 25. Putnam |county; Raymond Johns, 22, Cass county; Raymond Johns, 22, Cass county, and Rol-

{all over the state will strut down

This morning as the posse id “a. closed in, several Rollin Hurt airplanes were used to attempt to locate the desperadoes. Word of the criminals first was reported last night when a farm

Retiring Commander H. E. Sie- | family noticed strangers to the area |abandon a car at state roads 234

" Parade Leader William White, ninth district

and colorful columns of world war

among [in a stand erected in front of the and 47. | Chamber of Commerce building on| Investigation disclosed the car to Will Brown will be/be stolen. A gun found near the|

automobile proved to be one stolen

Deputy Sheriff Roy Hardaker and state police officers Lauren Ayres and Norman Miles investigated a report that the escdpees had holed up in an abandoned farm huose. The search was futile, but at 3 m. today, following another tip, they engaged the criminals in a

of Henry Ostrom, Republican coun- | a: | 2 rw short gun battle. They then called far ty chairman. By SHERLEY UHL \ ro a Le ie The workers, composed of pre- | The state board of accounts to- | ra S O u . ess This morning the. searching cinet committeewomen and em- day charged Floyd J. Hemmer owes | . | planes drew gunfiré from the

wooded and hilly countryside, but

been fired by squirrel hunters. Two already are’ under questioning for the act,

Times City Editor

DUPONT, Ind., Aug. 19.—It was Tot Lockman's first TRUMAN PAYS NAVAL

AIR COLLEGE VISIT

(U, P.).—President Truman rode an

college at Newport, R. I. A northeaster brought rain to the vacationing President about 8 a. m., |shortly after he had finished a

" ~ » - AND TO prove that the words came from her heart, Mrs. Lottie the “62-year-old “Good

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13: 8erial ....... 10 14 | Side Glances 12|tary of the treasury, died of a heart and threatened the entire business Indiana abode, deep in the hills of |gamaritan of the Hills” who is | brisk two-mile walk. 12 | Sports 8-9 | attack last night at his home. {district here, was extinguished to-|Jefferson county, far off the main |f.ee on $15.000 bond on a char But at 10:30 the Pigfdent donned | | { { d 9, ge . by the combined efforts of roads. {a black raincoat and gray felt hat,

lof bel the perpetrat: f Dubeing the perpetrator of Lu-{ ..4™ ‘about the “California

weather” and stepped from his yacht, the Williamsburg, to the navy rescue boat for the ride across NarTis ven { | ragansett bay. He said he had been js Heave %'told the raincoat made him: look

They rang out with evangelistic . . “If Jesus goes with 1 e,|

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er Off Trolley In One-Man Token War

HATTIE'S RITES §g¢ A BIT ‘SPOOKY RELATIVES SAY

‘No Record of Burial Made In lowa, Cemetery Officials Report.

INDIANAPOLIS READY Montgomery County Posses

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Aug. 19.—State police, deputy sheriffs] treated to the rear of the trolley as and a citzen's posse have three armed and desperate Pendleton reformatory escapees surrounded in the rugged southern area of Mont-

Indianapolis and some 9000 Le- armed countryfolk “got under way about 3 a. m. following a gun bat- his eyes.

police believe the shots might have |

DAWSON AFTER FREE FORALL

Passengers Retreat, Fists Fly in Fracas Over Amount of Fare.

By RICHARD LEWIS - Attorney James M. Dawson succeeded in getting himself arrested this morning in the second of two tries after a two-hour battle with Indian- ] apolis Railways, Inc. Mr. Dawson is the attomey who has taken it upon himself to con=test the ruling that metal tokens are no longer good for one fare. 1 The railways abolished the token ‘ast week as payment for fare after it had received a Circuit Court ins junction enabling it to hike rates 2 cents,

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Challenge Company + Contending that the metal token is still legally valid, Mr. Dawson has been boarding busses and trolleys for a week and daring the company to eject him or the police to arrest him. The attorney, who says he is staging his one-man war against the railways “on my own hook,” was thrown out of the trackiess trolley at 11:05 a. m. today at 13th ~ and Pennsylvania sts. after a fist fight with a motorman and two supervisors who tried to eject him, It was the Indianapolis police department which hustled him off the trolley after the fight which drew a large crowd of’ sympathizers

for Mr. Dawson oi rx EIR bry aily iy for pri | Token Refused Mr. Dawson reopened his cams

