Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 September 1946 — Page 2

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‘Most of the blame for any lax ts was tossed into the lap BC Sherwood Blue,

" the prosecutors can make up for correct and complete information immediately after the accident.” His statement was in answer to ' made Wednesday by the ! ty Council of the Cham‘of Commerce which said that the “prosecution of traffic cases was far below the standard necessary to discourage such crimes.” Accuracy Challenged Also Dr. R. N. Harger, chairman | of the safety council and William "fH. Remy, safety hoard president, charged ‘that of 28 traffic cases involving fatalities, only two convictions were obtained. Prosecutor Blue challenged the accuracy of their statistics. “The records for 1944 and 1945 disclose that of 25 cases involving trafic fatalities, grand jury indictments were returned in 14 cases, Mr, Blue said. ] Charges “Whitewash” “Bight of these cases have been tried with the result that four defendants have been convicted for manslaughter and sentenced to 2 to 91 years’ imprisonment and four defendants have been found not guilty, The remaining six cases are still pending for trial. No bills were returned In 11 cases. There is no record showing 26 defendants released.” Dr. Harger explained that “our

{ Criticism by Safety incil With Charge Officers

Fall Down in Investigations

swe have found a woeful lack of skill and experience displayed by ating officers,” Mr. Blue sald. “No amount of cover-up by

Marion county.

prosecution of cases in fatal traffic of the police department today by

the failure of the officers to get

figures and those of Mr. Blue were not based upon the same thing.” He said the figures in his report were based ypon fatal accidents inside the city of Indianapolis while those of Mr. Blue included all of

Two Convictions

“Our figures show that in 181 traffic deaths in the last two and a half years, 28 drivers were arrested by police and that only two of them were convicted and one of them recelved a suspended sentence,” Dr. Harger said. | “The two additional convictions in Mr. Blue's report involved accidents outside the city.” Prosecutor Blue said he was told that it is the policy of thé“police department, apparently established by Mr. Remy, to refer all traffic fatality cases to the grand jury whether there is evidence to support a manslaughter charge or not. “This apparently is a policy| established to whitewash the activi- | ties of the police department,” Blue said. Makes Recommehdations The prosecutor made the following recommendations for better en-| forcement of traffic laws: ONE: Adequate training of all| officers for scientific investigations of fatal traffic accidents, TWO: Arrests to be made only in those cases where sufficient evi-

RATES TOMORROW FOR MAS. MYRES, 95

Services will be held at 2:30 p.m. tomorrow in the Jordan funeral for Mrs. Margaret Myres,

dence has been obtained to warrant conviction, | THREE: Assignment of enough officers to the accident prevention

complete investigations.

FOUR: Addition of one or more | m,n con passenger train.

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P.) —Union Pacific railroad officials |

bureau to assure uninterrupted and | scheduled a thorough investigation | | today of the wreck of their crack |

hifts Blame To

Railroad Checks California Wreck in Which Six Died “

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Police In T

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2 GET 10 YEARS IN HOLDUP HERE

Brothers Are Sentenced for Trolley Robbery.

Two young brothers were sentenced to 10 to 25 years in state]

prison today when they pleaded 5°

guilty in criminal court to the holdup of a trolley car operator & week ago. They were William, 21, and Albert McKenna, 18, of R. R. 4. They admitted that they held up Charles E. Spall, 823 Addison st. a trolley operator, and robbed him of $28 at the point of a gun. Leland Joseph Hawkins, 18, of 8056 Coffee st. was sentenced to 180 days in the state farm and fined $190, when he pleaded guilty to slugging Herman Swhear,. 1645 Knox

Acme Telephoto.

The overturned engine and telescoped cars of the Union Pacific's crack passenger train Transcon

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BROWNSTOWN,

Hoosier Is Victim

Ind.

were left in this condition when the engine jumped the tracks near

| Passengers not flown to Los Angeles | were taken to the air base hospital. |

Sept, 27

| (u. P.) .—Mrs. «Velma M. Reinhart,

PERSONS HUR In Train Wreck

41, Long Beach, Cal, one of six Three Coaches Carry Most | persons killéd in the train wreck

| vesterday at Victorville, Cal, was |

Victorville, Cal,

a native of Brownstown. She and her husband, Leonard, a garage operator, also lived in Columbus and Jonesville for many years. She visited relatives at Indianapolis only a few days ago.

CAUSE OF FOREST FIRES WASHINGTON. — The ‘deliberate setting of forest fires was the largest single cause of forest fires last year.

st., in an attempted robbery last July 12.

Sentencing Delayed

* |high school.

Hands; Wi 1ands; VVi Purchase of Longacre Park, Inc. 4700 Madison ave, has been announced by Rufus M. Dodrill Jr, president of a new corporation which’ will operate the park. Originally opened in 1026, the park has been operated for 20 years by Mr. and Mrs. Edwin E, ThompIt offers picnic grounds and recreational facilties and is said to have the largest privately owned swimming pool in the country. “The policy of the original owners will be followed.” Mr. Dodrill said, “but expansion will be made in picnic and playground equip~ment.” . “It is our purpose to have something that will appeal to people all ages,” he said. Locker space at the swimming pool is being in-

|every 14 hours. The son of the Rev. Rufus M. Dodrill, the new corporation presi-

creased to 3500, he announced, and| the water in the pool will be filtered |

m— : FRIDAY, SEPT. 2, 1048 raffic Prosecutions Ji Pe Longacre Park Changes

Il Be Expanded

Rufus M. Dedrill Jr, Wilbur P. Fuller, operator of

dent is a graduate of Technical A world war II veteran, he served in Europe.

