Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 February 1947 — Page 1

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Father Slain

By Daughter

and killed ind atheros wealthy paint manufacturer—after he found her and a .teen-aged boy at a tourist eamp, Coroner Arnold Willman said today. W Mr. Willman quoted the | gli Mary Reardon, as saying she. shot “her father, J. Vincent Reardon, resident of fashionable suburban Ladue, because she was “afraid” he would send her to aR* institution,

Police first investigated what they

thought was a highway accident. They found Mr, Reardon's § in the wreckage of ‘his car in

caliber pistol in the machine,

that the businessman through the back of the head.

Both Are Injured The girl and her companion, Michael D'Arey, students at Wydown junior high school, Clayton, both were injured-—D'Arcy critically. Mary peceived only slight in-

Ausby Atkinson; proprietor of the Travelers tourist camp at Wentzville, Mo., said the couple drove up to his camp last night and registered as brother and sister. D'Arcy, 13-year-old, signed as “Shelby Heman, East Orange, N. J.” Mr. Atkinson said. } The girl told Coroner Willman

About 8 o'clock last night, Mary coroner, she and D'Arcy took a taxicab to the tourist camp— at an expense of $9, She charged this $0 her father. y this morning, she said, Mr. appeared at the camp and started to drive the two home. Mary told Coroner Willman she and the boy were in the back seat together, She asked D'Arcy to hand her an automatic pistol he used for target practice “and always carpied.” :

She said she then fired at her father and “didn’t know how many times I pulled the trigger.” The D'Arcy lad-is the soit of Mr. and Mrs. Wiliam D'Arcy. The . father is in the entertainment busi-

Mr. Reardon served on the paint industry recovery board, which _ Administered the NRA code of the paint, varnish and lacquer industry in 1933,

Close the Icebox Door, Richard

' MEMPHIS, Tenn, Feb. 8 (U. P.). ~George Bugbee, Memphis PressScimitar sports editor, today offered this explanation for the current cold wave: “Adm, Byrd is in the Antarctic and it’s obvious that Richard has opened the door.”

Ship Owner to Fight

‘Pirates’ for Vessel

MIAMI, Feb. 8 (U, P.).—The owner of a boat, alleged to have been seized and held by three armed men in the Florida Keys, sald today that he is making preparations to take over the vessel by force, if necessary, “If there's any shooting it will be all right with me,” said Col. J. B. McCalley, the owner, as he prepared to leave for the scene 40 miles off the southern tip of Florida. Col. McCalley said that he will leave Miami with the crew of the Vincente, a 150-ton ‘vessel. The Vincente ran aground in the Keys Monday, 60 miles south of Miami. It is owned by the Cuban-Americah Transport Co. of which Col. MecCalley is president:

Sisters Die of Burns

After Fire Razes Home

LAFAYETTE, Ind. Feb. 8 (U, P.). —Services were arranged today for Mrs. Henry Hathaway, 16, and her 6-year-old sister, Martha Van Pélt, who died last night of burns suffered when fire destroyed their home, The fire occurred last “Tuesday when a kerosene stove exploded, shooting flames through the rural home. Mrs. Hathaway, the former Pauline Van Pelt, died first in Home hospital at Lafayette. Then Martha died in less than an hour in an adjoining bed. Edward Van Pelt, 42, father of the victims, was burned in the fire-but physicians said he would recover,

Times Index

Amusements , 5 Eddie Ash .. 6 Books ,...... 14 Boots ....... 12 Camival ,... 8 Churches .... 4 Classified ..10-12 Comics ...... 13 Crossword ... 12 Editorials ... * Gardening ow . Don Hoover. .

Inside Indpls. Dan Kidney.. Ruth Millett., F. C. Othman Radio Reflections Mrs. Roosevelt Serial Silly Notions. Sports . Stranahan a Teen Talk ... Weather Women's News 7

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Tero Forecast Again Tonight: Worst Is Over

Low Temperature - For Winter Recorded

LOCAL TEMPERATURES 11pm 7 a 2.8 1 9 +1 10 ie). M1 +1..18 0 1

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GREEN PASTURES—Thanks fo Mrs. G. C. Wege, an old °

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\gishly upward today afterthe {coldest night of the winter.

