Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 January 1947 — Page 1

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" Hour-Long Search ' For Plane Ended

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ended today when they were located

day, stopped st

chair, said in deprecating the inci- | dent which had stirred an American |’ officer to write a letter to the| , (Frankfurt edition of Stars

.iwhom had been aboard ships pre- |

vx Hiner Defends G. I's s

‘Who Boo Her

Boys, Pulled off u.s.

Christmas night.

certs I have given.” “It was all a mistake, really,” ti soprano, ‘who is partial ly | and sings from a wheel

and Stripes in which he bitterly eriticized the conduct of the G. I audience. 6000 Pack Hangar The Bremerhaven concert, Miss, Lawrence said, took place in a converted hangar normally seating 4000 ‘persons. It was jam-packed with 6000 Americans, many of!

paring to sail for home. At the | last moment, the ships were des!

leave, “Poor boys,” Miss Lawrence said,

Didn't Really Mean It, She Declares

NEW YORK, Jan. 11 (U. BH.) ~—Whistles, boos ahd catcalls drove Marjorie Lawrence, Australian opera star, tem when she sought to sing to 6000 American soldiers in Bremerhaven

But, she said today, the G. 1's weren't really booing her—*“and ance they spttled down, I had a perfect audience Jor, one o the Suest. cun-

layed, and théy were given shore |

Off Stage

Bound Ships for Concert, |

On East Side

- Smoke and Flames Force 11 From Homes

| , Smoke from a basement fire be-| | fore dawn today forced all eight.

rarily from the stage

until firemen rescued them. * The fire broke out in the basement of the Pfau home, half of a |two-story double at 414 N. Oak-

land ave. It did not spread. Miss Marjorie Pfau, 21, gashed

igh they shivered in alghtdress

* GETS LIAISON POST—FrankT. Millis, Campbellsburg, foday was named liaison officer between the governor's office and * the legislature.

her right.arm when she broke a stuck storm window to enable the family to escape to the porch roof. from a second story bedroom. _ Receives Cut Hand Her mother, Mrs, Theresa Pfau, cut her right hand climbing through the broken window. Mr. Pfau, another daughter, Anneta, 28, and sons Donald, Francis, Ralph and Victor

Millis Named Liaison Officer

Go-Between for Gates

Ohio Preacher Be ah Aged Mother to

Calls Police, Calmly

“Inis fists and a piece of a stove last night. ; ' Then, he sald, he listened fo hillbilly music for & while {1 became violently 1IL” Earnest’ Wright, who identified himself as an orale #

Sharges $ She Was a ‘Witch’

“they were in a very unhappy mood. | ‘They'd expected to be bound for home. The hangar was crowded,

pe early yesterhad not Te. ported after passing over Indianapolis at 6:49 ’s m. reach

wy BREA WLR expected to aera heen Tex., last ng night, but . ® check there, and at other points along their route revealed no trace

ALL A MISTAKE — Marjorie and many of them couldn't find! Lawrence, soprano, said the solseats. I don't believe any. of.tbem...dliers, whe. deova, bec. from. the. {8 Jadder. hut. it. Was. 100. Short. AS yoo omoer between the Yover=" -/aeh

knew what was occurring. They stage with boos and catcalls in

pushed and shuffied and made $0 Bremerhaven, Germany, didi't much noise in the back that I. oj meanip ©

couldn't sing. It was impossible.”

“Best Performance” | prano said, “it as one of my best The. commanding officer tried to performances, and for a perfect quiet the men, she said, asking! audience. They applauded for many those. who did not care to hear minutes when I finished ‘singing, {the concert to leave. A storm of ‘Really, it was a very happy Christ-

'|Jr.. escaped through .the . broken window without injury. ., Noland . Stafford, a neighbor, attempted to bring them down with Millis, Campbellsburg, will act as

the neighborhood aroused, firemen from No. 27 arrived and rescued the ‘family.

given emergency first aid and sent to St. Vincent's hospital for further treatment. Their injuries are not serious.’

And Legislature

A veteran legislator, Prank T.

nor's office and the - legislature ,| throughout the present session, ‘| Governor. Gates said today. Mr. Millis, who is now serving his second term as treasurer of state, was for several sessions, floor leader of the lower house. He served in that difficult and strategic post during the 1939 session when the Republicans controlled ‘the house

Given First Aid Mrs. Pfau and Miss Pfau were

Next door, Richard Taylor, his

y re oe Mite Biter Tow

Trans-| otealls, ‘whistles and boos broke

out. She left the stage then, she said, but returned a féw minutes later

‘mas for me.”

