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Soretary at city hall, Mrs. Grace Tanner. She was teléphoned shortly before 10 a, m. by Mrs.
Malone, the maid and cook.
knocked on the general's bedroom door three times and
had received no response. She asked Mrs. Tanner
appointments. Mrs. Tanner recalled he had an appointment at 10:30 a. m. with Charles Huff, insurance and bond man, at
city hall,
The maid called ‘the general again. Then she went downstairs and told the chauffeur, Mr. Carter, she could
not wake the mayor.
She telephoned Mrs, Tanner and the secretary immediately called Dr. Boaz, an old personal friend of the general. : Chauffeur Finds Body The cook then summoned the chauffeur. He went upstairs and found the mayor dead. The police emergency squad, detectives, uniformed men and the City hospital ambulance raced to the mayor's home. First physician on the scene was Dr. Kelly, who pro-
nounced the mayor dead. Dr. Boaz arrived shortly
Kelly’s report attributing death to a heart attack. Death came quietly to the man who had been the city’s mayor for nearly five years. But it did not come before he
was able to launch one of the biggest improvement projects in thecity’s history—the multimillion-dollar sewer program, Was No. 1 Objective It was the objective which he had set above all others in his term.
The mayor was in good spirits yesterday. Mrs, Tanner said he left
city hall at 4 p. m. Last night, he co oq after the body was taken to told Mrs., Malone to go home. | the funeral, home,
After leaving his office, the mayor took a drive with his chauffeur into the- country, returning to the house at 6 p. m, in time for dinner. The: mayor remained at home “ast night. His chauffeur telephoned him in the evening, but receiving ho response, he drove to'the house. He found thé mayor sitting on the back porch, a favorite retreat in thé evening, and askéd if he would be needed. The mayor told him to go home. Mrs. Malone said she arrived at the Tyndall home at'8 a. m. and started to prepare breakfast. She hesitated to arouse the mayor, thinking he might be tired and heed some extra sleep. At 10 a. m. she called Mrs. Tanher. The chauffeur had been waiting with the mayor's car to take him to city hall when Mrs. Malone called him to see what was the matter. Body Taken to Mortuary Mayor Tyndall's body was removed from the gray, frame house, where the Tyndall family had made its home. for years, to the Flanner & Buchanan mortuary shortly before noon. Funeral services will not be arranged undis Mrs. Tyndall.can -be
reached in Philadelphia, where she]
was visifing friends. City” officials contacted the may-’
tempting "to get in touch with his mother, who had gone to Philadelphia after visiting him on Long Island.
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A cordon ¢ of police was ranged on on the stairs leading to the mayor's back bedroom in the comfortable family home. The mayor's body, covered by a sheet,-was carried on a stretcher to a waiting black hearse, “*He told me he would be all right,” the cook said in a choked voice as the body was taken away. “He told me to go on home last night. He didn’t mind being alone.” The Tyndall home looked de-
. One uniformed policeman remained to guard the, house, a three-story structure with blue awnings. Was 27th Mayor Gen, Tyndall was one of the few |-mgjor generals who was not a grad uate of West Point,
ment, Mayor Tyndall was Indianapolis’ 27th city executive and second wartime mayor. He was 70 on May 2. One of his favorite postwar dreams for the city was the embracing of This $25,000,000 plans calling for slum clearance, improyements at City hospital, establishment of a veterans’ administration hospital at the Indiana university medical center, and installation of a new sewer system.
Sought Better Facilities
Among other plans were the building of fin~r recreational facilities, widening and beautifying Indianapolis’ city streets and boulevards, the curbing of the city’s smoke nuisance and replenishing the city’s treasury with the revenue taken from installation of parking meters in the downtown area, He also worked to secure off-the-
downtown congestion. Several of these “dreams” have crystallized. A smoke ‘abatement ‘board has been established and is functioning. A sewer program is under way. The veterans’ administration has plans for the erection of a 500-bed hospital. The 1925 thoroughfare plan has been amended to include widening and resurfacing of many streets. Always Active " One of his last official acts was approval of an $18 million outlay for improving the sewer system. Always an active man, the mayor took ‘great delight in referring to his personal experience in business conversations with his many callers -1and associates.
and Alice Boyd Tyndall, he was born on May 2, 1877. To siipport the family, he quit school after the fifth grade and worked as a grocery clerk, grocery -owher, milkman, in the machine manufacturing business, for the Model Clothing Co. and the Wm. H. Block Co.