The weather bureau predicted

'it would be zero again to-

night. The official low at the downtown weather bureau office was zero at 5 a. m. At Wier Cook airport it was 1 below zero at 10:30 p. m. and again shortly after midnight, “The worst is over,” the Chicago regional weather bureau said, with

{prediction of generally fair weather land slowly rising temperatures in

the north central states by Monday. The local forecast was continued cold with occasional snow flurries today, partly cloudy tonight and tomorrow. Six Below at La Porte Coldest spot in fhe state yesterday was La Porte, where the temperature was 6 below zero. In Ft. Wayne several thousand workers were laid off by an emergency cutoff of industrial gas to conserve fuel for heating homes and business places. A new layer of powdery'snow fell

{on Hoosjerland during the night. [State police said that roads were!’

open in all areas, but warned motorists to proceed with caution be-

Times Story of Mistreatment Leads to Purchase By DONNA MIKELS Billy, a show horse whose fading vision sent him from a world of glitter and applause to a dreary existence pulling heavy junk wagons, To Billy it was just another day and another owner. The small black bronco has been sold and traded countless times since he left the vaudeville circuit for the gircuit operated by horse traders, wagon - | stables, int U : to B | Past ' experiences of changing . u ‘Masters has given Billy no reason | to expect anything better than days Postal Branch \of hard work, beatings, and nights ; | Bought by Animal Lovers “Says Yes, | But the sie today tefminated | that part of Billy's life. He was! The government will act soon. to Wege, two Indianapolis animal] purchase the six-story building! lovers who were appalled when they | housing the Illinois street postal read The Times story of the mis- | office reported today. jo Indianapolis. R. D. Brown, president of the firm | The animal lovers, sponsors of a which owds and operates the!) ocal home for friendless animals, | structure, said the report was “pre-| out to pasture on their form. Billy mature.” {will spend the rest of his days “There hasn't been the first munehing sweet grass in spacious, He indicated that the firm was re. | 10 a warm comfortable stable with a bag of oats always at hand. luctant to sell the reinforged con-| he Indianapolis Humane society | occupies a quarter-block area at S. ©f Indianapolis rental horses. Preand W. South sts. | viously they had arrested a —outhPurchase rice Btioned {ful driver for beating the horse unPp mgmnione mercifully because. Billy had thrown . la shoe and was unable to make any Since its construetion. by private speed because of sore hoofs, owners in 1922, the building has been used by the U. 8. postoffice : a Humane = society officers who to purchase, racked Bey ii said he hi pees Mentioned ‘Before $0! ree times in the las s There aré 20 private firms with western ranch where he spent early | Sp years, officers said. They were unAccording to Ray Donaldson, Mr.|able to learn the show circuit travCapehart's secretary, postal authorities in Washington have given his hind legs and do the cake walk to the order of “Up Billy.” ants would have ample time to seek| Mr, and Mrs. Wege have offer-d | other quarters if the purchase goes through. treated and to provide a home for | |any which might be taken from plans to purchase the structure for|owners because of cruelty, These the postoffice has come up fre-| quently in recent years, “usually Home for Friendless Animals when it is completed. Postmaster Adolph Seidensticker| - Mrs. Leona Frankfort, of the husald the Illinois street station handled: all outgoing parcel post|purchased oats for Billy with a $5 check sent by Ralph Harting, Elcoming bulky mail for business wood, Ind., who also, was stirred houses.

By Couple Who'll Put Him Out in Pasture was sold again today, |haulers and rental work horse |in filthy, cold sheds. Owner Doubts It purchased by Mr. and Mrs. G. C.| I station here, Senator Capehari's treatment of work and rental horses {are purchasing Billy to turn him scratch of .a pen on paper,” he said. | pastures. His nights will be spent crete, brick-faced building which adjudged Billy the most mistreated in| Washington was around $600,000. "Still Does Cake Walk under a lease contract with option A “BC” brand on Billy is that of a offices in the building. eled by Billy, who still can get on assurance that private business tento buy horses who are grossly mis- | Mr. Brown sald that mention of horses will be “occupants of the around election time.” mane society, also said she had business and a large part of inby mistreatment of horses.