William Lucien Barrick, 17, 1638 Ingram ave, who attempted to escape at police , headquarters last week but was caught after a short chase, appeared in Criminal court to plead guilty to two holdups but the case was postponed pending a

court, Appearing with Barrick as his partner mas Thomas 8. Williams, 19, of 1948 Arrow ave. His case was postponed also because of the absence of his attorney. The youths said they will plead guilty of the recent holdups of the | Marott hotel and a Shell service

| . | station.

Fuller's ‘Friendly barber shops, is secretary and treasurer of the new | corporation,

RITES PLANNED FOR

MRS. V. A. WILKINSON

Services will be held tomorrow at m. in Flanner & Buchanan

kinson who died today in her home, {6033 Rosslyn ave. Burial will be lin Crown Hill. | Active in civic organizations in | the city, Mrs. Wilkinson was one of [the organizers and the first presi{dent of the Broad Ripple unit of {the American Legion auxiliary. She also was a. past president of the | Indianapolis Parliamentary Law

| Club, Inc, and until recently wag |a member of Indiana State assoe | ciation of Parliamentarians, ‘A member of the 51st Street | Methodist church, she also was (a past president and a member of {the Spade and Trowel Gaden club,

receipt of a waiver from Jnvenile mortuary for Mrs, Vance A. Wil- land a member of the state organie

zation, Garden club of Indiana.

A. Wilkinson; two sons, Richard {W., Chicago, and Vance A, Wile {kinson Jr., Appleton, Wis.; a sister, |Mrs, Charles L. Noble, San Diego, {Cal.; a brother, Warren Rugg, Eure« | ka, Cal.; her mother, Mrs, Albert W, | Rugg, Long Beach, Cal., and several fnieces and nephews.

Of Casualties. VICTORVILLE, Cal., Sept. 27 (U. |

died vesterday in the home of | criminal courts to the Marion her daughter, Mrs.' John Shideler, | county judiciary to enable more | 1122 N. Jefferson ave. Burial will be | prompt disposition of the ever in- | in Washington Park. | creasing load of criminal cases. Mrs. Myres, who was 95, had | FIVE: A more realistic approach lived in Indianapolis 16 years and | to the cost of crime in this county, Speeding across the California

Six persons were killed and more | than 70 injured when the engine jumped the tracks on a desert grade | curve.

was a member of East Tenth Street | and making provision for financing [deser} Jess So Jee es Gini Methodist church. A native of (an adequate crime combating force, | this railroa RY 5 on Se 8 a | Kentucky, she had lived in south- | including police, prosecutors, juries 42Y: the westbound engine 'e Lid ern Indiana before moving here. | and “courts. tracks. It pulled the tender w | Survivors besides Mrs. Shideler | —— it, dragging the baggage car side- | grandchi d seven | : ways. oe oe randchuden a Delay ‘Shocking,’ Says The three coaches behind the 0 ic Candidate baggage car telescoped and were ELMER S. KEAY Deo rel Ra di 5 a left in a tangle of wreckage which | i ocratic : Elmer Schofield Keay, president| ‘AWE te Van, Lem extended for hundreds of yards. of a New York coal Tne and | Pomin for prosecutor, today de-| Most of the 207 passengers still | as “shocking” the recent) in their berths. Th a} = native of Indianapolis, died yester eat. .: f the delay i | were in their berths. e major- | dpy in New York. He was 67, * révelations of the delay in prosecu- | yy were only shaken up, as the de-| Services for the coal saboutive, ‘ion of criminals. | railment involved only the three : left Indi ™ “1902 will “When 1 am elected prosecutor I|¢ rward coaches. . : Yio y ee Bur al win| Will insist on a speedy and fair Vis a Hopital 1. be pm . , trial of all persons charged with ae re ap ad | . : a _| manslaughter and all other crimes,” e identified dead were listed by : Survivors are his wife, Winnifred; | yo." cilivan said, | the Union Pacific as Fidel T. Erliz- - a daughter, Mrs. Ann Worth, New|. roo) very keenly that it is the 2a, 35, Los Angeles; Edward Koch, . ; eel very y e York; a sister, Mrs. Frank B. Fow-| oo cronsibility of the prose- 58, Staten Island, N. Y.; Mrs. Jo-| ler, Indianapolis, and dP po y prose. nild apolis, and one grand-| ..... to maintain such a high|seph Stein, 58 Canton, 8. D.; Velma 41, Long. Beach;

standard in the efficient and ag-|M. Reinhart, gressive prosecution of all law vio- | Dorothy B. Pakula, 28, Iron River, \ lators that commission of crimes|Mich, and Pullman porter William | will be discouraged and the county | Henry Pope, Los Angeles. 2 made a safer place in which to Thirty-five of the most sériously live,” he said. injured were flown to Los Angeles

—————————————— Good Samaritan hospital in planes PURCHASE VALVE PLANT .

daughter, Mrs. Mary Ohman, Mon- [the purchase of the Globe Valve |try, Ambulances reached the scene

JAMES M. SERING James M. Sering, Boone county farmer, died yesterday at his home in Advance. He was 68. A lifelong resident of Boone county, he was & member of thé Christian church. Survivors are his wife, Estella;

ticello, and five grandchildren.

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