{ paign against the company &t 9:30 (a. m. when he boarded the trolley {a 13th and Pennsylvania st. He {offered Motorman I. L. ‘Arney an lold metal token. Mr. Arney refused. Mr. Dawson said that “from nowhere” four men, including Mr. Arney, wearing Indianapolis Rail- | ways, Inc., uniforms, pounced on him ‘and “tried to rassle me off the

got police to arrest him.

he 15 passengers of the Pennsyl~ vania st. trolley, mostly women, re-

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the railways men struggled with Mr. Dawson, ripping open his light blue suit jacket at the shoulder and

by more than 40 state police and bashing his straw hat down over

Screams Draw Crowd The railways men were unable to force the 190-pound attorney off the bus, and abandoned their efforts when the screams of women passengers speedily drew a crowd of about 100 . people. The railways men then called the police, evacuated other passengers from the bus, and sat down glaring at Mr. Dawson to await developments. ' Police Sgits. Joseph Klein and | Cecil London arrived on the scene, {caught a glimpse of Mr. Dawson

BUY $4000 RADIO [sitting defiantly in the empty rail- ‘ {ways coach, and stopped in their | tracks. SETS FOR $6 EACH! “It's him again,” said Sgt. Klein |

to Sgt. London. “Hello, Joe,” Mr. Dawson greeted

Sgt. Klein. “What's the trouble?” Jo Army 3 Jaliage, Demands Police Action { quipment as Junk. |

Raymond Johns Charles Gilchrist

Railways Assistant Superintend- ! ent James A. Lynch arrived on the ATLANTA, Ga. Aug. 10 (U. P.).|scene and demanded that the police | —A young navy veteran told a spe-|take some action. The two sergeants |cial house committee investigating |indicated that they were unfamiliar surplus property disposal today that | With the legal ramifications of the he TE pani transmitter- | C35 and preferred to wait until something developed, like assault receiver sets valued at $4000 each ang battery, for instance. from an Atlanta junk dealer for| Mr. Dawson said he would sit in [$6 apiece. the trackless trolley “all day” if He said the sets had been marked | Necessary. The old tokens represent | for salvage and sold as mass junk |® contract between Harry Reid, railWarner Robins! ways president, and the people of Indianapolis, he said. i Morgan ey “I'm gonna see that they keep Tech student end |that contract,” he said. With the determined attorney sat =

Iby the army at field, Macon, Ga. | The veteran, now a Georgia amateur radio operator, told of buying several valuable pieces of elec- | (Continued on Pags 7—Column 3) tronic equipment for as little BE | oe eeeestebeenn — cents a pound and selling at] . “tremendous” profits after repairing | Center Hall, Open Stairway

it himself. Desigried 4 - Bedroom Brick

| Mr. Pattillo sald that on one oeccasion he bought a $200 transmitter In one of the better residential for 49 cents and sold it for “20 or| Sections of the Northside, this home has many refinements

(40 dollars? after minor repairs. | Mr. Pattillo told the committee.| that will be readily observed by even the most casual visitor, . .,

4-Bedroom Modern Brick Opes by Appointment, 4300 Nort

(D. Mo.), that the army had marked |all the material as salvage and sold

Center hall, open stair n; lit for junk, long living room, fireplace, book- | The witness said much of the ma- tases, nice dining, tom. Uitte

[terial had been smashed and “in fast apie powder room La |some cases looked like it had been Ter hall, 1 Master, 3 wi sccom. " te twi ; a |deliberately smashed. sewing, room den.” tile bath hroughout. Just ™ | RAIL ENGINEER KILLED at and

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| rn '—The engine and four express cars ge 3 5 por i lof the Seaboard Airline passenger mont ith ower who Tas ad.

{train - Robert E. Lee jumped the tertised, Mfr track seven miles north of here . i today, killing the engineer and se- Times Classified Ads us verely injuring thé fireman. No - ! : le |passengers were reported injuredy Phone Rl Jey 55581

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