Washington Calling—

GOP Backing of Jenner's Closed Shop Bill Expected

Already Has Approval of Stassen; Taft Probably Will Follow Suit

By Scripps-Howard Newspapers WASHINGTON, Feb, 8.—Looks as if compromise closed-shop bill of Senator William Jenner (R. Ind.) will get important Republican backing—including Harold Stassen and Robert A, Taft, Mr, Stassen approved it when he testified here. : Unlike McCarthy bill—which would let workers vote on closed shop, make it mandatory if two-thirds approved—Jenner bill. would require collective bargain-

ing on closed shop issue al two-thirds had asked for it. Without iwo-thirds vote h Sous not be subject of bargaining, ” * = IT LOOKS ow as if there'll. be no ABTOTAOHL on international control of atomic weapons, There's little optimism among top U. 8. officials in charge of foreign policy that our relations with Russia will improve. They accept delay and haggling as confirmed Soviet policy. Russian tactics may

cause of slick spots on Higuways and

“streets. - 3 James Pickens, 8, ! vewstand {operator, was killed yesterday at Orleans when he stepped ‘into the | path of a Monon freight train. Sur- { vivors include a daughter, Mrs. William Busick, editor of the Orleans weekly Progress Examiner, Sylvester Clemons, 20, Lakeland, {was killed last night and two com{panions were injured eritically when a New York Central train struck their automobile during a snowstorm. The injured, Arthur Webster, 31, and John Janicki, 50, ‘New Buffalo, Mich., were taken to ! Clinic hospital in Michigan City. Injuries suffered when he was [struck by an automobile in Mooresville last Wednesday were fatal yesterday to Emery E. Schooley.

Cold to Continue

Continued cold weather in the middle west, accompanied by high winds and scattered snow flurries was predicted for the remainder of the week-end. Winds which whipped up snow and dust into blizzards across the plains area had abated somewhat early today, The center of the cold wave moved eastward during the night into Indiana, lower Michigan; “and Ohio. Dayton, O., reported 3 degrees “below zero -at- 6a; mm; Pt. Wayne, Ind., 2 below, and Jackson, Mich. 1 below, The coldest part of the country was still western North Dakota, but

from 5 to 10 degrees below zero. Spreads Over East The severely cold weather was spreading over the eastern states where a shortage of natural gas already had forced widespread industrial shutdowns and made 157,500 workers idle, The shutdowns were ordered to save gas for heating homes, Workers, were laid off by the thousands yesterday in Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Missouri, West Virginia and Pennsylvania. The cold weather and gas shortages forced temporary layoffs of an

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Indict German Industrialist

NUERNBERG, Germany, Feb, 8 (U. P.)~—Friedrich Flick, German industrialist, and four of his assistants were indicted today. They are charged with war crimes against humanity and the plunder of industrial properties in countries overrun by the Nazis, The indictment was filed with a United States military tribunal, It was ‘the first war crimes case brought against Germany's industrial leaders. 7 Flick, 63, controlled the biggest private iron and steel manufacturing enterprise in Germany. The assistants charged with him were Otto Steinbrinck, Konrad Kaletsch, Bernhard Weiss and Her-

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temperatures there had risen to!

State Spotlight

In Police

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from his face. He is going

Hint Roms Re raft

| CHANGE OF FACE—David Ruge, 17, Grand Rapids, Mich., i is shown at left how he looked when his class mates called him "monkey face." he received on his appearance led him to attempt extortion to get money and have his face changed through surgery.. But when Dr. Ferris Smith, Grand Rapids, world-famed plastic surgeon, heard of the case, he offered to perform the operation free of charge. At right, David is shown today after the bandages were removed

home tg start a new life.

ported ‘for a general police shakeup and backing it up with 4 . threat to resign, | This followed a statement by | Prosecutor Judson L. Stark that {he will present to city officials {list of approximately 50 police cers who apparently were involved ji the recent disclosures of gambling igraft payofils. 2

