Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 January 1947 — Page 3

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} | Pilot Fa Failure ' Blamed by CAA “In 1 Tragedy

One Saved in Plunge Of Eastern Airliner ‘seronautics authority off-

We - “pilot failure” today

killed 23 persons yesterday. It de-| nied that the fallyre of a radio beam at Winston-Salem, N. C., was responsible for the other. Eighteen persons died when a twin-engined Eastern Airlines plane «lost over the Blue Ridge mountains—crashed in a- rainstorm near Galax, Va. . The other five persons were i killed when two private planes col. - lided while attempting a landing at the Miami, Fla. aviation center air-

Calls for Probe In- Washington, Senator Owen | Brewster (R. Me.) called for a “non-partisan” senate investigation of airline accidents, which cost 173 lives last year. Civil aeronautics investigations I's» that one of the pilots attempted to land against a red light flashed by the control tower. The planes collided 100 feet in the air and fell on a runway. The BE. A. L. airliner was 60 miles off tis course when it crashed. Eddie Rickenbacker, president of Eastern, said the Winston-Salem range was not working at the time the crash occurred. Only One Survivor However, 8. A. Kemp, regional administrator of the C. A. A. at Atlanta, said the absence of the radio beam at Winston-Salem did not contribute to the Eastern Airlines crash. “The Winston-Salem beam was only a local beam. It wouldn't have been of much aviue anyway,” Mr. Kamp said. william Ellis Keyes, 25-year-old Great Lakes seaman making his first flight, was the sole survivor of the E. A. L. crash. He was pulled from the burning wreckage of the airliner by two sawmill workers and was taken to a Galax hospital suffering from severe burns and shock.

Falls in Graveyard He could not remember the crash : {tself and was unable to tell whether the plane had caught fire in

flight. The plane plunged to earth in .8 graveyard near a mountain church. ; One of the victims was Mrs. Sarah Boergerman, Northfield, O. a 93-year-old great-grandmother making her first flight. She was en route to Lakewood, Fla. to visit Ker son, Albert, vacationing there. Mr. Keyes owed his life to the fact the tail section of the plane broke clear of the fuselage. The Miami crash occurred late yesterday. Witnesses said the pilots ‘of the planes failed - to see each other until a few seconds before the collision. Both pulled up at the same time. Pilots Killed Instantly The planes were piloted by Muriel Owens, 41, New York City, and James Wood Allen, 39, West Palm Beach. Miss Owens, who was flying an Aeronca, had clearance to land from the tower, officials said. But ‘Mr. Allen was coming in sgainst a red light. - Killed instantly were the two pilots, William R. Irvine, 29, a passenger in Mr. Allen's plane, and Viola Lindner, 46, Valley. Bren. N. Y., Miss Owen's passenger. Mrs Allen, passenger in her husband's plane, died a few hours later.

Local Briefs

Indianapolis Division 25, Ladies auxiliary B. & O. Veterans association, will hold installation of officers| at § p. m. tonight in the B. &. O. bldg. Officers to be installed are Mys. Harry Bell, president; Mrs. Daisy |. Applegate, vice president; Mrs. N. A. Stewart, secretary; Mrs. Bessie Southworth, treasurer; Mrs. J. Steading, chaplain; Mrs..Obid Cork, marshal; Mrs. Webber Thompson, outer guard; Mrs. 8. L. Leondar, pianist, and Mrs. Helen Lewis, flag bearer, Mrs. John Morartly is in-

stalling officer,

The Federated yd Patriotic Societies will meet at 8 p. m. Wednesday at $12 N. Illinois st.

George H. Chapman Women's Relief Corps will hold a public in. stallation of officers at 1:30 p. m. tomorrow in Ft, Friendly.

The University Heights W. C. T. U. will meet at 1:30 p. m. tomorrow’ in the United Brethren church. Mrs. George Burhart will preside.

The Women’s auxiliary to the 38th Division will meet Wednesday in the home of Mrs. E. Cowley, 3267 Ruckle st. Mrs. Mary Vest, president, will preside.

The 17th Ward Women's Democrat club will hold an election of officers at 8 o'clock tonight in the

home of Mrs. Ruby Black, 2836/00 the holdup slaying of Carl Trout,

Boyd ave.

Ex-members of the the 113th national guard observation squadron, now being reorganized, will hold a stag reunion at 8 p. m. Friday at the South Side Armory. Arrangements

are in charge of M/Sgt. Creston nov, 22 in an attempted robbery.

