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GOD'S HUMBLE HOME—This is Saint Missions church, Raymond and West sts. which the Rev..John McGinty built with his own hands. -

Trains Whistle No More For Riverbank Minister

Rev. John McGinty, Pastor Who Earned His Living Hauling Trash, Dies After Long Iliness

By VICTOR

Illinois Central trains passing the Saint Missions church, Raymond

and West sts., have whistled shrill

No longer will the familiar figure of the Rev. John McGinty ‘emerge | “from his church or nearby parish house. ;

The Rev. Mr. McGinty died at

FBI Suspects Eisler Is Spy

May Be Serving Russia, Hoover Says

WASHINGTON, Feb. 6 (U. P).— Gerhard Eisler—a bald, middle-aged

Sotirces close to the House un-|R today that the committee will ask

thé justice department to prosecute

gapid succession today- for the exeitable little man. He denied that “he was “ ‘boss’ of all the Reds” in the United States. At the committee hearing today: ONE: FBI Chief J. Edgar Hoover | was disclosed to have considered Risler as the chief liaison agent between the Communist international in Russia and the Communist party in the United States.

Mr. Hoover suspected that Eisler

also engaged in espionage. TWO: Eisler was cited for contempt of the committee when he angrily refused ‘to be sworn without first giving a prepared statement. THREE: Committee sources dis-

glosed that’ Eisler also will be charged with failure to register as

oa foreign agent, income tax'evasion,

.and perjury in conhection with ap-

plications for passports. FOUR: Even his sister,

was Freda Eisler, turned on him. Bhe said she had been trying since

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Damages Awarded In Fence Feud

Ten years of feuding between two Neighbors in the 500 block, Douglas st, today had ‘resulted in a jury verdict in superior court 1, award-

ing $1000 damages to Mrs, Bessie

Johnson. The verdict was handed down against Mr, and Mrs. George La-

Rue, 543 Douglas st., for a “spite

fence” they erected seven feet high and only 15 inches from ‘Mrs. Johnson’s house on the property ‘line. M Johnson testified that the fence prevented her from washing her windows and painting one side of her house and that it kept out

‘light and air. . Judge John L. Niblack ordered

the LaRues to take the fence down within the next six days. The feud started 10 years ago over a pile of gravel between garages of the two neighbors.

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PETERSON greetings for the last time. his home yesterday after a long ill-

ness. -Most of Indianapolis never knew

there was a church along the wind- | swept, mud flats of White river by! the Hilgemeier packing plant. Hauled Trash Yet every Sunday morning and | Wednesday evenings for the past 13.years the Negro pastor has called his faithful flock to worship. During the week he earned his bread hauling trash. Over the years he carted waste thaterial for the Illinois Central railroad. Firemafi, ‘engineers, yard rorkers and road gangs came to know him. For many he did small

«| deeds of kindness.

It was a friendly tribute to the Rev. Mr. ty when the train Whistles 4 Wiow. The 50-year-old pastor would stand along the embankment and wave his hat in greeting. Built Church Himself His non-denominational church is not of marble. He built it himself in six weeks. As he hauled trash, he salvaged a board here, a |door there, a window, old chairs and a few. benches. Wind whips through the building, but it didn't seem to hurt the attendance. Some 25 faithful always were present. Revivals would pack the church with 75 persons. Spiritual needs came first, but the Rev. Mr. McGinty did not forget the material side of life for all his followers. Every year, with his horse and plow, he turned several city blocks of land for gardening. These he would portion out with widows getting fitst choice. For the unfortunate, he even provided seeds and helped in the harvest. Guests Always Welcome When lean years came to many, he shared his table. Guests always were welcome and followers often spent otherwise lonely nights with the minister and _his family. Today a steady stream of mourners flowed through the home of thei Negro pastor who came here 30 years ago from his birthplace in | East Point, Ga. Services will be held for him in his church at 1 p. m. Saturday with burial in Wood Haven cemetery. The Rev, Henry Green, West Parkview Baptist' church, will officiate. Survivors include his" wife, Frankie; three sons, Walter, James and Norman; four. daughters, Mrs. Katie Meadows and the Misses Lucille, Carrie and Claudia; two brothers, Tom and George, and three grandchildren, all of this city.

