Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 September 1946 — Page 2

correspondingly higher, PROBES FITZLOVE SHOOTING

| ELWOOD, Ind., Sept. 4 (U. P) — ert L. Fitzlove, 26, Elwood, believed

‘shot wounds early yesterday. Mr. Pitslove was the son of Calvin E.

‘| ington high school for an orienta- Shortridge;

_|itary activities and the history of Casther Jr. {the U. 8. military organization. Stu. | John E. Boric, headquarters.

«| =A 61-year-old laborer -yesterday _|was questioned in connection with

1damage of $125,000,

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

WEDNESDAY, SEPT, 4, 10

vert “Shipping Strike et For Toronaw.

ROTC Commandent Outlines Plans-

Lt. col Paul T. Snowden, Indianapolis R. 0. T. C ‘sonamndinl (right), outlines plans forsthe current year to (left to right) Hershal R. Souders, Broad Ripple; Harold W. Jones, Manual; Ernest L. Stringfield and Leseston Riley, both of Technical.

hk Col. Paul T. Snowden, Indian dents will receive instruction in thet

apolis R. O. T. C. commandant,| | world war II 30 Saliber ba «1 rifle, ‘| the carbine and the bazooka. voltay outlined plans for 1300 stu. | Instructors attending the meet‘dents who will engage in the junior ing today .included Hershal R. reserve program this year. | Souders, Broad Ripple, a new unit; Instructors from city schools met Harold W. Jones, Manual; - Albert today with Col. Snowden in Wash-| C. Fischer, Vernon V:. Bunch, Ernest L. Stringfield, | Leseston Riley, Leo Lair Sr, all of Two new features of instruction Technical; Benjamin Paris, Washwill be classes in ciirrent world mil- ington; Ferrel B. Wiggins, Lewis Crispus Attucks, and |

tion session.

as salvage laborer at both of the big fires and at another downtown fire two years ago.

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In Elkkart Fires

ELKHART, Ind, Sept. 4 (U, P).

2_SENT TO HOSPITAL AS TOW CHAIN SNAPS

two large-scale fires which destroyed two department stores here in re-

cent months, causing & material the face at the Fall Creek Ord-

nance plant,

Willlam H. Whitsel admitted starting a fire at the rear of the Mont- of 3103 Madison ave, Police sald | gomery Ward store early Monday the men were pulling a crane bemorning, Police Capt. William Roth hind a tractor when the chain said. The blaze was put out quickly | broke. Both men were hit under] with only minor damage resulting. the left eye by loose ends of the Authorities said Whitsel worked | chain,

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Two men were in fair condition at Methodist hospital today after al chain snapped and struck them in|

They wére Gerald Jarrard, 42, of] Noblesville, and Ed Richardson, 24,

2 HOLDUPS NET

$225; 1 ONE. FAILS

Everybody Runs. Runs as Bandit Accosts 2 Women.

‘Bandits obtained $225 in holdups here last night, while two women foiled the attémpts of robbers who demanded their purses, William Hawkins, 44, North Salem@iittendant at a Shell filling

| [station at 3060 W, 16th st, told po-

lice that two thugs robbed ‘him of $200 and fled in a black coupe after requesting a pack of cigarets and offering a.$50 bill as payment, Leroy Clevenger, 49, Brownsville, reported to police that two men held him up and took $25, his wrist watch

“land fountain’ peir-tir'an Mey oft of |. INT Capitol ave. Taste nignt

“As I walked out of the Roosevelt hotel two men jabbed a gun in my back and made me walk four blocks up Capitol ave, and into an alley where where Mr. Clevenger told police. Two women thwarted a husky bandit with a foreign accent last night at Avondale pl. and Massachusetts ave.

evil Mees, .44, of 2186 Station |

, and Ayme Cutrell, 51, Bloomroy were standing on the corner | when ‘the bandit approached with | his hand under his coat-as if con- | cealing a gun, When he demanded their purses, they furned and ran up the street. The holdup man fled in the op-| posite direction.

James Russell, 25, of 2827 Een)

wood ave., fired a shot at a prowler who was peering in his window

last night. Mr. Russell «told. police |

he was certain that he hit the man {who ran into the alley behind the | house.

they robbed me,”|

Notre Dame Host To U. S. Scientists|

NOTRE DAME, Ind. Sept, 4 (U. P.) —More than 150 of the nation’s leading scientists are at Notre Dame university for a special four-day session on organic chemistry, Speakers at last night's opening meeting included Dr, Paul Bartlett, professor of chemistry at Harvard university, and Dr. Charles Price, head {of Notre Dame's chemistry department. Both spoke on the results of wartime research in mustard gasses. Also on the program was Dr, Sual Winstein, professor of chemistry at the University of California. . —b——————————————————————— J

OFFICER OF MOOSE DIES. IN- PARADE

ANDERSON, Ind. Sept. 4 “wu. ‘P. —A Labor day parade in ‘Anderson's down-town business section was | halted temporarily when the treas'urer of the Anderson Moose lodge dropped dead while marching with

fellow lodge members.

