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Find Woman and
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Bodies Frozen:
Morgan County Pair Missing 3 Days Times State Service MARTINSVILLE, Feb. 24. —An ‘attractive, red-haired widow and her male companion, the father of four children, were found dead in a parked sedan on a lonely lane west of Morgantown yesters! day. They were identified as Mrs. | Josephine Williams, 40, and Ralph Anderson, 31, both of Martinsville. |
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Mr. Anderson was an employee of price ceilings were removed and 53,000 head against 74,800 a week
the Bridgeport Brass Co. in Indianapolis, Both apparently had died of carbon monoxide asphyxiation. Sheriff William St. John of Morgan county said both the man | and the woman had been missing |
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since Thursday, Coroner Austin |
Bweet said they both died Thursday night, apparently from carbon monoxide fumes sweeping through a broken muffler:
Heater Turned On
The ignition in the parked car British intelligence officials an- organic chemical research depart- | Rubber Co.; Dewey Myers, former they had ment of Eli Lilly & Co., died today criminal -court judge and candi-
was turned on and the gasoline tank was empty. A heater in- the car was turned on, authorities said. The bodies were discovered frozen |
Jike statues by a farmer picking] up corn. He was not identified im-
mediately. The car parked in a narrow lane off State Rd. 252. The coroner's surmise of aceci-)
dental death was based on the underground plan, and it was a of agriculture.
had been against the allies.
in Parke
| Hogs Hit $29 Here, Monoxide Gas $1 Short of Record Believed Cause
Short Supply Sends
* In Country's Principal Markets Hog prices shot upward at the livestock markets today, and buyers
at Chicago paid an all-time high of New price records also were set Indianapolis and Kansas City.
Advances ranged from $1 to $1.50 a hundredweight on most weights
of hogs. [ Prices went up to $29 at the Indianapolis stockyards, $1 under the | $30 all-time high set here in! October. | It was the weight range of 165225 pounds which brought the $28.50 | and $29 price here; other weights were 50 cents to $1 over vesterday's| prices. Cattle sold 50 cents higher than yesterday. The new record set at Chicago! was $1.50 over the previous all-time high, set last October after OPA
equalled last week. |
Prices Higher
$29 a hundred pounds. at nearly all other markets except
All-time highs of $29.50 at East Buffalo, N. Y., $29 at Cincinnati, $28.75 at Omaha, Neb, and $28.50 at Cleveland and St. Louis also were reached. Indianapoils stockyards officials said the reason for rapid increase in prices was reduction in supply. They maintain prices will continue to rise until late spring when an increase in supply is expected. Recepts today at the 12 principal western packing points dropped to
ago and 90,600 head a year ago.
Nazi Underground Horace A. Shonle,
Army Smashed Believed Plotting | Germ War on Allies |
FRANKFUHRT, Peb. 24 (U. P).—|
nounced today that smashed the biggest Naz] under-' ground army organized since the| war, { The group was believed to be planning bacteriologicar warfare
on” definitely was a part of the;
Their All Into Mayor's Race
Field Is Wide Open _ For Candidates By NOBLE REED
the next two months will make their greatest comeback effort since 1040 in an all-out drive to nom-
at the May primary.
grinding this week with preliminary sessions of the newly appointed committee headed by H. Nathan Swaim, former Indiana su-
controller. As to the candidates, County Democratic Chairman Walter Boet- | cher said the “field is wide open” for the city’s best administrative talent.
No ‘Favorite Son’
The organization up to now has no “favorite son” candidate and Chairman Boetcher said the committee will issue open invitations for a top rank leader who can modernize city government, More than a score of possible
Lilly Expert, Dies
Headed Department Of Organic Research
Horace A. Shonle, head of the
at Methodist hospital. He was 55. Mr. Shonle, who lived at 5859 Sunset lane, had been in the Lilly research division since 1919. He served
lin the chemical warfare service
An intelligence officer said the yduring world war I and: prior to “use of a devastating secret weap-
theory that the couple cpparently fair assumption that the group was| His chief work with Lilly's. had
bad let the motor run to operate “drawing plans to use a bacteria been in the development of barbitu-
the heater. Knew Muffler Was Defective Mr. Anderson had talked the day before of having the muffler on his car fixed. The bodies were taken tp the Wilhite & Son funeral home at Martinsville. Sheriff St. John said that Mr. Anderson had been reported miss-
weapon.” An announcement from headquarters of British . occupation forces said the two-day roundup
$0 successful that “as an immediate effective force, any underground has ceased to exist.” Mop-Up Nearly Complete Among those arrested were Col.
now was almost complete, and wag! cal medicine projects.’
rate products. During world war II he served with the office of scienjtific research and development on
pegicillin; anti-malarials and, ;yy Born in Tilinols i A nathe of T
uscola, Ill, he was a | graduate of the University of Illinois, holding B. S. and M. 8. degrees.
