Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 January 1947 — Page 3

LETHAL "CAMERA" —Police detective examines the inside of the 'camera”

Cr Part of the baked-bean can used to simulate a lens

shade is shown in front of

the sawed-off muzzle of the shotgun. used to wound Mrs,-Olga Rocco, 26,

City Employees Get $29,800 In Wage Hikes

Sanitation. Workers Given Biggest Increase

Passage of four ordinances authorizing wage increases totaling $20,000 annually to some-ecity em~ ployees was thé first 1947 business transacted by the city council at its annual reorganization meeting yesterday. Councilmen, required by law to reorganize af noon every Jan. 1, reelected John A. Schumacher president for the fifth year. They also renamed Edward Kealing vice president, also for his fifth consecutive term. Councilman Otto H. Worley was reappointed by the council to serve as its representative on the city plan commission. Bowes Is Reappointed President Schumacher reappointed Councilman Herman E. Bowers as chairman of the powerful | HAPPIER - DAYS—Mr, and finance committee and to serve asi night club before their marriage

Mrs. Al Rocco are shown in a was annulled two years ago. Pe-

Whip of the Republican majority. | [ice are seeking Rocco i in the shooting of his wife.

Ordinances granting wage increases will merely authorize some

depen resto o rerum | Wife Wounded by ‘Camera’

in order to raise some wages and

rw Guarded From Ex-Husband

'NEW YORK, Jan. 2 (U. P).—An armed patfolman and a" policswoman guarded Mrs. Olga Trapani Rocco, 28, today against any new

wadiona Boni Tor 03 of th do attack by her hate-crazed former husband.

Police believed that cracking nerves would force from hiding Alfresco

» adjustment pro-| Rocco, 27, alias Alfonse Ruocco. He duped a 19-year-old thrill-seeker

i Ey RSLies adjustment pro- into blasting his wife with a camouflaged shotgun which he said was increases for workers at the sani.|® camera.

tation plant 2

“Correction” of Budget alwa: > ys on, the move, with no known Councilman Bowers explained, haunts, no circle of friends. that this reshuffle of funds was His outburst against society pre-

merely a “correction” of the elty|yiously brushed him against the sanitary budget to conform with! Yio y

Promises fade to the workes desi - Take No Chances Other wage readjustment ordi- Police took no chance. nances will provide wage increases] TWO Officers—a man and a of $8280 a year for nurSes at City woman—were stationed constantly hospital; $1320 additional wages for| inside the hospital room. There, employees at the Flower Mission | Roceo, tuberculosis hospital and $240 for the bemumitdl Mrs. & ate two employees of the city health de- maker's secretary, lay in a critical . partment. condition—a large chunk torn out Action on several other pending of her left thigh. ordinances involving taxicab 3 “He's a diabolical genius,” _ Decense rates andy fare increases and | tective Henry Strauss said. = the bill to ban smoking in depart-| Miss Lusk, 19, a department store ment stores was postponed until clerk recently came from Philadelnext Monday night. phia seeking adventure. She found,

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NATIONAL 24-HOUR FORE- | to rain along the New York coast CAST SUMMARY: Most of the | this afternoon. U. 8. will have snow, rain or sleet Northern New England will tonight and temorrow morning. | have moderate to heavy snowfall Only the Pacific states, Plateau | which should be good news to the region, extreme northern states | winter sports enthusiasts, as west of Lake Superior, and a nar- | should the icy conditions expected row strip along the Gulf coast | in southern parts of Maine, Verwill escapp the widespread pre- | mant and New Hampshire, cipitation. Rain is foreseen in the Middle Stormy weather over the east- | and South Atlantic states, extreme ern two-thirds of the country will | northern Florida, Arkansas and be caused by complex frontal sys- | north-ceritral portions of the Gulf tems which define the areas where | states. dry, cold air and moist, warm air A blanket of snow will cover intermingle #nd clash or merge. | most of Missouri, the Central Bad icing conditions are fore-'| Plains states and sections of ‘the cast for the -southern New Eng- | ¢entral Rockies, while occasiona: land interior where sleet and | snow is predicted for Michigan, .- freezing Train are expected; also, | Wisconsin, Nebraska, Iowa and In New York and southwestward | northern Illinois. Michigan will along. the freezing line .'(see | have only a few snow"flurries, as FOTOCAST) through . southern | will Minnesota, and southern Indiana, southern Illinois, south | areas of Sbuth Dakota followed eastern ‘Missouri ' and eastern | by clearing ¥nd colder weather. Oklahoma where sleet or freezing | More cold is also noted for the

rain will make fads himasions upper Mississippl Valley, [Hy 1 1 [AU th Dakot 3 4. anasoracy ian Rd

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They described him as an in-|instead, that life in New York was tense, taciturn, cunning’ “floater,” | not like that pictured in pulp mag-|

azines that littered her $5 a week] room. Jewel Thiet Story She was held at Florence” Crittenden home while police sought the smooth-talking Rocco. He had picked ‘her up in a subway train, told her a story of chasing jewel thiefs. 4 Then he lured her to his room and patiently coached her in the { revenge shooting of his wife, He told her his name was Allen Larue. He pointed out his former wife as a “jewel thief” and said she was. carrying stolen gems on the lower part of her body, “How could I be so stupid?” Miss Lusk asked today as she posed for more pletures.

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Official Weather

UNITED STATES WEATHER BUREAU (All Data in Central Standard Time) ~Jan. 2, 1947

Sunrise. .... 7:08 |

Precipitation 24 hrs. end. 7:30 p. m. Total precipitation since Jan, 1 Excess sinde Jan. 1

The following table shows the tempers. tures in other cities: Station High Low Atlante oievenecnionannennnes 41 5 | Boston POA stonstnbapt ar n Chicago sesnnsvnassssrcenaise 37 Clncinnabl cosvesssessnconcess 33 Cleveland ... Denver Bvancyille

straight ONE-THRD OFF. There are WOOL SOCKS, great quantities of

+ 9:30 TILL 5:00 — ~ MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY: -

EK trop il oft by the deep tlearances

hat stand out—here and there! There are NECKTES by the thousands—at 2

them—at ONE-THIRD - OFF. (Some. extra heavy Ones—Hits at even Half Price

There ae MEN'S WooL LEISURE JACKETS —at - ONE-THIRD OFF (not Too many.)

There are broken lots MEN'S Woo, ROBES t HALF-PRICE sen Floor).

* SPORTSMEN will find good hunting on the Sixth

Floor—anong the: clearance. groups of Jackets,

Sweaters, Mackinaws—and other out-of-doors

clothing specialties.

And there are some carved odd wood Noveiies. of game life big game and it le game) at exactly Half: Price! (sth Floor)

Also , some very worth-your-while Clearances in the BOYS SHOPS— Fourth Floor.

And in the WOMEN’S. SHOP Third Floor.