Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 June 1947 — Page 1
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% "A GREAT DAD"—Martin L. Fisher, 92 on Father's grandfather and a great-grandfather. He's also a great father, his children say. . n # - ” o
17,000 Flee New Midwest Floods
_ Farm Levees Break On Missouri River
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tie second. time 1h 4" ‘Week today
, by flood. waters from a dozen
swirling rivers, ‘More than 17,000 persons’ fled from their homes in flooded areas ¢! Iowa, Nebraska and Missouri, and an estimated 1,500,000 acres of cornbelt land were under water. Thirteen farm levees between
. Seven Children Plan Whose Own Father D
‘had* tomorrow~TFather's and h CO Nartin LoMsher, 25100W, 0th because: I did't have a"
“what's more, every one of them
Fisher often says.
ll p. right 1 “myself” celebrates his 92d ay today. Mr. Fisher spent 79 of his 92 years rearing eight of his nine children. The other died in infancy. Seven still live.
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Father's Day His Birthday, ‘Greatest Dad’ Will Be 9
Surprise Party for Man
ied When He Was a Baby |
By DONNA MIKELS Seven children will gath : to honor “the greatest dad anyone ever
“St. ‘who “bro ght my 5'Y
is. a child to be proud of,” Mr. : “Not one ever; on pen
got in trouble and not a diuniard { in the lot.” .
Born on Farm | ] Mr. Fisher was born on a farm in
{that anyone lived through the crash.
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somewhat cooler tonight; tomorrow fair and warmer.
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SATURDAY, JUNE 14, 1947 . Enlered as Save Matter at Postotios
Indianapolis, Ind, Issued daily except Sunday
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Mother and Baby From Ladoga, Ind.,
|Are Among Victims |
Rescuers Climb Blue Ridge Mountains In Order to Reach Scene of DC-4 Crash LEESBURG, Va., June 14 '(U. P.).—A big Pennsylvania Central (Capital) airliner carried 50 persons to apparent death in a full-speed smash-into the top of the Blue Ridge «ountains last night. : Wreckage of the four-engined DC-4 plane was found at dawn today—11 hours after the crash—by a P. C. A. official He said he saw “no sign of life” and that “there is no hope”
Among the passengers were Mrs. Martha Bryan, 29, a native of Ladoga, Ind.,, and her 10-months-old daughter, Judith Christine. The mother and child were returning to Portsmouth, Va., after a three week’s visit in Ladoga. James Franklin, P. C. A. maintenance director who located the’ wreckage from the air, said “there apparently was a terrific explosion” when the plane hit. Rescue workers had to make a_tedious climb on foot up the rugged mountainside to inspect the wreckage. The Friday-the-13th dis-
i o ” ” : ier came during 2 roes HOOSIGE Victim a routine “all's well” from . 5000 feet over Martinsburgh, Studied Here
W. Va, at 6:15 p. m. (Indianapolis time) yesterday.
nly about six minutes later the - Petihe thed 1689-foot mountain Pupil at Jordan range on- the West Virginia-Vir-{ The crash of a Pennsylvania-Cen-ginia state line near Hillsboro, Va.! tral airliner in Virginia last night It’ was the third -stunning do- brought a tragic aftermath to a
Mrs. Bryan Former
night and the second worst inv the| west of Indianapolis. history of American commercial aviation. have been killed were Mrs, Martha, same Type of Plane Shackelford Bryan, 29, a former The ill-fated liner was a DC-4— student at the Arthur Jordan Con-| the same type as the United Air|servatory of Music and native of| Lines transport which crashed onjLadoga, and her 10-months-old * ho York hier. Judith Chr od “xilling ey boarded the:
Giardia field plane oo crashed near Bainbridge, in Pittsburgh after a flight there Md. Memorial day and killed 53. |from Indianapolis yes'erday after® The P. C. A. plane was approach- | noon. ing Washington on the last leg of a flight from Chicago via Cleve-
i - On Way Home Mrs. Bryan and her daughter : i te home to Portsmouth land and Pittsburgh. [Were en Jou It crashed only seven miles from | V2» after visiting her mother, Mrs.