.Laraine Day's Charge Denied

HOLLYWOOD, Feb. 6 (U. P).— Superior Judge George A. Dockweller tried to revoke Laraine Day's California divorce to save her from the “calamity” of possible bigamy charges, he said today in denying her charges of prejudice.

The judge, who gave Miss Day her divorce from airport executive Ray Hendricks, sald he ordered her to show: cause why it should not be set aside after her elopement with Brooklyn baseball manager Lippy Leo Durocher, He said he had not made up his mind whether to set aside the divorce, and had concluded only that circumstances of Miss Day's remarriage “warrant a judicial investigation.” The statement was in answer to an appeal by Miss Day to have the show cause hearing removed from Judge © Dockweiler's court. She charged that because of his “bias and prejudice” she would not get “fair and impertjal hearing.” »

In ‘Dahlia’ Death

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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1947

HIS FINAL CALL—The Rev. John McGinty, pastor of Saint Missions church, died yesterday.

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Army Agents Hold Soldier at Ft. Dix

PT, DIX, N. J, Feb. 6 (U.P) —A 29-year-old military policeman was held today as a suspect in the Black Dahles murder,” io

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clipping and picture of 23-year-old duplication of ‘effort in collecting

Elizabeth Short. The suspect is Cpl. Joseph Dumais, Claremont, N. H.,, the father of two children. Agents of the army’s criminal investigation department said he admitted he had a date with Miss Short the night of Jan, 8. That was six days before Miss Short's mutilated body was found in a vacant lot in Los Angeles. Dumais was held in the psychiatriatic ward at the Ft. Dix hospital where army agents said they would continue questioning him until they were satisfied with his story. Maj. Cornelius T. Morris, Pt. Fix public relations officer, said Dumais told C. IL ‘D. agents he did not know anything about the slaying of the Black lia until he read it in the newspapers. ‘Blacked Out’ After spending the evening of Jan, 9 with her, he said he “blacked out” and remembered nothing until] he came to in New York's Pennsylvania station, Authorities sought to determine if he had spent any part of a.recent furlough in Los Angeles, They want to know what happened betwpen the time Dumais dated the Black Dahlia and when he came

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‘Give Veterans Bonus Now, Legion Asks

Referendum Called Delaying Action

More Legislative News, “Page | 8 Calendar, Page 10.

By ROBERT BLOEM Both houses of the general assembly heard a plea from the state commander of the American Legion today to “give the veterans of world war II a bonus now.” W. I. Brunton of Scottsburg, state commander, spoke from the speaker's platform in both the sen-

ate ana the house. He told the legislators that plans to leave the question up to a referendum would only postpone what must come.

and not postponment that woul come with a referendum,” Commander Brunton said. “It is now he seeks to build his home and get started again in civil life. “The Indiana veteran appreciates free hunting licenses as tokens of gratitude but something more tangible is needed. The average Hoosier veteran sacrificed several years of effort toward his economi goal while serving his country fi world war IL” Pass Administration Bill Both houses have under consideration bonus bills ranging from tax credits to substantial cash payments and including the referendum proposal. Mearfwhile the first of Governor

“The veteran, needs this lift og

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If Rents Go Up

Senator Flanders Warns of Strikes

More Congressional Néws, Page 3.

Gates’ major governmental policy bills’ completed its tour of the two houses. The senate passed by a vote of ‘30 to 10-the governor's | to create a unified department of

taxes and fees. on the revenue measure showed

all Democrats opposed. A During . the morning session the senate also passed measures which would place municipal elections in the hands of county election boards and authorize appointment. of a board of trustees for a projected new northern Indiana hospital for the insane. Introduces Atomic Bill Senator Charles Fleming . (D. Hammond), introduced a bill to outlaw making, possessing, or using atomic bombs in Indiana except for military purposes. He said the measure was designed to keep atomic materials from falling into the hands of “unscrupulous persons.” The senate upheld the vefo of the Governor on four bills left over from the 1945 general assembly. All the vetoes were based on constitutional or legal grounds. The house received a measure to appropriate $5 million to finance the building of two new toll bridges, one | across the Wabash at Mt, Vernon

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out of his daze in Pennsylvania station. . | The nude body of Miss Short, | horribly mutilated and dissected by | a fiendish slayer, was found in a| vacant lot in Los Angeles last Jan.

