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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 12, 1947
Have You Seen Peter Hubbell?—
Can a Person Just Disappear Without | Any Trace at All?
Does White River Hold Secret of Missing
—— Three Marion county schools were Bey? No Clues—There Is Nothing ar on on west of mila S— rt EE ——— " — flu and common colds, but health Photos, Page 3 {authorities said the statewide seasWe —— |. jonal illness was abating.
By RICHARD LEWIS IF little Peter Hubbell lay in White river, the silent river
was no clue.
If he was alive, there was no sign. If he were dead, |yere in Center township where 118 there was no evidence. ; {pupils and five teachers were nn. | |The schools — William P. Evans For Peter has vanished, as though he had walked off the face of ba 4 % Mutgirel | MePatiand) the earth when he left the Riviera elub gymnasium Saturday morning. |3—_were expected to remain closed
‘until Monday.
There was—and is—nothing.
Behind him were his coat, hat, his bicycle and volleyball which he left at the club. : He went out into the sunlight and he was gone. Peter today existed as a faint hope in the tired,-quiet eyes of his father, Richard Hubbell—a tremor in his mother's voice, a sob in the voices of his sister, Sallie Jo, and his brother, Speed. . Peter's family sat at home at 98 W. 54th st. in the mutual and silent agony of not-knowing. There were no tears nor hysterics left in any member of the Hubbell family. » » » THERE WAS only the tension of a cable drawn so taut against the mighty tug of uncertainty that only a great reserve of tensile strength held it together So the family held together. “If he’s in the river, maybe his body # will come up soon, said Mr. PETER HUBBELL
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Hubbell, Behind his controlled gx, fo- {flu cases were, mild and.lasted. in
voice was a mind's eye picture of his sturdy son in the river. “1f some linatic has got him . well, Hewas . . . is". . . a kid who makes friends. Not afraid pf anybody. Never afraid of anybody nor on Never even afraid of the dark.” » » » ON THE RIVER 100 yards from the Riviera club, py Al Potter, U. S. army, cut the whee] of the ton and one-half “Duck” hard. State Trooper Jack Deeter and sheriff's deputies Ernie Crickmore, Al Applegate and Mel Byroad watched the water as it boiled in the wake of the amphibious military machine.
On the bank, Sheriff- Al Magenheimer and some of his men |
watched in the misty afternoon sunlight. A log popped up to the surface and fell back on the water with a splash. The “Duck” churned upstream and made ‘another swing against the shelf ice at the bank. The ice crumbled and once more the black
water boiled. State Police Capt. Robert N. Bush watched the surging water
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“MAYBE the boy just ran out of the elo to test the ice, toseé if he could ice skate there, intending to return for skates. Mayhe,
he fell in,” he said. A teen-age boy and girl sat on stones under a bare tree eating
peanuts out of shells in a paper bag. “Golly,” sdid the girl in rolled blue jeans and sweater, the bobby-. | sox uniform. “Do you think he's in there?” State Police Detective Dick Wedekind stared into space in the anteroom to the club's gymnasium. “This case. he said, “sure beats me.” What few half-clues had developed were winking out. The mysterious blue Plymouth coupe Was found. It had been driven to the club Saturday noon by two high school boys who are well known in the Riviera club set. n » » » » THEY TOLD Detective Wedekind and Sherifl's y edtiealor Virgil Quinn that they were looking for another boy who frequents the club gym. That was all. : The “Duck” got stuck. It raved up on a sandbar and couldn't _.erawl off. Its winch -was whining as the amphibious creature tried =i pull itself-off-the barrhy. $s. ILA EE ROR EE tree. Cin aR ANNIE : The cable broke. “Then daylight faded and-sherifl's deputide” set up portable floodlights along -the south bank of the river. Eventually
the Duck wa refloated. » ” ” »
INSIDE THE brightly-lighted gymnasium city eave talked to 80 children who had been present at the club yesterday. One by one -the children were questioned by Policewoman Cozetta Osborne while Policewoman Marjorie Small typed the statements. Some of the youngsters had a tendency to recall individuals 10 feet tall and all dressed up in tuxedos around the club on Saturday. “There was a great, big man, whispered the chubby little girl, , “and he . . Well you see, he .,.” i » ” » » ~ BUT SHE couldn't go on making it up ane? Policewoman Osborne's kindly, but direct classroom stare. “T guéss 1 didn't see anything,” said the little girl. At midnight, Policewomdn Osborne sighed. “There isn't anyone with any information,” she said. “We talked to 30 of the children who were there on Saturday. We did everything we could to refresh their memories, n . » » » ~ “AND THEN after that, we went down to the river and watched them dragging for a while. I hope we will find some sort of lead.” State police and sheriff's deputies were ‘still dragging the river this morning. But it, too, Yielded no clue.
