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Sheriff Finis Bars to Open Cell Window
Guard Is Placed Over Slayers
; Times Stale Service COLUMBUS, Ind., July 4. ~Two teen-age boys charged with first-degree murder in the highway slaying of State
Lilian Harvey Makes Comeback Attempt in Paris
PARIS, Jan. 4 (U, P).~Lllian Harvey, British-born. star of German movies 15 years ago, made a comeback attempt at a Paris music hall lags night. , Miss Harvey appeared in a vaudeville . show with clowns, acrobats and jugglers. She sang songs [rom some of her movies, and the manager of the hall said it was a “great success.” The manager, Georges Zevaco,
Trooper Herbert Wade sald Miss Harvey had made films
Smith"were under close guard jin France Sm fore the war. ‘ 0 ped arres yi! today, their escape plans thwarted. like Gerinatis when" she k % ClipSheriff Richard Thayer, accompa- |
per for the the Yuitag § States. - nied by a deputy and city police,
yesterday found two iron bars hidden in their cell. Other. prisoners Co- ed Rettirns
said the boys had tested the bars on their cell with the rods. Father May File Abduction Charge
In Sheriff Thayer's first inspection since he took office We inesday, a third iron bar was Jound in another section of the jail to which the youths, Willian Price, 17, and William Johnson, 17, both of Evansville, have had access.
A chain, recently removed from a |
bunk, and a rope also were found. An Ohio. State university professor Tested Cell Windows |was to decide today whether to file The other prisoners told Sheriff |an abduction charge against a forThayer the young hoodlums had mer convict whom been seen prying at cell windows | lhe accused of with the two bars, about 30 inches (drugging his in léngth and three-fourths of an pretty co-ed inch in diameter, | daughter and 'atBoth: boys refused to talk. | temping to force When the sheriff visited the jail her into marriage. New Year's day, he said he did not| Dr. Emerson E. see the rods which were. hidden Kimberly, a pro= under Price's pillow. fo of engiVera Jean Hornbeck, 15, Ander- neering. already son, and Mary Ruth Ward, 14,/has sworn out & Evansville, also indicted on first- “no 14” warrant degree murder charges in the same ggainst 42-year-
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section of the jail. {ferred any further action “until I Restricted to Cells {have talked with my attorney.” All four were brought to the jail Hemming was picked up‘ by police Dec. 24, after a change of venue|in a Cleveland hotel. was granted on the murder charges| His 20-year-old red-haired daughin the circuit court at Shelbyville. ter, Mary Virginia, who had been Sheriff Thayer said the two boys, | missing since New Year's day,came who have had freedom of the first| home late yesterday and was placed and second floor cell blocks during under a physician's care. She was the day because of a shortage of not permitted to see reporters. Her facilities, will be restricted to their father did the talking. cell. ‘Horrible Experience’ The sheriff said the bars had not Hemming was brought from been removed from jail windows.|Cleveland and lodged in the Up-| He said he believed they might have per Arlington. jail this morning. been left in a junk pile after repairs police said he would be held there were made on the jail. One bar for questioning Monday.
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appeared to-‘have been part of an old staircase, he added. One Successful Break Several months ago the jail was the scene of a successful break when a prisoner sawed out window bars. Trial date for the quartet of youths will be set in circuit court] here Tuesday, The trooper was shot early In December after he had stopped for & minor traffic violation an automobile in which the four youths traveling. They said they were en route to Kentucky to be married.
Atom Advisory Board Elects Oppenheimer
WASHINGTON, Jan 4 (U, P.).— J. R: Oppenheimer, war-time director of the army's atomic laboratory at Los Almos, N. M, was elected chairman today of the genéral advisory committee to the U, 8. atomic energy commission. Dr. Oppenheimer is a professor of physics at the University of California and a member of the board of consultants to the secretary of state's committee on atomic energy which prepared the report on international ‘control of atomic energy.