Miss Lawrence arrived here yes-

‘terday by ‘plane -from Europe. She

will rest a week before beginning

find the audience qiuet. “Honestly,” the Australian

a concert tour of Canada and ‘the s0-| United States.

Golden Gloves

It was said that he had sought to customs at El Paso for ‘the | to Mexico but had been he . ‘this could not be done until after ‘ 8 a.m. He then said that he be- | ora 0 Build

lieved he might make better time |

reorganization of T.W. A. The Hughes Tool Co. of which he As head. will. lend the eka! $10 n, and Mr. Hughes re-

Jatt vi an ton — ERT a a

Hughes for: the flight to Mexico. His: office’ in Hollywood reported

1948 Model to Weigh { Over- -the-counter ticket -salee oi

~-Less- Than Present Aut ‘he Times-Legion Golden Gloves BOSTON, Jan. 11 (U. P).—The| C118 tournament will ope Mon

day at two downtown, ocatio will bid for leader. opening, bs nits Beld with a “completely day higmite Be De. the four subsequent new, retooled, lowipriced dutomo- | bile, Vice President" +R, Davis said | here today. | nights will be on sale at these sports 1 - that Mr. Hughes had said he was| Called tHe “1948 model, " the new centers: a little tired and wanted to take Ford will appear on the market Bush-Callahan Sporting Goods a’ brief vacation in Mexico. Mr. next year as the “greatest change |Co., 136 E. Washington st. Grant and Mr. Hughes are friends since the introduction of the Model; Sportsman’s Store, 126 N. Pennof all long standing. A in 1928,” Mr. Davis said. |Sylvania st. Flies “Visually” | “We. intend to set the pace for | Fans may purchase tickets for all

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than ever nights of the tournament at one

Tia section ’ today with the arrest of a 50-year-

Mr. Hughes apparently changed the low-priced field more his plans to touch at Amarillo, and | before” he declared. failed ‘to inform any points along Weight te Be Cut the way by radio. The plane he! Mr. Davis. said the new Ford was flying has enough range to would weigh less and cost less than | reach El Paso from Dayton without the present model. He said that it| refueling, and Mr. Hughes was had been decided upon as a com-| accustomed to “visual flying,” in promise since the original idea off

which he uses landmarks and dead discarding accessories was aban-|

reckoning rather than radio con- | {doned because . motorists seem - to

tact with ground points. | want to keep all present features. Mr. Hughes was seriously injured! Mr. Davis spoke at a New Englast July when a photographic land sales conference here. plane of his own design, which: he| Best information - indicated the | was * testing, crashed in Beverly [new model would not be the light Hills, Cal, but he recovered and car planned earlier but postponed immediately began flying again. [in the interest of production. He holds the round-the-world| Informed sources said Ford wie speed record, having girdled the! {abandon the transverse spring, a globe in 1938 in 91 hours, 14 min- | {feature of Ford products since the utes, 28 seconds. old model T was introduced three

decades ago, and would incorporate T - D il d independent suspension of front | [din veraiied, Gi l Kill d

wheels. U. S. Opens War | BURKE, Va, Jan. 11 (U. P.).—| ‘Eight cars of the Southern Rail-'

To ‘Clean Up’: Mails way's crack Washington-to-Mem-

DALLAS, Tex., Jan. 11 (U. P.).— A nation-wide campaign by postal phis streamliner “Tennesseean” Jumped the tracks today.

inspectors to “clean up” the mails | —with a nudist colony in Denver as the focal point—was disclosed

foreman's daughter standing along the right of way was ‘killed and-nine other persons were injured. The derailment occurred soon after the 13-car train left Washington, about 20 miles from here. None of the cars overturned. A substitute train left Washington some two hours later to pick up the stranded passengers. permeates ———————— The only fatality was Elizabeth . . Breeden, 18, of Burke, who was| Scottish Mine Blast

standing near the track waiting to Traps 14 ' Men

board a local that. followed the » “Tennesseean. " WEST CALDER, Scotland, Jan: 11 (U., P..—Fourteen men were

