Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 January 1947 — Page 2

w <age boys are held without es today after confessing they

“bere. Monday in. which four killed and 40 injured.

Graves, 11, and his buddy,

ack Sprinkle,

night, The fouths spent the night in an orphanage while officials prepared for a more detailed questioning and the consideration. of charges today. “We just wanted to see what would happen,” the frightened and tearful youths sald. * Confess Thelts “Two minor thefts, which preceded the derailment, led to the arrests. Sheriff Smith investigated the theft of ‘a lipstick from a home and a check-writer from a coal office near the tracks. +A resident here reported seeing the Sprinkle boy writing on walls with a lipstick. On investigation the ‘boy confessed the thefts and broke into tears when asked about the train wreck:" He first implicated a 5-year-old brother of the Graves boy, but authorities doubted it and questioned Lysle. He admitted his part in all three acts, Sheriff Smith said. According to Sheriff Smith, the youths decided, while playing after school Monday, to wreck the train that night. They first tried lifting railroad

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|ties onto the tracks but found them [too ‘heavy to move. Later they found a large plank which they placed across the rails. * The bale of wire they found !stacked with others near the road(bed. They rolled one off the top, {stuck an iron pipe through the cen. [ter. Then they rolled and dragged the 175-pound bale to the tracks. For a while they waited to see what would happen. Becoming frightened they went home. The train was derailed when the wire lcaught in a switch and tossed six of eight cars off the track. No Juvenile Record | “They are not cocky, but they don’t seem to be scared,” Sheriff Smith said. Neither boy, he said, has a juvenfle record, and to his knowledge, never had been in trouble before. | They are the sons of Mr. and Mrs. John Sprinkle and Mr. and

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"Hold Closed Session After Public Hearing

' The state senate labor committee : {met in closed session this morning to : thave a “heart-to-heart” discussion = of two controversial labor bills now before the upper house. Both bills were discussed yesterday at a public hearing in the state One would extend & War emergency act permitting women to work around-the-clock. The other would outlaw the closed shop union contract. Speaking against the women’s

work hour bill was Miss Mabel Lutherbeck, business representative of the Distillery Workers union in Lawrenceburg. Pro and Con Criticism “Women who work after dark

home late at night,” she said. + Miss Genevieve Brown, legislative chairman for the Business and Professional Women’s club here, said, “Let a womah work when and where she can if she has a family to support.” Dr. -E, D. Hager, medical director for the U. 8. Rubber: Co, testified there was nothing injurious to a woman working at night any more than there would be to a man, State Chamber of Commerce representatives indorsed the bill outlawing the union closed shop contract. All expressed belief it was a fundamental human right to let & man work wherever he desires with or without union affilia~ tion. ‘Carl Mullen, president of the Indiana State Federation of Labor, | labor spokesman against the meas-

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Governor Gets College-Aid Bill

Provides Payment Of Housing Costs

A measure to appropriate $3,411,universities for emergency housing

his signature today. The measure passed in the state

{today. Introduced in the house of representatives by Majority Floor Leader George Henley (R. Bloomington) the measure passed there

ure, said, “This bill outlaws all yesterday under suspension of rules, covered,

| Under the bill, Indiana university will receive $1231125; Purdue, | $878,500; Ball State Teachers col‘lege, $328,672; and Indiana State Teachers college, $64,663.

| Republican leaders requested

981 to reimburse state colleges and

costs was sent to the governor for

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tired telephone fompany lineman, found a 2% -inch grasshopper on the sidewalk in front of his home. When the ‘hopper was first dis- » it was a little lethargic from the cold but after it had been

inside for a few minutes it became | quite lively. Then to add spring-like atmosphere, the fire department received {a call to put out a grass fire, which

cause their families to worry. They | Powers Hapgood, regional C. I. O. speedy passage of the bill because, 'is the <ind of a blaze the fire lad-

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Group to Meet

The Metal Working Industry of

Indianapolis group, & new organization which is a division of the Indianapolis Association of Credit Men, will meet tonight at Hotel Washington. Nearly 200 representatives of metal working firms will

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Motion Tossed Out

his reputation of introducing two bills a day, today was the target of Republican lampooning.

Senator A. W. Mitchell (R. La Porte) introduced a resolution which

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