Two Hurt in $75,000 Jeffersonville Fire
JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind, Jan. 4 (U. P.) —~Owners of seyen businesses and offices counted $75,000 loss today from a fire yesterday. { Two firemen were injured by falling glass as they fought flames in a grocery, a_paint store and a shoe shop. Second-floor office suites were damaged.
Prof. Kimberly said his daughter told him that Hemming drugged her with sodium barbitol and forced her to spend a night with him at the Antlers hotel in Lorain,
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Fire Losses Higher
‘In Shelbyville Area
Times State Service ‘* SHELBYVILLE, Ind. Jan. 4— A year-end report submitted by Fire Chief Al Banschbach shows that Shelbyville’s fire losses in 1946, based on insurance coverage, were $200.39 greater than in 1945. Losses from fire in the rural areas of the county were $12,508.50 lower ihan in the preceding year. The total number of runs for both the city and coufity during the year was larger, with 269 alarms answered in the past year and 223 in 1945,
Kentucky faced charges of intent
Their aim was faulty, however,
C. L. Stillwell, 34, Charleston, W. Va., the bus driver, was in serious condition, Lawrence Steel, 25, Cincinnati, a passenger, was struck on the head and neck with a pistol
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Mercury Hits 13; Tomorrow To Be Warmer
" Report 23 Accidents On Icy Streets
LOCAL TEMPERATURES 6am. .... 15 10am... 1 7a.m....15 11am... 21 Sam... 15 12 (noon).. 24 fam . 16 ipm...A
Sub-freezing temperatureg will moderate tomorrow, but ice today still glazed Hoosier highways and {Indianapolis city streets—a spar kling trafic hazard in ‘the winter sun. The temperature was 15 at 8 a. m. The weather bureau forecast colder today and tonight. Police counted a total of 23 traf-| fic accidents as a result of skidding in which no one was seriously hurt. Plane traffic, grounded two days at Municipal airport beéause of weather conditions, was resumed last night. But six persons were hospitalized from falls on slippery sidewalks. The ashing and sanding of dan-| gerous intersections was conspicious’ by its absence. Motorists detoured to follow well-worn main thoroughfares en route to town.
Nightmare Skid
To Ralph Cox, 51, of 414 E. 21st st., came one of those nightmare skids which every motorist fears at railroad grade crossings. In the snowy dusk last night, his car igs» and spun on the slippery of the New York |
And then it stalled on thé track ih the glaring hesdlight of an ‘approaching train.
Frantically, Mr. Cox scrambled old son, Robert, escaped without: Robert A. Taft (OQ),
out of his stalled car and pushed. He could not budge it. The headlight loomed up blinding and there | was the shriek of brake shoes.
Hurled 100 Feet At the last minute, Mr. Cox leaped for safety. The inbound
. Photo by Times Photographer Victor Peterson, via Acme Telephoto SENIOR, POSTGRAD AND FRESHMAN—Ex. Senator James E. Watson (center} was on hand in Washington. to offer an elder statesman's advice to Senior Senator Homer E. Capehart (left) and William Jenner, still prevented today from taking his seat in the senate by the "Bilbo incident."
Two Escape 3 A. M. Blaze
Pumper Goes Dry, Home Is Destroyed
The home of Ghobel Sherman)
G. O. P. Senators Approve
Drastic Curbs on Labor |
Program Would Outlaw Closed Shop; Swit Action Urged in Report -
By EDWIN A. LAHEY, , |
Times Special Writer
1523 Perry ave, burned to the ground
st 3 a. m. this morning in suburban
Perry township where np fre agit: ing equiphient is maintdined. Mr. Sherman, 40, and his 1-years
injury, after being awakened by the
Mr. Sherman's wife, Evelyn, was away from home, visiting relatives in Columbus, Ind. An Indianapolis pumper rushed
passenger train crashed into his|to the burning house from Fire
stalled automobile and hurled it 100 feet. Aboard the train, a passenger was hurled against a coach seat with such violence that she received face | and back injuries. : { She was identified at City hospital as Mrs. Helen Blum, 31, of 203¢ London Square, Toledo, O.,| en route to Indianapolis. Eary this morning, an automobile moving south of Greenwood on State Road 31 skidded, spun and overturned. Critically injured was Walter E.
