Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 November 1946 — Page 2

BLAST'S CASE

Critically Hurt; Teacher | In Hospital.

«The explosion of a boiler fired by & substitute janitor yesterday crum-=|

Lisa Sergio to Talk Before Town Hall

Lisa Sergio, radio news commentator, will speak at 11 a. m. tomorrow on the Town Hall program. Her subject at Eng “Where Do We . Stand Today?” Olive Enslen Tinder will introduce the speaker land be hostess for the luncheon in the Claypcol hotel after the lec- , U. P.). ture, BARODA, Mich. Nov. M4 { Miss Sergio, who

| broadcasts from

lish's will be

JAP NARCOTIC PROBE LAUNCHED BY U, S.

TOKYO, Nov. 14 (U. P).—U, 8. health and welfare authorities have launched a nation-wide narcotics checkup aimed to control the distribution of drugs, stabilize prices and stamp out drug addicts, allied headquarters announced yesterday.

was directed to gather information | on a nation-wide scale on the number of addicts, the present and past sources of supply, criminal histories, local rendezvous and names of asso-

(any In School Explosi

ciates and acquaintances of known addicts. Allied headquarters also ordered the transfer of drug stocks at present owned by doctors, hospitals, dentists and surgeons to wholesale houses before Dec. 15. After Dec. 15 small amounts will be released through the wholesale houses to hospitals at stabilized prices.

FIGHT 1000 ‘BANDITS’ LONDON, Nov, 14 (U. P.).—An

The Japanese welfare ministry Exchange Telegraph dispatch from | in the Indianapolis Railways’ in-

Athens said today that a group of “bandits,” 1000 strong, has fought a battle with a company of Greek troops along the Greek-Yugoslav frontier in which two and possibly four Greek officers were killed,

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fering with ‘the railway firm's fare

ATTORNEY RE-ENTER ce, vioe rams srs se TROLLEY RATE FIGHT “sc: a said he should be

James M. Dawson, attorney who Included as a defendant because

was thrown bodily off a trolley car| De is the owner of contracts (tokin a one-man fight against the tare | 1% for rides on trolleys which increase last summer, renewed his| Dave been refused by operators legal battle today. » funder court order,

He filed a motion in circuit court,| He was forcibly ejected from a seeking td intervene as a defendant lrofley when he insisted on tender |ing the old rate tokens for a ride in a test case. Subsequently, Mr, junction suit against the public Dawson was enjoined from trying service commission. to use the old tokens. The circuit court has pending an| Because of this injunction, Mr, appeal to the Indiana supreme Dawson said he should be permitted court on a temporary injunction,|to intervene in the cireuit court

preventing the P. 8. C. from inter-! case.

1, S, ARMY PLANNING 3-MILLION RESERVE

WASHINGTON, Nov. 14 (U. P.). {—The war department's Jong range | plans. for the post-war militar |establishment call for a total active {and reserve force of 4,500,000 of- | ficers and men. { There will be a regular army of {about 850,000, a national guard of 682,000 and about 3,000,000 in the | reserves. The army's’ present strength is {1,500,000. By July 1 must be down |to 1,070,000 to comply with orders 'of congress. Army reserves now are {about 1,000,000.

THURSDAY, NOV. 14, 1946

9 Injured

‘Rebel’ Trains

' . . I Are 'Unionized 8T. LOUIS, Nov. 14 (U. P.).— When the Gulf, Mobile and Ohio railfoad pushes its famous Southern Rebel route west next year it will call it the Alton route, Officials sought to avoid unfavorable reaction from “union” territory when the Rebel got past St. Louis.

MINE BLAST KILLS 52 PRAGUE, Nov. 14 (U. P).— Fifty-two miners were killed today in an explosion of unexplained origin in the Brown coal mine at

Lom in northwest Bohemia, the ministry of industry anhounced.

pled & section of the Baroda conschool. : Solituted. ¥ was killed and 18 other children and a teacher hospitalized. The blast occurred at the noon tecess when most of+the 260 pupils were in another part of the twostory building at lunch. A half dozen or more other children were treated for minor injuries. * Authorities questioned Eldon Nitz, 17, a high school student in the séhool- who was substituting for his fanitér uncle while the latter was Away on a hunting trip. Cause Is Unknown ‘Young Mr. Nitz said he had received instructions from his uncle In the firing of the boiler: He said e was not in“the boiler room when e blast occurred and “didn’t know happened.” NE rt dug in the debris of the school with a power shovel but believed no additional victims would be found. The fatality was Walter Ruppel, 13 who died in a hospital three hours after the blast. Many of the children had broken arms and legs but only two, Larry Barker and Alice Johns, were. reported in eritcal condition. " ' Some Carried to Safety “rhe injured teacher was Miss Mira Spackel. * Some 30 children were trapped in the explosion area but were led or carried to safety. They said the blast shook the walls, caved in the roof, blew off doors and scattered plaster. There was no fire. The explosion blew out a fifth and sixth grade schoolroom directly |