Closes Three | County Schools |
Mild Flu Wave |
{of these cases was serious and in- | | dications were that many pupils] would not give him up. | were absent from schools over the | If the 7-year-old boy had fallen to a kidnaper, there [state because parents had kept {them home to avoid illness.
schools were closed in Allen county | and one in Monroe county,
listed about 2000 pupils absent to-| |day and 36 teachers at home. In-! dianapolis public school authorities {said about 3000 more than normal;
{fections for this time-of year.” He! (said the total reported ill over the |
{time this year. {
‘in the death rate. |
3000 Pupils Reported Absent in City
The state health board said none |
The closed schools in the county |
2000 Pupils Absent | Elsewhere in the state four
Marion county school officials
were absent. Parochial schools here! reported absentees totaled about | 1300, slightly more than normal for| § this time of year. | Dr. George M. Hbother of the {State health board said: “We are simply having the usual increase in upper respiratory in- |
state was about the same as last]
Most Cases Mild It was pointed out that ail the
‘most cases only three days. Dr.| Brother said there was no increase |
Dr. Gerald Kemp, city health board director, said there was a usual incidence of scarlet fever mumps, chicken pox and common colds among school age children, but “it - was nothing to be alarmed about.” : , He said indications were that the usual “springtime illnesses” had about reached their peak. Here was the score of illness in the county today: Center Twp., 118 pupils, 5 teachers, all three schools closed. Franklin Twp., 24 pupils, 2 teach- | ers. Lawrence Twp. 197 pupils, 1 teacher. Perry Twp., 342 pupils, 6 teachers. Pike Twp. 100 pupils.
aren Twp, 335 pupils, il GRASP FOR FREEDOM — Shown in the circle is the hand of Delmar Rudd, 19, Sag er | as he thrust his fingers through a hole in. the rubble of the collapsed Cincinnati | build in which he was trapped more than 24 hours, to make contact with rescuers.
| Washington Twp. 62 pupils, 1} teacher. . | Wavne Twp, 1767 pupils, 20 gad
RR Reports Threat
Paraguay Bombs
Rebel Forces Against Girl, §
ASUNGION, Paraguay, March, 12/ ‘Earl Martin of ‘6062 “Lowell ave.! | (U. P.).—An pfficial ahnouncement notified police he recéived a threat | said a bombing squadron went into early . this morning against his” 4ACton today, »@hinst, an army divi- year-old daughter, Cynthia. Ision as Concepeion Which rebedied, He said the threat came by fele(and, according. to the national ra- phone at 7:45-a: mi. When he an: | dio, touched off civil war. gwered a woman's voice said:
|" “Do you hdve a daughter?”
Bombers of the Pataguayan army |
| carried out the first attatk on the | “Why, yes,”
1st infantry division, official sources «yr vou. value her life reported. EE rim be at Nort} d Ill sts. The chamber of deputies, meet- > Nor BS hnos 9 {ing in urgent session at Asuncion, | “Who's talking?” Mr.
petitioned the government not to! manded. revolutionaries. a steady stream of broadcasts, said , tention to it.’ able immediately. Last night the!)