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Capital Optimistic On Russ Trade Talks
Times Special WASHINGTON,, Jan 4 — The White House and the commerce and state departments are optimistic over prospects for the late spring trade talks with Russia here and in Moscow. : The proposal is for some sort of treaty. or agreement which will provide for as free movement in Russia of American salesmen and buyers as Russians have here. The! state department hopes this will grow into resumption of tourist |
Brothers Held After Wild Shooting Spree Aboard Bus
Driver Beaten With Whisky Bottle, 14 Shots Fired as Pair Terrifies 23 Passengers PORTSMOUTH, O., Jan. 4 (U. P.).—~Two brothers from the hills of
are alleged to have gone on a drunken spree, shot.up a bus, beat its driver with a whisky bottle and a passenger with a pistol butt.
was injured by the 14 shots with which they riddled the bus.
butt. The brothers, Hobart Griffith, 25,
Times Index and Ralph, 20, both of Wheelwright, Ky, apparently started Amusements.. 5, W. A. Marlow 8|their drinking in Huntington, W. Eddie Ash.... 6|Ruth Millett.. 7|Va, Books ...... .. 14 Movies ....... 20 Stillwell at first refused to let Boots ........ 12) Obituaries ... 10|them on his bus, but they promised Carnival .... 8'F. C, Othman 17 to behave. uh Churches .... 4 Pogue ....... 7| ‘Near Ironton, O. the brothers Classified. 11- 12| Radio Sheva 13 | started a rumpus. Stillwell stopped Comics ...... 13 Mrs. Roosevelt 9| his bus to calm them down. Drossword. .13 Serial ....... 10, When he started it again, Hobart "Editorials .,.. 8 Silly Notions . 7|pulled a .32 caliber automatic and Forum ....... 8| Sports ....... "6 | lurched through the bus. He pointed Don Hoover., 8|Stranahan ... 6|it against Stillwell's temple, while In Washington 8 Teen Talk ... 2 Ralph ordered him to do as He was
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went fast, then slow, then fast
again. Then the passengers started screaming and ' Hobart started shooting,
. Bullets went into the floor, back and roof of the bus. Four of them lodged in the driver's seat. Ralph then slugged Stillwell with the now empty - whisky bottle while Hobart slugged Steel. Several of the passengers, led by two unidentified soldiers, rushed the brothers and threw them off the bus. Deputy sheriffs picked them. up immediately. Hobart was charged with ‘shooting with intent to kill. Ralph was charged with. assault to kill. Although badly injured, Stillwell managed to drive the bus into
Station 26. It. ran out of water before it could cope with -the blaze.
Turns Inte Bonfire,
By the time it had refilled at a eity hydrant three quarters of a mile . away, the house, which Mr. Sherman valued at $6000, had collapsed into a huge bonfire. Battalion Chief Frank Braun, the Indianapolis fire department's technical expert, said the house might have been saved if somebody had not smashed the windows “to let the smoke out.” “The broken windows created a draft and the house went right ,” the chief commented. @ home is south of the city limits, Perry township outside the city has no fire fighting equipment, but city equipment has always responded in an emergency. The householder said .he was awakened by the flames. He found the kitchen on fire. Waking his son, Robert, he took another look at the fire and hurried his son cut of .the house. Outbuildings were saved. Both Mr. Sherman and his son were given shelter nd neighbors.
Jackson K. Landers Dies After Fall
Jackson KX. Landers, widely known in business circles here, died today in Methodist hospital, as the result of a fall at Ft. Harrison New Year's day. He was 63. Mr. Landers, who lived at 4207 N. Pennsylvania st., and his brother, the late Howe 8. Landers, operated an insurance brokerage firm until last January. Since then, he was ‘mdiana resident ‘manager of the LondonPhoenix group of insurance firms.
