Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 January 1947 — Page 2

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PLYMO! «An ‘accu was believ: the explosi in the No Glen Alde ig Two oth First gt 8:15 a. m, and 38 the blast at 1:30 p. m. it was. JF below the 8 terday. O 18-man cr 1 Bodies © from the : explosion. been kille the state | immediate Samuel Bolinko, 5 were inju men were tunnel, wh main shal were work adjoining The bla tender wo shaft. He creeping sounded th Rescue for such e with gas n shovels, w and bega debnis. K Relative: working ir vigil at t from belo the thron the last rit The boc found. cles Fie re ; : : : ’ x \ 4 beneath established THE CAPTORS—Sgt. Harold Mortan (right) files a report of how he and his S Joust | squad captured the fleeing men with John Farrell (left) record clerk at police station. Jd : cite regior “| Other captors in the photo are Patrolman Maurice Walsh (second from left) and || : i The bla

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- 90 miners > Be Housing Swindler Slipped Sos Through State Parole Net > 8 Bl Leg Overloaded Officers Just Couldn't x. 11 4 ; L . Keep Up With John W. Welch : 2 1 | oo dh : . : \ . - 58 judges pr This 1a the fourth in a series of articles showing how Indianapolis | : fd No : 3 6 |} , (Judiciary § veterans have lost thousands of dollars in pheny real withis schewses, \ : : : x : “ ’ p E La oe By RICHARD : ; A 8 the court

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CAUGHT BY POLICE—When their taxi stuck in mud as they attempted to swerve throtigh a yard from an alley to a street, this quartet meekly crawled out with their hands up in the glare of a police search light. They are (left to right): Charles ‘Thayer, 26, taxi driver; Stanley C. McCarroll, 20; James L. Hall, 21, and Eugene

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i eghis is NOT a gross income stock room.” : 1 : “Tt'is the state district parole office for Marion county. = \ ¢ i Reformato Tucked away under the steam pipes and behind stacks of gross in- : : ; ; ne. come tax forms, this office oper : N ; 1 8. B. 36 ( vises parolees in Marion county. |ing with the U. 8. army air Yorces. : hk : as, It was supervising Indiana state Weich told parole authorities that % : a i] per child prison convict John Wilson Welch he had been appointed adminis- 2 : V5 ; care of © at the time he was operating a trator of his son's estate and was = : 1 8. B. 38 (Ce hopsing scheme which cost Indi-| his son's heir. 7 > J CR jus 2-2 anapolis veterans thousands of | Welch's son, Oren, had been a war A ; ; | | pancial | dollars. hero. He had been a flier before pn N, A 28 5 iten, Came Here in 1943 {the war and an aircraft expert. . a) pe : ; veterans o Welch came to Indianapolis in He had invented a number of de-! \ \ \ , £& { an the spring of 1945. Teaming up vices for airplanes and had been re- | : & ; . 2 : (Military ‘with an Indianapolis attorney, For- ceiving royalties on some of the in- h - : ‘ =i 8 HB. 19 (8 ‘rest L. Hackley, he organized the ventions he had sold. fe | \/ wh TH a8 Pe (Co-operative Homes Go. which cost| Early in 1945, Welch notified pa-| i ; : which do veterans and others $30,000. (role authorities that he was again i? Sos NN ) naw on Welch and Hackley were convict- in court, this time suing to re-|| ; ‘ ‘Judicial ed. of grand larceny last June in cover patents and parts owned by : " ” 5 -—ur criminal court. They were sen-|his son's estate, 5 1 X ; CS : tenced to one to ten years in prison, Went to New York : to which Weich had been remanded | 11; after this suit, he asked

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Alabama sts. four men in a [ceived from another’ veteran. |days, again on a legal matter. This speeding taxicab were chased |e 2 avert wa granted. After he had re-| through North side streets and |\\ 0 "pere warned him of the |" fhe asked for pers od tured by police. stay. That was granted. i captured by p scheme : / . | Welch arrived in Indianapolis at . . > $30,000 Just Vanished |the beginning of April, 1945. That | Direct Prima Bill All the others lost. How the is when he began the. housing op-| L $30,000 disappeared has never been erations which were to end dis-| > ° explained. Some of it was used by astrously for more than 100 vet-| Infroduced in Legislature [7 & sucker or eons ex-lerans ana otmers, tor mimaeit ana penses, but no one has been able for his associate, Forrest Hackley. to account for all of it. | Welch carefully made - | (Continued From Page One) Shire x Saplinsies or the peo-| The basement county parole of- ly nig fefully ma © is sionth- | ples selection. If plurality nomina-|fice is one of four distri f ig nection wi the Stating ot the tion is right for other offices it 18|operated by the state Ti. Siren (suig he Ne Tee i what To re Hot for all of them. corrections. ‘There, parolees come! Lemcke building. That was Forrest! vide Pp the - Deere il issue 1s yal so to report what they are doing. John | Hackley's office. | should . Democra ofl § government and welch made his report, . lower house indicated the measure y oan jend my best efforts to make | # his yepors, $00 Authorities Tipped Off