above the boiler room and caused |

the second story classroom above it to collapse. | The fifth and sixth grade stu dents had been dismissed at the time of the explosion, but five or

six of them were in the classroom |throughout the Ratiog

eating their lunches. Building Shakes Jerry Nye,

“when the whole building seemed to shake.” :

“1 saw a door near me fly off*| de

Jerry said. “I was plenty scared and ran out the back door.” Kenneth Tollas, 9, said 3 into the cafeteria w plaster began to fall. “I saw a piece of plaster hit

sunt (Mrs. Bertha Trapp, cafeteria cook),” Kenneth said, “but she wasn't

hurt. Then we all ran out.” The school, a combination grade and high school, has 260 pupils, but most of them were in another part of the building at the time of the blast, Mrs. Fred Williams, wife of a Congregational minister, was in the kitchen of the parsonage across the street from the school when the explosion occurred. Home Is Rocked “I felt the explosion shake the house,” she said. “Then I saw a puff of smoke or dust fill the school-

“As the smoke dissipated I saw the west wall of the school fall inward and the roof of that part of the building fall down. “I could hear the children scream-

Mrs. Walter, the school superintendent’s wife and a registered nurse, gave first aid to injured students. The explosion occurred in a new

brick addition to the original one- stick of wood had been thrown

story building.

11, said he was stand- [country; Two, by economie and ing outside the sixth grade room cultural reconstruction of the un-

ww BANDITS GET $160

Miss Sergio

IT imes station, | WQXR, was born in Florence, Italy. |She was the first woman to broad{cast a news commentary from Italy, {She became Mussolini's official [translator but she was forced to flee | 1taly because of her outspoken | criticism.

CALLS MIDWEST HEALTHY REGION

Ranking by Doctor Made on | Death Rate Basis.

By: JANE STAFFORD Science Service Medical Writer CLEVELAND, Nov, 14—The far | west and the middle states were | given top ranking in health over all | regions of the United States by Dr.! [Carl W. Btrow, of the Research | | Council for Economic Security, Chi-|

|cago, at the meeting here this | |morning of the American Public Health association, The southeast and southwest re- | gions went into the low ranks des- | ignated as underprivileged health | | regions. Health rankings were made on Ithe basis of infant deaths, tubercu-! llosis death rate, deaths from six infectious and contagious diseases 'and the death rate in the age group 1 to 60 years. Climate, population make-up, public health and medical care fa- | cilities, economic resources and culture account for the difference in |

health ranking. Equal health opportunities can be provided in two ways; “One, by shift-

ing financial resources within the

derprivileged areas. “Both should be used,” Dr, Strow

AT LIQUOR STORE

Three bandits escaped with $160 from Bernard's liquore store, 920 W. Michigan st. last night. i Joseph Levin, proprietor, said | three men entered the store and| asked for wine. “While I was wropping up the bottles, one of the men drew a gun | and demanded money,” he sald. | “They all three grabbed the money | out of the cash drawer and ran out the front door.” Burglars took tools worth more, than $115 from the Forbes Lumber | Co., 1923 Shelby st., last night after |

In the next block, yeggs ran-| sacked the Solitaire Bottling Co. | They took $2<from a cash drawer | and attempted to carry off a large quantity of sugar. But it spilled on the floor before they got it out of the place. | Vandals broke a large window \valued at $200 in the front of the | {Nathan Super Market, 220 E.| Southern ave. last night. A large |

Ithrough it.