HOPE: Plattorm - Committee Chairman
ing since Friday by his wife. Neigh-
Walter Teich, wartime SS chief of |
Active in civic affairs, he was a
bors of Mrs. Williams reported her missing Saturday. She lived alone. Their attention was attracted to her home by the persistent barking of a dog shut up in the house. Several Saw Car
A number of persons noticed the car on their way to church Sunday morning, but it was not investigated until yesterday afternoon. Mrs. Williams’ body was slumped over in the seat and Mr. Anderson's body had slid under the steering wheel. Funeral services for Mr. Andergon will be held at 2 p. m. Wednesday at the Wilhite home. He is survived by his wife, Muriel, and four childfen, James Curtis, MonaJoan, David Earl and Jackie Leon;
two sisters, Mrs. Alice Gerin and;
In Valley She Loved
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Mrs. Maxine Hastings, all of Martinsville, and a brother, Btockwell, Ind.
the Baltic states and contact man with the Danish Nazis, and Edmund
German secret service at Lublin. Authorities still declined to say how many Germans had been arrested. Unofficial speculation said the number might exceed 1000. Three out of every four of the Nazis sought in the British zone have been caught, and the operation will be finished soon, a formal announcement said. The main part of the operation was in the British zone. American authorities took part to a relatively small extent, picking up about
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‘Grace Moore Rests
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. Feb, 24
Biedelmayer, former head of the
31 men identified as being con-!
| former president of the board of | control of Mayer Neighborhood {house and an elder of Second Presbyterian church. Mr. Shonle was a member of the i American Chemical society, Scientech club, Sigma Xi, Alpha Chi Sigma and the Cosmopolitan club. He also was a member of Meridian Hills country club, the Century club, Indianapolis Literary club and Scottish Rite. He is survived by his wife, Letta {and two sons, Horace Jr. and John
|Shonle, all of Indianapolis, and| 6 a. m..... 14 10a. m..... 19 {two sisters, Miss Beulah Shonle,| 7a. m..... 14 11a m.... 20 { Decatur, Ill, and Mrs. Jordan] 8a. m..... 15 12 (Noen).. 22 Sam.... 17 ip. m.,... 23
| Cadin, Rockford, II.
U. S. Jury Probes Sugar Black Market Ring
| CHICAGO, Feb. 24 (U. P).—A ! nation-wide sugar black market ring, believed to include members
Mrs, Williams had been married |v" P.)—~Grace Moore, famed op- of the old Capone syndicate mob,
twice. She had no reiatives in Martinsville, but it was reported she had a niece living in Oaklandon who was not immediately identified.
Truman to Speak
At Jefferson Dinner
WASHINGTON, Feb. 24 (U, P). ~President Truman will deliver “an important message to the American people” in a Jefferson day speech April 5, the Democratic national committee announced today. It said Mr. Truman would address the Jefferson day dinner here and that his speech will be broadcast to other Jefferson day dinners throughout the country and U. 8. territories.
Truman Asks U. S. Join
Refugee Organization
WASHINGTON, Feb. 24 (U. P.. ~President Truman recommended today that congress authorize the United States to become a member of the international refugee organization, He said more than a million displaced persons remain in Germany, Austria and Italy,
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{eratic star, was home today in the | Tennesseé¢ valley she loved. She | rested beside her father under the | brooding summit of Lookout mountain with the winter wind whirring
a parting aria through the pines.
paid the concert and movie star homage yesterday at the fifth and {final funeral service for her. She | was killed in a Copenhagen plane crash Jan. 26. The golden-voiced Metropolitan opera singer's body arrived here yesterday after services in Stockholm, Paris, New York and Connect.cut.