‘reached the proportions of “civil
Times Index Dr. Dushane, State Educator,
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‘Brici a4 Boots onnssa Bie. 08H hn. | Times Washington Bureau Born at South Bend June 5, | es + L.20s 2IR Be oD: Fa "14 WASHINGTON, March 12—Dr. 1885, Dr, Dushane spent most of | assed « el ecuong . ‘Donald Dushane, noted Indiana | his life’ in school work ‘in the | Juror .... Comics ......-23 Mrs. Roosevelt. 16 ' | b state and in educational organiza- | « Orossword ,,. 22 \chérrer ..... 14 educator, dropped dead of a heart | tion activivies. His latest success | Bator ies HB | Serial ay 3 attack in the hallway of his apart- |was the renovation. of personnel Party .., Fashions ..,. 17 | Spelling Bee. . ment. house here last night. lin Chicago public schools. “He con-|
Forum ....... M4 Sports -.... 18 19 He was president of the National q.cced the survey which resulted Gardening ... 24 State Deaths. 3) \Education association in 1940-41. 4, the ouster of the whi Seales Meta Given ., 17|Stranahan ... 18 Dr. Dushane ‘resigned as superin-| pees Home Page ., 6 Dr. Thone ... 13|tendent of « the Columbus, Ind In Indpls. .,. 3|Washington . 14 schools to'be at N. E. A. headquar- tary training, Dr. Dushane had Inside Indpls. 13| Weather Map, 5/ters here as executive secretary of gone to the Shoreham hotel last Charles Lucey iv News 16-17|the Committee for the Defense of
“ Ruth" Mel 13 World Affairs 14 (Democracy.
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Total of $400 Million Requested; Violations of Yalta A¢cord alleged WASHINGTON, ‘March 12 (U. P) President at
‘Itoday appealed to congress to provide $400 million of financial‘ and material aid—and military advisers—to. bolster Greece and Turkey against threatened spread of Russian totalitar-
{ianism in the Middle East. He ‘directly charged that
{Truman Speech a mye Highlights dermine the ‘Greek govern- :
| ment. wr The ent put the historie: WASHINGTON, March 12 (U. { decisio up to congress in & perP.).—Main points of ‘President Tru-! sonal appearance before a solemn man's message to eongress today: | Joint session of house and senate
THE ISSUE—“It must be the policy of the United States to sup-| 1 ho tin violating the Yalta port free peoples Ww are resist Ei eo g totalitarian
attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures.’ » Poland, Romania and
Mr. Truman made it clear that 2 Urges “Resolute Action” . was referring to pressures by Com-| ‘To forestall a similar fate: or munists and Russia. | Greece and Turkey “in this fate-
| ful hour,” he said the United States PROPOSED--A $400,000,000 loan should t take “immediate and resolute
to Greece and Turkey. American civilian and military personnel tojStton He therefore asked son :
be sent to those countries to aid in| recomstruction. This American per-| ONE: Provide $400 piillion jo ad sonnel also would instruct and train Greece and Turkey. x “selected” Greek and Turkish per-, TWO: Authorize the detall, of sonnel. | American civilian and military perPURPOSE—To finance Greece's; Sonnel to Greece and Turkey, at re-
economic recovery toward a “self-
supporting and self-respectin de-|T 4 ial d te ia 1 SD , ; To rt po- of whatever J. Ai assistance is furnished. :
| Are Called Home |.
bomb “open cities” occupied by the| wpphat doesn't make any_differ-
ence,” replied the woman. Radio Nacional, which continued a threat and you had better Pay
details of the attack were not avail-| my. woman hung up, he told po-
radio station said the revolt had | Detectives were attempting to link y the threat with a similar. call by a| : 2 | woman to the stricken family of} missing Peter Hubbell on Monday. | | A woman called the home of-Rich- |
the missing boy's
war LOCAL TEMPERATURES 6am. ..3 10am... .. 49 | ard M. Hubbell, father of Peter, ask | Ta. m..... 38 11am. .... 52 ing for $200 in exchange for infor! 3a. Mm. .... 41 12 (Noon).. 54 mation as to 9am..... 45° 1p. m..... 57 | whereabouts.”
teresting News On Inside Pages
firemen as they carry |for the calling home of envoys J ing. Young Rudd was (in order that their familiarity with
ALIVE—Delmar Rudd talks painfully to him away from the debris of the fallen build trapped for 24 hours | in the wreckage.
Two | Rescued Alive, Third Found Dead in Cave-In
P.)—Firemen burrowing in the smashed| oye recall coincided with Presi-
| Russia ails in Effort to Isolate VU. 8. at Big 4 Parley Teén-Age Defense Bars Pastor as
Chief Sanders ’ Probes Story “of Police Lieutertarit on Drinking
OP. Sentiment in " ones Turns Against General Rent YHOreRGEe chain Ves ne | Parents of Baby Twins Evicted.