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Police Arrest Couple For Abandoning. Baby

JANESVILLE, Wis, Feb. 6 (U. P.)—A young Rockford, Ill. couple admitted today, police announced, that they had abandoned their .|new-born infant on a Janesville

ford to" keep it. | They are John Wolfram, 23, and his 22-year-old wife. Wolfram is a driver for a Rockford laundry service. The couple was arrested today after they had returned voluntarily to Janesville in an attempt to reclaim their baby,

ICE-O-RAMA Tickets—

Choice seats are still avail. able for The Times Ice-O-Rama Feb. 20th at the Fairgrounds Coliseum . . , but they are fast being sold. Get your, tickets now to avoid disappointment. The proceeds from the ice extravaganza — presenting 400 local amateur skaters in a two-hour show—will go to the. Infantile Paralysis fund. Tickets are on sale at: The Times , . , L. Strauss & Oo, Ne. Indianapolis, Water Co. « + « Indiana National bank . .» or mail your srder to Ice~ O-Rama, The Times, 214 W, Maryland st.

As In the lower house the vote

all Republicans in favor of it.gnd

WASHINGTON, Feb, 6 (U., P.). —Senator Ralph E. Flanders (R. Vt.) warned his colleagues today 5 that an immediate 15 cent rent

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fed before B , banking subcommittee which is drafting rent control legislation. The subcommittee earlier heard a warning from the textile workers union (C. I, O) that a general rent increase might cause “serious industrial strife.” A flat 15 per cent increase now, Senator Flanders testified, would provide: “incentive toward strikes and reduced production.” Mr. Planders urged the committee to adopt, instead, his rent control’ bill to build up rents gradually —5 per cent at a time—to a total of 20 per cent. - Mr. Flanders’ measure would permit states to set up their own rent control systems. It would end all} federal controls in midsummer 1948. Although Mr. Flanders is a member of the full banking committee, he asked to testify before the billdrafting subcommittee because, he said, he is “deeply concerned with {this rent problem.”

Critically Hort As Train Hits Car

One man ‘was critically - injured | today when his car was struck by {a New York Central train at the intersection of Harris st. and the railroad. : Robert W, Gorham, Seymour, Conn, is in a. critical condition in City hospital. He was crushed when his car was struck by the train and spun a distance of three city blocks. It struck a bell signal in passing. Train crews cut through the wreckage to extricate the injured man, pinned in the car. | The car was southbound on | Hancock street when it was struck by the westbound New York Cen. tral passenger train. The train, bound for St. Louis, was about six hours behind schedule. Officials said, . however, the train was only traveling about 35 miles an hour, It was in charge of J. A. Junken, conductor, and Michael Dunham,| engineer, ‘both of Indianapolis.

Seize Colonel,

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 6 (U. P.), —An army officer, whose excellent service record led to his appointment as ¢ustodian of the bank of Japan, whs under technical arrest today. He is held pending an investigation into the source of $210,000 in diamonds he brought

home “with him from Japan. The officer was Col. Edward J. Murray, who was stopped Monday as he stepped down the gangplank of the Westminster Victory at the Oakland army base.

telligence officers seized two dia-

which,Col. Murray was carrying in his watch pocket. Wearing the legion of merit, the balding officer relinquished a key to a safe deposit box which customs

gems valued at $200,000. The entire cache was confiscated because of the officer’s alleged failure to declare the gems at the customs inspection. It was believed they were brought in last April during a previous visit. Officials sald it was the largest seizure of this kind ever ‘made on the Pacific coast. Word camé from Tokyo that Col.

monds worth more than $10,000

Murray will be flown back to Japan

inspectors said held a hoard of 528 |

this morning to Ay his skill on a pinball machine. udge was pretty good at it.

Trouble’ Feared [Judge Howard Adjourns

Court and Plays Pinball

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Jingling a few loose coins in his pocket; Judge Joseph Howard de-

cided in Municipal court this morning that the time had come for a hee study of the pinball maching situation.