"Rice,

Quadruplets Born CHATTANOOGA, Tenn, Jan. 13 (U. P). — Quadruplets were born yesterday to Mrs. Jesse Moore in "a backwoods shack on Suck Creek " mountain. Although one was stillborn, the other three were reported in good condition at a Jas-

THE WEATHER FO TTEAST VIA ACME TELEPHOTO

Prodow of U.S. Weather Sureeu forgcant Period Ending 7 J0AMIST 1 “ 47

NATIONAL 24-HOUR FORkCAST SUMMARY: Most of the U. 8. will have snow or rain tonight as a storm é¢enter near western Kansas extends ity influence from the Mexican to the Canadian border and from the Mississippi to the Pacific. Cold ‘air will’ push down into the Rockies and northern plains, also into the northeast and upper Lakes region. Below zero temperatures will be recorded in North Dakota and | Montana by tomorrow morming and there will be moderate to heavy snowfall in "the Dakotas and northern Minnesota which will pile high in drifts under the | impact of strong winds in the | north-central states and western | Lakes area. Storm warnings have been hoisted over Lake Superior where 35-t0-45 m. p. h. easterly winds are expected. Fair weather appears limited to the New England states. Eastern New York, Florida, southern

have been committed within the last six months. His burglarly losses in merchandise alone total more than $200. The case is becoming typical Other merchants in the downtown area have the same- complaint. The police department has uttered repeated warnings that it was “cracking down.” With every warning, the depradations of thugs have increased.

This week-end, police arrested one-man as & vagrant. He looked suspicious, His clothes were torn and he was battered. He had been beaten and robbed of $40. } While 45 specific crimes were re-. ported to police over the week-end, the police department during the 36-hour crime spree arrested one woman for shoplifting, one man for drawing a “deadly weapon” and a suspicious character in an automobile. = Meantime, someone grabbed Carl Dostin, 27, of 842 Broadway Saturday night on downtown Ohio st., roughed him up and took his billfold containing $40. James Chenaldt, 32, of 927 N. Highland pl, was forced into his own automobile by an - armed bandit as he left his newsstand at 16th and Delaware sts. He. drove into an alley with a gun in his back and there was robbed of $350. The bandit then kicked him out of the car and used it to make a getaway. .A purse snatcher threw Helen Brooks, 43, of Hl Olle =. to the

Mrs. Beghtel Bets Sanatorium Post

Mrs. Eldon M. Beghtel will succeed Mrs. Gertrude Bogan Feb, 1 as director of the social service department of the Marion County Tuberculosis Sanatorium at Sunnyside. Dr. Frank L. Jennings, superintendent, announced Mrs. Bogan's retirement and successor. Mrs. Bogan has been at Sunnyside sanatorium 27 years. Mrs. Beghtel is a graduate of the Methodist hospital school of nursing and did post-gradusate work at George Peabody College for Teachers, Nashville, Tenn, A staff member of the Public Health Nursing association sinee 1931, Mrs. Beghtel has served as treasurer of the-central district of the Indiana State Nurses’ association for the last five years.

Confesses Slaying Indianapolis Man

An ex-convict's oral confession to Chicago police yesterday threw light

former Indianapolis resident, in Chicago last November. Charles Kocourek, Chicago, is held on an open charge, Capt. John R, Ryan of the Chicago police said, after the 33-year-old ex-convict told how he shot and killed Mr, Trout

Capt. Ryan said Kocourek’s confession came after two lie detector tests. Kocourek told police that he fired a shot into the car Mr. Trout and a companion were riding in after they failed to obey his commands. A native of Clermont, Mr. Trout

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Laliutiua, ew Mexico and most of the southern plains will be free | of precipitation. It will,'be story elsewhere over the country as contrasting air masses intermingle and clash along the complex pattern: of fronts on the map which mark the dividing lines between them. The extensive rain and snow will result for the most part from warm, moist air overspreading colder air as it moves toward the northern states and- into the northeast. Where these air currents carry the moisture laden warm air upslope, along the Great Divide, there will be precipitation in the eastern Rockies and west-’ ern Plains states. Mild weather is promised the central and southern plains, also that part of the country lyihg between the Ohio river and the Gulf, It will be warmest in Florida and the southernmost states. _ Icy conditions and freezing rain are probable in some lower Lakes sectors where the minimum tem-

ground and tbok her purse contain

ing $43. Waiting for a street car, Mildred Peters, . 34, a Methodist hospital nurse was struck on the head by an assailant who took her purse and overnight bag. In the scuffle, her

Capitol ave, They used a hole in| the building made in a previous raid on the place. All this happened Saturday night while police were “cracking down.” It's not even safe for police. A detective last week laid his leather gloves on the counter while he and his partner checked a pawnshop. When he looked the other way, someone snatched the gloves. But | they caught the thief in that case.