Near North Pole
BULLETIN NEW YORK, Feb. 24 (U, P.).— The air transport command an-
nounced here that 11 airmen whe had been marooned in northern Greenland were rescued today.
LADD FIELD, Fairbanks, Alaska,
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Times Index
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Eddie Ash ... 8 Movies ...... 16 Boots ........ 18/F, C._Othman 11 Business ..... 6 Obituaries ... 13 Carnival ..... 11|Radio ....... 19 Classified .... 16 Reflections .. 12 Comics ...... 19{Mrs. Roosevelt 14 Crossword .... 18|Scherrer .,... 12! Editorials '.,. 12|Serial ....... 10 Fashions ..... 15|Side Glances. 12 Forum ...... 12iSports .s..... 8-9 Meta Given .. 15|Stranahan ... 8 Inside Indpls. 11{Wom. News 14-15 In Indpls..... 3|World Affairs 12 Dan Kidney., 12| Weather Map 2
ATIONATLY FAMOUS FOR FINE FOOD t 's Restaurant, 144 EF. Ohio.—Adv, FOR. STEAKS FOR 3 YEARS
one of them towing a glider, raced
They sought to rescue 11 fliers stranded on a bleak plateau in northern Greenland, 600 miles from the North Pole. Destination of the rescue expedition was Thule. It is a gettlement 200 miles south of the spot where the B-29 Superfortress made a crash landing Friday while on a photographic mission. The rescuers were flying two C-54 Skymasters—one of them towing a glider—and a C-47 transport equipped . with skis. ‘Brig. Gen. Joseph H. Atkinson,
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Thousands of fellow Tennesseeans |
Feb. 24 (U. P.).—Three army planes,
across the roof of the world today.
{has been under investigation by a federal grand jury and federal offi|cials working for the past six weeks { under conditions of the utmost se- | crecy.
| Reliable
sources indicated that
the issuance of warrants against | suspected members of the ring, as |well as federal indictments, could { be expected. ; { The under-cover investigation has |involved persons from all parts of the country, with federal officers [Somine here from as far west as Los Angeles to participate, these sources said. ;
Race Across Top of World to Rescue
- the world, three army planes, one towing a glider, took off from.
Fairbanks, Alaska (I) for Thule, stranded 200 mile
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s north. of there at spot marked "X." Other aerial . rescuers flew from Goose Bay, Labrador (3). - Eee BT
candidates have been mentioned in! ithe last two months, but these have | been narrowed down to approxi{mately a dozen,
mri, poco ov OL Papen Gets 8-Year Sentence
{the nominee might not be any of ithe men mentioned so far. Those being talked include: Reginald Sullivan, who served two terms as mayor during the last
|15 years; Sheldon Book, 11th diger” « trict Democratic chairman and de- |
Jartmertal manager of the U. 8. |
idate for mayor in 1042.
i Outline Reform Program |
superior court 4 and party leader | many years; Joseph Wood, attorney |
council; Dr. William Arbuckle, for- |
that was in the U. S. department
(Kinney, & Democratic candidate for governor nomination in 1936.
|. Howard Caughran, U. S. district
collector of internal revenue here; {George S. Dailey, attorney and ac- | (tive party leaders many years and
Swaim. i The platform committee is eéx-| ipected to be ready about March 15 with a scathing denunciation of the present Republican administration at city hall. It will outline a program of reforms designed to end graft in the police department, reduce the death toll in traffic and improve municipal services.
Snow Flurries, +
LOCAL TEMPERATURES
A slight rise in temperature and more snow flurries were forecast for Indianapolis. today. The weatherman said the mercury would stay above the 15 degree mark today and tonight. It fell to a low: of 12 degrees last night, shortly before midnight. Indianapolis fared better than the rest of the state. Lows of nine degrees at Marion, and 10 at Ft. Wayne were reported last night. It will be a little warmer here tonight and continued warmer to- | morrow.
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‘McMurtry Returns |
Detective Inspector Jesse Mc-| Murtry, former police chief, re-| turned to headquarters to begin his new duties today. He was been on vacation since he was removed as chief by Mayor Tyndall.