Served in Two Wars
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WASHINGTON, Jan. 4—The most drastic labor legislation ever: seriously proposed was approved by senate aang | 7 by adop- | rm FR 8. SuboRmmitiee 2 Republi ~The memorandum, orandsm, Which a, ye the Republican majority in the 80th congress, was prepared by Senators Joseph HH. > (Minn.) and H. Alexander
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A fourth member of She Sihiops, mittee, Senator Wayn (Ore.), was in Europe on Morse program was drafted. Would Outlaw Closed Shop This ‘Republican “statement of policy,” - as the memorandum is headed, would: ONE: Make the secondary boycott, and the organization strike a
criminal offense. : LONDON, Jan. 4 —The happiness TWO: Outlaw the closed shop. “|of one of the world’s most famous | THREE: Prohibit industry-wide couples in love may depend upon collective bargaining agreements. |whether the United States is will-! FOUR: Set up compulsory arbi-. ing to extend further financial sub-
Hinders Romance
Nation's Strife Bad For Elizabeth, Philip
By GEORGE WELLER Times Foreign Correspondent
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Senate Oath
tration methods for treating ‘certain types” of labor disputes. FIVE: Apply the Sherman antitrust act to unions, and write a whole new statute for this purpose. SIX: Give federal courts wider jurisdiction to hear lawsuits charging violation of a collective bargaining agreement. . SEVEN: Ban union welfare funds,
in their administration. EIGHT: Remove foremen, super‘visors and plant guards from the jurisdiction of the Wagner act.
union finances. TEN: Regulate the election of union officers and the methods of calling a strike, ELEVEN: Set up a mediation board in the labor department with power to “freeze” a dispute for 60 days.
| Propose Fast Action Some of these measures would be enacted by amendments to the Wagner act, the Norris-La Guardia act and the Clayton act. ‘Others would be embodied in a newer and bigger Case bill. The opening paragraphs of the Republican program call for early enactment of the Case bill, “with | brief hearings and prompt action,” as the memorandum says. \ Apparently anticipating that President Truman in his message next week will ask congress to-pro-ceed slowly on labor legislation while
made, the memorandum says: Oyereal investigation would not be w e ”
captain and in world war II as a lieutenant colonel. He was an officer of the Metropolitan Casualty Insurance Co., and | a member of the Columbia club, Woodstock Country club, Martinsville Masonic lodge, Scottish Rite, Sons of the American Revolution, and the Episcopal Church of the Advent,
Names of Survivors
Survivors are his wife, Mrs. Helen. H. Landers; an aunt, Mrs. | Winfield Miller, and a cousin, Fiske Landers, all of Indianapolis. Services will be held at 3 p. m. Monday in the Flanner & Buch-
|anaf mortuary. The Re¥. Thomas
R. Thrasher, pastor of the Episcopal Church of the Advent, will officiate. Burial will” be in Crown Hill,
bus | Portsmouth.
He served in world war I as a!
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Busby Is President
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unless the employers have a voice |
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a study of the whole program “is
sidy to Britain's foreign policy in Greece. ~ Princess Elizabeth of England| and Prince Philip of Greece are in love. And between ‘themselves!
riage. She is almost 21;:he, 25, But dowh at the far end of the small trouble-beset country. Its affairs! ought to be put in better order be~ fore the two crowns are united. Disappears Without Trace The U. 8. has poured between | $400 millions and $500 millions of | the American taxpayers’ money into | Greece, now occupied by about 50,000 British troops. The money has disappeared almost without trace, with nearly no! control by Washington. Of America’s help to this little country, whose population is about equal to that of New York city, it has been even said: “Never has so much been given by so many to so few, with so little to show for it.” ° To get Greece in shape as a! place to which the prince consort of Britain's queen may own his] origin obviously is the aim neither
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there is no obstacle to their mar-!