Physicians said James Ware, 42-year-old Anderson garage operator, tea of cerebral hemorrhage. ; Mr. Ware moved to Anderson from Huntington seven years ago,

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| daughters of Anderson, two sisters in Mishawaka, and three brothers.

EATON DIES OF INJURIES VALPARAISO, Ind. Sept. 4 (U. |P.).—Joseph Eaton, 70, died in a Valparaiso . hospital yesterday of injuries suffered when his automobile was struck by a Pennsylvania |passenger train at Hebron, Ind,

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POLIO DECLINE BEGINS EARLY

Slight Indiana Gai Gain Counter To National Trend.

WASHINGTON, / Sept. 4 . PD. ~The nation’s’ worst infantile paralysis epidemic since 1016. has apparently reached its peak and is on the down grade two weeks earlier than expected. The Us 8/ public health service said nation-wide statistics showed a slatkened rate of Increase in the’ last few weeks. The total of new cases for the week ending Aug. 24 was slightly below the previous week. Generally, Labor day marks the peak and the + decline. About. mid-September. Health service officials warned that new cases would continue to crop out until cool weather sets in. They pointed out that 17 -states, including Indiana, reported an increase in new cases during the week of Aug. 24, the last for which complete national figures are avallable. _.. No Preventive Found Dr. Charles H. Armstrong; head of the public health service's infectious disease section, said that the sérvice had received no reports of practical methods: of combdting causes of the baffling malady as a result of this year’s epidemic. Up to Aug. 24, state health departments had reported a total of 10,648 polio cases, the largest number for this period since 1916 when the all-year total was 27,363. ; The total of -new cases for .the week of Aug. 24 was 1806, a slight drop from the previous week's 1815. Indiana, however, had 20 new cases, compared with 18 the previous week.

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Look at them in evening gowns. Take it while they sing sentimental songs in my direction.

BY SATURDAY night they'll all have been eliminated by the judges Jexcept one, She will be Miss America. The most beautiful woman in the country. : I will have to buy her an ice cream soda and let her talk to me. Othman never gets a break. Never Has fun. Just labors day and night. svobmd another 4 mg: - k.donit- know how to act around a Miss America. I never met one. _ An ex-Miss America used to dance precariously on the revolving stage of Earl Carroll's salon de luxe in Hollywood.

P w » » SHE WORE pearl beads and rosecolored light, but I never was introduced to her, I can't even remember her name. The nearest I ever came to a Miss America, involved a couple of also-rans, One of them was Miss Dallas, Tex., of 1927. I never understood why she didn't make the grade. Maybe she wasn't pretty enough, or wasn't a capable actress. Her name was Joan Blondell, : The other was Miss. New Orleans of 1931; I knew her in Hollywood, too, and while I never did see her in-a bathing suit, I spent many happy hours watching her in a sa-| rong, escaping the technicolor tigers in Paramount studio’s private jun-

gles. Dorothy Lamour must have

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‘That's Beauty of His Job

By FREDERICK C. OTHMAN United. Press Staff Correspondent EN ROUTE TO ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., Sept. 4—Why my employers do things like this to me I don't know,

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me to spend the rest of this week’

communing with the most beautiful girls in America. a This is gruelling work. I have got to gaze upon 40 of the loveliest of the nation’s lovelies in high-heeled shoes and 1947-model bathing suite,

been too homely to win the prize at Atlantic City. Poor ml. - THIS BEAUTY contest to which I am rushing as fast as the Penne - sylvania railroad can take me has gone highbrow. The proper curves in the proper places are-not enough, The winner also has got to have brains. Qne of the judges is a colv lege : chancellor;. another is Mrs, Henry~@rattan- Doyle, president of the Washington, ‘D;~ 0: bard “of education, The winner collects $5000 in cash, not to buy herself a mink coat with raglan sleeves, but » complete her education, » THE CONTESTANTS must be ladies. They've got to retire early every night with their chaperons, They can't drink, smoke, or chomp spearmint except possibly in their own boudoirs. They are what you might call dignified queens. . They must do more than let thelr teeth glisten in the spotlights. They will entertain the customers by plunking zithers, tootling trom bones, singing that song about the gypsy, and reciting passages from. the orator’s books. Submitting to all this will be tough, but it isn’t all. My bride handed me a going-away gift, Smoked glasses. Double-smoked. Fellow husbands, what do you think? Am I also to have trouble at home? inl

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