IN INDIANAPOLIS

MARRIAGE LICENSES Nathaniel Owen Tinsley Jr, 1511 M tindale;

Frederick Francis Heth, Carol Trowbridge, 1526 Broadway william Burn Smith, Camp Atterbu

ry. Frank Oecorge Squilace, 443 Broadway;

Anns Mai} Bows, 812 Greer Louise McCullough; Walter, Mary BouthRaymond Cecil Langdon. 150 E. iewn;| ward, Bdward, Wilma Craig, Alfred, | orma Louise Rader, N. Elder Frances Young; William, Wilma Soott, | Charles H. Persinger, 917 8. New Jersey; | and Robert, Vachina Brown Ji A. Lombardo, 917 8. New Jer- | At Methodist — Victor, Dortha Davis; | James, Nancy Burris; John, Adelaide’

sey. ; Louls C. Young, Lafayette; May Whittle, Coventry, England

George Beck Morrison, $11 vania; Mildred Margaret Payton, R. R 8, Box 607

Richard Bert Wright, 19 N. Fleming; Pa-

tricia Ann Swigart, 33 Myron Louls William Brant Jr Allene ise Crane, R. R, 14, Thomas Clifford Craig, 1816 EB. Edgewood Virginia Louise Schulz, R. R. 1, Box 315

iliam Ernest VanBlaricum, 632 Marion

Ruby Alice Mathews, 712 N. New Jersey Ralph H. Arthur, 1 N. Jefferson; D. Allison, 205 N. Keystone ery Bo : .

2 J Franklin, 212 W. Walnut; Lillia B. e, 212 W. Walnu ®| ket st. hypertension, { J Roerderer, 1514'a E. Washirigton; | Wiliam R. Tyrell, 50, at 1451 N. Belle Maby Minor, 1405 E. Washington, leu pl, coronary occlusion. 1! wi Paul’ McGraw Jr. 1157 Laurel; |1d8 Olive Ayres, 65. at 3100 E 8. Joseph th ASuIpli, 2627 WwW. 81st. tol: cerebral hemorrhage. @ c. Whiting,» Helen | Grover C, Bomzell, 6], at Senders, Whiting : x of liver. ony. exrzitty | elm, ‘a Indiana; Vernell | Lucian H. Capshew, 37, at M . jn In s [Clyde V Conklin, 67, at Sthodist, Boer,

, 309 8. Fourth, Beec rove: Rose Anna Campbell,

ip Ha O. Bolen, Prankfort; Ostler, 3619 N. Pennsylvania,

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our; Aaron Minor,

Iw Carolyn White, 1618 N, Arsenal, ; | At St. Francis—Russell,

ett, Camp Atterbury; Gloria

N. Pennsylyron, 5452 N. Illinois; Jersey st, 4, Box 505

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Y N TOSis A Ce 1 Box 3-B; Ruth | parearet Ellen Bedwell ard, White! on 1 monia, + 8 Riley, pneu-| and; Irene Bul- | ihiam A Boyce, 94, at 317 BE. 12th ! 719 8. Keystone; Dai

126 BE . 3 atin, 0 a 12 Joseph;

| { Wilms Veith: James Dorothy Sanders, and Rex, Virginia Hopkins. | Boys l Betty Goodman, Lester, Helen Vandevier; Lawrence, Barbara Tuley, and Carl, Mary Elizabeth Btamatkin, | At City—Benjamin, Pauline Ladd; Leroy, |

Ragsdale; Forrest, Norma Button; Robert, Ethel Herrin, and John, Eleanore Risdon, |

Br | DEATHS Abraham Goldberg, 70, at 3046 N. New coronary thrombosis, at City, diabetes. ;| Sarah E. Ruth, 96, at 116 8. Audubon rd, carcinoma

Cad W. Savage, 60, at Veteran's, broncho- | | pneumonias. | Mary Lindie Hardiman, 81, at 453 Madison ave, carcinoma John E. Spradling, 832, teriosclerosis { Thomas A. Walker, 13, at Riley, leukemia. | | Renneth Archer, 35, at Long, peimanary) | edema

Jennie Hostetler, 68,

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Josie Lentz, 53, at St. Vincent's, hemor-| rhage. @ { Lena H. McCullough, 79, at 1738 W. Mar- |

2242 N. Talbat coronary occlusion ' Eva Douglas, 50, at 127 W. pertensive heart ! ward Nevins, 76, at Methodist, arterio-| |

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sclerotic heart,

| Fannie Ann Redwine, 78 Na Fareinoma, 4 un Cent i ehu Newlin Andrews, 77, at 428 yooardttis, : N. Stans

Bedford, 84, at City, arterioscle- |

sy arteriosclerosis illle Brown, 50, oF Shia. pha Day, B57, at 445 N 28 it fomutial InsufMctency. Fava Qlinton ker, ‘at 321 W. Regent | Piping occlusion Regios o1, guna Deel, at 2082 Oliver st, ecaref-

at 328 N, West ot,

B1, at City, hy Charles Monroe, 46 at ' Pertension. Aasential Drpertension. 1802. Nelson st.,) . Montgomery, j cerebral. hemorrha gy 70, at Methodist, |

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