Marquis Childs Writes of Bomb

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sive work called for by the atomic assignment, is understandable. But Mr. Austin is in the position of taking over an enormously complex problem without the aid of those: whe have the specialized knowledge and background. Mr. Austin’s position, as head of the United States delegation on the security council, was difficult and — | exacting enough before, » " ” THERE ARE signs that the senate is developing a case of the atomic jitters. Senator H. Styles Bridges of New Hampshire has indicated the need for an inquriy into the safeguards surrounding the “secret.” There is to be an inquiry into the fitness and background of the five men named, during the recess of congress, to the United States atomic energy commission. This is the commission created under the McMahon bill to give to civilians control over all domestic phases of atomic energy. Whether this inquiry will be conducted by the senate commerce committee, as one group of Republicans desires, or by the nine senators who serve on the joint senate-house atomic committee is as yet undecided. Powerful interests would like to amend the McMahon bill. The patent lobby in Washington worked intensively to change the patent provisions of the bill. They failed

up. The law now makes atomic patents ‘ available to all, with

commission. » »

months of thought and effort. Sena-

president of the senate and chairman of the foreign relations com-

seem to want to cut it up.

It is a delusion, and perilous one,

was graduated from Technical high school and at the time of his death

"per, Tenn, clinic. They were ex-

pected to live. i $y ! : ’ Be

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last year, but they have not given|BIRTHS

certain safeguards to be exercised by the United States atomit energy

» THE MCMAHON bill represented tor Arthur H. Vandenberg, the new

mittee, had a great deal to do with its passage. From his new position of power and prestige, he will be| = able to defend it from those who At st. * Vincent's—Chiarles, Hisabeth Beh man; Donald, Pauline Wisin; lo John, Senator Vandenberg stated the issue concisely in his Cleveland| 3iioy woira: speech, although he put too much emphasis on the number of years we could hold the atomic monopoly.

to think that delay can serve the United States. It is the ‘delusion of the rich man who does not under-| and Herbert, stand that his fortune is being At len Tusa: Br Br Rey n| drained way by the mere passage of time,

SCATILRED SHOWERS

perature freezing line for tomor‘Tow morning coincides with an area of precipitation. Southern Wisconsin and southwestern Michigan should be alert for such hazards tonight and tomorrow morning.

‘Official Weather

Jan. 13, 1047 Sunrise. ..... 7:05 | Sunset...... 4:43 Precipitation 24 hrs. ending 7:30 a. m. T. Total precipitation since Jan. 1....... 1.10 Deficiency since Jan. 1........... faa 36.1. The following Sable shows the tempera- | ture in other cities ‘High Low Stiants wea Trs een iskhaeaan een rink 5 43 Boston: ;...:..es Pesonsness os 45 11 Chicago ree Tessas «33» Cincinnati ... . 40 323 Cleveland 31 2 Denver :..... . 54 3A Evansville ........ 0 46 43 Ft. Wayne ....... we 31728 Ft. Worth . «08 BA Indianapolis '(Oity) * 3 34 Kansas City ........ 43 |128 4 ARscles SVE a 45 | Minneapolis-St. Paul 21 New Olena cErrivins 51

OFK i. erinia hos chy “ave Omaha vies Pittsburgh .... San Antonio

St Louis Washington, D. C, .....

Crime Wave Swamps Police Boys’ School

In Spite of "Crackdown’ IEscapee Nabbed

(Continued From Page One) ing the confusion and. is still at arge. : . Greer raced to 8. West st., while pursuing police fired shots into the They caught the youth in the

Greer, one of the “bad boys” of the local juvenile court, was sent

escape from the juvenile center in

| August, 1945. He was at the cen-y

ter awaiting sentenee for escaping ' from the state school. Has Long Record The youth has a record of 12 arrests for charges including theft, vandalism, begging, and runaway. His last committment was for arson, in September. He was committed to boys school five times in 1040; twice in 194); twice in 1942, and in 1948. The other fugitive, Jackson, was sentenced from Elwood.

YMCA Executive Will Speak Here

Harper Sibley, Rochester, N. Y., president of the international committee of the Y. M. C. A., will speak at the 92d annual meeting of the local “Y.” The meeting will be held at 6 p. m. Friday in the auditorium, 310 N. Illinois st. Reports will be

N. Sweetman, Roy

and "Earl H Schmidt.

Cannon.

0 Sts {Democrat ‘Spark’

‘|with the new 'machnical voting

| Saturday with the resignation of 'the department superintendent.

tabled, Floor Leader Van Ness

2 | Another officer, Quartermaster Capt.

back to boys school after another

made by Howard

Harper Sibley Recognition ' scrolls will be presented by Fermor

The Rev, Owen Peters, pastor of the First Lutheran church and president of the Indianapolis Ministerial association, will give the invocation. The Rev. Sumner L. Martin, pastor of Roberts Park

Quash Move to Probe State Police Row - (Continued From Page, One)

gadgets. The house did not convene until| 1pm The ‘facetious motion failed to pass because it drew only 22 aye nod less than a majority. “Ten senators tried out thir voting machines with an experimental “no” vote while eight failed to cast their votes in time, Senator Victor E. Aldridge D. Terre Haute) - gained the distinetion of being the first senator to forget his voting machine key.