CINCINNATI, March 12 (U. 3’ rubble of a collapsed six-story building on the waterf out two men still alive and the body of a third. At least one
d in the great pile of smashed London embassies on t rs, was freed from the wrecks any :
ront today brought| gent Truman's message to cor man still . oh
With Your Hus- Walle Peskin, who had been trappe
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litical chaos created by a “militant {minority” and ~to prevent starva- THREE: “Give him: authority to
tion. To maintain the national in-| provide for “tHe« ‘and tegrity of Turkey which “is essen-| training of : + selected. and’ tial to the preservation of order in| Turkish personnel.” = gue
the Middle East.” FOUR: Vote au CAUSE—Immediately the eco. “the speediest and nomic retreat of Great Britain from Fuse; in “térms of her committments in Greece. No ities, supplies and other nation is “wifling and Able” funds A may be authorized.” to provide assistance to the Greeks Division Net Specified or to Turkey. Secondly, the desire! In his message, Mr, Truman did of the United States to ensure not specify how much of the $400 peaceful deve.opment of nations ge should go to Greece and “free from coercion.” 4 how much to Turkey. But if was RUSSIA—Without naming Rus- learned that $250 million a be sia, Mr. Truman bluntly criticized for Greece and $150 million for totalitarian regimes which impose Turkey. The appropriations would their will by “coercion and intimi- be for the fiscal year ending Jute dation.” This must not be permit-|30, 1948. 2 ted to be accomplished by “politi-| The military training phase LE cal infiltration in Greece and! aid to Greece and Turkey will Turkey.” - | bpelled out later by state departPOLICY—“One of the primary ment spokesmen to appropriate sbjectives of the foreign policy of | congressional committees, the United States is the creation of | lative sources said. These sources conditions in which we and other flatly refused to say whether mili, nations will be able to work out a tary equipment is involved. way of life free from coercion.” Mr. Truman said nations mst That is why the war was fought choose now between democratic and against Germany and Japan. | totalitarian ways “at the present moment in world history." “This is a serious course sipon which we embark,” he said. “I i LISS m 28S OFS oe ome Sema
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grow in ‘Moscow Conference Story, Page 3 bs ! of poverty and ud srife. LThey er —~—— reach the full growth when the hope By UNITED PRESS lof a people for a better life has’ Russia's ambassadors to the died. We must keop that ‘hope United States and Great Britain lalive” hi {today were called home to Moscow, Speech Highly Important {There the Big Four foreign min-| stars were. mesnE to.deal with the ier ino bluntly that AL x
ol ransl TRIPREN IOUS. ‘postal : ‘we shall surely “endanger the
war world. and The recall of the Soviet envoys was said in both London and Wash- a mt me ‘ington to be temporary. Both were’ portant since world war 1, emphaexpected to return to their posts g.oq the sharp _ slit between ‘the infter relatively short, visits to MoOS~| ect and the east: the | cow—the capital of global diplomacy United States and Russia. for the duration of the conference. “Should we fail to g Nikolai V. Novikov, ambassador 10 ‘and Turkey in this Washington, was scheduled to leave! he solemnly warned, New York by plane tomorrow for | win’ be far reaching to Copenhagen and Moscow. An em-|.. well as to the east.” :
bassy spokesman in Washington, asked whether the recall of Mr. Envoys Temporarily Reéallod Novikov was . temporary or per-| - Mr. Truman -spoke pn
,Imanent, said: “Oh, no, he'll be backdrop of critical world nr back.” The foreign ministers of the Big Four Tieup | Four—Britain, France, Russia George Zaroubin, the ambassador the United States—now are meetto. London, left today for Moscow.|ing in Moscow to try to shape peace Embassy sources there expected him u to return to London after a short|No one knows what effect Mr. stay. in Moscow. They assumed his man's declarations may have trip was in. connection with the Big hii Four conference. Diplomatic quarters pointed out her ambassadors ‘from the T
that there was ample ‘precedent (Conti i on Pad
the countries to which they were Grateful
assigned might be availabie for
purposes of international confer . ences. Puts in They noted that the opposite numbers of the Soviet ambassadors —the American and British am» |bassadors to Russia—were on the scene of the conference.
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