Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 June 1947 — Page 1

FORECAST: Considerable cloudiness tonight and tomorrow with a brief shower this afternoon or evening; continued warm and humid.

58th YEAR—NUMBER 93

MURDERED—Mrs. Jeannette Reyman, Winchester, Ind., was | Mctim Wednesday of a sex slayer in Atlants, Ga, 5 » .

Clues to Hoosier Woman's Slaying Found in Lane

Trousers, Key and Twine Are Discovered; ‘Fat Man’ Is Sought by Atlanta Police

ATLANTA, Ga. June 27 (U, P.)

~Police today searched a suburban

fover’s lane for clues to the brutal slaying of an attractive Indiana wom-

an who had recently moved to Georgia with her husband.

It was Atlanta’s second shocking sex murder in seven weeks.

City detectives investigated the

killing of attractive Mrs. Rolla M.

Reyman. At the same time, county police six blocks away still were

to solve the baffling rapekilling of Mrs. Paul Refoule, wife of

day on ‘Moreland ave. in East AtJanta was “chunky” and weighed t 200 pounds. That descripon, police said, “could fit a lot of men anywhere.” . One woman who lived near the

she felt sure she could identify the man if she saw him again. The body of Jeannette Reyman, $0, wife of a Winchester, Ind., man, was ‘discovered yesterday morning when two men, passing the truck, lifted a corner of a tarpaulin and saw x bare foot. * Previously, residents in the neigh ‘borhood had noticed blood dripping from the fruck’s tailgate but had sssumed- it was a farm truck and contained a freshly butchered animal. The murdered woman's keys and purse were missing. She was clad ‘only in a brown skirt and flowered shirtwalist,

Bits of leaves and grass found fn the truck and on her feet indicated, police said, that she had been slain’ in a wooded area, then dumped into the truck, covered % with the tarpaulin and driven back into the city. Cab Companies Checked Because the fat man seen leaving the truck probably was without transportation after he parked it, police were checking eab companies and streetcar motormen In an effort to pick up the trail It was possible the killer may have been the same man who garrotted Mrs. Refoule. Mrs. Reyman was identified by her brother, Charles Van Skyrock, formerly of Ridgeville, Ind., who had come to Georgia with the Reymans to help convert their 300-acre Bylo farm near Bogart into a tourist camp. Relatives said the Reymans came ‘to Georgia because they “loved the south.” Mr. Van Skyock told police his smartly dressed sister had come to Atlanta to shop over the objections of himself an her husband.

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Washington . 20

Mystery: Who Lost All His Duds At Monument?

ig was found at. 3 a. m. today on

- [the Baleofly of the monument on

Monument Circle. : Fearing the worst, police dragged the shallow monument pool whose bottom is ordinarily as visible as the bottom of a bathtub, and not much deeper. They found nothing but the usual trash people throw into the pool. ” » » THEY THEN searched the cloth ing, which included trusers, sox, shoes, shirt, cap, jacket, glasses in a case and an industrial identification badge. They found an identification card. On a hunch, they telephoned the owner. Yes, they were his clothes. i “Subject said he remer bered coming home in taxicab,” said the report, “but ‘could ' not remember exactly what happened last night.” No charges were filed.

Took a Chance? You'll Be Sorry

LOCAL TEMPERATURES 68

If you took a look out the window this morning and decided it would be safe to leave your umbrella home for a change, you'll be sorry. The local weather bureau forecasts considerable cloudiness for Indianapolis today with at least a couple local showers. More clouds are on the menu for tomorrow, with the mercury te eons | Ynue to stick around the 70's.

New Streetcar Fare Battle Is Probable

Utility Is Opposed

To Free Transfers

By RICHARD LEWS A new legal battle was in prospect today over the Indiana public service commission's forthcoming rate order for Indianapolis Railways, Inc. The order sets trolley and bus fares at three tokens for 25 cents and 10 cents cash, eliminates the 2-cent transfer and provides a weekly school pass as predicted by The Times two weeks ago. The utility is prepared to fight the elimination of the 2-cent charge for transfers by demanding a new hearing before the commission, appealing to the courts—or both. This appeared to be the picture on the rate case front today on the eve of the issuance of the controversial schedule of fares. Rate Order Draft Ready The PSC completed the draft of its final rate order following a series of conferences earlier thi week. Copies are to be multigraphed and ready for distribution sometime next week. Promulgation of the order is being held up for the moment, pending a review of a new demand from the company to reopen the rate case. The petition to reopen was filled yesterday, on the ground that the company faces a new boost in operating expenses if it pays a wage increase {0 its employees. The controversy over the wage increase is now in arbitration. In its plea, the company asked the commission to withhold the order until en arbitration award is made. The utility asserted that if its employees are awarded their full 30-cents an hour wage increase demand, the wage bill will jump by $1,110,000 annually. This and previous operating expense increases, plus a decline in passenger revenue this year, have developed after the close of hearings last Dee. 18 on which the com-

the order ; f its findings in the original rate In that event, the utility will once more toward the rourts, it did one year ago, when the commission refused to approve a temporary fare increase. The utility won that court battle.