Police Resolution Tabled Democrats sought to make’ political capital out of the investigation into irregularities in the state police department which reached a climax

In urging that the resolution be

pointed out that Governor Gates and the state police board already are conducting an investigation and charged the senate proposal would be a duplication ef effort. .. Meanwhile Governor Gates sought

guide the state police department. Mr. Killian, a “colonel” under his own reorganization plan of operating the police department according to army. methods, quit late Saturday. The action climaxed a police board investigation which got Under way a week ago with the , suspension of another high ranking officer, Maj. Walter Eckert, on charges of conduct unbecoming an officer. : . ‘Influence Weakened’ In his letter of resignation to Governor Gates, Mr. Killian said he was quitting because recent developments had “weakened my influence as head of this vital department of government.” . The Eckert affair was resolved by dropping the charges against him in exchange for his resignation.

larities” in the purchase of department supplies. Investigation of his case continues.

officer. of the department after Maj. Eckert’s resignation, was placed in full charge of the department pendbe Sppointmeny of 8 successor to

aa Pay Boost for Judges One of the more important pieces of legislation placed on the senate floor was a bill increasing workman’s compensation $5 per week with a maximum annual lit of $7500. Introduced by Senator J. 8. Gonas (D. South Bend), the measure was referred to the labor committee. Senator R. G. Miller (R. BloomRion) introduced a bill providing for an increase in the salary of certain circuit judges up to $2800. A bill extending authority of cities and towns to carry on a cooperative playground and recreational program with townships and counties was placed before the

erton (R. Indianapolis).

Troopers Cleared 0f Crash Thefts

VALPARAISO, Ind. Jan. 13 (U. P.) ~—Indiana state police sald today an investigation had cleared

12 troopers of suspicion in the disappearance of $105 from the wreckage of an American Airlines plane which crashed at Michigan City Dec. 28. Lt. Rex Risher, commanding officer of Dunes Park post at Chesterton, said the investigation and a hearing were conducted by Capt. William E. Hunter, a state police detective. Risher said it was a selfimposed investigation, made after relatives of crash victims report. ed possessions and money were missing. Two crew members were killed

the crash. Risher said that Louis King, vice president of the airlines, told the police he thought an investigation was unnecessary. But the state police wanted to clear themselves of suspicion, he said. Risher'added that reports on the hearing were sent to American Airlines officials and to Indianapolis

benediction.

Methodist church, will give the

headquarters of the state police.

IN INDIANAPOLIS

Girls

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Pope, and Eugene, Mary Patterson.

a Schechter; Robert, M

Zell Harry, Nellie Pitch; Ray, Frances in:

Conn William, Grace Melvin, Isabel Moll.

Boys “Francis—Daniel, Helen Summitt;

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At St. Franeis—John, Bdith Lee; Paul, Martha Salisbury, and Edward, Mary

At Oity—Jesse, Mary Louise Smith; Johnnie, Bertos Hines; Paul, Katherine

At Coleman—Paul, Zelma Zick; Dr. John, Orpha Diliman;

Bthel Jenkins; Lyman, am, Olive Reece: NorRoy, Marie Wilson; Armour; Edward, Helen 3 Cloud, and|John Elliott, 00, at 2608 English,

berger; Charl Ka Winnie Nacht a Baell, Arkie Roark, a

n Y : Jack: Ms iA tv Lh \ - i

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A rbara Whitten be! dol, Maxine Smith; William, Mu hin red, ce :

Town vie: Morris; Ma Guirge, Hbdory Wain, and vases Yoni, Se, HOTTs IGM MO Ab Mothodist—Charles, Prances Wright; |A* sents rt, Kizabeth Lewis Perry; William, Pauline Goldman; Charles, Mary Lyons; Morris, lees; Robert, Spears: Russell, Hsle Smith; oe Qéorgene Jbekion. Annabelle Prank; Charles, Janet Had- Mlle ampaony “George, Nini Thurston; Ray, & pati ips; Rowell, Myrtle Grae ‘Srv, Huy, Ade eon Farrand Voth, Nose Regi’ aod Kon Osks; David, Nancy Green: Vester, Ger- Emba Eva Downite trude Holcomb, Elmo, Christine ya DEATHS

Willis Marion Goben, 60, at 1106 N. Olney,

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, 91, at Methodist, Zulia C. Bell,

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sister a "St; Martha, 89, at 111 W.

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