Cleanup Needed. Says Stark “There is no doubt that a police

Acme Telephoto

The taunting remarks

{that Roy E. Hickman, city con= troller, may resign from Mages

Only 1 New Tax On Cigarets

Gates Pledges No Other. State Levies

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The state” will-ask ‘only one tax, 3 cents per package on cigarets, from Hoosiers in this session of the legislature, This was revealed yesterday by Governor Gates who asserted there! would be no new income taxes, sales taxes or increases in the rate of gross income tax. The cigaret tax, “he explained, would be used for educational and health programs, and he asserted tie teachers would probably get & raise out of the tax but not the full increase they have asked. The governor said counties were most likely to be given permission to levy a surtax-on gross incomes. The surtax would not be allowed to exceed 20 per cent of. the gross tax and would be paid to the county | treasurer in the county where the taxpayer resided. Governor. Gates asked the tax-| payers to recall that the state had | operated during the past two years without any increase in taxes and had even added to the state surplus. He said. any new taxes now would be carefully considered in the light of present needs. He said it was not yet decided whether the gasoline tax should be raised.

Labor Bills Hold

By ROBERT BLOEM Labor legislation moved into the legislative spotlight today, replac+ ing the fight over the direct primary as the general assembly's number one headache. There were those who had rated questions of removing liquor from politics and meeting the state's badly off-balance budget ahead of the labor issue but both problems apparently are under coi I. The demonstration of s.cength put on by the state administration and the party organization in beating down the primary bill was generally regarded as indicative that Governor Gates would have his way on liquor reform. The house passed | his convention reform law, There appeared no doubt that) the governor's fiscal message Monday would contain only one recommendation' for a new tax—a three-cent-a-pack cigaret levy, Otherwise the administration powers

best of an unbalanced budget. The coming labor struggle cast its shadow before it in both houses yesterday, Most ominous labor development of the session 80 far was

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Train Derailed

WISCONSIN RAPIDS, Wis, Feb 8 (U, P.)—Approximately 100 passengers were shaken up but uninjured when five coaches of a Milwaukee Road passenger train were derailed six miles north of here last night.

that-be are expected to make the

velt and his wife, the former Faye.

Fulton Lewis Gets Clipped | After Heated

Commentator Struck by. Book: Firm Agent After Argument With FDR's Son, Wife

NEW YORK, Feb. 8 (U. P.).—Everyone apologized today for a one- { Sanders, recently punch studio fight following a radio broadcast featuring Elliott Roose- |

las the key showdown maneuver, opening the way for city hall .

campaign ‘next month. Small-Time Raids

Linked with these reports was ‘known fact timt the city has be~ come. “wide open” for gamblers. Meanwhile, Police -Chief 1

Radio Debate

Mayor Tyndall to “clean | 1

Emerson of the movies, | City” and “the’ Jolice

Radio Commentator Fulton Lewis Jr. caught a punch to the jaw continued to do Dick Hagrity, representative

wale

publizhers of Mr. Roosevelt's book about. his late father, “As He | Saw IL”

The fracas followed the ail, broadcast, “Meet the Press.” program was a heated discussion participated .in by Mr. Lewis, Mr.

| Scripps-Howard Newspapers, Warren Moscow of the New York Times and Bert Andrews of the New York Herald-Tribune. During the program Mr. Roose« velt termed “a . complete misstatement of fact” a Newsweek magazine report in which he quoted as saying at a dinner in Moscow that the United States was an “aggressor nation.” Denies Statement Mr. Roosevelt: returned recently from Moscow where he interviewed | Premier Josef Stalin and other Russian dignitaries. He also denied that (he ever said that “the U. 8. is supporting the United Nations for purely selfish reasons.” Following the broadcast Mr. Roosevelt, his wife and Mr, Harrity | encountered Mr. Lewis in a hall] leading to an elevator of the broadcast building, . According to Mr. Lewis, Mr. Roosevelt drew him aside and asked about one of Mr. Lewis’| broadcasts in 1945, It concerned] young Roosevelt's dealings with the Texas state network. According to Mr, Lewis, it was in connection with a $17,500 deficit of the company. During the argument Mr. Roosevelt's wife stepped into the picture to defend her husband. “Why actually, young lady, you] weren't there at the time—that was]