{Ethel Shackelford, of Ladoga, for/ the spot where another P. C. A li ree Weeks.
mestic air disaster in the past fort- family’ reunion in Ladoga, 36 les :
Among the 50 persons believed to
Eastern | Airlines craft|at 5:20 p.m. (Indianapolis Time) |
Believe 50
CRASH TRAGEDY—Victims of the Pennsylvania Central airline crash in: Vi ginia last night were Mrs. Martha Bryan, 29, and her daughter, Judith Christin months, Mrs. Bryan and her husband, Chief Petty Officer Vern Bryan Jr. {left} natives of Ladoga. Mrs. Bryan and Judith Christine [right]. left Indianapolis yestess: day to rejoin her husband in Portsmouth, Vaz, after visiting her family in Ladog
BLOOMINGTON, June’ 14.—Indi~
: y ana ‘university today selected
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member of the dean of its school of m ean. of As phy
SN od ent 5 yy i; ’ was -armounced ; STEWARDESS—Peggy Wells Herman B' Wells, president of the was hostess aboard the P. C. A. Wniversity, after its approval at [Capitol) airliner. There were |afternoon ‘session of the board of 47 passengers and three crew- | trustees. at ee men aboard. : The new dean, it was announced, Ra in ‘will immediately take over the pest {vacated last’ July - through ° thi
PILOT — Horace Stark was the pilot of the ill-fated® ship which crashed at North Short Mountain, |] miles from Leesburg, Va. © ;
‘Fair and Warmer
Rulo, Neb, and Platte City, Mo. |y,1nc0n county, near Trafalger. His plane went down during a storm
resignation ‘of Dean W. D.
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have broken under pressure of the new flood in the Missouri river, | the ¥: 8S. army engineers said to-| day. About 4000 acres of land was|
inundated. by their collapse. Pressure Released However, the breaking of the levees reduced pressure along the Missouri, and Ralph Aldrich, river
. forecaster, said that the top stage
expected now at St. ‘Joseph would be 19 feet, instead of 21 feet as predicted yesterday. “= A state-by-state summary showed these conditions: IOWA — Floods or threatened! high water in 25 counties drove an estimated 10,000 persons from their homes, Six swollen rivers and many smaller streams brought flood waters to every section of Iowa but the northwest, MISSOURLI--The muddy Missouri river rose toward a crest of stricken St. Joseph, and four smaller towns, where residents. appealed for ald
_ Irom the coagf guard.
ILLINOIS—About 5000 acres of valuable farm land between Beardstown and Chandlerville were ,flooded as the Sangamon and Illinois rivers spilled over their banks. Farmers along a 100-mile stretch of the Mississippi south of Quincy, Ill, were warned to move their livestock and machinery to high ground.
One Killed, One Shot In N. Y. Gang Slaying
NEW YORK, June 14. (U, P.).— One man was killed and another wounded stoday in. Manhattan's west side Hell's Kitcher area in what police believed was a gang killing. * A sub-machine gun was used in the slaying by a man who escaped in a Buick automobile, police said.
Cafe Is Robbed Barry's restaurant, 38 W. Ohio st., was entered last night and $25 taken
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father died and he and, two brotoers were placed for adoption when his mother .remarried. One brother went away to the army and the other was adopted. Despite his efforts to find them in later years, he never | “Our family doctor took me in” | Mr. Fisher said. “I had good care but it wasn't like a home. I knew
McHale Fires 30 on 1st Nine; 65 for 18
ST. LOUIS, Jue 14 (U. P.).— Slim, good looking Jimmy McHale, an amateur star from Chestnut
saw either brother again. | Hill, Pa. shattered two National
Open scoring records today. He fired a first nine 30 and a total of 65 for the. 18 holes of the third
then that when I was a father I'd do the best I could by my chilren.” He married Rachael Fulp in Trafalger in 1878. She died on Sept. 1, 1939, just 21 days before they would have celebrated their 61st wedding anniversary.
Always Had Necessities Mr. Pisher recalls that he “never had much to give the kids but they never went without necessities, family life and spiritual happiness.” “Bringing up eight children on a farm wasn’t easy,” he says.