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Acme Leiepuiv. oss the top of
Greenland (2). Eleven fliers are
Democrats Put
Indianapolis Democrats during | |
inate a winning candidate for mayor | §
The party's machinery will start
preme court justice and former city | #
(Franz von Papen’'s devious diplo{matic trail through the courts of | “Henry Goett, former judge Of pyrope ended forever today .
and former president of the city Sentenced him to eight years in .a labor camp and barred him from
mer county coroner; E. Kirk Mc- Public office for life.
{slight figure in a shabby, unpressed
attorney; Will H. Smith, former cast while the court convicted him
Warmer, Forecast Bh could have received a maxi~
cal capacity.
"lot Pacts,” a New York World Tele-
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CAREER ENDS—Franz von Papen, one-time chancellor of Germany, today was sentenced by a German court to eight years imprisonment for being a willing tool of the Nazis. He was barred from public office for ite. :
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Ps Gernlun Court Finds Him Guilty NUERNBERG, Feb. 24 (U. P.).—
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A German de-Nazification court
The 68-year-old diplomat, a
brown suit, stood with eyes down-
as a major Nazi. Four months ago, suave and confident, he was aoquitted on majqr
{war criminal ‘chutrges-by the Nu«i¢ ernberg interpational . tribunal
which : doomed Hermann Goering and other Nazi leaders. This time von Papen's luck was out. Allows Him $1000 The German court imposed the eight-year term, confiscated all but 5000 marks ($1000) of his private fortune, cancelled his public pension rights, barred him from all political activity and forbade him #® do any work but common labor for 15 years. Von Papen’s attorneys said he would appeal the verdict and sentence. The white-haired, courtly dip-
mum 10-year sentence. Court President Camille Sachs said the court had taken into consideration his 18 months in the Nuernherg jail before and during the allied trial.
Gets Special Work
Because of his advanced years the court ordered von Papen assigned to “special work” in the labor camp according to his physi-
The sentence ended a career in which von Papen furthered the German cause in two wars and helped Adolf Hitler to power: He was ambassador to Turkey during the world war II. Earlier he had been minister to Vienna. A former chancellor of the Reich, he nelped Hitler's rise to power and
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Coca-Cola Sues Union for $160,000
A suit for $160,000 damages was filed in circuit court today by the Coca-Cola Bottling Co., 660 Massachusetts ave. against Local 1001, United Electrical Radio and Machine Workers of America (C. I. 0.). The bottling company charged in its suit that the union officials and members “unlawfully boycotted by threats and intimidation” the sale of the company’s products. The suit charged that the electrical union by “unlawful threats” forced the management of P. R. Mallory & Co. to refuse to permit any of the bottling fifrm’s products to be sold inside the Mallory factory on E. Washington st. 35,000 Cases
The bottling company asserted
——{that-tt-had-been selling 35000 cases [prostitution car.
of soft drinks annually +n the Mallory plant. . The suit complained that a few days after 10 of the bottling firm's employees — members of the Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Warehouse and
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World Almanac Is $1.10
“The World Almanac and Book
gram-Scripps - Howard publication. reviewed in The Times Book Page last Saturday, retails at $1.10 in paper binding. The price was erroneously given as
others critically burned today in a
ist hospital.