Mrs. Roosevelt. “I am Sloser to Elliott than you

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Find ‘Rubber’

Fountain Pens Recall Story of ‘Message’ WEST ORANGE, N, J, Feb. 8

the great inventor's death in 1931,

from goldenrod when he died, In the desk also were three bot-| tles of soda pills, a bottle of mouth wash, two ash trays with paper [clips in them; two wire baskets, the |gum-like substance, a bottle containing lithium and three fountain pens, one of them apparently | sealed,

caused great interest,

Several years after Mr. Edison died, two New York mediums as-

.|serted they had received a “spirit

message’ from him saying he had left ‘a “momentous message to the world” concealed in a fountain pen inside the desk. The desk was opened ‘as part of an ‘connected with the

Roosevelt, Henry J. Taylor of the]

back in 1944.” Mr. Lewis said he told!

In Edison's Sealed Desk

{substance, believed to be a sample of goldenrod rubber, was found today in. Thomas A. Edison's desk when it was opened for the first time since

The inventor was working on a theory that rubber could be made

Discovery of the fountain pengfhe inserted a Key, turned it aod

‘of the work .on the gal fuss tion with ony few mir ra

=: Britorts Riot In Coal Crisis

Crowds Raid’ Bins For More Fuel

LONDON, Feb. 8 (U. P.).—"Cpal Riots” broke out in England today coincident with official warnings of threatening disaster in a fuel

crisis and a possibility that the jj.qq Labor government might fall: ers. are dodging the issue ‘ene

At the same time Sir Hartley el) ne Bad harting® Shawcross, attorney general, said! ‘around ‘town fin’ profusion in : the Labor cabinet might fall unless aerort tn get some one on the B= it quickly coped with the coal crisis. |, o basis for alignment for mayFrom 2 to 5 million men may be

joralty candidates. unemployed next week. Three fuel riots were reported ut of thems are Gictnl ore |at Shoreditch. - Crowds of men and |yasis off the record facts tt {women raided coal yards refusing become the Key. ing | to sell them fuel. ‘Police were called rally points

factions lock horns for out to handle threatening situaSOLS. showdown next month.

The police ‘station at Shoreditch Besdit onc oa si: {reported that the officers had no behind the ot hal it : lrouble-in- breaking up the crowds, 2k y politien) me...

{and no arrests were made. EHine, More than 100 persons hauling He emphatically brushed oft the

wagons . wheelbarrows were| [V0OF of his impending resigna-

~~ tion. Joo in each group. - They tried| ; It 0 force their way to coal bins where I have no comment whatever !

uel for issue. on ration only was| Toke On mayoralty matters” he tored.

lently to “sée what the other ‘lis going to do.” ’ ‘ The hottest issue boiling around |every phase of the preliminary ma-

Some ‘of the anti-city hall faelions of the party are going to use the graft angle as a club to force

[‘INCH' BIDS CLOSE TODAY WASHINGTON, Feb. 8 (U, P).~ Bids on the surplus big inch and little big inch pipelines close ‘at noon today. Bids will be opened and read Publicly Monday.

Substance

Apartment House Fire 'Routs Occupants

chopping holes fh the age to the property was mated,

Extra Night for Golden Gloves

«9 Mediums’ From Inventor (U. P.).—~A small roll of gum-like

national “observance of Mr. Edison's birth. Among those crowding into the library here were his widow, Mrs. Thomas A. Edison;'his son, Charles, and Harvey 8S. Firestone

r Exactly at 1 p. m, Charles Edison snipped two paper seals on each side of the lock of the desk. Then

pushed back the top. There was a rush to inspect the | contents which had lain untouched Ly in the desk for 16 yeas. 1 ; over the desk still was set almost the exact minute ‘Mr. Edison died onthe pie