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hold the senate in continuous session,
against Senator Thedore G.
on, until they win their fight
Bilbo and get the & 3 They said they » ou | not oe receive President Truman's ‘annual message—scheduled for Monday de« livery—until the issue is settled. rh Sy Stor Bilbo's 3 Democratic
five hours. ’ If the Bilbo Yorion piove durable to wear down by c r safo, then the
Hoosier Party Leaves Washington for Home *
Times Staff Writer
| By DANIEL M. KIDNEY
WASHINGTON, Jan. 4—Indiana ah : 36 states entering. the 0Uk thi Soe oagrom we N
? is one of the ‘second day of
a single senator.
| For despite the fact that .134 Colo.), chairman of the well wishers arrived here by special! conference, told reporters train to see Senator William E. Jen- O, P. senators were de
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ner (R. Ind.) sworn in, he did not “keep going without delay of pecial | kind, even for. receipt of the Pr
train returned to Indiana last night.
| -It left after a lavish party given
{0 honor Senator and Mrs. Jenner {by Senator and Mrs. Homer E. Cape{hart (R. Ind).
| Today Senator, Capehart expressed |
the theory that senate leaders will {be able to organize the senate
{through an agreement on the Bilbo
case. Twang of Hoosier Speech The Republican effort to prevent Senator- elect . Theodore Bilbo (D. Miss.) from being seated caused southern. Democrats to filibuster |and, prevent senate organization | yesterday.
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{of Senator and Mrs. Jenner, the: distinctive twang of Hoosier speech |” echoed 'in the swank lobby and I'private dining room of the Carlton | hotel. For more than an hour the party {went on’ without the presence of the host or the honored guest. The filibuster delayed their arrival. On entering the hotel, Mr. Jenner was. met by Indiana's ex-senator James (Big Jim) Wat-
| son, who served 20 years in the
try to adopt a gag rule debate. That requires’ & Yoel 5a a rary has |
dent's message,” until ue | issue is settled. He indicated that : might sit all night Slate i 5 ‘sary, but said that
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‘Boys’ Town School ‘Destroyed by Fire
| BOYS’ TOWN, Neb, Jan. 4 (U. {P.) —Fire- has destroyed the Boys’ Town grade and high school, orginal unit! of the Rev. Edward J. Flanagan's home for boys. Patrick J. Norton, an official of the school, said no one was hurt. He said the fire started in the basement - yesterday, apparently |trom defective wiring. Most of the boys were in a gym{nasfum when the fire started.
Washington Calling—
Of Madison Board
Times State Service ANDERSON, Ind, Jan. 4—Clifford Busby, Democratic member from the middle district, has been elected mew president of the Madison county board of commissioners. : He succeeds Herbert H. Hughes of Alexandria, the only Republican {member of the body. Merle Foust | of Adams township, is the other member, : Mr. Hughes began a second term Wednesday. = Mr, Busby- will . be succeeded by Fred W. Willits of} near Anderson, a Republican, next Jan. 1, te
department, officials think. Department starts heari trade agreements.
see prospect of stable trade
U. 8. Chamber of Commerce,
leadership under changed political Heres the picture: the last congress, senate
Russian agreements, officials say. They. ‘point to agreements Scandinavian countries have already made with’ want Ad!
European: and Latin-American countries wonder if ' too volatile to lead In world-trade policy} C5 it tan give steady
renewing” the reciprocal iad. ack. House
G. O. P. Action on Tariff May Decide World Peace
Major Republicans Oppose Reciprocity Pacts; Other Nations May Turn fo Russia
WASHINGTON, Jan. 4—World peace may hinge on action the Republican congress takes on world trade, state
ngs Jan. 13 on new reciprocal
European nations are now making crucial decisions on their economic futures. If they don’t
with U, S., they'll build on
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he would be unwilling oo a such a fight unless he was erta the Republicans’ “meant busin in ther efots ta bar Senator Bilbo, Democratic Leader Alben IW, Barkley (D. Ky) met with steering committee and said that he would try for an agreement ! the Republicans to permit eo to hear Mr. Truman on M
Hatch: ‘Give Bilbo &
Republicans voted 16-15