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SCENE OF MAYOR'S DEATH— The police smergency car stands in front of of gray r residence at 2016 N. Meridian st. where Mayor Tyndall died today.
tive military & duty was as a private, He was decorated for his over-|G. Fisher Co. of Miami Beach, Fla., with Battery A in ihe Spanish- | seas service with the French Croix and other Fisher development firms, American war. After the war, he de Guerre with two palms, and U. 8.! He was commissioned as brigadier continued serving with the national | Distinguished Service Medal. After] |general in the Officers’ Reserve in guard unit, attaining the rank of the armistice, Gen. Henri Gouraud,|1922. Two years later he became captain before 1916. He served on the Mexican border of which the 150th was a part, per- arm in .1916 8s a smajor and was: pro: sonally conferred on the mayor.the!. De early childhood; the gens moted to colonel before the guard|decoration of the Legion of Honor, era) had been a lover of horses. He troops were sent overseas in world Commander, one of the highest yt only enjoyed owning and riding war 1 military awards bestowed by France. fine horses, but he also practiced
|who commanded the fourth gdh youngest major. general in the tion board and the establishment
neuvers. . Through most of his military career he played polo. He also was known as an expert boxer, wrestler, swimmer and tennis player in his youth, When the 38th division boosted its strength to full wartime status of 18000 men and officers, Gen. Tyndall accompanied it to Camp Shelby, Miss., in 1941, where he assumed the added responsibility as commander of the entire: camp with ‘its 50,000 men. Known as a strict disciplinarian, the General was never harsh and he always had the complete confidence and respect of his troops.
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‘Didn't Do Wrong,’ Mother Says After Slaying Baby
Unwed Art Student Admits Drowning Boy,
Believes He'll Go to a ‘Better Life’ | NEW YORK, July 9 (U, P.).—A slim brunet Greenwich village art student was charged with infanticide today. She calmly confessed to police that she drowned her illegitimate S-months-old boy. But she felt no guilt because she believed in reincarnation, police said. The body of the chubby, blond infant was washed ashore early
Monday near Sands Point, N. Y.| : It was wrapped in a blanket bear-| The next day, dressed in black
General of the Armies George C.| ing laundry marks which police and wearing a black veil, she took traced to the mother, attractive (the body in a suitcase to Por:
Marshall, former chief of staff ang 30 MA on year-o nn onnson. now U. 8. secretary of state, eom- “I don't believe 1 did wrong.” | Washington, N. Y,, she said. There.
mended Gen. Tyndall on the or- | Miss Johnson told police. “I be- she rented a rowboat and dumpec ganization of his 38th division staff lieve he will be ‘reincarnated, surely the body into Long Island sound. After his retirement, he organ- into a better life. | police said. ized the local Civillan .Defense| The former Wellesley college stu-| Miss Johnson said she had lived Corps and remained as director dent told police she drowned the|in New York seven or eight years, throughout most of its existence. | baby July 4 in the bathtub of her | selling pictures occasionally whilc An ardent Republican, the Gen | Gresgwion Village apartment. she studied art. eral defeated Henry Ostrom, pres.) g Se ent G. O. P. county chairman, Wh the Tyndall Victory committee ecre -boMm ticket in the Republican primary | in 1941. He went on to win the
mayoralty election in 1942 by “Files Stolen feating Judge Dewey Meyers, the instances,” Mr, Hickenlooper tolc
Democratic candidate, by 6000 | the senate, adding that the matter votes. (Continued From Page One) now lies with the justice’ depart-
Member of Clubs | eve they (the papers) were com ment. He carried through his discipline] | pletely and fully recovered." TE To ary tactics in office, although he| The theft occurred in March, 1046, B-29 Crashes in Reich was respected and always known 10 months before the civilian com- | FRANKFURT, July § (U. P. for his fairness toward his em- mission headed by David E. Lilien-| —Air force officials announced toployees. His love for flying precipl-|thal took over the program from day that a B-20 Superfortres: tated the creation of the city avia-|the army. (crashed this morning while atThe FBI, he sald, promptly lo- | CMPLNg ‘to land at the Ziébel. of the post-war planning commis- cated _the two army men and from Stadt airfield because of engine Sion, the FBI's evidence it was believed 'rouble. Six of the eight crev
A 33d eure Mason, the ‘mayor|i,¢ the sergeants were “souvenir members were injured seriously. was a member Of the Mystic Tie hunting, " Mr. Hickenlooper said. |
them and that they were kept locked up by the sergeants. “The joint committee is convinced that there has been no effective breach of segurity in thes:
Decorated by 2 Nations | Vice President of Bank sketching horses during his leisure
As part of the world-famous 42d! Active in the guard upon his re-| moments. (Rainbow) division, his 150th field turn, Col. Tyndall accepted a po-| It was his love of horses that artillery regiment distinguished it-|sition in 1919 as vice president of | prompted him, in part, to enlist in| self in France. The division fought, the Fletcher American National Battery A in 1807. | {in the great battles of Baccarat, bank. An expert horseman, he relished! | Champagne, Aisne-Marne, St. Mi-| In 1925 he resigned to become vice the practice of leading his officers | hiel and Meuse-Argonne. president and treasurer of the Carijon canters during training ma- |
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