Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 May 1947 — Page 5

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Pilot Nearly Saves | His Passenger After - Aircraft Hits Wires

Loses Hold After Swimming 500 Feet; Series of Auto Wrecks Marks Week-end

One man died after an alr accident and five were killed in traffic accidents in Indiana this week-end, state police reported today.

The dead are:

“John Small, 29, Kokomo, who drowned after a plane crash.

Elbert Wood, 54, Franklin, Samuel. Nelson, 55, Gary. Floyd Myers, 20, Columbia City. Wilton Jameson, 20, Wheat-

Meld. Pfe. Erwin W. Peterson, 28, Otisco, Minn,

Mr, Small drowned in Tippecanoe river, near Monticello, after a plane plloted by Elvin Glassburn, 36, Miami county, hit wires and crashed. Mr, Small suffered minor injuries and was not able to swim. Mr. Glassburn held onto his pas-

. senger as he swam 500 feet ‘down

the river but lost his hold when rescuers were only 100 yards away. Mr, SBmall's body was recovered downstream by the Monticello fire department and a -coroner said death was due to drowning. The pilot was rescued by Guy Whiteside, 3536 N. Meridian st, and John Ellis, 1021 Olive st, Indianapolis, and Nile Thompson, Monticello, : On the highway, Mr. Wood, was killed when a car in which he was riding crashed one mile west of Mooresville on U, 8. 42. The driver, Otis Wooley, Franklin, who was critically injured, lost control of the car and struck a utility pole. Car Rolls 1600 Feet Mr. Nelson was killed yesterday when he lost control of his car and ran off State Road 2 west of South Bend. State police said the car rolled 1600 feet, injuring two passengers, Louise Oliver, 25, and Ellen Baker, 26, both of Gary. Mr, Myers was killed and two others hospitalised yesterday after a head-on collision on U. 8. 30, west of Ft. Wayne. His car collided with one driven by Gerald Helmsing, 20; Pt. Wayne.’ Mr. Helmsing and Raymond Myers, 23, were taken to a Ft. Wayne hospital with serious injurlea. :

Injuries suffered in a car-truck eollision west of Wheatfield on State Road 10 Saturday night were fatal to Mr. Jameson. He died en route to Jasper county hospital after a car in which he was riding collided with a truck driven by Vern Cavinder, 30, Wheatfield. Four Others Injured The driver of the car, Henry Leek, 21, Wheatfield, was seriously injured. Also injured were passengers Morton M. Herrington, 20; Victor R. Jordan, 25, and Calvin Jordan, 3, all of Wheatfield. Pfe. Peterson died when he lost eontrol of his motorcycle crossing a bridge near Covington yesterday.

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Committee Pares Marshall's Funds

Refuses Money for Foreign Broadcasts

WASHINGTON, May § (U, P.).— The house appropriations committee, saying the nation faces a choice of cutting expenditures “or going into bankruptcy,” tofay. slashed budget requests of the state, commerce and justice departments and the federal judiciary by $163,593,515, or 23% per cent. It voted to give these government groups only $535,028,008 of the $698,621,523 requested for the fiscal year 1948, ;

This was the fourth successive major appropriations bill which has felt the committee's economy ax. It now has voted total reductiions of $1278,000,000. There are Seven bills to go. The state and commerce depart{ments suffered the biggest cuts in the newest bill. The state department's foreign broadcast and information programs was eliminated completely despite Secretary George ©. Marshall's plea that they are essential.” Broadcasts Doomed This means that the “voice of America” broadcasts to Russia and 66 other foreign countries are out July 1, unless funds are restored on the house floor or in the senate. The committee also wiped out the state department's information libraries, cultural attaches and nformation officers.

Secretary Marshall made a strong plea for the foreign information program when he appeared before the committee, saying he considered it “an integral and essential part of the conduct of foreign relations.”

The committee said it omitted the program, partly because if had not been authorized by law. It added that a better presentation of American life to other countries could be made through “greater co-operation between the ‘state department and private media of information.”

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no comment on reports they were considering picketing more than $15 million worth of construction prdjects here in connection with their three-week-old strike. W. L. Spenny, president of the striking A. F. of L. carpenters local, had nothing to say. Contractors said they had received ‘no early reports of picketing,

Vernie Miller, president of the building trades council, reiterated a statement made last week that if carpenters throw picket lines around the projects, other buildings tradesmen would cross those lines. He said other workmen were under contract to continue work ' and would adhere to that contract so long as no non-union carpenters were hired to replace the strikers. As a result of the truck freight tie-up which went into effect Thursday, railroads are refusing to accept shipments of merchandise to Indianapolis. Reason for the embargo is that terminal warehouses already are jammed to overflowing with freight which cannot be cleared to retail outlets because of the strike.

Perishables Moving Both Mr. Hunt and Thomas E. Flynn, assistant to Teamsters’ national president Daniel J. Tobin, denied word passed out by the chambers of commerce and other business represenatives that the public soon would” feel a serious “pinch” from the truck strike. “This is not a strike against the public,” Mr. Flynn, “but a strike against local carriers, The international teamsters union will back the local union-to the limit in that.”