One ddughter,” Mrs. Laura‘ Foxworthy, Indianapolis, recalls they used to work on the farm all year for the big day. That was the day
and drive the children to Indianapolis. “Dad used to park the team in the livery building where the Circle theater is now,” she remembers. “We had an aunt who lived on what is now the southeast section of the Circle. and I remember watching them build the monument from her window.” Retired 10 Y.ars Ago Mr. Fisher retired from farming 10 years ago. Since then he's lived with his children, given up smoking for chewing and sat back to watch his 16 grandchildren and 18 great-grandchildren grow up. Tomorrow ‘the seven children, Mrs. Foxworthy, Mrs. Minnie Abrams, Festus and Vern Fisher, all of Indianapolis; Will Fisher, Richmond; = Charles Fisher, Momence, Ill, and Mrs. Glen Kernodle, Jamestown, and as many of the
dren as can will gather at Mrs, Abrams to “surprise Dad.” “They'll all bring him a. pressnt he likes for his birthday and Father’'s day,” Mrs. Abrams said. “But knowing him as I do I think his greatest pleasure in the day vill be
|seeing all his children together.”
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Amusements .. 5| Don Hoover .., 8 Eddie Ash .... 6|Inside Indpls.. 7 Books ..... Indiana Saga.. 8 Carnival Dan Kidney .. 8 Marquis Childs 8 | Ruth Millett. . 7 Churches Movies ........ 3 Classified ..10-12| PF, C. Othman ,. 7 : Radio .........13 . Side Glances.. 8 Editorials ..,.. 8|Sports ........ 6 Forum ...,.... 8|Stranahan .... 6
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“Dad” would hitch up the wagon |
grandchildren and great-grandchil- |
round at the St. Louis Country club | course. His sparkling shooting gave him
sham of Washington,” the early leader. He also was behind four other players and tied with a fifth. Sammy Snead trailed Worsham by only one stroke at 212; Marvin
was alone at 214, and Jim Ferrier and Joe Kirkwood each had 215. Sam Byrd was tied with McHale at 216. . , Beats Jones’ Record McHale's 30 was one stroke under the record for nine holes {held jointly by Bobby Jones and {| Henry Ransom, McHale's tally of 30 was five under par, and he made it with five birdies, on the first, third, fifth, sixth and seventh, ; The record he smashed was set first by the great Jones at Winged Foot in 1929. Bobby came home in 31 on his first round. Ransom, one of the early leaders in this year’s competition, tied that mark on his first nine in the Ft. Worth open in 1941. The previous record of 66 for 18 {holes was set by Gene Sarazen at { Fresh Meadow, in 1932 and later tied by Johnny Goodman, Walter (Hagen, Tom Creavy, Jimmy Thomson and Clayton Haefner.
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‘Cemetery Chapel To Be Morgue For Plane Victims
—————————— “LEESBURG, Va., June 14 (U. P.). —A small chapel at Leesburg's only cemetery was turned into a temporary morgue. The dead in the. crash of an airliner in the nearby Blue Ridge mountains will be brought to the chapel, The chapel is for all faiths in chis historic southern town. It isn't very large and it's constructed of cement blocks. ‘ The dead will be laid out on the floor of the, chapel. The hairs in the chapel were taken ‘out this morning. The floor was washed down, coe. ; A funeral director mustered four
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Gardening .... 7! Weather Map 10|/men to aid in preparing the bodies {wagon and hauled Hollywood station to
a 54-hole total of 216, five strokes |
(Bud) Ward, the Spokone amateur, |
Aug. 31, 1940, and killed 25 persons,
including Senator Ernest Lundeen of Minnesota. wife and child to Ladoga, but had
‘ to return a week ago to his Portsi sala oe Wane, mouth station when his leave ex3000 feet when it crossed the 1685. |Pired: Mrs. Bryan decided to stay lfoot range. At that altitude it 2" extra week with her mother, would have cleared the mountain| The reunion was joined by Mrs. safely. Bryan's sister, Mrs. David Conger
: ‘of Vallejo, Cal. For the first time Except for the altitude, the plane ° YoB ce oh Course oe J it in years, most of the family was to‘rammed into the mountair only 20'Sether. minutes from its destination. . |° Drove Daughter Here , There was no explanation why Yesterday, Mrs. Bryan's mother { the plane was flying so low. Gov- | drove her to the Indianapolis mu-|
behind heavy-shouldered Lew Wor-| ont and airline investigators Picipal airport where she boarded the city were granted Wm. H.| gooler weather
| converged on the scene to try and |® Plane for Pittsburgh at 2 p.m. At find the answer. Ey | Pittsburgh, she and her baby Some residents of the area daughter changed planes for Ports- | | $hought the plane—a |army C-54—seemed to be in trouble her arrival |
jand that its engines were sputter- | rs. Bryan attended Arthur ing. {Jordan from 1935 to 1937 and later.!