Five of the injured were takep to a hospital at Alexandria, Va. The trapped behind a barrier of rock and fire nearly 500 feet under-

others were treated at the scene. : ground today by an explosion in

None was from Indiana, er the Burn Grange shale mine. FIRE SWEEPS GOOSE BAY One man was killed and another 8ST. JOHN'S, Newfoundland, Jan.|injured. in the explosion, which 11 (U, P.).—Three big planes and |ignited a gas and shale fire. Rescue a‘hangar burned yesterday at Goose parties were within 100 feet of a Bay, Labrador, in a $2 million fire, |spot where some men were trapped, but“there was little hope that *the miners would be saved. : Mine .officials blamed the explosion on ignition of fire damp,

old Chicago man. He was charged ' with sending obscene matter through the mails, Charges against George D. Zinck were filled last night by Dallas Postal Inspector A. C. Caldwell. United States Attorney Clyde G. Hood reevaled a war was on to stamp out mailing of obscene matter.

Times Index . .

time. The tournament again will be

given shelter by ‘neighbors,

Virus Isolated

wife, Loretta, and their three-year-old daughter, Mary, were forced by smoke ‘to. evacuate their half of the double. Both families were

of representatives by the slender margin of 51 to 49.

landle Personal Contact In confirming the Millis appoint-

Gates said ' the choice ( ‘based on Mr. Milli’ knowle legislative experience and u personal aequaintance with mel bers of both houses. ay

fy Pure Polio

Stanford Professors Make" Announcement

obtained nas ‘Deer isolated by Drs. and, the deglslayive chambers, Hubert 8. Loring and C. E :

Schwerdt of Stanford university. The virus is 80 per cent pure or, better, the scientists state in anpouncing their - achievement today. With a relatively pure virus ob-

Spring’ Hangs on For Another Day

LOCAL TEMPERATURES .

held in the Armory, 711 N. Penn-

tainable there is hope of producing! ga. m.,... 3 Vam.... 45 | an effective vaccine against infan-| 7a. m .....37 lam .... 46 tile paralysis, but it may be a long Sam... 38 12 (Noon). 47 am.... 40 1lpm....8

talked volubly of the slaying. He said he killed her because “my tite is based on a series of numbers

PR LER I ney “Her pumber “was 700,” “he said. The number 709 was written on the side of the stove from which a piece had been taken. The blood-stained iron was found in the back yard. Wright, who said he custSmarily went nude at home, charged that his mother was a “witch”"—“the most. powerful witch in America.” Police ‘answéred his telephone

{summons—*“I murdered my mother f ‘1last night and I'm waiting up here They found Mrs.’

for the police.” Lavinia Wright, about 75, dead in

ment as liaison man, Governoriher bed with a skull fracture, brain been hemofthage and a broken neck.

“she had to be eliminated,”

| Wright said.

'“When the time came to perform

by og on to Nogales and ceri ‘Counter Sales He pointid out that Aco Blain, thio fia 00 schedue. ‘customs there, . New (Cheap Car | B M contact with the legislature wouldifnve minutes before 1 killed my Mr Hughes had been in New. egin onday be handled by himsef. He said that |mother. York several days Mr. Millis would maintain the. con

jtact- between: tive and - eae esac of | Ernest on

“Mother asked me to. turn. down

number 7% became clear,”

and mother’s number came up Jat,

Tells of Staying;

Police said he told them he his. mother with His. fists and .che| fell to the floor. “1 twisted her head several times, then beat: er with pletes from th iron heating ° stove,” they ex him as saying. . or “As soon as she was’ dead, T went! int the other room to-dress; I lis-

while waiting for time to.pass; ill, That p

“We had intended to put him in an institullcs 33

he said.

tened to some hillbilly : programs

ew Tears eve Duty af ANT Gia" that, the [we delayed. “I got. here: too late,”

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‘Two Phases of Delicate Operatioh ‘All Right,’ Says Nevada Surgeon

RENO, Nev, Jan. 11.—Part of the eye of an executed murderer lived on today in one of those of a prison guard, whose sight may be restored because he befriended ‘the condemned man. | Dr. 8, T. Clarke took the eyes from Patil Maynard Shaug, 24, shortly

after he died in the Nevada lethal gas chamber yesterday and used

Sylvania st. The dates are: Friday, iJan. 17; Friday, Jan. 24; Thursday, Jan. 30; Friday, Feb. 7; Friday, Feb. 14. Admission prices ate: [$2. 40; reserved, $1.60. Prices include tax. The §1 general admission tickets will be on sale fight night. Choice seats are still available for jall nights.