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Upstairs on the fifth floor of H BD 30 Ca a tha | t® PrImaIy a reality.” [the state office building is the of-| nese reports went into the pa-| they We ir RL | In the senate a bill was intro- | fice of Harvey L. Hire, the state's | lc Office through April, May, would h fice by Senator A. W. Mitchell new director of corrections. He-be- June and July of 1945. In August, Believes People Want It |(R. La Porte), which would out-|came head of the division after the | Parole authorities were tipped Pw : In his statement, Rep. Baker law the closed shop clause in un-|Welch episode, but he knows the | 97f by Better Business Bureau | ¢ ? said: ion - management contracts, The story. Briefly, it is this: anager Toner Overley what Welch | B / Lele Suter / - “I gm proposing a direct primary measure set up to $500 fine and 180, Convicted in South Bend for the |¥8S UP to. ¢g id bill because I am sure the large days in jail as penalty for’ vio- same type of housing scheme he They hadn't known about the - majority of the people whom I rep- | lation. |worked here, Welch was sentenced |Seme. And the victims hadn't . I : resent want it. Senator Mitchell said his bill Was (to one to seven years in the state| PWD that Weich was a parolee. Jean Durain of California styles these of Dan River Pavillon “My party has urged that we give Not policy legislation. He would not | prison, What was wrong with the parole the government back to the people facioe whut gious. were behing Out in One Year SYSO o det Owe Aner CAST a thats candidates for| “16 has been thoroughly studted| Entering the MicHigan City prieon | handtul of officers supervise 2000 fabric, Sanforized and Vat-dyed. In wonderful pastels as are forec state offices and senator if they are | PY Most of the Republican legisla [O00 JUIY 22, 1943, Welch walked out| parolees in Indiana, each “officer ; region, tt Fey - raphe y ess. | 108, however,” asserted Senator [on oy *He yeas inter having a case load of 300 persons i hei ; tL Adare + 3 Elecaing COMETS" | Mitchell. * ] » 1944. e — Vani i i . man and state legislators, Morell. And many factions n-| 00 SAY Eu To Ee OF, more. | exciting as their names anilla, Pink Cookie, Bon-Bon the Paci “In my opinion the arguments In | (*"*%e In the rights of the work-|p, an Bare, & Joe Avedge. 10a in) Opie states fhe vtire y > g people have cu i od A s 15 " Savor 3 the Jelsnary. stem oi BL concurred with the | weich went to Wilkes-Barre and rerio with work and for the Blue and Pistachio, with contrasting trims. bana of © Mave been suggested. The fact that| _ FIremen's Raise Proposed |IPOTCH 10 DE sPODSOR. He hokey most part. underpaid, parole. au- from COs 44 of the states use it gives it| Another house bill provided for an reporting Tr Te Shostyes in Jodiama SIply couldn D izes 3 to 6, 8.98; sizes 7 10 14, 10.95 a a recommendation. overall $25 monthly pay boost for eep up a fast moving opera- ress, sizes 3 to 6, 8.98; sizes 7 10 14, 10, Plali “Those states have sent to office CIty firemen over the state; a tal of 1944, Welch request Boy ke John Wilson Wels. ie, pitniley yolste the leaders of - Edgar A. Guest spoke be-|eq permission “to return to South Final Sun Dress, sizes. 3 to 6, 6.98; sizes 7 to 14, 8.98 (vet he i aa poring Bd Sait 0. Jose Bend to settle a guardianship suit. (' NG Voyage Set J ootasli 4 ' : i or not doit inent. "The house before ud until Thus vegan bis gyles Sf apbeasuices For Rusty Oklahoma Play Suit, sizes 3 to 6, 5.00; sizes 7 to 14, 6.98 . “the south he were b B. =o Monuay to enable several period of his SH Juste HONOLULU, Jan. 16 (U. P.)~! Bonnet 3.00 ? tral porti | Saas A v mbers | \ - . ~~ 8 Pos be wr 220 2 05, 5 fn lh op B80 oS iE resent or for € the plaintiff; at others, as the de- prepa 9 5a y on her | 5 the Deople were better | © ucts DOW. going on in Ohi-|fendant, His activities. w last voyage. She will go from her , ' Nuere JI j were cago. The senate scheduled an- : « Were nU-lqo0k to the Pearl Children’s and Girls’ Shops, Fourth Floor SNOW ove! patlons of | other session for 10 a. m pl merous and complex. For a while,| np orage and a —— ! | ered. gn t state ow, : parole authorities kept close watch land, Cal., scrap heap. 4 plains = shout} - "a ; The doughty old battlewagon, : Per <their| G, I. REPLACEMENTS ARRIVE Took Over Son's Estate sunk in the first 10 minutes of the | states, sc _ | YOKOHAMA, Jan. 16 (U. P.).—| “Later In the fall, Welth re-|1041 Pearl Harbor attack, was raised ; , , L middle A ) Las 3000 army replacements are turned to Wilkes-Barre in time in 1943, But since then she has ’ | bo § ain rived apan today to take over|to take over the estate of a son,|lain idle, stripped of her supers|] z : ; AT HOME IN INDIANA FOR 75 YEAR fo § | pational duties, who had ben killed in China fly- structure and once-mighty turrets. : Ci ; ln SLE : > I o ' 54 8 : ay a oh , S35 . 23 La fs : :

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