Aboard the plane were 47 pas-| the Indianapolis Business college. sengers, . including Mrs, Bryan's, She was employed as a stenogra-| babe-in-arms, and three crew mem- | Pher at the Indians Farmers Mutual | bers. {Insurance Co. from 1938 to 1942. | At the controls was Capt. Horace| She was married to Petty Officer| Stark, Steelmansville, N. J., one of | Bryan in September, 1941. P. C. A's ace pilots. The 46-year- | old pilot had been flyfhg since 1921] . : i an more than 14,000 nis Latest Air Crash hours to his credit.
“ \ ' His co-pilot was R. N. Creekmore, | May Raise Year S |
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army air transport ccmmand on the hazardous “hump” route be-| By UNITED PRESS tween India and China. Miss’ The crash of a Pennsylvania Cen-| Margaret Walls, “24, Guntersville, tral airliner in Virginia today | Ala., was stewardess. brought to a probable 390 the numOn Business Trips ber of persons killed in major comPassengers included some promi- mercial airplane crashes ‘his year. | nent officials. |
Another 40 were killed two weeks | Smith, national medical director of | plate Srasiied peas Tse. tal thé American Red Cross, and David | most half of the commercia {2 Godwin, national fire control | deaths were in the crashes of three chief of the agriculture depart-| D4 piahes in the en ed ment's forest service. h ash 5. Both were returning to Washing | Fifty persons are believed to have, fon from business trips—Mr, Smith |Perished in the P. C. A. airliner| from a convention at Cleveland and | Mr. Godwin from Madison, Wis. Mr. Franklin indicated that the Le plane was flying at full crulsing | which flew into a. mountain near speed when it rammed into the | Leesburg, Va., iast night. mountain top. This would mean| The crash of an Eastern Alrabout 185 to 200 miles an hour. * [lines DC-4 near Port Deposit on “There was a terrific overcast| May 30 took the lives of 53 perright on top of the wreckage when | sons, That equaled the death toll
Plane accidents baffle -U. §. Investigators, Page Seven.
I saw it,” Mr. Franklin said. from the crash of an airliner near; He said he didn’t believe the Bogota, Colombia, on Page 15. plane would have encountered any : an. difficulty if it had not been for| FORTY-TWO persons were killed similar overcast last nigh. May 20 when a United Airlines : DC-4 crashed at La Guardia field, . ! * New York. On the same day, 26 Didn t Know Him were killed in Iceland when an s . Icelandic airlines plane hit a peak. Without Saddle On April 8, 27 were killed yn GADSDEN, Ala, June 14 (U. P). crash at Caracas, Venezuela. Forty~The heat is getting the dogcatcher three lost their lives near Tsingtoo. : tao, China, when a Chinese air-| It took a second look for him to liner crashed on Jan. 5. vealize he had snared a Shetland| Twenty-five were killed in another pony instead of & huge shaggy dog. Chinese airliner crash on Jan, 29. 'He coa: ‘the pony into the dog| An Eastern Airlines DC-3 crashed him to the police in the Blue Ridge mountains near identification, Galax, Va, on Jan. 13, killing 18.
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FM station in Indianapolis,
i Corp., converted | Mouth; where her husband awaited 10
2 Dye, vie ed te =. Death Toll fo 430 |
| Among them were Dr. Courtney, 880 when a U, 8. army courier, .
~~ |Due Tomorrow Gets FM Permit |, soon ome Other Applicants Sam...