Seek Convict Who Shot Deputy

EVANSVILLE, Ind, Jan. 11 (U. P.) .--A convict who fled to the roof! {of the Vanderburgh county ‘jail and shot a deputy sheriff was sought! today. 3 Police hunted Kenneth Rogers, 5.

Ringside,

,out of jail last night and climbed

to the roof. Deputy Sheriff Richard Porter, 57, went after him. Rogers pulled a hidden gun from

| his clothing and fired once at Dep-

uty Porter. The bullet hit the deputy in the hip.

G. |. Fares to End

WASHINGTON, Jan. 11 (U. P.). —The interstate commerce commission ruled today that servicemen's furlough rates on railroads and busses east of the Mississippi river will be discontinued on Jan. 30. After. that date, servicemen will have to pay full civilian fare.

They said he sawed his way, Chosen for Census

time before the hope is realized. One apparent obstacle to speedy! Temperatures in the high 40's

them to perform :a rare “vitreous

production of a vaccine is the small | brought a false spring to Indian-

' 0.000035 ounces, is obtained fromi 150 grams (about five ounces) of starting material, which is the brain and spinal cord of cotton rats infected with infantile paralysis. High speed centrifugation, nearfreezing temperatures and chemical treatment are used in isolating the virus. Seen with the electron microscope, it appears as a relatively spherical particle so tiny that its, diameter is estimated as 25 billionths of a meter. Experiments ‘leading to its isolation in 80 per cent purity were fi(nanced by the National Foundation or Infantile Paralysis with dimes contributed by the American people,

5 Towns, 2 Coonties

J. H. Bokedis, Indianapolis area manager of the bureau of census, disclosed today that five Hoosier cities and two counties were chosen for a cross-section survey to determine employment records and occupational trends. e areas to be surveyed included Lebanon, Frankfort, Anderson, El wood and Alexandria, and Greene and Owen counties. Purpose of the labor force survey was fo determine employment status of persons over 14 years old, in« cluding veterans, students and vocational and occupational workers, Bookedis sald.

Prehistoric Meteor Struck

Indiana, Rock Pit Indicates

Geologist Writes of Strange Formations

Found in Quarry Near Kentland

By Science Service WASHINGTON, Jan. 11.—Did chunks of a falling meteor burst with

the violence of an atomic bomb over northern Indiana; a few hundred million years ago? There is some reason to believe they did, says Robert

8. Dietz, Urbana, IIL, geologist, in Science, published here, Work in a quarry near Kentland, Ind., has exposed evidence of some)

‘| listed,

_| Central, however,

highly violent disturbance in the St. Peter sandstone, a geological for-

/ es mation of great age. Hitherto it ] Amusements.. 5 Inside Indpls. 7 FL has been assumed that the disrup-|point by their passage through the 8 Eddie Ash ... 6 Ruth Millett. 7/$39,820 in Building tions of the strata, elsewhere quite earth’s atmosphere, plunging into , Books ...... « 14 Movies ...... 5 Ok od f St. t flat and even, had been caused by the ground. | Boots ....,.:. 12| Obituaries ... 10 ay or are a half-smothered blow-up of a vol-| In ages after their fall, the upper Carnival ..... 8] Barton "Pogue 7) The civilian production admin-|ecanic pocket. levels ‘containing the meteorite Churches .... 4|Radio ...7... 13/istration today announced ap-| powever, Mr. Dietz points out, craters were eroded away, leaving A Classified. 10-12| Reflections .. 8|proval of seven applications for]. : i i 'lonly the inverted-cone “roots” in 24 comics ...... 13 serial ........ 3|Indiana construction projects esti-|the shape and position of the dis-| 0/051 sandstone. Pi Crossword ... 12{8Silly Notions. . 7|/mated to cost $39,820. located conical rock masses indi-| pater still, during the ice age, a gi Editorials . 8 Sports ....... 6| The CPA also anndunced that 10 cates that the explosion took place new covering of clay and soil was| Forum ....... 8 Stranahan .. 6{applications were denied during |above, not below, the disturbed zone | deposited over the eroded surface, Gardening ... 3 Teen Talk .. 9 the same period, the week" ending “The only imaginable source for burying the craters until quarrying Don Hoover ., 8 Women's News 0|/Jan. 9. The denials were for|such an explosion would be mete-| operations brought them to y Nght J | .Indianp Saga 8 World Affairs 8|projects estimated to cost $135,976. orites, heated to the shattering- again,

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for the second successive day. Ice skating” on Lake Sullivan was] banned yesterday afternoon as the ice softened. It will not be con-, tinued until further notice. . The weather bureau predicted temperatures would drop somewhat tonight and continue.lower tomorrow, with partial cloudiness.