These are now being charged pending the commission’s new rate order, which would leave the 8% cent token rate intact but cut out the transfer charge. The utility is expected to challenge the order on the transfer charge issue—a challenge which may develop into a long court fight or & new rate case, The commission, on the other hand, is ready for the challenge is it comes.

It Was a Queer Way

To Show His Affection NEW YORK, June 27 (U: P.).— Mrs. Anna Hamilton, 44, solved for police today the riddle of how a six-foot-long snake got into a Brooklyn backyard. “My husband brought it home after a family argument and put it in the bathroom,” she told officers who captured the reptile. “I don’t think he loves me anymore.”

—————————— RITES SET FOR VICTIM FT. WAYNE, Ind, June 27 (U. P.).~Funeral services will be held tomorrow for Richard Thomas, 16, who died yesterday from injuries repelved when the car in which he was riding crashed intq a building.

Made High Official

San Francisco News.

general business manager Scripps-Howard Newspapers, served on The Times from 1931 to 193% when he was promoted to the Scripps-Howard general manage ment. : With Scripps-Howard for 20 years, he became business manager of The Washington Daily News in 1929 after serving with The Evanse ville Press and The Terre Haute Post. He returned to the Wash-

ing the war was a member of the newsprint advisory committee of the war production board. Ray A." Huber, general business manager of Scripps-Howard newspapers, announced that Matt Meyer, advertising dir of The Washington News® would become busi-

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ness manager of that paper.

Of San Francisco News Earl D. Baker, former" business manager of The Times, today was named business manager of The

Mr. Baker, who also is assistant of

ington newspaper in 1938 and dur-|8§

Earl D. Baker, Ex-Times Business Head, Promoted

PROMOTED—Earl D. Baker,

former Times business manager.

of The News about a decade ago, the paper has become, in terms of advertising volume, the second largest five-column newspaper in the ‘country. Its circulation has in.

creased 63 per cent despite wartime

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FRIDAY, JUNE 27, 1947

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Entered as Second-Class Matter at POstotties Indianapolis, Ind. Issued daily except Sunday

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Baby Girl Killed By Backing Auto

Linda Daniels Struck While With Mother

Linda 19-month-old

today when a car being backed out

of a yard ran over her. The child Had accompanied her mother to a nearby grocery store. urning to their home by way of

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in his car to Long hospital. The child was dead when they arrived at the hospital. The Daniels have one other child, 2-year-old James Jr,

Ford, Union Agree On Pension Plan

DETROIT, June 27 (U. P.).~The Ford Motor Co. and the C. I. O. United Auto Workers union today agreed on a two-year new contract providing wage increases and a prec-edent-shattering pension plan for 120,000 employees. Production workers will receive a straight seven-cent hourly pay boost, retroactive to May 31, An additional eight eents will be placed in the pension fund. The increase thus is equivalent to the 15 cents in hourly increases and paid holidays granted workers elsewhere throughout the industry, Some 10000 maintenance employees, core makers and jobbing moulders will receive an additional five-cent hourly increase. A company spokesman said the combined ‘increases would cost Ford approximately $20 million. He said the pay boosts and pension plan amounted to a straight 15-cent incredse. Union officials estimated them at “slightly more than 15 cents.” The agreement is*subject to ratification both by the union membership and by Ford directors. A U. A. W. spokesman said the pension plan; details of which were not disclosed, instituted “for the first time in big business a comprehensive movement for badlyneeded social security in this country” He said Ford was the first concern of its size to grant such a plan.

Government Asks Prison for May

WASHINGTON, June 27 (U. P.). ~The government today asked a federal court jury to send Andrew J. May and the Garsson munitions making brothers to prison on charges of bribery and fraud. The prosecution began its final arguments in the 44th trial day of

{the case. The government has at-

tempted to prove that the former Kentucky congressman sold his services to the Garssons, Henry M. and Murray, for more than $53,000. The case is expected to go to the jury Wednésday noon.

Train Jumps Track

On Curve, 9 Hurt WILLIAMS, Ariz, June 27 (U. P.) —Santa Fe officials sought to learn today why the westbound Scout, crawling at 25 miles an hour, jumped the track on.a curve and

regard of simple safety rules on the walking on the streets. .

Dozens more were killed by careless motorists who whizzed around corners without giving pedestrians their legal right-of-way. An analysis of deaths so far this year reveals that all but one of the victims were more than 60 years old. Most of them were between 65 and 80. Slogan Tells Story In other years statistics show that the next most “dangerous group” walking the streets are children under 15. The Indianapolis Safety Council has a slogan on this for motorists to remember: “Youth doesn’t know and age is slow.” The safety council’s educational campaign is stressing the fact that older persons’ eyesight usually is poor. Many of them can’t see an

The safety council's educational campaign on this is directed mostly at the motorists. Where children are visible anywhere on the sidewalks, slow down and be prepared to stop within 10 feet, drivers are warned. : Parents and the schools have made considerable headway in education of children on traffic hazards, but the major responsibility for their 'safety still rests on the mo, torists.