Giallo 12 (Noon) ', 58 Given Approval .
co. 98 lpm... 358 Scripps-Howard Rado, ae. ay Hoosier fields were drying out tojated with ~The mes, has: been. ac cool.’ cloudy weather pregranted a permit to construct ania a ’ y Ly
At the same time other permits| Yesterday's downpour halted corn for cohstruction of FM stations in! planting temporarily.
Fok was forecast for Block Co, Capitol Broadcasting tonight with cloudy skies, but fair Corp., Inc. Indiana Broadcasting ond warmer scheduled for tomorrow. Ingianapolis Broadcasting;| ~Pespite abnormal rains, general nd. Universal Broadcasting over Indiana ‘through May. and Co. IBc. |qarly June, agriculture experts reThe application of WFBM, Inc. iported the crop situation was good. was held up for further investiga- | In Marion county they believed tion of its program policy, the FCC pearly two-thirds of the corn crop announced. had been plarited. “A report from Scripps-Howard Radio has options|ihe U.S. department of agriculture on studio and transmitter locations and Purdue university agricultural and plans construction soon. experiment station at Lafayette Officials of Capital Broadcasting said the wheat crop was in good Corp, operators of state WISH, shape anid that farmers “finally
said they were unable to form any were able to sow 84 per cent of the |
plans for their FM station until oats they intended to seed.” they received information on what| yesterday's rain was accompanied
channel they would be assigned. | py ‘thunderstorms and wind in some They said channels are now being areas, ‘A 60-mile-an-hour wind
reassigned. |struck Lafayette. SSIONER NAMED
Officials at Block's said part of that stabton’s studios would be in U. 8, CO. the store. They said however,l| FT. WAYNE, Ind, June 14 (U. plans for construction had not yet P.). — W. Robert Fleming, Ft. been made. (Wayne attorney, today was new The other three broadcasting United States district court com-
set: up offices. {who died last week.
Washington Calling—
Prohibitionists Making Slow but Steady Gains
Nation Already Is Third Dry as Far as Area Goes; It's Been Done by Local Option WASHINGTON, June 14.—Practically unnoticed,’ prohibitionists are chiseling away at wet territory. Their gains. are slow, but steady. Nation's already one-third dry—as far as area goes. It's been done by local option. ) : ; Now, growing bolder, drys are active again in congress. Old-style prohibition amendment was introduced
this week by Rep. Jeseph R. Bryson (D. S. CJ. | And drys had strength enough this year to force senate hearings, [=
possible report, on Capper bill barring liquor advertising, interstate. v B Drys Gain in 63 Areas
| He will make his first offizial
pearaice . tomorrow “at the uniyersity’s anhual commencement. <= ° 85 Physicians Interviewed * | The: appointment, it wgs said (President Wells, was made afger country-wide search during ii the credentials of more than | possibilities were reviewed and {rowed down to 85- men’ who were interviewed. - Leaders in medical {education and practicing physicians, 'both in Indiana and out-of-state, {also were consulted as to their views {in the appointing of a new dean. Only 39, Dr. Van Nuys is a. {generation physician, His |tather practiced medicine |land, Ind., and later in ¥ father, Dr. W. C. Van. {been superintendent of t | village for epileptics at New (for 41 years, mh The new den was born, Castle and was graduated fr Castle high school. He then % Wabash college where he | his A. B. degree in 1920. ' Was Admissions Direct: Entering the Indiana -u school ‘of medicine, Dr, Va received his medical degree ir He served his year of interns the I. U. medical centes He then was made director missions at the hospitals and for five yeédrs wes m rector of the hospifals. «7 When Dr, Gatch, known wich as “Indiana's foremost, surge signed last June, Dr one of four department
| firms granted permits have not yet missioner to succeed Fred Berkes, the school of medicine pe
administer the school pe naming of a dean. , partment. heads who have 8 on the administrative committee are Drs. J. O. Richey, department of medicine; Ma \
Last year, 114 wet areas were dried up locally. Wets switched only f
51 areas other way, so drys made net gain of ‘63. Now 967 out of total 3070, are bone-dry and 468 others are partly dry. hs © Today 10.1 per cent of population lives in dry areas. In 1940 was only 17.4 per cent. - Drys are Republican and in ern Democrat territory. Jr es A me Bod 5 Prohibition party is organizing national slate fof plans state-wide prohibition campaigns in HAMS
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