County Tourney Draw Completed

Warren Central will oppose Decatur Central Thursday at 7 p.m. in the first game of the: 28th annual Marion county high .school basketball tournament at the Butler fleld house. The draw was completed this | morning in-a meeting of the school! principals at the Claypool hotel. The first-round draw follows: THURSDAY 1—Decatur . Central vs, Warren Central. 8—Ben Davis vs. Pike Township. 9—Franklin Township vs. Speedway.

FRIDAY 7:30--Lawrence Central vs. Southport. 8:30-—Beech Grove vs. game 1. Semi-finals will be played Saturday afternoon at 1 and 2 p. m. and the title game at 8 Saturday night. Officials for the meet will be Jake Caskey, Frank Luzar and Frank Baird. They will work in the order

winner _of

Franklin township is the defending champion in thé meet,. Warren probably will occtipy the role of favorite following improved play in recent weeks in which the Warriors beat both Shortridge and Southport. Their two losses have been -to Crispus Attucks and Ben Dayis.

The Supreme Court

® Do you understand the full import of a decision as vital as that the Supreme Court will write this month in the case of the U. 8. vs. John L. Lewis?

® Twelve decisions that: ° shaped the nation are reported by NEA Staff vriter 8. Burton Heath in his fivepart story of the Supreme Court.

of Guard ‘Bert Deady, who “was

sand. virus. : Only Sout : thou-| gpolis and Central Indiana today Partly blinded by an accidental san part of a gram of virus, or

shotgun blast more than a year ago. The vitreous humor is the colorless transparent jelly which fills the posterior chamber of the eyeball. The shotgun pellets damaged this substance in the guard's left eye. Dr. Clarke said the two ‘phases of |the delicate operation had gone “all right” but warned it would be possibly two months before Guard Deady knows if his vision will be restored. ”" Skaug was executed for the 1944

{murder of a Reno housewife. In the

death cell he wrote a will giving his eyes to the guard “or any other persons” who needed them. Guard Deady, the murderer said, was the only one who befriended him during his two years in prison. Dr, Clarke, believing at first that the guard's vision was too far damaged to be aided by Skaug’s unusual

(gift, had planned to operate on

Willie Dixon, 50, an Indian of Fal-

humor” trangplant on the left eye

woman from Loyalton, Cal. Dixon, however, was too ill to travel here, and the woman said she was “too old” for an operation. She asked Dr. Clarke to “give my turn to somebody younger than me.” The specialist decided then to try his skill on Deady. He drained the guard's eyeball and filled it with the clean vitreous. humor taken from Shaug. At the same time he “welded” a split retina which had been pierced by buckshot. Ifthe operations are successful, sight may also réturn to. the guard's other" eye, which had been failing. Not. all of the material from

ating .on the guard, and Dr. Clarke said if the Fallon Indian is able to come here in the next two days

can be -kept “on ice” only three

days.

Washington Calling—

Expect Marshall to Stress

Pan-American Defense

New Secretary of State to Be Firm With Russia, Direct Chinese Policy Himself

WASHINGTON, Jan. 11.—This is what you can expect from the state department when George C. Marshall

becomes secretary:

Steps to .implement, long-neglected inter-American defense plan, in line with act of Chapultepec, and with the plan for standardizing armaments. Speedup of peace treaties with Germany and Jopan,. There'll be no “get-tough-with-Russia” policy any more than under. James F. Byrnes, but there will be fmm, To, ve sacrifice of principle for appeasement.

World peace through United Nations will be pursued as or more 50. Like most military leaders, Gen. Marshall hates

Atomic control will be pushed.

Gen. Marshall has inside knowl

| edge of catastrophic issues involved. Baruch plan will be sustained

lon, Nev, and on an aged Indian|

Shaug’s eyes were needed in oper-|

groups | receded, Liquors were hard. hit andl; re

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Stacks * Off Sharply; B u LL E T N

Stocks broke sharply today in the widest decline of the year and volume increased over the recent pace. Selling focused on the highpriced stocks which had been steady recently as other

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