Lee Pierle, proprietor of & restaurant at New York and Noble sts.,! of kway madness ia WF)

facing the bench on charges kr free games. i Set er testified tat scill=)

industeat | fu players who racked up scores fy of 58,000 and above got more ha /

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That, said Mr. Pierle, was not true. The judge said he had better look more closely into’ the situation, adjourned court and led the way to the police property room in the! basement of the police station. There the judge surveyed two pinball machines police had impounded from Mr. Pierle’s place on

dug out a nickel and pulled the plunger, No Payoff

He didn't do so well. Deputy Prosecutor Merle Calvert tried his |luck. He did a little better. The [two took turns while Mr. Pierle looked anxiouS. As their skill increased, they racked up scores of 82,000 and over. One police property room employee with an experimental pature tried a few slugs! They worked as good as nickels. But no payoff. Mr. Pierle smiled. Then the judge turned to another machine called “Grand: Canyon.” It tilted. He tried another nickle and the machine failed to work, Mr. Calvert suggested he might get an expert to fix the machine but it might take some time. “Okay,” sald the judge with in(terest. “I'll take the case under advisement until Feb. 20.” He led the group back Upstails to the court:

Russia Pays No Fees For 95 U. S. Ships *

WASHINGTON, Feb. 6 (U, PJ). —W. W. Smith, chairman of the maritime commission, said today that Russia has 95 United States-| owned ships, which were turned | over to her during the war, for | Which she pays no charter hire. | Rep. Fred Bradley (R. Mich.) said he had been informed -that the {state department had been unsuccessful in efforts to collect a charter fee, Mr. Bradley said that Assistant | Secretary of State William L. Clayton tld him that Russia “did not even’ acknowledge” comimunications in regard to return of the vessels or collection of a fee for | their use.

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DENVER. Feb. 6 (U, P)—A 67-4

year-old messenger whose | swank tastes ranged from tailored shirts and spats te good Scotch whisky was sought by police today. Missing along with Franklin

Jan. 25.' He walked over to one, Hopkins was $9600 in cash belonging bearing the name “Superscore.” He, to a realty firm.

Police disclosed that Hopkins dis- |

appeared Monday from a $50,000

| bank errand.

A SATCHEL y contalaing $40,400 in checks was found in his desk at Van Schaack & Co; where he ‘had worked about a year, But the cash Was gone. :

ment revealed Hopkins was a graduate of the class of 1900 of Harvard university. * A hurried note to his Jdandlady said: “I'm going away for awhile.

courtesies.” ” » # IN A writing table investigators found correspondence to such industrial leaders as Henry Ford and Henry Kaiser. Elsewhere "in ‘the well-fitted apartment, were copies of classics and of the Denver social register.

“He was reserved and extremely

great capacity for good Scotch.”

Damaging Earthquakes Recodred on West Const

distant—was recorded at 11:30 a. m., Indianapolis time, today by the California Institute of Technology.

could not ‘be determined,

shortly afterwards.

$210,000 In Jewels

to face a special board set up to investigate the case. - Customs.officials said they would take no action until the army decided what it intended to do. Col. Murray was confined to quarters in a guest house at Ph Masoh here. He said he would be “pleased to return to Tokyo” where his side of the story would be given “full and just consideration.” Paul Leake, collector of customs, sald inspectors became suspicious of Col. Murray through a previous sale here of $20,000 worth of smuggled diamonds on the San Francisco market. Mr. Leake gquot-

ed Col. Murray as saying he considered the diamonds ‘legitimate loot.” The customs informed military intelligence here which immediately communicated with Gen. Douglas MacArthur's headquarters in Tokyo. Mr, Leake said the diamonds had been cut but were unset. They ranged from a fifth of a carat to 10 carats in size. Supreme headquarters officials in Tokyo {identified Col, Murray as having been formerly in command of the vaults of the Bank of Japan. Millions of dollars worth of jewels |

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PINBALL PLAYER Municipal C Cou Judge Joseph Howard (left) adjourned court it will be De Deputy Prosecutor Merle Calvert [night through Sunday.

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