AT MERCY OF MOTORIST—This couple stépping off the curb to cross the intersection has the undisputed right-of-way, over the motorist. automobile automatically loses his right-of-way when he starts to .make a turn either to the right or to the left. He must stop if there are any pedestrians on the

340 Pedestrians Killed On Streets Here in 5 Years

Taking a Walk Is Dangérous Pastime; Deaths Result of Disregard for Safety Rules

By NOBLE REED . The most dangerous pastime in Indianapolis is taking a walk. Two-thirds of all the traffic deaths here in the last five years have been pedestrians. That means that sudden death has struck approxi. mately 340 pedestrians in Indianapolis since 1943. ; The high death rate among pedestrians is the result of careless dis-} = 4 part of both motorists and persons| 3

Statistics disclose that -about 70{drivers- failed to give pedestrians

The driver of any

approaching cat éven when they look. Or if they see one they aré

unable to judge its speed or the distance. Trafic engineers have estimated that a car traveling 30 miles an hour half a block away will reach an aged pedestrian while the latter is taking only two or three steps. Thus if a slow-walking pedestrian attempts to cross a street, even though a car is nearly a block away, he is in danger of being struck down before he gets to the middle of tHe street if the driver doesn’t slow down or stop. Dozens of children are killed every year merely because of their impulsive irresponsibility regarding safety rules. Children concentrat-

machines in Indianapolis’ country cutor Judson L. Stark, The Times learned today. The payoff investigation was initiated June 11 and 12 by Judges Joseph T. Howard and Alex Clark. bs “It probably was the first time in Marion county political

Nab 2 as They Loot Tavern

Police Capture Pair With $207 on E. Side

They investigated quietly and called ‘for ' reinforcements. Two more squad cars arrived with Lt. Roy McAuley and Capt. Claude Kinder. The police surrounded the build-

ing on the play at hand forget all| Ing and rushed in. The surprised

about the dangers of trafic and may run suddenly into the street.

Major Responsibility Rests on Motorists

Records show that most pedestrians are killed in the immediate vicinity of their homes. The safety council explains this on a psychological basis. “People, especially older ones, have a feeling’ of security in their own familiar neighborhoods and usually are not on their guard as much at home as when they are in heavier traffic areas farther from their Aomes,” the council explained.

Will Close at

The second weekly Freak Squeak contest closes at midnight tonight with the winner _ to receive a 85 prize and a chance at the $26 grand prize. Entries received after midnight tonight will be entered in the following week's contest. At the. end of four weeks’ contest, the grand prize winner will be selected from the four weekly winners. Judges today announced the contest has attracted state wide attention with entries received from Acton, Sheridan, Millersville, Gos port, Bloomington, Pittsboro, Unionville and Shelbyville as well as Marion county. Here's a typical treak squeak entry: . “When I was a youngster, my brother Tom and I had a tricycle which we rode on the sidewalk in front of our house. Unfortunately, the sidewalk crossed an alley which lay parallel to the side of our house, and we frequently rode back and forth across the alley. “One bright summer day, brother Tom was feverishly pedaling down the sidewalk. He started to cross the alley just as an oil truck was backing out of it. He fell off the tricycle under the left rear wheel of ‘the truck, which stopped squees ing his little body under the tire oi the truck. "hue “It didn’t kill him, but he was unable to walk for six months. Nuw, I am a parent, own a car, my soa has a tricycle, and I have a side

drive he might ride across when I'm

2d Freak Squeak Contest

Midnight

taught me that when tacking—trust to’ LOOK, not to LUCK!” Write a short account of a narrow escape you or a member of your family had and be sure to finish with a 25-word or less statement to complete the sentence: “My Freak Squeak taught me—." Mail it to The Indianapolis Times office, 214 W. Maryland st. and address your entry to the Freak Squeak editor.

Eisler Sentenced To Year in Prison

WASHINGTON, June 27 (U. P). —Gerhart Eisler, alleged to be the top secret Soviet agent in the United States, was sentenced today to one year in prison and fined $1000 for contempt of congress. He received the maximum sentence. Eisler, a German Communist, proclaimed his contempt for othe house un-American activities committee as he was sentenced. But he said that he was not guilty of contempt of congress. Eisler was sentenced by Federal Judge Alexander Holtzoff, who continued his $20,000 bond pending an appeal. / OFFICES CLOSED SATURDAY | Veterans ration contact offices in Indiana will close Saturdays during July and August according to W, X tact officer.” SARL at PN

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Pastor Convicted 0f Firing Church

MILWAUKEE, June 27 (U.P). — A jury today found Dr. John Lewis, pastor of the Calvary

church building last Jan. 25. The jury of 10 men and two women deliberated more than eight hours before finding the 73-year-old minister guilty.

ting fire to the thurch with the hope that his parshioners would build him a bigger edifice. The Rev. Mr, Lewis showed no emotion as the verdict was read. He maintained throughout the trial that it was “fantastic” that he should be charged with arson.

it is not the last.” He said he was confident that he would win an appeal. - The pastor's wife sobbed when she heard "the verdict. ' Under the law, the minimum sentence for arson is one year and the maximum 10 years.

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