2 Others Are in Critical Condtion One man was killed and two
gasoline explosion here. Albert Wright, 38, Franklin, construction worker, burned to death after he threw gasoline on a fire in a construction shanty at 18th st. west of Post rd. Two fellow workers, Howard Black, 49, of Adams, Ind, and Sherman Landis, 47, of Sheridan, are in serious condition in Method-
The two survivors told police Mr. Wright mistook a five-gallon can of gasoline for kerosene. When he poured the liquid on the’ fire a blast shook the one-room shack
[Pours Gasoline On Fire, Dies: In Explosion
tempt to hamstring the bill with
Liquor Reform | Takes Spotlight A In State Assembly
The, administration liquor. bill ‘promised to hold the legislative spotlight today when ft comes up on the house floor for second reading. Supporters of the measure have declared they will fight off any at-
amendments, Wet forces, who hope to make drastic changes in the bill, feel enough changes will kill its chance of passing, A Meanwhile, the house today defeated a hill to institute fair trades practice in the “hard” liquor industry. The vote was 46 to 40. | Representatives Jess C. Andrews (R. West Point) and Lothair Teetor (R. Hagerstown) chief opponents of the bill, declared it would “destroy competition within the industry and protect the industry at the consumers’ expense.” Rep. Edwin Haerle (R. Indianap-
and flames covered the room, they
Clothing in Flames All three men ran from the shack with their clothing in flames, Outside the door Mr. Wright fell to
The three men were employees of the Schutt Construction Co. and
project. Another man was burned in an industrial accident today. He is Roy Cross, 35, of 1121 River ave, also in Methodist hospital. Mr. Cross was at work on a diesel-operated crane at the American Creosote Co., 3300 Prospect st., when flaming gasoline sprinkled his clothing. He is in fair condition at Methodist. °° : Child . Burned One child was seriously Danad, 125 persons were forced flee
their sir children; wrapped in bed clothing, fled from their burning farm home on U. S. 52 near 38th st. early today. Flames, believed to have been started by a short circuit in the electric wiring, destroyed the in-
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4 Children Dead
In Anderson Fire
Times State Service
children died and two persons were seriously injured in a flash fire which destroyed the home of Harry Chan, Chinese’ restaurant owner, yesterday. : The four children died of asphyxiation as their father and grandfather fought to rescue them. The bodies of Harry Chan Jr, 7; Sonja, 6, Buck Wing, 4 and Soon Ling, 3, were found between two beds in a front bedroom. Their father and their grandfather, Poon Chan, 56, are in fair condition in 8t. John's hospital. Both were severely burned. Firemen sald the fire resulted when an oil heater exploded. Flames destroyed the four-room house, on the southern outskirts of Anderson. Firemen found a kerosene can, apparently used to prime a fire, in the charred remains of the living room. The fire truck from a station near the house Was at anothér fire when the alarm came in. A truck from another station arrived too late to save the children. The American-born mother of the children died last October. Mr. Chan and his father came to Anderson from China 20 years ago and recently the elder Mr. Chan had made plans to send for his wife and two other children, still in China,
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Sinatra Replies to Charge He's Pals With Luciano
Says He Shook Lucky's Hand ‘Automatically’ After Quick Introduction
NEW YORK, Feb, 24 (U. P.).—Frank Sinatra's New York representa | tive today issued a statement from the crooner in reply to Robert Ruark, Indianapolis Times and Scripps-Howard staff writer, alleging that he had fraternized in Havana with Charles (Lucky) Luciano, narcotics and |
George Evans, the spokesman, said Mr. Sinatra was painfully ill in
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{tnt w Fa ni " Luciano Drug Ring Plans Revealed Would Put Capone To Shame, Official Says
By ROBERT T. LOUGHRAN United Press Staff Correspondent
CHICAGO, Feb. 24, — Charles (Lucky) Luciano planned to make Chicago the center of a gigantic nation-wide vice and drug racket that would put the Windy City's ill-famed Capone syndicate operations to shame, a U. 8. ¢ chief revealed today. ‘ : Col. Gearge White.
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“bulid-up” by publicity agents. He said Luciano hired them to spread the story that he was a war hero, The network of organized vice and drug peddling was to dwarf even the far-flung operations of the ‘old Al Capone organization, “Capone's organization would (have been ‘small fry’.compared to (the plans laid. by Luciano,” Col. White said. Obtained Cuban Visa Luciano’s plans were formulated in Havana, Cuba. He obtained a Cuban visa through the’ influence of a wealthy Cuban manufacturer. But he now is in the hands of the country’s secret police and is on the verge of being deported from the Caribbean country. Luciano’s publicity men were supposed to pe spreading the tale that the deported vice lord helped the army's office of strategic services in Italy. The OSS has emphatically denied receiving help from Luciano, Col. White also said that Luciano ordered the slaying of two Chicagoans who failed to “stay in line” with his organization. Carl Carramus was riddled by shotgun blasts in front of his Chi~ cago home June 21, 1945. He had testified against two members of the group in a narcotics trial at Kansas City. Ignatio Antanori was slain at Tampa, Fla, a few weeks earlier when he attempted to obtain additional moneys from Luciano for a drug deal.
Luciano May Return to Italy
HAVANA, Feb. 24 (U. P)i— Charles (Lucky) Luciano should be on his way out of Cuba by midweek, informed sources said today. The former New York vice king
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