SEE DERBY — Shown as the (left to right Senator and Mrs. Homer E. Capehart, of Indiana, and Adm. William

"Bull" Halsey and Mrs. Halsey.

Phone Union Sues to Kill State Utility Strike Law

He said perishable foods and all medicines are being moved by union truckers now and that staples would be moved “if any shortage threatens,” The 17 carriers with whom the union is negotiating for an agreement separately from the local operators association are large haulers with headquarters in Cleveland, Chicago and Detroit. Union spokesmen said if tomorrow’s mass meeting accepts the proposal, these operators would be urged to throw a great deal of equipment into Indianapolis to get merchandise moving immediately. It was estimated that enough trucks could be started into operation to put 135 unjon drivers back to work. More than 1400 are on strike.

Eddie Butsch Services

Set for Tomorrow Eddie Butsch, a South Side resident all his life, will be buried in Crown Hill after services at 2 p. m. tomorrow in Tolin funeral home. Mr. Butsch, who was 66, died yesferday in his home, 1020 S. East st Survivors are. two sisters, Mrs. Annabel Kennington and Mrs. Linnie Dill, Indianapolis, and four nieces.

G. M. CONTRACT RATIFIED

DETROIT, May 5 (U. P.).—President Walter P, Reuther of the C. 1. O. United Ayto Workers union announced today that General Motors Corp. workers have ratified the new wage agreement between the union and G. M.

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Girl, 8, Kidnaped, Hunt Black Sedan

FT. ATKINSON, Wis, May 5 (U. P.).—District Attorney Francis Garity said today the disappearance of 8-year-old Georgia Jean Weckler was definitely a kidnaping. A $3700 reward was offered for the man in a black sedan who whisked her away. Although no ransom demand ‘had been received, Mr. Garity said all clues indicated that the child was |taken four days ago with criminal intent. Mrs. Weckler clung to the dwindling hope that the child would be returned safely. Mr, Garity said with no ransom note received, he feared the child might have been kidnaped by a sex maniac. Mr. Garity said three things led him to believe that the girl's disappearance was a kidnaping. “First,” he said, “she was let out

“of the car in which a neighbor, Mrs.

Carl Floerke, brought her home from school in the middle of the afternoon. The girl took the mail from the highway mail box and started along the road. “Second, a 1936 black Ford sedan was seen turning into the Weckler lane. 8. L. Feaster, a civilian truck

‘|driver at Camp McCoy saw the car

enter the lane and at the same time saw Mrs." Floerke’s car disappearing over the hill, “Third, the same sedan was seen backing out of the lane just a moment or two later by Marvin Thom, a hired hand at a neighboring farm. “From that point on we have lost all trace of the man we are almost sure is responsible for the ki ing. It is definitely a kidnaping,” Mr. Garity added.

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Peter Hubbers Body Recovered

Found on Tiny Island "Of White River

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'|only these clues which indicated

what could have happened. \ After playing in the Riviera club gymnasium “inthe morning, Peter left suddenly and ran outside. Behind him he left his coat, his volleyball and his bicycle, It was a cold day, that second Saturday in March. Apparently he intended to return. Police Sgt. Joseph Kline and Sheriff's Investigator Virgil Quinn found footprints near the club leading to a shelf of ice which jutted into the river from the bank.

Crank Calls Numerous Those. were all the facts there were. if’'s investigators deduced the answer: Peter had wandered down to the river, about 100" yards from the club,

for some reason. Maybe he wanted to see if the ice was firm enough for ice skating. And then he had fallen

fin.

At first it was feared that the boy had been kidnaped. The family received crank calls after his disappearance, but nothing to substantiate a kidnaping: Peter's companions were questioned at length by policewomen at

a mass meeting at the Riviera club.

They could tell nothing. Was 3d Grade Pupil

Sherifl’s deputies, city police, state police and U.S. army personnel dragged the river for weeks, They found nothing. Peter was a week away from his eighth birthday when he vanished. He was short, sandy-haired, selfreliant youngster, a third-grade pupil at School 86. He is survived by his mother and father, his sister, Sally Jo, and his brother, Richard Jr. Services will be held at 10 a. m. tomorrow--at -the Episcopal chiirch of the Advent, 3261 N. Meridian st. Funeral arrangements will ® be carried out by the Flanner & Buchanan mortuary. Cremation will follow. The cremated remains will be buried on a farm where he loved to play in the springtime.

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Rlace Baptist church.

Dr. Walter W. Sikes will speak on “And. the Nations Shall Come to Thy Light.” He is national direc. tor of peace and interracial under standing for: the United Christian Missionary society. Protestant churches of Marion and adjoining . counties ' are expected to send delegates to the institute. Discussion groups will be conducted by national authorities to train leaders for religious education and mission study in local churches» Visual aids and literature will be on display. Mrs, H. F. Ayers and women of the Woodruff Place church will serve the dinner. Mrs. Helen Last~ er, accompanied by Lee Green, will

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